DeCasto Far] Mayer, arrogénf, bald-headed convict, today signed his confession admitting he murdered Mr. James E. Bassett, Anapolis Naval Academy officer, near Seattle itt ye decided," Mayer. said, "to plead guilty to the murder of Bassett'? He said he killed the, officer with a hammer in a manner substantially the seme as fold by his 79-year-old mother to the warden of Washington State prison where she is serving a sentence in connection with thesame crime.
Mayer said he confessed to the crime to take "some pressure off mother" His mother, Mrs. Mary Eleanor Smith, was held in Seattle in a near hysterical condition. She said her son was guilty of three other slayings in Montana in the early 1920's.
Both Mary and DeCasto were arrested in 1928 for possessing Mr. Basset's car after his mysterious disappearance in Seattle on September 1 of the same year. He is now serving a life term on a larceny conviction. His mother was marked for release on the same charge May ments announced that they expect Czechoslovakia to satisfy within reason the autonomy demands of 2,500,000 Sudeten Germans. They emphasized they expected a solution compatible with the integrity of the state although they hoped that most generous concessions might be possible, The Ministers visited the Foreign Office separately, but their messages were almost identically worded., It was understood in, certain Government quarters that the Cabinet yesterday approved the draft of a minority statute which will be presented to the envoys for scrutiny.
In a further attempt to forestall a possible German-Czechoslovakian crisis over the pro-Nazi racial minority, the Government approved the personnel of an economic mission which will go to Berlin on Sunday for a conference in which rman and Czechoslovakian economic relations will be reviewed.—United Press.
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