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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1933
Page
10
A reunion and dinner for the 83rd Division American Legion will be held at the Hagerstown Country Club on August 26 at 8 o clock. Former division members from Maryland, Pennsylvania and nearby areas will attend, with a group from New York also expected. Local chairman C L Brine urges those seeking information to contact him.
Frederick and Washington counties Boy Scouts units will complete a merger this afternoon at a Frederick meeting announced by executive Henry R. Coates. The two-county unit has cooperated for some time and notable progress includes a 55 boy trip to the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.
West Virginia and the Federal government reached a satisfactory understanding to provide cooperative relief financing. Federal funds will be immediately available, announced by Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator.
A Baltimore campaign to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment is outlined with a rally at Carlin's Park on August 26 and a broad city and county effort. Governor Ritchie leads the committee with leaders from both parties and various races, promising a non factional drive to register for the repeal vote in the September 12 election.
The report outlines a sprawling list of names from Allegany and Washington counties tied to a kidnapping case and the restructuring of county sub committees. Key figures include Mayor George Henderson of Cumberland, Senator Glenn Beall, and William Preston Lane Jr. in Maryland politics.
Justice Lewis Hershberger presided over a statutory assault hearing in Smithburg on Yeatman a 45 year old Washington D C salesman held on 500 bond for the November Grand Jury. The 11 year old victim testified she sold papers at Camp Ritchie when Yeatman bought one then eight more and assaulted her carrying her to a nearby woods making improper proposals before she fled. Yeatman was arrested in Waynesboro and attorney Richard Sweeney appeared for the defense. A large crowd gathered with four witnesses testifying and the defendant not taking the stand.
Fire of undetermined origin seriously damaged the roof of The Always on the Williamsport Paks yesterday afternoon around 4. A marathon bicycle rider raised the alarm, the Williamsport fire company responded and limited the spread, though part of the roof was demolished. Equipment later checked a second blaze about an hour later. Proprieter Herbert Cornish valued the loss unofficially at several hundred dollars.
Ocean City August meeting hears calls to unite Maryland counties against state encroachment. Four Western Maryland and three Eastern Shore members to form planning committee. Speakers include former Senator J H C Legg and C C Squires criticizing Baltimore City and gas tax shifts.
The coroner's jury adjourned the inquest into the death of Hill 55, a farmer near Hancock, with an autopsy to be performed this evening. Officials suspect excessive drinking but continue the investigation. Hill was found dead behind Arley Schetrompf's truck. Walter Widmyer presides as jury foreman with Magistrate Ross Fite in attendance. Professor John Worley of the University of Michigan remarks on early automobile traffic on English highways in 1825.
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