Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1930, Page 11

MURDER SUSPECT AWAITS JURY VOTE Farm Boy, Accused of Slay- ing Family, Has Heart Attack. By the Associateg Press, ELDORADO, Kans, March 28. Owen Oberst, 19-year-old Burns, Kans., farmer boy, once sentenced to lifs im- prisonment for the slaying of seven members of his family, today waited in | his cell for the verdict of the second | Jury to try him for the murder of hu\ father, Will Oberst. The' youth, who apparently had en- Joyed good health during his nearly two | years' imprisonment, last night suffered 8 heart attack. A physician was called and after treatment the prisoner was said not to be in a serious condition. The night of April 20, 1928, the Oberst farm house burned to the ground. Bodies of the youth’s father and mother and five brothers and sis- ters, several with bullet wounds, were found in the wreckage. The State chdrged the boy slew the family in a quarrel over use of the Oberst automobile. ART WORK OF CHILDREN T0 BE SHOWN IN LONDON Annual Exhibition of Royal Draw- ing Society Will Be Opened on April 1. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 28.—Babies in art will have their day April 1, when the Royal Drawing Society opens its annual exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gall ‘The exhibition is for the work of chil- dren from 2 to 15. It is always looked upon with great interest by British artists, who say that inf these untutored young hands rests the fature of artistic Britain. /300 REPORTED SLAIN IN CHINESE CLASH 1200 Communists and 100 Soldiers Are Killed in Battle Near Tai- ping, Dispatches Assert. e + By the Associated Press SHANGHAI March 28 —Word that 200 Communists and 100 Fukienese sol- diers were kill:d in a battle Wednesday | between 3,000 Communists and 2,000 provincials near Taiping reached here today in Chinese press dispatches via Swatow. ‘The soldiers were reported to have THE EVENING STAR PADDING OF JURY ROLLS 1 CHARGED Cook County Swindled of Thousands, According to Probe Body. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 28.—An alleged conspiracy by which Cook County is said to have been defrauded of thous- | ands of dollars by the padding of jury service rolls came to light yesterday when the grand jury was reported to have voted true bills against seven men, including a criminal enun. bailiff and a former clerk of the cour Assistant State’s Mwmey John L. Murphy charged that when a juror was excused for sickness or other cause the record was made to show that he had served and consequently a voucher was Luued to pay for his services, the check y announced that he ‘has lieve similar practice has been going on in one or two other branches of the Crlmlnll Court here. Ethiopia has only 502 luwmobuu WITNESSES DESCRIBE Liberty Magazine Defends Articla Called Libelous by Widow of Late Son of Gen. Sam Houston. By the Associated Press. the hearing of the lIOflDM libel suit against Liberty Magazine here yester- day two witnesses testified that Temple Houston, son of Gen. Sam Houston, early Texas hero, was given to exces- sive drinking and at such times was a dangerous character. W. O. Berry, former peace officers of | Woodward, Ckla., where Temple Hous- ton practiced law. Temple Houston's | lished article. Around $48,000. ~The amount of each Nobel. prize for | 1930 “will be approximately crowns, which is about $48,000, the total sum available for the five prizes this year being about 864,734 crowns. These | foundation auditors published today. The witnesses were Z. E. Coombs and | p, tne Associated Préss. HOUS'I"ON AS DANGEROUS IEA[:HER NEG].E[;T BLAMED 70 STATES FORT WORTH, Tex. March 28.—At Report on Survey Declares Extension Classes Not _Realized. NEW YORK, March 28. | Bellwood, dean of -State Teachers' Col- | widow and children sued the magazine | lege, Flagstaff, Ariz, yesterday sald | |on grounds the memory of Temple State boards of education had failed | jiguors, | Houston had been libeled by a pub- |realize their spportunities to set up ed lcational extension classes for teachers in service. Dean Bellwood’s assertion was made NOBLE PRIZES FIGURED |in a report of a survey of 32 State education boards which he read to the|France Asked to Intervene on New Eastern conference of directors of ex- Each Award for 1930 to Be Worth | tension education. He said that in every State, with the exception of Nevada, South Dakota ll;g 'TOC] Texas, the State departments function STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 28 (P). | . o extent in determining the pol 72,945 | icies and_regulations affecting exten sions service for teachers. L | sat.down .at tables. At a signal they WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1930. "o reoena. onr ssewrs MARCHAND DENIES Government Officers Seize 35 Cases of Assorted Liquors in Foray at Theater Hour. e Associated Press. KNOWING OF ‘PLOT NEW YORK, March 28—at tne| Resumes Stand to Testify height of the pre-theater rush a dosen Federal agents last night raided Dinty| Against Indian Woman for Moore’s restaurant, one of the best known dining places in the Broadway white lights district. ‘The agents entered one by one and Slaying Wife. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 28.—Henr! all arose and made & concerted Xush| \o onong resumed the stand today 0 downstairs to a storeroom, where, they | s.]d they found 35 cases of assorted | testify agalnst Lila Jimerson, Indian|’ woman on trfal as the aceomplice of Nancy Bowen, aged Cayuga, for the LACE DUTY PROTESTED |™iier o bis wie Cloinias Marchang U. 8. Rate. PARIS, March 28 (#).—The new |Indian life he had only casually re:d of "‘“ Maloney of defense counsel, Marcl swore he had never insisted that Lila act as nurse for his wu’c durlnl an illness of Mrs. Marchand. Marchand sajd in his book study of American duty on lace came in for a |the witcheraft practices of lm!hnl protest in the Senate today, when Sen- “Did Lila ask for a lock of hair ator Neron of the department of Haute- | your wife’s head about Avrfl 192"” Loire sald the tariff virtually had ex- | asked Maloney. cluded French lace from the United States market. He asked_ the govern- | “Yes,” the witness answered. The defense attorney then asked if Darwin and Wallace, in .855 arrived | ment to intervene and was assured that | he had not inquired of a co-worker at ! tion at practically the same time. totals are contained in the report of the | at the same conclusions regarding evolu- 'that the matter was being studied | the Buffalo Museum of Natural Science, closely. who was an authority on Indian life, HUGE ALCOHOL PLANT ° SEIZED IN NEW JERSEY Federal Agents Say 500,000 Gal- lons of Contraband Have Been Produced in Month’s Operation. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J,, March 28.—An alco- hol distilling plant said by dry agents to have cost $100,000 and to have a ca- pacity of 10,000 gallons of alcohol a day, ‘was seized nmmy by Federal prohibi- tion officers in building here. ‘The unu -IA the plant had been in openwm for about a month and has provided llmout 500,000 gallons of 190 proof alcohol. WINS $2,500 VERDICT NEW YORK March 2¢ (#).—Daphne Pollard, English music hall comedienne, now in Hol , yesterday won & fl- 500 settlement in her suit against & Bronx hotel fgr_ loss of jewelry vnlued liy her lt $13; %@M a ?hfinond safe-] o and Shas s drawer which thllwm Mflh Bovnwld Mfl‘d "so that two years ym- knew . that Lila was pre ractice witcheraft on your 7" n slnney “No,” sald Marchand empl Bach of six airplanes recently deliv- |routed the Communists, arrested 50 ered to the Greek navy carries a torpedo \ woman Reds and captured and burned weighing more than a ton and can at- | the Communists’ headquarters and tain a speed of mearly 200 miles an hour | school in the provincial effort to end ‘when diving to attack a target. / C]zeclz tlzese\ radical depredations in Southern Fukien. @ G PALAIS ROYAL @ Look! The Radio Feature of the Seasdn! R. C. A. Radiola 46 regularly retailing at $148%, in a smashing sale! /(HV\[JOLF] \\\‘é". 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