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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-03-12
LJIGH SCHOOL
HAPPENINGS

score stood to 2 in favor of the
locals. However, Glenwood bright
ened up during the remainder Of
the game and soon left Sank Gen.
tire far behind.
In the Consolation match Satur-
day evening Long Prairie defeated
the main Streeters" by score of
13 to 81.
After the championship game
from which Glenwood emerged vic
torious over Alexandria 10 to 10,
Superintendent H. A. Falk, who is
chairman of the district commit.
tee, presented the trophies. Basket
balls were awarded to the follow
ing captains for their teams:
c. Domke-Sauk Centre, fourth
place.
Balloon - Long Prairie, third
place.
Carlson Alexandria, second
place.
LeDuc-Glenwood, first place.
Captain LIE Due was also pre-
sented the basket ball trophy which
gave Glenwood the twenty-third
district championship for 1881.
Sank Centre has high hopes of
going far in ths tournament next
season because the present team
will be enlarged instead of de-
creasing.
Junior High
New names on dental honor roll:
Miss Hunts Room-Buddy Weed
er, Lorraine Pendroy.
Miss Drums Room-Ray Wallen
Miss Thomey's Room, - Mary
Nader, Roswell Otto.
Miss Murphys Room-Mabel Kin
sella.
Ninth Grade-Irene Earrnw
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-03-12

The Misses Dorothy Egan, Loret-
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-04

Nothing adverses general appearance
Portable, charming among residents
also, have charm for
The general of will make
will and help the right kind of residents become negbo.
should be made well intelligent
hea The appearing gives
evidence of prosperity happiness of
government
Civic
should be made the thought energy
and imagination, to united toward beautiful
munity.
The Beautiful
raising Of large of but the development pride
resident that and child will lend
Streets should be we'll lighted and an free from rubbish and
wekptwindow shining; yards; plenty
"City Beautiuw only possible tt
- a.4aI. III IL. 49, IL.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-04

suitable shade shubbey and aowe attractive fences and lawn
furniu
people and beautiful homes by
sovenly and lI-ordered community settings.
therefore, the indexes
"Ony community in making real effort towards civic
identifying and planning. There opportunity the
whose will of
Let's together for beaufy
Our business and professional public officials, home
and citizens, schools children all bued
with energy pride takes outstanding
Paint store and lumber yad ho and hardware and
general ora have the and make
OUR Getty Beautiful" plan
How ready signify their interest Our City Beautiful
Plan? How already planning what they will do? How
will actually do it?
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
FREED
IN RHEEM CASE

J. Newton Brewer. former vice
president of the bankrupt Swart-
zell, Rheem & Hensey Co.. who
was jointly indicted with Edmund
D. Rheem for a $165,000 embez-
element, was today freed of COM
plicity in the crime for which his
associate is serving a Seven-year
prison sentence.
Neil Burkinshaw, special Assis-
tant Attorney General, appeared
ir0 the District Supreme Court to-
day before Chief Justice Alfred
A. Wheat and nolle pressed the
indictment against Brewer. Rheem
pleaded guilty several months ago
and is now serving his sentence.
During the sensational crash Of
the investment house, and attend
ing events, Rheem steadfaStly
maintained the innocence of his
associates and is reported to have
pleaded with Investigators not to
draw his friends into the GRIM
inal aspects of the case.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
1900 MARINES
CHEER BUTLER

Fight like hell but don't cry
if you are whipped" was the
parting Injunction of Maj. Gen.
Smedley D. Butler to the 1850
Marines and former leathernecks
who crowded into the gymnasium
at the Marine Corps barracks at
Quantico, Va, to express their
loyalty to their picturesque leader
who is retiring from active SER
vice.
General Butler was presented
with a $1,000 mahogany desk,
equipped with telephone, lamps,
and writing material. 1t is a re-
plica of an historic desk in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York and is said to be one
of four of its kind in existence.
The presentation speech was
made by Brig. Gen. Randolph c.
Berkeley, following which the
crowd sang General Buffers IA
vorite song "Sweet Adeline." Gen
eral Butler said:
II have been q Marine for
3S years and 3 months and at
heart 1 shall be one until 1
hear the last roll call on earth.
The Marines are the first to
fight and they never surrender.
1t is the only organization al
lowed by Congress to write its
name on the American flag.
"PacifiSts may try. to take
our arms from us and Com
muniStS may try to steal our
food and clothing, but don't
forget that there are more than
100000 red-blOOdSi ex.Marine
veterans who stand like a stone
wall between America and the
wolves who are swapping at her
throat"
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
RESERVOIR JO B
IS AWARDED
Times Staff Photo

A contract for construction of
a 3,O0O,O00-gallon reservoir at
Fort Stanton Park, east end of
w Street Southeast, was awarded
by the District Commissioners to-
day to j. B. McCrary, of Atlanta,
Ca, at price of $59,790.
Work on the project, which
will afford better water service
and fire protection for the Ana
costa section, will be started i'm
mediately. In connection with
the reservoir construction, plans
also call for removal of $1,000
cubic feet of soil from the site
to be used for filling in Govern
ment building projects.
The total appropriation for the
reservoir and improvements to
the Anacostia water system is
$172,000. Upon completion of
the reservoir, $500 feet of 30
inch water main will be laid, con-
Meeting it with the Anacostia
pumping station.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
NESNUBSPLOT
To TELL ON
HIS PALS
Mt. Rainier Man Gives Up
Chance for Liberty; Four
Named in Rail Robbery

Six prisoners, four o. whom
were charged with larceny in
connection with a recent freight
train robbery, made their escape
from the Bladensburg Jail early
today by filing the bais OF their
cell.
One Gives Up
All were awaiting arraignment
in police court at Hyattsville TO-
Gay.
Prince Georges county police
were informed Of the Jail break
by William Groves, of Mt. Rainier,
awaiting a hearing on a petty Of
fenSe. He was one of those xhO
made their escape. Instead of tax.
ing advantage of his freedom
Groves reported the escape.
Four prisoners remained in Jail.
Police we're told that a white
man passed the window of the Jail
and dropped in file, which per-
mitted the prisoners to saw the
bars.
Philadelphia FugitiveS
Four who escaped were from
Philadelphia and had given their
names as George Michels, Charles
De Witt, Oliver Sprard, and John
Kiger.
The men were arrested Friday
night by a railroad detective,
who was said to have discovered
them removing merchandise from
a freight car.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Suspect Is Arrested
In $4,000 Box
Stumble

Bruno Vincent, 48, is being
held today by Washington po-
lice on a charge of having used
the ancient Italian box trick
on a Washingtonian nearly two
years ago, swindling hin out
of $4,000.
Leo Reigncilo, 1902 Four
teenth st. N. W., was the mans
alleged victim.
The trick consists of getting
the victim to place mis- funds
in a box with that OF the
ICON man" for a trip to the
homeland. The "con man"
holds the key, while the victim
keeps the box. Finally he be-
comes worried, breaks open the
box and finds it is filled only
with worthless paper.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
GrOttO's Personality
Girl to Go to ElGrOpe

A forty-four day trip to Europe
was today added to the prize list
which Kallipolis Grotto is holding
forth for the winner Of the Miss
Personality contest, to be decided
at Washington Auditorium, Oc-
tober 2.
Monarch Carlton F.. Howell,
made this announcement at a
meeting of the Is young women
now remaining in the competi-
ton.
The trip starts October 10 from
New York. with all expenses paid
by the Grotto. Other attractive
awards are being competed FOR
by the Best Baby candidates and
Juvenile Entertainer candidates.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Air Transportation
ShOLUS BiQ Increase

A total Of 193,651 passengers
were carried in more than
100000 miles of flying by
scheduled air transport lines
operating in the United States,
with extensions to Canada, the
West Indies and Latin America,
during the first six months of
the year, according to survey
by the Aeronautics Branch of
the Department of Commerce.
The lines carried 4,589,7O7
pounds of mail and 1,299,863
pounds of express. This was an
increase of more than 100000
pounds over the amount of mail
carried in the same period last
year, and an increase of 54,386
pounds in the express shipments.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
THIEF SUSPECT,
FLEEING, SHOT
IN LEFT LEG
Burglar Alarm Attached to
Radio Proves His Undoing
and Mechanic Does Rest

AS he fled down an alley in
the rear of Catlin's, Inc, 1924
New York Ave. N. W., James r.
Bradford, colored, a suspected
radio set thief, was shot in the
left leg by John H. Padgett, me-
chanic for Catlin's, this morning.
Police were told that Bradford,
entering the basement storeroom
of the gift and electrical supply
house, had picked up a radio to
which had been attached a bur
glar alarm which sounded off in
the office above and in the garage
in the rear.
Ran Out at Rear
Bradford ran out the rear, was
pursued and shot at by Padgett,
and was brought down by Sam
Hook, bookkeeper for Catlin'S,
who had darted below as the
alarm sounded. Bradford was still
running slowly after being shot,
Mr.. Hook said.
Raymond Caltin, manager Of
the store, said eight radio sets
had been stolen from the store
room within the past year and
several weeks ago an alarm was
attached to an attractive model
and they had been waiting for
the thief ever since.
Taken tn HOSnitaI
Bradford was taken to the
Emergency Hospital where police
said an investigation charge
would be placed against him.
Padgett, the mechanic, was
taken to the First precinct for
questioning and was accompanied
by Elmer H. Catlin, proprietor
of the store.
Bradford'S injuries were not re-
garded as serious as Padgett used
only a .22-caliber revolver.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
TRAFFIC CHIEF
URGES CARE

Washington motorists today
we're cautioned to exercise ex-
treme care, giving pedestrians
right of way at intersections, in
making the new left turn.
Traffic Director william A. Van
Duzer warned motorists that pc
destrians have the right of way at
all intersections and directed po-
licemen to keep close watch to
see that the rule is enforced.
Policemen throughout the city
reported traffic has been consider
ably speeded up by abolition of
the old rotary turn.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Burnt Mills Scouts
Camp Ends Season

Camp Wilson, the Boy Scout en-
campment at Burnt Mills, Md,
closed today, after having been
used through the summer by
District scouts. Seven wooden
cabins were completed at the
camp during the summer and
other improvements were made.
Despite the camp closing, hiking
parties Of scouts will continue to
use it as an overnight camping
ground during the year.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
ChGnceLLOr'S Talk
Opens Lodge Session

An address of welcome by U.
u. Bank, grand chancellor of the
knights Of Pythias of the Dis
trict, yesterday marked the open
ing session of the thirGy-fourth
annual convention of The colored
Order Of Moses at the Pythian
Temple, Twelfth and U Streets
northwest.
The other speakers included G.
i. Fisher, head of the Pennsyl-
cania lodges: A. r. Johnson, of
Virginia, and Herbert Pugsley,
secretary of the grand lodge.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
County Board Votes
NeIU M0cadQ111 Roads

The board of commissioners of
Montgomery county yesterday
passed an ordinance authorizing
the construction of a 32-foot
macadam road on st. Andrews
Way, and 32-foot roads on Bruce
Drive, Layton Avenue and Thorn
hill Road, in the new subdivision
of North Hills of Sligo.
The improvements will be paid
for by a 100 per cent front foot
benefit charge, and will be made
under county supervision.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
GAS PRESSURES
TEST. OFFERED
BY COMPANY
Engineer Seeks to Prove High
Rating Enhances Efficiency;
P. U. C. Likely to Accept

An offer to demonstrate by
laboratory experiments the influ-
ence of varying gas pressures on
gas flames was made today by
Walter M. Russell, chief engineer
of the Washington Gas Light
Company. to the Public Utilities
Commission.
Wilton j. Lambert, chief coun-
sci for the company, further
pressed the invitation and the
commission indicated it would ac-
cept. The demonstrations, in the
event Of acceptance, will be
staged in the laboratories at the
Georgetown gas plant office at
TWenty-ninth and Canal Streets
Northwest.
Offer BY Russell
The offer was made by Mr..
Russell when he resumed the wit.
ness stand for the third cOnsecu.
tive day in the commissions hear
ing on presSures and ownership
The der-or ,trations will not be
soley confined to preSSures, but
will also deal with appliance ad-
juStmentS. BY the exhibition the
engineer hopes to prove conclu-
sively that higher pressures en-
hance the efficiency, of gas appli-
ances, and that such pressures
have little or no effect on gas
bills.
Little headway was made at
today'S session. M. Russell was
taken through a cross examina-
tion conducted by George E. Sui
livan, representing the Federation
of Citizens Association, which de-
veloped nothing that had not al
ready been testified to.
Wood To Retire
A letter in the personal file
of George A. G. Wood, president
of the Washington Gas Light
Company, which was turned over
to the commission under threat
of subpoena, revealed he will not
be candidate to succeed him.
self at the coming board of di-
rectOrS' election in January.
This has the effect of a resig-
nation. The letter was addressed
to Col. A. E. 2eirce, president of
Central Public Service of Chicago.
Immediately after the commits
sion las completed its inquiry
into preSSureS and kindred sub
jects, the hearing, now in its
third day, will turn to the most
queStiOn-OwnerShip of
the local company.
Dismissal Is Denied
Just before yesterdays session
closed, c. c. Mayer moved the
commission to dismiss the hear
ing for nconstitutionality and
other grounds. The motion was
denied.
Albert E. Peirce, president of
Central Public Service of Chicago,
which owns 81 per cent of the
local company stock, will be the
most important witness at the
h caring when the ownership
phase is called. It is not ex-
pected that he will appear until
next week.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
"G "Gandhi and Je1Uish
ASceticiSna" Sermon

"Mahatma Gandhi and the
Jewish Idea Of AScetism" will be
the topic of the sermon Friday
night at the Eighth Street Tenn
pie.
Yom Kippur services will be
held Sunday at 8 p. m, while
there will be a children'S service
Monday at $50 a. M, followed by
an adult service at 1:15. The
annual congregational memorial
services will be held at the ceme-
terry Sunday at 2::30 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Johnson Says France
Also Has Its BOOtIeQ

Charges the proposal of the
French government to inculcate
in school children the taste for
good wine is a rather futile ef-
fort to stop the floods OF bootleg
brandy into France" was made
yesterday by william Z. PUSSY
foot" Johnson, of the World
League against alcoholism.
The movement, he declared,
was not intended to discourage
the drinking of American cock
tails, said to be greatly relished
in that country.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
SEARCH BARES
ARSENAL"

John Manthos, 13-year-old son
OF Nick Manthos, bootblack, who
plies his trade at Police Head
quarters, is still in an unde-
termined condition at Emergency
Hospital after having been acci-
Qentally shot yesterday at meet
ing Of THE Three Skulls" a juve-
nile band that plays in the
neighborhood of John Marshall
Place.
Manthos was shot in a room at
his home while the gun, accord
Ing to police, was being examined
by Joseph Kaporaletti. IA, of 433
First ST.. N. w.
Police discovered a small arsenal
OF weapons and q bottle Of nitro
gIycerine in the room as well as
many pieces of athletic equip.
ment and knives.
The injured boy, according to
hospital physicians is in a seri-
Gus condition. He was shot in
the side, the bullet penetrating to
his spine.
Three members of the juvenile
band were taken into custody by
police, and are now being held at
the receiving home pending the
outcome of the boys injuries.
Those held are Guido Antonio,
IA, Johns brother, Mike, is, and
young Kaporaletti. A thorough
investigation of the goods found
in the room is being made by
police, as they believe some of the
articles may have been stolen,
although the boys told them they
found the guns in houses on John
Marshall Place that are now be-
ing wrecked for the new District
center
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Pie-EGting Contest
Tonight Qt CGrniUGL

A pie-eating contest tonight will
feature the opening of the Beth
esda food carnival. The carnival
is being held for the berefit of
the Volunteer Fire Department.
On Friday there will be the in
evitable creased pig chase, while
more than $500 people are ex-
pected to gather Saturday to see
rs runners compete in an eight
mile marathon, which will begin
and end at Counselman'S field.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
fudge Urges Labor
To Live Up to Name

Earl w. Labor, of Minot, N. D.,
was advised to live up to his
name when arraigned today be-
fore Judge Gus A. Schuldt in
Police Court. for having been
drunk on John Marshal Place
yesterday.
Labor made a passionate plea
to the court asking that he be
allowed to go back to his home.
The court suspended sentence and
took his personal bond,
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
GLOUer Park Group
Plans Fete FridnU

The fall reunion Of the Glover
Park Citizens Association will be
held Friday at 8 p. m. in the In
dustrial Home School, Wisconsin
Avenue and Thirty-seventh Street
Northwest.
Among items to be considered
at the initial meeting are ar
rangements for winter entertain
ment.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Father of TIUeLUe
Children Is Dead

William Myers, 81, prominent
Fairfax county resident, died at
his home at Oakton yesterday,
following a long illness. He was
born in Rockingham county but
came to Fairfax in 1898.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Myrtle Myers, and II children;
his father and five brothers.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
DOGk B0res Identity
OF 5 Alien SUSPECTS

The identity of the five persons
arrested in New York yesterday
on charges Of conspiracy to vio-
late the immigration act, or what
has come to be known as "alien
racketeering," was revealed today
by Secretary Of Labor Doak.
He identified them as Edward
Schleman and Emanuel M. Vert
zer, who claim to be steamship
agents at No. / Broadway;
Joseph McDevitt, a chauffeur of
Barthway, N. j.; Charles E. Fink,
conSultant in the Times Building,
and Stephan Tillinghast, 226
Seventy-eighth st.
Travel economically in one of the
good used cars advertised for sale to-
day in the Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
u. s. Holds Auction
Of Alaska SeULSkipS

The U. S. Treasury is today
richer by 282,642.75, following
the auction at st. Louis of 1925
sealskins from Pribilof Islands.
The auction, held by the Bu.
reau Of Fisheries, will be repeated
october IL. Prices were 8 to 18
per cent under March figures.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Pearson To Be Host
To Alumni of IOLDG

The annual picnic of the Ma
tional Capital Chapter of Iowa
State College will be help Sep
tember 26 at the home of DR..
Raymond A. Pearson, president of
Maryland University, at Hyatts-
vile.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16

Times Staff Photo
PTNNING ON BADGE
A FRATERNITY BADGE pinned on the gown of
Mrs Rutherford Hayes wife of the nineteenth President
OF the United States and the first mistress of the White
House to be college graduate. Mrs. George Miner
Hostetler national officer of the Kappa Kappa Gamma
fraternity pinned the badge the gown in the National
Museum collection as Mrs Rose Gouverneur Hoes
looked on. -
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06

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Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
Schmeling Will
Defend Title
BY DIXON STEWART
nited Press Staff CorrespondentD

NEW YORK. July 6. U.P)-Max
Schmeling will defend his worlds
heavyweight championship again in
September against either Primo
Camera or the winner of the Jack
Sharkey- Mickey Walker fight.
Schmeling and his manager, Joe
Jacobs, told Of their plans for the
September battle, at Jersey City,
Philadelphia or Chicago, in an ex-
elusive interview with the United
Press today. They are scheduled
for a conference with President w.
F.. Carey of Madison Square Gar
den and Damon Runyan, represent
Ing the New York milk fund, which
will share in the promotion of the
September bout, sometime before
Schmeling sails for Germany at
midnight tonight.
Jacobs revealed that although
the champions contract with the
Garden calls for a bout with Car
nera, there is a possibility that the
winner Of the Sharkey- Walker
match, scheduled at Brooklyn late
this month, may be substituted.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
TIDBALL-
WILL REPRESENT
PACIFIC NETM E n

LOS ANGELES, July 6. W.D-
Jack Tidball and Lester Stoefen.
young Los Angeles tennis stars, will
represent the Pacific Coast in the
national doubles championship at
Chestnut Hills, Mass, August "a to
%.
The youngsters won this right, as
well as the Pacific Coast doubles
crown, by defeating Cranston Hol-
man and Gerald Stratford, San
Francisco veterans, in the finals
of the title tournament at the Los
Angeles Tennis club.
Seeded first in the play, Tidball
and Stoefen came through as ex-
pected but their victory was scored
only after gruelling five set match
which lasted three full hours. The
scores were 7-9, 6-3, 6-2, AS, 1910.
Frank Westsmith, forver Univer-
sity of California at Los Angeles
ace, won the special mems singles
by defeating Leonard Patterson OF
Santa Monica in the finals, 6-l, So.
The women's singles laurels went
TO Elizabeth Deike, of Pasadena, by
virtue of a 81, Ga victory over DR.
Esther Bartosh of Los Angeles, ia
vorite in the play.