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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-19
Rockville Seeks Aid In Getting
Larger Road Appropriation For
Incorporated County Communities
Town Council Invites Representatives To Meet At
County Seat August To Discuss Plans-New Tax
Rate Cut 2 Considerable Basis Now
Set At $2,O21455

Rockvies town fathers determined that the county
seat should get larger fund from the expend for
roads and streets At the present. time Rockville is allowed
little $500 when it in in approxmating
25OOO To the end that something may be the
matter F. Bache Albert town clerk treasurer has been
authorized by the town council to invite mayors councmen
from the incorporated towns and villages Montgomery Cou
ty to meet at the Rockville on Tuesday August
at 8 P. M.
Members of the council believe that Rockville with it's
assessed value of $2021455 justly entitled considerably
larger sum than $500 for road and street maintenance The
town annually pays State amount approxmatnG
S25OOO From this amount less than two and oneha per
cent returns to Rockville
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-19

Action is expected to be taken to-
morrow friday on the proceedings
instituted by Russell L. Snyder Gath
ersburg farmer, who seeks to halt the
sale of his farm under a mortgage
sale. In filing the injunction IN the
United States District Court in Baltl-
more, Mr.. Snyder will be the tirst
man to take advantage of the newly
enacted Frazier-Lemke farm mortg-
age moratorium act.
The case was filed before Judge W.
Calvin Chestnut, who issued an order
recurring the Sheriff Of Montgomery
County and the MORTGAGE, the Mont-
gomery National Bank, to show cause
by Friday why they should not be
enioined from taking further steps to
enforce collection of the debts.
Under this law farmers who have
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-19
Mrs. Margaret Hillyard
Is Named School Trustee

The Board of Education in its
meeting on Tuesday last appointed
Mrs. Margaret Hillyard trustee at
Brookeville school and Mr.. Wilson
Townsend trustee to the Kensington
School.
In accordance with the ranking OF
the applicants in a recent scholarship
examination the Board appointed
Miss Fern E. Will, Rockville, to fill
Che scholarship from Montgomery
county in the st. Mary's Seminary.
Miss Margaret A. Riley, Gaithersburg
was appointed to fill the scholarship
Tor Montgomery County in the Mary
land Institute of Art and Design.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-19
Democratic Women To
Give Dance On August 3

Committees for the dance to be
given by the Rockville Women's
Democratic Club August 8, at In
dian Spring Country Club, were an
nounced this week by Miss Margaret
Jones, general chairman.
The committees are:
Ticket Committee
Miss Helen Mclaughlin, chairman;
Miss Alice Diamond, Miss Anne
Hagner, Miss M. Lansdale, Mrs. G..
L. Kelly, Mrs. Robert Howes, Mrs.
Mary F. Riggs, Mrs. Louise Durrer
Misses Gala Prescott, Kitty Offutt,
Naomi Bogley, Rose L. Clagett, Hell
en- King, Laura Gardner, Rebecca
Wire, Mary Harding, Creighton
Jones, Lucille Kessler, Mary E. Far
mer, Jean Skinner, X. Higgins, Doris
Garrison, Rebecca Keys, Edna Fisher.
Publicity Committee
Miss Maude Wilson, chairman;
Mrs. F. Magruder, Mrs. F. S. Lyd-
dane, Mrs. Paul Wire, Mrs. Lola A.
Stup, Mrs L. Mullineaux, Mrs. Lu-
ellie King, Mrs. Earl Stearn, Mrs.
Bruce Carr, Mrs. Robert Carter,
Mrs. Robert Hughes; Misses M.
Scherrer, M. Ricketts,, E. Diamond,
Lucy Offutt, Katherine Shaw, Dor
othy Kraft, Helen Offutt, Katherine
Riggs, Lucille Brown, Edith Lamar,
Louise Valdenar, IN. L. Cashell, Betty
Ward, Mary Somervel.
Floor Committee
Mr.. Jack Clagett, chairman
Messrs. Jack Spates, Robert Maddox,
Thomas Offutt, Lewis Allnutt, Jr.,
Ralph Benson, Val Wilson, Jr.
Reception Committee
Mrs. Mary w. O'Brien, chairman;
Mrs. Joseph Cissel, Mrs. C. Y. Lati-
mer, Miss Mae Mclaughlin, Mrs. L.
H. Price.
ChGper0nes
Mesdames S. Prescott, S. Crom-
well, R. Peter, Jr, Ernest Offutt,
j. B. Diamond, l.. P. Schott, j. F.
Walker, Eugene Scott.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-19

The levy for 1920, for example,
shows that Rockville got back
$171697 from the the State taxes.
Thus, Rockville only receives about
one-third for improvement purposes
of the amount received ID years ago.
And since that year the assessable
basis has increased materially.
A tax rate of 80 cents per 500
assessed valuation has been fixed for
the current tax year. Fifty-eight
cents will be allowed for general pur-
poses, with 80 cents for interest and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-19
s8a.s5O.Oo

Total ...... $33,85O.OO
Edgar Reed, member of the town
council and chairman of the COM
mittee preparing the budget, says:
"We believe the 32c rate for re-
duction bonds and interest on same
is sufficient to take care of this
expense. If you will note the $500
per house sewer maintenance will
amount to about 100000 and that
the expenses of operating this sewer
system is estimated to be $1450.0O,
leaving balance on the account Of
$4,000. This amount we believe
should be set aside for repairing
sand in flower beds, and one should
be reconditioned every two years un-
til all of the three old beds have
been repaired.
Estimates have been figured on
a taxable basis of $2,021, 455.OO and
we have also taken in consideration
the $1,050.00 to be collected from
the County to help retirement of the
bonded Indebtedness and interest on
same"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-19
Rockville Will Play
Gaithersburg Sunday

Rockville will go into the game
with Gaithersburg Sunday slight
favorite despite an early season
beating. The county-seaters seem
to have hit their stride, easily de-
feating Colesville last Sunday with
Bonnie Coleman pitching. Gathers
burg, however, is always hard TO
lick and may fool the so-ealled ex-
pert diagnosticians.
Colesville has breather, meet
ing the Takoma A. C.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-19
Mary Lucille Welsh
Announces Engagement

Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Welsh an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Mary Lucille, to w. Edward
Fletcher, son of Mrs. Florence F.
Heath, of Washington, D. c. TIE
wedding will take place in the early
fall.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-07-19

retirement of $4,000 bonded indebted
ness. The new rate cuts cents
off last years taxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
GANG
ELUDES POLICE
Master Mind Plotted Raid,
Officers Say; Loot
Largest Ever.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. ga search
by air, land and sea today matched
the wits and tenacity of metropoli-
tan police against the theatrical
cunning of the criminal band that
seized S427, $50 from an armored
money truck yesterday in Americas
largest cash holdup.
The outlaw raid in Brooklyn ana
flight to sea in speedboats dwarfed
the imagination of any bandits In
police history.
Along the hazy eastern sea coast,
grey patrol craft cruised in search
of the dozen fugitives. Over the.
water front and far out at sea, air.
planes ~zig-zagged over every sus-
picious craft af1oat.
every possible avenue of escape.
But if police had found any clews,
save a possible discovery of empty
money bags discarded by the gang,
they concealed their information.
Every indication was that the out
laws who raided the truck and fled
by automobile and boat with the
precision of actors in a well-re-
hearsed drama had made such thor
ough plans that their trail already
was cold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
WARFARE IN
MINNEAPOLIS ENDS
Strikers Back at Work;
Martial Law Lifted.

By United Press
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Aug. 22-
Thirty-seven days of bloody riots
and martial law were ended today
by settlement of a strike of 5000
truck drivers.
Peace terms that ended one of the
bitterest labor feuds since the Blue
Eagle took wing were signed last
night by union leaders, a few hours
after they ~ere approved by en-
ployers.
Representatives Of both sides
hailed the settlement as a victory.
The union was granted the right to
represent inside" workers Of
twenty-five large market district
firms, but was denied a wage in
crease.
The dispute over union jurisdic-
ton in negotiations affecting inside
employees was the primary cause of
the strike. National guardsmen who
have ruled the city since July 26
we're ordered to relinquish control
at 7 a. m. Trucks interned for weeks
by military orders rumbled onto the
streets even before that nour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
Baby Born
With Bones
Broken Dies
Science Loses Battle to
Save Life of Tiny
City Girl.

Baby specialists at the James
Whitcomb Riley hospital for chill
dren we're to confer this Afternoon in
an attempt to fix the cause of the
death yesterday of Caroline RUBY
Mercer, whose slightly more than
three months of life were a continu-
GUS struggle to live despite the han
dicap of more than fifty broken
bones.
Baby Caroline, whose case at
tracted the interest of pediatricians
and bone specialists all over the
country, was a hopeless case from
the first, n Riley hospital surgeon
said today. He described the fight
that had been made to save her as
a futile struggle against nature.
Earlier, it has been said at the
hospital that she died of a new de-
velopment in her case and not be-
cause of the fractures.
Private funeral services for the
infant, who was the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hansel Mercer, 404
North Chester street, will be held
in the Wald funeral home at 10 to-
morrow. Burial will be in Green
castle.
The baby was X-rayed three days
after birth, May IS, in Methodist
hospital, and doctors found be-
tween fifty and sixty fractures. All
but two of these occurred before
birth. DR.. j. F. Riggs, $40 Bankers
Trust building, broke one of her
tiny thighs as he tenderly lifted one
of her legs shortly after birth. The
nurse broke the other when she
gave the baby the customary oil
bath.
When Caroline was two weeks
old, she was taken to Riley hospital
and placed on a board framework.
The baby was released from Riley
hospital the middle of June. On
Aug. Is she was brought back to the
hospital for treatment for fractures
in her tiny legs received when she
fell from an improvised bed on a
cedar chest where her mother had
placed her. Because of her appar-
ent inability to move, her mother
had thought her safe.
The last breaks we're said to be
developing normally when a new
development occurred which taxed
baby Caroline's strength to the
breaking point and she died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
IN CITY TO
Get u. S. JOBS
Work on S2,500,0 900 SIum
Clearance Project to
Start Ian. /.

More than 500 men will be given
employment about Jan. l when the
$500, 900 Indianapolis slum-clear-
ance project is started, Carl Fer
guson, local manager of the federal
emergency housing administration,
announced today.
First step in the program will be
the filing of condemnation proceed
ings on the various properties which
are located in the Negro ire
bounded by Indiana avenue and
Blake, North and Locke streets. The
properties cover an area of approx
mately twenty-five acres.
In the place of the present build
ings, twenty-five separate units Of
two, three, and four-story buildings
will be erected. The structures will
house 1000 apartments of one. two
and three-room capacity, which, MI
Ferguson said. will rent for about
$3.50 a month for each room.
The model apartment buildings
will be managed by a local housing
committee of twelve. Tentative
membership is composed of: Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivan; Joe Rand
Beckett. attorney; Louis j. Borin-
indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce president; Charles w.
Chase, Indianapolis Railways presi-
dent: John Z. Friedrich. president of
the Continental Steel Company, Ko-
komo.
Others chosen to serve are Hugh
Mex. Landon. Fletcher Trust Com
pany vice-president; Charles Lutz,
labor leader: Felix McWhirter, Peo-
pies State bank president; Mrs
John w. Kern. widow of the former
senator: William H. Trimble, Trim
bic Realty Corporation vice-presi-
dent: Samuel Walker. controller of
the William H. Block Company, and
F. E. DeFrantz, Negro Y. NJ. c. A.
secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22

Nicholson, held on vagrancy
charges for federal authOri-
ties. has confessed, police say.
A. c. Garrigus. postal inspec-
tor. and detective sergeantS
Edward Tut and Edward
ROuls made the arrest.
Late in July the directors received
the first threatening note giving eA-
plicit directions to place a claSslheo
advertisement in a local newspaper
stating. Everything o. X j. B.
Police and postal authorities were
notified. The advertisement was IN
serted.
Another note followed ordering
the directors or their agents to place
$4,000 in a package and meet a
man on North Illinois street, VINO
would carry further Instructions &C
cording 10 police.
INSPECTOR Garrigus and the de
tectives made a dummy package ana
met a cab driver with a note which
instructed them to proceed north on
Illinois street to Pearson street.
where there would be a cardboard
sign with the letters j. B." painted
on It. according to their story.
The officers followed orders and
tied the package to a dog leash on
a fence near the sign. The leash
was attached by a string to a clump
OF bushes.
Inspector Garrigus obtained a
description Of the alleged eXtor-
ioner from the taXicab driver and
noted an elderly man sitting on the
porch at 2459 Pearson street, VINO
answered the description.
Discovering that the man was a
"crank" on photography. inspector
Garrigus wrote him several ian
letters. When he received a reply
handwriting experts compared II
with the threatening letters. Inc
arrest followed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22

Inc uSW pAOSAdAI Will SuONCCN CAAC
Relief Administrator Harry l..
Hopkins, returning from a European
inspection tour, will discuss pre-
liminary plans with the President
this week.
Relief officials we're unanimous
today in an opinion that direct re-
lief was not the answer to Distress
ing problems confronted by unem-
ployed during cold winter months.
CWA accomplished its major pur-
pose last year, but Mr.. Hopkins and
his aids were disappointed.
CWA. they explained, provided
only one substantial form of en-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22

VIII ItSISLdICt
The resistance was the first open
opposition TO the Nazis during the
last year. Working men, believing
their comrades we're to be arrested
and sent TO concentration camps,
fought with fists against the Storm
Troopers and compelled them TO
await the arrival of ordinary police
men so that their rights might be
safeguarded.
Hitler'S campaign to convert" the
millions who voted against him re-
.ceived a setback when a Maxi cleo
ton analysis revealed that two mil
lion votes were recorded against him
IN Catholic districts. and at the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22

same time the official Catholic or
gan Official Catholic Bulletin issued
a statement denouncing a pronun-
ciamento by August Hoppe, Nazi
youth leader.
Hoppi urged Hitler youth Ito sum-
mon all forces for a final battle
against Christianity" He urged the
youth to free themselves from the
domination" of priests. The Ger
man race, he said, must free itself
from the JewiSh-C Christian concep-
ton of compassion and loving your
enemies"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
COIN ATTORNEYS FILE
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL
es Objections Listed in Petition oil
Meyer-Kiser Official.

Attorneys for Melville s. Conn
former vice-president OF the detunct
Mever-KiSer bank, convicted OF en-
bezzlement. filed a motion o new
trial today in criminal court.
Sixty-eight objections we're hSteo'
The chief objection was against the
admission of evidence against the
pleas OF the defendant. The Sult
charged that the verdict of the jury
was not sustained by sufficient
actual evidence.
The attorneys r James w. Noel,
Frank c. Daley, Allen ". Boyd and
Paul Y. Davis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
BrOWn Derby Leaders Play Possum,
Refusing TO Reveal Vote Strength

Of not later than 4 p. m. today.
Yesterdays ballots are due at 4
p. m. tomorrow while today's votes
are thrown out after 4 p. m. Friday.
Shortly the ten leading can
didates will be measured for skull
sizes and their photographs printed
in the darby gallery.
Repeat as many times as you
want to. Vote daily Stuff! Cram!
Beg Buy! Steal ballots!
You'll find today's ballot for your
favorite to win the silver plaque
and speak at the Indiana state fair
on Sept. 6 on Page Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
Alleged Killer of Police Sergeant Lester
Jones Leads in Cutting Bars With Hack
saw; Discover Delivery at Inspection.
OUTSIDE AID GIVEN, SAYS SHERIFF.
Two Other Indianapolis Men Accompany
Murder Suspect in Flight From
Nearby Indiana Town.
BY HEZE CLARK
Times staff Writer

NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Aug. 22.-Wili Mason, 34-year-
old wooden-legged rowdy, accused of the machine gun murder
of Sergeant Lester Jones of the Indianapolis police depart
ment, and four other prisoners who early today fled the
Hamilton county jail, apparently had made good their escape
this afternoon.
Neither local authorities nor state police headquarters
at Indianapolis were able to report any valid cleWs.
Mason. over whose guilt or innocence a jury disagreed
last September, was awaiting a second trlal. in the Hamilton
county circuit court, where his case was moved a year ago
last June in a change of venue from Marion county.
The men who escaped with Mason, king OF the cell
block. were John Martin, So, Negro, indianapolis, who was
to have been taken to the Michigan City state prison today
to begin a one-to-ten-year sentence for stealing cars, harness
and chickens; Lowell DriskeD-, p, indianapolis, held on a
vehicle theft charge; Frank Wallace, so, Kokomo, held on
a theft charge, and Paul Mckinney, 20, Fl. Wayne, under a
hree-to-ten-year sentence for housebreaklng.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22

Monroe Ware, 68, Sheridan,
held on an arson charge, also
was in the Jail, but made no
attempt to leave with the
other men, who threatened
him with an iron bar torn
from a loose section of metal
flooring.
The escape occurred some time
between II last night and 3 a. m.
today.
Sheriff Frank Hattery, resentful
because, he said, repeated attempts
to have Mason transferred from his
undetermined jail to the Pendleton
reformatory had failed, believes the
men may have worked all night 10
saw through the nine bars and to
poke out the heavy iron mesh winch
also guards the window.
They made a hole eighteen inches
by eleven and one-eighth inches,
state police measurements showed.
The sheriff said he made a care
full inspection of the Jail last night.
He believes the hacksaws and blades
used to cut through the bars were
not there then.
Given Aid, Says Sheriff
1t is his theory that an accom-
plice outside the Jail put the saws
and blades On a string lowered by
Mason or one of his fellow fugitives
and that they then were drawn
through a three-quarters inch open
space at the bottom of the WIN
dow.
From then on, the sheriff admits,
escape would be a comparatively
easy matter.
Two months ago, Hamilton county
commissioners ordered the sheriff to
discharge, for economy reasons, A. L.
Walton, night jailer. Since then,
the sheriff has had to trust to late
night inspections and early morning
risings to check on his prisoners
and, notably, on Mason.
The jail was QUILT II 1879 ana
there is only one toilet in the cell
block. This fact prevented Sheriff
Hattery from locking the men in in
dividual cells for the night. To-
gether, they were able to plot and
make effective their escape.
The delivery was discovered at
$40 a. m. when Sheriff Hattery and
his son, Deputy Sheriff Alfred Hat
terry, went to get Martin to take him
to Michigan City. Sheriff Hattery
had just returned from a call to the
Lehr farm, north of Noblesville,
where he had gone at 3 a. m. on a
complaint that a man and woman
were stealing corn.
At the farm, the sheriff had
arrested C. F. Carson and Miss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
JOHNSON FORCED TO
REHIRE 0USTE0 MAN
NRA Chief Gets Some Cracking
Down" Upon Himself.

By tnifrd Press
WASHINGTON. Aug 22.-Gen-
eral Hugh S. Johnson got a taste
TO-DAY Of some cracking down" upon
himself. -.
The national labor relations board
ordered him to reinState John l..
Donovan. NRA union president,
whom General Johnson personally
had discharged for "inefhciency.
Gustav Peck. executive director
Of the labor advisory board in which
section Donovan was employed. an
nounced Donovan would be given
back his position but that ne would
have to toe the mark" Donovan
vas characterized as guilty Of pro-
vocative" conduct.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22

that the five leaders are scared by
the mammoth Frankenstein Of the
race for the most distinguished
citizen"-how many votes has the
other fellow got?
But those on the lower brackets
of the standings are warned that
they can't coast between now and
Saturday. For promptly at 4 p. m.
on that day all candidates for the
brown kelly with less than 5000
ballots will be dropped from the
race.
Mondays ballots must be in The
Times Office, or have a postal date
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22

The e program is divided into
six classihcations:
/. Planning.
2. Work On public property, in
GLIDING street and sewer improve
ments, highway construction and
insect pest control.
8. Housing and demolition.
4. Production.
5. Education.
6. Health and recreation.
The second of these six classih-
cations is reminiscent of CWA. The
remainder are expected to are for
workers not accustomed to hard la
Dor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
DROP Is
FORECAST FOR TONIGHT
Cool Wave Sweeping in From
DakOtas, Is Prediction.

Cooler weather tonight, coming on
the heels of a Slight rise today, is
promised by the United States
weather bureau. A high pressure
area from the Dakotas, bringing
with it a drop of from 10 to II de-
grees, is expected to reach here to-
night and bring unsettled condi-
tions tomorrow. ]. H. Arlington,
local m~eteorologist, said today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-22
DOUG AND MARY MEET
IN SECRET, Is REPORT
Film Folk Speculate on Possible
Reconciliation.
United Press


b. United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22.-Recon-
Citation for Americas No. l film
couple became the topic of increas-
ing speculation today following re-
liable reports that Mary Pickford
and Douglas Fairbanks had met Sc
cretly and had a human and I'M
derstandable talk"
While both Doug and Mary, sep
arated since June a year ago, main
tanned the utmost secrecy, there was
confirmation the couple met a few
hours after Fairbanks arrived bacqE
in Hollywood yesterday. Not even
their closest friends, however, pre-
tended to know the answer to the
possibility of reconciliation.