Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1931, Page 4

THE STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1931. /LONG-LOST WOMAN | EVENING GANDHI ADAMANT Just Getting Good at 76 PLAYGROUND HANDY MAN RETIRES. IN PRSON FOR LFE #rio Who Slew Four in Auto Start Terms Six Hours After Confessions. (Continued Prom PFirst Page.) 2 ! ¥Fred Smith, one of the convicted men. | She admitted being with the men | onday night, but sald that she left $he party before the hold-up and llings occurred. ¥ Lieut. Nefl R. Black of the State Jolice today said that Miss Keller is a | fiece of the late Judge Darwin Z WOurtis of Ypsilanti, and that she was éft a sum of money, Teported to have n $5,000, by the judge at the time | %®of his death. 1! The closing of the doors of the prison #t Jackson, 38 miles away, a few | sninutes before midnight, ended the Faost riotous day in the history of this | Aumiversity community. | Four times angry crowds attempted %o snatch the prisoners—Smith, 22, ex- | convict; David Blackstone, 33, itinerant | Negro, and Frank Oliver, 19-year-old Jainter—{rom a half hundred officers Fuarding them and impose their own enalty. £ The first attempt occurred at Ypsi- Hanti, eight miles away, where the three ‘men were arrested, questioned and con- fessions obtained The second came when they were ‘brought here and placed in the county Jail. 4 The third, in which tear bombs were | used to disperse angry residents press- Hng against police cars, took place as ithe prisoners were being transferred to ithe court house for sentence. | | | | | 5 Mob Mauls Slayers. i | The fourth attack was made as police | ‘Began the trip to Jackson with the prisoners. The prisoners’ clothing was torn, their faces and hands were scratched _d@nd their bodies mauled as the mob fought to take them from the officers. ‘Blackstone, during the ride from Jack- , still aching from the pummeling ‘he received, told Sheriff Jacob Andres | Jaf Washtenaw County that he would imather be in prison than free. The lother prisoners were non-commital. The wind-up of the most sensational erime in Michigan in many years came ‘with breath-taking rapidity The clue that provided the key\ for Sthe solution of the case was the find- $ing of the gun used to slay the victims. H Soaked Bodies With Gasoline. i ! The weapon was ;umaud-m;:r to the I tenaw County deput )y &n un- gwe:g:ver ‘man_ for the’ Ypsflanti Police partment. It was established that | i e gun had been in the possession of | ith as late as Tuesday morning. %! The arrest of Smith and Blackstone Sgollowed Thursday morning, Thea came veral hours of grilling by prosecutors jef Wayne and Washtenaw Counties. The }“r in which the charred hodies were fimd marks the boundary between the 0 counties. ¥ Pinally Blackstone gave in. He ad- imitted that he, Smith and another G:‘mu ‘man killed the couples after Yob- Bing them, carried the bodies in the r of the automobile of Thomas %ntley. one of the victims, drove t the home of Harry Lore, the other { i y, and then, seeking to dispose of evidences of their crime, soaked bodies and the automobile with e drained from the tank of the Fiachine ‘and appied & match. ! ‘Drank “Hooch” Before Crime. ! Soon Smith, who was being question- #d_{n another Toom, also confessed. ¥ Blackstone had named Oliver as the | fther member of the murder party. He | arrested while painting a house | I Ypsilanti. A few minutes after be- ®ing taken to the Ypsilanti City Hall, 1?}.‘m the questioning was basing. con- 1 Bucted, he cried out, “I did 1t, I did it, ’fid then gave a full confession of his |3 the H : s i H H H ] { % part in the brutal affair # 7 Confessions of the men and the tes- 4 fimony of two of them at the trial were immmg. garbled and at odds with| < pu merous minor details, indicating the 3 eondition of the kille rs when they slew % the young couples. | Smith's statement that “‘we got dis- % orderly on hooch” before the crime #8dded to the indications that the slayers i were berserk with sleohal. National Guard Called Out. The mob scenes around the jail and eourt house here and those at the Ypsilanti City Hall were unprecedented in Michigan in the last 100 years. Soon after announcement Wwas made #f the confessions a erowd gath- ering around the ¥psilanti City Hall Officers then made preparations to bring the prisoners here for arraign- pent at the county seat ! As the men were led out the crowd rged forward and attempted to lay m.ndl on the prisoners. Oliver was ; pummeled and scratched, but the offi- | vers rescued him snd the trip here, a | distance of 8 miles, was made Wwith gut incident, although roads were locked by the many automobiles which ! swung in behind the police party. | Reaching the county jail here, anoth er crowd gathered and Topes were stretched by State police to hold back ‘xhe throng. During the excitement David Gartman, son-in-law of She Andres, fell and fractured his leg wh %aking the men to their cells The crowd around the jail, which is Jocated in the downtown section, grew Tapidly. At length a company of Na-! tional Guardsmen and American Le- glon volunteers was called out Says Co-Slayer Assaulted Girl. At 6:40 pm., an hour and five min- utes after the confessions had been given at Ypsilanti, the prisoners were taken across the street two au jmobiles and arragned before Justice o the Peace Jay Pa They waived ar- raignment and pleaded guilty Still the crowd grew, and & qu 'of an hour later, when the men Wi started across street to the court Mouse in two automobiles, the enraged i citizens pressed against the machines Tear-gas bombs were discharged b: { ‘the police, the crowd gave way, and the prisoners were taken into the court £ ¥oom of Judge George W. Sample. { Smith and Oliver repeated to the | § Judge the confessions they had made 7t Ypsilanti. Smith gave as the rea- ¢ 'son for the crime the fact that he was | identified by the two boys during the robbery of the couples while they were | parked on Tuttle Hill road, several | miles from the scene of the burning | ©of the auto Oliver also said that the colored | i islayer twice assaulted one of the girls, | {.Anna May Harrison, of $mith made no mention of an Each Gets Four Life Terms. The other girl victim was Vivian Gold, also of Cleveland Judge Sample then pronounced sen- tence—life imprisonment in Marquette Branch Prison on each of four counts, the terms not. to run concurrently. The ing of the sentence in this man- Iner practically removed all possibility ©f parole. Smith and Oliver testified Willingly wamens e T leveland assault jstone Upper: Telephoto picture showing confessed slayers of two girls and two young men near Ypsilanti, Mich., after they had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime Prank Oliver. Lower: The victims. Left to right lynching them. Left to right them on the head with stones. We then took them down the county line road and set fire to them. I put gaso- line on the footboards and one of the boys lit a handkerchief and threw it in the car. Girl, Reviving, Hit With Wrench. “Four shots were fired. I don't know which ones they hit. Two of them were dead. I don't know which two,” Smith said “While you were driving from Tut- tle Hill to the Town Lirie road did any of the victims come to?" questioned Prosecutcr Albert Rapp, and Smith re- plied, “Ons of the girls did,” and added that one of the boys hit her with a wrench Oliver corroborated the story of the meeting and of Blackstone's suggestion for a robbery, and that they went to the grove. “We waited there until 12 o'clock,” he sald. “We drove up and around there. Blackstone jumped out of the car. They left me sitting in my car and they went to Wheatley's car and held them up.” ‘The lights of the young people's car were off when they reached the grove, but as Smith drove up the lights were turned on, Oliver said. Both Black- stone and Smith left the car. Four Shots Fired at Victims. The girls remonstrated with the two bold-up men, Oliver said, and his two companions told him “they were going to take them out in the county so we would not be reported.” ‘The three then got into the victims’ car and were in the front seat while the two couples were in the rear seat, he said. The car proceeded to Tuttle Hill. Blackstone and Oliver both had guns and held the guns on the four people, Oliver sald. Miss Harrison got out of the car at Tuttle Hill at the order of Blackstone, but the Gold girl said “she would rather die.” Blackstone shot four times and Oliver did not shoot at all, according to his statements. After killing the four, the bodies were removed from the car and then replaced “carefully” after the slayers became “afraid it would be dis- covered,” Oliver continued The party returned to Peninsular Grove, where Oliver again took his own car and followed the other two, who had taken the victims' automobile, driving about for some time. Plan for Burial Discarded. At one point, Blackstone stopped to obtain a shovel with which to bury the victims. “I was afraid to go and sfraid to stay” Oliver said, and he later said he was not threatened by either of his companions. The plan, he intimated, was to bury them in & gravel pit, but finally the party continued to County Line rcad where the car was ignited. Oliver ad- mits taking gasoline from the car and pouring it on the cushions and foo: boards lackstone set the car on fire after the windows had been closed. Black- ssaulted one of the girls at Tut- and again at the place vhere the bodies were found burned, Oliver said, maintaining that neither he nor Smith sttacked either girl. Colored Man Confesses. The confession of Blackstone said On Monday night we though: we would go and 'rob a gambling game sver at Milan. We got together ar.d went over there, and it didn't look good we said we would go down Lovers' | Lane and knock off some of these here | petters. They always is easy. We went down and saw this car, in which Miss Vivian Gold, Miss Anna May Harrison, young Wheatley and Harry Sore were riding. “We robbed them of some littic things and a little bit of money. Then we saw that Wheatley had recognized us. So we talked to him about it. The boys sald they wouldn't make no com- v said, ‘What about the girls?’ we got ahold on one of the dragged her out of the ear, out clawin’ at him Beat Vietims With Rocks. We then lined them all up along- side the road and started to frisk them and make them promise not to tell— that was et Tuttle Hill. Pirst thing I knew Smith jerked a pistol out of his pocket and shot three or four times. “Then we had to shoot them all. We And then rls and he came took our car and got while Oliver waited a back down along the road toward where we left the bodies. On the way we heard one of the girls groan so we hit her in the head with a wrench. int and we was for letting them go, | Smith, he weren't satisfied. He | Harry Lore, Anna Mae Harrison, Viv MANOBOS BELIEVE MAN HAS Gas bombs were used to drive back mobs of 2,000 bent on Fred “Curly” Smith and David Blackstone. n Gold and Thomas Wheatley. —A. P. Photos THREE SOULS. GARVAN SAY One in Body and Two Trailing Like | Shadows—Hereafter Is Continuation of Earthly Existcnce. They Think. This is the sizth of a series of ar- ticles on life among the Philippine highlanders based on a_remarkable monograph just issued by the Na- tional Academy of Sciences. 7 BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Death among the Manobos is con- sidered the work of malignant spirits Every man, Garvan relates, belleves that he has three souls: One dwells within his body, where it is safe. The other two trail the body like shadows | But sometimes one of them will wander off into the forest by itself, without the knowledge of its owner. Then it may be waylaid by one of the demons. who will keep 1t in captivity until he is ready to devour it When this happens, the owner of the soul becomes sick. When the deman eats it, he dies. So the objective m treatment of the sick is to secure the release of the captive. The priests call vpon the good spirits to go to the res- cue and describe great battles which are fought with the demons. Death means that tiie ghouls have conquered, “The utter fear, not only of the ma- lignant spirits, but also of the person of the dead and of his soul. is one of the most peculiar features of Manoho culture,” says Garvan. “In the death chamber and hovering around the rest- ing place of the dead there is a certain noxious influence, by the infection of which one is likely to become an ob- |fect of attraction to the dark-visaged hungry soul ghouls that, lured by the | |odor, stalk to the death house and await | |an opportunity to secure a victim “The envious spirits of the dead also {are feared. In their eagerness to per- take of the farewell and the death feast they avail themselves of every oppor- tunity to injure the living. Sickness especially that in which the only symp toms are emaciation and debility, are attributed to their noxious influence. Offerings to the Dead. “Offerings are made to_the dead to appease their ill will. One or more priests are present invariably in the death chamber. The female priests take up their position near the corpse, and the women Luddle around them with many a startled glance. On one occasion 1 saw a male priest stand at the door, lance poised, ready to dis- patch spirits which tried to intrude. Drums and gongs are beaten through the night as a menace to the demons, An acquaintance of mine is reported to have wounded seven evil spirits in one cvening after a death. I was assured by many in the town that they had seen the gory lance after each en- counter. ‘A fire is kept burning under the ouse, and magic implements are placed under the floor. Food while in the proc- ess of cooking is never left unguarded lest some malicious spirit slyly insert For several days before and the death supper is almost in- yariably eaten before sunset, as this is | the hour when the most mighty of the | demons are supposed to go forth. If |1t should be necessary | 1 iable cus- |tom to put & mat on the floor to foil the spirits in their endeavo! to slip |some baneful influence into the plates | from below. | “After the burial it is almost an in- variable rule for the inmates of a house to abandon it. Should a stranger or one who is not a relative of the in- mates die in a house, it is an estab- lished custom to coliect the value of a {house from his relatives. I was asked {by a warrior chief on the Upper Tago | who would pay for the house in the | case of my death.” Danger Transferring Corpse. | Getting the corpse to its grave, as de- | scribed by Omrvi is considered an un- | dertaking of great danger. Amid great | wailing the coffin is carried hastily from n |the house, The priests take up their | poBitions behind trees along the Wway- | |side with balanced lances and shields | place. The men shout wildly to scare | away the demons who may have got the scent of death and to T strangers that a funeral procession is on the road, |80 that they can avoid it. It is very | unlucky to meet such a procession { A high piece of ground in the heart |of the forest is chosen and cleared Pires are bullt around it to ward off the & roof placed over the grave and & fence built around it. Men are | with their feet to the east and women with their feet to the west. ‘Then the mourners hurriedly efface the footprints they have left in the loose clay n:n scurry nnymllu';lunc t.he"de; wi spirits o " Henceforth the spot always avoided as a place of terror. in the village, all who have as- at the ceremony purify them- with a mixture of water and | practically invariable, | xcept in the case of | in battle or a priest. to have seven off IR of Ibu, somewhere below the pillars of the earth "It is sald,” says Garvan, “to resem- ble in all particulars this earth of ours, Lofty mountains, lakes, rivers and plains exist there. About half way be- tween this world and the big country of Ibu—mistress of the lower world— there is a great river of red water. Here lives Manduyapit, the ferryman, From Manduyapit's to Tbu's is said t be & journey of seven days along a good, broad trail. Americans, Spaniards an people of other nations do not pass o) the Manobo's trail, because eaeh is said to have its own, and the country of Ibu is said to be divided into districts—one for each nation. Journey to Tbu. “When the soul finds that it is all alone, its Tellow spirit having been seized and devoured, it begins the long journey to Ibu. One week's travel brings it to the great red river. Usually the ferry- man takes a soul across gratuitously. If he declines, the spirit is obliged to return and plague its relatives, who must negotiate with the priests to bring their influence to bear. If the souls should desire to pay a visit to their living relatives, they invoke the family dieties and are borne back to the world | on the wings of the wind, without hav- ing to undergo the fatigue of a 14-day Journey “Ibu's great settlement is no gloomy hades, nor is it a paradise of celestial joy. 1t is simply a continuation of the present life, except that all care, worry and trouble are ended. The spirits of relatives take up their abode in one house and pass a quiet existence under the mild sway of Ibu. They eat, work and even marry.” Until the spirit is across the great red river, according to Garvan’s ac. count of the native beliefs, there is danger that it will return. So the liv- ing relatives do not feel at ease until after the death feast, which marks the end of all relations between the dead and the living. This is a great ban- quet to which everybody in the settle- ment is invited and which lasts several days. It is assumed that the dead are present with the living, and the priests, to whom they are visible, describe the hearty gppetite with which they eat. Henceforth they have no claim on the hospitality of the living. No relative dares be absent, for this would expose | him to the strange waywardness of the | envious dead. After the death feast relatives of the dead man may marry. But forever afterward it is forbidden to speak the name of the departed. He can be re- ferred to only as “my father” or “my cousin.” SOL BLOOM TO SPEAK Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., August 14.—Repre- sentative Sol Bloom, director of the George Washington Bicentennial Com- mission, has accepted the invitation of the Pairfax County Chamber of Com- merce, _extended _yesterday through former Representative R. Walton Moore, to address & meeting of Fairfax County citizens to be held September 1 in the Court House at Pairfax, under auspices of the chamber, to outline plans for the participation of this | county in the celebration incident to | the 200th birthday of . Michigan Slayer Killed Old Chum Of Boyhood Days anniversary by Ex-Fishing Pal, Shot to Hide Identity. By the Associated Press. YPSILANTI, Mich., August 14— Smith killed & boyhood pal and a com- panion of many & fishing trip when he shot Harry Lore to death Tuesday morning. Bert Lore, father of Harry, recalled Jesterday, after Smith had been arrested for the murder of Lore, another youth and two girls, that the Smiths had lived nesr the Lores until two years ago. “Both of the kids were crazy about fishing,” he said. “The Smiths moved away two years ago and we hadn't seen much of them since. About th{;e weeks ago, though, Fred passed e house. Harry and I were sitting on the posch; he waved to us. Smith had not confessed when Lore was recalling the past and the father of the slain youth could not belleve the 0od pal of his son was guilty. that acquaintanceship which precipitated the slayings, however, ac- to the confessions, for Smith young Lore and shot him ATsy s fortsiadl MY GCCLIODY the | SEES SISTER AGAIN Gypsy Kidnaping Victim Ar- rives for Brief Visit With Relatives. | By the Associated Press. POTTSVILLE, Pa. August 14—Miss Mary Rebecca Hubler returned to Potts- ville today to end an enforced absence from her family caused by her kidnap- ing by a band of gypsies when she was 5 years old, in 1898 With the Rev. M. R. Harvey. Cherry- ville, N. C., who aided her in estab- lishihg her relationship with residenty of this section, Miss Hubler today went to the homg of her sister, Mrs. John Guertling here. Remembers Name. Because they arrived several hours earlier than expected, reporters missed them, for they left aimost immediately for the farm home of & cousin, Samuel Hubler. far back in the hills of Panther Creek Valley. Later Mrs. Guertling said that Miss | Hubler asked “Do you remember when you used to_call me Bessie?” Mrs. Guertling said that she did. That was all the conversation between the long-lost sisters, Mrs. Guertling said. Rev. Harvey inquired into the Guert- ling family circumstances, she said. Others in Party. Miss Hubler and Rev. Harvey were with five other persons whom Mrs. Guertling ‘said she did not know The Guertlings invited the seven peo- ple in to the house, but they declined For 33 years “Annie Morgan” went through life without knowing who she was, with the details of her kidnaping as & child faded by time, and with her ex- periences as a Ennm' captive a chapter she never wanted to remember | Yesterday she discovered she was Miss Mary Rebecea Hubler. Search Ts Abandoned. One day back in 1898, as she played on a country road she saw a group of men and women in gay red and yellow garb approaching in a wagon. They stopped and when they started again the child was in the wagon with them, & captive. When night came and she failed to return to her home a search- ing party thrashed through the nearby mountains in the belief she had wandered there. The hunt went on for days and finally was abandoned. Neigh- bors were convinced that Mary had perished in some out-of-the-way spot in_the hills, Meanwhile, the Gypsy tribe had wandered far with their little prisoner. She cried when they asked her her name, so they called her “Annie Morgan.” and she bore that name until yesterday. ‘Then, after seven years in captivit she escaped one night in Pamplin, V. For 13 years she lived there with a fam. ily that befriended her and then came here in 1916, as a housekeeper at Lynch~ burg. Miss_Hubler came from Lynchbur Va., where for 15 years she was em- loyed as a housekecper under the name f Annie Morgan. Two other sisters and three broth- ers also have been notified of her finding, and they are expected to come here later for a reunion. The parents dled several years ago In| Shamokin, where the family moved | | shortly after Miss Hubler had been kidnaped in New Town. 'INSURANCE CONCERN | CITED IN VIRGINIA | National Retirement Club Charged | With Transacting Unauthor- ized Business. | Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va. August | National Retirement Club for Fire- men, & District of Columbia organi- | zation engaged in an assessment in- surance type of business, has been cited to appear before the Virginia State Corporation Commission August 25 to show cause why it should not be fined , | for transacting business in the State without a certificate of authority. ‘The concern, it is leared here, con- | tends that its business is transacted | by mail and that therefore it does not {have to domesticate in Virginia. It | operates under the supervision of the | Insurance Department of the District of Columbia. | . The constitution of the’concern states | that its object shall be to furnish im- | mediate financial relief to its members in case of their retirement from active duty in the several paid fire depart- | ments throughout the United States. | ,,Memberships are obtained by paying $2 a month continuously into the con- | cern, each member in good standing to | receive upon his retirement from fire | departmet service, the sum of $1,250 | Sidney Beiber is president of the con- |cern. He is & retired fireman. {700 SOVIET PEASANTS MAY BE LET OUT OF JAIL | Proposal to Mitigate Sentences of | Criminals Approved by Exec- | 14—The | utive Committee. | By the Associated Press. | MOSCOW, August 14.—The presid- | fum of the All-Russian Central Execu- | tive Committee agreed last night to & | proposal made by Chairman Soltz of | the State Amnesty Commission to miti~ | gate the sentences of criminals of work- er and peasant origin who now are in | various Moscow jails and houses of cor- | rection. The presidium, through Chairman Kalinin, announced it might be possible to mitigate the sentences of 808 pris- oners and to release 700 of them alto- gether. JOBLESS WILL BENEFIT | FROM PREMIUM ON BONDS Be Devoted to Immediate Construction Work. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 14—An- ‘munctment that the premium obtained m the sale of State bonds would be devoted to immediate construction work to relieve unemployment, was made to- day by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie. The State has received almost $100,000 premium since May from bankers for construction bonds with a face value of $1590,000. Instead of holding the excess in reserve funds, it will be allo- cated for extensions of projects for IhlchA the bonds l'!re authorized. o oan of $5,662.400 was authorized by the recent Legislature of which an issue totaling was. sold yesterday at 107.065. Col. Kromer Reassigned. o in . e e 3 e as an at the Army War College, has assistan \ assigned to t com- mandant of that wtitution. e wi assume new d September 1. - - . The “'gmmwummu::- at the age of 76| seemed premature to Michael J. | Coffey, the playground handy- 3 years had grayed and slowed him somewhat. but they had lent his old hands skill in the mending of playthings and provided experience in the spinning of yarns. He was just beginning to master his job, Coffey felt, when the time came for retirement. Yesterday Coffey, cen- tral figure of & reception at the play- ground storehbuse, Thirty-sixth street and Prospect avenue, could scarcely hide his tears. His fingers shook when he received from the hands of playgrounds officials a gold chain and a gold knife—sym- bolic of his skill at repairing playthings for children. Mended Play Gear. For the past 15 years or so. since his discharge from the Marine Corps. where he had been a cobbler, it had been Coffey who mended the basket balls, the volley balls, the base balls, the ropes and the gear. Basket balls lasted five times their natural life once stitched and patched by Coffey, and he could unravel an ailing base Ball, rewind and resew it better than new. It was Coffey who hit upon the idea of stitching canvas, tight as a drum- head, across the frames of old tennis rackets so they might be used for leath- er balls. Coffey, too, covered tennis balls with leather so they might be bat- ted about in the same game. He knew many children's storfes, could splice a rope, contrive intricate knots like a sallor and, once on the playground, he rarely missed being the center of an enthusiastic group of youngsters. After the reception Coffey said he CLARK FACES GRILL IN MURDER TRIAL Story of Self-Defense Told Yesterday Filled With Po- litical Intrigue. | By the Associated Press. ‘ LOS ANGELES, August 14.—David H. Clark faced the task today of de- fending, under cross-examination, his story of how he killed Herbert F. Spen- | cer and Charles H. Crawford, political figures,sin_self-defense, | Special Prosecutor W. J. Ford planned to subject the former deputy district at- torney and municipal judge candidate to a thorough questioning, Clark's story, told on the stand yesterday, was filed | with political intrigue. Ford had be- gun his cross-examination when court adjoruned for the day. Quietly and calmly, Clark, on trial | for the murder of Spencer as the result of the slayings last May 20, told how he had killed the two men “to save my own life.” It was the first time he had Tevealed a motive for the slayings. Clark said he had gone to the office of Crawford to seek the latte: and also the backing of Crawford's | pastor, Rev. Gustav Briglibe, in his cam- | paign for municipal judge. | Another purpose of the visit, Clark | stated, was to seek Crawford's aid in | pacifying Spencer, who had objected to | Clark’s attack on the “underworld.” In exchange for the favors sought, Clark said, Crawford, one-time politica) | boss and saloonkeeper, wanted him to frame” Chief of Police Roy E. Steckel, | State witnesses testified Crawford and | Eg:'ncer \;"ere unaex‘:m:d. Defense wit- | es who preceded Cl utm;rwise p ark testified After the shooting, Clark said, he reg- istered at a downtown hotel and then went to the beach. where he wandered aimlessly for several hours. Forty-eight hours after the shocting he voluntarily upport | | surrendered to the district attorney's office. | The total surface of the earth is far ' more ocean than land. vessel reported all hands MICHAEL J. COFFEY. planned a two-week fishing trip to Vir- ginia Beach and neighboring resorts. His questioner might have supposed he would seek the outing in company with cronfes of his own age. “No, Coffey shook his head, “I'm going with young fellows, like me!” Coffey, unmarried. lives at 111 G street southeast Thence he returned vesterday, after the festivities, more than half determined not to return to his accustomed work today “I may get around to that later,” he admitted. “There's some equipment going bad which cught to have the benefit of an old hand. like mine " FATHER OF GRL ADMITS SLAYING Colorado Man Says He Shot Daughter’s Companion in Self-Defense. By the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., August 14—The slaying of 20-year-old Lewis Palmer, which had baffied investigators for the last three weeks, was revealed | today as the act of the father of the vietim's companion. Roy G. King, father of Miss Glenda King, the girl with Palmer on the night of the slaying, in a statement last night said he followed Palmer’s car to Pros- pect Lake, east of the city, and shot | Palmer to death in self-defense during a struggle. The confession was made a few hours after the girl, arrested last Saturday, | had named her father as the slayer. Previously she had made four sepa- rate statements, each naming & differ- ent person as the killer. Palmer was shot to death on the night of_July 20. Miss King at first said & hobo killed Palmer in a hold-up and then attacked er. Floyd Spears, high school athlete, and Andrew Petricko, 2 second youth named by Glenda King as the slayer in her efforts to shield her father, were re- leased by potice NAUTILUS IS SIGHTED Submarine Reports All Is Well En Route to Spifzbergen. OSLO, Norway, August 14 (#).—The submarine Nautilus, plowing northward throuhg heayy seas, passed Bear Island at about midnight on the way to Spitz- bergen, a wireless message from a Nor- wegian ‘whaler said today. The message said the p:dh’r undersea S NEDITOR ACTS |Sir Tej Sapru Gets Mahatma Out of Bed to Discuss Demands on Parley. By the Associated Press SIMLA, India. August 14.—The Brit- al government stands ready mine alleged breaches in the pact and is making fresh over- 0 Mahatma Gandbi in the hope of persuading him to aitend the round table conference, it was learned today. Viceroy Lord Willingdon, while he s willing to examine the more serious breaches of the Delhi pact which Gandhi charges, is not_disposed, how- ever, to set up the arbitration board which the Mahatma demands, nor is he likely to return any taxes already collected from peasants, contending thet these w collected under the ordinary tax laws and not by duress. Mediator Again Busy. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, the Hindu lawyer who distinguished himself at the last round table conference and who is generally credited with saving the negotiations between Gandhi and Lerd | Irwin, former viceroy. from collapse, is once more playing his role of peace- | maker. When he arrived here last night and learned of Gandhis decision to boy- cott the London Conference he went to the Mahatma's house, got Gandhi out of bed and- talked with him Gandhi told him the minimum terms on_which the National Congress would compromise. Sir Tej telegraphed those terms to the viceroy and was assured by Lord Willingdon that the way to | compromise -is still open. Truce to Be Observed. ‘The Working Committee of the Na- | tionalist Congress instructed its work- ers throughout India to observe strictly the terms of the Gandhi-Irwin truce as |far as applicable, saying Gandhi's de- cision did not rescind the pact. Business circles were particularly de- pressed because they feared the rupture might presage the resumption of the | civil disabedience campaign, the boy- {cott of British goods and widespread | disorders. Indian markets immediately | reflected the prevailing _apprehension. At a meeting of the Working Com- | mittee of the Indian Congress a resolu- tion, drafted by the Mahatma and calling for abstention from the Lon- | don parley, was adopted last night. The Delhi pact, signed last March by Gandbi and Lord Irwin, then viceroy, provided. for the abandonment of the civil disobedience campaign and for the correction of alleged abuses against which the Nationalists had | long complained. LONDON FIRM ON PARLEY. LONDON, August 14 (#)—Advices | from Bombay that Mahatma Gandhi | was not to participate in the second Indian round-table conference caused profound regret in many quarters here. There was no disposition here to minimize the effect of the absence of Indian and Nationalist leaders at the resumed negotiations, it was asked whether it would be worth while to hold the conference without the In- dian Nationalists. Although no formal statement was made, it was learned the official view was that the conference must be held, We Are Not Open Saturday! Goldenberg’s Closes Saturdays During August to Give Our Employes a Rest—BUT The Great Sale of Kohner’s Stock . 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