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Newspaper
Herald Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1947
Page
1
Chicago reports a broad price decline across basic foods in wholesale markets after a seven day run of rising quotes. Butter hogs wheat corn oats and lard fell with the Associated Press average of 35 items sliding to 194.35 from 194.99.
Baltimore on September 12 Mrs Nellie Ziegler aged 74 was strangled while doing laundry in her backyard when her dress became entangled in a washing machine wringer. Patrolmen Rhoades and Smith reported the dress was drawn tight around her neck as bystanders found the running machine overturned. She died en route to a hospital.
Hospital records for 1946 show higher admissions, longer patient days, and a busier year with 4 008 operations. Mortality held at 3.2 percent while average stay dropped to 9.12 days. Nursing shortages persist. assets total 864 553.85, led by the Bloom Memorial building valued at 503 259.63.
In Odenton Maryland 41 year old Mrs Mary E Holland died after a 12 foot well collapsed on her as her husband cleaned it. Autopsy by Dr Gustave A Faubert at Fort Meade hospital found a fractured skull and broken neck as the cause. The husband reported passing water to his wife when he heard her scream and noted she fell head first striking him on the back. Firefighters helped pull her from the well.
Judge Mish overruled a magistrate and jury verdict in a case involving a police accident. The court held the municipal police car acted in a governmental function, sustaining government immunity. If immunity harms a citizen, the remedy lies with legislature. Maryland has not abolished it.
Horses stabled at the Hagerstown fairgrounds in preparation for a four day harness meet at the Great Hagerstown Fair. Charles E Cushwa racing secretary says entries indicate about 100 fine harness horses will be on the grounds by the first heat at 2 PM next Tuesday. Riders from York Roosevelt Speedway North Carolina Pennsylvania Virginia New York and New Jersey will be represented with purses totaling 3500 per race.
Secretary Marshall weighed Washington urged aid as Bonnet said France may cut further imports from the United States affecting Wheat fats and coal. Polish Ambassador Winiewicz pressed for a world bank loan of 660 million dollars while the State Department filed a vigorous protest with Yugoslavia over seizures of British and American personnel in the Trieste area.
A science note explains that the opossum plays dead as a nervous reaction beyond voluntary control, causing a marked slow in heart rate when threatened.
Letter reflects on charter proposal and process in Hagerstown. Author supports a community driven charter and suggests a charter committee as best path forward. Expresses no unhappiness over defeat and offers assistance to advance the project while praising the merit system authorized by the city.
A court hears testimony about a baby found near a canal end and a Hancock girl in a stress during cross examination. A state witness, a Black man, is named in the proceeding as part of the testimony.
This Funny World worker at Hancock dry cleaners testified Mentzer cleaned a suit with spots possibly blood on the pants. The Negro said Mentzer claimed the McCarty girl told him after the birth she had a miscarriage and that it is all over. Deputy Leister Isanogle described the baby's body found in the canal with the umbilical cord looped around the neck six times, very tight.
A 38 year old Maryland aviator George B Millenberger was fined 300 dollars in Federal Court for piloting a plane without proper prior inspection under Civil Aeronautics Administration rules. He was acquitted on a license charge. The judge noted the penalty could have been higher if prior violations had not occurred.
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