Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1930, Page 6

BODY WILL STUD MERCHANT MARINE Hoover Expects New Com- mission to Report in 60 Days. By the Associated Press | President Hoover intends to apply his | favorite solution to the problems of the 8hipping Board and the American Mer- | chant Marine. | He expects soon to appoint a com- | mittee of “outstanding men” to conduct 8 survey, consult with the board on policies and advise him on controversial questions. At present the board is considering | bids for the sale of the Black Diamond and Cosmopolitan lines in the Atlantic | and proposals that it lend $60.000,000 | of Federal funds to the United States | lne for new construction. | Mr. Hoover has received many repre- | aentations in connection with these | rojects and, he said in announcing | is intention of appointing the com- | mittee, he feels he cannot pas sonally upon the highly controve questions involved. The inqu | expects, will not take more than 60 | days. | FIRST MRS. SHEPARD’S EXHUMATION SOUGHT Los Angeles Coroner Awaits Formal Request From Department of Justice. By the Associsted Press LOS ANGELES, June 7.—Continu- dng a several months’ investigation, De- partment of Justice agents today sought exhumation of the body of the first wife of Maj. Charles A. Shepard, Army medical officer, now under indictment at Topeka, Kans., for the murder of his second wife. | Coroner Frank Nance said he was awaiting receipt of a formal request from the Department of Justice before ordering the disinterment. Mrs. Clara | Elizabeth Shepard, the first wife, was buried in an Englewood, Calif., cem-| etery 17 years ago. | R. J. Caffrey, a Justice agent, said the department wished to have the body | snalyzed for poison. Maj. Shepard is| alleged to have poisoned his second | wife, Mrs. Zenna Shepard, at Fort Riley, | Kan. He was arrested in Denver, Colo.. | and is at liberty under $20,000 bond pending his trial in Topeka next De- cember. | At the time of his arrest Mai. Shep- ard denied he was engaged at the time of his second wife's death to Miss Grace Brandon, a stenographer at Kelly Fleld, San Antonio, Tex. | CONTEMPT CASE HEARING | AUTOMATICALLY HALTED | W. G. McAdoo, Counsel for News-| paper Publishers, Challenges Court's Rejection of Prejudice Plea. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 7.—An alter- nate writ of prohibition, ordering a | temporary stay on the contempt of | court proceedings against the Los An- geles Evening Record. was issued by the California Supreme Court yester- day. Stuperior Judge Frank C. Collier, be- fore whom the contempt hearing was to have been held next Monday, was | ordered to appear before the court in San Francisco on July 8 to show cause why he should not recognize an affida- vit alleging prejudice filed against him | by William Gibbs McAdoo, chief coun: sel for the -mewspaper.. | The order automatically postponed hearing of the case until after July 8. | Judge Collier filed an answer denying the prejudice allegation. | The publisher and editors of the Record are accused of 13 counts contempt, based upon a series of ct toons and articles criticising the county | grand jury and the district attorney | in connection with their investigation of the Julian Petroleum Corporation stock overissue fraud. Members of the 1os Angeles Bar Association brought | the action. | ARRESTED AS KIDNAPER Former Mexican Detective Charged | With Plot Against America. MEXICO CITY, June 7 (A).—Julio | Lacroix, a Frenchman, who served on | the Mexico City detective force 20 years, | yesterday was arrested on a charge that he headed a gang which attempted to kidnap Sam Johnson, an American, who | had lived in Mexico for many_years. Police interfered just as five men attacked Johnson on the streets of a | suburb here. One of the gang was | arrested and the police say he confessed that they planned to kidnap ‘and rob | the American Lecroix left the detective force several years ago. Police sald yesterday they had learned he was once a prisoner of the French penal colony at Cayenne and escaped. Artist Sues for Divorce. CHICAGO, June 7 (#).—Mrs. Ger- trude Helen Fisher, 26-year-old artist, yesterday filed suit for divorce against Ellis Fisher, stepson of Alex Parker, millionaire Philadelphia manufacturer, | charging cruelty. She said they had separated April 23, after a brief married life. She asks.custody of a daughter, | Eleanor, a few weeks old | BACK HOME DAY SISTER, 75, AND BROTHER, 66, LEAVE TO HITCH-HIKE 500 MILES HOME HAS PRISON RECORD | tiary, STAR, W DEFENDANT IN SUIT Man Sued for Breach of Promise Served Nine Years in Dannemora. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 7.—The Exami- ner today says that Charles T. Davis, wealthy Los Angeles resident recently named defendant in a $200,000 breach of promise suit brought by Miss Cano Morris, former show girl, is Charlie Davis, millionaire ex-convict from the Dannemora, N. Y., Prison Austin Davis, son of the man who last March dropped from sight after being released from the New York peniten- admitted, the newspaper said, that his father wa sthe same Charlie | Davis who had gone to Dannemora Prison after shooting to death a de- tective who allegedly was attempting to blackmail him. Since coming to Cali- fornia Davis was said to have been liv- ing here with his son and the son's wife. New York police records show that Davis served 9 years of a 20-year sen- tence. Financial records show that HINGTON D. € 8, evaluated at $57,000, and when he was Teleased it was worth $2,500,000. The success was attributed in financial cir- Cles to the managemeni of Davis from behind prison bars. Austin Davis was quoted as saying that following his father's release from prison trouble arose between Davis and his wife, which resulted in Mrs. Davis | receiving a cash award of $770,000 for signing an agreement to live apart from her husband. Austin went with his father and Luther, 13, another son, with the mother, Mrs. Davis is now in Reno, Nev. Davis came into local prominence this week when Miss Morris filed her breach of promise suit. 1l BODIES ARE RECOVERED Seven Found as Flood Waters Re- cede in Mexico. MEXICO CITY, June 7 (#)—Dis- patches from the City of Chihuahua sald last night that seven bodies had been recovered following the recession of the flooded Chaviscar River, which inundated 25 blocks in the lower part of the city yesterday. Most of the victims were workmen who were bolstering levees that gave after the river rose following & storm. Property damage Wwas The lapel “nick” in coats was orig- inally a secret sign. Those Who sup- ported Gen. Moreau in his rivalry with the Emperor Napoleon agreed to nick their lapels to form an M. That served V Almond Walker and his sister, of long standing by visit the Capital, 5 Mrs. Olive Jennings said that she would like & cup of coffee and perhaps & slice of bread, and her brother, Almond Walker, sald that a dish of fried pota- toes and a glass of water would do him. They bent their gray heads over the food in a little arm-chair lunch on lower Eighteenth street yesterday morning, paid out 20 cents for the repast and departed smiling. What the counter man did not know was that the 75-year-old woman and her 66-year-old brother, thus fortified, had set out to hitch hike the 500 miles home to Spring Borough, Pa They came here in spite of their pinched circumstances to see the White House, the Capitol and Mount Vernon, a life-long desire. Yesterday they left again, happy In the realization. “"“We always wanted to come to Wash- ington,” Mrs. Jennings confided to the couple from whom they rented rooms at 418 Eighteenth street, “but you know how it is on the farm; it seemed like we Mrs. Olive Jennings, who fulfilled a desire | its purpose until the nick became fash- ionable. when Davis entered the prison the busi- ness of Davis & Geck of Brooklyn was An Attractive Home In Beautiful Edgemoor A REAL VALUE! A home of distinctive Individuality! Designed along strikingly beautiful lines with eight large rooms and two baths, consisting of a large living room, din- ing room, breakfast room and kitchen and four unusually large bed rooms. Servant's room and bath in_basement. A built-in garage and hot-water heat add greatly to its comfort. It is de- tached and of all-brick construction with tile roof. $23,500 Terms may be arranged. —Harris & Ewing Photo. | just couldn't get away. Every time we | decided to come, something turned up. | | “Then one day I said to William: ‘William, we're getting no younger, and times are getting no better. We haven't got much now, but maybe it'll never be more!’ So we left.” | | The couple came over in two days via the hitch-hike route, arrive Thursday. That same day they saw | the White House, and stayed several | hours in the hope of getting a glimpse of the President. Friday they went back to the White | | House and again yesterday. In the interval they walked to the Capitol, | were hoisted to the top of the Wash- | ington Mounment, viewed the Lincoln | Memorial and, best of all, made a suc- | | cessful hitch-hike to Mount Vernon. “Well make it home,” predicted Mrs. Jennings this morning, smiling happily. “William and I don't look | much like hold-up men to folks in automobiles, I guess.” 6921 Fairfax Road, Edgemoor, Md. Wis- onto Road. drive morth on turn left Fatrfaz the property, to Bethesda Bank. Lane “and then to To reach consin _Ave. Edgemoor Fidelity Mortgage Investment Company 507 11th Street N.W. National 2431 ADMISSION OF $300,000 SHORTAGE IS REVEALED | Audit of Accounts of Sales Mana- ger of Investment Firm in 8t. Louis Begun. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, June 7—An official of the First National Co., investment divi- sion of the First National Bank, last night said a shortage of $300,000 in his accounts has been admitted by Frank L. Berryhill, sales manager of the com- pany. An’ audit of Berryhill's accounts was begun at once to determine the exact amount of misappropriation of securi- ties turned over by customers to Berry- hill for investment and safekeeping. Berryhill was a World War officer verseas and a university graduate, be- ing a leader in student affairs, includ- ing chairmanship of the university’s honor committee in his senior year. Friends attributed his troubles to stock market speculation. | POOL ROOM PROPRIETOR HELD IN ARSON CHARGE Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md, June Stephen Freno, proprietor of the South End Bowling and Billiard Parlor at 517 Virginia avenue, was held for the action of the October grand jury after a hearing before Magistrate Prank A. Perdew in Peoples' Court yesterday on | & charge of arson. 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