Britain and France press plan for Italy in Spain crisis
London outlines final draft of an invitation to Mussolini for a tripower conference to demand withdrawal of Italian volunteers from the Spanish civil war. The British cabinet already approved. France to decide. Grandi’s Greenwich call sparked speculation over Italy’s stance amid Mussolini’s opposition.
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London
Britain
France
Italy
Spain
Mussolini
Rome
Dino Grandi
Forzien
Anthony Eden
H Duce
Grandi
Russia
Valencia
Polk Hagerstown directory due Oct 13 edition
The commemorative Polk Hagerstown city directory will arrive the week of October 13. The Polk Company canvassed the city to compile names and addresses for residents plus other information. On the back it notes Hagerstown’s 175th year and marksman Sylvester Gowar from Spielman’s Station is noted for removing sunning snakes with a rifle, per a neighbor’s report.
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Polk
Sylvester Gowar
Spielman
Weather forecast for Cheewmwera Ui Maryland
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with slight increases in temperature. Chesapeake Bay winds will be moderate and shift mostly to the southwest.
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Cheewmwera Ui
Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Black to Address Nation Over Fitness for Supreme Court
Associate Justice Hugo L. Black will speak in a historic radio address from a Washington Chevy Chase home to rebut claims about his fitness for the Supreme Court. The speech follows ongoing dispute over alleged Ku Klux Klan ties and marks a unprecedented direct appeal to the people.
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Washington
Hugo L. Black
Nation
Chevy Chase
Black
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Claude 4. Hamilton, Jr
Insurance Men To Meet Here
Between 250 and 290 Maryland insurance men are expected for the Maryland Association of Insurance Agents annual three day convention to convene here on October 10. Welter C. Jamson Hartford official will be principal speaker at the banquet to be held October 11 with William Preston Lane as toastmaster and Henry Holzapfel welcoming delegates. A meeting of the Association of Field Club Special Agents will be held simultaneously.
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Maryland
Maryland Association of Insurance Agents
Welter C. Jamson
Hartford Accident and Idemnity Company
William Preston Lane
Henry Holzapfel
Association of Field Club Special Agents Association
Public Enemy Captor Brown Dies at 77 in San Francisco
Brig. Gen. Robert Alexander Brown, 77, renowned for capturing Geronimo, died after a short illness in San Francisco. Brown, a young lieutenant, led Indian scouts against Geronimo, the famed southwest scourge, in one of America’s great manhunts.
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San Francisco
Robert Alexander Brown
Geronimo
America
Brown
Southwest
He Did Housework Wife Breadwinner in Divorce Alimony Case
Mild mannered Elwin Elmer Pope, 63, widow, seeks lodgings on 35 dollars monthly alimony while divorce suit with former wife Ethel Ellis, a schoolteacher earning 2490 dollars yearly, proceeds. Pope says he washed pots and drove his wife to school since their Phoenix 1931 marriage.
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Los Angeles
Elwin Elmer Pove
Ethel Ellis
Pope
Phoenix
Ariz
Roosevelt weighs options for Olympic Peninsula loop trip
President Roosevelt and party breakfasted on 200 brook trout at Lake Crescent area as gales and rain hindered plans for a possible Olympic Peninsula drive. He would use the destroyer Phelps to Puget Sound, with Lake Quinault among possible stops, if the weather eases and officials deem highways safe. The president termed himself a Canadian of 33 years and recalled early trips to Canada during a Victoria visit.
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Lake Crescent
Wash
Roosevelt
Olympic Peninsula
Oregon
Washington
Port Angeles
Phelps
Victoria
B. C
Puget Sound
Tacoma
James
Forest Service
Lake Quinault
Hoquiam
Government House
Canada
Campobelio
N. B
Fossil Find Reveals Extinct Mammal “Missing Link”
Field Museum scientists announce the discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of a new extinct mammal from Colorado badlands. Led by Bryan Patterson, the Paleozoic specimen dates to the upper Paleocene about 50 million years ago and may connect Pantolambda to Coryphodon as a crucial evolutionary link.
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Chicago
Field Museum of Natural History
Colorado
Bryan Patterson
Patterson
Pantolambda
Coryphodon
City to tighten enforcement on sewerage violations
A city study of Hagerstown's Sewerage Department finds $53,000 owed by users and many properties still using cesspools. The mayor and City Council plan a special session to have the plumbing inspector enforce the ordinance and compel proper connections.
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Hagerstown
Sewerage Department
City Counci
Williamsport Central Library Forms Organized Board
The newly chosen Williamsport Central Library board organized last night electing Mrs I M Zimmermann as president Mrs Albert Leat as vice president Miss Marion Charlton as secretary and Charles Slyarsh as treasurer Mrs Joseph H Collier named librarian Committees were set Finance William D Byron chairman Book committee Paul Barnhart chairman and others named House committee cee Norman R McCardell chairman Librarian appointment noted as approved by Miss Nellie Chrissinger Wash librarian
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Williamsport Centrial Library
I. Mi Zimmerman
Albert Leat
Marion Charlton
Charles Sy Larsh
Joseph H. Collier
William D. Byron
Paul Barnhart
D. K. Cust Jr
R. G. Hawken
Sarah Dorn
House
Cee
Norman R. McCardell
Collier
Nellie Chrissinger
Wash
Trio Slain in Michigan Ties Suspected in Triple Death
Ann Arbor investigators probed a possible triple murder after two women were shot and an 8-year-old boy was bludgeoned to death in separate incidents. A car near a cemetery held body of a middle aged woman and an auto linked to James G. McHenry of Ypsilanti and Detroit. Ruth McHenry, 23, was found shot in her father’s Detroit home with a .22 rifle nearby. Sheriff Andres called it a possible double murder and suicide scenario.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Detroit
James G. McHenry
Ypsilanti
Ruth
Juror- plaintiff in Dayton case withdraws
Mrs Opal Johnston began serving as a prospective juror in Dayton Ohio but withdrew after realizing she would judge her own case. She sought 26050 dollars for injuries suffered in the accident.
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Dayton, O
Opal Johnston
Plans for Elizabeth street underpass submitted for approval
Plans by City Engineer Joseph Lyon with Western Maryland Railway for an Elizabeth street underpass west of the Elizabeth street crossing will connect Elizabeth and Ridge avenues. The project, estimated at 80 000 dollars, requires Western Maryland Railway participation, with the city to build new street approaches and close Elizabeth street as a dead end after completion.
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Elizabeth Street
Nathan L. Smith
State Roads Commission
W. Lee Elgin
Joseph Lyon
Western Marrland Railway Company
Baltimore
Harry Fridinger
Vernon Miller
Richard Crowther
Western Maryland Railroad
Elizabeth and
Ridge Avenues
Hagerstown
Western Maryland Railway Company
Washington Street
Winter Street
Pryor
City Named In Court Case Against Mayor and Council
A $2500 damage suit filed this morning names the city and mayoral council as defendants. John Perrott alleges he was knocked down by an alley gate on the Presgrave property in the 500 block of West Church Street on July 23, 1937, breaking his right leg. The case is brought by his father through attorney Harold H. Hoffman. A separate docket concerns Lewis E. Bentz trading as the Mayflower Cab Company, in a suit brought by infant Robert R. Nichols through his father Elmer B. Nichols, also via Hoffman.
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John Perrott
Alexander Perrott
Harold H. Hoffman
Charles C
Myrtle Presgrave
Presgrave
West Church Street
Lewis E. Bentz
The
Mayflower Cab Company
Hoffman
Robert R. Nichols
Elmer 8. Nichols
Japan Rushing Bomb Shelters To Meet Soviets Air Threat
Tokyo reports defense experts rush completion of bombproof subterranean fortresses to protect civilians from potential Soviet air attack. Thousands of shelters planned for major cities with 16 inch thick concrete walls and double steel doors.
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Japan
Tokyo
Russia
China
Siberian
Soviet Russia
Three Hunters Report Plenty of Squirrels This Season
At least three focal squirrel hunters say the season opened this morning with abundant game. Robert Swartz, Kenny Anderson and Snook Luiman returned near noon with a bag of 15 red fox and grey squirrels shot during several hours of hunting in the Clearspring section.
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Robert Swartz
Kenny Anderson
Snook” Luiman
Clearspring
Surplus Apple Prices Fixed By Federal Commodities Corp
At a mass meeting in Winchester Virginia K K Tyson announces prices set by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation for York Imperial apples for relief use. Prices specify U S No 1 and higher grades at 50 cents per bushel packed and ringfaced or 60 cents per hundred pounds bulk and utility grade at 59 cents per bushel packed and ringfaced or 3 5 cents per hundred pounds bulk. Grimes apples prices were announced previously.
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Federal Surplus Commiadities Corporation
York Imperial
U. S
Grimes
Commercial Annex
Kk. W. Tyson
Winchester
Ummodities Corporation
City Sues 10 End Argument Over Cavetown Water Rent
The City of Hagerstown docketed two civil suits in circuit court seeking water rent from July 1918 to October 1937 against Annie F. Waltz Abe M. Waltz and Frank H. Bretsinger Emma A. Bretsinger residents near Cavetown claim free water per old agreements With most highway residents paying water rent the city expects to settle the long running dispute at the November term and end years of contention.
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Cavetown Pike
Hagerstown
Annie F
Abe M. Waltz
Carvetown
Frank H
Emma A. Bretsinger
Cavetown
Old
Washington County Water Company
Richard H. Sweeney
Endeavour Returns After Atlantic Coastal Rescue Voyage
Racing yacht Endeavour arrives in Gosport England after a 2700 mile Atlantic voyage. Skipper Ned Heard, swept overboard in a hurricane, was rescued by Viva TI and towed home after breaking away in a gale. Heard, tight lipped, downplays the peril and signs of celebration surround the homecoming.
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Gosport
England
Endeavanda
Atlantic
Ned Heard
Endeavour
Heard
Nantucket
United States
AlYo
Junior High Ransacked. Desks and Lockers Looted
Night break in at Woodland Way Junior High School leaves desks and lockers in multiple rooms, including the cafeteria, ransacked of valuables. Luther Smith the janitor found the scene and reported to principal W. P. Sperow and police. a stolen-articles list is being compiled for investigators.
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Woodland Way
Luther Smith
W. P. Sperow
Battle Tensions Escalate Near Nanking and Shanghai Fronts
Reports say Japan considered a tougher warning for foreign evacuations in Nanking after air raids. U S patrol commander Marquart ordered ships toward Wuhu for morale leave as heavy fighting continued around Shanghai’s Chapei sector and near the International Settlement. Chinese forces held lines while clashes intensified along riverfront positions.
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Shanghai
Nanking
Edward J. Marquart
United Sates
Wuhu
Guam
Courtesy Praised for Hagerstown Police Patrolman Karn
Oscar L. Pyle secretary to Representative James G. Polk of Ohio commends Mayor W. Lee Elgin and Hagers town police for courteous helpful service to tourists. He singles out Patrolman Karn for commendation and asks the mayor convey the appreciation.
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W. Lee Elgin
Hagerstown
Democratic Women to Have Two Slates Meet in Maryland
In Baltimore a split formed within the United Democratic Women's Clubs of Maryland as a nominating committee backed one presidential candidate, Mary H. Duvall, while Francis E. McFadden of Mount Rainier led an independent bid likely to be nominated from the floor at the November 4 convention. In Burkittsville a tire print in soft earth led Deputy Sheriff Denver J. Shook to three men suspected of stealing 30 chickens from Paul Zecher and selling them in Montgomery County.
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Baltimore
United Democratic Women’s Clubs of
Burkittsville
Paul Zecher
Denver J. Shook
Hoe
Zecher
Montgomery County
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Huntington
W. Va
B. K. Nicely
Justice
Air Tonight
EDR
Charles Parks
Black George Street
Pope Avenue
Washington County Hospital
Parks
Jerusalem
Hussein Khatidi
Arab Higher Committee
Lef Galilee
City Council
Library Board
Williamsport Institution
Michigan
Frank L. Hardy
Land, Mich
Chemical State Bank
Elizabeth St
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