Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1929, Page 6

MEXICAN GENERAL 15 SLAIN BY WIFE Beauty Uses Pistol on Hus- band After Rival Wife Files Bigamy Charge. By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 26.—Senora | Marie Teresa de Landa de Vidal, “Miss | Mexico” in the 1928 Galveston beauty | contest, was in a prison cell today, hav- ing shot and killed her husband, Gen. Moises Vidal. After reading in a newspaper that she and Gen, Vidal were to be arrested | for bigamy, she procured his heavy army pistol and turned it on him, firing six shots, which killed him almost in- stantly. She then turned the gun at her own head, but its magazine was empty. Police arriving found her prone on the body of her husband, crying hys- terically, “I loved him dearly.” She old them the newspaper article was the first intimation she had Vidal was mar- Tied already when he courted her and won her heart after she had failed to win the Galveston contest. Discovers Duplicity. The first Senora de Vidal, Maga “Teresa Herrejon, lived in Cosamaloapdh, Vera Crus, with their two daughters. She became suspicious of her husband’s ‘Jong absences, according to newspaper ccounts, and, following him to Mexico 'ty discovered his duplicity. She then fil>d charges of bigamy. The story was published in Mexico Cil\v newspapers Saturday, but was seen only’ yesterday by the young wife, who ‘wam 24 years old. She handed the pa- | per jto the general. with instructions to | YEIJ. while she went into his room an obtairnred his pistol. {in human relations, By the Associated Press. World news of the week presents a patchy pieture of success and failure while the Graf Zeppelin, roaring triumphantly over the Pacific, makes neighbors of the farthest separated nations of the earth. The Graf arrived over California late last night on the next to the last leg of its epochal circumnavigation of the world. Leaving Japan Thursday, nearly a week has been cut from fast steam- | ship time across the greatest of oceans. Merrily the great German - dirigible | whirls along, snnihilating space, shrink- ing and shriveling the world, an elo- quent sermon that for good or bad the world is, as they say, a small place after all and that peoples grow more and more interdependent. ‘With this thought in mind, a sorry picture faces the world in Palestine, biblical land of peace. Trouble broke out in Jerusalem Fri- day between Jews and Moslems over the age-old controversy of the Jews' right to worship undisturbed at the Wailing Wall, the last fragment of Sol- omon’s Temple, and before martial law could be clapped on to check the hatreds of maddened men more than 50 Jews and Arabs were killed and 150 or more wounded. Progress Seen Toward World Peace. In Europe, the past week, there were encouraging developments toward dis- armament, compensating somewhat for the failure of statesmen at The Hague tion of 10- Definite that Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon- ald will visit President Hoover in Wash- ington during October to d'scuss naval power problems preparatory to another world disarmament_conference late this vear or early in 1930. Following the successes of the Washington Arms Con- ference, the problem of battleship con- struction is paramount. In Great Brit- -old war problems. nouncement was made d | ain, as well as in the United States, | opinion seems anxious to have the job Under Mexican law both he and she might have been sent to prison for the | bigamais marriage. —— ‘WoODWARD tackled. Other world powers will be asked to participate. Even after three weeks of deadlock ® 1™ F axp G STREETS to reach an agreement on the lquida- | & l.oTHROP OUTSTANDING EVENTS : IN"WORLD HISTORY and delay at The Hague Reparations Conference it is perhaps still too early to give up hope that the statesmen there will accomplish the task they set out to do. Situation in Manchuria Outlined. ‘The Russo-Chinese situation in Man- as succinctly reported by the Assoc'ated Press correspondent in , has settled down to a campaign of rival propaganda. China, for the moment, seems to have the advantage, having broadeast to the world early in the’ week 't her territory had been invaded by a Russian army of 40,000 men. As yet this army hasn't been located in China, although the Soviet govern- ment_undoubtedly is strengthening its Far Eastern units. China s doing the me, and therein lies the danger of wa s for getting to the root of the trouble, the future control of the stra- tegic Chinese Eastern Railway, in which both countries have legitimate interests, there is no progress to re- port. el AMERICAN IS KILLED. Two Others Are Injured Seriously in German Train Wreck. DUEREN, Germany, August 26 (#).— One American was reported killed and two seriously injured in the wreck of the engine and six coaches of a Parls- ‘Warsaw express as the train was enter- ing the village of Buirjust, north of | here, yesterd: Eight persons were killed and seven- teen seriously injured. The accident | closed the raiiroad line from Aix-1a- Chapelle to Cologne for more than 20 | hours. | _Paul Herramann of New York was the man killed. The engineer of the crowded expreas was sald to have disregarded a warn-| ing sign that the roadbed was under 1epair. Ensembles Are Outstanding —Woodward & Lothvop gives the first hint of their smartness in the new Autumn Collection Ensembles are important —of velvet, with satin and metal blouses — of satin and silk crepe, with frilly blouses—of nubby _ tweeds, with and without fur. Other Foremost Fashions Black is the leading color— especially in panne and trans- parent velvet and newly im- ported satin. Skirts are lengthened—flares and the modified princess sil- houette are seen variations. 3 Smart coats t heavily furred. Tweed Ensembles $95 to $115 Velvet Ensembles $2950 to $95 Silk Ensembles $2950 to $79-50 Women'’s and Misses’ Coats, $95 to $295 Women'’s and Misses’ in many flare and are Misses’ Black Velvet Ensembls, with Satin Blouse, $49.50. Misszs’ Frocxs, THIRD FLOOR, Misses’ Blue Tweed Ensemble with gray Krimmer, $11. Mrsses’ ENSEMBLES THMRD FLOOR. Frocks, $39-50 to %85 FasHiONS, THIRD FLOOR. Crepe de Chine and Flat Crepe offered at a New Low Price Woodward & Lothrop fine quality crepe de chine and flat crepe offered tomorrow at this new low price. And the best of it is that we are going to carry these lovely crepes regularly at this price. Just the weight you will want for frocks, negligees and costume slips. It is of even texture and weave, with a lustrous $1.65 yard finish—and will tub beautifully. W hite, Navy, Black and Colors . S1Lks, Szconp FLOOR. “RACKET” IS BARED Tribufe Is Exacted From Bucket Shop Operators, Officials Declare. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 26.— Transfer from Chicago to New York of a budding racket by which hoodlum syndicates hoped to garner thousands of dollars from bucket shop operators and brokers was believed by police to have been glnped today in the arrest of Charles reen. Green is under indictment in New York for the murder of William Cas- ‘WoobwarD n also hoped through Green' rest to learn how Frank Marlowe, & New York racketeer and friend of the murdered Arnold Rothstein, met his death. . After Chicago and New York de- tectives had talked with Green last night they expressed the opinion that the Hotsy-Totsy Cabaret slaying was the result of & dispute among black- mailers, rather than being due to & beer war dispute. Green said he would fight extndl-t ment on & fugitive warrant today. don't want to go back to New York officers quoted him as saying. too hot there. The town’s due for a cleaning out. There’s an election coming up. and’ the gangsters have to The new racket, as detectives ex- plained it, is predicated on the theory that some brokers prefer to pay tribute to gangsters rather than to have cer- tain facts concerning their business methods, and sometimes their private lives, made public. 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He wore & frock coat, a silk hat, bluish trousers and had a white carnation in his buttonhole. ‘hurch he joined in the hymns, | ices Are Ever Singing. u\ Day of Light” and “Fight the Good Fight.” He stood when the con- gregation stood and the seryice was not In the “Ange! Is the have to rely on his cane. The walk was shortened in any way. BILOXI, Miss, gu! 6 (). loh! Koester, New Ofleans-Atlanta air mfi pllot, was injuréd yesterday afternoon ;i;:xnhs!s ?,l,;:e m forced down. near r Tecelyed dn- jurgn about the she i 2 and severe shock, Thé pline was dam- aged slightly u% will '""'"L.m Ocean glphl;ltngn 3“3{ rcpm‘rs can be made. The and the mail R ncihe ail were sent I-?k to S— 2 . ‘One-sixth of t) are women. A Brlimennty Bejend | Woopwarp & L.oTHROP CurTAINS, SrxTH FLOOR. Two Types o 10™11** F AxD G STrEETS Tailored long. Do You Know That in The Semi-Annual Selling or figured, der effects. 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