The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 1

DAYBYETAY ho'fitt of. affective polio vaeeiniHn recent research report. VOL. CXiX, NO. 9.

WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and not so cold tonight; Sunday mostly cloudy and mild. matter at the daily Saa4sy) by tfee Mail Portoflee. Co, HAGERSTOWK, MR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1947. Based on total, assets of $523,127.43 as reported in the annual financial statement made public ast week, a share of Hagerstown stock has a book value of iround $1040. which is perhaps 5ne of the reasons the stock sells 'or $400 an'd more a share although ion-dividend paying.

The financial statement shows total cash, bonds, of $390,574.18 and property and equipment it appraisal values established on January 17, 1933 of $132,553.25. The 30 some acres of land along with the trees, fences, roads, are appraised at only $25,000. the race track at $15,000, the buildings at $91,335 and equipment at $1,198.25. Jack Koontz, who lives at 327 Liberty street, writes us about what he describes as a "funny Sittle incident" that happened to him in a local theater after he had witnessed the mystery thriller, "Home Sweet Homicide," the night. "I had come into the movie when the feature was half ever and after I had seen everything I started for the exit," he writes.

"In the rear of the theater I was stopped by an excited woman twisting her, hanky this: 'Please Mil ane committed the I don't have time to wait the picture is over and I just can't go home not knowing who did Jack accommodated. Sam Strite should be convinced after an experience he had the other night that his two youngsters are chips off the old block, always enjojping a prank best when they had a hand in it The local attorney 'was explaining to his young daughter and son that "Measles," their Dalmation which is turning seven, was in reality near the half century mark In the ratio of age of humans and dogs is 7 to 1. Sam added that "Measles" was getting too fat -and at his anything heart "attack. A few nights later the Strifes, going out, had engaged a new not wise to the habits of dogs. Before they turned in to bed, the children introduced "Measles" to their guardian the night, repeating what their father had told them about their dog's overweight and the possibility of his quick but adding five years to the actual age of "Measles" already curled up asleep.

When the Strites arrived home they were greeted with a sigh of relief from the nurse, who related how, soon- after the children had retired, "Measles" had started to groan and roll his eyes as if in agony and that she was certain that he was dying as children had warned might happen. "Measles" was only having one of his bad dreams and'was as spry as ever when It is needless to report that the children, learning at breakfast that their well-iatched "plot" were jubilant. had worked, Following reports of police that there was considerable drunkenness, misconduct and Jtoodlumlsm at a local theater on occasion of the showing of a picture at midnight on New Year's Eve, a police official sug- fested that perhaps the showing of pictures at midnight does more harm than.good. The official stated that it is never necessary for anyone to wait up until midnight to see a movte and that the showing of midnight pictures has a tendency keeping young people on the streets to a later hour than Is desirable. Even bus drivers sometimes fail to observe traffic regulations and because one didn't Friday morning, the bus was within a few seconds of being involved in an accident with a fire engine- at one of the street intersections, where 'the traffic lights were blinking a warning not to proceed.

An observer reported the incident as well as his "disappointment" after musing -to as he watched several private cars ignore the warning 1 'signals "that "here is one that is not going to go through" as the bus approached the But, he the driver ignored the warning flashes and just got -across the intersection; as the fire engine hove view over the brow of the hill as it speeded to the fire, Romance comes to both old and young and the apparently is no longer confined to those of more tender years, the marriage clerks at the local courthouse agree after a license to perhaps the couple, at least in their recollections, that has ever been licensed to marry This wtek an aged man ambled (Continued on Page 3) Several Fine Farms Are Among Transactions Recorded By Deed. Several fine county farms, a dozen or so residential properties and the former Peter McNeel build ing on the north side of the second block of West Franklin' street changed owners this week. The volume of transactions was double most week's and the aggregate value of the turnover was well over Among the sales were the following: Martin T. B. Bostetter, trustee, to Percy R.

Diyelbiss and wife, north side West Franklin street, Cohen Brothers, to Wiilard L. Landers and wife, west side Woodland Way, $17,500. Hubert and wife to Raleigh E. Hoch and wife, farm containing 133 acres, four miles south of Hagerstown, $15,000. W.

D. Winters and wife to Chas. E. Fahrney and wife, west side of Elizabeth street, Anna M. Smart, Mary J.

Brundige and Robert B. Brundige, her husband, Dorothy M- Gorden, Charles K. McLaughlin, William P. McLaughlin and wife, Marian EL McLaughlin, Sarah Elizabeth Quillman and Ralph Qulllman, iier husband: Janet McLaughlin, H. McLaughlin and wife, Bertha M.

Larrick and Charles V. Larrick, her husband, V. Bruce McLaughlin and wife. G. Albert McLaughlin, and guardian for Nancy Lee McLaughlin to Adam R.

Martin, 172: acre-farm Election District No, 13, Burke, her husband, to L'Alglon Apparel, north side East (Continued on Page 2) Two Tickets In Field At Hancock LeRoy G. Carter And A. Hart McKinley Head Opposition Tickets. Two tickets have been nominated for the municipal election to be held at Hancock on January 29, with every indication of a spirited campaign in prospect Mayor Omar Carryer. who has served as chief executive of the town for a number of years, recently announced that he would not be a candidate to succeed himself.

One tickets, which is called by its sponsors the "Business Men's Ticket" is headed by LeRoy G. Carter for mayor. Mr. Carter has been manager for years for the Potomac Edison Company at Hancock. Nominated for the four seats in the Council are J.

Allen Heller, a member of the Council for the past 16 years; Roscoe Creager, also a member of the Council for 8 years. Mr. Heller, who was also named on the second ticket, is a druggist and Mr. Creager a hardware merchant. Other members of the Business Men's Ticket for Council seats are Walter Blackwell, who operates a concrete block manufacturing plant, and Daniel Fleming, who is a distributor for a large oil concern and is also a war veteran.

A. Hart McKinley. cashier of the People's Bank of Hancock, has been nominated for mayor on the second ticket In addition to Mr. Heller on this ticket for Council are Lloyd J. Shives, store manager: Verne M.

Glaser, who is associated with his father in the operation of a store, and Edward James, who is employed by the Pennsylvania Glass Sand Co- The ticket headed by Mr. McKinley, it is understood, is being sponsored by a group headed by J. R. Omps, who operates a large can- wery in the Hancock area. Two Suits For Divorce Filed This Morning Two suits for divorce were filed in court this morning to bring the total for the month" to, eight.

Eva Marie- Godbee filed against Powell. Walker Godbee and Margaret Isabelle Richard against William Francis Rickard. MEETING PLANNED In connection with its annual spring membership drive the Maryland Farm Bureau will hold a special meeting at Frederick on February 5 for Carroll, Howard, "Montgomwy Washington counties. Discovery Will Aid Polio Fight In their laboratory at Stanford University, are Dr. Hubert S.

Loring. (left) and Dr. Carlton E. Schwerdt, whose in isolating nearly pure polio virus has been announced by the university. They are working at the centrifuge which played an important part in their experiments.

Production of purified virus is a big step in the struggle to find a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Polio Vaccine Coming Closer. Research Of Two Chemists Boosting Hopes For Cure. Palo Alto, Jan. 11 Research by two Stanford University chemists today boosted the aopes of scientists seeking an.ef- fective vaccine against infantile paralysis.

Dr. Hubert S. Loring and Dr. C. E.

Schwerdt reported they had suc- eeded in isolating a substance with a polio virus purity, of 80 percent or higher. The success was described as facilitating research toward producing a vaccine that will be (1) 'safe for humans; (2) effective against ness. The" Stanford research has been underway since 1940, financed" by" the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Scientists already have made polo vaccines, but one defect has been the problem of isolating the rirus in pure or nearly pure form Drs. Loring and Schwerdt succeeded in that whatever raccine is produced will not be oxic and will be effective.

Some of the vaccines already produced have been used satisfactorily on laboratory animals, but none was considered entirely reliable. Cancer Cause Ten Deaths Here Health Department Reports 66 Deaths In County During Cancer wag the cause of ten leaths in Washington county dur- ng October, 1946, according to a bulletin released this morning by he State Department of Health. There was a total of 66 deaths Washington county during Oc- ober, 3S in the city. Diseases of the heart caused 24 deaths, tuberculosis, syphilis, cerebral hemorrhage, pneumonia, nephritis, accidents, other than motor vehicle, 3. and all other causes 12.

There was a total of 193 births the county, 94 of which were reported in the city, and of this number there were only two stillbirths. A total of five deaths of infants were reported, three from prema- ure birth, one due to respiratory disease and the other from injury at birth. Venereal all others in notifiable diseases reported during the month. Nineteen cas- of gonorrhea were reported and 0 cases of syphillis. Other dis- jases reported: measles, chicken pox, diphtheria, poliomye- His, 1: tuberculosis, 3: pneumonia, 11 types, 1.

Food Prices On Way Down Survey Shows Decided Reductions; No Boosts Likely. Chicago, Jan. 11 appeared good food news today for the nation's housewives retail prices generally are on the way down. There'll be no sharp boosts in food prices, virtually all food industry sources said. The survey of retail food prices disclosed prices have been reduced for eggs, cheese, lard, fresh and canned.

meats, canned citrus fruits and dried peaches and dried apples. of the Institute of Food Distribution, said in an. interview in New York that "the basic downward trend in retail food prices has bean gathering momentum since mid-November after reaching a peak in mid-October." Corabley predicted retail food prices would average about 10 per- ent lower by April. He added retailers and wholesalers were "extra nervous" because considerable stocks are not selling too well. Butter, which at times, last year skyrocketed to more than $1 a pound in several cities, took another drop in many cities after wholesale prices in markets in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles yesterday showed declines of up to cents.

The only major commodity still showing an upward trend, food wholesalers in Chicago said, was coffee. ftighes, Movie Actor Gary Grant Are Safe Houston. Jan. 11 Noah Dietrich, president of the Hughes Tool Company, said today that Howard Hughes and Cary Grant, movie actor, reported missing on a flight from Dayton, 0., to Amarillo, are safe. The Air Material Command at Wright Field, Dayton, had reported that a B-23 bomber carrying Hughes and the movie actor was missing on a flight from Dayton to ATnarillo, Texas.

At that time it was announced that planes were searching for the missing craft Woman Insists She Is Guilty So Member Of 'Plain Is Sent To Prison And Fined In Auto Death. Lancaster. Jan. parents of the child killed by her auto pleaded that she be freed. Her counsel made an appeal for a suspended' sentence.

Miss Emma B. Hurst, 29, a member of the "plain sect" from Epharata, refused to change her plea of guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death by auto of Sandra Lee Grill, 4, "I don't think that would be fair," she said. The black bonnet on her head bobbed vigorously. Whereupon Judge Oliver Schaeffer, remarking that "cases must be treated alike," sentenced her to three months in Lancaster county prison and fined her $200. Sandra was waiting with her mother and sister to board a trolley here on September 10.

when she was struck by Miss Hurst's auto that passed the street car. Miss Hurst, who had been driving for 12 years, said she did not know she had to stop for troltey cars. She said she rarely drove in the city, that nearly all her driving was confined to the rural are in which she lived. Premier's Daughter et Is Argument For Services Merger Bipartisan Group Sees Chance To Bring About Union. Washington, Jan.

11 bi-partisan opposition to budget slashing that might impair security developed today as Army-Navy merger advocates seized on the President's spending estimates as a good argument for consolidating the armed services. The merger move gathered momentum as Republican financial managers, talking of sharp reduction in Mr. Truman's $37,500,000,0.00 budget for the fiscal year starting next July 1, looked hungrily at a projected outlay of for the forces. On both sides of Capitol Hill the GOP leadership seemed nearing agreement that $3,500,000,000 may be about as much as Congi'ess can hope to pare from the President's estimate. Chairman Taber (R-NY), of the House Appropriations Committee said the total can be reduced "at least three or four This is the amount chairman Taft (Ohio) of the GOP Senate Steering Committee has said he thinks can be "squeezed out." Taber told reporters his contention that appropriations can be cut to slightly over $29,000,000,000 had been widely taken to mean he intended a slash of some $8,000,000,000 in the budget total.

He said he referred only to new appropriations and that the budget provides for spending several billions" in funds. If the going make good their promise to take a big bite out of the President's figures, they conceded, they must do considerable nipping on army and navy funds which account for (Continued on Page 2) DENY REQUEST MADE Oslo. Jan. 11 high official of the Norwegian government denied last night that the Soviet Union had made a formal request on Norway for 'military bases in Spitsbergen. ARSONIST BLAMED Charles Town, W.

Jan. 11 officials said they believe a series of fires in this area are the work of an arsonist, although they admitted that they are without tangible clues. Jewish Charities Share In Estate Will Of Miss Esther Kaplan Probated By The Orphans' Court. Jewish charities and the local Synagogue share in the estate of the late Esther Kaplan, well known Local business-woman. The will of Miss Kaplan, disposing of an estate valued at pproxi- mately $50,000, has been probated by the Court Specific bequests include the Kiddie Klothes Shop to Miss Etta Dombey, a niece; $2,000 to the Synagogue of the Sons of Abraham, this city; $500 to the Ladies Auxiliary of.

the local Synagogue; to the Jewish Consumptives Belief Society of Denver; $200 to ihe United Hebrew Charities of Baltimore; $500 to the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of New York; $100 to the New Israel Rabbinical College of Baltimore; $200 to the United Jewish Hospital of Denver and $100 to the Washington County Library. She gave $500 each to sister, Mrs. Goldie A. Snyder and to the of her brother. Harry G.

Kaplan. The" will, dated August 21, 1940, then provides that the rest and residue be divided share and share alike among the aforementioned charities. The Nicodemus National Bank is the executor. Miss Kaplan founded and operated the Kiddie Klothes Shop on North Potomac street for many years. Miss Dombey, who was bequeathed the'shop, had been Miss Kaplan's assistant for a number of years and will continue the business.

Only Slight Change In Temperature Yesterday There was very little variation in the temperature in Washington, county yesterday, J. A. Miller, Keedysville, reported this morning. The maximum was 36 and the minimum temperature 32, the veteran weather observer reported. Last night the mercury only dropped four degrees to reach a low of 34 at 8 o'clock this morning.

ENLISTS IN Ray Franklin Rohrer, Hagerstown Rt 5, was enlisted in the Navy this, week through the Navy Recruiting Station at City Daughter of the Premier of Italy, Maria Romano de Gasperi, 23, Is shown during a press interview at the Italian embassy in Washington. Miss de Gasperi has been acting as secretary to her father during their stay in the United States. Because of her work, she told reporters, she has had little time for shopping or sightseeing. Says Stalin In Best Of Health Marshal Montgomery Is Leaving For Home; Had Fine Visit. Moscow; Jan; ll Mar- or d-.

Montgomery, plann exl begin a flight back to Britain today after two meetings with Prime Minister Stalin, yho he said appeared to be in excellent health. Stalin was host to Montgomery at a state dinner in the Kremlin last night. British quarters said a- warm atmosphere of friendship prevailed. Earlier in the day the two talked in the Kremlin for an hour and 10 minutes. A -friendly feeling between them, contributing to better British-Russian understanding, was said to have resulted.

Montgomery reported himself "highly satisfied" with their talk. In a news statement, he declared he was grateful for "the opportunity to establish friendly contact with the army of Russia and thus develop in peacetime that comradeship between our two armies which was formed during the struggle against the treacherous German army." Yesterday the 59-year-old Field Marshal, last year created Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, first was taken on a tour of the Kremlin. Then he called on his official host, Marshall Alexander M. Vasi- levsky Chief of the Soviet General Staff. Vasilevsky gave Montgomery a fur hat, a pair of general's boots and a squirrel-lined (Continued on Page 2) Church of Brethren Robbed By Thieves Of Money And Radio Entering by forcing.

a door, burglars last night looted the Brethren Church at East Washington and Mulberry streets of $16 in cash and a table model Detrola radio, according to a report to police. Rev. Paul M. Robinson, pastor of the church, said the thieves took the money and radio from his study after breaking the door to the study. Detective Norman Wolfe and Patrolman William Hamill investigated and reported that the thief or thieves were apparently acquainted with the church layout They said fingerprints were obtained.

Must Refuse City Taxes Till Jan. 20 Employes-of city tax collector's office were- put -in the paradoxical position today of declining to accept payments from taxpayers on their 1947 taxes- Clerks reported that the regular quarterly sewage rents are being collected that many citizens are offering to pay their taxes at the same time. They were reminded that tax bills will not be mailed out until the 18th of this month and collection will not begin until the 20th; Blamed On Communists Anti-Red Faction Charges Party Has Been Subjugated To "Foreign Third Group Threatens To Desert Rome, Jan. 11 (AP) A large faction of the Italian Socialist party deserted it today over the issue of collaboration with the Communists. The leader of the anti-Communist faction, charging Italian Socialism had been subjugated to "foreign 7 said the split raised "the specter of civil war." The anti-Communist leader, Giuseppe Saragat, said the pro-Corn- munist leadership of the party volved "a cold and methodic subjugation to the principles of foreign forces" and held the danger of "in- CiviSWar Talk Ridiculous Premier De Gasperi Expresses Worry Over Rift In Italy.

Cleveland, Jan. 11 Alcide de Gasperi, visibly worried at news from Rome that the Socialist party had broken apart today said statements that the split would lead to civil war were "ridiculous." (At Rome Giuseppe Saragat, constituent assembly president and leader of the right wing Socialists who deserted the party, said the Tjreak' raised "tEe specter of civil De Gasperi admitted the news had a "poor psychological effect on" his mission to the United States to seek a loan and post- UNRRA aid. He said he would immediately communicate with the Italian embassy in Washington to obtain more precise details. He observed that news reports so far did not indicate how large a faction bad deserted the party or how many constituent assembly deputies were included among those who walked As for civil war, the premier laughed and asked: "Who is going to fight it?" Price Of Cheese In First Break Slumps 8 Cents A Pound This Week, With Another Drop In Butter Forecast. Buyer resistance to inflated cheese prices since the price ceiling was lifted some months ago has finally resulted in lower prices for this food product during the last week in Hagerstown.

Cheese consumption, it was said, had fallen off tremendously from wartime levels ever since large quantities able. of meat became avail- which a week ago was selling for 34 cents, dropped this week to 30 cents per package here, one independent retailer reported. He said that retailers have been keeping their inventories low and buying on a hand-to-mouth basis in anticipation of a slump in cheese prices. Another break in the cetail price of butter appeared imminent here following the slump yesterday in the wholesale markets. Top grades were down to 3 cents in Philadelphia and New York and to cents in Chicago.

The price of butter in one large chain store in Southern Pennsylvania, will drop from 83 to 79 cents today, an official said, although the manager of one of the branches of (Continued on Page 2) Girl Standing Beside Track Killed When Train Is Derailed Burke, Jan. 11 Tennessean, southbound Southern railway passenger train, was derailed here about 9:20 a.m. today and a passenger reported a. girl standing beside the track was killed and at least two persons aboard were injured. Jack Weldon, manager of the Old Dominion Broadcasting at Lynchburg, en route home from New York; said witnesses to the wreck identified the girl killed as Elizabeth Breeden, about 15, of Burke.

Weldon said Roy Campbell, about 10, of Ford Town, suffered a severe foot injury, and Mrs. Sara Crabtree, of Florence, was painfully hurt rwhen broken rail rammed side of coach. Several of the half doien or more coaches and Pullmang on train were Weldon-said, although it -appeared that most of the passengers were merely shaken ternational war" also. Saragat, constituent assembly president and former diplomat, though usually suave and practiced on the rostrum, seemed nervous and unhappy as he appeared before the party's 25th national congress. His opponent, and dominant force at the congress, was pro- Communist party chairman Pietrb Nenni, Italy's foreign minister, who also is acting prime minister during- Premier Alcide de Gasperi's current visit to the United States.

"If we thought our in the party were useful, wejwould remain," Saragat said at one point "But we have lost hope that this is possible." finishing his speech with the statement, "We take-another road in method," shouted "long live Socialism," and left the building while delegates sang the "Internationale" and the "Red Flag." His speech came days after another faction of about equal Matteotti's "Socialist Initiative" left the' party, on the same issue of Communist A third "Centrists;" threatened in an an? nouncement last night also to leave the party if "totalitarian methods" and heavy emphasis on Marxism were not They claimed 20 percent of the congress. Saragat also denounced tie "totalitarian methods" of Nenni's administration, wnich ne claimed ac- counted'for the Nenni majority in the congress. Brusquely, he said: "The Italian Socialist party has been submitted to a cold and methodical process of subjugation to the principles of foreign forces; "If in Italy there is not to be an independent Socialist party, we will not be able to escape of civil war 'and international war. "If in Italy there is not an independent and strong party that unites the proletariat and middle classes, the country will divide into two great opposing camps." Alter the meeting Saragat told a reporter his faction h'as "broken completely'' with the pro-Communist group led by Nennl Two Sentenced I In Kmger Case Horsemen Given Prison Terms For Pimlico Substitution. Baltimore, Jan.

11 (5 Two Washington, D. C- horsemen received prison sentences today for substituting a "ringer" in two horse races at Pimlico race track In November 1945. James S. O'Donnell, 49, owner of Flying Kilts which the state contended ran under the name of Rounco, was sentenced to two years in Maryland Penitentiary by Judge E. Paul Mason in criminal court Roland Bennett Sanner, trainer of Rounco, was sentenced to IS months in the Maryland House of Correction.

In passing sentence. Judge Mason said he was concerned not only with the fact that the Maryland Jockey which runs Pimlico been defrauded of its purse money, but that the racing public had been duped. He pointed out that O'Donnell had a past record, having been sentenced for army desertion la 1917, a prohibition violation in 1930 and for passing counterfeit money in 1936. 7 O'Dpnnell's attorney immediate- iy noted an'appeal. Both defendants were convicted by criminal court jury on charges of obtaining racing purses, by fftiae pretenses and of conspiring to obtain them The Supreme affirmed SannerV conviction 'on counts but reversed O'DonneH's false tense counts.

However, OTkmnetTt conviction charge on the' upheld. consplney.