Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1930, Page 35

HUSBAND ALED N TRPLE DETH Florida Man, Whose Wife and Boy Were Slain With Ax, | to Be Questioned. By the Associated Press. | SEBRING, Fla, April 4—William R. Carver, former Philadelphia real es- | tate man, was held in jail here for questioning today in the ax killings of his wife and 2-year-old son, which a coroner’s jury had blamed on a Negro | yard boy, whom Carver shot to death.. Mrs. Carver and her boy were killed in the Carver home here Wednesday. Carver was arrested yesterday, after of- | ficers learned that he was beneficiary in a $10,000 insurance policy of Mrs. Carver, taken out last December. Sheriff Oscar Wolff said stains Te- | sembling blood had been found on & | pair of Carver's golf trousers. | Testimony at the coroner’s inquest | said the Carvers were enjoying their regular seista when Mrs. Carver was awakened by & noise in her room. She cried out when she saw the Negro at the dressing table filling his pockets with her jewelry. Carver, it was tes- tified, was_in an adjoining room and rushed to his wife just in time to see the Negro fell her with an ax. While he picked up his pistol. the coroner was told, the Negro killed the child with the ax. Carver recently moved here from Philadelphia. His father, Samuel Car- ver, a steel manufacturer and real es- tate dealer, came here from his Win- ter home in Miami when he learned of the tragedy. BROKER SURRENDERS IN $457,213 SHORTAGE @George A. Ravinius, Boston Rep- resentative of Cotton Firm, Blames Market Losses. By ths Associated Press. BOSTON, April 4—George A. Ra- winius of Winchester, Boston representa- #ive of the firm of George H. McFadden, Philadelphia cotton merchants, walked nto the Milk Street police station yes- terday and told ofScers there, they said, that he was short $457,218 in his ac- eounts. Ravinius, 45 years old, prominent so- | allly, and father of four children, amed stock market losses for his pre- dicament, police said. | ‘They declared he told them that he had obtain>d $257,213 from the At-| lantic National Bank by means of loans on forged bills of lading, while the re- mainder of the loss was sustained by McFadden Co. through his manipula- tlon of warehouse receipts. | Police said Ravinius declared he ‘wanted to be locked up because he was “afraid of what he might do.” They said the Atlantic bank confirmed the | fact that it held a draft against Ra-| vinius for the amount he admitted was due to that institution. | BILL WOULD AUTHORIZE GOVERNMENT LAND SALE | Secretary of War Requests House Measure to Dispose of 40 Acres of Reclaimed Property. A bill to authorize the sale of 40 acres ' of Government-owned land at Battery | Cove, near Alexandria, Va., was intro- - duced in the House yesterday at the request of Secretary of War Hurley. The land was reclaimed by the War Department in connection with the im-| provement of the Potomac River. Its| value, together with improvements, was estimated by Secretary Hurley at $400,- 520. The proceeds from the sale would be deposited to the military post con- struction fund of the War Department. Aside from the 40 acres the War De- tment wants to sell, Secretary Hur- | ey sald it is planned to transfer nearly six additional acres of the reclaimed land to the Department of Agriculture for the use of the Bureau of Public Roads in connection with the work of constructing the Mount Vernon Memo- rial Highway. SENATORS TO SPEAK Hastings and Townsend Invited to Address Delaware Society. Benators Hastings and Townsend of Delaware have been invited to address the Delaware State Society at its fifth annual banquet Saturday night, April 26, at the Raleigh Hotel. Gov. C. Douglas Buck of Delaware and many others prominent in public life of that Btate are expected to attend. Following the banquet, at which Rob- ert G. Houston, president of the soclety, Wwill be toastmaster, a dance will be held. The committee in charge con- sists of Shelton Fairchild, Willlam J. Kirkland, Ralph Bailey, George Ray- mond, Mrs. Mary C. McCloskey, Miss Gertrude Bacon and Mrs. D, E. Cole- man. —_— MAKES CONCESSIONS Peasants Who Remain Loyal to Farm Movement Rewarded. MOSCOW, April 4 (#).—The govern- ment yesterday announced a number of sweeping concessions to peasants who remain loyal to the collective farm movement or return to the collective farms following the recent exodus which resulted from the new policy to appease them. ‘The privileges, which are intended to save the government’s monumental agricultural collectivization scheme from any possibility of failure, include: Exemption from taxation, for a period of two years, of all cattle, horses, hogs and poultry belonging both to individual gnrmeu and members of the collective arms. | Tried as Bandit Aide MRS. BARBARA DALTON Of Norfolk, Va., aecused by Floyd Dren- nan as woman who aided him in hold- ing up Peoples State Bank of New Boston, Mich., asserted on the stand she was victim of “frame up.” —Associated Press Photo. 7RAILHOAD WOMEN MEET Engineers and Firemen’s Auxiliary Selects Bluefield for Next Sessions. By the Assoclated Press. ROANOKE, Va,, April 4.—Bluefield, ‘W. Va, was selected as next year's con- vention city by the ladies’ socleties of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, in convention here, The 1931 meeting will also be held April 2. At yesterday's convention 200 mem- bers were present. Miss Agnes Strong of Towa, grand president, was the prin- cipal speaker. A motor is more easily started with AUTOCRAT MOTOR OIL. It is more efficient at both low and high temperatures, and functions efficiently more quickly than ordinary oils. Nothing is more important than thorough lubrication. AUTOCRAT—The oll that Is Qifferent from all others. 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