Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1932, Page 10

A—10 HANEING VRONE SIS BLUEBEARY Decries Capital Punishment as Hopes of Escaping Gallows Fade. By the Associated Press. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va,, March 17.— Hope waning for a stay of his execu- tion, Harry F. Powers, corpulent killer of Quiet Dell, paced his cell in death row today and decried the law which allows capital punishment. The State Supreme Court at Char- leston yesterday refused to intervene in his case. Judge Willlam Baker of the United States District Court at Clarks- | ville, N. C., motored toward San Fran- | burg denied a writ of habeas corpus.| Two things may intervene to stay the| hanging set for tomorrow night. Governor may grant a reprieve or a writ of supcrsedeas may be granted to | allow an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. J. Ed Law, tends his client has not had a fair deal. that he could not be given a fair trial in Harrison County where he was tried. | that the jury was prejudiced and that! holding the trial in an opera house| was prejudicial | Powers was sentenced to death on| Dorothy | Powers’ attorney, con- conviction of Kkilling Mrs . Pressler Lemke of Northboro, Mass. He was also indicted, but not tried, for slaying Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher and her | three children of Park Ridge, Il All} five bodies were found buried near his Quiet Dell home. The “mail order Romeo,” who con- ducted a matrimonial agency, claims he is inn t, that two other men killed the women and children and buried the bodies near his home for revenge. The two men he names have not been lo- cated Dr. W. D. McClurg, superintendent of the Huntington State Hospital, yes- terday reported Powers “legally sane and amenable to the law.” He said the killer was resigned to his fate, but Powers told reporters and the warden otherwise. SEARCH IS RENEWED FOR MISSING STUDENT Parents of Harvard School Boy Confer With Boston Police. Business By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 17.—Mr. and Mrs. James J. Stewart of Garden City, Kans., came to Boston Tuesday and conferred with police officials regard- ing their missing son, Floyd J. Stewart. Young_Stewart, & student at the Har- vard Business School, and Nathaniel E Jones of Billerica, Mass., another student at the school, have been miss- ing since January 31. Mr. Stewart came to Boston imme- diately after the students disappeared and took an active part in the search for them until business forced him to | return home. The students left Boston in an_au- tomobile and no definite trace has been found of them since. L FEAR OF RIDICULE HELD OBSTACLE TO SUCCESS Edna Ferber, Novelist, Hits Ten- | dency of Americans to Avoid Being Thought “Goofy.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March who would achieve success must themselves,” even at the risk of being thought “goofy,” Edna Ferber, the nov-| elist, told the graduating class of the | American Academy of Dramatic Arts Tuesday. Americans, said she, are a “little in-| clined to be rubber stamps, perhaps be- cause we are not quite sure of our- selves. And so, to avoid being laughed | at or talked about or pointed out, we | try to conform a little too much. We | try to be like somebody else, because we are afraid of being called ‘goofy. Well, I think being ‘goofy’ is very im- portant.” 17.—Persons | “be 1931 Canadian Company Places Figure at $2,058,653. MONTREAL, Quebec, March 17 (#)— Manufacturing profits of $2,058,653 for 1931 were shown in the annual financ- | ing statement of the Steel Co. of Can- ada, Ltd., issued Tuesday. This com- pared with $3,219,009 in 1930. The addition of investment income of $365,818 made a total income of $2,424,- 471, while the company withdrew $661.- | 191 accumulated surplus to make up the common dividend. | The net profit before dividends for | the vear was $598,550, against $1,741,282 in 1930. This was equal to 83 cents a | share on the preferred and common | stocks combined, as compared with ! $242 a share in 1930. Everybody Sings Their Praises — So Will You, Too — If You ALWAYS' INSIST ON PAINTS BUTLERFLINN P-A-I-N- 607-609 C St. 7 HOURS IN BED | AND NOT 7 MINUTES® SLEEP! The Toll Acidity Takes When you g0 to bed dog-tired and can’t sleep and you rise in the morn- e tired than when you went testinal putrefac n vitality and wears our nerves Magnesia Oxoids. developed in Ger- many by the world's foremost phar- maceutical house. correct acidity in the right way Upon contact with the acid in the stomach. 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LONDON, March 17.—One of Jacob | Epstein’s_water-color illustrations for |the Old Testament, now being shown here, has been purchased for the Jew- | ish Museum in Cincinnati. 17| The illustration which goes to Cincin- () —Betty Bronson, who enacted the | Dati is called “Abraham and Isaac,” and | original role of “Peter Pan” in the mo- | was inspired by Genesis, xxxi: 3: “And | Abraham called the name of his son tion pictures of silent days, and her |that was born unto him, whom Sarah husband, Ludwig Lauerhaus of Ashe- |bare to him, Isaac.” cisco today on their honeymoon. The picture shows the head of Abra- | ham, holding the young Isaac close to | him.” and is one of the strongest in The couple was married here late yes- | feeling of any in the exhibition. The | terday by Superior Judge A. B. Bigler. | | The marriage license gave Miss Bron- | most as much discussion in the Eng- son's age as 22 and Lauerhaus’ as 27. Bicentennial Leader Silk-Lined Tuxedo $25 Two-Trouser Spring Suits $25 10 $45 Tempting Topcoats $19.75 to $35 Smith Smart Shoes $8.50 miich beiter you feel not more than d with the resulls, your money Sale by Peoples Drax Stores vae F bod Arugwisis.—Advertise ¥l ell other The exhibition itself has aroused al- | lish press as did the public showing of “Genesis,” his colossal statue of crea- tion. The tone of the criticism, with a | few isolated exceptions, has been favor- |able to the artist. Most of the pieces | are done in warm colors and in a strong illustrative sense. It is the famous sculptor’s first appearance in this me- | dium | “What strikes one first,” wrote the | Manchester Guardian critic, “is the | originality and expressiveness of the color and the variety of the designs. Clearly the artist has not spared his brooding power, and if nothing else survived of Epstein, these illustrations |would be sufficient to prove his rare and potent gifts. “He s us into a fierce, flashing, senst ribal old world, strange, dry | and al, very remote from the | scriptural visions of the great Italian il rators. “Adam and Eve, driven from the gar- den by the wrath of God, are cowering beaten to the earth under the lightning of the wrath. This design, which is in monochrome, has the sudden revealing quality of Epstein's best work. . . Another remarkable drawing with little color is the two heads, the ancient Abraham and the child Isaac, with its exciting cor iction of a round and elliptic shay For the first time the Drumm battery electric train took its place recently on the regular suburban passenger service between Dublin and Wicklow, Irish Free State. THOMPSON RE-ELECTED McCulloch Again Named Chair- man of Restaurant Co. CHICAGO, March 17 (#).—Directors | and officers of the John R. ‘Thompson Restaurant Co., headed by Charles A. lloch, chairman. and John R. I ooh. jr. president, were all Te- elected Tuesday at the annual meet- in; anlh McCulloch and Thompson made brief references to the proxy battle be- tween them, which broke forth and died down all in one day last week. Each said it was occasioned by & mis- understandini McCulluchgrcported that while earn- ings from operations last year shown an 19:‘;0, the firm was forced to take & loss of $234,355 on real estate. DIXIE BANKS REOPEN ABBEVILLE, La, March 17 (®— Abbeville's two _recently ~suspended banks, together with the bank at Breaux | Bridge, near here, opened yesterday. | " The institutions are the Pirst Na- tional Bank of Abbeville, the Abbeville Bank & Trust Co. and the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Breaux Bridge. The city was decorated and cele- | brating. Well, Folks: Here's the first of a series of “Talks” we ran 4 years ago. 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