Evening star. [volume], November 15, 1936, Page A-15, Image 15

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1' SLAYING OF GIRL 5.
SHOCKS CHICAGO
“Little Italy” Talks of
Lynching After Child Is
Found Dying.
* Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. November 14.—'Threats
of lynching voiced by aroused resi
dents of "Little Italy” today spurred
the hunt for the moron who slew 5
year-old Antoinette TiritillL
Mutterings of swift vengeance were
heard among the crowd of angry
neighbors who gathered in the vicin
ity of the alley where the pretty little
girl's throat was slashed last night by
a "short, fat white man.”
Horrified by one of the most
• atrocious crimes in recent Chicago
history, detective squads seized four
men—one of them corresponding gen
erally to a description of the assail
ant gasped out by the tiny victim be
fore she died.
Fifty officers combed "Death Val
la*." —squalid district on the near
Southwest Side where the Tiritillis
dwelled In a humble home—for sus
pects.
Investigators regarded as signifi
cant the story of a girl and two small
boys who reported they had been ac
costed by a stout, stubby man near
the McLaren School several hours
before Antoinette was dragged to her
dfmth from the yard of that school.
Dr. Jerry Kearns, coroner’s physi
fian. said the girl had not been crim
FINDING YOUTHS JOBS
SUBJECT OF “Y. M.” TALK
4 Meeting to Be Held Tuesday
at 9:30 P.M. in Connection
With Guidance Program.
William F. Patterson, executive sec
retary of thl Federal Commission on
Apprentice Training, will discuss ways
and means of finding new jobs for
unemployed youth at a meeting Tues
day night in connection with the Y.
M. C. A. Youth Guidance program.
The meeting, which is open to the
public, will be held in Room 219 of
the Y. M. C. A. Building at 7:30 p.m.
The guidance program was started
by the “Y” in an effort to ascertain
„ the qualifications of unemployed young
men and women, and then to help
them find work.
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Traffic Convictions
SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Walter T. Sneed. Maryland, $15.
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Grayson Y. McDaniels, 203 Eighth
* ttreet northeast, $10.
John D. Collins, 1330 Valley place
•outheast, $10.
Virgil L. Gore, Maryland, $10.
Joseph F. Robinson, 222 C street,
$10.
Donald A. Bauer, Maryland, $10.
Asa T. Patton, 1822 M street norths
•ast. $10.
Anna R. Marosy, 1314 Eleventh
•treet, $10.
Harold E. Miller, 4809 Third street,
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,Carl W. Stamastes, 1814 Juniper
•• «treet, $10.
Thomas F, Price, 132 Yuma street
•outheast, $10.
Thomas H. Newman, 1310 Twenty
eighth street, $10.
George A. Anadale, Maryland, $19.
Frances J. Kopel, Bennings race
track, $10.
Slain [
CHILD KILLED RESISTING f
ATTEMPTED ATTACK. 1
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ANTOINETTE TIRITILLI.
The 5-year-old Chicago
child was fatally slashed Fri
day night by a man as she re
sisted his efforts to attack her
in a school yard across the
street from her home. She
died three hours after the at
tack as her mother was giving
blood in a transfusion.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
CHARITY BALL TO AID
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Non-Academic Panhellenic Group
to Sponsor Benefit Fete Sat
urday Night. ^
A charity ball for the benefit of
Children’s Hospital will be held Sat - I
urday at the Mayflower Hotel by the
Non-Academic Panhellenic Associa
tion of Washington.
The affair is held annually and the
proceeds used for some charitable pur
pose. Plans for this year's ball no\1
are being made by a committee headed
by Miss Marguerite Throckmorton of
the Phi Sigma Epsilon Sorority.
Other members of the committee '
include Mrs. Mary Neilson of Alpha
Zeta Sorority: Mrs. Maurine Simmers, i
Sigma Epsilon; Miss Virginia Morris, !
Phi Beta Psi; Miss Peggy Cannon. |
Sigma Phi Gamma; Mrs. Lillian
Walker, Tau Beta Phi, and Miss Wini
fred Huck, Lambda Chi. j
The association is composed of
Washington chapters of several na
tional sororities.
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