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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-27
A LUCKY NIGHT

UTILIZE EVERY scrap Of your
luck while 1t holds good. OF what
use is great luck unless it is en-
ployed to balance scores on other
nights when luck runs for another
player. There are times when it
seems impossible to lose. Two lights
ago I had such an evening. The only
game lost was one where l failed
to make allowance for partners
weak play. and l redoubled when my
partners small slam was doubled. OF
course it could readily have been
made. but it went down. I'll tell Of
that hand another time. Here is a
hand which Looked like nothing
much. but relied upon my luck and
hid game with South's hand My
partner, Raymond l. Pardy. of Bos-
ION. held a perfect fit. Note what
happened. 1t is Just a sample of
pushing luck.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-27
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8y LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
"a THAT 1T is more dangerous to
prick oneself with a pin than a
needle.
This Is an old one. It goes back
Evening star., 1936-06-15
Mental Report Nearly Ready,
Zi0ncheck Due to Be Released

On regaining his freedom, zioncheck
will have to face an assault warrant
sworn out by his landlady, Mrs. Ben
jamin Scott pamela Schuyler Young
who had sublet her Harvard Hall
apartment to the Representative from
Washington State.
The warrant, along with one for
Mrs. zioncheck, was issued by Judge
John P. Mcmahon in Police Court.
The alleged assault occurred as the
Zionchech sought to evct Mrs. Young
from their apartment, the rent on
which was said to have been paid in
advance.
Mrs. Young, claiming Zioncheck
had damaged the furnishings in the
apartment, remained there for hours,
despite the protests Of the newly mar
ried couple. Zioncheck and his wife
resorted to physical force to evict their
landlady on two occasions, she de-
clared in obtaining the warrants.
The report on zioncheck's mental
condition was virtually complete" to-
day, hospital ecials said.
Evening star., 1936-06-15
BLANTON INITIATES
NEW MOVE TO END
DC. BILL DEADLOCK
Unexpectedly Asks House
Reinstruct Conferees in
Final Effort.
49 SENATE CHANGES
ARE VOTED QUICKLY
Texan Requests Separate Ballots
on Federal Lump Sum and
Character Education.

Representative Blanton, Democrat,
Of Texas, Unexpectedly asked the
House today to reinstruct its conferees
on the 1897 District appropriation bill
in final move to break the prolonged
conference deadlock which has threat
ened to place the municipal govern
ment on a bare substance budget
in the coming fiscal year under a con-
tinuing resolution.
Blanton. chairman Of the House
rather make another move to compro-
mise with the Senate on the points in
dispute. rather than deprive the Dis
trict Of number OF badly needed i'm
provements.
Court Building Mentioned.
Blanton mentioned specifically an
addition to Eastern High School. a
new Police Court Building and re-
construction of Chain Bridge.
The house agreed to follow his rec
ommendation and Immediately ap-
proved 40 Senate amendments pro-
viding a total OF $4s4 907 for sundry
new projects. About a dozen Senate
amendments were rejected. however.
Separate Votes Asked.
Blsnton asked for separate votes
on the main issues In controversy
the Federal lump sum payment for
District expenses and appropriation for
continuation Of character education
in the public schools and a legislative
provision forbidding District employ
ees who receive s., 400 a year or more
from engaging in Outside" employ
ment.
An immediate vote on these three
items was DELAYED bv roll call which
Chairman Morton of the House Dis
trict Legisla tive Committee forced on a
point of no quorum. She said she
wanted all members of the House pres
ent to hear the debate on the fiscal
relations policy between the Federal
and District Governments.
Evening star., 1936-06-15

Representative Marion A. Zioncheck
probably will be released today or
tomorrow from Gallinger Hospital.
where he has undergone an enforced
rest and mental tests for the last two
weeks.
1t was two weeks ago today that
Zioncheck's visit to the White House
with empty beer bottles and a request
for military assistance in the search
for his runaway wife resulted in his
incarceration In o psychopathic ward.
Zioncheck's bride later visited him
at the hospital and declared her
loyalty.
A report was expected today from
the psychiatrists and physicians who
have attended Zioncheck during his
stay at the hospital. Except for one
brief interlude, the Representative has
enjoyed a complete rest.
About a week ago. he kicked heavy
screen from a psychopathic ward win
dow, leaped to the ground and led
attendants q merry chase about the
hospital reservatp.
Evening star., 1936-06-15
Judge Orders Veteran to Pay
Ex- Wife ds He Gets Bonus Cash

Taking cognizance that Joseph H.
Fields, real estate salesman, viii re-
ceive his bonus bonds through the
mails today, Justice Oscar r. Luhring
of District Supreme Court ordered
him to pay his former wife by Sat,Ir-
day the s1,3o6.50 he allegedly is in
arrears In maintenance for their
young son.
This was the first domestic rela-
tions case before the District courts
involving the bonus, which Ia exempt
by law from attachment. A similar
ruling came from judge in Augusta,
Ga, last week.
Justice Luhring did not specifically
mention the bonus in his order. but
before he agreed to sign it, John T.
Graves, attorney for Mrs. Elizabeth
Fields, asked him 10 take judicial no.
tice that Fields would receive the
bonds.
II Admit that the bonus cannotHbe
Evening star., 1936-06-15
IMPERIAL PARLN
PLANNED BY BRITAIN
Leaders From Canada and Other
Dominions to Gather After
Coronation.
Pr the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 15.-Prime Minister
Baldwin announced today an imperial
conference will be held in London
next May. Immediately following the
coronation Of King Edward.
The coronation will be May IL.
A great gathering Of political
leaders from Canada, the other
dominions and all parts Of the empire
Is expected in London for the oc-
casion.
Baldwin made his announcement in
the House of Commons, where
Anthony Eden. foreign secretary, had
just indicated the government was
not ready to state its position con-
corning the sanctions against Italy.
Eden told the members he would
let them know the latest ruling on
the matter in a foreign affairs de-
bate at o date yet to be fixed.
Hugh Dalton, Laborite, asked
whether his statement would be along
the lines Of that made by Neville
Chamberlain. chancellor of the
Exchequer. who recently advocated the
discontinuance of the League of Ma
tions' punishment of Italy.
Eden replied: Exercise your
customary patience"
Evening star., 1936-06-15
MERIT MEASURE
PASSES SENATE
48-18 Action to Protect Civil
Services Follows G. o. p.
Plank Adoption.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

With the merit system in Govern
ment service looming as one of the
platform issues in the coming cam
paign. the Senate today passed a bill
to prohibit civil service employees from
seeking political support to obtain
promotions. 1t does not affect ap-
pointments.
Sponsored by Senator Black, DEM
ocrat, of Alabama, the measure has
been on the Senate calendar more
than a year, but was sidetracked when
ever it was reached in the past on the
unanimous consent calendar. Today
the Alabama Senator was able to OBJ
tain a roll call. and it went through,
As to ls. 1t still requires House ap-
proval, however.
Plank on Merit System.
Senate action on the bill came few
days after adoption by the Republican
National Convention Of party plank
on the merit system, followed by an
even stronger declaration by Gov.
Landon. the Republican nominee, in
favor of the merit system. -
Just before the vote, Senator Var
denberg, Republican. of Michigan,
pointed out that while the bill would
prohibit an employe from seeking the
support Of any political committee" !"
it was questionable whether that would
be broad enough to apply the restric-
ton to the chairman of such a COM
mittee. Although Postmaster General
Farley was not mentioned by name,
the Michigan Senator was believed to
have in mind the fact that Farley is
also chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
Vandenberg Change.
Senator Black said ne thought the
term political committee" was broad
enough to include the officers, but he
did not object to a Vandenberg
amendment adding the words, off
Ger or member" of such committee
Black. however, objected to a fur
(See SENATE, Page AID
Evening star., 1936-06-15
AMENDED GUFFEY
BILL |SAPPROvED
Change in Compliance Tax
Is Principal Alteration
by Senators.
By the Associated Press.


The Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee voted, to S. today 10
approve an amended version Of the
new Guffey- -vinson bill designed to
stabilize the vast soft coal industry
by price-fixing.
The measure would re-enact the
price-fixing provisions of the original
GufTey coal control act, which was
inyslidated by the Supreme Court
1t omits labor provisions Of the orig
inal statute.
Chairman Wheeler said the most
important change his committee made
in the bill was revision of the So
called compliance tax" feature to
provide for an outright excise tax OF
Ia per cent on all soft coal. plus q
1872 per cent tax on all coal in inter-
state commerce or directly affecting
interstate commerce. Producers who
comply with the act would be entitled
to rebate Of the 1917 per cent levy.
As first drawn, the bill provided
Evening star., 1936-06-15
8 BELIEVED DEAD
IN PLANE CRASH
Wreckage of Coast Guard Air.
ship Found in Tampa
Bay,
B. the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. June 15.-
Divers found the body Of Lieut.. Charles
Martin Perrott, Coast Guard pilot
jsmmed in the wreckage of his plane
which plunged into Tampa Bay near
st. Petersburg today while on storm
patrol.
No trace of Radioman Walter o,
Morris and Aviation Mechanic Will
liam D. Eubanks was seen, the divers
reported. 1t was believed they may
have been thrown clear of the craft
when 1t struck the choppy bay.
Coast Guard vessels found graphing
equipment insufficient to raise the
plane, which lay in about IA feet of
water, and awaited the arrival of a
Marine crane.
The Coast Guard craft Nemenis, one
of the boats sent to search for the
plane, reported the wreckage was
sighted by plane at 800 am. EAST
ern standard time.
Ohicers aboard the Neineris said the
plane apparently dove into the bay
about 3:1S am.
"Ail hands believed LOST ended
the terse message.
Evening star., 1936-06-15

attached" said Graves. "but I think
the court should know that Fields Is
about to receive this money"
"Yes," Justice Luhring replied,
reaching for his pen, "this man has
moral obligation to support his
child"
He directed Fields te come into
court again next Monday and report
whether he has paid the money.
What will happen should Fields re-
fuse, 10 cash his bonus was widely
discussed today. Graves refused to
venture an opinion as to what the
judge might or could do In such q
contingency
The Fields have been divorced for
a number of years, and ON February
4, 1925, the court ordered the hus-
band TO pay $40 monthly for the
support OF their son, now Is. Mrs.
Fields and the boy 1--we at<to7 Sta
pies street northeast
Evening star., 1936-06-15
STRIKE HALTS WORK
ON FLOOD CONTROL
Hundreds Idle as 80 Hosting
Engineers Quit Posts on
Government Dam.
Ey the Associated Press.


GRAFTON, W. Va, June 15.-A
strike of skilled workers stopped con-
struction york today on the Govern.
ment's 10000, 900 Tygart Valley Flood
Control Dam in the hills of Northern
West Virginia.
Officials of the Frederick Snare
Corp, contractors in charge Of the
project, said about 30 hoisting engi-
neers left their posts. The walkout
threw several hundred other laborers
out of work.
Strike leaders said they were de-
manding a general Is per cent wage
increase and a 42-hour instead Of the
present 30-hour week, but corporation
officials said the only demand made to
them was the reinstatement of a dis
missed operator of the mixing plant.
The officials said they expected to
hire new hosting engineers and re-
sumo work ''in day or two"
Capt. Benjamin Fowkes, U. S. A.
engineer. said about 500 of the men
on the day shift were made idle by
the walkout, but 200 carpenters were
able to work.
Approximately 1900 men are en-
rscyed In thsRs shifts on the project
Evening star., 1936-06-15
NOTED INVENTOR
SLANAT HOME
Mysterious Dispute on Lawn
Preceding Shooting,
= Neighbor Says.
b. the Associated Press.

o. tEC hSSOdAhbfu 1Icbbs
EAST ORANGE, n J.. June IS
D. McFarlan Moore. 81, noted inven-
tor and engineer, was slain today BY a
single bullet after a mysterious dis
pute in the early morning rain on the
lawn of his home at 5s2 Park avenue.
A neighbor, Mrs. Mary w. Taber.
heard the argument, Moore's voice
and that of another man rising in
heated tones, she told police. Then
two shots rang out, and she looked
from her window to see the retired in
ventor's figure sprawled on the wet
grass near the Moore garage.
Terming Moore's death murder"
after investigation, homicide squad
detectives found themselves baf1ed by
the absence of immediate leads or mo-
tives. Robbery was not the motive,
detectives were agreed. for Moore s
wallet with $21 in it was untouched.
Initial inquiries, they said, failed TO
disclose he had any enemies.
Daughter Tells Of Caller.
Moore's unmarried daughter, Be
strice, 25, with whom he lived, pro-
vided detectives with what they con-
sidered a promising lead in the case.
She said a man she did not know
came to the house last night about 9
pm. and asked to see her father.
When told the inventor had retired
for the. night, he left without dis
closing his identity or mission.
The detectives theorized that the
slayer was a person who knew Moore
we'll and was acquainted with his
habits of early rising and walks in
his garden about daybreak. The most
important clue discovered in the
search of the Moore property was a
sharply defined footprint in the garden
and detectives said they thought it
had been made by the fleeing slayer.
As detectives reconstructed the
crime, Moore left his house shortly
before s am. to 60 to his garage, plan
ming to drive to Bethlehem, Pa, to
attend a funeral That he did not
Evening star., 1936-06-15
WOMAN FOUND SHOT
AFTER FLEEING TRAIN
Wounded in Eye While in Room
at Farm House-Left
Suicide Note.
~ the Associated Press.

EI tnc hShOClsteQ FTteSs
MIFFLINTOWN, Pa. June 15.-
Mary Gelmar. 24-year r-old mystery
woman. who has maintained stubborn
silence regarding her past since she
stole from an express train one night
two weeks ago. was found wounded by
shot through the head in her room
at the Scott Dolin farm Saturday
night.
Lewistown Hospital attendants said
today the bullet lodged back of her
eye and, though she might lose the
sight Of the eye. there was no rea-
son why she would not recover"
Members of the Dolin family said
the woman, who left a suicide note
in her berth on a Chicago-New York
express, shot herself with a rife. They
said they were sitting on the porch
as the shot rang out.
Evening star., 1936-06-15
insurance Fraud
Is Suspected in
Standardization
Fire Held on Coast
on Charge of Stag
ing" accident.
BY the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES. June l5-Sensa-
tionsl charges of humiliation to
collect damages for traffic accidents
were made by District Attorney Buron
Fits today after investigation Of an
alleged accident racket, which he said
cost insurance companies of the Nation
81 ,000, 900 year.
Assembling evidence with secretly
installed short wave radio. detectives
arrested five Long Beach residents in
connection with local insurance case
Harold Jenkins, As; his wife. Alta,
~. and Elton Miner As, were booked
on suspicion of grand theft. William
(see INSURANCE, Page A-s)
Evening star., 1936-06-15
PLANE HIT BY BOLT

Flyer in Hospital After Crash
Caused by Lightning.
NOME, Alaska, June IS (P).-Pilot
Frank whsley was in hospital here
today recovering from an airplane
crash which he said was caused by
lightning.
Whaley said lightning struck the
plane in which he was carrying three
passengers Friday evening. Four feet
of the right wing was torn OF.
He landed the spinning ship in Z
feet of water in Mud Lake, north of
Nome.
The passengers, Ed and Jack Burke,
both Of Poulsbo, Wash, and Leo
Suhonen, Astoria, Oreg, escaped with
minor injuries.
Evening star., 1936-06-15
LANDoN PLANS EASTERN ArTAC1
SWEDISH S0CIALISTIC
GOVERNMENT RESIGNS
Resignation of Hanson Cabinet
Follows Rejection of old-Age
Pensions Boost.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June Is
The Socialist government of Premier
Per-Albin Hanson resigned today.
The resignation followed rejection
last week by the Riksdag (ParliamenD
of q government bill to increase old
age pensions to meet increased cost Of
living.
Political circles predicted a new
cabinet would be formed by the farm
ers' and peoples parties to hold ofice
until the September elections.
Evening star., 1936-06-15
Three Die in Plunge
Rx.the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
HARRISONBURG, Va, June Is
Three Pendleton County. w. Va, men
were killed when their automobile
plunged over 75-foot declivity on a
mountain road 80 miles west of here
&say Erandywine. w. Va.
Evening star., 1936-06-15
HAMILTON TO OPEN
CAMPAIGN JUNE z
New York Unity Banquet to
Intensity Drive for
Funds.
Ey the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. June 15.-The Repub-
will be opened by National Chairman
John D. M. Hamilton at unity ban
quet June %, designed also to inten-
sify the drive for raising campaign
funds.
Representative Joseph w Martin,
jr., of Massachusetts, who was floor
leader for Gov. Landon at the Cleve-
land convention. will also address the
banquet, which is being arranged by
three groups-the Republican National
Finance Committee, the New York
State and the New York County
(Manhattan) Republican committees
Success EncouragfnE.
Robert H. Thsyer, chairman of the
Finance Committees New York group
in announcing the banquet arrange
ments today. said the success of the
pre-convention fund-raising campaign
has been greatly encouraging.
Through last week, Thayer said, the
New York City finance group had re-
ceived 1900 contributions.
Pointing to the efforts Of the fund
rsisers to reach the voters with limited
means, Thayer said around S,400 Of
these contributions were Of 81 each.
He did not give out the total of the
IL 200 contributions, however, saying
they had been filed with the clerk of
the House of Representatives by the
national committee.
Hamilton Due Thursday.
Thayer, comparatively young in pol
itics, was associated with Hamilton in
the Lsndon preconvention campaign
He is a son-in-law Of Mrs Ruth Pratt,
national committeewoman from New
York.
Chairman Hamilton. he said. would
arrive in New York in time for the
Louis-Schmeling fight Thursday night
and then would take few days rest
before the June "a rally.
LANDON PLANS EASTERN ATTACK
Pending Topeka Talks.
By the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., June 15.-Gov
ALI NJ Landon turned his thoughts
(see LANDON, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-06-15
INSURANCE PILOT"
PROBE IS PUSHED
Victims" Body to Be Ex'
humed in Search for
Poison.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Evidence of extensive insurance
frauds in Massachusetts mill totrns
mds claimed by authorities Dhen
traces OF poison pere dtscouered IN
bodies OF three men mhose deaths
at first did not attract suspicion.
The alleged racket pds said TO
be. based on PROXY" insurance,
nhereby a person takes a policy on
the life OF some one little knotrn TO
him, pays the premiums and takes
his chance OF outliutn1 the insured
individual.
Evening star., 1936-06-15

(See GUFFEY, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-06-15

(See SLAYING, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1936-06-15
WEATHER.

o. Weather Bureau Forecasto
Cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair and
cooler: gentle shifting winds becoming
moderate northerly Temperatures-High
est. rs. at /: 80 pm. yesterday; lowest, SO,
at $50 am. today.
Full report on Page Alb.
Evening star., 1936-06-15

(see BONUS, Page A-2.1
Evening star., 1936-06-15

(see SENATE, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1936-08-23

saw the anxious face of Mr.. Wardell,
and heard the question, whatever
made you leave my house?"
All he could answer, lamely. was
Il don't know"
The police sergeant left the room,
and MIR. Wardell came forward and
grasped Bosely's hand warmly.
They've found the teapot and the
other little things you missed"
Found them! Where?'
They've been found within a few
yards of here, buried under a pile of
rubbish. Inexplicable, isn't it?''
"Inexplicable, |" Bosely echoed, DULY.
The police are surprised that the
man left poor Mrs. Bosely's diamond
brooch. as well as that nice ring you
gave her last Christmas'
Maybe they were left because she
was wearing them." Bosely muttered.
After all, what did that sort of detail
matter?
Then came a ring at the front door.
The sitting room door opened, and
Mr.. Sparks, who was legal adviser to
the Northington branch of the bank.
came in.
John Bosely rose from his chair. Mr..
Sparks was a good friend of his: in
Evening star., 1936-08-23

fact it was MIR. Sparks who had made
il possible for him to build this house.
So he Strengthened himself, with an
instructive wish not to give way. 1t
was good of MIR. Sparks to spare an
hour out of a busy life to come and
see him like this.
But the solicitor, after word or
two Of sympathy. exclaimed. ''Mr.
Wardell! May I have word with
your" and the two men left the room
together.
But they left the door ajar, and all
at once, though he had no thought of
eavesdropping. Bosely heard what
they were saying in the passage out
side.
MY dear Wardell. I agree with
every word you say. You and know
without a doubt that the mans in
nocent. We know he's not the sort
who would willingly drown a kitten,
let alone kill woman! But we've got
to look at it as jury and judge
will look at it."
do you think it will come to that?"
Most certainly it will. Ask yourself
how his story would look if you heard
it Of anyone you didn't know"
Cesfisssd On pess 15)
Evening star., 1936-08-23
THIS WEEK

For several years Cooper. one of the
greatest drawing cards in the film
world, received salary of $50, 900 a
year. 1t was, he had been told. an
excellent stipend. A repetition of an
ancient Hollywood conflict now enters
the story.
The lanky lad from Montana be-
came aware that he was far greater
drawing card than players who re-
ceived many thousands more.
An adjustment was made before his
career was ruined. His salary is now
about 5000 week.
A town in Montana is named in his
honor. He owns large ranch in that
state.
His parents are with him in Holly
wood.
Now he has travelled widely, and his
shyness is tinged with boredom. 1t is
the rebellion of a natural man against
the artificial life around him.
Like all such men, in gaining sue
cess he has lost something he will
never find again.
Sometimes think Gary's lucky"
his father said to me, then again I'm
not so sure"
And Doris she is happy - with
another man.
would it were otherwise.
But this is the story of life.
Absence in each case made the
heart to wander.
Evening star., 1936-08-23
He "Sto|e" q Picture
Confinvsd from poss fwo

ing $5.0OO,OOO because, they said,
their star had been ''lured away"
His first film was Wings" 1t was
followed by such successes as "Chil-
dren of Divorce" Legion of the
Condemned" The Virginian" and
The Spoilers" Other films. depicting
the West, we're the most popular ever
made.
A splendid horseman, he has none of
the staggering obviousness so long
considered essential to hero of the
great open spaces. Though never rated
high as an actor. by striding across a
room he can suggest diffidence, fear
and anger with greater dramatic ef-
feet than many more accomplished
gentlemen. Directors realize this fact.
His early films were filled with scenes
displaying his entire figure.
With a natural aptitude for sug-
gesting deferential embarrassment in
polite circles, he is at his best in such
roles.
1t was not always so.
While making his first appearance
in full dress, opposite Clara Bow in
Children of Divorce" Frank Lloyd,
the director, tried for two days ito
get a scene out of him."
The third morning Gary did not
appear. He was overtaken on his way
to Montana. Il thought I'd fire them
before they fired me-" was his ex-
planation.