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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-12
ITALIANS PLEDGE AID

More than 1000 persons of TIA
Ian descent met yesterday after
noon in Mcmillan I iifafllli ttnder the
sponsorship Of the Italian-Aner-
-ttaft Civilian Defense committee.
and pledged their support OF the
campaign.
SeNeEino- pa4li- 24-GHH9- organizer,
was one Of the principal speakers
and in his talk he revealed that
he once knew MuSSolini in Swift
orland before the dictator rose
TO power
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-12
PLAN MEETING HERE

Announcing iurtrhrrS If ttr
committee. which was set up ia,t
week 90 replace tho original 10
man group that broke up after
Us bitter fight 'hr OPM saudi h
will WCc' N uctLni In The ueaL
future t-4b0 ta- arTFa7V GC-
nounced tho committee =, made.
qt19tU
Methods 80 alleviate >-ttcrna
70 tho dealers from 'ho contcf. ION
VIII ho taken up rs tho ljaaS,
body m a special meeting '0Tor-
row
Meanwhile Price Administrator
Leon henderson worked or puCp
ceiling for used auto rrcs after
setting maximum price schedule
for 'rotreadahic and rctrcadcd ur
recappcd tires.
Henderson declared that with
The ban on tSaie az new tJrcs
profI'ccfing ot serious nropoI
lions has developed in the salr
~ used tires and said that tho
price ceiling viii be fixed IN 'hc
near future 10 protect the public
from exploitation
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-12
5000 CONTRIBUTED

"Thc speakers bureau was
notified and speakers were sent
out 10 address the workers on
each shift 0nc of the SPEAKERS
even went 10 the plant at
o'clock i'm the morning.
The result il that more than
5000 has been contributed To
date and more il Vet 10 come.
Fhc total contributions aN-
crage more than one days pay
for each emploNe."
Ilahan-AmericanS arc also aid
ing in the funds drive Connely
SAID. and II is expected that they
VIII make large contributions.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-12
Red Cross
GsOaIShOrt
S59O.883

Officials Of the Detroit Red
cross drive today were hopeful
tbst thousands Of donations from
workers in tho ciWs offices and
factories Will raise the $3.50 1888
which is needed 10 reach the or
canizaton $ 100000 goal
Leaders of the drive cited the
example Of workers al the Quality
Damp Wash Laundry 10 show how
IN Is possible 10 raise tho money
quickly # workers realize the need
and purpose OF the Red Cross
several days ago, the Red
Cross headquarters received n
call from Henry Lapides, super
intendPnt of the laundry. asking
~ To do something 10 bring the
Red cross message 10 his en-
ployc>," explained Emmett Con-
molly head of thp CamDaign.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-12

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18
Mrs. Bridget
McBurney
Sargent, 20
Year-Old
SOcialite,
Whose Ro-
nance Begun
in a Santa
rum for Alec
hOlics and
Ended in a
BlOOd-Stained
Hotel Room.

inquest.
About 1890, he returned to the hotel,
claimed his key and went upstairs. few
minutes later, the sleepy hotel manager. who
was handling the desk, answered an insistent
telephone bell.
He had had a hard night, and the words
that trickled into his ear from the receiver
did not help his condition. The words were
in Trott's shalty voice, telling him that a wo-
man was dead, had killed herself in the room
upstairs.
If the bare announcement was unnerving.
the scene that met the managers eye when
he went in person TO investigate was almost
more than he could bear.
In the small room was the scantily-clad
body of % year-old Mrs. Sargent lying face up
across the bed. Her throat had been cut,
her wrists had been slashed, and blood was
literally everywhere; on the walls around
the washbowl, in the bowl itself and forming
macabre patterns on the mirror, the floor and
the bedclothes
The sickened manager summoned the po-
lice soon he was able TO. The body was
examined and removed TO a funeral parlor
1t was not until later in the day that the
attention of the district attorney was at
tracted to the case for the medical examiner
had found that the wounds in her throat and
wrists were not Mrs. Sargents only injuries
IIeF-bedy NVeter bruises and both her
eyes were blackened.
Besides, there was some question whether
a cash as deep as the one in her throat could
have been self-inflicted
Pale and shaking when he was sworn in
at the inquest four days later Trott admitted
that he had struck Mrs. Sargent because she
had been drinking ever since she got to Reno"
and that it was he who had given her her
black eyes, on the night before her death
On the stand for more than an hour he
revealed the story of their romance, which
had been born last year in a Connecticut
sanitarium for alcoholics where both were pa
tents. and which, after a short but by no
means merry life, had expired in the blood
stained hotel room.
Trott chose TO start his testimony by giving
his and his fiancees pedigrees, possibly be.
cause that was about the only part of it
which was not sordid.
He was the son, he said. of the Hon W.
Il. Howard Trott a member Of one of Ber-
mudas ruling clans and also of Parliament
hotel owner. aviation enthusiast and counsel
lor TO the Governor General.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

comparing the case with that Of Caroline
Roebling Hagner, fifth wife Of Paul Walters
Although the circumstances surrounding
the shooting of Caroline, a 27-year-old beauty.
have never been explained to the satisfac-
ton of the general public, the case was closed
when the coroner's jury called her death the
result of an accidentally inflicted gunshot
wound
Handsome and rich granddaughter Of the
late Col Washington Roebling. builder Of
New York's Brooklyn Bridge she came to
Reno in 1889 to divorce her husband, Alex
ander B. Hagner clubman and fancier Of
thoroughbred horses, of Warrenton, Va
She became one of Walters customers
and, on the very day her divorce was granted,
eloped with him to Boise, Idaho.
The marriage lasted eight weeks and end
ed in her death by shooting.
Testifying at the inquest, Walters said that
on the day Of the tragedy his wife had read
letter. which disturbed her. Later, IL came
out that it was only a business letter con.
corning the sale of her Massachusetts, estate.
according to the husband, she had smashed
her cocktail glass on the floor and left the
room. A short time later shot rang out and
Walters rushed to the guest room to find her
with bullet hole in her left shoulder
revolver was on the floor. At first her wound
seemed slight, but she died of severed artery
on the way to the hospital.
Besides the lack of suicidal motive (she
had apparently been quite happy two things
troubled the authorities: a nurse in the house
revealed that her mistress had limited of some
expected danger and asked her to notify
G-Men If anything happened; and, secondly.
suicides don't often shoot themselves in the
shoulder.
-I In the end, the jury abandoned the suicide
-
dental self-inflicted injuries.
Her two million dollar estate went to her
two children by Hagner. after a viii contest
by Walters.
Some communities might not worry over
much about couple OF sucides-let alone
try to fit them into mysterious pattern
but to perennially jttery Reno the cases of
Bridget and Caroline seem fun Of sinister
meaning,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

left one dude ranch, after words" with the
proprietor. Next move was to an exclusive
hotel, where they engaged adjoining rooms.
While staying there, both were almost
killed when car they'd hired plunged off a
viaduct and hurtled across the Southern Pa
cific tracks. The car was demolished but
Bridget and Howard by a miracle escaped
with minor injuries.
Bridget insisted she wouldn't be happy
until Howard hired another car, and after
scouting around he managed to get one from
Paul Walters, who had figured in the earlier
Reno rendezvous with death.
Taking this second car out for the first
time, Howard narrowly escaped crushing his
prospective bride to death. AS it was, the
fender knocked her to the pavement and she
emerged with two prophetically blackened
eyes
Soon afterwards. they checked out of their
hotel and moved to another ranch AS
result Of their pickering, they soon had to
move to another hotel, and a few days later
once again because the management disap-
proved of their fsticuffs, they had their
moving day, this time to the hotel which was
the scene of the final tragedy.
At the inquest, witnesses testified that
Bridget had been in fear of Trott who beat
her constantly Much to everyones surprise,
Trott admitted most of the unpleasant things
that had been said about him.
1t had taken deputy sheriffs three hours
to sober him up enough to testify, and he
looked it.
In describing the details of finding the
body. he testified that he had left Bridget
in her room while he went down to break
fast. She had seemed all right then, he
said, except that she had been drinking so
much she was seeing things.
A note, reading, Il can't stand it, it's the
snoring" had been found among her effects
Trott explained it by saying, Il guess 1 must
snore."
The day after the inquest he boarded an
Eastbound plane, while Mrs. Sargents body
was despatched in the same direction, more
slowly, by train.
Renos district attorney is still trying to
tie up few of the loose threads, and in the
meantime the rest Of the community is busily
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18
~ oa'1~ -'~-s nee

A RS. BRIDGET McBURNEY SAR-
n GENT. socially prominent wife of
W. Charles Sargent Jr.. of Long Island
~ Y. won't go ahead with her plans for
Reno divorce.
She dropped them Unexpectedly the day
before she would have been eligible to file her
suit, after going to all the trouble of estab-
fishing Nevada residence and spending over
$1,000 in the process.
Whether or not she reached the decision
voluntarily is still an open question.
The answer depends on whether she killed
herself few weeks ago, or whether somebody
else killed her.
The Reno district attorney and the cor
oners jury have taken different views of the
case The former has pronounced it sui
eide, the latter death caused by party or par
ties unknown"
You might think that incidents Of this kind
would make little impression on the hectic
life of the divorce capital. Actually the OPP
posite is true.
Expectant Nevada Divorces seem TO be as
sensitive TO crimes Of violence as the inmates
OF prison Most readers of crime literature
as well as those addicted to underworld
movies, know how rapidly, and with what pro-
found effect, the news Of suicide or muir.
der travels along a prison grapevine
And many of the same conditions which
make for this depressing atmosphere behind
the bars, hold for Reno, too. For despite
certain notable advantages of the latter life in
both places is made up largely of Mating.
taut nerves and rumors.
Indeed, the Mecca of the Disiusioned had
still not quite recovered from the fatal shoot
ing Of the heiress Caroline Roebling Hagner
Walters-although that occurred three years
ago-when the abrupt resolution Of Mrs. Sar-
gents problems recalled it and added fuel to
the constantly burning fire Of gossip and spec
ulation
In both these tragedies the victim was an
Fastener. beautiful and of imposing social
background, killed in circumstances which If
not downright mysterious. at least stimulated
morbid conjecture.
Moreover, and this was the oldest link of
all between them, Mrs. Walters ex-husband.
Paul Walters, much-maried owner of a local
automobile renting agency played a small,
walk.on part in the earlier acts of the Sar-
gent drama.
The last act occurred on Labor Day morn.
ing, when Reno was waking queasily from the
high-jinks attending a rodeo the day before.
In downtown hotel, 31-year-old Howard
Trott, Of Bermuda came downstairs left his
key and went out. This was at $50 a. m,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

Then he told the court that he had wife
and two children in Bermuda and that he had
been honorably discharged from the Canadian
Grenadier Guards.
Entering the Connecticut sanitariuTn- last
Fail, he had met the blond Bridget with the
smiling Irish eyes, and during their GONZALES.
cence they had decided TO discard their spouses
and marry just as soon as they could get out
Bridget told Howard all about herself
about her schooling at Miss Hewitt's in New
York, of studying at Mile. Bertrands in Paris
and of her debut in 1881.
Her wedding to Charles S. Sargent Jr. had
been an utra-fashionabe affair, since both
bride and groom came from families firmly
entrenched in the Social Register.
Charles is the grandson Of Harvard's
famous botanist, Professor Sargent, and a
relative of the late painter, John Singer Sar-
gent---
AS popular members Of the Rockaway
Hunting Club crowd, Bridget and her hus-
band went TO all the parties and entertained
lavishly. Later son and daughter were born
TO them. Charles settled down but Bridget
stayed on the merry-g o-round that finally
carried her into the sanitarium.
She was supposed 20 return TO her family
when she got out Instead. she flew to Reno
with Howard Trott.
Less than week after their arrival they
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
Expects Quins But
Fate DEGREES in
Favor Of Triplefs

BINGDON. England, May II 49,
(UP) - Destiny demonstrated tC
Private John Woodley today tha'
it chooses it's own faVorites, Hif
wife, Emily, daughter CT the Pub
keeper at Cuban, the neiglbor
hood village, gave birth to triplctS
not to quintuplets as her husband
had expected.
The event also dashed the am
bitiCns Of Cuban which had cX-
pected to become as renowned a
the Ontario village in which the
Dicnne quintuplets first saw thf
light of day.
Wocdley's sister had her fortune
told by a Gypsy several years ago
The Gypsy said her brother wa
"a man of destiny This, couple
with the opinion of oxford Uni
versity medical experts that X-ra'
plates showed a distinct possihili''
of quintuplets, caused the entir'
village-Woodley NEST of all - tC
anticipate fame and fertunc.
But destiny decided othcrWigc
Mrs. Woodley gave birth to thu
first child at $50 a. m, the thirt
at 9:l5 a. m.
All were boys.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
Stockholm Reports
Nazis Usinq Gas

STOCKHOLM, May IL CUP =
An unconfirmed report that Ger
many was using non-poiSonous
nerve gas" in fighting on the
Kerch peninsula circulated in
usually reliable sources today, al
though Berlin dispatches emphasiz-
ed Nazi Official statements that
Germany had not and would not
initiate poison gas warfare
One report was that the Germans
were using the same gas in the
Kerch fighting that they reported
ly used in capture of the Belgian
fortress of Eben Emael at Liege
during the offensive into the low
countries.
The gas reported used then was
designed to paralyze enemy troops
for a short period but purportedly
did not result in permanent harm.
Recent London dispatches re-
ported that the Germans were pre-
pairing to use nerve gas" in Rus
STA, where the Official Soviet news
agency lass charged that poison
gas mines were used by the Nazis
On one sector
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
Terrorists Bomb
Germans in Paris

VICHY. France, May ~ up -
Terrorists have bombed six Paris
hotels and restaurants requiSitioned
b. the Germans, advices from Paris
said today.
German authorities isolated the
entire areas affected, including the
principal downtown business dis
tricts and the eastern railroad sta
ton, in an attempt to trap the
terroriStS.
Subway traffic was suspended in
the bombed areas.
The world famous Marguerite
Restaurant and the Ambassador
hotel were among the hotels and
buildings bombed All had been
requisitioned for German army use.
Three other central Paris hotels
were bombed and hotel in the
eastern railroad station area also
was bombed
French police aided the Germans
in blocking off the areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
Congressman Say
U.S.. Will Use Gas
.IfGermanyStarts

WASHINGTON, May PUP
Members of congress predicted to-
day if the Axis reports TO the use
Of poison gas as a ar weapon, the
United States will join Great Britain
in retaliating in kind.
Senate Democratic Leader Alber
w. Barley OF Kentucky comment
ed that "of course if they start it
we shall have to retaliate" Sen
Ed c. johnson, D., Colo, summed
up the feeling of many legislators
by remarking, IF anyone wants To
play rough. we can ali play rough
and we will if the Germans start
using poison gas"
Speculation On the gas possibility
raised by British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill in his speech
Sunday, with the grim warning that
use of gas would be repaid in kind
focused attention en- the lack of
gas masks available to civilians in
this country. Military experts,
however, said the present military
situation provides no opportunity
for the enemy TO make any extern
Sive use CT gas against this con-
'inent.
The office Of civilian defense has
lllocated $l9,000000 TO the army's
chemical warfare service to speed
the gas mask phase of the civilian
defense program, and has asked the
ervice to develop production facili-
lies capable of turning out $780,
900 masks a month.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

by submarines. The Navy announc-
ed yesterday that three more Jap
anese ships had been sunk in the
Far East b. submarines. bringing
the total to 40 sunk. u probably
sunk and II damaged. At least II
of the torpedoed ships were war;
craft
Submarines are rowing all sec
tons of the far Pacific battle
ground. Their victims have gone to
the bottom almost within sight of
the Japanese mainland, in the &C.
lebeS Sea off the East Indies, in
the waters around the Philippines
and in the vast spaces between
the Philippines and Hawaii.
Yesterdays naval announcement
did not reveal the scene of the
latest sinkings. but said they are
not related to the Coral Sea en-
gagements. The vessels sunk were
a destroyer, a naval cargo ship and
medium sized cargo ship.
COMPLETE LIST
Submarines have been especially
active in the Pacific since the first
of April. During that month and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
Pocifist Charges
EmbroiI School

SANTA ROSA. Cal, MAJ u CUP)
"A showdown on charges that four
Santa Rosa junior college faculty
members are guilty of subversive
activities was expected tonight at
a board of trustees meeting follow
ing a reported fist fight between
two faculty members, one of whom
a)legedly called President RooSe-
welt a Communist" with adjec-
tives.
A student strike and court action
by one of the teachers who resented
the asserted accusation against the
President was threatened unless
the board dismiSses the four fac
ulty members charged with anti
American activities among the stu
dents.
TEACHERS GRAPPLE
The fight that set off the campus
tempest occurred last Friday noon
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

Oregon border to the mouth of the
Santa Maria river, on the northern
boundary of Santa Barbara county.
OTHERS MAY FOLLOW
The 18th naval district, which
controls the coastlne from the San
ia Maria river to the Mexican
border, and the 18th naval district,
handling the oregon and Washing
ton coasts, were expected to follow
suit Immediately.
Every light along the coast which
is visible at sea must be quenched
ito keep the coastline clear of any
lights that can be seen by lurking
submarines" said James c. Shop
pard, regional OCD director.
This may have the effect of fore
ing San Francisco and San Diego
to fcrego night baseball games; will
force beach amusement concessions
to curtail their nightly activities
will close some highways to night
driving except under certain con-
ditionS.
Bridge and highway lights must
be darkened or shielded and shades
must be drawn in homes and bust
ness establishments within sight of
the sea.
President Charles Graham of the
San Francisco baseball club said he
was prepared to re-schedule the
Seals night games to afternoon or
twilight if such a step is necessary.
The Seals play four night games
each week while at home.
The only ether Pacific coast
league park which could be af-
fected by future dim-out orders is
at San Diego, where Lane Field is
within a block of the waterfront.
The other clubs are we'll inland.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

one half of Is japanese ships have
been sunk, one light cruiser was be-
lieved sunk and five other vessels
were damaged.
Here is a complete list of the
bag" of American submarines in
the Pacific since April /:
One light cruiser. three tankers,
seven cargo ships, one naval cargo
ship. one destroyer. one submarine
chaser, one auxiliary cruiser, and
one combination passenger and
cargo ship.
In addition to the light cruiser
believed sunk, two seaplane tend
ers, one supply ship, one barge
transport and one unidentified ship
have been damaged since April
by submarines.
Underwater operations have been
carried out with the loss of only
two American submarines by en-
envy action A third submarine was
blown up in drydock at Cavite to
prevent it from falling into jap
aneSe hands and fourth was sunk
in a collision with its tender off
Panama.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
Bennett Denies
Conspiracy Guilt

G. G. Bennett, president of the
Associated Farmers of Imperial VAL
ley, pleaded not guilty in federal
court in San Diego Monday to a
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
government in connection with
dealings with the FL Centre Pro-
duction Credit association.
At the same time, w E. Walters,
accused of conspiring with him, also
pleaded not guilty. In addition
Walters was accused of conspiring
with j. Cliff Hatfield to defraud
the government. Walters and Hat
field pleaded not guilty. Walters
served term in San Quentin peni-
Tertiary for fraud perpetrated while
he was secretary of the e. Centre
Production Credit association.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
De CeIIes Heads
{. Play Program

Leo A. De Celles, principal at Will
son school, will serve as director of
the summer playground program in
Ell Centre this year, the playground
committee announced Tuesday.
He will replace Ted Schmidtmann,
playground director this winter, who
will attend summer school this sum-
mer.
Selection of the personnel for the
summer program will begin i'm
mediately. De Celles said. and it is
hoped the children will be able to
continue with supervised play with
out any interruption between the
school term and vacati- n.
1t was arranged that the pro-
grams will be carried out in the
morning and the early hours of the
night, the Fairgrounds to close dur
ing the heat of the afternoon.