Senator Borah Undergoes Prostate Surgery at Johns Hopkins
Senator William E Borah of Idaho underwent prostate gland surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Surgeon Dr Hugh H Young performed the operation and reported the senator in perfect condition and resting in his room. The procedure was not considered serious and Borah will remain in hospital for several weeks for recovery.
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Baltimore
United States
Senate
William E. Borah
Tdsho
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hugh H. Young
Young
Senator Borah
Hopking Hospital
Dr. Young
Senator. Bornh
Bobby Winner of First Tilt at Ocean City
Eight year old Bobby Carpenter of Magerstown, representing the National Marble Tournament in Ocean City New Jersey, won his first elimination match against the York Ea champion. He later dropped several games to the Lancaster champion, lowering his day’s winning percentage. Bobby remains slated to play twelve more games tomorrow as crowds cheer the youngest champion.
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Bobby Carpenter
Magerstown
Ocean City
N. J
York
Hobby
Lancaster
Bobby
Thea Hoy
Marty E. Wolf
M.C. A. Stall
Four Fliers' Bodies Found at Langley Field
Divers recovered the four bodies from a crashed Langley Field aircraft in the James River near Rushmere. The cause of the crash is unknown. Victims include Second Lieut H W MacKethhan from Baltimore and Lieut Lewis Horvath from Wisconsin, with privates Sayre of Philadelphia and Oliver of Smithfield, N C.
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Langley Field
Woman nearly buried alive in Brazil crisis
In PARA Brazil on June 26 Senora Maria Das Dores aged 65, long ill, lost consciousness and seemed lifeless. Her family prepared funeral rites but she revived while being placed in a coffin as mourners fled. Hours later she truly died.
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Para
Brazil
Sen
Ora Maria Das Dores
Senora Das Dores
Ruby Jackson Shoppe Looted in Weekend Burglary
The Ruby Jackson Shoppe at 109 North Potomac Street suffered a weekend burglary. 93 dresses valued over 1000 dollars and 500 dollars worth of silk hose plus 100 dollars in cash were stolen from a rear door forced open. Police suspect an out of town crew used a vehicle to remove the goods.
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Ruby “Jackson
Potomac Street
Miss. Jackson
Miss Jackson
Holt
Early Arrest Seen in Ha gerstown Bicycle Burglaries
Police expect an arrest within hours in connection with Ha gerstown bicycle burglaries. The suspect is linked to multiple north end break ins including Beatrice Moser at 28 Garlinger Avenue where a screen door was forced and drawers rifled though nothing was reported missing. Neighbors described a man on a bicycle seen near the Moser and Moller homes, with authorities noting the thief targets cash and jewelry and often departs without taking other items.
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Hagerstown
North End
Beatrice Moser
Garlinger Avenue
M. P. Moller, Jr
North Potomac Street
Moser
Apartment Ransacked At West Antietam Address
The basement apartment of W. L. Cook at 453 West Antietam Street was burglarized Saturday night. The screen door was cut and the rear door broken open. About $7.50 in cash, some oranges, candy and four cartons of cigarettes were stolen. Police began an investigation.
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W. L. Cook
West
Antietam Street
Cook
Oven Hidden Wallet Perishes In Oven Blaze
Mrs. Maggie Dykes of 814 Washington Avenue hid a pocketbook with $32 in the oven of a coal stove. A fire burned most of the wallet but the cash remained intact after she forgot the hiding place and started the fire.
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Maggie Dykes
Washington Avenue
State pays off county road bonds in Washington County
The State Roads Commission will retire 13500 dollars in Washington County Road bonds due July 1 and 7792.50 dollars in interest on remaining bonds. Attorney General W. Preston Lane announced the commission will cover both bonds and interest, relieving county taxpayers from new tax levies. Lane said he raised the matter with Chairman Uhl, who confirmed the state will pay.
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State Roads Commission
Washington County
W. Preston “Lane
Lane
G. Glinton UK
State ‘Roads Commission
Uhl
McPherson Hutton Limited Visitation After Illness
Mrs Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton an American evangelist may not receive visitors or communications for at least three weeks due to a serious illness and an operation ten days ago to remove an intestinal obstruction. Shadrach Green Sparks 61 president of the Sparks bank in Baltimore county died of a heart attack.
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Paris
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton
Baltimore
Shadrach Green Sparks
Sparks Bank
Baltimore County
Popeye Returns to Daily Mail Comics July 3
Thimble Theatre stars Popeye as the funniest comic character in newspaper history. E C Segar invites readers to meet the one eyed sailor daily in the Daily Mail starting Monday July 3 marked with humor and action.
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E. C. Segar
Thimble Theatre
Popeye
America
Daily Mail
Bank Cashier Killed by Bandits in LaCrosse Robbery
William E. Tennel, cashier of the LaCrosse State Bank, was shot and killed during a bank robbery attempt by five bandits. The assailants fled north in an automobile after the time-locked safe prevented entry. Police were ordered to pursue the gang across Lapoxote County.
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Lacrosse
William E. Tennel
LaCrosse State Bank
Tennel
Misa Lillian Younggreen
Lapoxote
Child Falls Into Fish Pond in Concord Street Yard
Mildred Goetz aged six of Concord street narrowly escaped drowning yesterday evening after she fell into a four foot deep fish pond at Kirvin Vott’s home on Weat Washington street. Her cries drew her father who pulled her to safety unhurt.
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Mildred Goetz
Concord Street
Kirvin Vott
Weat
Washington Street
Vott
Council to Hear Public Works Plan After Baltimore Conference
A special meeting of the Mayor and City Council will receive a report on a Baltimore conference with Abel Wolman chief engineer of the State Board of Health about potential local public works. City engineer Samuel Greenwalt chamber representatives will attend and report. The council will select projects prioritizing maximum job creation.
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Baltimore
Abel Wolman
State Board of Health
Samuel Greenwalt
Clyde Brewer
Board of Street Commissioners
Chamber of Commerce
Wolman
Three Die As Plane Crashes At Cresco Airport
A Cresco Iowa report says pilot Allen T. Rideout 24 Charles City and two Cresco residents Bernard Staebell and Alvin Weinkauf died when Rideout's plane crashed during approach at the local airport. Witnesses said the engine failed as the aircraft neared landing.
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Cresco
Allen T. Rideout
Charles City
Bernard Staebell
Alvin Weinkauf
Rideout
Picnic ends in melee at Solon Muldowney rally
Pittsburgh June 26 Nineteen people were jailed after a testimonial picnic for Representative Michael J. Muldowney ended in a free for all near Mt. Lebanon. Police responded to a riot call as a mob bruised and torn faced attendees were arrested for disorderly conduct. Muldowney, a Republican elected from the 32nd District, did not comment. Indictments accused municipal officials of ballot mishandling in a federal probe.
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Pittsburgh
Michael J. Muldowney
Mt. Lebanon
Muldowney
Anne E. Felix
Mul Jowney
Eddie Ray
Po-ice
R. K. Muldowney
Frank Leahy
Leahy
Man Freed After Assault on 16 Year Old Girl
Harry Sprankle faced charges of assault and ill treating Catherine Marshall a 16 year old girl. He was freed this morning with costs paid by magistrate Richard Sweeney. Testimony showed a dispute over a dress with Mrs Sprankle claiming the sire wore it without consent. The man allegedly tore part of the dress from the girl during the incident.
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Harry Sprankle
Catherine Marshall
Richard Sweeney
Kenneth Buck Enters Prison
Kenneth Buck begins a 24 year term for the kidnapping of Margaret Peggy McBath as a jury in Barnstable acquits his brother Cyril on a similar charge. The imprisonment follows his conviction Saturday night at the Massachusetts trial.
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Barnstable
Mass
Boston
Kenneth Buck
Margaret
Peggy) McBath
Kenneth
Cyril
Weavers Strike at Federal Silk Mill Williamsport
Ten weavers at the Federal Silk Mill in Williamsport went on strike after failing to reach a wage agreement with proprietor David Goetz. The workers, paid 11 to 12 cents an hour for 11 hours daily and some women paid 3 to 5 cents, sought higher pay and quit when Goetz asked them to wait until midweek.
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Federal
Williamsport
David Goetz
Goetz
Many Die in Quake Hits Batavia Seaport
Seventy people killed in a severe earthquake that struck Bencoolen on Sumatra's west coast. Most residents in the affected district are Malays.
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Batavia
Java
Bencoolen
Sumatra
Whippoorwill Called Mathematician by Osceola Man
Guy Englehardt claims a local whippoorwill is a mathematician. He says the bird makes 321 calls at 60 per minute and ends the 21st jon, illustrating curious behavior observed in Osceola on June 26.
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Osceola
Wis
Guy Englehardt
Former Marine Victor in Texas Race for Seventh District Seat
Galveston Tex June 26 Py Clark W Thompson Aired Galveston reports a former Marine who served in World War I later found business success and appeared to have won the Democratic nomination for the seventh Texas district seat left vacant by the death of Rep Clay Stone Briggs.
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Galveston
Tex
Clark W. Thompson
Texas
Clay Stone - Briggs
Thompson
Briggs
Davis to Confer With Roosevelt in New England Trip
United States Ambassador at large Norman H. Davis left his New York home for Boston to board the Amberjack II and confer with President Roosevelt. He said he could not predict when the meeting might occur, awaiting word from a presidential secretary. Roosevelt enjoyed a quiet coast holiday in remote Roque Teland, Maine, after sailing the New England coast. In Carlisle Pennsylvania Dickinson College named Dr James Henry Morgan to serve as president again until a successor to Dr Earl T Waugh is chosen following Waugh’s resignation.
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New York
Norman H. Davis
United States
Boston
Roosevelt
Davis
Europe
Lakeman Bay
Roque Teland
New England
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Carlisle
James Henry Morgan
Dickinson College
Earl T. Waugh
Waugh
Board of Trustees
Philadelphia
Bishop Favors Dry Law Repeal
Nashville Tenn June 26 A statement from Rt Rev Thomas F Gailor bishop of Tennessee and former head of the Episcopal Church of America favors repeal of the eighteenth amendment He lists four reasons including that the amendment was not enacted with broad public will that it is a sumpptuary measure that has spurred crime and bootlegging and that states rights should decide prohibition rather than a single group of states
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Nashville
Tenn
Thomas F. Gailor
Memphis
Tennessee
Episcopal Church of America
Ewset
Unsuccessful attempt to extort from Waynesboro socialite
A failed extortion plot targeted Mrs. Fisher of Waynesboro and her son. Pennsylvania State Police and local officers mounted a stealth operation near Hagerstown, with impersonators and a decoy car, but the suspect did not appear as trail continued to be pursued from the Northern Hagerstown area toward the Country Club road.
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H.L. F
Waynesboro
Franklin County
Aalbeth
Hagerstown
Saturda
Hagers
Smithsburg Sets Town Tax Rate At 1.50 Per 100
Smithsburg fixed its town tax rate at 1.50 per 100 dollars, with collection to begin soon. A July discount of 60 percent is planned. Officials say the rate is high but necessary due to banking difficulties that tied up about 35,000 in town funds. Interest on water bonds and the sinking fund add to the total levy.
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Smithsburg
Burgess Land Commissioners
Prizes Split for Tips In Local News Week
Last week’s tip contest prize money is split between two reporters. One local resident reported a serious fire at Hancock destroying a home, while a Mercersburg girl reported a serious accident near Williamson involving a wagon and a shed. A Williamson lime kiln case and a railroad station robbery were also noted as contributors to the week’s tips.
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Vale
Hancock
Mercersburg
Williamson
Coes
South Oma
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