Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1931, Page 6

Old-time prices in a Sale ot this season’s Saks Clothes Taken from our own stock! - OVERCOATS, 2-Trouser Suits, Topcoats Equal valueye_qr ago, $40-$45 28 & OVERCOATS, 1 & 2 Trouser Suits, Topcoats Equal value year ago, $50-$60 * OWN to bed-rock, with a sale that gives you extraordinary values! NEW clothing; abundant assortments; correct patterns; every size; plus important savings! F you want an OVERCOAT, choose from this tremendous variety of new Browns and Greys; and rich, sturdy Blues, with self or velvet collars. At this saving, buy for now and next Winter! 'HE SUITS offer patterns suitable for now and Spring—handsome varia- tions of Browns and Greys. The TOP- COAT group represents every distinctive weave and shade, including Tan Camel Hairs. Saks—Third Floor THE AVENUE AT SEVENTH | | ‘o a deputy prosecutor, made at the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO MISS BOW PRESSES | EXTORTON CAARGE Ex-Secretary Tried to Get $125,000 for Love Letters, Says Film Star. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 15.—Clara Bow, the target ¢’ rcriminations, clung today to her role as a prosecution wit- ness in the trial of her former secretary, De Boe, on charges of grand theft. . Alternately sobbing and stamping a foot while testifying, the red-headed actress yesterday sought to show Miss De Boe stole $16,000 of her money and attempted to obtain $125,000 ‘from her in an extortion scheme. The flapper heroine of motion pic- | tures seemed on the verge of hysteria under searching question.ng of Miss De Boe's counsel, Nathan Freedman. “She was my best friend,” sobbed the actress after an indignant outburst. “She was my best friend in the world. I'm sorry to be crying, but I can't help it.” Then she daubed at her nose with | a powder puff. Recalled to Testify. Film red-head, disguise at the trial of Daisy De Boe, CLARA BOW, wore dark glasses for Miss Bow had been recalled to the | her former secretary, whom she charges stand to_testify concerning an alleged attempt by Miss De Boe to obtain $125,- 000 from her under pain of having let- | ters and telegrams from the film flap- per’s boy friends released to newspapers. “T asked Daisy, ‘And you're not kid= ding me? Isn't it true that you're try with theft. recognized. But she smiled and was Small Risk on the Rail. When you travel by train your risk ing to shake me down for $125.0007°" ot being killed is 568,000,000 to 1. the actress testified. On _this point W. I. Gilbert, attorney for the actress testified later Miss De Boe approached him in his office last November stating she had some papers of Clara’s and no one could have them unless the film actress “paid $125,000 and not & cent less.” Miss Bow defended her latest “boy friend,” Rex_Bell, cowboy actor, with heated denials that he was at present holding the position formerly held by Miss De Boe. Denies He Is Secretary. “He didn't discharge Daisy,” the actress said with gathering anger when | questioned by Freedman. | “He's your secretary now, isn’t he?” asked Freedman. \ “He is not; it has been reported that he is, but it is not the truth,” snapped Clara. Bell, when called to the stand, ad- mitted he was the author of telegrams to Miss Bow containing endearing phrases, and testified he had recovercd from Miss De Boe a suit case filled with similar telegrams and letters reveived by the actress from admirers during 2 period of years. . Benjamin O'Dell, officer in a Holly- | wood bank, where Miss Bow kept ac- | counts and a safe deposit box, testified Miss De Boe, a few days before her ar- rest on the grand theft charges, drew $22,000 from Miss Bow's. savings ac- count. “She sald Rex Bell wanted Miss Bow | to invest in some scheme she didn't approve of and she was going to with- | draw the money and place it in the safe | deposit_box, where Clara wouldn't find it,” O'Dell stated. Found Safety Box Empty. O'Dell testified that when he exam- | ined the safe deposit box at Miss Bow's request a few days later the box was empty. A 30-page statement of Miss De Boe time of her arrest, November 6, was read into the records. In the state- ment Miss De Boe said she was em- ployed by the actress some time in | January, 1929, apd that . some time later, when ready to quit her position, she was afraid to notify Miss Bow. “I didn't tell her,” Miss De Boe's statement read, “because Miss Bow was drunk. If I had gotten'into an argu- ment with her she would bave tried to kill me, because she tried it once be- fore. I wanted to get settled as quietly as possible and keep Clara out of the papers, because one more slam in the papers and Clara is through in pic- tures.” In her statement Miss De Boe indi- cated an incinerator back of the Bow residence became a tomb for ashes of “two dresser drawers full of love letters and telegrams.” She said she burned the missives because she “didn’t think it advisable 'to keep them around the house.” Miss De Boe allegedly admitted in | the statement that she diverted $35,000 | of Miss Bow's money to her own use. Navy Relief Society to Meet. A meeting of the District of Colum- bia Chapter of the Navy Relief Society is scheduled for 10030 a.m. Priday, at the home of Rear Admiral C. C. 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WOODCOCK LAUNCHES [COWBOY CENTENARIAN, NEW MERIT SYSTEM Plan Designed to Make Dry Agents “Best Trained Body of In- vestigators in World.” Plans to make the group of dry agents one of the “best trained bodies of in- vestigators in the world” have been launched by Prohibitjon Director Amos W. W. Woodeock. ‘The Jatest move by Col. Woodcock is in the form of a circular letter, ad- dressed to all agents, administrators and deputies, dispatched from his office, outlining a new merit system. Under this system a plan is set up for each agent to attain promotion on a definite scale. Woodcock explained in detail, with examples, how much weight would be given to each of the factors entering into. the making of a perfect dry agent. Not the least of these was the 10 points allowed for the performance of an “out- standing accomplishment” in enforcing the prohibition laws. “To_attain this credit,” the prohibi- tion director wrote, “the officer must have demonstrated his ability and have been the subject of an official communi- cation which sets forth an accomplish- ment acceptable to the rating officer.” In the scale set forth by Woodcock, the study of “criminal investigation” and “Constitution and law” would count 5 points each, the agent's term of serv- ice would count 2!, points for each six months of work, while 50 per cent of each man's genertal efficiency rating would be allowed. 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Sizes from 29 to 42, We request the return of anything that can be bought for less elsewhere RANCH FOREMAN, IS DEAD Native of South Carolina Was in ‘West During Civil War and Knew Nothing of Conflict. By the Associated Press. CHILDRESS Tex., January 15.—A centenarian of the saddle is dead. After 80-odd years of riding the range, Reese Barton, 100-year-old cowboy, was to be buried here today. Barton, a victim of neuralgia of the heart, died at the Smith ranch north of Childress, where he had been foreman the last 41 years. His work was halted only temporarily when he suffered the Au0 i '8 a1 rova . bk, FOpOFIed. ago a a Tepo have been the most severe injury of his until his death. L Born near Charleston, S. gn. March p years old. He said he learned to read by de- ciphering cattle brands. b Barton knew much of the early his- tory “North of 36” and South of it. He helped handle 35,000 cattle in one drive from the Brazos River to Abilene. 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