Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1935, Page 4

A4 « THE EVENING HOAREPEAGE LEA SLAUDEDBY HUL State Department Watching | Ethiopian Situation for Chance to Aid. 8y the Associated Press. Secretary Hull today termed Sir Bamuel Hoare's speech before the League of Nations urging economic sanctions against Italy as a very in- teresting, able and timely appeal for peace. The Secretary of State, however, declined any other comment on the Italo-Ethiopian crisis or on the efforts being made by Great Britain and other members of the League of Na- tions to achieve a peaceful settlement of the dispute. Developments Watched. Secretary Hull said the State De- partment was giving every possible attention to conditions and develop- ments in the Italo-Ethiopian question | with a view to taking advantage of every possibility to co-operate in every practicable way, in the light of Amer- | ican policies for the preservation of peace. H Secretary Hull explained he had not | completed studying the British for- | eign minister’s address and did not | wish to make any official comment., Official Comment Refused. "The United States, Hull said in’ re- ply to newsmen's questions, has not communicated with any other govern- | ments on the Ethiobian question. | While all State Department officials refused official comment on the Italo- | Ethiopian dispute for a moment, | there were obvious indications that | Sir Samuel’s plea for peace had been | received here with considerable sym- | pathy and that the United States was hopeful his address would aid in bringing a peaceful settlement. Eth (Continued From First Page.) iopia of restraint in case war breaks out | between Italy and Ethiopia. Among the striking phrases Sandler’s speech were: “Italy made accusations in regard | to Ethiopia, but it does not appear from the Italian memorandum that Ethiopia has been responsible since January for anything which, in itself, would explain the change that has| occurred. The vast troop movements | carried out have singularly aggra-| vated the situation. * * ¢ “Justice should be equal for both great and small countries.” Van Zeeland, in his speech, said: *Being convinced that the presence | and activities of the League of Na-| tions are for us a guarantee and ele- ment of force, we have always re- garded as fair the price we are asked to pay for these advantages—namely, a share in any burden which follows from any collective decisions which are taken.” | Pledges Loyalty to Covenant. De Graef, coming out clearly against eny Italian expansion by force, as- serted the world should give a cate-| gorical “no” to any such methods. | “If there is any question of Jusu!_v-’ ing needs of expansion by employment of force,” he said, “we believe a coun- try should not be permitted to seize the territory of others by force or vio- lence. “I affirm anew the loyalty of my government to the League of Nations and its firm determination to fulfill entirely the duties which the covenant imposes on League members.” Thus the Netherlands’ foreign min- ister backed up entirely the stand of | 8ir Samuel. The League Council, recognizing | frankly the danger of League delay in the Italo-Ethiopian dispute, decided voday to stay in session throughout the crisis. Adjournment Waits. The idea in League circles was that es long as & menace of war exists in | East Africa and as long as a peaceful solution is not found, the Council should occupy itself uninterruptedly | with the vital problem. Only when and if all threat of war | was removed definitely, League sources ! said, would adjournment be consid- | ered. | British delegates seemed determined to try to prevent a repetition of the | episode during the Sino-Japanese dis- | pute, when the League contented it- | self with a moral condemnation of | Japan and a decision not to recog- nize the independent state of Man- chukuo. The Assembly resumed its session in en atmosphere of undiminished ten- sion. The Italian representatives, still ir- | ritated by the speech of the British | foreign secretary and its implied threat | ©of sanctions, repeated the warning at- tributed to Premier Benito Mussolini | several weeks ago to the effect that | “Sanctions mean war.” Laval Seeks Talk With Duce. Laval, resuming his discussions with the British, had not yet succeeded in | getting through to Mussolini by tele- | phone a last appeal for a conciliatory gesture from Rome. He was believed in informed quar- ters, however, to be still hopeful that he could reach Il Duce's ear before to- night. Laval must speak for France before the assembly tomorrow, and League circles believed Mussolini’s at- titude toward his conciliatory efforts would be likely to determine to a great extent what he would say. All governments were urged to re- main faithful to the League covenant in connection with the Italo-Ethio- pian conflict in a resolution adopted by the Women's Disarmament Com- mittee of women’s international organ- izations. Miss Mary Dingman of New York, now traveling in the United States, | was re-elected president of the com- mittee. Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan | of Washington, D. C., vice president, will continue her activties. De Graeff in his speech, treated as *glarming” the conditions under which | he said the assembly met. League Fails Twice. The world must recognize that the League of Nations up to now has failed completely in two of its princi- pal domains, he said, in economic dis- armament and in military disarma- ment. Laval, awaiting word from Musso- 1ini, arranged not to speak to the as- sembly until tomorrow, when Maxim Litivinoff, Soviet foreign commissar, also is scheduled to deliver an address. The Italian reaction to Sir Samuel’s speech was one of irritation. Their spokesman said he had offered noth- ing concrete, only a general readiness to discuss broadly economic readjust- ments, with freer and greater accesi- bility to raw materials, in l Father and Son He DAVID ASHCRAFT, ¥ MRS. ASHCRAFT (RIGHT) AND HER DAUGHTER. Murder | (Continued From First Page.) what I am going to do, cripple. Then, on his crutches again, he | swung back to the bed, gathered the sleeping boy in his arms and carried | him to the gas stove in the corner. | Ashcraft, swaying and stumbling on | children left Ashcraft to room With & | ¢pegpot, his crutches, held David's face over the stove and opened two gas jets | There he held the child until the | sleepy protests were drowned in the | sound of hissing gas, until Ashcrafs | himself saw the room whirling and pitched to the floor, Hours later, in his cell at No. 1 pre- | cinct, the cripple repeated the story. | Seated on an iron bunk from which dangled his twisted, shrunken legs, | he wiped the sweat from his forehead with a palsied hand. “I had to do it,” he said, I had to do it! That boy was all I had in this world, but I had to do it! I didn't want him dragged through this world the way I've been; me and the | boy was going to leave it togetiter. “The Gun Wouldn't Work.” “I carried him over to the stove and I held him there while the gas filled the room. I held him as lonz as I could; then I fell. After that I can just remember being sick. “That cleared my head a little, I/ guess. I got hold of something and | pulled myself to my feet. Then I shut | off the gas and got my gun. I tried to kill myself, but the gun wouldn't work. It was no good, I guess, that gun; it | wouldn't work at all.” The murder was discovered at 7 am. today, when the child’s mother, Mrs. Josephine Ashcraft, 39, went to the basement room to prepare her son for kindergarten. She found her husband seated be- side the body of her son. “I'd rather for him to be in heaven,” the man declared, “than dragged around this world as I have been!” Mrs. Ashcraft summened the land- lady, Mrs. Sue Fleming, who sent for Ppolice. Asheraft awaited the police and made no attempt to deny the crime. Ashcraft, 45 years old, sold papers LUMBER For That Small Repair Job If that repair job about the house is just a minor one and you need only a small amount of material, get it at Kelly's, We specialize in small orders of Lumber and Millwork and maintain a department that caters to just such orders. We'll deliver your order prompt- ly without extra cost. Phone your order mow and get those repairs completed before cold weather. “. 2121 Ga. Ave. NOrth 1341 —Star Staff Photos. STAR, WASHINGTON, Held Over Gas D. DAVID ASHCRAFT, JR. Slaying in Paris,” became angered and threat- ened to leave the place. | Rogers, angered and under the in- fluence of liquor, ordered his chauf- | | feur, Frank Catano, to get the car | and drive her away. 1 Thought Girl Packing. | The actress, who has appeared in | i principal roles with Leon Errol and | "was featured with Betty Compton (now the wife of the former New York mayor, James Walker) in “Fifty | Million Frenchmen,” rushed upstairs to her bed room intending, the two men thought, to pack. | Rogers and Kelly, drinking and talking, heard a shot. When they | reached the room they found her ly-‘ | ing on the floor. The scene at the farm house was described this morning by Chief of Police Chester F. Glisson, who was the first officer to reach the place after being called by the Rogers | chauffeur. He said: “I was called on the telephone by the chauffeur about 11 o'clock (East- | ern standard time), last night. The chauffeur, who called me, said he was at a farm house half way between the Rogers’ farm and Coatesville. He said a girl had committed suicide and he was afraid a man was going to do the same thing. “I immediately got in touch with Deputy Coroner Harvey Cox, who started directly for the farm. In the meantime Dr. Thomas Richmond called me and said the chauffeur had been at his house. | “Dr. Richmond said his wife was | afraid to let him go because of Rog- | ors’ reputation and known penchant for firearms. He left immediately for | the farm.” | “When T arrived, two men were steadying Rogers, holding him up on the front lawn outside the house. The | | only people in the house at the time | of the shooting were Miss Hoey, | | when the shot was heard, he sald: | Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock. | sions during her week's stay at the argue. He wanted to call a lawyer, a man named Clark, and wanted him to come right over and take a state- ment from me. Miss Hoey didn't want him®to do so. They had some ‘words. “I went into the kitchen and then to the bath room, and I heard Mr. Rogers and Miss Hoey talking. Miss Hoey said she was going back to New York, or was going to call New York, or something. “Rogers did not want her to call or go, so he went to the wall and pulled the telephore wires away. “Then I went back to the kitchen. I stood for a moment in the doorway of the pantry, looking into the living room through a window. Saw Signs of Argument. “I could see Mr. Rogers, his friend (Kelly) and Miss Hoey sitting on the couch. Mr. Rogers was waving his arms in the air, but I could not hear what he said. Then Miss Hoey got up and went out of the room. “Mr. Rogers and Mr. Kelly kept talking, and suddenly—bango!—T hear a shot. | “Mr. Rogers jumped off the sofa and ran out of the room. He came back a minute later like a wild man, and Mr. Kelly went out with him. And then I went in and followed them up- stairs and learned the lady was shot.” Batten fixed the time of the shoot- ing at about 9:40 p.m., Eastern day light time. Questioned again about the whereabouts of Rogers and Kelly “There is absolutely no question about it. They were on the sofa.” So far as Battin observed, Rogers took “only two drinks.” The farmer's story was considered strong substantiation of the stories told both by Rogers and Kelly that the girl had committed suicide. Following the questioning of Bat- tin and others, Deputy Coroner Har- vey Cox said Rogers and Kelly would be released under $1,000 bail pending the coroner’s inquest, set for next Said George Yamada, the cook: “I only work in this house one week. T see right away it is no kind of & house. It is drink, drink, drink all the time. It is untidy. I say I am going to quit. The lady she say she give me more money. “The lady is my boss. I tell her I don't want any more money. Last night I know nothing. I hear no shot. I'm in kitchen cooking. Then I hear people yell, yell, yell. I run in, and | that is all I know, only they say lady | is shot. I see her lying there.” Catano, the chauffeur, was in back of the house getting the car, he said. | He heard the shooting. Quarreled, Chauffeur Says. According to Catano, Miss Hoey had | expressed the desire on several occa- | farm to return to New York, and that | Rogers “got slightly angered.” The| dispute last night, Catano said, was | to get sleep.” the sequel to these previous discus- | sions. | The farm house where the tragedy occurred is one of many old places which dot the Chester County coun- | tryside. | Located on a 65-acre estate known | as Indian Run, the house is two and a half stories high, of stone construc- tion and thoroughly modernized. Rog- | ers has owned it for five or six years. The home is not particularly preten- tious. A huge garage was recently com- pleted, replacing a barn which burned down shortly after Rogers acquired the place. Battin formerly farmed | the place for Rogers, who visits the | farm only occasionally. | | Estrangement Denied. Young Rogers, who was ‘“cut off” with the annual income from a $500,- | George Yamma, the Japanese c00k:| (g0 trust fund under the will of his from his wheel chair at Fourteenth Clyde Battin, a farmer who was em- | foiher Jast July, recently returned and G streets for seven or eigh before failing health sent him to Gallinger Hospital last February. Since then he has been in and out wrote the | Of various charity hospitals, while his | wife went on relief, keeping David and a l4-year-old daughter by a previous marriage on a monthly relief al- lowance. On Monday the mother and the two friend on Twelfth street without telling him where they were, friends said. Police were told that Mrs. Ashcraft was trying to force her husband to| return to the hospital. At length he consented to return on condition that he could spend a few hours with David, Carried Jug Into Room. ‘The child was brought to the Third street address yesterday afternoon. The father begged to be allowed to keep him over night, and this was agreed to, with the provision that he go to the hospital this morning. The landlady said she saw father and son come to her front door and enter their basement room about 11 o'clock last night. Ashcraft left his wheel chair at the gate and swung down the walk on his crutches, carry- ing with difficulty something which looked like a large jug. The 5-year-old, a fair-haired, healthy youngster, was heard to say: “Daddy, don’t you want me to carry that jug of wine for you?” U. S. CAars Popular. Ninety-five of every one hundred new automobiles in Finland are from America, ——— “Helen! Have you ordered your Winter's coal? We just purchased 3 tons of WOOD- SON’S CHESTNUT COAL. 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The bullet hag | entered just over the left eye and | came out the back of her head, im- | | bedaing itself in the wall about nine | | feet above the floor. | “She was wearing a green suit, light | stockings, a lace waist and black | shoes. None of her belongings was in | the room where she was found. It | was a bed room with a single bed and the room was in disarray. Her pocket- | book was found in another room. It appeared as if she might have stum- | bled against the furniture. “In other words, it looked like any room after a drunken party. “When I got there Rogers was standing outside wearing a light top | coat over shabby clothes. He had on no hat. He couldn't talk intelli- gently.” Farmer Supports Rogers. The farmer, Battin, 51 years old, | told the following story of the scene at the farm house: | “I arrived at the house about 6| o'clock last night. Rogers and Miss Hoey were there, and we spent about an hour talking about some dogs that had been killed at the direction of Bob Wright, the foreman of his farm. “Then he and Miss Hoey began to “Why, Mary, We've been using WOODSON’S COAL for years. And say, that reminds me, I'll call WOODSON CO. now and order our coal.” Worth in WOODSON’S 35 per ton shaker $ money- to city North 0176 t years | Ployed by Rogers and who had called | yrom™ Burope, his chauffeur said. He was married in 1929 to Miss Virginia Lincoln of Cleveland. Reports that Rogers and his wife have been estranged have been heard frequently, but a business acquaint- ance of Rogers in Cleveland said to- | day there had been no rift in the | domestic relations of the couple. Mrs. | Rogers was shopping when news of the tragedy reached Cleveland and | could not be immediately located. The chauffeur, Prank Catano, told | a dramatic story, attributing the | tragedy to the dispute about the dogs, | which Battin had mentioned. | He said that Rogers, Miss Hoey and himself came to the farm by train “Jast Thursday or Friday.” “No sooner had he arrived,” Catano 14th & G STS. Again . .. DOBBS sers THE styie “Pecan"..."Frost"... these favored shades and many other smart new ones are adding dis- tinction to the styling give a hat. See them today. DOBBS CROSS-COUNTRY, $5 SIDNEY WEST, nc l"l‘i%?fl | he undertook to make some THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935 said, “than he became very excited | over the condition of the place. | “‘Damn it all’ he said, ‘look at| this place. The dogs are ruined, the | cattle haven't been fed, the bills are | unpaid; it's all gone to hell’” | Miss Hoey tried to get him to “take | it easy,” Catano said. | When Battin arrived last night, Rogers again became excited about the dogs, said Catano. Miss Hoey said to him, according to Catano: “Go to bed and rest. You've got Says Girl Asked Money. | “But Rogers was stubborn,” Catano | continued, “and this started the quar- | reling all over again” | About 8 o'clock Miss Hoey came | to the chauffeur and asked him to lend her $5 to get to New York. | “I told her I did not want to | go against Mr. Rogers’ wishes,” the chauffeur’s story continued, “as he was my boss. Later he said to her, ‘What the hell do you mean trying to borrow money from my chauffeur?’ | He told her he would have given her the money if she had needed it. | “She went up to Mr. Rogers’ bed | room, where there was an extension telephone, and tried to get in touch | with her mother. Mr. Rogers heard | her over the living room telephone | and said: ‘Who in hell gave you| authority to use my phone?” | “About 20 minutes before the shoot- ing I saw Miss Hoey and she was | crying. She appeared perfectly sober, | however.” Rogers has been In and out of the | public prints for many years, both by | reason of the great wealth of his father, who died recently, and be- cause of his own adventurous bent. He quit the luxuries of his father's home before he was 20, and went to work in a Cleveland, Ohio. machine shop for 25 cents an hour. He wanted | to be an engineer, he said, and in-| tended to finish his education at Oxford. Married Virginta Lincoln. In 1929 he was married to Miss Virginia Lincoln, the daughter of & Cleveland physician, but before the year was over there was talk of rifts and finally separation. Hollywood called, and he got a $1- a-year job as cameraman with Para- mount News. Because he lacked a union card he ran into difficulties at the Astoria, Long Island, studios when “short subjects”; and when he attempted to for FALL that only Dobbs can from $7'00 14th & G Sts. HENRY H. ROGERS, JR. take “crowd” shots at Madison Square Garden, he was unceremoniously booted out. Then Rogers went to Hollywood to give serious study to camera technique. In partnership with Harold McCrack- en he undertook to produce pictures, and his first venture was a comedy concerning nudism. On another occasion, with his comera, he went to the South Sea Islands. Miss Hoey had been a guest at the farm house for a week. Her body was removed this morn- ing, being brought to a morgue here. Later the body was taken to the county hospital at West Chester for an_autopsy. Young Rogers fared none to well under the will of his father, who died in July. The provision made for him under the will of Col. Henry Hud- dleston Rogers was the income irom & $500,000 trust fund. The will was filed July 30 at Riverhead, Long Is- land. Under the will, virtually the entire estate was bequeathed to his widow, Mrs. Pauline Rogers; his only daugh- ter, Mrs. Mary Millicent. Ramos, and | to the son of her first marriage, young Peter Alfred Constantin Maria Salm. The residuary estate was placed in trust for the widow, daughter and grandson to share equally. The will was carefully phrased, lawyers noted, so as to exclude young Rogers, namesake of the man who (with the Rockefellers) made millions in oll, from additional participation | in the huge estate. “I have made what I consider adequate provision for my son,” Col. Rogers said in the will. - The income from the $500,000 trust fund is to go to young Rogers during his lifetime, but upon his death it is to revert to the estate Will Created Surprise. When the terms of the will were made public much surprise was ex- | pressed at the lavish manner in which | Col. Rogers had provided for his | grandson, although those close to the | family were aware that he was ex- ceedingly fond of the slender son of his daughter and her first husband, Count Ludwig Salm, formerly well- | known European tennis star. It was not known here whether | young Rogers and the young woman he married in Cleveland six years ago were still married, but it was under- stood they had not lived together for several years. F. H. A. STAFFMAN | INIURED IN GRASH | ‘Theodore Nickson, controller of the | Federal Housing Administration, and Walter Brittain, 52, regional con- troller for the F. H. A. in Chicago, were injured today in an automobile accident near Uniontown, Pa., accord- ing to an Associated Press dispatch. Their car got out of control and over- turned descending a steep grade. Both men are in a Uniontown hos- pital. Nickson's right leg was lacer- ated and Brittain received several fractured ribs and facial bruises. Nickson was driving the car. Store Hours, 9 to 6 For Friday Only! Broken Lots of Wanted Ward- robery at Greatly Reduced Prices Richard Prince Year-'round Suits Were $30 and $35. Pine imported worsted flannel; pure Shetland sport suits; hard-finished worsteds. 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