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RER, 10, 193 'ER 10 193 WHO WILL BE JANE ARDEN? THE QUIZ OF THE WEEK How well do you read your daily newspaper? Do it will be fun as well as educational. Pick up a pen-you know what names appeared most frequently in cil and turn to page 10 for the "Quiz of the Week" the news last week? You can test yourself today, and which appears every Tuesday in The Star. Fame and fortune await the girl who is chosen to play the role of Jane Arden, heroine of that popu- lar comic strip appearing daily in The Star. Hundreds are seeking the title. There is still time for others to enter.

Rules and entry coupon appear on page 20. More pictures are on page 6. LJLXJ? Star Iie Minneapolis Largest Evening Home Delivered Circulation in Minneapolis Price Two MINNEAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1935 PJ1 EM I IN PUBLISHER'S Scheme Is Denounced in Britain 5 Bullets End Life of Editor SCENES AND PRINCIPALS HisH ear ffe i Wife and Daughter See Slaying in Alley Kid Cann Held for Grand Jury Presents Alibi Widow Says She Recognized Him SECRECY MARKS Other Dotails. Page 12 StateimMils: Kid Cann, Pave Mrs, LiKgett, Page 12; Meyer Schuldherg, Pago 22 Walter Liggett was assassinated Monday night While his wife and 10-year-old daughter, watched in stunned silence, then screamed in horror, the nationally known crusading editor snuked out of a creeping car in the alley at the rear of Liggett's apartment and blasted five pistol bullets through his body. Wife Threatens Revolutions Today, while Minneapolis police were apparently blocked In attempts to uncover a clue to identity of the assassin and the man who drove his car, both Liggett's wife and his associates here and In the east threatened political and other revelations, most of them aimed at the administration of Gov.

Floyd B. Olson. The only clue to Identity of the assassin was a statement by Mri. Liggett that she recognized Isadore Blumenfeld, alias Kid Cann, former Minneapolis bootlegger, as the man behind the gun. Alibi Is Presented Blumenfeld, held In city jail pending investigation, denied the charge and presented what appeared to be an "iron clad" alibi.

Super intendent of Police Frank P. Forestal stated that Blumenfeld would be held for the grand jury. The NEWSpaper with the daily Double Comic Section Vol. 29, No. 98 JV Peace GIVING ITALIANS LARGE SLICE OF ETHIOPIA IS HIT English Cabinet Summoned to Discuss Reaction to Terms IL DUCE FAVORABLE London (INS) A sudden special meeting of the British, cabinet at noon today its purpose secret except for a hint that the Franco-British peace plan for Ethiopia would be "further discussed" stirred a sensation in diplomatic circles, where an unexpected hitch In armistice negotations was pictured.

Either the government is alarmed over violent criticism of the plan by the parliamentary opposition which calls the scheme to give Italy half of Ethiopia "monstrous" or the slight alterations that Britain is understood to have suggested did not prove immediately acceptable to France, observers believed. The French council of ministers is also due to meet today to consider these amendments. Duce Reported Ready to Accept Peace Plan Rome (U.R) Italians believed to-lieved today that Premier Benito Mussolini had decided to accept a French-British proposal as a basis of discussion for settlement of the Ethiopian crisis. It was added, however, that if he did accept the offer for discussion he would make the important reservation that, during the discussion, talk of new League of Nations penalties against Italy, particularly, an oil embargo, should be held in reserve. The league's "general staff" is to meet Thursday to choose a date for the oil embargo, and an accompanying embargo on coal, iron and steel.

Copyright 1935. Massacre Claimed in Two Villages Addis Ababa (INS) Massacre of the Inhabitants of two villages northwest of Makale by Italian troops stealing cattle and provisions was charged here today in an official Ethiopian communique. Ras Seyum's troops, it was also stated, had dispersed several Ital lan detachments and killed a total of seven soldiers. DENTIST HELD IN TEACHER MURDER Aberdeen, S. D4 U.R) A Leola dentist today was charged with the murder of Lela Helvorson, Madi-son, S.

school teacher whose naked body was found in a hotel room nearly two months ago. The dentist, A. R. Martell, was arrested here on recommendation of a coroner's jury. He was held without bond on first degree murder charges.

The jury had found the 34-year-old school teacher had died by "strangulation by the hands." BREAK IN COLD WAVE FORECAST A -cold wave that sent temperatures in the Dakotas to 22 degrees below zero descended on Minneapolis today, with the mercury dropping to 4 below at 8 a.m. By noon, It was above the zero mark. Increasing cloudiness tonight and Wednesday will bring rising temperatures, the weather bureau forecast Shippers, however, were warned to protect produce for five below north of the Twin City area. THE WEATHER Increasing Cloudiness with Rising Temperature Tonight and Wednesday Temperatures Midnight to Noon I In Minn inneapolia. It's Th Star lf 1 J.

Lj Cents in Minneapolis ome POLICE INQUIRY the arm of the gunman who killed Steps' to free Blumenfeld from the city jail may be taken by his attorney, Charles Bank, late to day. Bank obtained a jail pass to speak with Blumenfeld shortly af ter noon and said he would dis cuss possible Institution of habeas corpus proceedings. Mrs. Liggett Near Breakdown Near a breakdown, Mrs. Liggett was unable to appear at the court house to view Blumenfeld.

Mrs. Liggett is expected to appear at headquarters Wednesday morning, Forestal said. He placed Captain of Detectives James Mullen in complete charge of investigating the crime, held all statements in secrecy for the grand jury, and refused to comment upon what progress investigators may have made. Like the assassination of Howard Guilford, editor of the Saturday Press until shortly before his death, the Liggett murder bore the plain stamp of the hired and imported gunman who is paid only for dead men and whose merciless professional tactics leave no trace behind him. 4 Pass Through Body The gunman who slew Liggett at 5:40 p.m.- Monday as his car drew up behind the Liggett apartment at 1825 Second avenue struck at a distance of only a few feet.

Five steel-jacketed bullets from his .45 calibre automatic pistol took effect in Liggett's body. Four of them passed clear through it. One lodged. Liggett died instantly. Developments As police and the state bureau of criminal apprehension joined forces in an attempt to gain a clue to the identity of the murderer and of his companion and the forces behind them, a series of developments highlighted the crime: Representatives of eastern publications with which Liggett had been identified rushed to Minneapolis as tne murder assumed national importance.

Governor Olson in a brief statement ordered the state bureau to assist Minneapolis police in their investigation. Senator Thomas D.schall, lifetime friend of the murdered editor of the Mid-West American, indicated that he may demand a congressional gation of the crime. Mrs. Liggett described a secret cache of expose informs-tion in the east and declared that it would be opened. She also stated that information alleged by Liggett to have been behind his demand for impeachment of Governor Olson would be released.

The most recent edition of Liggett's publication was placed on the desks of state legisla tors. It contained matter Liggett Continued on Page Two Hauptmann to Voice Appeal for His Life Hope of Escaping Electric Chair Rests on His Own Efforts Trenton, N. J. (INS) Bruno Richard Hauptmann today was preparing to voice his own final plea for life. He was not surprised nor greatly disappointed when the United States supreme court refused to review his conviction for the murder of Baby Lindbergh.

Not Upset at Decision He had seen his lawyers fail in the state courts. He was not to be upset when they fared no better before the highest tribunal of the land. Now he is preparing to act as his own lawyer before the court of pardons in what promises to be one of the strangest scenes ever enacted in a criminal case in this state. To Address Court The thrice-doomed carpenter will, according to the most reliable information, address the august court of pardons in a room of the state prison, where he now awaits deSth ent plans of those in authority carry through. Members of the court of pardons are Governor Harold G.

Hoffman, State Chancellor Luther A. Camp bell and six judges of the state court of errors and appeals. They wield the power of pardon, parole or commutation. To Be Resentenced Never before in the history of the state has a court of pardons gone into the state prison to hear the plea of a condemned man. Judge Thomas W.

Trenchard within a week will resentence Hauptmann Continued on Page Two PLEADS GUILTY IN ATTACK ON HESSE After all testimony had been entered and attorneys for both sides had argued before the jury, Paul Gruserchae pleaded guilty to second degree assault charges before District Judge Frank E. Reed. Gruserchae was on trial for first degree assault for an attack on "Blind Gus" Hesse, courthouse newsboy in a loop rooming house Nov. 7. Hesse was stabbed when he ran from his room to aid a screaming woman.

With another man, Hesse stopped Gruserchae as he fled down a stairway. They scuffled and Hesse was stabbed. FIND MISSING BOY SAFE UNDER PORCH Chicago, 111. (INS) Three-year-old Harvey Melinger, who was believed to have been kidnaped, was found sleeping today under a porch at a store near his home. The child was unharmed and police re stored him to his parents.

9 ARE REPORTED KILLED IN CRASH Surrey, England. (U.R) Six passengers and three of the crew were reported to have been killed today when an airliner crashed near here. I SLAYING 1 LIGGETT DAUGHTER MARDA "Don'tt Daddy! Don't! SCENE OF THE LIGGETT ASSASSINATION Upon a pliolograph of the alley behind 1825 Second avenue where from which Liggett was killed drew along side the editor's automobile Walter Liggett was night, The Star's artist shows how the far and fired the five shots which instantly killed the publisher. Statement by Governor Olson Gov. Floyd B.

Olson today issued the following statement In discussing the murder of Walter Liggett, publisher of the Mid-West American: "I hope his murderers are apprehended and convicted. It is an outrage to kill a person. If he was engaged in any matter in which he should not have been, it should be settled in court." The governor said he would place the services of the state bureau of criminal apprehension at the disposal of Hennepin county authorities in the search for the murderers. When asked about the charges which Liggett had published for several weeks in the Mid-West American, the governor said: "I haven't read them. I didn't read his paper.

If he made charges against me, it is business for a grand jury. I am not going to enter into any discussion of charges made against me from all sources. Let them be aired before a grand jury or even before the legislature." Good Samaritan Robbed by Pair From now on, Glen Martinson swore today, he will not let his sympathies get the better of him. Monday night he did and it cost him his watch. Walking near Fourteenth avenue S.

and Fourth street, he saw two men who looked cold and down and out, he said. He took them into a nearby restaurant and bought them a meal. Later, while walking down the street with him, they robbed him of his watch. Mr. Martinson lives at 207 W.

Thirty-second street. 4 FINED ON SLOT MACHINE CHARGE Seized in a series of raids ordered late Monday by Chief of Police Frank Forestal, four men charged with maintaining gambling devices pleaded guilty in municipal court today and were fined $25 each. Four slot machines were confiscated by police. Those who paid the fines are Joe Pietrzak, 25, 1319 Marshall street N. Valentine Cisson.

31 729 Marshall street N. John Garden, 62, 229 W. Broadway, and Walter Pickurczky, 23, 228 W. Broadway. rjt fl ISADORE BLUMENFELD ALIAS KID CANN Named by Mrs.

Liggett as ait occupant of the death car WALTER LIGGETT ASSASSINATED Five .45 steel-jacketed bullets mc id him down 111511 Sr fJ I rj 1 1 BURGLAR SCARED AWAY BY SCREAMS Screams routed a prowler from the apartment of-Doris Oman, 1912 Third avenue late Monday. Miss Oman was asleep when a tall, young man entered the place. He fled without loot after she shrieked for help. PALMER FIRE FATAL TO MINNESOTAN Palmer, Alaska. (U.R) Mrs.

George Emberg, formerly of Proctor, died from burns suffered in a fire whiph destroyed her home and injured her husband, their three children and Emberg's brother. On the Inside State urged to seek federal relief aid for 1936. Bandit slain in St. Paul holdup. Democratic women elect officers.

Efficient accounting seen as government need. Vivian Thorp and other legislative news. Closed bank depositors to get Yule dividends. Pendergast is sure Missouri for Roosevelt. Observer says Europe doesn't expect war yet.

Gerrish to head Y.M.OA. fund drive. Additional WPA sum sought for school buildings. Mm H12 1 2 3 41 5 6i 71 8 3 2 1 0 -lj -2 -3 -3 A -4-31 01 2 Highest year ago, 13; lowest, 1. MRS.

WALTER LIGGETT Could not believe him dead.