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The Washington times., 1932-08-04
M. MARKHAM FLANNERY

M. Markham Flannery, direc-
tor of trade practice conferences
of the Federal Trade Commits
sion. will be buried in Mount
Olivet Cemetery tomorrow morn
ing. Funeral services will be
conducted from his residence,
2944 Upton st. N. w., at $3.50
a. M, after which requiem mass
will be said in the Church of
the Blessed Sacrament.
Mr.. Flannery, who was g.,
died yesterday at his home after
an illness of several weeks.
He was we'll known in many
industries through his work in
Strengthening out unfair prac-
tices in trade brought before the
commission, with which he had
been connected since its estab-
liShment in 1915.
He entered the Government
service as an attorney in the
old Bureau of Corporations of
the Department of Commerce in
1904.
Mr.. Flannery was a native of
Nashville, Tenn. He had lived
in the District for nearly 40
years. His widow, Mrs. Regina
Flannery; two daughters, Eliza
beth and Regina Flannery, and
a son, William c. Flannery, sur
Yive him.
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TOMORROW

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9:45-Betty Crocker.
1O:OO-"Shut-in-Hour" by U. S.
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racks.
11:OO-"Daily Circle"
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:45-"Let'S Go to Market" by
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DEATHS

Mary r. Burricr. IS years Home for
Aged and 1nfirm
James H. Kelley, sr., IS years,
Georgetown Hospital.
George MacScullen, 46 years. GAL
linger Hospital
Hador L. Gahm, As years U. s Vet
Grams Hospital.
William f Robey, Al years SIS Eye
st. n. f.
Daniel Brown, 6S years Garfield Hos
pital
Andrew Corum, &c years. Freedm n $
Hospital
jeanette Coleman, Sc years Is o
9, John i +, R. steward s5 years, 1888 N
William r Hamilton. So years.
Freedmen's Hospital.
Levinia H watson, 63 years. S212
Sherman Ave y. w.
Frances Wallace, 50 years, Gallinger
Hospital.
Hattie Washington. 81 years, 1112
Park Road
Henrietta f. Rriscoe. 55 years, 3O7
Oakdale St n. w.
William Anderson. 35 years, Provi-
dence Hospital.
Joseph Harrod, 25 years. st. Eliz-
abeth's Hospital.
Jordan Williams, "a years, Tubercu-
losis Hospital
Victor Proctor, 13 months, Children's
Hospital
Hubert Johnson, months, Gallinger
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RADIO RAMBLES = PROGRAMS

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Christopher Tenley, pianist.
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Weekly Radio Treat.
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4:45-Famous Paintings in Many
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5:O0-Dance Orchestra.
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6:OO-Amos n Andy.
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6:3O-Ray Perkins.
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8:OO-The New York Symphony
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Deaths

PEARSON. BESSIE lon Wednesday, Au-
c0g,,,, gust B. l232 q her residence nde,Sor $500 y;
BESSIE l.. PEARSON, beloved wife of Will
Funeral will be held from the W. W.
Chambers Company funeral home at 400
1882 at 2 p. m. lnterment in Union City,
Tenn.
ROSE, WILLIAM ROBERT-On wednes-
day. August 3. 1892 at 1910 a. m. at
his residence, 124 Mount Vernon Boue-
LHM Gfl RGnsS AoBERT kosE s9sS sR RR Beo2ed Nus nus:
band of the late Katie Mastin Rose.
Funeral services will be held on Friday.
August 5. 1882. from the above residence
at = p m Relatives and friends invited
to attend lnterment in Columbia Garden
Cemetery. Arlington county. Virginia.
TAFT. JOSEPHINE-On Tuesday. August
., 1892. JOSEPHINE TAFT.
pany funeral M IG home. 1e' 400 chaplin ST n. W.,
on Thursday, August 4. 1892. at 3 y. M.
1nterment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. -
3 In MemOriam
MAXWELL. EZEKIEL H-In sad but low
ing remembrance Of my dear husband
EZEKIEL H. MAXWELL. who departed
this life 20 years ago today, August T.
1912.
His Devoted Wife,
CATHERINE MAXWELL.
POOLE. CHARLES Din sad but loving
remembrance of our dear father and
husband CHARLES d. POOLE, who died
one year ago today.
MRS. THERESA POOLE AND
DAUGHTERS, DOROTHY AND
THELMA
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
Dayton Hnffer. ID. ami lean q

Dayton Huffer, -, and Jean Craig
head. 80. Judge r. f. MsttingIy.
John w. Dennis. 20, and Mary b.
Staurton. 20 The Rev. }. C. McCourt.
Lawrence r. Poole 25, and Sarah
NJ. McCulley, 10. The Rev. J, S. Mont
gomery.
John II. Hart 81, and Myrtle NJ.
Keyser 81. The Rev ]. r Kennedy.
James Clifford Kenney, 23 and Iva
E. Wade. 10. The Rev. j. f. Briggs.
Edward II. Gray So, and d. Virginia
Sturgis. % The Rev George Brown.
Leslie Earl William, 90 and Cecilia
e Bell, IS. The Rev. G d. Sampson.
Marshall A. Gibbs 30, and Kathryn
P Simmons, %. The Rev P. e. Lima
weaver.
Ben J. Ocosky, 21 Shamokin. Pa.
and Janet c. Brigham. IS. Judge r.
E. Mattingly.
Robert L. Grubb, y, and Anna
Guztck, Is, both Of Baltimore. Md.
The Rev. A NJ. Brodie.
Joseph a, Teller, 25, and Barbara
Demlng "a. both Of Philadelphia. Fa.
Judge r. +. Mattingly.
7, lanes A. Alexander u. and Julia
r. Tigour, 20, both OF Richmond, Va
The Rev. f. j. Hurney.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04

SONG POEMS WANTED
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BOONsBORO MD.

virginia Ave, half block to Dc ech steeI Pls,
Rooms only 50 10 daily: $3.50 I'd daily, Uith
meals. Private baths 8athins trSm hOieI.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04
Special Notices
Motor Travel

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car. l445 Church st N W
The Washington times., 1932-08-04
DRAYDEN. MD.

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River. Md Ideal place for young busi-
ness mems vacation Clean Wholesome
fun rowing sailing. swimming, motorboat'
ing Grabbing and fishing: tennis, baseball,
lacrosse volIey ball. etc Rates on re-
quest Washington representative. Mrs
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Phone, MET $500. Baltimore representa-
tive Mr. Preston Dallam 2O6 McMechen
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The Washington times., 1932-08-04

SCIENTIFIC massage electric treatments:
graduate masseuse, by appt DEC 6368.
SMALL CHILDREN boarded with mothers
care; private home. Lincoln 7402-J.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04

WHEN DEATH strikes a family there Is
no need for them to feel that they must
accept inferior funeral service due to in
ability TO pay a high price: the Greater
w w Chambers Co offers a complete
funeral. cars and all for as little as $75:
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
HELD
IN ARK DEATH

Charged with the murder of
Richard Collins, his friend of
many years, during drinking
bout on house-boat on Piscata-
way Creek, Md, last November,
Alex Shorter, colored, yesterday
was indicted by the Prince
Georges county grand jury at
Upper Marlboro.
Collins, a veteran of two wars,
had lived in an lark" on the
Eastern Branch for nearly Is
years. He was found dead of
shotgun wounds in the house.
boat, with Shorter sleeping be-
side the body.
Other indictments returned
yesterday were: Arthur McCor-
mick, James Murphy, Waverly
Roberts, William Ball. store
breaking and larceny; James
Campbell, manslaughter; Henry
Pickell, statutory offense; Fen
wick Stabbs, statutory offense;
Walter Radtke, possession of
liquor; Samuel Sullivan, posses
sion of liquor; Walter Oliver, jr.,
possession of liquor; Harry Elem
ing, head of the Fleming Motor
Co.. of Hyattsville, non-support:
Ella Brooks, possession of liquor;
Thomas Bonifant, non-support:
John Hoover, manSlaughter;
David Dishman, Jail breaking;
Buck Cole, alias James, assault
with intent to kill Graham Hun
saker, a soldier at Fort Washing
ton: Herman Proctor, same;
Jimmie Duckett and Ned Davis.
store breaking; James Forbbs, as
sault with intent to kill; Ernest
Diggs, Edward Good, William
Hicks, robbery; Willie Nichols,
possession of liquor, and William
H. Brown, alias Walter L. Rob
erts, possession of liquor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
ROUND UP IS AS
BANK BANDITS

CHICAGO, April % GN.SD.
Taken in a series of swift, secret
raids, Is men and four women
were in custody in three States
today, suspected of having per-
petrated some 20 bank robberies
and at least one kidnapping.
The raids we're carried out late
last night with IL men and two
women being arrested in Chicago,
two men and two women in In
diana, and one man in Racine,
Wis.
After questioning some of the
Chicago prisoners, Patrick A.
Roche, chief investigator for the
States attorney. announced today
he had obtained several confes-
Sions."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
SAM DAVIS HELD
FOR ASSAULT

The Prince Georges county
grand jury late yesterday indicted
Sam Davis for assault with intent
to commit a statutory offense,
assault and battery, and assault
with intent to kill. Mrs. Anita
Doyle, of Cool Spring, was the
victim of the alleged attack.
According to the story told by
Policeman Claude Reese and Con-
stable Andrew Gasch, the man
went to the Doyle home and
begged for food.
After he had eaten, it was said,
he attempted a criminal assault
upon his benefactress. This fail
ing, it was said, he attempted to
kill the woman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
SLAYER Of FOUR
FIGHTS DEATH

ANNAPOLIS, April 23.-Euel
Lee, alias Orphan Jones, Eastern
Shore colored man convicted of
the murder of a family of four.
will probably seek the right to
appeal to the court of appeals
when that body convenes Tues
day.
The record of the case of the
colored man, who is under a SEN
tence was received yesterday in
the court of appeals.
The bill of exceptions was
signed by the judges after the
term of court.
They explained that while no
extension of time had been
granted or requested until after
the term, they wanted to give
Lees counsel every opportunity
to present contentious regarding
the validity of the exceptions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
BY POETS
PROPHES|ED

Confidence that poets and au-
thorS may succeed where states
men have failed" in promoting
international goodwill was ex-
pressed today by Tytus Fill
powicz, Polish ambassador to the
United States, at the authors
breakfast of the National League
of American Pen Women.
Declaring that authors are
"the true pioneers of interna-
tional amity," the diplomat eX-
pressed hope that through them
hatred, distrust, and prejudices
would give way to confidence and
understanding.
The biennial convention, which
opened with the breakfast, was
greeted by Mrs. Edward Everett
Gam.
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson. editor
and publisher of The Washing
ton Herald, spoke for newspaper
women.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
Boys, II and ID, Face
Moonshine Charges
At LeonardtOwn

Four members of one family,
two of them children under IS
years old, were arrested by Fed
eral agents and charged with
manufacture and possession Of
liquor near Leonardtown, Md,
yesterday.
They we're Harrison Mason,
the father; his wife, BERTHE,
and their two sons, one II years
old, the other IA. Mason was
released under $1,000 bond, the
boys released in his custody,
while charges against the wife
were dismissed when testimony
revealed that she was in a
field near by, but not at the
still.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
WE WANT BEER
GREETSFRANCE
Times Staff Photo

BALTIMORE, April 23.-Chil.
dren last night interrupted the
street corner campaign of DR..
Joseph I. France for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination,
shouting:
1--WE want beer"
Speaking from his mobile CAM
paign headquarters, DR.. France
had said:
ut is rather unusual for a
candidate for President to make
a campaign from the end of a
truck, but in this case it is
necessary"
Responding to the juvenile
cries for beer, the former United
States Senator at first said:
Good"
Then, rejecting, he corrected
himself:
mo, you don't want beer;
you want liberty. Beer comes
after that"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
Abbott Is Indicted
In Tea House Death

Peter Abbott. alleged Philadel-
phia gangster, was indicted for
the murder of Grover Amick dur
ing a shooting at the Old Colonial
Tea House, Bladensburg, Md, at
Upper Marlboro, late yesterday.
Abbott is said to have been the
leader of five bandits who held
up the road house last November.
1t is generally believed that the
shooting was part of a war for
supremacy in the white slave traf-
fic, said to have reached the pro-
portions of a $1,OOO,0OO business
along the Middle Atlantic coast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
Richie Labor Plan
DrdIUs High Praise

BALTIMORE, April 23.-Hun-
dreds of kilograms have been re-
ceived by Gov. Albert C. Richie
from all parts of the country
approving his advocacy of the
3O-hour week as a means of re-
lieving unemployment in an ad-
dress Thursday night at Wash
ington.
Congratulatory messages were
received from Henry F. Broening,
president of the Baltimore Fedora
ton of Labor, and G. H. Pouder,
vice president of the Baltimore
Association of Commerce.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
IN FAMILY
FEUD, WOMEN
RECOVERING
Wife and Mother in Hospital
With Wounds inflicted
BY James Campbell

HARRISONBURG, Va, April
23.-Mrs. Effie Campbell, 80,
and her mother, Mrs. Daisy
Emswiler, 50, shot by the for
mer's husband in a family
quarrel Wednesday night, are
reported recovering in the
Rockingham Memorial Hospi-
tai here.
The husband, James o. Camp
bell, is in the county jail here.
He claims he shot in self defense.
Both women, he said, were about
to draw guns on him. The shoot
ing took place at the w. F. Brunk
home, Cootes Store, Rockingham
county, 16 miles from here.
Walks to Jail
While Sheriff Charles R. Faw-
ley and his deputies we're search
ing for him, Campbell, 37-year-old
wounded World War veteran,
walked 16 miles to the jail where
he was locked up by Mrs. Fawley
and a truSty.
Discounting the mans self-de-
Tense story, officers say the shoot
ing was the climax of domestic
troubles. Campbell is said to
have admitted his wife left him
two weeks ago when he refused
her permission to visit her
parents. After the separation,
Mrs. Campbell went to the Brunk
home to care for a sick child.
Calls On Wife
Campbell went to the Brunk
house about 10 p. m, Wednesday.
The woman came out in answer
to his call and they talked for a
short time at the front gate. The
conference was interrupted by the
mother-in-law, who told Mrs.
Campbell it was time to come in.
Campbell said he fired when he
saw his wife reach inside her
dress. He thought she was going
to draw gun. He shot her five
times, using a .22-caliber pistol.
The bullets entered the woman's
arms, back and breast.
Mrs. Emswiler then ran for her
home nearby with Campbell in
pursuit. loading his pistol as he
ran.
When he reached the EmSwiler
home he saw his mother-in-law
leaning out of a second-Story win
dow and shot at her, the bullet
entering her forehead above the
eye.
Feared Rifle, Claim
Campbell claims he thought she
had a rifle trained on him. He
fired two more shots at a window,
he said, to brighten his father-in-
law, who, he thought, had a shot
gun.
Discarding plans to pack his
clothes, Campbell started across
fields to the county jail, leaving
word with Bryan AShenfelter,
neighbor, to tell the sheriff he
was on his way to surrender.
Campbell, who for the past year
has been employed on the State
force in Brooks Gap.
spent two months in the Rock
ingham county Jail last year while
awaiting trial on a white slavery
charge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
Daylight Saving Due
At 2 O.. m. Tomorrow

NEW YORK, April % GN.SO.
Tomorrow at 2 a. m. 142,000,000
persons throughout America and
Europe will lose one hour, at that
hour daylight saving time will
go into effect.
Clocks of most communities in
the eastern United States will be
set ahead one hour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
SHOWDOWNN|GH
FOR Al SMITH
Times Staff Photo

One hundred and twelve dele
ates to the Democratic National
convention will be chosen by the
voters of Pennsylvania and Mas
sachusetts next Tuesday, and their
decision will go far toward de-
termining the final outcome at
Chicago in June. ,
In these primaries, the rival
candidates. of Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith
come to the showdown stage.
None of the other Democratic
aspirants has entered these con-
tests in Pennsylvania and MaSsa-
chusetts. AS if by common con-
sent, they all refrained from
filing in order to leave the field
open to a clear-cut test Of
strength between the New
Workers.
A bloc of 112 delegates-76 in
Pennsylvania and SO in MaSsa-
chusetts-is not an inconsiderable
prize. They amount to approx
mately 10 per cent of the conven-
TONS voting strength.
If Smith can win a major
ity of the delegates on Tuesday
he is going to Chicago in a posi-
ton to speak with considerable
authority in matters pertaining
to candidates. and to platform
plankS. No one thinks that
Smith himself can possibly be
nominated at Chicago. But they
also know that he can and prob
ably will WELD large influence in
determining the course of the
convention.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
PAIR DIRECTLY
NAMED IN LAST
UTTERANCE
Myers, One Of Accused, WeepS
In Cell, Though Calm
In Courtroom

STAUNTON, Va, April %.
With the State demanding
that he die in the electric
chair, John Myers, local taxi
driver, today desperately de-
Tended himself on the charge
of killing Lacy Ashby, young
grocery clerk.
The prosecution contends that
Myers, with his wife, Lena, and
his brother-in-law, william Smith,
gave Ashby a drink of liquor on
tanning a powerful acid, after
a row over alleged attentions of
the clerk to Mrs. Myers.
Dying statement
Yesterday commemorative At
torney Herbert ]. Taylor intro
duced the deathbed statement OF
Ashby, in which he accused Myers
and Smith of poisoning him.
The statement said:
II realize that 1 am about to
die. 1 am saying this with full
knowledge that my last earthly
words should be the whole
truth and that I could gain
nothing by telling an untruth.
1 took no poison at home or
anywhere else unless it was in
a bottle John Myers handed
me to drink from after he and
william Smith had cursed me
and than acted as though they
meant to make up with me-"
Despite a severe cross-examlna-
ton by Defense Attorney S. D.
Timberlake, jr., DR.. Glenn c.
Campbell, Ashby's physician,
stood by his contention that the
young clerk could not have taken
the acid voluntarily. He based
his belief on the nature of the
burns in the mans throat and
mouth.
Reiterated Charge
Grover C. Ashby, father of the
dead man, testified his son told
him few hours before death:
Dad, 1 didn't take it. They
gave it to me-"
Ashby's 21-year-old widow also
testified, telling of events before
the death.
The defense produced as their
principal witness DR.. C. P. Oben-
schain, from whom they at
tempted to elicit testimony to
strengthen the claim that AShby
took the acid accidentally or with
suicidal intent. Several other
prominent local physicians were
called and there we're many tech
meal differences in their opinions.
Myers DOwncast
The State has attempted to
prove that Myers came upon his
wife and Ashby on lonely road
and, with Smith, administered a
beating to the clerk. Afterward,
the prosecution says, Myers and
Smith pretended to forgive AShby
and gave him poisoned liquor to
drink.
Local interest in the trial is
high, with crowds o"erfloWing the
court room into the streets.
Crowds also lined the streets as
Myers and Smith were led to and
from the jail. Mrs. Myers is free
on bond.
Myers appeared cheerful in the
court room. but jail officials re-
port he appears low-spirited in his
cell and frequently weeps.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
MEET IN TAKOMA PARK

The Takoma Park Horticultural
Club will hold it's regular meeting
Monday at 8 p. m. in the Takoma
Park branch of the Public Ii
brary. DR.. Freeman Weiss, path.
ologist, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, will be the guest
speaker.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
PARTY IN RIVERDALE

The Women'S Club of Riverdale
will give a card party on Friday
night in the schoolhouse. Ar
engagements are in charge of Mrs.
Parvin Starr, chairman
of the committee on ways and
means.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1932-04-23
AUXILIARY TO MEET

The Ladies Auxiliary of Takoma
Park Post, American Legion. will
hold a meeting at the home of
Mrs. Charles A. Hartley, 625 Elm
Ave. Takoma Park, Tuesday,
MAY 3.