Auto Wreck Injures Ten Near Middletown
Ten people were injured when two cars collided at the Broad street and Middletown Jefferson road intersection on Sunday morning. Charles Wolfe and Pearl Ward suffered serious injuries. Wolfe’s wife and infant were involved. Police planned charges. witnesses cited missing stop signs and limited visibility as factors in the crash.
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Middletown-Jefferson Road
Middletown
Charles KR Wolfe
Burkittsville
Pearl Ward
Frederick City Hospital
Wolfe
Margaret Baer
Jefferson
Luther C. Mann
Ward
Catherine Tritappe
Mann
Answers to Cranium Crackers on Page Four
Answers cover varied trivia items from early World Series dates to Confederate coins and notable women in ministerial roles. Other entries mention Scottish village Greima Green and the evolution of light sources including neon and radium. tone resembles a reader puzzle column.
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New Orleans
Ruth
Bryan Owen
Boorge Rhode
Denmark
Greima Green
Scotland
VO AG CLUE TO MEET AT VOCAL AGRICULTURE CLUB
D Koons manager of the Farmers Co operative Association at Frederick will speak at the sixth meeting of the Vocal Agriculture Continuation Club. The subject Buying and Using Fertilizers. A poorly attended meeting was held Monday. Robert H Engle of Lime Institute Philadelphia discussed Limes and. The meetings are held at Roscoe High School. Whipp predicted is in charge.
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D. Koons
Farmer's Co-operative Association
Frederick
Vocamal Agriculture Continuation Gglub
Ibg
Robert H. Engle
Tipeality Lime Institute
Phila
Rick High School
Roscoe
Whipp
Predi- Ahah
Million Dollar Maryland Farm Gift To University
Dr. H C Byrd announced Charles E McManus owner of Crown Cork and Seal Co donated Spring Hills Farm near Cockeysville 18 miles north of Baltimore valued at over 1 million dollars. Gift restricted to agriculture use. poultry plant equipment to join University Experiment Station for research and teaching. Includes 117000 chickens cattle steers horses sheep and farm machinery and vehicles.
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College Park
H. C. Byrd
University of Maryland
Charles E. McManus
Crown Cork and Seal Company
University Farm
Spring Hills Farm
Cockeysville
Baltimore
University
Explosion At Dupont Plant Wrecks Four Story Dye Works
Deep Water New Jersey January 23 One man died of burns at a Wilmington hospital. Another worker suffered severe burns and a third remained missing after a pre dawn explosion at the E I du Pont de Nemours Company dye works. Radius and circumstances described as a mass of twisted girders and fire burned bricks. Charles Forshay a mechanic died Raymond Hale night shift foreman was seriously burned Earl Hale was reported missing New Jersey and Delaware connection noted.
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E. J. duPont de Nemours
Company Dye Works
Charles Forshay
Wilmington
Del
Raymond Hale
Earl Hale
Reduced Plantings of Major Crops Planned
Washington reports tentative crop control plans for 1938 aim to cut major food and fiber crop plantings by 15 to 36 million acres. Officials say most cuts target cotton and wheat amid large stockpiles, with total projected acreage 275 to 290 million across cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco, rice and others. 1937 planted area was about 305.7 million acres. Farm land available exceeds 365 million acres.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Two Robbers Recaptured After Escape From State Farm
In Hagerstown Maryland on January 23 two convicted bank robbers, Roger Susi and Charles Avitelio, who escaped last night from the State Penal Farm, were recaptured by Patrolman James Ray with aid from other officers and sent to the State Penitentiary in Baltimore. Susi, 28, had a 15 year term for a Dundalk bank robbery in 1933, while Avitelio, 24, was jailed for a Baltimore robbery. There are about 100 islands in the Virgin Island group, most uninhabited.
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Hagerstown
Baltimore
Roger Susi
Charles Avitelio
James Ray
Susi
Dundalk
Baltimore County
Avitello
Report Denies Plan to Raze County Hotel in Ridgeville
Charles W. Jones of Ridgeville, who bought the old Ridgeville hotel, denied rumors it would be torn down soon or that land along the property had been given to the State Road Commission for road work. He also said no decision on future use and no confirmed plan for a filling station.
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Ridgeville
Charles W. Jones
Jones
State Roads Commission
F. W. Oldenberg Dies At College Park Home
F. W. Oldenberg, agronomist with the University of Maryland Extension Service and a Frederick County figure, died Saturday night at his College Park home after complications from a prior automobile accident. He served about twenty years with the extension service and was a familiar judge at the Frederick Fair and Community Shows.
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F. W. Oldenberg
University of Maryland Extension Service
Frederick County
College Park
New Menace For Japanese Force
Western Suiyuan reports say Outer Mongolia forces menace Japan in North China. A traveler from Paotow reports Japanese planes pursuing a Russian target near the city walls and two nearby towns captured. The Peiping to Paotow railroad is pivotal to Japanese control of half North China and potential Russian supply routes.
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Outer Mongolia
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Soriles
Paarow
North China
Outer Mongolian
Kidnapper Seadlund Lodged In Skyscraper Cell
Chicago January 23 John Henry Seadlund confessed kidnapper and slayer rests in a skyscraper cell as federal agents gather evidence to pursue execution under the Lindbergh law. Seadlund formerly known as Peter Anders will be arraigned soon with a federal grand jury summoned to hear the case involving Charles S. Ross abducted last September and slain with partner James Gray in a north woods hideout.
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John Henry Seadlund
Seadlund
Peter Anders
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
St Paul
Charles S. Ross
Ross
James Gray
North Woods
Hoover
U. S
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Cave
J. Atwood Gray
Anders
John
Olivia Borcia
Thompson Improves After Serious Illness In Emmitsburg official
Relatives say Thompson veteran football official and Emmitsburg burgess remains in St Marys Hospital Waterbury Conn though expected to leave for home soon. Telegram from Pinkney Wilkinson said Thompson would depart for Emmitsburg Saturday but relatives report no arrival and several days delay. Thompson was hospitalized December 24 with a serious condition but has since been out of danger.
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M. J
Mike) Thompson
Frederick County
St. Mary's Hospital
Waterbury
Conn
G. N. Stanley
Pinkney W. Wilkinson
Board of Fire Commissioners of
Baltimore
Thompson
Hagerstown Officials Say Meters Are O. K.
Hagerstown city officials after a month with parking meters report satisfaction that the devices have largely solved business district parking problems. Nineteen meters brought in 1322 dollars over five weeks, per City Treasurer D. Lee Staley. Both parties noted the success.
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Hagerstown
D. Lee Staley
City Officials Report Merchants and Drivers Contented
City officials say merchants and drivers are contented with the rearrangement as implemented, indicating satisfaction with changes and a smoother workflow in the area.
American Battalion Wipes Out Insurgents on Teruel Front
A battalion of American volunteers in the Spanish civil war reportedly annihilated two squads of Moorish cavalry from Generalissimo Franco’s forces on the Teruel front during an insurgent drive to retake the city. Communique from Barcelona praises bravery but notes no American fatalities. In a separate report, about 30 people were killed when 14 insurgent planes bombed Puigcerdas railhead near the French frontier, with eleven bombs landing on French soil and a formal French protest anticipated.
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Hendaye
France
Barcelona
Perpignan
Puigcerds
Last official jester of Charles I’s court identified
The fool of Charles I of England known as Muckle John was likely the final recognized court jester at the royal court, reflecting a fading tradition from early modern Britain.
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Charles I of
England
Muckle John
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