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Dr. Wirt Giuen $500
 For Trip To Capital
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hardly be even a satisfactory ten. tative answer until we decide which way we want to go. It should be debated in congress, in public forums, in city and in country schoolhouse meetings in every state. The people must be let in on the problem"
 "The question is not a manhunt for communist. I congratulate you on your offer to assist in this effort to decide the way we want to go. I sincerely regret that ow- ing to the limitations of time and physical strength, l cannot assist you"
 Dr Wirt Ran Away
 Foulkes said that Wirt's refusal to debate the issue of where we are going indicated that "Dr Wirt's spasm of pugnaciousness was shortlived. After virtually chal- lenging me to a debate he runs away from it."
 The Michigan representative as- serted that "Wirt came in like a lion and is going out like a lamb" 7" The other night he was thristing for my blood"
 Names in Safe Hands
 Gary, Ind, March 30-UP)-Dr William A. Wirt, Gary educator, awaiting a call before congress sional Investigating committee to amplify his communism" charges, said today the names of persons accused by him have been placed in safe hands,
 He denied, however. that Rep George Foulkes, D., Mich, IS in pos- session of the names of the "brain trusters" as the latter claimed on the floor of the house yesterday.
 Dr Wirt indicated that officials of the committee for the nation, of which he is 8 member, have been given the names.
 T have not given names to anyNpe but have filed in a safe place names and descriptions of
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An investigation was being made today by Deputy Coroner Walter Smyth of the accident which late yesterday afternoon brought fatal Injuries to James Dorais, g, son of Mir and Mrs Ovide A. Dorais of 2s West Liberty street. The young Bter was crushed by the wheel of a truck as he ram from the side- walk near his home about 4:15 yes- terday afternoon and was dead on arrival at hte hospital in the police Ambulance.
 ' The driver of the truck, Bernie Stanis, 41, of 49 Summit street was freed under bonds of $1,000, after the deputy coroner had made a preliminary investigation. Stanis claimed that as he was rounding the corner of South Main and West Liberty streets. two youngsters ran toward the truck. One of them, he said, turned back, while the Dorais boy ran directly into his path and he was unable to avoid hitting him.
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Republican Leaders
 m Ne1u York Upset
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McNaboe, who served notice on the senate clerk late yesterday that he would move to discharge the public service committee from fur ther consideration of Governor Lehman's utility program, said he would present the two resolutions first because of the reflection thrown on the honor of the sen- ate."
 An impeachment resolution, Me- Naboe said, woulud automatically be referred to the judiciary com- mittee of which he is a member. The judiciary committee sits as 8 trial court which takes testimony and before which then accused is represented by counsel.
 At the office of Attorney Gen. eral John J. Bennett it was said the department had no authority to take action against Senator Thay- CT.
 ''If any crimes have been com mitted it Is a matter for the dis trict attorney in the county where they were perpetrated," spokes- man for Bennett said. "The of- flee has no power to act unless the governor supercedes the local district attorney"
 Can't Find Letters
 Chaetaugay, N. r., March 30.- UP)-Senator Warren T. Thayer indicated to-day that his search for letters purportedly connecting him with power interests would be futile.
 "I don't seem to locate the files of 1927, an1 1928, (the years dur ing which the letters were writ ten) at my home here.
 Asked if he cared to add to his previous statements that he could not remember having received expenses" from the Associated Gas and Electric Co, for "favors," Thayer replied:
 "I don't know of anything that can be added. Everything has been said"
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DIDN'T LEAVE
 THEM VERY MUCH

Boston, Mar 30-(UP)-Dr Phil ip G. Peabody. 77-year-old Boston globe-trotter whose body lies un- claimed in Copenhagen, left his son and daughter-in-law only $100 each of his S100,o00 estate, it was reported today.
 The principal benefciaries of the estate are the Massachusetts So- .ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals, the New England Anti vivisection society and the free thinkers of America,
 James Beardwood and an adopt ed child of his son, Charles L. Peabody of New York, were left S1 each.
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ment of the benefits and dam ages because the damages are in- adequate and unjust, say the com- plaints.
 In the first action, it is shown that the damages were assessed at $25O and in the second, at $150, with no benefits assessed in either case. The premises were taken for the layout, alteration, extension and improvement of the trunk line on Thomaston avenue, the com- plaints say.
 The state highway department is engaged in laying a new con- crete covering on Thomaston ave- nue from West Main street through Waterville. The sanitary sewer has been laid in Waterville as well as the storm water sewers. The cases are returnable to the superior court in April.
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In the last 10 years rates of speed of automobiles have increas- ed greatly. Safety factors added to cars and roads have been more than offset by the increase in speeds. The effect of too much speed for time and place is seen in the vast majority of accidents, and it also is controlling factor In their seriousness. Motorists for get that the faster they drive the more it costs to operate their cars. Around 30 miles per hour a car functions most economically. The most miles per gallon is obtained at around 30 miles per hour, as in-
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dicated above. The figures on mile- age given above apply to present. day cars operating on level roads. Oil and tires as well as gasoline also go farther at moderate speeds
 Figures by The Travellers Insur- ance company show that in 1883 the rate of death per automobile accident involving excessive speed was 28 per cent greater than the average rate for all accidents due to driving errors. There were 5.64O persons killed and 143,930 in- jured in 125,930 accidents last year which specifically involved exces- sive speed.
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RED CROSS WAS
 GIVEN REQUEST

New York, Mar 30-(UP)-The American Red Cross, Washington. D. C., and II other institutions and individuals were bequeathed sev- eral million dollars in the will of Mrs Clara A. Hapgood Higgins Smith. Mrs Smith, widow of Frank S. Smith, former president of the New York state board of bar ex- aminers, died March Is. Benefac- iaries included John Barker Sterns of Hanover, N. H., $10,000 cash, interest in $1OO,000 and in Sun nyshores''; Elsie Thrall Stearns, Hanover, $10,0o0 cash, interest in $100,000
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SEVEN PERSONS
 WERE INJURED

Lancaster, Pa. Mar 30-(UP)- Seven persons were injuYed today when a Nevins line bus, carrying 2S passengers swerved from the Lincoln highway near here and ran into a telegraph pole. The injured included Mrs Clara Tibbets, 26, (75 Emerald street), New, Bedford, Mass.
 Passing motorists helped state police carry the injured to Coates vile, Lancaster General and St Joseph's hospitals.
 The bus was crowded with per- sons enroute to spend Easter with friends and relatives.
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FOR SECOND TIME

New York, March 30.-UP)--- Dr Richard T. Ely. whose 80th birthday will fall on April 13, is now father for the second time in two years. A daughter was born to Mrs Ely at the Paterson Gen. eral hospital. Dr Ely, president of Institute for Economic Research, married the former Miss Margaret Hahn, 35, of Chicago, in 1881.
 A son was born in 1882.
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DEATH ACCIDENTAL

Bridgeport, Conn, March 30.- (UP)-The death of Stephen Man hart, 50, from Illuminating gas at his home late yesterday. was aeci- dental, according to the medical examiner. Manhart's body was found by neighbor who detected the odor of gas while passing a first floor bedroom window.
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 This tribute to motherhood goes back to the England of the middle ages when once year armored knight and lowly peasant celebrat- ed "Mothering Sunday"
 An old Practice
 This practice, explain the medie- val historians, was one "of going to see parents, and especially the fe- made one, on the mid-Sunday of Lent, taking for them some little present, such as a cake or a trim ket."
 "A youth engaged in this amiable act of duty" continue the old his tories twas said to go a-mothering and thence the. day itself came to be called Mothering Sunday" j Miss Anna Jarvis conceived the idea of celebrating Mothers Day in this country in 1908. while she was Sunday school teacher at churches the country over began mons and Sunday school programs.
 Wilson Made It Holiday
 In 1914, congress passed a con- current resolution calling for a na- tional holiday on Mothers day. On May 8, few weeks before the World War began, President Woodrow Wilson issued the formal proclamation establishing the holi- day.
 Celebration of Mothers Day Since then has been an increasing ly popular custom. Postmaster General James A. Farley's decision to engrave Mothers Day postage stamps, marks the first official fed eral participation in the event.
 Mrs Whistler was a stern and strongly religious woman. Her son was a sprightly Bohemian, friend of Oscar Wilde, and one of the gayest of the gay nineties' celebri- ties. He reveals in the portrait, his deep love for his mother, his re- spect and his devotion.
 The stamp will be on sale throughout the country on May 2. Lowell Wanted Honor a Washington, March 30. (UP)- The post office department had under consideration to-day re- quest from Rep Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican, Mass, to place the Mothers Day stamps on sale in Lowell, Mass. first.
 It was indicated there would be no change in original plans to of- fer the stamp for sale in Washing ton on May 1, and throughout the country on May 2.
 Mrs Rogers request was made in recognition of the fact that Whistler was born in Lowell.
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JUDGE KILLED

Atlantic City, N. J., March 30. -(UP)-Municipal Court Justice William Chilvers of New York, was killed to-day when he jumped or fell from window of his fifth floor room in a hotel.
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IS CALLED CALUMNY

Moscow, March 30.-CUP)-The government today denounced as l"baseless calumny" Paris state ments that alleged spies held there were operating in behalf of Soviet Russia.
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COAST GUARDS
 SEEKING BOYS

Falmouth, Mas, Mar .30-(UP) Coast guards today were drawn into the search for two boys miss ing from their homes here for more that 24 hours. After fruit less all-night hunt in which both state and local police participated, guardsmen were notified in the possibility that the youths, Charles Mclean, IS, of Falmouth, and Will liam Hulten, IA, Went out in boat. Mclean spend Wednesday night at the Hulten home. Early yesterday the boys arose, made sandwiches, and departed at 6:15. presumably for a trip into the woods. They have not been heard from since.
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SITES PHONE co. FOR $1O,OOO

SUES PHONE co. FOR $1O,OOO
 Cleveland (UP)-Charging that inefficient phone service made her beauty parlor business losing proposition, Miss Marie Epler filed suit against the Ohio Bell Tele- phone Co. here. A similar former suit won her a judgment of $1,100 against the company in 1929. She is now suing for $10,000.
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think about all this? Maybe they won't let me come home."
 He planned to keep out of sight until "this blows over."
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A copy of Dickens Sketches by Boz" in the 20 original numbers, published in 1887. was sold recent ly in London for $235.
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CLUB TERMS: soc Down, soc Week

Now at Hadley's foAthe FIRST time a ! complete set of PURE Heavy CAST ALUMINIUM Cooking Utensils for only S1295! We have exactly 50 sets to sell on our Aluminium Club Plah to the first 50 to join this club. Notice the black, ebony-ike, heat-proof handles Join the Club NOW!
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LOOK at the Weight
 and Size of Each Piece

1S-Inch French Rooster with Cover weighs
 5N pounds. S-Qt. Sauce Pan with Cover weighs 3 3H pounds. N-Qt. Sauce Pan with Cover weighs pounds. 1Oh Inch Skillet with Cover weighs S1
 pounds. 10-Qt. Preserving Kettle with cover weighs
 pounds. Bacon and Egg Fryer weighs 1N pounds.
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THOMASTON AVE
 JOB OPENS SUIT

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STAMPS TO HONOR
 MOTHERS DAY

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35O,OOO TO GET
 HIGHER WAGES

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HOOVER SILENCE
 IS G. 0. P. HOPE

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GHOST SLASHER
ACTIVE AGAIN

DEFIANCE, Ohio, Aug. IA
G.N.SO.-Defiance's phantom"
knife-wielder reappeared for the
sixth time here today and stabbed
his seventh woman victim.
A hundred vigilantes, most Of
them members of the American
Legion, Immediately started an
intensive hunt for the knifer.
The vigilantes were summoned
by a secret pre-arranged signal by
police officials.
Victim of the latest attack Of
the knife-wielder was Miss Mabel
Krotz, a middle-aged spinster, who
was stabbed in the left forearm,
She was accosted as she was burn
ing paper in the alley in the rear
Of her home.
Police said the description of the
maniac as given by Miss Krotz
tailed perfectly with the ones
furnished by the other victims.
According to police records, the
knifer made his first appearance
on May 80.
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GUNMEN FREE Z
IN HOSPITAL

ST. LOUIS, Aug. IA G.N.S).
Two heavily armed gunner in
vaded the st. Louis County Hos
pital at Clayton, seat of st. Louis
county today and staged sensa-
tional delivery of two prisoners.
The men released by the gun
men were Paul Mill, held on
auto theft charges, and William
Perkins, charged with bank
robbery.
The gunner alighted from an
automobile, threw open the hos
pital front door, flourished pistols
and forced Mike Ryan, hospital
telephone operator, to lead them
to the prison ward on the fourth
floor. There the intruders herded
Ryan, Miss Kate Stewart, a nurse
in charge of the prison ward,
and colored nurse into a
corner.
Forcing Miss Stewart to give
them the key, the gunner opened
the cell door and released the
two prisoners, who accompanied
them to their waiting automobile,
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'Sistie' Gives Interview;
Her Vacation Is Grand

time. 1 like it here very much"
But "Sistie" is bothered. Her va.
cation is soon to end-and she
isn't happy about that. Said she:
"I'd like to stay ever so long.
It's such fun. We Swim-I can
swim good, but 'Buzzie' can't
swim yet. He's too little. But
he'll learn. And play, and
60 out in the bOats-and, oh, 1
just play and have lots of fun"
"Buzzie," meanwhile, was seated
some 80 feet away, in the back
yard of the lodge.
Little Mans Busy Day
A busy little fellow he was
dressed in tan playsuit, watch
ing while one the Secret Service
Men carved a boat for him out
of a piece of wood. "Buzzie" is
as brown as "Sistie," and ap
parently as happy.
"Sistie," by the way, is getting
her second teeth. Her happy
grins revealed about three real
teeth, spaced far apart, with the
stubs of new ones in between.
Her light brown hair is bobbec
both she and "Buzzie" had theil
hair cut in Chicago before leaving
for the north woods-and straight
without a sign of a wave or curl
Her eyes are blue and her smile
and manner very friendly.
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LILY PONS PLEA
FAILS IN COURT

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. IA GIN.
SO.-A plea of insolvency, enter
ed by attorneys for Lily Pons,
French star of New York'S Met
ropolitan Opera, as the reason
for her non-payment of Argentine
income taxes, was refused by a
court hearing the governments
case against her.
The court killed the plea when
records of the foreign exchange
control committee were intro
duced showing the singer had
earned in Argentina and remit
ted to her European bankers
more than 10000 pesos (about
$40,8OO) during her two months
of appearances here.
Income tax officials seized Mile.
Pons' baggage, including beauti-
full and valuable gowns, last week
on the eve of her departure for
Europe, declaring she had paid
no taxes on her earnings in
Argentina. The star sailed as
scheduled, minus her baggage.
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ENDS
IN 3 VALLEY
STATES
Ohio Section Gets Rain; Areas
to West Burn; Hope Lies
in Weather Break
BY WILLIAM S. NEAL
international News Service

Believing weather history re-
peats itself, weather experts were
hopeful today that the nations
greatest drought is nearing its
end.
Their hope is based on the rain
fall in the widely separated sec
lions during the last few days. III
these rains they see an indication
that the normally plentiful pre-
cipitation during the late summer
and fall might now be on the
way.
Heavy Rains a Hope
The 1880 drought, which was
almost as severe, in sections, as
the current crop-baking siege in
the West, started to break up with
unusually heavy rains in August.
In fact the rainfall during that
year started in the Southwestern
drought area August 10 and con-
tinued internationally into the
fall.
While crops in many great
plains and Southwestern States
are almost beyond hope, heavy
rainfall would restore pasturage
and put land in condition for win
ter wheat planting.
The big hope of the weather ex-
perts is that abnormal rains will
help repair the damage and mini
mize the effect of the drought on
next years crops.
The entire western part Of the
drought area in 1880, including
Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and
Kansas, had September to Noyem
Der rains above normal.
Ohio Valley Safe
AS the result of the recent scat
tered rains, the drought area was
pictured today by weather bureau
officials as follows:
l. Most of Ohio Valley is safe
from drought. Heavy rains in
past week in Ohio, Kentucky,
Indiana.
2. Hardest hit area is south
ern Iowa, extreme Western ILL
nois, Missouri, northern and
western Arkansas, Oklahoma.
BAD also in northern plains
states and parts of Texas.
3. Southern Wisconsin, parts
of Minnesota and northern Iowa
have best crops in western corn
belt. Some rains in past week.
Cool areas which usually dip
down into interior United States
continue to sweep across northern
United States and Canada.
Would Aid Grazing
DR.. ]. B. Kincer, chief of the
weather bureau division of meteor.
ology, said this is held to be the
real cause of the drought. He said:
"When the drought of 1880
began to break, there was one
and a half times normal rain
fall in the Southwestern area,
more than normal in the North
ern plains States and normal in
Iowa and Illinois. 1t continued
under normal in Kentucky and
Eastern States.
Fall rains would be of great
help. They would restore graz
ing land and aid in planting
winter wheat. This is the big
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SNAKE PASTOR
To CD ON AIR

SYLVIA, N. c., Aug. II U.N.S0
Albert Teester, the mountain
preacher who staked his religious
faith against the venom of a rat
tlesnake, was on his way to Char
lotte today for a network radio
talk this afternoon.
The leader of the Holiness sect,
who has spent his life far back
in the hills, will tell the world
what power there is in faith, and
how a snake cannot harm a true
believer in Christ.
He allowed rattlesnake to bite
him on the arm more than a
week ago. Although the limb be-
came swollen and he suffered
great agony, he refused medical
aid. Within week he had re-
covered. Sunday he preached
two sermons, telling his mountain
followers triumphantly that a true
believer needs no doctor.
The minister reached here Mon
day night and Immediately bought
a supply of "store clothes" in
preparation for his trip to the
city. Hundreds of people crowded
into the town to see him.
In the midst of the hubbub the
mountain man knelt in prayer
Speaking in the dialect of the
Carolina hills, he asked for divine
aid during the address which he
will deliver before the micro
phone
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Gun Wound Fatal
To Lee BrOCkman

A bullet wound that police be-
lieve was self-inflicted, proved
fatal to Lee C. Brockman, build.
ing contractors estimator, who
died in Emergency Hospital last
night.
Mr.. Brockman, who lived in the
14O0 block of Irving st. N. w.,
was found lying across a bed by
his wife, Mrs. Ollie Brockman,
and their 22-year-old daughter,
Lillian. They had rushed into
the room when they heard a pis-
toll shot.
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Rush Holt Causes
Democratic Stir

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Aug. IA.
The removal from office of ebert
G.. Kelly, chairman of the Demo
cratic State executive committee,
has been asked by Rush D. Holt,
of weston, Democratic nominee
for the United States Senate.
Mr.. Kelly declined to comment
on the action of Mr.. Holt. who
asked him to resign. He said:
at is a matter affecting party
welfare, about which L cannot
comment at this time"
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BY LOLA BULLARD
Copyright, 1884, BY International News
Service and wisconsin News


Service and wisconsin News
SAYNER, Wis, Aug. IA G.N.SO.
Little "Sistie" Dali is having a
lot of fun" up here in the heart
of the North Woods, WiSconsin's
vacation land.
She said so herself. And her
happy smiles, cheerful chatter,
and golden sunburn make you
doubly sure.
At the w. r. Wilmot Lodge on
Plum Island, one of the three
small islets dotting Plum Lake, a
mile east of here, "Sistie" and
"Buzzie" Dali, grandchildren of
President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
have been vacationing for the
past 10 days with their father,
Curtis B. Dali.
Children Guarded
Everyone knows, of course, that
"Sistie" is Ann Eleanor Dali, and
"Buzzie" is Curtis. But they are
better known by their childish
nicknameS.
Despite precautions taken by
their father and Secret Service
men to keep visitors from the
island, this reporter succeeded in
talking to "Sistie" ard seeing
both children today. Said "SiStie::"
ooh, I'm having such . good
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DEMOCRATS
SOFT.PEDAL
SPENDING
Candidates Advised Not to
Brag About U. S. Expendi-
lures in Home Districts
By FRANKLIN G. SARTWELL

BY FRANKLIN G. SARTWELL
How far should a Democratic
candidate for office go in making
political capital of the expendi-
lures which the Federal Govern
ment is making in the community
in which he is seeking votes?
This is a question which today
is agitating the master political
minds of the Democratic party.
The question arises because OF
reports reaching Washington that
many Democratic candidates are
pointing with pride to the tremen-
dous expenditure of taxpayers
money in their districts. This is
particularly true in districts which
contribute little to the Federal
revenues and which thus are in
dictated to be getting more out Of
the Federal Treasury than they
are putting in.
Presidents Claims Cited
Some of these candidates are
citing President Roosevelt as their
authority for making the claims.
They point to one of his Western
speeches in which he told residents
of the State of Washington that
other States would be called upon
to pay for the huge dams being
erected for their benefit. =.
If the President can do It anu
it is good political strategy for
the President to do it, they
want to know why they should
MT follow in his footsteps and
make claim for the gratuitieS
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