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HELEN EIKER
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Pennsylvania . mother,
~convicted of second degree murder of her husband
when under treatment by notorious doctor for
“jealousy spell.”
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the operation. Throughout England
prayers for the King's recovery
■were said yesterday. Impressive
services were held in Westminster
Abbey.
There is widespread comment
upon the skill of Sir Hugh Rigby,
who performed the delicate oper
ation. Sir Hugh is surgeon to the
Prince of Wales* household as well
as honorary surgeon of the King.
He had previously performed suc
cessful operations upon two other
members of the royal family, the
Huke of York and Prince George.
The Queen took her customary
afternoon drive yesterday. She was
accompanied by the Prince of Wales.
The prince, although he has not un
dertaken any public engagements,
resumed his athletic routine yester
day, playing squash racquets.
Today is the Duke of York’s birth
day. He is now 33. In view of the
King’s illness, no celebration has
been planned other than a family
dinner.
New York Crowd Eager
To See Prince George
On Way Home to King
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (1.N.5.) .
Democratic New York, always eager j
for a peep at royalty, hoped to get
a glimpse of Prince George today
upon the arrival of the youngest
son of Britain’s monarch.
At 10 o’clock the Durban was
reported at Ambrose Light outside
the harbor unable to advance be
cause of the heavy fog which was
also tying up all other ships in the
bay and rivers.
The ship will be given the freedom
of the port and will proceed to the
Cunard pier. There the prince will
board the liner Berengaria. which
will sail soon after midnight. The
liner is due in England on Decem
ber 20.
Prince George is a lieutenant
aboard the Durban, which has been
participating in naval maneuvers
near Hamilton, Bermuda.
Throngs were expected to gather 1
at the Cunard pier to get a glimpse
of the prince when he boards the
Berengaria.
Whispers That Wales
Would Decline Throne
Belied by His Actions
By J. C. OESTREICHER
LONDON. Dec. 14 (I.N.S.The
often reported hut entirely uncon
firmed determination of the Prince
of Wales to decline accession to the
British throne has been brought
forcibly to the forefront today bv
his dramatic dash home to the bed
side of his stricken father.
From his youth—the Prince will
be 35 his next birthday—the heir
apparent has been noted for his
democratic principles. The whispered
rumors t*hat he might decline the
throne were based for the most part
upon the possible inability to har
monize the position of sovereignty
with his well-known democratic ten
dencies. Another reason was the
prince’s failure to marry.
For years there have been back
stairs whispers that the Prince in
tended to waive his right to suc
cession.
These whispers were intensified
after the King became ill nearly
four weeks ago. It has been re
ported the Prince might delegate
his power and position to his next
brother, the Duke of York. The
Duke is married and has a baby
daughter.
Bee Caetleberg’e Special Rotoxrarnre
Bretten of Todav’n Waehlnrton Times
•nd solve your Christmas rift nrohleens.
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epidemic over most of the United
States and parts of Canada
The closing order came volun
tarily from the university heads
and was not ordered by the Chi
cago health department. Classes
will resume soon after the holidays,
it was said.
Although the influenza epidemic
is gaining headway in Chicago,
Health Commissioner Dr. Arnold
Kegel has not deemed it necessary
to order the closing of schools,
theaters and other places of public
assembly.
ELGIN, 111., Dec. 14 (1.N.5.).
Elgin Academy will close its doors
at the end of all classes today in an
effort to check the spread of in
fluenza, school authorities an
nounced this morning.
The action was taken voluntarily
when the disease threatened to be
come epidemic among the students.
Classes will be resumed after the
first of the year.
MADISON. Wis., Dec. 14 (I.N.S ).
The University of Wisconsin will
dismiss classes tomorrow until after
the Christmas holidays as a pre
caution against the spread of in
fluenza. President Glenn Frank an
nounced today. Several hundred
cases are reported among the stu
dents and faculty.
HAGERSTOWN. Md., Dec. 14
The first pronounced cases of in
fluenza in Hagerstown and this sec
tion were reported to Health Officer
Perry T. Prather here today.
There are several cases in this
city, and about a dozen in the
county. A family of five at Smith-1
burg are ill with the disease,
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Several Senators have announced
thev would introduce new amend
ments today, but have not said
what thev would provide. They
were not expected to be of a con
troversial nature however.
Amendments Carried
Thus far the major amendments
adopted have been that of Senator
Phipps (It.) of Colorado raising the
authorization for appropriation to
$165,000,000 from the $125,000,000
originally estimated as the cost of
the project, and that of Senator
Bratton (D.) of New Mexico, com
prising the water controversy be
tween California and Arizona by
cutting 200,000 acre-feet from the
Pacific Coast State’s demands.
Arizona’s demand for a 400.000
acre-feet slash off the 4.600,000 de
mand of California for several days
held the threat of a filibuster over
the Senate.
PLAN TUBERCULOSIS AID
The need of a sanatorium for tu
berculosis children here will be dis
cussed before the Monday Evening
Club at the Y. M. C. A. next Mon
day evening by Drs. Hugh S. Cum
mings, J. Winthrop Peabody, D.
Percy Hickling, Coursen B. Conklin
and Joseph D. Rogers.
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PERCY EIKER began
wooing Helen, who killed
him, when she was thir
teen.
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in what may develop Into an excit
ing commercial race for putting
television inventions and devices
into the home. This corporation
was formed recently to manufacture
television receivers and transmit
ters, which will broadcast motion
pictures direct into the home.
Negotiations are under way be
tween the corporation and execu
tives of a large motion picture
chain, Mr. Garside admitted, for
rights to broadcast movies by radio
television to screens of motion pic
ture theaters.
Television, which is the trans
mission of animated images to dis
tant points, where they are dupli
cated, is now in operation in a
more or less crude way. Mr. Jen
kins ha,s been engaged for a con
siderable time in broadcasting from
a station in Washington television
images to a growing group of radio
amateurs interested in building
their own equipment. It is for
the purpose of providing practical
equipment that the Jenkins cor
portaion is now going into the com
mercial field.
Definite Demand Exists
“Between 5,000 and TO,OOO of these
radio amateurs received television
images on their equipment in the
last year,” sm'd Mr. Garside.
The point has been reached, it Is
claimed, where a definite and grow
ing demand has been created for
television entertainment. Mr. Gar
side and his associates believe it
will.not be long before many Ameri
can homes will be receiving tele
vision pictures of national events.
Mr. Jenkins, whose inventions
were the forerunner of the Jenkins
Television Corporation, is credited
with having created a nurnlier of im
portant motion pictue devices includ
ing an ultra-speed motion picture
camera, capable of exposing 3.200
pictures a second —a camera so fast
that the flight of birds becomes a
beautiful study in slow, graceful,
deliberate action.
Television has occupied his mind
for recent years. He first succeeded
in transmitting still images of vari
ous kinds over miles of wire, later
he transmitted images via radio to
distant receiving stations. His sys
tem is now used for radiocasting
maps to Navy ships at sea. Os late
he has been busy transmitting many
images by television to amateur radio
broadcasters.
AGRICULTURAL
BILL IN HOUSE
Salary in<ieases under the Welch
act for employes of the Department
of Agriculture will total $2,300,000,
the agriculture appropriation bill
reported today by the House Appro
priations Committee shows.
This estimate will be revised if
the \Vel< h act is amended by Con
gress for the benefit of the lower
paid Federal employes. Probably
a considerable addition will be re
•lulled.
The agriculture bill also carries a
reapfiropriation of $2,000,000 for the
continuance of work on the Mt. \'er
non Boulevard, which it is hoped to
complete before the Washington bi
centenary to be held here in 1032.
'l’he rent of buildings in the Dis
trict for the Agricultural Depart
ment, housed in more than 60 sepa
rate structures, will cost the Fed
eral Government $203,440 during the
coming fiscal year. An appropri
ation of $60,000 for the operation of
Center Market until next July also
is carried tn the bill.
GEORGETOWN MEETS
Because the Scheduled meeting
falls on Christmas Eve. the George
town Citizens Association has ad
vanced its date to next Monday
night.
ROMANCE BLASTED
SHE MET Percy ?Jiker
and married him at fif
teen. He confessed in
fidelity.
New Poison Gas Kills
Instantly Anyone
Who Inhales It
CHICAGO, Dec. 14 (I.N.S.).—A
terrible new gas, which will make
war “an International suicide,”
has been Invented by American
chemists, Dr. Hilton Ira Jones of
Wilmette, 111., research chemist.,
told a gathering In Chicago to
day.
The new gas means instant
death to anyone who inhaives ~it,
Dr. Jones declared. It is much
more deadly than phosgene, and
that gas was more terrible than
Lewis! to.
Automobile tires are now being
made in some places frqm fish
skins through the aid of chem
istry, he told the gathering. Corn
cobs in the future, due to chem
ical dlacoveries, may be mor*
valuable than the vegetable it
self, he said. Excellent sugar can
be made from them.
Water, through various proc
esses can be changed to wine and
wine back into water, Dr. Jones
stated.
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MRS MARLYSE MAYE, young French war nurse,
was found guilty of manslaughter yesterday at New
York in connection with the murder of Andrew Devola,
her lover. —The jury returned a verdict of guilty after
five and a half hours of deliberation.
TA« Woftonal Daily
IN HAPPIER DAYS
HER COMELINESS, that even the
ravages of tuberculosis will not efface,
are evident in this picture taken before
the tragedy.
FLU TO OEIIIIE
FILE THUE
ME
The Teapot. Dome began to sim
mer again when Atlee Pomerene,
special oil prosecutor for the Gov
ernment and Leo A. Rover. United
States Attorney filed a motion in
District Supreme Court asking that
the trial of former Secretary of
Interior Albert B. Fall on bribery
charges in connection with the
alleged acceptance of $160,000 from
Edward L. Doheny to induce the
granting of oil leases, be set for
January 14.
A jury has previously acquitted
hoth Fall and Doheny of a con
spiracy indictment in connection
with the transaction. Doheny
proved to the satisfaction of the
jury in that case that the money
said to have been carried to Fall
in the “little black bag” wag in
reality a loan to his friend of
prospecting days, and not a bribe.
Hearing on the motion will be
held before Justice William Hitz on
Tuesday. Justice Hitz passed sen
tence on Harry Sinclair, whn was
convicted before him of contempt
of the Senate and ordered to pay a
fine of SSOO and serve three months
in jal’
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1928
THE TRAGEDY
l THEN, ONE NIGHT,
she says, she shot him
while allegedly under the
I spell.
MAN SLAIER.
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going to Sheriff Ed Gibson to sur
render herself. He insisted that
they start at once and brought out
| his automobile.
As they started she asked him to
care for their 4-month-o!d son.
“He'll have better care than he’s
had before,’’ Heldman replied.
A little whimsically she specu
! lated as to what would become of
her.
Bitterly, brutally, he replied:
“You’ll probably get the electric
chair. I think you deserve it.”
They drove on in silence and
reached Canton. For a moment
they were held up by traffic at a
street corner.
Shoot* Herself
“It won’t be long now,” the
young husband observed morosely.
There was a sharp report and
Mrs. Heldman slumped forward,
Dazed. Heldman drove on to the
courthouse and summoned the
sheriff.
Mrs. Heldman was rushed to a
hospital where she died.
And thus was cleared up the iden
tity of the “phantom murderess” and
her motive for killing Vernard Fearn.
Formerly of Canton, Mrs. Held
man came here Monday, December
3, to visit her sister, Mrs. Roy
Fierce. Fearn, a young coal dealer,
was called to the door of his home
at Waco, near here, Thursday night
a week ago, and was shot to death
liefore the eyes of his wife and
S-yeur-old daughter.
Heard of Fearn Only Once
The murderess came to Canton on
a bus. Returning to her home at
Lorain, she prepared her husband's
breakrast the next morning.
Heldman, up to that time, ha,<l
heard of Fearn only once. He had
seen a letter which his wife had writ
ten to her sister, stating that they
would probably be divorced and that
it was the fault of “this man Fearn,”
she apparently supposing that her
husband already knew of the situa
tion.
A few days after her return, with
police running down every clue in
their efforts to clear *up the mys
terious murder, he accused her of
it, Heldman said. She denied it.
'Then, late yesterday, he discovered
a crumpled note, addressed to him,
which his wile had evidently written
some time before and then decided
to throw awa v.
POLICE ARREST
3 FUGITIVES
Three men, who police say are
escaped prisoners from the Lorton,
Va., reformatory were arrested to
day at Massachusetts Avenue and
Wisconsin Avenue Northwest by
Policemen William E. Brennan and
George W. Cook, of the Fourteenth
precinct.
Police say the three mep are
Joseph 1). Oswald, 30; Patrick
O'Toole, 39, and Roy Hayford. 26.
who escaped from the reformatory
Wednesday.
At the time of bis arrest, Oswald
was suffering from burns on both
hands. Police sav he told them h?
burned his hands in climbing a
hot-water pipe to escape.
He was given treatment at
Georgetown Hospital and then taken
to the precinct station for return
to the reformatory.
Designers Discuss
Men’s Changing Styles
Changes in the styles of clothing
worn by men was the chief t<>pic
of discussion at the dinner last
night at the Mayflower Hotel for,
the Custom Cutters and Designers
Association of Washington.
Plans for the renewal of the
regular meetings were made last
night also. P. J. Foley, president
of the association presided at the
dinner.
KENNETH EIKER
THE THREE-YEAR-OLD SON of
Mr. an 4 Mrs. Eiker. Child is with her
husband’s parents, who refuse to
bring him to her.
Witches Still Sweep
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Witchcraft, black magic, the casting of spells and the
murmuring of incantations—these belong, or so the world
thought, to the dark ages.
America looked back with a feeling of horror —and
the witch persecutions of early New Eng
land; Europe felt the same way about the burning of
sorcerers in the Middle Ages; the whole world was inclined
to pity the,“Mu<ied” African natives who gave to witch
doctor and jit ju a fearsome reverence.
Since the beginning of the pres
ent century the world hat wit
vensed a of the black
arts, testified to th dispatches
from almost every comer of the
globe. ,
Today, in Pennsylvania, the
courts are concerned with a brutal
murder committed by a “pow
wow" doctor of the hills, who
slew a rival. Bound up with the
sordid circumstances of the crime
are fearsome stories of “spells
alleged to have been cast by the
dead man.
Officials of York County, Pa.,
have admitted that witchcraft
plays a great part in the lives of
rural folk in that district.
As a result of this situation
The Washington Times has made
an exhaustive investigation, not
only of modern witchcraft, but of
the history of the black arts, and
especially of the origins of the
sorcery practiced among that
strange people known as the
Pennsylvania Dutch. _
The first of a series of articles
dealing with this astonishing and
little-known subject follows:
The historian of some enlightened
future civilization, looking back at
our time, may tell the same stories
of witchcraft punished by death and
torture, of superstition rampant and
ignorance deluded, which we, in our
history books attribute to the “dark”
ages.
The store of authentic Incident
upon which he may draw for mate
rial will be quite as large and be
lief-compelling as our own reservoir
of fact regarding medieval Europe or
Seventeenth century New England.
Witches are riding again in this
twentieth century; to and fro in the
four corners of the world they go,
bearing with them broomstick and
black cat. evil charms and magic
lore, health for sick followers and
death for their enemies.
Absurd? Perhaps. But it is true.
WUclicraft Cases Cited
In proof, and ignoring the present,
the legal investigation of witchcraft
murder now going forward in Penn
sylvania, consider, briefly, just a
few of the many score of witchcraft
cases chronicled in newspaper dis
patches since the dawn of this cen
tury.
It is hard to select —to decide
where to begin. There are so many
instances, some reported at great
length, others allotted a few para
graphs. At random, however:
In May, 1911, an 11-year-old In
dian girl of a ’civilized” tribe was
tortured because she was alleged
bewitched an old woman,
according to press dispatches from
Vancouver, British Columbia. In
the same year, a Chicago woman
was freed after she had been haled
into court on a charge of sorcery
preferred by a woman who claimed
she had been bewitched.
As late as IXBB a witch was con
demned to death and burned at the
stake, by legal processes, in Peru,
While during the first ten years
of this century news dispatches
from Colorado. North Carolina,
Michigan, Pennsylvania ahd New
York told of public threats of ven
geance against witches or of trials
in which witchcraft played a
prominent part.
Carry Bly Recalled
The early 1900's produced Carrie
Peabody Bly. admitted witch, in
Salem, Mass., home of witches,
where many of her alleged prede
cessors were hanged or squeezed
to death beneath piles of stone.
In 1921, Magistrate Levine, in
Jefferson Market Court, sentenced
tn the reformatory a girl alleged
to have bewitched a companion
into evil deeds, and in the same
year De Matin, conservative Paris
newspaper, devoted columns to the
exploits of the Witch de Grach,
who, among other things, "froxe
the blood In the veins” of a young <
girl named Marie Clement.
In 1911, a woman in Ireland con
fessed that she had "killed an-old
witch, with the aid of the Blessed
Virgin,” and a few years later, in
1914, began the strange association
of Madame Mesmih of Bordeaux
and Mgr. Sabungi, Syrian vicar
general of the - Diocese of Sideon.
This terminated in 1918, after the
vicar-general had been brutally at
tacked by four supporters of Mme. t
Mesmin. with a trial in which he
wag publicly branded a sorcerer.
French Comtesse Involved
In 1925, all France rang with
the tragic story of the Comtesse 9
de Kerinon, murderer of her hus
band, a wealthy nobleman.
It was recalled that, when a poor
girl, she had spurned an old hag,
reputed to be a witch, who had In
voked against her a curse, prophesy
ing that she would live to marry
wealth but would have no joy in It
and that her marriage would end
in black tragedy, .. ’
As has been stated, a listing of
witchcraft cases in this century
1 might continue almost indefinitely.
' But enough has Deen said, surely
to convince the reader that witch- ’
craft, and its allied art. folk-medi
cine, is by no means the "dead
issue" that some of our stauncn
- apostles of modernity would have it
In the next article we shall ex
amine witchcraft as practiced by
the Pennsylvania Dutch-—* witch
craft which incorporates magic
gleaned from almost every race
of Europe.
■ SHE WO ■
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Charging that a man whom she
had befriended by giving him some- I
thing to eat. turned on her. as
saulted her and attempted to rob
her. Miss Betty Louise Longley,
i manager of the Herald Square
Tailor Shop, in the 800 block of <
Fourteenth St. N. W.. today told
a story to Judge Ralph Given in
Police Court which led to Walter
M. Collins being sentenced to six
months in jail.
While Collins is serving time on
a larceny charge, he also faces
Grand Jury action charged with
assault, for which 15,000 bond was
set. <
Miss Longley said the man. whom
she helped because he was out of
a job. later demanded money from
her. She threatened to stab him
with a pair of scissors. He then <
pinioned her to a work table In
the shop, and while she struggled,
searched her clothing for her purse.
'Unsuccessful, he hacked out and
pointed a pistol, threatening to kill
her if she screamed, she told Judge
Given.
The defendant denied the assault
charge.
A monkey wrench was found In 4
his possession when he was ar
rested by Policemen ls?foe and
Browning, of the First precinct.-
Police believe that to be the instru
ment Miss Longley took for a gun. 4
Collins stole a suit of clothes from
the shop, police say, and the laic«ny
charge was on that account. He
admitted taking the suit.
Collins said he has had difficulty
in securing work because h* I*
extremely nearsighted and claimed
to be almost blind.