Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1934, Page 33

SUSPEGTED 3PY DIES OF POISON Japanese Succumbs While Being Questioned on Oper- ations in Singapore. By the Associated Press. SINGAPORE, December 13 —Y. Ni- phimura, president of the Singapore Japanese Association, who died sud- denly while being questioned by secret | tary service operatives, succumbed to poi- son, it was disclosed here today. poison was believed to have been self- administered. Two other leading members of the Japanese community were after Nishimura's death, news of which was accompanied by rumors that au- thorities were investigating Japanese esplonage here. The cause of Nishimura's death was originally said to be heart disease. He was mal director of a company controlling Japanese mines in Malaya. Today it was azserted that Nishi- mura evidently had administered poi- son to himself after being detained Singapore is the seat of an enor- mous naval base under construction by the British government. A new mili- by the political branch of the police. { Island. Police clamped down tight censor- ship on all their activities shortly after the first disclosures of political activ- ity, and official information was not available here. —_— ‘Wolf at Door Is Pet. LOS ANGELES, December 13 (9).— “Help,” screamed a& woman over the telephone, “there’s a wolf at my door!” Police rushed to the address and sure enough, a big gray timber wolf sat on the front porch, howling. A ser- geant advanced to lasso the animal. It trotted out to meet him. It was a pet. FRISCO RAIL LOAN LED TO GULF DEAL Chairman Brown Testified to 25,000-Share Purchase With $1,000,000 From Banks. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, December 13.—Ques- tioning of E. N. Brown, Frisco Rail- roac Board chairman, yesterday brought out that the road borrowed $1,000,000 from New York banks to secure purchase of 25,000 shares of Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad stock. Brown, ‘testifying before Federal Court Master John T. Harding in the raflroad bankruptcy hearing, previ- ously had said the stocks were pur- chased for an average price of $37 a share and had dropped to about $13 when the board ratified the deal. He testified they were bought on his oral order in 1930 and that he reported the purchase to four other | directors. The board, he said, rati- fied the deal in December, 1930, and the loans to secure purchase were made the next month. Jack Lewis Kraus, attorney for a bondholding group, read into the rec- ord minutes of a special Prisco Exgcu- tive Committee meeting of September, 1932, at which the $1,000,000- was released to Speyer & Co. of New York, the road's brokers. The meeting was about a month before the present receivership of the road. SUPPORT TO MEXIC BY U. S. IS OPPOSED :"" Catholic Evidence Guild Calls on Administration to Refrain From Lending Aid. Calling upon the administration to refrain from giving support of any kind to the present Mexican regime, the Catholic Evidence Guild yesterday entered “the Nation-wide protests against the religious perse- cution which is now being waged in Mexico.” John H. O’'Connor, 1118 Sixteenth street, the guild’s president, forwarded mmwmzwe!t.sem- Peddler Grieves for Horse. PITTSBURGH (#)—It wasn't so much that thieves stole Huckster David Tarlo’s wagon and potatoes, but they took his horse, too. ‘The 50-year-old peddler ran into police headquarters crying: “I want my horse. He was my pal!” “Find the horse first,” he pleaded with detectives, “then the wagon.and the potatoes.” 0ld Machinery Shipped. Machinery is being reconditioned in | Burope and shipped to India to be sold. MENTHOLATUM Gives COMFORT Daily ”“’"O .DENBERG CO. th o::'" s = 7th& K ¢ By ..- S«tm.e N ‘. L] -l Women's $l New Rayon Gloves 59c Exquisite styles, in suede- like fabrics. Black, glack with white, brown, beige, eel gray. 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