THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, J Hall Slayer Is Prison Parolee Of Short Time Convict Confesses Murder Of Detroit Oil Promoter To GrandRapids Police LANSING, Mich., June 26-(A)- Investigators of the mysterious hitch- .aiker's killing of George G. Hall, De- ,roit oil promoter, slain by a bullet while riding in his automobile last Thuisday, announced tonight a 32- year-old paroled convict had con- fessed the shooting. State Police Captain Ira A. Mar- mon, co-director of the inquiry into the fantastic story, said that Daniel M. Ient, scaifaced former Michigan State Prison inmate, admitted shoot- ing the 50-year-old business man- less than four months after being granted a parole. Officers seized Kent in Grand Rapids, Mich., today and the con- fession, Captain Marmon said, fol- lowed a few hours after Hall's com- panion on his fatal ride, blonde Ruby Doty, 32, had sobbed out her tale of the killing at a coroner's inquest. The hitch-hiker, whom Hall took into his car near Grand Rapids, shot him through the left lung, after his benefactor had died andhehad disposed of the body in a roadside ditch, the killer made love to Miss Doty, she said, and released her hours later on promise of a "date." Chief of Detectives Albert Scheiern of Grand Rapids said Kent asserted "I killed him to get his money." The robber-killer got. $10 from Hall's body, adding to his meager plunder the dead man's watch and ring. "I never saw Hall or the woman who was with him before," Scheiern said the ex-convict told him. hKent's record dates back to boy- hood days when he stole chickens and was generally delinquent. Sen- tenced to prison in 1934 for automo- bile theft, he escaped in a. guard's ' car in 1935 while serving the two and half to five-year term but was captured, in Chicago and returned. Given an additibnal one and a half' to four years for the escape, Kent was paroled last March. 7. Capt. Laurence Lyon, of State' Police, disclosed that he had found a perfect finger print of the middle finger of the left hand on a door handle of the car in which the slay- ing occurred and that the print was that of Kent. Captain Marmon said that Kent would be taken to St. Johns from Lansing tomorrow morning for ar- raignment on a mureder charge be- fore Justice William J. Black and that if Kent waived examination he would be arraigned immediately be- fore Circuit Judge Kelly S. Searl. ; The tip that led to Kent's arrest+ was provided by a Lansing woman., Horace H. Rackhamr School For Graduate Studies Japs Continue To Blockade Negotiations May Settle Concession Dispute (Continued from Page 1) the blockade and made a series of further demands upon the British; In contrast to the rumors of at- tempts at a settlement, there was current a report that local Japanese military authorities were preparing for an even more strict blockade. This report, also unconfirmable, said that stricter measures would be enforced next Friday if the British had not by then complied with a' demand presented by Mayor Wen last Saturday for "cfloser cooperation," of foreigners with the Chinese section of Tientsin, over which the Japanese military rules. British military authorities have taken sharp exception to action of the Japanese soldiery late Monday afternoon in holding up a British military truck seeking to enter the concession with foodstuffs from Chi- nese areas for the British garrison in the concession. The Japanese held the British vehicle for one hour while officers of the two forces argued. The Japanese insisted the British were "not su1f- ficiently identified," while the Bri- tish recalled the Japanese military declaration when the blockade be- gan that the personnel of the vxi- ous foreign garrisons and their niain- tenance would not be interferred with. Chinese members of the British and French Concession, municipal police whose families live in Japanese controlled areas received another threat against their own lives and those of their families. Most recent and most sumptuous of University buildings, the Rackham Building not only houses the Gradu- ate School, but also serves as a social center and auditoriumn for University Lectures- Thirteen Years Of Struggle End' In Joy As Soloman Wins Ph.D. By STAN M. SWINTON Thirteen years ago a Negro porter in a downtown Detroit hotel decided he wanted a college degree. This' month he was awarded a Ph.D. in political science by the University. And therein lies a story. When Thomas Ralph Soloman made that decision to go on with the college work he had dropped after two years at Talladega College. a Negro institution run by the Ameri- can Missionary Association at Talla- dega, Ala., he knew that there was a terrible economic struggle ahead. But Soloman felt the reward was worth the sacrifice and when he passed in front of the crowded stands at Ferry Field this month to receive his degree and knew that a teach- ing position at a Negro college in -the South awaited him, he was convinced he had taken the right path. The struggle started in 1926. He began to take classes at Wayne Uni- versity in Detroit, working four hours in the early afternoon as a substitute postal clerk and from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. in a Detroit creamery. He had a wife to support-it was to marry that he abandoned his college course in the South-and there were chil- dren coming. But Soloman managed to keep up his college work. In 1929, however, he won his de- gree from Wayne and, to make things complete, he was awarded a full-time postal clerkship at $1,700 a year. But he decided not to stop there and so four more years of 1.tle sleep and much work followed until, in 1933, Wayne awarded him a Masters de- gree. What now? he asked himself. The decision was a difficult one but his overwhelming urge to com- plete his education drove him on. Working five days a week in the Roosevelt Park Annex of the Detroit Postoffice, he decided to move to Ann Arbor. Tuesday and Thursday he would spend in the classroom here. The other five days he commuted to Detroit. By that time his familythad grown. Today, at 34, he has three boys ranging from 10 to 13 in age. Six more years of work were capped with success and a 209-page thesis on "The Negro In Detroit Elections," a dramatic plea for racial equality in politics, won him his Ph.D. The struggle was ended. japs Warn Foreigners SHANGHAI, June 27.-(Tuesday) -(')-Japanese naval officials ad- vised foreign consuls today that Ja- panese were launching offensives against the ports of Foochow and Wenchow and requested all foreign ships to withdraw from them. 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