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The Bangor Daily News from Bangor, Maine • 1

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northeastern empirfop telegraphic services of the associated press news from correspondents all over this great MAINE RA DIQ PROGRAMS FINANCIAL REPORTS THE LATEST LOCAL HAPPENINGS AND THE BEST FEATURES OBTAINABLE Maine Women Honor Amelia Earhart OVER200 FLY WITH AVIATRIX BYRD RELIEF PARTY REACHES ADVANCE BASE OF EXPLORER Irate CBlIsr spoiled article by a Editor: very sorry What did re get wrong Caller: "A proverb I employed You printed it word to the wife is VOL XL VI BANGOR ME MONDAY AUGUST 13 1934 )J-j THREE CENTS 1 FIND admiral thin and weak BUT CHEERFUL fljs Condition Due to Illness Caused By Kerosene Fumes SUFFERED FROM INTENSE COLD Temperatures As Low As SO Below Zero Recorded He Says A little daughter who had attended her court for the first time told her mother: 'Papa made a speech and several other men made speeches to twelve men who sat all together and then those twelve men were put in a dark room to be 1 of the aviation world Amelia Eaiart was honored at a special A irst Laay Day at the Bangor Airport Sunday The noted aviatrix is shown here shortly after she arrived at the airport Saturday where she was met by Nellie Penley society editor of the News (left) and Edward Graham a director of the Maine Central Railroad Herbert Baldwin an official of the Maine Central and Boston Maine railroads who accompanied Miss Earhart to Bangor is at the extreme right First of Day Attracts More Than 10000 Male Stowaway Gets Trip TWO NONOGENARIANS TAKE THEIR FIRST PLANE RIDE PLAN WAR-TIME VIGILANCE OVER FOOD SUPPLIES A Drastic Revision of 1935 Crop Control Program DAY TO DAY WATCH Magistrate (in London court): "You admit tearing a handful of hair from your husband Defendant: "I wanted some to put in a Clubwomen From All Over Eastern Maine Given Sight-seeing Trips Luncheon Tendered Noted Flier Administration Starts Inventory of Food and Feed CITY AND TOWN FINANCES SHOW IMPROVEMENT Out-of-Red Reports Come From All Sections of Country PROSPECTS BRIGHT LITTLE AMERICA Antarctica! la ll (Delaved) (AP) Via A three-man tractor -rtr afwr two unsuccessful at- tanpts today reached the advance jther base a crass the Ross Sea st barrier and found Admiral Rich- i jrf Byrd waiting for them Thin and weak and with long shiggy hair after nearly five months gf isolated existence Admiral Byrd ted the hatch of his shack saaien in snowdrifts to greet the En from Little America Hello he said "Come down and get warm I have gime hot soup for For three days Dr Richard C-Halter and two other members of an expedition had struggled across da dark immensity ot the ice krrier in a tractor hauling three sedges -Two previous attempts to tich Admiral Byrd were halted a by storms which covered up the ail and another by mechanical dif-fcoities It is 128 miles by trail to Bolling Stance weather base where on Kirch 28 Admiral Byrd saw- another face for the last time The ante taken by Dr Poulter to find location again was believed to hve been even longer The light on the 12-foot anenome- i in the last few years a far cry from -jl Economies and In- CHICAGO Aug Financial figures in books of the nations municipalities were being written in black ink once more From all sections of the country today came reports of the brightest outlook for city monetary affairs nr pcle which Admiral Byrd had the desperate depression situation of WASHINGTON Aug (AP) Planning war-time vigilance over the nation's food and feed supplies next fall and winter the farm administration also is preparing drastic revisions of its 1935 crop control programs Official government estimates are for the lowest crop production in more than 30 years because of tinued drought Therefore the AAA has undertaken a day to day watch over conditions and is starting an inventory of the food and feed supply which will form the basis for guiding its werk during the coming year Next year's wheat plan is likely to call for the same acreage plahted Plan War-time Please Turn to Pagp 2 MAJOR PARTIES CHECKING UP ON PROSPECTS RATTLESNAKE BITTEN PASTOR STILL LIVING Over 10000 people paid homage to Amelia Earhart at the Bangor airport Sunday as she flew with more than 200 women from Bangor and surrounding towns on ten minute "joy over the Queen City Included in the group were two nonogenarians Mrs Parthenia Cameron of 181 Ohio street and Mrs Alice Ditmas of 689 Main street Both were making their first flight and their enthusiasm was such that it was hard for them to release their seats to someone else "I want to keep on and go to South remarked Mrs Cameron "it is just perfectly On the other hand Mrs Ditmas felt that if one could only to by plane nothing more could be desired Flight six proved the sensation of the day when a man masquerading as a woman was discovered Dispatcher Tom Gore punched nine tickets the plane was off Miss Earhart had just stopped over' to greet Miss Sally Miller when all in an instant the passenger pulled off a hat and wig "Well Amelia here I am Ban men all you want to but I wanted to ride with you so just came he said Someone yelled "Ralph And it was The popular amateur theatrical star and impersonator had put over another clever hoax Although not divulging where he received his ticket Mr Mills declared that someone dared him to do the stunt and he never backed down on a dare Attired in a smart linen suit white hat and accessories with everything complete even to ear jewels his masquerade was most effective Mr Mills posed with Miss Earhart for cameramen after alighting from the plane and Miss Earhart thought it was all a good joke on her The Day was arranged by the Bangor Chamber of Commerce and Miss Earhart was officially greeted upon her arrival at the field Sunday morning at 9:45 by George Carlisle president of 'the Chamber of Commerce and Secretary Wilfrid A Hennessey of the of A group of hostesses acting as a reception committee under the direction of Mrs William Hight welcomed the aviatrix and throughout the day made visitors feel at home The members of Mrs committee were: Mrs Marion Bradshaw Miss Elizabeth I Firth Mrs Jack Freese Mrs Golden Miss Marion Martin Mrs Paul Chapman Savage Mrs John Utterback Mrs James Wallace Mrs Frank Silliman 3rd Mrs Frederick Woodman and Mrs Dick A Young Amelia Earhart Please Turn to Page 4 Leaders Concentrating Efforts In Northern States sing and kept burning for days as 1931-32 beacon for the tractor party was Lending import to the new state Kill burning of affair were generally lowered in- Xdmiral Byrd had several days terest rates on both renewed and sroxth of beard on his face and new bond issues with some even showed signs of weariness and celling at premium- an almost unphysical depletion but Dr Pulter dreamed of thing not so long ago reported by radio thatJJhe admiral Jowered outstanding indebtedness: Preaches to His Flock a5 eTen calner tnan we repayment of back salaries and in MeZe' numerous cases restoration of salary The high pitched voice of the radio carried news of the party's iTtnsivp strueele arrival to Little America this morn- Alld me munsive struggle mg It was like a bright shaft of to effect the transfer on the mumci-light tp this expedition which had begun to fear that Byrd might be in distress although reluctant to admit It Dr Poulter was the first to re-Byrd Relief Please Turn to Page 2 City and Town Please Turn to Page 2 JUMPS TO DEATH Has Absolute Faith That God Will Heal and Save Him DEMOS CONFIDENT Highlights In Bar Harbor Message A capacity audience last night heard De Loss Walker National Recovery Crusade director in the Criterion Theatre Bar Harbor Highlights in Mr address follow: A round America and intelligent tolerant Americans can have prosperity What we have lost must return: confidence and faith Reestablishment of confidence between business executives and an investing public will cause the start releasing $40000000000 now cn deposit in solvent banks This money is the possession of 44000000 depositers Honesty is a cardinal principle of modern business An intelligent public supporting the honest business leader will break the power of the few unscrupulous and dishonest You men and women of understanding must take the responsibility of restoring confidence You must give the facts to the public Show that cur business principles are sane and bring the great reward to the greatest number You must prove that there is no to success prosperity and happiness The same hard work that built America will now rebuilt it into a better land for all Laws are no substitute for hard work In each community coordinate your local organized bodies and direct in a movement against unfounded rumors malicious gossip and prevailing inertia We build a nation by laying bricks not by throwing them Predict Any Losses West Will Be Made Up In the East FROM CABLE CAR NIAGARA FALLS SEVEN KILLED 31 INJURED IN FRENCH WRECK SYLCA Aug Albert Teester hpliness preacher whose right arm is still swollen twice its normal size from venom today told his flock and a crowd of curious onlookers why he let a rattlesnake sink its fangs twice into his WASHINGTON Aug 12 (AP) Since they consider that more than a third of the 435 House seats to be filled in the November elections already are in the Democratic column Republican leaders are concentrating their efforts in northern states Southern and so-called border states and Tammany Hall in New York are expected by Democratic chieftians to return around 150 Major Parties Please Turn to Page 2 NIAGARA FALLS Aug 12 (AP) Hurling herself from the sight seeing cable car as it was crossing the Niagara gorge 250 feet above the whirlpool rapids a young Bradford Pa woman committed AVIGNON France Aug 12 suicide this afternoon Seven persons were killed Police and relatives identified her nd 31 were injured -in the freak as Mrs Ruth Hyde 30 years old ThP train wreck at the Avignon station 373 East Main street Bradford Pa passionately as he stood at one end of the sparsely-furnished room and bared his poisoned arm to his audience It was a week ago today that the today in which the speeding She is the wife of William Hyde Geneva-Vintimille express jumped mm the rails and toppled over cars CARLTON AGAIN two freight trains REMOVAL THOMAS NOTED PLAYWRIGHT PASSES AWAY Was Known Principally For His Historical Plays 76 YEARS OLD HIGH POWERED PROPAGANDA FOR HITLER STARTS All Kinds of Communication Pressed Into Service ELECTION IN WEEK NINE INJURED IN AUTO CRASH AT G0ULDSB0R0 GLOUCESTER BATES STUDENT HONORS ITS TAXI DRIVER IS hero Dead holdup victim stood 2 URGES OF PRISON WARDEN AUGUSTA Me Aug Most of those killed and injured 1 passengers in a wooden car T)ich was smashed There were no Africans among the casualties The engine and twelve cars of the 'tprsss were derailed and lurched Executive Councilor- Frank jyjJgglNG DRIVER 39-year-old holiness preacher Rattlesnake Please Turn to Page fr against train standing issued Four Names Added to the Robbed of $11 and Forced FOUND DROWNED AT NORTH TURNER Autos Meet Head-on During Heavy Sunday Traffic a freight Carlton of Woolwich a writ- Parallel track The freight cars ten statement today in which he a tum were knocked into the cars again declared administration of a freight train on another track the Maine state prison warranted The crash severed power wires in hjs opinion removal of Warden the station was thrown into Raymond Thurston Stales: Rescuing the injured and He was the only member of the Roll of Uost to Drive Bandit to Boston Had Been In Falling Health for the Past Three Years Leaders Open Their Whirlwind Campaign Monday AUBURN Me Aug 12 (AP) Missing when the Somerset Shoe Co outing was concluded at Bear Pond Park North Turner last ronu rai IV 12 its Coring the dead were greatly Peded by lack of light and the Wral confusion GLOUCESTER Mass Aug -This old port honored (AP) wholly-Republican executive council to vote with Democratic Governor Louis Brann last week in favor Tour cars of the express turned of reorganization of the prison and and two of them were reduced a new warden 0 inters Soldiers took charge of In his latest statement his first uing the injured mads several days ago described conditions at the prison as a terrible he reviewed what he said was his personal knowledge of the administration of the institution covering a period of years and took another wreck HALLE Germany Aug 12 (AP) engineer and a woman were and 160 wers in- night the body of John Doyon 33 dead the men wh6 will of Richmond was taken from four fom the sea feet of water Sunday noon by Sheriff pour names were added tlie Walton and Inspector Cote or pver n-hening roii during the past sheriff's department vear but as Gloucester folk bowed Dr Henry Sprince Lewiston medi- dared heads they gave thanks that cal examiner gave accidental thc years toll was not far greater drowning as the main cause aj usuajjy The sea has taken death alcoholism as secondary He more of sons than all said the body was in the water the country's wars about 12 hours The simple services conducted Search for Doyon started Satur- annuauy by George Russell chap-day night when he did not appear ain of the institute to drive home a party of five who were heid bv bridge went to the shoe company outing Gloucester with him He was seen late in the afternoon to enter the water i passengers NEW YORK Aug Augustus Thomas the Dean of American Playwrights died of a stroke of apoplexy at the Suburban Clarkstown Country club today Ho was 76 years old 1 Mr Thomas who had been in failing health for the past three years died in bed in his apartment Mrs Thomas was with him at the end Known principally for his historical plays of the American scene Thomas Please Turn to Page 2 tram wreck cans by an occasion Jo comment on switch councilor's alleged business another dealings with the prison OLD ORCHARD BEACH Me Aug 12 (AP) Eugene Cummings 19 year old taxi driver reported to police today he was robbed of $11 last night by a passenger who subsequently forced him at revolver point to drive him tai Boston Cummings a student at Bates college who became a taxi driver here this summer to earn money for his college expenses said the gunman hailed his cab about 11:30 and asked to be taken to Portland As they neared the state highway the youth said the passenger demanded to know how much money Cummings had with him Cummings admitted having $11 in change which the man took but said nothing about more than $30 in bills he had in another pocket and which the robber overlooked After seizing the money Cummings said the man thrust a revolver against his side and ordered Holdup Victim Please Tum Page 2 (Special to The Bangor Dally News) GOULDSBORO Aug Nine persons including two Bangor residents were painfully but not seriously injured in a spectacular automobile crash in front of the Methodist church here this noon Mrs Florence Salisbury of Ellsworth Falls was the most seriously injured receiving a broken arm and numerous cuts and bruises as the result of the crash which almost demolished the two vehicles Others injured in the crash were as follows: Mr and Mrs James A Taylor of 20 Savage street Bangor Miss Leo Denike of New Toronto Ontario a guest of Mr and Mrs Taylor Robert Haley of Sunnytown Marie Haley of Sunnytown Alice Delehunt and Sadie Dele-hunt both of Sunnytown: Mary Donohue also of Sunnytown None of the passengers in the two cars Involved were seriously injured although deep and painful cuts were sustained by several and bruises and contusions were sus-Nine Injured Please Turn to Page 2 House Lot and News Sale bed cash paid at ONCCU Dig II Old Jewelry The Weather BERLIN Aug 12 (AP) The high powered Nazi propaganda machinery was thrown into gear today to assure an unprecedented production of in next Post Facto Plebiscite of Adolf Hitler's election of himself as President of the Reich The regimented German newspaper billboards the radio cinemas and Cabinet Ministers are being pressed into service to steam roller public opinion Government leaders will star their whirlwind stumping campaign tomorrow Their efforts will reach a stirring climax Friday when Der Fuehrer himself will make an address here the topics to be discussed by cffl'cials are expected to entail no major surprises It is believed they will repeat assertions so often dinned into the ears It is thought they will praise decisiveness in grasping the torch of leadership from President Paul Von hand even before he died the abnegation in always working for the people the wisdom that recently made possible a reduction in unemployment and his kindMness as cmpllfied by his grant of amnesty Propaganda Please Turn to Page 2 FOR HOUSE LOT 50x100 Parkview Ave or will trade for 'hy-thtng CHA8 CROMMETT 000 Elm St SK0WHEGAN A VV Biffgcr and Better AIR Aug 13-18 IS DAY I in Evening RACING TUES WED UlEBALL THURS FRI rues-Wed-Thurs FrL-Sat Us a Pleasure to Live in Bangor the Gateway City to the Great Northeastern Empire Bangor has one of the finest air ports in New England and daily passenger service is conducted between Bangor and Portland The sun rises at 435 a and sets at 643 in Bangor today There are 14 hours and 10 minutes of daylight BANGOR AND VICINITY Showers Almanac and full weather pert on page 2 WE PAY SPOT CASH hi nt ip that useless obsolete 1ETC eaus "chests AROUND THE HOUSE BOXES AT TIC CLOSETS BLEEAUS CHEsTS HERE IS EXTRA MONEY FOR YOU ZkrtfUToSS -pe CONDITION CASH PAID IMMEDIAT NO WAITING GOLD REDEEMERS I Mn Banjor 9 MW A Upstairs Over Woe! LARGEST GOLD REDEEMERS LIC TGL-12 a Whrn mailing smoant most stisfjr or we retoro the pmekge ntet FREE TESTING FREE ES TIMATES ALL PRIVATE Palling Wed-Thurs-Fri Cattle Poultry Exhibits SPECIAL NIGHT SHOWS Vaudeville Fireworks Commencing Tuesday (J'5 Official State Fish and Exhibit Ever Seen in Maine Not an arithmetic problem but another way of telling you what happens when you advertise in the Classified columns of the Daily News These columns are read daily by thousands of men and women who are interested in what you have to offer Try one of these action -getters the next time you want to sell something TO CALL ADTAKER DIAL 6441 Every Fletcher Butterfield Co CEMETERY MEMORIALS Prices lowest in years $6 Central St Bangor Me Drawing Painting Anatomy Deaign Fashions Life Illustration Adv Art Theatre Posters Interior Dee Gift Shop Work Air Brush Signs Day Evening and Sat Classes Write lor Catalog 'TV 1M Mass Ave Boston.

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