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Evening star., 1933-08-16
AKRON ATTORNEY
ADMITS POISONING
FOUR IN FAMILY
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said. was stolen while Braucher was
out on bond.
The 3-year-old son Of the Colleys
was quoted by Prosecuting Attorney
Miller Halbert of Malvern as saying he
saw Shank put something in some grape
juice which his parents and brothers
drank while they were eating q picnic
lunch near Malvern yesterday
After Shank had been captured, fol-
lowing a chase with bloodhounds, he
took the officers to the spot where he
said they had all eaten lunch during
a short motor trip.
There, the officers found a jug Of
juice, some lunch plates and nearby
some crystals which are to be analyzed
There was evidence the Colleys and
Shank had left the place hurriedly. As
authorities reconstructed the case. they
believed the poison struck the victims
there and they hurried away for medical
aid
The spot was far back in the woods
The car finally crashed on main high
way, with Colley slumped dead under
the steering wheel One of the boys
also was dead Mrs. Colley died on the
way to a hospital and the other boy
soon after arriving there.
Promises Detailed Confession.
Taken to Hot Springs. Shank con-
fessed at 2:55 am. signing a brief
statement Police said he told them he
would make a detailed confession after
he had slept awhile.
Prosecutor Halbert of Malvern plan
ned to return to Hot Springs today to
resume the questioning.
The Colleys had been in Hot Springs
several days and Chief Of Detectives
Herbert Akers said he had learned
Shank had been sending htem money.
Shank came here last Sunday, Akers
said, telling police his purpose was to
help Colley get job.
Police quoted Shank as admitting he
had Cooley take some papers" from the
Ohio prosecutors Office. They also re-
vealed they received telephone inquiry
from Akron authorities yesterday as TO
whether Shank was here.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
ROUSE QUIZ HEARS
EVIDENCE ON GUN
Efforts to Trace Weapon
Handicapped by Conflict
Over CaIber.

Efforts to trace a confscated gun
which disappeared from police head
quarters and later apparently figured
in a gang shooting at Nineteenth and
X streets several weeks ago, we're being
made today at the police board trial
OF Clyde Rouse, suspended third pre-
cinct detective.
Rouse, who faces charges Of conduct
unbecoming an officer, Is alleged to
have given the gun in question to one
of three men arrested In connection
with the shooting.
Conflict as to the caliber Of the gun
developed after Detective Sergt. Charles
E. Warfield said he understood the
contiscated weapon was OF 80 caliber,
while the gun picked up near the scene
Of the shooting is of .38 caliber. The
number recorded for the gun conf1s-
Gated tailed. however, with the serial
number of the gun found near the
scene of the shooting, and subsequently,
Sergt Warfield said it might have been
Of 38 caliber.
Rouse was suspended from duty by
Inspector Frank S. w. Burke, chief Of
detectives, on the night of July 29. after
the inspector had received a statement
that Rouse had given the gun to man
prior to the K street shooting.
Efforts to trace the gun today were
hampered when Louis Levin, Louis Tap
ponier and Barney Munitz, who were
arrested in the shooting, refused 10
testify. Ralph Freeman, one Of the
witnesses brought before the board
however. pointed out Munitz as the
person who had handed him gun
similar to the one in evidence, some
time ago for repair.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
DETECTIVES FREED;
RETURNED TO DUTY
ShimOn and Christian Rein
stated as Two Others Face
Brutality Charge.

TWO third precinct detectives, cleared
Of brutality charges by the Police Trial
Board yesterday were back ON duty
today as Police Court jury prepared
to hear similar charges against two
second precinct policemen.
Detectives Joseph w Shimon and
William V. Christian were reinStated
after the trial board found them not
guilty Of the charge Of mauling Thomas
B. Washington, 26, colored tap dancer,
while questioning the prisoner in the
third precinct station house On July 20.
Arraignment Today.
Meanwhile, Policemen Frank Ashley
and c. c. Williams Of the second pre-
cinct were TO be arraigned i'll Police
Court today on charges of asSaulting
George Mahoney. l9, colored while
questioning the latter at their station
house August g.
Warrants against the two officers were
issued by Assistant United States At
torney Milford Schwartz after Freed
mems Hospital physicians said Mahoney
had q bump on his head and an abrasion
on his wrist.
Schwartz said Mahoney charged that
the policemen beat him with fists and
ClupS dJO uscU al iron claw on his
wrist
Shimon and Christian were acquitted
yesterday after Washington refused to
testify against them. 1t was brought
out by Defense Attorneys Charles D.
Ford and Harry Whelan that Raymond
Pearson, colored who testified he saw
Shimon and Christian beat Washing
ton. previously had denied this TO the
precinct commander, Capt. Edward J.
Kelly.
Explain Swollen Eye.
The accused detectives testifies that
Washington and Pearson exchanged
blows after Pearson accused the other
prisoner OF "squealing in connection
with window breaking and joy-riding
case. The detectives said Washington
received swollen eye and facial abra-
sion before they could stop the fight
IN cell-room corridor.
Previous TO the Trial Board hearing
Washington gave statements to investi-
gators that the two detectives had
beaten him. He intentified the officers
from lineup at the third precinct.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
TREASURY To HALT
FOREIGN DUMPING
Will Take Action to Prevent
importation Of Certain
Products Abroad.
BY the Associated Press.

Action to bar from this country i'm
portations OF products found to be
dumped from abroad. to the injury
Of American business, probably will be
taken soon by the Treasury.
In the long list Of goods now before
the Treasury for decision are included
steel from Germany; canvas top rubber
sole shoes, electric light bulbs ,and CAL
cium carbide from Japan; stearic acid
from Holland; rock salt from Canada ::
woven wire fencing. sulphide paper and
binder twine from England. and thumD
tackS from Holland and Germany.
Undersell Producers Here.
All OF these. American producers
have charged. have been dumped In
the United States-sold in this country
without regard to or for less than the
price the same articles bring at home
There has been no intimation from
the Treasury as to what the decision
in each case would be. But the Gus
toms Bureau, after public hearings,
has submitted reports in which it
holds the dumping of some of the for
elSD articles mas Deen eSLaDllSneQ WnlIe
in other cases it has not Just when
department officials hand down final
decision depends upon how soon they
complete their careful study Of the
reports.
The Investigations by the Customs
Bureau started more than year ago
At long series of hearings American
manufacturers testified that foreign
competition. made possible by the drop
in foreign money values and lower labor
costs, was fast driving out of business
various producers in the United States
Competition Held Keen
The competition was reported espe-
cially keen in the rubber sole shoe
and electric light bulb industries. jap
anese producers were said to be ship
ping millions of pairs Of tennis shoes
to this country and underselling Amer
ican producers Witnesses testified
Japan had completely taken over the
Christmas tree bulb business.
Where the Government finds dump
ing exists, it will apply the law which
levies an additional duty Of s1out Sc
per cent.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
lTHREAT OF GANDHl
j
TO Die BY FASTING
i; WINS COMPROMISE

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expected that he would eat as usual
this evening.
The little Nationalist leader, arrested
August l at the outset OF q new dis
obedience campaign and committed to
Yeroda jail here for year because he
refused to cease political activities
threatened to start the fast unless he
was given full rights as state OF polit-
icel prisoner.
At present he Is treated as an oral-
nary prisoner and certain privileges
have been denied him. He had written
the inspector general OF jails asking Tor
rights he enjoyed previously.
Thus he would he enabled, the ma
hatma indicated to conduct campaign
for the regeneration Of the untouch-
ables, as he did while imprisoned up to
May 8, when he started q three-Week
fast in protest against 'untouchablllty.
II was believed that the mahatma S
new fast was due to the fact he has
been unable to supply his usual articles
to the press this week
Il might as well be dead il am not
allowed to proceed with my work. which
is my very life," said the Mahatma in
a statement to the Bombay govern
ment
At that time he asked several con-
cessionS and delivered an ultimatun
threatening to fast if they were not
granted. This request was ignored. so
he determined to carry out the threat.
1t was stated authoritatively that Mr.
Gandhi had been offered facilities to
continue his campaign against un-
touchability under certain conditions
Whether these conditions were accep-
table to him was not Immediately made
known.
The leader of the Indian independ-
ence movement has been placed in
prison five times for conflict with Brit
ish authorities. The first time. in 1907
was for passive resistance in South
Africa Since, his attempts to induce
the British authorities in India to yield
their position in favor Of home rule
have put him in jail
Evening star., 1933-08-16
THREE FOUND DEAD
OF BULLET WOUNDS
Mystery Shrouds Discovery Of
Bodies in Automobile Near
Grundy, Va.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
RAVEN, Va. August 16.-A triple
tragedy faced Buchanan County ofllcers
today with only meager evidence to aid
them in attempting its solution.
The bodies of three men. all victims
OF bullet wounds, were held at Grumpy
awaiting efforts toward Identification
Fragmentary written evidence indicated
they might all be from West Virginia
and one of them q deputy sheriff. In
the shirt tail of one of the victims S4OO
in currency was found sewed.
The bodies were found In q blood
stained automobile about 20 miles from
Grundy by a woman who lived nearby
A woman's dress also was in the car.
Papers found on one Of the bodies
bore the name of j. H. Akers, deputy
sheriff of Princeton. W. Va, and other
papers were found bearing the names
of o. L. Hickman and Leo c. Webb
the former of Widemouth and the latter
of Tioga, w. Va.
PRINCETON, w. Va, August 16 up.
Mercer County officers said today
that Deputy Sheriff H. D. Akers, be-
lieved to be one of three men whose
bodies were found in an automobile
near Grundy. Va, left here yesterday
at the request OF an unloentIleo
stranger to help the latter return a
demented woman to Buchanan County
Va.
Deputies said a man, whose name
they did not learn, came to Sheriff j.
c. Fanning's office and asked II some
officer could go with him to Buchanan
County to help care for a woman who
suddenly had become insane.
Sheriff Tanning assigned Akers to
60 with the man. Officers said they
saw no one else with the man and
woman. Bodies were found in the
car.
Mercer County deputies said their
information was the dead men were
O. L. Hickman and J. w. Collins of
Tioga. Nicholas County.
Road Commission records show the
car was registered in Hickman's name.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
JESSIE COSTELLO
FREED BY Jury
Held Not Guilty of Staying
Husband and Sent Back
to Children.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALEM, Mass, August 16-Jessie
Burnett Costello awoke today in an at
mosphere of freedom, the yoke of accu-
sation cast from her shoulders
She awoke in the vine-clad stucco
cottage in Peabody from which she was
wrenched five months ago under indict-
ment for the poison slaylng of her fire
captain husband, William J. Costello.
Yesterday. in historic Salem Superior
Court, an Essex County jury. after l
hour ard 43 minutes of deliberation,
acquitted her of a charge of murder in
the first degree and granted her request
that she be sent back TO her three chill
dren.
Trial Lasted One Month.
Her trial had lasted a month, during
which she became an enigmatic person
age to those who watched her stand up
under one Of the most trying ordeals a
woman has ever faced in a court room.
She had been impassive as a reserve
policeman related a story Of illicit re-
lstions with her; as a district attorney
termed her 'profane, vulgar, lewd and
extravagant." Few were the times she
wept. then so quietly that nobody saw
However, as James F. Campbell, fore
man OF the jury. pronounced the SEN
tence Of not guilty and she was re-
leased by the court she ran to an ante
room and there gave evidence that she
was capable Of violent emotion.
Sobs for Joy at Release.
The woman who failed to break down
In her blackest moments abandoned
herself in tears in her hour Of JOY. She
shuddered with SobS as friend helped
her to chair.
A throng had awaited outside the
court house all day to hear the verdict
1t was only matter of seconds before
the news reached them, and before the
comely widow had been dismissed cheers
of the crowd reached her ears.
For weeks the crowd had gathered
there to watch her enter and leave the
! court house They saw smiling indi
vidual in black trip from the Jail car
| into the court house. They saw her
wave and one time stop to pick UP a
rose that had been thrown to her
Yesterday, however. she could not
face them She demanded that she be
taken from the court house through
rear door William E. OBrine. one of
her defense counsel drove her to the
little home she had not visited for five
months. The shades .were drawn and
only few close friends were allowed TO
enter
| The widow was greeted at the house
! by her three children-Anna Marie. 9 !:
! Jessie, 6, and Bobby, g. Bobby was glad
his mother was home from the hos
pital"
| Andrew j. Fyfe. the widows father.
who came stoutly to her defense during
the trial said the family would move
from Peabody. He said he did not know
where.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
CHINA is DECLARED
0vERPOPULATED
Despite Large Land Area, Many
Sections Held Unsuited for
Habitation.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BANFF, Alberta, August l6.-Dr. w.
II, Wong. director OF the National Ge-
illogical Survey of China. reported yes
terday to the fifth biennial conference
Of the Institute of Pacific Relations that
his country, despite its vast area, is suf-
ferlng from overpopulation.
Due to climatic and Typographical
conditions, he explained. large part
OF the country is not suitable for agri-
culture, the basic industry. Less than
half Of the area receives sufficient rain
fall to obviate the necessity OF irriga-
tion while more than one-third is
mountainous country not adapted to
farming, he continued.
As a result. SO per cent OF the popu-
lation Is concentrated in five agricul-
tural district which comprise only II
per cent of the nations area. The
density Of population Is 500 persons per
square mile in those regions as COM
pared with IS elsewhere
This means emigration to Manchuria
Is the only solution to Chinas popula-
ton problem" the speaker continued
He estimated that the great plain Of
Manchuria can support a minimum OF
20,000 900 additional people.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
STATUS OF BLUEN0SE
REQUESTED OF SKIPPER

Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 16.-The status of
the Bluenose, champion Canadian
racing schooner, yesterday was asked
to be clarified by Washington authori-
ties Anthony CZarnecki, collector OF
the Chicago port, made the request.
He said that although the Bluenose
was an official Canadian exhibit at the
Century of Progress Exposition, he had
received inquiries from several Amer
ican owners of Lake Michigan passenger
boats. asking whether the schooner was
chartered to carry passengers.
The ship has been taking excur-
sionists on short trips and Capt. Angus
J. Walters, master Of the boat. has sub
mitted to CZarnecki q photostatic copy
of the charter showing he is author
lied to sail Lake Michigan with or
without passengers, presumably.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
DAUGHTER CLAIMS FILM
LIBELS LILLIAN RUSSELL
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. August 16.-Mrs Doro-
thy Russell Calvit, daughter Of the late
Lillian Russell, has filed $4,000 libel
suit against a film company Education
Film Exchanges. Inco charging a mo-
ton picture produced by the concern
In which she was headlined was
shocking"
The suit sets forth Mrs. Calvit agreed
to appear in the movie on the under
standing 1t was to be tribute to her
mother, the famous actress.
Instead. her suit states, she found
herself described in the film as a
faded beauty" who was "disallusioned,
defeated and hopeless cripple living
on the few dollars given her by Alex
ander P. Moore" former Ambassador
to Spain and Mrs. Calvit's stepfather.
Mrs. Calvit submitted affidavits of
three friends who said they had seen
preview of the film and were
shocked by the narrative.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
WHOLESALE ESCAPE OF CONFLICTS
FROM DEVILS ISLAND REPORTED

by the ministry Of colonies In the
last three months Of 1882 A took 10
flight. The total for last year was
70. with the high mark. 266, set in 1873.
French residents at Garupano, Ven-
ezuelan port where many of the fugi-
tives are rounded up before being re-
turned to French authorities. declared
the Venezuelan government was forced
to capture the outlaws as measure
Of self protection.
According to figures available In
May, 9,867 convicts were in penal in
stitutions In Guiana, with ! 1905 more
exiled to Guiana but not actually held
in prisons. This convict population Is
guarded by 266 men.
1t Is known that number Of es-
capped men have died in the dangerous
jungles.
Evening star., 1933-08-16

The administration money bags meL
say there is good reason why Treasury
Secretary Woodin insists on having suct
large cash balance on hand
He feels the bankers burned him or
the first financing after he took ONCE
He had to have the money quickly. Ihs
bankers drove a hard bargain.
Now Woodin Is keeping sometimes a:
much as q billion and a half dollars II
cash lying around loose.
Distillers Laying Plans.
The dLtillers are trying to make ar
rangements inside SO they can step ut
production Immediately. Government
permission Is expected to be announced
shortly.
The recent permission to distil
Z. 900 900 gallons next year means moth
ing. II repeal comes November 8, a.
scheduled. the distillers will make
plenty more than 1000 900 next year
They are distiling 1900 900 this year
What they want is permission to op
crate the remainder Of this year OF
1000 900 quota basis.
Kendrick Blocks Sugar Quota.
Senator Kendrick had more TO d.
with blocking the new sugar quot
plan that any one else.
He made the best case for the West
ern beet growers. His argument wa!
that 1t is foolish to put restrictions OF
an American industry producing onll
rs per cent OF American consumption
He reasoned that the industry shoulc
be permitted to, grow without umita'
tion Of its market.
Kendrick is Democratic Senator from
Wyoming and his success put the ad'
ministration in q political hole. INT
quota market plan was foStered to help
the American producers with increased
prices Kendrick assumed that benen'
would be temporary.
No one can tell authorttatively nov
what will be done.
Brain Trust Increases Output.
A few years back these college pro-
fessors would write their theories fol
pothing. for any one who cared to pub
'1ish them.
Now they are making more money
than most Of them ever saw by re-
writing the same theories.
The latest brain trustee to go literary
is Prof. Tugwell. He will start publica'
ton shortly Of daily articles. Later on
they will be cut down to weeklieS. A:
such they will compete with the weekly
articles of Brain Trustee Moley.
The only restriction the adminiStra'
ton has placed on such articles Is thai
they be confined to generalities anc
contain nothing specific about what i:
going on.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
PRESIDENT OF ECUADOR
ASKED TO QUIT QUIETLY
Soldiers Guard Palace After Re-
quest of Chamber that Mera
Resign Office at Once.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
QUITO, Ecuador, August 16.-Sol-
diers guarded the presidential and
legislative palaces today following de-
mands for the resignation of President
Martinez Mera, inaugurated last De-
cember
The head of the Chamber of Depu-
ties, DR.. Belasco Ibarra, moved that the
chamber demand Mera quit, but an
amendment to the motion provided that
the chamber will hear charges against
the executive and then ask his resig-
nation. BY vote of ~ to 20 Congress
approved the sending of q commission
to the president to ask him, in the
name OF democracy" to let the popu-
lar will rule.
Evening star., 1933-08-16

DENVER, August 16 P).-Twenty
thousand dollars in marked currency
from the reported s2OO,O0O paid to ran
som Charles F. UrSchel, Oklahoma oil
millionaire, was sought by police here
today.
Detective Chief William Armstrong
said he had information from an "ab-
Solutely reliable" source he declined
TO name that amount was hidden by
Albert l.. Bates before his arrest Sat
urday. Bates has been named by De-
partment Of Justice agents as one OF
the actual abductors of Urschel Arm
strong said $700 Of the ransom money
had been found. in possession of Bates
wanted in many States for various
crimes.
Evening star., 1933-08-16
new IRISH TRIBUNAL
TO CONFISCATE ARMS
Military Court Also Will Hear Po.
: litical Cases Shirts Plan
Sunday Assembly.
BY the Associated Press.

DUBLIN. Irish Free State, August 16.
Establishment Of a military tribunal
to consider political charges and con-
f1scation Of firearms illegally possessed
began today under the direction Of the
Free State government.
simultaneously, a membership drive
was in progress for Gen Owen
O'Duffy's Blue Shirt National Guard
organization. which was forbidden to
conduct a memorial service last SUM-
day for three Free State heroes.
Gen. ODuffy has Cancelled the church
parades he decreed for next Sunday and
announced his Blue Shirts will assemble
to observe a two minute silent period to
honor the memories Of the heroes. Ar
thur Griffith. Michael Collins and Kevin
O'Higgins.
Afterward the commanding officers
will read a message from ODuffy. the
nature of which has not been disclosed.
1t was understood that the govern
ment regarded the progress Of the Ma
tional Guard with considerable misgiv-
ing President Eamon de Valera plans
to lead periodic campaigns to check this
progress.