Daily Mail, The (Newspaper) - January 27, 1939, Hagerstown, Maryland DAY BY DAY Washington county Is a quiet place In which to wars no quakes no below just average conditions Aren't we WEATHER Fair and continued cold tonight cloudy and warmer tomorrow rain Sunday VOL CXI No 20 Published dally except Sunday by Mall Publishing Co Entered as matter at HAGERSTOWN MD FRIDAY JANUARY 27 1939 SINGLE COPIES 3 CENTS Senate Test Today On Restoration Of Cut To Relief CLOSE BOTH SIDES AGREE Calls Tactics An Old Fashioned Filibuster In Behalf Of WASHINGTON Jan 27 roll call vote on restoring the which the House cut rom President Roosevelt's relief request furnished the Senate today rith its first clear-cut test of strength this session Leaders of both sides conceding strength was about equal worked feverishly to get all their ers in the chamber by 3 p m rn Standard Time the hour agreed for the decision Acceptance of the House tion would mean that Congress could appropriate to the WPA until July 1 proval of the larger would require a compromise between the House and Senate totals Senators that the administration forces lave been killing time with the last two days in an fo to bolster their strength Calls It Filibuster This has been a very unusual said Senator Clark It has been an filibuster in behalf of a instead ot against one Senator Barkley the floor leader asserted there had been no plan to delay the Continued on Page 2 Weather Is In Prospect Expected To Remove Ice And Snow Mercury Moving Up Rising temperature today ised to remove the thin coating ot snow and ice which has made el by motor and foot hazardous in Hagerstown and Washington A number of accidents to have been reported in Mie last 24 hours due to the slippery of streets and pavements Today the mercury dropped again 6 above zero at the Chewsville station of D Paul Oswald but rapidly up the tube during I lie morning until at o'clock it at 17 Yesterday's total snowfall here amounted to half an State Roads and street lent forces were kept busy through out the night and this ing in cindering highways and streets in this section A new of the Mayflower Company was damaged last night it skidded on the slippery Pike The driver escaped Special Tags Won't Permit Speeding BALTIMORE Jan 27 of the House of the Senate can adopt flossy license tags to show are Maryland's the State will treat them Maryland's lawbreakers if they 50 miles an hour on a hour road Major Elmer F Imander of the State Police was pry emphatic about that today The legislature cannot vote lf any difference before the he said There will he no special attached to the tags if are adopted If a member the law the state police will to it thai he is treated ly as any other citizen WEATHER C S Weather Fair and continued tonight Saturday increasing and warmer Sunday Irain and warmer Chesapeake Fair and con- cold Saturday in- cloudiness and warmer ay rain and warmer northwest winds ly and increasing Saturday Mrs Gable In Nevada Mrs Clark Gable admires the view from the Las Vegas Nev home of her attorney Frank Namee where she established dence to obtain a decree from her Gable is expected to marry Carole Lombard after the divorce Central Press OPPOSE 0.0 Labor Board To Direct Com- pany Slop Men Of Joining WASHINGTON Jan 27 The National Labor Relations board advised the Ford Motor Company today that it would direct the com- pany to stop ship of its workers in C T United Auto Workers Union at its Dearborn plants The hoard made public a ed order against the company which will become effective 30 days from today the company does not convince the board that charges made against it are untrue Under the proposed order the 20 workers would be reinstated with back pay The board said its order also would direct the company to re- frain from recognizing as a tive bargaining agency the Ford Brotherhood of America Inc and to cease organizing or supporting vigilante or similar groups Within the period the Ford Company may file exceptions to the proposed findings and re- Quest time for oral arguments be- fore the board The proposed order originally was Issued December 22 1037 as a final order but was withdrawn over the objections of Ford Company counsel for procedural changes ter the Supreme court in April had set aside an agricultural department order because of defects Objections raised by Ford sel to withdrawal of the original der were overruled by the Supreme court Will Require Proper Wiring City Will Require New Work To Meet Certain Requirements An agreement between thf city the National Hoard of Fire Underwriters whereby the city will require on new an electrical inspection and approval before issuing a certificate of com- with the code was announced today Among the defects found in electrical installation made in a recent survey were improper de- sign of installation so that over- load conditions exist cable poorly supported fuse box improperly supported insufficient number of outlets switches located and circuits over- Old work was found in poor condition misuse of flexible cord was Chilian Is Burying Its Dead Chilean City Of Population Completely De- Counting Survivors Rather Than Dead Thousands Are Missing CHILLAN Chile via Buenos Jan 27 endless file of drawn funeral carts slowly made its way through the ruined streets of historic Chilian today In somber despair men and men who had lived through the horror of the earthquake limped and labored alongside the creaking carts to bury sons and daughters mothers fathers friends The weary way led to communal of them ditches the living had able to dig some of them fissures with which the violent earth convulsions scarred the countryside Tuesday night The military and those who could work dug into the shambles for more many that they not be counted The that re- main of the city of 40.000 are being counted instead Mayor Tapia believed 10.000 perished as the city fell on the trembling earth which similarly destroyed the old Chilian 100 years ago Hundreds and probably ands more were dead in nearby cities and villages Most of the streets of Chilian now are narrow paths winding through heaps of homes stores and offices Some of the dead were taken from the ruins of two theaters which were cascaded into formless heaps of brick masonry shortly before performances would have ended Tuesday night The dead of one theater were patrons of a for ity the need of which now is mous The central plaza around which the carefree population once can be reached only after a dangerous scramble through what remains of the town's tallest ings Injured Moan The low moaning of injured ing for water mingles with the calls of mothers for lost children Under the ruins whole families are known to be buried The temblor was so quickly Continued on 2 VICTIMS FAIL TO IDENTIFY Keedysville Bank Robber Suspect However Being Detained In Chicago An Associated Press dispatch from Chicago today states that George W Buxton cashier of the Citizens Bank of Keedysville and F 0 Wilhelm vice-president of a Baltimore investment company had failed yesterday to positively John F Haggerty Chicago gunman as one of the robbers who held up the Keedysville bank last February 2 Wilhelm was in the bank at the time of the and robbed of his pocketbook and was taken into custody as a suspect several weeks ago and was to be returned to Baltimore to face trial in Federal court After Buxton and Wilhelm failed to identify him he was ordered held to the Federal district court for a further hearing on his re- moval to Baltimore The two robbers who entered the bank early in the after- noon of February 2 last stole of the bank's funds and about from Wilhelm who was on Mr Buxton The men fled in a oar after first tying up Buxton and Wilhelm in the basement of the bank Garr Who Figured In Shooting Dies LEXINGTON Ky Jan 27 Dr E S Garr 50 one of three brothers freed of charges of ing Brig Gen Henry H Denhardt former Kentucky nor died of peritonitis last mid- night at the United States Veterans hospital near here Dr Garr LaGrange Ky and brothers Roy Garr oC LaGrange and Jack of Ohio were indicted for murder hy a grand jury at ville Ky in the fatal shooting of General Denhardt was shot to death on a street in 1037 on the eve of his second Trial for murder in the mysterious death of Mrs Verna his fiancee and a sister of the Garr brother jury had disagreed at his first trial Roy Garr subsequently was quitted hy a jury and Jack and Dr Garr were freed hy directed dicts ROOSEVELT IN WASHINGTON Jan 27 Roosevelt is in fine physical shape he approaches his birthday anniversary Monday in the opinion of his personal physician Rear Admiral Ross T The new surgeon general of the Navy said today the only change in the President's appearance from a year ago was possibly a pound or two more of weight When Mr Roosevelt weighed about three weeks ago the scales tipped at pounds highest in several years His weight has ranged between and ing his six years in the White House The Chief Executive has un- dergone the normal changes ex- of any man his age who has been through his experience Admiral said adding the opinion that he has stood the grind a little better than the average President Mr Roosevet is grayer and his face lined more heavily than a few years ago He takes good care of himself however and follows strictly a routine laid down by the Admiral and or four swims in the warm wafers of the White House pool each week breakfast in bed muscle exercises and the like FRANCO ARMY IS PURSUING FLEEING FOE Spanish Insurgents Move To Drive Government Forces From Catalonia BARCELONA Jan 27 conquering Spanish insurgents flushed with their success in cap- turing Barcelona pushed up the coast today and seized the village of Badalona in the offensive ed to wipe out government forces from Catalonia Badalona approximately six miles by road northeast of the fallen visional capital lies on a main highway which follows the coast to the northeast more than 30 miles and then cuts inland due north to Gerona and Figueras and thence to the frontier with France There were hundreds of led by truckloads of men who were celebrating the end of hunger privations and the ings of war The spearhead of Generalissimo Franco's troops had pressed be- yond the city in a Catalonian up drive toward the French tier which lies 70 miles north in a straight line A special unit of corps of public order and rapidly swung into action to im- Continued on Page 2 RIVER IS HELD AMPLE SOURCE TRAIL OF FLATS BALTIMORE Jan 27 boys who left a trail of flat tires twelve blocks long were held today by police We found the ice picks on a lot and thought it would bo fun to see the tires the police quoted the boys as saying The boys and the police differed in their count of how many cars had been The boys figured it was about 20 while the potice estimated it was nearer 120 Report Of Underwriters Recommends Some Improvements The Potomac River as the cipal source of Hagerstown's water supply was declared to be the report of the National Board of Fire Underwriters which recently completed a survey of the city's water system The report stated that the supply works are of good capacity well de- signed constructed and operated and are so arranged as to be easily enlarged at some future date when Hagerstown grows Large storage maintained in the mountain and equalizing reservoirs make gravity supply available to the city in case of interruption of the river supply The survey states that the ment is good and in the hands of an experienced superintendent More complete records of the locations of mains valves etc and a more systematic response to fire alarms were recommended Fire flow tests indicate that quate quantities for reasonable fire protection are available in the northern part of the principal cantile district along the large line and slightly inadequate elsewhere in the district where the pipes are small Replacement of certain of these smaller water mains was in the report CONFERENCE TODAY Riding in their new j ger Dodge members of the Board i of County Together with Attorney E Stuart and Clerk T R Ray Black Mr this morning for Baltimore to confer This afternoon with the State Roads Commission TWO MORE SWEAR IN William F Horn and Ralph L Funkhouser both of District 22 swore in as county constables this morning bringing the total number of constables to about fifteen HE CHOOSES JAIL TO TEETOTALISM PITTSBURGH Ian 27 When it came to a showdown be- tween giving up whiskey or going to jail Mountaineer John R Gary never faltered Appearing in a red woolen shirt Gary pleaded guilty in federal court to ing an illicit whisky still in the western Pennsylvania mountains If you promise to quit ing T believe the proper penalty would probation offered F G said Gary firmly Six and the judge Figures Given On Attendance High Schools Continue To Lead All Others In Percentage High schools of the city and ty continue to load all other public schools in attendance according to December report of W M lips attendance officer made public today The average for schools ing the month was 94.1 per cent while the average for graded schools was schools and schools 01.4 Shank town a school off all attendance honors for the month with a percentage of 99.2 The lowest attendance ord was made by Charlton also a school with a percentage of only 79.4 Manufacturers With Government's Knowledge Agree To Supply Planes Down With Shout Italian Students As Duce Salutes Them Turned Back By Police As They Seek To Demonstrate Before French Embassy France Classed As Italy's No 1 Potential Enemy ROME Jan 27 crowd of students shouting down with tried today to reach the French embassy after cheering Premier Mussolini but was ed back by police The students their ranks led by many fascists raised a or for II Duce under his balcony in the Piazza Venezia until he twice answered by appearing to salute them to reach the French em- bassy the throng marched to the two Spanish embassies in Rome to cheer free Spain The Spanish Insurgents tain embassies both to the Italian government and the Holy See At Zara on the Dalmatian coast students celebrating the Insurgent capture of Barcelona paraded past an upturned steel helment into which they dropped contributions to a fund being raised throughout Italy for the return of Italian war dead France To many Fascists France has be- come Italy's No 1 potential enemy Foreign circles expressed belief that the fall of Barcelona had brought near the day when Italy would present to France a for payment for Fascists colonial claims Mussolini promoted Brigadier General Gambara commander of Italian troops in Spain to the rank General of Division for his part in the conquest of Barcelona which the Fascists celebrated as their own victory Many in the foreign colonies thought that Premier Mussolini and Chancellor Hitler would advance demands for appeasement possibly within the next week The Fascist press published out comment foreign reports fore- casting joint action Jan 30 when Chancellor Hitler speaks to the German Reichstag An official statement two weeks ago said the issue between Italy and France not be dealt with until the end of the Spanish war Fascists today considered that the war virtually ended with the cap- ture of Barcelona by the gents Premier Mussolini told Fascists celebrating the victory of the before his palace last night that we have Continued on Page 12 Foreign Investors Have Big Stake In Spain U S Holdings Damaged Telephone And Telegraph Company Owned Hard Hit While Civil War Has De- American Commerce In Spain WASHINGTON Jan 27 Foreign investors and exporters have at least a stake in Spain torn by civil war for two and a half years American investments in Spain at the beginning of the conflict in July 1936 amounted to about according to the ment of Commerce More than half of this sum sented the International Telephone and Telegraph company holdings in the Compania Telefonica Nacional De Espana which controlled the telephone communications system in Spain There is no Spanish debt owed in this country nor Spanish bonds held here Foreign investments in Spain in 1935 the last year of peace were estimated at about About 60 per cent of this investment was French representing holdings in mines shipping industries and tural interests British and Belgian capital was largely invested in mines and ways including street tion systems in Madrid and lona both ot which have extensive subways The civil war virtually destroyed American commerce in Spain ing the decade prior to 1930 the United States sold an average of more than worth of to Spain annually This Continued on Page 2 Cold And Rain Heighten Misery Of Refugees Jamming Border Government Of Spain Reorganizing After Blow Is Dealt It By Franco's Insurgents Leaders Look To Valencia EMBARGO STANDS Jan Representative Fish ed today that both Republican and members of the House Affairs be change in the Spanish embargo act FRANCE Jan 27 cold drizzling rain added another touch of misery today to tens of thousands of Spaniards I ling about in Northern Catalonian towns homeless and hungry after J having evacuated from the Barcelona area When I left Spain late day streams of ered refugees still were pouring northward in of the most tragic phases of the two and a half year old civil war The government of Spain was slowly reorganizing after the ning blow it received when Francisco Franco ured Barcelona the former capital President Manuel Azana was re- ported to he still in Catalonia Pre- mier Juna Negrin and Foreign i Minister Julio Alvarez Del Vayo located in a town which they asked not be identified From Tiny crowed in small to administer of government Spain Thich until this week they had directed from luxurious offices in Barcelona set up shop in a small room Over the door was scribbled in red President of the Cabinet of Ministers The Government's still were uncertain Its said they optimistic Pointing to the Valencia area as the renter of Government hopes Observers were convinced there would he no suing for peace in the immediate future In the little farm towns of northern Catalonia was being en- acted one of the most ing migrations Spain had ever seen Families scattered by the suddenness ot the Government's flight wandered aimlessly along roads and in fields Conveyances of every description jammed highways Trains of cars or ancient windowless es gorged with weary refugees slowly crawled to north through Insurgent aerial Their freight dropped in that could not find room for their populations He Sees No Reason Why They Should Not MANY NOW IDLE Could Supply France Un- til Our Own Program Is Launched WASHINGTON Jan President Roosevelt said day that United States craft manufacturers agreed with this government's edge to supply France with an undesignated number of airplanes The President was asked at Mm press conference whether steps had been taken here to facilitate French purchase of planes He said lie would have to reply in the tive as the question was put hut added that since many of the erican plane factories were idle it would be a good thing if they French plane orders and got them substantially under way fore the larger American air gram got started Mr Roosevelt said the matter had been considered by the net He added six major plane tories in the States verc closed and one large engine com- pany had laid off men In view of that he said it would be desirable to get new orders and have these plants going by the time the American program about to get under way The President said he did not Great Britain was seeking any planes from this country at this time No Financial Assistance No American assistance was involved in the French orders he said Asked why a French observer was aboard a bomber being tested for the army when it crashed in California the President replied that the War Department had no objection to other countries ing planes from private He added the plane that crashed had not been accepted hy this government He said it was a manufacturer's plane being flown at a municipal airport and he did not know whether the government would hut that or some other type of plane and the decision would not he made for several months Mr Roosevelt talked with the press shortly after Speaker head received a White House re- quest for an immediate tion of to speed airplane purchases in the army's plane procurement program Simultaneously Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and tary of War Woodring appeared be- hind closed doors of the Senate Military committee to discuss the French purchases The committee wished to tion Morgenthau particularly about the presence of the French ment observer in the light bomher that crashed WOULD OFFICIALLY ADOPT STATE SONG Jan 27 Delegate Charles F Argabright from the fifth district has asked the state legislature to adopt My Maryland as the state's official song Only hy common consent has the song been used as the state's anthem Argabright said and said it is only fitting that it should bA formally and legally adopted as Maryland's state song Want Right To Shoot Squirrels ANNAPOLIS Jan 27 Farmers and farm tenants in vert county would be given right to shoot and kill any squirrel found eating corn any time if a hill introduced in the legislature is passed The Calvert county delegation also seeks to extend the hanting season to a month and a half instead of two weeks as It is now But the farmers or their tenants could shoot any time v
