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A-12 ACID-TORCH DEATH LAID TO BLACKMAIL Farmer’s Wife Blinded, Then Set Ablaze on Lonely Road in Illinois. * By the Associated Press. REED CITY. 111., September I—Mrs. Tranquita Rinaldo. 32, blinded with acid and then burned to death last night by an unidentified assailant who escaped, is believed by police to have been a victim of extortionists. The woman was able to give only a meager description of her assailant before she died. The man. who sh said was about 40 years old. sprang out at her from a clump of bushes as he walked along a lonely road near her farm homo here, and dis- j charged acid from a squirt gun into I her eyes. As she groped about Liinded [ and screaming with pain, she said. ■ he knocked her to the ground. An j inflammable fluid was thrown over her j clothes and ignited. Before lapsing J into unconsciousness, she said, she saw j her assailant flee toward a nearby wood, i The woman was found by her hus- j band and young son, who had become alarmed at her failure to return home from a neighbor's and had started a search for her. She died shortly after being taken to a hospital. Sheriff Ernest Fleming, who ad vanced the extortionist theory, said the Rinaldo's, thrifty farmers, nad re ceived a number of threatening letters demanding money. “The couple came to me with the first of a scries of extortion letters a year ago,” he said. “About six months ago they received another letter com manding them to deliver the money at night at a lonely spot near Pekin. The Rinaldos waited there for hours, while myself and three deputies hid in the vicinity, but no one appeared. Since then they reported three men had appeared at their truck farm threaten ing to kill first Mrs. Rinaldo and then her children and husband if they failed to deliver the money. We have no clues toward their identities.” A force of deputies from the sheriff s office searched about the scene of the attack today for trace of the slayer. DR. BUTLER SAYS RICH CAN CHECK RADICALS Fortunes Used for Public Benefit Key to Problem, He Tells Art Gathering. By the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON. N. Y„ September I.—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi dent ot Columbia University, last night | said the millionaires of the United , States and other nations hold the key ! in the warfare of the liberal States against Communism. Speaking before a group assembled at the Parish Art Museum, he took as his subject “The One and the Many.” He said that if the millionaires fol lowed the example of Carnegie and 1 Rockefeller in distributing their fortunes i for the benefit of the many, Commun ism would be checked. On the other hand, if the immensely wealthy treated their accumulations as mere personal possessions they would strike a blow at Liberalism and give Communism a chance to get a foot held. "There is need of a change of heart and a change of point of view on the part of those individuals who, under Liberalism, are able to achieve and who do achieve marked success in ac cumulation of wealth,” said Dr. Butler. “• * • Each time that service to subordinated to gain, Communism is offered a helping hand.’k , FOUR DROWNED IN LAKE AS ROWBOAT OVERTURNS Small Motor-Driven Craft Caught in Windstorm Near McCall, Idaho. By the Associated PrcM. MCCALL, Idaho, September I. Caught in the rought wind-whipped waters of Payette Lake when their small motor-driven rowboat overturned yes terday four Namap, Idaho, residents were drowned while scores of horror stricken people watched from the banks, unable to go to their rescue. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur L. Betts and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Homer. Witnesses said they had been repeatedly warned to stay off the lake until the wind subsided. A quarter of a mile from the shore the boat was filling rapidly when it overturned after being caught by a huge breaker, witnesses said. Six children, none more than 12 years old, were made orphans by the tragedy. WAITRESS SHOOTS COUNT BRUSSELS, September 1 (VP). — Young Count de Broeckhoven, 22 years old, was shot in a Brussels case today by a 20-year-old waitress in what was alleged to be a fit of Jealousy. The young Belgian noble got three bullets in his body. The assailant, whose name was given to police as Marie Bcheer, tried to com mit suicide, but was only wounded in the thigh. The Eyes of School Children —should be protected against eyestrain and over work. 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In France he de i voted some of his time to work on his memoirs, as he has done on his many | visits to that country since the war. j ; Completion of the work will occupy j ' some of his time in the Immediate j future. General Public Interested. Whetted by revelations of Foch, Clemenceau, Poincare, British generals and others, the interest in Gen. Persh ing’s own version of the American Ex- , peditionary Force’s part in the war is ,' at high pitch, not only among military j men. but the public generally. The central point is the issue of a separate American Army, which Gen. , Pershing insisted upon from the outset, and which, it is disclosed, caused mis givings in high allied circles, which charges that some of the allied leaders tried to go over Pershing's head to President Wilson to have the general overruled. Merging of the American troops into allied armies was the goal of this opposition. Gen. Pershing will be in his seventy first year when the volume is published, if it appears within the year, for he will pass his seventieth birthday on September 13. The frankness with which he may deal with the contro versial issues of strategy in the World War, after the United States entered the conflict, is the phase of the forth coming volume whteh is being awaited with keenest interest. Whether he will hold in reserve some facts and conclu- ROOF PAINT | Excellent finish. Seel* Cracks and Crevices MEtro. 0151 BUTLER-FLYNNI 607-609 C St. Phone for Color Card I 5% I Interest on Savingi (Compounded Semi-Annually U. S. TREASURY SUPERVISION COLUMBIA PERMANENT BUILDING ASSOCIATION 733 12th St. N.W. 1 R *NEW YORK + PHILADELPHIA * WASHINGTON FAST. trl-m#tir*A Stint.. Atrlin.rt with tars* window bnudn ueh t.raf.rUbl. chsir. T. tint. «•*.. add pnrt.ft et.aalin.tt and naw slaiiura. N.V.C. (Pa. Sts.) A Phils... Sh ails. tl.SO* Nawsrk Alrpsrt A Phils 40 mis. ... 5.(5 N.V.C. (Pn.Sta.) 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If this plan, inevitably slow in fruition, imposed a severe strain on the exhausted allies, it was Justified not only by the proverbial warning against "putting new wine into old bottles’; for the alternative would have demanded an unprecedented sacri fice of national prestige. “If the realization of an independent American Army would be, as Pershing felt, a serious blow to German morale, it was also likely to uplift the mili tary spirit and self-confidence of the United States, not only for the moment, but for all time.” In another passage the article in the ( Encyclopaedia comments thus in a per sonal vein: Grant-Like Ruthlessness. “He had a Grant-like ruthlessness, similarly lacking the personal mag- ' netism which leads men to lay down their lives gladly, but he had the char- ] acter which compels men not only to ' f die, but to work, grumbling perhaps, j but respecting him.” It is not stated whether Gen. 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