Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1931, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY BUSCH GRANDSON | KIDNAPER KNOWN Family Secretive About De- tails as Boy Is Returned to Home. By the Ascociated Press. ST. LOUIS, January 2.—Charles Y. Abernathy, 28-year-old son of Pearl Abernathy, colored real estate dealer here, was the kidnaper of Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 13-year-old grandson of August A, Busch, president of An- heuser-Busch, Inc, and great-grandson | of Adolphus Busch, late millionaire brewer, Harry Troll, attorney for the family, disclosed today. Details of how the release of the boy was effected late yesterday, 20 hours after her had been kidnaped by an armed colored man, remained un- ! divulged today. The boy was found on a road in St. Louis County after the Orthwein family had received a telephone call saying he was safe. Troll said: “Not a cent changed hands,” but added, the Busch familv would stand by an agreement made by Orthwein shortly after the abduction to reward generously any informant who furnished information leading to the return of Adolphus “and that absolutely no questions would be asked.” Called About Noon. ‘The transaction to get back the child, Troll said, “came through a connection made 30 years ago,” but he refused to say what the connection was. “At about noon New Year day Mr. Orthwein received a telephone call from @ man who told him the child was safe,” Troll, who acted as spokesman for the family, stated. “Mr. Orthwein and I loft the Orthwein house in an auto- mobile and then picked up & colored man and a woman whom I shall not identify further and went to the office of Sheriff Lill. At 2 o'clock Orthwein and I left and an hour later picked up young Adolphus on a country road. He was not harmed in any way.” Adolphus was kidnapeu New Year eve from the edge of his parents’ estate in exclusive Huntleigh Village, St. Louis County. A colored man stopped the Orthwein sedan, robbed Roy Yowell, chauffeur, of $5, and then drove away in the car with the boy. Troll said it was his opinion and the opinion of members of the Busch family that kidnaping was not the motive, and that the abduction was “incidental to the hold-up.” Reported By Colored Man. The Globe-Democrat says today that it learned from & man close to the Busch family that Pearl Abernathy, Was the man who called the Orthwein home and reported the boy was safe. The paper says Abernathy was able to assist materially in the case. Reporters who sought to inferview Abernathy found him unwilling to talk about the abduction. Last night Adolphus was allowed to talk with newspaper men in the pres- ence of his father, Attorney Troll and his brother, Jimmy, 5. He said he was not afraid, but complained that the abductor gave him “very dirty” food for breakfast and dinner yesterday. Several times during the interview Troll remarked, “that's enough of that: now go on with your story.” Adolphus said the kidnaper asked him whether he was “Percy Orthwein's son,” but Troll cut reporters off when they at- tempted to question the boy further along that line. St. Louis police officials said today their investigation would ‘“continue unabated.” NEW TRIAL MOTION IS FILED IN MERGER| Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Heads to Fight Bar. By the Associated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, January 2.—| A motion for a new trial was filed in | Common Pleas Court here today by counsel for the Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., whose merger was enjoined last Monday by Judge David G. Jenkins. The action followed a five-hour con- ference held Wednesday in New York by Eugene G. Grace, Bethlehem presi- dent; James A. Campbell, Youngstown chairman; Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown, and counsel for both com- panies. “This is purely a matter of me-; chanics,” said Newton D. Baker, chief of defense counsel. “There are two ways of carrying a case up—by error or by appeal. This is the first step in carrying it up by error.” The motion says that Judge Jenkins' decision was “contrary to the law and against the weight of the evidence. Errors of law occurring in the trial” aliso are charged. MORE MEN FOUND WEDDED THAN WOMEN | New Hampshire Census Reports Show Divorce Gain in Past Ten Years. By the Associated Press. Unlike most States, New Hampshire has a larger percentage of married men than of married women. The Census Bureau today announced 597 per cent of New Hampshire males married, as agains: 58.1 per cent of New Hampshire females, Of 168,45 males over 15 years of age, 54.469 were listed s single, 100,586 as married, 10,680 as widowed, 2,545 as divorced and 185 as marital state un- known Of 171,907 females over 15 years of age, 48,174 were listed as single, 99.922 as married, 21,148 as widows, 2534 as divorced and 129 as marital state un- known. The percentage of divorced was about 50 per cent larger than 10 years ago. but this class still formed less than 2 per cent of the total. ARKANSAS CITY’S LAST BANK FORCED TO CLOSE Interstate National of Helena Sus- pends, Leaving but One in Entire County. By the Associated Press HELENA. Ark., January 2.—The In- terstate National Bank, the only re- maining banking institution in this city, failed to open today. A’ notice on the door said it was Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 13-year-old grandson of August A. Busch, presi- l dent of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., and a great-grandson of the late Adolphus Busch, | multi-millionaire St. Louis brewer, was returned to his parents January 1, 1931, —A. P. Photo. COOLIDGE SPEAKER DIES Mrs. at Convention in 1924. closed for the Proleclton of depositors until arrival of a national bank ex- aminer, The Merchants and Planters’ Bank closed here November 17. The Interstate National Bank had @ capital of $250,000 with deposits of a)out $1,700,000. Tts closing leaves but one bank in riibps County, the bank of Marvell b diarveil Porter Seconded Nomination GRANULATED BROWN + TABLET * AND THE NOVEL TRUMP TABLETS tion of Calvin Coolidge for President at the Republican national convention in 1924, died at her home here Wednes- | day. She was 78 vears old. Mrs. Porter was active in pre-con- vention work in 1928 and was a cam- || PASADENA, Calif.,, January 2 (®)— | ,aion worker for President Hoover. She Mrs. Florence Collins Porter, who made | was a past president of the California the seconding speech for the nomina- | Federation of Women's Clu CONFECTIONERS * EXAMINERS CLOSE BANK AFTER THEFT Inquiry to Be Made Into Al- leged Kidnaping of Chicago Assistant Cashier. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, January 2.—Federal bank | | examiners closed the doors of the | Lawrence Avenue National Bank, a | | neighborhood institution, today, pend- ing an investigation of the alleged rob- | bery and kidnaping of an assistant | | cashier yesterday by four men. Bank officials, attempting to open the vault, found the time lock on the steel | doors_had been set for its maximum | run of 72 hours, rendering an examina- tion impossible until Sunday afternoon. | Claims He Was Held Prisoner. | The robbery was reported by John E. Malloy, assistant cashier, who said he was held prisoner five hcurs in the bank yesterday and finally kidnaped in his own car and taken to Milwaukee by four men. The quartet had posed as bank examiners, he said, in asking him | to meet them at the bank on New Year day. Malloy, repojfing to Milwaukee police | after his relgse there, said the vault | was timed (% open at 2 p.m., yesterday. | Police were posted at t bank th morning to keep order among worris depositors who gathered at the door. Malloy told detectives the robbers | took approximately $12.000 and looted the safe deposit boxes of bonds, cash | and jewelry. ‘The directors met New Year's eve, Malloy said, considering a proposed merger with another bank. When the men telephoned him he thought the bank examiners were to aid in com- vleting the merger details, he said. R PICKS UP WRONG JUG AND DIES FROM POISON Worker in Greenhouse, Invited to Drink After Wedding, Makes Fatal Error in Dark. By the Associated Press. BAY CITY, Mich, January 2.—Au- gust Rachon picked up the wrong jug in the dark when fellow workmen invited him to “have a drink” early this morn- ng. 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