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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-11-12
Italian Club

The Italian East Mountain club
will sponsor It's fifth annual din
ner dance at Venta hall, l03 Green
street Sunday afternoon. More
than 800 are expected TO attend the
affair,
Committee arranging for event d
headed by Chairman, J. Rolando, II
Carlisle, vice chairman; l.. Canta-
massa, secretary; F. Lantiyi, treas
urer, Domenic Viotti, publicity.
Others on the committee are: A
Cantino, A. Fossaty, l.. Mosenzo, j
Bruentti, 8. Bruentti, w. viavengo
A. vianenzo, r. viayengo, P. Do
vano, @. .Sabattino, r. Bosticco, J
Gallo and @. Poggi. G. Piola. j
Carlisle, p. Rosasco, B. Serasio, j
Banclio, H. Sabotini, J. Bianchsn
and A. Torsani.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-11-12

One Of the newer accessories on
the market is an auxiliary gasoline
tank holding one quart Of fuel and
designed for installation at the car
hiiretor.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-11-12

and letter from Mrs. Maude
Brown, inviting the lodge members
to Qroton on January !, were read
at the business meeting.
Mrs. Ida 5irdsall is chairman Of
a card party to be given next We'd
nesday for the benefit Of the
Rebekahs relief fund. She will be
assisted by Mrs. Julia Granger,
Mrs. Ruth Hcebner, Mrs. Janet
Houghtaling, Mrs. Nellie 0oodroe,
Mrs. Cora Kanny and Mrs. Alice
Walcott. Table prizes will be
awarded. "
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-11-12

A new safety belt for pcdes'
TRANS, studded with reflector but
tons, will soon be on the market
Evening star., 1936-06-28
Capital Engineer
On Ship Battered
ByTropicalStorn,
TwO japanese Vessels
Standing by Craft
Agency Saws.

A Washingtonian, r. D. Lamborns
second assistant engineer of the ship
Is one Of the crew Of "a men aboard
the American oil tanker Magnolia.
reported aground on the rocky coast
Of Mappi Island, Korea, and endan.
gered by a heavy windstorm, which Is
hampering rescue attempts.
The Associated Press quoted a Reu-
ters News Agency report that three
Japanese ships were standing by the
Magnolia, which was reported leaking
badly forward after plowing into the
rocky shore of the little island in the
Yellow Sea, go miles off the Korean
mainland.
The Magnolia, one of the newer
tankers of the Standard Oil Co., was
carrying 10000 barrels of gasoline
from San Pedro, Calf, to Dairen,
Manchukuo, it was reported.
Lamborne, who celebrated his oath
birthday anniversary Thursday, is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Lamborne,
3501 North Pershing drive, Clarendon,
Va. He was graduated from the Penn
sylvania Nautical School in June, 1888,
as honor man in his class and imme-
diately joined the Standard Oil Co.
tanker fleet. He was assigned to the
Magnolia about month ago, and this
was his first cruise aboard her.
Evening star., 1936-06-28
Kappel Case Action Ended
after Evidence Is Reviewed
NOIIe Pressed Murder Indictment after
Evidence Vas Found insufficient
to Convict, RObb Says.

was arrested when others told of quar-
rels between the two.
Witnesses at the inquest gave testi-
mony tending to show Kappel had
been at a New York avenue restau-
rant and later visited several other
places before returning to the Fourth
street house and finding Miss Lynch's
body.
The body was found about 6 am.
Police placed the time Of the shooting
shortly before 3 am. Testimony Of
fered by friends Of Kappel substanti-
ated his story that he returned to the
restaurant less than an hour after he
took Miss Lynch home about ll:30 pm.
Kappel, who said he had been en-
ployed as an ice man, was quoted by
police as saying he took Miss Lynch
home, but left her at the door when
she refused to let him enter the house.
Kappel had a police record prior
to being linked with the shooting.
According to his record, he has been
arrested more than 20 times since
1918, the charges varying from viola
ton of the child labor law to assault
with a dangerous weapon. The latter
charge, preferred in 1926, was nolle
pressed.
Evening star., 1936-06-28

Piling out of the family automo-
bile, somewhat the worse for wear,
in order to have their pictures taken
yesterday, the young Cooks were
pretty convincing proof that Mother"
and Daddy" have managed to make
them feel blood kinship as well as
spiritual They laughed and politely
helped each other, the older girls TAX
ing care of the two younger ones.
They didn't quarrel-though Mrs.
Cook admitted they sometime disagree,
Just as any other normal family"
John Wesley and the baby have
identical mops of soft platinum curls.
Children are Renamed.
All the children were renamed when
they we're adopted, Mrs. Cook said,
and until the last two came along
only a few people knew that the
Cooks children were not of their
blood. Charles Lincoln and Margaret
Ann didn't even tell their school,
mates that Mary Frances was new
when she entered school with them.
Since Mrs. Cook has four sisters
and Rev. Cook one brother, the chill
dren are well supplied with uncles,
aunts and cousins.
That's one advantage of a home
like ours over an orphanage," Mrs.
Cook pointed out
Then Rev. Cook had an inspiration.
Anybody who would like to help
us get that farm so we can take care
of more children can be an aunt or
an uncle" he promised generously.
Evening star., 1936-06-28

Police officials yesterday reviewed
all recorded evidence in the case of
william A. Dutch) Kappel, as the
result of the nolle pressing of the
first-degree murder indictment against
him in the mysterious shooting of
Elizabeth R. Lynch November 81, but
announced later they were taking no
further action.
The case was quashed by Assistant
United States Attorney Roger Robb,
who said 1t had been decided there was
insufficient evidence to convict Kappel
Kappel was released from jail Friday
night.
There had been no public disclosure
of the abandonment of the trial until
Kappels release. Police Superintend-
ent E. w. Brown said he got his first
information from reporters.
Naturally, we rechecked our records
Of the evidence to see II possibly
there had been a slip in the original
investigations" he said. Inspector
Thompson (chief of the Detective
Bureau) found that all the evidence
gathered by police was in the case.
We are making no further investiga-
tion and plan no further action. The
matter is in the hands of the District
attorney"
Attorney Charles E. Ford, who rep
resented Kappel, said last night the
evidence had been reviewed by at
least two assistants to United States
Attorney Leslie c. Garnett before
the case was dropped.
Ford declared he was convinced the
prosecution did not have any evi-
dence" and that Kappel Is innocent.
Ford also said criticism of the
United States attorneys Offices action
in giving Kappel his freedom would
be Outrageous. Lawyers all know
that If a person once Is brought to
trial and acquitted, he never can be
tried again for the same alleged
offense," he pointed out.
Miss Lynch. "a. who was a switch
board operator at the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co., was found with bull
let through her brain, lying on the
kitchen floor Of her residence at 918
Fourth street. northeast. early in the
morning of November 27. A smashed
chair and bruises on her legs indi-
Gated there had been a struggle. A
revolver lay near her feet.
Kappel, who roomed at the house,
called police, reporting he found Miss
Lynch when he returned home. He
Evening star., 1936-06-28
FUGITIVE IS JAILED
ASPOCKET PICKER
Man Taken After Chase on
Accusation by Street
Car Passenger.

After breaking through the bars
on the window of a moving street
car and running more than thres
blocks in an effort to escape, a man
accused by another passenger of be-
ing a pickpocket was arrested late
yesterday by Detective Sergt. w. S.
Beck.
The prisoner, who was alleged to
have been in the act of picking a
victims pocket at the time Beck
spotted him, gave his name as
Thomas Graham Gross, As, Of Balti-
more. Two alleged accomplices also
we're arrested and are being held at
the first precinct along with Gross
who was booked for investigation.
Heard Noisy Argument.
Beck was riding in crowded north
bound car on Seventh street near K
street yesterday afternoon when he
heard a passenger in a noisy argu-
ment with Gross, who was accused of
having snatched the passengers bill
fold and later dropped it. The pas
senger was demanding that a White
House policeman, also on the car, put
the accused man under arrest, but the
policeman refused.
After hearing the complaints, Sergt.
Beck moved to arrest Gross, but the
latter ran to the front of the car,
pushed three brass rods from an open
window and leaped out while passeu-
gers stared in amazement. After re-
covering from his fall to the pave
ment. the man scrambled to his feet
and ran north on Seventh street.
In Lineup Tomorrow.
The detective, meanwhile, had sig
nailed the motorman to stop the car,
ran through the open door while the
car was still moving. and gave chase.
He overlook Gross at Eighth and M
streets.
Gross, the two men arrested with
him, and others held as suspected
pickpockets and hold-up men will
appear in a lineup at police head
quarters at pm. tomorrow.
Inspector B. w. Thompson, chief
of detectives, last night appealed to
all recent hold-up victims to cooper
ate in identification of the prisoners
while we are certain of the guilt
of many of these men," Inspector
Thompson explained, prosecution is
impossible without identification by
the victims"
Evening star., 1936-06-28

phatically while she held the wiggling
17-month-old Ruth Louise in her arms.
we want dozen boys!" 4-year- old
John Wesley chanted, hopping up and
down with excitement at the thought.
Rev. Cook mildly suggested that Is
or 20 might pe an ideal family, while
Mrs. Cook hastened to explain that
they are not working for numbers, but
to provide for such children as hap
pen to need home.
Childless three years after their mar
riage. the Cooks set out seven years
ago to adopt a baby but babies, it
seems. were hard to get. Then they
found Charles Lincoln. S. and Mar
garet Ann. 4, in New Hampshire in
stitution. Hastily revising their plans,
they took both the youngsters.
Family "Just Growed."
After that, the family, like Topsy,
"just growed."
-Four years ago, Mary Frances,
whose home in Kentucky was broken
up with her mothers death came for
an overnight visit and sold the Cooks
on the idea Of letting her stay.
A social worker suggested the next
two additions.
First. she told about bright little
youngster back in Kentucky
mountain mining camp and the Cooks
paid man SO to carry John Wesley,
piggy over 25-mile trail so
they might have him. They have had
the baby. Ruth Louise. since she was
three days old, having driven more
than 275 miles to Tennessee for her
Evening star., 1936-06-28

TT is probably a good thing that
Rev. and Mrs. Francis Payson
Cook of Lansing, N. c., didn't
L run across another appealing
youngster who wanted a home while
they were in Washington yesterday.
Their five adopted children already
are crowding the five-room parsonage
which is home in the Blue Ridge
Mountain country. and mother and
daddy" Cook-anxious enough to add
to their Observation-Disclosures they are
trying to get hold of farm before
they undertake any more family.
Rev. Cook, in profession notably
not lucrative. isn't financially able to
buy a farm. but he thinks some land
owner interested in children and not
terribly interested in agriculture might
be willing to part with farm so that
a few more youngsters can join the
fast-growing Cook clan. In fact, he
has been combining a motor trip home
from New Hampshire, where the Cooks
have been visiting relatives, with q
sharp lookout for just such propo-
sition.
Farm Income Desirable.
He is good farmer. he said, and
a farm income, added to ministerial
income, would put him in position
to take on good many more heirs.
The little Cooks-who came into life
under five different surnames-heartily
indorse the idea.
Wed like to have a dozen more
of u.s." 12-year old Mary Frances, who
really adopted the family, declared en-
Evening star., 1936-06-28
Man FOrgets Name,
But Is Identified
By Finger Prints
Amnesia Victim PrOues
to Be Former COnrict.
Gets Hospital Care.

A man who told Washington police
he had forgotten his name and home
address was identified yesterday by
fngerprint examiners Of the Federal
Bureau Of Investigation as Ralph
Foote, released recently from the
State penitentiary at Richmond.
Foote had given police the name Of
Capt. Glenn Harris" but admitted
this was not his real name. He asked
police to help him learn his true iden-
tity. Apparently he is suffering from
amnesia.
Foote, who is now being held for
observation in Gallinger Hospital
pending word from prison authorities
in Richmond, walked into the Ninth
precinct station Thursday night and
asked police. Who am and where
am I from?" His identity was estab.
lished through fingerprints after
questioning failed to give any clues.
Evening star., 1936-06-28
POLICE PRESSHUNT
FOR MRS. ZIONCHECK
Seek to Serve Assault Warrant
Sworn Out by Former
Landlady.

Police last night were searching for
Mrs. Rubye Nix Zioncheck, wife Of
the Washington Representative, to
serve the assault warrant sworn out
by Mrs. Benjamin Scott pamela
Schuyler) Young, former landlady Of
the couple.
The tenth precinct was ordered
yesterday to serve the warrant i'm
mediately, but could not locate Mrs.
Zioncheck.
Officials are holding similar war;
rant against Representative Zion
check, who now is undergoing treat
ment at a sanatorium at Towson,
Md. The warrant against the Rep
resentative cannot be served at this
time, however, since his transfer from
Gallinger Hospital placed him out
side the Jurisdiction of District au-
thorities.
The court paper was ordered served
after Mrs. Young had demanded Mrs.
zioncheck's arrest. Mrs. Young al
leges she was elected by the Zion
checks from her Harvard Hall apart
ment, which she sublet to the newly
married couple.
Evening star., 1936-06-28
CONCERT TICKETS
WILL co ON SALE
Gate Symphony Seats
to Be Available To-
morrow.

Sale Of tickets for the Water Gate
symphony concerts by the Washing
ton Summer Concerts Association will
be opened tomorrow.
Faced with the necessity of raising
approximately $4,000 before the open
ing concert July 19, the association
will place 81 tickets on sale at Homer
L. Kits, 1880 G street; the American
Automobile Association Ticket Bureau,
Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, and at the associations Of
fees, room 612, District National Bank
Building.
A large number of Is and so cent
seats also will be available later.
The association yesterday issued the
following statement in regard to the
forthcoming series:
THE Washington Summer Concerts
Association wishes to stress the fact
the National Symphony Orchestra As
sociation. 1t was formed by the mu-
sicians of the National Symphony
Orchestra of 1856 because of the
abandonment of Summer concerts by
the National Symphony Orchestra As
sociation.
In Philadelphia, the men of the
orchestra some years ago formed an
association identical to our own, and
have since managed their own Sum-
mer concerts very successfully. They
receive, as we hope to, the closest CO.
operation from the regular associa-
ton. We can, by these concerts, not
only keep our personnel intact, but
supply great public demand for these
concerts
The association pointed out that
all the first chair positions, with the
exception of first trumpet, will be
filled by the artists who occupied the
same positions in the National
Symphony last season. Frank Gittel-
son, now concert master of the Balti-
more Symphony Orchestra, will oc-
cupy a similar post in Washington's S
Summer orchestra.
Evening star., 1936-06-28

In the latter classification the cap
tain possesses the rope placed around
Robert L. Ripley's neck when the
Believe 1t or Not" man was fall
guy" during his initiation into the
Saints and Sinners Club, organization
of present and former show and circus
people in New York. Pancoast Is q
member of this group.
Capt. Pancoast's other books include
Cub Reporter" Modern Templar"
and "Templar Tales" Masonic books,
and Romance of Ballyhoo,"
The hobby man is always hunting
for something. Right now he reports
trouble in securing brick from the
home of Francis Scott Key here, and
a cane reputedly carried by Chris
topher Columbus, now reported in
possession of a family in Philadelphia.
Native of Ohio.
The captain is a native of Newark.
Ohio, descendant Of the common an
cestor of his family in this country,
William Pancoast, who came to Bur-
lington. N. j., from Ashton. England,
in 1880, and a cousin of the Florida
hotel family Of the same name
His military commission came when
he served in the National Guard in
New Mexico and covered" Buffalo Bill
for an Albuquerque newspaper. The
custom in those days was for Buffalo
Bill and other scouts to initiate cub
reporters by perpetrating hoax on
them. The hoax consisted of a story
that wild broncho would be broken"
at the show and named for promi-
nent local rancher. A veteran reporter
from another newspaper then would
be called in and he would be allowed
to expose the hoax. much to the cubs S
chagrin.
Coming back from the West, the
captains active newspaper career was
concluded with the Chicago Tribune
and the New York Times.
Evening star., 1936-06-28
MAD FUGITIVE FEL0N
SLAIN IN OKLAHOMA
"Scarface" Saroko Escaped Min
nesota Asylum-Aide
Being Sought.

~ the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 81
Police gunfire ended the fight Of a
criminally insane killer from St.
Peter, Mimi, asylum, and Oklahoma
City officers tonight sought his COM
panion, thought possibly to be
Lawrence De Vol, former Barker
Karpis gang triggerman.
The slain gunman, who attempted
to hold up a cafe here, was identified
through police photographs as Albert
(Scarface) Saroko, 40, who escaped
from the Minnesota hospital June 8
with IS other inmates.
At st. Peter officials expressed be-
lief the missing man might be either
De Vol or Donald Read, former Mis-
sourian sentenced to life in Mime
sofa for bank robbery. Read and De
Vol fed into Iowa with Saroko i'm
mediately after the break.
Evening star., 1936-06-28
light Against Fare Boost Be Waged by 26 Civic Groups
Capt. Papc0ast Claims Title
As 'SCharnpion of Hobbies"
Dime.Norel Collection
Would Thrill Nick
Carter Fans.

The curiosity inherent in any news
paperman of natural ability has led
Capt. Chalmers Lowell Pancoast into
the field of hobbies.
So varied are his hobbies that he
laid claim today to the title Of cham
pion of hobbies"
Capt. Pancoast, rowing reporter
in the West before the famed two
gun days" passed into history, came
to Washington as a delegate from
Manhattan Chapter No. 86 New
York City to the annual convention
of the National Sojourners, an organ
ization composed Of commissioned
military officers who are members of
the Masonic Order.
DESERVING active newspaper work
for publicity. advertising and literary
endeavors, the captain today num-
bers among his many hobbies the fol-
lowing:
Collects Dime Novels.
First of all in his own personal in
terest, a collection of the old dime
novels famous in the COS, such as
Buffalo Bill, Deadwood Dick and
Nick Carter. His pride is the Beadle
Half Dime Library. many numbers
of which have become rather scarce
in recent years. He told about them
in his book, Trail Blazers of Ad-
vertiSing" Among them are Buffalo
Bills Mazeppa-Chase or Dick Dear
born's Death Ride-The Mystery OF
the Black Mustang" by Col. Prentiss
Ingraham. Capt. Pancoast used to
know Buffalo Bill when the great In
dian scout was in the show business.
He is a hunter Of lost ancestors,
including some of his own, and has
joined the great group seeking des-
cendants of Virginia Dare, the first
white child born in America, in Sir
Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony on the
North Carolina coast.
One of the Captains best collec-
tions is more than so historic brick,
many of them from homes or head
quarters occupied by George Wash
ington and Martha, his wife. Some
of the bricks were donated-others
were obtained with difficulty.
Stamp Collector.
The rest of his long list of hobbies
includes collection of historic books
sponsorship Of commemorative each
cts, stamp collecting, scrap book
making. pictures of cigar store In
dians, hunting of big names, tracing
of rare historic documents. creation
of patriotic celebrations, originator or
member of strange clubs, collector of
convention badges, preserver of od-
dities of the Gay Nineties.' patriotic
shrine publicizer and collector Of
hangmens nooses. -
Evening star., 1936-06-28
TRADE PACTS SIGNED

ROME, June ~ (P.-Italo- German
and Italo-Austrian commercial agree
ments, details of which were not dis
closed, were signed today.
Officials placing their names on the
pacts for their respective countries
were Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian
minister of foreign affairs; Ulrich
Won Hassell, German Ambassador to
Italy, and Egon Berger -Waldenedg,
Austrian Minister to Italy.
Evening star., 1936-06-28
Suspect In Bad Check Case
Held as Victims Get ''Cifts''

ago he received a watch. Then came
suit of clothes; next some auto
mobile tires. He investigated and
found that about 80 checks had been
forged on his account.
Police surmised that the unknown
donor was representing himself as
Thompson and other victims-making
purchases to be sent to their home or
Office, and rendering checks in excess
of the amount due. The difference
was pocketed.
When Osborne was arrested he was
attempting to cash a check at North
Capitol street coal yard, the police
said.
Evening star., 1936-06-28

Robert Osborne, A, who described
himself as an accountant living in
the 200 block OF F street, was arrested
Yesterday on bad check charge and
held at the first precinct under 5000
bond.
police linked his apprehension with
the mysterious shower Of gifts re-
ceiyed recently by Claud A..
THOMPSON, a lawyer in the Munsey
building, and some other Washing
tonians, who discovered later that
the beneficences were reflected by
nicks in their bank account.
Thompson said about three weeks
Evening star., 1936-06-28
PAYNE MEMORIAL PRIZE
SHOWN AT WARRENTON
Plate Will Be Given Winner of
Corinthian Glass by
Horse Group.
Spe cial Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
WARRENTON, Va, June 27.-The
John Barton Payne Perpetual Memo
rial has been received and Is on
exhibition here. 1t consists of mas
sive silver punch bowl, tray and ladle,
and is said to be the handsomest piece
of plate offered by any horse show in
the United States.
1t is to be given for one year to
the winner of the Corinthian class Of
the Warrenton Horse Show, but to
remain permanently the property Of
the Memorial Committee of which,
r. Walton Moore is chairman and
Herman E. Ullman, secretary.
This prize will be in addition to
three pieces of plate given outright
in this class.
Evening star., 1936-06-28
BOY FOUND SLAIN

BODY OF MISSING Oetro1t
Lad Discovered.
TAWAS CITY, Mich, June 27 Dr.
The mutilated body Of 10-year-old
Robert Kenyon Of Detroit, missing
from a ranch near here since Monday,
was found today by fisherman along
the Au Ores River.
The child's head was nearly severed
from his body. his ears and tongue
had been cut of and his jaw was
dislocated.
The boy went out with dog Mon
day to round up the cows and failed
to return,
Evening star., 1936-06-28
BOY COASTS INTO CAR
Injuries Leg When He Swerves
Wagon to Avoid Dog.

When he swerved his coaster wagon
to avoid striking dog, John w. Cis-
sci, 10, of 726 Sheridan street, crashed
into a parked automobile in the TOO
block Of Rittenhouse street and re-
ceived severe leg injuries yesterday.
He was treated at Walter Reed Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1936-06-28
JUDGE AT PEONY SHOW
Man Returns From
Toronto Exhibition.

IUTOnLO EXn1Dlr1Ou.
Special Dispatch to The Star
KENSINGTON, Md, June a.
Staley Elms, Dresden street, returned
this morning from Toronto, Canada,
where he served as Judge at the In
ternational Peony Show, held Wednes-
day and Thursday.
Evening star., 1936-06-28

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