Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1936, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936. H > b HUGHES RELEASED INAUTO FATALITY Aviator-Film Producer Is Booked on Suspicion of Negligent Homicide. By the Assoctated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 13.—Howard Hughes, multi-millionaire film pro- ducer and aviator, was free on his own recognizance today after police booked him on suspicion of negligent homicide. Hughes, who holds several air speed Pecords and produced the $4,000,000 “Hell's Angels,” was the driver of an automobile, Police Officers J. R. Wal- lace and C. T. Lewis said, which late Saturday night struck and fatally in- Jured Gabe Meyer, 60-year-old sales- man, as he stood in a street car “safety” zone. Hughes was accompanied by a young ‘woman at the time of the accident. Witnesses said she boarded a street car as a crowd gathered and left the scene. Hughes refused to give the name of his companion, declaring he did not want to “drag her name into | this affair unnecessarily.” Police Surgeon R. A. Chance said | the producer had been drinking, but | was not intoxicated. An attorney succeeded yesterday in | obtaining the film man’s release on a writ of habeas corpus. The 32-year-old sportsman said it ‘was his first motor accident “since my dad taught me to drive 18 years ago— and he was a stickler for caution.” SERVICES PLANNED FOR E. B. HENDERSON Funeral of Civic Leader and Re- tired I. C. C. Attorney to Be Held Tomorrow. Funeral services for Edgar Bow\by[ Henderson, 73, civic leader and re-| tired Interstate Commerce Commis- sion attorney, who died Friday, will! be held at 10 am. tomorrow az the | S. H. Hines funeral home. . Rus- | sell J. Clinchy of the Mount Pleasxnt Congregational Church is expected | to officiate at the rites. Burial will | be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Henderson, president of the Piney Branch Citizens’ Association for over 10 years, died at the home | f of his son, Dr. Robert Henderson 0(\ 6601 Connecticut avenue, Chevy | Chase, Md. He had held several Government positions, one as secre- | tary of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, & position he took when he came here from his native city, Dover, N. J, in 1900. He also was @ member of the Federation of Citi- gens' Associations and one of the organizers and first presidents of the | ©ld Potomac Park Garden Club. —_— D. C. YOUTH NEARLY DROWNED IN PRANK Companions Leave Fred Smith in Dangerous Water, and Res- cue FoHows. 8:cctal Dispatch to The Star LEONARDTOWN, Md, July 13— The prank of four young companions nearly cost the life of a youth known only as Fred Smith of Washington in swimming here yesterday afternoon. Smith and his chums were wading | in shallow water near St. Clements Shore when they locked hands with Smith and led him to a spot near the pier where the water is 20 feet deep. ‘There they unlocked hands and left him. ‘The boy shouted for help as they swam off, but his companions later said they thought he was able to swim and was shouting only to fool them. His cries finally reached Joseph Miles, & 16-year-old Leonardtown boy, ‘who sprang into the water and grabbed Smith by the belt of his trunks as he was going down for the third time. Paul Bowen, former George Wash- ington University athlete, who lives here, and another local resident, Philip H. Dorsey, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates, helped Miles tug the boy to shore. He recovered quickly. Gallows .__(COntmued From First Page.) since the day he first was taken into court. “Anything else, Earl?” deputy asked. | “No, that's all,” was the reply. Gardner, in a fit of anger, hacked his wife and baby to death with an ax at the humble wickiup on the Ban Carlos Reservation last Decem- ber 8. His wife wanted to sttend shurch and leave him to mind the baby. Killed Fellow Tribesman. In 1925, the year the last Indian was hanged in Arizona, Gardner killed ® fellow tribesman with a knif>. He spent seven years in prison. When arrested again Gardner insisted on pleading guilty and paying the ex- treme penalty rather than return to prison. Forty-two witnesses crowded into a small room about 12 feet square to watch Gardner die. Most of them were peace officers from over the State, requested by McKinney to be on hand because there had been ru- mors of an uprising on the reserva- tion. There were widespread rumors that the Apaches, who until almost the turn of the century were the scourge of white settlers in Arizona, were in an angry mood because of recent un- solved deaths among the tribesmen. “I didn’t expect any trouble,” Mc- Kinney said, “but I wanted to be ready. Perhaps our preparation forestalled trouble.” s The reservation is the one on which Henrietta Schmerler, Columbia Uni- wersity student, was killed in 1931, while seeking material for a thesis. The spot where Gardner was executed was only a stone’s throw from where the Late President Calvin Coolidge sat down with the Apaches and Pimas to smoke the pipe of peace in 1930 when the great dam across the Gila River was dedicated. Gardner was in a jocular mood early Jast night. Chronic Cystitis s of have been relieved by neutralizis the trouble-causing acids with Mountain Valley Mineral “Water, direct from famous Hot ki :'iv:f.v': v?{h‘?l’l‘la deeply umlmu hnm: water. Phone for Mountain VI.“" Hln.ul Water MET, 1062, 405 K ST. N.W, 4 o Y Howard Hughes, wealthy young oil man, former film producer and holder of airplane speed records, shown as he was booked in Los Angeles yesterday by Detective Lieut. Tom Sketchley. Hughes was held on a charge of negligent homicide after an automobile struck and killed Gabe Meyer, salesman, in a street car safety The producer was later released on zone near Hughes’ home. a writ of habeas corpus. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Left to Die MARGARET LOUISE BELL, Scarred, bound and gassed in supposed gangland revenge attempt at murder in apart- ment here for her alleged testimony before a special New York grand jury hearinz charges against the New Yor: vice czar Charles Luciano. Luciano is serving 30 to 50 years in Sing Sing. Miss Bell says she testified as Margaret Lewis. Another alias is Jean Costello. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Mutilation (Continued From First Page.) 1932, in a raid on a disorderly house | - in the 1100 block of Twenty-fifth street, Thompson said. She received a suspended sentence. She has been arrested four other times on similar charges. Several aspects of her story puzzled police. She said her assailant had bound and gagged her, but no gag was found in the apartment and her only bond was a 6-foot piece of light cotton twine twisted around her ankles. Miss Bell said she had knocked over a telephone and screamed for help. Telephone company officials said that at 2:21 am. yesterday an operator answered a dial call and heard a woman'’s voice whisper, “Send the police to 1230 New Hampshire avenue, apartment 304, right away.” A moment later the operator heard a scream and then a noise which she thought sounded as if the receiver had been knocked from the caller’s hand. ‘The operator notified police and held open the line. She heard no other sound until police entered. ‘The apartment was equipped with two telephones, one an extension. One instrument had been ripped out, but the other was in working order. Miss Bell said her assailant had put ome phone out of commission, but over- looked the other. Policemen W. T. Taft and J. C. Conway, third precinct, answering the call from the telephone operator, found Miss Bell lying on the floor beside a bed. Gas was escaping from four stove jets. Miss Bell appeared partially overcome. She was clad in a night gown. The Fire Rescue Squad took the woman to Emergency Hospital where the scratches were examined and found to be not serious. Physicians saild they had been made with a || nail or other jagged instrument. Miss Bell was unable or unwilling to talk at the hospital, ‘Women's Bureau, where she was taken after treatment, told her story. 8She told Thompson, Capt. Keck || and the New York officers, one of whom represents Thomas E. Dewey, special vice prosecutor, who obtained the Luciano convictions, that she had come here about three weeks ago, fearing vengeance at the hands of the vice lord’s henchmen. ‘The acting resident manager of the EDUCATIONAL. FINAL TRIAL EXAMINATION July 14 On Tuesday, July 14, at 7 p.m. the Mount Pleasant Schoel for Secretaries will conduct an- other complete trial examina- tion for a limited number of stenographer and typist appli- cants for Civil Service examina- tion. The examination lasts 314 hours and the material is similar to that of former ex- aminations. For a nominal fee, alt papers will be graded according to Civil Service Standards and returned Wed- nesday. Telephone Columbia 3000 for reservation before € p.m. Tuesday. Tivoli Theater Building "14th Street at Park Rd. | manager said, and a boy of 16 or 17, | who said he was her brother. | man, whom the manager presumed | to be Mr. Costello, paid the rent. Po- but at the || Bond Apartments said the womany had applied there a week ago yester- day. She gave her name as Mrs. | Costello. She was accompanied by a | well-dressed man of about 30, the ‘The lice had no information concerning him or his companion. Tells of Hangar Club Visit, Miss Bell told police she had gone to the Hangar Club Saturday night with Milton R. Reeves, 28, of 631 I street, whom police are holding as a witness. She and Reeves were danc- ing, she said, when she noticed a dark- skinned man whom she recognized as | a Luciano lieutenant—a “muscle man” or “trigger man.” Somewhat later this man, whom police are seeking in New York today, came over to her table and talked to | her, the girl said. Frightened, she left the night clud in a taxicab and returned home, where she phoned her brother, Ray Bell, she ‘ told police, asking him to come to her | apartment. | At about 1:30 a.m., according to the | girl's story, she heard a knock, and, | thinking it to be her brother, opened | the apartment door. A man, the same as the one she had seen at the Hangar | Club, pushed his way in and knecked | her unconscious, she said. She did | not remember having been scratched. Her next recollection was of finding | herself choking from gas fumes. The girl's story recalled to New York | authorities the warning given by | Justice Philip J. McCook June 18, when he told the convicted vice chief- tains that any attempt to n'wleu1 State’s witnesses would bring swift retaliation. | — Bible Tax Protested. 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