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The Washington times., 1936-04-25
Reaguer Resumes Fight For Life
Monday i'm Staying Trial

mands on him for another car and
pursued him with endearing let.
tiers.
Moreover, they said, Reaguer is
insane. He has been suffering for
several years from advancing
hardening of the arteries, with
marked mental deterioration, and
Is not responsible for his actions.
DR.. o. K. Burnett, Culpeper ply.
Sician, told of Reaguer's first
stroke five years ago. He was sent
to the University of Virginia Hos.
pital where his condition was
diagnosed. He was never the same
afterward.
Numerous witnesses, many of
whom knew Reaguer from child.
, hood, testified to the change in his
disposition and attitude. Some
claimed 1t dated from the first
stockholders said 1t began after
the death, two years ago, of his
son, Earl, of whom he was inordi.
nately fond.
Monday when the trial resumes,
the defense will begin its concen'
tration on the insanity plea. DR.,
John Gilbert, head of the PSYCHE
atric staff at Gallinger, will be the
principal witness, it is believed
Other alienistS, yet unidentified,
are expected to take the stand.
Culpeper Has Faith
Proof Of the Culpeper sympathy
for Reaguer is seen in the testi.
mony Of nearly a score of charac-
ter witnesses, all of whom Thurs
day said that his reputation for
peace and quietude has always
been good.
Mrs. Reaguer, quiet and cultured,
has remained in the background
throughout the trial. She has
never wavered in her loyalty for
her husband. She said yesterday:
eve have known Of Mr.. Rea-
guer's mental condition for some
time"
The trial may end Wednesday
when the jury may decide whether
1t was jealousy or insanity.
The Washington times., 1936-04-25
ANNIE T. 0'BANNON
SELECT BARLEY
AS CONVENTION KEYN0TER

Jersey City; Assistant Postmaster
General w. w. HoWeS, Of South
Dakota; Senator Kenneth Nickel
Ter of Tennessee; Mrs. Sam Con-
ner, national committeewoman
from Kentucky: w. Forbes Nor
gan, secretary of the national COM
mittee; Mrs. Agnes Collins Dunn,
national committeewoman from
New Hampshire; Charles e.
Broughton, of Wisconsin: Repre-
sentative Walter Pierce. of Oregon,
and Brook Hays, of Arkansas.
Actual nomination of Mr.. RooSe-
welt, the national chairman an
nounced, will be made Friday,
June 26. In an expected rouSing
demonstration of party solidarity
after four years in office. the
President, it was learned on good
Authority, will be placed in nomi.
nation for second term by for.
mer Judge John E. Mack Of the
New York State Supreme Court.
Judge Mack, a resident Of
Poughkeepsie, is expected to be
given the honor because he was
the man who nominated the Chief
Executive for his first office-that
Of New York State Senator-and
also placed Mr.. Roosevelt's name
before the 1882 convention.
Farley dissipated any doubt a.
to who would be President RooSe-
velt's running mate by reiterating
his declaration that John Nance
Garner, of Texas. will be re-
nominated. Roosevelt and Gar.
ner, Farley predicted, will be
nominated on the first ballots.
The Washington times., 1936-04-25
6. 0. P. STARTS
OWN TABLOID

A new type of publicity, a
satire on the Roosevelt admins
tration, was launched today by
the Republican National Commit
tee with publication of the first
issue of "On Our Way" a roto-
gravure tabloid.
The tabloid, composed of pic
lures and short captions Satiriz-
inz policies and personalities of
the Democratic regime, will be
published twice a week and will
be distributed throughout the
country to Republican chairmen
for circulation to individuals.
It was announced that the
paper would be used as part of
the Republican National Commit
tees campaign to raise "a mil
lion dollars from a million Amer
leans"
The Washington times., 1936-04-25

PHILADELPHIA, April Is
G.NS).-Senator Alben w. Bark
ley of Kentucky was chosen key
note speaker and temporary chair
man and Senator Joseph T. Robin
son, veteran Administration floor
leader, was selected permanent
chairman for the Democratic ma
tional convention here in June, at
a meeting of the arrangements
committee today.
The selections, as well as those
Of other convention officials, were
made at a closed session Of the
committee under Postmaster Gen
eral James A. Farley, Democratic
national chairman, and confirmed
advance predictions. The nomi-
nations will be confirmed, Farley
said, at a meeting of the national
committee on organization to be
held shortly in Chicago.
Sweeping Victory Predicted
Farley. who predicted a sweep
ing victory for President Roose-
welt next fall-admitting the
possible" loss of three States
and also viSualized Pennsylvania
in the Roosevelt column, an
nounced that Gov. George H.
Earle, of Pennsylvania, will well
come the convention delegates in
the name of the commonwealth.
Governor Earle. who sat in at
the executive meeting today, will
appear on the Convention Hall
program the night of June %,
following more or less proSaic
opening ceremonies at noon.
Senator Barley, who keynoted
the 1882 Chicago convention and
is an Administration spokesman,
will loose the first official Demo
cratic blast following Governor
Earle's address.
Other arrangements made during
the hour-and-a-half meeting in
cluded plans to have Mayor S.
Davis Wilson give Philadelphia's
welcome to the delegates at the
morning session.
Attendants at Meeting
Among those who attended the
meeting were Col. Edwin A. Halsey,
Secretary of the Senate and SER
geantatarmS of the national COM
mittee: Mayor Frank Hague, of
The Washington times., 1936-04-25

Hsame day. The pair had planned
to travel by bus.
Reaguer Had Whisky
Reaguer arrived at the home,
carrying q bottle Of whisky with
him, she said, and demanded that
Willie Mae closet herself in room
with him while they talked things
over"
Fer more than two hours, Rea-
guer and Willie Mae remained in
the room, Anne said. When they
emerged he Is said to have de.
clared:
81 am going to take you both
to Washington. I cannot give
her up"
Both girls were in desperate
fear Of Reaguer on that trip to
Washington, Anne said. He con.
stantly threatened their lives If
they sought to escape him.
Neither, however, made outcry or
sought aid when they stopped at
a filling station for fuel.
So She Signed
Arriving at the hotel, Reaguer
was too nervous to sign the regis
ter, the witness said, so she had
to sign the register for two rooms,
across the hall from each other,
for H. L. Thomas and Party"
She and Willie Mae were to &C.
cupy one room and Reaguer the
other, she said, but Willie Mae
never reached her room. Anne re-
tired for the night, expecting viii.
lie Mae soon to follow. But when
Anne awoke it was early dawn and
she had been disturbed by a pierc.
ing shrek that came from the
room across the hall. Hotel at
tendantS also had heard the
shrek and the gruesome discovery
was made.
other witnesses, Margare t
Fletcher and Herbert Wood, bore
out the jealousy motive the Gov
eminent seeks to establish.
Then came Reaguer's turn.
Attorney James A. O'Shea, who,
with Burnett Mile. jr., Of Cul.
pepper, and Alfred Goldstein, is
conducting the Reaguer defense,
told a different story.
Broke Off" Affair
Reaguer "broke off" his affair
with Willie Mae when she mar.
ried, he said, but she wouldn't
leave him alone" She made de-
The Washington times., 1936-04-25

William H. Reaguer, 81, promi-
nent Culpeper (Va.) citizen,
undertaken, fisherman and hunts
man, will resume his fight in Dis
trict Supreme Court Monday to
defeat the electric chair for what
the Government charges Is the
firSt-degree murder of an attrac-
tive 21-year-old woman, said to
be his paramour, a bride Of II
days.
On the morning Of october IL,
1885, Washington was startled by
the news of a "penknife murder. Z"
A downtown hotel manager re-
ported to police that a tragedy
had taken place in a ninth floor
room of the establishment.
Almost Decapitated
Arriving at the hotel, police
found lying on the floor the al
most decapitated corpse Of a
beautiful woman, 81 years old.
BY her side, with his head rest
ing on her shoulder, lay the
elderly undertaken, at the point
of death with blood flowing
from a severed artery in his left
arm.
Quickly discounting a suicide
pact theory. police called it
murder. Reaguer was placed
under arrest, taken to Emergency
Hospital for immediate first aid
then to Gallinger Hospital
under police guard.
The alleged murder victim was
identified as Mrs. Willie Mae Wood,
nee Fletcher, who, II days previ-
ously, had married young Herbert
Wood, cleancut young Virginia
State Highway workers
A thorough police investigation
resulted in Reaguer'S indictment,
within a month, on charges Of
murder in the first degree, the
mandatory penalty for which is
death in the electric chair.
Trial Began Monday
Reaguer's trial began Monday
and with it the unfolding of the
story of a strange infatuation that
the elderly defendant, almost
three times the age of the MUIR
der victim, had maintained with
her since she was II years of age.
Anne T. O'Bannon, Is, slim
blonde cousin of Willie Mae Wood,
starred on the witness stand dur
ing the first day of the trial.
Anne, a washington girl, made
frequent visits to the home of her
aunt, Mrs. Fletcher, in Culpeper,
and frequently saw Reaguer there,
she said.
The Government claims that
Reaguer killed Willie Mae Wood
in a jealous fury because Of her
marriage, and Anne OBannon
supported that theory well in her
testimony.
Would Give Money
Reaguer, she confided to the
jury, often would ask the other
and younger Fletchers regarding
Willie Macs social. life, who her
boy-friends were and other things.
When his queries were answered,
he would give them money, she
said.
On several occasions she heard
Reaguer threaten Willie Macs
life, if he ever caught her double
crossing" him. she said.
On the day preceding the muir
der the young girl was visitor at
the Fletcher home. On that day
she had planned to return to her
home here. Willie Mae was also
visiting her mother at that time
and planned to return to her huS-
band at Fairfax Station on the
The Washington times., 1936-04-25
F|ogging Jai|s
Father 6 Months

xENIA, Ohio, April IS GN.s0.
Ammiel Bent, jr.. 15-year-old high
school boy whose father admitted
in court that he flogged the boy
and then rub bed salt in the
wounds because he twice at
tempted to steal pigeons. today
was made a ward Of the juvenile
court. The father, Ammiel Bent.
ST., 80, a South American, was
sentenced to six months in jail
and fined 5000.
The Washington times., 1936-04-25
JIM REED BLASTS NEW DEAL
IN 0RAT0R|CAL TRIUMPH
WILLIE MAE WOOD

CHICAGO, April IS 0N.SO.
Former Senator James A. Reed Of
Missouri scored the gerateSt ora
torical triumph of his career today.
For three hours last night he sat
on the platform at Northwestern
univerSity'S mock national conven-
ton and watched the discom-
future caused three other keynoters
as 1000 student delegates" in
dulged in cheers, boos, catcalls,
and all manner of horseplay, ap-
parently the campus idea of how
national political conventions are
conducted.
When his turn came to keynote
for. the Constitutional Anti-New
Deal Democrats" the fiery Mis-
sourian raised his hand, asked that
he be accorded courteous treat
ment.
Audience Spell-BOund
He then launched a blistering
attack on the Roosevelt admin
Stration that held his difficult
audience spellbound, brought
them to their feet with rousing
cheers as he concluded his
arraignment.
Reed declared:
81 have been a Democrat all
my life. / am still exactly the
same kind Of a Democrat 1 have
always been. 1 am standing
on the last Democratic platform
and the platform of preceding
conventions. I have refused,
and still refuse to follow the
banner of Socialism, COmmun-
ism, or new dealism, and I am
opposed to the New Deal be-
cause I regard it as an unholy
combination of the iniquitieS
have just catalOgued."
New Deal Discoveries
Denouncing the Administration
program, he said, the new dealers
have discovered:
"That the people Of America
are and always have been a be-
nighted and foolish crowd.
'That all the experience Of
the past is useless.
'.sThat the supposed wisdom
of the great men of history was
the mere cropping Of imbeciles
wandering through a night of
ignorance.
"That the teachings of our
fathers and mothers are abSO-
lutely false, and that American
civilization has always been q
fraud"
Against such destructive reason
ing, he said. he would stand to the
end of his life.
Lauds Supreme Court
He hailed the Supreme Court
as the greatest judicial tribunal
ever created by man." and said
"it remains today the last de-
Tense of the common people
against the tyranny of organized
minorities and fanatical govern
ment."
Concluding, he appealed to the
nation to drive from the temple
of liberty those who preach the
most pernicious doctrine ever
uttered on American soil"
Absence of Gov. A. B. Happy"
Chandler of Kentucky, who was
to have championed the Roose-
welt Administration, was said in
handbills distributed about the
convention hall to be because he
knows the New Deal is indie
fensible." -
Prof. Maynard C. Kreuger, of
the University of Chicago, chair
man Of the Socialist Party in ILL
nois, spoke for his party; Chaun-
cey Mccormick, delegate to the
Republican national convention at
Cleveland, in June, keynoted for
the G. o. p. and Clarence Man
ion, dean of the Notre Dame law
school, substituted for Governor
Chandler.
Mccormick VitriOlic
Mccormick also spilled vitrol
on the Roosevelt administration.
Only the Supreme Court, he
The Washington times., 1936-04-25
Costa RIGA Defaults

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, April
Is Observation-Disclosures Cor
ties of Costa Rica issued a state
ment today that his government
will be unable to pay its debts
to the United States.
The Washington times., 1936-04-25
Treasury Condition
International News Service

International News Service
Treasury balance as of April %,
$2,535, aga, 1913: internal revenue,
SIS, 299, 583.12; customs receipts,
$25 053, 062.77.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-11-05
LOCAL STUFF

Mrs. Thompson of Rexford is visiting
in the city with relatives.
Miss Inez Ratekin was a business
visitor to Eureka ON Monday.
Donald Weiss broke one of his arms
just above the wrist while playing at
school during the week
Keep in mind the annual Ihanksgiv-
ing Day ball to be given by the Odd
Fellows, Thursday, the 18th
Dorothy Conway of Warland had
tonsils and adenoids removed at the
Libby hospital on October g.
Mrs. Edith Dickens of St James,
Mimi spent Monday and Tuesday IN
Libby visiting with her friend, Mrs.
Clay Parker.
Plan to celebrate and have a good
time with the Legion boys in their an
nual Armistice Day dance on the 1lth-
Three big dances.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Oylear came over
Friday from their home in Ellensburg,
Wash. for visit with their son and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Oylear
G. T. Cornell. forest ranger of the
Kootenai forest, and N. B. Rice, as
sistant ranger at Fortine, have been at
Dillon for some time attending a
rangers school,
Don Orr arrived home from Missoula
Sunday night. He had been in the
hospital there with badly infected leg
following an accident and comes home
under doctors care to convalesce.
Some miscreant broke into the high
school building Sunday night and did
considerable damage. The doors to
three or four rooms were pried open
and badly damaged in the process
Nothing of value was taken.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-11-05
Will Show 1887
Chevrolet In Libby

The finest Chevrolets in the COM
pany's quarter-century of automobile
manufacture will make their bow here
and throughout the country on Nov Z
E. e. Jaqueth, Of the Jaqueth & Charm
holm Co, Chevrolet dealers. announced
this week, upon his return from Great
Falls, where more than 500 dealers from
this section obtained official news OF
the new product from Mr. A. A. Tur-
ner, manager of the Great Falls zone
and members of his staff.
Mr. A. A Turner has just returned
from Detroit, where 1000 members oil
Chevrolets wholesale organization from
coast to coast spent four days inspect
ing and driving the new car and re-
viewing with factory executives the
program to be followed in presenting
it. The new models adhere closely to
time-tried Chevrolet engineering prin-
ciples, he reported, but combine great
er power, economy, safety, and dura-
bility with striking new beauty and
grace.
NJ. E. Covle, president and general
manager Of Chevrolet announced dur
ing the convention that the company
had shattered all previous records dur
ing 1886. selling more cars and more
trucks than in any previous year in
its history, and leading the world in
sales for the seventh time in the last
10 years. The total for the year will
exceed 1,125,0O0 units. he said and the
objective for 1887 is 100000
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-11-05

day whiles riding on the highway near
fortine. The horse became frightened
ty car and slipped, throwing Frank
IN such way that he sustained bad
cut on his leg above the knee. He will
be laid up for sonte time.
@Ihe-jnst--Neighbors. club met-llasi
Thursday With~Mrs- Hans ALL The
new members were initiated in very
amusing manner and very interesting
flower contest was put on by Mrs. P. V
Klinke. Mrs. Weydemeyer and Olga
Weydemeyer tied for first place in the
contest and Mrs. Gates received low
prize The rest of the afternoon was
spent in sewing and visiting. The club
will have an all-day meeting with Mrs
Asa Curtis on Nov. II.
Harold Gilden, John Mckenzie and
Carl Larsen succeeded in bagging q
good sized black bear last Sunday
Harold Gilden, maintenance man OF
Highway SO, took the blade into Kali
ispell on Wednesday.
The pinochle club met with Mrs. Vic
Wolff last Thursday night Mrs. Rob-
ertson won high score, Mrs Peterson
the travelling prize and Mrs Herrig the
low prize.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H Franklin were
Kalispell visitors on Tuesday
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-11-05
Mrs. Frank Frye entertained Mrs

Mrs. Frank Frye entertained Mrs.
Whitecraft and Mrs j. B. Farris at a
luncheon Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Green moved into
Troy from the Black Diamond mine
last week.
The Junior Ladies Aid will meet at
Mrs. Bert Coffmans Thursday, Nov
IL, with Mrs. Rufus Grippe assisting.
Mrs. George Blackwell, ST., Mrs
George Blackwell, JrMiss Billy Beryl
Blackwell of Libby and Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Frye were visitors at the Black
Diamond mine last Sunday.
Earl Boyer and daughter Grace were
Libby visitors Monday.
Miss Marian Void held party at
the Methodist parsonage for her Sun
day school class last Wednesday after
noon. Games were played and lunch
OF ice cream and cookies served.
Mrs. v. A. Sather went to Whilefish
Saturday to visit Mr.. and Mrs. O. H..
Shepherd and returned Saturday.
Misses Florence Coffman, Margaret
Coffman, Marzella Sather and Mrs. Nc
Combe motored to Libby Friday Mr..
and Mrs. Russell Baeth returned that
evening with them to spend the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Coffman.
Mrs. n. B. Anderson is on the sick
list this week,
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-11-05

Townsend meeting at Legion hal
Saturday, Nov. 7, at 7.3o-
Charles Eugene Fletcher, son OF l. H
| Fletcher, suffered fractured arm OF
November l, just above the wrist
Mrs. ]. c. Porter came down from
Eureka Monday for visit with her
daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs
Frank Hendrickson.
Mrs. George Blackwell, Sr.. Mrs.
George Blackwell, Jr-, and daughter,
Miss Billy Beryl, visited with relatives
in Troy last Sunday.
Why not give the gift only you can
give-your Photograph? Make an ap-
.pointment to have yours taken now.
Phone 50-M--Clay Parker. 1t.
The American Legion has planned a
big time for you Armistice Day at
three big dances Remember that date
and plan to be there.
Joe Fennessy is expected home this
weekend from Gonzaga university
where he is student He will be &C
companied by friend.
After this date will not be response
BILE for any bills that have been con-
tracted by my husband, Lyman G.
Hall. (Signed) Louise Hall. 1925.
Harold Miller has been suffering the
past week with badly infected thumb
which has kept him at home and away
from his place Of business several days.
WI. Kienitz will leave this evening
for Pullman, Wash, to enjoy fathers
day celebration with his daughter, Miss
Jean, who is student at the State
College there.
j. F. Schmidt fell from derrick
while working in the gravel pit at Var
nell and broke his left arm, also
sustaining a bruised back. He is a
patient at the Libby hospital.
Richard Tarantous and Samuel Fine
Of New York City were in Libby the
first Of the week comforting with H. G..
Bolyard in regard to some mine prop
critics. Tarantous is representative OF
some large financial interests in New
York City.
The dinner given by the ladies of the
Catholic church Tuesday night proved
fine success. The ladies fed over two
hundred people, who pronounced the
dinner very fine one. The ladies feel
very grateful for the support given
them.
Geraldine Burke entertained fifteen
of her girl friends at theatre party
Tuesday evening, the occasion being
her birthday. After the show the
guests returned to the Mrs. Anna
Christie home where they were served
delicious luncheon at prettily deco
rated tables. Geraldine received many
lovely gifts from her young friends.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-11-05
Halloween arty

Last Saturday evening Mrs. Webster
English and Miss Dolores Joy were CO.
hostesses at Halloween party given al
Mrs. English's home.
When the guests arrived at the house
dark and apparently empty of the
hostess, on the night of October II
they found a placard on the front door
proclaiming, Look for ladder il you
want to get in
They proceeded cautiously around
the house and bumped into a ladder
leading up to small window on The
side of the house. obviously they
climbed it, Could they squeeze through
that tiny window But they didn't
have to- In the window was another
sign GO to the back door
A ghost with clammy hands greeted
them with THE password is a groan
and two fiendish laughs" They did
their best and were admitted.
Through dark hall the rug was laid
over pebbles which made their steps
uncertain, and where hands seized on
ankles and ghostly screams mingled
with theirs. They met a ghost in the
hall and fell over a dead body lying
at the top of the stairs.
AT last they were seated safely in a
totally dark living room. They were
instructed to groan, utter animal cries
or laugh fiendishly until the last CUES.
had arrived. Then the game of hearts
began.
At the head table the players wore
big clumsy gloves, at the second table
no one was allowed to talk, at the third
table the guests played with the cards
and whole game backwards.
Miss Jessie Scott and Miss Lorraine
Weidner won the two high prizes.
A club Of these guests was organized
at this party and new members will be
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-11-05
Fisher River News

Mr.. and Mrs Hosefeld of Somers
visited Saturday at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Gene Scott. Mrs. Hosefeld
is sister of Mr.. Scott i='s=z-=
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Longwefi and
Mrs. Longwells mother, Mrs Ward,
left for Chicago last Thursday. Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Longwell will remain
here this winter
! Mr.. and Mrs. Bert B. Davis were in
Libby Saturday.
i Our beautiful October weather lasted
until the last day of the month, then
turned cold and showed about three
inches. Sunday morning the Their
mometer registered &c degrees above
and Monday morning it was below
zero.
Robert Vining and John Carpenter
of Whitefish were out here hunting last
week end but did not get their bucks.
The coyotes are killing more deer than
hunters are. Monday lone coyote
killed large seven point buck on the
Scott ranch.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Davis and Mrs.
M. |. Davis were shopping in Kalispell
last Wednesday.
Miss Edith Shelley, who is attending
high school in Libby, spent the week
end at home She had as her guests
over the week end Miss Edith Detjens
of Libby and Miss Betty Erhard, who is
also going to high school in Libby.
Nearly everyone here has been TAX
ing their turn having colds.
The road crew was laid off Tuesday
SO the men could go and vote
Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Scott went to
Libby Tuesday
Miss Grace Kenelty and her mother
spent the week end at home.
Joe Sheffield and Gus Delzer of Libby
were callers at the LongWell home
Monday.
Mrs. Gene Scott and Jack Wheeler
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. w A.
Wallace.