Arctic rescue flight joins six missing after pole crossing
Jimmy Mattern flown from Oakland to Fairbanks to aid in a search for Sigismund Levaneffsky and five companions lost on a 4,000 mile transpolar flight from Moscow. Soviet planes and icebreakers race to a pole base as winter approaches.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Jimmy Mattern
Russia
Oakland
Calif
Mattern
Here
North Pole
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Moscow
Levaneffsky
Siberia
America
Joe Crosson
Crosson
S. E. Robbins
Murray Stewart
Alaska Airways
Pole
Washington
Cal
Soviet Russia
Opposition to Destruction of Devil's Race Course
Citizens oppose erasing the Devil's Race Course in the Blue Ridge near Waynesboro. A rock from glacial formation will be crushed for Sun Set trail construction. The 500 by 150 foot site with 45 foot rock depth has served as a college student laboratory for years.
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Devil's Race Course
Blue Ridge Range
Waynesboro
Maryland Weather Forecast Update
Maryland fair tonight with slightly warmer conditions in central and western portions. Tuesday looks fair with Chesapeake Bay mostly clear tonight and Tuesday. Widespread warmth for the period.
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Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
City orders zoning for area near Virginia and Summit
The Mayor and City Council ordered a zoning ordinance for the Virginia Summit area in Hagerstown. Sherwood Bros were told to confine a gas station to Virginia Avenue while the city, after investigation, determined no zoning restrictions existed on the former Brugh plot. The council can bar tank burial on Summit Avenue but cannot deny Virginia Avenue station permits. 275 residents petitioned against the station. A new ordinance will restrict gas stations in the area.
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Hagerstown
Virginia and
Summit Avenues
Sherwood Bros
Virginia Avenue
Brugh
Reynolds and
Brown Ayvenines
Summit Avenue
Williamsport Volunteer Tire meeting plans Washington County picnic
The Williamsport Volunteer Tire company will hold a meeting tonight at o'clock to finalize plans for a Washington County Firemen's association picnic scheduled for Friday.
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Williamsport Volunteer Tire Company
Washington County Firemen’s Association
Tip Prize Tips Divided in Daily Mail Contest
A parrot egg tip from an East Washington Street resident and a tip about Railroad Retirement Act abuses split last week’s first prize. The second prize goes to a Pope Avenue resident who called about a train hitting a car injuring a passenger and to a Sharpsburg girl reporting two gas thieves abandoning their car. The tips arrived by phone between 7:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on weekdays.
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East Washington Street
Pope Avenue
Sharpsburg
Daily Mail
Cr Jis
Indict Lady Bluebeard in Two Deaths in Ohio Case
Cincinnati August 16. Hamilton county grand jury indicts Mrs Anna Hahn 31 for malicious and premeditated slaying of George Gsellman 67 and Jacob Wagner 78 in a wide mass death inquiry. Nine other deaths under scrutiny linked to the accused with witnesses and police briefing detailing poison and motives.
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Cincinnati
Dudley Miller
Hamilton County
Grand Jury
Anna Hahn
George Gsellman
Jacob Wagner
Charles S. Bell
Patrick Hayes
Georgey Schuttle
Walter Hart
Frank M. Gunsweiler
Schuttle
Hahn
Ernest Kohler
Geo. Obendoerfer
Colorado Springs
Kohler
Congress Buckles Down to End Session by Saturday
Washington date August 16 Administration leaders drop wage hour push and move to push three measures before adjournment They seek to seal tax loopholes a low cost housing program and a deficiency appropriation bill the end of session routine
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Congress
Washington
House Rules Committee
Senate
Local woman found asleep after alleged moonshine ride
Loretta Hancock Spalding 31 of McComas Street Hagerstown was found asleep along the Waynesboro Hagerstown road after claiming she was forced from a car by moonshiners from Smithsburg transporting whiskey to Williamsport. She was arraigned and given a suspended sentence for drunk and disorderly conduct.
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Loretta Hancock Spalding
McComas Street
Hagerstown
Waynesboro
Wayneshboro-Hagerstown
Smithsburg
Williamsport
Tallest Sweet Corn Stalk Claims County Lead
George Miller of Middleburg says his sweet corn stalk is the county’s tallest this year. He measured it at ten feet two inches, well above ordinary stalks that reach about six feet.
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George Miller
Middleburg
Prisoner Yarmust Recaptured Near Lancaster After Escape
Deputy Sheriff Elwood Racine reported recapturing Sigmund Yarmust, one of seven escapees from Elnton jail, after receiving tips he was visiting a girl near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He found the escapee driving the girl’s car near her home.
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Elnton
Elwood Racine
Sigmund Yarmust
Racine
Yarmust
Lancaster
Prisoer
Thirteen Plague of Bad Luck Grips Stanley Company Picnic
Thirteen superstition believed to influence the Stanley Company picnic last Friday on the 13th ended with one drowning and 40 ill from food poisoning. The trip used 13 coaches and Williams Grove Park was once Station 13. Most of the ill have recovered.
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Stanley Company
Williams Grove Park
Chambersburg
Station 13
National Guard to stage mock battle at Camp Ritchie
District of Columbia and Maryland National Guard troops will stage a sham battle tonight at eight o'clock at Camp Ritchie. The objective is the capture of Lake Roger with special spectator arrangements.
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District of Columbia
Maryland National Guard
Camp Ritchie
Lake Roger
Robbers Hit Philadelphia Deli for Cash and Caviar
Discriminating thieves robbed a Philadelphia delicatessen taking 75 dollars in cash and 25 dollars worth of caviar. They passed on chicken and other pricey meats, indicating selective targets and restraint in loot.
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Philadelphia
Franco Troops Advance to Reinosa in Santander Push
Franco forces moved into Reinosa after fierce house to house fighting with government troops. Insurgent reports say the government battalions retreated as rebels claimed a battalion seized and five others fled in the drive toward Santander’s north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
Francisco Franco
Reinosa
Franco
Santander
Iran
Hunt for Berea co ed slaying suspect widens
Police hunt for George E. Wells, 20, after a Berea College co ed Opal Sturgill, a sophomore, was shot three times on campus while walking with William Anderson. Anderson reported a man leaped from bushes, fired and fled. Sturgill died shortly after.
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Bera
Berea College
George E. Wells
Opal Sturgill
William Anderson
Berea
Anderson
Justice of the peace offers farm relief wedding trade
Edina Missouri August 16 Justice of the peace C E Hunoli dubbed the marrying justice offered a novel farm relief contract. He said he would tie the knot for a bushel of corn oats or wheat frying chickens or even an occasional fresh ham.
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Edina. Mo
Justice of the Peace
C. E. Hunoli
French actress reports $20,000 in fur and jewelry missing
Ketti Gallian, a French film actress, found $20,000 worth of furs and jewelry missing from her canyon home after an overnight trip. Police said burglars apparently entered with a pass key.
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Hollywood
Ketti Gallian
Canyon
Lindbergh is Five at Long Barn Birthday
Jon l Lindbergh, five, marks a birthday at Long Barn residence with his father mother and a younger brother. The event notes the family's Kentish home and the youngster's age milestone on this day.
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WEAT
D. Eng
Jon l Lindbergh
Long Barn
Kentish House
Typhoid Carrier Freed by Gall Bladder Surgery
A woman carrier of typhoid germs, linked to at least five outbreaks, underwent gall bladder removal at Washington County Hospital. Laboratory tests ten days earlier had shown the gall bladder teeming with germs. The operation, with parental consent and health department cooperation, aims to restore full health and return her to the community.
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Washington County Hospital
Mayor W Lee Elgin Leaves For Vacation in New England
Mayor W Lee Elgin departs this afternoon for a week long vacation in New England and Canada. He will be unavailable during this period while council duties are covered by acting officials.
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W. Lee Elgin
New England
Canada
Girl, 13, Struck by Train Near Kenosha
Sophie Filipowicz of Russell Illinois was hit by a passenger train on a spur track in Kenosha Wisconsin. She was hurled several yards but walked away from the scene after deputy sheriffs gave first aid.
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Kenosha, Wis
Sophie Filipowicz
Russell, Ill
Awaiting F. D. R. Word On Loans
Washington officials said government machinery is ready to loan farmers on cotton corn wheat or other crops as soon as President Roosevelt or Secretary Wallace gives go ahead The 1938 crop program aims not to plant more than 80 percent of the base acreage for winter wheat and notes the crop will be in the ground before Congress acts on farm legislation
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Roosevelt
Wallace
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Congress
All American Women And Children Evacuated From Shanghai Front
A massed Chinese air attack on Shanghai prompts U S authorities to evacuate all American women and children. Marines rush ashore as the battle widens along a 15 mile front around the city of 3.5 million. The U S flagship nears a near miss amid heavy combat and danger to foreigners in the cosmopolitan port.
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U. S
Shanghai
United States
U.S.S
Augusta
Harry E. Yarnell
Chefoo
Yarnell
Hongkew
Whangpoo River
East Broad Way
Hongzhen Creek
Boy Dies in Tent Blaze Near Falling Waters
Seven year old Junior Woods son of Rev Enoch Woods Pentecostal minister of Pasadena Maryland died from burns suffered in a tent blaze at Potomac Park camp near Falling Waters West Virginia where meetings had continued for weeks. An electric bulb burst igniting papers in the tent trapping the boy as older children fled. The tent was destroyed and the Martinsburg hospital reported his death occurred about 24 hours after the fire.
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Junior Woods
Enoch Woods
Pasadena
Martinsburg Hospital
Burns
Potomac Park
Falling Waters
W. Va
First Train Runs Over Spur to Hagerstown Fair Grounds
The first train over the new spur into the Hagerstown Fair grounds for the National An tietam Exposition moved at 10 30 this morning. An engine and 12 cars tested the line, proving a solid base to carry the Baltimore and Ohio exhibit. The spur will bring ancient trains into the center of the race track from the Western Maryland lines near Mulberry street, with completion expected this week. The B and O will move the Tom Thumb and other famed trains from Baltimore to the exposition grounds.
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Hagerstown Fairgrounds
Baltimore and Ohio
Iron Horse
Snar
Maryland
Mulberry Street Crossing
Tom Thum
Baltimore
Exposition Grounds
Bass Biting The Lands Big String
The bass bite returns with cooler weather. Mayor Richard Haw ken, Frank Spigler, and Gene Snyder of Williamsport caught a dozen bass on the Potomac below Williamsport. Three weighed over 2 pounds, one at 1 1/2 pounds, others from 1 to 1 1/4 pounds. All were caught on stonecars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Hawken
Frank Spigler
Gene Snyder
Williamsport
Potomac
Williamspor
Outdone Dallas theft report finds rival for borrowing
Ralph Blossom told police he loaned items to a rival borrower and now reports thefts of a radio on trial and a typewriter borrowed from his landlady. The incident occurred in Dallas on August 16. Local authorities are investigating the mismatched claims and attempting to locate the alleged thief.
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Dallas
Ralph Blossom
Rail merger forbidden by Maryland judge ruling
Baltimore August 16 Judge Samuel K Dennis barred the merger of Alleghany and Chesapeake corporations key holding companies of the Ven Sweringen railway system The ruling held the proposed merger was not illegal or unfair but that legal and illegal features are interwoven requiring a holistic solution rather than piecemeal action.
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Baltimore
Samuel K. Dennis
Alleghany
Chesapeake
Ven Sweringen
Alleghany Corporation
Dennis
Maine
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Arctic
Lenora King
St. Clair
St. Louis
Jack, Jr
Council
Virginia Ave
Bluebeard
Smithsburg Shiners
Hunt
Jon
China
Frank J. Rawlinson
Boston
Mass
Chinese Recorder
Japan
Robert Reischauer
Princeton University
F. D.R
the Lands
Alleghany-Chesapeake
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