New Principal Scheduled for Lincoln High School
Lincoln High School in this city nears a leadership change as the Board of Education considers appointing a principal with a full certificate to replace Howard D. Pindell who has led the colored school for two years under a provisional credential. Superintendent Eugene W. Pruitt noted that qualified candidates are now available and that the board will decide next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln High School
Board of Education
Howard D. Pindell
Eugene W. Pruitt
Pindell
Wiley Bates
Annapolis
Pruitt
J. Pindell
Inn Owner Arrested After Warrant for Husband Assault
Olney July 8 A scant report says Felix Villemair owner of a fashionable inn was arrested on a warrant sworn by his wife Clara May Villemair. States Attorney James H. Pugh said Villemair fired a pistol at his wife after a quarrel yesterday but caused no injuries.
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Olney
Montgomery County
Felix Villemair
Clara May Villemair
James H. Pugh
Villemair
Grand Jury Orders Probe Of Earle Campaign Charges
In Harrisburg on July 8 AP reports Judge Paul F. Schaeffer ordered a grand jury investigation into primary campaign charges of political graft and corruption against Governor George H. Earle and 13 associates. The judge said he would issue a final order Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
George H. Earle
Paul F. Schaeffer
Schaeffer
State Supreme Court
Manchester Woman Succumbs To Burns
Elizabeth Sullivan 85 died in a Baltimore hospital from burns suffered when her clothing caught fire while canning vegetables at her Manchester home.
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Manchester
Elizabeth Sullivan
Baltimore
Weather Record Precipitation and Temperatures Summary
Weather record notes precipitation for 24 hours ending 7 p m shows none, July to date .06 inch vs normal 1.2 inches. July 1937 actual 3.46 inches, 1938 deficiency 1 July 1 3.38 inches. Yesterday high 95, prior year 98. low last night and year ago 0 66. Sun sets 7 40 p m, rises 4 51 a m. Moon rises 5 22 p m, sets 2 27 p m. Streams Monocacy doubtful, Potomac clear.
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Monocacy Uoudy
Potomac Clear
Hood College M B Benson Class of 1940 Dies Sudden
The Hood College community learned of the sudden death of Miss Margaret Benson daughter of Mr and Mrs E A Benson of Westfield New Jersey. A Hood College graduate from the class of 1940 she reportedly died June 30 in a horse riding incident after a fall. While at Hood she played on the hockey team for two years and served on the endowment fund committee.
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Margaret Benson
E. A. Benson
Hanford Place
Westfield
N. J
Benison
Hood College
Hood
DeMolay to Mark 6th Anniversary in Frederick
Frederick Chapter of DeMolay marks its fifteenth anniversary with a week of events from July 17 to July 22. The charter was instituted July 26, 1923 by William Warren S Seipp and Melvin Engle with 50 original petitioners. about 550 have been initiated to date. A committee led by Staley Lanner and A Owen Mercer arranged the program including a church service at Braddock Heights July 17 and an anniversary dance scheduled for July 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Order of DeMolay
Hagerstown
Warren S. Seipp
Baltimore
Maryland
Melvin Engle
Thomas J Schaffer
George T. Cramer
Lloyd B. Winebrewer
Frank F. Griffin
Arthur C. Rhoades
W. Eugene Sanders
Paul H. Clemson
Russell L. Michael
Philip Wertheimer
Bernard T. Smith
Harry Cramer
Roland Gaver
John P. Engelbrecht
Edward D. Baltzell
Alton C. W
Grace Evangelical and Reformed Sunday School Orchestra
Homer R. Simpson
Norman Ford
Church of the Brethren
C. Robert Stup
Amon J. Traver
Mr. Lanner
Glenn E. Orrison
C Ernest Webb, Jr
William C. Royal
First Baptist Church
Braddock Heights
Negro Who Grasped Girl Is Being Sought
Police sought a large negro who grabbed Pauline White 17 as she walked along George Town Road. The man stepped from a doorway at a building under construction. she screamed and he fled. His description matches a man who attacked Mrs Leo Day two weeks earlier in the same block.
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Bethesda
Pauline White‘house
George“town
Leo Day
Workers Return to 085 in Mills and Factories
Workers resume duties in mills and factories under a 085 policy, signaling a market shift. Industrial employers report steady back-to-work rates as production lines restart and staffing levels normalize across multiple plants.
Many Businesses Show Tendency to Move Ahead Leaders
New York July 8 AP reports rehired workers returning to mills and factories while vacationed staff move along industrial routes. Trade centers show scattered gains as barometers creep forward and markets react to a labor and vacation mix. Gains in textiles shoes and building hint at broader autumn increases, with 4 million workers needed to restore last year’s recovery levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wall Street
Financial District
National Industrial Conference Board
Five New Stamps To Be Issued In August
Washington July 8 Dates and locations for first day sales of five new postage stamp issues were announced by Postmaster General Farley. The issues include seven cent Jackson on Aug 4 eight cent Van Buren on Aug 11 nine cent William Henry Harrison on Aug 18 three cent Iowa Centennial on Aug 24 and one solar Wilson on Aug 29. The four Presidential stamps will first be sold in Washington with broader distribution to follow. The Iowa Centennial stamp will go on sale with the opening of the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.
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Washington
Farley
Jackson
van Buren
William Henry Harrison
Iowa
Wilson
Des Moines
Local AAA funds show Maryland county costs in 1936 37
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration reported Maryland spent 53,583 on the 1936 conservation program from July 1, 1936 to February 23, 1937. Most funds supported farmer committees and field staff paid daily. Frederick county costs totaled 6,145 dollars, Carroll 3,541 dollars, and Montgomery 2,556 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Maryland
AAA
Frederick
Carroll
Montgomery
Langhorn suffers broken leg and arm in motor wreck
S Catherine Langhorn, 22, of Washington, is hospitalized in Keyser West Virginia with a broken leg and arm after a motor vehicle skid near Oakland Michigan on July AP reports her condition is improving as doctors treat her injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
S. Catherine Langhorn
Washington
Keyser
W. Va
Northwest Airlines plane crash near Billings kills one
A Northwest Airlines transport aircraft carrying eight passengers and two crew crashed at takeoff, killing one passenger, Mrs. N S Mackay of Evanston, and injuring seven others including her husband who was hospitalized.
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Billings
Meat
I Northwest Airlines
N. S. Mackay
Evanston W
Teachers Attend Summer Sessions From Frederick County
Frederick county teachers flock to summer schools across the nation. Many pursue studies at the University of Maryland Western Maryland College or distant institutions such as California Wisconsin and Virginia. A partial list names Edna Fulmer Mary Ann Payne Zelma Smith Louise Weagly Mary Higbee Margaret Hogan Helen Smith E Wenner Willie Howard Edythe Sigmund and others at Maryland California Virginia Wisconsin Gettysburg Duke Western Maryland. An administrator resignation closes report: Henry W. Webb resigns as federal housing administrator for Maryland Lester Muller named acting administrator.
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Frederick County
University of Maryland
Western Maryland College
California
Wisconsin
Edna Marie Fulmer
Mary Ann Payne
Gettysburg College
Margaret E.hogan
Helen V. Smith
E. Virginia Wenner
University of Virginia
Willie E. Howard
Duke University
Edythe A Sigmund
Western Maryland
Lenore I. Whitmore
Margaret D. Tarasher
Misse Nellie L. Sigafoose
Mariana
Dorothy Eldridge Shepley
Temple University
Hazel N. Goode
Mary K. Repp
Louise James Myers
Kitty B. Day
Ottie E. Miller
Messrs
L. Hubert Derr
W. Walter Culler, Jr
Morgan College
David A. Shockly
Kermit A. Cottman
Columbia University
James M. Weedon
Insurance broker Cronin sues bank over lost commissions
In Boston, Arthur D. Cronin filed suit against the National Shawmut Bank seeking 35000 dollars claiming the bank diverted his 1934 insurance proposal to James Roosevelt's firm. The case raised questions about the bank's handling of Cronin's commission rights as the magazine article noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Roosevelt
Boston
Arthur D. Cronin
National Shawmut Bank of Boston
Cronin
Roosevelt Pledges to Keep Up Battle as People March
President Roosevelt vows to persist in his policy fight and calls for broad public support as supporters announce plans to march with him in solidarity. The pledge signals unwavering resolve amid ongoing political pressure and campaign momentum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Says Nation Has Social Frontier Ahead
President Roosevelt proclaimed a mental migration toward new social and economic security frontiers in Marietta Ohio. He urged citizens to aid each other, insisting government is the people, not an outsider power, and urged forward cooperation for 1938. He spoke during Northwest Territory anniversary celebrations aboard a ten car special train.
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Marietta
Ohio
Roosevelt
Northwest Territory
Bulkley
Ohio River
Washington
Jobless Must Make Contact With Employment Office
Capt. Charles N. Staley of the Maryland Employment Service warns workers who received 324 cards to report to Winchester hall within ten days or be assumed not interested. WPA referrals will shift to the Maryland State Employment Service for private employment, clarifying placement duties and aiding farmers with intermittent labor needs. The change aims to reduce duplication and speed up private-job placements, as the WPA must now coordinate via the State Service. Forty-eight hours are generally required to locate applicants at home for work referrals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles N. Staley
Frederick
Maryland Employment Service
Winchester Hall
Capt Staley
WPA
Maryland State Employment Service
Capt. Staley
Employment Service
Police Defend Handling of Heavy Weekend Traffic
Frederick police report unusually large Fourth of July crowds and heavy traffic managed without mishap. They credit extra officers and strategic intersections, defend demeanor as necessary, and note ongoing debate over traffic light timing and officer duties.
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Gettysburg
Charles Town
Chicken Thief At Montgomery Settlement Stirs Local Mystery
Beallsville July 8. Sergeant Bodmer earns praise for tracking a chicken larceny to a colored settlement after finding gin hair straightener and neck-wrung pullets. A man named John Doe Jr. confessed uncertainty and a court date was set for Monday.
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Beallsville
Roy Bodmer
Montgomery County Police
Sherlock Holmes
Sergt Bodmer
Sergt
Sergi Bodmer
Frederick
WPA
Staley
John
Bodmer
Junior
Sergt. Bodmer
Doe, Jr
Vanderbilt To Build $200000 Home In Md
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt solicited bids for a $200000 Maryland manor style brick house to be built in Worthington Valley near his racing stables. It will have five bedrooms a club room a projection room bowling alleys and billiard rooms for him and his bride to live in.
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Baltimore
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Maryland
Worthington Valley
Maryland Manor
West Virginia Woman Killed In Cumberland Crash
Nellie Combs of Buchanan West Virginia died when a car driven by her brother Edgar Combs struck a wall in dense fog. Edgar Combs suffered a fractured skull in Cumberland.
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Cumberland
Nelie Combs
Buchanan
W. Va
Edgar
Bitter strife between Arabs and Jews continues Today
British forces rushed about 1,600 men from Egypt to bolster the 10,000 troops already in Palestine as rioting and bombings raised casualties to 317 dead and 147 injured in two days. In China the Hankow campaign stalled as guerrillas harassed Nippon, while Franco's insurgents advanced toward Valencia.
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Associated Press
Palestine
Orient
Spain
Jerusalem
Egypt
China
Japan
Hankow
Yangtze River
Nippon
Shansi
Francisco Franco
Valencia
New York Writer Sidney Snow Weds Florence Grehe
Arthur H. Deute known as Sidney Snow of The News food page married Florence Grehe of San Francisco in Frederick on Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Dr. Benjamin W. Meeks officiated at Calvary Methodist Episcopal parsonage. The couple left for Pocono Manor on a wedding trip and will reside in Baltimore at Garden apartments.
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Arthur H. Deute
New York
Sidney Snow
Frederick
Florence Grehe
San Francisco
Cal
Benjamin W. Meeks
Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church
Deale
East Thirty-seventh Street
Panama Canal
Pocono Manor
Canada
Garden Apartments
Baltimore
Chicken Farm Fire Causes 4500 Loss near Westminster
A blaze destroyed two buildings and equipment at Miss Lillien Shipley’s chicken farm near Westminster. Arthur Cook saved several hundred chickens from the fire sparked by a brush blaze. Shipley said insurers covered the $4500 damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Lillien Shipley
Arthur Cook
Miss Shipley
State Policeman Joins U.S. Secret Service
Baltimore July 8 AP The Maryland Police Department lost another officer to the United States Secret Service when H. F. Anderson, among the few college men on the force, resigned to take a federal post. Another officer was named a Secret Service man last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Maryland Police Department
United States Secret Service
H. F. Anderson
Secret Service
Beall Named Acting State Roads Chairman
Governor Nice announced Glenn Beall of Allegany County will serve as acting chairman of the State Roads Commission, effective July 15 following the resignation of Dr Homer E Tabier. The move comes as part of the governor’s reshuffling of transportation leadership.
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Baltimore
Harry W. Nice
Glenn Beall
Allegany County
Thetate Roads Commission
Homer E. Tabier
Bethesda Selected for New Naval Hospital Site
Aboard the presidential train headed to Marietta, Ohio, July 8 AP reports White House officials say President Roosevelt has approved Bethesda as the site for the new 5,000,090 dollar Washington naval hospital. The announcement caps weeks of discussions over where the facility will be built to serve Navy personnel and dependents in the capital region.
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Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Roosevelt
Marietta
Ohio
White House
Washington Naval Hospital
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West
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E Lester Muller
Him
New York News
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Mary King
Ireland
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Wales
Culler
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News
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John Doe
Sergi
Vanderbilt
West Virginia
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U. S
Beall
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