Jefferson City Post-Tribune from Jefferson City, Missouri • Page 2

MYSTIFIED Room Occupied By Real Estate Dealer Found Blood- Spattered and Vacant After Boat Docks WASHINGTON, May 21--(UP) --It was a night made for murder --or worse. Dark mists from the Potomac shrouded the steamer district of Columbia as she chugged south toward Norfolk, Va. Her whistle sounded eerily. Passengers stirred uneasily in their berths. The mysterious man in the brown beret had gone to his cabin and locked the door.

There was a muffled blast. Could it have been a revolver shot? Or was it the clanking of machinery in the hold? That's the question which faced the bureau of marine inspection and navigation, opening an unprecedented hearing here today into one of the most baffling murder mysteries--if murder it was--ever to plague seaboard authorities. Finds Cabin Empty When the white painted steamer docked at Norfolk a week ago today, Charles F. Keene, real estate dealer and precious jewel fancier from Washington, did not walk down the gang-plank. The purser broke into his cabin, to find it in wild disorder, spattered with blood, and empty.

A broken window indicated that Keene's body had plunged into the river, to be swept out to sea, probably never to be found. Could he have committed suicide? His family doubted it. Had he been murdered? That seemed logical. Who could have done it--and why? None could answer. Nor could anyone tell whether Keene had a ruby he habitually carries in his vest pocket, when he sailed from the capital at six o'clock the night before.

Neither could they reveal why he had started for Norfolk, nor--more pertinently-- why he, an elderly and dignified man, had worn a jaunty brown derby on his graying head. Police Mystified Had lie done so to attract atten- tion that a deadly fate awaited him within his tiny two- bunk cabin? Police could not, would not say Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia authorities all refused to enter the case officially. They said the crime did not occur in their jurisdiction, that it took place Pick-ups Theodore Struttman, three miles west of Jefferson City, was treated at his physicians office yesterday morning for injuries suffered when he was attacked by a dog on the farm of Luther Landrum, in the same district, yesterday morning. on federal waters. Chief J.

Edgar Hoover of the G-men said inland waterways and crimes perpetrated thereon were of his business. Apparently the perfect murder had been committed, in the perfect place, impossible of solution, if for no other reason than that there was no one to solve it. Only the determination of the missing man's son, Lieut. Charles F. Keene, of the U.

S. Navy, -kept the case from being closed. Obtaining a two-weeks leave from the service, he rushed to Washington, rounded up witnesses him-self, and prevailed upon the marine inspection and navigation service 10 open its inquiry, first of its kind ever to be held in Washington. Richard Brewer, of Eldon, underwent an appendectomy at St. Mary's hospital this morning.

Hobert Scholten and Haley Wheatley left today for Topeka to return a convict to the prispn here. The prisoner is serving a term in Leavenworth but refused to waive extradition. Hugo Velter, 909 Madison street, is recovering from an appendectomy. Fifty workmen are employed putting McClung State park in condition for the opening June 9. The most dangerous block in the city is being sidewalked on Chestnut between Elm and Dunklin streets.

The block is blind both ways and there have been many near accidents there. The annual state rifle and pistol matches are to be held here tomorrow and Sunday. Some of the best shots in Missouri and Illinois are expected here. Richard Kolar was fined and sent to jail for fifteen days by Judge Wheatley yesterday for speeding. Governor Lloyd C.

Stark said today he had accepted an invitation to participate in the program Tuesday morning dedicating the postoffice at Richmond, Ma I he new building will be dedicated by Postmaster General James A. Farley. Extradition of L. McBride, alias Lawrence McMullen, wanted in tt. Louis county on a first degree murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of Toddie V.

Phelps on Jan. 18, 1929, was sought requisition papers signed late yesterday by Governor Lloyd C. Stark. McBride is in prison in California. Governor Lloyd C.

Stark signed a requisition late yesterday for to Butler county from JEFFERSON CITY POST-TRIBUNE SIElHEflRT OF Gladys MacKnight Near Collapse as Her Lawyer Reveals She Will Turn Against Former Suitor rom Newport, of James Cherry charged with criminal assault on 15-year-old girl last January. Air Weather Station Rises LONDON, May 1 A radio station which will flash weather reports across hundreds of miles of ocean to the machines on the proposed transatlantic air service is being completed at Ryn- anna, seaplane base, on the west coast of Ireland. Rynannia is than 1,900 miles from Fort Bat- wood, Newfoundland Bomb Fans on Ohioan CANTON, May. "Cat-tails" Used in Quilts GROESBECK, May 21 ---(UP)--Mrs. Preston Lloyd has a new filler for o.uilts.

She uses "cat-tails. a- tail lint is light in weight, can be laundered, fluffs up like a eather bed when sunned, and is as warm as wool explained. Church Has Bus Service RALEIGH, N. May 21-- (UP) --The ISiegro First Baptist church of Raleigh has bought a bus to bong children to Sunday School. It will collect 300 students, travel- a aroun basement of a vacant building recently, when six sticks of dynamite, with a fuse attached bounced off his head.

He walked to police headquarters, surnriscd and frightened, and reported mddent. Patrolmen obtained the home-made bomb. Two Canadians Honored OTTAWA, Ont. May 21-(UP) dlstin uis hed Canadians, who have no i CITY, N. May Sev enteen-year-old Gladys Macknight almost collapsed at her murder trial today as her lawyer revealed to the jury she would turn against her former choir boy sweetheart and accuse him ldinf! the hat chet which killed her mother.

The girl closed her eyes and swayed, and police matrons, hold- her by the arms, helped her from the room as a luncheon recess was called. The State Rests The state had rested its case and Gladys' lawyer, R. Lewis Kennedy, had told the 12-man jury what the girl's story would be when she took the stand in her own defense. He said she would accuse her co-defendant, Donald Wightman, Id of wielding the hatchet which killed her mother. George T.

Vickers, counsel for Wigntman, waived his opening plea. to Kennedy said he would show that the youth was the one who swung the hatchet and Gladys would testify she was unaware of what had happened until her mother collapsed in the daughter's arms. The killing occurred, Kennedy said, in a dramatic life and death struggle between the mother the girl and Donald. Kennedy said it would be shown that Gladys and Donald were standing together in the kitchen, exchanging caresses when the mother suddenly appeared at a door leading from a porch. Knife hi Her Hand She had a knife in her hand and raised it menacingly, Kennedy When Gladys saw, the attorney went on, she wrestled with her mother, then seized a second knife, and another struggle ensued, until the mother collapsed in the girl's arms.

It was only then, Kennedy said that Gladys saw the blood stained hatchet in Donald's hands. The youth's counsel, Col. Vickers, told reporters after the recess was called: "I waive my opening because I refuse to place the hatchet in hands. If the evidence places it there, that's different." PROGRAM Kilocycle. SATURDAY, MAY 22 Red About Time Hill Billies Summary.

Musical Clock Missouili Far News Musical Clock (cont'd) Cowboys Morning Melodies Lou's Household Chat Men Fortunes Around party Haeggi, Swiss-American Baritone of the Ozarks Bandwagon" Moods Log Hour Music arry User's orchestra Rhapsody the Mall Room Hour Recital Outlaws Upon a Time Frew, Songs Col. of the Air' "Musical Half-Hour" (Scruggs-Guhleman Lumber Co.) Folks Frolic Hall St. Louis Cardinal-Brooklyn Dodger Game Melodies Hour Insurance Talk SEES MSONO EiENH (Continued from Page 1) stoically while the noose and hood were adjusted and the pricst intoned the prayers of the C1 llcy room holdl P- After church. robbing the place Barr inauired son to Galena. He was handcuffed to Deputy F.

A. Moore of Stone county. Sheriff Henry Simmons of Taney county and Otto Wolf, Taney constable, were in the party. Jackson refused to eat 'when he first arrived, but later, asked for coffee. He walked firmly, and his face was set in hard lines.

"I've got too much to say to begin now," he told one by-stand- cr who tried to question him. "I have to pay the penalty and I'm ready, don't care." 'Sheriff Coin was-in charge of the death watch. Several deputies and state highway policemen kept him company. Jackson was 33. Negro Dies on Gallows In Jackson Jail KANSAS CITY, May 21-(UP)--Dudley (Hardface) Barr, a 40-year-old Mississippi born Negro, was hanged in the New Jackson county jail today for the murder of William Milton, a Negro policy writer.

Barr, who embraced the Catholic religion, dropped through the trap on the 15th floor of the county building at 6 o'clock. He was cut down 13 minutes' later. He was the first man executed in the building. Ban- killed Milton in 1932 connection in having with thP -r a the Canadian efficiency decoration." They are Lord Beaver- Borden, mattresses and 1 anadlan war-time Prime a t- May young girls went on an imaginary treasure hunt here and found one. The church is 124 Find Pot of 8, dug up an old pail in wluch $200 worth of old coins and currency had been buried.

Jean Francois Pilatre de Bozier court scientist, was the first tu- Straw Whiskers' Help Farmers Lick Erosion GROWS 'BEARD dams," mad soil erosion. By PAUL D. SHOEMAKER AP Farm Editor ATHENA, May stranger were to drive throug here he might suspect farmers trying to grow new brooms from A he handle, deep a few inche dams of straw above ground. That's what "whisker look like. Actually, they are a devjsed means of control- ff on ana erosion in being seeded for Protection.

i were difficul- getting the from a heavy rain would wash out SGeded grass Farmers the dams not only slowed down the run-off water but caused it to drop the silt it was carrying. by Edwj Hill, state coordinator of the soil conservation service, the dams I A A aie all the fanner needs to build spade and straw church. A Galena undertaker took charge of the body. The spiraled hangman's knot and the end of the rope still dangled from the neck The father. A.

J. Jackson, an elderly Ozark farmer, was here to claim the body for burial. The father visited Jackson during the death -watch last night and prevailed" upon him to see a Protestant minister, the Rev. Spert Watson of the Church of Christ at Maynard, Ark. A lawyer, General Rogers of Ozark, also spent most of the night with the condemned man and tried to get a reprieve from the governor.

The crowd was on hand in full force by 4 a. m. Many families had spent the night in this town which has a normal population of They tramped the on the courthouse lawn beside lunch baskets and milled about the stockade. This is the fringe of the Shepherd of the Hills country, abounding in rural tradition and in cedars that provide most of the Christmas trees for the region Hanging is a technical business. Sheriff I.

H. Coin of Stone county was in charge, but several sheriffs of other Ozark counties came to offer expert advice. Sheriff Scott Curtis of Springfield brought the rope and black hood, the same ne used in the executive of "Sonny" McDanicl in 1935. Boys Peep Into Cell Spectators who came earlj' were let inside the stockade yesterday evening to inspect the gallows. The rope and (rap were given three good tests with sandbags.

Small boys were (he most persistent and only 600. streets, sat hem prisoner. One elderly through a 1 to see lady saw Jackson when he was brought in yesterday from Jefferson City i i shore sorry I seed though cause he ooked so like," she mumbled. him pbbing the place Barr inquired if anyone knew him. None spoke but Milton smiled.

Barr shot him. He was tried twice. He showed no emotion when his plea for clemency was refused by Gov. Lloyd C. Stark, and he showed none today when he walked unassisted into the gallows room.

His arms were harnessed to his sides when he stepped from the elevator which carried him from the jail four floors below. The Rev. Arthur M. Tighe, who walked, praying at his side, shook his hand anc steped back as Barr took his place on the trap. The Negro said he was prepared for death.

He did not comment on the Milton slaying. A minute later the signal was given and five deputy sheriffs who could not see the scaffold, pressed electric switches, one of which controlled the trap. The. other four were dummies and no deputy knew which was the hangman. Age May Bar Divorce BUFFALO, N.

May 21 -(UP)--When a couple live together for 55 years they are' too old to separate, Supreme Court Justice John V. Maloney believes. The judge ordered attorneys for Mrs Carrie Kellogg, 69, and her husband, George A. Kellogg, 71, to effect a reconciliation. REFUGEE YflCHT FIRED BY BOMBS BILBUO PORT Friday, May 1937 Two Wed in Beer lor PUEBLO, May 21--(UP) --Justice of the Peace S.

A. Bates performed his 500th marriage cer- emoney in a beer parlor, joining in wedlock Kenneth E. Jones and Marcella M. Baumgartner, who got him out of bed and provided transportation to the brew dispensary for the event. A survey ship ot the British navy, the Challenger, i making charts of.

the dangerous coasts of Labrador. These charts are the first ever to be made of this coast- and the survey will require the th ground and channel is pushed in covered with earth," leaving "the nds protruding. The dams ordinarily are placed two to four feet apart. COUNTY MANAGER WANTED findUStr US of inl and averse ability to care for our business in Cole County. No 8 ell.

iJl gs an will have permanent business of his own. Cash invest- ri 00 P-tected and tamable. Liberal credit plan. References given and ficmandcd. Address paper, Jefferson City, Missouri.

Boat Reported Blazing In Bay of Biscay With Scores Aboard; Rebels Continue Drive on Basques HENDAYE, Franco Spanish Frontier, May 21-- (AP)---Insurgent Spaniards broadcast today an announcement that incendiary bombs, dropped during an insur- gent-basquet government air battle, had fired the Basque Yacht Goizeko-Izarra, carrying refugees out of Bilbao. An insurgent communique said the yacht was blazing "somewhere in the Bay of Biscay." Although the communique said the Goizeka-Izzara was carrying an undisclosed number of refugees "to England," it believed she was bound, instead, for Bordeaux, where she landed 500 Bilbao children on a previous trip. It was not known whether any children were aboard at present. Carries High Officials (A larger ship, the Spanish steamer Habana, was, selected to carry 4,000 children from Bilbao to Southampton.) were other insurgent re- a Remarriage Follows Divorce Of Elderly Missouri Couple INDEPENDENCE, May 21 --(UP)-For 44. years Fielding S.

Neal and his wife lived happily, raised 11 children. Then they began to quarrel. That was ten years ago. For two more years they lived together unhappily, then they were separated, divorced. Mrs.

Neal went to Nevada, married Johnson P. Wyatt, but still wasn't happy. Today, she and her first husband were reunited and happy again. They were remarried yesterday at the courthouse. He is 74- his bride, 70.

Mrs. Neal said she divorced Wy- ait at Nevada "this winter." She came back, she said, "because Fielding and I were such old friends that we just decided it would be best if we spent our last years together." It was in 1883 when they first walked to the altar of the church Blue Springs to wed. On Jan- uary 5, 1927, Mrs. Neal sued for Th PrCe SU cn "indignities." the ShG dismisse Then, in July, 1929, she was back in court again charging her husband, had mistreated her "bar- banously." Neal filed a cross- complaint saying his wife had made him sleep in the attic, where he contracted rheumatism that compelled him to walk with a cane, and then she made him chop wood in spite of his ailment riie divorce was granted in October, 1929 and Mrs. Neal married Wyatt in 1933, just about the time she would have been celebrating her golden wedding anniversary with Neai.

Neal was reticent about the reconciliation but neighbors noticed he was busy this week cleaning up his apartment, then he left home yesterday wearing his best clothes. They planned a quiet honeymoon at home. ports that the ship was carrying several high officials of the Basque government as well as 7,000,000 pesetas worth of jewels and silver belonging to members of the Basque cabinet. But nothing more definite concerning her passengers or cargo was immediately available. On land Bilbao's mud-smeared militiamen went over the top today in a series of stabbing counterattacks to beat insurgent invaders back from the city's last line of fortifications.

The counter-drives, launched yesterday with support of a squadron of government planes, were reported by the Bascjue defense council to have put Italian-reinforced forces of Gen. Emilio Mola to flight in the Munguia sector, nine miles north of the Basque capital. The American Philosophical Society is the oldest learned society in the United States, tracing its origin to the "Junto" organized by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1727. Four Held In Indiana Admit Operations In Missouri and Kansas INDIANAPOLIS, May (A State Police sought today to tie together stray ends of a widespread grain-weighing "rac- asser ted has re- TMH swinging of thous- ars from elevator operators of the middle west by Detectives here were ving Uleir na mes as lk 'r, 50 GIenn A and Alva Price, 29, all 0 Coffeyville, and Ora 45 of Indianapolis. rJn rne Sh ields and Russell Coons, state police detectives who arrested the men, they told a story or belonging to an organization which paid "royalties" to an ingenious "master mind" whom they knew as William Howard of fct.

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