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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
FISHERMAN IS DROWNED
Bedford Man Falls Into Tail Race
at Power Plant.
Bg United Press


BEDFORD, Ind, April ALLEN
John Johnson, 30, was drowned to-
day when he fell into the tail race
at the power plant on White river
at williams while fishing.
Williams lost his balance while
endeavoring to extricate his fish
hook from a Snag The body was
not recovered Immediately.
The widow survives him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

The great Final Wind-Up of Pettis' Bankrupt Sale
begins at a. m. Friday! We're going out of bust
ness in just more shopping days! And every
naming stock has to be sold quickly! Prices have
been sashed! You'll get marvellous savings on every
thing! Don't wait any longer! Buy what you need
for months to come Friday and Saturday!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
M'CARDLE MAY
LOSE REINS IN
UTILITY BOARD
Public Service Commission
Craftsmanship Involved in
Political Fight.
BY DANIEL NJ. KIDNEY

Republican politicians are begin
ming to feel this isn't a good year
to be too openly utility minded. f"
especially with strenuous election
contest scheduled.
So a movement is under way to
Gust the veteran John w. McCardle
from the position Of chairman Of
the public service commission.
A direct order from Governor
Harry 9. Leslie may be necessary
to perform the feat, however, and
there Is much speculation as to
whether Or not it will be forthcom-
ing.
The Craftsmanship election is set
for May /.
Singleton or Ellis
Choice for q successor to Nc
Cardle is between the two other Re-
publican commissioners-Frank T.
Singleton and Howell Ellis. Single
ton once served a term as chair
man. breaking for year the long
succession of reflections Of Nc
Cardle.
But recently Singleton incurred
animosity Of Commissioner Harry
K. Cuthbertson, stormy petrol of
commission affairs, who would be
unlikely to support the Singleton
candidacy for workmanship.
In addition. Singleton is busy
enough on the matter or his re-
appointment, which will come up
July /. For a long time it was pre-
dicted Leslie would not reappoint
Singleton, but the commissioner has
established such a record in the
public interest recently that his re-
appointment may be considered an
asset, it has been pointed out.
Recent Vote Recalled
Therefore, if the McCardle custer
IS realized the mantle of the chair
manship may fall on the shoulders
of Ellis, youngest of the commits
sioners.
Both Ellis and Singleton dissented
from McCardle and Commissioners
Jere West and Cuthbertson in the
North Manchester decision, which
practically precludes public owner
ship by cities linked in a big utility
power loop, and more recently in
The rate raising provision of the In
dianapolis Water Company compro-
mise settlement.
McCardle is the only commission
or in history to be reappointed -four
times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

hunting. The officers have been
instructed to find 1,1O0 ducks. stolen
from the Camp Greek duck farm.
Monticello, Ill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

Care should be taken in cooking
cabbage, onions and celery. These
vegetables have a tendency to lose
their valuable mineral content when
cooked too fast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

Cops Turn Duck Hunters
BY United Press
DETROIT, April 7.-Detroit's en-
tire police force has gone duck
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
I ELL in This Line

Remember, the contest ends Sat-
urday. Send your limericks to the
Contest Editor today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

Sanborn Heads Building Congress
Garry M. Sanborn was elected
president of the indianapolis Build
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

ing Congress at dinner meeting
in the Architects and Builders
building Wednesday hight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

be identified as those of human.
 And now for more chapters in this. strange drama of mystery, which seem to indicate that Small never was killed at all:
 Eighteen days after SmalPs dis appearance Toronto newsboy, who had a stand halfsa block from the theater, reported that Small had purchased a paper from him the previous evening, between z and 7:15 p. m. The man halted Q minute under an arc light, scanned the headlines and then moved on. The newsboy said that he was sure; that he could not be mistak- en, that Small had been one of his regular customers.
 And, four years afterward when relatives were fighting in court over the Small estate, Mrs Small ex- plained why she had waited two weeks after her husbands disap- pearance before she notified police. They had quarreled before over another woman, she testified, and shortly after Small's disappear ance on December she had found love letters among her husbands effects.
 A paragraph in one of these let ters, from a married woman, read:
 "I am the most unhappy girl in the world. I want you. Cant you suggest something after the first of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Lilley Building

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, District of Waterbury, ss. Probate Court, September 18th, 1882.
 ESTATE OF William J. Dermody, late of the Town of Waterbury, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the Dis trict of Waterbury, hath limited aud allowed six months from the date tate to exhibit their claims for set- .tlement. Those whe-e-neglect r--to present their accounts properly att tested within said time, will be de- barred a recovery. All persons in- debted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 EDWARD J. VANCE, ! 9-29-3t Administrators.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

December? You will be free, prac- tically. Let's beat it away from hour troubles" Mrs Small said it was the discov- erv of these letters immediately
 after her husband disappeared that
 kept her from notifying police at once. Was Toronto's Host millionaire"
 murdered,> or did he run away? What is your answer to the rid dle?
 TOMORROW: Tine strange dis
 appearance of Dorothy Arnold, the
 Host heiress," who vanished on
 crowded Fifth Avenue in busy New
 York on her way to keep a 1unch-
 con engagement with her mother.
 A mystery that 22 years has only decpencd.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Bargains Of Lifetime Are Advertised In The
 Democrat Classified Columns Daily--Read Them!l

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, District of Waterbury, ss. Probate Court, September 36th, is32. ESTATE OF Ellen Daly, late of the Town of Waterbury, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the Dis trict of Waterbury, hath limited date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly at- tested within said time, will be de- barred a recovery. All persons in- debted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 WILLIAM DAILY, e.3O-3t Executor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
By ROBERT TALLEY NEA Servica Writer

NGh oCEVtGC WEAtCE
 (Copyright, 1882, NEA Servicer Incl
 on the very day that he disap- peared, Ambrose Small, Toronto's s Host millionaire" sold his chain of Canadian theaters for $1,750,000, deposited in his bank check for the $1,000,000 down payment and retired from the business he had entered 35 years before Rs a $10-a- week ticket taker.
 He vanished on December 2. 1919. That was nearly 13 years ago. Though $50.000 reward was offered by his wife and a world wide search was conducted, no trace of the missing millionaire ever was found.
 Canada's theater mogul left be- hind him an enigma as baffling as any shadowy mystery-drama ever enacted in any of his numerous theaters. Even to-day some of the Dominion's best detectives, who have worked on his case for years. do not know whether Ambrose Sman was murdered and his body destroyed or whether he went away voluntarily to that Port of Missing Men which beckons invit- ingly to unhappy souls.
 There is reason enough to be- lieve either theory.
 Small was tall, lean, hawk-like man with heavy black mustache. It appears that he had few enemies and, from all accounts, still fewer was John Doughty, his confidential z,.I ;rrI, 1a T v1 rr,hr knew his employers romantic se- crets. They had been associated made Asseveral million dollars, he for 1gyears and though Small had was paying his friend only $45 a week.
 About noon on the day of his dis neys consummated the sale of his theaters to a Canadian syndicate for $1,750,000. A check for $1,000,- 900 was given Small as down pay ment, and this he deposited in the Dominion Bank of Toronto. Then he had lunch downtown with his wife, visited Catholic orphanage with her and returned to his office about 3 p. m., saying he would be hoIae for dinner at 6.
 Between 8 and 5, employees of the Grand theater saw their retir- ing master in his private office. apparently winding up his affairs. At 5:30 he visited Lambs hotel next door, which was his custom before going home.
 And then he vanished. This day he didn't go home.
 Believing her husband was off on another gay party with woman friend, Mrs Small waited two weeks before she notified police. When no word of him came, she offered a reward of $500 which she ultimately increased to $50,000.
 In the meantime, Doughty had gone to Montreal, where Small had fiot him another theater job. at $75 a week. About the time that Mrs Small notified police, Doughty re- turned to Toronto-and then sud- denly followed his former employer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
PUBLIC AUCTION

Buy authority of the United States District Court, will sell at Public Auction all the merchan- disc, stock, fixtures and plant of the Colonial Bottling Co.,, Inc. (bankrupt) on the premises at 23S North Main Street, Waterbury, on Monday. October 3rd, at 200 p. m
 JAMES w. CARROLL, Esq, Lilley Building.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

into the ranks of mystery men. It now became a search for two men instead of one. In November, 1920, II months later, detectives found Doughty working in lum- Der camp in Oregon City, Ore, un- der an assumed name. A local constable had recognized him from circular broadcast by Toronto police. During Doughty's absence strange things had happened. De- tectives found that Doughty had twice visited Small's bank vault on the day the millionaire disappeared. and that $150,000' in bonds / had vanished. ....
 Brought back to Toronto. Doughty led police to the home of his sister and there, from hiding pulace in the attic, produced the $150,000 in bonds. His explanation was this: He had taken the bonds from his employers vault with the intention of going to Small and suggesting that the $150,000 would be a suitable reward for his long service. But. he added, Small dis appeared before he could do this and he Doughty had then decid- ed to keep the money, feeling that it was due him.
 Doughty was tried, convicted of larceny and sentenced to six years. A second indictment charging him with complicity in the Kidnapping of Ambrose Small was held over him by police. but not pressed. All mention of Kidnapping was omitted at his trial for larceny. He was freed from prison in February. 1926.
 Though they believed Small mur- dered, police never were able to find the bodys--On the theory that the remains had been burned, the theater furnace was searched and the ashes of the city dump sifted
 But the furnace had been cleaned long before the search was made and the ashes of the city dump
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
They NeDer Came Back-No. 5 -..
BANKED A MILLION, THEN VANISHED
13-Year Hunt For Theater
 Czar Futile

Colonel Raymond Robins, friend of President Hoover, has mystcri- ously vanished, joining the ranks of 5O,0OO persons who disappear an- nuaIly in the United States. This is the fifth of a series of six mys- tery classics of real life-tfose who never came back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Notice is hereby given that will be responsible from this date for only such debts as are contracted by myself.
 Dated at Waterbury, Connecticut, this 30th day of September, 1892. 9-30-3t THOMAS F. HAYES.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Business Announcements

BARRELS! BARRELS! BARRELS, Waterbury Coop. Co, Est 1907. Tel 5-1417. Barrels for fermenting, 20c up. New apple, wine and cider bar
 rels, oil drums. 245 Hamilton Ave.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
MINE DEVELOPMENTS
 VNCREACE

Boise, Idaho-Mining develop ments in the Atlanta district in the Boise forest have been so fast that additional schools are being opened this fall to care for the increased population. Taxes on improved property have increased consider ably to offset the additional costs of the school, authorities said.
 The body of a, full-grown ele phant contains about 70 gallons of pure oil. '.'..,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Insurance

FIRE INSURANCE-The cost of fire day. Can you afford to go without it? Think what it would mean to you and your family if you were burned out tonight. See Hayden's. 69 South Main St. Dial 3-8506.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Special Notices

INFIRMARY PRICES - Dentistry honestly meeting depression con- ditions. pr Whitright has always Waterbury. Plates, $8 up; gold crowns, $5 up; filings, $1 up; ex- fractions, $1 per tooth. Gas and ether administered in my office. pr s. L. Whitright, Dentist, 1856 East Main St. Dial 3-86S6. DOCTOR CARNEY = optometrist. Eye troubles-need glasses? Low est prices. Eyes tested. 177 Bank St. Tel. 4-7478.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Announcements
Special N Stices

0h specfal Notices KATHRYN JEAN MARTONE an- nounces her classes in dancing to begin Wednesday, October 9th, Mill Plain Grange Hall. Reasonable rates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

FIVE rooms, all modern improve
 ments. Price reasonable. 124 So. View St. Inquire 113 So. View St.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

CORNER CHESTNUT AVE and Ludlow street, rooms. Improve ments. Hot water heat. Close to church and school. Dial 3-9023.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Announcements
Lost ana Fonnd

LOST-Between Hillside Ave, Pros- pect St, and Exchange Pl, gold beads. Reward. Notify Tel 4-44S3. LOST-Small black coin purse with large sum money, Thursday a. n1.. near corner Hawkins and Bishop streets. Reward. Tel 4-3035 p. m. 9x12 RUG lost on Baldwin street Wednesday night. Reward. Phone 4-5748.
 LOST-Brown cocker spaniel in Overlook Section. Reward for re- turn to 29 Gordon St. Tel 3-9009.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

WILLOW ST, 1s3-4 rooms. 3rd floor. all improvements, 197 Will low street, 6 rooms, 2nd floor, all low St.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

yielded only bones that could not be identified as those of a human.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

WILLOW ST, 44-Very desirable reasonable rental Dial 4-2432.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

EAST MAIN ST.-Victoria Bldg, 3. 4 and rooms. Steam heat. In- uuire Bergin's Funeral Home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
For Rent Real Estate

A-Beautifully planned apartment of rooms; heat furnished. $so. 156 Boyden St. Dial 4-9809.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

WALL ST, 25-5 rooms, 1st floor, rent reasonable. Inquire house in rear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

WEST CLAY ST. 27-29--s rooms 1st floor, $40; 5 rooms 3rd floor, $50. Steam heat. All improve ments. Inquire in store.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

WATERTOWN - 3 room, modern apartment. Ideal location and sur roundings. Garage if desired. Also rooms on Main St, Oakville. All modern improvements. With or without garage. Inquire o. Hevey, Main St. off Cemetery, Watertown.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

WILLOW ST, 410-For rent, 5 desir- able rooms. all conveniences, very reasonable. Inquire End floor or phone 4-2432.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

EAST MAIN ST, 427-5 rooms, op- posite Scovill Mfg Co entrance. In- quire premises. J. W. Gaffney & Son,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

TENEMENTS-For rent, s15 to $40. All newly papered and painted. w. Fl. Hart. 20 East Main. Open eve- nings
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

s|SSMA.Ds', s.5|S,.M Is q. ,aS, S 'f.s Es.. ssss Gi Call lsssSs between [ and 7iso
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Merchandise
Good Things to Eat

THE Di Nunzio Cider Mill Is open on Main Street, Oakville, next to Smiths factory. Cider made Sc a gallon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

BATTERIES-Recharged soc; new batteries S3.75 up with old one: used tires $1 up. somma Tire & Battery Go. 234 East Main. Diai 3-5905.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

HUDSON COACH, s35; Nash Sedan, $45C; Ford Coupe, $125: Other bar gains. The Erwin M. Jennings %, Inc. Hudson & Essex Agency. 4SS Watertown Ave. Dial 4-5767.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Employment
Men Wanted

BOYS wanted to sell the Democrat after school Apply Circulation manager. The Democrat. bs Grand bt
The Washington times., 1932-02-16
frequent Colds?

seek short cut out of our trouble. We turn to
catharticS. To harsh laxatives. To violent, dam
gerouS pills.
But these are temporary measures. Doctors
most emPhatically warn us against them. And
in their place they recommend simple fresh
food that acts naturally and easily, restoring
The Washington times., 1932-02-16

enough. I didn't need tC see a
couple of million more and
travel all over the country to
confirm the famine"
Now He's Beau Gallant
He was in the Ruhr when the
French and BelgianS occupied
the WeStphalian industrial region
militarily to try to force Berlin
to pay reparations. He was IN
Rome for the coronation Of Pope
Plus XI apd narrowly escaped
death when, riding in Borghese
Park, spurred his mount ahead to
catch the runaway horse OF
celebrated American movie star,
also taking her morning canter.
Floyd covered the Red and
Socialist uprisings in Vienna, and
the CarliSt coup to restore the
Hapsburg dynasty in Budapest,
when the ex-emperor flew to
Hungary. He visited Rumanla
several times when the dying
King Ferdinand'S realm was beset
by danger Later he was present
in Spain in the earlier unsuccess-
full attempts of the Republicans
to force Alfonso to abdicate.
Then he undertook an African
expedition, leading his own cara
van straight across the Sahara
Desert, from Algiers to Colomb-
Bachar, thence to Timbuctoo, on
the Oxbow Of the Niger. He
traversed the dread waste zone,
going from post to post of the
French garrisons which dot the
"Bled." He followed the caravan
route by trailing he. bleached
bones Of men and camels who
had preceded him and who had
been engulfed by thirst and
hunger in the wilderness.
Luck From witch Doctor
His way took him across the
Tanezrouft, 1.-The country of
thirst" and over the Hoggar
The Washington times., 1932-02-16
By HENRY WALES

Events moved rapidly in the
decade after the war. Trouble
broke out all over the map.
Floyd Gibbons followed trou
Die everywhere. Occasionally he
accompanied it, sometimes he
even preceded it. He drove
across France and Germany in
an old Army automobile in 1920
70 handle the Kapp putsch.
Several times he dashed across
England to Ireland during the
black and tan" regime and the
Sim Fein troubles. He visited
Upper Silesia during the Kor.
fanty troub es, when Germans
and Poles were trying to insure
majorities in the forthcoming
plebiScite.
The next year he was in Po-
land when the Warsaw govern.
ment started its ill-fated drive to
seize the Ukraine from Red Rus
sia.
Came the Volga famine, and
Gibbons was in Riga. The United
States was preparing, under Her
bert Hoover, to try to feed the
starving population in Central
Russia. Maxim Litvinov was the
Soviet minister to Esthonia. Glib
bonS talked to him, convinced him
OF the need for publicity to speed
American aid. The two rode into
Moscow in the minister's private
car attached to the international
train.
Floyd was one of a party of
newspaper correspondents who
We're taken to the stricken regions
by the Communist authorities.
the inspection trip was to last
several weeks.
Gibbons saw enough starvation
and misery in half that time to
give him his copy. Saw the
corpses Of men, women, and chill
dren, stripped naked-the sur
survivors needed their ragged
clothing and boots-saw the
DONACO PAACu 11lIO BredC funeral
pyres and burned. 1t was impos
Sible to dig graves to bury them
= In the frozen ground.
Goes on to Moscow
So Gibbons quit the official in
veStigation party. He. left them
Hat without warning. He wanted
no rival correspondent to accom-
pany him, and made his way
alone and without credentials
across Russia in Europe to Mos
cow. There a telegraph wire was
open.
He scooped the world with that
series, wrote out the whole story,
and had it published before his
confrereS got back.
He explained later:
what saw of the conditions
Of . few hundred thousand
people in q tour covering a
couple of thousand miles was
The Washington times., 1932-02-16
SCHOOL CADETS
HAVE 50. UNITS

With the organization of two
additional companies, the cadet
corps Of the Washington high
schools now has greater mem
bership than at any time in its
history. it was revealed today by
Col. Wallace M. Craigie, professor
of military science and tactics in
the District schools.
Because of an increased mem,
berSip new companies were
formed at Central and Eastern
High Schools, bringing the total
number of companies to 80.
The previous record was set
in 1929, when 20 companies were
organized.
With the new school semester,
membership in the corps was in,
creased from 1900 to more than
1900.
At the present time, there are
eight companies at Central, five
at Eastern, nine at Mckinley, six
at Western and two at Business.
The Washington times., 1932-02-16

range. He lost 40 pounds and
grew a long red beard on that
trip, but he obtained his lucky
piece which he always has car
rico since.
An aged native chief, a witch
doctor, in Tammanrasset, in the
heart of the Sahara, high up in
the Hoggar Mountains, presented
him the curious object, about the
size Of an egg, apparently a
petrified nut.
From Timbuctoo he went down
the Niger to the Atlantic and
thence proceeded to Cape Town,
at the southern extremity of the
Dark Continent. He struck off to
Australia and Singapore from
there, and then continued on to
China.
At Shanghai news of the Riff
war against the French and
Spaniards reached him. He was
ordered to North Africa.
Two weeks later Gibbons was
in Fee. in Morocco where General
De Chambrun was preparing the
French offensive in liaison with
Gen. Primo Di Rivera, the Madrid
dictator. personally in command
of the Spanish troops.
Joins Moor Attack
Gibbons accompanied the con.
verging Franco-Spanish advance
against the warlike Moors, saw
their snipers pick off officers and
shoot down low.flying airplanes.
He was there when Abd-El-Krim
finally surrendered rather than
sacrifice the last of his indomit-
able tribesmen.
He lived in Germany for
months, getting first-hand intor.
nation Of Baron Richthofen, the
Red knight of Germany" then
passed a long period in England.
checking up on the victims Of the
supreme ace of the war.
Then he came back to America.
But not for long. Within few
months he was on an airplane
expedition, flying over the
Caribbean, visiting all the ports
and all the islands, studying
from the sky the living map Of
The Washington times., 1932-02-16
WHEN TROUBLE CRCLED THE GLOBE, SO DID GIBBONS

the next potential theater of
naval war for the United States.
He used this information in his
book, THE Red Napoleon"
Tomorrow The Washington
Times tOiH carry concluding
article on the life and activities
of FloNd Gibbons.
The Washington times., 1932-02-16

Floyd Gibbons knotDS phere
SaetnS Is going to break. HoD he
GtDGyS Is on the spot Dhere the
0te netOS is breaking is told in
the tollotoing chapter OF his life
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