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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1944
Page
6
Indiana born humorist George Ade, famed author of half a century, died aged 78 after a series of heart attacks and a prior stroke. He had lived largely in Indiana after the stroke last June and had given up winter Florida visits, leaving a lasting mark as a prolific writer renowned for wit.
Ernest E. Stottlemyer reports a tire and wheel taken from his Chevrolet parked at the rear of his home on Madison avenue. Donald King from North Laeast street reports his bicycle stolen from the rear of the Herald Mail Company.
First Sergeant Martin C. Bowers of Hagerstown recalls the hardest Army duty delivering front line supplies while under heavy bombardment. After nearly two years in Africa and Italy, he details a 135 mile convoy through mud and rock to support a unit near Sidi Bon Sid, bombed eight times yet delivering the casualties and ammo that kept the front running. He trained at Fort Knox Fort Meade and Fort Benning and plans to spend his furlough in Hagerstown.
Harrisburg May 17 The Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican National Convention will go uninstructed as a courtesy to the National Governors Conference to be held May 28 31 in Pennsylvania A party spokesman said governors expected include Thomas E Dewey Earl Warren and John Bricker who all polled as presidential possibilities during recent primaries
Washington reports full Russian participation in Allied plans for final military drives into Nazi Europe. Three power cooperation aims at a permanent United Nations, with Norway Belgium and the Netherlands civil administrations coordinated by the Allies and exiled governments. Civil rule will pass to local governments as order returns.
Hagerstown merchants report shortages of wrapping materials and bags and have reduced use where not essential. The Retailers Bureau spokesman says packages are not wrapped when avoidable and reusable cartons are sent back to manufacturers. Non reusable cartons are sold to waste dealers, and dealers note retailers supply much of the waste paper and cardboard they handle.
The mercury reached 0 degrees yesterday and could rise further today if skies stay clear said J A Miller Keedysville weather observer The low last night was 61 degrees but the reading seems inconsistent with the stated temperature figures and the forecast remains unsettled
Federal prosecutors in the murder trial of Robert I Miller questioned witnesses and presented evidence that the 57 year old psychiatrist Dr John Lind was shot February 21 as he sat in his car with Miller's wife Marguerite Miller outside a major Washington department store. A deputy U S marshal testified Miller warned Lind to stay away from a girl two months earlier and shouted similar words inside the District court building last December. Miller fainted briefly during testimony as witnesses described his surveillance of his wife in the store before the shooting.
Thieves gained entry through a cel jar window and ransacked John A. Shipp’s store at 301 Elizabeth Street last night. Mrs. Richard Wolfe, caring for the property during the Shipps’ vacation, reported the robbery. Police suspect youths, as candy, pop, and tobacco drew attention. investigation continues. Divorced suit filed for June Anna Mae Monninger vs Raymond Arthur Monninger. attorney C. K. Harile.
Three Etter brothers serve in the Navy or Navy Air Forces across the globe. Jack Etter, wounded in Sicily, recovers at Mt. Alto Hospital in Washington, D. C. Ralph Etter leads the family’s Navy presence with carrier service and multiple wartime rescues. Eugene and Ellsworth Etter also sail or serve in the Southwest Pacific and Australia.
General H H Arnold told a War Labor Board hearing the foremen's strike at 13 Detroit plants is a serious setback for the Air Force and could allow the German air force to recover. He warned continued strikes might alter timing of German destruction and endanger bombing crews by reducing fighter plane protection. The meeting paused as the foremen's union considered a WLB demand to call off the strikes, which idle nearly 50 000 workers in Detroit.
Washington county springs have returned to normal flow after drought. Keedysville’s Taylor spring, reduced two thirds last winter, is back to 25 barrels per minute this week. The Remsburg farm spring near Keedysville remains at zero. Miller attributes underground reservoirs keeping it fed. Total rainfall for four months this year is 1.74 inches above normal.
New York May 17 Tammany Hall today backed a fourth term for President Roosevelt. The New York County Democratic Organization's executive committee voted a resolution urging the President to accept renomination "at the unfamous hands of his party" for the Presidency.
Greta Palmer testified before a House committee that a proposed Reader's Digest article criticizing the FCC was suggested by Wendell Willkie but never published after FCC Chairman James L. Fly protested it as libelous. Palmer, a New York writer, spoke to the special committee examining the FCC.
Donald Snyder of Pondsville was fined 11.75 by Magistrate EG Miller in Smithsboro for assault on a 11 year old Burger boy. Elmer McAfee of Mr. Briar was fined 11.75 by Magistrate Miller in Boonshoro for being disorderly. Constable Kenneth Stangle made path arrests.
A Superior Court panel in Los Angeles hears a juror story about bees. Paul J. McDonald, an engineer, explains he kept a box of bees to raise honey but his swarm left and returned while he was bent over the box, prompting the judge to excuse him. The incident shows the juror’s reason for nonservice.
Eldridge Lee Crabtree fourteen year old son of Lee and Mary Crabtree of North Prospect street died at Washington County Hospital at 11 43 a m from injuries after his bicycle was struck by a westbound truck on West Franklin Street yesterday afternoon He sustained a fractured skull and broken arm and leg He was pronounced in critical condition upon admission and did not regain consciousness Patrolmen Donald and Nervin Smith investigated the accident Crabtree was delivering newspapers at the time and was hit by a truck operated by Richard Miller of Florida Avenue of the Hagerstown Storage and Transfer Company
Five transport planes converted into hospital ships landed at the municipal airport this morning. They carried wounded army men taken to the Newton 1D Baker General Hospital at Martinsburg. Ambulances and cars followed the planes through Hagerstown en route to Martinsburg.
Judge Joseph D Mish grants Louise A Denson an absolute divorce from Robert F Denson. Attorney Martin L Ingram represented Denson in the case.
U S and Allied planes attack Jaluit in the Marshalls in a 284-sortie assault from Pacific Fleet command. The low altitude bombardment with Mitchells and fighters aimed to eliminate remaining Japanese forces after domination of the group. Nimitz reports eight raiders damaged but all returned safely.
Chinese forces attacking in southern Henan widened the gap along the Peiping Hankow railway to 22 miles between Kioshan and Minghiang and seized a third station. Northwest, intense fighting was reported inside and outside Loyang, suggesting renewed Japanese foothold there. The agency said the second enemy breakthrough occurred Monday.
European radios report growing Allied offensives in the west and east as Rommel completes a final checkup of the Atlantic wall. Nazi commentator Dittmar notes uncertainty and possible shifts in supreme command with Runstedt named for anti invasion duties, while Rommel and Blaskowitz lead army groups.
Washington county will seat its two permanent voter registers at county centers to register new and transfer voters. The first day is Saturday May 27 at Hancock Elementary School from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. The schedule continues June 3 at Clear Spring June 7 at Indian Springs and one day in each voting district outside Hagerstown, ending September 18 at Williamsport. An advertisement listing all locations and dates will appear next week.
Albert Caponetta 29 a Fort Sheridan inductee reports with his 11 month old son but army officials arrange care for the child. Caponetto says he must follow orders and expects his wife to join relatives after the baby’s birth. He had hoped to bring the baby due to lack of other care options.
Allied headquarters reported German positions from the Liri valley and Gustav line south toward Rome had fallen in heavy tank battles. British and Indian troops moved to strike from Cassino toward Ceprano as Allied armies pressed toward the Adolf Hitler line and the Rome frontier. Casualties mounted as streets were littered with the dead amid the advance.
Larry Allen AP war correspondent and Pulitz er prize winner was exchanged after 20 months as a prisoner of Italy and Germany. He was captured September 13, 1942, during a Tobruk raid when the destroyer Sikh was sunk. He was held in an Italian camp near Shieti, then in a German camp in northwestern Poland.
A Baltimore woman, 28, Margaret Ruth Kirby, died after falling from a racer dip car at Carlin's Park Mountain Speedway. Police say she stood up to enjoy the dash down the highest incline, toppled out as three-car train sped on. This marked the park's first fatal accident since 1928.
Madrid reports the German consulate at Tangier in Morocco has closed. The Spanish foreign ministry announced this amid terms of the May 2 accord with the United States and Britain. The pact allows German personnel to transit the Straits of Gibraltar to Spain en route to Germany and includes adjustments to Spain's wartime trade and Allied shipments to Spain.
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