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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1921
Page
7
Paris May 24 Premier Briand declared in the Chamber des Deputies that France will not occupy the German Ruhr district. He said occupation would threaten the Versailles treaty and that Germany has shown willingness to fulfill its agreements, making military occupation unnecessary at this time.
Calm and self-possessed Mrs Ethel Hutchinson Nott goes on trial for her life in Bridgeport charged with helping milkman Wade murder her husband George B Nott at their home last August Wade was hanged last Friday Public Defender Robert de Forest and Attorney Henry E Channon said they expect she will endure the trial though attendance and testimony at Wade’s trial have impaired her health Rejection of the story was expected to last several days.
Washington reports that Prohibition Commissioner Kramer will weed out the whiskey trade by targeting druggists who adulterate liquor. He states such druggists are falsifiers under the law and risk permit revocation for tampering with bonded whiskey.
Reval May 24 Japan has been negotiating with the Moscow soviet for weeks to gain control of Kamchatka and offered to withdraw troops from Vladivostok as a price. Washington Van derlip of Los Angeles says George Tchitcherin relayed the information from Moscow. The soviet reportedly rebuffed the Japanese demands.
At 7 o clock Saturday morning 78 shop men of the Western Maryland Railway laborers machinists gas repairers mechanics etc will fold up and put away their overalls for an indefinite period announced by the railroad company. The reason given is no work five day notices required by the brotherhoods were posted yesterday. More may follow as business is at its lowest ebb and work at the shops is practically at a standstill.
Preparations continue for the June 1 tax levy as officials weigh potential rate increases from the current 1.06. Commissioners expect a rise, with estimates between 1.00 and 1.25, but final figures hinge on assessable basis and pending data. Balloting today in Ulster province for the new Northern Ireland Parliament under Home Rule coexists with Dublin Belfast elections. results unlikely before Thursday morning. The Belfast parliament is expected to contain 52 members.
In Leipzig on May 24 testimony will detail that 200 British war prisoners died in one German camp within a month. Dying men were clubbed and six faces eaten by vermin, claims Chief Inspector Collins of Scotland Yard. Former Sergeant Heyman and the Westphalian camp commandant figure in the opening case. Witnesses include ex-soldiers about three camps with no submarine atrocity evidence.
Washington May 24 Chairman N Mackall of the Maryland State Roads Commission and Col Joseph Wickes traffic expert of the Public Service Commission conferred with the Federal Highway Council on extending the rural motor express in Maryland and other states. No conclusions were reached as the proposition was in infancy. Maryland officials were called to an executive session to learn the status of motor bus regulations in Maryland. Bank stock sold Joseph Murdock auctioneer sold 16 shares of Hagerstown Bank stock par value 16 for 75 a share.
Washington County Farmers Association plans an outdoor picnic and meeting in Dagmar Woods near Western Pike s and Conococheague Creek on Thursday at 4 PM Reverend Hartman of Cave Town Community Club will speak on topics shaping the association s future and past plans A basket luncheon will be served and women farmers invited to attend. COMPLETE BUILDING Maryland Lime and Marble Co completes a new 30 by 40 foot structure at Death Curve to dry material contractor J H Barnhart. YOUNGEST CHURCH OFFICER Reverend Samuel G Ziegler pastor of St Paul s United Brethren Church elected secretary of the Foreign Missionary Society at Indianapolis youngest to hold that office.
ARIS May 24 a 48 hour truce has been arranged between the German volunteers and the Poles in Silesia, it was officially announced here today by the German ambassador.
Board of Education members and County Commissioners President Henry Holzapfel met in the school office to review the annual budget for the coming year. Supt Grimes and school heads provided details for county approval ahead of the levy. No deficit reference was made and no plan on funding teachers and obligations was finalized.
Norfolk and Western Railway shows a nominal net income deficit of 154 021 in the first quarter of this year due to a shortage of cars on lines of other roads. Despite this, the directors declare a regular quarterly dividend of 11 1 2 percent. Earnings on common stock last year reached 9 53 a share with government guaranty and compensation.
Samuel Downin of 883 West Washington street recovered after a hospital operation for gangrene requiring the amputation of his left foot. He withstood the surgery and is reported to be improving with his condition better today.
George Walter Potter of Waynesboro died at his home on Monday from regarthia encephalitis or sleeping sickness, the second fatal case there in weeks. He was 41. Surviving are his mother Mrs. Eliza Potter, widow, two sons Brandell and George, a daughter Elizabeth, and four sisters Mrs. Harry Stouffer, Mrs. Neil Brown of Waynesboro, Mrs. Ed Mantous and Mrs. Charles Lehman of Hagerstown.
Belair Maryland May 23. Arthur Downey a 16 year old Black youth is held in Belair jail without bail charged with attempted criminal assault on Jania West ten year old daughter of Frank H Weat a farmer near High Point in the third district of Marford county.
Santi Arena on trial for shooting his wife Lucy with intent to kill faced cross examination as the third session opened. He repeated he fired only to save his life while court interruptions and his dramatic gestures marked the proceedings. After testimony, both sides gave statements to the jury.
Forty loaded boats with coal, twenty bound for Georgetown and fifteen for Williamsport, will be released tonight or tomorrow morning as the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Milster's Bend is closed after repair work. About a dozen light boats on this side will proceed to Cumberland once water levels rise. The loaded boats will move from the break on Wednesday. The break measured about sixty feet in length.
Sheriff Mayer reported an attempted breakout at Franken county jail after five bricks were removed from an unoccupied cell in the south eastern section. Prisoners Clarence Reeseman John Hamilton and Pete Brown are held in separate confinement.
Colonel John J. Gibbons and family have arrived at Pen Mar for the season and anticipate opening the Pen-Mar dining room on Decoration Day. Florist Bester of Hagerstown has been contracted to fill urns and plant them with flowers. work to begin Thursday with aims to make urns attractively arranged.
London dispatch reports 300 Polish insurgents failed to cross into German territory in Upper Silesia with 25 dead. German volunteers backed by officers repelled the attempt near Annaberg Rosenberg and Leschnitz, capturing five field guns and six machine guns on Hill No. 160. Fifty Berlin Communists were seized amid fighting.
Boston May 4 The NV 8 Mail liner Pocahontas is in trouble six miles off Long Island after engine room trouble. Distress signals were heard by the coast guard cutter Manhattan which is to assist. Pocahontas later reported proceeding to Newport under her own power. Engine room fault caused the diversion. crew included strike breakers recruited in New York.
Friends and relatives of Miss Helen B Warne daughter of F EK Harne formerly of this city receive invitations from Buckhannon West Virginia High School graduating class of which she is a member She is a former pupil of the W O H S of this city In September 1921 she will enter Wesleyan College where her sister Miss Mildred is a student Commencement exercises will be held June 3 1921.
The Paragon Coal and Fuel Company of Hagerstown filed incorporation papers to deal in and sell coal. Office set at 210 Arcade Building. Capital stock listed as 60,000 with par value 25 per share. Incorporators named Silas A. Roth JH Fred Smith and Lambert P. Ayres. Supposed coal land holdings and a mine in Somerset County Pennsylvania near the year coal district.
Berlin May 24 A proclamation threatens a 100000 mark fine and imprisonment for forming any military organization in Germany. Signed by President Ebert Chancellor Wirth and Interior Minister Gradnauer the measure ties to Berlin’s move to curb German volunteers in Silesia against Poland. The government also pledged France to bar Germans from entering Silesia to fight the Poles by closing the Siician frontier.
Washington on May 24 reports ship owners remaining firm and offering little hope for settlement as they entered talks with Secretary of Labor Davis over the snaring strike.
President Harding sails from New York aboard the Mayflower at 1 a.m. after a 3 day stay. He addressed speeches reviewed the Twenty third Regiment and attended a New York Commercial dinner reception with over 2000 attendees. The trip proceeds to Washington amid raw winds and seas.
Rioting broke out in Belfast during balloting for Northern Ireland parliament candidates. Several persons were wounded in Newtonards suburbs as revolvers fired and stones flew. Sergeants were stabbed at a Saunders Street polling booth and disorders spread to Bailey Macarett where rioters overwhelmed police.
Attorney General Armstrong is reportedly invited to become vice president of the Lord's Day Alliance. The move, not yet accepted, follows disputes with Baltimore Police Commissioner Gaither over Sunday baseball and related legal actions.
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