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sAboftftok4takiiikma16ww4itinallaial THE MAIN EDITION Eta AS CITY STA1 TS VOL 61 NO 174 PIC 11Thin City9 CP ritil ko A-4 Else here 3 Cent KANSAS CITY MARCH 10 1911-MONDAY-18 PAGES A VICIOUS SLAYER Riff SEA HIM STINT OM PLANT TOOLS LEFT BY THE SLAYER (Additional Pictures on Page 3) rl Police Probe Indicates Careful Planning In Death of Leila Adele Welsh rre9 11 Ships Will Be Convoyed II British Continue Blockseet Dorian Says I Contractors' Crew Puts Up Tem porary Buildings and Oround Leveling Begins Chief Says its a Fiend's Work Chief Reed said this afternoon twenty-three men were busy on the Leila Welsh slaying case "I have worked on many crimes the last seventeen years" he said 'and this ks one of the most vicious It 14 the work of a fiend There was no evidence of robbery no evidence of criminal assault and the crime went far beyond any motive for revenge" Evidence today showed the intruder had tried first to enter the north window cf the bedroom the chief added Its screen had been pried loose frotn a hook and there were fresh pry marks The east window which had no screen finally was used for the entry THE SHIRT CLUE IS TRACED NEED WHEAT FROM Ut Si l' SPEED TO BE KEYNOTE That Italian Spokesman Warns the United States Again (Hy the Aisociated Primo) ROM! March Clay da Fascist editorial spokesman said today the British aid bill was "open intervention in the war against the axis" which eventual ly may bring into play the Rome Be lin-Tokyo 'pact "with many disagreeable surprises to England and the United States in the Pacific" "Isolated in its elementary reality" he said "Roosevelt's gesture Is a deliberate unprovoked move toward war" Admitting only the possibility that passage of the bill would prolong and complicate the war the authoritative editor said the bill could not affect its outcome "It is not enough that arms munitions and other war means leave the United States" he said "They must reach their Discarded Darment of Neighbor Been in Trash Box at 6118 Harrison rodins tiovernment Asks Wash ington for 18 Million Bushels for Unoccupied Part I' Bomber Assembly Unit of De tense Plan Must Be Ready in 120 Dais STEEL WILL ARRIVE SOON tio(IO WORD FOR GERMANS (4 Murderer May Have Watched Girl Undress Then Entered Her Bedroom 4---N7b '''''''4i? '114 4 1 ti 4 4 -5 so pow" Poot 000 4144 4' l'r 1 i1 't') N4 4 0 11 it4 1 1 t' i ''E: i 1 te' i' 4 fi: I l' I '9g rf '1' k4- 04 4 I Marshal Says Nazis Release 220 400 108 French Vessels Railroad Tracks Are Being Built to Handle the Daily Ship manta NO ARRESTS IN CASE Laboratory Examination of the Hammer and Knife Show No Fingerprints fARLEY RETURNS WITH PLEA Stronger Tie With south America Urged Atter Trip (BM the Associnted Preec) NEW YORK March 10---James A Farley former postmaster general returned on the liner Argentina today from his first trip to South America and said this country should try even more than it has to improve cultural and economic relations with the neighboring continent He would not discuss his own business and political plans BULLETIN think we have pretty good clue" A Punt lllll chief deputy sheriff said this after noon on leaving ihe Welsh With McKee Welsh 3616 East Fortythird street an uncle of the slain woman Purdome went to hisoffice As Purdome and the girl's uncle left the Welsh Jack Gibbs an investigator arrived and shortly with several men from the sheriff's office left the residence in a motor car the investigation with secrecy The hammer butcher knife and shirt left by the slayer were in the police laboratory for examination as was the blood-stained bedclothing Thomas Farley of the homicide squad said the hammer employed weighing about four pounds with one end rounded and the other pointed in chiFel fashidn was of the type normally used for dislodging railroad tie spikes The initials "UP" on it indicated Farley said it had once been the property of the Union Pacific railroad Nothing I Stolen Robbery is not considered a motive because Miss Welsh's watch and pieces of Jewelry lay on the dresser when her mother discovered the body about 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning Miss Welsh attended the police circus Saturday night with Richard Funk 3619 Bales avenue with whom she had dated occasionally the last four years After the circus they went to a cocktail lounge then to the Welsh home which Funk left shortly before 1:30 o'clock He gave police a statement detailing how he drove home after leaving Miss Welsh At the Skelly Oil company offices where he is employed as a clerk in the calculating department Funk said the young woman was her "usual cheerful friendly self" Saturday night "Leila likes to it and talk so after the police circus we went to a cocktail lounge in the Hotel Phillips Leila doesn't drink She sipped a coke and I had one drink She said nothing but of the ordinary and to sit and talk so after the police circus we went to a cocktail lounge in the Hotel Phillips Leila doesn't drink She sipped a coke and I had one drink She said nothing but of the ordinary and tREED IN ABR-AMOWITZ CASE City Star Photographs CLOSE-UP OP view of the instruments of death shows blood on the pounding head and chisel-like blade of the 4-pound 11- Ot InC2 14-Inch-long hammer and on the sharp blade of the II li-inch butcher knife SEARCH FOR clues in the slaying of Miss Leila Adele Welsh early yesterday in her bedroom were a bloodstained hammer and a butcher knife which William Myers police technician is examining 7 TIIE WEATHER-FA COLDLY WAITS TO KILL SWOPE POOL APPROVAL Washington Absolve Four Men in Slaying of Bride (By the Associated Press) WASHINGTON March police absolved four men today of implication in the slaying of a 29- year-old bride of one month Mrs Rose Simons Abramowitz of Kansas City who was strangled to death in her apartment Saturday Barney Abramowitz formerly of Kansas City an attorney for the social security board was expected to leave tonight with the body for Kansas City where funeral services will be held MURDERER TAKES HIS TIME IN WELSH SLAYING PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNS THE ORDER FOR $180000 A close check of the physical facts and questioning of about twenty-five persons all later released left police this afternoon leaning strongly on the belief a vicious sadist murdered Miss Leila Adele Welsh in her bedroom at 6109 12 midnight '35! 9 a 34 1 a 35:10 a 14 2 4 3411 a 35 3 I 34112 noon 36 4 111 341 1 in 37 5 a 331 2 43 a 321 3 45 7 a 331 4 in 46 8 a 341 Unoffitial Premeditation Di Shown In A ell POIIS Search for Gag Blocking or Bedroom Door and Oilier Details Transfer of Documents to Jefferbelt City Then here Will Be Followed by Assignment of Laborers Work on the 75-acre bomber assembly plant site in the Fairfax district was started today A "dredging" machine shuttled back and forth skimming the top of the ground to remove vegetation from the soil A crew of about twenty-five men was at work and Lon Whiles fore man said others would be employed as the project progressed Slane in Line for Jobe A small shed was the first temporary structure erected and there a line of men from Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas and Jackson Clay and Platte counties in Missouri waited to see Whiles or Arthur Row construction superintendent about employment The war department awarded the contract for construction of the bomber plant to be operated by North American Aviation Inc to the Tarlton Construction company of St Louis William Mc- Donald Construction company of St Louis and the Patti Constructiort company of Kansas City on a joint bid The organization on the construction site today were key men of the Patti company Engineers locating building lines were Sam Kaplan and George Kvaternick A cold wind swept across the site of the plant which will have more than 1 million square feet of floor space but there was no delay in putting machinery to use as quickly as it arrived Construction shacks were to be erected today and tomorrow and then a crew of workmen will be assigned to the task of erecting a tense around the site to keep crowds from interfering with the construction work Kaplam said Pile Drivers In Next As soon as the ground is leveled and all the vegetation removed pile driving machinery will be pet to work driving pilesa which foundation blocks 'Of the Structure will rest Workmen from the Kansas City Industrial Land company are constructing railroad tracks to the building site Its first use will be for delivery of 5000 tons of steel now being fabricated at Muskogee Ok The steel will begin arriving at the site shortly before March 20 Delivery will be made at an average rate of 250 tons daily The war department in its agreement with general contractor sped-lied that construction be finished within 120 days which would make the completion date sometime next July DENY A CHURCHILL DEATH The City and Vicinity: Cloudy becoming fair tonight with a low near 25 Tuesday fair high near 36 degrees' Relative humidity 630 a 77 per cent Relative humidity 12:30 67 per cent Wind velocity 12:30 in 20 miles from the northwest River stage today 56 feet fall of 6 of a foot Lake of the Ozarks 6:30 a 34 feet below full reservoir 4 Precipitation in twenty-four hours ending 6:30 a 01 inch iaovernment forecast for grain area on market page) Rockhill road early yesterday So far no helpful fingerprints had i been found on the hammer and butcher knife used by the slayerI Neighbors were being questioned as to suspicious characters seen in the locality Every tip was being probed1 didn't appear worried about any- Thomas Farley inspector in charge 1 Funk said he "didn't know" if of the homicide squad said and he anyone else dated Miss Welsh He welcomed more I met her six years ago at a fraternity dance and had been going with her To Room as She Sleeps occasionally until a year ago when "The way it shapes up" he assert- "we began going out together three ed "Miss Welsh's bedroom was en- or four times a week" The subject tered through a window while she 1 of marriage never had been was asleep She was killed without broached he enough noise being made to cause To name After a Call her mother brother or neighbors to The youth first learned of the investigate although the mother and death about 11:30 o'clock yesterday a neighbor heard a muffled thud when he received a call at his home enough noise being inane to cause To Home After a Call 1er mother brother or neighbors to The youth first learned of the inwstigate although the mother and death about 11:30 o'clock yesterday a neighbor heard a muffled thud when he received a call at his home The maniac wluS killed Miss Leila Welsh planned carefully took his time Be was on watch behind the house long before the young woman entered her bedroom and even after he set about the deed his movements were He likely was in the bedroom more than a half hour investigators agreed after a reconstruction of the facts First he used cotton gloves indicating premeditation He brought along several weapons including a heavy hammer and a butcher knife WASHINGTON BUREATI THE KANSAS CITY STAR 610 ALBEE BUILDING (By Member ol The stars stall) WASHINGTON March 10--President Roosevelt today signed the WPA approval of the $180000 swimming pool project for Swope park at Kansas City The documents now will go to Jefferson City then to Kansas City for assignment of laborers to the project It calls for three swimming pools a bath house and landscaping at the north end of the Lagoon in the park The WPA allotment is for $100000 and the city's share will be $80000 Report Stoing Leader's Daughter Is Killed IA False (tlif Me Associated Press) LONDON March report circulated In London today that Sarah Churchill Oliver actress daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill had been killed in a recent bombing but her husband's secretary said later: "She is quite all right" She was reported on the way to Bradford to appear at a concert The Downing street press bureau also announced in referring to the report of Mrs Oliver's death: "There was a rumor to that effect but there is no truth in HYMIE CAPLIN TO PRISON BEATER TO BE WPA BEAD 1 (BF the Asscelated Press) Vichy France March Admiral Jean Dar lan vice-premier informed American press representatives today that French ships would be convoyed if the British blockade of France continued Dar Ian who with Chief of State 1irsluil Philippe Petain and Jean Aehard secretary of food supply called the press conference said: "If the British continue this block-which I consider Imbecile -I will be obliged to ask permission to provide arms and protection for our merchantmen I will let nothing stand in the way of the French people's eating" Germans More Generous "The Germans are more generous Rn(I more comprehensive of the needs of humanity than the Engkh" he continued 1 Petain said the Germans had re- 2 million quintals (220400 tons) of wheat out of 2700000 which had been requisitioned for the Gernrm army Dalian said be considered the blockade against Germany useless and said he had told that to William Leahy United States ambassador last night A few boatloads 'of wheat will not atl'ect the outcome of the war he Achard read a prepared statement In which he said 5 million quintals 418348300 bushels) of wheat from the United States were needed for the unoccupied zone of France A Call on the The French government has communicated to the American govern- I rnent the "urgency of obtaining and transporting" that amount of wheat he said The wheat the secretary continued would go ts the unoccupied I only not to the Nazi-held area end- would be distributed under American supervision "I don't want to consider what would happen if wewere obliged to reduce bread rations to 200 Or perhaps 150 grams (seven ounces or five ounces) daily" Achard said adding that the French ate the world's heaviest bread eaters Petain Darien and Achard who were serious and business-like throughout the interview remarked on the arrival of the Red Cross ship Cold Harbor at Marseilles with food and clothing (The Cold Harbor unloaded part of I-million-dollar cargo of food and supplies at Seville Spain February 2ti and left for Marseilles with the rest i Ambassador Leahy said be hoped increasing supplies would be sent lcr distribution to the needy civilian rpulation of unoccupied France These supplies" he said "are rats from the American people to the people of France and are symh)llo Of their sympathy for Prance in her hour of need and their friendship a friendship born of common devotion to the same His Duty to People Darlan tenliarked that he did not know how the British expected to Germany by blockading Frcnch Indo-China and in a truculent tone repeated: "My duty is to bee that the French eat Ach rel said the 1940 harvest amounted to no more than 42 mil lion quintals (154125000 bushels) ot wheat of mediocre quality against a normal harvest of 75 million co intals The government announced that the French merchant Ship Ville de Malunga hiid been captured by a British cruiser south: of Capetown making 108 French merchantmen stized by the British since the French-German armistice fourteen el them since the start of this year It was indicated the French govN nment had sent a protest to the south African government saying that such ship captures were Inez(ikable and could have no influence oil the outcome of the war Ai pl PI 1' cc RI 71 AC' cal ad be vic I'M Ft a pet Rnl ne( 114 I Ira tor hat TIP I No BM clot' A 8111 bai( A In 418 the the Ina Mel trat he 'I tint ton nd Arm "I tech hap owl thal heR itt-er thr4 en Coll a nd 1 up eevi 26 rest incl icr 13''P I eat the tmll 11 I FMt knc Fr( lent bee A ALM Ot a 4111 the 1 Itt BIT 4-11 4417 lie el 1 11 r'll sou tha (nal on Actinic Commissioner Ts Hated to Ile the Chief THOUGHT OF A GAG -Arriving at his poet in the rear I 0 Age 7 11 1 111111 I 1 PI 0 or 00 PF Aor- -0 At je tiri I 1 ii I 11 (131 the Associated Presi1 WASHINGTONs March Hunter of Illinois was nominated today by President Roosevelt to be works projects commissioner Hunter has been acting commissioner since the death of Col Frank Harrington BOMBS ON ITALIAN TRAIN Manager of Champions Gets From Five to Ten Years Mr the Associated Press) Nrw Yomc March 10--Hymie Caplin who has managed five world champion boxers was sentenced today to from five to ten years in Sing Sing prison on his conviction of grand larceny He was accused of being the financial backer for a ring of card sharps Judge Peter Brancato told Caplin that the sentence was severe and that he was showing no mercy because "we like a good fighter but we look down on a cheat who hits below the belt" Everything was set in Kansas City for a quick start on the pools when word was received the President had approved the project Complete plans have been prepared by the park board and copies of them are in the hands of the WPA administration here There will be some delay while the routine steps are taken at WPA headquarters In Jefferson City but that federal agency has been seeking projects here which would employ labor Therefore it is not believed there will be unnecessary loss of time The plans create a beautiful recreation spot at the north end of the lagoon There will be a main swimming pool 100)(165 feet flanked on the west by a 40x70-foot diving' pool and on the east by a wading pool of similar dimensions There is pro vision for three sand beaches dress- I ing rooms tennis bibles shuffle boards and parking space for more than 500 motor cars Between the pool development and the lagoon will be a landscaped space for subsequent erection of a boathouse BUY BONDS ON JOINT BID Direct Hits Are Seared In Ethiopia Withal Say EGYPt March 10---British bombers ranging ahead of imperial land forces thrusting toward the vital Addis Ababa-Jibuti railway in Ethiopia scored direct hits on a train near Diredawa and the station at Addagalla Saturday night the A command announced today Despite a battle put up by Italian fighters the A attackers were said also to have heavily blasted the Diredawa airdrome Elsewhere in Africa the communique said A crews bombed Italian porAtions about besieged Cheren Eritrea the harbor at Tripoli chief port of the Italian Libya in North Africa and airdromes in Tripolitania unconquered area of Western Libya 1 SINK AN ITALIAN CRUISER British Sub Torpedoes 3069-Ton Warship in Mediterranean from the Welsh family sayirig "some- thing terrible has happened' He drove to the hornet being one of the first outsiders to arrive there after the crime was discovered He told police what he knew and offered to do what he could to help In the inElaclunan vestigation Funks parents said they first heard what had happened about 3 o'clock yesterday Funk was graduated from Central high school in 1933 He has been employed at the oil firm six years He formerly was a master councilor in the mother chapter here of the order of De Mo lay Masonic youth organization Phyllis Wetherill M14 Miss Holmes street a sorority sister of Miss Welsh when they attended the University of Kansas City told police about Miss Welsh being asked for a date last December by a young man she did not know but who Introduced himself over the telephone The police questioned that young man they said and absolved him from any connection with the crime or intent to annoy Miss Welsh snere was no evidence the slayer assaulted his victim police repeated today Father at Family Farm George Winston Welsh father of 1 Miss Welsh was at his farm home near Lees Summit when the tragedy occurred it was learned today In ill health for some time the father has lived there several years and was visited by his family at least once a week Mr Wash lives with Mr and Mrs John Hatfield caretakers of the 100-acre farm in a brown stucco home Hatfield said Mr Welsh uti home I able to drive a motor car was at I home Saturday night and yesterday He said he drove Mr Welsh to Kan-Police sas City daily for treatment at a pri- vate hospital Mrs Welsh and her daughter were at the farm one day I early last week Hatfield related After graduation at the University of Kansas City Miss Welsh taught school two years at Knoxville Ill then returned here to live with her mother in the Rockhill road home miss Welsh was a beneficiary of trust funds totaling 865000 left by i Welsh Her grandfather grandparents Mr and Mrs James attracting Miss Welsh's attention SUS yard thought the Pee'sibili-t A neighbor 1114 WAR' onalime in the victim might scream:" So he 1 the Th shirt the killer stuffed into the neck wound he cut with a butcher knife was identified today It had been discarded by John Elaclunan 6118 Harrison street in a box in his garage directly at the rear police of the Welsh yard In a statement I tc Blackman also told or hearing a thud coming from his back yard Sunday night His dog barked in the basement The slayer evidently had taken a handful of discarded clothing from the boX in the Blackma garage Another of Blackman's discarded shirts was found in the Welsh back yard apparently where it had been thrown away by the slayer Perhaps he used the one shirt as a gag in the crime police speculated Chief Seeks a Solutioll Chief Reed James Byars chief of detectives and Farley were all work- ing on the crime The mother and brother of the slain girl were to be questioned more late today They were In the home when she was slain The mother heard a noise and the brother asleep on the davennost port in the livingroom slept through the night undisturbed Young Welsh has a bedroom on the second floor of the home police said but had lain down on the davenport and gone to sleep Saturiedroom day night Chief Reed personally in charge of the investigation returned to his office at headquarters at 12:45 o'clock this afternoon to receive further reports He had spent most of yesterday and last night on the 1 case 1 "1 have no information to meke public" he said 'We are working on the case" Police NtleSiffl the player might 1 I "have watched Mios Ill'elhh prepare I for bed waited until she fell nideep and then quietly forced the eaPt idlitIOW of the bedroom and crawled in The possibility the intruder could have entered Miss Welsh's bedroom before she got home and hid there was discounted by police There was no likely plate to hide without 'A neighborrtliii figliga in the night" The shirt the killer stuffed into the neck wound he cut with a butcher knife was identified today It had been discarded by John 6118 Harrison street in a box in his garage directly at the rear the Welsh yard In a statement to police Blackman also told or hearing a thud coming from his back yard Sunday night His dog barked in the basement The slayer evidently had taken a handful of discarded clothing from the boX In the Blackmap garage Another of Blackman's discarded shirts was found in the Welsh back- yard apparently where it had been thrown away by the slayer Perhaps he used the one shirt as a gag in the crime police speculated Chief seeks a Solution Chief Reed James Byars chief of detectives and Farley were all work- ing on the crime The mother and brother of the slain girl were to be questioned more late today They were In the home when she was slain The mother heard a noise and the brother asleep on the daven- port in the livingroom slept through the night undisturbed Young Welsh has a bedroom on the second floor of the home police said but had lain down on the davenport and gone to sleep Baur- day night Chief Reed personally in charge of the investigation returned to his office at headquarters at 12:45 o'clock this afternoon to receive further reports He had spent most of yesterday and last night on the case "I have no information to make public" he said 'We are working on the case" guesserl the slayer might I hate watched Miss Welsh prepare I for bed waited until she fell asleep and then quietly forced the east window of the bedroom and crawled im' The possibility the intruder could have entered Miss Welsh's bedroom before she got home and hid there was discounted by police There was no likely place to hide without Fairfax Alrport Issue Drivel PreIlium of $2213 Kansas City Kansas today sold its $750000 issue of airport bonds to pay the $600000 cost of purchasa ing the Fairfax airport and adjaa crnt ground east and north to the Missouri river and the $150000 cost of preliminary grading The successful bid was submitted Jointly by the City National Bank and Trust company of Kansas City the First National Bank of Chi' cago and Harriman Ripley Co New York The bid was for par and accrued Interest plus a premium of $2243 on the entire issue The rate of interest determined by the bidders will be 3 per cent on the first $190000 and 1 per cent on the remaining $560000 BRITISH "BRAVO" ON AID tki KANSAS CONVENTION HERE SEED FOR MACHINE EXPERTS Daily Interviews Are Held for Lake City Jobs The Remington Arms company till is seeking to obtain expert toolmakers and machinists for work in the Lake City small arms ammunition plant Interviews are being held daily at 911 Fidelity building and those selected are to be sent to the head plant at Bridgeport Conn for training for supervisory Jobs Four Remington officials arrived here today for conferences They are Carpenter director of production of the company Swenson to be works manager of the Denver Chasmas division manager and Herbert Door works manager here CREEKS SWEAR TO FIGHT went into the garage of the neighbor at the rear and took a handful of discarded clothing from a box Choosing from among several old shirts he dropped one in the yard and kept the other probably for use as a gag if necessary The plotter first tried out each of th two windows to see which made the easiest ingress The screen of the north window he had pried loose from the hook but apparently found that getting in was a bit difficult because the sill was higher from the ground than the east window This window had no screen and its sill was but four feet from the ground Perhaps it was not even locked The Welsh family had lived part of the time in the country near Lee's Summit where country habits perhaps had not led to locking of doors and windows such as is common in the city 1 SILENT IN AN ENTRANCE The east window was opened slowly without awakening the sleeping girl and the killer entered almost silently But inside the room did he flash a light or turn on the room lights? Neighbors did not notice nor-did the girl's brother and mother asleep on the same floor and only a hall's distance from her bedroom Next he closed the bedroom door tightly and moved a chair against it This took time and quiet handling Now he approached the bed Possibly he first pressed the bundled shirt against his victims mouth strangling any attempted cry Or he may have hit her first with the hammer crushing her skull and then stuffing the shirt against the mouth as she struggled in death 1 The throat was cut with the I butcher knife and the shirt was found later stuffed in this gaping wound Then the fiend used the knife to cut at the pajamas shredding them and finally cut a large piece of flesh from one hip COVERS VP THt BODY Next he carefully covered his vietlin's body with the bedclothes covering the blood so at first glance from the bedroom door there was no sign of death Sometime during the awful business the maniac must have become alarmed One heavy thud was heard by Miss Welsh's mother dur- ing the night and even by a neighbor asleep in the home across the back yard This neighbor's dog had barked Was it this that frightened the murderer so that he dropped the heavy hammer on the floor and then fled? The hammer was found later near the foot of the bed The knife was stuck in the ground in the yard outside The portion of flesh was dropped about 900 feet from the bedroom and next the slayer threw away his cotton gloves This ended the trail which police seek to pursue to a solution In one of the most brutal crimes in Kansasl City's annals a crime in which there was no robbery no criminal attack and seemingly no normal motive for revenge It was the work of a cunning but abnormal mind police are certain Leonard Kline 1113 Bryant BR HA 1833 omitted in new phone book went into the garage of the neigh- bor at the rear and took a handful of discarded clothing from a box Choosing from among several old shirts he dropped one in the yard mei kept the other probably for use 38 a gag if necessary The plotter first tried out each A the two windows to see which made the easiest ingress The screen A the north window he had pried 00se from the hook but appar- found that getting in was a nt difficult because the sill was rligher from the ground than the sast window This window had no screen and is sill was but four feet from the round Perhaps it was not even The Welsh family had lived iart of the time in the country near Summit where country habits rrhaps had not led to locking of ioors and windows such as is corn- non in the city SILENT IN AN ENTRANCE The east window was opened 'lowly without awakening the sleep- rig girl and the killer entered al- silently But inside the room lid he flash a light or turn on the vom lights? Neighbors did not no- re nor did the girl's brother and nother asleep on the same floor Ind only a hall's distance from her Next he closed the bedroom door ightly and moved a chair against This took time and quiet iandling Now he approached the bed Pos ably be first pressed the bundled hirt against his victims mouth trangling any attempted cry Or le may have hit her first with the lammer crushing her skull and then turfing the shirt against the mouth she struggled in death The throat was cut with the iutcher knife and the shirt was found ater stuffed in this gaping wound hen the fiend used the knife to ut at the pajamas shredding them nd finally cut a large piece of flesh rom One hip covnts ur THt BODY Next he carefully covered his vie- incs body with tha bedclothes (By the Associated Press) LONDON March British admiralty announced today that one of Italy's fastest cruisers a sistership of the 111-fated Bartolomeo Co Neon! tuAl "almost certainly" been sunk by submarine attack in the Mediterranean "An Italian cruiser of the Condottieri A class has been torpedoed and almost certainly sunk by one of our submarines" the admiralty said adding that an escort of Italian destroyers apparently had picked up some of the survivors The Bartolomeo Colleoni and her three sister ships were reputed to be among the fastest cruisers in the world with a speed that was designed to permit them to overtake destroyers In their trials one of them was reported to have reached a speed of forty-two knots An Australian cruiser and British destroyers sent the Bartolomeo Colleoni to the bottom of the Mediterranean last July 19 The other three ships of the class are the Giovanni Delle Bande Nere the Alberto di Giussano and Alberico da Barbiano all of 5059 tons and mounting eight 6-inch guns All ships of this class were built in 1930 (The Italian communique of Saturday announced that a warship of medium tonnage bad been sunk in the Mediterranean front an undetermined cause and that a large part of the crew had been rescued) London Shows Gratification by Flying Flags LONDON March States flags wer0 brought out today in various sections of London to show British satisfaction at the senate passage of the British aid bill Official comment was withheld however pending final action The press glowed with praise for the United States ASK LOAN BID WEDNESDAY County Judges Seek Bids at St Louis and Chicago The Jackson County court In its meeting at Independence today said nine banks and investment houses in St Louis and Chicago had been asked to tide the county through March with a loan A GARDEN CLUB MEETING The WyandOtte Garden club will meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow night at the Kansas City Kansas Chamber of Commerce Mrs Scott Handley will be hottess Spring and Easter table settings is the theme of the month Home Eennom Wit Meeting Is Shifted From Manhattan Ka A state convention of home economic teachers scheduled to be held in Manhattan Kas will be moved hostesses and all to the Muehlebach hotel March 21 and 22 Shortage of housing facilities due to construction work being done at Ft Riley made necessary the change of convention sites Miss Florence Palmer home economics supervtsor In Kansas City Kansas explained In connection with the convention the Kansas Dietetic association will also hold its annual meeting at the hotel THE BLOCKADE WILL STAND III MMdlemObaNOP 0a Say They AVon't Release 'Their Watch Premier Says They Will Die Bather Than Be Subdued ION THE CLOUDS TO MOVE ON Sunday Accident Spurt Aitmen SUN mON tuts qtro3 Moo 110 spa Assoctated Prat) LoNaoN March 10--The British Int miateri today they would continue cnforce their sea blockade regardlus of any protection for French merchantmen Inforzned circles said they were official word of the anrouncement by Admiral Jean Dar-him French vice-premier and foreign minister that France intended to "IvoY merchantmeh moving sup-to the French people In unofficial quarters it was frank-admitted that it would be "awkv ird" to have the French navy 4ainst the British fleet but these circles took the view that popular opolion in France would oppose such a move it it appeared that supplies tf're leaking to Germany Some '')plies have been reaching unoccumpa France from North Africa without British interference AID HOME TO REPORT Intl t1 I 1(: el( I II I et lull (11011tIl phi II 1 al ita ritT opt all taw rirt4 elit -lx was a Kansas City realton ei sp VJ) VJ) r2) 11'I she entered the bedroom the in- vestigators said and moreover the Welsh IL 27 a son who also was at the mother and brother of Miss WelAh home Saturday night but heard ne were on the first floor of the home disturbance were not at the home before Miss Welsh returned home today Police guarded the residence The girl's mother and brother were Puzzle In the Quiet at the home of Mrs Welsh 's brother Yet how the slayer got in the 'Edgar Fleming 5817 Rockhill road bedroom and killed Miss Welsh I todayboth in a state bordering on without her awakening or struggling Friends were at the Flemwas a puzzle ing home with them Mrs Marie Welsh the mother Farley issued a pick-up order occupying a bedroom on the westrfor a blond youth about 22 years old end of the house said she heard a who was seen yesterday morning In thud once after her daughter had a drugstore at Sixty-third street retired at 1:30 o'clock but heard no and Troost avenue with a bandage scream on three fingers of his right hand Police peeulated whether the Although It was not believed the slayer struck Miss Welsh an intme youth was Implicated the police dediate killing blow with the hammer sired to question him he left behind then rot her throat Deputies to Welsh Farm and a large piece of flea off her A Purdome chief deputy sheriff hip which he took with him alien stiIit deputies to the Welsh farm on Outer Belt road eight miles dotting it in a bark yard 100 yards southwest of Lees Summit for clues from the Welsh home that might lead to solution of the Neighbors on either side and at killing the rear apparently heard no dis- Purdome attempted' to question turbance except the barking of the Mrs Welt13 early this afternoon at Blackman dog the home of her brother but she was Nobody Is under arrest connec- too distraught to talk he said tion with the case police said el-though chief Reed cloaked some of (continued on Second Pace) I The mother and George Welsh IL 27 a son who also was at the home Saturday night but heard no disturbance were not at the home today Police guarded the residence The girl's mother and brother were at the home of Mrs Welsh's brother Edgar Fleming 5817 Rockhill road today both in a state bordering on collapse Friends were at the Fleming home with them Farley issued a pick-up order for a blond youth about 22 years old who WaS seen yesterday morning in a drugstore at Sixty-third street and Troost avenue with a bandage on three fingers of his right hand Although it was not believed the youth was implicated the police desired to question him Deptitiem to Welsh Farm A Purdome chief deputy sheriff stibt deputies to the Welsh farm on Outer pelt road eight miles southwest of Lees Summit for clues that might lead to bolution of the killing Purdome attempted' to question (By the Associsted Press) AMEN GREECE March 10--Orecks are edetermined to die rather than be subdued" Premier Alexandros Korizis told workers yesterday expressing confidence that "we shall win a brilliant victory over all enemies of our country" Representatives of half a million Greek workers in Athens and Piraeus answered the premier with a declaration that "the spirit of the working class is unimpaired" and that labor is "determined to undergo any sacrifices regardless of any danger" Sixty Britons including all but two members of the British legation staff in Sofia will leave the Bulger-tan capital tonight aboard a special 4-car train for Istanbul Turkey (A British broadcasting corporation broadcast heard in New Yoric said Georze Bernie! British min-niter to Botts left this morningl The Budapest newspaper Peat Raid In a dispatch from Sofia that Bulgaria planned to demobilize all her reservista on the grounds that the men were needed to till lBEEB11 and that Bulgaria no longer was threat' cried 11) iirti A Clear Sky Iv Porecovt for Toy II ight anti Tomorrow The clouds that brought a surd prise rain of 07 of an inch last night are expected to move out late today leaving a dear sky for tonight and tomorrow The low temperature tonight will be about 25 degrees ancl the high tomorrow about 38 Mixed snow and rain fell ovele much of Northern Kansas and Missouri The heaviest precipitatiort reported was at Goodland Has with 11 of an inch made up mostly of snow The precipitation table for Kansas City: Last night 07 This month 47 Deficiency this month to date 2 Precipitation this year to date3 07 Excess thia year to date 2 31 Precipitation last year to this date 3 7A Excess last year to this date 10 First Aid! 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When there's a room it porhoaneboaus7 A liZLIN Pa 22j V2))(Z 11(63 HARRIMAN OFF TO LONDON Rail Esecutive Will Help Speed Deliveries of AVar Aid (By the Associated Press) New Yosn March 10--W11liam A Harriman board chairman of the Union pacific railroad left for Europe in the Atlantic Clipper today as President Roosevelt's personal representative to expedite deliveries to Britain under terms Of the aidto-Britain bill With him was Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr returning to London as ambassador to the Polish and Belgian governments and minister to the Norwegian and Netherlands governments in exile MRS MoORHEAD BETTER Mrs William Moorhead 200 West Seventieth street who underwent an operation Friday at St Luke's hospital was reported improved today 47) Seventeen traffic accidents yesterday resulted in injuries to six persons three drivers a bicycle rider and two passengers Motor car deaths to date 8 Same period in 1940 4 Deaths in 1940 24 Personal iniuryaccidents173 Same period in 1940: 191 otinie)or lir Vie by Will Confer With Null (Bp the Astocialed Preis) WASHINGTON March an 11" 011 potential dangers tO American intrresta Secretary Hull boa acted (Continued on Second Page) 41 1 intr 1 A f- 1 I ft irtelloolteMosimwom1411101wwwlonlefitymmorfrummmliveM1116nuomormowlemmunowimmoVirimAinommilkrommommommonnotwimallimouwooninetTormolw NOWIL" 10101111AMP rrolrigymmofiMitrFPICPPIrlW.