Wheat loan program eyed for farmers amid market hopes
Reports from Washington indicate price supporting loans for 1935 wheat at flat four percent interest, with seven month terms for farm storage and a May 31 1939 expiry if stored on farm. Officials warn against feeding artificial domestic prices, foresee subsidies and export aid, while farmers await official announcements and bulletin details.
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Henry BR. Lafemaker
Department of Agriculture
Athourgh
Marsland
Washington
Henry A., Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Tne
Wallace
AAA
Commodus Credit Corporation
Reconstriction Finance Corporation
RFC
Commodity Credit Corporation
Sineadial
Three Prisoners Flee Maryland Corrections and Jail
Baltimore reports Frank Henson, colored, escaped House of Correction by sawing window bars while on break. He is a 38 year old, 5 foot 8 inch, 137 pound inmate serving two years reduced to 18 months for burglary and assault. Also two prisoners escaped Washington County Jail, Kuhn and Hoffman, aided by a spoon key. one tied to a Williamsport burglary. A coroner and sheriff investigated a death at Springfield State Hospital.
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Baltimore
Frank Henson
House of Correction
Henson
Walter E Quenstedt
Pulce
Sykesville
Stautes Atlorne
George N Fringer
Saviman E. Flanagan
Sheri John A Shipley
Westminster
Springfield
Holmink
Willard B Ricider
Virginia Beyer
Westerners as Supreme Court candidates gain attention
Washington July 15 In candid speculation over a Cardozo successor a group of Western lawyers and jurists emerge as possible picks. Names include Bratton Hutcheson Denman Haney Stephens Miller and others linked to Western states and federal benches.
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Washington
Missouri River
Supreme Court
Cardozo
Alva Adams
Colorado
Roosevelt
West AQ
East
Butler
Minnesota
Fiughes
Justice Stone
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
American Legion
Bratton
Thurman Arnold
Product
Wyoming
Sam G Bratton
New Mexico
Tenth Federal Circuit Court
Joseph C Hutcheson
Houston
Texas
Fifth Circuit Court
Morris Sheppard
Wiliam Denman
San Francisco
Ninth Federal Circuit Court
Maryland Roads Board Policy Unchanged
Gea Chatman of the State Roads Commission indicated Friday that there were no changes in mind for administering the road system. He discussed cost sharing with counties, the gasoline tax funding plan, and noted a possible 45 percent grant from the Public Works Administration to a thirty million dollar program.
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Ie Gea Chatman
State Reads Commission
Frithat
Mi Beau
Atezeny
Homer E Tabler
Ion
Comanasion
Tabler
Carroll County
Pheyo
Mi Qhoe
Woodbine
Winfield
State Roads Commission
Beall
Public Works Administration
Chesapeake Bay
Baltimore
Garrett County
Frederick
Hagerstown
Judge Forgives Old Ball Playing Pal Cniesgo
Judge Joseph McGarry forgives longtime friend John O Connor after a 24 year old baseball incident. O Connor faced a minor charge but the court dismissed the recharge as the judge quipped about the past pitched ball memory.
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Cniesgo
Joseph & McGarry
John O'Connor
Deane
John
Southern Maryland Fairs Association Faces Tax Payment Demand
The Southern Maryland Agricultural Fairs Association told the Board of Tax Appeals that the Internal Revenue Bureau reversed a ruling exempting it from income taxes and seeks $32,055 in taxes and penalties for the past fourteen years. The bureau reportedly ruled in 1924 that the association need not pay income taxes.
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Washington
Southern Maryland Agricultural Fairs Association
Board of Tax Appeals
Internal Revenue Bureau
Bureau
Answers to Cranium Crackers on Page Four
Reader quiz key lists statements with True or False judgments. The page notes “This was written by AM Massenet” and includes brief items such as Frange abolishing Devil’s Island prison, definitions like tort as a legal term, and a mention of a retort as a piece of laboratory equipment.
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Frange
Devil's Island Prison
Ammassenet
Jerusalem Bomb Blast Kills Six and Wounds Forty
A July 15 explosion in a Arab bazaar on David Street in Old Jerusalem killed six Arabs and wounded forty, triggering clashes as British troops and police moved in. Police closed gates of the Old City and hospitals rushed aid as further unrest spread to Sefed. A timed bomb near Hadassan Hospital was found two hours before detonation and a larger cache of arms and explosives was discovered near the Mosque of Omar during raids.
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Jerusalem
David
Holy Land
Old City
Pard
Sefed
Hadassan Hospital
Omar
Lobbyist Blacklisted by PWA as California towns paid him
Administrator Harold L. Ickes blacklisted Glenn E. Miller, a Hollywood and Washington lobbyist, noting California towns paid $3,900 to speed PWA applications from Wasco, Newport Beach, and Riverside. He ordered Wasco’s $900 payment deducted and suspended Riverside’s grant, saying no town needs a lobbyist for PWA money and directing staff to route Miller to his office.
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Glenn E. Miller
Hollywood
PWA
California
Ickes
Wasco
Newport Beach
Riverside
Miller
Rogers Sentenced for Fraud Referencing O. Henry
In Philadelphia on July 15 George M. Rogers aged 69 received one to two years in prison for fraud. Judge Crumish noted Rogers long police record dating to 1914 and urged him to read O. Henry stories during his sentence. The court referenced beech family trees as a tangential note.
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O. Henry
Philadelphia
George M. Rogers
Crumlish
QC. Henry
Rogers
Flight success credit is given in New York report
The article notes the California flyer, famed as a world traveler, finally issued a statement crediting others for heroism while deflecting praise from himself and his crew. After rest, he accepted public acclaim yet remained unclear on its meaning and praised the engineers behind the American flying machine.
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New York
California
White Plans Broad Inquiry Into Radio Broadcasting
Senator Wallace H. White Jr of Maine said he would ask Congress in 1939 to authorize a wide investigation into radio broadcasting. He seeks examine government ownership and operation of nongovernment stations, licensing of superpower stations, and whether Congress should address rate policies and practices of broadcasting companies.
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Washington
Wallace H. White, Jr
Maine
Congress
Can Broadcasting
P of Dread
Humble Hughes Emphasizes Independence in Interview
At a press interview the aviator speaks as a wary student, insisting he wrote his own answers and feared nerves might betray him. When asked about a Houston home or a new speed flight, he dismisses both as undefined and laughs off the notion of immediate plans.
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Houston
Hughes
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Prise Joners
Leon Kuhn
Carllete
Fal
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Hancock, Md
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iCounty
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Kuhn
Baker
Williamsport
Hoff
Hails
Howard Haghes
Black Arrow
Broadway
Westerner
Missouri
Brattin
MD. Roads Board
Beal
Commission
Fair Assn. Fighting Income
Delphey’s
West Patrick St
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral
Wome
Amllionaire
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Carty
C.C. Carty, Inc
Phon
Patrick St
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Legant
Hendrickson
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