The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 8, 1954, Page 5

Sentenced In 1935 In Kidnaping Case ; Freedom In Minnesota Federal Court Minn, —Echoes of Barker-Karpis gang aan ie in a-federal court- ih ere today as Volney Davis réedom from a life sentence part in the kidnaping of i .. Bremer, a St, Paul now..a slim and white- 1p peat gga ye efoerment side, an- ‘pame—Melvin Pur- fed. .among ‘the govern- ie ‘witnesses. Purvis, then. charge of the Chicago ‘men captured Davis wshot down Jolin ‘Dillinger, Aheadliner of the gangster ‘a Chicago theater ake eae grew up in : Oklahoma with Fred and , Later, when the Bar- “Alvin Karpis in a wave d-to consult an attorney Ng, disposition of the car wned in Kansas City during me he alleged he was held “a -10-page Dp’ signed on the kidnaping, he d “T was so stated. |. would ve signed anything”> He’ vigor- vernment’s Inquest Into Heir’s Death Is Recessed: After Warning CHICAGO (» — The inquest into the mysterious death of Montgom- ery Ward Thorne was in recess today after Coroner Walter McCar- + |ron warned attorneys for the moth- er of the mail order heir to make good on promises of startling ‘evi- dence. Mrs. Marion Thorne, on the wit- ness stand yesterday for the second straight day, testified her 20-year- old son had been blackmailed. and told McCarron ihe- identity of the Person or persons “will come out and you will certainly be sur- prised.” However, under direct question- ing, she admitted she had no di- rect knowledge of blackmail. Henry Kalcheim, an attorney for Mrs. Thorne, promised a ‘“bomb- shell” at resumption of the in- quest next Wednesday. He said the “truth” would be brought out then. McCarron demanded that Kel- cheim testify under oath about whatever information he had. Kel- cheim refused on grounds of legal priviledge. Another attorney for Mrs. Thorne, Bartlett S. Marimon, said they were conducting their own in- {| vestigation inc onnection with young Thorne’s death. “We do not have all the facts, but we will preseré them in good time,” Marimon said. McCarron then told Mrs. Thorne’s § | attorneys to make good their prom- ise to bring forth their evidence t | bearing on the cause of the youth’s death. Recalled to testify yesterday was Maureen Regan, 18, young Thorne’s fiancee "and chief benefi- ciary in his will to an estate esti- mated at nearly two million dol- lars. She testified she and Thorne were to have been married in De- cember, after his 21st birthday, be- cause then his mother “would not be able to interfere or make trou- ble any more.” It was the first time that Mrs. Thorne and Miss Ragen and Miss Ragen’s mother, Mrs. Aleen Ra- gen, had appeared at the inquest at the same time. Mrs. Thorne, who has denied her son was engaged to the pretty blonde Maureen, at one time in her testimony looked -at the girl and her mother and: said: “I'll fight each and-every one of you to the | end.” Thorne, who was ‘found dead June 19 in a $75-a-month room, had revised his will 10 days earli- er, making Miss Ragen and her Enjoy at new low price! Brewed in Milwaukee! First in Milwaukee! about Thorne’s death| | mother principal beneficiaries, and cutting his mother’s share to one eighth. Mrs. Thorne was chief beneficiary under a will drawn up when her son was 18. Miss Ragen repeated earlier tes- timony that she did not know Thorne had revised his will and left her one half his -estate. She also testified Thorne always was short of funds, that he complained jhe did not get along with his mo- ther and that his mother did not love him. Red Newspaper Complains Of Religious Trend By RICHARD KASISCHKE MOSCOW (—Can you imagine how the secretary of a Young Communist League committee could backslide so far that she would get married in a church? This happened recently at Nku- ha, a city of considerable size down near Baku, capital of the Azer- baijan Republic. And the news- paper Baku Worker made it the point of a major article to increase the anti-religious drive of Soviet youth. These articles have been appear- ing more and more frequently in the Moscow press as well as in provincial papers. Anti-religious drive has to be increased because churches appear to be making in- roads, especially with the youth. Baku Worker’s complaint stated: “A long procession was moving | from the house of the bride to the house of the bridegroom. In the first car Sat the bride, with an ot lamp and mirror in her hands, ac- cording to Oriental custom. In the other cars were many friends of the bride and the bridegroom. “Then they all went to the city cemetery, where is the grave of a ‘holy Mohammed.’ The cars stopped and the caretaker of the | grave began to read a prayer. .. | “It is not the first time that marriages have been blessed by his man and that young girls and men have followed these ancient prejudices. “But this time it was even more serious—the secretary of the Young Communist League committee and | her husband, who himself is a teacher in one of our institutes!” Floating dry docks have been in Thursday, July 8, 1954 His Income Tax.” one of the today. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 EYEFUL'S ARMFUL—Virginia De Luce is playing the strong lady and Robert Clary the little fellow in “He Takes Me Off numbers in “New Faces,” the CinemaScope musical in color opening at the Strand Theater New Privilege For German Youth ‘BONN, Germany (#—Young Ger- mans liable for future military ser- | vice will have a. privilege denied their grandfathers and fathers un- der the Kaiser and Hitler. They | will be able to claim exemption from the draft on grounds of con- | science. The West German Defense Com- mission, headed by Theodor Blank, is drafting a law containing de- tailed provisions for the treat- ment of conscientious objectors. No details are known, but Blank says only members of religious groups which reject armed force can ob- ject to military service. School Planned SAN ANTONIO Tex. (® — Plans for an $8,000,000 school of aviation medicine at Brooks Air Force Base here have been canceled, Col. James Lang of the U.S. District Engineers office at Galveston said last night. use for more than 100 years. ave up to I0* when you Lang said his instructions were Finest in Milwaukee! White Australia Policy Followed CANBERRA, Australia (#—Im- migration Minister Harold Holt has reiterated Australia’s determina- tion to retain restrictive immigra- tion—the “white Australia” policy. A government statement issued over Holt’s name_ yesterday fol- lowed newspaper suggestions that India would soon ask Australia to allow a small annual quota of In- dians to enter Australia. “Our policy of restriction is not based on any notion of racial su- periority but on frank, realistic recognition that there are impor- tant differences of race, culture make successful assimilation, un- likely,” Holt’s statement declared. Most of Ethiopia’s 350,000 square miles is on a plateau 5,000 to 6,000 feet high. to cancel the contract with an Aus- tin, Tex., architectural firm which was designated last January to draw up plans and specifications on the project. “They may have shifted it to | some other location,” Lang added United States Demands Return Of Seven GIs By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON ( — The United | States has served Red: Czechoslo- | vakia with a brusque demand for, the “immediate return” of seven| U.S. soldiers who this government charged were kidnaped last Sunday. The State Department disclosed | last night that an exceptionally | stiff note was delivered to the) Czech foreign office in Prague yesterday. That note dismissed as unfound- ed Czech claims that the seven — a captain and six enlisted men -! were spying when they were seized by a Czech border ratrol near the West German town of Baernau July 4. But a few hours after the U. S. note was handed to Czech diplo- matic officials, the Communist satellite government repeated its espionage charge in a Prague radio broadcast heard in Vienna. The U.S. note, protesting ‘in the strongest terms this abduction of American soldiers,” said the Americans “were proceeding inno- cently without arms along the |the Prague {firm the group entered Czech ter- tered Czech territory by illegal ,(Czech-German) border . . . when, they were patrol.” American Army spokesmen in | Germany have said the solgiers—| {who have not been publicly identi- | fied pending notification of kin—| jwere on leave and may have! | mistake while on a sightseeing trip. However the Czech reply note to the United States as read over radio insisted that | “their confession and behavior con- seized by a Czech ritory to conduct an espionage mis- sion.” The Czech note said further the soldiers confessed that they en- means and that films found on them revealed that they had pho- FOR ATHLETE’S FOOT USE A KERATOLYTIC BECAUSE— lt SLOUGHS OFF the fainted outer skin to expose buried fungi and kills it on contact. Get this STRONG, keratolytic fungicide, T-4-L, at any drug store. If not pleased IN ONE HOUR, your 40c back. Now at GARDNER’S PHARMACY ( tographed objects on Czechoslovak soil, The Prague broadcast said the | Americans were arrested after try- ing to elude the border guards. Servicemen’s Special $1.00 Day |PRINCE GEORGE HOTEL 1011 FIFTH STREET Miami Beach, Fla. 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