Evening star. [volume], October 27, 1939, Page A-16, Image 16

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Officials Seek Aides
Of Ruth Judd in
Hospital Escape
Governor's Secretary
Says It Is 'Obvious'
Help Was Given
■j the Associated Press.
PHOENIX. Ariz.. Oct. 27.—Y. C.
White says it is “perfectly obvious"
that Winnie Ruth Judd had help
in her midnight flight from Arizona
State Hospital.
Mr. White, secretary to Gov. Bob
Jones, is directing an Investigation
into the trunk slayfr’s escape. He
said he believes the one-time “tiger
woman" had assistance both inside
and outside the institution. He or
dered the inquiry pressed until the
“person or persons” responsible are
discovered.
Meantime, baffled officers con
ducted a clueless seareh for the
twice-condemned murderess. Their
theories place Mrs. Judd from with
in a few'blocks of the hospital to as
far away as Mexico City.
Sheriff Lon Jordan and a deputy
searched the home of Mrs. Judd's
parents, the Rev. and Mrs. H. J.
McKinnell, as a "precautionary
measure."
Mrs. McKinnell informed the offi
cers her daughter's Tuesday night
escapade had further impaired the
health of Mr. McKinnell, seriously
ill and bedridden for months.
The parents said Mrs. Judd came
to their home shortly after her es
cape. and they attempted to per
suade her to return to the hospital.
In a letter to Gov. Bob Jones the
murderess contended she was perse
cuted by the hospital administra
tion.
Mrs. Judd was convicted in 1932
of the trunk slaying of Agnes Ann
Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson, nurses
with*whom she shared an apart
ment.
Keeping Normandie Safe
Costs $1,000 Daily
Bv the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Oct. 27.—The French
Line says it is costing approximately
$1,000 per day. above pier rental, to
keep the superliner Normandie tied
up in the safety of New York Har
bor
The line said the cost until two
weeks ago was about $2,500 per day.
but this was reduced when almost
1.200 members were sent back to
France. The cost includes wages of
125 members of the crew, food and
protection money. The line leases
its pier and does not include that In
the cost.
Cunard White Star Line officials
refused to comment on the cost of
keeping the $25,000,000 Queen Mary
at its pier.
Both ships are heavily guarded
because of sabotage threats.
City News in Brief
TODAY.
Dinner meeting, War Mothers.
Raleigh Hotel. 6:30 p.m.
Dinner. Masonic Booster Club, I
Ambassador Hotel, 6:30 p.m.
Dinner dance. Fleet Reserve Asso
ciation. Raleigh Hotel. 7 p.m.
Meeting. Zeta Chapter. Kappa
Gamma. Sorority, Raleigh Hotel,
7:30 p.m.
Dinner, Phi Alpha Delta Fratern
ity. Carlton Hotel, 7:30 p.m.
Dinner, officers’ mess, 5t.h Ma
rine Battalion, W'illard Hotel, 8 p.m.
Card party and dance, St. Ann’s
Church, Willard Hotel. 8 p.m.
Meeting, Women of the Moose,
Moose Hall. 8 p.m.
Meeting, Mississippi State Society,
Wardman Park Hotel, 8 p.m.
Smoker. Georgetown University
Foreign Service School, Mayflower
Hotel, 8 pm.
Dance, Internal Revenue Lodge 47,
A. F. G. E., Wardman -Park Hotel,
10 p.m.
Convention, Women's Professional
Panhellinic Association, Wardman
Park Hotel, all day.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Women's Professional1
Panhellenic Association, Wardman
Park Hotel, 1:30 pm.
Dinner, Central Union Mission, I
Mayflower Hotel, 6:30 p.m.
Dinner, Masters’ Association, La
Fayette Hotel, 7 p.m.
Dinner, Washington Gynecological
Society, Mayflower Hotel. 7 p.m.
Dinner, Florida State Society,
Raleigh Hotel, fl p.m.
Dance, New York State Society,
Shoreham Hotel. 10 p.m.
Convention. Women’s Professional
Panhellenic Association, Wardman
Park Hotel, all day.
7Roving7 Convict
Grows Poetic
And Prophetic
By th* Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Oct. 27.—
Lonnie Taylor was sentenced, in
1931. to 20 years in the State Peni
tentiary for robbery.
Three times he tried to escape. I
Each time he was caught. Penal
ties extended his term to 100 years.
Heavy-set and pugnacious, he called
himself the “toughest guy in the
place."
This week Taylor turned poet,
•wrote for the prison publication:
“I hear the voice of Nature,
I feel it in my bone;
Like a duck that winters southward.
Ill take wing and soon be gone. . .
Some there were who wondered if
Taylor was being prophetic m well
as poetic.
But not Warden Tom Gore. Said
he:
“Ljnnie isn't going anywhere.
He's been in solitary confinement
since last year.”
SOUSA AUDITORIUM STATUE—Capt. Floyd E. Dunn, right, of
Governors Island, New York, Inspects statue of “typical American
soldier,” being prepared In New York by Sculptor Walter Russell
for the projected John Philip Sousa Memorial Auditorium, ex
pected to be placed in Washington. Pvt. Walter P. Steel, 16th
Infantry, poses above. A Nation-wide public subscription is
under way to finance the memorial. The auditorium has no
connection with the new Pennsylvania avenue bridge, proposed
to span the Anacostia River, which will be named for the famous
band leader and composer. ' _A. P. Photo.
Byrd's Snow Cruiser Lumbers
East, Behind Schedule
By the As&ociftted Press.
WARSAW. Ind., Oct. 27.—Admiral
Richard E. Byrd's huge cruiser with
which he expects to explore the Ant
arctic ice wastes lumbered out of
Warsaw at 7:30 this morning on the
second day of its slow journey to the
Atlantic Coast,
Dr. Thomas C.. Poulter of the
Armour Institute of Technology Re
search Foundation said he and his
helpers would not stop in Fort
Wayne as was planned in the orig
inal schedule, but would spend the
night “some place in Ohio."
The cruiser left Chicago early
yesterday and encountered so much
difficulty on the highways that it
was 45 miles behind its schedule
when it arrived here last night.
Although engineers and highway
men have gone over the entire route
to Boston, Mass., where the cruiser
will be loaded on Admiral Byrd's
boat, the big steel juggernaut was
halted for several hours yesterday
before it could be taken across a
narrow bridge west of here.
The 75.000-pound cruiser, designed
by Dr. Poulter, is 20 feet wide, 55
feet long and 12 feet high. It ran
into numerous difficulties along the
way yesterday.
State police escorts had to be
changed. Thousands o' spectators
lined the way. A half-mile traffic
jam brought up the rear. Near Ply
mouth, the crew gave a 20-minute
radio interview.
And 3 miles west of Warsaw a
bridge over the Tippecanoe River— j
on a route carefully mapped out by
State Highway Department en
gineers—proved too narrow.
There the cruiser stayed for more
than three hours while its crew took
off hub caps to get it across the river.
Heavy rains hampered the work.
Dr. Poulter had predicted the
cross-country run would take eight
days. Last night he went to bed
without saying how' much he had re
vised his schedule.
Navy Places Food Order
The Navy Department yesterday
placed a $138,000 order for canned
string beans with a Philadelphia
firm. Other food orders included a
$12,900 contract for canned pump
kin and a $21,538 contract for
canned applesauce.
S. W. 0. C. Demands
$5-a-Day Minimum
From Bethlehem
12 Plant Managements
Are Told Union Won't
Accept 'No' for Answer
Br the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 27.—A $5-a
day minimum in all Bethlehem Steel
Corp. mills was demanded today by
the C. I. O. Steel Workers’ Organ
izing Committee.
A union spokesman said a dozen
plant managements had been in
formed "we will not accept ‘no’ for
an answer”
Identical demands were presented
by the 8. W. O. C. committees to
officials of mills at Johnstown, Beth
lehem, Pottstown, Rankin. Leets
dale, Lebanon and Steelton, Pa.;
Lackawanna, N. Y.; Sparrows Point,
Md.; Seattle, Wash., and San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, Calif.
E. J. Lever, director of the S. W.
» J — -
o. C. organizing campaign in Beth
lehem plants, said:
"The 8. W. O. C. Is fulfilling Its
responsibility to Bethlehem work
ers by leading them In their fight
for decent wages and working con
ditions. We are tired of evasion aa4
excuses. The time has come for a
showdown.”
It is charged by the union that
Bethlehem has been paying 56 and
58 cents an hour instead of the 62re
cent minimum recently fixed for the
steel industry by the Federal De
partment of Labor. Bethlehem and
other steel companies appealed
from the rate order.
A S. W. O. C. statement set forth
that the $5 minimum had been ac
cepted in the major portion of the
steel industry and said that increas
ing living costs made higher wages
imperative especially for the lowest
paid workers.
Mentioning a "great bulk of Gov
ernment contracts for munitions
and other supplies” awarded to
Bethlehem, the union accused the
company of profiting from Govern
ment expenditures of tax money
“while this corporation continues to
violate the very laws enacted by the
Government for the protection of
labor.”
Chrysler Is Drafting
Replies to Unions
In Strike Deadlock
Little Hope Is Held
For Quick Solution
Of Labor Trouble
By the Assocleted Presi.
DETROIT, Oct. 27.—With nego
tiations at a standstill until Monday,
Chrysler Corp. today began drafting
replies to proposals by the C. I. O.
United Automobile Workers In an
effort to end the deadlock over a
new union contract.
James F. Dewey, Federal labor
conciliator, held out little hope for
an immediate solution of the dispute
which has brought idleness to an
estimated 100.000 workers in the
automotive and related industries.
Complete Settlement Sought.
Adjourning the negotiations for
the week end, Mr. Dewey said yes
terday that while “substantial prog
ress” had been made In secret con
ferences with union and corporation
heads. U. A. W.-C. I. O. officials had
said they felt all major proposals
for the new contract should be dis
cussed before any decision on re
opening the plants was reached.
The old contract expired Septem
ber 30. Chrysler plants continued to
operate under it until a dispute over
production speed brought a shut
down nearly three weeks ago. Clos
ing of Chrysler’s main Dodge plant,
a key unit, forced suspension of other
operations throughout the organiza
tion and spread to companies sup
plying parts and materials. With
some 57,000 automotive workers di
rectly affected, unofficial estimates
have placed the total idle because
of the tie-up at nearly 100,000.
Chief Issue Settled.
Mr. Dewey said the secret con
ferences had disposed of the chief
point at issue, that relating to the
speed at which assembly lines should
move. Among problems still to be
settled are the union’s closed shop
demand and questions of seniority
and grievance procedure.
Netherland India is purchasing a
number of American airplanes.
Ben Eastman, Famous
Track Star, to Wed
By the Auoelated Preu.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 27.—Ben
Eastman, 28, of New York holder of
four world track records, and Alice
Edwina Ellis, 22, Los Altos, filed no
tice yesterday of intention to marry.
Miss Ellis said the wedding was
planned for November 3 in the
chapel at Stanford University, East
man's alma mater.
Mr. Eastman signed the Intention
notice in New York, where he Is
vice president of the Atlas Diesel
Co. He is due in California Tues
day.
Mr. Eastman holds records for the
440, 600 and 880 yards event* and
the 500-meter race.
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Eiseman’s for
TROUSERS
Put those odd coats to work
by matching them with Eise
man's special trousers. Hun
dred* of pairs in all wanted
materials, colors and sites.
Priced at $3.95 up.
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GET YOUR SHARE
OF THESE SAVINGS
30 BARGAINS «
PEOPLES 14 HARDWARE STORES
All good things must end and so it is with our 28th
Anniversary festival of bargains. The saving oppor- !
tunities listed here end with the week. All items on sale j
at the Peoples Hardware Store in -your neighborhood.
Reg. $1.59 STEP LADDERS, 5-foot size_$1.00
Reg. 40c GRASS SEED, 99 96/100 pure, lb._-30c
Reg. $1.19 CLOTHES DRYER, folding style_94e
Reg. $1.25 HAIR BROOM, 14-inch size _98e
Reg. 25c BAMBOO LAWN RAKE, fan shape_17c
Reg. $1.19 IRONING BOARD, with pad _94c
Reg. $1.50 WALL CABINET, white enameled_$1.29
Reg. 60c SCRUB MOP, large 12-oz. size_44e
Reg. 45c SCRUB PAIL, 17 or 12 qt. size_33c
Reg. 25c EGG BEATER, genuine Edlund_18c
Reg. $3.98 SINK FAUCET, chromium on brass_$3.18
Reg. 79c and 89c BRASS FAUCET, each_66c
Reg. 38c FURNACE PIPE, heavy galvanized_29c
Reg. 3c MOUSE TRAP, strong spring__5 for 10c
Reg. $2.50 CAULKING COMPOUND, gallon_$1.89
Reg. 15c FURNACE CEMENT, Hercules black, lb_11c
Reg. 25c DUCO CEMENT or metal solder, tube_ 19c
Reg. $1.69 ROOF PAINT, high quality red, gal._$1.20
Reg. $1.49 ROOF COATING, full 5 gallon_$1.20
Reg. $1.49 ASH CANS, corrugated metal_99c
Reg. $4.95 OIL HEATER, "Nesco" make_$3.98
Reg. 25c KEYS MADE to order, flat style_12c
Reg. $1.50 HOUSE PAINT, white and colors_$1.18
Reg. $1.95 WOOD HEATERS, 18-in. size _$1.49
Reg. 15c WARM GLOVES, limit 1 pair to customer __8e
Reg. $1.59 Universal Food Chopper, each_$1.25
Reg. $1.49 Pedal Bike, red enameled_$1.19
Reg. 75c Furnace Scoop, large size, each_66c
Reg. $1.00 Rubber Link Door Mat, special_88c
EXTRA-ROLLER SKATES, ball bearing, pair_97c
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SATURDAY-MONDAY-TUESDAY
CLEARANCE
Convenient Budget Terms
3-Pc. Modem
Bedroom
$6400
Your bedroom will be a real joy to behold with ;
this grouping This suite is a pleasantly simple j
modem design with modern pulls and rounded
Venetian mirrors. Finished in walnut veneers
ever hardwood. Consists of dresser, chest and
full-size bed.
Vanity (not illustrated) _$27.50
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We*ve assembled another group of those
wonderful choirs that oil Washington has
raved about in previous soles ot House ond
Herrmann's. Mostly'all one ond few of a
kind, but practically- every type of chair is
included at our remarkably low sole price.
SATURDAY MORNING N
AT 9 O'CLOCK SHARP \
SALE OF
HIGH-GRADE
CHAIRS
$2975
• Luxurious chairs that usually would
cost you much, MUCH more
• Many with SOLID MAHOGANY
Frames
• Many with DOWN and FEATHER
Pillow Backs
• All with EXQUISITE COVERINGS j
They're the distinctive, highly individual
types that decorators prescribe to lend I
character to a room. Barrel back chairs,
lounge chairs, occasional chairs, French
reproductions, high back wing chairs, loose >
pillow back chairs. The expensive coverings |
include rcJyon and linen brocatelles, rayon
and cotton damasks, imported imitation
needlepoints ond mohair pile fabrics.
Priced for Clearance
Virginia Sofa
Solid mahogany, expertly carved
frame. Brass claw feet and three
reversible spring cushions. Covered
in Colonial tapestry.
Commode
Chinese Chippendale design with two util
ity drawers. Rich mahogany veneers and
hardwood.
Axminster Rugs «r
Closely woven, rich, deep-pile ax- J^y fl.95
minster rugs. Large assortment of ^ ’
patterns and colors. **
Coffee Table
Duncan Phyfe design with removable glass
tray. Mahogany or walnut veneers over
hardwood.
Drum Table
Choice of mohogany or walnut veneers over
hardwood. Has one utility drawer.
Cricket Wing Chair
Large solid maple chair with loose reversible J 49
seat and back cushions covered in glazed
cotton chintz.
Kneehole Desk
Finished in mahogany over hardwood. 5Q
Seven large drawers with decorative ** I M w
metal pulls. Size of top, 20x44 inches. '
Table Lamp
The perfect lamp for end tables,' commodes, 5 5 Q
night tables. All metal with shade of fin* *** * w
silk. Five colors to choose from.
Bookcase qc
A four-shelf bookcase, finished in mahog- ^
any or walnut over hardwood.
Lane Cedar Chest
Streamlined modem design with full CJ SQ
waterfall top. Exterior is matched Ori- I *
ental ond American walnut veneers.
Windsor Chair
Choice of three popular designs. Finished in
walnut, mahogany or maple.
Gov. Winthrop Secretary
Authentic Governor Winthrop inte
rior. Automatic sliding lid support.
Finished in mahogany veneers over
hardwood.
Open any Evening by Appointment
Phone DI. 3180 Before 6 P.M.
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EIGHT PIECES IN A COMPLETE
MAPLE BED ENSEMBLE
Two solid maple beds, two Sim
mons coil springs, two inner- m jr
spring mattresses and two 21x27 U.Jw
feather pillows comprise the *
group. >
• One bed complete, priced ot_$25.75 |
Staged for a Sell-Out
FLOOR OR
BRIDGE
LAMPS
I *675 C
!• Heovy Bronx* Finish Bates,
Fin* Silk Shades.
You'd have o herd time dupli
cating this value. The two floor
lamp types everybody seems to
want — 6-way full-size Junior
lamp and 3-way student bridge
lomp. Both with a reflector
bowl to give a softer light . . .
kinder to your eyes ond more
flattering to your rooms. When
ever we've announced a sole of
these lamps, it has been on
^ immediate sell-out.
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