World Plays, Message Of President Declares
Roosevelt sent a second appeal to Adolf Hitler urging Germany to seek a peaceful settlement with Poland. Moscicki of Poland accepted a Roosevelt proposal for talks before war. Roosevelt proposed direct negotiation arbitration or conciliation as methods to avert war. Moscowicki approved either negotiation or continuation. This marks the fifth Roosevelt message to Hitler in less than a year. A Berlin spokesman said the latest communique was likely continued on Page 12.
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Washington
Adolf Hitler
Roosevelt
Germany
Poland
Moscicki
Hitler
Berlin
4-H Judges Instructed For State Dairy Contest
Howard Barker dairy extension specialist and county agents will train 4 H club members Monday and Tuesday for the state cattle judging contest at the Timontium Fair on Labor Day. Groups from Allegany and Frederick counties will join Watt ington County for instructions. A team of three members and an alternate will be chosen after two days of sessions. They will tour Fox Decrived farm to judge Guernseys, then Wilbur Barkdoll’s farm for Ayrshires, Wertherimer’s Holsteins, and Harry Grossnickle’s Jerseys at Beaver Creek.
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Howard Barker
University of Maryland
Milt D. Moo
Harry Beggs
Allegany
Frederick County
Wattington County
Guernsey
Wilbur Barkdoll
Waynesboro
Wertheimer
Frederick
Jersey
Harry Grossnickle
Beaver Creek
Stolen Police Car Triggers Citywide Search
Santa Monica Police Chief Charles Dice found his new police car stolen from a Los Angeles parking lot after a meeting. He rode home in a worn old vehicle while Los Angeles officials ordered a broad super search to locate the missing squad car.
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Los Angeles
Charles Dice
Santa Monica
Dice
Weather Outlook for Maryland and Chesapeake Bay Area
Mostly cloudy tonight with showers on the coast and cooler conditions in central and eastern portions. Sunday mostly fair with slightly lower temperatures. Chesapeake Bay regions show mostly cloudy skies tonight, cooler Sunday, and moderate northerly winds.
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U. 5
Weather Bureau
Maryland
Chesapeake
Weekly Weather: Week Beginning August 28
North and Middle Atlantic states see generally fair start with showers in the latter half. Moderate temperatures early, warmer midweek, and cooler end of week.
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North
Middle Atlantic
Poland Reaches Nonaggression Pledge With Nazi Germany
Poland accepts Roosevelt conciliation offer and agrees to refrain from hostile acts if Germany does likewise direct or indirect. Ignace Moscicki supports direct talks as a path to peace while Poles in Warsaw attend masses praying for peace and workers rush to build trenches and air raid shelters as rumors of possible bombing loom.
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Warsaw
Poland
Roosevelt
Germany
Ignace Moscicki
Mr. Roosevelt
Rooseelt
Night police alert follows prowling and theft reports
Reports of prowling and minor thefts kept police on the alert last night. F A Goetz on Concord Street reported a prowler who fled before officers arrived. Davidson family on Wilson Boulevard reported a man on a back porch who escaped. A peeping tom is suspected. Toy S Long on Fairground Avenue reported a briefcase stolen from a car in Summit Avenue. J Brunt gardner on Randolph Avenue reported a garage break in with items taken.
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F. A. Goetz
Concord Street
Davidson
Wilson Boulevard
Guilford Kalan
Toy S. Long
Fairground Avenue
Summit Avenue
J. Bruntgardner
Randolph Avenue
Plane heads to Kotzebue Alaska in 1939 Fairchild flight
A locally built Fairchild 1939 model flew from here to Kotzebue Alaska under Ferguson Airways. Pilot Maurice King, spending days in town, operates the craft with collapsible rear seats for freight as supplies and medical needs travel north. The voyage marks a major northern transportation effort amid harsh conditions. In Portsmouth, plans to raise the Squalus submarine and the 26 lives lost remain contingent on weather and authorization.
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Fairchild
Globe
Kotzebue
Alaska
Ferguson. Airways
Maurice King
Point Barrow
Safe Robbers Strike Again in Hagerstown Heist
Expert safe crackers paid a second visit to Hagerstown within five weeks, escaping with about $1000 in cash and 300 dollars in checks from the Coca Cola Bottling Works on Pennsylvania avenue. The robbers forced a south side window, left through the front door, and fled as police investigated. The missing cash box and torn checks were later found along the Middleburg Greencastle pike. Captain Carl H. McCleary led the inquiry, with Patrolman Leroy C. Karn issuing the 2:30 a.m. alert and the discovery before 6 a.m. Continued on Page 32.
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Hagerstown
Acme
Coca Cola
Pennsylvania Avenue
Geelacke
Middleburg
Greencastle
Carl H. McCleary
Leroy C. Karn
Two Suits Seek 25000 From Goldstein Trading Firm
Bertha and William H Alde sue Meyer Goldstein trading, Edgar Frocks, Chicago, and Joseph Weiner for 25000 alleging Weiner driving Goldstein car struck Mrs Alder at Baltimore and Frederick last September injuring her and causing hospital confinement. Mrs Alder seeks 18000 while her husband asks 7000 for services and losses.
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Bertha
William H. Alde
Meyer Goldstein
Edgar Frocks
Chicago
Joseph Weiner
D. Ko. McLaughlin
Weiner
Goldstein
Mrs. Alder
Baltimore and
Frederick Streets
Alder
Crone Pays Fine After Resisting Arrest Case
Dale Crone of Koessner avenue paid a five dollar fine in city court this morning on a charge of resisting arrest. Sheriff's officers report Meg struggled to arrest Crone on an assault charge against his wife. No hearing was held on the assault charge.
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Dale Crone
Japs Break With Rome Berlin Axis
Tokyo reports the Japanese army approved turning away from the Rome Berlin axis toward international isolation. Japan protests Germany’s pact with Soviet Russia as a violation of the anti comintern pact, signaling a major shift in foreign policy amid cabinet changes rumors. The move echoes long rising tensions between Japan and Soviet Russia and marks a pivot away from the Berlin Rome alliance.
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Tokyo
Japan
Berlin
Germany
Italy
Rome
Russia
Will Pray For Peace Observance Urged Nationwide
The Federated Council of Churches of Christ in America appeals to all churches to observe a day of prayer for Peace and goodwill among nations. The call was issued by Rev. George A. Butterick council president.
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New York
Federated Council of Churches of Christ In America
George A. Butterick
Democratic Women Will Meet Monday in Hagerstown
The Wo men's Democratic Organization club of Hagerstown will hold its regular meeting Monday night at 7 30 in the Grice building club rooms. After routine business a social session will follow. Farm er Tollinger death ruled self inflicted. found with shotgun at his Grasonville farm near 44.
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Women’s Democratic Organization Club of
Hagerstown
Chid
Grice
Grasonville
Herman Tollinger
Samuel J. Price
Tollinger
Angry crowd raids rally in San Antonio clash
An angry crowd of about 5,000 attacked a Communist rally at Municipal Auditorium injuring many and forcing 100 demonstrators to flee. Mayor Maury Maverick ordered police and firemen to protect the event while defending his stance against Communism and support for free speech.
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San Antonio
Tex
Maury Maverick
Maverick
Texas
Congress
Municipal Auditorium
Emma Yenaguca Brooks
Reveal Winchell As Man Who Turned Lepke Over To Hoover
New York August 26 A nervous fugitive held in a federal building cell faced prosecutors as United States and New York officials clashed over who would try Louis Lepke Buchalter. J Edgar Hoover had been handed the case by J Ernest Dewey after Lepke surrendered to authorities via Walter Winchell described as intermediary. Lepke faced 70 federal indictments and possible 184 years in prison and 180000 in fines. Dewey, vacationing in Michigan, said the racketeer could face 340 years if convicted. The grand jury's murder indictment against Lepke was still under discussion as officials weighed the next move.
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Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
New York
United States
Thomas KE. Dewer
Ileake
Dewey
Michigan
Lepke
Wiliam Snyder
Cabinet Is Summoned as Europe Crisis Deepens
London reports a three hour cabinet session with Prime Minister Chamberlain after a British envoy met Adolf Hitler. Foreign Secretary Halifax and Ambassador Neville Henderson conferred with France, while Britain readies for air raids. Evacuation plans tested as anti aircraft guns move. Germans told to leave Britain. American.
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London
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Chamberlain
Lord Halifax
Nevile Henderson
Charles Corbin
Foreign Office
Sir Nevile
Downing
Britain
Woman Found Dead On Beach In Chelsea Case Sparks Questions
Mrs Ferdinand Paarand formerly Edna Phelps of near Myersville is found dead on a Chelsea beach with head injuries. Husband, a construction worker, is held for questioning as police report a gas filled apartment incident and the couple had eloped in 1957 after nursing careers at Sheppard Pratt.
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Ferdinand
Paarand
Cable from local girl signals safe return home
Mrs. John G. Bower received a noon cablegram from her daughter Miss Helen Bower in Paris. She may sail home soon after advice from the State Department for Americans to leave Europe, possibly from Havre, where many liners depart France. Miss Bower had been studying at Grenoble.
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John G. Bower
Helen Bower
Paris
State Department
Europe
Havre
France
Miss Reawer
Grenoble
Plan For Constructive Solution In Polish German Crisis
Berlin reports say a compromise in the German Polish crisis may be forming and a world war danger averted. Hitler’s speech to the Reichstag was canceled while Henderson’s London mission to carry a plan for a constructive solution reaches London and Berlin officials weigh possible proposals from the Fuehrer to Chamberlain.
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Hitler
Chamberlain
Henderson
Berlin
Germany
Danzig
Upper Silesia
Adolf Hitler
France mobilizes three more military groups
Paris reports the French government mobilized three additional military groups as the European crisis deepens. Officers and troops with mobilization orders Nos 7, 5 and 6 are called to the colors. Premier Daladier consults with British envoy about possible peace talks amid Hitler’s reported negotiations offer.
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Paris
France
National Defense Ministry
Daladier
Phipps
Adolf Hitler
Dalatier
Hitler
Sir Eric
Poland
Dalanier
England
Dog license arrest ends with fine in Williamsport court
John Sharer of Williamsport, aged 46, was fined three dollars by Magistrate M V B Rostetter for failing to take out a dog license. The case in city court this morning noted Sharer had reportedly since taken out a license, but the sentence appeared suspended.
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John Sharer
Williamsport
Frank Winters
M. V. B. Rostetter
Sharer
Buddy Rogers Flies Here Returns to Washington Area
Buddy Rogers, once a top film heartthrob, visited Hagerstown yesterday with pilot R. Train in a Stinson aircraft. He arrived alone, stayed about three hours at the airport, and inspected several new Fairchild planes amid the glamorous return to public attention.
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Charles
Buddys Rogers
Eel Pickfard
Hagerstown
Buddy Rogers
Rogers
R. Train
Stinson
Fairchild
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