Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1930, Page 22

SING SING PISTOL MOT IS SFED Convict Killed Self After Four Armed Men Failed to Break Prison. By the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y., November 3 —Sing Sing Prison authorities sought to learn today how pistols were smuggled to four inmates whose attempt to shoot their way out resulted in the death of one of them and the wounding of another don, 23, the inmate who lost his life in the attempted break Saturday night, committed suicide after he had wounded a guard and had been shot twice by the guard. Guards Find Knives. As & precaul attempt to escape, 100 guards yesterday searched the quarters of the 2,230 in- mates and other parts of the prison. They found a coll of rope with a hook attached similar to that used by the four in their attempted break, a few table knives and an imitation pistol fashioned from wood. Edward Ryan, Willlam La Plerre and Herbert Davis, the survivors, were held in solitary confinement. Wall Scaling Fails. ‘The attempt to escape was made after | the four re-entered their cell block from the prison chapel about 7 pm. They thrust four guards and five trusties into & store room, locked them in and made their way to the yard where they attempted to throw a large hook at- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, March, 1929, to serve 10 years for rob- bery. Ryan is under a 32-year sen- tence, begun in November, 1927. Davis is serving five to 10 years for robbery and La Plerre is serving 20 to 25 years for robbery, Ryan's original sentence was increased after he escaped in 1928 and was recaptured in New York. CUBA FIGHTS—EOMMUNISM | Government Intensifies Campaign Against Red Activity. NEW YORK, November 3 (#).— | government campaign to wipe out Co munism in Cuba is to be intensified, says & statement made yesterday by President Machado through Gen. Del- gado, secretary of the interior. ‘The President said he planned to de- vote his time to large problems and look after the betterment of the labor- ing class throughofit the country, Com- munists will be closely watched by the police and prosecuted whenever pos- From the Front Row Reviews and News of Wllhindton'l Theaters. Good Burlesque Show At the Gayety Theater. l;RlTZLE ‘WHITE, an attractive bit of feminine charm, supported by Hickman and Startsman, two clever burlesque comedians, cater to the entertainment seekers at the Gaytey “Dimpled Darlings.” has both dynamic charm and pery sonality, was indorsed yesterday by an enthusiastic audience with many encores. Lee Hickman, tramp come- dian, provoked much laughter with his strut and his big, black cigar, and Startsman, with eccentricities and dry humor, also wins apprecis, jon. and Harry Conner, juvenile dancer, with Roberts, Bent and Driscoll in whirlwind dancing, and I. J. Irving, “magician extraordinary.” 'l\mfil. wodnudni/‘ and Friday nights there will be other attractions supplementing the burlesque program. o Aristotle paid h of the number 3. wi to the holiness 1930. WELLMAN, FIRST TO TRY ATLANTIC FLIGHT, IS 72 Early Pilot Got 1,000 Miles Over Ocean 21 Years Ago—Also Tried Polar Hop. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 3.—Walter Wellman, whose airship voyage from Atlantic City 21 years ago was the first attempted transatlantic flight, celebrated his seventy-second birthday anniversary today in his apartment on upper Broad- airship voyage of 1909 wasn't a but Wellman and his crew did succeed in fiying & thousand miles in| 79 hours, and the veteran declares to | this day that “if we had hit a south-| gal tead of & nor'easter,” the | America’s erew wowld fot have had to| rescued by the steamship Trent in | mid-Atlantic. [ ars before his transatlantic rojected a fiight same airship, | America, but the equilibrator broke, au before the flight could be achieved Peary had found the pole. | Stove—Boiler ' Repairs - Rudolph & West Co. Located 605 R. I. Ave. N.E. North 6613 A book published some years before the disaster actually took place fore- told with astonishing accuracy the wreck of the Titanic, which occurred in the year 1912. | prisoner and a guard. tached to a rope over the 30-foot wall. | sible. 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