30 Aug 1937
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1937
Page
1
City Register Louis E. Fichelberger presents a 348732.64 budget to the Mayor and Aldermen as they prepare to fix the coming year's tax rate. A Board of Equalization will review prior to setting rates likely around 1.05 dollars while funding sewerage and administration.
Weather record shows 24 hour precipitation ending yesterday at 5 pm as none. August total reaches 5.90 inches with trace from 5 pm Sunday to 7 am today. Normal August is 3.65 inches. 1936 August actual is 5.26 inches. excess to August 1937 is 1.690 inches. Temperature highs and lows compared to last year, sunset, sunrise, moon phases, and stream conditions for Potomac and Monocacy noted.
Baltimore Court of the Royal Order of Jesters hosted a Saturday outing at Frederick Fair Grounds with a fried chicken country ham and corn dinner. Harry O Schroeder chaired the local committee. a large Baltimore group traveled by bus and returned the same day. William Wellman, Past Potentate of Boumi Temple, directed the Baltimore Court’s trip. Local members included Harry O Schroeder Frank J Schroeder D Marshall Schroeder Grayson H Staley Dr A A Radcliff and Dr Chas H Conley.
Tokyo reports Britain demanded a full apology and punishment for the Japanese airmen who killed the British ambassador in China. Officials noted the Sino Russian pact as shifting China toward communism and potentially offsetting Japanese German anti Communist ties. Tokyo believed the treaty shows China embracing communism while Japan urged restraint to avoid fueling further conflict in East Asia.
Joe Louis weighed 197 pounds and Termmy Farr 204 pounds for the delayed 15 round heavyweight title fight at Yankee Stadium. Weather delayed final decision on postponement until late afternoon. Louis and Farr had weighed in lighter than last Thursday’s ceremonies due to rain.
Slight buying edged the market forward though bids were not insistent and dealings were exceptionally slow from the start. Early gains of about a point faded by the fourth hour as Pound sterling dropped to $4.967-16.
City Hall officials and State Roads Commission representatives met to review funding and the need for full resurfacing of Market and Patrick streets. Officials warned that without funds, the plan would rely on ongoing maintenance rather than rapid reconstruction, with a possible $100,000 project tied to past and future legislation.
President Roosevelt moved to finalize a stack of post adjournment measures including the 1987 flood control bill with Ohio Valley authorization and provisions to curb dust storms in the arid west. He studied sugar stabilization and low cost housing proposals as others awaited action. After finishing, he planned fishing off Black Island and perhaps spectating Long Island Sound sailboat races. Camp Airy closes as Jewish boys from Pittsburgh Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington depart.
Pittsburgh Aug 30 AP. Andrew W Mellon leaves a vast estate to the A W Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust nearly all to be used for public religious and charitable uses. Attorneys say the estate could total 100 to 200 million dollars with 180 thousand left to a personal employer.
Fourteen year old John Howard Kemp was injured when a Potomac Edison bus and a stationary taxicab pinned him between vehicles on West Patrick Street. He suffered two lacerations on his left hand and was hospitalized. driver Clarence Esworthy faced reckless driving charges and was released pending outcome. Officer Marshall Murray investigated.
The United Automobile Workers under President Homer Martin takes control after a heated convention week. The executive board shifted to fifteen progressives and eight unity supporters, with remaining seats undecided, as 1,000 delegates returned home. Martin previously led the old board by ten to two. The drive to organize Ford Motor Company workers begins, though committee alignments were not officially announced.
Washington reports Don Richberg presses for a revival of the NRA alongside a wage-hour law with government-set standards. Critics warn it could revive monopolistic practices while administration leans toward a straight wage-hour bill. Congress faces floor debates over anti-lynching, Supreme Court confirmation, and cotton subsidies amid factional tension.
Eleven Frederick county farmers leave at 7 45 a m for the Tri State Vacation and Educational Tour to Buffalo Niagara Falls and the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. The group travels via Harrisburg and Winchester joining with a Pennsylvania crew, visiting Buffalo Niagara River grain districts and the CN Exhibition in Toronto with planned stops at Vineland Guelph and Falls.
Detective Joseph Douchsherty of the State Insurance Commission investigated last week into fires at the Frederick Dahlia Crarden property near Braddock Heights. The blazes destroyed two barns and tied up adjournment as investigators reviewed causes and possible negligence.
A squadron of four Chinese bombers struck the American liner President Hoover off Shanghai wounding seven seamen during evacuation efforts for U S nationals. China accepts responsibility and promises redress as US and British ships rush to the scene and Kobe is set as the next evacuation port.
Secretary Hull instructed protest to the Chinese government over the bombing of the liner President Hoover and noted possible shift of merchant ships from Shanghai while authorities consider naval aid for Americans in Nanking. Separately a deed records 2128 acres in Deerfield-Foxville purchased for 4798 dollars, aiding Catnetin recreational park development.
Tdayd Pusey, a hillbilly preacher, confessed to police that he slew his wife with a hammer after she disclosed she'd been married four times. She was an itinerant evangelist. They had been married 10 months.
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