Dictatorship consolidates in Prussia amid protests
Berlin July 21 Prussia's new dictatorship moved into action under martial law, amid calm but growing resentment. Hitler hailed the regime, praising removal of Premier Braun and defense minister Severing. Franz Bracht took over Prussia duties, ministers faced deposing, and Bavaria joined a court challenge while Saxony abstained. Essen council cited Bracht as indispensable, despite the dictatorship. Two killed and several injured in political riots despite martial law.
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Berlin
Prussia
Bremes
Adolf Hitler
Brandenburg
Braun
Prussian
Karl Severing
Heinrich Bruening
Munich
Herr Severing
Franz Bracht
von Papen
Severing
Bavaria
Supreme Court
Saxony
Essen
Social Democratic Bloc
Herr Bracht
Lutheran Reunion At Pen Mar Today
Several hundred Lutherans from Hagerstown and nearby attend the forty sixth annual reunion of Maryland and Western Pennsylvania Lutheran churches at Pen Mar. Rev Dr Adam J Hall of Pittsburgh is the principal speaker and the York Lutheran choir provides music. After the service visitors will inspect the Maryland National Guard at Cascade.
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Hagerstown
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Pen Mar
Adam J. Hall
Pittsburgh
Lutheran Church
York
Maryland National Guard
Cascade
Showing Postponed for Fish Hawk Film at High School
The Isaac Walton Chapter of Williamsport announces a date change for showing the motion picture The Fish Hawk at the high school. The event moves from Friday night this week to Wednesday night next week. Dr. Radcliffe of the U S Bureau of Fisheries, who was to speak Friday, cannot attend then but will be present Wednesday night to give a talk in connection with the film.
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Isaac Walton
Williamsport
Radcliffe
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries
Guard Hurried To Coal Mine Clash Near Dugger
Three Indiana national guard units were ordered to the Hoosier coal mine near Dugger to protect twenty non union workers who refused to leave the shaft while about 1,200 picketers including miners and wives surrounded the scene. Officials called the move precautionary as the miners inside had been underground over twenty hours without food and were armed and feared desperate actions if kept longer.
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Dugger
Ind
Indiana National Guardsmen
Hoosier
Wesley Williams
Sullivan County
Harry G. Tweslie
Deaths and obituaries of local figures and families
Death notices include Joseph F. Stillman of Southampton L I a sugar industry leader aged 85 and survivors, infant Edward Lee Guessford, Hetzel Robertson, Beatrice Jane Hagan, and Mrs Melvena Lizer. Details cover births deaths and funeral plans in Hagerstown Keedysville Wolfsville and Baltimore area with family ties and professional roles noted.
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Joseph F. Stillman
New York
Southampton
L. I
Eliza Schley
Col
George Schley
Hagerstown
Alfred Stillman
Walter N. Stillman
Henry M. Polhemus
Ruth Stillman
C. Gordon Hutchinson
Mr. Stillman
College of the City of New York
American Sugar Refining Company
Boston
Arbuckle Brothers
Warner Sugar Refining Company
Edgewater
N. J
Kansas City Southern Railway Company
Central Savings Bank of
New York City
Death of Mrs Mary Frances Thompson in Washington
Mrs Mary Frances Thompson of Williamsport died in Washington D C yesterday afternoon during a visit to her daughter Mrs Frank Taylor. She was 41 and the cause of death was paralysis. Survived by daughter Agnes C Washington and Mrs Frank Taylor Williamsport. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Hetzel Robertson
Martinsburg
Baltimore
J. G. Robertson
West
Washington Street
Baltimore and Ohio
Beatrice Jane
Ralph S
Bessie N. Hagan
Gapland
Austin
Rohrersville
Melvena Lizer
James Lizer
Robert Hahn
Keedysville
J. B. Church
Wolfsville
William
Hagerstown
Ernest
Simon Delauder
York
David Himes
Hahn
U. B
Mary Frances Thompson
Williamsport
Washington, D. C
Frank Taylor
Firemen's Square Dance at Smithsburg Hall
Thursday July 21 dance at Smithsburg Community Hall features free lunch and admission 35 cents. Local firemen host the event inviting community members to enjoy music and dancing in a civic display of service.
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Smithsburg Community Hall
Festival Notice at 25 E Antietam Bt Lawn
Fridy July 22 on the lawn of Mrs Peter Buys 25 East Antietam Street. Queen Father Chapter 0 Eastern Division advertises the gathering with likely community timing and location details.
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Fridy
Peter Buys
E. Antietam Bt
Walter Lippmann Column Reflections on Policy
Walter Lippmann, former New York World editor, offers personal views on national politics in a column labeled today and tomorrow. This note emphasizes that his opinions are his own and may not mirror the Herald Tribune's editorial stance.
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Consright
N. Y
Herald-Tribune
Walter Lippmann
The
New York World
Geneva Conference Adjourning With Hope For Future Talks
The Disarmament Conference in Geneva nears adjournment without firm arms reductions or a binding treaty. Yet the delegation’s restraint, persistence, and diplomacy under Hoover and Stimson, plus the Franco British Accord at Lausanne, offer a foundation for future European arms limits as Germany's stance remains pivotal. The Far East turmoil worsens naval pact prospects while European efforts improve center peace.
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Far East
Manchuria
Shanghai
Orient
Pacific
Europe
United States
France
Britain
Versailles
Lausanne
Geneva
Germany
Sunday School Picnic Planned at Koontz Meadow
Members of Mt. Zion Evangelical church and Sunday School will meet at Clarence Koontz farm near Casey Town on Thursday August 21 for a basket picnic. Contests and prizes are planned and swimming in the Conococheague is expected.
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Mt. Zion Evangelical Church
Koontz
Clarence Koontz
Caseytown
Wienie Roast Hosts Memorable Conococheague Creek Event
Miss Cora Johnston and Miss Mae Riggs hosted a wienie roast along the Conococheague Creek last night with refreshments served. Guests included Misses Margie Tribby Edith Johnston Catherine Tribby Catherine Smith Virginia Atwood and Messrs. Fred Rowland Lester Coward Waldo Stouffer Carroll Smith John Laughlin Charles Solt and Ernest Davies.
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Mae Riggs
Conococheague Creek
Margie Tribby
Edith Johnston
Catherine Tribby
Catherine Smith
Virginia Atwood
Fred Rowland
Lester Coward
Waldo Stouffer
Carroll Smith
John Laughlin
Charles Solt
Ernest Davies
Relief From Torrid Wave Seen Across Midwest and Plains
The Associated Press reports a drop from extreme heat across the upper Mississippi basin with showers from the Rockies to the Great Lakes and into the Northeast. Record highs eased. Minnesota and Illinois cooled, Texas and the central plains saw relief, while deaths from heat and related dangers totaled 38.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Rockies
Great Lakes
North Atlantic
Minneapolis
Dakota
Kansas
Oklahoma
el Paso
St. Louis
Minnesota
Ilinois
Pittsburgh
Wisconsin
Iowa
Dakotas
Nebraska
Lake
Milwaukee
Louisville
Chicago
New York
Washington
Detroit
New England
Pacific Coast
Western Mountain
Prison Crowd Sees Sing Sing Team Then Masses Slip Out
A large Ossining crowd gathered Sunday to watch Sing Sing prison team play. After the game, one more than the crowd left through an exit, raising concern for officials as inmate Anthony De Bernardo who is serving 15 years mingled with spectators before slipping away.
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Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing
Anthony de Bernardo
Greta Garbo Said To Be On Way To Sweden
Hollywood July 21 Greta Garbo reportedly left Hollywood for a vacation in Sweden with departure details undisclosed. Her Metro-Goldwyn-Mary contract expired recently and rumors say she may sign a new deal on her return from Europe.
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Hollywood
Calif
Greta Garbo
Sweden
Miss Garbo
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Eurore
Improvement Reported In Ferenz Ziegfeld's Condition
Hollywood reports continued slight improvement in the condition of Ferenz Ziegfeld Broadway producer suffering from pleurisy and lung congestion. Pending recovery his New York business affairs will be handled by A C Blumenthal banker and motion picture executive formerly of Bollywood
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Hollywood
Ferenz Ziegfeld
New York
A. C. Blumenthal
Negro jailed in assault case near Leonardtown
Charles Dorsey, 33, a Black man, was held in the county jail on suspicion of disturbing a white woman in Abell. Nellie Webster Owens, 34, reported awakening to a Black arm through a window attempting to pull her leg, and she screamed to break free.
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Leonardtown
Charles Dorsey
Abell
Here
Nellie Webster Owens
John T. Smith
Chiropractor Dr Hornbarger Moves Office Location
Dr C F Hornbarger chiropractor relocates from the Colonial Theatre Building to 37 North Potomac Street second floor. Advertisement.
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C. F. Hornbarger
Colonial Theatre
N. Potomac St
Amazing Motor Lubricant Pyroil Ad Claims Extreme Runs
Promotes Pyroil lubricant as reviving car and aircraft performance. A car reportedly ran 745 miles with no oil in the crank case and an airplane stayed aloft for 35 minutes without oil. Advertisement from Pyroil Sales Company at 218 McCrory Building, phone 1927-R Ady.
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Pyroil Sales Company
McCrory Bldg
R Ady
Canadian Premier Offers Wider Trade Preferences
Ottawa July 21 Premier R B Bennett after being named chairman of the Imperial Economic Conference made a definite offer for wider preferences for British goods in exchange for greater British preferences to Canadian imports. He said any program would affect United States trade and should be enduring. The proposal targeted the United Kingdom but could apply to all parts of the empire where mutually advantageous.
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Ottawa
R. B. Bennett
Canada
Imperial Economic Conference
United States
Dominions
United Kingdom
Florenz Ziegfeld Improves After Pleurae Treatment
The famed Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. was reported in New Mexico to be improving in health following treatment for pleurisy. The notice notes his retreat and ongoing recovery under medical care away from New York.
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Florenz Ziegfeld
New Mexico
Seven youths recaptured after Maryland Training School escape
In Baltimore on July 20 the seven boys who escaped Lock Raven by rope from red sheets were recaptured. One was seized Monday and six more were brought back last night by Delaware State Police. One escapee hailed from Hagerstown.
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Baltimore
Maryland Training School For Boys
Lock Raven
Delaware
Hagerstown
Strikers reject wage offer at hosiery mills in High Point
In High Point North Carolina a committee of strikers voted to reject owners wage scale restoration offered to resume operations. They demand the higher scale in effect April 1 and the action awaits ratification by the mills employers.
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High Point
N. C
Capone Joins Team as Prison Baseball First Sacker
Capone at Atlanta Federal Prison has become the institution's first baseman. He formerly led Chicago's Public Enemy No 1 and now spends most of his time in the prison shoe shop, working at machines and lasts between games.
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Atlanta
al Capone
Public Enemy
Chicago
Garner Goes Fishing With An Old Buddy
Uvalde Texas July 21 John Garner the Democrats vice presidential candidate enjoys fishing as an excuse to camp in creek bottoms grow whiskers and cook fish He plans a secret sunrise departure with Ross Brumfield and will return under cover of darkness If needed another bass slab awaits Whit Whittington a longtime friend may join later Mrs Garner stayed home to manage business and secretary duties while letters and telegrams piled up
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Uvalde
Tex
John Garner
Garner
House of Representatives
Ross Brumfield
Texas
Brumfield
Whit Whittington
Whit
Hoover abolishes radio division and shifts powers to commission
President Hoover issued an executive order transferring all powers and duties of the radio division of the Department of Commerce to the Radio Commission. The action marks the first consolidation under the new national economy bill and aims to streamline government operations.
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Washington
Hoover
Department of Commerce
Radio Commission
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Betty Jane
J. G. Kay
Frederick Road
A. B. Miller
Rose Hill
Fsteival
By Walter Lippmann
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Wilson
Swanson
Woolley
W. Lippman
Zoohn
Atlantic City
Cora Johnston
Howard
Murial Richards
Virginia Parsons
Elizabeth Steele
Capone
S. J. Verovsky
N. Jonathan St
Stein Bros. & Boyce
McComas-Armstrong
Amer
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Beth, Steel
Chrysler
Consol
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Fox Aos DM
Gen. Electric
Gen Foods
Gen. Motors
North Amer
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Chicago Grain Market
Stickell Sales Corporation
Washington St
Hagerstown, Md
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Hillside Coal CO
Roessner CO
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