Daily Mail, The (Newspaper) - April 19, 1939, Hagerstown, Maryland DAY BY DAY Dear Weather have which we relay to for a hundred more or of WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and generally fair VOI PXI daily by tbe Mall Publishing 11U. Entered as matter Hagerstown APRIL 19, 1939. SINGLE COPIES 3 CENTS Lindy To Help Air Corps Keep Ahead Of Other Powe rs FAMOUS FLIER WILL INSPECT THEN REPORT Begins Active Army Duty During Which He'll Visit 30 Research Centers April 19 Ordered on temporary duty as a army Col. Charles A. Line bergh began today a survey o American aviation research facili ties to help make the nation's wai planes the best in the Piloting an army he prob ably will visit the most importan of about 30 aircraft research cen ters during the next two to four Afterward the famous avi who has been reserve since 1025, will make a report to Major General Henry H air corps Secretary Woodring's decision to have Lindbergh make survey came just as the army i starting build up its air corps to Aviation experts recently told congressional tees that Germany was building better planes than the United States because of better research The active military role Is new for the although in his capacity as a reserve officer and a member of the National Ad- Committee for Aeronautics he has supplied information on ation developments in Of- said he never had any tive service since he completed the flying course a Texas ing Acceptance Voluntary They emphasized that ho under- took the assignment less than a. week after his arrival from The War cooperated iu helping preserve the aviator's for declining to disclose his itinerary or t i say how long he would remain on Colonel Lindbergh's with ill amount to about on Page 12) Gifts Auctioned HAILSTONES FALL HERE Some As Large As bles Fall Here During Thunder Hailstones the size of marbles fell in Hagerstown for brief period last night during a H. L. caretaker at the West End said he was aroused o'clock by the noise of the stones falling on a tin roof outside his bedroom window ami found some stones size of Some hail fell in the north of There were several streaks of sharp lightning during the night and a clap of der about 11 After a comparatively mild when mercury did not drop under a northwest wind during morning caused the ture to remain almost J. A. government weather observer at The minimum temperature day was 3S. D. Paul The mum yesterday was 60 Flo Leeds is pictured a the New York City at luxurious furnishings of hei 17-room apartment were offered foi The upon whon banker James once tled is broke and living in a with her six-year old The furnishings are being sold to satisfy her debt to the house in which they were DIRECT UP TO COUNTY Counties Must Solve Problem Without State Assistance Until Sept. 30 BANKER DIES April 10. W. 70, president of the National Bank of St. Mary's died of in- his home here last night after an illness of several He was a former superintendent of the county serving in thai capacity for 31 years after re- turning to his home county from where he had been a civil engineer with the Southern April The Board of State Aid and ies warned the counties and nore city today their direct relief umls problems must be solved state assistance from now un- il September Following announcement of An- ie Arundel county welfare ies that 5S destitute unemployable had been cut off relief rolls of lack of Milton executive secretary of lie announced state can do nothing for Arundel or any other county n this Direct relief is i purely local matter except for of state funds by county boards added he had been in- some counties were ng their direct relief budgets to cut ff clients or spread available funds vor a longer period of The law also permits in n to borrow for di- ect relief up an amount nt to cents on the county ax he State Comptroller Millard announced last week only in surplus special relief axes would be distributed to the and city the rest of his fiscal with of that total becoming available Baltimore City is spending more more than monthly for di- relief and current funds arc expected to be exhausted hero early in Under the Baltimore receives 60 per cent of state funds for direct which meant the counties obtain but of the latest WEATHER O. 8. cloudy tonight with cooler in central and east and with showers on the Thursday generally Chesapeake Ray Cooler and mostly cloudy Thursday partly moderate southerly winds shifting to CHAIN LETTER Letters Be- ing Circulated Many The chain letter nuisance has cropped out here a sain and complaints arc ThP nuisance is known this time as the letter and contains the implied threat that failure on the part of a recipient to continue the chain will in The letter demand that the re- copy and mail copies to four friends who each in turn must copy and mail to four of their The prosperity resulting ly is to come out of the Nazis Put Politics Aside As They Celebrate Hitler's Birthday Von Appointment As Ambassador To Turkey And Air Concession Seen As Move To Keep Country Out Of April 19 relegated world-stirring politics to the background today and turned attention the two-day birthday celebration of its While official sources cally denied rumors the Free City of Danzig would be to the Fuehrer as a present on his 50th birthday and while the day will find 25 warships of the fleet steaming toward Spanish wa- columns of reports on the birthday preparations crowded out political news from German Hands still were busily at work completing profuse street decora garlanding and th for the celebration that be gins at 5 p.m. Hitler quietly returned to th capital ending the ten day vacation which he interrupted Saturday to consider Presiden Roosevelt's eace The Fuehrer returned to his new chan where his first official ac was to name the almost Franz von as the Reich's new ambassador to Turkey to sue ceed Friedrich von Observers attached great import on Page 12) HE'S CHAMPION OF FISH SWALLOWERS April 19 swallow to end all college boy goldfish swallowing championship contests was made by an old downed newly hatched fish in a cup of Claude C. Depauw Uni- versity alumnus who works at the Grassy ford called campus fish swallowers before down the wa- ter in which the young so tiny they were barely swam The owner of the E. C. said there were least fish in the Modifies Wage And Hour Rule Andrews Gives New De- finition For table April 1.9 Klmer F. ad- issued a new tion of area of production today to provide for the exemption of tain employes of the fresh fruit and vegetable industry from the wage md hour provisions of the Labor Standards Act. The new he said in a employes en- gaged in the packing and storing of fresh fruits and who are employed in situated in the open country or in towns of less than and which draw all their lucts from within a radius of ten The administrator's original de- finition exempted an employe en- aged in canning and ng fruits and vegetables only if he performed such work on a farm commodities produced vely on such or worked for establishment which obtained s products for processing from arms in the immediate locality and no more than 7 The fruit and vegetable industry Hacked the original definition as oo narrow and Were Busy On Saturday Police disclosed this morning hat pickpockets did a thriving here Saturday during the O. 0. F. More than i half dozen reports of thefts were by the The lick besides operating on he invaded the Franklin banquet hall and are reported o have a number of including those of Rev. Paul Attorney land Crice and M. IS WITH AXIS Premier Declares Country Is Firmly Attached To Axis April 19, maneuvering with Germany for position in the current European appeared today to have bound Hungary firmly to the Berlin The Hungarian Count Paul in an after-dinner toast to Premier Mussolini last night at Palazzo declared his try Avas to the policy of the axis which Hungary has 11 in a similar re- affirmed a friendship which the strength of each country in the defense of order and The axis diplomatic which began last week-end with German Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering's visit to Rome will after the scheduled Thursday departure of the garian and his foreign with and Yugoslav Foreign Minister ander will come to Venice on Saturday to see Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and arrangements were being made to receive Rumanian Foreign Minister Grigore now on a tour of European circles at Belgrade be- Italy was about to make fresh overtures to bring Yugoslavia into the camp to ter the system of guarantees against aggression which Britain and France were building in ern and southeastern was supposed at the Yugoslav capital that Italy would attempt to on her recent conquest of Yugoslavia's by continued friendly assurances to observers saw their position as increasingly Since she did not share in the Yugoslavia was regarded as to Fascist MANY DISMISSED April 10 The Works Progress tion has dismissed ineligible persons from its rolls after a wide investigation of Administrator F. C. Harrington said today that WPA had reviewed each of the enrolled ers in compliance with a order for the APPEALS CONVICTION Harry Stotler appealed a fine an assault charge conviction in dry court this He is to have smacked a taxi Pennsy Woman Badly Injured Mrs. Ida Suffers Probable Skull Mrs. Ida suffered a probable fracture of the skull at o'clock this morning when the Ford car in which she was riding with her husband was struck by a large truck at the Cearfoss cross Mrs. Xeeley and her were brought to the Washington County Hospital in Suter's Mr. Xeeley also suffered head both eyes being The arc reported well advanced in The truck blocking the The driver is said to have escaped County Investigator Sellman and are ENCOURAGING EDITORIAL April 19 dications of a more benevolent attitude in Moscow toward Brit- foreign policy were seen today in the editorial of a high-placed journal which also warmly praised President appeal to Germany and Le Journal De a French language publication which frequently speaks the at- of the foreign even conceded that recent French guarantees against any aggression of the lin steps in the right The editorial aroused lar interest among foreign ob- servers because it contained first kind words published in Moscow about Prime Minister Chamberlain and Premier dier since long before last tembers crisis over As one diplomat put cow has apparently quit ing stale eggs at Chamberlain and has begun tossing bouquets But she has not yet taken off her coat and jumped into the RECORD CLASS TO GRADUATE County To Give High School Diplomas To 467 This Barring a total of 467 men and ten more han last will he presented high school graduation di- in this county in it disclosed today at the office of h Board of The Hagerstown High School will the largest class in its of more than three quarters f a The number of this year will be 314 as against last year's total of 30.9. The number is between 139 boys 175 Clearspring will graduate 35, Boonsboro 33, jurg 22. Williamsport 25, and Vorth Street 1.2. Elementary or eighth grade graduates in June will total 501 vhile Junior High graduates will otal 515, divided into 2S7 at and Way and 22S at South Potomac Undecided On Building Site Bounty Commissioners Still Debating Where To Build The Cushwa the for- ner Nathaniel Rochester and Washington ras discussed as a site for the new courthouse by the ird of County Commissioners in meeting Board members are still about a site and are open to from the While ome favor a West Franklin street ite across from the Washington Building and Loan others favor the 3altimorc and Ohio yards at An- street and Summit The former Van Valkenburg ome with adjoining property on he northwest corner of Summit venue and Antietam street also has been TOWN QUIET AFTER State Police And Citizens Of Grantsville Take Mine Reopens April 19 coal escorted by state police and resumed operations in this section today following a pitched battle with union workers in which al men were Ten state policemen from berland and nearby stations were sent here after the battle yesterday at the Grantsville Coal The union men had threatened to return in force today but the move failed to situation is under said Magistrate Charles S. we expect less trouble Zeller said about 75 pickets were on the scene but had not interfered with operation of the mines that remained open after union negotiations for a nous contract collapsed in New Citizens Organize Citizens organized last night to repel what they termed an of this community by union men who were thrown out of work by the contract Zeller said a group of citizens gathered with the miners early this and drove to the mines with Coal trucks moved from the mines to the railroad under police Citizens estimated 300 union men were in the force that engaged the miners in the battle Several men were hit by One youth was reported beaten with a rubber Harry Frostburg was fined and costs by Zeller on a charge of ing with a motor Smith was arrested when the end gate of a truck was opened and its load of coal spilled on the Zeller said that after the union men several other trucks were stopped on the road to corges Phony Cripple George 29, second of- fender with a 13-year unfinished convinced doctors he could not He is shown as he from Tombs New on way to A few seconds later he clubbed his guard with a crutch and raced Trapped in a he was sentenced to 15- 30 years in bing Sing for a FRENCH PORT BLOCKED WHEN VESSEL SINKS Dock worker Quizzed When Probe Indicates Blaze Of Incendiary Origin LE April 19, liner once the flagship of the French merchant sank in 36 feet of water burned through by fire which officials was set by foreign Two persons were two others seriously injured in the night long fight against the flames which firemen said spread from two ly separated parts of the One point of origin was behind locked Investigators said preliminary investigations strengthened the be- lief that the ton liner was deliberately set An Italian dockworker was held for questioning by Le Havre A shipment of ten warplanes made in the United States for the French army was taken off the sel only an hour before it listed and sank in the center of the port The planes had not been unloaded from the which arrived from New York before the fires Stevedores also were able to save worth of French art ob- which had just been loaded for shipment to the New York World's The art treasures were un- touched by fire in a forward hold. on Pase 12) Smith Says Road WILL INSPECT STONEWORK Understand That Part Of New Courthouse May Be Of That tentative plans for the posed new courthouse provide for native limestone construction for at least one or two stories of the 5- story building was indicated today when arrangements were made for Board of County 3rs to inspect stone work in at three projects either com- or under construction in the The method of cutting and laying the stone will be in- spected by the A tour is being arranged that will take the commissioners to the re- J creational building in the park at which project was recently the new cipal building at Williamsport and the recency completed general headquarters building at Camp Will Be Widened Chief Engineer Nathan L. of the State Roads Commission day confirmed the report that im- to the road are contemplated by the Smith said widening is planned on the 11-mile As soon as funds become Smith shoulders will be built along the which now has a width of about 14 under the Com- standards for ed The road not be Smith because money for such an expensive ject was He said that when the new span is opened next engineers an- a heavy increase in the fic load along the ELGIN TAKING OVER OFFICE To Assume Duties Of Commissioner Made cant By Rudy W. Lee Commissioner of Motor was notified this morning by Governor Herbert JL O'Conor to take over the office morrow The former or of Hagerstown said he had been in communication by telephone with the Governor and that an order was being issued today to turn over the office immediately to Mr. was to have assumed the duties May 1st, but due to the vacancy created by the death ot Commissioner Walter it was considered by the Governor that the post should be filled 1m- The new commissioner said would reside in Baltimore during the week and return to his home here over the TOME SCHOOL IS DEAD MASON HEADS I. O- O. F. April 19, Leonard K. Mason of Baltimore was elected grand master of the land Grand Lodge of the dent Order of Odd Fellows at the annual closed session last PLAN PROJECT An additional sidewalks project in Hancock and the completion of the tennis started last year by the W. P. A. is planned by gess Omar N. the W. A. here was notified Union Workers May Strike General Strike Of land Construction ers April 19, Peter E. president of Tome Institute at Port died unexpectedly at his home here last a nephew of the late Jacob who founded the preparatory was a former member of the Board of Police Commissioners and served one term as city He was grand treasurer of the grand lodge of Masons for many WANTS ROAD WORK A delegation from The vicinity of Station appeared before the Board of County ers yesterday with a request for road repairs in the April 19 A general strike of all union tion workmen in Maryland on day was threatened The Baltimore Building Trades Council said the strike would be called at a. m. Monday unless general contractors agree to use only building material hauled by union It gave The more Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America until Monday to Originally the council called a strike for a. m. but the Department of Labor arranged for a conference at 2 p. m. A Federal conciliator will trend Weddell Named Envoy To Spain April 10 Alexander W. Weddell of Virginia by President velt today to be ambassador to the new government of Weddell is now ambassador to Ar- He will succeed Claude G. Bowers at DR. LIPMAN XEW April Jacob Goodale 64. dean of the College of Agriculture of Rutgers University and tor Xew Jersey State cultural Experiment died early today at Middlesex county Legislation Would Pre- vent Draft Re- turn To U. S. April 19 Members said today the Military acting with un- usual had tentatively proved legislation aimed at pre- venting the return to this country of Grover Cleveland World war draft The introduced only two days considered at a cret session and won immediately committee Final tion was deferred pending a for- mal report from the War Representative Harness author of the said he un- who fled tc many to evade military against that was planning to return to the United States in the next week or ten In an effort to circumvent such a Harness said committee would hold a special meeting as soon as theWar ment's report is to rusli the to the General in its the ure would prevent the to the United ot any person who deserted from i armed services and then fled tht to
