Raised Pay of Bogus Foremen in CCC Scam
Senate testimony revealed a three and a half year embezzlement at the National Park Service totaling about $87,000. Nine imaginary CCC foremen were paid, with two of them receiving pay raises, while a clerk named Reno Stitely allegedly cashed the vouchers. Demarey, Glavis and others testified amid questions of oversight and delays in transcript checks by the Park Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Natonal Park Service
CCC
A. E. Demarey
The
Park Service
Public Lands Committee
E K Burlew
Interior Department
Louis R. Glavis
Harold J Ickes Demarey
Reno Stitely
Woodsboro
Key Bittman
Nevada
Demarey
Pittman
War Department
Sutely
Mayors Seek Federal Relief for Four Cities
Four city mayors from New York Cleveland Detroit and San Francisco told Congress that demands for federal work relief must continue and expand to meet the emergency. They reported city relief applications rising up to 50 percent, with New York City's existence credited to federal aid and Mayor La Guardia urging government responsibility for all employables through work relief.
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Washington
Congress
New York
Cleveland
Detroit
San Francisco
Senate Unemployment Committee
New York City
F. H. la Guardia
Answers to Cranium Crackers on Page Four
Questions list several trivia items with prices and facts. It notes that an object must stop before reversing, a sawbuck costs nineteen dollars, a flag costs one dollar, a grand equals one thousand six, and references the power to declare war as vested in Congress. It mentions a frozen person and a pilot climbing seven thousand feet.
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Congress of the United Ee
Three Divorce Suits And 2 Decrees Filed
Three divorce suits were entered and five decrees granted in local court over the weekend. Names include Kathryn E Ely and Orville L Wright with name restorations and alimony orders. Mae L Rothenhoefer and Chester F McKenzie, plus Mary RR McKenzie and Helen M Pierce also pursuing absolute divorces with alimony or custody terms.
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Kathryn E. Ely
John C Ely
Kathryn E. Portner
Renee Warp
Gladys M Wright
Orville L. Wright
Gladys M. Diehl
Alton Y. Bennett
Mae L. Rothenhoefer
Charles R. Rothenhoefer
North Market Street
Frederick
Mr. Bennett
Mary RR. McKenzie
Chester F. McKenzie
East Eighth Street
Adupherv
Kidnapping of Ross 15 Solved
Los Angeles, January 17. J Edgar Hoover announced that Peter Anders has confessed to kidnapping and killing Charles S. Ross in Chicago last September and to slaying associate James Atwood Gray. Hoover said ransom of 314,402 was recovered and Anders also admitted to participation in about 20 bank robberies. He is being sent to Chicago.
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Los Angeles
Calif
J Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Peter Anders
Charles S. Ross
Chicago
Hoover
Washington
Anders
Santa Anita
New Orleans
Ross
James Atwood Gray
Rockford
Ill
Gray
Brunswick House Joint Ownership Noted in Case
The document states that at present the party is without work and that they jointly own a small house in Brunswick. Sherman P. Bowers is her attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Sherman P. Bowers
First Of Ten White Slave Charges Is Up
Roanoke Jan 17. R R Preddy Jr stood trial in U S District Court the first of ten defendants charged under the Mann White Slave Act. The government rested after calling Lois Toms who testified that R C St Clair and Preddy transported two Frederick Md girls to Roanoke for immoral purposes. She said St Clair beat the girls and that one witness would testify.
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Roanoke
R. R. Preddy, Jr
U. S. District Court
Preddy
Frederick
Lois Toms
R. C. St. Clair
Dewey St. Clair
Nell Wiggins
War Mothers Meet in January Chapter Gathering
The American War Mothers William C. King chapter met January 13 at 245 West Patrick Street, presided by Mrs. Charles S Houck Sr. A benefit is planned for January 25 at 152 East South Street, with the chapter to gather again February 10 at 230 PM at Mrs Hoffman's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. King
Marion Talley
West Patrick Street
Charles S Houck, Sr
George Hoffman
East South Street
Hoffman
Would broaden income tax base
Washington January 17 the first private witness at public hearings on the administration approved tax revision plan urged broadening the income tax base by taxing undistributed profits and direct gains rather than changing rates He proposed abolition of the present system and cutting personal exemptions and dependent allowances to half while applying a 10 percent surtax to incomes over 4 000 He warned that an election year would hinder broadening the base and noted the need to shift from indirect to direct taxation
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Washington
Fist Giness
Coatens
M . L. Seidman
New York Board of Trade
House
Ways and Means
Seidman
New Yorker
Rep. Crowther
New York
Directors Elected for Year at Peoples Liquidating Corp
The annual meeting of Peoples Liquidating Corp. certificate holders elected Ernest R. Shriver Emmitsburg Claude A Wilt Unionville Samuel E McBride Middletown Floyd E Lovell Garfield Upton Grossnickle Myersville William B Catshall Woodsboro G Robert Gray Poolesville Walter E Burrall New Market Arthur C Brown Sykesville Albert S Bitler Walkersville and W Clinton McSherry Frederick. They authorized 100 000 in stock of Western Maryland Trust Co and 200 000 cash to former depositors of Central Trust Co. The new board met and elected officers: President W Clinton McSherry Vice President Ernest R Shriver Treasurer William B Catshall Secretary Walter E Burrall Assistant Secretary W Eugene Sanders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoples Liquidating Corporation
Ernest R. Shriver
Emmitsburg
Claude A. Wilt
Unionville
Samuel E. McBride
Middletown
Floyd E. Lovell
Garfield
Upton C. Grossnickle
Myersv
William
Catshall
Woodsboro
G. Robert Gray
Poolesville
Walter E Burall
New Market
Arthur C. Brown
Sykesville
Albert
Bitler
Walkersville
W. Clinton McSherry
Frederick
Western Maryland Trust Company
Central Trust Company
People’s Liquidating Corporation
Ernest R. Shrive
William B. Catshall
Walter E. Burrall
W. Eugene Sanders
Roosevelt kin of First Lady faces speeding charge
Frederick native Charles V Main state officer. Alfred Pinto chauffeured. Roosevelt, 51, brother in law to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, fined 100 dollars at Bradshaw Md for 60 mph on Governor Nice highway. He paid with a check guaranteed by Officer Main after lack of cash. Car registered to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Charles V. Main
Frederick
Hall Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nice
Ansa
Eleanor Roosevelt
White House
Washington
Alfred Pinto
Main
Afr
Roosevelt
J. R. Buckworth
New Road
Philadelphia
Governor Nice Highway
Massachusetts
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Macauley
Araby Aid Society Meets At Parish House
Mrs Gladys Morningstar hosted the Araby Aid Society meeting at the Parish House on January 3 with Mrs Ruth Waltz presiding. Rev Charles M Robinson read scripture and twenty five members plus one visitor attended, sharing moments from Christmas Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Araby Aid Society
Gladys Morningstar
Ruth Waltz
Mable Rice
Charles M. Robinson
Divorce Granted to Mrs Lois M Harper Shirk
Rockville January 17 a circuit court decree by Judge Charles W Woodward grants Mrs Lois M Harper of Washington an absolute divorce from Austin Harper of Woodsde and allows her to resume her maiden name Shirk The petition states they married at Gettysburg Pennsylvania and have no children She was deserted April 1 1934 Attorney Austin James of Frederick represented the plaintiff.
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Rockville
Jan
Charles W. Woodward
Circuit Court
Lois M. Harper
Washington
Austin’ Harper
Woods.de
Shirk
Gettysburg
Austin James
Frederick
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Frederick Steiner Republican
Oregon
Sttely
G-Men
John Lewis
Owen D. Young
Lewis
Mrs. Roosevelt
Delphey’s
West Patrick ST
Parsons CO
North Market ST
C. C. Carty, Inc
E. Patrick St. Frederick, Md
Hendrickson
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