Ickes Attacks Congress MacArthur In Prepared Remarks
Harold L. Ickes blasts Congress as needing ethics reform and criticizes Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a Senate ethics hearing. He argues lawmakers bear responsibility for public distrust and urges restraint for conflicts of interest, payroll practices, and judiciary moral standards.
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Congress
Douglas MacArthur
Secretary of Interior
Senate Labor and Committee
Ickes
Inet
Truman
America
Irkes
MacArthur
Korea
Army to Buy Seven County Farms Near Camp Ritchie
Seven adjacent farms in the Tichmanton Sharpsburg area are slated for purchase by the Army within two weeks as part of the Camp Ritchie project. Washington negotiators will arrive to discuss acquisition while reports link the sites to underground communications and radio transmission facilities.
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Tichmanton
Sharpsburg
Washington
Army
Camp Ritchie
Adams County
Ter
Pentagon
Greencastle
Maryland
iCamp Ritehte
U N Allies Urged to Send Reinforcements to Korea
The United States asked remaining United Nations members to send troops ships and planes to aid in Korea. Ernest Gross urged Lie to mobilize forces from nations that pledged support but had not yet deployed units. Cordier said more troops are needed and a cease-fire offer seems unlikely.
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United Nations
N. Y
United States
Korea
Washington
Rosa
Lie
Haa
Copenhagen
U. S
Andrew
Cordier
U.N. Feld Kommander
Matthew B. Ridgway
38Th
Cordler
U.N
Prospects Fade For Conference Of Big 4 Heads
Four deputy foreign ministers from Britain France the Soviet Union and the United States failed to agree on key topics for a proposed Washington July 23 conference. They urged Russia to attend while noting the North Atlantic Treaty and overseas bases may not be part of formal talks.
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Britain
France
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Washington
Andrei Gromyko
Ernest Davies
Gromyko
Josef Stalin
Pravda
Austria
Trieste
Missing Girl Returned Home in Maryland Incident
Genevieve M. Ewart aged 12 was found safe at home on North Potomac Street after two youths aged 14 and 18 were traced by Detective Grason Wigfield and deputies Leister Isanogle and Michael Farrie in Tilghmanton district. The boys returned the girl to her residence and were released by the sheriff pending a conference with State's Attorney John Holiday on possible charges.
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Genevieve M. Ewart
North Potomac Street
Grason Wigfield
Leister Isanogle
Michael Farrie
Tilghmanton
John Hollyday
Farm Tractor Fails Steering Causes Rt 11 Collision
An automobile was badly damaged when a farm tractor pulled into the path of a northbound car on Rt 11 two miles north of the city. Ivan L. Martin 1% Hagerstown Rt 6 rode the tractor partly on the road and dirt shoulder. David Snell 29 Woodalle New York drove the auto. The right wheel struck an embankment and the tractor veered into the auto causing about $300 damage. The steering apparatus was reported not functioning well and the driver appeared inexperienced.
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Rt. 11
State Pollee Corp
Charles Madea
Ivan’ L. Martin
Hagerstown
Auto. Corp. Mades
Archbishop Pleads Guilty To Plotting Against Reds
Archbishop Joszef Groesz Mindszenty's successor in Hungary confessed to plotting the overthrow of the Communist government. The nine defendants faced Judge Vilmos Olti as American Robert Vogeler received 14 years on espionage charges. The court, guarded and crowded with diplomats, heard denials of coercion and noted a letter depicting Pope Pius XI urging resistance.
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Budapest
Hungary
Joszef Groesz
Mindszenty
Vilmos Olti
Mindszenry
Robert A. Vogeler
Sone
Vogeler
Groser
Pius XI
Legation
Elajois Pongracz
Josef Groesz
Red
Groesz
Old Auto Tags Bring In 359 Dollars For Red Cross
Dan Meyers of Central Motors handed over 2,388 pounds of old license tags to Red Cross representatives. Aluminum tags weighed 1,598 pounds at 22 cents per pound, tin 790 pounds at one cent per pound. The $359.46 plus prior drives raises the 1951 Red Cross total to $23,016.43 against a $19,922 goal.
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Dan Meyers
Central Motors
Red Cross
Meyers
Maryland
H. G. Guyton
The
American Red Cross
Man Must Get Tags To Continue 11 Miles Of Big Trip
Edwin F. Steeve a 44 year old who drove from North Dakota to Hagerstown was stopped for no license plates and must obtain plates before continuing the 11 mile leg to his Blue Ridge Summit destination He told Magistrate Martin T Ingram he did not intend to violate the law and was advised in North Dakota to wait until arriving in Pennsylvania where he planned to reside and buy tags He was arrested last night by city police.
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Edwin F. Steeve
North Dakota
Hagerstown
Blue Ridge Summit
Steave
Martin T. Ingram
Pennsylvania
Clty
Summer Arrives With Scattered Showers Forecast Today
The Weather Bureau predicts scattered showers or thunderstorms today and tonight after a brief thundergust. Dry soils and thirsty crops prompt hopes for moisture. A 90 degree high yesterday at Keedysville station. tonight’s low expected 68 to 70 with clouds.
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Weather Bureau
Keedysville
Travis Knode
Two More Bitten By Dogs Here
Two more people were bitten by dogs yesterday in the county. John Eavey a 10 year old boy and Larry Baughman of Midway Road were taken to Washington County Hospital for treatment and discharged after emergency room care. Also treated for minor injuries were Roscoe Shipley of Boonsboro who stepped on a nail and Walden Burtmner of Boonsboro who ran a pitchfork through his foot. Wall Street report notes Chrysler Motora down after a quiet day with director meeting.
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John Eavey
John F. Eavey
Larry Baughman
Midway Road
Washington County Hospital
Bere Roscoe Shipley
Boonsboro
Walden Burtnoer
Red Jets Routed Again in Korean Air Battles
The Red Air Force suffered heavy losses as American Sabre Jets shot down two Russian built aircraft and damaged three more in two clashes over North Korea. U N patrols face potential Communist counter thrust as ground fighting continues near Yonchon and Pyongyang.
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Tokyo
Red Air Force
North Korea
U. S. Fifth Air Force
United Nations
U. N
Yonchon
Pyongyang
Kaesong
East Central Front
Far East
U. N. Nes
Chorwon
Maryland sales tax revenue tops 30 million in current year
Maryland officials project sales tax receipts at 30.4 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, near the early Blate estimate. The figure surpasses the post tax cut revised estimate of 27.6 million as defense spending boosted spending.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Blate
General Assembly
National Defense
Pair Of Created Flycatchers Take Over Wren House
The Magoutas family at 26 Mast Church Street in WH Hamaport found two crested flycatchers nesting in a wren house after sparrows displaced wrens. The male is redbird sized with a yellow breast and yellow crest, and the female laid five eggs in the newly built nest observed by Catherine Magoutas.
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Wren House
George Magoutas
Mast Church Street
Hamaport
Magontas
Catherine Magoutan
Catheringe
General Ridgway Supported Nationalist China Troops Plan
Senate records reveal General Ridgway, then Far Eastern commander, supported General MacArthur’s push to use Chinese Nationalist troops against mainland China last December. The disclosure came during testimony on MacArthur’s dismissal and his calls for such actions amid UN forces in Korea.
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Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Far Eastern
Douglas MacArthur
China
Senate
MacArthur
Red China
Knowland
R-Calif
Ridgway
Mac
Oo ‘Arthur
J. Lawton Collins
Hidgway
Korea
United Nations
SRO
Ummnoll
Uweudls
Collins
U.S
Chiang Kale Shek
Formosa
Truman
Barr
Treacy Named OPS Special Agent for Washington Frederick
James J. Treacy a local attorney was appointed by the Maryland District Office of Price Stabilization as special agent. He will join the enforcement section to ensure compliance with price regulations and investigate ceiling price complaint cases in Washington and Frederick Counties.
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Baltimore
Maryland District Office of Price Stabilization
James J. Treacy
Washington
Frederick Counties
Chicago Plant to FAO Officials Turn Over to Fairchild
Officials announce the transfer of the government owned Chicago plant at O’Hara National Airport to the Fairchild Aircraft Division for a new $20 million Wright Patterson based contract. Fairchild will build the C-110 transport at the plant and move in by July 16 with current tenants including C A 4 Ordinance Procurement Bureau of Public Debt and Smithsonian.
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Mid-Central Air Procurement District
O'Hara National Airport
Chicago
Ilinois
Fairchild Aircraft Division
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Air Materiel Command
Fairchild
Air Force
Bureau of Public Debt
Smithsonian Institute
W. L. Sanders
Welfare Payments Drop In Maryland
Maryland welfare payments edged down slightly from April to May but remained about three percent higher than May 1960. The Department of Public Welfare reported total payments from all sources at 1 350 865 dollars versus 1 356 152 in April and 1 308 584 a year earlier.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Department of Public Welfare
Store Ransacked For Third Time
A small youth burglarized the grocery store of L. A. Zitzman at 816 West Church Street last night, the third break in since January. Police believe the climber needed a tall accomplice to lift him to a ten foot high tilted window. The intruder rifled the cash register and drew other drawers, taking a Ronson lighter a watch chain and cigarettes.
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L. A
S Ronson
Nurse Lorimer Returns After Weeks Missing in Smokies
Evangeline Lorimer, 21, who vanished June 8 with her father in the Great Smoky Mountains, walked into a Ranger camp and was taken to a Sevierville hospital in good condition. She had survived two weeks in bear country with insect bites and swollen fear, saying it was time to come out and that she would return to duty in Cincinnati.
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Gatlinburg
Tenn
Evangeline Lorimer
Sevierville
Great Smoky Mountains
Robert White
The
Smoky Mountains Naonal Park
Abrams Creek
EL Lorimer
Misa Lorimer
Bhora
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