Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1931, Page 40

By the Associated Press. ™ C—8 23 YEARS IN PRISON, CLAIMS INNOCENCE Convicted Slayer Requests Illinois High Court to Clear Name. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 20.—“Big Guns!” scoffed Elmer A. Sperry, jr. everything off the map. human pilot could fly back and sit down to b THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FLYING BOMB CALLED MIGHTIER WAR WEAPON THAN BIG GUN } Rohot Pilot, Says It Will Revolu- tionize Fighting. reakfast. ‘Then the SPRINGFIELD, Ill, November 20.— | Il play a minor role in military tactics of the future. “The big guns of the World War cost The fiying bomb | tremendous sums. To get Big Bertha | into place they had to use hundreds of D. C., FRIDAY, the years by the elder Sperry. Per- fected with the aid of the son, it is in principle very much like another Sperry automatic pilot, called by mariners “iron mike,” which keeps heavy steam- ships ploughing a true course for days through the sea. FASHION SHOW PLANNED League for Hard of Hearing Set for Farce and Style Revue Here. A unique fashion show, with the belles of the nineteenth and twentieth centaries lined up side by side, will be staged tomorrow evening at the Arts Club by the Washington League for the Hard of Hearing. The farce, “The Lost Elevato: be presented, along with the style show | i UNSPIRITUAL NATIONS’ DOOM IS FORECAST Home Missions Official Reports Vast Regions of Unevangelized Sections in U. S. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 20.—Dr. E. D. Kohlstedt, corresponding secretary, | officially reported to the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday | that political, unspiritual democracies are doomed. NOVEMBER 20, 1931. backward communities of New Eng- land, Ohio, Michigan and many other States reveal a widespread neglect of | rural missionary fields,” he said. “Only 1 40 per cent of New England’s popula- tion is claimed by any church; 33 per | cent of its population under 19 years of age is unidentified with church schools. Utah has seven counties with no active Back to Pre-War Prices $1.50 e ical mission in any one of them. “The fundamental consideration that Justifies Christianity’s organizational existence is the continuity of a vigor- cus evangelistic and missionary pro- gram.” Are You Ruptured? See the Wonderful New Akron Triple Guard Truss Expert Fitting Demonstration Baltimore and Return by Factory Truss Expert Here Jesse Lucas, who spent 23 years in |is the thing.” | prison for a- murder which another | Sperry, who at 38 has the enthusiasm man is reported to have confessed from | of a stripling. explained today how the | his death bed, today asked the Illinois bot developed by his famous | Supreme Court to reverse itself 1 h the admiring son helping. clear him of the stigma of “murd: olutionize warfare if the world ‘The plea, which attorneys ter r aficted with another war. extraordinary because it had no ba: eanwhile is being_devoted to in specific statutes, produced purport The Eastern Air affidavits frcm witnesses who hel officially sets it to work conyict Lucas in 1809 for the s s between New York and of Clyde Showalter at Mount Carmel, i, declaring their testimony at the trial was perjured. It was filed just a day after Harry M. Phipps, who prosecuted Lucas, wrote Gov. Louis L. Emmerson that “inter- ests” behind the ex-convict, in efforts | to obtain exoneration, “omitted some essential facts and distorted others.” Offers to Aid Governor. Now a practicing attorney in Chicago, Phipps offered the executive bis sistance “to arrive at all possible facts in the case * * * in the cause of pro- tection of life, liberty and happiness against the common criminal.” Lucas’ plea, charging he was ce victed through conspiracy of witne: and others, declin a pardon as inadequate remedy,” because it wc presume him guilty, and asked Supreme Court for complete exonera- tion under the following article of the State constitution: | “Every person ought to find a cer- tain remedy in the laws for all injuries and wrongs which he may receive in person, property or reputation.” Specifically, the bill asked the high | tribunal to correct a judgment it en- tered 21 years ago upholding Lucas'| conviction in the Wabash County Circuit | Court and grant him a new trial, to grant a rehearing and modify or reverse its | original opinion and find him not guilf or to grant “such other remedy or re lief as is meet and proper within the discretion of the court and is inherent in its power to do justice.” | False Testimony Claimed. The purported affidavits were signed | by e Mercer and Oma Johnson, | both of whom declared that they gave | false testimony against Lucas at the | trial to gain freecom from the Wab: | County jail, where they were lodged material witnesscs, although they pro- tested, the afficavits said, they knew nothing of the murder. | Lucas was released from the South- | ern Illinois penitentiary at Chester last | August and granted a parole by the State after Anna Smith of Decatur, by the Plerce Hall Players, who have donated -their services to the league benefit Patronesses of the entertainment are Mrs. John Blake Kendall, Mrs. R. S ‘Woodward, Mrs. F. L. Fishback, Mr. C. W. Richardson, Mrs. J. Q. Rice, M Helen Nicol Miss Spofford, Charles L. Marlatt, Mrs. Reese E. Mc- Duffie and Mrs. Asa Keyes. Miss Nico- lay planned and costumed the scenes and directed the rehearsals. men and strengthen bridges and rail- ways to bear the weight. Then, after a few shots, they had to get a new gun. “To do en infinitely bigger job by aerial torpedo means only the destruc- tion of a cheap airplane and a few relatively inexpensive gadgets.” His report also urged Christianizing of the mind and heart of the Ameri- | can, not only for the sake of the United States, but for the entire world, and it deplored “vast regions of unevangel- ized rural regions and scores of sadly neglected city centers.” He said recent surveys show that 87 per cent of normally Protestant rural £t ey population — approximately 30,000,000 Nearly 125,000 workers in Sweaen are | persons—are not members of the Prot- expecting wage: reductions on January | estant Church. AN 1, when collective wage agreements in “The range sections of the West, several industries will be canceled. mountain regions of the South and Visit our store and learn the amazing results obtained with the proper truss correctly fitted. 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