Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1935, Page 7

MASSACRE BRING STUDY OF CRIME Northwestern U. Course Grows Since St. Valen- tine’s Day Slayings. 8y the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 8.—Northwest- ern University’s scientific crime de- tection laboratory is expanding to- day because there was a massacre of seven gangsters in Chicago on St. ‘Valentine's day, 1929. The massacre of seven followers of | George (Bugs) Moran in a North Clark street garage started an unre- lenting drive on crime, and as a result the university's laboratory, the only one of its kind in the country, is moving into new and larger quar- ters. Coroner Herman Bundesen, after the St. Valentine day shootings, im- paneled a jury of prominent business men to probe the wholesale slayings. Presented as evidence were 70 lead | slugs and 70 shells from machine guns that raked the victims. The jury demanded to know from | Just what kind of guns had come the pellets. One juror, Bert Massee, brought Col. Calvin Goddard from New York to testify on firearms iden- tification. Goddard proved the death- fire was not from police guns, despite the fact the killers were dressed in| police uniforms. Massee was so impressed with the possibilities of the application of modern science to crime detection he endowed a scientific laboratory as part of the university. At first the laboratory embraced only the study of firearms inspection and of ballistics, then it was enlarged in response to widespread demands upon its services. The university in- corporated the laboratory as an in- tegral part of the Law School. Spring Yawn Dislocates Jaw. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 8 (#).— It must be that Spring is getting near. Henry Struck is recovering nicely from the effects of the yawn he in- dulged in the other day. His lower Jjaw was dislocated. Get Under a New Spring LEE *d Newly popular in Washington. these new Lee styles Lite,* “Delmonico,” “Casino.” special taste and type. Many Haddington Styles, $3.50 MENS SHOP 1331 F | tained “about 180 miles from the coast.” |Confused Frontier And Oil Are Back | - Of Ethiopian Row African Nation Hemmed in by Areas Controlled by Major Powers. BY DON BLOCH. Trouble in Africa is being aug- mented these days by the lack of any definite boundary line between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland. About 40 years ago there was an agreement between the two nations that the frontier line was to be main- Eastern Ethiopian tribesmen, how- ever, have been inclined to wander back and forth across so vague a line, and Italy has been pushing her road building into questionable territory. When oil was discovered in the region, it helped not at all to calm the troubled waters. Now efforts are being made to patch up the affair by establishing a neutral zone between the two countries. | Ethiopia is hemmed in by European interests, with Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, | Uganda, and Kenya on the west and | south, Italian, British, and French Somaliland, and the Italian colony of | Eritrea around the rest of the country. Trouble with Italy has arisen before, according to infommation from the | National Geographical Society. “Forty years ago, the Italian king- 4 | Arrange NOW to paint your house. Let us finance it through the Devoe 922 N.Y. Ave. NW. 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He also claims direct descent from the first King Menelik, who was a son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, ac- cording to legend. One of Selassie’s imperial titles is ‘Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah.’ “Races of Africa and Asia mingle in Ethiopia. True Ethiopians are not Negroes, but a Hamitic-Semitic type. This is the ruling class and comprises perhaps one-third of the total popu- lation. The remainder is predomi- nently Moslem and Negro.” “Ethiopla has not always been an inland empire. At one time her power extended across the Red Sea to the Arabian province of Yeman, and at another period there was an Ethiopian dynasty in Egypt. For many cen- turies, now, geography has isolated her from the rest of the world. “Coffee, ivory and leopard skins head the list of exports. Ethiopia is the home of coffee. Arab travelers found it growing in the Province of Kafa and transplanted it to Arabia. Later it was reintroduced to culti- vated form in the Harar district. Vast forests of the wild variety still grow unused in the province which gave it its name.” R BAKER ESTATE TRIAL REVEALS SIX WILLS Couple on Trial in Seattle for Fraud in Connection With Claimants’ Fight. By'the Associated Press. SEATTLE, March 8—Robert M. Boyle, attorney for the register of wills in Philadelphia, testified yesterday six wills are in existence purporting to dispose of the legendary estate of Jacob Baker, Revolutionary War hero, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Renick are on trial charged with using the mails to defraud in ostensibly pressing claims for claimants to the estate. Boyle presented photostatic coples of the six wills. Five have been admitted to probate. William L. Cleaves, assistant trust officer of the Girard Trust Co. of Phil- adelphia, testified that institution never has had & trust fund for the reputed estate. DEATH FOILS LEAP OF 'CHUTE STUNTER Exhaustion of Oxygen Renders John Tranum Unconscious at 25,000 Feet. By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 8—John Tranum, “the man with nine lives,” who had defled death dozens of times, died yesterday in attempting & record parachute leap he had planned as the crowning feat of his adventurous career. Tranum died while ascending in a plane preparatory to the jump. He became unconscious before he conld connect his tube with a reserve oxy- gen supply after his first tank was exhausted. ‘When the plane reached 8,500 me- ters (about 25,000 feet) he tapped on the window of the pilot's compart- ment and then swooned, apparently through the exhaustion of oxygen in the tank. The pilot, whose supply was not affected, landed as soon as possible. Physicians worked over Tranum three hours, “Tranum made his first jump in the FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935. California oil flelds and later dldl stunts in movies. He had planned a | leap of 30,000 feet, not opening his ?ur'-chnu until he had fallen 5,000 eet. CURTISS-WRIGHT HEAD, ILL 2 WEEKS, SUCCUMBS Richard F. Hoyt, Leading Avia- tion Financier, Dies at 486. Funeral Saturday. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 8.—Richard F. Hoyt, chairman of the board of the Curtiss-Wright Corp. and a leading financier in the aviation industry, died yesterday at the Dectors’ Hos- pital. He was 46 years old. He had been 1l for two weeks. Funeral services will be held Satur- day at the Hoyt home on East Sixty- fifth street. ‘The financier was divorced in 1931 from his first wife, the former Kath- arine Stone of Boston. Several months later he was married to Martha Nicholson Doubleday. Among the survivors are four chil- dren by the first marriage: Mrs. A. Felix du Pont of Wilmington, Misses Virginia and Constance Hoyt and Galen Stone Hoyt. CIVIC ENTERPRISES GET SHARES OF BIG ESTATE $500,000 of Ayer Legacy to Re- vert to Portland, Oreg., Public Institutions. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg, March 8.— Civic enterprises and charitable in- stitutions will share largely in the $1,250,000 estate of Winslow B. Ayer, Portland philanthropist and lumber- man, under terms of his will, an- nounced yesterday. Ayer died Sun- day. Close relatives will receive the bene- fit of & $500,000 trust fund until their deaths, when the fund will be shared by the Portland Art Association and the Portland Public Library Associa- tion. A sister, a brother and a niece of Ayer's late wife will each receive $250 a month. Seven other nieces and nephews inherit $50,000 each. Builds House Over Vine. An artist in Wales has built a house over a vine, a branch entering the front door and meking a trailing pattern on the ceiling above the stone fireplace. A7 4 PER CENT OIL BILL PASSED IN OKLAHOMA Senate Slashes House Measure and Adds Amendment to Pro- vide Information. By the Assoclated Press OKLAHCMA CITY, March 8.—~The Oklahoma Senate passed today a 4 per cent gross production tax on oil. The bill as passed by the Senate, slashed the 8 per cent House-approved rate in half and added a “truth-tell- ing” amendment giving authorities the right to investigate production reports of oil companies. The present gross production tax is 3 per cent. The Senate struck out House proe | visions allowing the State Equaliza- | tion Board to equalize the gross pro- duction tax with ad valorem taxes in oil-producing counties. The measure will go to conference between the two Houses for recon- ciliation. — Flint Scraper Found. A flint scraper, a relic of the Stone | Age, and the first of its kind found n the Irish Pree State, was unearthed recently at Rathshanmore and placed in the National Museum. %% ; 272l THE GREATEST SHOE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AGE ... 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