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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-14
FORD PRAISES HOOVER

Says He's Man Best Fitted for Presi-
dency of U. S.
By United Press
DETROIT, June 14.-Henry Ford
reiterated today his belief that
President Hoover is the best fitted
man to be chief executive of the
country during the next four years
held that he will be reelected.
The Millionaire added to this pre-
diction, his opinion that the politi-
cal conventions this month and the
issues raised there, will have no eff
feet on the economic recovery.
Our job today" said Ford, sis
to quicken our buying demand,
which in turn will give men work
and reverse our downward course. .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-14
ADJOURNMENT is NEAR
McNary Thinks Congress May Finish
Work Saturday.

WASHINGTON, June 14.-Con-
gress may be able to adjourn Satur-
day, Senator McNary (Rep., OreJ
assistant majority floor leader, said
today after conference with Pres
ident Hoover.
He predicted a speedy senate de-
feat for the Patman bouns bill fol-
lowed by hasty cleaning up of
other legislation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-14
GIRL, BURNED
IN GASOLINE
BLAZE, DIES
Orphan Was Using Fluid to
Take Paint From
Window.
BODY A HUMAN TORCH
She Had Placed Soaked
Rag on Stove; Blaze
Leaps to Can.

Miss Bonnie Higgins, 19-year-old
orphan who had no memory of a
father or mother, died Monday
night, twelve hours after suffering
burns from gasoline at the home of
c. Harold Braun, 4611 East Twelfth
street, where she was employed as a
domestic.
The girl was using gasoline con-
tanned in can while attempting to
remove paint from kitchen
window. She placed gasoline
soaked rag on a gas stove and it
was ignited by the pilot flame.
Flaming drops reached the can
which was beneath the stove and
ignited the contents.
Richard Braun, 2, suffered burns
on the legs and an arm when the
girl threw the flaming can from the
house. She tossed it above the
child but some of the flaming liquid
dropped.
Mrs. Braun and son just were
entering the house from the back
yard when the girl, with her cloth
ing in flames, threw the can.
Screaming to Miss Higgins to lie
on the floor and roll herself in a
rug, Mrs. Braun seized her son ano
ran into the house. Miss Higgins
ran out the front door, fell to the
ground and rolled to the street
There she arose and began run
ming, her clothes still flaming.
Boyd Goldman, 1O49 Bosart ave-
nue., a passerby, seized the girl and
succeeded in smothering the flames
with a rug. DR.. Ernest Warnock
Long hospital inferno, who was
graduated Monday from the Indiana
university school of medicine, and
was a guest at 1116 Bosart avenue
gave first aid and took the girl to
st. Francis hospital.
Body Is Scared
Her body was scared from the
waist down and skin was burned
from an arm. She died shortly be-
fore II Monday night. Until about
three hours before her death, she
was conscious. She was burned
about II Monday morning.
Miss Anna Barton, 1886 North
Meridian street, only known close
friend of the dead girl, said Miss
Higgins told her that her earliest
recollection was of being an inmate
of an orphanage near Evansville
when she was or years old.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-14
see by that time, to go to the
Stadium at p. m.


Stadium at l p. m.
THERE Mother" Mooney
i planned to buttonhole Gov
ernor Rolph and plead with him.
Her plea, she said, would be:
My son, Tom, has asked me to
come to Chicago TO see you and
ask you why you keep him in
jail after sixteen years when the
whole world knows he is inno-
cent"
why did President Hoover say
he had no power to help Tom
when his government forced the
release Of Lieutenant Massie, a
confessed murderer"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-14
OPEN BIDS ON BRIDGES
Work to Include Construction of
"a Spans in State.

Bids on thirty-four bridges in
thirteen counties were opened by
the state highway commission today.
Total low bids was $3.50, 1861.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-14
GUST JOHN DIS PICTURE
nti-SalOOn League Takes Portrait
of "Wet" From Office.
By United Press

of "Wet" From Office.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, June IA. - The
Anti Saloon League has hauled
down large portrait of John D.
Rock afeller Jr., which for years
adorned its Washington headquar-
tiers.
Rockefeller, a financial supporter
of the league, came out recently for
prohibition repeal.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
DEMOCRATS TO RALLY

Democrats of the Eighteenth
district of Prince Georges county
will hold a rally in Watkins Hall,
Seat Pleasant, on Monday night.
Senator Millard Tydings and Rep
resentative Stephen Gambrill will
address the meeting.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
:X-PASTORSUES
FOR SANDER

RICHMOND. Va, Sept. %.
Is the Virginia State supreme
ourt of appeals granted a writ
f error to the Rev. J. Arthur
Vim. now of Washington. and
ormer pastor of a Danville, Va.
Methodist church on appeal from
onviction on charges involving
immortality concerning member
his congregation, the ex-min-
ster filed suit here against the
kev. Thomas Rosser Reeves, D.
b., pastor of Central Methodist
hurch, alleging DR.. Reeves SLAM
cred him in connection with the
hurch trial which unfrocked
VIM in 1881. Notice of inten-
ion to seek $4,000 damages was
lied.
Allen said that Dr.. Reeves was
PROSECUTOR at the church trial,
Ihich was secret. The Rev.
Eeorge E. Booker, D. D., of Rich
1ond. presided at the trial, but
% details were made public, save
he final announcement that
the committee of trial in the
ase of the Rev. J. A. Winn
ave found the accused guilty
nd fixed his penalty at expul,
ion from the ministry and mem,
ership of the Methodist Episco-
BAL Church, South.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
RAID ON LUMBER.
N|PS STUDENTS

ANNAPOLIS, Mo-, Sept. %.
Two students at ST. Johns Col
lege, w. R. Miller and Charles P.
Hebb, were in Jail last night for
taking lumber and wooden furn-
ishings from homes on ar1sto-
cratic Prince George Street.
The material was to be used
for the historic bonfire the stu
dent body burns just before the
John Hopkins game. About 20
of the college youths went forag-
ing for lumber and removed a
quantity of boards from the city
dock.
Police were called and began
hunting for them when they got
call that doors, benches and
stools were being taken from
homes on Prince George Street.
All but two of the boys escaped.
Police Commissioner Thomas
Basil ordered charges Of destroy
ing private property dismissed
against the youths on condition
they would be disciplined by the
college authorities.
Last year 13 students from the
college were fined for throwing
bricks at a city fire truck. The
episode also occurred in connec-
ton with Johns Hopkins game.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
RECORD ROSTER
At MARYLAND j.

The largest body Of students
ever to attend the University of
Maryland today began the long
grind that leads through the fall,
winter and spring months to the
June closing.
Authorities at the school pre-
dicted that registration would far
exceed the previous record OF
100, set last year. Freshman
registration alone is more than
100 greater than last year and
upper-class registration is running
we'll ahead of the 1881 figure.
At a general assembly of
students yesterday, the new stu
dents were instructed in the stu
dent government plan by student
officers and faculty members
Ralph Williams. president of the
student assembly. presided. On
the speaking list were H. C.
Curly" Byrd. vice president Of
the university: Prof. Charles S.
Richardson, head of the public
speaking department.; and Dr.
A. N. johnson. dean OF the en-
gineering college.
The freshmen had been Off
cially welcomed at a reception
given by President Raymond A.
Pearson Wednesday night.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
WORSH|PPERS
WIN CASE

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 23.-
Residents near Holiness Church
of God. colored, are unwilling to
suffer for righteousness
A delegation from the North
Sixth Street neighborhood ap-
peared before Justice T. Gray
Haddon to ask that he relieve
them of their sufferings and to
restrain the church members from
shouting. jumping, clapping their
hands and beating tambourines
and cymbals. There used to be
a drum, too, but Preacher An
drew Davis said this had been
stopped when complaints became
too furious sometime ago.
According to Preacher Davis
and his congregation, their Serv-
ices are considered along Old Tes'
lament lines, when the beating
Of cymbals and 'tambourines and
shouting the praises of the Lord
were a part of the ceremony.
Preacher Davis said, moreover,
that his preaching is anywhere
from Genesis to Revelations, and
does not stray from the Bible.
Property owners in the neigh
borhood testified that Brother
Davis and his congregation made
so much noise that it constituted
a nuisance.
The case was dismissed.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
FOREST WARDEN
ARRESTED: AS
POACHER
Fight PreCedeS Capture OF
H. J. Forney on Re-
StriCted Preserve

Arrested after a sharp tussle
with Deputy Game Warden
Tyler NJ. Birch yesterday, State
Forest Warden H. J. FOrney is
to appear in Hyattsville police
court Wednesday to face a
charge of hunting on a State
game refuge.
The offense is said by Birch to
have occurred on the estate Of
Leander Mccormick Goodhart,
commercial secretary of the Brit
ish legation, near Hyattsville.
Known as Langley Estate, the
McC Cormick- -Goodhart property was
offered to the State several years
ago for use as q game refuge.
Game Warden Birch said that
he found Forney hunting squirrels
there yesterday and that the for
est warden attempted to escape.
Captured after a short chase, For
ney broke away and ran, Birch
said. The game warden said he
overlook him a second time,
wrested his loaded gun from his
hands and subdued him after a
short struggle.
Forney was released on his
promise to appear in police court
Wednesday for a hearing.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
Our LeonardtOwn
: Correspondent

LEONARDTOWN. Nd, Sept.
3.-Sometimes the clerk of the
St. Mary's County Court plays
nursemaid and the other day in
Court Clerk Joseph M. Mat
tingly made quite a picturesque
sight holding in his arms young
baby while its mother testified
in the assault and battery charge
on her husband, William P.
Latham. of Compton. The court
tried to get a reconciliation in
this case but the woman refused
to go back to her husband and
he was found guilty and fined
$25 and costs. When the mother
had stepped down the clerk
handed her back her baby
wrapped in a pink blanket, and
went about his court duties. The
witness chair is rather high and
she could not testify we'll with
the baby in her arms.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
HURLEY REBUKE
DUE To GIBBONS

The dramatic speech of Floyd
Gibbons, war correspondent on the
eviction of the bonus army here
was the inSpirat ton for the Ameri-
can Legion convention resolution
censuring the War Department
Tor the speech of Secretary Hur-
ley.
John Lewis Smith, national ex-
ecutive committeeman of the Dis
trict Department of the Legion,
made this declaration in submit
ting his report of the organiza-
tion's national convention to the
department executive committee
Mr.. Smith described Gibbons
speech as the most. dramatic he
had ever heard
Frank A. Connolly was named
by the committee as chairman Of
the department membership COM
mittee.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
PARTY DIVIDED
ON INDICTED
LEADER
New Chairman May Be
Named to End EmbarraSS-
ment of Committee

Announcement of meeting
of the Democratic State central
committee for Montgomery
county Monday night at Rock
vile by Berry f. Clark,
chairman of the county COM
mittee, to consider campaign
plans, further cOmplicates the
political situation in the
county.
Clark, former clerk to the
county commissioners, and. a
county organization Democrat, was
charged with embezzlement OF
county funds and the grand jury
returned 81 indictments against
him.
When he was tried early in
June. his legal staff contained
Republicans and two anti-organi-
zation Democrats. Sympathy of
many of the organizations" op-
ponents went out to him. There
was talk of him being made the
goat" His attorneys told the
jury that he was being made to
share the burden for others, and
politics was injected into the
arguments.
Hung Jury Freed
A jury, after celebrating for
18 hours, was dismissed by Judge
Robert B. Peter of the circuit
court after it could reach no
agreement. At the conclusion Of
the deliberations, the jury was re-
ported to have stood IL to l for
acquittal.
States Attorney Stedman Pres
colt filed a petition along with
81 affadavits from citizens of
the county, most of whom were
organization men, that fair
trial for the State in this matter
could not be had in Montgomery
county and the politics was bound
to enter. The three judges of
the circuit court overruled the
motion.
Writs Still Stand
Meanwhile, the indictments
still hang over Clark and he may
be tried on one of the counts
in November.
He has called a meeting of
the Democrats, and the States
Attorney along with other prom
inent officials would normally
attend such a meeting. A high
county Democrat said, however,
that a new chairman can be
appointed if be thought best.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
6 COUNTIES GET
NEW ROADS

BALTIMORE, Sept. 23.-Nine
contracts for road projects in six
counties. involving total cost OF
$151,131.88, have been awarded
by the State roads commission.
The counties to benefit are
Wicomico, Charles, washington,
Frederick, Cecil, and Talbot.
L. R. Waesche g. Sons, of Thur
mont, Md. will build for $56.-
Bills a 6.93-mile stretch of con-
crete shoulders along the Taney-
town-Emmitsburg Pike from the
Carroll county line to the Penn
sylvania border.
The Interstate AmiOSite Com
pany. of Wilmington. Del. will put
a bituminous surface on the road
between Easton and Cambridge
for $36.351.
Frank Byron, Of Baltimore. for
$23,238.70. will build 1.08 miles
of macadam road along the Big
Pool-Clear Spring Road near
Clear Spring. Washington county.
For $9,733.03. Mccullough
Brothers. of Linthicum Heights.
will spread gravel along the Pts
gah-IronSide and the PiSgah-Plata
roads for 2.03 miles.
Phillips Brothers. of Salisbury,
for $19,578. will build 1.32 miles
of road from Allen toward Upper
Ferry in Wicomico county.
T. F. Watts, of Baltimore. for
$1.432. will lay a timber sidewalk
adjacent to the arch bridge over
Little Elk Greek at Elkton, Cecil
county.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
SERVES BEFORE SENTENCE

Convicted before Police Court
Judge Charles w. Woodward in
Rockville yesterday of disorderly
conduct, Walter Henderson, col
ored, was sentenced to four days
in Jail he had already served.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
TWO Held for Trial
After Raid on Still

Frank Dent and James Belt.
both of Forestville. were placed
under $1,000 bond by U. S.
Commissioner j. Frank Parran,
at Upper Marlboro yesterday,
after arraignment on charges of
manufacture and possession of
liquor.
Federal agents declared that
they found the men near a
35O-gallon still. They seized 18
gallons of alleged whisky.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
Parks Lodge Picks
NeU Officer Roster

The Public Buildings and Pub.
lie Parks Lodge of the American
Federation of Government EN-
ployes has elected the following
officers: Elmer H. Bailey, presi-
dent; w. H. Ireland, w. F.
O'Donnell, F. G. Cockrell, w. S.
Grim, vice presidents: N. J. Cum
ningham, secretary: w. S. Blank
enship, treasurer: r. D. Trussell,
Sergeant-at-arms; Mrs. E. H.
Brooks. Mrs. r. K. Cockrell, r,
C. Mccall, trustees; Joseph Nc
Closky, L. C. Potteiger, conven-
ton delegates.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
LutheranS Gather
At Historic Church

MADISON, Va, Sept. 23.-He-
bron Church. one of the oldest in
the State, is the meeting place
today for the Winchester Confer
ence of the Lutheran Synod. This
ancient landmark has a pewter
communion service and an organ,
both said to be more than two
centuries old. Both came from
England. the organ having been
hauled from Philadelphia in an
oxcart. Rev. C. K. Rhodes is pas
tor.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
Wife Seeks Divorce
CUSTODY of Child

Charging desertion. Elizabeth
Hardesty, of Croome, Md, yes
terday filed suit for an absolute
divorce from Earl Gray Hardesty
in Circuit Court at Upper Marl-
boro.
According to the petition filed
by Attorney J. K. Roberts. the
couple were married in March,
1924, and separated a year later.
They have one child, Leonard,
whose custody Mrs. Hardesty
seeks. Mrs. Hardesty also asked
that she be permitted to resume
her maiden name, Sarah Eliza
beth Smith,
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
RPHAN FINDS
HIS RELATIVES

BALTIMORE. Md. Sept. %
CU.SD Howard Lusk, Is, who
six times fled an orphan asylum
at jackson, Miss. and roamed
the country seeking relatives he
had never seen and a sister from
whom he had been separated 10
years. has finally had his per-
SiStence rewarded.
Through the Travellers Aid So
ciety of Baltimore, to whom he
was turned over on his last
flight from the asylum, he has
been put in touch with his
maternal grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Roy. who live on
a ranch at Monroe, Ark. He
left today to join them.
Furthermore, through assist
ance of Los Angeles police the
sister was located, living with a
distant relative of her father.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
ANGLER FINED

Charged with illegal fishing
Lewis Lowe was fined $25 and
costs yesterday in Rockville Pc
lice Court by Judge Charles w
Woodward.
The Washington times., 1932-09-23
GLEN ECHO PIT. MEET

Miss. Hulda Brust, primary
school supervisor, will outline
primary grade work to members
Of the Glen Echo-Cabin John
Parent-Teacher Association at it's
first fall meeting Monday eve
ming. A reception for the faculty
will follow.
Evening star., 1932-12-02

reckless driving, after he Is said to have
led policeman a chase of four miles
through Southeast Washington wednes-
day night.
The officer, Benjamin r. Bean, third
precinct, was of duty and riding on
Good Hope road southeast with his wife
when Rarm's machine coilided with
his, hetestified. Bean pursued the auto
mobile, firing three shots during the
course Of the chase.
Raum told Judge Schuldt the reason
he did not stop sooner was because he
did not know he was being pursued hy
a policeman.
Evening star., 1932-12-02

paid in currency. and that deed be-
tween the companies stipulated rentals
were to be paid in bullion or its equiv
alent in gold.
The power company sought to recover
$29,511. Judge Mcclellan held that
the plaintiff had not sustained its case.
and that the plaintiff did not establish
that a contract under seal. stipulating
for payments in silver, had been re-
scinded by the practice of the defend
ant in paying in currency. Counsel for
the power company announced they
would appeal.
Evening star., 1932-12-02

when Judge Hugh D. Mcclellan found
for the defendant in the suit Of the
Holyoke waterpower Co. against the
American Writing Paper Co.
The suit resulted from the defend
ants tender on January 1, 1881, July
/, 1881, and January /, 1882, Of rental
payments in silver bullion, claiming this
right from deeds or agreements back
as far as 1859.
The power company declined to &C
cept bullion on the ground the value
of silver had deprecated, and con-
tended since 1901 the defendant had
Evening star., 1932-12-02

thew Trimble, jr., q retired business
man of Kensington, Md.
Sale Of the property was negotiated
for Mrs. Frank Let's of Washington by
Harvey L. Jones, vice president Of San
doz, Inc.
The original manor house. of brick
nogg" construction, covered with
weatherboards, which has stood since
the days when it belonged to neighbors
of the CAROLS and the Sewalls, still re-
mains on the Stratton acres in fine con-
dition. Surrounding it are ancient
trees and shrubs and a lawn extending
down to beach of Chesapeake Bay, on
Evening star., 1932-12-02

which the place Is located about one
mile below the mouth Of the Patuxent
River. adjoining Cedar Point.
Three hundred acres of land, en-
bracing two fresh water lakes, are in
cluded In the estate 1t extends along
the water front almost a mile.
Evening star., 1932-12-02
Thunderstorm RAYS Found.

Evidence that thunderstorms give off
rays Of great penetrative force, sup
posedly generated by lightning, is an
nounced by two South African scien-
lists
Evening star., 1932-12-02
HISTORIC OLD ESTATE
PURCHASED BY TRlMBLE

xensington Man Buys Stratton,
with Original Manor House, Built
in Colonial Days
Stratton, an historic Southern Mary
land estate built about 1890 by settlers
Who obtained their land patents from
Lord Baltimore, has been sold to Mat
Evening star., 1932-12-02
SILVER BULLION OFFER
OF RENT IS UPHELD
Holyoke Power Co. Fails to Re-
cover $26, 6,511 in Suit Defend
ed Under 1859 Law.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, December 2.-The pay
ment of rentals in silver bullion was
upheld in Federal District Court
Evening star., 1932-12-02
DRIVER GETS 80 DAYS
AFTER 4-MILE CHASE
Accused Of Reckless Driving After
His Car Collided With Police
mans in Southeast.

James ]. Raum, 1900 block of Prout
street southeast, was sentenced to 80
days in jail by Judge Gus A. Schuldt in
Trafic Court yesterday on charges OF
Evening star., 1932-12-02
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the recipients of your
gifts.
Evening star., 1932-12-02
Christmas
CARDS
Ceuothane
Wrapped
for 29c

HESE cards are really
worth l5c apiece! Here you
have a wide assortment. The
packages contain cards of the
same design. This is a splen-
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packages, 81.
Evening star., 1932-12-02
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-17

place in the near future is the Or
ganization of cub packs, designed
for smaller boys, and occupying
the place of the scout troops.
Clubbing is an activity recently
taken over by the national council
and is designed for boys between
the ages of 9 and IL. Two packs
are already in the process OF Or
ganization, one in the Yuma Meth
odist church and one in the To-
cal Presbyterian church.
H. E. Lounsbury, Scout execu-
tive, states that the clubbing pro-
gram is meeting with widespread
approval and enthusiasm and is
playing an important part in the
development OF boyhood.
Another project which will soon
be under way is the scout leaders
and troop committeeman. train
ing course to be given ur.der the
craftsmanship of Rev. J. C.
Spencer of Seeley.
Ell Centro has a Sea Scout ship,
No. AZ, and Al w. Cain, scoutmas-
ter of Troop 7, has agreed to take
yer this Sea Scout ship.