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New Britain herald., 1927-03-03
Wiring Possibly Is Cause

Starting before midnight, ii is be-
NcNod, from defective wiring in the
timckeeper's office of Pier n. the
danes. consumed that pier, leaped
four blocks to the Morgan street
dock and virtually destroyed three
warehouses there. About fifty load =
ed freight cars and three bargos
were also destroyed.
Pier X was laden with freight.
much % il reported highly valu-
able. The pier projected into tho
river 500 feet and was so feet
wide. 1t is at the foot Of Second
street. in the Horseshoe district.
The Morgan street dock is 400 ny
so feet. 1t contained three ware
houses. which We're almost utterly
wiped out.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-03

M2riden. March CPt-The local
police this afternoon positively iden-
utied keys found on the body OF a
man discovered in Westheld yester-
day afternoon as having been the
property of David Dudley. The keys
ut locks in a trunk. suit case and Il
door AZ the oxford House where
Dudley roomed when here.
Factory friends of Dudley today
seemed satisfied that their belief in
budloy's disappearance having 10 do
with foul play was upheld.
Members OF the detective bureau
stated that they feel that the po-
sition OF Dudley's body would indi-
cate il having been covered over
with hemlock boughs by some Sec
ond person. The secuted tho theory
that Dudley had covered himself
over and laid down.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-03
Sister in Wallingforrl

Wallingford, Conn. March 3 LP-
Mrs. s. w. Becroft. sister OF David
G. Dudley whose body was identified
today in Middletown. was requested
this noon by Coroner Mix to come
TO his office during the afternoon to
give description OF man she saw
with her brother in Meriden last DC
toher just before he disappeared.
Mrs. Recroft lives in the North
Farms district. When informed
that the body was Identified as that
of her brother she said she would
communicate with her father David
{. Beach. Sr., on Beach street, New
Haven, as to disposition OF the
body.
David C. Dudley. Jr., formerly
lived here and was basketball
player while n member OF Company
X. National Guard.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-03

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The Washington times., 1927-07-14

NTOlongerneed
~ you deny
yourself the mod
ern, carefree cleo
trio Refrigeration
provided by
Fri gidairc. For
The Washington times., 1927-07-14
Doctor Found What is Best
for Thin, Constipated People

AS a family doctor at Monticello,
Illinois, the whole human body, not
any small part of it. was DR.. Cald-
wells practice. More than half his
calls" were on women, children
and babies. They are the ones
most often sick. But their illnesses
were usually of a minor nature
colds, fevers, headaches, bilious
ness--and all of them required
first q thorough evacuation. They
were constipated.
In the course Of his Al years
practice Che was graduated from
Rush Medical College back in 1879,
he found a good deal Of success in
such cases with prescription OF
his own containing simple laxative
herbs with pepsin. In 1892 he de-
cided to use this formula in the
manufacture of medicine to be
known as DIR. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin, and in that year his pre-
scription was first placed on the
market.
The preparation Immediately had
as great a success in the drug
stores as 1t previously had in his
private practice. Now. the third
generation is using it. Mothers
are giving it to their children who
were given it by their mothers.
Every second of the working day
someone somewhere is going into
a drug store to buy it. Millions of
bottles of DR.. Caldwells Syrup
Pepsin are being used a year.
Its great success is based on
merit, on repeated buying, on one
satisfied user telling another. There
are thousands of homes, in this
country that are never without q
bottle of DIR. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin,
The Washington times., 1927-07-14
WOUNDED VE Is
To PICNIC

seventy-five wounded war vet
Grams from Walter Reed Hospital
will be given au outing tomorrow
at Chesapeake Beach as guests of
the Business Mems Association of
the resort.
The wounded boys, some of whom
will have TO make the trip in wheel
chairs, viii leave the District Line
at 2:30 p. M, a special coach hav-
ing been donated by the Chesapeake
Beach Railway Company. Upon ar
rival at the resort, the veterans
will he deliberately entertained by
the business men, assisted by conn
mittee of women from Calvert
county, particularly the towns of
Chesapeake Beach and North Beach.
A free banquet will be served in
the Casino Cafe, homemade cakes
for the occasion having been donated
by Calvert county women. The re-
sort company will furnish its jazz
orchestra free to provide music
The veterans will be given free
tickets for bathing, dancing, the
The Washington times., 1927-07-14
TWO BUS TYPES
TRIED OUT

The Public Utilities Commission,
presidents of several citizens asso-
Citations ana representatives of the
press made a special trial trip yes
terday aboard two types of buses
which the Washington Rapid Tran.
sit Company Is proposing to buy to
augment its rolling stock.
The trip was made at the invita-.
ton OF Harley P. Wilson, new
owner of the bus company, who
entertained the party at luncheon at
his country estate below Alexan.
dria.
One Of the buses was standard
gasoline bus. similar to those now
in use, though considerably i'm
proved in design. The other was a
modern gas-electric bus, which is
gaining some favor among trans.
portation experts.
The gas-electric bus costs more
money than the old type but makes
considerably less noise and elimi-
ndleS the JeFkS Wup-A ISSaiL ALouA
changing gears.
The guests were asked to report
which they would favor for use by
the bus company here and Wilson
assured them that whichever they
chose would be selected by the COM
pany.
The new owner Of the bus COM
pany Is heartily in favor of a mer
ger of transportation companies.
William G. McAdoo, former Sec.
rotary of the Treasury, was a
member of the party.
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Comet ride and the countless other
amusements. The boys will leave
the beach on their return trip at 8
p. m.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Brookland Baptist Church also will
visit the beach tomorrow. More
than $50 persons are expected.
Members of the Sunday School are
joining in the outing. The athletic
program will include potato races,
sack races and various foot races,
for the winning of which prizes will
be awarded.
The arrangements committee is
composed of Mrs. Virginia Carleton,
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and we have gotten many hundreds
of letters from grateful people tell
ing us that it helped them when
everything else failed.
Every drug store sells DIR. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin. Keep bottle
in your home,-where many live
someone is sure to need it quickly.
We would be glad to have you
prove at our expense how much
DR.. Caldwen's Syrup Pepsin can
mean to you and yours. Just write
Syrup Pepsin," Monticello, Illinois,
and we will send you prepaid a
FREE SAMPLE BOTTLE.
The Washington times., 1927-07-14

chairman; Franz Lebert, superin-
tendent of the Sunday School; Mira.
Charles Butler, Mrs. s.. O. Cole,
Miss Edna Greenstreet and L. c..
Stallings.
The Washington times., 1927-07-14

Although 100000 tons Of ice are
manufactured in the United States
annually, only about 6 per cent Of
the families use ice the year around.
The Washington times., 1927-07-14

Though rigid enough to be handled
with one hand when extended, a new
6-foot steel measuring rule coils into
case about the size Of a watch.
The Washington times., 1927-07-14
F STREET FIRE
|. HALTS TRAFFIC;
SHOP DAMAGED

, Traffic on F Street was tied
up for nearly an hour last night
as firemen from four engine conn
panies battled a smouldering. fire
in the basement of the Atlantic
Building, 928-930 F st. N. w.
More than 1000 persons were
held in check by police reserves.
Smoke from the basement filled the
Metropolitan Clothes Shop, 92S F st.
n. W., and caused several hundred
dollars damage to the stock. Firemen
were forced to don gas masks to gain
entrance to the smoke-filled base.
lment.
:, The fire was discovered by Miss
Nellie Judge, Of the Department OF
Agriculture, who was at work on the
second floor of the building. She no.
titled E. w. Maxon, Waterman, who
sounded the alarm from thA private
box in the building.
The blaze is thought to have orig.
mated in a pile Of trash in the rear
Of the building. The building is
leased by the Department of AgricuI-
Lufe. n.
The Washington times., 1927-07-14

ta1nS a constant
cold-storage tenn
petature in the
foodcompartment
colder than
you can expect
with ice. There
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GOINGS-ON
~ Me TheGters


NATIONAL - Charles Dllling-
ham has selected Washington and
the National Theater for his first
dramatic offering of the season,
5 and on next Monday night will
produce new comedy by
Michael Arlen and Wincheil
Smith, entitled THE Zoo
The title. 1.-The Zoo" is Mich
! ael Arlen's satirical nickname
for modern society. His view.
: point is that modern society
is a hollow sham. This is
expounded by a professional phi
landerer, an artist, skillfully
: played by Roland Young, who will
be remembered for his excellent
performance as Lord billing OPP
posite Ina Claire, in 1.-THE Last of
Mrs. Cheyney." Wallace Eddinger,
. last seen here in Mr.. Dillingham's
"On Approval" and who is re-
garded as one of the best known
and most popular leading men on
the stage today. will play the hus-
band whose wife is the victim OF
the philanderer. Irene Brown, a
well-known English leading wom-
I an, will make her American debut
as the wife. which is regarded as
one of the best feminine roles ever
written by either Michael Arlen
4 or Winehell Smith, co-authors of
the play. Others in the cast are
Lucille Watson, Leila Bennett1
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Elsie Lawson. Philip Cunningham
and Gwyn Stratford.
POLI'S-Thurston, the magi-
clan. comes to Polls Theater Sun.
day for a weeks engagement. He
brings with him this season the
most elaborate magical produc-
ton he has ever offered to Wash
ington.
For the first time In the his.
tory of magic the real East
Indian rope trick, will be pre-
sented on a fully,lighted theater
stage. The Hindu rope trick is
the most talked of illusion in
all magic This is the first time
it has ever been presented out.
side the guarded purlieus of the
Yogi sects Of the Himalaya Noun.
tains in India.
BELASCO- Frederic and Fan
ME Hatton's new play, synthetic
Sim" will be presented by the
Morosco Holding Company at the
Belasco Theater next week. A
new play disclosed through the
able joint-pen- OF the Hattons IS
always a promise irr the theater,
for universally large body of
comedy-lovers know that they
have for ten years been pro-
viding our stage with some Of
its very merriest plays. including
successes like Upstairs and
Down, lombard Ltd" and 1.-THE
Great Lover" to name only
few in their long line.
Synthetic Sin" Is in four cpl
sodes," as the authors are pleased
to term its divisions, and the &C.
ton switches from backstage at
a theater in Easton, Pa, to an
apartment house on New York's
upper west side. 1t is quite
different from any other play
written by the Hattons.
The cast is headed by Dorothy
Burgess, of Bye Bye Bonnie"
fame last season, and Alan Birn1-
ingham, leading man last year for
Eva LeGallienne's Civic Repertory
Company in New York.
KEIT H'S-The international
star, Beatrice Lille, through the
courtesy Of G. B. Dillingham; and
Andre Chariot, will top the bill at
3. F. Keith's next week. She
will appear in that sketch which
she used in Charlot's Revue,
After Dinner Music. :" written for
her by Noel Conrad. Miss Lille
also will give program Of her
biggest song hits.
Virginia Bacon and Company
will be featured for the week in
new and snappy dance produc-
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ton of Harry Borjas round out
the program.
F0X-The spectacular Roxy pro-
logue for the week beginning
tomorrow at the new Fox Thea!
ter, conceived and staged under
the personal direction of Roxy,
augmenting What Price Glory
the motion picture epic that has
taken the nation by storm, is Ike
the picture, terrifieally funny. vi.
tally hardboiled and triumphantly
free, for the most ways from the
sticky slabs of sentiment which
ordinarily feature and mar the
efforts of those who strive TO de-
pict on stage or screen, something
of what once happened on the
fields of France.
The Marine HYMN. sung by
Frank Moulan and chorus. is
virile and soul-stirring. Char
maine will introduce lovely
Marion Keeler, musical protege
of Roxy and one Of the new adj
ditions to Roxy's Gang, and
James Melton. youthful lyric
tenor. Mickey Mckee. whistling
member OF the gang and known
radio-wise all over the country.
also will make her Washington
debut in this elaborate prologue.
In Fox's elaborate screen YER
sion of the celebrated play, Victor
McI.aglen plays the hard-boiled
Captain FIagg, Edmund Lowe, the
virile Sergeant Quirt, and Dolores
Del Rio, the fiery Charmaine,
three OF the finest characterize
tions on record. Priyates Kiper
and Lipinsky, played by Ted Nc
Namara and Sammy Cohen, add
much OF warmth and real humor
to the production. In addition the
male quartet, Rose and Arthur
SBoylan in an Apache and the Cob
team of Gschrey and Gully.
Shorter features will round out.
RIALTO-Richard Dix in his
latest Paramount picture, "Shang-
hal Bound, will be the feature
at the Rialto starting today.
In Shanghai Bound" Dix has
the role of Jim Bucklin, captain
of Yangtse boat. Up the river
from Shanghai, he finds a party
of American tourists, who are un-
aware that food riots and blood
shed are about to break out. How
he takes them on his ship i'm.
presses them as substitutes for
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be roistering away his patrimony
on the gay life instead Of de.
voting his time and resources to
the pursuit Of the college educa.
ton in which he is supposed to
be engaged. A peculiar interest
in this wayward young man is
reused in the breast Of the waiter
and through his activities
catastrophe is avoided. That the
youth should prove to be his
own son lends the climax Of the
play a strength it would not
otherwise possess.
Not only does Stone contribute
an exceptional portrayal but
skillful delineations are offered
by Lflyan Eastman as a blonde
blackmailer. John Patrick, her
consort; Robert Agnew as the
son, Ann Rork, his sweetheart:
Cleve Moore, Dick Folkens, and
Lincoln Stedman as frolicsone
young collegiates and Priscilla
Bonner and r. j. Radcliffe in
slightly less conspicuous parts.
Shorter films and house features,
also.
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ton. With Miss Bacon will be
Eugene jenkins and Jack Kearney.
Alice Zeppilli former prima
donna of the Chicago Opera Com
pany and the Opera Comique,
Paris, will make her vaudeville
debut. Her program will include
several arias and high class bal.
lads. Other acts include Watkins
Cirque Petite. with STARS of
Animaldom;' Frakson, THE Man
of a Hundred Cigarettes" the
Herbert and Bolt Trio in "Slow
Motion Athletics Frank Evers,
and Greta on the slack wire, call
ing their act, "A Bit of Why a
Ring"
EARLE - "Yesterthoughts,"
new c. B. Maddock's production,
viii headline the vaudeville pro-
gram at the Earle beginning SUM-
day. In this offering, Reginald B.
Merryille is featured. supported by
Thurston Lewis, Sally Spencer,
Kent Washburn. Lenore Brown
lee, Ethel Williams, Russell Orser
and Charles Dodson. The revue is
presented in three scenes repre-
senting The Present" 'grhe Gar
den Path and 100 Years Ago"
The added vaudeville attraction
for the new week win be 1.-THE
Broadway Whirl. starring Jack
Goldie and Eddie Ross in a novel
song and dance revue. Other. i'm
portant, vaudeville inclusions EN-.
brace Marinoff's Russian Art
Circus" McCool and Doom and
Ed Lord and ST Wills. Wanted
by Everybody Even the Police. ("
The feature photoplay has De-
lores Costello in the Warner Bros.
special production of THE Heart
of Maryland" adapted from the
famous David Belasco stage sue.
cess. Shorter films and house
features.
GAYETY - Harry and Willie
Lander's Revue viii provide the
twice a day fun at the Gayety
Theater this week, starring two
clever comedians who have at
tracted much favor to themselves
through previous tours of the
Columbia Circuit as featured
comics. This season, the Lander
brothers as their own boss"
pride themselves on the character
Of amusement they have devised.
Supporting them In seven big
scenic arrangements, backing
them in host of novel devices
for the promotion of laughs. and
offering individual talent of
striking attainment are Jack and
Betty Burke, Irene Leary, the
Six jolly testers, saxophone spe.
cialties Morien and Mason. Flor.
erce King, Virginia Wheeler,
Bob Ercoff and a chorus OF "a
singing and dancing girls.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES thrill.
er, Underworld" with George
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Bancroft, Give Brook, Evelyn
Brent and Larry Semon in the
cast. remains at Loew's Column
bia for a second week.
This is one production that Is
smashingly real in its treatment
and that is also as absorbing as
a drama OF modern life.
1t is impressive because It
makes one think, in addition to
being splendid entertainment.
The unfolding of the lives of
the underworld characters in an
environment of crime, their
methods OF preying on organized
society, their ferocious struggles
with men paid to uphold the law,
and the intimate side of their
natures In following out impulses
and emotions in love and hate,
provide the basis of the story
written by Ben Hecht.
M-G-M News. Topics Of the
Day. Circus Capers," a PoddIes
Hanneford Comedy, and the Co
lumbia ensemble under the direc-
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METROPOLITAN - Lewis S.
Stone in First Nationals pro-
duction Of 1.-THE Prince Of Head.
walters" is foremost feature Of
next weeks bill at CrandalPs
Metropolitan Theater. In this
subject Stone is cast, not as the
ardent lover or the multimillion.
aire business man in close pursuit
OF a frivolous young flapper but
as middle-aged headwaiter who
has amassed a fortune serving
those who find it within their
means to patronize the Ritz in
New York. Here, while abb
sorbed in his official duties he
encounters youth who seems to
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Save My Child" appears as a
Swedish immigrant who reaches
the. land OF the free only to be
Immediately robbed Of his wealth
and sent to Jail by tricky Ray
n1ond Hatton. When he is finally
freed, the first man he encoun.
ters Is Ray and a chase starts,
which ends when both men find
themselves in a training school
for firemen.
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deserted crew and falls in love
with the girl in a dangerous trip
through river pirates sampans,
furnishes the skeleton of the
story.
Mary Brian is the American
girl Dix saves. Jocelyn Lee,
Charles Dyer, George Irving, Ar
thur Hoyt, Tom Mcguire, Frank
Chew and Tetsu Komai appear
in other important roles. More
than $50 Chinese appear in the
fight scenes.
The stage presentation features
will be Peggy Heavens, 1.-The
Golden Mermaid" posing just as
she did in the flesh for the sculp-
tor who created this famous
masterpiece. and Nanny King,
the Washington boy with the sill
yer voice. In song selections.
The Rialto Concert Orchestra,
Rox RommelI conducting. offers
'Colors of Spain" for the over
ture.
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PALACE-Wallace Berry and
Raymond Hatton. the inimftable
comedy team, who have convulsed
audiences with their antics ip
behind the Front" and Were
in the Navy Now" are back once
more in what has been acclaimed
careers, Fireman, Save Ny
Child" 1t comes to Loews Pal
ace today. On the sage will be
seen and heard J.. Humbird DUFF
fey's Gilbert and Sullivan Male En-
senble of Is soloists, featuring
Robert Norton, baritone; Charles
Ross, tenor, in program OF num-
bers from the "Mikado," Con
doliers,'' "Iolanthe," and Pirates
of Penzance," also popular num-
bers, including Brown October
Ale." Heidelberg" Just Like a
Butterfly Russian Lullaby"
and others. Added divertisse-
ments on the program are M-G.M
News, Aesop Fables, Bob Machatss
organ music, My Old Smith"
atmospheric Cameo song and
dance creation, THE Lake." a
scenic, musically interpreted by
Lee Cronican at the piano, and
the overture. Gems from Grand
Opera" by the Palace Concert Or
chestra, conducted by Don Felice,
guest conductor.
Wallace Berry in Fireman,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1927-09-23
Notice to Taxpayers

NOTICE is hereby given by the under
signed. Treasurer Of Montgomery county
and Collector of State and county taxes for
the said county, as required by Section G
of Chapter 1871 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1906, to all per-
sons to whom State and county taxes are
assessed in said county. that the annual
levy has been made and placed in the
hands of the undersigned for collection.
All such taxes bear interest from Sep
ember list, 1927, at the rate of 6 per GEN.
UNI per annum.
All taxpayers are hereby warned that
unless such taxes as are assessed against
them be paid on or before the first day OF
January, 1928. their names will be pub
lished, in accordance with said Act Of
Assembly, in the list of delinquent tax
payers, and that if said taxes, with inter-
est and proportional part of cost of adver-
Using, remain unpaid until the second
Monday in April, 1928, the property as
sessed t. such delinquent taxpayers, or so
much thereof as may be deemed neces-
sary, will, on said last mentioned date, be
exposed for sale to pay such taxes. interest
and expenses.
State and county taxes may be paid by
persons presenting proper bins on or before
December 81. 1927. during banking hours
at the following named banks:
Kensington Bank.
First National Bank of Gaithersburg.
First National Bank of Sandy Spring.
Poolesville National Bank.
, Silver Spring National Bank.
Takoma Park Bank.
Bank of Bethesda. Bethesda.
Bank of Damascus. Damascus
The Germantown Bank.
Citizens Bank, Takoma Park. MIDI. C.
j. FOREST WALKER,
Treasurer Of Ontgo merry county.
june 27-td
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1927-09-23
Tuesday, thu 18th day of
October. 1927,
at the hour of 4 O'Clock, P. NJ.

at the hour of 4 O'Clock, P. NJ,
the following described land and premises,
to-wit I
All those certain pieces or parcels of
land and premises situate lying and being
in Montgomery County. in the State Of
Maryland. and distinguished as and being
Lots numbered One ~. Nine (9J. and
Ten u0). in Block numbered Three-A (3-A).
and Lots numbered One "a and Two (2)
in Block numbered Three-B (3-B), in the
re-subdivision of Lots in Block numbered
Three (3), in a subdivision known as
"Edgemoor": as per plat of said re-subdi-
vision recorded In Plat Book No. 4, plat
81. one Of the Land Records of said Mont
gomery County; subject TO building restric-
tons and covenants of record.
TERMS OF E:-One- third cash. the
balance in equal deferred payments in one
and two years, secured by first deed Of
trust on said real estate. or all cash at the
option OF the purchaser. A deposit Of five
hundred dollars ($500.00) will be re-
quired at the time of sale.
Terms OF sale to be complied with within
i've days Of the final date OF ratification
OF the said sale by the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland, otherwise
the property to be re-sold at the risk and
cost OF the defaulting purchaser.
Taxes and interest and other fixed
charges to be adjusted to the date of sale,
and all conveyancing. recording, notary
ices, examination OF title, etc.. to be at
the cost Of the purchaser
EUGENE YOUNG,
OSCAR R. SCHOLZ,
sep lots Trustees.