Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1935, Page 3

GIRL VICTIM BEGS KIDNAPER'S LIFE Mary McElroy, Interviewing Governor, Wants Noose Averted. By the Associated Press. JEFFERSON CITY. Mo., April 26.— Miss Mary McElroy pleaded with Gov. | Guy B. Park today to spare the life of Walter H. McGee, leader of thc‘ gang that kidnaped her for $30,000 | ransom nearly two years ago. i Virtually all legal avenues of escap- ing the gallows had been closed to Mc- Gee when the 26-year-old daughter of H. F. McElroy, city manager of Kan- sas City, visited the Governor—in be- half, she said, of both kidnaper and vietim. “In pleading for Walter McGee's life, I am pleading for my own peace of | mind,” said the tall brunette in her formal appeal to the executive. She was accompanied here by her father. Case Preys on Mind. Miss McElroy previously had ex- pressed sympathy for the men con- victed on her testimony, and had dis- closed the thought of sending McGee to his doom was a “nightmare” prey- | ing on her mind. She expressed belief that the * force of the law has been empha: and that McGee's case would se a warning to others. The kidnaper, now under death watch at the Jackson County Jail in | Kansas City. where he is scheduled to be hanged May 10, has manifested little interest in appeal efforts. Re- peatedly he has declared that inter- cession by his victim or Qg father was his only hope. Rehearing is Denied. It was after the failure of the| latest effort through the courts that| Miss McElroy announced she would carry a plea to the Governor. McGee | was denied a rehearing yesterday by | the State Supreme Court. ‘ One of McGee's other chances to be spared from the gallows also was | in the hands of a woman. Despite Miss McElroy's plans, Miss Lillie Knight. one of the condemned man's | attorneys, said she would carry the | figcht to the Supreme Court of the| United States. Miss McElroy was kidnaped from the bath room of her home May 27, 1933, and held prisoner in the base- | ment of a farm house for 29 hours be- forg her father paid the ransom. She | was released unharmed, and later most of the ransom money was re- covered. Brother Serves Life Term. | McGee's brother, George, is serving | a life sentence in the State peniten- | tiary for the crime. In addition, Clar- ence Click, who allegedly aided Wal ter McGee in the actual abduction, | was convicted and sentenced to serve eight years. Clarence Stevens, named as another member of the gang, has not been apprehended. Several times since her abduction the girl has been under medical treat- | ment as the result of worry. She has received threats by letter and tele- phone. Once a bullet was fired into the McElroy home. Last February she disappeared from her home and was found the next day on a Chicago-bound bus. She attrib- uted her impulsive flight to her feel- ing of personal responsibility for the | death sentence. | All Religious Orders of Cathollc Church Take Part in Cico- gnani Service. One of the most colorful displays | ever staged in Washington will take place this afternoon in the gymnasium of Catholic University, when members of all the religious orders in the church will assemble, clad in their va- rious habits, to greet the apostolic | delegate to the United States, Most | Rev. Amleto Cicognani The occasion will be the official visit | of the apostolic delegate to an inter- | national exhibit showing the work of the various religious orders in every country on the globe. Curios, works | of art and tapestries gathered from all parts of the world are on exhibit. | Students from St. John's Militas Academy, in full uniform and accom- | panied their band, will escort the | apostolic delegate to the gymnasium The parochial school children of | Washington have been invited to at- | tend, along with their parents. Missionary guides will be on hand to explain the various exhibits. MARINES ENLIST 500 TO REPLACE LOSSES| \ Although the United States Ma- rines have not yet convinced Congress | that they need 1,100 new men without | delay to man new ships and strengthen | the guards at navy yards, it was| learned vesterday this famous out- | fit is recruiting about 500 new men | to fill vacancies caused by deaths, resignations, discharges and other rea- | sons. There are vacancies for men be- | tween the ages of 18 and 25, who are physically fit. First Sergt. Julian M. 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This Changing World i Understanding Between Feared by France—Soviets Talk of Reconciliation With Reich. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. l‘ Ramsay MacDonald has come out with a terrific indictment of Hitler's | Germany. The European nations were expected to be impressed by the British premier's admonition of der Reichs- fuehrer. They were. but in a different manner than it was expected. Paris and Rome read MacDonald's indict- ment with interest and the repercus- sion was: “Ramsay is spanking Hitler. This means that Great Britain is closer today to an understanding with Germany than ever before. We had better look out for the next move, which will not be publicized.” This is modern diplomacy—a confidence game, not a game of cenfidence. * ok % % Early last week, everything was settled between Russia, France and Czechoslovakia for the inception of a new military agreement. Laval made it clear at Geneva that the three QU powers were in full agreement over the text which had been carefuliy drafted by the experts of these na- tions. Litvinoff instructed his am- bassadors in foreign capitals to inform the respective governments of this momentous treaty. So did Benes. Laval decided to wait until he returned to Paris. There he found a different atmosphere. *“The Rus- sians mean to fight soon,” he was told. “They may precipitate an aggressive war, in which case France will lose Great Britain's support, As a matter of jact, knowing the British as we do, we may find them in our opponent's camp. Look out.” And Laval is lcoking out. The | agreement may still materialize, but if it does it will be something entirely different from what Moscow had in mind. It will be just another treaty, as meaningless as most of the others. | x * % % | Moscow is annoyed, not so much at the French as at the British. The Soviet government is silent, but the | press, which represents exclusively the government's point of view, has begun to indicate that after all a German- Russian reconciliation is not as im- | possible as it appears on the surface. They remind the readers—especially those who are abroad—that there has been once a treaty between Germany and the Soviets, the Rapallo treaty, which might be revived for the mu- | tual benefit of both countries. And | to give more credence to this theory the Soviet newspapers point to the fact that Germany has just granted | Moscow a $50.000,000 commercial | | credit payable over a period of five | years. | Of course, Hitler and Stalin, Blom- | berg and Voroshilof would make | strange bedfellows, but in the present condition of Europe everything is pos- sible. After all, did not Litvinoff, who does mot believe in God and does not care a hoot whether the King of England will be saved, sing at _ WHERE TO DINE._ Saturday Dinner Special Cream Chicken, waier, Qe Beverage 00 Kl NG FOR Good Place to Eat! An Almnlnheu Yau'll lmor, Try 17th Cafeteria %24 13th St. N.W., Bet. H & Pa. Ave. ALSO A LA CARTE EDUCATIONAL. Civil Service Exam. Statistical Clerk, Stock Clerk TUITION 5 DOLLARS Special low rate tuition to enroll this week. Both men men. INTENSIVE INSTRUCTION Every day and struction The Civil Service Prepa tory School L. Adoloh Richai M. 8., Prin. 529 12th St. NW. Met, 6337 ° England and Germany the top of his voice “God Sare our Gracious King" during the State dinner given in Moscow for Capt. Antihony Eden? * x * | The physicians of the lord privy seal have disclosed that the ailment from which he is suffering is not a very serious one. Eden has been too itned and wined in Berlin, Mos- V/arsaw and Prague during his e-selling campaien of a few weeks ago. Upon his return to London he did not complain of the hard work in- volved in the campaign, but of the junketing in which he was compelled to take part. Had he been treated as a business representative instead of be- ing given “ambassadorial honors” he | \ | | | | | | | weuld not be a sick man today. For once, combining business with questionable pleasure was too much for this man who stood without flinching hardship in the trenches. Eden had hoped that at least in the republic of the proletarians he would be spared the usual diplomatic rig- marole. But he was mistaken. Mos- cow showed the Englishman that the proletarians know how to live. The drinks were more lavish than in any other capital, the food more copious and indigestible and the entertain- ments on a much grander scale. * % % x There is no place more charming, more pleasant and more comfortable than a Persian jail. This comes from a high Iranian authority who took issue with the statement of the two Ameri- can airmen, John Wright and John Polando, who were put in jail by the Iranian authorities during the Lon- don-Australia flight last Fall. The two aviators stated at that time that they regretted their lack of joresight in not supplying them- sclves with insecticide powder in large quantities. Their short so- journ in the Persian jail would have been less unmpleasant, they said. A high Iranian authority com- plained about that statement. “Our jails,” it was stated. “are the most luxurious places in the country. They are surrounded by gardens with beau- tiful flowers, the nightingales give free concerts to the prisoners every morn- ing and the focd is just too delicious for words. You may go for sports in your prisons in America and may have shower baths and base ball teams but we have beauty and all the | comforts of the soul.” ! | Long forces STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. BAILEY, IN SENATE, ATTACKS COUGHLIN Capital Weighs Speech as Long Packs Bags for Des Moines. By the Associated Press. Absorbed in the preliminary form- ing of political lines for 1936, the Capital sought today to assay the effects of Senator Bailey's denuncia- tion of Fether Charles E. Coughlin as & man of “damnable ambition” who seeks to “stir up the fountains of hate 1n a distressed land amongst a suffering people.” With third party talk much in the sir, observers also watched to see whether an answer might not be forthcoming soon to the question whether Father Coughlin and Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana may unite their forces in 1936. Senator Long was ready to de- part for Des Moines, Iowa, where he will speak tomorrow before the | Farmers' Holiday National Conven- | tion. The head of the <Farmers' Holiday group, Milo Reno. already has | | advocated a merging of Coughlin- | Before a_silently listening Senate. Senator Builey, North Carolina Demo- crat, voiced his deaunciation of Father Coughlin’s activities | Senator Omits Title. Prefacing his remarks with an ex- planation of why he referred to the lergyman as “Coughlin.” rather lhs\n‘ ther Coushlin,” Bailey said: “I left off his title, and T did it deliberately. In his church—and I shall always speak respectfully of all churches—he can be led ‘father,” but he cannot ‘be calied ‘father’ n American politics, “In his church he may have his| priestly robes and his power of abso- lution: but when he undertakes to promise 2 harp and a halo to the American people by political action, I challenge his priestly power. | “I honor the ministry because it is the ministry. But when a minister of LAWYERS’ BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS OIL HEATING Marketed by “Washington’s First Fuel Oil Distributor” Dependable SERVICE RUG CLEANIN Extra Care—No Extra Cost! Our experts are acquaint- ed with handling the finest Oriental and domestic weaves. Our service includes a thorough cleaning and re- sizing. Reasonable prices All goods. while in our care. in= sured jor full value without extra charge. DIENER’S, INC. RUG & CARPET CLEANERS DIstrict 3218 1221 22nd St. N.W.; New 1935 PHILCO AUTO RADIOS Music wherever you go! 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BEY OB BAILEY'S BUDGEY BASIS FRIDAY, the gospel or 'a minister of the church comes down into the political arena, or goes out with his radio incen- diarism to stir up the fountains of hate in a distressed land amongst a | suffering people, I take it nothing | amiss, and I make no apologies; but I will snatch the halo from his brow and throw it into the nearest spit- toon, and then mmw the spittoon into the gutter.” ' Opposes Lynching Bill, ‘The North Carolinian, who hails from a family of ministers, broke into his assault on “Coughlin—not Father Coughlin,” as he termed it, while op- posing the Costigan-Wagner anti- lynching bill. moved to do so by Father Coughlin’s speech in Detroit Wednesday night | in which he projected his National Union for Social Justice into the po- litical fleld. ‘There was no reply to Bailey yes- terday. Some Senators, however, | thought Senator Long, who believes the Detroit radio priest has a “strong program,” might have something to say on the subject when he speaks at Des Moines tomorrow. Long, self-reportedly husky of voice from ‘“sleeping without covers,” and garbed in his third new suit in as many days, packed his bags as the Senate adjourned to depart last night | on his Towa trip. He had commented favorably on\ | Father Coughlin's latest speech, stir- ring new speculation that the two might merge forces in 1936. Long also added Senatos Cutting, APRIL He apparently \‘us} 26, 1935. New Mexico Republican independent, to his list of liberal Senators accept- able to him for the presidency. Sen- ator Borah of Idaho headed the list. Without exception, those he named either shook off lightly or declined to comment on his suggestions. The full text of Bailey’s remarks about Coughlin, as recorded by the official Senate recorder, follows: “Some of us here in the Senate find our voices too feeble to stretch across the continent and our humble words drowned in a universal din of hysteria and confusion, and the clear, patient words of national life ail obliterated and obscured in the raucous noise that | comes from Coughlin over the radio. “Perhaps when we cease to be heard a bill like this will notify the Nation. If I do not miss my calculations, the reverberations, if it shall, will drown | the voice of Coughlin, and- then we may thank God for the bill. | “I do mot mean on this occasion to ‘spenk about Coughlin. I will make my point clear. Ileft off his title, and | 1 did it deliberately. In his church— and I shall always speak respectfully | of all churches—he can be called ‘father,” but he cannot be called ‘fa- ther’ in American politics. “In his church, he may have his priestly robes and his power of abso- lution; but when he undertakes to | promise a harp and a halo to the American people by political action, | I challenge his priestly power. | Held Sinister to U. S. | “There is nothing more sinister in | our life right now than this—that ! Coughlin, from the radio of the LEASE EXPIRES! GEORGE D. ghteen Twelfth St. Between Fand G Sts. $125 Sterling Silver 5- pc. Tea Set. Heavs 393.75 Coffee Pot. Tea and Waste Reproduced from chance of @ Live-tome, Dont delay! Your Trousseau. Minuet. Mother’ Washington to Be Closed June 1 From Dec. Store Every Piece of Merchandise Sold Guaranteed by George D. Horning of South Washington, Va. Entire Stock Fine Diamonds, Standard Watches and Sterling Sacrificed! 20% to 50% Reductions! 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