Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1936, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON fMH[R UUES"UNS Jimmie Greets His Father | MURDER CASE BOY ¢ Mrs. Castle’s Fcrst Husband Aids Chicago Pelice Investigation. BACKGROUND— Police admit themselves frankly puzzled over the unusual conduct .0f 7-year-old Jimmie Thompson, " ‘'son of Mrs. Florence Castle, who was found dead in a Chicago hotel bed with her head battered in with a brick. The boy told police the attacker ey of his mother talked to him as the blows were being struck. Jimmie said he fell asleep after the attack and did not summon help until the next morning. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, July 2-—~Detectives to- day pinned their hopes of solving the mysterious slaying of Mrs. Florence Castle upon her first husband’s effort to obtain a coherent story from Jimmy ‘Thompson, 7-year-old son of the vic- tim and a.witness of the killing. TThe boy was turned over to his fither, Jemes B. Thompson of Revere, Mass., yesterday after Thompson ex- pressed the belief that Jimmy would tell him the true facts if relievéd from the excitemnt of the police investiga- tion. Many Details Imaginative. Chief of Detectives J. L. Sullivan said many angles of Jimmy's account of how & man beat his 24-year-old mother to deeth early Monday in their hotel room obviously were imaginative. “Alone with his father, Jimmy may be able to straighten the events out &s they happened,” Sullivan said. The lad’s conflicting stories left the golice uncertain whether Mrs, Castle ‘wds killed by a white man or a Negro. Jimmy, who lay in bed beside his mother while the assailant fractured her skull with a paving brick, variously described him as a man wearing & black mask, a Negro and a white man * wearing blackface make-up. “Let me have the boy by myself,” Seven- gear rived at C a -old Jimmie Thompson’s father, James, sr., ar- 0 from Boston yesterday to help police try to solve the mysi ery of the slaying of the boy’s mother, Mrs. Florence Thompson Castle, She was beaten to death in her hotel room as the boy lay beside her. Thompson said. “IM try to unscrnm-' ble this puzzle.” He took Jimmy lo[ & Loop hotel. Ex-Convict Thought Innocent. | One lead which the police had con- sidered promising was abandoned when Sullivan said he did not believe that Edward Lynch, eX-convict of the Colorado State Prison at Canon City, had any connection with the slay- ing. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. manship and falr prices hore. 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The overpass will be built at the end of Lincoln avenue, about 150 feet north of Connecticut avenue and ap- proximately 200 yards north of the present grade crossing. Plans for the California Sardines, 80 Paper Napkins______ Cut Rite Waxed Paper___ Scott Paper Towels Miracle Whip Salad Dressin Libby’s Potted Meat___ _6 cans 25¢ Libby’s Meatwich Libby’s Lunch Tongue McCormick’s Prepared Mustard - = 9¢ IOWA STATE BUTTER Made From Pure Sweet C ‘/4 Ib, cubes Swansdown Cake Flourr: 39c Ib. Unico Roll - - ™ 36¢ C approaches are now being drawn by roads commission engineers. ‘The crossing will be eliminated by the construction of a triple-span bridge above the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks. The bridge will be 120 feet long, with a concrete road- way 36 feet in width and 5-foot sidewalks on either side. It will cost $27,570 and will require 70 working days to complete. Bids Due on Wisconsin Avenue. Engineers from the State Roads Commission now are fnaking surveys for approaches to the overpass and bids for construction of the approaches are to be sought soon. The cross- ing is considered one of the most dangerous in this section and has been the scene of several fatal accidents, in one of which five persons were killed. It was said by officials of the com- mission today that bids for the im- provement work in the center of Wis- consin avenue in Bethesda will be opened next Tuesday. The center of the street will be paved frem George- town road to Bradley lane and a park- way placed from that point to the District line. Lives 80 Years in One House. Born the day after her parents ar- rived in Australia, Mrs. T. Layton has lived in the same house in Grafton for more than 80 years. 11b. A o 3 pkes. 25¢ _3rolls 17¢ _ D._C, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 193. 2z 1 R SHENANDOAH PARK AWAITS PRESIDENT Officials Set Traffic Rules for Dedication of Area Tomorrow. By the Ascociated Press. BIG MEADOWS, Va,, July 2—State officials .naking #final plans here for the dedication of the Shenandoah Na- tional Park tomorrow said traffic would be permitted to enter the Skyline Drive from both north and south up until an hour before the exercises begin. Only incoming vehicles will be al- lowed from 7 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. and only outgoing traffic will be permitted after the dedication, which is sched- uled to begin at 2:30. The President will speak shortly after the exercises open. The northern entrance to the drive is at Panorama, while the southern gateway is Swift Run Gap. A severe electrical storm isolated the Dedication Committee at its headquar- ters at Skyland, but communications were restored shortly after. Lunch for President. ‘Workmen, meanwhile, completed erection of 13 tents for the use of President Roosevelt, who will deliver the dedicatory address, and members of his party. They will have a picnic lunch at the dedication site. Concessions, to be operated under contracts with the State, opened today and will operate through Saturday. The exercises, sponsored jointly by the State Conservation and Develop- ment Commission and the United | ]sum Department of Interior, will in- clude addresses by the President, sec- retary Harold L. Ickes and Gov. George | tion chairman, will preside. When President Roosevelt dedicates the Shenandoah National Park Fri- day there will be 343 families still | living within the 176,000-area park | area. Some refused to leave despite property before its acceptance by the Federal Government. However, both the Park Service and dicated today these difficulties have been “smoothed out.” Twenty-three families are scheduled to go into as many homes in the Ida Valley re- settlement project on August 1. C. C. C. Will Remain. Other families are to remain until new projects -are compieted. 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Cammerer, Park Service director, in a statement today praised the work of the C. C. C. camps in the park area, and said it would not be completed with the celebration, He explained there is a deficiency in the Ranger Corps for the park and the C. C. C. enrollees probably would be used in this capacity. Their work with the dedication will include assisting with trafic and § comacung and alding in the “clean- up,” which necessarily must follow | after a day with thousands of visitors }in the area. —e “Lifer” Composing Opera. Alister J. Clark, who is serving & \‘sc atence for life in Goulburn Prisor, near Sydney, Australia, for the mur- der of his wife, is writing an opera. He was taught music there, and has passed the examinations. He studies from phonograph records and plays o1 | a dummy keyboard in his cell. | | #4/ 17's A Gav's best friend—a pal for a day | or a week-end. 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