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TOUR THE DAILY MAIL. HAGERCTOWN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,1930. HAVEBIGDAY Rd Men Speaker jGeprge BULLS PUNISH Dies AtFmsportj BEARSTODAY Candidate On Republican Regain Courage And Many Ticket Expires After Issues Go Up; U. S. Short Illnets.

Steel Gains, Herbert F. Sietser Scheduled To Speak Mammoth rade Planned Elaborate plans have been corn- by Cherokee Tribe No. 21,. Im- er of Red Men, of Sharps OE the program of the joint Coming Week ami 6Sth celebration "Of the of Antietam at Sharpsburg. ber IS.

has beec designated as Red Men Day. A feature of the day will be a mammoth Red Men parade of mtfiiy and tribes i regalia. parade will start from the at o'clock in the evening. Following the parade the Red address of the day will be by Herbert F. Stetser, of Great Chief of Records of the Council of the United" States.

'Other. Great Chiets are scheduled fo'speak, Geurge William Fleming, widely( sy CLAUDE A. KAGQEf? known citizen and candidate on Associated Press Financial Editor. Republican ticket for the nomina- tion for tax collector, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Cyras D.jnistered vigorous punishment to in WUIiamsport, last midnight in today's stock market, and after an illness of nine MYNORLEHR ACTRESS HAS TJ NEW YORK, Sept.

6, Florence Silverlake, Is Known their courage regained, Bulls admi A 1 Here, Appears In Greta Garbo Picture BENEFIT TO HELP KINGS DAUGHTERS industrial League Show OElSf-- Or able Only. Bowling Alleys days from cerebral meningitis. Mr. Fleming was born in Williamsport, the son of the late John A. and Mary S.

E. Fleming. In early life, he taught school at Indian Springs, Mt Moriah, Dellingers and Antietam. In 1SS9, share prices rose substantially, as trading quickened to the best Satur- day pace since early August. The meagre success of the Bear sonal touch to the average Hagers- Greta Garbo's second talking pic- ture, "Romance," should have a per- diamondp Hovard and FOR TREATING street, all week, will donate services this evening for a campaign of the middle of the week, resulting in a brisk covering move- town theatre-goer owing to the fact that one of the principal members ment yesterday, decided embolden- he entered the employ of the United jed the speculators for the rise- U.

i States- railway mail service and S. Steel was bid up across 173 lor served continuously until last sum- the first time since the June crash. raer when he retired. a nervous shorts hastened to buy He was always active in Republi- back their shares. Even in the long Herbert P.

Stetser. of Phil- adelphia, who will make the principal address to councils and tribes on Red Men's Day, September 13, at the joint Home Coming Week and 6Sth celebration of the battle of Antietam, following a mammoth Dancing in the Red Men's hall will parade of many councils and tribes follow the parade. Prises will be ot in full regalia fered. laTitaiions tare been extended to all members of the Improved -'Order Red Men and also to Great Chiefs and Past Great Chiefs of Sister. committee 'in -charge hopes to inafce the parade the largest Red Men "parade ever neWT in toa county.

OCEAN FUERS LOUISVILLF. Sept 6 The Question Mark, carrying Cap- tain Dieudonne "Coste and Maurice return trip to New York from Paris- New Ycrk-Dallas flight, took off from air field here at 7.38 a. m. (CST), today and headed in the di- rection of Cincinnati. The engine of the craft started at the second turn of me propeller And the ship got under way difficulty.

The fliers planned to circle the United States Military Academy at Point and drop small Ameri- can flags before going on to land. Curtiss field, Long Island, They said they also would circle over Man- hattan and drop flags. FRANCE READY. PARIS, Sept ready to negotiate general treaty for arms limitation. Clearance Sale Of LAMP SHADES Price and Less HARRY S.

MYERS Telephone 2052-W A A WASHERS Home Furniture Co. 113 S. Potomac St PATRONIZE URMA STORES If- rrso.K. TO OWE KAY 40 W. WASH.

ST A I Garvcr Furniture Co. 32-34 N. Potomac St. BURN BODIES IN CISTERNS from Page 1. best they can.

The people appear to be in a daze and almost hysteri- cal." While tfee landing field here has been cleared sufficiently to permit landing of relief planes from Port au. Prince, Havana, the United States and Porto Rico, the landing of ships Is not so simple. The Oz- ama river is a raging torrent pour- Ing out over a bar at its entrance which effectively blocks what was the old harb.or. One authority said be did not believe even a navy launch could cross the bar. The suggestion has been made--- and it appears plausible--that the relief ships may disembark their cor- goes and men at San Geronimo, four kilometers, south of the capital, where there is a good beach.

Some supplies, food, medicines and even shelters have already arrived here by airplanes which also brought doctors for treatment of the sick.and injured, and it Is understood others are enroute here aboard ships from Porto Rico, one of which, is the nav- al tug Grebe, due today. Stops Profiteering The president stopped food profit- eering yesterday with an order that all food was to be sold at cost under pain of court martial. He also call- ed physicians serving" the ill and in- jured together at the fortress and designated places in the city which they might have for first aid sta- tions, i Among the few buildings left standing in the city by the which attained a velocity of 180 miles an hour, were the 400 year old cathedr and -other old Spanish buildings. The reputed tonib of Col- umbubs inside the cathedral also was not touched. Reports from the northern section of the republic were that damages were not so heavy as in Santo Bomingo.

The cities of Santiago de Los -Caballeros, La Vega and Puerto Plata were not damaged at all. Villa Dur.rte, a village housing 1500 of the poorer classes, literally was blown off the map. Americans Safe. MONTCLAIRrN. J-, Sept.

6, The first word from the interior of San Domingo was received today. Approximately 100 Americans at Santiago, interior city of San Do- mingo are safe, a cable received by Mrs. Charles B. Ridgway, wife of the manager of the Corn Products cast has appeared on num- erous occasions, behind the foot- lights at the local theatres, This person is none other than nce Silverlake, can politics and followed the cam- paigns with great interest. For years he had rendered faithful party service and could always be found in the ranks of active workers at election time- Mr.

Fleming filed" some time.ago as a candidate for the Republican nomination for tax col- lector and had been making an ac- tive campaign up until the time of his illness. He was a member of the I. 0. O. F.

of Williamsport, and of the Williams- port Lutheran church. Besides his sister, Mrs, Bell, he is survived by two brothers, J. Wal- ter Fler.iing, of Washington, and John B. Fleming, of Funeral Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the hoine, services by the Rev. W.

C. Huddle, pastor of the Lutheran Church. Burial in River- view cemetery. F.C.SMOOT DIES HERE Widely Known Business Man Is Fatally Stricken At Home. Floyd C.

Smoot, former secretary of the Ktwanis Club and a prominent business man of Hagerstown, died suddenly at his home, 502 Summit avenue, late last night, aged 47 years. Mr. Smoot drove to his home in his automobile, last night and after leaving the automobile went into the house. There he complained of feeling ill and Dr. W.

D. Camp- bell was called. Mr. Smoot expired while he was calling Dr. CampbelH Mr.

Smoot. a native of W. Iras prominent in civic af- fairs in Hagerstown and for a time was secretary of the Hagerstown Kiwanis Club. In late years he hud been the Hagerstown representative of the Reliance Insurance Company- He formerly operated a grain broker- age company here. He was a mem- ber of St.

Paul's M. E. Church, the Masonic bodies and the United Com- mercial Travelers. He is survived by three sisters: Mrs. Charles T.

Boone, Luke, Mrs. B. D. Smith, Bluefield, W. and Mrs.

Norma L. Maine, Balti- more, and a brother, F. T. Smoot Wheeling. The body was funeral home of Refining dicated.

Company plantations, in- All Crops Destroyed. POINTE A PITRE, Guadeloupe, Sept 6. official report re- ceived today from the Leeward Is- land of Dominica said the hurricane of Monday destroyed all crops on the island, sank all vessels in the i harbor and killed two persons. TEN YEARS CON- TINUOUS SERVICE IN THE HAGERS- TOWN POLICE BE- PARTMENT I ME ROR THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE JESSE B. BROWN CANDIDATE FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATiC: FOR SHERIFF fOR COUNTY Multiply For Your Vote.

removed to the A. K. Coffman, where funeral services will be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock with the Rev. J. M.

Gillum officiating. The body will be taken to Mar- Unsburg, tomorrow morning by oach and from there will be sent to Piedmont, to the home of a sis- ter, Mrs. C. T. Boone, where final rites will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.

Burial will be made there. Both services will be in charge of St. Bernard Commandry, Knights Templar. Mrs. Amanda Miles died at 7:30 o'clock this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Harvey Bellinger, in Williamsport, of com- plications, aged 90 years. Mrs. Miles, who was born in Washing- ton county, lived in Martinsburg for a number of years. She was twice married. She is survived by the following sons and daughters: J.

B. Troter, Moundsville, W. Mrs. Thomas Smith, Lovetsville, Mrs. Thomas Eisles, Atlantic Wesley J.

Troter. Philadelphia; O. R. Troter, Beaver Falls, Mrs. A.

E. Sulli- van and B. F. Miles, Martinsburg, and Mrs. Bellinger.

Williamsport. Funeral from the home of Mrs. Harvey Bellinger, Williamsport, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. Gruber. Martinsburg, and Rev.

Hud- dle, Williamsport, officiating. In- terment at Green Hill, Martinsburg. George B. White died at his home in Greencastle at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon of complications, at the age of 70 years. He is survived by the following: Wife, Blanche (Rankin) White; sis- ters, Mrs.

G. F. Bloser, Greencastle; Mrs. Harriett Prather, Chambers- burg; Mrs, Anna Maxwell, York, Pa-; Misses Elizabeth, Stella and Ida White, of Hagerstown, Route 5, and one brother, Will White, of Bedfard, Pa. Interment in the Cedar Hill Ceme- tery.

Greencastle, at 2:30 p. m. Mon- day. depressed copper group. The advance embraced most of the important groups, with the ex- ception of the oils.

The close was strong. Total sales approximated 1,300,000 shares. TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS These qactaUorsi tursisiiea oy Hemphsii Noyes Co. Grand w. Washington St.

ASlegti Corp Amn Fgn Pr. Amn Sugar A 'I 1 Axni Water ks. Haiti Barnsaeli A Beth Steel CfcrysJer Comw Son Ooi Comi Davison Uupont Brie FOI Film High COW 23 7414 5414 14 58 29 41 22 28 57 14 58 Genl fcilec Ueni Foods tieni Goiddust Goodyear Griggsby liru-- Hudson Mtrs. 46 42 29 52 inti Niefcei intl 1 Kennecott Cop. Ugg MJTB B.

52 SO Mack Mid Con Monty Nat! Oasfi 37 Natl Dairy Nortb 105 Packard Par Lassy. Penna 74 Pub STC 95 Kadlo 42 Kemng Sears Roebk 21 21 Std ol Std Brands studebaker 101 59y 3 6 37 47Vs 55 95 75 70 Tex Guit Sul Union Pac R. Untd. Corp Untd Gas Rubber Steel Warner 30? 8 Westghou 151 155, W. M.

25 25 Woolwortfi 65 64 FRUIT DEALER FOUND SLAIN NEW YORK, Sept. 6 killing rf a f-uit juice dealer whose body was found on the tenth floor of a Broadway office building by cleaning women was regarded by po- lice today as the outcome of a boot- leggers feud. WASHINGTON, Sept Ivleyer appointed governor of federal reserve board. petite and charming leading lady of Raynpr Lehr. Miss Silverlake, since her absence here has been in Hollywood where she has played small parts in various productions, her most recent aeparance being in "The Rogue Song." "Romance" gives the youthful actress a part in which she has many opportunities to display her talent and from all reports on this produc- tion it seems as if she has obtained for ierself, a place among the "Stars." Since her arrival at Hollywood she has made a slight change in her name and is now known as Florence Lake.

Miss Lake was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and is the sister of Arthur Lake, noted film star. benefit performance for the King's Daughters, It was announced todaj by Glenn Martin, business manager of the Industrial League basebal team and one of the originators of the circus. Miss Alice Scimonds, secretary ot the local charitable organization talk- ed with Mr. Martin and when the latter learned that the King's Daugh- ters must have funds very soon 01 they would be forced to give up op- erations here, he immediately offered to run the benefit show, which begins at 8:15 o'clock. Harry Bester has donated his large round-top circus tent for the show.

A feature is Davies jazz band. is an act with three black-face com- edians and several clowns appearing. Proceeds for the rest of the week will be used to purchase equipment for the team. TRIBESMEN AND BRITISH FIGHT SIMLA, India, Sept. 6, fighting between British troops and raiding Afghan tribesmen of the northwest frontier broke out Thurs- day night and continued Friday morning.

An official announcement today said seven native Indian recruits and three militiamen had been kill- ed at Kharlachi post. Notice Voters BA1ITS STRIP PARTY OF RICH GEMS Jewelry Valued At $130,000 Is Taken From Whitney Fam- ily And Guests EVANSTON, 111., Sept 6, The Jason F. Whitneys and a party of four enroute to their home in Evanston after attending a theatre were robbed of jewelry valued at $130,000 early today by four young robbers, two whom wore hand- kerchief masks. Whitney is presi- dent of the Kraft-Phenix Company. One of the members of the party was James A.

Hewett of Manchester, England, who is a house guest of the Whitneys. The party had attended the thea tre in Chicago, and were dropping one of the guests, Mrs. Gladys S. Mehan, at her home when the Whit- ney car was.crowded to the curb by the robbers' machine. Rings, bracelets and necklaces were from their weaaeri quickly at die.

point of revolvers. The robbery was executed so quick- ly that the bandits' car had disap- peared into the darkness toward Chicago before the alarm could be spread. Mrs. Whitney reported her per sonal loss was $125,000, including a valued at $50,000. Miss, Mrs.

and Mr. voters of ou. beloved County. It is with my regret that, myself not being able to meet each individual even half the collective bodies of inhabitants of our county; yet I shall assume the utmost confidence the inhabitants of this county that they will decide on the arrival of Sept. 8th to assist me in my aspirations to be a victor ious Democratic candidate for Judge of the Orphans' Court.

Respectfully Yours, JESSE CLAY RHODES (Political advertisement) A TOMORROW. The first game of a series between Western Enterprise firemen of and the Williamsport emen -will be played tomorrow af- beginning at 2:30 o'clock on Jie Conomac- Park diamond at Wil- liamsport. MRS GRANT DIES. WASHINGTON, sept Frederick Dent Grant, daughter-in- law of General Grant, died. Miss Lucille Warrenfeltz spent the week end at Beach Haren, New Jer- sey.

Attention Knight Templars All Sir are requested to meet at the Temple tonight at 7 P. M. for the purpose of attending funeral of Sir i FLOYD SMOOT. Funeral to be held at Cauffman's Undertaking establishment at 7:30 P. M.

(Signed) N. I Captain General R. A I Farmer along Sharpsfaurg Pike. FUNKSTOWN DISTRICT Candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Commissioner If nominated and elected I promise to work for the best interests of the county (Pol. Adv.) $1.50 FLY Visit Hagerstown Air Port YOUR CITY FROM THE AIR Student Instruetion FLY $1.50 Chicago Markets Furnished by Eastern Grain Growers, Wareham Building, gerstown, Md.

Wheat Sept Dec. Men. May Corn- Sept. Dec. Men.

May Oats-- Sept. Dec. Mclu Rye- Sept Dec. Men. May Open HJgti Low Close 93 99 .0 62 93 95 40 63 67 69 Vi A Lowe.itt Frier) 1 Wear Whil- Paylnje FUR SHOP IS Sontb Jonathan St.

Bay From The Maker And (Continued from Page 1 tbe same are completed. Work is now underway on three buildings. Besides the tanks and other equip- ment necessary a railroad locorno tie lococrane for hauling ties will be utilized. The superintendent stated that the usual life of a red oak railroad tie without treatment is six years but preserved such a lie will last for IS years or more. Mr.

Younkin said the firm ha, been in the timber preservation bus iness 25 years and that all plants built by it are in full operation at the present time. He is also superin tendent of the Connellsville, plant. J. M. Weber, engineer in charge of the construction, is plant engin- eer for the company.

Grant B. Chipley is president of the Century Wood Preserving with offices in the Koppers building. Pittsburgh. TO CONCERT The Hancock Band, under the -di- rection of R. C.

Harp, will render a concert in Hancock this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Numerous concerts have beeu held by the musical organ- zation throughout the summer months. FATALLY INJURED Kansas City, Sept. 5' Gerald Gettinger, 22, Liberty, was killed, and William S. Roth- well, 20, also of Liberty, was seri- ously injured in the fall of their airplane here today.

WATCH Brown's Smart Shop WINDOWS Bowling alleys at the local after undergoing thorough orerteul- ing. will open on Monday to the Hc. They will be in fine shape for the opening of the Sunday School Bowling League on September 22. The alleys have been scraped. sanded and shellaced.

New padded leather backstops have been instil- ed to absorb the shock of the balls striking the pias. The four alleys have become very popular vnifc men and women. The duckpius have supplanted the use of large- pins on these alleys as they have on so many others. Misses Mary Widemyer, 4 and Mary Beachley spent yesterday in Baltimore- ATTENTJON United Cornmercia! Travelers All U- C. T.

members are request- ed to meet at the Moose Hall at p. m. this evening to attend funeral" our late brother Floyd Smooi. P. G.

C. Funeral will be held from Coff- man's Funeral Parlors at 7:30 p. in. JOSEPH MacDANiEL, Senior. Counsellor.

Edw. RITTER, Sect Adv. 0 SALES AND SERVICE Hagerstown Motor Co. 117 Summit 3460 i i Women's Wearing Apparei Now! Htft Your Eyes Examined The Modern Way DR. R.

A. HIIGHBARGER, Optometrist 9Vi. St. Phone JG73-W To My Friends! Information has come to me that I entered the contest for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff at the notfcitation of other candidates in order to break the primary vote. I want to state that is not true, and solicit your- support and vote the primary election on KELLER B.

BELL, Willianwport District. (Pol. Adv.) Martin V. B. Bostetter Democrat Candidate for the Nomination for STATE'S ATTORNEY Martin B.

Bostetter, Democrat Candidate for the nomination for State's Attorcy, is the son of David A. and the late Delia Miller Bostetter. Was born on the Otho Miller farm in the Keedysville District, and lived there i J913 His family then moved to Bostetter farm west of along the Broadfordins Road. His early education he received the public schools of Washington County, a i the i and assisting with the farm work during the summer. He is a graduate of the Hagerstown High School, the i i of Maryland Law School and is a.

member of the Washington County Bar Association. (Pol. Adv.) To the Democratic Voters of Hagerstown: i have watched the development of Hagerstown and am greatly interested in he growth and stability of our County Seat and the municipal enterprises thereof. The usefulness of the Municipal Light Plant should not at any time be invaded by any other public utility. I favor its absolute protection.

Respectfully, JOHN T. MASON Democratic Candidate for Nomination for State Senator (Published by authority of John T. Mason as a political advertisement).

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