The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-07-12


ing in one of the city parks during
a heavy storm.
Joseph Marshall, trolley car op-
orator, Baltimore, reported to police
that he was held up at pistol point
by young woman bandit and rob-
bed of $40 in cash.
Convicted of neglecting two of
her four young children, Mrs. Viii
da Webb, Baltimore, was sentenced
to six months in the State Reform
atory for Females
Oscar Uphold, SIS, of White Rock,
Md, and his two sons, aged IL and
16. were drowned in Deep Creek
lake, near Oakland, Garrett county,
when a canoe upset.
HagerstoWn residents established
an all-time high record for using
water during the month of June,
an average of $685., 900 gallons be-
ing used daily during the month.
Maryland cucumber growers,
who had asked for an increase in
ceiling prices on the basis that the
present crop was 10 per cent below
the ten-year average, have been adj
vised that the ceiling price will re-
main at So per bushel.
A fork being used to lift hay into
a barn Thursday caught the cloth
ing of Calvin Turnbaugh, 45-year-
old farmer of Parkton, Baltimore
county, and lifted him 25 feet in
the air before the motive power
operating it could be stopped. He
was fatally injured in the fall.
Believed to have been chased to
the edge of the roof of a one-story
building by dog, tethered on the
roof, Woodrow Parker, So, of Bal,
tlmore, was almost instantly
killed when he either fell or jumped
to the ground.
What is believed to be a record
yield of barley for Washington
county-74 bushels to the acre
was produced on four acres by John
Aughinbaugh, Cearfoss farmer. He
planted eight bushels of seed and
threshed 295 bushels.
Alfred Lewis Walls, II, Balti-
more, was held for Federal grand
jury on charge of stealing a Gov
ernment-owned horse from Union
Stock Yards, that city. A charge of
horse, theft is rarity in Federal
courts.
8 Accused of leaving her three
small children alone in their home
four to seven nights a week, Mrs.
Margaret E. Whitcomb, 81, was con-
victed by Judge Charles E. Moylan,
Baltimore, and sentenced to two
years in the State Reformatory for
Females. The woman's husband is
serving overseas with the army.
The largest number of hunting Ii
censes ever distributed in MARYLAND
are now on sale in offices of clerks
of court in the % counties of the |
state. The State Game and Inland
Fish Commission reported that g.
270 licenses of all types with a
potential revenue of 100000 have
been sent out.
The State Office of Price Admin |
istration has announced that used
car dealers in Maryland must OBJ
tain OPA authorization to sell used |
cars, trucks, or motorcycles on
warranty basis after August /. It
was also announced that a four per
cent reduction in ceiling prices on
used cars is now in effect.
DIR. A. L. Schrader, professor of
horticulture at the University of |
Maryland, has been selected by the
War Department to serve on the
faculty of one of two university |
study centers to be set up in Eng
land and France in connection with |
the army education program for
troops stationed in the European
theater of operations.
DR.. G.. M Cairns has been ap-
pointed head of the dairy depart
ment of the University of Maryland, |
and DR.. A. L. Brueckner has been /
named as director of the Maryland
live stock sanitary service of the
state. DR.. Cairns comes to Mary
land from the University of Maine.
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