Show 2 THB SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 23 1930 A TALIAN Spanish Riots Southern Army Aviators Halt as Jails Brave Withering Fire to Free Politicos Attack Ethiopian Center Police to Push Murder Trial In Clock Case Repudiated Confession Checks With Facts Officers Say By Associated Press LOS ANGELES Feb 22— The repudiated confession of Fred Stettler stoical Swiss chauffeur In the mechanical murders of an aged man and wife "can’t be repudiated because it checks on all counts” Captain of Detectives Bert Wallis said today Stettler told police last night he crushed the skulls of Carl Barbour and Mrs Barbour and then set an intricately-devise- d watch mechanism attached to an electric water heater to fire their home and destroy the bodies an hour after he left the residence Several hours later he denied the statement Blames Car Dealer "I made the machine for a used ear dealer” detectives quoted Stettler as saying "I delivered It to the man near the Barbour house and that is all I know about it” Captain Wallfs said Stettler originally told him he slew the Barbours thinking to steal $600 he said he needed A waitress Peggy White 26 with whom the chauffeur assertedly was friendly told police today Stettler had said: "He had to get money one way or another pretty quick” "She also said she had a date With him Wednesday night” Captain Wallis stated "When he didn’t show up she wondered what had happened But she said she couldn’t believe he was the type to commit murder for money” Meanwhile police checked and I checked the name and address of the "used car dealer” Stettler named "There’s no such place and so far we can’t find any trace of any such man” Captain Wallis said Evidence Found Bloodstains on Stettler’s clothing edpper wire and an empty watch case and $S9 in currency and silver were the articles found by police in the chauffer’s apartment which they said substantiate the confession he made then denied In the statement Captain Wallis aid Stettler gave last night the chauffeur told them: ' "I did not intend to kill them It was Just that I knew Mr Barbour had money there I had to have $600 to pay a loan r "I knew Mr Barbour would be Vorking on the parking lot Mrs Barbour met me at the door and said ’Come In Freddie’ She started doing something cleaning up some dishes” The confession said Stettler then Went Into the bedroom “to see if I could locate where they kept their money” A raspy-voice- d parrot was kept in Ihe bedroom to act as a living burglar alarm for the Barbour’s money placed in a box Kills Parrot "Jt started squawking and I hit It over the head with a hammer” “Mrs 'the statement continued Barbour came in and I knew she’d be wondering what I was doing and I hit her on the head "I waited until about 10:30 when 1 heard Mr Barbour coming up the stairs As soon as he opened the bedroom door I hit him "I put the bodies on the bed and then drove around a while trying io realize what I had done I thought of fixing an electric heat-e- r and watch to set fire to the place I fjxed It at home I took a gallon can of gasoline and threw it over the bodies and set the time clock "I only found $59 but I expected to find more’’ Captain Wallis said his men found $59 in Stettler’s workshop along With the arson machine Tessie Pet Elephant Beloved by Colorado Children Near Death COLORADO SPRINGS Colo Feb 22 UP) — Youngsters of the Pikes Peak region anxiously awaited reports today from the Chey enne mountain zoo where Tessie the elephant favorite among all the Spencer Penrose collection of’anl-tnal- s lies near death ” The elephant was stricken yesterday with some disorder veterinarians have not been able to diagnose —Today she was tooweak to rise even With the aid of block and tackle but still responded with the weak to the voice of Mrs J T McMillen wife of the zoo superintendent Tessie spends her winters in a team heated apartment in the mountainside zoo ‘and in the sum mer roams in a large corral often with children on her back She is the pioneer member of the zoo Which the former United States senator has assembled trum-petin- Martial Law Ended CARACAS Venezuela Feb 22 CD — The government of Provisional President Lopez Contreras an Bounced today civil guarantees were reestablished ending the state of martial law established with the death in December of former President Juan Vicente Gomez : Jubilant Celebrations in Many Gties Mark People’s Joy ' 1 - ' ' x( By LESTER ZIFFREN ' v 1 cV ‘ "V ? vaiA 1 i ' W l - V f A $”jgipAw fr( United Press Staff Correspondent MADRID Feb 22— Political rioting which has caused 19 deaths since last Sunday's parliamentary election and led to the proclamation of martial law In several cities subsided today when jail doors were thrown open and 30000 political offenders were given their freedom Many of those released have been In jail since the socialist revolt of October 193$ The chief disturbance of the day was in ths Madrid women's jail where the prisoners rioted and clamored for their release Few of The them are political offenders warden was unable to quiet the women and storm guards were sent to the jail to restore order Fetes In Cities Jubilant demonstr ations were held in cities throughout Spain when the jail doors were opened after publication in the official gazette of a decree granting amnesty In Mieres heart of the revolutionary coal mining district of Asturias province the prisoners surged from thejall into the arms of their mothers wives and sweethearts all weeping with joy They marched home through the streets cheering the new premier Manuel Azana and the Zioncheck Loses Retrial Move on British Seek To Bar Neiv Heavy Italian Pact ROME Feb 22 UP)— The report ran through diplomatic circles tonight that Great Britain seeks to block the rumored efforts to establish an alliance of Italy with Germany Austria Hungary and Poland No diplomat was willing to assert this report as a fact but several pointed to the departure for Vienna of Sir Erlo Drummond British ambassador to Rome as giving substance to the suggestion of a British maneuver Sir Erie let it be known he was going to Vienna for dental work It was said he would stay in the Austrian capital a week Senate Protests House Change in New Farm Bill republic Prisoners in Oviedo marching home through the streets raised shouts of “Down with fascism!” and "Long live Russia!” They reinstated the deposed socialist city council and placed wreaths on the graves of those killed in the 1934 revolution Wildly Cheered ' All the 6000 residents of the town of Barruelo de Santullon ih Palen-cl- a province waited at the town limits for the arrival by automobile of 300 fellow townsmen from Burgos prison They wildly cheered the prisoners Azana socialism and the republic In Granada the prisoners were released without advance notice and sent home quietly in taxicabs The entire town of Trubla where the Asturias rebels looted the arms factory in 1934 to get rifles machine guns and cannon turned out in an uproarious Welcome to the prisoners from Oviedo and Gijon A band accompanied the demonstrators playing the “Red Interna tionale” Soil Conservation Measure Sent to Conference for Adjustment Weather Slows Fliers in Air Offensive on Vital Trade Point Rome Celebrates Victory Selassie Reported Ready to Leave Throne Under League Mandate Plan (Copyright 1936 by Havas Agency) ROME Feb 22— A big squadron of Caproni bombing planes from General Rodolfo Grazianl’s southern army braved destruction under “celling zero” conditions today to rain a fiery barrage upon Magalo 200 miles southeast of Addis Ababa The airmen declared they had scored direct hits on all their main objectives in the important trade and caravan center which lies in fertile territory between the headwaters of the Webbe Gestro and Webbe Mana rivers Subjected to terrific fire from batteries Ethiopian antiaircraft every one of the Italian planes was hit at least once Some of the big trimotor Capronis were riddled with enemy projectiles but all succeeded in returning to their base at Neghelli The pilots informed their officers they had destroyed several food and munitions warehouses in Magalo Low Flying By Associated Press The fliers at no time were able WASHINGTON Feb to climb higher than 1000 feet due revision of the adminstration’s to a torrential downpour which dollar soil conservation-subsid- y Congressman Will Appeal bill brought stern senate Dem- rendered the raid the most hazardous air operation yet undertaken ocratic protests today which sent $15 Fines Assessed by on the southern front they said the measure adto conference for ' declared they had taken par"W They Police Court justment of differences hitting the forSenator Smith (D S C) cospon- ticular care to avoid sor of the senate version with Sena' eign consulates in Magalo The war office announced Martor Bankhead (D Ala) Was so in WASHINGTON Feb 22 shal Pietro Badoglio had launched censed house over the action that of Representative Marlon A he threw up his hands in disgust and an offensive against the "mountain Zioncheck (D Wash) on charges goat” Ethiopian forces in the Tem-bieinquired: commanded by Ras Seyoum of being drunk and disorderly in an ’What kind of a fool thing is this Ras Kassa who for many weeks and in house the they have adopted?" apartment lobby early have harassed the northern Italian Senator McNary of Oregon the armies in a Year’s ddy was series of daring guerilla Dollar throwing becomes a “major Walter Johnson He is shown holding two morning of New leader the who assailed Republican raids today in police court silver dollars of the coinage of Washing- upheld legislation when it was before the This disclosure confirmed milisport” for a day Left Representative Sol Zioncheck had asked for a new as senate a fraud and dollar-throwin“subterfuge g Bloom of N Y who backed his skepticism ton’s time Right two fans trial high sham” displayed his feelings by re- tary experts’ belief the Italian anniPolice Judge Walter Casey de of the Washington legend with a bet against to on the conference commander would attempt to measuring a practice toss across the river nied serve fusing Zioncheck’s motion and then hilate these enemy columns befors committee formally sentenced the congressman unleashing his main drive southAsks for Parley to pay fines of $10 on the drunk ward toward Mount Alajl Dessys enness charge and $5 on the disor Smith had the senate disagree to and Addis Ababa the house amendments as soon as derly conduct count Patrols Clash the bill was received and asked for Denies Charge "Advance patrols in the southern a conference Vice President Gar- Temblens Zioncheck appearing in court clashed several times ner named Smith Murphy (D with his attorney ’ filed affidavits with enemy detachments” a cableCOSHOCTON Ohio Feb 22 (UP) Iowa) and (D Idaho) Pope Capper from Marshal Badoglio said signed by persons purportedly in — A mysterious epidemic which af- (R Kansas) as the senate confer- gram "Otherwise there is nothing imporpossession of new evidence tending fected approximately 2000 of this ees Smith said he would tant to report from either ths ALCATRAZ ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO Feb 22 (UP)— to show the congressman was not city’s 10000 inhabitants was be- Senator Frazier (R Ind) propose for the or southern fronts” northern B J ohnstnf a student of penology whom the government drunk and disorderly at the time lieved today to be fading James down place turned by McNary The of his arrest By United Press Authorities new No of cases revealed Marshal Intestinal the called from his books to head its “Devil’s Island” experiment At the conclusion of the hearing disease which first appeared Wed- house will appoint conferees Mon- Badoglio’s fliers had dropped 35700 CHARLOTTE N C Feb 22-- The' day sefrom his on the new trial motion Judge emerged new deal’s right to allocate nesday were reported today and Some senators expressed belief the bombs weighing 178 tons in all elusion long enough today to deny Casey ruled the affidavits were not Dr J D Lower city health com- conferees week’s battle of Enderta would have difficulty com' during last funds for a publicly-owne- d power Semiofficial government spokessaid those already ill Al Capone once Chicago gang lead- of "substantial character” He also missioner Dethe differences posing many held “there is nothing to show the were recovering men said there was no truth in reproject was upheld today by a feder is “on the spot” at this federal defendant added would interfere lay is entitled to a new trial eral appellate court A proposed mass inoculation of with they to Italy would demlllze 500000 the get subsidy pro' ports plans Brode told the court he intends all residents was called off when prison on a rocky island men due to Improvement in ths The Fourth federal circuit court before are spring crops Johnston who attempt! to hide to file a petition for a writ of the state health department at Co- gram going international situation of appeals reversed a federal displanted own activities as much as he error in the district court of ap lumbus reported that specimens of Dispatches from the southern his (The bill in a general way would front' trict court's decision in South Carothe city water supply contained no authorize payment up to $500000-00- 0 reported the “little rains” had does that of his 259 charges— the peals The court then decreed the $15 traces of typhoid fever lina restraining the public works begun in earnest "tendering extenin to federal subsidies farmers CHICAGO Feb 22 (UP)— national criminals— tops among posted as collateral by Zioncheck afIt was believed at first that the for taking land out of crop produc- sive overland and air Operations exadministration from furnishing Mae West glittering with chose Washington’s birthday the ter his arrest would be held water was to blame tion to promote soil tremely difficult contaminated to build a power plant at was railmet at the fertility For Scout filers informed General jewelry receiv- two man who could for the after to but dedicated the Wants Buzzard Roost S C The court Back epidemic day Money would be subsidies the road station today by a detail years Grazlani’s lieutenants that Ethiheld the public works act is constinot tell a lie to brand as “100 per Zioncheck appearing chagrined ing the report from Columbus Dh paid directly or to states After of state's attorneys's police he be said Lower it opian troops again had moved into tutional thought might arose 1938 from a admin' would be courtroom seat and the subsidies cent fiction” the rumors circulating determined to protect her the sector north of Dolo near The appellate court in another highly Infectious intestinal influ' istered only by states) said: "I want that back! from a gang which has been money about where they already have Capone and alleged attacks That’s enzav disdecision upheld the Baltimore my on front page celebmoney!” ' to Condition Objects preying been defeated on Capone's life trict court in instructing trustees The court instructed the clerk to ‘“The exact number of persons rities Smith objected particularly to a A caravan of 700 camels which of the American States Public Rumors Denied epl hold the money pending posting of stricken during the three-da- y Jackie Coogan and his fidemic was not known but newspa- house amendment permitting ten' took advantage of the downpour to Service company a holding concern ancee Betty Grable were pur“There isn’t a word of truth in all $100 appeal bond on each charge ant farmers and share croppers to try to cross the Clamedo Ford was pers estimated it at about 2000 in process of reorganization not to sued through the Loop and these rumors that have been cir- wThe congressman moved for a new participate in "conditional” benefit dispersed in a surprise raid by Italon trial register with the securities and exthe of robbed Ethel Shutta singer grounds congressional and Alcatraz” culated about payments in proportion to losses ian air bombers apprised of the atCapone new change commission But the appelevidence was stripped of furs An atand lack of immunity suffered through substitution of soil tempt by a radio scout plane late court added that the district told the United Johnston Warden jurisdiction by the district police tempt to kidnap Constance building crops for food crops court’s declaration that the utility court Press Talmadge failed "Let us use a little common sense” "is ‘constituact holding company Police cars preceded and He was angry when he said it His “The tenant Rome Celebrates Smith told reporters tional in its entirety should be omitfollowed Mae’s limousine to a from the latest repetianger grew now it all are given gets They Former Senator Held ted’’ hotel when she alighted from tion of reports many of Alcatraz their part of the crop with no strings News of Victory The rulings affecting new deal and hate island’s inmates Capone Hollywood Violator of Bird Law SOFIA Bulgaria Feb 22 UPV-- The on it The landowner has to pay ROME Feb 22 (UP)— Confidence legislation are expected to be apare determined to "get him” for one The cold wave incidentally veteran revolutionist Damyan taxes and the costs of production of a decisive triumph over Ethiopia — pealed to the United States supreme failure of to two his was broken today when the join DENVER Colo things 22 UP)— Velcheff was condemned to death housing Feb implements and repairs” prevailed in Rome tonight and recourt 20 the January uprising when 80 Fifty-fiv- e mercury soared to 26 With a liable sources said the size of Italy's Leo L ducks said by court a PWA officials believed the Buzwhich today by military hands prisoners refused to work or his flip of her army would be reduced to lessen the of the of bureau zard Roost decision was a victory Laythe of Measles him Hits biological an convicted Home in participating Mae commented: purported responsibility for the St heavy drain on the treasury for the new deal’s nonfederal power Valentine’s day massacre in which survey to be the property of former unsuccessful plot tp assassinate "Anything to oblige” circulated in the Towny of Quintuplets Many rumors program seven gangsters were slain in Chi- United States Senator Lawrence C King Boris October 3 1935 capital One that Emperor Haile Phipps Sr were seized today in a Major Cyril Stantseff also recago a number of years ago CALLANDER Ont Feb 22 UP)— Selassie was ready‘ to sue tor peaoe ceived the death penalty and Colo' The newest story published with Denver cold storage plant whs thoroughly discredited by a “pipe line” into the prison as the The ducks— mallards canvasbacks nel Ignatz Illieff former command- A mild form of measles is sweeping officials who pointed source is that last Wednesday a and teal— were said by Laythe to er of the garrison at Sliven was this northern Ontario district home responsible out that it would be equivalent to held have in of been violation the of 10 to the — — sentenced Dionne missile window quintuplets a years’ imprisonheavy weight Dr A R Dafoe physician to the signing his death warrant by the whistled across the laundry where migratory bird act which prohibits ment hands of one of his tribesmen a more ten such than person were Eight alleged conspirators quints said the measles had reached Capone and Roy Gardner famed fowl in' having one time or at Belgian Report to the sentenced possession train robber were operating a stage though the eight years’ imprison' more than ten days after the shoot- ment and another to one A have babies tiot from Brussels that Haile report carefully guarded year HOWARD W mangle G BLAKESLEE L Fallla H and By Twombly Selassie was willing to abdicate for ing seaspn closes Fourteen were acquitted been touched Associated Press Science Editor Marlnelll Capone SavedT At present there is a 12 years in favor of a League of NaNEW YORK Feb 22 UP—Possi- limit to the amount of which Gardner pushed Capone from the tions mandate was given more bility of real existence of the hypo- can be used for deep cancer The path of the iron weight The miscredence Its source was a United thetical "ether” an invisible me- limit is the amount of burning the sile grazed Al’a head inflicting a Press Interview with Colonel Ruel dium filling all space was revived skin will stand minor scalp wound As a result Belgian military adviser to the emThe physicians would like some- Capone requested a transfer and was today by new mathematical cal' peror just returned from Ethiopia culations presented to the Amer times to burn the cancer even more assigned to the comparative obColonel Ruel said the emperor is lean physical society but they dare not give 'more rays scurity and quiet of the prison liwilling to let the league run his W B Cartmell of the University because of the serious damage to brary of Montreal showed computations the skin above the hidden tumor The story said further federal PARIS Feb 22 (UP)— The literary Vienna was for the daughter of a —she was talkative and jealous and country as a protectorate against that the formula by which existence Failla and his associates have authorities were considering send supplement of the Paris newspaper rich Jewish merchant who refused Bhe broke with Hitler because of his Italian aggression for a definite period but was not considering direct of “ether” has been ruled out may taken part of the skin burning ing-A- l to McNeil island federal pent' Le Journal was seized by police to consent to the marriage because friendship with other women be in error power out of the rays They found tentlary in Washington to complete today because it contained an al- Hitler was only a modest artisan Hitler’s third love the article said negotiations with Italy Mr Cartmell’s calculations are to some of this Surface burning was his term for Income tax fraud He leged account of the “love life” of The starvation of Hitler’s love the was Erna sister of Ernst F 8 Would Be Killed the effect that the origlnlal experi- caused by secondary electrons has about three years to serve Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler of Ger- article continued' found expression Hanfstaengel the Harvard grad with Italy would be "Negotiations menters should not have expected traveling along with the rays after The reported attack was not the many in violent speeches and political uate who is now Hitler’s foreign impossible because my chieftains the big "effect" which they never being produced by the rays within first to come from unverified The police acted on instructions acts drawing him towards grandiose press representative She also was would kill me” Colonel Ruel quoted y the tube and in the air be- sources regarding Capone from the foreign office after a pro- ideas in Wagnerian music got described as jealous and talkative the emperor as saying' Dr Everett W Thatcher assist- tween the tube and the patient's Shortly after the January 20 test had been made by the German It was extensively rumored in and the engagement was broken al Another report was that Ras ant professor of physics at Union body strike It was reported Capone had embassy which considered the ar- Munich in 1922 the article said that though it had been announced in the Kassa one of the main Ethiopian These electrons are drawn out of been assigned a special guard be- ticle offensive college Schenectady N Y reported Hitler was engaged to Jenny Hang Bavarian newspapers commanders on the northern front a new method of placing grids so the beam to a large extent cause certain convicts had threatIt was the first Instalment of two his chauffeur's sister He was deThe article mentioned other WO' had started negotiations with the as to take noise out of radio tubes by two methods use of a magnet ened his life Before that it was re- articles entitled "Hitler's Secret scribed as 23 and charming with men Winifred Wagner Italians for his surrender on condiAn improvement in for which attracts them like iron fil- ported he had been threatened with Loves" Under the signature of green eyes and a reddish Valkyrian relativeincluding of the composer and Mar tion that he be made governor bt cancer was reported from Memorial lings and by focusing the y lynching for "squealing" to the Jean Tenos it said Hitler’s first complexion garet Zlezak daughter of a Vien the Important Temblen region In hospital New York City by Dr Gbeanv love during his pre-wguards the north days in She had two faults the article said nese singer Drinking Charge & New Deal Upheld In Public Power Fund Allocation 22-H-ouse half-billio- -- ns Rare Epidemic Alcatraz Head Denies Capone Life in Danger Wanes in Ohio Loop Police Guard Mae From Gang Lam-mashili- Bulgaria Dooms Tivo for Plot Hypothetical ‘Ether’ Theory Revived by Physics Expert near-epidem- ic X-ra- ys Paris ‘Expose’ of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Love Life’ Confiscated by Police After German Protest X-r- ar v V |