News Brief

Mrs. Belle Daiches returned from Palestine on board the Italian liner Roma yesterday.

She was met at the pier on Fifty-seventh street by Richard Regan, assistant State Attorney in Chicago, who will question her in connection with the mysterious slaying of her husband, Eli Daiches, on March 3. Daiches, who was president of the Bowers Advertising Agency in Chicago, was killed by machine gun bullets in his automobile while driving along Lake Shore drive.

The killing has baffled Chicago police who are working on a clue provided in the insurance policy held by Daiches for $300,000. The Bowers Agency was the beneficiary.

Mrs. Daiches received word of her husband’s death on March 5. She had sailed on the Conte de Savoia for the Near East in February, and yesterday before a large group of reporters and photographers told of the shock news of the slaying of her husband had been to her.

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Mrs. Daiches wore black. Her face was drawn. She replied to questions of newspapermen in quick, nervous sentences. She appeared distressed at some of the questions but posed for photographers without hesitation.

As she alighted from the gangplank a few photographers succeeded in persuading her to pose again. A brother, Jacob Turner was at the pier to meet her.

Mrs. Daiches told the Jewish Daily Bulletin about her visit in Palestine which she said lasted ten days. She is enthusiastic about native Palestinian art which she said “is coming into its own.” She spoke of the “quiet beauty of Palestine scenery.”

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Of the hotels and up to date luxuries in the cities of Palestine Mrs. Daiches said “they are wonderful, and compare with any hotels in Europe. But they are so very expensive.”

Mrs. Daiches told the Bulletin that her husband had planned to meet her in Leeds, England, where her father-in-law, the chief rabbi of that city, resides. The plans were disrupted by his death.