Arrests in chase of John D linger gang in Chicago raid
Chicago December 18 with shoot to kill orders a police unit hunted the John D linger gang of escaped Indiana convicts. A raid at Humboldt boulevard apartment house ended with the arrest of Arthur Fisk Johnson and Miss Helen Burke. An address book linked a second deserted apartment where a man and woman matching the gang description had been staying.
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Chicago
Indiana
Arthur (Fisk) Johnson
Helen Burke
Chas
Humboldt Boulevard
Micers
Dillinger
Police Aid For Needy Families To Help Christmas
The Police Athletic Association voted to contribute $25 toward food and toys for Hagerstown's poor and dependent families. With Boy Scouts handling toy distribution this Christmas, officers aim to add to the season's cheer by assisting more city families.
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Police Athletic, Association
Hagerstown
Boy Scouts
Dillinger gang hunted as city police brace for confrontations
Police launch nationwide manhunt after Dillinger aide wounded sergeant Shanley and a 13th Chicago officer falls. Authorities describe John Hamilton as a key Dillinger lieutenant, while the gang’s Indiana prison break and bank raids are cited as the source of the latest gun battles and deadly alerts.
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Touly
Thomas J. Courtney
Wiliam Shanley
Chicago
John Hamilton
Leutenant
Dillinger
Shanley
Indiana State Penitentiary
Lima
Ohio
Jess. Larber
Indiana
Illinois
Aged veteran Berry identified as Confederate Army man at local home
Major Bouterse of the Salvation Army home confirms B F Berry a transient guest for weeks is a genuine Confederate Army veteran. Berry claims service at Antietam with Jeb Stuart’s cavalry and raids near Gettysburg. He recalls Lincoln’s assassination and says he was born in Randolph County West Virginia aged 87.
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B. F. Berry
Salvation Army
Major Bouterse
Berry
Thomas N. Read
Hinton
W. Va
Antietam
Jeb. Stuart
Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Booth
Randolph County
West Virginia
Monsignor Foley Dies at 81 in Baltimore
Monsignor Michael F. Foley longtime pastor of St. Pauls Catholic Church and dean of priests in the Baltimore Archdiocese died at his home after a month illness He was made a monsignor by Cardinal Gibbons in 1914 and was an early and lifelong advocate of temperance and national prohibition.
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Baltimore
Michael F. Foley
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Archdiocese of
Foley
Cardinal Gibbons
Explains Loans for Fruit Men Meeting Highlights
At the Courthouse on Saturday, J Andrew Cahill of Hanover heads Production Credit Corporation talks on loans for orchardists for crop production. A Martinsburg meeting is set for Wednesday December 27 at 10 30 in the Courthouse to form another crop production association.
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J. Andrew Cahill
Hancock
Production Credit Corporation of
Baltimore
Martinsburg
Anothe Crop Production Association
Bridgeport Family Visits and Local Road Accidents
Charles and Joe Price visited their grandmother Mrs Ella Plummer. Mrs Clyde Stouffer and sons George and Edward visited the Garretts. Slippery bridge hill roads caused many accidents with cars over the bank. Peggy Plummer, ill with scarlet fever, shows improvement.
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Charles
Joe Price
Ella Plummer
Clyde Stouffer
George
Edward
W. W.garrett
Bridge Hill
Peggy Plummer
Rising Retail Sales Boost Christmas Cheer and Employment
New York Dec 18 Rising retail sales and firmer industrial barometers point to a stronger Christmas hoard. Pay from CWA programs quickens demand for essentials while store stocks thin in clothing. Dun and Bradstreet notes a shift from belt tightening to a more generous spending mood as auto output edges up with new models.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet
Heflin Enters Congress Race
In Montgomery Alabama on December 18 cotton Tom Heflin the noted Alabama campaigner announced his bid for Congress. A long time political figure he rose from Lafayette mayor to the U S House and then to the Senate before losing a bid four years ago to John H Bankhead now he begins a comeback effort in the Fifth Alabama District continuing his well known political career across decades.
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Montgomery
Ala
Cotton Tom” Heflin
Alabama
Congress
United States Senate
John H. Bankhead
Cotton Tom
Lafayette
House of Representatives
Fess Urges orderly program for recovery plan
United States Senator Simeon D. Fess told YMCA members that the NRA has offered only relief and that recovery needs a more orderly program of conservative legislation. He said the recovery plan is theoretical and hard to implement. The report also notes burglaries in Evanston and a clash with communists in London near the German Embassy.
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Lancaster
United States
Simeon D. Fess
National Republican
Young Men's Christian Association
NRA
United
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