Chester Times (Newspaper) - September 12, 1935, Chester, Pennsylvania LAST CITY EDITION 18315 Dally Leatt Wire Reports of UP and News Service INS CHESTER PA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1 1935 TWENTYFOUR PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS ROGERS JR OIL HEIR HELD IN KILLING OF CHORUS GIRL ON FARM FIRST TRANSATLANTIC LINER PAID FOR IN COAL IS READY TO SAIL Police Question Scion of Standard Company and Motion Picture Camera Man From New York After Evelyn Hoey Noted Musical Comedy stress Is Found With Bullet in Brain Death Follows Party at Which Drink Is Said to Have Flowed Ensues When Woman Seeks to Borrow Train pare From Bail Set For Two Men Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr and William James Kelly will be admitted to bail each today pending an inquest next Tuesday in the death of Evelyn Hoey actress Miss Hoey musical comedy star and radio singer I was shot through the forehead in a second floor bedroom I at the Chester county home of Rogers scion of a late oil I millionaire last night District Attorney Parke announced that an autopsy would be held late today to determine the course of the bullet The autopsy is expected to determine whether the blonde committed suicide or was murdered on the estate six miles north of Downingtown The the shooting will be held next Thursday night County Detective Grubb said that death was caused from a bullet from a 45 calibre automatic and that the gun was found about five feet from the body Miss Hoey was found fully clothed on the floor of the had been apparently sit ting oh the side of the bed when shot and she crumpled to the floor Rogers and Kelly a motion pic ture cameraman were lodged in the county jail on warrants charging suspicion of murder Parke said however they both would be re leased on bail Deputy Coroner Harvey Cox said Rogers wept and sobbed in his cell at the Chester county prison I loved that did she do such a had everything to live for Rogers was quoted by Cox as saying The tragedy Coll Fingerprint Expert From Here In Girls Death climaxed a wild at Rogers home on Indian luh farm There had ing and boisterous noise coming from house until a shot was heard all became confusion and from servants police finally con a story leading up to the Miss Hoey who sang her way to success in such hits as Fifty Million Frenchmen Yours Truly and Spring Buddies had been a guest at Rogers farm for a week She came to the Chester county es tate with the society man when he returned from a trip abroad William J Kelley a motion pic ture cameraman York was another guest The party was progressing when suddenly Miss Hoey decided she wanted to return to New York City She was without funds and at tempted to borrow five dollars from Frank Catalano chauffeur and but leron the farm according to police Rogers became enraged that his girl should try to borrow money from someone else He tore out the telephone wires and ordered Miss Hoey out of the house He then Instructed Catalano to get the car d drive to New York Miss Hoey according to police dashed upstairs to pack The quarrel abruptly ended the party Then a shot rang out Some time after the a telephone call was made to the chief of police at Downingtown The chauffeur had driven four miles to phone and report the tragedy Held for Questioning Rogers and Kelly were and taken to the county jail at West Chester Police said they were merely held for questioning an that no charges had been placed against them County Detective Grubb and Dis Attorney Parks were the first officers at the Rogers home They reported that the pretty blonde Charles Dunlap fingerprint ex pert of the Chester police force re a call at noon today District Attorney Parks of Cheste county to assist in solving the mur der or suicide of Evelyn Hoey stag beauty who was found dead nea Downingtown last night Dunlap a quiet unassuming mar of 42 has fame for his fin in this county an neighboring sections His job to day will be to determine who hel tne which was found besid Miss deadbody Gruesome work as it is this jo be mere routine compared wit Js last journey into Chester count rime when he was called fy the bodies of two girls found graves five miles Downingtown The bodies were to uch a condition that he had to cu ne flesh from the fingers wrap round his own fingers arid take lis print In this way he made good prints which resulted in identification of he dead women as of Toney the Stinger Cugino who died a suicide in New York last veek when confronted with the chair for these and eight ther murders received personal commendation from Wash for his work in this case He ives at Continued on Page Two 3 BILLIONS IN RAILROADS SALE Quarreled Prior to Farm Tragedy He Declares The following account of events n the country home of Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr immediately preceding the shooting of Evelyn Hoey New York state screen and adio actress was given today by Cloud Battin a farmer formerly employed by Rogers He said Battin employed on the farm at lines said he had gone to the house to talk about the shooting of several dogs ordered destroyed by he farm foreman because they were sick Yesterday afternoon I tried twice to get Mr Rogers on the telephone and was told to come to the house six oclock he stated When got there Mr Rogers and Miss Hoey about the dogs which he valued highly I spent about an hour talking about them Then he and Miss Hoey started arguing He wanted to call a lawyer a man named Clark and wanted him to come right out and get a statement from me Miss Hoey did not want him to They had some words I went into the kitchen with the cook who said hed give me something to eat later then I went to the bathroom I heard Mr Rogers and Miss Hoys talking Miss Hoey said she was through and was going back to New York or going to call New York or something like that Rogers did not want her to go or call so he went to the wall and pulled the telephone wires away I went into the kitchen again and while waiting for some soup to cool I stood in the pantry looking into the living room through a window I could see Mr Rogers his friend Kelly and Miss Hoey sitting on the couch Mr Rogers was waving his arms but I couldnt hear what he said Miss Hoey jumped up and went out Mr Rogers and Mr Kelly kept talking I heard a shot jumped off the sofa and ran out of the room He came back a minute later like a wild man Mr Kelly went out with him Then I came in and followed them up stairs and found out the lady was shot George Yam a the cook could add little to Battens statement from his version I work only a week in this house le said I see it is no kind of a house It is drink drink drink I say I going quit The lady say she lve me more money The lady is my boss I think shes Mrs Rogers I tell her I dont want more money Last night I know nothing I hear no shot Im In the kitchen cooking Then I hear people yell yell yell I run in and they say lady is shot Thats all I know HUNDREDS PASS FUNERAL TODAY City and County Crowds Surge at Baton Rouge to Pay Respects Services This Afternoon and Burial on the Capi tol Lawn NATIONS PLEDGE AID TO LEAGUE ON PENALTIES Ready to Fulfill tions Toward Victim of Aggression Back Great Britain in Its Stand Against Italys War Moye Symbol of development from an inland country io an important factor in Hie worlds maritime com merce the motorship first transatlantic liner built by Poland since the milieus rebirth was sched uled to sail from Gdynia on the Baltic Sea to New September 15 on Us maiden Constructed in Italy and paid for entirely in Polish coal the is shown ready to weigh anchor LAST MINUTE NEWS DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS MISS DEATH IS SUICIDE District Attorney William H Parke of Chester county this afternoon expressed the belief Miss Evelyn Hoey killed herself Questioned ns to why Henry 11 Rogers Jr was to be re leased in bail when a suspicion of murder charge is still lodged against him Parke said It looks so very much like suicide we feel justified in ac bail We have not been able to break the alibi story told by Cloud Battin Meanwhile however Francis Grubb n Chester county detec tive declared Rogers will not be released under any circum stances The detective refused to enlarge on his statement MOTHER REFUSES SUICIDE THEORY NEW YORK Sept daughter commit sui cide Nothing in the world will ever convince me she did Those words burst today from the tremulous lips of a grief wracked mother of Evelyn Hoey Broadway musical comedy favorite whose body with a bullet wound in the head was found at the Pennsylvania country Henry H Jr late last night The mother Mrs Henry J Hoey made her declaration after an hour sobs which started when Rogers lawyers told her daughter hud ended her own life She couldnt she wouldnt shehad everything in the world to live for the mother cried ORPHAN KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE Third Ward Girl 6 Dies After Leaving Larkin School BATON ROUGE La Sept UP and county folk came to the Capitol today for the funeral of Hucy Pierce Long The flat quiet streets of Baton Rouge wero stained with the black kmm of the bayou parishes of the south and the red clay of the hill parishes or the north There were hillbillies from Longs Native parish and Creoles from New Or leans Bushels of peanuts and gal lons of soft drink wero dispensed along streets leading to the 000 Capitol Long erected as a pcr monument The body of the assassinated dic tator clad In a costume he rarely wore in in a plain casket in the Memorial Hall Board fences guided the throngs past it in single file Burly State policemen stood LITTLE DEFEATS DUFF McCULLOUGH CLEVELAND 0 Sept William McCullough Phil adelphia sharpshooter crumbled before the defending champion Lawson Little of San Francisco 6 and 5 today and Little moved into the round of eight in the National Amateur Golf Cham EMERY IN FIFTH ROUND GOLF NO HAUPTMANN DECISION TODAY TRENTON Sept Luther Campbell of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Ap eals announced today as the court convened that there would be no decision today on the appeal of Bruno Richard Hauptmann con Lindbergh baby slayer The chancellor made his announcement as he entered the court room You know as well as I do that there will be no decision today on he Hauptmann case he said There cant be No conference has seen held and until a conference is held and the opinion assigned and written there can be no final deci sn We might discuss the case at the conference we may not I cannot tell you until the confer ence is held The Hauptmann appeal is listed as case number 99 on the court calendar ROGERS JEALOUS SAYS GIRLS FATHER CLUB CLEVELAND Follow ing are the results of the fifth round of the National Amateur Golf Championship today Walter Emery Oklahoma City defeated Eddie Held burg N J 5 and 3 Charley Kocsis Detroit defeated Tommy Goodwin New York 7 and G Johnny Goodman Omaha won over Ell Meister Jr Cleve land G and 5 Fred Haas Jr New Orleans defeated John B Nash Canada 4 and 3 ST LOUIS Sept Speaking in a voice broken with grief HenryJ Hoey told a reporter today that Henry H Rogers Jr on whose country estate In vania pretty show girl daughter Evelyn Hoey was found shot to death today was very His voice quivering as he spoke of his daughter Hoey related She had chosen the stage as her lifes career She made her first appear ance when she was 10 years old Her only training had been in dancing but she had natural talent that gained her success Hoey then told of receiving letters from the blond beauty In which she declared that Rogers was a very nice young man but very tempera mental That was the reason we he and his wife objected to their ac quaintance Hoey said Rogers was very jealous of her Otherwise he was a nice young man I had never met him but my wife has Warriors Honor Selassie on This New Years Day LOCAL VETERAN IN FLORIDA Samuel Gatta Killed by Hurricane Leaves Widow Three Children The body of Samuel Gatta of 333 street this city has been identified as that of one of the vet erans killed In the disastrous hurri cane that swept the Florida keys recently Earnest Gatta of 155 East Seventh street has received word of the positive Identification of his brothers corpse from General Frank T Hines administrator of veterans affairs who yesterday issued the first list of veterans who lost their lives In the storms The deceased who served In the Six Hundred and Aero Squadron during the World War left his home in Chester several months ago and was admitted to the veterans No 1 Camp located at Fla one of the keys receiving the brunt of the terrific winds and rain Soon after the hurricane abated anxious members of his family here communicated with local Red Cross authorities who began an DIVORCE ENDS MARRIAGE Restaurant Romance Soon on Rocks for Bride of 15 Returning home after completing her first week in school Grace Jewell orphan of 213 East Third street Instantly killed when struck by an bile at Seventh and Welsh streets shortly before 4 p m yesterday The car was driven by M P Maitland of 1129 Hancock street ft former Justice of the peace In Eddy stone and father of Mult land baseball player and member of the Chester nine The girl is the John Esque of With her sister Virginia 13 she boarded at the home of Mr and Mrs Harry nt the East Third street address She had Larkin school some time before the accident In company with her sister When they reached Seventh and Welsh streets they stopped at a store After they came out and again started for their home Grace broke away her sister hand and started street after the traffic light changed to red She ran into the path of the machine driven by Maitland She is said to have on the took the injured girl to the Chester i Hospital where she pronounced dead upon ar rival fracture caused death a wheel having passed over her head was given a hearing In this morning and was held by Magistrate M A Honari on a manslaughter charge In the sum of to await the action of the coroner Besides her father and sister Vir ginia who was with her at the time of her death she is survived by four brothers James 10 John 5 Robert Paul nine months old around some were members of the bodyguard that failed to save the dictator from the assassin he hail anticipated and dreaded for two years Whenever the line slowed clown one of them sang out his voice echoing against marble walls Step along there I lively Make it snappy More A vendor a metal box hanging from his neck moved through the crowd In the hall calling Ice crenm The ranks of just ordinary citi zens were swollen by thousands of state and municipal all of whom had received their jobs from the Long political organization Every state office find almost every city office in New Or leans Monroe Baton Rouge Alexandria and smaller particularly hnd suspended business for the day The word passed quietly through army of public servants that attendance at the funeral was expected At 4 oclock 0 Chester time this GENEVA Sept Netherlands first spokesman In tha League of Nations assembly for tha countries called the conscience of the League announced today it would fulfill nil obligations includ ing collective penalties In event any member become a victim of aggres sion Sweden came nt once to Netherlands support with the state that the League could not take deci sions contrary to justice under pres sure of force or military measures A C De Graeff for eign minister of The Netherlands spoke for his sturdy monarchy and Richard I Sandier foreign minister of of the con science for hiar country Belgium will support the ant Van said With the statements of thi spokesmen unanimously In favor of unqualified fulfillment of tions in face of Italian threats tha assembly adjourned until tomorrow Pierre Laval of France Is lo announce his position and possibly the choice be tween Britain Frances traditional ally and Its Italy They were first to back Great Britain in Its leadership in demand of collective maintenance of the League Covenant In Its entirety and particularly for steady collective re sistance to any and all acts of aggression But De Graeff went further thari did Sir Samuel Hoare British for eign minister In announcing bluntly that his country would vote for penal action against an aggressor Italy Ethiopia The Netherlands aside from being a power in western Europe is of the conscience nations Others are Spain Norway Sweden and Den Finland has voted to support the League with the Scandi countries The nations are called Leagues conscience because when afternoon the Rev Gerald L K who gave up his pulpit to become a leader In Longs share movement will preach the casket It then will be lowered In the grave Continued on Iage Two Wire Cutters Free Boy in Closet Who Fled Hospital WOMAN INJURED IN WEST END CRASH A romance which started In an Upper Darby restaurant nearly six years ago and lasted only two days was legally terminated yesterday when Judge Albert Dutton Mac Dade granted a divorce to Mrs Mar garet Gearheart 21 of 34 Keystone road Upper Darby on the grounds of desertion Mrs Gearheart testified that when she was 15 she met Samuel Gear heart then 39 in a restaurant and after a brief courtship married him In Upper Providence township on December 19 1929 Two days after the marriage her husband told her he did not want to live with her and left the home of her parents where they had been living Later she said she learned he went to Wilmington and lived With another girl Despite her many ef Brown IB ave nue was Injured last night when an automobile In which she was traveling figured in a cot at Fourth and Jeffrey streets She was admitted to the Crozer Hospital with lacerations of the face and body Mrs Brown was In a car driven by Wendell J 131 Wash ington street Brighton Mass His car and one operated by Horace Brown 40 Negro of 1207 West Third street crashed at Fourth and Jeffrey streets Both were ar rested but discharged from cus tody when given a hearing before Michael A Honan In police court today there being no criminal charges pressed by either party others suggest compromise with the basic principles of the Insist on its enforcement in spirit and letter De invaluable support for Britain came at the outset todays assembly meeting while France and Britain together a European crisis consulted on means the and curbing Mussolinis defiance of the world Leading a of small neu Continued on Page Two G A H VOTES ON REUNION Continued on Page Sixteen NEW YORK Sept reat financial dynasty created b tie Van Sweringen brothers o network of railroads real estate and holding valued at more than I will be sold at auction by J P Mor gan and Company it was leame today The sale unprecedented in scope In recent financial history will dls pose of such important railroads the Chesapeake and Ohio the Erie the Chicago and Eastern Illinois th Denver and Rio Grande the iMis souri Pacific the Nickel Plates Pere Marquette Texas and Pacific and International Great Northern The Van railroads sith a mileage that would extend around the would have assets val ued at 43021000000 ranging from for the Chesapeake and Ohio to for the Inter national Great Northern The Union Terminal Station in Cleve land valued at The brothers built the system in turbulent competition of the extending their trackage fi nally from the Atlantic seaboard to Salt Lake City and Santa Fe from She Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mex ico Even the early days of the de i pression failed to stop their prog tress In the spring of 1930 they threw into the market to assure control of the i By H R KNICKERBOCKER ADDIS ABABA Sept Three thousand dusky warriors ate raw meat dipped in red pepper and drank honey beer in the compound the Imperial palace today as guests of Emperor Haile Selassie on this Ethiopian New Years Day This is 1928 years after the birth of Christ and 15 days before war begins according to the reckoning at Addis Ababa Great and little barons laid gifts at the of Solomons heir and all Ethiopia celebrated what may prove to be the most fateful New Year in all its 20 centuries of inde pendent history Overhead one of seven workable airplanes soared through the crystal air of this mountain city nearly two miles high It gleamed in the brilliant sunshine but soon a blinding downpour sheeted the high plateau in that tin which will come each day un til the and then cease as though by clockwork That is the zero hour for Premier Mussolini and the outside world has done much speculating about the date ofthe end of the rains but jre they say they always end within 24 hours of the same mo ment Until then the rain is this coun trys best protection against an in on Papc Two vader Nobody who has not exper it can appreciate what cloud bursts fall upon the land En route from Djibouti this corre passed through four hours f of rain which swayed the train and fields making it impossible a see 50 yards After the rains cease he amazing Abyssinian topography akes over the duty of chief guard Ian of this liberties There Is no such railroad journey in the world as the 500 miles from Djibouti here It gave an impressive picture of the the Italians will have to overcome Atthe outset for hours we passed through a torrid desert where savage spearmen herded skeleton like camels and goats Then came miles of Impenetrable thorn bush followed by fields of lava beds Most astonishing was a stretch 50 miles long and as broad as I could see covered by ant hills up to 12 feet high This plain avoided by every living animal contains giant ants In astronom numbers Even worse for an invading army was the next stretch of volcanic rock and cast In waves towering 20 yards high Before us lay on either side mountains so lofty they joined on the far horizon with clouds Sn a chain four times STEVENSON POST MEETING Election of officers for the com ing year will feature the meeting of Sergeant Alfred Stevenson Post No 190 American Legion to be held at Its headquarters 227 West Seventh street this evening The meeting Is scheduled for 815 oclock on Pare Two FIND CURE FOR TRAFFIC DEATHS J Borton Weeks Points to N J Policing as Road Solution WALLING FORD MAN NAMED IN WILL NEW YORK Sept Highet of Pa Is be and a remainder interest in under the terms of the will of his aunt the late Carita H Porter filed for probate yesterday Mrs Highet is be from the estate REVISION PLANS UNDER SCRUTINY Subcommittees Make GRAND RAPIDS Mich Sept 12 Grand Army of the Republic still bitter over the war between the South and the North today voted to permit any members that BO desired to attend a reunion with Confederate at Gettys burg In 1938 Nicholas 12 of 3938 Mary street escaped this morning about 0 oclock from the Delaware County Hospital Upper Darby where he Was recovering from a operation He made his escape by climbing out a second story window and sliding down a rain spout to the ground He was later found by Upper Darby police and returned to the institution As soon as his absence was noted hospital authorities notified the po lice Patrolman Elberson and Dona hue were assigned to search for the missing boy While cruising In a bandit chaser the officers got a tip that he had returned home Arriving at the house they found him In bed In a room on the third floor where he had tried to conceal himself by wrapping himself In old coat hang ers belts and ropes and other ar ticles a veritable trapped The policemen tried to extricate young but found them selves unable to do so They sent to a nearby machine shop where they secured the services of a me a pair of wire cutters who worked for more than an hour before the tangled wires which held the boy a prisoner could be removed Following his release young Belc zitch was taken back to the hospital where it is said he will be discharged on Saturday They boys father was at work when he home this morn ing Two younger brothers were the only ones home at the time Ills mother is dead DARBY POISON VICTIM Mrs Ruth Kennedy 17 of 208 South Sixth street Darby is in tho Hospital in that borough in a serious condition suf from poison which she says she took accidentally late yester day U S WASHINGTON Sept balance as of Septem ber 10 internal revenue Customs re Topics of Times Fred Perry after falling in first set gamely played through tho match News Item P M Cs cen ter has played the full GO minutes of every two years including the West Point sissies and was hardly mentioned Allen Heads for Senate And Huey Longs Throne Since the Philadelphia were allowed to play ball oh Sun day it seems they cant play ball These days the wife of an aviator Is the only woman who Is glad to see her husband down and out re marks Mike Honan But that reminds that all tha average man expects his wife to be Is a sweetheart a valet an and a nurse British scientist discovers that the earth Is circled by a bolt of hot air It generally strikes this section of the continent around election time Adequate policing of the highways is the best medicine for accident prevention in the view of J Bor ton Weeks president of the Key stone Automobile Club who points to the remarkable safety achieve ment of the New Jersey State Police on the White and Black Horse pikes ever the Labor Day holidays as proof that the presence of uni formed officers on the roads Is the strongest deterrent to violations and consequent accidents In an editorial prepared for the forthcoming Issue of Keystone Mo Mr Weeks announces that investigation by the Clubs Safety Department disclosed there was not a single automobile fatality or seri Advisory Group to Continued on Tuft Two HARRISBURG Sept UP A score of changes in the old bas law of the commonwealth Including the elimination of the state treasurer and the secretary of Internal affairs as elective officers were recommended today by sub committees of the Governors Ad Committee on Constitutional Revision A recommended legislative change was the elimination of a provision squiring bills to be read at length on three separate days In each leg branch Another suggestion for the new constitution if the voters approve In the September 17 primary would permit the legislature to on Page Two NEW ORLEANS Sept a colorless man whose every move as governor was dictated by Huey P Long may fall the mantle of the slain dictator Gov Oscar Kelly Allen yanked from smalltown obscurity and In stalled as a puppet in high places today appears to be the man who will assume leadership of the politi cal machine which Long built Allen is expected to resign as gov ernor permitting James A Noe lieutenant governor to succeed him Noe then would appoint Allen to Longs scat In the U S Senate for which Allen would be a candidate In the Louisiana Democratic pri maries in January Allen is a shining example of the type of men Long chose to be his of mediocre ability who never would question his deci sions and would carry them out with blind obedience Foes of Long al ways insisted that the senator car ried Allens undated resignation in his pocket to enforce strict ence to his commands Licensed Teacher at 15 But Too Young for Job The governor was a native of Winn parish as was bong Born August 8 1882 Allen knew little but hard work and hard knocks In his boyhood He walked three miles through woods to a rural school A complicated traffic tangle caused yesterday at Ninth street and Edgmont avenue when a woman motorist signaled that she about to turn right and she did Captain says that when a pedestrian gets hopping mad he must always remember to hop quickly enough A woman in Chester county who Is 90 claims she never saw an auto mobile That probably explains why she Is 90 years old A man Sn Marcus Hook claims to be the worlds greatest movie hero He has sat through alt of them We wouldnt mind how often our neighbors fed their player piano if theyd change its diet once in a while Gov K Allen of Louisiana headed for the U S Huey Longs throne later attending grade school In the county seat Winnfield In 1807 at 15 Allen was awarded a teachers certificate but being too The Weather WASHINGTON Sept Weather Eastern Fair and warmer tonight Friday in creasing cloudiness followed by showers Friday night and in West and north portion in afternoon cooler Friday Western Pennsylvania Increasing cloudiness tonight probably fol lowed by showers Friday and Lake Erie late tonight and Friday warmer in east and south tonight cooler in north portion Fri day New Jersey Fair tonight day increasing cloudiness and Mt Continued on Twentytwo I much change in K
