Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1932, Page 9

SEPTEMBER 18, 1932_PART ONE. Duncan Phyfe Coffee Table MONDAY ONLY! Oval shaped, size 45 16 to 26, dull hand- Rugs! T a THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., 9 Boudoir Chairs Silk damask covered. While they 495 last Smoker’s Lamp Complete with decorated 45 Occasional Chair 4= Antique Maple Colonial Chairs While they 495 last ' Three Lose Lives In Indiana Wave Of Freak Mishaps By the Asscciated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, September 17. PLANS AR LEAP INBIG OHLNDER e 2 Danish Veteran Will Drop| | A" fammer " ncer sScottsburg cranked his automobile in gear 5 Om Feet and Th‘n and it ran over him, breaking his ) € Use Parachute. 3 $12.75 H Scoop seat, button tufted seat upholstered back, broad curved arms, walnut finish, Upholstered small figured in rust tapestry. Monday Only parchment shade, ash tray and cigaret holder. Red or green trimmed ; lacquered brass. Monday Oniy Menenenenren rubbed finish. FAEI @I @D Another farmer, carrying a shotgun on his mower, was killed by its accidental discharge. f A New Albany woman died of | | burns suffered when a can of beans exploded. Carpeting! SALE * MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Hundreds of Items! PJ.Nee Co. , FINE FURNITURE ©® Seventh Street at H WHY NOT OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT MONDAY? DEFERRED PAYMENTS MAY BE ARRANGED. 1 By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, September 17.—One | of the most curious aecrial feats yet conceived is planned by the Danish | parachute expert, John E. Tranum, | He is preparing for a leap from a 0 d od zluminum cylin- der fitted with cel indo fter | he has fallen half the distan the | earth 1> will release himself from the cylinder and complete the fall by para- Recalls Houdini Feat. chute. a3 Holiday Directors Meet To- Houdini’s famous feat of being j e T e e Hudson Rt e day—Sheriff Again Appeals to Gov. Turner. ‘Tranum with the idea for hi Jump. The cylinder, specially constru a Danish armament firm, is I three sliding aluminum sections, in| " . the manner of a telescopic metal | BY the Associated Press. drinking cup. During the first 5,000| SIOUX CITY, Iowa, September 17.— feet of the fall, which will be made Pending a meeting of the National head downward within the cylinder, Farmers' Holiday Association directorate Herr ‘“Tranum wil be able to watch | here Sunday, picketing activities in the his progress through the celiuloid win- | 6-week-old strike for higher farm prices dows. The drop will be made at a|today were nearly at a standstill speed that might mean death by suffo-| SheriT John A. Davenpogt had been cation if he was not so encased, Tranum | asked by business men here to petition 7 A useful plece says. Gov. Turner a second time for Na- HERN of genuine After falling 5,000 feet he will tele- | tional Guardsmen to end the embargo || Y walnut or ma- scope the cylinder by means of lever|on farm products. | hogany veneer mechanism and continue the drop by| “I have informed Gov. Dan Turner rubbed dull parachute, the closed cylinder remain- of the seriousness of our situation here Fitted with ing attached to his body by straps. |and have urged him to glve us help Films Will Be Made. Sheriftf Davenport said. c more.” The attempt is to be made either| Davenport late today announced the over the waters of the sound near| organization of farmers opposed to Copenhagen or over the North Sea from | picketing, Their aim will be to help close to Fano, in the neighborhood of | autho: keep highways open. They Esbjerg. A Hollywood film company | e him full co-operation, the has” offered a large sum for the film!sheriff said. He refused to give their 1ights of the leap, Tranum say: names, but he said he had been as- Tranum has now made more than 1,- sured that they would see that truck- 600 “stunt” parachute descents, in-|ers trying to reach markets here would |! cluding one in which he leaped with have safe passage. | two parachutes attached to him, cutting| Reports to the Iowa executive from || himself loose from the first when only | Sioux City and Woodbury County au- 200 feet above the ground, and com- | thorities today, moreover, were reas-|| pleting the fall in the last instants of | suring. his safety margin by the second para-| All but three highways in this vi- chute, cinity were deserted by pickets, but Breakfast Set (5 Pcs.) 1675 Three-Tone Decorated Porcelain-Top Breakfast Set “Crysteel” stainpreof porcelain en- amel table with shaped drop leaves. 4 Windsor chairs to match, Al the pieces ef- fectively deco- rated in orange and green on ivory. three deep drawers Drop-lid front conceals inte- rior in desk with small drawer and pigeon holes. Double glass door book sec- tion with grill- ed frents. -— ABE FRANK, PROMINENT HOTEL MANAGER, DIES Associated With Fred Harvey in Dining System and Other Noted | Saturday receipts at markets normally are light, and there was little or no effort by pickets to interfere with the || few shipments by truck. The meeting here tomorrow, Milo Reno, president of the National Farm- ers’ Holiday Association, said, will in- clude discussions of costs of production and of extension of the campaign in a few days into 12 other Middle West- | ern States. Establishments. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 17— Abe Frank, 61, nationally known el man, and vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Ambassa- dor Hotel, died here today. H - went a major operation sev ago. Frank was born in Fond Du Lac, Wis., and started his bu clerk in a railw; ci e He became associated with Fred Har- Vey in establishing the Fred Harvey dining system along the Santa Fe Rail- road and was superintendent of the Harvey system from 1888 to 1903. In that year he became mana director and part owner of the Sherman Hotel in_Chicago. He also managed Rector’s, College Inn and North -American Restaurants in Chicago. In 1908 he became man- ' aging owner of the Oliver Hotel in South Bend, Ind., and remained there | until he came to Los Angeles in 1920. MAYOR’S DEATH ACCIDENT, | SAYS TENNESSEE SHERIFF Union City Official Believed to Have Been Cleaning Pistol When It Discharged. By the Associated Press. UNION CITY, Tenn, September 17 —Sheriff C. H. Brush has concluded Meayor J. A. Prieto was killed in his office by the accidental discharge of a pistol :he was cleaning and was not murdered. “It is so clear that the m: killed by accident that I h: an inquest will not be necessary sheriff said today after an investiga- tion. Mayor Prieto wes found with a bul- let wound in his heart. Nearby was a pistol. A pcol room operator’s account of seelng a Negro run from the office soon after a shot was fired led the sheriff to entertain a murder theory at first, INSPECTIONS MADE Annual reports forwarded to the Dis- trict Commissioners yesterday by tor of Inspection Hugh P. Oram CRAZED MAN SLAIN IN WOUNDING TRID and Bystander Shot Before Battle at Barri- caded Attic. Policemen By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, September 17.—A man who, police said, was crazed by drink was shot to death today in a gun during which he wounded two || battle policeman and a bystander. Forty pa- trolmen participated in the final phase of the fight. The man. indentified as Mike Kuhar, barricaded himself in the attic of his|| home and withstood five police squads who loosed a barrage of shotgun, sub- machine gun and revolver fire, before killed by Patrolman Louis ~The wounded were Sergt. Patrolman Frank McKranski, who may lose his left eye; and George Stefanek, . shot in the face. McKranski and Patrolman || 2. ck went to the Kuhar hcme when neighbors complained he was threatening to kill his wife and two sons. Palacek and McKranski were shot as they called upon Kuhar to surrender, r gas bombs were hurled into . and as Kuhar stood wiping he dropped from a shotgun 4 by Patrolman Molnar. GLASSFORD IS PRAISED BY DISABLED VETERANS Efforts to Protzet Name of Bonus Marchers From Brand of Crim- inals Are Lauded. Brig. Gen. Pelhnam D. Glassford, superintendent of metropolitan police, was praised for his “efforts to protect the name of the ex-service men (ocm- posing the B. E. 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