Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - April 18, 1933, Reno, Nevada FAIR WEATHER below freezing IN TONIGHT METALS Bar London 17 15-16d; New Yoik 28TJc; up 14. Quicksilver New York Copper New York 3 25, E. St. Louis 3 12 E. St. Louis 3.15-3.20 FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR TWELVE PAGES APRIL 18, 1933 TWELVE PAGES NO. 92 Reprieve Is Granted Mrs. Judd As Insanity Inquiry Continues nun in Execution f Of Matron Granted by Pardon Board Dr. Harry Pinkert Asserts Condemned Killer Is Not Sane at Hearing Father Hopes for Boy's Release FACTOR TO ENTER PLAN S Another this one until April 28, was granted Winnie Ruth Judd today by the state pardon board at Phoenix as psychiatrists testified be- fore a lunacy court Jury here that the condemned slayer of two women is deranged OX STAND Dr. Harry E. Pinkert of alienist for Mrs. declared Jrom the witness stand the testimony and behavior of Mrs. H. J. McKinnell in convincing him of the con- woman's 'The haired mother unhesitatingly told the jury she believed a strain of Insanity Jn her family somewhat on me even moie on testimony and behavior of the mother mean anything to you In connection with the asked O. B. Wilson of Mrs. Judd's answered the means something to me In two it convinces me of the it means something to me In view of the fact she herself Is not normal GRANTED k During this word came from Phoenix that the state pardon board had granted Mrs. Judd a one week reprieve from April 21, when she was to have been Her counsel sought a reprieve to assure completion of the sanity hearing and possible appeal to the United States supreme Asked how catch of Dr. Pinkert a person attempts to feign he must feign something he knows ordinary person knows and feigns only two kinds of one Is your drooling the other Is your raving They attempt to feign one or the and they jump right into the last Ruth Judd asked she was MRS. JUDD SPEAKS fP He declared she suffered from de- He said she presents the proper deviation in each of the fields of mind to present the perfect picture of dementia Is putty in the hands of an expert In the witness ed. can be made to laugh or cry in a space of one I can do psychiatrist for the state can do He antagonism would produce a condition known as would he A person in that state will not Here are three principals in Chicago's latest kidnaping At the top Jerome his step- mother and his father John April Former Mayor James J. am Betty American actress were married USE BACK DOOR The couple entered the city hal heie by the back door to avoid th curious They were married at a. m by Mayor Gazagnaire of Wit nesses for Walker were his lawyer want to Mrs. Judd spoke up propri from hex chair where she faced M Dr j h the alienist from across the waa to t j Miss they stole out of The She wept a moment and press co and one othe then became quiet The Qn were th spec ing was not she had tators the acting ability of Sarah i an Euth Judd could not produce the Walker mn t o perfect picture of insanity she pre- s and an r of -i j escaping without their immediate BRIDE WEARS GREEN The bride wore a green hat and green tailored flannel Walke j wore a navy blue a blue shir and tie to Dr. Pinkert AGAIN DELAYED Freedom Is Asked by Him For Underworld Agents Nabbed by Police Six Are Captured as They Study Pictures of Men Considered Suspects 18. John after a conference with police today said were under way for the letuin of his kidnaped STILL am still hopeful something can je done to bring the boy I am it will go through this Factor The Evening American said it had earned from reliable sources that George Factor's had received a message from captors this con- definite Instructions for ng the ransom Factor denied such a note had been received Factor previously appealed for aid rom Chicago's underworld without he requested the release of six alleged seized last NEEDS THEIR HELP The one of whom was Sam former Capone aide who the golf bag as convenient shotgun were held without for- mal charge at detective headquarters need them to help me with the Factor Chief of Detective William maker said Jie would place forma charges against them or free them Following an anonymous telephone tip police raided a Loop hotel suite and surprised six men they Identified as Capone henchmen they were studying pictures of thiee men suspected by police of ship in a Northern nap and extortion The pictures were of Ted Patterson twenty-eight years Archie Brown both of and Joseph Varsalona and police said hac been obtained from records of Des la OFFERS BOND Before taking them to headquarters police said a man telephoned the hotel room and Identified himself as John the father of the young and offered to provide bond If charges were placed against The police bore out re- ports circulated by Factor's friends that he had appealed to the under- world for help Just as he did several years ago when he himself kidnaping The possibility that young Northwestern University was seized by out-of-town hoodlums when he disappeared from in front of his mother's apartment last Wednesday night was heightened with tion given authorities by Edward a He said his attention had been drawn to an automobile bearing New York license plates as four men ed In front of the Factor home ly before the MacDonald Again Asserts His Guilt But Others Reiterate Innocence Russians Accused with Six Britons of Espionage Ask For Mercy April of the British electrical engineers were given two and three sentences on conviction of charges of sabotage and while A. W. was acquitted and three were dered L. C. erecting engineer for the received a tence of three years an was sentenced to Charles Koran John and Allan the di- rector for the firm In were ordered Ten of the Russian defendants were convicted ami the eleventh was COURT REVERSES FLOOD ESTATE STANLEY P. RICHARDSON Associated Staff Correspondent Apill be- fore the court retired today to con- sider Its verdict in the sabotage William L. MacDonald reiterated his all the other British prisoners stoutly affirmed their and all the Russian defendants abjectly threw themselves on the mercy of the RUSSIANS ADMIT CHARGES The Russians admitted all the Currency Inflation Plan Is Dropped by Senate as Roosevelt Takes Up Move OPERATION ORDER UPHELD charges against These statements were made individually to the court by each of the defendants just before the judges to make their Limping to the microphone in front of the his ascetic face unusually first of the British defendants called with his hands in his trouser looked Judge Vassil squarely In the and in Russian confessed and I have nothing to add HEARD John the next spoke in English as did the remainder of his British colleagues He stood with his hands clasped behind his and said to the hearing the very able de- fense of my counsel there Is little left for me to He has torn to shreds the flimsy evidence the cutor presented against me have said all through that I am not Not a shred of qualified evidence was brought against me whatever the I shall leave this court an honest man as I came Decision of Judge in San Mateo Changed by High California Tribunal Fight of Mrs. Gavin to Win Part of Nevada Fortune Given Impetus SAN April 18 The state supreme court today re- the decision of the San Mateo county superior conrt which had de- nied Mrs. Constance May Gavin her claim for of the estate of James L Flood on the round she was Flood's Illegitimate LOST IN LOWER COURT Gavin sued for a daughter's share of the then estimated as totaling about She lost the case when the veteran Superior Judge H. Buck instructed the jury to return a verdict against her Public opinion in. some dis- liked the directed verdict and a re- call movement against the judge was threatened but did not materialize Subsequently Maxwell ney for Mis opposed Judge Euck for reelection and McNutt was elected judge The court's opinion sole question presented to this court Is whether the case should have been submitted to the In our opinion the court In the against the petitioner and the judgment to be The of this case teis about three public acknowledgement and the knowledge that Mrs. Flood had of Mrs. Gavin's FORTUNE FROM COMSTOCK the undisputed testimony introduced and guided by sections of the California code and previous de- cisions of this and other high the act and declaration of both Flood and his first are tent to prove the paternity of the On this question the jury should have been permitted to de- termine the effects of the act and declaration attributed to the pals by testimony Pages of history of an earlier of bustles and when men boasted of their whiskers and women's swept the were turned In In the contest of Mrs Helen Vasko Whose Mother Opposes Operation for Eye Tumor Is Located Supreme Court in Decision Affirms Right of Judge To Order Medical Steps NEW appellate division of 18 The the supreme court today upheld the light of Judge George Smyth of the county court to older an operation on two-year-old Helen to prevent surgical was spirited away fiom her home at Hastings by her parents Helen Vasko Is suffering from a malignant tumor In her left which believe vUll cause her death unless It Is although the operation would cost the sight of that The recent re- fused to permit the and agents of the Children's Society took the matter to Judge A ASOO of a Los Angeles bank estate was what Flood Charles was the next Briton to make his feel sure in view of the evidence the judge can pass not At this moment I am still friend of the Soviet and not afraid to say so before all THORNTON IX STATEMENT After it was the turn of L. C. against next to the prosecution believed It had its strongest case among the British engineers of the Vickers Electrical the beginning of the Thornton pleaded not guilty and I still not I assert the evidence brought against me is That Is Next the court heard from Allan the highest ranking of the British engineers reference to the charges against first one is that of and the only serious evidence to Page wife clerk The wrested principally the Big Bonanza on the Comstock lode at ginia Although the case covers nearly a half it actually began its legal life in 1927, when after Flood's Mrs Gavin made formal court demand to be as Flood's daughter by virtue of a romance with an CLAIMS DAUGHTERS Surviving members of the Flood family denied her beginning the struggle for the Mrs. Gavin pivoted her case on a revelation behind a locked door by Mrs Rose first wife of James i. Constance Is the daughter if my husband and Miss Forde Eudore Foide Stearn she was quoted as telling Mrs. Adele a. A dozen or more witnesses ied they Constance to be Flood's April tlon on the nomination of John Col- lier of California to be Indian com- missioner was postponed today by the Indian committee until tomorrow after members of the Oklahoma con- gressional delegation had questioned The Oklahomans protested to ident Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes the selection of Collier before the pointment was Senator Thomas leader of the has intimated that if Collier's answers were satisfactory to the he would be Answering Thomas Collier told the committee he was In favor of Indian boarding schools and added that the environment should be built Friends expect the couple to live at the bride's Beau perched on a hill near among flowers and mimosa looking over one of the most beautiful spots on the April sparrows have challenged and In the cage in the city zoo Is a dead In that dead tree Pip the substitution of the the sparrows have built a The Judge Is 111 April Webster presiding Justice of the was ly ill April navy today received a message from Captain Herbert P. commander of the cruiser lieve Akron The message shortly after a little alter reports from the naval tug Sagamore had reported that grappling operations at the scene of the airship's fall had located a large sunken a naval court of inquiry was proceeding here with its gatlon Into the Akron Sparrows Challenge Eagles And Win Their Fight in Zoo flay email opening leading to nest Is at such the eagles not reach It with the sparrows can distance between the edge of the cage and the tree trunk they are And all the eagles can says Clyde Is April John L. soldier of put an end to what officers described as a. last night by plunging a long African Congo knife into the heart of Edward forty-seven killing him almost officers confessed the but said he acted in self- after Barrington broke Into his apartment and upbraided him be- cause he complained of the noise that was being made in an adjoining room where the alleged party was in In room officers found pictures several primitive the tail of an phant and many other Schaupp made his living by selling notions from house to was reluctant to discuss his past TERRE April messengers of the Terre Haute First National Bank were robbed of in currency in front of the postoffice here The Kenneth Hickman and Vernon reported that four men in a small sedan drove beside their car as it reached the postoffice and two of the men alighted and with drawn The robbers reached into the took a satchel containing the money and then fled with the messengers CAFE DEFICIT AT HOME Or RELATIVES N. April Little Helen the two-year-old whom doctors have called doomed unless she undergoes an eye was found today after being hidden away in the home of relatives since Her against an has fought attempts of physicians to have It performed Last with the appellate division still considering pleas foi a legal older to force the the Vasko family disappeared from its DEMANDS PROTECTION John immigrant laborer and father of two-year-old dis- closed her early today when he called at a police station and demanded protection against of who had his home since the case widespread notice He said Helen and the rest of the family had been in seclusion at the house of John a cousin of Mrs. They would go home he If the police would keep the crowds away aie making my little Helen he complained Police announced that the street in front of the Vasko home would be loped off and a guard stationed there TEAR FOR LITE Physicians insisted that unless a tumor on the child s eye Is quickly the growth will penetrate to the brain and she will The scorning medical ex- fear that an operation wil mean loss of the and refused to permit It. The after opposing the op- at has said that he wil comply with the court's instructions lx April house ways and means committee day approved the Doughton continue the one cent a gallon line tax for another reduce first class diop letter postage from three to two cents and give authority to President Roosevelt to or de- crease second ana third class mall Chairman told men President Roosevelt would be empowered to raise or lower second and third class mail rates un- 1, 1934, if the need of the postal or the lic interest justified such changes OF LOUIS PLANE ST. April 18 one a wealthy were killed today when the airplane In which they were from to St. Louis crashed In a wheat near 111., about miles south of PLANE CATCHES FIRE The dead weie W. N wealthy Arkansas his son Mayor G. W Martin and Glen all o Identity of the men was established through the finding of young Greg pilot log book in the of the plane in which they had off at nine a. m to fly from Augusta Aik to St William a tenant fanner that the ship appealed to b in as it passed over his horn near Schaefer said the plane gave to the where it caught The bodies of the men weie burned beyond before Schaefer and other persons who saw the crash could extinguish the flames Apparently the pilot attempted to make a landing in the wheat and dove into the The plane was a six passenger single Rainey of House Insists Some Form of Relief Is To Be Enacted IN KIDNAP PLOT April Both W. N. wealthy and his W. N. killed with two other men in an airplane near 111, in attempted for ransom about thiee years ago Five men served prison sentences for the attempt to kidnap the elder which failed when Gregory and his wife fought off the The plot against the son failed when he did not meet the would-be abductors in a Little Rock Strength of Advocates of Proposal Brought About With House Decision ident Roosevelt today took over the by sentiment for while on Capitol Hill the Democratic leadership evidenced expectation of administration plans looking toward swift combatting of As a round of White House ences was advocates of rency Inflation their ing amendments to the faun to await the Mr. Roosevelt conferred twice with Secretary going Into a cabinet meeting at two o Speaker Ramey told form of would be He indicated he was waiting for administration pronouncement on the which possibly would tap framed in light of the stabilization tions soon to be undertaken with Prime Minister MacDonald and other leaders PROBLEM The president is known to be Ing the closely with a view to getting more money into the hands of the but there Is no sign that he favors suggestions for forthright currency Yesterday's vote in the senate when the sixteen to one silver got ee votes apparently has bi ought a decision for an early ad- The two plan votes in the senate today were on proposals by Senators Thomas of and Long of amendment would havs authorized the at his dis- cretion to older more currency to silver and fix its ration to gold for free or reduce tne gold content of the Long's would authorize chase of in against which would be TO Thomas latei told lie and Senator Byrnes S. an administration would go to the White House The inflationists plainly have they had been informed the was working oil some plan to combat deflation and that this was the reason for their di awing further currency ments to the farm sentiment for something to be done along this line Is pretty Thomas adding ator asked him to withdraw his ment Rainey said he did not know when the administration's would be but mised it would be alter the inary discussions here to the world economic At about the same time Chairman submitted at this Adams of the senate banking com- silver sub-committee called it to meet Saturday to discuss policy and the numerous silver bills The the session was called because think It Is time something should be He explained he thought members April 18 limitation on the broad powers posed for the Tennessee Valley to build dams on the river was written into dent Roosevelt's program today by the house military The amendment proposed by James is de- signed to make all dams the exception of the Cove Creek dam in the Clinch river and dam number three at Muscle for to Page April may dispose of the house restaurant's annual deficit of The new 3.2 brew was put on sale in the restaurant when the managers finished their they found the restaurant exactly a the day's written on the books in a And there more beer for sale Fisherman Gets Triple Catch And Lands All Three in Oregon April Jack Moore cast a hook into the sea from the rocks at A twelve-Inch cod took the As Moore pulled up his a two- cod dashed partly swallowed the Moore pulled more up flashed a cod and swallowed what he could of the Moore held on valiantly until Walter Zeller stepped in with a gaff and brought the triple catch to It was on exhibition at store April 18. President Roosevelt personally took up the Cuban situation today in an hour's conference with Ambassador from the island Leaving the Ambassador told newspapermen that In- ternal economic and political affairs of Cuba were barely discussed with the He eaid it was to obtain a revision commercial treaties the He told the reporters he considered recent shootings in Cuba un- and he attributed them to the unrest resulting from
