Memorial Day at Antietam Echoes Civil War Peace Analogy
United States Senator George L. Radcliffe spoke at Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg honoring Civil War dead in a ceremony before about 4 000 attendees. He drew parallels between 1860 Maryland efforts to avoid war and today’s tensions in Europe, urging peaceful, lawful means to resolve disputes while praising preparedness.
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Antietam History Spotlight Marks Memorial Day Observance
Senator Radcliffe spoke on preparing minds to avoid war citing Antietam and Gettysburg while proposing a bill to empower federal land acquisition at Antietam for battlefield expansion. The ceremony featured prayers, Lincoln address recitation, and a Maryland National Guard volley over Union graves. veterans and local groups participated.
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Nazis Seize Church Home In Salzburg
In Salzburg on May 31, elites seized Archbishop Sigismund Waitz’s state palace residence, removing all furnishings. Waitz, away, appealed to Hitler. Furniture vans, government photographers documented the empty palace as officials moved in. The archbishop, displaced, stayed in a seminary and had previously lost supervision of local religious education.
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Boggison Sentenced for Concealed Weapon in City Court
Richard Boggison, colored, Braxton alley, was sentenced to one year in the House of Correction by Magistrate Harry E. Snyder after being found in possession of a 38 caliber revolver. Arrest followed late Monday night by Sergeant J. B. Brown. Three drunks also jailed for 10 days each after sentencing by the same magistrate.
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House of Correction
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East Avenue Home Reported Entered
A midnight prowler struck again on East avenue with E. E. Geary reporting a home entry but no valuables taken. An electric clock stopped at 12 15 a m as he exited. Police also noted an attempted entry at the swimming pool concession stand Monday night.
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Girl Dies in Indianapolis Plane Crash During Sightseeing Flight
Miss Ana May Robinson, 16, of Indianapolis, was killed Tuesday when an airplane crashed as it took off from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Rosemary Lukas, 23, was critically injured and pilot Ralph Biddle, 28, sustained minor injuries after a motor failure at 200 feet. In Poland, Count Stanislas Zamoyski and Count Jan Tyszkevicz died when their plane crashed during take-off.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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Ralph Biddle
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Poland
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Memorial Service For Six St. James Students
Memorial services were held at St James School chapel for six students who died in the Great War. Headmaster Adrian H H Onderdonk paid tribute as the school honored their supreme sacrifice. The Naval Academy flag and the John Downs Jr memorial medal were noted as memorial symbols and honors.
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Adrian HH. Onderdonk
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Naval Academy
Annapolis
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Mother Tries to Kill Tots in Clinton Oklahoma
In Clinton Oklahoma on May 31, six year old Jerry Watson died after his mother Ida Watson 34 gave poison capsules to him and her four other children and then cut her throat The other children ages 16 14 12 and 9 were treated and recovering Sheriff Everett Stambaugh reported Marie 16 found the note You have your good time I will take the children with me The father Duke Watson unemployed oil worker said he knew the reason for the act
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Everett Stambaugh
Ida Watson
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Bobbie
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Joe
Stambaugh
J. R. Green
Duke Watson
Watson
Portrait Unveiled Before Big Crowd in Cooperstown
In Cooperstown New York an oil portrait of Major General Abner Doubleday inventor of base ball joined other museum replicas of baseball greats. About 7500 people attended the unveiling conducted by Major R Ernest Dupuy during 100th anniversary celebrations honoring the game's originator.
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Famed coach Thompson dies at 62 in Emmitsburg
M J Thompson known as dean of football officials in Emmitsburg Maryland dies of a heart attack at 12 30 am after his fourth attack in two years. He served six years as burgess and was mayor elected to a third term serving Mount St Marys College as athletic director and history instructor. Thompson began refereeing in 1897 after a broken leg ended his playing days and later officiated major games across the United States.
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Mike) Thompson
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Yale umpire Richard Armstrong’s ascent from youth referee to national official
Richard Armstrong of Yale rose from a young referee after a postgame compliment by a Yale umpire to officiate major East games and nationwide events. He also ran a weekly paper and a small town hotel, wrote for journals, taught, and in 1933 became town burgess. He married Mary Mondorff on April 15, 1913. she survives.
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Emmittsburg
Washington College
Chestertown
Moscow silent on fighting reports along frontiers
Moscow officials stayed silent on dispatches from Tokyo alleging Russian and Mongolian troops moved into Manchoukuo and that fighting occurred on the Manchoukuo frontier and the British French front. Premier Foreign Commissar Molotoff was to address the Supreme Soviet as a potential clue to Russia’s stance. Barrymore suffers heart attack in Chicago hotel. performance canceled after 57-year-old actor’s strain.
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Mass Celebrated at Historic Spot on Clements Island
More than 300 St. Marys County residents gathered on Clements Island Maryland for a Memorial Day Mass at the landing site of the 1634 first Maryland settlers. Celebrant was Archbishop Emmett of Jamaica and former Georgetown Prep head. Father John Garge of New York preached from an outdoor pulpit by the Tercentenary Grass planted in 1934.
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New York City
Church Magazine
America
Johnstown Flood Fifty Years On Remembrance
The article recalls the May 31, 1889 Johnstown flood that virtually wiped out the city of Johnstown Pennsylvania and notes the Potomac River peak of about 45 feet, contrasting it with the March 18, 1936 Williamsport peak at 49 feet.
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Republican leaders visit Fountainstead for golf round
John D. M. Hamilton chairman of the Republican National Committee and Henry P. Fletcher former chairman joined by Franklyn Waltman and Joseph Rice golfed yesterday at Fountain Stead Country Club. They were Memorial Day guests of Mr. Fletcher in Greencastle.
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Republican National Committee
Henry P. Fletcher
Greencastle
Fountain Stead Country Club
Franklyn Waltman
National Committee
Joseph Rice
Mr. Fletcher
Drowning during holiday swim party shocks Shiremanstown
William Howry, 19, of Shiremanstown, drowned during a Yellow Breeches creek swim party on Tuesday while set to graduate from Mechanicsburg High School next Monday. In a separate incident Julius Ratas of State Sanatorium was arrested on Potomac avenue for operating a motor vehicle under liquor influence, held for hearing by Patrolmen Bible and Kuhlman.
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Potomac Avenue
Bible and
Kuhlman
Shiremanstown
William Howry
Mechanicsburg High School
Yellow Breeches Creek
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