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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1930-11-06

Mr. Carl Scott is suffering with
an injured ankle. which he sustained
Friday night Mr.. Scott is a mem
bei OF the local fire department. and
IS ne was leaving his home 10 go to
the fire at the Robert Miller home,
he struck his leg on the corner of
step, cutting a bad cash, and badly
hruisina his leg
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1930-11-06

4 daughter, named Glenna Rae
was born Sunday night to Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles (Jdck) Johnson, (Ruth
Clark) OF North Seventh street.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1930-11-06

Mr.. VIM. White OF this place plans
to leave this week for Canton, for a
visit with his daughter Mrs II. r.
Porter. Mr. White has rented part
of his residence to II +. Blank OF
Lima, who is employed with the
Ohio Fuel Company, in the oil and
gas field west OF Malta 1t is Nj.
Whites plan 70 spend the Winter
with his children
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1930-11-06

Mrs. w. A. Vance of Johnstown
Pa. is visiting here with her mother,
Mrs. Ida K. Pyle, and sister Miss
Agnes Pyle.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1930-11-06

\ son was born Tuesday Of last
week to Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Foraker
Of GAINESVILLE Mr.. Foraker is son
OF Clyde Foraker Oh New Lexington.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1930-11-06

Mr. and Mrs. Jasper A. Barrel
and the latter's mother, Mrs. Julia
Harper OF Mansfield visited the week
end in Malta with the formers
mother Mrs. Mary Jane Martin, and
here with Mrs. Ann Shafer and
Miss Lucy Kelly.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1930-11-06

George Barkhurst, student at Q.
W. T., Delaware. and Robert Drury
and Ronald Gordon, O. S. u. stu
dents, spent the week end with
their home people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
NORMAND ESTATE
ACCOUNTING ASKED
Mother of Actress and Trust Com
pany Sue Over Questions
Involving $4,000.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 30.-Mary c.
Normand, mother of the late Mabel Nor
mand,. and the City Bank Farmers
Trust Co., as trustees Of the motion pic
ture actress estate, filed suit in SUI
preme Court today to have their &C
count taken as trustees.
The suit was filed, they said, because
questions had arisen concerning the
rights of Lew Cody, Miss Normands
husband, and Mrs. Normand In $50, 900
trust fund set aside by the actress be-
fore her death.
1t was disclosed that Miss Normand
founded the trust fund in 1922, deposit
ing with the bank $4,000 In Liberty
bonds, the income of which was to 60
TO herself during her lifetime and to be
willed 10 her heirs at her death.
When Miss Normand died in Cali
fornia last February %. she left her
entire fortune to her mother, but no
part of the trust fund apparently ever
had gone to her during her life, and
before she died the Liberty bonds were
redeemed and the proceeds we're re-
invested in other bonds and in mort
cages.
It is in part TO determine what, If
any, portion of the income from the
trust fund Lew Cody as Miss Normand'S
husband Is entitled that todays suit
was filed.
Others named as defendants with a
possible interest in the fund were Gladys
Normand Streichert and Claud Nor
mand, sister and brother Of the actress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
PAYNE'S CHILDREN
MAY LOSE $4,000
Blast Suicide Believed to
Have MiSCaIcuIated lnsur-
ance Time Limit.

AMARILLO. Tex, August 30.-A. d.
Payne, Amarillo lawyer, may have erred
in his calculations for leaving $4,000
to his children by timing bis death in
Jail here early today to evade suicide
clause in his insurance policy, just as
he erred in framing the difbolical plot
by which his wife lost her life.
The, strange, spectacular criminal
career of the attorney came to an end
in his Jail cell when he touched of a
small bottle of nitroglycerin and
brought himself instant death.
Payne set of the suicide blast in the
lected to provide for his three orphaned
children.
In his diary he wrote:
Il have waited until August 20 so
that the children would receive the
benefit OF my insurance, which is now
more than year Old
The policy carried a clause that the
insurance would not be payable in case
OF suicide within one year after 1t was
issued. The year expired at midnight
Thursday. Allowing an extra day,
Payne committed suicide 81 minutes
after midnight Friday.
Insurance officials said today there
was no certainty that the benef1ciaries
would receive the money, pointing to a
clause in the policy which makes IL
contestable for two years It was in
dicated litigation may be required to
determine the insurance companys
liability.
Mayor Ernest o. Thompson expressed
the belief Payne brought the small bot
Tie OF nitroglycerine into the jail himself
District Attorney Edward w. Thomer-
son said, however, that the grand Jury
would be asked to investigate the pos
sibility OF the explosive having been
smuggled into the jail by outsiders.
II. L. Gender, cellmate, testified at
tne coroners inquest that Payne told
MIN late last night he had everything
Hxed TO cheat the electric chair" and
tnat he had a bottle of nitroglycerine
secreted on his person when he was
transferred from Stinnett to Amarillo
Sunday.
Officers and cellmates expressed the
belief that Payne set of the explosive
either by connecting it with a light
extension wire In the cell or by means of
short fuse and cap attached to the
bottle.
In plotting his wifes death Payne
used his brilliant talents to evolve
scheme which he thought would defy
detection and leave him free of sus-
picion
He placed an internal machine in the
family automobile and permitted his
wife and their ll-year- son to drive
away from hons June a. A few blocks
away the car blew up. killing Mrs.
Payne and manning the boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
PHOTO MAY CLEAR
ABSENCE Of BOY
Florida Constable Believes
Ward Is Peter ConkIin, Mss
ing in Pennsylvania.


CLEARWATER, Fla, August 3d.
The mysterious disappearance more
than a year ago of Peter Conklin, IS
year-old schoolboy of Wilkes-Barre,
Pa. was believed solved today with the
arrival here of photographs that ten
tatively identified him as a youth who
is being cared for at the home of Con-
stable r. E. Cause at Tarpon Springs.
The pictures were sent by Capt. w.
A. Clark, commander of Troop B,
Pennsylvania State police, at Wyoming,
Pa. Cause said they correspond en-
tirely with the appearance of a boy
given shelter at his home since he was
taken into custody Thursday.
Meanwhile. Frank Williams, alias
Mack Sherman. alias Red" is In
prison here awaiting the arrival Of a
Pennsylvania trooper to take him back
to that State to stand trial on charges
growing out of Conklin's disappearance
Cause said his suspicion was aroused
ago. They had been in Tarpon Springs
since last January. Investigation
caused the officer to arrest Williams,
who had been working on sponge boats
IN the Gulf of Mexico while the boy
idled about the village.
Williams first denied any connection
with the case, but under a grilling,
Cause said, the whole story came out.
Williams enticed Conklin away from
his home, Cause added, and they had
been travelling since
In letter describing the boy, Capt.
Clark said Peter disappeared in July,
1929, and that clues had led authori-
ties to nearly every State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
THRIFT SHOP MOVES.
TO NEW QUARTERS.
Organization, Operated for
Charities, viii Reopen at
1911 E Street Tuesday.

Tie Thrift Shop, operated for char
tiles, will open in its spacious new
quarters, at 1011 z street Tuesday
morning at 8 O'Clock, when Mrs. Edward
Everett Gam, sister of Vice President
Curtis, will be on hand to officially I'M
lock the doors. Mrs. John Allan
Dougherty and Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro,
wife of the former District Commits
sioner also are to be present for the
opening ceremony.
The shop is conducted for the benefit
of the Child Welfare Society, Children's
Hospital, the Prenatal Clinic of Column
bia. Hospital and the ChiIdren's Country
Horne. The sum of $4,000 was dis
tribllted among these institutions last
year from proceeds derived from sales
while the shop was located at 504 Tenth
street. The shop at the latter location
was closed the latter part of June and
in early July merchandise was moved
from the old establishment to the new.
in preparation for the opening of the
latter.
Those in charge declare they hope
TO make this a banner year for the
shop. quantity of furniture, radios,
lewolry, Sheffield plate, china, glassware
and clothing are on hand for sale, Mrs.
James E. Schuyler, manager of the
shop, explained yesterday.
Mrs. Arthur OBrien is chairman of
the shop. Mrs. Archibald Davis, Mrs.
Victor Cushman Mrs Barry Mohun and
Mrs. Thomas B. Sweeney are vice
charmen.
The committee chairmen and other
officers are as follows: Supplies, Mrs.
John r. Williams; pricing, Mrs, Frank
Let's; volunteers, Mrs. Barry Mohun:
house, Mrs. Reeve Lewis; treasurer, Mrs.
Frank s. Hight; secretary, Mrs. John
w. Gulick; assistant secretary, Mrs.
Randall Hagner, and publicity, Mrs.
Marion Ramsay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
REACH AGREEMENT
TO SETTLE OIL CASE
Special U, S. Attorney Says Matter
Will Be Settled Out
of Court.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. August 30.-Fed-
eral Judge A. F. st. Sure was informed
today the suit of the United States
Government against 10 oil companies
and F. r. Long, a Los Angeles oil
broker, charged with conspiracy to vio-
late the antitrust laws by price fixing,
may be settled out of court
John H. Amen, special United States
attorney, who came to the Pacific Coast
from Washington TO prosecute the case,
said he had conferred with Eugene d,
Bennett, attorney for several of the
defendants, and agreed to settle the
case and avoid long and expensive
trial.
Details of the settlement have not
been agreed upon, Amen said, but when
the case is called Tuesday 1t will be
continued until the neg tiations are
completed.
The Government charged the oil COM
panies and Long entered into a con-
spiracy in 1923 to fix the price of oil.
Long and the defendant companies adj
mitted entering into an agreement, but
contended it was not in violation of the
antitrust laws, but was legal market
ing code. Further. it was commended,
the prices affected only interstate
shipments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31

When he was II and had received
the best common school education he
could obtain in Ellis he decided that
1t was high time for him to begin to
earn his own living and to acquire a
trade. He had determined to become a
mechanic, so that he didn't daily over
his choice Of an occupation.
He tried and passed an examination
to become machiniSt's apprentice in
the Ellis shops. He had to make his
own tools as he went along His kit,
consisting of assorted calipers, dividers,
balanced hammers, test indicator and
combination square, was all made with
his own hands, before he was 10.
His initial pay was cents an hour.
His weekly envelope was of an amount
that the average youngster, starting in
today would scorn as days wages.
But the youthful apprentice was more
interested in learning how to do things
with his hands, how to build. than he
was In the amount of his earnings.
Builds Miniature Locomotive.
After year in the shops he was
skilled enough to build a miniature
steam locomotive. 1t was complete in
every detail, including air brakes. He
built a track in his back yard and
gave demonstrations of how the con-
trivance would run. He designed and
constructed the lathe on which he
built the locomotive. He made a shot
gun and other implements that he de-
sired and couldn't afford to buy
Tired as he was from hard days
work in the shops, the youngster read
magazines and books on engineering
subjects to round out the practical
knowledge he was gaining as ma
chinists helper. At the end of four
years of strict application to his job
a f1rst-class journeyman mechanic.
Then he got the itching foot and
decided to see something of the coun-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31

Our much maligned appendix,
spare part that nature ''muffed," must
now contend with still another foe.
Improper weight-reducing methods
during the past is years, according to
DR.. T. F. Murphy, chief OF the divi-
sion of vital statistics of the Bureau
of Census, have been major factor
in a large increase in fatalities from
The weight-reducing fad, coupled
with the fact that formerly appendi-
citis was often attributed to some
other organic ailment, Is largely re-
sponsible for the increase, DIR. Murphy
states.
with the modern revolution In
women's mode of dressing, the nat,
straight line supplanting the constric-
tive hourglass form, a tremendous de-
crease in appendix fatalities was ex-
pected.
Modern Woman Susceptible.
However Nd Murphy points out. the
modern woman is more susceptible 10
acute appendicitis than the Victorian.
The diet mania and a nationwide taste
for the rapierlike figure have resulted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
BERRTnAh

try. He worked for time in Western
shops, finally settling in Salt Lake City,
where his pay was 27l2 cents an hour
There he repaired a locomotives
blown-off cylinder head in two hours so
that it could pull out the fast mail on
schedule time.
This feat brought him the job as
foreman of the Colorado & Southern
shops In Trinidad, Colo Next he be-
for the Chicago & Great Western
Still thirsting for knowledge and a
chance to broaden himself. he accepted
the place as manager of the American
Locomotive Co. in Pittsburgh, sacrifice
ing much in salary at the outset
Started With Buick.
He got his first chance in the auto
mobile business with the Buick COM
pany again accepting big salary cut
for the opportunity. With him the pros
poets for the future have always out
weighed immediate rewards. What he
did with Buick, General Motors, WHY'S
Overland Maxwell-Chalmers and with
his own product constitutes one of the
most outstanding achievements in the
automobile industry.
Today his headquarters are in New
York, where his ancestor, Tuenis Van
Dolsen, was the first male child born
in the days when the city was New
Amsterdam. 1t is a far cry from the
sun-baked prairies of Kansas to a COM
manding position in a leading industry
and to offices atop the highest building
in the metropolis structure that
bears his name
But that is the place to which the
box of tools made by Walter Chrysler
on his first job helped carry him. He
still has the implements that started
him on the path to fame and fortune.
Nor has he forgotten how to use them.
(Copyright. 1890. by North American News
paper Alliance)
Next-John Hays Hsmmond.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
The Castle of a Black King.

The favorite palace of the black King
Henry, Sans Souci lies at the head Of
the lovely Valley hiillot in Haiti, and
TO reach it or> must have horse and
guide. although the road is open and
fairly good Even in its ruins Sans
Souci is grand and impressive and a
lovelier spot could not be found. II
stands at the base Of very high hills
covered with tropical trees, among
which run sparkling streams of purest
water. These irrigate numerous gardens
planted with coffee trees and cocoa
palms, where, hidden in abundant
foliage, are the huts Of the country folk,
who lead life of aboriginal independ-
encs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
ANTON CARL ENDS
i. S. SERVICE AT 76.
Veteran Craftsman Had Been
With District Government
for Thirty-tWo Years.

Anton Carl, craftsman in the Dis
trict Surveyors Once, was retired Fri
day at the age of rs after 80 years
service with the District of Columbia,
Mr.. Carl was real veteran, as. outside
of his work for the District, he had
spent % years with various surveying
branches of the Federal Government.
He is considered one of the most skilled
craftsmen in the country.
From 1870 to 1875 he was employed
by the War Department and went on
an expedition to the then Far West for
the purpose OF surveying military res
ervations. He well remembers his days
on the so-called Wheeler expedition.
The railways carried him as far as Fort
Kit Carson, Kans. From there he trav-
eled by stage coach to FL Paso. There
the party took to horses with their sup
plies carried by pack mules. and set cut
for the deserts and mountains of the
Far West 10 survey. In those DAYS the
redskins and the palefaces were not on
the best of terms, grizzlies roamed the
slopes and wild buffalo the plains. Mr..
Carl has several bear to his credit
AS for the Indians, They WOULD never
trouble you if you didn't trouble them, 8"
he said. "Of course they would steal
from you, but that was all. The
troubles with the Indians in those days
were largely due to the whites of those
parts, who were the scum of humanity.
Whisky dealers. horse thieves and gam
blers made most of the trouble"
For months on a stretch the party
would be surveying tracts in which no
white man had ever set foot. They re-
turned to civilization once a year for
supplies and then were off again.
From 1875 to 1876 he was employed
by the General Land Office and from
1876 to 1891 by the United States Geo.
logical Survey. From 1891 to 1898 he
was employed by the Intercontinental
Railroad Commission. For his aptitude
and efficiency on this work, Mr.. Carl
was commended by the engineer i'll
charge, Lieut.. NJ. M. McComb, u. S. A.,
who made a special report on this work,
published in book form in 1897.
From August, 1898, to date he has
been in the surveyors office, with the
exception of short period during the
Spanish American War when he was
employed on street extension work by
the tax assessor.
Mr.. Carl was born in Germany in
1854 and came to this country in 1870
He became an American citizen in 1878
There was a large gathering of his
friends in the District Building Friday
and on their behalf District Surveyor
Melvin Hazen presented him with a
purse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
Ants as Firemen.

Seeing the statement that ants were
excellent firemen, an English student
decided to make his own observations.
He went into a fir wood, sought out
an ant hill and into its midst stuck
a candle so that the wick was about an
inch above the HIN. The whole tribe
were soon alive to the danger threaten
ing their home and presently some
climbed carefully to the edge Of the
candle, then. drawing their bodies
slowly forward, shot fluid toward the
wick. The flame gave of a kissing
sound. More and more insects now
climbed the candle and sent this mys-
FERROUS fluid into the light And while
they climbed, so other ants worked at
an amazing pace building up TO the
edge of the candle to save the need for
climbing. In just four and half min
utes the flame fluttered out. The ants
had wonl Half an hour later the candle
was relighted. Once more the mad rush
to extinguish the flame. This time 1t
was put out in just 80 seconds!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
REDUCING FAD GIVEN BLAME
FOR MUCH APPENDIX TROUBLE
Confluence, Slow Eating, Easy Exercise
and Regular Rest Periods Prescribed by
Census Expert as Preventives.

in improper nourishment and abnormal
exercise, the two most common fore
runners of appendicitis.
The rise in the rate among males,
Dr. Murphy stated, can largely be at
tributed to the American business
mans proverbial bite of lunch" Long
on work and short on digestion. the
average American man is perfect
subject for an eXacting appendix.
Confluence and slownesS in eating,
easy exercise and regular periods of
rest according to DR.. Murphy, are the
best preVentives.
Variance Due 10 Age.
The increase in fatalities has varied
by age. Even among children under
5 years of age there has been a great
Increase in the period from l925-1929,
compared with the four-year period
from 1911 to 1915, it was disclosed.
Only between the ages from 10 to 10
was there slight decline in appendix
citis mortality. Beginning with adult
life, the appendicitis death rate showed
marked increase in the 1925-1929
period. The higher the age the greater
the rise in mortality since 1911, 1t was
shown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
KAPPA GAMMA PI ENDS
CONFERENCE HERE TODAY
Honor Graduates of Catholic Won
ems Colleges Will Discuss By
Laws of Various Chapters.

Honor graduates of Catholic women's
colleges, members of Kappa Gamma Pi,
who yesterday convened at the Mayfiow-
er Hotel for the biennial Eastern
regional meeting of the sorority, will
complete their conference today.
Discussion of the bylaws of various
chapters, prior to their adoption. oc-
eupied most of yesterdays session, The
place of the annual national meeting
will be decided today.
The society was organized by Rev.
Francis v. Corcoran of Kendrick Sem
mary, dean Of the Conference of Gath
Ollie Women's Colleges.
Miss Cecil Roman Of New Rochelle
College, New Rochelle. N. Y, president
of the national society, conducted the
regional meeting yesterday. Mary L.
Hannah graduate of Trinity College, of
Washington, is the national secretary.
Other alumnae of Trinity College in
cluded Miss Alicia H. Goenner, presi-
dent of the Washington chapter: Mil
bred Colt, Alma Witty, Dorothy Har-
rington and Florence O'Donoghue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
BY ], v. FITZ GERALD


The boy spent his time watching tn,
old woodworking engines of the Unior
Pacific sputter and chug into the shop,
for repairs and overhaulinR. He chattec
with the mechanics, sometimes beins
gruf11y ordered to get out of the way
ran errands for them when they were
good-nstured, and learned, as ne watch.
ed, that skilled hands can do wondrous
things with the proper tools.
Thas Walter Chrysler, early in life
developed the liking for mechanics that
has aided him so much in gaining such
signal success in life
He was born in Western Kansas in
1876. Wamego. typical prairie ham,
let was his birthplace. His father, an
engineer for the Union Pacific Rail-
road, moved to Ellis, a nearby town,
when Walter was a little fellow.
The lad grew up there in the at
moSphere OF engines and the din of re-
pair work for the shops of the Union
Pacific were located at Ellis. He would
watch, his father start his run in the
primitive locomotives of half century
ago He would be waiting for him on
ms return from across the prairie
The youngster aspired to follow in
the footsteps OF his father and become
first-class mechanic. He Inherited a
-.
The contacts and associations of the
railroad center served to strengthen his
inclinations. He never thought seri-
ously of following any career ether than
g mechanical one.
Father Pick Of Engineers. :,
The elder Chrysler piloted the first
coal-burning locomotive owntd by the
Union Pacific, which is indication
enough that he>was regarded as the pick
OF the engineers on the road. His son
came naturally enough by his me-
chanical bent, It would seem
The Ellis Ioadhouse and shops saw
much of young Chrysler in the time he
could spare from school, Perhaps his
teachers thought he could have used
those hours to better advantage at his
books. for he never rated as an OUT
standing pupil. Nor, for that matter,
was he a backward one.
During the Summers he didn't have
so much time to loiter around the rail-
road shops. He worked for a grocer
as an errand boy and clerk In the va
cation periods. His earnings helped
the family. Times were none too good
in Kansas in those days.