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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1939
Page
5
Rome reports Italy remains serene amid a potential peace or war turning point. Mussolini awaited a decisive move if British talks with Hitler failed, while Italians continued daily life with open frontiers, normal railways, shops, and busy theatres and cafes.
In Bratislava on August 29, Premier Josef Tiso announced German martial law in Slovakia. Notices posted on streets ordered Slovaks to supply food for the German army and to face German military courts for disputes. Slovak stores were to accept German marks at ten to one.
A church financed program to buy farms for young couples was urged at the world conference of Mennonites in session at Allentown Pa Rev Guy F Hershberger of Goshen Ind urged a return to the farm where our people were happy and successful He proposed the church start young couples on farms and supported profit sharing and farm cooperatives The speaker said many Mennonites moved into industry in recent years leading to labor unrest
Saum's at 21 WN Jonathan St invites customers to trade in old watches for a modern quality timepiece. Open 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. daily. Pay weekly terms advertised.
Detailed plans announce swift evacuation of Americans in wartime via four British sectors. Swedish American liner Prottingholm will touch Glasgow on September 5 to carry over 1,000 passengers to Gottingen and then New York. Agencies are arranging ships to move stranded Americans as buses and rail networks will ferry travelers to sectors, exact sites undisclosed.
The funeral for Raymond O Shives aged 41 of Hancock Pa will be held after his death in an automobile accident near Mt Pleasant on Sunday. The body will leave the Der Rowland Funeral Home at 1 oclock Thursday followed by services at the Hancock Methodist church at 2 oclock conducted by Rev. W. E. Nelson. Interment will be in Shires Cemetery near Hancock.
The Marr family thanks friends neighbors and relatives for kindness shown during the illness and death of Andrew H. Marr Adv THRE family
Paris absorbs British note to Hitler while Daladier and Blum discuss a Nationalist Union government if war erupts. France readies eight reservist classes, tightens censorship, and curbs exports. Bonenti meets the US ambassador as France shows resolve and calm, echoing motto they shall not pass.
Uniontown Pennsylvania dispatch notes Earl Wolfe, 34, of Smithfield, recently back home from the hospital after enduring gangrene, peritonitis, strep infection, six major operations, including an upside down kidney surgery and amputation of his left arm, with more to fear ahead.
Berlin reports wartime rationing begins as Nazi authorities impose a new system. A hundred dollars or 1900 marks cannot buy two sticks of shaving soap and only one stick is allowed with a special ticket. Two dresses are deemed enough and many items vanish from shelves as rolls miss delivery. Merchants scramble to comply while citizens fear looming hard times and recall World War shortages.
Hagerstown Rotary Club will hear Dr George Hall Ashley state geologist of Pennsylvania discuss life as it began in this region from the first beginnings of time to the present. John L Thomas arranged the program and dinosaur footprint displays from the Trestle quarry near Bermudian Creek Adams County will be shown.
British prime minister delivers buoyant, firm speech to Parliament assuring unity behind policy of firmness. He warns danger of war remains, urges press restraint, and outlines diplomatic maneuvers with Hitler. He says Britain would welcome talks with Germany, seeks a lasting European settlement amid Polish German tensions.
In Bethesda Maryland on August 29 three officers of the newly formed Bethesda Volunteer Fire Department were arrested on trespassing charges after meeting at the original Bethesda fire house. Warrants were issued by George W. Bryan, president of the Bethesda Fire Board, which had barred the new unit from the building. The arrested were Samuel T. Robertson, president of the group, Hiram Mussrove, chief, and Hareld...
The fire board reorganized the department hiring nine paid firemen and appointed A J Bargagni, former DC fire lieutenant, as chief. Volunteers refuse to recognize his authority and keep Musgrove as volunteer chief, forming a separate de partey. Bargagni rejected, watch ad appears at Sam's store.
Germany accuses Poland of mistreatment of Germans, while Polish and Polish minority surveys appear in newspapers. Poland tightens currency rules, bans paper zloty imports, caps traveler sums. Gdynia sea traffic blocked and trench digging expands as both sides brace for conflict.
Boonsboro women will bid farewell to its CCC camp before October 1 as work accelerates on a new camp three miles west of Frederick. The larger site will exceed twenty acres, with about three acres added for a sewage plant. Excavation for a water well is underway, a gravity-fed pump will serve showers and the kitchen, an 18 foot stone road connects the camp to the dual highway, and rights of way for electric power and telephone lines have been secured.
Weather Bureau advisory warns of northeast storm conditions from Cape Hatteras to Boston with small craft alerts from Virginia Capes to Hatteras. Disturbance off the Middle Atlantic coast moves slowly northward, forecast to bring fresh to strong northeast winds along the Southern New England coast.
Mississippi Democrats vote in a runoff to pick the next governor between Mike Conner backed by Senator Harrison who opposes some New Deal policies and Paul Johnson supported by Senator Bilbo a third term advocate. Senatorial influence could shape the state delegation to the 1940 Democratic National Convention.
Grain prices and quotes from Mackubin Legg Co in Hagerstown Maryland show movements in wheat and corn futures with rates for Sept and May contracts. The mixed figures indicate varying open high low prices across several months and commodity descriptors.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek stated China would continue resisting Japanese aggression regardless of European events. Reports from Chungking describe a moonlit air defense clash with Japanese bombers, with Chinese Soviet equipped units scattering three formations and a downed Japanese plane. Russian air aid presence is hinted but not confirmed by foreign reporters.
Washington reports quoted George Creel, wartime public information head, saying Europe likely cannot avoid war. He said Hitler has no "limb to crawl back on" and noted President Roosevelt plans to visit the exposition on October 6, subject to the international situation.
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr told the National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that U S security depends on defeating dictators when war starts and that entering the war early is essential. He warned neutrality laws avoid war but ignore the danger of a dictatorial victory and called neutrality a whistling in the dark.
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