Arnold Named Army Air Corps Chief in Roosevelt Move
President Roosevelt appointed Brig-Gen Henry H Arnold to chief of the Army Air Corps with a new rank of major general after Major General Oscar Westover was killed in a crash near Burbank. The move also promotes several generals and brigadiers as part of a broader reshuffle, to be confirmed by the Senate.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Corps
Arnold
Oscar Westover
Burbank
Senate
Col
Walter K Kilmer
General Headquarters Air Force
Langley Field
German soprano Lehmann seeks American citizenship
Metropolitan Opera star Lotte Lehmann announces she will take out papers for American citizenship to forget Europe. English actress Muriel Angelus arrives in New York to star in a musical described as a modern version of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors titled The Boys From Syracuse.
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Mme
Lotte Lehmann
Metropolitan Opera
Muriel Angelus
New York
Syracuse
Miss America 1937 Evelyn Townley to visit Braddock Heights skating rink
Miss Townley a 20 year old from Columbus and former Miss Ohio will perform acrobatic dancing at Braddock Heights on Sunday afternoon and night. She tours the east with vaudeville star Johnny Wakes the one man band and has appeared on radio and in films with Fifi D Orsay Rudy Vallee and Jack Benny.
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Mauss
Evelyn Townley
Columbus
Ohio
Bernarr ‘McFadden
Braddock Heights
O. W. Rosenberry
Miss Townley
Fifi d'Orsay
Rudy Vallee
Jack Benny
Hagerstown
Johnny Wakes
Wakes
Columbus, O
Johnny Wages
Washington housewives owe debt to woman economist
Washington report profiles Dr Hazel K Strebling senior economist at the Bureau of Home Economics. She analyzes the nation’s market basket, devising four diets at different nutritive levels to guide food purchases and farm production, informing policy and household budgeting nationwide.
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Gerry Dick
NEA
Washington
United States Bureau of Home Economics
Hazel K Strebling
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Home Economics
Stiebling
Bureau of Home Economics and
Burea of
Labor Statistics
National Resources Committee
Tiebling
WFBR seeks right to set up local booster station
Local citizens and WFBR Baltimore representatives urged the FCC to license an experimental WFBR satellite station in Frederick. The booster would operate from the Keys Hotel with no local studio, transmitting from a duraluminum mast to improve reception. WFMD opposed the application.
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WFBR
Frederick
Federal Communications Commission
WFR
Baltimore
Commission
Fredenck
Francis Scott Keys
Staton
Washington
Roger B. Wolfe
Chamber of Commerce
Sam W. Maples
Robert L. Warfield
Robert L. Smith
Robert L. Shipley
John A. Shires
WFMD
A. V. Tidmore
Political Comeback Hopes Rest on Glamour and Renewal
They express dissatisfaction with current conditions and emphasize storing resources for future campaigns. The speakers insist on future returns, driven by the lure of glamour and spectacle, signaling ongoing political ambitions despite present setbacks.
Roosevelt Names Sunday Day To Fay For Peace
President Roosevelt called for a day of prayer for world peace to be observed next Sunday inviting the nation to join him and the Roosevelts in the observance as Munich talks continued and a Czech plan to refer the Sudeten question to Roosevelt was noted with cautious response.
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Roosevelt
Washington
White House
Canal
Munich
Stephen T. Early
Wickham The Guess Package At Social Meet
A Wickham event concluded with a prize won by Mr Wickham. Mrs Earl Bowers organized a short program featuring soloists Yvonne Gerrich and Ruth Smith, a duet by Gerrich and Dorsey, and a reading by Skip Benson. Thirty three members and guests attended. a Halloween social at Mrs Arthur Jones’s home is planned.
State Roads bids sought for Frederick projects F-341-550 F-342-550
Maryland State Roads Commission invites sealed proposals for two highway jobs in Frederick County. Bids due October 11 1938, with plans and specs available for $1 00 per project. Labor rates posted for unskilled 35 cents hour, intermediate 45 cents, skilled 56 cents, plus bonding and subletting provisions.
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Frederick County
Buffalo Road
Mt Airy
Ing
West Falls
Annapolis
Lebertytown
New London
Maryland State Employment Service
Winchester Hall
Frederick
State Roads Commission
Federal Reserve Bank
Calvert and
Lexington Sts
Baltimore
Maryland
Commission
State Roads Commission of Maryland
General Assembly of Maryland
Libertytown
Woodsboro
Winchester Hal
Calvert and Lexington Sts
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Gen. Westover
William H. Wilson
First Coast Artillery District
Boston
Robert McC. Beck
War Department General Staff
Edmund L. Daley
New York City
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Third Cavalry
Fort Myer
Adnan Chaffee
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Daniell. Sultan
Second Engineers
Fort Logan
Maxwell Murray
Fort Sll
Okla
William E. Shedd, Jr
Second Coast Artillery Regiment
Fort Monroe
Greenland
Westernmor Alaska
Women In the News
Lillian Gish
Tec Heddy Stennf
Stiebding
Henry A Wallace
Dr. Stiebling
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Northcourt St. Frederick, Md
Seiberling
Melvin M. Engle
Markell & Ford
Bulova
McCleery’s Jewelry Store
North Market St
NEA Service, Inc
Thomas Westheestrip
Ehoro
Calvary
Church School
Pauline Koontz
Arthur Jones
Edith
Dickson & Eddy Coal Corp
Pennsylvania
F. H. A. Pymt
13Th St
Frederick, Md
Albert C. Palmer
Fred. Co
C.E. Cline & Son
Uneral Home
Farmers & Mechanics National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Washington and
Counties
Stegmaier’s
Alex J. Mandl
The
E, Franklin Street
Department OF Public Works
State OF Maryland State Roads Commission
J Glenn Beall
L HL Steuart
J. Glenn Beall
J. HW. Steuart
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