Evening star. [volume], January 27, 1933, Page A-10, Image 10

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JBaudy Pencil Found in Cellar
Leads Suspect to Admit
Crime.
the Associated Prese.
NEW YORK, January 27.—A gaudy
J5encil, whose red, blue and gold stripes
coaxed 6-year-old Helen Sterler to hor
ror and death in a Brooklyn cellar,
forced a confession today from a colored
tnan that he attacked and strangled her.
Lloyd Price, 22, sat grinning and
smoking cigarettes JM a police station
before dawn today. Detectives had been
questioning him for seven hours.
"Naw, boss." he said for the hun
dreth time. "I wouldn't do a thing like
that."
Confesses Crime.
"But look at this pencil," a detective
said softly. "It was found in the cellar.
Your mother's outside and she says it
belonged to your dead father. She says
it disappeared from her bureau drawer
two days ago."
"Is my mother out there?" the sus
teect said. "Well, cap'n, I want to clear
tny conscience. Get some one in here
Who can write and I'll tell you about it."
The confession said that Wednesday
fcfternoon he left his home and went
out on the streets looking "for a child."
It told how he approached Helen as she
played on a sidewalk, showed her 25
cents and the pencil and "made her
eyes brighten."
"I took her by the hand," he was
quoted as saying, "and led her into a
hallway. As I was carrying her down
the cellar stairs she started to struggle
and I struck her in the face."
Has Reformatory Record.
He carried the child to a dark end of
Che cellar, the confession said, and as
saulted her. Price said he lit a match,
jfound a piece of clothes line, tied it
%bout the girl's neck and crept away.
One hundred policemen, spurred by
* frightened and furioiue populace in
•the dingy tenement district, ransacked
the neighborhood for hours. Price was
one of a number of suspects picked up.
Police suspicions grew when they
learned he had served two reformatory
terms for attacks on boys.
Helen was buried yesterday while
relatives supported her mother, in a
State of near-collapse.
Pharmacists to Honor Heads.
BALTIMORE. January 27 (Special).
—A testimonial dinner, under the joint
auspices of all pharmaceutical organ
izations of Maryland will be tendered
Dr. Robert L. Swain and Dr. John C.
Krantz. jr.. on February 7, in honor oi
their election as president and second
vice president, respectively, of the
American Pharmaceutical Association.
In District Night Horse Show
QUESTIONNAIRE TO THY FOB CHAMPIONSHIP AGAIN.
ABOVE is Mrs. William G. Hill schooling her chestnut hunter Questionnaire,
which won the show championship of the Military Night exhibition at
the Riding and Hunt Club recently and will attempt to dcplicate the
feat tonight In the District night show at the Twenty-second and P
streets ring. The winner of the most points during the Winter series
will be awarded a 1932-33 championship tri-color at the end of the season.
District Commissioner Luther Reichelderfer and other officials will be guests
of honor tonight. —Mac-Hay Photo.
U. S. CLERKS BLAMED
FOR INVITING ATTACK
Shaw Says Employes Failed to Let
Public Know the Worth of
Their Services.
Speaking at the installation of offi
cers of Post Office Department Lodge
27 yesterday, John Arthur Shaw, presi
dent of the American Federation of
Government Employes, said attacks on
Federal workers are traceable to their
failure in the past to acquaint the gen
eral public with the worth of their
service.
"They have more than ordinary;
qualifications, have passed strict ex- '
aminations and must face keen compe
tition to enter the service." Mr. Shaw
said. "Instead of impressing these facts
on the public mind, they allowed the
people to gain the impression during
prosperous years that Federal employes
are not particularly competent or neces
sary. and are somewhat overpaid for1
what they do. They should have known I
attacks would be made on them and I
they should have begun an offensive.
Instead, they haw allowed themselves
to be placed on the defensive."
The policy of the American Federa
tion of Government Employes, Shaw
promised, will be an offensive rattier
than a defensive one.
The following officers were installed:
Thorrfas O. Pee, president; Paul A.
Hines, vice president; William N.
Lochnane, treasurer; Frank B. Gorely,
secretary, and Edward J. Mahoney,
sergeant at arms.
HONORED BY LODGE
Veteran Odd Fellow Feted at An
nual Session.
George B. Johnston, who has at
tended every meeting of the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows for the last 42
yeare. was feted last night at the an
nual session of the Grand Lodge. He
is to move to Fallon. Nev., shortly.
Mr. Johnston delivered a farewell
address and a committee was appointed
to draft resolutions expressing appre
ciation of his services and regret at
his departure.
Living costs in the Irish Free State
are mounting.
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