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THE EVENING NEWS, WILKES-BARRE. OCTOBER 17, 1Q33. TWO Just Wait Till Kelly's "Watch And Chain" Behind The LAW STUDENT RELATES TALE OF KIDNAPING kid Washington Letter A Column Of Odds And Ends About What la Going On In The Nation's Capitol BETTY DOWNES 15, MENACED BY EXTORTIONIST Pennsylvania Railroad Official Gets New Demands- To Insure S3 'si Held In Factory Building WithoutJFoodSince: Friday GIRARD HEEDED APPEAL Chicago, Oct. 17. On the verge of collapse, William W.

Hall, law student and -heirto part of a 000 estate, told Federal authorities today that a gang of youthful kid-napers had held him captive since last Friday night. Hall suddenly reappeared last night at a cafe owned by Louis Leider. a law college classmate, and telephoned his wife, Julia, informing her of his release. The 31-year-old student, part owner of the Sea. Dog Inn.

told Fed-era' agents he had ieen thrown blindfolded from an automobile a half block away from Leider's cafe. His kidnapers left him alone with one guara. Hall said, and he per suaded the youth to set him free. arguing; with the guard that life imprisonment would be the penalty if the kidnaping plot were carried He Grows Up twice has slipped through police traps to capture him while mi V.M 1 0 I '4 )l h-m J'J- Washington. Oct.

17. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia "Barney" Baruch and Admiral Cary Grayson ad an interesting experience with the gentlemanly spoiT of shooting grouse this Summer. Mr. Baruch. wishing to make things pleasant for "Carter" and Cary, rented a castle in the Aus trian Alps which included the shooting preserves.

Now Virginia's temor -senator has never-eard-for shooting at anything but certain privileges having to do with fi- His knowledge of the grouse Is confined to banquets where It is arranged with its personality much I cbscured by reasorr -of the 'trim- unns." So he didn't put on shooting togs or take a fUn when he cuntered to the, preserves with Baruch and Grayson both of nhom were magnificently costumed and aimed to the teeth. The Austrian grouse seemed to have been trained for the event. They dropped gallantly as the Ba-ti'eh and Grayson guns popped. "Carter" didn't shoot, he just plck-f(i four or five of them with his hands, sat on a fallen log and scratched their heads. The birds had a perfect time.

It takes skill to lift a chicken neatly from the roost at night, so when Senator Glass told his story recently in the bosom of hts family, just after stepping off the steamer from Europe, his colored butler was put to it to preserve hat lofty detachment, the hall mark of his profession. "He sho' am a great man wid 'is haid 'n han's too," he said. The watch is the husky U. S. Marshal Geersl and the chain is the leash with which he is leading George "Machine Gun" Kelley from Oklahoma City prison to the train that bore him to the Federal Peni' tentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he begins serving a life term for the kidnaping of Chartes Urschel, oil magnate.

through. The guard yielded and spirited him away from the factory building where he had been held since Friday without food. Hall declared. Federal authorities questioned him for several hours. At first demanding $15,000 ransom, the kidnapers later scaled their figure down to $9,000 and had written their dergand to friend whose name Hall had given, them, Federal operatives were told.1 None of his kidnapers was over 18 years old.

Hall told Melvin H. Purvis, head of the United States Bureau of Investigation office here. Although he is only 14 years old, Williard Akin. Denver, Colorado high school boy, already is 6' feet, 8 inches tall. He is shown with a scHool chum, of the same ae and normal size.

Doctors say Williard'e abnormal height is due to an overaeie pituitary gland. me later. Police have failed to obtain any clues tb the identity of the man who PES BMW Wm-i JO PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF! Scenes In Hollywood A COLUMN OF GOSSIP AND NEWS FROM THE MOVIE COLONY By Harrison Carroll Hollywood, Oct. 17. Alice Brady "rr'unnrlnrinr whether she-1-; the victim of a practical joker 01 whether she is the first star to be approached with a remarkaoii proposition of kidnap insurance.

The actress has turned over to h. Metro-Gold win-Mayer etudio yoMrc letter and a picture eh received in the mail at her Bever-y( Hills home. The IctttT. and siving tiw address und telephone number of o'he warns that anyone who can put their hands on $1,000 is a possible subject for abduction. It oflereTTor the suffl Of a.

month, to guarantee to pay any ransom up to $10,000. Similar protection up to $100,000 is offered for increased fees. Accompanying the letter is a picture of Jake "The Barber" Factor, showing his disheveled state after bcins released by kidnapers. Alice, who yesterday was finishing up a new picture. "The Vinegar Tree," for -M-G-M Is inclined to laugh the matter off but, justi to be on the safe siae.

noimcu i studio police. Matter now is in the Sands of Investigation. (making up golf after all these Wrs, Bill Le Baron met a group of Hollywood friends as he was coming out of the clubhouse. "Well." one of them asked shyly "how do you like the game?" Bill shook his head, replied: "I don't know yet. I'm not used to drinking at these hours.

The return of Sylvia Sidney to Paramount ends their breach and brings out the odd coincidence that her first picture will be called "Reunion." Lowdown, as we hear it in Hollywood, is that Paramount agreed not to ask any monetary damages for the star's walking out on "The Way to Love," if She would make another picture for them at the end of her contract. Hereby solving the mystery of Lupe Lelez' wedding ring, which has had the gossips insisting that she must have been married in Las Vegas. The peppery Mexican star reminds me that she bought the ring herself a long time ago and has worn it as a good luck symbol. All Lupe will tell me about the date of the marriage is "sometime this month." A motion picture electrician re veals an interesting slant on Will Rogers' character. The other day, the tudio wanted to call Will for an unexpected shot.

He wasn't at his dressing room, nor at home. An electrician, who lives down Santa Monica way, suggested: "Try 'Doc' Law's drugstore." It was there they found him Bill, It seems, spends most of his spare time chatting with the owner of the little pharmacy in Santa Monica canyon or at Ballantine's chill and hot-dog stand nearby. and Law, a former Holly wood extra, sit and talk for hours about western stars of days gone by. All they need is a cracker box and a knife. QUICK GLIMPSES: Someone either at Albuquerque or Winslow can win the eternal gratitude of Miriam Jordan.

On the station platform at one of these towns she lost a 5-carat emerald ring surrounded by small diamonds. What makes it worse, It was her engagement ring! Claire Trevor, Fox star, will spend the next six days with a Los Angeles police matron, to get ideas for -her part in "Woman and the Law," a story of lady coppers. (Copyright, 1933, K. F. COLLEGE FORESTER SPEAKS AT HUNTINGTON E.

T. Murphy, extension forester Of Pennsylvania State College, conducted a meeting this afternoon on the farm of George Stookey near Huntington Mille. Mr. Stookey recently planted new trees on his land and has a nice growth. Runaway U.

S. Th report that Janet Snowden, I Ml -JL Ames ASSAILANTS OF AMERICAN GET 6 MONTHS Roland Velz Assaulted In Germany By Nazi Troopers PLOT TO TAKE GARRISON Berlin, Oct. 17. Two assailants of Roland Velz, American citizen who was assaulted by Nazi storm troopers, were sentenced today to six months in jail. The sentence of each stated that they "acted with justified indignation against an unknown person only later revealed to be an American." Plot To seize Garrison Vienna, Oct.

17. With all Aus trian universities closed as a re suit of Nazi demonstrations, Chan cellor Englebert Dollfuss' govern ment today investigated an alleged Nazi plot to capture the Linz Gar rison. Orders were sent out to press the investigation throughout the armed services and garrisons and to probe all evidence that the sup posed plot may extend to all parts of the nation. More than a score of persons. including a woman, have been arrested on charges of high treason.

ORGAN AUTHORITY ADDRESSES GUILD Albert Freitag. of Scranton. an authority on organ construction, having served as an apprentice in an organ factory in Germany before coming to this country, was the principal speaker at a meeting of Wilkes-Barre Chapter, American Guild of Organists, in First M. E. Church-house last night.

Miss Marian Wallace presided and there were 32 members of the Guild present. SCOUT PUBLICITY BUREAU TO CONFER A meeting of the Boy Scout Publicity Bureau of the Wyoming-Valley Council will be held at scout headquarters 'Friday night at 7.30 John M. Hewitt will preside. Film Flame? FAT GIRL ENDS LIFEOWINGTO PUPIMEERS Runs Away From 'Home And Kills Herself WEIGHED 200 AT 17 New York. Oct.

17. Schoolmates made fun of Mary Jane Dane because weighed more than 200 pounds, though only seven years old. So she ran away from home and killed herself in a furnished room at 101 street yesterday. Mary Jane lived with her mother at 206 E. 87th street and went to the Manhattan Industrial High School en E.

22nd street. She remained away from school all last week humiliated by the ridicule of her weight by new pupils. Every year. Mary Janes underwent the same suffering. She would just be getting used to the jests and jibs of the girla and boys when a new term would start and new students with new varieties of ridicule would appear.

managed to deceive her mother regarding her truancy last week, but on Saturday a card from the Board of Education reporting her absence was delivered at the Dane home. Mary Jane got it before her. mother saw it. The girl gathered some money and left at once. She bought an old-fashioned pistol and went to the rooming house, clad in her best white dress.

She paid for two days' lodging, registering as Dian Whitman, for Marv Jane was romantic. She was found yesterday, fully dressed, seated on the floor, a pencil in her right hand a pistol beside her. A bullet had pierced her brain. On the inside cover of a novel 'Captain by Rafael Saba- tini, Mary Jane had written: Dear Mother I have caused you enough trouble. Now you will be free of me.

I wish you the best of luck. I'm sorry. You will find my coat in the closet. You will find my bag, with eight a compact, my keys and my glasses. No doubt they will be sent to you.

"You were the right kind of a mother, but you got the wrong daughter. I love you, mother. Just forget me." Princess Pursuing SAFETY OF DAUGHTER Philadelphia, Oct. 17. The extortionist who two months ago demanded for-the- safety of Betty Downes, 15-year-old daughter of James R.

Downes, chief of sylvania Railroad," has renewed his campaign, it was disclosed by police today. Despite the' vigilance of Federal andjocal police, the man resumed his telephone calls to the Downes home. Betty, who was at a enmp in New Hampshire when the first threat was delivered to her family here, is now accompanied by an armed guard of several men to and from her school in the Chestnut Hill section. Mrs. Downes, who received the messages, said the plotter had changed his tactics and delivered his demands as pleas instead of threats! On one of his recent calls he spoke ns follows, according to Mrs.

Downes: "I want to talk things over with you. I have had a change of heart. I want to meet you. Tlftre. is something I want to get oft my chest." Mrs.

Downes said she made an appointment- to metrt the man at the Dupont Hotel, Wilmington, but he failed to appear. Department of Justice agents were scattered through the lobby. Two days later the man telephoned her again. "I saw you at the hotel but you didn't see me." he said. "I got a good look at you.

I have a good description of you. You'll hear from IT IS rich TOMMY Armour has U. S. Open in 1931. do I think of years.

I smoke healthy and Camels EXHNSIVE popular DENSM0RE SHUTE Britons gasped and gaped when he won the 1933 British Open over St. Andrews' deceptive fairways and angry bunkers. Golf prophets say Shute will line up with Golf Immortals. Answering a question, Shute recently said: "I have tried all the brands, and long ago found that Camels are milder, and what is even more important to any golfer, they do not jangle the nerves." GENE SARAZEN This great golfer began his winning ways in 1922 when he became U. S.

Open Champion. He has been a consistent tournament winner ever since. This year he won his third P. G. A.

Championship. On tha subject of cigarettes Sarazen sayst "I agree with Shute and A.rmour I smoke Camels, too. They always taste good and they never interfere with my nerve control." ARMOUR-Often called "Wkard of the Irons," won a flock of championships, including the in 1927, the P. G. A.

In 1930, the British Open Tommy knows his golf and his cigarettes." What Camels -They are my brand and have been for a lot but I must be sure that my nerves are my head is clear that's why I prefer Camels." vfc wtWWutu rrx T.10RE FUH TO HE: Nice drive! Have a Camel. They're milder, you know. SHErThanUIwillirve smoked them for years. I know they taste better. And it is the one cigarette that never gets on my nerves.

ii-Alv-Jr BACCOS Men and women whose work and play demand healthy nerves and level heads prefer Camels. Active people agree that they can smoke these fine-flavored, milder cigarettes without fear of jangling their nerves. Another thing about active people they are pretty generally steady smokers And, as anyone who smokes Camels will tell you, you can smoke as many of these cigarettes as you want and never have a The last cigarette at night tastes as good as the first in the morning, if you smoke Camels. Try a package of Camels Enjoy the superior flavor of their costlier tobaccos. If you are a steady smoker you will appreciate the fact that Camels never get on your nerves, never tire your taste.

t-M MM r- XW'A IF Banhhead mars are made from finer, MORE IWOVJ tobaccos than any other, brand. You wilj find Camels flavor and delightfully mild. .1 sOANET 5NOWDEr: Newport, R. oil heiress who married Prince Sirfcnano Don mm Carfcu-Ita, Italian nobleman, only to leave him and start annulment proceedings in less than a week, is Hollywood, Incognito, has caused the gossips to wonder if she is bent on an Invasion of the films'. She would not the first society beauty to crash moviedom, for many have had similar ideas, although few mad the grade.

Among those who did make goodarc Adr'ienne Ames, daughter of a prominent New York family; Eltesa jnay jlaimkinship withJiungarian royalty, and Tallulah Bankbeadrdatigh- ter of the IT. S. Senator from Alabama. However, Mi.se Bankhead first won fame In England on the etage. Kfm CtfP Oil VIJT) UWtf iiflC- Il tTfagfll.