Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1932, Page 10

THE EVENING AR, WASHINGTH )N, D. C., FRIDAY, 557915 AWARDED | 1 © By the Associated Press. N SHPPIG CASE Suit Against U. S. Board Won! by Retired Banker in New York. ‘B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 15.—A verdict of $8790.195.88 for Henry P. Talmadge, 85- year-old retired banker, in his suit mgaiust the United States Shipping Board was returned yesterday by a Fed- | eral jur Special Assistant United States Attor- ney General O. P. M. Brown, who ap- for the Shipping Board, said the case would be carried to the United States Supreme Court if necessary. Talmadge set forth that during the war he loaned $1,139,000 to the Amer- ican Shipbuilding Co. of Brunswick, Ga., and tcok an gnment of all money to become due to the company from the | Shipping Beard under a contract then pending. He acknowledged signing a release to the Shipping Boald. but said he had ! done so under a hisapprehension and | because of misrepresentations made to him. He sued for $479.000, with interest; from 1918, contending that such a sum | had been paid by Shipping Boa-d | 10 the shipbuilding ¢ ny, instead of 1o him, despite the assignment, and that as the shipbuilding company had | fatled and was no longer in existence, | his only recourse was to seek recovery | from the board NOMINEES TO FACE POLL ON ECONOMY | Candidates for Congress to Be| Asked Stand on Reducing U. 8. Costs by National Group. my CHICAGO, July 15.—Voters favoring Federal economy are to be given a hand by the National Organization to Reduce Public Expenditures. The organization yesterday announced 4t would poll nominees for Congress in every district of the country on their | stand toward reducing governmental | expenses and taxes and publish the | findings for the guidance of electors. State chairmen of the group denounced the present Congress for what they ! termed its failure to_institute adequate ! economies. George E. Rossetter. presi- | dent of the Chicago Association of Commerce and national chairman of the organization, asserted “while every | Congressman_expressed himself as in | favor of economy. they disagreed as to | what economies uld be made, witht the result that little was accomplished.” | Congressional candidates also will be | asked if they will seek increased effi- | ciency through consolidation of bureaus | and reduction of personnel, reduction | of compensation of Federal employes in | line with reduced taxpayers incomes, | and elimination of less essential govern- | mental activities. BANDIT SUSPECT KILLED AND TWO BANKS ROBBED Arkansas Has 20 Minutes of Ac- tion Near Van Buren and at Paris and Beebe. \ i By the Associated Press, LITTLE ROCK. Ark, July 15—A| bank robber suspect was killed resist- ing arrest and two banks were robbed within 20 minutes in Arkansas yester- | Officers shot and killed Ky Coatney, | north of Van Buren, when he resisted their eiforts to arrest him as a suspect in the robbery of a Prairie Grove bank last April 1. Two men h-ld-up the First National Bank of Paris and robbed it of wbout $8.100. The robbers locked Dolph Guthrie, clerk, and Lewis Sadler, cashier, in the vault and escaped. At Beebe two men robbed the Citi- zens Bank of $3.100 and escaped after forcing Miss Fannie Raney, cashier, into the vault. ZIEGFELD IN.HOSPITAL FROM BREAKDOWN Miss Burke Says Husband Is in Sanitarium ir New Mexico After Strenuous Seascn. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD. July 15.—Billie Burkn | said today her husband, Florenz Zieg- feld. musical comedy producer, is ill in a New Mexico sanitarium and under care of a physician. Miss Burke. now playing in a picture | Radio_Studio, said that while her sband is not in any immediate dan- | ger, his illness is in the nature of a| breakdown after a strenuous theatrical season and a pneumcnia attack several months ago. | Miss Burke declined to give the loca- | f the hospital, saying she feared | s from friends would disturb | New Rift in Keaton Home. " LOS ANGELES, July 15 (#).—The Examiner says Buster Keaton, motion | picture comedian, and his wife, Natalie Talmadge Keaton, have scparated for the second time this year. Cool Trip on CHESAPEAKE BAY To Claiborne Every Sunday $1.50 Round Trip Cool, clean trip through heart of Maryland View of Naval Academy, then 4 hour delightful trip down Chesa- peake, almost out of sight of land. Leave 12th and New York Ave, Sunday—8:30 and 11:30 a.m. Good meals on steamer Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric R. R. Co. because~ i ief by soothing i g it b them. Contains no opiates. ® Won't upset stomach. i icker Being fiquid, it acts qut Z than pills or powders. - t drug storesin ?xe,.ol 10¢, 30z, 6 Retired LONG SERVICE AT PATENT OFFICE ENDS. T0BE PROSEGUTED | Action Promised in Georgia on Complaint of Victim’s Relatives. | By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, July 15.—Prosecution of a volunteer civilian, who accompanied Federal prohibition agents on a raid and killed a suspected blockader, was promised today by an attorney for rela- tives of the slain youth. William Schley Howard, Atlanta lawyer, said murder charges would be preferred against the volunteer, Fred | Pierce, who shot Clarence Densmore, a | son of the postmaster at Afton, Ga. Two versions of the slaying have | arisen. The Federal agents said they captured a Negro at a distillery and he . identified its operators. Soon thereafter, LEWIS Z. THOMPSON. ‘tjhe agents added, thxee men answering After 55 years at the Patent Office, | descriptions glven by the prisoner came . ¥ | near the distillery in an automobile and Lewis Z. Thompson, associate examiner, | o ordered to halt. is retiring at the age of 72. | ¢ ; The officers said the men ignored the Mr. Thompson, who resides at 2309 P DO Navotea s life. to| command, and Pierce leaped on the car with a pistol in hand. Densmore was patent work, and was recognized as one | ; of the outstanding examiners. On re- | described as grabbing the gun, which linquishing his duties, associates pre-| Wa$ discharged in the struggle, killing & = . Authorities termed the ST. LOUIS POL]CEMEN Parks, & companion of Dens- GUARD RED SPEAKER | 3. R | more, said Plerce shot Densmore in the back at a point 3 miles from the dis- tillery after they had obeyed the officers’ commands to halt. Parks was arrested and held under | $500 bond on a charge of manufactur- | ing liquor, 'PLANE CRASH KILLS THREE AT DULUTH Foster Sees No Aid for Idle in Pending Legislation, Commu- nist Crowd Is Told. By the Assoctated Press. ST. LOUIS, July 15.—While Willlam occnplntl Penned in wncklge as Z. Foster, Communist candidate for A e President, delivered a fiery speech be- Ship s Into Tail fore an andience of approximately 500 Spin. persons in Turner Hall here last night, a squad of policemen waited across the street from the hall in an armored auto- mobile which contained riot guns and tear-gas bombs. Five other policemen paced the sidewalk in front of the hall. The precaution was taken due to the rioting Monday in which four men were shot and 20 persons injured by bricks, bottles and clubs after members of a crowd of approximately 3,000 unem- ployed, led by Communists, attempted to storm the St. Louis City Hall to demand relief. Foster predicted the unemployed of the working classes would receive no aid from the relief legislation now under consideration in Washington, “as a dillion and a half of it will go to banks which already have money.” “The capitalistic program for relief of the worker is hunger and terrorism,” he shouted. “VANITIES” GIRL HELD Charge Salmon | Drove While Drinking. 1 SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 (#.— Patricia Salmon, 25, who told police she had been in the show business since 1926 with the iegfeld Follies™ and Eari Carroll's “Vanities,” was ar- rested here vesterday after traffic of- | ficers chased her car fo veral blocks. “The brakes were bad.” Miss Salmon said. She was charged with driving while under the infiu>nce of liquor. By the Associated Press. DULUTH, Minn., July 15—Three men were killed last night when a six-passenger seaplane crashed _here just off St. Louis Bay, near the heart of the city. The dead: Hank O'Hara, 23, pilot, Duluth: Robert Bean, 18, Duluth: Lloyd Rice, Virginia, Minn." O'Hara and Bean were killed instantly, while Rice died en route to a hospital. The plane was returning to Duluth from Spring Park, near Minneapolis, and was only a short distance from its landing base in St. Louis Bay. O'Hara was flving about 300 feet above the bay. The plane suddenly went into a tail spin and crashed on the shore. pinning the occupants beneath it. O'Hara had been fying about three years and had a transport pilot's license. He was chief pilot for the Atwood- O'Hara Afr Service, operating passenger service at Duluth and Minneapolis. Rice was mechanic for the company, while Bean was an aviation student. Marks Spanish Anniversary. MADRID, Spain, July 15 (#).—Presl- |dent Niceto Alcala Zamora presented gifts to numercus hospitals and orphan- ages yesterday in celebration of the first anniversary of republican parlia- mentary rule in Spain. 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