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“THRILL" SLAYER OF CHLD, 9, HELD Court Takes Action at Dawn on Glenn Murder Con- fession. By the Associated Press. GREENVILLE, N. Y., July 2—Al- fred E. Volckmann, confessed “thrill” slayer of 9-year-old Helen Glenn, was arraigned on a charge of first degree murder soon after dawn today. He was hald to await grand jury action in September. The arraignment came as a surprise to a village still sleeping soundly, for troopers had intimated it would be postponed until tomorrow because of the dedication of a new bridge over the Hudson River from nearby Catskill to Hudson. Six troopers in charge of Sergt. J. Walter Wheeler quietly entered the Memorial Hospital at Catskill, where Volckmann has been recovering from the effects of poison. They whisked | him away in a car 15 miles to this vil- lage where Justice of the Peace La- | verne Smith had been instructed to | await their arrival. Immediately after the proceeding the troopers left with Volckmann for the Green County Jail at Catskill. Volckmann had been in the Catskill Hospital since Saturday recovering from the effects of poison taken, he told State police, after he attacked and stabbed little Helen on Thursday. WISCONSIN PENSION LAW BECOMES COMPULSORY Residents Passed Age of 70 Are Eligible for $30 Maximum Payment Monthly. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis,, July 2.—Wiscon- sin residents who have passed the age of 70 became eligible for pensions yes- terday. Through legislative action the volun- tary old-age pensions law, which has been on the statute books for more than 10 years, was made compulsory in all counties. Administration county court. ‘The law allows a pensioner to own & home appraised at not more than £3.000. If they meet all qualifications, both a husband and wife without a substantial income are eligible for as- sistance. The maximum pension is $30 a month. rests with each Divorce (Continued Prom First Page.) tangle, due to the fact that the chair- man had disappeared, he insisted the | bill had been reported out of the sub- committee. George E. Sullivan, a lawyer and active civic worker, the first witness told the subcommittee he did not op- pose a respectable divorce law for the District, although he did object to| certain provisions in the Senate ap- proved divorce bill. Lawyers’ “Interest” Assailed. ‘The average person, Sullivan ex- plained, is not concerned with divorce because it doesn't come to his home and only a few lawyers who specialize | in domestic relations cases are natu- rally interested from a business stand- point. A broadened d'vorce law, according to Sullivan, wou!d sercc as an “invi- tation to people to look loosely to marriage.” “No law can make people decent,” he declared, “but a decent law can serve as a guide for people to emu- late.” Sullivan, however, centered is at- tack on the provision which would allow an absolute divorce for cruelty and incurable insanity for a period of five years. To grent an .\mulu(e‘ divorce for cruelty in its “indefinable | statement, he declared. would vnder- | mine the home, wrile a divorce on | the grounds of 1nsanity wouid con- #titute “an affront to civilization.” “Why,” he said, “you might just as well put in paralysis, tuberculosis and all other diseases.” Easy Divorce Assailed. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Newberg, State chairman of the National Sentinels of the District, described the bill as “an attack on the institution of marriage.” “If we as a Christian Nation are to survive,” she said, “we cannot afford to even recognize divorces. What our Nationa needs today and what Wash- ington, the Capital of the Nation needs, is a reconsecreation of lives for more exemplary living and to remem=- ber that the marriage contract is a binding agreement as well as that marriage is a sacred institution. “When this is lived up to and in- dividually accepted, many of the ‘isms’ which now threaten our Na- tion will vanish. “Give us a permanent marriage, a Ppermanent home, and a permanent Nation.” Mrs. Emma Slack, also a represen- tative of the National Sentinels, voiced her opposition to the bill. Thaers $3.00 Philad $2.75 Wilmingten Sunday, July 7 $3.50 New York Wednesdey, July 3 $7.50 Niagara Fulls Baltimore $1.25 Bvery Sasurday - Sundey $1.50 Daily—Geod for 3 daw $12.00 Detroit—Cincinnafi $12.50 Indianapelis $46.00 Chicago Excursion’ Savurdavs, July 6, 20, Awgus: 3 Excunion .25 9-Dey All-Expense Toun-inclode 3’1:_5}-1 fre, lodgiog and 5 mesk. $5465 New York Daily ome woy, coaches only. Lv. 12.30 am. 630 Niagara Falls f Mend Tip 16-Day Excersions Friand Set. July 5, 6, 19, 20, Avs. 2.3,16,17 3, to mesn, . July 7. Mondey. July 3. ENNSYLVANIA PATLROAD Investigator AIRMAN TO HEAD SENATE PLANE CRASH PROBE. COL. HAROLD EVANS HARTNEY, Members of the Senate Com- merce Committee, who are to launch an investigation of the air- plane accident in which their col- league, Senator Bronson M. Cut- ting, and several others lost their lives, have retained Col. Hartney of New York as technical expert and he will conduct the investiga- tion. He is a well-known aviation engineer and World War aviator and is thoroughly acquainted with all the angles of flying. —Underwood & Underwood Photo. RENO DIVORCES UP 1,286 Suits Filed for Half Year. July Starts With 21. RENO, Nev, July 2 (#).—Reno's divorce business appears to be on the upgrade, a check of the records re- vealing that 1286 suits have been filed during the first six months ofi 1935 compared to only 1,147 during | the same period last year and 920 in | the first six months of 1933. | July got off to a good start with a | total of 21 new divorce cases on file up to 3 p.m. yesterday. BEFOR THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.,- TUESDAY, 9 2l JULY 1935. BRIDGE COLLAPSE HURTS TWOSCORE Picnickers Plunge 40 Feet Into Ravine—Women, Children Injured. By the Associated Press. TORONTO, July 2—A span of the Woodbine foot, bridge, burdened by homeward-bound picnickers, collapsed early today, plunging more than two score persons headlong into a dark East York ravine. Twenty-four persons were injured, none of them seriously, and were taken to hospitals. Many others, in- cluding several women and children, received medical treatment at the scene. A span of the old wooden structure 40 feet above the ravine gave way. Many persons saved themselves from the fall by grasping & railing and swinging themselves to safety, drop- ping only a few feet near the edge of the ravine, 75 feet below the bridge at its deepest point. The bridge was unlighted. Rescuerers were unable to see the victims in the ravine immediately, but were guided by their shouts and soon brought them up to ambulances, DR. BARUCH DIES Was Physician to Sarah Bern- hardt and Wrote Play. | NEW YORK, July 2 (P).—Dr. | Emanuel de Marnay Baruch, distin- | guished physidlan and scientist, who several years took an interlude from his professional activities to write a | play for Same Sybil Thorndyke, died | yesterday of a stroke. He was 65. | His play, “Judith and Arropherius,” | was staged in London, where it was not enthusiastically received by the | eritics. | Dr. Baruch was physician to many famous actors and actresses, including Sarah Bernhardt. 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