Hanover man goes berserk and kills wife then dies
In Hanover Pennsylvania a 55 year old factory superintendent fatally wounds his wife with a shotgun and throws her from a second story window. He slashes their daughter and then kills himself with a hunting knife. The daughter Ruth Bish survives. Authorities call him a religious fanatic who had stopped attending church.
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Hanover
York County
L. A. Zeck
Ruth Bish
Hanover General Hospital
Golda Bish
Cleveland H. Bish
Hanover Wire Cloth Company
Ruth
Irs
Bish
Edward H. Hutton
Rham
O Conor Proposes Maryland Tax Reduction
Governor O Conor told Baltimore Mayor Howard W. Jackson he would urge the Legislature to cut Maryland income tax due to the state’s strong financial condition. The letter responded to Jackson’s claim that income tax revenues fell short of securities tax funds for Baltimore City.
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Baltimore
Goverur O'Conor
Howard W. Jackson
Maryland
O Conor
Green Re-Elected Federation Head
New Orleans November 29 The American Federation of Labor unanimously re elected President William Green and Secretary Treasurer George Meany to new terms. Fourteen of fifteen vice presidents were re elected as Seattle won next year’s meeting after a long debate. Green pledged to seek peace in the labor movement and noted the AFL’s 60th convention would adjourn soon.
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New Orleans
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Isbor
George Meany
AFL
Seattle
Green
John L. Lewis
Gambline
Half Of British Cash Here Spent
The Treasury disclosed that Britain spent 315,749,000 dollars of its American assets to buy war supplies in the first year of the war and still held at least 385,719,090 dollars of cash on deposit in American banks. More than 4,000,000,000 dollars of British wealth was shipped to the United States from across the empire in the first year of the conflict.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
Britain
Congress
Arraignment in Brooklyn Court for Ecard Fraud Ring
Hymie Caplin and Mrs Jennie Rubin face arraignment on grand larceny and conspiracy charges as leaders of a four million dollar ecard fraud gang. Attorney David L Malbin appears at center of photo with accused in Brooklyn court.
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Hymie Caplin
Wth
Lew Jenkins
Jennie Rubin
Brooklyn
Ecard Sharps
David L. Malbin
Five Washington county one room schools sold this week
Five abandoned one room school houses in Washington county were sold for 2040 dollars. The sales occurred Wednesday and yesterday with proceeds directed to repairs of schools in use. Purchasers included Clyde C and Bessie E Koogle, Walter C Young, Frank C Zimmerman, W W and Anna P Moser, and W C Hanbaker.
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Washington County
Benjamin Wiis
Cleveland Town
Clyde C
Bessie E. Koogle
Chapel Woods
Walter C. Young
Sunnyside
Frank C. Zimmerman
Independence
Judge Sentences Man for Unregistered Liquor Still
Federal Judge William C Coleman reviews Raymond Kaufman case in Baltimore as he orders a probe into Kaufman’s claim that a U S commissioner at Hagerstown was intoxicated. Kaufman received eight months imprisonment after a jury conviction for operating an unregistered liquor still.
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Baltimore
Wiliam C. Coleman
Raymond Kaufman
Walkersville
U. S
Kaufman
United States
Coleman
G. Randolph Aiken
UU. S
K. Angle Wolfinger
Hagerstown
Wolfinger
United States Marshals
Alcohol Tax Unit
Change in Parole System Is Sought
Annapolis March 2 Parole Director Herman Moser announced plans to seek legislative authority to grant paroles directly. The proposal would also ensure adequate probation facilities and parole operations statewide, but would not create an indeterminate sentence act.
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Annapolis
Herman M. Moser
Regislative Council
Moser
Aluminum Co Strike Ends at Major Plant
New Kensington Pa November 28 large defense orders at the Aluminum Company of America plant resumed after a compromise settlement ending a CIO strike over a $12 back dues dispute. About 7 500 employees were idle for a week costing $250 000 in wages as the union contended an unnamed sheet oil worker threatened a union agent. The company rejected the union’s demand for the man’s transfer from the bargaining unit while a settlement keeps him under union contract with a transfer to Logan’s Ferry section.
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New Kensington
Aluminum Company of America
C10 Aluminum Workers
Logan's Ferry
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BROWN
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New York World-Telegram
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A.F.L. Head
William L. Hutcheson
Rickert
Matthew Well
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G. M. Bugnnaedt
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Harry C. Yates
Edward J. Gainer
W.cd. Mahon
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Codrennu
Alexander
Stockholm
Sweden
Heng
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Ichiro Kobayashi
Tokyo
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Vatican City
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L. E. Bent
Mayflower
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Henry Kyd Douglas
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