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GETS SANITY TEST
Michigan Judge Names
Board in Case of Girl
Who Shot Friend.
Br the Associated Press.
EAST LANSING. Mich., December
• —Judge Leland W. Carr of Ingram
Circuit Court appointed a sanity com
mission today to examine 25-year-old
Hope Morgan, East Lansing society
girl charged with first degree murder
in the "impulse to kill” slaying of her
former college chum.
The girl stood mute at her arraign
ment on a warrant charging she fired
five shots at Miss Elizabeth Giltner,
25-year-old bride-elect and daughter
of a, Michigan State College dean, as
they addressed wedding invitations in
•the Giltner home yesterday.
' Judge Carr directed a plea of not
guilty, and appointed the sanity board.
Blamed Upon Impulse.
Lieut, Harold Mulbar, State police
detective who signed the murder war
rant. said Miss Morgan told him. "I
did it on impulse and can’t explain
why, but I couldn’t help myself. I
. felt like killing some one.”
Miss Giltner was to have been mar
ried Saturday to Capt. David S. Bab
cock, Instructor in the college’s Reserve
Officers’ Training Corps unit.
- A member of the Giltner family said
today the wedding would have left
Miss Morgan as the last unmarried
member of her social set, and said,
•“She may have felt Intensely alone.”
To Dr. Lemoyne M. Snyder, State
police medical adviser. Miss Morgan
told of having “a lust to kill since Oc
tober of last year,” and added that
•ometimes she would carry her father's
gun ’’all day, feeling sure I would
commit murder before I returned
home.”
Whirlwind Courtship.
Miss Giltner was the daughter of
Dr. Ward S. Giltner, dean of the
veterinary science departmental Mich
igan State College. She met Capt.
'Babcock when he was assigned to the
college R. O. T. C. last September
and a whirlwind courtship followed.
Dean Giltner disclosed today that
Miss Morgan, a brilliant student at
the college until she quit to become a
social worker, became 111 a week ago
from an overdose of sedative.
Mrs. Mabel A. Giltner, the dead
girl's mother, said the two young wom
en were addressing her daughter's
wedding invitations when she went to
visit a neighbor. Her 12-year-old son,
David, returned from school about
two hours later and found his sister's
body crumpled on the floor.
Dean and Mrs. Giltner said their
daughter and Miss Morgan had been
childhood playmates and remained
close friends throughout high school
and college.
The shooting occurred only a few
hours before Miss Morgan and another
friend. Mrs. Don H. Berles, were to
have been hostesses at a bridal shower
for the professor's daughter.
Search for Miss Morgan.
City, State and college police, as
well as Mason County authorities, be
gan a search for Miss Morgan after
learning she was the last person seen
with Miss Giltner before her death.
Found at the home of a friend, Miss
Morgan was taken to the State police
post for questioning and. Lieut. Mul
ber said, confessed readily. He said
she told him she had felt "a lust to
kill” for more than a year.
The State police medical adviser,
Dr. Lemoine Snyder, interviewed Miss
Morgan and said that she showed no
remorse and was ‘‘definitely insane.”
Prosecutor Dan McCullough ordered
her transferred to the Jail at MaSon,
the county seat. He said he will pre
pare a murder charge against her and
request appointment of a sanity com
mission at her arraignment, probably
today.
Dr. Snyder said Miss Morgan told
him ‘‘I’ve had the lust to kill since
October of last year."
.nysiery to Herseii.
“I couldn’t understand myself,” the
young woman's statement to the
doctor continued. “I’d find myself
looking at some of my friends, con
scious of a desire to kill them.
“Often I went home and got my
father’s gun. Sometimes I would
carry it around all day, feeling sure
I would commit murder before I re
turned home. Something always hap
pened to prevent it—until today.
"I had the gun when I went to
Bessie’s house, but I seemed to feel
all right after I had been there a
while. Then suddenly I looked up and
stared at Bessie. I don’t know why.
Then that feeling came over me.
“My coat was hanging over the
back of my chair. I reached down
and pulled out the gun, stuck it right
up against Bessie and started shooting.
"Everything seems kind of hazy
Bow, but I remember that I tried to
• shoot myself. The gun wouldn’t work.
^ “I watched Bessie stand up, she
‘ tort of gasped. Then she fell.
“I put my coat on and got into my
ear and drove home. I put the gun
• •away and got in my ear. I drove to
? Kalamazoo, to Battle Creek and to
• Portland. Prom Portland I called a
- friend of mine. He met me there,
“and we came back to East Lansing.”
Lieut. Mulbar said Miss Morgan
told him that Miss Giltner, alone of
“her friends, had offered to accom
pany her to Ann Arbor for a mental
“examination after her wedding.
Priends of the young woman said
She seemed to change after a series
-of tragedies a few years ago. A
'younger brother, Stuart, jr„ died of
„?a broken back after a fall from a
window. A year later her mother
died.
Dr. Snyder said that when he asked
her a routine test question last night:
“Wh&t would you like to do now?” the
'young woman answered:
- “I don’t know, unless it would be
to shoot you.”
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•C
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COPENHAGEN, December 9 UP).—
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' Dr. Henrlques, famed particularly
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Slaying Figures
WOMAN CHARGED WITH
SHOOTING FRIEND,
HOPE MORGAN.
ELIZABETH GILTNER.
Prosecutor Dan McCullough
of East Lansing, Mich., said
last night he will charge Miss
Morgan, 25. with murder in
the shooting of her lifelong
friend. Miss Giltner, 25,
daughter of a Michigan State
College dean. The shooting
occurred while the two were
addressing invitations to Miss
Giltner’s wedding, scheduled
for Saturday.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
JOHN T. HUMPHREYS,
ENGINEER, RETIRED
Began Work at Navy Yard in
1903—Twice Awarded U. S.
Service Medali.
John T. Humphreys, 69, decorated
with United States service medals both
by the Treasury and Navy Depart
ments, was retired today as an ord
John T. Humphren
nance engineer
with the Wash*
lngton Navy yard,
which position he
has held since
1930.
Born here In
1867, Humphreys
began work at
the Navy yard in
1903 as an expert
on guns, being
transferred to the
design section of
the ordnance
drafting room in
1912. Five years
later he was
transferred to the Bureau of Ordnance
as supervising draftsman, and, due to
his expert knowledge, was placed in
charge of the design of depth charges
and mines used in the World War. Fir
this work the Navy Department award
ed him the United States Service Medal.
During 1917 and 1918 Humphreys
was grand master of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and was ap
pointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury to the staff for fraternal
activities in raising revenue funds
through the sale of war stamps and
liberty bonds to fraternal organiza
tions. For his services in this line
he was presented the Treasury De
partment's Service Medal.
Humphreys was appointed super
visor of ammuntion projects in 1931,
with offices in the Mine Building at
the United States Naval Gun Fac
tory. In 1930 he took over duties
at the Navy Yard here.
Prior to entering the Government
service, he was a foreman with the
Baltimore Si Ohio Railroad, and be
came general master mechanic in
charge of the Ivy City, Washington,
D. C., shops in 1898.
Humphreys, who lives at 1413 Shep
herd street, now plans a two-year
trip through Western United States,
Northwestern Canada and Alaska.
Fellow employes yesterday presented
him with a traveling bag and binocu
lars.
Porters’ Paoks Banned.
Turkey is extending its westerniza
tion campaign to Include the age-old
practice of porters carrying merchan
dise on their heads and backs. Ankara,
the capital of the republic, has just
placed a ban on the transportation of
goods by human beings, and ruled that
extensive loads can be moved only at
night.
HISTORY OF SEAS
Mud and Ooze Contain Much
More Radium Than
Rest of Earth.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
Mud and ooze of the deep ocean
bottoms contain vastly more radium
than any other part of the earth’s
surface.
They also record in their successive
layers the histories of the great seas
through mo6t of geological time.
Such are two of the findings of Dr.
Charles S. Piggot of the Geophysical
Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu
tion of Washington, who has just re
turned from a trip across the North
Atlantic with a specially constructed
deep-sea "gun,” which drives a tube
10 feet or more into the ocean's bot
tom to collect stratified samples.
Interpretation of Findings Open.
His findings, the Carnegie Insti
tution announces, may have been
epoch-making. They may have opened
up a thrilling new chapter in the his
tory of man's knowledge of the earth.
The interpretation to be placed upon
them—especially the meaning of the
relatively enormous concentration of
radium at the bottom of the North
Atlantic—remains open to much ques
tion.
After experimental tests in the rel
atively shallow waters along the At
lantic Coast, Dr. Piggot was given an
opportunity to test his apparatus on a
voyage of the cable repair ship of the
Western Union Telegraph Co„ be
tween Newfoundland and Ireland.
Samples of the sea bottoms fre
quently have been collected before,
but they represent only the surface
layer. For the first time, by means
of the Washington scientist's deep-sea
gun, it is possible to find out what is
in the strata which have been built up
by slowly sinking sediments over hun
dreds of millions of years.
The ocean bottoms have been, on
the whole, more stable than any other
part of the earth's surface, and should
present the story of evolving life with
less distortion than is possible for any
sedimentary remains on dry land.
Story "Filed Away” on Bottom.
Dr. Piggot characterizes these sedi
ments, lying layer upon layer at the
sea bottom, as "the depository of the
historical records of the ocean.” For
millions of years the sediments drop
ping from above have been accumu
lating on the bottom below. Hence
the story of what happened In the
seas through eons of time is "filed
away” in the mud, clay and ooze.
Says the Carnegie scientist: “The
1 rocks, pebbles, sand, clay and mud
brought by rivers and ocean currents,
and the skeletons of marine organisms
which lived and died and evolved into
various forms throughout the ages
constitute this record. Some types of
these organisms live only in cold
water, others only In warm water.
Some live in shallow lagoons, others
in depths of the open sea. Some pre
fer fresh water, while other survive
only in salty water. Some lived a long
time ago, while others have evolved
into their present forms comparatively
recently. Besides these records of past
life and its many changes there exists
a chemical and physical record. Oxi
dation, reduction and the nature of the
dissolved matter In the water have
all left the record of their changes
in the bottom, and the nature and
size of the minerals and rock frag
ments bear evidence of the direction
and strength of former ocean currents,
the movements of ice, and the depths
of the ocean In the past.
"Far out from land, in the undis
turbed depths of the open ocean, the
record has accumulated very slowly,
so that a few feet of depth may repre
sent a very long interval of time. Al
though this great historical record has
long been known to exist, we have been
unable to profit by it for we could
read only the topmost page.
Radium Is of Interest.
"Some chemical and mineral con
stituents are of great significance,
especially those found in extremely
small concentrations, such as copper,
tin, gold or radium. The radium Is of
particular Interest because its concen
tration In ocean bottom sediments has
been found to be, In general, much
greater than In rocks on land.
"The concentration la greatest In
those portions of the ocean bottom
more remote from land and lying at
the greatest depths. The material
at the bottom of the deeper parts
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Tells of Temple Rivalry
Aimee Semple McPherson today said in a deposition rivalry
between Rheba Crawford and herself led to trouble at Angelus
Temple. The evangelist, shown ivith her attorney, Willedo
Andrews, right, and Joseph Feiner, lawyer for Miss Crawford,
gave the deposition Ui the million-dollar slander suit filed
against her by Miss Crawford. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
of the ocean generally consists of so- |
'called red clay, and this material |
appears to contain much more radium
than any rocks yet examined on land.
"If these sediments are of con- i
slderable depth and if this radium
concentration is the same throughout,
these deeps contain local concentra
tions of radio-active material pos
sessing enormous stores of energy. It
may be that the deeper portions of
the ocean are permanent features of
the earth, or else it may be inferred
that this high radio-activity is but a
transitory thing, representing the ac
tivity of radium only, unassociated
with its long-lived parent substance,
uranium. If this be so the nature
and cause of its separation and con
centration from sea water would be
a most Important study.
"Furthermore, a study of radio
active substances and their disinte
gration products in these cores holds
a promise of a determination of time
intervals represented by the various
strata, or the a«e of the sediment as
a whole. The only record of the his
tory of the existing ocean lies buried
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Co-operation With Govern
ment to Avert Economic
Crises Is Urged.
Bt the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 9.—Indus
try’s job today Is to co-operate with
the Government to avert future eco
nomic crises, C. M. Chester, president
of the National Association of Manu
facturers, told the Congress of Ameri
can Industry at its opening session to
day.
"Industry,’’ he said, "cannot just sit
back and enjoy the fruits of pros
perity. We must better understand
what has been happening to us since
1929. * • • It is the job of. industry,
general business and all affected sec
tors of our economic life to Join in
creating a national depression study
committee.
"Industry, so far as our association
represents it, is ready and willing to
work toward the protection of the fu
ture by joining with other groups of
the Nation in studying the causes and
stabilizing of business so as to make
the business cycles less severe.
Employment Gain Cited.
"The results of such studies, as well
as the long experience of trained men.
all the acumen and resourcefulness
that the Nation’s business possesses,
should and will be always available to
our Government to the end that an
other period of business disruption
and subsequent human suffering may
be eliminated or at least mitigated.”
Employment in member firms of
the association, Chester told the dele
gates. stands at 106 per cent of the
1929 level. Fewer companies are now .
in business, he said, but the average;
company Is employing more men
than it did before the depression.
“Our Job Is to absorb all of the un
employed possible, to bend every
effort of science and management skill
to create still more Jobs,” he said.
In the first nine months of 1936,
he said, the work week in American
Industry averaged 38.6 hours com
pared with 35.7 under the N. R. A.
”We hope,” he continued, “that
organized labor leaders In their desire
to please the rank and file with the
fancied benefits of a 30-hour bill will
realize that prosperity will not come
to America entirely on the basis of
shorter hours.
"Shorter hours without other im
proved factors of production simply
increase the cost of goods to the
public. We cannot get more by pro
ducing less • •
MRS. M’PHERSON’S
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Almee Semple McPherson's story that
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