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The Washington times., 1937-08-06
MONTY" NAMED
BY AFFIDAVITS
AS GANG LEADER
Extradition of Golfer
Ruled Mandatory

Affidavits accusing John "Mys-
terry" Montague with being the
ringleader Of a New York gang
and with beating an aged watch
man were in the hands Of Gov
ernor Frank Merriam today.
The affidavits were filed by
Sergt. Paul McGinnis, Of the New
York State police, who with two
other Eastern q officers is here
fighting to extradite the famous
enigma golf player.
Defense attorneys continued to
plead by telegraph with Governor
Lehman of New York to drop the
extradition request on the grounds
Montague has rehabilttated him.
self here.
AffidavitS Revealed
CALIFORNIA; Attorney General
U. S. Webb, through a deputy,
served fromal notice on Governor
Merriam that under the law it Is
mandatory for him to grant the
extradition. The Governor, after
receiving more than 100 letters
fsom celebrated Hollywood friends
of Montague and holding hear
ing here, has taken the matter
under advisement.
Before Governor Merriam left
for the State capital at Sacra.
mento, Sergeant McGinniS filed
the affidavits stating he was max
ing them public for the first time
because letters on Montague's be-
half have been made public"
Claim 500 Taken
One of the affidavits is signed
by Eoger Norton, convicted par
ticipant in the holdup Of a road
house in Jay, N. Y, seven years
ago.
In his statement, Norton charges
Montague, under the name La.
verne Moore, was the ringleader
of the holdup gang. Norton's al
fidavit said:
1--WE originally started out to
hijack some liquor, but In the
end Laverne said TO hell with
the liquor, lets get the money:
Police charge $700 was taken
from the roadhouse after Matt
Cobb, 67.year.old Waterman, was
beaten.
Tells Of Beating
The other affidavit was sworn
to by Cobb, who said he was
awakened by a man with a gun.
He said this man called another
man named Verne" and the two
of them tied him up. Cobb's affl-
davit states:
"T pulled the mask he wore
off his face, and he hit me on
the head with revolver butt.
"Then he tied my hands and
feet. / have seen photographs
of this John Montague 1
think he is the man.
"He called to someone to bring
blackjack. Another man
brought the blackjack and then
the man / understand to be
Verne hit me several times on
the face and head"
The Washington times., 1937-08-06


In the parade of eighty-two
years John Lavery has met all
the great ones Of the world :.
Kings and queens and princesses
have supped at his board
Rodin bartered his sculpture for
Sir Johns paintings One
story after another tumbled
from his lips His friend,
Whistler, never liked Watts, the
British artist Whistler and
Sir John were visiting Tate Gal
lery and they came upon some
of Watts canvases whats
this one?" Numbered Whistler,
pointing to Watts famous con-
ception of Hope, a blindfolded
woman with the earth as a foot
stool Hope, by Watts"
said Sir John :. Hope deferred,
you mean," was WhiStler's acid
squelch.
y y
After the terms Of the Irish
treaty had been agreed upon,
Winston Churchill invited Mich
ael Collins and other Irish lead
ers to his home Churchill,
with grim humor, has framed
the placard which had been
issued for him during the Boer
War It offered ten pounds,
$50, for Churchill's capture,
dead or alive Collins read
it carefully and said teasingly:
They didn't value you very
highly, Mr.. Churchill" mot
so highly as we valued you,"
said Churchill, referring to the
$4,000 reward offered by the
British government for the cap.
ture Of Collins Said Collins,
depreciating: prices had risen
since your day."
One Of the most important
Londoners is 75-year-old H. Cor
don Selfridge He is an Amer
lean, Michigan born, trained in
Chicago He owns the biggest
department store in this coUn-
try, introduced American ice
cream sodas to London, employs
in all $4,000 people, makes about
100000 profit year, and will
soon be knighted Autographs
of all the interesting and anus
ing people who have been his
friends cover q 24-foot square
pane of glass in his office on
the eighth floor-Bernhardt, Ru-
dolph Valentino, Pavlowa, Ca
russo, Lindbergh, Foch, Gloria
Swanson, the Dolly Sisters, ETC.,
etc. -. You sign your name with
a diamond-cutter Shortly he
will send 1000 of his British en-
ployes to America, contributing
10 per cent of their passage
money out of his own pocket and
permitting them to repay the
balance with weekly installments
Of a pound ($5) each of
them will make so American &C.
quaintances," he told me, land
thus promote Anglo American
relations"
Youthful Count de Segonzac
meets the celebs when the boats
dock at Southampton He is
London correspondent for the
Paris Soir, which has a daily
circulation of 100000 . He is
one Of the best news hawks on
the Continent, and digs up all
sorts Of stories about all sorts
of people His story on Der.
nard TuSSaud, for instance
The Washington times., 1937-08-06
Low Rent
Homes for $3.50 Per
Month in islands

A three-room house for $3.50
ped month is what the Public
Works Administration is offer
ing in the Virgin Islands. Ad-
ministrator Ices announced yes
terday.
The abodes are newly built and
modern. That is, they are mod.
ern from a Virgin Island stand
point. All have electric lights, but
cooking will conform to local ira
ditions, charcoal burners being
set in concrete slabs just outside
the kitchen door.
The Washington times., 1937-08-06
TIMES TABLE
TODAY

1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Bureau
of Air Commerce, Willard Hotel.
12:45 P.M.-Luncheon D. c.
Bankers Association, Willard Ho'
tel.
12:45 PM.-Luncheon, Golfers
Weekly, Mayflower Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Recipro-
city Club, Mayflower Hotel.
P.M.-Banquet, Meeting, Dan
cling Masters of America, May
flower Hotel.
8 P.M.-M tin g, Executive
Committee, Women of the Moose,
Columbia Chapter, No. 1858, at
COL A st. N. E.
8 PM.-Meeting Of Ritualistic
Committee, Moose Hall, 1414 I ST..
N. w. ,
8 P.M.-Meeting, General
Committee, Twenty-ninth Division
association, Willard Hotel.
The Washington times., 1937-08-06
By ED SULLIVAN

LONDON July 20 (By Mai-One Of the most delightful char
this reporter met Sir John avey famous Irish
artist and patriot intimate Rodn Whistler Michael Collins
Watts Winston Churchill Lord French He 50 years
DID, he looks like character that might have stepped
the Dickens painting Pavlowa the
poan exhibits Gallery here and there other
in the British far aed Pittsburgh
his charming home at Cromwell Place here Michael Collins the
Irish leader met with British military and diplomats to
the Irish treaty His late wes profile adorned the
bank notes of Ireand-She a Chicago girl.
The Washington times., 1937-08-06
Wreck Spills Wine,
Spectators Weep

SEREGNO, Italy, Aug. 8 (U.SO.
There were no casualties but tears
came to the eyes Of onlookers
when a tank train bound for
Germany overturned and $4,000
liters of fragrant Marsala wine
poured over the tracks.
The Washington times., 1937-08-06

The whole towns talking! The
Washington Times, the Capitals Pic.
ture Newspaper, IL presenting new
features for your enjoyment. just call
to have your copy delivered promptly
by courteous carrier each evening.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

Ream's Hagerstown and Patent
flour was announced by Mayberry
and Gumbert as 'the best in the
city"
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25
The Biggest Business

Ask the average man what he
considers the biggest industry in
the United States and chances are
that he will answer either the
steel or automobile industries. But
either answer would be wrong, for
the dairy industry is larger than
either of them, counting that it
CLEANS most of it's profits from ice
cream, cheese and by-products
other than fluid milk. American
farmers produce forty-five billion
quarts of milk year of which Is
per cent. is used on the farm, 80
per cent. is distributed in bottles,
SO per cent. is made into butter, S
per cent. into cheese, 4 per cent.
into evaporated, condensed and
dry milk, 2 per cent. into ice
cream and per cent. is used for
miscellaneous purposes. Milk con-
stitutes approximately one-fourth
Of all the 1900 pounds of food an
average person consumes in year
so hats off to the dairying in
dustry, the biggest business of
which a great nation can boast.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25
Some Fire Hazards

The advent of each season
brings special fire hazards. Now
that summer is here, due precau-
ton should be taken by property
owners against the dangers that
follow cessation of rain and the
arrival Of dry, warm days.
Some Of the worst fires have
started in vacant, grassy lots. I'm
cut, dry grass can almost explode
into flame at the touch of match
or spark. 1t is essential to COM
munity safety that adequate laws
control the care of grassland
that these laws be enforced. Farm
ers and others living outside the
towns should be no less jealous
In reducing this hazard.
During good weather, homes are
cleaned and renovated. Great
amounts of trash must be dis
posed OF, often by burning. Here
is stiIl another source of destruc-
tive fire. The burning operation
should take place only in a metal
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

Mass, to the effect that in Ger
many scientific advance, through
many years of laboratory struggle
has demonstrated to celebrated
German professors that sawdust
is edible.
1t is believed and is predicted
that in a very short time we shall
be able to feed our families, using
nothing but the lowly sawdust,
and naturally that is a matter of
jubilation for the entire human
race, as many persons have been
going hungry in recent years and
have been fed by their govern
ments.
/, AS long as they can do it, ac-
cept the word of the renowned
German professor, and be happy,
for sawdust is just about our
cheapest commodity and always
will be. There are too many trees
for sawdust ever to get expensive.
Over in Germany they are al
ready feeding sawdust in edible
forms, to the farm animals and
with elegant results. Horses so
fed pull far heavier loads, cows
give more milk, pigs squeal with
greater gusto, etc.
Under the coming sawdust sys-
tem-and mind you, science will
be able to produce any form, any
kind of food from soup to nuts
they simply stroll into one of the
new chain sawdust shops, drop a
dime in the slot, a mere cover
charge, and fill up on the rarest
sort of viands, delicacies and
fruits.
1t certainly is a CHEEKY prospect
and proves what, many people
have often said-that civilization
would never have advanced thus
far without the helping hand of
science, without the aid of those
noble and self-effacing men who
toll silently in laboratories for
the betterment of mankind.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

ports. In practically all parts of
the country the prospects of the
college and university graduates
are brighter than they have been
for years. This means one thing
at least-that confidence in the
return of prosperity and in its sta
bility is running high, despite var
ious factors that tend to cause I'M
easiness. When the white collar"
man is practically assured Of a
job at good pay before he gets
his college degree the foundations
Of good times certainly seem to
have been restored.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25
Graduates Getting Jobs

A report from Chicago paints a
picture of the American industrial
and professional scenes in terms
of offerings of jobs to college
graduates that has not been equal
led in optimism for nearly dec
ade. A survey of fifty higher edu-
cational institutions has just re-
vealed that the placement" pros
poets for those who received their
degrees this year are the best
since 1929. The industrial scouts
are offering graduates from SIS to
$50 month more than those of
fered last year.
A few extracts from the report
give the best possible picture of
the situation:
Every graduate at Colgate Uni
versity can obtain position if he
wants it.
'All of Stanford University's l.
600 graduate prepared for jobs
will be on somebody's payroll by
Fall.
"At Northwestern University,
Placement officer Day said pros
poets were approximately rs per
cent. better than last year. 1t is
expected that 80 per cent. of this
years graduates will be placed
within the next few weeks, and
practically all will be employed by
Fall. Last year the average start
ing salary was $95. This year
the majority range from 500 to
1925 a month.
The demand for graduates from
the Pennsylvania State College
School of Mineral Industries is
even better than in boom time.
Scores more could have been plac-
ed If they were being graduated
In the Engineering School 81 per
cent. obtained jobs.
Columbus University received
three times the number OF calls
for seniors it had last year, at a
considerable average increase in
salaries.
"At the University of Minnesota
School OF Business there were
more personnel men interviewing
seniors than there were seniors. I"
These are but samples of the re.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25
TWISTED WIRES: JAILED

Accused of twisting together
dispatch and telegraph wires Of
the Western Maryland Railway
Co., John Brough, Jr., of New
Franklin, was committed to Jail
in Chambersburg in default Of
$500 bond. The charge was made
by Detective E. j. Chapman, this
city, a member of the railroad de-
tective force.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25
GETS GOOD POST

N. B. Dunford, Chambersburg,
chairman of the Franklin County
Democratic Committee, has been
appointed an investigator of acct
dents in the division of engineers
for the Public Utilities Commits.
sion, at an annual salary of 81,
900.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

container of adequate size and
under constant supervision.
Finally, no matter what you do
or where you go, be ever awake to
the peril of fire. Do you like to
drive in parks or forests? Then
remember that carelessness with
fire has destroyed more trees than
man ever cut for a useful purpose.
Have you a favorite summer pic
mic spot? Then bear in mind that
the most beautiful place nature
ever devised can become an eye
sore In a few short minutes or
hours If fire strikes.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25
Roads and Diet

So rapid has been the improve
ment of rural highways in the last
fifteen years, yet almost without
realizing it, that the entire diet Of
the American people has been
changed in that brief time. Not
only that, but the paving of roads
has caused a revolution in agricul-
tural methods as well. For every
mile Of improved highway laid
down, some farmer has added
something to his production of
green vegetables marketed in the
big centers of population.
In North Carolina, for instance,
farms where nothing but tobacco
was grown for years and years are
now green with truck crops of all
kinds. Dairying, too, has sprung
into prominence in many states,
where it would have been impos-
sible to get the milk to the city
Is years ago.
Farmers who once depended al
most entirely on one staple crop
corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat-are
now going in widely for vegetables
and fruits which would have been
too perishable to have been grown
profitably under old transportation
conditions.
You can note big change of
this kind right around our own
community if you want to study
the subject a little. Our people
are now able to grow many things
they didn't grow a few years ago
because good roads and the auto
mobile have made it possible for
them to get such products to mar
ket.
We're in better position to fight
for our share of prosperity than
we ever were before. We've found
out that paved highways are es-
sential to farm success. And since
success in practically every field
depends on success on the farm,
It looks as though there is no
longer any place in the United
States for the man who fights a
good roads movement OF any kind.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

A dispatch from New Orleans
said the grand jury in their report
suggested as a sanitary measure
that a crematory be established
under the direction of officers of
Charity Hospital, for the purpose
of burning the bodies of persons
dying of contagious diseases.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

OF August 81, 1855:
-
Most everybody is dead. That
is, all the old folks. There are
mighty few left of the old stock
that used to move around so live
1y and take the lead in business
and public affairs. Some of us are
getting lonesome now. The ranks
keep filling up, but we don't know
the new recruits. Old Father
Time is a conscript officer and he
won't take any substitutes or give
anybody a bomb-proof place And
there are no quartermasters nor
commissaries nor potash getters
in this war, but it is fight, fight,
fight all the time. Fight as they
did at Thermopylae where there
were only 300 against 100000
and there was no possible escape.
Sooner or later all of US will have
to go. We can't desert nor dodge
nor play sick nor shoot a finger
off, and there are no furloughs
and no pensions and no dis
charges. There is not even pro
motion for good conduct or noble
daring. There is nothing but to
do and die. Well, it's all right,
know, or it wouldn't have been
so, but it grieves me to hear the
bell tolling all about and to see
the old stock passing away" -
(From the Atlanta Constitution.
The Christian at Work tells
about a preacher who said in his
sermon that it is "as hard for
rich man to squeeze through
Heavens gates as for a mathema-
tician to destroy one of the foci of
an eclipse while preserving the
other, or for truncated cone to
be made whose intersected plane
should never describe a parabola."
Mrs. Mackey, the wife of the
bonanza millionaire, is accompan-
led wherever she goes in public
by a detective whose duty it is to
protect her against diamond
thieves.
Robert Smiths East India pale
ale, porter and brown stout, bot
tied, for family and medicinal pur-
poses, was advertised by w. w.
Walker. The ad also announced
that the Fountain Spring Distil-
lery was equipped with late i'm
provements. Mr. Walker was also
agent for Prospect Brewery (of
Philadelphia Budweiser, Bavar-
ian and Book beers.
Victor Cushwa, Williamsport,
advertised Chemical Company of
Canton (Baker's) dissolved bone
and New York slaughter house
dissolved bone at s37 per ton, with
liberal discount for large quanti-
ties. Star Bone fertilizer was of
fered at $35 per ton, single ton,
three tons for 500.
Under the mail caption, "Sun-
day Mail Service in Maryland"
this appeared: "The first Sunday
mail for Frederick will close in
Baltimore on Sunday next at 9
A. NJ, and go by the train which
leaves Camden Station at 9:15.
container of adequate size-and
under constant supervision.
Finally, no matter what you do
or where you go. be ever awake to
the peril of fire. Do you like to
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25
BY THE OLD LAMPLIGHTER

With the exception of Hagers.
town, Williamsport and several
post offices in Garrett and Ale.
gany counties, there are no SIM.
day mails in Maryland from or to
Baltimore. Hagerstown and VIII.
Transport are served by the .20
P. M. train on the Western MARY
land. Any place desiring a Sun.
day mail may obtain it by petition
from the patrons of the Office bpt
as the postal regulations make if
the duty of the postmaster to
keep the postoffce open one bour
or longer after the receipt Of the
mail, that official generally uses
his influence to prevent SUNDAY
work. Most rural communities
however, are satisfied with the
mail six times a week"
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25
Science Mag SOI0e Relief

Amusement and delight greets
the latest news that comes from
Harvard University, Cambridge,
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

Under the mail caption, "Sun-
day Mail Service in Maryland, .
this appeared: "The first Sunday
mail for Frederick will close in
Baltimore on Sunday next at 9
A. NJ, and go by the train which
leaves Camden Station at 9:15.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

Mrs. A. Rose and Daughter chad
the best quality and finest designs
in button boots for gentlemen"
at their store 25 North Potomac
street.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-06-25

Victor Cushwa, Williamsport,
advertised Chemical Company of
Canton (Baker's) dissolved bone
and New York slaughter house
dissolved bone at $37 per ton, with
liberal discount for large quaint
ties. Star Bone fertilizer was Of
fered at $35 per ton, single ton,
three tons for $100.
Evening star., 1937-07-06
YOUNG MARRIED MAN.

need an energetic and re-
sponslble young man to work
with me in my business. I prefer
a married man over 81 years of
age with a car. A man who will
do the things that I have done
for the last five years can build
his income up gradually to $4,000
per year or more within a rea-
sonable length of time. The work
itself is pleasant and puts you in
contact with a great many of
people whom this service will
benefit. The man who qualities
will be given the benefit of my
experience and cooperation and
actual field training. No invest
ment of money, only eight hours
a day OF serious application to a
job that will pay worthwhile re-
turns. You need not have sales
experience, but the right kind of
character references will be
necessary.
Call at 201 Denrike Bldg. 1910
Vermont ave. NV, on Wednes-
day morning, 10 o'clock sharp.
Evening star., 1937-07-06
FRANK r. LONG. Attorney.
ll2I Denrike Bldg.

IN 1.-THE The G DISTRICT COURT OF THE
bla-Daniel Loughran Company Inc,
Aenees an and Devisees VS. Ths of pane pB1n9Tn
CLARK, Daniel B. Clark Waggaman. John
strainins, Ben Hengst; Jane E. Gray
Sen esg sgoVn Vrgss as Jsns snse
ford: Jane E. Gray. daughter Of Jane
Known as Jane 1sd being also
issue. Betty Letch. Helen A Desmond. and
George Henning. Jane Mickle and Mar
ssTss 3fHs 6f NJ
sstsOiishins 9t record by sdverge possese aesese
.p. .9n pa,nt 70 Lat rat title II i
lots seven Gl and eight (Sl. in SQUARE
a53, known for purposes of assessment
ss n ssd as Lots s i bv so 10
22nd day Of June. A. b. 1897. oRDERED, fsI5s
that the defendants. the unknown heirs,
n cf 81 nansd 5ohn B ssh sesF5
Ing. Ben Hengst, Jane E. Gray. otherwise
known as Jane E. Alexander. Benz. r.
Glrsy Grey Virginia sartsr: Susan Stafford
above. the said daughter being also known
Jane E. Mickle. her known issue Betty
nh snd Jan. MeGIe ana snd Mslssqes
entered herein on or before the first rule
ffs se .hs
provided a copy hereof be published once
sar srss and fSs Tfsk in
b.inr dispensed with Tor satisfactoPy @ oase cause
;neHc 5ne,c. sIsnsd ses JAMES sI cdnz pKocToF
SHAHIEs Wfy} 1S1 81 s5iEwAHT. @s Clerk u
Evening star., 1937-07-06
IRWIN GOLDSTEIN. Attorney.
III National Press Bldg.

N THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
,unehi. uniteo aia states for the District of Co
ME BROWN, Ia@s ath st. NV NV, nnh- Wash-
ington: .. G. plaintiff, VS.. SAMUEL G.
SHoWN 1address unknown. defendant
equity No. 64526.-ORDER OF PUBL
CAIlON-,ABSENT DEFENDANT. - The
objeGt of this suit is to obtain a decree
OF absolute divorce for the plaintiff from
the defendant on the grounds of desertion
1or period OF more than two years. On
motlon OF the plaintiff it is this olst
defendant Samuel G. Brown, cause his
ShefheaIanfe hefarn ne, to De entered herein on or
SUNDAYS and LEGAL holidays. occurring after
the nrst publication of this order other
wise tne cause will be proceeded with as in
case OF default, provided a copy of this
oroer oe published once week for three
successive weeks in the WASHINGTON Law
Reporter and The Evening Star newspaper
petore said day, JAMES M. PROCTOR.
JqSslee. Jr Seal A true copy. Test:
IEH.A16LLES e. STEWART. Clerk. BY w. F.
io.,.) n. q