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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1933
Page
6
Michigan moves toward repealing the eighteenth amendment as delegates to a convention are elected across the state. Wet support surged, electing between 80 and 90 of the 100 delegates, with 61 votes needed to control the convention. The Lansing assembly convenes April 10 to consider repeal.
ANNAPOLIS April 4 The land Senate met in executive session and confirmed Governor Ritchies green bag appointments except Dr George Heller who faced a brief hostile push led by Senator John H Rouse. No fight on other Ritchie appointees though approval of Motor Vehicle Commissioner EK Austin Baughman was anticipated amid prior House attacks.
On President Roosevelt’s orders Colonel Henry Latrobe Roosevelt assistant secretary of the Navy travels to the Lakehurst naval air station to take charge of rescue operations following the Akron airship disaster off the New Jersey coast.
Annapolis April 4 The Maryland Senate early today approved a bill to extend statewide anti bookmaking prohibitions to Washington county and Hagerstown. If Governor Ritchie signs, bookmaking in the county and town will be barred in public or open settings. Washington and surrounding areas have long endured open bookmaking, especially in Hagerstown. The Atkinson bid to legalize betting failed, clearing the path for the new restriction.
Charles Dryden and Harry Silver of Salisbury were acquitted early today of murdering Herman J. Lewis, a Snow Hill painter.
In Annapolis the House approved and sent to the Governor a bill creating the machinery for a state convention to act on repealing the eighteenth amendment. The Senate had already passed it. The convention would meet October 19 with delegates chosen September 12. The plan designates 29 persons, one from each county and district, to nominate delegates, with three of nine from each congressional district supporting, opposing, or remaining noncommittal on the amendment. Voters will elect three delegates from each district.
Annapolis Md April 4 Within five minutes after it passed the bitterly fought beer bill for Baltimore the Maryland General Assembly adjourned its 1933 session at 9 45 am today and the Senate followed shortly after. The session ran far past the constitutional hour with clocks stopped as lawmakers worked through a flood of calendars. The long grind came after two days and nights of labor before Sunday recess and continuing into today. The gasol ine tax distribution sparked the final push, aided by a personal appeal from Governor Ritchie Saturday night to the Senate to recede from its stand.
Hagerstown's new post office will not be delayed long due to government plans to use available public works funds for an initial reforestation financing. Congressman David J. Lewis told the An gerstown Chamber of Commerce that Treasury officials expect prompt demand for a larger appropriation to finish the delayed public works program or expand it. In St Michaels on April 4, Talbot county motorists faced honey bee swarms, driving three motorists from their ears.
An Associated Press note to the Daily Mail informed Mr and Mrs Frank Roof of 511 West Franklin that their son Claude Roof, a petty officer and former Los Angeles crew member now with one of Akron's three crews, was not aboard the airship when it crashed in the Atlantic during the storm. Roof had been informed only by AP dispatches and had recently visited Akron operations, with reminders of prior incidents in Langley and Los Angeles.
Washington April 4 — Amid the Akron catastrophe officials and lawmakers pressed for an official inquiry. Senate and House Naval committees sought prompt investigations as President Roosevelt and the White House coordinated responses. Officials reported the Akron crashed after storm and fire with 76 or 77 aboard and few survivors. inquiries mounted from Capitol Hill and public scrutiny increased.
New York April 4. The U S S Akron records nominal gas volume 6,500,000 cubic feet. Length 785 feet height 146.5 feet. Gross lift 403,000 pounds. Eight engines total horsepower 4,480. Maximum speed 83.8 mph, faster than the Los Angeles and Graf Zeppelin.
In a state action at Annapolis on April 4, Carroll County remains the only area prohibiting beer. Nine other counties and the cities of Baltimore and Annapolis are exempted but subject to local sale regulations. Washington County imposes a 50 dollar on premise on sale license and 25 dollar off sale. Licenses limit sale quantities to unbroken cane for off sale and on sale restrictions apply.
Roy Bennett, 25, arrested Saturday for stealing a handful of fishing license pins, was arraigned before Justice Richard H. Sweeney in city court and sentenced to six months in the House of Correction. Police say he appeared to have been without visible means of support. He allegedly walked into the Clerk of Court's office and took several anglers pins. several pins were recovered.
Joseph Milburn twenty, XII Al Milburn twenty four, and Junior Heil twenty, all residents of The Neck below Williamsport, were arrested by the Sheriff's office on chicken stealing charges. Deputies report two or three cases charged to the trio. Milburn had a prior arrest about a year ago on dynamiting the Potomac river but was acquitted.
New York April 4 The Akron the world largest airship crashed in flames at sea with 76 men aboard ten hours later only four survivors were found and one dead making this the greatest airship disaster. The Akron was struck by lightning in a violent electrical storm near Barnegat New Jersey. Captain Dalldort of the Phoebus reported rescuing four survivors including Lieut Commander H V Wiley. Only three other crew members were identified Moody Erwin Richard Deal and Robert Copeland with Copeland later dying. A salvage convoy rushed toward Brooklyn Navy Yard with the dead and survivors aboard.
Beech Haven New Jersey April 4 The naval air station J-3 nonrigid airship crashed into the sea about 1000 yards from shore at 145 p m The fate of its five man crew led by Lieut W A Cockell was not immediately known Two crew members believed alive were rescued by surf boats and taken to Paul Kimball hospital Lakewood The J-3 was sent from Lakehurst to search for Akron survivors.
Lee Redmond and Earl Cave of Bakersville were each sentenced to thirty days in jail after pleading guilty to assaulting Deputy Sheriff Emmett Daley. Daley testified he went to the Cave home to arrest Warla Cave for attacking his father. Redmond interfered and both men joined the assault.
A message to the Third Naval District reports the body of Lieutenant Commander Harold E. K. Maclellan from Westerly Rhode Island was recovered by the Lenard boat TS at latitude 29 26 and longitude Bras. He served aboard the dirigible Akron and is identified as an officer aboard the airship.
A fragmentary report describes William E. Green showing a section of the Akron dirigible and notes a beam theft during construction. The giant airship met an untimely end early today and related alloy beams are mentioned as seized evidence.
Akron was described as a national disaster in reports from Washington stating President Roosevelt addressed the incident. Daisy Beaner, a colored woman, was sentenced to thirty days in jail on a charge linked to an altercation witnessed in the morning before Justice Richard H. Sweeney.
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