Bodies Carried From Mountain Home By Converted Troop Carrier
A World War I veteran, David Russell Ferguson, 33, died of heart trouble at his isolated mountain home between Sabillasville and Deerfield. A converted Army troop carrier was used to reach the house and transport the body to a public highway for a hearse. Ferguson lived alone. two sisters survive. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Friends Creek
Sabillasville
Deerfield
David Russell Ferguson
Fairfield
Frederick
R Paul Buhrman
Ferguson
Ferguson Homes
Zora
S. L. Allison
Postal Law Arouses Press Controversy Over Lotteries
The Post Office Department faces a dispute over whether standard lotteries and those with unusual factors are distinct. Local postmasters cite North Carolina and Peoria stories in Star-Times and Baltimore Sun about prize drawings and race discrimination. The papers defend publishing such reports, while postmasters warn against mailing such material.
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Associated Press
Post Office Department
St. Louis Star-Times
Baltimore
North Carolina
St Louis
Bernard F. Dickmann
Star-Times
Ilegal
Peoria
Weal A. Sibley
Sunpapers
Butter Reaches New Highs In New York Markets
New York stores show butter at 1.05 dollars with some outlets at 90 to 96 cents. wholesale prices jump 21.5 cents per pound as grocers warn prices will rise tomorrow. Eggs climb to 91 to 98 cents a dozen while meat prices remain high and no near price break is in sight, says Markets Commissioner Schulz.
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New York
Eugene G. Schulz
Two Frederick youths sentenced to reform school term
Two Frederick youths pled guilty to the Nu Maid Products safe robbery in January and were each sentenced by Associate Judge Patrick M. Schnauffer to not more than one year in the Maryland Reformatory for Males. Thomas M. Clem and Calvin Burrier Jr. received the same sentence as their confederate Richard A. Brightwell, with restitution details noted and the safe dumped into the river but later recovered.
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Frederick
Jin
Maryland Reformatory
Patrick
ML. Sehnauffer
Thomas M. Clem
Calvin
Bur Rer, Jr
Richard A. Brightwell
Edwin F. Nikirk
Nu-Maid
Ajlear
Brightwell
High Knob
Xikirk
Burrier
Clem
Reich’s Ford Bridge
Monoocacy River
Maryland Assessor Salaries Await State Funding
The last session approved new salary scales for Maryland assessors and supervisors but did not fund them. The Board of Public Works will push to cover 107000 dollars as the state's 50 percent share, with a special legislative session planned. Frederick County led the pay scale changes and has funded the costs pending state reimbursement.
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Maryland
Board of Public Works
Lane
Frederick
Skyway No 1 Survey Party Welcomed at Washington Dinner
City of Frederick will be represented at a 6:30 p.m. Friday welcome dinner at National Airport to honor the Skyway No 1 survey party beginning the first transcontinental skyway. Speakers include C S Beesemyer of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and other officials as the flight marks a historic aviation milestone. AFL leaders in Chicago say merger talks with the CIA continue but hope remains slim. President William Green and the 15 member executive council plan another unity statement.
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C. 5. Beesemyer
The
Los Angeles
Chicago
Sept
AFL
CIA
William Green
Unity
Excommunication Issued Over Venezia Giulia Clash
The Sacred Congregation of the Council announced excommunication of the aggressors in the August 24 Lanische disorder. Father Milo Bulesich was killed and Msgr. Jakob Akmar wounded in the Yugoslav zone of Venezia Giulia.
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Vatican City
Sacred Congregation of the Council of the
Roman Catholic Church
Milo Bulesich
Msgr
Jakob Akmar
Lanische
Venezia Giulia
Flood Lighting of Key Grave Nears Realization in Frederick
Frederick plans flood lighting for the flag at Francis Scott Key’s Mt. Olivet grave this fall. The project, backed by the Chamber of Commerce and Cemetery Company, aims to honor Key and the 1914 defenders, despite a quiet Observance Day. The perpetual display rests on a 1942 act permitting night lighting for patriotic effects.
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Ft. McKienny
Francis Scott Key
Frederick
Court House
Mt. Olivet
Gumaber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Fr. McHenry
Francis Scott
Washington
Mt Olivet
Josephine Etchison
C. Burr Artz Library
Harold I. Lessem
National Park Service
Fi Mec- Henry
Lessem
American Legion
Jesse Ramsburg
Legion Fag
Gordon Spurrier
Legion
Landmark Of 30 Years Ago Being Razed
Old Athletic Park in southwest Frederick, once home to baseball, motorcycle and bicycle events, is to be razed for six new dwellings after an eviction settlement. Landlord Earl S. Hargett and three tenants agreed to relocate. one tenant by Saturday, the others by September 20. Mayor Lloyd C. Culler and city officials testified to justify removal.
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Old Athletic Park
Frederick
Peoples Court
Lloyd C. Culler
W. Raymond Walter
Fred Straiey
Donald J. Roop
Earl S. Hargett
Hargett
Sherman Avenue
Sherman P. Bowers
W. Jerome Offutt
Athievic
H Ha
Iis
Hogs Hit All Time High at Chicago Market
Hogs sold for 30.50 a hundredweight at Union Stockyards opening, surpassing the prior 30.00 record set February 25 in Chicago. Stocks generally advanced in New York as recovery resumed, though some leaders lagged.
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Chicago Mart
Chicago
New York
National Guard Drive Backed by Key Post Members
Francis Scott Key Post No. 11 American Legion pledges full cooperation with the National Guard recruiting drive. The group endorses efforts to repatriate war dead and will coordinate with Amvets VFW and others. Trustees Bruce Hyatt and Thomas E Williams elected. organization meeting planned.
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National Guard
Francis Scott Key
American Legion
The
Post
Amvets
VFW
Nen Corporation
Legion
Bruce Hyatt
Thomas E. Williams
Therr
Roger Rice
Charles Hudson
Ray Spurrier
Charles Mack
D. Ralph Zimmermans
Maryland National Guard
William C. Purnell
Baltimore
29Th Division
William Shriver
Lloyd C. Culler
Francis Scott Key Post
Poolesville
Frederick Company
Calvary Methodist Church
Legionnnaires
Babson Details Loss and New Philosophy After Grandson's Death
Roger W. Babson reports the drowning death of his grandson in a weekly letter on page 4. He says the tragedy reshapes his outlook and leads to a philosophy that values human life and relationships more highly.
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Roger W. Babson
Abandoning Of Trolley Before PSC
The Public Service Commission held a hearing on Potomac Edison’s bid to abandon the Frederick to Middletown trolley and replace it with bus service. Residents urged keeping both, citing lengthy walks to bus stops. PSC inspectors noted one trolley remaining, aged but serviceable, with track needs.
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Baltimore
P—Maryfinds Public Service Commission
Oday
Potomac Edison Company
Frederick
Middletown
U. S. 40
Fulmers Station
Clifton Station
Joan H. Conrad
Public Service Commission
Potomac Edison
Conrad
Lillian Gaither
Hves
Clifton
Fulmers
Joseph S. A. Giardina
PSC
Giardina
Gen Arener L Lerch Dies In Korea
Maj Gen Arener L Lerch, 53, died of a heart attack in Seoul while serving as military governor of the U S zone in southern Korea. His death. blamed on strenuous duty, halted interim government work and his home listed as Chevy Chase Maryland.
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Seoul
Arener L. Lerch
U. S
Korea
John R.hedge
Lerch
Hodge
Lereh
Army
Chevy Chace
34Th General Hospital
Water famine hits Gaithersburg area towns
Sept 11 UPA reports water famine affecting about 2,000 residents in Gaithersburg and Washington Grove. Water was cut off for five hours after three of nine wells serving the communities ran dry. Supply was restored as underground storage tanks were tapped due to the long hot summer and scanty rainfall.
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Gaithersburg
Washington Grove
Three Army Crew Die in C-47 Crash Near Denver
An Army C-47 cargo plane with three crew aboard crashed 30 miles south of Denver near Castle Rock, killing all on board. Public relations at Lowry Field said the transport went down on Spruce Mountain early today.
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Denver
Lowry Field
Spruce Mountain
iCastle Rock
Power and Leadership Rise as US Gains in Western Germany
Washington reports a shift in influence in western Germany driven by Britain's payment woes. The Ruhr coal plan creates a joint British American board, possibly headed by an American, with German management of pits under a German coal agency. American opposition to Britain's socialization policy grows, as Willard Thorp states US disapproval.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Britain
Europe
Ruhr
London
Amerlican
Willard Thorp
Thorp
Flathy
Word From Extradition Hearing Being Awaited
County officials reported no information on the outcome of Morris Cramer’s extradition hearing held in Los Angeles for a Maryland bigamy indictment. Cramer, a New York City resident, reportedly resisted extradition, with two sheriffs sent to the hearing from funds provided by his legal wife.
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California
Morris Cramer
New York City
Los Angeles
Cramer
Maryland
Sherif
Ofce
Austin Blurray
Vernon Roderick
New York
Jump For Joy Lands Marine In Hospital
Washington story about 22 year old Marine James H. Davis who proposed to his fiancée Marian Schubert and, after slipping on a low tree limb while celebrating, fractured his ankle. An ambulance transported him to a hospital as he expressed disbelief at the mishap and the fiancé commented on the accident yet remaining glad about the engagement.
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Washington
James H. Davis
Davis
Marian Schubert
Television's growing reach and linking hurdles outlined
A 1947 Washington briefing notes rapid expansion of TV with 55 new stations under construction, 76 000 sets produced this year, and eight initial metro areas. It explains networks are essential for widespread big events and compares linking by coaxial cable, radio relay, and airborne relay to extend signals nationwide.
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Washington
New York City
Federal Communications Stations
Radio Manufacturers Association
New York
Phila Roneles
Chicago
Los Angeles
Detroit
St Louis
Schenectady
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Rent Control Notice To Area Landlords
Area Rent Director Walter R Heath reminded landlords of the 1947 Housing and Rent Act penalties for noncompliance. The notice requires registration of all Hagerstown Frederick and Cumberland Defense Rental Areas housing and urges reporters to file ownership changes, prohibits service cuts without approval, and restricts evictions to legal rights under the act. Evictions fall under local court enforcement.
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Walter R. Heath
Federal
Office of Rent Control
Hagerstown, Frederick and
Cumberland Defense
Area Rent Office
Extended Maryland Forecast With Warm Humid Conditions
The forecast predicts generally fair and warm weather with humidity for the period ending Saturday. Scattered thunderstorms possible, mainly today and Friday, especially in western counties. Afternoon highs reach mid eighties to near ninety, mornings around low seventies, mountains cooler by about five degrees. Mean temperatures run five to ten degrees above normal.
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Maryland
Egyptian Mob Riots in Port Said Over UN Security Council
Violence erupts in Port Said and Alexandria as crowds protest the UN Security Council's failure to order British troops out of Egypt. Demonstrators attack the statue of de Lesseps and clash with police while workers at Filaturi Nationale strike in protest.
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Cairo
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Suez Canal
United Nations Security Council
Egypt
Port Said
Canal Zone
Alexandria
Security Council
Britain
Sudan
Russia
Poland
Syria
Srtith
Kitchener Street
de Lesseps
France
Ernest Bevin
Alexander Cadogan
Filaturi Nationale
Visitation Academy Opens 102nd Year with New Students
The Visitation Academy enters its 102nd scholastic year registering Wednesday and starting classes Thursday. The school will house 56 boarders and expects about 50 day pupils, with several enrolled in commercial subjects. Ten seniors are planned, and international students from Mexico and Puerto Rico are among the newcomers. Dormitories and passageways have been refreshed during summer.
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Visitation Academy
United States
Mexico
Puerto Rico
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia
North Carolina
Florida
Ohio
Marinland
District of Columbia
Motorist Fined for DUI After Test Drive
A Knox ville man driving an unrepaired car while seeking a potential purchase was arrested on Route 340 near Frederick. State Police stated he showed definite signs of liquor influence and was fined 3100 and costs with 30 days in jail in default. A witness cited a new steering wheel as a possible cause for weaving. State’s Attorney Edwin F. Nikirk prosecuted.
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Manuel M. Weinberg
Peoples Court
Clyde B. Tucker
Alonzo Snoots
Knoxville
Frederick
Trafic
Tucker
Snoots
Petersville
Edwin F. Nikirk
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Flag
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Athletic Park
Babson
P. E. Co
U. S. 240
Gulf Lane
A. L. Lerch
America
Jump
Marine In Hospital
Max Hall
James Marlow
England
V.A
Veterans Administration
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