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The Washington times., 1934-12-17
JAIL EDDIE SAYS WIFE,
ASKING JUSTICE FOR
CH|LDREK:S SAKE

AS the Bell defense Fredericksburg, Va, struggled today
for verdict guilty by of insanity Mrs Madge
Bell revealed today in exclusive Washington Times
interview expressing the hope that her husband go to jail
The husband, Edward Bell, wetodo church deacon and
merchant on trial charged with attempting poison his
wife, long invalid.
81 am torn between two emotions | to justice
DONE want Eddie Bell go jail If they send him
to sanitarum he will be out shortly Then what will do?
That Mrs Bells to reporters inquiry as to
how she felt her husband Previously she had been
quoted as saying she believed him innocent vowng she would
stand by him.
Today the deacons trial swung into its second week,
Dr. Beverly Tucker noted aenist testified that Deacon Bell
insane
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First Interuiew
With Mrs. Bell
Giiven Times
BY EUGENE A. KELLY
Copyright, 1884, by The Washington
Times)

Copyright, 1894, by The Washington
Times)
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Dec.
17.-Exhausted, fearful, extremely
upset and vindictive.
That was the condition Of
Mrs. Madge w. Bell, whose hus-
band is on trial charged with
attempting to poison her, when
in the first interview she has
granted a newspaper man she
unfolded the conflicting emo
tions wracking her storm-smept
soul.
7 found Mrs. Bell, a heavy-set,
aristocratic appearing woman
who does not look her So years,
lying in bed, taking soup through
tube. A nurse stood at her
bed. Mrs. Bell appeared to be
very melancholy and crestfallen.
The room she occupied with her
nurse exudes an atmosphere of
refinement and Southern culture.
I asked her how she felt, and
she replied:
81 am not at all well. I am
very weak. 1 have been in bed
for the better part of nine
months. This trial has me ter
ribly upset.
SEND HIM TO JAIL
GAS soon as have enough
strength I am leaving Freder-
ickSburg for a long trip 1 don't
mean that am leaving Fred
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. -
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RED MENACE.
FORESEENBY
A. I'll. HEAD
Communists Bore Into Unions,
Green Says; Probers to Bare
Activities Here
Bv international News Service

Nv International News Service
Communism eventually will con-
stitute a definite menace in the
United States unless curbed by a
campaign of education, William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, today told the
House committee investigating un'
American activities.
At present, Mr.. Green said.
Communism is not sufficiently
powerful to cause any direct
peril, but it is increasing. He testi-
fled:
Communists are trying to un.
dermine the labor unions. They
are boring into the economic
and political orders in this
country"
Clears Reds In Strike
He denied, however. that Com
munistsr fomented the Longshore-
mems strike at San Francisco and
the street railway strike at Los
Los Angeles. He said:
"TheSe strikes were upriSingS
of an oppressed people. The re-
ports of widespread Communist
activity on the Pacific Coast are
greatly exaggerated"
Communistic activities in Wash
ington will be revealed tomorrow
before the House committee.
The committee today called
Lieut.. H. w. Lineburg. of the Met
ropolitan Police Department, to
testify at it's hearing tomorrow.
Studies Radicals Here
Lieutenant Lineburg is in charge
Of the crime prevention division
of the local Police Department and
is especially assigned to cover &C.
tivities of radicals in the National
Capital.
Mr.. Green told the committee
he did not favor legislative meth
ods to stamp out Communism in
this country, but suggested this
could be accomplished through
educating the American people
into adopting healthy outlook.
He said:
"The Communist philosophy
thrives through lack of under.
standing. 1t is deceptive, insidi-
GUS, and misleading. 1t can be
counteracted through education
and the exposure of its doc
trineS."
PROPAGANDA CHARGED
He charged that the Third In
ternationale has continued to
spread the Soviet doctrines
throughout the nations of the
world.
He said:
"There has been no cessation
of Soviet propaganda activities
here since Russia was recognized
by the United States"
Upon further questioning by
committee members, Mr.. Green
admitted there had been some at
tempts by Communists to turn the
San Francisco strike to their ad.
vantage.
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Molly O'Day Wed
To Jack Durant

HOLLYWOOD. Dec. II 0N.S).
Molly O'Day, screen actress and
sister of Sally ONeill, film nota-
BILE, and Jack Durant. stage and
talkie comedian, were married in
Tia Juana, Mex, four months
ago, the couplt disclosed today. Du-
rant is a partner of the famous
team of Mitchell and Durant.
The couple admitted the mar
riage when Glenda Farrell, &C.
treSS, noted Molly's wedding ring.
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Rogers
Says:

SANTA MONICA. CAL, Dec.
17.-One of the most honest
divorce reasons 1 ever heard
was given the other day by
some fellow, "She suits me finr,
but l just can't afford her."
l guess Florida is destroyed
by the cold beyond any hope Of
ever coming back, by what I
read in the papers out here.
l see where somebody has
started a movement to "un-
recognize" Russia. We didn't
sell 'em as much as we thought
we would. / imagine their rec
OgniZing us hasn't turned out
so hot for them, either.
Copyright. 1894 by Mcknight
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
OuanticO Marine
Cremated in Crash

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Dec
II (SpeciaD &C. w. Bayne, a pri'
vate in the United States Marine
Corps, Quantico, Va, was burned
to death in an automobile accident
near Triangle, 18 miles north OF
here, yesterday.
George Wheat, Is, also a Ma
rine and a passenger in the car,
was treated at the Mary Washing
ton Hospital for burns. The Ma
rine's car crashed into a parked
automobile owned by Frank Acata,
of New York. The gasoline tanks
of both cars exploded.
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Beatrice Fairfax Finds
Bell Trial Intense

son of Martha Washington, who
was called to strengthen the in
sanity plea of the defense. Other.
wise the gentry contended itself
by the often more reliable grape
vine route, as to what went on at
the trial.
But the town came early and
stayed late. And not to lose the
right to seats which it had
secured with the foresight of the
early bird, it brought lunch along.
The famous fried chicken OF
Confined on Page ;, Col y
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Bombarded with questions re.
garding rumors that Mrs. Anna
Roosevelt Dali would shortly an
nounce her engagement, Mrs. F.
D. Roosevelt, at her weekly press
conference today, declared she
hadn't heard the story"
Mrs. Dali, according to reports
current in Washington, is to wed
John Boettiger, formerly of the
Washington staff of the Chicago
Tribune. He resigned last week
to take a position with the New
York office of the Motion Pic
lures Distributors of America.
His resignation started rumors
that their engagement would be
announced Immediately and that
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IOWA HUN NT|NG
ROBINSON

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Dec. II
G.N.SO The shadowy trail of
Thomas H. Robinson, jr., accused
kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed
Stoll, of Louisville, KY, dipped
into the Tri-Cities area today.
He was identified as having
rented an automobile in Moline,
ILL.,, across the Mississippi River,
while disguised as a woman. He
was given the car when he dis.
played a large roll of currency.
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.ennamer Faces Jury
Jan. Is as Slayer

story of the sensational murder
and the incidents leading up to it
for the trial, at which his attor-
neys plan to offer a plea of self
defense by reason of insanity.
The State offered only suffi.
cient evidence to warrant the de.
fendant being held for trial.
Five witnesses were heard-Dr
John F. Gorrell, prominent Tulsa
physician, father of the slain
youth; wesley Cunningham, who
found the body; physician who
examined the body; Floyd ]. Huff,
Kansas City aviator, who told Of
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1934-12-17

TULSA, Okla, Dec. II Q.N.SJ.
Philip Kennamer, 19-year-old son
of Federal Judge Franklin E. Ken.
manner, was ordered held for trial
by jury following a preliminary
hearing today on charge of first
degree murder in connection with
the Staying Thanksgiving night of
John F. Gorrell, jr.
Common Pleas Judge Bradford
Williams, who presided at the
hearings, set the trial for Janu-
ary Is.
No Defense Offered
The defense offered no testi-
mony, electing to save the youths
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
Fl Race Horses
Die in Track Fire

TORONTO, Dec. II G.N.S).
Twenty-one race horses were
burned to death today in fire,
apparently of incendiary origin,
which destroyed three stables of
the Thorncliffe race track. The
animals were valued at 100000.
said they believed the
fire had been started deliberately
because the flames broke out in
six different places.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
HUNTED AS SLAYER

NEW YORK, Dec. II G.N.S).
Police today hunted an unidenti-
fled colored man who killed
Nathan Platkin, SO, a landlord, in
a Harlem hallway, as he was max
ing collections. The frightened
gunman fled without taking any
cash,
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Tim.s Staff Correspondent

FREDERICKSBURG. Va. Dec.
1.-THE townsfolk. rather than
the landed gentry, most of whom
are "kin to the Washingtons," "
filled every seat in the historic
Fredericksburg court house on the
fifth day of Deacon Edward c..
Bells trial for thu alleged slow
poisoning of his wife Madge.
An exception was the presence
of DR.. St. George Tucker, psy.
chiatrist and q great. great grand
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
MRS. ANNA ROOSEVELT DALI

the wedding was not far distant.
The names of the two have
been coupled since Mrs. Dali OBJ
tained divorce from Curtis Dali,
of New York, in Reno, New, last
summer.
Mrs. Dali and Mr.. Boettiger
met during the presidential cam
paign. Since the formers divorce
they have been seen together fire.
quently, and although Washing
ton has hard rumors Of a ro-
nance whenever the Presidents
daughter appeared with any man,
the favorite has always been the
neWSpaperman.
Mr.. Boettiger was previously
married and is divorced.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
Per Cent Sale Tax
Set on Food Checks

NEW YORK, Dec. II. Q.N.S.).
A 2 per cent sales tax on all
individual food checks over one
dollar was decided upon today
by Mayor LaGuardia and COM
mittees from the municipal as
sembly at a conference on the
revised sales tax bill. At present.
food checks are exempt except
where entertainment also is pro-
vided with the meal.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17
EARTH ROCKED

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CAL, Dec.
II GN.S) IA sharp e. "th rock
shock was felt here today but
no damage was reported.
The Washington times., 1934-12-17

Whenever you want to know the
correct time of DAY or night tele-
phone District 1000, the office of
THE WASHINGTON TIMES,
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The Times Index

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correct time of day or night tele-
phone District 1000, the office Of
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-18
HOtr Can 1t BE Done?

IT may be that one of the reasons why we should
Il not expect a SnlesS literature Of a sinful peo-
pie is that vice not be attacked effectively if it
is be Offstage character Even the Puritans in
their temperance lectures we're willing to let the
public get at least one glance at the horrible ex-
ample.
am not ready TO bleed and die for every product
which has come from Hollywood. But I still think
It Is enormously delicate Job separate the false
and true. AS far the theaer goes. the difference
may not lie in the manuscript. but in the mood
OF the production. I hope that 1 get pretty
general agreement that She Loves Me Not" is an
innocent and highly diverting comedy. But it con-
tains lines and situations which could be made
shocking If hammered a little harder.
I am willing TO listen and even to hold my peace
while the case is being developed. but have never
heard any formula which would suffice to ban the
outrageous IN entertainment and at the same time
never harm so much single toe of honest. sim
core and profoundly useful creative effort want to
know how.
by TImesl
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an instrument which is either
revolutionary in purpose or a
method of disastrous folly.
n
90 when these strikers declare
- that they are not revolution
lists, there is every reason to think
they are sincere. When the oppo-
sition declare that the general
strike is a revolutionary weapon,
they unqueStionably are right.
What we see is revolutionary
weapon being welded by men who
do not want revolution.
For Mr.. Vandeleur and leaders
Of his kind, the question is how
they can eXtricate themselves
from this dangerous dilemma.
Their position becomes worse
every day that the strike con-
tinueS:
While a community can not
tolerate general strike and must
take measures to defeat it in prac-
tice and discredit it in theory it
must also take care that it does
not enthrone reaction and its in
evitable accompaniment, which is
a demoralized labor movement, at
the mercy of small groups of vio-
lent men. These labor leaders in
San Francisco have made a grave
mistake.
But it is better to provide them
an honorable retreat from their
mistakes than to crush and dis
credit them. Their successors
will be weaker. They may be
weaker as against the employers.
They are still weaker in their
power to preserve the discipline of
unionism. They will be weaker
and they will not be wiser. The
statesman-like policy, therefore, is
to save these men and these or
CARNATIONS from the bitter con-
sequences Of their own errors and
from those who will seek to ex-
plot their errors.
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Your Health
BY DIR. NORRIS FlsHBEIN

NNE of the most common diseases you will find
" among children is chronic infection of the
sinuses or air spaces around the nasal cavity.
The sinuses usually become infected along with
the adenoids, when the tonsilS inf1amed They
also are infected frequently along with the common
infectious diseases Of childhood, such as whooping
cough and measles
The increase of swimming and diving among chill
dren also is related to the increased amount of in
fammation Of the sinuses.
You can tell when your child has sinus trouble,
if he gets quite frequent head colds bleeds.
Fits Of sneezing chronic cough especially at night.
frequent attacks of earache, headache, and fever
that not be explained by some other condition,
also may be due to sinus infection.
BECAUSE an infection is present in the snuses,
ID you may find also secondary disturbances pres
ent such as Inflammation of the kidney of the
joints, difficulty in Digestion asthmatc attacks and
in fact all sorts Of troubles.
In diagnosing this condition, the doctor depends
first the examination of the nose and throat for
the presence Of a discharge which usually can be
found constantly present in the nasal cavity. There
also nfammations Of the glands in the neck.
The diagnosis can be confirmed, however, by use
Of Il-rays which will show the thickening and
changes in the walls of the sinuses
Doctors and even specialists find it exceedingly
difficult to treat infections of the sinuses in children,
partly because it is difficult to get the cooperation
Of the child and second, because Of the narrowness
Of the passages.
IT is very important that you regulate the diet Of
your children. giving them plenty Of milk cream,
butter eggs. vegetables and fruits but cutting down
to some extent the sugars 1t is also we'll to make
certain that the amount Of vitamins received is
adequate
Swimming, diving and strenuous outdoor exer-
else with cold showers thereafter should be cut down.
or eliminated until the condition has been brought
under control.
1t is sometimes possible for the expert to drain
the sinuses, and repeated draining and washing VIII
give opportunity for healing. To decrease the infec-
ton that is in the nose the doctor frequently pre-.
scribes antiseptie substances which may be dropped
into the nose
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thority of the civil government.
These moves are a strong indi-
cation either that the leaders of
organized labor in San Francisco
were stampeded into the general
strike against their better judg-
ment or that they resorted to it
without really understanding what
a general strike is. In either case,
they are now in the position of
men who are trying to strike softly
with a very sharp weapon.
The history of general strikes
shows clearly that they can sue
coed only if at the very outset
they completely paralyze the
whole life of the community, max
ing iC impossible for public au-
thority and the people generally
to act.
Failing such decisive stop
page of the whole social ma
chinery, any reasonably intelli-
gent community will organize re-
sistance, find ways of mitigating
hardship, and in the end break
the strike. That is the reason
why a general strike never has
been recognized by experienced
labor leaders as a legitimate
method of collective bargaining,
TT can succeed only if it is rev.
i dictionary in the sense that the
strikers organization becomes po-
litically supreme. A general strike
must strike at government. if it
does not, government will break
the general strike. 1t will break
it because government itself can
not be conducted if the strike is
really general: because the public
needs will require it to restore
those very services which the gen.
eral strike seeks to stop.
Now, it appears that in San
Francisco the strike is being man
aged by leaders who really do not
wish to make it general, who do
not wish to challenge the govern
ment, who do not wish to cause
too much trouble to the public.
But that means that they will in
cur all the liabilities of a general
strike without achieving the only
result which a general strike is
capable.
The fact that they are unwilling
to Starve the public will not cause
the public to acquiesce in the in
convenience and economic loss;
on the contrary, it will encourage
the public to react all the more eff
fectively because the public is not
forced to surrender. Thus the
forces which will oppose organized
labor in this struggle will be aug
mented by the great mass Of peo-
pie who, not having been terrified
into submission, will have been
provoked into resistance.
From the evidence available at
this time there is no reason to
think that organized labor in San
Francisco is in control of revolu-
tionists. On the contrary, all the
evidence seems to indicate that it
is led by ordinary American trades
unionists. But what seems equally
clear is that these politically con-
servative trade unionists are using
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bothered as to drinking water.
Deep wells provide the town with
ample water.
But Lawrenceburg, through its
mayor, Jacob Spanagel, joins Au-
rora in desiring the nuisance at
their backdoor abated.
AT times it smells very bad"
says the mayor, but that is our
only inconvenience. AS a city we
are going to clean up and already
have received approval from the
government for the construction
of a sewage disposal plant TO cost
$55,OOO."
The mayor hopes that Law
renceburg'S example may prove to
be spur to the distilleries.
Lawrenceburg and Aurora have
had diStilleries since the flatboat
days on the Ohio river when rye
and corn whisky brought 40 cents
a gallon and no takerS-becauSe of
moonshine stills.
ONE traveller in the Ohio
~ valley of the long ago &C
claimed the country near Aurora
and Lawrenceburg, as, Their gen.
erals diStill whisky, their colonies
keep taverns, and their states
men feed pigs"
Tanners creek in 1922 had a
Methodist camp meeting and the
first temperance rally of the valley
began when one speaker talked on
the Cost of a Bottle of Whisky"
Today the cost of that bottle Of
whisky has not only banished fish
life from the creek but is feeling
with tentacles of pollution for
grip on the aquatic and summer
resorts on the Ohio river.
MuSh from the distillery of the
Seagram company was seen by
Times representative pouring in
to the creek. A farmer on the
opposite creek bank from the dis
tillery purchases the distillerys
slop to feed his hogs, sheep and
cattle. His major income is de-
rived from feeding livestock the
slop which is piped across the
creek to his farm.
officials at the Seagram distil-
lery refused to comment at first
on the pollution of the creek.
Later they said that the plant
wasn't pouring mush into the
creek. When told that their wastes
had been seen rolling in a white
sludge down the spillway they ad-
mitted the possibility that plant
trouble might have caused the
pollution of the creek.
We've talked to state health
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r1r.t moral sort OF fan dance would be in which
there we're not any fans. But I have in mind
figure Of speech and not Miss Sally Rand.
just what viii happen TO the motion pictures l
do not know hut the pressure Of mOraists in the
ihcater has not promoted morality always. Liquor
is not the only commodity which may be boot
legged. My guess is that there will be an imme-
date and sweeping change in the matter OF out
ward order and decency. And my second guess Is
that there viii be great increase in the practice
OF sneakng things over. I doubt if Mae West is the
last Of her line. More subtle approaches are dis
tnctlv possible.
on numerous occasions have heard it said that
there can be no possible quarrel about what is clean
or what is decent. It seems to almost impossible
not 10 quarrel about them. Let us assume, for in
stance that everybody could be brought into an
agreement that from this time forth nothing the
stage or screen or in literature should be approved
unless it were clean. say that such an agreement
would not constitute peace treaty. 1t would be the
beginning Of hostities
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board men and they seemed to
think we were operating all right, "
asserted w. H. Reed, plant man
ager.
CTATE sanitation engineers as
- sured The Times that no off,
cial approval of the manufacture
ing methods of the distillery in
relation to pollution had been
given.
A short distance north Of the
Seagram plant is the Spillway OF
the Quaker company. The water
offal was markedly clean and not
muSh from wastes.
Quaker officials said they had
spent $4,000 for the purchase OF
coagulating tanks and assured The
Times that no Objectionable
wastes would be poured into Tan
ner'S creek by their plant.
In Aurora the water plants
chief engineer, Lawrence Lock
wood, tells how he is forced to
boost the carbon content in Au-
rora's water to thirty pounds
day in order to kill the taste OF
industrial waste.
I've seen the time along the
river when the wastes from the
distilleries would make water-dogs
and crawfish crawl up on the
bank and turn up their heels. It's
worse now than it has been in the
last ten years." said Mr.. Lock
wood.
In Aurora, DR.. J. F. Treon, city
health officer, urges that the
United States government step in
and do something to stop the con-
tinuous pollution of the Ohio
river.
Before prohibition there was
much agitation to clean up the
river but the buck always was
passed to other industries and
other cities. Conditions are bad
from a health standpoint" says
the doctor.
water is good Spreader OF
disease, the mouth is next, and
some of the head colds and nose
irritations in the city can be at
tributed directly to bathing in the
river" declared the health officer.