Nervous defense blamed in drunken driving case
Luther B. Darr was arraigned on reckless driving and operating a car under the influence of alcohol near Frederick on the Jefferson Pike. State witnesses testified to odor of alcohol and staggering, while defense supporters testified to a nervous condition. Darr admitted drinking five or six beers during New Year celebrations but argued he was fit to drive. The case, prosecuted by Sherman P. Sowers, featured multiple witnesses for the defense and several collateral forfeitures in traffic matters.
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Luther Bwick
Walter E Sins
Carr
J. Thompson
Red
Frederick
Jefferson Pike
Thompson
Darr
W. K. May
Barr
Thomas Strother
Brunswick
A. I. Ellin
Francis Perrott
Sherman P. Sowers
John Doe
Bowers Admits Slaying Mrs Carpenter
Louisville reports Fed eral officials say Wendell Forrest Bowers confessed to the Philadelphia area slaying of Mrs Wilmer V Carpenter. An accused youth in Louisville on vagrancy charges denied being Bowers. fingerprints compared to Bowers’ prints. The youth, calling himself George Francis Lewis, is held while fingerprint checks proceed.
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Louisville
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Wendell Forrest Bowers
Philadelphia
William V. Carpenter
Orville C Dewey
Wilmer V. Carpenter
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington
Louisville Pole
George Francis Lewis
Bowers
JeFerman County Jad
Kimble Declares He Won't Take Phoebus Post
Baltimore Jan 4 Sen Robert B Kimble Allegany county Republican author of malfeasance charges against Labx Commissioner Harry T Phoebus says Gov Harry W Now had offered him the tap er post in Fall 1936 On advice of my friends I decided to take the court too Judge of the Cumberland Peoples Courts He contends he is ineligible for the 1936 peoples tour judge and appealed to the State Court of Appeal He asserts his motive was not personal gain but complaints about Phoebus and the desire to see someone else preside over the matter while denying any corruption claims.
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Baltimore
Robert B. Kimble
Allegany County
Aga
Labx
Harry T Phoebus
Harry Wo Nac
Taper
Allepany Courty
Cumberland Peoples Courts
Kymble
Gerestad
Cireut
Phaebiot
Phoebus
Hen With Unusual Egg Stirs East Holden Farm News
Harold C. Rogers found a giant egg in his hen coop in East Holden Maine on January 4. He estimates the egg contains three or four yolks and measures about 9 by 12 inches. Rogers, with 300 hens, has raised poultry for thirty years and hopes posterity proves its origin.
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Holden
Maine
Harold C. Rogers
Rogers
P. S. C. Grants Pleas For B. & O. Changes
Baltimore officials report the Public Service Commission granted the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad minor service changes between Baltimore and Woodbine and Washington and Brunswick after a hearing with no protests on the changes and a reduced discontinuance plan. Protests led to only scheduled changes remaining. WANT BUSSES Rockville protest against Capital Transit Company bus service abandonment affecting Rockville Gaithersburg and Washington Grove.
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Baltimore
Public Service Commission
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Woodbine
Washington
Brunswick
Frederick
Rockville
Interstate Commerce Commission
Capital Transit Company of Washington
Montgomery County
Gaithersburg
Washington Grove
Property sale recorded for 24 East Fourth Street
Deeds filed in the clerk’s office show the sale of the property at 24 East Fourth Street in Hazelton Pa from the Anne R Mantz estate to Francis MacLaren Mantz of Hazelton. Consideration was about $2000.
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Francis MacLaren Mantz
Hazelton
East Fourth Street
Anne R. Mantz
IAPS PROTESTS AND JAPANESE ADVANCE IN CHINA
Shanghai reports protest over anti Japanese outrages as Japanese infantry push south from Shantung toward Suchow threatening crucial railway junctions. Warplanes raid Suchow Canton and Yangtze rail sites while Japanese embassy cites safety of Japanese forces as priority. Chiang Kai-shek, in field HQ near Wuchang, says China will reorganize and field 50 divisions by spring, claiming three months of Shanghai resistance proves their resolve.
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Shanghai
Shuntung
Suchow
Tientsin-Pukow
Lunghai Raiways
Kiangsu
Tay
Domel
Sad m
Toky
Japanine
Chufu
Confucius
Tomaga
Panty Os
Japan
Canton
Yangtze River
Siies
Hanyang
Henkow
China
Shanghai Municipal
Chiang
Chinese National Army —i
Associated Press
Chiang ‘Kai-shek
Wuchang
Nanking
Shang Shai
Surgeon as Legal Representative in Patient Case
In a New Jersey Supreme Court decision, a surgeon who paused a throat operation amid pneumonia was upheld as acting in the patient’s best interests. Louis Honig of Maplewood sued Dr Henry Boren for 30000 after halting the procedure on his daughter Jeanette, but the court affirmed the doctor’s judgment to prevent complications.
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Trenton
Tmcomes
New Jersey Supreme Court
Louis’ Honig
Maplewood
Henry Boren
Jeanette
Grier
William A. Smith
Nice To Decide What To Do About Running
Annapolis Md Jan 4 Gov Harry W Nice announced he would make a final decision on his future political activities in April He said he had not decided whether he would run for Governor the U S Senate or not run at all He hoped the coming campaign would be high in tone and issue driven and said there is no place for mountebanks He noted he might seek re election as governor or run for the Senate seat held by Millard E Tydings Sixty British scientists have formed a society to study snow and ice.
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Annapolis
Harry W. Nice
U. S Senate
Millard E. Tydings
President Talks Industrial Plan in Roosevelt Message
President Roosevelt described a possible system of planned industrial production to prevent recessions. He noted NRA codes allow industry and government to gauge demand without price fixing, stressing competition remains. No decision yet. a special message to Congress may come in two to three weeks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
President calls for anti trust revision and labor order
President urged revision of the anti trust laws while urging labor and-capital to self reform before new moves. Charman Eccles told a Senate committee that higher government spending and closer ties among government industry and labor could ease costs in construction and end the depression, though he offered no firm recommendation.
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Congress
Captar
Labor
Washington
Charman Mariner Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Senate
Creala
Sac
CRACKERS Answers and Q&A on Page Four
A quiz item lists four questions and answers about geography cigars and matter. It mentions the Pamir Plateau as the Roof of the World Claro cigars color varieties madura being very dark and notes that matter exists as solid liquid or gas. It ends with stating no man escaped the Custer incident.
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Pamir
Asia
Forgotten Man term traced to 1883 origin
The note cites historian William G Sumner as the originator of the phrase The Forgotten Man in 1883. A mass shooting reference mentions a massacre with one horse surviving, underscoring a grim event in the narrative.
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William G. Sumner
Elgar Dedicated Work to Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose
English composer Sir Edward Elgar dedicated one of his best known works to the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, highlighting royal acknowledgment of his music.
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Sir Edward Elgar
Princesses
Elizabeth
Margaret Rose
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C. C. Carty, Inc
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