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MARCH 10, 1937. PART TJ WEDNESDAY MORNING. DEATH CASE JUROR OUSTED READY TO STICK IT OUT TILL HE GETS TOW Nine Sentenced in Cult Plot Black Legion Men Given From One to Five Years Each Mark Requa Laid fo Rest Hoover Attends Rites and Pays Tribute to Republican Leader i V. it- lfV-' -j Hv 1 VWjT- r-t DETROIT, March 9. (JP) Nine men were sentenced today to prison terms of one to five years each for a Black Legion plot to kill Arthur -L.

Kingsley, news paper publisher of Highland Eastern Quake Theory Given Movement of Rocks Under Cincinnati Arcfi Cited by Geologists CHICAGO, March 9. (Exclusive) In the earthquake which was felt over a wide area in the North Central States last night geologists saw today a movement of deep rocks under what is called the Cincinnati arch, formed about 400,000,000 years ago when the Taconic Mountains were thrown up in the East and more than 60 per cent of the con tinent was covered with seas. "This region," Prof. Rollin T. Chamberlain, geologist of the University of Chicago, said, "has been uplifted slightly in the geo-logical past.

There is an old fault or slippage in the Cincin nati arch which probably has been under a condition of strain and has readjusted itself. "There never has been an active fault in this region in the past and we do not expect one in the future. I assume the fault is deep because the disturbance covered such a wide area." rark. The sentences were pro nounced by Recorder's Judge Brennan, who convicted the men a week ago after hearing a month-long trial without a jury. Seven of the sixteen defendants were acquitted.

FORMER OFFICIALS Among those sentenced are N. Ray Markland, former Mayor of suburban Highland Park, and Frank Peterlin, who says this is the thirty-first time his auto has bogged in street half a block from his home in Joliet, and that he has paid a total of $62 for towing, is shown in sit-down protest designed to obtain improvement from street commissioner, Wirephoto Arthur F. Lupp, once milk inspector for the Detroit Board of Health and named by investigators as Michigan CAR STUCK IN MUD, of the secret society. The men were convicted of Mrs. Simpson Joins Gay Party at French Chateau of Friend plotting to shoot Kingsley in 1933 because of his political opposition to Markland, who then was Mayor but later was defeat SO DRIVER WAGES SIT-DOWN STRIKE 4 SANTA BARBARA, March 9.

(Exclusive) With the simplicity that marked his personal life last rites were said for Mark L. Requa, former national Republican committeeman from California, Federal Fuel Administrator in the World War and petroleum waste conservator, this afternoon at-Scrra Val Mar, his Montecito hilltop estate. HOOVKRS mKSEXT Former President Hoover, whose campaigns he had helped manage, and Mrs, Hoover drove from Palo Alto to sit with Mrs. Florence Herrick Requa, the widow, his son and daughters and grandchildren through the Episcopalian service read by Rev. John W.

De Forrest Pettus, rector of All Saints by the Sea, Montecito church. Banked by floral tributes which came from all parts of the United States, the coffin rested under a pergola. On a lawn overlooking Santa Barbara Channel sat 200 friends from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Barbara where he had lived for the last eight years. BOYS' CHOIR SINGS The vested boys' choir sang several of Requa's favorite hymns. The family and Intimate friends proceeded to Santa Barbara Cemetery, where brief committal services were conducted.

In tribute former President Hoover said: "Mark Requa was one of the most honest, most loyal, most idealistic men that California has produced and developed. He never would accept public office he has performed great services for the people of this State and this nation. His passing is a great loss to America." RELATIVES ATTEND With Mrs. Requa were their son Lawrence of Salt Lake City, and daughters, Mrs. W.

Coy Fil-mer, San Francisco, and Mrs. John Henry Russell of Los Angeles, and several of their seven grandchildren. Mrs. Amy Requa Hall, a sister, of Oakland, was here for the services, and Lawrence Harris, a cousin. ed for re-election.

Judge Brennan told the men he did not sentence them to five- hinted a "very distinguished person" may join the party. They declined to disclose this person's identity. Such a house party, at which the servants will wear full livery, raised speculation as to whether the former British King might join the group later. year terms because none had a criminal record. PAROLE IX YEAR All nine will be eligible for parole at the end of the minimum one-year The others sentenced are Al- JOLIET (111.) March 9.

to-Frank Peterlin entered the second day of a sit-down strike today in his automobile stuck in the mud on May street. He reported a restful sleep in his sedan and vowed he will stay there, blocking the narrow roadway, until Street Commissioner Sam Shepley repairs the street. Commissioned Shepley tried to talk it over yesterday, but Eastern Trial Begins for Two Angelenos NEW YORK, March 9. (JP) Trial of four men on charges of conspiracy and using the mails to defraud in a scheme asserted-ly involving solicitation of subscriptions for an investigation of several concerns that had ceased to pay investors began today in Federal court. The defendants are Albert Russell Griffith and Charles M.

Gane, both of Los Angeles, Chester E. Car nock of Providence, R. and W. V. Lee of Anderson, Ind.

vis Clark, a former automobile plant foreman; Rudyard Kipling Wellman, a garage owner; Wil-lard Foster, suspended Highland Park fireman; Frank Howard, Third Trial Denied Convicted Teacher MONTS (France) March 9. (JP) Mrs. Wallis Simpson arrived today at turreted Chateau de Cande to join a gay house party and stay for an indefinite period in Touraine. She drove up to the chateau in the front seat of a low-slung sedan. At the wheel was a man believed to be Herman L.

Rogers, her Riviera host. Rogers said they would stay at least a month. At first the car swung into the wrong drive and nearly drove into the midst of a government powder factory. The car stopped with screaming brakes and skidded around in the mud to enter the right lane. The Chateau de Cande, where American-born Mrs.

Charles E. Bodaux welcomed her guests, was decorated with 10.000 francs ($150) worth of flowers in preparation for the Some members of the party suspended fire captain; Matthias O. Gunn, suspended street railway lineman; Hubert James, and Roy Hepner, a Black Legion colonel. WISE (Va.) March 9. (UK-Edith Maxwell, mountain school couldn't get through the mud to Peterlin's car.

Peterlin had bogged down trying to drive away from home, so he just stayed there. He said he has been stuck thirty-one times in the street and has paid S62 for lowing charges in the past year. Mrs. Mary Plettner, juror in trial of Mrs. Helen Love, shown yesterday after she was pronounced drunk while she was deliberating fate of the accused widow.

Time photo Mrs. Love Convicted of Slaying Mate at New Year Eve Party teacher facing a twenty-year Canadian Commons prison sentence after being twice convicted on charges of killing her father, was denied a third trial today by Judge Ezra T. Carter. She is permitted to remain at Oil Permit Granted The City Council yesterday adopted an ordinance granting a conditional variance to permit property on Domingiiez avenue, at street, in the Wilmington district, to be used for oil March Field Bomber Votes lis Confidence liberty under $15,000 bond pending a new appeal to the State Lands in Louisiana Supreme Court. OTTAWA (Ont.) March 9.

(U.R) Conservative Leader Bennett's amendment to the budget, expressing non-confidence in the government because of its failure to deal with unemployment, was defeated by 1 15 to 57 votes in the House of Commons today. The amendment was supported by all opposition groups in the House and one Liberal (government) member. MYER SIE6EL sentence because of her physical condition until 2 p.m., and when she still was reported unable to appear the matter was put over until 9:30 a.m. today. TRAILED TO CLUB Dep.

Dist-Atty. Crail charged during the trial that Mrs. Love, in a jealous frenzy because Love had broken a New Year's Eve dinner engagement with her and taken his mother instead, trailed him to an exclusive Santa -Monica beach club and shot him to death. Through her testimony Mrs. SHREVEPORT (La.) March 9.

One of the Army's huge four-engined bombers landed at Barksdale Field here at 3J3 p.m. today after a nonstop flight from March Field, Cal. It probably will take oil tomorrow morning for Langley Field, Va. Continued from First Page 92G0 Burton Way, one of the jurors, was declared intoxicated. She was examined in the jury room where the jury was deliberating the fate of a woman whose life was at stake, and upon being declared drunk by Dr.

Benjamin Blank, County Jail physician, she was dismissed from the jury and an alternate, Mrs. Maude G. Banta of 1125 Third avenue, named to take her place. LIQUOR FOUND George B. Palmer, court bailiff, testified to finding a pint bottle of grain alcohol, partly filled, concealed in the women's restroom of the jury's quarters.

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