Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1932, Page 12

_A-12 /\\-J THE EVENING EX-ACTRESS TAKES | STAND IN LONDON Supported Financier’s Son Before His Slaying, She Testifies. By the Associated Press. i LONDON, July 5.—Testifying in her | trial for the murder of Thomas William Scott Stephen, Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney told today how she had sup- ported the young man about town for nearly two years. Stephen, son of & prominent British financier, was killed in her Mayfair apartment after a party on May 31. The defense is that the fatal shot was fired as Stephen tried to disarm Mrs. Barney, who had threatened to com- mit suicide. Because of the prominence of both the trial has attracted hundreds, but today only & few spectators were ad- mitted to the court room. Most of them were well known in society and the arts. Controls Her Emotions. Mrs. Barney, apparently in complete control of her emotions, was led through a story of the last few years by her attorney, Sir Patrick Hastings, one of England’s most brilliant trial lawyers. Four years ago, she said, she married John Barney, an American singer, who appeared in England as one of “The Three New Yorkers.” He was cruel to her and they separated in 1930. She has not seen him since, she testified, but there was a rumor today that he would appear during the proceedings. She could not get a divorce because she had acquired American citizenship | because of her marriage and the tech- | nicalities made it difficult, she said. She had an income of her own and lived alone until young Stephen came into her life So far as she could learn he had no means of support and although he got @ little money from his mother once in a while, Mrs. Barney supported him al- most entirely. But sometimes he too was unkind and on one occasion he frightered her so that she called & policeman to their apartment. Reveals “Other ‘Woman.” He lost considerable money through gambling and one of his gambling com- a woman, to whom Mrs. Mrs. Barney bs‘;f‘r(' the night of the murder, got the witness to tell of that incident. Stephen came home one night and | asked for money, she said. She gave him some and he left, but came back, in a few minutes and said he wanted more. She refused to give it to him, | but he stayed numdeh the house for e time, calling to her. SO was so unhappy about everything that had happened,” she said, “that I thought I would make him think I was going to commit suicide. So I went and got a revolver and fired it at random the air.” u."1'0 strengthen his contention that s. Barney had intended to commit i\ficlde. the defense counsel drew from her testimony that shortly before Stephen’s death s}?e :;:ld: & will leaving everything she had. hu.!A’t, thg pcl‘u’gt the direct examination ended and the defense began its sum- mation. POST-GRADUATE WORK| LURES COLLEGE MEN Scarcity of Jobs Keeps Large Por- tion of 1932 Class in School. BOSTON (N.AN.A) —New England’s | college mills have ground out another crop of graduates who are finding an| even duller market for their wares than their brothers of 1931 and 1930. More difficult still is the task for the A. B.| graduate of the liberal arts college, who finds himself less immediately pre- pared for anything in particular than either the graduates of the professional schools above him or of the vocational | schools below. An immediate result of the lack of jobs is that the college graduate is going to post-graduate study. America is going ‘o have out of the depression & better educated generation than ever before. 1 In Harvard's 1932 class 58 per cent intend to enter graduate schools. This is far and away the largest proportion ever to plan further study. It marks & turning to the professions from busi- ness Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports that some modern corporations are taking on picked men now against the future, because college men are| bargains now The college graduate this year is taking anything and hoping that his $15-a-week job in the mailing rooms means that he has been picked for his potentalities to fill a real job later on (Copyright. 1832, b: Newspaper y the North American Alliance, Inc.) PROGRAM OVP.ENS TONIGHT AT RECREATION CENTER Special Summer Activities Will Be Presented at McKinley High School. | The first of a series of Summer pro- | grams at the Eckington Recreation Cen- | McKinley High School, will be given | with & number of special activ- | ged under the supervision of t ty Center Departme will continue each evening during st and will include band concerts, | ¢ pictures, dances, swimming and daytime the Playground will conduct activities for Wed in Movieland ACTRESS BRIDE OF FILM EXECUTIVE. UNIDENTIFIED MAN BEATEN T0 DEATH |Sledge Is Used in Slaying in Farm House 5 Miles From Diamond’s Place. By thes\ssociated Press. CATSKILL, N. Y., July 5—An un- identified man was beaten to death with & sledge yesterdsy in & tumbled-down farm house five miles from the one- time mountain stronghold of Jack Dia- mond, late gangster chief. An ‘aged farmer, living in an upstyirs corner of the ramshackle house, coled in fear while the screams of the man came to his ears. He previously had seen four men enter the bullding. State Police Find Body. After the screaming had subsided and three of the men had driven away in two automobiles, the farmer, Willlam Henry Oliver, ventured down in the blackness of early morning. By the light of his lantern he found blood stains, State police, called by neigh- bors, found the body of the man cov- ered with an old mattress. The sledge, one end peinted to make an implement known as “go devil,” was embedded in | the man’s skull. Paul Quattrochi, right-hand man of Diamond when Diamond’s word was law in the road houses and speakeasies of the neighborhood, said he did not know the victim. Spitale Reported Seen. The sheriffi’s office investigated re- ports Salvatore Spitale, New York un- motion picture executive, tof he: y v W o p! cutive, photographed immediately after they were mar- | gor o H4 foure. who wes called to aid JEAN HARLOW, platinum blonde film actress, and her husband, Paul Bern, | ried at the Beverly Hills, Calif., home of the bride's parents.—A. P. Photo. |in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, was | seen in Catskill last night CANNON PREDICTS 1 ssvom caes seren neral's Wife Shows OContinued 6. 0.P TRUWPH John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Suf- fering From Inferiority Complex, He Says. | By the Assoclated Press. | OCEAN GROVE, N. J, Juiyy 5— Bishop James Cannon, jr, in an Indz- pendence day address yesterday predict- ed a Republican victory in November and told an audlience of about 6,000 that John D. Rockefeller, jr., plainly was suffering from an “inferiority complex” | in regard to prohibition. | “I am an anti-Smith Democrat and | anti-Chicago platform,” said the bishop. | “The 1932 prohibition plank of the | Republican party pledges enforcement of the law and opposes nullification. ‘The Democrats in adopting an outright | repeal plank have assured the party of | no support from the many organizations | anxious- to see the rightful continuance | of the greatest social enactment made by any nation in any age.” | He said “Mr. Rockefeller is surround- ed by lawlessness and the rotten and | unspeakably filthy government New | York City has had under Tammany | for the past several years.” ‘The bishop asserted that Mr. Rocke- | feller had had inadequate information on prohibition when he declared for re- peal of the elghteenth amendment. ‘The churchman denied the truth of assertions that drinking had increased | and that the best of American citizens were violating the law out of pique. “How can a man be one of our best citizens and flaunt the Constitution?” asked Bishop Cannon. | ‘He spoke under the auspices of the | Qoean ‘Grove Camp Meeting Associa- | on. LONDON ROSE SHOW FINEST IN ENGLAND Ten Thousand Plants in 18 Acres Formerly Royal Botanic Gardens, LONDON (N.AX.A)—London now has the finest show of roses in England. ‘Ten thousand shrubs have been planted in the 18 acres which formerly com- prised the Royal Botanic Gardens and which have now been added to Regent's Park. The roses are crimson, white and pink and yellow, and there are scores of varieties, the trees having been pre- sented by the National Rose Society. In Hyde Park, too, the show of flowers is remarkable, wonderful patches of rhododendrons and hydrangeas being glimpsed everywhere t":rough the greer The bathing “lido” has been enlarged this year and, in addition to displays of country dancing, folk singing, etc. which take place on Saturdays. more and better music is being supplied in | the various bandstands this Summer. People, in fact, are growing more and more fond of the open air, even when they are in town, and there is a craze for outdoor parties and enter- tainments. Roof-top luncheon parties have become popular. They are new to this country, but are now possible owing to the charming %ardens which are taking sh#pe on all the newest buildings. Copyright. 1933, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) MAN FACING CHARGES OF BALL BAT SLAYING Killing Oc;un at G:me Sunday Near Point Pleasant, W. Va. Victim’s Skull Crushed. | the community, under the | n of a playground director. A ! { the Public Library will be| i in the McKinley High School | g classes for children will be | ct the Langley Junior High | one day each week, under the | re hikes will take | CLAM SHELL WINDOWS USED FOR SUN BATHS | | ¥ | Panels Are Not Transparent, Yet| They Pass Ultra-Violet and Infra-Red Rays. LOS ANGELES (#).—Panels of shells from clam fish from the Philippine Is- lands are being used here for inclosed portable sun baths. The shells, although not transparent, transmit both ultraviolet and infra-red Tays Charles P. Stewart found windows in Filipino homes made from the shell of a clam fish sald to be found only on the islands, and tests made by Dr. Ed- win Pettit of Mount Wilson Observatory indicate it will not become solarized or By the Associated Press. POINT PLEASANT, W. Va., July 5.— Hugh Montgomery, 30, was in jail here last night charged with killing Dewey Riffie with a base ball bat. The slayimg occurred in a fight after Montgomery had_taken exception to & remark made to his wife by Riffle at a game Sunday at Ten Mile, 10 miles south of here. Both men lived at Ten Mile Riffle, who was married, died of a crushed skull yesterday in a Gallipolis Ohio, hospital. Montgomery will be ar- raigned today on a first degree murder charge. HERO-MVEDALS AWARDED Philippine Islands and Illinois Boy Life-Savers Are Honored. NEW YORK, July 5 (#).—Award of gold medals for heroism in saving lives to Buenaventura Espiritu, 17 years old, of Libmanan, Philippine Islands, and Joseph J. Tolan, 19 years old of New Athens, Ill, was announced yesterday | by Danie Carter Beard, chairman of the | Boy Scout National Court of Honor. Espirity rescued Benjamin Ursua, 9, who stepped in the path of an oncoming | rallroad train. Tolan rescued a young | woman, & Mrs. Van Gemplar, from | opaque from continued exposure, as does the special glass usually used to trans- mit ultraviolet rays. The -lower shell of the Philippine clam ts thin and flat and can_gg, cut juto-fdur or five jnch squares, ’ - drowning in the Kaskasia River. On nomination of Dr. William T.| Hornaday, gold medals for wild life pro- tection were awarded Assistant Scout- masters Leroy Jackson and William | Newberry of Springfield, Mo. L BOSTON, . July 5 (#).—Continued improvement in the condition of Senora Leonor Llorente Calles, young wife of | tively poor man. Among his gifts were the former President of Mexico, was reported today. an operation for removal of a tumor of the brain. today by her husband, Gen. Plutarco | life in a small flat, seeing only & few | Elias Calles. | The sheriff’s men hoped to discover what brought Spitale away from his usual haunts. Gave Millions, Dies Poor Dr. James Simon, the art connoisseur and collector, who gave art treasures valued at $5,000,000 to Berlin museums, has died in Berlin, aged 81, & compara- Improvement. the famous bust of Queen Neferti, King Tutankh Amen’s mother-in-law. Once owner of Berlin’s finest collection of art treasures, he spent the last years of his She is recovering from Senora Calles was visited | intimate friends. Y ou can’t repeal hot weather but you can do something about it! Slip into a . . . 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