The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 1

DAY BY DAY Volunteer firemen received much deserved praise for the way In which they handled the Odd Pel- Hall fire Sunday morning. WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight; pos- sibly tomorrow afternoon or night. VOL. cxi. NO.

36. HAGERSTOWN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1939. SINGLE COPIES 3 CENTS LANN1NG TO REBIMJ) 1.0.0. F. HALL File Past Bier Of Pope As Cardinals Gathering WARE FOR CONCLAVE TO SELEOPOPE two Hundred Thousand Esti- mated To Have Viewed Pontiff's Body 143 Million In Red VATICAN CITY, Feb.

13 1 housands more passed the bier in jt. Peter's cathedral for a last of Pius XI today as the con- regation of Cardinals began for- preparations for the conclave frhich will choose a new Pope. Foreign, cardinals who will par- in the election continued arrive and two of 'the received the man charged I'-ith enforcing the secrecy of their athering, Prince Don Ludivico Insurgents Turn Artillery On Madrid, Killing Many Persons Over Hundred Shells Hurled Into Center Of Capital, Where Spanish Government Making Last Stand. PERPIGNAN, France (Near the Spanish Frontier), Feb. 13 Spanish Insurgent guns, hurling shells into the heart of Madrid, brought the civil war back today to the ancient capital, -where the Gov- ernment was striving to rally its dwindling forces.

Government dispatches said that more than. 100 shells fell in the crowded central streets of Madrid Sunday, killing 16 persons and Prince Chigi acted at the elec- of Pius. Members of his fam- as marshals of the Papal con- lave-- have had the responsibility rontinuously since 1712. Those who went to St. Peter's Nday gathered under a heavy gray Iky which drizzled rain and dark- j'ned the square.

Only a few hundred persons were 'aiting at the cathedral gates I'hen they were unlocked at f.m., but many troops were in the piuare in expectation of another flighty crowd. Those who came early stayed lr the funeral mass, the second of ine successive daily services, hich was again sung before the cataKalfiue twice the height a man, at the far end of the ave from the great bronze doors. Archbishop Pietro Pisani, canon (Continued on Page 12) Clarence promoter who served nine years in prison for forging $5,000,000 worth of securi- ties, is pictured in Paris, ready to start life anew. His liabilities, in- curred when his promotional at- tempts collapsed, are listed at 000,000. FORMER CHIEF JURYFOREMAN Clarence G.

Emmert Chosen To Head The February Grand Jury wounding 20. Steady repetitions of the bombardment were feared. In- air raids on Government cities caused more than 100 deaths at Jativa, 40 miles south of Valen- cia, and 20 deaths and injuries to 55 at Alicante, bombed. Valencia also was The central Madrid-Valencia zone had been quiet while the Insurgents carried out the" campaign in north- eVstern Spain, which started Dec. 23 and ended last week in the con- quest of Catalonia.

Premier Juan Negrin of Republi- can Spain presided at a. cabinet meeting yesterday in his new Madrid headquarters. A proclama- tion to the nation was published, calling for the union of all classes to carry on a resistance like that besieged Madrid has shown since November, 1936. The proclamation reiterated the Government's war aims "to assure the independence of Spain and pre- vent our country from being drown- ed in a sea of blood, hatred and per- secution." Insurgent Generalissimo Francis- co Franco has insisted on the un- conditional surrender of the Gov- ernment. The Insurgent command was known to be withdrawing its crack divisions from the north and rest- ing them in preparation for a fresh offensive in the central zone.

The Government was hastening its work of fortification. 'BUTTERFLY'S' MURDER LAID TO OUTLAWS British Believe Solution Of Slaying May Lead To Irish Bombers LONDON, Feb. 13 Yard men investigating the stiletto slaying of a girl known as "black butterfly" today arreste'd a man said to have been seen with her early Sunday morning, shortly before she was killed. Mother Defends Child Marriage Very Proud Of Daughter- In Law, Aged 13, She Declares. 'HIEVES BUSY DURING BLAZE L'olice Probing Reports Of And Looting Of Apartments.

Police today i to investi- l.ite reports of vandalism and loot- jig during the height of the fire ear a morninc. Apartment rlwellers on West. An- I'etam street pay that thieves must. swarmed into the a a ouses Immediately after the ten- vacated on orders of police and iremen. In the Gilmore a thieves icceeded, or tried to force every Loor, and hammered several out of Ine so that, a were unable to them on l.heir return, One tenant, reported her relYiger- jlor ransa.cked of all food.

Others rted loss of trinkets and other laluables. I'' Clarence G. Emmert, former jChief of Police and, a former Coun- ty Investigator, is foreman of the February Grand Jury. Mr. Emmert was selected by Judge Frank G.

Wagaman when the February term of circuit court opened this morning. The term is the first for State's Attorney Charles 'F. Wagainan. who was elected to office last No- vember and swore in January 2. In his charge to the jury 'this morning Judge Wagaman made no mention of gambling.

He confined his remarks to an explanation of how juries are selected. He said the term marks the 57th time he has charger! a grand jury. Judge Wagaman opened his charge by stating that the origin of grand juries has been lost, in antiquity but they date back to years. He then explained i of grand jurors, the i a func- tion they perform, how they are on Page 12) WON'T RETURN HIS PROPERTY 40 WORKERS BACK ON JOB Two hundred and forty WPA Corkers, some of them furloughed month a.go, went back to work morning on three road pro- were approved last by the vStatc Roads Commis- lion and which were sponsored by phe Board of County Commission- rs. In a number of cases, the men yere divided nn the projects near- their homes.

Some of the pro- ects have had an excess number workers, a i transfers ne- The projects which started a "re the Hancock Creek, lower Mer- and Millpoint roads. I A I A DIES. Dr. Carl E. Dornheim, veterin- i a of Mt.

Airy, Frederick coun- 'y. died yesterday of heart a a aged WASHINGTON. Feb. 13 The Justice Department announced a it had denied claim for the return of property to Grover Cleve- a "Rergdoll, army deserter of World War days. The property is valued at close to a half million dollars.

Bergcloll is residing in Germany. The property, seized in 1021 by the alien property custodian, will be. i i a and the proceeds de- posited in the U. S. Treasury.

Bergcloll was convicted of deser- tion in 1920 and sentenced to five years imprisonment. Immediately a he escaped to Canada, fled to England and then to Ger- many where he has since made his home. UNIONTOWN, Feb. 13 WPA Worker James Kent's mother today defended his marriage to a 13-year-old fifth grade student and expressed confidence the bride would make "a wonderful wife." "1 am very proud of my little daughter-in-law," asserted Mrs. John Kent.

"We are going to give them 25 acres of our 160-acre farm ou which to live happily. It is no- body's business if she is so much younger. She's a darling girl and will make a wonderful wife." A similar expression came from the girl bride's mother, twice mar- ried Mrs. Inez Rose Grant. "They're going to be a.ll right even after so much fuss has been raised," she said.

"They love each other and that's all that matters." With this blessing, the lanky, 22- year-old Kent took his bride of three weeks back to their mountain- top hut, satisfied that "the law" wouldn't separate them. Court action to part the couple was threatened by the county pro- bation officer who learned of the marriage, when the shy, light- haired bride, Verda Rose Grant, failed to appear at school. "1 couldn't live without, Kent told District Attorney James A. Rcilly during a. "heart to heart' talk.

"We're happy, so why should anyone want to interfere? I take good care of her." While Verda Rose wept, Reilb decided "there isn't much we car do about this now." SOCIETY BUYS BATTLE SITE County Historical Group Plan- ning To Give Strip To Na- tional Government FISH TALE TIP PRIZES ARE DIVIDED SM1THFIELD, N. Feb. 13 Otis L. Duncan has a Jonah fish ii his goldfish bowl. Duncan, an attorney, said a minnow--now residing happib among the goldfish--was used by neighbor several days ago as bai to catch a jack fish.

When Dunca: cut into the fish, out wiggled th minnow. LONDON, Feb. 13, The stiletto slaying of a comely Irish girl known as "The Black Butter- fly" in her fashionable London apartment gave Scotland Yard a clue today in an effort to run down a "ring" behind a series of bomb- ings attributed to the outlawed, king-hating Irish republican army. Detectives assigned to the case proceeded on the theory that their victim, 22-year-old Iris Mary Heath, had been killed sometime Saturday night because she had betrayed sabotage secrets of the I. R.

A. A mysterious telephone call to police disclosed the crime. They were told to go to the girl's ad- dress in Diver street, Mayfair, heart of fashionable London--and there they found her scantily clad body. She had been stabbed sev- eral times and there were bruises on her throat. Police sought a man with whom (Continued on Page 12) UNCOVER NO EVIDENCE OF INCENDIARISM AS CAUSE PET FOX O.K.

DR. RAYMOND A. PEARSON DR. PEARSON DIEUGED65 Former President Of Univers- ity Of Maryland Was 111 Only A Day Despite the terrific heat and falling a distance of about twen- ty feet, a pet fox at the home of Dr. H.

R. Eavey came through the fire early Sunday morning ap- parently none the worse for the experience. The little animal occupied a box on a second-story rear porch of the home. When the porch supports gave way the box was carried to the ground and almost covered with debris. Some time after daylight members of the family remembered the little fel- low and going to the rear yard salvaged the box to have the fox crawl out practically unscathed." Fire Shatters City's Low Fire Loss Record Of Decade.

A Water Pressure Was Sufficient Of intense interest to all Mary- anders, as also to all Americans proud of their historical heritage, the announcement of the Wash- ngton County Historical Society bat it purchased at Sharpsburg on Saturday, a tract of land indelibly associated with the Battle of Burn- side Bridge, which battle, because of the deathless courage of the men who fought and died there, is im- mortalized in all the histories of he Civil AVar. On a wooded ridge of this tract, mmediately west of the bridge. General Robert Toombs and his Georgia regiments for four hours defended the passage of the bridge against General Burnside's 9th Army Corps which occupied posi- tion on a. ridge east of the bridge. For preeminence in destruction of human life, the battle for posses- sion of the bridge, key to General (Continued on Page 2.) STUDENTS ESCAPE AS SCHOOL BURNS COUNTY GETS 408 RABBITS Total Of 6000 Released Over The State Last Week.

Washington county got 408 of the 6000 cottontail rabbits released in the state last week by the Maryland State Game Department. Allegany county got 504 and Frederick 3S4. The cottontails came from Kan- sas and Missouri and were liberated under the direction of game war- dens and game associations in an effort to replenish the supply. The number released this year is about half what it was last year when about 12,000 were purchased for state-wide distribution. The year before only 1700 were released.

BELU3FONTE, Feb. 13 hundred students fled coat- less today as fire destroyed the four-story brick high school build- ing here. The blaze started in the boiler room and spread to the ventilating system, quickly filling classrooms with smoke. No one was injured. George H.

Hazel, president of the school the loss at I AT I I LONDON, Feb. 13 Minister Chamberlain hinted today bufore the House of Commons early British and French recognition of the insurgent regime in Spain but said yet. no decision had been made PLEADS GUILTY TO CONTEMPT WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, Emmitt Warring, an operator of the numbers game in the capital, and Deputy United States Marshal John B. Upperman pleaded guilty today to contempt of court by tamp- ering with juries.

They were cited by Justice Boli- tha J. Laws, who declared a mis trial last week in an income tax evasion case brought against War- ring, two of his brothers, and an ac- countant, Gordon L. R. Sadur. Sa- dur was not involved in the jury- tampering charge.

Upperman, who was first to take the stand in the government's pro- secution of contempt charges today, was the custodian of jurors at two income tax trials involving the War- rings. HYATT SVIKLB, Feb. 13, Raymond A. Pearson, 65, former president of the University of Maryland and of Iowa State Agricultural died at his home here today. He had been ill only a day.

phy- sicians diagnosed his illness as heart disease. For the last three years Pearson had been associated with the Re- settlement administration and its successor to Farm Security Ad- ministration. He was named a spec- ial assistant to former Administra- tor Rexford G. Tugwell in. Decem- ber 1935.

At the time of his death he was serving as a co-ordinator for the F.S.A. in its work with the land grant colleges. Pearson resigned the Presidency of the University of Maryland in July 1935 after an investigation of his administration by the Board nf. Regents. He declined an offer to continue at the university in an ad- visory position.

He was president of Iowa State College from 1912 to 1926 and serv- ed as New York State Commission- pr of Agriculture from 190S to 1912. He was a graduate of Cornell Uni- versity, a former member of the Cornell faculty and one time presi- dent of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities. He was a native of Evansville, Ind. Several months after Dr. Pearson resigned from the Maryland school, he said "an important member of the staff of the university had en- deavored to undermine him and that three individuals outside the school had worked to create dis- satisfication among faculty mem- bers and students.

He did not name anv of these four. Odd Fellows Hall Fire Demonstrates Under- writers Wrong. At least one recommendation of the Board of Fire Underwriters which made a survey of fire fight ing and water pressure conditions in Hagerstown last fall, will hardlj be followed by the city. Included in the recommendations, i was one that suggested that the water department lay a 12-inch wa- ter main on West Antietara street from Summit avenue to Potomac street to replace the 6-inch main because, should a serious conflagra- tion occur there was a possibiliTy that there would not be sufficient water pressure if connections were made with all of the fireplugs in that vicinity at one time. Today Albert Heard, superin- tendent of the water department, proudly displayed a chart which revealed that at one time during the fire at the Odd Fellows Hall yesterday morning, that five fire plugs in that vicinity w.ere supply- ing water for fighting the fire at the rate of 6,000 gallons per minute, 1.500 gallons per minute more than the underwriters' report said would be available and that instead of losing most of the pressure, that during the height of the water use the pressure dropped but 12 pounds, leaving a residual pres- i sure at the plugs of 40 pounds, held Adjacent Fiery And Eavey Properties Badly Damaged.

While insurance company officials are busily engaged in determining the loss from yes- terday's spectacular a prominent members of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fel- lows are discussing plans for rebuilding their Temple on the site of the building which was completely destroyed. Fire officials estimated the loss yesterday, after a survey of ruins, at between $125,00 and 000. The Odd Fellows report their loss at about $90,000. The damage to adjoining properties more than make up the difference. The fire, which broke out shortly before" 2 a.m.

yesterday, destroyed the four-story brick and steel Odd Fellows Temple and badly dam- aged the upper floors of the Firey Apartments, the Dr. H. R. Eavey property and the rear of the Roess- ner property and the Apartments. St.

John's Lutheran church steeple was blistered. Police today hesitate to say they have any evidence of incendiarism. Several members of the Odd Fel- lows expressed the opinion it may have been of incendiary origin, out all investigations so far fail to un- cover any positive evidence. It Is generally accepted that the blazs broke out in the rear of the sec- ond floor of the Odd Fellows Tem- ple, the scene of a square danca Saturday night When the alarm was first sounded at 1:50 a.m., Sun- day morning, nearby apartment dwellers claim the entire interior of the temple appeared ablaze. Hottest Fire The fire shattered low fire loss record of a de- (Continued on Page 2) Mayor Thanks For Fire Aid sufficient for fire.

fighting almost any WEATHER C. 8- WwUhpT Maryland: Fair warmer to- Jiight; Tuesday increasing cloudi- ness with warmer in east portion, hossibly followed by rain in ex- (Verne west portion Tuesday after- boon or Tuesday night. Chesapeake Bay: Warmer and Costly clear i Tuesday in- cloudiness and warmer: Tricht. or on Wednes- a moderate south and southwest A tip on the of a couple by two masked a i and a on the opposition developing here! among i growers against proposed a wage-hour law split! last, week's first prize in the news tin contest. The second prize is divided be- a Guilford avenue resident, who phoned in the.

tip on the in- juries to an aged man who wan- dered from his home, and a tip from a Hancock resident on a fire there. Tips are accepted between the hours of 7:30 a. m. and 1:30 p. m.

week day. Prize i i i announced in 1 Monday's is- Many Here To Protest Proposed State Wage And Hours Measure Farmers, Fruit Growers And Others Say Measure Would Be Unbearable In Washington County As Well As Elsewhere In The State. DOCTOR IN A Dr. Robert P. Conrad escaped in- juries last night when the car of Dr.

J. H. Beachley, which he was driving, was struck by the car driven by Dewey C. Seekford, Balti- more. Seekford, state police said, was attempting to pass another car and crashed into the car driven by Conrad.

Seekford was charged 1 with operating without a license and passing when the way ahead was not clear. Political Leaders Writing Personal Letters To Williamsport And Funkstown Mayors. On Sirk I Vyil iJKJV A. K. Coffman, well-known Re- publican leader and undertaker, was removed to the Church Home Infirmary, Baltimore, yesterday and will undergo an operation this week.

The condition of Barry M. Hartle, prominent Democratic leader, con- tinues unchanged at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. North Cannon avenue, is bedfast. G.

Hoover, Mr. Hartle A Little Miss Melba Steffenson, George street, broke an arm Satur- dav while roller skating. Farmers, i growers and can- ners of Washington County are a i to join in a state-wide pro- test to House Bill No. lf4, also known as the Wage and Hours Bill, which has been stamped by some legislative authorities as undesir- able legislation and which, it is de- clared, would be little- short of i unbearable in Washington county as well as other counties of the state. i Kven employers of domestic ser- a are exported to rise up in protopr to the measure its term? are more widely promuljrat- Jed, thft bill goef far, to regulate the wages and hours of servants as well as farm and or- chard laborers and cannery work- ers.

It has been declared by farm leaders that the Federal act, known as the Wagner Act, covers all in- dustries in Washington county which are engaged in interstate commerce and that consequently Steward Job At Penal Farm Open An examination for the position of steward at the a a State Penal Farm, at Roxbury, carrying a salary of per year with house, was announced last week by Harry C. Jones, State Employment Com- missioner. Applications from men 25 to -to years of age will be receiv- ed until February 2S. BULLET BILLIARDS there would be no in having a State act on the subject. Louis Washington County Would Have Four Magistrates Under Setup Commission Recommends Drastic Reduction And New System For Paying Them; Two In Hagers- town; One Each At Hancock, Boonsboro.

Washington County would have hut four magistrates, two at Ha- gerstown and one each at Hancock and Boonsboro, if a bill calling for a drastic reduction in the number of county trial magistrates and abo- lition of their payment by the much- attacked fee system is enacted by CHICAGO. Feb. 13 Konopaka thinks he's lucky. As he sat reading in a chair in his i the General rArnwl iftT on hotel room a bullet crashed through The repon of the Commission on strates, leaving 52 with broadened powers and wider territories. Establishment of a salary sys- tem for the magistrates, who would receive from 5900 to $3,600 annually, the amount to be deter- mined by the.

court business in each district. Compensation by fees would thus be eliminated. the window. It missed him by inch-1 es, ricocheted against a door, pass-j The purport of the measure a within six inches of his chest; set, forth in preamble is to a and hit, another wall. Kononaka new sections to Article dropped to the floor then.

of the A a Code of Maryland, Police couldn't find the mystery; 124 nferior Courts approving Mayor W. Lee Elgin dispatched personal letters to the mayors of Williamsport and Funkstown today thanking them for the splendid help and cooperation their fire de- partments gave to Hagerstown dur- ing the Odd Fellows Hall fire yes- terday. He said that Hagerstown will never forget and that he had assured Mayor Richard G. Haw- ken of Williamsport. who personal- ly assisted in battling the fire, that Hagerstown's fire equipment will always be at his service at any time he might request it.

The mayor said he was voicing the unanimous sentiment of the people of Hagerstown. -when he said that the- volunteer firemen of Hagerstown deserve the highest praise for the manner in which they had handled a precarious sit- uation, by confining the fire to im- mediate vicinity of its origin. He said he was also commending the police department for the splendid i manner in which it handled tlie sit- uation at the scene and also -wish- I ed to thank the people who fura- ished coffee to the firemen. BLAST I MARS HILL, X. Feb.

13, (ff). --Three -workmen were killed in- stantly and five others injured ser- iously early today in an unexplain- ed dynamite blast at a rock quarry six miles from here. The workers were warming them- selves at an open fire when the ex- plosion occurred. Officials of the Nello Teer Con- struction Company of Durham, operators of the quarry, said they were unable- to ascertain immed- went to members of the strate, and the fixing of a $600 an- House and Senate today. a i among reeo also are paid by the fee system at of the commission SEES ROBINS.

C. G. Shook, foreman of tlie Western Maryland Railroad having -seen L..