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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1925
Page
1
County Commissioners weigh Stuart S. Janney State Welfare report on jail conditions. Frederick County jail rated Class C with inadequate facilities. budget and tax rate decisions loom as four weeks remain to finalize next year’s fiscal plan. Officials withheld final actions. report may influence jail funding.
Governor Huchle received a report from Dr. Arthur Herring stating Elizabeth King, sentenced to ten years for murdering her two infants, shows no evidence of mental disease or feeble-mindedness. Herring and Dr. Keating visited her at the House of Correction and found her sane. He questioned homes for the woman and favored the Montrose School for Girls. Susan Ellison may accept the case if approved by her board on June 8. The governor has not decided on a course of action.
Frederick Historical Society members and guests depart at 4 PM from Frederick for Sauble’ann Taneytown for supper at 6. Last meeting until Fall. Arrangements led by Mrs J Hanshew Markey Mrs FP Smith and Mrs David Lowenstein. Officers include President Frank C Norwood Secretary Roy Hyndman Treasurer Mrs Hammond Urner.
Hood College announces 32nd annual commencement events led by Glenn Frank of Century magazine as speaker. Friday includes opening exercises and a senior play A School for Scandal at the City Opera House, with Alumnae Day reenactments, receptions, music and a weekend of campus ceremonies culminating Sunday evening with a baccalaureate service and a large recital. The schedule centers on Friday through Monday with prizes awarded Friday and a Tuesday address at 10:45 a.m. by Frank.
The region faces an intense heat wave with forecasts predicting today will push June temperatures to new highs. Fredrick reports widespread discomfort and illness as soda fountains and ice dealers see sales surge, while tea shipments double to meet demand amid ongoing hot weather.
Visitation Academy Alumnae Association held a reunion Tuesday electing officers for the ensuing term. Angela Sappington becomes president and several vice presidents join the executive and advisory boards. Scholastic duties resume in September.
Mr and Mrs Croghan announce the coming to Hotel Frederick of Mr and Mrs Norman Danner of York PA as resident managers for the summer season. Danners bring long hotel experience from City Hotel Frederick and Brooks Hotel York. Croghans, located at Hotel Braddock, seek local cooperation to help them settle in.
Washington June 3 AP reports crop and weather conditions in Maryland for the week ended, with crops generally in good condition but needing rain. Wheat blooming, fruit and strawberries below average, early potatoes blooming to the south and on the Eastern Shore. Cultivation continued, planting not yet finished.
Following commencement on Tuesday morning with Glenn Frank addressing the crowd and 65 diplomas awarded, the Williams Observatory group departs, returning to homes across the country for the summer.
Canton dispatch reports extensive troop movements as Allied forces, including American and British units, arrive in Shanghai to quell uprisings that began with Chinese students protesting a strike at Japanese mills. Police opened fire as clashes killed two and injured many. Rail service is accelerated and stores are shuttered.
A meeting of the Sunday School Association of the Evangelical Reformed Church was held in the church parlors Tuesday night at 7:50. A. Leltoy Me. Carter presided. Topics included reports from department superintendents, the annual picnic planned for June 25 with a possible 24th date, Mothers Day floral options, and a prospective new Sunday School building with preliminary discussions and committee input from Artline Ib Doll J. Elmer Keefer and FL Lester Smith.
Moscow George’s Creek Mining Company asks the Public Service Commission to bar Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway Company from suspending electric power to its mines in Western Maryland. The firm argues shutdown would halt operations. the utility says it abandoned trolley service and plans to stop power in that area as impractical.
Baltimore June 3 Three youths about 19 years old Claude Dobbs Thomas Foran and Charles Mullen were resentenced for the murder of Louis Cohen the jeweler. The death sentences for Dobbs and Foran were converted to life terms under a second degree verdict of guilty without capital punishment. Mullen received 15 years in prison on the retrial after an initial life term.
News reports from June 3 detail a wide storm system causing fourteen deaths across the Middle and Western States, with additional deaths from heat prostrations in New York and Baltimore. Minneapolis and nearby areas report multiple fatalities and injuries, plus wind and flood damage in several towns.
French schooner Marie II seized by six British seamen near St Pierre was recaptured by French trawlers at midnight after a brief battle. The vessel was towed to St Pierre with "some damage" reported. Details of the clash were not yet available.
Boston June 3 The condition of Secretary of War John W Weeks after surgery for bladder stones at Massachusetts General Hospital was described as not favorable He had a restless night vomiting a 100 degree fever and a pulse of 104 in a bulletin from his physician Also notes stock market gains in New York and a lighthearted Ford joke from London referencing Wembley show coverage.
Perry Hale, once Yale football star of 1900 and now blind, claims a kite he invented flies higher with less wind than ordinary kites. He learned the art of kite making at the Hospital for the Blind in Evergreen, Maryland, near Baltimore.
President Coolidge tells graduates at Annapolis that maintaining large standing armies is unnecessary and that a republic thrives when citizens stay ready for defense while pursuing peace. He asserts reliance on diplomacy and warns against misreading nations arming against the U.S.
Walter C. Ambrose proprietor of the Yardley Motel Brunswick and Jobe Foster driver were held on $50 bonds after a preliminary hearing on larceny charges. Harry O Smith of Washington accused of stealing a handbag containing $800 in currency and $500 in Liberty bonds. Smith stayed at the Yardley Motel about two weeks and claimed the bag as payment debt. Witnesses to the theft could not be produced. Foster faced tax bill duty and a drive to Winchester to see Larry K Thaw. Smith allegedly did not pay for the trip. Court adjourned with further hearings possible.
Knights of Pythian lodges of Frederick and Washington counties will hold their annual reunion at Conamac Park Willamsport on Saturday June 8. A noon reception followed by luncheon and a meeting addressed by Grand Chancellor Col Nelson H Russter Grand Toapector B Mercer Hartman and Supreme Representative Reno 8 Hero. At 2 pm athletic contests and a band concert. 3 40 pm baseball between Hagerstown Orioles and Martinsburg Howe Company. 7 pm dancing until midnight. Large delegation from Mountain City Lodge Frederick expected. Park lies along the Potomac river with bathing and a fast slide.
In remarks cited as an Instrument of peace, Mr. Cook urged full federal funding and support for voluntary groups aiding the Navy. He argued that military strength alone cannot deter aggression and that spiritual and moral forces must be mobilized to achieve lasting peace.
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