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‘ ' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 1936. : s A7 'Hundredth Birthday * REED AND GINGELL IMPLICATED AGAIN = Kirby Tells Police Matthews Case Suspects Also Kiiled Salesman. Implication in a second murder, that of W. Earle Dolman, 34-year-old Philadelphia salesman, near Sutton, W. Va, today confronted Willlam Reed, 25, and Lawrence Gingell, 20, of Montgomery County, Md., while a Nation-wide search for Reed continued in connection with the slaying of El- wood Matthews, 68, wealthy farmer, near Four Corners, Md. War Joseph Kirby, 20, shot by West Virginia troopers in a recent gun bat- tle, made a confession at Charleston, W. Va. that he was with Reed and Gingell when Matthews was beaten and shot to death the night of Novem- ber 21. Gingell is in jail at Rockville. Reed is still at large. 8upt. P. D, Shingleton of West Vir- ginia State police said last night Kirby had told troopers that Gingell and Reed killed Dollman. Wounded in Gun Battle. Kirby was wounded more than three weeks ago at a kidnap-robbery near Charleston. He was quoted by Shin- gleton, according to an Associated | Press dispatch, as saying Gingell and Reed beat Dollman to death near Sut- ton November 26 and then set his car on fire. His charred body was found bours later. Shingleton said “Kirby told my men that the car in which he, Gingell and Reed drove into the State ran out of gasoline near Sutton the night of No- vember 25. They stopped Dollman’s car and he consented to return them to Sutton to get some gasoline. Kirby said Gingell and Reed returned with Dollman’s body in the back seat. They had killed him by beating him over the head. “Kirby told us then the two set the ¢ar on fire.” A week ago Lieut. J. H. Fillinger quoted Kirby as blaming Reed for the slaying of Matthews, whose body ‘was found in a creek near Silver Spring & week ago Sunday. Fillinger said Kirby also confessed a series of rob- beries and hold-ups throughout West Virginia and Maryland. Slain en Route Home. State troopers took Kirby out of the county jail to retrace the route from Charleston to Sutton and to re-enact, 1f possible, the Dollman slaying. Kirby formerly lived at Scranton, Pa., but for months had lived at Ken- sington, Md., where Gingell's mother now resides. Dollman, former West Virginia Uni- versity athlete, who lived at Charles- ton, was a salesman for a Philadel- phia concern. He was en route home from Morgantown, W. Va. to spend the Thanksgiving holidays with his parents when slain. Gingell was arrested last week as he walked across the Highway Bridge in Washington toward Virginia. He was recognized by a motorist, who zeported his whereabouts to police. Matthews left a filling station at Four Corners on the night of Novem- ber 21, planning to walk on the high- way to his home. His disappearance was reported to police two days later, and his body was found December 13 on a rock in Northwest Branch near Burnt Mills, Md. He had been robbed of $40. There were two. bullet holes in his body and a cut on his head. Pope (Continued From Pirst Page.) broadcast at 12:30 p.m. (6:30 am. Eastern standard time). He spoke of the “bitter sorrow of our paternal heart, caused by the many great evils which, these days, have fallen like a scourge on human- ity, civil society and the church.” Of his own suffering, the pontiff %old his millions of listeners: “¢ * * the Divine Goodness is granting us an opportunity to con- tribute to the prayers, the work and the sacrifices of all by the personal experience of suffering and until now has marvelously spared us. “And for which the same Divine God is most readily and generously recompensing us with a wondrous and touching union of prayers, which late- ly from every part of the church are incessantly being offered up for the ‘well being of the common father.” Prequently he halted in the midst of lengthy phrases to swallow and moisten his dry lips. Then, with & long breath and a tired sigh, he would continue. Gratitude for Prayers. A semblance of his customary clar- ity and robust tonal quality came to his voice when he expressed his grati- tude for the prayers of the devout. “From the fullness of our heart,” he said, “we take the opportunity to thank all for this manifestation of filia] affection, so loving and so de- voted. “Although what we have to suffer s very little, indeed, compared to that ‘which, so generously and painfully, people suffer in the world, and com- pared with that, above all, which He Himself, the Head, the Founder, the King of this divine church, had to suffer for us, both in soul and body, may He none the less deign to accept our offering, which we wish will al- ‘ways be in conformity with His most holy will.” Of Spain he declared: “The sorrowful note which, this year, 1s mingled with the joys of Christmas, is even more profound and distress- ing because of the fact that there still rages, with all its horror, hatred, carnage and destruction, a civil war in g signs and portents of ter- ritying reality of what is being pre- pared for Europe and the whole world, if they do not hasten to look up the Decessary remedies of defense.” AMERICANS HEAR MESSAGE. HENRY R. GIBSON Of Tennessee, oldest living former member of Congress, is cele- brating a birthday anniversa: today at his home, 1425 Allison street. Although some biographies indicate he is only 99, Gibson has a family Bible which shows he was born December 24, 1836, on Kent Island, in Chesapeake Bay, and is, therefore, 100 years old today. He still keeps with current events, reading the u newspapers without the auf of glasses. He thinks Congress is improving. - -A. P. Photo. Message of Pope Pius XI Sorrowful Note of Spanish War Amid Christmas Joys Called Menace to Civilized World. VATICAN CITY, December 24 (#). —The official translation of the radio address of Pope Pius follows: A message tc the Sacred College, to Roman prelates, to the episcopates to the clergy, both secular and regu- lar, and to all great Catholic fam- ilies: 3 If, on the numberless occasions con- tinually offered us by divine providence and by the love of our venerable brothers and beloved sons and of those from every corner of the world who come to us, our whole soul rejoices with the exaltation of the father who embraces all in the heart of our re- deemer, today more than ever we feel near and present to our beloved Sacred College, whose venerable dean, in an elevated address on behalf of his eminent colleagues, has expressed to us their greetings and good wishes which we value most highly. We feel near and present also to our beloved Roman prelates and to the great Catholic family in the radi- ant light of the star of Bethlehem on this annual recurrence of the sacred season of Christmas. ‘We are near and present to you and to all the Catholic world in spirit, in thought which, transcending time and Alpine heights and the vast ex- panse of oceans, rises above the uni- verse and its tempests, even unto God. We are near and present in the afflictions of our hearts because the heart is not divided from the mind, but rather follows it and draws from it as you know from daily experience, venerable brethren and beloved sons, the ardor to conquer those obstacles of time and space and the vicissitudes of human life which keep you from our presence. Exchange of Wishes At Christmas Tide. ‘We have spoken of the holy season of Christmas because the primary reason which makes us desire and sense so vividly your presence is pre- cisely this: That we may give and ex- change with you most cordial good wishes for every spiritual grace, for every holy gift and for the most plenteous blessing upon the recurrence of this sacred season of Christmas, which has made resound throughout the ages that hour of all graces, of all favors, of all blessings, so ardently looked for and so long prepared by divine goodness with so profound a plan of love and mercy. Unfortunetely, against the will of God who came to bring peace to men of good will, there contends the malevolence of among us, full of grace and truth, so that of His fullness we might all re- ceive “grace for grace.” heart not only to you, but to great Catholic family, have des unite to our message of spirit some expression of the bitter sorro of our paternal heart caused by the many great evils which in these days have fallen like a scurge on humanity, on civil society, and on the church, At the same time pointing out to all the gravity of the perils that divine mandate teacher of the peoples, @s an avowed enemy of national pros- perity and progress, such a one is not only no builder of a prosperous future for humanity and his own county; on the contrary he is destroying the most effective and decisive means of defense against dreaded evils and he is, even though he know it not, working with those against whom he believes and boasts that he is fighting. We have had several occasions even recently to explain what the holy and apostolic see has always believed and taught and what she, according to her opportunities, has sought to accomplish and contribute—up to yesterday, even up to this day and whatever greater dispositions may be for the future— to the welfare of all against a common enemy. It is needless to say that in such ondition there is nothing more for us to do but to renew more insistently and more paternally and imploringly the invitation and pressing entreaty so frequertly repeated to the faithful throughout the world, to all souls par- ticularly devoted to the sacred heart and to the interest of the church, to all bishops, to all the secuiar and regular clergy and to all the laity, especially to those who, with such enlightened faith and Christian charity, labor for the interests of Christ and of souls by their active participation with the hier- archical apostolate In the multiple forms of Catholic action. Heroic Souls Praised For Daily Efforts. Our highest thoughts, full of par- ticular confidence, go out in a special way to those heroic souls who are making an apostolate out of their daily work and even of their suffering. And more especially still to those legions which from all corners of the world send up to heaven the perfume of their purity. We speak of these little ones who believe in Jesus and who belong to the church in a special manner precisely because they are Christ’s beloved. ‘This year, most beloved sons, the di- vine goodness is granting us the op- portunity to contribute to the prayers and work and sacrifices of all by a personal experience of suffering and until now has marvelously spared us and for which the same divine good- ness is most readily and generously recompensing us with a wondrous and touching union of prayers which lately from every part of the church are incessantly being offered up for the i BRE H L 8 B ' those who have gone A peace and for the good of th church and in a particular Spani, now so troubled and This, our prayer, we reverently lay before the crib of the Prince of Andnngobukum,mmflz and in heart, to the cave of Bethle- hem whence we behold the whole Knowing Child, who became a child to be more lovable, and thus to draw the whole human race to Himself, to His cross, to His flock, to His church and to His clients. He is today in the midst of us, and in union with Him His vicar extends his hand to bless you all, beloved sons, and to invoke upon all an abundance of the gifts and graces which he came to scatter as seeds of eternal and imperishable triumph on u}en.ncenn.henrthxwmcno(nod wi BOTANICAL GARDEN HEAD DIES FOLLOWING STROKE Dr. Marshall Avery Howe, 60, Director of New York Insti- tution, Served 40 Years. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 24—Dr. Marshall Avery Howe, 69, director of the New York Botanical Garden, with which he had been connected since 1t was established in 1896, died shortly after midnight today at his home, at Pleasantville, N. Y., following a stroke of paralysis. He was named director of the gar- den October 1, 1935, after 11 years’ service as assistant director. He had taught at the University of California and Columbia University and participated in scientific expedi- tions to Newfoundland, West Indies and Panama. Two children survive, Prentiss and Gertrude. —_—— MRS, LONG BURIED Sgecial Dispateh to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., December 24.—Mrs. Margaret Ellen Long, 80, of Hollywood was buried this morning at St. John’s Roman Catholic Church. Requiem mass was said by the rector, Rev. Father Joseph Johnson, 8. J. Mrs. Long is survived by two children, Mrs. John Mattingly and Cleatty Long. Interment was in the church cemetery. ’ ) éf;’ 4 4% Closed all day Sat., Dec. 26 922 N. Y. Ave. National 8610 GREETINGS Our entire staff wish you a very Merry Christ- mas and a happy ond pros- perous new year. Our Yard Will Be Closed All Day Christmas Day, De- cember 25, and Saturday, December 26. INC. SUDDEN SERVICE Lumber and Millwork 2121 Ga. Ave. TEMPERATURE IR Wiami. Beack "YRSTS RO AY WAS TRAVEL. Sightseers visitin, will get an added th the Yule season. MOTHER, LOCKED OUT, CALLS FIRE DEPARTMENT Visions of a tragedy brought out the Pire Department yesterday after Mrs. Ben H. Frank, 3654 New Hamp- shire avenue, became locked out of her apartment—where her 6-year-old daughter, Anne, was alone with an electric iron. The iron, hot and still connected, was being used by Mrs. Frank when she stepped into the hall for a min- ute and a draft blew the door shut behind her. Anne was unharmed and the fron had not caused any damage, however, 754 THIS WEEKS “THis WEIX"” is an inspira- tion! Keeping everything brief is an inspired ides. I have prolited by your rigid re- quirements.” - ~Rupert Hughes ORDER YOUR SUN the White House during the holidays 1 when they visit the famous east room, where this gayly decorated Christmas tree has been set up for nderwood & Underwood. Company entered the second-floor apartment through a window. Psychic Message Council o i R GROUP MEETINGS DAILY Aceredited Messase Bearers Personal interviews for spiritual aelp T B A A o Heleninas o e Scuncsl House or ‘elephone TWO CONCERNS PAY BONUSES AT PARTIES Employes of Heurich Brewery and W. & J. Sloane Re- ceive Cash Gifts. Christmas parties, at which bonuses and gifts were distributed, were tendered employes of the Heurich Brewing Co. and W. & J. Sloane last night. cmdan. ‘Heurich, 94-year-old pres- ident of the brewing company, pre- sented $30 checks to his employes 'M the first Christmas party of the Heurich Employes’ Association. Chil- dren of the employes also attended and were given ice cream and cake. At the Sloane party the personnel, wives and friends danced after the bonuses and gifts were presented, C. W. Whitmore, manager of the store, received the guests. The party was held at the store, 711 Twelfth street. Abolish Homework. The British Board of Edacation will abolizh all school homework for week- ends. 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