Slum clearance project outlined for Frederick city
The United States Housing Administration plans a large slum clearance project in Frederick with 450000 dollars projected cost. Preliminary surveys of 183 city blocks aim to finish by late summer, with 1100 reports completed and maps showing standard and substandard areas for replacement housing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
P. E Pawls
United States Housing Administration
Mr. Pawls
W. Clinton MecSherry
McSherry
Pawls
Weather Record and Temperature Report
Weather record notes precipitation for 2 hours ending 7 am with none reported. August totals show 150 inches for the month to date. August normal is 3.65 inches and actual in 1937 was 3.37 inches. Deficiency through August 1, 1938 is 1.35 inches. Yesterday high 90, prior year 91. last night low 62, prior year 85. Astronomical data: sunset 7:11 pm, sunrise 5:20 am, moonrise 8:06 pm, moonset 7:41 am. Streams Monocacy and Potomac described as muddy.
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Monocacy
Potomac
State Luther League Meets in September Convention
The seventeenth annual conven tion of the Luther League of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland will be held September 3-5 in Frederick at the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The theme is If Out of Life and features sessions including inspirational addresses by Rev. Amos John Traver and Rev. Harold S. Miller and a drama What Men Live By. A banquet and closing address by Rev. Samuel Shoemaker will conclude the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Luther League of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Frederick
Braddock Heights Park
Amos John Traver
Harold S. Miller
D. D
Lutheran Church of the Incarnation
Brooklyn
N.Y
Baltimore
Luther League
Samuel Shoemaker
Calvary Episcopal Church
New York City
Stocks Slide on War Fears and August Nervousness
New York August 12 AP stocks fell several points as a late selling wave pushed declines across all sectors. Volume ran around 1.8 million shares with some mild buying near the end, while traders blamed the Czech border troop movements and lingering August nervousness for the market reversal.
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New York
Munich
Czech
Apple and Peach Crops Estimated in Virginia
Richmond Va Aug 12 The Virginia apple crop was estimated at 10 320 000 bushels and the peach crop at 1 247 000 bushels today by Henry M Taylor agricultural statistician of the state federal crop reporting service.
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Richmond
Virginia
Henry M. Taylor
Agriculture Statistician
State
Federal Crop Reporting Service
Court action eyed for canal sale and 1930s candidacies
Washington reports the Interior Department will seek court approval for a $2,000,000 sale of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal to the United States with transfer to the government by January and its conversion into a recreational area. The deal, financed by the Public Works Administration, would place ownership of canal property from Georgetown to Cumberland in government hands, including inns and historic buildings and records of the Patowmack Company. The piece also notes 43 candidacies filed in Frederick County with no withdrawals by noon, and lists statewide nominees and other polling details ahead of the August 22 filing deadline and September 6 pre-primary registration.
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Washington
Interior Department
United States
Circuit Court
Washington County
Federal District Court
Old Canal Company
Baltimore and Ohio, Railroad
Public Works Administration
Georgetown
Cumberland
Potomac Valley
Patowmack Company
George, Washington and Associates
Ste
Annapolis
Frederick County
Sixth Judicial Circuit
William F. Prettyman
Rockvile
Tole
Stedman Prescott
Wilson L. Townsend
Herbert R. O’conor
Baltimore
Howard W. Jackson
Lansdale
Upper Marlboro
William S Gordy, Jr
Salisbury
Harry T. Phoebus
Clerk of Court of Appeals
James A. Young
Willis R. Jones
Omar D. Crothers
Elkton
J. Cleveland Grice
Hagerstown
William C. Walsh
Leo
Weinberg
Frederick
Joseph A. Cantrel
Chevy Chase
Wiliam
D.evan Williamsport
Edward J. Ryan
Frostburg
A. Charles Stewart
Pinkney A. Richardson
LeGore
John L. Dutrow
Curry W. Gregory
Orphans Court
John C Jamison
Mr Pleasant
J. Tyson Lee
Urbane
House of Delegates
Truck And Coupe Crash Injures One In Yellow Springs
An early morning crash on Seventh Street Pike in Yellow Springs involve a truck driven by Dallas Specht and a Chevrolet coupe driven by Charles Blank with Blank's aunt Mrs. Lewis Stone. Stone was injured and taken to Frederick City Hospital with chest trauma. Blank had minor cuts. Specht reported uninjured. Right of way charges will be preferred against Specht.
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Dallas Specht
Yellow Springs
Charles Blank
Frederick
Blank
Lewis Stone
Seventh Street
Specht
Milton Shook
W. K. May
Sald
May
B and O Offers To Pledge Collateral
Baltimore and Ohio railroad seeks to borrow 6.9 million dollars from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and offers added collateral. The Interstate Commerce Commission released a letter showing Terminal Storage Company in Washington valued at 1 million. The railroad currently owes RFC more than 37 million.
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Washington
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Interstate Commerce Commission
Terminal Storage Company
RFC
Negro Pays Penalty For Murdering Woman in Baltimore
Richard Hammond, a 31 year old Black man, was executed by hanging at 12:07 a m for the year old murder of Edith Milman, a Baltimore woman fatally injured after he entered her second floor bedroom and she screamed.
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Baltimore
Richard Hammond
Edith Milman
Hammond
Japs And Russians In Another Clash
Tokyo reports a fresh border incident between Japan and Soviet Russia on Sakhalin island. Japanese dispatches say tempers flared after a Soviet secret police agent shot a member of a Japanese inspection party led by a parliament member. Police rushed to the front tier area where the halves of Sakhalin meet. The group included several prominent Japanese figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Soviet Russia
Sakhalin Island
Soviet Union
Siberian
Hartman Found Dead in Orchard Home
Claude Johnson Hartman, 58, was found dead in an orchard near Buckeystown where he resided with his sister Mrs George F Hargett. A verdict of natural causes was returned after investigation by Justice John F Keller with Deputy Sheriff Denver J Shook and Dr Charles H Conley Jr. He had heart trouble and is survived by three sisters and a brother. Funeral arrangements set for Buckeystown Monday at Mt Olivet Cemetery.
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Claude Johnson Hartman
George F Hargett
Buckeystown
John F. Keller
Sheri Denver J. Shook
Charles H. Conley
Hartman
Tate Jacob C
Alice Virts Hartman
Maryland Council No. 18, Jr, O. U. A. M
Jacob C. Hartman
Hargett
Lester B Bartlett
Walter H. Bartlett
North Market Street
Bartlett
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
Etchison and Sons
American Farm Bureau Head To Speak In City
President Edward A. O Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation will address Maryland farmers on Saturday August 20 at the Frederick Fair grounds. Sponsored by Frederick County Farm Bureau and Western Maryland counties, the event aims to be the largest of its kind in Maryland with an all day program including softball between counties at 10 am a band concert and entertainment in front of the grandstand. O Neal is set to speak at 2 pm.
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Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Maryland
Frederick Fair Grounds
O'Neal
Frederick County
Fabler Seeks Court Order to Halt Physician Practice
In Hagerstown on August 12 AP reports Dr Homer E Tabier a former State Roads Commission chair man asked the circuit court to enjoin Dr Frank B Cutler from practicing in Hancock or within ten miles for five years He cited a contract in which Cutler agreed not to practice as the basis for the suit Tabier said his Roads Commission duties prevent full time medical practice and seeks the injunction against Cutler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Homer E. Tabier
State Roads Commission
Circuit Court
Frank B. Cutler
Hancock
Roads
Cutler
France Calls For Report On Troop Movement
Paris Aug 12 AP France instructed diplomats to send to Paris all information on military preparations in Germany. Foreign office officials noted reports of sizeable Nazi measures and said important maneuvers will be held in Germany. An authorized source stated information in Foreign Office possession shows preparations and German troop figures cited in press may be exaggerated. Newspapers in London and Paris reported 1,300,000 reservists called up for instruction and Munich district vehicles requisitioned by the army.
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Paris
France
Ton
Germany
Foreign Office
London
Munich
Earle delays trip awaiting Shelley arrest action
Governor George H. Earle demanded that District Attorney Carl B. Shelley arrest him on charges from last spring's Democratic primary and postponed a 24 hour trip. He said the delay would let Shelley serve a warrant and back up the charges if he wants to. Shelley is directing a Brand jury investigation amid a bribery and coercion case involving Earle and 12 associates.
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Harrisburg
George H. Earle
Carl B. Shelley
Earle
Shelley
Roy Greene Aims To Build Fast Electric Rail Route
An Aug 120 API A Pittsburgh WPA worker Roy Greene claimed by mail to study electricity plans to follow William H Vanderbilt by building a high speed electric railway under the Allegheny mountains between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg Pa He said he had no money but applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority and to form a company to seek federal funds of about 3 9 000 000
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Pittsburgh
WPA
Wiliam H. Vanderbilt
Allegheny Mountains
Harrisburg
Roy Greene
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ammonia Blast at Chestnut Farms Destroys Dairy Ice Machine
Strong ammonia fumes woke Guernsey G Gosnell and family on Tuesday morning. The blast shattered the head of a large ice machine at the dairy on the B and O avenue, about a half mile from the Gosnell home. Mr Gosnell woke around five and checked for gas sources, finding none besides the dairy accident.
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Guernsey
Gosnell
Patrick Street
Caevy Chase
O. Avenue
Roosevelt son denies big income in insurance
York Aug 12 AP Jimmy Roosevelt, son and secretary to the president, disclosed income tax figures showing 1933 to 1937 yearly ranges from 21,714 to 49,167 and 172,978 for five years. He said he never solicited or accepted insurance since joining his father in Washington and warned that claims of large earnings are lies. He noted he resigned from Roosevelt and Sergeant but kept dividends from policies he helped place.
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York
Jimmy” Roosevelt
Walter Davenport
Collier’s Magazine
Alva Johnston
Saturday Evening Post
Roosevelt
Washington
Boston
Sergeant
Closing Arguments In Carroll Case In Maine Trial
In South Paris Maine on August 12 AP reports closing arguments as the jury weighs whether former Deputy Sheriff Francis M Carroll killed elderly Dr James G Littlefield to hide alleged improper acts toward his daughter Barbara 18 or whether Paul Dwyer committed the murder Special prosecutor Ralph M Ingalls argues Carroll strangled to silence the doctor after Dwyer told him of letters accusing the father of misconduct Defense attorney Cisdle R Chatman counters that Dwyer killed both the physician and his wife.
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South
Paris
Francis M. Carroll
James G. Littlefield
Barbara
Paul Dwyer
Cisdle R Chatman
Dwyer
U S Companies Fire From Jap Attack On Hankow
Japanese air attacks described as daring set afire oil tanks near Hankow on the outskirts of the provisional capital of China. Ownership could not be established. A separate report from Shanghai notes a major raid on Chiang Kai-shek’s Hankow headquarters by more than 100 Japanese warplanes.
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Hankow
Standard Oil Company of
New York
Texaco
Shell Oil Companies
China
Chiang
Shanghai
Shiang Ka Shek
Roosevelt's Southern Battle Over Georgia Senate Race
President Roosevelt framed his fight for liberal Democratic reforms as a southern battle, targeting Senator Walter George of Georgia. The Barnesville speech signaled a long clash between conservative Democrats and Roosevelt’s liberal agenda, with potential spillover into South Carolina and Maryland primaries and 1940 leadership battles.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Walter Georgy
Georgia
South
Barnesville
George
Lawrence Camp
New Deal
Maryland
Millard Tydings
David J. Lewis
Tydings
Four Juvenile Court Cases Heard By Associate Judge Willard
Four juvenile cases heard today by Associate Judge Arthur D Willard on petition of Probation Officer Mrs Michael E Pue involved six children. An 11 year old colored boy James Dickie Brooks committed to the Children's Aid Society for placement in the Home for Colored Boys at Ellicott City. James Eyler 17 LeGore committed to the Maryland Training School for Boys. he had prior juvenile records. A colored housemaid Mary Berry 17 admitted taking money from her employers and was held under study awaiting psychiatrist report, showing high intelligence. Three children aged 2 to 4 of Charles M Crutchles were neglected and abandoned and turned over to the Children’s Aid Society for placement in homes with paternal support. Carmen Rossi 17 pleaded guilty to stoning a horse and pony and was returned to St Mary’s Industrial School under Mrs Pue’s direction.
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Arthur D. Willard
Michael E. Pue
James “Dickie” Brooks
Children’s Aid Society
Ellicott City
James Eyler
LeGore
Maryland
Mary Berry
Charles W. Ross
Allen Barigis
Willard
Charles M Crutchles
North Bentz Street
Baltimore
Carmen Rossi
Police search for missing guest aboard yacht
Baltimore August 22 AP A police boat combed the harbor today for Samuel T. Revitt 47 a company employee who vanished overnight from a luxurious yacht where he was a guest no trace found despite the search authorities said search efforts would continue through the day and night
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Baltimore
Samuel T. Revitt
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Gested
John L. Shaw
Earl E. Ramsburg
James Thomas
James Loy
Malcolm Baer
Sheridan Barber, Jr
Charles Price
Pershing
John J. Pershing
State Luther League
City
Wall Street
Simall
U. S
Old C
Seekers
Berlin
Staaken
Atlantic
Floyd Bennett Field
L. L
Walter Kober
Rudolf von Moreau
Alfred Henke
Paul Dierberg
Claude J. Hartman
American Farm Burea
Fair Grounds
Fabler
Vanderbilt
Jimmy Roosevelt
U.S
Democratic Party
South Carolina
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