Countian Ends Life At His Home
Thomas J. Stottlemyer aged 40 shot himself at the Barrick Lime Company property near LeGore with a borrowed 20 gauge shotgun. The county medical examiner ruled death by own action. He left five children and a wife Miss Catherine Louise Stottlemyer. He worked at the Barrick kilns and had been drinking several days. Funeral services will be held at the Church of God Oak Hill with interment at the adjoining cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Stottlemyer
Barrick Lime Company
LeGore
Horace M. Alexander
Stottlemyer
Barrick
Catherine Louise Stoutlemyer
Bickford
Richard
Melvin
Alma
Dixie
Aquilla J. Stottlemyer
Edgar Smith
Highfield
Lee
Sabillasville
Herman Tressler
Waynes
Dof
Saul
Church of God
Oak Hill
J. E. Stephen
Powell and Hartzler
Boy Struck by Car Injured. Eight-Year-Old Recovering
Eight-year-old Thomas L. Watkins Jr of Mt. Airy remained at Frederick City Hospital with a cracked nose ruptured left eye and facial injuries after being struck by a car on North Bentz street Sunday about 10 30 am. Lawrence Anders Brownsville driver stopped and aided the boy who is in the care of his grandmother Mrs Ethel Ritenour while his Detroit based parents stay elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Watkins, Jr
Mt. Airy
Frederick City Hospital
Ethel Ritenour
North Bentz Street
Lawrence Anders
Brownsville
Anders
Detroit
Mich
Baltimore Used Home Market Slumps as Listings Rise
Baltimore realtors report a nearly 50 percent drop from spring peak activity in the used home market. Listings for sale have increased as owners rush to dispose of property amid high prices. Prices declined only in isolated cases, with no broad deflation. Funeral services were set for Leon Arnold, 89, founder and former president of the Washington Virginia and Maryland Coach Company, in Vienna Virginia. The Navy canceled a civilian personnel cutback at the U S Naval Academy, affecting about 300 employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Washington
Leon Arnold
Washington, Virginia
Maryland
Vienna
Annapolis
Navy
U.S. Naval Academy
Two Probes Of Shooting Under Way In Middletown
Two investigations started into the shooting of Robert Lee Turner a farmhand near Middletown by his 13 year old son Robert Lee Turner Jr. Turner was critically wounded and remained alive after surgery at Frederick City Hospital with a guarded prognosis. The juvenile suspect was detained on a technical delinquency warrant while a second inquiry by probation authorities sought details from the family for Juvenile Court action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Lee Turner
Middletown
Robert Lee, Jr
Turner
Frederick City
Montevue
Bruce Brachey
State Police
William C. Roderick
Roderick
Young Turner
M. D. Coblentz
Gea
Poolesville
Ijamsville
Lind Ulp
Meter Income Shows Gains in Frederick Park Meters
With three months left in the year, Frederick city parking meter receipts are on track to top the $21,000 budget estimate, possibly by 54,000 or more. Nine month totals reach $20,579.90. October prospects add about $2,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick City
Elgin Hemp
Plans to form new union in U S communications field
Washington September 26 Plans mature to scrap the National Federation of Telephone Workers and replace it with a tight national union of unprecedented scope within the nation s communications industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Federation of Telephone Workers
NFTW
Market Trends Turn Quiet Amid Early Selling
New York stock market leaders showed scattered weakness after a light start as traders weighed early selling. Across the day trends stiffened, with some gains and losses noted among key industries and major issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Iight
Painter’s varnish supplies injury claim in Chicago
Attorney Emerson C. Whitney filed a $25 000 damages suit in Circuit Court for Mrs Regius Chaim alleging she slipped on freshly varnished floors in her one room apartment after awakening and fractured her hip on October 16. Defendants named are Lunt Glenwood Corporation and the Ganja Brothers painting contractors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Emerson C. Whitney
Regius Chaim
Whitney
Lunt Glenwood Corporation
Ganja Brothers
Contadora
More Meat For Hospitals But Not Homes
Santa Fe New Mexico reports Paul Porter national director of OPA announces an order to direct packers to set aside the same amount of meat for hospitals and similar institutions nationwide. Details to be announced from Washington as plans proceed. The White House declines to discuss suspending meat price controls amid renewed hunger concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe
N. M
Paul Porter
OPA
Washington
Porter
UPA
Ite House
White House
Charles G. Ross
Lbberty
McCormack
D-Mass
Rossesse
Rave Mo
Frederick Community Chest Drive Set to Open October 14
Frederick prepares for its annual Community Chest drive beginning October 14 with A. B. Collmus named general chairman. Agencies include Girl Scouts Boy Scouts Children’s Aid Society and Salvation Army. Committee chairs cover Special Gifts Industrial Schools Government Fraternal and more with John D. Shorrow handling publicity. Dr Ignatius Björles is elected president with an executive committee listing Gambrill Swisher Sr Sr secretary Zimmerman treasurer Baker Gambrill Jr McBride and Stahr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Glenn T. Swisher
Robert L. Sr
William BD. Zimmerman
Holmes D. Baker
James H. Gambrill, Jr
Edgar H. McBride
Henry Stahr
Visitation Academy Jubilee Celebrates Alumni Across Centuries
The Golden Jubilee of the Visitation Alumnae Association closed a two day centennial observance of Visitation Academy founded in 1846. Graduates from classes 1893 and 1909 attended with several members from those cohorts. Notables include Mrs Nellie King Shoemaker and Mrs May Carr Mathers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Visitation Alumnae Association
Visitation Academy
Nellie King Shoemaker
May Carr Mathers
Irene Lindsay Staley
City
Sue White van Buskirk
Kansas City
Elizabeth Rogeck Houck
Florence Windsor Stewart
Baltimore
Margaret Collins Marilly
Washington
Pauline Diffendal
Deeds Filed For Land To Expand Camp Detrick
Deeds recorded in Frederick County clerk’s office show five tracts totaling 34 800 dollars for sale to the United States government to enlarge Camp Detrick. A War Department plat lists 657 10 acres with more tracts expected and names several grantors including Harry M Free and Elmegia V Krantz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
United States
Camp Detrick
War Department
Harry M. Free
Tuscarora
Frederick
Braddock
Bright Estate
Elmegia V. Krantz
Ant
John J v. Summers
Helen E. Reverts
Edward J. Smith
E. A. Baughman
Ifto
Ehoakstown Road
Camp Derrick
Helen Roberts
Austin K. Thomas
Marion EB. Specht
J.J. T. Summers
Charles E. Krantz
Maples
King
Bright
D. Chester Kemp
Annie Kemp Maples
Robert
Mdnaguin
Scarcity Looms For Shoes And Soap Amid Meat Shortage
Maryland faces tighter supplies as packers tanners and renderers warn of fewer shoes leather goods and soap due to continuing meat famine. Clarence Braun of the Baltimore rendering firm explains curtailment of packing harms soap nylon hose and leather products with fat supplies dropping from 12 to two trucks daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Breun
Greece Prepares To Welcome King Back
The Greek government finished plans to greet King George VI as he returns to the throne amid border fighting and civil strife in northern Greece. Athens will close for the King's reception and police suspend all arms permits as crowds prepare to greet him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
George VI
Greece
Constantin Tsaldazis
Ezes Go Overseas New York Ship Largest Postwar Cargo
A postwar era vessel sailed from New York carrying a record cargo of 690,090 eyes destined for Switzerland. The voyage highlights a notable overseas shipment linked to Holland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Holland
Switzerland
Roosevelt Estate Appraisal Shows Gross of 1.801 Million
In Poughkeepsie New York on September 26 the gross estate of the late President Franklin D Roosevelt was appraised at 1 801 887 with deductions of 126 4 million for funeral expenses debts and other costs the net estate before taxes listed as 1 085 48 by Frederick Quinterre Dutchess County Surrogate and Henry Hackett executor and attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
N. J
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dutchess County
Frederick Quinterre
Henry Hackett
Roosevelt
Deed Presented for Shoe Plant in Emmitsburg
The Vigilant Hose Company deeded land to Beaudin Shoe Company for a new Emmitsburg factory. The plant, nearly complete, is set to begin operations early next year and will employ about 250 workers. Beaudin runs a Fairfield Pennsylvania plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vigilant Hose Company
Emmitsburg
Beaudin Shoe Company
Beaudin Company
Fairfield
Lions Club
Shoe Company
Charles F. Troxell
L. E Beaudin
G. V. Foy
J. B. Smith
Joseph Hoke
Charles Harner
Emmitsburg Lions Club
Willam Sterbinsky
Smith
Snoe Company
Flight Set To Start Friday From Honolulu to Cairo
Commander C. S. Irvine plans a 10 000 mile Arctic hop to Cairo Egypt in the Pacansan Dreamboat weather permitting. Early forecast warned of poor conditions over Iceland but meteorologists expected improvement within 24 hours for the transcontinental flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Cal. C. S.irvine
Army
Pacansan
Cairo
Egypt
Irvine
Arctic
Iceland
Pleads Guilty To Drunken Driving In Maryland
Frank Gishnock of Smock Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in Peoples Court to operating an automobile under the influence of liquor. He paid a $100 fine plus costs after Magisterial State Trooper Bruce Bhackie arrested him on Route 40 near Frederick. A separate non support charge against J William Davis was dismissed amid testimony of ample provisions at his home. Richard E Zimmerman represented Gishnock. Kilgore elected chairman of Senate War Investigating Committee after Mead resignation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Gishnock
Smock
Peoples Court
Magistente R md
Bruce Bhackie
Route 40
Frederick
Union Bridge
J. William Davis
Mminor
Richard E. Zimmerman
Elderly patient settles obstetric bill with doctor
In Salem West Virginia an elderly woman visits Dr Edward Davis asking the charge for two babies delivered he recalls charging 15 dollars for obstetric cases and hospital care for one child she offers five twenty dollar bills totaling 100 dollars in payment
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
W. Va
Edward Davis
Four Killed 30 Injured In U P Wreck
Victorville Calif Sept 26 A Union Pacific westbound Transcontinental Limited derailed on a curve about two and a half miles east of Victorville. Ten or more were injured and the engineer and fireman were trapped and alive. Ambulances were sent from San Bernardino and Barstow to move casualties to hospitals thirty miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victorville
Calif
Union Pacific
Transcontinental
St. Louis
Here
Union Pavillc
Transcontinents Limited
Chicago
Sherif Zeke Ebelzin
Avere
San Bernardino
Barstow
U. S. Highway 66
Streietrers
Full Probe Of Housing Is Asked
Senator Ferguson urges the Senate War Investigating Committee to halt other cases and focus on housing delays. He condemns the housing program as a fraud and calls for using the staff to push production, criticizing Housing Expeditor Wilson Wyatt as inactive. The three starting inquiries aim to clean up prior lengthy investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ferguson
Mich
Senate War Investigating Committee
Central America
Michigan
Wilson Wyatt
Wyatt
Soviet Prosecution of Eight Commences in Soviet Regions
Moscow reports the start of prosecutions of eight Kui byshev and Yaroslav region officials for violations of the collective farm charter adopted in 1929. The case follows a broad drive to reform collective farming administrations, with two officials named as district secretaries of the Communist Party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Kuibyshev
Yaroslav
Soviet Council
i'Communist Party
Communist Party
Council For Ministers
Opportunity Given Stalin To Make Good
In Greece a ready-made chance for Joseph Stalin to act on his belief in friendly collaboration with western democracy persists amid a civil conflict. London reports Greek ministers accusing Albania and Yugoslavia of invasion with tacit government approval, while Britain supports that view. The Soviet bloc counters, stressing independence of Yugoslavia and Albania, and UN Security Council battles highlight the blame game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Betwest
West
Rai
London
Albania
Yugoseleva
le Laard
United Nations Security Council
Ukraine
Council
Andrei Gromyko
Britain
United States
China
Gromyko
Athens
Belgrade
Tirana
Moscow
Army Hunts Lost Flyers in China's Far West
Army search team in Chengtu pursues long-lost American airmen feared enslaved by local warlords. The five to 11 day trek targets the Chinkiang valley near Tibet where missionaries report enslaved whites grinding corn or tending flocks. Lt. Col. Wurtzler leads the mission toward a Catholic tebesiot outpost as airmen downed during the India to China Hump flight are believed held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chengtu
Chine
PIA U
Denies Committee Asked Hodge Ouster
Washington reports that a five member House Military sub committee denied chairman Sheridan D Pairs claim that the group urged removing Lt Gen John R Hodge as commander in Korea. Reps Short and Marin expressed surprise at the remarks and said no such recommendation had been made to the War Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
John R. Hodge
United States
Korea
Philadelphia
Sheridan D-Pai
Hodge
Eisenhower
Morales
Rep
Short
Thomas Marin
Iowa
Ior Sheridan
Committee
Thhe War Department
Truman to Meet Press at Weekly White House Conference
The White House announced President Truman will hold his weekly news conference today at 4 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Washington
White House
Pittsburgh Street Cars Stop Running
Pittsburgh faces a broad strike wave as street car workers walk out. 3,000 trolley operators halt service on Pittsburgh Railways Company lines amid threats cited by leaders. Court dissolves injunction against the strike, while power workers press their stoppage affecting Duquesne Light Co. generation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court
Anne X. Alpern
Walter Y. Smart
Duquesne Light Company
Power Workers Union
Pittsburgh Railways Company
John T. Morgan
AFL Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway
Pittsburgh Tailways Company
Duquesne Light Co
Philadelphia
Allegheny Common Pleas Court
CIO
AFL
Railways Company
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Mueller
George L. Mueller
Allegheny County
Independent Association of Employes
Carnegie Hall
Herman Lipsitz
Hke Mueller
Walter P. Smart
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T. J. Stottlemyer
Io Radio
Shimp
A.B. Collmus
Dun & Bradstreet
England
Paris
Duke of Windsor
Ezes
Hilgore
Senator Kilgore
D-W.va
Mead
D-N-Y
U.P
Vole
Alt Weber
E. Bigelow Thompson
U. S. Information Service
Yugoslav Foreign Office
Peiping
Jehol
Kalgan
Stalin
Glenn Babbap
Army Hunts
Tio Sui
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