Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1929, Page 35

STAR, WASHINGTO! . WOMAN'S €45t VERDICT A RECORD John H. Castle, Detroit Realty | Man, to Ask New Breach of Promise Trial. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, December 20.—Unless a | new trial is granted by Judg: Homer Ferguson, a judgment against John H Castle for $450,000 will be entered after | 20 days in favor of Miss Bertha Cleav- enger in accordance with the jury's wverdict yesterday in her $750,000 breach ©f promise suit. ‘The verdict against Castle, who is 37 ears old and is a wealthy real estate | operator, is believed to have estab- lished a new high figure in a breach of | promise case. Judge Ferguson expressed the opinion that the award doubles the | largest previous one. He referred to the | $225,000 verdict in the O'Brien-Man- | ning case in New York, which was sub- | sequently reduced by the court to $125,000. Yight women and four men com- | pried the jury which made the award to the 43-year-old woman, who met Castle when she operated a rooming house and he was a worker in the Ford Motor Co. factory. Miss Cleavenger said the two, became engaged within six weeks and that she loaned Castle $1,800, which he used in climbing the ladder of success. He admitted receiving $1,000, which he said he _repaid. Castle, who had been taking a corre- spondence course in salesmanship, began | selling automobiles and real estate “on the side” and in the course of a few years was a big operator, a partner of the late John Ford, brother of the automobile magnate. The defendant related that he gave Miss Cleavenger $40,000 to $50,000 be- tween 1922 and 1925, while she was living at an_expensive hotel, and gave her trips to Florida and California. After Castle married Miss Phyllis Linderman, daughter of a Detroit dentist, in 1925, Miss Cleavenger filed a sult, but withdrew it. Evidence in the trial was that he gave her from $500 to $1,800 a month and bought her an expensive automobile during the next two years. Miss Cleavenger burst into tears as she thanked the jurors. Ralph B. Clark, attorney for Castle, asked a 20-day delay in entering the judgment, and said a new trial will be Eought. DR. D. E. YARNELL, Uy” WORKER, DEAD Former Secretary, 63, Had Retired From Service in May, 1926, Dr. D. E. Yarnell, 63 years old, a re- tired Young Men's Christian Associa- tion secretary, died yesterday at Gar- field Hospotal after a protracted illness. Dr. Yarnell retired from active Y. M. C. A. service on May 15 1926, and since that time has made his home in Washington during the Winter, and returning to the place of his birth at Bantam, Conn., each Summer. He served in the local Y. M. C. A. during the war. He began his active career with the Y. M. C. A. in 1887 at New York City and for several years was secretary of the Institute Branch on the Bowery. He served as executive secretary for 10 years, being appointed to that - post when the West Side building of the association was opened in 1897. Dr. Yarnell later became general sec- retary of the Silver Bay Association at Silver Bay, N. Y., and then entered the merchant marine as secrertary in Japan, where he and his wife narrowly caped losing their lives in an earth- qua'e. Dr. Yarnell is survived by his widow, Mrs. Myrtle K. Yarnell. Funeral serv- ices are being held this afternoon at the home, 1724 Seventeenth street. The \;odylwfll be taken to Connecticut for urial FAY GILLIS Is a member of the Caterpillar Club. Her parachute carried her to safety when she leaped from a diving plane at Curtiss Field, Long Island. —Assoclated Press Photo. Give Useful Gifts @ “HOW MY FEET ACHED!" f The right way to walk At the nearest Ground Gripper store is a man who will understand your feet and your shoe problems. 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TIndictments for conspiracy to murder pending in Laredo against former Presi- dent Calles of Mexico and the recent | effort of District Attorney John A. Valls to arrest the Mexican leader while passing through the city precipitated the closing of the consulate. In his message to Gov. Moody, how- which resulted in the | ever, Secretary Stimson said, the action of the Mexican government was not a measure of retaliation for the recent incident, but arose from a feeling in Mexico City, drawn from several hap- penings extending over a period of time, that Laredo is not a safe point for Mexican public officials to pass through in traveling. The Mexican embassy here would make no statement, and dispatches from Mexico City said that the Amer- ican embassy there had received no in- structions to intervene, although it had been informed of Gov. Moody’s action in bringing the case to the attention of the State Department. No course of action had been decided upon, the em- bassy said. The closing of the consulate and the events leading up to it were regarded as probable subjects of comment from members of the House and Senate, bringing out divergent views and a - sible discussion of Mexican-American relations. Demands Resignation. Enrique Santibanez, Mexican consu! general at San Antonio, was quoted as saying that either District Attorney Valls must resign or the indictments against Calles must be dropped, if the embargo against Laredo is to be lifted. The indictment in question charged that Calles was implicated in the kid- naping and killing of two Mexican Army officers in Laredo seven years ago as an outgrowth of revolutionerv tivities. Valls threatened to arrest Calles when he passed through Laredo recently, but was unable to do so as Calles held a diplomatic passport visa and was accompanied by Ambassador Tellez. 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