Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1930, Page 16

A—16 » LISTED TO TESTIFY IN OWN DEFENGE Salt Lake City Mine Pro- moter Involved in Brutal Slaying of Woman. | By the Assoclated Press, SALT LAKE OITY, February ZG,—-‘ Charles Peter, Salt Lake City mining | promoter, accused from the witness stand at the inquest into the death of Mrs. Dorothy Moormeister, 32, of per- suading the slaiu woman to divorce ! her husband and attempt to get $80,- 000 alimony, was expected to take the stand today. ‘The body of Mrs. Moormeister was found last Saturday morning on a lonely road near here. There was evi- | dence that the slayer had driven the | woman’s own automobile back and forth over the body, badly mangling it. Numerous charges were hurled at Peter yesterday by Miss Amelia Hugen- tobler, 22, sister and confidant of the slain woman. Identified as Woman's Companion. Peter recently denied being out with Mrs. Moormeister until he was identified by a farmer who pulled their car out of the mud. Miss Hugentobler added that Peter had threatened her sister should she tell of their association. A theory was advanced last night that Mrs. Moormeister adorned herself in her costly jewels and clothes on the night of her death and went forth to meet an attorney whom Peter had told her “could get a divorce and $80,000 alimony from her husband,” Dr. Frank Moormeister. Miss Hugentobler testified that her sister told her she was afraid of Peter a.d declared that the mining promoter sald she could learn to “love me as I The witness related that end. Dr. Moormeister’s Testimony. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1930. NURSE STOPS PAY DAY ON HUNCH |PAIR FIGHT ARREST “POKER ALICE" LOSES HIGHEST- STAKES AS BLACK ACE FALLS Noted Woman Gambler, Who Won and Lost Fortunes in Old West of Mining Days, Dies at 77 By the Associated Press. RAPID CITY, 8. Dak., February 28— Death, dealing from cold deck, flifped the ace of spades for ‘“Poker Alice” Tubbs yesterday. It was her ad- mission card to the big game that is eternity. She was one of the last of a bizarre coterie of hard living, straight-shootin men and women who added the color- were others, Poker Alice wore a gun, smoked cigars and could swear like a ‘trouper; but in all of her 77 years of life she dealt from the top of the deck. During a life as adventurous as any man’s, she gambled for high stakes without a single betraying quiver of the hand as she dealt; without the twitch of a face muscle. Cold as the steel of the revolver she wore, she sat in un- numbered thousands of high stake games, Yesterday she bucked a game that she—that nobody—could beat. Old age and complications, following an opera- tion for gall stones, were given by doc- tors as the cause of her death on a hospital bed. Dri‘ Moormeister, who testified Tues- automobile which had been used by the slayer to batter the woman's R i PARK TAX PROJECT TO LAY OVER YEAR Bladensburg Distriet Association Decides Time Not Ripe to . Apply Levy. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. BLAD] After Operation. Poker Alice was English born but | American bred, and always the gambler. | She started as a faro dealer. A woman | at the box was a novelty that drew the | black beards of the wild West, with | their bags of gold, to the ?mbllnl ble. So successful was she, that soon he was known, not just as a woman ambler, but as a winning gambler, man T woman. Colorado, Nevada, Montans,. the Da- kotas—wherever there was pay -dirt Foker Alice was. She took $6,000 in one night's play at Silver City, N. Mex. Poker Alice had time for love, as-she three times, Her second G. Tubbs, a gambler with ‘eputation, never could equal at the .card table. | . Poker Alice grew old, and retired to | her little cabin in the Black Hills. She was convicted for violating the prohibition law, but never served the sentence. doned her, sayinj white haired old woman to jall on a liquor charge.’ ——ly. Commercial tive societies of Finland now have a total membership of over 700,000. GEN. REILLY TALKS ON NATIONAL DEFENSE Charges Women’s Peace Group Has Evaded Facts Which Govein Other Countries. ‘Two important groups are working to bring about further disarmament of this coutnry, the Women's League for Peace and Freedom and “those business men who are continually pointing out the cost of national defense and how much taxes | could be cut if we disarmed still more than we have done in the last 10 years,” Brig. Gen. Henry J. Reilly, World veteran, sald in a radio address last night over Station WRC. Gen. Reilly inaugurated the series of patriotic ad- dresses being sponsored by the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. “National security through adequate armament has been the governing principle of the other nations, and not disarmament, as the road to peace,” said Gen. Reilly, in charging that the women'’s peace group evades this fact. ‘The officer asserted that the so-called | business pacifist group evades these | three fundamentals . concerning the costs of armament—that efficiency and not cheapness is the only yardstick for measuring national defense, that ex- penditures of all the States in the Union should be taken into account and “any comparison of our ditures for na- tional defense with those of other na- tions which does not take into consider- ation the much greater cost of every- thing in this country, due to our high standard of living, creates an entirely false infpression.” g AND SAVES CASH FOR HOSPITAL By the Associated Press. DETROIT, February 28—Providence Hospital's pay roll was safe in its strong box today because Sister Rosario, the cashier, had a “premonition.” It was the sister's premonition which resulted in a postponement of pay day ;o-tponunenb foiled a hold-up attempted at 6:30 a.m. today by. the same robber who two weeks ago escaped with $5,000 which was being distributed to employes. HEARINGS OPEN MONDAY ON REALTY COMMISSION Hearings are to start next Monday on the bill introduced by Chairman Zihiman of the House District com- mittee to create a real estate commis- sion in the District under whom real estate brokers and salesmen would be | licensed. This announcement was made yesterday by Acting Chairman McLeod. Mr. McLeod is also arranging for hearing Tuesday on the Hartley bill to prevent professional prize fighting and to authorize amateur boxing in the District. The Chicago-Oakland-San Francisco airmail, express and passenger route is the longest lighted airway in the world. It extends 2,000 miles with emergency landing fields every 20 miles for night flying, & r"mva beacon every 10 miles and a flashing blinker every 3 miles. Sister Rosario sald the man accosted her in a tunnel leading from the hos- pital to the nurses’ home and demand- ed money. He backed up his demand with a pistol. The sister said she told him that pay day had been postponed. She pointed to the empty cash drawer as confirmation and the robber fled after looking in the drawer. ris Washington $3.50 Imported Gloves $]_.95 WITHOUT WARRANT Appeal From Hyattsville Court’s Conviction on a Charge of Transporting Rum. BY & Stat Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 28— Claiming they intended to make a test case of the manner in which they were taken into custody, Stanley Gray, 1500 block of Thirty-fourth street, and Rob- ]m Duffel of the 1400 block of N treet, have noted an appeal to the Circuit Court after being convicted by Police Court Judge J. Chew Sheriff, of Lll::nl transporation and possession of or. The men were taken into custody when they stopped at a gasoline station on the Baltimore Boulevard, by County Officers Reese and Brown, who testified that part of the eight hoxes of al- leged liquor in the car was visible wi out search. Through their attorney, J. ‘Wilson Ryon, the men contended the officers should have °""’§_‘h"’ a search warrant before arresting them. 9 Get Your Hand in Fashion! vS New Leather Bags A FASHION INSTITUTION _ NewTork A Planned w95 The two most important Spring leathers rocco. envelopes, unusually , smooth calf and pin mo- Tailored pouches, underarm assport bags . . .all of ne quality of leather... all of brand-new fashion, all a rare value at this low price. Handbag Shop, Street Floor 600 pairs of lovely French kid gloves with turn-back cuffs appliqued, em- broidered or scalloped. A real “buy” at this price! 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OCKVILLE, Md., Febrtiary 38.—Un- der “omt auspices of l'pwmhrynnd Grace Methodist Churches of Gaithersbur, this county, a standard leadership tra; 1&5 smnnl will begin March 9 in Grace urch. William G. Davis and Rev. Peter C. Helmintoller, jr., will be associate direc- tors; Mrs. Ethel Mills and Miss Effie ‘Ternent, associate registrars, and Miss Lillian Wells and Walter F. Reinhard, associate secretary-treasurers. The faculty wiil be composed of Rev. R. K. Nevitt of Baltimore, Sunday school superintendent of the Baltimore Con- Terence of the M. E. Church South, who will conduct a course in worship; Rev. John C. Milllan of Baltimore, Sunday sehool superintendent of the Baltime Conference of the M. E. Church, who will instruct in principles of teaching, and Miss Etta M. Russell of Washing- ton and Mrs. Ada W. Smith of Catons- ville, Md., whose subjects will be pri- mary administration and junior mate- risls and methods, respectively. WILL RETURN PRISONER. Arlington Officers Go to Baltimore for Harry Sweet. ARLINGTON, Va., Pebruary 28 (Spe- clal).—Commonwealth's Attorney Wil- liam C. Gloth, Deputy Sheriff Harry I Woodyard and Special Officer C. W. Carr went to Baltimore this morning to bring back Harry Sweet, charged with having shot Policeman Raymond Crack during a rum chase February 12. Crack and Carr were in pursuit of an automobile when shots were exchanged. Orack was wounded in the face and Sweet in the body. He was treated at a Baltimore hospital. He is said to have i confessed being one of several men in the pursued car. Aokt Ll | TEACHER 50 YEARS DIES. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., February 28.— Miss Maria Evel ‘alker, 80 years of age, who hu?ht in the Lynchburg pub- lic schools for nearly 50 years, died ‘Wednesday night at her home, 314 Fifth street. 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