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B2 # c— THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHI NGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 17, 1935—PART ONE. KENNAMER TRIAL EXPERT SILENCED Prosecution Blocks Testi- mony That Phil Killed Youth | | While Insane. By the Associated Press. PAWNEE, Okla., February 16— State's attorneys succeeded today in _blocking expert testimony that 19-! . year-old Phil Kennamer was insane - when he killed John F. Gorrell, jr., 23, *at Tulsa last Thanksgiving. Dr. Karl A Menninger, Topeka, Kans.,, psychiatrist, qualified as an expert .n mental 1lls. Then he listened | for 40 minutes to & summary of the | strange life, words and deeds of the | Federal judge's sen, ending with the | question: “Now. doctor, taking these facts into consideration in addition to your own information, would you say the de- fendant was rational or irrational?” Question Argued Three Hours. Before the alienist could say “ves” | or “no,” J. Berry King, former State’s attorney general, objected. He argued there was much in the involved hypo- thetical question, propounded by De- fense Attorney A. Flint Moss, which | should be stricken. Other matters, such as Kennamer's drinking, should be included, he added Court recessed. For three hours | opposing counsel dissected the ques- ! tion. Judge Thurman Hurst reserved | decision over the week end Upon reopening of court Charles W. Mason, who was chief justice of the Cklahoma Supreme Court when | the defendant’s father, Federal Judge | Pranklin E. Kennamer of Tulsa, was | a member, testified briefly he believed Phil was irrational and embarrassedly | admitted on cross-examination that | “probably” he wouldn't have appeared | to testify if young Kennamer “hadn't killed this boy.” Claims Self-Defense. Kennamer, admitting the slaying. elaims he shot Gorrell in self-defense after frustrating an extortion plot he claims Gorrell had aimed at 19-vear- old Virginia Wilcox, heiress Oklahoma oil fortune. His attor however, contend he was temp insane. Judge Mason testified to t of irrationality on the part o Kennamer That he once remarked, while pac ing Judge Mason's si h floor fice, that “it would be a swell place t commit suicide. Just jump out head first.” That he wanted a job on an Okla- homa city newspaper, but wanted to start as editor. ‘That he told Judge Mason he want- ed to be a flyer in a Central Ameyjcan revolution and thought he could rule the country as its dictator. Admits Impulses Normal. kibitzers tak- he court room of Phil Ken- t Pawnee, Okla. started the crowds t as youthful wit- of incidents surround- t lling of John F. Gorrell, jr.. the crowds swelled No. 2—Federal Judge Franklin E. Kennamer of Tulsa, sad but hopeful, the father of the youth charged with killing Gorrell. With him are a daughter, Mrs. Junita Hayes, and another son, Franklin E. Kennamer, jr. No. 3—Virginia Wilcox, 19-year- old heiress, who testified she knew of an extortion plot against her but was afraid to reveal it. She also said the defendant had writ- 0 young [} Under cross-examination by W. F.| Gilmer, jr., assistant county prosecu- | tor, Judge Mason said he did not | consider it “irrational” for a boy to | want adventure in foreign lands nor | to own a large newspaper. Both, he | said, he considered normal impulses. | Finally, Gilmer demanded: | “If you thought this boy hadn't| killed that boy. you probably never would have testified he was crazy, would you?” The witness squirmed. “That is true. I would not have testified in this way under other cir- cumstances.” “And isn't it true, judge, that you are here testifying in this fashion be- cause this boy's father holds the re- sponsible, powerful position of United States judge for the northern district of Oklahoma?” “No,” Mason said, “I have a high :;garlv‘:l for Judge Kennamer's friend- p. Kennamer, described by his attor- neys as “brilliant but abnormal,” sat with lowered head as his boyhood escapades were recited. His father shielded his eyes from spectators. Judge Kennamer yesterday testi- fied to most of the actions upon which | the hypothetical question addressed to the psychiatrist was based. Ken- namer’s young friends supplied the others. Curtailing the short Saturday ses- elon, the long conference amended the “hypothetical question” to be asked the first half dozen psychia- trists who are expected to testify be- fore the defendant himself takes the stand, probably Monday. The ques- tion may be lengthened by amend- ments to require an hour to deliver. In the question, Moss for the sec- ond time had stated virtually the entire defense case before the jury. He also made the opening statement, In that he brought in briefly the fact Kennamer has declared he shot two bullets into Sorrell's head in self- defense. Court reconvenes Monday, Dr. Menninger on the stand. After him will come other experts, Dr. E. A Werner and Dr. Coyne Campbell of Oklahoma City, retained by the defense, and Dr. Felix Adams of Vinita, superintendent of the East- ern Oklahoma Hospital, and Dr. G. Wilsle Robinson, noted psychiatrist of Kansas City. Born Death Solution Hinted. An unsolved phase of the Ken- namer case—the mysterious death of young Sidney Born, jr.—drew new at- tention tonight following the predic- tion of a special investigator that the death will be solved a week after the trial ends. An investigator for an insurance company, who declined to allow use of his name, shared the prediction of the Born youth's father that an ar- rest will be made soon. Sidney Born, jr., drove Kennamer to the fatal rendezvous with John Qorrell Thanksgiving night, and on December 9 Born was found shot once ;’nm the head, his own pistol beside with POST’S FLIGHT DELAYED, MAY START TUESDAY S8ponsors Announce Take-Off Will Not Be Before Then—Flyer Testing Plane. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 16.— ‘While Wiley Post, globe-circling fiyer, | was whizzing through the clouds in a test flight preparatory to his sub- strathosphere dash to New York, his sponsors today announced Post’s take-off will not be made before next ‘Tuesday. ' Post has said repeatedly he wil not leave on his non-stop flight azi altitudes %f 30,000 to 35,000 feet until | his plane and equipment were in per-j fect order, and for that reason he has not_set a definite starting time. The fiyer said today he would make an altitude flight tomorrow or Mon- day to test his gas consumption, his radio compasses end the 16-pound rubberized fabric suit he will wear to protect him in the e:'.re altitudes, ten letters telling of his love for her, but that she did not respond. No. 4—A mistrial was_narrowly averted by the testimony of this woman; Mrs. O. L. Harmon, Tulsa landlady. Both the State and de- fense discredited her testimony and she was taken to jail. No. 5—Kennamer shown playing solitaire in jail between court ses- sions. The State charges he and Gorrell were involved in a plot to extort $20,000 from Miss Wilcox's father, on threat of kidnaping her, and that the slaying of Gorrell grew out of the plot. Another youth, Sidney Born, jr., was mys- teriously slain a short time later. BRAZIL HOPES TO SELL ENGLAND MORE COTTON Arrival of Delegation in London Follows Roosevelt Parley Plan Announcement. RIO DE JANEIRO, February 16.— A hope that Brazil may get an in- creased share of the British cot- ton market was voiced in official and business circles today as the Brazilian | financial mission arrived in London for negotiations. Behind that hope lay the reported plan of President Roosevelt to call an International Conference to curtail world_cotton_production, announced recently by Foreign Minister Jose C. De Macedo Soares. The foreign min- ister said Brazil had been invited and probably would attend. The announcement, coming shortly after the commercial treaty between Brazil and the United States was signed at Washington, February 2, led to vigorous protest against cutting Brazil's cotton crop. Business circles hoped an agreement might be reached at London insuring larger sales of Brazilian cotton in Britain, and thus | giving Brazil certain footholds at the proposed International Conference. Marriage Licenses. 13 fe L. Young, 21, 605 P st. and J rgg;:DhinE Tapley, 10. 1416 Columbia i Bew, W, Mo, Barn Rary B, Har L Hartman. 30. M . ~ 3 d!rsalnk "hom of Baltimore; EIV. John E. Fort. Delbert M. Wilkins. 21. and Thelma L. Dudiey. 18, both of Alexandria. v, A. F. Poore. rkeley Johnson. 34. Germantown, P Beana Hicks, 32, Bracey. lmgbel . Lincoln .31, 1413 769 artments, runswick. i .. and 2 é«‘m.h Eulta W3 v, E. C. Smith. P:Efmck Tewis. 35. 1718 1st st. and Ruth_B. Waters, 35, 1394 Morris rd. se. Rfiv 'tw' gfihnaz:efis." V. By f . 20. and Mary V. 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SEATTLE, February 16 (#)—The | first flat - bottomed sternwheeler packet to be launched here in many years—reminiscent of the days when w4l | | 9 STATES ADOPT COMPACT ON L [Price Fixing and Allocation of Quotas Permitted, Say Proponents. i i i By the Assoclated Press. | DALLAS, February 16.—An oil pro- | quction compact interpreted by pro- | ponents of price-fixing and specific '-nocman of production quotas as | permitting them by implication was adopted unanimously at the Oil States’ Conference today. Actual mention of policles on price-fixing and produc- tion quotas was pointedly avolded Representatives of nine ofl-producing States voted on the compact | " Gov. E. W. Marland of Oklahoma, who receded from a demand for de- | termination of market ‘demand and | assignment of production allowables |85 a measure to boost prices, said | success of the agreement “depends on | the good faith of Texas.” | Allred Held Out 2 Days. | Gov. James V. Allred of Texas held | out through two days and a night for limitation of the agreement itself to providing means for the elimina- tion of physical waste of oil He won his point, but conceded amendments which eliminated pro- visions of his proposed compact in- terpreted as forbidding signatory States individually to treat overpro- duction as waste. The Texas Gover- nor also agreed to insertion of a paragraph stating specifically that the compact should not limit the States to definitions of waste other than those included in the agreement. Marland said the pact did not go as far as he believed it should, but : |added he would sign depending on the good faith of Texas, the largest ofl producer. | 2 States’ Delegates Sign. i| Alred agreed to sign, as did the delegates representing the Governors of New Mexico and Colorado. The delegates from Kansas, Cali- fornia, Illinois, Michigan and Arkan- sas said they questioned their author- ity to sign a compact as such, but would sign an agreement to recom- mend the measure to their Governors and Legislatures The pact will become operative upon ratification by the Legislatures of any three of the States of Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas and New Mexico, affecting only those which obtain legislative approval. The agreement specifically pro- vided that its purpose should be “to conserve ofl and gas by the prevention of physical waste thereof from any cause.” Compacting States agree to enact laws, or to keep in force existing laws to prevent operation of any oil wel with an inefficient gas-oil ratio; the drowning by water of any stratum capable of producing oil or gas in paying quantities, the avoidable es- cape or the wasteful burning of g from & natural gas well, the crea- tion of unnecessary fire hazards, the drilling, equipping. locating. spacing or operating of a well or wells, so as to bring about physical waste of oil or gas or loss in the ultimate recovery thereof; the inefficient, excessive or improper use of the reservoir energy in producing any well. e | Drill Team to Meet. | CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., Febru- ary 16 (Special) —The drill team of | the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Prince Georges County Volunteer Firemen's Association will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m., at the home of its president, Mrs. Mary Baker, on Carroll street, Hyatts- ville. TARMY TOO SMALL, MACARTHUR SAYS Senate Group Is Told Bill to Promote Officers Has Roosevelt’s Approval. By the Associated Press. Gea. Douglas MacArthur, Army the debated | 1| chief of staff, was disclosed yester- day to feel that the shortage of offi- cers and men in the Army had brought about a condition where “most of our garrisons, most of our commands are practically nothing but caretaking establishments.” In testimony before a Senate Mili- tary Committee on the administra- | tion’s Army promotion bill, made pub- lic yesterday, the general said “We would find difficulty in throw- ing together any fighting elements of substantial size.” Along with the testimony was made public a letter from Secretary Dern saying the Sheppard bill to accelerate | the promotion of every officer below | the grade of colonel had the approval of President Roosevelt. 179,000 Held Minimum. MacArthur said the “minimum which would enable the Regular Army to perform its peace-time training mission, to have a small nucleus to protect us during the mobilization and to act as a force immediately avail- able in a crisis, would be 14,000 officers and 165,000 enlisted men, which is an increase of 2,000 officers and 46,500 enlisted men over what we have now.” The chief of staff said it was per- fectly evident why 46,500 men rep- resented the “difference between ef- ficiency and non-efficiency.” “There are certain functions that the Army has to carry out,” he said. “The training mission of the civilian components, the normal overhead of the administrative and school sys- tems, and so on. These functions have to go on, no matter what our strength is. “When they are subtracted from our strength, it results in leaving in the continental United States about 3,000 regular officers and about 50,- | 000 enlisted men scattered from one end of the country to the other. “If we added these 46,500 men, we would then organize in each of the four Army areas one division at such strength that it would be an appre- ciable factor in an emergency.” | MacArthur said under present con- ditions “we are lucky if we can have one officer to a company, whether a captain, a first lieutenant or a second lieutenant.” “There have been instances during the last year and a half,” he added, “where we had only one commis- sioned officer to a battalion.” | HOTEL MEN TO GATHER The Hotel Association of Wash- ington will be guests at noon tomor- row at a luncheon given by R. L. Pollio, manager of the Mayflower Hotel, beginning a celebration of the Il’{omlar.m‘ersnry of the Mayflower otel. The W. F. 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