State liquor laws upheld in landmark ruling
The Supreme Court ruled states may broadly restrict liquor traffic, overruling interstate commerce challenges. It affirmed Kentucky’s 1938 ban on transporting liquor by unlicensed trucks, stating the 21st Amendment允许 states to regulate intoxicants from outside sources. Justice Butler was absent.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Atlanta
Hughes
Justice McReynolds
Kentucky
Zitfrin, Inc
Indiana
Chicago
Reed
Valvoline Oil Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Butler
Training School Plans Announced by Coast Guard
The Coast Guard announced Monday that future enrollments in maritime training schools will come exclusively from sailors beached by the Neutrality Act. The plan aims to provide 4,000 men and about 400 officers with work and keep their families from want, amid estimates that up to 10,000 may lose jobs due to the law's impact on ships.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Roosevelt
Doctor Edwards Olive Tablets Promote Gentle Bowels
Ohio physician Dr. F. M. Edwards popularizedOlive Tablets as a vegetable laxative that cleanses the bowels and aids liver bile flow. Advertises the product sold by druggists for 15¢ to 60¢, urging immediate use tonight.
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Ohio
F. M. Edwards
Dr. Edwards
Film barred by Maryland censors over propaganda fears
Baltimore Navy 14 reports that the film Hitler Beast of Berlin was barred from Maryland in its present form by the state motion picture board. Vice chairman Holmen Alexander called the movie dangerous to peace and predicted it would face further censorship as a propaganda film.
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Navy
Hitler
Berlin
Maryland
Holmen Alexander
Three Man Board
McAdoo backs Roosevelt for third term in 1940
William G. McAdoo said there is broad consensus Roosevelt will be the 1940 nominee and that he will support a third term. He noted Roosevelt’s experience and leadership during the crisis, saying the third term is not mere dogma and he intends to back Roosevelt. The remark followed by other Democrats and prompted limited surprise in Washington.
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William Gibbs McAdoo
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Washington
McAdoo
the Treasury
Wilson
United States
The
American President Teamship Lines
California
Chicago
John Nance Garner
Garner
Democratic Party
Capitol
Senate
Johnson
Col
Wallace
Ickes
Byrd Cruiser Off for Pole on North Star Voyage
Admiral Byrd leads the Antarctic expedition as the North Star prepares to depart Boston for Philadelphia to begin the first leg toward the South Pole. The 27 ton snow cruiser is being loaded and modified on deck with tide assistance expected to help hoist it aboard.
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Boston
U.S. Antarctic Expédition
North Star
Herty
Polar
Chicago
Richard BE. Byrd
Thomas Poulter
Necesary
Antarctic
Byrd
Philadelphia
Panama
Bear
Oakland
First Lecture By Mrs Howard Thursday
The Women’s Club Current Event Section presents Mrs Georgetta Ross Howard of Washington DC for a Thursday 4 00 pm lecture in the club auditorium on November 16. She is a noted lecturer on current events with a summer in Europe and a Washington newspaper column.
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Women’s Club
Georgetta Ross Howard
Washington, D. C
Howard
Europe
Washington
Ella Lonn
Goucher Coljege
South America
Katharine Jeanne Gallagher
Goucher College
Johns Hopkins University
James Russell
Arts and Letters Club
Joseph Reynolds
Mesdames
Charles Harris
LeRoy
Aeronautics Plans Outlined At Meet
The Hagerstown Junior Chamber of Commerce declined to act as chartering group for the National Aeronautic Association. Louis Bessemer outlined plans to extend aeronautical development in Western Maryland and urged aviation cooperation with ten neighboring towns. The board adopted a resolution prioritizing citizen warfare concerns and essential local projects.
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Hagerstown Junior Chamber of Commerce
National Aeronautic Association
Maryland
Junior Chamber
Louis Bessemer
Hagerstown
Court Upholds Maryland Anti Miscegenation Law
In Annapolis Maryland Nov 14 a Black man Willoughby Wilson 30 and white woman Mabel Showacre 22 are sentenced to 10 years for miscegenation but judges suspend on condition the couple leave the state and not live together Wilson also gets a three year perjury term for lying about the woman’s race on the license The 1884 law as amended in 1935 remains upheld as constitutional after Wilson’s demurrer is overruled The case notes the couple plan to separate and Wilson to depart Maryland plus a separate community notice about a Funkstown P T A meeting with Reverend Beachler speaking on patient unity.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Willoughby Wilson
Stavedore
Mabel Showacre
Baltimore
Ridgely P. Melvin
Anne Arundel
Wilson
Melvin
Peirson Named Director Of Mercersburg Public Relations
Yonkers native John S. Peirson has been named Director of the new Department of Public Relations at Mercersburg Academy. A 1933 graduate, he prepared for Yale, where he was an English honors student and fraternity president. The academy aims to boost alumni contact, publicity, enrollment, and activity through a $250,000 campaign for a classroom, lab building, library and auditorium, to be completed by 1941.
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John 8. S. Peirson
Yonkers
N. Y
Mercersburg Academy
Boyd Edwards
Peirson
Yale University
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the Academy
Pennsylvania
Y. M. C. A. Cabinet
Academy
Yale
Timothy Dwigat College
Tide
American Magazine
Fortune
Department of Public Relations
Board of
Regents
Princeton
College Official Attacks Browder in Boston Talk
Rev Dr Edmund A Walsh S J Georgetown vice president told the Foreign Club of Boston that Earl Browder is a professional organizer of a conspiracy to overthrow the constitutional government. He suggested Russia might have been behind the sinking of the Athenia and the attempted assassination of Hitler, arguing Soviet Russia dreams of world revolution and could have profited if the Athenia disaster drew the U S into war.
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Boston
Earl Browder
Edmund A. Walsh
S. J
Georgetown University
Russia
Athenia
Hitler
Foreign Club of
United States
No Bargain Revealed in Omaha Scrap Case
In Omaha Nebraska two men were jailed after junk dealer R Firer testified that they sold him scrap metal he had previously supplied from his yard. The case unfolded in police court over three weeks with daily testimony and a surprising twist.
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Omana
Neb
R. Firer
Bank Hold Up at South Charleston Bank
Two bandits with pistols robbed the First National Bank of South Charleston during daylight hours, demanding cash from tellers as a third man blocked the entrance. The heist, estimated between 15 000 and 18 000 dollars, left employees and a customer on the floor for minutes before the men fled.
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Charleston
W. Va
First National Bank of South Charleston
Mertin Skeen
Here
O. HT
Sheets
Als-O
Margaret West
Editor's Letter on Electric Deposit Oddities
A member of the Williamsport Electric Light Department defends deposit charges and late payment discounts, arguing years of investment and improved service reduced uncollected bills. He notes a 3 percent discount for early payments, claims impact on town finances, and questions the motives of a Public Service Commission complaint.
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Electric Light Department
Williamsport
Daily Mail
Public Service Commission
Public Services Commission
Street Board Will Have Busy Session
The Street Commissioners plan a busy regular meeting tonight opening bids on fleet auto insurance and light bulbs. They will hear a report on street laborer wage scales in cities similar to Hagerstown, with figures from Street Superintendent Charles Stump after Mayor and Council urged a survey. A used car is advertised in the Classified Autos For Sale column.
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Board of Street Commissioners
Hagerstown
Charles Stump
Seven Deer Shot On Hunting Trip
Three local hunters and Dr Archibald Rutledge bagged seven white tailed deer on a week long hunt at Rutledge's 1500 acre preserve along the Santee river in South Carolina near Charleston. The largest buck weighed 250 pounds and carried seven points. Weather conditions were favorable.
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Archibald Rutledge
Dr. Rutledge
South Carolina
H. B., McFaddin
Archibald Rutledge, Jr
Irvine Rutledge
Hagerstown
Hampton Plantation
Charleston
S.C
Santee River
Franco telegraphs Hitler after Munich bombing escape
Madrid report states Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler expressing horror at the Munich beer hall bombing and congratulating Hitler on his escape. The message reflects Franco's swift acknowledgement of the crisis and the wartime alliance sentiment despite the attack.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Adolf Hitler
Munich
Fuehrer
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