Yankee Clipper Lands in Azores After Transatlantic Flight
The Yankee Clipper arrives at Horta in the Azores at 8 07 EST after 17 hours 33 minutes from Baltimore on a Pan American test flight. The crew of 21, the largest to cross the Atlantic in a heavier bank machine, tested fuel and route facilities from Baltimore to Horta Lisbon Marseille and Southampton.
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Horta
Azores
Baltimore
Oute
Pan-American Airways
Europe
Sumner
Arival
Altimore
Atlantic
Pan American
Lisbon
Portugal
Mareilles
France
Southampton
Eng
Warm spell ends as cold air moves in
The end of the March heat wave is seen, with forecasters predicting a sharp cooldown tonight and tomorrow. Keerdynville station notes a very low barometer 29.35 indicating a weather change, while orchardists welcome the cold snaps as fruit trees begin to blossom and swelling buds threaten to burst. Temperatures may reach 89 this afternoon, with overnight lows around 56, and cloud cover possibly holding today's high below yesterday's.
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Credita Palm
Weath
Keerdynville
A. Miller
Jossom
Mr. Miller
Street Board to Open Oil Bids Tomorrow Night
The Street Board will open bids for gasoline kerosene and oil for the year at the next regular meeting. Aaron Beecher will be absent due to illness at Washinton County Hospital and is expected to return within two weeks. A second item notes Cumberland Retail Clerks Union renewing last year’s contract with merchants, preserving the 40 hour week and pay terms.
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Streetommissioners
Aaron Beecher
Washxton County Hospital
Cumberland
Arch I
Weather outlook for Maryland with rain and cold trend
Rain this afternoon and tonight then a much colder Tuesday with fair skies. Northeast winds expected to strengthen along Chesapeake Bay, with variable and possibly strong northerly gusts.
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Faryland
Kesapeake Bay
Help For Little Businessmen In Security Programs
Washington March 27 Proposals to aid small business owners in social security levies and ease the income tax burden on high earners were advanced by Senators Byrnes and George. Byrnes urged simplifying the unemployment tax for small enterprises and refunding penalties that threatened small businesses. He proposed exempting outfits employing occasional workers from unemployment levies. George suggested reducing top income tax brackets, currently up to 75 percent for incomes over 5 million, to stimulate investment. Treasury and congressional experts have studied potential effects, with some arguing relief would be mostly psychological. taxes under a new revenue measure would start in 1941.
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Washington
Byrnes
D-S.c
Treasury
George
D-Ga
Congressional
Senate Finance Committee
Fear Defeat of Bass Bill
Proponents of a Maryland black bass bill face defeat with an estimated 23 votes short of passage. The measure would ban sale and curb catches to hook and line, backed by conservation groups and Delegate Harvey Miller, with net fishers opposing across Cecil Kent and Charles counties. The bill would be brought out without recommendation for a second reading after a surprise move. Proponents note sales are already banned in several cities and the District of Columbia.
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Maryland
Harvey Miller
Cecil
Kent
Charles
Hagerstown
Baltimore
Annapolis
Cumberland
District of Columbia
Extortion Card Placed Demand Tells Girl To Pay Dime
A 14-year-old girl in Orangeburg receives a card threatening consequences unless a dime is placed in a bottle at a designated spot. The note is part of an extortion mystery police are investigating in the area.
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Orangeburg
S. C
Tip prizes split in local news tip contest
In Oak Till a resident reported finding a man’s body in a local hotel and a Ridge avenue housewife described injuries to a painter who fell from a ladder. Second prize split between a Funkstown caller about a truck fire at Death Curve and a Clear Spring tip on a house fire at Dry Run. Tips accepted weekdays from 7:80 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Ridge Avenue
Funkstown
Clear Spring
Angry soccer fans burn grandstand in Mexico City
In Mexico City fans burned a grandstand at Asturias Park after a controversial umpire decision gave Asturias a 3 to 2 win over Necaxa. Damages were estimated at 10 000 dollars amid protests.
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Mexico City
Trate
Asturias Park
Asturias
Necaxa
Removal of Funkstown trolley rails begins today
The Funkstown trolley track removal started this morning on South Potomac street opposite the Baltimore and Ohio crossing. A Foto Mac Edison crew is removing rails from Wilson Boulevard, Howard Street, Pope Avenue, and the Frederick road through Funkstown. The State Roads Commission pledged to repair the main street portion of Route 40 once rails are gone. A bus now serves the Hagerstown to Funkstown route and much of the South Potomac street area.
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Funkstown
South Potomac Street
Baltimore and Ohio
Fotomac Edison Company
Wilson Boulevard
Howard Street
Pope Avenue
Frederick Road
Staite Roads Commission
Finnkstown
Joan and Franchot Tone Plan Amicable Divorce Dinner
In New York on March 27, Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone announce an amicable separation as they prepare for divorce. They plan a theater party the eve of the decree, with Crawford stating divorces should be friendly and noting they have settled custody and visiting rights for their dachshund.
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New York
Joan Crawford
Franchot Toneo
Mollywood
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
West Coast
Franchot
Phipps Seeks City Council Reform and Salary Boost
Annapolis state senator Louis N. Phipps former mayor announces a draft bill to revise the city council. He proposes reducing aldermen from two per ward to one and for mayoral salary increase, with elections held city wide after ward nominations.
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Annapolis
Louis N. Phipps
General Assembly
Phipps
Pilot cites faulty motor in Braniff crash near Oklahoma City
Eight people died when a twin engined Braniff airliner crashed after takeoff near the Municipal airport. Pilot Capt Claude Seaton Dallas and three others survived with injuries. The left motor reportedly shook to pieces and failed, a factor federal investigators will examine to determine the cause.
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Oklahoma City
Braniff
Claude Seaton
Dallas
H. D.’ Collins
Seaton
Carl Erickson
Chicago
Capt. Seaton
Malcolm Wallace
Perry R. Smith
Corpus Christi
Texas
Erickson
Nomination of Douglas Okayed
The Senate judiciary committee unanimously approved Roosevelt's nomination of William C. Douglas to the Supreme Court. The 40 year old, sandy haired nominee, then chairman of the Securities Commission, would succeed Louis D. Brandeis who retired. Confirmation was deemed assured in the Senate.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
William C. Douglas
Supreme Court
Senate
Douglas
Securities Commission
Louis D. Brandeis
New CCC Camp to Be Opened Near Thurmont Maryland
A new CCC camp will be established in Western Maryland within a week near Thurmont in the Catoctin Recreational Area, housing 200 enrollees. After completion in May or June, workers will build picnic grounds, campsites, trails, and improve the area for public use, with debate over continuing WPA labor in development.
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CCC
Maryland
Thurmont
Catoctin
WPA
Perry Given Term In Cut In Maryland Case
James Perry 41 colored pleaded assault and was sentenced to six months in the Maryland House of Correction by Justice John D. Dunn this morning in city court. The younger Perry 28 named his elder as assailant after being stabbed in the neck in Harmon Alley. In a separate matter Leroy Wilkinson 24 160 block Mill street was fined 100 dollars and costs for drunken driving and found not guilty of failing to stop after an accident. Wilkinson’s car damaged three parked autos on King street after hitting a parked car on Cannon avenue.
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James Perry
Maryland House of Correction
John D. Dunn
Harmon Alley
J. F. Desmond
Leroy Wilkinson
Mill Street
Search Renewed For County Man Missing in Mountains
Captain of Detectives William H Peters aids county officers in a renewed hunt for James A Martin a 48 year old Yarrowsburg merchant missing since a week ago tonight He will question one more person then end active search Detective Peters leaves for Yarrowsburg to question the person and review the ground CCC boys spent two days last week combing the nearby mountains without success Officers refuse to guess Martin's fate as dead or alive
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Willian H H. Peters
James A. Martin
Yarrowsburg
Peters
CCC
Martin
Franco Plans To Attack Madrid Amid Peace Talks Collapse
Nationalist Generalissimo Franco shifted the central army toward Madrid, aiming to break the capital after peace negotiations with the Republican government failed. Nationalists reported advances on the Madrid and Toledo fronts and in Cordoba, while Republicans vowed to surrender their air force.
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France
Franco
Madrid
Toledo
Cordoba
Spain
Iran
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano
Almaden
Madrid National Defense Council
Rumania Free Says Chamberlain on Trade Pact
London report states Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Romania has not signed away its economic independence in the new trade treaty with Germany. The Romanian government says the accord contains no political clause and is directed against no third party. The British mission to Bucharest was to be sent, pending developments.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
RuMania
Germany
Vyvyan Adams
Bucharest
Britain
Romania
Britain rejects call for alliance led boycott
London report states the British government will not pursue an economic boycott against Germany or seek League penalties with American cooperation. Parliamentary under-secretary Richard Austen Butler told the House of Commons Britain is not considering a boycott, and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax could not adopt Morgan Price's proposal for sanctions with U. S. help.
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London
Germany
League of Nations
Richard Austen Butler
House of Commons
Britain
Viscount Halifax
J Lahourite Morgan Price
Europe
Dunkirk Company Is Incorporated in Maryland
The Patuxent Diatomite and Refractories Corporation, Dunkirk, Md., was granted articles of incorporation by the State Tax Commission on Saturday with authority to deal in diatomite and green sand deposits. Capitalization is 30,000 shares of par value a share. Incorporators are Harry W. Keysor, Rose J. Smith, and Sewell R. Creel, all of Hagerstown.
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Patuxent Diatomite and Refractories Corporation
Dunkirk
State Tax Commission
Sispar Vaiue
Harry W. Keysor
Rose J. Smith
Sewell R. Creel
Hagerstown
Harvard Student Is Fish Eating Champ
Harvard sophomore Irving M. Clark of Seattle claimed the goldfish eating championship in Cambridge Massachusetts. He reportedly ate 24 live goldfish in a little over five minutes using orange juice as a chaser, saying he could have eaten 50 with encouragement from Frank Pope of Franklin and Marshall College who bet him he could not eat more than three.
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Cambridge, Mags
Harvard
Irving M. Clark
Seattle
Wash
Clark
Frank Pope
Franklin and Marshall College
Pope
County Stocking 4,000 Trout Reported in Washington County
Washington county streams have been stocked this year with 3,980 legal size trout including brook brown and rainbow. Statewide 30,000 trout have been planted with another 10,000 held in reserve. A stream survey ensures only viable streams receive stocking. Washington County allocations include Beaver Creek 1940 Marsh Run 350 Little Antietam 350 St James 200 Lake Cascade 250 Tonoloway 90. The trout season opens at daylight Saturday April 2.
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Washington County
Frank L. Beatz
State Conservation Commission
Beaver Creek
Marsh Run
Little Antietam
St. James
Lake Cascade
Tonoloway
Byron Family Guests on Grab Rag Program
Congressman William P. D. Byron and three of his five musical sons will broadcast on Station WJSV tomorrow between 4 and 4 20 PM. Con Byron and son William play guitars while two other sons perform on banjos. Hugh Conover will interview the Byron family before the music. The Byron clan is praised for musical talent passed from father to sons and from mother, Mrs. J. C. Byron, a noted pianist.
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Byron
WJSV
Conz Byron
William
Hugh Conover
Cong
J. C. Byron
Court Ruling Supports Tax on Federal Salaries
The Supreme Court ruled that a state may tax the salaries of federal employees or instrumentalities, in a case involving New York and Utah attempting to tax federal workers. The decision aligns with Roosevelt’s tax plan for reciprocal taxation. Utah case sent back for state tax on federal employees to be reviewed. Justice Butler and McReynolds dissented in the New York case.
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Washington
Supreme Court
New York
Utah
Roosevelt
Congress
Black
Utah Supreme Court
Butler
McReynolds
Nanchang Falls to Japanese Siege After Battle
Hankow reports the capture of Nanchang Kiangsi the former Chinese air base amid a siege by Japanese forces. Chinese air attacks on the Liao river claimed many casualties and three Japanese planes downed. The city’s walls were reportedly secured with the rising sun flag as fighting raged around the gates.
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Shanghai
Hankow
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Kan River
Liao River
Swiss Extend Frontier Training for Reserves
Bern March 27 The Swiss government moved to strengthen frontier defenses by doubling the annual training period for reserve border forces from one to two weeks. Reserves called up late last week were rushed to frontier points by truck as a precaution amid the international situation. The Federal Council also ordered a one week course for territorial reserves not included in prior orders while asserting military moves are precautionary and that tension abroad is easing.
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