Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1931, Page 3

i THE EVENING STAR, ETOWALKER N MEKCO CTY Personal Accountant, on: Honeymoon, Says He May Remain Indefinitely. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, October 17.—Russell 7. Sherwood, personal accountant of Mayor James J. Walker of New York, who has been sought for questioning by the legislative committee investigat- ing New York's municipal affairs, was at the Hotel Ritz here yesterday -ner-l noon. Sherwood said he was here on his honeymoon and might remain in Mex- ico indefinitely. He refused to discuss anything connected with his business affairs in New York or the municipal investigation. “My visit to Mexico is entirely a per- sonal matter,” he said, “and I do not | think it would interest the public.” He sald he intended to visit points of scenic interest in Central Mexico and mentioned Cuernavaca. Attempts to reach him at his hotel later last night failed. Sherwood's presence here was_re- vealed to correspondents of New York newspapers by a man who said he had known him for years in New York. Sherwood sald he had made no effort to conceal his identity, that he had registered under his own name and moved freely in social circles. He has been here more than a week. Will Rogers BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Mex- ico's whole cabinet retired whole. Headline says “Chicago Elec- trocuted Four Gangsters” | ‘Thelr limou- sine must have crossed a live wire, “Hwvard Bars Alimee Prom Campus.” Harvard must have some smart men to think up all the fool things that school does to. get notoriety. Thirteen nations asked us to join the League to try and help make Japan behave. That number 13 ought to be the tip-off right there to stay out of there. MOTHER KILLS SELF AND FOUR CHILDREN Unemployed Worker Finds Five Bodies on Return to Home. By the Assoclated Press. WILMINGTON, Ohio, October 17.— | Bella 'McClure, THEATER BOMBING SUSPECT BURNED Sulphur Machine Ignites Be- neath Coat—Five Others Are Injured. By the Assoclated Press. , CHICAGO, October 17.— Chicago's sixteenth theater bomb seriously burned the man, police said, who caused it to explode. Peter Mooney, who was released four years ago from Joliet Prison, was in- jured about the face, body -and legs when the sulphur machine ignited be- neath his coat during the climax of a motion picture at the Colony Theater, on the Southwest Side, last night. Police said the bomb was intended to terrorize the audience of 800. Two women, Mrs. Margaret Kane and Mrs. sitting in back of Mooney, were burned, but little prop- erty dimage was done. Audience Quickly Calmed. ‘Three others, who extinguished the | fire in Mooney's garments, suffered burns about the hands. ‘The audience, alarmed by the flash of bluish flame and the sharp odor of burning sulphur, was thrown into mo- mentery panic. It was quickly calmed, however, and the motion picture con- tinued after Mooney was carrled into the lobby. Mooney, before lapsing into uncon- sciousness, declared the bomb had been hurled from the balcony. Police said | | this was impossible, since he was sitting | WASHINGTOX, during the controvery between the Al- lled l';:dependem Motion Picture The- ater Owners’ Association, with which the Colony House in affiliated, and the Motion Picture Operators’ Union. The owners have refused to accept demands of the union that two operators be em- ployed in each theater per shift, and since August 20 have been operating with imported operators. Last night the owners were reported by the Herald and Examiner to have raised an additional $50,000 to continue their fight against the union. Four at- tempts by authorities to have the two organizations arbitrate their differences have failed. Son Mistakes Mother for Fox. ‘Thinking she heard robbers in her farmyard near Bordeaux( France, Mme, M. Biza, a widow of 60, aroused her son, who crouched by his window and ghot at a fancled fox. He then found he fired at his mother, who had gcne into the yard without his knowledge. She wes serjously injured. —_— ‘The Virgin Islands are trying to at- tract tourists, and hotels and oth flities are being ned. i D, C,. SATURDAY, Soclety Secretary Says 7,000,000 Are in New York. NEW YORK, October 17 (#).—There are, says J. M. Loughborough, 120,000, 000 cats in the United States—7,000,000 in New York—which is approximately {one cat for each man, woman and ild. | Sixty-five of every hundred are stray, explains Loughborough, secretary of the International Cat Soclety. ‘Which explains the nightly yowls on the back fence. Germany shipped 9,330 bicycles to Lithuania in the first six months of Enjoy a Delightful Breakfast, Luncheon, Dinner or Supper at 74th Year 1107_Connecticnt Ave. PP — HOME BARGAINS DETACHED HOUSES BIG PRICE REDUCTIONS 4009 20th St. N.E. Lot 40 b3 t 107, Gara $11,500. 8 rooms. Regular price, ow, 39,650, ge. Sun parlor—porches and detached. i | OCTOREE 17, 120,000,000 CATS IN U. S.| 1931. THIS IS ONE OF THE NEW SHANNON & LUCHS HOMES A 35-year-old mother shot and killed | on the first floor at the rear, many feed her f children and then committed | back of the balcony ledge. Besides, Mrs. 20th and Bunker Hill Road N.E. SCAN SHERWOOD FINANCES. fncome Tax Investigators Work on| Bank and Brokerage Accounts. NEW YORK, October 17 (#).—Fed- eral income tax investigators yesterday | were working on the bank and broker- age accounts of Russell T. Sherwood, missing accountant for Mayor James J. Walker, which have been reported to! show transactions of large amounts. Newspapers saw in the announcement » hint that Federal powers may be used to find Sherwood, who has been sought | by the Hofstadter Legislative Committee for 10 weeks. Samuel Seabury, counsel for®the committee, Whose aides have been por- ing over the accounts for days, said he was powerless to issue a subpoena for Snerwood, even if he did locate him in | another State He pointed out that Sherwood was re- ported in Atlantic City last month, but | that the committee could not send for | him because its jurisdiction does not | go_outside New York State. | If the Federal Government joins in | the hunt, its agents would be able to bring Sherwood back to New York by | procuring a grand jury subpoena, valid | anywhere in United States territcry. Income of Six Probed. | The incomes of six Democratic poli- | ticians which the Hofstadter Commitee | revealed as totaling nearly $2,000,000'in the last six years, also are under Fed- eral scrutiny. Seabury defended for the second time | the committee’s right to hold private | hearings when he argued in Brooklyn | Supreme Court a case brought by Rob- | ert Kennedy, sales manager for a bacge | manufacturing firm. | Kennedy had been subpoenacd to produce books of the concern after S:a- bury had charged the company was! selling badges which cost 50 cents each to_city employes for $5. Kennedy's attorney contended _the Legislature had no power to order an! investigation into a particular unit of the State except as an emergency measure, which would require a twc- thirds vote. The bill creating the Hof- stadter Committee was passed by only a majority vote. The court reserved decision and asked counsel to submit brieis by Monday. | The previous test case was brought by | Minthorne T. Gordon, bus operator, but it was based on another contention, that the committee lacked power to ap- point a subcommittee of less than three members to hold private hearings. 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Call ut KQONS roorve District COMPANY. 0933. sulcide at their home, in Reesville, near | here, last night. | The deac were: | Mrs, Russell Ward and her children, Arlene, 11; Audrey, 8; Edith, 7, and Richard, 4. Authorities blamed financial troubles for the tragedy. The mother, who had | told friends she was so worrled she | “couldn’t think” went to the village | school to get her children. She told them they were “going away.” | The husband was in Wilmington at | the time of the shooting. He found | the bodies when he returned home. Those of his daughters were on the bed room floor. The mother lay in a door- | way leading from the room and nearby was the body of the boy. Ward picked up the boy and found | he was not dead. He tried frantically | to revive the child, but death came within a few minutes. | The father, a toolmaker, had been without employment recently, except for odd jobs. He said his wife had been acting strangely for several weeks and had complained of feeling ill. The house, a one-story cottage, Wes dark. but the doors were unlocked, when Ward returned. He declared he went { first to the kitchen and. finding his family gone, assumed they were visit- ing_ neighbors. Several minutes passed before he entered the bed room to find the bodies. The mother left no note, but the coro- ner was convinced she slew the children and herself because she was tired of poverty. Ward, almost prostrated by the trag- edy, said his wife often had threatened to kill herself and the children. As a precaution he had taken the cartridge: from his revolver, which he kept in th bed room. The weapon was used Ly Kane and Mrs. McClure said they saw | Mooney fumbling with “something | wrapped in wet clothes, then thrust it | under his coat,” only a minute before the explosion. Man Refuses to Talk. Lieut. Walter Storms, acting deputy detective chief, questioned Mooney early | today, but the man refused to talk. | Fifteen other bombs have been set off DPormanence in FOXALL Few things in life bring greatet joy or happiness than the ownership of one’s home . . . a home built to endure . . . in an environment per- manently protected. The superior- ity of our materials. workmanship and construction insure durability, while Foundry Branch Valley Park, the Upper Potomac River Park De- velopment and surrounding estates assure the continuance of its pres- ent ideal environment. Visit our Furnished Model Home. apen until 10 p. m., at 4400 Volta Place, three short blocks south of Reservoir Road, and see for your- self what living in Foxall really means. Prices $11,350 to $14,950 Mrs. Ward, however, and Ward was atT a loss as to how she obtained cartridges. | Mrs. Ward apparently took the chil- | dren to the bed room on the pretense | she was going to dress them for a trip. 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Miss Rose Greely is the Landscape Archi- tect, and all details and drawings of gardens in the communit. will be made by her. Colony Hill will be under the personal supervision of Harry K. Boss, of the firm of B On the tract of ground, beautifully situated high above the Potomac River and adjoining the English sec- tion of Foxhall Village, which has déservedly attracted nation-wide attention, Colony Hill, only ten migutes from the center of the city, will have that delightful degree of privacy which is all essential. It is truly a vi lage in the city. The development of and Phelps. Hoban Road is the street on which the first houses have been built. Very fittingly, in recognition of the splendid service rendered the architectural art of this country, this street is named for Captain James Hoban, a talented young Irishman, selected by a commission appointed by George Washington to be the builder an.d architect of the White House, one of the most perfect examples of Georgian architecture now in existence in this country. Go west on Q Street to Wisconsin Avenue, north one square to Reservior Road, west to Hoban Road just beyond 44th Street. BOSS & PHELPS Creators and Exclusive Developers of Foxhall Village and Colony Hill. _— e — ‘ Rittenhouse St. and Broad Branch Rd. Chevy Chase, D. C. used Such a Sensation in Home Building Circles in the Past Two Weeks THEY ARE DIFFERENT And Their Values Are Protected for All Time to Come Because the Grouping Is COMPLETE AND ALL ARE DIFFERENT It Is Here You Will See The New FIRST FLOOR SERVICE ROOMS. A FULLY INSULATED HOME. AUTOMATIC HEAT., INCASE RADIATION. 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