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Show - Tfie children of architect! y will be the of our country's destiny, j Garfield j What keeps most people and most businesses up a tree is the' tremendous amount of political to-da- log-rollin- g. INDEPENDENT NON-SEC- NON-PARTISA- N VOLUME S. ABIAN T SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1935 - NUMBER 40 A Bulletin of News and Activities of the Southeast BOOK IN KANSAS CITY MASSACRE 13 BALANCED AT LAST Last of Killers Canglands Daring Ex ploit, Is Hanged. Richetli, j I ' Six Live Mice Slow Down His Motor Car Turners Falls, Muss. A stranger drove his car Into a local garage and told the attendant that in; ' : ; flued. The massacre occurred when the seven guards brought Nash Into Kansas dty from Hot Springs, Ark., where be had been, captured the day before. They were returning the Oklahoma desperado, who had pillaged with A1 Spencer until he was killed by federate 12 years ago, to Leavenworth penik tentiary. He had left there In a In 193a i "Put Them Up, Up, Up. . ' From- the train the eight went through the big Union dcimt to the plasa In front where two police cars waited beside several other parked automobiles. The police pushed Nash into a front sent and started to get In. There was a cry, "put tlipm up, up, and machine guns opened tire up jfrom opposite sides of the cars, Kansas City Detectives Frank Ilermanson and IV. J. Grooms fell dead on the sidewalk. Nash crumpled up In Uls sent, while R. E. Vettcrll, a city police agent, was hit In the arm' as he crouched beside the door. In the second car Police Chief Otto Reed of Mr- '. HALLOWEEN NOVELTIES Call At .The UNITED 5.10.25c STORE East 21st South Sugarhuuse . BRITISH EMPIRES SCHEME IS UPSET BY DIVORCE SUIT ! Plan to Put Head of 100 Million Moslems on Thrane Mich. "How's Lansing, fishingf asked Fred A. Westerman, chief ol Michigan's fisheries division, of s CCG youth who had thumbed s ride. "Pretty good, was the ready re spouse; "Caught two black baas the other day . . . about so long I" ' "Sure they were black haul" Wes terman asked. "But didn't the black bass season close December Sir The hitch hiker was worried. "Gosh I didn't know that, he said, i Westerman Identified himself and learned that the youth wns not a Michigan resident and was unfamiliar wit! Its Ushing laws. Dollar Price Is Put on Rascal and Gentleman ' Albemarle, N. C. "It's worth a dot lar to be. a gentleman, said Wsllaci Ivey, newspaper man, as he attempted to pay a farmer for killing a hen wit! bis automobile. ; The farmer said he didn't want mon ey for the chicken. However, aftei Ivey's statement, the farmer reasoned ; "Well, If It ain't worth more than i dollar to be a gentleman, I'll Just In a rascal and take your dollar. London. The divorce eult Instituted by Hon. Loel Guinness against his lovely wife has thrown a monkey-- ; wrench into British diplomatic deal--1 lags with the spiritual head of Moslems and placed the gov-- ! eminent in an awkward position. For months a way has been sought ; to realize the desire of the Aga Khan, powerful No. 1 Mohammedan of the; world, to either become I lie temporal-heaof a state or have hla son ln-- j stalled on a throne. Britain baa not; been blind to the advantages of anj arrangement which would place the' spiritual be$d of all Moslems under j Its protection, and the Hat of eastern principalities under the Britlstk flag, has been gone over endlessly for an, opening. Now, in naming the Ags Khan's son, In a dl-- : Prince All, as vorce suit, lion. Loel has mnde It dlffi-cult for the government to continue Its maneuvering! In behalf of Prince outraging British moralists.. Also, Moslems themselves are In s' state of Indignation over the way the; prince's name la being dragged through ; the mire of a British divorce scandal. Mayfair Scandalized. M. P. and heir To the to the Gulnneaa brewing millions, the r, prince was Just another and he said aa much when he brought suit against hla wife, the former Joan eldest sister of Barbara Yanle-BulleBaron Chnrston. No defense has been ' offered hy Prince AH, whose horse und gentleman-jockeBahrain recently won the Derby. The divorce has scandalized Mayfair aa violently aa Guinness marriage In 1927 titillated It. Before the war Guinness, the son of the fabulously wealthy Benjamin Guinness, lived In New York and look s prominent part In the artistic life of Greenwich Village. Dus-- ' Ing the war he served In the His marriage to Lady.Yarde-Bulle- r was celebrated In Westminster Abltey in clrciimstuuces usuully enjoyed only by royalty and members of high nobility. A son was born, and for seven years the conple were generally thought to be Ideally linppy. met the handThen Lady Ysrde-Rulle- r some young Indian and, according to. her husband's charges, succumbed to his oriental The prince Is blessed with fabulous wealth and no official duties, for his. father Is s Khan (king) without, a country. Wed to European. Although he' Is worshiped as a god In India tha Aga Khan has neither visited India in many years nor upheld Its traditions. Ills first wife and the prince's mother was a European. an Italian noblewoman, (Ignore Theresa She died s few yean after Mngllano. the marriage. In 930 the Aga Khan.; with disregard for anobhlah standarda,: bestowed his title npon the daughter; of French Innkeeper, Mile. Marcelle-Carrnn- . 100,-000,0- home-wrecke- Mother Killed Bake Unhurt Bluefield, W. V. The life of a ten month-ol- d baby, nursing at her moth eFs breast, was spared when a bolt ol lightning killed the mother, Mrs. Non Helen Dollar, twenty. The baby proh ably will sniffer no 111 consequences physicians said. HEIR TO BRITISH TITLE DREAM BABY Deatli of Grandfather Make Him Lord Ampthill. London. A tlilrtecn-year-ol- d "dream whose birthright was estabbatlished after a sensational four-yea- r tle coating 4200,000, became heir to the .barony of Ampthill. The death of hla grandfather, Lord AmpthUl, former viceroy of India, of pneumonia, put the boy, Geoffrey Russell, next In line for the title. The. new Lord Ampthill, John Hngh '.Russell, whose efforts to divorce Mrs. Chrlstabel Russell were frustrated by ,the house of lords, now faces divorce ;actlon brought by lady Ampthill. Th case la scheduled for hearing this term, and Lord Ampthill la not defending It Geoffrey won the title of "dream baby because Russell, In his divorce action, Insisted that he bad never had marital relations with his wife. Hla counsel told the court that Mrs. Russell had been Informed by a for tune teller that she was going to a mother. "It must be a miracle, she was ! e - ; quoted as anylng. In her defense Mrs. Russell testified she "had conceived the child In a .dream, and the house of lords de-nle- d Suddenly the house of lords called a halt to the proceed- Ings, reputedly at the behest of King George, who In turn was rumored to .have been persuaded In the move by Queen Mary. The late Ird Ampthill was sixty-si- x old. Ills widow is years , to Queen Mary. -- 4 g m W W y, . . Prolonged absence from his own country has been no privation to the Ags Khan. He has taken to occidental life with relish and Is today no different save In the darkness of his com- -' plexloh than any other European But no sportsman and millionaire. Moslem visitor to the' West dares approach him with anything but the deepest reverence. This exalted position will pau to hla erring son unless the divorce scandal finally affects the dynasty,' 400 Pet Dogs Are Buried in New Reading Cemetery Reading; Pa. The love of man for hla dog Is represented In a new cemetery established near here. Dr. Earl E. Romberger, of the Reading Veterinary hospital, bad a "cemetery on the Philadelphia pike for many years, but found that It was Inadequate. Another tract waa obtained. The bodies of more than 400 dogs, eats, a canary and a duck buried In the original cemetery were disinterred and moved to the new plot. Headstones for the most part are uniform In aloe and arranged In neat rows. A few owners purchased fairly large stones. Each has the pet' name, year of birth and death. Black Walnut Log Sale Brings $1,000 to Dealer : Wheatland, Ind. Jordan Brothers hare shipped a carload of black walnut logs and rootwada to Cincinnati, the approximate value of the load being 11.000. This fine hardwood timber, once so common In Indiana that It was In the millions way. of pioneer farmers,-anof feet were burned In efforts tq get their land ready for the plow, now la almost gone; Whenever one la sold the stump Is carefully excavated In order that no part la wasted. . Old Spanish Doubloons Found in Swimming Pool Media, . Pa. Ancient Spanish doubloons, Roman galley coins, 2 and United States pieces, Danish kronen and Dutch guilders were discovered on the bottom of a swimming pool here when It waa emptied. coins apparently were The thirty-tw- o tossed there In haste some time Inst summer. They were scattered around at widely separated places. James Tucker Moylan, the. finder, will take them to a numismatist to determine the value of hla "treasure. . Executioner Is Hidden by Secrecy in Prison lore-makin- ... ; Columbus, Ohio. Ohio haa no official executioner, as have many states where the death penalty prevails. Warden J. CL Woodward selects three of his guards to throw switches when s person Is to be executed at the ' penitentiary. Only one of the swltchea Is connected to the chair. In this way the guards .do not know who threw the switch that sent the charge through the prls-- oners j to Tahiti Estate San Francisco; A San Frande-c- o yachting captain recently told of a rescue at sea that may make him heir tq $45,000 and a 20,000- acre Tahiti copra plantation. Ha la James El wood, thirty-atof 480 Eddy street. Elwood Said that attorneys for the estate of George Willtame, Tahiti planter and trader, notified him of the be--. I Another Job. x, Charleston, Mass. A knotted, powerful hand, encased In s rubber glove, reached up to drive home the blades of a giant switch In the prison here. Three times the hand readied and each, time a man died. The hand was that of Robert O. Elliott, official executioner for the statea of Massachusetts, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The hand took the llvca of Murton. and Irving Mlllen sad Abraham Fsber.i All three men hnd been convicted of murdering s itollceiusn while engaged In a bank holdup. Elliott's hand threw' the twitch which caused their elcctro- , cullon. Once before Elliott carried out a triple execution In Boston. Those electrocuted then were the two car bam bandits, Nicolo Sacco, and Bartolomeo Vanaettl anarchists convicted of murdering a paymaster and hla guard, and Celeatlno Medeiros, who died for the murder of a bank cashier. Ten year ago Elliott branched out, from hla electrical supply business ln--: to the position of official executioner, when his predecessor, John Hilbert committed eulcide. Just Another Job. nis job does not bother tha Elliott The only time his-nerve bos been shaken was the time he, threw the current through the body of Mrs. Iluth Snyder for her complicity in d ihe window weight murder of her who was killed by Judd Gray, her corset salesman lover. He looks npon It aa Juat another Job. By bis philosophy some one la guilty of murder and when the law discovers that some one he deserve to die. "It's the law and some one must do It" la bis way of looking at things. Elliott shuns publicity. Ha Uves quietly and modestly In a cottage bouse at Richmond Hills, N. Y with hie wife; s son, and a daughter. His only absences from home tra occasioned by his frequent trips to the prisons of his own or nearby states to carry on his grim task. There Is good reason for his reluct-- , snee to appear In the public eye. Every effort waa made to keep bis Identity and hie address a secret but gang-- ' iters found where he lived a few yean ago and bombed hla home. The bombing occurred shortly after the electrocution of Sacco and Vanaettl and It waa thought that their friends were attempting to neck revenge on tha; executioner. The case has never been! wired. Elliott's home waa wrecked but be and his family escaiied without Injury. $150 Per Death. There la nothing about the grim v lunged, sunken cheeked and Suire framed executioner' demeanor or ap-- I team nee to mark hlin us the innn who ims sent the curreut of death through an uncounted numlier of convicted criminals, lie refuses to reveal how many he has ex wiled, though there la little doubt that the figure la well over one hundred. For each cron that dies by Ills hand he receives $150, plus his traveling Ills routine varies little from prison to prison. In some atutea he throws a switch, In others he spins ld : quest William, a passenger on a liner two years ago, fell overboard off the Panama coast and was In danger of being cut to pieces by the propellers of the ship;. Elwood dived from a nearby yacht and drew him to safety. Wag Uses Legs of Dummy to Scare Street Crowd Warren, Ohio. Men stood aghast, women and children screamed end fled In terror. In the middle of the. street were two mutilated legs with no body attached. A motorist espied r the grisly scene and stopped to offer assistance If It i were not top late; Flipping a blanket .from the stump end of the leg, ha found not' fleahL and 'blood' ahafts ' but artificial legs hacked from s clothing store dummy. a village, wag near . I by chuckled. Girl Hitchhiker Gives ( Advice and Four Donta i Tncsou. Arts. These are the rales o( Miss Shirley Williams for hitchhiking: Don't thumb rides. ' Don't travel at night Never - ride In tracks or. on freight trains.- Never accept, rides o less than 100 miles; "I make nn average ef bet ter. than 400 miles n day, she said. She sayi that she has crossed the country four timet and stepped here on her fifth trip. She has' a contract with Paramount wbetf aha gets .to Hollywood, she reported. . hue-ban- j I Armless Girl Teaches. Herself to Play' Piano Joliet, RL Using her nose and chit to touch tha keys, Helen Wilhelm! has learned to plaj Uie piano with mors than average skill When her arma failed to develof after birth, Helen set abont learnlni to utilise other members of the hod . nlneteen-year-o- Arrived In the town In which the execution Is to be held, lie registers at a hotel unpacks hla bag, lays out his "working clothes," to be ready for the night's grim task. When the execution Is over he dons bis coat, goes back to his hotel, and sfter a steaming hot hath goes to bed and sleeps soundly until It comes morning and he goes back to Ills home or to some other priwn where bis services are required. li for duties nsnally done by the handq Miss WUhelml la able to operate a type writer with a pencil held In her mouth Dog Keops Grave Vigil A dbg which followed family to- the cemetery here for memorial services remained behind eml vigil at the grave of kept a five-da- y his former master. . Tiffin, OhldL . Deer Hunters Store Your Game in Cold Storage At a wheel HYGEIA ICE COMPANY 1208 East 21st So. Hyland 497 body. In underworld parlance a "C" note today covers the state's expense of an execution. That $100 la divided four ways. Three executioners split $50 three ways and the remaining $50 Is ' for burial expenses. THE NEW Columbia University Encyclopedia Tins NEW ORIGINAL ENCYCLOPEDIA WILL BE PUBLISHED OCTOBER 17th. sup- ported the mother's version, and Russells plea. Then followed four years of trials ; . r, Irish-Guards- .baby, and legal moves. 1069 the ripecial session. Is Balked. - For Your iness Mens League has been called for October 22 at 8 P. M. in the. Sprague Branch Library rooms, according to Orson Kasteler, Secretary. The purpose of the meeting is to elect officers for the coming year and to formulate plans for special Christmas activities. An urgent request is made by officers of the organization that all members be in attendane at Boys Candid Fish Story Falls Upon Wrong Ears Jail-brea- Sea Rescuer Heir Elliott Shuns Publicity, Looks on Work as Just A special meeting of the Sugar House Bus- Alcster, OEiu who had aided In the capture, and Raymond J. Caffrey, federal agent, were mortally wounded. F. J. Lackey, federal agent from Oklahoma City, was critically hurt but recovered. Only Frank Smith, the federal agent who had arrested Nash, was untouched by the deadly barrage. He had taken a rear seat, apparently where the gangsters thought Nash would be sitting. The machine guns went silent, the murderera' car palled out of a parking Jot and they Jumped In aa It gathered speed. Yetterll fired a pump gun after It and a young motorcycle patrolman, Mike Fanning, winged one of the killers who fell but got to the car. I EXECUTIONER OF FELONS WILL NOT SPEAK OF TASKS R. G. sometimes It would run extremely well and at other times It would not start, ut all. The garage man tok the car out for a short run and found that the man was right. Investigation disclosed that the fuel line wns clogged. When the line was taken apart six live mice Jumped out and ran away. i Kansas City. This Is a It 1 of a thing to wake a man up for. That was true. To be awakened" from a sound sleep to hear any one's ; sentence of deutli by hanging read! be "a b 1 of a thing." But' ; would sharp faced, eagle beaked Adam Rich-et- tl had been asleep In a Jail cell and when the Jailers woke him up It was to hear, his own sentence read. ; It haJ taken a Jackson county (Kansas City) jury Just two houra and ill minutes and three ballots for a 'verdict of death for the murder of one of Nash's guards, one of the four peace officers who died In what Is known aa the Kansas City massacre. The sallow little prisoner who spoke iso brasenly had little right to expect anything leu thun a death sentence. Three machine gnnners are known to have participated In the Union station :masucre of June 17, 1933 a horrible .example of gangster bravado In which !they murdered the man they were .trying to rescue. Desperado Frank Nash, In addition to shooting down the l four officers, and of the three Itlchettl ;ls the only one now aljve. Police Kill Pretty Boy. Machine , gunner Charles (rretty iBny) Floyd was shot and killed by federal agents on a farm near East Llver-ipoo- l, Ohio, October 22, 1934, the day after his fugitive pal, Rlchettl, had been arrested In a nearby town during a gun battle from which Floyd escaped. Machine gunner Verne C. Miller, nobody's "pal, was found near Detroit on November 39, 1933, beaten to death by enemy hoodlums who' trussed hla naked body in a blanket and threw It jin a ditch. . Thus, with Rlchettl's execution, the ledger recording the crime and punlsh- ,ment for .the spectacular effort of three men to "snatch a fourth of their kind from seven captors Is balanced. Four policemen were slain. Nash, three gangsters have been killed. Itlchettl makes four. for the three officers they ; And wounded, there are four conspirators sentences. Eight were serving two-yea-r convicted, but the women were, only SUGAR HOUSE BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE CALLS SPECIAL MEETING ATTENTION TO ADVERTISERS THE BULLETIN" haa added to Its advertising department the :: Stanton Advertising Service for the convenience of those wishing to Illustrate their advertising used in The Bulletin." 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