19 Jun 1947
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1947
Page
1
Army weapons were publicly shown in the Public Square for Maryland National Guard units. The display highlighted latest gear to be used by Maryland National Guard companies.
A caravan touring the state for the Maryland National Guard recruitment campaign visited a square display led by Capt. Charles B. Venable. Rain delayed the exhibit but the Army personnel explained heavy National Guard rifles and a jeep used by General Charles Gearhart. The caravan proceeds to Cumberland this morning.
The article notes Maryland Masons including Harry O. Schroeder and Harry J. Heather witnessing a degree conferral in Frederick through Hagerstown and Capitol Forests. It details titles, past offices, and planned installations led by Supreme Tall Cedar Frank E. Jencks with Wilbur M. Seeger as the first Grand Tall Cedar of the newly instituted Frederick Forest, plus bus arrangements for Cedar travel. A brief Nederlandish item mentions Amsterdam plan for a $28 million plant to make fertilizer, synthetic soap and plastics.
The Mayor and Council will meet tomorrow evening to review trunk line air plane service for Hagerstown. A TWA official will discuss proposed east west service and CAB actions. Some council members favor north south routes linking New York and Miami, and questions about funding attorneys for CAB hearings are raised.
Assistant Secretary John Hilldring and Treasury officials defended the 1944 decision to entrust occupation currency plates to the Soviet Union while urging Moscow to accept plans for Germany as a single economic unit. They recalled Potsdam agreements and cautioned Russia could still back the currency plan, while senators pressed on the risk of a separate Soviet peace. Elsewhere, butch elm disease has spread to 13 states.
The Senate discusses a rent control compromise proposing up to 15 percent increases with pre-December lease agreements in 1947, advisory boards for defense rental areas, a 39 day approval window, and the planned liquidation of the Rent Administration by June 38, 1948, with evictions to follow state laws and broad construction controls ending June 30.
Cecil M. James 28, a handyman, is charged with first degree murder in the death of his 10 year old nephew Paul Benson James. Sheriff F F Fountain said James confessed using a piece of stovewood after the boy refused to work. The boy was found beaten to death in Quake community near Brewton last Wednesday.
Fishermen found a swimmer's body after a drowning at Jant dam Tuesday evening. The deceased, son of the late Elisworth Miller, left behind a stepfather and mother and several siblings in Williamsport. Funeral services were set for Saturday at the Pentecostal Church of God in Williamsport with interment in River View cemetery.
The Kingerstown Shrine Club of Alf Ghan Temple plans a Sunday picnic with magic shows by Noble Lehman at the Kraiss clubhouse along the Potomac river. H. Lizhtner, president, says the meeting time is 6 pm daylight saving time with dinner served at 5 39 pm.
Nobles and Ladies of the club were told that the picnic site may be reached by turning right off route 40 in the square at Clear spring on the Four Locks road following Shrine signs. There will be no Shrine club meeting here next month.
In St Louis a 26 year old taxi driver was acquitted of two second degree murder charges for the killing of an alleged rival for his wife's affections on a busy downtown street.
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