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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1925
Page
8
Sheriff J C McKown of Martinsburg warns lovelorn couples to avoid main highways and stay off roads while spooning in cars. He reprimanded four couples for parking beside highways with lights off, citing dangerous driving. urges explanation from officials.
Mayor Charles Bowman denied an Imagerstown report that work on the new municipal light plant would be delayed for a year. He said construction would start almost immediately to meet the court’s decision and refute the claim. Also, Bishop John Gardner Murray of Baltimore will preach at St Andrews Episcopal Church Clearspring Sunday 3 p.m. Frank Bunsard of near Clearspring fractured his right arm yesterday when kicked while cranking his automobile.
State Roads Commission lists oiling delays due to a railroad accident on the National pike in Allegany between Green Ridge and the county line. Detours include Barrallsville to the Pennsylvania line and Mt. Savage to Barrellsville with routes via Boonsboro Sharpsburg to Dog Street Keedysville, totaling a 6.8 mile detour. condition described as very good.
Dr A B Wilson colored indicted for abortion sees case pressed by State's Attorney Roulette after witness left Leiternburg for Waynesboro. Wilson was indicted February term, dropped then resumed by May grand jury. Also notes Lloyd Plume liquor charge awaiting trial and appeals from Allegany Garret counties next Monday. Jurors in a property case were told to verdict for defendant. Judge Wagaman oversight precedes. Thermometer reaches near 100 as coats come off. Charles H Unger awarded $500 against Franklin-Coston Motor Car Co. Also Dr Henry O Gilmor to Vienna for two months of specialty work.
Montgomery county is open to rum runners carrying liquor from Baltimore to Washington after Judge Robert B. Peter ruled county laws do not penalize transporting whisky through the county if there is no intent to sell there. Four defendants faced charges in the case Gunnell brothers and Tanner. Prohibition officials vow action and roadblocks if needed. County officials expect a legislative fix.
London June 5 Japan has sent China a sharp note threatening to revive the 21 demands and enter if order is not restored. Shanghai June 6 riots and shooting continue as a general strike gathers 150000 workers many house servants among them. The riot evidence suggests a planned move toward a soviet republic with Russian propagandists accused. Food in foreign concessions grows scarce as agitators call on all servants and consulate wives to handle duties. Documented letters are cited as proof of the soviet plot, disclosed a year earlier.
Oblo Norway June 5 The steamers Farm and Habby began today a search along the polar ice edges for trace of the missing Amundsen Ellsworth North Pole fliers. The Norwegian expedition of two monoplanes departed Horten for Spitzbergen with hopes the planes would depart Spitzbergen early this week to find the Amundsen Ellsworth party.
Simon Bitler a 70 year old Frederick man was jailed to serve a 26 day sentence after being found guilty of attacking his wife Mrs Diller the couple quarrelled after Bitler sold some clothes she had just finished washing Tax Collector Keller B Bell employs fourteen workers making out tax bills for the year.
Paris dispatches report fourteen Barcelona students arrested for planning to blow up a train carrying King Alfonso to Barcelona. Police found a 160 bomb with fuse and a tunnel attack plan near Garrat. A bomb damaged the Marquis Castehell's home after a ball for the king. Censorship blocked coverage of the incident.
Herman Freund age seventeen, son of Mr and Mrs John M Freund of 1036 The Terrace, died this morning at Washington County Hospital after a brief illness. A Surrey High School junior, he was popular and active in school activities including the Girls Club and he was captain of the 1926 soccer team. He belonged to St Pauls M B Church and Epworth League. Survived by parents and sister Evelyn. Funeral announcements to follow.
Officials note a spike in divorce bills while marriage licenses drop over the last three days. Five divorce petitions were filed in the period and six since May 27, while only three licenses were issued today and five yesterday.
For the second time within weeks the store of W. Kershner in Roxbury was entered and robbed. A light entry was gained by opening a window and 26 dozen ages and other goods were taken. Sheriff W. D. Baker, who had robbed the same store previously and is now in the Maryland penitentary for that crime, is connected to the case. William L. Taylor, longtime editor in chief of the York Dispatch and first president of the Associated Dailies of Pennsylvania, died at his home in York at age 57. He had been ill for a year. survived by his widow and two daughters.
Philadelphia on June 6 quotes Dr. Arthur Holmes, professor of psychology, who says you cannot reform the weather and that most heat troubles stem from overworked imagination. He warns against mental struggle with heat.
Intercating last night a message from Los Angeles to Shriners at Hagerstown announced Imperial Council granted a Shrine Temple for Western Maryland to be established in Cumberland. W P Wachter of Hagerstown led the Western Maryland delegation in presenting the case. 644 names on the charter list include prominent citizens from Hagerstown Frederick Cumberland and nearby towns. President Aatry A. Manley of the Western Maryland Shrine Club is expected to become first potentate of Al-Ghan, with divan officers drawn from area Shriners.
Boston June 6 Secretary of War John W Weeks shows signs of recovery according to a bulletin by his physicians Mrs Weeks stays at his bedside at Phillips House Massachusetts General Hospital The day also saw five State Roads Commission contracts including a 16980 bridge over Licking Creek between Hancock and Cumberland awarded to Forbes Murphy Construction Company elimination of all onceway bridges on that end of the state road noted.
Hagerstown was the hottest spot in the United States today per the U S Weather Bureau dispatch from Washington at 1 PM. Keedysville logged 162 degrees yesterday and 104 in Hagerstown, with forecasted readings near 108 in Fingerstown and 105 in Kealysville. Weather observer J A Miller predicted further rises before 3 PM, noting thermometer climbs from 96 at 11:30 to 99 degrees half an hour later.
Nora Ditch, 19, of Hingerstown, one of three Monrose School inmates who escaped May 26, was arrested in Philadelphia with two others. A detective tipped off by a waitress, Annie Reinfeller, 17, helped locate them after the waitress wore knickers and looked furtively about the restaurant area.
Lancaster reports nearly 400 measles cases across all city areas as health officials criticize lax quarantine adherence. Meanwhile James Arthur Weaver of Hancock has joined the U S Navy, sent to Norfolk for training before assignment.
Paris June 6. France and Spain will seek to force Abd el Krim and the Rif tribesmen in Morocco into submission by a blockade. A commission of export is to meet in Paris or Madrid to consider the blockade with Great Britain to assist by halting arms shipments reaching the Rif. The French army repelled a Rif assault near Tounat as reinforcements under Colonel Froydenborg arrived.
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