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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
CLARK FACES GRILL
IN MURDER TRIAL
Story of SeIf-DefenSe Told
Yesterday Filled With Po-
liticaI Intrigue.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 14.-David
H. Clark faced the task today of de-
Tending, under cross-examination, his
story of how he killed Herbert F. Spen-
Ger and Charles H. Crawford, political
f1guressFin elf-defense.
Special Prosecutor w. J. Ford planned
to subject the former deputy district at
torney and municipal judge candidate
to thorough questioning. Clarks story
told on the stand yesterday, was filled
with political intrigue. Ford had be-
gun his crosS-eXamination when court
adjourned for the day.
Quietly and calmly, Clark on trial
Tor the murder Of Spencer as the result
OF the slayings last May 20, told how
ne mad killed the two men ito save my
own life" 1t was the first time he had
revealed q motive for the Savings,
Clark said ne had gone to the office
OF Crawford TO seek the latterS support
ana also the backing Of Crawford's
pastor, Rev. Gustav Briglibe, in his cam
paign for municipal judge
Another purpose Of the visit, Clark
stated, was to seek Crawfords aid in
paclfying Spencer, who had objected to
Clark's attack on the underworld"
In exchange for the favors sought
- S~S~s JAZZ, SAS-tlitle pOtltlcal
boSS and Saloonkeeper, wanted him to
frame" Chief of Police Roy E. Steckel
State witnesses testified Crawford and
spencer were unarmed. Defense wit
nesSes who preceded Clark testified
otherwise.
After the shooting, CLARK said, he reg
Htered at a downtown hotel and then
went to the beach. where he wandered
aimlessly for several hours. Forty-eipht
hours after the shooting he voluntarily
surrendered TO the district attorneys
Office.
The total surface Of the earth is far
more ocean than land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
Michigan Slayer
Killed Old Chum
Of Boyhood Days
Torch Killer, Recognized
by Ex-Fishing Pal, Shot
TO Hide Identity.
81 ths Associated press.

BY the Associated Press
YPSILANTI, Mich, August i4--yswa
Smith killed boyhood pal and COM
panion of many a fishing trip when he
shot Harry Lore to death Tuesday
morning.
Bert Lore father Of Harry, recalled
yesterday, after Smith had been arrested
for the murder OF Lore. another youth
and two girls. that the Smiths had lived
near the Lores until two years ago.
Both of the kids were crazy about
fishing" he said. The Smiths moved
away two years ago and we hadn't seen
much OF them since. About three
weeks ago, though, Fred passed the
house Harry and I we're sitting on
the pouch; he waved 20 us"
Smith had not confessed when Lore
was recalling the past and the father
of the slain youth could not believe the
boyhood pal Of his son was guilty.
It was that mountaineering which
precipitased the Sayings, however. ac-
cording To the confessions, for Smith
recognized young Lore and shot him
larsA 70 6OreafaAl laAea deteetaon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
.LONG-LOST WOMAN
SEES SISTER AGAIN
Gypsy kidnapping Victim Ar
rives for Brief Visit
With Relatives.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
POTTSVILLE, Pa, August i4-Miss
Mary Rebecca Huber returned to Potts
Vile today TO end an enforced absence
from her family caused by her kidnap-
ing by band of gypsieS when she was
years old, in 1898.
With the Rev. M r Harvey, Cherry
vile, NJ c., who aided her in estab-
fishing her relationship with residents
OF this section, Miss Huber today went
TO the home Of her sister Mrs, John
Guertling here.
Remembers Name.
Because they arrived several hours
earlier than expected, reporters missed
them, for they left almost Immediately
for the farm home of a cousin. Samuel
Huber. far back in the hills of Panther
Greek Valley.
Later Mrs. Guertling said that Miss
Huber asked:
do you remember when you used
to call me Bessie?"
Mrs Guertling said that she did.
That was all the conversation between
the long-lost sisters, Mrs. Guertling said
Rev. Harvey inquired into the Guert-
ling family circumstances, she said.
Others in Party.
Miss Huber and Rev. Harvey were
with five other persons whom Mrs.
GuertIing said she did not know.
The Guertlings invited the seven peo-
pie in to the house, but they declined
For 80 years Annie Morgan" went
through life without knowing who she
was, with the details of her kidnapping as
a child faded by time, and with her ex-
periences as a gypsies' captive a chapter
she never wanted TO remember.
Yesterday she discovered she was Miss
Mary Rebecca Huber.
Search Is Abandoned.
One day back in 1898, as she played
on a country road she saw group of
men and women in gay red and yellow
garb approaching in a wagon. They
stopped and when they started again
the child was in the wagon with them,
a captive. When night came and she
failed to return TO her home a search
ing party thrashed through the nearby
mountains In the belief she had
wandered there. The hunt went on for
days and finally was abandoned. Neigh
bors were convinced that Mary had
persisted in some out-of-the-way spot
in the hills.
Meanwhile, the Gypsy tribe had
wandered far with their little prisoner.
She cried when they asked her her
name, so they Jailed her Annie
Morgan" and she bore that name until
yesterday.
Then, after seven years in captivity,
she escaped one night in Pamplin, Va.
For 10 years she lived there with fam
lily that befriended her and then came
here In 1916, as housekeeper at Lynch
burg.
Miss Huber came from Lynchburg,
Va where for S wears abe was en-
ployed as a housekeeper under the name
of Annie Morgan.
Two other sisters and three BROTH
ers also have been notified OF her
finding, and they are expected to
come here later for reunion The
parents died several years ago in
Shamokin, where the family moved
shortly after Miss Huber had been
kidnapped in New Town.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
GANDHI ADAMANT
AS MEDIATOR ACTS
Sir Tel Sapru Gets Mahatma
Out of Bed to Discuss
Demands on Farley.

BY the Associated Press
SIMLA, India, August 1.-THE Brit
ish provincial government stands ready
TO examine alleged breaches in THE
Delhi pact and is making fresh over
lures to Mahatma Gandhi in the hope
of persuading him to attend the round
table conference, 1t was learned today.
Viceroy Lord wilmington. while he is
willing to examine the more serious
breaches of the Delhi pact which
Gandhi charges, is not disposed how
ever, to set up the arbitration board
which the Mahatma demands nor is
he likely to return any taxes already
collected from peasants. contending
that these were collected under the
ordinary tax laws and not by duress.
Mediator Again Busy.
Sir Tel Bahadur Sapru. the Hindu
lawyer who distinguished himself at
the last round table conference and who
is generally credited with saving the
negotiations between Gandhi and Lord
Irwin. former viceroy, from collapse. is
once more playing his role Of peace
maker.
When he arrived here last night and
learned Of Gandhis decision to boy
colt the London Conference he went
to the Mahatma's house, got Gandhi
out of bed and talked with him
Gandhi told him the minimum terms
on which the National Congress would
Sir Tel telegraphed those
terms TO the viceroy and was assured
by Lord Wilmington that the way to
compromise lis still open.
Truce TO Be Observed.
The Working Committee of the Ma
tionalist Congress instructed its work
ers throughout India to observe strictly
the terms Of the Gandhi-Irwin truce as
far as applicable. saying Ganahis de-
cision did not rescind the pact.
Business circles were particularly de-
pressed because they feared the rupture
might presage the resumption of the
civil disabedience campaign, the boy
colt of British goods and widespread
disorders. Indian markets Immediately
reflected the prevailing apprehension.
AT meeting of the Working Com
mittee of the Indian Congress a resoIu-
ton. drafted by the Mahatina and
calling for abstention from the Lon
don parley, was adopted last night.
The Delhi pact, signed last March
by Gandht and Lord Irwin. then
viceroy, provided for the abandonment
of the civil disobedience campaign and
for the correction of alleged abuses
against which the Nationalist had
long complained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
OF GIRL
ADMITS Staying
Colorado Man Says He Shot
Daughters Companion
in Self-Defense.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, August
1.-THE Staying of 20-year-old Lewis
Palmer. which had bafied investigators
for the last three weeks, was revealed
today as the act Of the father OF the
victims companion.
Roy G. King. father of Miss Glenda
King, the girl with Palmer on the night
of the Staying, in a statement last night
said he followed Palmer's car to Pros
pect Lake, east of the city. and shot
Palmer to death in self defense during
a struggle.
The confession was made q few hours
after the girl, arrested last Saturday,
had named her father as the slayer.
Previously she had made four sepa-
rate statements, each naming a differ
ent person as the killer.
Palmer was shot to death on the night
of July 90
Miss King at first said a hobo killed
Palmer in hold-up and then attacked
her.
Floyd Spears high school athlete, and
Andrew Petricko. a second youth named
by Glenda King as the slayer in her
efforts to shield her father, were re-
leased by police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
LONDON FIRM ON FARLEY.

LONDON, August IA [Pl.-Advices
from Bombay that Mahatma Gandhi
was not to participate in the second
Indian round-table conference caused
profound regret in many quarters here
There was no disposition here to
minimize the effect of the absence of
Indian and Nationalist leaders at the
resumed negotiations, it was asked
whether it would be worth while to
hold the conference without the In
dian Nationalist
Although no formal statement was
made. it was learned the official view
was that the conference must be held,
whether or no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
Just Getting Good at 70
PLAYGROUND HANDY MAN RErrKEs.

~ ETTREMENT at the age OF rs
seemed premature TO Michael j.
IL Coffey, the playground handy
True. the years had grayed
and slowed him somewhat. but they had
lent his old hands skill in the mending
of playthings and provided experience
in the spinning Of yarns.
He was just beginning to master his
Job Coffey felt, when the time came
for retirement. Yesterday Coffey, CEN
trail figure of q reception at the play
ground storeh6uSe, Thirty-sixth street
and Prospect avenue, could scarcely
hide his tears.
His fingers shook when he received
from the hands of Fairgrounds officials
a gold chain and a gold knlfe-Sym-
bolic OF his skill at repairing playthings
for children.
Mended Play Gear.
For the past Is years or so. since his
discharge from the Marine Corps, where
he had been a cobbler, it had been
Coffey who mended the basket balls, the
volley balls, the base balls, the ropes
and the gear.
Basket balls lasted Ave times their
natural life once stitched and patched
by Coffey. and he could unravel an
ailing base Ball, rewind and resew 1t
better than new.
1t was Coffey who hit upon the idea
of stitching canvas, tight as drum
head, across the frames OF old tennis
rackets so they might be used for leath-
err balls. Coffey. too. covered tennis
balls with leather so they might be bat
ted about in the same game.
He knew many children's stories.
could splice a rope, contrive intricate
knots like a sailor and, once on the
playground, he rarely missed being the
center of an enthusiastic group of
youngsters,
After the reception Coffey said he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
SOL BLOOM TO SPEAK
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star,
FAIRFAX, Va, August 14.-Repre-
sentative Sol Bloom, director of the
George Washington Bicentennial Com
mission, has accepted the invitation of
the Fairfax County Chamber of Com
merce, extended yesterday through
former Representative r. Walton Moore,
TO address a meeting of Fairfax County
citizens to be held September ! in the
Court House at Fairfax, under the
auspices of the chamber. 10 outline
plans for the participation Of this
county in the celebration incident to
the booth birthday anniversary of
George Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
700 SOVIET PEASANTS
MAY BE LET OUT OF JAIL
Proposal TO Mitigate Sentences Of
Criminals Approved by Exec
utive Committee.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MOSCOW, August 1.-THE presid-
ium Of the All-Russian Central Execu-
tive Committee agreed last night to a
proposal made by Chairman Soltz of
the State Amnesty Commission to rniti-
gate the sentences of criminals of work
er and peasant origin who now are in
various Moscow jails and houses of cor
rection.
The presidiun, through Chairman
Kaltnin, announced it might be possible
TO mitigate the sentences of 808 pris-
oners and to release TOO of them alto
gether.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
J0BLESS WILL BENEFIT
FROM PREMIUM ON BONDS
$1oo,o 900 Received by Maryland to
Be Devoted to Immediate
Construction Work.

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, August IAN
pouneement that the premium obtained
. I'm the sale of State bonds would be
devoted to immediate construction work
TO relieve unemployment, was made to-
day by Gov. Albert c. Richie. The
State has received almost 500, 600
premium since May from bankers for
construction bonds with q face value
OF $l,590,00o. Instead of holding the
excess IN reserve funds, it will be allo-
cateu Tor extensions of projects for
which the bonds were authorized.
A construction loan of S., $50. 400 was
authorized by the recent Legislature Of
which an issue totaling S5e0,0O0 was
sold yesterday at 10T.O65,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
Col. Kroner Rsassipned.

Col. Leon B. KRONER, United States
Calvary. now serving as an instructor
at TIE army War College. has been
assigned to duty as assistant COM
rnandant of that institution.
he VIII assume his new duties On
September j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14

This is the sirth Of series of ar
ticleS on life among the Philippine
htghLQndeTS based on a remarkable
monograph Just issued BY the No
ttoIdI Academy of Sciences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14

Meteorologikts believe that the first
steps 10 AZ extension OF fofecasting
dependent upon o very accurate knDwl-
edge Of What has hapDeneA in To- pask.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14

ginia Beach and neighboring resorts
His questioner might have supposed
he would seek the outing in company
with cronies OF his own age. No -
Coffey shook his head, I'm going with
some young fellows. like mel"
Coffey, unmarried, lives at III @
street southeast Thence he returned
yesterday. after the festivities. more
than half determined not to return to
his accustomed work today
Il may get around to that later" he
admitted. There's some equipment
going bad which ought to have The
benefit of en- old hand. like mine"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
NAUTILUS is SIGHTED
Submarine Reports All Is Well En-
Route to spitzbergen.

Route to spitzbergen.
OSLO, Norway. August II tP).-The
submarine Nautilus, blowing northward
throuhg heavy seas, passed Bear Island
at about midnight on the way to Spitz-
bergen, a wireless message from q Nor
wegian whaler said today.
The message said the polar undeTsea
vessel reported all hands well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14

p
The other girl victim was Vivian
Gold. also Of Cleveland,
Judge Sample then pronounced SEN
stence--iife imprisonment In Marquette
Branch Prison on each Of four counts,
4 the terms not to run concurTently. The
passing Of the sentence IN this man
iner practically removed all possibility
of parole.
Smith and Oliver testified willingly
ut the trial, but Blackstone was not
placed on the stand.
Smith testified he met Frank Oliver
and Blackstone at a home in YpsilAntt
and that he had got disorderly on some
/ hootch and did not know what ] Was
about
+. After seeing the two couples In PEN
/ insular grove, lovers lane Black
stone, Smith said, suggested sticking
them up"
These boys identified me, and 50 We
took them cut on futile Hill road and
struck them Smith said.
Blackstone had a gun agad ne shot
Into thern. / Amt sure which cneg ne
bit berause stood along the SIDE Then
tack them eazt nG kne $50 aa0 g
The Washington times., 1931-10-31
Ne v JERSEY
DEMOCRAT
FRIEND Of
CAPITAL
Will Succeed Fred N. Zihlman
II House Is Reorganized;
Known as Foe of Dry Law

Mrs. Mary Teresa Norton, wet
Democrat of New Jersey, was Sc.
lected today by Democratic
House leaders as the next chair
man of the District Committee Of
that Congressional body in the
event, which now appears inevi.
table, that that political party
controls the House in the next
session of Congress.
Mrs. Norton, who has long been
a friend of the District, would
succeed Frederick N. Zihlman (RO
Of Maryland, who was defeated in
the last election.
Gets Another Place
The Democratic leaders said to.
day that although Christopher ID.
Sullivan, Of New York, was rank
ing Democrat on the committee
he would be made chairman, Of
the Committee on InSular Affairs
if the House is reOrganiZed.
The Democrats now have q
Maajority of one member in the
House, with ala members To AZ
Republicans. IN the event o. 81
death or Republican election in
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
The Washington times., 1931-10-31
HIST! THE K[ANTIDE BRINGS IN
RIDES TONIGHT NOMAN'S BODY

The Klan rides tonight in Vir-
ginia.
Enraged by the audacity Of GER
tain unknown persons who have
been decorating Arlington county
in the name of the Ballston Klan
with signs knocking" various
candidates in the coming elec-
tions, Exalted Cyclop Howard E.
Bidding has issued orders for the
knights" to ride this evening in
search of the culprits.
Cyclop Bidding has offered a
reward Of $50 for information
leading to the Identification of
the persons responsible for the
taking of the klan'S name in
vain but with no results.
Tonight his knights" clad in
the regalia of the order, will
swoop down upon Halloween rev.
elers and mingling with the
throng endeavor to learn the
names Of the wretcheS,
The Washington times., 1931-10-31
GETS
.LEARNEDPOST> !

George M. Whitwell, former sec.
retary of the Washington Gas
Light Company, today was ap.
pointed a member Of the District
Board of Education by the jus
tices of the Supreme Court, to fill
the vacancy created by the re.
cent death of DR.. H. Barrett
Learned. rE
From his home at 1871 Lanier
Pl. N. w., Mr.. Whitwell expressed
surprise at his appointment to fill
a position for which he has had
no previous experience.
The appointment was made to
fill DR.. Learned's term, which ex-
pires June 20, 1884.
Mr.. Whitwell, a native and life
ong resident of this city, was edu-
Gated in the public schools here
and was graduated from pre-
paratory school for Colum oian
College, now George Washington
University. He later attended
Hampden-Sidney College, in Vir-
ginia.
After SO years of service with
the local gas company, Mr.. Whit
well resigned from his post there
last January. He is 81 years old.
The Washington times., 1931-10-31
D. c. MAN AND Z
DIE IN CRASH

LYNCHBURG, Va, Oct. 81
G.N.S).-Two men and a wo-
man were killed, and another
woman suffered injuries from
which she is not expected to
recover, when an automobile con.
tanning a party celebrating Hal
ioween Eve plunged 100 feet off
Locks mountain, seven miles
from here early today.
The dead were Robert C. Floyd,
25, and Miss Virginia Campbell,
of Lynchburg, and William Wal
lace Melrose, 1859 Thirty-fifth st.
N. W., Washington, D. c.
Mrs. Louise Houston. Of Lynch
burg, suffered crushed hip and
broken ribs, and was not expected
to live.
Two negroes were injured when
headlights of the ambulance which
went to the scene Of the accident
from here blinded them and their
automobile ran off the road into
a gully. They were treated at q
local hospital and released.
William Wallace MelroSe, one
Of those killed in the Lynchburg
accident, was % years old, en-
ployed in a Ninth Street restau-
rant. and lived with his sisters,
Mrs. Ruby Leebrlck and Miss
Sue Melrose, at 1859 Thirty-fifth
st. N. w.
He had left here Tuesday night
in an automobile, taking another
sister, Mrs. Mamie Markham, a
waitress in the Georgetown Hos"
pital, to visit relatives in Lynch
burg and Salem. A fourth SIS
ter, Miss Maggie Melrose, lives
in Lynchburg. Their parents are
dead.
The Washington times., 1931-10-31
HOUSE CLAIMED
BY SHOUSE

MIDDLETOWN, Conn, Oct. 81
UN.SO.-DemocratS will control
legislation in the next House Of
Representatives whether they or.
ganize it or not, declared Jouett
Shouse, national committee chair
man Of the party, in an address
here today. The Republicans, he
said, are split on a hundred is
Sues"
Mr.. Shouse spoke before 800
members of the Connecticut Wom-
ems Democratic Federation. He
aSSailed President Hoover for
what he described as prosperity
propaganda in the 1928 campaign
and declared the Republican Ad-
miniStration has failed in nearly
every field into which it has ven
tured.
The Washington times., 1931-10-31

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 U.N.S0
The crumpled body of a woman Of
about 40, who had been strangled
to death, was revealed this morn
ing by the receding tide in the
mud flats of East Chester Bay
A piece Of picture wire was still
twisted around her throat and
heavy weights had been fastened
to her body before it was tossed
into the water.
The body, left in the flats by
the ebbing tide, was lying in the
mud off Shore Drive. opposite
Philip Avenue and directly across
from City Island.
The Washington times., 1931-10-31
NAVY PR|M { D
To DEFEAT
BOBCATS
West Virginia Wesleyan Not
a 'Pushover,' Says Costello;
Hilltop Playing in Boston
BY HARRY COSTELLO
GEORGETOWN Backfield Star, 1910.101

BY HARRY COSTELLO
Georgetown Backfield Star, 1910-1s1S
Navy and West Virginia Wes-
leyan top the meager grid card
for washington and vicinity TO-
day.
The only other contest in or
near the District brings together
American University and Shep
herd College. of Shepherdstown,
w. Va, at American University
Field.
G. U. Plays Boston
All other District elevens are
away from home.
Georgetown is at Boston for
its annual clash with Boston Col
lege. George Washington Is far
afield, at Iowa City, for a game
with University Of Iowa. Gal.
laudet is at Chester, Pa, to meet
Penn Military College. MARYLAND
started this morning for Blacks
(continued on Page II, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1931-10-31
New York IL, Lead,
Capital Trails
Reno Parade
Copyright. 1881. bv Universal
Service, Inc.)

RENO, Nev., Oct. 81 GN.S0.
New York city led the big Di.
vorce Parade" to Reno during
the first six months operation
Of the six weeks Nevada resi-
dence law.
A survey by International
News Service Of the more than
5000 complaints filed between
May / and October 81, revealed
that New York city, with a total
of 500, was far in the lead.
Second to New York was Los
Angeles. The motion picture
capital sent 22O persons here
for freedom papers"
Other cities totals were: San
Francisco, 95; Washington,
D. c.. "a; Philadelphia. So:
Chicago, 81; Baltimore, 27, and
Pittsburgh, "a.