Ethiopians Harassing Italians In Northern Front Action
Ras Seyoum reported early success in maneuvering three Ethiopian forces against the Italian right plank and claimed capture of an Italian colonel and 30 officers. Ethiopian reports denied invasions of Eritrea and other war fears as Ras lassa and Dedjazmatch Arela moved toward the Setit river with 80 000 troops.
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Associated Press
Addis Ababa
Ras Seyoum
Eritrea
Aduwa
Edagahamus
Ras Lassa
Setit
Italy
Arela
Hundreds to Be Put to Work on Maryland Highways Seeks Quick Action
Government agencies move to speed road and grade crossing projects in Maryland. Arthur E. Hungerford, state director for the National Emergency Council, says hundreds of local and county men will be called to work within weeks as the State Roads Commission goes at full speed. Federal and state appropriations include the Haydon-Cartwright Act at 1,025,000 dollars annually for two years, matched by Maryland, and the Works Progress Roads appropriation at 1,750,738 dollars.
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Maryland
Arthur E. Hungerford
National Emergency Council
Hungerford
State Roads Commission
Federal Bureau of Roads
Urge Early Hearing in Mooney Case
Washington Oct 9 Mooney seeks swift Supreme Court action to obtain release after life imprisonment for the 1916 San Francisco preparedness day parade bombing. Counsel argue California court delay exhausts resources as Mooney pursues habeas corpus while alleging conviction by perjured evidence and seeking permission to file.
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Washington
Thomas J. Mooney
Supreme Court
Aftef
Mooney
San Francisco
Supreme Court of California
High Court
California
October Week Sets Cold Record In Baltimore
The first week of October posted record low temperatures in Baltimore with mean 10 to 12 degrees below normal. Damaging frosts and a light snow were reported from western Maryland according to the Weather Bureau.
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Baltimore
All Weather Bureau
Baltimore Weather Bureau
Maryland
Italians Extend Control In Northern Ethiopia Front
Italy’s northern army expanded its hold on a large Ethiopian region, about Rhode Island plus Delaware in size. An Associated Press team toured Aduwa and observed residents resuming daily work amid fascist occupation while Ethiopians eyed Italian camps and marveled at the mechanized gear.
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Associated Press
Italy
Rhode Island
Delaware
League Delays Sanction Session By Friction Among Powers
In Geneva October 9 indications of friction in League of Nations sanction machinery appeared as an assembly session was delayed by one hour. The steering committee meeting moved from 4 pm to 3 pm allowing extra private deliberations before the public session amid debates over the order of the roll call on Italy's condemnation and sanctions.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Assembly
League Council
Italy
Ethiopia
Baron Pompeo Aloisi
Italian General Sees Ethiopia End to Italian Emigration
Gen Ruggero Santini commander of the Italian left column said Ethiopia would remove Italy's need to buy grain cotton or coffee abroad. He noted Adigrat’s region and a fertile valley beyond the town as salient areas for Italian control on the northern Ethiopian front.
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Asso. Press
Ruggero Santini
Ethiopia
America
Adigrat
Italy
Senator Radcliffe to aid county PWA building program
U S Senator George L Radcliffe pledged to press for early federal and state approval of the county PWA building program. Projects include new schools at Maugansville and Sharpsburg additions to Williamsport High and Sandy Hook grade school and a two story Court House addition. The effort follows prior approval by the State FWA and delay in PWA funds.
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U.S
George L. Radcliffe
Board of County Commissioners
PWA
Maugansville
Sharpsburg
Williamsport
Sandy Hook
Court House
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
Board
WPA
Board of Commissioners
FWA
Washington
Birth of a Prince at Kent's Home in London
London reports the birth of a son to the Duke and Duchess of Kent. He is King George V and Queen Mary's seventh in line to the throne, a royal event welcomed with public joy. The mother and infant are reported well at the duke's town home.
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London
Great Britain
Kent
George
Mary
Hit and run victim flees after ambulance arrives
A hit and run motorist struck a man on a corner in Delaware. An ambulance arrived and a witness helped the dazed victim into the vehicle. Before he could start for the hospital the man opened a rear door and ran down the street.
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Delaware
Junior League Members Prepare Coffee For Fund Drive
Evanston observers report on October 9 as Junior League members work for the community chest. They take turns serving coffees and rolls at 9 a.m. to fortify volunteers before they begin their door to door fund collections.
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Evanston
Junior League
Community Chest
Husband Cleared of Complicity in Poison Death Case
Mrs. John Creighton was arraigned on a murder charge in the poison death of Mrs. Everett R. Applegate after District Attorney Martin W. Littleton Jr. said she confessed a second time that she killed gradually to get even. He noted her past Newark poison allegations and said she admitted poisoning her brother to end his suffering. Applegate remains jailed on charges of criminally attacking Creighton’s 15 year old daughter Ruth.
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Mineola
N. Y
John Creighton
Everett R. Applegate
Martin W. Littleton, Jr
Littleton
Mrs. Creighton
Applegate
Ruth
Everett Applegate
Associated Press
Driver Fined For Accident In Oak Hill Potomac Intersection
Maurice J. Schrorer of Frederick county was found guilty by Justice C Edward Heard in city court of failing to yield at a street intersection linked to a September 11 crash with Eldred W Lemmon of Waynesboro whose motorcycle rider lost a leg and sues for damages. Schr rovers car and Lemmon were involved, Lemmon testified, and Schr rovers fine was nominal.
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Maurice J. Schroyer
Frederick County
Oak Hill and
Potomac Avenues
C. Edward Heard
Schrorer
Eldred W. Lemmon
Waynesboro
Lemmon
Schrover
Haegerstown Nursery Co Inc Formed By Investors
Announcement today that Mountain View Nursery at Halfway has been purchased by J Frank Hetzer Clayton E Neikirk and Ernest L Bartle who organized and incorporated Ha gerstown Nursery Co Inc The new company to be staffed by experienced nursery men.
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Mountain View Nursery
J. Frank Hetzer
Clayton E. Neikirk
Ernest L. Bartle
Hagerstown Nursery Co., Inc
County Woman Sentenced to Six Months in Frederick
Mrs. Ruby Goodheart 25 Brunswick, formerly of Washington county, convicted by a jury on manufacturing untaxed liquor, was sentenced by Judge Arthur D. Willard in Frederick to six months in the House of Correction and a $400 fine plus costs or three more months in jail. The jury acquitted her of possessing untaxed liquor. The Brunswick house she occupied was the scene of a violent disturbance.
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Ruby Goodheart
Brunswick
Washington County
Arthur D. Willard
Frederick
House of Correction
Frederick County
Still House
Willard
Brunswick House
Truck from CCC camp overturns near Cumberland
A CCC camp truck at Paw Paw overturned near Cumberland yesterday with the driver as the sole occupant unhurt. The same truck had overturned weeks earlier with no injuries to any passengers.
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CCC
Paw Paw
Cumberland
New Smallpox Vaccine Promises No Scars
Milwaukee report on a Rockefeller Institute vaccine developed to inoculate via a tube method rather than calf serum. Dr Rivers presented findings showing the tube-made vaccine is purer, can be given hypodermically, and leaves no soreness or scarring, enabling children to be bathed as if untouched by the needle.
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Milwaukee
American Public Health Association
Rockefeller Institute
New York
Thomas M. Rivers
Institute
Rivers
New Jersey Court Upholds Hauptmann Death Sentence
The New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals unanimously affirmed the death verdict for Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping murder. The ruling denied a new trial and outlined three possible appeals: to the court of pardons for commutation, a request for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, or to the U S Supreme Court. The court found no 14th Amendment rights violations and held the homicide occurred in Hunterdon County with burglary elements permissible under the charged statute.
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Bruno Richard Hauptmann
New Jersey
Hauptmann
Trenton
N. J
Court of Errors and Appeals
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Court of Pardons
Hoffman
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Charles W. Parker
Morristown
Justce
Thomas W. Trenchard
Flemington
C. Lloyd Fisher
Edward J. Reilly
Brooklyn
Anna
Justice Parker
David T. Wilentz
Mercer County
Hunterdon County
Hunterdon
Counsel Given Three Months
The piece notes that Bruno Hauptmann’s attorneys have three months to petition the New Jersey or U S Supreme Court for review of today’s action. A stay of execution would not be automatic. such a stay would require orders from New Jersey courts or a U S Supreme Court justice to prevent the death sentence while the petition is pending.
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Washington
Oct
Bruno Hauptmann
Supreme Court
New Jersey
United States Supreme Court
Bay Resort Blaze Destroys Eland Inn at North Beach
Fire swept two buildings in North Beach Maryland threatening the business block this morning. A third dwelling was damaged but a favorable wind and high tide helped firemen check the fire. Total damage not expected to exceed 10000 dollars. Eland Inn burned to the ground and a cottage owned by Mrs Bear was destroyed. The inn was unoccupied. Local and out of town equipment aided the response.
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North Beach
Chesapeake Bay
Maryland
Washington
Eland Inn
Purvis Subpoenaed in Stoll Kidnapping Trial
Federal Judge Edward Hamilton issued a forthwith subpoena for Melvin H. Purvis former Department of Justice agent to testify in the Stoll kidnapping trial in Louisville The defense requested the subpoena after a cross examination of H R Reincke and Purvis was listed among initial witnesses The subpoena aims to probe Purvis about events after federal agents halted the car in southern Indiana bringing Mrs Alice Speed Stall to Louisville following a $50000 ransom payment
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Louisville, Jr
Melvin H. Purvis
Department of Justice
Stoll
Thomas H. Robinson
Frances A. Robinson
Edward Hamilton
Jack Norman
Robinson
H. H. Reinecke
Purvis
Lst
Norman
Indiana
Alice Speed Stall
Louisville
Davidson College Senior Dies After Auto Crash
LYNCHBURG Virginia October 9 Wilmer Boyer Hunter 22 of Charlotte NC a senior at Davidson College died in Lynchburg Hospital early today of head and internal injuries from a car accident at Yellow Branch south of here Sunday night He was injured when the automobile struck an obstruction and overturned authorities said
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Lynchburg
Wilmer Boyer Hunter
Charlotte
N. C
Davidson College
Lynchburg Hospital
Yellow Branch
Here
Maryland State Bonds Sold for 107435
A 31.5 million issue of State of Maryland 3 percent bonds were sold today for 107435 to a syndicate led by Halsey, Stuart and Company of New York City.
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Annapolis
State of Maryland
Halsey, Stuart and Company
New York City
Two Fingers Mangled at Pinesburg Sawmill
William King of Clearspring section suffered two fingers badly mangled on his right hand yesterday afternoon while sawing slab wood at the Kelly Leasure sawmill in Pinesburg. He had been tinkering with the machinery, it being out of condition, when the accident occurred. Fellow workmen rendered first aid.
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William King
Clearspring
Kelly-Leasure
Pinesburg
King
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