Man Sleeping In Tow Path Dies In Mysterious Crash
A truck struck Jack White of Martinsburg as he slept along the tow path near Brunswick in the Jungles. White suffered a fractured pelvis and tibs with possible internal injuries. Andrew Pare, also from Martinsburg, was not admitted. Albert Anderson, who drove the truck, continued home. no charges filed yet as investigators review the case.
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Wenner
Brunswick
Anderson
Richard Anderson
White
Pare
William H. Campbell
Schnauffer Hospital
Sherman P. Bowers
Denver Shook
Justice Campbell
Banquet Night at Baltimore Conference Summer School
Banquet Night will be featured this evening at Hood College during the Baltimore Conference Summer School of Religious Education. Honor guests include Dr. and Mrs. Henry Stahr Dr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Apple and Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin W. Meeks. Sessions today cover church membership class planning an elementary seminar and music appreciation. Rev. Poole led the vesper service and discussed vision ahead of Saturday assembly to close the week.
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Baltimore
Hood College
Henry Stahr
Joseph H. Apple
Benjamin W. Meeks
Frederick G. Poole
Detroit
Michigan
Mr. Poole
Evangelical Lutheran Church School
Clarence E. Krumbholz
United Lutheran Church
Baker Park
Maryland
L. Ralph Tabor
Third Lutheran Church
Middletown
Messiah Lutheran Church
Tn Brodbeck Hall
Hood
J. B. Baker
St Matthew's Church
York
Ruth Paris
Baltimore Lutheran Deaconess
Fred R. Leibel Jr
Walkersville
Three Held Revolver Hunted In Murder Case
Prince Frederick July 14 AP Marland officers seized two young married women and a man charged with killing William Warren Gantt and began a search for the revolver used in the farmer's death.
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Prince Frederick
Marland
William Warren Gantt
Weather Report Precipitation and Temperatures Summary
Weather report notes 24 hour precipitation ending 7 am today. July drought deficit 2.58 inches to July 1. July total 1937 3.46 inches vs normal 4.02. Yesterday high 92, low last night 69. figures compare to year ago. Sun sets 7:38 pm, rises 4:55 am. moonrise 9:03 pm, moonset 7:51 am. Streams Monocacy clear, Potomac clear at Prunswich sides.
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Potomac
Virginia
Maryland
Prunswich
Selected Stocks Struggle In Thin Rally Day
New York July 14 AP selecting stocks grasped at rallying straws as power failed to rise. Trading started active then slowed with early gains erasing near the final hour while 1,000 to 2,500 share blocks moved and total volume about 1.2 million, well under the prior session. Steel wage issues cooled speculation and bonds and commodities offered few clues as markets stood still abroad.
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New York
Cases Tried Before Brunswick Magistrate
At a hearing before Justice William H. Campbell in Brunswick Tuesday Benjamin Franklin of the Jefferson vicinity was fined $5 and costs for assault and battery in Petersville on John White of the same area. Haywood Longerbeam Brunt-Wick was found guilty and given a suspended four month sentence in the House of Correction for stealing a boat belonging to Ralph Bush of Harpers Ferry. The sentence was suspended provided Longerbeam returns the boat. He was reprimanded and warned that if he appears before Campbell again on any charge the term would take effect. Both arrests were by Deputy Sheriff John W. Liord.
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William H. Campbell
Brunswick
Benjamin Franklin
Jefferson Vicinity
Petersville
John White
Haywood
Campbell
Jonn W. Liord
Love makes speeding fiancee rush to court
Kath leen Mary House of Wolseley Road Crouch End was fined for exceeding the speed limit while driving to reach her fiancé who had just become engaged. She told the court her haste stemmed from her excitement and effort to reunite with him before he returned to work.
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London
Kathleen Mary House
Wolseley Road
Crouch End
Miss House
State to take two golf holes in Hagerstown road project
The Maryland State Roads Commission announced it would condemn two holes of a Hagerstown golf course for the Frederick Hagerstown road relocation. The project will divide the course but eliminate only two holes. Condemnation comes after price talks failed. Negotiations with Potomac Edison over trolley rights of way continue, with plans to substitute bus service and reach a flat price.
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State Roads Commission
Hagerstown
Frederick-Hagerstown
Potomac Edison Company
H. and F. Trolley
New Road
Church Workers Summer School Opens Saturday
Maryland Summer School for Church Workers of the United Lutheran church opens on Hood College campus with about two hundred expected attendees. Registration starts Saturday at 2 pm, followed by a motor caravan to High Knob for the 61st sunset service.
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Maryland
United Lutheran Church
Hood College
Amos J. Traver
Evangelical Lutheran Church
District of Columbia
High Knob
OConor Announces Montgomery Speaking Tour Itinerary
Attorney General Herbert R. OConor, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, unveiled a plan for a Montgomery county speaking tour. The itinerary covers 21 towns with 15 to 30 minute stops, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon and all day Saturday.
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Baltimore
Herbert R. O’coneft
Montgomery County
Japan abandons 1940 Olympics plans amid China war
The Japanese government announces it will not host the 1940 Olympic Games citing the China war, with funds and materials lacking. England and Finland discussed as possible successors. Across Asia and Europe, fighting continues with casualties and strategic shifts as Japan withdraws troops for guerrilla battles.
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Associated Press
China
Orient
Spain
Palestine
Japan
England
Finland
Hankow
Canton
Teruel
Valencia
Weather favorable to plant growth in Maryland
Synopsis of weekly conditions reports a dry warm sunshiny week with several hot days on 8 10 and 11. Mean temperature 5 degrees above normal and sunshine about 20 percent above normal. Crops mostly good with pastures fair to good. some southern Maryland districts poor. Threshing and harvesting activities active across counties. oats nearing end in some areas. potatoes and corn progressing. early peas and berry crops ripening. season slightly ahead of normal.
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Maryland
John R. Weeks
Washington County
Allegany County
Garrett County
Washington
Allegany
Allegheny Mountain
Strike On At Navy's Model Testing Plant
A strike at the Navy's new 3.5 million dollar model testing plant at Carderock Mid complicates plans to expand the Navy. Officials had hoped to have the plant in operation to test models of new battleships.
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Washington
Carderock
Mid
Seadlund Dies for Kidnapping in Cook County
John Henry Seadlund a 27 year old lumberjack and confessed kidnapper of Charles Ross and killer of an associate was electrocuted at 12 08 am in the Cook County jail. He walked into the execution chamber without help and said he could go alone.
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Chicago
John Henry Seadlund
Charles 5. Ross
Cook County
Seadlund
Three Highways Favored By Beall
Baltimore July 14 AP J Glenn Beall new chairman of the State Roads Commission says he favors three new highways in Maryland One would run south from Elkton along the Eastern Shore with a four lane branch Salisbury to Ocean City Another would follow Route 40 to Garrett County and the third would bypass Baltimore and end at Point Lookout in southern Maryland
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J. Glenn Beall
State Roads Commission
Elkton
Salisbury
Ocean City
Garrett County
Governor Nice
Point Lookout
Maryland
Maryland Potatoes To Aid Relief Effort
Representative T. Alan Goldsborough announced that the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation will immediately purchase at least 100 carloads of potatoes from eastern growers for persons on relief across Maryland.
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Washington
T. Alan Goldsborough
Maryland
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Former Mayor Preston of Baltimore Dies at 78
Baltimore July 14 AP James Preston former mayor from 1911 to 1919 died at his home aged 78. IN INFANTRY RESERVE Washington July 14 AP War Department announced John Joseph Lavin of Westminster accepted an appointment as a second lieutenant in the Infantry Reserve.
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James Preston
Infantry
Washington
War Department
John Joseph Lavin
Westminster
Infantry Reserve
Four on trial for murder in Cambridge robbery slaying
Cambridge on July 14 AP reports three men and a woman went on trial for the murder of Elwood Murphy a 38 year old handyman during a robbery that yielded between 1.50 and 2.00 Charles Lyons 57 of Finchville confessed to the killing and faces first degree murder charges while insisting insanity The indictment names Charles Colbourn Dorchester county constable Floyd Lankford owner of a Finchville saloon and Ida Ferdue as accessories The alleged confession quotes Lyons saying Lankford and Colbourn gave Murphy liquor and that a struggle over money led to the fatal blow
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Cambridge
Elwood Murphy
Charles Lyons
Finchville
J. Gorman Hill
Lyons
Charles Colbourn
Dorchester County
Floyd Lankford
Ida Ferdue
Hill
Murphy
Wallace Announces Wheat Loan Rates in 1938 Policy
Secretary Wallace said the government will lend on 1938 grown wheat at rates from 59 to 60 cents per bushel for producers who hold grain for higher prices. Maryland No. 2 Red Winter quoted at 70 cents.
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Washington
Wallace
Maryland
Body Of Young Woman Found At Wimbledon
In Wimbledon England a pretty young woman dressed smartly was found dead in a bloody scene near the all England Tennis Club grounds. Police and medical examiners investigated the mysterious death in the famous sporting area.
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Wimbledon
England
all-England Tennis Club
Hughes completes record around world in under four days
Crowds greet Howard Hughes and four crew as their silver monoplane lands at Floyd Bennett Field on July 1. They clock an unofficial 91 hours 16 minutes for a world giro, beating the prior 7 day 18 hour 49 minute record and halving the old time. Security and crowds surge as Hughes emerges briefly from the craft.
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Wiley Post
Floyd Bennett
Howard Hughes
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Une
Tillionaire
Witey Fest
Niughes
Argonauts
Lindbergh
Thomas L. Thallow
Clock Records New Toll At County Courthouse
The courthouse clock struck 526 times in one day, setting a new record after a prior 498 strikes on April 21. The event was noted by AP from a July 14 report.
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