The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-07-03
BEYOND THE COUNTY

| WllllamS on MONDAY new 1rOH NEW
York to Bermuda and return, with
out stopping, from dawn to dusk, the
time being II hours and 2 minutes,
distance, 1000 miles.
At New York, on the 30th, Babe
Ruth hit his Both home run of the
season, his 18th during the month of
+ June.
At Vatican City, June 80, at sec
ret consistory, Pope Pious XII created
new cardinals, the consistory mark
ing the close of the fiftieth year of
his ordination.
! In Paris, under a new law, pedes-
trains must pay for the privilege OF
being hit by an automobile, a defen-
dant recently being arrested and fined
for "permitting himself to be knocked
down."
! In Baltimore, Maryland Commu-
nists, in convention, placed in nomina-
ton for Governor, Samuel Parker, &C.
year old unemployed negro longshore-
Nman.
At Chicago, DIR. Loufer, curator Of
anthropolgy Field Museum, announces
that the Chinese, several hundred
years before the Christian era, used
fingerprints to authenticate docu-
ments.
In English, Ind, to Mrs. Dana Ri
ley, "a, mother of 9, the second twin
babies were born, the first arriving
July, 1929.
At Grafton, a laborer catching
bricks being unloaded from a car,
missed catch, was struck in the abb
domen and died days later from
general peritonitis.
At New Berne, N. c., is has been
announced that bacteria have been
harnessed by science and are replac-
ing many machines in the manufac-
ture of fertilizer.
In Baltimore, last Sunday, young
couple, deaf mutes, were married, the
ceremony being performed entirely in
the sign language.
In Chicago, man, while on MS
honeymoon, was struck by a falling
tree, the optic nerve paralyzed, has
been blind for 80 years. A few days
ago something Clicked" and his eye
sight returned.
In California, 10 million ladybugs
have been liberated to help control
and destroy the aphus, plant para
site, it being estimated that the 10
million ladybugs will consume 25O
million aphus in one day.
In Baltimore, by special permission
granted by Archbishop Curley, Catho-
lies of the Archdiocese will be permit
ted to eat meat on Friday, the Fourth,
for the reason that it being day OF
picnics, considerable hardship might
+. be otherwise occasioned.
/ In New Jersey, the Lamp, Standard
Oil publication, says that gasoline
taxes in that state will cost the aver
age motorist 500 this year, as against
/ $18 last year.
At Fort McHenry, the radio de-
partment of the Department OF Com
merce put into action last week
! powerful radio receiver and measur-
/ ing device to aid running down boot
leggers and bookmakers.
The Flathead Indians, Montana, will
profit by the building of dam. called
the "Muscle Shoals Of the West" to
the extent of $3,OO0,O0O the first 20
years, with other payments there
after. .s
In Germany, new law which taxes
the unwed, it is estimated, will raise
about 10 million marks (about 70
million dollars), about one-fourth OF
the millions to wipe out the Govern
ment deficit.
At Rome, citing French prepera-
lions for fortifying the Alps along the
French frontier, Italy has taken steps
| to increase her war budget 26 million
dollars.
At Washington, Representative
Larsen, Georgia, has introduced
measure in the House, comforting
jurisdiction on the courts to pass on
claims of those who lost slaves under
the Lincoln emancipation proclama-
tion," without preference to loyalty
! 1:-... Al ,,,o, ,,or;od froro 1881 +o