Fat profits rising as 220 firms report gains
New York reports a strong earnings showing for companies in the third quarter ending September 30. Of 220 large corporations filing results, net profit reached 233,718,000, up from 151,265,000 a year earlier, with nine months totals at 583,745,000 versus 391,173,000. Strong gains in heavy industries and steel dominate, while oil firms lag.
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New York
Associated Press
Prince and Pauper
Ming
Hunters Preparing For Season Opens In Several Counties
Hunters gear up for the upland season opening in Allegany and Garrett counties on Wednesday November 1 in Maryland and in Pennsylvania. Abundant game reported in Pennsylvania, birds more plentiful than last year. Washington county upland season starts November 15. Eligible game includes rabbits grouse pheasants Bob white quail and wild turkeys.
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Allegany
Garrett
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Washington County
War talk denounced as danger to peace by Woodring
Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring condemned the notion that war is inevitable, urging that democracy can endure only through peace. He urged defense as the path to peace, noting extended field maneuvers and a need to adapt to fast-moving modern warfare.
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Baltimore
Harry H. Woodring
National Guard Association
Hemisphere
United States
Woodring
War Department
Poland
Spain
Ethiopia
County Will Get Big Housing Loan in Montgomery County
Montgomery County Maryland Housing Authority gains approval for a 2.4 million dollar rural housing loan from the U S Housing Authority head Nathan Straus. 800000 available immediately with 1600000 to follow next February. Eight villages for white and eight for colored farm laborers planned with brick homes under 3000 dollars each. Construction hoped to start before January 1 with sites near Fairfield and Poolesville. Cement theft reported as two bags stolen from Rollin Stoddard on Spruce Street.
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Rockville
Montgomery County
E. Brooke Lee
Nathan Straus
United States Housing Authority
Lee
Winder Way
Fairland
Poolesville
Rollin Stoddard
Black Spruce Street
World Fair Jam Draws Thousands of Kids
Ten thousand signatures on George Washington statue feet testify to the wild day at the New York World's Fair as 200000 youths flooded the Flushing Meadows Exposition. Cops struggled to maintain order with emergency gates opened. Two children broke arms and seventy injured, while a gas meter reader toppled. Several foreign exhibits closed early amid rampant loot of samples.
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New F York
George Washington
Flushing Flats
Gotham
Pools On Football Ruled Illegal
In Baltimore on October 28 Crim inal Court Judge Emory Ti Niles ruled football pools illegal while trialing Jack Dolgoff and Marty Asner on state gaming law violations Police found pool tickets in their possession The judge acquitted them noting the indictment lacked a section extending the ban to bets on horse races and other contests and that football pools were analogous to betting on horse races Maryland’s 1898 bookmaking statute is cited.
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Baltimore
Emory Ti. Niles
Jack Dolgoff
Marty Asner
Niles
Maryland
Homes to Go on Auction Block in Catskill Hamlet
In Chichester New York Oct 28 the 44 cottages in the Shandaken hamlet face sale after Schwarzwaelder furniture factory bankruptcy. Villagers of 276 reliant on the plant for livelihood seek to stay. Fourteen families have already moved away amid relief and short-time work.
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Chicester
Catskill Mountain
Schwarzwaelder Furniture Factory
Ulster County
Shandaken
Swift
Daring Rescues Bring Awards Across States
Carnegie Merc Fund Commission honored 24 heroes from 17 states for bravery in the 1988 New England hurricane rescues. A Warren, Ohio schoolboy, 14, received a bronze medal for swimming floodwaters to save two women. Other recipients included 11-year-old Elinor Randolph for saving a girl, Henry Mortis for five rescues, Wayward Wilson for saving three women and a boy before perishing, and Harold Thompson for saving seven from a burning launch in Atlantic City.
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Pittsburgh
New England
Carnegie Merc Fund Commission
Richard W. Wolmes
Warren, R. 1
Warren River
Westerly
R. 1
Weekapausy
Wayward Wilson
Gray Gables
Mass
Elinor Imogene Randolph
Lost Creek
W. Va
Harold H. Thompson
Carpenter
Pleasantville
N. J
Atlantic City
Salient features of the neutrality bill approved
Washington reports outline the administration neutrality bill. It allows arms sales for cash, bars American ships from belligerent ports, and restricts shipping with numerous exceptions. It empowers the President to set danger zones, regulate financial dealings, and require bond enforcement, with penalties up to 50,000 dollars or five years for shipping and title transfer violations.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
United States
Atlantic
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Bay of Fundy
Pacific
Indian Oceans
China, Tasman
Arabian Seas
Bay of Bengal
Canada
American Portal
Munitions Board
Turkey production hits historic high in 1939
Chicago reports turkey output reaching 32 million birds, up 22 percent from 1938, the largest since records began. Yet next month’s marketing share tied to Thanksgiving may dip to 38 percent from 41 percent as turkeys spread beyond holiday use, with Christmas and later sales growing.
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Chicago
Turkey
Lucky Leap Cars Jump Cemetery Fence Into River
Three Chicago motorists named Errd Lee Carl Larson and Michael Mojiacki escaped with minor injuries after their car struck a cemetery fence on Foster avenue and then cleared the Chicago river in a 60 foot leap promising a record year for sensational driving incidents.
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Chicago
Errd Lee
Carl Larson
Michael Mojiacki
Foster Avenue
Crickets Hide Science Seeks Miles City Montana Mystery
In Miles City Montana scientists ponder why Mormon crickets vanished from a broad region after a spring surge. County agent Jacobsen notes no dead crickets or new reports, citing long observed cycles of disappearance baffling researchers.
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Miles City
Mont
Dence
Montana
M. Jacobsen
Custer
Powder River
Jacobsen
Plan To Revise Maryland Tax Structure
Maryland state authorities pressed ahead with a plan to revise the tax structure. Four main changes were outlined in tax law administration property assessment special taxes and corporate levies with subcommittees named to draft proposals. Deputy Attorney General William L Henderson was named administration chair, Charles G Lord to lead assessment, HN I Walker Lewis to head income and license taxes, Huntington Cairnes to study corporation levies.
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Baltimore
Reviston of
Charles G
Baltimore County
HN. I
Police Telephones Linked To Car Plate Wonder
In Partansburg Washington DC on October 28 a curious coincidence emerges as a police car shows the state license plate 26 644. The police department lists its main phone numbers as 24 for general inquiries and 645 for the detective division.
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Partansburg
D. C
Police officer injured in accident at office switch
O WM Ezzell of the police accident prevention squad is in a hospital with a fractured left foot after leaning across a counter to switch on a light. A waste basket skidded and he crashed to the floor in the squad office.
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Oklahoma City
O. WM. Ezzell
Police Accident Prevention Squad
Ezzell
Woman Seeks Dower as Husband Absent Since 1892
Mrs. Mary Henry, 72, appeared with her lawyer in Chicago court to complain that her husband, George J. Henry, deserted her. She testified the marriage ended in a divorce in 1892, and she believes he will not return.
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Chicago
Mary Henry
George J. Henry
Oscar F. Nelson
Senate Adopts Arms Embargo Repeal Vote Amid Turbulent Debate
The Senate approved President Roosevelt's arms embargo repeal after a tense session. A sharp clash over a proposed preamble sparked a personal exchange between Pittman and Clark. La Follette led a later push for an advisory seven member board, passing 73 to 17.
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Wheeler
Montana
Connally
Senate
Pittman
D-Nev
Foreign Relations Committee
Clark
D-Mo
Nye
R-Nd
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lafollette
Lucas
Ill
Washington
Vet
Adams
Andrews
Bailey
Bankhead
Barkley
Bilbo
Brown
Burke
Byrnes
Caraway
Chandler
Ellender
George
Gerry
Gillette
Green
Guffey
Harrison
Hatch
Hayden
Herring
Hill
Hughes
Johnson
Cole
King
Lee
Maloney
McKellar
Mead
Miller
Minton
Murray
Neely
O'Mahoney
Pepper
Radcliffe
Russell
Schwartz
Schnellenbach
Sheppard
Slattery
Smathers
Smith
Stewart
Thomas
Oklahoma
Utah
Truman
Tydings
van Nuys
Wagner
Austin
Barbour
Bridges
Gibson
Gurney
Hale
Reed
Taft
Norris
Bulow
Chavez
Clark l
Idaho
Missouri
Donahey
Downey
Holt
McCarran
Overton
Reynolds
Walsh
Borah
Capper
Danaher
Davis
Frazier
Holman
California
Lodge
McNary
Tobey
Townsend
Vandenberg
White
Wiley
Farmetr
Lamdeen
Shipstead
Ashurst
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Potomac Street
Montgomery Ward & CO
Washington Street
Arthur Dorsey
Randolph & Locust Sts
Zacks-Mills Co
West
Schindel, Rohrer & Co
Sherwin - Williams
Potomac St
Cauffman
Rudy
Rudy’s Fox
Pharmacy Hotel
Hamilton Corner
Coleman
Dua Therm American
Quick Heat
Shockey Furniture Co
Summit Ave
Flint
City of Flint
Carnegie Hero Fund
Avern
Saar
London
ZEGRA
England
Germany
Aiini
Commission
Roosevelt
D-Tex
UY Onnie
Penfield
Hagerstown Gas Co
Glick Shoe Store
Own
Washington St
R. D. McKee
Penns
Washington &T
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Ardena Cleansing Cream
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Majahte
Leiter Brothers
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