Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1936, Page 9

" BACK FROM ‘DEAD, MAN WONT TALK Veteran Who Vanished Eight Years Ago Awaits | Brother in Reno. BY the Assoclated Press. RENO, Nev., October 23.—Jesse Owen Gifford—a Tennessee World ‘War veteran of the same name was declared legally dead in 1931—awaited today the arrival of his“brother from | the South before shedding light on an + eight-year disappearance. “I'm going to talk to him first,” said the 41-year-old Gifford whose application for a bonus caused him to admit he was the missing man. An Alabama friend was tried and ac- quitted five years ago on a charge of murdering Gifford, after recovery of & body from the Tennessee River. Gifford disappeared in 1928. In South Pittsburgh, Tenn., Mrs. + Gifford, living with her two sons, de- clared her love, but said her husband will “have a lot of explaining to do.” At Chattanooga, Tenn., Mrs. Mollie Atkins, mother of Gifford, blamed shell shock and gas during the war for her son’s actions. She urged him to return home. Hobbling on crutches, Gifford, who has said he would not go back is wife or to Tennessee, asserted: “I'm going to tell my brother we are go- ing as far away from here as pos- sible.” It was in Reno that Gifford ap- plied for the bonus after his leg was injured in an automobile accident. + His wife already has collected the ‘bonus on the assumption her husband ‘was dead. Gifford cried openly while reading mewspaper accounts of his relatives. LAST VOTE CALL SOUNDED North Carolinians Urged at 11th Hour to Register. An appeal to North Carolinians re- siding in Washington to take advan- tage of their final opportunity to register for the general election was issued today by the Democratic Club | ©f Washington. ‘Tomorrow is the last day for reg- ~ lstration in North Carolina. President Wesley McDonald of the club also announced that club officers | and notaries will be on duty in the | headquarters in room 165 at the Ral- eigh Hotel every night to handle ap- plications for absentee hallots for Voters who have registered. MAJ. BROWN HONORED Begins Fifth Year as Chief of Capital’s Police. Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown today | began his fifth yvear as chief of the Metropolitan police surrounded by flowers. Maj. Brown had almost forgotten | that yesterday was the fourth anni- versary of his appointment until his aides began to bring in baskets of flowers to recall it to mind. The day ended by being one of the, longest he thad put in in some time, as he went THE EVENING STAR. WAS-HIKGTON,- D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1936. Returns From “Death” Jesse Owens Gifford (left), 41, swinging up an alley in Reno, Nev., on crutches with an unidentified companion. Gifford re- fused to ezplain his disappearance eight years ago from South Pittsburg, Tenn., which resulted in subsequent trial of a former jriend for his “murder.” The man was acquitted. Gifford “came back to life” when he applied for his veteran’s bonus his wife had collected. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Saddlery and Luggage Repatring of Leather Goods G. W.King,Jr., 511 11thSL.N.W. CRASH IN MIDAIR KILLS | ONE, INJURES ANOTHER TRUNK | Two Cadets at Pensacola Escnpe‘: Without Scratch by Leaping | PAINTING Wm. M. Emns Contractor and Builder 410 Bond Bldg. in Parachutes. By the Associated Press. PENSACOLA, Fla.,, October 23.—A naval aviation cadet was killed and | another seriously injured yesterday when two training planes collided CAULKING | Repairs Natl. 3934 Roofing Dec. 1946 in midair. The pilots, both cadets, rode their parachutes to safety. Cadet E. T. Hoganauer of New York | leaped too late and his parachute *s A9 Julivs. Jansburgh Fuwrnitwre Co. 4-Pe¢. 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