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Mail WEATHER toniflbt and Friday; Friday. VOL. CVI No. 81. Published daily (except Sunday) by Mail Publishing Co.

Entered as second-class matter at the Hayerstown HAGERSTOWN, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1934. YJ3STER DAY'S PRESS RUN 9700 SHOOTING OF GIRL WAS ACCIDENT? Admits Gambling Wages And Jobs Hit New High Since 'I gamble on anything." Col. R. R. "Ria.dley.

famous Kentucky race Iiorse breeder, told the Senate Finance committee when asked his business. Bradley was questioned in connection with Senator Huey Long's opposition to a Roosevelt appointee in Louisiana. (Associated Press Photo) FLOOD TOLL NOW PLACED AT16DEAD Of Only One Recovered; Oklahoma Residents Are Caught Unaware GREATEST ONE MONTH GAIN IN 15YEARS Improvement Continues During- March And Even Bigger Gain Expected H)LK CITY. April workers patrolled the receding WashUa river today in search of its victims, believed to number iixteen. The body of Stella Mae Fenter.

10. was recovered and hopes were abandoned for the, survival of fif- others missing in the torrent, which swept down without warning before dawn yesterday. They were Mrs. A. M.

Adams and ftve daughters. Opal, 3S; Kdith, 13; Audrey, 10; Lola Fay. and. Velita. One; Mrs.

Lawrence Taylor and one Leo Bush, his wife and one IS child; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Fenter, parents of Stella Mae. and two other Children. All resided at Mammon.

More than a score of others were rescued by intrepid workers from roofs and trees. Two of the rescuers. "Rusty" Toller and Marry Kemp Of City, were uureporU-d. Chief White Shield of the Red Ttfoon reservation reported his peo- were safe. Damage to crops, farm properties, (Continued On Page 34) WASHINGTON, April 5 Payrolls in American manufacturing industry hit a new high in February, creating peaks in both wages and unemployment untouched since early 1931.

The Department of Commerce, announcing Icdny, added that probable further improvement in March would supplant these figures, but that only incomplete estitnates for the, months were available. The department stated that a swelling in manufacturing payrolls of 12 per cent in February as compared to January constituted the greatest one-month improvement in 3.5 years. A six per cent gain in actual factory employment during the month as compared to January was recorded as having been exceeded only three times in 15 years. None of these figures included the. splurge, of pny increases recently announced in the steel, automobile and other industries, many of which go into effect this month.

The NRA was disclosed today to be. watching such 'data intently, while gathering more of its own. On good authority it was indicated that quick general action by industry t.o shorten working hours for re-employment is not now expected by eagle officials but within a reasonable period voluntary cuts are looked'for from large individual groups. If not, the original idea, that a flat ten per cent reduction be required by the government of all (Continued On Page 14) A Mere 25 Million Is Her Inheritance I Au-to Alcohol Fatal To Two April 5 Alcohol drained from the radiator of an automobile has caused the of two Michigan state pris-' -on inmates. Neil Matthews.

20. of Flint serving from six months to five years for auto theft, died parly today. Sigrnoiul Ohrozent. 20, diod yesterday. Mrtthcws told Deputy Warden P.

C. it that he and drank nearly srallon of the radiator fluid whil- 3 work on the prison farm. Farmers Plan Protest Meet PHILADELPHIA, April 5 Counter proposals and plans for a mass meeting for farmers from the North Atlantic States are crystallizing opposition in the Philadelphia milk shed to the agricultural adjustment administration millc production control plan. Wilbur Moft'ett. of Downing- towu, president of the Allied Dariy Farmers' Association, said that the mass meeting will be called within I wo weeks t.o protest against the government's plan.

It. will be held in Philadelphia. NEW STRIKE THREAT. DETROIT, April 5 the National Automobile Labor Board was continuing its consideration today of a strike in the plants of the Nash Motors at Racine. the threat, of another suspension of work by tool and die makers employed in job shops revealed by Matthew Smith, general secretary of the Mechanics Edu- cntional Society of America.

Richard J. Reynolds, of Winston-Salem, N. who took up aviation, shipping and Broadway show business to earn a bit of spare change, inherited $25.000,000 on his twenty-eighth birthday. The money wa.s left in trust by his father, wealthy tobacco manufacturer. (Associated Press Photo) STATE PAROLE DEPT.

PROBES NEW RACKET Alleged To Be Charging; Former Prisoners So Much He Can't Make Living BALTIMORE. April 5 state parole department today is Investigating the report that one sponsor of several paroled prisoners has made a racket of his alleged kindness. The report concerned the of a skilled workman who was paroled when the sponsor told Commissioner Gaylord Lee Clark that he would finance a small shop through which the ex-convict might get a new start in life. The shop was started and the pa- ruled man worked long and hard to develop what appeared to be a ying business but routine investigation by parole officers showed a few suspicious circumstances and now the officers have a report that the sponsor is charging the ex- prisoner so much for rent and interest on the loan that the skilled man's 12 hours work a day nets him only about a week. "If it's true It will not be the first case of the sort we've had." id John G.

Eggen. secretary of (Continued on Page 14) COMPROMISE LIKELY WASHINGTON. April 5. The compromise Jones Costigan sugar control hill, designed to cut the supply nearer the limits of America's sugar bowl, appeared on the way today to quick Senate approval. DEMPSEY COMES OUT SECOND BEST IN BOUT WITH WOMAN! TRUCK DRIVER LOSES LIFE John Close, Well Known Here, Killed In Bad Crash.

REPORT SITE BOUGHT FOR RAYON PLANT NEAR HANCOCK DuPonts Said To Be Interested In 250-Acre Near Paw Paw; Understood Purchase Consummated. Hancock and business interests in the western section of Washington County were much excited today when it was learned from an thorJtative source that a rayon plant, which would he the largest of its kind in the world, would be built on the Potomac river, between Hancock and Paw Paw. It was reported that the Duponts were buying; the land and would erect the'plant. This report was further born out by D. G.

Sevens, owner of a 250- acre farm, located on the Potomac River near Paw Paw who said that surveys had been made on his farm and that only a few days ago a representative of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and representatives of the concern planning to erect the plant, had conferred with him. While Bevans would not admit it. it was reported that the deal for ihc purchase of the land had been completed yesterday. The proposed factory site is on the West Virginia, side of the Po- i.omac river. It is understood that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company will build a railroad yards and connecting branch to the site and also plans are being made to build a village for workers.

Other workers would be transported by bus daily from Berkeley Springs. Hancock. Cumberland, and the surroundina: section. It was pointed out that the West Virginia location would afford a lower tax cost to the industry, without injuring its close relation to Maryland points nearby. Mrs.

Bevans. wife of the owner of the said the men represented a. rayon manufacturer, but refused to divulge the identity of the concern. It was learned however, that the Duponts were the interested party. It may be possible that one of rbe Duponts, who is a member of tha Woodmont Rod and Gun Club, may have looked over the site on one of.

his many visits to Woodmont. THIEVES NET OVER $500 IN 2 ROBBERIES Hancock Store And Mt. Briar Home Is Lootetl Of Cash Money Her Two Pet Dogs Cause Her Arrest! KILLED TWO His Joy Was Short Lived SUSQUEHANNA. April 5. Hibbard, bearing the glad tidings that he had found a-job.

returned home to discover the bodies 01 his despondent 25-year-old wife and their two children in a pond. Clasped in the woman's arm when the bodies were taken from the water were John. 4, and a four- month-old daughter. Edwaid P. Little, district attorney of Susquehanna county, said that the mother carried hoth children to the pool and plunged with them into 2 feet of water.

Hibbard said he had been downcast because he recently lost his job as a road worker. Yesterday, however. Hibbard found temporary employment as a carpenter and returned home for his tools The family's unfinished breakfast stood on the table and llibbard at first assumed his wife ami children had gone to one of the neighbors. Later in the day he became worried and, with another man, set out in search for the three. Footprints in the mud led to the pool, formed by heavy rains in an unused railroad cistern.

Mrs. Vanderbilt Faces Vicious Dog Charge Insurance Executive's Daughter Alleged Bitten Thrice. SENATE GETS NEW MARKET CONTROL BILL Aimed At Meeting Controversial Provisions Of Two Previous Bills ALKXANDKR. April Demnspy lost a ring battle here iast. night.

Worse than that, he was forced into ignomiuoiis retreat from the of It all ns the ex-lienvy was reforming a hoavy- weijrhf mafrh and t.he wife of 3 of participant? rlimhr-d into the roped 5 and took a hand in the proceedings. Dempsey lost his shirt and a good bit. of hair before it was all Mrs. Johnny Plummer, whose frnusband was tying up with Bruce Xoland in the feature of mat card. Kave the fans iho mioxpeeted ex- rra thrill whrn challenged the former kins; and won at temporary victory.

li all siiirted when Dempsey! warned Plumuicr that he would' not allow any kicking of N'oland wl-en the latter was on the floor I Oi.e Thing led to another and Re-! Dempsey closed the argument by delivering three quick cuts to chin, which ended the e-nerrainmenT for Plummer. Rut not for Mrs. Plummer. She WHS through the ropes from her seat in a second and goinc i after Dempsey's shirt and his hair ix-fore anybody could do anything fbout it. Den-psey retreated as far as the rope's would allow and stood there for a while, proving he could still take it.

without raising a hand in defe When Mrs. Plummet- really got. organized however. slipped rhrousrh ropes and rorreatM the rowd. John driver for a Cumberland motor express concern, due at the Hagerstown headquarters of the company yesterday morning, was killed and the truck demolished early yesterday.

According to information received by Arthur Moats, local represents live Close lost control when the brakes failed to hold while 1 spending a hill and failed to a curve. Close was to and a stop to pickup Ho is known in The funeral wii' held from home jn Cumberland tomorrow afternoon. PLANT DESTROYED HAVANA. April 5. The extensive and modern plant of the newspaper El Pais was in ruins today, burned out by fire resulting either frcni an explosion in a lead melting tank or defective wiring.

Police esrimared damssre ar S1 Five men WTC injured fiffhnns: the RRYN MAWR, April 5, Mrs. Mary VanderbiH. former wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, must appear in court tonight on a charpp of harboring vicious dogs although she insists that neither of her Scottish terriers ever hit any 1 In an effort to satisfy the complainant. Miss Louise Norton Wright. IS.

Mrs. Vanderbilt is having a kennel built for the "1 feel in havins the pun built I'm doiny my part and suing to expeiiSM to protect you and your family." she told Kdwin Wright. Philadelphia executive and father of the girl who allies slip was hition three, tirnrs. The girl's mother says thjit Mrs. Vandortv.lt told her one of the doccs was very old, blind, deaf and toothless.

of the Peavo William Rm-klanrt, who will hear the rase, says (he owner told him the vrere tied up when anyone passed and were muzzled. Mrs. Yandorhilt is the daughter of Wilson R. Weir, of Iowa. She.

was divorced from her first Waldo Hancock Locan. of at Reno in 102S, and shortly after-i ward married bilt. Reno divorce. i WASHINGTON, April' 5 new market con troll bill which sets out to meet, the controversial provisions of the two that have pre- ceeded it, was presented to the Senate Banking committee today. With his new draft of the battered and buffeted Fletcher-Rayburn measure before them, the committee gathered privately to hear what Samuel Untermyer, a frequent and outspoken critic of stock exchange practices, had to say about conditions which the bill seeks to remedy.

Chairman Fletcher wanted to avail himself and the committee of Untermyer's long experience with stock market legislation, experience dating back more than a score of year when he served as counsel for a House committee in the Pujo inquiry. Provisions of the new draft of the market bill were not made public immediately by the committee. Generally, however, it was understood to give broader discretion to the Federal Trade commission to regulate exchanges and provide rules for their conduct. Generally, however it was understood to give broader discretion to the Federal Trade commission to regulate exchanges and provide for their conduct. Following Mr.

Untermyor's tpsti- mony today, the stock market bill will its most 5 test. Committee members exported the on- suing series of voters would determine to a large extent, its ultimate fate. Two robberies, which netted thieves upwards of $500 'in cash and checks, are being investigated by the sheriff's office today. H. G.

McKinley, proprietor of a general merchandise store at Hancock, reported yesterday that sometime Tuesday during business hours, his store was robbed of a money sack that contained between $350 and $400 in cash and checks. He estimated the amount of cash at over $200. McKinley said he kept the sack behind the counter of bis store and believes that someone familiar with his habits committed the robbery. Mrs. Buddie Abbot, Mt.

Briar, notified the sheriff's office last night about 8 o'clock last evening someone entered her home and ransacked a. bureau drawer of if 120 in cash. In addition to the money missing she reported evidence that thieves had ransacked the home. AERIALIST IS HURT IN FALL MA CON, April 5 through the air in a somersault from one bar to another In the top of a circus tent. Charles Forrest, 27, of Hamilton, Ontario, lost his grip on the bar and dropped into a net.

He landed with his whole weight on the right foot, breaking his leg. Forrest was rehearsing an aerial act in Downie Brothers circus. Surgeons said he would not troup this season and that his career as an aerialist may be over. Harold B. Hall Did Not mit Murder, Investigation Here Reveals Mrs.

Mary Logan Vanderbilt, divorced wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, was arrested at Bryn Mawr, on a charge of maintaining a public nuisance in the form of two dogs. A neighbor said one of Mrs. Vanderbilt's two Scottish terriers had bitten her on the ankle, (Associated Press Photo) GETTING ONE MAN BUT GETANOTHER Captain Emmert And Party Return Home With Pennsy Prisoner John T. Campbell, Bluemont, Attempted Robbery. T.

Campbell, a business man of Bluemont, reported to the Sheriff's office last evening that during the late afternoon yesterday two strange negroes attempted to hold him up on the road leading from Mt. Briar to Sharpsburg. Campbell claims that the two ne- groes were riding in a car and attempted to stop his machine. He said he became suspicious of the men and though he slowed down did not stop. He looked back later to see the negroes drive off, which indicated that nothing was wrong with their machine.

Brings Bride For Blessing CAXXKS. France, April Prince Sijjvard, who pave up his royal rights to marry pretty Geruuui film player, brought his bride, to Cannes today for tinmd- father Gustafs royal A reconciliation with thp Swedish Kinr. who has oftf-p expressed displeasure, at so many marriage--, in his family with commoners, i vss within '24 NEW TRIAL FOR SOLON. April 5 now for Representative Shoemaker i F. on charges of' assaulting a taxirab driver has been set for April 25.

A Police court jury deliberated for six hours last niR'hr without, reaching i an acreenienf. Reported 1 to stood to 1 for conviction. The jury -M I'" 1 and 2 women di ('hav2'ed IIP: niffht by Schuldt. Escape Plane Crash, Hurt In Auto Accident! srNRTRY, April 5 Two army fliers, who escaped un- i hurt when rheir plane crashed in i flames Tuesday night, were injured in an automobile accident early to- day. along with the U.

S. attorney! for the middle Pennsylvania dis-; trict. his wife, and two other women, i Mrs. Kathryn Reich, wife of the S. attorney, was critically hurt.

suffering a fractured skull, crush-! ed chest, and fractures of the ami and right The fliers Lieutenant X. H. Coin- ley, of Selfridge Field. and Liempnanr Don H. Baxter, of Mitchell Field, L.

1., were, not seriously injured whe the car in which the party was ridinc wont off The road on a curve four miles east of Sun-' bury and over a 50 foot embankment, striking a tree. Lieutenant Comley, suffered a possible fracture of the, riffht leg. I and his companion received severe lacerations. i Captain of Police Clarence G. Emmert.

Detective William Peters and Deputy Sheriff Robert F. Taylor are evidently three good men to send after a prisoner. On Tuesday the trio left for Lancaster to bring back Robert Bell, 30, wanted here for robbing the Ruby Jackson Shop about two years ago of $2000 worth of drejses. etc. At Lancaster they were advised that since Bell had been unable to furnish bond that the Lancaster authorities would hold on to him to face charges in June court of robbing the shop of Mary Mishkin.

Lancaster, of valuable dresses, etc. Disappointed over their failure to get their man, the officers decided to stop in Harrisburg on the way horne'gnd there, with the aid of de- t.ectives, captured Robert Morgan, 32, negro, under indictment here for robbing the poultry store of Zimmerman and.Wishard. North Jonathan street. Morgan was found in the colored section of Harrisburg and consented to return without extradition. He was indicted jointly in February with George D.

Dobbins and Fred Piper, lugroes. Dobbins was convicted and sentenced to IS in the House of Correction but Piper was found n.ot guilty. Thar. 17-year-old Charlotte Hudson, v-a? the unfortunate victim of of the most unusual accidents on record is believed to have- been determined by Captain of Clarence (r. Emmert and Detective "Wll- Peters in an exhaustive Investigation they made yesterday into the- fatal shooting of the girl and the suicide of Harold B.

Hall, 42, former federal prohibition Investigator. That the fatal shooting of the girl in her apartment in first block of North Jonathan street Taesday afternoon -was an accident, and that Hall did not commit mtir- dei as first supposed, are facts two officers believe their investigations has definitely established. Only one bullet killed the Captain Emmert declares. The "bullet passed through Hall's head and struck the girl, fatally -wounding her. Hall fired with his left The bullet entered the left parsed through his head and struck the girl in the head about two inches above her left ear.

From the mother, Mrs. Maude Hudson, the officers learned that the two were sitting side hy aids on the living room davenport, girl to Hall's right The left of Hall's head showed some po-w- der burns but none could be found on the girl. Mrs. Hudson told officers thought she heard two shots, but William Reese, well known -taxi owner, said he heard but one. Complete examinatoin of the living, room of the Hudson apartment rs- no bullet or bullet holes.

Keese operates a cab stand in rear of. the apartment huildiny and soic he plainly heard the shot. Mrs. (Continued on 14) DIVORCE SUIT. V.

ihronsrh Attorney Jno. E. Wasamsn. suit in court today for a. from E.

INSULL WRITES HIS MEMOIRS Will Tell World His Under Guard In Hot- pital Ward. ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 8 Insull spent today irritfnf notes for his memoirs so the -world will have his side of a spectacular story. Sitting under guard in a hospital here, he jotted memoranda hid desperate sea flight from authorities. The Turkish government, "whicli stopped the flight unceremoniously sought ic sweep away the last legal cobwebs and have him ready for United States when it comes to get him. Public Prosecurtor Kena nounced that legal authorities examining the new protest lodged by lawyers against Insnll's arrest.

He reaffirmed that the penal tribunal had definitely rejected a tition for an appeal. During the night, the weary Chicagoan received "word from his agents that an additional $10,000 had bjsen available for his use in continuing the lasr-ditch struggle against tradirion. to United States. Sub-Marginal Land In Maryland Would Be Put In Use Under Plan Program Would Require Moving About 2,210 Families On Farms. UNANi.VOUS OWAVKCO.

111.. April town has church 3 is The Ka ing totalled 3S34. id RALTMORK. April 5. A committee of forest and agriculture expert? of I'niversity of Maryland has submitter to rhp Federal government tentative for putnne oiH.OnA of the state's I'M of "sub-marginal" farm lands into state and federal forests, it was learned from State Forester F.

W. Resley. The recommendation? were in accord with the Federal govern plan 10 take poorer lands our of sgriculturp and TO increase the nation's forest acroagp. 1 committee's plan, hasfd on stirvpys the Department, called for the creation of 11 forest projects in Dine conn- Wicotnico. chester, Somerset, Caroline, St.

Charles, Prince and Garrett counties. To carry out the proposals, which the committee stated were only ten- tativp. would require the moving of 2.210 families on approximately 2.00A farms. Though the proposed forestf would rake only 304.000 acres of sub- margins i lands, a total of 34,000 acres would be involved in the forests. The total acreage of Maryland's present state forests is 37,300.

As the committee's recommendations, which were not made public in full, were tentative, so is the Ted- oral government's plan rague and in the formujative slase said (Continued On Pagt 14).