Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1933, Page 3

RITCHIE FACES JURY INOLIVER'S SLAYING Felonious Homicide Charge| in Ex-State Senator’s Death Considered. By the/ Assoctated Press. FAIRFAX, Va, January 16 (®)— )"“wu Ritchie, 21, son of former Juven- Court Judge A. C. Ritchie of Fair- =+ today faced a special grand jury 24 Fairfax County Circuit Court on a charge of felonious homicide following the “death of former State Senator| Walter, Tansill Oliver. | Senator Oliver died November 23 | fractured skull received in an| tion with young Ritchie. Ritchie been free under $5.000 bond since S Oliver's death. There were no itnesses to the fight, and Oliver died without re- | se, the only account | altercation is that given -by Ritchie. Tells of Abusive Language. He was reported to have told Com- monwealth’s Attorney Wilson M. Farr | that Oliver ussd abusive language about his sister, the estranged wife cf Oliver's son, Lewis B. B. Oliver, and threatened | him with a heavy cane. Ritchie was said to have told Oliver to cease his language and to go home, and when the | ik S s LA R | THE EVENING Two Killed jn This Crash WRECKAGE OF TRANSPORT LINER AT NEWARK AIRPORT. LBERT C. KOMDAT, pilot, and George D. Weidel, co-pilot, both of Elizabeth, N. J., were killed at Newark Air- port yesterday when the 18-passenger transport liner which they were testing crashed as they prepared to land. The huge ship caught fire after the crash. Photo shows wreckage of the plane. latter refused, to have struck him with | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TRIUMPH AT POLLS | HEARTENS HITLER |Will Establish Final Attitude Toward Schleicher in | Parley Today. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 16.—Adolf Hitler, | | National Socialist party chief, was ex- | pected in the capital today from | Weimer for what was regarded as mo- | mentous negotiations establishing his | | final attitf@e toward Chancellor Kurt | von Schleicher. H Upon the parley hinged such possi-| bilities as the dissolution of the| Reichstag, scheduled to assemble Janu- | ary 24, or the alternative appointment | of Gregor Strasser, former national So- | cialist organizer, as vice chancellor with | Hitler's approval New Gains at Polls. The gains made by the Hitler party in the smallest German state, Lippe, in Diet elections yesterday were believed a | refutation of assertions that his power was on the wane. Only the day before |it was believed Gen. von Schleicher | might even step out and make Strasser chancellor, thereby forcing Hitler to de- cide to support the cabinet or risk new —A. P. Photo. his fist. skga'l]mt the road and frecturing his| skull. At the time of th~ altercation, Oliver’s | acn, Lewis, was fined in th~ B:\l(t-} more City Jail, having been arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace and carrying concealed weapons. Both Sen- ator Oliver and Judge Ritchie attended | the hearing in Beltimore Tuesday, No- | vember 22, when Lewis Oliver was re- | manded to jail in default of bond on | the two charges on which he was ar- | rested and a third charge of assault with intent to kill his estranged wife, Barbera Ritchie Oliver. He was later Teleased on bond to attend his father's funeral. Daughter Born February 21. A daughter, Barbara Wayne, was born to Mrs. Oliver November 21 in a | Baltimore hospital. Last week the Faiy- | fax County Circuit Court, on petition of | lewis B. B. Oliver, issued a writ of habeas corpus directing Mrs. Barbara Ritchie Oliver to bring the 2-months- old_baby into court today. Oliver is attempting to obtain pos- session of the child. The petition stated | that he has made repeated efforts 2t a | Teconciliation and now believes his wife | intends never to return to him. INTENSIVE EFFORTS FOR NEEDY URGED| Head of Catholic Charities Sees| Demand for Greater Organization in Plea at Women's Conference. ‘The need for greater organization in relief work during the present economic crisis was urged yesterday by Dr. John | O'Grady, director of Catholic Charities, before approximately 400 Catholic women who gathered at the Playhouse, 1814 N street, to hear him explain the work of the Ladies of Charity. He presented a plan whereby 20 per- sons, each supplying one article of food could provide sustinence for &an entire family. This plan already is being worked 'in a number of cases in ‘Waskington, he said, urging the women to_consider it carefully. Mrs. E. A. Horrigan, president of the Ladies of Charity in Baltimore, told of the work of the society there and urged the formation of a branch in every parish in Washington. According to reports received, chap- ters already have been formed in eight parishes here and actively engaged in relief work among the poor. The out- standing work being dome, it was said, is the making of clothes from cloth provided by the American Red Cross. ‘The work being done by the Ladies of Charity in rural communities was ex- plained by Mrs. J. H, Van Doran, presi- dent of the society in Prince Georges County. Dr. Laurence J. Shehan, as- sistant director of Catholic Charities, also spoke. Msgr. Edward L. Buckey, pastor of St. Matthew's Church, opened the meeting with prayer. HAYNES PAROLE DELAYED Plea for Banker Continued by D. C. Board. quest for parole of Harry V.| former - president of Farmers and Mechanics National Bank here who is serving a four and one- half year sentence at Lorton for -vio- lating the banking acts, was reviewed | by the District of Columbia Board of | Indeterminate Sentences, and Parole last week and continued for further study, it was learned today. | Haynes became eligible for . parole, | geovlded the board gave its consent, on cember 12, 18 months after he was sentenced to prison, -June 12, 1931. Officials said today routine investiga- tion of the case probably would re- quire some time. | s BANKER’S HOME LOOTED | A NEW YORK, January 16 ). — ‘Thieves took jewelry valued at $350 and $50 cash {rom the apartment of Or- Oliver fell, striking his head | | der WOODROW WILSON'S DAUGHTER EXPIRES Mrs. Sayre Long Active inl Social Service and World I Peace Work. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 16.— | Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson and life- long worker in social service and the | cause of world peace, died late last night. She was 45. | Mrs. Sayre, wife of Prof. Francis B. Sayre, newly appointed State commis- | sioner of correction and a member of the Harvard Law School faculty, suc- cumbed to the effects of a gall blad- | operation performed Saturday | morning in the Cambridge Hospital. | Of late years Mrs. Sayre, who was married in the White House in 1913 curing her father’s first term as Presi- dent, had been active in Democratic | National and State politics. She cam- | paigned for Alfred E. Smith in Massa- chusetts in 1928, and was herself boomed for United States Senator in 1930, until she withdrew because of her devotion to her husband and chil- dren. She was vice chairman of the Democratic State Committee during the Tecent campaign. Friend of Rooseveit. A personal friend, as well as ardent supporter, of President-elect Pranklin | D. Roosevelt, she and her husband were overnight guests of the President-elect on several occasions and it was she who filed this State’s electoral vote for Roosevelt and Garner. Mrs. Sayre was born in Gainesville, Ga., and much of her girlhood was spent in Princeton, N. J, where her father was first professor and then president of the university. She was graduated from Goucher Collegz, in Baltimore, in 1908 and spent the next three years in intensive social service work among the textile workers in the Kensington section of Baltimore. It was here she began her active interest in the Young Women's Christian As- sociation, of which she was later a| member of the National Executive Board. Funeral Wednesday. When Woodrow Wilson was elected | President she became one of the White House family and there, in November, 1913, married Francis Bowes Sayre of Bethlehem, Pa., son of Robert Heysham Sayre, who built the Lehigh Valley Rail- road. Just prior to his marriage, young Sayre had been an assistant to District Attorney Whitman of New York, who | later became Governor. The Wilson-Sayre wedding was the first in the White House since Miss Alice Roosevelt married Representative Nicholas Longworth. Besides Prof. Sayre, Mrs. Sayre is| survived by her three children, Francis, jr.; Elinor and Woodrow Wilson Sayre. The funeral will be held in Christ Church here Wednesday and interment will be at Bethlehem, Pa., Thursday. IOWA DOCTOR 1S KILLED IN. 11-STORY PLUNGE Wife Discovers Window Open | After Couple Register at Hotel on New York Visit. By the Assoclated Press, NEW YORK, January 16.—Dr. Albert V. Hennessy, 47, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was killed last night when he fell or jumped from a window of his sixteenth- floor hotel room. The body landed on a fifth-floor ex- tension roof Dr. Hennessy, who registered at the hotel with his wife on Friday, played several games of two-handed bridge with her during the evening. Shortly before 11 o'clock Mrs. Hen- lando H. Harriman, vice president of the Harriman National Bank, while the | banker and his wife were attending & | New Year eve party, police announced last night. When the Harrimans returned to their fashionable fifteenth-fioor home, gid the police, they found the door Fagsteriously bolted from the inside. | A radio alarm brought a dozen police jmrs and detectives forced the door, find- g the apartment in wild_disorder. SPECIAL NOTICES. NUAL MEETING OF THE STOC RelGers ol he Mbunt Vernion Savings Bank of Washington, D. C.. will be held at the Dank, corner of §th st. and Massachusetts | ave. n.w.. 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Tonight. | Oratorical supremacy of Southeastern University will be decided tonight when 1, students of the art of forensics| compete for the championship and | three silver cups in the annual public spaking contest in the university audi- torium, 1736 G street, at 8 o'clock. Judges of the contest will be M. 8. Eisenhauer, Miss Blanche Halbert and George A. Ricker. Dr. James A. Bell, director of education of the Y. M. C. A. and head of the university, will award the cups. The contestants are Calixto C. Aba- salo, Lloyd C. Brackman, Miles 8. Bray, Percy C. Ellett, Fred R. Hitt, Miss Ruth Horn, Leonard Kaplan, Louis B. Poss, Lloyd T. Smith and C R. Watson. All are students of the| School of Accountancy of the university. | FACES MURDER CHARGE JERSEY CITY, N. J., January 16 (). —Aaron Melniker of Bayonne, | counsel for Dorothy Lumpkin, 20, said | last might she would arrive here today | to face & charge of murder arising out of the death of Thomas Plakstis. Miss Lumpkin has been free in $5,000 bail since her arrest October 27, when WILL APPEAR AT gy d6 2t 11 am. G otal.” bexatifil Baia 5 By O G sts. nw, Plakstis was shot. He died early Satur- | day. Since her release has been visiting an aunt in Bal police before he told 3. DeMoll & Co..! o8 | Dr. W. Coleman Nevils, S. | ctences. | sity, George Washington University and | Georgetown University. e | \TESTNGPLANE |Albert C. Komdat, in Wash- ington Service, One of Victims. By the Associated Press. 1 NEWARK, N. J, January 16—Two men were killed yesterday when an 18- | Centrist party, was expected to confer passenger Eastern Air Transport plane | in which they were making a test flight | crashed and burned at the Municipal | Airport near the line's hangar. They | were the only occupants of the ship. The dead were identified by the line | as” Albert C. Komdat, 38, a pilot, and | | George D. Weidel, 22, a mechanic, who was acting as co-pilot on the trial run. Plane in Washington Service. Komdat had been in the Eastern | Transport service two years. He was married and his home was in Elizabeth, N. J. Weidel, who also lived in Eliza- | beth, had been employed as a mechanic | three years. i The plane was used on runs from the airport here to Atlantic City, Washing- ton and Miami, Fla. Eastern Air Transport Co. officials called Komdat one of the best pilots in the service, with a perfect record up to| __MRS. JESSIE WILSON SAYRE. _ yesterday's accident. He had, they said, 4,400 flying hours to his credit in an G' U' P' GAMMA MU | aviation career that started in 1920. . CHAPTER INSTALLED| 1, Tt irst ™ ., .| | In 1928 and 1920 he was engaged as | | test pilot for the Ford plant at Detroit, | and in the next two years he flew a Senator Copeland and Dr. Nevils Are Among Speakers at Din- ner of Homnor Society. | Buenos Aires to Santiago, Chile, over the Andes. He joined Eastern Air| Transport in 1930. | Because of his record, company offi- | clals were at a loss to explain the erash. | Immediate examination of the wreck- | age provided no clues, ‘ With Dr. S. Howard Patterson, a naticnal officer of Pl Gamma Mu; Sena- | tor Royal S. Copeland of New York and | president | Komdat at One Time Saved Pa | of Georgetown University, as the prin- Komdat at One Time Saved Passengers cipal speakers, the District of Columbia | in Burning Plane. | chapters of Pi Gamma Mu, national| Pilot Al Komdat, killed yesterday at cocial science honor society, held a din- | Newark Airport in the crash of an 18- | ner last night at the Kennedy-Warren, } passenger transport plane which he was | A feature of the program was the | test-fiying, was well known in Wash- | installation of the newly - formed | ington and had a reputation for cool- | Georgetown University Chapter and the | ness in emergencies, one of which in- | presentaticn of a gold chapter key to|volved a dead-stick landing at Wash- Dr. Nevils, who was made an honorary | ington-Hoover Airport with Pnstmuler‘ member. ‘The presentation was made | General Walter F. Brown as a passenge! by Dr. William F. Notz, lieutenant gov- Komdat also landed a burning pas- emor of the District of Columbi: province and dean of foreign service at Georgetown. | The dinner was presided over by Dr. John Donald:cn of George Washington University, governor of the province, and arranged by Chairman A. Rex Johnton. In addressing the meeting, Dr. Patterson of the University of Penn- sylvania stressed the ideals of the honor society, the first of which, he said, was to stimulate knowledge of the social RECORD FOR COOLNESS. The four Washington chapters are at| American Univer:ty, Catholic Univer- After searching 20 years for his wife, who left him soon after their marriage, Eustacio Tolentino has asked the court :in Manila, P. I, to declare her legally ead. passenger plane on the route from |z —— New 2 Way Mistol Treatment for Colds elections. This was viewed as a means of taking advantage of the break between Hitler and Strasser when the latter resigned as Nazi organizer in December. Dr. Ludwig Kaas, chairman of the with Von Schleicher today. Meanwhile, Hitler was in a pugnacious mood as a result of the Lippe election, in which | the Nazis won 8 of 21 seats. Previously they had only one. i Scorns Compromises. “The National Socialist movement hasn’t time for rotten compromises in- | commensurate with its strength and significance,” he s2id today. | ‘The newspaper Zwoelf Uhr said a scheduled Hitler-Strasser conference was postponed until Tuesday, inter- preting the election as a victory for the Nazi irreconcilables, Hermann Wilhelm Goering, the Reichstag president, and Dr. Joseph Goebbeis. In contrast with Strasser’s inactivity, Goering joined Hitler's speaking campaign in Lippe. The state was overrun with the Brown sh!!rm' house-to-house comeback cam- aign. Chancellor von Schleicher still holds the emergency power to dissolve the Reichstag when it assembles if he fails to reach an agreement with-Hitler. 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Every fact and every clue “necessary to its solution are in the story itself—snd there is only one answer. How good a detective are you? Dry Leader. By H. A RIPLEY. Prof. Fordney stood beside the body cross. The coarse overalls, with mud- caked and blood-stained knees, the dirty, heavy beard matted with blood from a gaping temple wound, and the rough, calloused hands made strong contrast to the dapper and immaculate Myron Robinson, who two months earlier had so mys- teriously vanished from Washington. An autcmatic re- volver by his side bespoke the tragic ending of the once powerful dry leader. Fordney's assist- ance had been sought in clearing up Robinson’s strange disappear- ance, and he had finally succeeded in locating him living in a liitle Ken- tucky moun tain village, 8 victim of amnesia. Arriving there he learned Robinson had committed suicide just a few minutes before. “He was a pow'ful smart man, all| right,” sald Horatio Jackson, with whom Robinson had lived, “but he was right queer. He put up that cross out there in the woods, and I seed him more 'n’ once a kneelin’ down ther a prayin’. He never said nothin’ about it, though. This mornin’ he was actin’ 'specially funny, so when he set out for the woods I followed him. When he got to the cross he walked around it three times, looked up to the sky for a spell talkin’ right loud about some- thin’ I couldn’t make no sense of, then he kneeled down, took that gun out of his pocket and shot hisself. oo “Come, Jackson,” interrupted Ford- ney brusquely, “if Robinson HAD com- mitted suicide ‘you wouldn't be lying about it. Did YOU murder him?” HOW DID FORDNEY KNOW JACK- SON’S ACCOUNT WAS UNTRUE? (See Page A-10 for solution.) Deficits of French railways in the last advice is often | YOUTH MOBILIZING MOVE INAUGURATED *Pa‘triotic Societies to Co-op- | erate in 5-Year Vitalized Patriotic Institution. Inauguration of a movement for the | patriotic mobilization of the youth of | America was announced today by the national headquarters of the United | States Flag Association. Preudent‘ Hoover is honorary president general and Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes | 1s chairman of its board. This patriotic youth mobilization {lying at the foot of a huge TOUBR| movement is to take the form of & | five-year program of vitalized patriotic | instruction centered in annual flag | contests among boys and- girls of high school age, supplemented by a Nation- | wide distribution of Americanism lter- ature. 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