Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1931, Page 5

LYNCH KIDNAPING SUSPECTS TAKEN Trio Believed by Prosecutor to Have Figured in Pearce and Berg Cases. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, _November 17.—Three men, suspected of having a part in the kidnaping of John J. Lynch, mil- libnare turfman, at Lake Geneva,| Wis., were arrested last night. They are Michael Trant, Michael and Frank Sullivan. The trio was believed by Pat Roche, investigator for the State's attorney, to be part of a gang of kidnapers which operated in_ Rockford, Peoria | and other Illinois cities. _Police inti- mated they might also have had al hand in_the kidnapings of Ralph J. “Fuzzy” Pearce, Rockford gambler, and Alexander Berg, St. Louls furrier. Witnesses to the Lynch kidnaping were to attempt to identify the trio today, Roche said. Lynch was held a_prisoner a week | after he was seized by the kidnapers. | His release was made August 27 after 8 reported ransom of $50,000 was paid. He had been overpowered by three | men as he was driving from his Lake Geneva home to Chicago. { ‘Trant, Roche said, was sentenced to serve 17 years in Leavenworth Foderal | Prison for counterfeiting September | 23, 1924. Roche said he would in- | vestigate how Trant came to be at liberty. | | THE WEATHER District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland—Increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer tonight, followed by rain tomorrow; colder tomorrow night | and Thursday: increasing southerly | winds becoming fresh tomorrow. ‘West Virginia—Rain tonight and to- morrow; warmer tonight; colder to- | morrow afternoon; much colder to- | morrow night. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. | Inches. | 3020 | 3022 | 30.23 3022 30.25 30.23 p.m. Year ago... 60 | ...52, 6 am. Year ago...64 Tide Tables, (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Tomorrow. 2:33am. 9:17am, 3:09 p.m. 9:49 pm. 4 pm. .. 8 pm. .. Midnight 4 am. .. 8:51pm. The Sun and Moon. THE The Monument by Night NEW LIGHTS MAKE SHAFT AIR LANDMARK. bring out the shaft at night to remove the hazard it has been in the ‘The shaft is re- TH! ‘Washington Monument, bathed in the new floodlights set at the base to past to airplanes operating in and out of Washington. flected back in the Tidal Basin. —Star Staff Photo. HARRY C. WIMBLEY | FACES GRAND JURY Indictment With Former Pal| Sought in Drowning of Wife and Child. The case of Harry C. Wimbley, 32, and John M. Crowder, 24, Jointly ac- cused by police of murdering Wim- | m. | bley's wife and 3-year-old stepdaugh- "vo"i today... 1:20am utomobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in inches in the Cap- ital (current month to date): Month. 1931. Average. T T 321 375 Record. 7.00 @ I 3 Nosssw brreptota $¥R2558 November ... Weather in Various Cities. ‘Temperature. wx . o w 3 85 1emo1 Weather, “yasyu wep ® H Stations. '5' : Abilene, ... Bt.cloudy Pt.cloudy EEussunusuusy 2SRRI BINVENT = S 1 Paso, Tex... Galveston, Helena, Mont. Snow . Pt.cloudy . Pt.cloudy Tia Etcloudy Los 'Angeles fear Toutsvile; aha, Nebr . 2 Bhiladeiphia Phoenix. FOREIGN. (1 am., Greenwich time. tods Stations T London, Engl Paris, Franc Vienna, im, Spain 49 Cle: (Noon. Greenwich time. today.) Horta (Payal). Azores... €0 Rain Hamilton, ter, September 17, during a birthday | “|outing in Mrs. Wimbley's honor, was preserted today to the grand jury. Nearly 75 witnesscs testified in_the Government's attempt to obtain indict- ments charging first-degree murder sgainst the two men who have been held with-ut bail in the District Jail nearly two months. Case Based on Confession. ‘The Governmert's case based | is primarily on a confession police ob- tained from Crowder, charging thet Wimbley on September 15 plotted to sandbag and burn to dezth his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Traylor Wimbley, 26, and her daughter, Wilma Trayler, whila they slept at Dendron, Va, in order to_collect insurance money. Palling in this, when Crowder said he “got cold feet” according to the con- | fession, the two men took Mrs. Wimb- ley and Wilma up the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal two days later. [There, Crowder confessed, he ‘“accidenially” overturned a2 canoe, throwing the wom- an and child in th> water. Wimbley throughout kas maintained his inno- cence, attributing Crowder's confession to a desire to cave himself. Detectives Testify. Principal witnesses against the pair include Detective Sergis. James F. Springman, head of the homicide squad; Floyd Truscott, Dennis J, Mur- phy and Robert Barrett, one of the de- tectives suspended as a result of the third-degree inquiry, all of whomy in- vestigated the case. Others who testified included Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Tench of Dendron, father and moth°r of Mrs. Wimbley, whom she was visiting the night Crow- der claimed Wimbley plotted to wipe | out the whole family; the manager of Tent-a-car garage, from whom Wimbley and Crowder obtained the automobile in which they drove to Dendron, and employes of a filling station in Rich- mond, from whom the pair obtained a five-gallon can of gasoline with which, Crowder said, Wimbley intended setting fire to the house. FRESHMEN TO DANCE Southeastern Law Students Plan “Get-Together” Friday Night. Freshmen of the Law School of Southeastern University will their organized class activities with a “get-together” and dance Friday nigh: | in the assembly hall of the Y. M. C. A, | 1736 G street. The ‘entire student body of the uni- versity has been invited to the opening function. Arrangements are in charge of a committee consisting of Howard C. Mann, president of the freshmen law class; Raymond F. Talbert, F. E. Wiit and James Keeling. Cuba Havana, Canal Colon. ) ‘| fiaiutic Week! == Chain stores, American style, are be- ing opemed in Chile. Delivers any Majestic Radio this week only! Until closing Saturday you can MENT OF ONE DOLLAR! Balance on Jordan's Famous Budget Plan “"ARTHUR JOR DAN PIANO COMPANY 1239 G St. Cor I3% launch | FIGHT LOST IN BAY RESCUED BY GUARD Three Girl Teachers and Five Boy Pupils Safe After Ordeal. By the Associated Press. CAPE MAY, N. J, November 17.— Thz three high school teachers and five young men missing since Sunday in a motor launch have been found sefe in a light house in Delaware Bay. The Coast Guard patrol boat No. 107 radioed the information to Coast Guard base No. 9 here. The light house is known as Fourteen-foot Bank Light. It is in the middle of Delaware Bay, which is 20 miles wide and about 17 miles from the Delaware Capes. A boat was sent from Cape May to the light hcuse to tow the launch elther to Capz May or to Bivalve, from which plage the party of elght left Bunday aferncon for a short cruise in Delaware Bay. The radio message to the Coast Guard base'rend:: “Boat passengers located at 14-foot bank lighthouse. Everybody in good shape. Taking passengers aboard.” Lieut. Charles Duke, who has been directing the search, said he instructed the boat to precede to Bivalve, from whence the passengers sailed 48 hours ago. Eleven Coast Guard vessels searched the bay all Sunday, making slow progress in the fog, While yesterday their force wag/augmented by private Jaunches and other vessels. A seaplane was forced back after a start yesterday. Harper Chance, 16, whose father built the motor launch, was skipper of the missing craft. With him were Iscbelle McGaughey, 25, of Philadel- phia, an English teacher; Alma Moyer, 26, Kulpmont, Pa., teacher of French; Hannah Ewan, 21, of Millville; Irwin Ewan, 18, her brother, and Marshall Roe, 18, and his brothers Kenneth, 15, and Harwood, jr., 17. TOWN “BORROWS” WATER JACKSONVILLE, Oreg. (N.AN.A).— Water shortage became acute in Jacksonville recently that the town was forced to “borrow” from a neighboring city. Twelve hundred gallons an hour were hauled 9 miles to alleviate the condition. 1-Ft. Barberry, 10c MARYLAND NURSERIES EDMONSTON (East Hyattaville) Piano Manufacturers Factory to Your Home " BRAND NEW SMALL SIZE PIANO A $350 Va'ue *145 To acquaint the publie with the enormous ad- vantage of buying direct from the manufacturer, \‘:‘ .r;:nnry of{ “’lh 4 201 er for 8 limited time. Terms as low as _12 Per Wgek ) CHAS. M. STIEFF 1340 G St. N. W. OponBuer™ s To'il 8 P M. EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, IKENTUCKY SEEKS DREISER'S RETURN !Asks Extradition of Entire| Party to Test Criminal Syndicalism Law. By the Associated Press. MIDDLESBORO, Ky., November 17. —If Bell County officials are successful Theodore Dreiser and members of the comiittee which inves- tigated conditions in the Eastern Ken- tucky coal flelds, a test of Kentucky's ! in extraditing criminal syndicalism statute is in pros- pect. Dreiser's committee while here asked the authorities why several men they had previously charged with criminal | syndicalism were reieased on promises to leave the State. Commonwealth’s Attorney W. A. Brock replied that if any returned, they would be tried. Samuel Ornitz, a member of the com- mittee, said, “That's just what we want you to do,” adding that it would afford .hn opportunity for a court test of the w. Dreiser and Ornitz are among 10 members of the committee indicted here yesterday on criminal syndicalism charges. Others indicted were John Passos, George Maurer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rumford Walker, Celia Kuhn, M. P. Levy, Marie Pergain and A. Gohns. There was no member of the committee with the latter name, but A. Gannes, National Miners' Union representative, made addresses at meet- ings conducted by the committee at which the indictments charge acts of criminal syndicalism were committed. Dreiser and Marie Pergain are under Bell County indictments charging adultery also, but this offense is not extraditiable. The criminal syndicalism indictments charge the group with “aid- ing and counseling crime, physical vio- lence, arson, destruction of property, intimidation, terrorism and other un- lawful acts,” and advising and suggest- ing disorder and resistance” to the State and Federal governments. The writs also charge the group with urging over- D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1931. EDWARD SIMMONS, 79, S—xrr~oan S ENTE P el BB L L PN T A AT ] mittee which investigated Kentucky mine labor troubles m‘v‘e“lmuuud they will not go back to Bell Coun'y to face crim- inal syndicalism charges without a fight. As the first step in their efforts to resist extradition to answer to DIES IN BALTIMORE ments under the Kentucky crimina) s e dicalism law, Dreiser and his tes | Artist Who Painted Murals in have asked Gov. Roosevelt to grant | b . them & hearing before he signs extra- Library of Congress Expires TS, Tf Drelser aind the others change thelr at Home of Som. minds and decide to go back for irial the American “Civil Liberties Union ls‘ By the AR ready to aid their defense. | _ BALTIMORE, November 17.—Edward Simmons, 79, one of the better known of American’ painters, died here today at the home of his on, with whom he | had been living for four years. Death | followed four days' iliness from bron- | chial pneumonia. W. W. EVERETT HEADS BAPTIST ASSOCIATION FEfes e uron e ch Member Elected 'lor of arts degree from Harvard in 1874, LA and then studied painting under Le- Moderator of Columbia febvre and Boulander in Paris, and be- Organization. g;‘?’ his professional painting career in 1879. He was granted the prize from the RIS Municipal Art Society of New York for is mural decorations in the New York W. W. Everett of Calvary Baptist| criminal Court Bullding. He followed Church was elected moderator of the | with decorations for several State capi- Columbia Association of Baptist | tol buildings and those for the Library Churches at the opening session today | °f Congress in Washington. Funeral services will be hel of the ffty-fourth annual meeting in | nome of his son. George Bromiord Sine the National Baptist Memorial Church, mons, here. The remains will be cre- Sixteenth street and Columbia road.|mMated and the ashes interred in the Mr. Everett succeeds Dr. Samuel Jud- fanMly plot at Cambridge, Mass. son Porter, pastor of the Pirst Baptist | . MI- Simmons is survived by two other Church. ‘;"On{: :Illll’l;n by his first wife and Other officers elected were: eter DY his second, whom he married Rev. Gove G. Johnson, pastor of the |in 1903, National _Baptist Memorial _Church, vice moderator; S. G. Nottingham, | clerk; E. B. Shaver, assistant clerk, and George B. Bryan, treasurer. A number of reports were to be sub- | mitted at this afternoon’s session. The | newly elected moderator will report as Baby Is Murder Witnes WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria, No- | vember 17 (). —Three-year-old Adolf Beer was chief witness against his mother, Josefa Beer, Joday when she chairman of the Executive Board, Dr.| Vent to trial on a charge of murder H. W. O. Millington as executive .sQCA‘h‘ connection with the death of her | 2-year-old son Hermann. retary and Geoige B. Bryan as treas-| “ip, mother was arrested when Adolf urer Mrs. E. Hilton Jackson will re- | e ORIEE Wes arrested when Adolf port for the trustees of Children's| FFaitled 4% the funeral: “Mama eVERFRESH Board of Managers. Willlam 8. Corby CITRATE or MAGNESIA will report for the trustees of the Home for the Aged and Mrs. L. H. Pish- er as treasurer of the latter institution. Bishop William F. McDowell of the Methodist Church was to be the prin- cipal speaker at the afternoon session. ‘The final meeting of the convention will be held Thursday evening at 7:30 throw or change of the Government |o'clock. “by force and violence.” The group announced last night at ile. New Yore 1t ‘woud resist. extradition| _ volcano Hurls Ashes Mile and asked Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt| BATAVIA (#).—Smcke and ashes for a personal hearing. 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