CONVENTION IS CLOSED
CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—Dr. Francis
E. Townsend closed the first national
convention of his disciples Sunday
night with pleas for the enactment
of his plan to provide $200 a month
to citizens over 60, with the provis
ion that they spend it all within ihe
month.
Officials estimated that a crowd
of 10,000 attended the final session,
6,000 of whom were delegates.
The convention settled upon two
goals: first, to secure enactment of
its plan In the next session of Con
gress, or, failing in that, to mobilize
sufficient voting strength in 1936 to
assure Its passage in 1937.
MOD ASSASSIN
SUICIDES IN HIS
N.J. HIDEOUT
Killer of Dutch Schultz Is
Found Dead by Gas
Poisoning
NEWARK, N. J„ Oct. 28.—Albert
Stern, 21, hoodlum, whom police
suspected' as the major executioner
in the bloody warfare that smashed
the once powerful Dutch Schultz
mob, has been found dead in a cheap
hideaway.
Authorities attributed his death to
suicide, saying the chances that oth
er gangsters killed him were slight.
Stem's death, apparently due to
gas poisioning and strangulation,
blasted police hopes that his appre
hension might start them on the road
to a solution of the tavern massacre
In which Schultz and his three
henchmen were mortally wounded
last Wednesday night.
Stern, considered to be a profes
sional assassin, was described by po
lice as “the meanest killer since the
late Vincent Coll.”
BOUND FOR SEATTLE
D. A. Zwelgart and Carl G. Hill,
who have been engaged at installa
tion of refrigeration equipment at
the Pioneers’ Home, are through
passengers on the Northland from
Sitka to Seattle.
