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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1939 PAGE TWO Phone 2263 Annenberg Indicted On Lottery Charge stand, said after the charges were filed: am going to vindicate myself in the face of the many fabrications against me." Vern Everhart, an oil station attendant, testified just before the defense rested, that on the day after the spanking he hoard young Wiser assert that didn't hurt me a bit." Hugh Kuhns, another witness, said Wiser had fallen about an old oil well while playing, the day after the spanking. Court adjourned until tomorrow after each side completed closing arguments. The judge will deliver his charge in the morning. attributable to shock in the case of a diabetic would come within ten minutes. His testimony was corroborated by Dr.

J. F. Stim- mervile, Oil City. Walter Slaughenhaupt, a teacher at Sligo school, testified he witnessed the spanking of the Wiser boy, Dick Greenawalt and Ronald Wilson, his 11-year-old companions, the past March. Slaughenhaupt termed it a moderate spanking." The Wiser father, Homer, a mine foreman, filed charges against the principal.

Hartman, whose attorneys said he would be called to the witness CLARION. Aug, 30 associate teacher and two physicians came today to the defense jf Harrison A. Hartman. 37-year-old Sligo school principal, charged with assault and battery for paddling a boy who later died. Dr.

H. M. Wellman, nearby St. Petersburg, a specialist on diabetes, testified that in his opinion spanking could not have caused death. Prosecution witnesses had testified the boy, 10-year-old Robert Wiser, died five days after he was punished with two other boys for throwing jelly beans.

Death was attributed to 'a diabetic coma induced by violence and shock. Dr. Wellman testified death Two Wilmington Deaths Seen Poison Ring Victims World News In a Paragraph Press Photos AROL MARMON and PRINCK TCHKOTOUA (inset) SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 30 A son was born today to the former Carol Marmon, daughter of the automobile manufacturer and wife of Prince Nicholas Tchkotoua, of Georgia. It was the fourth child born to the couple who married at Ensenada, Lower California, June 21, 1934.

MAM WTNS JACKSON, Miss, Aug. 30 Virtually complete unofficial returns today gave Paul Johnson a margin of more than 25.000 votes over Martin Sennett Conner in their contest yesterday for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Mississippi. Johnson had the backing of Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, an advocate of a third term for President Roosevelt, while Conner was supported by Senator Pat Harrison, foe of Bilbo and an opponent of some aspects of the New Deal. torney general indicated two of the rings leaders arranged for insurance on residents of Wilmington.

Kelley did not name the suspected Wilmington victims. He said, however, assistants to the Delaware attorney general have conferred with Philadelphia authorities on procedure for exhumation of bodies of suspected victims. The district attorney said his staff was continuing an investigation of possible pioson murders bv the ring in Jersey City, N. Brooklyn. N.

and the Bronx section of New York. "Only today, for Kelley added, conferred with a New York druggist who told us that in 1934 two men. both identified positively as principals in the ring, approached for the purpose of purchasing what he described as a huge amount of a poisonous said the drug was so deadly, and the amount required so large, that he refused to deal with PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 30 District Attorney Charles F.

Kelley announced tonight Delaware officials are working with members of the Philadelphia homicide squad to learn if two Wilmington deaths resulted from activities of Philadelphia's insurance murder ring. The prosecutor said information in possession of the Delaware at- Guilty, Says Killer QUALITY, District Attorney Buron Fitts said the State would demand the death penalty. Fitts quoted Cook as saying robbery had been his motive in the attacks on the three young women over a of months. LOS ANGELES, Aug, 30 Pale and nervous. 20-year-old DeWitt Clinton Cook pleaded guilty today to charges of murdering attractive Anya Sosoyeva, one-time Follies dancer, and attacking two other young women.

A moments before. Cook had appeared in handcuffs before the grand jury to be indicted for the Sosoyeva slaying, an assault upon Delia Bogard, 17, and an assult and ravishment of Myrtle Wagner, also 17. The unemployed printer will be taken to court Friday for presentation of evidence to determine the degree of murder and for sentence. NIGHT SESSIONS HELD TO SPEED UP TRIAL NOTICE! YORK. Aug.

30 --Judge Robert Laird held a session of court tonight to speed up the trial of Herman A. Hoke, Jackscn township nationally known chicken fancier and breeder, charged with murder. The CommonweaHh claims Kathryn Moose, 28. whose body was found on a vacant lot in the western section of York May 7, was strangled to death by Hoke. He claims she died a natural death in his automobile and he placed her body on the lot.

We are as near to you as your phone. Avoid the Inconvenl enre of going out town to get your food needs. Phone 1460 'Vr Deliver PLANE LANDS AT WHITEHORSE SEATTLE, Aug. 30 The Pan American Airways airport manager at Whitehorse, Y. messaged today the Japanese good will plane Nippon landed at 1:08 p.

m. (6:08 p. Pottstown time) from Fairbanks, Alaska, and would remain at Whitehorse overnight. The flying time from Fairbanks was three hours, 18 minutes. Jov Hodges (above), film actress and singer, arrived in Omaha, by airliner yesterday to meet Gilbert H.

Doorly, 32 assistant managing editor of the Omaha World Herald and son of the owner. Henry C. Doorly. The actress, who once renounced love to assure a film income of $125.000, said her Hollywood friends would be to learn she and Doorly would be married Saturday in Des Moines, her home town. MOTHER, DAUGHTER JAILED IN TARRING Jvrwts CALGARY, Alta Aug.

30 (Canadian Press) Mrs. Ethel Allen, 53. and her daughter, Betty, 22 were sentenced to prison today for the tarring and feathering of Miss Alice Knowles. 28-year-old nurse, the past July 18. Magistrate C.

Sinclair sentenced Mrs. Allen to 45 days imprisonment and imposed an additional 15 days in default of court The daughter was sentenced to 15 days at hard labor and drew an additional 30 days in default of a $100 fine. The gray-haired mother and the blonde daughter were convicted of assaulting Miss Knowles in what witnesses testified was an effort by them to break up an alleged friendship between the nurse and Dr. J. L.

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30 Canadian taxi-cab driver told authorities today an unemployed carpenter who hired his cab in Ottawa the past Sunday for a trip to Washington but on arrival here failed to pay the $180 fare. The passenger, who gave his name as Maurice Kent, Los Angeles, was turned over to immigration authorities to determine whether he entered the United States legally. The driver, Fred Oliver, was left with only 15 cents in his pocket and an empty gas tank. At the request of the Canadian legation, however, his boss wired him funds for the return trip. Potatoes Basket A CYCLONE REPORTED JACKSONVILLE, Aug.

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