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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1933
Page
5
Four robbers held up a Grand Haven bank and fled with 2000 dollars. A bank employee triggered an alarm, citizens rushed to the scene, a street battle followed, two bank employees and one robber were wounded, the robber was captured and the others fled abandoning most of the money. Chicago sentenced 40 to prison, and posses with bloodhounds continued pursuit.
Early today in Fort Wayne Indiana a Wabash passenger train struck an automobile killing four people and leaving two others critically injured. The victims include James R Gray 39 from Toledo and his wife plus two Gray children Nettie Blanche 8 and Izetta 12. The driver failed to heed the crossing signal and the car drove into the train path at about 3 30 am.
In a fashionable Chicago hotel ballroom delegates at a veterinarians convention watched an odd display as an $8,000 Oriental rug was rolled back to reveal a demonstration of a new horseshoeing method to cure amencas, staged as entertainment last night.
Six residents of Wakarusa and nearby areas died and ten were injured when a truck tied to a motorbus carrying a group home from the Chicago World’s Fair was sideswiped near South Bend. The crash left a mangled vehicle and bodies strewn along the road as investigators traced the impact and aftermath.
Washington August 19 The National Recovery Administration Wins a major battle in the oil code with its cooperative purchasing rule. The provision favoring farm cooperatives is removed and extended to associations societies or corporations of consumers organized on similar terms. Non member dividends remain restricted by incorporation laws.
Police patrolled streets near the Amalgamated Leather Company plant in Wilmington as strikers and workers clashed. Three men were injured in a late yesterday free for all fight and several houses housing workers pursued by pickets were damaged.
Two cars collided near the corner of Elizabeth and West Washington last night around 5 o clock. Harry C. Everly of Palace Hotel was cited for failing to yield the right of way by the investigating officer. Robert C. Barnhart of 711 Washington avenue drove eastbound as Everly went westbound. rear of Barnhart car and front of Everly car were damaged. No injuries reported.
The Board of Election Supervisors approved printer copies of the official ballots for the September 12 special election. Twenty seven delegates to a state convention will be chosen from a field that includes Dr. Victor D. Miller and D. Webster Groh. Voters choose nine names, with options pledging to vote for repeal or retention of the 18th Amendment or unpledged candidates. Separate ballots cover the county local option law repeal or retention. Each voter will receive no ballots at polling places.
The American Railway association reports week ending August 12 car loadings at 622,759, up 9,647 from the prior week and 110,794 above the same week last year. Most commodities rose, with coke, merchandised goods, and miscellaneous freight dipping slightly. livestock and grain products also lagged the year-ago week.
Weather outlook for the North and Middle Atlantic States notes local showers Tuesday or Wednesday and again Friday or Saturday. Cooler at the start of the week, warmer middle and later parts, with a temporary cooler spell on Thursday.
Washington August 19 steel led Americas four big industries toward blue eagle membership with a wage and hour code. Roosevelt plans formal approval for steel coal and oil actions. The steel code provides a 40 hour week, 48 hour max, eight hour day after 60 percent capacity, 15 percent wage increase and minimums around 40 cents per hour. NRA to monitor with three reps to NRA and Iron and Steel Institute to ensure compliance and public protections as the code operates on a 40 day trial.
Two Cumberland mothers entertained at a whooping cough party for Aloysius Martin turning six. The guests, including the honoree, had either had whooping cough or were immune. The party was otherwise merry, with coughing spells as the only disruption.
Alice Peters of 28 West Baltimore Street narrowly escaped serious injury when she stepped into the path of a car driven by Mr Middlekauff near the J. W. Rohrer store. She received treatment for shock and wounds at the hospital and was returned home after examination.
Victor McLaughlin four of Dry Run Franklin county was badly injured yesterday when a pitchfork hurled onto a barn floor from a haymow by his brother struck him in the right side. Two forks penetrated his abdomen. He was rushed to Chambersburg hospital. The brother said he did not see Victor standing below.
In Pine Bluff Arkansas early today a posse shot and killed Henry Jackson a 30 year old paroled Black convict suspected of attacking a guard at Cummins Negro prison farm. Bloodhounds and officers pursued him as he tied and he did not halt according to officials.
At Old Bailey 16 members of a major arson conspiracy were sentenced to a combined fifty years. Leopold Harris, 24, labeled head of the group, received 168 years on counts but 14 years actual term due to concurrent sentences. The case, one of England’s longest trials, involved extensive insurance fraud across many years with business mens’ premises as targets. The trial featured a record court speech volume and cost.
A lone bandit with a revolver robbed the Standard Oil Service station and the Sunoco station on East Frederick street within 15 minutes of each other, taking $38 in cash and making no attempt to force the safes. No injuries reported. Accidental death ruling for Dr. Gambrill in York auto crash.
Havana dispatch reports Cuba's week of revolution culminating in Carlos Manuel de Cespedes taking provisional presidency. New administration faces harbor strike threats and communist agitation in Santiago while promising closer US cooperation, labor reforms, and a thorough political clean up including possible extradition of Gerardo Machado dynasty figures.
Gerardo Machado former Cuban president prepared to leave Nassau hotel after arriving Sunday. He planned a possible steamship voyage to Bermuda with his party, following a delayed Havana flight. Benjamin Thaw Sr., Pittsburgh banker and Thaw family member, died at 74 after a long illness. He was the father of World War ace Col. William Thaw.
In Euclid Ohio a middle aged Cleveland mechanical engineer James Gray is killed in a suburb. Police suspect robbery motives after his purse contents disappear. A large hunting knife bearing two sets of fingerprints and eyeglasses are found nearby. Mrs Gray says he left with a friend seeking work. Gray's education traces to Oxford and Columbus.
Vienna, Aug. 19. Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, said millions have died of starvation in Soviet Russia over recent months. He urged a global relief campaign to prevent further deaths and the accompanying horrors of infanticide and cannibalism.
Smithsonian scientists classify the N. R. A. Blue Eagle as a thunderbird, linking it to the ancient winged creature that dominated tribal lands. The analysis cites the bird’s beak, eye, and wings as thunderbird traits and notes connections to Alaska totem poles and Arizona rock carvings.
New York Aug 18 Grover Whalen N R A mediator says a settlement ends a week long dress makers strike affecting New York New Jersey Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Workers gain collective bargaining rights and a 35 hour week along with new wage scales and industry code enforcement responsibilities shift to jobbers and contractors.
Washington Aug 19 The coal arbitration board announced that Elmer F Andrews said he had negotiated a settlement ending a strike by 1000 miners at Pittsburgh Coal Co Montour mine in Western Pennsylvania An agreement will send 500 striking miners back to work at the terminal Coal Company Davidson mine
The National Labor Board said H. D. Bob Company signed an agreement to end the shirt makers strike in Pottsville Pennsylvania and Philip Jones Company joined yesterday. Workers return to work August 21 and the agreements mirror the Reading hosiery settlement.
A meeting of restaurant and lunchroom owners is set for Tuesday at 3 PM at Beck's Restaurant North Jonathan Street to discuss a local X R A code. L A Dowdey and Nicholas K Brown will explain details and answer questions.
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