Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1930, Page 7

| FORGER'S FREEDOM PLOT DISCOVERED Warden Checks Court Writ and Is Informed It Is Spurious. By the Ascocinted Press, LEAVENWORTH, Kans., September | 8. —Hays Van Gorder, forger extraordi- | nary, who once escaped from the Fed eral Penitentiary here by means forged documents, attempted to gain his freedom again yesterday by having A bogus court writ demanding his presence in Duluth, Minn., delivered to Warden T. B. White. ‘The warden said the purported writ | bore the forged signature of Judge Wil- | liam A. Cant of the Minnesota Federal| District Court. White became suspi- cious and telegraphed the court clerk, who replied the writ was spurious. | Prison officials then searched Van | Gorder -and found on him two long knives, two handcuff keys, an imitation | pistol, made of wood, with a metal pipe | for a barrel; pepper and finely ground | tobacco, a razor blade and 50 cents i 0 THE SENTRY SEIZES ARMY MOTOR AND LEAVES WITH PRISONER BVENTNG o ! Guard and Man in Custody on Desertion “harge Flee From Fort Myer. Port Myer was thrown into an up-, tives, while a detail of soldiers was sent roar of confusion yesterday when it was | on the trail of the men in another ma- learned that a sentry had commandeer- | chine. *d an Army automobile and driven away | Officials declared this was the most with udprlsoner he had been assigned | daring escape in the history of the post. to guard. A BB T The sentry, Pvt. John Flynn of | While the great organ was accom- Battery A, 16th Field Artillery, was| panying the choir during the “Mag= armed with a service revolver and at- | nificat” in a service in St. Paul's Ca- tired in regulation khaki uniform when | thedral, London, recently, it went out ! e drove away from the Fort Myer of action and the organist had to able in the afternoon in a small coupe. | descend hurriedly and finish the ac- e was accompanied, by Pvt. Robert E. | companiment on an emergency piano. Edison. 26 years old, 'of Taylor's VAlleY, | mmm——————e Va. Edison was attached to the 5lst| Coast Artillery until he was sent to the guardhouse for desertion some six months ago. | Several other soldiers were loitering | around the stable when Flynn drove | up, opened the door of his car, permit- | ted Edison to step in and then sped | away in the direction of Washington. | District police immediately were | asked to be on the lookout for the fugi- | dieal Glassen Fittea yes Examined DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist e Natwnal 0321 Phon 409-410 McLachlen Bildg. 10th and G Sts. N.W. AR, WASHINGTON, PLANS TO RECALL BORGLUM PROGRESS Sculptor May Resume Stone Moun- tain Work on Grander Scale Than Before. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., September 3.— Gutzon Borglum may resume work on the Stone Mountain Confederate Me- morial “on a grander scale than ever before.” The Atlanta Journal said yesterday that negotiations for the xcturn of Borglum, who directed the first carving of the Confederate group on the . SEPTEMBUR 1930. |“LEGS” DIAMOND DENIES HIS GANG REJECTED HIM 3 Cs mountain, had been virtuslly completed, and that a committee of 16 Atlanta it Was formed to take over direction of the project. Complete accord with the project of Mayor-elect James L. Key for the City of Atlanta to supervise completion of New York Gangster, Under Arrest the project was announced by tne Venable family, owners of the mountain, and G. in Germany, Awaits Action of illis, president of the W Stone Mountain Memorial Association. | Prussian Authorities. Borglum, who came here from Rapid | BY the Associated Press. City, S. D,, several days ago, announced | AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, Germany, Sep- | he will leave Atlanta Si y night, soon | tember 3. —Jack “Legs” Diamond, New | WEDNESDAY. after he has outlined his plans for | York gangster under arrest here, is| resumption of the memorial project to | more indignant at cabled reports from | a mass meeting of Atlanta citizens. | the New York Police that h» went to | These plans, he said, contemplate | Europe because his gang was “fed up” fincreasing the size of the original | with him than at his detention here. figures in_the memorial group, and in | He said the reports were not true making Stone Mountain the central| The American consul advised polize project in a gigantic park system which | here that the authorities of neither would include Kenesaw Mountain | Washington nor New York battlefield and the Peach Tree Creck | ferested in arrest of Diamond nor his battlefield of Atlanta. extradition anvwhere, It is now for were in- | the Prussian minist to d:cide the 's fate, This probably will involve negotiations between the em- bassy and the German foreign office to insure his return to the United States since no other country is expected to | allow him to enter there. N i CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Kit Carson Women's Relief | Corps. Soldiers, Sailors and Marines’ | Club House, 1015 L street, 8 p.m. Dinner, Central Methodist Church, | Bethesda, Md., 5 to 8 p.m. | Card party, Walker Hill Dairy, 530 | Seventh street southeast. 8:30 p.m. | FUTURE. Card party, Women's Benefit Asso- | ciaticn Club. 1750 Massachusetts ave- | ' nue, tomorrow, 8:15 p.m f A7 U. §. Studies Slate Roofs. By the Associated Press. What weathering agents are most destructive to slate roofs and what qualities in slate resist these agents are being studied by the Bureau of Standards. e e—— For Rent THE ARGONNE 16th and Columbia Road N.W. 2 Bed Rooms, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Bath and Reception Room ELECTRIC REFRIGERATION change. 1t is believed the prisoner intended | to use the pepper and tobaceo to blind | Our Entire Stock of ORIENTAL WORKMEN OF WELDIT CO. N _WELDING THE TAIL ON 2\ BUFFALO,AT QST BRIDGE. the guard who would have accompanied SEEAL ) him on the trip to Duluth had not the | ¢ =1 1=K~ plot been discovered ‘The Department of Justice was noti- fied and will investigate the manner in | \ DR EAR —DR-A-B : WHEN IT COMES TO WELD- IN6WE ARE THERE. which the writ was delivered to the | warden. White said he could not ex- plain how the paper got in his mafl. Van Gorder escaped from the peni- STITCII in TIME, Saves Nine—Old, but it fits in on the modern auto fender. A 75¢ weld in that small crack may prevent it going to pieces, besides it stops that much rattle. Bumpers, $1.50; Chevrolet engine heads exchanged, $4.50, etc. WELD it and save money and time. Weldit Co., 516 First St. N.W. Metropolitan 2416 Closed Saturdays During August tantiary March 2, 1929, on a forged writ | of habeas corpus and three court or- ders, purported to have been from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals | at Topeka. 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