The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-04-17
Beyond the County


heavy steel plates buckled, matches
forced off-caused by water soaked
coffee beans swelling from dampness.
In England, excavating in Veru-
lam, one of the great tribal capitals
of prehistoric England, seachers have
found, among other things, femin-
inc eyebrow and lip-stick set, dating
from the year I A. D., more ornamen-
tai than those of the present day.
At Long Beach, Cal, "a convention
is being held, an annual affair, in
which more than 300 pairs of twins
are participating and in addition there
are several sets of triplets.
In Illinois, Robert A. MacNeille, out
driving with his best girl, started a
kiss in Chicago and extended it on to
Evanston, when arrested by a motor
cycle cop. He was taken before a
magistrate who fined him $500 a
block.
Aided by a two-cylinder motor, a
glider, piloted by Stanley Hoffman,
made a nonstop fight from Cincin-
natl to New York in ten hours and 10
minutes. 1t is supposed to be the
smallest practical plane ever flown.
In Baltimore, Warren S. Seipp, the
Grand Master of Masons of Mary
land, member of the school board, a
vice-president of the Title Guarantee
and Trust Company, a 33d degree
Scottish Rite Mason, died last Friday.
At Elkins, w. Va, officials announc-
ed that at the June Term of the Fed
eral Court, at least 200 criminal cases
would possibly be set for disposition.
In Florida an Atlantic Coast Line
passenger train was seized by sher-
if on an order issued by the State
Comptroller for the non-payment of
taxes.
At Fairmont, w. Va, declaring that
sport is cause of loss of life and
energy, Joseph Roster, President Of
Fairmont State Normal, advocated at
a state convention the discontinuance
of athletics in State high schools.
At Sacramento, Cal, a worlds al
titude record of 10000 feet for combat
formation flying was set Saturday by
10 airplanes, at which time photo
graph was taken Of President Hoov.
er's home on Stanford University
campus, developed in the plane as it
flew to San Francisco, dropped at
Crissy Field and transmitted east the
same day by telephoto.
According to statistics received by
the public roads department of agri-
culture, each Maryland motorist con-
sumed an average of 532 gallons of
gasoline and paid the state gaso-
line tax of $17.92 in 1929.
Following "hunch" received from
listening to "Three O'clock in the
Morning." sung over the radio from
three different stations and from a
dream, the Surveyor Of the Port in
New York caused the capture at three
o'clock Saturday morning of $4,000
sub-chaser and 100000 worth of liq-
uor and arrested seven of the crew.
For the first time, on June oath,
Pope Plus XII will give the papal bless
ing through microphone from St.
Peters Cathedral, Rome. An entire
radio sending set is being installed in
the Vatican.
At Detroit, Madame Metzelhin, a
world traveller, in an address said that
american women are shrewd, nerv-
Gus wrecks, use the can opener too
much and exercise too little, drive
cars, play bridge, go to teas and sue
for alimony-and the American men
let them get away with it."
In New Jersey, Marcus Wheeler,
aged 81, met and won his bride, aged
83, within a week, both saying that
Glove at first sight swept them off
their feet" They will go to Mag
ara Falls for their honeymoon.
At Grawson, KY, a grand jury will
be called upon to investigate the very
unusual question as to whether Mrs.
Susan Vickers, 80, of that state, for
Nhom funeral services were held on
March 20, was buried alive or not, it
being said that Mrs. Vickers was SUBJ
ject to fainting spells and would re-
main in a coma for hours.
Charging that talk on "Sociai-
ISM" planned by a Fairmont, w. Va,
business man was seditious, officials Of
WMMN refused to permit the address
to be broadcast from that station.
Baltimore has an exhibition at the
Leipzig Trade Fair, held in Leipzig,
Germany, which was visited by ap-
proximately 10000 European business
men from March 8 to z, according to
a report just received by the Export
and Import Bureau of Baltimore.
In West Virginia, the Legislature
last week authorized the sale of the
remaining Is million dollar bond is
sue, formerly authorized to be used
in the completion of the good road
system in that state.
Bothell. Wash. is atone man town"