Hold Up Victim of Years Ago Dies
Mrs. Marys Delors Schaffer, tied to one of the county's major unsolved robberies, died Monday night at 75 in St Anthony's near Emmitsburg after a brief illness. She and her maid were tied by three robbers during a 1936 break in, with cash and jewelry taken. She identified John Witherow as a participant, and his case lingers as authorities review new claims and witness questions emerge. Funeral set for Thursday at St Anthony's with requiem mass and burial in St Anthony's cemetery. pallbearers named.
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Marys Delors Schaffer
St Anthony's
Emmitsburg
John Witherow
Freedom
Farmer
Witherow
Gettysburg
Schaffer
Sherman P. Bowers
James Arthur Schaffer
Jennie Hamer
Baltimore
Pius
Lucinda Orndorff Hemler
St. Anthony's Church
Leo Barley
St. Anthony's Cemetery
George Eckenrode
Felix Hemler
George Hemler
George Peddicord
Elmer Bollinger
S. L. Allison
WPA Improves School Parking Area at Parkway
Improvement at Parkway elementary in Carroll Parkway is a WPA project expected to finish by mid month, creating work for about twenty-tw o men from the unemployed list. The 175 by 175 foot lot will gain an asphalt surface and drainage, plus paved gutters, replacing a formerly unusable area in rain. The sewer project for Myersville, with 40 workers, is over halfway, costing about 40 000 dollars, funded mainly by federal aid and town share.
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Parkway
Carroll Parkway
WPA
Jefferson Street
College Avenue
Myersville
John W. Eldridge
Oddball 1346 Senate Bid and Notable Names
A scrambled notice lists items: an independent bid against a husband candidate in 1346, John Pierpont Morganitt, an emergency appendectomy, Norma Shearer fan mail, Claude Bowers as ambassador to Spain, and a reference to St Jean-de-Luz near the French border.
Key's Post Officers For Year Installed
Officers of the Francis Scott Key Post No 1 American Legion were installed at the July meeting in the Legion home. Guy K Motter became Post Commander and Bruce T Bair Baltimore Department Commander conducted the ceremony. Appointed officers and future committee chairmen were named and past commanders medal presented to Dr James G Conroy with next meeting set for September.
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Francis Scott Key
American Legion
Bruce T. Bair
Baltimore
Guy K. Motter
Wilbur W. Baker
G Raymond Shipley
Roger R. Rice
Charles L. Blentlinger
D. Ralph Zimmerman
James G. Conroy
W. T. Kreh
Middletown Resident Albert M Mahalti Files Candidacy
Albert M Mahalti, a well known Middletown resident, filed his certificate of candidacy for county commissioner with the Board of Election Supervisors on Tuesday, entering the race for the Republican primary.
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Albert Mahalti
Middletown
Board of Election Supervisors
Answers to Cranium Crackers on Page Four
Today's Cranium Crackers solutions include Sillabub is a food Claques applaud and a note that E H Southern acted in The Taming of the Shrew plus a misstatement that Bibliotheque Nationale is in Pans.
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E. H. Southern
Bibliotheque Nationale
Queen Mary Sets Westward Crossing Record
Commodore Robert B. Irving defends the Queen Mary after rumors of a planned record run. The liner slashed the westward crossing record to 3 days 21 hours 48 minutes, beating rival Normandie by over an hour.
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Robert B. Irving
Japs Send More Troops To Yangtze Battlefront
Shanghai, Aug 10 Twenty thousand Japanese reinforcements were ordered to the Yangtze front where Chinese counter attacks stalled the Hankow drive. Troops moved from Hofei to Riukiang, 150 miles SW of Anwhei and 135 miles downstream from Hankow, as 6,000 Japanese reportedly encircled near Hwangmei while Chinese artillery could not be brought into the flooded valley.
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Shanghai
Yangtze River
Hankow
China
Hofei
Riukiang
Anwhei
Riukivang
Hwangmei
Yangtze Valley
Law explained to Kiwanis by Parsons Newman at Frederick lunch
Parsons Newman of the Frederick county bar spoke at Hotel Frederick to the Kiwanis Club on administration of law. He contrasted written and unwritten law, explained precedents and court roles, clarified Federal and State jurisdiction, and noted the rise of quasi judicial powers in commissions like the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. Rev. Robert W. Doty of Butler attended.
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Parsons Newman
Frederick County
Kiwanis Club
Hotel Frederick
Newman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federa Communications Commission
Roland W. Harbaugh
Otho J. Keller
Francis Perrott
Robert W. Doty
Butler
Butler Kiwanis Club
Roosevelt Returns From Long Vacation
President Roosevelt landed at Naval Air Station Pensacola and toured Fort Barrancas with Louisiana Governor Leche and local officials. He spoke with reporters aboard the Houston about marine life collected on his ocean fishing trip and endorsed Senator Barkley amid Kentucky primary politics.
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Pensacola
Fla
Roosevelt
United States
San Diego
Calif
Houston
Naval Air Station
Richard W Leche
Louisiana
Fort Barrancas
Navy
Warm Springs
McDougal
Walde Schmidt
Alben W. Barksley
Kentucky
Barkley
A. B. Chandler
Burning Brush After Sundown Is Prohibited
Police Court heard that a false alarm led to a general alarm for a brush fire in the 300 block of West Patrick street. Justice Schnauffer reprimanded Harry C. King for violating city ordinance prohibiting burning brush after sundown and warned the public. Dorsey M. Burdette was fined $1 and costs for speeding within Frederick city limits.
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Patrick M. Schnauffer
West Partick Street
Harry C. King
South Street
West Patrick Street
Schnauffer
King
Jor
Dorsey M. Burdette
Frederick
Corp. W. K. May
Separation petition granted in Princess Babs case
Copenhagen reports acting Minister of Justice Buh! announced that Count Baugwitz-Hevention and Barbara Hutton were granted a separation based on a private agreement made in London on July 29. Under Danish law such petitions can be granted without court involvement when the parties consent.
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Barbara Hutton
London
A. Justice
Kay Stammers Arrives in New York for Forest Hills
Kay Stammers, Britain's glamor girl of tennis, looks fit after a strenuous Wimbledon campaign and is pictured arriving in New York to compete at Forest Hills, L. I.
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Kay Stammers
Britain
New York
Forest Hills
L. IL
August Heat Rises to 94 Amid Drier Humidity Decline
August brings its peak heat with a 94 degree official maximum as clouds ease. Overnight temperatures drop to 66 degrees, the coolest night since July 27, while plain states report 100 degree readings in the Plains and South Dakota under southwest light to moderate winds.
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Plains States
South Dakota
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Mary D. Schaffer
St. Anthony’s
Howe
Teytonic
Winneny
A Mitlor
Key
Guy K. Motler
Yangtze
Aymen
Palestine
Jerusalem
Burall’s
C.C. Carty's. E. Pat
U. S
Babs
Copenhagen
Denmark
Patrick St
Frederick, Md
Shelby
Delphey’s
West Patrick St
C. E. Cline & Son
Maryland
Aberle
Hendrickson’s
Smart
Hendrickson
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