Radio static disrupts city broadcasts as power tests continue
City and Potomac Edison officials worked together to identify a source of radio interference blamed on the electric light plant. Lights were briefly cut Tuesday evening and again tested today, with reception improving between 6:30 and 9:30 AM but deteriorating afterward. City Hall hopes cooperation will resolve the problem.
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Potomac Edison Company
City Electric
City Hall
City
Market Reclaims Calm as Gold Support Appears
New York on January 16 reports a calm market as gold support steadies prices. Equities and staples edged up, sterling firm, bonds quiet, grains and non ferrous metals recover modestly, and call money returns to one percent while the pound opens near 4.88 dollars.
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New York
Wall Street
Church Women Meet in Westminster District Meeting
Westminster January 16 The quarterly meeting of the Western Shore district Protestant Methodist church women convenes at Deer Park church with Rev Paul Warner a speaker returning from Japan and Mrs B I Barnes presiding the district group.
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Westminster
Western Shore
Methodist Protestant Church
Deer Park Methodist Protestant Church
Paul Warner
Japan
B. I. Barnes
Weather Summary for January 1934
Daily precipitation for 24 hours ends today shows 85 inches for January to date versus normal 3.20 inches. Yesterday’s high reached ag, while the low last night was 27. A year ago high was 45 and low was 35. Sunset at 5 10 p m, sunrise tomorrow 7 29 a m, moon rises 2 29 p m and sets 4 19 p m.
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Castle Estate to Family Will of C A Castle Probated
The will of the late Charles A Castle was probated this morning and estate left to his children except a $50 burial fund at Mt. Olivet. The will dated August 19, 1927 named Frank A. Castle as executor and was witnessed by M Elizabeth Storm and William M Storm. A marriage license was issued in Hagerstown to William Homer Weller 22 Hancock and Frances G Nokes 18 Brunswick.
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Castle
Charles A Castle
Mt. Olivet
Frank A. Castle
M. Elizabeth Storm
William M. Storm
Hagerstown
William Homer Weller
Hancock
Frances G. Nokes
Brunswick
Soviet Justice Faced by 19 Plot Agitators
Moscow January 16 AP Nineteen former Bolshevik leaders including Leo Kameneff and Gregory Vihovieff faced Soviet justice after pleading guilty to participation in a counter revolutionary plot. A Lenin grad trial was reported with no death penalty details. The group was accused of plotting the assassination of Sergei Kiroff as Nikos assassination waves followed.
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Moscow
Leo Kameneff
Gregory Vihovieff
Leningrad
Sergei Kiroff
Kiroff
Wheat Control Group 10 Meet Urges Committeemen Attendance
Wheat committeemen across Frederick County are urged to attend a Friday meeting at 1 30 P M at the M C A to review changes in wheat production restrictions and government payments for 1931 35. County Agent Henry R Shoemaker indicates 1 425 farms and 1 800 persons benefit from the program with six payments over three years. Maps and district lists name committeemen for New Market Walkersville Frederick Liberty Adamstown Middletown Myersville Emmitsburg Urbana Thurmont Jefferson Lewistown with chairs and members provided.
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M. C
Frederick County Wheat Production Control Association
Henry R. Shoemaker
Frederick County
New Market
W. ©. Burall
J. A. Engle
A. R. Molesworth
Walkersville
A M. Engler
John E. Gramer
Samuel C. Fogle
Frederick—E. ©. Speaks
George A. Tritappe
Daniel L. Thomas
Liberty
M. D. Nicodemus
Calvin H. Hamilton
John L. Smith
Adamstown
W. H. Renn
A. E. MecCuskey
James V. Shaff
Middletown
George D. Derr
J. M. Mentzer
William J. Kepler
Myersville
Claude A. Stottlemyer
Harvey R. Grossnickle
J. Hugh Warrenfeltz
Emmitsburg-Jones Baker
Frank Wivell
William H. Troxell
Urbana
R. E. Kling
B. H. Dudrow
Charles G. Gelsbert
Thurmont
F. A. Reddy
Samuel T. Royer
Roy M. Fisher
Jefferson
Charles A. Hemp
Emory R. Remsberg
T. Frank Hightman
Lewistown
Allen M. Pitzer
Henry Stottlemyer
Raymond R. Stup
Grand Jury Adjourns in Carroll County After Indictment
Westminster Jan. 16 AP After a two day session the special grand jury for Carroll county adjourned Tuesday afternoon having examined 26 witnesses and returned one indictment in the grand jury report it disclosed the jurors investigated the activities of the county commissioners regarding the county home and recommended stricter supervision of buying and selling at the home plus a yearly inventory of the home property.
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Westminster
Carroll County
Auxiliary Meeting Held at Legion Home
The American Legion Auxiliary conducted its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night at the Legion Home on East Church street. Routine business was discussed and a bingo party was planned under social committee chair Mrs Bruce Starner, with Mrs Claggett E Ramsburg presiding. another card party was slated for early February.
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Legion Home
East Church Street
Claggett E Ramsburg
Bruce Starner
Medical Society
Frederick County Medical Society
Francis Scott Key
G. Bruce Crist
Arthur Tremyer
Baltimore
Witnesses Back Hauptmann as Ransom Note Writer in Court
Three more state handwriting experts testified Hauptmann authored the 14 Lindbergh ransom notes. Defense pressed the imitation question, but Cassidy and Souder, along with Osborn, affirmed Hauptmann’s hand as the writer, saying copying 14 letters would be nearly impossible.
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Flemington
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Isador Fisch
Hauptmann
Harry E. Cassidy
Richmond
William Souder
U. S. Bureau of Standards
Albert D. Osborn
New York
Osborn
Jig
Albert S. Osporn
Souder
Harry B. Cassidy
Wilmer ‘J. Souders
United States Bureau of Standards
Lloyd Fisher
The
Defense
Cassidy
Fisher
Fisch
Germany
Bronx
Joseph A. Lanigan
Communists Halted Near Sichuan Frontier in China
Shanghai Jan 18 AP reports forty thousand communists retreating after Kiangsi expulsion face a first real obstacle westward near the Sichuan border. Government troops guard to block junction with communists in southeast Sichuan as the Red advance slows under fire.
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Shanghai
China
Kiangsi
Szechuan
Hood College President Attends Atlanta Meetings
Dr. Henry Stahr, president of Hood College, attends the Association of American Colleges and the Council of Church Boards of Education gatherings this week at the Atlanta-Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta Georgia.
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Hood College
Association of American Colleges
Council of Church Boards of Education
Atlanta-Biltimore
Atlanta
New Deal in Washington Fueled by Federal Register Plan
The administration ponders a government paper called The Federal Register to publish all orders rules and regulations as a complete record of federal actions. It would resemble the Congressional Record and include presidential proclamations executive orders NRA codes and public notices. Also notes on moving toward numbered executive orders and Library of Congress publishing duties.
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Rodney Dutcher
Washington
Supreme Court
The
Federal Register
National Emergency Council
Department of Justice
Library of Congress
Professor Lory to Speak on The Far East at Hood College
Professor Fullis Lory will discuss The Far East at Hood College Brodbeck Hall this evening at 7 15 under the International Relations Club auspices Contemporary club hood A reception will follow. Lory has observed Far East conditions during three years at Hokkaido Imperial University Tokyo on a Japanese government appointment. He later taught political science at Denison University and Stanford University.
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Far East
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Hokkaido Imperial University
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Denison University
Granville
Ohio
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Ann Arbor
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Coma
Ieaders
Bank Robbers Kill Cashier and Sheriff End Shootout
In La Salle on January 16 AP reports a running gun battle across three counties ended with three robbers captured and a fourth dead by self inflicted gunfire. They killed bank cashier Charles Bundy, 64, and Sheriff Glenn Axline, and wounded two others before a 13 year old hostage was freed unharmed.
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Ottawa
Charles Bundy
Glenn Axline
Marshall County
McNabb
Red Cross to furnish glasses for children in Frederick County
The Frederick County Red Cross, acting on a county health department appeal, will buy 44 pairs of eyeglasses for destitute schoolchildren with defective vision. Examinations are free by oculists, and total cost is estimated at 175 dollars. Martha Flynn and other officials were involved in establishing committees for clothing, home hygiene courses, and junior Red Cross leadership.
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Flynn
Ernest C. Webb
Lewis H. Knock
Mary B. Hammond
Walkersville
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Edgar H. McBride
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Annapolis
Kent R. Mulliklm
Prince George's
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Josephb. Grirsacker
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Ralph R Dennis
Worcester.s
George F. Lehnert
Mullikin
Ways and Means
House of Delegates
Senate Finance Committee
Herbert Ireland Calvert
Thomas L. Popp
Allegany
Theodore Sherman
Geo. E. Castle
Miss Ruth Shoemaker
Montgomery County
T. ¥. Canby
John B. Funk
Charles B. Kephart
Carroll County
Richard S. Hays
C. Ray Barnes
Allen Myers
Washington County
A. Lamar Barrick
Joseph B. Payne
Frederick E. Beachley
Jacob R. Ramsburg
Frederick
Melvin W. Boutson
Joseph B Payne
Walter M Magruder
George E Caste
Frederek County
Maryland awaits 8.5 million emergency revenue bill
Annapolis heavy with bills as Governor Nice seeks emergency revenue totaling 8.529 million for the current year and 11.05 million per year for the next biennium. Legislature returns from recess to tackle relief financing and a proposed 10 million a year revenue measure, with federal aid tied to Maryland’s relief obligations.
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Annapolis
Harry W. Nice
General Assembly
Maryland
Nice
Gang siege ends as kidnappers surrender after clash
Federal agents battled bandits who barricaded in a Lake Weir summer home, firing machine guns in Oklawaha Florida. By afternoon two men and a woman were dead, and the gang surrendered, believed to have kidnapped Edward G Bremer of Saint Paul about a year ago.
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Fla
Lake Weir
Clyde McKinney
Edward G. Bremer
J. Paul Brewer
Maryland Deaf School Head Speaks at Howl College Address
SPFARS AT HOOD Pr Isnvuos Bjorlee, superintend ent and principal of the Maryland State School for the Deaf addressed the students of Howl College in enaptl in Broebeck hall on Tuesday mornin The sublet was deafness .in the State of Maryland.
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Hood
Isnvuos Bjorlee
Maryland State School For the Deaf
Howl College
Enaptl
Broebeck Hall
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