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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-18

Reed and a few friends greeted her.
 Don't look at me-" she said. My hair is a terrible muss."
 Kansas City, Mo, Dec 1S-(UP) Nell Quiniand Donnelly, mill lionaire garment manufacturer. hatless and dishevelled, was picked up on an Argentine, Kans, street to-day where she and her negro chauffeur had been released by kidnappers who held them for $76,000 ransom.
 She was unharmed. though she had been threatened with blinding if ransom was not paid.
 Ransom had not been paid, how ever, her relatives announced.
 1T didn't sleep wink" she said, "during the 36 hours we were held prisoner"
 "The bed in the room where they kept me was too filthy.
 That place was the digtiest hole I ever saw"
 Tt was small house near Kan sas City, Kas.
 "No, the kidnappers didn't tell us why we had been held.
 Mrs Donnelly was taken to po- lice headquarters for a brief ques- tioning, then was escorted home where she was put to bed, dead tired.
 Police Chief L. M. Siegfried who accompanied her home. haa found the woman n''" chauffeur after a mysterious tele- phoned tip teinns woman at cafe
 With two detecs-vc., rushed to the cafe,
 As their car approached, they
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and found Diamond lying in bed. undressed.
 He was dead.
 There was a gaping bullet hole in his forehead, caused by a heavy caliber pistol.
 pr Holmes notified police. Squads of police raced to the scene, rushed through the rooms search ing for clues. District Attorney John T. Delaney arrived. took charge. He refused to make a statement until he had interviewed all witnesses.
 Patrick Delehanty, owner of a small cobbler shop adjoining the rooming house where Diamond was slain, said he was awakened by three revolver reports between four and five a. m.
 Delehanty, who said he was sleeping in a room facing the street, told the United Press he hurried to the street after hearing the reports and saw man, about five feet seven inches tall, clad in dark clothes, run down the street, leap into an automobile. the motor of which was running, and speed away. ..s
 Mrs Laura, Wood, proprietor of the rooming house, said she was asleep in a front room of her home when she was awakened by gun shots.
 q saw several men rush down the stairs, apparently from the room where MT Diamond was stay ing" she said. T heard the motor of an automobile start outside but when I got to the window 1t had roared off," Daniel H. Prior, who was the gangster's attorney, arrived in the room where Diamonds body lay, about 8:30 a. m. He aided authori- ties in an investigation.
 Three bullet holes were In his body. One had pierced his temple.
 Diamonds underwear, carelessly flung, was across chair. Along with his clothes, two Fedora hats, one belonging to 0 woman, were found in the room.
 Seven-year-old Eddie Diamond, son of the gangster's dead brother, Eddie. was in the rooming house along with Mrs Diamond. The lat ter was removed from the house after much difficulty. She battled police in an effort to remain beside the body of her husband.
 Mrs Wood told the United Press the revolver reports came shortly after the Diamond party arrived at her house in Q taxi-cab.
 Diamonds body, found lying on its back in bed. was removed to q morgue.
 Several empty beer bottles were scattered about the room.
 Coroner Ernest Helm said he would begin an autopsy.
 Death came to Diamond a com paratively few hours after one of the greatest "triumphs" in his gangland career. A jury in Troy last night after deliberating five hours decided he was not guilty of Kidnapping and torturing James Duncan, truck helper. It was the second time he had beaten the rap on charges growing out of the kid mapping and torturing of a truck driver and his helper in the Cats kills, where Diamond sought to build a "beer kingdom" Several months ago he was acquitted of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-18
Fess On The Pan For
 Jersey C. .O.P. Defeat
New York Herald Tribune Blames Party National
 Chairman Which Others Point to Hoover

WashinRton.-Loss of the fifth New Jersey congressional district by the republicans is the reason given by the New York Herald Tribune (republican). for renewing it's plea that Senator Fess be dis placed as chairman of the repub- lican national committee, and that the committee itself be reorgan- ized.
 "The republican defeat in the fifth New Jersey congressional dis trict is in some respects the sever est jolt the party has yet sustain ed" says the Herald Tribune. .sWhen a rock-ribbed republican district can yield such a result, with no extraneous issue of wet and dry to confuse paryt lines, the evil dence is unmistakable that the tide is still running sharply against the administration.
 "As the first and most obvious moral of the defeat, we wish to re- iterate our most urgpnt plea that the national committee be reorgan- ized without delay and strong leader chosen to replace the do- nothing MT. Fess.
 ''On6 CIeaF leSSOH Ol tiie JetoVy result is." the HeraldTribune con- tinues, that it is impossible to beat democratic energy with republican inertia. Mir. Jouett Shouse brought able national speakers into the dis trict. Anything that an active na- tional committee could do was done.
 "The fight ins the first New Hampshire congress district is al- ready opening. We hope there will be no repetition of the New Jersey tactics. But in all frankness, until Mir. Fess is replaced by an abler leader who commands the confi- dence of the local workers of the party, any real improvement seems to us impossible"
 The New York Times (Indepen- dent democrat) sees the seventy second congress opening with Ire publican fortune at theri lowest point in recent years" as 6 result
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-18
Situation in
 Manchuria Is
 Now at Crisis

Mukden, Manchuria, Dec 18--(U. P.)-The situation in Manchuria is nearing a crisis where drastic acc ton" is necessary, Japanese head quarters said to-day.
 Seizure of Chinchow and driv- ing of the Chinese out of Manchur- ia was indicated.
 The Japanese charged Chinese bandits" were footing, burning and Kidnapping within 25 miles of Mukden and concentrating in large groups. They reported bandits, chiefly discharged soldiers without means of support, footed and burn ed two Korean and one Chinese village to-day. At Fahanyu village, were abducted, 1t was charged.
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Woman Held for
 $75,OOO Ransom
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 there was at least five. one spoke with an accent. They drove far. once Mrs Donnelly jerked the mus lin sack from her head. She screamed to passing motorists. One man clapped a hand roughly over her mouth, causing blood to flow, then replaced the muslin sack. Soon they changed automobiles.
 Ut ran like a rattly old machine of some sort" she told police in describing the second car.
 Finally they reached the rural community where the two were held for 36 hours. Cows and chickens could be heard in the yard. Inside, radio blared. Mrs bonnelly was led into one room and Blair into another. Their muslin masks were removed and Blair was tied. After a short time the kidnapers asked Mrs Donnelly If she would write note to her husband.
 q guess there's nothing else to do," she was quoted as replying. After she had written it-telling her husband they demanded $7b,- 900 in five, ten and twenty dollar bills and threatening her sight if 1t | was refused-one of the kidnap- pers said:
 For hours they waited.
 "I lay down on the bed several times but couldn't go to sleep, Mrs Donnelly said. Tt was so filthy that just couldn't shut my eyes,"
 Milk was brought to her several times. Several times they asked her what she would like to eat. She ordered a big meal each time, but she never received any food. Meanwhile the radio continued going and she heard broadcasts of her Kidnapping.
 This morning they were taken from the house. The muslin sacks again were placed over their heads. They were driven some dis tance and then released from the car. Mrs Donnelly was almost hysterical. Her grayish bobbed hair was awry. Her red suit with fur trimming was disheveled. She and Blair started walking down the road.
 The police motor car carrying Chief Louis siegfried and other officers approached. They had been advised that Mrs Donnelly could be found on this road. Mrs Don nelly feared the officers were hi- jackers and protested against en- tering their automobile until Sieg- fried displayed his badge.
 Once in the automobile she calm ed down and her first thought as she entered police headquarters was her appearance. Her husband.
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saw Mrs Donnelly and the negrI coming down the street. They hal teen taken by automobile to . spo about three blocks from the caf9
 Mrs Donnelly was hatless, an her long bobbed. greyish hair wa dishevelled. She wore the red bus mess suit with fur trimmings il which she was attired when kid mapped.
 Her husband had been prepare to keep a rendezvous with the kid nappers later this morning an turn over them the $75,000 the demanded. money which James 4 Reed, her attorney, had pledge would be supplied.
 This money was demanded ol the threat that the woman woull be blinded, and the chauffeuI would be killed if 1t were nd forthcoming.
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his behavior since his arrest have caused the police to doubt the story of the tree cutting as being the cause. They are looking for 8 more serious reason behind the camoufiage of explanations given to date.
 The gun used in the murder has yet to be found notwithstanding a very thorough search of Welland and Rockland avenues. and the immediate neighborhood. Volun-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-18
RY THOMAs ID. STOKEs

BY THOMAS l.. STOKES
 Washington, Dec, 18.-(UP)- President Hoover's foreign debt moratorium came before the house to-day for ratification, in a bill that definitely would put congress on record against further reductions or cancellation.
 By passing the measure, and this is expected after some delay and shower of critical debate, con- gress will give President Hoover authority to postpone for one year the debt payments that already have been waived, but will em- phatically serve notice 1t will toler- ate nothing further. Democratic leaders have an- nounced their intention to press the bill through the house. If prelim- mary debate to-day gives evidence of long -windedness. they plan a night session tonight and another tomorrow night in the endeavor to get final action before the week is over.
 The signer in the bill. constitut- ing a rebuke for the presidents ne- gotiations looking toward war debt revision, was inserted by the ways and means committee before 1t for maily approved the measure last night and dispatched 1t to the house for action. This reservation, offered by Representative Ragon. democrat, Arkansas, reads:
 Tt Is hereby expressly declared to be aganist the policy of con- gress that any of the indebtedness of foreign counties to the United States should be in any manner cancelled or reduced. and nothing in this joint resolution shall be con- strued as indicating n contract policy, or as implying favorable consideration will be given at any time to a change in the policy here- by declared"
 This reservation was adopted, 10 to Q, over tho protests of Secretary of state Htimson and Undersecre. tary of the Treasury ogden l.. Mills, who were cf0seted with the committee for a part of the flve- hour secret session. The 10 dem0- crats on tho committee and one re- pubMcnn, Representative Crowther. New York, supported 1t, with nine
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Lamont Relates
 of Millions
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profits by purchasing issues in- volved in the open market at the present appreciated prices.
 Loans negotiated by Morgans in- cluded $500, 100000 for France and $260, 100000 for Belgium. France had to pay per cent to negotiate it's loans, the highest among the first eight countries dis cussed.
 The loans described in the first hour and quarter of testimony were:
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republican against. The resolution thon was ordered favorabIy 70. ported by a vote of 2t 10 1. The four who voted "no" wore all defss 0cratn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-18

Here principal He1n in November, with his
 
 shoulders Wilkinson dethroned
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-18
MAN BROWNS WHEN
 CAR LEAVES ROAI

Lynn, Mass, Dec 1S.-(UP)-Jo seph B. Bernstein, 45, of Roxbur. smoke shop proprietor, ws drowned to-day when the expen sive sedan he was driving plunge off Point of Pines bridge an dropped 25 feet into Saugus rive
 The victim drove to his shop ii Central Square early to-day to ai range for the holiday rush and Il was believed he dozed at the whes while returning home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-18

Potter; P. W. Chapman; Lehman Bros; Field, Glore.
 All are New York houses unless otherwise designated.
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Hoover Active
 in Debt Plan
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retary. who attended the breakfast, said the president had been assured both the moratorium and the fed eral land banks legislation would be taken up promptly.
 The moratorium will be taken up to-day Or tomorrow" Newton said. Hearings on the farm bank legislation will be concluded in the house immediately after the debt postponement legislation is passed.
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Glasgow has banned Sunda
 movies.
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Senate Seeks
 Information

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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-13
VETERANS GET
QUICK CASH ON
LOAN REQUESTS
100 World War Soldiers Have
: Sent in Papers from Chapel
Hill District.


About 100 applications have
been received for loans or ve.-
Grams bonuses II the Chapel
Hill district 50 far and total Of
about 200 have been forwarded
from Orange County So great
was the early rush that blanks
became exhausted and new ones
had to be hastily printed.
George H. Lawrence. service
officer u the local post Of the
American Legion. has been
handling The bulk Of he appli-
cations here The postnasters
al Chapel Hi. Carrboro. and
Hillsboro have assisted in filing
o1t many blanks. Paul Robert
son. commander Of the Ameri-
can Legion pos: mere, * also re-
le.ylng applications
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Cap'n Smiths Golden
Wedding Anniversary

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obServances, he hated to lose z
passenger, and if one was going
to be late arriving from a dis
tant point. Cap'n Smith was
ready to hold his train, steam
up and engineers hand on throt-
tie.
What with Fords and Chevro-
lets over-running the country,
he does not carry quite as many
passengers as he useter, but
there is still ample business
to take care Of. He has been in
the Chapel Hill-University SER
vice for AZ years. He was born
in Fayetteville in 1858, and is
therefore junior to Mr.. Noble
by three years.
He and Mrs. Smith are re-
ceiving their friends at their
home on West Franklin street
Sunday afternoon, and a throlg
will be there to salute them.
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Bailey's Spring Song

&C ontsnaeo from fsrst gaQt}
<iolets. One may hope 10 find
the elusive arbutus on remote
hillsides The peach and pear
trees blossom, and plums give
forth fragrance On the ridge
and along the borders the red
bud reminds US. Now crocus
and ljlacs. pansies. hyacinths,
ionquiis. and buttercups. tulips.
iris. and datfodils.
March 1915: Suddenly the
sassafras and silver naples will
be tipped with old gold, and the
swamp naples with scarlet.
Soon the white oaks will be clad
in silver and gray, and the tas-
selling red oaks and elms il gar
net.. The aspen also is decked
in t&ssels. New green is on the
lawn and the pine tops, studded
with gold Winter lingers in
the birches and beeches. The
crab apple burgeons and bios
SONS and lntoxicates the moist
ar The mockingbird is sing
ing The bluebird is nesting.
There are lilacs in the meadow
and laurel on the hillsides, and
aZaIeas in the thickets. We hear
The field SparroW'9 : eyensong Of
praise as simple and true as the
prayer Of little child.
Norch ?5-AprU 10. Wisteria,
woven moonlight drapery Of
falryland, casts d magic spell in
yards and gardens. The forests
break out in floods Of white-it
is the dogWood making glad for
the return Of the sun. Down
in the valleys there is woodbine
in red, and the anorous jasmine
IN pure gold filling the air with
poignant fragrance Apple
trees take US captive in delicate
but irresistible bonds, and the
cherry puts on a veil-the bride
Of the year The paulonia blows
ten thousand purple trumpets.
New-turned furrows apparel
the land in color, and the very
earth is odorous. The negro
ploWboy comes over the hill at
nightfall yodelin2 d harmony Of
peace and content, the original
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Unusual botanical placards
and posters suitable for drug
store display have been worked
out by pharmacy students un-
der H. r. Totten and are on view
in Davie Hall. In each case a
portion of the actual plant from
which the drug comes is mount
ed. together with cross sections
and explanatory lettering. Pow
ders. oils. and extracts are also
attached in colorful vials Or
caps ules.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-13
Gasoline Price War

At Charlotte the price of gas
oline was reported as having
dropped 2.3 cents on Tuesday,
making the charge II cents a
gallon, including State tax. In
Chapel Hill there has been no
change for some time, the price
being 1914 cents, including tax.
At Los Angeles where a price
war is being waged by the oil
companies, gas has dropped to
1919 cents.
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straightforward and ustworthy 2"
Applicant; "Yes, indeed am,
Sir"
Executive: "If you should enter
this office tomorrow morning and
find wallet containing 100000,
what would you do 90
Applicant: What would | d0g
What would | do? I'd do nothing,
and live on my income"
Don't fail TO see US if you need
tires. We can furnish the best
makes at the lowest prices.
Farmers Wife Ito druggist):
"NoW, which is for the horse, and
which is for my husband; don't
want anything TO happen to that
horse before spring plowlng.
Fully guaranteed l3-plate bat
teries at only $3.50, or 1925 ana
your old battery.
Young Man: How much do l
pay for a marriage license ?"
Clerk: Five dollars down and
your entire salary each week for
the rest Of your life"
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Model Market Now Company

j. r., Marvin NJ. and Robert
l.. Fowler and J. T. Lloyd, trad
ing as the Model Market and
Grocery, have sold their inter
ests in this business to the
Model Market and Grocery Com
pany, a corporation Of which r.
l.. Fowler is president.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-13
Hay and Feed


have deemed their chances so
good that they have graciously
sold shares in the cut to their
neighbors, ranging from ten
cents 10 81. One admirer of a
certain faculty member was so
confident Of the latter's chances
that he besought him TO sell him
a $1,000 share in the prize for
81.
There are countless ways of
spending $4,000, and most Of
these have already been studied.
Such a sum will buy a new
house. a Cadillac car, radio, a
Chinese carpet with roses and
dragons in each corner, pay
back taxes. finance a Sabbatical
year, and buy new dress for
the wife, to replace her 1928
one. It will even buy new
shoes for all the family at once,
and leave enough over to permit
one not only to chase the wolf
from the door, but to twist his
tail viii a careless gaiety.
It is to be hoped that $4,000
comes to Chapel Hill. Legisla-
tive threats have caused pinch
ing economies TO be introduced
here and there, and the village,
after d hard winter, deserves a
sense Of relaxation.
It is common to hear re-
spected citizen sigh for the good
old days when d man could get
country buttermilk with actual
butter in it-those golden hecks
floating in rich white field. Yet
Manager Briggs, Of the Waffle
Shop, has purveyed Orange
County buttermilk, straight
from the country and imbued
with delicious and original yell
low sfakes, in vain. His custo-
mers ignore it, although it is
cheaper, and call for the
machine-m made product, which
has no more butter in it than
New Hope creek.
We are Fastening toward the
time when a thing al ndturel
will be not only strange but re-
pulsive
When the new Memorial Hall
was opened, some apology was
expressed for the old wooden
benches, which had to be used
until it should be possible to in
stall the conventional chairs
They We're the same benches
which rested in the old hall, and
during the winter they lay out
on the campus, looking a little
deserted and forlorn. But when
Goya, the Spanish dancer, was
here recently, she ignored all the
rest of the new auditorium and
clapped her hands over the
benches. She pronounced them
unique and beautiful thing.
Something to muse upOn.-P. K.
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debts. In a few cases sickness
and unemployment have made
the need evident.
Loan applications have stimu-
lated membership in the Legion.
and local officers are buster than
for some time past.
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VI nuiCu lS iOSl III AlIICdu CcIl-
turies.
April 1-l5t The vireo comes,
then the Carolina cnickadee.
The silent kingbird is once again
building his nest above the wa
ter. ever watchful of the cir
cling fish hawk. The pewee
sounds his plaintive note. The
heron takes his eastward flight
al dawn and into the sunset :
rosy depths al dusk. Black
birds are chattering in the
rusheS. The family Of warblers
arrives. Over the ponds purple
martins are dipping. Bob White
is signaling 10 his nesting mate
that all is well, else challenging
any rival to pitched battle. The
bass makes a mighty"stir in the
shadows. The dolorous whip
poorwill is calling under the
April moon.
4 Aprl 20-Mdy /: The catbird
comes with gentle song and at
last the scarlet tanager with
summer in his throat. The
fields are sweet with clover
blooms. The blackberry is out
in white. The wild locust is
festooned here in pure white,
and Wonder in naive Honey
Slckle on every roadside
breathes forth sweetness and
delight. The tall poplars lift
aloft their golden nectared cups.
The trees are once again in full
leaf And now the roses, gor-
geous and in infinite variety
and fairest Of them the wild
rose, sweet and fragile, an idyl
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THE FORD HAU S T
Published in the interest Of the
Motorists of Chapel Hill and
Vicinity by
STROWD MOTOR co.
Bruce StrOwd Editor
It is faith in something and en-
thusiasm for something that
makes life worth living.
Doctor Il can't come to see you
again"
Farmer: why, what is the mat
ter?"
Doctor: Every time come here
your ducks insult me"
During the past week we de
livered two new Ford cars to the
following purchasers a new Tudor
Sedan to Mr.. Dewey Pendergras5
and a new Tudor Sedan to Mr. L.
W. Durham, Jr.
We ask our customers to please
let as know whenever our service
is unsatisfactory, and We promise
to do everything in our power to
satisfy you.
And You, Sir?
Executive interviewing appli-
cant for responsible position)
Are you absolutely honest,