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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1938
Page
6
The Board of Aldermen ordered enforcement of delinquent water rents after a 30 day grace period. Written notices will warn residents to pay within a month or face collection actions including possible water shutoff and suit. Total delinquency cited at 17 000 dollars with big claims among many smaller balances.
Two masked gunmen robbed Citizens Bank in Keedysville Maryland taking 987.70 in daylight. Sheriff Malott reported the suspects fled in a black sedan toward West Virginia after tying the cashier and taking a briefcase. Police widened the lookout across Maryland Pennsylvania and Virginia. The vault was not opened and the loss was insured. The incident follows three prior daylight bank robberies in the area over 15 years.
Mayor Culler plans to write the State Roads Commission again on Market and Patrick streets repairs and to inquire about a $5,000 grant from the county gasoline tax act. The act also earmarks $2,200 for each incorporated town. Grove Boulevard improvements discussed with possible curb and gutter work. Alderman Butcher urges starting improvements now using government labor. Traffic light at 18th and Market noted as complicating left turns from Market to West 13th. city attorney to review red light left turn. Bond for George L. Mobley to run a plumbing business approved. Light installation behind Carroll Park approved after petition. Bills totaling $1,157.78 ordered paid.
Shanghai, Feb 3 Japanese forces said they captured Pengpu in a fierce clash along the Tientsin Pukow rail line, about 90 miles south of Suchow. Reports claimed Chinese resistance north of the Iwai river collapsed and the retreat intensified into a rout, while China denied a central government exists. Hirota stated no recognized Chinese government and wartime conditions persisted. The League of Nations wrapped up its 100th session urging aid for China as fresh troops were sent to bolster defense along the Hwai river.
Washington reports that Admiral William D. Leahy told the House Naval Committee there are no plans to join forces with any nation in a possible war. He stated the 20 percent fleet expansion, part of an $800 million program, is solely to maintain the 5-5-3 ratio set by the Paris and Washington treaties.
Police conclude the morgue corpse is not Rauch as the body’s hair shows no recent cut, while Rauch himself had just had a haircut.
A report states Chinese forces exploded a railroad bridge south of Pingpu causing damage to rail links. The incident highlights ongoing tensions in the border region and disrupts supply routes for local transit and commerce.
City officials heard a residents committee claim Linganore watershed is being denuded along five miles above the Singap ore filtration plant. They warned timber cutting is forming dams and erosion that could pollute the stream and damage the city water system, with sawdust harming fish and the filtration works. Local figures including J Paul Delphey and George H Grove cited widespread clearing up toward Unionville as a cyclone-like devastation.
F Osborne Wilhelm vice president of the C F Wilkhams Company testified about an armed bank holdup at Citizens Bank of Keedysville Maryland. Two men forced him to the back room and tied cashier George W Buxton with adhesive tape before threatening to blow the vault. No explosion occurred and the men fled with cash and an overcoat.
Mr Wilhelm, living at 3504 Powhatan Ave Baltimore, recounts evading two bandits who warned him to cut the tape on I20se before escaping as the coast appeared clear. He was nervous yet followed orders, unable to fully describe the two men, one about 45 in worn clothes and the other younger.
The Italian trans Atlantic seaplane led by Captain Mario Stoppani fell in flames off the coast of Brazil near Natal. Four crew members are reported lost, with only Stoppani saved by a German rescue plane that later encountered difficulty in heavy seas.
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