Two Quizzed About Abduction
Marysville California September 6 Police Chief P F W Zunker said two men were detained for questioning in a suspected abduction. The men, driving an unregistered car, had no licenses and claimed they were seeking work in northern California orchards. One wore shoes matching a description from the Meeks case.
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Marysville
Calif
PF. W. Zunker
Merce
William Zunker
California
Meeks
Tydings Denies Influencing Maryland Officials
Hampton Magruder, Maryland internal revenue collector, calls a Senate inquiry claim by Senator Millard E. Tydings “absolutely a falsehood” and says he has not and will not instruct non civil service staff on how to vote. The dispute centers on campaign finance and personnel tenure amid the Senate race.
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Upper Marlboro
Hampton Magruder
Internal Revenue
Maryland
Millard E. Tydings
Sena
Torial
Tydings
David J. Lewis
Senate
Magruder
Large Black Widow Captured in Garland Mason's Shed
A large Black Widow spider was captured today by Garland Mason in the packing shed of Ashby Sprint on North Loudoun Street. The specimen was bigger than most brought to The Star office and showed a notably temperamental nature.
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Garland Mason
Ashby Sprint
North Loudoun Street
Star Office
What makes a mouse waltz
A defect in the labyrinth of the ear disrupts balance, causing the mouse to waltz.
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W.J.K
France in Maginot Zone on War Footing Amid Mobilization
In northeastern France the Entente reports tens of thousands of troops and vast equipment moving toward the Maginot line as 300000 reservists are called to colors. Major centers show few troops above ground while leaves are canceled and forces mass in underground fortifications.
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Maginot Zone
France
Maginot Line
Germany
Metz
Verdun
Nancy
Adolf Hitler
Maginot
Respected Colored Woman Succumbs
Mollie Myers Brown aged and respected colored woman and former slave died Friday night at 9 at her Clarke county home. Funeral Monday at 2 at Free Will Baptist Church Berryville with Rev. E. T feu pastor. Interment Milton Valley Cemetery. Widow of Falton Brown. Survived by son Hayes Brown of New York City and brother Jacob Jackson of Berryville. Daughter of Robert Jackson and Hanie Myers Jackson of Clarke county. She was raised on the Parshall farm and regarded as a leader of her race in Clarke county.
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Mollie Myers Brown
Clarke County
Free Will Baptist Church
Berryville
E. T Feu
Milton Valley Cemetery
Falton Brown
Hayes Brown
New York City
Jacob Jackson
Freak Corn Found By Mr. Anderson
Frank Anderson of Bartonsville Virginia reports freak corn stalks in his 19 acre plot. The ears grow at the top where tassel is usually found and lack tassels with green husk like growth under the husk.
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Frank Anderson
Bartonsville
Confer With PWA Officials Over Water System Grant
Stephens City officials J A Bean G W Lemley R A Wall and Edgar Lineburg with Commonwealth's Attorney Burr P Harrison met PWA authorities in Richmond to discuss securing a grant for financing a proposed town water system. A petition to Frederick Circuit Court may seek a special election on the issue once debt retirement details are finished and approved by council.
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The
Star
Stephens City
J. A. Bean
G. W. Lemley
R. A. Wall
Edgar Lineburg
Burr P. Harrison
Commonwealth
Richmond
PWA
Frederick
Hold Rites For Isadore Bolen
Friends of the late Isadore Bolen 27 of Kernstown gathered at his parents home to pay final respects. The last rites were given by Rev E Summers McGavock of the Opequon Group. Novick Transfer Company employees attended in a body. Interment was in Greenhill Cemetery at Stephens City.
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Isadore Bolen
Kernstown
North Brunswick Township
New Jersey
E. Summers McGavock
Opequon
Presbyterian
Novick Transfer Company
Bolen
Greenhill Cemetery
Stephens City
NLRB Recommends Ford Reinstatement in Richmond Plant
Trial Examiner Kennedy urged Ford Motor Co to reinstate 129 workers at the Richmond California plant. The report says 1,210 of 1,277 production employees chose the United Automobile Workers as their bargaining agent and recommended negotiations with the union.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Ford Motor Company
Richmond
Calif
Thomas H. Kennedy
United Automobile Workers
Labor Secretary Sees AFL and CIO Reunite
Boston September 6 1936 Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins said in a talk with newspapers she believed the AFL and CIO would eventually reunite. She spoke during a period of union consolidation discussions.
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Boston
Frances. Perkins
A. F. of L
Flying boat launches transatlantic exploratory flight
France's 41 ton flying boat commanded by Lieutenant De Vasseau Paris took off from the International airport at Port Washington New York at 8:21 a m EST on an exploratory transatlantic flight to Horta in the Azores.
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Port Washington
N. Y
France
Lieutenant de Vasseau Paris
Horta
Azores
Mexican Pet Attacks Woman In Los Angeles Home
Mrs James E Davis wife of the city police chief was savagely bitten in her bedroom by a pet Mexican kinkajou. The animal escaped from a cage and crawled over her as she woke. radio policemen shot the enraged pet.
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Los Angeles
James E. Davis
Benson endorses Roosevelt purg e
Hyde Park New York September 6 Governor Elmer Benson Minnesota said he told President Roosevelt he approved the effort to elect liberals to Congress. He met with Roosevelt at the summer White House and urged more support for liberalism, saying the whole northwest is in agreement with him.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Elmer Benson
Minnesota
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Northwest
Mrs Thorp Receives Kelvinator Prize Notification
Mrs Helen T Thorp of Virginia was notified today that she has won a cash prize in a national Kelvinator prize program sponsored by the Nash Ke Corporation of Detroit. Miller and Anderson, Kelvinator dealers, presented the award. The total prizes were 15000 with top prize 2000 and second prize 1000. Contestants described five features of Kelvinator engineering.
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Helen T. Thorp
Kelvinator Economics Institute
Nash Ke! Corporation
Detroit
Miller and Anderson
Kelvinator Appliances
el" Vinator Engineering
Committee May Call Labor Head
Washington Sept 6 Chairman Dies said he intends to urge the House committee on un American activities to summon Secretary Perkins to testify about the deportation of Harry Bridges west coast CIO leader Dies said Perkins should defend the law and enforce it in this case Bridges is an alien and the matter involves deportation policy and enforcement by the government
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Washington
Dies
D-Tex
Tay
House Committee
Seretary Perkins
Harry Bridges
Parishioners Picket to Keep Pastor at St. Cathol ic Church
In Vulcan Michigan on September 6, patient parishioners continued their three week old picket to block Pastor Rev. Simon Borskowski from leaving St. Catholic Church. The silent protest aimed to force a transfer order reversal and keep him in place.
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Vulcan, Mich
Simon Borskowski
St. Catholic Church
Cardinal Laurenti Dies After Heart Attack In Rome
Rome reports Cardinal Laurenti prefect of the sacred congregation of rites died from a heart attack. He is the second cardinal to die within days and the fifth this year in the College of Cardinals, which includes 35 Italians and 29 other nationalities.
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Rome
Cardinal Laurenti
Sacred Congregation of Rites
Patrick Cardinal Hayes
New York
College of Cardinals
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