Big Pool Man Arrested for Wheat Theft
Michael Stevens of Big Pool, 55, was arrested on warrants for stealing 75 bushels of wheat from Reginald Ankeney’s farm near Clearspring. He was held on $1000 bond after arraignment before Justice Charles T Kreigh. Investigators linked about 70 bushels sold to a county dealer and tire imprints near the barn. Stevens claims the wheat came from his brother in exchange for farm equipment and denies being at the scene. The wheat theft involved an automobile.
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Michael Stevens
Big Pool
Reginald Ankeney
Clearspring
Charles T Kreigh
Stevens
Sherif W. Bruce Downin
Richard Renner
Ankeney
Stevers
Ankeney Place
Dog Barks Too Late To Save Child
The Myers family near Mercersburg mourns as their 3 year old, Samuel Myers, dies after falling into a cistern while playing with his dog. The dog barked at the back door to summon help but rescue came too late. Funeral services are planned for Friday from the family home.
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Samuel Myers
George Myers
Mercersburg
Roosevelt Sends To Britain Reply On Debts
President Roosevelt approved a reply to Britain's debt note. The State Department prepared it after discussions with Roosevelt. The communication to Britain clarifies that an installment payment may be placed in the treasury with explicit understanding it does not waive the remaining balance or imply any default.
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Washington
Roosevelt
State Department
Phillips
H.W. A. Freese-Pennefather
London
America
Flea Edgerly Lincoln's Spy Dies After Heat Wave
Chicago reports the death of Jason H. Edgerly known as The Flea, Lincoln's field reporter and reputed to have stolen Confederate plans at Willow Creek. He died at his Bhue Island home at age five amid Midwest heat. Also noted were killed sheep in Maryland and a wage demand by railroads seeking 1 1/4 per cent increases, with notices to four railway brotherhoods planned.
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Chicago
Jason H. Edgerly
New
Willow Creek
Robert B. Lee
Edgerly
Tincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
New England
Lincoln
New York
Dow Jones & Co
Wage Increase At Southern Shoe Plant
The Southern Shoe Manufacturing Company on North Mulberry Street announces a five percent wage increase for all employees this week. The plant employs 400 workers. An official cites improving business and gradual growth over several months.
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Southern Shoe Manufacturing Company
North Mulberry Street
Potomac Edison Board Chairman Announces Retirement After 45 Years
Melville F. Riley, president of the Potomac Edison company, will retire June 30 after 45 years with the public utilities. He began in the field at age 16, having been with the company since 1923.
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Potomac Edison Company
Melville F. Riley
Riley to retire after 45 years at Potomac Edison
Melville F. Riley, chairman of the Potomac Edison Company board and former president since 1923, announced retirement set for June 30. He notes forty five years of continuous service with American Water Works and Electric and its predecessors, and will keep Hagerstown as his home.
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Melville F. Riley
Potomac Edison Company
Abyars
American Water Works and Electric Company, Inc
Companios
Hagerstown
Riley
Dentists Extend Care for Poor Children in City
Many children with defective teeth found in school and preschool screenings have received dental care at Health Center. Dr Govdon A. Lewis arrives from the State Department of Health to oversee June work at the suggestion of Dr Crown D. Diehl, replacing the four volunteer dentists for the month.
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Health Department
Don A. Lewis
State Department of Health
Crown D. Diehl
Public Health Association
Lewis
Senator seeks funding for Rocky Mountain spotted fever study
Washington June 14. Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough urged budget director Lewis W. Douglas to raise funds for research into Rocky Mountain spotted fever. He cited 15 cases in Maryland this year and 45 last year, urging higher appropriations to advance scientific study.
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Washington
Maryland
Phillips Lee Goldsborough
Lewis W. Douglas
Mattern to Resume His Sea Flight
Moscow reports Jimmie Mattern held by storms at Khabarovsk while he retraced his trans Pacific route. Fog and ice in the Tartars Gulf forced a backtrack after eight hours aloft. His motor is in good order and he plans to resume the hop to Nome within hours.
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Moscow
Jimmie Mattern
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Mattern
Tartar Gulf
Stoddard King Dies Humanist and Humorist at 43
Spokane obituary notes the death of Stoddard King a humorist columnist and author of There's a Long Long Trail aged 43 from sleeping sickness. He conducted the Facetious Fragments column in the Spokesman-Review and wrote the wartime song There’s a Long Long Trail while at Yale University.
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Spokane
Wash
Stoddard
King
spokesman-Review
England
Yale University
Endorse Road Plan at Old County Fort
The Williamsport and Hagerstown Chambers of Commerce agreed to back a project to build a quarter mile road into Fort Frederick from the main highway. They will seek support from F. W. Besley of the State Forestry Department and from state and county authorities. Raymond H. Miller pushed the measure with county support.
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Old County Fort
Williamsport Chamber of Commerce
Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce
Fort Frederick
F. W. Besley
State Forestry Department
Raymond H. Miller
Washington County
Wage Advance Seems Certain in Steel Industry
New York June 14 The Iron Age trade review says a general wage advance in the steel industry seems certain though legislative effects remain conjectural. It notes current ingot output at 47 percent of capacity, up from 44 percent a week earlier, and says producers are delaying price actions for forward delivery until the industrial recovery bill is enacted. Reluctance to take forward business fuels speculative buying.
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New York
Iron Age” Trade Review
They Talked Too Much One in Pen Other Dead
New York news recounts two youths whose words led to ruin. Frank Crawford, jailed for attempted murder in 1931, is released on parole then vows to kill Ethel Pennington. A barber, Vincent Di Taranto, learns Crawford is back and alerts police. Crawford is sent back to Sing Sing for parole violation. Edward Ortega, seven, boasted he could swim and was pushed into the North River, where he drowned before rescuers found him.
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New York
Frank Crawford
Ethel Pennington
Vincent di Taranto
Crawford
Barber di Taranto
Taranto
Sing Sing
Edward Ortega
Edward
Edward Oretga
Roosevelt Launches Industry Bill Pushes Action Within Thirty Days
President Roosevelt ordered cabinet advisers to explain plans as the Industrial Control Public Works bill moved toward swift enactment. Congress passed the bill with a three and a half billion dollar record appropriation for a massive public works program designed to employ up to a million workers and expand government supervision of business. The measure suspends anti trust law temporarily to curb over production and price manipulation while pursuing broad construction including federal buildings highways river improvements port projects and private slum eradication efforts, plus naval shipyards and army aircraft plants.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Hugh Johnson
Congress
Navy
Army
Hard Luck Pursues Him Hard Luck Pursues Him
Jake Campbell of Brinkley Arkansas suffers repeated severe injuries over the years including a broken leg in France, burns and multiple arm injuries from a high voltage accident, and a shoulder amputation after a hospital stay. A recent porch accident when a car left the road injured him again. President Roosevelt was honored with a Doctor of Laws degree at Catholic University during commencement exercises in Washington.
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Brinkley
Ark
Jake Campbell
Campbell
France
Roosevelt
Washington
Catholic University
Circus Paycar Robbed By The Hagenback-Wallace Circus
Philadelphia June 14 three men robbed the Hagenback Wallace circus pay car at Millbourne station, pulling off six to seven thousand dollars. Shots were fired as employees attempted pursuit. Dayton Ohio June 14 Frigidaire says May sales rose 42 percent from 1952 levels as two Dayton plants run at full speed with about ten thousand workers employed.
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Philadelphia
Hagenback-Wallace
Millbourne
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dayton
Ohio
Frigidaire Corporation
General Motors
Fire destroys outbuilding on Alter farm near Mt Aetna road
A morning fire at about 9 o clock gutted an outbuilding on the Alter farm along Mt Aetna road. Sparks from the blaze set the chicken house roof alight but Juniors arriving after the appeal quickly extinguished the flames. Firemen saved adjacent buildings.
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Mt. Aetna Road
Vet Dispute Deadlock Over $1 Million Hospital Fund
Washington June 14 The Senate and House conferees could not agree on adding a $1,000,000 veterans hospital fund to the independent offices appropriation. House opponents said it would amend an appropriation bill. The bill was returned to conference by a 48 to 31 Senate vote, with House vote planned on the issue.
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Washington
Senate
House
Byrnes
Gadget converts heat into sound in lab study
In Pittsburgh on June 14 a research by-product device emits a low growl when a hand nears it and snarls when a match is lit nearby. Tunable sensitivity lets it respond to heat at distances of 40 to 50 feet, demonstrating surprising results from heat sound conversion.
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Pittsburgh
Research
Hull urges united approach at economic conference
London report notes Secretary Hull urges removal of import barriers and a tentatively international monetary mechanism. He avoids debt specifics, stressing multilateral participation and exchange restrictions reform. British delegates show cautious approval as Hull keeps plans close to his chest.
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London
Ofs
Cordell Hull
Hull
America
International Monetary
Nccess
Timie
France
Italy
Britain
Jape
Fire destroys nine buildings in McPHERSON business district
Fire swept a section of the main business district in McPherson Kansas injuring two firemen and destroying nine buildings. Insurance men estimated damage between 300000 and 400000 dollars with total losses around 600000 dollars for the area this year. Absent firemen attended a Wichita convention.
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Mcpherson
Kas
Mai
Etree
Surance
Appro
Mately
Wichita
Massachusetts votes by four to margin for repeal of dry law
Massachusetts counties favored repeal of the 18th amendment by a four to one margin with Boston showing ten to one support. In statewide balloting delegates pledged to repeal exceeded pro prohibition votes by four to one, and three delegates were chosen from each of 13 districts.
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Massachusetts
Boston
Massacusetts
Wyoming
Maivois
Indiana
New York
New Jersey
Michigan
Rhode Island
Delaware
Wisconsin
Nevada
Massachusettes
Joseph B. Ely
Moon
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Germany
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Anny Ondra
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U. S
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Lee
Virginia
Greencastle Pike
Maugansville
M. F. Riley
Potomac Edison Company Board of Directors
Msport Chamber of Commerce
Johnson
Hagenbeck - Wallace Circus
Philly
Adolphe Menjon
Kathryn Carver
Los Angeles
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