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Convicted by an Indianapolis Federal Grand Jury of conspiracy to defraud through the mails, Clarence Joseph Morley, onetime (1925-27) Governor of Colorado, was sentenced to five years in Leavenworth Penitentiary.
Movie Producer Samuel Goldwyn announced this week that he had "hired" Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to write movie ads for Stella Dallas, a Goldwyn picture soon to be released. .j
In Miami, Fla., the Federal Government filed a tax lien against the Palm Island mansion of Mrs. Mae Capone, wife of imprisoned Gangster Al Capone. The
lien was for $17.166 taxes on Gangster Capone's 1926-29 income. Next day in Jacksonville Mrs. Capone entered suit against the Federal Government through J. Edwin Larsen, collector of internal revenue in Florida, for $52,103 which she claimed was unjustly collected from her to pay her husband's back taxes after he was found guilty of tax evasion in 1931. Mrs. Capone said she was not responsible for her husband's taxes. When his ig-year-old step-daughter Dorothy returned to his Salt Lake City house at midnight, 80-year-old Hiram Dempsey and an unidentified companion appeared in the darkness, ordered her escort off the premises. When Dorothy Dempsey began to cry, 41-year-old Mrs. Dempsey and her parents, Mr. & Mrs. John T. Lythgoe, who live next door, ran out to see what was wrong. In the argument that followed, someone felled Mr. Lythgoe with a black jack, Hiram Dempsey got a black eye, Mrs. Lythgoe was hit by what she thought was Hiram Dempsey's fist. Jailed for assault & battery, Hiram Dempsey next day proudly exhibited a telegram from his famed son, onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "Congratulations to the new champ stop consider matching you with Joe Louis. -. ." Ill lay: Onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, of a slight cerebral thrombosis, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Chairman Aiming S. Prall of the Federal Communications Commission, of an ailment his son refused to name, in Boothbay Harbor, Me.; U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, after a severe chill, in London; Actor William Powell, of nervous and physical exhaustion resulting from grief over the death of Jean Harlow, in Hollywood; Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, 74, recovering rapidly from what he called "disturbances of old age," in Brescia, Italy; Federal Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, of a fractured ankle suffered while trout fishing, in Estes Park. Colo.