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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-09-17

' THE BOOTLEGGERs CORNER
Intoxicating Facts About
Interior Decorating.
M. II, s.,


And now that CALIFORNIA; ell over
with, what nextp don't feel bit
like Interior decorating, or recalling
Incidents OF 1928. What did ! do with
that old diary anyway Oil, here 1t
49, down under a copy OF the Tiny
Tots Criterion. Let's see---two years
ago today was,
1928
Driving out TO the Highlands to COL
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-09-17

January Nineteenth
Hostesses Jones. Mrs Shaw
American Composers and Music. Mrs. Robe
Negro spirituals and Folk-songs Mrs. Stone
Piano Selections. Mrs. ID. williams
February Second
Possesses 1851 Mrs. Richards, Meta Jones
Eoh CAL Anecdotes In the Life Of Lincoln
MY Trip to Honolulu. ..y...... Mrs VIM Leroy Baird
February Sixteenth
Hostesses Robe, Mrs. Shaw
Roll Incidents In Early American History
History of Mothers Pension Law. Mrs Richards
George Washingtons Cabinet. Mrs Heating
March First
Hostesses. @. Williams, Mrs D. williams
Rol call; Shortcuts In Housekeeping
a. Most rlspronounced words.
b. Most misused phrases and pronouns,
c. Most commonly msspeiled words
superstitions and Their origi n... Mrs. Robe
March Fifteenth
Hostesses e. Buckneli Mrs Cook
Roll Call Smiles
Puppetry Mrs @. Williams
Story Of Diamond Mrs H. A. Stanley
Poem. Suggested by Mrs John W Roberts
Read by Miss Marjorie Stanley.
March Twenty ninth
Hostesses .".~..Mrs. B. Stanley Mrs. K. vanHouse
Roll Gall Current Events
Tulip Time In Holland Mrs Young
thoughts from the Pen of Mrs. Corbet
April Twelfth
Hostesses. .... Mrs. G. Bucknell Mrs A. j. VanHouse
Roll Call....fame Some Beauty Spot You Have Seen
Summer Vacation Trips In Washington:
Western Washington-Mrs Grandy
Eastern Washngton-Mrs. Bibbins
April Twenty-sixth
GUEST DAY.
Matinee Musicale 49,. 49,. AT Moxty,ood
Hostesses Mrs. Miller
Mrs. Smith, Mrs D. Williams, Mrs Grandy
May Eleventh
PICNIC In Charge Of Social Committee
Closing Song-'God Be With You Till We Meet
Again.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-09-17
Vushon Island NomQn,s Club ProQrQn1
for 1882
September Eighth

September Eighth
Hostesses Mrs. Bibbins, Mrs Smith
opening Song Blessed Be the Tie That Binds"
Roll Call Summer Impressions
Beading Of the Constitution by the Secretary
summer Resume Mrs Grandy
Poem Of the Great Outdoors 49, Robert W. Service
DR.. Jones.
September Twcnty-second
Hostesses Mrs. H. A. Stanley Mrs Oranty
Roll Call-Suggestions for the Beautifyng Of Vashon
Highway.
Highways Of California Tjosdal
Matchess Charms Of the River Rhine ........
B. Stanley
October Sixth
Hostesses Mrs Heating Mrs K Vandolsc
Roll Current Events
Picturesque Japan Mrs. H. A. Stanley
The Passion Play at oberammergau. Mrs Gordon
October Twenty
Hostesses. Mattson Mrs Stone
Roi CALI MY Most Embarrassing Moment
ftoHic ana the Vatican Mrs. Shaw
Sgnora Mussolin Meta Jones
November Third @
Hostesses.. Mrs. Gordon, Mrs A. j. vanHouse
ARMIsTICE DAY PROGRAM
America" and star spangied Banner r"''sS'
Early Life Of General Pershing Mrs Buckne
Mrs. Burton Renolds
November Seventeenth
Hosesses Tjosda Mrs Stone
Roll Call .... - THANKSGIVING Memories
one-act Play. Smith
December First
POSSESSES lsoS' s., Mrs Stewart Mrs. Young
Roll Gail Current Events
Scandinavia ...... =.
....Mesdames G. Bucknel, X. vanHouse, Ribbins
December Fifteenth
CHRISTMAS PARTY-
In Charge of Social Committee
January Fifth
Hostesses Mrs. Meredith, Mrs. Cook
Roll Call surprses Haze Had
Surprise Program Mrs. A. j. VanHouse
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-09-17

Read the ads ana profit by them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
insult May Buy Service

Ambia in Benton county seeks to
sell its electric service to the North
ern Indiana Public Service Com
pany QnsulD for $4,000 in petit
ton filed with the public service
commission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
REDS ORGANIZE
HUNGER MARCH
Canvass JObIeSS, Farmers
for Demonstration.
By Unitcd Press

By Unttcf Press
HAMMOND, Ind, April Gloom
munistic workers here today are
canvassing unemployed and farmers
in northern Indiana urging them to
join in a hunger march and DEM
onstration at the statehouse in In
dianapolis, May 4. They plan to
demand relief from Governor Harry
G.. Leslie.
Directors of the Comnunistic eff
forts plan to start in an auto cara
van from Hammond the morning of
May 4, passing through East Chi
cago, Indiana Harbor, Gary, Mich
igan City and South Bend. This
will meet another from Ft. Wayne,
Elkhart and Muncie, according to
the plans, and both will go to In
dianapolis through Anderson and
Marion.
Officials of the Trade Unity
League, Gary, composed almost en-
tirely of Communists, said the
marchers would demand that the
state appropriate fund from
which $25 a month would be paid
each unemployed person in the
state. They also will demand that
counties pay their rent and pro-
vide gas, light, water and clothing
and medical care, the officials said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
YELLOW KID
REFORMS, BUT
is FORGETFUL
Freed-and Then Auto Man
Comes Running, Trying
to Recover Car.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, April 81. - Joseph
(Yellow Kid We'll, admittedly a
past master" of the confidence
game and still an orator of TO
mean ability, had convinced all but
one person today that, as he ex-
pressed it, he mo longer preyed
upon the credibility Of guileless
souls"
Arraigned on a disorderly conduct
charge, the Yellow Kid wore his
customary gay-colored cravat, hat
and spats. With him was Fred
(the Deacon) Buckminster, his pal
for many years-in jails and out of
them
With oratorical emphasis Well
related that his sucker list" was
but memory, that he had reformed
and that he was not ashamed of his
prison record, which includes term
at Leavenworth penitentiary.
mo man need be ashamed of his
prison record" he said. why, the
states of New Jersey and New
York and even Australia were es-
tablished by men with such records"
The court was impressed. A few
minutes later We'll strobe from the
station, free again. The Deacon
followed and they drove away in
Wells automobile.
Spectators approved openly Of
Wells reformation. There were
smiles when he was discharged, and
more as he drove of.
Then Joseph Vetger rushed into
the courtroom, breathleSs. He in
quired for the Yellow Kid. Some
one told him, happily, that We'll
had been discharged.
Vetger did not share the general
pleasure. He wanted to see the
Yellow Kid, he said, about some
back payments due on Wells auto
bile. He intimated strongly he
would like to recover the car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
LOOT DETROIT
CITY TREASURY
Bandit Confederate Nabbed
in $4,000 Robbery.

By United Press
DETROIT, April 21.-A bandit
who carried crime directly to the
pocketbook of the taxpayer by rob-
bing the city treasurer's Office of
$4,000 in tax receipts late Monday,
was sought throughout Detroit to-
day.
His confederate, who gave his
name as Theodore Crowley, %, of
Chicago, was captured few min
utes after the robbery.
The escaped bandit carried loot,
which consisted of $4,000 in cash
and SIS, 400 III checks.
The robbery occurred a few min
uteS after the treasurer's office. 10
Gated on the first floor of the citv
hall. closed for the day.
One of the robbers used a wire
clipper to snip a four-1ncn hole
through the netting of the cage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
BARE CAPONE'S
PLOT TO STAY
FOUR OFFICIALS
Brings Five Gunner From
New York to Kill During
LingIe Probe, Is Charge.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO. April 2l.-The Chi
cago Tribune stated in a serial story
today that Scarface Al Capone
brought five gangsters from New
York last year to kill three federal
and one city law enforcer who were
driving the gangs from Chicago dur
ing the furore that followed Alfred
Lingles murder.
The men the Tribune claimed Ca
pone planned to have killed were
Detective Pat Roche; George E. o.
Johnson, United States district at
torney, who has convicted six gang
sters Of evading income tax pay
ments; A. P. Madden, federal in
vestigator, and Frank Wilson, spe-
cial internal revenue agent.
Officials learned of the plot and
that the gangsters were cruising the
streets in a small car, awaiting a
chance to strike, the Tribune said.
Capone, it was claimed, aban-
doned his unbelievable" plans
when he learned the officials were
aware of them.
Capone had offered, the paper
stated. to find the man who killed
Lingle and to turn him over, dead.
to police.
The offer was refused and Capone
was told to go to hell" because
Investigators knew he was "bluffing"
in an attempt to get them to turn
of the heat which had been APP
piled to the gangs in the intensive
search for Lingle's murderer.
The investigators also once re-
ceived a fairly reliable report, the
paper said, that Capone planned to
have Judge John H. Lyle killed,
Lyle was leading gang fighter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
POLICE TRAP FAILS
BIaCkmaiIers Dodge Net
Spread by Detectives.

Terror Of blackhand letters and
blackmai attempts was dispelled
today for D. Prince, r. R. 8, Box 8,
and detectives.
Prince notified authorities Mon
day he had received a blackhand
letter warning him to place 500 in
bills in sack and leave it at the
east end of the New York street
bridge over White river Monday
night. The letter commanded the
money be there at $3.50 p. m.
Accompanied by detectives and
deputy SheriffS, Prince took a sack,
containing a wad of paper-not
money-and placed it carefully on
the spot.
Last reports were that the de-
tectives and deputies still were
waiting for some one to claim the
sack and walk into their trap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
Man Loses Life in Forest Fire

by UUtIBU FTtS3
HAGERSTOWN, Nd, April I'll
One man was burned to death and
two others were seriously injured
by forest fires reported to have
burned over 5000 acres of land in
this area.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
MURDER RULING
REVERSED BY
HIGHEST COURT
Justices Consider Staying
Case for First Time in
Many Years.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April II. - The
supreme court reversed first de-
gree murder conviction Monday in
the first murder case 1t has ruled
upon in many years. The case was
that of Alfred Scott Aldridge, Ne
gro, convicted in the District of
Columbia of killing Harry ]. Nc
Donald, a policeman.
Chief Justice Hughes wrote the
opinion reversing the conviction
because the trial judge refused to
permit the defendants attorney to
question prospective jurors as to
whether they entertained racial
prejudices.
Associate Justice McReynolds fled
a dissenting opinion referring to
the murder as "atrocious" and say
ing there is policeman shot down
in cold bloody a Negro
Other rulings Monday were:
Denial of suit Of Alexander Davidof. q
Russian. to recover from Thomas A. Edi-
son. Inc. portion Of the money he paid
in 1913 for right to use in Russia Edisons
talking picture apparatus. Development Of
the apparatus was halted by the World
war.
Refusal to review conviction and 3-year
Jail sentence given Fred Strang. TT. Worth.
Tex. for mail frauds.
Refusal to review appeals Of two
Georgians questioning validity Of Georgia
statute substituting electric chair for gal
lows. Both appellants are awaiting execu-
ton.
Refusal to review eiectment suit Of Wy
andotte Indians against wyandotte county.
Kan. to GUST county from ownership Of
City courthouse.
Refusal to review authority Of prohibi-
ton administrator to revoke permit for
use of specially denatured alcohol in suit
brought by Three Flower Chemical Com
oany. makers Of toilet preparations.
Refusal to review court of claims ruling
holding present law imposing tax on club
is proper exercise Of statute
In suit brought by Congressional Country
Club. Washington.
Dismissal Of appeal of Guy ard dreta
Sella Sturrier from Nebraska supreme
court ruling holding they were not en-
Titled to damages when water from irriga-
ton canal seeped on their lands.
Refusal to pass on propriety of Inter
state Commerce Commission ruling that re-
funds for payment Of excessive rates on
freight shipment must be made person
paying them rather than by person actual |
y bearing them.
The supreme court announced it
will hear no arguments after May
l. 1t will adjourn from May 4 to |
May 1S, returning on Mondays
after that date only to hand down |
opinions. The court is expected to
adjourn for summer recess either
on June or June 8.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
DEATH TRIAL MAY IS
Mrs. NirdIinger Will
Plead Self Defense,

NICE. France, April 21-Trial of
Mrs. Charlotte Nixon Nirdlinger,
charged with shooting her husband,
the Philadelphia theater magnate,
will be started May Is, her attorney,
Jose Bonigacio, announced today.
Bonifacio said he was confident
the former st. Louis beauty queen,
who claimed she shot in self defense
after g. quarrel with her husband,
would be acquitted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
HURLEY SPEEDS
WESTWARD IN
NAVAL PLANE
Army Pictured as Servant
of Peace in Address at
Club Dinner.

Visit of Patrick ]. Hurley, secre-
tary Of war, in indianapolis. ter
minated this morning when at 1926
a tri-motored naval plane took to
the air at schoen field, TT. Benja-
min Harrison, bearing him to st.
Louis, en- route to his home in Tul-
sa, Okla.
Lieutenant A. P. Storris, the cab
met members pilot, delayed the
start an hour until showers ended.
Hurley declared he felt sure the
military ball and dinner sponsored
by the Columbia Club Tuesday
night would bring closer together
the citizens Of indianapolis and the
personnel at Ft. Benjamin Har-
rison.
The secretary CO war was the
honor guest at the affair, which
may be made an annual event.
More than 500 persons attended the
dinner and ball.
Honor Miss TyndalI
Besides the address of Secretary
Hurley two ceremonies marked the
dinner. Cadets Of the Culver
academy battery of artillery under
Cadet Captain E. A. Smart, con-
ferred the sponsorship of the bat
terry upon Miss Ruth Tyndall,
daughter of Major General Robert
H. Tyndall. Marching to the
speakers table the cadets presented
Miss Tyndall with the cape OF the
organization.
A sword was presented General
Tyndall by Secretary Hurley on be-
half of the Columbia Club.
Leslie Also Speaks
A short talk also was made by
Governor Harry G. Leslie. who was
introduced by Arthur r. Baxter, the
POSTMASTER, as commandments
of the states armed forces. Leslie
expressed his appreciation at the
presence Of Hurley.
The army as a servant Of peace
and not merely IAN insurance policy
waiting idly for a war" was de-
scribed by Hurley.
He pointed out that all harbor and
river improvements, design and con-
struction Of governmental buildings,
bridges, and canals are made by the
army.
Lauds Medical Corps
THE army medical corps has been
a leader in the development of sur
gerry anGFpreventive medicine" he
said" 1t was William Gorgas, an
army surgeon who brought health
and happiness to the tropics by
eliminating from the Panama Canal
the causes of tropical diseases. 1t
was Walter Reed, an army surgeon,
who determined the cause of yellow
fever and established methods for
its prevention"
During the afternoon, he reviewed |
1900 troops at FIT. Benjamin Harri-
son. The review included tanks and |
motorized equipment as we'll as the |
mounted personnel and infantry. |
Wings were dipped in salute by |
Burl Nicholson circling |
overhead as the secretary mounted |
the reviewing stand with Brigadier- |
General George H. Jamerson, COM
mandant of FIT. Benjamin Harrison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21

By United Press
NEW YORK, April 21.-Frances
Williams, musical comedy singer,
has become the wife of Lester
Clark, who plays a trumpet in
Warnings Pennsylvanians orches-
ira, she admitted today.
Clark, who is playing in the
same show with the blues singer,
and Miss Williams eloped to
Kennedyville, Md, after she had
finished a night club engagement
at 8 on the morning of April II.
and were married before a sleepy
justice of the peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
BY BEN STERN


EVEN those Democrats who are
II fanatically wet have no fault
to find with the diplomatic tone of
the letter written by Charles A.
Greathouse, Indiana Democratic
national committee member and
secretary, answering the circular
letter sent by John Raskob, nation
al committee chairman.
The veteran Hoosier Democrat
cleverly evades Raskob's attempt to
put the state organization on rec
ord on prohibition.
Complimenting Raskob on his
forward-looking policy, Greathouse
said: II am sensible that anything
which may say may be construed
to be the expression of the Demo-
cratic party in Indiana. I say to
you frankly that I do not consider
that I am able at this time to voice
the sentiments of my party upon
all or any of the queries PROFOUND
ed"
Cannily, Greathouse added, IT
prefer to leave the declaration of
policies and issues to the Democratic,
state and national conventions.
1t is true that the letter is not a
courageous expression of opinion.
and many party members have
fault to find with this temporizing
attitude, but they are placated by
the fact that Greenhouse does not
join in the criticism of Raskob for
raising the issue.
Although Lake county and other
industrial northern Indiana party
are wet, the rural Sec
tons Of the central and southern
portions of the state have not de-
serted the dry fold.
To arouse controversy in Indiana
at so early a stage of the campaign
would be extremely dangerous, party
leaders declare, and so the national
committeeman resorted to approved
strategy.
Consider, for instance, the atti-
Jude of the new congressman from
he Thirteenth district, Samuel B.
oettengill of South Bend, a drip
oing wet"
Pettengill has asserted openly
hat he can not agree with Raskob
hat the prohibition question should
'e made party issue in 1882.
Something to eat is more impor-
ant right now than something to
rink" declared Pettengill, quoting
letter to RaSkob.
THAT may sound all right" 1t
vas pointed out to Pettengill by his
riends, but it won't help you in
932 in wet South Bend"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
DISCUSS TAXI MEASURE
BIZ United Press

DW OWtttW 7 Voo
LANSING, Mich, April 81. - A
bill which would prohibit taxi
drivers from locking their passen-
gers inside cabs to insure collection
of fares was introduced in the state
senate Monday night.
Drivers sometimes remove the in
terror latch so that passengers do
not escape near their destination
while the cab is caught in traffic
jams, Senator Rushton explained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
GANGSTERS CUT, TOSS
ACID ON LABORER, SIS
Afiame, Chicago Man Crawls Two
Blocks to Hospital.
By United Press

by UHfItN TTtHN
CHICAGO, April 21.-Two gang
sters hurled intiammable acid upon
Joseph Laigen, SIS, today, attacked
him with knives as the fluid ex-
ploded. and fed, leaving him help
less in the street with his clothing
and face aflame.
Despite a wound reaching from
the neck to the abdomen, Laigen
put out the flames and crawled and
staggered to the Mercy hospital two
blocks away, where a priest found
and rescued him.
Laigen is a laborer for an ice
cream company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
CITY BUSINESS MAN
BURIAL WEDNESDAY
George H. Caylor, 55, Corporation
Official, Dies at Hospital.

Funeral services for George H.
Caylor, SIS, Indianapolis branch
manager of the Midland Accept
ance Corporation, who died Mon
day night at st. vlncent's hospital,
will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday
at the home, 3675 Washington bou-
levard, with the Rev. Aubrey Moore,
Seventh Christian church pastor,
in charge.
Born in Noblesville, Mr.. Caylor
formerly was connected with the
Caylor Screen Door Company of
that city with his father, former
state representative.
Survivors are Mrs. Bess Booth
Caylor, the widow, and Miss Vir-
GINA Caylor, daughter, Of Indian
apolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
Forest Fire Under Control

by UHtt6U PFeS8
CHICO, Cal, April 21.-A forest
fire started by flames that almost
destroyed the town of Sterling City,
thlrty-five miles east of here, was
brought under control today after
1t had burned over more than fifty
acres.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
Dee1" Racket

By United Press
MAYS LANDING, N. j.,
April 21.-The depression was
blamed by game wardens to-
day for the illegal killing of
many deer here this winter.
Bootleg" venison dealers
pay from $40 to $50 a carcass,
wardens said, and the unem-
ployed have resorted to night
hunting to make a living.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-21
UNIVERSITY TO GIVE
PROHIBITION COURSE
Dry Problem Study to Be Part Of
Ohio Wesleyan Curriculum.

Dry Problem Study to Be Part of
Ohio Wesleyan Curriculum.
By United Press
DELAWARE, O., April 21.-The
political science department of Ohio
Wesleyan university will create a
course in prohibition as a govern
mental probl m" next fall, it was
announced here today. The new
course, believed to be the first Of
it's kind ever offered by a univer-
sity, was made possible through a
gift of w. F.. Bigelow, editor of
Good Housekeeping Magazine and
an alurninus of Ohio Wesleyan.
His gift was made to the polite
al science department for expert
mental purposes without stipulating
what subject should be studied.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-15
PYTHfAN SISTERS
THIlHBLE CLUB HAS
OPENING MEETING

Pythian Sisters Thimble club had
its first meeting yesterday at the
Frank Weir residence, 1866 Adams
avenue.
A pot luck luncheon was enjoyed
after which a short business meet
ing was held, Mrs. Frank G.. Weir
being elected president of the club
and Mrs. Duane Stafford, vice
president.
The afternoon was devoted to a
bridge game, Mrs. Bird Hobby VIM
ming high score prize and Mrs.
Bertha Gillett the low.
Guests of the club were Mes
danes Leila Woody, Martin Hallor-
an, Evelyn Miner, B. E. Lemons,
Lloyd Kenyon. Louis B. McManus,
Edwin Miner and Bertha Gillett,
Walter Moore and Mary Connor.
Members present were Mesdames
Romeo c. Smith, Duane Stafford
Ira Wakefield, Emma Short, Tom
Duer, w. j. McClelland, Charles
Gillett, Fred Miller, Wesley He'll
Steele, Bird Hobby and the hostess
The next meeting will be with
Mrs. B. E. Lemons with Mrs. Lem
ons and Mrs. w. J. McClelland as
hosteSseS. The date is November l.