The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 26, 1931, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1931 Unsolved Slayings of Three Washington Women Leave Police Baffled - CLERK, USHERETTE, a le el.) ~ AND NURSE VICTIMS IN STRANGE CRIMES Body of Mary Baker, Daughter of Minister, Found Stuffed in Culvert ANOTHER SHOT IN HER ROOM Virginia M'Pherson Found in Apartment With Pajama Cord Around Neck Editor's Note: This is another of a series of six stories by As- sociated Press writers dealing with recent celebrated murder cases. By SAM BLEDSOE Washington, March 26.—(#)—The average citizen in Washington is ficlined to blame any unidentified night noises on cats or the wind. His sleep usually is sound. Burglaries are comparatively few, and the laundryman carries his clothes unhampered by the racketeer. ‘The police might be slightly patron- izing toward their brother officers in more “uproarious” cities were it not for a series of baffling murders. ‘The slayers of three women who ave met violent deaths within the last two years never have been found. Baker Case Strangest ‘The strangest case of all is that of | , Mary Baker, navy department clerk. | Miss Baker, daughter of a Virginia | minister, was a quiet girl, nearing 30. | ‘She went to church on the day she disappeared, a church near the down- town business section. She walked away with two girl friends, left eH ‘on a busy corner in broad day, and ‘was never seen alive again. Her body was found the next day stuffed into a culvert near Arlington national cemetery. She had been shot three times. * Scores of suspects were arrested and released. No motive could be} established, nor had one been es- “tablished when Herbert M. Campbell, ; Virginia real estate operator, was brought to trial charged with her murder. ‘The authorities never were able to ‘prove that Campbell ever saw Mary Baker. The evidence against him ‘was the statement of ballistic experts that his gun fired the bullets found ‘in the girl's body. Campbell offered a good alibi and the verdict “not guilty,” was a fore- gone conclusion. ‘That trial was during last October, and the New Year celebrations had hardly died away before the police were busy trying to find the murderer of another woman. She was Beulah Limerick, a differ- ent type from Mary Baker. Beulah was 19, pretty, a theater usher and the secretary of the “Sky High ‘Whoopee club.” Lived With Brother The girl lived in an isolated house with her brother, Vernon and a “friend. She came home from a dance ‘of her club Dec. 30 in good spirits and ‘went to bed. They called her the | next morning but she did not re- spond. She was dead. An interne, after a casual examina- tion, decided she had had a hemorr- thage during the night. Her body was taken to an undertaking establish- ‘ment. An embalmer that day heard '@ steady dripping and investigated. Blood was oozing slowly from a bullet. ‘wound in the back of the girl's head. The authorities have arrested 15 or 20 persons, among them a former Policeman. Almost all the suspects have been released. The Limerick and Baker cases have strengthened the belief of many that Virginia McPherson, charming young nurse, also was murdered. She was found in her apartment in Sept. 1929, with a pajama cord knot- ted about her neck. There was a long and futile inquiry. EDUCATORS WILL MEET APRIL 2-3 Nelson Sauvain, Bismarck, President of State High School Group Grand Forks, N. D., March 26.— oe abonsl high petal rintendents ‘or principals and superintendents throughout the state, will be held at the University of North Dakols ereil 2 and 3, according to C, C. Berist, girecior of education and practice teachin, The general t! theme will be the re- cent development in secondary edi eation, Prof. Schmidt said. Dr. Wil- liam J. Cooper, U. S. Commissioner of Sipe gt will be the principal er. He will give one address i apoalt night and another Friday ag which will be under dis- cussion ar Lage ape sociology and psychology, hi cent tests and pupil accounting in high ‘Abammes ea ak | that surrounding the earlier murder man’s daughter. Inquest and months of investigation leave the murder of Beulah Limerick, |! (upper left), pretty Washington usherette, shrouded in mystery as deep. as of Mary Baker (lower right), clergy- The Limerick girl's sister, Mrs. Ethel Anadale (center), is shown as she appeared at the inquest. —A Series Explaining the By WM. E. MCKENNEY (Secretary American Bridge League) ‘The group of contract players who have been accustomed to the quanti- jtative showing of tricks—that is bid~ ding one on two quick tricks and four or five probable tricks, bidding an original two on six probable tricks, and an original three bid on eight probable tricks—felt the need of a bid that would show a hand that originally held great strength in two declarations—one of which might be no trump and the other a major or ae suit—or great strength in two suits. To properly handle this situation, the two-club forcing bid was devised. Like the artificial one-club bid, the hand may or may not contain a club It generally promises, however, the certainty of a game-going hand re- gardiess of how weak partner may be ‘and that there is a choice in the orig- inal bidder's hand, one of which may or may not be clubs. Il generally signifys that the hand contaius, at 4 very minimum, eight tricks at either Jof the two suits or one suit and no trump. The partner will be forced to make a selection between sults or be- tween no trump and a suit. | For convenience in following the description of the two-club forcing bid let us assume that South. throughout the description, is the joriginal two-club bidder and that North is the partner of the two-club bidder. When South, who is using the conventional two-club bid, has made an original declaration of two clubs, North may not pass regardless of what he holds unless West puts in a bid. If West were to put in a bid @ pass by North would have the same meaning as a two-diamond response if West had passed. Generally speak- ing, when West is strong enough to} overcall an original two-club forcing | bid, North’s hand cannot contain suf- | ficient strength to put in anything | but a denial response. Assuming that there is no inter- vening bid after the original declar- er’s two-club, North, when holding Contract Bridge System— less than an ace and a king or two’ aces, must respond with two dia- monds. When holding an ace and a king or two aces, North would re- spond with two of a major sut: when the hand contained a five-card ma- jor headed by either the ace or king or a four-card major headed by both. Otherwise, with the above holding, but not the major suit requirements, North’s proper response is two no trump. If West puts in a bid over South’s two-club bid, North is not obligated to bid as the bidding is kept open and South has the opportunity to |show one of his real declarations. North can double for business, but if North should put in a bid after West, he shows a declaration he is perfect- ly willing to play for game. Without this intervening bid by | West, one thing the partner of the two-club bidder cannot do is to pass before a game going declatation is arrived at. His duty is to keep that {bidding cpen as often as necessary until game has been bid, as his |partner, in originally naming two clubs has assumed the responsibility and has stated that he had the neces- | sary strength to go game regardless of partner's hand. The players using the two-club as a forcing bid, use all other two bids to simply show six probable tricks and | they are in no way forcing bids. | Some players are using th: arti- ficial two-club bid only to indicate a slam—in other words, their criginal two-club bid states that they hold at least five quick tricks. They wish partner to respond with two dia- monds when holding less than one and one-half quick tricks. This sys- tem is quite different in effect from j the two-club forcing system since it aims entirely at slams and should not | be confused with the forcing t'vo-club ACCUSED MURDERER TELLS OF ILLICIT AFFAIR WITH GIRL; Clement LeMay Wishes to Plead Guilty to Killing Woman Near Walhalla Grand Forks, N. D., March 26— CAP)—A desire to plead guilty and “get it over with” was See Wednesday by Clement Le May, 26, held in the Grand Forks count jail charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Mrs. B, Johnson on her farm near Walhalla March 4. He insisted to a reporter that he had ‘held no malice toward Mrs. Johnson, but that he had killed her inadvertently while menacing her stepdaughter, Miss Emma Thorstein- son, with whom he said he had an illicit love affair. Le May revealed that he had served a year in the penitentiary at Bismarck after conviction on a charge of stealing turkeys. He re- ceived a four-year sentence in 1927, he said, but was pardoned after serv- ing one year. He said he was intoxi- cated when he stole the turkeys. Out of Le May’s recital came a sordid story of his relationship with Miss Thorsteinson, of the premature birth of twins to them while they were living near Forest River as man and wife last fall, and the death 4 pees infants a few hours after Official records, investigated Wed- nesday, disclosed the babies were brought to Grand Forks, one dying on the way and the other succumbing a few hours after being placed in a baby incubator in this ‘city. Desiring to move the bodies from a secret grave at his home to a plot near the Bee of the woman’s mother, Le May said he went to Miss Thorsteinson’s home the morning of March 4 and asked her to aid hii in the reburial so “the thing could be cleaned up right.” “I took along the gun to bluff Emma,” he continued, nervously fin- gering his chin and peseing his hand back through his bushy shock of brown hair. “I knocked at the door and asked for Miss Thorsteinson. She was there and i hac if she was ready to come and help me. “She answered, ‘why no.’ Then I tried to scare her, Finally I started for the door leading to the outside, and Mrs, Johnson opened the door for me. Then started to close the door; something black came over my eyes, it seemed, and I shot. That is all I remember until later.” MOVES 0 PADLOCK PLACES VIOLATING CIGARET STATUTES Attorney General Has Begun Proceedings Against Mi- not Establishment Minot, N. D., March 26.—(?)}—Strik- ing hard at violators of the state | Proper cigaret laws, the attorney zeneral’s office Wednesday had taken steps looking toward the padiocking of a business in Minot where repeated violations of the law are alleged to have occurred. A temporary injunction, closing the quarters of the Minot Candy com- pany, was signed Tuesday night by District Judge George H. Moeliring, upon application of R. C. Morton, as- sistant attorney general, who, work- ing with State’s Attorney Paul Camp- bell, instituted the proceedings. ‘The temporary injunction granted upon the allegation that the place is a nuisance, insofar as violations of the cigaret laws are concerned, is in- tended to remain in force until a fi- nal determination of the proceedings seeking to permanently padlock the quarters. Attorney General James Mciris, in Minot late Tuesday en route from Kenmare to Bismarck, said that this is the first time that the injunction weapon has been used against cigaret Jaw violators in Minot, but has been | ter. employed in a few other cities in the 'm | State, and will be used more exten- sively. “The attorney general's office is not going to tolerate violations of the cigaret laws,” Assistant Attorney General Morton said. “Permits must be obtained and stamps must be af- fixed, or we will institute prosecutions and push them to our limit.” 66 convention. | Im tomorrow's article, the writer will explain the proper answer by | North to the two-club bid and fur- shown his real declarations. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) above subjects and lead the round| table discussion are: Dean Arland)| D. Weeks, North Dakota Agricul- tural college, John A. Page, state | director of secondary education, and; the following men are from the Uni- | Weltzin, Dr. M. E. Nugent, Dr. R. D. Cole, and Prof. A. V. Overn. | ‘The executive committee of the conference is composed of Nelson Sauvain, Bismarck, president; J. C. Gould, Mandan, ee ee P. 5. versity faculty: Dean J. V. Breit- wiesser, Dr. C. W. Telfor: JF. Berg, Dickinson; L. A. White, Minot, |and Prof. C. C. Schmidt, secretary. Fine enough for any mansion, mod ia Sir: Bn a WALL PAPER CATA! 01 Fourth 6t, Biemarck, N. Dak. 1931 WALL PAPERS lest cott Send for the New 1931 Catalogue. Fill in and mail the coupon below — send by return mail without obligation to me the NEW LOGUE, ‘Waite Piainty to Aveld Mistakes. BISMARCK PAINT & GLASS CO. Dealers te Paints, Varnishes, Brushes, Etc. economical enough for the most 2 It’s Free 1931 H. E. SPOHN, Mgr... Phone 3% ther proper responses after South has]. ©1951, Laccsrr & Mrxag Toascco Co, Successful Results Depend Upon Proper Preparation of Your Garden’s Soil This is the fourth of a series of articles on home gardening, written especially for NEA Service and the Bismarck Tribune. By WILLIAM R. BEATTIE Bureau of Plant Industry, U. 8. De- partment of Agriculture Success in the home garden depends largely upon the soil and the way it is prepared. If the soil is shallow and is only scratched in plowing or spading, crop failure is sure to follow. But if the soil is rich and deep and is well plow- ed or spaded the chances are all on the side of success. There is real art in good plowing, but even more skill is required to ‘ly turn over a small garden plot with the spade or spading fork. System in Spading Start the spading at one side of the garden plot and spade clear along that side, turning the soil to leave a small furrow. Cut the soil in thin slices and as each slice is turned over work it up fine with the edge of the spade or spading fork. Fertilizers should be spread after spading. Then with a good 10 or 12- inch rake having rather long steel teeth the fertilizer can be mixed with the soil in the raking, which smoothes and pulverizes the surface. If the soil is the least inclined to be lumpy, it is easiest to break the lumps while they are fresh; that is, immediately after spading or plowing. In the large garden the harrow should be used close behind the plow if you want to avoid a lumpy soil. Clay soils may require several har- rowings with the disk and smoothing harrow, but sandy soils may need only one or two. However, if manure is used the more finely this material is distributed through the soil the bet- Practice in North and South In the northern sections of the country, garden land is usually plowed flat or broadcast. That is, it is either Hii 328d z 8 3 g frequently rebedded; that is it is bedd- ed three or four weeks before time to plant, then not long before planting the beds are turned in the opposite direction so that the center of the if manure or fertilizer is to TOMORROW: When to Plant back-furrowed or plowed in one land | What. so that when it is finished it will be uniform. In many parts of the South the land is bedded the same as for cot- ton. Bedding the land decreases the ‘ve shipped on a South § * Jimmy DeHart, Washington and Lee coach, was a crack aviator dur- ing the World war. He was used as @ flying instructor. y ca Marshall to Head G. A. R. at Minot Minot, N. D., March 26.—()—Rob- ert Marshall lected comman was el der of Abraham Lincoln post of the G. A. . _ Mr. guc- otek services following the elec- Representatives of men and women patriotic organizations joined the G, A. 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