O'Neal Outlines Seven Point Farm Bureau Program
Edward A. O'Neal president of the American Farm Bureau Federation spoke at a Western Shore rally at the Frederick Fair Grounds, presenting a seven point program to stabilize farm prices and national prosperity. The event drew several hundred attendees, with Alvie M. Etzler presiding, speedball games, band music, acts, and bicycle races completing the program. C C Wise and other officials from Maryland Farm Bureau attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Frederick Fair Grounds
Salisbury
O'Neal
Farm Bureau
America
Alvie M. Etzler
Frederick County Farm Bureau
Sir O'Neal
Cc. E. Wise
Maryland Farm Bureau
Independent Run Hint From Pope
Senator Pope of Idaho, a Roosevelt supporter, indicated he might run as an independent in November after a surprise loss in the Idaho Democratic primary. He has received over a thousand letters and calls urging candidacy and plans to decide in the coming weeks after consulting with officials in Washington and Idaho party leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pope
Idaho
Roosevelt
Wallace
Weather Record Precipitation and Temperatures
Weather record notes 24 hour precipitation ending at 7 am today. August to date 2.44 inches vs normal 3.65 inches. August 1937 actual 6.37 inches. Deficiency in 1938 to Aug 1 minus 1.25 inches. Yesterday high 89, yest previous high 98 two years ago. Low last night 0, low a year ago 7. Hyd daylight times set. Streams Monocacy and Potomac muddy.
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Monocacy
Potomac
Two Bridges to Be Painted in Maryland Bid Call
The State Roads Commission invites bids to repaint two steel bridges over the Monocacy river at Ceresville and Frederick Junction. Each span measures about 320 to 325 feet. Bids due September 6 in Baltimore. labor provided by Maryland State Employment Service with wage scales set for skilled, intermediate, and unskilled workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Roads Commission
Monocacy River
Ceresville
Frederick Juntion
Frederick J Junction
Potomet River
Point of Rocks
Roads Commission
Frederick Junction
Federal Reserve Bank
Baltimore
Maryland State Employment ‘Service of
Frederick
Llabor
Cars in Collision Near Greenmount Injures None
Two autos driven by Mark E Wisotzkey and Edward G Stull collided on the Gettysburg Emmitsburg highway about a mile south of Greenmount as Wisotzkey traveled south and Stull pulled from the roadside. Damage to Stull’s car was about 58 dollars. the other vehicle sustained slight damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark E. Wisotzkey
Tanertown
Edward G. Stull
Lewistown
Gettysburg
Emmitsburg
Greenmount
Wisotzkey
Stull
Noah E Flanagan Dies Near Woodsboro at 72
Noah E. Flanagan a farmer near Woodsboro died at Frederick City Hospital at 5 30 this morning after a three day illness. He was 72 years old born in Creegerstown son of the late John and Minerva Flanagan and lived in Frederick county all his life. He worked as a mason earlier and for forty years farmed near Woodsboro. A lifelong Lutheran, he served as an officer and on the building committee of the Woodsboro church. Surviving: wife Martha Green Flanagan four sons Ralph Walkersville Sherman Westminster Russell Thurmont Felix Detour four daughters Hugh Funkhouser Cumberland Mary and Inez at home Adabelle Washington D C seven grandchildren. Funeral Monday at two with Rev Herbert H Schmidt Woodsboro Lutheran officiating. Interment Mt Hope Woodsboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noah Edward Flanagan
Woodsboro
Frederick City
Mr. Flanagan
Creegerstown
John and
Minerva Flanagan
Frederick County
Lutheran Church
Martha Green Flanagan
Lycurgus
Ernest Flanagen
Harvey Flanagan
Frederick
Ralph Flanagan
Walkersville
Sherman Flanagan
Westminster
Russell Flanagan
Thurmonk
Felix Flanagan
Detour
Hugh Funkhouser
Cumberland
Mary
Inez Flanagan
Adabelle Flanagan
Washington, D. C
Herbert H. Schmidt
Myersville Books Carnival Opens With Parade and Prizes
Myersville annual carnival under Fire Company Band and Woman's Club opens Thursday and runs through Saturday with amusements and nightly band concerts. A Saturday 6:30 pm street parade will form at Harp avenue school. Prizes include 15, 7.30, 2.30, 1.50, 0.75 awards for groups in uniform, floats, pedestrians, and comic entries. Rural Woman's Club prize honors membership.
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M Myersville
Fire Company
Band and Womans Club
John Eldridge
Joseph Harp
Harp Avenue
Rural Woman's Club
Frederick Children Use Playgrounds Often in Summer
About 3,300 Frederick children attended playgrounds weekly as factory work cut attendance. Harmon Field Schleysville and Washington street sites reported especially low turnout, with Baker Park running through September 2. The season averaged 3,300 weekly, with 12 to 16 year olds most active. major events included the Joseph Lee pageant and field meet. Staff was reduced with volunteers listed for late August and final week.
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Harmon Field
Schleysville
Helma Hann
Bowers
Washington Street
East Third Street
Schiersville
Baker Park
Jane Zimmerman
Katherine Young
Geraldine Kreh
Ada Hildebrand
Clinton Rhoades
Virginia Smith
Peggy Myers
Split in Legion ranks assured by Bair speech
The Maryland American Legion divides over the Lewis Tydings primary fight for the Democratic Senate nomination. Cmdr Bruce Bair accuses the Legion of being embroiled in politics, while Lewis supporters form a Veterans Lewis for Senate League. Rhodes elected Maryland Legion commander amid changes debate. Green says AFL and Roosevelt favor reforms to the National Labor Relations law.
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Bair
Baltimore
Maryland
Department of the American Legion
Millard E. Tydings
Roosevelt
David J Lewis
Bruce T. Bair
Legion
Tydings
Barr
United States
David J. Lewis
Lewis
Washington
Owen Ryan
Ryan
iBair
Senate League” S
Charles J. Newell
Emeorrow
Hyde Park
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
Labor Relations Board
Post Office Clerks Attend Convention
Frederick countians attend the United National Association of Post Office Clerks Maryland State Branch convention in Annapolis. After registration at Carver Hall Hotel, events include sports, dinner, dancing, a Naval Academy tour, business sessions and a banquet. Attendees from the area include George William Trout, Jesse C. Ramsburg, Arthur F. Highiman, Charles B. H. Ausherman and E. Lynch Gross of Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Brunswick
Lynch Gross
Five Arrests by City Police Overnight
Five arrests were made by city police during the night and morning. Four were for drunkenness on the street and one for disorderly conduct and glass breaking. Names include Jack Burgess, Richard Woods, Roy Iser, W. C. Smith, and Claude Gardner. Collateral set at 250 for drunks and 10 for Gardner with costs. AJIT hearings set for police court tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dftch
Jack Burgess
Charles Bluménauer
Richard Woods
Frank Dorsey
Roy Iser
W. C. Smith
R. O. Sik
Claude Gardner
Horace Alexander
Ajit
Casey Resigns As Factional Leader
Eugene J Casey of Gaithersburg resigns as co chair of the Montgomery county independent Democratic movement and names Judge Donald A DeLashmutt of Rockville as temporary co chair. The move follows a ban on endorsing state wide candidates and hints at shifts toward O Connor or Tydings support possibilities. John Gassoway is temporary recording secretary in the vacancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockville
Eugene J Casey
Gaithersburg
Independent Democratic
Montgomery County
Independent Democratic Movement
Donald A. DeLashmutt
Donde
David J. Lewis
Casey
Herbert R. O’conor
Millard E. Tydings
John Gassoway
J. Somervell Dawson
Man shoots woman in Hollywood boules yard dispute
Police say Charles E. McDonald confessed to shooting Mrs Emila Krueger wife of conductor Karl Krueger amid jealousy over a rival woman dominating his wife. Mrs Krueger was wounded while fleeing to a dancing studio with her 3 year old daughter Theresa present. McDonald linked to ongoing divorce and custody fight with Frances McDonald.
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John Bellinger
New York
Marie Joyce
Bellinger
Miss Jovee
Hollywood
Hollywood Boules Yard
Emila Krueger
Karl Krueger
Theresa
Kruger
Whaley
McDonald
McDonalds
Weather outlook for Atlantic states this week
Weather outlook for the week shows showers in the North and Middle Atlantic on Tuesday and again late week. Warmer spell in the middle Atlantic early to midweek, cooler in the north midweek and again at week end, otherwise near normal temperatures.
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North
Middle Atlantic
Hughes sets new speed record en route to test oxygen mask
Howard Hughes, famed for round the world and trans continental records, flew non stop from Los Angeles to New York in ten hours and 34 minutes, an average altitude of 20,000 feet, to test a new oxygen mask for high altitude flight. He and three companions said the mask shows great promise for extreme altitude performance.
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New York
Howard Hughes
Los Angeles
Hughes
Dr Ranck Wins Lauchheimer Fellowship for Historical Research
Dr James B Ranck of Hood College has received the Martin W Lauchheimer summer fellowship from Johns Hopkins University for historical research. The award supports postdoctoral study outside Baltimore. He spent two months in the Congressional Library, Washington, D C, researching 1850s New York newspapers on Albert Gallatin Brown for a planned dissertation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. Ranck
Hood College
Martin WH. Lauchheimer
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Ranck
Congressional Library
Washington, D. C
New York
Albert Gallatin Brown
Dr. Ranck
Carnegie Fund For the American Historical Society
Br. Ranck
Named To State Firemen's Posts
Local Maryland State Firemen's Association members announced by president Karl A. Young include F. Lester Smith as auditing chair, Robert A. Beneit on topics and statistics, Dr A Aries Radcliff on legislative, Charles M. Hahn on fire service extension booster, 8. T. Virts of Brunswick on fire prevention and inspection, Ralph Yingling, Mr Airy, and Emory G. Minnick on transportation, and Robert W. Wagner of Mr Airy on fire service extension booster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland State Firemen's Association
Karl A. Young
F. Lester Smith
Robert A. Beneit
A. Aries Radcliff
Charles M. Hahn
T. Virts Brunswick
Ralph Yingling
Emory G. Minnick
Union Bridge
Transportation Committee
Robert W. Wagner
Mr Airy
Fire Service Extension
Hagerstown Receives Public Works Grant Approval
The Public Works Administration approved a grant of $186,750 for a municipal building in Hagerstown. The project advances city infrastructure with funds authorized today in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. K’s
Hagerstown
Washington
Public Works Administration
Fraternalists to Meet Here with Parade and Sessions
One hundred twenty men in uniform and about three hundred visitors are expected in Frederick for a Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society meet weekend events begin with a Saturday night parade. Ernest A. Olsen of Washington DC oversees arrangements with headquarters at Hotel Frederick. Uniform rank companies from several cities, bands from Hagerstown Cumberland and Washington DC, and Junior Fire Company No 2 will participate. Mayor Lloyd Culler will welcome attendees Sunday afternoon in Baker Park for speeches and drills.
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Woodmen
The
World Life Insurance Society
Ernest A. Olsen
Washington, D. C
Hotel Frederick
Olsen
Uniform Rank
Baltimore
Hagerstown
Cumberland
Grantsville
Crellin
Frederick
Augustus G. Boyne
Lloyd C. Culler
Baker Park
Injured Woman Returns Home After Unionville Crash
Mrs. Amos Turner of Hagerstown, treated at Frederick City Hospital since May 9 accident near Unionville, discharged to home. She suffered a fractured left leg and head injury from a car overturn on Liberty pike. Also treated were Captain C Langley Andrews and his wife and daughter, all released within a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos Turner
Hagerstown
Frederick City Hospital
Unionville
Elected Treasurer Named at Legion Auxiliary Convention
Mrs. Claggett E. Ramsburg of this city was elected treasurer of the Women’s Auxiliary to the American Legion, Maryland Department, at the twenty‑th annual convention concluded today in Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claggett E. Ramsburg
Women's Auxiliary
American Legion
Department of Maryland
Legion and Auxiliary
Baltimore
BRITON CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE IN VIENNA
Germany accused Captain Thomas Kendrick a British passport officer of espionage near the Swiss border. London said Kendrick had been released and would depart Vienna soon. In Spain insurgents began a major offensive while China’s war stalled with Japanese advances on the Yangtze and Kiukiang.
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Associated Press
Germany
Thomas Kendrick
Vienna
Berlin
Kendrick
Neville Henderson
London
Captain Kendrick
Spain
China
Japan
Francisco Franco
Ebro
Catalonia
Barcelona
Valencia
Yangtze
Kiukiang
Hankow
Austria
Hungary
Nicholas Horthy
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Rumania
Budapest
Rhineland
France
Rally Features Slow Market Day in New York
In New York the stock market showed faint rallying signs but broad vigor was absent. Motors steels rubbers and rails gained fractions to about a point, yet ended lower from intraday highs as volume lagged. Brokers cited modest business prospects as support while many traders used early holiday breaks and weekend caution to pare commitments.
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New York
United
Commission House
Othrs
Don Budge Wins Newport Tennis Bowl Again
Don Budge won the Newport casino tennis bowl defeating Sidney Wood 6 3 2 in the final. Budge, returning to American singles competition, previously won here in 1935 and last year, marking another triumphant run at Newport.
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Don Budge
Newport
Newport RL
Newport Casino
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T. Frank Lynch
Ray Tab Ter
Centreville
Montgomery
Weather Outlook
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U. S
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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RFC
Atlanta
Dunlap
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Barnesville
Senator George
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