Roosevelt Devalues Dollar and Sets Gold Exchange Terms
Washington reports President Roosevelt devalues the dollar to 59.06 percent of its gold weight and fixes gold at 35 dollars per ounce for international trade. A $2 billion stabilization fund is created to manage foreign dollar value while exchange rates adjust to export gold sales. The move aims to raise commodity prices and improve U.S. trade balance.
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Dollar Decline Shakes Markets Abroad and Local Accident
New York January 31 President Roosevelts devaluation moves sparked a prompt decline in dollar terms abroad and a rally in Pacific coast securities as markets closed for the day. In Brunswick a seven year old girl Ellen Woods daughter of Leslie Woods was struck by a car and hospitalized after a crossroads accident near Councilman Ernest Sisin Street.
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Leslie Woods
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Frederick Cry
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Fund Created to Deal in Foreign Exchanges
President Roosevelt seized two thirds of the gold behind the dollar to create a fund for foreign exchange and government securities. The move was announced as part of a broader emergency program update, with the sales tax debate lingering in Congress and a subcommittee review underway.
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January court dates hint at Dillinger case and aviation probe
Jan 31 reports indicate Jon Kiet and Patrick O Malley face trial after a $20 000 First National Bank heist in East Chicago. Separately Senatorial air mail probes focus on former government official W P McCracken as he testifies about solicitation of mail contracts for aviation firms. A chimney fire at the Ebert home in College Park caused minor damage, and University of Washington sex education survey notes one quarter of co eds cannot think clearly.
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Patrick O’malleys
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Rober G. Esttt
Air Mail
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Air Iad
W. P. McCracken
Competee
McCracken
Washington
Feill‘Shawn Aviation
Ebert
Harry L. Ebert
Gotlege Park
State Police Marksman Officer Politz Scores High
Officer George F Politz of the state police near the local sub station earned multiple medals at Maryland state rifle matches. He claimed two golds silver and bronze medals plus a bronze plate for his shoulder in recent competitions. Police colleagues and brothers share a strong shooting tradition within the Faith Regiment.
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Rotary program covers vocation avocation talk at noon meeting
The weekly Rotary Club meeting featured a vocation avocation program. President James H Gamer chaired as Dr A Ausin Peare Dr Thomas W Williamson and Harry E Cain spoke. Guests included William C Royal and Dude Wine Drenner from Frederich.
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Frederch
Milk marketing talks staged in Washington on pact
Producers from the Philadelphia area and Agricultural Administration officials met to discuss terms of a new milk marketing agreement. Details were not disclosed. At the same time hotel directors organization news announced new officers for the Frederick Hotel Company including J. H L Gamorai as president and H D Base, G Mantz Besant as vice presidents.
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H D Baker
G. Mw Besant
P E Payne
F M Dertzbaugh
R E Delaplaine
R L Warfield
RH Ames Hendrickson
Notorious Kidnapper Verne Sankey Is Captured in Chicago
Verne Sankey once linked to the Lindbergh case and other abductions was arrested in a North Side Chicago barber shop by federal agents. A woman named Helen Matern was also detained. Authorities, led by FBI Chief Mietgin H. Purvis, continued questioning amid uncertainty over his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping.
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Gane Valley
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Helen Matern
Mietgin H. Purvis
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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St Paul
Charles Boettcher
Denver
Edward G Bremer
St. Paul
William Hamm, Jr
Purvis
Lindbergh
New Jersey
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Maryland State Dairymen Elect Officers and Directors
Baltimore January 31 officers of the Maryland State Dairymen Associa tion were reelected at a board meeting. Sunth Snader of Nex Windsor Carroll county was named president, Daniel S Pearce of Sparks Baltimore county vice president, and LW Heaps of Bellimore secretary-treasurer. Directors include John T Cauthorn Carrell court and Harry L Davis Frederick county.
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Man With Gun Held on Break and Enter Charge
Max Springer of Baltimore was held on 1000 bond after a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Gillan in Chambersburg. Witnesses call him the man with the gun in the two slot machine mobbery. He remains in jail pending the April grand jury. A related breaking and entering charge against him was dismissed.
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