Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1935, Page 9

RIFLE ACCIDENT FATAL TO KELLY “Father of Airmail” Dies of Wounds Suffered in Cleaning Mishap. By the Associated Press. PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa., April 20.— Former Representative Clyde Kelly, 51, Republican, who served 20 years in Congress and whose work on the Post Office Committee won him the title of “Father of the Airmail,” died today from a bullet wound received while he was cleaning a small rifle. | The veteran legislator lapsed inlo‘ unconsciousness Sunday night and he | grew steadily weaker. His physician. | Dr. Guy M. Nusser, announced his death occurred at 9:50 am. Injured April 22. Kelly was injured the evening of April 22 after he returned from a frog-hunting trip at his Summer home a few miles from Punxsutawney. Mrs. Kelly and their four daughters were standing by while he was cleaning the rifle and witnessed the shooting. A native of Bloomfield, Ohio, Kelly | came to the Pittsburgh district in s 3 1901, and from 1914 T the end of Business Men Who Paid for 1934 served as Representative of the f thirty-first Pennsylvania district.’ He | ELYFANO S was defeated at the last election by BY the Associated Press. Representative James L. Quinn, Demo- | FORMER REPRESENTATIVE CL KELLY. FOUR HELD FOR FAKE ADVERTISING SCHEME $8,000 Allegedly Taken From men, said by police to be members of crat. Both Kelly and Quinn pubh.shed | a gang which allegedly has victim- newspapers at Braddock, Pa. First Elected in 1910. country of more than $8,000 by a In 1910 he was first elected to Con- | fake advertising scheme, gress but in 1912, as a supporter of | rested yesterday by Police Capt. Pat- Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive | rick J. Ryan and a squad of detec- party, he was defeated. He was elec- | tives. ted again, however, in 1914 and did The men said they were Robert not suffer defeat again until last year. Phillips, 29; Gerald Perry, 31: George For a number of years he was chair- | Sullivan, 36. and Ralph de Bucce, 40, man of the House Post Office Com- | all of Buffalo. mittee and sponsored numerous meas- | Capt. Ryan said they were arrested ures for the benefit of postal workers. | after complaints had been made to .| six miles long was swept by fire. BUFFALO, N. Y, April 29.—Four | ized business men throughout the | were ar- | = THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1935. FIVE STATES FIGHT FOREST BLAZES Damage Is Heavy in Penn- sylvania and New Jersey. By the Associated Press. Pire fighters patrolled the forests of five Eastern States today and sur- veyed widespread devastations caused by wind-whipped blazes over the week end. In Pennsylvania near Big Pocono Mountain an area two miles wide and In Cumberland County rain aided the six-hour battle fought by Civilian Conservation _Corps workers _and saved the village of Mount Holly Springs. In other Pennsylvania sec- tions, homes were damaged and fire fighters barely escaped being trapped in walls of flame. More than 1,000 State and muni- cipal fire workers in New Jersey fought blazes that destroyed some homes and threatened hundreds of others. Near Egg Harbor fire swept a swath of fine forest one mile wide and nine miles long. Five square miles were destroyed in the Absecon watershed near Laurel Memorial Park. Rain aided workers in New York State where heavy toll has been taken during the past week. Only 32 forest | fires over a scattered area were re- ported for the week end. No serious | fires were reported in the Adirondacks FREE... Demonstrallon How easy it is to learn FRENCH | Wednesday, May 1; 6,7, 8,9 P.M. at the or Catskills where one man was fatally burned Saturday. Forest fires in Massachusetts swept over thousands of acres of tinder dry timberland, caused thousands of dollars damage and threatened more than 500 buildings. In the Groton and Littleton areas fire spread over five square miles. A fire that started at Bloody Pond in Plymouth burned three and one-half miles eastward be- fore it was brought under control. A blaze starting in “Tar Paper Village” burned through four miles to Dun- stable and Tyngsboro. In New Hampshire a blaze near Rochester was halted just before it reached the fair lroundx outside Rochester. Scout Injury Fatal. NEW ORLEANS, April 290 () — Malcolm Lassus of Empire, La., died in Charity Hospital yesterday of in- Jjuries suffered Saturday while playing “fireman's blanket” on a Boy Scout outing at Fort Jackson, near here. Witnesses sald Lassus was being tossed in a blanket when one of the boys lost his hold on a corner of it and Lassus’ head struck the ground. LALL-WAYS U. S. LAWYERS SCORE MELLON’S COUNSEL _— Attempt to Bar Letters Held De- liberate Attempt to Mislead Board. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 29.—Govern- ment counsel charged today before the Board of Tax Appeals that counsel for Andrew W. Mellon in their attempt to prevent introduction of certain let- spondence written in October, 1930, and February, 1931, between Paul G. Rodewald, Pittsburgh attorney, repre- senting the McClintic Marshall Corp., and Donald D. Shepard, Mellon's per- sonal attorney. They dealt with de- velopments in the plans which finally led to the $21,000,000 merger of the company with Bethlehem Steel—a transaction on which the Government claims Mellon owes more than $1,000,- 000 in taxes. The financier was a 30 pe:.nl'cl"l‘l‘ stockholder in McClintic ters in evidence “certainly seem to | indicate a deliberate and designed at- tempt” to mislead the board. ‘The assertion was made in a 4,500- word brief filed as the board began its | i eleventh week of hearing the finan- cier’s protest against a $3,089,000 | g assessment on his 1931 income. Immediately after its presentation | K Frank J. Hogan, counsel for Mellon, made a vigorous protest against its|K introduction and termed it a “das- tardly, unwarranted” attack. The letters involved are the corre- CONSUL REPORTED HELD| Kin Say Italian Envoy Failed by Dominican Republic. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, April 29 () —Brothers and sisters of Amadeo Barletta, Italian consul to the Domin- jcan Republic, sald last night he was arrested more than three weeks ago | and held incoinmunicado on a rhlrge] *» A9 of conspiring #gainst the life of Presi= dent Rafael Trujillo. Cables and letters sent their brother remain unanswered, they said, and the Italian Minister to Cuba who flew to Santo Domingo on instructions from the Italian Embassy in Wash- ington was unsuccessful in intercese sion efforts. Talkies in Hospitals. Talkies are being installed in hos- pitals of Russia. Child Health Week Keep the children in good health by proper feed- ing, for they make better progress when well fed. 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