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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23
Flaming Vehicle Causes
Blaze Resulting in Loss
of S225,00O.
By United Press

OSSINING, N. Y, July %. -
of the charred hulk OF
a bus that was flaming coffin for
at least fifteen persons feared an
even greater death list today as
they sifted ashes for evidence OF
human cremation.
Fifty men, women and children
we're in the blazing bus that ca
reened down steep hill within
sight of Sing Sing prison, and
plunged over a forty-foot embank-
ment. 1t was an end to a Sunday
holiday excursion so horrible that
authorities feared many of the
charred remains would never be
identified.
Nearly a score of the surviving
passengers were in hospitals. Three
of these are not expected to live.
All the victims we're members or
friends of the Brooklyn Democratic
League. They were on their way
to Sing Sing to see their baseball
team play a convict nine.
The fire spread from the bus to
the lumber yard into which it fell,
destroyed virtually the entire yard,
then spread to a dock in the Hud-
son river and swept nineteen boats,
Preliminary check showed that
brakes on the antiquated bus were
defective. Survivors said that sew
eral times on the journey from
Brooklyn to Ossining, the driver
Frank Imperatore, had difficulty in
stopping. He had been forced to
rely solely upon the mandrake, but
apparently it got out of order.
Survivors said the bus approached
the ton of the descent leading Il
the prison with comparative higf
speed. Imperatore damned the foo
brake to the floor. He jerked up OF
the hand brake. There was al
odor of burning rubber but speed
was unchecked.
Passengers froze in their seats a
the mad descent started. Mother
clutched at their children. Other
screamed. Men instantly wer
aware the bus was out of control
Several forced open the doors AM
jumped.
The bus crashed against brio
retaining wall, Swerved, then swun
back into the road. A few moment
later the same maneuver was re
nsated. BY this time the yehicl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23

The heat belt had been extended
to the Atlantic coast, and there.
likewise, forecasters gave no hope
for cooler weather.
Crops shriveled in the fields.
Cattle dropped from lack Of water.
Deaths from heat prostration and
other illnesses directly traceable to
the weather mounted into the hun
dreds. Lack of water spread.
One-hundred degree temperatures
were common in every state between
the Rocky mountains and the Appa-
lachianS.
Farmers Shoot Cattle
The record breaking drought and
high temperatures merely continued
to add to misery in many middle
and southwestern states where it
has prevailed for days; in other
states more fortunate, crops, cattle
and humans were just beginning TO
feel its force.
Farmers were forced to resort to
desperate measures as they found
their livestock unable to live. AS
often as not, the farmer took a rife
into the feld with hiu and slaugh-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23

Motor tuned up. Carburetor adjust
ed. See Carburetor Sales, 214 E.
Qhio.-Adv.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23

In futile efforts to keep cool yes
terday and last night, the city fed
to parks and swimming pools, lay
in bath tubs, drank gallons of beer
and kept all available fans going.
Shades were drawn to keep out
the intense heat of the sun during
the daytime. The parks were filled
last night with restless sleeping fig
ures. hoping to catch an occasional
breeze.
Seeking relief from the heat early
today, Olive Foster, 81, OF 8O2 1ndl-
ana avenue, went searching in her
bed for a bottle of homebrew stored
there.
The bottle exploded. cutting her
left wrist. She was treated at city
hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23
Times Index
Killed in City by Terrific Heat Mercury Scars 7o10ard
1OODeoyee Mark for Third Day With No Relief in Prospect

tered cattle unable to find water or
subsist on parched grass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23
Hourly Temperatures

The eighth heat fatality in two
DAYS was reported 10 police shortly
after noon today as the heat wave
persisted relentleSsly with no hope
Of immediate relief offered by the
United states weather bureau
The eighth victim was Mrs Flor
ence Nichols. "A. OF 1892 North I'LL
noiS street.
William Higdon. %. Of 632 East ST.
Clair street was taken 10 the city
hospital this morning suffering from
heat prostration.
Yesterday, the third successive
day of scorching heat, brought
death 10 seven persons and illness TO
four more.
Tbs dead are the l-day-old infant
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23
Is Die in Fire After Bus
Runs Wild on Steep Hill

was plunging with tremendous mo-
mentum while Imperatore struggled
valiantly to halt it.
At the bottom of the quarter mile
dash, he chose to plunge into the
iron railing rather than crash di-
rectly into an obstruction. Obvious
ly he did not know what lay beyond
the railing.
Fire apparatus from several West
chester communities fought the
blaze more than an hour before it
was brought under control. Total
damage to property was estimated
at more than 1925 900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23
C0HN VERDICT MOTION
OVERRULED BY CAVINS
Defense to Present Testimony in
Bankers Trial.

Special Judge Alex G. Cavins to-
day overruled the defense motion
for a direct verdict of not guilty in
the embezzlement trial of Melville
S. Cohn, a vice president and di-
rector of the defunct Meyer-KiSer
bank.
The morning was taken up by
arguments by Paul Y. Davis, de-
Tense counsel, and Floyd Mattice,
chief deputy prosecutor. The de-
Tense will present its testimony this
afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23
Heat Belt Extends
By United Press

By Jnifcd PrtsS
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 3d.
The southwest and middle west
went into its twelfth consecutive
day of temperatures over 100 de-
grees today with no relief in sight
for the next gyenty,four hours, -
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
Final Arrangements
Are Completed For
Bay Ridge Outing
Over 400 Expected To Make Trip
Under Chamber Of Commerce
Auspices

Final arrangements for the Eighth
Annual Outing of the Rockville
Chamber of Commerce to be held at
Bay Ridge, on Thursday, July 10TH
will be made at a meeting of the en-
tire committee in charge which will
be held Friday evening in the Police
Court Room.
The committee consists of Roger
Shaw, Chairman, Walter Funderburk
President of Chamber, B. T. Brosius,
vice-President, o. w. Anderson, Sec
rotary, VIM. F. Prettyman, Treasurer
Judge D. A. DeLashmutt, L. l.
Nicholson, DIR. Geo. L. Edmonds
Emmett Dove, VIM. Ernest Offutt, w
Valentine Wilson, Jos. N. Starkey
Melbourne E. Ward, Curtis L. Ward
A. Guy Watkins, Townsend Howes
Oliver H. Perry, Warner E. Pumph-
rey, H. Worthington Talbot, Charles
M. Jones, Robert D. Hagner, Rev. j.
Lloyd Black, Morris Stern, Harold c.
Smith, J. Darby Bowman, A. E. Par
tin, VIM. M. Burrows, N. o. Terpen-
ing, Louis j. Ryan, VIM. A. Pate and
Francis s. Lyddane.
Over 400 are expected to make the
trip. Transportation will be@providet
for children having no way to travel
with the majority of the crowd leav.
ing Rockville in time to reach the
beach by II A. M. Admission, park
ing, tables and plenty of ice will be
furnished free. There will be special
rates for amusements. Everyone is
urged to see some member of the
committee and secure identification
cards before leaving.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
Unfair Gasoline Prices

Every six months THE SENTINEL has been
compelled to "crack down" the gasoline companies
serving rural Montgomery County. This week we are
faced with the that in Rockville must
pay one cent for gasoline than the residents and
consumers of the metropolitan reaching far west
ward as Bethesda On the west edge of Rockville, begin
ming Looper Brothers Garage the consumer must reach
in his pocket for additional eght-tenths OF cent
In Maryland we have State gasoline tax. The gas
companies arbitrarily refuse to absorb of this tax
even though the NRA indicates otherwise We understand
on good authority that the people of Montgomery County
proper will suffer because someone in Hagerstown COM
blamed of the derenta between Washington and Mont
pomery Counties If there is to be difference between
the District of Columbia and Maryland, well and good
But why select certain in the county for varying
gasoline prices? 1t is both foolish and unethicaL
Fortunately we have gasoline dealers in Montgomery
County who have the interest of their customers at heart
They will 'buck' this arbitrary of the gas
panies and in so doing will increase their business We
believe that something is radically when the big
gasoline concerns tell the auto in Rockville that
he must pay more for gasoline than his neighbor in
Bethesda and them top of that tack another fee
the consumer in Gaithersburg.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
Gasoline Dealers In Montgomery
Plan To Keep Washington Prices
Independent Retail Firms In Rockville And Vicinity
Charge Corporations With Unfair Tactcs-Three
Different Prices Would Be Set For County

the larger outlets of retail dealers in
the two States by the simple ruse of
drawing a map around the District
of Columbia and selecting from its
confines those dealers whose output
of gasoline is sufficiently large to
warrant the oil companies to continue
losing cent per gallon of the State
tax las they say they do).
Those dealers who are unfortunate
ly beyond the very irregular line of
the map will be forced to sell at
Maryland prices. Most dealers, how
ever, show growing determination
to continue on selling at D. C. prices,
some have notified the oil companies
to remove their equipment and all are
hoping that the code administrator
will see all treated fairly and alike.
Very truly yours,
A. L. Speicher.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
Rotary Club Installs
Officers For New Year

The recently elected officers of the
Rockville Rotary Club for the year,
which began July 1, were installed at
the luncheon and meeting of the
organization in Rockville last week.
L. Fletcher Scott, principal of the
Rockville High School, is the new
president. The other new officers are:
Vice president, Porter G. Ward; sec
rotary, Sydney H. Karr; treasurer,
DR.. Woodson T. Birthright; directors,
Otto w. Anderson and DR.. Dexter NJ.
Bullard.
In presenting the new president
with the gavel and presidents pin,
DR., Jacob w. Bird, the retiring presi-
dent, gave short talk, as did Mr..
Schott. The gold past presidents pin
was presented by William F. Pretty
man, the clubs first president, to DR..
Bird.
DIR. v. L. Ellicott, chairman Of the
Program Committee, presented the
program for the weekly meetings Of
the club during the first half Of the
new year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
Spotted Fever Again
Appears In County

A case of spotted fever has been
reported in the same household in
which the case occurred last month,
according to the Health Department.
The second patient had been given
the spotted fever vaccine several
weeks ago because of the first case.
1t is hoped that the vaccine will pre-
vent the case from being severe.
More than one case of spotted fever
in the same family has been reported
on several occasions, but in most in
stances there has been a long inter-
val between the cases.
The most important measure in the
prevention of spotted fever is the ex-
animation of the body once or pre-
ferably twice day for the presence
of ticks. Ticks seldom infect until
they have been on the body about
eight hours.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
FuSiOnists Make
Bid To Get Vote
OF County Women
Republicans Meeting At Sandy
Spring Pledge Financial
Support To New Party

Complete cooperation of the fair
sex is essential if the newly formed
fusion party is to succeed in its eff
forts to gain control of the county
government members of the Mont
gomery County Federation Of Repub-
lican Women were told by leaders Of
the movement at meeting held in
the Community House at Sandy
Spring Monday.
The federation, in a brief business
session preceding the talks, which
were delivered by Walter w. Dawson
of Rockville, chairman of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee for the
county, and Paul Coughlan of Silver
Spring, a member of the same COM
mittee, had pledged its financial sup
port to both the fusion campaign in
Montgomery and the Republican par
TVS State drive.
Dawson said that sufficient funds
must be raised at once to have copied
from official records the names Of
people who have declared their inten-
tons to vote and to have that list di-
vided into districts and precincts. He
said that some 5000 new voters have
declared their intentions since the
last county election.
Mrs. Claude w. Mitchell of Silver
Spring, president of the federation,
also spoke in behalf of the fusion
party. During her remarks she intro
duced Mrs. Bates Etchison Of Cath.
ersburg, secretary Of the pafty's CAM
didates' Committee, and John Coff-
man of Takoma Park, member Of
that committee.
The federation voted to make an
immediate appropriation of $50 to the
fusion party's campaign, with subse-
quent donations to follow when funds
become. available, and also elected to
send $40 to the Maryland Federation
of Republican Women to aid in the
drive for State Republican candidates.
Plans were laid for card party at
the home of Miss Margaret Dawson
in Rockville to raise funds for the
fusion party and also for canvass
among the women of the county for
donations for the same purpose.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
Gaithersburg X. of p.
Installs New Officers

The semi-annual installation Of
officers featured at the last meeting Of
Forest Oak Lodge, X. of p. held in
the Pythian Hall, at Gaithersburg,
Monday evening with District Deputy
Francis Beall, of Gaithersburg, con-
Quoting the ceremonies.
The following were installed: Zadoc
M. Cooke, Chancellor Commander;
Luther Thompson, Vice Chancellor;
Clarence Crown, Prelate; J. Thomas
Martin, Keeper of Records and Seals;
Brawner 2. Harding, Master Of Fin
ance; James T. English, Master Of
Exchequer; Charles M. Pope, Master
of Arms; Kenneth Miller, Inner
Guard; Augustus Schwartzback, Out
er Guard; Charles Demory, Master Of
Work; Samuel M. Briggs, c. M. Pope,
y. M. Cooke, Trustees.
Francis J. Harding is the Grand
Lodge Representative for the yeer.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
Young Democrats Hold
Social Meeting Here

At the last regular meeting of the
Young Mems Democratic Club Of
Rockville, held at the Lincoln Way
Inn, the following guests were pres
ent: Stedman Prescott, candidate for
State Senator and Chairman of the
Democratic Organization Committees
of Montgomery County; Ernest
Offutt, Sanitation Engineer for the
County; DR.. George L. Edmonds and
Stephen C. Cromwell, members of the
Advisory Board of the Club and Jack
Diamond, young Democrat of the
Gaithersburg District.
This was strictly social meeting,
business being taboo. Refreshments
were served and, everyone seemed to
have mighty good time.
Ralph M. King, President of the
Club, was Master of Ceremonies.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
Harold C.. Smith
To Again Oppose
Congressman Lewis
Popular Rockville Attorney An
nounces His Candidacy For
House Of Representatives

Harold c.. Smith, popular Rockville
attorney will again seek to unseat
David J. Lewis as congressman from
the sixth Maryland district compris-
ing the counties Of Montgomery,
Frederick, Washington, Garrett and
Allegany. Mr.. Smith is the only MEM
Der of any party so far to announce
his candidacy from this district. He is
Republican.
Smith was the party's nominee for
the position in 1882, but was defeated
by Representative Lewis in The DEM
ocratic landslide of that year.
He was born in Rockville 40 years
ago. He was educated at the Rockville
Academy, Davidson College, N. c.;
Washington University. After prac-
Using law in Texas for several years
he entered the legal section of the
United States Veterans Bureau in
Washington in 1919, resigning in 1928
to embark upon the practise of law
in Rockville. In August, 1919, he en-
listed in the Army and served as a
private before he was transferred to
Central Officers Training School. In
1924 he was commissioned a second
lieutenant in the Reserves and in 1880
was made a captain in the Marine
Corps Reserves.
Mr.. Smith was the organizer and
commanding officer of Company M.
goth Marine \ Corps Reserves, and
organizer and commanding officer Of
Company H, 23rd Marine Corps Re-
serves. He belongs to the Masonic
Order, the Rockville American Legion
Post and is trustee and elder of the
Rockville Presbyterian Church. He is
past commander of the Department
of Maryland, American Legion.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
Heavy Increase Is
Reported In Farm
Bureau Membership
Maryland Shows 500 Gain In
Six Months OF 1884, Nation
Wide Increase $50

A sharp upturn in interest in the
Farm Bureau among farmers of
Maryland and twenty -one other states
has taken place in the first six
months of 1884. C. E. Wise, Jr., Sec
rotary of the Maryland Farm Bureau
Federation, reports State member
ship gain of fifty percent during the
first six months of this year. Figures
just released by American Farm
Bureau headquarters in Chicago show
that membership throughout the
United States was $50 greater dur
ing the first six months of 1884 than
during the corresponding period of
1888. Twenty-Five states showed an
increase over last year. They are Ar
kansas, California, Colorado. Connec-
ticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Min
nesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hamp-
shire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wy
oming.
A series of Farm Bureau meetings
will be held in fourteen counties of
Maryland beginning July 10 and
ending August 25. The meetings will
be held in the following counties:
Dorchester, Talbot, Worcester, Caro-
line, Montgomery, Charles, Baltimore,
Carroll, Howard, Kent, Cecil, Queen
Anne, Wicomico and Washington.
Speakers will be M. D. Lincoln,
Executive Secretary Of the Ohio
Farm Bureau Federation and member
Of the national Farm Bureau Board
of Directors; DIR. T. B. Symons, Direc-
tor of Extension Service of the Uni
versity Of Maryland, and Charles E.
Wise, Jr.. Secretary, Maryland Farm
Bureau Federation.
The 1884 Maryland Farm Bureau
Wool Pool is reported far ahead of
last year, both in total pounds and
number of shippers. AS of July l,
1888, the Bureau had received 48,50O
pounds of wool from 222 growers.
On July l Of this year slightly
more than 300 shippers had turned
over $4,000 pounds of wool to the
Maryland Farm Bureau pool. Better
prices obtained by marketing wool
through the Farm Bureau pool last
season is given as the reason for this
years substantial increase in use of
the Bureau marketing facilities.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
d. A. r. Chapter Wants
Support Continued For
Two Institutions

The Tench Tilghman Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton recently adopted the following
resolution in respect to the alleged
movement to withdraw State financial
support from st. Mary's Seminary
and Charlotte Hall Military Academy
WHEREAS, 1t is reported that
there is movement to induce the
Maryland Legislature to withdraw its
financial support from the ST. Mary's
Seminary and Charlotte Hall Military
Academy, and
WHEREAS, ST. Mary's Seminary
was erected by the Maryland Legis.
lature as a memorial to the pioneers
women of Maryland whose broad
minded traditions and loyalty to those
principles upon which Maryland was
founded have left their mark upon the
youth of the State, and still exerts
the same high-minded principles ano
lofty ideals, and
WHEREAS, Charlotte Hall was es-
tablished to offer to the youth of oul
State an opportunity for an education
which prior thereto was available ex.
clusively to the sons of wealthy par.
ents, and throughout the years both
have been and still are institutions Of
outstanding prominence, Therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, We, of the
Col. Tench Tilghman Chapter, D. A
R., go on record as opposed to the
Maryland Legislature withdrawing
any of its financial support from
these educational institutions, or ir
any way or manner lend its approval
to any change that will destroy Their
memorial character; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Col. Tencf
Tilghman Chapter use it's utmost in
fiuence to prevent any dissertation Of
these sacred memorials to the pion-
GERS of our beloved Maryland.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12

The majority of the independent re-
tail gasoline dealers of Rockville and
vicinity plan to maintain D. C. prices
despite the arbitrary action of the
big corporations in setting up three
zones in Montgomery County.
The gas companies would permit
the Washington price as far westward
as Bethesda. Rockville dealers are
asked to sell their gasoline at an in
crease of one cent. Just outside of the
corporate limits of Rockville the price
again advances eight-tenths of cent.
That is, in theory. Local dealers are
determined to fight what they term
an unfair discrimination" by continu-
ing to sell at the D. G. price.
The Sentinel received letter yes
terday from the proprietor of SPEECH
ers' Garage at Norbeck, which pretty
well describes the sentiment of the
independent dealers. It follows:
To the Editor of The Sentinel,
Dear SIR
Once more the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey and its following
of lesser lights in the gasoline bust
ness in Maryland and nearby Virginia
have moved in unison to extinguish a
growing independent gasoline retail
outlet.
This most recent attempt takes on
the significance of an outright dis
elimination and shows favoritism to
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
DIR. McKendree Boyer
Sails July 20 For
London And Vienna

DR.. M. McKendree Boyer, son of DR..
and Mrs. George M. Boyer, of Damas-
Gus, is sailing for Europe on July 20th
where he plans to spend several
months of intensive work in post
graduate internal medicine. Most OF
this time will be spent studying in
Vienna and London, although DR..
Boyer plans to visit other important
medical centers, especially some OF
the more celebrated German institu-
lions.
After his graduation from Mt. Airy
High School in 1924, DR.. Boyer enter
ed George Washington University and
received Bachelor of Arts degree in
1927 and the degree of Doctor OF
Medicine in 1882 from this institution
In June 1881 he was granted license
to practice medicine and surgery
after successfully passing the State
Medical Board of Maryland.
Since completing his internship at
st. Luke's Hospital in Cleveland
Ohio, in June, 1882, DR.. Boyer has
been specializing in Internal Medicine
and has served one year as Assistant
Resident in Medicine and one year as
Chief Resident Physician in this same
institution.
DR.. F. A. LeFevre, of the Cleveland
Clinic, will accompany DR.. Boyer to
Europe.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-12
VIM. D. Byron Named To
State Roads Commission

Before sailing yesterday for vaca-
ton in Europe, Governor Richie
named State Senator William D.
Byron, of Washington county, to the
State Roads Commission, to fill a
vacancy created by the resignation
several weeks ago of E. Brooke Lee,
of Montgomery county, one of the
Governors closest advisers.
Mr.. Byron, who is SO years old and
vice-president of the W. D. Byron &
Sons Leather Manufacturing Com
pany, of Williamsport, has announced
that he will devote practically full
time to the Roads Commission post,
which is an unpaid Office, and that he
will not be candidate for reelection
as State Senator.