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The Washington times., 1930-06-20
Church Homecoming
Observed at LUr1U

LURAY, Va, June 20.-Almost
200 old members attended the
special homecoming service at
the Baptist Church this week.
Two Of the oldest members made
three minute talks-Mrs. Bette
Mckin1, who is 50 years old, and
John N. Chapman, who is 81
years old.
Mrs. McKim was baptized by
Rev. Richard HerndoI1 in 1854.
Chapman was baptized by Rev.
Andrew Broaddus in 1857, and
has been a deacon for A3 years.
A basket Of flowers was sent to
Mrs. Mary YAger. aged SO, the
oldest member Of the church,
who is not able to leave her
home.
The Washington times., 1930-06-20

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over the river 20 feet below n
the car were also Mrs. Willisf
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
Chapter 27 HOUSEHOLD INTRIGUE

Pulling away the shawl which en- veloped her head. Thorne recog- nized Lucy, the housemaid.
 Stop moaning," he whispered sharply, giving her shake to en- phasize his meaning. NOW as the gurgles ceased; what are you do- ing proving about the house."
 T ain't up to no harm,' she pro- tested, her voice hoarse from fright. Just on my way to see-eh--'
 "Who?" as she paused. Getting no answer his right hand slid toward his hip pocket; he hated to threaten a woman but-Lucy caught the chili significance of the gesture.
 Don't shoot, mister" she en- treated, raising both hands in sup plication, and thereby releasing her hold on an envelope, until theG tightly clenched in her right hand. Thorne caught the paper Gs it flut- tered to the floor and turned it over. Elsa Chase's name was written ln pencil on the sealed envelope.
 Where did you get this?" he de- handed and his fingers closed on her arm with no gentle grip. T want the truth. or you go with me to police headquarters
 Lucy winced. I'll tell" she whined terrified at the mere sug-
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

, gestion of arrest Twas in Lam- bcrt's room.'
 And he gave it to you?"
 No" Her eyes fell and she plucked nervously at her shawl. Lambert wasn't there when I took l the envelope from under his pillow" When was that?'
 Just now" she admitted. q | heard Lambert creep out of the room, oh, long time ago."
 Did you put out the lights in the halls?' swiftly.
 "N-n-no," she protested, drawing in her breath with a sucking noise. If I hadn't promised I never would have moved out of bed tonight "Whom did you promise?" Her that wanted the note.'
 Miss Elsa Chaser" with patient persistence.
 'Ain't her name on it?" she in quired anXiously, Didn't I get the right note in the dark?" The envelope is addressed to Miss Chase" he responded But why were you carrying it Tn the op- posite direction from the staircase leading to her bedroom?'
 The question confused Lucy and for second she did not reply.
 But I wasn't" she said tears rolling down her cheeks. T was taking it to Mrs. Winslow."
 At this hour?" skeptically.
 Its Gods truth" She was plead ing now, sobs almost choking her voice. Mrs. Winslow promised Q hundred dollars if I found Lambert sneaking about. l saw him drop this letter after dinner, but I dassent try and get it till I was sure he l gene"
 And you could not wait until morning to give it to Mrs. Wins lcw?' asked Thorne curiously.
 T was just going to slip it under her door," explained Lucy, gulping back another sob. Shed a seen it the first thing in the morning."
 ''Go to your room,' Thorne direct
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
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. Synopsis: When Dr. Paul Kane, surgeon, is murdered by carbon monoxide gas poisoning, Jack Win I, Slow, adopted son of Arnold Win slow. is suspected as the murderer sand disappears. Elsa Chase, beauti- full crippled girl, whom Jack loves, is suspected of being an adventures by the elder Winslow. He brought Kane to examine her real condition and hired G. Thorne, detective, to probe her past but Thorne is now working on Kane's intruder. Mrs. Lawrence, a mysterious woman, dies suddenly without revealing the se- cret hold which she has over Elsa Chase. Thorne finds in her room part of a bill from a Chicago sani- tarium for care, and a clipping with the words, The Dancing Silhouette" A mysterious shadow of a human being, madly dancing, has been seen twice at the Winslow mansion, but it's source is still undiscovered. 7Thorne, late one night, climbs a tree beside the house, hoping to enter, through a window, an attic room of which the door is locked, and where he hopes to find some clue to the murder mystery. As he prepares to swing from the tree to the third floor window sill, light flashes on in the room and the mysterious dancing shadow again appears sil- houetted against the drawn window shade.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

most obstinate lines. You must let me be the best judge of his worth, she said Sometimes a servant can remain too long in one place, and, picking her words with care, T feel Lambert has outlived his usefulness as a butler"
 The steaming coffee cooled with the quantity of cream Winslow poured into it. He emptied his cup before replying, sipping it slowly.
 Do as you think best" He smiled across at his wife. Your judgment is always sound. Send Lambert to me when he returns" Winslow pushed aside his plate, the bacon and eggs untasted, and rose. Did you see Thorne before he left?"
 Last night? Mo-"
 q meant this morning; Thorne spent the night here" He looked up and caught his wife's startled ex- pression. What is the matter :? Are you ill?"
 For a second she could not get her breath to answer. "I'll be all right in a minute. A glass of sherry, Arnold" and so saying she slipped back in her chair in dead faint.
 Copyright, D. Appleton S Co.)
 Why does Mrs. Winslow faint at the news of Thorne's presence in the house the night before?
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

He said the disease was the most frequent chronic pulmonary ailment and that many who have per- sistent cough are entirely free from tuberculosis, but are sufferers from "bronchiectasis' and inflammation oi the bronchial walls.
 Some individuals, Dr. Hedblom said, had dilation of the bronchial walls dating from their birth, but that symptoms of bronchiectasis ap- peared only after some bronchial af- lection.
 As evidence of the unsuspected commences of this disease, Dr. AL ton Ochsner, of Tulane University, said that 95 per cent of apparently normal students at the University of Wisconsin who complained of fre- quent bronchitis were found to be suffering from bronchiectasis. He warned of the importance of clear ing up low-grade infections of the bronchial tree and the accessory sinuses of the nose in order to pre- vent it.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

Tell the temperature &C., curately and quickly. Large easily read numer- als. Black Japanned holder with hook for hanging on wall.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
PANAMA MONKEYS
 MALARIA SUBJECTS
Disease Apparently Cannot Be
 Passed on to Man

Philadelphia, Oct. IT R)-The monkeys of Panama have malaria, but it is no menace to mankind, Dr. Herbert c. Clark, director of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, told the American Congress of Surgeons in session here.
 Dr. Clark said that ten United States army recruits had volunteer eG to aid in tests to determine whether that type of malaria could spread from monkey to man. For weeks, he stated, the rockies" who had just arrived from the United States, had been isolated from all other insects than mosquitoes in screened houses. where they were bitten almost continuously by mos quitoes which had fed on monkeys suffering from malaria. None of the men contracted the disease.
 Operations by which he said re- lief could be obtained for "bron- chiectasis," disease seldom heard of by most persons was described by pr. Carl A. Hedblom of Chicago.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17


 teen divisions of one minute each. A pointer revolves around the dial at the rate of one revolution in f1f- teen minutes. or one quarter of play. This pointer is driven by an electric mechanism which is syn- chronized with a control clock at the sideline timekeeper's bench. When the timekeeper throws the switch at the beginning of each quarter, the small control clock and the large spectators clock on the scoreboard begin telling time from zero. When the game is interrupt ed for time out, the timekeeper merely puts his switch to "off" and both clocks stop until play is re- stunned.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

was used as a general dump for dis carded articles. for in one corner Thorne saw a dozen or more wooden shoe trees and picked one up. The rust on the steel joint betokened age, as did the black smut on the wooden arch, and he tossed it back in the box.
 Going over to the door, he switched off the light and shot the bolt noiselessly back, then softly, very softly, turned the short knob of the lock and drew open the door. inch by inch. Peering into the inn penetrable blackness of the attic, he waited, but no sound disturbed the silence. Shutting the door of Jack s workshop carefully the detective crept along, headed for the second story, but this time he chose the stairs instead of the elevator.
 Walls inclosed the stairs and a door, opening into the servants wing of the house, gave admittance to them.
 With no light to guide him, only his abnormal sense of locality, he moved on down the hall, keeping in the center of the heavy strip of car pet; he dared not run the risk of pumping against a bedroom door and thus awakening the sleeping oc- cupant.
 Only by turn in the carpet strip, hn tal1 the main hallway. There he paused, perpleXed, for it also was in dark ness, contrary to the custom of the house, judging from the remarks Arnold Winslow had let fall during one of their conversations as to his wifes terror of darkness and fire and their habit of keeping the halls lighted throughout the night. His bedroom lay, as he remembered it, to the left and he faced in that di- rection just as sound to the right reached him and he swung about.
 Thorne grew rigid. Was the per- son, not five yards from him, ap- preaching or going in the opposite di- rection? One minute, two minutes passed, then Thorne took the initi- ative and advanced along the hall, his "creepers" making no sound. Something loomed out of the darkness ahead and his out-flung arms closed about a womans form. His hand across her mouth untitled her terrified scream to a gurSle, and half lifting, half dragging her along he entered the open door of va cant bedroom and switched on the light as she dropped to the floor at his feet.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
Electric Clock Tells
 Time at Harvard Games

Cambridge, Mass, Oct. TIA huge electric clock, the first electric timing device used in American football, has been installed here for the Harvard-Army game tomorrow It answers the thousands of queries heard at every gridiron classic, How many minutes to play?"
 The clocks dial is ten feet in diameter and is marked off in fif-
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

Two new saints were recently canonized by Pope Plus. They were Lucy F'ilippini, founder of the Filppini Sister order, and Catherine Thomas, Spanish run. Frllers
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
NOTICE RED CROSS ANNUAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given of the an- nual meeting of the New Britain Chapter, American Red Cross, to be rooms, 300 Main street at o'clock on Wednesday. October p, 1930. All members are cordially invited to at- tend.
 NEW BRITAIN CHAPTER, :!
 AMERICAN RED CROSS,
 Ralph H. Benson, Secretary.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

In fitting up one of the present. day giant liners, 4,000 mattresses are required.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-21
GOOD WEATHER
AIDS HUNT FOR
MISSING FLYER

LAS VEGAS, New, Jan. 81. U.P'
The best flying and searching
weather since Maurv Graham, air
mail pilot disappeared January II,
greeted searchers today.
Billiards and snowstorms, with
poor visibility, which have slowed
the search, were completely abatcd
today and clear skies marked the
territory where the flyer is sup
posed to be down.
A rumor that Graham S plane had
been seen east Of Phoebe, Nevada,
will be checked by eight army planes
which will scout that district. The
army planes will then proceed to
Milford, Utah, and the Sewer lake
region.
Another party Of three planes left
Cor the Colorado river valley and
Boulder canyon.
Three other parties of two planes
each were searching between Ely,
Nevada and Phoebe; Milford II d
Las Vegas, and between Phoebe and
Las Vegas.
On its return tomorrow the Salt
Lake City party will search either
side of the charted air mail route
Cor a distance of IS miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-21
EMPLOYEES FOR
SENATE PAID BY
TARIFF LEAGUE
More Scandal Dug Up By
Lob by Investigating
Committee.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. W.P)-Em-
ployees of the senate finance com
mittee and the house ways and
means committee We're on the pay
roll of the American tariff league
high tariff organization, the senate
lobby investigating COMMITTEE learn,
ed today.
Records of the league showed sew.
eral payments to Edward Nelson
Dingley, finance committee tariff
expert and Clayton Moore, clerk of
the house committee.
The payments to Dingley, who
was listed as the organization
Washington correspondent, totaled
81 ,54l from 1924 to 1923 inclusive
Dingley is son of former Repre-.
sentative Nelson Dingley of Maine
after whom the Dingley tariff was
named.
w. Warren Barbour, treasurer of
The league, said the payments were
made for articles written by Dingley
for the leagues publication.
Senator Blaine, Republican, Wis
COnSln, charged blHSley IurnlSneO
information to the league about the
activities of the committee before
it was made public.
Blaine read a telegram to Dingley
from Arthur l.. Faubel, secretary of
the league, which said:
"Your list of subcommittee chair.
men received this morning. Disa
grecs violently with all your in.
formation"
"Dingled evidently had submitted
list of the subcommittee before
they were made public" Blaine said
Blaine asked Barbour for copy
of the subcommittee lists submitted
by Dingley. Barbour referred the
question to Faubel, who was in tho
committee room.
81 threw it away" Faubel said.
The leagues books showed nav.
ments of $l,S66 to Clayton Moore
of the house committee durino the
same period, Moore also was listed
on the book as "Washington cor.
respondent"
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-21
FORCES Line UP
IN CONGRESS ON
LIQUOR BATTLE
House VETS Determine
To Force Action Upon
Measures.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. W.H-
Stimulated by several weeks of rap
id fire prohibition debate, vets and
drys in congress went to work to-
day on the programs by which they
hope to advance their respective
causes during the present session.
Two committee dominated by
drys, one in the house and one in the
senate, settled down to writing part
ment recommendations into law.
Meanwhile, the wet bloc in the
house completed plans for the most
systematic anti-prohibtion campaign
it ever has conducted.
A house judiciary subcommittee,
under the leadership of Represent
ative Christopherson, Republican,
North Dakota, dry, summoned
Chairman George Wickersham, Dean
Roscoe Pound and former Senator
William Kenyon, of the law enforce
ment commission, to discuss the
pending bill to increase the powers
of United States commissioners to
try petty liquor law violators.
A similar committee in the senate,
with Senator King, Democrat, Utah,
also a dry, as its chairman, held its
first meeting to organize for consid-
GRAFTON of a bill to transfer the pro-
hibition bureau from the treasury to
the justice department.
Both of these bills were requested
by the President and his commission
on law enforcement. The two com
mittees planned to do their work
in closed session.
Vets To Meet
The house wet block decided at
meeting late yesterday to hold I'M
official public hearings of it's own on
the entire prohibition question I'M
less one of the regularly constituted
committees of congress throws its
doors open for a satisfactory airing
of the present stat us of Volstead
law enforcement.
The vets have authorized their
executive committee to petition
Chairman Graham of the house ju.
dietary committee to hold open hear
ings on some of their measures
Representative Linthicum, Democrat
Maryland, who was reelected chair.
man of the unofficial anti-prohibi
tion committee, was authorized to
appoint an executive committee rep
resenting as nearly as possible all
states with wet representatives in
congress.
The senate continued work today
on the tariff bill. The house took
up four bills which have received ap.
proval of the rules committee and
are expected to pass without diff.
Guilty.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-21
RIVER FARLEY
STILL WAITING
FOR DONOVAN

RENO, New, Jan. 81. W.P>-The
final conference TO bring about an
amicable settlement of the points
tf controversy on the Boulder dam
project will get under way in earn
est here tomorrow.
Questions of division of water al
lotted the lower basin states of the
Colorado river, division Of power and
division of revenue from sale of
water and power are major issues.
Another important issue is 4 rea-
sonable rate to charge for power
and the million acre feet of water
demanded by California.
The question of division of water
allotted the lower basin states has
never been I'D iusted while the up
per basin states have already agreed
with the lower basin group on how
Much water should 90 to each group.
Nevada has agreed that 100000
acre feet will supply the needs of
that state but California and Ari-
IONA are still at sword points on
the matter.
The conference marked time yes
terday and today awaiting the ar
rival of w. j. Donovan, former as
sistant United States attorney gen
eral. He is expected to arrive early
in the morning and all representa-
tivcs and counsels will meet with
him at breakfast. All sessions have
been adjourned until s n. m. tomor-
row.
1t is not considered likely by those
at the conference that DIR. Ray Ly.
man Wilbur, secretary of interior,
will attend any of the Reno sessions.
1t is believed, however, that he
will keep in close touch with Don
ovan and that if the presence Of the
department executive is considered
likely to bring about a settlement
he will journey to Reno. He is now
at his home in Palo Alto.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-21
Victim OF Crash
Once Lived Here

Sunday nights tragedy at Ocean
side, when 16 persons lost their
lives in the T. A. T.-Maddux crash,
had local touch in the death of
Cedric Brown, who with his wife
was among the victims of the dis
aster.
Brown formerly lived in this city,
about 10 years ago, being connected
with typewriter agency on Main
street. He was unusually popular
with the then younger set" and was
held in high esteem by his associ-
ates. He had visited the valley on
frequent occasions following his de-
parture to the coast and was here
about year ago.
At the time of his death Brown
was assistant to j. l.. MadGux, of
the Y. A. T.-Maddux air line, own.
ers of the fatal plane.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-21
BY WEBB MILLER
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, Jan. 81. U.P)-The call
to new era of world peace and
raval reduction was sounded today
by George V, Britain's "Sailor King
to the leading naval powers of the
world.
The five power naval conference
OF 1880 was formally opened by the
king in the royal gallery of the
house of lords with an address to the
plcnipotentiaries of England and
her empire, France, the United
States, Japan and Italy, in which he
extended warm greeting and heart
felt wishes for the success of their
efforts.
The leading delegate of each ma
tion responded with an address
pledglng sincere effort to coop.
crate in the move for world peace.
The speakers sounded the keynote
of "A desire not only to limit naval
dlsarmaments, but to reduce them.
and Secretary of State Henry l..
Stimson, Of the United States, EN-
phasized the feeling that eve do
not look upon this effort towards
disarmament as final"
In addition to the five great
powers, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, the Irish Free State. India
and South Africa were represented
as integral parts of the British en-
pire.
The king, standing by his golden
throne facing the horseshoe table at
which the delegates were seated,
spoke into a gold and silver micro.
phone for his words to be broadcast
to the whole world.
1t was his first public speech
since the illness last November that
almost cost his life. His plea had
dramatic force from the fact that
he made the British navy his ca
ieer ana commanded ships before he
was called to the throne. 1t was
Nihg George who, when Duke of
DIRK in 1901, sounded the call.
wake up, England" After a tour
OF the world in which he studied
the empires naval needs. II Ind n
great effect on the naval develon.
ment of the worlds greatest mari.
time power.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-21
Abandon Effort
To Get Treasure

JUNEAU. Alaska Jan. 81. U.H-
After eight weeks of futile effort
an attempt to salvage millions of
dollars worth of gold bullion lost in
the steamer Islander catastrophe %
years ago was abandoned today.
Wiley Brothers sea salvors of
Seattle announced that they had lost
$4,000 worth of equipment when
a work barge was swamped by trea.
cherous Taku Inlet winds, and that
they were forced to abandon their
efforts until the summer.
The salvors had been seeking to
reach the hulk of the steamer, Is
lander, which sank off Douglas Is.
land in 1901 costing many lives, and
taking to the bottom vast cargo
of gold being brought back bv
miners who were returning from the
Alaskan gold fields.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-21
Ancient Suit Is
Finally Settled

A local case that has been hang
ing fire in the courts for over 10
years has been settled by decision
of the district court of appeals for
the fourth appellate district Of
California, considering the appeal
from the decision of the superior
court of Imperial County on the yer.
diet rendered in the ease of the
Valley Lumber company, plaintiffs,
versus James c. Davis, director gen
eral of railroads, defendant, in
which the court decreed that the
Judgment of the county superior
court be affirmed. District Judge
Sloane rendered the Judgment.
This appeal was originally taken
to the supreme court from i judg-
ment of the superior court of I'm
perial county in favor of the de-
PENDANT on az action brought by
the plaintiffs, to recover damages
for the destruction of a Ford auto.
mobile, valued at 5000, through a
collision with train of the South.
ern Pacific company, while said
railroad was being operated under
the control of the United States
government, during the war period.
The original decision had been
rendered by Judge NJ. w. Conkling,
with j. S. Ross and r. b. Whitelaw,
attorneys for the plaintiffs, and
Messrs Hickcox and Trude for the
defendant.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-21
Bingham Demands
Better Air Lanes

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. U,H-
Senator Hiram Bingham, chairman
OF the National Aeronautic Associa.
ton, has placed blame for the
Transcontinental Air Transport.
Maddux crash in California, ON lack
of emergency fields and inadeoua-
tely lighted landing fields.
"This terrible disaster is con-
crete evidence that more properly
lighted fields are an absolute nee.
essity for the protection of life, -
he said, "and that airplane crashes
should be taken out of the realm
of unexplained mysteries"
Bingham urged early action by
congress on his bill to require full
publicity for the results of govern
mental Investigations of all serious
airplane accidents.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-21
Arctic Ahead
On Sunshine

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 81. U.P)
Captain Donald Macmillan, ex-
plorer, doesn't come to California
in winter for sunshine-he gets it
hotter and longer in the Arctic
Circle.
within nine degrees Of the
North Pole we get more sunshine
than you do in Los Angeles" the
explorer, who first visited the
Artic in 1908 with Peary, said
here yesterday. 1.-THE reason is
that we have six months Of day
light and the sun shines "a hc,Irs
n day"
Captain Macmillan recently
picked 700 varieties of wild flow
ers within the Arctic Circle, he
said.