Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1931, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, W YGTON, D. FRIDAY, D ubBER 11, 1931 A3 llfuwlli BYRON S. ADAMS KDNAPED GRL TELLS EXPERIENCE |Vermont Co-ed Says Two" Men Seized Her as She Posted Letter. Extra Plugs For Xmas Have Us,In:. 3 Them Now! | % MUDDIMAN § 911 G St. Nat’l 0140-2622 Organized 1888 By the Associated Press. MONTREAL, Quebec, December 11.— Telling & strange story of her kidnap- ing by two men in an automobile, Esther Pitts, 20-year-old co-ed of Ver- !mont University, reappeared yesterday [in the Windsor Raflway Station here | after being absent from her home in | | Burlington, Vt., since last Friday. | The girl first communicated with her | parents by long-distance phone and at | their dfrestion waited in the station | | until two family friends came to take | her to the home of Dr. Lucien Larose, | a_ former soquaintange. Her parents | arrived later and took fer to Colchester vt | “'She said she left the home of the | | Rev. A. Ritchie Lowe in Burlington | | Priday to mall a letter, expecting to be | | gone a few minutes. As she posted the | letter two men jumped out of a tour- | ing car with drawn blinds, pounced upon her and carried her off. The next | COLONY Ded cated to Coming Generations HILL Lights Big (Christmas Tree STORM KILLS O NARKANSS AR Three Others Seriously Hurt, | Buildings Wrecked by Tornado. By the Associated Press. | TEXARKANA, Ark, December 11.— | hig Two persons were killed, three seri- | ously injured and others were slightly L. Hardin, 8, and Mrs. 8. O. ‘were less seriously hurt. Rain Follows Storm. The storm, accompanied by the ter- rific downpour, struck about a mile north of Texarkana, demolishing the an. Campbell Hardin instantly. Mrs. Perry's head and side were crushed and she died two hours later at a hospital. The Camp. bell family lived with the Hardins. The two Hardin children were found in a field, having been blown from their bed. “Their father was found under the wreckage of the home. The storm left a trail of broken fences and demolished ‘outbul.ldinn in the vicinity. Chaurch and House Hit. About a mile northesst of the Perry and Hardin homes the storm hit a Negro lcg cabin and a church. A Negro, wife and seven small children were found in the cabin wreckage, but all had escaped with minor injuries. The hurt in & tornado which struck north of here at 2:30 a.m. today. | The dead: J. E. Hardin, 50, and Mrs, | Vera C. Perry, 32 Those serfously injured were: Mrs J. E. Hardin, Francis Hardin and Har- vey L. Perry, husband of the dead wom- church was demolished. As far as was known early today the storm was confined to the Texarkana area. Atlanta, South New Boston, to the west, and Ashdown and Hope, to the north and east, reported torrential rains but no damage. —a big load of heating worries off your shoulders by sending she knew, she said, she was in a room |in a strange city. She thinks she was drugged. In the same room was an- other girl with a_dislocated arm and a gashed head. Suddenly she became unconscious again and when she re- covered she was in another room boun< with stout rope. Two men enfered snd vut ber in an automobile. Again she had a Japse of memory. but saemed to recell that she struggled with one man that she wielded a monkey wrench and leaped from the car. “I was in a strange locality,” she said | “and I wandered through the streets until I came to a station.” PASTOR REITERATES STORY. art Community of Early an and Georgian Homes 1705 HOBAN ROAD Open 9 to 9 BOSS & PHELPS To reach: Que St to Wisconsin Ave, north one block to Reservoir R4, west to 100 fi. beyond 4dth St Says Girl Left His Home at Burlington on Sunday. BURLINGTON, Vt., December 11 (®).—Rev. H. O. Tatum, Burlington minister, at whose home Miss Esther Pitts, University of Vermont junior, re- sided, reiterated last night that she had left his home Sunday fternoon The girl was quoted as saying in Montreal, where she was found, that |she was' kidnaped last Priday after {leaving the home of Rev. A. Ritchie | Lowe, Colchester minister. Chinese Restaurant 519.13th St. * Doors Above Earle Theater {SHIPS IN D o ISTRESS | s | Barge Adrift Off Virginia—S8team- er Aground in New York Waters. | Several vessels were in trouble off | the Atlantic Coast as a result of stormy seas, according to the United S.ates Coast Guard. Off Cape Lookout, Va., the barge Da- | rien was reported to have slipped her S (EREBY GIVEN THAT THE | tow from the tug Susan Moran and to fonal Bank of ‘Weshiostes, 5. ‘8¢ [be lost adrift. The cutter Pontchar- I | train put out in quest of her. The | number of persons on board was un- known. From the New York vicinity came until 12| word the steamship Charlotte was | aground 50 feet from the water’s edge o | and an effort was planned at high tide directors of{to float her. The ship was reported Blackman, Incorporated, & | Jodged in 3 feet of sand, however. corporation, organized wnd aoigs business Under the Iaws of the District of Columbia, ® Never Closed SPECIAL NOTICES. sylvania ave n.w sday, January 12. 1032 The polls wiil | n open from 11 o'clock a.m. noon. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Card party, Haspital Committee, American Gold Star Mothers, Cairo Hotel, 8 p.m. Card party, Pi Sigma Lambda Soror- ity, Thomas Circle Club, 8 p.m. b £ of busin 90 st in the City of Wash- | ington of sald Distsict. for the purpose of considering the advisabllity of changing the existing name of the corporation (o that of tein Company, Incorporated. At that ng. the following rosolution was prop. resented to the board of directors and fiosknolders, and was passed by ‘the . former member “and _stock- hojder of Blustein abd Blackman, Incorpo- Tated, has sold and conveyed away all ni: e, and interest and, whereas, Colonial Hotel, 9 p.m. Meeting, Brightwood Citizens' Asso- clation, Paul Junior High School, 8 p.m. Meeting, American War Mothers, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Orcella Rexford Heslth Class, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m. Card party, benefit St. Church, 1409 V street 8:30 pm. Card party, St. Prancis de Sales Church, Twentieth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast, 8 p.m. in the said corpo- appears that the interests of the corporation would be best romoted by a change in ils present name esolved, That it is the sense of this meet- ine that'the corporate naine of Blustein and Blackman, Incorporated, be changed to that of Blustein Company, ‘Tncorporated.” We, the undersigned. do make. file. this certificate and do cer herein stated are true ingly hereunto set our Is t th day of N; ‘Teresa’s southeast, 2 (Seal) the preserice of: Allan Fisher strict Columbia. ss.; ‘1 William J. Johnson. & tary public in'and for the District afore- said, do.hereby certi(y that Abraham Blu- stein and Helen R. Blustein, attorneys-in- ct for and president and recretary, respec- tively, of Blustein and Blackman. Incorpo- zated & 'body corporate, organized snd doing business under the laws of the Dis- trict of Calumbia, parties 10 A certain cer- tificate bearing date on ihe 19th day of November, 1931, exed. person- ally appeared the ' District #foresald. Blustcin and Jleten "X Iy well FUTURE. Meeting, Alllance Prancaise, La Fay- ette Hotel, tomorrow, 11:1° sam. M. Raymond Lange to lecture. Christmas party, Bethany Chapter, O. E. 8, Masonic and Eastern Star Home, tomorrow, 8 p.m. Play, under auspices of St. Mathias' Catholic Church of Capitol Heights, St. Peter's Hall, tomorrow, 8 p.m. Glasgow, Scotland, is to have its first super cinema. William My con GOING? WHERE. we'll move your f; NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY than those contracted by my- ITH, 1432 N. Carolina In a Hurry for a Plumber \ neati t7 Simply call 390" Po0 Brna T PAYMENTS 1t 3 c C. FLOOD 0. St. N.W. _Day. 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ESTABL Main Office 1151 16th Street u M Garrison. Chevrolet sedan; Va. 83174; left by Herry areon Buick sedan; Pla. 146366, left by M. A. Heres Essex coach: D. C. V-9380; left by Mrs. ©. W. McGuire ! Chevrolel sedan: D: C. N-7885; left by Mr. S ander. o CALL CARL, INC., e & Bl N ”W;. ’:V%THI;‘“:\' { AFTER HEAVY STORMS | | By the Assoctatea Press Dance, Independent Fellows Club, | A Custom That Never M mouy she was re-elected second Kaplan, secretary-treasurer. RS. L. E. COLLIER, vice president of the Eighteenth and Colum Business Men's Association, turned on the lights last night illuminating a huge Christmas tree in front of the Riggs National Bank, on the cor- ner of Eighteenth street and Columbia road Road Shortly after the cere- vice president of the association, along | | with Samuel S. Blick, president; Stanley F. Holland, vice president, and Lionel | —Star Staff Photo. | POWERS 1S CALM, EXPECTS RETRIAL Arguments for New Hearing| in Murder Conviction Set for Tomorrow. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., December 11. —Unmoved by his conviction for the | murder of Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke | of Northboro, Mass., Harry F, Powers |todsy awaited the outcome of argu- ments for a new trial, practically his | only hope of being saved from the gal- | lows. A jury of 12 farmers and business | men ‘deliberaigd 1 hour and 50 min- | utes last night before returning a ver- | dict of first-degmee murder in the trial | of the man who wooed by mail women throughcut the country. The verdict carried a mandatory sentence of hang- | ing at the State prison at Moundsville. | | Hearing Tomorrow. | Arguments for a new trial on the first lof the five slayings Powers {5 accused | of perpetrating at his garage, in a | Clarksburg suburb, will be heard to- | morrow. Powers calmly waited fn the! center of the brilliantly lighted istage qf, the | Moore Opera House, whgre the ;\, was held, while the jurors” délibératéd his fate in a dressing room beneath the | stage. Even when the verdict was read he showed no concern. | | Outside the theater a cheer rang up Clarksburg’s principal street as the verdict was relayed from person to person. Townspeople gathered and watched curiously as the convicted man was taken back to the county jail. | Expected Verdict. | “Just what I exected,” he was quoted by Andrew Moore, the jailer, as saying, | as_he was returned to his cell. If Powers had any but a passing con- | cern in what was being decided by the jury he hid it perfectly. | His attorney wko had wept and | clutched a tab’e to support himself es | {he begged the jurors for “mercy— | sympzthy,” was the only one on the | stege who displayed any concern. | | He paced back and forth, apparently | oblivious to the 1,300 spectators whose | eyes were fixed upon him snd his gum- chewing client. | Lawyer Weeps. | | . Whenever Law sat down Powe leaned over and engaged him in an | earnest conversation conducted in | whispers. But it was not the talk of | | & man secking consolation. Even when | the tears had rolled down the cheeks |of his siver-haired lawyer the man | branded as “one of the worst mass- |slayers the world has ever known” | maintained his immobile expression. Some customs never become old- fashioned. Our custom, instance, of offering the householders of Washing. only the BEST fuel and finest service. This cus- tom, you will find, dom- inates every transaction of King organization, Call us today — satisfaction and economy await you. William King & Son COAL MERCHANTS ISHED 1335 Georgetown 2901 K Street « Phone Decatur 0273 i Will Rogers Say DAIREN.—Gibbons quit me and took the locomotive. These Japanese ts was fl; ing too close to the tops of the rice flelds to suit him. Had a great flight in here, Dairen, the most mod- ern city and port you ever saw, and spent the alternoon visiting historic old Port. Arthur sio-Japanese War famn, the birthplece of Japan and the grave- yard of old Russia. en't find this present war I can find where some of the others were fcught. I am only two wars behind. He seemed puzzied by Law’s display of | emotion Powers was arrested August 27, after | police in Park Ridge, (I, had 'asked | olice here to search for Mrs. Asta | uick Eicher and her three children, | who had left home with a Clarksburg | man late in July. | The day after the arrest the bodies | of Mrs. her and the children were uneerthed from a drainage ditch lead- ing frcm Powers’ garage. I'he next day the body of Mrs. Lemke was found in the ditch Many possessions of both women were féound in the garege, which, the State contended, had been built as a siaugh- ter house for “murder for profit.” | Robbed at Point of Gun. Held up at the point of a pistol, | Oswald Boteler, 22, of 507 Twelfth street southeast was robbed of $7 by two colored men who hired his taxicab at Sixth and U streets last night. He | drove them to Twenty-second and B streets, where the robbery occurred. to Loan on L. W. Groomes, 1719 Eye St Reading Anthracite. ton uRits, due to super-clea; better fuel TODAY ! every Dependable Coal Service Since 1858 Marlow Coal Co. 811 E St. N.W. It's the cleanest, long- est burning hard coal you've ever used—and contains millions of extra heat you a full supply of ning! - Call us for this NAtional 0311 STI CK to our hard coal — avoid wasteful smoke and soot! ORDER TODAY! Rinaldi Gal Gmpany inc. 649 Rhode Island Ave. N.E. Phone: North 1600 Holiday Plans Should Include Replacement of old window shades with the modern WASHABLE Shades. Both the ‘exterior your home" will be vastly improved in appear- anc Give us an opportunity to estimate on your needs . . 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