Legion Aims To Keep U S Out Of War
The American Legion chose Los Angeles for its 1938 convention and urged tolerance for new ideas. A huge Fifth Avenue parade in New York drew an estimated two to two and a half million spectators as veterans marched to promote a peace program to keep America out of war. The event featured 200,000 Legionnaires marching along a 53 block route, with police and a late night taxi-like finishing unit.
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New York
American Legion Today
Los Angeles
California
American Legion
Fifth Avenue
Legion
America
Porice
59Th Street
Brockport
N. Y
Six Hurt in Baltimore Building Explosion During Demolition
A basement blast in a three story brick building being razed to create a parking lot injured six people, including Supreme Court bench judge Abner Sayler, who was struck by falling timber while near a fruit vendor. Eight workers were present. only one was injured. Debris shattered into the street as cars and pedestrians waited at a busy intersection.
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Baltimore
Supreme Court
Abner Sayler
Supreme Bench
Antietam Pageant Seeks Cast Costume Returns
Headquarters at 45 East Washington Street requests all cast members who have not yet turned in their costumes to do so immediately. Please bring the costumes to headquarters without delay.
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Antietam
East Washington Street
Weather forecast for Maryland and Chesapeake Bay
Fair and continued cool tonight with a fair and warmer Thursday. Chesapeake Bay also fair and cooler tonight, then warmer Thursday. Winds will be gentle to moderate and variable, mostly easterly becoming southerly Thursday after noon.
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Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Epidemic of Bike Thefts Strikes West End Area
Police report an ongoing bike theft epidemic with about twenty bikes stolen in two weeks. In the latest incidents, a wheel was taken from Herbert Duthrie at 600 West Washington Street and another from Wallace Stottlemeyer at 600 block of Washington Avenue, causing owners major inconvenience though many bikes are recovered.
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West End
Herbert Duthrie
West Washington Street
Wallace Stottlemyer
Washington Avenue
Internal Revenue Office Hours Add Weekday Open Day
The Internal Revenue Bureau announced the office in the Postoffice will be open every weekday except Thursday for Social Security taxpayers and others doing business with the bureau. The announcement also notes the appointment of Mrs Catherine Wolfe as an office deputy who has assumed her duties.
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Rev. H. Mumma
Internal Revenue Bureau
Internal Revenue Office
Catherine Wolfe
George Goodman's arrest links to namesakes in Milwacker
In Milwacker Wisconsin on September 22 18 year old George Goodman was arrested after detectives George Raabe and George Legge identified him. Desk Sergt George Heiderlberg booked him. Deputy DA George A Bowman charged him with theft of 150 pounds of lead. Judge George Ek bound him for trial and jailer George Schneck escorted him to cell. The odd name mixup almost gave George the willies.
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Milwacker
Wis
George Goodman
George Raabe
George Legge
George Heiderlberg
George A. Bowman
George Ek
Page
George Schneck
George
Relief cut may help balance 1938-39 budget
Washington dispatch notes officials expect substantial relief spending cuts next fiscal year to balance the budget. Hearings on the 1938-39 budget have begun under acting budget director Daniel W. Bell. Roosevelt will submit estimates to Congress in January.
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Washington
Daniel W. Bell
Roosevelt
Congress
Marvin H. McIntyre
White House
Ickes
Census Will Start Dec 1 in National Count
Hyde Park N Y Sept 22 John D Biggers administrator of the unemployed census announced after a White House conference that President Roosevelt approved final plans for a voluntary enumeration. He said the count should be completed before December 1 and that spending up to 5 000 000 was authorized. The Post Office department will handle registration card distribution collection and preliminary checks sent to 31 000 000 homes with a message signed by the President. A radio address to explain the job and urge cooperation will be made on a date to be chosen.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
John D. Biggers
White House
Roosevelt
Biggers
Post Office Department
Autumnal Equinox Notes On Weather And Season
The piece notes tomorrow's start of autumn at 6 13 AM and forecasts fair and cool tonight with warmer conditions tomorrow. It mentions autumnal equinox traditions, tastes of hot cakes and sausage, and hints at winds and possible rain but none is imminent.
Germany asks Tokyo to spare Nanking embassy area
Berlin reports that Germany, allied with Japan against Communism, urged Tokyo to refrain from bombing the Reichs embassy in Nanking or any German residential quarters in the Chinese capital.
Mussolini names D Annunzio president of Royal Academy
Premier Mussolini appoints elderly poet-patriot Garbiele D Annunzio to head the Royal Academy succeeding the late inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The announcement comes as Italy honors its cultural leaders.
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Rome
Mussolini
Garbiele D'Annunzio
Royal Academy
Guylielmo Marconi
Study to Examine Smoked Turkey Meat at Beltsville Farm
The Agriculture Department announced a forthcoming study of smoked meats to aid turkey raisers. Experiments will test whole dressed birds and carved meat at the Beltsville experimental farm in Maryland, with results expected to address inquiries received by officials.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Beltsville
Hammer Recovered After 30 Years Hidden in Wall
Councilman Vernon Miller recalls a hammer lost during post office construction 30 years ago. While repairing a county building, he searched the wiring area and rediscovered the handmade tool hidden behind the wall.
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Postoffice
Vernon Miller
Mr. Miller
Clee Cruises to GOP Primary Victory in Newark
State Senator Lester H. Clee, a Presbyterian clergyman from Newark, won the Republican gubernatorial primary by a margin over Clifford R. Powell. With 52 districts in, Clee had 242,529 votes to Powell’s 179,519, while Democrat A. Harry Moore led with 251,983 votes from 774 districts. Clee’s win challenges party unity ahead of the November race as he vows to unite factions against Moore.
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Newark
N. J
Lester H. Clee
Clifford R. Powell
Burlington County
Clee
United States
A. Harry Moore
Powell
Moore
Harold G. Hoffman
Mofnan
Republican Party
Japan regrets wounding of British ambassador to China
London reports Japan expresses deep regret over the wounding of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen by Japanese planes. Tokyo says incident may result from mistaken identity of the ambassador's car for a Chinese military vehicle. Japan will take suitable steps if pilots are found to have acted intentionally or negligently.
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London
Japan
China
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
Reuters
Tokyo
Hughe
Britain
Underpass Plan Nears Approval for Elizabeth Street Crossing
Mayor W. Lee Elgin announced to submit Elizabeth Street underpass plans to the State Roads Commission after weeks of city engineering work with help from Western Maryland Railway. The project aims to restore an uninterrupted route to the southwest section of Hagerstown, where trains often block the crossing for 5 to 10 minutes. Firemen were recently delayed reaching a fire due to a blocked crossing.
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W. Lee Elgin
H. F E. Tabler
State Roads Commission
Elizabeth Street
Western Maryland Railway Company
Hagerstown
Tennessee Prohibition Referendum Forecast As Advisory
Nashville Tennessee September 22 The secretary of state predicted a light vote for tomorrow's referendum on Tennessee prohibition laws with an estimated 160000 to 200000 voters. Leaders of repeal advocates plan to stay away since the result is advisory to the legislature and will not affect the dry status.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
A. B. Broadbent
Cows Prefer Radio to Soprano Solos in Indiana Farm
Portland Indiana Sept 22 Farmer Joe Bryan reports to the Department of Agriculture that his cows remain content when listening to radio music and avoid soprano solos They also claim sheep and horses respond positively Bryan keeps a barn radio near his cattle and plans to install a speaker for his restless sheep Mrs Bryan recalls milking peace when the radio was turned on during a husband’s fair milking duties
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Portland
Ind
Joe Bryan
Department of Agriculture
Bryan
Shepherdstown Delegation To Meet Local group On Bridge Start
A Shepherdstown business delegation will attend a 3 p.m. conference at the local Chamber of Commerce to urge speeding the start of work on the Potomac River bridge. The contract was awarded months ago but rights of way delays by the Maryland Roads Commission have postponed construction.
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Shepherdstown
Potomac River
Chamber of Commerce
Maryland Roads Commission
Boots' Bride to File Suit Headlines divorce bid
Cletus Edward Poffenberger, sole county major leaguer, was shelled by Boston Americans in Boston while his wife Josephine Brown Poffenberger, 20, from Charleston West Virginia, announced from her home she will sue for divorce in Detroit before the season ends. They wed in Detroit on July 12.
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Cletus Edward
Boots) Poffenberger
Boston Americans
Boston
Charleston
W. Va
Boots
Josephine Brown Poffenberger
Detroit
Sit-Down Strike Ends After Picketing Yard Football Fans
In Kansas City a two and a half hour time out ended when Northeast Acres, a neighborhood team, picketed Mrs. George Acord’s home and sat in her yard. An incomplete pass landed there and she intercepted it to run into her house. The strike concluded after players pledged to practice away from the lawn she said had been trampled by late line buck laps.
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Kansas City
Northeast Acres
George Acord
Nesbitt Announces Sheriff Campaign With Ironclad Pact
Walter Nesbitt kicked off his bid for the Democratic nomination for sheriff of St. Clair County pledging to abstain from handshaking and baby kissing and promising that there will be no monkey business in the sheriff's office if he wins.
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East ST. Louis
Walter Nesbitt
St. Clair County
Communist Party to Support Unity with Nanking Government
The government of the Soviet Republic of China dissolved itself and ordered its armies to serve Chiang Kai-Shek. The Chinese Communist Party declared support for unity with the present administration and reorganized its forces as the eighth national army under Chiang’s military commission. The move places Communist troops chiefly in Shensi, Shansi and Suiyan and reaffirms Sun Yat Sen principles for reconstruction.
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Nanking
Republic of China
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Central Executive Committee
Chinese Communist Party
Communist Army
Chiang
Military Affairs Commission
Shensi
Shansi
Suiyan
Sun Yat-Sen
Kuomintang
Major Battle Imminent in North China Front
Japanese forces pressing south from Peiping pushed Chinese troops back to a central Hopeh defense line, with 60 000 troops advancing 70 miles and approaching within two miles of the line while eastern flanks seized Tsangchow area. Observers warned a decisive clash could unfold as Japan targets the 190 mile fortifications.
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Peiping
China
Hopeh Province
Paotingfu
Tsangchow
Japan
Paotingsul
City to review parking meter types at Friday meeting
E. S. Guth, president of the Board of Street Commissioners, has called a special meeting for Friday night. The Mayor and City Council will meet with representatives of parking meter companies to discuss installing meters on principal streets and reviewing several meter types.
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E. S. Guth
Board of Street Commissioners
New Citizens Advised on Declaration to Vote in Fall
City and county residents planning to become citizens and vote in the November 1938 election must declare their intent at least a year before. They have until November 5 to visit the Clerk of Court to declare intent so they may register and vote next fall.
Japanese Air Bombardment Kills and Burns Chinese Refugees
ENVOY RETURNS By C. YATES McDANIEL NANKING Sept 22 Less than 48 hours after protests to Japan against bombardment of the capital more than 50 Japanese airplanes caused death and destruction. More than 200 Chinese refugees were killed or wounded as incendiaries and high explosives rained on Hsiakwan slum huts. Many were trapped or burned in straw shelters and the scene included dismembered bodies and the odor of burning. Twenty Americans faced danger from the raid and Chinese anti air fire while the densely populated city section including embassies and foreign homes endured the attack. Thirty sections of Nanking were hit with three bombs per site.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Hsiakwan
Yangtze
China
300 Killed In Canton Bombing
Hong Kong dispatch reports a series of Japanese air raids on Canton leaving hundreds feared dead. Civilian casualties spread across the southern Chinese city as trains and streets were crowded with fleeing crowds. Fire and explosions followed the raids amid bewildered observers and stressed railway facilities as the onslaught continued.
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Canton
Twe
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