Rev J Edgar Beckley Accepts Calvary Brethren Pastorate
Native of Hagerstown Rev J Edgar Beckley Jr named pastor of Calvary Brethren Church succeeding Rev A M Dixon who resigned December 1 He is a 1940 Hagerstown High School graduate and has begun duties this week Mrs Beckley is a Bible teacher and leader of youth The church now worships in Friendship Union chapel near Halfway VA avenue with plans to build a new church on Bryan plate once materials arrive
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Hagerstown
Calvary Brethren Church
J. Edgar ‘Beckley, Jr
Calvary Brethren’ Church
A. M Dixon
Beckley
Pearl Welty
Frank L. Welty
Sharpsburg Pike
Maugansville
Practical Bible Training
Bible School Park
N. Y
Point Salem
Eastern Minist
Erial Union,’ Inc
Pennsylvania
Calvary Brethren: Fellowship
Friendship Union
Virginia Avenue
Bryan’ Plate
Court House And Church Burned Here 75 Years Ago
Local historians note the 1871 fire that destroyed the Hagerstown court house and St. John's Episcopal Church. The blaze started December 5 1871 in an Antietam street agricultural implement store amid high winds. One man died, another was badly hurt, and Fridinger’s son was later killed when the court house was razed. County records survived amid tension over the obsolescent courthouse.
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Court House
Hagerstown
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Antietam Street
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
John Fridinger
Henry Bester
Fridinger
Scout Head To Address Group At 19th Annual Washington Area Council Meeting
At the 19th annual Washington Area Council of Boy Scouts meeting on Tuesday evening December 10 at Hotel Alexander, BE H Bakken will discuss What Boys May Expect of Scouting. Franklin D Spofford will preside and submit the annual report as officers are elected. Highlights show 60 percent of cub masters, 55 percent of scoutmasters, and 83 percent of senior advisors trained, with total council membership 1816 including 229 Cubs 997 Boy Scouts 127 senior Scouts and 463 adults. 26 troops with 291 boys camped out under local leadership. A Silver Beaver award will be presented to a council Scouter. recipient kept confidential until the meeting.
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Washington Area Council of Boy Scouts
Hotel Alexander
BE. H. Bakken
New York City
Franklin D. Spofford
Washington County
Franklin County
Fulton County
Spofford
Edward K. Roach
Paull Shields
Lee Merriman
Waynesboro
Gap
Hood Editorial Staff Strikes Apathy On Campus
The Hood editorial comments on student indifference to volunteering for the student paper and campus events. It notes low turnout for a nationally famous dancer recital and a dance, plus poor attendance at off campus activities. It laments post war trends and calls for responsibility and awareness of the wider world. Some veterans seek to buy surplus mine detectors to aid in a pirate gold search.
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Hood
Alpha Psi Omega
Gallant Bess Visits News Office During Local Tour
Equine movie star Bess the gelding appeared at the Herald Mail office with trainer Joe Atkinson and MGMs Volney Phifer. Bess, bought in Florida's Everglades over six years ago, performed stunts at Hagerstown High School and on a radio program. Tom Baldridge and George Payette coordinated, with Maryland opening his movie "Gallant Bess" at Christmas Eve.
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Gallant Bess
Herald-Mail
Neill Baylor
Joe Atkinson
Volney Phifer
M-G-M Animal Department
Bess
Florida Everglades
Atkinson
Tom Baldridge
M-G-M
George N. Payette
The
Maryland
Taft elected first layman president of CCC of America
Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati Ohio an Episcopalian and son of the late president was chosen as the first layman president of the Council of Churches of Christ in America at the annual meeting in Seattle Washington He succeeds Bishop G Bromley Oxnam a Methodist from New York.
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Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Ohio
Council of Churches of Christ In America
Seattle
Wash
Taft
G. Bromley Oxnam
Methodist
New York
Inch pipelines to be debated by Congress and War Assets
War Assets Administration told Congress the disposition of the Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines would be referred back to Congress. The 1,500 mile network from Texas to New Jersey, built in wartime for oil, now carries natural gas under an emergency lease to ease coal strike fuel shortages.
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Washington
War Assets Administration
Congress
War Assets
Robert M. Littleton
House
Texas
New Jersey
America
2900 GIs Apply For Permission To Bring Home
More than 2500 American war veterans have applied to bring German fiancées to the United States to marry. Congress approved immigration for veterans’ fiancées last June with a three month marriage requirement. The Munich Consulate reports nearly 1000 applications. Frankfurt about 700. Stuttgart 250. plus others. About 40 exit permits had been granted. Applicants must prove the frau is free to marry, has intent to wed, no criminal record, and not a former Nazi or Wehrmacht member.
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Frankfurt
Germany
United States
Army
Congress
Bremen
Berlin
Hamburg
New Suits Tested by Antarctic Team Aboard Mt Olympus
Fifty five naval officers and men from a wartime underwater demolition unit assigned to the Antarctic expedition will test rubber diving suits in 28 to 35 degree water. Led by Lieut. Halver Iverson the crew will assess six pound felt lined suits with gloves feet and hood for cold water survival against expectations of an invasion of Japan.
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U.S.S. Mt. Olympus
South Polar
Halver Iverson
Savannah
Japan
Saw Women Leap To Their Deaths
Eyewitness accounts describe dozens of women leaping from a burning building, nets catching many but not all. Firemen struggled with the smoke and flames as ambulances ferried victims to hospitals, with one officer noting the absence of men and children among those trapped.
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E. B. Brooks
Brooks
Maj
Fire escape recounts by war general and captain
Gen. P. W. Baade of Washington and Capt. D. Waelde of Atlanta described escaping from a sixth floor room via a fireman's ladder to an adjoining roof. They credited firemen with saving many lives and praised their efforts during the incident.
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P. W. Baade
Washington, D. C
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