davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-30

To go back to last week when
Mrs. Edward DOnnally, of Win
ter Park, Fla, was here, Mrs.
McBlair Lloyd entertained for
her on Friday afternoon. With
a party every day and two on
Friday, the time must have gone
very quickly and pleasantly for
the guest of honor, who was
Mrs. Donnally on almost every
occasion. Mrs. LlOyd's guests
We're: Miss Burdella Davis, Mrs.
NJ X. Free of Portland, Maine,
Mrs. Harry Grier, Miss Mildred
Causey, Mrs. Paris r. Carlisle,
Mrs. A. Donnell Marshall and
Mrs. Robert P. Davis. Contract
bridge was the game.
%
On Friday evening Mrs. Paris
r. Carlisle entertained for Mrs.
Donnally, and a very pleasant
evening was spent with a graci-
Gus hostess. The guests besides
Mrs. Donnally were: Mrs. Harry
Grier, Mrs. A. Donnell Marshall,
Miss Maria Causey, Miss Mil
dred Causey, Mrs. McBlair
Lloyd, Miss Burdella Davis, Mrs.
Frank Grier, Mrs. Robert Davis,
Mrs. John C. Truitt, Miss Ida
Draper, and Mrs. Charles Var
ney.
%
Of course Mrs Robert p. Dav-
is luncheon on Saturday for the
out of town visitors was delight
ful and ended d week of gaiety.
Her guests were Mrs. Edward
Donnally, of Winter Park, Fla,
Mrs. NJ X. Free and daughter,
Miss Edith Free, OF Portland,
Maine, Mrs. Lena Adkins,
Richardson, of Dover, Miss Bur-
della Davis, Mrs. Harry Grier,
Mrs. McBlair Lloyd, Mrs. Paris
r. Carlisle, Miss Marie Causey,
Mrs. A. Donnall Marshall, and
Mrs. Harry Humes.
@
The Wednesday eve ing
Bridge Club met with Miss Bur-
della Davis this week.
@
The Mems, Monday Night
Bridge Club was the guest Of
c. d. Abbott this week.
%
The 1920" Bridge Club had
Mrs C. d. Abbott for its hostess
on Monday evening.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-30

Less than three per cent of in
carcerated criminals can play musi-
cal instruments.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-30

Making and selling toy balloons is a
100000 business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09

The humor Of this play, which
great part of the audience seemed to
find excessively amusing, is of the
type where one of the characters
says, Don't roast him-he's half
baked already" and the principals
run up and down stairs and tell
their wives and flancees and such like
to shut up" Being but four main
thespians in this. by the time they
have misunderstood each other for
the nth time and have yelled shut
up for the nteenth. one could will
ingly tie the whole business up in
satchel and hurl it precipitously in
the Potomac.
The audience, however. to our left
summed up the play as cute" and
the member in the front row, who
occupied two chairs instead of one,
seemed to be laughing unreStrained-
ly. Two ladies farther back an
nounced that its an excellent play
for amateurs" So the verdict may
stand as one wishes.
What happens throughout these
two acts and seven scenes is that a
husband and wife and a fiance and
fiancee decide to find out if the one
is quite what the other thinks. The
upshot Of it all being. of course. that
he, or she, is. But since it takes a
rough two hours to decide 1t, there
are yards of entanglements and de-
movements to wade through and an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
LINDBERGH PROCESS SERVER
KNOCKED DOWN BY MECHANIC
Jubilant Summons Bearer Climbs Onto
Plane, Delivering Paper, but Loses
Aplomb as Blow Topples Him OF.

said that Lindbergh had deposited a
check with bureau for clippings on his
Atlantic flight to be delivered to his
mother. When the amount of the check
he issued for the clippings was used up,
they still continued to arrive.
Pontoons Cost 10 Miles Per Hour.
The Lindberghs few down the East
River to the Status Of Liberty and
back. then repeat the trip, total of
about 40 miles. Mrs. Lindbergh did no
plotting.
Il was pleased with the performance
and more pleased with the speed" said
the colonel. II expected to lose quite
a little speed, but, according to my air
speed indicators, I lost about 10 miles
an hour"
He maintained an average speed of
1870 miles an hour.
The new pontoons were tested for the
first time when the plane alighted on
the water at the airport when the trip
was finished.
The colonel said he was still unde-
cided as to the route he would take for
the flight to the Orient.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
CHARGE WITNESSES
WERE GIVEN GIFTS
Attorneys for Pantages Say
Girls Were Also Entertained
by Investigators.
Sy the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO. Calf. June Gifts
Of silk stockings and entertainment OF
two girl witnesses, while they were held
in technical custody in Los Angeles were
stressed by attorneys Ter Alexander
PantageS theater magnate, and three
other defendants on trial on morals
charges today.
Helen Livingston. IT, told a story yes
terday following closely that Of Lydia
Nitto, that they were brought here for
hotel party october 30 by William
.Jobelmann and Olive Clark Day, al
legged operators of a Hollywood girl
market" and received SIS each.
Miss Livingston said she was the COM
panion of Jesse H. Shreve, wealthy real
estate man. and Miss Nitto was with
Pantages. Shreve. Jobelmann and the
Day woman are defendants with Pan
tageS.
Defense attorneys drew from Miss
Livingston the statement she was given
silk stockings and dress by woman
investigators Of the Los Angeles district
attorneys Office. Both she and Miss
Nitto were taken to shows, she said, and
entertained at the investigators homes.
Miss Livingston denied she had been
promised freedom when this case Is
done"
Miss Nitto, who had testified Pantages
was intimate with her, agI1 said she
had at first denied this to estigators.
bat changed her story after she had
spent three days in the Los Angeles
Juvenile Hall.
Didn't you tell Mrs Day you hoped
thct by changing your story you would
Lc allowed to remain away from Juve-
nile Hal?" Lorrin Andrews, defense at
torney, asked.
NO, sir"
Miss Nitto said she had net been
given clothing while she was held in
Los Angeles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
CONVICT ADMITS
KILLING ROTHSTE|N
Police, However, Say Comics
sion Is Merely Effort to Get
Ride to New York.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 9.-Police today
expressed the opinion that Matthew
Guidera, %, Ii Jail in Los Angeles for
stabbing. had confessed to the murder
OF Arnold Rothstein to get free ride
to New York Matthew'S brother,
Thomas, was of the same opinion.
Thomas lives at Old Westbury.
Guidera is the sixth man to confess
to killing the gambler. At least five
have proved false.
Guidera made a written confession
that he shot Rothstein on May S.
1928, because Rothstein failed to pay
him a note of 100000 given him fer
transporting narcotics between New
York and Chicago.
Rothstein was shot November 4, 1928
The gun used in the murder. Guidera
said. was given him by Evan Chasserini
a restaurateur of East Fifty-fifth street
Chasserini told reporters he knew
Guidera, but ridiculed the statement
about the gift of gun.
Guidera was sentenced to three years
In Jail for sta.bing a girl at a beach
party. He has already served 20 months
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
SEEK GAS IN CANADA

MONTREAL, Quebec, June 9 Up
Active drilling operations in the natu-
raj gas fields along the south shore of
the ST Lawrence River have started.
with one company already at work and
two others known to be contemplating
the erection Of machinery before the
end of the Summer.
Approximately a million acres of
land have been taken over, stretching
from Lotbiniere County as far as St.
Hyacinthe.
The movements OF the larger comra-
MES have been kept more or less secret.
but the three most actively interested
at present appear to be the Hope En-
cheering Co. the Mexican Seaboard
Oil Co. and the South Shore Oil Lands,
Limited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, June "a process
server had a tender jaw today because
he was punched after serving sum-
mons in a civil suit against Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh.
The colonel and Mrs. Lindberch were
in the cockpits Of their Lockheed plane
at North Beach, Queens, ready to take
off on a test flight with their n WY at
tached pontoons yesterday afternoon,
when a process server climbed on the
craft and handed paper to the colonel.
The flyer grinned, took 1t and put it
in his pocket.
Mechanic Swings Fist.
The process server was happy for a
moment only. ITS cinch TO serve
Lindbergh." he said. Hes easier than
the little FLOWS"
A mechanic with big grimy fist
swung and toppled the process server
with one blow.
From friends of the Lindberghs, 1t
was learned that the suit was initiated
by clipping bureau. The same source
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09

juries were caused, police said, by fren-
zied efforts Of hundreds to get clear
Of the wreckage
Members of the 115th Engineers Corps,
acting as special police, we're unable to
restore order for almost an hour, due
to the crush of spectators, who rushed
to the scene. Ambulances were slowed
down in making the trip to and from
the park, due to the mass of automo-
biles parked on the single road leading
TO the grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
RED is ARRESTED
ON CAPITAL WARRANT
Labor Department Charges Seattle
Man Advocates Overthrow
of Government.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE. June 9.-Armed with a
warrant from the Labor Department in
Washington, D. c.. police arrested Leon
Chaser, secretary Of the Friends Of the
Soviet Union of Washington and Alaska
in his home here early today.
Although told by the prosecutor that
the Labor Department warrant was Suf-
f1cient, police needed an objection Of
Glaser'S attorney and did not search
the house. Chaser is charged with ad-
vocating overthrow of the Government
by force of arms and with distributing
literature advocating its overthrow
GlaSer'S attorney, Mark Litchman,
said he would start habeas corpus pro-
ceedings today.
Chaser has been delegate of the Tai
lors' Union local here TO the Central
Labor Council for 10 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
so PERSONS INJURED
AS STAND COLLAPSES
Thirteen Taken to Hospitals as
Seats Give Way at Pageant
in Gary, Ind.
BY the Associated Press.

BY Lne NSSOCIdLGu FFeSS.
GARY, Ind, June 9-More than so
persons were injured last night when
a grandstand. seating almost 500 spec
tators. at q pageant in Marquette Park
collapsed.
The accident temporarily interrupted
the final event of Gary's twenty fifth
anniversary celebration.
Thirteen persons we're taken to hos
pitfalls, their injuries serious. About 40
others were tfeated at f1rst-aid stations
on the grounds.
City authorities said the heavy rains
OF the last few days probably under
mined the foundations of the stand,
which was set up on a sand bank over
looking the pageant. Many Of the in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington Thealers.

endless assortment Of tears and for
giveneSSeS.
The teas, as matter of fact, are
provided quite perfectly by Daphne
WILSON, the wife is almost
credible in the hands of Roberta
Beatty, and John Warburton is quite
adequate when he remembers his
lines. Raymond Bramley has. how
ever. seemed better when not so live
ly, although he provided the cheer
Test note Of the evening by talking
about a "buSybozzy."
E. DE S. MEL CHER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
Forests Burn in Canada.

EDMONTON, Alberta, June 9 (P)-
Forest fires which smouldered through
Northern Alberta over the week end
were whipped to a raging blaze YES
terday as they reached the heavy tim
Der areas near Edison, Marlboro, Wolf
Creek and Spirit River. More than
200 men are battling the flames.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
Maryland Barn Burns.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
MEADOWS, Md, June 9.-Fire OF
unknown origin yesterday destroyed a
barn belonging to James A. Richard
son. causing a loss of apprc ximately
$500. A crop of hay stored in the barn
burned quickly and the structure was
consumed before the Marlboro fire
company arrived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
FRAT DELEGATE NAMED

dyattsV1IIe Youth to Represent
Duke at Convention.
Special Dispatch to The Star
EVANSVILLE, Md, June 9-Nich-
olas Orem, jr.. son of County Supt
of Schools and Mrs. Nicholas Orem
who recently was elected president of
the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity at
Duke University, later in the Summer
will ! or to Seattle, Wash, to attend
the ma -Ional convention Of his chap
ter in the capacity of delegate.
Young Orem arrived home from
Duke University a few days ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
MRS. JAMES J. DAVIS
HURT IN AUTO CRASH
Companion Of Wife of Senator
From Pennsylvania Also Re-
ceives Slight Injuries.

Bruised in an automobile accident
near Frederick, Md, Mrs. James J.
Davis, wife of the Senator from Penn
sylvania. today was confined 10 her
home at 3012 Massachusetts, avenue.
Her niece and companion, Miss Esther
Jones, also suffered from shock.
Mrs. Davis and Miss Jones were &c
moved to Frederick City Hospital after
the accident and then returned to Wash
ington. They were en- route to Gettys-
burg, Pa, where Senator Davis was
speaking, when the mishap occurred.
chauffeur was at the wheel OIL the
Davis car. when 1t collided with a milk
truck, operated by Rufus Brendenburg,
who lives near Frederick.
American tourists travel service in
foreign countries amounts to over
$500, 900 900 annually.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09

OF the b a n d
leaders of the
A m e r i C a n
stage" An old
fashioned COM
edy. built on a
series of marital
miX-upS. it was
rewarmed a n d
served last night
by the National
Players, enjoyed
by some and not
50 m u c h by
others. and still
had as its chief
virtue the fact
that it went off
to its own par
ticular bed at
the early hour
NJ l0.OS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
GANDHl REACHES BARDOLI
Indian Nationalist Leader Begins
Conference With Committee.

BOMBAY, June R.-Mahatma
Gandhi arrived today from Bardoli to
confer with the Working Committee of
the Indian Nationalist Congress on his
forthcoming visit to the Second Round
table Conference in London. He was
accompanied by Pandit Jewaharlal
Nehru and Abdul Gaffur Khan, known
as the Frontier Gandhi."
In order to avoid a demonstration
he detrained at a suburban station
and walked three miles to his resi-
dence, going into conference at once
with leaders from various parts of the
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
Rumored Envoy to Vatican.

MADRID. June 9 DIT was ru-
mored yesterday that the government
has offered the post Of Ambassador to
to the Vatican to Manuel Burgos, for
mer Conservative minister and leader
OF the Constituencies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
ENDORSED FOR PRESIDENT
James Hamilton Lewis Receives
Backing of Chicago Democrats.

CHICAGO, June 9 (Pl.-United
States Senator James Hamilton Lewis
was unanimously Endorsed yesterday by
the Cook County Central Committee
as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for the presidency in 1882.
His name will be entered In the States
preferential primary next April.
Local Democratic leaders said they
expected down-State congressional dis
tricts to follow suit. National Com
mitteeman Michael L. Igoe. who pre-
sented Senator Lewis name at the
committee meeting said he was quail
fed not only as statesman, but as
a soldier and lawyer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09

The South American wild dog, about
the size of fox. has a peculiar habit
of running for hours in a course de-
scribing the figure eight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
Whispering Friends"
Not I'm to National Standard,

EVEN the stanchest of George NJ.
Cohan's admirers will pr badly
admit that Whispering Friends is
not the best of his maneuverS as ''one
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

lists as national nuisances that must be
abated. There are many fiery young
men among the Fascists; indeed. one
is almost led to believe that the major
ity of them are fiery young men. A
word Of encouragement from their
leader would doubtless be sufficient
to send them on the warpath in de-
fiance Of the Presidential decree.
But Hitler gives no word of encour-
agement. Instead, he issues a strict
and emphatic command for all Fas.
cists to be good and to obey linden
burg to the letter. He has announced
from the start that his followers will
keep strictly within the law. but that
they will do all in their power to de-
stroy or change the laws. And so now
Hitler declares that lie is preparing to
go before the German courts with
strong argument that the Hindenburg
decree is unconstitutional and inef-
fective.
When Fascism gets a hearing in
court there would seem to be a fine
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17


that some of the moLey is coming out
of their own pockets. Then, Senator
Bingham thinks, they would call
halt and taxes could be reduced.
THE senator admits he realizes his
proposal will be extremely rnpopu-
lar" but he thinks that at the bottom
of federal, state and municipal ex-
travagance in this country is the feel
ing of large. element in the elector-
ate that when it votes taxes 1t votes
away some one else's money. AS long
as that feeling exists. there is no in
centive, Senator Bingham believes on
the part of those who entertain it to
curb their demand for tax-breeding
services.
Leaders of congress look with little
favor on Mr.. Bingham's proposal. He
Is the first, in discussions of the ap-
preaching $700.000,000 deficit, to sug-
gest tax demands be made on smaller
incomes. Some legislators said they
would favor increasing the levies on
bigger incomes, while leaders of both
parties and in both houses have In
sisted greater taxes will not be neces-
sary.
President Hoover believes an in
crease will not be necessary If con-
gress restricts appropriations. Re-
publican Leader Tilson of the house
thinks an increase is not now needed
and should not become mandatory.
Members of both major parties have
promised to cooperate to keep down
expenditures at the next session, thus
eliminating need for more money
through increased taxation.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Nicholas Longworths Death Ends Long and Honorable
Political Career-Senator Binghams Taxation
Idea-Cabinet Changes Unlikely.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD

By degrees, however, governors gen.
eral came to take less active part in
politics. Only once in recent years has
governor general acted against the
advice Of the premier. When w. L.
NJ. King was defeated in the house Of
commons year after a general cleo
ton, Lord Byng declined to dissolve
parliament and called on Arthur
Meighen to form a government. When
Meighen was defeated within a week
an election had to follow. The con-
stitutional issue-the right of gov
ernor general to decline the advice
Of the premier to dissolve parliament
was one of the main features Of the
campaign and the return of Mr.. King
to office made it certain that never
again would governor general re-
ject premier's advice.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17
chance for the safe broadcastlns of
propaganda.

THE conviction of Albert B. Fall.
4 secretary of the interior in the
Harding administration, on a charge
of accepting bride in the oil lease
scandals, has been upheld by the
Court of Appeals of the District of
Columbia.
At the same time the court sustained
the conviction of Harry NJ. BIackmer,
oil operator. for contempt of court in
refusing to leave a self-imposed exile
in France to testify in the oil trial.
Unless the United States Supreme
court permits Mr.. Fall to take an 'ap-
peal to its bar, the mandate of the
District court swill be handed down
within Is days and the former cab
met officer will be taken into Gus
tody to serve a one-year prison SEN
tence and pay fine of 100000. Mr..
Blackmer's sentence is a fine of $780,
600.
Told Of details of the courts &C.
ton in upholdine the one-year i'm
prisonment and 100000 fine assessed
against him for bribery In connection
with the California naval oil leases.
the former secretary of the interior
said his final decision in the matter
of another appeal would not be made
until he had received a copy Of the
courts opinion from his lawyers in
Washington.
Mr.. Fall is now in seclusion at his
ranch at Three Rivers, N. NJ, the same
ranch on which he spent 100000 cash
received in sachel from Edward L.
Doheny. wealthy oil man, almost ten
years ago. Mr.. Fall collapsed during
his last trial and is supposed to be in
feeble health.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17


purchased home on the South river
near Annapolis.
The regiment of midshipmen gave
the retiring superintendent round
of cheers in front of his home. Re-
greet at his passing was expressed by
Maurice Hibschmann. regimental COM
mander, and delegation represent
ing the Annapolis city administration
and various civic organizations pre-
sented a resolution praising him for
coming to the relief of the city during
the severe drought of last summer.
DRIME MINISTER LANG, of New
South Wales. In Australia, is ex.
tremely anti-English and he could
scarcely have chosen a more pointed
way to indicate his antipathy than by
scoring the solid English virtue about
paying ones bills. There was general
CONSERVATION in London when recent
ly he repudiated the payment due to
be made In that city at once of inter
est charges amounting to $3,645,000.
London's CONSERVATION has been
changed to something like exultation
by the announcement of Prime Min
lister Scullin, of the Commonwealth
government that his government
would take over the New South Wales.
obligation and bring suit against the
state to recover.
Mr.. Lang is seemingly taking leaf
from the book of some southern Amer
lean states which. many years ago.
were guilty of number of repudia.
lions.
&c. 1881. Western Newspaper Union.)
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

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