Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1931, Page 10

A—10 . MURDERERUF 4 BARED N RECORDS 16th Century Bluebeard Torn on Rack When Betrayed by Beauty. By the Astociated Press. BERLIN, September 16—A tale of mass murder in which the villain slew | 964 men and women before his con- sort brought about his own death on the rack because their own children were among the victims is told in six time- | yellowed pages found in a cranny of | the Cologne City Library The career of Christmas Genipper- teinga, a Bluebeard of the sixteenth century, came to light when an inven- tory was taken of the library’s thou- | sands of volumes It was in the form | of a newspaper, published spasmodically | in 1581, and described the arrest, con- | fession and death by torture of the| murderer, It was Genipperteinga’s procedure, | so0 the story says, to waylay lone travel- | ers on the road to Cologne, slay them and_take their possessions. Then he would drag the bodies to his cave and | enter their names in the accounts on his exploits, detailing the amount of | money obtained and the subsequent hue | and cry raised by the relatives of his victims Even his wife was numbered among them. | One day there passed by a woman so beautiful that the killer stood abashed in the road and offered her a place as mistress of his hovel instead of death. At length grief stricken, she in- formed Cologne authorities of his deeds | and a poss: captured him while he slept. He confessed his crimes lndi directed his captors to other caves, | where the bones of his victims and the | records of his fiendishness were found. After a trial of several weeks, during which the countryside was up in arms, he was found gullty and sentenced to death on the rack. He was torn limb | (lif from limb of nine days. MACKAY TO COMPLAIN OF CUSTOMS SEARCH Telegraph Magnate and Wife Per- turbed by Long Delay at Gotham Pier on Arrival Home. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 16.—Mr. | and Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay were back home today from s European honeymoon, much perturbed by the ection of customs guards, who kept them at a pier for two hours. Mr. Mackay, who is head of the Postal Telegraph ang Cable Communi- cations systems, saild he would com- plain to the Treasury Department. Seven customs men searched every | piece of the Mackays' luggage as a result of an anonymous letter that Mrs. Mackay was bringing in several unde- clared gowns. The Mackays made nuti a separate list of their foreign pur- chases before leaving Europe. Pinally the customs men admitted every article had been declared and ;‘cmd $2,610 payments of duty. The ys had 17 pleces of baggage, in- cluding five trunks and two boxes of grouse, They were merried in July. Mrs. Mackay was Anna Case, opera singer. 18 HOURS TO CHICAGO New Limited to Cut Pennsy Sched.| ule West From Washington. CHICAGO, September 16 running time of 18 hours in both d! tions between Chicago and Washing- ton will be inaugurated September 27 by the Liberty Limited train of the Pennsylvania Railroad, it 'was an nounced. The new schedule reduces th ‘westward journey by 45 minutes and the eastward trip by 35 minutes. . () —A | i / Divorce Is Granted To Loretta Young From Actor Mate Grant Withers’ Second Wife Awarded Decree as Officers Look for Him. | By the Associated Press. retta Young, young granted a divorce here yesterday from Grant Withers, moticn picture actor. “When we were first married he bought me a dress,” the actress testi- fled. “It cost about $100. He bought some lingerie later, but he charged it and in the end I paid for it.” “Did he supply you with food?” her attorney asked. “Not after the first three months.” Withers was “able-bodied,” but failed to support her, she said. Miss Young and her actor husband eloped by airplane to Yuma, Ariz, and were married January 26, 1930. Mrs, Gladys R. Belzer, her mother, threat- ened annulment action for a time, but it was never taken. A property settlement provided neither Withers ncr Miss Young should seek alimony from the other. During the hearing it was disclosed that deputy sheriffs were seeking | Withers on a charge of non-support. The actor, they were informed, is “somewhere in the East.” HOLDING WATER SPORTS Annual Regatta at Virginia Ave- nue Playground On This Afternoon. The annual boat and water sports regatta at the Virginia Avenue Play- ground, Tenth street and Virginia ave- nue southeast, was being held this aft- ernoon. Performances by a “human sea lion” and classes for small boats carrying pets as skippers were the fea- tures of the program. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1931. BAN ON MARIIUANA PLANTING PLANNED Commissioner of Narcotic Bureau Preparing Model Law to Offer States. By the Associated Press. A uniform law to prohibit the grow- ing of marijusna plants s being pre- pared for presentation to the different State Legislatures. Commissioner Anslinger of the Nar- cotic Bureau, in making known that the legislation was being drawn up, sald the Federal Government under the Constitution could not dictate what flz‘:t]:ah grown within the individual k= He said marijuana was used chiefly in Louisiana, Texas and California. It is produced from three varieties of plants, “the flowers of which are smoked in cigarettes. 3 Anslinger said Texas enacted a law prohibiting the growing of marijuana which went into effect July 1, since which time Texas authorities have mowed down the plants wherever found. Anslinger expleined there were no Federal laws affecting either the 80 or use of marijuana. He pointed out that the plant was so | easily grown that there was practically no interstate commerce in it. ‘The only Federal legislation that would be effective against it, he said, would be a tax measure, but added this would not be practical since it was used, aside from its power as a drug, only in some few products, such as corn plasters and hemp products. ot s g 2T Croydon, England, will collect garbage in paper pags, a fresh bag being left at & house when a filled one is collected. Insurance Chiefs Tp Name Dictator For 115 Companies By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., September 16.—The Hartford Courant today sald 40 executives, represen 115 fire insurance companies, had decided to appoint a general exec- utive to be given broad powers in * deciding general policies for all companies represented. The executive, or president, of the Insurance Executives’ Associ- ation, formed by the 40 execu- tives, will be given almost dicta- torial powers, the paper said, with a relationship to the fire insur- ance industry similar to those of Kenesaw Mountain Landis to base ball and Will Hays to the motion picture industry. ACTRESS SLIGHTLY HURT Elissa Landi Accidentally Stabbed in Film Production. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., September 16 (#)—Elissa Landi, English film actress, is recovering from an unintentional stab in the leg from the bayonet of a Rus- sian solider in a motion picture scene last week. One of the make-believe troopers at Fox studios dropped his gun and the || bayonet point swung against the ac- tress’ left calf. The injury did not halt production. In a recent picture Miss Landi whs injured in a fall down a flight of steps while cameras were grinding. STOPS iix— LUCKY TIGER, a proven germicide, corrects dandruff and scalp irrita- . 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