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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1938
Page
5
Olive Roberts Barton discusses home safety for children, balancing parental warnings with children's own responsibility. She cites practical tips like high medicines, secured fires, barred windows, repaired wires, gas fixtures out of reach, and kept knives. She notes real dangers from heat, stairs, plugs, and choking, urging constant vigilance.
A C Stine new manager of Jocal Sears Roe buck and Co. store joins the Frederick Lions Club at a luncheon in the Francis Scott Key Hotel. He recounts Lions work in Chester and Pottsville PA and a $200 loan to a blind youth that funded a magazine stand and became a permanent fund for similar aid.
Carved from postwar Europe, Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia and Romania sought unity and peace through the Little Entente. The alliance aimed at mutual defense and economic solidarity but faced collapse as Adolf Hitler annexed Sudetenland and dismembered Czechoslovakia, transforming the region. A 1933 Romanian stamp illustrates the era’s fragile hopes.
Adelaide Kerr notes that wide-hooped gowns with crinoline return, inspired by Eugenie and Victorian era styles. Frocks use removable hooped slips, satin and velvet fabrics, low decolletage, and small waists. Embroideries, metallic trims, and ornate headpieces complete the look for two-sided Atlantic fashion.
Henry R. Shoemaker, county agent, announced about six more supervisors under the Agricultural Conservation program to inspect crops. Earlier, a dozen were appointed. about 200 applications were received for 1939 wheat crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act, making coverage available to interested growers. Meetings explained the plan and time limits for enrollment have expired.
October produced its first rainfall yesterday with a measure of .16 inch recorded by the local weather station. The low temperature dropped to 35 degrees, marking a chilly start to the month.
A rainfall began about 5 o clock Thursday morning, keeping temperatures low with a daytime high of 56. Rain was not heavy enough to raise Fishing Creek receiver levels to the spillway crest or muddy streams for weekend fishing. Water was six inches below the dam edge on Wednesday. The Potomac and Monocacy rivers remained clear as recent rains eased. Clear skies followed a cool night with temperatures around three degrees below freezing.
Representatives of dairy industry branches in Baltimore and Washington formed a permanent group to advance Maryland dairy interests at College Park. Dr Charles W England of the University of Maryland helped arrange the meeting and noted similar groups exist in other regions.
The Frederick Civic Club staged Step This Way at Winchester Hall with a near capacity audience on opening night. Dorothy Rowuised directed a large cast featuring many opening parts and varied choruses. The comic mystery follows two families battling to keep a apple butter business in their kin, with a phantom and pirates treasure adding suspense. Tonight's show repeats at Winchester Hall.
A 435-foot tanker named E. J. Bullock burned and sank near the Dry Tortugas with two men missing and another injured. The O. M. Bernuth rescued survivors and headed to Key West. The Bullock, owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey, sailed from Smiths Bluff Texas on October 3 bound for Baltimore.
Washington dispatch notes every state moves to aid the aged under the old age program. Virginia’s plan approval reaches near 1.8 million beneficiaries by month’s end, proving real aid rather than promises. The piece also reports on the gradual rise of the La Follette Progressive movement, with California backing the effort and headquarters in Chicago.
Gen and North Dakota are being wooed by the N. P. A. La Follette, though he faces a 30,000 vote Republican gain at the primary. He can scarcely lose his campaign for a fourth term as governor, so full steam will be injected into the powerful machine we has in the state.
Three women were injured when a car skidded off the highway near Westminster on the Littlestown pike and struck a telephone pole. Mrs. Henry Herzog, relative of Dr. Louis P. Hamburger Jr., was hospitalized at Union Memorial in Baltimore. Also hurt were Mrs. Philip Hamburger of Ingram Hall Departments and a third woman whose identity was not learned. Dr. W. C. Jennette of Westminster attended to the trio.
A woman identified as Mrs Herzog was taken to the hospital by the Westminster Fire Department after a crash. Westminster reports say the pole was snapped off by the impact of the collision.
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