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The Washington times., 1932-04-21

Syrup Pepsin. This gentle stimuIant
will soon right thingsl The bowels
will move with better regularity
and thoroughness. There won't be
so many sick spells or colds. You'll
find it just as wonderful for adults.
too, in larger spoonfulsl
Get some Syrup Pepsin; protect
your household from those bilious
days, frequent headaches, and that
sluggish state of half-health that
means the bowels need stimulating.
Keep this preparation in the home
to use instead of harsh cathartics
that cause chronic constipation if
taken too often. You can always
get DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin at
any drug store; they have it all
ready in big bottles.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
BANDS|NEN FAIL
DR.FRANCE IN
CANPA|GN
Hoover'S Rival for Nomination
Speaks on Street Corner
To Small Audience

BALTIM O R E, April 81.
The street corner speaking
campaign which DR.. Joseph
Irwin France hopes will win
him Baltimore's support for
the presidency started off none
too auspiciously last night, but
the Port Deposit dairyman In.
sists that tonight's arrange
ments will be flawless.
The former Senator was sched-
uled to start his torchlight cam.
paign at 7:3O last night, with
a truck equipped with amplifiers
and a brass band accompanying
him. But the man with the
truck had some motor trouble
and after DR.. France waited
vainly at his first speaking cor
ner for it, he had to tell his audi
ence, two policemen, the speech
was off.
The $3.50 speech at another
corner was also called off, and
it was 9 o'clock before Dr.
France finally got into action at
the third speaking point, with
the music still missing. About
so persons heard him, and the
presidential candidate shook
hands with them all before he
began his address.
DR.. France told his audience
that President Hoover's cohorts
had unfairly won his (France0
already pledged delegates away
from him, and that IAN organ
lied machine of brow-beaten Fed.
eral officeholders" was opposing
him. He added:
Hoover had to move. He
was undoubtedly advised by
his OfficehOlderS here that they
had the situation in hand and
that he might win. The short
ness of the time allowed me
for campaign, they thought,
would be to their advantage"
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
Farmers Plan NeIU
Mainland Grange

HAGERSTOWN, Md, April 81.
Plans have been laid for the Or
ganization of a new farmers
grange in the southern section Of
Washington county. Keedysville
farmers, fruitgrowers and their
wives met in that section recently
to hear addresses by I. Keller
Shank, secretary of the Letters
burg Grange, and Robert Rems-
berg, agricultural teacher of the
Boonsboro High School. A liter
airy and musical program was
conducted by Mrs. C. B. Ridenour
lecturer of the Leitersburg
Grange. A number of persons
signed as charter members Of the
new grange, which will be the
fourth one in the county.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
EX-SEN. FRANCE
ON MAY BALLOT

The names of former Senator
Joseph I. France, Of Port Deposit,
Md, and President Herbert Hoover,
in the order named, will appear
on the official ballot to be used
in the Republican primary cleo
ton, May 2, it has been decided
by the Montgomery Board Of Elec-
ton Supervisors.
Following the two names will be
a space where the voter can vote
for an uninstructed delegation. In
the same column and Immediately
following will be the names of
Linwood L. Clarke, of Annapolis.
and Wallace Williams, of Cecil
county, as candidates for the sena-
torial nomination.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
Nine COLUs Poisoned
On MARYLAND Farm

HAGERSTOWN, Md, April 81.
Nine valuable COWS belonging to
Leonard Forsythe, farmer living
near Big Pool, were found dead
and two others i'll in a field. A
veterinarian who examined the
COWS said they had been poisoned.
The cows were placed in the barn
at night. The following morning
the animals we're missed from the
stalls and search resulted in find
ing the COWS dead and i'll.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
N.V.A. Week Notes
Aid to Fox PLAYER

N. V. A. Week, now being OBJ
served here, took on an addi-
tional meaning today with the
announcement that Miss Louise
Cromwell, a member of the Fan
chon and Marco unit at the Fox
until she was stricken with ap-
pendicitis yesterday, is being aided
by the association while she is
recovering at George Washington
Hospital.
Telegraphic consent was OBJ
tanned from her parents in Los
Angeles for an operation, and the
N. v. A. has informed theater
officials that it will pay the costs.
Managing Director Harry w.
Crull, of the Fox, is also extend
ing every possible assistance.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
ENVOY
DUE On LEAVE

Interests by negro Republican
leaders will be stimulated upon
the arrival of Charles E. Mitchell,
American minister plenipotentiary
to Liberia, VINO is due soon on
a leave of absence.
Mitchell, who is also secretary
of the National Negro Republican
League, is slated to direct negro
activities for the Republican party
in the coming presidential CAM
paign. He is we'll known in the
ranks of the party and served
on the Harding commission which
made an investigation of the
Virgin Islands in 1921.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
Burglar to
Face Grand Jury

Thomas A. Lane, whom Airing
ton county police declare has
served time in Atlanta for man.
slaughter, yesterday was held for
grand jury action following a
charge that he broke into a gro
Gerry store near Clarendon. Lape
was arrested, county police said,
as he was crawling through a
basement window of the store.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
Marlboro Students
To Present 'Ken1DV

The annual play of the senior
class of the Upper Marlboro High
School will be held in Trinity
Hall, May 6. This year the class
will produce "Kempy."
The cast will include Helen
SaSScer. Robert Sasscer, Clara
Mae Klein, Cleveland Buck, Regi.
Maid Burroughs, Fannie Duley,
Katherine Gather and Robert
Gather.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
We'd March /, Man,
Since Deserted, Sues

Charging misconduct prior to
their marriage, and desertion,
Franklin R. Margerum, through
Attorney Stedman Prescott, Of
Rockville, has filed suit in Cir
cult Court at Rockville for
absolute divorce from Lille May
Margerum whom he married
March /, 1882. She is alleged
to have left him April 13.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
Commerce Chambers
Meet In Richmond

RICHMOND. April 21.-Prob-
lens of financing, of legislative
activities and policies, industrial
and agricultural programs of de.
velopment and of State publicity,
will be discussed at the annual
conference of State chambers Of
commerce here, April 81 to %.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
o. E. S. TO GIVE DANCE

Kensington Chapter. No. 80.
Order of the Eastern Star, will
sponsor dance in the Masonic
Temple at Kensington Saturday
night. For those who do not wish
to dance, card tables will be pro-
Vided.
The Washington times., 1932-04-21
BrOOkmOnt Civic
LeQque Has Election

The following were elected to
office by the Brookmont Civic
League, in Montgomery county:
Hubert Carlock, president;
Harry Eckloff, vice president;
Nelson Bennett, treasurer; Miss
Muriel Cuttings, recording secre-
tary, and Mrs. A. L. Anderson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-19

 lenislntion for presentation lo the next general assembly. They plan, however. to move slowly, realizing that many of the evils of the pres ent conditions are due to general economic factors.
 Perhaps the worst angle of the sweatshop evil Is the fact the pro- pfiefors are not grinding down their shelp to make exorbltnnt proi- it's but In many cases actually are operating close to the margin of profit. They cannot be compelled to raise wages and reduce hours without threatening them With bankruptcy
 Nevertheless. Tone says. indus tries which exist only by such methods are unwelcome in any community"
 Too. the sweatshops drag down the standards of legitimate opera tors, who are forced to lower their labor standards to meet the compe- titions said the commissioner.
 Tone and Couper estimated there are between 100 and 15O sweat : shops in Connecticut, at least so or 60 of which are located in New Ha- ven. Conditions here are the worst in the state, perhaps because of it's position with relation to New York;" Tone said. The shops come in from New York, hire u few girls and begin work. In few months they change their names and move to another city or section of the city.
 The law provides no effective regulation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-19

belief, his friends spoke freely. They asked particularly why fl Curtis wanted to withdraw from the negotiations, so-calied, on March IS, he did not do so--a week before he motored Peacock and Burrage to Hopeweil to see ' Colonel Charles A. LindberHh. Nothing had been published about his activities then, ana he alone admittedly knew If they were
 TO the charge that Peacock urged" pressed" and "encour- aged" Curtis. they asked who would not have encouraged, urged and pressed anyone to continue ne- gotiations on however slender q thread they were based, if they gave any hope whatever of return, ing the Lindbergh baby to its par ents.
 As for the publicity, 1t may as well be said that all the Norfolk negotiators seemed obviously--at first--to enjoy 1t. What ordinary human being would not? They posed for cameras, and they gave out grandoise statements and por- tentous hints, but he would be a glutton for publicity who did not become satiated, as all three Nor folk negotiators seemed obviously to be, after the first fortnight of sleep murdered by dangling telephone bells. and homes beseiged day and night by 'clamoring reporters.
 It Is easy In times of excitement for men to say things susceptible of garbling. It was not manufac- ture, as. Curtis said through the police, but muddling.
 The deans home Was under guard because late last night a hard looking man demanded en- trance. He wanted to see the dean. Mrs Peacock told the man to wait. H. c. Lancaster, who lives with the | Peacock's was called and asked the visitors name.
 The man ran down the stairs, jumped on the running board of n motor car that was moving along slowly waiting for him. and went away. Mrs Peacock and Marjoi .e, the deans debutante daughter, were badly frightened.
 Curtis was under a default Judgment for $400 to-day, upon complaint of Mrs Lewis Ellison, widow of an employe at Curtis boatyard. that he failed to pay all of q $1,000 insurance policy. en- dorsed to him for cashing, on her husbands life.
 John M. Arnold, commonwealth attorney, continued his considera- ton of the question of prosecuting Curtis on charges of false pre- tences, attempted eAtortion, or giving false information, he said that so far he had received no in- dication that Curtis had committed any offense here,
 Peacock later consented to ex- plain his connection with the $25,- 900 deposit asked of Lindbergh. He said Curtis told him the mythical kidnapers wanted $25,000 deposit ed in Norfolk In joint account of Curtis, Admiral Burrnge, and him. self The money was not to be paid over Co the kidnapers. Pea- cock said Curtis told him. until af- ter Colonel Lindbergh had ex- pressed his complete satisfaction that his baby had been returned safely and well. At Curtis sug- gestion, Peacock said he went to Hopewell and put the proposition to Colonel Lindbergh who was un- convinced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-19

guilty of the commission of tie crime aforesaid"
 If convicted, Curtis Is subject to a prison term of three years and 1000 fine as the crime Is a mis- deameanor in New Jersey. The case will not go to a grand Jury for some time. { Recorder George Webster of Bennington presided, as the charge was read by the prosecutor and Curtis was asked if he wanted a hearing. re
 n waive hearing" he re- piled.
 The boat builder was taken Into an automobile which reached Bennington about 6:30 D. m. Hauck Webster, two state troop CTS. and detective accompanied him.
 Curtis, neatly dressed in a gray suit and hat, appeared nervous ns the automobile passed through the town with several hundred inquisi- tive townspeople looking on. There was no demonstration.
 Hauck asked the jailer to sec that Curtis was well cared for.
 T thank you" the ship builder replied.
 Hauck then shook hands and asked Sheriff Wcan for receipt. which Wean wrote with pencil and paper, as follows:
 Received. one John Curtis in good condition"
 Curtis was taken to cell 2 on the second floor. He was asked if he had eaten dinner, and replied no. A meal of bean soup, bread and fried potatoes was placed be- fore him.
 Warden Anderson placed con stable on guard nt the cell t0 pre- vent Curtis from harming him self. This was on the strength of rumors yesterday that he would try to do 50. and reports that a year ago he had attempted suicide as result of his financial troubles.
 The jail, a five-year old struc- ture. is an annex to the court house built in colonial days and remodelled few years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-19

miraI Burrage about it and it was [ agreed at that time that in the flu. ture Admiral Burrage would han. dle the publicity and that noth- ing but real facts as delivered by me wuold be released for publica. | ton. Even in view of this agree ment the dean was responsible for stories that were unfounded and | untrue.
 '"The stories that are now made much of arc stories that appeared in the public press and he was quoted for, in addition to the stories which he related to the press, stating that he had been held up by gangsters on the eighth floor of q hotel in the city of New York on his visit to that city to meet me.
 "f made mention to Admiral Burrage upon by return to Nor folk that. in my opinion, 1t was an- other bid for publicity on the part of Dean Peacock, which was his general attitude throughout the case, continuously craving public fly.
 "Eithcr said or the dean said that if this case breaks from an- other angie we can only say we were working on a clue and the dean said, That's right. We can never get criticized on anything we did,
 "i know from my experience with the dean that the only in- terest that he had throughout this entire matter was one of satisfying his desires for publicity and the
 moro that he got the better he liked It."
 The arraignmcntr of Curtis. the society man, business man of the Virginia city which hoped for fame from his exploits, was dramatic |.even though conducted with no fanfare on the Llndbcrgh estate. Curtis had been n guest there; during the days in which he was questioned he had been q virtual prisoner; he had come to Hope well at the request of the colonel, himself, just after the latter had learntd hls baby was murdered learned of the murder while chns. Ing a phantom ship manned by [ desperate crew concocted in Cur. tis' mind.
 Col Schwnrzkopf, and a grour of detectives and federal agents who directed the questioning whicf brought the Curtis confession were present. So was Col Lind bergh. although tho latter did no participate in the hearing.
 The complaint was sworn to b,
 Prosecutor Anthony II. Hauck O
 Hunterdon county. It said th'
 Lindbergh baby had been mur
 dcred in East Amwcll townshil
 March 1, and that Curtis on Ma! 13, "being within the state of Nev
 Jersey for the purpose of hinder
 ing the apprehension of the per son or persons guilty of the salt
 crime. did knowingly give fals'
 and untrue reports of the person
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-19
Alleged Three Waterbury Men
 Confiscated Truck
Driver for New Haven Company Held Up at Point of Gun Near Cheshire Claims Two of Men Drove Truck to This City and Disposed of Cargo, While Third Kept Him Prisoner

been robbed. It was another hour or more before the New Haven police undertook the case. 1t was not until this morning thn the Waterbury police were asked to assist in the probe. The Elm City detectives were accompanied about the city by Detectives Will liam Foley and Connie Shannahan.
 Ennis. in charge of the truck, left New Haven about 2 o'clock for Hartford. Near Cheshire he was obliged to bring his machine to a standstill when n car contain ing three men pulled in front of his machine and came to stop. With gun pressed against his ribs Ennis was forced to follow the machine in which two of the trio were riding. (. After travel ing along the Cheshire Waterbury road he was compelled to turn into side road and continue for some distance. Two of tho men took his truck and drove to Waterbury. They returned with the machine about 6 o'clock and permitted En- his to start for New Haven. They followed him for some distance and then disappeared.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-19

l
 tions. To date no cases of rabies | have been reported and apparent ly the animals failed to come into direct contact with any human be. ings.
 | Warden O'Loughlln checking back on reports and complaints filed by anxious residents, particu- larly owners of dogs, has obtained sufficient information to file n com- pIete record of the cases. Both dogs were killed and their heads sent to the state board of health in Hartford for examination. POs- tive evidence was found to con- firm tho suspicious of the local off, clals as to rabies. It seems re- markablc that some person was not attacked and bitten by the mad cantncs.
 The start of the exciting incident was in Mlddlobury. A dog owned by n resident of NnGgatuck had been loaned to q friend In Middlcbury. On starting on Its wild rampage It raced through Watertown and Onkville. Near the Isolation hospl- tai on Watertown avenue it at- lacked and bit q dog owned by a resident Of the cast end. This nni. maj was observed later in that sec ton of the city. acting In susp!c- ious way. A short time later it developed a case of rabies and had to he killed.
 During the scare pt the request Of Health Officer Godfrey nearly 25 persons visited tho health depart. mont as a matter Of precaution and were given an injection of serum.
 So many wild reports were cjr- culated about the animal and It's antics in the east end that many persons were considera bly, alarmed. The prompt action of the health officials and the dog warden won comments of approval from the state health department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-19
POLICE PROBE TOBACCO HI- LACKING
John J. RaskOb
 in Market Deal
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first witness. William Gray, com. mittee counsel, announced ht would tell of the huge radio pool during the boom days of 1929 and "explain some of the things that need explanation"
 With Bragg in the witness chair Gray read to the committee the re. suits of an investigation which he had been conducting during the re. | cess in the committee hearings Raskob put up S1,000,000 in tht radio pool and made $2e1,7f0 | Gray said. Others who profited were Charles M. schwab, Herbert B. swope, W. F. Kenny. Nicholas K. Brady, F. J. Moro and Mrs D. Sarnoff, wife of the head of the Radio Corporation.
 Gray said the pool participants put up, through W. E. Hutton and Company, $9.667,500 for 551.500 shares of Radio stock and split an aggregate profit of $3.217,570 | Gray read the syndicate agree. ment, limiting its operators 10 l.. 900, ,O00 shares at any one time. The managers were 10 receive 10 per cent of the profits. e l Bragg said he was the pool man. ager. He was in Florida during the pool operation. however. and intimated that M. J. Meehan actu- ally was in charge of the market transactions.
 "You were in Florlda?" Gray said. "Who got the money?"
 "I got my shaS of It," Brage said.
 Bradley, Kenny and Raskot were among those who put up the maximum of $1,000,00 Moro whose home Is in New York. was said by gray to have profited $S7,- 513, although he had put no fundi Into the pool.
 Percy A. Rockefeller and James A. Stillman put up $75,000 each and each profited by $29,l71. Gray
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-19

$ Lieutenant William Schatzman of the state police barracks at Bea- con Falls and members of the New Haven detective bureau were m Waterbury to-day investigating the report that three Waterbury men hi-jacked a tobacco truck on the Cheshire Waterbury road yesterday afternoon and escaped with cargo of s1,500. Three hours after they placed Henry Ennis, an employe of the New Haven Tobacco company, in the custody of n guard In the woods off . country road between this city and Cheshire. two of tho trio returned tho truck. They had disposed of the tobacco in Wa. terbury, apparently.
 It was sometime later before Ennis complained to the authori. ties of Mount Carmel that he had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-19
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 DObsOn-Pe
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vestry meeting. He was informed just before midnight of Curtis al- legations that he had violated con- fidenccs. and manufactured news in his avidity for front page display.
 Admiral Guy 1T. Burrage, brought into the negotiations along with Peacock. Is n vestryman. Pea cock talked with him then decided to make no reply whatever. He did send the following reply to Colonel II. Norman Schwarzk opf's invitation to go to Hopewell, for questioning by state police:
 Replying to your telegrams of yesterday and to-day requesting my presence in Hopewell. I stand ready, at such time as you may SC . lect, to meet at Norfolk you or Governor Moore's representative and will fully and freely give all information in my possession per- taining to the subject.'
 It is the fact that this method of dealing with the situation is an indication of the feeling here that Curtis has been subjected to q six day third degree by police. Pea cocks friends. advising him not " SV " tbSpt"Viit poibtNh o6b tiat Curtis denunciation of him came just after more yelled criticism by SchwartZkopf.
 An ironic phase of Curtis state- ment Is that while he was writing 1t his father and two brothers were at the denn's home, 10 thank Mrs Peacock for her sympathy and help. Mrs Curtis telephones her G al An n 0h t0t tp Mrs Curtis frequently.
 Strangely, too, Curtis never knew Peacock until he went to the deans home and asked him to help reach Lindborgh with 1the story of his "clue" to tho kidnap- ing w
 While Peacock would not reply to Curtis, partly because he was unwilling to add to his troubles partly because he seems to share the popular bolief that Curtis was forced to say some things against hts will, and perhaps against his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-19

 and Irene, months. Bodies of the mother and the two older chiI. dren lay on q bed. The baby, body was in a carriage beside the bed.
 Neighbors said that until recent. iy the McGintys had lived q nor. mai happy life like the average American family in moderate cir cumstances. They lived in mod. est tenement on the second floor of . two-family dwelling on Brad ford street. The husband. a plumber. worked for the General Electric company and. when work became slack, did odd jobs about town.
 In recent weeks McGinty had had no work, and on May he vanished. leaving no word for hls wife as to his whereabouts or his plans
 Mrs McGinty kept on with her housew0rk, confidently telling neighbors that her husband had gone out Of town in quest of n job But she heard nothing from him.
 Last night she put the children 10 ped. After completing her iron ing, police reported. she turned wide open both oven jets of her kitchen gas range Then she en. tered the bedroom adjoining the kitchen and lay down with her children.
 This morning the family down stairs was puzzled over the silence of the McGlnty fiat. Whom their knocks at the door brought no re. spanse, they called police. who forced entrance. The police. tn turn. notified Medical Examiner Albert C. England, who reported IL a cnse of suicide
 Tn the tenement was s2 In cash ana n small amount of food, Mrs McGInty's ironing. neatly folded. lay2on D chair. There was no fare- well note.