Hagerstown Post Office Project Pushed for Early Approval
A letter from Congressman David J. Lewis to the Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce says the city’s new post office in West Franklin Street is favored for early construction should Congress approve a new Public Works appropriation. Secretary Ickes indicates funds are tight, but Hagerstown remains a leading candidate for final consideration when funds resume.
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Ickes
Department of Interior
Public Works Administration
Hagerstown
Lewis
Congress
Former Kaiser Wilhelm I Ailing From Rheumatism
The former German emperor Wilhelm I, nearing his 87th birthday, is confined by rheumatism to his residence in Doorn Netherlands. He has abandoned his favorite woodchopping but remains in good health and follows German political developments without commenting.
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Doorn
Netherlands
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Germany
Painter Fatally Injured in Baltimore Street Crash
Noah F. Kirk a 45 year old painter was struck and fatally injured by an automobile driven by Marion Breckenridge a 39 year old salesman. Breckenridge said he did not see Kirk due to rain and heavy fog.
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Baltimore
Noah F. Kirk
Marion Breckenridge
Breckenridge
Wee Kirk
Congress Praised For Cooperation With Roosevelt Policy
Postmaster General James A. Farley praised Congress for its cooperation with President Roosevelt in the last special session and voiced confidence that the current session will be similarly helpful. He said the president will not spread his sails before the inflation gale and will not sacrifice price advances by yielding to international bankers. He affirmed the president’s ripened judgment and urged no fear of wrong turns in this field.
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Cleveland
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Cleveland Automotive
Farley
Ferguson Re elected President of Chamber of Commerce
J. B. Ferguson was re elected president at the chamber meeting. Seven directors were named for two year terms including L. Vinton Hershey C. Merritt Campbell Park W Loy Roy A Leiter Wallace Br Caum and E O Shhulen berger. Officers chosen were Hershey first vice president L V Lakin second vice president and Miss Bertha M Negley secretary. Holdover directors named were Frank Bentz W P D Campbell Col John Carmichael Ray Danzer R A Lakin and R Paul Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Ferguson
Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Ferguson
L. Vinton Hershey
C. Merritt Campbell
Park W. T. Loy
Roy A. Leiter
Wallace BR. Caum
E. O. Shhulenberger
E. A. Lakin
Bertha M. Negley
Frank Bentz
W. PD. Campbell
Col
John Carmichael
Ray Danzer
R.A. Lakin
R. Paul Smith
Plumbers Optimistic on Busy 1934 Construction Outlook
Chicago reports leading plumbers foresee more new construction in 1934 than in three or four years. Reasons include aging homes, modernization needs, rising employment, mortgage refinancing aid, and RFC loans to fund waterworks and sewer projects in villages and towns. Federal loans for small house construction are also seen as a stimulus.
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Chicago
Strike Ends at Lake Wales After Labor Walkout
Several hundred workers including pickets packing house and grove laborers return to jobs ending a December 15 strike by the United Citrus Workers union for higher wages. In Annapolis liquor fees and excise taxes are forecast to raise 1.585 million for the 1934 fiscal year.
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Lake Wales
Pla
United Citrus Workers Union
Annapolis
State Comptroller's Office
Broke Promise Now She Seeks Annulment in Court
Mrs. Marjorie V Baker sues Charles Rufus Baker in Oakland accusing him of breaking a promise not to attend the wedding. She says his surprise appearance at the church on February 29 1932 left her in a daze and she went through with the ceremony anyway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
Marjorie Vv. Baker
Charles Rufus Baker
Confession Suppression Start in Wynekoop Murder Trial
Defense lawyers will move to suppress Dr. Alice Wynekoop's confession as involuntary. They claim duress from twenty four hours of questioning made the statement inadmissible. Rheta Wynekoop died on an operating table. the confession alleged an intruder caused the overdose and a staged suicide.
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Chicago
Alice Wynekoop
Rheta
Milton D. Smith
W. W. Smith
Dr. Wynekoop
Jap leader dies after long career in diplomacy
Tokyo reports the death of Aimaro Sato once ambassador to Washington from 1910 to 1918. American educated, he died today aged 67 from arteriosclerosis.
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Tokyo
Aimaro Sato
Washington
Burglars Strike Crew Levick Oil Office Again
Burglars attempted to crack the safe at the Crew Levick Oil Company in Security for the second time in three weeks. Outer safe doors were blown, inner doors remained closed or investigators were thwarted. Sheriff notified, fingerprints photographed by County Investigator Martin L Ingram. Earlier break‑in three weeks ago saw ransacked desks. two weeks ago a Baltimore and Ohio caboose derailed in front of the office. Entrance gained through a side window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crew-Levick Oil Company
Sheriff's Office
Martin L. Ingram
Has His Loan But No Farm in Illinois Ledger
In Pana Illinois on January 13 an $8,000 loan to George W Jacobs a Christian county farmer was issued by the St Louis Federal Land Bank. Moments later the Monticello Land Bank foreclosed and bought Jacobs 0 acre farm for 5,000 to satisfy a mortgage from Ralph W Adams. The farm then passed to Charles W Marmer and soon after to Frank L Simpson for 10,000. Jacobs has no farm and the loan remains unpaid.
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Moneaqua
Marmer
Frank L. Simpson
Jacobs
Governor Ritchie Recovers and Delays Duties in Baltimore
Governor Albert C. Ritchie remains in the Belvedere hotel suite in Baltimore following an influenza attack in November. On medical advice he will take things slow and stay several days to rest instead of resuming heavy work.
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Baltimore
Albert C. Ritchie
Belvedere Hotel
Antietam Battlefield To Be Developed As National Park
The Antietam battlefield at Sharpsburg would become a National Park offering passive recreation and quiet. James R. McConaghie outlined a Civil Works plan funded in part by Public Works administration to develop the site with $25,000, including $2,400 for tree surgery, as a historical educational project with field staff from Gettysburg and Antietam offices.
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Antietam
Shar? Sburg
National Park
Magerstown
Civil Works Project
Unemployed Men Clean County Road for Relief
In Oakland Maryland on January 13 a group of 20 to 25 men, denied CWA jobs, began repairing the old Markeysburg road from Sandy Spring to the new graded highway with county permission and their own tools. They say they are earning cash relief or grocery orders by this work.
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Oakland
Garrett County
Ethel Miller
Markteysburg
Sandy Spring
CWA Workers Demand Saturday Pay Distribution
A group of CWA workers met city and local CWA officials to protest Monday wage payments. They argue Saturday pay aligns with their shopping and price reductions, and officials announced checks would be distributed at 2 pm and in future on Saturdays.
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CWA
Strike ties up Lexington transportation system in workers protest
In Lexington and Frankfort a broad strike by street car interurban and city bus workers tied up the region's transport network. Pickets stood near major terminals while authorities did not anticipate violence or use of strike breakers as crews protest excessive working hours.
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Lexington
Frankfort
Blue Grass
Kentue Terminal & Traction Company
Kentucky Coach Company
Weekly Weather Outlook for North Middle Atlantic States
Rain in the middle Atlantic region and likely snow or rain in the northern area around Tuesday. Generally fair through Thursday, with snow or rain probable Friday or Saturday. Temperatures rise through the week with a notably warm Wednesday night and Thursday.
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North
Middle Atlantic
North Atlantic
Inventions Parade At Minnesota Show Sparks Curiosities
The Minnesota inventors show displays a range of quirky items from rubber lazy-lace shoes to a lawn growth aid touted by D. J. Jones. Other offerings include a no-tie shoe design, hair straightening and kink devices, a patent grapefruit holder, shock absorbers for beds, a valve to stop pipe tobacco, and a pipe bowl remover to prevent soggy bottoms.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota
D. J Jones
Fliers Saved By Old Lights In Fog Over Pittsburgh
A World War II era flare demonstration aided Lt. W P D Coursey and Adam J. Countryman in an army observation plane stuck in smog above Pittsburgh. They used old green signal flares fired from Rode Field to guide a safe landing after three hours circling without sight of the airport. The pilot’s passenger was the brother in law of Mayor William N. McNair.
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Pittsburgh
William N. McNair
W. PD. Coursey
Adam J. Countryman
Sey Coat
Roosevelt Signs New Codes Across Industries
President Roosevelt approved a general wholesale and distribution code and ordered codes for peanut millers and carpet and rug manufacturers. Hugh S. Johnson, under executive order, signed a pact for the sanitary napkin and cleansing tissue industry.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
Forder
Big Gotham Gamblers In Full Flight
New York reports Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's crackdown on high level gamblers with 164 prisoners rounded up in 24 hours. Chief Inspector Lewis J. Valentine vows ongoing harassment of racketeers and illegal vice as fugitives flee to New Jersey and beyond.
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New York
Fiorello H. Laguardia
New Jersey
Laguardia
Lewis J. Valentine
Valentine
Missing volcanologists in eruption at Kuchinoerabu island
Two eminent volcanologists Dr Fujio Honma and Dr Tadaichi Matsumoto were reported missing after renewed eruptions at Kuchinoerabu island. Rescue steamers departed from Kagoshima as the volcano continues to vent a pillar of smoke and flame.
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Tokyo
Fujio ,Honma
Tadaichi Matsumoto
Kuchinoerahu
Rengy
Kagoshima
Kuchinoerabu
Safe Crackers Loot Lutherville Post Office
Safe robbers blew open the Lutherville post office safe early today and seized stamps valued at 500 to 600 dollars plus a small amount of cash. An pneumonia epidemic is reported at Johnsville Frederick county with about thirty cases.
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Lutherville
Lutherville Post Ofice
D Johnsville
Frederick County
Roosevelt Moves to Seize Fed Gold for Dollar Deb devaluation
President Roosevelt intends to commandeer the Federal Reserve's gold reserves as a prelude to a permanent devaluation of the dollar. He claims power under the Thomas amendment to transfer about 3.6 billion dollars in gold into the Treasury vaults, aiming to fix a price level and debt terms aligned with 1926 values.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve Sytem
Treasury
Congress
Six Killed by Boiler Blast in Hartford Plant
In Hartford North Carolina a boiler explosion at the Eastern Cotton Oil Company plant killed at least six men and injured seven. The blast wrecked the large facility causing about fifty thousand dollars in damage and scattering debris over yards as the town trembled like an earthquake. Mrs. J R Elliott witnessed the collapse from two hundred yards away and described bricks flying and steam hissing as visibility vanished.
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Hartford
N. C
Eastern Cotton Oil Company
J. R. Elliott
Ineridsended
Labels Heats Up as Liquor Labeling Proves Tough
Joseph H Choate federal alcohol central administrator warned reporters labeling blends is a tortuous issue. He urged caution to avoid biasing public opinion against blended whiskey and noted the daily widening differences with more than 1 600 090 gallons of aged whiskey available for blending.
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Washington
Joseph H. Choate
Federal Alcohol Central Administrator
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Charles 8. Thomas
Colorado
Associated Press
P.O
Lewis Lees Ickes
Kaiser
Ferguson
Chamber
Dr. Wynecoop
Fox
Levick
GOV. Ritchie
Park
McConaghie
Seair
Frances Coen Cook
Leonard Siever
Pasadena
Cal
Carl R. Wagner
F.D.R
BIG Gotham
Paul RB. Koons
Ferdinand C. Link
Federal Reserve
North Carolina
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