Merrill Lambie End Ocean Flight From England to New York
Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie completed a 3,500 mile Atlantic crossing in roughly 24 hours in a twin engine plane. They landed at Squantum near Boston after a brief layover, then continued to New York Floyd Bennett Field despite head winds and low ceilings. The voyage followed a prior return trip with Harry Richoian, achieving 23 hours 17 minutes.
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New York
Atlantic
Dick Merrill
Duck Lambeset
Floyd Bentec
Piet
Rip
Tramsport
Waite
Waite Girely
Silver Toborganes
Southport
Harry Richoian
Merrill
Newfoundland
Boston
London
Jack Lambie
Naval Air Base
Squantum
Turday
Lambie
Floyd Bennett Field
England
Newark
COURT NEWS AND MARRIAGE LICENSE LISTINGS
Court news lists 1202 marriage licenses with names ages and hometowns including Lewis H Shellenberger 21 Dillsburg Pa and Dorothy Crook 18 East Berlin Pa. Also notes deeds transfers involving Werking Gran denburg Hargett Foland Brown and others with small sums, plus a shooting incident in Clarksburg and the death of John Burke in Rochester.
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Lewis Henry Shellenberger
Dilsburg
Dorothy Crook
East Berlin
Ernest W. Hoffman
Bessie J.a Kephart
Boonshiro
Tony
Anna Margaret Werking Grandenburg
Karley Hargett
Irving S. Biser
Austin P. Foland
Roger R. Rice
Marshall Staub
Thurmont’ Bank
Karl M. Brown
County
Henry E. Stauffer
Albert S. Bitser
Duke of Windsor Ranks Fourth in British Precedence
London reports the Duke of Windsor now holds the fourth rank among English gentlemen, clearing the path for Wallis Warfield to be styled her royal highness when she wed the former king. She would then be the eighth lady of the realm, after the royal family and five queens and princesses.
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London
Duke of Windsor
England
Wallis Warfield
Gloucester
Kent
Order of the Garter
St. George’s Chapel
Winsor
George VI
Duke of Gloucester
Duke of Kent
Man Held for Passing Bad Checks Across States
Walter Newton, about 45, formerly of this city, was arrested in Hagerstown Thursday while wanted on charges of passing bad checks and obtaining money under false pretenses. He admitted taking funds from several individuals, left Frederick over a year ago after grand jury indictments, and traveled through North Carolina Virginia West Virginia and Pennsylvania before being captured. He was turned over to Sheriff Roy Hiltner for trial and jailed in Frederick. Newton has a wife and family here and has prior prison terms in Pennsylvania.
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Walter Newton
Hagerstown
Roy SB. Wiltner
Frederick
Noewton
Newton
Grand Jury
Rockville
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Winchester
York
Hiltner
Parkway School Program Honors Horace Mann at Assembly
Parkway pupils celebrated Horace Mann with an all grade program. Activities included acrostics, songs, readings, and dances honoring the founder of public schools. A portion of the program will be repeated at the Parkway PTA meeting Tuesday evening. The note of fruit consumption in England lists per capita apples 32.5 pounds oranges 24 pounds bananas 12.
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Parkway
Horace Mann
Parkway School
Anna Mae Price
Mr. Prushour
Philip Mandley
Aliss Fogle
Worace Mann
Miss Willet
Kitty Ciove
Joseph Baker
Miss Potts
Parkway PT. A
England
Tornado Damages Farms Near Walkersville Area
A tornado struck the Walkersville Hansonville and Ceresville area Thursday causing extensive damage to farm buildings. Guy E Buckey's barn near Walkersville suffered heavy loss estimated 600 to 700 dollars. Roofs of other structures were ripped, a silo blown down, and several trees uprooted. Rainfall totals reached 1.01 inches over Thursday and Friday with a shift to warmer weather expected by Sunday.
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Walkersville
Hansonville- Ceresville
Guy E. Buckey
Walter Hahn
Derr
Ray Wisner
Walter Culler
Sam
Weather Bureau
May
Mercury
City Primaries Set Delegates For May 25 Convention
Four precinct primary chairmen of the Democratic party were empowered Friday night by resolutions to name 80 delegates to the city convention to be held in the Courthouse on Tuesday May 25 at 8 o clock. The resolutions were endorsed at four precinct primaries held in various parts of the city. Chairmen were elected for precincts 1 3 2 4 5 7 and 6 8 with secretaries named. The chairmen would appoint ten delegates from each precinct and ten members of a new city executive committee from each precinct. The convention will select candidates for the Board of Aldermen as seven seek five places. A local resident reportedly to be an Independent mayoral candidate appeared before Justice Schnaufer with affidavit supporters to petition signatures.
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Edward J. Smith
Ehairman
Mary §. Maulsby
Peoples
Alvin M. Boost
Hoy M. Hultner
City Hall
Alton Y ¥. Bennett
Charlies Herbert
Robert W. Leichert
Sherman P. Bowers
Weil Bros
Ner Iines
Board of Aldermen
Its
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Philin FE. Grove
Banka
No compromise on court bill threatens vote
Washington reports President Roosevelt bans compromise on his court reorganization bill as Senate leaders weigh a close vote. He demands at least 1.5 billion for relief and signals new regional TVA plans and possible labor legislation while Congress debates non relief cuts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Regi
Robinson
House
Congress
Cotogress
TVA
Refre
Gulf of Mexico
Garner
Dankhead
Rep
Rayburn
Senate
Cheering Steel Workers Return to Jones and Laughlin Mills
Thousands of cheering steel workers paraded back to the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation mills in Pittsburgh today, ending the greatest walkout in eighteen years. A tentative peace agreement was reached between Philip Murray and HH. E. in the steel center.
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Pittsburgh
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Philip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Strike settlement resumes output in Pittsburgh plants
Lewis, chairman of the corporation's board, announced immediate resumption of operations at strike affected plants in Pittsburgh and Aliquippa. The agreement returned 27,000 workers to their jobs without discrimination and cleared the way for an election to determine the union's representation.
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Lewis
Pittsburgh
Aliquippa
Strike Settlement Reached for 5800 Pittsburgh Steel Workers
Regional Director Clinton Golden of the Steel Workers organization met with executives of the Pittsburgh Steel Company late today and announced that a strike involving 5,800 workers had been settled.
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Clinton $. Golden
Tives
Pittsburgh Steel Company
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Court. News
Tand
John Harkey
Clarksburg
Way Star
Lawrence Moore
Alin Crtered
Mackey
Stanley W. Barber
Gaithersburg
Moore
Montgomery
John Burke
Rochester
Minn
United States
North Dakota
North Dakota Supreme Court
Duchess of Windsor
Padonce and Laughlin
Minac
Thawe and Steel
Pittsburgh & E
Alliated Steel Workers Organizing
Wanshingten
Reyburn
Texas
Texan
Paul Delphey
West Matrick St
Basehoar
Cecline & Son
Coe
Carty’s
Bigelow
Sanford Armstrong Congoleum
East Patrick St
A. B.C
Hendrickson's
Batiste
Piquet
Hendrickson
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