Fatal accidents cut 80 percent in county
A county report shows an 8 percent decline in fatal automobile crashes in the first three months of the year versus 1936. No auto deaths this year versus ten in the same period last year. pedestrians also suffered far fewer fatalities with five of ten deaths in 1937 being pedestrians, while none have died so far this year. Local police attribute reductions to speed control efforts and general caution, noting two fatalities in January and a notable absence of pedestrian deaths thus far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer F. Munshower
William Milansen
Detreit
Frederick Junction
Cecelia Malloy
Emmitsburg
Mt. St Mary’s College
Willie F. Cartee
Frederick
Washington Pike
Kathleen A. Nivens
Washington
South Mountain
Loun
Kemptown
Bottleneck Removal Planned by State Roads Commission
The State Roads Commission plans widening to remove a bottleneck on Defense Highway at Bladensburg to ease weekend traffic. Bids run to April 5. Repairs and alterations are set for two Carroll County bridges near New Windsor and Carrollton and for three Monocacy river bridges linking Frederick and Carroll counties. Paint will soon be applied to the new Point of Rocks bridge.
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Baltimore
Bladensburg
State Roads Commission
Carroll County
Sam’s Creek
New Windsor
North Branch
Patapsco
Carrollton
Monocaty River
Frederick
Carroll Counties
Harney
Four Points
Naylor
Point of Rocks
Answers to Cranium Crackers on Page Four
This page lists quiz answers with mixed sports and fishing terms. It notes 4Stream as a fish, golf teams bogey birdie and bunker, baseball shortstop, football positions fullback end tackle, swimming strokes, a sulky bug EX, and artificial flies like silver doctor royal coachman brown hackle. It also mentions Johnny Weissmuller as a swimming champion and baseball legends Joe DiMaggio Medwick Gehrig.
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Bunker
Johnny Weissmulter
Joe DiMaggio
Joe Medwick
Lou Gehrig
Glenn Beall Named To Roads Commission
Former Maryland State Senator Glenn Beall of Allegany County was named by Governor Harry W. Nice to fill the vacancy on the State Roads Commission caused by the death of C. Nice Wilkinson. Beall, longtime road builder and public servant, served in the Maryland Senate 1930 to 1934 and led Allegany County road efforts as chair of local road directors. He is married with three sons, a Republican, and active in the American Legion and Episcopal church. The position pays $5,000 yearly.
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Annapolis
Harry W. Nice
Glenn Beal
Frostburg
State Roads Commission
C. Nice Wilkinson
Cumberland
Beall
Maryland Senate
Allegany County
Allegany County To the Board of Local Road Directors
Senate Finance Committee
Beali
American Legion
Episcopal Church
Jury convicts driver of auto death in Maryland
A Howard county jury convicted Emil Hogback of manslaughter in the December 30 crash that killed Annabelle Manahan near Savage. Hogback, 34, a Baltimore carpenter, had admitted drinking before the accident and faces sentencing Wednesday. Manahan, formerly Annabelle Sickles of LeGare, left Thurmont two years ago and was survived by husband, father, and son. Immigration officials placed a detainer on Hogback, noting he is a Finnish native in the U S fourteen years without a passport.
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Howard County
Emil Hogback
Baltimore
Annabelle Manahan
Thurmont
Ellicott City
William HK. Forsythe, Jr
Manahan
Anabelle Sickles
LeGare
Hogback
Washington Boulevard
Savage
Washington
United States Immigration Service
S Fe
Finland
O Conor Refutes Withdrawal for Governor Bid
Baltimore March 28 Attorney General Herbert R O Conor said rumors that he would withdraw from the Democratic gubernatorial race in favor of Dr H C Byrd were unfounded He insisted he entered and would stay in the campaign for Governor and would not withdraw to team with Byrd He noted Byrd’s possible run with him on a ticket remains uncertain
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Baltimore
Herbert R. O'Conor
H. C Byrd
Dr. Byrd
University of Maryland
O'Conor
U.S
Schuschnigg Branded A Traitor By Hitler
Berlin March 28 Hitler proclaimed Anschluss as the greatest miracle in German history and denounced former Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg as traitor to the German cause. The article notes a Texas figure about average annual food damage over 50 years of about 2.2 million dollars.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Susiva
Germany
Kurt Schuschnigg
Texas
Fewer One-Teacher Schools Shrinking Across Maryland
State figures show a dramatic drop in one-teacher schools statewide from 1,171 in 1920 to 283 this year, with Frederick County down about 75 percent in ten years. Wicomico, Montgomery and Caroline lead in consolidation. Baltimore and Caroline now have none, while Washington and Garrett remain high.
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Frederick County
Hay
Albert S Cook
Board of Education
Witheare
Cook
Sehools
Maryland
Wicomico
Caroline
Montgomery
Baltimore
Anne Arundel
Calvert Counties
Washington
Garrett
Physicians Hear Mrs J J France Depositions Opened
Deposition records from physicians and psychiatrists who treated Mrs Joseph France will be opened tomorrow before Judge Owen Knott in Circuit Court Elkton Maryland to bolster her defense in the divorce case brought by Dr France. He alleges she deserted him in 1931 while he campaigned for the Republican nomination. The wife contends a mental illness kept her away. Chinese banks in Tientsin are sending funds to Japanese industrial projects in their area.
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Elkton
Joseph
France
Maryland
Owen Knott
Paris
U. S
Frances
Power Bill Passes Senate Broad Graft of Reform
Washington March 28 The Senate approved a bill giving Roosevelt power to overhaul the executive branch by 49 to 42. An attempt to rush the measure to the White House failed when Senator Clark of Missouri blocked the plan. Byrnes sought to substitute the Senate bill for the House bill creating a Federal Department of Welfare. Maryland’s Radcliffe voted for the bill while Tydings opposed it, and Byrd and Glass were mentioned amid division among Maryland and other speakers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
White’ House
Clark
Missouri
House of Representatives
Byrnes
South Carolina
House
Department of Welfare
Maryland
Radcliffe
Tydings
Byrd
Glass
Hungary's Offer To Pay Principal Sent To Senate
Hungary's offer to compromise postwar debt to the United States goes to the Senate. Reaction is mixed with sympathy and wariness as some Senators fear it may set a precedent for other nations. The offer would extinguish 100 percent of the principal of 1 685 835 with no interest, sent by President Roosevelt for careful consideration. Also, St Johns parish pledges to boycott salacious magazines in a campaign urged by Fr Donlan amid Archdiocese actions against indecent publications.
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Washington
Hungary
United States
Senate
Roosevelt
St. John’s Catholic
J. J. Donlan
Archdioces
M. J. Curley
Virginia Votes Against Reorganization Bill
The brief notes Virginia also opposed the measure that would grant the President power to reorganize most federal agencies create a net welfare department appoint six administrative assistants to the President replace the Civil Service Commission with a single administrator transfer duties of the Comptroller-General to the budget director and create a new auditor general.
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Virginia
Civil Service Commission
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Glenn Beall
Roads Commission
May F. Kohn
Hood College
New York City
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Hitler
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North China
Cne
Peter Levine
New Rochelle
Edward John Penn
Pelham High School
Werner Fred Guex
Bill
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