Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1936, Page 6

BANDLEADERDES ASPLANE CRASHE Actress Is Grief-Stricken as Husband of Two Months Is Killed. By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, July 17.—Gloria Grafton, musical comedy star, sought seclusion today, grief-stricken over the death of her orchestra leader bridegroom of two months, Orville Knapp, in an sirplane crash yesterday. Knapr, 28, was practicing emergency iandings at nearby Beverly Airport when his plane fell 150 feet to the ground. Witnesses said Knapp, a brother of the movie actress, Evelyn Knapp, was about to land when apparently he de- cided he needed more altitude. He opened the throttle, but the plane dropped. The impact shoved Knapp's body though a partition between the first and second cockpits. Airport officials immediately learned the plane was registered in Knapp's name, but his body was not identified until John Shobe, operator of a Boston airline and a friend of the musician, few to Beverly and established iden- tification. After landing once at the airport Knapp told ar attendant he intended to make several landings. Earlier he had told Shobe, at whose hangar he kept his plane, he was going to prac- tice “cut gun” landings. Shobe said Knapp had a private license and had been flying for four years. Knapp met Miss Grafton while she was playing in “Jumbo” and he was playing in New York. He had been leading his orchestra at a hotel | here and was booked for an engage- ment in New York July 29. Irvin S. Cobb Says: King Edward Proves That He Is a Man When in Danger. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 17.— If he was a Communist, of a breed who are usually half-baked mentali- | ties, it was only to be expected that his effort to murder King Edward should be—thank heavens!—a fizzle If he was a lunatic, then he's the kind of luna- tic who should spend the rest of his days behind high walls. If he was a deliberate assassin—well, ot least he gave & gallant monarch a chance to show how gallantly monarchs can be- have in the face of danger. Any man, given the royal back- ground and an open path to the throne, can be a king, but' not every king is & man. This King is—he proved ‘t and this part of the world rejoices at | the outcome. (Copyright. 193u ORVILLE KNAPP, The 28-year-old band leader, was killed yesterday near Bev- erly, Mass., in a plane crash. He was a native of Kansas City and brother of Evelyn Knapp, movie actress. He re- cently married Gloria Graf- ton, star of the show “Jumbo.” —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. DUNBAR CONCERT SET A concert by the Masonic Band of Washington will be held at 6:30 o'clock tonight in the ~tadium of Dunbar High School, First and N streets. The next concert will be held Friday at the same hour and place. The con- erts are arranged by the Community Center Department. FRESH THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1936. HUSBAND SLAYER FIGHTS EXECUTION Maps Plans to Keep From Becoming First Woman Electrocuted in lllinois. 8y tne Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, July 17.—Convicted of the murder of her husband by & jury which recommended the desth penal- ty, 46-year-old Mildred Mary Bolton mapped a fight today to keep from becoming the first woman ever exe- cuted in the electric chair by the State of Illinois. Immediately after & jury found her guilty of killing Joseph Bolton and fixed the penalty at electrocution last night, the henna-haired widow’s counsel, Public Defender Benjamin Bachrach, asked & new trial. Judge GET UP FEELING FINE Doctors say that nine out of ien physe feal ailments are caused from con- stipation. If you wake wp in the morning tired, listless, depressed and out-of-sorts, your system is, no doubt, clogged with poisonots _impurities. Take HEXASOL to quickly cleanse and purify the intestinal tract . . . %o rid your system of accumulated poisons. 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The decision, coming after 42 min- utes’ deliberation, was the reply of 11 married men and a widower to the claim, attributed to Mrs. Bolton by two trial witnesses, that “they just don't convict women of murder in Cook County.” First Assistant State's Attorney Wil- bert F. Crowley told the jury in his closing argument: “Say to the world with your verdict that women do get convicted of mur- der in Cook County. Send her to her just desserts; send her to the electric chair.” Bachrach asked for mercy for “this wretched woman,” referring to her claim that Bolton, an insurance broker, had been unfaithful during 1¢ years of married . SICK MOTHER LEAVES TO FETCH SON’S BODY 8till recovering after a recent surg- fcal operation, Mrs. H. E. Wade of 50 feet of the island, was unable to save him. His body was recovered by | Prank Kirby, a member of the Red Cross life-saving crew of Lynchburg, in about 20 feet of water. 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