Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1936, Page 4

A—4 x% ARGUMENT DELAYS TRIAL GF TEACHER Disagreement May Keep Maxwell Case From Jury Until Tonight. By the Assoclated Press. WISE, Va., December 16.—Argu- ment over instructions to be given the jury sitting in the second trial of Edith Maxwell today delayed con- elusion of the celebrated case. Attorneys were closeted with Judge Eszra T. Carter in the late forenoon, and it appeared that the case of the 22-year-old school teacher, charged with killing her father in a family quarrel, would not be given the jury until tonight. Following the instruction, both prosecution and defense attorneys were to have three hours for their final appeals to the jury, second to hear the case in 13 months. In the girl's first trial, she was convicted and sentenced to 25 years’ imprison= ment, but the Virginia Supreme Court gave her a new hearing. M. J. Fulton, Richmand member of the defense staff, said he would ask Judge Carter to stress self-defense in his instructions and that there was reasonable doubt as to the cause of Maxwell's death. Another point on Wwhich he would seek emphasis was that a woman's slipper is not neces- sarily a deadly weapon. Two witnesses testified during the trial Edith had told them she struck her father with a slipper. E As testimony was caompleted yes- terday, Judge Carter said he would allow the Commonwealth's attorney and defense counsel three hours each in which to present arguments to the jury. The defense rested after placing 13 witnesses on the stand to. establish the miner-blacksmith died of “natural causes.” The State had contended Maxwell's death resulted from head injuries caused by & “heavy instru- ment.” The State climaxed testimony in the case late yesterday with the intro- duction of a rebuttal witness, Mrs. Catherine Jessie of Norton, Va., who said she was in jail when Edith ad- mitted to her “she had killed her father with an iron, bus didn’t mean to do it.” The State had introduced into evi- dence an iron which witnesses said was stained. The prosecution said the stains “appeared to be blood.” Edward (Continued From First Page.) have aged him suddenly after the swift drama of his abdication to marry the woman of his choice. “The duke sat for an hour, his head bent low, and almost in tears, his face twitching, clasping and unclasp- ing his hands while reading a tele- gram I beliove was from Mrs. Simp- son at Cannes,” a servant in the baronial castle said yesterday. Shuns Vienna Resorts. The Baron and Baroness De Roths- ehild, respecting his desire for soli- tude and quiet, tried vainly to revive his joviality, but Edward refused to join them in the night resorts of Vienna, where he spent happy hours with Mrs. Simpson last Summer, when he still was King. Concern was felt for him, not only for the “emotional let-down” it was feared had gripped him, but also be- cause he eomplained of headaches and earaches. The Rothschilds usually leave for Paris after the Christmas holidays, but it was reported authoritatively Edward was considering their invis tation to remain at Enzesfeld and make it his headquarters—from which | to make excursions—for as long as he likes. EDWARD’S WORRY NOT MONEY. Inheritance From Grandmother Still | Nearly Untouched. LONDON, December 16 () —What- ever might aecount for former King Edward's despondency, it is not finan- cial troubles. As long as he lives and as long as the monarchy survives in England, in- formed sources said today, the Duke of Windsor will be wealthy enough to buy chateaux, yachts or almost any- thing that might attract his eye. As principal heir of his grand- mother, the late Queen Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII, he received | a fortune estimated as high as £1,000,- 000 ($5,000,000). Well-informed sources say his in- Toads into that fortune have been negligible. Although the Duke of Windsor has lost the annuities he received as King from the Duchy of Cornwall, it was understood his brother and successor, George VI, was preparing to settle £24,000 ($125,000) annually on him from the Cornwall income. Such a sum would be exactly what Edward gave George before he abdi- cated. PRIMATE'S CENSURE PROTESTED. House of Commons Examines Radio Firm’s Affairs. LONDON, December 16 (#).—Under # deluge of letters from constituents protesting the Archbishop of Canter- bury’s censure of former King Edward, members of the House of Commons delved today .into the affairs of the British Broadcasting Co. The B. B. C., government-controlled radio monopoly in England, broadcast the address Sunday by the head of England’s church, rebuking the de- parted monarch for his desire to marry Mrs. Wallis Warfleld Simpson as a wviolation of “Christian principles of marriage.” Many of the letters received by members of Parliament from their home districts termed the archbishop's broadcast “‘unchristian.” Disapproval of the radio speech in- dicated a reversal of sympathy on the part of many of Edward's former critics when he abdicated his throne rather than renounce his love for Mrs. 8impson. — MINISTER TO SPEAK Sir Herbert Marler to Discuss Ca- nadian-U. 8. Relations. 8ir Herbert Marler, new Canadian | tell me about her future plans. She Minister to the United States, will | smiled and shook her head. Canadian-American relations & special luncheon in' his bonor { that with the King tomorrow at the National Press Clyb, ‘The ranking oefeer diplomat in the] licity. October. He was.the first Canadian |ident Roosevelt, who had made the Minister to Japan, where he served | most of the feeling of the American for seven years, and. before that had | people that they wanted to served in the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTION, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1936. The King Mrs. Simpson (Continued From First Page.) her aunt, Mrs. Bessie Merryman, whom I had known in Washington, answered the telephone. 8he invited me to the house for dinner. It was & pleasant meal. Mrs. Merryman and I chatted about news from home and about world affairs in general. But there was no discussion of the most absorbing topic ef all—the one that was foremost in my mind and must have been in hers—her niece’s friendship with the British sovereign. After I left, Mrs. Merryman went to Fort Belvedere for the night, and Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman, Mrs. Simpson’s “Aunt Bessii —Underwood & Underwood Photo. word came to me the next morning—Tuesday—that the King wished me to | have dinner there that evening. | (These facts concerning my own movements are being related only to establish the background for my subsequent talks with Mrs. Simpson and the King.) Forced From Cumberland Terrace. B Mrs. Simpson had been at Fort Belvedere since Saturday. The throng of newspaper men that gathered dally outside 16 Cumberland terrace had made it impossible for her to remain there longer. And although she was frequently reported back in her own home during the next few days, she did | not return to London until her departure for France. I drove to Fort Belvedere late that afternoon with Mrs. Merryman. We arrived at the King's residence shortly before 7 p.m. and I was ushered at once into the living room, where Wallis Simpson was waiting beside an open fire on the hearth. | The red-coated servant announced me at the door and Mrs. Simpson 16 Cumberland Terrace—A. P. Photo. came forward smiling, both her hands extended in a graceful greeting. She was as I remembered her, except that she seemed to have ripened and matured. The Wallis Simpson I recalled was care-free and laughing. some jest always on her lips. The Wallis Simpson I found was still as gay, still as witty, but now she smiles more often than she laughs and the occasional far-away look in her eyes hints of cares that never show on the surface. She was wearing a sleeveless black brocaded gown, cut quite high and square in the neck, close-fitting and falling away into a tiny train. As always, she wore few jewels. Her hands were bare—she very rarely wears rings. A lovely bracelet of diamonds and rubies adorned one wrist and rubies in long, old-fashioned settings were in her ears. Two orchids were fastened to her waist. She sank into an armchair in front of the fire and I straddled a bench on the hearth. Anxious for News From Home. The King, she told me, would arrive from Buckingham Palace in about an hour. First of all, she wanted to know about the personal news from home, about her friends in Washington and Baltimore and what they had been doing since she last heard of them on Aunt Bessie's arrival. “Have you seen Robin yet?” she asked, referring to a youthful cousin of hers who is attending a private school near Oxford. I told her no, but S A LZIAL e KT that I was going to see him Wednes- —A. P. Photo. day. After she had heard about her closest acquaintances, her next concern was about the unfavorable publicity she had been receiving in the American press. Anxious friends had been sending her clippings constantly, almost from the day her name first appeared in connection with the King. in her native land. Hurt by Uninformed Publicity, “I just want you to tell me why it is,” she said. “With as little knowl- edge of the real situation as they possess, it seems utterly unfair to me for them to have drawn the picture they<: have.” I did my best to explain, assuring her that I thought that at least 70 per cent of the stories that had ap- peared in American newspapers had been favorable to her. It is fair to say that no doubt most of the clippings that reached her would probably have been antagonistic and hostile. A few of them, in fact, had come from cranks in America, who not only were anxious to cause her as much mental suffering as possible, but also threatened physical violence unless she gave up her friendship with the King. These came not only from British subjects in America who re- sented the King's association with a commoner, but also from Anglophobes who felt that her close friendship with the King was a disgrace. Not Afraid of Threats. “It isn’t that I'm afraid of threats like that,” she explained, “but I'm sorry that people feel that way. If they knew the truth I'm sure they'd feel differently.” I assured her that everything would be all right and asked her if she would to become one of the most beloved fig- ures in this country, but had become instead one of the most misunderstood today. “Wear Wells” in footwear on this market to- 86-50 dayat. . . _.__ “No,” she said, “you’d better discuss | I told her about the values of pub- The most popular man in American today, I explained, was Pres- public figure in Parliament. In 1025 he was ber of Prime | hand, there was Lindbergh, Minister King's DAVIES ‘AMUSED' ATFO0D REPORTS Rumor He Bought 25 Elec- tric Refrigerators for Em- bassy Held Untrue. Joseph Davies, Ambessador to Rus- sia, laughed long and said little today when he was infermed of reports that he and his wife, the former Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton, have ordered 2,000 pints of grade A cream to be shipped to the Moscow Embassy. “These reports about what we are taking are exaggerated, but I will say they are amusing,” Davies remarked. One of the reports he branded an out-and-out exaggeration was that he had bought 25 electric refrigerators for his Russian residence, where the Winters are long and bitter. The cream report, however, seems substantiated. Shipped in cardboard containers, it was frozen by a special quick process controlled by a corpora= tion of which Mrs. Davies is a director. She has ordered also hundreds of cans of frozen peaches, vegetables and berries to supply the Embassy with the food it will need during the cold seas son. A new bathtub ordered by Davies has already been installed in the Em- bassy and is waiting for his arrival some time in January. As for the re- frigerators, however, it was explained, many of the Davies possessions are being shipped in packing boxes bear ing legends which might indicate they inclosed mechanical ice boxes, WMa(.lri(l __(Continued From First Page.) along the road to Retarmares, north- west of Madrid, after a series of furi- ous attacks and counter attacks. A government communique declared fresh Fascist shock troops, which the “Milicias” battled, were composed | primarily of *“Moors, Legionnaires, She was bruised and sick at heart over the attitude of the newspapers BETTER FOOTWEAR LOWER IN PRICE Over 61 years of shoe merchandis- ing result in the stocks we carry bigger sale pile up the greater The “Wear Wells” for Men and the “Foot Forms” for Women are the outstanding lines and values - Edmonston’s 612 13th St. N.W., CARL M. BETZ, MGR. | Germans and several hundred French- | men.” | The outbreak of sharp fighting in that sector After COMPATALIVE QUIEt, | M A P DD NP LD ' SPECIAL!® — while the insurgents directed their main fire to pierce the Madrid de- fenses, was viewed apprehensively by government - military authorities as preparatory to another Fascist “big push.” | The government reported also its| forces had advanced a fraction of a mile toward Boadilla del Monte, which | remained a no-man’s land under con- | tinuous shelling by both sides. | Earlier advices by the Madrid au-' thorities said the insurgents had been “destroyed” at Fresnedillas, 25 miles west of Madrid and south of El Es- corial. | Gen. Francisco Franco, Fascist com- | mander, lost 14,000 men in the fighting in Madrid's University City, another government announcement said. Uni- versity City, the campus section in the northwest of the capital, was devas- tated after the insurgents penetrated it almost at the beginning of the | siege more than five weeks ago. | BORDER TOWN BOMBED. BARCELONA, Spain, December 16 (#).—Three Spanish Fascist planes | bombed Port Bou, northeastern border town, and the railway line at Culera, | reports reaching the Catalan capital said today. Culera is on the Port Bou-Barce- lona Railway & few miles south of the bombarded city. | IN TRIBUTE TO PASTOR Acting Secretary of State R. Walton Moore, Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen and prominent representatives of vari- | ous denominations in the city will pare ticipate in the installation this eve- ning of Rev. Dr. Edward Hughes Pru- den as pastor of First Baptist Church, Sixteenth and Q streets. A reception in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Pruden will follow. Bishop William F. McDowell will represent the Methodist Episcopal Church; Dr. Oliver J. Hart, St. John's Episcopal; Dr. A. J. McCartney, Cove- | nant-First Presbyterlan; Dr. R. H.| Miller, National Christian: Dr. Carl C. Rasmussen, Luther Place Memorial; Dr. Henry J. Ranck, Dutch Reformed, |and Dr. Gove C. Johnson, National Baptist Memorial. E. Hilton Jackson, moderator, will preside. because he shunned publicity of any sort. One of the secrets of President Roosevelt's popularity, I said, was his custom of addressing the Nation at fairly frequent intervals in his fireside chats on the radio. I spoke of his splendid radio voice. “Ah,” she said, “the King has the most beautiful radio voice in the world.” Her eyes shone with pride as she said it, and there was a different note in her voice. “Have you heard him talk?” she asked. “No,” I said. “I have never had that privil—" The butler was clearing his throat at the doorway to announce in & ring- ing voice: “His majesty.” (Copyright, 1936, World Rights.) Tomorrow: Dinner at Ft. Belvedere. A smaller margin and a success for the busi- ness. “Foot Forms” MOORE AND HAZEN JOIN |§ WEDDING 12 YEARS LATE BRUNETTE IS HELD IN $100000 BAL Taken to New Jersey Jail as Hoover Answers Criti- cism of Raid. BY the Associated Press, NEW YORK, December 16.—Harry Brunette, two-gun desperado, captured by Federal agents in a spectacular gun battle, was committed to Mercer Coun- ty (N. J) Jail today in default of $100,000 bail after he had been ar- raigned secretly at noon in the ‘Trenton office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He awaits prosecu- tion under the Lindbergh law for kid- naping. Rhea Whitley, head of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation, announced Brunette had been whisked to Trenton, N. J., last night under heavy guard. Wisconsin Couple Postponed Event on Account of Finances. WAUKEGAN, IIl, December 16 (#).—Emil Kokko and Ida Wilpulo, both of Kenosha, Wis., don't believe in rushing headlong into. matrimony. They took out a license to wed on June 3, 1924, but when they subse- quently examined their finances they decided to put off the happy day. “So it was not until yesterday that they unwrapped the 12-year-old license and had & justice of the peace perform the ceremony. GAS BLAST PROBE T0 BE POSTPONED Inquiry Delayed by Police Pend- ing Improvement in Mrs. Bean’s Condition. Further attempts to clear up the mysterious gas explosion Hon:ay that rtment house at . ?2?.’,’ vav. ":u.: :l:::p:ermuy injured | Judge Samuel Mandelbaum set Mrs. Beatrice Bean, 23, daughter of | Brunette’s bail at $100,000 when the | Senator Edward R, Burke of Nebraska, | bandit was arraigned yesterday on a will be postponed pending an improve- 1 charge of- kidnaping a New Jersey ment in the woman's condition. State trooper, and under a new Fed- Mrs, Bean, a bride of six months, is | €&l statute providing 10 years' jail confined to Georgetown Hospital with | sentence for assaulting a Federal of- severe burns that have made ques-|ficer. It was charge he assaulted tioning by police inadvisable. | seven officers in the gun battle on Although her condition was slight- | West 102d street when he was cap- ly improved last night, her recovery | tured. still is doubtful. | _ Brunette's wife, 8 New York woman. 8o far police have been unable to | was reported recovering from a bullet learn what preceded the blast, which | wound in the thigh received during occurred in the kitchen of Mrs. Bean's | the gun battle. | apartment and blew out a section of | J. Edgar Hoover, F. B. I. chief, sald brick wall. Brunette made a full confession and | had implicated his wife in the kid- | HELD ON CHECK CHARGES | ™% 2% . rmbull, the New dersey trooper, who was forced iato a car Walter Clinton Parker, 47. once by two men and & woman and prominent in Washington society, was bound and abandoned in Pennsyl- | held by Judge P. McMahon in Po- vania, identified Brunette as one of lice Court today for jury trial after |the trio. Brunette also was wanted | he pleaded not guitly to six charges for robbing three Wisconsin banks and | of false pretenses. Bond was set at $500. Farm in Ohio. Parker was charged with giving six The tactics of Hoover, who led the | checks to Washington business houses raid on Brunette's apartment, stirred | during the last few weeks. He gave resentment among officlals of the an address in the first block of Sixth police and fire departments. street northeast. ! 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