Sher Thier Age Calls Movie Actor
Los Angeles December police described 30 year old Sher Thier as a film actor and master burglar. He and an alleged accomplice, Peter Ryan, alias Paul Hackley, 35, were linked to thefts totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from homes in Los Angeles Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Over two years authorities say they looted dozens of residences, loading rugs radios silverware and jewelry into a truck or van while owners were away. A $20,000 stash in cash was found strapped to Sanders’ knee along with other items, and his confessed methods were described as bold and distinctive.
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Angeles
Roren Senders
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Beverly Hills
Sanders
al White
Peter Ryan
Paul Hackley
Spanish War Chief to Visit Maryland Veterans Banquet
Ho ward 8. Matthias former judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio and commander in chief of the Spanish War Veterans will visit Maryland veterans at a banquet and dance February 14 at the Emerson hotel States and city officials have been invited to meet the visitor.
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Baltimore
Howard
Matthias
Supreme Court of Ohio
Maryland
Dante
Emerson Hotel
Lillian Moses
Quickest Way To a Cold
A public notice promotes Hilts Cascara Quinine as a fast acting cold remedy. Two tablets are advised with directions on the box and plenty of water. The ad claims rapid relief from head and body pains and a quick break up of the cold with a money back guarantee. It emphasizes low cost and quick results.
Deaths Reach 81 Year Mark In Local Notices
Obituary notices report the passing of Joseph Elmer Curfman at 81 years 11 months from heart trouble at his daughter’s home 985 Virginia avenue Williamsport. Survived by multiple daughters sons and sisters. Funeral Friday at 2 from 865 Virginia avenue with services by Revs W C Huddle and Paul E Holdcratt. Burial Riverview cemetery. Also: Susan Maria Kuhn dies aged 74 near Myersville from angina pectoris. Survivors include sons Samuel and Henry Kuhn and daughter Annie Smith. Funeral Thursday 10 from Boonsboro parlors Interment Boonsboro cemetery. Also: Mrs Sarah Becher Catshall dies at Summit avenue aged 81. Born Welsh Run Pa daughter of John and Nancy Higgins life long Christ Reformed member. Survived by daughter Mary L Becher and sister Mrs David McClanahan. Funeral Thursday at Coffman Funeral Home 2:30 led by Rev H A Fesperman. Interment Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Joseph Elmer Gurfman
Daniel Schnebly
Virginia Avenue
Jontahan Street
Curfman
Lutheran Church of
Williamsport
Daniel
Schnebly
This City
J. W. H. Beale
Elizabeth Cartman
Baltimore
Frankh. Tate
Mechanicsburg
Albert Gossard
Hagerstown
Frank
Zullinger
John
Sabiflasville
Frederick
Mt. Wilson
George
W. H Norrie
Lizzie Plate
Clinton
W. C. Huddle
Paul E. Holdcratt
Riverview Cemetery
Susan Maria Kuhn
Myersville
Frederick County
Samuel
Pittsburgh
Henry Kuhn
Lene
Annie Smith
Pleasant Walk
Jacob Green
Boonsboro
Wn. F. East and Son
M. A. Ashby
Boonsboro Cemetery
Sarah Becher Catshall
Summit Avenue
Welsh Run
Nancy Hornbaker Higgins
Christ Reformed Church
Mary L. Becher
David McClanahan
Greencastle
Coffman Funeral Home
H. A. Fesper
Rose Hill Cemetery
Chesapeake Bank Placed Into Receivership in Baltimore
The Chesapeake Bank, not part of the clearing house or Federal Reserve, closed its doors and was placed in state receivership. Judge George A. Solter named George W. Page as receiver with a $250,000 bond as staff began examining the bank and its two downtown branches to determine condition.
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Baltimore
Chesapeake Bank
State Bank
George W. Page
George A. Solter
The
Clearing House
Federal Reserve System
Too Much Salt Killing Fish Across Chesapeake Tribaries
Baltimore December 10 A zoologist from the University of Maryland reports elevated salt content in the Chesapeake bay tributaries is causing widespread death of fresh water fish. Dr R V Truitt concludes salt water intrusion is the killer after examining Sev ern and Magothy rivers amid various theories.
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Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
R. V. Truitt
University of Maryland
Swepson
Earle ‘State Conservation
Truitt
Conservation Department
Severn
Magothy
Judge Lindsey to Put Blame Upon Bishop Manning
New York December 16. Judge Lindsey plans to blame Bishop William T. Manning at his coming trial over a disorderly conduct charge. He says Manning incited a riot at St John the Divine by slandering him from the pulpit and provoking the mob. Manning declines comment while summoned as a witness.
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New York
Lindsey
William T. Manning
St. John the Divine
Manning
Episcopal
Bernard Iddings Bell
Columbia University
New York Churchmen’s Association
de. Bell
Ruy NO
State Signs Shop Saves Money on Roadway Signs
Baltimore, Dec 10. In operation for one year the sign painting shop of the State Roads Commission saved more than fifty percent on direction detour distance and bridge signs for roadway markings. The shop produced signs at a total cost of 11476.58 with overhead. External estimates from private firms ranged at 25169. The shop signs are well made, with an estimated three to four year life.
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Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Richard F. Goeing
Cottage raid uncovers bandit hideout near Baltimore
police found a Dundalk summer cottage stocked with stolen goods worth over $1000 and an arsenal of shotguns. two Baltimore nurses rented the place and reported a new lock after weeks away, while a mirror arrangement hid approaches to the rear room. Also Chicago broker's clerk William Kuhn was jailed for attempting to extort 25000 from Miss Marion Wright.
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Baltimore
Dundalk
Bear Creek
Seing Held
Chicago
William Kuhn
Marion Wright
County Board Fails to Elect New President
The new Board of County Commissioners adjourned yesterday afternoon without organizing after three ballots all showing Dallas Ward with John B. Beard and Frank R. Beard each one. The Democrats favor Ward who has two votes per ballot and is closest to victory. The board plans to reconvene Tuesday to organize and elect a president, appoint an attorney, and make other appointments.
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Board of County Commissioners
Dallas Ward
John B. Beard
Frank R. Beard
Democratisc
Ward
Keedysville Bank Office Safe Smashed in Heist
Renner traced an overnight incident to a vehicle with two women and two men, Rotz and Baker, arrested after a trap near Keedysville. The safe had been smashed with a sledge hammer and crowbar, with under $50 in cash recovered. Baker’s mother owns the Maryland license plate vehicle used in the escape. Rotz and Baker previously faced felony charges in 1927 and were jailed.
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Keedysville
Renner
Rotz
Baker
Maryland
Harshman
Southern Maryland Raids Net 3 Stills
In Leonardtown on December 10 three more stills were seized as Prohibition Director Amos W. W. Doodcock pushes a crackdown in St Mary's County. Agents split into two groups and raided liquor plants, resulting in one arrest.
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Leonardtown
Maryland
Amos W. W. Doodcock
United States
St. Mary’s County
Steadier Tone To Stock Prices Opens Mixed
New York stocks opened with little movement as prices showed narrow changes. Major issues like U S Steel American Can Radio and General Electric held steady while Bethlehem Steel Standard Oil of New Jersey American and Foreign Power Westinghouse Electric rose, and Eastman Dupont American Tobacco and several others fell. The market firmed in early trading with some issues climbing two points or more. Weekly steel trade reviews appeared more optimistic, viewed as currently favorable.
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New York
U. S. Steel
American Can
Radio
General Electric
Bethlehext Steel
Standard
N. J
American
Westinghouse Electric
American Power
American Telephone
Eastman
Dupont
American Tobacco B
International Telephone
Jesus Manville
Ironage
Western Maryland schedule changes and local notices
Readable items show Western Maryland railroad timetables changing effective Sunday with revised Baltimore and Cumberland trains. Other small notices include a buy sale at 48 W Franklin St and an oyster dinner event at St Johns Lutheran Church with a men’s Bible class.
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Western Maryland Railroad
Baltimore
Hagerstown
Cumberland
Franklin St
St. Paul's M. EB
St. John's Lutheran Church
Relief Work Planned in Shepherdstown for Christmas Seals
In Shepherdstown West Virginia the tuberculosis Christmas Seal drive proceeds this week organized by the Shepherdstown Women's Club with L. Welshang as general chairman and Emily Gray Hoffman Kathryn Johnson and Earl Dolly as student sub chairs. The article also notes religious services and Christmas activities including a college party at Miller Hall for football men and various local social events.
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Shepherdstown
W- Va
G. W. Bretnel
Red Cross
C. R. Bailey
Romney
Presbyterian Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Victor Halbritter
W. R. Thacher
W. H. S. White
Margaret Mountain
Rae Knode
Hagerstown
Mary Scanion
Woman’s Hospital
Baltimore
Miller Hall
Shepherd College
Frances Maybury
Gertrude Carr
Town
Anti Christmas Drive Launched in Moscow
The All Union Society of Militant Atheists announced a nationwide anti Christmas campaign in Moscow on December 10. Thousands of professors teachers and students were mobilized to teach the public that Christmas is a snare and a delusion and to expose clergy aims to use the birth of Christ for counter revolutionary ends.
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Moscow
All-Union Society of Militant Atheists
Society Aviatrix Heads East In Transcontinental Flight
Ruth Nichols of Rye New York leaves Wichita Kansas at 7 41 a m CST on the second and final leg of a trans continental record bid aiming to better the Los Angeles New York time. Weather ahead favorable expects to reach destination today without refueling. In New York Mrs Browning earns ten thousand one hundred fifty nine dollars for managerial services.
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Wichita
Kas
Ruth Nichols
Rye
N. Y
Los Angeles
New York
F. M. Keith-Mile
Middle West
Hundreds Of Planes To Fly Over The State
Baltimore dispatch reports the army air corps plans a field day in May with pilots and enlisted men grouped across New York, Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Washington. Final maneuvers will overfly Maryland. F Trubee Davison says this marks the first peacetime mass concentration for testing tactical problems and Atlantic coast large scale exercises.
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Baltimore
Air Corps
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Wilmngton
Washington
Maryland
F. Trubee Davison
Atlantic Coast
League Sponsors Sale Of Blind Man's Work
The Housewives League of Hagerstown sponsors a sale of wares by Clifford H. Shoop in the old Globe building front office on North Potomac Street. Goods include novel brushes hearth brooms fish nets and hammocks crafted with care and suitable for Christmas gifts. Mrs Shoop offers chair caning and related contracting services.
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Housewives League of
Hagerstown
Thia City
Clifford H. Shoop
Globe
North Potomac Street
Former Supporter Demands He Resign From Cuba
Havana December 10. Dr Carlos Manuel De La Cruz a conservative party representative and former Machado supporter in Havana province sends a letter to the president demanding resignation to save Cuba from a state of anarchy. Washington December 10. American Federation of Labor approves a five day week for government employees.
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Havana
Carlos Manuel de la Cruz
Machado
Cuba
Bey
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Noted Flier Charles Kingsford Smith Marries Mary Powell
Melbourne reports Wing Commander Charles Kingsford Smith, famed trans Atlantic and trans Pacific aviator, wed Mary Powell in Scots Church. Only close friends attended the ceremony but 19,000 onlookers gathered outside. Their romance began in 1927 after his trans Pacific flight aboard a liner from Vancouver.
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Melbourne
Australia
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Mary Powell
Vancouver
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W. Franklin St
Ady
Pride of
Northside Hatcheries &. M. Horst
Mauganeville
Keedysville B.& C
Bly Now
St. Paul's
A. T. Hetzer
Hemphil
Noyes & Co
W. Washington
Allegh Corp
Amo & Fgu Pr
Amn Sugar
AE & Pravceee
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Focus
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Ennecott
Ligg & Myre
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Mack ‘Druck
Mid Con Pete
Telly Monty Ward
Aly
Norty Amn
Packard
Jose
Lite
Remng Rand
Sears Roebk
Ao Sinclair
Bry Ltd- Brands
DBE Studebaker
Tex-Gulf Bus
Union Pac BR
LIS
Corp
S Steel
Warner Bros
Resse
Woolworth
Warthern Buliding
Personal Finance Co
Shepherd Flier
James Garlitt
Eastern District ‘Federation of Women’s Clubs
Keyser
C. E. Tipton
Harpers Ferry
Geyer
Martinsburg
Billy Cooley
George Whitehair
Addie R. Ireland
Society Aviatrix
Biy
Peaches” Browning
Edgar Allen
K. T. Hager Cor
Church and Prospect
O’ciwck
Jerome Egg Lump
Steve J. W. Rohrer
Hagerstown Tent and Awning CO
H. L. Mills
W. Saltimora St
Turkeys
Green Acres
Indian Springs
Oldsmobile
Used Car Department
Penna. Ave
McFadlins Sport Shop
Jonathan St
MOOSE
State Armory
George Buys’ Orchestra
Kingsford - Smith
Bellans
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Strap
Elgin
F.R. Saum
N. Jonathan St
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