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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1933
Page
6
Police report no definite clues in the Nicodemus National Bank robbery from Sunday night or early yesterday morning. Gloves left no fingerprints on the safe while prints appeared on a toilet window. Captain Emmert says professionals used a small drill hole and blows to pop the combination. two blows were used in this case.
The sheriff notes three thefts in a week suggestive of a car frame up. Joseph Ridenour reports the theft of four tires and wheels from his Parkhead auto. Merle Rowland loses a dashboard clock from a Chevrolet. A battery and other parts were also stolen.
In Greenville Dec 19 two holdup men seized Oliver Frady and demanded his money, boasting guns in his face while Aunt Frady laughed. He had only a nickel.
Samuel Insull aged 74, once a leading American utilities magnate, plans to go to England after his Greece police residence permit expires January 31. Greek courts have twice refused his extradition to the United States to face embezzlement charges related to his empire's collapse. Local British authorities indicated no visa will be granted unless London gives instructions. Insull’s passport is revoked by the United States, and he may travel on temporary papers while negotiations over his passport continue.
Auditors report shows the Century of Progress Exposition attracted 22,320,456 visitors over five and a half months, with gross revenue of 37,270,526.05 dollars. Net revenue for the fair’s corporation reached 2,488,833.83 on construction costs of 38,647,836.69 dollars, and pay toilets yielded 861,519.13 dollars.
Gales and rains on the Pacific Northwest claimed two lives disabled four ships wrecked small craft and flooded cities. Winter reached from Juneau to Brawley with frost destroying crops and snow drifts trapping autos across Idaho.
The Cunarder Laconia arrived with 14,000 cases of Sevich whisky marking the first large shipment of Irish whisky to reach New York. An additional 1,040 cases are due to arrive tomorrow aboard the Alunfa.
Seventeen elephants were found dead in a corn field in the Cumbum valley after an all night feast. Investigators consider poisoning or overfeeding as possible causes and note the elephants may have been drawn from the hills by ripening grain.
Captain George R. Pond and Cesare Sabelli planned an Atlantic crossing to Rome but Pond vanished after phone call saying weather report would come that night. Secretary Lillian Edgerton and Cesare Sabelli reported his last sighting at Penn Station. Pond, a pioneer in ship to shore flights, had not been seen since Wednesday and may have encountered foul play or amnesia.
A Philadelphia formed permanent group to oppose the Prince plan for railroad consolidation faces unanimous regional opposition led by the Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce and other Schuylkill Valley interests. Representatives from towns statewide will present a report to federal railroad coordinator Joseph B. Eastman this week. The local chamber objects to abandoning Western Maryland shops and offices and to merging all entering Hagerstown with the Pennsylvania system.
City Board of Street Commissioners held a special session and announced personnel changes. Carl H. McCleary will become lieutenant after being sworn in, replacing Joseph Desmond who becomes night sergeant, while Jesse B. Brown remains a patrolman. Desmond and Brown reassigned to fit McCleary’s promotion, aimed at boosting department efficiency. A radio call system was dropped for now, but a potential eight hour day with a ten percent wage cut is under consideration to fund additional patrols.
Department stores report sales ahead of any year since 1929, with one major store official suggesting results may exceed 1929. Travel rates also improve as a new 10 percent coach fare cut takes effect January on western and southwestern lines, following a prior December 1 reduction.
Paraguay and Bolivia agreed to halt hostilities in the Chaco Boreal until December 31 at midnight as Pan American conference leaders seek a permanent peace. Paraguay proposed the truce amid a recent offensive, while Bolivia backed League of Nations mediation and a world court submission.
Giuseppe Minardi, 47, a bread dealer on East 14th Street, was shot to death after two men entered his store. His wife Mary witnessed the incident as one assailant questioned Minardi about Sunday hours and bread sources before firing. Minardi fired back, collapsing after a final shot from the attacker. The two suspects fled.
A detachment of 1000 Japanese troops from Manchukuo reportedly entered Chahar province from Jeho to oust 300 Chinese bandits menacing the Manchukuo border. Reports in Chinese vernacular newspapers described the move amid protests against the Tangku agreement ending Sino-Japanese hostilities in north China.
Slim Williams and his eight dogs, travel from Alaska via the western edge of the city where they camped for days, plan to visit President Roosevelt in Washington. Williams, who calls himself International Trail Blazer, seeks presidential influence to push a road across Alaska. he values his eight dogs at 13000 dollars.
The County Commissioners report the proposed two story brick courthouse addition has been approved by the State Administration Board. A signed agreement is expected today as interior improvements expand the Clerk of Court vault and provide work for brick masons plasterers and carpenters on the project.
Samuel Gordon of 465 Brown Avenue recovered his wrist watch after seeing the Herald-Mail Lost Column ad. Al Youngster found the watch during icy weather near his home, turned it into the classified department, and the paper returned it to the rightful owner.
Final arrangements for the Christmas party for the poor kids were made today by the Boy Scouts of Hagerstown. The event will occur Monday morning at the Maryland Theater with a police donation of 250 dollars to aid the scouts. A special program and numbered toy tickets will guide the distribution of about 3000 toys to designated children, many valuable, after visits to the North Potomac street toy shop.
Brit ton T Young a 25 year old law student at Western Reserve University told police after a fatal shooting on a lonely road last night he killed an intruder who earlier tried to molest his companion Ruth Reiter 21 a coed at Flora Stone Mather college. The body was found by Shaker Heights police and identified as Carl Mettling 45 a retired farmer living in Mayfield Heights. Young remained at the station for questioning.
A large monoplane piloted by Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh passed Wrightsville Sound near Wilmington at 10 04 am en route north from Charleston. Lindberghs had spent last night with Rear Admiral James J Raby before continuing toward Newark or Long Island airports on a 25 000 mile Atlantic survey flight.
Reports to the Weather Bureau from Atlanta indicate overcast skies and rain across much of the East while North and South Dakota and Minnesota remain the coldest zones. Moorhead Minnesota logged zero degrees as Canada endured deeper cold with Manitoba at 24 below. Across the West, conditions were generally clear with seasonal temperatures except in Idaho and mountainous regions.
Helen Keller the blind American educator is reported ill in a Glasgow nursing home. Officials say her condition is not serious and she is expected to be discharged before week’s end.
In Leavenworth Kansas on December 19 inmates at the Federal penitentiary annex may hang stockings but will wake to empty ones. About 1500 prisoners, mainly narcotics violators, are denied Christmas gifts to prevent contraband or “dope” deliveries.
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