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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1038 Ruth Etting. Has Day in Court i DEATH CLAIMS Gaston Means Dies in Cell, (DISEASE PERIL I TAR, FEATHERS Silent on $104,000 Mystery FOLLOWS GALE: COUNT BEATEN GEORGE BURNS ADMITS GUILT IN SMUGGLING FORMER CHIEF OF IRISH STATE Wife in Last Hours Fails to Learn of McLean Cash Sprincfield.

Mo. JP Gaston B. llanila JP) Disease epidemics' Marietta, Ohio (JP) Wesley wer feared yesterday in the Cen-jHasley and eight other persons tr al Philippines a deaths reported were acquitted yesterday of char ges from Thursday's typhoon reached; they kidnaped and tarred and 302. The total continued to grow feathered Joseph A. Dixon, Naz-as communications systems werejarene evangelist, on Oct.

10 an restored. Many persons were after he married Hasley's ing. daughter. Opal, 20. James McNeill, Part ra -Tsr' to yKKl Aided in Drafting Star Tells In Ring Court Constitution London OT) James McNeill.

69 Means, 59, "mystery man of the' Harding Administration," died yes-! terday in Federal Prison here, leav- ing unsolved the mystery FBI men have tried to crack what became of the $104,000 Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean gave him when he told her he could get the kidnaped Lindbergh baby returned alive. one I A 'Viti( Continued from Pace gover nor-general of the Irish Free i The Jewelry which Burns bought State from 192S to 1932, died yesterday. McNeill was a member of a committee appointed in 1922 to draft a constitution for the Free State and, before becoming governor-general served from 1923 to 192A as high commissioner. iit-htt-rloii Widow IMt-a K.

Ches- AP Fhoto GASTON B. MEANS London-tfp) Mis. CJ. tfrion, widow of the late British (author, died yesterday at a nurs ing nome in suDutoan i-seacons-field Mrs. Chesterton, the former Francis Klogg, was a poet of note JT Means, a Justice Department agent when Harding wae Presi-; dent, said in 1932, before he was convicted and given a 15-year sentence for perpetrating a hoax, he gave the money to three men during negotiations on a railroad bridge near Alexander, Va.

After his imprisonment, the once pudgy-faced detective did not talk about the case, although FBI men tried at the IT. S. Medical center here to break his silence. Widow in Dark Yesterday Means's widow, before leaving for his boyhood home in Concord, N. with the body, aid she did not have "the slightest idea" -where the money might be.

She talked to her husband during his last hours. "I knew no more about hi.s busi- and once was described husband as "in all ways a by her kindred in 1901. 1936, at married i XJJ "fJ9 They were authority on scientific criminology, has been ended by death." Dr. Magrath died Sunday night at a hospital, two hours after he was stricken ill at his rooms in a clubhouse. During- his 2 years as county medical examiner, he gathered and I fIRST SHOWING OF 1939 ases I Jwi-r TiAnJ' VWH etranv leader supposedly from Chaperau, and which hi attorney descr ibed ad "novelty jewelry," consisted of a polri bracelet set with diamonds and sapphires, a sold ring with a cluster of diaaionds and a gold bracelet with diamonds.

They were believed to have been houpht for Miss Allen, without knowledge on Burns part, according to Wright, that the duty had rot been paid. The indictments named Jan. "23, IT, and Mar. 10 and May 16. 193.

as dates of the transactions. It was understood that Burns was brought into the case when cor-refpondence between himself and Chaperau was discovered. Burns bought a S5.CKX) bracelet and a $3,000 ring from Chaperau for Miss Allen, according to the reports of federal agents, paying him I1.2.V). Later he received a letter from Chaperau and "mis-conftrued" it, believing he owed Chsperau mote money. to he sent another check for $1,250.

Case Still Open When Burns was told of the charges against him, and the discovery of the correspondence, he hustled here from Hollywood. All last week, while he and Miss An continued radio broadcasts from Hollywood, he commuted by sir to New York to face questioning The indictments were recurred lat week but were not opened Until yesterday. Assistant V. S. Attorney Joseph Peianey said the Indictments Bryon B.

vicecom- I C1iWi ATTv V': I Daggett. 68. former state eterans of tTVT WJ 'CW'iW 'f; i AJ I. inlander of the Uusabled I I ithe Wqild War, d.td yest. fA Its' J'H MaJr Daggett had a I fj fgbvii 1 'active Army career.

He rday. long and was ap- filed records of every case he in 1 Kor, th. "Ms than any other wife does icutenant in the I about I t'YAf 'IV 'H pointed a second Heut ft. I S-Wf tV'vt' -iJ- signal corps in 1898, first Drofessor of legal medicine ex her husband's business," she ''I was his wife, not his busi and in 1917 I saia. arniner.

he revealed he had I I ICJ. rai'A'. I became first lieutenant in the of 19,000 deaths. Ir. Magrath was born In Jackson, Oct.

2. 1870. and was brought to Boston by his parents ness partner." During hi fantastic career, Means told of handling large sums of money as a paid agent in plying German. with infor mation aviation signal corps. He was advanced to the rank of captain the same year, and later was made major in the balloon and airship corps.

'5 to 6 old. He was when he was 10 years graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and snent the next seven years becom Psychiatrist Succumb New York- C'l" Dr. Ueorga Van about shipments of the Allies before the United States entered the World War. Means, in addition to being convicted of perpetrating the $104,000 hoax on Mrs. McLean, later was Nesa Dearborn, 68, psychiatrist and author of many scientific papers.

collapsed and died yesterday fromj heart attack, while walking with; jhis wife. Jtl7cttc DressBiiJcer touch and a saucy learher tip on this gay and airy gabardine. convicted with a co-defendant of Price -S 2 r. y-yy a attempting to get $35,000 more on pretext that with the money they could get $49,000 of the currency Col. Charles A.

Lindbergh paid in vain hope of getting his eon back alive. Conictel of Bribery 'have not closed" the smuggling! inquiry, and that other "nationally known" figures would be Involved. The whole case is believed to have been uncovered as a result 0 Even before he approached Mrs. of the grievance; of a German' McLean, Means had served a sent 'Hpti A trim all-wool gabardine with three successively mailer cut-outs to highlight the astcp. Price $6.00 ence in Atlanta Penitentiary on charges of conspiring to profit by illegally diverting liquor into bootleg channels and by attempting bribery in a government case.

Dr. Dear born had served on the faculties of Harvard University, Tufts College, the Sarpent Normal School at Cambridge and the Bos-j ton School of Eugenics. He worked during; the World War In the Army Medical Corps, and later served on the staffs of several hospitals. He retired about a year ago from work with the U. S.

Veterans Hospital at N. J. He was the author of "Itel.it ions of Mind and Body," "The Physiology of Exercise'' and "The Influence of Joy." lie is survived by his widow and a daughter. Seabury B. Maplewood, N.

J. 1 War Aide lie Washington 4.Y) Edwin Basil. Pitts, 51, chief clerk and solicitor in the office of the War Department's judge advocate general. died of pneumonia yesterday at his (home in Cottage City, Md. He was born in Oswego, N.

Y. After his release in 1928. he pub ing one of the world's first special- ists in pathology. His appointment as medical ex-j aminer in 1907 turned him to the medico-legal field, and with his background and constant practice1 and study, he became an outstand-; ing expert. As medical examiner he wit-' nessed the legal electrocutions of more than 30 persons in the Massa-I chusetts State Prison.

1 But it was in court appearances as a medical expert that he became widely known. i He had a shock of reddish golden hair, he always affected a flowing necktie, and out-of-doors he nearly always smoked a stubby pipe with curved bowl. On the witness stand he was un-flurried, unhurried. and coldly analytical -in delivering opinions. Often he said he had worked harder on occasions to secure an I acquittal for an innocent person accused of murder, than to clinch a convict ion.

He never married. He is ur-jviveir' by two sisters. Miss Ethel 'Magiath, Cambridge, and Mrs. Alfred J. Moses, Pleasantville, N.

and two nephews, GeSige H. Moses, New York and John 11. Moses. Cerro de Pasco, Peru. lished a book, later repudiated by a co-author, purporting to give the Wearing dark glasses, Ruth Ettmg, singer, arrives to testify-in Los Angeles court against her ex-husband, Martin (Colonel Gimp) Snyder, on trial for shooting her accompanist Myrl Alderman, seen in left background.

AP Wirephoto. Ex-Spouse's Threats Bared By Singer at Shooting Trial maid at Judge Iaurr'n home. She herame angry at slighting allusions to Chancellor Adolf Hitler made by a guest at a dinner party, and was quoted as telling the Iauers that they would be "sorry for this." Iast Oct. 28 federal customs inspectors raided the Tauer home and found trunks filled with $1,500 worth of undeclared gowns and other clothing fashioned by Sehia-pare'H and other famous Krench desirneis. week Chaperau and Mrs.

Lauer were indicted on charges. Tell of inside story of the Harding Admin McCurdy's Basement Store istration. Means claimed he was an "invest igator extra ordinary during that administration and had been employed by Mrs. Harding to refute scandalous charges flung at the President. In 1917 he was acquitted of a charge that he killed Mrs.

Maude i King, wealthy widow for horn 'ic had acted as attorney and financial adviser. He she killed herself with a weapon she was using for target pr actice. Mrs. Means said funeral services Aii'relt-s Iiith Kttinjr tolifieil yesterday Martin Snyder, her nihanI for 17 years "told us tliis was 1lie nil all three of us" jut before Myrl Alderman was wounded at hi North Hollywood home lat Oct. The inger said Snyder meant her.

Alder man and r'a on his "he testified. The daughter Kdith. i lights went out. Miss Ktting said she and Miss "I've had my revenge," she Kite Set for St. Bonaventuie Funeral arrangements wer made yesterday for the Rev.

Joachim Cuniffe, O.F.M.. 64, for mer vicepr esident of would be held tomorrow in Con- viii FTHE SM-t cord. Snvder had cone to the home ofi1utea anyaer, and now you 1 1 call nolice hi '-nri, ponce. Father Cuniffe's body will be: The singer said she ran to the hrolIKht hee tomorrow, and will bedroom to get a .32 caliber pistoKlie in state in the Chapel of the which she said she had kept since Immaculate Conception on the SmaUSixeRM Let Us Straighten Ui inns iv Vr- mi' via she heard Snyder had come to; campus, runerai services win lakes place Thursday in St. Bnaven- t5 Out Your Christmas ture's Church, Allegany, and A native of Swinford, California.

"He had threatened my I was afraid of him," she life yjr'AKLtL MIX-UPS Father Cuniffe entered the Fran-j said. The charges nsainst Burns cruse him of conspiring with Chaperau and the Oheyskens woman in "aiding and abetting" the errriggling of the jewelry into the country. Nine counts were contained in the indictment. Chaperau. previously questioned about.

Burns' connection with the case, said he had given a few "small gifts" to friends in the In colony, including "a couple of cuckoo clocks" to Burns, which he said were woith about $10 each. He did not mention any jewelry. Burrs wore dark glasses as he marched into Federal Court with his New York lawyer. Col. William Ponovan.

He wa more solemn than ever he had been in his "straight'" clowning with Miss Allen, and nervously shrugged off any questions. The team of Burns and Allen was known in vaudeville circles for years, but never achieved the fame It did as a rad.o comedy team. Burns met Mips in a Newark, N. theater after he had been trouping as a "song and gag man" ever he was 12. and invited her to team with him.

They toured four years, and then were married. Burns found that Mis Allen's replies to his questions were funnier than hi gags, and hiftrd the nature of the act, putting the spotlight on her. It has been there ever since. During the Holiday rush season th parcel mix-ups and mistakes will many. Thay can't ba avoided.

will gladly return any parcel or merchandise that you may want returned and to any store within tha eityl WITH NO CHARGE TO YOU ciscan order in 1897. was professor of English at St. Bonaventure from 1907 to 1916. From 1919 to 1927 he was definitor of the Holy Name Province (Middle Atlantic States; of the Franciscan Order. Defenset Outlined Snyder wrested the pistol from her, however, she said, and she ran to the music room to call police.

Miss Etting said she saw Edith Snyder holding her father's coat lapels and pleading with him. As Alderman, whom she said she planned to marry as soon as his divorce became final, and were cooking porch chops and vegetables for dinner when Alderman's car drove up. Alderman came in the kitchen door, followed by Snyder, who was poking him in the back with a pistol, partly covered by a handkerchief. Miss Etting said. "Snyder cursed and told us he had us where he wanted us," she testified.

"Waving the pistol, he forced us all into the music room and told us this was the end of all three of us." Tells of TMea Alderman dropped down on the piano bench, she related. Edith cried, "If you're going to shoot, shoot'" "I told you to sit down," she quoted Snyder as snapping. Miss Etting said she pleaded with Snyder, and that Alderman started to talk, but just then Snyder fired twice. She screamed as she saw Alderman fall to the floor CITY DELIVERY 195 SCIO ST. STONE 905 Death Taken Pathologist Boston -CP) The medico-law career of Dr.

George Burgess! Magrath, famed pathologist, expert in many a famous New England 1 murder case, and widely known she went into the kitchen she. heard another shot, she Snyder ran past her into the, street arid Edith appeared gripping Miss Etting's pistol. In his opening statement to the jury Jerry Giesler, defense said he would prove Snyder had not planned to harm the women and when he took the pistol from stfoev0-. me my she's aged ms tsisrysiR Life's poll of preferred gifts shows women want rugs for Christmas. Our hooked rugs combine beauty practicability at reasonable cost.

Miss Etting he threw it on the floor. He said also he would prove Alderman was not kidnaped but went willingly from the radio studio, where he worked as a composer', to his home. Snyder is charged with kidnaping arid attempting to murder Al and Educator Asserts Inability to Read Is Major Cause of School Failures derriian, who was wounded in the Alhany effir-irnt I bv a a official a Inability to read was described yesteiday Education Department one df the major causes abdomen. Miss F.tting and his ,1 daughter. He also is accused of possessing a pistol with defaced serial numbers.

Miss Etting testified when she on tin I jo te.n high school pupils to read efficiently: Place pupils on an appreciative basis -teach them to enjoy literature. Study of literature that does not result in "esthetic pleasure" is a failure. "The fact that thousands of pupils leave our high schools hating the word 'literature' is an indictment of onr teaching that we should not and cannot refuse to face," he aid. and Snyder were divorced in Chicago she gave him half of all com ff failure in high school courses. "Investigation has shown that lare rtimhers of high school pupils re gravely deficient in reading a kill," Ceorge W.

Norvell, the department's English expert, naid. adding that this deficiency is a "patent cause of high chool failures in all fields." "It Is not uncommon to find the munity property, but after she came here Snyder followed and upbraided her about going with Alderman and asked her half of their Beverly Hills home. Hand Hooked Hand Hooked RUGS V00L RUGS Size 24x44 Inches Size 2ix4S Inches $2.95 $5.95 OTHER SIZES OTHER SIZES $6.50 to $11.50 $10.95 to $39.00 Chenille Hit-and-Miss RUGS RAG RUGS Size 24x48 Inches Size 24x48 Inches $1.95 85c Embossed Oval Scatter Size Hand Hooked Axminster WOOL RUGS RUGS Size 24x44 Inches Size 16x27 Inches $7.95 $1.19 OTHER SIZES OTHER SIZES Up to $14.75 $1.59 to $7.75 SHE COOKS AT CEAST1VP YK Don't let that "OVER-40 look settle down on TUESDAY BARGAINS Pineapple or Lemon A i Washlna nq YOU too soon MOHICAN a. 2', Tt Soda MEADOWBROOK HIGH SCORB CREAMERY ramout tor best readers in a high school read-! in three or four times as fast as: the weakest," he said. Norvell asserted It was too often nimed that high school pupils bad mastered reading- skill in lower! grades, thereby leading teachers) concentrate classroom instruc-' tinn on the "beauties and subtleties' Pf belles letters." The ability to read intelligently arri absorb the printed page, he aid.

is "fundamental to progress in school and indispensable to successful participation In the activi-i tis of life." Norvell's assertions follow closely those advanced in a report of the State Board of Regents inquiry into the cost and character of education in the state. The report, submitted last month, said of reading a-kill: "Emphasize the importance of t.asic mental tools reading, writing, speech and arithmetic, and expect every pupil to have a mastery of them by the end of the aith grade. 'See to it that these skills are earned hrough their use in care-fully selected experiences in which the learner can see how they function in daily life. Greatly enrich wr.i literature and reading." Many people just past 40 look and act far older than their years. This early aging may come from 2 common after-4() iron hies.

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