Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1929, Page 37

'ROBBER AND POLC DIE IN GUN BATTLE Fugitive .Chose to “Shoot It Out“ Rather Than Face Sentence for Electrocution. By the Associated Press. FIRE DESTROYS SCHOOL. ,000 Loss at Tranquillity, Calif., Blamed to Defective Wiring. FRESNO, Calif., November 7 (#)— Union High School at Tranquillity yes- terday was destroyed by fire with loss of approximately $200,000. Starting in one of the storerooms, apparently from defective wiring, the fire swept through three wings of the buflding, despite the efforts of volun- teer firemen. sl 809 Suicides in Six Months. BERLIN ().—City statisticians reck- oned that 809 Berliners committed sui- cide in the first six months of the cur- SHAWNEE, Okla., November 8 —De- | rent year. The men numbered 528 and termination of an alleged bank robber to “shoo tit out” rather than face a possible death sentence in court had resulted today in his own death and that of one of two officers with whom :sle waged a short but bloody gun bat- e. Robbery with firearms is a capital offense in Oklahoma. Courts haye in- fiicted life terms recently for minor rob- beries of that character and police had heard that Owen Edwards, sought for complicity in bank holdups at Prague, Kendrick and Minco, Okl, had threat- ened to die shooting rather than face an end in the electric chair, Fugitive Cornered. “He won't do it,” they said. So last might when four officers surrounded a house near Harjo, Okla., where Edwards was reported hiding, James A. Kiersey, 39, veteran assistant chief of police of Seminole, Okla., entered the house and ordered the fugitive to put up his hands. Edwards replied with bullets and Kiersey fell, mortally wounded by three shots from -two automatic pistols Claude Tyler, operative of the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification, fired from a doorway be- hind Kiersey and Edwards dropped. He died almost immediately. Two Escape From House. A man and a woman escaped from the house during confusion which fol- lowed the shooting, officers said. - An alleged accomplice of Edwards, Fred Davis, hanged himself in a jail cell at Chandler severdl days ago, aiter he had told fellow prisoners he feared the chair more than a noose. He es- recently from a jail in Eldorado, ., where he was held in connection with a bank robbery there, LONE MINK SLAUGHTERS ALL FELINES IN TOWN|- Wipes Out Entire Cat Population of Daniel, Wyo., in Single Night. ROCK_SPRINGS, Wyo., November 8 (A).—Daniel, Wyo., a’ country town 115 miles north of here, is a catless village. A male mink escaped from & mink farm near the hamlet and ‘wiped out the entire feline population in & single night. L. W. Sargent, owner of the mink farm, missed the animal in the after- |- noon, but decided against searching for it. The next day tabbles were strewn in various places of the town, with evidence of foul play plainly visi- ble. The mink later had his own trou- ble. He entered a box trap and was . caught. —— Boring for oil has been surte\d on the British army rifie ranges at Hythe, ‘England. the women 281. {plane party of seven men to civilization THE EVEN G‘ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, PRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, ,1929. WEATHER STRANDS AIRPLANE IN ARCTIC Radio Message Tells Why Missing Party of Eight Has Been Gone Two Months. By the Assoclated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, November 8—A radio message received here today from Capt. Guy E. Blanchet said flying weather had halted return of \Col. C. D. H. MacAlpine and his air- after two months’ wandering in the Arctic. Four members of the party are at Burnside River and the other four at Bathurst Station. Friends here be- lleved the rescued men intended to take no further chances after privations of the past two months, but would fly when the weather is good and “sit down” when conditions are threaten- ing. The men reached the Cambridge Bay post on Victoria Island half starved and exhausted and were brought to the mainland yesterday. Calles Plans Return Home. PARIS, November 8 (#)—Plutarco Elias Calles, former President of Mex- lous | ico, plans to sail for home early in De- | Fo cember, although the exact date has not been fixed. He was said Wednesday to have recovered his health, but, with a desire to avold any possibility of re- lapse, has decided to remain at the clinic here until the end of the month. PALESTINE SOCIETY ASKS INCORPORATION Organization for Upbuilding and Maintenance of Jewish Homeland Files Articles. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., November 8.— rmed to upbuild and maintain a homeland for Jewish people in Pales- tine, the Nathan Straus Palestine So- ciety filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State yesterday. 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