Roosevelt Program Bogs Down In Congress Marks Time
Roosevelt's legislative agenda stalls as agriculture committees delay farm bills, threatening a week’s loss in the five week session. In the Senate, anti-lynching bill faces possible filibuster while government reorganization waits. Democratic leaders weigh idle week to push farm bill forward.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Washington
House
Senate
Agriculture Committees
Barkley
Smith
D-Sc
Agriculture Committee
P. Q. to Open Sub Stations in City Stores
Postmaster Jacob T. Hartle announced that Sub-Station No. 3 will open Thursday in the Smith and Ely grocery and meat shop at Maryland avenue and West Howard street. Sub-Station No. 4 will open December 1 in the Rine Goose Lunch room at 127 East Antietam street.
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Jacob T. Hartle
Smith and Ely
Maryland Avenue
West Howard Street
Rine Goose
East Antietam Street
Frigid Spell To Hit Tomorrow In Skies Over Britain
The Weather Bureau forecasts wintry weather for tomorrow with temperatures around twenty above zero. Motorists are urged to check radiators. In London, Sir Tomas Inskip announced Britain has built nineteen specialized munitions and aircraft factories in twenty months as part of the rearmament program. eleven are already in production.
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Weather Bureau
London
Tomas Inskip
Britain
Weather outlook for Maryland and Chesapeake Bay
The U S Weather Bureau reports rain tonight with Wednesday bringing snow and colder conditions in the far west, rain possibly changing to snow and colder in central and eastern areas, and freezing temps along the coast Wednesday night. Chesapeake Bay shows rain tonight and Wednesday, possibly changing to snow, colder Wednesday and night, below freezing temps Wednesday night, winds increasing northeast then backing northwest and becoming strong Wednesday.
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Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Split Widens Over Compulsory Voluntary Crop Control Bill
President Roosevelts appeal for an all weather farm program widened the split between compulsory and voluntary crop control advocates. Senate and House committees prepared diverging drafts as supporters and opponents argued over who should decide and how to finance the plan. Two thirds voting and cotton quotas were among the key issues as the agriculture bill moved toward final form.
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Washington
Rooseveltt
Roosevelt
Congress
Smith
D.-S.c
Senate Agriculture Committee
Pope
D.idaho
Bankhead
D.-Ala
Louse Agriculture Committee
Oddities in Hunting Amid Open Spaces Near Downsville
A farmer near Downsville recalls a Monday scene in which fourteen hunters fired at a rabbit that repeatedly fled, after about thirty shots the rabbit was killed by a boy with a stone. Charlies Ardinger of Williamsport killed a ring-neck pheasant along Conochague Creek, bearing two leg bands from the Pennsylvania State Game Commission, raising questions about its release and range.
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Downsville
Charlies Ardinger
Williamsport
Pennsylvania State Game Commission
Ardinger
Their Butler Was a Woman in Oyster Bay
Death reveals Alfred Grouard a woman who served 14 years as butler and chef in Joseph M. Sears household. Sears, a retired millionaire publisher, said the discovery was an amazing surprise. Alfred, born in France, worked as a hotel chef before joining the Sears family and never took a day off in 13 years. She died yesterday in a lodging house after health declined since February, having refused medical care.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Alfred Grouard
Joseph M. Sears
Sears
Anna Wentworth Caldwell Sears
Alfred
France
New York
Fined For Hunting Within City Limits
Max Marshall of 100 block Elizabeth Street was fined 10 dollars or ten days in jail after being arraigned in city court for hunting within city limits. He was allegedly caught in the north end with two rabbits in his possession at arrest.
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Max Marshall
Elizabeth Street
Marshall
Baltimore Loans Commissioner Targets Loan Sharks
Baltimore Nov 16 Loans Commissioner W David Tilghman Jr announced a planned legal action week against small loan rackets. He met with Dewey associates in New York and aims to present evidence for warrants before the grand jury, citing Maryland laws as too lax and in need of revision.
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Baltmore
W. David Tilghman, Jr
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Tilghman
Dewey
New York County
Baltimore City
Maryland
Col. John Tevis Hearn Dies at 94 in Chesterfield
Col. John Tevis Hearn, 94, longtime editor and founder of the Knoxville Sentinel and Sneillville Advertiser, died yesterday at his son Paul H. Hearns home in Chesterfield C. The editor led a lengthy career shaping regional newspapers and is remembered for his editorial influence in Tennessee and Kentucky.
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Chesterfields
John Tevis Hearn
Knoxville (Tenn
Pig Raisers Faced With Market Move Ahead of Army Navy
Magistrate Costello orders ten pig raisers near the Municipal stadium to move all pigs to market within a week to eliminate objectionable odors before the Army Navy game on November 27.
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Philadelphia
Costello
Municipal Stadium
Army-Navy
Negro Charged In Indictment
John Charvis alias Campbell was arrested by Sheriff's officers on an indictment charging him with selling whiskey without a license. He posted bond for criminal court. The November Grand Jury examined few witnesses this morning and indications were that final adjournment would be made by late afternoon.
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John Charvis
Campbell
Three Kidnappers Escape Jail in Onondaga Breakout
Jamesville New York November 16 three men convicted of kidnapping John J. O Connell Jr of Albany escaped from Onondaga county jail by sawing cell bars and binding four keepers a matron and another guard The escape occurred between 235 and 245 am guards were bound with sheets and the trio headed for the guard room with two other convicts and a bound matron bound to be taken to the continue on page ten
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Jamesville
N.Y
John J. O'Connell, Jr
Albany
Onondaga County
Percy Geary
John Oley
Harold Crowley
New York City
H. H. Paddock
Paddock
John Corbett
Leroy Pease
Earl Brown
Francis Crowley
Nellie Hills
Hunter’s Hazardous Dinner: Rabbit Hunts On Sabbath
George Baker of Main Avenue spent Sunday oiling his gun and learning his Soil Conservation Service shift. He hunted Monday after discovering the holiday wasn’t recognized. he claimed two rabbits with improvised tools, chasing one across fields and breaking its leg with a hammer, then striking the second with a rock.
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George Baker
Main Avenue
Soil Conservation Service
Baker
Rohrersville
Deen, Charles Clarence, former bank president, dies
Charles Clarence Deen aged 63, former president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Denton, died at his home near Preston after months of illness. Funeral services are set for Thursday.
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Preston
Charles Clarence Deen
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Denton
Sons Do Housework While She Studies
New York November 16 Mrs Isabel Urbach studies at Hunter College to become a chemistry teacher while her two sons Bertram 14 and George 12 do the cooking wash the dishes make the bed and sew on their own buttons The family says boys can be as helpful as girls around the home and that necessity drives the arrangement The boys are proud of their housework skills
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New York
Isabel Urbach
Bertram
George
Hunter College
All Saints Day Raid in Lerida Haunts City Mothers
Heartbroken Lerida mothers comfort each other after Franco airmen bombed a school on All Saints Day. More than fifty children perished as the strike left the building with no survivors among the pupils.
Bids Opened for Central Equipment Building Project
The Mayor and City Council will open bids Thursday night for a brick and concrete central equipment building on the former municipal electric light plant site near South Potomac Street. The one story plus basement structure measures 180 by 140 feet with about 36,000 square feet. Twenty five street department workers have dug foundations for weeks. occupancy is planned for early spring. It will house street water and light departments and related offices while executive offices stay at City Hall. A WPA project provides for grading once built.
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Central Equipment
Municipal Electric Light
Ballimore and Ohio Railroad
South Potomac Street
Street Department
City Hall
Drain Project Underway on South Potomac Street
The city engineering department announced that the storm water drain along South Potomac street between Willow Lane and the B and O railroad crossing will start within a few days. Washington approval secures a second WPA project in southeastern Hagerstown, set to begin in a few weeks. A third small drain in the alley between Broadway and Wayside avenue nears completion with paving planned after.
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Potomac Street
Willow Lane
Baltimore and Ohio
Washington
Hagerstown
Broadway
Wayside Avenue
Britain to Feel Out Hitler on Colonial Aims
London dispatch reports Viscount Halifax set to meet Adolf Hitler in Bavarian Berchtesgaden to discuss Germanys colonial aspirations and potential basis for a new Britain Germany friendship. Leopold of Belgium arrives for a ceremonial state visit as Europe weighs Rome Berlin Tokyo pact. Belgium preserves neutral stance under new defense plan.
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London
Britain
Viscount Halifax
Hitler
Germany
Leopold
Royal Air Force
Halifax
Berlin
Bavarian Berchtesgaden
Neville Chamberlain
Bri
Tain
Paris
Rome
France
Italy
Teopard
Belgium
Man brings tear gas bombs to police station
A man entered a Des Moines police station with a box and handed over five tear gas bombs saying a roomer and tear gas salesman left the samples behind because he could not use them.
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Des Moines
Bicycle theft report from Pangborn boulevard
Quinton Halligan reported to police this morning the theft of his bicycle on Pangborn boulevard.
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Quinton Halligan
Pangborn Boulevard
Legion advance memberships reach 47.4 percent of quota
Telegraphed roll call from Indianapolis shows the American Legion at 443,350 advanced members out of a 935,112 national quota for 1938. Wisconsin leads with 30,000 advance memberships against a 29,930 quota.
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Indianapolis
American Legion
Wisconsin
Public sale courts block of Mutual Insurance stock auctioned
A block of 522 shares of Mutual Insurance Company stock sold for 1.13 dollars a share at public sale in front of the courthouse this morning. Fred M. White acted as the auctioneer.
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Mutual Insurance Company
Fred M. White
JAP AVIATORS BLAST PATH TO CAPITAL
The government planned a night move to Nankow on the Yangtze nearly 300 miles west to defend the capital. Premier-generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek would command as the army retreated if Japanese forces broke through. thousands fled Shanghai, Nanking, and other cities as bombs and warplanes hit the Shanghai peninsula.
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Nankng
Nankow
Yangtze
Shanghai
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Nanking
Tsinanfu
Shantung Province
Soochow
Namking
Naneking
Fueshan
Yangtze River
Three Divorce Suits Filed In Local Court
Three suits for divorce were docketed this morning. Edith May Gillespie filed against William F. Gillespie and Viola G. Stevens against Owen R. Stevens, both represented by D. K. McLaughlin. Bertha M. Brunner, through Joan J. Allen, filed against Alvey E. Brunner.
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Edith May Gillespie
D. K. McLaughlin
William F. Gillespie
Viola G. Stevens
McLaughlin
Owen R. Stevens
Bertha M. Brunner
Joan J. Allen
Alvey E. Brunner
Welder John G Moore Injured Moving Truck
John G Moore of High street sustained fractures to both feet while aiding in moving a large truck at Yingling Auto Works where he works as a welder. He was placed in plaster casts at Washington County Hospital and later removed to his home.
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John G. Moore
High Street
Yingling Auto Works
Washington County Hospital
Two Robberies Reported In Nighttime Incidents
Two robberies occurred last night and early today. Miller's restaurant at 17 West Antietam Street was entered through a small rear window and thefts included $2 in change and several packs of cigarettes. A $400 pace-race machine was stolen from Wi bur Boward's tavern at Club Lang and the Middleburg Pike. Boward offers a reward for information leading to recovery.
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Miller's
West Antietam Street
Wibur Boward
Club Lang
Middleburg Pike
Boward
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U. S&s. Weather Bureau
Senator McGill
D.kas
Mr. Roosevelt
O’connell
Spain
Lerida
Francisco Franco
JAP Aviators
Miller’s Restaurant
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