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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1933
Page
8
The Takoma Park Post 28 plans a legion parade with 32 foreign flags on display. These flags originated from World War I allied troops and were officially presented to the post by ambassadors or military attaches.
The city announces the three per cent federal tax on municipal electric bills will be discontinued September 1. Municipal Electric Light Plant manager Elmer B. Cai says August bills due early September will still include the tax, while September bills due in October will not. The change follows a letter from Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering noting municipally owned plants are exempt under the new tax act.
Local milk distributors await a new code governing operation. The code expected in days could raise the consumer price by one or two cents per quart and push distributor payments to dairies in the Hagerstown milk shed higher. Until the code and government price are set, exact figures remain undetermined.
Edgar Bernheim and his wife of Chicago were cut and bruised when their car skidded and overturned near Millstone about 16 o clock this morning. Bernheim blamed another car that failed to stop for the collision.
A strong quake was detected today by the Georgetown observatory. It began at 3 04 A M and peaked at 4 00 A M, ending around 6 30 A M. Location uncertain but likely near Easter Asia or Japan.
General Milton A. Reckord charged pacifist organizations nationwide with trying to undermine national defense through reduced appropriations. He spoke at the Maryland State Legion convention urging action before conditions worsen. Oliver C. Short outlined plans to station offices for registering unemployed ex service men and dependants for public works jobs.
Flood waters from a weekend storm forced the Monocacy River to its highest level in 46 years. The river rose about 26 feet above normal, washing out bridges and submerging roads. Three Washington men trapped in a tree were rescued after water rose around them.
Residents report worms attacking umbrella trees stripping foliage in hours. Arborists note large numbers of trees damaged in and around Hegerstown as control methods are employed to halt the outbreak.
George Poffenberger and William Taylor landed a 25 pound carp in the Potomac River at Williamsport after an hour on the boat. Poffenberger hooked the fish and Taylor assisted during the fight using crappah waits.
Ten year old Dale Taylor fished from a Williamsport bridge on Conococheague Creek when a bite tugged his line. The lead sinker wrapped around two overhead primary wires, sending sparks and burning sections of the electric system. The outage hit Tannery Row and nearby Williamsport areas, but the boy, using a bamboo rod, avoided injury due to dry conditions.
Congressmen David J. Lewis reported to the Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce that Hagerstown's new post office is nearing final cabinet approval with the Public Works Administration to rule on it after circulating cabinet plans. The Treasury supervising architect's office stated the cabinet plans are in and awaiting signatures before the PWA decision.
A large storm battered the valley causing heavy damage to the fruit section. Washington county peach orchards lost hundreds of bushels as wind tore fruit from trees. Apples also suffered, with growers awaiting a clearer estimate of total losses and fruit being sold at 20 to 25 cents per bushel at local orchards.
C Boger and Eugene E Blickenstat, local shoe firm representative, rescued three women and a two year old child stranded in a car along the highway between Frederick and Urbana, Maryland, amid flood waters. The party sheltered in a nearby farmhouse and later retrieved the vehicle. Water stood three to five feet deep in road hollows as the storm raged.
Leonardtown Maryland reports 20 year old Robert Hedrick of Falls Church Virginia saved a woman and five children during a flood at Piney Point. He navigated via a rowboat from home to home warning residents and rescuing them before his own exhaustion. Two black helpers, Kendall Morgan and Zeke Briscoe, aided 25 guests to safety in row boats.
In Milledgeville Georgia a father sentenced to death and his son serving a misdemeanor sentence met in the death cell at the state prison farm. The father McCullough and his son Roy spoke softly as their eyes filled with tears. Alvin, another son, is jailed for life in the same case.
In Hagerstown several families learned their relatives were safe after a 24 hour silence. Laura Roulette, at Rehoboth Beach Delaware, reached home after guiding friends 100 miles to Baltimore. Waves reached twenty feet as cottages faced falling trees. minimal damage reported at Rehoboth compared to Ocean City.
Three Hagerstown girls Missex Maxine Connie Davis and Vivian Brown vacationing at Buckroe Beach Virginia wire that they are safe and will return home as soon as possible. They live at 8035 Maryland Avenue.
An aviator who flew over Bethany Beach, Del., where Merritt Campbell is spending a week, wired the Chamber of Commerce to say the resort was intact and guests at Campbell's hotel were safe. Communication with the resort was temporarily impossible.
Storm wrecks Ocean City with half a million dollars in damage. Bridges to mainland vanish as bay floods, flooding homes and streets. Boardwalk blocks washed out and hotels vacated amid widespread destruction.
An 18 year old farm boy George Oliver and his uncle Claude Oliver were executed in Oklahoma for murdering Claude’s 11 year old bride Della to cash a $5,000 life insurance policy. The pair, southern Oklahoma farmers, beat the girl and dumped her body into a ditch near Davis last November. George declared he felt he was going to heaven as he faced the chair and acknowledged the crime.
Magistrate Charles T. Kreigh of Clearspring was injured when an axe slipped while he cut up a blown down apple tree. He received first aid and medical care. his condition improves and he expects to be around in a few weeks.
A drunken mishap ends with William Sportman seizing a rolling keg of beer he thought would quench his thirst. The truck driver later retrieves the key and stops the incident before tapping the keg, leaving the men still thirsty and disappointed.
Passengers of the stranded Chesapeake liner City of Norfolk, aground in Pocomoke Sound since Tuesday night, were transferred to the steamer City of Baltimore and en route to Norfolk. All passengers were reported safe by Captain Edward J Iskipper. The vessel, engines broken and anchors swept away by the storm, grounded in five feet of water east of Watt's Island.
Samuel Rowe of St. James raised a Thite cucumber on a bush that bore green ones, while Lath or Sprankle of 21 George Street found and counted nine twin tomatoes in his garden.
Floods sweep the east as a tropical storm moves inland. At Camp Achd New York a dam breach trapped 190 mainly youths. rescuers found no imminent danger as waters receded. In Pennsylvania 2500 people fled homes around Reading and York while institutions opened to shelter refugees.
City and county women leaders Mrs. James Webb and Mrs. Roy Weagley plan a Monday start to organize a house to house canvass. Consumers will sign cards agreeing to cooperate in reemployment by supporting and patronizing NR A members. Names of assistants to be announced soon.
Charles Shoemaker sues John L. Baker Rose Baker and Frederick Baker for 2000 dollars over an April 29 auto crash in Sharpsburg alleging negligent operation. Randolph Wishmeyer of Cumberland filed a separate suit against Atlee Harmmaker and George Gossard from an auto crash. George C. Lowman, employed at Brandt Cabinet Works, suffered a severe hand injury at work and was hospitalized.
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