Girl 16 Burned When Stove Explodes in Home
Adeline Droneburg, 16, suffered severe burns after she poured kerosene into a hot stove and it exploded. The blast gutted the kitchen at 100 East Sixth Street, injuring only the girl and sparking a fire attended by her brothers and a hired girl who escaped uninjured.
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Adeline Droneburg
East Sixth Street
J. P. Droneburg
Earl Droneburg
Frederick City
Sohn Droneburg
Evelyn Haines
Droneburg
Cigher
Policy Operator Testifies in Hines Conspiracy Trial
New York Aug 319 AP Joseph Big Joe Ison 47 once Harlem policy operator testified in the Supreme Court conspiracy trial of James J Hines Tammany district leader that money he and other policy bankers turned over to the Dutch Schultz mob was going to Jimmys club Ison said Hines got 125 a week from the pol icy racket for political protection Arrests for policy violations reportedly dropped 50 percent in 1932 and early 1933 as the alleged conspiracy with Dutch Schultz to fix the racket took effect.
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New York
Joseph
Big Joe
Ison
Harlem
Supreme Court
James J. Hines
Tammany
Dutch Schultz
Jimmy Fines’ Club
Hines
Thomas E Dewey
Earle Urges Legion to Fight Isms at Convention
Governor George H. Earle, addressing the Pennsylvania American Legion by proxy in Scranton, urged veterans to oppose fascist and communist subversive influences. He sent a message from his airplane vacation trip noting the need to reenter the front line in militant opposition to subversive forces.
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Scranton
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania American Legion
Earle
Roosevelt Returns From Canada Trip to Hyde Park Home
President Roosevelt arrived at Hyde Park after a Canada trip amid pledges of American support if foreign aggression threatened Canada. He spent the day in Ontario with enthusiastic crowds and two addresses before returning to his Dutchess county home.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Dutchess County
Ontario
Aerial Farm Inspections Under 1838 Program Begin
Nine men were to be airborne this afternoon to inspect Frederick county farms by aerial photographs. County Agent Henry R Shoemaker said the survey complies with the 1838 program of the agricultural conservation program. The maps will show acreage and whether farmers met their agreements and stayed within 1938 crop limits. Shoemaker expects the work to take months with more inspectors added as progress continues. Ira S Remsberg, Jefferson, state supervisor for Frederick and Montgomery counties, oversees the inspectors.
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Air K
Frederick County
Henry R. Snoemaker
Agricultural Conservation Program
Shoemaker
Ira S. Remsberg
Jefferson
Frederick
Montgomery
Bair Sees Dictatorship Risk If Roosevelt Defeats Tydings
Bruce T. Bair, retiring Maryland American Legion commander, warned at the Legion’s 20th annual convention that if President Roosevelt succeeds in defeating Senator Millard E. Tydings, the U S government would become a dictatorship breaking the independence of the three branches. He cited Roosevelt’s push against Tydings and noted Representative David J. Lewis opposes Tydings after backing New Deal measures.
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Baltimore
Bruce T. Bair
American Legion
Maryland
Roosevelt
Millard E. Tydings
Legion
Barr
Tydings
Senate
David J. Lewis
Cumberland rejects 113000 PWA grant for hospital addition
Aug 19 Cumberland city council refused a $113,000 grant from the Public Works Administration. Commissioner Harry Irvine said he was fed up with WPA and PWA and preferred funding needed projects with local money. The grant would have funded a $250,000 Memorial Hospital addition, rejected after a hospital authorities conference. The official charged the federal government with building a political machine and using strong-arm tactics.
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Cumberland
Public Works Administration
Harry Irvine
WPA
PWA
Memorial Hospital
Irvine
Word From Railroads Spurs Market Swing
New York stocks rose in late trading after a cautious morning as railroad shares led a tentative rally along with steels motors and materials. Traders anticipated an important American Railroads announcement in Washington and European news of Czech Sudeten compromise buoyed sentiment.
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New York
Association of American Railroads
Washington
Wall Street
Europe
Texan Poole to Visit Gambrill State Park
Lee Poole of Houston plans to visit Gambrill State Park High Knob to ensure his vote is represented among visitors this year. Poole, a private violin teacher, learned from Wednesday's News that visitors from all states except Texas and Oklahoma are listed. he expects only Oklahoma to be added off the record after tonight. He will stay in Frederick until around September 1. Harris Property Sold at Trustee's Sale in Frederick.
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FEXAN
Park
Gambrill State Park
High Knob
Lee Poole
Hoiston
Grant Poole
East Church
Poole
Oklahoma
Houston
Frederick
November ballot in Frederick county to vote on five questions
Frederick county voters face five questions in November including three constitutional amendments and two referenda. The issues cover a potential state lottery, an extra judge for the Second Circuit, a graduated state income tax with farm exemptions, a 48 hour marriage license waiting period, and a state licensure board for dentists. The measure on lotteries would authorize lawmakers to establish a lottery if desired. The second amendment adds a chief and three associates to the Second Circuit. The income tax proposal aims to replace Article 15 with a clear levy framework. The referenda address marriage license timing and dentist licensing under a new code provision.
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Frederick
General Assembly
Baltimore
Annapolis
Harriman Institute For Social Research, Inc
United States
Caroline
Cecil
Kent Queen Anne's
Talbot
Maryland
Free State
Erikton
Marsland
Gretna Green
Circuit Courts
Court of Common Pleas of
Circuit Court
Roosevelt's Purge Tactics Shift After Hopkins Pep Talk
Washington dispatch details how Harry Hopkins spurred Roosevelt to confront anti New Dealers, widening the purge plan to target figures like Walter George Cotton Ed Smith and Maryland's Fidings, with Hopkins urging a fighting policy. It notes reactions of Mrs Andrews and broader federal-state clashes looming over labor and authority. The piece also discusses federal purchases of surplus goods as a form of government intervention in business.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Offic
Harry Hopkns
White House
Marvin McIntyre
Steve Early
Bas! O'Connor
Eliot Roosevelt
Fort Worth
Tex
Harry Hopkins
Pensacola
Walter George
Cotton Ed” Smith
South Carolina
Fidings
Maryland
John O'Connor
New York
George
Warm Springs
Hopkins
Millers’ National Federation
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
NEA Service. Inc
Board Proposals on Dental Examinations Licenses and Advertising
The five proposals under Gov. Harry W Nice and Secretary E Ray Jones cover extensive rules on examinations licenses revocation suspension advertising prohibitions with exceptions and penalties. Frederick County election officials have not announced ballot form yet as these items will occupy the November ballot not the September 12 primary.
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Harry W Nice
E. Ray Jones
Frederick County
Tlection
County offices reshuffled as Winchester hall renovations begin
Carpenters hammer and secretaries bustle as county offices move within Winchester hall for a new laboratory and rearranged spaces. The WPA library project expands upstairs while Welfare Board and Home Demonstration offices swap rooms. Rumors of a new public entrance swirl as grand jury space may drive further moves.
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Winchester Hall
Charles Cassell
WPA
Home Demonstration Office
Welfare Board
Home Demonstration
Children’s Aid Society
B. W. Anspen
Farm Security Administration
Brunswick
Jesse I. Kenner
Grand Jury
Court House
Board of Education
Westering Rooms
Henry R. Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Pastor Sentenced to Life for Killing Maid in North Dakota
Rev. Heio Janssen, 51, Evangelical Lutheran pastor, pled guilty to poisoning his 16 year old housemaid Alma Kruckenberg and setting the parsonage aflame to bury her body. District Judge H L Berry handed down a life term after a special court session, and Janssen was sent to the state penitentiary as public uproar mounted. He cited the devil as the cause and expressed sorrow for his family.
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Mandan
N. D
Heio Janssen
Alma Kruckenberg
H. L. Berry
Janssen
Mdinight
Heavy Wheat Deliveries Shock Market At Frederick
Over the past week Frederick dealers received large wheat shipments. Damp grain from rain damaged in shock pushed farmers to market fearing loss. Farmers Cooperative Association on East South Street reported heavy deliveries, with nights spent loading and long vehicle queues. The elevator reportedly handled more wheat than in the same period last year.
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Frederick
Farmers Cooperative Association
East South Street
Bird's Wife Draws Thirty Day Term
Baltimore Aug 19 Judge Samuel K Dennis sentenced Mrs Barbara Bird wife of Charles Bird to 30 days in jail today after her conviction as an accessory in one of the desperadoes seven holdups. The 24 year old mother faced the court as her husband pleaded guilty to seven charges and received a sentence of 542 years.
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Baltimore
Samuel K. Dennis
Barbara Bird
Charles Bird
Dennis
Charles Bird, Jr
Cleveland
Sheppard Probes Spending in Pennsylvania Primary
Senatorial campaign spending in Pennsylvania drew attention as the Senate expenditures committee announced it would seek the facts on more than half a million dollars spent by opposing Democratic factions in the May 17 primary. A letter from the treasurer of the Earle-Jones ticket said it was impossible to determine how much of the over 220000 dollars supported Earle’s candidacy, while the Wilson-Kennedy faction reported over 350000 dollars without segregating costs.
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Washington
Sheppard
Tex
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Pennsylvania
George H. Earle
Earle-Jones
Earle
W. L. Miller
Davis Wilson
Thomas’ Kennedy
Father And Son Held For Theft
A father and son were arrested by County Constable Verner Redmond this week. Burton Eyler of Libertytown Daysville road was charged with larceny in Carroll County and with signaling toists from an automobile. Eyler, a farm laborer, was turned over to Carroll County authorities. Everetter, residing between Union Bridge and Middleburg, posted a $100 bond for Justicé Walter E Sinz on a nonsupport charge and will face grand jury action. Attorney James H Pugh stated the County Police Court failure to forward the commitment for ten lashes against Brown Turner is being investigated. Clerk Harry Williams was absent and reportedly withheld the commitment under direction from an unidentified source.
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Verner Redmond
Burton Eyler
Libertytown
Daysville
Sigaling Tosts
Carroll County
Burton Esler
Everetter
Union Bridge
Middleburg
Walter E Sinz
Roecxville
James H Pugh
Brown Turner
Harry Williams
Pugh
Williams
Insurgent planes sink British freighter near Barcelona
London reports Spanish insurgent air force bombed and sank the 1,363 ton British freighter Stanbrook, the second company ship attacked. Stanbrook went down 25 miles south of Barcelona after a bombardment by five Italian made planes. no casualties were reported aboard. Earlier, the 2,600 ton Stanhope said she had been deliberately bombed off Barcelona.
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London
Stanbrook
Barcelona
Stanhope Steamship Company
Stanforth
Oran
Algeria
Local Legionnaires Parade Through Baltimore Downtown
Representatives from Francis Scott Key Post No 11 and American Legion Auxiliary join the Legion parade in Baltimore as part of the Maryland American Legion convention week. The eight o'clock procession from the Washington Monument features Maryland history floats and bands. Prizes announced at the banquet include the George Henderson Trophy for community service awarded to Key Post and honors to Fort Cumberland Post No 13 and Towson Post No 22 for Americanism.
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Francis Scott Key Post No
Francis Scott Key Post
George Henderson
Fort Cumberland
Cumberland
Charles S. Houck, Jr
Towson Post
Towson
Lawson Customers Summoned By Jury
Baltimore Aug. 19 The grand jury summoned 22 customers of William P. Lawson's brokerage firm to appear at 6 p m for a third night of sessions into affairs of the self suspended police commission. Lawson had suspended himself after the SEC filed fraud charges and quit business. Federal Judge W Calvin Chessnut today enjoined Lawson from reentering the securities business, granting the SEC action in its civil suit.
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Laltimore
William P. Lawson
Police Commission
Lawson
Baltimore
W. Calvin Chessnug
SEC
Parity for farmer demanded by O Neal
Edward A O NeaI president of the American Farm Bureau Federation urged labor and industry to back parity for farmers as the key forward step at a critical time. He said farmers are a stabilizing force because they are fair. Mrs Merrii Crummitt and Mr and Mrs Makion Swomley have returned from trips to Portland Me Boston and New York.
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Merrii Crummitt
West South Street
Makion Swomley
Baltimore
Portland
Boston
Mass
New York
Offensives As Means To End Wars In View
Spanish insurgents prepare for a general offensive to end the civil war while Japan plans to mobilize up to one million troops amid China war and pressure from Soviet Russia. Franco directs raids on Barcelona as frontier moves hint at Catalonia drive. Britain views arrest of Vienna passport official Kendrick with seriousness.
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Associated Press
Japan
China
Russia
Francisco Franco
Barcelona
Franco
Catalonia
Madrid
Germany
Thomas Kendrick
Vienna
Kendrick
Spain
Czechoslovakia
Juan Negrin
Zurich
Switzerland
International Congress of Physiologists
Duke of Alba
London
Viscount Runciman
Konrad Henlein
War Office
Palestine
Holy Land
Hearing on beer sales before court by license official
A hearing at the courthouse this afternoon before License Commissioner G Ed Myers addressed charges against John Joy of West Patrick Street for selling beer to minors. The session had been postponed from Thursday afternoon to today.
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G. Ed Myers
John Joy
West Patrick Street
Weather Record for August 1937 Summary
Weather record shows 24 hour precipitation ending 7 am today none. August to date 2.94 inches vs normal 3.68. August 1937 0.37 inches. Deficiency in 1938 to August 1 is 1.35 inches. Yesterday high was 82, low last night 56, a year ago 62. Sun set 7.03 pm, rise 5.27 am. moon sets 2:55 pm. Monocacy and Potomac rivers muddy.
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Potomac
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