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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1933
Page
6
Editorial questions sweeping dismissals by the new Republican administration at a Monday City Council meeting. It cites the firing of the Municipal Light Plant commercial manager Potterfield and the abolition of the detective force, arguing the moves mix politics with essential city services and could endanger public safety in Hagerstown.
Washington April 14 A head cold keeps President Roosevelt at home in the executive mansion but he proceeds with his broadcasting program of breathen.
London report states Britain will enforce an embargo on most Russian imports effective April 26. The move, signed by King George at Windsor Castle, targets 80 percent of Russian shipments including grain butter raw cotton petroleum and timber as retaliation for the Moscow sabotage and espionage trial. Parliament authorized action last week.
An explosion of undetermined origin destroyed a 10 room house under renovation in a prime Flatbush Brooklyn residence area. The unoccupied house caused no injuries as no one was hurt.
Florence Ariz April 19 Dr Paul Bowers of Los Angeles testified at Ruth Judd sanity hearing that she is sane and frightened by a state of great fear. He maintained her condition did not alter his opinion about her sanity during the murder trial of Mrs Agnes Leroi. The hearing adjourned amid contempt threats against county attorney Will Truman.
Boston reports rising rivers along the Connecticut valley in western Massachusetts and the Merrimack valley near Lowell and Lawrence. Homes flooded, roads blocked, and police alerted as Governor Ely orders vigilance. authorities fear dam failures could unleash immediate widespread flooding across multiple communities.
Soviet records report L. C. Thornton and William L. MacDonald British engineers sentenced for espionage sabotage and bribery in Moscow. An appeal was planned as four others were expelled from Russia with Gregory acquitted. Thornton received three years and MacDonald two. both were held incommunicado.
Two year old Helen Vasco disappeared from Hastings on Hudson as her mother fights an eye surgery ruled permissible by the Appellate Division. Physicians warn a malignant eye tumor will kill the child if not removed promptly. The Vasco family fled the home with relatives after the ruling.
Col A K Baskette former quartermaster for the Third Corps Area based in Baltimore has been shifted to the Fifth Corps Area headquarters in Columbus Ohio effective July 1. He aided the Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce efforts to improve the Antietam battlefield and helped secure funds for Sharpsburg improvements through local collaborations.
Samuel Charles of Williamsport Route 1 told Sheriff Downin and Deputy Renner at the hospital that he was shot last night while attempting to steal chickens at Ralph Byers farm on Downsville Pike. He suffered gunshot wounds to legs hips and arms and is expected to recover.
Mrs. O S Huntington of Baltimore Maryland leapt from the 15th floor of a mid city Philadelphia hotel and fell to the street below. She was middle aged and well to do and had registered at the hotel the day prior. Her husband Warner Dave Huntington a vice president of Davison Chemical Company now in receivership.
BLUE RIDGE Ind April 19 Life has been just one break after another for seven year old Annabelle Fessler She is now suffering her fifteenth bone fracture She slipped while walking on crutches Her collar bone was broken.
Paris April 19 The United States dollar closed at 24.60 francs in official Bourse trading marking a new low since November 1925. Unofficial trades later ranged 24.50 to 24.55 francs as banks cited uncertainty over the U S gold embargo and fears of non conversion.
New York stocks led a broad market rally on April 19 as the dollar softened. NYSE shares jumped about 31 points to above 38. Cotton and sugar futures rose, and steel hit a yearly high near 35.24. Silver futures advanced and currency values climbed on expectations of gold exports.
In Maple Plain Minnesota on April 19 a village firemen's meeting aligned with the village council, allowing clerk Norman Batdora to avoid signing beer licenses. Batdora urged resignation over signing, while Levi Carlson was named clerk pro tem.
Receivership petitions filed in Circuit Court No 2 Baltimore by stockholders to curb further losses and to pursue officers liable for misappropriated funds. United Founders Corporation incorporated in Maryland in February 1929 holds 6,000,000 authorized shares with widespread sale and many shares reported in Hagerstown.
Two men suspected by police of wholesale counterfeiting were arrested early today on the Baltimore Washington boulevard after passing a bogus five dollar bill at an Elkridge garage. The suspects named L. B. Wilson of Raleigh North Carolina and L H Holsclaw of Washington. Police found more than fifty other five dollar bills on them.
Clyde Roulette reports six White Rock hens and one rooster stolen overnight in Sharpsburg. The case was turned over to the sheriff's office this morning.
The May term jury will be drawn tomorrow morning by Judge Frank G. Wageman as the term opens Monday.
The State Forestry Department announces a Forest Conservation Corps plan to build a passable road to Fort Frederick in Washington County. The project allocates 1863 man days across fortress work, road improvement, trails, forestation, recreation, streams, rust work, telephones, waterworks, and lookout towers, with county boards asked to provide stone crushers and equipment.
ALMA Wisconsin April readers learn two counties Buffalo and Pepin may merge after UW professors estimate annual tax savings of about 18000. Pepin faces jail and courthouse upgrades at Durand, prompting editor J M Axtell to back the plan as Assemblyman Arthur Hitt moves a referendum bill.
A European body recovered from Charbada Island near Hoakhall is believed to be Captain L. Rodiano the Italian fliers missing since leaving Calcutta Pridey for a projected Ragheed to- Revtreme sight.
Washington April 19 President Roosevelt directs a broad campaign for a controlled price level to ease deflation. He orders the revocation of licenses for gold export to report the dollar in foreign exchanges, a step toward higher domestic commodity prices. He meets with the 12 Federal Reserve governors and Treasury officials to use idle currency and free bank deposits.
Washington April 19 The House labor committee met in secret to decide actions on the five day week bill and Perkins amendments granting federal control of production and establishing minimum wages. Chairman Connery warned the measure involves controversial questions and action may be slow.
Rome reports at the inaugural Inter-Parliamentary Commisarial conference where Prime Minister Mussolini urged paying international debts with goods and services. King Victor Emmanuel attended as numerous notables gathered, including Chancellor Adolf Miller and Hermans Gotring among others.
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