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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1934
Page
6
Seattle police joked about flat feet after a report claimed only a few had flat feet. Inspector W. B. Kirtley challenged the claim and warned he would help make their feet flat through real pounding of beats.
Baltimore December 29 a state roads commission with all members paid full time is proposed for Governor elect Harry W Nice The plan would pay two associate commissioners 5000 dollars yearly and the chairman 6000 dollars The current associates are William D Byron and Robert Lacy The chairmanship has been vacant since August following the death of G Clinton Obi Appointees to be named when Nice takes office in January.
Admiral Joseph M. Reeves announced a United States fleet exercise of unprecedented scope in the east Pacific next summer. The maneuvers span over 65 million square miles from the Aleutians to Midway Island with a temporary base offshore Honolulu. Long range seaplanes will play a key scouting role.
Washington December 29 Japan scrapped the Washington Naval Treaty and declared it will not be bound after December 31 1936. Ambassador Hiroji Saito delivered formal notice to Secretary Hull voicing willingness to seek a new pact within two years and suggesting a common maximum limit for the United States Great Britain and the Far Eastern Empire. He added no anxious about a naval race and favored equality while discarding the older 5 5 3 ratio. The Japanese foreign office echoed the view that current advances in warships aircraft and weapons necessitate a new arrangement.
Baltimore December 29 crowds gathered around the State Motor Vehicle office for the final rush on license tags. Commissioner E Austin Baughman said the long line was self created by late applications as the office reported issuing 194 998 plates through yesterday and promised full service Monday before New Year’s Day.
The Roosevelt administration eyes a plan to place all employables on relief rolls to work. Officials anticipate a broad effort with private business handling much of the job creation while expanding programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps to up to one million workers. Other options include using idle workers to eliminate grade crossings as part of a long term infrastructure push, with relief roles shifting to state care for some 4 million unemployables and breadwinners among an estimated 19 million on federal aid nearby.
Washington dispatch reports Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt stating a New Year pledge to give oneself rather than material possessions and to accept sacrifices for the greater good of the majority. She hopes the good in this country will spread worldwide, fostering greater understanding between nations.
An East End resident faced Justice Richard Duffey in city court on relief chiseling charges after accepting Welfare Federation aid while his wife earned above the relief limit and claiming she was not working. Duffey warned of broad prosecutions and pledged full cooperation with authorities as officials noted similar schemes in the area.
Wilhelm Fischer, a former Nazi aide, swore that a concentration camp was opened June 13 in Neunkirchen by Saar Nazis. The site supposedly operated under the guise of a children's kitchen to hold prisoners and profit from marked manipulation, part of a campaign to sway Saarlanders against Hitler.
Rain and snow احتمally mix across North and Middle Atlantic states with a cold snap midweek. Temperatures are warmer early week then fall sharply around Wednesday night before a recovery Friday. South Atlantic states expect rain inland Tuesday, with broader rain Thursday or Friday and moderate to rising temperatures through Friday.
Baltimore reports a mild influenza epidemic with 63 cases this month, 21 in Worcester. Dr. R. H. Riley warns cold sufferers to bed and seek medical care, noting no deaths. Cumberland also notes a mild epidemic of colds grippe and influenza, with widespread family illnesses but mild influenza cases.
George I Law, 27, native of Catawigia, who tried to break prison on Thanksgiving Eve, died in his cell at Schuylkill County Prison. He had sought to spend his last days outside prison walls due to a heart ailment. Law was serving a robbery sentence.
Postmaster Jacob T. Hartle announced the Hagerstown Postoffice will be closed for window and city or rural delivery next Tuesday New Year s Day. Regular holiday collections run from 9 AM to 5 PM. Special delivery operates from 7 AM to 11 PM. Lock boxes accessible to renters from 9 AM to 11 PM.
By the Associated Press a list shows Jane Addams Lorado Taft Newton Baker LaGuardia McElroy Wilbur Cornish Pangborn McCormick Mary McCormic Ed Wynn Graham McNamee and Madame Schumann Heink differing on New Year resolutions. Some plan to avoid them while others vow ambitious aims for 1935 including resuscitating a human or dog and completing a world non stop refueling flight.
The Health Department reported two additional tularaemia cases bringing total to four since hunting season began. Roy Jacobs and his wife of Mitchell avenue cleaned a Baltimore rabbit. their cat that ate raw rabbit meat died. Other patients include a Funks town resident and a local resident who cleaned infected rabbits and are convalescing. The illness lasts 4 to 8 weeks and can be fatal. a warning urged rubber gloves for rabbit cleaners.
Buenos Aires dispatch reports Paraguayan and Bolivian troops estimated at 0,000 strong facing off on a wide front in the Chaco Boreal region. The forces observed an ominous quiet after yesterday’s initial encounter amid mixed interpretations of the clash.
Baltimore December 25 Gov Albert C Ritchie collects roughly 10000 Christmas and New Year cards each year and reads every one Miss Virginia Eliinger oversees sending and receiving the cards arranging them in groups for the governor to review who remembered him annually
The Western Maryland Railway reports a substantial rise in business for the first eleven months of 1934. Net income reached 570,510 dollars, or 4.90 dollars a share on the seven percent first preferred stock, compared with 783,997 dollars or 4.42 dollars a share in 1933.
Dr Karl T Compton, president of MIT and chair of Roosevelt's science advisory board, was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Pittsburgh on December 23.
Colonel Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh are set to relive their son’s kidnaping and death as witnesses in the Hauptmann trial. John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk offers to testify against Hauptmann, claiming contact with the suspect and possession of Lindbergh ransom money, but prosecutors and officials indicate the offer will be rejected.
Mrs. Dale Dryer, wife of a flyer from the Boston Cleveland flight, wept with joy upon learning her husband was alive after a plane wreck between Albany and Rockwood. Search teams scoured Adirondack foothills, radio signals guided rescuers, and pilots reported all aboard safe.
Miss Elsa Littell of New York was arrested at Schoenberg near the French border after allegedly making derogatory remarks about Hitler’s storm troops. She disappeared while traveling in Germany and faced possible transfer to a special court in Frankenthal. hearing date not fixed. She had gone to Europe weeks ago and planned to sail home next week.
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