Family pays ransom in Ross kidnapping case
D M Ladd of the FBI announced the family of Charles S Ross paid 50000 dollars for his return after 24 days in captivity. The payment, in small denominations, was handled by the family with no FBI involvement.Ross had been abducted and a deadline passed without word, raising fears the kidnapers may have double crossed them.
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Chicago
D. M. Ladd
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Charles S. Ross
Ross
Ladd
Mr. Ross
Rain Delays Wheat Sowing in Washington County
Rain totaling about an inch and a half by noon today slows wheat sowing in Washington County. J A Miller, weather observer at Keedysville, says at least half the farmers have postponed planting due to Hessian fly risks and expert guidance to wait until after October 8. Wet ground likely prevents any planting before next week though some early sown wheat is thriving.
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Washington County
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Miller
State Tax Surplus Release Contested by Comptroller
Annapolis Maryland October 19 1939 an employee of the state comptroller said the surplus gasoline tax funds would not be released to the State Roads Commission until the attorney general Herbert R O Conor clarifies a recent opinion.
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Annapolis
State Comptroller Today
State Roads Commission
Herpert R. O’conor
Maryland Weather Plan Rain Tonight and Wednesday
U S Weather Bureau reports rain for Maryland tonight and Wednesday. Colder conditions arrive late Wednesday afternoon and night. Chesapeake Bay also sees rain with a shift from fresh south to southwest winds tonight and strong west winds by Wednesday afternoon.
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Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
County Home Open to Public Inspection Amid Sanitation Critique
County trustees refused further comment on a Kennedy report criticizing sanitation at Bellevue Home. They said the home is open for public inspection several days weekly and welcomed scrutiny. Officials cited high grand jury praise and declined to discuss the 18 year old charity patient moved there from hospital amid his recovery.
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Bellevue
Garrei
Board of Trustees
Raymond E. Kennedy
Baltimore
Mar
Senator Kennedy
Grace Moore to Return to Opera with Metropolitan
Hollywood reports Grace Moore plans a return to the Metropolitan Opera after a two year absence. Gladys Swarthout faced hostility at a film premiere and Lily Pons wore a scant feather costume in her film. Grace Moore and husband Valentin Parera left for New York after clashing with a producer over singing instructions.
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Hollywood
Gladys Swarthout
Lily Pons
Grace Moore
Valentin Parerra
New York
Metropolitan Opera
Six Die in Farmhouse Fire Near Waterford
ERIE Pa Oct 19 Six persons perished when a two story frame farmhouse near Waterford ten miles south of Erie caught fire in the early hours. Victims include Mrs Helen Molash 52 and her children Peter 23 Olga 17 John 19 and a hired man Harry Ordell 30. Neighbor Ted Malinoski reported flames shooting from attic windows and finding the interior filled with fire. The family, all said to have slept on the second floor, were believed trapped inside.
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Erie
Waterford
W. G. Stroble
Helen Molash
Peter
John
Olga
Harry Ordell
Stroble
Ted Malinoski
Malinoski
Slippery Roads Cause Multiple Minor Auto Damages
Several cars skidded on slick streets today resulting in minor damage. A Baltimore meat salesman’s truck struck a pole on the Sharpsburg pike near the corporate limits with no injuries. Another vehicle with a Pennsylvania plate slid off a road and into a fence near Wilson's this morning.
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Baltimore
Sharpsburg Pike
Pennsylvania
Wilson's
Stock Prices Slide On Distress Selling In Market Downturn
New York stock trading opened with a wave of distress selling across mar gin accounts as prices for commodities and bonds fell. Brokers cited impaired margins from yesterday's decline, with early trading showing losses from one to nine dollars per share. Bargain hunters remained active among large investors while ticker tape lagged behind. Leading issues including American Tel and Du Pont dropped, with wider slumps in Santa Fe, U S Steel, Chrysler and Sears Roebuck.
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New York
U. S
Trading Post
Bell Wethers
American Telephone
du Pont
Santa Fe
U. S. Steel
Chrysler
Sears Roebuck
Johns Manville
Yes
Sabath Blames Wall Street Conspiracy Over Market Decline
Rep A J Sabath of Illinois telegraphs President Roosevelt accusing a Wall Street conspiracy of triggering the stock market drop. He urges immediate strong action, cites short sale influence, and calls for higher margins and inflation to thwart the planners.
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Chicago
A. J. Sabath
D-Ill
Roosevelt
Wall Street
Coeds Ordered to Stay in Dorms After Dark at Maryland
University of Maryland officials prohibited co-eds from leaving dormitories or sorority houses alone after dark amid concerns following an attack on a George Washington University student in Rock Creek Park. Miss Adele Stamp cited many transients passing through College Park, along a busy North South artery.
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College Park
University of Maryland
George Washington University
Rock Creek Park
Washington
Adele Stamp
Maryland
Discharge ends overcoat crisis in Brooklawn NJ
In Brooklawn New Jersey on October 19 the town council resolved a dispute over funding an overcoat for the police department. Acting Marshall George McMahon was dismissed and Captain Walton returned to duty after a prolonged illness. Walton already had an overcoat.
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Brooklawn
N. J
Marshall George McMahon
McMahon
Walton
Crying Baby Saves Six from Baltimore Fire
A crying two year old girl awakened six residents in a Baltimore home on October 19, allowing them to escape flames believed set by robbers. Mrs. Elaine Kowalski alerted family after smelling smoke. police say a broken cellar window and a missing $40 link to the motive. Patrolman Walter James suspects a lit cigarette or match dropped inside.
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Baltimore
Frank J. Kowalski
Elaine
Walter James
Widow testifies in Reeves slaying case in New Jersey
In Iselin, Myra Reeves, 24, widow of Paul Reeves, tearfully recalls finding him fatally shot in their bungalow as Margaret Drennan stands trial for the murder. Dr Horenstein and Coroner Mullen describe the nude body with bullet wounds. Drennan, 20, claims Reeves fathered her unborn child.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Myra Reeves
Paul Reeves
Iselin
Margaret Drennan
Reeves
Martin Horenstein
Hospital
Eugene Mullen
Perth Amboy General Hospital
Mullen
F D R and Davis to confer on nine power talks
Hyde Park Oct 19 Pres Roosevelt and Norman H Davis planned late day talks on Americas role in the Brussels nine power conference to end the Sino Japanese conflict. Davis head American delegate to the parley to be held in Brussels Oct 30 was en route for a final talk before sailing. The President was to leave tonight for Washington after a week here and had a fore noon conference with William E Dodd ambassador to Berlin returning after vacation.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Norman H. Davis
America
Brussels
Davis
Washington
William E. Dodd
Berlin
Jury to be drawn for November term by Judge Wagamann
The Circuit Court jury for the November term will be drawn tomorrow by Judge Frank G. Wagamann.
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Frank G. Wagaman
Japs Launch Major Drive Against Foe
Japanese troops opened a large offensive on Shanghai fronts aiming to eject Chinese forces before the nine power conference ends the month. Chinese reports say the heaviest fighting centered around Tazang with tanks, while Chinese forces counterattacked near Tazang and claimed the Japanese suffered heavy losses. Civilian casualties and rail targets feature in the daily exchanges as bombardment disrupts Shanghai-Hangchow rail lines and airdrome activity around Nanking.
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Shanghai
Tazang
Yangkaosien
Tatang
Peiping-Suiyuan
Shanghat
Hangchow
Shanghai-Hangchow
Shanghai Chapel
International Settlement
Nanking
24 Terrorists Executed in Far East for Espionage
A Kha parovsk newspaper reported that 24 anti-Soviet terrorists were executed in the Far East for alleged railroad espionage for Japan and plots against Soviet leaders.
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Moscow
Khaparovsk
Far East
Japan
Hitler to issue orders on volunteers in non intervention talks
London dispatch reports Hitler may direct Bavarian retreat after von Ribbentrop’s secret trip to Berchtesgaden. Britain and France doubt Italy’s claim of 40000 volunteers in Spain, fearing a clash over token withdrawals and insist on proportionate foreign troop withdrawals as talks resume.
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Britain
France
Italy
Spain
London
Germany
Hitler
Mussolini
Joachim von Ribbentrop
der Fuehrer
Munich
Berchtesgaden
Rome
Paris
Francisco Franco
Troops Surround Narragansett Track Under Martial Law
Rhode Island guards sealed off Narragansett Park for a third day denying admission to horses and halting racing under Governor Quinn's martial law. Troops with bayonets tear gas and rifles blocked incoming horses owners and trainers as 200 horses meanwhile in transit faced new hardship.
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Providence
R. I
Narragansett
Rhode Island National Guardsmen
Robert E. Quinn
Earl C. Webster
Herbert R. Trean
Walter E. O'Hara
New York
Chicago
Baltimore
Prominent Frederick farmer commits suicide in Detour area
George W. M. Albaugh a well known farmer from Detour Frederick county hanged himself yesterday in the garret of his son in law Wilbur Grossnickle's home. Despondent over illness and feared needed operation his act ends his troubles.
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George W. M. Albaugh
Detour
Frederick County
Wilbur Grossnickle
P.S.C Orders A Check On Buses
The Public Service Commission told Maryland bus owners that State police will conduct periodic checks on interurban buses to enforce law, rules, and regulations. The commission noted violations include obstructed aisles and carrying standing passengers on high speed routes. Officials said enforcement is needed especially when weekend travel and holidays boost bus traffic.
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Baltimore
Public Service Commission
Maryland
Frank Harper
Harper
E. Austin James
Commission People’s Counsel
See America plan invites Windsor visit to US White House
Secretary Ickes ordered aides to assemble data on housing, reclamation, and Windsor itinerary with Civilian Conservation Corps publications. Bedaux, Windsor aide, aids planning. In New York, Mrs Roosevelt said Duchess Wallis Warfield would be invited to the White House December 11 if the Duke attends the gridiron banquet.
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Washington
Ickes
America
Duke of Windsor
United States
Civilian Conservation Corps
Charles E. Bedeaux
Bedaux
Windsor
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Duchess of Windsor
Wallis Warfield
White House
Milking Champion at American Royal Show Named
Sigmund Stern won the 1937 milking championship at the American Royal livestock show in Kansas City amid an alibi claim from city manager H. F. McElroy who joked about not getting an Iowa cow. Stern recalled milking cows each morning as a boy in Germany.
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Kansas City
Sigmund Stern
Germany
H. F. McElroy
Iowa
Bodies Found In Mainliner Wreckage In Utah
A ground search party found all 19 occupants dead in the crash of the Mainliner airliner high in the Uinta mountains. Ralph Johnson, United Airlines pilot, reported no signs of life after a torch survey of the wreckage. The plane had been missing since Sunday en route from Cheyenne to Salt Lake City and crashed near Chalk Peak at about 10,000 feet.
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Wyoming
D. Woodgerd
Cheyenne
John Adams
Chicago
Los Angeles
W. D
Bill) Williams
Bob Bergensen
Uinta Mountains
Salt Lake City
Utah
Ralph Johnson
United Airlines
L. D. Cuddeback
Johnson
Knight
Wryo
Cuddeback
Wic
May Transport Pupils To Weverton After Fire Loss
Inwood colored school destroyed by fire on Sunday will not be rebuilt, says Superintendent B. J. Grimes. The 15 district children will be transported to the colored school at Weverton. Initial plan to rent local housing failed due to lack of suitable space. The Daily Mail regrets discontinuing the Bobby Thatcher comic strip due to unforeseen circumstances from the syndicate.
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Inwood Colored School
B. J. Grimes
The
Daily Mail
Bobby Thatcher
the Mail
Bobby
Democrats of Ward 3 Meet Near Baltimore and Locust
Democrats of Ward 3 will hold a meeting tomorrow night at the corner of Baltimore and Locust streets. All Democrats are invited as matters of importance will be discussed. The meeting will get underway at 7 30 o clock.
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Ward 3
Baltimore and
Locust Streets
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