Soviet Polar Plane Bound for U. S. in 6000 Mile Flight
Soviet Arctic fliers led by Sigmund Levan headed from Moscow toward Barents Sea on a 6000 mile nonstop voyage aimed at San Francisco. They planned 6500 meter altitude to prevent wing ice and estimated arrival around 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time Monday. Continued on page 10.
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Associated Press
Moscow
San Francisco
Barnets Sea
North Pole
United States
Ur.s
Sigmund Levaneffsky
Barents Sea
White Sea
Sigmund Levan
League to review Italo Ethiop conflict again
Emperor Haile Selassie said he would accept League of Nations proposals to settle the quarrel with Italy. Britain’s Eden said the League Council will meet September 4 to examine the Italo Ethiopan dispute under a three point agreement for resumed arbitration. The council will decide further steps regardless of early outcomes.
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Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Geneva
Italy
Ethiopia
League of Nations Council
France
Great Britain
Anthony Eden
Britain
League of Nations Affairs
League Council
Eden
Hog cholera outbreak hits Frederick county farms
Frederick Md Aug 3 Authorities warn farmers to curb spread after hog cholera hits three sections with about 50 hogs dead in the outbreak. Local officials urge precautions and monitoring to prevent further losses.
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Frederick
Frederick County
Resettlement Plan Set for Beltsville Maryland
The Resettlement Administration announced a 2000 family suburban project for Beltsville Md to house 570 workers from the Beltsville Agricultural Experiment Station. A community project to attract more residents is planned with apartment houses and single and multi family dwellings to be built and paid for over twenty years.
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Washington
Beltsville
Resettlement Administration
Beltsville Agricultural Experiment Station
Fishing Report Shows Clear Potomac and Good Bass Catches
The Potomac river remains clear and in top fishing condition with several good bass catches reported in recent days. Conococheague Creek is clearing after a muddy week, signaling improving conditions for anglers.
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Potomac River
City seeks federal grant for northwest storm water drain
Mayor Wertz and City Engineer Greenawalt plan to apply in Baltimore next Tuesday for a 45 percent federal grant to fund a 140000 project relieving repeated floodings in Mitchell and McDowell avenues and nearby streets. The route spans West Washington to Central avenues and an alley west of Alexander Street, totaling about three quarters of a mile. The council views this and the northeast sewerage system as urgent priorities.
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I. M. Wertz
Samuel Greenawalt
Abel Wolman
Baltimore
Wolman
Maryland
Wertz
Mitchell and
McDowell Avenues
Greenawalt
West Washington Street
Salem Avenue
Church Street
Central Avenue
Alexander Street
U S Campaign Against Chiseling Home Owners
Washington reports HOLC investigators cite borrowers who evade repayment and threaten political consequences to avoid foreclosures. Up to July 31 foreclosures filed in 45 states and D C against 909 borrowers. 340 cited as deliberate delinquency. One case shows a 11 month delinquent $10,194.48 loan holder with substantial other assets relies on political ties to block foreclosure. Immediate action recommended.
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Washington
Home Owners Loan Corporation
HOLC
District of Columbia
Well Stocked With Motors
Chicago police say Ward Silver confessed to posing as a repairman or investigator to inspect refrigerator motors at apartment houses. He allegedly found faults and took motors to fix them, then seized 19 motors when his home was raided yesterday after a complaint that a motor didn’t return.
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Chicago
John Ryan
Ward Silver
Silver
Ryan
Senator Holt Under Knife in Baltimore
Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia underwent his first operation in Baltimore for a hernia contracted during a 27-state tour. He expressed support for the President's tax program and looked forward to his first real vacation in five years, despite his concerns over tax plan and Washington duties.
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Baltimore
Rush D. Holt
W Va
Washington
G O P Leader Takes Somerset County Roads Superintendent Post
Princess Anne Md Aug 3 Henry H Green Republican political leader of Marion Station and prominent farmer of the Quindocqua section will take over supervision of the Somerset county roads on Monday. Green succeeds Harold Cullen a Democrat and was named county roads superintendent by the State Roads Commission last week.
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Princess Anne
Henry H. Green
Marion Station
Quindocqua
Somerset
Green
Harold Cullen
State Roads Commission
Roosevelt to Attend Tri-states Elks Convention
President Roosevelt leads a guest list for the Maryland Delaware and District of Columbia Tri-states Association of Elks in Havre de Grace Maryland with Governor Buck of Delaware and Governor Nice also included.
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Havre DE Grace
Roosevelt
Maryland, Delaware and District of Columbia
Tri-states Association of Elks
C. Douglass Buck
Delaware
Harry W. Nice
Record Severe Earth Tremor in Calcutta
An earthquake of great intensity was recorded at 6 35 am today with epicenter estimated about 1436 miles from Calcutta.
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Calcutta
Rain Brings Relief Across County Weather Update
Rainfall in Chewsville measured 0.55 inch with temps sliding from 87 to 80 as showers lingered. Widespread showers and cooler air were noted across the region. Chicago experienced a thunderstorm with an inch of rain and the Midwest faced heat related deaths, while Montana saw snow and Texas records included mud storms and a 0.16 inch rainfall amount.
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Chewsville
D. Paul Oswald
Mercury
Mississippi Valley
Chicago
Montana
Amarillo
Tex
Driver Killed in Speedway Crash at Milford
A 26 year old driver died early today at Milford speedway in Pikesville Maryland when his speeding car lost control on a turn and crashed into a tree stump in the infield. The victim Joseph Marfield, an employee at a Baltimore auto plant, had recently bought the car for 60 dollars and was testing it. Witnesses said Marfield was thrown from the vehicle as it rolled into the field after impact.
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Pikesville
Milford Speedway
Joseph Marfield
Baltimore Automobile Assembly
Bensat
Witneses
Marfield
Governor Nice Sails for Weekend on Chesapeake Bay
Annapolis Md Aug 3 Governor Harry W Nice sailed for a weekend on the Chesapeake Bay aboard the state yacht Du Pont. He was accompanied by Mrs Nice and family and planned to return tomorrow evening.
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Annapolis
Harry W. Nice
Chesapeake Bay
Weekly Weather Outlook for Atlantic States
Weather outlook shows showers in the North and Middle Atlantic states around Wednesday and again late in the week. Temperatures remain moderately warm with a cooler spell Wednesday night or Thursday. The South Atlantic states expect generally fair, moderately warm conditions with local thundershowers in the mountains in the latter half of the week.
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North
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Mayors council seek route decision on Route 40
The Mayor and city officials travel to Baltimore Monday for a conference with the State Roads Commission to determine Route 40’s path through Hagerstown. They seek the commission’s position on using West Washington street rather than the bypass via City Park and understand the final decision rests with the local government.
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Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Hagerstown
I. M. ‘Wertz
Commission
West Washington Street
Wertz
Elkton Sign Removal Ordered for Marrying Ministers
Elkton Md August 3 Elkton passes a town ordinance requiring removal of large marriage information signs within town limits by Monday the 6th The two marrying ministers Rev Charles M Cope and Rev Edward Minor plan to take down their roadside boards while small signs attached to ministers homes may stay under local agreement Large signs outside town limits remain unaffected as state law moves to ban them was not enacted at the last session
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Elkton
Parsons
Gretna Green
William Cann
Elkton Taxi Company
Charles M. Cope
Edward Minor
Cann
Berman Wins No, Habeas Petition Denied in Maryland
The twenty ninth petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Louis Berman, serving life for murder, was dismissed by Judge Linwood L. Clark in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. Berman, who filed July 22, argued insanity pleas were not properly considered. The judge, after a July 26 hearing, issued a lengthy ruling dismissing the petition.
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Annapolis
Louis Berman
Maryland
Linwood L. Clark
Anne Arundel County
Berman
Clark
Bee sting leads to car crash and power outage
In York on August 3 a bee sting felled Miss Joan Kegler forcing her car into an electric pole. The pole toppled bringing down high tension lines. Passenger Hugh McInnes fell from the running board while rushing to help and was injured. The bee escaped.
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York
Joan Kegler
Teeth pullback sparks bemused rescue at streetcar incident
In Chicago on August 3 Mrs. Kate Thies, 70, was struck by a street car. Passengers and the motorman pulled her from under the vehicle. She brushed herself off and refused medical aid, asking where her false teeth were.
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Chicago
Kate Thies
Bauer's Wife May Face Ex-Suitor Meeting
Chicago August 3 Assistant State's Attorney Charles Dougherty sought a meeting between Mrs Louise Bauer and Mandeville Zenge, her childhood sweetheart, to help solve the pen knife mutilation and slaving of the young bride. Zenge, in custody, answered questions for a solid day while Mrs Bauer, in Cleveland for her husband's funeral, may return to face him.
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Chicago
Charles Dougherty
Louise Bauer
Mandeville Zenge
Walter J. Bauer
Zenge
William Bauer
Dougherty
Yester
Girl Burned Four Rescued In Eastport Fire
In Eastport Maryland a fire at a bungalow owned by Mrs. Patrick Mahoney, visiting aunt to Mabel Shackelford of Norfolk, kills Shackelford at age seven and leaves Mahoney, a Naval Academy sailor, burned but saving his wife and four children. Fire fought by Annapolis and Eastport units. cause unknown.
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Eastport
Mabel Shackelford
Norfolk
Patrick Mahoney
Mahoney
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Shackleford
J. R. Shackleford
Edward H. Kelly
Baltimore man leases Doub flour mill at Beaver Creek
Paul B. Anender of Baltimore has leased the Doub flour mill at Beaver Creek, took possession Thursday, and will operate a flour and feed business exchanging flour for wheat.
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Paul B. Anender
Baltimore
Beaver Creek
Circus Conti Opens Regular August Term Monday Morning
The regular August term of the Circus Conti will convene Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Court attachees anticipate a session of about a few hours as usual.
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Circus Conti
California mob lynches cop slayer at Dunsmuir
A masked mob of 25 to 50 seized C L Johnson from the Yerka county jail and hanged him from a pine tree south of Yerka for the slaying of Chief of Police F R Daw. Deputy Sheriff Joe Clark reported the mob kidnapped the lone on duty deputy, bound him, and held a bystander until the lynching.
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Yreka
Calif
C. L. Johnson
F. R. Daw
Dunsmuir
Johnson
Yerka
Reno, Ney
Klamath
Joe Clark
Yorks
Here
Fleming
Martin
Martin Lange
Joosé
Fatal saw accident in New Market injures woman
A circular saw mounted on a car rear wheel jammed and broke, killing 27 year old Dorsey Ox Siler and badly wounding his sister Daisy Yeager. The blade buckled and split, with a fragment mutilating Siler and slashing Yeager’s face arms and legs.
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New Market
Dorsey Ox Siler
Daisy Yeager
Dorsey
Thieves Strike Wheat Field After Threshing Rush
In Lexington Oregon on August 3 a farmer Orville Cutsforth hired extra threshers to save a wheat crop from mice. While the field was being harvested thieves broke in and stole 35 sacks of wheat, thwarting the plan to beat the rodents.
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Lexington
Ore
Orville Cutsforth
Cutsforth
House Votes Through Tax Bill Amid Amendments
Washington August 3 The House speeds the $270 million tax measure toward a final vote Monday rejecting left and right amendments. The chamber lines up with Ways and Means, denying changes to income tax rates and facing Roosevelt’s charity tax stance as supporters back the 5 percent charity deduction for corporations. The bill would raise taxes on incomes over 95,000 to 6,000 and push top surtax toward 78 percent, while reducing others.
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Washington
Democratic House
House
Ways and Means
Roosevelt
Rep. Vinson
D-Ky
Ee Cine Ee
Brent
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