Frederick county farmer Robert W. Hockman dies at 55
Robert W. Hockman a prominent Frederick county farmer and fruit grower died yesterday afternoon at his Bartonville home from a heart attack after a six week pneumonia battle. He was born July 12, 1882 in Shenandoah county and survived by his wife Maude Grove a son Robert Edward a brother L L Hockman and three sisters Florence Seabr aith Maynard Hook and Annie Leedy. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 pm from the Bartonville home with Rev Charles Funk officiating and pallbearers listed. His body was moved to Omps Funeral Home for burial preparations.
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Robert W. Hockman
Frederick County
Bartonville
Mr. Hockman
Shenandoah County
William
Joanna Copp Hockman
Maude Virginia Grove
Robert Edward
L. L. Hockman
Winchester
Florence Seabright
Maynard Hook
Womeldorf
Annie Leedy
Clifton Station
Hockman
Cork Street Church of Christ
Charles Funk
Dwan L. Dudley
B. Sapp
L. D. Pifer
Harry Steele
J. W. Fishpan
C. S. Brumback
Leo Wisecarver
James Ford
Omps
License cases heard by court today
Judge Donald Weems heard three cases charging violation of the city license ordinance. Charles Cleveland and Virginia Stage Lines had charges dismissed for failure to secure licenses. The People’s Bargain Store was fined and taxed costs totaling $14 for license noncompliance.
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Donald Weems
Charles Cleveland
Virginia Stage Lines
People's Bargain Store
Bankers To Hear Bristow Tonight
Members of the Clearing House Association of Frederick Clarke Warren Page and Shenandoah counties hear M. E. Bristow of Richmond Commissioner of Insurance and Banking at their monthly dinner session at Shenandoah Caverns. P. M. 8 Bird of Mount Jackson will host. Bristow will discuss legislation adopted by the last General Assembly.
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Clearing House Association
Frederick, Clarke
Warren
Page
Shenandoah Counties
M. E. Bristow
Richmond
Insurance
Shenandoah Caverns
Bird
Mount Jackson
Shenandoah County
Mr. Bristow
Woman Expecting Child Sentenced in Wheat Theft Case
In Rockville Maryland Judge Harold C Smith sentenced Elizabeth Knight mother of nine to six months in the House of Correction after she pleaded guilty to theft of 20 bushels of wheat from Leland Hendry's Redland area farm. Her husband Edward Knight also pleaded guilty and received a three year term. brother Herbert Knight admitted taking 90 bushels and got three years.
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Rockville
Harold C. Smith
Elizabeth Knight
House of Correction
Pastor Whitten's Car Damaged In Minor Crash
An automobile driven by the Rev. R. A. Whitten sustained slight damage Saturday afternoon at 1 30 when another car cut into its path with little warning. The mishap occurred on East Clifford near Market and Lou Avenue according to the Police Headquarters report.
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R. A. Whitten
East Clifford Graneag
Market
Lououn
Riot at University of Mexico Leaves Dozens Wounded
In Mexico City on May 16 students and Socialist Youth clashed as protesters seized University of Mexico buildings and faced pistol fire from rooftops. Rector Chico Jorge urged calm noting hunger may force invaders to yield amid post expropriation unrest linked to oil company seizures.
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Cabana Ehca
University of Mexico
University Bay
Mexico City
Socialist Youth
Socialist Youth Force
Chico George
Saturnino Cedillo
Cardenas
Frederick Junior Farmers Meet Tomorrow at Handley High
Members of the Frederick County Junior Farmers Club will meet tomorrow at eight o'clock at Handley High School. About 70 people are expected with Shenandoah County Junior Farmers Club guests. Dr. R W Gregory of the U S Department of Education will speak.
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Frederick County Junior Farmers Club
Handley ‘High School
Shenandoah County Junior Farmers Club
R. W. Gregory
U. S. Department of Education
Court convenes for May term. Nail case set for June 3
Corporation Court convened today under Judge Philip Williams. Routine matters were handled and several cases set, including Theodore Nail whose case will be heard June 3 after an appeal from the Police Court where he was fined 100 dollars and 30 days in jail for driving while intoxicated.
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Corporation Court
Philip Williams
Theodore Nail
Nail
Langdon Goes on Trial for Murder in Beulah Limerick Case
Robert F. Langdon, 44, former police officer, faces a murder trial in Washington for the eight year old shooting of Beulah Limerick, 19, secretary of the Sky High Whoopee Club. An undertaker later found a concealed bullet hole under the victim’s bobbed hair.
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Washington
Robert F. Langdon
Beulah Lime-rick
Sky High Whoopee Club
Wage-Hour Bill Urged By Clothing Workers Leader
Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers CIO with 210000 members, stressed the need for a wage-hour bill in Atlantic City. He said he was absolutely opposed to Mayor La Guardia's view that an hour bill alone would peg prices.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Cio Union
Hillman
Fiorello H. la Guardia
New York
Program of Home Agent This Week
The home agent Miss Made line Blair outlines a weekly schedule May 16-21 with club meetings at Star Tannery Kernstown Miller Brucetown and White Hall 4-H groups and Home Demonstration sessions. A Patton's Dance Hall event and bingo parties are listed with invitations to the public.
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Madeline Blair
Star Tannery 4-H
Kernstown
Curly
Patton’s
Stephens City
Stephens City Home
Armel
Bertha Armel
Joe Clevenger
Brucetown
Martin Adams
White Hall
Bryarly
County Home Demonstration Group
Cameron Street
1500 Birds Let Loose In Sunday Pigeon Release
Approximately 1,500 homing pigeons owned by the Wyoming Racing Pigeon Club of Wilkes Barre Pa were freed in the Mania Railroad yards by J W Morrow and Abner I Johnson of the Famarh Express. The birds arrived Saturday in 52 crates on a Pennsylvania train, released at 8 30 a m and returned to their Wilkes Barre lofts within about two hours after flying roughly 180 miles.
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Wyoming Racing Pigeon Club
Wilkesbarre
J. W. Morrow
Abner I. Johnson
Famarh Express Agency
Mania
Pennsylvania
Noted British Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly Dies at 80
London May 16 Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly aged 80 died today. He commanded coordinated American and British naval forces at Cobh Ireland against German submarines in World War I. Bayly served as commander in chief of western approaches and welcomed the first US naval contingent to reach European waters in 1917. He earlier led cruiser squadrons.
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London
Lewis Bayly
Cobh
Ireland
Western Approaches
Local Markets: Corrected Daily Market Brief
Daily market snapshot notes corrections and clarifications for local markets. The Star states responsibility disclaimers for typographical errors while outlining updated prices and listings for traders and residents.
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Star
Indians Take Part In Search For Missing Child
Four expert Indian bear trackers joined a $50,000 search for four year old Marjory West who vanished nine days earlier while picking violets in forests near Bradford Pennsylvania. The trackers from the Cornplanter reservation near Warren were sent by Chief Johnson who said he believed the child was carried off to a bear den.
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Bradford
Marjory West
Warren
Johnson
Another Tax Bill Considered for 1939 Session
Washington May 16 Members of the House Ways and Means Committee said they expect further changes to revenue laws at the 1939 session even though President Roosevelt has not signed the current tax revision bill Rep Cooper of Tennessee stated it seems generally agreed Congress will have to undertake additional measures next year to adjust the tax laws
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rep. Cooper
D-Tenn
Congress
Women’s Clubs Back Boycott Policy Across Nations
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs with 2,000,000 members voted secretly on its officers and publicly supported an economic boycott by the United States of any nation invading another in violation of treaties.
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Wrangas City
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
United States
Stormtroopers clash with Jews in Vienna district
Seven Jews were injured in a clash with Nazi storm troopers in Wohlmuthgasse Vienna's second district. The confrontation followed a refused entry by businesses seeking to enter stores during an investigation.
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Vienna
Nazi Storm
Wohlmuthgasse
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