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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-01-29
About Frank Clague

IN his column politics and Personalities in Wash
/ ington,' Alfred d. Stedman, in the Pioneer Press
OF recent date, gives short heretofore unknown
history of Frank Clague the second districts choice in
Congress for many years. The narration follows:
fortunately for him, Frank Clague is not known
by all the political titles which he has fallen heir
Suppose accosted varously as Speaker, Sen
ator, Judge and Representative One would not know
when to Successfully Clague has served as
county attorney of Redwood county, representa-
tive speaker of the House. state SENATOR Judge of the
district court and representative in Congress from the
Second Minnesota district.
1t is nearly decade since Clague left the
district bench to become member of Congress- His
friends still call him Judge" No doubt it is a mat
ter of dignity bearing and temperament. Not every
person meets the judicial title naturally
Yet it is the among many old official salutatons
to stick.
Mere dignity however, does not score so high in
politics. sense of humor is good for seasoning
Chief Justice Taft became popular jovial Judge
Clague would not be Clague if the fun were omitted
from his makeup
While waiting in the Union station at Chicago on
his recent Christmas trip home Representative Clague
noticed crowd of boys playing in one corner among
the benches These were boisterous youngsters and
very decidedly not sons of the idle rch Clague got
pocketful of pennies The crowd densely packed,
and there telling where the shower of coppers
came from. With every descent of coin from above
there was scramble. By and by the pennies came
thicker than before. Clague had been joined by
policeman. Two able to flip coins into the air
faster than one.
Along about 1912, Clague was candidate for the
State Senate. One night at crossroads near Red
wood Falls, the headlights of his rowing car fell upon
an irate man bending stalled motor. The
strangers automobile brand new-a circumstance
which contributed to his flaming anger
SloJ no no e bol,>
replied that he wished fervently to borrow an ak with
which to destroy the useless
While the motorist continued to heap mprecations
upon the out of anger vast as to include
discomfort with all creation, the senatorial candidate
produced a rope and prepared to make tow back to
Redwood Falls Headlights Illuminated the crossroads
signboard just then. 1t was covered with election
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-01-29
STATS DIARY
BY ROSS FARQUHAR

Friday seen Jane after skool to-
mite and she was very very nice to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-01-29

cards, and in the center of them all was Frank
Cague's poster Besides it was that of his opponent
The main business of the day being campaigning,
Clague indicated his picture and asked about the
strangers vote.
politicians.
"How about Mr.. Cague? ?" inquired the candidate.
Whereupon he learned that in the irate motorists
opinion, Clague was the worst one of the lot. He
was unrecognized in the dark
There's the other fellow Cague replied, indca-
ting his opponents poster. "Going to vote for him %
81 guess I'll have to-"
Mr.. Clague lowed his defamer into town. handed
him election card when the service had been COM
pleted, and had a good laugh at the mans confusion
on discovering he had extravagantly lambasted a
friend in need The Judge was judicous enough to
know the stranger had been angry with the whole
world all because his car had failed on its first ex-
petition
of the strongest supporters Csue has in the dis
trict.
In 1905, Clague had battle for the speakershp.
1t was fight in which he supported by the Pho
neer Press. One day after it was over with Clague
the victorious candidate talked with George Thomp
son. then the publisher.
There's thing, Mr.. Thompson said, "you
might your way clear to do. I've got young
porter down there the paper He's bright land I'd
like to see him get ahead Maybe, if you looking
for private secretary, you could give the job to
Larry Ho"
Clague recalls that Young Hodgson made an ex-
ceent assistant.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-01-29

"A man may, if he knows not how to
save as he gets, keep his nose to the
grindstOne."
Benjamin Franklin's words. How
true. Why complain Life is "hard
grind when, by carelessly spending
every last dollar, you deprive your
self Of the opportunities for financial
independence?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-01-29
There's No Need For a Fence
Around Redwood Falls

For Redwood Falls Merchants Only. Being
of series of chats with Redwood Falls
businessmen
~ GU can't put fence around Redwood Falls to
keep Redwood Falls people from shopping else
where.
None the less, it isn't by any the hardest
task to get Redwood Falls folk to shop and buy in
your stores. It's task to be sure, but one in which
your help will go a long way.
People buy where they trained to buy. Edu-
cate them to buy in Redwood Falls and they'll always
buy there. And buying education is very largely
matter of advertising.
Advertising. That's the trick Your own adver-
Using and that of the manufacturers whose goods you
strive to sell. Both in your local. home newspapers
should prove effective in keeping Redwood Falls bust
in Redwood Falls and Redwood Falls dol
lars in Redwood Falls.
Where the manufacturers advertising is concern
ed, your task is easy.
When their statesmen to sell you goods talk
up Redwood Falls to them. Talk it up with enthu-
sasm. Make them realize how important Redwood
Falls is to you in turnover How important it is
to them in orders How important it is to their
companies in more sales.
Talk up Redwood Falls so that these statesmen will
pass the good word on to their sales managers who
decide where advertising appropriations to be
spent.
With the advertising of more national manufact-
urers in your local newspapers Redwood Falls folks
will find it easier to shop in your stores. You'll find
it easier to keep them coming to your stores. And
there won't be any need for fence around Redwood
Falls You need the advertising aid of the manufact-
whose goods you stock-urge their statesmen to
recommend your local home newspaper.
This newspaper has joined small town
papers all the country in a nationwide
campaign to convince national advertisers that
they can best assist small town merchants by
advertising in the local, home town newspa-
pers of the small town merchants.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-01-29
SAVE AS YOU EARN!

Money saved talks" in this OF world
1t points the way to getting ahead
and, once the years slow down your
earning capacity, eliminates all fears
OF adversely in the future.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-01-29

For Redwood Falls Merchants Only. Being
one of series of chats with Redwood Falls
businessmen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
DEAD MAN" IN AUTO
FOUND ONLY ASLEEP
Police Investigate Taxi Drivers
Story and Suspected Roadster
Is Halted and Searched.

An intensive search for a Maryland
roadster believed to be bearing the body
of dead man in the rumble seat was
halted yesterday when Fredericksburg,
Va, police notified local authorities
that they had stopped the machine,
but found no body.
The hunt was instituted early yes
terday when an excited taxicab driver
rushed into detective headquarters and
reported that the occupants of a ma
chine carrying dead man on the rear
floor had stopped in Washington and
asked the way TO Richmond, Va.
Several hours after Washington po-
lice dispatched a headquarters car to
scour the city and nearby Virginia for
the automobile word was received
from Fredericksburg. Va, that the au-
tomobile had been stopped and
searched. A man was lying in the rear
seat, but he was only asleep.
A lookout for the car was broad
cast by local police when Russell c.
Flynn of sos I street, reported that
passenger he drove from Ninth street
and Mount Vernon place to Thirty
first and o streets had told him that
the occupants of Maryland machine
gave him a lift" from Fourth street
and lexington place northeast, but put
him out at Ninth street when he in
quired about an apparently lifeless
form lying on the rumble seat floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
MAN Who CLAIMED
He WAS ASSAULTED
is SHOT TO DEATH
Clifford Borneman Declared
He Had Been Robbed on
Honeymoon Trip.
BELIEVED MURDERED;
INQUEST TOMORROW
Coroner Refuses to Accept Theory
of Suicide-Attack in July
Caused Controversy.
Special Disnatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, August 11.-Ap-
parently slain, Clifton Borneman, young
farmer, who month ago reported he
had been attacked, robbed and left
unconscious for 80 hours, while prepar-
ing for belated honeymoon, was the
center of another inquiry today.
Borneman's body was found yesterday
on the farm of Henry HlrSch, an uncle,
with whom he and his bride had been
living, shotgun charge in his breast.
The shotgun was found 35 feet away
with both barrels fired.
Coroner John w. Anderson said he
could not accept a theory of suicide.
After the alleged attack, friends OF
with apathy. Officers said at the time
that Borneman's marriage to Jane Tall
of Baltimore, had been opposed by her
parents.
Borneman's report that he had been
knocked unconscious for 80 hours after
being stopped on the road July 5
stirred controversy between his friends
and Anne Arundel County authorities.
While Borneman lay i'll at his home,
Charles L. Tate, a friend of the family,
declared the county officials we're apa-
uuently Sheriff Michael Carter queS-
toned Borneman, who denied that he
had been seen between the time of the
attack and the time he was found I'M
conscious the next day.
He also insisted he was robbed OF
more than $500 with which he was
about to start on belated honeymoon,
and his friends later produced evidence
of the cashing of $500 check. The
attack came four days after his mar
riage, July /, to Miss Jane Tall, which
was reported to have been opposed by
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Tall
of Baltimore.
Henry Hirsch, an uncle with whom
Borneman and his wife were living,
found the young mans body in the
woods about quarter of mile from
the home. Borneman, who was 80
years old, had left the house about 9
am. without breakfast and gone to
the home of Frank Hill, Negro farm
hand, where he got the shotgun, owned
by Mr.. Hirsch. Putting two shells in
it, he told boy at Hills home that he
was going to shoot squirrels.
After one search had been unsucceSs-
full, Mrs. Borneman heard shot in the
woods and Hirsch and Hill began an
other search that resulted in finding
the body. Borneman, according to his
uncle, had crawled about 35 feet from
the place where the gun was found be-
fore he died.
The coroner was notified and went to
the Hirsch farm, accompanied by his
son, DR.. Albert L. Anderson, who pro-
nounced Borneman dead. The body was
moved to an undertaking establishment
here, and Coroner Anderson decided to
hold an inquest Tuesday or Wednesday.
A. Theodore Brady, States attorney,
notified the coroner he wanted to at
tend the inquest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
ONE DIES, ) INJURED
IN DUAL CAR CRASH
Samdet Jenkins, SperryviIle,
Killed in Accident at
Front Royal.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


FRONT ROYAL, Va, August IL
One man is dead, two others are in a
serious condition in the Winchester
Memorial Hospital. and fourth man
and two young women are nursing
minor cuts and bruises today as result
of a collision between two automobiles
here last night.
The dead man is Samuel jenkins OF
Sperryville, Rappahannock County, va.
He Succumbed to his injuries, which in
Guided a fractured skull, at o'clock
this morning. His two companions,
Gene Brown, driver of one machine,
and Robert Brown, a passenger, both
of Sperryville, were seriously hurt, but
it was said at the hospital this morn
ing that they will probably recover.
The car in which the three young
men we're riding got out of control on
Royal street and crashed into the ma
chine of Willis Derslinger, restaurant
proprietor of Front Royal. Derslmger,
his daughter, Mrs. Howard Henry, ano
Miss Ruth PETER, were bruised ana
scratched, but escaped serious INJURY
The two young women were rendered
unconscious by the impact.
Both automobiles were demollsneo.
Jenkins was riding on the front seat
and is said to have been thrown against
the metal frame of the windshield
fracturing his skull.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
GEN. PATRICK BACK
FROM SONS BEDSIDE
Called to Detroit by Lieut.. Patrick's
Illness-Other D. C. officials
Returning to Duties.

With the return of two officials this
morning and third expected later in
the week, the District government was
apparently celebrating old home week
today.
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chair
man of the Public Utilities Commission,
returned after few days spent at the
bedside of his son. Second Lieut. Breame
c. Patrick, who was stricken with ap-
pendicitis in Detroit Lieut.. Patrick
is we'll on the way to recovery, the
general reported on his return to the
District Building this morning.
Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent
of police, also was back at his desk
after week at the convention of the
International Association of Police
Chiefs at Duluth, MINI. Radio, tele-
type and crime statistics we're the prin-
cipal matters of discussion, he said
Duluth was extremely hot and the sur
rounding country parched and burned
by drought, he said.
DR.. William C. Fowler, District health
officer, who has been recuperating in
Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore,
Md, from an operation, will return to
Washington this afternoon. Acting
Health Officer Edward j. Schwartz will
drive his chief over to his home DIR.
Fowler expects to spend few days
at the seaside before returning to work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
BOY, 4, IS FATALLY
INJURED IN CRASH
Six Other Persons Injured in
Accidents in Which Cars
Are Overturned.

Four-year-old James T. Cox of 5239
Fifth street was fatally injured yester-
day afternoon and six other Washing
ton persons suffered minor hurts when
three automobiles overturned in trio
of accidents in nearby Virginia and
Maryland.
I The child died at Georgetown Hos
pital last night with fractured skull
received when. car driven by Miss
Betty Wilson, IS, of 812 Kennedy street,
failed to negotiate a curve on the
Georgetown-Lees pike, near Great
Falls, Va. Four others were injured in
the same mishap.
The boys father, John Cox 80, gave
blood for an unsuccessful TRANSMISSION
in an effort to save the youngsters life
after having been treated for lacera-
tions of the legs and arms. His mother,
Mrs, Catherine Cox, %. was admitted
to the institution for minor leg injuries.
Slight body bruises we're sustained by
Catherine Cox, 2-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cox, while Miss Wilson,
daughter of Police Capt. James E. Will
son of the ninth precinct, also received
bruises.
Mrs. Sadie Krouse. %, of 612 Mary
land avenue southwest, was injured
when a front tire of her machine blew
out on highway near Fairfax, Va, the
car overttrning when the tire gave way.
Passing motorists rushed her to
Georgetown Hospital, where she was
treated for a broken left arm and cuts
of the right arm Her condition is said
to be not serious
Severe injuries were suffered by Will
liam Woodward, colored, 80 years old.
of 1923 Eleventh street, when his car
struck a concrete culvert on the Rock
vile pike near Bethesda, Md. George
town Hospital attendants reported that
the man received a possible skull
fracture when the machine turned over
after the crash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
CHESAPEAKE BEACH
FERRY AUTHORIZED
Interstate Commerce Commission
Allows Route to Trippes
Bay.

The Chesapeake Beach Railway re-
ceived permission today from the Inter
state Commerce Commission to estab-
lish a new ferry service across Chesa-
peake Bay from Chesapeake Beach to
Trippe's Bay, on the Eastern Shore.
The Claybourne-Annap Ferry Co.
now operating over parallel line OPP
posed the Chesapeake Beach Co.'S pro-
ject, but the Maryland Land Public
Service Commission refused to make
any recommendation.
The Chesapeake Beach Co. expects
to expend $1,085,00 on the oonstruc-
ton of vessels and in the erection of
terminals. william v. Hodges, trustee
in control of the railroads securities,
has arranged the financing.
The commissions order requires the
Chesapeake Co. to begin rendering
service on or before January !, next.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
TWO MEN ARE ACCUSED
IN GAME OF NUMBERS

While on their way to police head
quarters today from Congress Heights.
where they had arrested John Williams,
colored, 80 years old, on a charge OF
connection with a numbers game, De-
tectives Hubert E. Brodie and T. C..
Bragg noticed colored man standing
at First and M streets southwest, a
bag he was holding arousing their
suspicion of something in need of
investigating.
Hand me that bag" said one of the
detectives, and the colored man nsde
quick response.
The latter was surprised, however,
when told he was under arrest, remark
ing: IT thought you was my boss"
Slips alleged to have represented
plays amounting to approximately $500
were found in the bag, and the colOred
man, who gave his name as Arthur
Washington and his address as 1872
Carrollburg place southwest, was booked
on charge Of an alleged violation Of
the gambling law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
FORGERY CHARGE ADDED
TO NON-SUPPORT CASE

Arrested to answer an indictment
charging him with failure to support
his minor child, Worthington- Merrill
Remson, % years old, giving his address
as 81 K street, learned of additional
charges of forgery filed against him
when he reached police headquarters.
Remson, who recently returned from
trip to Knoxville, Tenn, is alleged to
have forged the name of his brother in
law, to two checks for small sums
and passed them upon Joseph v. Will
liams of 301 C street and Douglas Love.
1881 K street
Questioned by Detective Bernard W.
Thompson, chief of the police check
squad, Remson is said to have admitted
the torgeries and to have said he passed
the checks because he was out of en-
ployment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
EMBREY PARTNER
IN ROBBERIES SOUGHT
Youth Bandit Accidentally Men,
lions "We,H Telling of
Crimes Here.

Headquarters detectives today were
searching for an accomp,ice of Paul
Calvin Embrey, 20-year-old leader of
the bandit trio charged with the rob-
berry of Mount Vernon Savings Bank
runner after Embrey is said to have in
advertently mentioned an assistant in
the 80 or more robberies he has adj
mitted perpetrating in recent months.
Headquarters Detective Sergt. Hubert
Brodie, in charge of the investigation of
Embrey's activities, said that during
Embrey's tour of the city to point out
the homes he robbed the youth men,
toned I'VE" in his explanation of the
robberies.
Questioned as to what he meant by
I'VE" Embrey replied 1t was lust q
habit of his to use the word" and de-
clared that he worked alone during the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
FATALLY SHOCKED
BY ELECTRIC DRILL
Boat Builder, Wading IN Six
Inches of Water Is EIec-
trocuted.

Wesley W. Werback, ir., 28-year-old
boat builder of 2512 @ street, was
electrocuted yesterday morning at
Edgewater Beach, Md, when he waded
into shallow water with an electric
drill in his hands to make some re-
pairs to a speedboat anchored in South
River. Funeral arrangements had not
been completed today.
Drill Declared Insulated.
The 6 inches of salt water in which
young Werback was standing when he
dropped must have grounded the drill
which was plugged into a 1l0-volt line
on shore. Neither Werback's father
nor his brother, who were on the shore
nearby, saw the drill touch the water
before be was stricken by the current
They said the drill apparently was well
insulated.
The father, William Wesley Wer-
back, and brother, Clarence E. Wer-
back, rushed into the water after the
young man and carried him ashore.
DR.. Frank Leech, also of Washington,
was unsuccessful in his attempts to re-
vive Werback.
DR.. Louis M Hopkins, coroner, pro-
nounced the death accidental.
Was at Beach for Week End.
Young Werback had gone to Edge
water Beach with the other members
of his family and a party of friends to
spend the week end.
In addition to his father and broth
er, young Werback is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Mildred Werback: sister,
Mildred Werback, and his mother, Mrs.
Clara E. Werback.
A native of Detroit, Werback moved
here with his family about IL years
ago. He attended school here and later
studied naval architecture for several
years in New York City. He had been
building boats here for several years
prior to his death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-11
SLAYER OF GIRL
DIES OF WOUNDS
Expires in Fredericksburg-De-
clares Both Had Tired of
Living.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


FREDERICKSBURG Va, August
11.-Earl G.. Turner, AZ, Sylvania In
dustrial Corporation worker, who shot
and killed the woman he loved, Miss
Margaret Limerick, 20, Fredericksburg
waitress, Friday, died at the Martha
Washington Hospital here shortly after
last midnight.
Turner, after shooting the girl turned
the pistol on himself and fired two shots
into his head.
He said both he and the girl were
tired of living He was married and
had a wife and son living in Phila-
delphia
Turner admitted shooting and killing
the girl when he was first taken to
the hospital, and while he never lost
consciousness. he later seemed to be
under the impression that she had not
been killed. He kept asking nurses to
tell the girl that he did not mean to
shoot her.
Efforts to locate relatives of the man
have so far failed, and the body is being
held at an undertaking establishment
until some message can be received
from his widow or some of his kin.
The double tragedy occurred on
road five miles from Fredericksburg
after the man and girl had been out
in his car all night.