Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1927, Page 7

§3 AND TWO RINGS PAID FOR KILLING Husband Hires *Friend” to : $9,0Q0.000 Abov By the Associated Press. Santa_Claus is going to make the | Post Office Department dig down and shell out approximately $9,000.000 to | pay the extrs {and greetings this Christmas over and cost of handling gifts | THE EVENING Christmas Mail Rush Will Cost U. S. e Ordinary Expenses malil that poured into the vast postal sportation machine last year re- quired an extra expenditure of $8. BR8.21 Additional clerks received ;" railronds for additional portation, 0.000; addditional 1 | tran earri overs STAR, WASHINGTON, BILL FOR AIRPORT MAY BE OFFERED D. C. Officials Indicate Con- PO under consideration at recent hearings on_the District budget. Such action by the Budget Bureau, however, is was pointed out, will not prevent the Commissioners from seek- ing an authorization from Congress to establish_the, airport, as they prom- ised the War Department to do so in order to obtaln permission for the mail planes to use Boiling Field as a tem- porary landing field. The draft of a bill providing for the establishment of the airport al- ready has been prepared by Ms MONDAY, NOVEMBER IDAHO 14, 1927. GOERNOR’S WIFE KEEPS OUT OF POLITICS ‘Mrs. Baldridge Interested Only ln‘ Public Matters Which Relate to Her Husband. Correspondence of the Assotiated Press. ‘ BOISE, Idaho.—One member of a| Cora McCreight Baldridge, wife of Idaho's Governor, believes, admitting politics interests her only as relates to_her husband. While she leaves politics entirely to Gov. Baldridge, there are many other things to interest her. First of all, two children, “just a boy and a , even though grown,” a husband. even though he is governor,” a care- fully kept home, church work, par- ticipation in the activities of her ng girls and social engagements. lefore coming to the capitol Mrs. 7 e e e e —— Baldrid was active in the State's first community church established in Parua. Sunday school leadership led to active work In the Girl Reserves, and these interests have been con- - tinued in Boise Social activities require much of her time, but constitute a pleasant duty, for, she says, “I have always been interested in people and their doings.” . Wales has a serious cattle plagus. abov e ¢ expenses of run-|city letter j. | family In politics “!s enough,” Mrs. Kbove the ORali Epenses fotsutin, |ic ¥ dlowance for rail- Covell, senior assistant | Choke Wife While They Were Out Driving. By the Associated Press MILWAUK Wis., November 14.—Three dollars in cash and two diamond rings stripped from a life- less hand were the price police said Alvin Greenwaldt paid for the slaying of his wife Emma—the wife with whom he had lived for 15 years with never a quarrel. Greenwaldt, who is 3 Paetzold, alias K¢ 12 years are held in the W Wis., jail for the crime, committed week ago, and it was on confessions fhe two are said to have made th: police revealed details of the uxorcide Insur: carricd on waldt was the motive Greenw led to the killing. There wa life and $15.000 accident insu Paetzold was the s cording to the cont Mrs. Greenwaldt to death between him and her husband in a coupe bound for Mount Horeb, Wis the Greenwaldt's home, from Milw kee. Death came while the woman with a laugh on her lips, the Paet confession said, as Paetzold's fingers tightened around h i was a moment during which the ho flexed under the unrelenting pressur then, the confessions said, the lifeless body of the 36-year-old woman slid gently to the floor of the car Paid “All the Cash” He Had. The money ay Grecnwaldt eonfessed pavi was all the cash he had. . which were taken from hi: s hand after her body had been lifted from (he coupe, were valued at $300. Greenwaldt in the confession said he had promised $500 more as soon as he collected the in=urance. Paetzold told police that it w: the money that induced him to agree to take part in the ing, but b cause Greenwaldt was “a good fellow. Had money been his object, he add he would have insisted on full pa) ment before committing the crime. The woman’s body, partly clad and bearing signs of an attz found Jast Monds 5 Greenwaldt later staggered into ro house nearby with a_stol : been slugged and of his wife's been attacked and killed by bandits. Confesses to District Attorney. Yesterday, just as officers believed further questioning would be futile, Greenwaldt asked District Attorney Herman Salem to take him for a motor ride. ¥ ‘Salem, unarmed and slight of stat- ure, obtained the confession from and Arthur R @ younger Greenwaldt. a six-foot-four giant, as| the little car rolled along the country roads. Paetzold, a few hours late; confirmed and supplemented the story. Paetzold s#id the three of them, erowded on the single seat, were jok- ing and laughing as the car, with Greenwaldt at the wheel, hummed homeward through the night. Paetz old's story was that he threw arms about the woman, seeking a kiss; that she laughingly sought to avoid the embrace, and that he then choked her. Body Left in Field. The body was taken into a fleld, where the husband tore her elothing partly from her to indicate botn rob- bery and attack. Paetzold they drove on with the cur, which he later aban- doned, according to prearrangement, and Greenwaidt walked to the road- house, outside of which he struck him self with a large stone to give ver- similitude to his story of being at- tacked. In falling his head hit against another rock and he was unconsclous several minutes. Police said Paetzoid readily told his story when confronted by Greenwaldt. Fis one concern, he told them, was Tor his mothe; BLUECOAT SUSPENDED ON LIQUOR CHARGE Policeman Willlam L. Danley of the second precinct has been suspend- ed on a charge of having heen under the influeunce of intoxicating liquor when an autpmobile, in wheih he was riding east on Columbia road. between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, col- 1ided with the west-hound autuomobile of A. V. De Ford, 925 Fifteenth street, shortly before noon yesterday. Co- Jumbia road at this point is a one-way street for west-bound traffic. Danley, who narrowly escaped in- jury, claimed that he had com- mandeered the car in which he was rid- ing for the purpose of pursuing a suspected rum car. It was denied by witnesses to the accident that any east- bound car had preceded that in which the policeman was riding, Mrs. De Ford, who was in her husband's car, called attention to the condition of Danley and he was escorted io the tenth precinct station, where he was examined by Dr. W. H. R. Branden- burg, a police surgeon, who pro- nounced that he was suffering from alcoholism. It was upon the report of the surgeon that Danley was sus- pended. Danley was far beyond the limits of his precinct when the accident happened. He denied being under the influence of intoxicating liquor and insisted he was in purkuit of a rum car, giving a Maryland license number which he said was that of the suspected car. SAPIRO SCHEDULED 70 ADDRESS HEBREWS Aaron Sapiro, organizer of co-opera- tive farm movements, who achie wide notoriety recenty with his lib suit against I rd growing out of attacks on ro in the Dearborn Independent, will address a joint rect- ing of Jewish organizations here at the Eighth Strect Temple at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, in co-operation with the Jewish Communi; nter and its affiliated organizations, according to plans announced by Allen De Iord, chairman of the program committee of the Washington Hebrew Congre gation. 5 Mr. Sapiro, invited to speak here by Dr. Abrem Simon, will take as his topio, “American Justics.” In addi- tion to his address, there will be an entertainment arranged by Mr. De Ford, with the assistance of Normar Kol, Sherry Stein, Henry Jaffes and Harold Lichenstein. Leon Pretzfelder, president_of the Brotherhood of the Hebrew Congres 30 o'clock Wednesday. speak on that vccasion on ¢o-op: selling and advertising. He will introduced by Frederic William Wile, Washington newspaper corr Rizht Rev. James I, Freem: of Washington, will ha an honor guest and will pronounce invocation. e Edinburgh's “bus wal ended. ve b ———. pla i ning the New announced | today that careful calculations indi | sated the additional expenditure would | be necessary, basing the estimate on previous years' experience. | The gr volume of Christmas ; additional tion of ation, ¢ sums DELAY ON MERGER THOUGHT PROBABLE Hearings Likely to Go Over| Several Weeks Due to Conferences. Hearings hefore the Public Utilities | Commission on the Harley P. Wilson mergoer plan probably will be delayed s and possibly longer rvesult of conferences which the \thor has entered into with officials kholders of the Capital Trac- and Washington Railway & Cos. Wilson had have the final d fore the commi: However, beca John 1. Hanna everal w fully expected to t of his plan be- m bhefore this time. of the complaint president of the | pital Traction Co., that the boards of dive and the owners of the street 1y lines liad not been con. sulted about the plan, Mr. Wilson has st ou to discuss the details with them, C Conferences with the officials of the ion companies already have been arted, and when these are concluded Mr. Wilson proposes to discuss the plan with the stockholde These negotiations probably will lead to a modification of general outline of the n, which has now been ofticially ‘ore (he commission since Octo- ber 31 The prospective delay in the public hearings bafore the commission lil will prevent any plan of merger whi it ultimately approves reaching the | Capitol until after the Christmas holi It had been hoped that the plan he ready for presentation to ferences Already Started. tr Another Plan Being Made, While Mr. Wilson is discussing his plan with the traction companies, the firm of Charles Hansel, consulting | specialists, which is drafting another heme for eonsolidating the transpor- tation systems for the public utiliti committee of the Federation of Citi- zens' Assoclations, expects to have.it completed und under consideration by Ralph B. Fleharty. people’s coun- sol. before the commission. Both of these plans, according to present in- dications, will be considered simul- taneously by the commission at the public hearings. . FORESTER IS SHOT; POLICE MYSTIFIED Mountains Searched for Assailant of Man at Fire Tower, Near Pen Mar, Md. By the Associated Press. - HAGERSTOWN, Md., November 14.—Declaring a stranger shot him last night with his own pistol, Clay Willard, 22 years old, Pennsyl- the Quiark Tower, n Mar, Md. was reported in a critical condition. Willard told Wayneshoro, Pa., hos- cians the man appeared s repairing his automobile 0ok his pistol from the running Loard and shot him. The shooting occurred just aci in_this county. Tocal offi Willard's mother said, “She under- stood her son was shot accidentally by a_friend who became frightened and fle Willard said he climbed to the top tower and telephoned a sic The bullet entered the Bootleggers Train Dogs to Gather Corn in Maryland Spegial Dispatch to The Star, BALTIMORE, November Bird dogs have been trained to gather corn for southern Maryland zgers, adeording to Swepson rle, State conservation commis- ner, who has just returned from n oyster inspection tour in that section “While we were driving through the countryside a dog with an ear corn trotted across the road and ppeared in the bushes,” he said. nade some inquiries. The first farmer I asked seer surprised at my ignorance. ‘Why, they're corn dogs.” he me of the round abou* here, dogs to go out and get corn for them. It's safer; prevents tracing the still. Besides it's mighty con- venient for that don't for all the work of planting corn and tending it. 14— id. folks have stills nd train their 'HOOVER AIDE KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASH Victim Had Gone to Vermont to Arrange for Secretary’s Visit. By the Assaciated Pross MONTPELIER, In landing at the town flying field here today an Army airplane carrying R. B. Sleight, a secretary to Secretar of Commerce Tlerbert Toover, wrecked and Mr. Sleight was fatally injured. Ile died at the Heaton Hos- pital. The pilot was not injured. plane set out from New York, this morn- arrived over Montpelier ¢ hefore noon. Mr, Sleight nge for Sed it_on Wednesday in con- nection with Vermont flood relief. As the pilot was making his landing the plane hit the race course at the lower end of the field, after which it took the air for one jump, then nosed into the ground and tipped over. Mr. Sleight had 1 Ioover for more ti zing in waterw search work. He was sent to Vermont last Saturday night by the Commerce Secretary to make a preliminary vey of the flooded regions in ad of Mr. Hoover's trip_into Vermont, where he will arrive Wednes Mr. Sleight was 1 Minn, plane accident contained tersely worded telegram received by the department shortly before noon. He was married and had_one child, His home is at 5701 Chevy Chase par! wa Mr. Sleight was 38 vears of age. Tle was born in Lainsburg, Mich., and served at Denver State Agricultur: College for some time as assista: irrigation engine S. SANFORD, 62, BURIED. Funeral services for Samuel San. ford, 62 years old, editor of the United States Bureau of Mines, Dej of Agriculture, who died Friday in Garfield Hospital, were conducted in the chapel of J. William Lee’s Sons. 332 Pennsylvania avenue, this after noon at 2 o'clock. Rev. J. L. Cole, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church officiated. Interment was private, Jazz Author Commits Suicide. 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