Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1937, Page 5

TWO SLAYERS DIE INELEGTRIC CHAIR 20 Remain in Death House at Sing Sing After Pair Is Executed. By the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y. January 8.— Twenty men under death sentence remained today in Sing Sing Prison's death house, where the electric chair only a few hours before claimed the lives of two youthful slayers of a sub- way collector in a hold-up. Nine of the condemned men are to be executed within the next two weeks, four next Thursday and five a week later, unless saved by execu- tive clemency. Theodore Didonne, 31, and Joseph Bolognia, 24, two of six men convicted of shooting Edwin Esposito, 22-year- old transit company employe, when they robbed him of a sackful of coins totaling $240, were put to death last night. Youth’s Sentence Commuted. Salvatore Scata, 19, whose confes- $2,500 Damages Given in Cigarette Testimonial Suit By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 8 —Crawford Burton, stock trader and gentleman steeplechase rider, yesterday was eral -Court jury in his $75,000 libel suit against the Crowell Publishing Co., and a few hours later it was dis- closed he proposed to sell his seat on the New York Stock Exchange. Burton charged in his suit a photo- ! graph of him published in a cigarette | testimonial made him the butt of ribald remarks, including jibes from associates on the stock exchange floor. Confirming an announcement by the Stock Exchange Committee on Admissions last night about the pro- | posed seat “transfer,” Burton denied | there was any connection between the | sale and the “ribbing” he testified he had been subjected to. The Admission Committee listed Burton in a routine anouncement as wishing to transfer his membership, | to which he was elected January 4, | 1934, to J. Dudley Fritz for $129,000. | Two other libel actions, based on the same photograph, are pending. In one Burton seeks $200,000 from the awarded $2,500 damages by a Fed- | T'HE KEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1937. WALLACE SPEAKS AT NEGRO PARLEY Tells Colored Leaders Farm Tenancy Problem Not Easily to Be Solved. The farm tenancy problem in the Southern States cannot be solved sim- ply by making all farm tenants land owners, Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace today told the large group’af Negro leaders gathered here at a na- tional conference on the problems ‘of the colored race. ‘The Secretary spoke after the con- ference heard a committee report which recommended enactment of legislation making possible large-scale Government purchase of land for re- sale or lease to tenants or co-operatives composed of tenants and small farm owners, who desire to attain the status of ownership. Referring to the rec- ommendation, Secretary Wallace said: ““The problem of bettering conditions for the 1,200,000 farm tenants in the South is more complicated than ap- pears on the surface. By merely put- ting them in possession of land sud- denly will not solve the problem. It is one which will require years of work and training.” “Jim Crowism” Assailed. Support of a list of recommendations that would “eliminate Jim Crowism from the United States” was urged yesterday by Walter White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ‘The speaker asserted that Negroes “must stop trembling, compromising and playing Uncle Tom,” and added that “our chance has come at last to remove ‘the barriers of inequality, in- security and injustice that have con- fronted and hindered us for many years.” ‘White urged the conference to sup- port the movement for a Federal anti- lynching law; a civil rights act for the District of Columbia and other Federal territory, and a bill prohibiting the placement on ballot of any candi- date of a party that violated the four- teenth amendment. Miss Roche Speaks. Miss Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, spoke at an afternoox session, declaring every- one should bear in mind that “no group in America, no matter how privileged, no matter how prosperous, can continue to be prosperous unless | security, equality and justice is ob- tained for all.” Miss Roche said she felt the con- ference, which has drawn a large group of colored leaders, is making a real contribution toward the achieve- ment of equal rights, and equal op- portunity for all. Illness prevented John G. Winant, chairman of the Social Security Board, from appearing before the con- ference. Dr. Will W. Alexander of the Resettlement Administration spoke briefly. ‘William H. Hastie, assistant solicitor general of the Interior Department, protested against the “spirit of ine! ** A—S tolerance and injustice that prompts white people in the South to disfrane chise the colored man.” The conference will be concluded to- day. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College of Daytona Beach, Fla., and director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administratioh, has been presiding over the sessions. — Kiss Rings Fire Alarm. ‘When a young man ardently kissed & girl at a street corner in London, she showed her disapproval by shov- ing him against a fire-alarm box. The alarm rang in, and in a minute or two six fire engines were at the scene. sion prosecuting officials credited with p- J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. In the making possible a solution of the other suit Burton named William crime, was saved when Gov. Herbert | peiy & Co. an advertising agency, H. Lehman, only a few hours before o5 gefendants, and sought damages the time set for the execution, com- muted the Hartford, Conn. youth’s sentence to life imprisonment. Earlier the Governor had commuted the sentences of Sam Kimmel, 22; Dominick Zizzo, 27, and Eugene Bruno, 23. The four men will be removed shortly from the death house cells where they remained last night be- cause of an influenza epidemic in the prison. Shouts Excitedly. Scata, clad in the somber clothes he was to wear to the chair, and with his hair clipped for the electrodes, | shouted excitedly in Italian when he received news his life would be spared “I've got life.” he shrieked. Didonne, the eldest of the six, shuf- fled into the death chamber with a half leer on his swarthy face. Bo- lognia, who confessed the crime with of $100,000. FOUR YEARS ‘GRL, *YOUTH UNMASKED He Masquerade Begun, Says, to Help Parents, Curls Shorn. Bs the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., January 8. | —Twenty-two-year-old De Witt Wel- don cut his curled, shoulder-length —and that means savings worth going for! We do this only twice a year — but then we go the limit. Ours is @ “no-hangover” policy. bravad ths ago for newsreel - . . D = e owmree o This season’s clothing must be sold this season. And price cuts up to 24% do the trick! Every 2 trouser suit (except tuxedos) and every overcoat in the store carries a sale tag. So you can be sure of seeing a corking line-up of all the ace patterns and colors. -Better do your picking today or tomorrow —before the crowds, which always flock to this event, tear things apart. eramen, was sober-faced as he entered. 10T hair today and doffed the fem- Eay inine finery he wore four years to beat | the depression. COLMERY TO SPEAK | Chief of Police William H. Funston said Weldon, taken into custody yes- terday in woman's clothing, admitted BEFORE SOJUURNERS his masquerade and declared it was “a source of income.” R & “I did it to help my father and Legion Commander Among Ban- ";‘i'_h;r-" the chief quoted Weldon as L saying. quet Guests “, Installation Of “Garbo Type.” Meeting. Chief Funston described Weldon as Harry W. Colmery. national com- & curly-haired blond “of the Garbo mander of the American Legion, will | type” and said he had been employed be guest speaker at the 17th annual Tegularly during the four years as a banquet of the National Sojourners, | domestic in various homes, where he to be held at the Mayflower Hotel Was known as “Evelyn” Weldon. tomorrow evening. | “Several of Weldon's employers with Maj. Charles F. Roberts will be; Whom I talked,” the chief said, “told nstalled at the banquet as president Mme what a wonderful cook and good, of the local Sojourners club. The |clean housekeeper Weldon was. All annual meeting of the organization’s | S8id they liked ‘her’ very much, and national officers, trustees and regional Tone ever suspected the deception.” representatives will also be held in _ Weldon himself declared, Chief Fun- conjunction with the banquet ston continued, that he had been Guests will include ranking officers '~ VeIV careful in his manner toward of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, his employers and liked the life very Cosst QGuard, Coast and Geodetic Burvey and the United States Pub- lic Health Service. ‘The entertainment program will in- elude patriotic ceremonies by uni- formed color bearers representing the divisions the country’s national de- fense, skits of military theme, and several acts by Washington radio en- tertainers. Deer Has Third Horn. A deer killed by William Appelt of El Campo, Tex., had a third horn. It was a 10-point buck with four on one prong, five on the other and a spike about six inches long growing from the forehead. much.” Attend Dances. 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