Nine Nations Sign Pact to Curb Mediterranean Submarine Attacks
Envoys from nine nations signed a pact in Nyon to suppress submarine piracy in the Mediterranean. British and French warships massed for a major demonstration as Great Britain and France dispatch fleets to patrol inland seas. Italy denies the accusation of aggression while the League of Nations weighs broader action.
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Geneva
Placidy
Mediterranean
Great Britain
France
Nyon
Spain
Soviet
Russia
Italy
League of Nations
Lesson in Salt Lake City Night Theft
Ken Sargent a 19 year old filling station night attendant slept through a theft of 31 dollars from the till. Police were told by J J Mathews station manager who said he took the money to teach Sargent a lesson after finding him asleep on the job.
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Salt Lake City
Ken Sargent
J. J. Mathews
Ken
Maryland reports hog cholera not epidemic on shore
Noting reports of hog cholera on the Lower Eastern Shore, the Maryland livestock sanitary service said the disease had not reached epidemic proportions. Dr. Mark F. Welsh, chief of the service, reported the number of cases was normal for this season of the year.
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College Park
Maryland Livestock Sanitary Service
Mark F. Welsh
Delegation Demands All Grades Taught or Replacement
A group of Dargan school patrons met Superintendent B J Grimes after a teacher refused to teach sixth seventh and eighth grades. They were told action would be taken and that either the current teacher must teach all grades or a substitute who can teach all will be provided.
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Dargan School
B. J. Grimes
Maryland Weather Forecast: Fair and Warmer With Winds
Maryland forecast calls for fair tonight with cooler temps in the west. Wednesday looks generally fair and somewhat warmer across the state and Chesapeake Bay with moderate to fresh westerly winds turning to southwest.
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Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Case Against Dancer Dropped In LA Incident
Authorities dropped today the case of Laura Lee a 25 year old dancer charged with attacking a film executive. She was found hysterical and blood splattered in front of a studio early Sunday. Detectives released her after studio officials wallet was found near the executive s office and Miss Lee refused to sign a complaint. Police district attorney Bar on Fitts said they were washing their hands of the case.
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Los Angeles
Laura Lee
Miss Lee
Baron Fitts
Reception For Mayor Jackson at Washington County event
Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore attended an informal reception hosted by the Washington County Democratic Organization Club at Hotel Hamilton yesterday afternoon. The event followed his keynote on the National Antietam Commemoration program, with several dozen county Democrats meeting the Baltimore mayor and his party during an informal talk and a later performance.
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Howard W. Jackson
Baltimore
Exposition Grounds
Board of Governors
Washington County
Democratic Organization Club
Hotel Hamilton
Jackson
William P. Lane, Jr
Organization Club
Mayor Jackson
Daniel Chambers
Baltimore Central
James Bruce
Gaylord L. Clarke
John T. White
James A. Rossi
Hagerstown High Football Players Undergo Examinations
Members of the Hagerstown High School football squad are receiving physical examinations today, a requirement to be members of the team. Dr. W. Ross Cameron, health officer, is conducting the examinations.
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Hagerstown
W. Ross Cameron
Agriculturists Day Marked At Big Fairground Exposition
Agriculture plays a key role in Washington county as the National Antietam Commemoration continues at the fairgrounds with Agriculturists Day. Livestock exhibits, farm product prizes, and special features highlight the event as the pageant On Wings of Time runs through Saturday in a bid to avoid Friday’s Battle of Antietam reenactment. Emanuel Gorfine praised the production, calling it magnificent and urging state pride. By Saturday an estimated 65,000 have viewed the pageant, with continued crowds and a busy program for the tenth day.
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Washington County
Hagerstown
Antietam
Emanuel Gorfine
Baltimore
Maryland
Supreme Court Opens New Term With Eight New Deal Cases
The Supreme Court’s new term starts October 4 with over 400 cases. It will decide on review of eight administration sponsored laws and review questions include government loans for publicly owned hydro plants and the Securities Act of 1933. Other disputes cover the 1936 commodity regulation act, gold bond redemptions, Home Owners' Loan Corporation acts, Merced Irrigation District’s 1936 decision, and Georgia Power versus TVA expansion.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Treasury
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Act
Gertrude Kay
New York
Merced Irrigation District of
California
Georgia Power Company
Tennessee
Tennessee Valley Authority
Georgia
Chaplin Ends Tramp Era. Plans New Talking Film Persona
Hollywood reports that Charles Chaplin announced the end of the little tramp character after a career beginning in 1913. He said he is at work on a new persona and may transition from pantomime to speech, not sure when the story will be ready.
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Hollywood
Charles Chaplin
Chaplin
Antietam and Constitution anniversaries mark local holiday
Friday is observed as a general holiday in the city and county to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam and the 150th anniversary of the U S Constitution. Public schools and many county offices will close. banks stay open. Orphans' Court judges will sit Thursday instead of Friday due to commemoration events.
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Antietam
Sharpsburg
Orphans’ Court
Judge's Wife Faces Fines Over Customs Baggage
New York story reports Justice Edgar J. Lauer's wife facing possible penalties up to 10000 as 32 suitcases and boxes were searched by three customs inspectors on arrival from abroad aboard the Normandie. Jewelry and foreign bought clothes valued at 32500 plus a bracelet 1500 under scrutiny.
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New York
New York Supreme Court
Edgar J. Lauer
Five Boys Nabbed As Soap Thieves In Millenium Park
Millenium Maron police rounded up five boys aged six to ten who confessed to stealing six bars of soap. Detective Captain Matt Humble said the youngsters explained they took the soap to clean up before going to school.
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Maron
Ind
Dirty Face
Matt Humble
Roosevelt calls cabinet meeting after vacation return
President Roosevelt travels back to Washington after an 18 day vacation to hold a special cabinet meeting at 2 p m EST to review Far East and European developments. He may tour Federal projects on the west coast and consider a special session of Congress while meeting Gov George H Earle and attending Antietam anniversary remarks in Sharpsburg Maryland.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Far East
Europe
Hull
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Earle
West Coast
Congress
Hyde Park
Washington Monument
Dutchess County
Atlantic City
Sharpsburg
Antietam
End of Jap Beetle Season Nears in Washington
Government entomologists will review summer trapping results after the open season ends in a few days. About 160,000 traps were set this year, tin can sized with a jar bottom and baited with geranol and eugenol, attracting adult beetles to map the pest spread.
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Washington
Rohwer
Dice Pair In South Bend Tie The Knot On A Whim
James Dice and Jean Dice traveled from Grand Rapids Michigan to South Bend Indiana to obtain a marriage license in a whimsical ceremony. The report notes Cupid's darts and jokes about marriage being a gamble as the couple wed.
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South Bend
Ind
Cupid
James Dice
Jean Dice
Grand Rapids
Mich
Child Aged 2 Burned in Home Stove Fire Near Row's Park
Four-year-old Tommy Smith tried to rescue Betty Smith from an oil stove flare up at their Row's Park area home. Betty, aged 2, suffered first degree burns over her body and is hospitalized in serious condition. Tommy’s hands were burned while attempting to help. Their mother, Mrs Harry Smith, was in another room caring for another child when the flames erupted.
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Tommy Smith
Betty
Washington County Hospital
Row’s Park
Harry Smith
Tommy
Hit By Train Leaves Transient With Minor Injuries
Burt Miller a 59 year old transient was struck by a Virginia and Truckee railroad double header cowcatcher hurled down an embankment in Reno Nevada. He suffered a black eye and minor injuries with no further harm reported.
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Reno
Burt Miller
Truckee
Today’s Coldest Fall Morning Forecast Warms Tomorrow
The morning reached 43 degrees, the coldest so far this fall, with the city’s weather bureau predicting a rise in temperatures tomorrow. Yesterday’s low was 52 degrees.
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Weather Bureau
Radio school in Chicago stirs parent praise and pupil grumbles
Chicago officials launched a radio education experiment for 315000 elementary students amid a halted school reopen. Miss Minnie Fallon says plan runs during the infantile paralysis outbreak with nine 15 minute lessons daily from six stations. Pupils can be tested when schools resume, while some children worry the radio lessons may replace vacations.
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Jillian Richan
Jimmy Fox
Jimmy
Put to Flight After Two Warships Hit by Bombs
Shanghai reports a cholera outbreak impacting the city as war heats up. An American, H. A. Ferguson, 34, of Buffalo, New York, dies. his wife is Russian. Ferguson worked as a proof-reader for English language newspapers and was treated at the Russian isolation hospital in the French concession.
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Shanghai
H. A. Ferguson
Sian
Free Parking Meter Plan Considered by Hagerstown
Hagerstown may become the first northern city to test parking meters labeled as free parking regulators. The Mayor and City Council study systems used in other cities, including Jacksonville Florida, where meters operate on dry coin and return the coin if the car is moved within 15 minutes. If the car sits beyond 15 minutes the coin is kept, and merchants favor shorter free periods to boost trade.
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Hagerstown
W. Lee Elgin
Jacksonville
Fla
South
Jaacksonville
Masaryk Dies at 87, Czech Leader and Father of Republic
Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, founder of the Czechoslovak republic and renowned patriot, died at 87 after a lengthy illness. He had been critically ill since Sept. 2, rallied briefly, then slipped into unconsciousness Sunday night. He was a symbol of liberty and national freedom to Czechs and admired by Americans for his WWI alliance work.
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Praha
Czechoslovakia
Thomas G. Masaryk
Republic
Europe
Cousins Born In Same Room Different Dates
In Spokane on September 9 and 10 a girl and a boy were born in the same room within an hour, to sisters Mrs. James McDaniel and Mrs. Edgar Holcomb, at their grandmother’s home. The McDaniel girl arrived just before midnight September 9, and the Holcomb boy about 45 minutes after midnight September 10.
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Spokane
Wash
James McDaniel
Edgar Holcomb
McDaniel
Holcomb
Japanese Attack On China's Hindenburg Line
Fear gripped Hong Kong as Chinese warplanes and Bocca Tigris forts repelled a Japanese fleet at the Canton river entrance. One Japanese warship was hit on the bridge, another burned above the water, while Chinese bombers struck the attacking destroyers and cruiser. The Kwantung government said the ships withdrew downriver toward the open sea after the engagement.
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Hongkong
Bocca Tigris
Canton River
Kwantung
Canton
Japanese Drive Forward in Flooded Shanghai Delta Assault
Japanese army presses a heavy attack through rains against Chinese lines northwest of Shanghai. Kiangwan fortifications reportedly fell as reinforcements advance. Refugees suffer as 400 civilians killed or wounded by bombs on open boats fleeing the city.
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Shanghai
Kiangwan
Japa
Chinese Central News Agency
Traffic Issues Up On Monday
A special meeting of the Mayor and City Council will be held Monday night September 20 devoted entirely to traffic problems. Items include Jonathan Summit one way traffic bus service in the South End and parking meters. Regular council meeting Thursday night will not discuss these issues to allow attendees to join the Governors banquet and petitions will be received without debate. The plan is to dispose of routine business quickly Thursday and study petitions between then and Monday's session.
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W. Lee Elgin
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