Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 06, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Jail for Mother baffle Over go insurance Salt Lake City aug. 6 bup Ray Van Cott Jav warned mrs. Nettie w. Apps saturday that he had the Power to keep her in prison As Long As she ignored court orders to turn Over her son s i insurance to his widow. Mrs Capps a socially prominent Utah Matron already is serving 30 Days for contempt for refusing to obey a court order. Judge Van Cott said mrs. Capps 57. Could be kept in prison through a series of con tempt sentences. He accused the veterans administration of urging mrs. Capps to violate the court order the a a. Denied the charge and said it had advised mrs. Capps Only that the court had no jurisdiction Over fed eral funds. Mrs. Capps said her son Jacob had written before he was killed in the War that he did to want any Money to his twice married wife Maureen Capps Stam 32, of Seaside Calif. The two were estranged before he went overseas mrs. Stam said Jacob had wanted the insurance Money set up As a Trust fund for their three child Ren. She filed a civil to obtain the Money and the court ordered mrs. Capps six months ago to turn the insurance payments Over to the Trust fund. Instead she sent Buckun Ini tial payment of to the veterans administration with instructions to withhold the the v.a1 in Washington said it had but to comply with the instructions because mrs. Capps was the sole beneficiary named in the policy. However the. . Said the Gold Star Mother was told that although he state had no jurisdiction Over ederal it might assert Juris diction Over her As a citizen if she refused to. Obey the court order. She was quoted As saying she had been using the Money for the children s but objected to of being ordered by the state to do so. Free press saturday 6, 1949 actress Lila Leeds pays Fine of on drunk charge Beverly Hills cal., aug. Actress Lila Leeds who served a jail sentence in the Robert marijuana Case was out a Fine saturday for being drunk in an automobile. Originally scheduled to be tried monday on a previous plea of in Nocent she slipped into Justice court Friday pleaded guilty was i Ned and Given a suspended 10-Day ail sentence and a year s Proba Ion. She said she wanted to Clear up the Case before leaving for Seattle and a Persona appearance our. I Hope this is the closing Chaper in a Book you i e going to throw judge Charles j. Griffin old her. The blonde Beauty Mitchum and to other persons were arrested by narcotics officers in a raid on Here Hillside cottage last year. Marcel Barideaux French Kajak champl0n and Yachtsman. Is read to follow in the footsteps of Magellan in his dream boat the quatre vents four in which he is shown with his wife his global voyage will take about three years and will Lead him across the Atlantic to South America the Straits of Magellan across he Pacific to the marquess Java Sumatra tre Dies. Madagascar and the Cape of Good Hope the boat was finally nun Ned recently on the Marne near. Paris after six years of construction. Barideaux started construction under the German occupation of France. He traded his tobacco rations to procure Lead or the keel and butter which he managed in get through various or agog Tours was traded to Metal merchants radio mind readers thoughts Garry six Miles London. Aug. 6 Reuters a demonstration of mental Tele Pathy by an australian couple Over the bbl network has set Britain agog. The thought Reading put by Sydney up. Piddington a a studio wife six Miles away in Hie Tower of he read a line from a a minute later his wife repeated that he had said almost word for Vord. Taken to prevent collusion. Or. Ridlington asked his acid hence Down numbers. The total was added up and a Boot chosen by the audience was opened at that Page. A line on the Page Vas chosen in the same Way. Only after or. Piddington read he selected line was he put into Adio Contact with his wife. 1 asked How it affects their mat ried life he said we Don f prac Tice thought Reading in our private lives. It would make marriage in jail breaker gets five year sentence port Arthur. Aug. 6 up _ James Mcgrath 25, was sentenced to. Five years in. Stony Mountain Penitentiary in magistrate s court Here Friday following conviction on a charge of armed robbery. On charges including escape from the provincial police lockup at Geraldton ont., july 23, Mcgrath was sentenced to a total of 25 years none of the sentences Nore than five years in length to be concurrent with the original Ive year term. Mcgrath was object of an sex i pensive search following his escape ram the jail after widening a Hole by plumbers doing repair work. Irish likes Ganada better than Montreal aug. 6 up Canada is a better place to live than the United states w j j. Herron Irish author and play Wright said in an interview Fri Day. The 37-year-old Princeton n.t., graduate was returning eng and aboard the liner Empress of France after a six month tour of Canada. Canadians Are More relaxed a More Friendly people he said. They Are interested in one another. And Ives. He plans to write a Book about Lis impressions of Canada and in ends to come and live Here As Oon As Britain will allow him to Ake some of his Money out of the country. Vancouver Island is his Hoice. 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