Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1933, Page 5

HARRIMAN BANK lFrom the Front Row DELAYS DEFENDED Awalt Declares Holding of U. S. Action Helped to Protect Public. By the Associated Press The course pursued by the Govern- ment in aflairs of the Harriman Na- tional Bank was said by Controller of the Currency Awalt in a formal state- | ment last night to have been “obviously | in the public interest and for the pro-l tection of the creditors of the bank.” Explaining the part taken in the mat- | fer by L. K. Roberts, chief national bank examiner in New York, and the way in which the matter reached the: Department of Justice, Mr. Awalt in his_written statement said: “T understand that some of the New York papers have carried items to the effect that Chief National Bank Exam- iner Roberts held up the report on criminal violations in connection with the Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. of New York City and that these items are based upon verbal statements made to newspaper representatives in ‘Washington. Adjustments Needed. | “In justice to Mr. Roberts. 1 feel that | 1 should issue a written statement in order that the facts, as shown by the fles of this office, are clear. “On July 25, 1932, Mr. Roberts re- ported by letter addressed to the con- troller's office that irregularities had | been discovered by the examiner in| making an examination of the Harri- man National Bank & Trust Co.. in- closing with his letter three carbon copies of the report of the examiner | with respect to the alleged irregulari- ties. “Mr. Roberts also stated in his letter that the original of the report was being withheld temporarily in order to adjust any and all of the problems with which the bank was confronted and in order 1o avoid any disturbance to the bank until its affairs might be placed in bet- ter shape. Another examination and investigation was shortlv thereafter or- dered and the affairs of the bank again subjected to close scrutiny. Submitted December 21. “The original of the report was sub- mitted to the office by letter on De- cember 21, 1932, and received in the controller’s office December 23, 1932, first coming to my attention at that time, and on that date being transmit- ted to the Department of Justice. “The course pursued was obviously in the public interest and for the protec- tion of the creditors of the bank, and, had the department felt otherwise, un- questionably it would have ordered the Teport sent in at once.” | DELEGATES FACING JAM IN FINAL WEEK| Maryland Assembly Has Hundreds of Bills Still Up— Many Important. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md.,, March 27.—With several special orders scheduled to keep them busy at the outset, and enough pending legislation to precipitate an un- precedented jam throighout the rest of the week, members of the General As- sembly tonight will begin the final seven legislative days of their bienniel session. Awed by the gigantic task of disposing of hundreds of bills, many of paramount importance, in the coming week, some f the members predicted an extra ses- sion would be necessary unless admin- istration leaders employ steam roller tacties to jam through every essential measure and kill all that are regarded 85 undesirable. Special Orders Decreed. Two_subjects that have caused long | debates are scheduled to be considered | as special orders of business by the Senate tonight. One is the bill to open the Potomac River to oyster dredging during November and December. It | was on this bill that Senator J. Allan Coad of St. Marys County staged a seven-hour filibuster which kept the Senate in session all night Friday. It is now on third reading. The other is a resolution offered by Senator Ridgely P. Melvin of Anne Arundel County requesting Circuit Court Judges to accept a 15 per cent pay cut. The question of reducing judges' pay has been a thorn in the side of the Senate all session. Hour after hour has been consumed in debating the question. Last week the upper body killed a bill sponsored by Senator Coad which would have cut the pay of members of the bench 15 per cent. He immediately presented a new bill. in the form of a constitutional amendment. however. It would make the reduction 25 per cent. “Jim Crow” Law Up Tomorrow. ‘Tomorrow the Senate has a bill re- pealing the “Jim Crow” laws of the State on its calendar as a special order. Among the important State-wide bills which must be acted upon before the session ends are the budget bills, the dministration’s bill reallocating the gasoline tax funds, numerous beer bills, the bill authorizing a constitutional con- vention to vote on repeal of the righteenth amendment, two bills giving the insurance commissioner czaristic powers and the measure creating an un- employment insurance system in Mary- land. An unusually large number of local bills have been introduced this sesson because most counties, including Prince Georges, have sought legislative author- ity to reduce the salaries of their elected officials, and many of these measures are still pending. TEST OF ALCOHOL-GAS FUEL TO BE PERMITTED 0il o Allowed to Experiment, Xllinois Companies Will Be Doran Announces. By the Associated Press Plans to permit several Illinois oil eompanies to test mixing aleohol with gasoline for motor fuel were announced today by James M. Doran, commissioner of industrial alcohol. - He said agricultural co-operative groups had been conducting tests there for some time and handling the product on & non-profit basis. The oil companies asked the same privflege, and Doran told Representative Dirksen, Republican. of Illinois, he ihought it was possible to permit the companies to conduct similar experi- ments, 1t possible, he will allow withdrawal of alcohol for the purpose this week. The commissioner said the alcohol must be withdrawn under permit, its use gupervised and only denatured al- cohol used. He said there would be no Telaxation in any restrictions. i BEER AIDS BUSINESS BERWIND, W. Va., March 27 (#).— Bungs for beer barrels are boosting busi- ness in Berwind. Three carloads of yellow poplar— Prepared lumber for bungs because it #wells when wet—have been shipped from Berwind to a Cincinnati bung manufacturer. §. G. Taylor, manager of the Mountain Fork Lumber Co., said amother shipment is being loade led and business is booming. THE EVENING Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. By E. de S. MELCHER New Musical Revue With Talmadge-Lillie-Jeasel. ORMA TALMADGE, Beatrice Lillie and Georgie Jessel in the same show! This is the morning’s theatrical news which is causing much comment along Broadway and to the south and north and right and left of it. Miss, Talmadge, Miss Lillie and Mr. Jessel, it seems, will will be seen in a musical revue called “High Times,” which will be produced in Chicago some time in May, and which is being written by Howard Deitz. Miss Tal- madge, it will be recalled. is an ex-cinema star, Miss Lillle is late of “Walk a Little Faster” and Georgle Jessel is at pres- ent making the rounds with somewhere along Norma Talmadge. brother Cantor, the East Coast This trio sets & new mark in theater get-togethers. It proves that the depression has squeezed talent into small, compact niches, and given some pseudo-stars the pro- verbial “air.”” There have been more “star” catastrophes than there ever were before this year, and at the same time more productions in which many stars have been planted on the same stage. You have only 10 glance over at Broadway and see what was once “Forward March” in Washington, now “Strike Me Pink,” to appreciate that fact that Jimmie (Schnozzle) Durante, Lupe Velez and Hope Williams are a rare combination and would no more have thought of landing in the same production a few years ago than you and I would have Just what Miss Talmadge. Miss Lillie and Mr. Jessel will do in_the same show is a question. Miss Tal- madge’s stage appearance earlier in the season convinced us that she is still & very great beauty, but that her screen charms are more potent than her footlight abilities. Her profile is still grade A—her smile, grade A—and her personality, grade B. But her acting does not seem to go hand in hand with the revue laughibilities, which Miss Lillie and Mr. Jessel, for instance, will provide and it is to be hoped t be dragged out every few minutes to sit under a spot- light and sing “Smilin’ Through Miss Talmadge remains one of the old school “greats’ of the early cinema. When the current gen- eration has written its treatise on screen history her name will be high in it. In the silent days she played Pprobably more romantic roles than any other 10 beauties arcund the lot. When you think of Miss Talmadge you automatically conjure up Miss Pickford and Mr. Fairbanks and Mr. Chaplin. Therefore we have a kind of senti- mental feeling about Miss Talmadge, as we have about the rest of this early group. And the fact that Miss Pickford recently has bobbed up again successfully in “Secrets” is & pleasant indicaticn that the group is very much alive and kicking Miss Talmadge in a musical revue, however, seems violently out of place. If she insists on getting into the grind of musical comedy routine at the end of her career, she may be coming in in & wheelchair at the end of a “Strike Me Pink” and smiling blessings on her musical comedy gradnchildren as the curtain comes down. Why doesn't Miss Talmadge Go a Mary Pickford stunt and crash back in the field where she belongs? Why let the younger generation get the better of her? As we stated be- fore, she is still handsome, still capable and still charming. _She can't sing and she can't dance. Why, then, “High Times” and jumping around between the droll Miss Lillie and the less droll Mr. Jessel? Noel Coward ‘Writing His Life Story. OEL COWARD, at the age of 33, s writing his life story...He is writing five hours a day at it...Gil- bert Miller will direct Leslie Howard in a film in England, and nct in Hollywood, as was recently an- nounced. .. United Artists announces that Jeanette MacDonald has been awarded the Order of the Belgian Griffon by the city of Brussels fol- lowing her premiere at the Alham- bra Theater in that city...Miss MacDonald, following the close of her concert tour. will do a film in England. ..Picture stars seem to be singing and going to England more than they ever have before...Walt Disney is going to do “Alice in ‘Wonderland” on the screen in color. and with Mary Pickford as his one “human character”. . .Steve (Nation- al Theater idol) Cochran is back in town. ..What ever happened to Ona Munson’s lessons at the Brooke academy of emotion?...You should mote is week in town: “King Kong the excellent cast of “A Lady’s Profession”; the work of Kay Francis and George Brent together in “The Keyhole"—which, by the way, is a bad title; the nice, smooth voice of “Singin' Sam” and Gam- by's graceful dancings—as well as those little Kittens which play around the corners of Miss Colbert's bath in “The Sign of the Cross” We gathered in Manhattan this w end that Tallulah Bankhead does an unheard-of business on Wednes- day and Saturday matinees, but that “Forsaking All Others” is otherwise nc. the smash some say it is; that Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt will leave the stage, for a year or so, May 27 (which is the closing day of “Design for Living”); that a long. severe party was tendered Miss Lillie and Miss Bankhead t'other night by Picture Reviewer John S. Cohen, jr. ...and that Peggy Wood and Claude Rains are probably going to open here at the National in a new play in three weeks...Right, Manager Cochran? “Alice in Modernland” Tomorrow Night at Y. W. C. A. ¢ A LICE IN MODERNLAND,” an original playlet, will be given by a cast of 23 members of the Business and Professional Women's Department of thy Y. W. C. A. at the Nation-wide tfnquet of that de- partment tomrrow night at 6:30. Members of the cast are: Mary Apple. Louise Kirchgessner, Marga- ret Hibble, Margaret Cragg. Tillie Berthiaume # Helen Kraft, Miriam Beyers, Margaret Moore, Ellen Sie- man, Margaret Gartland, Hester Rvan, Dorothy Seaton, Mary Put- nam, Mary McWilliams, Jean Otter- back, Helen Byers, Mary O'Connor, Katherine Richardson, Winifred Marlowe, Sarah Motley, Elizabeth Heney, Marian Allen and Marjorie Allen. Mrs. Alice Sigworth Morse will direct the play and special scenery for the production has been created by Elizabeth Morris. The Business ‘Women's Glee Club will furnish the ml::lc, directed by Miss Mary Bur- nett, “Dimple Darlings” " Not Up to Gayety Standard. ALMOBT totally lacking in com- edy and with the principals not up to the usual standard, “Dimple Darlings,” showing at the Gayety this week. is very disappointing. ‘The comedy is handled three Evanson, Hil- Levine, with Levine having the best of it if there is any choice to be made. Perhaps the lack of material is the reason for the com- edy being below par, but whatever it is, there is a noticeable lack of laughs from this trio. Herbert Bar- ris and Bob Bates do their best as the straight men, but even this falls to do much good. ‘The feminine portion of the show also fails to register, with the pos- sible exception of Betty Du Val Billie Holmes, Nellie Casson. Angelus Lee and Kitty Seifert are the prin- cipals, but they fail to display any- thing that would tend to bring the applause from the patrons. As men- tioned previously, Betty Du Val is the only one of the cast who is at all pleasing. She receives about all the applause that is handed out for the evening. At that, though, Miss Du Val would score an even better “hit” if she would resort more to popular songs and ones that the audience hadn't heard her sing be- fore. Miss Zulika, billed as an Oriental dancer, shows to advantage in her few appearances, and Al Russell, the juvenile, offers several tap dancing numbers that are better than aver- age. The aetting are, as usual, very - R.B. H. NAMED FRANKLIN MAYOR | Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. FRANKLIN, W. Va. March 27— Grover Cleveland Evick was elected | mayor of Franklin over Charles H ( Boggs, who had held the office for five successive years, at the annual vot- ing here Saturday. Charles Nicholas was a third candidate. Recorder George W. Harrison was re-elected by a vote of 125 to 58 over | his_lone opponent. C. P. Thompson. Five councilmen elected were: Otis Shaw, J. L. Skidmore, A. F. Hill. Olin Eye, R. L. Thacker. Shaw, Skidmore and Eye are incumbents, THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow; | lowest temperature tonight about 40 | degrees; moderate southerly winds, | shifting to west or northwest by to- MOrTow. Maryland—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably light rain in west portion tonight and in north portion tomorrow; warmer tonight and in east portion tomorrow.. | * Virginia—Mostly cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow, probably light | rain in extreme northwest portion. West Virginia—Cloudy and warmer with light showers in north portion to- night; tomorrow fair and somewhat colder, preceded by light showers in northeast portion. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers | muddy today. : Report for Last 24 Hours. Saturday— Inches. 4 pm. 30.03 8pm. . 2995 Midnight 2988 2084 29.90 2998 29.99 3001 30.09 30.15 30.18 30.25 30.22 Record for Last 24 Hours. | Higest, 45, noon today. Year ago. $6. Lowest, 34, 6:00 am. today. Year ago, 43. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 74, on March 14. Lowest, 14, on February, 9. | | Tide Tables. | (Furnished by United States Coast and | Geodetic Survey.) "od: 3:45p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises. today... 6:02 Sun, tomorrow 6:01 Moon, today.. 6:26am. Sets. 6:26 6:27 818 p.m. | Automobile lights must be turned on | one-half hour after sunset. | Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the | Capital (current month to date): | _ Month. 1933. Average. Record. | January .. 325 355 709 '82 3.27 3.75 327 3.70 413 471 4.01 3.24 2.84 237 159m07 > cqumu s § | Birming! | Bismarck, N. D. | Bos Cincinnati, Cleveland. 'Ohio. I S, C. Orlean: . York, N. Y. tland, Me Portland, Oreg Raleigh.' N. C. Salt Lake Gity! San Antonig San Diego, Caiit Prancisco. (7 a.m., Greenwich time. today.) Stations. | London. _England. . Faris. “France rlin, Germany ! | Bt P | Zurich. ~ Switzeri2nd. | Stockholm, Sweden Gloud: | Gibraltar.* spain 35 Part cloudy | « Gréenwich time, today.) Horta (Paval). Azores.. 64 Cloudy )’ FOREIGN. | Temperature. Weather. 31 G P Part cloudy Part cloudy Cloudy loon, St. Geors Sen Juan. Puerto Ric | Havana, Cuba.. Colon, Canal Zon FLYITNC ANTS (T ermites) l?"‘..‘ ‘Werk lr.l_ll GUARANTEED TRE; Vaeating Unnmecessary—Free Inspection Terminix Co. of Washington ional P: R IEX-PROSECUTORS 4:26pm. | STAR, WASHINGTON, | DARED BY MOONEY Prisoner, Granted New Trial, Invites Them to Press Bombing Charges. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, March 27.—Tom Mooney today dared his former prose- cutors to prove him guilty again of the preparedness day parade bombing here in 1916, and if possible hang him. | ‘The dare was contained in a state- ment given newspapers by Mooney's - Defense Committee, which for more than 15 years has sought a pardon for Mooney. ‘The statement was based upon action of Superior Judge Louis H. Ward in ordering trial of Mooney on the re- maining murder indictment against him—an indictment left on the court records all these years, and resurrected by the Mooney defense with the hope an acquital would provide a moral wedge for Mooney's release from his life term in San Quentin Prison. New Trial April 26. Judge Ward set the new trial for April 26, and left prosecution to State Attorney General U. S. Webb. Dis- trict Attorney Matthew Brady, with-| drew from the prosecution, saying he did not believe Mooney could be con- victed again. | “This is a marvelous opportunity for Fickert, Cunha and Sullivan to come! forward and fill the breech left by the withdrawal of the district attorney’s office from the case,” sald Mooney in his statement. Charles M. Fickert. district attorney in 1916, now is in private practice in Los Angeles. In recent years he has insisted Mooney was properly convicted, but admitted he did not believe a con- viction could be obtained today. Edward A. Cunha, San Francisco at- torney, was special prosecutor for the trials of Mooney and Warren K. Bil- lings, also convicted and serving a Iife term at Folsom Prison. He says he believes Mooney not only can be con- victed, but can be hanged. Pardon Denied. Magt 1. Sullivan, former chief justice |of the California Supreme Court, was { head of the commission which investi- | gated the Mooney case last year for | Gov. James Rolph, jr. and returned a report that Mooney and Billings were | guilty and properlv convicted. Gov. { Rolph thereupon denied Mooney a par- ydon, just as every Governor since { Mooney was convicted has done. | Plans for Mooney's new prosecution were still unannounced today. No re- ponsible official had come forward to y what would be done Ten persons were killed and two score injured in the bombing of the preparedness parade. Mooney and Bil- | lings have consistently declared their innocence and refused to accept pa- roles lest the latter be construed as admissions of guilt. All requests for pardons, however, have oeen denied. JAPAN BUYS NICKEL Denies Coinage Change Will Pro- vide Material for Bullets. TOKIO, March 27 (£ —The finance | ministry recently bought from the In- | ternational Nickel Co. of Canada several hundred tons of nickel for the purpose | of minting new small coinage to replace | the present 5 and 10 sen pieces of nickel | and copper alloy. (The sen is 1-100 of the yen, which is equivalent to about 22 cents.) 1als of the finance and war min- istries denied any knowledge of a plan I!o convert the present coins into bul- ets. | | | IO HNTE (np G should D. C. Trust Fund of $650 Provided in Will For Care of Dog Charles County Man Leaves Sum in Safety Box in Charge of Wife. Special Dispatch to The Star. LA PLATA, Md., March 27.—The will of the late William T. Baker, which has just been filed in the Orphans’ Court here, provides for a trust fund for his | faithful shepherd dog, “Jefr.” | The will bequeaths $650 to Mr. Baker's wife with the provision that she use the money for the care of “Jeff”| during his natural life. Mr. Baker had set the $650 aside in a safe deposit box, | 50 that the ready cash would be avail- l?lr‘,égr the support and maintenance of “Jefr.” | INTRIAL OF BALL Income Levy Returns for Four Years Are Entered | in Prosecution. | | | i from Louisiana. By a 8taff Correspondent of The Star. | ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., March 27 —The State in- come tax returns for the years, 1928, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1933. HUEY LONG FACES §300,000 LIBEL SUIT Ansell and Claims They Were Sent Over U. S. Quotes Statements! A libel suit for $500.000 was filed in District Supreme Court today sgainst | Senator Huey P. Long of Loulsiana by ! Samuel T. Ansell, former judge advo- | cate of the Army. ‘The suit is based on alleged libelous statements made by Senator Long in 2 speech on the floor_of the Senate and | subsequently mailed by him to persons | In Louisiana and other sections of the | country. Several weeks ago Ansell filed a suit against Senator Long for slander, based on a speech made on the floor of the Senate. Senator Long replied to this suit by indicating that anything said before the Senate was privileged and that he would claim this immunity. Al- though the suit filed today was based on the same speech, it was contended the act of sending it through the mails removed the immunity surrounding ad- dresses made before Congress by Sen- | ators and Representatives. The speech severely criticized Ansell for his part as counsel for a senatorial | commitiee investigating the recent elec- tion of John H. Overton as Senator Condemna Election. Ansell says in his suit that he pre- sented evidence to the committee at | the recent hearing in New Orleans | which he “still believes tended to prove ! | street, 1 CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. TPederal Auxiliary, Post No. .\ W., Thomas Circle Y Club, 824, V. P 1326 Massachusetts avenue, 8 p.m. Meeting, Business and _Professional Women's Clubs, Willard Hotel, 8 p.m. Banquet. Washington Simmons Club, Women's City Club, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, Alpha Delta Phi Praternity, University Club, 7 p.m. ‘TOMORROW. Meeting, Board of Lady Casualty Hospital, am. Luncheon, Dartmouth Club, Harring- ton Hotel, 12:30 Luncheon, Women's National Press Club, Willard Hotel, 1 pm. Luncheon, Ruppert Home, Anacostia, 2301 Georgia avenue, 1230 p.m. Luncheon. Columbia Heights Busi- ness Men's Association, 3316 Fourteenth 5 pm. COLLECTOR OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK CHOSEN Name of One of the First Impor- tant Patronage Jobs to Be An- nounced Soon. By the Associated Press. An appointee as collector of the Port of New York has been decided upon by | President Roosevelt and is expected to be announced this week. This will be among the first of the important patronage jobs to be doled out by the administration, virtually ali appointments having been held up in- | definitely. There was no indication, however, when distribution of patronage would 1929, 1930 and 1931 were put in evidence that Overton had been elected fraud- | begin on a large scale today in the trial of E. Wade Ball, for- mer treasurer of Arlington County, charged with failing to turn over to the county and State more than half a mil- lion dollars when he left office February. The figures in the returns were not read in the court room and the sub- mission of the returns was confined solely to the identification of copies by R. L. McNeil, auditor of the State Department of Taxation As the trial went into its second week attorneys for both the Commonwealth of Virginia and the defense sought by stipulations and sgreements to ex- pedite the trial and bring it 10 a close before the end of the week. However, there still remains. it was indicated by the prosecution, a mass of evidence to be presented Following McNeil on the stand this morning was R. B Jordan. State supervisor for the State auditor's office. Jordan's testimony dealt chiefly with a computation of figures submitted Ly officials of seven banks with which the former treasurer carried treasurer ac- counts when he was in office. Testifies on Three Notes. Jordan testified that three notes, to- taling $30.000. one on the Riggs Na- tional Bank and two on the Potomac Savings Bank, were made by Ball shortly before June 30. 1930, and the funds transferred from his personal | account to his account as treasurer. Officials of the Citizens' National Bank of Alexandria and the First Na- tional Bank of Alexandria testified on Saturday to several similar transactions which the State contends were entered into in an effort to boost the fiscal year end bank balances of the treasurer. Women Admitted to Mosque. | An age-old tradition was broken re- cently in Sarajevo when for the first time in the four centuries of its ex- istence women were permitted to enter the famous Begova Drzamija to take part in the fourth centenary celbration in honor of the mosque’s builder. uiently and unlawfully as the result of | the operation of a political machine or- | ganized and operated by Senator Long, | and that fraud, corruption, force and | intimidation were means deliberately ' chosen by Sentor Long for procuring | the election of Overton.” The declaration alleges that on March 7 Senator Long had reprinted from the Congressional Record copies of a speech he made on the floor. These copies, it | was said, were widely circulated by Sen- ator Long throughout the country. | The plaintiff complains in particular | of several subheads, which he said had been “written into the speech” while it was being reprinted. One of these subheads, according to the suit, referred to Ansell as the “dog son of a wolf.” It is alleged he was described as “a burglar” in another subhead, while other portions of the re- piint said he had “practically forged his own appointment as judge advo- cate” and that he had been “con- demned by the Government as & thief scoundrel and crook.” Quotes From ‘Attacks. The suit also set forth the following | paragraph, alleged to have been in the | speech mailed out by Senator Long: | “No, sir, I do not claim any privilege | from this scoundrel (Ansell) anywnere on earth under God's living sun. 1 invite him to sue me in any court of competent jurisdiction, and I will not'! defend the suit, except on the ground | that he is a scoundrel and a thief and a rascal and a crook and has been determined to be such by an invesu- gating committee of Congress.” Ansell’s suit alleged that some of the copies of the speech mailed out were accompanied by a letier from Senator Long expressing hope that the recipien. would read the material It was also charged that on Febru- ary 17 Senator Long was responsible for the distribution of placards in New Orleans which described the procecd- ings of the investigating committee as a “kangaroo court.” The suit was filed by Attorneys Burr, Tracy, Ansell and George M. Wilmeth. 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Adjoining the Men S 's Furnishings and Shoe Settions in The Men's Store, Second Floor ' 1 Did you Managers of | ‘Willard Hotel, 11 *% A—S SOLDIER SLAYS 1, "HURTS 2, OVER KISS Refusal by Girl Starts Shoot- ing of Sisters and Escort; Prisoner in Stupor., | By the Associated Prass. . | SAUSALITO, Calif., March 27.—A soldier, who allegedly killed a man and injured two girls when one of the girls refused him a kiss, sat in the guard house at Fort Scott today, seemingly in & stupor, unable to answer questions. ‘The man is Pvt. E. L. King, 33, until yesterday temporarily in charge of the Fort Barry rifle range in the hills west | of here Pvt. John Smith, 25, Coast Artillery, !is dead. Miss Irma Talbot, 17, high school student, is suffering from three | bullet wounds. Doctors consider her condition critical. Miss Katherine Talbot, 20. her sister, is recovering from head wounds after being beaten into ‘ insensibility. 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