Stillville Plant Rebuilding Reported By Potomac Edison
Reconstruction at the Stillville West Virginia hydro plant destroyed by fire is underway and a 1000 KW unit from 1937 is back in service. Potomac Edison directors in Key Hotel session note progress on the 30000 KW Cumberland unit, rising rural electrification, and an 8 percent nine month revenue drop offset by cost cuts.
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Stillville
W. Va
Aydro
Potomac Edison Company
Francis Scott Key
Smith
Cumberland
Sanderson & Porter
State Roads Commission
Fonkstown
Myersville
Hagerstown-Frederick
Blue Ridge Transportation Company
Frederick
Alexander Armstrong
Baltimore
J. David Baile
Medford
G. Mantz Besant
Morris A Birely
Thurmont
Emory L. Coblentz
Leslie N. Coblentz
R. E. Delaplaine
W. S. Finlay
New York
Robert G. Foltz
Hagerstown
Abraham Hemp
Jefferson
Henry Holzapfel
William C. Maugans
M. P. Moller
W. Clinton
Canton Defense Digging Trenches Canton In Last Stand
Oct 20 Canton defenders hastily dig trenches and raise barricades as Japanese forces inch toward the South China metropolis. About 100000 residents remain with non combatants departed. French Shaheen forces fortify Insular Settlement while authorities cancel evacuation plans. Japanese column reportedly near Tsungfa, facing Kwantung troops in a back door maneuver.
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Hongkong
Canton
South China
Shameen
Kwangtung
Tsungfa
Local names listed for the city stakes and officials
Sherry, Guy K Motter, Richard P Ross, R Paul Smith, and others tied to Hagerstown and Mt Airy figures appear in a clipped roster. The fragment names multiple individuals including Robert L Smith Grayson H Staley Asa H Watkins Charles Wertheimer Walter D Willson David C Winebrenner and indicates city affiliations.
Postal Clerk Given Suspended Sentence
F Guy Riordan a Laytonsville postal clerk in Montgomery County pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzlement and improper issuance of money orders totaling about 1100. He received a two year suspended sentence from Judge William C. Coleman in Baltimore with probation after restitution and a note that irregularities involved accounts rather than mail interference.
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Guy Riordan
Laytonsville
Montgomery County
William C. Coleman
United States District Court
Baltimore
Coleman
Post Office Department
Riordan
Canton
Tsungfa
Canton-Hankow
Daylight Robbery At Waldorf Astoria Jewelry Shop
In New York on October 20 two polite gunmen staged a daylight holdup just off the Waldorf Astoria lobby and escaped with 10 000 dollars in jewels after binding three men. They overlooked 150 000 dollars in an open safe. The owner and two clerks were tied and gagged.
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New York
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Indicted in WPA conspiracy case in New Mexico
Federal Grand jury indicted 2 persons for conspiracy to violate WPA laws in New Mexico. Stanley W P Miller, assistant U S district attorney, and many political figures among those named. Eleven other indictments charged political discrimination against WPA labor and misuse of WPA funds. Judge Colin Neblett ordered arrest and bond for Tuesday morning as part of sweeping state action.
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Albuquerque
N. ML
Wday
WPA
New Bréxico
Stanley W. P. Miller
U. S
WFA
Colin Neblett
Mieming *O
New Mexico
Answers to Cranium Crackers from Page Four
The piece notes the full names Sir William Schwenck Gilbert and Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan. It explains a libretto writer as the man who writes words for a musical. It identifies Penzance as a seaport town in Cornwall, England.
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William Schwenck Gilbert
Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Penzance
Cornwall
England
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Millville
Progress
Potomac Edison
Wwe
Zolzifzzfosy
Canton Defense
1. S
H. L. Mills
East
Patrick St
Colson
Uidersold
Mount's
Park Ave
High School
Hendrickson
Waldorf
Astoria
RAYON
Coats
The
Paris
Sya
New Mexi
Miller
Dennis Chavez
Anita Tafoya
Salamon Chavez
Salamon Tafoya
J. A. Werner
Mariano Werner
Fred G Healy
Joe Martinez
Chavez
Richard Duran
Department of Internal Revenue
James H. Falk
Frederick, Md
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