Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1931, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHIXGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, DIk 22, 1931 LR A-S JAL2 N KIDNAPING OF MILLIONAIRESS Polive Trace Laundry Mark to Cottage Identified by Kansas City Victim. KANSAS CITY, December 22—Al laundry mark has led to the arrest of ! two Kansas dairy farmers as minor par- | in the kidnaping of Mrs. Nell millicnaire " garment manu- Police said they had con- Gathering together loose ends of the abducticn plot, which ended in the mysterious releese of the victim and Geerge Blair, her colored chauffeur, | hout the payment of the demand of $75.000 ransom, officers sought four other men, reputed to have actually exccuted the plot The prisoners, farmers in ‘Wyandotte Rolled in Flour SOMETHING NEW IN CHRISTMAS TREES. AT BROTHER'S BIER MUSSOLINI MOURNS Premier Kisses Forehead of Editor—Italy Saddened by Death. By the Assoclated Press. MILAN, December ~ 22. — Premier Benito Mussolini arrived here by special | train from Rome this morning, kissed | the cold forchead of his younger brother, | Arnaldo, who died yesterday, and bit- terly mourned the passing of his col- | laborator of 16 years. 1l Duce arrived at 7 am., after an | overnight trip. With him were his two | sons, Vittorio and Bruno. They drove immediately to the offices of the news- paper, Popolo d'Italia, of which Arnaldo | was editor and where his body lay in Hero, Aged 7, Pulls Drowning Brother From Lake by Foot GALE KILLS WOMAN ON LINER: 35 HURT in the swirling waters on the deck, and only the coolness of the crew prevented a panic. Wave Rushes Over Ship. “We had heavy seas all the way from New York,” sald John McGuire of Fife, — the third-class quarters and causing the ship to lurch badly. The rush of water knocked over several third-class passengers, The statement paid tribute to the behavior of the passenqers and crew. The ship sustained no structural dames=. a_ passenger, who returned home for ] . - "KANSAS CITY. December 22 Chfis"’g;’; “Wednesday night it was Falling Reck Kills Driver. 3 i 4 real . —Henry Wirth, jr. 5, fell into y Lake Lotawanna Sunday at a point where the water was seven feet deep and was rescued by his brother Robert, 7. Robert, seeing his brother fall from the edge of a boat house platform, ran to the spot, waited, clutched a foot as it appeared and pulled the sputtering Henry {rom the water. “I knew he'd come up,” Rob- ert told his father, Henry Wirth, sr., who was working inside the boat house. “Don't they always come up three times!” JURORS WILL TESTIFY CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex,, December 22 (#). Jurors who tried V. Don Carlis in November on a charge of murdering Alfred Steinbach, Cincinnati, were called to testify yesterday at the hear- ing of his appeal for a new trial. |Passengers Tell Tale of Ter-| ror After Vessel Reaches + Glasgow. GLASGOW, December 22. — One | woman was fatally injured and 35 other passengers were hurt when a storm| struck the Anchor liner Tuscania in | | midocean last weck, passengers from | | the ship said today when they disem- barked here. The ship left New York December 12 for Belfast and Glasgow. The dead woman was Mrs. Sarah Rodger, ®n American. She was re- turning to Ireland to visit friends after |30_years in the United States. Passengers told a tale of terror. The | vessel was struck, they sald by a gigan- tic wave which swept many of them | ‘4 was standing with several other passengers in the accommodation com- panionway’ when we were horrified to see the water come rushing down upon us. The majority of the third-class passengers standing in the alleyway were swept off their feet. “An elderly woman was fiung from her chair and fell upon her hcal. Al over the ship passengers were thrown to the decks, and groups of people who were talking before the wave struck found themselves in a heap.” The scene afterward wes remarkable, McGuire sald. The dining rooms, cabins and lounges were flooded with nearly 2 feet of water, and passensers in evening clothes were drenched. “We didn't know,” he said, “what might be our fate. But those who weren't hurt devoted all their attention to those who were.” Injured All Go Home. All the injured were able to proceed to their homes when they landed here. An official statement from the Anchor Vi Line said that after two days of fine state today, surrounded by dozens of | In his motion for a new trial Carlis [off their feet. The ship was turned | Ll y County. west of Kansas City, allegedly candles and banked high with flowers. | claimed that jurors who convicted him | around head-on once on Tuesday and | Weather the fituation changed and on ;’fln[vksr‘)d. following their arrest late ast night, that they had supplicd the Fascist Legionnaires watched as a guard at the November trial and sentenced three occasions the ship hove to once again on Wednesday, they said, | Sl { of honor. him to 99 years' imprisonment dis- |by the force of the gale. h'g“)‘py vg::n;«;:;g evening, it ’Sns:ggin; shabby four-room rural cottage in | Il Duce looked some minutes in silence | cussed the case improperly befors it | - On Wednesday night, they said, many Which Mrs. Donnelly was held from | last Wednesday until Friday Cottage Identified. Identification of the cottage by the woman manufacturer was followed im- | ediately by the arrest of Paul Scheidt, | 22-vear-old lessee of the cottage. Scheidt, who also manages a milk depot 8t Bonner Springs, Kans., implicated William Lacey Browning, 42, of Holli- day. Kans., the second prisoner, at the brother. His head was bowed Then he stooped and revently kissed Arnaldo’s forehead. The Fascist Legion- naires saluted and Vittorio and Bruno knelt and said a brief prayer for their uncle. All three then left the room. Goes to Brother's Home, The premier drove at once to his brother's home to comfort his widowed sister-in-law. Later he cenferred with the family | The cottage was located by de- 2 3 e ven o o et a e and with Facist leader over plans for on a towel given Mrs. Donnelly by | her abductors.” She wrapped the towel | about her neck and still wore it when she was released. The mark was traced to Emil G. Buinger, who owns the cottage leased by Scheidt. Officers said Browning named Mar- shall De Pew, also of Holliday, as the | leader. De Pew, according to & state- ment released under Browning's signa- ture, suggested two months ago that Browning locate an isolated house in Which Paul Donnelly, husband of Mrs Donnelly, could be held pending the payment of ransom. Other Men Named. After a promise of $7,500, Browning is alleged to have arranged with Scheidt for the use of the latter'- cottage. The building. located near Bonner Springs, is situated in a wooded 20-acre tract, reached by a country lane. Scheidt was declared to have been promised $1.000 for the use of the house. Other participants in the actual kid- ‘Throughout the country prince and nap: L'I V{m’h lgflk place in the drive- peasant alike lamented the death of the d E of Mrs onnelly’s South Side = - . yeunger of the two brothers. Cel b t Kansas City, were sald in Pope Pius XI sent his condolences ebrate ning’s_statement to include two to Answer Children’s Pleas for Gifts i en from the East. The statement re. lated that Browning believed the men to be from New York. WOMAN, 43, KILLED BY DRY AGENT’S CAR TU. S. Prohibition Officer, Jailed in : stamped letters dis-losing voun post. Of . HeiNG South Carolina, Says He Was lm.spcmmrm o) bles and de. Eost Office Department and to the Na. i ATTiRe Chasing Rum Auto. Both Mr. Chas Schwarts gas the apoeal of the letters tnat |ERERCE O PHICS (8IS And WUNENY | 4o Guba, Wil Be Christened | mases long past — and Mr. Sam'l Schwaris Harry L. Todd, Szn Francisco shoes and clothing. and some asked by Machado's Daughter. | reputation for fair ageRrescy Loy persexally By the Associated Press master, organized a movement v “just anything you have to spare.” One ¥ Ma i ghter. serve you in selecting .. COLUMBIA. S, C. December 22— will assure eve hopeful youngster of Mrs. Mary Alma Jeffcoat, 43-vea old New Brookland woman, was struck and killed near her home last night by an automobile driven by 8. S. Sligh, jr., of Columbia, & Federal prohibition agent. T 'SANTA CLAUS IN SAN RECEIVES HUGE CHRISTMAS MAIL By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 22— Postal regulations and the juvenile be- lief that Santa Claus lives in Ala or at to shower the San Francisco post office sires this year, So ereat was the flow and so wide receiring a present or a grecting from Santa_Claus. ment Mr visible Santa Claus who will respend in_future to every such appeal Protestan this evening, than 75 pound: of flour. HIS tree, prepared by members of the Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Church, for the Sunday school and church Christmas party as wet thoroughly and rolled in sheets containing more —Star Stafl Photo, FRANCISCO ‘postmaster of Coast City Arranges GrOup E ding in Dead Letter Office. | Todd ka d the North Po! o have coml manner <ocks And out of the mowe- Todd plans to create an in- The work of this tional Convention of Pc Some letters told of the death of a voungster as and Santa to buy himself a pipe A little girl in Honolulu said she got aothing for Christmas last year and put persuaded club women wealthy men of San Francisco to form the first States to take care of Santa Claus’ job and respond in some organization in the Un that part to each lettes ommittee wil masters d only a pair of si: losed five pennies and nited of 1 be ze 8 | for jtory because of the esteem in which | the funeral, which will probably be held tomorrow. Tt is expected to be the cc- casion of the greatest Fascist demon- | stration of sympathy in the party’s his- | Arnaldo was held as well as the high | position of his brother. | Platoons of gendarmes and Fascisti maintained a constant guard outside the newspaper building. Paper Pays Tribute, ‘[ The paper, which Premier Mussolini | founded long before he was premier, | and which he still owns, appeared this morning with its first page outlined in black. “Our director is there in his office, | Testing,” a notice said. “He is resting on the desk at which he worked so hard. People come to look at him with their eyes filled with tears, “But the newspaper must go to press, and it will go to press. We continue to work, but we move like robots.” from Vatican City. Among the first to arrive from out of the city was the Duke of Bergamo, who is Prince of Savola-Genova. The body of Arnaldo is clad in the emblematic black shirt of Fascism, and a group of stalwart young members of the Fascist militia, in full regalia, forms & guard of honor, MIAMI-HAVANA SERVICE Caribbean Clipper, on Maiden Hop By the Acsociated Press MIAMI, Fila December 22, — The Caribbean Clipper. second giant sea- plane to be put into service of Pan- | American Airways, took off from Miami was turned over to them Due to the absence of an important witness the hearing was continued until today. 43 year after year mementos of Ch ers—at this time. CHAS. SCHWARTZ & SON Looking for Christmases Folks have come to us GIFTS that last . tonians are treesuring dealing should be in- teresting to Gift-seek- of the third-class passengers were in | the accommodation companionway | | when a tremendous sea swept over the vessel, hurled men and women around 5 Schwartz CLOCK Seventh Street And You Can PAY NEXT YEAR for Personal Service rist- Diamonds. 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No| In the rush of Christmas mail dis- $500,000 Action Charges Infringe. | C2Ted 29 g EkeCh Many of ghnrges Have been breferred. agains | trivutign, sy 10nee Hpma Al dis- |85 s £\ ration of n new Miami-Havana, Home of Perfect Diamonds u the cfficer. “Alaska,” “North Pole” or the like ment of Song Copyright. er the American Clipper. which Col L Police W. H. Rawlinson of |quickly ' finds itself San Francis o 4 = BESS olumbia, who was in the vicinity when the accident occurred, said there Wwas some display of feeling in the crowd that quickly gathered. He tool Sligh to the police headquarters, but Sherifft H. 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