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Show 10 Sunday. January 26. 1947 SUNDAY HERALD Child Recounts Parents' Death In Triangle' .' DYMCHURCH, Eng., Jan. 23 (U.R) Twelve-year-old Margaret Wigley crawled into the lap ef .woman friend today,- and told the coroner her im pie. story. 5 It was about her father, her mother and her "Uncle Fred" Frederick Russell, 58. He wasn't jixally an uncle. But when he started living with her mother two years ago, Margaret began jto: call him "Uncle Fred." The father, David Wigley, lived separately. sep-arately. "Tuesday when I went for a walk along the beach I met a 'man coming toward me.! Mar garet began. "I didn't know it was my father until he called out Margaret" "He asked where' 1 was living, but I wouldn't tell him. Then he stopped a woman and she pointed toward my home. "My father went there. I went to tell Uncle Fred, who was working not far away. Then 1 went home. "My father said he had been looking for us for four days. ' "Uncle Fred came in. My fath-ser fath-ser took a pistol out of. his pocket, mummy said to Uncle Fred, 'He has-a gun.' Uncle Fred. said, 'A .gun doesn't bother me.' "Mummy said, 'Let Margaret get out of this. Uncle Fred walked walk-ed towards my father. I heard a shot "Mummy ran into the garden. I ran into the bathroom and shut the door. Then J heard several more shots three or four. ,"I heard my father calling. He knew where I was and he said, 'Come out they're both dead.' 1 didn't come out, but he pushed the door open and he had the pistol in his hand. He said, 'Fetch ,the police.' "I ran across the street to a lady I knew and just as I go there I heard another shot. My father was dead.1 too." The coroner thanked the little girl for telling the story, and she crawled down from her friend's lap. The coroner's findings was that "Wigley had killed his wife, Russell, Rus-sell, and himself. Royal Tour JITTERBUG PARTY SET FOR JAPANESE OSAKA, Japan, Jan. 25 (U.R) The first swing dancing party ever held in a national Japan shrine is scheduled Feb. 2 in Koshiwara Jingu, where the legendary leg-endary emperor Jimmu is enshrined, en-shrined, Jiji News agency reported report-ed today. Jimmu is supposed to have founded the present imperial imper-ial dynasty. The party is sponsored by the Cashiwara social club. Members will dance in the front of the inner prayer hall. L f ) l' & j 1 . t 'AY:' W (NEA Telephoto) Latest photo of Princess Elizabeth, heiress presumptive to British throne, was made at London, England, Eng-land, as preparations were made tor Royal Family tour of Union of South Africa. Steamfitter Shot To Death In Row INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Jan. 25 (U.R) A steamfitter who vyas shot in an argument at a labor union meeting died today, and a murder mur-der charge was filed against another an-other union member. Herman Longer, 44, died in City hospital a few hours after he fell wounded to the floor of the meeting meet-ing hall. Fifty members of Local 440, United Association of Steam-fitters, Steam-fitters, were arguing over the admission of new members. Authorities filed a murder charge against George R. Johnson, John-son, 60, who they said admitted firing the fatal shot. Johnson first was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Suspect Files False Arrest Suit In Lodi Kidnaping SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 23 (U.R) Seventeen year old Alice De- vine, whose kidnaper authorities still are seeking, her parents and the Lodi police chief and two policemen were slapped with $400,000 false arrest suit today b; the reformed one-time convict she identified from arv old photograph photo-graph as. the man who abducted her. Attorney J. W. (Jake Ehrlich), who has brought Sally Rand and her fans into court and defended drummer-boy Gene Krupa on dope possession charges, filed the suit in Superior court here and "hmphed" when told the Devine family- had reportedly left Lodi for a "vacation" in Palm Springs. "I need a rest," Ehrlich said. "Ill go to that vacation, resort (in southern California) and take three days to serve the papers myself." Ehrlich reiterated he would re call the Devines to San Francisco Fran-cisco to take their "full depositions deposi-tions and find out what this kid naping is all about." The suit charged that his client, Earl Shelton, also known as Sheldon and born John Wesley Lucas, had suffered $400,000 worth of humiliation by being named by the pretty brunette from an eight-year-old photo graph. Subsequently, Shelton, a co partner in a San Francisco mod elinc and charm school, surrend ered voluntarily to police and went to Lodi in company with two Lodi patrolmen to undergo the identification test in the glaring glar-ing headlights of the Devine au tomobile in which Alice sat. She had identified the photo graph all right. But when she saw Shelton's saturnine face in the dramatic pre-dawn rendezvous outside of Lodi she said: "That's not the man." In Lodi, Police Chief Millard Fore said he wasn't worried about the suit. "Shelton wasn't arrest ed," Fore said. "He voluntarily came to Lodi in his own car. JAP PUPPET OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO LIFE SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (U.R) Chao Shuh-Siung. Japanese puppet information in-formation minister and secretary-general secretary-general of the Shanghai city government gov-ernment during the occupation, today was sentenced to life imprisonment. im-prisonment. He was a veteran newspaperman and one of the most widely-known drama critics here. Marjorie Seegmiller Is Opening Her Own Beauty Shoppe February 1, 1947 at 64 North 7th East PHONE 2076W Permanent Waving, Hair Dressing, and complete beauty, service. MARJORIES BEAUTY SHOPPE 'Suspect' Exonerated In Kidnap Case " , 'If i i 7 V ; 5 - A - v Earl Shelton ilefti and Lodi Police Chief "Millard Fore examine picture pic-ture which Alice Devine. Lodi, Calif., kidnap victim, had tentatively identified as her abductor. Shelton. bearing he had been termed t suspect, went voluntarily to police, and later laced Alice, completel; clearing himself of connection with the case. 72-Year Old Man Licks Three Young Holdups All Alone BAKERSFIELD, Cal., Jan. 25 (U.R) Seventy-two-year-old E. J. Miley single-handedly licked three young holdup hold-up men, one of them armed, police said today. . Miley, of Los Angeles, who ' got his muscles as an oil well driller, was driving to Fresno v when he gave a ride to the three suspects, two 18 and one 23. "I let one of the boys dcive, and the other two were in .- the back seat,' he told police. ' "One of them suddenly pull-ed pull-ed a gun and forced me into "the back. "I made a lunge at the boy , with the gun and got it away ' from him. It fell out of my . hand, but I tied into them and came out with my feet on their chests." Meanwhile the driver stop-" stop-" ped the car and climbed into the back seat Miley licked him too. After sheriff's deputies ' booked ihe men, Miley drove on to Fresno with only a scratched hand. 10-Year Old Girl Reported Missing NEVfr YORK, Jan. 25 (U.R5 While Connecticut police pressed a search for missing 10-year-old Beverly Newton, the child's stepmother step-mother said here today that she was 'afraid to think what might have happened" because the girl is pretty and tall for her age. "When she lived with us here in New York we used to have trouble with men annoying her," said Mrs. Harold Newton, whose step-daughter has been missing since 4 p. m. yesterday from the West Cheshire, Conn., home where she was boarding. "The trouble is she is such a friendly little girl." Mrs. Newton, who married the missing girl's father, an army veteran, several years ago, said that because of the housing short' age Beverly had been boarding with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Page in West Cheshire since last sum mer. tlorthern U. S. In Mid-April Yeather By UNITED PRESS The northern U. S. enjoyed mid-April" weather today and school children dug their roller skates out of the closet. They couldn't go ice skating. The ice was melting in almost every outdoor skating rink in the country. Chicago expected a high tern- f perature of 55 today, which weather forecasers said was ' "normal" for April 11-12. Temperatures ranged from Just above freezing in Maine to 80 above in Miami, the U. S. weather weath-er forecaster at Chicago reported. Snyder Asking Tax Law Support PITTSBURGH, Jan. 24 (U.R) Effective administration and enforcement en-forcement of tax laws can go . a long way in lowering the nation's tax rates, Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury John W. Snyder told Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh bankers last night. Snyder asked the bankers to help in the drive to collect taxes by advising their customers and friends of the seriousness of their obligation to pay taxes. "We all have a stake in the efficient ef-ficient collection of all taxes properly due the government." Snyder told the Banker's club of Pittsburgh. Warsaw Police Grill Americans WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 25 (U.PJ Tony Link, of Booneville, N.Y., correspondent of the picture : magazine Life, said that he and another correspondent were arrested ar-rested and grilled for two hours by Warsaw police today. ! He identified the second correspondent cor-respondent as Flora Lewis Gru- son, of 855 Croft St. Los Angeles. Girl Sought In Portland Murder i PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 25 (U.R) Police sought a girl and a night club piano-player for questioning today in the murder of Capt. Frank B. Tatum, Bellerica, Mass., mariner, thrown over a cliff here. The girl, according to fragments of the story of how Tatum was beaten, then thrown over an embankment em-bankment and left to die 10 days ago. threw bar glasses and stools at the captain's alleged assailant, Patrick O'Day, the club manager, during a melee at the club. Lee Frank Butler, pianist, has not returned to his auto camp apartment, police said, since the murder. O'Day and two other men are held for Tatum's murder. mur-der. His body was found a week after the men allegedly threw him over the cliff. An $1800 wrist watch and about $1,000 in cash the captain was carrying were missing. Author Wins Fight, For Citizenship NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 25 (U.R) Richard J. H. Krebs. Bet-terton, Bet-terton, Md., who exposed Nazi concentration camps while writing writ-ing under the name of Jan V.altin in "out of the night", was an American citizen today after an eight-year battle. Krebs, formerly a resident of Bethel and Montville, Conn., applied ap-plied for citizenship last March, a few months after his separation from service. The courts had denied de-nied him naturalization on seven previous occasions, charging he was a member of the German Communist party. Federal District Ji dgc Carroll C. Hincks ruled that Krebs had broken with the German Communists Com-munists prior to March. 1936. when he mentally resolved in a Georgia Faces Lack of Funds ATLANTA, Jan. 25 (U.RV Gov. Herman Talmadge admitted today that his struggling administration is on "stormy seas" as a state finance officer warned that if Georgia's gubernatorial feud lasts another month alt major state functions will be halted for lack of funds. As Talmadge blamed former Gov. Ellis Arnall and "outside radicals" for building up the tide against his government, state auditor B. E. Thrasher expressed alarm over a deadlock between the 6tate treasurer, revenue com missioner and attorne: general. Until Attorney General Eugene Cook recognizes Talmadge-ap poimea cnaries Keawine as revenue commissioner. Treasurer George Hamilton said he will not allow state funds to leave his office. Cook refuses to accept Kedwine. Thrasher looked over his rec ords and estimated that most state departments can last month on money they have now but that six agencies -will be out of funds around Feb. 1. Huntington is the largest city in West Virginia. FORMER SENATOR DIES MIAMI BEACH. Fla., Jan. 25 (U.R) Former U. S. Senator Marcus Mar-cus A. Coolidge of Fitchburg, Mass. No relation to President Calvin Coolidge died last night of acerebral hemorrhage. He was 81. WTITK Biggest Entertainment Value Ever Offered.. 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