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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1935
Page
4
Antonio San Miguel, 78, a Cuban railroad magnate, was released after three days with kidnappers near Havana. He refused to confirm paying the $286,000 ransom, saying he believes he was held on a farm about 20 miles from Havana and was treated roughly. He requested rest and a bath and declined to speak to reporters.
Washington June 8 The administration s tax program for this Congress will be discussed in a conference within days by Secretary Morgenthau Senate Finance Chairman Harrison and Ways and Means Chairman Doughton. Officials expect possible gift and inheritance tax proposals and a broader revenue plan with talk of restoring wartime excess profits tax and a flat income tax increase. A special message to Congress is anticipated after high level talks.
Dr. James A. Stevens of Easton Maryland died aged 83 after a long battle with injuries from heroism in aiding a patient during a snowstorm. He once treated a patient across a county line. his car stalled, he spent the night in a snow bank, and his leg froze leading to amputation and eventual death after his heart failed during surgery.
Rt Reverend Monsignor Alphonsus Avila Cherrier aged 86, Vicar General of the Winnipeg Archdiocese, died today after a lengthy illness. He served 43 years as parish priest of the Church of the Immaculate Conception and also held the position of vice chancellor of the university.
Police hunt a man who seized 16-year-old Doris Evans in a daisy field near Baltimore. Her brother Albert stabbed the assailant in the back with a kitchen knife, which broke. torn dress and knife handle were found later. Investigators seek the wounded attacker. articles sent to fingerprint experts.
Capital expects all debtor nations but Finland to follow Britain's lead and refuse to meet war debt payments due the United States on June 15.
Elias Stephanson, 42, returned from California and shot his three children after calling his divorced wife. He gave each child a sack of candy, shot two, and killed himself with the last bullet in his revolver. The children were home alone when the incident occurred in ANACONDA.
Searchers by air and ground widened efforts to locate the hideout used in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. Federal agents and police indicated the abductors’ identities remained unknown while reports circulated about ransom notes found in Salt Lake City and the missing Seattle federal agent E. F. Connelly.
Public schools of the city and county will close Tuesday June 11 for the summer vacation period, Superintendent B J Grimes announced today. Two high school commencement exercises remain Clearspring Monday evening and Hancock Tuesday evening, both to start at 7 p.m.
In Cabot Strait near Cape Breton Island the Canadian Pacific freighter Beaverhill and the British freighter Nubian collided last night. Nubian, a 6,806 ton vessel, was reported limping to North Sydney with unknown damage.
Senators study Roosevelt stopgap plan amid nine and a half month NRA agency extension. Richberg resigns effective June 16 as critics press anti trust law questions while the House preserves exemptions for voluntary codes.
New York police abandon drowning theory in favor of kidnapping lead after taxi driver reports seeing a well dressed woman with five year old Jackie Kaul near his playground. The boy, missing since Thursday, was described as crying to play ball as the woman guided him by the arm.
Farmers welcomed an ideal rain as Hagerstown and surrounding areas received steady showers. Keedysville and southern districts saw only light sprinkles with seven hundredths of an inch by noon. The rain began locally at 5 30 and continued morning, with hopes for a longer, steady rain later. The moisture is seen aiding wheat and corn crops by fattening kernels and loosening soil.
Jimmy Thomson from Long Beach California bogeyed late in the third round at Oakmont, finishing with a 77 to tie Sam Parks Jr of Pittsburgh for 54 holes. Both carried a 223 aggregate as Parks posted 78 in the morning round.
Maryland Governor Harry W. Nice plans a personal visit to Washington to press for immediate start on the Chesapeake Bay bridge. He says the project will provide thousands of jobs and is crucial for the state and federal government, and he will meet with Interior Secretary Harold Ickes to discuss reassurances it won’t harm other federal undertakings.
Authoritative sources say Justin Miller, a special assistant to the attorney general, is slated to head the new Federal Bureau of Crime Prevention. Miller, a North Carolina lawyer, chairs the advisory council of the National Crime conference, which urged a fourfold expansion of the Justice Department. The proposal was announced by Attorney General Cummings in Stamford, Connecticut.
North and Middle Atlantic States may see showers early in the week, with additional showers midweek and toward week’s end. Temperatures start moderate, rise to warmth in the middle, then cool again. South Atlantic States expect interior showers midweek and again toward week’s end with normal temperatures.
Aloysious Jordan, a St. Marys county youth, was unharmed except for slight foot burns after a bolt of lightning struck a tree near the Oakville negro school and arced to his shoes during a lively dance. Dancers fled in panic as the bolt caused the shoes to be ripped from his feet and minor damage to the building.
A car ride in the countryside ended when the vehicle overturned three times on return to Baltimore. Frederick F. Marburg, 25, died from a fractured skull. Mary Trocka, 19, Josephine Trocka, 21, and Rita Phillips, 17, were injured with cuts and bruises.
A young girl, unnamed, was hit by a vehicle yesterday afternoon at the corner of Howard street and Guilford avenue. She crossed the street, rose quickly after the impact, and ran away. authorities could not obtain her name. She appeared not to be injured.
In Weybridge England Helen Wills Moody defeated Mrs Elsie Pittman of England 6 0 6 4 to capture the St George's Hill tennis tournament final today.
In Middleburg Pennsylvania on June 8 a jury acquitted Zella Gill and her parents after accepting Sherman Strawser's claim that the Gills provoked the crime. Strawser was sentenced to die in the electric chair the week of July 8. Lester Gill served six months for moonshining and will remain jailed while Zella, his wife, and seven children return to their mountain home.
ANNAPOLIS June 8 Train men were exonerated from all blame today by the coroner’s verdict in the death of Ivan Johnson a 37 year old route manager for the Washington Star who was fatally injured June 1 when his automobile was struck at Woytych station by a Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad train. Johnson died at a Washington hospital from a ruptured kidney a fractured skull and a broken collar bone.
Shanghai reports China's 32nd army advances toward Tientsin as Sino Japanese tensions rise. Japan's Manchukuo command is said to prepare for invasion should China reject Tokyo's ultimatum, with Minami and Nishio directing senior staff to ready forces if needed.
Kenneth Shirey George Baker and Hugh Hoffman walked out on the city weed gang on Thursday and were still at large at noon with police on the trail. They have nine days to serve after being sentenced ten each by Justice Heard. Three new recruits joined today but went to jail exchanging handshakes due to weather delaying outside work. Police have not been notified of any plan to abolish the gang on constitutional rights grounds. Rumors say past present and future members are gathering nickels to take the case to a higher court.
In Cagliari Mussolini addresses 20 000 Sabanda division soldiers and a mass of blackshirts. He vows to settle accounts with Ethiopia without heed to world opinion and urges youth mobilization for national power and glory. He praises Sardinian blackshirts and calls their display of force heroic.
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