The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-26

People
Last month Anne Lindsay Clark
married Son John Roosevelt, who
q fortnight ago took an $18-a-week
Job in the Boston department store
of late Democrat Edward Filene.
Last week Anne Roosevelt's sister,
Sally, who has sung her way to
nominal fame in a night club, said
she would marry George Xavier
McLanahan of New York.
o Wed only two weeks to his tele-
phone operator sweetheart from
Gore Bay, Ont, 21-year-old Auto
Heir Daniel c. Dodge was honey
incoming on Manitoulin island off
Lake Huron's Georgian bay. One
afternoon as he rummaged around
the garage with his wife and Mr..
and Mrs. Lloyd Bryant, stick of
dynamite exploded. Completely
shattered was Dodge's left arm, his
face torn, his eyes blinded. Rushed
off by boat to distant hospital by
his badly injured friends, Dodge
suffered excruciating agony. Final
ly he stood up, swayed, jumped into
the water, drowned. Next day Bry-
ant was not expected to live.
Crime
One morning last fall, 18-year-old
Paul Dryer Of South Paris, Me-,
was arrested in North Arlington, N.
J. Stuffed in the trunk of his auto
mobile was the corpse of James
G. Littlefield, elderly country doc
tor. Stuffed in the back seat was
that of DR.. Littlefield's wife. Paul
Dryer went to prison under life sem
tence for double murder. Then he
changed his story. Said Dwyer:
Francis Carroll, former deputy
sheriff, had improper relations with
his daughter, Barbara, Dryers
sweetheart. When DR.. Littlefield
learned Of this, Carroll killed him.
Later he killed the doctors wife.
Fear of Carroll caused Dryer to
admit both murders.
Last week these horrible accusa-
tions were settled. Francis Carroll
was convicted, sent to prison for
life. It appeared likely that sallow-
faced Paul Dwyer would be par
doned, though he might still be
charged with guilty knowledge Of
the slayings. Meanwhile Barbara
Carroll received offers to appear in
a Boston night club.
AviatiOn
Transatlantic commercial air SUI
premacy has long since been willed
by public consent to u. S. and Great
Britain, though until last year nei-
Their nation did anything to justify
the public's approval. A few weeks
ago Nazi Germany sent its Nord-
wind, Nordstern and Nordmeer cat
apulting from the Azores to New
York and back, placing new ma
ton in the race for Atlantic air SUI
premacy. Last week Adolf Hitler's
birdmen did something still better.
Nonstop from Berlin to New York
in "a hours, Sc minutes, came the
26-passenger Brandenburg. Two
days later Brandenburg was again
in Berlin, making her return trip in
the record time of 10 hours, SIS min
utes. No longer a secret is Hitler's
ambition to make not London, not
Paris, but Berlin the European
starting point for transatlantic
flights.
o Down from the clouds east Of
Mexico City plummeted an airliner.
First a crash, then flames, and II
were dead. Down from fog-bound
skies into Germany's Black forest
came a Czechoslovak liner bound
from Prague to Paris. Sixteen died.
Down to their deaths off England's
coast went six crew members of a
royal air force flying boat, bringing
to 1875 the total fatalities in that
service this year. Thus, in IL hours,
in Mexico, England and Germany,
80 lives were snuffed out.
Sports
When Broker J. Smith Ferebee
played IA holes of golf in Chicago
last fortnight, it looked like new
marathon fad would start, rivaling
marathon dancing, surprising the
toughest flagpole sitter. Last week
at St. John, Ind, 23-year-old Charles
Grant started playing golf at dawn.
BY 8 p. m. he had covered 162
holes, by shutdown, 225. His worst
18-hole round: the tenth, scoring 81.
Miscellany
From San Francisco's Golden
Gate exposition grounds last week
came orders that publicity on the
1889 fair must show more fair build
ings, fewer fair maidens. Result
was a new bit of publicity, some
thing fair officials had not expected.