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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1939
Page
5
Aug 21 Tientsin endures the worst flood in its history as the Hai river and streams overflow. Electrical facilities fail, telephones are dead, and boats become the sole transport. British concession reports nine feet flooding, mass evacuations, and a critical food and medical crisis with rising death tolls.
In Baltimore on Wednesday the American Legion Maryland convention will elect a new department commander. About 5,000 Legionnaires and families expected. main candidates are W Ray Tabler of Centreville and James Fitzgerald of Bethesda. Parade includes 250 units. banquet will ban speeches this year. Meanwhile in Cumberland a 17 year old, Thomas Manges, faces charges for attacking three women and will be sent to a state hospital per deputy medical examiner Dr Linney Corson who cited a superb physique and claimed the youth spoke with his dead mother.
Multiple death notices from Hagerstown area record Mrs Atha Lapole of 56 South Cannon Avenue at 48, her funeral Tuesday. David W. Lamarr in Middletown, own funeral Thursday. Mrs Annié Catherine Himes of Yarrowsburg with service Wednesday. William Kyner of 624 West Franklin Street dies of heart attack. George N. Gray of Williamsport dies at 75 with service Wednesday. George E Karikakis of Hagerstown dies at 48 with service Tuesday. Ernest Middiekaulis Lechrone, former Hagerstown resident, dies in Abilene Kansas. Mrs William Holland of Summit Avenue survives. Funeral details and interments listed.
Fritz Kuhn demanded that the Dies committee allow Bund leaders to answer accusations by Helen Vooros of immoral conduct at a band camp. Vooros, 19, testified that she quit the band due to immoral behavior by members during a Brooklyn youth program.
Bruce Hat in the ring with Bruce and Miles hosting a reception in Ocean City. State Senator Radcliffe was absent, Mayor Jackson mends fences for a possible 1942 governorship bid, and former Comptroller Gordy did not attend. O'Conor-Jackson angles shape the senatorial picture as Radcliffe contemplates re election.
A series of fires burned forests across Washington and nearby areas. One logging camp near Bellingham was destroyed, another blaze threatened virgin timber in the Mt. Bader region, and four major fires in Nelson British Columbia drew on all available volunteers. Refugees from Pine Ridge near Klamath Falls found shelter in Chiloquin as smoke reached Portland. California crews faced 400 blazes in 11 days.
Johnny Weissmuller wife San Francisco socialite Bery Scott wed in Garfield New Jersey with two ceremonies to satisfy officials and newsreel cameras. The couple will delay their honeymoon until November while Weissmuller performs at Billy Rose's Aquacade during the New York World's Fair.
Washington Aug 21 The Slattery program for colonizing Alaska with private capital and a mix of native Americans and political refugees drew 500 information requests since Aug 14. Officials say Matanuska’s 1935 opening shows thousands applied, but the colony may support only about 150 families and Road and land clearing costs limit progress.
Scranton welcomes home Gloria Jean Schoonover eight months after she left as a blue eyed hop scotch player to become a film star. Mayor Huester proclaims Gloria Jean Day and she will be crowned Queen of Anthracite. A parade, a critics’ train ride, and a free trip for 26 seventh graders mark the celebration of her movie debut The Under Pup.
Max Harlan, 48, of Stockport, farmer, at Temple University Hospital for testing to determine his fitness as medical science's first regular patient in a trial of a frozen sleep cancer treatment. The method lowers body temperature to slow or halt cancer growth, with four to five days of suspended animation followed by rewarming.
A flag raising at the site of the new clubhouse under construction by Conococheague Sportsmen's Club will headline the annual all day outing Thursday at Earl Hoover Miller's sawmill summer home. The program includes the Washington County trap shooting championship with Tom Arnsparger defending his title, a fly and ping casting tournament, and a chicken and corn dinner served at 1 p.m.
Elks from Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia plan four days of fishing in Tangier Sound and nearby waters as the Crisfield lodge hosts the B P O Elks gathering. Activities include speedboat races picnics crab feasts dances and tours ending with a parade and grand hall.
Maryland’s 115 state banks reported a $19,585,512 increase in deposits for April through June, bringing total deposits to $321,045,101. Assets stood at $870,475,384 with private and government deposits and loans composing the mix, and 122 savings banks also posted gains of $1,719,452 in deposits and $2,075,417 in assets.
Warse, Aug 22. The British embassy told nationals in Warsaw to depart as soon as possible due to the danger of a rupture in Polish German relations. Individual British tourists were urged to leave Poland immediately because of anticipated transport difficulties if war breaks out.
Aug 21 report says Dr J A Shaw longtime Louisiana oil chief and government witness in a federal probe shot himself at home in New Orleans area, complicating the case against former Gov Richard W Leche and hotelier Seymour Weiss. Investigators had planned new indictments as they pursue ties to Burford and the hot oil scheme.
Barre Massachusetts August 21 resilient town split between strikers and workers as violence erupts police assaulted a man and a woman’s clothes were torn from her at the Barre Wool Combing Company plant Chairman Clifton Wolcott urged Governor Saltonstall to restore a state police guard declaring the situation desperate after a car was overturned by pickets and many workers stayed away.
A partial page excerpt describes a psychologist notes a subject’s echoing speech and phonetic recall. Magner demonstrates a strong capacity for attention to sound variation while Dr. Senfield remarks the talent can embarrass him, recalling a lost romance when the subject repeated his partner’s words.
Eva Hardy, learning to drive, misfired a pedal and crashed through a Mare island window hitting Gallionne's dock near Huntington Beach. Secretary W H Gallienne notes the Chamber of Commerce sign may have contributed to pedestrians and drivers misunderstanding welcome signs.
Glenn L. Martin, pioneer aviator and head of a major aircraft maker, plans to learn to fly again after a 15 year layoff. He has not flown since 1924 due to business duties and insurance limits but will begin training, noting gliding as the finest form of flying and expressing enthusiasm for the sport.
Observers say the German army, about 250000 strong, is prepared for rapid sweeping moves against Poland’s southern flank if a Danzig crisis triggers war. Government silences limit Slovak public awareness as Germany reports fortifications along the Polish border while Slovakia quietly mobilizes youth and gradual military buildup continues without official notice.
Winry-aye ovyssana girls and church members from Congregational Church in Marion Iowa stopped Friday evening at the Y M C A and other spots en route to Washington D C After visiting the Capital they will proceed to New York to see the World Fair Niagara Falls is included The tour is sponsored by the church minister.
Baltimore authorities searched for five of six Marylanders drowned over the weekend. Charles Smith was believed knocked overboard during an altercation. Otis F Buehne of Washington. Max Ackerman of Fairlee in the Chesapeake. Evelyn Genevieve O Hayer of Westernport. Bud Fisher and Howard Wallop, Snow Hill, drowned when their boat swamped. Searchers aimed to recover the remaining bodies.
St James Brethren Church hosts a chicken and country ham supper on Wednesday evening August 28 rain or shine. Ady.
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