Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1935, Page 4

A—4 %x¥ ASKS U.S. T0 PROBE LIGGETT SLAYING Minneapolis Bequests Jus- tice Department Take Complete Charge. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, December 12.—The | United States Department of Justice today was asked by Chief of Police; Frank Forestal to take complete | charge of the investigation of the assassination of Walter Liggett, Min- neapolis newspaper publisher and editor, The request—sent by airmail—was made after a conference with Fed- eral operatives in St. Paul. Chief Forestal refused to disclose | the reason for his action, but said he might issue a statement later. Earlier Attorney General Cummings | in Washington said he had received | the telegram of Mrs. Liggett, who also ! asked Federal investigation of the crime. The Attorney General said he was doubtful whether such an in- | quiry could be made since no Federal | law was involved | Police rechecked the abili of Isadore | (Kid Cann) Blumenfeld, identified by | Mrs. Liggett as her husband's slayer, | and Chief of Detectives James Mul-‘ len said today “It was all there.” Crime Probe Demanded, " | Legislative investigation into State erime conditions, with particular em- phasis on Minneapolis, termed by Cummings & year ago “a poison spot of | crime,” echoed the assassination of Liggett today. [ Two special assistant State attorneys general scrutinized the publisher’s last issue of the Mid-West American for | evidence against Liggett's slayer. | The killing spurred State legislators | 1n special session to discuss an inves- tigation of crime conditions and the posting of a $2,500 reward for appre-; hension of the Killer. | The widow, however, spurned a pro- posal of United States Senator Thomas D, Schall, Republican, of Minnesota, in Washington to ask a congressional | investigation “Schall is trying to make capital out of my husband’s murder,” she de- clared. “If he wanted to help Walter, why did he wait until now?"” Wife to Continue Campalign. Parallelling the killing of Edward Guilford, another editor, whose assas- sins of a vear caught, Liggett was slain in much the | same manner. Like Guilford, Liggett drummed ince: y against what he pbranded a “‘crime-political alliance,” ertaking which Mrs, Liggett would continue. | has been made vet to have | s, held by Coroner Gil- | re, examined by a ballistic | | . Liggett requested in writing | not be released to either the rney’s office or the State| they county Crime B | Liggett, in several issues of his| paper, demanded impeachment of Gov. Floyd B. Olson, citing 10 charges and daring of the chief executive to | indict him for libel. | Liggett was exonerated a month | ago of a statutory charge involving & minor girl. He charged during the trial the whole case was “a political frame-up.” REFERRED TO KEENAN, By the Associated Press. Actorney General Cummings said today he has referred the telegram of Mrs. Walter gett, widow of the slain Minneapolis publisher, who asked Federal investigation of the crime, to Joseph B. Keenan, Assistant Attorney General in charge of crime cases. Department aides said they believed no Federal vestigation would be made, because apparently no Federal law was involved in the killing. NEW FOREST PARK RIGHTS ACQUIRED North Carolina Gets More Land in Shenandoah-Great Smoky Area. ago have never been | “Toy Matinee” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Broadcast Makes Appbal for Poor Children ENTERTAINERS A"] D. C., STAR-WARNER BROS.-N. B. C. CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN TAKES TO THE AIR WITH ALL-STAR PROGRAM. EVECUTVE YACHT 10 BE POTONAC | President Picks New Name for Electra, Former Guard Boat. The new presidential yacht will be called the U. S. 8. Potomac instead of Electra, the name it carried as a Coast Guard patrol boat, President Roosevelt has decided. The President picked the name from a list of suggested titles prepared by the Navy Department. According to a report submitted to the President by the department, there have been three former Potomacs. The first was a 44-gun frigate of Early completion of another link in the proposed Shenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains National Parkway was forecast today by Secretary of the | Interior Harold L. Ickes with the an- nouncement that the State of North leared additional rights- execution of deeds conveying title to lands involved | Contracts for construction of the | new highway link will probably be let | before January 1, Secretary Ickes said, | completing a total of approximately | 50 miles ofscontinuous parkway under | construction in North Carolina, ex- tending southwestward from the Vir- ginia line. Construction of the Virginia section | of the parkway has been delayed be- | cause of difficulty in acquiring rights of way. Financed with Federal funds authorized under Public Works allot- | ment, the proposed highway would be 800 miles long and would pass through | gome of the most scenic sections of | Virginia. It would provide an en- | trance to the southern end of Shen- | endoah National Park and extend | south of Roanoke to the Dan River | Gorge. Egypt (Continued From First Page.) night, burning two of them; stoned a gas station and wrecked street lamps. Students also tried to burn the| main railway station at 2:30 am. today, it was learned, but the flames | were extinguished after causing omly slight damage. LONDON WON'T STAND IN WAY. LONDON, December 12 (#).—Re- #ponsible quarters in London expressed the opinion today the decision of King Fuad of Egypt to restore the 1923 con- stitution was inadvisable, but it was made clear no British action will be taken to oppose the action. The British government, it was said in these circles, regards the constitu- tion as unworkable and requiring modification, but does not object to restoration of Egyptian self-govern- ment, suspended December 1, 1934. The British government was stated by an informed source to feel that no discussion can. be entered into with Egypt for the altering of the present Anglo-Egyptian . relationships until the present Ethiopian erisis is termi- nated. T —— Suez Grows. The town of Suez, a miserable Arab village before the constructiop of the canal, is today a-city of 40, ” ’ | Arlington County police car to cause 1,708 tons, built at the Washington | Navy Yard, 1819 to 1822. It circum- | navigated the globe in 1831-34, com- manded by Comdr. John Downs. On this voyage it chastised the natives of Quallach- Battoo, an island off Su- matra, in retaliation for the piratical | capture by those natives of an Ameri- can merchant ship, the Friendship, and the massacre of the ship's crew. in 1831. The Potomac’s force brought about the surrender of three forts, mostly in jungles, and, after a long, hard fight, reduced a fourth to submission. Two Americans were killed and 11 wounded. The natives’ casualties amounted to more than 150. Potomac No. 2 was originally a 356- ton merchant ship and was bought by the Navy to add to its so-called “Stone Fleet.” craft loaded with stone to be sunk at the entrance of Southern harbors during the Civil War. No. 3 Potomac was formerly a tug named Willmot and was purchased by the Navy for use in the Spanish- American War, OIL TRUCK DRIVER IS ORDERED HELD Alexandria Grand Jury Will Weigh Death of Two in ¥ Police Car. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 12.— As the result of a lengthy Police Court | hearing, John B. Nicholson, 32, 4549 Forty-fourth street, Washington, driver of the oil truck which crashed into an the death of two men last Friday, was ordered held for action of the jury on charge of involuntary man- slaughter by Acting Judge Harry F. Kennedy yesterday. | Nicholson’s bond was continued at | $1,000. The next grand jury is not ex- | pected to be called until February. Louis F. Shaw, 28, of Cherrydale, special Arlington County officer, and William R. Harrison, 21, of Chicago, a former Quantico Marine, were burned to death as a result of the crash, Both were occupants of the police car which had been parked on the Alex- andria-Washington road near the scene of another accident at Four-Mile Run. Testimony at the hearing yesterday was similar to that given at a coroner’s inquest, held previously. After the in- quest, Dr. Liewellyn Powell, city cor- oner, stated there was sufficient evi- dence to warrant a police investigation Py @ | be broken if he does not get some- d | take the letter that a young lad sent No. 1. Gracie Barrie, singing star of George White's “Scandals”; No 2, the “Harmonica Harmonizers"; No. 3, Cliff Edwards “Ukulele Ike,’ noted radio, movie and stage star; No. 4. El Capitan Freund and Gypsies No. 5, Jack Bentley, former pitcher of the New York Giants, raconteur; No. 6, stars of the Earle Theater stage, from left to right: Gene Glennon, baritone; Audrey Siebers, mistress of ceremonies, Helen Bachlke, song- stress; Elmo Tanner, whistler; No. 7, Josephine Puleo, blues singer, Toy Campaign (Continued From First Page.) bow-wows and doll-babies and wagons and trains and what not. Those let- ters are so appealing that only the | hardest-hearted person in the world | would refuse to help the writers Certainly these letters have touched the hearts of so-called hard-boiled | newspaper men, theater managers and | radio officials | The result has been this: Everybody interested in the campaign has laid aside all other work and gone into this campaign as if his very life de- pended on the outcome. In the volunteer bureau, working at the toy shop on G street, the follow- ing are actively engaged: Mrs. Louis B. Castell of the Parent-Teacher As- | sociation, Mrs. Loren Johnson, Mrs. J. J. O'Connor, Mrs. W. A. Roberts, Mrs. E. G. Montgomery and Miss Sybil Baker of the District Playgrounds De- partment. | Unless all guesses miss fire, S8atur- | day afternoon will be the busiest day G street ever saw. This old store will | | be filled to capacity with toys—and some new clothing, too, it is hoped ‘The letters written by youngsters and | their parents stress the fact that this | might be a slim Christmas in many | homes unless the good people of Wash- ington come to the rescue. Radio Drive Today. To make sure that not a boy or girl is missed when the Christmas pres- ents are passed around, Kenneth | Berkeley, program manager of the | National Broadcasting Co., today or- dered a huge radio drive to be staged all day today and Friday—the two | last days before the final wind-up. At every 15-minute period on WRC and WMAL there will be some re- minder of the toy campaign. Santa Claus will make his regular radio ap- pearance over tne air on Station WMAL at 6:15 pm. until the cam- paign closes. “It is going to take a lot of good, hard work,” the old man told his assistants this morning, “to make this campaign go over in a big way. And I want it to be the begt we ever staged.” That was all the assistants needed | to hear. They set to work following | Santa’s éwn outline of plans. He is afraid that some one will forget to buy just the toy needed—and that this neglectful person will be responsible for some little boy's or girl's going without a Christmas present. One More Day to Shop. Outside of today, there is just one more day left in which to stop. There is some little fellow whose heart will thing for Christmas. To prove it, to Santa Claus yesterday. “My mother and father are both dead,” he wrote, “and I have no one to give me any- thing. The people I live with are poor. So poor they have hardly enough to eat. Iam 11 years old and they have given me this home. I hope you will bring them something for Christmas, even if you forget me. ‘They are an old lady and an old man. And they are so kind. This will be my first Christmas without father and mother. Everybody is good to me, but everybody is so poor down where we live. Please, Santa Claus, don't forget.” . . 0 All these letters that come to San Claus, care of The Star, are going to be turned over on Saturday morn- ing to the old gentleman himself. He will get them at his G street head- quarters, where the hard-working women are lending the old man & t)‘ t o e | that King George i i/ are read again, as they will be, not one soul will be neglected. As time draws toward the close of the campaign, Santa Claus is getting all sorts of help—and from quarters that pleases his heart. For instance, Sholl's Cafe management sent word this morning that 200 baskets of food- stuff would be packed and distributed through the Council of Social Agen- cies. Big- Day Saturday. It looks lke a big day Saturday— with the matinees at all the Warner Brothers' theaters in the morning, and people from all parts of the city going to these places of entertainment with toys and clothing. So big is the return expected to be that C. W. Pimper, secretary of the Security Storage Co., which always sends a truck to collect these toys and cloth- ing, is going to send two trucks Sat- urday to all the Warner Brothers' the- aters. The lobbies of those theaters had better be filled with gifts for Santa Claus or the old man will die from & | heart attack. That would be the blow of blows—killing Santa Claus just 11 days before Christmas. Nothing like that will happen, of | course, because Washingtonians love old Santa Claus and they don't want to have his feelings hurt in any way. Why, just as we are going to press, the American Legion comes forth with | the word that all the old troopers are going to turn out on Saturday night and help pack the bundles for | the Council of Social Agencies. That's going to be some sight—the former doughboys and the Field Artillerymen and the old mule skinners standing behind long benches and wrapping bundles for S8anta Claus. Anything can happen . Saturday morning. So get into the spirit of it and join the crowds that are going ta bombard the Warner Brothers’ theaters—a toy for admission. . War (Continued From First Page.) called to consider additional penalties against Italy for having been the “aggressor” in the African war, took a firm stand against major tonces- sions to Italy at the price of any im- pairment of Ethiopia's sovereignty or weakening of the League covenant. King’s Intervention Reported. Strong reports circulated in London intervened per- sonally with the government to force throught the peace plan. They were not confirmed. The peace terms were understood to R ‘embody cessation of a large amount of land to Italy by the Ethiopian ems | pire in return for a seaport in Eritrea, | Italian colony, for the land-locked empire of Haile Selassie. ‘ Particularly were Soviet Russia and Turkey, which opposed the original | League peace plan as too favorable to Italy, expected to combat openly any plan granting additional concessions | to Italy and the dismemberment of | Ethiopia. | Addis Ababa officials yesterday re- jected flatly any proposal which would intrude on the boundaries of their | nation. League circles saw in the swift | drafting of the pedce program by Sir Samuel Hoare, the British Foreign Secretary, and Premier Pierre Laval of | France, British anxiety over the anti- | British manifestations in Egypt. | It was thought not unlikely that | smaller nations would serve as a bul- i wark to Russia in demanding that Italy be offered peace terms which would In no way be a “reward for ag- gression,” arguing that such a move | would threaten the foundations of col- | lective security. Britain and France, apparently play- ing for time to permit Premier Mus- solini, of Italy, to consider carefully | the program for ending his conquest of Ethiopia, intended asking postpone- | ment by the Sanctions Committee of | | the question of levying additional eco- | | nomic penalties against Italy. A Geneva spokesman for Il Duce said he anticipated no date would be | set for an extension of the penalties | during discussion of the peace pro- | posals. Adding to the resentment against Britain at Geneva was the fact that no copy of the peace terms was de- livered simuitaneously to the League | when it went to Addis Ababa and | | Rome. The Ethiopian Government already has announced its unqualified opposi- tion to acceptance of the plan, which would “reward Italian aggression,” and Tepresentatives of Bulgaria, Finland, Crechoslovakia and the ScAndinavian | nations were expected to join the pro- aNNUY MAIL HOME A BOX' OF FRESH CANDY Fannle May Candy is made fresh svery day. Over 50 famous varieties. 2-1b. box $1.00 Mailed Anvichere—Insured Free 7 FANNIE MAY SHOPS Open_Evenings and Sundays Main Stor E St. N.W. Miacte | omothows aperd Heett Co For Sakef (] THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935. ™ DRIVE FOR TOYS S'tara of Stage, Screen and Radio Make Appeal in Broadcast. Entertainers from the stage, screen and radio assembled in the National Broadcasting Co. studios last night and sent out an appeal gver Station WMAL asking all Washington to speed up The Star-Warner Brothers- N. B, ? toy campaign for poor chil- dren. Not in many years has there been such enthusiasm in a broadcasting studlo. Stars fell over each other. Pat O'Brien, scheduled to be master of ceremonies, was the only absentee. His place was taken by Al Trigg—the quick-on-the-trigger announcer of ‘WRC—loaned for the occasion. With Gracle Barrie, Washington girl, star of George White's “Scandals,” at the National, and Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) from the same show, the program got away to a whirlwind start, El Capitan Preund and his gypsies were featured artists. Josephine Puleo, blues singer, made her radio debut. Helen Bachlke, Gene Glennon, Elmo Tanner and Audrey Siebers came over from the Earle, where they are finishing their engagement today, and sang several songs. Jack Bentley, former star pitcher of the New York Giants, told some of Joe Cock’s base ball stories. Bert Grauoff, Washing- ton’s favorite tenor, cut loose with new selections. As accompanist for most of the singers, Horace Hunnicut had himself & busy night at the keyboards. Charles Mayer and his Song Caravan, Edwin Rogers, the Melody Guide end His Trio, and the Harmonica Harmonizers | gave the added touch of variety. The Harmonica Harmonizers, newcomers into the field, are made up. of Johnny THREE-ALARM FIRE CAUSES $5,000 LOSS Electric Iron, Left Connected, Is Blamed for Blaze in Public Assistance Division. An electric fron caused a thrce- alarm fire early today at 1426 U street and resulted in $5,000 damage to the headquarters of Public Assistance Division No. 3 of the Public Welfare Board. The blaze was confined to the third | floor and was quickly extinguished. | A number of sewing machines and | other equipment used to make gar- ments for the needy were burned. | The iron that started the fire had been left connected on a table, police Puleo’s pupils, Ralph Higdon, Rel- mond Gibson, Harry Hier, Tommy Hier, George Haje and Louis Rollman. Outstanding musical treat of the evening was the piano solo by Helen Corbin Heinl. McDowell's favorite pupil, who played the magic fire music from Wagner's “Die Walkure.” Old 8anta Claus himself stepped to the mike at one moment and talked to the parents of sleeping children, imploring the oldsters not to forget the special matinees Saturday morn- ing in the 11 Warner Bros.’ theaters —when news toys will be collected for ‘Washington’s needy children. said. Bernard Killmer, 716 Quincy street night watchman, discovered the blaze | when a fire alarm set off as the wires were short-circuted by flames. 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