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The Washington times., 1931-08-14
GERMAN F LIE R
IN GREENLAND
Time. Staff Photo

LONDON, Aug. IA Q.N.SO-
Another hazardous flight across
the Atlantic was recorded today
when news reached this city Of
the arrival at Scoresby Sound,
Greenland, of Capt. Wolfgang
Won Gronau. German aviator fly
ing In a seaplane to Chicago.
According to a dispatch from
Reyjkavik, Iceland, which city
Won, Gronau left yesterday at
11:45 a. m, Washington time,
the plane arrived at the Green
land port at 1859 r. m.
Won Gronau must fly across
the inland glacier of Greenland,
where forced landing would be
perilous, as the interior is unin-
habited and. virtually inaccessible.
With three companions, he flew
over the same course last year.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
F|REMEN HURT
At WINCHESTER

WINCHESTER, Va. Aug. IA
Ten firemen were badly burned
and more than 100000 feet Of
lumber destroyed in q blaze
which last night wrecked Glaize's
lumber yard on the outskirts OF
the city.
Damage was estimated at
$4,000.
scores Of volunteer fire COM
panies assembled here for the an
nual convention of the Virginia
state Firemen's Association joined
with the local forces in battling
the blaze.
Three members of the Alexan-
dria Fire Department, Edward
Fields, William CheSby and VIII
liam Zell are among the injured.
The din of fire sirens pre-
vented a quick response to the
alarm, most people thinking that
the alarm was just part OF the
celebration.
A short time before the lumber
yard fire false alarm had been
turned in from another part Of
the city which further compli-
Gated matters.
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CRANER CORPSE
BELIEVED SEEN

OLSO, Aug. IA 0NS.)-Ef-
forts were being made today by
fishermen to recover a body, be-
lieved to be that of Parker D.
Cramer, missing American trans
atlantic airman, seen floating in
the North Sea about Is miles
northwest of the Shetland
Islands.
News of the sighting was
brought to Haugesund. Norway,
by the crew of a Danish trawler
Heavy seas prevented the craft
from retrieving the body.
The body was dressed in avia-
tors clothing and was floating
upright, supported by a life pre-
server. The crew said it closely
tailed with the description of
Cramer, whose radio operator,
Oliver Pacquette, also was lost
on the last lap of their trans
atlantic flight over the subarctic
route.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
SlGyers Face Quiz
On Recent Murders,
Burnings of Autos

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Aug. IL
G.N.SO Belief that Michigan's
three torch killers-now "lifers"
in the jackson State oeniter1-
tisry-had slain other "petting
party" victims near the scene Of
the wanton butchery and cren1a.
ton of two high school boys and
their pretty girl companions, this
afternoon led authorities to drag
the Huron River, near the mur-
der scene, for bodies.
At the same time. Prosecutor
Albert Rapp declared that Miss
Katherine Keller, 25, reputed
heiress and sweetheart of Fred
Smith. one of the slayers. had ad:
mitted ownership Of the second
gun reported to have been used
in the atrocious crime. He
added:
"she is not telling all she
knows"
SuIIen in Her Cell
Miss Keller was sullen and cry
ing as she nervously paced her
small prison cell. Police do NOT
suspect her of any part in the
slayings, but hope that she may
be able to afford additional de-
tails on the murders.
Basis for the new hunt for
bodies was a burned automobile
found near the spot where Smith,
FRANZ Oliver and David Black
stone, the last a negro, killed
Harry Lore, 16; Thomas Wheat
ley, IS; Vivian Gold, Is, and Anna
May Harrison, II, soaked their
bodies in gasoline and applied the
torch.
The automobile found two
weeks ago did not arouse any sus-
picions until today, when wit
nesses reported to police that they
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The Washington times., 1931-08-14
WOMAN KILLED
:. IN WINE LEFT
BY RAIDERS
Dry Agents Face Investigation
Following Strange Death
of Milwaukee Housewife

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. IA
u.N.SD. .-Fe deral prohibition
agents will be questioned at an
inquest into the death of Mrs.
Helen Vasilzevic, 80, who was
electrocuted in a deep pool of
wine dumped in the basement of
her home by raiding Federal
agents.
Touches Light, Dies
An investigation disclosed that
Mrs. Vasilzevic was fatally burned
by the electric current from an
extension light in the basement,
presumably left burning by the
raiders when she stepped in the
pool of wine.
The wOman'S clothes had be-
come dampened by the wine
while cleaning up the basement
after the agents had cOnfiscated
three SO.gailon barrels of wine
stored there.
Find Body Hour Later
1 Her 6-year.old son. Nick. found
the. body an hour after the
raiders departed.
An investigation was ordered to-
day by Prohibition Director Amos
w. w. Woodcock.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
'HE|RESS' PAL
OFONESAYS
GUN WAS
HERS:
Prisoners Face New GriIIing
as Police Hunt Solutions
In Other Mystery Cases

STATE PENITENTIARY, JACK
SON, Mich, Aug. IA G.N.S).
Michigan's three torch SlayerS
spent a restless. sleepiess night
in their solitary confinement cells
here. and a special guard has
been posted over them TO prevent
possible attempts at suicide.
This was announced today by
Harry jackson, warden of the
prison. who added:
"AlI three men appeared
greatly OverwrOught as they
desperately paced their small
cells all night long. One Of
them threatened suicide, and
their mental state is such that
1 have placed a guard over
them to prevent any possible
attempts"
Each of the killers is confined
in a tiny cell, six feet by six feet
in dimension. Their only source
of light comes from a small six
inch square slit in the steel doors
of the cages.
The trio, the warden said, prob.
ably will be taken late today by
train to the Marquette State
prison.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
Boy Sleeps, Dreams;
World Tour Ends
In Hospital

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. IA.
Because travel is somewhat
firing to a 13-year-old Ulysses
who had bounced around on
the jumping tailboard of a mo-
tortruck bound for New York,
William Smith has postponed
indefinitely his projected trip
to parts unannounced.
Wilson wound up in the Mer.
Ger Hospital at Trenton be-
cause-of all things. when one
is out to see the world alone
in an adventuresome spirit-he
fell asleep.
The truck continued to
bounce and jolt and Wilson,
slumbering peacefully and per-
haps dreaming Of home, was
hurled off. Police took him to
the hospital.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
CGpOne Never Served
In Army, Records
Disclose

AL Capone never was in the
Army. and the scar that he
bears were not received in mill
tary engagement, War Depart
ment records disclosed today.
The Disabled American War
Veterans Association recently
queried the department rela-
tive to reports that AL was a
war veteran. ...
A letter from Mai. Gen. C.
H. Bridges, adjutant general,
today said:
There Is no record Of mill
tary service during the World
War on file for the man bear
ing the name Of AlphOnSe Ca
pOne, sometimes referred to as
'Scarface' CapOne."
Gangdom describes the cash
as having been administered by
black-nanders in Pennsylvania,
AL being one of the few to.
escape q vendetta.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
Fess to Retire January l.;
BENJAMIN to Get Post
By THEODORE TILLER

Political seerS predicted here
today that Senator Simeon D.
Fess, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, will resign
the craftsmanship around the first
of next year and will be Suc-
ceeded by Raymond Benjamin, of
San Francisco, longtime personal
friend of President Hoover.
With the national conventions
less than year away, and sew
eral cities already bidding for the
role Of convention host, this pre-
dicted, coming from well-in-
formed sources, further stimulates
interest in the approaching cam
paign which everyone admits will
be q hectic one.
Benjamin Already Here
Resignation of Senator Fess is
expected in January, if not a bit
sooner. Despite his own reticence
on the subject, under.Surface con-
Viction here is that Chairman
Fess will carry on until the Re
publican committee holds its win
ter meeting, and selects the con-
vention city, and that then he
will find his Senatorial duties so
pressing that he can no longer
hold down a desk in the Barr
Building, where the G. o. p. COM
mittee has its big suite Of Offices.
Meanwhile, the prospective set
up now is that Mr.. Benjamin,
who has been around Washington
and the White House not in
frequently lately. and whose mis-
sion here is rather mysterious,
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
JERSEY BANKER
SHOT IN GIRL s
APARTMENT
New York Police Mystified by
Strange Case; Blonde Tells
Police Someone Choked Her

NEW YORK, Aug. IA
U.N.S) Ruth Jayne, the
blonde beauty in whose apart
ment State Senator Roy T.
Yates, of New Jersey, was shot
early today following a drink
ing bout, was arrested at the
district attorneys office on
charges Of suspicion Of assault.
NEW YORK, Aug. IA 0.N.SD .
A bullet, mysteriously fired early
today, critically wounded State
Senator Roy T. Yates, of Pater-
son, N. j., in the apartment of
a beautiful blonde on West
Eighty-ninth Street. where he has
been a frequent caller. -..
Yates-banker, broker, youngest
member of the New Jersey senate,
married and the father of three
daughters-wsS rushed to a hos
pital in a private ambulance in
such secrecy that police did not
learn of the shooting until hours
after 1t occurred.
Police Question Girl
The blonde, Ruth Jayne, a stun
ningly-dressed girl of 25, is held
in custody and being questioned.
Found in a dazed condition,
clad only in pajamas, she insisted
that whatever happened was a
mystery to her. She admitted at
first she had been drinking, but
later denied it. She said:
II woke up and found some
body choking me. 1 passed out
and when l awakened again
saw Mr.. Yates lying bleeding
and unconscious on the floor"
Yates told attendants at the
apartment house, the Chester
Court, where the girl has lived for
two years, he was a sports writer
for a morning paper.
Girls Story Shaken
Miss Jayne-She signed her
lease as plain Ruth Jones, accord
ing to the agents-alSo effected
a journalistic pose. She said she
was studying journalism at Co
lumbia, but the registrars office
at the university knew nothing
about it.
Senator Yates wife is under
stood to have left their home in
Paterson, for New York, bringing
the wounded mans daughters,
Olive, Is; Elsie, IL, and Ruth, 10.
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Son Pays 81, 800! OOODebt,
Clears Fathers Name

months. Later, the sons were
acquitted, but a debt Of $1,000.
900 remained after all the family
resources were turned over to
the bank.
1t was then the younger Jen-
kinS resolved to meet the obliga-
tionS he could easily have
evaded. Skillful real estate in
vestment and employment with
a brokerage firm which pros
pered soon brought large finan-
cial returns.
Despite this, his scale of living
remained the same, and now,
with the large debt repaid, his
fathers name has been cleared.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14

MINEOLA, N. Y, Aug. IA
U.N.SO-A satisfied judgment Of
$4O6, ,014.62 against the estate Of
John G.. Jenkins was on file to-
day in the county clerks office.
It's filing resulted from "a years
of hard work during which time
John G. jenkins, jr., gave up
many of life'S pleasures in order
to repay $1,3OO,OOO to creditors
of the old jenkins Trust Com
pany.
When the bank failed in 1907.
indictments against the elder
jenkins and his sons led to the
formers death within q few
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
Illinois Tries to Lay
Hands on Burke's Pal

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Aug. IA.
Gov. Louis L. Emmerson today
issued a requisition on the gov
ernor of Michigan for the return
to Illinois of Gus Winkler, alias
Blackie, and pal of killer"
Burke.
Winkler now is in a hospital
in Benton Harbor, Mich, suffer
ing from injuries received in an
automobile accident. He is wanted
in Illinois for trial on charges
of completely in the robbery of
the First State Bank of Plano,
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
TGr-Firing Blamed
For Gangs GrOWth

CHICAGO, Aug. IA U.NSo.-
Widespread tax-fixing was today
held responsible for the rise of
racketeering, which has brought
millions to Chicago gangsterS.
Dr.. Herbert Simpson, of North
western University. appearing last
night before the State revenue
commission, said racketeering isla
logical result" Of tax-fixinRs
The Washington times., 1931-08-14

shall succeed Senator Fess and
assume management of the
Hoover compaign for renomina-
tion and reelection. =
Old Strategists Scattered
Scattered and gone are most
members of the old strategy
board Of the Hoover campaign
of 1928: 1t is even now apparent
that new faces soon will be seen
around Republican headquarters
and in conference rooms, and,
unless present plans get awry,
that of Ray Benjamin will be in
the foreground.
Whether the tentative arrange.
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Mrs. Mary J. BeGU
Bequedths $69,75O

An estate valued at 500, ,75O was
left by Mrs. Mary j. Beall, who
died July 26. according to the
petition of Everett S. Beall, jr.,
and Florence A. Lowry, her execu.
tors for probate of her will filed
in District Supreme Court today.
Unencumbered real estate worth
$68,750 composed the bulk Of the
estate.
The five children of the tesla.
trix. who, in addition to the exc
cutorS,' are Theodosia B. Lowry,
Lille P. Altman. and Dorothy j.
Courchesne, are the residuary
legatees.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
DO-X Due to Resume
It's. FLiqht Tomorrow

BELEM (Para), Brazil, Aug.
IA QN.S).-The seaplane DO-X
will continue its flight from Rio
de Janeiro to New York on Sum
day after installation of the extra
engine which is expected to ar
rive from Natal tomorrow. Com
mander Hamer decided to inter
rupt the flight when a crankcase
Of one Of the IL motors broke
several days ago.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
Son Born to CGnGdG's
Governor General

MONTREAL, Quebec, Aug. IA
G.N.SD.-Lady Bessborough, wife
of the Earl of Bessborough,
governor general Of Canada, gave
birth to a son today at the Royal
Victoria Maternity Hospital.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
CHIEF
/. GUIDES NEW
FLARE-UP
Truce to Insurrectos Denied
as Troops Go to Machado,
Who Is In Field of Action

HAVANA, Aug. IA G.N.S0.
Bloody fighting between rebels
and President Machado's loyal
troops was reported from many
places in the island republic to-
day as the insurrection' spread to
Oriente, up to now the only quiet
province since the beginning Of
General Marion Menocars upris-
ing.
Oriente rebels, believed directed
by Menocal, fought government
troops in sudden attacks at San
tiago, Victoria De Las TunaS,
and four other points.
The fighting was Of the usual
Cuban variety shooting from
ambush, or sudden sorties from
inaccessible Businesses OF the trop-
,ical countryside.
Six Rebels Die
Six rebels, one of them the son
of Senator AureliO Alvarez. were
slain in fight at Camaguey, hut
the hottest battles took place in
Pinar Del Rio, where, some re-
ports said, General MenOcal was
basing his operations. There
loyal troops used machine guns
and airplanes. The number Of
casualties was not reported.
Ambulances bringing wounded
from the interior sped in and out
of Havana today, while soldiers
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The Washington times., 1931-08-14
Rare Disease Kills
MichiQGn Woman

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Aug.
IA .Q!N.SO.-Mrs. H. Wallace
Caldwell, 81, wife of member
of the Chicago board of educa-
ton, was dead today, victim of
a disease called agranuloctosis.
A rare drug, adenine sulphate,
was rushed here by plane, but
injections failed.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
Killing in Scotland
Laid to y. S. Mob

LONDON, Aug. IA GNS0.-A
group of American gangsters, :"
according to Scotland Yard, we're
being sought today for the muir
der of Robert Guthrie Donald,
bank clerk, slain. in a robbery at
the Bank of Clyde, Scotland. The
bandits escaped with $500.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
BeaUerbrOOk Returns
To Scenes of Youth

NEWCASTLE, N. B., Aug. IA
0N.SO Lord Beaverbrook, Ca
nadian.born journalist and states
man, was visiting the haunts of
his youth here today.
He said he was on a vacation
and expected to do considerable
hunting and fishing while in
Canada.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
DOheny, Oil Leader,
III at Coast Home

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Aug.
IA QN.S0-E. L. Doheny, oil
magnate, today was reported very
i'll at his home. Members of the
household denied he suffered a
paralytic stroke. Doheny is IS.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
Arabs, Reds Menace
JeWs, ZiOnists Say

LONDON, Aug. IA U.N.S) =
Charges of an Arab Communist
intrigue aimed at Jews in Pales-
tine were contained in a COM
munique issued by the executive
committee Of the World Union of
ZioniStS here today.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
UndGunted by Hurts,
Ruth to Try Sea Hop

ST. JOHN, N. B., Aug. IA
QN.SD Ruth Nichols will make
test flights this weekend for
another attempt at a trans
Atlantic hop, her nurse who has
been attending Miss Nichols
since her accident here, said
today.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
Tropical Storm Off
Cuba Coast RepOrted

The Weather Bureau today re-
ported a tropical disturbance Of
considerable intensity about 800
miles off the southwestern coast
of Cuba.
The storm was moving north
westward about IL miles an hour.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
Gloria Swanson Back
From European Trip

NEW YORK, Aug. IA UN.SO.
More than 1000 travellers are ar
irving here today on liners from
Europe. Among the passengers
are Gloria Swanson and Colin
Give. screen actor.
The Washington times., 1931-08-14
THE WEATHER

Cloudy, probably rain tonight and Saturday,
not much change in temperature; moderate east
southeast winds. Temperature yesterday-
Highest, 81; lowest, 81. Humidity yesterday-
Highest, 95; lowest, SIS.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-10-29
ATHLETES TO SHOW
IN THE TWIN CITIES

Niels Bukh and his world famous
athletes from Denmark, will visit st.
Paul on Saturday, Nov. Z, and Mime
apolis on Monday, Nov. 8, on their
tour around the world. The IL boys
and IL girls are showing something
entirely new in physical culture, the
performances to be given at the Gen.
trail high school auditorium, Marshall
and Lexington avenue, st. Paul, COM
mencing at p. M, and at the Cen
trail high school auditorium, 35th
street and Fourth avenue South Min
neapolis, at 1880 p. m. The high
school orchestra under direction of
Miss Knott will furnish music at st.
Paul and there will be band music at
Minneapolis. Niels Bukh, who is head
of a folk high school, and his ath-
letes gave performance at M nneapo-
lis some years ago at which time
they won high acclaim.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-10-29
Dutch Gay Helps
"U" Beat IOUa

Kenneth (Dutch) Gay of Sturgeon
Lake, who is attending the University
of Minnesota and spending his off
hours in efforts to fill positions in the
various departments of athletics while
there proved his worth to the football
team Saturday when he went into the
Iowa game as a reserve. Marshall
Wells, regular left tackle, was forced
to leave the game in the first half
with sprained left arm and Kenneth
was sent in to hold that position
against the enemy. Did he hold it?
Well he was the subject of the Who's
Who in Gopher Football column in
Minneapolis paper on: Monday, and
his playing lifted weight from his
coach's mind and caused that indi-
vidual to see that he has a reserve
that can carry on any time as a reg
ular in the tough Big Ten games to
come.
Dutch" will be remembered in
Pine county as being popular men,
Der of the Moose Lake county league
baseball team. He also was a catcher
on the University team. He is the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Gay of
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-10-29
mWdsf(mQtonL Letter
by " PDaley

be prepared to face the discordant
music of those affected by the econ
omy plan. The legislators will be in
a dilemma unless they are prepared
to force the issue.
The folks back home who have been
out of work, or sustained wage cuts
will not take kindly to the idea of
government employees living in the
security of twice-a-month pay days
and no downward revision in their
earnings. Something extraordinarily
convincing in alibis will be in order If
Federal workers, whose salaries come
from the taxpayers, are left outside
the pale of wage adjustments. The
average Congressman has always been
stampeded into voting salary advanc es
by organized government workers.
particularly postal employees. How
they stand up under pressure for tax
cuts from the majority as represented
by the taxpayers and demands for
wage raises from the organized minor
tiles will present an interesting po-
litical spectacle this winter.
The political barometers indicate
that the visit of Premier Laval OF
France will provide the Senate with
ammunition during the winter. There
is a small but powerful clique of
Senators who pride themselves on
their knowledge of international af-
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-10-29
HIGHWAY NO. Z
TO GET PAVING
Bids for AZ Miles Between Carlton
and LanSfOrd Will be Let i.
November 10.

Among the 129 miles of pavement
bids to be opened Nov. 10 will be
included three that call for AZ miles
of paving on highway No. 2 between
Carlton and Lansford which will make
a continuous stretch of paving from
the former named village to Aitkin.
Another bit of important news to
travellers of northern Minnesota high
ways is the fact that bids will be
opened on this day for the paving of
1914 miles between Deer River and
La Prairie. This will be the start
of a paving program which will even
tually see No paved from Duluth to
Grand Forks, N. D. The tentative
1892 program calls for 42S miles of
paving and these bids all are to be
let early so that contractors may get
ready for work by the time the paw
ing season opens about May 1.
AS stated in a recent highway bull
letin letting bids at this time of the
year serves dual purpose since the
state receives lower bids in general
and also that the contractors who
are successful bidders can keep more
men employed through the winter in
getting ready for their next seasons
jobs.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-10-29
NEWS AMONG SCANDINAVIANS

Mrs. Dora B. Haines, American
writer, last week arrived in Stockholm
where she will begin her work of
collecting biographical material con-
corning the lives of the forefathers
of some prominent Americans of
Swedish birth or descent. She is, es-
pecially, interested in compiling data
pertaining to the lives and the ira
ditions of the Lindbergh family whore
most widely known member is the
world-famous American flyer, COL
Charles Augustus Lindbergh. MS
Haines already has published some
material obtained in this country but
felt that by going direct to the sources,
she would be able to find much more.
No Foundation i'm Fact.
Some time ago it was reported that
Denmark had definitely decidsd
against being represented at the
Olympic Games in Los Angeles next
year, due to the economic depression.
AS soon as this information became
known in Denmark, the Olympic Com
mittee, Copenhagen, issued a categor-
ical denial and had it cabled to the
United States. Denmark, the cable
says, has not even contemplated with
drawal, and the rumor appears to
have originated in confusion of
messages emanating from Amsterdam
where it was said that the Neither
lands had abandoned plans of partici-
patton. Denmark will be repre-