Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1936, Page 23

Thrilis in Bear Hunt Members of Washington Party Bag Game | | in Dismal Carolina. Swamp. These local sportsmen (1éft toright), Park Policemen K. Snider, W. G. Becker and Ray Czarra, shown yesterday about to carve up one of two bears they killed on a hunt in North William turned from the Dismal | i —Star Staff Photo. 1 | dogs drove the bear away. ‘When his companions did not show | i THREE Washington hunters re- | relieved to say the least when his nine Swamp region of North Caro- lina yesterday with 350 pounds of bear to prove any tales they tell. up. Becker started to find them and got lost in & swamp. It took him | more than three hours to find his way The hunters are Park Policeman |out. William K. Snider, 703 Van Buren | street: W. G. Becker, Silver Spring, Md, and Ray Crzarra, 1250 Florida avenue northeast Becker encountered a 200-pound black bear near the Chowan River, Gates County, N. C., just south of the Virginia line. He pumped shots into the animal so fast his gun broke. Becker was waiting beside the dead bear when another approached. The hunter, whose gun was useless, Was TAKES OATH AS SENATOR Brown of Michigan Becomes Successor to Couzens. ST. IGNACE, Mich, November 28 V (.—Prentiss M. Brown, United States Senator-elect, took a preliminary oath of office as Senator to fill the unex- pired term of the iate James Couzens late today. In the presence of his wife and seven children, Senator Brown re- sponded “I dn" to the solemn pledge administered by Judge David W. Mur- ray of the Mackinac County Probate Oourt Brown was appointed to succeed Couzens by Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald, who expressed belief the Senator-elect thereby might gain some precedence in Senate appointments. I THE WEATHER | District of Columbia—Fair tod eolder this afternoon and night; to- morrow fair and colder; moderate southwest winds shifting to northwest. Maryland—Generally fair in east and central and snow flurries in ex- treme west portion today. colder this afternoon and night; tomorrow gener- ally fair and colder. Virginia—Generally fair today, eolder tonight; tomorrow fair and colder. West Virginia—Cloudy with light rain in north portion changing to snow flurries, colder; tomorrow gener- ally fair, colder in east portion. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers elear late yesterday afternoon. U rday. Revort Until 2‘4” '1."‘2"‘1\%::1‘ day. i am o 10 D 0 P.M. Saturday. memerer I 10 T Seteraxy: year At oweit. 82. At 2 am. yesterday: year aro. 47. ord Temperatures This Year. El#:l 105. on Julv 10 west. 0. on January 23. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and y Geodetic Surves.) ¢ Roday. Tomorrow. m 2:03am. | a The Sun and ) Rises. . today T . temorrow oon. today. Automobile lights must be turned on ene-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. a hly precipitation in inches in the c-';‘lfl\' (current month to date): . Ave. Record. 7 3.55 7.00 8 jous Cities. Precipl- —Temperature— tation. Max. Min. p.m. Sat- Fri. Sat. _to urday.night. 83.m. 8p.m. Asheville. N. €. 5% 12 44 Aflanta. Ga 5: mat 2 Als. 12 S ingham. limare, N. Dak. iton "Y 19U 2080138 3P BD 331005 sarese £3 SAach+3 324 DN IRNED, SRE3RRERT SHSSEETAT AT E S b b S PSR S 4 23 NN 1302t NS TN 23 200 39 19BN NI 198ID9. 3 SRRSTRRIN 2 SR 2 | its chamber. -|of the body of Jumbo, 2d, African Policeman Snider shot & 150-pound | | bear near South Mills, in the Dismal | | Swamp. The officer said one big bear { was shot at and missed by the native guide who accompanied the party. | It is & custom, Snider said, for a | hunter who misses & bear to have his shirt tail cut off. So the guide lost his shirt tail as well as his reputation as a marksman. Snider said the bear was ambling down a railroad track when the guide missed him. 2 DIE IN GUN FIGHT IN VIRGINIA TOWN \ ' Policeman and Colored Man Battle | ‘ to Death on Burkeville Street. By the Associated Press, BURKEVILLE, Va., November 28 Town Sergt. L. D. Cole, 48, and ! Willie Hardy, alias Willie Price, col- ored. 38. were killed here tonight in a gun battle in the heart of the town's Etusiness section. When the firing ceased the bodies of the two men were lying about 150 vards apart. Persons on the street tald officers that they heard two shots. & pause and then six shots fired rapidly. Deputy Sheriff W. M. Marshall said ‘ole had placed Hardy and Theodore | Epps, colored, under arrest for break- ing a showcase in a store here Thanks- | giving night. Cole took the two men | into a drug store to make a phone cillf after their arrest { Hardy and Epps broke away and made for the door, witnesses tnld nf-J ! ficers. Cole pursued his prisoners to | the door, said Wayne Carson, who was | in the store, and Hardy struck the | sergeant in the chest. | Marshall said he had been unable to | learn just what happened after that. He arrested Epps at his home shortly after the shooting and said the man denied any part in the shooting and !insisted that he had never owned a| gun. Epps was held by Common-| wealth's Attorney T. Freeman Epes on | “undetermined” charges. | Beside Hardy's body, when citizens who had run to cover ventured into the | street after the fusillade, was found a | pistol with four bullets in its cylinder fired. Near Cole's body lay a .38-cal- | iber revolver with six shots fired from SMITHSONIAN TO TAKE CARCAS OF ELEPHANT Jumbo II's Death Thanksgiving Day Caused by Swallowing Part of Bottle. | B the Associated Press. ROCHESTER; Ind., November 28.— Officials of the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus said tonight the Smith- sonian Institution would take charge elephant. Jumbo, 2d died Thanks- giving day after swallowing part of & broken pop bottle. The officials quoted Dr. William Mann as saying Smithsonian has no specimens of African elephants at present. 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