Daily News from New York, New York • 365

DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 23. 193S Mayor's LOWS TTJT7 HIiHig ILfiimdly dDniifly si IHIidsis oses WT ecmers mm reny Mouse (Special to The Ne) Trenton, July 22. The Lindbergh murder case produced the latest in a grim succession of cruel hoaxes today: The $25,000 reward which had half the country searching for the murderer does not exist. The hoax was revealed to lly TED PRAGER. Mayor LaGuardia called out the police yesterday and gave the bum's rush to minions of Park Commissioner Moses, who were busy taking apart the Manhattan terminal of the 92d St-Astoria ferry line.

The Mayor severed diplomatic relations with his aid and ordered out an emergency squad to repair the damage, on the ground that no one not even Commissioner Moses can get funny TESTS REFUTE BANDS MAN Oil with the orderly proc- Brcahs Ribs at Party DEATH GIRL'S Gov. Harold G. Hoffman by Attorney General David T. Wilentz. The reward, he said, was offered by the State Legislature under Gov.

A. Harry Moore, but the money has never been appropriated. Thus four major claimants to this windfall of cash two gasoline station attendants who accepted a $10 gold certificate from Bruno Richard Hauptmann; a bank teller who identified the bill as part of the $50,000 ransom, and a truckman who found the slain Lindbergh baby's body saw their dreams of affluence abruptly vanish. Unless Gov. Hoffman chooses to ask the present Legislature for the money; unless they pass a bill and he signs it, specifically appropriating $25,000, the reward never will be paid.

Gov. Hoffman would not reveal his plans, but the frequent doubts he has expressed that Hauptmann perpetrated the crime Beautiful Arline Judge re ported for work at Hollywood yesterday wearing a brace to hold two broken ribs. She and Clifton Webb fell when dancing at party. if i By EDNA FERGUSON, (Staff Correspondent of The Newg New London, July 22. Test tubes and microscopes disputed Robert A.

Simpson, 23, popular local band leader, as he was held incommunicado in jail here today, charged with murder after the fatal plunge of blue-eyed Ellen Sullivan, 17. Simpson, beginning a hunger strike in his cell, insisted to police that the pretty telephone operator esses of tearing down a ferry slip. As a result, he kept a gang of city workmen busy most of last night, undoing what Moses had accomplished during the afternoon. The Commissioner was accused by LaGuardia of jumping the gun when he put his huskies to work Tuesday to demolish the ferry slip to make way for the new East River Drive. The Mayor's words were polite compared with the language of a ferry captain who found the slip blocked by a brace of scows, and had to unload his passengers at a fireboat landing at 90th St.

It took the Department of Plant and Structures twepty-four hours to get mad at Moses manhandling told him she was about to become a mother and tried to make him marry her. Dr. Charles Kaufman, medical examiner, asserted flatly that she was not pregnant that, in fact, he believed she had Pi nl Robert A. Simpson never had a lover until she was attacked a before she fell to dance hall window few minutes death from a (GuwE IFEs28 una 9 Ritmms A night of terror in a secluded lovers' trysting place, in which her companion committed suicide and tried to kill her, too, was related to Nassau police yesterday by Dorothy Hoeppner, of 129 Sunnyside Erooklyn. Miss Hoeppner told of having last Saturday.

"I can't tell whether the assault was completed," Dr. Kaufman several "That Said. wiJl require Walter Lyle Hit dreamt of richet manith. been the companion of Harold F. Sissenwein, 37, a patrolman in the New York Po at least, that he did it single- handed cast doubts on the possibility that the money ever would be raised.

Only a Big Gesture. The magnificent open-handednes3 of the Legislature, which in May, 1932, suspended its rules and authorized Gov. Moore to offer the reward, impressed the whole world. The claimants to the non-existent reward are Walter Lyle and Johnny Lyons, attendants in a floor board. When he started the engine, the interior of the car, whose windows had been closed against the chill night air, soon filled with carbon monoxide fumes.

As Miss Hoeppner began to loose consciousness, her eyes closed, and her head fell against the back of her seat. The policemen concluded the gas had killed her, and he switched off the engine. Then drawing a revolver, he shot himself through the head. Inspector Harold King of the Nassau police, said the shot ssved the girl's life. Its sound aroused her from her stupor, and gave her (Continued page 9 eol.

J) lnnpector LeMartino lice Department. He took her to ride in his coupe, and they parked in a cltrrtTp of scrub oak near Hempstead, while he pretended to fix a tire. Instead, attached a hose to the exhaust pipe of the motor, and thrust the other Warner-Quinlan service station at Repelt ferry houtt rmtttt. of its terminal, but it finally got the Mayor steamed up to action yesterday afternoon. "The city cannot, of course, submit to having any of it services or departments interfered with by force," he announced.

1 The late Patrolman Sissenwein end through a 2115 Lexington Ave; William R. Strong, teller in the Mt. Morris Continued on page 19, eol. t) i Mayor's Statement. The late Ellen SulliTan Wat attached be form death, ro topty thovet.

days. But she was violently IFtPir JHltmirtvestt fyHwaa BBaaUEI JACK TURCOTT. Hop to it, you hoofers you're right on the deadline forfyonr own abilities on a dance floor? the biggest break of your lives, Thereupon, by his order, a sfjuai of cops under Inspector John J. Da Martino swooped down upon Moses henchmen last night and chad them away from the terminal. The, demolition crew was succeeded by a repair juad of thirty-four.

Under the direction of Deputy Commissioner E. i. McCrews tht-r went ta work on the all-night job of repairing the slip and the approach in order that service may be resumed this morning. Explaining his action in a statement issued last night, the Mayor said: "The ferry serviee cannot be discontinued without the authority of Don't wait another day! Don't? abused. Her clothes were stained with blood.

The attack must have been in the dance hall because it was only a frw minutes before she was picked up dying." He Says She Was Drank. Ellen's father, Joseph A. H. Sullivan, a postal clerk, drove her to the Danceland Casino last Friday night. Simpson was the orchestra leader and, after the dance was over, she went with him a party of friends to a restaurant.

They had a few beers, then left. (Continued on page col. 1) This contest, yoa know, is open only to amateurs. Every one will be starting off with you from scratch. The judges at all eliminations and at the finals in Madison Square Garden on Aug.

will be world-wide authorities on ballroom dancing. They know how to look for the fine little points, those or- you're out in the cold. Youll be left flat, with the biggest chance any one has ever bad for fame and glory passing you by, because yoa are a victim of your own indecision. Why wait and delay? Why hesitate about a 50-cent registration investment? Why worry about sit around hemming and hawing, wondering if you ought or oughtn't! Grab yourselves partners and sign up at once for the second annual Harvest Moon Ball, the greatest dance show ever produced. One of these days you'll wake tip to find that The News has closed the- registration period and that (Continued on page S3, col.

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