New York Seamen Strike Settled Today
Joseph Curran, insurgent Sea men union leader, said the strike that began weeks ago has been settled and terms will be announced later. International Mercantile Marine officials said they had no official notification but understood a settlement was reached. Picketing along the Chelsea waterfront waned as Curran and leaders claimed 5,000 men stopped work, with only the California of the Panama Pacific line sailing. Police clashed with pickets during the walkout.
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New York
Joseph Curran
International Seamen’s Union
Curran
International Mercantile Marine
United States Lines
Panama Pacific Lines
Chelsea
23Rd
California
Black Legion seen under pressure as Michigan uses new law
Detroit reports fearsome Black Legion members burning robes as prosecutors map a crackdown. Michigan syndicalism statutes may be used against the group, targeting 13 alleged board members and potential federal inquiries. Prosecution could yield up to 10 years and a $5000 fine. Authorities say the order is active in at least 15 states. A Cleveland state senator alleges intimidation of a female assistant amid a legislative probe.
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Detroit
Black Legion
Dudley Owen
Jackson County
Michi-gan
Owen Dudley
Board of Directors
Congress
National Capitol
Internal Revenue Bureau
Black Legionnaires
Wayne County
Duncan C. McCrea
United States
Homer S. Cummings
Weather Forecast for Maryland and nearby waters
Weather Herens Maryland fair and cool tonight and Saturday with light frost in exposed western areas Sunday warms. Sandy Hook to Cape Hatteras northwest to north winds moderate to fresh in north and northerly in south with fair conditions. Chesapeake Bay mostly clear tonight through Sunday with cool nights and rising temperatures and winds diminishing by Sunday.
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Maryland
Sandy Hook
Cape Hatteras
North
Chesapeake Bay
Urge Garey Be Retained in Maryland Police Post
A Baltimore petition from the Grand Jurors Association and former jurors urges State police superintendent Major Enoch B. Garey to stay in office. It cites a record of reduced fatal accidents from 1934 to 1936 and argues that his dismissal would be a grave injustice amid a broader gubernatorial probe following a trooper's death during a Tangier Island relief operation.
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Baltimore
Enoch B. Garey
Grand Jurors Association
Garey
Baltimore City
Garer
Tangier Island
Nice
Major Garey
Scadding Undergoes Toe Amputations After Mine Trapping
Halifax May 29 Surgeons amputated the toes of Charles Alfred Scadding s left foot due to the effects of ten day imprisonment in the Moose River gold mine. Further toe amputations on the right foot are planned as Dr H K MacDonald reports.
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Halifax
N.S
Charles Alfred Scadding
Moose River
H. Kk. MacDonald
Zeppelin Hindenburg Reaches Rio De Janeiro
The airship Hindenburg completed its South Atlantic crossing and arrived in Rio de Janeiro at 6 04 A M local time. It was parked in its hangar by 6 30 A M EST, marking a smooth entry into Brazilian airspace as officials prepared for later checks and procedures.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Hindenburg
League officials fine four for onfield fight at Chicago
New York May 29 Fora Frick president of the National League fined Capt Woody English of the Chicago Cubs and pitcher Lee Stine of the Cincinnati Reds 25 dollars each and coaches George Kelly and Roy Johnson 50 dollars each for their roles in a fight during yesterday's Chicago game.
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New York
Fora Frick
National League
Woody English
Chicago Cubs
Lee Stine
Cincinnat Reds
George Kelly
Roy Johnson
Reds
Cubs
Chicago
Joint Memorial Day Observance Planned With Veterans
Final plans for a Joint Memorial Day parade and ceremonies Sunday feature Confederate and Union Civil War veterans in leading roles. If rain, events move to St John’s auditorium. Parade starts 2:00 pm from Prospect to Public Square then to Rose Hill cemetery. Robert Lincoln Beck and great grandson of Lincoln place wreaths at both markers, with Major General Milton A. Reckord giving the memorial address from a rostrum between markers. Mayor Wertz presides. music by Municipal Band Hagerstown and Frederick’s First Regiment Band. A firing squad salute and echo taps conclude. Afterward guests go to Sharpsburg for a wreath at Antietam’s national cemetery monument. All welcome.
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St. John’s Auditorium
Washington Street
Prospect
Public Square
Potomac Street
Rose Hill Cemetery
Milton A. Reckord
I. M. Wertz
Hagerstown
First Regiment Band
Frederick
Sharpsburg
Beckwith
National Cemetery
Antietam
Store Robber Captured After Pursuit, Injures Ankle
William Geanan of Baltimore, 22, was captured after a car chase following a store robbery at D. N. Neibert on North and Locust streets in Hagerstown. A twisted ankle after the car wreck near Mill Street hospitalizes him. two accomplices fled across fields. Patrolmen Fred Rickard and L. J. Britcher pursued and overhauled the getaway car.
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Hagerstown
D. N. Neibert
North
Locust Streets
William Geanan
Baltimore
Washington County
Hager Mill
Mill Street
Geanan
Fred Rickard
L. J. Britcher
House Moves Across State Lines From Maryland to Delaware
In Federalburg, Md on May 29 a house relocated on a truck to Bridgeville Del. The building once served as the office of the justice of the peace, illustrating the era’s routine relocations of small structures between states.
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Federalsburg
Bridgeville
Del
Queen Mary Breaks Record On 25 Hour Day Run
The British liner Queen Mary set a new record en route to New York by covering 747 miles by noon ship's time, surpassing the Normandie during a 25 hour day run.
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New York
Sutton man to die for his wife murder in Massachusetts
Worcester Mass May 29 Newell P Sherman of Sutton was sentenced to die in the electric chair the week of Aug 2 for murdering his wife Alice Dudley Sherman by drowning her in Lake Singletary last July when he overturned a canoe. Judge Thomas J Hammond imposed the sentence.
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Worcester
Mass
Newell P. Sherman
Sutton
Alice Dudley Sherman
Sherman
Lake Singletary
Thomas J. Hammond
Stringer hanged for Caples murder during Vancouver robbery
Walla Walla Washington March 29 Glennin R Stringer aged 24 was hanged at the state penitentiary for the murder of Herbert Caples a tobacco salesman in a Vancouver robbery two years earlier.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Glennin R. Stringer
Herbert Caples
Vancouver
Army Officer Is Dismissed After DC Conviction
Col Joseph I McMullen of the Army Judge Advocate General's Department was summarily dismissed from the army after his DC Supreme Court conviction for accepting compensation for outside services. He had previously been court martialed for accepting rewards and was convicted in Civil Court of giving legal aid to oppose a tariff bill. He was sentenced to imprisonment and fined but appealed. The order also states he shall thereafter be incapable of holding any government office.
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Washington
Joseph I. McMullen
Army Judge Advocate General's Department
Army
District of Columbia Supreme Court
McMullen
Congress
United States
Judge Ritter Attacks Impeachment Ruling in Court
Halsted L. Ritter of Miami contests the Senate impeachment verdict as unconstitutional and seeks back pay from April 1 in a 66 page claim filed with the Court of Claims. He argues acquittal on six counts and challenged the omnibus seventh charge for bringing his court into disrepute.
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Washington
Halsted L. Ritter
Miami
Fla
Court of Claims
Senate
House
Ritter
Zion honors reform of tobacco town chief Alvin Ruesch
In Zion Illinois on May 29 a testimonial dinner was held for Alvin Ruesch named as the town s new police chief twenty years after he faced arrests for smoking in the tobacco ban town led by church overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva.
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Zion, Ill
Alvin Ruesch
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Zion
Memorial Day Notice From Daily Mail
The Daily Mail will not be issued tomorrow in observance of Memorial Day as a mark of respect for national war heroes.
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Daily Mail
Parking Rules Ahead of Memorial Day Parade
Police Chief C G Emmert announced parking restrictions for the Memorial Day parade period from noon to 2 30 p m on North Prospect Street from Baltimore to Church West Washington Street from Pennsylvania rail to Public Square West Franklin Street from North Potomac to Pennsylvania rail and South Potomac Street from Public Square to Rose Hill Cemetery Cars may be removed at owner expense if parked on parade routes given 24 hour notice Public is urged to observe cemetery traffic markers and keep roads clear.
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C. G. Emmert
North Prospect Street
Baltimore
Church
Washington — Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Public Square
West
Franklin Street
North Potomac Street
South Potomac Street
Rose Hill Cemetery
Memorial Day ceremonies at Antietam Battlefield
Antietam Battlefield hosts Memorial Day observances led by Washington County Memorial Association with civic groups and thousands of visitors. Senator Millard E. Tydings will be principal speaker. other speakers include Congressman Jennings Randolph, State Senator Harry LeGore, and NPS representative H L Garret. Parade from Sharpsburg at 12 30 pm, ceremonies at 1 30 pm in National Cemetery with veterans groups and bands. graves decorated with flags and flowers.
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Washington County
Sharpsburg
National Cemetery
Sons of Veterans
American Legion
Senate panel backs Chesapeake Bay toll bridge plan
The Senate Commerce Committee reported favorably a bill to authorize the Chesapeake Bay Authority to build run maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Chesapeake Bay Connecting near Baltimore to Hart and Millers Islands and ending near Telchester in Kent County Maryland The proposal outlines a span from Baltimore area to Kent County with tolls to support construction and operation.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Chesapeake Bay Authority
Chesapeake Bay
Baltimore
Hart and Millers Islands
Telchester
Kent County
Roosevelt to attend Memorial Day exercises at Arlington
President Roosevelt announced he would attend Memorial Day ceremonies tomorrow at Arlington National Cemetery but would not deliver an address. He plans to observe the occasion in the amphitheater alongside military and civilian participants.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Arlington National Cemetery
Nearsighted Virginia Teen to Graduate from Buckingham High
Virginia Nancy Kenly, 17, who has been unable to read or write for two years due to nearsightedness, will graduate Tuesday from Buckingham High School in Berlin Maryland. Since sophomore year she has learned by having her mother read aloud, giving oral recitations and passing exams orally.
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Berlin
Virginia Nancy Kenly
Buckingham High School
Miss Kenly
Glenn Kenly
Schafer and Hoffman Join Hagerstown Chamber Board
The Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce fills all vacancies with the unanimous election of Charles W. Hoffman of Hoffman Chevrolet Sales Inc and William C. Schafer division freight agent of Western Maryland Railway Co. The board now has sixteen members with seven holdover directors and seven elected last week at the annual business meeting.
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Charles W. Hoffman
Hoffman-Chevrolet Sales, Inc
William C. Schafer
Western Maryland Railway Co
Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce
Fifteen Prisoners Sentenced in Court Today
William Jones colored pled guilty to four larceny charges and admitted a Pennsylvania warrant. He received three years six months on each charge, to run concurrently in the Maryland penitentiary. Fifteen prisoners were sentenced, five with suspended terms. Flora Campbell negress must return to West Virginia to avoid a House of Correction sentence. Ellis Dunn nine months for forgery. others include Grover Dunn, James Newman, Arthur Reynolds, Charles Luther Green. Green turned state's evidence. Continues on page 10.
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William Jones
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Frank G. Wagaman
Jones
Flora Campbell
West Virginia
House of Correction
Grover Dunn
Ellis Dunn
James Newman
Arthur Reynolds
Charles Luther Green
Zioncheck Hunts Mayor After Round of Clubs
Representative Marion Zioncheck arrived in Pittsburgh to meet Mayor William N. McNair. He and his party visited clubs, danced, and signed autographs before dawn. Zioncheck, invited to address the Henry George Club, left behind his Washington bride as he toured the city.
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Zioncheck
Pittsburgh
Marion Zioncheck
Seattle
William N. McNair
Rep
Theodore L. Moritz
McNair
Washington
Ziony
Virgin Islands
Moritz
Mayor Mec- Nair
Henry George Club
Blaze Extinguished at Corpus Christi Gas Well
A gas well west of Corpus Christi was extinguished today after a blaze that killed two men. Firefighters in asbestos suits capped the well casing with a large manifold in a dramatic effort to halt the flames.
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Corpus, Christi
Tex
Corpus Christi
Bandits fail bank hold up as tear gas floods bank
Six men attempted to rob the Haledon National Bank in Haledon New Jersey at 9:30 am. An employee triggered a lever releasing tear gas, blinding the bandits who fled in a stolen car later abandoned nearby. One suspect targeted Marinus C. Tamboer bank president. no loot was taken. Continued on page 10.
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Haledon
N. J
Haledon National Bank
Bergen County
Peterson
Theodore Ellis
Marinus C. Tamboer
Tamboer
Unusual late May frost hits crops in Maryland area
Weather observers report a 31 degree reading at Chewsville with frost and a trace of ice. A similar frost at 33 degrees occurred this morning with no crop damage. Keedysville observer notes today's low is unusually cold for late May, with 34 being a nearby comparison in 1930, and extreme dryness reducing vegetation damage risk.
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D. Paul Oswald
Chewsville
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Tipsy Driver Goes to Jail in Maryland Case
Harry H. Semler of Sharpsburg was fined 3190 and costs for drunken driving before Justice William H. Campbell in Brunswick and took a 60 day term when unable to pay. Kenneth Vickers of Hagerstown, with Semler, jailed 30 days for drunkenness and disorderly conduct after the car Semler drove sideswiped another vehicle and rolled into a field. Semler fought and had to be handcuffed as officers reached the scene. Raymond and Herbert Myers of Frog Hollow were located nearby and testified Semler was the driver.
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Harry H. Semler
Sharpsburg
William H. Campbell
Brunswick
Kenneth Vickers
Hagerstown
Semler
Vickers
Ofhcers
Raymond
Herbert Myers
Frog Hollow
Willie Dickerson Sentenced in Four Year Old Attack Case
In Huntsville Tez May Willie Dickerson a Black man was convicted of criminally attacking a four year old girl and sent to the state prison early today.
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Huntsville
Tez
Willie Dickerson
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Charles A. Poole
WPA
Associated Press
Michigan
Tions
Cummings
McCrea
Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Davis
Cleveland
Scadding
Zep
Thelma Buxton
Washington College
Chestertown
Effie Buxton
Col. McMullen
Antietam Battlefield
Schafer
Hoffman
Chamber Board of Directors Representative One
Walter Sprankle
House of Correct
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