Kidnappers' Paroles Blocked in Gettle Case
Los Angeles June 1 Four men James F Kirk Larry Kerrigan and Roy A Williams convicted of kidnapping Beverly Hills oil man William F Gettle receive life terms and 87 year federal sentences for extortion through the mails. Two women Loretta Woody and Mona Gallighen arrested with the group face extortion charges as authorities probe the ransom plot and arrest scene. The disappearence of Gettle prompted the federal case and ransom demands to lawyer E E Noon.
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Los Angeles
William F. Gettle
Beverly Hills
Gettle
James F. Kirk
Larry Kerrigan
Roy A. Williams
California
Loretta Woody
Mona Gallighen
Kirk
E. E. Noon
Golf Star Accepts Pro Post at Selsden Park Club
James Wallace, finalist in the British amateur championship, has accepted a golf professional position at Selsden Park Club near Croydon. He wired his acceptance and will start next Wednesday.
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TROON
Sccotland
James Wallace
Carpenter
Lawson Little
Selsden Park Club
Croydon
Condemned prisoners barred from reading The Hanging Judge
LONDON June 1 Inmates in death cells will no longer receive The Hanging Judge for reading. House of Commons reported a condemned prisoner was given the book and officials said this will not occur again. The convict was later freed after his conviction was set aside.
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London
House of Commons
Exercises in Memorial at Boonsboro
Joint memorial exercises will be held Sunday afternoon in Boonsboro with all town churches taking part. A parade will precede the mausoleum services at the Boonsboro cemetery formed at Red Men Hall by the American Legion Drug corps Company B National Guard Clopper Michael Post and local fraternal groups. The cemetery program starts at 2 p m with Frederick attorney H Kieffer Delauter as principal speaker and Frank T Warrenfeltz serving as master of ceremonies.
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Boonsboro
Red Men's Hall
American Legion Drug Corps
Company B
National Guard
Clopper-Michael Post
American Legion of
Bar Scouts
Boonsboroand
H. Kieffer Delauter
Frederick
Frank T. Warrenfeltz
Missing Potomac girl located with unknown man
A ninth grade student from South Potomac Street Junior High was found in a parked car near Haines Point with a man whose name was not released. She had disappeared after a shopping trip with her mother Saturday night and spent Wednesday night in a Washington hotel. Authorities say she is held pending parental arrival and no statement was issued.
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Washington
South
Potomac Street
H. EB. Brodiel
Haines Point
Potomac River
Miss Hollar
Hollar
Hagerstown
Smoketown
Wheeling
W. Va
Allen Hollar
Fisherman Escapes As Tarpon Overpowers Boat
Fort Myers Florida June 1. O C Cone went fishing and hooked a tarpon. The fish pulled him overboard but he escaped a ducking while the tarpon escaped.
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Fort Myers, Fla
O. C
Cone
Former Chicago Official Jailed
Chicago today added three more once prominent men to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth Kansas. Christian P Paschen city building commissioner under Mayor Thompson surrendered to serve a two year term for income tax evasion. Dr Valentine Gregory Burton of New York joined him in the trip to serve 15 years for passing 100000 in counterfeit money. Clarence R Webster former vice president of the Standard National Bank and the Peoples National Bank and Trust Company was to serve two and a half years for misapplication of bank money.
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Chicago
Leavenworth
Kan
Christian P. Paschen
Thompson
Valentine Gregory Burton
New York
Clarence R. Webster
Standard National Bank
Peoples National Bank and Trust Company
Keller Heefner Named Deputy Sheriff in Local County
TD Keller Heefner former Waynesboro policeman has been named a deputy sheriff in this county and will serve as policeman at Pen Mar park after taking his oath of office several days ago.
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Keller Heefner
Waynesboro
Pen Mar Park
Deaths and obituaries from Hagerstown area
Obituaries report Flora Ellen Rinehart dying at her sister's home from complications, with services at 8 PM and Rose Hill burial. Other notices include deaths of Millard Nelson in Rockford. Mary Ann Johnson of Fairplay. Andrew R Showberger of Waynesboro. Johanna Lightner of Hagerstown. Annie Koogle Clark of Columbus. Francea Jesse Frizzell of Hagerstown. Thomas Eugene Cost of Boonsboro. and Walter Herst drowned at Anglo quarry with funeral details to follow. Surviving relatives and burial sites listed for each case.
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Annie Koogle Clark
Washington County
Columbus
Ohio
John Koogle
Myersville
Charles
John
Sally Palmer
This City
Clara Moser
Huberts
Charles E. Woogle
Williamsport
Green Lawn Cemetery
Francea Jesse Frizzell
Charles L. Frizzell
Maryland Avenue
Hagerstown
John W. Frizzell
Franklin Grove
Isaac Motter
Baltimore
Sam Creex
Carrell County
C. M. Waltz
Winfield
Walter Herst
Suter
Walter Brron Stehl
Rose Hill
Fleet Arrives in New York for 18 Day Navy Visit
The U S Navy fleet of 35,000 sailors arrived in New York for an 18 day stay, their first in 1918. President Roosevelt inspected the ships aboard the Indianapolis as crowds cheered along the waterfront. The parade featured the immense armada passing the harbor under fog and haze.
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New York
New York Harbor
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Manhattan
Roosevelt
Indianapolis
Ambrose
Drought worsens in Iowa and Midwest with embargo on cattle
May records show extreme dryness across the Midwest. Iowa corn ungerminated due to drought while wheat ripened and farmers rushed harvests in Oklahoma and southern Kansas. Minnesota expected to embargo livestock shipments to preserve feed as St Louis logs a record dry May.
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Minneapolis
Des Moines
Keokuk
Illinois Bar Association
Waukegan
Oklahoma
Kansas
Iowa
St. Paul
Loy
Floyd B. Olson
Minnesota
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Rohrersville Scouts Have Fine Meeting
A Scout investiture ceremony in Rohrersville awarded 14 youths tenderfoot badges at the town hall. About 200 attended, signaling strong local support for a new troop. Scoutmaster Harry Mason led the event with Tee Gosnell as assistant and W H Havermill as chairman, plus a music program and slides.
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Rohrersville
Harry Mason
Tee Gosnell
W. H. Havermill
Rev
Secrist
Burk
Candle Under Crucifix Kills Memphis Woman at Home
In Memphis on June 1 Mrs. Mary Cavasino, 85, lit a candle beneath a crucifix at her residence. The flame reached a lace curtain, ignited her dress, and caused fatal burns. Also in Berlin, Pembroke Stephens, London Daily Express Berlin correspondent, was deported due to government disapproval of his dispatches.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mary Cavasino
Berlin
Pembroke Stephens
London Daily Express
Former Judge Keedy Dies Here Today
Former judge M L L Keedy dies at 60 after a long public career in Washington county and Hagerstown. He served as State's Attorney, member of the House of Delegates, mayor of Tragerstown, and Associate Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit. Survived by wife Nellie Stitt and daughter Mrs S Mitchell Fockler, funeral set for Sunday at 3 oclock from King Street home, burial Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Washington County
House of Delegates
Hagerstown
Fourth Judicial Circuit
Eakle’s Mills
Joseph B
Sophia (Miller) Keedy
Eakle's Mills
Roanoke College
Salem
Tragerstown
Congress
George J. Wellington
Maryland
Needy
Judge Needy
Nellie Stitt
J. B. Stitt
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
S. Mitchell Fockler
Joseph Adams
Baltimore
Rowland K. Adams
King Street
J. M. Gillum
St. Paul's M. EB. Church
Rose Hill Cemetery
Haunt in Vancouver East End Turns Real Menagerie
Vancouver reports of a sinister house end with police discovery of a caged lion and beasts. The occupant claims he wrestled the lion while running an animal show. Geneva notes the League of Nations council backs Bolivia arbitration over mediation in the Chaco war.
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Vancouver
East End
Geneva
Council of the League of Nations
Bolivia
Protest Holds Up Prizes In Auto Classic at Indy
Wild Bill Cummings of Indianapolis and Mauri Rose of Dayton failed to collect the fastest 500 miles prize at Indianapolis as the protest by Leon Duray over Rose's win led to withholding about 43 325 in first and second money. A A A officials studied tape six hours before W G Wall and A C Pillsbury denied the protest. Duray plans an appeal possibly to the courts while 32 other starters received awards at the drivers dinner.
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Wild Bill Cummings
Mauri Rose
Dayton
Ohio
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Amercan Automobile Association
Leon Duray
Los Angeles
Cal
Rose
Cummings
W. D. Edenburn
Detroit
W. G. Wall
A. C. Pillsbury
Quotations from Stein Bros and Boyce at McComse-Armestrong Building
Stock quotations feature quotes from Stein Bros and Boyce at the McComse-Armestrong Building. The column provides daily price updates and market movements for local investors.
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Stein Bros & Boyce
McComse-Armestrong
Chicago Grain Market Quotations and Prices
Quotations by Stein Bros and Boyce show wheat, corn, oats, and rye futures for July and September deliverable in Chicago. Prices range across open high low figures for wheat at 108, 106, 103 and 104 percent, corn at 268, 262, 263 and rye around 69 to 70 percent, with other entries in the 60s and 40s for oats and related months.
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Chicago
Stein Bros. & Boyce
McCaman-Armstrong Building
Wants to Be Paid in Gold
In Albany on June 11 the New York Court of Appeals reviewed arguments over a congressional devaluation of the gold dollar. Norman C. Norman, holder of a $1,000 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bond, contends the act strips his property without just compensation and violates equal protection and the tenth amendment by breaching state sovereignty. Norman seeks gold or its equivalent for a $22.50 interest payment that equaled $38.10 when issued.
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Albany
N. Y
Court of Appeals
Norman C. Norman
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Congress
Norman
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Neighbor jailed to allow painter to finish job
In Ocean City NX on June 1 a magistrate jailed neighbor Adam Schenck, 58, for three hours after he warned Vito Guarracino not to trespass while painting his house. The dispute involved a house section overhanging Schenck’s property and a threat to shoot.
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Ocean City
Vito Guarracino
Adam Schenck
Schenck
Guaracino
Guarracino
President Roosevelt Visits Worcester for Son's Graduation
President Roosevelt held an informal reception with Massachusetts leaders aboard his train in Worcester before motor trip to Groton School to see his son John graduate. Governor Ely, Worcester Mayor Mahoney, Francis Ford, U.S. District Attorney in Boston, and Fitchburg Mayor Greenwood joined the visitors who waited along the railroad yard fence as the train arrived from New York.
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Mass
Roosevelt
Massachusetts
Groton School
John
Joseph B. Ely
Lst
John Mahoney
Francis W. Ford
United States
Boston
Robert Greenwood
Fitchburg
New York
Nude hermit found in chicken coop at Flanigan property
Police in Chicago locate Abe Hinkley, 61, living nude in a chicken coop owned by Frank Flanigan. Attempts to hospitalize him are resisted by both Flanigan and Hinkley. Hinkley reports twelve years of residence in the coop.
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Chicago
Abe Hinkley
Frank Flanigan
Flanigan
Hinkley
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