Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1931, Page 10

A—10 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1931. MRS, JUDD'S TRIAL | -DELAY I OPPLSED County Attorney to Rush Hearing of Confessed Killer of Two Women. X, Ariz, November 13 Opposing wishes of defense atiorneys to delay trial of Winnie Ruth Judd 26-year-old confessed siayer of her two former friends, County Attorney Lioyd Andrews says he will seek an early preliminary hearing and endeavor to| ave her fate placed'in the handa of & jury by the first week in December. | Mrs, Judd was ordered taken to court today to have the date for the pre- liminary trial set. Yesterday she re- jterated her story of how she killed Miss Hedvig Bamuelson and Mrs, Agnes Le | Roi to Herman Lewkowits, one of her attorneys Mra. Judd. however. sald the “sel @efense” killing took piace before breal fast on the morning of October 17 rather than after breakfast. The Stats maintains she killed the two/women the n st October 16, Replying to an attack made by Paul Bchenck, another defense attorney, that Arizona authorities were “harassing” Mrs. Judd with lengthy questionings, Andrews said the charge was “ridiculous.” HOLD-UP MEN HdB ONE; SECOND VICTIM ESCAPES | Five in Small Car Net $30.60 for Evening in Vicinity of | Alexandria. @pecial Dispatch to The Star ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 3.— Five hold-up men in a small touring car operating in this vieinity last night had an average of 50 per cent for thelr evening's activities, with one stick-up netting $39.60 and a second being frus- trated by the intended victim's faflure to stop for them. Jack Rice, 910 Pranklin street, re-| ported to police that he was held up | early last night while crossing Glebe | yoad near Four-Mile-Run and robbed of $30.60 by five men in a small car. He furnished a description of one. Several hours later P. E. Shuls of @eminary, Va, notified police of an attempt to hold him up a mile north of Dumfries while en route to Alexan- dria. According to Shulz, the five men had their car blocking he road so that he had to sideswipe it in order to get by, He obtained the license number, which police say was issued to a car owner at Robbey, Va, A general look- out for the men was sent out. ALIMONY AWARDED Temporary alimony of $150 a month was awarded to Mrs. Katheryn Ma- gruder Dudrow by Chief Justice Wheat of the District Supreme Court yester- day. Mrs. Dudrow, the daughter of A. Pinkney Magruder of Hyattsville, is suing her husband, Neuman Dudrow, one of the vice presidents of the Prince Georges Bank & Trust Co. for a| divorce on grounds of desertion and | non-support | Two previous suits brought by the wife in Prince Georges County have been dismissed. | Mrs. Dudrow is represented in the Filling Stat ion Waif BABY ABANDONED BY COUPLE IN AUTO. Katherine Heyer, Children's Hospital nurse, with foundling lhlndunedi DANVILLE, Va., November 3 —Star Staff Photo. the couple and their automobile. who apparently could afford to| keep an automobile, but not a The 2-month-old infant was taken | to Children’s Hospital, where doctors Miss in ayjomobile Alling station. WELL dressed man and woman, A baby, were the objects of & po- lice search today after they abandoned an infant girl in a filling station at Sixth street and New York avenue late yesterday afternoon. The couple drove up to the station and the woman, wrapped in s heavy fur-trimmed overcoat, alighted and went to the rest room with a partially con- cealed bundle in her arms. Hear Cries of Child. Meanwhile the man had attendants check his motor oil and put water in the radiator of his well kept sedan. A minute later the woman returned, climbed into the car and drove off with the man. Neither Charles C. Martin, rietor of the station, nor Charles nter, a helper, had noticed anything sus- picious. They were mystified, some 30 minutes later, to hear the muffied cry- ing of a small child. Afraid some neighborhood youngster had tumbled into the oiling pit, they searched this and other places about the filling station without finding the source of the cries, which had become & steady wailing. Find Infant on Floor. ‘The men eventually traced the sound to the ladies’ wash room and found an infant bundled in a blanket on the con- | crete floor. Both men then recalled | that the woman was the last to enter the room. They notified police of No. cwsrent action by Attorney Robert W. McCullough. as Healera Hammered design, an- tique brass finish, 1-pc. fire brick wall ..... 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In addition she was ome of the best|The TRIO FOUND GUILTY 'Y OFFERS FOREIGN - OF BORAH FRAUD 1$40,000 Swindle Carried Out by Fraudulent Use of } Senator’s Name. | NEW YORK. November 3 —Three | men, who reputedly used the name of Senator Willlam E. Borah in a canvass of prospective investors in which they obtained $400,000, were convicted yes- terday by a Federal Court jury on fou: | matl fraud counts | The trio, Benvenuto Daverlo, alais| | Louts B. Pirelli; Biagio Vialle, and | | Joseph ~ Cappa—reputedly Tepresented |that Senator Borah had obtahed a | national bank charter in their behalf and that they would open & national bank here | | 'Senator Borah testified for the Gov- ernment, denving on the witness stand |that he ever had business relations of any kind with the trio or their or- ganizations, known as the Pranklin Plan Corporation of New York and | Franklin Plan Corporation of New | Jersey. | "“These corporations, Assistant United | States Attorney Jacob Rosenblum said, | | had no connection with the Franklin | Plan Corporation, a Delaware organi- zation with 97 branches, of which George S. ,Groves is president and | | which, Rosenblum said, “is engaged in | legitimate business.” | | “Federal Judge Frank Coleman re- fused bail for the three men pending sentence November 10 They face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison although the jury recommended mercy for Vialle who was acquitted previously under an indictment growing out of the same transactions. Veteran Tobacco Man Dies. (Spe- | cial). —Word has been received here of | the death at the Old Soldlers’ Home, in | Hampton, of Capt. John R. Hutchings, | | former Pittsylvania man, long identified | in the tobacco business in this section. remains are being brought here for burial this afternoon. Reupholstering & Repairing 5-Piece Parfor Suites—Antiques 3-Piece Overstuffed Suites Dining Room Chairs 27 in. wide, 21 in. high and 9 in. deep; andirons attached . terra cotta gas log; 20-in. size, half priced...ceseu $ POSTTOPUBLISER F. S. Harmon of Mississippi‘ Is Asked to Direct Ac- | tivities Abroad. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, November 3.-=The post of directing head of Y. M. C. A work in 32 foreign countries has been offered to Prancis S. Harman, news- paper publisher of Hattiesburg, Miss. it was learned today at general head- quarters of the association Dr. John R. Mott of Montclair, N. J who, as general secretary of the Y. M C. A's International Committee, has | been in charge of the organization's | activities abroad, some months ago sig- | nified his intention of resigning that post DF. Mott, it was explained, wishes to | devote his entire time to his duties as resident of the World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Assoclations and of the International Missionary Couneil. Plans Unannounced. The International Committee. which has asked Harmon to assume direction of its organizational and good will ac- tivities abroad, is composed of repre- sentatives of both the Y. M. C. A. of the United States and the Y. M. C. A. of_Canada. | The Mississippi publisher has not yet | announced whether or not he will ac- i | cept the offer. For the past two years Harmon served | as president _of the national council of the Y. M. C. A. of the United States He was recently succeeded in that capacity by George B. Cutten, presi- dent of Colgate University. Saw Service In France. | Harmon is 36. He was born in | Pauliding, Miss., and is & graduate of | the University of Virginia and Harvard | Law School. He first became inter- ested in Y. M. C. A. work as & high school youth of 15. During the war, Harmon went to| traveled through 42 States in connec- tion with the activities of the national council of the Y. M. C. A. He is editor and publisher of the Hattlesburg American, Building plans passed by the city partment of Johannesburg. in the first six months of this_year. ed for construction work totaling ' 000, or $1.779,000 more than in the same period of last year. engineer's dej South Africa, FELL TREES FOR STREET | Upper Marlboro Begins Widening Work in Front of Court House. BY & Staff Correspondent of The Star. 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