Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1929, Page 7

[ DOUBLE SLAYING BAFFES PROBERS Former Roomer of Woman Is Sought—Boarder Found Dead With Her. By the Assoclated Press. KANSAS CITY, November 6.—Wad- ing through a maze of clues which pointed first to murder and suicide and then to a double slaying, Kansas au- thorities today sought a former roomer in the home of Mrs. Minnie E. Hare, 50, in connection with the fatal shoot- ing of the woman and her boarder, Jesse J. Barnwell, 6 Bodies of the two were found yes- terday in Mrs. Hare's home, in Mer- riam, Kans, near here. Sheriff’s offi- cers said they had been dead about four days. Mrs. Hare's body, with bullet holes in the heart and neck, was found on the kitchen floor. In the dining room lay | Banwell's body, a high-caliber rifle | beside him. He had died from a bul- | let wound in the abdomen The house had been ransacked and a diamond ring valued at $260 was miss- ing, but pinned in the woman's cloth- ing was $3,765 in currency. ‘The first theory of officers, that Barn- dered to conceal the motive. ter belief was sustained by reports that Mrs. Hare had deeded her home, valued at $4,500, to a former boarder to pre- | vent is seizure in_ litigation. Further | investigation revealed she had deposit- ed $6,000 to the man's account in a Kansas City, Kans., bank last May. Neighbors said Mrs. Hare and Barn- well had disagreed over a diamond ring be gave her. 150 IS AVERAGE WEIGHT OF 500 FLYING CADETS Study of Physical Characteristics Show Young Men Slim, Erect and of Athletic Type. What sort of a chap is the flying cadet who goes into the Army Air Corps_Training School, to merge after | one of the stiffest flying courses in the | world as a fighting pilot in one of the | Army’s squadrons? A study of the physical character- istics of the flying cadets, ordered by Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief of the Arm&‘eAir Corps, as a means of en- abling quartermaster department to anticipate uniform sizes, makes it possible to visualize the average cadet. He is a slim, erect young man, weigh- ing about 150 pounds, and is 5 feet 9 inches tall. He is of the athletic type, about 22 years old and has a college education. Of 500 cadets examined there were but four of the minimum height, 64 inches. They ranged up to 77 inches, with the average at 69.003 inckes. The greater number of cadets were of the average height, and more cadets were in the average weight class than any other. ‘The average waist measure is 30 inches, and the average chest measure- ment, chest fully deflated, is 33.3 inches. ADVISERS ON AVIATION TO MEET HERE NOV. 12 Committee Will Draft Report for | 11BN Submission to President and Congress. ‘The national advisory committee for seronautics will meet November 12 on call of Dr. Joseph S. Ames, president of Johns Hopkins University ancd chair- IN ‘We wearled of our former pastor, who was a tiresome sort of man, and didn’t seem to be the master of any modern, helpful plan. He talked too much of ancient doings, too much of Jonah and the whale, and we remarked, with sad beshrewings, that all his themes were old and stale. He'd preach about the Ark with vigor, of Daniel in the lion’s den; “We want a man with vision bigger,” we said, “who'll stir the souls of men. We care no hoot for bygone ages, although their records are sublime; the pastor who would earn his wages must come down to the present time.” And so we fired this &iet preacher, whose sermons had no force or weight, and we engaged the Reverend Screech- er, a pastor strictly up to date. He has a voice that shakes the ceiling, a voice tremendous, loud and deep, and when on Sunday he is spieling a fellow has no chance to sleep. Our village is a nest of sinners, the worst, he says, of modern towns, and few of us will turn out win- ners when we apply for harps and crowns. He takes a hand in every wrangle that may disturb our little grad, and keeps our throbbing nerves a-jangle, accusing us of actions bad. He roasts our girls for wearing dresses much shorter than their mother’s togs, and in his anger he confesses our boys are going to the dogs. He says our schoois are full of scholars who carry flasks of rye and gin, their fathers chase for tainted dollars and wallow in the sloughs of sin. He has our village all up-ended, there’s hatred now on every hand, and we agree it will be splendid when he can have him safely canned. We're yearning for the former pastor, we'd like to see him back again, to ! |preach about the gentle Master, and | Daniel in thg lion's den. WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1929.) PARK POLICE TAKE 221 |IN CUS:0DY IN MONTH Arrests Add $1,085 to Coffers of District in Fines and For- feited Bonds. The United States park police ar- rested 221 persons last month for a variety of alleged offenses, and the se- quel was written in the courts and the police precinct station houses, with 46 being fined $528 and 137 preferring to forfeit $557, making the total $1,085. In making his report yesterday to Capt. Ray C. Montgoniery, U. 8. A, the su- perintendent, Capt. P. J. Carroll, in- formed his superior officer that the ar- rests included: Automobile speeders, 33; violations of the traffic regulation, 126; drunkenness, 32; violations of the park regulations, 6; reckless driving, 9; dis- orderly conduct, 8; desertion, 1; illegal possession, 1; fugitive from parents, 2; drinking in public, 1, and operating au- tomobile while intoxicated, 1. As a result of these arrests this story was written in court records and at the precincts: Twelve personal bonds taken, 5 nolle prossed, 2 dismissed, 7 sent to jail for 30 days, 1 sent to jail for 60 days, 1 turned over to military authori- ties, 2 turned over to proper authori- ties and 8 had cases pending when the month closed. In addition to this duty, the park po- lice sent 29 sick or injured persons to their homes or to hospitals, 36 automo- bile accidents were reported, 2 stolen automobiles were recovered and 6 chil- dren were turned over to their parents for correction, the report asserted. . Four Given Commissions. Commissions have been issued by the War Department to Ira L. Wright, 1232 aham street, and Morgan B. Cal- lahan, 2438 Twentieth street, this city; Milton C. Chamberlain, Rosslyn, Va. and Herman Vieland, Clarendon, Va., as second lieutenants in the finance de- partment, Reserve Corps of the Army. man of the committee, to draw up its annual report for submission to Presi- dent Hoover and Congress. ‘The meeting will be held in the com- mittee headquarters in the Navy De- partment Building. The report will con- tain a summary of aviation develop- ments during the year insaddition to a full description of the aeronautical re- .search work of the committee, which is the Government’s chief aviation-devel~ opmept and fact-finding body. The research work of the committee is conducted at the Langley Memorial Laboratories, Langley Field, Hampton, Va. Among the important recent de- velopments of committee engineers was the famous N. A. C. A. cowling for ra- dial air-cooled motors, hailed as one of the greatcst aeronautical engineering achievements since the World War. 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