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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1933
Page
5
A pre Christmas market session drew record crowds and heavy buying for turkeys geese ducks and chickens with prices 16 to 20 cents per pound live weight and $2.50 plus dressed. Oranges cost about 25 cents a dozen and many vegetables were plentiful. Christmas tree sales hit an all time high with estimates over 3000 trees sold in a week.
Palo Alto Red Cross officials report a unique gift request from an unidentified woman who sent ten dollars to buy a Santa Claus with cat whiskers for cats and 100 poor families. The group will serve its regular Christmas dinner on Sunday December 24 offering soup salad roast turkey fried chicken tenderloin five vegetables dessert mince pie or ice cream at 25 cents.
Roger S Bloom 21 confesses to police that valuable dishes found at the North Foundry street address were stolen earlier from a Frederick home. Officers say Bloom led the gang with Leroy Wilkinson and Mayo Barnett also confessing to several robberies.
George B. Miller of Cearfoss section was jailed for defaulting on fines after arraignment before Justice Richard H. Sweeney on charges of tampering with automobiles and displaying fictitious markers. He paid 25 dollars and costs for tampering and 10 dollars and costs for the market charge. Miller had previously been in police court for flashing a gun at a local store clerk.
Deaths include Frank Cofiell 81 of Arcadia Baltimore County after three weeks illness. Survived by widow and children Mrs Frank Rowe Chicago Mrs William Bauer New York City F Newell Cofiell. Also Laura Wishard Burhman 80 of Waynesboro Pa member Lutheran church. Survives by six children, nineteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral Saturday at 2 30 from Grove Waynesboro with burial in Leitersburg cemetery.
In sad remembrance for the wife and mother Etna Fogle who departed this life one year ago on December 23 1992. God called her home it was His will. In our hearts she lingers still. By her husband H L Fogie and five children Ady
Federal agents pursue warrants for Russell Clark and two associates Waverly C Clark and Albert Huntzberry after a raid on Clark home near St James. Authorities seized 28 gallons of alleged liquor and charge violation of the Federal Revenue Law.
Capt. George R. Pond, reported missing since Saturday, returns to Wood Haven Queens and plans a New York to Rome flight with Gesare Sabelli. If weather allows, they will depart at dawn tomorrow from Joyd Bennett field in the Leonardo Da Vinci. John Powell is slightly injured in a boiler blast at a West Antietam Street building due to clogged pipes.
The Federal Reserve Board met to discuss money and banking issues including the silver program and gold backed currencies while noting 600 of 7000 banks seeking deposit insurance would need about 66 million dollars to qualify. Benjamin Fearrell of Berkeley County sustained a shattered arm after a gun discharged on a Christmas tree trip. hospital tests consider possible amputation.
Dec 23 authorities learned Alvin Hoglung 61 died reportedly penniless. A safety deposit box key and $1000 were found, along with a will leaving the money to his sister Mrs Richard Johnson of Milwaukee. Hoglung had depended on charity for 12 years.
A London court heard a carpet-layer’s excuse for drunkenness claiming thirty years spent tacking down carpets left him staggering. The statement described as a whimsical alibi reflects the defendant’s attempt to justify behavior during the Christmas period.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd reports his first Antarctic flight near Little America. He notes open water to the continental limits and young pancake ice. He plans to push by ship, then return to base and continue explorations from Little America.
Robert Gordon Switz, 29, was questioned by Magistrate Be non as part of an international espionage probe in Paris. Switz, who said he made five trips to France since 1926, denied any involvement and detailed his prior visits and a 1933 role with MacNeel Instruments Corporation researching air current measurement.
Oklahoma City reports John F. Rightmire civil works engineer awaits Christmas gifts to gauge trends. He notes four years ago 13 boxes of cigars, three years ago three boxes, two years ago one box, and last year two cigars were received.
City taxpayers warned that all 193 percent city taxes unpaid by January 1 1934 will incur 6 percent interest from September 1 1983. Office hours extended Saturdays in December from 7 to 9 p m to receive tax and sewer payments. Chas Be FryAdv Tax Collector and Treasurer.
In New Castle Pennsylvania on December 23, W. H. Beck aged 83 seeks CWA employment and his wife Mrs. Beck aged 81 supports the bid. The couple has been married 63 years and appear determined to stay active despite their ages.
Airport officials said Santa Claus was taking to the air in a big way as six tons of mail moved through the airmail post office on Friday, nearly double the daily total for 1932.
Stock quotations appear in today’s column with prices from Stein Bros and Boyce, McComsa-Armstrong Building. The page lists multiple listings, offering a snapshot of local market values and trade activity.
Pope Pius in Vatican remarks to cardinals and prelates urges prayers while noting money is needed to wage war. He criticizes German sterilization practices as inconsistent with religious teaching and cites 1931 decree and Castri Conubii. He calls international politics uncertain with distrust and says outcome unknown.
Henry Seligman of the J. and W. Seligman and Company banking firm died today in New York from a heart attack. He was 76 years old.
A December box labeled Merry Christmas from the Boys was placed on Major Albert Venn's desk at police headquarters. He discarded it, then stomped it, discovering crushed remains of an electric clock. He bought a replacement and seeks the sender to recover the department clock's cost.
W. K. Jenkins of Walla Walla Washington lighted a stove fire and a small owl, singed and angry, walked from under the lid. The odd event startled him as he cleaned the stove.
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