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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1938
Page
6
The city council weighs keeping the current tax rate of 1.05 while considering a salary restoration for officials hit by 1931 reductions. Mayor Culler prepared a budget based on the present rate for Aldermen, who must decide. Debate centers on raises for Police and other officials, with several posts already reduced or eliminated.
Ester Hurst a 23 year old blind American and her Alsatian guide Babe refuse to disembark at Portsmouth as Britain’s agriculture ministry enforces quarantine. Friends appeal for an exception since Babe has aided Hurst for three years and the girl insists she would be useless without her.
A stick of dynamite was found in an electric motor in the Montebello tunnel shaft about 150 feet below the surface, two miles from the site of a fatal blast two weeks earlier. Police and State's Attorney J Bernard Wells opened an investigation.
Roosevelt backers and anti administration candidates divided Democratic honors in four primaries. Missouri Senator Bennett Clark secured renomination amid opposition to the court bill. Kansas Senator George McGill, a Roosevelt loyalist, also won decisively with party backing. In West Virginia, three pro Roosevelt representatives triumphed, while Virginia saw New Dealers defeated including Howard Smith whose district covers Washington and Jefferson home areas.
Maryland Employment Service reports no rise in unemployment figures with the opening of canning plants. Capt. Charles N. Staley notes most workers rely on seasonal canning jobs and avoid other openings. Some claimants would leave home only for canning work. two Mt. Airy women illustrate this pattern. The system aims to place nearby jobs. benefits stop if offered work is refused.
Rome reports the government announces foreign Jews will be barred from all Italian schools starting in the 1938 39 scholastic year. The communique states admission of foreign Hebrew students to Italian schools of all grades is prohibited.
Annapolis Aug 3 AP The Court of Appeals upheld Judge Oscar Leser in ruling three pinball slot machine types trap the snake silver chief and target type illegal. Claw machines using a plunger were also deemed unlawful. Authorities study local implications for Frederick county and enforcement.
Hamilton Linthicum and his wife urged the Board of Education and County Commissioners to provide school bus service for six local children in the lower Urbana district for the coming year. They noted the road below Poole's bridge is in poor repair, hindering bus schedules, and requested lighter buses if possible. The Board promised consideration and officials said they would seek stone for road improvements to restore service.
York Pa Aug 3 AP Mrs Ethel Regina Swartz 31 charged with killing her seven month old daughter Louise in bed The District Attorney quoted her confession saying she shifted cotton in the child s mouth struck the head with an electric iron and strangled the infant with a stocking She said she planned the killing the night before and brought cotton and iron to the room in preparation
Minnie E Nichols and Harry J Nichols sold two properties at public sale at the courthouse. The Oak Hill schoolhouse lot went to William Rogers for 150 dollars. A five room frame dwelling and two acres were bought by Mrs Nichols for 425 dollars. Robert E Clapp Jr and H Kieffer De Lauter served as trustees with Emmert J Bowlus as auctioneer.
New York reports District Attorney Dewey learned that a million to three million dollars tied to the Dutch Schultz era was hidden by Arthur Flegenheimer. J Richard Davis, key witness in policy racket probes, was named as the only person who might know the hiding place. Davis faces grand jury appearance and has denied knowledge of the funds.
State Roads Commission chair J Glenn Beall announced a plan to settle long standing right of way disputes on the Hagerstown to Frederick National Pike relocation. A Friday Hagerstown conference with Potomac Edison aims to secure rights of way and allow fall bidding. Most grading is finished on the 23 mile stretch and spaping will start once rights are acquired. A separate by pass plan for Ellicott City and Catonsville faces a 1940 completion and involves county property owners demanding higher payments.
Harrisburg Aug 2 AP The Pennsylvania legislature seeks to question the constitutionality of a judge’s order impounding grand jury evidence and restraining testimony as it moves to hold the first hearing on charges against Governor George Earle and 13 associates. State Rep Herbert Cohen chairs the House committee assigned to probe internal Democratic leadership.
The Yellow Springs concert band will perform the second of six Thursday concerts in Baker Park at 7 30 pm. Sponsored by the city and Chamber of Commerce, with Dr Howard Taylor as featured soloist and Charles C T Stull directing. The program includes works by Marek, Herbert, and Sousa with a variety of selections and a note on Home Sweet Home played in different countries. The band personnel lists many local musicians. China was once a leading source of ephedrine plant. India now supplies it.
Baltimore August 3 AP J Glenn Beall chairman of the State Roads Commission urged new laws to clear up confusion in handling gasoline tax proceeds. He proposed stripping the commission of debt service duties on county road bonds and merging all revenue into a lump sum for flexible spending where needed.
New York August 30 stock trading remained listless as prices drifted in sluggish dealings marking a shift from the boisterous rally of late spring and early summer. A minor downturn erased most early gains from a rally that carried over from the previous session.
The 292 acre Zentz farm owned by George C. Zentz and Minnie M. Zentz was bought for 1.09 dollars? no—1.09? The text says purchased for $1.09, subject to a first mortgage of 7,420, by the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation at the assignee's sale at the courthouse today. The property includes a nine room frame dwelling and other buildings. Amos A. Holter assisted and Emmett R. Bowlus acted as auctioneer.
Elk Mills Md Aug 3 AP Warrants for 20 men charging rioting were issued at the request of Baldwin Manufacturing Co manager John Lawrence after two strikers were injured in a melee with non strikers Magistrate W C Miller issued the warrants and Sheriff Eugene Racine said he would swear in a couple of bars to serve them About 60 men had been on strike for four weeks blocking the mill entrance near the tapestry plant two non strikers were unable to enter One striker was hit by a rock and another by a car both not seriously hurt and treated at the scene
Reckless driving charges against two motorists involved in a head on collision east of Frederick July 23 were dismissed by Justice Walter Sinn. The judge ruled a parked repair truck near the National highway contributed to the crash. Stan ley Lecton's car collided with Howard Delauder's, overturning Delauder's vehicle. tire repairs explained the truck's position. State Officer T A Short pursued the case. Holden Felson represented Lecton.
Moscow and Tokyo exchange protests as large battle lines hold along the Russo Japanese border. Tass warns of serious consequences if provocation continues while hints of diplomacy surface. Russian troops reportedly retreated 1500 yards, a general lull follows the clash.
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