Evening star. [volume], October 24, 1937, Page A-13, Image 13

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' SPURS ROSS HUNT
Message Gives Address
Where Kidnaped Chicagoan
t Allegedly Was Held.
Bt the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 23 —An Rnony
Bious letter opened a new avenue of
investigation In the kidnaping of
Charles S. Ross today.
The message, giving the address of
B South Shore apartment where the
tipster claimed the retired manufac
t-turer had been held until last Sun
day, was turned over to Federal agents.
D. M. Ladd, chief of Chicago’s G
Bian staff, said the information was
Under investigation.
The author named two men and a
woman as the abductors and reported
they had offered him some of the $50,
000 ransom at a 50 per cent discount.
“Ross was there alive up to last
Sunday and the cops searched but
in the wrong flat,” the letter set forth
in part. “1 am a neighbor but was
, warned to keep my mouth shut."
Ross was carried off four weeks ago
but in that time there has been no |
word as to whether he is alive or
dead.
Federal agents pressed their attempt
to trace the ransom bill placed in cir
culation. The trail led to the First
National Bank in suburban Blue Is
land. The agents checked over $50,
000 in currency there but failed to
uncover any more ransom notes.
Meanwhile, a study of the activities
ef known gamblers continued on the
theory some of them might have re
gorted to kidnaping when their hand
■** books were raided by police squads.
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FOOD-DRUG SESSION
TO OPEN TUESDAY
Officials Will Hold First Convert
tion Here in 11 Years—Enter
tainment Planned.
The Association of Dairy, Food and
Drug officials of the United States will
. hold its forty-first annual convention
m at the Raleigh Hotel Tuesday to Fri
day. It has been II years, since the
'• convention has been held in Washing
ton and delegates and their wives from
the 48 States are expected.
Entertainment of the visitors will be
divided between a' committee under
Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley for the women
and a group under Dr. George Ruh
land, District health officer, to look
after the men.
Mrs. Wiley announced for her group
m * possible trip to the D. A. R„ Red
Cross and Pan-American Buildings
Tuesday afternoon. The next day the
Visiting women will be taken on a
sight-seeing tour of Congress, the Con
gressional Library, the Supreme Court
and the Folger Library’. Transportation
will be furnished through the courtesy
cf the Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers’ Association. In the after
noon the group will visit Greenbelt in
transportation furnished by wives of
members of the National Canners’
’ Association.
Thursday the group will take in
Mount Vernon, Gadsby Tavern and j
Arlington in the morning, followed by
a luncheon at the American Associ
ation of University Women Club, 1634 t
I street northw-est, and an afternoon j
Visit to the Cathedral.
Mrs. Wiley’s committee includes
Mrs. C. A. Brown, Mrs. W. D. Bigelow,
Mrs. N. R. Ellis, Mrs. G. S. Jamieson,
Mrs. Thelma F. Lee, Mrs. C. G.
McDonnell, Mrs. Everett Wallace and
Mrs. Ward B. White.
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MUSICAL TRAVELOGUE
Branson De Cou to Show “Dream
Pictures’’ at Church Benefit.
*
Branson De Cou will show hi*
•Dream Pictures” at a benefit musical
travelogue for the Episcopal Church
Home, to be given at 8:15 p.m., No
t, vember 5. in the Willard Hotel.
His subjects will include "Florence
and the Italian Hill Towns,” "The
Cathedral Group of Florence,” “The
Notable Italian Gardens of Tuscany"
and "The Treasures of Patti Palace,”
all to be shown in pictures. There will
be appropriate musical accompani
ment. The board of managers of the
Episcopal Home is sponsoring the
affair.
I
Th. bui ding of a
this small Grand wa!s long :
planned by Chickering. It :
is an exquisite instrument
with all the nobility that is
inseparable from this great j
piano. Its fame is founded
on unquestioned worth—
only the finest materials
go into rhe making of ;
this Chickering —now as :
always for 114 years.
EASY TERMS
Km •/ any makt taken in
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ARTHUR IORDAN i
PIANO COMPANY j
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Facing Deportation, Man Pens
Plea to “Jantlemen” of Court
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 23.—Wha'
everybody agreed was one of the mosl
unusual letters ever to come withir
the purview of the Federal Districl
Court today entered the Government’!
deportation case against Karol Ccssel
The missive pleaded with the ”jan
tlemen of the United States Districl
Court” for leniency and ended with s
fervent “three chars for the rad,
■ whith and blu.”
Cassel came here from Russia and
became an American citizen in 1919,
with two friends testifying to his
, exemplary character.
But recently United States Attorney
John Knox received bad reports about
him—that he had served time in Cape
town, South Africa, and Berlin for
pocket-picking and in New York for
revolver possession and shoplifting.
While Knox was looking for Cassel,
preparatory to sending him back to
Russia, a letter arrived from him.
Knox filed it in court today.
Advising the authorities that Cassel
was in a hospital here suffering from
"six per -cent dyebitos," the letter
continued:
"What is the use to go to cort talin
lies and to deny everything, no—no—
no—X will not tell lies, only I and
God and a lot of my friends knue
that more than a hate of the arrests
ar for nothing, but I will be believed
if I will cut my hart out and to show
cort.” -
Followed Cassel’s story of a con
ference at "police hat corters" and
his demand of the court “have I got
to be a teaf or can I be a good Ameri
can?”
"Give me this time a chance,” the
letter concluded, “to be a good Ameri
can sltisln. I will obay the law, and
will give my life for my contry and
this is the U. S. A. and three chars
for the rad, width and blu.”
Judge William Bondy granted
Knox's request to have the case re
stored to the calendar. Meanwhile,
they’re trying to find Cassel.
CONFERENCE ON LABOR
BACKED BY GOVERNORS
New York, Indiana and Connect!*
cut Executives Send Indorse
ment to Miss Perkins.
By the Associated Press.
Governors of New York? Indiana and
Connecticut yesterday sent Secretary
Perkins their indorsement of the
fourth annual conference on State
labor legislation which the Secretary
has called for tomorrow.
The conference will bring together
labor commissioners from most of the
States to discuss new problems of ad
ministering labor laws and developing
co-operation between 8tate agencies
an<t organized labor.
Gov. Lehman said previous confer
ences on labor laws have "resulted in
an Improvement in labor legislation
throughout the United States."
King's Birthday Observed.
Siam celebrated the 12th blrthdaj
of its boy King Ananda Mahidol, whc
is attending school in Switzerland anr
is expected to return to his country
shortly.
They Can't Read Alond.
No first-rate literary Chinese book
would be Intelligible if read aloud ex
actly a* it la written, for colloquial ex
pressions of speech have no equivalent
in Chinese characters.
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