Riot Quelled at Eastern Penitentiary
Philadelphia reports a prison riot at Eastern Penitentiary, sparked by revolt against punishment. About 1,500 inmates fought fire and chaos for over three hours as guards and state police restored order. Warden Herbert J. Smith was wounded twice, beaten with a bed piece, and remained directing efforts amid flames and destruction.
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Philadelphia
Punis Nent
Eastern Penitentiary
Herbert J
ce-Nith
Smith
Nickles Bane Wages Hit By Local Canner
Oxford report says five cent pieces flood the area as a cannery pays workers with nickels and a penny per bushel of skinned tomatoes to ease bookkeeping.
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Nickles Bane
Oxford
Nickles
Hagerstown Lions Club Hosts Global Trip Report
The Hagerstown Lions Club met at noon Tuesday in the Hamilton Hotel with TF A Welty presiding. W P Wachter described visits to Lions clubs from Chicago to Los Angeles and noted Central Lions Club as the oldest, founder’s home club. The group accepted an invitation to Pangborn Corporation’s plant on October 10 after the luncheon.
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Hagerstown Lions
Hamilton Hotel
TF. A. Welty
Lion
W. P. Wachter
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Pasadena
Los Angeles
Calif
Houston
Night Boats Passengers Imperiled Near Roosevelt Estate
Witness Ralph E Lyons of Highlands described fog bound waters near Poughkeepsie where the Odell and Rensselaer collided just north of the railroad bridge. He reported fog signals, racing lights, a frantic clash of whistles and a sound of wood and steel tearing as passengers faced peril.
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Ralph E. Lyons
Highlands
Poughkeepsie
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Lyons
Odell
Rensselaer
Renssellaer
Deaths of Frank Smith and John A Wolfe in Maryland area
Frank Smith of Funkstown dies at home after three tenths of illness, aged 83. Survived by wife Nettie, son Clyde W., three grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral Saturday at 2:30 p.m. burial in Funks town cemetery. John A Wolfe of Williamsport dies at Washington County Hospital aged 78. Survived by three sisters Lutie Wolf Williamsport Cora Buchanan Halfway and Eugenia Crowe and brother J Wolfe. Funeral announced later.
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Frank Smith
Funkstown
Nettie Smith
Clyde W
Kerstetter
The
Reformed Church
W. J. Remsberg
John A. Wolfe
Williamsport
Washington County Hospital
Misa Lutie
Wolf
Willamport
Cora. Buchanan
Halfway
Eugenia Crowe
J. J. Wollfe
Springfield man plans to stop after tenth marriage
Clyde Kinsey of Springfield, Missouri, says life has been one wife after another and he is getting tired of the marrying racket. He vows to settle down after his tenth marriage.
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Clyde Kinsey
Springeld, Mo
Maryland Highway Plan Rejected By Federal Board
The Maryland State Roads Commission plan for a 2.865 million highway and bridge program was halted by the Federal Emergency Public Works Administration advisory board. They proposed a new Baltimore to Aberdeen route, parallel to the Philadelphia road, while noting overestimations and funding gaps in the commission’s plan.
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Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Maryland
Federal Emergency Public Works Administration
Philadelphia
Hayre de Grace
Aberdeen
Large Attendance At Rice Funeral
Members of the Maryland Funeral Directors Association from across the state attended the funeral of pioneer undertaker Thomas Perry Rice of Frederick. Services were at his East Fourth Street home with active pallbearers Andrew E. Coffman and William F. East among attendees. Clarence Sunian of Keedysville also paid respects.
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Maryland
Negro once condemned to death to be freed in Maryland
Governor Ritchie includes Charles Dixon in a list of 18 paroles from the Maryland Penitentiary. Dixon, condemned for first degree murder, had his sentence commuted to life over 18 years ago by Governor Phillips. He is described as industrious and will receive a job offer upon release despite killing his common-law wife and another woman who kept a house of ill fame.
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Annapolis
Phillips
Lee Goldsborough
Maryland
Albert C. Ritchie
Charles Dixon
Criminal Court of
Baltimore
Dixon
Gas masks needed for parade in Chicago by Oklahoma Legion
The Hardin county American Legion posts plan a parade float for the Chicago October 3 event. They will feature onions as the county’s notable product and shower tears on spectators using home grown tear bombs. A Howard Street School PTA meeting is set for September 28 at 7:30 with new president Mrs. Harvey Kline and a shrubbery improving grounds project.
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Ada
Okla
Hardin County American Legion
Legion
Chicago
Legionnaires
Sam Mes
Howard Street
Harvey Kline
Emily Winebrenner
N. R.A
Autofound near scene as robbers flee police pursue
A gunfight at a gas station left victim Sollenberger dead after firing three shots from his revolver. Police describe two youths seen fleeing in a similar abandoned car, with Pennsylvania authorities assisting and fingerprints sought to identify them.
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Sollenberger
Eckatine
Rhodes
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Virginia Avenue
Oid
Eckstine
Fred
Howard Street
Summit
Virginia Avenues
Desmond
Po‘ce
Martin Ingram
Pensylvania
Fairmont
Potomac Avenue
Fred Rickard
Fairmont Garage
Patroluan Rickard
Tammany Faces New Difficulties In New York
New York and Washington dispatches report Tammany Hall amid payroll crisis as city needs a 25 million loan to pay workers and Samuel Seabury returns from Europe to campaign against the regular Democratic machine. Separately a stock exchange dispute led to vetoes on tax bills and Newark faces a stalled market building project after eviction of a garage tenant.
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New York
Seabury
James J. Walker
Europe
Giorello A
Pickets Keep Miners Away From Work In Pittsburgh District
Pittsburgh area miners face mass picketing as a coal code deadline nears. Pickets at Coverdale and Library deterred hundreds from entering No 8 mine and Montour No 10 mine. District leaders urge returns by October 2 amid sympathy calls from Somerset county plans for a 5000 miner walkout.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburg Terminal Coal Corporation
Coverdale
Montour
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Library
Patrick T. Fagan
United Mine Workers of America
Woman Injured In Auto Crash In Prospect Forrest Drive Collision
Marie Sorensen of Westfield sustained head injuries when her car collided with John A. Kerns on Prospect Avenue and Forrest Drive. Christina Schmidtke escaped injury. Kerns cited for failure to yield right of way. Patrol arrests for DUI and reckless driving included Harry A. Airy and Thomas Boyd. Car crash also involved a guard-rail crash at Willow Lane and Frederick Street. Grizzly bear estimates show 5164 in national forests in 1932.
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Marie Sorensen
Westfield
M. J
John A. Kerns
Fairground Avenue
Prospect Avenue
Forrest Drive
Christina Schmidtke
New Jersey
Kerns
Roy Davis
Berns
Harry A. Airy
Martinsburg
Davis
Thomas Boyd
South Potomac Street
Boyd
Willow Lane
Frederick Street
Freed by NRA Prisoners Parade in West Virginia
Sixty members of the State penitentiary band in Moundsville, West Virginia, are set for a rare night out this Saturday to march in a city NRA parade. The inmates sing of wings and freedom as they prepare for the first such excursion in the prison’s history.
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Moundsville
W. Va
West Virginia
State Penitentiary
Moundsvile Nra
Miller Form Fitting Truss Made in Ha gcerstown Maryland
Announcement that the Miller Form Fitting Truss is produced entirely by Miller Truss Co in their own Ha gcerstown laboratories from raw materials, some imported from the Dutch East Indies. Office hours listed as 8 to BT Ady on the Civnie 4th floor Grand Bidg.
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Hagcerstown
Miller Truss Co
Dutch East Indies
Civnie
BT Ady
Convicts’ Prison Break Ends in Car Escape and Kidnapping
Police intensified search for a fleeing group after an armed breakout at the prison shirt factory. Jail guards were assaulted while guards and civilians were forced to aid the convicts who fled in a car with Sheriff Hill abducted. The break follows earlier Chicago gang ties and a separate bank robbery sentence. Navy Academy to open with 1,680 midshipmen registered next week.
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Guy Burklow
Fred Wellnitz
Wellnitz
Burklow
Finley P. Carson
Bulleta
Sherif Charles Hill
Corydon
Ind
Hill
Highth
Gary
Chicago
West Wall
Danny McGeogehan
Jack Gray
Eddie Murphy
Annapolis
United States Naval Academy
Mill Manager and Son Targeted in Kidnap Threat
Elkton Maryland September 27 A crude ransom letter demanding 10000 dollars and threatening death or kidnapping targets John Lawrence manager of Elk Mills textile mill and his son Walter no police protection was requested nor provided Lawrence forwarded the letter to Washington postal authorities and identified a suspect who had vanished from a Newark Delaware plant a year earlier an auto theft linked to that worker resurfaced in North Carolina
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Elkton
John Lawrence
Elk Mills
Walter
Washington
H. W. Bouchelle
Lawrence
Enfield
N.C
Newark
Del
North Caroling
Spurs His Auto Into Action Spur Yet Horseman Keeps Spurs
Liberal Kansas September 27 Henry Hitch once rode the range on horseback now drives a motor car but still wears his spurs. He explains every time he climbs into the contraption without his spurs the old habit makes him run.
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Henry Hitch
Chicago grain market prices and quotations
Quotations from The Sticker Sales Corporation show wheat, corn, rye and data for December and May contracts. Prices display open high low and late day figures with percentages and implied values for each commodity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sticker Sales Corporation
Washington St
Hageratown, Md
Peace Day Proclaimed In Washington County Glow
October 15 will be Peace Sunday across Washington County youth groups. The Hagerstown Peace Club plans peace programs for 60 local societies including Christian Endeavor and Epworth League. A mass meeting around early November may feature Paul Harris Jr. as speaker.
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Young People’s Societies
Washington County
Hagerstown Peace Club
Christian Endeavor
Luther Teague
Epworth League
Baptist Young People
C. E. Union
Peace Club
Paul Harris
National Council For Prevention of War
Maryland
Hagerstown
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William van Woert
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Ennee
Lykens Valy
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H.L. Mills
State Public Works Advisory Board
Rice
AUTO
Tammany Now
Somerset
Somerset County
Somerset Area
Clifford BH. Saylor
Scout Patrol
Prospect Ave
Forrest
Carl Bogér
E. Irvin
Frank Bentz, Jr
Albert Larm, Jr
Kenneth Willett
Carl Boger, Jr
Billy Resch
Max Fairchild
Camp Faker
Fred Entler
Alaska
K. T. Hager Cor
Greencastle Pike
Zel'smith
Penn Aces
NRA
Hervert’ van Valkenberg
Oswego
Til
van Valkenberg
Minnie Schultz
Neel
James Whitman
Albert Evans
Evans
D. A. Stevens
Stevens
Stalin No
Mktor
Isaac M. Baer
Breth Bros. & Boyce, McComas-Armatrong
Atchison
B&o
Beth Steel
Cape Eescsee Chrysler Ss Peeee
Consol
Crown Ck. & Sl
DuPont Wesaree
Motora
Goodyear
Nat'd. Dist
Central
North Amer
Ss. Lay
N. J
U. 5
Steel
United Aircraft
Union Pacific
Westhouse Elec
Western Union
Western Union aSyrd
Chicago Grain Market
Young People’s Societies of County
Austin
Olxie Ramblers
Firemen’s Dance
Smitheburg Community Hall
Bartley
Nut
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Lyken’s Val
J. W. Rohrer
W. Baltimore
Tom Cross
Fleigh Motor & Tire Co
Mgr
Caledonia Park
Dan Gregory
Jimmy de Angelis
Farwell
Seaboard Superior
Tait
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Hagerstown, MD
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