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Seattle knew and warned Washington, when it elected Marion Anthony Zioncheck, 35, to Congress, that it would have a Representative likely to claim the spotlight. Instead he worked hard, won considerable esteem in Washington as a promising youngster. Last December he began to get into scrapes. When he got started on his honeymoon four weeks ago, Seattle knew its Congressman was on a rare bender (TIME, May 11). But not until last week, when he returned to Washington, did Seattle begin to suspect that its man was turning from a besotted funster into a raving dipsomaniac. Events of 96 lunatic...
...TIME, May 11, you refer to the arrest of Representative Marion A. Zioncheck in Shallotte...
Reader Mimms. not TIME, is confused. As reported, junketing Representative Zioncheck was apprehended, released in Shallotte, Brunswick County...
...unsafe for pedestrians by speeding, roaring past traffic lights, driving on the left. Early one morning last fortnight police spied him whizzing out Connecticut Avenue at 70 m. p. h., gave chase, caught him when he was forced to slow down for a truck. At the police station Representative Zioncheck posted $25 collateral. He later denied to reporters that he had been arrested, next day was "not in" at either home or office. Last week, when he failed to appear in court to answer the speeding charge, Judge Walter J. Casey promptly issued an order for his arrest...
...taking a recess too," shouted Zioncheck, breaking for the door. Policemen collared him, threw him into the pen. Judge Casey, reappearing, slapped on fines of $25 for speeding, $20 for contempt of court. For two hours Representative Zioncheck posed for photographers making faces, clambering up the bars, poking out his hat to beg for money for his fines. Loudly he declared that he would not pay a cent. Loudly he demanded that Speaker Byrns get him out of jail on grounds of Congressional immunity. At the Capitol, Democratic leaders put their heads together, quickly decided that fighting with policemen, speeding...