Life of Tobago Island told by former resident in City life
Mrs. Edna L. Whiteley of South Prospect Street Hagerstown known as Lady Bountiful in Tobago Island West Indies spends months here with her son Leonard a St James School student. She led the Speyside Athletic Club native youth movement and a regimental drill and civics program earning a governor’s appreciation. She started Tobago’s first bus system and ice factory, built a clubhouse for athletics and trades, and aims to attract industry to the island while describing its climate beauty and poverty. She plans a book and reflects on colonial era matters including King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson.
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Hagerstown
Edna L. Whiteley
South Prospect Street
Bountiful
Tobago Island
West Indies
Speyside Athletic Club
Old Campbell
Mrs. Whiteley
Whiteley
Tobago
Paradise Island
Mrs. White
Fistfights mark waterfront union meeting clash
A sequence of Sunday fistfights broke out as rank and file truck drivers protested crossing waterfront picket lines set by striking seamen. Police quickly intervened to prevent entry to the meeting, with Michael J. Cashal, international vice president of the Teamsters and Chauffeurs Union, warning drivers against attending, deeming the gathering unauthorized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Michael J. Cashal
Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs Union
Gang of auto thieves sought in Maryland
State Police hunted a gang of car thieves who have stolen at least four new cars in the last three days. The vehicles were stripped of tires batteries radios horns and other accessories and abandoned in remote areas of Caroline and Queen Anne counties.
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Easton
Caroline
Queen Anne
Cuban tobacco crop valued at 40 to 50 million dollars
The annual value of the Cuban tobacco crop is estimated between 40 million and 50 million dollars, reflecting the sector's economic importance and export potential for the island.
Strike Leader Is Released On Writ
Harry Bridges, leader of the Pacific Coast longshoremen, was freed on a habeas corpus writ after being booked on negligent homicide in the death of eight year old Joe Miranda. The boy died in a head on bicycle collision with Bridges motor vehicle. Bail was set at $2,000. An inquest was scheduled for tomorrow.
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Long Beach
Calif
Harry Bridges
Pacific Coast Marine Strike
Joe Miranda
Bridges
Pacific Coast
Astronomers to Meet in Frederick Maryland
Frederick Maryland hosts the 57th meeting of the American Astronomical Society at Hood College from tomorrow night to Wednesday. Reports from Mount Wilson Observatory Pasadena and Dominion Astrophysical Observatory Victoria head a program drawing nearly 100 representatives from colleges and universities nationwide. The piece notes the city will be an astronomical hub for a day and a half.
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Frederick
North America
Maryland
American Astonomical Society
Hood College
Ing
Mount Wilson Observatory
Pasadena
Calif
Dpinion Astrophysical Observatory
Victoria
B. C
Amateur flier plummets to death near Hurffville
Earle C. Henderson age 35 of East Pitman, a licensed pilot and mechanic, died when his small cabin monoplane collapsed in flight and plunged to a field near Hurffville New Jersey on Sunday.
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Hurffville
N. J
Unting
Earle C. Henderson
East Pitman
Cartoonist Clive Weed Dies at 62 in New York
New York December 28 Clive Weed artist and political cartoonist died Sunday of pneumonia at age 62 He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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New York
Clive Weed
Weed
Pennsylvania Academy of Fire Arts
One Killed In Fall Of Plane At Hybla Field
Omar Hickman of Crisfield Maryland died from injuries after a first flight ended in a crash near Hybla Valley Field Alexandria Virginia. Pilot George Stanford Washington student pilot survived with leg fractures and severe cuts. The aircraft stalled, dived into a marsh, and was demolished. Witnesses saw the fall from under 200 feet.
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Alexandria
Omar Hickman
Crisfield
George Stanford
Washington
Hybla
Stanford
Hickman
Hospital
Beacom Field
Hybla Valley Field
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Trinidad
Joseph
Demann
R. D. McKee
Roney Bros
N. Potomac St
Harry S. Myers
Edward’s
Washington St
NeNie Tipton Muench
St. Louis
A. P
Cannon
Plaid
BBC
Wards White
WARD
Hagerstown, MD
The
Loyal Order of Moose
Louisville, Ky
J. H. Wilson
Canada
America
Cauffman
Frigidaire
Potomac Edison CO
Harrisburg
Harrisburg Ly
Greencastle
Chambersburg
Shippensburg
Carlisle
Alex
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