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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1927
Page
4
Washington police decided to photograph and fingerprint all persons arrested for major liquor law violations in the capital. Major Edwin B. Heese said the measure creates a full record to assist investigations and deter would be violators.
A deserted village near Manchaug Massachusetts went on the auction block after abandonment in 1921 by B. B. and R. K. Knight. The sale includes 74 houses three mills large farm wood tracts and meadow land with mills to be sold next day. Estimated from the 74 parcels excluding mills is about 40000 dollars.
L H Shroyer of Mapleville was badly injured when a horse crushed him at a stable door. He is improving.
The Stork left triplets and twins in adjacent rooms at St Elizabeths hospital Covington Kentucky Aug 23 The triplets are all boys born to Naval Lieut C W Hardin and Mrs Alice Lague Hardin on a Texas cruise The twins are girls born to Mr and Mrs Edward Collins of Latonia Kentucky The father was notified by radio.
The main farm building at Clemallen Dairy Farm about one mile from Hancock burned yesterday at 10 o clock. Damage was estimated between four and five thousand dollars, with 799 bushels of wheat 80 tons of hay and several electric milkers destroyed. No cattle were in the building. The cause is not yet fixed but a short circuit from faulty insulation on power wiring is suspected. Owners are J A Whitlock and Roy M Daniels of Hancock.
A 12 year old, Eva Daymude, was struck along Middleburg pike near Greencastle and suffered a broken leg in a hit and run. Police traced the car to Chambersburg, arrested a suspect who was later released after questioning.
Washington reports two Nicaraguans were killed in an August encounter with an American Marine detachment led by First Sergeant Bruce. The Marines suffered no casualties according to Navy Department advisement.
Work to rebuild West Washington Street starts this morning by Bester and Long. crews dig from Summer to Elizabeth streets then defer until water and lighting mains are laid. The project includes concrete paving after excavation and partial closure to limit disruption.
Mrs Guila Fink, a 25 year old widow and nurse from Garfield Hospital, Washington, D C, was assaulted as she walked near the Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Point of Rocks. A white man in khaki trousers seized her but fled after her cries drew helpers Ira Stunkle and others. No injuries but clothing torn. A nationwide search followed with no clue by noon Tuesday. Fink believes she could identify the assailant if confronted.
Key Poy and Lee Chew the only Chinese inmates ever at Washington County Jail were released after serving sixty days each for violating the Volstead Act. Both men from Baltimore were visited by many Chinese in jail and Sheriff Scott McCline called them model prisoners.
Los Angeles reports an appeal promised by Kenyon Lee for Lita Grey Chaplin against Justice Guerin’s $15,000 award to receivers W. J. Gilbert and Herman Spitzel for managing Charlie Chaplin’s property during marital troubles. The order requires Chaplin to pay receivers’ fees, while a $625,000 divorce settlement released him from most payments to receivers.
The Board of Street Commissioners announced that one or more policemen will be added to the Hagerstown department this week after police funds grew from new taxes. Chief Barber had requested extra staff since March, and a motorcycle may be replaced with a car for patrol. Fifty-seven arrests occurred last week with fines totaling 182 dollars.
John C.C. McGinnis of Flickott City Maryland president of the Maryland Casualty Company was resting comfortably at Orleans County Memorial Hospital Newport Vermont after an operation for appendicitis. Doctors said his condition was promising. He and his wife were touring New England when struck by illness on Friday.
Madilla Oklahoma August 23 Twenty four hours after they held up the First National Bank of Kingston Oklahoma Charles Ross 41 of Tulsa and Joe Leonard 39 of Kansas City were on their way to the state penitentiary to serve sentences of 25 years. The men were captured an hour after the hold up and pleaded guilty here today.
Elbert H. Gary widow Emma T. Gary and two daughters are named principal beneficiaries in the will filed for probate in Mineola. Specific bequests total more than 2.5 million dollars for Gary scholarships and the Gary Memorial church. The estate is valued between 5 and 10 million. the widow gets life use of Ivy Hall and one third of residuary income, with daughters and grandchildren receiving trust incomes, plus $1,000 in securities for each decade of service to household staff and chauffeur Alfred George Fletcher getting extra yearly pay.
The Hagerstown Branch of the Automobile Club of Maryland plans a motor caravan to Endless Caverns in Shenandoah Valley on September 11. About 200 members are expected to join a drive through the valley with dinner at Shenvalee Country Club and cavern exploration. Departure from Shenvalee around 5 p.m. and return to Hagerstown about 4 a.m. A leading touring car from the American Automobile Association will head the procession, with three mechanics along for support. Twenty cars have signed up. fifty more expected by week’s end, with additional enrollments likely before the date.
The bodies of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed at Charlestown Prison and will be cremated at Forest Hills Boston next Sunday. Vanzetti’s ashes will be sent abroad by his sister, with funeral processions planned in multiple cities and memorial services where needed. Sacco’s widow will claim his ashes in Boston.
The Board of Water has purchased 200000 dollars worth of pipe from Lynchburg Pipe and Foundry for use in bringing water from the Williamsport plant to Hagerstown. The firm submitted the lowest bid.
President Coolidge and family toured Yellowstone National Park arriving at Old Faithful Inn after a fifty mile drive. Applause greeted the First Family as Mrs. Coolidge and John joined in sightseeing while Coolidge fished near Fire Hole Creek and watched Old Faithful erupt. The trip moves toward the Continental Divide as peaks, pines, and steam from hot springs filled the scenery.
Cairo report announces the death of Zaglou Pasha president of the Egyptian chamber of deputies and nationalist leader. The Cairo dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company confirms his passing.
San Francisco August 23 The United States Army and Navy extended their hunt for six men and one woman missing since the $35 000 Dole air race. Destroyers covered 200 miles, Langley and Aroostook sent planes, and Hawaii based aircraft searched Mauna Kea as reports of green flares surfaced from the mountainside.
The third youth, Jedson Pryor, was taken into custody by Constable Claude Ferguson in Smithsburg for a series of petty robberies. Glenn Smith and Charles Forrest had already been arrested and confessed to robbing three homes. A hearing is scheduled in Police Court today. Fred L Allen and Howard McCarter of Washington stay at 28 Salem Ave.
A violent protest outside the American consulate in Geneva drew a police cordon of about 300 and left arrests as rioters clashed with officers. Firemen sprayed water to push back the mob while detectives identified rioters among the bystanders. The consulate had closed earlier for safety.
A 15 year old Negro woman is sought by police as the driver in a hit and run crash on Paper Mill Road that injured Theodore Carbaugh and Fred Smagedling. Carbaugh has a broken collar bone and other injuries. Smagedling received a cut to his head. The owner of the car, Dogeald Newman, who claimed he was driving, was arrested after the incident.
D Frank Miller, weights and measures inspector, said an investigation found many old family scales still in use in the county. He warned such use is illegal and will lead to prosecutions. Miller also noted the legal potato land measure is 66 bushels, not 4.
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