Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1930, Page 7

30 MONTHS GIVEN INEXTORTION CASE ~Two Misspelled Words Prove Undoing in Attempt to Obtain $25,000. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, December 26.— Oharles L. Duncan, 23, was sentenced o 2% years in the Missouri Peniten- attempting to extort $25,000 from R. A. Long, wealthy lumberman. Col. Charles Edwards, chairman of the Crime Prevention Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, and Detective Lieut. E, L. Nelson said Duncan con- fessed last night he threatened death to the millionaire head of the Long-Bell Lumber Co. in two notes. In a handwriting test, they said, the youth missp:lled street and curbing, peculiarities of the message to Long directing disposition of the $25,000. They quoted his sentence: “I saw a drunken man lying in the streat by the curbon.” Duncan confessed, they said, when contronted by the identical spelling. Long gave the letters, postmarked December 17 and December 22, to Col. Edwards as he received them and de- clined a sp:cial guard. ‘The youth, unemployed since April, was arrested Wednesday at a boulevard | intersection where he had directed Long to toss the money. | tiary by Judge Ralph S. Latshaw today on a plea of guilty to a charge of Col. Edwards, his face muffled in his | overcoat collar and a rifle beneath the | ~ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, laprobe on his knees, rode by the inter- section at the specified time Wednesday afternoon and threw out a decoy package. Five patrol cars closed in on the area, Duncan started from the shadow of a colonnade toward the package, polic: said, and then, observing a patrol squad, moved away. He protested his innocence 20 hours. ‘The prisoner’s widowed mother, Mrs. Nola E. Duncan, wept last night when informed of her son’s confession. The youth, she said, wds an epileptic. i‘l‘(H”'s a good boy,” she said, “but he’s sick.” oy = Who Can Spell Whew ? NEWARK, N. J. (NANA)—The following sentence was given to school pupils as a spelling test: “Hugh, can you see whether it is the ewe or the wether that the weather has driven under the yew of the deepest hue?"” (Copyright. 1930. paper_Alliance.) by North American News- | CHURCH TALKING PICTURE SHOWS PLANNED BY PRESBYTERIAN BOARD By the Assoclated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., Talking picture machines will give me- chanical church services in four Pres- byterian churches here January 12-15. H. Paul Janes, young member of the division of visual aids, publication de- PRIDAY, 1 w20, 1950, Graphic Setting of Music to Emphasize Psalm Background for Addresses—Local Pastors Lead Prayers. December 26.— partment of the Board of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church in the | United States of America, gave a private demonstration of the program here. ‘The equipment, if it satisfies the board, will be offered to churches all over the Nation, Mr. Janes said. ‘The program included an organ - ude, “The Angelus”; the sho orlga ‘Twenty-third Psalm, illustrated in color with musical background; a number of hymns, two talking pictures in which Dr. William Ralph Hill, director ef the department of home and church, and Dr. Willlam Chalmers Covert, general secretary of the board, spoke, and a postlude. Mr. Janes said he believed the equip- ment could be installed for a maximum of $1,500. He said there was no plan to substi- tute “canned” sermons for ministers, explaining such a step would, “of course, destroy the element of local interest.” ‘The prayers, he added, would be left to the ministers in the four public demon- strations here. Right Reserved to Limit Quantities KENTUCKIANS PROBE BATTLE FATAL TO THREE Trap Believed Set in Home Where Officers Attempted Arrests; Three Wounded. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 26.— Owsley County officers today were in- vestigating the shooting in which Dep- uty Sheriff John Mosley, Miss Martha Smith and Hint Hearld were killed and Leonard, Lawrence and Andy Smith, brothers of the slain woman, were wounded. Sheriff G. D. Wilson said his deputy 4 Reasons was slain when he entered the home to make an arrest on & charge. The sheriff said a battle then broke out between the uty's brother, Plerce ‘occu ipan e, said, evidently set a trap for cer in an attempt to their kinsmen. Mayor Chauffeurs for Chauffedr DIEPPE, France \NAA.N.A.).—Wm the chauffeur of Mayor Maurice Th myre was married em; and e ploye changed places for a day, mayor drove the automobile that the chauffeur to church for the cere: mony. J <cop¥an 1930. by North American Newsr paper Alliance.) 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