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Mahoneyfolake Senate Drive Info Sasscers Area Will Spend Two Days In Prince Georges County This Week George P. Mahoney this week will carry his fight for the Democratic Senatorial nomination in Maryland to Prince Georges County, home of Representative Sasscer, his principal opponent. Republicans, too, will make a play in the Washington area, climaxing their activities with a Montgomery County rally Saturday. Mr. first appearance this week will be in Montgomery County tomorrow, his only appearance there before the May 5 primaries.

A 10-day hospital confinement with a virus infection threw him behind in his schedule Will See Chief Aide. schedule begins when the candidate goes to the home of Thomas H. Carolan, 612 East Leland street, Chevy Chase, chairman of the Mahoney-for- Senate Club of Montgomery, to start his tour of the county. He will attend rallies at 1:30 p.m. in the Hiser Theater, Bethesda, and at 8 p.m.

at the? Takoma Park Fire House. At 9 p.m. he is to attend a rally for all Democratic candidates for the Senate and House from the 6th District. The rally, in the Potomac Elementary School, starts at 8 p.m. Tuesday Mr.

Mahoney will confer in Washington with Administration officials over a recent decision to close contact offices on the Eastern Shore. At 7:15 p.m. he will return to Baltimore for a television broadcast on stations WAAM and WMAR. The programs are expected to deal with charges against Mr. Sasscer concerning alleged housing shortages at the Patuxent Naval Air Station.

To Tour Chillum. Mr. Mahoney will start off in Prince Georges County Wednesday with a press conference at his headquarters in Hyattsville at 9:30 a.m. He will tour the populous Chillum Election District until 1 p.m. when he meets workers at a luncheon at the Hot Shoppe in College Park.

The candidate will speak at a at 7:30 p.m. in Chapel Oaks. fFrom 8 to 10 p.m. he will attend a reception at the University of 1 Maryland Dining Hall. On Thursday, Mrs.

Mahoney, who will accompany her husband i to Montgomery and Prince i Georges Counties, will be guest at a tea in Frederick while the can- didate attends rallies in Baltimore. Mr. Mahoney plans to tour Charles 1 County under sponsorship of James Burroughs and Tom Me- 1 Donagh on Friday and on Satur- 1 day will be taken around St. Marys County by Oliver Guither of Leonardtown. Sasscer to Be on the Go.

Mr. Sasscer, meanwhile, has scheduled a tour of Carroll County for Monday. His routine calls for visits in Baltimore Tuesday and an open date Wednesday. Thursday he is scheduled to be in Alle- 1 gany County at 6 p.m. and attend a banquet in Baltimore at 7:15 p.m.

His Baltimore headquarters figured that one out yesterday. Mr. Sasscer will tour Baltimore Friday, attending rallies and conferring with leaders. Saturday he will attend an oyster roast at Salisbury at 1 p.m. and return to Baltimore for more campaigning that night.

On the Republican side, Representative Beall, who seeks that nomination to the Senate, has scheduled a large number of meetings, rallies and conferences, all in Baltimore, for this week. Gore Due at 2 Rallies. His principal opponent, H. Grady Gore, has a schedule which includes Wednesday, a speech at a League of Women Voters rally in Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, for all candidates; Thursday, a meeting with Negro leaders in Bowie; Friday, a talk in the Odd Fellows Hall in Oxon Hill in the evening, and Saturday he will attend a rally for all Republican candidates. The rally will begin at 2 p.m.| on the farm of Lee Counselman; near Goshen in upper Montgomery County.

State Bar Urged to Guard Civil Rights in Probes By Associated Press ROANOKE, April T. Saunders, retiring president of the Virginia Bar Association, today urged lawyers to take the lead in safeguarding civil rights in connection with congressional investigations. These frequently indiscriminate investigations, he said, are fraught with danger to civil liberties. B. Drummond Ayres of Accomac was elected association president.

Mr. Saunders, general counsel of the Norfolk Western Railway, said it is an essential part of justice in our democracy to give legal aid to those unable to afford it. A committee headed by Oren R. Lewis of Arlington recommended that a system be devised to let the public know it can get adequate legal aid without cost if any inherent rights are threatened. Falls Church High PTA The Fairfax County 1953 budget will be discussed by a member of the Board of Supervisors and of the school board at a meeting of the Falls Church High School PTA at 8 p.m.

tomorrow. The home economics department will present a style show. Washington and Vicinity litil Hil ipv FINDERS OF Ray Fox (left) and Carl Fox and the old paper they found in a Fairfax barn. Charles I Execution Order Discovered in Fairfax Barn Historical documents are nothing unusual at the Fairfax County Courthouse. George will was probated there and historians frequently stop in to see it.

But the other day a county lawyer came in to have a photostat made of a document that made everyone give it a double, then a triple take. It was old, cracked and a corner was missing. But it was legible. It was clearly the order of the judges directing the execu-! tion of Charles I. Below the text were some two score names, all signed with the boldness of the on the Declaration of Independence.

Beside the names were as many: seals. The first names were "Jo Brad-1 Tho and Crom-i Brothers Find Paper. Above the signatures the 17th! century script read; "At the high court of Justice for the trying and indying of Charles Steuart King of England January 20 Anno Dm 1648 "Whereas Charles Steuart King of England standeth convicted, attaynted and condemned of Hygh Treason and other crymes. i And sentence upon Saturday last i was pronounced against him by this court to be put to death by severing of his head from his remains toi be done these are therefore and require you to see the said; sentence executed in the open street before Whitehall upon the Thirtieth day of this instant I month of January between hours of ten in the morning ai five in the afternoon of the same day. under our hands and Inquiry revealed that the docu- ment was found three years ago in an abandoned barn near the Baldwin Elementary School in Manassas.

The finders were brothers, Carl Fox, 13, and Charles Ray Fox, 11, both students at the! Linton Hall Military Academy near Manassas. Dime Novels Damaged. The document was found in an old ledger book dating back to I New Officers Elected By Three Churches In Nearby Maryland Three chuiches in nearby Maryland yesterday reported the results of elections held last week. St. Episcopal Church, Bethesda, elected J.

Francis Moore, senior warden; Charles C. Lattin, junior warden; James L. Martin, treasurer; Robert W. Carroll, assistant treasurer, aftd R. Hanson Weightman, register.

Vestrymen chosen were Richard H. Akers. Edgar H. Baker, Charles Carr, Harry A. Dawson, H.

G. Hamlet, Joseph S. Harbison, Thomas H. Semple and Lewellyn C. Thomas and Charles S.

Embrey. Mr. Akers and Rodger D. Gessford were elected delegates to the Diocesan convention and Mr. Moore and Mr.

Harbison as alternates. Old Durham Episcopal Church, Ironsides, reported the following were elected as vestrymen: George C. Dyeon, Sylvis L. Golden, Mary M. Harrison, W.

A. Lewis, Aubrey Linton, S. C. Linton, Lawrence Monroe and Col. Karl Standish.

St. Parish, Accokeek, elected the following as vestrymen: Douglas Davis, Lewis Adell, Harry Ritter, Elmer Ward, E. D. Warren, Karl Smith, Mrs. Margaret Bealle, Mrs.

Walter Peterson, Miss Elinore Warren and John W. Bealle. Maryland Hospital Group Meets Tuesday The Maryland Association of Hospital Auxiliaries will hold its spring conference Tuesday at Carvel Hall, Annapolis. Principal business will be planning for celebration of American Hospital Day, May 12. Discussion of programs planned throughout the State will be held following a luncheon at which Dr.

Jacob E. Finesinger, of the University of Maryland Medical School, will be principal speaker. the year 1831. It contained the accounts of a merchant, and hun-; dreds of items of general mer-; chandise that had been sold. The name was at the top of each page.

That is the name 1 of a nearby community which once was the Prince William County seat. Other books in the loft of the old barn were dime; novels. All had been damaged because of the leaky condition of the roof. The boys said they used the barn as a hiding place. was the one who found the said Charles Ray Fox, the younger brother.

was locking through the books while the other guys were lighting flares. The paper fell out when I opened the book. I thought it must havej 'been a page from a Bible because of all the names written on it. We! decided we better keep it and show lit to Mom because it looked im'portant. i Their mother, Mrs.

Kathryn Fox, who owns and operates the Little Hilltop Inn on Route 211, between Fairfax and Warrenton, thought the document might be valuable and put it away. She still has it. Asks Lawyer to Check It. She "just get around to doing anything about it until she said. Then she asked a lawyer, whose name she withheld, to look into the matter.

He brought it to the i Fairfax Court House to have photostats made. When Luther Evans, Librarian of Congress, saw one of the photostats, he said: I is probably a facsimile, intended as a forgery, but a copy for historical or souvenir pur- Francis Dwyer, acting head of the library's Law Division, looked 'through catalogues of English State documents but could find no reference to this order of execution signed by judges. This, he said, makes it possible that the document is an original whose whereabouts has been unknown. Representatives of the British Embassy could not recall that any such document is on exhibit in London's many historical collecitions. Mayor and 5 in Council Are Opposed in Laurel Election Tomorrow Mayor Merrill L.

Harrison and five incumbent councilmen all face opposition tomorrow in the election at Laurel, Md. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Masonic Hall on Baltimore boulevard for the first precinct, and in the firehouse at Ninth and Montgomery streets for the second precinct. The contestants have been campaigning on two slates, with Mayor Harrison and the incumbent councilmen on one side against a group of challengers, headed by former Councilman Thomas B.

Israel. The incumbent councilmen seeking re-election are: Norris C. Beall and Maynard L. Ward, 1 councilmen at large; James B. Turney, first ward; J.

Gilbert White, second ward, and W. Le- Roy Armstrong, third ward. Mr. Israel Is seeking the post. Others on his slate are Hiram J.

Soper and Harry Hardingham, candidates for the seats at large; Carlisle F. Cook, first ward; C. Philip Nichols, second! ward, and Mrs. Ruth Sussman, third ward. Mr.

Soper is a former councilman. Mayor Harrison is completing his second two-year term. Before that he was clerk for 11 years. Fairfax Woman to Head Music Clubs Federation By tho Associated Press PETERSBURG, April Russell Riley of Fairfax, will suc-i ceed Mrs. Andrew M.

Bruce of I Charles City County, as president of the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs. She was elected yesterday at the close of the group's 31st annual convention. Mrs. Harry C. Miller of Fairfax.

was named corresponding secretary. fflje fhmelag Pfaf WASHINGTON, D. APRIL 20, 1952 Taft Supporters Launch Drive In Maryland W. C. Purnell Heads Campaign for State Convention Delegates By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, April forces today launched an organized campaign in Maryland.

Taft headquarters in Washington named a Maryland Taft Committee, headed by William C. Purnell of Baltimore. Mr. Purnell is general counsel of the Western Maryland Railway and a former commanding general of National Guard units. He was prominently mentioned as a Republican candidate for governor in 1950 but decided not to make the race.

With him on the committee are J. Pauli Marshall, Montgomery County lawyer who is a member; of the Maryland House of Dele-! gates; George Warner, another! Montgomery County lawyer wnoj is a member of the State Central Committee for the county, and Frederick S. Cates, Baltimore architect. Appointment of the committee marked the first step in a campaign to block Gov. McKeldin in his apparent intention to throw 24 national convention votes to Gen.

Eisenhower. Many of the Republican holders and old line party workers have expressed a preference for Senator Taft over Gen. I Eisenhower. Gov. McKeldin himself once said he would be happy to be a candidate for vice-president on a Taft ticket.

More recently, however, he has indicated he would go for Gen. Eisenhower. He visited the general in Paris last Sunday. The governor pointed out in this connection he is a close ally of New Gov. Dewey and Gov.

Dewey' one of the main for Gen. Eisenhower. Urges Delegate Backing. Mr. Purnell issued a statement I calling Senator Taft the only Republican candidate all know is dedicated without reserve to the utter defeat of American state Taking cognizance of the frequently heard assertion that Taft win, Purnell added: a man of honor, integrity, courage, brilliance and forthrightness said Mr.

Purnell, then we much left to be American He asked Republicans to find out which candidates to the State Republican convention are Taft supporters and to vote for them. Union District Head Urges Miners to Back Gore BALTIMORE, April 19 The president of District 16 of the i United States Mine Workers of America today called Representa- i Beall fair-haired boy of the vested He urged miners to back H. Grady Gore in the Republican senatorial primary. Mr. Gore is a major opponent of Representative Beall in the race for the Republican nomination to the Senate.

John T. issued his blast at Mr. Beall and his call for union support of Mr. Gore from Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he has had major surgery. The union chief said Mr.

Beall has a congressional voting record of "24 in four issues vital to labor. He said Mr. record showed he voted for 12 of 13 bills by the National Chamber of Mrs. Werner to Manage County Campaign of Mulieri Mrs. Martha D.

Werner of College Park has been named Prince Georges County campaign manager for B. C. F. (Joe) Mulieri, Republican candidate for Congress from sth District. Mrs.

Werner sponsored an open forum for all Republican candidates at the Hyattsville Armory last month. Mrs. Werner said she had been a neighbor of Mr. Mulieri 19 years ago in Chapel Hill, N. when the candidate was attending the University of North Carolina.

Meanwhile, at Sykesville, William Pindell. chairman of the Howard County Republican State Central Committee, said a majority of the G. O. P. leaders in 'that county have pledged their support to Mr Mulieri.

Mr. Pindell said, however, that the central committee had not indorsed! any of the 10 candidates for the nomination but that the leaders expressed their support at a meeting Friday night. W. L. Professor Finishes 38-Foot Fresco in Library Spatial Dispatch to Tho Star LEXINGTON, April 19.

Dr. Marion Junkin, professor of art at Washington and Lee University, has finished a 38-foot long fresco in the basement of the McCormick library. The work took nearly a year to complete. The painting, covering 340 square feet, depicts i struggle for intellectual freedom. pigments were applied on fresh plaster.

By penetration the plaster hardened, the mural became a part of the wall itself. Dr. Junkin, a graduate of came to the university from Vanderbilt University, where he established a department of art. He has also taught at the Richmond School of Art. I I IPRUIIk jl 1 HBH Ih BEST IN OLD DOMINION Rock Falls Colonel, an English setter owned by W.

T. Holt of Richmond, displays the stand that helped rate him best in show at the 18th annual dog show of the Old Dominion Kennel Club in Falls Church yesterday. The 4-year-old setter has won best in show 10 times in the last 11 times he has been shown. Mr. Holt is knqpling behind his prize dog.

Senator Eston, Republican, of Vermont is at left with prizes for the dog owner, and Anton Rost, a judge, is at right. Staff Photo. Miss Anderson Sings At Memorial Today To Honor Harold lekes The hands of time will be turned back 13 years today when Marian Anderson mounts the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Today, her songs will pay tribute to the man who gave Wash- 0 'sss' MARIAN ANDERSON. ington a chance to hear her voice after other doors were closed to her.

She will be featured soloist at the memorial service for Harold L. Ickes. President Truman and many thousands of others will join her in honoring the doughty former Secretary of The Interior. These services, said Secretary of the Interior Chapman, will signalize the progress in human freedom and civic tolerance since Mr. Ickes made It possible for Miss Anderson to sing in Washington.

75,000 Heard Her Sing. That was on Easter Sunday. 1939. Standing in the shadow of the memorial the same spot from which she will sing Miss Anderson sang to the greatest audience of her career. An estimated 75,000 persons heard her.

Mr. Ickes introduced the great Negro contralto that day. this great auditorium under the he said, of us are Just as she did then. Miss Anderson will sing Schuberts today. Her other songs will include Sweet Got the Whole World in His and Been Anchored in the Lord." With the audience joining her, Miss Anderson will conplude with Mr.

Chapman will preside and give a brief memorial address between Miss song groups. The Rev. Frederick E. Reissig, executive secretary of the Washington Federation of Churches, will offer the invocation. Autos Banned from Circle.

The memorial service will begin at 4 p.m. Starting at 1 p.m., the Lincoln Memorial Circle will be closed to auto traffic, which will be routed over Memorial Bridge via Twenty-third street. President and Mrs. Truman and prominent citizens composing the sponsoring committee will be seated on the platform. Other invited guests will occupy a small reserved section of chairs at the foot of the steps.

About 2,000 chairs will be provided for the public on a first come, first served basis. The other expected thousands will stand for the half-hour program. The service will be broadcast by Stations WTOP and WGMS and re-broadcast at 7:30 p.m. by Station WMAL and at 9 p.m. by Station WOL.

There will be no direct telecast. In case of heavy rain, the services will bp moved to the Departmental Autitorium on Constitution avenue between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets N.W. Searchlights Give Riders of View in the Night Searchlights have been added to two Baltimore Ohio Railroad trains to enable passengers to look at the countryside at night. The lights are mounted just forward of the on the! two trains. They light up the I countryside as the trains speed 1 along.

The cars 1 with floodlights operate on the Capitol Limited and the New Columbian between Washington and Chicago. Arlington Board Calls For Clean-Up Along Streets and Roads The Arlington Board would like to see some spring cleaning along the streets and highways. Board Member Alfred E. Frisbie yesterday deplored conditions along some highways. Daniel A.

Dugan said piles of beer cans and other junk are found even along side streets. County Manager A. T. Lundberg was asked to draw up a proposed clean-up campaign. It was suggested that he write to the State Department of Highways and the Bureau of Public Roads, asking their co-operation.

Sets Final Budget Session. In other business, the board decided to meet at 8 p.m. April 29 to begin final consideration of the 1952-53 budget. Board Chairman Robert W. Cox said that the meeting may be continued to April 30, the deadline for setting the tax rate.

County Manager A. T. Lundberg recommended that the health inspection service remain in the inspections department. The County Civic Federation had asked the board to transfer the sanitation inspection to the health department. Supervisory Course.

The board agreed to participate in a course for supervisory employes being presented by the Bureau of Public Administration of the University of Virginia. Fairfax County, Alexandria and Falls Church have also been invited to send top-level employes to the 1 course, which is to be presented this area. The subjects include Art of Unwinding Red The total cost of the course, S9BO, is to be divided among the four jurisdictions. Twenty-four night sessions will be held. Mr.

Lundberg was asked to study a proposal that dogs be vaccinated for rabies before licenses are issued. The recommendation came from the Arlington Medical Sojciety. 5-Cent Tax Raise Voted By Shenandoah Board Special Dispatch to Star WOODSTOCK, April 19. An increase of five cents in the general county levy, and no change in the school budget were approved this week by the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors, who adopted both general and school budgets as advertised. The total levy in the county is set at $1.65, $1.40 for schools, and 25 cents for the county.

NEA Official to Speak Effect of National Pressure Groups on Our Educational will be discussed by Dr. Robert Skaife of the National Educational Association, at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Silver Spring Public Library. The talk is being sponsored by the Eastern Suburban Study Group. Woods Says Virginia Will Elect Broyhill and Wampler to Congress By the Associated Press Robert H.

Woods, of Virginia State G.O.P. today predicted. sure as the sun shines, the Virginia Republicans are going to elect two Con-j in the coming elections. He said he was confident his party would cop the congressional races in the Ninth and Tenth Dis- tricts and that they had a good chance of winning in the Sixth. Another race was guaranteed in the State today when Richmond Republicans said an opponent to Representative Gary of the Third District would be named in a G.

O. P. district convention May 13 in Richmond. They said three or four persons are considering running, but were not ready to announce themselves publicly. Mr.

Woods was particularly optimistic on the prospects of Wil-! liam C. Wampler, young Bristol newspaperman, the G. O. P. nomi-; nee in the Ninth District.

never seen such enthusijasm as has been shown for Bill said Mr. Woods. The 26-year-old Wampler will oppose State Senator M. M. Long, of St.

Paul, the standard bearer. In the Tenth District, Joel T. Broyhill, an Arlington contractor, will be given the congressional nomination when the district convention is held April 24 in Arlington, said Mr. Woods. Mr.

Democratic opponent will be the winner in the four-way Democratic primary July 15. Mr. Woods said a Sixth District G. O. P.

nominee would probably be named at the district convention May 17 in Roanoke. Roanoke G. O. P. Committee Removed as Illegal By Associated Press ROANOKE, April 19.

Th? 6th District Republican Committee today removed the Roanoke city G. O. P. committee on the grounds it was not legally elected at a recent mass meeting. With the committee were ousted the slate of delegates to the district and State Republican con: ventions to be held here next month.

In a 40-minute executive session that followed an open meeting, the district committee directed that a letter be sent to Otto N. Whittaker, city committee chairman, and to the committee elected at a 1950 mass meeting. It directed that another mass meeting be called to name delegates and alternates to the two I conventions and to choose a city committee and a chairman for the next two years. Mr. Whittaker has held the chairmanship for about six years.

James I. Moyer, attorney representing Mr. Whittaker, notified the district committee that ruling would be appealed to the State Central Committee. Page Board to Open Bids For County Building Job Special Dispatch to The Star LURAY, April jwill be opened May 2 by the Page County Board of Supervisors forj the letting of a contract to repair and remodel the county office building in Luray. The building was damaged by fire several months ago.

The board has approved the. jPlans for remodeling as presented by J. Raymond Mims, Arlington architect. The remodeled building will have a flat roof, and the white Colonial columns will be removed, i The columns are for sale now by the board. Union Leader Says Distillers Bribe Editors UMW Official Asserts 5 in West Virginia Serve as Agents By Associated Press CHARLESTON.

W. April United Mine Workers official today named five West Virginia newspapermen who he said have profitable liquor or wine accounts with the State. Under West Virginia law. distilleries and wineries are required to have resident agents in the State to represent the manufacturers in their dealings with the State Liquor Control Commission which buys for the State stores. The newsmen were named by George J.

Titler, president of Mine Workers District 29 'at Beckley, W. Va. On April 1 Mr. Titler in an address at Keystone, W. said, statehouse gang prostituted the free press of America by bribing some of the most important editors in I the State with liquor accounts I know of one newspaper editor who gets $2,500 a month to keep his mouth shut about anything 'detrimental to the statehouse gang I There was editorial comment from several newspapers in the state challenging Mr.

Titler to lmake public the names. Names Listed. Today Mr. Titler listed these names and connections: C. E.

(Ned) Smith, editor of the Fairmont Times, identified as a sales representative of the Gibson Wine Co. Jack Shipman, publisher of the weekly Pineville Independent Herald, representative of Hiram Walker, Inc. Forest R. Thompson, editor of the Voice Labor, a weekly labor publication at Morgantown, representative of Greenbros, of Cincinnati. I Nelson Hicks, associated in the mechanical department of the 'Martinsburg Journal, representative of the Louisville Distilleries, Inc.

Mr. Hicks is also chairman of the Berkeley County Demojcratic executive committee, C. V. Ridgely, sports columnist for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch who Mr. Titler I said claimed to have a liquor ac, count and was doing business with the State until about two years ago.

Mr. Titler also said Mr. Ridgely I'was on the payroll of the State Conservation Commission while I Mr. Shipman was director of that agency some years ago. Liquor Charge Denied.

In Huntington, Mr. Ridgely asked: is George J. Titler? never heard of him and never have I had a liquor account. You mean to say an important he asked. only been around here 32 he added.

Mr. Ridgely said he had worked on the Conservation Commission Imagazine in 1945 and 1946, writing articles for it. I Mr. Shipman said he had no comment beyond a statement of fact. He said he has owned and Published the Independent Herald i since 1942 and was named district manager of Hiram Walker for West Virginia three years ago.

He recalled the $2,500 per month ure Mr. Titler used in his keystone speech and said any such amount was out of line with anything I Belittles Political Significance. Mr. Smith said it would appear an effort was being made to draw some inference that the liquor accounts had some political signifl' cance in the present election campaign, and said his association with the firm which he has represented for 12 years no political significance He said ns a special tive of the firm, his work included other States as well as West Virginia. Mr.

Thompson said at Morgan! town only that he had been a tillcry representative for 14 years. i Mr declined comment for the time being. Virginia State Chamber Elects Faulkner President By the Associated Press RICHMOND. April 19. The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce will be headed next year by a former president of the Manufacturers Association.

Wert Faulkner, 50-year-old Glasgow businessman, was elected today as the annual 1 meeting came to an end here. Five vice pn idents were chosen. They include P. Winfree Fore of Culpeper, for the Piedmont District and Thomas E. Hassett, of Staunton, vice president of the Croyden Manufacturing for I the Valley District.

H. V. Schenck of Richmond, vice 1 president of the Life Insurance Co. lof Virginia, was chosen treasurer. Vernon E.

Kemp was re-elected executive secretary. Daylight Time Voted BERKELEY SPRINGS, W. 19 city has joined Martinsburg and Charles jTown, the other two principal in this Panhandle, in adopting daylight saving time officially for its workers and inviting industry in the towns to conform. Ex-Luray Chief Joins Force LURAY. April 19.

(Special). L. Moses, former Luray chief of police resigned several years ago. is back on the force. He has accepted a position as special policeman.

He will take the place of Epp Weakley, resigned..

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