Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1932, Page 21

.S ACTS T0 CURB 'MAN WHO SPENT LIFE IN CELL Interstate Bird Shipments Stopped for Fear of Psittacosis. An embargo on the interstate ship- | ment of parrots was in effect today, | crdered by the United States Public| Health Service as a result of the out- break in the West of psittacos In announcing the ban late vester- day, the health service advised all per- | £cns to avold contact with any recently shipped birds of the parrot family. The action was based on reports of five cases of psittacosis in Minneapolis, where one | death already has occurred. and the Boise, Idaho, case of Mrs. Willlam E. Borah, now understood to be recovering es a result of serum injections. Found in California. ‘The health service in a formal state- ment said that upon its recommenda- tion the Secretary of the Treasury had ordered that interstate shipment of birds of the parrot family he limited to those certified by health authorities as | coming from aviaries free from infec- | tion. A Public Health Service officer, the announcement stated, had made a care- ful study of the psittaccsis situaticn in Southern California, with results re- ported as follows | “Conclusive evidence was thus ob- | tatned which indicated that psittacosis, | or parrot fever infection, is present in some of the breeding aviaries of Southern California Spreads to Other Areas. “Parrots_and parrakeets from this gource probably have been one of the important means of spreading the dis- ease to other States. The casos oc- curring in Boise and Minneapolis were traced to the California birds. as well as previous cases this year reported from New York City and Oregon.” Stringent quarantine action on parrot fmports was taken in the Winter of 1929-30, when 163 cases of parrot fever, with 33 deaths, were practically all | traced to association with recently- acquired parrots and parrakeets. Health regulations still are being enforced on imported birds. | farm because, he said, he did not want | to leave his friends at the prison which | atrocities_conceived by DIES OF HEART ATTACK AT 70 PARROT DISEASE e Pomeray Entered Prison at 14 and | Served More Than 40 Years in Solitary. Liked to Write Poetry. By the Asscciated Press. BRIDGCWATER, Mass., 3 ~ Comeroy, Massachusetts’ no- torious life priconer, who spent all of | his years the age of 14 behind | prison bars, died at the State farm here lest night at the age of 70 years. Robert C. Shermsn, superintendent of the State farm, arnounced the death this morning and said that heart dis- ease was the cause. | Pomeroy was transferred here from | the State prison in Charlestown, four years ago, because of declining health He strongly opposed his transfer tc the more ‘iberal atmosphere of the State September had always been his home. Saved From Gallows. Saved from the gallows bacause of his youth, Pomercy lived to spend more than 56 years in prison, more than 40 of it in solitary confinement during which he saw only his guards. Starting his sentence September 1. 1876, it was not until 1917 that he was permitted to eat in the company of other prisoners or to attend religious services and entertainments in the State | prison at Charlestown, Mass. | Penal authorities raid that it would be difficult to find a parallel for the time he spent in “solit>ry.” Jieved that he was thus imprisoned longer than any other man in American criminal history. This circumstance overshadowad the the porverted mind of his boyhood. He was cnly 14 years old when he was convicted of murdering a 4-year-old boy and sen- tenced to be hanged But William Gaston. then Governor of Massachusetts, was cpposed to capital punishment and refused to sign a war- rant for the execution. His successor, Gov. Alexander H. Rice, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment at hard labor. The hard labor part of the punish- | ment did not, however, work out. The keepers found that Pomeroy managed to fashion tools for escape from almost | | anything upon which he could lay his | hands. He was given only food and | books, but even then managed to con- SENATOR THOMAS ILL. Doctors Fear Borah's Colleague May Have Parrot Fever. BOISE, Idaho, September 30 (Spe- cial) —Tests are_being made at_the State laboratory branch in Twin Falls to determine whether John Thomas, junior United States Senator from Tdaho, is suffering from parrot fever, from which the wife of his colleague, Senator William E. Borah, now is con- valescing in Boise Hospital. Thomas fell ill about & week ago from what was diagnosed as influenza. Ms Borah’s iliness, in its early stages, also was diagnosed as influenza. The pos- sibility that Thomas might also be a victim of the disease was seen when physicians learned he was a guest in the Borah home. at Boise, at the time Mrs. Borah fell ill. Dr. J.'A. Cromweli Thomas' physician, reported the Se ator's condition showed improvement yesterday. Thomas is confined to his ome in Gooding. Women of Scotland are offering cash prizes totaling §1.750 for women's rough cketches of an ideal $7,500 hcme. Opens into a full size bed or twin beds. Choice of several colors in figured / denim coverings. i Palais Royal—Fourth Floor. trive tools. Saws made from scraps of steel, from the leg of a cot and frem cans; drills fashioned from screws and pieces of scrap metal. files and kn were products of his ingenuity. With these he made at least 12 attempts to escape. Frustrated by Cat. His last serious attempt was in 1912, when he sawed three bars from his cell, fitted dummies in their places to | | cover his activities and, when ready for the dash, slipped through the hole and was creeping along the corridor toward an unsuspecting guard when he aroused | a sleeping cat. The startled feline | yeowled and jumped at him. The guard found him armed with a dagger and equipped with a file and three saws. Pomeroy made frequent efforts to ob- tain a pardon, petitioning Governor after Governor for executive clemency. But the cnly glimpse he had of the outcide | werld was in 1929, when he was whicked in a clesed automobile from Charles- town to the State Farm. On that trip he marveled when he saw an elevated train, a steam shovel znd a steam roller; asked, bewilderedly, vhere the hor-es had gone from the o’ a M ’rgfiges THE EVENING STAR, \\'A\éHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1932. roads; saw his first ice cream cone, and, noticing a newspaper bulletin board, was puzzled because he was still described as a slayer. He gained a smattering of five lan- guages and became well read in the ‘aws affecting his own case. He sl'o| developed a flair for writing verse, con- tributing them to the pricon paper, The Mentor, under the pseudonym | “Grandpa.” In 1919 his verses were | compi'ed in book form. After his release from “solitary” in 1917 Pomeroy was made a “trusty” and | acted as a messenger around the| Charlestcwn prison. | SECOND CHEST EVENT | ON RADIO LAST NIGHT Newbold Noyes Introduces Mrs. | Flora McGill Keefer, | Contralto. ‘ Mrs. Flora McGill Keefer, pcpular contralto, last night inaugurated the second annual Community Chest pro- | gram, “Album of Artists” which is tu’ be broadcast each Thursday at 7:¢5 p.m. over Radio Station WMAL. Mrs. | Keefer, who was introduced by Newbrld Noyes, Community Chest campaign chairman, sang a group of requested old-time numbers. In a brief talk before introducing Mrs. Keefer, Mr. Noyes called attention to the approaching period which, he said, would be the mecst critical in the istory of welfare endeavor in the country. Calling attention to the fact almost every one has experienced adversity in one form or another, Mr. Noyes ex- pressed the opinicn “adversity makes one infinitely more sensitive and re- sponsive to the heavier burdens of others. He said he believed the Cap- ital and the country would be found ready to take care of the sick, hun- | gry and homeless during the coming Winter. C. C. Cappel, manager cf the Wash- ington Symphony Orchestra, was master of ceremonies. CLUB PLANNING DANCE Proceeds Will Be Used in Scholar- ship Fund of Organization. | The first dance of the Fall season under the auspices of the Curley Club will be held at the Continental Hotel tomerrow night, beginning at 9 o'clock. | Proceeds from this, as well as from others of the bi-monthly dances whici the club will sponsor, will be applied | to the scholarship fund of the organi- zation. William J. Boyd is in charge cf arrangements. Editor Weds Third Time. NEW YORK, September 30 () — John G. Stoll, 54, an editor, and Mrs. Virginia D. Stewart, both of Lexington, Ky., obtained a marriage license yester- | day. This is Stoll's third marriage. Stewart is 34. G Street at Eleventh RNITURE SALE! Mahogany Frame Suite The value is apparent in the way it's built . . . the way it’ in the carved frame and the lustrous tapes- try coverings. Lovely shades of rust or green. s tailored . .. Butt walnut matched veneers. signed and finished. A “buy” indeed at this price. SALESMAN ENJOINED FROM DIVORCE SUIT Restrained From Action so Long as Wife's Limited Decree Is in Effect. A permanent injunction restraining Walter Humphries, local salesman, from prosecuting a suit for absolute divorce from his estranged wife, Mrs. Irene Humphries, filed in Reno, was issued yesterday by Chief Justice Wheat as the climax to lengthy litigation in District Supreme Court. The decree is believed to be the third of its kind ever iscued by the local court in that it prohibits Humphries from ever suing his wife for divorce as long as her decree of limited divorce, obtained against him May 8, 1930, is in effect. Throl:gh Attorney Raymond Neu- decker the wife claimed she would suf- fer irreparable injury were Humphries permitted to continue with his divorce suit in Nevada. She declared he had left the District to prevent paying her further alimony and had harassed her by filing suit in Nevada, after having once tried to divorce her in Virginia, following the institution of her separa- tion action here. . Mailed 24 years ago at Walworth, England, a postal has just been deliv- ered at the address in Eltham of R. W. Smith, who has been dead 12 years. SIGMUNDS || iy “At the Corner” SHIP SALVAGING FORTUNE IS BURNED OFF DELAWARE Vessel Destroyed in Effort to Raise $10,000,000 in Gems and 0ld Spanish Coin. By the Associated Press. LEWES, Del, September 30.—Efforts to salvage an estimated $10,000,000 worth of doubloons and pieces of eight and gems that went down with the British sloop De Braak 139 years agc were suspended today because of a fire. One of the salvaging ships, the Katie D,ux;_‘m, burned to the water line last night. 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