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Evening star., 1936-02-15
GANG TRIO SLAY
Al CAPONE AIDE
McGurn, Figure in 1929 st.
Valentine Day Massacre,
Shot in Bowling Alley.
BY the Associated Press.

by Ine Associated freSS.
CHICAGO, February 15.-Dapper
achine-Gun Jack" McGurn, former
Capone gangster, today received a
comic valentine and two shots in the
back of the head, killing him in much
the same fashion as seven George
Bugs" Moran gangsters died seven
years ago in the bloody ST. Valentine
day massacre, for which he was later
indicted.
He beat the rap on the massacre
charge by producing the now famous
blond alibi," who later became his
wife She testified that she and Nc
Gurn were in a hotel just south of the
Loop.
The gangster's death came with the
same dramatic suddenness as did the
massacre of the Moran men. While
McGurn and two unidentified COM
panions sat in a second-f1oor bowling
alley at 805 Milwaukee avenue, on the
near Northwest Side, awaiting their
turn, three men entered the place and
ordered: stick 'em up! Stand where
you are"
Two Bullets Take Effect.
McGurn, his back to the men, stood
erect. Without another word, the
trio opened fire with 45-caliber pistols.
One shot struck McGurn just behind
the right ear and the other in the
lower part of the neck.
The police called McGurn a cold
blooded gangster and one of "Scarface
Al" Capones chief tommygun opera
tors.
The widow was brought in from her
home in suburban Oak Park for
questioning a few hours after the
Staying, but the police said she could
give no information as to who might
have slain her husband or why.
She said she had received anony-
nous telephone call early this morn
ing telling her something had hap
pened to Jack"
The deliberate killing came just an
hour. too late to fall on the seventh
anniversary of the massacre of which
he was accused. The State quashed
the indictment after its principal wit
ness was slain.
AS Capones chief machine gunman
in prohibition days, McGurn was re-
puted to have amassed several hum
dred thousand dollars. His widow,
during questioning, sobbed Historically
that the former Capone "big shot" had
fallen into low estate and that they
were broke"
"All he owned was piece of book
(See MURDER, Page -
Evening star., 1936-02-15
Nv thu Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSS.
CODY, wyo., February 15.-Search-
ing parties combed the snow-buried
uplands today for mysterious air
plane believed lost In a raging Wyom-
ing blizzard.
While the storm roared across the
bleak plateau last night residents
twice heard an unidentified plane
circle Cody, apparently seeking an
airport, then fly away into the snow
filled gale.
Identity Of the ship and its pas
sengers puzzled authorities. No miss
ing planes were reported by airports
in the vicinity and all airlines ac-
counted for their craft.
Fears that it might have been
Department of Commerce plane were
quieted when an inspector reported
that ship safe at Sheridan. .Wyo.
Officials we're certain the plane
could not have remained aloft over.
night in the 20-below-zero weather.
They said the ship and its occupants,
II trapped on the fiat country thet
Evening star., 1936-02-15
TWO-MAN BOBS[ED
TITLE WON BY i. S.
Brown and Washbond Fin.
ish Ahead OF Swiss Team
in Close Race.
BY the Associated Press.

by tuo AooOIlhLCu ElCbos
GARMISCH PARTENKIRCHEN,
Germany, February 15.-Ivan Brown
and Alan Washbond of Keene Valley.
N. Y, today won the Olympic two
man bobsledding championship and
with it Americas first gold medal of
the international Winter games.
Brown and Washbond, the leaders
aAer yesterdays first two heats, cap
tured the title in a thrilling and
dramatic duel of speed and skill with
the Swiss sled piloted by Fritz Feiera-
bend.
Today's final two heats developed
the most sensational tussle of the
Winter Olympics as the Americans
finally won out by the razor-edge
margin of 1:35 seconds in total elapsed
time for four trips down the 1900
meter Olympic chute.
Third place went to the second
American combination of Gilbert Col
gate, jr., of New York, and Dick
Lawrence of Branchville, N. j.
America, retaining the title the
Stevens brothers, J. Hubert and Cur
tbs, won at Lake Placid in 1882, thus
picked up IA points in the unofficial
team standings to swell its total
to 1914.
Brown and Washbond finished with
total elapsed time of 5:2929. Their
individual heat clockings were / 1:22.50,
1:21.02, 1859 and 1908.
Swiss Smashes Own Mark.
Feierabend, who smashed his own
chute record on his final descent with
a spectacular 1888 performance,
wound up with total time of 5:30.64.
Colgate and Lawrence finished with
5:3396.
The championship was decided
under the most dramatic circum-
stances. Feierabend, who had cut
into the Americans lead in the initial
heat Of the day, really turned loose
on his final trip down the run, to
Evening star., 1936-02-15
RELIEF INJUNCTION
FIGHT IS PLANNED
New Deal Prepares to Go to
Supreme Court on Veter-
eranS' Preference.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Startled by a legal blow threatening
to scramble its $4,000, 900 900 work re-
lief policy, the New Deal laid its plans
today to fight the issue up to the
Supreme Court if necessary.
No sooner had Federal Judge George
w. Welsh ruled in Philadelphia yes
terday that war veterans and their de-
pendents must be given preference On
work relief jobs, even if that means
the dismissal of non-veterans now
working, that administration officials
went into hurried conference
They announced last night that they
would carry an immediate appeal to
the Circuit Court Of Appeals in case
Judge Welsh refuses to stay execution
Of his injunction. This injunction
prohibits the Works Progress Admin
istration from employing or paying
any one in the Philadelphia area
unless veterans, their wives and widows
are given preference.
Would DemoIish Keystone.
If Judge Welshs ruling should be-
come generally accepted by courts
throughout the country, it would mean
the demolition of keystone in the
New Deal relief policy.
The administration insists that. in
general, only persons from the relief
rolls shall be given W. P. A. work in the
81, 900 900, 900 drive which was designed
to abolish the dole" for needy employ
ables and substitute work.
The contention behind this is that
the neediest cases are on the relief
rolls, although critics of the policy
have complained that it excluded dis
tressed persons who had managed tc
keep of relief.
Benjamin ]. Spang, crippled wal
veteran who was denied job on 4
w. P. A. business census project be-
cause he had not been on the dole, OBJ
tanned the injunction in Philadelphia
and Is fighting in District Supreme
Court to have it applied nationally
This would force wholesale shift ir
w. P. A. plans unless higher courts
upset it.
Dole to Be Taken Up Later.
The question whether the Govern.
ment will return to the dole to cart
for any persons whose work relief il
halted by such moves will be taker
up later, officials indicated
Corrington Gill. assistant W. P. A
administrator, emphasized last night
that the injunction in Philadelphis
lSee PEI ,IEF. PAGE %
Evening star., 1936-02-15
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, February IS
Battered by an 18-foot wall of ice and
water from an ice jam break in the
James River here near midnight. a
dozen or more vessels today faced new
dangers from rising flood waters.
The United States Weather Bureau
at Richmond said another pack was
being formed in the city harbor by
the ice-jammed river, which had risen
feet here in the past "a hours and
was still rising this morning.
A tug was sunk, steamship of 1000
tons swept aground on sand bar and
a tanker carrying 246,000 gallons OF
gasoline swept downstream out Of con-
troll by the sudden breakup of the
jam. There was no loss of life, how
ever.
A small tanker, the Texas Co.'S
Haven Belle, was tilted to dangerous
angle by ice beneath its bow, and today
lay atop the ice, directly in the path
of the rising water.
Evening star., 1936-02-15
10000 FASC|STS'
ENLIGHTENMENT BY
ENEMY CONFIRMED
Italians Declared Doomed
After Tembien Battle
in North.
Adds ABABA BOMBING
IN REPRISAL Is FEARED
Removal of Two Missionaries tc
Concentration Center Is Con-
frmed in Capital.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
While troops OF italy haue made
little progress in recent months in
inuGsion of Ethiopia, dirpldnes haze
achieued occasional successes" by
bombing hospitals and to,Ons OF
defenders.
Since November, northern army
of II Duce's forces has been at
standstiu while concentration OF
Ethiopian tpdrriors in surrounding
territory has increased. Passage OF
time alone is costly to Italians, as
expense OF maintaining army in
foreign territory continues and neD
rainy season approaches NTH GER
tdinty of complete delay tor sep-
erdl months more.
By the Associated Press.
Adds ABABA, February 15.-Dip-
lomatic sources expressed fear today
that the Italians might retaliate with
a bombing of Adds Ababa for the
recent Tembien battle, on the north
ern front, in which neutral observer
said 10000 Italians were surrounded
and had no chance to come out
alive"
Daily bombardments of towns
south of Makale, key point OF the
Fascist northern front, including a
third attack recently on Dessye, field
headquarters of Emperor Halle Sc
lassie, were believed due to an Italian
determination to gain revenge.
Half Dozen Towns Bombed.
A government communique said
more than half dozen towns north of
Dessye were bombed Thursday and
Friday, and that Coptic Christian
monastery on Lake Haik, recently
visited by the Emperor, also was at
tackled, two children being killed.
Marius Brophil, Irish Red Cross
representative, who said it was "en-
tirely true that 10000 Italians had
been surrounded" was summoned to
the imperial palace and asked to give
government officials further details OF
the battle near Abbi Addi.
Brophil, the first white man to re-
turn here from the northern fighting
front. said he obtained his informa-
tion first-hand from Ras Mulugheta,
Ethiopian war minister; Ras Seyoum
and Ras Kassa. the three principal
Ethiopian leaders in the north.
Brophil's statement supported q
denial by the Ethiopian government oi
Italian claims that only 844 white
Italian soldiers had been killed since
the outbreak of the war in East Africa
The Ethiopian government asserted
that approximately $4,000 Italian SOL
diers had been killed during the
Tembien battle on the northern front
in January in addition to more than
5000 ASkari (native) troops.
Missionaries Sent to Camp.
An Ethiopian government COM
munique announced confirmation that
Rev. Harold Street of Paxton, ILL.,,
his wife and four children and Rev
John Trewin of Toronto have been
sent to concentration camp, selected
for the safety of Sudan interior mis-
sionaries, at Sodu, Northern Gamo
Province.
The government had been informed
earlier the two missionaries were re-
leased from custody in Southern
Gamo and permitted to renew their
missionary work in the north of the
province after an investigation into
their arrests last month by local
chieftain on the ground that the two
men declined to move to a safer
locality.
ITALIANS REPORT OFFENSIVE.
Evening star., 1936-02-15
H0LD.UP VICTIM FOUND
BOUND BY WIRE IN AUTO
Wrists and Neck Fastened to
Steering Wheel-Mouth Sealed
by Tape.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, February 15.-A man
identified as John H. Hopkins, 81, was
found in his automobile in Carroll
Park here early today, with his wrists
wired to the steering wheel, wire
around his neck and his mouth sealed
with adhesive tape.
Police said he was apparently un-
conscious and that they would be un-
able to question him until his condi-
ton improved. Hopkins was believed
to have been hold-up victim.
The unconscious mans pockets had
been stripped of money, but his wallet
was intact, police reported.
Evening star., 1936-02-15
BULLETIN

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February Is
Samuel S. Leibowitz, New York
criminal lawyer, who has said he
will help Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann "if he tells the truth" left
for Washington, D. c., today. His
secretary said she did not know
whether he would confer there
with Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean,
who, Leibowitz said, interested him
in the case.
Evening star., 1936-02-15
PRIMARY LIST CLOSED
IN ILLINOIS BATTLE
Roosevelt and Q Leading Repub-
licans-Borah and Knox-only
Presidential Candidates.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, February Is
The last opportunity for candidates for
the presidency to enter the Illinois
advisory preferential primary passed
last night without any additions to the
three who already had filed.
with President Roosevelt and two
of the leading Republican contenders
Senator william e. Borah OF Idaho
and Col. Frank Knox Of Chicago-in
the race. the Illinois primary April II
has taken on more than usual signifl-
canoe this year.
state officials said they had no word
from Republicans supporting Gov. All
M Landon of Kansas and Bernard
MacFadden, New York publisher, about
whom there had been r1lmors Of pos
sible entries.
Len small. Kankakee publisher, who
was elected governor In 1870 and 1924.
f,led as Republican gubnatorial can
didate for the fifth time.
Evening star., 1936-02-15
SENATE IN SESSION
TOPASS FARM BILL
.W|THFEW CHANGES
Democratic Leaders Vow to
Push Measure Through
Today.
AMENDMENT DEFEATS
FORECAST BY CHIEFS
Capper Speaks for Plan-Deben
ture Fails-Vandenberg's En-
barge on Imports Fails.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Supreme Court invalidation OF
A. A. A., NeU Deal pdndced for
AGRICULTURAL ills, left Congressional
friends OF farmers in confusion.
For tpeeks, many of these legis-
lators hare depoted as much time
to criticizing Supreme Court and
agitating curtailment OF its poDers
as they hare in attempting to find
substitute farm legislation.
Bill pending before House and
Senate provides for Federal sub
sides for soil conservation.
Evening star., 1936-02-15
MATCH FACTORY ON FIRE
Explosion Calls Firemen to Plant
on Chicago West Side.

CHICAGO, February IS R.-Fire
department trucks were summoned to
a match factory on the West Side this
morning after reports were received
of an explosion in the building.
Police were called to the scene and
reported Arrow Match Co. plant, a
one-story structure, was on fire.
Evening star., 1936-02-15

(See WEATHER, Page %
Evening star., 1936-02-15

(See OLYMPICs, Page 2.
Evening star., 1936-02-15

(See RELIEF, Page o.
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(See RICHMOND, Page 2)
Evening star., 1936-02-15

The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press News
and Wirephoto Services.
Evening star., 1936-02-15

(See FARM, Page -
Evening star., 1936-02-15

(see Philosopher, Page ~
Evening star., 1936-12-10

driving"
Not today. Do you want me tc
walk in on my patients so shaky
won't be able to hold spoon?"
you've got to get over your trouble
Don't you see it's caused by your be-
coming so tense when you driver"
X x'*
LIE LAUGHED back at her nerv-
ously. I've tried and I've tried to
relax, but it's no go. Slide over, Jean,
and take the wheel"
AS he started to walk around the
car she began coughing again Fun
bling around in his kit she pulled out
bottle, 1t was raised to her lips
when he came up alongside her and,
after one agonized look, he snatched
it away.
Good Lord. Did you drink any of
that?"
"Of course" she choked. Gee, it's
foul tasting"
Dashing the bottle to the ground he
fairly leaped for the car.
I've got to get you to the hospital.
The stuff in that bottle was deadly
poison!"
They wheeled out onto the high
way and Jean crouched down in. the
seat. Her face had gone deathly pale.
Breathe deeply" he commanded.
Get as much air as possible into your
lungs"
"FasterI" she gasped. "Oh, do drive
faster!"
THE needle Of the speedometer crept
past 40. A soft, furry body
hurtled forward and slipped down be-
tween them. Toledo, the untouchable,
climbed into her lap.
Faster! Faster!"
The knuckles of his hands on the
steering wheel stood out whitley.
You can't drive like that, Ben.
Loosen up, Ben"
Grim lines formed around his teeth,
but the speedometer showed go. Grad
ually the strain went out Of his hands.
Her hands closed and Toledo stared
up at her fixedly.
They reached the parking area be-
hind the hospital, and Jeans eyes
huttered open. She breathed a deep
sigh of contentment.
ut worked, darling. Look at your
hands. Steady as a rock. I knew If
you'd only drive a car fast once more
you'd get back your nerve"
You never drank anything out of
that bottle?"
"Of course, not"
Toledo leaped just in time. It was
touch and go If he would lose his last
life by being crushed to pieces again.
(Copyrtght, 1850
Evening star., 1936-12-10

sphinx at the foot Of his bed.
Fellow" said DR. Ben weakly. ITS
o good thing you had nine lives. I
sure cashed in eight of them for you. !"
Toledo spat ungraciously at the
figure in white that bent over the
bed
Hello JEAN" continued the doctor.
$50, I'm your patient, sweet?"
"Sh," ordered Nurse Jean Thomas.
"You're not supposed to talk"
She tried to look very professional,
but her eyes had anything but pro-
fessional concern in them for DR..
Ben.
"Oh, we'll" he conceded with decep-
tive gayety, and promptly relapsed
into unconsciousness.
n x X Y
IT WAS six weeks before he left the
hospital. and during all of that
time Toledo and Jean managed to pre-
serve an armed neutrality AS cat,
Toledo was the most self-sufficient
feline in existence, and for his utter
disregard for any one except himself,
DR.. Foster worshiped him. Because
DR.. Foster worshiped him, Jean de-
tested Toledo. What Toledo thought
about Jean was the best argument in
favor of keeping dumb animals dumb
Although his body was mended the
doctor discovered his nervous system
had undergone some harm. In the
ordinary course of events, life went
along much as it always had, but just
let him get behind the wheel of car
and he went to pieces. It was as
though he had lost confidence in how
to operate an automobile, and to a ris-
Ing young man in the medical profess
sion this was serious
Jean helped to the best of her abil-
lty, driving him every place she could
when she wasn't working, but Ben's
practice began to slip. She saw it
happening day by day as the ugly
rumors began to circulate about his
health. And day by day she saw the
Chances of their marriage being dis
sipated. Ben was very stubborn about
some things.
1--WE got to be able to offer my wife
security" he was saying, "a doctors
wife gets enough of dirty deal with
out having to scrimp and worry about
money"
"Oh, darling, do we have to go all
over that again? I'd marry the man
i love If had to loan him the money
for the wedding license"
X X X
THEY were sitting in his car out in
the country, with their picnic
things and Toledo piled on the rear
seat. She was seized with a sudden fit
Evening star., 1936-12-10
DAILY SHORT sToRY-
NINTH LIFE

OF coughing and
the doctor leaned
over methodically
and extracted a
bottle from his kit,
Here, try some
Of this sirup. It's
the best thing I've
found to cure a tic
kle in the throat. VI
She gulped down
the liquid and
made a wry face.
You ana your
medicines. E a C h
one tastes worse
than the last"
He glanced at his
watch and started
to climb from the
car.
Wed better be
getting back to
town. I've a cou-
pie of patients to
see before dark" "
Wait a minute,
Pen Won fi0 the
Evening star., 1936-12-10
WHEN DR.. Ben

wv jarnin Fosters
front tire blew out
as he was doing SIS
miles per hour and
he ran full tilt into
q tree, his famous
yellow cat Toledo
was riding in the
front seat beside
him. After the res
cuing party had
unwrapped the doc
tor from around
the tree and right
ed what was left Of
the car, they dis
covered Toledo. He
was q very stiff
and lifeless appear
ing cat.
Two days later,
the doctor opened
the one eye in that
small patch of face
s till unbandaged
and beheld Toledo
Ia III Axy
Evening star., 1936-12-10
SOIL MATCHES PILED
. UPON UPRIGHT BOTTLE

World to surpass Feat, Claiming
He Could Do Better.
By the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, December 10
Ralph Rieder of Madison challenged
!. the world yesterday to surpass his feat
Of piling SOIL matches in the shape
Of an inverted pyramid on an upright
beer bottle.
II could do better, but let some one
beat that" Rieder said, after four and
one-half hours of painstaking work.
Rieder said he was Bill matches
ahead of DR.. Thomas H Staggers Of
Cleveland, who recently claimed the
world championship as beer bottle
match piler. Both used five matches
In the first layer.
A hand injury, which kept Rieder
from his milk route, gave him the op-
portunity to pile matches.
Evening star., 1936-12-10
Farmer Hires Hunter.

y oNIDA, s. Dak., December 10 up.
Farmer John j. Hofer has hired a
) f1ll-time hunter to shoot jackrabbits,
10 numerous they have damaged hay
stacks. He provides lodging, board
and ammunition. The hunter get1
the pelts.
Evening star., 1936-12-10
SITUATIONS poMEsIIc.

COLORED GIRL. exp, wants Job as cook
or general houseworker: will stay nights:
ref Adams 1897.
COLORED WOMAN reliable. wants days
or part-tine work. Phone Atlantic 50S5-J. .
GIRL. colored. wishes Job general house
home nights. Potomac 43I6
GIRL, colored. neat. wants general house,
work; good cook; city reference. North
1875. 1Os
GIRL. neat. colored. wishes work of any
kind; no heavy laundry. Phone Columbia
O1O6-W. 141s Belmon. st.
GIRL. neat. colored wants full or part
time job Call Adams 10353.
GIRL, colored neat. clean and reliable
wishes 3oh as nursemaid sensrai house,
or part time; good references. Phone Ad-
Evening star., 1936-12-10
BUSINESS opportunities.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.
BOOMING HOUSE all filled; Is rms. 2ha
McKenney. zoos II st. Met. 4s13.
LUNCH: BEER upper nv: sssa5; Io business;
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GROCERY STORE; NV; 5000 weekly bus.
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BOOMING HOUSE. 18th and Eye SITS: "A
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BOOMING HOUSE. nice home. good furni-
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IL am. Decatur 1857.
MUSIC MACHINES. late models. installed
ali types automatic phonosraphs and
National 6794
GASOLINE STATION, corner estab.. bus:
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BAR AND RESTAURANT.
Doing around 500 daily; good corner
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DELICATESSEN.
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$35O-Delicatessen. beer and room; apt
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