Evening star. [volume], September 23, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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THREE BREAK JAIL.
Fourth Retaken After Ban
dits Speed Through City,
Crushing Woman.
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CLEVELAND. Sept. 23.—Three con
vict* accused of executing a series of
bank robberies since they fled last
year from Missouri's State penitentiary
broke out of Cuyahoga County Jail
yesterday in an effort to escape a trial
in which Federal authorities planned t
to seek their deaths.
Joining in the flight of the trio— I
Charles Bird, 26: Frank Bird, his j
brother, 30. and James Widmer, 31— !
was a 19-year-old youth accused of I
murder, Theodore Slapik. Slapik was j
captured an hour and a half later. I
Incarcerated In a fourth-floor cell
block of the tower-like jail, the men j
suddenly whipped out three revolvers j
and a knife, locked two deputies in a ;
cell, wrested his keys from him and j
unlocked a corridor door, and de
scended in an elevator to the base
ment.
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door of the jail, which is in downtown
Cleveland. Pour blocks from the jail,
their commandeered coupe collided
with another machine. The men,
brandishing guns, leaped to the run
ning board of Municipal Judge Louis
Petrash's car. They pulled the judge
from his seat and roared toward Pub
lic Square, a mile from the jail.
Disregarding traffic signals, the
fugitives' car hurled Mrs. Paul Tober.
48. into a steel safety zone post. Both
her legs and arms were broken and
she suffered a possible skull fracture.
The automobile, traveling SO to 60
miles an hour, narrowly missing two
street cars. Two detectives who gave
chase lost them in traffic.
Slapik Surrounded.
"You could hear the rubber squeal
in on all four tires." said the detec
tives' chauffeur. "The doors of the
car they had were swinging wide i
open. You could see their arms go I
out trying to catch the swinging j
doors."
The men back-tracked to the city's
East Side, where the automobile ]
plunged into a safety zone stanchion. ■
The fugitives seized a sedan and ,
turned into a side street, where they i
Jumped from the machine. The driver !
disappeared into a nearby yard be- !
fore the officers arrived. The screams 1
of two small girls attracted attention I
of the police, who surrounded the
yard. Slapik, who had gone into the
children's play tent, surrendered with
out a struggle as twoscore police con
verged on the tent. His right hand |
was crudely bandaged. His thumb
had been struck by a bullet which
pierced the getaway sedan.
CAMMERER AIDE BACK,
FINDS HE’S PARKS HEAD
A. E. Demaray Returns Prom I
Europe Just After Director
Leaves on Trip.
A. E. Demaray. associate director
of the National Park Service, returned
to his desk yesterday in the Interior i
Department, following a triu to Eu- j
rope, to find himself in charge of the I
Nation's park system.
Amo B. Cammerer, director of the
aervice, has just left Washington on !
an official inspection trip to parks in
the Southwest. Cammerer will take a
trip into Mexico to confer with gov
ernment officials in that republic on
mutual park problems.
Well pleased with his European
Jaunt, Demaray visited the British
Isles and a number of countries on
the continent. He was particularly
Interested in municipal and national
parks which he saw abroad, but he is
convinced that the United States has !
the best parks and the most accom
modations for the public.
Sydney's Ravenous Cats.
Sydney Island, between Fiji and
Hawaii, is noted for its hordes of i
ravenous cats, wild offspring of 150 '
felines Introduced by a planter to ]
combat rats which destroyed the
copra.
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Speed Demon
AVIATRIX HITS 293 MILES AN
HOUR TO WIN TROPHY.
JACQUELINE COCHRANE
Of New York City ibho set a
series of speed dash records
vi Detroit, shown as she re
ceived the Gar Wood Trophy,
awarded for a new interna
tional women's record of
293.05 miles per hour for a
land plane.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
RULING ON C. C. C.
LETS 35,000 STAY
Actinj Controller General Holds
Time Limit Fails to Apply
Prior to July 1.
Approximately 35,000 enrollces
whom the Civilian Conservation
Corps expected to be forced to drop
on October 1 because of the enlist
ment limitations of the new law may
remain in the corps under a decision
by Acting Controller General Rich
ard N. Elliott.
.Elliott—who has to approve pay
ments—was asked for a ruling when
the Judge advocate general of the
Army held the men would have to
be dropped, and the Agricultrue ’De
partment solicitor and C. C. C. legal
counsel ruled to the contrary.
The new law, which was eflective
July 1 last, for the first time puts a
limit on enrollment, restricting it to
two years. C. C. C. officials wanted
to know if in the case of junior en
rollees from 17 to 23, time served
prior to July 1 must be considered
as part of the two years. Elliott said
no, letting down the bars for the
35,000 with prior service.
Monkey Makes Up.
Escaping from a pet shop in Lon
don, a monkey entered a bed room,
tried on a woman's trinkets and beau
tified its face before it was captured.
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Egyptian* Knew Checker*.
A game similar to modern checkers
was played by the Egyptians as early
as 1600 B. C.
Peace Prize* Given.
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation
annually awards medals and cash
grants In the cause of peace.
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