Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1935, Page 9

MRS MUENCHHELD KIDNAPING WOMAN Prosecutor to Call Kelley in Effert to Identify Mis- souri Defendant. B the Associated Press MEXICO, Mo., October 2.—Prosecu- tors sought today to convince a jury of Missouri farmers that Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, member of a prom- inent Missouri family, and “Goldie,” companion of gangsters, were the same person as they pressed a kidnaping charge against her. Mrs. Muench, sister of a State Su- preme Court judge and central figure in a court battle over the “gift of | God" baby whose birth she announced | #ix weeks ago after 22 years of child- less marriage, is on trial here for al-| leged complicity in the 1931 kidnaping of Dr. Isaac D. Kelley, St. Louis throat | specialist. | Two men have been convicted for the kidnaping. Mrs. Muench's case | came here from St. Louis County on | & change of venue.’ Kelley as Witness. Prosecutor John Wolfe planned to €all Dr. Kelley to the stand some time today to testify to his abduction Kelley was expected to recall that on one occasion during the time he was held prisoner one of the men referred in a conversation to “Goldie.” A predicate for the statement was laid yesterday when Adolph Fiedler, 515-pound key State witness, told his version of the kidnaping, which he .said was plotted in a recreation parlor he operated near St. Louis. Fiedler, who asserted he knew Mrs. Muench by her own name and by the name “Goldie,” testified that she recommended the name of Dr. Kel- ley to the kidnapers and agreed to “finger” the abduction Another of vesterday's witnesses was the victim's wife, Mrs. Kelley, a St. Louis society woman Doctor Lured From Home. She testified that Mrs. Muench, while in her home to fit a dress, asked numerous Questions concerning Dr. Kelley's willingness to answer night calls. The kidnaping, a futile at- tempt to force $50.000 ransom pay- ment, was accomplished by luring Dr. Kelley rmm home on a fake profes- whose parentage defendant and sylvania serv- wo days of (l\e mal Friends of the Muenches were caring for it at a farm home nearby. “BICYCLE LADY” DIES New York Woman, 72, Rode With Pet Hen on Handlebars. NEW YORK, October 2 «&).—Mrs Clemence J. Hodges, known to central Queens for many vears as “the bicycle lady,” died yesterday in a sanitarium. 8he was 72 She disdained autos and in recent years sometimes had atiracted atten- | . tion cle with a pet | i Iy on the han- in France, her youth | . Ky. A daugh- | ver Section. Investiga- tion League, Mavflower Hotel, 8 p.m Lambda Sigma Delta So- on Hotel, 8:15 p.m. Washington Philatelic So- eiety, Carlton Hotel, 8 pm Meeting, District Division, Young Democrats, Carlton Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Ladies Engravers, Hamil Auxiliary, ton Hotel, Photo 7:30 pm. Bingo party, Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth and F streets north- east, 8 pm. Meeting, District Council, Loyal Ladies, Royal Arcanum, 930 H street, & pm. ' TOMORROW. Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, Mayflower Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Washington Trade Asso- eiation, Carlton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Dinner. Cosmopolitan Club, Carlton Hotel, 7 p.m. Meeting, Mineral Aggregate Insti- tute, Wardman Park Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Psi Lambda Tau Sorority, Raleigh Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Dinner, W‘g‘arldml[r Co., Raleigh Hotel, 7 pm. Dinner, Women's Guild, Grace Lutheran Church. Sixteenth and Var- num streets, 4:30 p.m. Meeting, G. P. O. Lodge, No. 189, Government Printing Office, 4:30 p.m. Meeting, \'mtnnon Daughters of the King, St. John's Church, Thirty- fourth and Rainier avenue, Mount Rainier, Md,, 8 p.m. Meeting, Mortar BOlrd 4939 Thir- tieth place, 6:30 p.m. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., October 2.— The big controversy between the goosebone prophets and some of the folks who foretell the weather by natural signs slowed dovn today when groundhog capital and weather works headquarters, had lined up with the gooseboners who predict the coming Winter will be a corker. Another thing that slowed down the argument was & snow flurry over the mountains in Ebensburg. But it was Oliver Fisher of Quarry- ville, one of the best known goose- Goosebone Prop Winter of Snow and Blizzards it became known that Quarryville, | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, hets Predict Pennsylvania has seen in years, many of the “sign” prophets refuse to agree with Fisher and Rufe. Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville, which draws national at- tention every February 2, when the lowly woodchuck comes from his hibernation to predict the advent of Spring, remains aloof from the dis- | pute. Members admitted today, however, that the goosebone prophets of: their particular country, usually know whereof they speak and they suggest it will be best to prepare for the kind boners, who seemed to have turned the tide. Without hesitancy, Fisher said it will be an old-fashioned Winter, with snow drifts, icicles, blizzards, slippery roads and influenza. In this he was supported by Char- ley Rufe, sage of Freeland, who, un- of Winter grandpa used to brag about. SHEPPARD RUNS AGAIN OMAHA, Nebr., October 2 (#).— United States Senator Morris Shep- !plrd Democrat, of Texas, said yes- | terday there were two words he never used—*“resign” and ‘retire.” “T'll never retire from politics,” he But around the market places, |said. “I will be a candidate again where farmers gather these days with | when my present term ends January the fruits of one of the best harvests '1, 1937.” ter will be anything but mild. List prices from $765 ‘o $1945 at Flint, Mich. subject te change with- eut notice, Standard end ccorsories grovps en all medels at extra cost. Convenient GMAC time payment plan. 93-hersepower, five pes- senger seden, 118-ineh wheelbose, $885 list price at Flint, Mich, 120-hersepower, five pas- senger sedan, 122-inch wheelbase, $1090 list price at Flint, Mich. 120-hersepower, six pas- senger sedan, 131-inch wheelbase, $1255 list price @t Flint, Mich. Fen- derwells extra. Card party, Audhur) Eastern Star and Masonic Homes, Willard Hotel, 2 pm. Meeting, District Society, Dames of the Loyal Legion, the Highlands, Co- lumbia road and California street, 3 pm. Dinner, Chevy Chase Methodist Episcopal Church, Connecticut avenue and Shepherd street, 5:30 p.m. Stanley-Horner REMODELS In order that r patrons derive the £ it -date service we modern'l.‘ud our eompiete |llllhetlon .ln-n-ngy 'l‘e- w Service Entrance has been establ; on 14th Street. Stanley H. Horner 1015 14th St. Natl. 5800 120-horsepower, six Ppassenger s n,l!l- eelbase, $1695 list pnu Flint, Mich, GROCER TELLS OF PLOT IN FIRE FATAL TO TEN Accuses Another of Setting Flames to Tenement With Gasoline or Naphtha. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 2.—Assistant State’s Attorney Marshall V. Kearney said yesterday Frank Vitale, grocery proprietor, had confessed he had a part in a plot to set fire to the store on the first floor of a tenement build- ing. with a resultant loss of 10 lives. Kearney said that Vitale accused Joseph Di Chiari, 31, allas Mateo, of setting the fire early Monday with three 5-gallon cans of either gasoline or naphtha. Kearney said Di Chiari denied the accusation after three hours of ques- tioning by himself and Police Capts. John Stege and John Norton = Eight others were being detained | for questioning. Palm Oil Source. Palm oil is obtained from lhe fleshy outer covering of the fruit of | several species of African palm trees, | the best known being the Guinea oil tree. SOUTH FLORIDA STATE PLAN TO END FRICTION | By the Associated Press. SARASOTA, Fla.,, October 2.—Two Sarasota attorneys, complaining that North Florida dominates the Legisla- ture, issued a call yesterday for a mass meeting to begin a program looking to the creation of a new State to be called South Florida. Paul C. Albritton, former circuit judge, and Frank Redd extended the invitation to the mass meeting to other counties of Southern Florida. ‘They said that although the pro- posal involves a number of legal diffi- culties, proper impetus at the begin- ning of the movement could effect the division. ‘They said the area proposed for the new State has a population of ap- proximately 1,180,000, H 1935. GREEK KILLED IN FIGHT Vine Growers Demanded Govern- ment Buy More of Harvest. 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