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MUTLATON CAE EDENGE GRS Sixth Person Identifies Zenge as State Prepares to Charge Murder. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 3.—A citcumstantial evidence was tig ebout Mendeville Zenge today prosecutors prepared to charge k_um with the fatal mutilation of Dr. Wal- ter J. Ba the hand of a pretty nurse Assistant State's Attorney Charles Dougherty announced he would for- net of htened as —his successful rival for| mally book the adamant young pris-| oner for first-degree murder after a sixth man had connected him with circumstances surrounding the crime. “We have a perfect circumstantial case,” Dougherty asserted. "I believe we have sufficient evidence to g0 be- fore a grand jury and obtain an in- dictment.” Oren J. Guiett, who occupied a reom next to that of “E. L. Jones” at the Jennings Hotel in Ann Arbor. Mich, viewed the suspect. He said “That's Jones.” 4 Smiles at Accuser. ‘The 26-year-old Missourian glanc at his accuser and smiled Dougherty termed the tion “most important.” Dr. Bauer told police in a dyir statement that this “Jones” had ki naped him in Ann Arbor, forced him to drive to Chicago at pistol point bound him in a dark alley and there performed the brutal surgery. Four other witnesses had identified Zenge as the tall man who fled the scene of the crime Wednesday morn- ing. A cab chauffeur pointed him out as the passenger who left behind & “suicide note” and blood-stained coat when he disappeared in the dark vicinity of Navy pier Wednesday night. Declares His Innocence. But the young suspect defiantly de- clared his innocence. “I'm not guilty of this crime.” he told reporters in his first interview since he was captured early Thursday “I never was in Ann Arbor. I never gaw Dr. Bauer.” “Would you like to see Louise?” The attractive widow's rejected suitor squirmed in his chair -3 handsome face flushed. He péfidered & moment, lowered his Then: “No." His chin jutted as #¢ concluded his statements with these words “The police are trying to make me admit a crime no human being could conceive. Do I look like a man who would pull anything like that? “Tell the folks back in Missouri I am innocent.” He was led away for another round of persistent interrogation. He declined to comment on his sex- tuple identification. “This fellow is an enigma.” Lieut Otto Erlanson reported. “He answers all questions except those pertaining to the murder.” Appears in Good Spirits. Zenge was ostensibly in good spirits Joseph E. Green, an attorney detained by Zenge's father, petitionad for a writ of habeas corpus. Acting Chief Justice J. C. Lewe made it returnable Monday. The next major step planned by authorities was a Sunday meeting be- tween Mrs. Louise Bauer and the man she spurned after a seven-year court- ship. She attended the funeral of her ident: Mandeville Zenge, held for quest foning in the mutilation slaying of Dr, Walter J. Bauer, shown in Chicago yesterday as he continued to deny all knowledge of the case. Officials planned o confront him with Bauer's widow. SPEICHERTOTELL STORY OF ABSENCE Will Give House Committee ~-0wn Version of Failure to Appear Here. Prank E. Speicher's own version of what induced him to absent himself from Washington on the eve of a grand jury investigation of War De- partment contracts will be unfolded to the House Military Affairs Com- mittee this week. Speicher, who previously has given sensational testimony in connection with his efforts to sell leak-proof au- tomobile inner tubes to the Army. is to be questioned Tuesday about half a dozen “little blue envelopes™ which other witnesses testified were sent him in round-about fashion by Joseph or Nathan Silverman, surplus Army goods trader. $100 in Each Envelope. Two witnesses have told the com- mittee the envelopes contained about $100 each and that they believed about $700 or $800 in all was sent to Speicher “to keep him away from Washington.” An assistant United States attor- ney will sit with the committee to hear Speicher’s story of the envelopes and money. Chairman McSwain has slain husband in Cleveland this after- | S84 criminal proceedings may be noon. Dispatches quoted her as stat- ing she was willing to return but “shuddered at the thought of con- fronting Zenge.” Dougherty declared investigation had established these facts: Zenge, “miserably unhappy over the loss of Louise,” quit his job in Mis- launched if evidence received by the committee is substantiated. This evi- dence, he declared, points to obstruc- tion of justice. The committee has i1 its possession the empty envelopes, with certain mystic notations made on them. A New York lavy friend of Speicher She is reported to have jilted Zenge to marry the doctor, | DR. CHARLES ARMSTRONG. | l WASHINGTON, COMPROMIE SEEN FOR UTILITY BILL Wheeler on Cruise With President Before Parley With Conferees. By the Associated Press. Speculation over a compromise on the deadlocked utility bill rose high yesterday as Chairman Wheeler of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee accompsnied President Roosevelt on a week end fishing trip. Wheeler, chief advocate of outright abolition of “unnecessary” holding companies, holds the key to the solu- tion of the deadlock between the House and Senate over the “death sentence” clause. He had suggested Friday the possibllity of working out & compromise. Committee In Recess, While the President conferred with the Montana Senator, the two lobby committees which have been pro- viding much of the fireworks for the hotly disputed controversy were in recess, both probably until Tuesday. Investigators kept busy, however, secking new evidence. President Roosevelt, accompanied by Wheeler and Mrs. Wheeler, John Monroe Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and Mrs. Johnson, and Miss Marguerite Le Hand, a secre- tary, left the White House by auto- moblle for one of the Chlet Executive's longest motor trips of the year. They headed for Tappahannock on the Rappahannock River to board the Government yacht Sequola for a week- end of fshing in the Hampton Roads area. Conference Planned. Wheeler will confer early this week with his Senate conferees on the util- ity bill to determine whether they will yleld to the House and exclude Ben | Cohen, administration aide, from the seasions. It was generally expected that they would give in, in an effort to save the utility measure. With Cohen out, the long-delayed conferences could open the effort to | write legislation acceptable to both | Houses. While it was generally con- ceded there would be a compromise, | some administration leaders main- | | tained that the principle of the Sen- | ate bill would be retained. | House conferees also were appar- ently in a concillatory mood. Repre- | | sentative Huddleston, Democrat, of | Alaba; who led the fight against | Cohen's participation in the confer- | ences, sald “I won't say the House | | won't yield” on the “death sentence” | provision. He added, however, that the House would not accept the Sen- uage because “it's just plain DEFIANT COLONISTS ARRIVE IN SEATTLE 15 Families From Matanuska Project Await Trair for Re- turn to Homes. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, August 3.—Pifteen weary familles ‘rom the federally sponsored Matanuska colony at Palmer, Alaska, waited, reserved and defiant, here | tonight for a train to take them back | to their homes in Wisconsin, Minne- | sota and Michigan. “It was so demp—so damp,” a wom- | an said, “but it wasn't so bad. We! left becauss of sickness. They called | us cream puffs when we left. They | made fun of us.” The party of pioneers who gave up arrived here last night on the motor | ship North Star. A large man in a plaid mackinaw, with work-worr: hands, spoke up from & group of mer,, women and children: {1t in his safe In Frankfort. D.' €., AUGUST 4 ' 1935—PART O gmnnld Dok s ‘The bed room in the home of Mrs. Matilda Waldman, 46, confessed Hex slayer of Mrs. Ida Cooper, 52, is pictured above with papers placed over the mirrors out of which Mrs. Waldman said demons leaped to tor- ment her husband. Inset shows Mrs, Waldman after she admitted the crime and declared she felt “rejuvenated.” —_— % Confessed Hex Slayer Calm After Entering Plea of Guilty FACTIONAL STRIFE SWEEPS KENTUCKY Primary Stirs Bitter Words as Troops March in “Bloody Harlan.” By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky, August 3.— Pactional animus flamed out in| arrests, embittered charges and hur- ried court hearings in Kentucky's primary election today. National | Guard guns covered Harlan County. Circuit Judge James M. Gilbert en- | joined " the troops from interfering | with the Harlan election eight hours | after 700 occupied the county at dawn. Commanded by Adjt. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, the soldiers quizzed voters and examined ballot | boxes and books. They arrested at | least seven election officers. Six to | eleven men patrolled each precinct. | Gen. Denhardt ordered all but 50 | of his men back home tonight. The | officials they had detained were freed. | Election Steal Held Stopped. i “We stopped the most stupendous, | well planned election steal ever at- tempted in Kentucky,” Denhardt sald. “Chandler would have gotten 15,000 votes had we not been here.” | He estimated 3,000 Democratic and man responded. 4,000 Republican votes were cast. | Denhardt answered statements that no executive order was issued for the | Harlan march by saying he had filed The Secretary of State today said in Prankfort that it had not been en- tered in the execative journal. Judge Gilbert ordered the injunc- tion served on Gen. Denhardt at Harlan. He said the general was in ! contempt if he had taken troops to Harlan, because of a previous injunc- tion forbidding it. Guardsmen closed polls at Clover- | splint because they opened by East- ern time instead of Central. Twenty votes had been cast. Rhea and Chandler Swap Blows. | Gov. Ruby LafToon's administration | has favored Thomas 8. Rhea for the 27 By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, August 3.—Mrs. Ma- tilda Waldman, 46, confessed hex tained her baffling calm tonight as she prepared to spend her second | Wi night in a city jail cell. She pleaded guilty to a first-degree murder charge'today and asserted that she enjoyed the soundest sleep last| night she had experienced in two years. Tells Story to Judge. Judge Joseph N. Ackerman, who | bound her over to the grand jury, listened as she related placidly her weird story of Mrs. Cooper’s slaying. “Why did you kill Mrs. Cooper?” asked the judge. “I don’t know. She bewitched me,” Mrs. Waldman replied. “How long had you Cooper?"” “I never s.w her until yesterday,” the woman answereq. The court asked what Mrs. Cooper had done to her. “What didn't she do?” Mrs. Wald- “She had me para- lyzed. I was full of aches and pains.” Asked whether she was sorry, the defendant replied: “No. I feel like a new person. ' I don’t realize I did it. I feel so re- lieved. I can't explain it.” The superstition-laden killing oc- curred late yesterday in a neighbor- hood delicatessen store operated by Mrs. Cooper and her husband Isadore. Woman Was Alone. Mrs. Waldman told police Mrs. Cooper was alone when she entered “At 2 pm. I lay down on the bed and some power told me I was in great danger, so I got my husband's known Mrs. jCleveland Woman Says She Enjoyed | First Sound Sleep in Cell Last Night. in Two Years | gun and went to the Cooper store,” SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN 13 SPEEDED Final Agreement in Prospect as Congress Seeks Ad- journment. BY J. A. O’LEARY. A final agreement by confecrees on the administration’s social security program is in prospect as one of the highlights of a busy week on Capitol Hill, with congressional leaders slated to push ahead in their effort to bring about adjournment somewhere be- tween August 17 and 23. There is every indication that when House and Senate conferees on the security bill meet again Thursday, they will come to some conclusion on the Clark private pension amend- ment, the one issue remaining to be settled before that far-reaching meas- ure goes to President Roosevelt for signature. Passage of the national bill will be the signal for Chairman King of the Senate District Committee to seek action on the three bills de- signed to put the social security pro- gram into operation in Washington. Amendment Speed Plann Senator King has had legislative drafting experts going over the local bills as they came from the House, 80 no time will be lost in acting on proposed amendments and reporting them to the Senate as soon as the national measure is completed Meanwhile, the Senate will devote itself early in the week to the con- ference report on the $300,000,000 second deficiency supply bill and the measure to give the Government broader power to fix wages and hours of industries making contracts with the Government either for construc- tion or the furnishing of materials and supplies. If it passes the Senate, however, this bill will still have to 80 to the House. ‘When the Senate reconvenes tomor- row, it will still have before it the | she said. Mrs. Waldman said she tried un- | slayer of Mrs. Ida Cooper, 52, main- | successfully to induce Mrs. Cooper to | | sign a prepared note “releasing” the | man family from “witchcraft.” “I asked Mrs. Cooper to take the spell away from me,” the woman said }“She pulled her hair down over her eyes arfd started to bewitch me again | Something came to me to shoot he: through the heart and kill the curse.” She said she fired three shots. Paralyzed by Balls of Fire. “Please feel for me,” she said. was paralyzed by the balls of fire. I couldn’t see out of my eyes. I lost my speech. I couldn’t eat or sleep while the spell was on me. I had to keep the windows closed. I'm relieved now.” Sany Waldman, 47, husband of the accused woman, was held by police | for a mental examination. | At night the balls of fire, the black magic, came under the door of my ! room,” he said. “They came through | the windows. I put a cloth over the | looking glass because witches would spring out at me.” Mrs. Cooper, the mother of four children, will be buried at Pittsburgh, where the body was shipped today. | " The Waldmans were married two | years ago, the husband said. He is | the father of six children by a former | marriage. Detective Andrew Hovan filed in- sanity charges against Waldman late today, claiming the 47-year-old ped- | dler had delusions of iliness and slept | with a hammer and a pair of pliers | beside him. Detective Hovan said also that Waldman believes he once was mar- ! ried to Mrs. Cooper. Hearings on the charges will be held Monday in Pro bate Court. Rockville’s New controversial bill for revision of the copyright law. Senate May Get Tax Bill Soon With the adminisiration tax bill | due to reach a final vote in the House tomorrow, the Senate Finance Com- | mittee probably will try to get the | measure before the-Senate by Thurs- |day. It is probable that, once ‘ke tax bill is ready, the Senate will con- centrate on it, since the length of | debate on the tax issue is the key to | adjournment. There are conference reports to be considered on a number of major | issues, such as the A. A. A. amend- | ments, the banking bill, changes in |the T. V. A. law and social security. These reports, however, usually are disposed of promptly, once the con- | ferees reach a settlement. | Two other bills remaining to be | considered by the Senate before they ‘un 80 to conference are the new | Federal alcohol control measure, and the bill to outlaw suits by private citizens for payment of any Govern- | ment bonds. Private Security Plans Defended. Experts on the social security pro- gram are trying to devise some plan that would preserve private retire- ment plans, and at the same time meet some of the objections of ad- ministration leaders who have been opposing exemption of private plans from the Federal contributory old- age insurance system. Whether House conferees, who have | joined with the President in opposing | the Clark amendment, will agree to | & compromise will not be definitely | known until Thursday. There is. | however, strone sentiment in the Sen- ate ifi favor of safeguarding the prog- | ress which many industries have made in building up voluntary pension sys- tems for theii employes. And, if the bill comes back to the Senate with the Clark amendment eliminated SEvRe RRACTIELNG A. B. “Happy” Chandler, backed by ' Appeal to Supreme Court if | “None of you folks are going to get | us In bad by talking. We're going | home. but were not telling anybody | why.” . These major factions have flung CALHOUN FUND $1,379 | charges of waste, nepotism and cor- Navy Yard Mine Laboratory Adds | declared the envelopes, designated as ¢ .laining “circus tickets,” came to | supporters of that amendment prob- ably will seek another test of strength by asking for a roll call vote on the 1\ question. Advocaes of the amendment say they are trving to safeguard the status of about 4,000,000 employes | already covere¢ by private retirement plans. The amendment would allow the Social Security Board to exempt Policeman Tickets Judge for Parking souri following the nurse’s marriage to the professor on July 14. He went to 3 {him from a 1 wyer-friend of the Q’r:’r;e:_x:oor BoNlaa ey iaered has | Silvermzns and that he knew the en- ' | velopes contained mon-- to be sent ! b fol-if 7S T lo:ede. Shduction mos Mutiation Mol | sy Sndicker by i i Teotians “Nate and Joe.” Tells of Shattered Romance. At the time of this passage of | Lieut. Erlanson reported Zenge had money the Justice Department was | related some of the incidents of his ! conducting a Nation-wide hunt for former Highway Chairman Ben John- |son and former U. 8. Senator and Governor J. C. W. Beckham Br a Sta® Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE Md., August 3.— Leslie Thompson, Rockville's new town policeman. is no respector of personages when the question DR. EDWARD FRANCIS. | ruption at each other from the stump shattered romance in Kirksville, Mo., ‘where Dr. Bauer was on the staff of the Kirksville College of Osteopathy and the girl in the case was employed by a hospital. The lanky carpenter said he had given Louise an engage- ment ring and had purchased a new tar with the intention of presenting it to the prospective bride as a wed- ding gift. He quoted Zenge: “I met her the morning she married the other fellow. She didn't tell me about it then. Later, a friend of mine asked: ‘Did you hear that Louise got | married today? to me. “I thought that if any one should have told me, it should be Louise. I decided to take it on the chin. I hold no {ll feeling about it against any one.” Gun and Knife Missing. The lieutenant described the cir- cumstantial case as “the strongest of its kind” he has ever seen. To pomplete it, he added, the gun, knife and dark glasses used by the slayer It was quite a shock must be found. The search for these | fontinued. A hunt was also started in the cheap hotels where the pris- ‘oner was believed to have stayed prior fo his capture for Zenge's baggage. DYING MOTHER FOILS . OWN WISH FOR SONS Ends Life by Gas, Leaving $5,000 ifor Them, but They Are Killed : by Fumes Unintentionally. B the Associated Press. = EASTON, Pa, August 3—A de- &pondent mother took two children With her into death today, although #he left more than $5,000 to provide for their future. Police said the woman, Mrs. Martha $IcKinley, 40-year-old widow, evi- @ently collapsed as she fought through -filled rooms to the 'second floor rh.ere her sons, Austin, 13, and John, 4, slept. Deputy Coroner Theodore ichbaum said the woman com- fnitted suicide, but he believed the ehildren were unintentional victims. . Police joined him in this belief, Pointing out that a note was found. eontaining directions for the young- §ters’ future care, Dr. Reichbaum #aid the note directed him to a pil- fow in the boys' bed room, under which he found $2,125.17 in cash Later, he discovered a bank book ghowing deposits of about $1,500 and gecurities with a face value of $2,000. i Mrs. McKinley's husband, a cooper- 4ge plant foreman, died five years - ago. .Relatives said she had been dervous and despondent asince. 4 19 Speicher, who was ‘wanted as a key Vitness before the grand jury. Since :Spel('her's testimony was essential, the grand jury finally adjourned { without indicti-.g any one, but issued | ® report severely condemning lobby- | ing conditions at the War Depart- | ment. | Speicher Aided Conviction. { Speicher later appeared before an | Army court-martial and gave testi- | mony which resulted in conviction of | €L Alexander E. Willlams, former assistant quartermaster general, on a ¢ arge of accepting a $2,500 loan from the tire salesman. Former Assistant Secretary of War | Frederick H. Payne, whose name has | been mentioned frequently in testi- mony, also will be given an oppor- tunity to testify abou® changes made In & contract held by t e Silvermans. Nalhan Silverman 1ay be sum- moned before the committee after | Speicher completes his testimony. Joseph Silverman already has Interrogated and, according to Chair- man McSwain, denied sending money | to Speicher. JOHNSON IN DISPUTE WITH ROBERT MOSES | Former N. R. A. Head Orders Workers Suspended, but Park Head Refuses. By the Assoclated Press, NEW YORK, August 3.—Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, Federal works progress fcund himself at loggerheads today with City Park Commissioner Robert Moses, Republican gubernatorial can- didate last year, and an official who bears a reputation equal to Johnson's as & “fire eater.” The issue was over the question who should give orders to W. P. A. workers provided for park projects. The issue arose when Moses coun- termanded an order by Gen. Johnson suspending temporarily 1,600 men en- gaged on a park project under a 120- hour-a-month stagger system insti- tuted by the Federal administrator. e HOLT WITNESS ONLY Man Who Collapsed in Court Was Not Facing Charge. In giving an account of the collapse of Clarence J. Holt, a photographer, in Traffic Court last week, The Star erroneously stated he wa: awaiting arraijgnment on a charge of speeding. As & matter of fact, Holt was wait- ing in a witness room to appear s a witness in & case agamnst a: man accused of speeding. The 15 glad to make this carzection. K administrator for New York Gity,| er Parrot Fever (Continued From Pirst Page.) | worker, who himself was stricken by { the malady in 1930 and is the first | recorded two-time victim of the strange plague. Serum Is Obtained. They donated & pint apiece, which | was allowed to coagulate for two | hours, after which the serum was ; obtained. | The 250 cubic centimeters, about | one-quarter of a pint, is enough to last three days, according to Dr. R. E. | Dyer, who with Dr. R. R. Spencer‘ | made arrangements for sending the | life-saving liquid. Another shipment | will be made tomorrow to arrive in San Francisco Tuesday. | Dr. White reported the 54-year-old | surgeon, famed for his fearless in- vestigations of such plague diseases as leprosy, bubonic plague and un- dulant fever, is rapidly sinking under the attack of the parrot fever germs and the pneumonia virus. | He contracted the psittacosis while | closing a parrot fever research lab- oratory in Pasadena, Calif., prepara- tory to taking charge of the only leper colony on the North American Contitent, that at Carville, La. Dr. Hasseltine spent four years among the lepers at Moloku in the Hawaiian Islands. | Little Known of Disease. He has been in the Marine Hospital five days. So little is known about the disease that it is difficult for doc- tors to state specifically how long it takes to run its course, although two weeks is the usual period. Pive years ago, Dr. Hasseltine con- tracted the illness in Washington at practically the seme time his two ben- efactors, Drs. Armstrong and Prancis, were ravaged by the fever, when the three were conducting laboratory studies in an effort to find a way of stemming the epidemic of the malady then sweeping the country. Dr. Armstrong a few years ago donated serum for the wife,of Senator Borah when she was stricken by par- rot fever. He has gained considerable medical fame by his research on mon- keys in studying sleeping sickness. Dr. Francis has an international rep- utation for his work: on tularemia, “deer-fever,” carried by jackrabbits. Both these men owed their own re- | covery from psittacosis to the use of convalescent serum. | Swiss Glaciers Shorter. Most of the Swiss glaciers are be- coming shorter, experts declare, 4 $6.75 to Aid Hero’s Kin. Employes of the Washington Navy Yard's mine laboratcry have con- tributed $6.75 toward thc relief fund and The Star has added the donation | to funds sent in for the purpose. This 'mnd now totals $1,379 53. ! In a news item several days ago The Star inadvertently listed the con- | tribution of the Navy Yard as received for the reopening of the Y. W. C. A. pool for downtown children. —e “G-MAN” ARRESTED | Detroit Youth Faces Hearing on | Impersonation Charge. ATLANTIC CITY, August 3 (P).— | Chief of Police Richard De Pamphlis | of nearby Longport said today that a desire to be & G-man allegedly | prompted George Raymond Miller, 20, | | of Detroit to impersonate a special | | agent of the United ‘States Depart- | ment of Justice. | Miller is being detained in the Longport Jail under 34,000 bail. He will be arraigned in Trenton. —e Engine Boilers Ordered. i Rallways in India have just ordered for the family of Sterling Calhoun, | {to try to swing the election for Tom | machine supports Chandler. Six State | and over the radio for six weeks. Accompanied by epithets such as “Judas,” “Benedict Arnold,” and “po- litical murder,” three independent | candidates have had at both of them | with comparable vim. Rhea today said he did nct know | anything about the troops’ being in Harlan. Chandler called it “a move | | Rhea.” State Treasurer Elam Hud- | dleston called it a “political trick.” | Frederick A. Wallis of Paris, former | New York Police Commissioner, de- | plored intimidation of voters, Law Vielation Charged. The Loulsville city machine is sup- | porting Rhea. The Loulsville Times | today charged that “it was function- ing in high gear in the Black Belt.” ‘The paper said election laws were being violated. The Jefferson Cocunty (Louisville) | policemen were arrested today when they disobeyed the sheriff’s order to get out of the county. Meanwhile the Republicans nomi- nated candidates quietly. Judge King Bwope, indorsed for Governor by most county organizations, declined to comment of the Harlan occupation. One of his opponents, Judge D. M.| Bingham, called it an insult to the | people. Judge Sam Hurst, the other, 33 German locomotive bollers, investigation will be outlined | to a Nation-wide radio audi-| ence by Senator Hugo L. Black, | Alabama, Democrat, and chairman of the Lobby Committee, when he speaks in the National Radio Fo- rum at 10:30 o'clock Thursday eve- ning. The forum program is arranged by | The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcasting Co, | The Alabaman is gaining nmn!-} tion as one of the Senate’s ace in-| quisitors. He has nine years of service in the Senate, but is still one of the| younger members, being 49. Prior to his recent le:edon to canduc:‘ m e was’chairman WW%IM which investigated airmail contracts. Thus far the Lobby Committee has devoted its hearings entirely to activ- ities in connection wlthunu:;“ mx:; holding n! i the I cxperted to bennch out into flelds. Senator Black is s bill now pending in persons who en- goge in Black to Talk on Lobby Probe HE sccope of the Senate lobby® business of advocating or | also condemned it. SENATOR BLACK. bt~ opposing wmum‘w'fl.mma to Necessary Pledged by Six Texans. By the Associated Press. ANGLETON, Tex., August 3.—Six Houston newspapermen were fined by a District Court judge today because they violated his erder against print- ing testimony in a murder trial. The group, three editors and three reporters, immediately appealed to a higher State court. Indications were the case might reach the United States Supreme Court, Pines of $100 against the editors and $25 against the reporters were | assessed by Judge M. S. Munson against George Cottingham, editor of | the Chronicle; Max Jacobs, managing editor of the Post: Ed Pooley, manag- ing editor of the Press; Ed Rider, Chronicle réporter; Frank White, Post reporter, and Harry McCormick, Press reporter. Sees Need of Redress. “I know the Constitution guaran- tees the rights of free speech and freedom of the press,” the judge said, “but I feel that it also gives the right for redress from wrong. “I take it there must be some power to restrict the press, so as to insure a fair and impartial administration of Jjustice. Now where should this power be lodged—in the judiciary or in the mind of an editor?” The newspapermen were ordered held in custody until the fines were paid but attorneys immediately ob- tained their freedom by filing a writ of habeas corpus with the Court of Criminal Appeals at Austin, upon whicl. Chief Justice W. C. Morrow ordered their release. Juries Held Handicapped. The case grew out of the refusal of the three Houston dailies to refrain from publishing testimony in the trial of Clyde Thompson, charged with slaying Everet Melvin on the retrieve State prison farm on May 29. The judge held that publication would handicap the State in selecting juries for the subsequent trials of Raymond Hall and Ed Ebers, also charged in the Melvin slaying. “I am glad,” Judge Munson said, “that there is a higher court to check on my judgment and & still higher court to check on the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals.” ‘Woman Poison Victim. NEW YORK, August 3 (P)~—Miss Louise Schoenberg, about 40, the daughter of John Schoenberg of Kan- sas City, died tonight in Bellevue Hospital 12 hours after she was brought there from her West Fiftieth street home suffering from an attack of unidentified polsoning. Her father ‘was notified of her deaply : A of law enforcement arises. To ‘ that Judge Harold C. Smith of ] the County Police Court will as- | ] test | Judge Smith was “ticketed” for parking overtime in front of his office last night and his case ‘Wwas set for Tuesday. The county jurist ordinarily sits in town cases, but with him- self appearing as defendant, Mayor Douglas Blandford or some other justice of the peace will preside if Judge Smith elects to fight the case. Thompson sald that Judge Smith was one of a number of persons who have been warned against overtime parking since the town council’s drive on traf- fic law violators opened. |BANK ROBBER FLEES PRISON IN ILLINOIS | Man Once Doomed to Hang Last Caught Studying Chemistry to Make Bombs By the Associated Press. JOLIET. Ill, August 3.—Henry “Midget” Fernekes, 39, at one time sentenced to hang for murder, was reported by officials to have escaped tonight from the Illinois State Peni- tentiary here, where he was serving & 10-year to life sentence for bank robbery. Police said Ferneckes’ criminal ea- years old. September 19, 1914, in an attempt tc get money so he could marry a Valparaiso, Ind., girl, he held up the Pirst National Bank in that city. He was captured and sent to the Indiana Reformatory for two years. Officials said Pernekes attempted to blow up a part of the Cook County Jail during his confinement there, and when he was last arrested police squads found him studying books on chemistry in a crowded Chicago library, a pair of losded pistols in his pockets. He admitted that he was seeking a way to open safes without an explosion and & means of making acid bombs which would temporarily blind robbery victims. ——s Reginald Denny Asks Bankruptey LOS ANGELES, August 3 (®).— Reginald Leigh Denny, film actor, to- day filed a voluntary bankruptcy peti- tion with the statement he was unable to meet current obligations. He was granted 10 days in which to file & schedule of debts and assets. L3 reer began when he was about 18 from the Federal pay roll taxes any industry tha. operates a private re- | tirement plag equal to or better than the Government plan. Pension Bills Revised. If the conferees are unable to reach & compromise on the question, it is | expected administration leaders will | suggest the appointment of House |and Senate subcommittees to work out some solution of the Clark amend- ment before the next session of Con- gress convener. As to the District security program the old-ag> pension and blind pension | bills already have been revised to | conform to the standards laid- down |in the national bill as necessary if | Federal aid is to be received in pay- | ing these pensions. On the unemploy- { ment insurance bill, the District Com- mittee has before it for decision a series of amendments urged by the Commissioners and local organizations to bring th+ House bill into conformity with the naticnal bill and with the general trend of State laws enacted thus far. 140 FAMILIES LEAVE AS APARTMENT SAGS Queens Building Commissioner Orders Evacuation as Crack Appears in Masonry. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 3 —Forty fam-| ilies were evacuated tonight from s five-story apartment nouse in Long Island City, Queens, when the struc- ture suddenly sagged 'n the rear and & dangerous crack appeared in the masonry. Building Commissioner Frank C. Keller of Queens ordered the families into the street a n examinstion. He said it was In a “dangerous condi- tion.” Army officials at Mitcnel Field, the Army’s aviation post, sent a supply of cots and roomy tents tc meet the housing emergency caused by the evacuation. ROBBER KILLS FARMER $250 Is Taken by Assailant Using Axle Bar as Weapon. SALEM, N. J,, August 3 (#)—Harry Dolbow, 34, Salem County farmer, was beaten to death with a steel axle bar and robbed of $250 today by an assailant who left no clues. His body was found in a barn. The farmer was tet upon shortly after midnight soon after his return with his wife and 7-year-old daugh- ter from Harrington, Del. &