Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1933, Page 3

NTAR, WASHINGTON AUGUST 1, 1w, IURSCHEL RELEASED: SILENT ON RANSOM Rich Oil Man’s Family Re- fuses to Talk After 9-Day Captivity Ends. THE _EVENING ! Marble Memorial to Sousa . £ C, TUESDAY, BEAUTY CONTESTS BEGIN prom soum vo nuTe Baltimore and Bastern Shore O Compete at Tolchester. Bypecial Dispatch to The Btar. CHESTERTOWN, Md, August 1.— A series of besuty contests for Balti- | more and Eastern Shore girls will be | staged at Toichester Beach, beginning today, to select “Miss Tolchester,” who will enter the State finals later in Bal- | timore to choose “Miss Maryland.” The | State winner will go to Atlantic City. | 0% where “Miss America” will be chosen | Bore Relie. Biace 1097, In addition to today's event other pre- liminary tilts will be, held at Tolches- | BELL-ANS ter August 8 and 11, the finals to be staged August 12. Basil Sadler is 1, FOR INDIGESTION charge. = e ROTS BREAK LT I MINESTRAE Pistols and Tear Gas Figure in Clashes of Deputies and Pickets. s a racket. B ’./ JamesyE. Grant STRAINS OF MIS MUSIC ETCHED ON COMPOSER'S GRAVE. BELLANS (] SEE” said Inspector Will- ing, “that another bunch l of nuisance workers are operating on the raflroads again. The rallroad detective agency reports a large number of what they call ‘annoyance claims.’ ‘This is a difficult class of con-men on the receipt. “Second—Once on the train the original crook slips the ticket to a confederate who surrenders it to the conductor. The original pur- chaser evades the conductor as long as possible, and then insists that he has already surrendered his Ty vere casen. J:‘fi':.:"'"‘n.. . (Continued From First Page) inued From First Page) less rolling country. The weather was ifis mppeared, threw tear gas bombs fairly cool all the fime.” and opened fire with pistols After the skirmish, the highway was Yttered with shells and several homes | in the district were scarred by bullets Pickets said there Were many women and children in the crowd but that while none was hit, several suffered tear gas in one home was barely ot, the strikers said. wo men were shot during a gun- t between strikers and four un- tified men in the darkness before near the Colonial men in a car fired and two pickets were ely that they were taken the aby Troops Used for Emergency. In the Fayette County strike zone, where 325 National Guardsmen are on duty. Maj. Kenneth W. Momeyer, their commander. withdrew them from patrol is cnly answering riot and v calls. ce sector is so large—about | ide and 20 miles long—that | Maj. Momeyer said he does not have sufficient men for patrol duty. He was represented as feeiing that| the strike area is too large to allow him to post soldiers at more than a few| strategic points. Alarmed by the fast-moving develop- ma; the Uniontown Retail Mer- Ghants' Association drafted a request to President Roosevelt that he take a hand in the strike situation. They in- formed the Executive the situation threatens to disrupt operation of the national rercvery act in Fayette County. Special Police Stoned. Pickets and workers clashed last night at the Leckrone mine, about 8! miles from the military-patrolled zone. ‘The Militiamen were called to stop fighting. after two special police of | the Prick company had been struck by stones and the son of a picket hit on the head with a tear gas bomb thrown by police. At the Buffington mine of the Frick company. near New Salem, 14 shots! were fired and several tear gas bombs | thrown from a fleet of 27 automobiles | which sped past a line of picketing | strikers in the dark hours of early morning. Pickets at first thought blank cart- ridges were being fired, and retaliated ; with stones. A bullet shattered a win- dow in a building and the pickets be-| came more cautious. | Two Injured by Rocks. No one was hit by bullets. but rocks | that crashed through windshields in- | jured two men who were taken to a | hospital in Uniontown. P H. Iston, 22. is said to have a| fractured Michael Fecik, jr., 27, | of Star Junction. was treated for a deep cut over the eve. A survey of 15 mines in Greene | County, including virtually all in that arca. reveals 3.646 men on strike in 11 mines and 975 working in the remain- ing four, Officials of one of the closed mines, the Frederickiown Coal & Coke Co., announced signing a union agreement and said they would resume operations this morning with 100 men. RIOT CALL BRINGS TROOPS. Armed with Tear Gas Guns Charge Crowd of 200. GRINDSTONE. Pa.. August 1 (#).— Pistol fire broke the stillness of the val- ley today and sent two more striking miners to the hospital with bullet wounds after a_running fight on the road to Colonial Mine No. 9 of the H. C. Frick Coke Co A crowd of 200 incensed miners, some with their wives. later advanced down the valley road toward the mine tipple and were charged by four men armed | with long-range tear-gas guns. Two more went to the hospital, badly burned with gas. A squad of National Guardsmen ar- rived from the camp near Brownsville in response to a riot call sent more than an hour previously, too late to prevent the engagement. Witnesses said the first brush was precipitated by two men in an auto- | mobile who broke through a highway picket line backed by 1300 men. A | picket jumped on the running boards | and others followed. Five shots were | fired out of the automobile. No one| was struck. Witnesses said the men speeded up | and met a second group of miners, fir- ing again. This time bullets struck flesh. Ben Brown, 45, and Louis Bo- dorski, 38, both shot in the back, were taken to Brownsville Hospital, where physicians said their condition is serious. Later four men in two automobiles went through the picket lines and en- tered the mine property. As miners advanced down the road toward them ! they fired tear-gas guns. A detail of troops, under Capt. Roth, arrived to find miners and women, some pros- trated, coughing and rugging their eyes. No miners attempted to go to work today, and the roads, are filled with pickets. SIX SHOT AT UNIONTOWN. Four By the Associated Press. UNIONTOWN, Pa, August 1.—Six men were shot and wounded in a brush : SPECIAL NOTICES. SALFSMAN—13 YEARS _ WHOLESALE- Tetail experience in glass, paint and hard. ware: local references. Address Box 9:-Z, Sta-_office. aets DO YOU WANT A CELLAR TO YOUR home? 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He | in Chicago—and take their water with | leader, John Philip Sousa, a marble tombstone has been erected above his grave in Congressional Cemetery here. Carved on the slab beneath COMMEMORATING the world-famous career of the composer and band - which lies his body are the opening strains of his most noted composi- tion, the stirring march “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” | ment was made on the order of the Sousa family. At top is a view of the entire tomb on the slab seen in the foreground. between pickets and deputy sheriffs the Star Junction mine of the Frick Coal Co. today. The casualties: Joseph Mullen, 25, of Allison, bullet wounds in the left side. Donald Slacle, 28, of Allison. wounded in the left leg and left shoulder. | John Felasky, 24. of Allison, wound- ed in the head and left arm. | John Matty, 44, of Brownsville, | six jwounded in the abdomen and chest. | Mike Yaksuch, 43. of Allison, shot in the right leg and right arm. | Joseph Latsko, 24. of Allison. wound- ed in back, right leg, right arm and | right hand. | | INUTE YSTE Can You. : Dr. Fordney is professor of eriminology at @' famous university. His advice is often scught by the police of many cities when confronted with particularly bafi'ng This problem has been taken from pis case-Dook covering hundreds of criminal investigations. Hidden Treasure. BY H. A. RIPLEY. wiped the perspiration from his face, reached down ard removed green grass from | the large. flat stone he had just turned | over with exaggerated effort and re- | trieved the cigarette he had dropped. “Hidden treasure —diamonds, jew- els—bah! And with old Fordney on the job, too! You wouldn't think he’d ~ fall for such & | gag.” he continued to his companion, Officer Brown. who was _industriously spading nearby. Jenkins was _tired and weary and ready to call it a day, but Inspector Kelley turned to him with a glare that meant only one thing—to keep on digging. Jen- kins dug. ) | The police had received an anony. mous letter inclosing a rough sketch | stating that they would find buried beneath the dirt floor of the old, aban- doned and haunted Wiltshire mill over $200.000 worth of jewelry stolen 21 years before from the home of Mme. Karloski, a wealthy recluse and spirit- ualist. ‘While knowing that most anonymous communications were worthy of little attention, Kelley, after discussing the matter with the professor, decided to investigate. | “Well, Fordney.” he remarked, vhile I don't believe this place is haunted. I can understand the villagers around here thinking so! There is something queer about it. No one has been in| here for years—that's sure.” | The professor, busily engaged with a | spade, removed from the dirt on it a| rusty, twisted nail and after a mo- ment’s silence replied, “I wonder if we're too lale? Some one has been here and been here recently HOW DID HE KNOW? (For Solution See Page A-4.) Perhaps you have a story or prob- lem you would like to submit to Prof. Fordney. If so, send it to him care of this paper. He will be delighted to receive it. S Oarsmen Take Water Along. PHILADELPHIA (). —Forty oars- men, coaches and helpers. leave today for the national rowing championships | them. Fifty gallons of Philadelphia's drinking water have heen bottled for the trip to safeguard against any illness because of a change. ! morning between R. ‘The monu- and below a reproduction of the etching —Star Staff Photo. " DHONE RATE DATA- 10 BE SUPRLED C. & P. Agrees to Meet Public Utilities’ Request After Conference Today. While still denying that the Public Utilities Commission has over the matter, the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Telephone Co. was to submit to the commission this afternoon informa- tion bearing on rates employed by the telephone company in accounting for depreciation of its properties here, which has an indirect relation to charges of the company for its services. Agreement regarding the supplying i of the data, which the commission on | April 20 ordered to be filed before today, was reached following a conference this A. Van Orsdel, general counsel to ¢he eompany, and Ma). Gen. Mason M. Patrick, commis- sion chairman. The company notified the commissior. it would supply all the data which it has at hand regarding depreciation of its properties, which are replaced when obsolete ouat of a depreciation fund collected from telephone subscribers. The agreement leaves still at issue Interstate Commerce Commission has ccontrol over rates of depreciation. The telephone company, in submitting the data, will make official note that it is in no wise waiving its challenge of the commission’s position that the lat- ter has jurisdiction over the deprecia- tion question. It was learned at the District Build- ing that William A. Roberts, counsel to the District Commission, will soon file an opinion with the commission, stating that the filing of the data by the telephone company, with its reser- vation, does not constitiite.a waiver by the Utilities Commission of itg claim Jurisdiction | the controversy over whether the Dis-| trict Public Utilities Commission or the | Seeligson said the first contact with the kidnapers came last Wednesday in a letter from Urschel. Another message was received Friday, he said. It was an additional assurance to us that he would be given to the right | party and it named the place of con- | tact and denominations of the money,” | Seeligson said. | - The first letter did not go through | the mails, but was delivered through an intermediary, whose identity Seelig- | son withheld. Urschel said he was forced to declare in his letter that he would be injured if ransom was not paid. He declined to say whether he would co-operate with Federal operatives in investigation of the case. RANSOM HANDLER HELD. ALBANY, N. Y.. August 1 (£).—The trap to catch the kidnapers of John J. O’Connell, jr. was set more than two weeks before the vouth was released when District Attorney John T. Delaney | named a list of go-betweens suggested by the political family of the National Guard officer. Two of those on that | list, Manney Strewl and Joe Curro, now | are in custody. < Mr. Delaney in an interview today said he advised the O'Connell family on | July 14 to permit him to select a list | from which the abductors of the boy | could name a negotiator. Delaney picked out 12 men Strewl, who handled the $40.000 ran- som money, and effected the release of O'Connell in New York City, is “helping the police.” Delaney asserted. To a question. “Will he be booked on a | charge?” the prosecutor said, “Yes, we'll eventually charge him.” The district attorney sidestepped re- ferred to Strewl as a’prisoner, but he admitted he could not “walk out of our hands.” Strewl is being held outside of Albany. It was understood he was in Watervliet. Delaney for the first time outlined his theory as to the origin of crime. He believes, he said. a group in Albany conceived the plot and employed an out-of-town mob to carry it out. “It was a clever gang and a tough | ne.” the prosecutor said. “We were ready to shoot it out with them and expected to do 50," he con- | tinued | “If Snyder had tipped us off on the pavment of the ransom we'd have nab- | bed them, dead or alive.” Delaney referred to Louis Snyder, an | Albany attorney, who represented Strewl during the ransom negotiations. PUBLISHER THREATENED. HACKENSACK. N. J,, August 1 IP\.—‘ A letter divulging an alleged plot to kidnap him has been received by John | Borg. publisher of the Bergen Record. The letter, received Sunday. was turned over to police. Borg, who re- tired from Wall Street, where he amassed a fortune to become & news- paper publisher. is being_closely guarded 16-Day Ecursions Niagara Falls FRIDAYS—SATURDAYS August 11-12, 25-26; September 8 -9, 22-23 $16.80 Trir Eastern Standard Time Fridays Saturdays Lv. Washington §:15 P.M. 7:45 AM. 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