Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1935, Page 7

EAGINEE IS LD N BRENER CSE Cassius M. McDonald of De- troit Accused of Arranging Exchange of Ransom. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, September eral officers held Cassius M. McDon- ald, 52-yvear-old engineer, today on & warrant charging him with having made arrangements for exchange of $72,000 of the $200,000 ransom paid kidnapers of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker. 8 McDonald was arrested at his iso- {ated lake front villa in Grosse Pointe village last night and was Commissioner Frank Q. Quinn, who fixed McDonald's bond at $100,000, and set the removal hearing for Oc- tober 8. Federal Attorney Acts. McDonald, at liberty since February ™ under $10,000 bond after he was in dicted at Miami, Fla. for harboring Alvin Karpis, credited with having planned the kidnaping of Bremer, was arrested on order of William G. Comb, first assistant United States attorney, who said he acted at the request of District Attorney George F. Sullivan | of St. Paul With McDonald at his arraignment | were two attorneys, who said they hoped to complete arangements for McDonald’s release on bond. Federal officers said McDonald is tharged specifically with having made arrangements in Havana, Cuba, for the exchange of $72,000 of the “hot” Brener Ransom money. & Bremer was kidnaped in January, 1934, at St. Paul and released near Rochester. Minn., after he had been held captive 21 days. The subsequent Department of Justice investigation involved the notorious Barker-Karpis | gang in the kidnaping. Karpis, now classified as Public Enemy No. 1, and Harry Campbell. a lieutenant, are the only major suspects in the case still sought. One of 22 Involved in Case, McDonald, Federal officers said. is one of 22 persons now involved in the case. He was arrested with Joe Adams, Florida’dog track and hotel operatcr, and several others on chaizes of harboring Karpis after the gangster shot his way through a trap in Flor- {da. Agents of the Bureau of :investiza- tion announced at that time they had traced a large part of the ransom money to Cuba McDonald has been a resident in Detroit several years. He maintained a lake-front villa in the fashionable residential park, a shooting lodge at Watersmeet, upper peninsula, aad was seen frequently at Oakland Hilis Country Club, where he played goll At the time of his Miami arres: where Federal agents said he posed s a wealthy Detroit business man. Mc- Donald was identified by Willlam Lar- son, Bureau of Invi DAYLIGHT PLAN TO END Sunday Marks Change in_East- ern and Some Midwest States. NEW YORK. September 27 (P).— Time will turn backward an hour Sun- day in communities which have bor- rowed Summer sunshine by the day- light-saving plan. In most Eastern States and in some in the Midwest, clocks will be set back an hour at 2 am. They were set ahead on April 28. Even in Connecticut and New Hampshire, whose statutes oppose the W practice, daylight time has been in frequent operation. tigation. GROSNER presents M-O-T-T-L-E-D 27.—Fed- | imme- | Biately arraigned before United States | then in charge of the Detroit ! Editor’s note: This is the tenth of a series of articles by E. de S. Melcher, dramatic critic of The Star, who is in Hollywood to tell you how the film folk work and play, and to write of the production activities in the big studios. An- other article will be published to=- morrow and each day thereafter as long as Mr. Melcher remains in the moving picture capital. BY E. de S. MELCHER. OLLYWOOD, Calif., September | I I 27.—Jan Klepura's entrance | into Hollywood will never be | | forgotten. He was introduced | to the big and little fry at a party | given in his honor by Paramount. In one of the Roosevelt’s largest banquet halls, surrounded by stars, the press, | and a great many plates of potato | salad, he threw back his head, opened his mouth and sang “Be Mine To- night.” Then he sang something else— and something else—and something else. Nobody could stop him. And| the more he sang the better and louder | he got—until it seemed as if every | time he wrestled with a top note Holly- wood's roof might blow off. Kiepura has been brought to this | country at vast expense by Paramount. He joins the songbird colony that now | includes Gladys Swarthout, Lily Pons, | Nelson Eddy, Michael Bartlett, Helen Jepson and a score of others. He 13 said to get $100,000 for a picture— not only in this country, but in Eu- rope. He thinks American women are | so beautiful that wher he starts talk- | ing about them his hands fly out in | wonder and delight and his tongue | fails him. | | He is by far the most dramatic singer-actor Hollywoed has seen this | season. Fan magazine writers quiv- | ered when he yowled “Be Mine To- | night” at them. Salads. wines, cock- | tails were momentarily forgotten. The | great Kiepura had them by the ears. | Kiepura is not, however, a modest man. When he expresses himself it is in terms of the box-office that he knows he is. When we asked him if | he wasn't planning on coming to| Washington this Winter for a song re- | cital, he said: “Eet would geeve me zee | greatest pleasure. But yes I woold come—I woold—I have everything but | zee time—zat ees zee trouble—zee | time—Eef they deedn't loff me s0| much in Hamburg, Berlin, London and | Paree, I woold come—But zair eez no | time.” As he said this he was surrounded by a group of friends and whatnots. He said it with a grin that meant he wasn't being too serious about it all. And yet—no one else in Hollywood could be so blunt and get away with it. “Very continental, isn't he?" said a small, dark lady to our right. And €hat is the answer—very continental. Mr. Kiepura sang that afternoon to his heart’s content—and everybody eise’s. He was photographed with at least 40 different people—including good-looking Lola Lane (Mrs. Alexan- der Hall), whom he said he would like | to have for his leading lady—(he gets | Gladys Swarthout). Every time the camera snapped he let out a howl, {shot out his arms, looked as if he might be saying “mammy” in Polish Next day, down at Paramount there was a note for his press agent from his secretary. The note said: “Mr. K. would like a doctor. The best you have.” | * ok K ¥ | KNICKNACKS discovered here and there: | Maxine Doyle is going places these , days with Carl Laemmle, jr. Margaret | Sullivan gave a dinner the other night which they attended. The Donald Woods now live in a large house on North Hillcrest road. They live right next door to the Jim- mie Cagneys. | Virginia Bruce and David Niven (former District of Columbia visitor), are now a pair. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Melcher in Filmland Among the Stars Being One of a Series of Hollywood Chronicles by The Star’s Pramatic Critic. | | climaxed a four-year feud with a local | 2 S Fox's most recent discovery is Ed- ward Norris. After a two-vear siege of watchful waiting on the M-G-M lot he was borrowed recently to play opposite Rochelie Hudson in “Snatched.” Rumor has it that he's good. Dick Powell may play a one-week's theater engagement at the nice little | CROS A M:ERI1CA:" *NOW 1 CAN HAVE BUILT-UP HEELS - THANKS TO CROSBY /" Black or brown suede with colf frim. Buillup S salary of $8.000. Mae West still goes regularly to the “fights” on Friday nights When a barber shop or a market opens out here they have arc lights in the street and an orchestra playing on a platform out in front of the new store. Joan Crawford had three wisdom B Y ,dl.ll Crosby proves that you need not pay more than $2 for expensive styles. Built-up heels at Crosby's low price are an achieve- ment, but on shoes of such fine quality they're a downright sensa- tion. And equally amazing is the variety of exquisite styles that = Crosby offers. Why pay more when - S HOES . 'R “E/A-T-E 8T P FRIDAY, PONER LINEFED SLAVING PROBED Farm Woman Killed by Deputies in Battle to Arrest Husband. By the Associated Press. | SCOTCH PLAINS, N. J., Septem- | ber 27.—Preparations went forward | today for two inquiries into the fatal | shooting by deputy sheriffs of Mrs. Sophia Crempa, 41-year-old farm wife, | during a gun battle yesterday which ! | power company. John Crempa, the woman's husband. was wounded, and their 19-year-old | daughter, Camille, was taken to jail. At Elizabeth Dr. C. A. Brokaw,| Union County physician, announced | | after an autopsy that Mrs. Crempa | died from five bullet wounds in the | abdomen. Bullets taken from the | body will be studied by ballistic ex- | | perts to determine which deputy’s | gun fired the fatal shots. Followed Arrest Tttempt. Sheriff C. Wesley Collins, whose | aides precipitated the battle by trying | | to arrest Crempa for contempt of | court, planned an investigation of his SEPTEMBER | deputies’ course of action. Prosecutor | Abe J. Davis also was ready for.an | exhaustive inquiry. | | Crempa, incensed by a condemna- | | tion award of $800, had refused to ‘ accept the money and began a long ! series of attacks on the high-tension | testh yanked out at one session last | week. | Kitty Carlisle was Ian Wilson- | Young's chief companion when the British Embassy’'s third secretary vis- | ited here recently. | | Patsy Ruth Miller and Lila Lee have | opened their own dress shop. i * x % % 5 | FVEHY member of the cast of “Page | ~ Miss Glory” got a diamond or emerald or ruby jigger (mostly | watches) from Marion Davies when the picture was completed. | Gretchen Smith Green is entertain- | | ing this afternoon in her new home | " on Hollyhill Terrace, | VALUES 27, 1935, wires, occasionally short-circuiting them. On September 9 Vice Chancellor Henry T. Kays gave Sheriff Collins 30 days to serve Crempa with papers, charging contempt, but the sheriff previously had been warned by Vice Chancellor Bigelow that he was to use no violence, Wednesday night, Crempa's son. John, 19, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff E. J. Carolan at a riding | academy where he worked. Take Gas Bombs. Collins and his men had tried many times to take Crempa, but had been beaten off by Crempa and the neigh- bors. Carolan and six other deputies decided yesterday to arrest Crempa. All except Carolan, he said afterward, carried revolvers. Two carried pump shotguns, and several carried tear gas bombs and guns. Carolan said Crempa started the attack after the deputies projected tear gas bombs into the house. He came from the house, firing a shotgun, Carolan said, and behind him came his wife and daugh- ter, armed and shooting. The battle lasted 10 minutes, Carolan estimated. 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