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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1934
Page
6
In San Diego on August 14, a six year old girl Nora Ruth Niciforos pleaded for her mother Milana Nicoforos who admitted holding the child’s fingers over gas flames as punishment. The court released the mother with a 30 day suspended jail sentence despite the girl’s severe burn injuries.
Ken Meehan 26 of Oak Park Illinois, a former Northwestern and prospective Illinois halfback, died after blood poisoning from injuries when a motorcycle accident Aug 5 led to leg amputation. He had been in Rocky Mountain National Park as a ranger and was hourly expected to join Illinois team.
Washington expected President Roosevelt to outline future drought and farm relief policy in a nationwide address within days. AAA officials travel the country defending crop reduction aimed at curbing over production and stabilizing prices, while Secretary Wallace notes control may not mean smaller crops. The administration anticipates higher living costs this winter and works on anti profiteering measures.
Thomas Shives, 65, of Hancock, sustained abrasions and bruises and shock after falling about eighteen feet into the C. and O. Canal lock between seven and eight p.m. He was found by his daughter Mrs. John Ott, pulled from the lock by workers with a ladder, and taken home for medical care. He formerly worked as a canal boatman and has been retired for years. Typhoid clinics open at St Michaels and Oxford amid an outbreak with five cases. three at Oxford and two in Easton, as health officers search for carriers. William Ruth, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ruth, had his arm broken at the Western Maryland shops and is improving in hospital.
Government aims to curb machine guns by new rules requiring registration after next month. From September 24 any post-August purchase must have a commissioner order, fingerprinting, and a 200 tax boost. Revenue stamps, serial-number protection, and strict records accompany traders.
Mil ton E. Mellor, vice president of Wisconsin Pretzel Co., denounces the NRA pretzel code as burdensome. He notes the 40 hour week and wage scales for machine operators, hand twisters, and apprentices, arguing the 60 day learning period devalues skilled labor and hurts veteran pretzel benders.
Maryville Tennessee August 14 Officers searched the foot hills of the Great Smoky Mountains for 13 prisoners who escaped from Bolant County jail last night after overpowering jailer Robert French. One escapee Eugene Isbell was captured two blocks from the jail. French said two prisoners held pistols on him while another took his keys. Eighteen men were in the cell block. After tying the jailer with a rope 14 escaped down the back stairs. Sheriff E R McReynolds said he believed outside gangs aided in the jail delivery.
New York Aug 14 Raymond Hood world famed architect died at his Stamford Conn home at age 53. Hood helped pioneer skyscraper design and, with John Mead Howells, built the Chicago Tribune tower. He also designed the American Radiator building in New York.
Harold E Coburn an attorney of Havre De Grace was this morning elected president of the Maryland Delaware and District of Columbia Association of B F C Ellis, succeeding J Morris Guider of this city Havre De Grace Lodge No 1564 chosen as the site of the 1935 convention Other officials elected include first vice president John J Stump second vice president Louis N Frank Baltimore third vice president John P Hafer Frostburg secretary Harry B Coslett Havre De Grace treasurer Charles E Klosterman Baltimore Trustees elected Phillip A Gayant Washington John B Jester Wilmington James E Swing Cambridge Nathan G Dorsey Frederick A C Braun Annapolis and N Bosley Hoffman Towson The morning session was the largest and most important of the 14th annual convention of the Tri State association which opened yesterday A rising vote of thanks was given the Hagerstown Lodge for the convention and program of entertainment now underway John E Lynch past exalted ruler of Washington Lodge and recently named district deputy grand exalted ruler for Maryland addressed the group outlining two major objectives of the order
Lindsay Ontario August 14 AP farm youth J W Forsyth eighteen while caring for cows in a back pasture spotted a two foot diameter tree spanning the Canadian National Railway at Uxbridge. He ran along the tracks waving his arms as the train whistle sounded and the locomotive halted within about fifty feet of the tree, averting a likely wreck.
Fleet Indian runners bearing an invitation from Fort Niagara trek south through Pennsylvania to Harrisburg and then to Washington. Twelve braves take turns racing in a motor bus carrying a Wampum pouch with three corn kernels to ask President Roosevelt to meet in the four nations celebration. The message will be delivered by Bird Lying Down 26.
In Tianjin area, five Chinese criminals were executed for the murder of Dr. J. H. Ingram, a 57 year old American missionary killed during a night raid on his summer bungalow near Peiping. The National government at Nanking sought the killers, as Ingram spent five decades in China and was longtime known as China’s best foreign friend.
Reverend J C Spindler of Paw Paw, a Southern Methodist, found McCullough of Cumberland injured beside Cacapon Creek after a fall that fractured a leg. He carried the man to the highway, aided at a Paw Paw physician, then transported him to Cumberland hospital for treatment.
John R Weeks head of the Weather Bureau in Baltimore predicts a mild coming winter despite a cold forecast by a symposium. He cites a 73 percent chance that a very warm summer will be followed by a mild winter and notes a toss up after a normal summer. Mary Austin, 65, prolific Southwest author, dies in Santa Fe.
In Baton Rouge on August 14, senators allied with Huey P. Long backed the guard against Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley in a fight tied to im peachment and police powers in New Orleans. Legislators gathered for an anticipated extraordinary session as troops remained on duty at the registration office amid court plans to address injunctions and contempt charges against Long and militia leaders.
Aaron Kesecker, who escaped from the Berkeley Springs jail where he faced charges in a bonds theft, will likely return to Berkeley Springs this week in custody of State Trooper J. M. Johnson and Deputy Sheriff L. M. Yost. He was captured in Vicksburg, Mississippi after seeking Federal relief, with his references leading to arrest orders. The two officers departed last week to retrieve him by car.
Annapolis enforces an anti hiker ordinance allowing standing on the curb to solicit rides but banning stepping into the roadway. W R Wehrle was arrested for soliciting a ride from a private car and released with a caution. Died here last night Dr Arthur Lathem Luke 81 noted mathematician.
In Defiance Ohio a mentally deranged youth stabbed Miss Mabel Krotz in the left forearm as she burned rubbish in an alley. It marked his sixth attack in two months. Police chief Weaner led 100 vigilantes in a city chase but no one was seriously harmed before.
John M. Lewis a Pawnee county farmer weighs profits of hogs versus dogs after selling three pups at a farm sale for a price and using the proceeds to buy five small pigs at the same event.
Fires in Idaho and California killed three CCC workers amid the worst northern Idaho blaze since 1910. Leroy McGinnis of Kewanee Texas, Lester Johnson of Galesburg Ill, and William Mattison of Los Angeles died in or near the Selway forest fighting flames. Four major fires and many spots kept 4,000 men at work as smoke grounded aerial operations.
Three unidentified men lured police court interpreter Alexander Soulgikoff to a false street address in Montreal on August 14 and shot him to death. He staggered from his car and died in the street as his attackers fled. Police deem the murder a vengeance crime after witnesses said he asked a passerby for an address on Delanaudiere street.
Darius A. Ives, 39, band leader whose ensemble was among the first called into service in World War I, died in Boston last night. A political item notes forecast that David A. Reed will replace the late William S. Ware as Republican National Committeeman from Pennsylvania after a conference of party leaders in Philadelphia.
Old Fort Frederick yields relics from two centuries ago as CCC workers excavate the fort interior. A flintlock musket piece, a nine inch key, a door though, a three inch cannon ball, a London pewter spoon, metal buttons and a bayonet fragment were found. The district inspector notes evidence of fort inhabitants surviving sieges and suggests wells indicate local water supply. A new shale road to the park near the fort is underway with cabins and an administration building planned.
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