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Evening star., 1933-08-22
SECRET SIX AGENT
HELD IN Staying
TELLS Chicago Police He Fired
After Four Gunmen At
tackled Him.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 22.-Severals hours
after a reputed former beer peddler and
minor hoodlum was fatally shot as he
stood on street corner today police
arrested a former informer for the
Secret Six," anti-crime agency, and
obtained his statement that he killed
the man in self-defense.
The victim was James Spencer, AZ,
and the man in custody Is George
chief" Redston, IS, seized as he ap-
proached the home Of friend in the
hope, he said, of borrowing money to
get out of town.
In his confession Redston said he
fired after Spencer and three compan-
ions had blazed away at him twice.
A witness told police he heard num-
ber of shots fired and that just before
the last one some one cried. Don't
shoot, Chief"
Accuses st. Louis Gang.
Redston himself was a victim of a
similar attack at almost the exact spot
last December 80, when he was wounded
in the hip. At that time he named
William Miller, Detroit racketeer, and
another man as his aSsailants.
Redston said his attackers were
members of the "Egan Rats" gang of
East st. Louis, and had tried to kill
him four times previously. When he
met them this morning, RedSton said
Spencer called to his companions
that's him." drew a revolver and Or
dered him into an automobile.
Abolition of the county grand jury
was proposed yesterday as Chicago en-
tered the fourth week of its war against
breakers to serve maximum terms IN
prison.
Suggests Legislation.
Chief Justice John J. Sonsteby Of
the Municipal Court suggested legis-
lation to eliminate the grand jury at
a meeting of judges of his court and
a number of other law enforcing
officers He advocated the prosecution
of criminals upon information pre-
sented by the States attorney instead
of upon indictments. He also asked
for the arrest and immediate trial OF
be gun-toters.
Four persons were sentenced one year
to life for robbery with a gun yes
terday.
On the debit side of the ledger were
recorded four murders, a suicide and
disappearance of an alleged underworld
character believed to be the victim Of
kidnaperS.
Murder Table Compiled.
Jacksonville, Fla, led the Nation in
rate of murders per capita during 1882,
according to survey just completed
by Frederick Rex, librarian for the
City of Chicago, while this city, much
publicized as the haunt of the gangster,
ranked twenty-siXth.
Rex made a survey of 95 cities having
a population of more than 100000 His
statistics were based upon figures fur
nished by police reports to the Bureau
of Investigation of the Department Of
Justice, and other figures regarded by
him as authentic.
Figures given by Rex's 1882 table in
cluded:
Evening star., 1933-08-22
STUDY COLOMBIA,
u. S. TRADE PACT
REPRESENTATIVES Confer to Work
Out Schedule of Lower
Duties.

By the Associated Press.
How comparatively small Colombia
and the United States can arrange
trade that will send more manufactured
products to the first and more raw
goods to the second was studied today
by representatives of the two nations.
Thus did President Roosevelt's in
augurally- announced policy of being
good neighDor cannot merely
take, but we must give as we'll" he said
on March 4-develop into the first
meeting with representatives OF a for
eign nation on two-party tariff treaties.
Minister Fabio Lozano arranged to
present Colombia's general position to
Undersecretary of State Phillips. Con-
versations then were to be continued
by Minister Lozano, Assistant Secre-
tary of State Caffery and their repre-
sentatives.
The situation was this: Colombia
sells coffee, bananas. petroleum, gold
and platinum to the United States and
buys foodstuffs, textiles, machinery,
automobiles, chemicals, drugs and the
like
Naturally, each nation wants to in
crease the volume of that business
The idea was to bring about treaty
between the two that would levy less
duty on the finished American goods
shipped to Colombia and on the raw
Colombian commodities imported into
the United States.
These negotiations will be followed
by future discussions with Argentina,
Brazil, other Latin American nations
and Sweden and Portugal.
Evening star., 1933-08-22
DOCTOR CHARGES
ATTACK TO PAIR
DR.. Hedberg Tells Of Second
Mysterious Abduction
in Six Weeks.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, August 22.-Police
today continued their investigation OF
DR.. w. H. Hedberg's story Of an assault
upon him Sunday, the second in which
he claimed to have been involved within
six weeks.
In the earlier occasion DR.. Hedberg,
a chiropractor, came to police attention
when DR.. E. ]. Engberg, a prominent
physician, was lured from his home
here, drugged and left unconscious In
an automobile parked on a railroad
crossing after he refused to perform a
mutilating operation at the command
of his captor.
At that time DR.. Hedberg, who was
found a short distance away from the
car in which the physician was left
told police he was to have been the
victim of the operation and asserted
a gang Of four men had seized him
He had suffered minor bullet wound
Though train struck the car, Dr. Eng
berg received only slight injuries.
County Attorney M. F. Kinkead yes
terday announced that DR.. Engberg had
identified Hedberg as his assailant and
that no other men were involved.
In his statement to police last night
Hedberg said he was accosted by two
men while on his way to meet his wife
early Sunday He said one threw some
thing-he believed it was q nquid-ir
his eyes. They then forced him into
car and gave him several injections
in the arm with hypodermic needle
He declared that was all he remem-
| bered.
Evening star., 1933-08-22

''but the four are only those who stand
out In front Of our faces and can't be
missed"
Kernochan on Boat Trip.
Gangs are part of the machine for
municipal control" he said. land not
until politics Is divorced from municipal
affairs will we get rid Of the gang
sters."
Judge Frederick Kernochan. chief
Justice Of the Court Of Special Sessions,
who was also invited to appear at the
hearing, was on q yachting trip today
and was not expected to appear until
later. Kernochan. Democrat, recently
broke with Tammany Hall.
He charged that district leaders used
gangsters on election day and protected
them at other times.
Robert Daru, chairman Of the Com
mittee for the Repression of Racketeer-
ing of the Federal Bar Association, said
1.-The failure Of Mr.. Medalie to adduce
proof has naturally given rise to the hue
and cry that he has been attempting to
make political news"
Evening star., 1933-08-22
COUPE HUNTED IN EAST.

NEW YORK, August % R.-A sport
coupe in which George Kelly, named
as one of the kidnapers of Charles F.
Urschel, is believed to be fleeing toward
Canada, was hunted throughout the
East today.
A message sent from police head
quarters here to police throughout the
East said the coupe was believed to
carry Kelly and two women.
The Federal Government has named
Kelly as one of the kidnapers of
Urschel, Oklahoma City oil man who
was released after reported payment
of 100000 ransom.
Evening star., 1933-08-22

0un) Kelly, sought as one Of the two
men who snatched Urschel from the
porch Of his home here last July 20
and allegedly took him to the Texas
hideaway, where, officers say, he was
held for nine days for ransom reported
to have totaled 100000. !
Meanwhile secrecy shrouded any plans
the Federal officers may have for bring
ing Bailey. the four members Of the
Shannon family held with him and
Albert Bates, in custody at Denver, to
Oklahoma City. Bates wNs arraigned
yesterday and was placed in $l00,000
bond.
Hyde said the Government has enough
evidence to put the kidnapers of Urschel
behind prison bars for life without call
ing the oil millionaire as q witness.
COUPE HUNTED IN EAST.
Evening star., 1933-08-22
LINDBERGHS AGAIN HOP

REYKJAVIK, Iceland. August %
R.-Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh hoped of from Reykjavik today,
refusing to reveal their destination, but
it was believed here that they were
not leaving Iceland Immediately.
The colonel and his wife have been
making a leisurely aerial mapping ex-
pedition along the northern route.
Evening star., 1933-08-22
"STAMP LADY" DIES
Mrs. Ella Ross Was Descendant o1
Washington's Aunt.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa, August %
R.-Mrs. Ella C. Lubbe Ross, a de-
scendant of an aunt of George Wash
1ngton and known affectionately as the
Postage Stamp Lady" because Of her
resemblance to the portrait of WASH
ington on stamps, died today. She was r.
Mrs. Ross was great-great-grand-
daughter of Sarah Ball, who was a
sister Of Washingtons mother, Mary
Ball. Her mother was Ann Louisa
Custer, a member of the family of Gen.
George A. Custer, Indian fighter. Her
husband, an attorney, survives.
Evening star., 1933-08-22
ATLANTA MAN NAMED
Clark Foreman Ickes' Adviser on
Negroes Economic Status.

Appointment of Clark Foreman of At
lanta, nephew of Clark Howell, Atlanta
publisher, as adviser on the economic
status of Negroes. was announced yester-
day by Secretary of the Interior Ickes.
Foreman's duties will include keeping
the Secretary advised of the manner
and extent to which Negroes are sharing
in results of the operation Of the ma
tional recovery act. He will be at
tached to the Interior Department.
Evening star., 1933-08-22

Rex's table showed the following
cities as reporting no murders in 1892:
Fail River. Mass; Grand Rapids,
Mich; Lowell Mass: New Bedford,
Mass; Reading. Pa; South Bend, Ind,
and Utica, N. Y.
Evening star., 1933-08-22
GRAEF WILL FILED
Estate, Valued at $15o,ooo, Il

ESCdCe, VP1ueU dt %10O,O00, n
Bequeathed to Widow.
An estate valued at more than $780,
900 was disposed of in the will Of H
Campbell Graef, filed for probate today
in District Supreme Court. Mr.. Graef
who died August II, lived at 1926
Thirty-fifth street.
Under the terms of his will, filed
through Attorney William Cohen, his
widow, Mrs. Emily L. c. Graef, Is be-
uueathed the entire estate.
Evening star., 1933-09-21
PERSONAL.

EVERY CARE GIVEN INVALIDS, .CONvA-
iescents and aged by nurse in her own
home Adams 1868. 1889 Kalorma rd
THE MODERN TREATMENT FOR CONST1,
PATION-Tfat tired. worn-out, depressed
feeling as the result of CONSTIPATION will
quickly respond to Co-Ca-Syl. This sooth-
eral ingredients blended in the proper pro-
portion to give bulk tunes and iubricates
ference nth digestion or absorption Of food
nurriments Get a bottle today 3O'
DON'T DISCARD YOUR WORN =, HATS!
Redesigned into "laSt-word' creation, ,-s,I FL
to So SO: smart new hats to order. RUTH
MOtLOHAN. formerly with Nine. Ash, 1011
II St. NV, 2nd floor. DI. 1856.
Evening star., 1933-09-21

NEW FINANCE COMPANY operating i'm
proved plan wants Washington manager
experienced in legal and collection matters
and willing to invest sufficient to cover own
salary first year. Address Box DEC. Star
Evening star., 1933-09-21
MOTOR TRAVEL.

MAN AND WIFE MOTORING TO CHICAGO
Lincoln sedan, Sept. 26 passengers at Sl5
round trip desired. GEorgia OFT.
DRIVING PACKARD SEDAN TO DETROIT
and Chicago Friday or Saturday; accommo-
date b careful driver; refs. EXCHANGED.
DI 46lI.
DRIVING TO ATLANTA AND CAN TAKE ,
paSSengerS comfortably. Potomac 0Ol9-R.@
Evening star., 1933-09-21
DOGS, PETS, ETC.

ENGLISH Settlers @Thoroughbred puppies
eligible for registration. Walnut 1866. 24'
MONKEY: Bostons, Esqulmo. fox terriers,
collies and other breeds: also gold and tropi-
cal fishes. rabbits. guinea pigs. singing cana
ries, parrots and other pets and supplies.
Emporium. T1o 10Th st NV
Evening star., 1933-09-21
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

modern, up-to-date equipment: must sell at
once; cash or terms. Albert Levin. 1896
Earle RuildinC ols
Evening star., 1933-09-21

catessen or cigar and newsstand in office
building wanted. Address Box 226-C. Star
office
Evening star., 1933-09-21

PIANO, dining and bed room set; reason
able. No dealers. 233 Mass. ave. ne.
Evening star., 1933-09-21

HOFFMAN PRESSING MACHINE and boiler,
Al condition, S1B5 for quick buyer. co
Hyattsville Barber Shop. Hyattsville. Md 22'
OFFICE FURNITURE. useo. Govt. surplus
and seconds; lowest prices. Commercial
Office Furn Co.. 430 9Th NV. ME. 7742
Evening star., 1933-09-21
ELECTRIC WIRING.
FIXTURES AND REPAIRS.
HOME IMPROVEMENTS.

DEAL WITH RELIABLE FIRM.
Carpentering, painting. papering. plumb
4ng. heating, roofing. all general home i'm
provements for the next 80 days at excep-
tionally low prices. Take advantage of the
lowest prices on construction work that we
have been able to offer in years. All work
guaranteed. White. skilled mechanics. 1918
eth st NV NO 1918 AID 6273
Evening star., 1933-09-21
POULTRY AND EGGS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

ANTIQUE JEWELRY. gold teeth. coins, silver,
watches. diamonds, etc. We pay highest
prices. Gold Refining, Inc. 400 18th st. n w.
APPAREL-Men's women's and children's;
also Shoes hats. curtains, dishes. rugs.
furniture bought for rummage sale. Phone
Mr.. Winger. Decatur 6310. 1921 eth st. n W.
Evening star., 1933-09-21

PIANO apt size baby grand, l year old.
perfect condition. 800 9th ST. ne. Lincoln
16I1 o2s
Evening star., 1933-09-21

RESTAURANT for sale in good location;
business about one hundred per day; rent.
one hundred fifty: lease price. ffty-five
hundred. Address Box 24S-C. Star offce.'
Evening star., 1933-09-21

GAS RANGES cabinet ranges rebuilt like
new. priced from, $3.50; low-oyen ranges
priced from ST; also several brand-new floor
samples priced very low. 1924 st. NV.
MA. S905.
Evening star., 1933-09-21

ORIENTAL RUGS-Special sale. last offer;
SX10. Sos; 9'Xl2', S105; 10x14'. $3.50:
Il scatter sizes. S25-S35. c409 18th NV.
PAINT: save 3Oet-Pure linseed oil. S5c gal;
best black roof paint. Csc sal Adams. 1119
ath st NV MA 1901
Evening star., 1933-09-21

MASTICOTE
for leaky roof. 1O-year guarantee. Hunter.
1927 Taylor st. NV. Adams 0257.
AVERAGE room n papered S6. no moreJ Cali
Metz. any time. CO. 0396.
PAPERING 81 up. with paper painting
same; removing SO; plastering cell. $40;
best ref; white; paper wholesale ME. 7a41.
Evening star., 1933-09-21

MODERN APT; 3 ROOMS. KITCHEN,
bath. porch; reasonable rent. Gil Irving
ST. NV. Apply 306s Mt. Pleasant st; NV.
Evening star., 1933-09-21

CIGAR STORE. 500 takes it, . blocks from
Union Station; rent. $50 month. 20 Mass.
o
Evening star., 1933-09-21
$#E$=U@| DIRECTORY OF UNFURNISfIED APARTMENTS

GAS RANGES. 3 and 4 burners. low ovens.
81; side-oven ranges. $3.50 up; clean. guar
anteed Atlantic 16S6-J
Evening star., 1933-09-21

DINING ROOM SUITE double refrigerator
Ind Kitchen table: practically new; reason
&ble before pm. third floor. 3ol 10Th
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
BRITISH ISLES
 TO HEAR NEGRO
 MELODIES AGAIN
Spirituals of South Alp. pealed to Queen
 Victoria

Montreal (UP)-Bearing the re. iigious songs of the negro slaves of Southern United States that once touched the heart of Queen Vic- toria, tho Tennessee Spiritual Jubi- leo singers, five in number and headed by Edwardo J. Lango, are on their way across tho Atlantic to tour the British Isles.
 It was in the days after the Civil war that tho first Spiritual Singers visited Britain. After the war tho negro school of music at Nashville, Tenn, was threatened with extinction, but group of singers set out on a tour.
 They received considerable op- position in the United States. but when they got to Britain they touched tho heart of Queen Vic toria. The queen then was build ing her empire fin Africa. Tho negroes of the southern states were tho brothers of tho African ne- groes.
 The negroes of Africa loved "the great white quoen." The nc- groes of the southern states touched her heart with their spir- ituai songs. Action followed. Queen Victoria raised money. The University of Fisk was founded.
 It is the songs that stirred Queen Victoria and led to q great recep- ton in Spain and Germany. that the Spiritual Jubilee Singers are taking to the British Isles.
 They will open their tour in Belfast, Ireland. going on 10 Dub. lin and Scotland finally to London. They will be away six months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04

Topeka, Kan--(UP)-The state legislature wil lmeet shortly to end what Governor Alfred Landon de- Bcribes as the "intolerabie" Kansas beer situation.
 While other states have or do not have beer legally, as Q result of a summer decision of the state supreme court, beer is legal in Kansas towns where juries rule 1t is misunderstanding and illegal where the do not.
 Even before the decision S.2 was sold openly at Wichita, once the scene of Carry A. Nations prom. bition activity. Since the ruling, it has been availablesin every large city in the state.
 HThe unamious opinion of tho supreme court in outlining den- niteiy the limitation of the Kansas malt beverage act has left the ike ing of alcoholic content in bever ages as an imperative legislative duty" said Governor Landon in his announcement of the special
 Juries have breed s.s beer de- fendants even in Olathe, home of tho late Gov John F. St John, father of Kansas prohibition. A crowd of 500 cheered the jury which acquitted John D. Mitchell. restaurant owner, and then bought out his stock in celebration.
 At Topeka, Wichita and elso- where, cafe men formed protective organizations to provide legal de- fense when they were arrested on beer charges. In cases where dee fendants have been convicted, the verdicts have been appealed in nearly every instance. :.
 The legislative council, . fact finding sub-mody of the legisla- ture, will submit two beer meas ures to the special session. One would make illegal any brew with an alcoholic content of more than one-half of ono per cent. The other would legaiize 3.2 in Kansas and establish a scale to taxes.
 Passage of the latter will Do recommended by tho council. The tax weature will appeal to many
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
OLD TAPESTRY
 TRADE DYING

Paris (Up)-Unlcss some ar- rangement Is made whereby the tapestries from Aubusson may en. ter the United States free of duty. a moro than 400-year-old business is threatened with extinction.
 A plea to save the Aubusson tap. cstry industry has been made by tho city of Aubusson to Anatole dc Monzic, minister of Beaux-Arts. Three-fourths of the artists and weavers, whose craft was handed down to them through generations, are Jobless. Because of the small. ness of an emergency fund avail- ablc, those trained craftsmen must rciy upon odds jobs.
 Ever since the beginning of the depression many of the finest tap estries, which were in preparation for years, have been in store- houses. The workers believe that if the tapestries were permitted to enter tho Unitd States free of duty that tho retail price then would come within the range of c prob. able purchase price for Americans. The inhabitants conveyed the in. formation to Minister Monzie that they were unable to compete with the workers at Gobeiins and Beau vais because those factories were subsidized by the French govern ment. Incidentally, they add that their taxes virtually are equal to the amount of the subsidy allo- cated to their business rivals.
 Tapestry weaving existed here before 153f and to-day children of workers are instructed in the rudi- ments of making tapestries and then given a definite period of ap- prenticeship. Jobless workers are no longer willing, however, to train their children in so precari- ous a profession, and the industry is threatened with extinction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04

When I first started to read proof or Sierra Bulletins I wondered what enjoyment the members got from laboring. up mountains, risking their lives.
 ."But afterwards I got interested and now I think I can appreciate the thrill of conauering heights
 Long ago Vance, now S2, was made an honorary member of the Sierra club.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
Proofreader Member of
 Mountain Climbing Club

San francisco -(UP)-oeorge Vance is a member of the Sierra club, organization of hardy noun climbers, but he never has set Q foot upon 0 mountain.
 Vance has read about mountain climbers steadily for 40 years. He's proofreader of the Sierra Club Bull letin, first published in 1893.
 "rt's a funny thing, but every time the publication of the bulletin changed printshops, I did too. ai- ways kept up with it." he said.
 T don't think I'll do any noun
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
Planes Fail Co Replace
 Dog Teams in North

Edmonton. Aibert--(UP)--Air- planes have not completely sup- planted dog teams in the far north. veteran trappers and prospectors assert. f
 Victor Ross, noted Alaskan pi- lot, recently was quoted as saying that Eskimos, trappers, prospectors or anyone wishing to travel in the north today, uses airplanes instead of the oid-fashioned and slow dog teams.
 Ross gainel flames wher he res-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04

Bay company's steamer Baychimo,
 "Riiost ship" of the north, locked
 In the fee off Point Barrow. Ross goes too far" laconically commented a number of trail vet
 |erans regarding his statement. They explained that while mast north
 erners use planes to "come in" and
 Ego out" dog teams still are as numerous an duseful as ever.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
ArmIess Artist Married
 After Court Scasion

New Orleans (UP)--PauI Behna young armiess artist, who has won national recognition for his pains tings and work as assistant lnsfruc- tor of painting at the Deigado Trades school here, never thought a girl would marry an armiess man, but he was wrong.
 He recently was married to Mrs Helen Rovira Cox, 10, after the civil court was called into Q 4pe- cial session by Judge Provosty go that the couple might obtain their license without waiting until the court reconvened..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
New Orleans Beauti6es
 City's Potter's Field

New Orleans-(UP)-Paupers who die in New Orlenas with no friends or relatives to claim them. will not take their last rest in a neglected, unkempt lot.
 A corp of 30 emergency relief administration workers has start ed to improve and beautify Pot by the Charity hospital of the city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04

We believe these big thirsty Cannon Towels to be the best towel val. ue we ever offered Size 2Ox40 - 22x44, of double thread construc. tion and woven to stand repeated laundering. All with colored borders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
JUDGE BANNED DANCE HALLS

Kelso. Wash, (UP)--Judge L. Fl. Huntington sentenced Devori "Toots" Bailey to stay away from dance halls for six months. To be sure he did. the judge instructed him to spend the next four Satur- days in the oity jail. Bailey was convicted of shaping girl at e dance recently.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
BABY WEARS ffs-YEAR OLD
 HAT

Milford, Ia. (UP)-Sarah Ann Hudtloff. eight weeks daughter of Mfr and Mrs B. L. Hudtloff, wears a bonnet 11S years old. The tiny cap was made by Sarah Ann Aims worth for her daughter. Elizabeth. in 1851. It thep. was placed in q needlework collection and was not worn until 1882 when 1t adorned Sarah Ann Adkins the baby's grandmother.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04

of nothing but dolls and candy, much less to perplexities of a life vocation. To finance her lessons, she sold ice cream and candy bars Throughout the business district. She now is a feature entertainer at hundreds of events each year in southwestern Iowa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
CANDY AIDED YOUNG DANCER

Red Oak, Ia, (UP)--Many To- cal residents, although unaware of it, have invested in the future of Betty Lee Redmon, IS. When Betty decided to become a dancer and entertainer, she was at the age when most small girls think
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
Kansas Legislature
 Tn Beer Muddle
Expect to End "IntoIerabe" B. SituatiOn-TO Submit
 Two Measures to Special Session

legislators. While thousands of barrels of beer are now being sold in Kansas, the state receives no revenue at all from the trafic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-04
.sTENov RACE HoRsE owNER

Boston, (UP)-The hobby of Miss Mary Powers, 21, Boston stenographer, is. horse racing. She owns Coming Back, which recent ly won at Rockingham park and paid s107.40 for every $2 ticket in the mutuels.