Mourners Attend Vinson Funeral At Washington Cathedral
Presidents Eisenhower and Truman, along with Secretary Dulles and scores of officials, gathered for the funeral of Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson in Washington. The service followed the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer as family and justice leaders paid final respects to the Kentucky-born jurist who died of a heart attack.
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Washington
United States
Fred M. Vinson
National Capital
Kentucky
Vinson
Eisenhower
Colorado
Truman
Missouri
Dulles
Congress
Diplomatic Corps
Supreme Court
Episcopal
Angustus
Frederick
Nixon
Snake Hands
Margaret
Presit
Fire damages Adams town home. $5,000 loss reported
Neighbors and Adamstown volunteers battled a blaze at a two story residence owned by Nelly Dawson and tenanted by the Willards. Major damage occurred to the summer kitchen and rear wall while a refrigerator washing machine and kerosene stove were destroyed. Fire started from a stove flare up and firefighters cut a roof vent to access flames. Furniture saved, with salvage moved to the Grange Hall as repairs planned.
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Adamstown
Luther P. Willard
Independent Hose Co
Frederick
Nelly Dawson
Willards
Independent County Fire Engine
Coud
Adamstown Grange Hall
Willard
Perthon
Pete Gross
Hose Co
Adamatewa
Mendel Sues Wife for Divorce and Accounting
Baltimore, Sept. 9 Raymond L. Mendel Jr a soldier returned from Korea after three years as a prisoner sued his wife for a divorce and asked for accounting of seven thousand dollars of his pay. He charged she lives with another man and sought writs to stop her leaving the state disposing of two cars or taking money from their bank account.
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Baltimore
Raymond L. Mendel Jr
Korea
Mendel
Mendell
1625 Arrests Over Holiday
State Police reported 1625 traffic arrests on Maryland highways during the Labor Day weekend. Sixteen deaths and 36 injury crashes were recorded, with 122 property damage incidents. Maj. William H. Weber said troopers logged 111,587 patrol miles in 79 hours, noting understaffing and long shifts. He blamed lack of Legislature funding for not expanding the force. Estimated fatal costs reached 1,300,000 dollars.
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Pikesville
Maryland
William H. Weber
Ouis
Weber
Six Month Sentence Reduced In Maryland Prison Case
Magistrate H Reese Shoemaker Jr suspended a 60 day jail term after Vernon L. Roderick withdrew a pending appeal from a six month sentence to the House of Correction for repeated drunkenness. Roderick, with prior convictions in August and again involved in a new intoxication charge, was ordered to deliver to the House of Correction on the August sentence. Other defendants received varying sentences or suspensions for drunkenness and related offenses, with several cases heard by the magistrate and officers testifying.
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H. Reese Shoemaker, Jr
People’s Night Court
Vernon L. Roderick
East Fifth Street
House of Correction
Roderick
Robert E. Sewell
West All Saints
Kanade
Bare
Staley
Sewell
Jacob Mines
West Sixth Street
Horace Dorsey
Henry Sona
North Market Street
Margaret Baker
Doubs
Nina Virginia Foreman
Gladys Elizabeth Dorsey
Cob
Klineharts Alley
Patsy Rose
Shinnston
W. Va
Robert D. Miller
Bedford
David F. Roberts
Frederick
Charles M. Thomas
Washington
Edis Newman
Vernon Heffner
Trump
Community Concert Association Seeks New Members
A hundred twenty five persons joined the Community Concert Association in the opening week of its seventeenth annual membership drive. The drive, chaired by Mrs. Robert H. Clapp Sr and Mrs. M J Croghan, aims to renew 1952 53 members first and restricts attendance to members. The association will fully sponsor the fall drive this year and will schedule three or four recitals for 1953 54 depending on the budget. The Rochester Symphony with Eric Leinsdorf and the Companions of Song are among early booking options for the area.
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Community Concert Association
Mall
Robert H. Clapp
M. J. Croghan
Maryland School For the Deaf
Dean
Frederick Group
Rochester Symphony
Eric Leinsdorf
Song
George B. Douglas
Association
Donald Leatherman
Homemakers Directors Hold Board Meeting in Frederick
Frederick County Homemakers Directors held a Tuesday morning session in Extension rooms on East Church Street School. Officers and delegates reported on state and national gatherings, with plans for next year’s convention in Washington and a 35 dollar gift to IFYE plus 25 dollars for library books for Pakistan.
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Frederick
J. Homer Remsberg
Middletown
Canada
Remsberg
National Homemakers Council
Beatrice Fehr
Boston
Maryland State Council of Homemakers
Fire at Uniontown burns two frame buildings and store
A night club blaze in Uniontown Pennsylvania gutted two wooden buildings and left 14 apartment dwellers homeless. The fire damaged the Victory Inn and the Morris Lebowitz Building housing a store and four apartments. Lebowitz died of a heart attack during the blaze, and 13 night club patrons escaped injury as firefighters from eight companies battled the hour long fire.
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Uniontown
Morris Lebowitz
Lebowitz
Tony Puskarich
Apple Harvest Found With Being Gathered In Four-State Region
A brisk apple harvest across the four state Appalachian area from Winchester Virginia to the West Virginia Panhandle is shaping up with about 17 million bushels. Gobbling late varieties like Romes Staymens Winesaps and Yorks will see better color with cool nights. Labor remains tight as thousands of migratory workers from the South Puerto Rico and the Bahamas arrive.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Allegheny Uplands
Appalachian
Winchester
West Virginia Panhandle
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Carroll R. Miller
Appalachian Apples Inc
Miller
Jonathans
Grimes
Puerto Rico
Bahamas
Hancock
Chambersburg
Marriage License Issued in Annapolis
A marriage license was issued in Annapolis to Margie L. Frye 25 of Adamstown and Charles Levi J Warner 32 of Mt. Airy Route 4.
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Annapolis
Margie L. Frye
Adamstown
Charles Levi J Warner
Mt. Airy
Lias Threatened Doctor Over Birth Certificate Request
Maryland police officer testified at a deportation hearing that William G. Lias of Wheeling, a race tracks owner, threatened Dr Rudolph Rau in 1936 when asked for a birth certificate. Lias says he was born in Wheeling and entered the U S as an alien without a passport.
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Pittsburgh
Maryland
G. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Today
William G
Big Bill) Lias
Wheeling
W. Va
Lias
America
Wheeling Downs
Greece
U. S
Ralph Potts
Frederick
Rudolph Rau
Potts
Raw
Maryland Plan to Seek Income Tax Dodgers
Federal tax collectors proposed a door to door Maryland survey to uncover tax dodgers. Start time undecided as enforcement staffing and logistics are worked out. L A Chamberlin of Baltimore said regional office duties and Philadelphia HQs were discussed at a recent conference.
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Baltimore
Maryland
L. A. Chamberlin
Washington
Philadelphia
Massachusetts
T. Coleman Andrews
Internal Revenue Service
Pennsylvania motorist kills fawn with auto on Route 40
William Gasser of Wintondale Pa struck and killed a deer on Braddock Mountain Route 40 at 8 30 Thursday evening. The driver kept the deer after filing a report and was allowed to keep the 30 pound fawn. Deer rare south of High Knob in the Catoctin range near Gambrill Park.
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Pennsylvania
Frederick County
Route 40
Braddock Mountain
William Gasser
Main Street
Wintondale
Catoctin Range
Gambrill Park
High Knob
Third Conviction Sends Flanagan to Jail for 100 Days
A Baltimore man Starr Blake Flanagan aged 32 at 1810 North Charles Street received a 100 day jail term plus fines after pleading guilty to drunken and reckless driving. Magistrate Wilbur F. Sheffield Jr heard testimony that Flanagan weaved through red lights on East Patrick Street and was intoxicated. Additional cases include John Moore Jr. of Post Office Bay Minetté Alabama given three months for carrying a concealed weapon and other defendants facing various fines or jail terms for drunkenness illegal weapon use and related offenses. The court vowed to enforce consecutive jail terms and leave city limits if fines remain unpaid. A separate note covers a teacher honor and a Washington parkway opening plan near Laurel.
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Starr Blake Flanagan
North Charles Street
Baltimore
Wilbur F. Sheffield, Jr
Flanagan
Norman Trump
East Patrick Street
Court Street
West Patrick
Heffner and
Mossburg
Motor Vehicle Department
West Virgina
John Moore, Jr
Bay Minetté
Ala
House of Correction
Moore
Focal
Charles W. Bare
Frederick
Melvin Joppy
Airy
Carl W. Burdette
Mt. Airy
Burdette
Carl C. Mentzer
New London
Conn
Staley
Harold E. Fisher
Oldfields
Brown
Clarence Craver
Harold E. Rice
Craver
Rice
Maryland Young Democrats Hear Lane At Ocean City Meet
Two potential candidates for governor were set to appear at Maryland Young Democrats biennial convention in Ocean City starting September 18. Former Gov. Lane is slated to speak at the banquet while Baltimore Mayor Thomas D Alesandro will deliver the keynote. Others likely attending include Dr H C Byrd George P Mahoney and Comptroller J Millard Tawes as the party anticipates a fierce primary season.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Ocean City
Young
Democratic Clubs of
Lane
William Preston Lane Jr
Thomas D’alesandro
Baltimore
D’alesandro
H. C. Byrd
University of Maryland
George P. Mahoney
J. Millard Tawes
Byrd
Mahoney
J. Glenn Beall
Tawes
Joseph Tydings
U. S
Millard E. Tydings
Charles Buscher
Montgomery County
James C. Morton Jr
Anne Arundel County
Bridge Superstructure Work To Begin Soon
Crews of the American Bridge Company will move onto the Potomac River bridge site at Brunswick within a week or two to erect the steel superstructure. The Bowers Construction Company of Raleigh will finish substructures. all piers except one are done. The Maryland approach contract was awarded to M. J. Grove Lime Company by the State Roads Commission.
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American Bridge Company
Potomac River
Brunswick
Bowers Construction Company
Raleigh
N. C
Haveeen
Maryland
Swank
People’s Home and Auto Store
W. Potomac Street
Lloyd E. Roelke
J. R. Beck
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Ast
State Roads Commission
Federal Sales Tax May Be Campaign Issue
The Democratic Digest argues a federal sales tax will dominate the 1954 elections. It criticizes Republican Korea policy and warns the tax would hit lower income families, urging the President to decide on a policy shift amid defense and budget pressures. It also praises gains in Korea but notes Republican framing could hinder decisive action.
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Washington
Democratic Digest
Democratic National Committee
Korea
Jong Republican
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Japan
Philippines
Australia
New Zealand
United Nations
Eisenhower
Truman
America
Montgomery County Probes Pollution In Muddy Branch
Montgomery County Council considers local legislation to curb stream pollution near Gaithersburg after health officials say the health department lacks authority to order abatement. Residents allege cannery sewage overflows and heavy chlorine treatment, with the Maryland Water Pollution Commission already investigating.
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Montgomery County Council
Gaithersburg
W. L. Ellicott
Health Department
Clifton Marks
Maryland Water Pollution Commission
Louis A. Graveile
Marks
Washington Suburbian Sanitary Commission
Cecil E. Custer
Sanitary Commission
Custer
Anders Family Wedding Invitations Issued in Cheyenne
Mrs. Harry Anders of Cheyenne Wyoming has issued wedding invitations for the marriage of her daughter Miss Ellen Frat her Anders to Mr. Robert Wil caered of Stobe the Brangut here. Miss Anders is the niece of Mr and Mrs Jesse B Anders of Cheyenne.
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Luther Gulick Camps
South Casco
Anne Carty
J. Walker Carty
Rockwell Terrace
Eleanor
Patricia Heston
Herbert N. Heston
Magnolia Avenue
Harry Anders
Cheyenne
Wyo
Ellen Frather Anders
Robert Wilcaered
Stobe the
Brangut
Miss Anders
Jesse B. Anders
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Elmer W. Singer
Jack Alexander
Henry Davis
Preston Best
Franklin Reese
Baker Park
Roy E. Ernst
West Sout Street
Frederick Brick Works
East South Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Charles V. Maz
Ernst
Hillside Coal Company
Set
Harry Quinn
Jerry
Leon
Franklin Crummitt
B. and
OQ. Avenue
Donald Cline
Lyle Hoffman
Water Street
Paul E. Romsburg, Jr
Romsburg
Quinn
Says Lias
Fawn
Harvey Waldron
Waldron
Allie Talbott
Laurence Walter
Monroe Thomas
Francis
William Louthan
Marion Hoffman
Walker Smith
Carl Davis
Raymond Davis
Harold Cares
Charlotte Gibbs
Billa Hickeman
Fleming
Mises Judith Waldron
Washington W
Harry T. Thomapson
National Capital Parks
Washington-Baltimore Parkway
Jessup
Laurel
Young Democrats
Petting
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Urbana
Harpokd
Marine
Salisburg
Salisbury
John Edward Derbile
Jay Cannon
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