Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1935, Page 5

FLORIDAN KILLED; FAMILY 1S HELD Wife and Three Sons Grilled | in Stabbing of Building Firm Official. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, September 12.—J. Prank Fenn, 35, of Coconut Grove, secretary-treasurer of a contracting firm, died today of stab wounds, and police detained his pretty young wife and three sons for questioning. | The wife, Mrs. Cozette Fox Fenn, about 30, has been prominent in Coco- nut Grove circles. The eldest of Fenn's sons is 14 years old. | J. B. Rowland, investigator for the Btate’s attorney’s office, said Mrs. Fenn told him her husband came home in his automobile wounded. | Rowland said an inspection showed | no blood on the car. | There was blood. he said, on Fenn's | bed and on the bed room floor. A | butcher knife found on the kitchen | floor also was bloody, Rowland said. Dr. L. S. Rentz, a physician, said he was called to the Fenn residence at 3:10 am. He told Rowland Mrs. Fenn said her husband had stabbed himself. | Dr. Rentz said he found Fenn on | the bed and “blood all over every- | thing.” “The family appeared calm,” he | said. “None was hysterical. Mrs. | Fenn said her husband had stabbed himself and Fenn, who was conscious, | did not deny it. He refused to answer any questions.” Clement L. Theed, Coconut Grove | peace justice, said he would hold an | inquest later. | Rowland said he would question the | Fenn children when they had taken Mrs. Fenn's statement. | Long (Continued From First Page.) Baton Rouge for the funeral, friends and foes of the “dictator” drew up their lines to battle for control of the State. [ The power of Alice Lee Grosjean ‘Tharpe, handler of millions in State Iunds for Long, was accounted negli- gible as rumblings of war on the po- litical battlefield were heard. Mrs. Tharpe, supervisor of public ac- counts—an office Lang created to han- dle State monies without supervision | couch within the coffin. | speakers at a State-wide memorial {service for Long in Alexandria Sat- | That's just a plain frankfurter Mrs. Roosevelt Between the two is Franklin, jr. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Have a Hot Dog, Mr. President? is offering to her husband. And he is ready with his plate. The picture was maae at the family picnic ground in Hyde Park yesterday. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. e HAUPTMANN PLEA RULING DELAYED Chancellor Says Court Will Not Conisder Case at Today’s Session. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J, September 12.— Chancellor Luther A. Campbell said today the Court of Errors and Appeals would not rule today on the Bruno Richard Hauptmann case. The chancellor said Hauptmann's appeal from his conviction as the kidnap-murdered of the Lindbergh baby had not yet been considered in the court's conference, and he did not know whether it would be discussed later today during the opening con- ference session of the court’s Fall term. The charcellor is.the senior officer of the court. Even if the Hauptmann case should be considered today or tomorrow and an agreement reached by a majority of the 13 judges, it probably would not be announced. A member of the court would be assigned to write an opinion, which would be discussed at a iater conference and might even be rewritten. The court, however, tries to dispose of all cases heard in one term of court | before the next term opens. Should | that be done, most of the May term | cases will be decided before October 15, hen the next term begins. in evening clothes, Long lay on a Floral wreaths were banked higher and higher as the throngs passed. Four United States Senators were expected for the funeral. They were | Holt of West Virginia, Thomas of Oklahoma, Schall of Minnesota and Mrs. Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, the | last of whom was elected after Long | had stumped Arkansas in her behalf. Memorial Service Planned. Gov. Allen and Mr. Smith were | announced by circulated handbills as urday. Shortly before Mr. Smith announced his request for investigation of Long’s | slaying, District Attorney John Fred | Odom of East Baton Rouge Parish | said he “would leave no stone un- | turned that might throw light” on the assassination of Long. Odom announced that the thrice postponed inquest into the death of Dr. Weiss, shot to death by Long's | diverted to other channels. from any one—was first appointed by bodyguards, would be resumed Mon- Long and later by Gov. Allen. Her | gay'at 10 am. political fortune closely paralleled - that of Long, whom she served as sec- | B ST R T retary when he became Governor in 1928. Mr. Smith, former Shreveport elergyman and national organizer of Long's Share-Our-Wealth Clubs, an- It has repeatedly been continued | because the bodyguards failed to ap- | pear when summoned. \ “More witnesses have been ob- tained,” Odom said. “I do not wish to reveal their identity at this time, | nounced he had called on Joseph W. 8 Byrnes, Speaker of the National House | and I don’t know what new informa- | of Representatives, to order the con- tion, if any, they will throw on the gressional inquiry. case. oy | “I wired the Speaker,” said Mr. “A case of this sort, in my opinion, Smith, “that, since he had appointed | Should be thoroughly investigated and a committee to investigate Senator | We are going to unearth every bit of Huey P. Long's activities in Louisiana, | evidence. he should appoint one to investigate Meanwhile, the last Huey Long spe- his assassination.” cial session of the Legislature ended | 2 < | vesterday with the lawmakers obey- | Committee Recently Designated. | A 3 ! y gnate | ing the wishes of their dead master | Byrnes recently designated a com- | and enacting his final dec: i mittee with authority to inquire into | |3y, L1 rees into Louisiana politics to determine | Gloomily and dully the Legislature whether a “republican form of gov-!|wound up the five-day session that ernment” was not destroyed by Long's | Long summoned for enactment of dominance and legislation. more legislation aimed at President | His action was in conformity with | Roosevelt’s administration and to help | a House resolution, generally intended New Orleans get back on its financial Roosevelt (Continued From NSI,P!’“) apparent already that $224,000.000 originally set aside for housing should not possibly all be spent because of the inability of the Government to | get its program in proper motion in | time to spend this amount of morey | before the end of the present fiscal year, June 30. He added that a part of this sum. therefore, would be He ex- plained also that the rural electrifica- tion program, on which $100,000.000 was to be spent, will be similarly re- duced, and some of the money put to other purposes. something of this sort is likely to happen in connection with rural 1e- settlement, for which $200,000.000 was reserved, out of which $131,000,000 has been definitely allocated. During this candid discussion with the press the President dropped the hint that he is of the opinion tnat the country is faced with a permanent unemployment problem. He said in this connection that many persons have lost sight of the fact that dur- ing the five years of the depressicn business and industry learned how to save labor cost, and as a result when industry is back to 1929 production levels it probably would not employ more than 80 per cent as many men &s it did when the depression arrived. Mr. Roosevelt made no attempt to amplify this thought, nor did he indi- cate how he expected to meet this | unemployment problem, or what he 2xpected to ask Congress to give him in the way of relief or public works money for the fiscal year 1936-7. Therefore, the President's worries and difficulties are only increased all the more when it is remembered that in less than four months he will be| called upon to lay before Congress | recommendations as to further relief and work to be provided during the next fiscal year. Shows No Concern. to permit inquiry into congressional elections, but so broadly worded that it provided for a Louisiana investi- gation. Long’s grave was dug near two great oaks in the center of a beautiful sunken garden across the drive front- | ing the capitol. It was Mrs. Long’s | with that he be buried there, and the Senator was himself quoted as hav- ing expressed a desire to lie in the Btate House grounds. Simple was the ritual arranged for one of the most striking figures in Southern politics. A funeral march, adapted from “Every Man a King,” the campaign song which Long wrote; the eulogy and sermon by Mr. Smith, and the reading of Scripture. That was all. | The pallbearers include Gov. Allen, Lieut. Gov. James A. Noe, Seymour | Weiss, president of the New Orleans | levee Board and treasurer of the Bong political organization: Robert S. Maestri, State conservation commis- | sioner; Allen S. Ellender, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and John B. Fournet, justice of the Su- preme Court. ‘Two news photographers—William Badler of the New Orleans Item and W. E. O'Haire, Associaled Press staff | photographer—were taken into custo- dy yesterday by State police shortly after the Senator's body was carried to the rotunda, presumably to prevent the taking of pictures of the casket‘ dtself. ! The sorrowing and the curious | streamed today by the tnousands past | the huge bronze casket, magnificent in construction, in the capitol. Dressed | OF IVORY AT ZANZIBAR" “l saw whitling dervishes, war dances, and native brides . . . ex- plored the Mediterranean, East and South Africa, South America, and the West Indies. Sailed on the grand Empress of Australia” 23 ports. 95 days. Plan to go next Winter. From New York January 25. $1350 up (room with bath from $2350), including standard shore programme. See YOUR OWN AGENT or Canadian Pacific: 14th and New York Ave. N.W., Natl. 4235, 1‘W hington, D. C. SOUTH AMERICA CRUISE {, B LS SS I NNN NN NN NN NN NN | ploye pay rolls. feet by tempering acts the Senator previously had passed to deprive the city of revenue collection. The State Senate finally passed and sent to Gov. Allen for signature 37 bills which include measures: To make it a mandatory jail of- fense for any Federal official or em- ploye to perform any function or com- | mit any act, official or otherwise, that may be violative of the Federal Constitution. *Authorizing Attorney General Por- terie to institute suit in the United | States Supreme Court to “protect the | State’s rights” against what Long pro- posed to see as encroachment of the | Federal Government upon the au- thority guaranteed to States by the Federal Constitution. Judicial District Split. _ “Gerrymandering” a judicial dis- trict, to split it up and add one of | two parishes in the district to two strong pro-administration parishes. Turning over city taxes collected by the State for New Orleans to the City’s Commission Council to meet em- | As an astonishing circumstance, a bill by an anti-Long legislator was passed. It was a measure by Representative Joseph B. Hamiter of Caddo Parish, a consistent anti-Long law-maker, to limit the maximum interest rate on so-called “personal loans” to 12 per c-nt a year, or 1 per cent a month. Whether Long was a man of wealth | or whether he had spent the money | he made was speculated on, but there | ‘was no one to answer. MILL EN 31 £ Here are things you want From the leading interior country. Mill End lengths wide. i Regular Prices $1to$12peryd. _____._ WOOL FRIEZE All colors—full 54 inches wide. This week end only. 52'49 VELVETEEN Twillback, 36 inches Value $1.50. wide. 9 at Mill End prices. Always bargains at the Mill End Shop—and always for quality. Finest Tapestries When asked directly about the quarrei between Ickes and Hopkins, | | | the President showed no particular | concern and gave the impression that | | he thought matters had been greatly | exaggerated. To minimize the effect | of reports from Washington that Sec- | Park with fire in his eye to demand a showdown in his row with Admin- | | istrator Hopkins, the President’s only | explanation was that he had ar- | ranged this gathering of chieftains, of | which Ickes is one, for this conference in advance of the stories about Ickes coming up here for a showdown. Sec- retary Ickes arrived here late yester- | day afternoon, which arrangement R R R S T D SPECIAL TRAIN HAVRE DE GRACE RACES WEEK-DAYS, SEPT. 14 to 28 == $3,40 = Parler Car, Dining Car, Conches Lv. Washington - - - 1205P.M Ar. Hevre de Grace Race Track 140 P.M. Round-Trip Pulimen Sest $1.00 First Race Sterts 2.15P. M. Returning from Track immediotely after races Pcnnszlv ia Railro D SHOP Opposite S Metropolitan Theater | . NOW-—that you can buy Domestic and Imported decorating houses in the and full bolts. 54 inches 169c to $39 yd. VELOURS All colors and excellent qual- ity. Yard VELVETEEN Suitable for drapes. wide. retary Ickes was coming to Hyde | | going to resign because of his differ- | In his opiaion | | | | Occasionally, a few cases run over into a succeeding term. That was | the case in the successful appeal of | James Arthur William Jones, colored, | | of Newark, who until yesterday was | one of Hauptmann's companions m} | the death house at State pr}son. | Jones’ appeal was heard in Febru- | ary, but not decided until June. Yes- | terday he left the death house for Secretary Ickes may have left Wash- | Essex County, where he will receive ington in a fury, but he was in an & Dnew trial. His departure left = | Hauptmann with only two of his e R e e i T original seven companions. Four have | he talked to the newspaper men just | gone to the electric chair, and one of before seeing the President. When| the two remaining is scheduled to asked directly whether or not he was die the week of October 13. Should the Court of Errors and Ap- peals, the State’s highest law court, fail to give Hauptmann a new trial, the greatest clemency Hauptmann could then expect from State courts would be commutation of his death sentence to one of life imprisonment. | ‘The Court of Pardons, a tribunal of mercy not entirely bound by the stern rules of law. has power to substitute life imprisonment for death in the electric chair without making public its reasons. If the Court of Pardons failed to | afforded a splendid opportunity for a long confidential talk with the President befcre the arrival of the other lieutenants. It is understood that the President and the square- Jjawed Ickes talked far into the night before they retired. ences with Mr. Hopkins, he replied | indirectly that he was not and con- cluded by saying, “I like my job.” At the same time he reaffirmed his advocacy of public works projects and said that there were 1,200 ap- plications pending in addition to those | already thrown out. | President Roosevelt's conference with the newspaper correspondents vesterday afternoon, which was de- voted to a discussion of work relief, and the conference to be held at his | home today, was a novel one, in that | D. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935 CASHIER DETAILS $177.000 “DEAL” $110,500 of $177,000 Bee- | son Payment Held Sup- plied by McKay. of Reno, and that he and “Parker,” whose real name was John J. Egleston, took the monéy to & Reno night club. “Parker gave it to some one in a back room of the club,” said the wit- ness. Later, Priswold testified he and two confederates returned to the club and received their “cut” of the loot." “What was done in that room?” asked J. Howard Carter, Government attorney. “Graham laid some money on the table, then picked it up again, took some of it, and Parker reached over and picked up the rest,” replied Fris- SOVIET SHIP TOSSED BY STORM IN ARCTIC Huge Waves Wash Decks in Sea Previously Thought Covered With Ice. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, September 12.—The So- viet ice breaker S8adko, with an expedi- tion of scientists aboard, reported by radio that it is prey to a terrific storm in the northern part of an unexplored area east of Franz Josef Land. The message, dated yesterday, said huge waves were washing over the deck in a sea previously thought By the Assoclated Press. wold. Graham, sitting before James C. AVEW YORIC, September 12—Josebh | ypoicay, co-defendant, muttered under ' | his breath. He and McKay are ac- | of the Riverside Bank of Reno, Nev., | cused of having recelved “cuts” from | figfi‘:’ed“fi% ;;l;to;’:mogo' ;:';;(’lg | the loot of an international swindle | covered with ice. . s ring for facilitating the sale of vic-| The expedition, which recently re- N K soon tor the sale | tims' securities at the Riverside Bank. | ported the discovery of three islands, = Beesol { was caught in the storm while inves- | The witness sald he used to be a| fied she was fleeced of the $177,000. | | A . McKay and William J. Graham, wheat farmer of Lagrande, Oreg. tigating a deep open-water channel The Government requested and re- | connecting the Kara Sea with the Reno gamblers and night club oper- - 8 ators, are on ftrial on mail fraud | ceived a short recess after Friswold | Polar basin. charges. They are accused of hav-| €t the stand. 8 ing “greased” the sale of securitles of | = swindle victims at the Riverside Bank. | United States Witness Heard. Fuetsch, “star” Government witness in the first trial of McKay and Gra- | ham, told of the alleged Beeson trans- | action, Miss Beeson, wealthy spinster of New York and Pittsburgh, has tes- tified that she was lured to Reno by confidence men and there induced to | sell securities through the Riverside | Bank for $177,000, which amount, she | declared, she lost in the stock market | swindle game. McKay entered the bank and in- quired about the progress of the Bee- son transaction, said Puetsch. “I said Miss Beeson could not be paid that day—that the bank did not have the funds,” the witness tes- tified. “Later that day McKay returned | with $110,000 in cash for Miss Bee- son. Frisch (Roy Frisch, missing cashier of the bank) gave him a cashier’s check.” Graham was pointed out in court as the receiver of part of the $45.000 swindled from Mrs. Mayme Staley of Wheeling, W. 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