Excess profits tax under debate in Congress
Washington records three objections to an excess profits bill as Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees prepare hearings. Voorhis opposes amortization for private defense expansions and favors direct government funding. The National Lawyers Guild warns against repealing Vinson-Trammell limits. The Economy League calls for moderate rates to avoid stifling defense investment and employment amid a drive to end productive war profits. ICE CREAM FESTIVAL listed at end.
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Washington
L. Rep
National Economy League
House
Ways’ and Means
Senate Finance Committees
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
DWC
Voorhis
Lawyers Guild
Economy League
Princess Maria Delivers Son to royalty in Rome
Rome August 9 Princess Maria youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele is mother to a newborn son. Maria married Prince Louis of Bourbon Parma in January 1938. The child’s birth adds a new heir to the royal line amid the longstanding Bourbon Parma alliance.
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Rome
Maria
Virrelio Emanuele
Louis of
Bourbon-Parama
Deaths and Local Obituaries Reported in Area
Several prominent residents are noted in obituaries including Mrs Charlotte R Eccard widow of Nathan Benard a Beaver Creek resident now at Brethren Home Huntadale Pa and Mrs Joyce Newcomer Carlisle Pa Calvin N and William W reside in California Funeral notices follow for Harry O Morgal 82 of Waynesboro a Trinity Reformed Church member and lodge member and Watrel S Panghorn 19 of Brooklyn head of Pangborn Pangborn CPAs New York died in Brooklyn with services planned Funeral notices also list John H Rohrer of Roanoke Va and J Fred Palmer 56 Pennsylvania Railroad official with connections to local figures with interment arrangements pending
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Charlotte R. Eccard
Nathan
Benard
Beaver Creek
Brethren Home
Huntadale
Church of the Brethren
William Detrow
Smithsburg
Emory Harshman
Huntsdale
Howard
Grossnickle
Roy Weagley
Claude G
Joe Newcomer
Carlisle
Calvin N
William W
California
Harry 0. Morgal
Greencastle
Waynesboro Hospital
Trinity Reformed Church
Waynesboro
Order of Owls
Ciib
Chii
Luther W. Stepley
GC. L. Clopper
Washington
Stepley
Brooklyn
N. Y
Watrel S. Panghorn
Thomas W. Panghorn
Johnn. Panghorn
Hagerstown
N.Y
Firm of
Public Accountants
Pangborn
New York
Ity
Tagarstown
John H. Rohrer
Roanoke
Miaonic Lodge
Presbyterian Church
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Joshua D. Rhodes
Tunkstown
Extending Conscription Age to 41 Faces Senate Vote
Senate battles over a bill to extend conscription age to 41. Reservations with dependents would resign within 20 days after enactment. Adams fails to limit guard use to U S and possessions. bill could authorize operations in the Western hemisphere. Proponents argue public demand. opponents warn lengthy debate before passage.
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Chamber
Adams
D-Colo
Continental
United States
Philippines
Hemisphere
Latin America
Senate
Bark Iey
Kentucky
Beef Economy Tragedy Sparks On-Spot Salvage Talk
In Kansas City a 60 pound wall collided with a track and died. The 20 year old victim is identified as Robert Proer. Wayne Sider, county farm agent, suggested salvage on the spot as neighbors gathered under car lights. A kitchen knife and rocket knives were found in the scene. Pruett said a neighborhood barbecue was being planned.
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Kansas City
Robert Proer
Robert
Peopledo
Wayne Sider
Pruett
Navy yard gears up to build war planes and ships
The defense commission reports U S aircraft factories are producing 10 800 planes a year with monthly output near 900 and to hit 1 500 by January It cites 75 000 employed in aviation related work and 1 792 billion in Army and Navy contracts in the last two months Training programs are expanding with about 84 000 workers in defense jobs and overtime allowances easing to accelerate the two ocean fleet build.
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Knudsen
Washington
America
The
Defense Commission
William $. Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
Commission
Hillman
Knox
Tragic discovery at Ocala jail as teen found dead
In Ocala Florida a mother who had gone to the city jail to retrieve her 13 year old son tied to bicycle theft charges found his lifeless body dangling from a Delt loop at a cell window. Desk Sergeant Williams said the youth identified as Carl Formes had asked a janitor for funny papers to read moments before Policeman Kenneth Alvarez and the mother uncovered the body.
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Ocala
Fla
Jlf. Williams
Car Iformes
Kenneth Alverez
Tearful Debut Triggered by Accidental Tear Gas Explosion
Alton store opening drew customers who praised the price and complained about the welcome. Proud employees displayed the modern quarters when a tear gas bomb meant to deter robbers exploded, forcing an evacuation of the building.
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Alton
Slow Trolleys DENVDR Aug 9 Motormen Favor Gentle Runs
In Denver streetcar notes from August 9, motormen prefer easy shifts past the South Denver switch plate where a mourning dove nests. A worker says the baby bird should hatch soon, illustrating calm, routine detail in transit life.
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Denvdr
Denver
Young Mother Drowns in Baltimore Swim
In an early morning incident at Spring Gardens on the Patapsco river Mrs. Margaret Soper 19 drowned during a daybreak swimming party near the Tinnover street bridge. Her husband George Soper and the Wood couple were present. A separate fatal crash near Holy Cross cemetery on Cedar Hill killed ship worker Twin Clay Franklin 25 when his car struck a cemetery wall.
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Baltimore
Spring Gardens
Patapsco
Margaret Soper
Soper
Tinnover Street Bridge
George Soper
Chester Wood
Clay Franklin
Holy Criss
Cedar Hill
Glen Burnie
Ritchie Highway
Four of Original Cabinet Remain
Washington dispatch reports James A. Parley’s resignation as Postmaster General leaves only four of Roosevelt’s original cabinet in office. Wallace may resign or take a leave to campaign for vice president, leaving Hull Ickles and Perkins as the remaining members sworn in March 4, 1923. Nebulous Neptune tale follows in Venice with a parade accident.
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Washington
James A. Parley
Roosevelt
Agriculture Wallace
Hull
Interior
Ickles
Labor
Perkins
Slot machine case ends with joke verdict in county court
In Goldsboro North Carolina a man charged with possessing an illegal slot machine claimed it had been out of order for years and was used as a safe. The court ordered a test and the jackpot hit four dollars and five cents from a tenth nickel. The defendant was found guilty.
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Goldsboro
N. C
Slughes offers free space to rival in California race
Redlands California August 59 Raymond E. Slughes Democratic state assembly candidate and newspaper editor has offered free space to his political rival. He said it had been suggested he was taking unfair advantage by publicizing his own campaign exclusively.
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Redlands
Cal
Raymond E. Slughes
Democratic State Assembly
Death by own action Ends Life of Wray Lemon
The body of C. Wray Lemon, former manager of the Hagers town Chamber of Commerce, was found in a vacant Oaklawn lot near Camden New Jersey. A knife lay nearby and coroner Franklin P. Jackson III ruled the death self inflicted. Lemon had been despondent after an operation last March leaving a widow and three children.
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C. Wray Lemon
Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce
Oaklawn
Camden
N. J
Goroner Franklin P. Jackson
Lemon
Chamber of Commerce
Camden County Chamber of Commerce
Vocal Chamber of Commerce
Antietam
William A. Tobias
Ford Co Must Stop Discouraging Union
The National Labor Board ordered Ford Motor Company to post notices in its plants stating it would refrain from discouraging unionism by physical violence or espionage. The action followed findings that Ford engaged in anti union activity at its Dallas Texas plant, including a so called strong arm squad against union members and organizers.
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Washington
National Labor Board
Ford Motor Company
Dallas, Tex
Sidewalk mix up ends in missing path for Miller
Miss Mabel Miller found 30 feet of sidewalk missing from in front of her home. Patrolman John Reilly traced blocks to a yard two blocks away, where heavy flagstone had been piled. A man had removed the sidewalk by error while arranging to purchase flagstone. In London, novelist Caroline Grosvenor died at Oxford at age.
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Dunkirk
Mabel Miller
John Reilly
Miller
Ghostly rapping ends as woodpecker blamed for siege
In Grand Island Nebraska on August 3 the Paulsen home faced a three day rapping siege in the basement. Harry Paulsen traced the noises to a furnace where a woodpecker fluttered inside apparently mistaking the chimney for a hollow tree ending the disturbance and restoring peace.
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Grand Island, Neb
Harry Paulsen
Paulsen
Chicago grain market quotations and figures
Quotations from Mackubin Legg and Co at Wareham Building Hagerstown Md show September and December futures for wheat corn and oats with bid ask ranges and percent changes. The brief price table lists opening highs lows and close style figures for May and Dec contracts across wheat corn and oats with multiple percent values.
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Mackubin, Legg & Co
Wareham Building
Hagerstown
Mid
Mackubin, Legg
Guard unit arrives for maneuvers forgets flag
Concord New Hampshire August 9 local National Guard unit arrived at maneuvers set up camp and prepared to run up the flag but they had forgotten it initiative.
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Concord
N. G
National Guard
Maneuvers
Autoist Fined for Reckless Driving in Williamsport
Hugh M. Everline, 20, of Virginia avenue, was fined ten dollars and costs by Justice A. K. Barher after arraignment on reckless driving charges. He allegedly crowded Lester Mose off the Sharpsburg pike last Sunday and collided with Mose’s car, causing damage. Deputy Sheriff B. C. Bender investigated the crash. Wendell L. Willkie plans a weekend conference with former President Herbert Hoover in Colorado Springs on August 9.
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Hugh M. Everline
Virginia Avenue
Justice of the Peace
A. K. Barher
Williamsport
Everline
Lester Mose
Sharpsburg Pike
B. C. Bender
Factors Favor British Victory (Continued from Page 1)
The article argues Britain holds advantages in air defense and bombing, cites unity versus Hitler's troubles in conquered lands and the Balkans, and warns of a potential long war of attrition with blockade and counterblockade. It notes Nazi aims to break the British blockade, heavy ship destruction, and a belief that long war favors Britain due to superior resources and sea control.
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Italy
Hitler
Balkans
Russia
United States
Britain
Berlin
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Oxford
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Crouse Produce
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Harry S. Myers
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