Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1931, Page 6

. - MRS, JUDD ACCEPT EXTRADTION PLA Agrees to Return for Trial in Trunk Slaying at Phoe- nix, Ariz. By the Associated Press | LOS ANGELES, October 27.—Winnie Ruth Judd plans to start back’ to Phoenix, Ariz, tomorrow to stand trial for the murder of Miss Hedvig Samuel- son and Mrs. Agnes Anne Le Rot, whose bodies she shipped to Los Angeles in trunks last week Attorneys for Mrs. Judd, who said she shot the “wo October 17 in self- defense, . ann ed today no fight would be made ag: t her extradition to Phoenix, scens of the double slaying En Route to Sacramento. Sherff James R_McPadden of Phoenix was en route to Sacramento, where he expected to ol extradition papers from Gov. Jam=s Rolph, Jr. Attorneys f Mrs. Judd intimated that an application for dismissal of the habeas corpus writ issued shortly after Mrs. Judd was arrested here last Friday would be made as soon as extradition apers were granted, so that she may {:" returned to Phoenix Warrant for Husband Issued. A warrant for the arrest of Dr. Wil- Yam C. Judd, husband of Mrs. Judd was issued yesterday after a complaint charging him with practicing medicine in Califarnia without a license had been made special agents of the State Board of Medical Examiners. It alleged Dr. Judd licg: took charge of & sanitarium here during the absence of the medical director OTTO KAHN RESIGNS AS OPERA PRESIDENT Paul D. Cravath Succeeds Head of Metropolitan, Who Keeps Board Membership. By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, October 27.—Otto H. Kahn resigned yesterday as president and chairman of the board of the Met- ropolitan Opera Co., and was succeeded immediately in both positions by Paul Cravath. DThe Jatter said there would be no changes in policy. Kahn explained in a formal statement following & meeting of the directors in his office that increased | business duties had been imposed upon him because of the death of Mortimer L. Schiff, his partner in the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Kahn will remain a director of the Metropolitan Co. He became chairman of the board 23 years ago, when the | company was reorganized from the old, Conried company. He also had been a director of that organization. He as-| sumed the additional post of president in 1918, | Gilullo Gatti-Casazza over from La Scale, in Milai eral maneger when Kahn reorganization in 1908, and he in the post. Cravath has been a director of the eompany_since 1910 PAINTINGS |;0R> VATICAN One of Finest Collections in World still is | Soon to Be Gathered. VATICAN CITY (#)—One of the finest collections of paintings in the | world is soon to be gathered in & new gallery at the Vatican. The gallery covers an area of more than 9,000 square yards | Half a_dozen spacious salons will house pajbtings of six principal art schools, from the Byzantine to that of | the elghteenth century. Two special galleries are completely dedicated to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci and of Raphael | FEVER SWEEPS ISLAND Victims Stricken With Amnesia in Epidemic in St. Croix. CHRISTIANSTED, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, October 27 (#).—A strange fever, in which the patients are stricken with amnesia, has become epidemic here within the last two weeks, filling the hospital with nearly 100 cases. One patient, Ricardo Miller, a tailor, who left his home one night while suf- fering from the ailment, is still missing. The 11} is attributed to a swampy ng ground, infested with mos- THE EVENIN( ¥ STAR. WASHINGTON, D. TUESDAY. o= OCTOBER 1931. Hoax Is Revealed In Desert Theft of 865,000 Tapestries Man Is Arrested on Grand Theft Suspicion—*Loot™ Is Recovered. be Associated Press LOS ANGELES, October year-old story of s sensstional hold-up on the desert, in which three bandits | [i escaped with 11 ‘ported tapestries vai- | f ued at $65.000 . ter shooting holes in the tires of the victims’ automobi! disclosed as & hoax by detectives yes- terday. They arrested Tom Ashawry, 45 charged him with suspicion of grand theft, and recovered the goods in Pasa- dena. The woman in whose home the | tapestries were found declared Ashawry | i had asked her to let him store them there, pleading that he was being | harassed by creditors The merchandise had been consigned to him by two New York firms, one of which had eollected $7,500 thef? insur- ance on the strength of the robbery | story Detectives sald that two days before the supposed robbery on August 7, 1930 Ashawry, under a fictittous name, hid the plunder here and, with a youth, Soby Halles of St. Lous, st out for a motor trip across the desert of South eastern California Their storv of being robbed 20 miles west of Needles, Calif., brought out air- planes and sheriffs’ posses of Arizona | and California in a fruitless search. | —e. | The introduction of machinery in| agriculture and the co-operative effort i is being strongly resisted in many re-' |} glons of Russia today, and sabotage Of machinery is & common occurrence. 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