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SINO-RUSSIAN PACT FORMED
GENEVA, Dec. 13.—The re-estab-
lishment of normal diplomatic rela-
tions between China and Russia was
announced here Monday and was
hailed in international quarters as an
event having a significant bearing on
efforts to settle the Chinese-Japanese
conflict.
In a statement accompanying an-
nouncement of the reconciliation,
Maxim Litvinoff, Russian foreign
commissar, expressed sympathy for
the Chinese people and added that it
was only when all states maintained
relations with one another that “we
shall be able to speak seriously of
international co-operation for the
cause of peace.”
Mx\ Litinoff announced Russia’s
CHINESE AGOG AS
SNAKE FLESH PROVES
FATAL TO DINNER GUEST
stand in a letter to Dr. W. W. Yen,
China’s spokesman before the league ! chefs either at the navy dinner or at
CANTON, China, Dec. 12.—The
sudden and mysterious death of a
retired diplomatic official Monday
raised a problem for the government,
restaurant keepers and those Chinese
who have faith in the efficacy of
longevity formulas.
The official, Chu Chao-Hsin, 52, In-
spector General of Foreign Affairs
in the Canton government, died Sun-
day because of poisoning from eat-
ing snake flesh, doctors said.
He had attended a banquet at naval
headquarters, where the Cantonese
delicacy was served, but Monday the
announcement was made that Chu
had previously attended a dinner
where snake was served.
The exact cause of his death was
not completely determined, but offi-
cials in other departments of the Can-
ton government were said to have ex-
pressed strong disapproval of the
Navy Department’s action in serv-
ing food of questionable palatabil-
ity.
Cantonese restaurants have point-
ed out that, since the snake season
is not at its height, Chu’s death might
result in a sharp decline in the con-
sumption of snakes, with great losses
to themselves.
Chu was widely known here as a
believer in a secret formula which
supposedly would insure his living to
be 100 years. Chu always declined
to divulge the nature of the secret.
Doctors believed the official’s death
probably was due to eating a portion
of snake containing* venom which
OLD MAN KILLS WIFE
BUT HAS HARD TIME
CONVINCING COP
of nations.
This reconciliation and more par-
ticular!* *^ Mr. Litvinoff’s comments
the previous function had failed to
remove.
An autopsy, they said, only could
bring sharply into the spotlight the j reveal the exact cause of death, but
question of. American-soviet rela- j Chu’s family will not permit this.
American-soviet
tions, which authorities in Geneva
believe have recently tended toward
“a normal status.”
The return of the two great Asiat-
ic powers to friendly associations gen-
erally is regarded here as a great
diplomatic victory for China and one
which will strengthen her position in
the face of the Japanese policy in
Manchuria.
Nevertheless, the Russian commis-
sar, while emphasizing his govern-
ment’s fried!y feelings toward China,
asserted that the improvement in the
relations of one country does not
mean the straining of relations to-
ward another.
Boys’ leatherette helmets with gog-
gles, 25c. Ladies’ handkerchiefs, 2
for 5c. Men’s silk ties 25c. Fancy
beads 10c. Ladies’ garters 10c. Cot-
ton hatts, 3-pounds 25c, at Hooper’s
Store. (w)
NEW CASES OF “FEE RACKET”
IN STATE SHOWN IN
INVESTIGATION
AUSTIN, Dec. 12.—The Texas sen-
ate fee investigating committee re-
vealed today that in one county $9,-
152 in fees was collected by officers
on 263 felony cases that were dis-
missed without prosecution.
Of the cases wiped off the docket,
222 were liquor charges worked up
by a negro “under-cover” operator,
whose own reputation was so bad
convictions could "not be obtained on
his testimony, the report stated.
The fees were divided as follows:
County attorney, for examining trials,
$1,060; justice of the peace, examin^
ing trials, $121; sheriff, mileage, ap-
proving bonds, etc., $4,841; district
clerk, for final disposition, $2,630.
Another case cited was the payment
of $179.60 in fees for handling a
chicken theft case. The chickens
stolen were valued at $5. The sher-
iff’s account showed he traveled 2,560
miles to serve subpoenas on 86 ma-
terial witnesses. The defendant was
acquitted on motion of the district
attorney because the “property cannot
be identified.”
The report told how one man was
sentenced to 252 years in the peni-
tentiary and two others to 254 years
each, and aH three given death pen-
alties as well for robbery, burglary,
theft,' attempt to wreck a train and
murder. The men were convicted in
a total of 134 cases and the state
Mr. Chu was a graduate of Colum-
bia University and was at one time
Chinese Consul General in San Fran-
cisco. Since 1912, when he returned
to China from America, he held sev_
era! diplomatic and other posts and
was twice decorated by the govern-
ment.
The ideal Christmas gift, an Alad-
din Lamp. Only $5.75 this year.—
Culver Hardware Co., Lampasas, (w)
FARMERS MAKE
THEIR DEMANDS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Climax-
ing the task which called them to
Washington, delegates to the nation-
al farmers relief conference today
presented to President Hoover and
congress their deniands for legisla-
tion to aid agriculture.
CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—Trjembling, an
old man stumbled into the North Ave-
nue police station Thursday after-
noon.
“I’ve just killed my wife,” he quav-
ered.
Desk Sergeant Barney Reilly look-
ed at the old man skeptically. There
was no odor of liquor. His eye
glanced at a newspaper headline—
“Two killed as mercury zooms to-
ward zero.” The sergeant nodded
sympathetically—the jail, at least,
was warm.
“You have? Well, well. Tell me
your name, maybe we can lock you
up,” he said.
“John Meyers. I’m 69. I used to
be in the leather goods business.”
The sergeant still smiled. The old
man became angry.
“Listen,” he shouted in his quavei’-
ing voice, “you’d better believe me. I
killed _ her, I tell you, I caved hex-
head in.”
Reilly telephoned the Austin po-
lice, in whose district the old man
said he lived. A policeman investi-
gated. The telephone jangled again.
“Say, hang on to that fellow Mey-
ex*s if you’ve still got him,” a voice
said. “What he said is true. We
found his wife, Catherine, on the
floor and a big hole in her head.” The
woman died a few houx*s later.
The sergeant ordered Meyers to a
cell.
“See, I wasn’t lying,” Meyers
mumbled. “We had been married 39
years. She got a divorce last week
aixd ox-dered me out of the hoxxse to-
day. I couldn’t stand it.”
BANKER WHO FLED FROM
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLE-
MENT HANGS SELF
MRS. WINNIE JUDD LOSES IN
APPEAL; HANGING DATE SET
PHOENIX, Ax’iz., Dec. 12.—Win-
nie Ruth Judd, convicted trunk mur-
deress, hust hang, the Arizona Su-
preme Court decided Monday when
it denied her appeal from the death
sentence.
The coux-t set Fx’iday, Februax-y 17,
as date for her hanging at the state
penitentiary, after it upheld a jury’s
verdict she should die for the murder
of Agxxes Ann Leroi,. her one-time ;
roommate and friend.
Mrs. Judd was ordered to her death \
after months of delay pending argu- i
ments oxx her appeal of twelve assign- J
ments of error in her trial.
Her outstanding claim was that
the jury had not been instructed in
the law of self_defense. She contexxd-
ed she shot to save herself.
Mrs. Judd was never prosecuted
for the murder of Hedvig Samuelson,
another friend.
Beyond the bare announcement
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—A suicide’s
noose ended Monday the life of Wal-
ter C. Davis, 50-yeax--old president of
the City Savings and Loan Associa-
tion of Colorado Springs, Colo., who
had fled from a $1,000,000 embezzle-
ment chax-ge.
Davis, seized here Sunday by a de-
tective who had seen his picture in
the “wanted” department of a detec-
tive stox-y magazine, was found hang-
ing in his cell in police headquarters
early in the day.
Prolonged efforts by an inhalator
cx-ew and ambulance surgeons failed
to x-evive him.
Disappeared Six Months Ago.
He had fastened his necktie to the
upper part of his cell door, and his
swaying form attracted the attention
of a policeman as the latter made the
x-ounds of the cell block.
Davis disappeared from Colorado
Springs six moths ago, about the
time his association was thrown into
receivership. On behalf of 7,000x’esi-
dents of the Pikes Peak region who
had entrusted their savings to the
company, an investigation was started.
Davis’ arrest here resulted largely
from a nex-vous habit of looking over
his shoulder. Detective Dominick
Pape, walking in fashionable Gram-
ercy Park some time ago, saw a man
ahead of him who kept glancing ner-
vously back.
“That bird thinks some one is look-
ing for him all right,” said Pape to
himself.
Recently, as Pape was looking over
an issue of True Detective Myster-
ies, which publishes pictures of fugi-
tives, he came on a photograph of the
nervous man of Gramercy Park. He
was wanted for a $1,000,000 embezzle,,
ment, the article said, and' rewards
totaling $1,100 were effex-ed for him.
Pape and another detective, when-
ever they had any spare time, would
stroll about the pax-k, hoping to catch
another glimpse of the man. Sunday
they spotted him, and trailed him to
a well-furnished apartment, where he
had been living two months under his
own name.
He adnxitted his identity, they said,
and told them he was tired of dodg-
ing detection and had been on the
verge of giving himself up. He had
made two trips to Europe under the
name of Arnold, he said.
A committee of five, including one
negx'o, called on the chief executive i that it had upheld the Superior Court
at the White House and read to Kim i sentence, the Supreme Court with-
a petition demanding a farxxx debt' held temporarily all comment and
R. F. C. IS GIVEN “CLEAN
BILL” BY SENATE PROBERS
treasurer paid the officials of three
counties where the trials were held
a total of $6,322, the
stated.
moratorium, and end to Evictions,
price fixing for agricultural commod-
ities and a $500,000,000 appropriation
for fanners in distress.
Other members of the roughly clad
group of 250 farmers who caxxxe to
Washington from every section of the
nation gave copies of the petition to
vice president Cux-tis and Speaker
Garner.
rulings on her appeal.
WHAT COUNTRY NEEDS IS
$15 SUITS, WOOLMEN SAY
PORTLAND, Ox-e., Dec. 9.—What
the wool industry—and the consum-
er—of this country needs is a good
$15 suit, made by American manu-
The demands were present- i faCturers protected by tax-iff against
ed to the senate and house.
Meanwhile, the Harrison bill pro-
viding a two-year xnoratoriuxxi for
taxes on mortgaged homes and farms
the influx of cheap foreign suits,
speakex’s at today’s session of the
68th annual convention of the Na-
tional Wool Growers association
became the focal point of x*elief ■ agreed.
moves in the senate, -Senator Harri- j And because such a suit is being
son, demoex-at, Mississippi, predicting 1 made, by American manufacturers,
early approval.
CKOESBECK SCHOOLS
ARE CLOSED BY FLU
GROESBECK, Dec. 12.—An epi-
demic of influenza which kept many
children confined to their hoxxxes caus-
ed H. O. Whitehurst, superintendent
of schools, to dismiss all classes to-
day until Wednesday.
Seven teachers and half the pupils
were absent when classes convened.
PATERNAL LOVE RULES
AS FATHER BUYS TOYS
AND SACRIFICES SHOES
GIRLS ACCUSED IN ISLE HOLDUP
GALVESTON, Dec. 10.—Two young
women > gave their -naxnes as June
Burke end Willie Tucker were charg-
ed with ' obfrery by assault by fire-
ai*ms Friday after the autotxxxobile of
Mr. and Mrs. H. B, Glees had been
stolen rear Ball high school.
The Glees were held up at the
point of a gun and two women drove
away in the car which was found
later with a broken wheel- in the
western part of the city.
The women were arrested in a res-
taurant Friday. One claimed to be
a university gx-aduate. Both said
their homes were in East Texas.
•HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 9.—A
Christmas wreath hung in the win-
dow of the store before which the
man stood.
Down in front of the window stood
a line of stui’dy workman’s shoes. A
committee i re^ card read: “Your choice, $1.50.”
In the back of the window was a
bi'ight angle of Christmas toys. A
green tricycle box-e the tag, $1.50.”
The man shifted from one foot to
another and water seeped from the
holes in his tattered shoes.
He went in the door and a minute
later a clerk’s arm pushed thi’bugh
the small door at the back of the
window and the tricycle disappeared.
The man came' out with a big bun-
dle, nickeled handlebars peeped fx’om
a bright roll of Christmas paper. His
step was almost light as he walked
down the street.
Inside the clerk was putting parrs
of shoes away.
“That was a funny, guy,” he said.
“Came in here asking for shoes and
bought a tricycle. All he said was:
‘Can’t get both’.”
and bought by American coxxsumers,
the wool industry is already on the
upgrade, with prospects of a gradual
betterment of conditions, the speak-
ers added.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Whether a certain offense is wor-
thy of capital punishment depends
largely on the viewpoint.
Among the jurors summoned was
a woman who wished to be excused.
“Well, madam, why don’t you
want to sexwe on this jury?” asked
the judge.
“I’m opposed to capital punish-
ment.”
“But this is merely a case in which
a wife is suing her husband for an
accounting. It seems she gave him
a thousand dollars to pay down on
a handsome fur coat and he is al-
leged to have lost the money at.
poker.”
The woman juror spoke xxp prompt-
ly, “I’ll serve. Maybe I’m wi’ong
about capital punishment.”—The
Kablegram.
WITT IS RECOVERING
FROM INJURIES IN FALL
AUSTIN, Dec. 12.—Miss Hazel
Avery, secretary to Lieut. Governor
Witt, said today she had been ad-
vised Witt, a patient ixx Walter Reid
Hospital ixx Washington, was improv-
ing rapidly fx'om injux’ies received in
a fall several weeks ago. He went
to that hospital to receive treatment
for an injured shoulder.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—A'“clean
bill of health” for the Reconstx’uction
Finance Corporation was indicated
today following a meeting of the
special senate committee created to
investigate the x’elief organization’s
loan policy.
After a review of the cox‘poration’s
loans in an executive meeting, mem-
bers indicated no fault would be found
with the administration of the gigan-
tic government agency on the basis
of records so far examined.
These did not include loans made
for a short pex*iod eaxdy last sum-
mer, however, before the house be-
gan to xxxake the transactions of the
corporation public.
The committee agi’eed, Chairman
Couzens announced, not to recommend
making public the loans made by the
corporation prior to the enactment
of the relief bill last summer.
Loans since that time have been
published by the clerk of the house.
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AMON G. CARTER, President
NEGRO SEES ICE ON TREES
DECIDES LIFE IN ‘WALLS’
AT HUNTSVILLE BETTER
GIRL CAUGHT WITH
STOLEN AUTO HITCHHIK-
ING HOME WITH FATHER
WACO, Dec. 9.—Two members of
the Baylor University football team,
Harold “Red” Clem of Dallas, a guard
and Bennie Clark of Foi't Worth, a
tackle, were ixxdefinitely suspended
from the school Friday on charges of
hazing a freshman.
Both men ewre prominent in other
forms of athletics as well as football.
Clem was a catcher and outfielder on
the baseball team aixd Clark was one
of the most dependable lxxen on the
basket ball squad.
The suspension may be lifted by
the faculty at its disex’etion and on
petition of the students. It was un-
derstood, however, they could not be
reinstated until they had been absent
from school a full term.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec 9.—A 17-
| yeax’-old Oklahoma girl and her 19-
| year-old girl chum from Kansas City,
| Mo., who were left to accouxxt to Fed-
eral officers for their possession of a
stolen automobile when their male
companions abandoxxed them hex*e,
Friday were sentenced to prison by
Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy,
j Goldie Stilwell, 19, of Kansas City,
Mo., was sentenced to four xxxonths in
j the Laramie County jail with credit
j for the three months she already
has served.
| Her companion on the ill-fated joy
! ride, Mary Jo Stoxxe, 17, was given a
• year and a day, but was paroled to
I her father, Bob Stone of Allen, Okla.,
; who hitchhiked to Cheyenne to take
| chai-ge of the girl.
Together Mary Jo and her father
: started away from here Friday iix the
face of bitter weather, expecting to
| hitchhike back home. Between them
\ they had $5, while Mary Jo was out-
fitted with warm clothing by Chey-
| enne citizens.
The two girls were arrested here
; several months ago iix an automobile
stolen at Parkville, Mo. Their two
j coxxxpanions eluded officers. The girls
| subsequently were indicted for viola-
tioix of the Dyer act.
DALLAS, Dec. 10.—Will Moore, a
41-year-old negro, glanced at the ice
on trees, heard soixxeone say the tem-
perature was around freezing and de-
cided he’d be better off in the peni-
tentiary again.
Just out of “the walls” at Hunts-
ville, after 21 years, Moore appeared
before Grover Adams, criminal dis-
trict judge, bearing a soiled gexxeral
parole and asked how he might get
back.
“Ah lxxight do soxnethin’ an’ lose
mah parole,” he said when some spec-
tator suggested a certain way of get-
ting behind the bars again. “Ah
wants to get back down deah, but
ah wants to get out when times is
better.”
Judge Adams advised the negro to
make his way to Huxxtsville and see
Lee Sinxmons, director of the state
prison system.
Mocre said he was sentenced to six
years on a claim of another negro
that “I steal his pants, but I didn’t.”
While serving that terixx he and an-
other negro were playing a game of
dice in the penitentiary. The other
negro disagreed with Will and reach-
ed for a knife.
“Ah beat him to it,” said Moore,
“and kilt him. Den dey give me 99.
years.”
- | Earnest C. Walker left Monday
For Real Job Printing—The Leader! I night to spend a tiixxe in Kansas City.
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PAYMENT IN KILLING
OF MEXICANS URGED
Jess Ellis is seriously ill with pneu-
monia. A tx'ained nurse is in charge.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Payment
of $30,000 to Mexico as “axx act of
grace” for the killing of Emilio Cor-
tez Rubio, relative of former Presi-
dent Rubio, and Manuel Gomez, near
Ardmore, Olda., last year was pro-
posed in a resolution Moixday by
Chairman Borah of the senate for-
eign relations committee.
Box'ah px’oposed that $15,000 be paid
on account of each death “as an act
of grace and without reference to the
question of legal liability.”
The two youths were killed July 7,
1931, by two deputy shex-iffs near-
Ardmore, Okla., as they were return-
ing to Mexico from attending school
in this country.
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