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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1925
Page
6
County may transform into a major grape growing area as reports detail naval air operations over the Pacific. PN-9 seaplanes depart from San Francisco with Langley and destroyer William Jones near. one craft grounded miles from safety while the other proceeds to reunite with crews.
Charles J. Reeder and E. Z. Hull hunted five miles southeast of Smithsburg before daylight and bagged 18 gray squirrels in about two and a half hours. Hull took eleven and Reeder seven, the fur quality good and experts noting a plentiful local population. The opening day saw many hunters out, though fewer than usual, with others reporting poorer catches.
Oscar A. Konkle plans a 800 foot skyscraper in New York with a five story filling, a three story church auditorium, a bank, a hospital and a radio station. The hotel will bar smoking drinking and Sunday papers. Rooms to cost 321 a week with profits to missionary work.
Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania notes a Saturday half holiday feel as total mining suspension hits the anthracite fields. Streets crowded stores thronged while hundreds take off for mountains and nearby cities. In Philadelphia a nationwide coal field tie up follows with 158,000 miners quitting at midnight end of contract. expected to resume after renewal talks fail.
Three armed youths intercepted two messengers delivering payroll at the Mast End Savings and Trust Company entrance linked to Bauer Brothers Banking plant in Pittsburgh. They escaped with about $7,000 in a satchel as workers prepared weekly payroll.
New York Sept 1 Jake Ruth Yankee home run king announced after a conference with Colonel Jaco Ruppert owner of the team that he would publicly apologize for his derogatory statements concerning Teanager Miller Huggins.
The Agricultural Department flags a September outlook showing farm product purchasing power at 91 of prewar levels for July. It notes price supports driven partly by bad weather, encouraging more acreage in wheat cotton corn potatoes and more hogs cattle and sheep for 1326, despite weaker consumer demand.
The 1935 anthracite strike suspended operations across 272 collieries serving 628 mines in 10 northeastern counties of Pennsylvania, affecting 500 square miles and leaving 8 000 to 10 600 maintenance workers on duty. Daily wages loss reached 1 150 000 dollars with production down 266 000 tons. Union demand included a 0 percent tonnage rate increase, 1 dollar extra per day, check-off, and two year contract. Operators rejected cost increases and proposed arbitration. Negotiations opened July 9 in Atlantic City and ended August 4 with breakdown.
New York dated Sept 1 reports more than 70 of 360 firemen fighting an all night blaze under Pier No 65 Hudson River had been overcome by morning and the fire still burned. Several firefighters were knocked into the river by thrashing hose.
Washington County may become a leading grape region in the eastern United States if tests by chemists from a national grape products company prove the soil adaptable. Trials last week showed favorable results. local Concord and Breen varieties thrive, promising contracts for expanded vineyards and for grape supply to an Uhla factory near the Heinz plant in Chambersburg.
Prohibition era drive intensifies under marshal Andrews with orders to capture bootleggers. He acknowledges gaps in leadership and assigns divisional admins to purge sources and big conspiracy cases. In Washington, Bert of Oregon refuses to resign from the Board amid Coolidge pressure.
Dorothy Flair, a farm girl near Smithsburg not yet 15, ran away from home after six days of misbehavior. Jedson Pryor, Smithsburg, about 18, in parole from a May case, posted 3500 bail on a carnal knowledge charge involving Flair. Warrant expected for another young man from Pondsville area as investigations may involve more county youths.
In Washington on September 1 union officials ordered members in the nation’s capital to stay away from the Washington Philadelphia game. The AFL action came after Philadelphia A L club used nonunion labor in stadium construction, breaching a 1910 agreement.
In Swampscott Massachusetts the president indicated plans to renew a recommendation in December to repeal the publicity provisions of the tax law. Officials stated the income tax return publicity interferes with revenue collection and harms the government’s interests.
New York Sept 1 Mayon Hylans supporters mock Governor Smiths religious issue in the municipal primary campaign while mayoral opponents highlight Democratic backers for State Senator James J Walker and United States Senator Royal S Copeland. Campaign manager John P Cohalan calls for Walker and George W Olvany to declare their positions.
S He Rowe and H C Gilly trading as the Maryland Motor Co will open for business in a few days at 22 West Franklin Street handling the Oakland car.
New York reports John D. Rockefeller Jr paid 6,277,699 in income taxes for 1924, the largest by any individual in Manhattan including Wall Street. The release notes 7,455,159 for 1923, with various figures listed for contemporaries such as J. Pierpont Morgan, Mary Rockefeller, and others. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford are mentioned among heavy taxpayers in 1924.
Boston September 1 President Coolidge paid income tax totaling 14091.86 for 1922, figures released by the Collector of Internal Revenue show. The amount for 1921 was 36643.01, reflecting a larger income and tax return for the president.
In Los Angeles on September 14 readers learned that Charlie Chaplin paid 3345 in personal income tax while Roscoe Arbuckle listed 6116. Other notable taxpayers included Rudolph Valentino, Wallace Beery, Monte Blue, Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Barbara LaMarr, Ramon Novarro and more. Chaplin Studio Inc paid 104, boosting Chaplin's standing but not enough to overtake Ben Turpin at 504. The four highest taxpayers from the motion picture colony included Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Tease Laskey, James Cruse, and Mary Pickford.
Miss Nellie Kendall narrowly escaped the loss of an eye when a curling iron slipped from her hair and burned her eye. The attending physician believes sight can be saved. In a separate incident, George Stem, a farmer near Staithshore, killed a large chicken hawk measuring about 18 inches from wing tip, which had been plundering nearby flocks.
A pleasure steamer named Alonial of Meta Province burned off Westfield harbor early today. One crew member was reported drowned and another missing before rescue. The vessel carried only crew aboard en route to Dunkirk. Thomas McGura of Duffain was reported as drowned.
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