Maryland Sells State Bonds At Premium For 1.97% Yield
Maryland authorities sold two issues of 2 percent state bonds totaling 3,408,000 to a syndicate led by Haslet Stewart & Co. for 106,662. The high bid produced a 227,040.90 premium and lowered the average rate to 1.97 percent. The sale is part of a 9,052,000 bond program authorized by the Legislature, with one 900,000 issue postponed due to a legal challenge related to an office building bond and a referendum effort. Continued on Page 1.
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Annapolis
State of
Penitentiary
House of Correction
Edison’s Son Dies at 58 in Delaware Home
William Leslie Edison, 58, son of Thomas A. Edison, died after a six week illness at his Westover Hills home in Wilmington, Delaware. A veteran of World War I, he served in the tank and later founded a radio experimental station at Centreville. He held patents on key radio tube concepts and retired from active work two years ago.
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Wilmington
Del
William Leslie Edison
Thomas A. Edison
Westover Hills
Edison
Centreville
Weather update for Maryland area tonight into Wednesday
The Weather Bureau reports likely local showers tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Chesapeake Bay remains partly cloudy and warm with high humidity and possible local and thunder showers. Moderate southwest winds accompany the unsettled conditions.
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Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Pigeons in New York City Die from Suspected Poisoning
Hundreds of pigeons fell dead mid flight between Central Park and Riverside Drive in the seventies area. Two young Black boys told Police Lieutenant Christopher Hodge they saw an old wrinkled woman with a leash feeding pigeons near the Giuseppe Verdi statue at 72nd Street and Broadway before shouting at them to go away.
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New York
Central Park
Riverside Drive
Christopher Hodge
72D Street
Broadway
Gruber Predicts Harsh Winter In 1938 Almanack
March 1938 edition of Gruber's Hagerstown town and county almanac forecasts a tough winter with a lionlike entrance and exit. It predicts heavy snows from March 21 to 25 and four eclipses 1938, two solar and two lunar, with details on visibility for Hagerstown.
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Gruber
Hagers Town
Hagerstown
Iturbi halts Philadelphia orchestra over song dispute
In Philadelphia on August 10 conductor Jose Iturbi objected to popular songs on a program of American music and stopped a nation wide broadcast from Robin Hood Dell. Singers Jan Pierce and Lucy Monroe were to perform but Iturbi rejected a compromise and continued the concert after Pierce had left the stage. The broadcast was terminated on air.
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Philadelphia
Jose Iturhi
Philadelphia Orchestra
Robin Hood Dell
Jan Pierce
Lucy Monroe
Iturbi
Pierce
Miss Monroe
Leaders Seek Quick Adjournment as Major Bills Loom
Washington date Aug. 10 Congress faces a swift adjournment if leaders can push several major measures in two weeks. Key moves include House banking committee approval of a low cost housing and slum clearance bill, ways and means ending hearings on revenue law defects, and a wheat crop loss insurance bill. Senate finance aids sugar control talks with President over Hawaii and Puerto Rico imports. Conferees back lower court procedure bill, farm and wage hour laws remain contentious. farm belt lawmakers press for extended session.
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Washington
Congress
House
Steagall
D. Ala
House Banking Committee
House Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Senate
Marrison
D. Miss
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
McCarran
D. Nev
Senate House
White House
Supreme Court
Painter Held on False Pretense Charges in Harrisonburg
Albert Painter twenty one from Harrisonburg Virginia was arrested this morning on false pretense charges and faces likely transfer to Harrisonburg for trial. He is accused of passing several worthless checks in the area.
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Albert Painter
Harrisonburg
Painter
Times balks at dictation from Nazi Germany
The Times of London refused to replace its Berlin correspondent Norman Ebbutt under Nazi dictation. Germany ordered Ebbutt to leave within two weeks after expelling three German reporters. The British foreign office said Berlin wants a correspondent who will align with German wishes. The Times refused to appoint a new Berlin envoy under coercion and said the post would stay vacant unless Germany changed course.
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London
Times of London
Berlin
Norman Ebbutt
The
Times
Germany
Great Britain
Foreign Office
Thunderer
Ebbutt
Britain
City to discuss Elizabeth Street underpass plan in Ha gerstown
Mayor W Lee Elgin and City Council will meet with H R Pratt of the Western Maryland Railway in council chambers tomorrow at 1 pm to review plans to eliminate the Elizabeth street crossing. The project, part of a broader effort to connect the west and south ends of Ha gerstown, includes an underpass between Elizabeth street and Ridge avenue and a future boulevard from West Washington to Wilson Boulevard. The State Roads Commission will share costs. the railway previously agreed to cover half. The city will build approaches, linking Elizabeth to Utah street and a new crossroad.
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H. R. Pratt
Baltimore
Western Maryland Railway Company
Elizabeth Street
Western Maryland
Hagerstown
State Roads Commission
W. Lee Elgin
Roads Commission
West Washington Street
Wilson Boulevard
Ridge Avenue
Utah Street
End Walkout In Passaic Valley Textile Mills
The C I O sought a negotiated peace in Passaic valley textile mills as a day old general strike claimed wide support. About 60,000 workers across New Jersey New York Pennsylvania and New England were off the job while employers mixed cooperation and passivity hoping for a single national wage hour and condition standard. Spokesmen signaled willingness to negotiate with the union.
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Paterson
N. J
Passaic Valley
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
New England
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
Fire damages third floor apartment of Dr Beachley
A morning blaze at 6:30 o clock damaged the third floor apartment of Dr William E Beachely at the corner of Potomac and Antietam Streets. The fire started in the flooring and damaged a bureau and valuable bed clothing before firefighters using chemicals extinguished it.
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William E. Beachely
Potomac
Antietam
Date Night Sparks Teen Romance to Wedding in Tecumseh
In Tecumseh Oklahoma Aug 10 a romance born at the Oklahoma training school for girls during the first “date night” last month leads to a Sunday wedding. A 17 year old honor girl and her 21 year old fiancé plan to marry in the cottage where the party started. The bride will then be paroled.
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Tecumseh
Okla
Oklahoma Training School
Creighton B. Burnham
Brother's Auto Theft Arrests Brother's Auto Thief
Fred Moss of Brownsville is held in Frederick county charged with stealing his brother Earl C. Moss's automobile. He wrecked the car while pursued by Earl, fled into a corn field, and was captured as he emerged. Moss said he intended to drive the car back home.
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Fred Moss
Brownsville
Frederick
Earl C. Moss
Fiamsville
Moss
Bond Sale Shows Higher Price Than Two Issues
Frederick sold 5000 bonds yesterday at a price of 100 126 to Alex Brown and Sons of Baltimore. The issue yields 2 14 percent. The price beat that of two other issues on the market.
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Frederick
Alex Brown & Sons
Baltimore
Fifty Washington county homes listed for historic celebration
The Historic Homes Committee of the Antietam Com memoration led by Frank W. Mish Jr. released a list of twenty five historic properties to be placarded and mapped for the upcoming county celebration. Owners receiving letters this week may request inclusion if not on the list. (continues listing by section)
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Washington County
Antietam
Frank W. Mish, Jr
Mish
Clearspring
Montpelier
Allen Seibert
Stafford Hall
Leo H. Cahill
Japan and Chiang Kai-shek clash over northern China
Chinese and Japanese sources describe posters in Tientsin declaring Chiang Kai-shek will never fight Japan and is deceiving the north. Japanese claims say Chiang ordered troops to the great wall pass but were ignored as Chinese troops held. A battle near Nankow and Pieping is reported with conflicting Chinese and Japanese accounts.
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Tientsin
China
Manila
New York
Chiang Kai- Shek
Japan
Hopeh
Nanking
North China
Manchukuo
Gen Chiang
Great Wall
Nankow
Pieping
Chahar Province
Rohrersville Road repair request before county board
A Rohrersville delegation asked the County Commissioners to urge the State Roads Commission to repair or reconstruct the road from Locust Grove to Rohrersville. Spokesmen said the route is nearly impassable after years without maintenance, prompting the appeal for action.
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Rohrersville
Board of Country Commissioners
State Roads Commission
Locust Grove
Robbed Uncle, Sentenced in City Court
Winifred Banks, 18, colored, of Martinsburg, allegedly robbed the home of his uncle Silas Washington on West Church Street. Banks was arraigned before Justice John D. Dunn and sentenced to three months in the House of Correction after visiting the home Sunday and stealing $4 from a bureau.
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Winifred Banks
Martinsburg
Silas Washington
West Church Street
House of Correction
John D. Dunn
Banks
Workers Strike at Long Brothers Canning Plant
About 75 workers at the Long Brothers canning factory in Westover Md struck for four hours on August 10 demanding wage increases from six to eight cents per bucket for peeling tomatoes. Dinner Long, owner, warned he would close the plant if the demand continued. workers returned to their duties.
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Westover
Long Brothers Canning
Dinner Long
Robbery suspects held for November term court
Curtis Edwards aged 35 and Bertha Pendleton aged 28, both colored, were charged with robbing Florence Shannon, colored, of about 35 dollars. They faced jury trials in city court this morning and were sent to jail to await the November term of court.
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Curtis Edwards
Bertha Pendleton
Florence Shannon
John D. Dunn
Aged minister ends his life in boarding house
Luther L. Bishop, 74, a former minister and Pennsylvanian by birth, killed himself in his Sum mit avenue rooming house. A revolver shot to the temple ended his life as Justice John D. Dunn ruled suicide. He had been living with the John Bolts family. a letter to his brother Whitfield Bishop was found. The body will be moved to Chambersburg for burial.
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Luther L. Bishop
Summit Avenue
Pennsylvania
John Bolts
John D. Dunn
Bishop
Whitfield Bishop
Chambersburg
F D R Signs Bill With Reluctance
President Roosevelt announced he signed the Interior Department supply bill with much reluctance. He criticized the vocational education appropriation as excessive but said he would spend only what Congress intended and could properly utilize during the current year.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Interior Department
Congress
Woman Dies of Injuries In Frederick Auto Collision
Frederick Md Aug 10 Miss Agnes Snell 26 of Theresa NY died in Frederick hospital from injuries received in a collision between the automobile she rode in and a wagon. She died of a fractured skull.
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Frederick, Md
Agnes Snell
Theresa, N. Y
Frederick Hospital
Former Hyattsville Mayor Irving Owings Dies at 55
Irving Owings, 55, longtime Hyattsville mayor, banker, and real estate dealer in Washington, died last night in a Takoma Park sanitarium. He was vice president of the Bank of Commerce and Savings in Washington and active in Maryland and DC real estate markets.
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Hyattsville
Irving Owings
Washington
Takoma Park
Owings
Bank of Commerce and Savings
Maryland
District of Columbia
Roosevelt skips Senate dinner honoring Barkley
The White House announced that due to other pressing duties President Roosevelt will not attend the Senate Democratic dinner honoring Kentucky Majority Leader Barkley tonight.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Five Hurt In Line's First Fatal Crash At Daytona Beach
A 14 passenger Eastern Airlines plane struck a temporary power line near the airport and crashed into a thicket, killing four. Captain Stuart Dietz and co-pilot Robert Reed died at the scene, with J F Philpots and W G Marian among the injured. Other crew and passengers suffered severe shock and head injuries. The line pole, erected by Florida Power and Light, was new the night of the crash.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
Eastern Airlines
Pete Dygers
Miami
Dygert
Stuart Dietz
Baltimore
Robert Reed
J.F. Philpots
Kingston
Jamaica
Daysenger
W. G. Marian
Aiiares St
Mexico City
E. W. Philpots
J. F
H. M. Hamilton
W. Warren St
Detroit
F. M. Thompson
Pendleton St
Greenville
Digert
Florida Power and Light Company
Dead Pilot Known Here In Hagerstown Kinship Ties
Captain Stuart Dietz, pilot of the Eastern airliner that crashed at Dayntona Beach Florida, is well known in Hagerstown. He is brother in law of Miss Rose Rowland and Mrs. E. E. Brengle Hancock. His wife was sister of the two before marriage Miss Kitty Rowland of Berryville Virginia.
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Stuart Dietz
Dayntona Beach
Florida
Hagerstown
Rose Rowland
E. E. Brengle
Hancock
Kitty Rowland
Berrrville
Local youth fugitive escapes Roxbury Penal Farm
Joseph Britti twenty from this city who had four year sentence for robbery at the February 1936 court term escaped from the Roxbury Penal Farm about 10 this morning. Britti walked off. He and Herbert Raffensberger were jointly indicted for robbing H W Gillian and each given four years on conviction. Sentence imposed March 4 1936.
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Joseph Britti
Maryland
Roxbury
Britti
Herbert Raffensberger
H.W. Gillian
Board of Education meeting Postponed for Smithsburg Delegation
The board of education announced that the meeting scheduled for this afternoon to hear a Smithsburg delegation on local school affairs has been postponed to Tuesday afternoon August 17 due to the absence of a board member.
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Board of Education
Smithsburg
Treas A D Thomas Stricken at Metropolitan Office
A D Thomas treasurer of the Metropolitan Insurance Company in this city was stricken this morning while in his office and was removed to Washington County Hospital for treatment.
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A. D. Thomas
Metropolitan Insurance Company
Washington County Hospital
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LU. S& Weather Bureau
City
W. M
Union
Dr. Beachley
Historic Homes Committee
Chiang
Rohrersville Road
Eloise Willis
New Orleans
Oscar Kay
F.D.R
Bill
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