Wells doubts if organized crime is in Baltimore
Baltimore June 9 State's Attorney J Bernard Wells expressed doubt today that there are any organized protected rackets in Baltimore. He noted statements from Washington about Baltimore as a possible hangout for gamblers and racketeers as a Senate committee probes organized crime. He said no organized ring trafficking drugs narcotics or white slavery exists, though he acknowledged crime in general is prosecuted in courts.
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Senate
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University of Maryland Driver Course Begins June 16
The University of Maryland offers its third annual driver education course for high school teachers this summer in College Park. The six week program runs from June 26 to August 4, with classes 9 to 11 a.m. on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays to qualify teachers to run driver education in their schools.
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University of Maryland
College Park
Maryland
Embroidery Patterns for Household Needlework Kit
Fruit vegetables and flowers brighten embroidery projects with easy stitches for kitchen towels. Includes pattern transfers 4x7 inches and improved visuals with charts and photos. Send twenty cents to The Hagerstown Daily Mall Household Arts Dept for pattern to P O Box 163 New York 11 NY.
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Household Arts Dept
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Old Chelaes Station
New York
N. Y
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Berkeley Springs Lions elect officers at Hotel Washington
The Berkeley Springs Lions Club chose officers for the year at a Monday meeting. Ward M Dawson Sr was elevated to president, with A L Rockwell as first vice president and N T Compton as second vice president. Others include O G Graham secretary treasurer M P Skinner, Daniel Gates lion tamer, and Charles B Miller Jr tail twister, plus two-year directors George L Fearnow and Grace N Leave.
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Lions Club
Washington
Ward M. Dawson
Dawson
House of Delegates
West Virginia
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N. T. Compton
O. G. Graham
M. P. Skinner
Morgan County War Memorial Hospital
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Balancing Budget At Blood Bank
William Curry, a nephritis patient in San Gabriel California, has received over 600 transfusions from the Regional Red Cross Blood Bank for six years. He plans a one man recruitment drive to donate 625 pints to keep the bank in balance, repaying the lifesaving fluids he received. A survey notes about 40 million petty gamblers in the United States. Fratt spraying to protect crops was introduced in 1878.
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San Gabriel
Calif
William Curry
Curry
Red Cross
United States
Murder Suicide in Winchester A former housekeeper slain
Sheriff reports 67 year old Hollie Wilson shot his former housekeeper Alta Grace Christman, 38, as she walked to her back porch in Winchester, then killed himself in a hog pen. Wilson's motive was not disclosed.
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Robert DeHaven
Hollie Wilson
Alta Grace Christman
DeHaven
Wilson
Christman
Incoherent Three-Page Letter Shocks Officer
The officer described the three page letter left by Wilson as incoherent and refused to disclose its contents while the shooting remains unresolved.
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Wilson
Man's Death Cycle Has Changed Little Says Yale Scientist
New York May 27 Yale zoologist Dr Edward S Deevey Sr notes in Scientific American that the oldest people alive today do not reach much greater ages than ancient figures. He argues long life seems to run in families and may reflect biology more than improved living conditions.
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New York
Edward S. Deevey
Yale
Scientific American
Deevy
First cast iron bridge over Erie Canal at Frankfort NY
A historian notes the first cast iron girder bridge in the United States spanned the Erie Canal at Frankfort New York in 1840. It measured 77 feet in length. He adds reflections on life span, suggesting about 115 to 120 years as maximum.
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United States
Frankfort
X. Y
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