Hitler blames Poland as he presses for a settlement
Roosevelt urged direct talks or mediation to avert war. Hitler says he exhausted options and blames Poland for failure while German forces push into Polish territory. Polish ambassador Potocki calls German aggression flagrant. Also notes over 200 wrecks reported in Diamond Shoals shoal area off Cape Hatteras.
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Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Poland
Diamond Shoals
Cane Hatteras, N. C
August Births at Washington County Hospital Reach Twenty Four
A baby was born every 20 hours at the Washington County Hospital in August, totaling 24 births with 18 girls and 16 boys. It marked the second highest birth count for a month since March, while the year’s tally reached 295 versus 250 in the same period of 1938. At Harvard University in 1885 the faculty banned football for the season.
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Washington County
State History Is Being Catalogued for Future Historians
Maryland's historical sources are being catalogued in WPA county inventories for five counties Washington Allegany Garrett Montgomery and Howard with more planned The entries mix old and new records including slave and auto assessments and county government histories The section notes Caedmon poems have been lost though paraphrases survive.
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Baltimore
Maryland
WPA
Washington
Allegany
Garrett
Montgomery
Howard
Earker
Enoch Pratt Library
Montgomery County
Distances of bombing planes between bases and European capitals
Distances and flight times between near by bases and capitals in a hypothetical war among Great Britain France Italy and Poland. Calculations use 200 mph averages with routes France to Berlin 400 miles two hours Germany to Paris 221 06 England to Berlin 350 two hours 43 minutes Germany to London 275 one hour 25 minutes France to Rome 360 one 48 Corsica to Rome 150 34 Italy to Paris 3401 42 Germany to Warsaw 175 53 Poland to Berlin 90 27.
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France
Italy
Poland
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Germany
Paris
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London
Rome
Corsica
Warsaw
Tomato Queen To Be Crowned Today
Berkeley Springs West Virginia September festival opens with tomato royalty led by Queen Morgan Jewell and King Warry Luttrell. Princesses join from Maryland Virginia and Pennsylvania as three day celebration features pageants, parades, dances, contests and a Labor Day parade amid religious services and public speaking events.
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Morgan County
Morgan Jit
Virginia
Maryland
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West Virginia
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Kingwood
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Jewell Miller
Warry
Luttrell
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Five Escape Serious Injury In Highway Mishap
A sedan driven by Arthur Swope of Smoketown skidded 75 feet on a concrete highway between Cavetown and Beaver Creek, destroying posts and guard rail before overturning into a field and catching fire. The occupants were removed without serious injuries. Smithsburg Fire Company battled the blaze.
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Smoketown
Cavetown
Beaver Creek
Smithsburg
Program Rapidly Is Going Forward
Washington state department says the American program of repatriating citizens from Europe is progressing with great success. For the week ending Sept 1, 9,300 passengers arrived at Atlantic ports in the United States and 1,200 at Canadian ports, many of whom may be Americans. Shipping lines are adjusting schedules and itineraries to assist.
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State Department
United States
Europe
United States Atlantic
Canadian
Global rivers pour salt into oceans at 35 billion tons yearly
Scientists estimate that rivers contribute about 35 billion tons of salt to the world’s oceans each year, a factor in ongoing salinity balance and marine chemistry studies.
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Globe
Henry’s Has Good Western at Henry's Theatre
Charles Starrett stars in The Man From Sundown at Henry's Air Conditioned Theatre as a Ranger who becomes a masked outlaw to ambush criminals. Tris Meredith co leads with the Sons of the Prongers in support. the show runs into today. Midnight show Sunday features Good Girls Go to Paris with Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell at Henry's Theatre.
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Columbia
Henry
Starrett
Tris Meredith
The
Sons of the Prongers
al Bridge
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Jack Rockwell
Edmund Cobb
Art Mix
Star Maker star maker Bing Crosby screens at Maryland Theatre
Bing Crosby stars in The Star Maker as a songwriter and dancer who aims to create stars from talented kids. The film, inspired by Gus Edwards, follows his rise amid failed jobs and a NY street kid act, directed by Roy Del Ruth with Charles R. Rogers producing, showing Monday.
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Maryland Theatre
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Gus Edwards
Louise Campbell
New York
Miss Campbell
Roy del Ruth
Charles R. Rogers
Is land of Lost Men opens at Academy Theatre drama tale
A new Paramount drama set on the Malay Peninsula follows Anna May Wong seeking a vanished Oriental General with 300000 in public funds. She travels upriver with bandit king J. Carrol Naish, aided and warned by Broderick Crawford, as danger looms in a tense East jungle plot.
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Academy Theatre
Malay Peninsula
Anna May Wong
Straits Settlements Seaport
J. Carrol Naish
Broderick Crawford
Germans Here Are Enlisting in New York
New York September 2 German men stood in line three thousand miles from Europe to enlist in the Reich’s military forces. The Polish Consulate said it had made no appeal for recruits, but one might be expected. The British Consulate did not allow Britons to register. A few applicants expressed readiness to renounce their citizenship to join, while others sought passage to enlist abroad. No unusual activity was seen at Italian or French consulates.
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New York
Europe
Iold
Germany
Eazer
United States
Great Britain
Death Penalty Decree Tightens Foreign Broadcasts
Berlin September 2 A decree fixes the death penalty for spreading false reports via foreign radio to Germany. Listening to foreign stations is forbidden and aggravated cases incur execution. The action follows a Warsaw station report that Warsaw was bombed and burning.
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Berlin
Germany
Warsaw
Seven Maryland counties to take over roads
Seven Maryland counties will assume administration of their county roads after October 1 with two others declining maintenance. Cecil and Prince Georges asked to keep current state maintenance. others including Washington, Frederick, Howard, Harford, Baltimore, Montgomery, and Anne Arundel will run their own roads. Jupiter could hold about 1,300 Earth-sized bodies.
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Maryland
State Roads Commission
Cecil
Prince Georges County
Washington
Frederick
Howard
Harford
Montgomery
Anne Arundel
Auto Crash Injures Two In Towne Area
At Summit avenue and Howard street last night about 11 o clock two people were seriously hurt in an auto crash. Ray G. Byers of Fort Loudon Pa. drove a southbound car that rolled over after hitting Horace M. Grayson’s eastbound machine on Guilford avenue. Byers and his passenger Cleo Bowman of Pittsburgh were treated for cuts and bruises at the hospital and later discharged. Patrolman Fred Holden cited Byers for failing to stop at a boulevard sign.
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Howard Street
Ray G. Byers
Fort Loudon
Horace M. Grayson
Guilford Avenue
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Cleo Bowman
Pittsburgh
Fred Holden
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