Morgan Testifies German Acts Pushed U S Into War
J P Morgan told a Senate investigating committee that German acts rather than international finance pushed the United States into World War I. Morgan’s statement, read to lawmakers, drew sharp questions as senators pressed for curbs on dealings with warring nations. Lamont defended the bank’s role amid objections from panel members.
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Washington
P. Morgan
Senate
United States
Morgan
Clark
Thomas W. Lamont
Court to Rule on Tax Collection by Liquor Board
In Annapolis on January 7 a circuit court will rule on Comptroller William S. Gordy Jr.’s right to collect gross receipts taxes from Worcester county liquor control board. The board and county commissioners seek an injunction to stop the state from collecting the tax.
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Annapolis
William S. Gordy, Jr
Worcester County Liquor Control Board
Liquor Control Board
Divorce Suits Set High Mark
Divorce filings broke a local record in 1935 with 107 suits filed, surpassing all prior years in the era of the 1930s. Marriage licenses issued totaled 2467, well above the prior year’s 221, reflecting a year of high marriage activity followed by increased separations.
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Dan Cupid
Bandit Robs Taxicab Operator and Throws Officer From Cliff
An armed bandit robbed Hancock taxi operator Sherman Leighty at his home between 9 and 10 last night, taking about 15 dollars and jewelry after declaring owed money. He then tussled with Constable Charles Barnhart on a cliff near Round Top, throwing him over the edge. Barnhart was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and other injuries. The bandit, who identified himself as Everett, remains at large as a wide search continues in Hancock and Morgan counties.
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Sherman Leighty
Hancock
Charles Barnhart
Washington County
Morgan County
Leighty
Everett
Barnhart
Round Top
Stoneham Giants president Charles A Stoneham dies at 59
Charles A. Stoneham 59 longtime president and majority stock owner of the New York Giants dies after a long illness in Hot Springs Ark he had sought relief since mid December He died in his hotel room caused by nephritis His son Horace and Ernie Viberg will accompany the body to New York while Bill Terry heads to St Louis to join the funeral party
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Hot Springs
Ark
Charles A. Stoneham
New York Giants
W. M. Blackshare
Bright
Stoneham
Horace
Ernie Viberg
New York
Bill Terry
Giants
Memphis
St. Louis
Viberg
Falkenstein at FBI training school in Washington
Lieut. N. G. Falkenstein of the State Police, stationed in Hagerstown, is among 23 policemen from across the country attending the FBI second police training school in Washington.
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N. G. Falkenstein
State Police
Hagerstown
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Heiress accuses mother of depriving motherhood in suit
Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, heir to a $10 million trust, sues her mother Mrs. Maryon Hewitt McCarter and two San Francisco surgeons for $500,000 alleging sterilization during an alleged appendectomy in 1934. She says she was kept hidden, denied dolls, and will have no children, while claiming her mother squandered funds gambling. The case seeks an accounting and alleges neglect and mistreatment.
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San Francisco
Ann Cooper Hewitt
Maryon Hewitt McCarter
Miss Hewitt
Russell P. Tyler
Negro Given Term In Cut For Aggressive Panhandling
William Workman 36 colored of Greenville South Carolina was sentenced to six months in the House of Correction by Justice John D. Dunn after allegedly grabbing a man on East Washington Street and attempting to rob him. William Davis 44 colored, a stranger without an address, received thirty days in jail on a vagrancy charge.
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William Workman
Greenville
S. C
House of Correction
Workman
John D. Dunn
East Washington Street
William Davis
Dunn
Henson Fined $125 for DUI and Accident After Crash
Edward Henson of Hagerstown was fined $125 and costs in Frederick court for operating a vehicle under liquor influence and failing to stop after an accident. His truck struck a trolley car, nearly struck a police officer, and he was carried from the vehicle when it stopped. A sentence for reckless driving was suspended by Justice Milton G. Urner Jr. Officers found three partially filled whiskey bottles on the seat beside him.
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Edward Henson
Hagerstown
Frederick Court
Frederick Street
Henson
Milton G. Urner, Jr
House Group Agrees Upon Cash Bonus Plan
Washington January 7 The bill to grant a cash bonus to 3,000,000 World War veterans won broad support in the House Ways and Means Committee. The immediate outlay is placed at 1 billion dollars, though critics say the cost will be higher. Vinson Patman and McCormack will sponsor the measure, aiming for quick House passage and transmission to the Senate. The plan promises veterans full maturity value of their service, with the measure expected to be taken up by the House soon.
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Washington
Veterans
House
Senate
Ways and Means
Vinson
Patman
Tex
McCormack
Mass
Marooned by heavy drifts blocks Wyoming rescue
Stubborn snowdrifts hindered a CCC led effort to reach a remote Wyoming ranch with food for 17 marooned coal miners and families trapped three days. Ground teams fight deep drifts and a potential blizzard as fuel and time run low.
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Sdaho Falls
Idaho
Wyoming
CCC
Norman Gonzales
Wyoming National Forest
Woman Sent to Hospital After Fall on Ice
Mrs. Vada Rogers, 46, of the 300 block South Cannon Avenue, was injuried in a fall on icy pavement yesterday while walking to work at a local plant. A nearby resident and a milkman assisted and she was carried to the plant and later to Washington County Hospital in serious condition with a fractured hip and other injuries.
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Vada Rogers
Cannon Avenue
Washington County Hospital
Boy Has Forty Cents Pulled From Throat Visit
In Sayre on January 7 a child named Frank Peltz age 8 was brought to Packer hospital for a throat exam. Doctors pulled a quarter and a nickel from his esophagus after the boy complained of a foreign object stuck there.
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Sayre
Frank Peltz
Packer Hospital
Frank
State Faces Shortage In Relief Funds
Maryland faces a $600,000 shortage for February and March relief funds based on January expenditures. A special meeting chaired by Samuel Shannahan heard that $507,000 was spent in January and that only $482,000 remains for state relief for February and March, with $261,000 for aid to dependent children and old age groups and estimated administrative costs of $81,090. The $5.5 million annual limit set by the 1935 legislature tightens available funds.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Samuel Shannahan
Board of
State Aid and Charities
Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission
Harry Greenstein
Howard Beck
Howard W. Jackson
Baltimore City
Greenstein
Baltimore delegate aims to license race bookmaking
Delegate Walter J. Locke of Fifth Baltimore says he will introduce at the special legislative session a bill to legalize and license handbook betting on races in the city. He frames the measure as a funding method for emergency relief and old age pensions, noting previous failure of similar bills. Mil ler of Washington County previously proposed licensing bookmaking there but did not reach a vote.
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Baltimore
Walter J. Locke
Balto
Locke
Ernest W. Miller
Washington County
FREIGHT CAR ROBBED HERE
A Pennsylvania freight car was robbed of 1000 razors and 1000 blades valued at 2850 dollars during the night of January 4 or morning of January 5. C C Richardson, a company employee, reported the theft to the police. H H Rowe of Towson reported his Buick sedan was stripped of most accessories overnight behind the Alexander Hotel.
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Plore
H. H. Rowe
Towson
Alexander Hotel
Lottery probe claims pupils spent lunch money on wagers
Baltimore investigators widened the lottery racketeering case after a card from a teacher alleged pupils in public schools wagered their lunch money. State's Attorney J Bernard Wells faced death threats as he pursued new clues including possible police links and witnesses who have vanished or left the state.
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Baltimore
J. Bernard Wells
Farm groups to meet in capital over Supreme Court decision
Washington January 7 delegates from the American Farm Bureau Federation the National Grange the National Cooperative Council the Farmers' National Grain Corporation and the American Agricultural Editors Associations will gather as the National Agricultural Conference to study the Supreme Court AAA ruling and its implications. L. J. Tab is among the speakers for the major farm meeting expected to involve about 2,000,000 farmers.
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Washington
Supreme Court
AAA
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
National Cooperative Council
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
American Agricultural Editors Associations
National Agricultural Conference
L. J. Tab
Damage suits docketed in circuit court
Cora McCoy sued Merle Rowland taxi owner for 1000 dollars claiming she sprained an ankle and injury after alighting from his cab on November 20 in the 900 block of Hamilton boulevard alleging negligent alighting assistance and curb distance. Catherine and J Earl Kohler filed two suits against Harry S Myers stemming from a winter collision that caused Miss Kohler to suffer a broken leg and other injuries involving a sled and a delivery truck. Attorneys D A Wolfinger and Chas F Wagaman filed the Kohler suits.
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Cora McCoy
R. Roulette
Merle Rowland
Hamilton Boulevard
Catherine W. Kohler
J. Earl Kohler
Harry S. Myers
Drunken gunmen kill two waiters in New York
New York January 7 two drunken gunmen killed two waiters in separate Brooklyn and nearby taverns. Ralph Misco 32 a waiter was shot after lowering his hands in Fulton Street tavern robbery while Julius Davison 40 another waiter died in a second hold up about a mile away.
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New York
Brooklyn
Fulton St
Ralph Misco
Misco
Julius Davidson
Plan to create 48 state Aaa units sparks post ruling debate
Washington reports AAA supporters study options after the Supreme Court upholds the act. Possibilities include 48 state AAA systems funded by federal grants, cash payments to farmers for proper land use, and a domestic allotment with crop quotas. Critics fear broad invalidation of New Deal programs.
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Washington
AAA
Supreme Court
Labor Cheered By AAA Ruling
Labor leaders of the American Federation of Labor welcomed the Supreme Court decision to strike down the AAA and predicted it would push farmers toward endorsing a constitutional amendment to validate social justice legislation. The AFL executive council planned to meet next week in Miami to decide on immediate congressional action.
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Byrnes
New Deal
Roosevelt
Guffey
Bankhead
D.-Ala
AAA
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court
Miami
Forida
Congress
Heavy claims filed against defunct Albaugh firm
The two largest creditors of Albaugh Chevrolet Sales Inc Frederick have filed claims against the receivership for 140000. Sixty two other claims of varying amounts many for salary have been entered against the closed concern. C I T Corporation which started the receivership proceedings and GM Acceptance Corporation entered the claims. The former charges trade lent misrepresentation which they sustained losses on the resale of automobiles repossessed from retail purchasers for which the Abbaugh concern is liable under a repurchase agreement.
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Albaugh Chevrolet Sales, Inc
Frederick
C. I. T. Corporation
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
Abbaugh
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