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KIDNAPED BANKER 5 BELIEVED SLAN Two Suspects Held Were Washing Blood Off Auto, Police Declare. | | Br the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, August 6.—; While police wer> guestioning two sus- pects here today a search was being eccentric Richard Dana, long-haired PINSTER IS SLAIN; RECLUSE QUIZZED Mystery Surrounds Death of Daughter of Former Am- basasdor to Belgium. ) By the Associated Press. NATCHEZ, Miss. August 6—The bezrded and recluse. was am-'ng seven conducted over two counties for John persons questioned today in the inquiry B. Colegrove of Taylorville, IIl, 68 into the laying of the equally eccentric vear-old pre:ident of a defunct bank, Janet Surgct Merrill, spinster. who was kidnaped by two men from | his home. The prisoners were apprehended early today while washing blood from an |t automobile, police said. One of them. |, James Gammantoni, lost $6.000 when Colegrove's Taylorville bax 1929, according to bank records, | Threats Are Alleged. Several times since then Ta]'lm‘\fll?l‘ police reported, he has threatened Cole- e | Miss Dockery, the following men G Arrested with him was his house- | keeper-guardian. Miss Octavia Dockery. They live on a plantation which adjoins hat of Miss Merri’l. In addition, police held three white men and two col-red closed in)men and John The list comprised. besides Danz seiger, a logger who identified a coat | ound in the Merrill home as his prop- erty; Odell Ferguson, and T. W. Carr grove and once drew a revolver an the ' white, and George Sims and R. Norman, | banker and demandad the return of ! cclored his_deposit hounds. When the kidnaping of Colgrove was | reported to Taylorville police last might | thev asked Springfield officials to ar-! rest Gammontoni. they found him and Amelia Puzzuoli, who said his home was at Detroit. re- moving blood from an automobile. They were arrested at Gammontonis home. Puzzuoli, the police said, was attired in clothing which was soaked in blood. The prisoners denied they had any connection with the kidnaping and in sisted the blood came from rabbits they had killed. Police were unable to find the rabbits Doubt Banker Alive. Meanwhile searching parties had been organized in Christian County, of which Taylorville is the county seat, and here | in Sangamon County. Police said they entertained little hope that the banker was still alive bond Colegrove was at liberty on pending appeal of his recent conviction | on charges growing out of the closing | He was kidnaped last to his of his bank. night shortly after returning home, where he lived alone. Soon after he returned neighbors heard screams. As they neared his house they caw two men push the banker into an automobile and drive away Banker's Wallet Found. Sheriff Fred Weinicke of Christian County later said Colegrove's wallet was found in the home of Gammontoni. It contained five railroad passes, $26 in currency and clippings of court pro- ceedings in the banker's recent trial. A bloody shirt, which authorities be- | lieved belonged to one of the xuspe(‘!sl held, was found near a creek which flows between Sprinfield and Taylor- wille. RESCUE SHIPS SAVE 314 FROM STEAMER Vessel Strikes Rock During Fog | in Dreaded Spot Off Jersey Island. Br the Associated Press ST. HELIER, Island of Jersey, August 6.~Without & single casuaity, 314 pas- sengers on .the steamer St. Patrick, bound from Weymouth to Jersey, were transferred to rescue vessels after the St. Patrick struck a rock last night m a dense fog off Corbiere, one pf mw most dreaded spots on the Jersey coast. Sixty-five were brought ashore by a tug and the Test in the steamer Isle of Sark. One stokehold of the St. Patrick was flooded and she was towed into this port today for repairs. | The mail boat Scillonian, with 200 | passengers from Penzance to the Scilly Isles, also met with a mishap last night, | stranding on a shoal. She was flouted and landed all her passengers. Ou the East coast the paddle steamer City of, Rochester, with 500 passengers, ran on.a sand bar near Clacton, but backed off and continued under her own power. Te- SUSPEND PUBLICATION! OF DETROIT MIRROR Owners ¥ind No Room for Two Morning Papers—Free Press Continues. B the Associated Press DETROIT. August 6 —The Detroit Mirror. morning tabloid. which been under the same ownership as he Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, suspended publication with its early bullaog edition yesterday The suspension leaves only one morning newspaper—the Detroit Free- Press—in the city “The announcement of suspension stated that the management “has been forced to the conclusion that there is not room in Detroit for two morning newspapers. The Mirror was purchased by the in- terests headed by Ci J. M. Patterson and Col. R. R. McCormick on April 4. 1931, It had been established as an .3ernoon paper by Bernarr MacFadden in Juse 1829, Th- r ¢ the troit paper changed from the Daily fo the Mirror and it was made & morn- ing paper under the new ownership MRS. BENDI)E REMARRIES Bride N., Retired Chicago Divorcee of Lieut Blake, U. S NEW YORK, August 6 (®) —Mrs Flizabeth Channon Bendix, divorced wife of the Chicago manufacturer, was married yesterday in the Municipal Chapel to Lieut. Willam A. Blake U. S. N, retired She gave her age as 33, and said she was a native of Chicago. He is and was born in Atlantic City. N They planned to sail on the Europa tonight Mrs. Blake was granted a divorce 10 days ago in an uncontested suit against Vincent Bendix, manufacturer of automobile and airplane equipment She alleged desertion and said her hus- band had left her in October, 1930. They were marvied in 1922 Bendix was reported to have settled on her a lump sum estimated at $2.- 000,000 in lieu of alimony eSS Love Potion in Demand. “There are thousands of women in | England today who still believe in love pétions made from certain herbs,” said Mrs. L. M. Pheysey, a member of Bris- tol City Council, at the recent Museums Conference in Birmingham, England. “Many women still have minds like un- trained children, and the love of witch- craft is in every woman's heart. o, ¥ —e Grant's Dentist Is Dead. NEW YORK. August 6 (#) —Dr. H.1 argument Local police said | has | De- | who were trailed by bnmLl Argument Over Goats. Dana and Miss Dockery had had an | with the slain wonran in | recent days, police heard, over damage | done to the Merrill property by Miss | Dockery's herd of goats. |~ The body of the spinster, with three bullet wou was found in a clump | f bushes 200 yards from the dwelling. The dining room bore signs of a| struggle. There was blood on the floor snd the bullet holes in the wall. Draw- | ers_downstairs were left open. but the | authorities scouted a robbery theory on | the claim that Miss Merrill had little money left from the one-time sizeable | estate of her father, Ayres Merrill, for- | mer Ambassador to Belgium and South- emn planter. Life Is Mystery. Little accurate information could be ! gleaned of Miss Merrill's private life in recent vears. For many years Natchez has buzzed with curiosity over the strange case of “Miss Jennie.” People | here never could understand why she retired from society wnd shut herself off in the spacious home a mile out of Natchez with a forbidding sign on her gate: “No visitors wanted.” Many have laid her retirement to a romance which did not receive the ap- | proval of her family. Before she quit | society she was regarded as a popular belle, famed for beauty and charm. Richard Dana. her neighbor, also puzzled the community. Born of an | aristocratic family, he also retreated to his ancestral plantation home and shunned people. If a visitor approached he would hide behind a tree. Finally he was adjudged incampetent to handle his affairs and his housekeeper., Miss Dock- ery, was appointed his guardian. COURT AIRS CHARGE OF $131,000 FORGERY | Defendant Accused of Defrauding Du Pont Securities Firm in Florida. By the Associated Press { JACKSONVILLE., PFla. August 6 — | Pinancial transactions by which Rich- ard Gilman is charged with obtaining $131,000 through forged checks on the Almours Securities, Inc., of Jackson- | ville, were read into the record of Gill- man’s trial here yesterday. He faces 22 cases Edward Ball. vice president of the | securities firm, headed by Alfred 1. du Pont. Delaware and Florida financier, testified his name appearing on a batch of checks was forged. Two other men arrested in connec- tion with the alleged swindle are await- ing trial. They are David N. Chadwick | of Wimington, N. C.. and Julius Chad- wick. employe of the Florida National Bank. {PLEA FOR INDIVIDUALITY IS MADE BY EDUCATOR | University Dean Asks for Fewer and Better Courses and Qual- ified Students. i { | | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, August 6.—Dean James C. Lawrence of the University of Min- | nesota pleaded for reccgnition of an ristecracy of individual gifts today in an address before a_meeiing of school | adminictrators at Teachers' College, | Columbia University. 1 “We shall have to have fewer and better courses.” he suggested. “and ;ml»u pupils qualified to succeed in | these courses 1 He characterized the crowding of | American colleges as a desire “for a { badga of equality through an jdentical he said, “you can't ha equality through identical experience.” He praised the English system of climinating students unless they can show definite reason for going on with bigher studies i Libby Holman's “falling unive left). Winston-; the Reynolds home, is shown above. " was rocked again when the county grand jury at Winston-Salem, N. C., Salem vouth, for the murder c¢f Smith Reynolds (upper right), husband of the former Brcadway blues <ing found mortally wounded by a pistol bullet cn a sleeping porch of the palatial Reynolds estate at Winston-Salem following a birthd: Below is the sieeping perch on the second floor where the tiagedy occurred. arrested at once and authorities in Cincinnati and New York were asked to take Miss Holman into custody. BARKLEY BATILE JINXIN KENTUCKY Senator in Primary Seeks to Upset 30-Year Record of One Term. By the As ed Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., been 30 since a Kentuckian served longer than 6 years in the United States Senate. Alben W. Bark- ley. keynoter and temporary chairman of the Demorratic National Convention, in today's primary election, faced & major hurd': in his attempt to break th jinx which has beset incumbents William Lindsay, who served from 1893 to 1901, was the last Kentucky Senator to serve longer than six years Barkley's leading opponent. who hopes to denv him a chance for re-election in November. is former United States Senator George B. Martin. Martin served a year in the Senate after the death of Ollie Jahes in 1918. Barkley 1n his campaign pledged sup- port to the Democratic platform and promised to vote to submit repeal to the people Martin attacked Barkle: dry record and accused him of “strad: dling” on the prohibition issue. Al other Democratic senatorial candidate is Dr. J. P Wright, who favored repeal of the eighteenth amendment, but did not make an extended campaign. Republicans will select their sena- torial nominee in a convention later. Nine nominees for Represcntative at Jarge were to be chosen by each party in today's primary, with 27 Democratic and 22 Republican ndidates contest- ing. Counting of ballots will not start until Monday, under provisions of Ken- tucky's election law A Federal court invalidated the Leg- islature’s redistricting act, necessitating election of Representatives to represent the State at large. Democratic leaders hope this court decision will result in Kentucky, normally a Democratic Stat2, sending a solid Democratic delegation to Washington for the first time in many generations. SWANK WINS. IN RECOUNT August 6.—TIt has years Oklahoman Had Lost in First Of- ficial Tabulation. OKLAHOMA CITY, August 8 (#)— F. B. Swank, Democratic Representative from the fifth Oklahoma district, won renomination by 46 votes in a recount completed_yesterday. First official tabulitions after the runoff primary July 26 gave his oppo- nent, O. B. Mothersead, the nomination by 56 votes, Azores Quake Wrecks Houses. PUNTA DELGADA, Az:res, August 6 A, —The Parish Church and a number of houses collapsed last night in an eartnshock, but no lives were los Rumbling underground noises accom- panied the quake. The shock was feit also on the neighboring isiand of Fayal de Terra. | Guns Quell Ind NATIONAL GUARD TALLED SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS. iana Mine War | | | s | | | | | { arr, surgeon-dentist who took care of Gen. Grant's teeth after the Civil ‘War, is dead. He succumbed Thursday, aged 86. During the Civil War he was & Confederate soldler, serving with Gen @ehp Hunt Morgan's raiders. Ind. ghere a mine war between cost !:v life of at least one man and the wounding of se Union “pickets retreated before this machine gun company, which utilized slack pile as a positicn to sweep the terrzin. NOUR the recona time in as many weeks, Indiana National Guardsmen we: called out to restore peace at the Dixie Bee Ccal Mine, near ‘Terre Haute. ccaches an the plains of Texas. We P (h}l‘u‘n took everything we needed and when others. non-union men and union —A. P. Photo. LET MEN RUN THE WORLD., | SAYS WOMAN CIRCUS HEA :Ringling Wi | Details of Huge Aggregation, Bu+ Job Adopted Her. | By the Assoclated Press. f CHICAGO, August 6—Step right up, men. and hear—"Women should be con- tent to let men run the world, for they can do a better job of it.” That came straight from the shoul- der yesterday from the first woman in history to take a major circus on the road—Mrs. Chérles Ringling of Evans- ton, Ill, 62-year-old widow of one of the five Ringling brothers. And that’s what she had to say about women in executive positions as she is gathering into her hands reins guiding corporations which control four of this country’s largest circuses. John Ring- ling, the last of the five brothers, is in poor health. She handles details involving the housing and feeding of 1,600 people, and the routing of a six-month tour of four trainloads of animals Opposed Women Vote. “I was even against women getting the vote. Running the world is the men’s job. Let them do it. They are used to it,” she said. Here the telephone rang. As she turned to answer it she took off her tortoise-rimmed spectacles. Her unusually heavy, dark eyebrows. accent- ed by the whiteness of her hair, drew together over dark intelligent eyes that could be coolly appraising. Her voice, low-toned, was positive, authoritative. There was about her a poised assur- ance. Her smile has warmth, and HOOVER ARMS PLAN HELD SURE T0 WIN 'U. S. Delegation, Returning, Chesred by Acceptance | of lts Principle. | = | | on By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. August 6. —Partial suc- cess of President Hoover's suggestion for one-third reduction in world arma- ments was predicted by members of the Amasi-n delegation to the World Dis- arm*men8 Conference as they returned from Geneva yesterday aboard the liner Leviathan. “The conference pledged itself to & substantial reduction in land, air and sea armaments and recognized the un- Gerlying principle of President Hoover's | p " said Senator Claude A. Swanson | of Virginia. “If this specific promise is complied with at the second session of the conference, a further substantial reduction in armament expenditures will be expected.” The next session of the conference will open early in 1933. Il | Two other leaders returning were Dr. | Mary E. Woolley and Norman Davis, ) former undersecretary of State. wLav who is favored by the League of Na- tions Finance Committee for its presi- dency. to succeed Suvich., new Italian | undersecretary to Mussolini, said he had not yet decided whether he could accept the post. | Dr. Woolley said the Benes l’esolu-‘ tion, adapted at the conclusion of the onference’s first session. did not go so | far toward sccepting the Hoover pro- | | posal as the American delegation would | | have liked. but it nevertheiess, marked | a real achlevement in the acceptance | | of the principle and in presenting a | definite plan for the next session. | | Davis insisted that more progress had been made &t the conference than seems to be generally recognized. | ‘Jam(;s Boys’ Pal | Hitch-Hikes Home i And Tells Stories By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C. August 6.—Tex | Tyler, 98-year-old hitch-hiker, stopped | | here t> spend the night in jail. but not in custody of the law as he might have | been 60 years 0. ! Tyler, walking from Baltimore to his | home in Amarillo, Tex.. took occasion to air his relations with Frank snd Jesce James and said “the boys” were | | philanthropists and nct the bad men | | they have been painted. “We led a clean life,” he said. “We | never tried to kill or harm anybody.” | | _ He siid he was captured by the Indians when he was 2 years old. \hat they -“knocked and cuffed me! | around until I was 14. Then I got an| opportunity to leave and join the James As a member of the band, T helped | Jesse end Frank rob trains and stage we needed clothing. we took that, too.” After spending the night here, Tyler started again his homeward journey, dOW Has Hands . D Full Handling | clever, quickly. To Mrs. Ringling it has been a long trail from the first days of her marriage good-humored sallies came when she took tickets at the circus en- |- trance. Today she sits in the manager's office overseeing the unloading of the mile-long train_of lions, elephants—50 of them now—Ubanzi savages and the erecting of ten‘s for the first road per- formance under her direction. | Heme to this wicely traveled woman was for many years the circus tent and the railroad trains. She married Ring- ling in Baraboo, Wis.. in 1889, the first year the circus—which then boasted of three elephants—went “on the rails,” discarding the wagon trains. Until her husband’s death, five vears ago, she made all or part of each season’s tour with him. Residents of Evanston. The circus had headquarters in Chicago, and they lived in Evanston. fashionable North Shore suburb. where their two children—Robert Ringling of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., and a daughter, now Mrs. Esther Ringling Sanford of Sarasota, Fla.—were reared. The family also spent much time in Sargsota, where the circus Wintered To children she is a storybook with her varled tales of circus life—the dangers, the close calls, the romances and tragedies under the big top “But.” she said, “it’s adults who like the circus. They bring the children as alibis.” RAIN AIDS FIRE FIGHT AFTER MILLIONS LOSS 125 in List of Injured as 40 En- Throw Water on Ruins. gine Companies By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 6—Rain yesterday afterncon aided firemen still pouring | water on the smoking ruins of the Quincy Grain Elevator, Omaha Patking Co. and Crane lumber yard while owners counted in the millions their losses in Thursday's fire. Forty engine companies threw water the smouldering embers. They were not expected to be extinguished for a month. The injury list mounted to 125 fire- men and workmen, with one seriously hurt by a skull fracture. Pire Marshal Michael J. Corrigan set the damage at $1,650,000. but owners of the three plants put it at $6.000.000 Much of the difference involved valua- tion of livestock and prepared meat products. - . 0il Lamps Popular Again. CLEVELAND, Ohio (#).—Business conditions are making the old-fashioned kerosene lamp popular again. The au- thority s C. W. Stanley, who has been | selling oil lamps a long time and claims to be enjoying greater business than ever. Formerly people bought them only for their camps, he says. New Commerce Secretary PHOTOGRAPHED AT THEIR HOME AT GROSSE POINTE FARMS. OY DIKEMAN CHAPIN, newly appointed Secretary of Commerce, is sho indicted T Yy P Walker, boyhood | i Ab” Walker, 19 1d tobacco heir was arty in July. Reynolda, chum of Reynolds, was A. P. Photo. 'r and Albert The 20-ye: CALIFORNIA SHOWS DEMOCRATIC GAINS Registration More Than Doubles Party Primary Vote Two Years Ago. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 6.—Demo- cratic registration for the California State primary August 30 is considerahly more than double the party primary vote two years ago Registration figures from all but six of the State's 58 counties prove the situation. Taking the six counties into consider- | ation, the Republicans have lost 91,748 potential votes, or 5.95 per cent of their registration in two years, Democrats have gained 363,141, or 129.5 per cent. The Democrats gained 18.29 per cent over the registration for last May’s presidential preference primary. com- pared with a 4.03 per cent increase for the Republicans. Registration Figures, Hergé are the State's registration fig- ures, compared with the registration for the ‘May primary and for the August State primary two years ago May. ‘32 130 1962 B4T.482 1391420 135.048 . 2387000 2377710 2187474 Without considering the six counties missing from today's tabulation—Mono, San Mateo, Shasta, Sierra, Sonoma and Yuba—the Demoeratic registration since Republicans Democrats. Al athers Today. Aug.. L 1Ae8l e ¥ S e 449.824 138,237 Totals ... compared to the Republican gain of 54.438. The six counties had a 1930 registralion of 47,052 Republicans and 15,003 Democrats. Democratic Gains General, Every county tabulated shows an in- crease in Democratic registration over 1930, while only eight counties show Republican increases. Forty-four coun- ties show decreased Republican registra- tion. . The Democrats declare many regis- tered Republicans will vote Democratie in the general election in November. ‘They feel California—President Hoo- ver's home State—will swing out of the Republican column for the first time since 1916. Presiden: Hoover's home tows Palo Alto, is definitely in moon'ek;g‘x?-' lican column with 4,721 Republicans and 1,657 Democrats. DIES IN PORTO RICO Mamel F. Rossy Speaker of House Was 72 Years 0ld. PONCE, Porto Rico, August § () — Manuel F. Rossy. speaker of the House. died today at the age of 72. He was secretary of education in the autona- mous cabinet established when the United States took possession of the island and was first president of the House convened under the “Foraker act” of 1900. > . (lower | while the | and Family AB WALKER'S BAIL [THREAT REPEATED D AT $500 [ = ! Youth's Father Pressed for Ready Cash—Holman Waits: Daughter’s Arrival. ! (Continued Fram First Page.) NFLYERS TRAL Prisoner Says Lancaster Swore to Take Life of Haden Clarke. | By the Associated Press. ! MIAMI, Fla, August 6—M. G. Tan- dition; she will voluntarily return to North Carolina and submit to the ju- risdiction of the court in the full confl- dence that she will receive & fair and | impartial trial.” ! net Polikoff and Willlam Graves signed the statement as “counsel for Mrs. Smith Reynolds.” The formal statement contalned the | first. public announcement that Mrs. Reynolds expected a child. One wit ness at the coroner’s inquest into th death of Reynolds, however, testifed that at the hospital she told Walker she was to have a haby. Richard J. (Dick) Reynalds, bearer of the name of his father, who founded | the huge tobacco fortune here. and | elder brother of 20-year-old Smith, is| | en route home from South America by | boat. He said he would reserve opinion | until he got here, | “If it appears that he was murdered I shall insist that justice be visited) upon the guilty party,” he said. Should bail be denied the 26-year-old | widow, she would be placed in a jail welllnere in the woman’'s ward to await trial, Next Court Term October 3. If a special term of court is called trial likely will take place in September The next regular term of court is to begin October 3. | Announcement that Mrs. Reynolds | was an expectant mother brought re- | newed interest in settlement of the es- tate of Smith Reynolds, held in trust | for him. The estate is estimated to ap- | proximate $15,000,000, Smith, a minor, | left no will | W. N. Reynolds, uncle of Smith, has| been asked by Libby to serve as execu- | tor of the estate, but has not announeed his decision. Asked if Mrs. Reynolds planned taking any steps in regard to the estate, her father replied: “I don't | believe she has ever thought of it. She has never mentioned it to me.” | . Various reports of Libby's presence in Ohio. New York and Delaware were being investigated, but without apparent success. | . Announcing he had reason to believe | Libby was at Montchannin, Del., Sheriff | Transou Scott of Forsyth County wired | authorities there asking them to arrest| | the singer if they could find her, Hol-! man has s3id his daughter is not in Delaware. | ring on habeas carpus proceed- | ings seeking release under band of | Walker was set for today. Walker | | has been in jail since shortly afier the | grand jury returned the indictments | Thursday. | The hearing for Walker may result in an indication from the prasecution | as to what degree of murder will be! | charged. Walker's petition contended the grand | jury indicted him “without any legal evidence sufficient to show either rea- sonable or probable cause that your pe- u‘!diol?rr committed any felonious homi- cide.” DENIES SHE'S IN DELAWARE. Friend Says Libby Holman ¥s Net at Jenney Home. WILMINGTON, Dela., August 6 (#). —An intimate friend of M's. Louise D'A. Jenney, at whose home Mrs. Libby | Holman Reynolds was sought on a | charge of slaying her husband, today emphatically denied Mrs. Reynalds is | In Delaware ! The friend said: “Libby Holman is| not in Montchanin or the State of Delaware, 1 am certain. She has not been here far at least a week that I know of and I doubt if she has visited | | here since the d>ath of her husband. I don't believe Mrs. Jenney is with| her.” Mrs. Jenney, daughter of Mr. and| Mrs. R. M. Carpenter, and a niece | of Pierre du Pont, is the wife of John King Jenney. member of the foreign office of the E. 1. du Pont De Nemours Co., who has been in London for sev- eral months. Servants at the Jenney estate Mrs. Jenney was not at home, but de- clined to reveal her whereabouts. 'PICCARD TO ASCEND AT ZURICH MONDAY Scientist Hopes to Remain in Stratosphere Several Hours | Making Observations. By the Assoclated Press. ZURICH, Switserland, August 6.— Prof Auguste Piccard, Belgian scientist, balloanist and conqueror of the strato- | sphere, planned today to take off Mon-! day for a second flight into the upper | | atmosphere. | There was a possibility, however, he| said, that the final checking of the| delicate scientific instruments he will | take with him, as well as the neces-| sity for favorable weather, might delay | the start until the latter part of the week. He hopes to Temain in the strato-| sphere several hours making observa-| tions, but he is not after an altitude record this time He would be quite content, he said, if he reaches a height | | French parentage and of in| the May primary has in-reased 130,480, | Montchanin. a fashionable suburb, said | crel, self-styled Naval captain now awaiting trial on charges of imperson~ ating & Naval officer, testified today thai Capt. W. N. Lancaster. on trial for the slaying of Haden Clarke, seid in Nogales, Ariz, that he was comin | back to Miami to “get rid of that— Tancrel was the second witness to quote Lancaster as saying he would get rid of Clarke Lancaster is charged with the mur- der of Clarke after the latter replaced | him in the affections of Mrs. J. M. | Keith-Miller during Lancaster's ab- | sence in the West on a business trip. Concerned Over Rumors. “Another time.” Tancrel testified in response to questions from State At- torney N. Vernon Hawthorne. “I heard Lancaster tell an old flying comrade in our hotel room in El Paso, ‘I have seen a lot of dead men and one more won't make any difference.’ Tancrel explained at that time Lan- caster was greatly concerned over ru- mors that his fiance, Mrs, Keith-Miller, had fallen in love with Clarke and was to_marry him Tancrel testified Lancaster resigned hastily from Latin American Airways, Inc., the company in which they were assoclated, and planned an immediate return to Miami when he heard reports of the Clarke-Keith-Miller attachment. Denies Talking to Marshal. James M. Carscn, chief defense coun- sel, asked Tancrel if he had told a deputy United States marshal he would gladly testify against Lancaster. “1 did not,” was the answer. “Did you not tell the marshal that Lancaster spoiled your business venture and you would be glad to testify against him if you thought he would fry for killing Clarke?” Carson shouted. “1 did not.” Tancrel's testimony was given in sharply clipped phrases. He said he was a native of Mauritius Island. in the Indian Ocean, and was of British and ish birth. He sald he is a master marine. Aviatrix to Testify. Mrs. Jessie M. Keith-Miller, victim of aerial misadventures and a tangled love life, was to be recalled to the witness stand today to tell more about the mys- terious :hooting of Haden Clarke. her flance. for whose murder Capt. W. N. Lancaster is on trial. | The petite Australian woman testified over a six-hour period Wednesday and Thursday. Lancaster, former British army flyer, is charged with murdering Clarke, young author, after he learned Clarke had replaced him in Mrs. Keith-Mil- ler's affections. Mental anguish at his failure to pro- vide for Mrs. Keith-Miller and at re- parts she and Clarke had become enamored in his absence was pictured in Lancaster's diary, read by State’s At- torney N. Vernon Hawthorne before Jjurors and a packed court room yester- day. Letters Are Read. Lancaster’s letters to Mrs. Keith-Mil- ler and those she wrote to him were filled with endearing terms. He lament- ed his inability to get funds for her lving expenses; at times she reproached him for failure to do so, and described herself as “quité desperate.” A letter from Clarke to Lancaster announcing his _ succession to Mrs. Keith-Miller's affections, was another high point in the day's session. Clarke said he “feit like & snake” at the out- come of the affair. Lancaster’s extreme concern at hear- ing reports that Clarke and Mrs. Keith- | Miller were in love brought his terse comment, “Mental anguish. Hell,” in the diary. Clarke was found mysteriously shot April 21 in the bed room he and Lan- caster occupied at the Keith-Miller home, where Clarke was writing Mrs. | Keith-Miller's life story. Both Lan- caster and Mrs. Keith-Miller have called his death suicide. VON PAPEN-HITLER AGREEMENT SEEN IN NEW CONFERENCE ___(Continued From First Page.) nents. All the windows and glass doors were broken. A department store in Karstadt was damaged by a bomb. A hand grenade was thrown into the bed room of the chairman of the Catholic Church Coun- cil in Schunn. It started a fire, which Was put out quickly, but the chairman was not hurt. He said he had been threatened in the past by National So- cialists. Another bomb was thrown at Muel- heim into s window of the labor office, dimaging the City Hall and breaking glass In nearby buildings. All these incidents occurred despite the government's threat of sStrong meas- ures to put an end to such disturbances A bomb demolisned & restaurant at Ortelsburg, but no cne was hurt. In the ssme town a bomb planted in front of the tax office failed to explode Six shots were fired at the home of a National Socialist leader in Ank- lam The bullets struck the adjacent apartment of a Socialist, whese father and mother and son were wounded. At Altoona €2 Nazi storm troopers were arrested when police heard shoot- ing. They said they had been hired as strike-breakers by an industrial firm. JOIN EUROPEAN PACT Holland and Lithuania Both Ad- here to Consultative Agreement. THE HAGUE. Netherlands. August 6 (®) —The government of the Nether- lands announced today that it will ad- here to the recent Franco-British con- wn here at his hcme at Grosse Pointe Farms, agDetroit suburb, with Mrs. Chapin and their six children. Mrs. Chapin is hofling the youngest child, Marian. The others from left to right are: Roy, Jr.; Joan, Danny, Sally and Jack. —A. P, Photo, March, “Thy sultative pact. KAUNAS, Lithuania, August 6 (#) - Lithuania announced today that she will participate in the consultative pact recently negotiated by France and Great Britain. ves BAND CONCERT;. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at the bandstand, at 5:30 o'clock. John §. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster. Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “Semper PFidelis .Sousa “Four Ages of Man"....... " 'Lachner Suite, “Divertissement Espagnole” Desormes “Sequidilla.” “Habanera.” .”__“Don Quixote.” “German Liederkranz” man ' Foik_Son: Serenade, ‘Sancho Volpatt! Waliz popular, “Indiana Moon". Wallace Finale. “Qur Governor”..Zimmermann “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Army Band this evening, at the Sylvan Theater, Wash- ington Monument Grounds, at 8 o'clock. Willlsm J. Stannaid, leader. 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