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The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 3

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The Daily Maili
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Hagerstown, Maryland
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Of Young Girls PUBCELLVILLE, Vt. UK Virginia and Maryland police -were baffled for lack of major 'today in the mysterious death of two teen-age girls whose nude bodies were found in the backwash waters A the Potomac 1 River, The bodies were Relieved to be those of Shelby Jean Venable, 16, of Laurel, and Mary Elizabeth Fellers. 18, of Beltsvllle, who disappeared the night of June The bodies were found about 10 miles apart. One; believed to be that of Miss Fellers, was found last Saturday near a Potomac bridge at Brunswick, Md. The other body was discovered by a fisherman yesterday in Ca- toetin Creek, which flows into the Potomac from Virginia's Loudoun County.

State Trooper C. L. Wood said the body was identified by a broken tooth and body marks as that of Miss Venable. Details of an autopsy, however, were not disclosed pending additional examination of the body today by Virginia's chief medical examiner in Richmond. Dr.

Oscar B. Hunter of Washington, under whose direction the autopsy was performed, said the body had degenerated so badly it was hard to determine the cause of death. A relative had identified the first body as that of Miss Fellers, but the FBI has not confirmed the identification. Trooper Wood said police were going on the auumption the girls were foul play victims of "some fiendish mind." He said they had picked up many rumors in the- case but as yet had gained no; satisfying leads in the investiga-: Th.e* major drawback in the probe was the lack of a "why" (or the deaths Banker Views Sought About Foreign Cash WASHINGTON Senate Internal Security subcommittee sought banker views today about what it termed "a reported influx of foreign money into the United States from undisclosed sources." A prepared statement said the subcommittee wants to knbw about "the possible bearing" such money might have on internal security. Scheduled witnesses were Arthur L.

Bloomfield, senior economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Fred Klopstock, chief of the bank's balance of pay- jments division. i Mrs. Bella Dodd, a self-styled (former top flight Red who said she broke with communism in! 1949, testified yesterday that undercover Communists in the past engaged in some profitable financial schemes and gave the Communist party a share of the profits, Three of the persons whom Mrs. Dodd said yesterday she had known as Communists challenged the accuracy of her testimony. They are Hyman Forstenzer.

assistant director of the New York Stale Division of Community Mental Health; Paul Ross, a New York lawyer who was administrative secretary under former York a William O'Dwyer; and Hugh De Lacy, for-! mcr Democratic congressman! from Washington and now a car- 1 penter in Cleveland. i Forstenzer said he Bridges Sees Little Chance For Aid Boost WASHINGTON Bridges expressed doubt" today (bat the'Senate will vote (IS million dolUrs more for 'foreign aid than the House did: A recommendation it do so was made. by the Foreign Relations Committee but Bridges, chairman of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, told reporter "the outcome doubtful." a Republican Leader Knowland (Calif) made the successful motion in the Foreign Relations Committee yesterday to restore 600 millions of the billion dollars the House cut iff foreign military aid funds. The vote was 9-5. Then, by voice vote, the com miltee raised from 63 million dol tars to 78 millions the sum the House voted for European defense supporting activities.

The House had cut 15 millions, earmarkec for Yugoslavia, from this fund Approval of these increases marked the first substantial vie tory for the Eisenhower adminis THE DAILY MAIL. Hagtraown. Md. FrMiy, II, 1H4. THREB Divorce Rumors Denied Two nude bodies found in the rural area near Purcellville, ale subcommittee and denied un-i der oath a he had ever been Communist.

He said he was in the Army in Ihe 1944-46 period during which Mrs. Dodd said he! "substituted for me as legislative representative" for the Commu-; nist party in New York. Ross said in a statement that "I was not an agent of the Commu- Shclby w'as a 10th grade student I have been tentatively identified as Performance of my dudes as a the Howard High School in (those of Mary Elizabeth Fellers official, nor was I a mem- Laurel. She went to Bellsvillchs. lop, Bellsville, and Shelby the Communist party." June 1 to visit Mary Elizabeth ean Venable.

16, bottom, of Lau-l 5 dd sald and the girls planned lo return re l. d. The two girls have been hre a kn as of a to Laurel to spend the night at missing since June 1. the Venable home. -One of Mary Elizabeth's brothers said he last saw on U.

S. 1 waiting Early Photo Of John Brown Reproduced above is an early photographic portrait of John i his beardless- days before his historic raid on arsenal at Harper's Ferry, on the eve of the War Between the State.s. The fiery and fearless character attributed to him by biographers may be seen in the strength of the features shown in this portrait. According to Boyd Stullcr, managing editor of the Education Foundation of West Virginia, the photograph i.s identified as a copy of a daguerrotype made in Springfield, about 1850--the second of eight separate sittings John Brown was kmm to a made for portraits. It is one of the earliest extant photos of i but the name of the photographer is unknown.

The photographic copy of the old daguerrotype was lent to this newspaper by Rosa's Antique Shop, Charles Town, W. for incluson in the current series of old photographs being published in the Daily Mail. ut UO Bridge h5 'wold, "of 1 "caution Dut Go rnment a i lhere nothing to the rumors of a about what the full Seriate wil cont emplated divorce between Queen Juliana and her husband, do paralleled the comment of! Bernhard, shown here in state coach on way to open Dutch Parlia- Democratic Leader Lyndon me nt in 1954. The rumors apparently were based on reports a a Johnson (tex) that the program is; faith-healer had brought on a constitutional crisis by mixing in the ee tr ouble Queen's dual role of ruler and mother. "The foreign aid bill has hurdle," Bridges sairt.

"but; it will face a tougher one when it slea(l loa ding them down with days after the bill passes if Presi- reaches the floor of the 'dent Eisenhower finds that Presi- next week. LT er we i Dns a Tito is a i orders "It is doubtful whether the Sen-i advocates of an a i Moscow and is not carrying ate will vote a much of an in-: 6hut a al(t lo Yu out his to the frea world. The House bill also wouH leave to the President whether to crease, although I would be in-i i a immediately, clined to go along with a figure! committee voted to shut off somewhere between that of the to lnal country within 90 continue aid to Yugoslavia. committee' and what the House there will be a fight on' of items, including con: tinned aid to Yugoslavia." The administration originally sought $4,900,000.000 in military! and economic aid for the year starting July 1. The House voted zaheth's broth- them standingi YOUths PlaVed for a Laurel! bus, Then, he later told police, he I iwp RntYlh was watching from a distance as TM" I a blue Ford pulled to a stop be-; C-.

TU Mnnthc side the girls, who climbed i 0 1 "1166 monmS I DENVER (ft--A game of catch a live, five-pound bomb- played intermittently the past 'three months by two dozen South FAILS boys--ended in a blinding SAN MATEO. Calif. flash that'burned three of them. with soldiers. captain of safety Shorevicw Elementary Bazell.

10, patrol at School, yesterday accepted his School's safety award for the year some chagrin. Bobby broke his arm The aerial bomb exploded yesterday afternoon after three older boys had poured out most of the powder and removed the deton- day while playing baseball. ating device. The blast rattled Wcdnes-! windows and scorched the fingers Greg Loney, 16, Gene Columbus, Communist faction" in a teachers' union, said in Cleveland she "is lying as many paid performers before those committees have done." De Lacy, who served one tei 1945-47. in the House, invoked the wcic une Fifth A when a House tConiinnnl (mm Pint IS) remuneration, lo provide a free puh ii an and four Democrats subcommittee on Un-American with phenomenal spcctl i rescue service lo local citizens.

with some i Rescue Service Fund Drive Aims At Expanding Rescue Facilities the amount Sen. Green I sought yes- lerday to win Foreign Relations Committee approval of the full amount Eisenhower asked but was 'oted down 8-4. On Knowland's move for a 600-million-dollar boost in the House figure, six Republicans and three Democrats voted yes." Against it werfe one Re 8O MERCURY PHAETONS JN ED SULLIVAN'S MERCURY CONTEST 16. and Danny McKenna, 15, in 1928 by Julian S. Wise.

had been dismantling it. concept has transcended a Police said they were taking it lional boundaries, today account-, apart by pounding it with a i for Ihe Internatiional Rescue' RATON, the and prying at it with an icepick Aid Association. and table fork. Fulbrighi i carry a fight against LOCKS to Ihe Senate floor. i "I don't object so much to the M.

if--t ifleen locks, a 0 hut to the emphasis on mostly from garage doors, are he- military aid," he said. "Instead "The current fund drives." says ins held for their owners by city 0 being 8.i per cent military. Officers were trying to learn the Myers, "will determine the future police. Officers said the locks should he 30 To 50 per cent mili- source of the bomb. They said the Community Rescue Service, were removed by youngsters a and the rest should be cul- boys were not aware that it was iThe members of the i are glad had made a home-made skeleton turai and economic aid lo increase a live bomb.

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