Eight Admitted In Thurmont CCC Truck Crash
Seventeen CCC workers were injured when an open stake truck carrying about 27 men overturned on a Thurmont street near a sharp curve. Eight were admitted to hospital with injuries including back and chest injuries. others were treated and discharged. The driver’s ignition key was broken. authorities investigated for charges. The incident occurred five years after a fatal Thurmont train collision.
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Thurmont
Gettysburg
Frederick
Fishing Creek
Maryland
Thurmont Firemen's Carnival Opens With Events This Week
Thurmont Firemen stage their annual carnival in tandem with the Frederick County Firemen's Association convention. The event runs all week with nightly entertainment, beef barbecue Tuesday, a wine Wednesday, and a Friday candidates night drawing state and county figures. Omar J. Dubel announced invitations from Mayor Howard W. Jackson, William D. Byron, William Walsh, David J. Lewis, Stedman Prescott, and Governor Harry W. Nice, with uncertain attendance from Herbert R. O'Conor and no firm word on the Attorney General's presence.
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Frederick County Firemen’s Association
Thurmont
Guardian Hose Company
Omar J. Dubel
Howard ‘W. Jackson
Balimore
William D. Byron
U. S. House of Representatives
William Walsh
David J. Lewis
U. S. Senate
Stedman Prescott
Sixth Judicial District
Harry W. Nice
Dubel
Herbert R. O Conor
Answers to Cranium Crackers on Page Four
Questions list includes Quito as Ecuador’s capital and Counterpoint as a musical term. Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage. A note mentions $24 and a phrase The Tiber Sows through Beas.
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Quito
Ecuador
Stephen Crane
Nine arrests over weekend on minor charges in city
City police booked nine individuals on minor charges during the weekend. Officers arrested suspects for fighting and disorderly conduct, drunkenness, and disturbing the peace while others were tagged for parking violations. One motorist posted $250 collateral for parking at a fire plug early Sunday.
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Frank Dorsey
Roger Rothenhoefer
Mario Fisher
George Hunt
Frank
Hartsock
Guy Barthlow
John Blackston
Charles Blumenauer
D. E. Callawley
Daniel Luby
Lawrence Fagan
Gertie Goings
John Doe
Washington
Pole collapses under Keefer in Huntington street talk
Frank Keefer leaned against a street light pole in Huntington on August 1 while talking to a friend when the pole suddenly toppled into the street. No injuries reported. Police noted the incident occurred near a busy intersection and are inspecting the pole and its mounting.
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Huntington
Ind
Frank Keefer
Cruelty To Animals Charge Up On Aug. 20
Rev. Frank E. Williar of Westminster is summoned to Westminster police court on August 20 to answer a cruelty to animals charge brought by the Baltimore branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The charge stems from displaying a chicken in a sealed glass jar at his poultry establishment to prove a jar raised chicken could weigh more with proper sunlight sanitation and diet. he denies cruelty. Isaac Lobe Straus will represent the SPCA at the hearing.
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Frank E. Wilhar
Ary
Apear
Westminster
Baltimore Branca
The
Society For ‘the Prevention of
Williar
Isaac Lobe Straus
SPCA
Irsh Cobbler potatoes weigh large harvest at Funk farm
Mrs. William EB Crummitt of Frederick Route 2 brought a harvest to the News-Post office on Saturday. She displayed Irish Cobbler potatoes weighing one and a half pounds each from about 115 bushels, with many nearly as large as the ones shown.
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William EB. Crummitt
Frederick
News-Post
Corrigan Gets His License Back Aug. 4
Washington reports Douglas Corrigan, famed flyer, will have his commercial pilot certificate suspended until August 4 while aboard the S S Manhattan near transatlantic routes. The Commerce Department praised the stunt but urged better navigation and clarified jurisdiction over future flights. Corrigan plans to land August 5, with global good will noted by Acting Secretary Monroe Johnson.
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Washington
Douglas Corrigan
Commerce Department
Cobh
Ireland
Corrigan
New York
Manhattan
J Monroe Johnson
Commerce
Dublin
Los Angeles
More Killed Wounded In Palestine Outbreak
July 31 reports from Jerusalem describe mobile troops engaging a roaming band in the Jordan River Valley as Jewish Arab clashes enter a 26th day. Casualties for July totaled 201 killed and 473 wounded, with Arabs 147 dead 303 wounded and Jews 60 dead 170 wounded. Haifa remained tense after a cafe bombing with no injuries and a prior bus bombing killed a Jewish woman and wounded eleven. British authorities contemplated martial law if the violence worsened.
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Jerusalem
Jordan River
Holy Land
Haifa
Bullet Wound In Hip Accident In Frederick City
Raymond Naylor colored was taken to Frederick County Emergency Hospital Sunday afternoon for a bullet wound in his right hip. Authorities said the wound came from an accidental shooting on Klinehart's alley at about 3 30 o'clock. Naylor said the revolver was in the hands of a colored man named Jack Blackeney. Police said no investigation was pressed after Naylor stated the incident was accidental. The hospital reported Naylor was under the influence of liquor on arrival.
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Raymond Naylor
Klinehart
Frederick County
Jack Blackeney
Naylor
Wreck Toll to 60 as Jamaica Train Disaster Strikes
Kingston Jamaica July 31 Deaths were expected to mount to at least 60 in a train wreck where a pusher locomotive telescoped another engine tender baggage car and four coaches on the Jamaica government railway. About 200 passengers 52 bodies recovered including four crew members. Seventy injured hospitalised with many at home.
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Kingston
Jamaica
West Indies
Balaclava
Joint Farmers Picnic At Rocky Ridge Tuesday
The Grange Farm Bureau and Women's Clubs hold a joint picnic at Mt Tabor Park Rocky Ridge Tuesday with Dr F B Bomberger headlining on Cooperation as a Farm Asset A speedball contest between Farm Bureau and Grange teams led by J Homer Remsberg and Austin P Renn and an elimination speedball contest overseen by Henry R Shoemaker county agent A horse shoe event led by Wilbert L Smith and other games and amusements await as a large crowd is expected in the afternoon after the morning contests.
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Grange Farm Bureau
Mt Tabor Park
Rocky Ridge
F. B. Bomberger
Baltimore Bank of Cooperatives
Farm Bureau
Grange
J. Homer Remsberg
Middletown
Austin P. Renn
Adamstown
Pomona Grange
Henry R. Shoemaker
Wilbert L. Smith
State Farm Bureau
Bomberger
Boy Killed and Injured in Edgewood Hit-Run
Edgewood Maryland July 31 George A J Starr fourteen was killed and his one year old companion Andrew E Burns critically injured when a hit and run motorist struck them at Governor Nice Highway intersection with Edgewood road. Police said witnesses reported the car struck the boys as they handed out restaurant advertising circulars and the driver fled.
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Edgewood
George AJ Starr
Governor Nice
Edgewood Road
Andrew E Burns
Elkton
Edgewood Arsenal
Tate Police
Shirley Temple Must Remain In Her Bed
Shirley Temple, still with a fever, remained in bed in Boston as doctors kept her under care in a hotel suite on the 14th floor. Dr. Harold L. Higgins reported a 99.2 degree morning temperature and noted she briefly waved to hundreds of waiting children from her window.
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Shirley Temple
Boston
Harold L. Higgins
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CCC
Sdewalk
Moris A. Birely
James K. Gray
Osborne I Price
Men's Convention
John
Frank E. Wilbar
Bermuda
America
John Roosevelt
Anne Lindsay Clark
Palestine
Frankhin
Roosevelt, Jr
Finland
Joan Deawford
Franchot Tone
Leo Baeck
T Above
Berlin
Germany
Reich
Delphey
West Patrick St
the Fur Shop
Safe Ambulance Service
C. E. Cline & Son
East Patrick
Patrick St
Frederick, Md
Hendrickson
Good Housekeeping Institute
Hawkeye
Kayser
Archer
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