THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY,AUGUST 4,1935 Couple Charged With Killing Of 'Witch Woman' Accused Claim She Used 'Fire. Magic And Black Magic' Against Them CLEVELAND, Aug. 3. - (P) - For Samuel and Matilda Waldman, years of worry over an obsession that they were being "hexed" by Mrs. Isadore Cooper, were at an end today. Mrs. Cooper, with two bullet wounds in her body, was dead. The Waldmans were in. jail. Police, holding the 46-year-old Mrs. Waldman on a charge of first degree murder, said she freely admitted she fired the shots to end the spell of witchcraft which she and her hus- band blieved Mrs. Cooper held over them. Waldman was held for an examina- tion of his mentality. He was in the office of Police Prosecutor William H. Schneider at the time of the slaying yesterday, protesting to the prosecut- or and Cooper that Cooper's wife, Ida, was practicing "fire magic and black magic" against him and his wife. Waldman told the official that "at night, balls of flaming fire would come rolling into our house, strike us on the legs and roll up our chests end heads." He exhibited scars which he said were caused by the "balls of :fire." Mrs. Cooper, 50, was shot while at work in her delicatessen store. A moment later, two passers-by seized and held Mrs. Waldman until detec- tives arrived. Then she told her story to the officers and newspapermen. "At 2:30 p.m. I lay down on the bed and some power told me I was in great danger, so I got my husband's gun and went to the Cooper store," she said. "I'm Waldman's wife," I told Mrs: Cooper. "'Oh, yes, you're the wife of the fellow who thinks I've put the witch on him'," Mrs. Waldman said Mrs. Cooper replied. . Mrs. Waldman said she then fired three shots and Mrs. Cooper came to- ward her. "I feel better now," Police Sergeant Stephen Tozzer said Mrs. Waldman added at the end of her story. "I'm rejuvenated." Tozzer said Mrs. Waldman earlier had attempted unsuccessfully to get Mrs. Cooper to sign a note "releasing" the Waldmans from witchcraft. News Of The World As Illustrated In Associated Press Pictures Here is the "new Washington" that has arisen to help house the United States government. It is a vast array of new buildings near the conter of the capital, constructed in the shape of a triangle and boun ded on one side by the newly created "Constitution avenue." The parent building shelters the department of commerce and was built during the Hoover administration at a cost of $17,200,000. Up Constitution avenue and toward ,he capitol (upper right) run the department of labor ($4,740, 000) and the interstate commerce commission ($4,450,000), with a $1,998,- 000 connecting building. Adjoining (left) is the postoffice building which cost $9,300,000. Farther up Constitution avenue come the departments of internal revenue ($10,400,000 with extensions) and justice ($10,255,0 00). Next is the archives building costing $12,017,000. A $3,000,000 structure is proposed to close the apex of the triangle. Building in the m iddle background is the union station. Charge Unfair Practices By Nazi Traders American Exporters Say Their South American Business Has Slumped NEW YORK, Aug. 3. - (P) - After prolonged protests to the governments of South American countries, Ameri- can exporters say that they are rely- ing on the hastening of "most fa- vored nation" treaties to outlaw cer- tain "unfair" activities of German traders in Latin-America. The effect of those activities, they complain, has been to cut down ex- ports to the Latin-American markets to the extent of 30 per cent of their share. The National Foreign Trade Coun- cil, speaking for American foreign traders, reports that the competition of the Germans is of a novel brand. It organized in the desire of South American countries to increase the mhovement to their products, and in the desire of Germany to increase its exports and create credits in American, Englsh and other moneys of international circulation. It is expected, the Council says, that the action of the State De- partment in fostering trade agree- ments based on "most favored" prin- ciples with the Latin-American coun- tries, and the judgment of these countries themselves, will bring about a change which should favor export- ers of the United States. The Germans, the Council says, normally sell more goods to Latin- American countries than they buy there, while the United States norm- ally buys more in Latin-America as a whole than it sells. Because of the difficulties of pay- ment from the Latin-American world, Germany was faced with the problem of selling no more than she bought, or of increasing purchases to the point where they equalled sales. Having chosen the latter course, and finding it profitable, Germany began buying additional volumes of goods and paying for them in marks that could be used only for purchases in Germany. The surplus goods were then sold on the world markets and balances of dollars, pounds or other currencies of international circula- tion were accumulated by the Ger- mans. who. at the same time, were Calls Clash Of Public, Private Works Ended Harry L. Hopkins Predicts Necessity Of A Works Program For 20 Years MT. PLEASANT, Aug. 3. -(R) -- Harry L. Hopkins who, as Federal relief administrator will direct the expenditure of more than four bil- lion dollars, told an audience here yesterday that there would be no con- flict with private industry. "There is grave danger in govern- ment works, if they conflict with pri- vate industry and capital," he warned, "but there is enough work in Ameri- ca for 20 years without any such in- trusion." He predicted that the necessity for a national works program would con- tinue "indefinitely." Hopkins spoke before an audience of 2,500 persons, many of them state and county relief officers, on a lecture course program at Central State Teachers College. "The nation wants security," he declared, "and this will come through old age pensions, national works, sick- ness insurance and other social ser- vices. The security bills now before congress are, and will continue to be, the major political issue of the times." He said that his travels over the country had convinced him that "a solid confidence has been maintained despite the great economic upheaval." -E TREET WEWELER -WATCH & JEWELRY REPAIRING Cured of an uncommon blood and bone disease after eight oper- ations and 85 blood transfusions, Harold Pfleger (above), 14, was told by doctors in a New York hos- pital that he could return to the home he once thought he never again would see. Chocolate Soldier Department: Suits Galore, Few Guns BUCHAREST, Rumania, Aug. 3. - -P)--Apparently confident that he will remain in power for many years to come, King Carol of Rumania has ordered that all cannon, machine- guns and other equipment to be fur- nished to Rumania by the Skoda mu- nitions works of Czechoslovakia under a new $40,000,000 contract, shall bear his initials and his royal crown. These will be impressed upon the new equip- ment with steel dies. The king has also ordered that every officer and soldier in Rumania's army of 240,000 shall wear on his hat and uniform, in gold to inverted C's and the royal Rumanian crown to represent the king's power and authority. When Carol declared in his parlia- ment recently that Rumania intended to have the most powerful army in the Balkans, he probably 'was looking into the distant future. For today, accord- ing to experts, the Rumanian army, considering the size and importance of the country, is one of the most poorly-equipped in Europe. The offi- cers have fine uniforms and horses, but army is seriously short of guns, ammunition and airplanes. But by insisting that the officers and soldiers be paid regularly and have all reasonable privileges, con- veniences and good living conditions the king has done much to improve the army's morale. He has also won the approval of many officers by or- dering that the old-style uniforms, which indeed were giddy enough from the standpoint of color, be replaced with snappier uniforms and even louder colors. Pilots Injured As Plane Goes Down In South Eight Passengers Escape Harm In Forced Landing In New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Aug. 3. - (r) - The pilot and co-pilot of an eastbound transcontinental air- plane, were injured and the ship was wrecked, but eight passengers es- caped harm, when the plane crashed making an emergency landing near Barton, N. M., early today. The injured are Cliff Abbott, pilot, and Bill Jones, co-pilot, W. H. Os- trander, traffic representative of the company at Albuquerque, said. The passengers were brought by taxi to Albuquerque and placed on another ship. Ostrander said the plane, a Doug- las cabin ship of the Transcontinental & Western Air Co., struck a clump of pine trees and both motors, the left wing and propellers were torn away. The accident occurred 20 miles east of here and taxis arrived at the scene a short time after the passengers climbed from the wreck- age. In the meantime another plane had been warmed up at the Albu- querque airport and the passengers continued east in it. Pilot Abbott suffered cuts and bruises and 'Jones was bruised about the head. There was a storm last night in the region near where the accident occurred, but Ostrander said he has not been advised just what caused the forced landing. 'Best Just To Hit His Head' SaidSlayers DETROIT, Aug. 2. - (') - The re- corder's court jury trying four per- sons charged with slaying Howard Carter Dickinson heard today that William Lee Ferris and his women companions discussed dispassionately whether they should 'hit on the head' or "shoot" their attorney plyfellow The final statement of Florence Jackson, who is on trial for first de- gree murder with Ferris, Loretta Jackson and Jean Miller, was read into the record. Before taking Dickinson on his last automobile ride on the night of last June 26, the lawyer's companions of the night before met in Ferris' room to discuss ways and means of getting Dickinson's money. "We told Ferris that probably it would be best to just hit him on the head," Florence Jackson's statement said. "Ferris said it would be best to shoot him. "'If you hit him he will holler, Fer- ris told us. 'He knows us now and will identify us. The best thing to do is to shoot him.'" a UIMM Miss Jerie Earle of Salt Lake City, who is in Hollywood, studying for grand opera, won thi perfect body contest conducted by the National Chiropractic Association during its convention in Hollywood. Miss Earle has long brown hair and weighs 134 pounds. SWIM PICNIC N EWPORT BATH ING BEACH PORTAGE LAKE Y J Press Coverage Of Washington Soars 500 Per Cent In Century WASHI'GtON, Aug. 3.- (I)- The silk hat was one of the repor- torial weapons which fell by the way- side as Capitol press coverage grew in a century and a third from one to more than 500. So revealed the Goldfish Bowl, news sheet of the National Press Club, which displays on its library walls photostatic copies of the first Capitol covering, Jan. 8, 1802. For his National Intelligencer, the Goldfish Bowl narrated, Samuel H. Smith demanded, and received, a seat right on the Senate floor. He was joined there by sundry "letter writ- ers," peddling their weekly product to outside newspapers. Only local papers were permitted to record Congress debate until James Gordon Bennett, who had been a "let- ter writer," demanded and procured an exclusive capitol correspondent for his New York Herald with the help of Henry Clay. Gossip columns flourished in pre- Civil War days. Examples: "Sausage" Sawyer, a pre-Civil War Western Democrat, succeeded in having a New York Herald scribe expelled because the latter columned how Sawyer dined behind the Speaker's chair on crack- ers and bologna, "wiping his hands on his bald pate" and, as a final gesture "picking his teeth with a bowie knife." There were ghost writers, too, for the tale was told of how solons suffer- ing from lack of ideas "got in the habit of buying better speeches from crony scribes." "This practice," the Goldfish Bowl records, "came into particular no- tice when the same speech was de- livered twice in the Hbuse on the same day. Its enterprising author had sold it to two different legisla- tors." The Civil War was said to have brought in the Presidential inter- view: "Andrew Johnson used to send for 'Mack' of the Cincinnati Commercial, in preference to sending a message to Congress, because, as Johnson ex- plained, 'everybody seems to read my interviews, while nobody seems to read my messages." Jim Preston, Senate librarian who superintended the Senate gallery for 35 years, was quoted: "In the old days the most necessary implement in the press gallery was a silk hat brush." MEANT TO 'SHOOT EASY' WILSON, N. C.-(AP)--As a de- fense to a charge of shooting another negro, Johnny Stewart, 15, told the judge, "I only meant to shoot him easy, judge, I didn't mean to shoot so hard." They Like 'Em Wrecked EMPORIA, Kas., Aug. 2.-(A' - Emporia encourages freight car wrecks. In fact it's an in- dustry here. A local salvaging concern tears up dozens of Santa Fe railroad cars each week. Early California Map Found SAN JOSE, Calif.- (P) - A map of San Jose, made in 1779 when the city was a pueblo with a population of about 175, has been discovered in a musty archives vault. Constantly Changing Waiter r f-r= 11 I I MENU ~Michigan Union Dinner BEGINNING TOMORROW fi 6nd Of Summer School CLEARANCEt Together with our Season-End Sale gives wonderful values! 1/2 Off All White, Pastel, Crepes and Knit Sui ts and Dresses, a t. sAll Cotton Dresses at- -/. OFF Sizes 12 to 46 SU ITS. .One-Half Off A few Swaggers, Fitted Tweed, and Novelty Wool. Sizes 14 to 40. DRESSES..$8.95-$12.75. Sports, Street, Travel, Afternoon, Evening Sizes 12 to 46 Two groups of Dresses and Suits - darker shades of knits . . prints . .. crepes . . . and chiffons. 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