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The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 2

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The Daily Maili
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Hagerstown, Maryland
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Gun Death Is Suicide, Ditto Says WOUAMSrOBT a Merle Brown, of S. Con- inflicted gunshot wounds Tuesday afternoon near his summer home en the Potomac liver. The death was ruled suicide by Dr. E. W.

Ditto county medical examiner, who pronounced Brown dead at the Ike weapon used was caliber revolver. Brown ound a short distance from his home on Taylor's Landmf off Sharpsbnrg Pike. Sheriff Deputy Howard Boby off significantly, the VS. Mai- boring Laos, said two teenafe boys who spent announced that the Laotian the night with Brown at his borne along the rhrer told this story: Brown went into WiUiamsport for groceries. When he returned eight the summer house he sent boy lor kerosene for stove.

He told the other boy he was going for a walk and lef the house. Later one of the boys loum Brown's body along the road and ran to the home of John a neighbor, to summon lelp. The boys could give Roby no apparent reason for Brown's ac- Smoky Blaze Tuesday ion. They said they bad known egation to Baltimore to talk to BegnaM a from tine Hacerstowo companies wcfv Mnfttrcd by beavy OTrolrf Tuesday morning as they battled a bune a bnOdrng at the Supreme Castrate Stock Co. along Dual Highway.

near Cilniil Drive. Ma and equipment from tat dry's First Hose. Junior, and Phaser Hook and ladder mnpamn responded to the amUsm The deasity of the smoke forced firemen to Hfiae JUnmote Scott air pocks, designed to furnish them with dean, fresh air as they fought the second floor Maze. Pictured above beside the city's newest pumper. Junior Fire Co.

driver-Edward Ebon helps volunteer Bill Ruoaifi into the shoulder straps of an air pack. The fire, beneved to ham been accidentally started by an acetylene torch, was confined to the second floor and roof of ttie No rstuuatf of loss nas been made. (Photo by Dave Utxenborg) im for a long time but they iad never known that be had gun. They said they had een the revolver before. Local Obituaries Mrs.

Margaret dark Mrs. Margaret EBubeth Clark, widow of Harry S. Clark, of Georgia Avenue, died at Reeder Nursing Home Tuesday 'afternoon. on Tuesday evening, ane ban in Downsvflle and the daughter of the late George nod Eoabeth Lewis. She had Bved in Hagerstowu moat of her fife.

She was a member of a EUB Chorea, Hagerstown. She it arrived by am daughter, Mrs. Joseph Harsh, Hagerstown, sons, Hubert and Roy, both of Hagerstown and Frank of Downsville; 23 grandchildren; 59 great grandchildren and 34 great-great-grandchildren also survive. The body was removed to the funeral home of A.K. Coff- ere services wiH be held on Friday at 2 p.m.

with the Rev. Laverne Rohrbangh officiating with burial in Green Lawn Cemetery, WiUiamsport. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday evening from 7 to 9. Victor B. Miller Funeral services for Victor Miner, 35, of 954 Mt.

Aetna Road, who died on Monday will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Norment Funeral Horns with the Hev. Robert Passar- effi. pastor of St. Mary's Cath- Church officiating.

Burial Besides his wife, he is sur vived by daughters, Mrs. Lauretta Day, Baltimore; Mrs. Li sa Bruce. SykesvOle; Miss Roberta Wolf, Baltimore; stepson Darrell Shepley, Hagerstown and four grandchildren. Services will be at the Nor ment Funeral Home Friday a 11 a.m., the Rev.

Robert B. Col litt officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Friend may call at the Norment Fun era! Home after 1 p.m. today olic will be made Cemetery.

in Rose Hill Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. today. Paid H. Grimm Paul H. Grimm, 74, of 100 N.

45th St, Harrisburg, a former resident of Rohrersville, i Monday evening at the Hams- burg Hospital. He was the husband of late May Esther Snyder, Hagerstown. Surviving are a son, Leonard, with whom he made his home; four grandchildren; brothers, Walter Hyattsville, L. Olin, Trego; Wilbur, Homer Rohrersville; sisters, Mrs. Luther B.

Slifer, Rohrers- vile; and Miss Ethel I. Grimm, Hagertown. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Spencer Arnold Funeral Home, Harrisburg, with interment in that city. Mrs.

Edith B. Bain Mrs. Edith Beard Baia, 95. of Clear Spring, died at Washington County Hospital Tuesday morning after a long illness. She was the last surviving member of her immediate family.

A number of nieces a nephews survive. Daughter of the late Mary Feidt and Martin Luther Beard, she was a member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, a Spring. Services will be Friday at 2 m. at the Rowland Funeral Home, Clesr Spring, the Rev.

Raymond Miller officiating. Burial will be in St, Paul's Cemetery. Friends may call at the fun eral home Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. Robert R. WoH Robert Reno Wolf, 51, of 2033 Virginia husband of Mrs.

Panlrae Blickenstaff Wolf, died at the Washington County Bos- Methodist Church port. Einbinder Rites Are Set For Today Mrs. Hanna Lyon Einbinder, wife of Albert R. Einbinder, died at her home, 1028 Potomac and nephews. He was born in Hagerstown, son of the late Carol R.

a Myrtle Drill Wolf. He a employed by the Potomac Edison and was a member the Hagerstown Loyal Order of PRAYER TODAY Father, while my religious life is ever strengthened through fel lowship with Thee, may it bi something more than inner sal isfactions of personal devotion May 1 take it with meet each new day me and face the practical realities of dail living. Give me a warm hear and a friendly hand for all wh pass my way. Make me jus and compassionate, generou and forbearing, truly unselfish in all human relations. So ma I honor Him who taught tha we save life by losing it.

Amen Alfred Grant Walton, Brook lyn, N.Y., pastor emeritus, Flat bush Tompkins Congregations Church. TBCDAO.T MATL btabniMd PBMUuid evtndnt acjpt at SMI Summit Md. Zip 21740. entond wand MtpkOM 7JM1J1 By curler, ixr BjTauu. ML.

D.C, N.J JTY, one month lUO: maaUu, sli moeQu.SS.IO; on. AU ifatM, ont on. ytir. Bontt, SI.M; iUd Pnm to ma Ot a placid Giraffe named Dior confided that clothes were a bore "but ERNST ties I low, heavens above, they're worth sticking your neck way outfor!" COLOR Mf PLACID 15 N. Potomac St.

Ave. Tuesday morning. late Moses and Rosa Nachim son Lyon. She had resided in Hagerstown her entire Me. She was a member of Hadassab.

Besides her husband she is survived by daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Nelson, Toledo. sons. Harold Jacksonville, Jules Silver Spring; Joseph Hagerstown; Irving Hagerstown; William Bernard, San Diego, Gad iilver Spring; 15 grandchildren; sister, Mrs. Grace Linden, Bal- imore; brothers, Ben Lyon, Lancaster, Charles Lyon, York, Harry Lyon, Gary, and a number of nieces and nephews.

Services were held today at 2 p.m. at the A. K. Coffman Funeral Home. Rabbi Hirch Diskind, dean of Bias Yaakoor School for Girls in Baltimore, win officiate.

Burial win be B'Nai Abraham Cemetery, Halfway. The family requested a flowers be omitted and memo rial donations may be made to the local Cancer Society. In separate sweeps, American to the Viet Cong. en Hepped op then- attacks troop, stumbled The Strategic Ah- Command's Vtah 32. North and South Viet Nam to- onto Viet Cong caches of rice eight-encme BS2s from Guam Pilots wfcfle the Vfet Cong stffl totaling 335 tons enough to joined the air offensive sidestepped 5 where pUne, 3 to tamt howit ss rtn.rs.

'ssrSA While the ground war tapered In Vientiane, capital of neigh- dian border and in Pan Yen pause. number of Americans killed combat last week rose by the management of Hunter Hflls apartments about finding an is not a legal matter. It is a apartment for Reginald Keyes. The boys told Roby that Tues- himself and his wife since Apay was Brown's day off from director Hospital at Newton D. Baker in Martinsburg, W.

ffie Brown of Wil- was born and Pryor liamsport. He raised in WiUiamsport He was a veteran of World far and a member of the of Wilnanu- Besides his parents, he leaves six brothers, Francis Anderson, lesse, Harry, Harvey, Mark ind Charles, all of Williamsport, and a number of nieces Funeral services will be held She was born and reared in Friday at 1:30 p.m. from Leaf Hagerstown, daughter of Funeral Home, WiUiamsport. with the Rev. Charles A.

Michael of- iciating, with burial hi Greenlawn Cemetery, WilHamsport Friends may call at the. funeral home on Thursday evening from to 9. Temperatures Into 40s Temperatures got up into the 40s yesterday--practically summer weather compared with the past few weeks! J. a Beckanbaugh, ioonsboro weather observer, measured a high temperature reading Tuesday of 40 degrees, a low last night of 29 degrees, and a 7 a.m. temperature of 34 degrees.

Lawson Wolfinger, substitute Bridgeport weather observer, measured a high Tuesday of 41 degrees, and a'7 a.m. reading of 34 degres. AMERICANS KILLED. 499WOUNPID Jets Step Up Attacks, Cong Forces In Hiding the big Allied feed trying to than 50 said missing in action com- pared with 57 An SAIGON, South Viet Nam and 11 missing in They said tanks mightje AP) VS. jet flgbter-bomb- revlous seven Laos, a Defense reported North Vietnamese were kffled.

4M wounded and to South Viet Nam. Qualified military sources in Saigon, how- ver. were skeptical of the report. They said tanks might be more of a Uability than an asset and rail bridges and claimed ttjy in the the Tarn Da highway for Province on the central plains, Ministry U.S. spokesmen said No American planes were re- tanks bad been seen for the first ported lost in the double-bar.

per cent. A time on the Ho Chi Minh Trail rded air action on both sides of south of Vinhand in the Thanh Americans through eastern Laos, en route the 17th Parallel. The 7th Fleet carriers Ticonderoga and Ranger sent 17 jet spokesmen said. NAACP To Send Group To Baltimore To Talk To Local Apartment Owners Washington NAACP branch will send a del- Keyes, a Negro, has hearts, because the law gives ookmg for an apartment for ril, 19(4. A Hack Truck worker, lis job as assistant personnel he said he has not been able to find any apartments open to him outside of the Jonathan St.

He bad been employed mere section except slam-type places ince 1947. no better than those on Jona He was a son of Charles and than St The NAACP branch wM ask Ward Om Councilman Arthur G. Foucm to the to BaM you no backing." NAACP Member, into year hunts, yen may "What did the 12 Disciples accomplish?" asked Coron. Her. Mr.

Robinson said "afternoon after afternoon" a been spent by the mayor's W- racial committee and the mbf isiers' human rights steering They also decided to try to committee in discussing nous- get Hagerstown clergymen, and ing and Keyes. lerhaps Mayor Herman L. Mills, sponsor an "inter racial confronted their congregation Sunday," in which whites would with the question of a risit Negroes in their homes rights, and had pledges cut as a after church, and white and Negroes attend a meeting on bous- ing. One purpose of the visits would ie to show whites that to do. result, "just because of Reginald Keyes." He added, "You don't seem to appreciate what we're trying Negroes, in spite of their handi- have fixed up their homes licely.

The Rev. James Robinson said many Jonathan St. houses are make a law "in the heart. much nicer on the inside than lie outside. He said tenants feel is the landlord's responsibility to paint the outside.

But he landlord won't do that, he aid. without raising the rent MA IfM proDwtn is to- form a Hity ptrcwitoft vf town's pootriatien, said, within ttwt (roupi ftwiv Is large pronsstonat "We're fighting this problem, Jegroes moving out," he said. Ie said he knew only of Keyes and perhaps one or two others. Leonard Cnrlin, branch presi- lent, commented that a whites live in houses just as bad as those on Jonathan St. But at least they have the oppor- degrees, a low last night of 24 tunity to rise out of them by heir own efforts, he said.

Concerning Keyes. he a i "We have exhausted every pos sible means of trying to Said Rev. Mr. Robinson, "This matter of winning people's Curlin said ministers a "I appreciate tl very much," said Keyes. "but-" The Rev.

W. M. Claybon told Keyes the NAACP is trying to Alan Marriner asked what he thought the A A should do. "The only thing I think we can do is demonstrate," Keyes said. Rev.

Mr. Robinson scoffed, "There aren't that many Negroe here that are interested." Cur lin challenged Keyes to give names of people who would demonstrate. "The fact that I don't go downtown and demon strata doesn't mean I'm afraid," and yet there isn't going to be Curlin said, "If I were afraid, any great uprising of 20 or 30 i wouldn't have gone to Ala voting for John Birch Society members or former Goldwater supporters. "They are not people who are friendly to Ne groes," he said. Stock Market Buying Wave NEW YORK (AP)-The stock market rallied in a vigorous buying wave early today.

Completing its recovery from of the ABC 1965 convention. the Viet Nam "peace scare" of early Tuesday afternoon, the list How They Voted moved ahead with a parade of 200 persons are expected in at- large blocks, most of them at tendance. higher prices. Aerospace defense issues, elec Ironies, motors, rails, chemicals, airlines and nonferrous metals were among the gainers. Douglas Aircraft rose more than 4, Boeing 2, Zenith about IVi.

Polaroid 1. Sperry Rand recovered fractionally from recent selling. moving up on trades of 13,300 ster and Tydings of Md. and 29,300 shares. All big three motors gained fractions.

Steels were unchanged ,0 higher. Up about a point were Polaroid, Pbelps Dodge and U. S. Rubber. highways in the Dong Hoi Air Force F105 Thundercblefs and F4C Phantoms, cratend roads, damaged two bridges and blasted a truck pool Boa sector on combat mis- over North Viet Nam, Ladies Night Planned Here By Builders A Ladies Night for members of the Cumberland Valley Chapter of the Associated Builders Contractors will be held at the Venice Restaurant Thursday.

The social boor win begin at 6:30 p.m., with dinner at 7:30 p.m. Theme of the meeting will "The ABC Caper of MM 1 with skit by chapter members, called "A Bidding Also as entertainment win he a barber shop quartet and slides John W. Lloyd executive director of ABC, said 150 to WASHINGTON (AP) 51-48 roll cafl vote, by which the Senate refused Tuesday to invoke its doture rule to shut off debate on the union shop hill included: Democrats for doture: Brew- Republicans against olotare: Boggs and Williams of Dei DIVORCE SUIT Donald R. Angle filed suit for divorce from Janet H. Angle in Circuit Court.

"You'll have excuse mt," Kcyts said, "I'm jvst impatient. I'm tired of waiting." Jobs, Politics Curlin also announced a jobs are open for Negroes as brakeman on the Western Maryland Railway, thanks to the efforts of Fouche. He warned Negroes against MIDWINTER SALE SAVE ON STATTON Americana Exclusive At Maidsrone with CASH to pay your bills Start living better this year with money cares left with old bills swept away. A loan from us can pay your bills in full-leave you with only one low, easy-to-manage monthly and with extra cash in your pocket See us a litfle better tomorrow. LOANS UP TO $0500 A I FINANCE CORPORATION 15 Public Square RE 3-5620 Thurt.

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