The Morning Herald from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 1

Good Morning! Where you work or you bank buy U. S. Savings HERALD Sunny, Worm I i a summer can long as It tn fa. HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10 MeM A City Bond Issue Sold To N.

Y. Total Net Interest a For 20 a Period Put At $273,228 Hagerstown's $1,500,000 light plant, bond issue was sold yesterday to a syndicate headed by Lehman Brothers of New York, at a 1.5311 per cent average interest rate. During the twenty years over which the city must retire the bonds, there will be a total net interest $273,228.50. Ten bids for purchase of the bonds were submitted by top brokerage houses, mostly in New York. Interest rates'offered in the bids, as shown in the' accompanying tabulation, were extremely close.

Senator in Company The bids were formally opened by Mayor Herman L. Mills and his top assistants at City Hall yesterday at noon, and the tabulating work took several hours. Late yesterday afternoon the Mayor and Council met in special session "'to approve sale of the bonds to Lehman Brothers, Herbert Lehman--newly elected Senator from New York--is a member. Cash from sale of the bonds will be turned over to the city in full in the near future. The bond issue increase was approved by the city voters.

in a special election October fourth. The Mills administration called for the bond issue as opposed to a terrific and unbearable' in city taxes. The money was asked to pay the bills on slight plant expansion program, now well Mills, Kerney a To New York Mayor Mills and City Clerk Eldon Kerney; expected: to go to New lork a few days to formallv bonds. 1500 i i i bonds, of 51,000 denominations, were sold to Lehman Brothers for 50 4 be bonds, which bear ly sign Bond Bid Tabulation Below is a tabulation of bids submitted to the city yesterday for sale of the $1,500,000 i plant bond issue: Bidding Company 1. Lehman Brothers 2.

A Co. 3. J. P. Morgan Co 4.

Drexel A Company 5. Alex. Brown Sons 6. Bankers Trust Company 7. National City Bank of N.Y.

8. Halsey, Stuart Co, 9. Blyth Inc 10. Chase National Bank $273,228.50 274,300.00 276,118.00 278,945.00 279,700.00 279,934.00 281,967.50 286,408.00 287,365.00 1.5311o/ 0 1.5473% 1.5631% 1.5673% 1.5687% 1.5801% 1.5865% 1.6049% 1.6103% Clopper Yields In Battle Over Assessment Policy Supervisor of Assessments Simon Clopper yielded yesterday i in the controversy between nimse.f and the OnnHy Coii policy relating to assessment 1 of farm equipment Clopper had the state's chief assessment officer ler, at a showdown meeting yesterday to back him up But Count the County Commissioners. Clopper said he would i The showdown between, the commissioners and their officer came at a special meeting yesterday afternoon Attorney Charles- P.

Wagaman accused Clopp ord assessments in a "high-handed manner." Wagaman said Clopper had followed a cou.rst. on assessment of so-csrtled "escaped" farm machinery never known in this county or any other county the state before. Arid, he further charged. the County Commissioners knew nothing -about this until "the complaints started pouring in. er of assessment at which County county Against Board Wishes Keller Shank, president County Commissioners, of ac- terest various in- will Je retired at specified periods over- the- twenty years so that the -next Turn to Page 2, New Trial Ordered In Crossing Suit Court Of Appeals Reverses Washington Court Decision Annapolis, Nov.

9 '()--The Court of Appeals today ordered a trial of a lawsuit over a grade crossing accident in Cumberland. The high court reversed a decision by the Washington County Circuit Court which awarded a to Robert Leasure, 79, of Cumberland. Leasure lost a leg on Nov. 12 1947, when he was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio a i a "shifter" engine the seven-track- crossing on Baltimore in Cumberland. Leasure waited for an eastbound freight to pass, then stepped onto track number 4 and was felled by the tender of the shifter, which was-backing west, its beli ringing.

Judge William L. Henderson wrote for the Appeals Court that Leasure was guilty of negligence in a i i to heed the warning" and in failing to look to his right' It added that a watchman nearby may have "failed to exercise proper vigilance" by -not shouting to the in time. The case was sent back to Washington County for a new trial. The 0 brought the appeal. cused.Clopper of going against the wishes of the county board "in several cases." On the back-billing of farmers for machinery taxes Shank said Clopper "never once consulted with us" and "made assessments as, he wished." "Jf he bad conferred with us first policy," the board chairman continued, all this trouble would have been saved." Assessing property, Shank contended, requires more use of horse St.

James Student Breaks Right Leg Victor Shank Myers, 13, a student at St. James Schol. fractured his right leg playing football yesterday. He was taken to Washington. County Hospital where a cast was applied, and he was discharged.

G. C. Kaylor, Hagerstown Route burned his right hand on hot grease yesterday afternoon. He was treated for first and second degree burns. book.

Farm machinery in question in the controversy represents fluctuations in the farmer's business and does not represent "escaped" property, Shank said. Burhans Says Too High Commissiner Winslow Burhans said he wantsjo seethe county's Turn to Page 2, Column 4 Auto'Post Office' To Be Late Opening i a Mailmen To Start Out On Tuesday, December 6 The highway post fj operating through Hagerstown won't get started until a week later than! originally planned. Postmaster a Simpson Four Firemen Killed As Two Trucks (rash Others Injured in Spectacular Baltimore i i Baltimore, Nov. 9 fire engines answering an alarm came together with a terrific a a an intersection today, killing four fi, GOP In Need Of Stimulant Forty Rebuilding Recommended To Avoid Further (H.v The While Democrats viewed their victories in Tuesday's elections as a sign of greater triumphs to come in 1950, Republican leaders disagreed among themselves yesterday as to the gravity of the setback suffered in populous New York State. Harold E.

Stussen warned the Republican party that it must "rebuild" to serve the people if it is to avoid defeats such as those it suffered Tuesday and in The former Minnesota governor, who now heads the University of Pennsylvania, told members of the National Press Club in Washington that the results in New York and elsewhere- "reemphasizecT the very nature of our defeat in serious But Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York took a different view of Republican Senator Dulles' defeat by Democrat Herbert H. Lehman Jn the New York election for TJ. S. Senator.

Views Differ Dewey, who campaigned extensively for Dulles, told a news conference at Albany. N. that -the result of the senatorial election is a setback and not a 'gain for the policies of the national administration, since Senator Dulles ran well ahead of local tickets all over the state." Asked wheth Dulles' defeat M. wn a blican presidential nominee said his future "extends as far as I. can see--to tomorrow President Truman men.

were 'so Pom- other firemen were injured two critically. They were answering an alarm One of the vehicles was a hook and ladder, the other a hose truck They met in the center of an intersection (Park Heights and Rogers) knocking down an overhead traffic signal. A witness said that firemen bounced off th engines like many tenpins." A passenger car was nearly cut half when one of the fi trucks spun into it after the crash The fire? It turned out to be a small field blaze that was extinguished without difficulty. Witnesses said both vehicles came to the intersection with their sirens wide open. The dead: Joseph A.

Remeikisv 34; Charles fie, 57; James W. Haynie 26 and Joseph B. Magaha, 25. The injured: William Flanigan, 40, reported in serious condition with 'internal 'injuries, a broken'leg and multiple cuts and bruises; Harry Burke, 58, in critical con- Turn to a 2, Column 2 Youth Sentenced In Stabbing Case Baltimore, Nov. 9 Robert! received a teise Senator Dulles, -who in his can? Paigri.

concentrated on the President's domestic program Democrats, from Mr regarded the results in Tims a i a a i as a Portent of further vir- tones next year, when control of Page 2, 7 Returns From Nearby Area Towns Waynesboro Waynesboro set a record Tues- Bring Cash To Here Much Money Received By Under Auto Laws Broken driving rules gave this county more than five thousand dollars last year. The Department of Motor Vehicles, reporting on the last fiscal year, said that $5,232 was paid back to the Washington County Commissioners during the 12 months ending on June 30. 1949. This represents from the state, remitted by the department for every case involving ns charge of violations of the motor vehicle laws, in accordance with the laws of the trial magistrate system. Drivers apparently are more reckless in this county than Kickoff Tonight Chest Drive Workers Face Task Of Collecting $92,746 TOlUn teers WiU face 1 chaltage oE raising the Hagerstown and Washington County Community Chest workers turned in by the final day of the bonus question.

The big turnout was largely due UK to intense interest in the a i 0 area5 The same-per- lod brought only to Allegany County and $5,034 to Frederick County. At the same time, me Department of Motor Vehicles revealed payment of to Washington County as the local share of registration fees and taxes collected for tbe 194J) registration of motor Republicans and Democrats split even on the results The Democrats, spearheaded by Dr. Robert B. Brown, drafted as a ttatnm didate for urn office, together with lector, a councilman stable. a tax cola con- However, Chest officials pointing out that hard effort will be needed during this year's campaign, scheduled to end on Friday November IS.

Neighboring towns and big cities have run into trouble reaching their own quotas in this fall's campaigns. Tonight's meeting at Franklin A i i will feature i a instructions to workers and distribution of cards of persona to be interviewed. Report meetings will be conducted at Franklin Court from Monday through Friday of next Republicans claimed two three seats in the Borough seats on the Board of School Directors, elected an auditor and two constables. six of the seven pre- Dr. Brown defeated Wil- jcincts, said yesterday that the service will 1 Henry Kurtz convicted of A u.

i begin on Tuesday, December 6, in- slaughter In the stead of the originally scheduled date, Tuesday, November 29. The highway post office will replace the Pennsylvania Railroad trams between Harrisburg' and Winchester that hav been dis- young Negro, was sentenced today to not more than five years in the Maryland reformatory. The IS-year-old white youth had been accused of murdering Linwood Matthews, 19, last month after an interracial pitched battle Strauss man- 36 2 majority, stabbing of a the campaign. The Community Chest, revived bere almost a decade ago, has never failed to reach Us assigned goal in this county. makes possible the elimination of separate drives for financial from all the charitable and this was only a drop! cbnracter-buiidinc i i i i co tbe bucket--or a sniff from the gas 'tank--compared with the payment here of $120,221.30 on 1.950 registration for the fiscal year of 1950.

Quite a few counties are ahead burgess by a of this one in Retting a slice of registration pie. A ArundeJ, George H. Whetstone, Baltimore, Montgomery, and Prince 'tGeorge's Counties all topped this 3 rone by substantial continued. It will leave Harrisbun? a i Baltimore Carroll Park, morning at 4:30 a. passing! through Hagerstown on Its way to Winchester shortly before a.

m. Returning, the vehicle will leave Winchester at 3:15 in" the afternoons, getting to Hagerstown at 5:22 p. then continuing on to Harrisburg. The -first run of the auto-mail car will carry "cache" mail only for stamp collectors and other interested persons. Margaret N.

Harbaugh, 109 West Side Avenue, 19, cut her right little and ring fingers on a drinking glass. James E. Ruth, one year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

E. Ruth, 600 block George Street, fell out of bed and lacerated his right leg on a nail. Both received treatment in the emergency carged. room and wert dis- Armistice Day To Be Marked The first in a series of four full- day holidays in less than two months is due for thousands of local persons tomorrow. Stores reminded customers that they will close all day for Armistice Day.

Schools will close a half day, while banks and most offices Out Snake Here The weather was warm enough to lure a copperhead snake into the sunshine and destruction yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Georgia' Keefauver. 442 North Mulbarry Street, said she killed the IS-inch snake in her back yard. She was attracted to the reptile will observe the full-day for the legal holiday.

closing Born In Siberia Local DP Urges Teaching Of Russian Language Here Morris Frock Post No. 42, The American Legion, is sponsoring the traditional ceremonies at the Court House and a parade through downtown streets tomorrow. The parade will march at 6:30 p. the first time in years that the November 11 procession has been conducted at night. I COMPANY I The Junior Fire Company will call its meeting to order tonight at 7:30 p.m.

A native of Siberia, an explorer of the Arctic Circle, a world traveler, and an expert linguist is Alexander Voitenoff, a displaced person vrho is now making his home in Hagerstown. After undergoing imprisonment from the Communists and doing forced labor in Germany, he has come to this county under the displaced persons program. Slaying in Hagerstown while waiting to find a post in which he can use his particular talents, he is urging the study of Russian in this city's public schools. The native of Russia said yesterday that M. Brish showed great interest in his proposal.

under the sponsorship of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kingsley Noel, who are employing him and Mrs. Voitenoff, who accompanied him.

Displaying an impressive sheaf of documents to prove his claims, Voitenoff 'outlined the long list of posts which he has held as an instructor of languages and speaking red'VaTt month in Russia, Australia, and other Company organizations which it represents. Benefiting from contributions will be the Hagerstown Boys Club, Boy Scouts Children's Hospital, Day Nursery' Girl Scouts, Santa Glaus, Salvation Army. Volunteers of America, YMCA, USO, and the summer playground system. Again this year, the red feather the symbol of the Community Chest drive. Campaign headqu are located in the Boston Motors considered the' finest location" 6 because of Franklin Court.

campaign. Ballots Kept Safe For Town Election a Spring Residents Really Will Vote On November 21 Clear Spring residents will'. ew to the polls in a municipal election again on Monday, and this time, there really will be ballots to use, to vote. The date of November 21 officially set by the town council last night. Some embarrassment had occurred last Monday, when quite a few people showed up for the election and no one could find the ballots.

The town's clerk has them and is holding on tight. A broken down auto taking the ballots to the polls was blamed for this week's situation. Town officers at their meeting last night gave Burgess Donald Ankeney a strong official vote of thanks for his achievements in more than four years since election to that post. Under his leadership, the town has become totally free of debt during the last year. The incumbent burgess is not running for re-election.

Charles nearness to IOpper the only can for Loss In Month The coal and steel strikes put the Western Maryland Railway countries. Twenty years ago, he traveled be- famous orth Karskey expedition. However, later he fell out with Russia's government, spent 20 months in prison, and did the forced labor until the war's end. Voitenoff served as an interpreter for the American Military Government in Europe before coming to ten days ago under the National Catholic War Relief program. An expert in reading, writing, and speaking of Russian, English, German, and Ukrainian, he intends to give private lessons in, the Russian i while tUyinf this city, estimates put the month's deficit at about $120,000 a taxes and charges.

Last year October produced a net income of $611,051. The first ten months of 1949 have produced a net income for the Western Maryland of only $3.260,000, against during the same period last year. But the company already is experiencing improvement in its operations this month, with Bethlehem Steel area. TO CLOSE FRIDAY All insurance offices having membership in the Hagerstown Association of Insurance Agents, will be closed Friday. his job, and Dr.

Archie R. Cohen fs unopposed as candidate for assistant burgess. The voting on November 21 will elect three town commissioners from a group of candidates including Daniel Boyd, Ralph Weaver, Willis Routzahn, Charles Brennan'. Robert Funkhouser, and George Mullen. Hours of voting will be 2 to 7 p.m.

Indian Summer Weakens Here Indian summer appeared to he! on the way out last evening, if the! mercury could be trusted. D. Paul Oswald reported it was down to 45 at 10 p.m. at his Bridgeport weather station. The previous evening at the same hour it had stood eight degrees higher.

Yesterday's maximum and minimum almost duplicated those of Work To Resume At Once Lewis Blasts Mine tors As Brutal And Arrogant Chicago, Nov. 9 L. Lewis abruptly ended the 1 soft coal strike today, but said it will start again in three weeks unless a contract settlement is reached. In a sharp reversal of the traditional "no contract-no work policy," Lewis' told his 380,000 striking miners to resume digging coal immediately under the old contract that expired July 1. Some mines began partial operations at once.

Many others planned to reopen the mines to their midnight crews. The job of relieving a coal shortage that has hit householders and small consumers a hard blow in many parts of the country is expected to, be going at'; a' good by tomorrow. Some mines have offered to operate on a six day week, with and a half pay for the sixth day. There were some clouded spoti in the immediate future, however. Union sources said the miners expect a continuation of royalty payments required under the old contract.

Some southern operators'had declined to make such payments after the old contract expired, Jn Washington, Joseph Moody president of the Southern Coal Producers told a reporter he wasn't so sure some of his operators would be willing "to resuma the 20 cents a ton payments. With dramatic suddenness that caught government mediators and many industry'representatives by surprise, Lewis summoned newsmen to announce that a strike truce had been declared until midnight Nov. 30. He said it act of good faith, designed to contribute to public convenience." Then he. blasted the coal operators as "brutal and arogant" in "withholding their assent" to" a new contract.

He said they have 'shamed the precepts of morality by casting aside every restraint to sordid and mercenary appe- 6. His union, Lewis continued "deplores such public inconvenience" as resulted from the work stoppage. Outlook Bright Pittsburgh, Nov. 9 ianl u. S.

Steel Corporation up peace, talks with the striking Turn to Page 2, Column 6 Quick Work Return Seen For Railroad Full Freight To Move In Few Days On Western Maryland Speedy return to work for fur- oughed Western Maryland Railway workers in the Hagerstown area was forecast last night. One official of the local offices aid that up to closing time last night, back-to-work word had not one out to the hundreds of far-, oughed operating employes and sffice workmen. However, from Baltimore came a eport that the truce in the United Mine Workers strike would mean remediate return to the job for hopmen and crews in Union Bridge, Hagerstown. Cumberland, nd Elkins. The Western Maryland had recalled TOO men in the Baltimore area when the Bethlehem Steel Company strike ended last "week, but only a handful of em- ployes were affected by that action.

spokesman for tha Hagerstown offices said that it will be several days before freight returns to its normal volume Meanwhile, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad summoned 97S em- ployes back to work, and indicated that more of the 13.000 furlougted workers will be returned to duty as fuel scale operation's resume. On Inside Pages Sports Pages 14, 15, County News Page 13 Editorials age 12 the low of 44 was the same as on Tuesda Com cs Page 17.