Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1935, Page 13

NCONEY FRANED LIS SHEARS Utility Company Agent Urged Him to Falsify Evidence, He Says. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, September 27.— |° Little Warren K. Billings charged yes- terday that he and stocky Tom Mooney, sentenced to life terms for the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness day bombing, were “framed” by a private detective Testifying in Mooney's latest bid for freedom, a habeas corpus hearing, Billings said Martin Swanson, special agent for a public utility, asked him four days prior to the explosion to appear against Mqoney in connection with the bombing of a power line in- volved in labor trouble. Billings asserted he refused and Swanson saw him at police head- | quarters and told him: | “You were a damned fool for not | going along with us and help convict ‘Tom Mooney (of the tower bombing) and save yourself from being sent to the penintentiary or being hung for something you haven't done.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Prodigy Hates Love Stories “Just Mush,” Says Boy Who Discovered Fifth Latin Conjugation. ALT LAKE CITY (#) —Vernon King’s eyes twinkled behind those thick, dark-rimmed glasses. 1 like scientific stories and detective mysteries, t0o,” he said. “But love stories—they're just mush.” Vernon is the 13-year-old high | school junior who is credited with dis- covering a fifth Latin conjugation and who can spell and define chemistry terms that are too long to pronounce in one breath. He was interviewed as he reclined on a couch, nursing & broken knee. On a table rested a volume filled with dizzying chemical formulas, indicat- ing Vernon's taste for light reading. Although the broken knee has kept him from his chemistry laboratory in the family garage, Vernon managed to deliver a half-hour lecture on Social- ism to teachers at the University of Utah Summer school. His discovery of a new Latin con- | which he said “proves that one equals | | Yen. jugation, he explains, arose from the fact that he found verbs which didn't fit into the four orthodox conjugations. 8o he got himself a new one. Vernon has been spelling polysyl- labic words and seeking out knowl- edge for himself ever since his pre- school days, At a time when most boys are concerned only mildly with spelling any sort of words, he was reading proof on a magazine of which his father, Murray King, was editor, “Vernon used to correct my spell- ing of many words,” said his father, who has contributed serious articles to several magazines. “Once he sees & word, he never seems to forget it.” “I just analyze the word, and then it's easy to remember,” Vernon ex- plained. While his interests just now are centered largely in Latin and chem- istry, he is catholic in his tastes for | learning. Without paper or pencil, he developed an algebraic formula | zero.” And then he pointed out the fallacious step in the process. Before he had outgrown the bed- time story age, he did mathematical problems “in his head” as fast as his father could state them, the elder King said. Psychologists who have interested themselves in Vernon's case assert their tests of his mental ability and general _knowledge prove he is “one in ten thousand.” He could handle freshman college subjects this Fall, they say, but they have advised him to remain in high school another year or two to give his rather spindling body a chance to catch up somewhat with his mental development. Vernon thinks he wants to be a scientist. Whatever field of learning he may eventually specialize in, he will not be likely to lose his intel- lectual superiority, the psychologists say. That, they explain, is inherent— an ability developed in Vernon's per- sonality out of contributions he has received from his ancestors ‘some- where back along the line.” e Capital's Name Changes. Peiping, China’s, old capital was so renamed by the Nationalists from Pe- | saw the Stars and Stripes on an | equitable power of the Federal courts king. Two thousand years B.C. its | American ship they thought the flag | in cases concerning Federal taxes. He name was Yochow and at 800 B.C. NANILING OUR FLAG TO THE MASTHEAD =ln the largest single self-contained motor car factery in the werld, thow- RAILROAD ASSOCIATION OFFICIAL QUITS POST J. R. Downes Will Become As- sistant to President of Pennsy System. By the Associated Press. J. R. Downes submitted his resig- nation yesterday as vice presioent of the operations and maintenance de- partment of the Association of Ameri- can Railroads to become assistant to the president of the Pennsylvania Ratlroad. J. J. Pelley, president of the associa- l!lon, in apnouncing the resignation, said at the same time that J. M. Symes of Philadelphia has been ap- pointed Downes’ successor. Symes, now.chief of freight trans- portation of the Pennsylvania Rail- road. will assume his duties October 1, when Downes' resignation becomes effective. . “Flower Flag.” When the Chinese at Canton first as beautiful as a flower, and “flower | flag” 1t was called for many years. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1935. LAST RITES FOR POST Body Is Buried in Memorial Park | Cemetery, Oklahoma City. | OKLAHOMA CITY, September 21; () ~Wiley Post’s body was buried yesterday in Memorial Park Cemetery. The brief services were attended by Post’s widow, his brothers and sister: and his parents, Mr. and Mrs, W, P. Fost of Maysville, Okla. ‘The body of the famous flyer who was killed with Will Rogers in an air- plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska, August 15, has lain in & mau- soleum since funeral services were held a week after the accident. TAX FIGHT LOST NEW HAVEN, Conn., September 27 () —Four petitions for preliminary injunctions to restrain the collection of processing taxes under the A.A.A. were dismissed yesterday by United States District Court Judge Carroll C. Hincks. The judge held that a recent amendment to the agricultural ad- justment act has taken away the | granted Government motions to dis- | miss the bill of complaint. 8 Entrance To Service Department On 14th Street Instead of Alley Stanley Horner- Remodels Service Dept. ‘To promote proficiency, we have equipped our service department with new equipment. 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Nolan, labor leader who was accused of taking part in the bombing but who never was brought sands of veteran Buick workmen have focused for 1wwe years on perfecting Jour neaw series of phenomenal automobiles, and moww they offer these to the public in full comfidence that they dramatically werify the traditional to trial, shouted his explanation of the fact that chemicals which police had taken to be bombing materials had been found in the cellar of his home after the parade blast. The prosecution originally theorized that the bomb, which killed 10 and injured 40 persons, was fashioned in Nolan'’s cellar and planted by Mooney and Billings Police, searching the cellar, said they found some “‘saltpetre,” a substance that looked like black powder and an- other chemical. The “saltpetre,” Nolan testified to- day. was epsom salts. Nolan, like Mooney, an iron moulder, said the powder was a trade material used in welding. “I want you to know all those things in the basement were: mine,” Nolan shouted. “and they can't be hung on Tom Mooney. * * * They (police) didn't ask me about the ma- terials. They just jumped to the| conclusion they were saltpetre, pow- | der. etc. They just wanted to indict | somebody in this case and they | did it.” Billings, who, attorneys stressed, is here solely as a witness, talked volubly and smoothly without interruption. Promised a Job. Telling about his meeting with Bwanson, he said: “Swanson said he was sorry he had to send me to prison in 1913 and said he might be able to | get me a job. He took my address | and left. “I saw him next day in response to | & telephone call. He introduced me to several officials of the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. “One of the men he introduced me to gave me an employment blank “Later he produced a poster offer- ing a $5,000 reward for the appre- hension of any one in connection with the bombing of power transmission lines. He asked me how well I knew Mooney and when I last saw him. He told me all that would be necessary would be for me to go into court and say I knew Mooney and that Tom had told me he was the man who had dynamited the towers.” Billings said he told Mooney of the incident. He said Swanson became angry and threatened to “get” him later. Mooney seeks freedom from prison via the habeas corpus route on the contention the prosecution violated his constitutional rights in his trial— that he was convicted on false testi- many. Billings said Swanson was with offi- eers who arrested him four days after the Preparedness day bombing. He was taken into custody at a San Francisco hospital, where he said he was waiting to have a prescription flled. Chevy Chase Bank Dividends Idle, Awaiting Claims Depositors of Closed Institution Fail to Cash Checks. ‘Thousands of dollars are lying idle at 1336 New York avenue, the office of the receiver for the Chevy Chase Savings Bank, it was learned yester- day, because depositors of this closed institution are failing to call and get their checks for the additional 20 per cent dividend, recently declared. More than 4,000 depositors already have been notified by postal cards to |* call at the receiver's office for their checks, but so far only about 1.500 have called. The total amount of the checks not yet claimed was not disclosed, but the total dividend of 20 per cent has made available $134,000. Two more groups of depositors were being notified today and tomorrow by the last two batches of postal cards, bringing the total of all uepositors notified up to 4,500. 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