Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1936, Page 2

A2 ¥y WOMAN CERTIFIED ASFAMILY KILLER Friends of-Mrs. Smallwood Fail in Effort to Lift In- sanity Stigma. Epectal Dispatch to The Star. BERRYVILLE, Va., July 18.—De- spite the efforts of friends and neigh- bors to clear her, Mrs. May Small- wood, 45, was named here late yes- terday as the slayer of three members of her family before taking her own life. Finding that Mrs. Smallwood had gone temporarily insane early last Monday, Magistrate Luther Thomp- son issued a certificate stating that she killed her two sons and her mother with a shotgun, then turned the weapon on herself. The other victims were Mrs. Susan Virginia Elsea, 87-year-old Blue Ridge Mountain Sunday school teacher, and Elbert and Alkin Smallwood, 23 and 17 years old, respectively. Version of Tragedy. The story of the tragedy, as un- folded during the coroner’s inquest yesterday, was, in brief, as follows: Mrs. Smaliwood, in poor health and fearing an operation, awoke Monday morning just after daybreak. Dress- ing quietly in the first-floor bedroom of their log cabin home tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains nine miles east of here, she took a shotgun and climbed to the attic, where her two sons were sleeping. First, she shot Elbert through the back of the head as he slept. The| noise aroused Alkin, but the deranged mother reloaded hastily and fired a him. The boy probably was killed in: stantly, but fearing he might survive, Mrs. Smallwood stood over him and fired another charge into his body from the single-barreled weapon. Then she went back downstairs, where her terrified mother, a helpless invalid, lay in bed. Reloading again, she shot«Mrs. Elsea through the left lung. The beds of the three victims were then saturated with kerosene and set afire. Calmly removing her shoes, Mrs. Smallwood then ignited her own bed, laid down on it, placed the shotgun muzzle under her left arm and fired. When neighbors, attracted by the smoke, broke into the house, all four beds were burning. They also found the charred remnants of a pocketbook and two of the discharged shells on ® burning wash stand. Say Health Improved. | Several neighbors testified that Mrs. Bmallwood's health had been improv- ing and denied she was contemplating | an operation. They insisted there was | nothing about her conduct to indicate ahe was mentally deranged. Sergt. Francis Funk, Winchester ballistics expert, testified, however that the only fingerprints found on the gun and a lamp presumably used in saturating the beds were those of Mrs. Smallwood. Two witnesses said Mrs. Elsea was tied in her bed when they reached the scene, a pecullar circumstance that was not cleared up. Her son, Joseph Elsea, testified, however, that she broke her hip several years ago and used a rope tied to the footboard to pull herself around in bed. It was suggested this rope may have become wrapped around her body in some way, giving her the appearance of being tied. | ‘When police reached the scene, the| shotgun was found on the dining room 2able, but one of the neighbors testi- fled he found it on Mrs. Smallwood's | bed and placed it on the table when he | first reachad the cabin. DIL FIRE MENACES OKLAHOMA HOMES Man Injured, House Ruined, but Wind Prevents Serious Damage. 8y “he Associated Press. . 'OKLAHOMA CITY, July 18.—One home was left in ruins today and one person was suffering from burns as | the result of an oil well fire in a thickly-populated residential section, four blocks from the Oklahoma gover- nor's mansion. Fire officials said a favorable wind prevented greater damage when the well ignited Friday and blazed for 30 minutes, fed by an unexpected rise of oil and gas in the hole. Eleven men, on or near the derrick flood, scampered to safety. Awakened from a nap in her home just 10 feet away, Mrs. J. B. Dean snatched her two small children and ran. . R. C. Reever, an employe on the re- cently completed well, suffered a blis- teted back when he waded through a slush pit to escape. Workmen finally succeeded in shut- ting off the flow to nip the plume of flame, which inspectors said was started by a hot piece of metal. MRS. FREED REPORTED IN CHICAGO HIDEOUT| ‘Will Surrender Before Monday in Vallette Slaying July 2, Says Newspaper. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 18—The Herald and Examiner says Mrs. Ruth Carmelia Freed, 35, sought in the slaying of Audrey Vallette July 2, is hiding in Chicago and will surrender to police before Monday. The newspaper quotes as its author~ ity an unidentified hostess in a North Side bright spot, who, it says, has been a close friend of Mrs. Freed for 10 years. Miss Vallette was shot to death in her North Side hotel room by a dark- haired woman who fled in a maroon roadster. Mrs. Freed, the wife of Eddie Freed, night manager of the “Nut House” Tavern, dropped from the sight the same day. ‘The newspaper quotes its informant in part as follows: “I have been in constant contact With ¢ ¢ ¢ “She wanted to write a statement for the newspapers, but she has been advised not to. “Ruth probably would have given herself up before now were it not for the hot weather. She is not sure she will be allowed to make bail.” Washington Wayside Tales Random—a-b;rvatiom of Interesting Events and Things. DIN. DRWING past the west aide of the White House yesterday, an oper- ator perhaps saw the most frightened, faun-like motorist of the year, s lad about 18, driving a car with Ohio tags. Just as he was passing one of those signs reading “Quiet Zone—Do Not Blow Horns,” his elbow struck the button connected to a blast-like air horn, and the thing stuck, raising 8 pretty bedlam. The boy jumped out and began to fumble madly with gadgets under the hood, glancing over his shoulder every odd moment as if he expected to be swarmed on by a squad of G-men and tommy guns (followed, of course, by secret service agents). The horrible howl had rent the air for at least a full minute and people were beginning to take furtive peeks from behind the White House cur- tains, when a helpful taxi driver stopped, stepped out of his cab and fixed everything with a single snatch horn wire. * ok k% TEST. Gusack T. Bluech, specialist in tongue twisting, is willing to bet that you can’t say “Rubber baby buggy dbumpers” rapidly flve times and keep the words straight. * % ¥ % POET. AUL SIMONSEN'S favorite story deception as practiced by Wash- ington males concerns the encounter of a girl from Sweden with an imag- inative sort of fellow who lives here. ‘The girl, swo spoke perfect English, and the man were dinner partners. Their talk finally got around to the point where she wanted to know what he did for a living. “I'm a poet,” he led, a wistful, 1 y look in his eyes. “How do you work?” she wanted to know. “Very easily,” he went on lying. “It seems natural to think verse. Shall I dash off something for you?” She would be delighted. | ‘The young man picked up a nap- kin, borrowed a pencil and assumed a creative pose. Slowly, laboriously, scratching out a word here and there | and substituting another therefore to give the thing a workmanlike ap- pearance, he reproduced Rupert Brooke’s “The Hill." Sometimes today the man wonders | at just what point in her reading of English poetry the girl discovered his deception and threw away the napkin, | which she took home with.such un- allayed delight. * x % % USEFUL. Sometimes the items which ap- pear in this column have a con- structive quality that never is ap- preciated by their authors. Take, for instance, that recent anecdote about the two divorcees who sat at home last Saturday night blowing soap bubbles. One of them clipped it and sent it to her New York fiance as complete and final evidence that she stays home when he is not here to squire her about. A lot of other divorcees, not at all connected with the item, may have done the same thing. It was just about perfect for the purpose if they had enough imagination to see it that way. * k% | some personal pi-tures, could have | | office. THE EVENING STAR, “Prophet,” Who Says He Saved 1,647 Souls Here, Must Depart Police Buy Bus Ticket for Bearded Emmgel_ Who “Got the Call.” Azel Takes Credit for Re- deeming 68,032 in Atlanta and Micmi. “The only boss and king of the world,” rosy-cheeked, wavy-bearded “Prophet” Azel G. Manning today an- nounced with satisfaction that in four days preaching on the sidewalks of Washington, he has won exactly 1,647 souls. He then headed South, for the police have objected to his preaching without s permit, and authorities have pro- vided him with a bus ticket home— Benson, N. C. The Prophet does not care par- ticularly where he is, though. He “got the call” more than a dozen years ago, and has wandered through 21 States collecting sidewalk crowds where he can. He takes credit for 33,032 souls saved in Atlanta and 35,000 for Miami. Jails are the only thing that ruffie the Prophet, he guesses he has been PROPHET AZEL G. MANNING. —Star Staff Photo. in 150 jails, more or less, but hastens to add he never stays long. FARNSWORTH DUE 0 NAME COUNSEL Attorney Expected to Be| Announced After Jail Conference Today. Counsel for John S. Farnsworth, dismissed naval officer charged with esplonage, was to be named today after a District Jail cell conference between | the former Navy fiyer and his cousin, ‘Ward Farnsworth, Chicago real estate broker. Ward Farnsworth has met with one or more Washington attorneys regard- ing the case, but declined to make any announcement pending another talk with his cousin, scheduled for late this morning. John Farnsworth appeared to be near a nervous collapse when he ap- peared in the office of United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage Tuesday to plead not guilty to charges he sold confidential Navy documents to an agent of the Japanese Govern- ment. He is being held in default of $10,000 bond. His condition was somewhat im- proved today, however, and he is anxious to secure bond so that he can aid in laying plans for his defense. Officials of the Navy and the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation continued to withhold further comment on the case, although the former naval of- ficer, while admitting he made a state. ment to F. B. I. agents, denied flatly | he had made any “confession,” and | steadfastly protested his innocence. | His answer to the charges he sold | information to the Japanese has been | that he was attempting to get a job | as aviation instructor with the Jap- anese air forces and turned over cer- tain papers and photographs to show his former standing as a naval avia- tion expert. None of the documents, he claims, were confidential and all the photographs, with the exception of been obtained from the Navy publicity | MAN’S DEATH HELD MYSTERY BY JURY Inquest Decides Marylander Died of Violence or Accident of Unknown Nature. Bv the Associated Press. LIONS. EV‘EN the totally deaf can “hear” the | roar of & lion. This was demon- | strated at the Zoo the other day, much to the surprise of Headkeeper Willlam | H. Blackburne. Mr. Blackburne was exchanging written comment with a group of deaf | mutes who had their backs to the cages in the lion house. Just then a keeper came in with the lions’ dinner and there was a concerted roar. Each of the deaf mutes swung im- mediately to the cages. Mr. Black- burne asked for an explanation. They smiled and pointed to their feet on the floor. The vibration had been transmitted from the floor to their bodies. * ok % % SURPRISE. UCK PVT. ROBERT “CHAPPIE” ROBERTSON, who lost one arm from infection after being shot through the heart in the Argonne, has a good yarn for his 2d Division buddies now in reunion here. While in action “Chappie” charged suddenly on a man in German uni- form, who surrendered to the Ameri- form with “Kamerade” and both arms in the air. To the amazement of both, they dis- covered they were good friends from Boston. So the victor and captured German went back to a town nearby, occupled by the Americans, and cele- brated with shnapps. Now the Ger- man has returned to Boston, where he is a bartender, and the two fre- quently lift a glass of repeal beer. * % x & HOSTESS. Our sleuth on Nantucket Island, where many prominent Washingto- nians pass their Summers, writes to tell of a wealthy lady who expected 12 house guests on a recent week end. Fourteen arrived. With every room in the house filled, she faced the crisis with Napoleonic directness. Hired eight carpenters and had them build an extra guest room for the overflow. The quarters were finished in time for them to dress for dinner. Makes 16 Million Flags. VERNONA, N. J. (®#).—Mrs. Mary Sperber of West Orange could tell Betsy Ross & thing or two about flag- making. This 72-year-old grandmother, still the 12 o'clock closing rule by putting out sutomatic ‘machines Vending Units Evade Law. Amsterdam restaurateurs get around to retail sandwiches, cake and ice cream cones after midnight. ' GREENSBORO, Md., July 18.—A coroner’s jury held yesterday that John Boyd, farm laborer, found un- conscious along a roadside, died of in- juries produced by an act of violence or an accident of unknown nature. Three hours of testimony failed to shed any light on how Boyd suffered the spinal injury from which he died Tuesday at Easton Emergency Hos- pital. State’s Attorney Layman J. Redden and Sheriff Saulsbury Sparks conducted the inquiry. Roy Hubbard, Preston milk truck driver, picked Boyd up on the side of the Greensboro-Denton highway early Monday. Boyd was paralyzed from his injury. Dr. Charles Stone- sifer took him to the hospital. Two Greensboro men who had been with Boyd Sunday night testified they did not know what happened to him, GAME WARDEN NAMED Specia. Dispateh to The 8t LEONARDTOWN, Md, July 18— Appointment of William Erich Floyd, 50, of Medley’s Neck, as deputy State game warden for 8t, Marys County, was announced here today. Selected by Gov. Nice, Floyd will fill the vacancy created by the recent death of William F. Herbert of Dynard. A prominent farmer, Floyd attended the University of Maryland’s Medical School in Baltimore. The warden's position carried an annual salary of $1,800, including expenses. The i BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH HE convention of the Townsend followers snd the oratory of Father Coughlin and Mr. Gerald Smith might be looked upon with indifference and amused interest by the Roosevelt admin- istration if this were an ordinary campaign. A party in power ing can afford times call the finds himself in the embarrassing position of & statesman who has made the mistake of putting the fringe in the center of his pattern instead of around the edges. He is now looking into & most disconcerting gap in the center of his tapestry. To his dismay he is learning stituency with of certain Roman emperors doubtiess have been Alice Longworth. i e ‘whom he has not given enough. National Scene 1t will be one of the most entertaining ironies of history if Mr. Roosevelt is defeated by the defection of millions to 50,000 DAMAGES ASKED BY WOMAN Mrs. Alada.C. Oden Bases % Suit on Prosecution on Hit-Run Charge. ‘The Police Court prosecution of Mrs. Alada C. Oden, 1149 Fourth street | northeast on & hit-and-run charge two years ago, whica the United States Court of Appeals said appeared to be an effort to use the traffic regulations to collect a civil claim, was the basis of a $50,000 malicious prosecution suit in District Court toda: Through Attorneys I. Irwin Bolotin and Samuel B. Brown, Mrs. Oden asked $25,000 actual damages and $25,000 punitive damagés from Mrs. Rose Goshen and Mrs. Goshen's father, John ‘Wolf, both of 1101 Fourth street north- east, who she said caused her arrest. The facts as’ related in the suit showed that Mrs. Oden, a Government | employe, stopped her car abreast of a parked machine, June 20, 1934. As she started to drive away, a companion | opened the right-hand door of her car and the door struck a parked auto- mobile. slightly damaging it. On being told by her companion |- of the accident Mrs. Oden pulled into | a parking space about 150 feet away. | The parked car was owned by Mrs. | Goshen. Wolf was nearby when the accident occurred. He lppruched; Mrs, Oden and asked why she had | not stopped at the scene. She in-| formed him the accident was not her fault and that her companion would assume responsibility. The compan- ion agreed to pay the damage, which amounted to between $4 and $6, but according to some evidence, later re- fused to do so. Accordingly, Mrs. Oden alleged in | her suit, the father and daughter procured & hit-and-run warrant for | her. She was arrested and was con- victed by a Police Cecurt jury, but the Court of Appeals reversed the verdict. Mrs. Oden told the District Court | that her credit and reputation were injured and that she was humiliated and disgraced. FINE FIELD ENTERED IN RAPPAHANNOCK SHOW Novelty Jumping Class and Fam- ily Saddle Hacks Feature Opening Day. By the Astociated Press. WASHINGTON, Va, July 18—A novelty jumping class and family | saddle hacks featured the opening | events yesterday in the Rappahannock | County Horse Show. The entries include many winners an entry list approximately double that of last year, will continue to- mOrrow. The entreis include many winners in other shows and several from the recent Culpeper competition. = Mrs. G. P. Greenhalgh of White Post, en- tered a fine string, cluding Hunter's Choice and Dress Rehearsal, both blue ribbon wearers, and Petite Poule, which she recently purchased. Dr. L. M. Allen, the Peach brothers of Upperville, Mrs. D. N. Lee and Miss Margo Couzens, Miss Margaret Cot- ter, Miss Louise Myers and U. S. Randle of Washington were among other exhibitors. LEESBURG, Va., July 18 (Special). —Open-air union services will be held | on the Court House lawn here to- morrow.at 8 p.m., with Rev. W. W. McIntyre of Winchester as the guest preacher. Rev. MclIntyre will talk on “The Face of Jesus.” A special fea- ture in addition to the regular choral music will be numbers by Mrs, Arthur Jenkins and Mrs, W. 8, Prances. Sing- ers from alf church choirs in the coun- ty are invited to sit with the ehonl' group. with s reasonably satisfied follow- to overlook what politicians some- lunatic fringe. But Mr. Roosevelt that you cannot long hold & con- dread and circuses. The ghosts spectral larynzes to tell him that, (Copyright. 19363 WASHINGTON. | organized pack of hounds D. C., SATURDAY, 3 PRUGRAM MAPPED Champ Arrives for Battle FOR HORSE SHOW Boulevard Farms Director Lists 17 Classes for Con- test on July 25. Frank O'Mahoney, director of the Boulevard Farms Horse and Hunt Show, today announced a program of 17 classes for the meet to be held Saturday, July 25, at the nearby Vir- ginia estate of Edmund P. Montgom- ery, American consul to Mexico. O’Mahoney and his committee aides are now engaged in mapping one of the most attractive outside courses in this section of the country, which, coupled with a large ring, will provide a model plant for the various tests. Montgomery’s estate is located on the Mount Vernon boulevard about four miles south of Alexandria. Post entries will be accepted in all classes and the show will start at 10:30 a.m. The events follow: Class 1. green hunters—To be shown in er four jumps not to exceed four feet 3-year-olds to jump 3’ feet: others ig] to Jump 4 feet: conformation. 25 per cent: performance. 50 per cent: promise, 25 per cent. Ciass 2. junior jumpers—To be shown in rin gover 4 jumps about 31; feet high: open to all riders 18 vears of age and under: performance only to_count. Class 3, ladies’ hunters—To be shown in I e 312 feet high: to be ridden by ladies cent: conformation, 25 per ance. 50 ver cent. Class 4. novice jumpers—To be shown ring over 4 jumps: :-vear-olds to jump a2 feet: others to jump 4 feei: horses entered in_this class shall not have won A blue ribbon in a jumping class in any show prior to this show: performance only to count. Luncheon recess. Class 5. hunter hacks—To be shown in ability. 25 per cent; perform- in 3 ring at walk. trot_and canter. then over | tion. per 4 Jumps about 1313 feet high: con: a3 ent: performance, . 3315 per cent ass 6_open jumping—To be shown in ring over & Jumps 4 feet high: performance only to count: in case of a tie the judges reserve the right to raise the height of the_jumps. Class 7. junior hunters—To be shown in TINR over 8 jumps ', feet hizh. open to riders 18 years of age and under: con- formation. %5 per cent: performance. per_cent: suitability. 25 per cent Class R. bridle path hack—To be shown In ring at a valk trot and canter: hacking and ability to_give a Dper_cen Class 0 or any part of the horse or ri wing wil] count as a touch: in the case of tie the jumps may be raised at the dis- cretion of the judees. s working hunters —To be shown over the outside course; performance only to count. Class ‘11, handy fumpers—To be shown over a special jumping course. the time of each horse will be taken and one second added for each fault made: the horse com- pleting the course in the shortest time plus faults to be the winner. Class 17 pairs of hunters—To he shown over outside course. Horses to follow each other &t a safe hunting pace: after third jump first horse will check until second orse has come abreast: thev will then continue abreast over the lance of the course: performance. appearance as a pair and <\|H:‘blh'y to be consideration in 2 Seorine class lass 1. qualified hunters—To be show over the outside course: a qualified hunt is a horse that has won a blue ribbon 2ny show prior to January 1. 1936 or has been hunted more than one season with an 0 performance, 75 per cent: conformation. 25 per cent. Class 14 ccrinthian class—To be shown over outside course in full hunting attire; rformance, fi) per cent: conformation. Per cent: appointments. 15 per cent Class 15. teams of three hunters—Ap- ?grl:,y‘:.\"r‘\:m( nd colors not to count: pel o % e ent: Buitabil formance 5 "per cent: Suitabiity and s Class 16 consolation class—To be shown in ring over R jumps 4 feet high: per- formance only to count: only non-winners of biue ribbon in this show to be eligible (oralhu X(:llun ass 17. champion of show—— - ship will be awarded to the hor%.:';g‘r’l‘:l the most number of points: points to be scored on the basis of i reserve cham- plonship to second highest scorer: classes lf.;u:nd 15 not to count toward champion- \BELL WOMAN WINS EXTRADITION STA Thirty-Day Delay Granted in Ef- fort to Bring Her to Trial in Baltimore. Margaret Louise Bell, 23, the girl of | many aliases and a lurid past, whose | story of being marked for death Sun- day morning by New York vice rack- eteers was denounced as false by local police, won a month’s stay in Police Court today when Baltimore author- ities attempted to extradite her on | charges of robbing a World War vet- eran of $706. The girl was represented by Attor- ney Thomas E. Lodge, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. She has been arzested several times in Washington on’charges of soliciting prostitution and several months ago told New York authorities she had been an employe of & vice syndicate in that city. > The 30-day extradition delay was granted by the court upon the reques: of Lodge, a usual procedure. Philip R. Davis, a patient at Mount Alto Hospital, had picked the Bell girl from a line-up and identified her as his companion on a drinking party in a Baltimore hotel during which he was robbed of two billfolds containing $700. Davis said the robbery occurred about three weeks ago. The girl's bond was set at $2,000 in Police Court today and she was being held while efforts were made to raise the amount. — Bruno Walter IIL VIENNA, July 18 (#).—Bruno Wal- ter. noted German conductor, was forced by an ear infection today to cancel all engagements for the Linz Music Festival. He will be replaced by Eugene Ormandy, director of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestrs. N ew_S_hoe. Offers Toes, With Room ToWiggle’Em In Human Foot No Arch, But Cantilever Truss, Says Expert. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 18.—Dr. Philip Spence, an amiable osteopath with a waggish sense of humor, exhibited to- day a shoe that fits like a glove. It’s not like a mitten, mind you, or & first baseman’s glove, but actually like a glove with five separate divisions ! for the toes. It cost him $50 to have it made and ‘when he slips it on he can wiggle the toes, so flexible are they. He can also pirouette gracefully, and should he care to, he can wear it on long hikes. Dr. Spence passed the shoe around among delegates to the convention of the Foot Society of the American Osteopathic Association to give them an idea of what he regards as the perfect shoe. 3 Dr. Spence also discards the argu- ment that the human foot is an arch. It's a cantilever truss, he told the convention. “There are no arches in your feet,” he said. “There are springs made by muscles, ligaments and the bones suspended by them in the form of an arched and cantilever fruss.” A JULY 18, 1936. | niglt, reached the Capital this ing. He is shown here (lower rig | maker Goldie Ahearn. In the ‘; Barney Ross, world welterweight champion, who fights Phil Furr, District product, at Griffith Stadium Wednesday right), Sam Pian and Art Winch. 1 morning to complete his train- ht) shaking hands with Match- rear are nis managers (left to —Star Staff Photo. | EX-CHIEF SILENT IN KIDNAP BLAME 1$25,000 ““Cut” for St. Paul | | Official Mentioned by Hamm Case Witness. | By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, July 18—A confessed kidnaper's declaration that former | | Police Chief Tom Brown was figured | | by gangsters for a $25,000 “cut” in | | proceeds of the $100,000 William | Hamm kidnaping was met with silence | | by the accused man today, as Safety Commissioner Gus Barfuss announced | he would follow Brown's suspension | from the department with a full in- | | vestigation. | “I have nothing to say,” was Brown's reply to the accusation, made yester- |day by Byron Boiton, Government | | witness in the trial of John P. Peifer, | former St. Paul night club owner, | | charged with participating in the kid- | | naping. Said Barfuss: “When the trial is concluded, Brown will be given an opportunity to ex- plain. If further investigation shows | he had any association with the kid- | napers or kidnaping, not proper for a police officer, he will be discharged and all information which we gather |and which the Federal Government | has obtained will be used in prosecu- tion.” Suspended for Inquiry. Half an hour after Bolton's witness | stand declaration, Barfuss suspended Brown from his post as head of the | police automobile theft department “without prejudice” pending further | inquiry. | United States District Attorney George F. Sullivan said, “We are not doing anything about it. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the in- | vestigating department. Our job is one of prosecution. “Both the Lindbergh act and State | laws are outlawed in three years in a | kidnaping case. In the Hamm abduc- | tion, the offense itself was outlawed | June 19. (Hamm was freed June 18, 11933). | “It might be possible to extend | activity in changing the money had | been accomplished.” | Bolton testified that when the kid- | napers divided the ransom money on July 25, 1933, at a hideout in Long | Lake, IIL, the bank notes already had been exchanged for “good money,” at | least & week before, at Reno, Nev. Division of Money. | He said that at the meeting Pred ler, later slain by the gang, “asked Peifer to stay over a few days, after the split-up was made, and Peifer said, ‘No, I have this $40,000 and a lot of it doesn't belong to me, and I want to get back to St. Paul with it." “I received $7,800,” the witness con- tinued. “Each of the others who took part in the kidnaping itseif got $7,800, $25,000 was set aside for Tom Brown and $10,000 for Peifer.” Peifer, Bolion said, told the gang he had “gotten word from Brown to take the people, Freddie Barker and Paula Harmon,” out of a hideout house in an exclusive residential dis- trict of St. Paul. “Peifer said that Brown got a call from some people to investigate the occupants and that they were going to raid the house,” Bolton testified. “Peifer said he went to the house and instructed them to leave.” Government witnesses said Alvin Karpis, Freddie Barker and Arthur (Doc) Barker, leaders of the kidnap gang, lived in the house with asso- ciates several weeks before the crime was committed. At the time of the kidnaping John McDonald was St. Paul public safety commissioner, Thomas Dahill chief of police and William Mahoney mayor. ——— DOLLAR CERTIFICATES NET G. 0. P. $100,000 By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 18—C. B. Good- speed, treasurer of the Republican Na- tional Committee, said today that re- ceipts from the party’s dollar “partici- pation certificates” had passed the $100,000 mark. Goodspeed predicted that the plan, new to this year’s Republican drive for contributions, would bring in $2,- 000,000 before election day. Shaped like an oversize dollar bill, the blue-and-white certificates bear pictures of Washington and Lincoin and are filled in with the purchaser’s name, » the statute until the time of the last | | Goetz, alias George “Shotgun” Zieg- | THREAT T0 KING SHOCKS BRITISH Attempt on Life of British| Monarch Was First Since 1899. BY H. J. J. SARGINT. LONDON, July 18.—(By Wireless)— It was just about lunch time when London suddenly began to realize that an almost impossible thing had hap- pened—an attempt had been made upon the life of the King. | The event was so utterly outside the imagination of the British public that people in the streets stared at news- paper posters with a definite feeling of incredulity, wondering whether some joke in extremely bad taste was being played on them. But when the evening papers were snatched from the sellers it was realized that in fact some man had actually flourished a revolver at King Edward as the latter was passing at the head of his guards, returning from Hyde Park where he had just handed new colors to six battalions of foot guards. It is necessary to realize the close link between the English people and their King to understand the utter gro- | tesqueness of the situation. That the | King should have his life endangered at a Hyde Park corner, of all places ia the world, is a situaiion which the normal Englishman, standing up auto- matically when the national anthem is played at the conclusion of the | cheapest movie show, finds almost im- | possible to take in. Previous Attempt in 1899. It is nearly 40 vears since an attempt had been made on the life of a member | of the British royal family. That was in 1899, when the late King Edwari, | Grandfather of the present King, while passing through Brussels en| route to St. Petersburg, was shot at bu* | missed by a crazy Italian lad named Sipido. | Queen Victoria during her long reign was an object of attack six timcs, | but practically all were cases where | madmen either fired at or presented | weapons at her majesty. In one case, | that of a half-pay officer named Pate, | nearly 90 years ago, the Queen was struck over the bonnet with a stick | Today's attempt, if it can be termed | such, passed off so quickly that the ! crowd was taken completely unawares | and couldn't lay its hands on the as- | sailant. Public opinion generaliy recog- nizes the magnificent vigilance of the | ordinary uniformed constables. The | first man to seize the assailant was Ilp}mremly a mounted constable, who | threw himself off his horse into the {crowd and fell on the man, who, dropped his revolver. | Policeman Gather. Several foot policemen gathered around and the man actually was lifted over the heads of the crowd, who | wondered what had happened, and | passed back to police at the rear. They | conveyed him to the police depot, which is situated within the cere- | monial arch spanning Constitutional | Hill at the top of the road leading to Buckingham Palace and skirting the wall of the palace gardens | | Meanwhile, all kinds of stories are | being told about the incident, the most picturesque being that the revolver | i actually rolled in the pathway and hit the hoof of the King's horse. This| may actually have happened, but it is almost too colorful to be true. | All onlookers pay honest and un- | exaggerated tribute to the icy calm of | the King, who apparently was among the first to notice the man. This is/ easy to understand since the King was | on horseback and could look over| the heads of the crowd. The Kinzl was seen to stare hard in the direc- tion where the man eventually was ar- rested, but made no effort to check or accelerate the pace of his charger. The King apparently spoke a word or two to his equerry, Sir John Aird, who was riding a half horse’s length behind his majesty. While the King continued to lead his troops back to the palace, Sir John swung his horse, spoke to a mounted constable who picked up the revolver, and then re- sumed his place behind the King. He was heard to say to Gen. Sergison Brooke, who was commanding the parade, “it was loaded, t0o.” King Edward went home to lunch, changed his scarlet uniform to coun- try clothes and left the palace in the early afternoon in an unescorted auto- mobile for Fort Belvedere, where he is spending his usual week-end. (Copyright. 1936.) Train Decorated With Roses. On King Edwards birthday the Royal Scot express train, which runs in England and Scotland, was deco- L) | i | | COUNCIL REJECTS MNAIR'S CHOICES Pittsburgh Mayor Finds It Difficult to Discharge Safety Chief. By the Assoctated Press. PITTSBURCH, July 18.-—Mayor William N. McNair, who revels ‘n clowning and wisecracking, settled down yesterday *o the serious business of firing his safety director, the head of the city’s police and fire fighting forces. In naming Thomas A. Dunn to the $8,000-a-year post 19 months ago, his honor remarked: “I picked him because all I'l have to say when I want to fire him is: “Tom, you're done.’ " Locks Himself in Office. But when the mayor notified Dunn square-jawed director posted a 24-hour he was discharged, the diminutive, guard of three loyal city detectives at his door and locked himself inside, saying: : “The law states I am director until my successor qualifies. Director I will be until then.” Off went his lights and telephous service at the mayor's order and a painter came to erase his name from the door. The guard interferred ani the glass door was broken in the ensuing struggle. Moves Office to Park. McNair escaped from the din zni confusion about City Hall by moving his office to Wissahickon Cabin in ths sylvan Glades of a suburban par. There, under the trees, he swore in City Magistrate George H. Neubauer as Dunn’s successor—a director with- out office or any one who would obey his orders. City Council is the stumbling block. While McNair is the first Democratic, mayor here in several decades and party has a majority of Council, ti two have been at loggerheads since th start of his administration almost three years ago. In rapid order yesterday councilmen rejected or pigeon-holed in committecs four. nominations for safety director made; by McNalr. Neubauer'’s name wirBe taken up later and likely will receive the same fate. Meanwhile the police and firemen are functioning normally under theuw department heads. BASIS FOR PEACE MEETING FORMED French, British and Belgians Seek to Placate Italy and Hitler. By Lhe Associated Press. PARIS, July 18.—Three Locarno powers, seeking to reconstruct the Eu- ropean peace framework, reached an | agreement yesterday on three points for a prospective discussion. Great Britain, France and Belgium have formed an accord, informed sources said. on these points: 1. Representatives of the three pow- ers will meet next Wednesday in a compromise session 2. The meeting will concern itself with an “exchange of views” rather | than detailed consideration of the Locarno question, thrust before the signatories by Adolf Hitler's reoccu- pation of the Rhineland last March 3. The French and British will pub- { lish a statement before the meeting to assure Germany and Italy the confer- ence is not directed against them The object and scope of the parley, these sources declared. are to be an- nounced to ease any suspicions of Hitler and Premier Mussolini which might cause Germany and Italy to draw even closer together. The governments at London, Paris and Brussels also discussed the ad- visability of holding the session Wednesday in London, reserving the “neutral” Belgian capital for a second session, which might include the Nazi and Fascist representatives, Authoritative quarters reported the French government has agreed to a British demand that Germany and Italy be kept informed of the pro- ceedings at the three-power confer- ence. The second session, which may in- clude all five of the original signers of the mutual security pact, also may turn to a discussion of European eco- nomic problems as well as Locarnn and other political and diplomatic questions Great Britain informed the French that Lord Halifax, lord privy seal and active assistant to Foreign Sec- retary Anthony Eden, will go to Ber- lin in another attempt to obtain de- tails of the German peace proposais advanced by Hitler last April. The German answer to the Briti: request for additional information was, reported under consideration by Hitler at his villa at Berchtesgaden, where the chancellor was in confer- ence with Franz von Papen, Nazi Minister to Austria. 1755 F?'réEngine May BePlaced in State House Room Apparatus Believed Old- est in Maryland to Be Restored. By the Associated Iress. ANNAPOLIS, July 17.—An ancicnt piece of fire apparatus, bulit in 1735, and owned by the Independent Fire Company, may be placed on display in the State House. The old pumper will be restored to its original condition and painted i the original colors—believed to be red and white. It is believed to be the oldest piece of fire equipment in Maryland. As it was in use during the Georze Washington period, Gov. Harry W. Nice will be requested to allow it to | be displayed in & room of the State House, adjoining the old Senate chamber, where Washington resigned his commission in the Continental Army. A committee, consisting of Peter M Magruder, secretary of the company for the restoration of Colonial Annapolis, and Alderman Arthur T. Elliott, chair- man of the City Fire Department Committee, has becn appointed to consult with the Governor. They also will restore the pumper, with the ad- vice of Fire Marshal Jesse A. Fisher. Several old leather fire helmets, for- merly used by the local firemen, will be placed on the pumper. Fire underwriters have sought the old pumper to place on permanent 2x- hibition in Baltimore. 1] L