Friends Will Fight Ouster for Cannon
Jackson Mississippi May 2 Bishop James M Gannon Jr is on trial again today fighting ouster from his churchly office as friends and foes at the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South map battle plans The board backs retirement by 43 to 28 but supporters vow to push for a secret ballot if needed He has warned against ouster and published a statement April 13 The action hinges on church discipline allowing superannuation for infirmity or at his own request or on committee recommendation
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Jackson
Miss
James M. Gannon, Jr
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Washington
College of Bishops
Christian Advocate
Committee On
Gilbert and Wife Reach Settlement
The Examiner reports a property settlement between John Gilbert, actor, and estranged wife Virginia Bruce in Los Angeles. Bruce, Gilbert’s fourth wife, will receive assets valued at over 4000 monthly payments, plus a $290 monthly child support for their children nine Month and Susan Ann, who remain in her custody.
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Los Angeles
The
Examiner
John Gilbert
Virginia Bruce
Miss Bruce
Sadina
Susan Ann
Western Desperado Slain During Tucker Prison Farm Break
Clifton Harback, 26, a Western Arkansas bank robber, was shot to death at Camp No 1 while attacking a trusty guard with a garden hoe during a break for freedom. He was serving life terms for Dolph Guthrie’s murder, with his brother Gene also jailed there. Guthrie was killed during the bank robbery and kidnapping.
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Tucker Prison Farm
Ark
Clifton Harback
Western Arkansas
Harback
Dolph Guthrie
Johnny Wilson
Gene
Guthrie
Writer Leaps To Her Death In Harbor Hospital
New York May 2 Mrs Charlotte Livingstone a 35 year old writer jumped from a ninth floor window at Harbor hospital at one this morning and was killed. She was under treatment for an arm fracture and left a note asking no funeral and that her body be given to Bellevue hospital medical college with an Episcopal prayer. The note said you will understand why I am doing the inevitable. Mrs Livingstone had registered at an apartment hotel April 6 from Hollywood Cal.
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New York
Charlotte Livingstone
Harbor Hospital
Revival of Dead Brain Likely Unachievable Says Mayo
Oklahoma City May 2 A Rochester surgeon Dr Charles Mayo said revivification of humans is unlikely after a dog revived at Berkeley showed only signs of return to basic functions. He noted cerebrum’s composition resists revival while lower brain cells may react under certain conditions. Dr Robert E Cornish observed the dog showing sight as it approached food.
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Oklahoma City
Berkeley
Calif
Charles Mayo
Rochester
Minn
Mayo
Robert E. Cornish
More travel on railroads boosts Western passenger traffic
Chicago May 2 The Western bargain rates are lifting rail travel and pulling passenger traffic from sidetracks of low revenue. Railway Age reported Western district lines had passenger revenue in March up 14.48 percent from March 1983.
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Chicago
o-Western
Railway Age
Western District
Tickets Ready for Hagerstown Fair Stockholders Race Meet
Stockholders of the Hagerstown Fair association can obtain their stock holder's tickets for the upcoming race meet by visiting the association's office in the basement of the Second National Bank.
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Fair Association
Second National Bank
Lincoln assassin claim tied to bankers plot in 1865
Ottawa May 2 A Canadian law student testified before a parliamentary banking committee that John Wilkes Booth was hired by international bankers to kill Abraham Lincoln to advance a gold standard money system. The claim says the bankers sought currency control and demonetization of silver within eight years.
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Ottawa
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Gerald G. McGeer
Vancouver
Booth
Canada
Maryland PSC Hails Illinois Phone Rate Ruling
Maryland Public Service Commission officials welcomed the U S Supreme Court decision upholding Illinois telephone rate reductions as a favorable signal for Maryland. Secretary Frank Harper said the Illinois case and Maryland’s pending case show similarities though comments were avoided. A messenger was sent to Washington for a copy of Chief Justice Worhes’s Illinois opinion as officials awaited further guidance.
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Baltimore
United States Supreme Court
Maryland Public Service Commission
Frank Harper
Maryland
Herman Moser
People's Counsel
Commission
Washington
Illinois
Charles Evans Worhes
Harper
Lis
Ransom Ready as Family Awaits Kidnappers Call
In Tucson Arizona the $315000 ransom to free six year old June Robles waits for the kidnapers to call. The Robles family and elder Renable Robles endure hours of anxiety while the ransom sits in $5 $10 and $20 bills at the grandfather's home. No word on negotiations or any contact from those holding June.
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June Robles
Tucson
Ariz
Robles
Fernanda Robles
Renable Robles
Arizona
June
Two Held In Robbery At Pawn Shop
Two colored men named James Allen of Baltimore and King Watson of Darlington were arrested after allegedly hurling a brick through a pawn shop window on North Jonathan street. A tray of 24 rings was stolen. both suspects were charged with breaking and entering and held on $1,000 bail each for May grand jury action.
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W. W. Barnum
Jonathan Street
James Allen
North Mount Street
Baltimore
King Watson
Darlington
S. C
Barnum Place
Church Street
Leroy Karns
Allen
Watson
Richard Sweeney
Toothaches May Soon Be History
PLTTSBURGH May 2. Men of tomorrow may cure an aching tooth by radio. Dr J S Cartel of Wilkinsburg disclosed at the Pennsylvania State Dental society convention that a short wave broadcasting set can kill about thirty percent of germs in diseased teeth. Trials so far used extracted teeth. he plans tests with patients and compares method to radiology use in rheumatism and arthritis.
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Plttsburgh
Pennsylvania State Dental Society
J. S. Cartel
Wilkinsburg
Carter
Industrial Leader Procter Dies at 72 in Cincinnati
Col William Cooper Procter 72 a Cincinnati industrial leader and philanthropist died this morning from bronchial pneumonia He was chairman of the board at Procter and Gamble and had entered the hospital on Saturday He rallied briefly Monday but worsened after a relapse with Dr L F Barker of Baltimore summoned to his side
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Cincinnati
William Cooper Procter
Procter and Gamble Company
L. F. Barker
Baltimore
Frocter
3-Cent Pieces Urged In Bill
U S Congress considers a 3 cent coin as an intermediate between penny and nickel. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan introduced the bill proposing coinage of such a piece. If passed, people might carry 3 cent pieces in their pockets.
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Washington
Congress
Vandenberg
Mich
Hill Candidate For Governor If Goldsborough Does Not Accept
Baltimore May 2 John Philip Hill a Republican candidate hopeful calls on all GOP aspirants for Maryland governor to withdraw in favor of Senator and former Governor Phillips Lee Goldsborough If Goldsborough declines Hill would run under his November 11 plan Hill lists five announced GOP nominees and urges unity to back Goldsborough for the party nomination in Maryland politics.
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Goldsborough
Baltimore
John Philip Hill
Repubblican
Phillips Lee Goldsborough
Congress
Franklin Farms
Maryland
Har
Ry W. Nice
Harry T. Phoebus
Walter FE. Quenstedt
H. Webster Smith
United States
Weinberg Mentioned For Attorney General
Teo Weinberg, prominent Frederick attorney, is named in the Republican attorney general consideration alongside George Henderson William A Huster of Cumberland and Ellsworth R Roulette of Baltimore city. Baltimore party leaders seek his consent. Weinberg says he has not given serious consideration. He is brother of Hagerstown theater figure Henry Weinberg.
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Teo Weinberg
Frederick
George Henderson
William A. Huster
Cumberland
Ellsworth R. Roulette
Baltimore
Weinberg
Negro Youth Sentenced After City Stabbings
Charles West, 17, colored, was sentenced to three months in the Maryland House of Correction after arraignment before Justice Richard H. Sweeney in city court for stabbing Flord Harris, 16, colored. Both youths are described as strang ers in the city. Harris suffered deep wounds but not serious injuries. attack occurred about 10 30 last night. Officer Brown made the arrest.
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Charles West
Maryland House of Correction
Richard H. Sweeney
Flord Harris
West
Harris
Brown
Many Work For Civil Service
Washington May 2 Civil Service Commission monthly report shows 623,559 persons on the payroll for the executive branch as of March 31 District of Columbia workers numbered 1,549. The Post Office Department employed 267,198 including mail car clerks nationwide. The total payroll rose by 11,807 since February 28.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
District of Columbia
Postofice Department
Music Barred in Norristown Turkeran Church Services
In Pottstown on May 2, instrumental music will be excluded from evening church services in the Norristown conference of the Turkeran church. Rev. A. G. H. Getz of Spring City urged music and pageantry to enhance worship, but the conference ruled it would put God in the background.
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Pottstown
Norristown
A. G. H. Getz
Spring City
Local Chamber Attends National Commerce Convention
John B. Ferguson and Dr. Victor D. Miller represent the local Chamber at the 22nd annual convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in Washington. A resolution from the Hagerstown Chamber urging grade crossing elimination as a public works project will be acted on this week after being sent to 1,000 chambers nationwide. Henry J. Harriman, president, notes the New Deal’s first year raised hopeful economic horizons while reemployment fell to four million. He praises abolishing child labor and urges constructive criticism to advance reforms.
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John B. Ferguson
Chamber of Commerce
Victor D. Miller
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Washington
National Chamber
Hagerstown
United States
Henry J. Harriman
Hancock man being sought as fugitive
Bruce Peck, 29, of Hancock, who with Roy Purnell and John Conrad robbed the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad freight shed at Hancock, escaped from Martinsburg jail. Officials across the Potomac hunt him while Purnell and Conrad did not flee. Peck previously shot Western Maryland detective Boone and has prior assault and robbery convictions in Maryland and for a Hancock store robbery.
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Wheeling
Bruce Peck
Hancock
Roy Purnell
John Conrad
Baltimore and Ohio
Martinsburg
Peck
Potomac
Purnell
Conrad
Maryland
R. T. Boone
Maryland House of Correction
State
Hanenuk
Boy Struck by Machine in Salem Avenue Crash
Earl Grove a youth of about 12 living on Mechanic Street was seriously injured when he stepped in front of a machine driven by William Startzman on Salem Avenue near Mitchell. The boy suffered a fractured hip plus cuts and bruises. The driver stopped and rushed him to the hospital.
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Earl Grove
Mechanic Street
William Startzman
Staltzman
Salem
Paris Reveals Far Reach of German Spy Ring
Police disclosed a large German spy organization operating in Paris and Belfort after the arrest of an officer, Captain Froge, linked to a missing Belfort defense plan. A Paris prisoner described as an officer of a foreign power was held secretly, with warrants issued for other members and investigators tracing connections to Froge through tipsters and decoy letters.
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Paris
Secret Service
Froge
Belfort
Robert Gordon Switt
New York
New Jersey
Frege
Court House
Reds Wound Four Officers in Paris Clash
Paris reports a pitched battle in a tough Paris quarter as four policemen were wounded during Red May Day clashes with communists. Police, aided by Prefect Roger Langeroon, stormed the communist stronghold after a four hour siege. Berlin dispatch notes Goering warns of a decisive anti communism move in Germany’s second year in power during May Day exercises before about 70,000 attendees.
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Paris
France
Roger Langeroon
Cstatel
Berlin
Herman Wilhelm Goering
Germany
Lustgarden
Mrs Bessie Fleet Exhibits Unusual Egg to Friends
Mrs Bessie Fleet of Treso showed an odd egg to friends. The egg, about the usual size, features a lone curved neck and resembles a young goose or show fowl, sparking curiosity among onlookers.
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Bessie Fleet
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