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KENTUCKY TRIAL
FACES‘GARR BUYS’
Prefiminary for Three to Be
Today—Prosecutor With
draws From Case.
By fb* Associated Press.
SHELBYVILLE, Ky., September 24.
—Attorney General Hubert Meredith
took personal charge of the prosecu
tion of the "Garr boys” today as the
three brothers were brought to ex
amining trial to describe their part in
the slaying Monday night of Brig.
Gen. Henry H. Denhardt.
Commonwealth’s Attorney H. B.
Kinsolving, jr., who prosecuted Gen.
Denhardt in his first trial last April
for the slaying of Mrs. Verna Garr
Taylor, 40, sister of the accused Garrs
and fiancee of the general, withdrew
from the case because of his long
friendship with the Garr family.
J. Ballard Clark, attorney for Dr.
& S , Roy and Jack Garr, said they
would relate "a story, reasonable,
plausible and true, which will refute
the commonwealth’s idea of the case."
He again indicated the Garrs would
plead self-defense. Their trial will
await action of the grand jury, which
convenes October 4.
Slain Crossing Street.
Gen. Denhardt was shot down as he
crossed Shelbyville’s main street to the
hotel where he and an attorney, Rodes
K. Myers, planned to spend the night
before opening of the general's second
trial at New Castle Tuesday for the
murder of Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor,
AO tict ®r rtf f h® oonnco/Y Vt
Patrolman Jeptha Tracey quoted the
Garrs as saying they saw Denhardt
reach for his pocket and thought he
was ‘'going for a gun.”
Myers, who said he pleaded with the
Garrs not to shoot him, too, said at
Bowling Green he planned to turn over
to United States District Attorney
Bunk Gardner at Louisville four
threatening letters received since the
shooting.
One of the letters, he said, warned:
“Looks like you've gone far enough
in Denhardt case. If you're smart,
you'll drop it. Do you get this?"
“Dash-Dash” Story Held Lie.
Another said in part:
“Every one of any intelligence
knows, who read your ‘dash dash in
the newspapers,’ that it is an infa
mous lie and knows that ybu know it.
If you had sense enough to keep
your mouth shut, you might come
out better in the long run.”
News reports had employed dashes
tn quoting Myers to indicate the
omission of derogatory names he
said the Garr brothers shouted at
him and Gen. Denhardt.
Myers said a friend here had told
him of hearing a verbal threat that
he "would be dealt with the same
as Denhardt, but nobody would know
this time who was responsible."
The attorney represented Denhardt
last April in his first trial, which end
ed with the jury "hung," seven to five
for acquittal.
He said he would be at the ex
amining trial today “regardless of
threats.”
Mrs. Taylor, whom Denhardt con
tended committed suicide, was found
dead in a roadside ditch November 6,
1936.
Gen. Denhardt was buried at Bowl
ing Green, his home town, following
private and military funeral services
yesterday.
The 61-year-old former Lieutenant
Governor and former adjutant gen
eral of Kentucky often had expressed
a hope his body might lie in Arling
ton Cemetery, Virginia.
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BLACK CENSURE HELD
AIMED AT PRESIDENT
Representative O'Connor Sees De
liberate Effort to Embarrass
Chief Executive .
By the Associated Press.
Representative O'Connor, Democrat,
Of New York, said yesterday the fre
cruent comment in the press and else- ;
where about Supreme Court Justice
Black's alleged connection with the
Ku Klux Klan appeared to be aimed
deliberately at embarrassing the
President. i '
“Knowing that the President has
never entertained any narrow or
bigoted views,” O’Connor told re
porters, “it is safe to say that his
embarrassment was natural upon dis
closure of Mr. Justice Black’s con- .
nections.
“He quite naturally would feel im- 1
posed upon either by the judge’s
eilence, or his deliberately withhold
ing such important information from
his Chief Executive.
“It is difficult to conceive of any
executive with appointive power nomi
nating any person to administer Jus
tice in any court in the country know
ing that he was or had been a mem
ber of the Ku Klux Klan.”
STRIKERS BEATEN,
BOARD IS TOLD
Worker Testifies to Events at
Cambria Plant, in Johns
town.
Sr the Associated Press.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., September 24.—
Testimony that two strikers, were
beaten upon their return to work in
the Bethlehem Steel Co.’s plant con
cluded the third week of the Labor
Board's hearing against the company.
Andy Teno testified he served as a
picket during the S. W. O. C. walkout
last June and when he went back to
the Cambria works a foreman he said
was M. D. Ryan told him:
"Those fellows (non-strikers) had to
go through a hell of a lot of things
and you fellows can’t get away with
out it. You will have to go through
With it, too.”
Teno added that John Kosak, an
other steel worker, received a black
•ye in the beatings.
Patrolman George Buchan of Frank
lin Borough told the board he took a
loaded revolver from Taylor King, a
colored non-striker, during disorders
in front of the Franklin gate of the
7-mile-long works.
As he grabbed the gun, Buchan said,
"colored people threw stones and used
clubs” on the strikers.
Workmen who rushed into the plant
during the riot, he added, were non
itrlkers. More than 1.500, he said,
Witnessed the fighting.
The hearing on charges that the
company Interfered with the rights of
employes during the strike recessed
yesterday until Monday.
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Soldiers’‘Home Cows Stage Fire Drill in Approved Style
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A? the first sound of alarm, a bell-xcether cow at the United States Soldiers’ Home dairy
siarts on the run for the nearest exit, followed by her sisters, to the number of 195, and they are
all outside the building in less than two minutes, as a result of training from calfhood.
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Lady Dodo Colantha, prize-producing cow of the Soldiers’
Home herd, and her young son—yet unnamed—who saw the light
of day for the first time yesterday, tipping the scales at 125
pounds. —Star Staff Photos.
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Uiampionship Herd Revels
In Escaping at “Fire” Cry
Soldiers’ Home Barns Fireproof Now,
but Ancient Rite Is Maintained to
Safeguard Prize Animals.
In case of fire. walk—do not run—
to the neatest exit!”
That is the prescibed warning fo
human beings who may be in any in
closure—theater, auditorium and thi
like, but out in the cow barns at thi
United States Soldiers’ Home thi
admonition is absolutely reversed. It
case of fire, the cows run—do no
walk—to the nearest exit. And the;
get there in a hurry!
Since 1870 fire drill among th
cows at Soldiers’ Home has been i
wrt of rite—though fireproof bam
today make the drill almost unnec
essary. Nevertheless, since all thesi
cows were born on the Soldiers’ Homi
grounds they've got in the habit o
racing for that exit in case any on<
should holler fire.
Drill Staged to Perfection.
The other morning, for the benefl
of some visitors. Gen. F. W. Colemat
—they call him Frederick, the Great
governor of the home, staged i
demonstration, showing just how th<
cows go about getting away fron
danger. With the help of the heat
herdsman. Tommy Traynor, who ha
been nursing these cows for the la»
27 years, and William B. McGrath
head of the dairy, whose father go
the original herd together, the flri
drill -went off as if it were reheareet
noming, noon and night; wherea
the cows go into action on a fire dril
now only about once a month.
There’s a reason to keep that here
fit, too—and out of danger of fire—
for it has been pronounced by
the Holstein-Friesian Association o
America as “the first accredited here
in the United States.” So famous ii
this herd that cowmen and cow worn
en come here from all parts of thi
world to see the 197 animals raisec
at the Soldiers’ Home.
Prise cow among the herd is Lad;
■ Dodo Colantha, who this week pre
sented the home with a bounding baby
■ bull calf that weighed 125 pounds and
started running the range soon after
• he was bom. His sire is the cham
i pion, Winterthur General Ormsby.
i What the baby will be called is un
; known yet, as registration papers have
not been forwarded to the association.
Much to Live lip To.
And that baby, by the way, gives
’ promise of becoming one of the great
• bulls of the world. His father is a
s champion and his mother is a cham
pion of champions. The certificate
' from the Holstein-Fresian Association
1 of America shows her to be the maxi
' mum producer of a herd that "never
1 pulls its punches." Lady Dodo, as
they call her for short, held the rec
ord last year—for 365 days—with a
production of 26,535.6 pounds of milk
and 983.6 pounds of butter.
While Washingtonians know litele
or nothing about this great herd of
cows, the bovines have had some cele
brated visitors. All the Secretaries
of Agriculture have been out to see
them, In their time, and most of the
Ambassadors and Ministers from
foreign countries. Many Senators—
especially the dirt farmers, like Mag
nus Johnson—and Representatives go
there frequently. Walter Johnson.
• the idol of base ball fans, and a farmer
5 In his own right, is a constant visitor.
Incidentally, Gen. Coleman is given
credit with saving the herd for the
home. Had it not been for his en
thusiasm, it is said, the herd would
have been disbanded long ago—but
the governor of the Soldiers' Home
thinks there is nothing in all the
animal world quite like this prize herd
of Holsteins—the only cows he knows
1 that answer fire drill.
“Some day," Gen. Coleman says,
“we’ll have to stage a dress parade of
r the cows.”
INCREASE IN FARMER’S
INCOME IS PREDICTEC
federal Marketing Expert* Fore
cast Total of $9,000,000,000
for This Tear.
It the Associated Press.
Federal marketing expert* predictec
,oday an increasing flow of dollars tc
he American farmer in the next foui
nonths would push his cash incomt
;hls year to SO,000,000,000.
The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
tomics estimated cash farm incomt
or the first eight months at *5,355,
100,000, a gain of *681,000,000, or
ibout 15 per cent, over the same
jeriod last year.
August Income, the latest tabulated,
vas estimated at *771,000,000, com
jared with (646,000,000 in August
ast year and *751,000,000 in July
,his year.
Usually the increase from July to
August is larger. The economists
said early marketing of wheat in July
this year held down the seasonal
?ain, while Income from live stock
products fell below the August, 1936,
totals.
ASKS $1,260,000
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LOS ANGELES, September 24 UP).
—On second thought Mrs. Pearl Anti
■ bus, woman detective, says she was
damaged *1,260,000, instead of Just
*510.000 worth when District Attorney
Buron Pitts’ men raided her home—
prompted, she says, by Thomas W.
Warner, sr.. whose son was her guest.
Mrs. Antibus filed an amended com
plaint against Warner, automobile ac
cessory manufacturer, and numerous
John Does yesterday. She gave no
reason for the *750,000 increase.
Kfrs. Antibus rharcps &hp voc hpafpn
when Fitts’ investigators entered her
home. She alleges Warner instigated
the raid because of objections to his
son's romance with Mrs. Jean Mac
Donald, who also was in the house.
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FOES OF REFORM
Crowley, F. D. I. C. Head,
Says They Oppose “Every
Important” Betterment.
fcl the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ September 23.—
Bankers of the Nation have been
charged by Leo T. Crowley of Wash
ington, chairman of the Federal De
posit Insurance Corp., with opposing
"vigorously—sometimes even bitterly—
every important reform."
Crowley told the Kentucky Bank
ers’ Association in annual session yes
terday:
‘ It is natural to assume that bank
ers would realize that the purpose of
proposed reforms is to achieve re
sults, not merely to undertake change
\ for change's sake.’
“Yet bankers, on the whole, have
; opposed vigorously—sometimes even
bitterly—every important reform that
has been Introduced in this country.
How much more valuable would this
expenditure of effort have been if
bankers had faced the facts, subordl
' nated their vested Interests and waded
in themselves to achieve a solution of
their problems.
"And how much misery and eco
nomic waste would have been spared
if bankers, supervisors and legislators
had taken the time to work out to
gether a sound operating basis • • •
instead of waiting for the economic
catastrophies to hold up the weakness
of that system to the shriveling heat
of trial by fire and to the bitter gaze
of a disillusioned and Impoverished
people.”
The Deposit Insurance Corp. Crow
ley termed the most auspicious recent
i development affecting bank super
vision.
The F. D. I. C. chairman asserted
Government supervision was not aimed
at complete regimentation of the
banking profession, which he said
many bankers seem to fear,
j "Supervisors clearly realize the dan
; gers of an autocratic application of
arbitrary standards * • Crowley
continued.
"Yet it is clear from our past ex
perience that completely anarchistic,
unregulated the individualized pursuit
of the banking business ends disas
trously.
"Somewhere between these extremes
of autocracy and anarchy exists a
middle road which leads to a sound
and prosperous banking system and to
safety for depositors. It is the road
we must find and follow.”
Catholic U. Historian Disputes
Claim Joliet Found Mississippi
Br the Associated Pre«*
ST. LOUI8, September 24.—The j
statue of Father James Marquette in !
the hall of • fame at Washington
credits the famous Jesuit and his col
league, Louis Joliet, with discovering
the Mississippi River in 1673. So do j
many history books.
But history's mistake hunter. Rev.
Francis Borgia Steck of Catholic
University, Washington, who wrote a
controversy-stirring thesis on the
Marquette-Joliet expedition, disagrees.
Father Steck declared his findings
deny that Father Marquette was the
leader of the exploring party and
that it was the first to discover the
mighty river. The true discoverer, he
asserted, was Hernando De Soto, In
1541,
And then, just to complete his dis
agreement with accepted history.
Father Steck observed Joliet's name
actually was ''Jolliet."
"Jolliet," he explained, "spelled his
name with two ‘l's’ in 1674 when he
was married in Quebec. I take it that
he knew how to spell his own name.”
The Franciscan historian, here to
visit relatives, tackles research like a
scientific detective solving a crime. In
fact, he once consulted handwriting
experts to establish that a document,
long accepted aa being In Pather Mar
quette'* handwriting, actually was an
imposture.
Since the claims to fame made in
Pather Marquette’s behalf rest largely
on this narrative, Pather Steck does
not assign him a very important place
in the exploration of the American
hinterland. The Jesuit, he said, was
a spiritual adviser whose presence with
the party was not even known until
afterward by the French Governor of
Canada, who commissioned Jolliet as
the expedition’s leader.
Pather Steck does not deny the great
historical importance of the expedi
tion. On the contrary, he said, it al
tered the colonial policy of the French,
causing them to abandon the search
for a fabulous waterway to the Pacific
Ocean and concentrate on settling the
Mississippi Basin.
The' Spanish, he added, were like
wise under a delusion about the water
way to the Pacific and it was while
searching for it that De Soto found
the Mississippi.
It was Pather Steck who recently
pointed out that the statue in Chicago
of Father Marquette showed him in
correctly garbed in Franciscan habit.
An official explanation was made that
the statue was a symbolic representa
tion making no claim to portrait ac
curacy.
Outboards
_(Continued From First Page.)
and professional, midget amateur,
F open and free-for-all handicap
classes on the card. The midget
race was at 34 miles, the free for all
at 5 and the others at 10, split Into
two 5-mile heats.
Some of the racing clan who will
participate In the President's Cup
Race were guests of the National Press
Club at lunch yesterday. In the group
were the two Italian contenders,
Count Theo Rossi and Ouido
Caettaneo, Herbert Mendelson of De
troit, owner of the Notre Dame, win
ner in 1935, and his driver. Clell Perry.
Secretary of Commerce Roper spoke.
The SHBimirid.
First heat. Class A. amateur outboard—
Won by Doui Fonda. Orante N J.; sec
ond. Tommy Tyson. Chestnut Hill. Pa.:
third Warren Kenny. Oarden City. Long
Island. Time, 7:21.3 (40.761 m.D.h ).
A class, professional outboard, Brst heat
—Won by Thom Cooper. Kansas Cltv. Mo :
second. Fred Jacoby, jr.. North Bergen N.
J . third Jack Van Deman Rumsen, N. J.
Time. 7:04.1 (42 432 m.p.h ).
A class amateur outboard, final heat—.
Won by Fonda: second, Tyson: third, Earl
Hildebrand. Richmond. Va ; fourth. John
H. Thatcher. Bar Head, N J. Time,
7:17. (I (41.IPO m.p.h.). Total points.
Fonda. 800: Tyaon. 600; Hildebrand, .352;
| Thatcher, ,3.38.
A class, outboard professional, final heat
—Won by Cooper, second Paul Wearly,
Muncie. Ind : third. Jacoby: fourth. Mul
ford Scull. Olenhelm. N. J.: fifth. Van
Deman. Time. 7:10.3 <41.802 m.p.h.),
I Total points. Cooper, 800; Jacoby. 625; Van
Deman. 352.
BUS DRIVER INDICTED
IN FATAL COLLISION
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Four True Bills Found in Acci
dent Which Cost Lives of
Four Washingtonians.
Br the Associated Press.
TOWSON, Md., September 24.—
The Baltimore County grand Jury
returned four manslaughter indict
ments against Marcus Dixon, driver
of a bus involved in a collision which
killed four Washington residents Sep
tember 2.
Those killed were Mr. fcnd Mrs.
Elmer D. Hays, their son. Elmer. Jr.,
and his classmate. James R. Leech.
Dixon was the driver of a bus bound
from Philadelphia to Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Hays were taking their
son and Leech to Hanover. N. H., for
■ their second year at Dartmouth Col
lege.
Dixon said a truck stopped in front
of him and he turned out into the
road to avoid striking it. The bus
and Hays’ car collided head-on.
The dead were not identified for
some time because all the occupants
of the car were killed.
Dixon was unhurt, but the one
passenger on his bus suffered a cut
hand and bruises.
[WO MORE G. 0. P. i
PARLEYS WO
foung Republican and State I
Finance Chairmen Sessions
On Next Week.
Continuing his efforts to get the
Republican party geared up to become
an effective voice for its followers in
the next Congress and to strengthen
its chances of making appreciable
gains in the 1938 elections, National
Chairman John D. M. Hamilton was
turning his attention today to two
party conferences scheduled next
week—on Monday, with spokesmen
for Young Republicans’ Clubs, and
on Thursday, with a group of State
finance chairmen.
Next week’s meetings are part of a
series of strategy conferences which
the chairman has been holding with
various groups within the party since
early August. Yesterday he met all
day with the Executive Committee.
Most important ot the issues con
sidered at that meeting was one of
holding a national conference of the
party, probably in the Spring or Sum
mer of 1938, rather than waiting until
the 19*0 convention, for a compre
hensive declaration of G. O. P. policy
and principles in connection with
present national problems.
Decision Is Deferred.
Decision on the question was de
ferred, however, until the next meet- !
ing of the full National Committee
which Hamilton said probably would
be called during the first two weeks
of November.
Presented yesterday by Harrison E.
Spangler, committeeman from Iowa
and a leader in the Grass Roots Con- |
vention held last year, the conference ■
proposal aroused definite opposition
from some of those present, particu
larly Representatives Taylor of Ten
nessee and Martin of Massachusetts.
Both expressed ooncern lest such a
session interfere with next year's con
gressional campaigns, but voiced no
objection to a meeting in 1939.
Hamilton Backs Plan.
Chairman Hamilton, who advanced
a similar proposal last March, repeated
his support for the idea at a press con
ference yesterday and went further to
say he believed such meetings should
be held annually, provided all factions
within the party are represented and
are given full opportunity for express
ing their views. v
“As the national political picture
'has developed.” he said, “the sugges
tions for such a meeting or conference
have become more numerous and more
insistent."
Furthermore, he added, such an as- '
sembly should be held soon in order
to let the country know just where the
Republican party stands on the many
important problems facing Congress
and the Government.
The committee chairman said no
discussion took place yesterday on re
cent disclosures of evidence that Hugo
L. Black, newly appointed justice to
the Supreme Court, is affiliated with
the Ku Klux Klan.
In presenting his plea for the na
tional partly conference, Spangler
cited results of a poll taken among
more than 11,000 leading Republicans
throughout the country. On a per
centage basis, he said, the conference
idea was approved by 94.24 per cent.
DR. LUNDELL NAMED
CHIEF OF DIVISION
Native of Brooklyn Will Head
Chemistry Section at Bureau
of Standards.
Appointment of Dr. G. E. F. Lun
dell as chief of the Bureau of Stand
ards’ chemistry division, to fill the
vacancy created by the retirement of
Percy H. Walker last July, was an
nounced today by Dr. Lyman J.
Briggs, director of the bureau.
Dr. Lundell, a native of Brooklyn,
N. Y„ Is regarded as one of the coun
i try's leading analytical chemists. He
is 56 years old.
A graduate of Cornell University,
Dr. Lundell served from 1910 to 1917
as assistant professor of analytical
chemistry at Cornell, resigning to come
to Washington as associate chemist
at the Bureau of Standards. Since
1919 he has been in charge of the
section of metal and ore analysis.
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Women of England are taking up
fox farming as a career.
ACTRESS’ rail
flary Miles Minter’s Mother
Loses Suit, but Lawyers
Seek Reversal.
By the Associated Press.
LOB ANGELES, September 24.—
Mrs. Margaret Fillmore last night was
awarded a $20,000 judgment against
her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Shelby,
but today the
latter's attorneys
were preparing
arguments to set
aside the jury’s
findings.
Mrs. Fillmore,
sister of the one
time screen dar
ling, Mary Miles
Minter, sued to
r e c o ver $48,750
she claimed her
mother removed
from a joint
safety deposit
box on August 5, „ .. ..
1936. Mr* F,"mor*’
In a deposition, Mrs. Fillmore said
she had ’’protected" Mrs. Shelby at
the time of the William Desmond
Taylor murder, and throughout the
five-week trial which ended last night
circumstances surrounding the shoot
ing were paraded before the court.
A district attorney’s investigator
testified Taylor's missing valet, Edward
Sands, and Mrs. Shelby were con
sidered ’’suspects”
in the death
enigma.
Mrs. Shelby,
on the witness
stand, answered
“no” when ques
tioned whet her
she had killed
Taylor. Miss
Minter’s fiance.
The district
attorney’s office
m a n i fested no
interest in reviv
ing the Taylor
investigation.
"We are not
trying the Taylor murder case, are
we?” asked Juror Bertha M. Simpson
before deliberation began last night.
Superior Judge Parker Wood assured
her the jury was not.
Mrs. Fillmoie claimed the disap
pearance of the $48,750 was followed
by an insanity charge brought against
her by her mother.
Mrs. Shelby contended Mrs. Fillmore
had no money of her own and was
incompetent at the time because of
overindulgence in intoxicants.
Hearing to set the verdict aside will
be conducted Monday.
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ITALY IS LEADER
Pushes America Out of First
Place in Sky Lanes.
SACRAMENTO, Caiif., September
24 (JP).—Italy has pushed the United
States out of first place in the world's
sky lanes to a bad second, Charles
Horner, president of the National
Aeronautic Association, said today.
“Ten and a half years ago,” he told
the Western Aviation Planning Con
ference, “America rose to first place
and held that position until the last
few months. Now Italy leads by a
substantial margin.”
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