Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1930, Page 22

JUTHERN STATES SLAYING SUSPECTS HOLD PRIMARIES orth Carolina, lowa and Fiorida Hold Center of " Stage This Week. the Associated Press. A drama of the old South with a ne song that might be called “Shall ‘e Vote in 1930 As We Did in '28," | attract interest in the State pri- nary elections during the ¢oming week. | North Carolina is the locale. The plot | concerned with events of the presi- dential election two years ago, in which housands of Southern Democrats voted [Republican. The issue of 1928, with all its possi- bilities for gauging the future of North arolina’s voting strength, is squarely involved in the struggle for the Demo- ratic nomination for United States Senator. The primary will be held Sat- irday, June 7. The result, admittedly, s of ‘singular interest to both major parties. It should afford a basis for ap- pealing to voters of the State in the Jpresidential - election two years hence Likewise, it is regarded as important in he effort of Republicans to consolidate the gains they made in the State in Senator Simmons Blamed. President Hoover's plurality in North Carolina was 61,227. Democratic Gov. O. Max Gardner was elected by 72,594 votes. This huge apparent defection of IDemocratic votes was due to the ex- d ition of many Democrats o the views of Alfred E. Smith, the Iparty’s candidate for President. One branch of the Democratic party jin the State brands Senator Furnifold [McLendel Simmons as having been a leader of the movement, and he is vigorously opposed within his party on hat score. There are two other candidates for the nommnation, but the fight is con- ceded to be between Senator Simmons and Josiah W. Bailey, & Raleigh attor- ney. Bailey is a former editor of a church paper, and was an outstanding Bmith supporter two years ago. Thomas L. Estep is the third can- didate, He is running on a wet plat- on Tuesday and Florida on 'Wednesday will hold primaries. A con- test among Republicans in Iowa, with the tariff and farm relief as issues, has resulted in a.spirited bid for the nomi- nation to several offices. In Florida Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, 'Representative from the fourth district, has opposition for renomination. De- 'witt T. Deen, Daytona Beach attorney, is seeking the nomination on a plat- form calling for repeal of the eight- eenth amendment. Catts Returns to Politics. The return to politics of Sidney J. Catts, picturesque war-time governor of Florida, marks another interesting phase of the Democratic primary there. Catts seeks the nomination for Repre- sentative from the third district. ‘The Democratic-fight in North Caro- fina has been & bitter one. Full-page advertisements in the mewspapers and flery-titled pamphlets have blazoned the appeal of both wings of the party. Arguing for Senator' Simmons, some of the political tracts have been en- titled, “Tammany and North Carolina been Negroes Would Defeat Simmons.” “The Deadly Parailel.” Two booklets in behalf of Bailey were inscribed, “Why = Defeat Simmons?” “Let Us Have an End of Cut-throat Polities in the Democratic Party. Furntfold - McLendel Simmons is & frail-appearing man, now 75 years of age. For more than 28 years, without ® break, he has represented his State in the Senate, where he now is rec- ognized 88 a tariff expert and tax ad- viser who has few equals. Entering Congress first as a Representative back in 1886, he has won many & political battle in which the odds were heavy against him and is considered to have had as much influence over the politi- cal history of his State as any other North Carolinian. KENSINGTON BOY SCOUTS FIRST AT INSPECTION Bandy Spring Troop Finishes Sec- This bronze replica of the famous old wooden statue of Tecumseh on the grounds of the United States Naval Academy was unveiled yesterday. A present of the class of 1891, it was cast at the navy yard here. —Wide World Photo. BANDITS HARASS CHINESE NATIONALS | Government Denies Wound- ing of Chiang Kai-Shek as He Leads Troops. By the Asssoclated Press. . SHANGHAI, May 31.—The Na- tionalist government, hard pressed by the rebellious northern alliance troops in Honan Province, is being harrassed elsewhere by bandit and Communistic armies, ravaging several provinces. An ominous silence was imposed to- day on communications from the battle front in Honan, where the rebels have been fighting the government forces since May 8 in an attempt to over- throw the Nanking government and its president, Chiang Kai-Shek. The tide of battle apparently turned Wednesday, when the Northerners claimed they cap- tured 50,000 Nationalists and forced the government troops to rTetreat. Rumors that Chiang Kai-Shek had wounded in the arm by a shell fragment while leading the Nationalists were officially denied today by Nanking. Taking advantage of ghe govern- | ment's pre-occupation with rebel forces in Honan, Communists pressed their | attack upon the city of Changchow, 30 miles west of Amoy in Fukien Province. ‘Terrorized, thousands of the populace fled toward Amoy on the coast. A num- ber of foreign missionaries were pre- pared to follow momentarily. All Nationalist officlals of the city quit their posts and a portion of the government troops of the garrison joined the Red attackers. The Standard Oil Co.s Chinese agent at Changchow is! reported to have been kidnaped, the | Reds demanding $7,500 ransom. Meanwhile, the siege of Kanchow, Kiangsi Province, by bandit-Commu- nistic troops continued. Since early in March more than a scere of foreign missionaries, 16 of them American Catholics, have been held in the eity by‘mme outlaws besieging the city’s walls, HE SUNDAY BLAME EACH OTHER Woman Turns on Husband of | Victim, Declaring He Is “Double Crosser.” By the Associated Press. JEFFERSON, Ohio, May 31.—A young | woman's quest for happiness through | love of & married man and the slaying | of his wife, culminated today in the | filing of first degree murder charges against Mrs. Maude Lowther, 22-year- old housemaid, and Trilby Smith, 26, the man she loved. | The two were arraigned today before Justice of the Peace T. J. Weatherstone and held for the grand jury, June 9, in jal without bond. Both pleaded mot guilty. Calmly and without emotion, Mrs. ' Lowther, a dark-haired woman with sparkling black eyes who says she is a quarter-blood Indian, told officials and newspaper men how Smith plotted with | her to slay his 28-year-old wife, who | was shot through the temple on a | lonely road west of Ashtabula Thursday night. Born Near Clarksburg. Both defendants were said to have confessed yesterday to the plot to slay the woman, each blaming the other. Mrs. Lowther told how her quest for happiness began earlier in her youth an. her parent’s farm near Clarksburg, W. Va., where she was born. She Wwas the oldest of seven children. There was very little happiness then —mostly just work. ‘Two years ago, she met a man 25 years her senior. It was at a dance in Clarksburg. He promised many nice things. They were married and she was happy until he became jealous of her, she said, and left her. A little more than two weeks ago she met Smith at a motion picture theater. She fell in love and happiness returnéd. He then told her he was marrfed and bad two small children. Blamed Wife For Nagging. Mrs. Lowther said he told her his wife nagged him and he wanted to be rid of her. She said he gave her a re- volver and instructed r when to use it Mrs. Lowther then reiterated her al- leged confession of how she hid in a clump of busheés while Smith drove up with his wife and two small children and how she fired the revolver at the ‘woman and fled. “I loved Trilby, but now I hate him as much as I loved him,” Mrs. Lowther said. “I wouldn’t have told anything if he hadn't squawked. He's a double crosser and I hate him YOUNGEST CADET WINS HIGH SCHOLASTIC HONOR | Eugene G. Grab Elected Valedic- torian at Massanutten Mili- tary Academy. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., May 31.—Eugene G. Grab, the youngest member of his class, has been elected valedictorian of Massanutten Military Academy, Wood- stock, Va., at finals beginning June 2, it was announced yesterday. Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Grab, the youth attended | the Johnson-Powell Graded School in ‘Washington six years, then a junior high school in Nashville, Tenn, one year and has completed a four-year course in three years at Massanutton, setting & new record at that insti- tution, it was said. He led his class scholastically each year, and has won several gold medals. He was assistant editor of the school paper, the Oyez, his second year and associate editor the past year. He was a member of the Jefferson Liter- ary Soclety debating team, winner of the inter-society debating contest this year. He is managet of the academy tenfis team. He plans to enter the freshman class of the Unijversity. of Pennsylvania next Fall, specializing in chemical engineering. HINES TO BE TRIED LOS ANGELES, May 31 (#).—Johnny Hines, film comedian, will face a jury trial June 25 in Municipal Court on charges of being drunk in an automo- bile. He pleaded not gulity today. The actor, sald his attorney, Henry STAR, WASHINGTON WOULD SET LIMIT T0CHICAGO WATER Great Lakes Attorneys Gen- eral Urge States to Join in Diversion Fight. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 31.—At- torneys general of Great Lakes States opposing unlimited water diversion from Lake Michigan at Chicago decided to| attempt to effect a compact among the States, fixing a specific amount that may be diverted in any Great Lakes- Mississipp! water commerce project, at a conference here today. The conferees agreed to ask the Sec- retary of War to call & conference of attorneys general of all the interested States, including Iilinois, for the pur- pose of considering such a compact. Should such an agreement be entered into by the States, each would have to ratify it through legislative action and the Congress would have to give its ap- proval to make it effective, it was said. The attorneys general declared their complete disapproval of provisions of the rivers and harbors bill now before Congress which would give the Secretary of War authority to permit diversion restricted only as to amount “necessary to meet the needs of a commercial waterway.” They declared there must be a specific limitation in the bill and expressed the belief that 1,000 cubic feet per second would be ample. |ST. JEROME’S CHURCH LAWN FETE PLANNED Festival at Hyattsville to Start Monday Evening at 7:30 O’Clock. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., May 31.—Fin- ishing touches are bem? put on plans for the annual lawn fete under the auspices of and for the benefit of St. Jerome's Catholic Church, which will start Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock and continue every evening through Saturday. It will be staged on the Howard property on the Washington- Baltimore boulevard next to the Na- tlonal Guard Armory here. A. C. Keegin is chairman of the com- mittee in charge of the affair. He will have the assistance of approximately 75 men and women of the church. A special prize will be given away each evening at 10 o'clock, the award next Saturday being an electric re- frigerator. Prizes also will be awarded at the various stands. Attractions will include the bingo game, sugar and coffee stand, merchandise stand, fish pond, toy stand, candy stand, ice cream and cake and “hot dog” stands, ball game stand, a horse-shoe pitching game and horo- scope. A ferris wheel and chairplane also will be at hand. MRS. MARY G. CLINE DIES Blood Transfusions Fail to Save Life in Allegheny Hospital. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md, May 31.—Mrs. Mary Grace Cline, wife of J. Ernest Cline, died early today at Allegheny Hospital after two blood transfusions had been made. Mrs, Cline was ughter of the late Daniel and Malinda Kelly of Winches- ter, Va. Besides her husband, she Is survived by one son, Harry K. Cline, a law student. Mrs. Cline was a member of St. Pat- rick's Catholic Church and of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was a niece of Laura J. Arnold, noted in the Civil War for her exploits in securing information for the leaders of the Confederacy, told in song and story by writers in Southland. SENTENCED FOR ESCAPE Prisoner Who Attacked Guard and Fled Gets Five Years. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va., May 31—John Pincher, one of the two convicts who escaped from the State lime grinding plant near here 10 days ago, after at- thieves which yielded over $1,300,000 in loot. vate detective, is credited with the revelation and subsequent arrest of the thieves. NEW YORK | 3 | | | Noel C. Scaffa, pri- Holders of Policies, First of By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, May 31.—Recent kidnapings and extortions here have re- sulted in the sale of insurance policies to a number of Kansas City 1en, pro- tecting them against victimization. ‘The insurance against kidnaping is believed the first sold in the United Btates. It is offered by a London com- pany through CIiff Jones, a Kansas City agent. A premium of 1 per cent is charged for'a maximum policy of $50,000. Mr. Jones said he had obtained the insurance at considerable cost to satisfy | an expressed demand. Names of pu: chasers of the insurance were not ai nounced. A clause of the policy re- quires the insured person to maintain | complete secrecy of his ownership. Each purchaser also must sign a statement | saying he has no reason to believe he | INSURANCE AGAINST KIDNAPING | - WRITTEN FOR KANSAS CITY MEN MONDAY AT HYATTSVILLE to Keep Identity Secret. | 30 Are Hurt as Crack French Train | will be kidnaped. 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Hume, who has been placed In charge of the collection of trash In the town, has announced that and second wards next Monday, in the third ward next Tuesday and Wednes- day and in the fourth ward next Thurs- day. Hereafter this schedule of collection in the first and second wards the first | Monday and in the other wards the succeeding Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be maintained monthly. Councilman Hume has asked house- holders to place their trash in coi tainers in front of their houses or a point on their property where it can easily be seen by the collector. Council- man Hume, who is chairman of the health committee of the council, has had charge of the garbage collection service here for some time and, upo: request of Dr. H. T. Willis, mayor, hi taken over the trash collection servi in the absence because of illness of | Councilman J. Moses Edlavitch. Coun- | cilman Edlavitch is chalsman of the | | street cleaning committee. AMERICAN FURNITURE CO. While victims were Mentifying theix jewels and diamen ds. at'polise headquarters in New York, after captare of gem | Loxis ) Joom, 1t Robert Nelson. alleged fence, was arraigned in court. | “To children an anzel ORBITAL ELEMENTS OF PLANET STUDIED Brussels Observations on “Pluto” Draw Comment From Harvard Scholar. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 31.—-Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, commenting on observa- tions made by Dr. V. M. Slipher, di- rector of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz, on the recently dis- covered planet, “Pluto,” tonight said that recent information from the Royal Observatory of Belgium at Brus- sels permits a reconsideration of the orbital elements of the planet. Dr. Shapley said: “At the Royal Observatory of Bel- gium at Brussels an object has been de- tected on a photographic plate of Janu- ary 27, 1927, which appears to be planet X (Pluto). This earlier position permits a reconsideration of the orbital ele- ments. As expected, some of the prop- erties of the planet's orbit were well determined by the Lowell Observatory computations, and others have been greatly changed. Dr. Crommelin of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. England, using the new Brussels position, has computed a new orbit which indicates that the period of planet X is approxi- mately 265 years, and that the planet is approaching the sun at the present time, rather than receding. For the will get gradually brighter, though it will always be diffi- cult to work on, since it never will get much nearer the sun than the planet Neptune. “About a hundred new positions of the planet have been measured at the observatories in all parts of the world since the announcement of the dis- covery in March. The last positions received today at the Harvard Observa- tory came from the Yerkes Observatory, where Dr. Van Biesbroeck reports the conclusion of his series for the current year. The planet is now getting into the twilight in the western sky and will not be available for satisfactory ob- servance until the Fall of the year.” ‘The work of the Refugee Settlement Commission in Greece s nearing com- pletion. LUCKY TIGER BumsteadsWormSyrup mercy ' Where followed. IT NEVER or by mall. 50¢c a bottle. Eet. C. A, Voorhees, M. D., Philadelphls ions _are 8. ¥ [l FAIL: 00 Allowance on Your Old Suite TRADE-IN SALE NO RED TAPE. $35.00 allowance on your old suite, regardless of its $5.00 allowance on your old bed, spring, mattress, kitchen Our same Liberal Terms at no extra cost | tacking and wounding two guards, and | who was later captured in Hagerstown, | Md., was sentenced to five years in the | State penitentiary for felonious escape, M. Willis, will blame cream puffs in his defense. ' Hines was arrested Thursday with a woman companion who police said fell down as she left his car. Hines THREE HURT IN BLASTS ATLANTA, Ga., May 31 (#)—Two ond and Silver Spring Is Placed Third. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, May 31—Upon their arrival in Vinsons woods, near Rockville, early yesterday afternoon, where they were encamped until this morning, five Montgomery County Boy Scout troops were inspected by a com- mittee of the scoutmasters of the vari- ous organizations and points were awarded on pitching tents, carrying of cks, condition of bedding, cloth- explosions, believed to have been caused by a short circuit in a manhole of the | Georgia Power Co., injured three work- men_here today. William T. Sneed and W. F. Thomas, who were working on high-voltage wires in the manhole, were burned seriously about the head, face and arms. B, M. Smith, whoewas in the street beside the hole, was burned slightly on the arms offered the explanation that they had eaten cream puffs at a party which disagreed with them, and that their in_ Circult Court here. 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