Deathprobe tests challenge signed confession
In Charlottesville Virginia authorities push scientific crime methods against portions of Dr R G Miller confession in the chloroform death of Cleo Sprouse the 18 year old high school junior. Clay and plaster casts of marks and footprints underwent tests by state chemists while clothing and other evidence await federal identifications. Prosecutor W O Fife says the confession does not fully satisfy him and aims to disprove disputed parts as defense plans remain undisclosed. The dentist's case remains in Henrico county jail with preliminary hearing date pending.
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Charlottesville
Commonwealth
W. O. Fife
R. G. Miller
Cleo Sprouse
Federal Bureau of Identification
Albemarle County
Henrico County
Rich- Tmaong
Harold M. Ratcliffe
Henrico Commonwealth
Vanishes From Liner At Sea After Party
Plymouth report says Frank Vosper, 37, prominent English actor playwright, left the Paris champagne party in Muriel Oxford’s cabin and did not return. The ship tutored an investigation as Paris neared Le Havre after leaving Plymouth. Oxford, distressed, said Vosper stepped onto the deck and vanished. friends fear he is dead.
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Plymouth
England
Frank Vosper
Paris
Muriel Oxford
Great Britain
le Havre
France
Vosper
Oxford
New York
Peter Wiles
Vesner
Maryland Weather Outlook Tonight through Sunday
Mostly cloudy conditions persist across Maryland tonight and Sunday with colder temperatures on Sunday. Chesapeake Bay sees similar cloud cover and cooling, as moderate to fresh west winds shift to the northwest or north by Sunday. Sandy Hook to Cape Hatteras reports moderate to fresh winds turning northwest or north with overcast skies tonight and Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Sandy Hook
Cape Hatteras
Weekly Weather for March Week North and Mid Atlantic
Weekly weather overview for March week with rain in the Middle Atlantic Tuesday and Wednesday, snow or rain in the North Atlantic region starting Tuesday afternoon or night and ending by Wednesday night. A chance of rain Saturday. Cold start, warming Tuesday and Wednesday, cooler Thursday, then warmer toward week’s end.
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North and
Middle Atlantic
North Atlantic
Mrs Taylor influence in steel leaders talks pact
Mrs Myron C Taylor wife of the United States Steel chairman helped secure early meetings with John L Lewis. Her persuasions in a Washington hotel last December led to talks on steel and the Pittsburgh pact shaping U S Steel's recognition of the CIO committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myron C. Taylor
United States Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Taylor
Lewis
Washington
Undecided on Police Report in Maryland Senate
Senators on the committee probing political interference in the Maryland state police remain uncertain about their recommendations. A minority report possibility is cited, with one member privately planning to push his own ideas if not included. The five senators met for hours but made no definite conclusions before recess.
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Annapolis
Senate
State Police Department
Philadelphia church merger endorsed by conference vote
The Philadelphia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church backed a merger with the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Protestant church. The 197 to 5 vote followed a lay members endorsement, while the Sabbath Legislation and reform committee criticized city officials for permitting indecent performances and an open Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Methodist Protestant Church
Committee On
General Assembly
Hellion gang suspected in brutal crime
Windsor police chief said a group of boys possibly just older than Beverly Ann Page were being questioned in connection with the killing of four year old Beverly Ann in Claremont New Jersey. Pathologists found death by violence and an attempted assault was suspected. Beverly Ann had been visiting relatives when she disappeared during a playtime routine. Her body was recovered from a mill pond after volunteers and police located it in a small inlet.
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Windsor
John Edmonds
Beverly Ann Page
Claremont
N. J
Edmonds
Connecticut River
Beverly Ann
Charles F. Whitney
Albion Parker
General Hospital
John Winters
Celia T. Gullivan
Louis Thibault
Twenty Club to hold Monday meeting at chamber HQ
The Twenty Club retail section of the Chamber of Commerce will meet Monday at 10 AM at the chamber headquarters for a trade promotion discussion. Papal Duchess weds William J. Macaulay, Irish Free State minister to the Vatican, in New York. Mrs Brady, widow of a utilities financier, marries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
New York
Nicholas F. Brady
William J. Babington Macaulay
Vatican
Road blocking youths land in industrial school
Two Anne Arundel County boys ages 15 and 16 were committed to St. Marys Industrial School by Magistrate Ford after they used a tree and debris to blockade the road used by an Arundel High School bus. The boys explained they wanted to protest road conditions, saying a prior superintendent claimed buses were never delayed in ten years. Police investigated and arrested the Gambrills residents yesterday after the incident disrupted service to Arundel High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Anne Arundel County
St. Mary's Industrial School
Ford
Ferndale
George Fox
Ann Arundel County
Lester Gregg
Frederick County
Urbana
Frederick
Annapolis
Fox
Anne Arundel
Arundel High School
John H. Souers
William L. Brown
W. C. Wade
Gambrills
Arundel High
Must Keep Supreme Court Alert And Alive Declares Gen Johnson
General Hugh S Johnson urged in a nationwide broadcast that the Supreme Court stay alert to developments as Roosevelt's court plan faces heavy opposition in Congress. Senators Burke Copeland McAdoo weighed in on party realignments while Roosevelt pressed his Fireside Chat and hearings to promote the proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Gen. Johnson
Washington
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Johnson
Burke
D-Neb
Capitol Hill
Copeland
McAdoo
Calif
Amos Jones and Officer Castle in Courtroom Tussle
In a police court there was no comic act as Amos Jones a local barber pleaded guilty to assaulting patrolman Andy Castle. Judge John D. Duncan sentenced Jones to three months in the House of Correction with a suspended assault sentence reported earlier. The alley incident followed Jones being placed under arrest by Castle last evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos ’N’ Andy
Amos
Amos Jones
House of Correction
Justice
John D. Dunc
Andy Castle
Jones
Two Killed When Train Hits Car in Rowlesburg
In Rowlesburg West Virginia a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train struck a stalled sedan at Buffalo street crossing. Cecil Guy Hartsell 42 driver and owner of the car died instantly Delbert Hartsell 11 died at Grafton hospital. The injured include Bessie Louise Hartsell 41 Evelyn Simmons Hartsell 16 and Ronald Smallwood 18. The car stalled with front wheels on the track as the 45 mph train neared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowlesburg
W. Va
March & (P
Baltimore and Ohio
Buffalo Street
Cecil Guy Hartsell
Madison
IW. Va
Delbert Hartsell
C. G. Hartsell
Grafton Hospital
Bessie Louise Hartsell
Evelyn (Simmons) Hartsell
Ronald Smallwood
Salem
Hartsell
Use Silver Spoons In Emergency Operation
Anchorage report states an Eskimo patient had an emergency operation with silver spoons kept the incision open by the Barrow hospital team. A subsequent hospital fire destroyed medical supplies, amplifying challenges faced during the month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anchorage
Alaska
Times
Barrow
America
Witnesses Testify Monaghan Begged For Life In Slaying Trial
Somerset Pa March 6 The commonwealth called ear witnesses in the trial of Trooper Anthony Sainte and six others charged with beating 64 year old Frank C Monaghan to death in the Fayette county Bertillon room while he was held by police. Uniontown reporter Joe Dickson testified he heard Monaghan groan and beg for a chance as officers questioned him about detective John Walls slashing.
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Somerset
Commonwealth
Frank C. Monaghan
Fayette County
Anthony Sainte
Monaghan
Joe Dickson
Uniontown
John Wall
Dickison
Fruit Peddler Found Dead in Shamokia Row House
John B Dutch Kolb aged 57 was found dead in his room at the Southern Rooming House on the corner of Jonathan and Frank lill streets. A former Baltimore resident and occasional worker for Elmer Kratz, he died, apparently from acute indigestion, with Coroner Edward Heard Captain Carl M. McCleary and Detective William H. Peters on the case. SHAMOKIA, Pa. March 6. Big Willie Politis, six feet tall and nearly 300 pounds, was rescued from a mountain coal hole after being entombed since 3:30 p.m. yesterday, then went downtown to look for his buddies.
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John B.dutch Kolb
Alex Rice
Jonathan
Franklill
Kolb
Baltimore
Elmer Kratz
Edward Heard
Carl M. McCleary
William H. Peters
Shamokia
Big Willie” Politis
No Signal Delays Shuttle Train at Cuneo Station
In Rome on March 6 an engineer on a shuttle train at Cuneo failed to get the expected departure signal. He inspected the line to find an empty track behind his locomotive and discovered a snapped coupling. The mishap disrupted service and left several passengers unsettled.
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Rome
Cuneo
Tetto Galotto
Elgin Pledges Help From Roosevelt Administration
Elgin Democratic mayoral candidate W Lee Elgin told about 300 party workers at the Organization Club he would seek federal aid and cooperate with the Roosevelt administration if elected March 22 to improve Hagerstown. He said job creation and purchasing power drive prosperity and would work with business leaders to plan permanent city improvements. The meeting, the largest of the campaign, was presided by Club President Wm P Lane and committee chair Richard Duffey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Lee Elgin
Roosevelt
Hagerstown
Organization Club
Elgin
Wm. P. Lane
Richard Duffey
Plan To Give One-Blade Propeller A Real Test
Two Pennsylvanians hopped off Lancaster airport to cross the country in airplanes driven by one blade propellers en route to the Los Angeles national air show. Jesse Jones and Lt Arthur Pierce pilot the craft and Walter Everts and Frank Ellington, Baltimore, are credited with the invention made in a Lancaster county shop.
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Lancaster
Jesse Jones
Arthur Pierce
Bradford
Los Angeles
Calif
Siukby
Walter Everts
Frank Ellington
Baltimore
Lancaster County
Hagerstown High Graduation Schedule For June 1937
The 1937 commencement for Hagerstown High School is set for Wednesday June 9 with ceremonies beginning earlier in the week. Grimes announces a sequence of graduations across several towns including Clearspring Hancock Williamsport Smithsburg and Boonsboro from June 7 to June 11 with times listed for each location.
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Hagerstown High School
B. 5. Grimes
Clearspring
Hancock
Hagerstown
Williamsport
Smithsburg
Pastor Held in Slating Murder Near Beckley W Va
In Beckley West Virginia March 6 prosecutor W A Thornhill Jr charged Rev M H Ball 35 year old Methodist Episcopal minister with murder in the fatal shooting of his wife Gay Ball 29 Mrs Ball died yesterday of gunshot wounds after the minister gave conflicting statements about the incident He said she went to get a gun to shoot a hawk then later said the shooting was accidental The coroner’s jury found she died of wounds inflicted by another person Mrs Ball was Ball’s second wife with stepchildren and Ball’s five children from a prior marriage living at their Rock Creek home
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W. A. Thornhill
F. C. Crawford
M. H. Ball
Rock Creek Methodist Episcopal Church
Ball
Swarthmore Students Host Co ed Week For Dates
Swarthmore co ed week begins as coeds are urged to coax shy men for dates help with coats and carry books. The event includes awards for girls who make the most dates during the condensed leap year period.
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Swarthmore
Biggest Crop of Millionaires Forecast This Month
Treasury officials forecast the largest millionaire tax filers in six years, with about 4.5 million people filing returns this year and roughly 6 million returns expected by March 15, including 500,000 from corporations. The heaviest tax take is expected from incomes between 50,000 and 100,000 dollars, with about 10,000 returners in that band.
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Washington
Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
Lewis Union Foes Prep for a Fight
The Associated Press reports a wave of industrial unionization activity as company unions in Carnegie Illinois Steel align with or oppose John L. Lewis. AF of L leaders defer attack while CI0 plans reorganizing, with a Washington meeting to discuss campaigns in textiles and other large industries amid wage dispute at Westinghouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Preas
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
CLO
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Lewis
Pittsburgh
William Green
Af.o.s
C.lo
Carnegie-Clindia
Af.o.l
Washington
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
C SO
Trader's son may sue over mother's death in Worcester case
Estel Trader, eldest son of Mrs Jeanette B Trader, said he will confer with lawyers about filing a damage suit against Worcester county authorities. He claims criminal negligence in his mother's treatment contributed to her death after an abdominal operation at Salisbury hospital.
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Stockton
Estel Trader
Jeanette B. Trader
Worcester County
Trader
Baltimore Evening Sun
Salisbury
Clarence J. Trader
Threatened Election Judge Guarded in Maryland
Baltimore March 6 police placed a guard at the home of Christian Richter a 1 year old Republican election judge of the eighth ward after he reported an extortion note. The note signed by The Black Legion Gang demanded 908 weekly and threatened death. Police were summoned and patrols were stepped up by Capt. John R. Bchweler of the northeastern district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Christian Richter
Eighth Ward
Black Legion
Richter
Ita’ Dene
John R. Bchweler
Northeastern Police Distriet
Aangeh Od
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Manshower
Hellion Gang
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Heaven
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Miner
Joriess
Northfield
Dorothy Morvan
Joan Morvan
Jamaica
L. L Howard Magnussen
George Morvan
Norma Gatto
C. P
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