Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE TUESDAY MORNING MAY ‘Snake Murder’ Suspects Reptile Slaying Principals Argue Guilt in Jail Cells ' Officials Speed Indictments on Murder Counts Hope to Send Two Men to Gallows for Weird Slaying in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES May 4 CUP) ftable top adhesive plaster pasted While Robert S James' plump red- over her eyes and mouth Detectives took headed barber and Charles H Hope Hope out of jail late today and confronted him with d his helper In the rattle- a cabinetmaker who said he consnake killing of James’ fifth wife structed the snake-bo- x used in the wrangled from jail cells today over killing Detective Jack Southard nowho did the actual job of killing tified Fitts the cabinetmaker Max Sherman definitely identified Hope officials cleared a legal pathway Seeks Indictment to rush both to the gallows Fitts announced he immediately District Attorney Buron Fitts said would take Hope before the grand he would prefer a formal murder jury on a murder charge charge against Hbpe exsailor and “This definitely ties up the case” cafe manager tomorrow and will Fitts said haul both before the grand jury A court order was asked to dig up Wednesday morning the body of Mrs James whose death "I’ll get indictments in less than had been pronounced "accidental” SO minutes” he promised by a coroner's jury when her body was found face down in a shallow Parts Admitted Meanwhile James and Hope both fish pond behind James’ La Cres of whom admitted parts in the centa home last August S Dr Gustave Boehme noted toxischeme to murder the barber’s and expert on snake poipretty three weeks’ bride Mary cologist Busch James by plunging her bare sons will examine the body An leg into a box of poisonous rattle- autopsy by Dr A E Wagner ausnakes then drowning her in a topsy surgeon after Mrs James’ bathtub fired accusations at each death revealed queer lumpy bite other from their cells in county jail marks on one leg which baffled "I’m in the clear on this thing” police until Hope coughed up his the portly beauty shop proprietor story of the fantastic rattlesnake said "I’m not going to try to escape death plot anything by pleading insanity because there is nothing wrong Bite With me "I’il plead not guilty and I’ll clear ft: V J T :: I V $ 5 1938 th&t T H Harbin a prospective con who' concrete-asbestcomposition pipe a Officer Named Court Hears Wood Expert tractor wanted Irrigation used conferred frequently with him him to Austin to appear and the water To Direct Vast At Fraud Trial of Seven before ID—Trial nical the board about Navy Air Plans fir changes it might make men conspiracy to took board : v myself” In a signed confession the barber cynically admitted planning the gruesome killing with the intention of splitting $10000 he expected to reap in insurance policies with Hope The BARTOW Fla May 4 UP)— Al- fred Weaver itinerant bitten by a rattlesnake during a "faith” demonstration at a revival service here last night died today refusing medical treatmgnt During a revival meeting conducted by George Hensley who frequently has handled reptiles in the of his course demonstrations Weaver picked the snake from a replied with a repetition of statements in his confession that he merely furnished the snakes-‘-an- d James did the job of subjecting his wife to their stinging fangs while she lay strapped to a box MODERNIZE WITH Commander --of Carrier Lexington Advanced to Rear Admiral WASHINGTON May 4 Arthur B Cook commander of (AV-Cap-t- the aircraft carrier Lexington was selected today to direct the navy’s drive to lift its air force to a par with any naval air armada In the world Captain Cook— who will advance to the rank of rear admiral when he becomes chief of the bureau of aeronautics in June — will succeed Rear! 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regarding redwood the comparative superiority of fir caused protracted arguments over his qualifications as an expert witness as well as admissibility as evi dence reports of the bureau of reclamation which cited merits of each type of wood under a number of conditions In an effort 'to substantiate its claim the trial arose from a "material men's fight" the defense elicited statements from Spaulding ' time-savin- g SELF-MEASURIN- suggestions to by 1942 Appropriations of $27600000 proposed in the pending naval appropriations bill are estimated as sufficient to buy 502 planes this year ' Academy Graduate Captain Cook a native of Evansville Ind and a graduate of the naval academy at Annapolis was specially commended for his services in the World war as flag leutenant to the cammander-in-chle- f of the United States navy Principals in Los Angeles’ macabre “snake murder” are He received his flying training at shown above Left to right are Charles Hope who assert-edl- y the naval air station at Pensacola furnished the reptiles District Attorney Buron Fitts Fla in 1928 and upon being graduated was assigned to command the Robert James whose wife was the alleged victim and aircraft carrier Langley In the inset is Eugene Williams deputy district attorney In 1930 he became chief of staff Mrs Mary Busch James the dead woman to the commander of the aircraft squadron of the battle fleet for one year before becoming assistant chief of the bureau of aeronautics He took command of the Lexington in 1934 — Problem of Pilots The bureau of aeronautics in addition to other matters relating to the flying branch of the navy supervises design constructjonfitting out and testing of naval aircraft One of the problems to be met by Accuracy of U S Treasury Opponents Assail Plan- - to the new aviation chief is training of pilots for the new planes Prediction Studied Break Legislative The 1936 program calls for the of 498 flyers at Pensacola training at Washington Deadlock which will still leave a shortage of 317 naval aviators and 16 naval aviation pilots NeW planes for the 4 WASHINGTON (A)— WASHINGTON May 4 UP)-- The May carriers Yorktown and Enterprise in specover indulged Washington today smoldering fight ship subsidies and four new cruisers will make ulation upon the eventual accuracy flared anfew in the senate today the shortage toted nearly 600 fliers of the treasury’s budget estimates with-t- he introduction of a revised by July 1 1937 with Secretary Morgenthau’s recent plan which immediately was asprediction of a $5966000000 deficit sailed by the author of a rival Legion Reaches1 Peak for the current fiscal year the center program of study In Membership Ten months of the current fiscal Senator Guffey (D Pa) offered year have elapsed and the totals of an amendment to the bill passed receipts and expenditures for that by the house last year which he INDIANAPOLIS May 4 (A)—' The period hhow a monthly rate of in- said was designed to break a legis- American Legion counted 812730 come and outgo which if continued until July 1 would result in a lative deadlock that has persisted members today — the greatest numPresident Roosevelt indicated ber it has ever had at this time of deficit well below the figure cited since his desire for new ship subsidy the year by $he treasury secretary A total of 52118 membership cards In addition Morgenthau’s state- legislation to replace existing ocean were brought into national headment made last week before the mail contracts Chairman Copeland (D N Y) of quarters yesterday in the annual senate finance committee presupthe senate commerce committee— aerial roundup More than 60 airposed full payment of the bonus by author of fe'gislation— de- planes took part in the roundup-com- ing July 1 while latest estimates today clared the differingmeasure was no from all parts of the counGuffey were that on a basis of applications received and progress made in prep- compromise and did not have a try Major General Oscar Westover arations for payment some 71 to "ghost of a chance” "Even If the president were to chief of the £rmy air corps princi72 per cent of the expected total Would be paid out this fiscal year tell US it Was the type of legislation pal speaker at the annual roundup At the treasury it was revealed he had in mind we who are op- dinner told the Legionnaires the to anything like the old ship- United States military aviation is that the cabinet officer’s figures posed board would die on ourl feet four and a half years behind Its were based upon estimates of re- ping before letting it through” Cope- program and Is inferior to every and in made ceipts expenditures major power except Japan December These he revisd to al- land said low for loss of revenue from processing taxes and the cost of the bonus Prove Excessive ! WASHINGTON May 4 defor fraud the government in connection with a Willacy county Texas irrigation project resolved today into arguments among defense counsel over testimony on comparative merits of redwood and fir Prosecutors learned from L representative of a Seattle Wash fir company that specifications for the $453000 public works irrigation system as presented originally to the Texas board of water engineers virtually eliminated fir Spaulding testified he made tech- of seven cold-eye- Snake at Revival Proves Fatal Meeting 13 ART AND GIFT SALON— MEZZANINE $i boxed for so- clal correspon- dence 2 for $1 Stationery I - V I J |