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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1938
Page
2
A formal statement from The Daily News outlines correction procedures for errors and requires real names for letters to the editor. It notes Associated Press credit rules, author identification, and submission guidelines for letters and opinions. The notice is filed as a standard editorial policy.
The National Safety Council report shows 1937 deaths at an all time high while travel per mile was safer than since 1925. Currier notes a 16 percent lower death rate per 100 million miles in 1937 and speaks to reforms in licensing enforcement, education, road engineering, and hazard mapping yielding early declines.
Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania faces questions over a $30,000 loan from contractor McCloskey tied to state contracts totaling $10 million. He defends the loan as personal friendship, while critics allege campaign involvement and former McCloskey staffers now serving as state inspectors. The affair clouds his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
A playful puzzle asks to identify incorrect words in four sentences. Each contains a mistaken name or term, such as Rosa Bonheur credited with writing The Horse Fair and Pietro Toscanini a conductor, while other lines mix roles and facts.
A fragment describes a chemical testosterone test aimed at altering women's physiology, conducted at Cornell Medical College. The note hints at controversial aims and raises questions about the research's implications and safety.
A synthetic male hormone injected into guinea pigs by Papanicolaou and Fath strengthened muscles in both sexes. The article notes the hormone explains differences in strength between genders and discusses potential Cornell tests for muscular deficiency, while cautioning that healthy individuals do not gain abilities from drugs.
Seven Hood College students with assistant professor Grace E Lippy traveled from Frederick to Solomon's Island for a field trip to the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. Other groups from University of Maryland and University of Pittsburgh joined in a lab lecture by Dr. R V Truitt and a fishing-boat excursion at 5 30 AM to observe lobster and fish movements. Students included Beverly Feaga Beatrice Summers Harriette Bowers Eliza Miller Phoebe Land Elizabeth Gilmore and Katherine Stevens.
Local items from The News May 3 1686 recount a light vote against city electric light plant purchase and a minor leg wound to Oscar Firestone from a rifle discharge. Also notes a Frederick Lawn Tennis Club court project and Prosperity continues to reign with high clearinghouse figures.
Miss Nora Wise presided over a Zonta Club gathering at Hotel Frederick for Youth Week observances with musical solos, sketches, and pupil performances by local students. WPA workers shift to unemployment compensation noted. Robert Nicodemus to speak next.
Readers are shown common errors in usage pronunciation and spelling. The daily item highlights misused words like got and purport and explains pronunciation hints for appall and isthmus, urging vocabulary growth through daily practice and examples.
A reflective note from LUFBURROW on weekly news, lamenting fast pace and ongoing crime and calamity. The fragment hints at a restless public mood and desire for calmer times amid robberies murders and accidents.
The Spring meeting of the Maryland State Home Economics Association at Maryland State Teachers College Tawson drew Hood College faculty. Attendees included Martha C. Thomas, Lilah R. Gant, Ruth Clarion, Dorothy Green, and May F. Kohn, all instructors or professors in home economics or education and home economics.
Miss Mary Louise McGee of Pittsburgh, a Hood College senior, will read an honors paper in Home Economics on Wednesday at 4 45 p m in room 65 Administration building titled Trends in Shakespearian Costume as shown in Romeo and Juliet The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet.
In Hagerstown on May 3 AP reports three damage suits totaling 30,000 were filed in circuit court against jockey Ralph Eccard after a fatal collision near Ellicott City two weeks earlier. Suits note Beccard's Chewsville Washington county home. Mrs. May Filler Wells died in the crash. Wallace W. Wells seeks 10,000 for his son Wallace Jr. and James E Hilton and Sadie Miller sue for 10,000 each for injuries.
The Cub movement in Frederick City and County shows expansion with two new chartered packs. one sponsored by Grace Evangelical Lutheran church and another with North Market Street School, endorsed by the school PTA. Existing Pack No. 2 and Pack No. 1 provide tests for Wolf and Bear Cub ranks, with multiple members completing Wolf, Bear, and Lion tests.
Miss Jean Gosnell and Miss Jeannette Koons were elected to circulation manager and advertising manager roles on Hood College yearbook Touchstone. Gosnell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gosnell, has been in Glee Club and Science Club. Koons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Koons, has prior Glee Club and endowment fund committee experience and serves as Glee Club treasurer this year.
The Frederick Women s Christian Temperance Union met at Mrs Roy L Leatherman s home Monday evening with 21 members present The program included a song led by Mrs F B Sappington a devotional by Miss Mary Hine piano solo readings on health and wisdom s high degree and a discussion by Mrs Clara Kepler and Mrs Roy Leatherman The nominating committee reported officers re elected for another year Delegates to the Buckeystown convention on May 12 named by Sirs Glessner Smith Roy Burke Grant Lantz Mary Fisher William Crothers Horace Cutsail Hine and Grant Poole Miss Anna Secrist and Mrs Kepler The meeting adjourned with prayer.
A health feature discusses the Rocky Mountain spotted fever, its tick vectors, and transmission. It explains which ticks spread the disease in North America, the regions and months of peak risk, and outlines typical symptoms and potential severe outcomes. It also notes who is most at risk and mentions a follow up article. The piece includes a separate notice of Hood College students attending a Maryland Home Economics meeting.
A likely 1930s NEA Service piece outlines etiquette rules for a man and lady at a dance. It poses five questions about offering help, crossing streets, public grooming, napkin use, and table manners, plus a scenario at a small dance with options for handling dances and partnerships. The answers summarized reflect traditional conduct: offer aid, avoid guiding with an arm, no public hair grooming, unfold napkin on lap, do not lean on the table, and in the dance scenario prefer swapping partners rather than monopolizing the evening.
A digest of historical birthdays and events including James O Andrew born in Georgia in 1794 and Pope Alexander VI issuing the Demarcation Bull in 1493. Also notes medical school founding in 1765, cross continental flight in 1923, and Britain’s general strike beginning in 1926.
New York writer recounts meeting Irving and Nat Eastman, twin interior decorators famed for the Futura home in Miami built to maximize sunlight and air. They showcase stainless steel, blue glass, and auto-locking doors, with plans for Florida life and continued design work in Manhattan.
A successful fundraiser notes a woman who confidently asks for the full amount from wealthy donors when seeking funds for a dormitory. She is undeterred by occasional refusals and continues to pursue generous gifts.
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