Estate Bequest Ruling in Shaff Will Case
The Circuit Court held that Clinton W. Shaff's will gave his wife a life estate rather than a full title to his property. After her death, heirs-at-law would own the remainder. The decree cites the 1899 will and notes the word absolutely does not override the life limitation. Attorneys HL Kieffer Delauter, Alton Y. Bennett for plaintiffs. William M. Storm for defendants.
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Circuit Court
Clinton W. Shaff
Jefferson
Julia Roxana Shaff
Hammond Urner
Arthur D. Willard
Sheff
Betty
Shaf
Charles K. Shall
Harry M. Shaiff
A. Ditmar Shaff
Lillian Shaff Busgard
Myrele Shaff
Helen Engels Whipp
Court of Appeals
HL Kieffer Delauter
Alton Y. Bennett
William M. Storm
Convict Labor Hopes Persist In County Roads
County Commissioners on Monday expressed limited optimism that convict labor could be used on county roads. No formal action was taken, but officials planned a possible conference with the State Roads Commission to clarify the issue and discuss road programs.
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State Roads Commission
Bertrand Snell as House minority leader questioned
Accused of conspiring with its star, the statement about Snell being House minority leader is challenged as false. The note pointers to air raid risks in small towns and the reference to a Japanese-sponsored government add context to wartime rhetoric on the Republic.
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Bertrand Snell
House
Jeader
Republic
Zonta Club Installs Officers For The Year
Newly elected officers were installed at the Fredrick Zonta Club meeting in Hotel Freder ick. Miss Nora Wise became president and received flowers from the club and sponsors. Mary D. Cason, outgoing president, honored seven past presidents and noted new Zonta clubs in San Fernando Valley Portland Houston and Sacramento. Committees were named including program publicity and finance with several members appointed. One guest attended, Dorothy K Shisler of Philadelphia Pa. Britain s Royal Air Force reportedly plans a corps of physical and mental super men to fly 400 mile per hour fighters.
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Frederick Zonta Club
Hotel Frederick
Mary D. Cason
Cason
Elizabeth Schroeder
Hat Lee T. Ott
Cornelia Bjorlee
Miriam Apple
Michael E. Pue
Helen Smith
Martha Flynn
San Fernando Valley
Calif
Portland
Houston
Tex
Sacramento
Cali
Muss Cason
Nora Wise
Potomac Edison Company
Chamber of Commerce
Roger B. Wolfe
Miss Wise
Frances Holier
Bertha Culler
Hal Lee Ott
Elizabeth Schrosder
Mary D. Carson
Margaret Bechtold
Bessie Clapp
Alice Sharpe
Hilda Croghan
Nan
Pue
Margaret McNamara
Betty Carry
Estelle Fellows
Florence Garner
Miriam Bott
Miriam Rhoads
Dorothy K. Shisler
Philadelphia
Britain
Royal Air Force
Lawmakers Move to Oppose Triple Tax Bill
Washington April 7 Representatives Gambrill Lewis and Smith plan to fight the District income tax feature of the 1939 District appropriation bill. The measure would tax Maryland and Virginia residents employed in Washington, risking triple taxation for about 40,000 workers.
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Washington
Apr
Stephen W. Gambrill
David J. Lewis
Maryland
Howard W. Smith
Virginia
House
William P. Cole, Sr
Gambrill
Mr. Lewis
T. Alan Goldsborough
Lewis
Vincent L Palmisano
Ambrose J. Kennady
House District Committee
Kennedy
Congress
Lodaye
Torture Slayers Of Two Women Remain at Large
El Paso is linking two separate manhunts as police pursue torture slayers of Mrs. Weston G. Frome and her daughter Nancy. A blonde woman was held at Austin for questioning after renting a taxi and meeting a man in a black coupe north of Temple on the Dallas Highway. Rangers cordon the border city while a dark luggage laden car remains sought. The Fromes, Berkeley society women, were killed and left on a West Texas desert twelve days ago. Laredo police say the blonde tried to sell clothing and wore items possibly taken from Nancy Frome. The Frome luggage has not been recovered.
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el Paso
Tex
Weston G. Frome
Nancy
Austin
Laredo
Temple
Dallas
Texas Rangers
Fromes
Berkeley
Calif
Nancy Frome
Ousted Inspector's Hearing Concludes in Baltimore
The trial of Charles Traband of Upper Marlboro before Employment Commissioner Harry C. Jones ends as record evidence shows Traband, active since 1936, was not technically a state employee. Chief Albert J. Lomax accuses him of inefficiency and incompetency while witnesses note no $2,000 bond posted as required. Another witness testifies John E. Harrison, fellow sampler at the State Tobacco Warehouse, sampled hogsheads to fix payment and used Traband’s sampling seal.
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Baltimore
Charles Traband
Upper Marlsboro
Harry C. Jones
Traband
Albert J. Lomax
Lomax
John E. Harrison
State Tobacco , Warehouse
Fireside Chat Due On Thursday Returns To Radio
President Roosevelt likely to address the nation by radio Thursday night about the new multi billion dollar recovery and relief program. Stephen T. Early said the message would cover the general economy and relief to Congress at noon Thursday if time allows. Morgenthau noted conditions have worsened since November and urged government aid, though financing details remain undecided.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Stephen T. Early
Capitol Mill
White House
Secretary of the Treasury
Mor-genthau
Morgenthau
McMullen backs Walsh for Attorney General in Maryland
John J. McMullen Western Maryland Democratic leader pledged full support to former Judge William C. Walsh if he seeks the Democratic nomination for attorney general. The move signals unity within Allegany County backing Walsh who may join Howard W. Jackson in the bid for Maryland’s chief legal officer.
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Cumberland
John J. McMullen
Maryland
Wm. C. Walsh
Walsh
McMullen
Hugh McMullen
Howard W. Jackson
Baltimore
Jackson
Allegany County
Preston Lane
Washington County
David C. Winebrenner
Frederick County
Handbill Ordinance Remains On The Books
Cumberland Maryland April 11 The city council refused to rescind an ordinance requiring a permit for handbill distribution after being told a misunderstanding of a Supreme Court ruling. City Solicitor C Heskett asked that the United Rubber Workers of America plea for revocation be disregarded. The court upheld the right to distribute handbills but allowed an ordinance regulating distribution and preventing littering.
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Cumberland
iCity Council
U. S. Supreme Court
C. Heskett
United Rubber Workers of America
Heskett
Supreme Court
Answers to Cranium Crackers on Page Four
Today's page presents five wordplay clues from Cranium Crackers. Each item negates common misperceptions, contrasting terms like efflorescence with size, turgid with color, porphyry with character, sortie with architecture, and dotage with concrete terms.
Britain nears Anglo Italian pact to curb Mussolini
London reports Britain set groundwork for a new friendship with Italy aiming to separate Rome from Hitler. The accord includes recognition of Italy's Ethiopian empire and seeks to ease Berlin influence as Daladier's France moves to bolster ties with Italy amid Austria’s 1938 context. Doctoral counts note 3,377 US medical graduates in 1936 27, including 238 women.
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Ethiopia
League of Nations
Scott
Italy
Rome
League of Na‘ions
League Council
Britain
League
France
Edouard Daladier
Berlin
Germany
Austria
Neville
United States
Trainman Decapitated In West Md Accident
Westminster Md April 11 the decapitation of Daniel C Delosier about 40 occurred when he slipped from a moving freight car near asbestos Md as the freight brake man for the Western Maryland Railroad rode four cars into a yard. Coroner Sherman E Planegar ruled the death accidental. Sergei Rackmaninss noted pianist said in London he had tried in vain to understand modern music.
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Westminster
Daniel C. Delosier
Shermen E. Planegar
Asbestos
Wester Maryland Railroad
Sergei Rackmanins
London
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Zonta Club
Bill
Holland
English Channel
S. S. Nieuw Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Stafendam
Treasury
John McMullen
Atty
Call
Nada
Benjamin McMakin
Paris Island
S. C
Frome
Texas
England
Quest of
Great Britain
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Delprey
West Patrick St
Berger
North Market St
West
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MASIC
C. C. Carty, Inc
Patrick St
Frederick, Md
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