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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1932
Page
5
Land records show mortgages now commonly call for 44 and 5 percent interest. Attor neys report purchase money loans are scarce as real estate sales falter. Lenders say money is plentiful, with six percent mortgages rewritten to five percent and a $6000 farm loan recorded at 41 1 2 percent.
Sheriff W Bruce Downin and deputies pursue a man around Edgemont after Newcomer farm reports an attempted battery theft. A suspect was detained but released when no imprint appeared on his back despite the claimed iron shoe last imprint.
In Chicago on July 19 James Ammery, charged with speeding, says he tried to locate honeymooners who fled a wedding crowd. The judge replies, Mind your own business, two dollars.
A New Hampshire plan for re employment proposes flexible work hours to apportion available work among the unemployed. Three million idle workers could be put to work as governors and industrial leaders discuss the measure at a joint conference in Boston under the New England unemployment relief effort.
Across the nation industry widens output and hiring. Pittsburgh Plate Glass resumes Ford City operations next month at a mirror glass plant. Viscose Corporation plans return of 450 Roanoke workers with most previously off. Gulf States Steel resumes Red Wire and Nail Mills production in Alabama. Oberman Manufacturing to end 500 layoffs in Missouri next Thursday. Naugatuck rubber factories in Connecticut run double shifts with large payrolls. Illinois and Boston see plant openings and employment gains. Massachusetts adds 1000 jobs as 18 plants start, four expand. Prices for hogs and cattle rise in Chicago and nearby markets.
Williamsport firefighters extinguished a 1 story frame building blaze in the rear of Forsythe's store near Byron's tannery at 1 30 this morning. The structure housed part of John Bowman and a garage where Bowman was awakened by heat and smoke as neighbors helped move out belongings. A car was removed and the exterior suffered scorching with origin undetermined. Firemen used chemicals.
New York July 19. Dr. Graham Lusk world authority on nutrition dies in hospital at age 67. He served over 20 years as a professor of physiology at Cornell Medical College after teaching at Yale and was a member of several international food commissions and a prolific writer on diet.
Public distrust of a confidence return colors economic outlook. Maryland congressman David J. Lewis warns business relies on confidence as air, noting past massive paper values deceived public and left no confidence despite same resources and country. (Continued On Page)
A dozen additional deaths from heat and drownings were reported as heat persisted across the Midwest and South. Temperatures topped 110 in Phoenix and hovered around 100 in Oklahoma and surrounding states while some areas received cooling thundershowers. Federal crop officials warned Kansas must receive rain soon to protect corn. other states also faced heat related fatalities.
George Smith, a memory-challenged hold-up suspect, helped police by identifying Ambrose Baggio as the robber. Baggio initially failed to identify the assailant, but when Smith shouted the exact cue, Baggio confirmed the match.
A 21 year old woman Rose Wasserstein was shot in a Long Island auto incident near Woodmere dock and dragged to bushes. She died in St Josephs hospital after denying detectives. The killer fled, police say the woman was taken for a ride. Ray Gordon of Tegucigalpa and Clarence McKilroy of Mediaryville died when their plane crashed and was found in the jungle near San Geronimo. Gordon was president of an air transport company.
In High Point and nearby towns Thomasville and Kernersville a wage cut protest triggered a strike of about 3,000 hosiery workers across eight local mills yesterday. The dispute expanded today to most plants in the area. In New York authorities report Marie Curie’s family found a new ray likely a neutron beam.
William Himmler Jr a member of a prominent Cumberland family is in jail for 1500 dollars after a chase through the streets. Police say a jug of liquor was thrown from his car and a vial and some whiskey were found bound in his home.
Thirteen policemen were stripped of badges as authorities reviewed who would be charged in the death of 20 year old Hyman Stark from a fractured larynx. Nassau detectives questioned Stark for eight hours about a robbery and beating of a detective's mother. Justice Meier Steinbrink prepared a John Doe inquiry and will release findings tomorrow. Murder charges were considered for the suspended officers. Deputy Chief Frank Tap was directly implicated by testimony from Assistant District Attorney Martin W Littleton Jr.
Albert Dixon 236 North Jonathan Street colored was sentenced to three months in the House of Correction by Justice Richard Duffey in city court for carrying a large knife. He was arrested after being found brandishing the weapon while pursuing a colored woman during an argument.
Gene Tunney appeared at a Connecticut garden party held by the Connecticut Federation of Democratic Women’s Clubs to back Franklin D. Roosevelt and Governor Wilbur Cross. He spoke off the formal program after hostess Fannie Dixon Welch arranged a brief talk. Tunney earlier pledged to support the Roosevelt campaign and Cross on their staff as a major.
Three Hagerstown men were injured when H H Schroeder's car crashed into a milk truck seven miles north of Gettysburg. Schroeder and Irwin Hoffman were taken to Gettysburg hospital with serious injuries. Harry Kindler escaped with minor injuries. The crash occurred as they traveled from York, with a blinding glare from the truck lights cited as the cause. Schroeder suffered multiple teeth loss and possible internal injuries, while Hoffman sustained a severe scalp laceration. Kindler had badly lacerated knees.
The article notes President Hoover prepared to sign a $2.22 billion relief bill as 14 states planned to seek loans from a $300 million fund for direct unemployment relief. Pennsylvania and Illinois anticipated requests of up to $45 million each, while Maryland indicated it would not borrow.
In Clarksburg W V on July 1 C Walker Bender a 45 year old unemployed coal miner shot and killed his wife Lona 45 and neighbor William Hill 38 before taking his own life. All died instantly.
NEW CASTLE Pa July 19 Victor F Hyde 50 proprietor of a filling station shot and killed his wife 48 and daughter Jane 19 then killed himself by slashing his throat. No motive given station closed about 2 AM and a policeman said the employee noted he was in good spirits.
Col Zack Miller confirms negotiations for sale of the 101 Ranch near Pawhuska to Al Capone and associates. Miller, traveling with Louis Alterla, would hear Capone's offer after meeting real estate dealers Beech and Smith. Receivership and prior failed deals color the talks as Miller cites financial troubles and uncertain outcome.
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