McCarthy and Bergen Land in Whos Who in America
Chicago reports ventriloquist Edger Bergen and Charlie McCarthy join the 50th anniversary Who's Who in America. The edition lists 2,545 newcomers among 31,545 notable contemporaries, with Frances Langford as the youngest and Shirley Temple as the baby of the book.
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Chicago
Charlie McCarthy
Edgar Bergen
America
Bergen
Albert Nelson Marquis
Marquis
Frances Langford
Lakeland
Fla
Shirley Temple
Notable U S veterans list and Maine hitchhiking law
Roosevelt kin and prominent figures age 96 to 27 are noted among a list of surviving oldsters, including Charles William Super in Athens Ohio and Grace Denio Litchfield in Washington D C. Separately in Augusta Maine a Sept 23 report notes declining hitchhiking after a new law bans thumbing rides.
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Roosevelt
President Roosevelt
Charles William Super
Athens
Grace Denio Litchfield
Washington, D. C
Dan Beard
Suffern
Willis van Devanter
U.S. Supreme Court
Nicholas Murray Buller
Columbia University
Walter Damrosch
Navy
Claude Swanson
Charles Gates Dawes
United States
William Allen White
Emporia
Kan
Theodore Dreiser
Maine
Augusta
Chicago Gunfight Kills Two Robbers and Slays Clerk
In a northside Chicago holdup, three gunmen entered a bookstore and fired at officers. One robber died during the escape attempt, another was slain in the melee, and a patron, Lucille Summerfield, 18, was shot while shielding others. Police recovered a sawn-off shotgun and pistols.
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Chicago
Lucille Summerfield
Joan Bazaula
William Wright
Election officials exonerated by jury in St. Louis
A grand jury investigation found no evidence of irregularities in the August 2 primaries for the sixth precinct of the twelfth ward. Circuit Attorney Franklin Miller announced the result, clearing election officials of wrongdoing.
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ST. Louis
Circuit
Franklin Miller
Russia fears Ukraine move amid feared German grip
Washington reports say the Soviet Union, worried by Hitler’s expansion, is building a protective line from the Black Sea to the White Sea to deter invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine supplies about 80 percent of Soviet coal and 60 percent of iron, with vast wheat, manganese, mercury, copper and gold. its 30 million Ukrainians have a long history of conflict. They are not Russians and do not speak Russian.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Ukraine
Red Army
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Russia
Austria
Sunspots blamed for Hollywood tragedy wave
Hollywood reports sunspot expert Marvell Norvell ties recent disasters to sunspot peaks. He cites a train wreck, Maj. Gen. Westover’s death, hurricanes along the East coast, and a string of Hollywood deaths and crises as tied to solar activity and its effects on nerves and brain tissues.
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Hollywood
Marvell
Norvell
Oscar Westover
Leo
Pauline Frederick
Will Rogers
Thelma Todd
Paul ‘Bern
Karl Dane
Ross Alexander
Five Presbyterian Churches in Chester County Over Two Centuries Old
The town of Old Churches in WEST CHESTER announces Chester county contains five Presbyterian churches aged over 200 years. Located at Brandywine Manor Upper Octorara Great Valley Fage's Manor and New London these congregations reflect deep colonial roots and enduring community presence.
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West Chester
Chester County
Brandywine Manor
Upper Octorara
Great Valley
Fage’s Manor
New London
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Charlie
Donald Budge
Jack Benny
Jean Ficcard
Paul Muni
Andre Kostelanitz
Rudy Vallee
Clifford Odets
Thomas Mann
Margaret Mitchell
Darryl Zannuck
James
Death Rides the
Rails
Southern Pacific Flyer “Argonaut
California
Tortuga
Ariz
Arizona-California
Los Angeles
Leonard Jacobson
Southern Pacific
Paul Whiteman
ASC. B.S
Paul Doudas
N. BG
Ange
Charles Lane
Miss Summerfield
Screwball) Gilroy
Lane
Otto List
James W. O'Malley
Gilroy
Newport
R. I
Jean Harsrow
Warner Oland
Jack Dunn
Max Factor
Vol Sa & Ce
Aaa de
Coryell-70
Congress
Wyandotte
Wade Condit
Mgr
Rey
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