Jury in Baltimore Presents Hurwitz in Auto Fatality
Baltimore December 22 grand jury presents Louis Hurwitz 23 of 2216 Callow Avenue for manslaughter in a December 6 car death on Central Avenue near Lombard Street. Witnesses include police officers and a colored witness who washed blood from Hurwitzs car. Hurwitz claims the car was stolen near 1015 East Pratt Street. Maximum penalty is 10 years.
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Baltimore
Louis Hurwitz
Callow Avenue
Hurwitz
Iry Silverman
Central Avenue
Lombard Street
Herbert R OzConnor
Todas
Charles Bardroff
Edward E Doherty
Henry F. Lineman
James Blake
Blake
Hurwits
Silverman
Baerdroft
Hannah Snyder
East
Pratt Street
Foul play feared in Kemp Avenue missing men case
Relatives of two men reported missing on Kemp Avenue Hamilton believe foul play or woods disappearance occurred. Police in the Eastern district were notified and started a search as relatives say they fear the worst. Two hurt three autos damaged in Reis Terstown road collision near Violet Avenue.
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William Milnes Maloy
Public Service Commission
Chesapeake and Potomas Telephone Company
Cherence W Miles
Salisbury
Wicomico County
Maloy
Ritchie
Peoples Counsel
United Railways
Gas and Electric Company
People
Wall
Kemp Avenue
Hamilton
Eastern District
Blocks Fight Against Logan Guard System
Charleston W Va Dec 22 The State supreme court granted a writ of prohibition to Don Chafin sheriff Logan county and others preventing an injunction from taking effect The court held the Kanawha circuit court had no jurisdiction The injunction to restrain county officials from appointing deputy sheriffs as watchmen for private parties and to stop coal companies from paying deputies for services was halted
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Charleston
W. Va
State Supreme Court
Don Chafin
Logan County
Kanawha
Logan
Supreme Court
Pool Loses Bid to Delay Prison Term in Bank Case
Thomas G. Pool, convicted of misappropriating funds from the State Bank of Virgilina, receives a 15 year penitentiary sentence. Governor Trinkle refused to suspend the term despite requests from Pool’s counsel and Virgilina citizens. Bank audit shows a shortage exceeding $200,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Post
Danville
Thomas G. Pool
Clarendon Mail Breaks Christmas Delivery Records
Early delivery from the Clarendon post office set records with 68 bags unloaded by the Washington Virginia railway and a total of 103 bags for the day. Sunday shipments included 42 bags of packages as citizens urged to mail early.
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Arlington County
THE
POST
Clarendon
Vo Tel
Washington-Virginia Railway
President Confers on Rent Situation in D C
President discusses Washington rent crisis with officials noting high metropolitan prices. He cites inflated real estate values and third and fourth trusts driving rents beyond federal workers’ means. Rent commission faces court hurdles. Justice Dept. and Winley gather housing data while evictions rise across 119 apartment houses.
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Washington
Whaley
He Rent Commission
Winley
Department of Justice
Coolidge
Rent Commission
Deaths and marriages in Gaithersburg and Rockville events
Samuel R. Plummer, 79, retired farmer, died at his Gaithersburg home. Survived by children including Mrs. Rhodes of Alabama and Walter Plummer of Gaithersburg. Funeral held from Goshen Methodist church with Rev. Mayo. burial in Goshen cemetery. Wellford T. Leake and Mrs. Leake wed in Rockville, second marriage after a prior divorce. Oscar Chase, 34, found dead at a Germantown farm. In Hyattsville, Snowden Aford of Washington named architect for $125,000 Hyattville High School building planned for spring. budget listed as $100,000 construction and $265,009 equipment. New Berwyn school expected spring, with four-room addition to existing structure. In Upper Marlboro, Miss Nell B. Lasseer resigns from Croom station school effective January 1.
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Rockville
Samuel R. Plummer
Gaithersburg
Dr. Rhodes
Alabemy
Ella R. Plummer
Carrott Walker
Walter W. Plummer
George P. Plummer
Leytonsville
George R. Mayo
Goshen
Wellford T. Leake
Mareverite E. Leake
Birmingham
Ala
Nolan B. Harman, Jr
Methodist Church
Washington
Oscar Chase
Germantown
Sherif Plummer
Hyattsville
Pper Marlboro
Nell B. Lasseer
Croom Station
Three Women Hurt In Crash Negro Held
Cambridge Maryland December 22 two of Miss Frances Henrys ride were broken Agnes Hubbard fractured wrist Mrs Edward Hubbard badly bruised when their auto was hurled from the road and overturned by a car driven by Albert Hendy colored Hendy sped away other autoists noted the car and he was arrested and jailed in Cambridge Meanwhile Lester H Hereoff 29 a brakeman for Baltimore and Ohio killed in Keyser railroad yards between couplers He married Miss Ethel Clark of Baltimore and his body was taken there
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Cambridge, Md
Frances Henry
Misa Agnes Hubbard
Edward Lb. Hubbard
Albert Hendy
Neck
Hendy
Cambridge
Cumberland
Des
Lester H Hereoff
Baltimore and Ohio
Keyser
Ethel Clark
Baltimore
Alexandria Dinner Banquet Hosts Southern Delegates
Representatives Tom Connally of Texas and Thomas Webb Wilson of Mississippi will speak at the R. E. Lee camp United Confederate Veterans banquet in Lee Camp hall on January 19 honoring Gen. Robert E. Lee. Adjutant Warford announced. The Kiwanis will host 100 underprivileged children for a Christmas overview. schools close early for holidays.
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Washington Port
N. Patrick Ht
Alexandria
Tom Connally
Texas
Thomas Webber Wilson
Mississippi
R. E. Lee
United Confederate Veterans
Lee Camp Hall
Robert E. Lee
R. Walton Moora
Edgar ,Warford, Jr
Mary Custis Lee
Virginia Regiment
Daughters of the Confederacy
Sons of Veterans and
Friends of the Veterans
Alesandria Kiwanis Club
Chamber of Commerce
George BR. Warfield
Kenneth W. Ogden
Woman Killed in Auto Train Crash Near Boydton Crossing
Mrs Bether Glover Montgomery aged 33 from Thompson Pennsylvania died when the car she drove was struck by a Southern Railway train at a crossing near Boydton Virginia. Floyd Williams of Binghamton North Carolina, a medicine salesman, was injured. The couple had been touring during the summer and were en route to Binghamton for Christmas.
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Washington Post
Dapville
Bether Glover Montgomery
Thompson
Floyd Williama
Binghampton
N. C
Montgomery
Boydton
Southern Railway
Mving & Daytons
Fla
Williams
Railroad Wins Fight Over Issuing Stock
Maryland Court of Appeals rules Northern Central railway a common carrier under the 1926 Transportation Act and not needing a Maryland Public Service Commission permit to issue capital stock for property improvements. Judge T Scott Offutt prepares the opinion, affirming Baltimore city circuit court findings. The Public Service Commission argued federal law did not preempt Maryland jurisdiction.
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Washington
Annapolis
Maryland Court of Appeals
Northern Central Railway
Maryland
Maryland Public Service Commission
T. Scott Offutt
Circuit Court
Baltimore City
Public Service Commission
the Service Commission
Girl 6 Is Killed by Brother in Walkertown Firearm Accident
Hazel Irene Stoltz six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs C H Stoltz of Walkertown near Winston-Salem was instantly killed today when a shotgun blast from her four year old brother struck her in the head. The children were alone in the room.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
Hazel Irene Stoltz
C. H. Stoltz
Walkertown
Green as Labor Head Pleases Prohibitionists in AFL Victory
Officials of the Antisaloon League and the World League Against Alcoholism at national headquarters in Westerville Ohio today hailed William Green chosen as president of the American Federation of Labor as a victory for national and world prohibition and law enforcement. Green is described as an active dry.
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Westerville
Ohio
Antisaloon League of America
World League Against Alcoholism
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Witnesses Delayed In Conduit Road Crash Inquest
The inquest into John H. Clark’s death from a crash on Conduit road and Dana place was postponed until William J. Kimball of Aurora Hills Va can testify. Kimball is in Georgetown hospital with serious injuries including spine damage. Clark died en route after the automobile they rode in struck a parked machine in front of 4531 Cangl Street NW. Coroner J Ramsay Nevitt praised Seventh precinct police handling of the case.
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Conduit Road
Dana Place
John H. Clark
William J. Kimball
Aurora Hills
Kimball
Georgetown Hospital
Clark
Shelby Michen
Cangl Street
J. Ramsay Nevitt
Seventh Precinct
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Harry Silverman
W. M. Maloy May
People's Counsel
Holly
Drew Murphy
John W. Baxter
Essex
Murphy
William Johnson
Baxter
South Decker Avenue
Rosen
Reisterstown Road
Violet Avenue
Robert Bentley
Randallstown
Anna McGonigle
Groveland Avenue
N. Levy
Fair Fayette Street
Miss McGonigie
James Roman
Cathedral Street
Union Memorial Hospital
Bantley
Prohibition
William Shrage
Caton Avenua
Shrage
United States
Supplee
Trinity A. M. E
Linden Avenue
Biddle Street
G. Pool
Sheridan Circle
L. P. Kino
Perry
Picketts Hill
Arlington
Board of Supervisors
William J. Ingram
Arlington District
Pickett
Ingram
Commonwealth
Arlington Mathodist Church
Presbyterian
Presbytrian
Methodist Sunday School
C. Eugene Doyle
Arlington County Booster Club
Nettie Branson
Benjamin Mortimer
Ross McCain
Ralph Ball
Ethel E. Smith
A. R. Mills
B. C Hise
W P. Kilgore
Mary Pierr
James Mason
New York
Mason
John Burke
John Wise
Alexandria and
Washington Pike
R. S. Jenkins
James Cockrell
Clarendon-Georgetown
Coats
Balleton
Howard A. Smoot
Cockrell
Smoot
Clarendon Citizens Association
A. B. Eaton
Fire Department
Fletcher Kemp
Clarendon School
Fort Myer Heights
Potomac Rubber Co., Inc. Bond Bldg
14Th St
N. Y. Ave
Kidd
Philadelphia
Chester
Wilmington
Tiem
Baltimore & Ohio
R. R
Connally
Wilson
Kiwanis Club
Episcopal Theological Seminary
Episcopal High School
St. Mary's Academy
Sisters of the Holy Cross
St. Mary's Parochial School
Xaverian Brothers School
St. Agnes' Episcopal School
Director of Public Safety
Paul Morton
J. W. Walker
Dumfries
Seareh Walker
Walker
Mr. Morton
Capt. Currer
Thomas L Carter
T. Brooke Carter
Julius T. Siamia
Columbus Street
Max Sperling
George T. Nalls
Gibbon, Franklin, Fairfax and
Royal Streets
N. Dodson
South AL
Fred Street
Nellie Grisby
James Wallace
Ernest Clarke
Eugene
Parker
Edward Clarke
Ernest
Howard Davis
Otonoco Street
Raymond Grover
Alexanigus
Haliday
Maurice J. Colbert
Heatin
Green
Labor
Cry League
Eiseman’s, 7Th & F
Diamonds
Sewelry Rosslyn Loanco
RTS
Ont
EAE Tytten
Ranslyn, Cris Fo
Dons
Hickok
Lasher Bigl
Ninth
E Sts
N.W. Bank
WE/T Co
Lee Essy
Pr Perry
Prea Bemaninge Seed
Treae
15Th St
Brewood
Potteries
Wallis
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