Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1930, Page 21

YAUTH T0 B¢ TRED IN GRS MURDRR Texas Univer;sity Sophomore | Continues to Deny Shooting Port Arthur 16-Year-0ld. By the Associated Press. PORT ARTHUR, Tex., December 29. |* ~—Robert L. Williams, 18, University of | Texas sophomore and son of an Austin Methodist minister, faced & preliminary hearing today in the slay- ing Saturday of his estranged sweet- heart, Miss Elizabeth Johnson, 16. A _murder charge was filed Saturday by B. T. McWhorter, assistant county attorney. The complaint was signed by Andrew Johnson, uncle of the girl Williams continued last night to deny he shot Miss Johnson, holding to the story told shortly after his arrest. He said he asked her to go with him to see Rev. Glenn Flinn, Methodist pastor in Port Arthur, in an attempt to reconcile a quarrel between them over attentions a married man who was separated from his wife was pay- ing to Miss Jonason. The youth said he found the pastor DR. CHARLES PACKARD busy in his study and whea he TYe-| of Columbia University has been turned to his automobile Miss JOhNSCN | called to Pasadenn. Calif. to study the was slumped over in the seat. She had | cyrative powers of a 650,000-volt X-ray. been shot once through the heart with a gun which Williams said he had made from a rifle in a university lab- | = oratory. He insisted he had the gun in the car for the purpose of shooting himself through the hand, to prove to the girl he loved her. Rev. S. W. Williams, Methodist pre. siding elder for the Austin district, Sat- urday night went to the jail to see his son. “God knows I didn’t do that,” Rob. git exclaimed, as his father embraced | m. i “I know you didn',” the father re- plied, “and we will see you through. Miss Johnson was buried in Beaumon: | yesterday. | PASADENA PREPARES EINSTEIN WELCOME' Mathematician's Wish to Be Left | Alone Will Be Granted l on Visit to West. | By the Associated Press. I PASADENA, Calif, December 20— i Dr. Albert Einstein, to arrive here with | | his wife New Year eve, will be accorded | an unusual tribute—he will be left en- | | —A. P. Photo. Real Estate Loans (D. C. Property Only) 6% No Commission Charged You can take 12 years to pay off your loans without the expense of renewing. $1.000 for $10 per month, including interest and principal. Larger || or smaller loans at proportion- ate rates. Perpetual Building Association Established 1881 Largest in Washington Assets Over $23,000,000 Cor. 11th and E N.W. JAMES BERRY, President EDWARD C_BALTZ,_Secretary tirely to himself. | Arthur H. Fleming, president of the | board of the California Institute of | T Technology, and Henry M. Robinson, | nationally known financier, who will act as hosts of the Einsteins, revealed | today no public receptions were planned. | In accordance with Dr. Einstein's | ‘wish for privacy, Fleming said a private | dwelling had been reserved for him, | and plans to provide him a four-room | suite at the Athenaeum, the gathering | place of scientists on the institute | campus, were dropped. Fleming said while no public recep- tions will be held, “one or two” invita- | tional dinners will be given at the | Athenacum -in honor of the visiting | scientist. Robert M. McCurdy, adjutant of the Pasadena Post of the American Legion, | said, “We shall feel highly honored if Dr. Einstein will address our member- | ship upon any topic whatever.” At a recent meeting of Legionnaires in Los Angeles a sul on was made that war veterans take steps to bar his landing | in California because “of his pacifiistic | view Dr. Millikan, head of the institute, | said he expected to compare notes made | in the study of the cosmic ray, which he discovered, with observations of Dr. | Einstein. | OFFICERS OF SHOCHTIM | SUSPENDED FROM DUTY By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 29.—Six officers of the Chicago Shochtim, the author- ized organization for killing of kosher | fowl for orthodox Jews, were under sus- | pension today. | The action was_ordered by a mass | meeting of the Union of- Orthodox | Hebrew Congregations as a step to combat alleged racketeering within the Shochtim. 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C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 29,. 1930. The House of Courtesy MIEPShOTN s vt 1 ELEVENTH ST. = BETWEEN F g G TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY .... YEAR-END anxo PRE-INVENTORY CLEARANCE As is our custom, the merchandise department has gone through the entire store and every piece of merchandise that we do not want to inventory has been reduced to extremely low prices. Every article is suitable for wear right now and through the balance of the winter...to March 10 WINTER FROCKS FROCKS DRESSES, s44 Were $69.50 to $98.50 $ Size 18—Brown chiffon afternoon Bty Size 40—Black lace cocktail frock. Size 20—Velvet Sunday nite frock. Size 16—Afternoon frock, lace trim- ” i med. 23 frocks, jersey, wool 40—Brown canton afternoon lace, crepe, chiffon, tai- gown, ol ; Size 14—Brown maravia with lace. 40—Black velvet evening gown. ze 18—Print chiffon and lame gown. Size 36—Metallic evening gown. Size 16—Black chiffon evening gown, SUITS AND One-of-a-Kind R e L. s ains, 59 $ 5 Were $49.50 Size 16—Rust boucle, 2-piece. 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