Harris elected Brunswick mayor in three cornered race
Alfred Harris, a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad engineer, won the Brunswick mayoral race over incumbent Harry E. Mace and Councilman Ernest L. Main, with 600 votes to 539 for Mace and 311 for Main. Harris will take office Sept 7 and vows to run the town on a business basis with the help of loyal citizens. He is a 29-year Brunswick resident, born in Dickerson, aged 51.
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Alfred Harris
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Brunswick
Harry E. Mace
Ernest L. Main
Harris
Mace
Main
Millard Keller
William E {Pete} Dixon
Keller
Dixon
James H. Thompson
James E. Albert
Thompson
Albert
J. Luther Malone
William P. Nixon
Boe
I. B. Myers
Mondrey
Dickerson
Youth 17 Charged With Taking Father’s Auto
Burton Eyler 17 was accused of taking an automobile from his father Alfred Eyler near Middleburg Carroll county. Deputy Shook located Eyler near Liberiatown and found the titled car. Eyler, paroled from Loch Raven Training School a year earlier, was returned to his mother’s home after authorities learned of no charge pending.
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Middleburg
Carroll County
Burton Eyler
Beaver Shook
Sheafs
Georgia Eyler
Liberirtown
Shook
Israel Rinehart
Alfred Eyler
Evler
Liberiatown
Erler
Michael E. Poe
Loch Raven
Bors
Towson
Poe
Ey Yer
Answers to Cranium Crackers on Page Four
Readers see solutions list the Cranium Crackers on page four. Statements include periwinkle mollusk, Victor Emmanuel Tr as a living monarch, and European Stit as a bird, with historical note that James J Corbett defeated John L. Sullivan in 1890.
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Victor Emmanuel Tr
James J. Corbett
John the Sullivan
Boy Drowned While Swimming Near Sharpsburg
Richard Kerfott 14 of Hagerstown drowned at Taylor's Landing on the Potomac River while swimming with companions during a camping trip. A large search party of 25 searched for the body, but darkness halted the effort. the drowning is the county's fourth this senior year.
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Richard Kerfott
Richard B. Kerfott
Virginia Avenue
Hagerstown
Taylor's Landling
Sharpsburg
Kerfott
Sadat Landing
Leister Tsanogle
Washington County
No Troops To Be Sent To Memphis
Federal Judge prohibits Gov. Gordon Browning from moving troops into Memphis before the state Democratic primaries. The injunction was issued on a petition by Mayor Watkins Overton and E. H. Crump, a key opponent, and directs U. S. Marshals to aid in resisting any invasion as Browning prepared to speak in the city.
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Memphis
Tenn
Gordon Browning
John D. Martin
Watkins Overton
E. H. Crump
Browning
Martin
U. S
Baltimorean Held After Boy's Death
Baltimore. Aug 1 Arrested as the driver of a hit and run automobile which ran down two boys on the Governor Nice Highway yesterday killing one of them. Henry Grubansky 22 of 1000 block Grundy Street was held without bail in Hartford County Jail for a Bel Air hearing before Magistrate S. S. Spencer. Grubansky was arrested at his home hours after the Boys were struck. George A Starr 4 of Edgewood was killed instantly Andrew E Burns 17 of Elkton was in critical condition at Government hospital. A charge of failure to stop after an accident was placed against Grubansky to insure detention and the magistrate refused to allow bail. The two boys stood at Edgewood road intersection on the highway The automobile swerved when brakes were applied and flung both high in the air. The driver sped away but witnesses obtained a license number and Grubansky was arrested hours later.
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Baltimore
Governor Nice
Henry Grubansky
Grundy Street
Harford County
Bel Air
Spencer
Grubansky
George A Starr
Edgewood
Andrew E. Burns
Elkton
Government Hospital
Edgewood Road
Missouri Fight at Polls Today
Missouri primary action shapes 1940 hopes as Senator Bennett Champ Clark seeks renomination and a shot at the Democratic presidential nomination. Key races include Missouri, Kansas, Virginia and West Virginia with Clark backed by rival Democratic factions. Offshore, Virginia contest pits Rep. Howard W. Smith against William E. Dodd Jr as Ickes weighs in. Meanwhile Texas prison chief notes seasonal unrest and escape plans ahead of cotton picking.
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Washington
Aug. i
Bennett Champ Clark
Missouri
Woodrow Wilson
New Deal
Clark
Kansas
Virginia
West Virginia
Roosevelt
Joseph T. Davis
St. Louis
Willis H. Meredith
Poplar Bluff
Smith-Dodd
Howard W. Smith
House
William E. Dodd, Jr
Germany
Inerior
PWA
Jack Ellington
Texas
Miss Angela Dorsey Becomes Sister Angela Marie
Miss Angela Dorsey daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry G Dorsey of 104 East Second street joined the Sisters of Notre Dame at Notre Dame Institute Baltimore last week. She received the religious name Sister Angela Marie and will spend a year at the Baltimore motherhouse before professing and later taking final vows. The 26 new sisters were received by Sister Mary Quinn of the Baltimore cathedral. Dorsey, a 1932 St John’s High School graduate and 1936 St Joseph’s College Emmitsburg alumna, taught in Washington for a year. her family attended the ceremony.
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Angela Dorsey
Harry G. Dorsey
East Second Street
Sisters of Notre Dame
Notre Dame Institute
Baltimore
St. John’s High School
This City
St. Joseph's College
Emmitsburg
Washington
New Deal Farm Plans Disappoint Critics Say
Chicago August 1 a Republican program committee member warned new deal farm plans would be largely disappointing Joseph S Davis Stanford Food Research Institute leader and 24 experts from business agriculture labor and industry attended forums to craft a practical replacement for parts of the new deal The panel chairs Glenn Frank told 105 members the final report should appear next year and guide the 1950 Republican platform The report aims to offer an intelligent workable program for national issues while the mesquite tree of the Southwest is noted as a source of food medicine fuel fiber dye and gum for Indians
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Chicago
Republican Program Committee
Joseph S. Davis
Food Research Institute
Stanford University
Glenn Frank
Tate
Southwest
Canal Purchase Story Cleared
Baltimore, Aug 1. A Washington telegram claiming the government paid 1.6 million to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal proved false. The canal is in receivership and not saleable now. the mistake origin rests with a clerk in the Interior Department. The later plan involves using part of the canal for boaters and recreational use.
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Baltimore
Washington
David J. Lewis
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Chesapeake and Ohto
Orville Clark
Lewis
Secretary of the Interior
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Clark
Interior Office
PWA
RFC
College Professor Plunges From Normandie in Atlantic
New York reports a tragedy at sea as Colgate University politics professor Dr Robert Moore Duncan 35 vanishes 459 miles off the Atlantic after a suspected attempt to throw his wife Alice 36 overboard during a violent quarrel aboard the French liner Normandie. The purser Henry Willar confirmed Duncan disappeared on Sunday night as the ship docked, while Alice survived with injuries after a six week summer cruise.
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New York
Atlantic
Normandie
Robert Moore Duncan
Colgate University
Henry Willar
Alice
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Duncar
Duncan
Still Seeking Clues To Fate Of Big Clipper
Manila Aug 2 Army and Navy forces pushed into their fourth day of searching vast ocean areas for the Hawaiian Clipper missing five days with 15 aboard. An ominous oil slick 500 miles east of Manila spurred renewed hope as planners widened the search after a possibly erroneous last position reported at 12 09 p m Friday Manila time.
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Manila
U. S. Army
Navy
Pacific
Army
Canal in receivership cited in ongoing purchase talks
The article explains the canal remains in receivership and negotiations for its purchase cannot be completed soon. It notes a person or entity holds a large interest in the canal property.
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The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Voigt on Rousseau and utopia in era of war and reform
Voigt argues A B A back to Rousseau sees man as sinless by nature bent by capitalism or Judaism, seeking a sinless utopia by abolishing sin. He foresees war and misery but offers little practical path for British rearmament or Europe’s status quo. His defense of Chamberlain’s realism is eloquent yet often unconvincing.
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Europe
A Book a Day: Voigt on Heaven on Earth Theories
F A Voigt, foreign affairs editor of the Manchester Guardian, attacks communism and fascism as distorted religions pursuing a Heaven on earth. He argues both systems exalt collective man as Caesar and demand the things of God.
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F. A. Voigt
The
Manchester Guardian
Putnam
Caesar
Koala Protected After Historic Hunting Decline
Australia shields koalas from hunting as protection catches up with a long history of mass fur trade. Once millions were killed for pelts, now the native bear gains legal safeguards.
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Australia
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West Patrick St
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E. Cline & Son
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C. C. Carty, Inc
Patrick St
Frederick, Md
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Washington, D. C
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Newark
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Fur Shop
Hagerstown, Md
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