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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-16
OHIO SLEUTH TELLS
HOW He SUCCEEDS
Find a LoophoIe, Then Sit
and Look, He Says, to
Catch Criminal.

CANTON, Ohio. May 16.-ora
Slater never read Sherlock Holmes nor
heard of S. S. Van Dine, but he is
detective of fictional qualities just the
same
Slater has figured prominently in
three famous Ohio murder mysteries.
He solved the Nesbitt case at Troy
few years ago and later conducted the
investigation of the mysterious shoot
ing of Don Mellet, the Canton pub
Usher.
Trails All Clues.
One of his recent cases was in con-
Aecr1on with the death of Margaret
Heldman, 20-year-old wife of Lorain
furnace salesman. Wilbur O. Heldman,
her husband, was charged with the
murder.
Slaters method of solving homicide
mysteries is to trace down every clue,
question every possible suspect, search
infinitely for loophole-he says there
always is one-and then peer long and
patiently through the loophole.
The detective gained local distinc-
ton in Indiana. his native State. ham
ding Investigations for the Govern
ment during the World War. After
ward he became private detective In
Cincinnati.
One morning Mrs. Jake Nesbitt
young Ohio State University graduate,
was found beaten to death in her Troy
home. Jake helped the officers seek
the slayer, at first believed to be
vagrant. Slater was called IN. Mes
bitt said he slept at home the night
before the murder. The lower portion
of his pajamaS could not be found.
That was Skaters loophole.
Eventually Confesses.
Jake eventually confessed the muir
der. He had burned the pajama trou-
sers after killing his wife during a
quarrel.
In the Mellet murder Slater faced a
blank wall until a mysterious telephone
call from MaSsillon, later traced to Ben
Rudner, convicted as the payroll"
man in the plot. provided the loophole.
Slater is long distance talker and
q story teller of interest. Often he has
disarmed a suspect merely by talking
him into security.
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DR.. BAMBERGER ASKED
TO SPEAK TO WOMEN
Prince Georges County Federation
of Clubs to Meet May "a at
Mount Rainier.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MOUNT RAINIER, Md, May 10
DR.. Florence Bamberger of Johns Hop
kins University has been invited to
speak before the annual meeting of the
Prince Georges County Federation of
Women's Clubs, to be held IN Star Hall
here May "a. Mrs. George F. Bower
man, president of the Twentieth Gen.
tury Club offs Washington, will speak
on 1.-THE Best Books of the Last Year"
A one-act play. Rhode Island Reds
and Ohio Earlies," will be presented by
the Lanham Study Club, OF which Mrs.
Eben Toole Is president.
Mrs. o. F. Cook Of Lanharn, president
of the county federation, will preside
and the Chillum District Study Club, of
which Mrs. j. Enos Ray Is president,
and the Chillum Woman's Community
Club, of which Mrs. Harrison Dixon Is
president, will be joint hosts.
Mrs Rudolph S. Allen of College. first
vice president Of the county federation,
has prominent part in arranging for
the meeting. Luncheon will be served
by Adah Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star.
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PREVENTION OF RICKETS.
Exposure to Denver Sunlight Ad-
vised by Chemists.

vised by Chemists.
COLUMBUS, Ohio OP.-Comparative
absence of smoke from the air of Den
yer adds considerably to the health
giving properties of that city's sun.
Ten minutes daily exposure to Den
yer sunlight will prevent ricketts, both
in Summer and Winter, the American
Chemical Society declared in a recent
meeting here.
This is explained by the ultra violet
rays reaching the earth at Denver in
large amounts because of the clear and
thin atmosphere, large amount of Win
ter sunshine and the low humidity.
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,"CTANDARD" dealers and attendants at STANDARD"
~ Service Stations practice daily those little courte-
sizes which have earned them the reputation of giving
Service with smile But the free water for the rad
aor free air for the tires free road maps to show you
the way, are all ncdentals to that bigger servcethe
dispensing of cean rich improved Standard Gasoline
It's clear crystal Sold everywhere at red STANDARD"
pumps with the familiar STANDARD" globes.
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Aged u years, DR.. Bailey Willis, re-
search associate seismologist of the
Carnegie Institution, is on his way to
the interior of Africa, where he will
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nounced. The younger group will In
clude boys of the ages of 9, 10 and IL
years, who may become Boy Scouts
when they attain their twelfth year.
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TECHNICALLY SPEAKING,
"the rapid adOaaee Of htgh-;ptsS
and multiple cylinder motors to
meet changed traffic conditions
demands quicker aeeeitraiion' or
.jqexi5ility Of control To secure
rapid Geeeltration in traffic yoE
need a richer mixture, q eater
farce insfantiy-fO push the Sis-
TONS" His in these 6rief insfants
tlas the improved "Standard''
prou<s Itself O richer and more
soi4tik gasoliss-"it's the
Champion
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make earthquake Investigations. He
will be there at least six months and
his work is part of a world survey OF
earthquake manifestations.
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POTOMACS TO HOLD
REGATTA TOMORROW

Shell, canoe and swimming races will
be high spots Of regatta, closed to
members Of the Potomac Boat Club, to
be held tomorrow afternoon, starting at
2:30 o'clock. Competition will be over
a course of the clubhouse.
Novelty events calculated to amuse
the spectators will have a prominent
part on the program. These will in
clude an eight-oared shell boat race be-
tween married mems team and a COM
bination Of single men. There also will
be a grudge gig race, and among the
canoeists fitting, bailing and other in
tereSting contests. A duck chase will
be the browning feature of the regatta,
which will be followed by a dance at
the clubhouse, starting at o'clock.
Order Of regatta events follows:
Quadruple SOULS, single-blade canoe
race, gig race, double-blade canoe race,
married men-single mems eight-oared
shell race, swimming races, diving ex-
hibition, single SOULS (tin-can sweep
stakes. swimming races, grudge gig
race, single shells, novelty canoe events,
canoe fitting and duck chase.
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bdued Amateur Golf Army Linhmen to Hold Title Tourney Here

will play SO holes over the course of the
service club at Arlington, Va, to deter
mine who shall represent the district
Of washington in the Sd Corps Area
tourney, to be played September 10.
The names Of the five best players in
the latter tourney will be submitted to
the Sd Corps Area golf representative
with q recommendation that they be
permitted to enter the national cham
pionship later in the month. In this
latter tournament representatives Of all
the corps areas in the country will par
ton from all over the United States by
airplane and by train and automobile,
some Of them camping on the grounds
OF the service club in tents to be loaned
by the War Department From far
away Panama, from the Pacific Coast,
and from the more sheltered reaches Of
the East they will come in force to play
for the Army title in the tournament,
which was held last year at the Chevy
Chase Club.
Outstanding among the contestants
will be Maj. Earl H. Maiden, who won
the Army title two years ago and has
since been on a foreign station. Now
Maj. Maiden has been transferred back
to Washington and is student at the
Army War College. He has joined the
Club, and probably will be able to play
in some Of the tournaments about
Washington. The service club now Is
organizing a golf team, Of which Maj.
Maiden will be a member. Another
Army officer who is expected to cut a
figure in the coming Army tournament
Is Col. J.. D. Gasser Of Chevy Chase,
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"ALBoTT T. SPEER, former
Maryland University foot ball
star, one Of the leading golfers
i of Baltimore, and chairman OF
the golf committee Of the Baltl-
more Country Club, has accepted
similar post with the Annapolis Roads
Golf Club and will proceed Immediately
with plans for a golf tournament to be
held by the club on date in october.
While plans for the tourney are not
as yet complete, 1t is understood the
event will take the form OF medal
play competition. the tournament
sponsors wishing to depart from the
cut-and-dried three-day match play
event. In so far as the plans for the
event have progressed the affair will
be a strictly personal invitation tourna-
ment.
Fred Mcleod scored a brace OF
brides over the course yesterday IN
practice round with Herbert T..
Shannon, president of the Columbia
Country Club: Clyde B. Asher and Paul
j. Frizzell both members of the Column
bia Club. Brides are rare things at
Annapolis Roads, but Mcleod bagged
them on the sixth and eighth holes Of
the nine-hole layout. He had birdie
on the eighth on his first round and
FrizEell had one on the same hole on
the second round.
Pathways for the new nine holes at
Annapolis Roads will be laid out
through the wooded country east Of the
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

present nine during the Winter, and II
possible, considerable progress is to be
made in clearing the trees from the
course.
Quite a large group Of washington
amateur and professional golfers plan
to play in the amateur-pro event to
be held at the Elkridge Hunt Club next
Monday. 1t will be the usual 18-hole
best ball tournament, sponsored by the
Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers
Association. The following day woman
golfers Of the Capital will play in a
miniature tournament at the Congress
sional Country Club.
A small field. of left-handed golfers
were playing today at the Indian Spring
Golf Club in the 36-hole competition
for the Namadji Nindj Trophy donated
for the southpaw tournament by DR..
Lester A. Reeves. Sam Rice of base
ball fame, who won the title last year,
was on hand to defend, but was suffer-
ing from lack of practice. Rice has net
had much time to play golf this year,
but he spent most of yesterday after
noon practicing. Tommy Bones of CO.
lumbia, one of the outstanding COM
petitors, was forced to withdraw from
the event because Of business reasons.
Byrn Curtiss of Indian Spring, who
was runner-up to Roger Peacock for the
junior championship a few days ago,
Is now the outstanding contender.
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matters on the twenty-ninth, took a
lead on the thirty-second that might
have been SUFFICIENT If he had not lost
the thirty-fifth because of half
stymie. From then on they battled
each other to a standstill until the
third extra hole, where a trapped sec
ond shot proved Voigt's undoing.
Willing and Egan, the two oregon
stars, had smoother sailing. The Bat
ting Dentist gained a good working
margin after the ninth hole as Tolley
grew wilder from the tee, saving him.
self only by some miraculous approach
shots and recoveries. There was not
much doubt about the outcome until
willing settled the match on the thirty
third. There was even less question
about the outcome of the match in
which Egan had Sweetser down at
the eighteenth and held that margin
to the finish at the thirty-first in spite
of all the latter's courageous efforts.
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PASSES UP MOVIES
TO SEEK NET TITLE


PHILADELPHIA, September e.
Helen Marlowe, CALIFORNIA; lone hope
in the girls national tennis champion
ships at the Philadelphia Cricket Club,
would rather capture the racket crown
than be moving picture star.
Before her graduation last June from
the Hollywood High School, Helen had
appeared in the movies as an extra"
a number Of times and also had taken
q minor part in "talkie."
She has fought her way to the final
round Of the tennis tournament and will
meet the defending champion, Sarah
Palfrey, 16-year-old Boston girl, tomor-
row for the title. Miss Palfrey reached
the final bracket by defeating Evelyn
Parsons, Palo Alto, Calf, 60, 6-3,
while Miss Marlowe advanced by dis
posing of Mianne Palfrey, sister Of
Sarah, 81, "a.
ITS fascinating working in the NOV
les, and a pleasant change from con-
tinuous tennis" Miss Marlowe said, "but
I crave action and love tennis best"
She added that she had given up an
opportunity to become a member of
the screen children's guild" at the
Hollywood High School because she
wanted TO play tennis every afternoon
after school. 1.-THE members of the
guild, Of which Jackie Coogan is pres
ident and my little sister. Mercedes, Is
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Villanova lost IS grid regulars and
faces its toughest schedule.
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EVENT TO Be HELD
LATE NEXT MONTH
Championship to Be Decided
on Service Course in
Nearby Virginia.

TT hasn't been given q great deal OF
publicity, but 1t is none the less q
fact that q national championship
golf tournament Is to be played at
O Washington club late In Septem-
Der. The tournament Is the annual
event for the championship OF the
United States Army, and 1t Will be
played over the new course of the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps Country Club,
in nearby Virginia, September "a to %,
inclusive. OF course, that means it will
conflict with the District amateur
championship at Congressional, but to
Army golfers that doesn't mean any
thing. In their eyes the Army cham
pionship Is such big affair and means
so much In a national way that such q
thing as a local championship pales into
insignificancO. 'sss,.A
Tomorrow and Sunday the Army ON
GERS stationed In and near Washington
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Charest to Try to Gain
Veterans Tennis Honor.

Clarence Charest, District net
champion, will 60 to Forest Hills
Sunday to compete in the national
veterans singles championship, en-.
tering the event as the fourth seeded
favorite.
A field Of SIS will compete for the
title now held by Henry r. Bassford,
beginning Monday morning.
Charest's selection as one Of the
four probable survivors Of prelim-
mary play gives added interest to
the event for local fans. It will be
the first time the District has been
represented in the national veterans
play since Albert j. Gore stormed
the battle front to come home with
runner-up honors.
The identity Of Charest's first OPP
ponent is not yet known, as the
pairings have not been announced.
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who recent shot brace Of 72's for the
Chevy Chase Club course.
Maj. r. d. Newman, in charge Of the
service club course, has ordered o new
tee constructed for the fourth hole for
the tournament. This tee is several
yards behind the regular tee, and Is
being built because some Of the mem
bers complained their tee shots, on ac-
count Of the hard ground, find the ditch
which crosses the fairway about 200
yards from the regular tee. Bare spots
on all the fairways have been covered
with soil mixed with stolons Of Ber-
muda grass, and all the fairways now
are being seeded again. Meanwhile the
eighteenth green Is being enlarged.
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MEDAL AWARDS TO GO
TO JONES AND ROMANS

DEL MONTE, Calf, September 8 (P).
There will he no play-off for the am
ateur golf championship qualifying
medal, for which Bobby Jones and Gene
Romans tied with scores of l45.
Oficials of the United States Golf
Association today vetoed proposals for
deciding match between the dethroned
champion and the Princeton star next
Sunday, after the tournaments close
and announced the award Of two
medals.
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FILIPIN0S ASK FRENCH
TO INVADE FOR TENNIS

MANILA, September R-The
French Davis cup players, Henri Cochet,
Jacques Bruggnon and Pierre Landri,
were invited today to play matches
with Philippine players after their
forthcoming tour Of Japan. The invi-
tation was sent by the Laong Lam
Tennis Club through the Philippine
Amateur Athletic Federation.
Tennis has reached great impetus
in the Philippines since the arrival OF
Gov. Gen. Dwight r. Davis, donor OF
the cup.
During the few months he has been
here. Davis has defeated many first
class local players In practice games.
villanova lost IS grid regulars and
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vice president" she said, "have to stay
for rehersals."
Helen has been playing tennis only
two years and this Is her first trip
East. She Is the holder Of the Pacific
Coast junior title and the California
State girls crown.
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SHOWS SPEED.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, September 8
R.-Fullworthy triumphed In the L. s..
Ayres Co. 5000 purse for 2:10 trotters,
feature race Of the grand circuit pro-
gram, yesterday. The fastest time Of
the meet, 2:02, was turned in by Full
worthy in the first heat.
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Bobby Jones' short pitch Is clas-
sic. Let's look at his pitch as he's
playing 1t today, the pitch from
around IS yards OF.
The first difference you'll note In
comparing these two shots Is that
his stance Is a wee bit wider for
this longer shot. But it's still lot
narrower than that used by most
good golfers. Bobby's stance Is for
every shot. Incidentally, narrower
stance. will cure swaying.
The second difference between his
chip and pitch is that for the latter
he tits or lays the club-face back
at o greater angle. That means
greater elevation for the ball In
flight and more stop. Note that the
stance for both shots Is bit open
and the hands close in to the body.
Both shots are straight through for
the pin with the clubhead. Both
demand that the ball be hit crisply.
There is no exaggerated swing.
Cure that hook or slice. Staighten
out your drive by writing Sol Metz
ger, care of this paper, for free leaf
let on driving. InclOse stamped, adj
dressed envelope.
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be picked this year. Local school athletic officials believe that if it were possible to pick a fair selec- tion, "ScoW' Orme should certain ly take forward berth, with Berg gron as guard. Cashen, of Doug las, and Mjurd of Petersburg, would be two outstanding contenders for center with Runstad of Petersburg, a likely forward Local officials further state that, "of course Ket- chikan, Seward and Fairbanks would have some good and worthy aspirants also"
 Coach Waid has announced his decision to resign at the close of the present school year, having un- der consideration several other plans.
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SEC. LAMONT
 IS PLANNING
 FEW CHANGES

WASHINGTON, March 20-Sec- retary Lamont of the Commerce Department has announced that. although he must fill several ma- jor vacancies in his executive staff, he would endeavor to conduct the department without change Of poll icy.
 This branch of the government was under President Hoover's di- rect personal control for nearly eight years" the secretary said, "and it behooves his successor to move very slowly in considering any changes and to take ample time to study the situation. The first assistant secretary is now Postmaster General Brown, but for the time being the post will be left vacant and I hope to have MT Browns counsel on matters which he formerly directed
 William P. MacCracken, assis- tant secretary for aeronauticS, feels that he cannot much longer afford to devote his efforts to the public, and has asked to be relieved, but there is no emergency. under stand that there are vacancies on the Radio Commission to fill, with which this department is concern ed, though the matter is probably directly up to the President.
 "Dr. Julius Klein, chief of the
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WALLY HOOD IS
 SOLD TO INDIANS

LOS ANGELES. March 20.-An- nouncement was made last night that Wally Hood, out-fielder whose bludgeon bat swatted many a ball to turn in victories for the Los Angeles Angels during the past five seasons, has been sold to the Seattle club of the Pacific Coast League. The deal was strictly cash, it was reported.
 Hood, who came here from the Indians in 1923, was obtained by Seattle from the Brooklyn Dodgers the year previous. Oscar Reichow. Angel manager. said Hood was sold because the Los Angeles club had a surplus of good fly chasers and because of the necessity of making room for promising young recruits.
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factor of the game the team on a whole was weak, the boys played ln excellent brand of ball, featured by clean playing and hard fighting. The team members have conducted themselves as true sportsmen, talk Ing their defeats with good grace and their victories with modesty.
 Coach Waid at this point in the written summary says that with ut any doubt whatever, the strong 9st team played was the Douglas High School, which was defeated by narrow margin at the time when the Juneau team was at it's pest and that he believes Douglas will be the strongest opponent in Southeast Alaska next year.
 With the graduation this school ierm end of Capt. J. Orme of the squad, and Sturrock, the school will lose heavily in well developed playing material Brandt and Berg gron will be the only first liners remaining.
 Coach Waid has announced the letter winners as follows: J. Orme, F. Orme, Berggron, Brandt, Sur rock, Jackson, Jenson, Nelson, and Johnson, all of whom played the required quarters of all halves played. The letters will be pre- sented by Prof. R: s. Raven, at the next student assembly, Sweaters will be awarded Fred and James Orme, the only seniors who have qualified by being three year and four letter men. In accordance with previous practice, all other senior letter men will retain their suits.
 The talked of All-Alaska Basket Ball team, representative of the Territorial High Schools, may not
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JUNEAU CAvEL.
 GIVEN CURTIS

WASHINGTON, March 20.-Al- most every variety of gavel is at the command of Vice President Curtis in presiding over the Senate thanks to the remembrances of his many friends throughout the nation.
 Five new gavels have been pre- sented to MT Curtis since he took office, but it is customary for the Vice-President to use the small ivory gavel, without a handle, handed down almost from the be- ginning of Senate history.
 The gavels received by the new VicePresident include one of wal nut from the Peabody High School in Kansas; another of ivory from Alaska, with a salmon engraved on the head of the handle taper ing into walrus head; one carved from Osage orange from the farm of Herbert Hoover in Nordway County, Missouri; another made from wood of an old saloon which was destroyed in Guthrie, Okla, when the State went dry-a gift of the w. c. T. U.-and one carved from wood in a Civil War tunnel used in Virginia.
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The Alaska gavel was sent from Juneau by United States Marshal Albert White and was purchased here. The Marshal has been; ac- quainted with Vice President Cur tis over period of 20 years. The presentation was made by Senator John Thomas, of Idaho, to whom Marshal White forwarded the gift.
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Individual Players Records

Outside of point making, in which
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SUMMARY OF
 BASKETBALL
 pASTSEAS0N
Coach Waid Gives Review Speaks Well of
 High Players

Coach H. E. Waid, of the Juneau High School, has prepared com plete summary and review of the basketball season, just closed, a very successful period. Coach Waid summarizes the season as follows:
 Games played, 15; games won, g; Games lost, 6. Percentage of games won, 500.
 Points made, PAT; average points sper game, 16.5; opponents points 251 average, 166
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