Governor McKeldin forms panel to probe Baltimore crime
Governor McKeldin announced a citizen investigative group will cooperate with the Legislative Council crime committee as Baltimore facing Senate findings that bookmaking and numbers rackets operated with police knowledge. He backed Police Commissioner Beverly Ober and warned that unchecked off-track betting could kill Maryland horse racing.
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Baltimore
Fcheldin
U. S. Enate Crime Committee
Olice
Legisitive Council
Baltiore
McKeldin
Senate
Baltimore City
Council
Legisaative Council Crime Committee
U. S. Senate
Rothers Committee
Department of the State
Omar Crothers
D-Cecil
Beverly Oberfully
Ober
Maryland
Hammer etymology traced to Scandinavian hamarr meaning rock
The word hammer derives from the Scandinavian hamarr meaning a rock. Linguists note the term evolved through Old Norse and Germanic roots reflecting the tool’s solid, stonelike form.
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Hamarr
Coming Events Calendar for September Highlights Local Activities
September events listed by the Frederick Chamber of Commerce include exhibits at the C Burr Artz Library, lectures by Judge Edward S. Delaplaine on autographs, school openings, theater productions, garden shows, club meetings, workshops at Winchester Hall, public card parties, football, and open house events. Also notes educational passages on twins and a water shortage report for Waynesboro Pennsylvania with streams running low.
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Frederick Chamber of Commerce, Inc
C. Burr Artz Library
Delaplaine
Edward S. Delaplaine
Frederick County
Mountain Theater
Garden Club
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Frederick Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Frederick Junior Chamber of Commerce
National Junior Chamber
Community Players Workshop
Winchester Hall
Frederick Civic Club
Gambrill Gymnasium
Hood College
Lutheran Stewardship Workshop
Francis Scott Key
Frederick
Bel Air High School
Frederick High School
McCurdy Field
Maryland Council of Chambers of Commerce
Hagerstown
Community Concert Association
Community Players
Do Twins Run In Families Or Skips In Generations
Doctor explains twin occurrence and inheritance patterns. Twins tend to run in families but no generation skipping is evident. The likelihood rises with maternal age toward 35 to 39, higher in colored mothers, and twins occur about once in 90 pregnancies but infant mortality is higher among twins. Triplets are rarer.
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Edwin P. Jordon
M. D
NEA Service
Movie date without usher leads to seating error
A young man takes a girl to the cinema but there is no usher to guide them. He lets her go first, then follows to ensure they find seats. The anecdote contrasts improper and proper conduct on an outing. Bengal famine of 1943 caused 3 to 4 million deaths from malnutrition and related disease.
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India
Who's an Indian The Nation Today
James Marlow reports on racial barriers to burial for a soldier who was an American Indian. The piece surveys definitions of who qualifies as Indian, noting Mongoloid classification, migration theories, and unsettled congressional and government positions on determining Indian identity.
Indian Blood and Land Interest Determine BIA Benefits
The article explains that eligibility for Bureau of Indian Affairs benefits hinges on having a quarter or more Indian blood and an interest in land held in trust by the government. It cites a man with 50 percent Indian blood in a tribe on a reservation who works in Detroit but has no land interest and thus no BIA responsibility or benefits, contrasting his brother who does hold land interests and thus qualifies.
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BIA
Detroit
Detroit Auto
Indian blood and tribal membership debated in 1951 article
The piece discusses how definitions of who is Indian vary among tribes the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It explains BIA criteria include one quarter or more Indian blood plus trust property, notes about 150 reservations, and estimates 300000 Indians on reservations with another 100000 elsewhere.
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BIA
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