Hungary and Italy seek Balkan front against Russia
Budapest reports Hungary and Italy aim for a united front to block Russian expansion in southeastern Europe. King Karol would be pressed for a reply to settlement talks with Romania over Transylvania and Bessarabia, with Italy backing a future transfer or cession promises.
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Budapest
Italy
Southeasternurope
Hungary
Rumania
Balkans
C *1
Istvan Csaky
Crown Council
Galeazzi Ciano
Romania
Tiare Sylvania
Bessarabia
Russia
Transylvania
Noves
Red
Ciano
Csaky
Citizens commandeer state snow plows to keep Teton Pass open
About 100 men from western Wyoming seized two rotary snow plows from the state highway department after a mass meeting urged action when Gov. Smith said the pass could not stay open this winter. They vow to keep the pass clear, blaming highway officials for closure.
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Teton Pass
Jackson
Wvyo
Wyoming
State Highway Department
Charles Kratzer
Jackson Hole
Nels H. Smith
Kratzer
Tetons
Victor
Idaho
C. H. Sirfried
Cheyenne
National Guard
Gwynn F. Schoonmaker
Lander
Highway Commission
Togwote Pass
Rock Springs
Bakers Seek Injunction Over City Bread License
Local bakers including Dr J Walter Layman trading as Hagerstown Bakery along with Jacob Schwartz and Frank Pollack filed petitions in Circuit Court seeking to declare the bread license ordinance invalid and to enjoin the Mayor Council and Police Captain Carl H McCleary from enforcing the $100 annual fee. Judge Wagaman ordered show cause by January 22.
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Carl H. McCleary
J. Walter Layman
Hagerstown
D. K. McLaughlin
Wagaman
Frank G. Wagaman
McCleary
Mercury Below Zero Again In Maryland Ice Delays Bay Shipping
Bitter cold grips the region with Chewsville reporting two below and a 16 degree rise later as Cambridge residents watch for the McLane to break ice on the Choptank. Ice hampers oyster boats and shipping while a state patrol boat aims to free fleets. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia will receive a Maryland society medallion at their Jan 19 dinner.
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Chewsville
Pau
Oswald
Chesapeake Bay
Cambridge
Glass
Baltimore
Carter Glass
Virginians of
Maryland
Old Dominion
Weather Forecast for Maryland and Chesapeake Bay
Weather Bureau reports cloudy skies over Maryland with slowly rising temperatures tonight and Thursday. Light rain or snow expected Thursday. Chesapeake Bay also cloudy with rising temps tonight and Thursday, light rain or snow Thursday, with tonight's low near 25 degrees and gentle to moderate southerly winds.
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Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Moats Plans To Waive Hearing In Death Case
Attorneys for Emory Paul Moats 30 announce he will waive a preliminary hearing and a bond petition will be filed in Circuit Court Moats has been in jail since the shooting last week He admits firing the fatal shot and wounding Bernard Clark 35 a brother of the dead man He says he acted in self defense He is represented by D Angle Wolfin ger and Samuel C Strite
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Emory Paul Moats
Russell Clark
Moats
Circuit Court
Bernard Clark
Prank Backfires Leads to Acquittal in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg report shows Samuel Hummer cleared of a driving under the influence charge after admitting he spiked a drink as a prank. He testified the other man rarely bought drinks and that he drained his friend's glass by mistake when stopped by police. Judge Frank B. Wickersham ruled Hummer did not become wilfully intoxicated.
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Harrisburg
Samuel Hummer
Frank
Wickersham
Hummer
Surgeon Dies During Operation in New Jersey Hospital
In Orange at St. Mary's Hospital Dr. Aliton K. Sherman, 51, collapsed mid operation. Surgeon Joseph Bove completed the tumor removal, then learned Sherman had died of a heart attack before informing the team.
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Orange
N. J
St. Mary's Hospital
Aliton K. Sherman
Joseph Bove
Sherman
Plans to Continue Camp Ritchie Development
Plans to continue development of Camp Ritchie into a major cantonment with works projects administration rifle and pistol ranges already ranking second only to Camp Perry. About 130 Hagerstown residents on WPA rolls have worked at the camp for years, with 225 men currently employed. Maryland Military Department preparing another year of work including a 35,000,000 gallon reservoir a large storage garage new buildings for the commissary canteens caretaker’s residence and further range improvements. Sewers and storm drains at the camp have been completed.
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Camp Ritchie
United States
Works Projects Administration
Camp Perry
Ohio
Hagerstown
W. P. A. Rolls
Military Department of Maryland
Outlay For Defense Approved For Immediate Emergency Needs
The House Appropriations Committee backed President Roosevelt's emergency defense and neutrality plans, proposing 267,197,908 dollars for the Army Navy Coast Guard and Federal Bureau of Investigation. Funds cover ongoing and planned work through June 30, including neutrality patrols military training and counter espionage under the national emergency proclaimed after the European war began.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Federal Bureau O
Charges G OP Seeks To Buy Back Negroes
Washington date reports the anti lynching bill nearing House passage amid party finger pointing over black votes. Democrats blamed Republicans while Republicans blamed Democrats. The Senate studies federal finances proposals by Chairman Harrison of Mississippi, seen as likely to stall House action.
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G.op
Washington
Senate
Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
House
Buzzards Delay New York Washington Flyer
A Philadelphia rail official blamed two buzzards for an hour delay on a famous New York to Washington flyer. The birds flew into the electric engine cab, tangled in wiring, disabled the mechanism, and necessitated a replacement engine. The buzzards were electrocuted in the incident.
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Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Navy chief cites 30 years of ship build mistakes
Washington Jan 10 Rear Admiral S M Robinson chief of the Bureau of Engineering told a House Appropriations sub committee that the navy had been making mistakes in ship construction for thirty years similar to issues causing top heaviness in new destroyers. He said the defects in destroyer stability have been corrected for about one seventh of one percent of total ship tonnage and are now all right in every way.
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Washington
Congress
Navy
S. M. Robinson
Bureau of Engineering
House Appropriations
Wages of Sin at Oklahoma Zoo Injures Youth
Jan 10 report from Oklahoma City describes 17 year old hockey player Robert Peel throwing snow into a polar bear cage and provoking Carmichael the polar bear. The bear damaged Peel’s right arm from elbow to wrist as he was struck by the animal.
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Oklahoma City
Robert Peel
Carmichael
Robert
Gure
Won't Marry Former Boss in San Francisco Tale
Isabelle Deshler denies love for Joh B Adams the 32 year old collection executive who sued to force her mother to compel her to court to decide if she is being kept from Romeo. Deshler calls the romance off and her mother agrees Adams would be last choice for a son in law. A Superior Court order directs Deshler to appear for a Friday hearing before Judge Lyle T. Jacks to determine if the romance is true or a keeping from marriage.
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San Francisco
Isabelle Deshler
Joh. B. Adams
Romeo
Adams
New York
George Lowther
Sileen Herrick
Miss Deshler
Deshler
Sleep-It's Wonderful car crash dashes into porch
Bernard Shaw of West Decatur Pa told police he slept through a crash where his car bounded off a concrete bridge hit a tree and a sidewalk, tore part of a porch from a house and stalled after reversing. Car damage was $125 with no injuries.
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Philipsburg
Bernard Shaw
West Decatur
Endicott Johnson workers celebrate union vote in Johnson City
After a 15 000 strong workforce rejected unionization, Endicott Johnson plants closed as 1612 voted AFL and 1079 CIO, with 12693 for no affiliation. Parades and car horns filled streets while George F. Johnson lay ill. Johnson Jr. defended company policies amid CIO gloom from Frank McGrath.
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Johnson City
Endicott- Johnson Shoe Corporation
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organization Union
George F. Johnson
Johnson
Salvation Army
Charles F. Johnson, Jr
Tabor Relations Board
George F
Frank McGrath
New York City
C.I
Harlem
Ugh
Armed bandit robs Cleveland filling station attendant
In Cleveland on January 10 an armed man entered a filling station, forced attendant George Skoda to hand over 28 dollars, then sat with a pistol and ordered him to call police. Officers later found the weapon to be an unloaded cap pistol. the suspect refused to give his name, saying he did so to amuse himself.
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Cleveland
George Skoda
Skoda
Ian
Store And Beer Parlor Robbed In Overnight Break-In
The store and beer parlor run by F. G. Reed in the 800 block of Virginia avenue were broken into during the night. About $15 in cash was taken from a shutter and glass breach. Two cigarette vending machines and a peanut machine were pried open and emptied. The adjacent Standard Oil filling station at the Western Maryland railroad station also suffered a night break-in with a small amount of change stolen from a vending machine.
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F. G. Reed
Virginia Avenue
Standard Oil Company
Western Maryland Railroad
Trade Program Facing Close Vote in House
A Ways and Means poll shows a tight path for the reciprocal trade program extension. Chairman Doughton will lead hearings on the trade agreements act with Secretary Hull first to testify. Of 25 members surveyed, 10 Democrats back the bill and 10 Republicans oppose it, while five Democrats remain undecided, including Rep. Disney who favors the program in principle but disagrees with excise taxes treated as tariffs.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
D-Nc
Hull
Rep
Disney
D-Okla
State Department
Nazi Raid Seen As Prelude To Grim Days
Berlin dispatch reports eight British vessels sunk by German planes in the North Sea. The German communiqué says raiding planes off Norwich sank two merchant ships and two convoy vessels, and four armed merchant ships were sunk off the Scottish coast after close attacks. The British Admiralty cited different losses and noted a Nehthouse tender casualty. Grand Admiral Raeder visited Kiel and Wilhelmshaven bases and warned workers against sowing disunity.
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Berlin
North Sea
Norwich
Erich Raeder
Kiel
Wilhelmshaven
Plans for Hagerstown Frederick dual road submitted
The State Roads Commission informed Mayor and City Council that the Hagerstown section of the dual highway will be built this year. Plans delivered by Austin Shure will be available at the city engineering department for public viewing.
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Hagerstown- Frederick
Hagerstown
State Roads Commission
Austin Shure
Commission
City Engineering Department
Shure
Washington and
Franklin Streets
Beaver Creek
Frederick
Antietam Creek
Cannon and
Cleveland Avenues
Franklin
Washington Street
Hagerstown Golf Course
Cannon Avenue
Franklin and
Washington Streets
Franklin Street
Windmill theft leads to jail sentence in Bismarck
In Bismarck on January 16 Henry Miller and Jerry Long admitted stealing a windmill and were sentenced to jail.
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Bismark
N. D
Henry Miller
Jerry Long
Pole blocks coast for kids. city moves it
In KasCity, a light pole blocked the town’s best coasting spot. Mothers appealed to the city commissioners who ordered the pole moved to allow children to coast safely.
British Air Force renews raids on German shores
London reports long range German bombers threaten British shipping as Chamberlain warns grim days ahead. RAF raids over northwest Germany resume with security patrols near Frisian Islands while Dunbar Castle is mined off England’s southeast coast. Casualties include Captain Causton and two crew. 150 aboard rescued.
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London
Germany
Chamberlain
Frisian Islands
Dunbar Castle
England
Ceneray Islands
Royal Air Force
Selgeland Bight
Hages
George
H. A. Causton
South Africa
Board actors on request examine Bellevue residents
The Board of County Commissioners ordered Dr. W. Ross Cameron and Dr. Jack Beachley to conduct full physical examinations of all Bellevue residents and report a complete description to the State Department. A team of nurses will join them to survey the institution within the week.
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State Department of Public Welfare
State Legislative Council
Board of County Commissioners
W. Ross Cameron
Jack Beachley
Bellevue
State Department
Thief Returns Empty Purse With Six Cents Postage Due
Bluefield West Virginia report recalls Lizzie Wagers who had her purse stolen on Christmas Eve two years in a row. The second theft ended with the thief returning the empty purse and six cents postage due, prompting her venting over life’s ironies.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Lizzie Wagers
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