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POST-DISPATCH JANUARY 14, 1933 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. PAGE 3A! CONVICT TURNS SB COMPANION TELLS OF DR. RiTTER'S DEATH YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY OF COLUMBIA KILLING Money Truck Scatters Currency MOTORIST HELD TO BE PROMOTED IPS BELN KILLINGS Says German Nudist Tried to Write Message as End Came on Island. Expected to Be State's Witness Against Co-Defendant in Murder of Two Officers.

MOTHER TESTIFIES FOR DAUGHTER IN FIGHTFORESTATE VIDENCE WMJ 1 Says Millionaire B. L. Taylor Sr. Wed Geraldine Ott by Common Law Rite to Avoid Publicity. Diaries Uoutniu xo i esury Against Two Others In dicted in Holdup Murder of Man and Wife.

FIFTH CONTINUANCE OF CASE DENIED Defense, wnicn maae ie- quen for Delay, Promises to Be Ready for Trial Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 14. Because he feared the publicity attending a public marriage, Mrs.

Louise Ott of Pittsburg, testified today, the late Bertrand L. Taylor Sr. made her daughter, Geraldine, his common-law wife. Mrs. Ott, testifying in an action before Surrogate James A.

Dele-hanty to determine the validity of her daughter's claim that she is the common-law widow of the millionaire, said that Taylor proposed marriage in the Ott home at Pittsburg. That was early in 1928, she said, after Taylor had returned from a trip to Europe on which Miss Ott had accompanied him. Taylor told her, the witness said, that he wished his marriage to her daughter to be kept as secret as possible, that he favored a common-law marriage because he desired JUDGE CHARLES B. FARIS. COLON, Panama, Jan.

14. Dr. Friedrich Ritter, German nudist philosopher, died in the arms of Frau Dore Strauch Koerwin, Hitter's companion, she said, on her arrival here from the Galapagos, by way of Ecuador. She was the first person of the colonies on Flo-reana Island to reach civilization after discovery of two bodies on the shore of Marchena Island. The Baroness Bosquet von Wagner of Vienna and Robert Philipp-Bon disappeared from the island colonies, and for a time were reported dead, but Frau Strauch Koerwin does not believe they died.

She thinks they went to another island. The bodies of a German and a Norwegian sailor were found on Marchena Island, victims of a storm at sea. Lost with them was an Ecuadorean sailor. Frau Koerwin, relating for the first time her story of the island feud, in which Baroness von Wagner tried to be a dictator and rule with a pistol the men she wished to act as slaves, told this story: "Dr. Ritter died in my arms.

I say I kissed his life away as he perished. But he will live with me always. "We lived for four years on Flo-reana Island, as true Laotze (Chinese) philosophers and nature lovers. We built a comfortable home and began cultivation. But our crops were damaged by wild pigs and horses from the hills.

We were discouraged most of the time. "Life was monotonous, but our mentalities kept up together. Then a year or two later Baroness WTag-ner appeared, trying to usurp our possessions. I do not believe she is dead; it is my firm belief that she and Philippson just went away. "Dr.

Ritter worried much over these trespassers. One day in November he was taken ill. I didn't believe his trouble was serious and MARRIED 50 YEARS, HUSBAND AND WIFE DIE 48 HOURS APART Special to the Post-Dispatch. COLUMBIA, Jan. 14.

Francis McNeiley, 23-year-old Iowa farm youth, pleaded guilty of murder of Sheriff Roger Wilson in Circuit Court here today, but sentence was deferred and taken under advisement by Judge W. M. Dinwiddie. McNeiley's guilty plea was not unexpected as he had agreed to turn State's evidence against George McKeever, 33, North Dakota convict, whom he has named as his companion in the killing of Sheriff Wilson and Sergt. Ben Booth of the State patrol here June 14, 1933.

McKeever, held in the city jail here since he was released to Boone County authorities by North Dakota officials last month from a 10-year sentence he was serving for bank robbery there, was bound over to Circuit Court on first degree murder charges of killing Sergt. Booth in a preliminary hearing Saturday. Attorney's Tlea. McNeily, it is understood, will not be sentenced until after Prosecuting Attorney W. H.

Sapp of Boone County has an opportunity to use him as a witness against McKeever at the latter's trial, which is scheduled for the current term of Circuit Court here. In requesting that sentence be deferred, former State Senator Nick T. Cave, defense attorney, said he wanted more time in order to take deppsitions and secure affidavits from relatives and friends of McNeiley at Allerton, his home town, "bearing on the question of this boy's punishment under this plea." "His people are poor and the defense has no money," he said. "It may take some time but we will do it as expeditiously as possible under the circumstances." Concurring in Cave's argument. Prosecutor Sapp told the Court that "a companion case will be before this Court in which the testimony of this defendant, Francis McNeiley, will be very important." By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer.

ROY WOODSON. re three e-convicts muni'T of Mr. and J. Abfin in a holdup Christmas. 1933, has evidence, it was in-.

when Assistant Cir- F'iynn indorsed his indictment as a wit- co-defendants. Douthitt, 34 years t-ssed the murder uestioned him, and i before the grand immunity, was placed on the of the proceedings the Abeln murder case ri the fifth time. I. Joel for the other two WEST VIRGINIA CITEO IN ROW OVER POWER Associated Press Wirephoto. Tl MONEY was scattered along the roadside when this armored truck skidded 100 left the highway and crashed into a tree at Omaha, Saturday.

Two of three men in the truck were injured severely. The third stood guard with a shotgun until the police Funeral Services for Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Walker to Be Held at Granite City Tomorrow. Funeral services for Cyrus Walker, 70 years old, a farmer on Horseshoe Lake Island, and his wife, 73, who died within 48 hours of each other, will be held at noon tomorrow from the Pieper mortuary, Granite City, with burial in Mulberry Grove, 111.

Mr. Walker died of pneumonia Friday night at the Alton State Hospital. His wife, who had been visiting a daughter in Tennessee, died at Granite City last night, after making the trip from Tennessee. Physicians said shock probably caused her death. They had been married 50 years.

Six sons, two daughters, 21 grandchildren, and a great-grandchild survive. SUPREME COURT REFUSES JAPAN REFUSES TO RETURN TO REVIEW LONG-BELL SUIT! MEN ACCUSED IN PHILIPPINES Supreme Court Orders State to Show Why United States Should Not Sue. Force With-'-'- Fishermen Alleged to Have At Frank Kennedy and "Air Bondholders Fail to aCnu 1U, a drawal of Assets From when it was denied by SaIes Company. idge Russell, pleaded for delay in which to take WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.

The deposition. Long-Bell Lumber Corporation of Russell again decided Kansas Citv, and its subsi-him, whereupon Wilson, First Assistant Circuit At-! dlar'eS "0t haVC t0 wlthdraw applied simple remedies. Radio dispatches from vessels nearby the Galapagos at the time of Dr. Ritter's death reported he died of poison. The poison was re- ported to have been in a chicken from their sales corporation approximately $27,000,000 of assets tacked Three Filipino Peace Officers.

Bv the Associated Press. MANILA. P. Jan. 14.

Gov. Frank Murphy announced today he had been notified that Japan has definitely rejected a request for extradition of 22 Japanese fishermen, wanted for trial in the Philippines on charges of attacking three Filipino peace officers last September. Murphy said he was advised the men, members of the crew of the Kaiun Maru. would be tried in Formosa. He said authorities in Tokio declined to approve extiadi-tion of the fishermen to the Philippines "because the individuals concerned are all Japanese sub- By the Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. West Virginia and three private companies were directed today by the Supreme Court to show by April 1 why the United States should not be permitted to file suit against them to test whether the Federal or state governments had jurisdiction over hydro-electric developments on New and Kanawha Rivers. The United States, through the Power Commission, has insisted for years the Federal Government has jurisdiction over all navigable riv- and hold them in the name of the Long-Bell Lumber Co. to meet general liabilities.

The Supreme Court declined today to review the refusal of lower courts to compel the withdrawal. Their decision stands. Y. V. Carson and other owners Howard Sidener, 0 be ready for trial if the Judge would the remainder of the day farther with his clients Circuit Attorney.

l) for Each Side. the State was the case was called. the examined the charge had been last April 8, had twic" for each side 1 asair.st th" defense. witness for the State is J. Trimble, unemployed who has confessed GIRL, 18.

KILLS SELF AFTER TWO ATTEMPTS TO KIDNAP HER Ends Life Near Pittsburgh With Pistol Her Father Got to Protect Her. PITTSBURGH, Jan. 14. Eighteen-year-old Helen Adams killed herself in her suburban home with the pistol her father bought to protect her from kidnapers. The father, Louis Adams, told police that one evening in April, 1932, two men accosted Miss Adams, bound her wrists and gagged her, but were frightened away before they could carry her off.

Later a note was found, which said: "Be careful. We are after your daughter, which means death." It was signed "The Black Paw." Later, the father said, there was another kidnaping attempt and another "Black Paw" note. ers. The Electro-Metallurgical and the New-Kanawtha Power com-jpanies of Glen Ferris, W. and he had eaten.

"On Nov. 21, he called me to his bedside. He was scribbling undecipherable pencil marks, which even now I cannot make out. Sud-dently, he sat up and stretched out his arms to me. I went to him and kissed him, and he died in my arms.

"It's all too terrible. I'm going to Berlin now, where I hope to secure a comfortable cottage for us with proceeds from our book. I say 'us' because we are not separated I feel him with me all the time. Our mentalities keep us so. But it is so lonesome I miss him so.

I buried Dr. Ritter in our garden, where he wanted to rest." Frau Strauch Koerwin has sailed for Berlin. OHIO GOVERNOR TAKES OATH Martin Luther Davey, Democrat, Inaugurated at Columbus. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Jan.

14. Martin Luther Davey, who once sold vegetables on the streets of Kent, today becomes the forty-ninth Governor of Ohio. Thousands of Ohioans crowded into Columbus to see Davey, "tree surgeon" and former Democratic Congressman, take the oath of office. The program includes an inaugural ball, the first in Ohio in 14 years. ol approximately sit.wo or mori-, jeets.

as to whom surrender is not gage bonds issued by the com-j obligatory under the pany, brought suit alleging the, jn seeking to extradite the men. sales corporation had been organ-j documents containing evidence ized at the suggestion of the Chase afrainst them were sent to Tokio. National Bank of New York and where authorities forwarded the other banks to receive the assets documents to Formosa for use in to avoid publicity. Cited "Peaches" Browning Case. He feared that the great disparity in age he was 65.

she was 27 might cause considerable notoriety, Mrs. Ott related, and cited the "Peaches" Browning case as a case in which there had been much publicity. "I have discussed the matter with my lawyer and he has told me that a common-law marriage is absolutely legal in every way," the witness quoted Taylor as telling her. Mrs. Ott continued: "I informed Mr.

Taylor that I preferred a marriage by a clergyman, and told him that I was very anxious about my daughter's good name and wanted it maintained." Taylor told her the daughter's reputation would be protected, she testified, and went on to describe the scene in the Ott home. "Turning to my daughter," said Mrs. Ott, "Mr. Taylor said: 'Gerry, dear, I have complied with your wishes. I've explained to your family, as witnesses, mv reasons for this kind of a marriage and about the legality of this type of marriage.

Now, Gerry, dear, do you consent to be my Mrs. Ott said her daughter replied: I do." Bequeathed Her $10,000. The millionaire died April 6 last at the age of 72. He left an os-ttae of $1,250,000 and bequeathed "my friend. Geraldine Ott," The mother testified Taylor extended the invitation for the European trip in Miami Beach, in March, 1927, after Taylor, Geraldine, a Mr.

Green who was a friend or Taylor, and herself made a round of night clubs, horse and dog races and dinners during the 10 days after Taylor met the Otts. After thinking the matter over for another 10 days, Mrs. Ott testified, she compromised and early in May Taylor, Geraldine, and Marcei-la, another of Mrs. Ott's daughters, boarded the Leviathan for a four-month tcur of Europe. "I accompanied Taylor and my daughter every night for the fir-jt week and a half, no matter where they went." Mrs.

Ott testified. "1 was with them until she knew him brtter." The proposal of a European trip did not strike her as being the right thing, she said, "and I told Mr. Taylor that the matter would have to be seriously thought about and the right conditions provided." Geraldine Ott was on the witness stand for a brief time and identified herself as "the widow of Bertrand L. Taylor" in answer to a question by her consel. Nathan Burkan, representing Bertrand L.

Taylor executor under the will, objected to the characterization. with which ihe'r. were killed and of the company as a basis for ex- proceedings already instituted on the automo- tending credit to the corporation, there. h-- rr.urderers fled. w-hich owned practically all the Philippine authorities charged hiding places i stock of the company.

the Kaiun Maru crew members recovered. I The protesting bondholders as-; threw three Filipino officers into as an ac-! serted the banks held only the sea when thev boarded the craft' in the course of their duty. The men were rescued. 1 punishable 689 of the total indebtedness of to five years. $52,000,000 of the company and in-1 'hunt Money sisted that under the laws of Mis-; rs were killed souri the transfer of the assets was Abeln Broth- illegal and they should be held for -o chain the benefit of creditors.

The RrrH war Eiehth Circuit Court of Appeals, i the Union Carbide Carbon Corporation of New York City were included. Attorney-General Cummings, in asking the Court to permit filing of the suit, asserted the Federal Government had exclusive jurisdiction over the two rivers. The United States complained that West Virginia refused to recognize its authority and was licensing power developments. It protested particularly that the Electro-Metallurgical owned by Union Carbide Carbon, is constructing a hydro-electric power project at Hawks' Nest, on New-River, under authority from West Virginia. The work was begun, it said, by the New-Kanawha company, also owned by the Union Carbide Carbon, in January, 1930.

West Virginia took the position, the United States declared that the rivers are not navigable, that the Federal Water Power Act is unconstitutional, and that the Federal Power Commission has no authority over power developments on the rivers. BILL TO INCREASE INCOME TAX ON HIGHER BRACKETS IN STATE Proposal in Missouri House Would Apply Only to Those of S5000 or More. Special to the Post-Dispatcti. by robbers sitting at St. Paul, approved the action of the Western Missouri Federal Court in dismissing the suit, ruling that under a clause in Mrs.

rtvir.s 53029 in cash in a pouch 7-1 a her feet when her down. The JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 14 A the mortgage Carson and his asso- 1 increase the rates in th ciates could not press sucn pro- said that at least 25 -ue-. a hurrv that thev ceedings. It TUESDAY AT 9 A.

M. LANE BRYANT BASEMENT AGAIN ROCKS ST. LOUIS FOR VALUE WITH 382 MORE MAGNIFICENT NEW Fur- Trim mod WANTEDS CflDATfS the money. per cent of the bondholders must i- was a mystery for I unite to do so, and suggested that ths until information such a suit could be brought only police from a convict by the trustees when the required uii Penitentiary, which percentage of bondholders did not questioning of Douthitt unite. y.

Douthitt confessed RK SUBWAY PAY RISE I $5000 was introduced in the House today by Representative Iffrig (Dem.) of St. Charles. Under the bill, the rate on net incomes of from $5000 to $7000. would be increased from 3 to 4 per cent; on incomes between $7000 and $9000, an increase of from 3'-j to 5 per cent; and on incomes of S9000 or more, an increase of from 4 to 6 per cent. Rates on incomes of less than $5000, which range from 1 to 2Ji per cent under the present laws, would remain unchanged.

Iffrig said he could not estimate the increase in revenue under the proposed new rates. AMELIA EARHART ABANDONS PLAN TO FLY TO WASHINGTON No Point in It, She Says at Los Angeles. When Bad Weather Bars the Way. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14.

Amelia Earhart, who Saturday flew from Honolulu to Oakland, today canceled plans to fly on to Washington. "Thpro i rtniiv no noint in mak THREE TAVERN OWNERS HELD Places Licensed for 3.2 Beer Accused of Selling Highballs. Owners of three taverns, licensed to sell only 3.2 beer, were arrested by the police liquor squad Saturday and Sunday night when members of the squad reported purchases of highballs. Claude Hodges, who operates the DeMoor Club, 4225 Olive street, made bond after his first arrest and returned to reopen the club, police reported. He was arrested again.

The others arrested were Paul Cuba, who has a beer garden at 3501 Oak Hill avenue, and Harry Malorrus, who operates the Twenty-third Ward Social Club, 3917 Olive street. FDIC TO SET UP OFFICES HERE 1'' t. Increase Granted to About 1500 Men. Press. YORK, Jan.

14 The In-h Rapid Transit Co. yes-rsounced a 5 per cent in-the pay of all subway making less than $4000 were not included in wage agreement with will affect about 1500 agreement with the i in December, reduced work for 14,000 cm-" nine to eight with no iy, or where the men working only eight ranted them a 5 per ing the flight," she said when she St. Louis Selected as Headquarters Hi wmmm Driver in Accident Fined $250. Waldo Hines, a chauffeur, 4003 Castleman avenue, was fined $250 by Police Judge Simpson today on a charge of careless driving. Hine' automobile, early in the morning of Nov.

25 struck Miss Alice Cheely, 3842 McRee avenue, at Thirty-nintli street and McRee avenue. She suffered severe bruises. Just Received 27 Stunning Showroom SAMPLE COATS Made to Sell Up to $4975 Sizes for Every Woman and Misses 14 to 20; 16i 2 to 30V2; 38 io 56 appeared at the union air iermina.1 to look over her reserviced trans-Pacific monoplane. "When I took off from Honolulu, I had intended flying directly to Washington, with one stop either at Oakland, or Salt Lake City. In this manner I intended to demonstrate how easy and little fatiguing such a trip would be by air, and to link the Hawaiian capital with the nation's capital.

"However, there was bad weather c-n the transcontinental route and I did not feel that it was advisable to try the flight, so I came to Los Angeles and intend to stay at my home where my mother is visiting." She flew here yesterday from Oakland in three hours and seven minutes. of Consolidated Districts. SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 14. Offices of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation here will be moved to St.

Louis this week, Hal Wood-side, director, announced today. Woodside said the move was "apparently a part of a gradual program of consolidation of EDIC offices over the country." Woodside, whose district has included Missouri and Arkansas, said he did not know what other districts would be included in the consolidation at St. Louis. He said Vance L. Sailor, now FDIC director at Louisville, would be director of the consolidated office at St.

Louis. 32 Below in Minnesota. ST. PAUL, Jan. 14.

A sudden temperature drop yesterday after a general snow fall ranging DWPIN3 SUSPECT SEIZED rr "i ovington, in La-induction in Ontario. i Press. 1 Kv Jan. 14 A TAn .5) Just Imagine These Gorgeous FURS 21 AVii as Kingdom (Pete) FITCH MARMINKX PIECED MINK PERSIAN BADGER CIVET BLENDED CROSS FOX SILVERED KIT FOX NORTHERN SEAL SKUNK FRENCH BEAVER NATURAL WOLF LYNX CARACUL VICUNA FOX vington salesman, was a Department of Jus- '1 Covington detectives a Canadian warrant with the kidnaping Labatt, wealthy Sarnia wer. rl agent was N.

B. up to 10 inches on Saturday sent the mercury tumbling in Minnesota today to a 32-degree below zero minimum, registered at Bemidji in Northern Minnesota. Similar con 'he Cincinnati office of Style Variety Fine Fabrics GEIT HIT HI EKE Shoots Self Cleaning: Rifle. Leonard Lasater, 53 years old, a railroad telegrapher, accidentally shot himself in the right hip yesterday when cleaning a rifle in his home, 6634 Bartmer avenue. He was taken to Missouri Pacific Hospital, where physicians said the wound was not serious.

sJS I Toner. fl HfiM- lyed Marmot. ditions prevailed in North Dakota, with thp lowest temperature, 26 intent of Justice division "cation. The officers said knowledge of the evi-hieh issuance of the Labatt was 14. 1934, and set free a A.

D. Julliard Forstmann Stevens Wyandotte Botany Worsteds Commodore Boucles American Boucles Silk Crepe Lined Warmly Interlined Many with Lamb's Wool Many With Muffs! below, reported from Devil's Lake A. 1935 Arato ILiceimsesl NEW DRESSES $9 QC Values to $5.95 3'b3'V Ntw trims, details and colors. Sizes 20H to 30A i JS to al NIRA Code Sections. Press.

-OTON, Jan. 14. Repeal rr.aking provisions of th'j Act was proposed in a iced today by Senator Minnesota. He as-Supreme Court in the oil 'i "shown us the way "ut the fundamental de-the 670 codes" "an un- Industrial Bank UEil MM Ii.il ML LASKER FINANCE CORP. TWO OFFICES 3CKIO LOCL'ST Cirand at Lindell I ihl ft i Ml rr NINTH AND WASHINGTON ST.

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