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. * * * * 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. * * * * 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!" * ^ ^ 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. * * * * 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.” - - 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 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. ---—--• Italy (Continued Prom First Page ) 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.