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The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05
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HOLLYWOOD, CALF
L Il They say this will be the
llvehest fight for years and
years, with glee clubs gargling
and the boys out with brass
bands-and brass-knucks; and
batteries of college professors
firing on opposition professors.
But they'll never reclaim the glo-
riOuS ancient spirit. We're too tame.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05
Leon Blum Is the Idol
of the French Reds

T EON BLUM, elderly and rather
IL fragile leader of the French So
cialists, will soon be premier of his
country, and he is going to have a
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05
Plan to Continue Rail
Co-Ordinator's Office

THE office of transportation CO.
l. ordinator, held by Joseph B.
Eastman, is due to expire on June
16, but Senator Wheeler of Mon
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05

81 " IL CulildlllS
S o m e "K n 0 w
Nothing" fe a.
lures. The can
didate for ad-
mission must be
willing to COM
nit murder, to
proceed against
Catholics, Jews
a n d Negroes"
he must be ma
tive born, Prot
estant, W h l t e
and gentle"
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05

Ross C. Saunders, leader in IIli-
nois' model rural crime prevention
campaign.
and implements, 13S thefts of cloth
ing, 997 thefts of goods and 2,253
miscellaneous thefts from farms.
In Illinois chicken thefts, for ten
years during which some sort of
check has been maintained, have
averaged about a million head of
chickens annually and 12,9OO head
of livestock. The situation, which
reached a climax when young man
of Will county was brutally MUIR
dered while trying to protect his
employer against loss at the hands
of thieves, called for action.
Mass Meeting Starts 1t.
Action that was taken in this state
has proved so successful that now
Illinois methods are serving as a
nedel for the combat against rural
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05
Frank Lowden May Be
Republican Nominee

"ERANK o. LOWDEN of Illinois
will be the choice of the Re-
publican convention for President
If he will accept the nomination"
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05

far more humane than the Old-time
branding with a hot iron and is in
effect somewhat similar to tattoo
ing.
Branding, of course, would also
remove the packing companies
which buy the farmers product
from embarrassing positions in
which they sometimes find them
selves. They occasionally and quite
innocently buy stolen poultry or
livestock from thieves without
knowing it, and thus help foster
rural crime. The law makes it man
datory for the buyers of stolen
goods to reimburse the losers upon
proof that the property was stolen.
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05

wv killer The bank roDber? The raeketeer2
Perhaps. At least it is these desperadoes whose
spectacular exploits make the big headlines Their ruthless and
mercess work. often conducted right the open
frequently up with bit of showmanshp which
them the type of characters which fire the public imagination
The urgency for exercising every method within human
for apprehendng these criminals nnmzed
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05

FIRE. :33 $$s&$*::=$ Two life long
k friends would meet.
What dye think
of this here free
8st silver thing?" one
would ask. Il think
Irwin S. Cobb it's the greatest no.
tion in history" the
second fellow would say. "What do
you think?' Il think you're dirty
such-and-such - The first man
would yell, and then everybody
would start bouncing those old
fashioned cuspidors off of everybody
else's dome.
J. Edgar Boulder.
OWING to recent developments
~ over which it had no control,
1 believe the Interior department
temporarily has shelved the idea Of
changing J. Edgar Hoover's name,
to J. Edgar Boulder, as was pre-
viously predicted in these dis
patches. But now certain critics
at Washington insist on accusing
that gentleman of over-advertising
in connection with his latest activ-
tiles. Well, he has the advantage
over some press agents. When he
promises a show he certainly puts
it on upon the day and date an
nounced, with the band playing.
'"The Alcatraz Drag'-and every
cage full.
Funny Foreign Names.
NTORD from Warsaw is that
w the incumbent, the Hon. Mar
jan Zyndram Koscialcowski, having
resigned, the president of Poland
has picked as the new premier
none other than Gen. Felicyans
SlawOgskladkowski. The latter gen.
tleman has already been installed
up to and including his first five
or six syllables, the rest of the
name running as a second section.
SO what you mistook for static
on the radio night before last was
just the news broadcaster trying.
to pronounce him as a whole.
Ever Rising Taxes.
a NYBODY who fondly believes;
n that, regardless of which out
fit wins in November, taxes won't
keep right on going up and up has
a thinking apparatus that dates.
back quite a spell.
I'd say it dates back to the eli
max of the big rise, as set forth.
in the Bible, and is a direct in
heritance from the skeptical folks,
who wouldn't haIken to the pro-
phetic warning.
Remember the scene, don't you?'
The forty days rain still beating
relentlessly down, the freshet climb
ing higher and higher, the animals.
marching in two by two.
And with the old ark starting to-
move and Father Noah yelling:
"All aboard" and with the waters:
closing over their heads, those
know-it-alls still gurgling through.
their valedictory bubbles, "Shuck--
ms, there amt goin' to be no.
flood"
Honoring Lee and Jackson.
XNTHEN the Post Office depart
w ment includes among the gal
lery of the greatest Americans, to.
be pictured in the new issue of
memorial stamps, the faces of the,
Confederate chieftains, Lee and
Jackson, what happens?
Why, nobody waves the bloody
shirt. Nobody ennobles the sorry
word traitor" by applying it to
the memories of those two gal
liant soldiers and simple Christian
gentlemen. Nobody in the name of
patriotism drags the mouldering
bones of sectional rancor out of
the ground. Nobody beats the
"ROgue's March for Rebels" on
hates snare drum.
Instead, all over the Union, men
and women applaud this generous
but merited gesture. A leading pa
per of BostOn-BostOn, no less,
once the mulching bed of abolition
and the breeding ground for anti
southern sentiment - editorially>
cOmmends the idea.
IRWIN S. COBB
Copyright.-WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
The Big BLACK Legion"
More and Better Babies
A Worried Empire
u. S. Dollars Emigrate

The ritual" of the murderous
secret society called the BLACK Le-
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05

Russia wants bigger families, like
Mussolini and others with plans"
Stain wants plenty of new little
citizens.
A thousand million rubles will
be set aside by Moscow to "subsi-
die large families and aid moth
ers." Birth control ladies and gen.
tlemen will hear, surprised, that
aid to large families will begin after
the seventh child. Seven are taken
as matter of course; that is just
the beginning of a Russian family.
Chancellor Hitler of Germany
joins in the "more and better ba-
bies" cry.
The German ideal is no longer the
beautiful gOlden-haired Margaret,
spinning her wheel and saying
mo" The Nazis demand women
who, "above everything else, can
become the mothers of several chill
dren" and are willing to do so,
according to a representative of
Chancellor Hitler.
William Philip Simms, English,
is afraid the British empire may
not survive, on account of 'air fleet
peril"
Britain is disturbed by the
thought that her whole imperial
line of communication, stretching
1000 miles from the Straits of
Gibraltar to the Gulf of Alden, Is
under MuSsolini's bombing planes.
Except that her empire is the big
gest, England should not worry
more than other countries. With
surface ships losing all Importance,
except in the opinions Of some
Americans, anybody's bombers can
break Up any line of communica-
tions temporarily.
Americans investing huge sums
in the Bahamas, to escape income
tax" says the New York Times,
big type, front page.
Americans have been Investing
huge sums" elsewhere, outside the
United States. Billions of Ameri-
can money have gone to Canada,
England and other foreign parts"
More will go.
In all the Bahamas, 4,403 square
miles of beautiful territory, there
is no income tax. Think of that
for a happy country.
Needless to say, if enough Amer
lean money pours in to make it
worth while the intelligent British
will find a way to tax it.
Many Frenchmen are disturbed
and puzzled by the situation in Eu
rope, and General Mordacq, close
associate of Clemenceau in the war,
discusses the question, "What would
Clemenceau do if he could come
back?"
France feels the need of "a man
with a fist" un homme poigne,
and Clemenceau was that kind.
Concerning that fine old fighter
from the Vendee, it is safe to say
that if he came back he would has
ten preparations for another war.
l,
now.
Marshal BadOgliO, who cleaned up
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05

Germany cut off the head Of a
sixty-fve-year-old man convicted Of
killing II boys. Before death, lex
amined" by Nazi officials who
thought he might be a Communist,
he admitted many other murders.
He used a secret poison that doc
tors could not detect.
q King Features Syndicate. Inc.
WNTI Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05

Marshal BadOgliO, who cleaned up
Ethiopia so swiftly, has been called
to Rome, perhaps as part of wise
plan not to let anybody grow too
big, like the tree Igdrasil, supposed
to have it's roots in hell, It's top
most branches in heaven.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05

A new comet now approaching US,
discovered by and named for L. G..
Peltier, amateur astronomer, who
works in a garage, will be the first
comet visible to the naked eye since
1927.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05

second fellow would say. "What do
you think?" Il think you're dirty
such-and-such - The first man
would yell, and then everybody
would start bouncing those old
fashioned cuspidors off of everybody
else's dome.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-06-05
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY

7 HO is Public Enemy No. /? The kdnaper? The gan&
killer? The bank robber? The racketeer?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20
SUIT CHARGES
LANDFRAUD

COLMAR MANOR, Md, May 20.
A suit charging that 76 acres of
Ian din Colmar Manor had been
"fraudu1ently sold" to the Mary
land in Colmar Manor had been
sion by Burt M. Bromley, former
mayor, has been filed with the
Prince Georges county circuit
court by Colmar Manor town coun-
Gil.
Bromley and the planning COM
mission are named as joint de-
PENDANTS and the charge is made
that Bromley "fraudulently did
cause a deed to be executed in the
name of the town council, selling
the land in fee simple for the in
adequate consideration of 1882"
The deed was dated January II,
1885, according to the claim which
charges that the deed was with
held from the public records I'M
til BROMLEY went out of office in
July of that year.
Attorneys John S. White and
Hyman M. Goldstein, who filed
the suit, claimed that the land
sold for 1882 had an estimated
value Of $2,250 and that it con-
tanned valuable deposits of top
soil, land and timber.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20
Defense Loses Motion
For MiStrial i'm plot Case

question before the judges made
their ruling, the jury was brought
back and the trial continued.
The State expects to rest its case
today. One of the witnesses yet
to be called by the State is the
husband of the accused woman.
Mrs. Lyddane Exhausted
If the State closes it's case
early enough, the defense, which
has subpoenaed more than 100
witnesses. will start its case, but
Mrs. Lyddane, who is slated to
take the stand and tell her own
story, will not be the first wit
ness.
Defense counsel expect to
place half a dozen of their wit
neSSeS on the stand before call
ing the central figure in the case
to tell a story of how she was
the victim of a blackmail plot.
Meanwhile it was learned that
Mrs. Lyddane, who has sat each
day in court listening intently to
the testimony of the States wit
nesseS, is on the verge of ex-
haustion.
Husband to Testify
When court closes in late after.
noon, it was learned, she returns
to her hotel and goes to bed at
once, entirely worn out by the
strain of the trial, her father,
James Mclaughlin, said.
"Slom" Lyddane appeared as q
witness in his wife's defense at
her trial in Rockville last June,
and has been with her as much as
possible during this trial, accom-
panying her to court, but he must
leave her there, for he is barred
from the courtroom.
He has also been called as a
witness for the defense, and the
motive of the States attorney in
calling him for the prosecution
has not been learned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20
Short Weight Charge
Brings 500 Fine

Convicted last week of deliver
ing short weight coal, Frank A.
Metzger, Sunbury Pa, was fined
500 or go days in Jail in Police
Court yesterday on each of four
charges. Judge John P. Mcmahon
denied Metzger a new trial. He
was found guilty of delivering
short weight coal in two cases and
of failure to furnish the buyer of
the coal a delivery ticket in two
other instances.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20
Continued from Page u


and her husband was called. AS
he walked to the witness chair,
Mrs. Lyddane looked up at the
ceiling.
He had known Mrs. Lyddane
about eight or ten years, he said,
and for a period of two or three
years saw her about once or twice
a week. AS he was testifying,
Mrs. Lyddane leaned over and
talked with her attorneys in an
undertone. Beall was excused
without cross examination.
Bank Account Inactive
Aubrey M. Walters, of Seneca,
Md, was next called and after
about 10 minutes on the stand
was excused and on motion of
the States attorney his entire
testimony was stricken from the
record.
Hampton Jones, secretary Of the
bank where Mrs. Lyddane was en-
ployed, was called to testify as to
an account "Slom" carried in the
bank.
While attorneys were trying to
get him to admit that the &C.
count contained either "a cents or
$1.15, Judge Frank Wagaman in
terrupted with:
what counsel is attempting
to determine, 1 believe, is if
the account was inactive or not"
The banker then said that the
account had been inactive for sew
eral years. He also revealed that
Mrs. Lyddane in 1884 had two
500 Christmas savings club &C
counts, and on December II was
paid 5000 and interest.
The motion for mistrial re-
volved around the testimony given
yesterday by William Carley, alias
Willie Brown, former convict, who
told of his dealings with Jack 3D.
land, former Washington gambler
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20
F|0RENzA NO |
TUB SLAYER,
ISDEFENSE
Mis- t aiken Identity,
Insanity Pleas
of LAWYER
BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN

NEW YORK, May 20 Q.N.SO.
A double-edged defense of insan-
ity and mistaken identification
was raised today for John Flor
enza, dapper 24-year-old upholster-
er'S helper and paroled convict
on trial for the strangling of Mrs.
Nancy Evans Titterton, young fic-
ton writer, in her apartment in
Fashionable Beekman Place.
Fiorenza'S attorney, Henry Klau-
Der, in his opening statement to
the jury declared that few days
before Mrs. Titterton was slain
a fiend was loose in the Titterton
neighborhood.
This fiend, according to Klau-
Der, attacked a woman in the
same building where Mrs. litter
ton resided.
Klauber later told reporters he
had Subpoenaed this woman as a
defense witness. He declined to
reveal her name.
Klauber attempted to convince
the jurors Fiorenza was mentally
unstable. He cited Fiorenza'S first
arrest for stealing a bass drum.
When Fiorenza was arrested sec
ond time he was examined by a
pSychiatrist who, according to the
defense attorney, said the de.
fendant needed mental treatment
for his mind"
Fiorenza began to deteriorate
Sin physical makeup and in his
mind and would confess to things
that never happened" KIauber de-
clared.
Later, talking to newspaper men
outside the courtroom, Klauber re,
marked that Fiorenza would have
confessed to the Lindbergh kid.
mapping or any other crime he had
read about in the newspapers"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20

who was convicted of murder con
spiracy.
Lawyer on Stand
Kenneth Lyddane, one of the de
tense attorneys, was called to the
witness stand, and said:
II met Mr.. Pugh in the hotel
last night and accused him of
having told Carley to say what
he did, and Mr.. Pugh admitted
to me that he had instructed
Carley to say he had testified
against BOland in Rockville,
but not to mention on direct
examination that BOland was
convicted, only on crOss-exam-
inatiOn if he was asked con-
corning BOland."
Mr.. Pugh was then called to the
stand, and State Senator Sted
man Prescott, chief defense coun
sci, asked him:
why would you think, as an
attorney, that the defense
would ask such a question?
Especially since we had the
trial moved to HagerStOwn be-
cause everyone in Montgomery
county knew about the con-
victiOn?"
PROSECUTION ANSWERS
Replying the prosecutor said:
II didn't know what you were
going to ask CarIey. 1 told him
that if he could answer a
proper question, he had a right
to answer it.
II told all the State witnesses
not to bring out on direct teSti-
mOny that BOland was con-
victed, but instructed them to
state it on cross examination if
questions about BOland were
asked them"
All of the State and defense at
torneyS joined in the argument,
presenting legal opinions on the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20
Cosmopo|itdns Plan
Speech on Banking

Frederick P. H. Siddons, past
president of the District of Co
lumbia Bankers Association and
secretary of the American Secu-
rity and Trust Company will an
alyze recent bank legislation to-
morrow at 1890 p. m. at the
weekly luncheon meeting of the
Cosmopolitan CLUB at the Carlton
Hotel.
Also to be heard are progress
reports on plans for the conven-
ton of some 300 Cosmopolitans
from United States and Canada
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20
Britain Asks Life
For Coast KdndpeI

SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 20
UN.S0.-Plea of the British
government that Governor Frank
F. Merriam commute to life i'm
prisonment the death sentence
Of Alexander Mackay, British
subject, scheduled to hang at
San quentin prison Friday, has
been forwarded by the gov
ernor to the State supreme
court at San Francisco. Mackay
and Joe Kristy, granted two re-
prieves, were given the death
penalty for a kidnapping last
year, and appeals were denied
by the State prison parole board.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20
i. ). WILL HELP
.CHURCHESPAY
BANKL0ANS
Plans to Provide Drive
Leaders in Efforts
To Raise Money
BY ERIC FREEDMEN
Copy right. 1886, by international
News SPrViCP)

News SPrViCe)
The Administration has
launched a plan to collect more
than 100 million dollars in debts
owed to closed national banks
by hundreds of churches and
quasi-religiouS organizations.
This was disclosed today by
William Prentiss, deputy comp
troller of the currency, and H.
j. Hall, supervising Federal re-
ceiver to whom has been en-
trusted the task of liquidating
frozen assets of approximately
1900 defunct banks.
Heavy Borrowings
Hard-hit by the economic slump
and the impoverishment of their
congregations, m any churches
floated loans from these banks.
Seminaries, schools, Y. M. c. AS,
community centers, charitable
homes, parsonages and lodges
also have been heavy borrowers.
A large number of the debtor
churches have made no effort to
repay their debts, while some en-"
gagged in sporadic but fruitleSS
campaigns to raise money.
Convinced that orderly liquida-
ton of the closed banks depends
to a great extent on the refinanc-
ing and disposal of church indebt-
edneSs, Administration officials
are preparing for an intensive
drive to stimulate religious con-
tributions and patronage.
Professional Fund Raisers
Prentiss revealed that he will
make arrangements with several
professional money raising organi.
cations which will cooperate with
churches and other institutions in
obtaining money to pay the banks.
For the most part the profess
sional money-raising groups will
be utilized. They will be REIN
bursed on commission basis by
the churches.
While reluctant to foreclose any
religious properties, the Govern
ment is prepared to use this Wea-
pom whenever church officials de-
cline to aid in settling their obi.
cations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20
Portrait to War College

NEWPORT, R. l., May 2O.-A
portrait of the late Vice Admiral
Joel R. P. Pringle has been pre-
sented to the Naval War College.
He was president of the college
for three years. The portrait is
to be hung in the main hallway
of Pringle Hall, named for the
admiral.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-20
Conner SMITH
BACKED FOR
SENATE
Pension Plan Leader
Tells Committee
Of Campaign
Continued from Page ~

NNUuGAAAuCu 1EOLH age L
charged, he got in trouble by
kissing an Indian squaw."
Sullivan charged that Smith
resented Warmbold'S popularity
and had him removed because he
was stealing Smiths thunder"
He asked:
els it true that over $4,000
was spent for 'firewater' to get
the Indian vote in Okla
homa?"
II hadn't heard of it," Town
send answered.
ADMITS MONEY SPENT
Sullivan then inquired:
isn't it true that thousands
and thousands of dollars taken
from the till of OARP has been
spent in Oklahoma to further
the candidacy of Conner Smith
for the United States Senator"
1--WE have spent some money
for organization expenses there,
yes"
isn't 1t true that every radio
speech made for the Townsend
movement, and every pamphlet
distributed by you in Oklahoma,
has mentioned Smiths name?"
eyes, and 1 hope it helps his
candidacy"
"And the funds of your old
age contributors are being used
for political purposes in further
ing Smiths candidacy for the
Senate?"
81 hope So"
ABOUT MILLION RAISED
Sullivan then turned to the
financial Setup of the pension
movement. He asked:
els it true that you have
collected around $1,5O0,00O
since the movement began two
years agO?"
'"The last report, 1 believe,
was around $8OO,OOO."
81 understand from the tes-
timOny of your former partner,
Robert E. Clements, that it was
considerably more"
81 don't know exactly. I
don't handle the business end.
but I presume it was around
$1,000, 600"
"And what have the old folks
got for their money!"
They have this big OrganiZa-
ton. That's what the money
was collected for"
BUILD UP" FOR SMITH
"Have they got anything
more than a few buttons and
vaudeville performances"
eyes, they have gotten just
what they paid for-this great
organization which is working
for their good throughout the
country"
Sullivan produced a document
he said came from Townsend's
files revealing an elaborate pub
licity campaign in behalf of
Smiths candidacy.
It was labeled Smith build up"
It gave instructions to use the
radio, public appearances, news
papers, bulletins, district and
county and club representatives
and personal workers in the cam
paign.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30
RADIO ORCHESTRA
 PARK ATTRACTION

Joe Haynes, whose famous dance band of the air is to be heard Sun day night at the Hamilton Park Pavilion, is a prolific composer as well as arranger and conductor. Just recently published is his ballad number, Stay Out of Love-" the lyrics for which were written by E. F. Fernier. Among the other songs which Joe Haynes has authored are "The Life of the Party" one Man Band" Let's Have Party" ssMy Favorite Band," Nothing Ever Happens" and Its My Night to Howl" the last named being a sequel to an earlier popular number en- titled Gamblers Blues" Joe's radio theme song, Midnight" is also one Of his own compositions.
 The Haynes band is equally fa- nous for its recordings. An idea of how extensive it's recordings are can be gained from the fact that within the past six months the band has made over no records. The Haynes records have been produced for the Columbia, Brunswick and Victor companies, and at the present time are enjoying immense popularity tlrOughOut Europe. A recent series for Brunswick. made especially for the English market, inculde Not for Sale, "The Goblin Market" !" aWe're Swngng This One for the King,D Lost Motion" and the radio theme song. Midnight" Joe's