Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1937, Page 18

Fake Merey Call Is Used to Trap And Rob Doctor .S JURY RUSHE TDMINUTEVERDT 8 Found Guilty and Quickly Sentenced in Liquor Conspiracy Case. call to “save a woman'’s life,” Dr. John Y the 2 ssociated Press. | C. Payne, colored physician, walked ROANOKE, Va., April 1.—A jury in into a hold-up trap early today #nd United States District Court yesterday | was robbed of $6 required but 10 minutes to consider | The doctor had just returned to his | Hurrying to Address, He| Is Held Up and $6 Taken. conspiracy charge and return a verdict | call about 1:30 a.m. when the tele- of guilty as to each. This was believed | phone rang again. by court attendants to have been the A male voice informed him a woman speediest verdict ever returned in Fed- | was bleeding to death on the second eral court in Roanoke floor of a house in the 1700 block of Defendants and sentences imposed | Second street wpon them by Judge John Paul a few | Grabbing his medical case, Dr. minutes later. follow: Payne hurried to the address. As he E. W. “Dick” Lockard, two years in | walked through & dark first-floor hall- Atlanta Penitentiary, coupled with a | way two colored men accosted him. fine of $1,000 | One pointed a gun at him and the Mrs. Dessie Lockard, his wife, one | other relieved him of his wallet. ment Auditorium last night Responding to a fake emergency | Austern, vice president: | Levy, secretary, and Burr Tracy An- | sell, treasurer. tive Committee included John Abt, former Judge James A. Cobb, Philip e ick, and Char- the fate of eight persons on a liquor | office at 1607 Seventh street from a fgva‘}f,l{a,s ‘;,",,,‘;yw;‘:,’_"y o COAL THE EVENING EMERSON HONORED Elected President of District Chap- ter of Lawyers Guild. Thomas I. Emerson of the general counsel’s office, Social Security Board, was elected president of the District chapter of the National Lawyers Guild at & meeting in the Interior Depart- Chosen with Emerson were Thomas Irving J. Election to the Execu- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, Slain Peddler’s Spirit Evades at Anniversary But Miss Cottren could contact only “Uncle Ike,” her name for an undis- closed spirit who answered seance questions with hollow-sounding raps. “Only once each year, during Sum- mer seances at the Lily Dale Spirit- ualist camp, can I communicate with ‘Split Foot,'” she said. “He raps on the tin peddler’s box Spiritualist piritualists BY the Associated Press. HOLLAND, N. Y., April 1.—Faithful, friendly “Uncle Ike” filled in yester- day for a capricious “Split Foot” as & group of Spiritualists celebrated the eighty-ninth anniversary of their faith’s “first modern demonstration.” At her home here Miss Flo Cottrell, | a medium, demonstrated how she | contacts “Split Foot,” the murdered peddler whose spirit is central figure of the “Fox Cottage rappings.” Spiritualists say manifestations at the Fox Cottage on March 31, 1848, mark the birth of their modern faith. APRIL 1, 1837. found beneath the Fox Cottage.” ! She sat in the corner of a shaded | room, crowded with antique rockers, | and six persons waited while she meditated. ‘When affirmative raps indicated she was “in tune with the world of minds beyond” she queried the group for questions. Shrugged off as too frivilous was a query: “Will my husband paint the house white?"” “I cannot see why people ask such 3:95"‘;’:‘6';;::“1::& l:;':;r t;'e‘u&‘{f‘“l One Private Railroad in Turkey. e | }:'" demonstration climaxed me-| With the repurghase by the Turkish oictll evioce At yesterday at the | Soyernment of the line between Is- Lily Dale. N. Y., Spiritualist camp- | tanbul and the Bulgarian frontier Ll | there is left only one private rallway ground, 40 miles southwest of here. | operating in Turkey. 1t is the location of the Fox Cottage | Shrine, moved here in 1916 from near Hydnesville, N. Y. In the weather-| beaten structure John Fox, his wife| and their three daughters are said to| " Enroll for Classes Starting April 1 have heard the rappings of the ped-| C H dler’s spirit. and to have learned from | yamous Conversational Berlitz Method him that he was murdered there five THE BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANGU AGES 1115 Conn. Ave. Ational 0270 years before. Also 10 Weeks “Travelers Course” year in the Woman's Reformatory at | Alderson, W. Va., coupled with a fine | of $1,000. The sentence was suspended | on condition that the fine be paid | within 60 days. | John W. Glover and Frank Willis, 18 months each in Atlanta Penitentiary. | Thomas J. Mullins, E. J. Butcher and Jimmy Meador, eight months at Camp Lee. | Ralph Adkins, six months at Camp | Lee. Motion of defense counsel to permit | Lackard freedom for two or three days | when . - g ! you paint walls with Moore’s was overruled by Judge Paul and John | g 1% YOO BRI Ve, MUl hem. 922 New York Ave. W. Stuart, United States marshal, said | the prisoners would be removed to Atlanta and the prison camp today. Buddy Rogers Returns NEW YORK, April 1 (#)—Buddy Rogers, one-time movie star m‘di flance of Mary Pickford, arrived from | England yesterday and said he and | the motion picture actress would be | married in California “in four or five weeks.” § Miss Pickford now is traveling in Surope. Banker Dies. ST. LOUIS, April 1 (). —Charles E. Zelle, 71, vice president of the Mutual Bank and Trust Co. and retired offi- cial of the International Shoe Co., died last night. On Brand-New Nationally-Famous Radios—Many in Factory-Sealed Boxes In another hold-up reported short- ly before midnight Charles Foste enough, 1219 Thirty-third street, was robbed of $3.50 by a colored man who seized him from behind while he was walking in the 400 block of R street. ’ % (g - = W7 44 Nat. 8610 PIANOS FOR RENT . UPRIGHTS - GRANDS - WORCH'S 1110 G N.W. All Radios Fully GUARANTEED! BRAND-NEW 1937 ARVIN AuTo RADIOS With Controls for All Cars € Tubes, Super Dynemic Speoker 1 Reduced to 22" complete ] Ly BRAND- NEW %" PHILCO Full-Size Console B Bands — All Wave Brand-New 1936 GRUNOWA.RADIOS With controls to match your panel 6-Tube Superheterodyne PRICE 359.95 Brand-New 1936 Atwater Kent 2 3 Bands o Al Wave 8-Inch Dynamie Speaker PRICES ARE NOW LOWEST in Years! 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