Suitor Held After Opera Singer Slain
Umberto Guisti, 37, claimed he killed opera singer Emilia Da Prato after a quarrel over her New York opera engagement. He is held in Redwood City jail awaiting a secret arraignment while relatives of Da Prato sought restraint amid threats of lynching.
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San Francisco
Umberto Guisti
Emilia da Frato
Redwood City
Guisti
da ‘Prato
Miss da Prate
New York
Alesandro
Amini
Percio da Prato
Christmas Carols at Mercersburg to Feature Carillon Recitals
Three carillon recitals are scheduled at the Mercersburg Academy chapel during Christmas weekend by Bryan Barker. Performances occur Sunday at 3 PM, Christmas Eve midnight, and Christmas Day at 10 30 AM with carols such as God Rest You Merry Gentlemen The First Nowell When Christ Was Born on Earth Gloria in Excelsis Deo Holy Night Silent Night Hark the Herald Angels Sing and Adeste Fideles.
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Mercersburg Academy
Bryan Barker
Christ
Herald Angels
Special Program by St Pauls M E Church Women Class
The Women’s Bible Class at St Paul’s M E Church conducts a special program Sunday morning led by Mrs H Zeigler’s substitute Mrs Charles Keedy. Mrs Margaret Spessard Fox will sing and Mrs Leopard will give a Christmas reading as the group’s teacher is away.
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Women's Bible
St. Paul's M. E. Church
H. Zeigler
Margaret Spessard Fox
Leopard
Charles Keedy
Zeigler
Kreps Dies After Street Fall In Sharpsburg
C Conrad Kreps, a prominent insurance agent and real estate dealer, died at his home on Mulberry avenue from injuries suffered in a street fall four weeks earlier. Age 63, born in Clearspring district, survived by wife Ella M Kreps, daughter Mrs George Lambert Hagers town, sister Mrs George Martin Baltimore, and brother Harry S Kreps Halfway. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm from the home, Rev J Edward Harrs officiating. Burial Mountain View cemetery Sharpsburg.
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Do. Conrad Kreps
Mulberry Avenue
Mr. Kreps
Clearspring
G. M
Susan Conrad Kreps
Reformed Church of
Reformed Church of Clearspring. Besides His Wife, Ella M. Kreps
George Lambert
Dalai Lama Death Rumor Circulates In London
A rumor claimed the Dalai Lama Ngawang Lopsangi was poisoned rather than dying of natural causes. No confirmation or grounds for removal were found. The Tibetan spiritual leader died at 60, with followers believing his spirit reincarnates in a new infant.
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London
Dalai Lama
Tibet
Lhasa
Daily Mail
Kalimpong
Bengal
Ngawang Lopsangi
Buddhist Asia
Buddha
Not Always To Blame In Auto Crash At Crossing
Madison woman Katherine Fitzpatrick sued for 2000 by Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railway after her car hit a locomotive at a crossing. Circuit Judge Charles M Davison granted a none suit after defense alleging driver in control. Local brief notes also report a colored man found dead on Baltimore and Ohio tracks in Cumberland on December 20.
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Waukesha
Wis
Charles M. Davison
Katherine Fitzpatrick
Madison
Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul and Pacific Railway
Davison
Cumberland
Richard Washington
Staunton
Baltimore and Ohio
Missing Livermore prompts federal inquiry into disappearance
The Justice Department bureau of investigation opened a case into stock operator Jesse Livermore’s disappearance after New York police flagged the absence. Officials cautioned information is scant and could not rule out kidnapping at this stage.
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Justice Dept. Aids
Washington
Justice Department
Bureau of Investigation
Jesse Livermore
Investigation Bureau
Livermore
New York
Christmas doll theft ends in grandmother's heartbreak
Six year old Marilyn MacFarlane keeps a cherished Santa Claus doll given for a future child. A burglar forces theft at the Langton home while Grandmother Langton sewed the doll’s clothes. Police investigate the Christmas-age crime in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
Grant MacFarlane
Santa Claus
J. A. Langton
Marilyn
Stab Victim in Hospital In Sharpsburg Store Fight
Ray Cletus Grove aged 25 of Sharpsburg was admitted to Washington County Hospital with stab wounds to the back from a December 13 incident in a Sharpsburg store. Witnesses named another man as the knife wielder. Grove’s condition was reported favorable. Charles Tracey aged 41 near Smithsburg was wounded by two pistol shots the previous November morning. His condition was listed as unfavorable as complications developed. Tracey said his wife Alta fired two shots after an argument. she claimed he struck her with a piece of wood before she sought help.
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Ray Cletus Grove
Sharpsburg
Washington County
Edgar Brant
Grove
Brant
Charles Tracey
Smithsburg
Tracey
Alta Tracey
Will Try for an Endurance Mark
In Miami on December 20 Helen Richey and Mrs Frances Marsalis launched at 10 42 am aiming to set a women s endurance refueling record. The flight uses the same plane as the earlier attempt by Mrs Marsalis Viola Gentry who was ill and could not refuel during high winds.
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Miami
Fla
Helen Richey
Frances Harrell Marsali
Marsalis
Viola Gentry
Hodges Addresses Girls Friendly Society at St John’s
Prof Charles Hodges principal of Hagerstown Colored High speaks on race progress in agriculture science literature art and religion at St John’s parish house. Rev Walter Stehl highlights church efforts for colored education Liberia nine colleges and schools. Society plans charity party December 50 and Christmas carols. January program on Indians of North America.
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Charles Hodges
Hagerstown
Girls’ Friendly Society
St. John's Episcopal Church
Walter Byron Stehl
Episcopal Church
Liberia
North America
Woman burned trimming tree in apartment in Quincy
In Quincy on December 20 a 57 year old widow Mrs Herman Fichter was burned to death while trimming a Christmas tree in her apartment when the tree caught fire from a short circuit A new trial was ordered in Cumberland on December 20 after a verdict of 550 for the death of a husband in an airplane accident was set aside by Judge Albert A Douh HOLLY WREATHS And all other kind of wreaths Shipp s Fish Mkt Phone 2470
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Quincy, Ill
Herman Fichter
Cumberland
Grace Ankeney
Albert A. Douh
Shipp
Lindberghs Complete Arctic Survey Flight Return
The Lindberghs land at New York after a 640 mile Atlantic flight marking the end of a five month journey to survey commercial aviation routes. They visited 31 countries and colonies, with precise navigation and frequent bad weather shaping the voyage.
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Lindberghs
Colonel Lindbergh
Pan-American Airways
Col
Lindbergh
Arctic
New York
Flushing Bay
San
Old Charleston
Atlantic
North Carolina
Wright Brothers
Jersey
Appeal Dance A Big Success at University of Maryland
College Park Md students held an appeal dance last night selling admission tickets in form of canned goods clothing and money. More than two tons of food and clothing plus 65 dollars were collected for welfare agencies serving poor families in the university neighborhood this Christmas tide.
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College Park
Dee
University of Maryland
Dairy League Banquet Ends Year With Entertainment
The United Dairy League held its annual banquet at the Maugansville Fire Hall last night. Members and guests enjoyed a fine repast, mingling with fellow dairy workers before games and several boxing matches capped the evening.
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T He United Dairy League
Maugansville
League
Suspects Rounded Up in France Spy Sweep
An international espionage ring with Italian, Yugoslav, Czech, Scandinavian and French links was dismantled after 300 detectives traced a two year hunt. Three sentenced include Austrian Clement Bruss to five years for receiving a fortification map, Joseph Schon and Louis Doll also punished. Police say arrests spanned Paris and provinces with vast fortification documents seized.
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Clement Bruss
Joseph Schon
Schohn
Louis Doll
Petit Parisien
Paris
Christmas trees and poultry advertised at local shop
Several hundred Christmas trees of white pine yellow pine cedar offered by B. and Q. Nessenger station. Also advertised turkeys for Christmas corn fed free range. Phone Clear Spring 23F21. Mrs. S. L. Moore.
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Q. Nessenger
Shipp
S. L. Moore
Homestead Plan Set Aside Large Georgia Colony
Senator George announced that the subsistence homestead corporation has earmarked 1,006,000 dollars for a Georgia colony to model a broader land use program. About 1,500 people are to be placed on 30,000 acres under the project, aiming to demonstrate a wider land utilization concept.
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Washington
George
Subsistence Homestead Corporation
Georgia
Chicago grain market and Maryland bred turkeys advertised
Quotations by Stein Broz and McComas Armstrong Building list Chicago grain market figures. Maryland bred turkeys are offered at 78 cents per pound dressed or live weight. Contact John H Hartle in Chewsville at phone 4090 F 22.
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Stein Broz
Boyce
McComas-Armstrong Building
Maryland
John H. Hartle Chewsville
Street Board Plans New Traffic Ways
The Street Board approved appointing Captain Cer H. McCleary as lieutenant and ordered an automatic traffic light system for Public Square to speed vehicle flow. Changes include one amber light, adjustable timing, and added signals at SummitHoward and PotomacBroadway, with several signs and curb markings altered.
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Cer H. McCleary
Joseph Desmond
Board of Street’ Commissioners
West Antietam Street
Washington and
Prospect Streets
Jonathan
Washington Streets
Pennsylvania Avenue
Charles Street
Potomac
Oak Hill Avenues
Summit Avenue
Howard Street
Potomac Street
Broadway
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Sedan
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Chevard
Newchater
Jefe Whippet
Iety Studebaker
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C. Conrad Kreps
N. Potomac
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State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co
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Zimmerman & Wishard Cor
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Turkey
G. W. Swork
Curb Exchange
Great Neck
Arthur Barry
James W
Boston
Billy” Monahan
Monahan
Connecticut
Barry
Ray C. Grove
Chas. E. Fry
Hollywood
Miriam Jordan
Joseph Davis
Associated Press
Prof. Hodges
Colored High School
G. F. Society
Hillside Coal Co
Somerset Lumpy
Penna
Lump Cash
Fleigh Motor & Tire Co
Oak Hill
Ira Fanrney
Mgr
Dairy League
Mau
Gansville
Roxy Restaurant
Frederick St
Tom Cross
Beck’s Restaurant
Arcade Dining Room
Stein Bros & Boyce
McComsa-Armatrong
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DuPont Cet Sereee
Jen
Orn Foods
ATS
Goodyear
N. Y. Central
North Amer
Penna. R. R
Radio Batten Ee Eee
Ltd
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United Aircraft
Union Pacific
Westhouse Eilec
Union
West
DaWs
Wanes Beter
Texas Corp
Warner Bros
Chicago Grain Market
ARROW
Reigel
Hickok
Pocketbooks
Washington St
Hager’s Market
Corner
Prospect
Florida
Austin
Dance Hall
Washington St. Marie
Ridge Serenaders
Fianne Cutler
Herald-Mail CO
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