British freighter Alira sunk near Barcelona by insurgent planes
Spanish insurgents attacked the British freighter Alira 20 miles southeast of Barcelona as two planes bombed and sank her while 25 crew members and an observer were rescued by Spanish authorities. London intensified Mediterranean anti piracy measures as France and Britain massed forces to guard neutral shipping. Madrid faced renewed heavy artillery fire with over 200 shells and at least 20 killed. the AP bureau was damaged but staff unharmed.
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Palma
Mallorca
Endymion
Alcira
Goverment
England
London
Mediterranean
France
Britain
Great Britain
Charles Corbin
Anthony Eden
Madrid
Spain
Associated Press
Garabatis Hill
Lady Astor
Nancy Astor
Senate
Lady Aster
Franco
Charles O. Andrews
Florida
Wwcctine
Relief funding plan eyed for next fiscal year
Washington reports informally raised relief request for the year starting July 1 ranges from 1.0 to 1.1 billion dollars. Administration aides advise a smaller target while Congress weighs whether current year needs a supplementary fund. With five months left, about 450 million remains unspent.
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Washington
Lesislziers
Eliminate Charge For Cradle Type Hand Sets
Maryland telephone subscribers who use the cradle type hand sets still pay about 48000 less in 1938 the Public Service Commission estimated. Effective with January bills the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company announced the extra 15 cents formerly charged each month for the hand sets had been discontinued. Elimination of the charge according to commission sources resulted from an agreement reached with the telephone company several months ago.
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Public Service Commission
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
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Telephone Company
IRS announces tax return help at Frederick office
The Maryland schedule of assignments of deputy collectors of internal revenue to assist with the filing of 1937 income tax returns was announced today by the Internal Revenue Service. A representative will be stationed at Frederick March 2 to 15. Other assignments in this section are Brunswick February 15 Mt Airy February 16 and Lykesville February 19.
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Maryland
Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Service
Frederick
Brunswick
Mt. Airy
Lykesville
Weather Record Precipitation and Temps Report
Weather report shows 24 hour precipitation .03 inch ending 7 am. February to date .08 inch. Normal February 2.95 inch. actual February 1937 4.46 inch. Deficiency in 1938 through Feb 1 is 1.51 inch. Yesterday high 16, high last year 33. Low last night 35, low last year 15. Sun sets 5.24 pm, rises 7.15 am. Moon rises 9.31 am, sets 11.08 pm.
Governor Aiken to Speak for New York Republicans
Vermont governor George Aiken seeks to steer the GOP toward liberalization as he heads to the Waldorf Astoria for Lincoln's Birthday remarks before the National Republican Club. The event signals Aiken as a potential leader of the Stop Hoover movement within a party wary of Hoover-Hamilton dominance.
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Washington
George Aiken
Vermont
National Republican Club
Waldorf-Astoria
New York
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Boston
Alf Landon
Friends of
Aiken
Hoover
Americans in Danger on Refugee Train in China
A Chinese report says a refugee train carrying 40 Americans, mostly children, was two days overdue north of Canton due to heavy Japanese air bombardment along the Hankow Canton line. The group, fleeing toward Hong Kong and Manila, includes many from Kikungshan mission school.
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China
Yangtze Valley
Teday
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Hankow
Honokkong
Manila
America
Kikungshan
Simone Simon Improves But Still Critical With Pneumonia
French film star Simone Simon at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital showed a small improvement as her fever eased from 103 to 100. She has been ill with pneumonia for two weeks but pressed on with final scenes and songs for Josette. She appears in Love and Hisses at the Tivoli.
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Hollywood
Simone Simon
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Josette
Miss Simon
Drifting Scientists See Brief Polar Dawn Light
Four Soviet scientists adrift on a large ice floe in Moscow Fen report a brief polar dawn after four months of darkness. They described sun rays rising from below the icy horizon as rescue ships approach, providing a momentary daylight glimpse.
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Moscow
Fen
Horzon
New York Mayor LaGuardia to Speak at Illinois Farmers Meet
Washington gossip notes that Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia may share the Illinois Agricultural Association annual convention stage while Secretary Henry Wallace faces pressure over compulsory crop controls. Ambitious figures like John Kennedy are linked to knee breeches query at the Court of St James.
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Wallace
Renla LaGuardia
New Yorld
Illinois Agricultural Associattion
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry _Wallace
Earl Smiva
O'Neal
LaGuardia
Jon Kennedy
Court of St James
NEA
Timber Destruction Along Linganore Warns Frederick
Citizens and groups urge Maryland State Forester to oversee Linganore Creek watershed after protests allege severe tree cutting endangers Frederick’s water supply. Izaak Walton League educator S F Lehman cites at least fifteen deep gullies carved south of Mt Pleasant as logs are hauled to local sawmills. Authorities consider possible injunction to halt cutting and seek state supervision to protect the watershed amid rising city water needs.
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Linganore Creek
S. F. Lehman
Izaakreatige League
Mt Pleasant
Lehman
Frederick
Gnd
Fox's Bridge
Etzlers Bridge
Hagerstown
Edward J. Smith
F. W. Besley
Fishing Creek
Monocacy
Missing missionaries killed by Japs state department informed
After two months of wailing following the disappearance of Rev. and Mrs. Harsh and Miss Minerva Neher in China, word reached their families that all three were slain by Japanese forces. Rev. Harsh was shot after failing to provide a password at a Chinese village entry, with his wife and Miss Neher killed to conceal the incident. The State Department noted its last report from Peiping dated December 12. The trio, Church of the Brethren missionaries, were from Petersburg West Virginia and nearby communities, and were under thirty. The letter from one daughter hints at foreboding as events unfolded in the wartime zone.
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China
Alva € Harsh
Minerva Neher
Harsh
Mary L. 1
Hagerstown
Neher
le Verne
Cal
State Department
Petersburg
W. Va
Is. Hars
Joann W.wolfe
West Fifth Street
Washington
Peiping
Church of the Brethren
Pingting
Show Yang
Shans
Crna
Three Hospital Inmates Slain in Massachusetts
In Tewksbury Massachusetts early today a 70-year-old inmate opened fire at the state infirmary, killing Michael O'Keefe Edward Mercier and James Magee and wounding two others critically. The gunman John Mack age 70 fled before being captured in Lowell three hours later. The incident follows a broader probe into violent deaths in Massachusetts mental hospitals since 1926 totaling over 5,000.
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Mass
Gant
Lowell
Michael O'Keefe
Edward Mercier
James Magee
John Mack
Massachusetts
Recovery Starts After Leaders Hit New Lows
New York on February 4 saw a gradual stock market recovery after leaders dropped to new lows since 1935. Early losses faded into modest gains by the fourth hour as traders watched Sterling move up to 3.01 dollars.
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New York
A. F. L. accused in maritime strike threats
Nationally prominent Mrs. Eleanor Herrick, Regional Director at New York for the National Labor Relations Board, testified before the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee that the A F L accusation of favoring a rival union in a maritime strike was false. She said during six settlement negotiations anonymous threats against her life had been made.
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Eleanore
Herrick
New York
National Labor Relations Board
Senate Commerce and Labor Comittee
A. FL of L
Four Killed In Auto Truck Crash
Washington reports four people died in an auto truck crash as officials reviewed the day’s events. President Howe, reeling from wage talks, addressed economic policy after a conference with business leaders.
Grandmother 37 Held On Murder Charge in New Jersey
Freehold New Jersey February 4 AP Blonde Ethel Rounds aged 37 a grandmother was charged with murder after an all night questioning about the shooting of a 40 year old handyman who died outside a roadside tavern. Arraigned before Justice of the Peace Fred Quinn she denied guilt and was held without bail for grand jury action. He grabbed the gun and I beat him to it it went off in my hands.
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N. J
Ethel Rounds
Justice of the Peace
Fred Quinn
More Responsibility For Women Is Asked
Chicago, Feb 4. A large gathering of Methodists heard Miss Georgia Harkness, professor at Mount Holyoke College, call for greater leadership roles for women. She said the church remains the last stronghold of male dominance and suffers from discrimination that drains able talent from its leadership pool.
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Chicago
Georgia Harkness
Mount Holyoke College
United Methodist Council On
Car Plunges Into River Three Missing in Algonac
State police searched islands and shores of the St Clair River for three missing persons after a car plunged to the river bottom last Sunday. One body was recovered from the car when it was raised yesterday. two others likely were inside when it broke through an airhole near Dickinson Island. They may have been swept downstream under the ice.
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Algonac
Mich
St. Clair River
Dickinson Island
New York Car Skids On Ice Killing Four In Md
Rising Sun Md Feb 4 AP three men and a woman died when their New York bound auto skidded on ice and crashed into a truck. The driver Samuel Lerner 42 Brooklyn said the rear end skidded on a hill and the car swung into the oncoming truck. The dead are Eliza Bial 40 Brooklyn Abraham Kaplan 55 New York City Donald Alen 24 Danbury Nick Coleao 40 New York. Truck driver Calvin Owens Baltimore survived bruises and Lerner was detained for an inquest at 7 PM.
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Rising Sun
New York
Eliza Bial
Brooklyn
Abraham Kaplan
New York City
Donald Alen
Danbury
Conn
Nick Coleao
Samuel Lerner
Miami
Florida
Calvin Owens
Baltimore
Lerner
Route 1
Porter's Bridge
Conowingo
R. C. Dodson
Actor Catches Cold in Kilts on Set
Nigel Bruce, an actor described as at least half Scotch, is confined to bed with a cold after catching it while wearing kilts as part of the costume for Kidnapped in Hollywood.
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Hollywood
Nigel Bruce
Birth and Death Records For Frederick County 1937
Frederick County saw 783 deaths and 987 births in 1937 according to state vital statistics announced by the Health Department. Frederick City recorded 240 deaths and 228 births, with local figures showing more births than deaths but the state reporting a different balance due to non residents. The city had 33 white and 3 colored stillbirths, and most babies were attended by physicians. Deaths totaled 17,092 nationwide with 27,636 births. City and county birth rates, death rates, and leading causes of death are listed, noting higher city death rates and motor vehicle fatalities at record highs while encouraging adherence to local records.
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State Department of Health
Frederick City
Frederick
Maryland
City
Cunty
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