Franco Lines May Be Split In Catalonia Drive
Communiques from both sides report gains in the Spanish Civil War with government troops under Jose Miaja advancing toward the Portuguese border and taking Granja de Torrehermosa while Franco loyalists press east toward Barcelona. Heavy fighting is noted east of Balaguer as fronts tighten between Lerida and Balaguer and toward the coast at Tarragona.
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Hendaye
France
Jose Miaja
Barcelona
Balaguer
Bellevis
Lerida
Tarragona
Portugal
Pennatroya
Spain
Valencia- Madrid
Mediterranean
Chamberlain braces for Mussolini voyage amid Franco Spain tensions
The premier heads for Rome with plans to meet France’s Premier Dals dher in Paris while Italy backed by Nazi Germany presses for concessions over Corsica Nice and unis. Britain’s stance seeks to keep the Franco alliance intact, as observers doubt a successful outcome from the Rome talks unless Italian troops leave Spain.
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Czechoslovakia
France
Paris
Dalsdher
Unis
Corsica
Nice
Rome
Italy
Germany
Pritain
Chamberlain
Europe
England
Thruce
Franco
Spain
Justice Norton Conducts First Marriage Ceremony
Justice Hugh Norton of Gretna Green begun his 13th year as a justice before performing his first marriage. He united Charles H. Daig and Mildred Waggoner of Vesta, Nebraska, in a simple ceremony marking a milestone in his long career.
Murder Case Opens Today in Frederick Maryland
Mrs Evelyn Bajowski faces murder charges in the death of William Warren Gantt a tobacco farmer aged 55 shot to death at his southern Maryland farm after a party with companions Walter Stinnett 24 and Margaret Abell 18 were sentenced previously in Calvert County Stinnett life term Abell 10 years all three fled to Virginia prosecutors say the wealthy victim was slain for his money.
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Frederick
Evelyn Bajowski
William Warren Gantt
Frederick County
Walter Stinnett
Margaret Abell
Calvert County
Stinnett
Abell
Gantt
Maryland
Virginia
Bandit Drains Cash Register After Paying Five Cents
A bandit entered Reuben Boyers store in South Bend Indiana on January 3 and paid five cents for a candy bar then demanded all the money in the register. Boyer handed over the cash. the five cents remained with the robber.
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South Bend, Jnn
Reuben Boyer
Boyer
Hen eludes bulldog after wild chase in Greenville
A bantam hen fled from a Bull dog chasing it across a road in Greenville. The dog stopped when the vehicle rolled on, but the hen vanished from sight as it jumped from a radius rod end and began scratching nearby, while Lebrow Scism drove on.
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Greenville
8. C
Bulldog
Lebrow Scism
Scism
Local Deaths and Obituaries in Washington County area
Obituary notices report deaths of Hilda Virginia Faulder and Asher Edelman in Dobbs Ferry and Alexander Gray in Sharpsburg, with survivors listed. Services set for Mt Lena and Dobbs Ferry, interments at local cemeteries, plus in memoriam and thank you notices from families.
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Hilda Virginia Faulder
Mro
Jaco Faulder
Washington County Hospital
Savior
Harold
Donald
Inez
Marie
Agnes
Milo Palueér
Myersville
Oscar Gernand
Mt. Lena
Border clashes flare as Hungary delays minister return
Budapest reports quiet border morning while Vienna talks threaten ties with Czechoslovakia after renewed artillery fire and troop concentrations. Minister Johann Weltstein von Westerlain remains in Budapest until relations are clarified amid expulsions and German influence accusations.
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Budapest
Hungary
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Johann Weltstein von Westerlain
Foreign Office
Munkacs
Ungyar
Nagygejéce
Ungvar
Simolay
Carpatha-Ukraine
Czecho-Slovakia
Italy
Germany
Christian Boycott of Germany Planned
New York report says a national Christian boycott against Germany is being organized by the Volunteer Christian Committee under Dr. William Jay Schieffelin. Christians would be urged to pledge not to buy German goods, avoid German ships, or enter German territories. A second item notes Mrs Nellie Castelberg, 57, died after leaping from a sixth floor window at Mourse’s Hulme where she was a patient.
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New York
United States
Germany
William Jay Schieffelin
Citizens Union
Volunteer Christian Committee
Nazi Germany
Schiettelin
Nellie Casselberg
Castelberg Jewelry Company
Baltimore
Relief policies and Senate inquiries on W P A funds
Continued discussion on relief handling when the WPA administrator and views on the Senate campaign expenditures report. Committees pursue a state by state fund distribution plan to strip discretionary WPA powers, while other House and Senate actions unfold including Dies urging continued inquiries with funding and hearings on Felix Frankfurter and other nominations.
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W.P.A
Senate
House
Chiairman Dies
House Committee
Dies
Felix Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Harvard
Dean Acheson
Washington
O'Conor Inauguration Dominates Maryland Session
Maryland readies a three month legislative term after Herbert R. OConor's election to governor as Republicans exit and Democrats take power. The assembly faces government reorganizations, revenue challenges, road funding, conservation plans, and cost-cutting mandates, with committee wrangling set to begin after inaugurations and a measured reinvigoration of state policy.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Free State
Harry W. Nice
Herbert R. O'Conor
Tewcomers
Statehouse
Fearful sniper fugitive sought in Glen Burnie
Anne Arundel county police hunted a sniper who fired on three cars from a dark country road near Crain highway. Investigators considered Henry Richardson, an escaped Crownsville State Hospital patient, or a group of youths as possible suspects. Victims Frank Vik, Raymond Sauers, and William Buck reported bullet strikes to their vehicles with no injuries.
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Glen Burnie
Anne Arundel County
Crownsville State Hospital
John H. Souers
Henry Richardson
Crownsville
Sauer
Buck
Maryland hog production hits all time high for 1938
The Maryland Crop Reporting Service announced that fall hog production set new state records and may rise further in 1939. The fall pig crop was 19 percent larger than 1937, the combined spring and full crop up 14 percent, and sows to farrow are expected to increase 17 percent in spring.
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College Park
Maryland Crop Reporting Service
Contributions to Auxiliary Aid Orphans Home Fund
Following the Hagerstown Fair Board meeting, stockholders of the Great Hagerstown Fair and many others donated to the auxiliary to the San Mar Orphans Home. Contributions totaled 341. The auxiliary board, meeting regularly, notes their sole income is voluntary gifts. Funds will be used for clothes and necessities for the children.
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San Mar
Auxiliary
66 Days for Theft of Son's Leather Jacket
William Baker aged 72 from Vista Street was sentenced to 60 days in the Washington County Jail by Magistrate John P. D. Dunn after being accused of stealing his son's Christmas present a leather jacket and pawning it. Apple pie is cited as the most popular dessert on railroad dining cars in the nation.
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William Baker
Vista Street
Washington County
John PD. Dunn
Supremacy of US Air Force Challenged by Advisory Group
An advisory group including Lindbergh Wright Hester and Abbott argues for stronger US air power. They urge increased factory aircraft production, more aeronautical research funds, enhanced military and naval air forces, and continued lighter‑than‑air experiments. They also advocate expanding civil aviation and private aircraft use as transformative, potentially comparable to the automobile.
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Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Orville Wright
Clinton M. Hester
Civil Aeronantics Authority
Charles G. Abbott
Smithsonian Militation
Army and Navy
Storms Bring Damage Across Border States
Heavy storms swept the region with rain and snow soaking the wheat belts while high winds caused deaths and injuries in Texas and a near blizzard hit New Mexico. Dallas reported about 100000 dollars in damage. Agriculturalists said moisture benefits could outweigh losses.
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Kansas City
Texas
New Mexico
Fhoross
Dallas
Pinball machines removed amid gambling hue and beer cup sign
In Astoria on January 9 a federal court order closed Sven Longberg’s pinball machines at his Tay Cern venue. Despite disposal, facilities remain for customers bothered by the jingling coins. A beer mug on the counter bears a sign inviting patrons to drop nickels in the cup with a quip about being as well off.
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Astoria
Dre
Feders
Sven Longberg
Lengberg
Global arms exports rise in 1938 amid neutrality act limits
A foreign arms report shows U S munitions exports more than doubled in 1938 to 94.21 million, with military aircraft dominating shipments. Major exporters included Lockheed Glenn L Martin Curtiss Wright and North American Aviation. Japanese firms Okura Mitsui bought over 6 million in arms parts. An attempted Spain shipments scheme involved forged documents and possible Spanish government agents. A single 40 aircraft shipment via Canada and France to Barcelona is under Justice Department review.
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Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Glenn L. Martin Company
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
North American Aviation, Inc
Okura and Company
Mitsui and Company
State Department
Spain
Barcelona
Canada
France
Justice Department
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
Canadian Car and Foundry Company
Fort Williams
Ontario
Cabeda
Turkey
Nazis Ban Pastors From Duties Hear Niemoeller Brother
Wilhelm Niemoeller, brother of jailed Rev. Martin Niemoeller, spoke from Jesus Christus Church in Berlin Dhahlen to accuse Nazi authorities of suppressing church leaders. He cited 130 removals, 40 bans on speaking, 11 prohibitions on teaching, and noted several pastors held in concentration camps or jailed for investigation.
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Berlin
Wilhelm Niemoelter
Martin Niemoeller
Wilhelm Niemoeller
Jesus Christus
Dahlen
Jenag
Jie
Dynamite Cap Blast Sends 2 To Hospital
Newton New Jersey A dynamite cap blast injured two boys Jacob Faber 13 and David Creppis 11 while attempting to cut copper wire with a hatchet in a chicken coop converted into a playhouse. They were taken to Memorial Hospital. Patrolman Theodore Leeper reported the incident.
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Newton
N. 1
Jacob Faber
David Creppis
Memorial Hospital
Theodore Leeper
Faber
Creppis
Jacob Young
Mixed Reaction To FDR Speech
Washington January 9 Democrats split over Franklin Roosevelt Jackson Day appeal for unity behind liberal ideas. Conservative members avoided quotes, saying the fight should occur within the party and that a true conservative wing might align with Republicans. Administration supporters praised inviting nominal Democrats to join the liberal cause across party lines. The speech followed a Saturday dinner fund raiser, marking his first major political remarks since November elections.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Maine
Grain Market Quotation Report and Agriculture Estimate
Quotations by Stein Bros and others appear beside market notes from Chicago. The department of agriculture estimates 2,960,000 square miles of U S land with at most 953,125 square miles possible for farming.
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Department of Agriculture
The
United States
Mooney vows labor unity drive after pardon in San Francisco
Tom Mooney, free after 22 years, vows lifelong campaign for labor unity and organizing workers. He addressed 100000 in Civic Plaza after an conditional pardon from Gov Olson. Mooney says militant labor sentiment stands between people and slavery and seeks pardon for Billings. He meets Billings at Folsom prison and returns for medical exams amid booster support.
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AN Francisco
Tom Mooney
Mooney
San Francisco
Sacramento
Culbert L. Olson
AFL
C.I.C
Warren Ix. Billings
Billings
Folaom
Market Street
Tle
Rena Mooney
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Keystone
Carl J. Schlotterbeck
N. Patamae
J. Chane
H. L. Mills
Baltimore St
Bendix
Washington St
Maryland Awning Co
Assay Wanhington Bt Phaww
Asher M. Edelman
Hagerstown
Dobbs Perry
Carrie Adelman
James L. Stafford
Briavelyt Manor
Walter JL
Edelman
White Plains
Asher
Dobbs Ferry
Allentown
Elwood Craft
Georgia Avenue
First Baptist Church
Ernestine Craft
Theodore Craft
Ella Craft
Camden
N. J
Paul B. Watlington
Rose Will
Alexander Gray
Sharpsburg
Idal
Edward
Atlantic City
Harriett Callaman
Max
Rebecca Fisher
Sadie Boyles
Tolson Chapel
J. A. Moye
New Windsor
Church Cemetery
Mrs. Wate Griffith
American Legion
National Guards
Geo
Wo Higman
Adv
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Agriculture Committee
James P. Pope
Idaho
Tennessee Valley Authority
Cavetown Homemakers Club
Smithspurge
O’conor
Bowman Commission
O'Gonor
W. David Tilghurau
Tilghman
Fear Sniper
Anne Arundel County Police Hunt
Dr. Phillip
Gov. Frederick & Mill Stx
Consumer’s Finance Service, Inc. Professional Arts
Rudisill’s Quality Shop
Stein Bros. & Boyce
McComas-Armstrong Bldg
Hagerstown, Md
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Amer. T. & Ti
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Atchison Sarees
Bo & On
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J. L. Case
Chrysler Ait Awe
Consol
Bly
Crown Ck, & SI
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Elect
Motors
Goodyear
Nat'l
Dist
North Amer
Chicago Grain Market
McComas-Armatron
Bidg- Hagerstown, Md
Labor Unity
Mooney Aim
SAUM
N. Jonathan St
Studebaker Diop
Bermuda
Fleigh Motor Co
Oak Huf Avenue
Phigne
Grimes
Singman
Jonathin
Yorks
Wash. St
Elmer K.everly
West
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