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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1944
Page
7
Real estate conditions in and near Hagerstown show improvement over the past decade, disclosed at a Hagerstown Real Estate Bureau meeting. In early 1944, the Multiple Listing Bureau analysis indicates a shift toward small one and two unit homes while farm demand in Washington County remains steady and strong.
Homes and farms remain available today but realtors report high asking prices due to strong demand. Rental housing is scarce as vacated properties are quickly filled. Mortgage money is ample with rates lower than in most war centers, aiding buyers in securing property.
Preview reports hail Darryl F. Zanuck produced drama The Purple Heart starring Dana Andrews Richard Conte Farley Granger Kevin O Shea Donald Barry Trudy Marshall and Sam Levene. Lewis Milestone directs the wartime drama depicting Yanks bombing Tokyo.
John W. Hoffman edged out Donald Ankeney for Clearspring mayor with 48 to 42 votes. Roach unopposed for assistant mayor with 65 votes, while Kelley 65, Ankeney 53, Brewer 48 lead the commissioners. Other candidates Cohen and Sei bert had 42 and 15. Boonsboro and Funkstown note incumbents, with elections upcoming in Keedysville Sharpsburg Hancock Smithsburg.
About 250 4-H club members plan Victory gardens this summer to aid national food efforts. Assisted by Miss Ardath Martin and Vernon Holter, weather lingers as the main holdback. sowing will soon finish with transplants started in boxes and hotbeds and seeds secured.
A Kansas City paper advertises a trial offer for a doctor’s rupture truss. Readers may test the device for 30 days, keep a $3.50 truss if satisfied, and return only if not fully pleased. Write Physician's Appliance Co. at 6395 Koch Bldg or 2906 Main St, Kansas City, Missouri for details.
Joseph Sherbow, general counsel to the Maryland Public Service Commission, is named by Governor O Conor to fill the Baltimore City Supreme Bench vacancy after Judge Frank’s retirement at 70. Sherbow, Democrat, previously served as people's counsel and PSC general counsel, with early roots in Baltimore and a 1922 Maryland Law School degree.
Chief Ralph Watts of the U S Merchant Marine will be at the U S Employment Service on E Washington street in Ha gerstown on May 2 3 and 4 to answer questions and accept recruits. Papers to join will be filled there while physical exams occur in Baltimore. Eligible ages are 26 to 35 with 4 F in the shaft allowing under 26 enlistment. Employed workers must hold a release from their employer. Those in 1 A may enlist before induction notice.
Dr. H B Wood United States veterinarian in charge of control requests humane killing methods for suspected rabid dogs to preserve skulls for tests. He noted skull tissue is used in rabies analysis and any humane method other than shooting through the head may be used without affecting tests. After a Williamsport Downsville area visit he found no new cases and will continue routine inspections until the outbreak danger ends.
NBC reporter William Kelly said General Douglas MacArthur avoided sniper fire by only a few minutes while ashore with the second assault wave at Hollandia on April 22. Kelty, a participant, recalled enemy snipers released shots just before MacArthur passed. Troops later cleared the area of snipers. Subtext notes Kuril Islands sparsity since 1884.
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that government owned property is immune from taxation, affecting a Pennsylvania gun maker's leased machinery. The decision holds the U S government holds title to the machinery and that taxing it would violate the Federal Constitution, with a separate 6 to 3 ruling invalidating a coerced confession obtained after long questioning.
The court ruled Ashcraft had been held and questioned for 36 hours without respite. It sent back to the Tennessee Supreme Court for reconsideration the murder conviction of John Ware, a Negro laborer, in Mrs. Ashcrafts death. Both men faced 99 year sentences.
Colonel Eugenio Silva a Cuban Embassy attache in Washington will be the Rotary Club luncheon speaker tomorrow at Hotel Alexander Hagerstown. He will address Cuba youth programs as the topic. Rotary officials announced last night. Edward Knocie displays a bronze mushroom weighing 1.75 pounds found in Virginia with two nearly as heavy specimens.
Hagerstown issued 12 building permits last month, totaling an estimated value of 51,685 dollars. City inspector Charles W. Smith reported the main project as an addition to Washington County Hospital valued at 29,000 dollars, followed by a 10,000 dollar dwelling, 8,000 dollar storage building for M. P. Moller Company, and a 3,506 dollar roller mill at Central Chemical Company on Mitchell Avenue.
A fragment mentions a location on Washington Street linked with the House of Blue White Diamonds. Details are limited and no further actions or parties are clear from the readable text.
A prior traveler Edwin J Dingle shares in Forbidden Tibet the discovery that Knowledge grants power to transform health wealth and life The Institute of Mentalphysics offers a free 9000 word treatise by mailing name and address to Los Angeles dept 1 547 Calf promptly.
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