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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1937
Page
6
In Glendale California on June 9 the film world said farewell to Jean Harlow. The 26 year old star died Monday from uremic poisoning. Her life mixed romance tragedy and fame. mourners included her mother father two former husbands and actor William Powell.
Treasury officials said states must join a reciprocal tax program to channel revenue lost through exemptions into public treasuries. President Roosevelt stated he favors removing income tax exemptions for federal and state employes and taxing income from securities. A constitutional amendment may be needed, with states possibly ratifying it.
In Jefferson City Missouri on June 9 the Missouri Senate extended its longest session by adjourning sine die under the rules. The sergeant at arms struggled to gather members and end the session at 16 a m today, marking the end of a lengthy period of routine adjournment.
Weather Bureau outlook shows partly cloudy conditions tonight and Thursday with a chance of showers. Widespread temperatures little changed, winds from the southwest and west on Chesapeake Bay.
Takoma Park Md June 9 Fifty five years separated for Stein Ben Oscar and Mike brothers Ben 67 and Oscar 63 kept in touch while Mike 58 was lost. A letters search found Mike then he drove from Los Angeles to Oscar's farm in Adams County Pennsylvania. The two planned reunion and families for a day of sightseeing.
June 14 Scotland Yard sought to learn the full account of Diana Battye the 21 year old society girl found sobbing on a London doorstep near her Oxford undergraduate fiancé Michael Asquith. She could not explain what happened and doctors diagnose a severe nervous breakdown. Her mother Mrs Leonard Hackett said Diana is safe and distressed. Police had received a threatening letter to "remove" Diana unless better care was taken.
Robert Kendle of Funkstown was thrown from a horse as it bolted after being startled by a motorcycle ridden by Hester Forsythe. The rider braked to avoid collision, but the horse ran for miles before being captured along the National highway.
Baltimore police commissioner William P. Lawson announced that officers in cars responding to bank and store holdup calls must wear uniforms. He argued plain clothes officers jumping out with sawed-off shotguns frighten the public and could be mistaken for bandits and shot at.
East Prussia awaits Adolf Hitler's July 19 speech from Marienburg castle amid mass Nazi troop movements and rumors about Danzig its future status and Polish Silesia. The reports link the visit to frontier issues and the fate of the free city of Danzig within the Polish corridor.
State parole commissioner wr. Cookman Bord today deferred action on the second parole application of Charles W. Jackson. Jackson, a Washington County man sentenced in 1921 to life in the penitentiary for the slaying of another negro, had earlier been denied parole in September. A note from Judge Frank Gragaman who presided at the trial influenced the decision.
Kansas revenue from a new sales tax boosts state income but reduces slot operator and church receipts. Metal tokens used in a 25 cent machine and 2 mill pieces entered church collection plates, with one church and Sunday School session reporting eleven tokens.
At the fifty ninth annual commencement of Hagerstown High School 249 graduates received diplomas in St John s Lutheran auditorium. The ceremony featured two orchestra selections a class Psalm an invocation by Rev J Edward Harms and ample honors for prize recipients including Betty Everlin Anna Catherine Emmert Helen Duffey and others.
Strong winds last Saturday toppled a hollow tree at the Hunter farm near death curve, snapping two branches and causing ten duck eggs near hatch to fall and break while also bringing down a bumble bee nest.
First applications for re registration of motor vehicle operators licenses were filed this week as mandated by the last legislative session. The new licenses require $1 with the application to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles in Baltimore, and failure to apply by January 1, 1938 will void current operator cards, with licenses becoming $3.50 for motor vehicles and $2.50 for motorcycles.
Mrs. Jack Williams was surprised when a duck in her yard emerged from a hollow tree with a brood of 18 ducklings. The hen reportedly nested unseen inside the tree, reappearing days later with her family.
The newly appointed Board of Election Supervisors organized yesterday by electing Russell H. Geeting as president and reappointing Charles O. Ward as clerk and Samuel C. Strite as attorney. Board members are Mr. Geeting, Edw. B. Knadler and J. R. Rauth.
C Neill Baylor editor of the Morning Herald travels from Hagerstown by air to join the 47th annual United Confederate Veterans convention in Jackson Mississippi. pilot Roy Z Bankhead flies via Greensboro Atlanta and Montgomery. Major General Milton Reckord enables the trip and Antietam re-enactment. Baylor plans to issue 2000 invitations for September 17th anniversary events.
A motor short circuit at Chatkin Pharmacy in the Moller apartment building Summit Avenue caused a small fire this morning. Fire crews responded but the proprietor said there was no damage from the blaze.
Atlantic City June 3 press dispatch reports the American Medical Association recognizing birth control as proper medical practice after decades of opposition. The decision affirms doctors' legal rights to use contraceptives, aims to educate on fertility and sterility, and limits contraception to legally licensed clinics.
Ralph Eccard the Chevarillo boy resumed his jockey career at Suffolk Downs yesterday riding a lone-shot home to win on Count Tetrarch paying 20.60. He also finished second aboard Prosecutor paying 21.80 and Steelworker paying 4.20.
Wise trailer motorists will shun Long Beach summer resort colony near LaPorte. The colony adopted an ordinance forbidding parking of trailers and their use as permanent homes. Penalty twenty dollars.
Jockey Johnny Shanks suffers a fractured wrist in a race fall at Hagerstown, with three breaks seen on X ray, threatening his career. In Flint, June 3, a power strike by United Automobile Workers cuts electricity to almost all city facilities, hospital power spared, as negotiations continue with Consumers Power. Sheriff Wolcott cites word from Washington of a midnight CIO conference resolving wage talks and a tentative agreement.
Residents of Halfway plan to apply to WPA authorities for a concrete sidewalk on the north side of Virginia avenue from Glenside avenue to the Prior Publishing Company plant. District leaders cite several fatalities in the past year due to missing sidewalks and warn the area is a speedway hazardous for schoolchildren.
An Italian press account notes a Hagerstown built Fairchild 24 completing a 36 mile flight across the Mediterranean, North and Central Africa. Piloted by Albertini and Varzi the flight crossed desert areas near Tripoli Tania and French Nigeria and flew above Camerun’s forests.
Sunheating science becomes reality as Arthur Drew a gasoline station proprietor builds a 1,060 gallon aluminum lined tank. He reports sun on a hot day heats water to 120 degrees and under the tank a shower bath serves passing truck drivers.
Allen Barnhart reported a theft from his car overnight, nine gallons of gasoline taken. The vehicle was parked in the alley behind his Madison Avenue home.
Youngstown Ohio June 8Reports say peace moves resume in Washington and Columbus as the eighth death from the South Chicago riot is reported. Gov Martin L Davey seeks a joint conference between S W O C and steel executives to end the steel strike altering production across seven states.
A sit down strike began at two Ternstedt Manufacturing plants in Detroit delaying operations. About 3,500 workers on afternoon shifts reportedly sat down, suspending work at those sites. Walter Reuther, UAW local president, said the protest targets delays in ending the piece-work system and wage adjustments.
MONROE Midh June 9 CIO members from Detroit claim they will resist any move to reopen the strike closed Detroit plant. They say they have support from the United Automobile Workers and oppose Mayor Knagg’s plan to enlist civilians with military experience as special policemen to reopen the plant and organize the effort.
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