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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1939
Page
10
Baltimore report says Lawrence F Welch and Ernest Mandell were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on charges of posing as government eye doctors. The case underscores alleged fraudulent medical practice targeting patients and seeking financial gain.
Government attorneys allege Frederick county case involves John and Addie Thom as of Adamsville who gave a check worth 1400 dollars to Welch and Mandel after a claim that Mrs. Thomas required eye treatment. The funds allegedly funded a scheme to drop an unidentified quid into her eye.
Premier Mussolini hailed the fall of Madrid as the defeat of Bolshevism and vowed Italy and Fascism would crush all enemies. On the Palazzo Venezia balcony he rallied thousands amid cries of Tunisia. Italy boasted 18,000 trained pilots and a fleet capable of bombing London to Mogadiscio.
A large attendance is expected at the Advertising Club of Hagera town meeting tonight at 8 in the Chalet room of Hotel Alexander. Officers will be elected and a constitution adopted. Membership is open to any local merchant.
Gertruda Warren, 20, of Old Batesburg South Carolina refuses marriage to George Wingard, father of her child, before Wingard and five others are executed for the murder of a prison guard. Warren leaves Columbia with the child, saying she would not wed a "dead man."
In Annapolis on March 29 the governor's supplemental budget increased state aid to several institutions. Memorial Hospital Cumberland gains 6,000 to 17,000 annually, Frederick City Hospital adds 500 to 15,000, Allegany Hospital up 3,000 to 14,000, Montgomery General Hospital rises 1,500 to 7,500. Blue Ridge College receives 2,000 to total 4,000 for 1940 and 2,000 for 1941. Maryland Bureau of Mines gains 4,000 annually, Cheltenham School for Boys gets a 2,000 annual boost.
Maryland House backed a totalisator bill after a heated two hour debate over betting odds devices at state tracks. Proponents led by Delegate Leon Abramson and aided by Jerome Robinson William H. Lloyd and Bernard Melnicove argued for installation while Harford county delegates and John Conroy urged sending the measure back to committee. Pimlico Raceway cited public opinion as a reason for compromise, with other tracks opposing the bill.
Charles Gollob and his wife Elsie filed a battery complaint after an alleged assault at the Columbia Broadcasting Theatre in Hollywood. They protested Eddie Cantor's Hitler jokes, and Assistant City Attorney Don Redwine scheduled a hearing for April 6 with Bert Gordon to answer questions.
Washington March 29 The Senate Civil Liberties Committee sent a bill to prohibit labor spies strikebreakers and industrial munitions in business affecting interstate commerce The measure dubbed oppressive labor practices aims to remove a menace to civil liberties officials said Led by La Follette and Thomas the committee described the proposal as defending civil rights against coercive tactics.
Floyd K Casner 25 WPA worker and father of three died from smoke in a smouldering bed fire in his one room Chambersburg home. Neighbors found him unconscious and moved him to the street where he died at the hospital. His wife and children live in another house.
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