Martinsburg Man Killed in Hit and Run Near Braddock
A 79 year old man from McConnellsburg Fulton County Pa identified as Wilson was killed in a hit and run incident after spending the prior night with David Easterday in Dam No 4 Williamsport Fulton County authorities were notified. Weekend driving accidents near Hagerstown claimed five lives and left six injured.—Frequent mentions of Martinsburg residents in related crashes and injuries also noted.
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Williamsport
Mr. Wilson
McConnellsburg
Fulton County
John E. Easterday
David Easterday
Dam No. 4
Hagerstown
Western Maryland
Monterey
Morris F. Watts
Daisy Brewer
Baltimore
Frederick Hollis
Martinsburg
Braddock Weights
A. W W. Smith
Fredatick Hospital
John Ff Munkleman
Kunkleman
Ridge Avenue
Robert Spigler
Kunkieman
Ile
British King George VI Celebrates 64th Birthday
Windsor England June 3 King George VI marked his sixty fourth birthday while confined to bed in Windsor Castle Victoria Tower. Doctors said his lung abscess was not serious and progressing normally despite mood of subdued celebration tied to his recovery from a long illness. Close aides reported a good night for the king.
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Windsor
England
George VI
Victoria Tower
Windsor Castle
George
Highest Court Upholds Jury Shadowing Verdict
The Supreme Court upheld the sentences of Harry F. Sinclair Henry Mason Day and Ww Sherman Burns for jury shadowing in the Fall Sinclair Teapot Dome case. William J. Burns got fifteen days, and W Sherman Burns was fined 1000. Sinclair remains jailed for contempt of the Senate and refused to answer questions before the Senate Oil Committee.
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Washington
Harry F. Sinclair
Henry Mason Day
Sherman Burns
Sinclair Teapot Dome
Supreme Court
William J. Burns
Sinclair
Albert B. Fail
Secretary of the Interior
Wyoming
Sinclear
W. Sherman Burns
Burns
District of Columbia
Senate
Senate Oil Committee
Coldest June Day in New York History
New York on June 3 recorded the coldest June day in history for the Weather Bureau with the temperature at 44 degrees at 5 AM. The previous low was 45 degrees on June 2, 1907, and a preceding hot spell last week peaked at a 0 degree reading on Friday.
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New York
New York Weather Bureau
Hail Damage Hits Hancock Fruit Belt Apples Peaches
A weekend check found heavy hail damage in the Hancock fruit belt near Paw Paw with apples knocked from trees and bruised fruit unsalable. The core Hancock area escaped the worst of the storm. Meanwhile Vesuvius erupted again near Naples Italy sending a lava flow toward Pompeii without immediate danger to nearby towns or Pompeii itself.
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Hancock ‘Fruit Belt
Paw Paw
Hancock Fruit District
Naples
Italy
Vesuvius
Pompeii
Ready for Taxes on Monday June 17
Barry M Hartle tax collector said his office will be ready to collect state and county taxes by Monday June 17. Bills are being printed and assistants will start mailing then on receipt from printers. Plane missing Seward Alaska June 3 a steamship Alaska report says the Gorst Plane Alaska has been missing four days of Cordova in the Caps Hinchin Rock area.
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Barry M. Hartle
Seward
Alaska
Cordova
Caps Hinchin Rock
MIT Professor Urges Snobbery Provokes Debate
In Hoston on June 3 a row erupted over Professor Robert Jammons Rogers of MIT who urged graduates to embrace snobbery. He advised dressing and acting like a gentleman to gain advantage, even suggesting social mobility and easy marriages, while critics and supporters weighed Harvard’s public image and the virtues of humility.
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Hoston
Robert Jammons Rogers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harward
Harvard
Grain prices jump sharply on opening auction
Chicago June 3 grain prices surged as buying heated up Wheat jumped from 15 to 6 cents at the opening with July at 1.00 to 1.05 and September 1.01 to 1.11 with December up 2.54 to 4 cents amid reports of a $100,000,000 government aid fund. Broad advance in corn followed. Hoover addresses to be broadcast from the new Commerce Building laying.
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Chicago
Washington
Hoover
Department of Commerce
National Broadcasting Company
Unseasonable June Cold Drops To Record Lows
The weather observer J A Miller Keedysville notes a dramatic June cold snap with a 4 degree reading, recalling past June mornings of 41 in 2 separate years and 36 in 1913, while frost is forecast tonight. May rainfall reached 5.3 inches, about 2 inches above normal, and temperatures matched the long term average.
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J. A. Miller
Midwest Shivers with Record Lows Across the Midwest
Chicago reports a chilly day with temperatures dipping to 50 degrees at noon and 47 later. Detroit records 40, Marquette 38, Duluth 34, Des Moines 40, Minneapolis 42, and Cincinnati 46. A northeast wind adds to the cold as subnormal temperatures persist.
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Chicago
Middlewest
Detroit
Marquette
Mich
Duluth
Des Moines
Minneanolis
Cincinnati
Forestry Students Transfer To Southern School
Most students from Mont Alto Forestry School will transfer to the forestry department of North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering next fall. The leavers are all underclassmen amid a reorganization of the Mont Alto program.
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Forestry School
Mont Alto
Forestry Department
North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering
Re elected Greek president named in joint session vote
Athens June 3 Adviral Paul Koundouriotisian was re elected president of Greece at a joint Senate and Chamber session receiving 259 votes from 409 lawmakers. The result confirms stability in the government amid parliamentary politics and marks a renewed mandate for the head of state.
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Athens
Greece
Paul Koundouriotisian
Senate
Chamber
Essex car theft report at 918 Rose Hill Avenue
Roland Schildknecht reported to police yesterday the theft of a generator and spare tire from his Essex car parked on Rose Hill Avenue.
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Roland Schildknecht
Rose Hill Avenue
Part Of Spoils In Chicago
Chicago gangland peace pact ends the bloody war and divides a $16,000,000 annual vice, gambling and liquor trade. The agreement includes Al Capone John Torrio Joe Aiello and Bugs Moran in a unified syndicate, granting Aiello a share of the "trade."
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Chicago
Joe Aiello
United Press
al Capone
John Torrico
Bugs Moran
Misidentified Man Abducted By Gang In Chicago
June 3 Chicago reports a druggist Matthew Zimmerman was seized by several men who called him Matt Daly or Matt Diligo. He was blindfolded and driven to a shack near Gary Indiana where captors tortured him with glass and burning cigarettes to force a confession about a still he knew nothing of. He escaped and received hospital care for burns and cuts.
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Chicago
Matthew Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Matt
Gary
Ind
Matt Daly
Matt Diligo
Shriners Gather for 55th Mystic Shrine Convention
Los Angeles hosts a three day program opening tomorrow for the fifty fifth annual Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine convention. About 50,000 Shriners from across America are expected to attend with 60 committees organized under Leroy M Edwards. Costs for the event outreach total around 4.5 million dollars, not counting a spent $250,000 electric pageant funded by the motion picture industry for Thursday's finale.
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Tos Angeles
Cal
Trevis
America
Los Angeles
Leroy M. Edwards
al Walnikah Towper
Williamsport launches amicite street rehabilitation plan
A special meeting authorized Mayor Byron and the town council to instruct the State Roads Commission to rebuild Potomac Street with amicite. The project totals about 10,000 dollars for a fifty foot section and a 27 foot segment to the river, slated after Old Home Week. Work by Tenney & Long on other streets progresses and will finish mid June with chips and oil resurfacing.
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Williamsport
W. D. Byron
Byron
State Roads Commission
Potomac Street
Hagerstown
Potomac River Bridge
Uhl
Conococheague Street
The
Roads Commission
Tenney & Long
Rust and Fly Affect Wheat in Washington County
Wheat fields in Washington county show earlier crop estimates cut by rust and Hessian fly. J A Miller notes May conditions favored progress, but late May yellowing led to a revised June 1 forecast of 90 percent. Some fields with preventive measures remain unaffected by rust or fly.
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Washington County
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Miller
Harvey Corder Missing From Home Search Begins
Police sought yesterday to locate Harvey Corder a 30 year old man from South Street who disappeared from his home on May 30. He wore dark trousers a blue shirt no collar or coat and was last seen walking along the Baltimore and Ohio tracks prompting a city wide search.
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Harvey Corder
South Street
Corder
Baltimore and Ohio
Goodwill Flyers Leave For Mexico
NEW ORLEANS June 3 Goodwill fliers en route from Washington to Lind took off from Callendar airport in a Bel Janea cabin monoplane on a nonstop flight to Mexico City Captain Carlos Pinilles navigator said the trip would take about 12 hours Lieutenant Carlos Zegarra is pilot
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New Orleans
Penn
Good Will Fliers
Washington
Lind
Callendar
Mexico City
Carlos Pinilles
Carlos Zegarra
Bandits Make a Big Haul at Racing Town
Fourteen hundred dollars in currency stolen from the Bayou Hotel in Havre de Grace Maryland during a 2:30 a m robbery. Three masked bandits forced day clerk Foe Hirsch to open the safe while Jack Murphy defended the night shift and bell staff stood at attention. Detectives from Baltimore aided the search and one bandit was identified by Havre de Grace officials.
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Havre DE Grace
Bayou Hotel
Wach
Jack Murphy
Baltimore
Lindbergh Sees Yacht Stop In New London Port
In New London Connecticut on June 3 Captain Louis Rounds assisted a man claiming to be Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh who tied up a 38 foot motor yacht named Mouette at Block Island. The man wore dark glasses, admitted his identity, and planned to sail to Boston with a party. The vessel had gasoline drums aboard and had recently come from Montauk Point.
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New London
Conn
Louis Rounds
Elizabeth Annard
Charles A. Lindbergh
Block Islar
Rounds
Lindbergh
Captain Rounds
Boston
Montauk Point
Port
Jefferson, L. I
Fairberry Crop Likely to Be Fair to Good This Year
The raspberry crop across the county is expected to be fair to good, with only Beaver Creek showing a potential fifty percent yield due to last summer's hail and bruised canes. Larger districts such as Rohrersville Littlestown and Keedysville anticipate fair to good crops, while Beaver Creek ships berries to Pittsburgh.
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Beaver Creek
Pittsburgh
Rohrersville
Littlestown
Keedysville
Prominent Americans Urge Fair Trial for Prohibition
Prominent business leaders led by Henry Ford Thomas A Edison Alfred P Sloan Captain Robert Dollar and J C Penney published a message urging the Eighteenth Amendment receive an honest trial and full enforcement. A related exchange included Joseph H Choate Jr defending the anti amendment stance. Justice Hoyt won Hearst prize for a plan to repeal the Volstead Act and redefine intoxicating liquor with state regulation for wine and beer under a new law.
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York
Henry Ford
Thomas A. Filison
Alfred P. Sloan
Jro
Robert Dollar
J. C. Penney
Hoover
Joseph H. Choate, Jr
Choate
Hearst Prize
Ettors
Franklin C. Hoyt
New York Children’s Court
Wiliam R. Hearst
Justice Hoyt
Fi Play
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Braddock
Basilira
J. C. Powers
Macon
Earl Manchester
Bill Bart Parker
Hancock
Great Crater
Hell Valley
James MM. Curley
Rogers
William S
Youngman
Mercury
Midwest
Forestry
Southern School
Shriners
Msport
Mexico
John Jerico
St. Clairsville
Jerico
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