Scout Drive Launched to Fund Local Scout Activities
Workers gathered at the Hamilton Hotel in Hagerstown for a three day drive starting Monday to raise 5300 for Scout activities in Washington County. Campaign Chairman Sydney Bradford led the dinner and outlined procedures, with messages from officers unable to attend and support from Major Joseph Byron and Wilson Sperow praising Scout training’s value.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Hamilton Hotel
Sydney S.bradford
Joseph Byron
Culver Military Academy
Wilson Sperrow
Sperow
Bradford
Boy Scout
Papal Coronation Plans Go Forward
Vatican City March 11 Masses honored late Pope Pius IX as Vatican prep for the coronation of his successor Pius XII proceeds. Cardinals bishops and religious leaders gathered in St. Peter's tomb area while crimson damask drapes rise inside the basilica and loudspeakers extend the ceremony reach for those outside. Doors open at 6 am Sunday with the pontifical mass set for about 8 15 am as the world awaits the coronation.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius XI
Vatican
Pius III
Pius XI
St. Peter’s
Pius XII
Vigilio da Valstagna
Holy Father
St. Peter's Square
Rohrersville Farm Bureau Plans Year End Meeting
The Rohrersville Farm Bureau planning group concluded its first year of activity at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Miller Mt Carmel Amos E Reeder was elected chairman for the coming year C S Haines secretary Mrs D D Millendore discussion leader A next meeting is set for April 3 at the Needer home Attendees include Mr and Mrs George Jennings Mr and Mrs John F Rohrer Mr and Mrs Stanley Haynes Mr and Mrs James Smith Mr and Mrs Russell Eigenbrode Mr and Mrs R L Hatcher Mr and Mrs S J Mullendore Mr and Mrs D D Mullendore Mr and Mrs Reeder Mrs Haines Mrs Paul Norris D latest list of attendees reflects numerous local residents.
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Rohrersville Farm Bureau Planning Group
Clarence 0. Miller
Mt. Carmel
Amos E Reeder
C. S. Haines
D. D. Millendore
Needer
George Jennings
John F. Rohrer
Stanley Haynes
James Smith
Russell Eigenbrode
R. L. Hatcher
S. J. Mullendore
D. D. Mullendore
Reeder
Haines
Baltimore Relief Crisis Predicted
Baltimore Welfare Director J S Waxter warned a June relief crisis due to 3000 clients who cannot obtain WPA jobs. He said a $1,000,000 appropriation for January to July would run out in June, and expected state funds of $1,090,000 may not arrive.
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Baltimore
J. S. Waxter
Waxter
Annapolis
WPA
Plans to Beautify Antietam Battlefield Tract
Washington County Historical Society plans to deed 136 acres known as Spong farm at Burnside Bridge to the National Park Service. A landscape preservation and public access program will include an observation tower, reforestation, and restoring Burnside bridge. Attendees included NPS officials Walter Sheffield and Harry Thompson, and historian Major Joseph Mills Hanson, among others.
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Washington County Historical Society
Antietam
National Park Service
The
Historical Society
Ofice
John K. Beckenbaugh
Spong
Burnside Bridge
Park Service
Mary Jand Heights
Walter W. Sheffield
Richmond
Harry T. Thompson
Washington
Joseph Mills Hanson
Petersburg
Francis Ronalds
Washington, D. C
Harry Troupe Brewer
Park W. T. Loy
A Forney Young
W. A. Shealey
Benjamin A. Beard
George D. Hicks
John K. Beckenpaugh
Ward M. Tenney
Charles W. Harman
Sales Tax Bill Dropped In Hopper
Maryland legislators introduced a general 2 percent sales tax projected to raise ten million dollars yearly as a substitute for the governor’s income tax plan. The measure was dropped in the House Ways and Means committee after sponsors argued it is fairer, with exemptions for fresh milk meat sugar potatoes bread gasoline and utilities.
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Annapolis
Maryland
O’conor
House of Delegates
Ways and Means Committee
Bills to raise pay for county attorney and investigator
The Washington county delegation at Annapolis introduced bills to raise monthly expense allowances for the State's Attorney in Washington county and for the Washington County Identification and Criminal Investigation Bureau. A $25 monthly raise for the county investigator would bring pay to $125 if enacted, with the expense account increasing from $25 to $40. The State's Attorney's annual expenses would rise from $300 to $600.
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Washington County
Annapolis
O Possum Seized And Held As Pet
Charles Monninger and Marshall Durboran of Keedysville capture a large opossum near Washington County Hospital at 10 15 PM. The eight pound animal appeared from a nearby quarry and was taken home as a pet after a brief showing to friends.
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Washington County Hospital
Charles Monninger
Marshall Durboran
Keedysville
Catholic Daughters of America Meeting Notice
The Catholic Daughters of America will hold a business meeting Tuesday evening at 7 36 o clock in their eight rooms at the Wester jenterpriss Fire Het Metret. Attendance of all members is requested.
WPA leader reports strange peyote rite among Indians
Salt Lake City March 10 A WPA adult education leader James W Wilson spent months with the Uintah Ouray tribe and witnessed an all night peyote ceremony described as a semi Christian rite. Indians sang four songs per turn while the chief blessed the peyote and passed it along with the drum. The ritual ends with visions and a eerie red demon seen by one participant.
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Salt Lake City
WPA
James W. Wilson
Wilson
Flying Laboratory flight reaches sub stratosphere test success
Mayo Clinic scientists call the Minneapolis to Boston flight in a Flying Laboratory a completely successful test of a new type oxygen mask designed for sub stratospheric flight. Pilot Mal Freeburg led a 12 person crew at 250 mph over 1140 miles, with masks enabling comfort at altitudes near 23 000 feet. Researchers say the device could enable safe 35 000 foot operation and will be shown at a Harvard fatigue laboratory conference.
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Boston
Minneapolis
Mayo Clinic
Mal Freeburg
North West Airlines
R. W. Lovelace
Rochester, Minn
Lovelace
Harvard Fatigue Laboratory
Scooter Pooping Inquiry Explained in Savannah Story
In Savannah on March 11, a girl asked about the term scooter pooping after a boy invited her to join. An Evening Pross reporter, puzzled by the slang, consulted colleagues and learned it means going out and having a good time.
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Savannah
Webster
Tribute editor mail honors two men of nerve
In a tribute a writer recalls Judge M. L. Keedy and Edgar Mumma as men with extraordinary nerve. Keedy refused to surrender after a terminal diagnosis and sought knowledge to prolong life, while Mumma, once told months to live, chose home life and thrived for over thirty years as a diligent citizen. wm. U. Roulette.
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M. L. Keedy
Edgar Mumma
Colorado
Judge Keedy
Wm. U. Roulette
Indictment of 24 in ambulance-chasing ring in New York
A broad swath of 24 individuals were indicted in New York on charges of unlawfully soliciting cases from accident victims and others, part of an alleged ambulance-chasing ring. District Attorney Thomas E Dewey announced the indictment on Friday. A separate Baltimore item notes a police fining over misconduct.
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New York
Thomas
Dewey
Lappans Homemakers Club March Meeting Held
The Lappans Homemakers Club met at the Parish House on Wednesday afternoon for its March session. The program included a club collect, current events, a musical portion with There Is Music in the Air and Serene Is the Night, a drapery demonstration by Mrs. William Reese and Mrs. William Lynch, and a reading from Dr. Arthur Hertzer. Nineteen members and two visitors attended. hostesses were Mesdames George Churchey H. B. Churchey and Lillian Thomas.
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Lappans Homemakers Club
George Root
California
William Reese
William Lynch
Arthur Hertzer
George Churchey
H. 8. Churchey
Lillian Thomas
POC A Meeting Of Washington County S R C Directors
An important meeting of the board of directors of the Washing ton County S. R. C. will be held Monday evening at 7 30 at the home of Mrs. Roger Whipple 248 South Prospect Street.
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Washington County
Roger Whipple
South Prospect Street
Aged widow given home after river attempt in Chicago
An 81 year old Austrian born widow, Anna Schmidt, was restrained from leaping into the river and appeared in women's court on a disorderly conduct charge. She recounted arriving from Austria-Hungary with her husband, losing their mortgage after his death, and facing foreclosure. A friend, Mrs. Helen Whitehurst, offered to take her into her home, saying the dying wish was to care for her as a mother.
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Chicago
Anna Schmidt
Austria-Hungary
Pullman
Schmidt
Hungary
Helen Whitehurst
Mrs. Schmidt
Austria
Beaver Creek Boys Take First Outing Hike
Beaver Creek school youths completed the first hike in a planned outdoors series. The group trekked to Black Rock and Mt. Lena then Annapolis rock, with campfire activities and lessons in trail blazing and direction finding under Washington County Recreation plan. Participants included Rhinehart Young Sigmund Baker Moser Haupt Sprecher Pitsnogle Hartle Guessford Cunningham Smith Shoop Sheffer Deitz Green Sprecher.
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Beaver Creek
Black Rock
Mt. Lena
Annapolis “Rock
Washington County
P. Rhinehart
E. Young
B. Sigmund
Ronald Baker
Archie Moser
Alcohol Education Topic at Keedysville WCTU Meeting
Keedysville WCTU held a program on alcohol education led by Mrs Esta Clopper at the Baker home. Mary Clopper of Baltimore read a poem, and a discussion on the Frances Willard Fund education program was featured, with Mrs M B Thom as well as Mrs Emma Green and Mrs Howard Burtner presenting. Refreshments followed a music guessing contest.
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Frances BE. Willard
Keedysville W. C. T. U
Frank Baker
Esta Clopper
Mary Clopper
Baltimore
Keedysville Union
Baker
M. B. Thomas
Emma Green
Howard Burtner
Ferdinand the Bull and a melting pot of downtown notes
In two downtown blocks, the observer catalogs shifting shop windows and international touches. Ferdinand the Bull, cork tree gimmicks, Madrid bound scenery, and a Teutonic shop amid Turkish coffee invite reflection on America as a melting pot and a drift toward cultural tolerance.
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First Federal Savings and Loan Association
North Jonathan Street
Ferdinand
el Morocco
Timothy Belt
Wild Parties by Film Star Denied
Actress Virginia Bruce testified at trial over an $830 suit from her former landlord T. M. Morgan. She admitted only one dinner party in two years and said guests left for a skating rink by 6:30 p m. Her cook Virginia Jack supported the defense, arguing furnishings seven years old showed ordinary wear and tear.
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Los Angeles
Virginia Bruce
Virginia Jack
Miss Jack
T. M. Morgan
Miss Bruce
Autoist Fined On Two Charges By Magistrate
J Russell Golden, 46, Route 4, was fined 125 dollars and costs or six months in the House of Correction after conviction by Magistrate C Ed ward for operating a vehicle under the influence and reckless driving. He was arrested Sunday by Patrolman John Knode after speeding and tailing another car. Golden admitted two prior drunken driving convictions and one license revocation violation amid the state’s attorney listing other traffic convictions. He faces an indictment on violating internal revenue laws tied to a seizure weeks ago.
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C. Edward Heard
J. Russell Golden
Route 4
House of Correction
Golden
John Knode
Charles F. Wagaman
Wagaman
Internal Revenue
False Alarm At Public Square Fire Box At Midnight
A false fire alarm rang from the Public Square box at 12 45 this morning. It prompted concerns an awning might be burning though no fire was found.
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Public Square
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