Curtis Seen Likeliest for Republican Vice Presidency at Convention
Delegates at the Republican convention coalesced around Curtis of Kansas as the favored choice for vice president after Borah declined to run. Support swelled from the agricultural west, with Kansas and the grain belt promising solid backing. First-ballot victory unlikely due to native son votes, though the drift favored Curtis for the ticket.
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International News Service
Convention
Cleveland
Curtis
Chas. Curtis
Kangaa
Borah
Frank Mondell
Mandell
Martin B. Madden
Illinois
California
Kansas
Jess
Ohio
IINSPECT PLANT IN NEW JERSEY
Wednes day inspection of the Maryland Steel Rolling Company plant at Trenton N J shows a modern facility as a subsidiary of Tidewater Steel Corporation planning a hot roll mill in Virginia Avenue addition. The Hagerstown plant would produce 10000 to 15000 tons annually, and Trenton operations began after furnace improvements. Building on the Hagers town plant will start soon.
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Maryland Steel Rolling Company
Trenton
N. J
Tidewater Steel Corporation
Virginia Avenue
Hagerstown
Pittsburg
Suspect Escaped Convict Leader In Big Robbery
Police and government agents hunt Gerald Chapman a twice escaped Atlanta inmate linked to a major robbery by ten gunmen at a busy trucking point in New York. A government truck carrying jewelry and diamonds valued at 100000 dollars was seized. Chapman starred in the Leonard Street mail truck heist two years earlier, and investigators believe the plan used his known mail-moving methods.
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New York
Gerald Chapman
Atlanta
Chapman
Leonard Street
Broadway
Typhoid Strikes Point of Rocks With New Cases
Six new typhoid cases reported at Point of Rocks bring total near twenty. Flooded Potomac area and sewer overflows blamed for the outbreak. Health officials continue inoculations and advise residents to boil drinking water and avoid polluted wells.
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Point of Rocks
Potomac River
Drivers With Beginners Licenses Warned In Frederick
In Frederick a driver cited for operating alone with only an instructor license faced a $20 fine. A separate incident left Wimer K. Piper with a badly swollen right hand after being struck while cranking his automobile.
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Frederick
Wimer K. Piper
Surevayor
St White
Young Artist Draws Cartoons For Paper
The cartoon on today’s editorial page is by D. H. Fahrney of Hagerstown a Washington County High School graduate. It shows exceptional merit and is timely. Fahrney is developing talent and is working on a comic strip meritorious work like his other drawings.
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Daily Mail
D. H. Fahrney
Hagerstown
Washington County
Fahrney
Moller Co to open factory on North Locust Street
The Moller Motor Co formerly of Lewistown Pa will locate on the third floor of the American Automotive Corp building on North Locust Street in the former Hall's garage to manufacture small racing and sport model cars. The firm previously planned a factory near Half Way on the Pennsylvania railroad but abandoned that plan and will start on a small scale at the local plant. The company once built bodies for foreign cars during the war and its Moll er machines were shown here and raced locally.
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Moller Motor Co
Lewistown
American Automotive Corp
North Locust St
Moller Co
Pennsylvania
Locust Street
Moller Machine
Commissioner hears compensation cases
About a dozen cases were taken up before George L Eppler of the State Industrial Accident Commission this morning. Other cases will be heard this afternoon. The facts were presented and testimony taken. No decision can be rendered by one commissioner. all cases must go to the fact board. New gong installed in police headquarters connected with the Big Ben fire alarm. police will hear city fires ring when the big gong sounds.
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George L. Eppler
Cumberland
State Industrial Accident Commission
Mr. Sappler
Fact Board
New Heater for YMCA Swimming Pool
A new heating system for the YMCA swimming pool will be installed this summer at about 1650 dollars. The 45 000 gallon capacity heater will raise water temperature from 60 to 180 degrees in 15 hours to supply warm baths in heavy demand. Russell Shaffer was injured in an automobile accident near Monkstown and taken to Washington County Hospital with non serious injuries.
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C. B. Steele
Russell Shaffer
Cook Street
Washington County Hospital
Monkstown
Requests All Indictments Quashed
Chicago June 12 Clarence Darrow chief of counsel for Nathan Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb will move July 21 to quash all indictments over the confession read to the grand jury under duress. No success expected. aim to gain time as mob hysteria subsides.
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International News Service
Chicago
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Robert Franks
Clarence Darrow
Woman Held on Larceny Charge In Divorce Tangle
Mrs Emma Binkley Neff faces a 2 PM hearing on larceny charges related to items from Mrs Clara Mc Kane. A rug and a clothes tree were found at Neff's home per a search warrant at McKee's request. Neff's messy marriage history includes multiple spouses and a divorce suit. Also note birth of a son to coach William B Stark at St James School and a petition by James W Webster and Grace A Webster to adopt Robert J Webster with consent from Robert A and Bertha Webster of Pennsylvania.
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Emma Binkley Neff
Clara McKane
McKee
Neff
William B. Stark
St. James School
Washington County Hospital
Stark
Grace A. Webster
Robert J. Webster
Robert A
Bertha Webster
Pennsylvania
Andrew Brown Ordered To Leave Town For Good
Andrew Brown, a resident of Hagerstown, appeared in police court with a long record. Justice Bower dismissed him on condition he leave Hagera and never return. Patrolman Brown arrested him last night for drunkenness and Brown promised to leave town and stay away within six hours.
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Andy Brown
Justice Bower
Andy
Hagera
Brown
Hagerstown
Coolidge Nominated on First Ballot at Convention
Calvin Coolidge was formally nominated for the presidency by the Republican National Convention at 1.41 o clock today on the first ballot. The event marks a decisive outcome as Coolidge secures the party’s nomination.
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Coolidge
Itinerant Peddlers Ordered Out of Town
Three itinerant merchants Fred Martin Jesse Martin and George Combs were fined five dollars after a hearing before Justice Bower for selling linoleum without a license in Hagerstown. The judge ordered them to leave the city immediately. Also notes local nominations and the fifth Swarthmore Chautauqua opening in Boonsboro with lectures by Dr. James J. Walsh.
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Fred Martin
Jesse Martin
George Combs
Justice Bower
Hagerstown
Local contractor predicts rents to fall in six months
A city contractor forecasts lower rents within six months as spring building adds scores of houses and many conversions to apartments. He notes three family units in new apartments, recent large apartment blocks, and the appeal of renting to avoid winter coal and maintenance.
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Hageratown
Man Drowns in Potomac River Near Brunswick
John Bowers aged 30 a B O brakeman drowned in the Potomac River near Brunswick yesterday morning. The body not recovered and fears arise it may never be located due to rising waters from heavy rains. Bowers left home to fish and was pulling the boat when the pole slipped and he fell in.
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John Bowers
Potomac River
Brunswick
Bowers
Zion Reformed Church Marks 150th Anniversary
Zion Reformed Church celebrates 150 years with a morning anniversary sermon by Rev. Dr. Scott R. Wagner and an evening graveyard memorial led by Rev. Henri L. G. Kieffer with other pastors. Final service Monday features Reformed pastors as Rev. Dr. Paul S. Leinbach and others speak. church noted as the county's oldest building. St Joseph's Academy closes today for summer vacation.
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Zion Reformed Church
Scott R. Wagner
Henri L. G. Kieffer
Frederick
J. Spangler Kieffer
Kieffer
Jacob Weymer
Paul S. Leinbach
Reformed Church Messenger
Lancaster
Washington County
Louis F. Zinkhan
Boonsboro
Felix R. Peck
Clearspring
J. Stewart Hartman
Cavetown
John G Hess Dies at 75 in Antietam Street Residence
John QG Hess a well known carriage manufacturer of 236 East Antietam died at 11 this morning from complications. He was 75. His widow two sons and four daughters survive along with other relatives.
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John QG. Hess
East Antietam
Coolidge Poised to Run with Judge Kenyon for Vice President
President Coolidge, in Cleveland, signals Judge W S Kenyon as running mate while Marion Burton places Coolidge’s name before the convention. Leaders had backed Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, with western support arranged, but the president’s message unsettled plans and sparked urgent backstage consultations among Mellon Reed Wadsworth and others.
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Marion Burton
University of Michigan
Calvin Coolidge
Cleveland
L.N.S
Coolidge
W. S. Kenyon
White House
Marion Leroy Burton
Chas. Curtis
Kansas
Wm. M. Butler
Mellon
Reed
Pennsylvania
Wadsworth
New York
Kenyon
Curtis
Kenyon Acceptable as VP Candidate if Nominated
White House signals Judge William S. Kenyon would be acceptable to President Coolidge if named as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Officials would not confirm whether the President suggested Kenyon for nomination at the convention. Also reported is the Frederick marriage of Pearl Baughman and Paul Bennett, both of the city, with details of families. A separate item notes bail set at 500 dollars for Russell sennec charged with transporting and selling liquor and associated grand jury actions. Viola Maredith, alleged wife, released on 760 bond for hoottagging.
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International News Service
Washington
William S. Kenyon
United States
Iowa
Coolidge
White House
Kenyon
Frederick
Pearl Baughman
Paul Bennett
Glen
Calvin Baughman
Edegar Bennett
Russell Sennec
Cnargea
Viola Maredith
Hennett
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Kansan
New Jersey
Tidewater Steel Corp
D. Murray Stauffer
Ellicott City
Guy Weagley
Cleark
Edward Oswald
McFarland
Honard Street Methodist Church
Charles Curtis
Hand
Post Office
Old Hull Garage
Andrew Brown
Convention Hall
Cleve
Republican National Con
W. B. Barr
Albert Behling
Potomac
St. Joseph's Academy
West Washington Street
John G. Hess
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