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Message Figures in Cross
fire With Wendel—Trial
Recessed 3 Days.
BACKGROUND—
Paul H. Wendel, former Trenton,
N. J.. lawyer, was abducted Febru
ary 14, 1936. in New York by three
men he later identified as Murray
Bleefield. Martin Schlossman and
Harry Weiss. He was taken to a
house in Brooklyn, held 10 days
and tortured into falsely confessing
he kidnaped the Lindbergh baby.
B* the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. J„ May 8.—A letter
containing a coded message written
by Paul H. Wendel to Ellis H. Parker
January7 4, 1936, and including a state
ment the Lindbergh baby was “not in
sight" was emphasized by the defense
yesterday during renewed cross
examination of Wendel in the Parker
conspiracy trial in Federal Court.
The message previously had been
Introduced by the Government to
show Wendel's association with De
tective Parker in his Lindbergh in
vestigation, but specific phrases were
stressed today as Wendel and defense
counsel continued their wordy cross
fire.
Parker, chief of Burlington County
detectives, and his son, Ellis, jr„ are
charged with plotting the kidnaping
of Wendel in an efTort to save the life
of Bruno Richard Hauptmann and to
enable them to profit through a sale
of the purported ‘'true solution" of
the Lindbergh crime.
i icareo After l onfession.
Allegedly as the result of torture, J
Wendel confessed to the Lindbergh
kidnaping, then repudiated the con
fession and subsequently was cleared.
The Wendel episode, however, delayed
briefly the execution of Hauptmann 13
months ago.
The letter stressed today was de
coded by Wendel as follows:
“Sharpe knew Chauffeur Dutch
Schultz, known Faulkner; gangland
tol-Bitz hands off, money hot, stay
ft way, unload money, fish. Arrange
to unload wife of chauffeur who ne
gotiated Knodon planned; inny gang
land Haup Mann money passer. I
am in a tough spot. Keep my name
out of this. Baby not in sight. Will
return soon if possible without get
ting hurt.. Concrete as usual.”
The “baby not in sight” phase,
one defense attorney aide said, showed
it was Wendel's theory the body found
two months after the Lindbergh kid
naping five years ago was not that
of little Charles A. Lindbergh, jr.
Wendel said the baby referred to in
the phrase was the Lindbergh baby,
but contended it was an assertion by
a man he talked with after Parker
reputedly asked him to find “a stoop
ehouldered German man with a limp.”
Part of Message Own.
Tliis man—Wendel said he could not
Identify him without referring to a
note book he charged was taken from
his possessions by the defense—made
r.!l the statement except the phrases,
*T am in a tough spot," “Keep mv
rame out of this,” and “Will return
aoon if possible without getting hurt.”
These, he said, were his Own and re
ferred to a need for money.
1 ne uniaentmed man. he .said, meant
Violet Sharpe, maid in the Dwight
Morrow household, who committed sui
cide during the Lindbergh case, where
►Sharpe” was written. "Tol-Bitz hands
tiff," he said, expressed the man’s
tpinion Dutch Schultz and Faulkner
♦ unidentified) "told Spitale and Bit*
/Lindbergh intermediaries) to keep
hands off" the Lindbergh case.
"Money hot," Wendel stated, re
ferred "money that passed as ran
som money. Asked who was to "un
load money," he said the man meant
"Fish" (Isador Fisch, one-time busi
ness associate of Hauptmann). "Kno
don" supposedly referred to Dr. John
F. Condon, who served as ransom in
termediary for Col. Lindbergh, it was
said, and “Haup Mann” was Haupt
mann. Explanations of other words
were not brought out, nor was there
any explanation of the significance of
the message as a whole.
Today’s session ended the trial's
second week. Court recessed until
Tuesday.
CHATAUQUA CENTER
SEEKING $1,000,000
Campaign to Secure Endowment
Begun by Society at An
nual Dinner.
B: the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 8.—A campaign
to raise a million-dollar endowment for
Chatauqua Institution, 64-year-old
educational renter at Chautauqua,
N. Y., was announced last night at the
New York Chautauqua Society's
fourth annual dinner at the Town
Hall Club.
The institution has been saved from
bankruptcy and freed of an $800,000
debt, as promised in 1934 by the
Chautauqua Reorganization Corp.,
said Sameul W. Hazlett, president of
the corporation, in an address at the
dinner.
"Between now and the opening of
the season on July 4, it is confidently
expected that the receivership will be
ended,” he said, *“and the board of
trustees will function again under the
new reorganization plans."
He announced that a Chautauqua
foundation is being formed to raise
»n endowment for the institution.
DESCENDANT OF BOONE,
TEACHER-POET, 50, DIES
Hiss Elberta Shipley, Tennessee
Native, Victim of Pneumonia
in New York.
By thfc Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 8.—Miss Elberta
Kate Shipley, teacher and poet, who
traced her ancestry to the families of
Daniel Boone and Abraham Lincoln,
died of pneumonia yesterday. Fifty
years old, she was born in Eastern
Tennessee, a daughter of Dr. Elbert
Eevier Shipley, who rode horseback to
attend his patients.
Miss Shipley had been an outspoken
critic of the New Deal’s potato control
proposals and had served as vice presi
dent of the League for a Woman
President and Vice President. A mem
ber of the lecture board of the New
York City Board of Education, she was
also a speaker well known elsewhere
lor the Daniel Boone costume she
sometimes wore.
“The Mother of the Emancipator”
and “The Farmers of Lexington”
were two of her poems. Mrs. Wilbur
Perkins, a sister, of Carmel, Calif.,
survives.
M
W ashington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
RULES.
UST a trifle more than a year
ago a relative of Clifford K.
Berryman, The Star cartoonist,
wrote to him asking for some
copyright information, and inclosing
a money order for $1 to cover expenses.
Mr. Barrryman found the facts but
lost the money order.
The other day it showed up some
where around the house, and Mr.
Berryman rushed from The Star to
the Benjamin Franklin station to
cash it. The clerk looked at the
slip, shook his head and said, “Too
bad. It’s a year and a day old. Yes
terday, I could have cashed it. Today,
no."
Thereupon he gave Mr. B. a receipt
for the order, and things began to
happen. Soon the cartoonist's office
was loaded up with long blanks which
were to be filled out, returned to the
Post Office Department. Mr. Barry
man followed Instructions, even drew
a few of his famous bears on the
blanks for good measure.
As yet, however, nothing has hap
pened, and he grows more impatient
by the day, as the dollar is intended
to assist the purchase of some tickets
he has already reserved for a trip to
Europe.
We hate to break the news, but Mr.
B. probably will get a couple more sets
of blank forms in his mail soon, fill
them out, then have to appear before
a notary public, a retired lawyer and
two Assistant Postmasters General.
This, of course, may take time, as the
Post Office Department is at the
moment either attending the Derby or
out to lunch, be back in 15 minutes
from any time.
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DIVIDEND.
Sign in a restaurant near Four
teenth and I streets:
THE BANK GIVES 2 PER CENT.
fin this space was a picture of
a foaming beer mug.)
WE GIVE YOV 6.
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TRICK.
]V/TOST newspapers are extremely shy
about printing the names of peo
ple who work for other Journals, un
less the item happens to be cheerfully
uncomplimentary. Overcoming this
bashfulness, we do not hesitate to tell
you a story about Dudley Harmon, a
fair young lady who writes for the
Post, our rival on only one day a week.
As you know, flying in a large trans
port plane on a quiet day, one does not
have the sensations of motion that ac
company train and motor travel.
There are no whizzing telephone poles,
no screeching brakes to supply the
sense of speed and adventure. You
merely fly, and probably go to sleep.
Miss Harmon was up in a big pas
senger plane not long ago and chanced
to gaze out the window. Below she
saw a smaller airship, in which some
men were busy taking pictures of her
craft. She watched the little mono
plane for a moment as her conveyance
passed over and beyond it, then said
reflectively, mostly to herself: "Re
markable, isn't it? I never knew air
planes could fly backward that way!"
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BAIT.
| ATEST, most refined form of tor
ture invented by a democratic
Government is reported by an inform
ant who knows about our national af
fairs at sea (or are they?) He says
that among those who receive quite
regularly the mail bulletins on United
States Navy ship movements are a
number of prisoners in the Portsmouth
Navy Yard in Maine.
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BONER.
^^FTER attending her first diplomatic
function of a lifetime last week,
a young lady of our acquaintance is
wondering whether she should give up
champagne, diplomats, or both.
Thing that impressed her most at
this reception was the elegant array
of uniforms, or the array of elegant
uniforms, maybe. Seeing one peacock
ish gentleman after another stalk by,
she quaffed liquids from the flowing
bowl, thought how wonderful it all
was.
When she could contain her reflec
tions no longer, she started a con
versation with an especially glorious
young man, asking him where in heck
did Hq get all the gilt trimmings. Fel
low explained that the gorgeous rai
ment had been purchased for a spe
cial occasion—his wedding—15 years
ago. The noise of small talk was great
during this revelation, but they chatted
on a while afterward, more or less
hearing what they said to each other.
As she was departing, however, our
lady turned to the diplomat and said,
“And I hope the suit will last you 15
years more.”
“Fifteen years,” he said, vaguely.
"Oh, yes, of course.”
She was almost out the door when
he realized what went on. He dashed
over, “Listen,” he said, "I think you
misunderstood. It is the boss who has
the 15-year-old suit. I am a secretary
and was in grammar school 15 years
ago. This suit I bought last week,
Just for this party.”
SNAPSHOT.
A reporter who visited the Zoo
last Sunday saw a candid camera
fan taking a picture of another fan
who was taking a picture of a
third camera man as the latter
posed a group of people beneath a
tree. So the reporter took a pic
ture of the three photographers,
completing a magic circle of little
lenses.
Then he whirled about and
scanned the horizon nervously, to
make certain no one was taking a
picture of him.
STUDEBAKER SEES
Dr. Ballou to Be in Group
Discussing Occupational
Education.
Though his own office Is only a few
blocks from the Federal Office of Edu
cation in the new Interior Depart
ment Building, Dr. Frank W. Ballou
is going to pay a call on United States
Commissioner of Education Stude
baker via Minneapolis, Milwaukee, In
dianapolis and Cincinnati.
Dr. Ballou, superintendent of Dis
trict schools, is “visiting Washington
with a dozen other school adminis
trators as part of a two-week tour of
eight cities to study the problems of
"matching jobs and men.” The group
was to meet the commissioner at 9
a.m. to discuss occupational educa
tion with him and hts assistant, J. c.
Wright, in charge of vocational edu
cation.
Party Leaves Tonight.
The party, augmented by Dr.
Studebaker is to leave for Providence,
R. I., tonight.
Yesterday afternoon the group met
in the office of William H. Stead, as
sociate director of the United States
Employment Service, for discussion of
methods of getting and distributing
job Information.
The objectives of the service, Stead
said, are to provide an encyclopedia of
job information and an occupational
dictionary of the meanings of job
titles and job terminology, and to
classify jobs having similar require
ments. Such encyclopedias are pub
lished for three industries, the school
men were told, and 60 others are be
ing worked on now.
Lauded by Dr. E. A. Lee.
Examining one of the encyclopedias.
Dr. Edwin A. Lee, head of the tour,
which is sponsored by the National
Occupational Conference, declared
“the most significant information
available is contained herein.”
In additnon to Drs. Ballou and Lee,
the following superintendents are
members of the occupational study
group: Charles B. Glenn, Birming
ham, Ala.: E E. Oberholtzer, Houston,
Tex.; Willis A. Sutton, Atlanta, Ga.;
David E. Weglein, Baltimore; Einar
W. Jacobsen, Oakland, Calif.; Worth
McClure, Seattle, Wash.; L. John Nut
tall, jr., Salt Lake City, Utah; Carroll
R. Reed, Minneapolis, Minn.; Homer
W. Anderson, Omaha, Nebr.; Ben G.
Graham, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Paul Loser,
Trenton. N. J.; Alexander J. Stoddard,
Providence. R. I„ and also Dr. Robert
Hoppock, assistant to the director of
the National Occupational Confer
ence.
Stalled and Stolen.
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (/P).—It looked
like a case of ingratitude to Police
Capt. James Hedge and Patrolman
Floyd Hullinger when they offered to
help a youth push a stalled car along
a deserted street and the youth ran.
The officers discovered the car was
not stalled but stolen.
■-—•—
Students Are Average.
NEW YORK. 0TV—A poll among
seniors of the College of the City of
New York by the Mercury', college
publication, disclosed the average
senior is 20 years old, five feet, eight
inches tall, and more than 350 an
swers indicated, believes, the greatest
spiritual need of the college is
"women.”
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BELIN RIDICULES
SABOTAGE TALK
D. C. Survivor Saw Nothing
Irregular on Hindenburg
Voyage, He Says.
Reports of possible sabotage on the
Hindenburg were characterized as
‘‘ridiculous” today by Ferdinand
Lammot Belin, jr, 24, of 1623 Twenty
eighth street, who leaped 30 feet to
safety when the German dirigible
.burst Into flames.
"There was absolutely no sign of
anything amiss during the crossing,”
said Belin, apparently unshaken by
his narrow escape. "Everything was
quite as it should be on any smooth
running liner."
Memorable Experience.
Describing the vivid impression left
by the disaster. Belin, son of the for
mer Minister to Poland, said:
"I will never forget the few seconds
between the time of the explosion
and when I struck the field. I was
taking pictures through the window
and had just changed films when the
ship was shaken by the blast.
“As the tail dropped, about a dozen
persons were thrown against the rear
wall of the salon. As I grabbed an
upright girder, one of the passengers
knocked the camera out of my hand
as he slid by.
"We were at about 175 feet then
and started to drop rapidly. Two
stewards jumped out of a window, and
I followed them.”
Parents Are Located.
Belin ran clear of the falling ship
*nd half an hour later succeeded in
locating his parents, who had driven
to Lakehurst to meet him, but had
given him up for lost.
Belin praised the dirigible’s crew,
whose members he called ‘‘courteous,
efficient and loyal," and expressed
astonishment at the speed with which
asbestos-clad rescuers tore at the
burning ship.
An aviation enthusiast himself. Belin
said he has no intention of giving
up flying.
GOVERNMENT DEBT
STILL MOUNTING
Hits $35,039,956,335, Well Over
Figure Once Set by Presi
dent Roosevelt.
By the Associated Press.
The Federal debt already exceeds
the figure which President Roosevelt
once said he hoped would be the total
for this fiscal year. A Treasury state
ment yesterday showed the debt
mounted to *35,039.956,335 on May 5.
The President said last January he
expected the debt at the close of this
fiscal year, June 30, would be *35 -
026,000,000.
That figure was based on revenue
estimates, which were changed last
month after tax receipts, especially
March income taxes, faded to come
up to January expectations.
The May 5 debt compared with a
peak World War debt of *26,596,
"01,648.
In his revision of estimates two
weeks ago, the President said the
deficit for this fiscal year probably
would reach *2.557,000,000, an in
crease of *309.000.000 over his Jan
uary deficit estimate. He did not
comment on the effect of this re
vision on his previous debt estimates.
With nearly two months of spending
yet ahead, the deficit stood at *2,223,
457,655 58 on May 5.
Ready for Derby Today
Kisses being planted on the head of Billionaire, Bradley
entry, at Churchill Downs by two Chicagoans out to get the
correct dope. Doris Bennett (left) and Frances Mader bestowed
the kisses as they nominated the colt as their choice.
Flashing back into the Kentucky Derby picture with a bril
liant workout, Pompoon is shown in action under a stable boy
at the Downs. A satisfactory workout with a final burst of speed
served to wipe out the taint of his defeat at Jamaica.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
Saved From Death in Fire
Mrs. Hazel King (left) threw
her 5-year-old daughter Con
stance (below) from the porch
roof of their flaming home
at 5007 Belt road into the
arms of her brother, John
Holzwart (right), who was
on the ground. Meanwhile,
Myrtle Basferd, 19 (center),
was trying in vain to save the
life of her 94-year-old great
grandmother, Mrs. Louise
Donaldson, who perished in
the flames.—Star Staff Photos. ,
Derby
_< Continued FYom F’irst Page )
sought the answer to one question—the
winner of the big race.
Hotels, long since filled to capacity,
sent late arrivals, who failed to make
reservations, out into the homes of the
city. Railroad cars provided tem
porary homes for hundreds of others
while many sought ‘ long lost” friends
in an effort to obtain accommodations.
Vehicular and pedestrian traffic
moved at a snail pace through the
main business district or on one-way
streets leading to the track, some 4
miles from the center of the city.
Prices Jumped sky-high in many res
taurants and cafes while hungry race
rans sought a bite to eat on the run.
Hundreds picnicked near the Downs.
Taxicabs were at a premium.
War Admiral Favored.
After studying past performances,
listening to the latest tips and hear
ing the “hardboots” quote breeding
of the horses like a child reeling off
his A B Cs, the majority of visitors
came up with the same conclusion
that has prevailed for two weeks—
that War Admiral and the Milky Way
entry will be the ones to beat.
War Admiral had precedence and
size against him, but, nevertheless,
was the 9-to-5 choice on the strength
of his unbeaten 3-year-old record,
including a galloping triumph in the
Chesapeake Stakes two weeks ago.
The little Man o’ War colt, seeking
victory in a race for which his famous
daddy never tried, drew No. 1 post,
a position that will require all of his
early foot to escape interference.
Neither did Reaping Reward, star
of the 3-1 second-choice entry, re
ceive any of the best of the draw. He
was placed near the outside in No.
17. Military, picked by many to suc
ceed if The Reaper fails, was more
fortunate. He drew No. 5, outside
of the favorite, J. W. Parrish’s Del
lor, the Wheatley Stable’s Melodist
and William du Pont, jr.’s, Fairy Hill.
t om poon encourages Hackers.
Casting about for a good longshot.
just in case something happened to
the favorites, the Derbyites, for the
most part, settled on four horses—J.
H. Louchheim’s Pompoon. Melodist,
Dellor and Heeifly, the Texas flyer
from the Waggoner Brothers’ Three
D's Stock Farm. Pompoon, the erst
while favorite, gave his backers en
couragement with a sizzling half-mile
workout yesterday.
Pompoon was held at 6 to 1. with
Melodist and Heeifly quoted at 8 to 1
each, and Dellor, conqueror of Reap
ing Reward and Military earlier in
the week, at 12 to 1. Some predicted
that one of Maxwell Howard's pair
of Sceneshifter and Fencing, trained
by Earl Sande, would come through,
or that E. R. Bradley would win his
fifth Derby with Billionaire. Victory
by any of the latter, as well as by
Fairy Hill, winner of the Santa Anita
Derby, and the nine members of the
field would be a decided upset, how
ever.
Barring an unexpected dowmpour
of rain and a muddy track, at least 19
of the overnight entries were expected
to start. Bernard F„ owned by I. J.
Collins, was the only doubtful starter.
GUARANTEED PRICE
FOR COTTON ASKED
Southern Fanners Meeting at
New Orleans to Offer Plan
to Government,
By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, May 8 —Southern
farmers drew up a plan here yester
day to add millions of dollars to the
value of the cotton crop through Gov
ernment subsidies.
They gathered here at the call of
Norris Williamson, president of the
American Cotton Co-operative Asso
ciation and chairman of a committee
named in Washington to outline a
permanent farm program.
The group voted to ask Congress to
guarantee a parity price for cotton
which would make their income com
parable with that of corn and wheat
producers.
The cotton farmer, they complained,
had to sell his crop on the open
market of the world and accept the
world price, which he had to buy kits
necessities in a domestic market pro
tected by tariffs.
Under the plan, for example, the
parity price in 1936 was 16.40 cents
per pound. Actually, the average 1936
price at 10 Southern spot markets for
y8-inch middling was 11.83 cents a
pound. To realize the parity price of
16.40 cents a pound the Government
would have to pay the fanner a
bounty of 4.77 cents per pound.
The subsidy, however, would be paid
only on the amount of cotton within
the farmer’s normal production quota.
This would be determined through
pro rating the normal American pro
duction, which would be fixed by add
ing 35 per cent to the amount of
American cotton consumed In the
previous year.
Fire
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Prank Donaldson, 49. a son of the
elderly fire victim, to safety.
Holzwart said he was awake when
the lightning hit.
"I was lying in bed looking out the
window." he related. "The thunder
had awakened me, I guess. Suddenly,
there was a blinding flash and a
terrific clap of thunder. My hall door
was open and in a second I could see
the flames sweep up the stairs. The
lightning must have gone right
through the house to start the fire.
"I yelled and climbed out the win
dow. I could see the others climbing
out their windows. I can’t realize that
we missed grandmother. Every one
seemed to think she had gotten out at
first.
“Too Heavy to Carry."
Mrs. King said her great-grand
mother was too heavy for her and
Miss Basferd to carry.
"Just as soon as firemen got there,
X yelled to them to hurry—that
! grandma was trapped," said Mrs.
King. "The firemen hurried up the
ladder, but as soon as they poked
their heads in the windows they drew
back gasping. They couldn't get in
the room until the Are was almost
out."
Apparently still stunned by their
; experience the survivors clustered in
! the wrecked house after firemen de
parted. They were joined by William
Donaldaon. 65. another son of the dead
woman, who had stayed with friends
last night.
Mrs. Donaldson was bom in Albany,
N. Y„ but came to Washington when
she was a young girl. She had lived
in the house in which she died for
more than 25 years.
Damage was estimated at *3.000.
INSURANCE CHANGE
EFFECTIVE IN 1938
Broadened Coverage for Idle
Provided in Measure
Sent to Nice.
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md„ May 8—Mary
land’s broadened unemployment in
surance coverage will not go into
operation until January 1, 1938. a
check-up today of laws passed in the
special session of the General Assem
bly showed.
The Senate passed and sent to the
Governor a measure by Delegate Leon
Abramson, Democrat, of Baltimore,
that would change the existing laws
to make that provision.
The recent regular session enacted
a measure to make employers of four
or more persons come under the cov
erage effective last January 1. Abram
son's later bill changed the date to
January 1, 1938.
SIGMA XI INSTALLATION
PITTSBURGH, May 8 C/P).—Dr.
Edward Ellery of Union College, Sche
nectady, N. Y., and Dean George E.
Pegram of Columbia University will
officiate today at the formal in
stallation of a chapter of the Society
of the Sigma Xi at Carnegie Institute
of Technology.
Dr. Ales Hrdlicka. Washington an
thropologist, will speak. Members of
the faculty at Tech affiliated with the
organization at other institutions
petitioned for the chapter. The so
ciety, established a half century ago
at Cornell, now has 69 chapters.
EDUCATORS ELECT
ELLIOTT AS DEAD
Purdue President Becomes
Chairman of American Coun
cil at Last Session.
Edward Charles Elliott, president of
Purdue University, today was elected
chairman of the American Council on
Education, succeeding Raymond A.
Kent of the University of Louisville.
Elliott was named in the election con
cluding the council’s annual meeting
at the United States Chamber of Com
merce Building.
Other officers elected were: First
vice chairman, Eugene R. Smith,
Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut
Hill, Mass.: second vice chairman, Guy
E. Snavely, Birmingham-Southern Col
lege: secretary, E. O. Melby, North
western University; treasurer, Cor
coran Thom, president of American
Security & Trust Co., Washington;
first and second assistant treasurers,
Frederick H. P. Siddons and James C.
Dulin, jr„ respectively. Siddons is
treasurer and Dulin assistant treasurer
of American Security.
Kent and Samuel P. Capen, chan
; cellor of the University of Bucalo,
were named members of the Executive
Committee for terms of three years
each.
Elected to Committee.
The following were elected to mem
bership on the Committee on Prob
lems and Plans in Education for terms
of three years each: Lotus D. Coffman,
University of Minnesota, Henry W.
Holmes, Harvard University, Rev.
Alphonse M. Schwitalla, S. J., St.
Louis University, and Burton F.
Fowler. Tower Hill School, Wilming
ton, Del.
Rev. George Johnson, secretary of
the National Catholic Educational
Association, speaking today, proposed
that young people be given the op
portunity to exercise responsibility.
He descussed "The Deeper Significance
of the Youth Problem."
Other speakers at the concluding
session were Leon C. Marshall, pro
fessor of education at Johns Hopkins
University and professor of political
! economy at American University on
j “The Relation of Education to Gov
ernmental Administration,” and Bur
ton P. Fowler on "What Is Important
in Education."
“Deprived of Responsibility."
“I wonder when all is said and done
if the great crime of modern society
against youth," Father Johnson de
clared, “is not this: That it de
prives it of an opportunity of exercis
ing responsibility. The conditions
which lengthen the period of de
pendency for the young prevent them
from coming to grips with reality in
their formative years.
"It is a rather frightening com
mentary on the trend of the times in
this country that it almost amounts
to a breach of good form to mention
religion when matters of human wel
fare are under discussion.
“It is the highest time, as far as
the welfare of young people is con
cerned, that we bring religion out
into the open and re-establish it in
its proper and traditional place in
American life."
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HOBBY FAIR PLANNED
LEONARDTOWN. Md., May 8 (Spe
cial)).—All students at Margaret
Brent High School are preparing for
the hobby fair to be held at the school
May 14. The fair is sponsored by the
Hobby Club. The fair will be larger
than last year, and the general public
is invited.
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Kite Funeral Tomorrow,
SHENANDOAH, Va„ May 8 (Spe
cial).—Grover Cleveland Kite, 53 who
died suddenly of a heart attack yester
day while at work in the Norfolk &
Western shops, wall be buried tomor
row. He is survived by his widow, four
daughters, Mrs. Frank Coakley of
Portsmouth, Ohio: Mrs. Pete Powell.
Mrs. Glenn Rodgers and Miss Lenelle
Kite, and one son, Milburn Kite, all
of Shenandoah.
As They Face Post in Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 8 (SP).—The twenty 3-year olds named for
today’s renewal of the Kentucky Derby, listed according to post positions,
with owners, Jockeys and probable odds:
Probable
Horse. Owner. Jockey. Odds.
War Admiral-Samuel Riddle-Charley Kurtsinger.. 8 to 5
Dellor_J- W. Parrish-Basil James_12tol
Melodist_Wheatley Stable_Johnny Longden-8 to 1
Fairy Hill_William du Pent, Jr_Maurice Peters-40 to 1
aMllttary.-._Mns. Ethel V. Mars_Charley Corbett_3 to 1
xCourt Scandal_Townsend B. Martin...Earl Steffen_25 to 1
xMerry Maker_Willie Shea and
Miss E. G. Rand_Hilton Dabson-25tol
bFencing_Maxwell Howard-Johnny Westrope...20 to 1
Billionaire..._E. R. Bradley_. ..George Woolf-25 to 1
Heelfly_Three D’s Stable_Wayne Wright-8tol
xGrey Gold._E. W. Duffy_Joe Rosen-25 to I
bSceneshifter_Maxwell Howard-Jimmy Stout-20 to 1
xClodion..W. A. Carter.Irving Anderson.25tol
Pompoon_J. H. Louchheim_Harry Richards-6 to 1
xBuming Star.Shandon Farms_Charlie Parke-25 to 1
xBemard F__I. J. Collins....-No boy...25 to 1
aReaping Reward_Mrs. Ethel V. Mars-Alfred Robertson— 3tol
xSunset Trail 2d_Raoul Walsh_Earl Porter-25 to I
xNo Sir__Mary Hlrsch.Hubert Le Blanc—25 to 1
xSir Damion_Marshall Field-Edwin Yager-25 to 1
aMrs. Ethel V. Mars entry.
bMaxwell Howard entry,
xCoupled as the field in the betting.
Will Be Able to Name Killer
Soon, Officials
Claim.
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 8 —The dLs
trict attorney's office held out the
hope today of solving Hollywood's
greatest mystery—Director William
Desmond Taylor's murder 15 years
ago.
"From evidence discovered within
the past few days we believe we may
be able to solve the Taylor case,” read
a statement issued by the district
attorney's office.
Focal point in the inquiry was a
pearl-handled pistol owned by Mrs.
Charlotte Shelby, mother of Mary
Miles Minter, star of the silent screen.
Mrs. Shelby said she fired the pistol
only once and did not know what had
become of It.
‘‘For the first time in a number of
years,” said Deputy District Attorney
Eugene Williams, "the Taylor case
file is nearly complete. I am now
convinced that with the forging of
one or two more links, we will be able
to name the murderer."
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FATHER COUGHLIN’S
AIDE WINS IN SUIT
By the Associated Press.
WATERTOWN, N. T . May 8—A
Supreme Court jury yesterday re
turned a verdict of no cause of action
in the slander suit brought by Fred V.
Potter, 80, Star Lake store proprietor,
against Louis B. Ward of Detroit, Mich.,
aide to Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, famed
radio priest.
Potter charged that Ward called him
a "crook" during a conversation over
the lease of a Star Lake house in 1934.
This was the second trial of the ac
tion brought by the bewhiskered Pot
ter, who, during both trials regaled
spectators and court attendants with
tales of his younger days as a cowboy
at Dodge City, Kans., when, he said,
he knew such famed characters as Wild
Bill Hickok, Bat Materson, Buffalo
Bill, Clay Allison and Calamity Jane.
The first trial a year ago ended in a
disagreement.
MOTHER’S DAY RITES
Services Arranged at Fairfax and
Pender M. E. Churches.
8pecial Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX. Va., May 8—Special
Mother's day services have been ar
ranged at Fairfax and Pender Metho
dist Churches South for tomorrow, it
is announced by Rev. R. Carl Max
well, pastor of the two churches.
Services at Fairfax Church will be
held at 11 a.m. and at Pender at 8
p.m. Both services will include a
special musical program. Norlyn Miller
of Washington will sing at both serv
ices.
D.C. WOMAN IN CLIPPER
Justice Department Employe
Among Pacific Plane Passengers
MANILA, P. I . May 8 (>P) —Pan
American Airway's Hawaii Clipper left
for Guam this morning carrying
among its nine passengers six per
sons making the first east-bound trans
pacific commercial flight from Asia
to the United tSates.
The six who started the flight in
China included Miss Violet Sweet
Haven, press section employe of the
Department of Justice at Washington,
D. C. The other three boarded the
plane at Manila.
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Italy
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a particularly drastic step which might
lead to seriously embittered relations
between the two countries.
Even before the official order, sev
eral Italian newspapers which had
planned to send correspondents to the
coronation had cancelled the arrange
ments.
The newspapers here as a whole will
disregard details of the coronation
ceremonies and print only what terse
actual matter is distributed by the
Stefani (semi-official) News Agency.
Fhotographs of the coronation are
banned.
(British liberal newspapers were
loud In their jeers when Italians
fighting with Spanish insurgents
northeast of Madrid, were routed in
March. Now, even the Italian press
has proclaimed that Italian volunteers
fighting on the Bilbao front in North
western Spain "must not fail.”)
The press ban came on the eve of
Italy's celebrations of the first anni
versary of the conquest of Ethiopia,
accomplished despite the League of
Nations sanctions which Great Britain
led.
At that time Italian feeling against
the English ran high. But not even
then was a measure like today’s initi
ated. During the sanctions tension
only a few newspapers with "particu
larly objectionable” policies were ex
cluded from Italy.
Today’s decision to ban the papers
and withdraw the correspondents fol
lowed up a press campaign in which ’
the Italian newspapers repeatedly
warned the British press that it might
provoke a repetition of the sanctions
reaction among the Italian people
unless it changed its anti-Fasclst
tone.
On the eve of the first birthday
of Fascist empire, thousands of dusky
warriors who helped in the conquest
of Ethiopia mingled with cosmopoli
tan crowds.
They will march. 10,000 strong, to
morrow in a giant military review
before II Duce, commemorating the
downfall of Haile Selassie's Ethiopian
kingdom and Mussolini’s proclamation
at a modem Roman empire.
BAN IS IGNORED.
Official British Recognition Is Denied
Italian Boycott.
LONDON, May 8 OP).—Italy’s ac
tion in banning all but three English
newspapers and recalling Italian cor
respondents now in London was of
ficially ignored here today.
One person in authority said:
“Really now. the British Empire will
be able to withstand the horrible im
pact.”
Some sources said they felt the
Rome announcement was timed to
coincide with the usual long week end
of British officialdom, during which
no official consideration oduld be
given to the ban and no retaliation
might be expected.
Acting under orders, virtually all
Italian correspondents had left Lon
don for the continent by early after
noon.