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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1932
Page
6
Dominica Sica wrote a note before leaping 158 feet from the Manhattan bridge. Milton Stu Mey, 18, saw the fall, dived into the water, and dragged Sica to safety as he fought the strong current. Sica was recovering from bruises.
Police Captain Cassidy issues a warning to panhandlers after a well-dressed man threatened to use a machine gun to demand food. He advises housewives to be cautious, notes rare reports of such men, and says solicitation will be halted if threats are used.
President Hoover issues executive order abolishing the radio division of the Department of Commerce and transferring its duties to the Federal Radio Commission. The department will turn over officers, employees, records and appropriations to the new commission.
A severe early day storm battered Maryland with hail in Thurmont and Waynesboro, strong winds in Hagerstown, and a deadly electrical storm in Baltimore. Post electrician Joseph W. Reynolds died at Fort Meade while repairing a power line, a barn burned at Ida G. Parsch estate, and Cambridge suffered heavy wind damage including a wrecked grocery store front and a damaged church steeple. Streets were blocked by uprooted trees as crews cleared debris.
City Sealer Jon Greinn announced action after confiscating six coin slot weighing machines and condemning 229 more as unsafe to weigh women. He says some scales misread a 200 pound weight as 240, encouraging dieting to protect health. Proprietors have ten days to repair.
The old Hagerstown Bank subscription book from 1807 was found during renovations for the Board of Education. It lists stock subscribers, amounts paid, and signatures, with initial articles showing a 500 000 stock goal at 450 per share. Names include Nathaniel Rochester as first president and directors from Washiston County, Baltimore, Frederick and Allegany.
In New York on July 20, Vincent Gostello pleaded guilty to illegal parking after admitting he sold the car for five dollars. The magistrate ordered payment of the five dollar fine, stating they were square once paid.
In Rome on July 20 Dino Grandi resigns as foreign minister in a broad cabinet shake up ordered by Premier Mussolini. Five ministers and 11 undersecretaries are displaced as Mussolini retains two portfolios. This marks the first cabinet change since September 1929 with Grandi Alfredo Rocco Antonio Mosconi Balbino Sinigaglia and Giuseppe Bottai among the resignations.
Harvey Boward, Charles Barr, John E Saylor and Ralph Routzhan were arraigned before U S Commissioner D Angle Wolfinger on sale and possession charges for home brewed beer. They were held on bonds pending federal court action after arrests last week.
George M. Butter of Chambersburg a former silk mill executive and treasurer of the Friendship Fire Company sits in Franklin County jail on embezzlement charges. Prosecutors say Butter stole 869.94 from fire company funds, the last treasury balance. He was committed in default of 1500 bail after arraignment before Magistrate O H Gillan. A surety company is said to have backed the prosecution. Mrs R L Wagner of Boonsboro was injured when her hand was caught in an electric wringer at home yesterday. a physician treated the wound.
Governor Ritchie will attend the Cumberland Fair, spending Tuesday August 28 and Wednesday August 24 there. Wednesday will be designated Governor's Day. A separate item notes Richard Kline, 25, of Wolfaville charged with violating local prohibition laws, bail set at 1400 dollars after sheriff found liquor on Kline.
Warrants issued for 13 Nassau county policemen over the death of Hyman Stark after questioning. Four officers face second degree murder charges Lieut. Jesse Mayforth and Sergeants Leslie Pearsall Harry Zander and Charles Wesser. Others charged include conspiracy to obstruct justice and second degree assault. Bail set and court actions follow as grand jury may consider perjury indictments.
One hundred men women and children push toward Washington to join bonus campers. Survivors of 2590 from Los Angeles travel in 35 cars with an electric plant, seeking soap and relief as they move from Greensburg to Gettysburg for a planned campout.
Baltimore July 20 and Brunswick July 20 The report says Governor Ritchie has not yet acted on a relief bill passed by Congress awaiting Hoover's signature Maryland officials say the state will not borrow federal funds and may rely on bonds on its own credit The Brunswick Chamber of Commerce protests shop closures and will urge Governor Ritchie to help keep the Ballmore and Ohio Railroad shops open led by Howard Marvin Jones
Julius Hinbinder, 15, arrested for stealing four purses from beauty parlors and the Potomac Edison office building to obtain money for horse racing bets. He confessed to three thefts and implicated a local man who denied the accusation. Judge Harry E. Snyder held him for further questioning. charge of contributing to delinquency was dropped.
Akron July 20 F A 20 per cent wage restoration plan takes effect July 1 to compensate for last January’s cut. W G Krauss president of India Tire and Rubber Co says the plan adds to final six months’ pay enough to recover the loss. Plant employs about 490 workers and 50 in office Doata.
Chicago reports Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, moved from her Lake Shore Drive mansion to modest hotel quarters. Physicians cite bronchial illness from worry. she has sacrificed over 18 million in securities to protect note-holders and tenants and to support her Edith R. McCormick Trust. Her divorce from Harold McCormick is noted.
High Point North Carolina sees industry nearly paralyzed as 150 factories idle amid a general walkout of 12 000 workers. The strike began with 409 boarding room operatives quitting hosiery mills over wage cuts. some mills indicate readiness to resume. Adjutant General Metts visited as governor’s rep and saw no need for National Guard.
Gene Tunney in Columbia Connecticut denounces Republican prosperity as hokum in his maiden Democratic campaign speech before the Connecticut Federation of Democratic Women's clubs. He says facing a crowd makes it hard to gauge opposition compared to boxing where he knew where Dempsey stood.
Seventeen thoroughbred hunters and show horses were burned to death today when a fire destroyed the stable of Dr. Charles F. Henry in Newtown Square. The animals were valued at about $40,000. Harry Kester, president of the Fair Association, was ill at home with a summer complaint and fever.
Berlin moves to establish martial law over Prussia and Berlin under an emergency decree by Paul von Hindenburg. Franz von Papen appoints commissioner for Prussia and Franz Bracht as assistant with dictatorial powers. General von Rundstedt takes command of Berlin Brandenburg and police.
Sonia Maurer, last surviving Currier & Ives member and famed for Life of a Fireman prints and trotting horse portraits, died at 100 in his West 43rd Street brownstone. He once earned 12 a week for his sporting prints, with some reproductions reaching 700 dollars.
Ottawa report on the British Empire Trade conference notes Stanley Bruce’s blunt question whether a cohesive empire policy should come at the cost of American trade with Canada. Canadian farmers oppose a British wheat quota while seeking tariff relief on agricultural goods amid broader imperial market aims.
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