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10 CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1938. Tell of Shooting their romance began on Broadway, in New York, two years ago. She is under contract with Universal pictures and lie with Paramount.

(Story in adjoining column.) lry in tt.fftfi rttn ttin. SLQNQE SLAYER SHOT VICTIM IN BACK, JURY TOLD tells "mm 8F RUTH BTTIfit NM TOW ft prevents here oeh day observations intended WHO'S Vi(HJ XUR WW? fA SMALL BO.Y an Qfcjp. vil GANG KILLS ONCE IJew york, Dec. 13. I Special.

The "vengeance 'of gangland" kiilers7 TWO CHICAGOANS hqupaxs Louise Campbell, film actress, who is visiting her parents here, disclosed last night that she and Horace Mac-Mahon, film actor and a former Chicagoan, will be married here during the Christmas tyiss Campbell, 'who is with her Mr. arid Mrs. Joseph Weisbeeker, 624 Willow street, said the date of the wedding has not been selected. The marriage will take place in St. Michael church, where her parents were married.

Miss Campbell, whose last picture was "Men with Wings," said she expects Mr. MacMahon to arrive here next week. Friends since childhood. ST AU ANTS HUHGRlf? IDAHO, today, Mister? Better fry it They taste like MORE and they last LONG. They'll take a MAN SIZED hunger and chase it to Cicero buttery, mealv.

Strike Ended fa Three. Si Louis Pumping Plants St. Louis, MoC Dec. '13. iP) Three of St.

Louis' four waterworks were operating today, assuring the city an adequate supply of water despite a union jurisdictional strike which forded the' Shutdown of pumps for six hours last night. Water at the rate of 120 million gallons a day was gushing into the city's network of pipes. The normal consumption at this time of the year is about 100 million gallons. The resumption of operations was accomplished by city officials with the" aid bf the International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers. Hits Office Wife's Plea of ficrv hot, saH- flVy there's calm Musician and Girl Accuse Martin Snyder.

Self-Defense. i 1 Subscribe for the Triban Continued from first page. who slew a young man by mistake a month -ago, reached inside the walls of Sing Sing prison today and brought death to the man they were after. Matthew J. Kane, 41 years old, died in the prison hospital from infection caused by a stab wound.

He was slashed Sunday with a sharpened table knife, which broke and left a jagged piece in rein PrSn lage early formed the habit of hanging around a woodworking shop which was among the few business activities in his meager environment. And the worker there whom he specially loved to watch was a gray-haired old patternmaker, who was also by way of being a home-made philosopher. One day as he finished outlining an intricate and, to his admiring onlooker, extremely beautiful effect in scrolls and leaves the old man paused, and tapped his pencil on the pattern before him. "Laddie" (his favorite Scotch salutation), "my neighbors here in the shop are going to follow this design, and when they've carried it out, they will have something wonderful to show as a result." His eyes sparkled in a friendly grin. "I'm wondering, laddie, as I see you run in and out of this doorway here each day, what kind of a pattern you'll be following, as you go out into life 'Will it be a careless I say to myself, 'or will he take some one of those fine and noble lives that have gone before him, or are still around him, and pattern his mind and heart after What do you say, lad 1 1' 1L- Maitliew 3.

Kane. I'K'. WireptfMo. in Los Edith Snyder on stand Angeles trial 'of her father, Martin Los Angeles, Dec 13. IP) Myrl Alderman, music arranger and accompanist for Ruth Etting, radio singer, unbuttoned his shirt in court today and showed a jury the bullet wound he said her former husband, Martin Snyder, former Chicagoan, inflicted last Oct.

15. Alderman said Snyder accosted him just as he finished his work in a radio studio and said he wanted to have a talk about Miss 'He said he had reports Miss Etting and I were married," Alderman testified. told him that ''Wasn't true!" 'Snyder said the two of us1 had' been' seen together at 'football games' and prize fights." listol Kept al Back. i i. Alderman said Snyder demanded that' he be' takeh to see' Miss E.tttng.

He said he promised to give Snyder's telephone number to Miss Etting, leaving it to her whether she should meet Snyder. He said Snyder was angered, took a pistol from his pocket, and told him: "If you make a move it will be the last you'll ever make." Alderman said he drove to his home, isnyaer. tola, now sne nrea fanning Holbrook with the hat, but Pugh said he could not tell. The shooting, last Oct. 17, occurred In front of the Benton Harbor city hall and in the shadow of the library end the opera house.

There were, as a result, many witnesses on hand soon after the first shots rang out. The fire department came down the brass pole as a man and the police came pouring out of their station, since both stations are in the city hall. "I had just dozed off," said Fireman Adam Dutcnf Weber, when 1 heard two shots. We sleep in our underwear, socks, and shirt. Our boots are on the floor through our trousers legs so we can pull up' 'our trousers, snap and snap, and be dressed, called the boys and was down' the brass pole in 30 to 60 seconds.

Cries for Help Described. I heard some one say, Help, help. Don't Then I saw Mrs. Dull shoot again from 2 or 3 feet from pistol at her father after be ha I it- his neck. Five convicts were placed in solitary confinement 'over the affair.

escaped' death a month ago when'" uhderwbrld 'killers mistook Jonri'F. O'Haral a young New Xo'rk financial investigator, for the convict. Police said O'Hara's killing was a sriot Myri Alderman, friend of his iormer wire, Kutn jetting. i blunder that Kane' was intended as the target for the hasty fusillade of Big 3-Poqd Boxes of Chocolates shots fired the night of Nov. 18.

Parole Prepares the Trap. arision- -Dolct Polonaise Marge Carson Kane was released from prison on parole six hours before O'Hara was If shot. The convict had promised to go directly to the home of his mother. In stead he stopped at a tavern, which got out, and that Snyder marched 1 Fdr years the candy selected for gifts by those who emandfine chocolate coatings at a low price. We're ijfoUdJ'of these fine Chocolates handmade every piece.

PktOsiati Dolcz have hard and soft centers," Polonaise sir soft' centers, Marge Carson has chocolates with Caramels and Bonbons Holbrook. She began hitting him with violated his parole but saved his life wouldn't it be a splendid thing for for the time. you, and for your loved ones, it O'Hara, who resembled Kane, ar you were to pick a Lincoln or Franklin or an Ldison tor your pattern, and turned out a life that was as beautiful before men as this little rived home about the time the convict should have reached his mother's apartment in the same building in which the investigator lived with his ornament seems to us?" his hat." Fireman Maurice Shepardson said he was next down the pole after Weber, but that Weber was already going out the door. Shephardson knew Mrs. Dull, whom he called Pat, ar do many of her friends, although she prefers Fern.

He accompanied her to the police station, he said, and gave her a cig-aret. "I said, 'I'm sorry, he testified. But he said she replied: "I'm not sorry. I'd do it again." Asked on cross-examination whether widowed mother and sister. The kill ers, lying in ambush near the en The old man's dust lies somewhere quiet in the cemetery of that Ohio trance, apparently mistook him for town.

The small bov has long since Kane and shot him down. reached manhood, and followed patterns Kane was seized and returned to both of personal choice and of destiny behind him, the pistol shoved into his back. Alderman's story of the argument and the shooting followed closely those of Miss Etting and Snyder's daughter, Edith, 21 years old, who said she fired at her father after he shot Alderman. Miss Snyder described the scene in Alderman's home the night of Oct. 15, saying her father told her, Alderman, and Miss Etting, "This is going to be the end of all of you." She said Alderman was shot in the when he started to plead with her father.

Daughter Sees Struggle. "Ruth ran out of the room," said Miss Snyder. "I heard another shot and my father and Miss Etting struggling in a bedroom. I went in there, pulled him away from Ruth and begged him not to shoot any more." Miss Snyder followed Miss Etting Colored Picture Topped Boxes Parrot, Mission or Swan reproductions of prize oil paintings. Parrot, chocolates and other pieces.

Mission, all chocolates. Swan, jt' I 25 chocolate and other candies. Jf'lu. OOX Two Big Chocolate Favorites Fanchon, all chocolates with hard and soft centers. Chocolates and Bonbons, half of this box is filled with chocolates, the other ti half with assorted bonbons JL '2 -ID, DOX Sing Sing as a parole violator.

Aseoeiatnd Press Photos. But thanks to the canny On Sunday he was among a group I Scotch chilosoohcr of his childhood Alderman of convicts marched 400 feet through starting to open his he made, on the whole, manly and i it Mi shirt to show to the jury the ab- Mrs. Dull seemed bewildered at the a corridor from the old stone cell block to the new prison on top of a memorable men the models for his own private approximation, and has lived a 71 u. I time of the shooting the defense con dominaij wounds he received when he was" shot iiy Snyder. tends that Holbrook had just dazed life spiritually rich, if not spectacular, hill.

Wounded io Neck. her with a blow Shephardson an in consequence. swered: "No I'd say she was just In the tlav of "Bunker Bean" tre mad and disgusted." mendous thinsrs happen when a spirit When the prisoners emerged from the corridor Kane announced calmly that he had been hurt, and pointed to blood streaming from a wound in Most of the witnesses testified that Jess vouth is told his ancestor was Na Mrs. Dull had a black eye and a poleon, and he chooses to emulate the little Corsican's exploits. So each of us.

bump over it. his neck. He insisted, however, that GALLS U.S. TOLERATION OF REDS A SCANDAL Dr. Carl A.

Mitchell testified that in great or less degree, has patterned on the stand. The former radio head- he was not injured seriously and it was not until yesterday that the he was called to the hospital as Hoi brook lay dying. He said that Hoi fragment of knife blade was dis his aims and thoughts upon some hero of history or fiction seme inspiring friend some superb character in a play seen at the right moment. And thereby discovered that the Law of Pat brook had been shot twice in the liner admitted on cross-examination by Jerry Giesler she accepted a diamond and platinum bracelet from Snyder when he arrived here last covered. back and twice in the head, but that Kane died today, declining stub there were no holes in the hat.

Pros bornly to identify his assailants. An July from New York. terns never fails cither to justify or exhaustive inquiry was launched by ecutors Westin and Small are trying to show that Mrs. Dull shot Holbrook acks at Failure to Deport Aliens. Stuffed Fruits 3 Z.

$1.15 Marshmallovr Stuffed Prunes and Apricots, Nut Stuffed Dates, Figs, Glace Pineapple and Cherries. In fancy box. condemn everv such choice. Reveal Fruit Baskets from $3 Who hut Stop Shop can pack such grlorious, richly colored baskets? A whole family or "just one" can enjoy it. Who's Who in vour life, and you prison authorities into the slaying, but no other prisoners would admit first in the back and then fired tw'd round or "oblong.

SO Chock full washed tetras currants, raisins, fruits and 'nnts'. Steam before serving. Also in-fancy jars for" $1 up. When Prosecutor U. U.

Blalock took up redirect examination of Miss Etting she said that in the three years before she retired from singing disclose a pretty accurate pattern of more bullets into his head as' he lay' having seen the stabbing. your own personality. Snyder caused many difficulties that dying. Mrs. Dull watched the proceedings Kane originally was sent to Sing Sing in 1924.

for robbery, but had made it hard for her to get work. with interest. been paroled and returned to prison She said she had to go to England on Moiher. Son Beams Thi article may he reproduced In whota or in part only on written consent from Marshall Field Company several times. In 1035, while on pa to work, and even there Snyder made tiouble for her.

role, he was questioned in the mur Mrs. Dull's son, Lester, 17 years der of Thomas ITlie Harp Sheridan old, whom she calls Buddy, was shy, 907 Police believe he might have been but he beamed affectionately on his BITSHEI.S OF GRAIN BCKN. Kansas Oily, Dec. Seventy slain in retaliation for that crime or mother. Mrs.

Dull's mother, Mrs. Ulysses Glace Fruits thousand busheln of wheat and corn burned here today in a lire which destroyed the r.fithrop-Marshall Grain company elevator. W. Wood MarRhslI said the loan was be in connection with the $427,000 Rubel armored car holdup in Brooklyn in 1933, of which he was supposed to Continued from first page. hatred; -revolutionary propaganda through the Communist International; stirring up communist activities in foreign countries in order to cause strikes, riots, sabotage, bloodshed, and civil war; destruction of ail forms of representative or democratic government, civil rights, and trial by jury; the ultimate and final objective of world revolution to establish the dictatorship of so-called proletariat into one universal union of Soviet Republics with the capital at Moscow." -Dies said the eviuence proves that the communists abandoned their own labor organizations to infiltrate the CI.

which welcomed their services as trained organizers. In 'the Baker of Kimmel, seemed shaken by the storyof the shooting; as' 'did tween $50,000 and $75,000 and was covered 00 lb. have known the inside story. 1-2-3- and S-lb. Redwood box.

by insurance. Mixed Fruits IS lbs. of fruit. Apples, oransres, grrapefruit, pears I 98 aid kumquats. Crate wrapped in holly paper.

Crate of all oranges, all grapefruit and all applet at other prices. the defendant's other relatives: Holbrook's wife, who lives in Kala Fruit Gaks Vi. Decerafctf I Plain Ac priced from riH tnrr -Solid with fruits and nut. Packed in irift tins at little vxtra-cost. Wjth: or without brandy.

Round or! oblons. mazoo, was not present, uouia ana Candied Fruits as essential to Christmas as the tree. Pears, Plums, Fijs, Apricots. Pineapple, Cherries. In smart California Redwood boxes.

Dewhirst, who is head "of the: Hotike of David religious cblbny1 in Bentdn Harbor, said that she cdutd not afford Easo Dryness, Coughs BUI TO COLDS CIYE YOU If Tour throat's tor-yuba tuir merited with Irritation, in XU A I THIS huskiness, dryness or MEDICATED cURha due to cold, a mciilAltV Vlcks Cough Drop solved naturally in your mouth will give the troubled membranes a soothing, medicated bath-for 12 to 15 minutes! Relief comes fast because Viclcs are medicated MecUCCteif with the throat-sooth- tt fC Ing ingredients of Vicks VInd VapoRub famous for 0ttgmt.9 relieving coughs and VVUiSM diseomforts due to 0RQpS to come to the trial, since she supports her four children! The courtroom was packed, many fn.fjt Wisna i i n.ifc. jr si ni -w fT't'itrt'isiii 'PbJ- 4r k4'4ns -a-W-e- of the spectators ing1 Women. Mrs. Dull, who expects to take the r61e of organizers, they found it easy to seize control of strategic official pdsifion's in the unions, he communists were responsible stand in her own defense, waS again The tmvesl 7ttee tH Alfi Gift QcnojtZ one of the most fashionably dressed La fetit for most 'of the' unauthorized 'strikes women in the 1 Chocolates Accused of Jealoilsy. Prosecutor Westin, who retires Jan.

that have occurred 'Sn' the 'past 'few yeats'Dies chdrgeo. imported tHe'sltdown strike' lechniqtie from' Europe' andpiifit in'td effect in the United' States for 'the' purpose of paralyz 1 in favor of Prosecutor Elect Small, Cheese Gifts $3.50 to 35 A man's gift. Assorted cheeses. Illustrated here is a handsome tray, useful for years, costs $io. Ships anywhere in U.

S. A. 1-2-3-lb. fancy boxes $150 mam told the jurors in his opening statement that Mrs. Dull was jealoils 'of Cakes so rich and fancy they're as attractive'" as a box of candyi "Sb'rhe" with marzipan.

Tiny, sinsrle-bite sie pieces, so dainty So luscious! Finest -rich ing American industry and producing I A I) KKTISM KNTt the attentions which Holbrook paid revolution. Recalls Martin Testimony. 44 upon wnat evidence is tnis con teaser Qoles! if HAKY -5? clusion based Upon the testimony of officials and bonafide members of the C. I. such as Homer Martin, Dobrynski, Eagar, and McCartney." Dies told how the communists have set up so-called frortrV'organzations, which they control through interlock Chocolates WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE Without Calomel And You'll Jump Out tf Bed hi the Morning Sarin' io Ga Tho liver should pour out two pound ot liquid bila intoyourbowKlsdaily.lt this bila not flowing freely, your food doesn't di Rent.

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The evi his family in Kalamazoo. He painted Holbrook as a loving father, admired by his children despite long years of separation. Dewhirst pictured Mrs. Dull in his opening statement as a simple country girl, married at the age of 16, whose first romance ended because of her husband's cruelty. Holbrook, an experienced attorney, had little difficulty in persuading her that they might become husband and wife without the usual formalities, Dewhirst said.

But the attorney emphasized that Holbrook had represented himself as unmarried when the romance began. Holbrook and Mrs. Dull bought their home in Benton Harbor, the attorney explained, in the name of husband and wife, and they were known during the eight years they lived together as Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook.

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dence before the Committee has identified many officials of the Roosevelt administration with such communist front organizations as the American Civil Liberties union and the American League for Pgace and Democracy. Th'e'-' speaker told how the com Mixed Tuis 11 the sn lb. 29c They're' all extra fancy. Only the finest, this year's crop comes to Stop A Shop. 3 lbs 65c.

Largo Eureka Walnuts, 29 Soft Shell Pecans fb. 29c Paper Shall Pecans lb. 49c Mammoth Walnuts lb. 85 Largs Oregon Filberts, 35c Paper Shell Almonds. 3 5c Jumbo Brite Brazils.

lb. 29c Figs and Dates Leather to Toe I munists have! bored Into political partiesV'subordina'ting or withdrawing their'bwh' candidates in favor of left to 12 lbs. in tin lb. 59c wing elements in other parties. 'x Either style slippers, as illustrated, with leather lining to the toe.

In sizes 4 to 9. 70 VOPPf 0cLc UNTED 49c Imported Jumbo Figs II If II If 0''Vi ttti "nil MAINWERS! Selective Hard Candies r0ui-'t, 9 compartment, lacquered tin, with the finest selection of fancy filled and hard candies. 5-lb. Tin of Hard Candies for. $1 Buntt'i 50 filled, 50 hard.

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