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Evening star., 1936-06-08
Babcock Stricken as Council
Initiates Action for Recall
A. F. G.. E. President Suf.
fers Heart attack After
Groups Vote.

E. Claude Babcock, national presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Government Employees, was stricken
with a heart attack at the Hamilton
Hotel this afternoon while attending
a session of the executive council
which short time before had voted
to institute recall proceedings against
him on charge of political activity.
Babcock. in state of collapse. was
taken to a room in the hotel and DR..
j. Ernest Mitchell, the house physician,
was called. Mitchell said that aloso-
lutte quiet would be necessary for a
day or two and Immediately ordered
nurse for Babcock, whom he said
should not be moved.
Babcock said the attack came while
the council was voting to suspend
him pending outcome of the recall
proceedings which were initiated as
the outgrowth of an attack he made
on "spoils practices" of the Roosevelt
administration which was circulated
through the Republican National
Committee.
Babcock insisted the council had
voted TO suspend him. but there was
no statement coming from the council
other than tacit admission that the
issue was under debate.
Challenging the right Of the coun-
Evening star., 1936-06-08
ALEXANDRIA GIRL
FOUND ''DRUGCED"
Bankers Daughter in Hos
pitaI After Being Located
in Charlottesville.
picture on Page Az
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, June 8.
Landon Mason Burke, Is, missing
daughter of an Alexandria banker,
was found in a dazed condition at a
gasoline filling station on the out
skirts of Charlottesville this morning.
She was removed to the Martha JET
ferSon Hospital.
The girl, daughter of socially prom
inent Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Taylor Burke
of Alexandria, was found by Officer
w. J. McCauley of the Charlottesville
police about am. She had been
missing from her home at 719 Prince
street, Alexandria, since Saturday
afternoon.
Police here said the girl was unable
to relate how she had come here.
They said she appeared to be
"drugged." and Immediately trans
ferred her to the hospital after at
tempting to question her at the police
station
Authorities at the hospital said the
girl was apparently getting along
nicely" but refused to give specific
information as to her condition.
No Marks of Mistreatment.
Police said she was wearing pair
of blue slacks and a polo shirt when
found
Hospital authorities and police both
said the girl bore no marks of mis-
treatment.
Miss Burke, whose father is a part
ner of the Burke & Herbert Bank
ing Corp, Alexandria, mysteriouSly
disappeared from her home about
4:30 pm Saturday. She had been
home only four days after return
ing from st. GATHERINGS School for
Girls in Richmond.
Her parents were unable to ex-
plain her disappearance, which was
first noticed when her mother called
her to dinner Saturday night after
leaving her alone in her room up
stairs. Before leaving she had changed
worn all day.
Parents Leave for Hospital.
The girls parents left Alexandria
to drive here as soon as notified she
had been found.
Miss Burke, an attractive brunette,
was described as being "tomboyish. I"
She is a granddaughter and name
sake of the late Rev. Landon Ran
dolph Mason, widely known Richmond
clergyman.
Because the girls mother was in
the house at the time she disappeared,
police were convinced she had left of
her own volition. After obtaining the
aid of Washington and Virginia po-
lice in the search for their daughter,
the parents asked the Federal Bu-
reau OF 1nvestisation to help ind her.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
ARCHIVES WORKER
Is KILLED IN FALL
Loses Balance While on Steel
Beam at New U. S.
Building.

An iron-worker known to his fell
lows as Andy" Anderson fell 81
feet to his death today while work.
ing in the uncompleted framework
of part of the Archives Building, Sew
enth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Anderson, who lives near Fifth and
K streets northeast, was perched on
a steel beam near an elevator shaft
when he lost his balance. He landed
on a pile of bricks, wood and steel
pieces, and was pronounced dead by
an Emergency Hospital ambulance
physician.
Anderson was employed by the
H. r. Dickens Co. of Philadelphia,
steel contractors, and came here three
months ago from Schuylkill Haven,
Pa.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
NICE HELD STRONG
FOR RSECOND PLACE
Governor Called to Parley by
National Leaders at
Cleveland.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY,
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

CLEVELAND, June 8.-Gov. Harry
w. Nice of Maryland, native of the
National Capital, the outstanding Re-
publican victor two years ago as he
defeated Gov. Albert c. Ritchie by
some 1000 votes when all the rest of
the country was contributing to a
Democratic landslide, has become a
strong prospect for the vice presiden-
tial nomination. Shortly after the
Maryland Governor arrived here late
yesterday he was called into confer
ence by group of national leaders,
who had spent hectic day trying to
figure out the best man to run for
Vice President While some party
leaders were endeavoring to organize
a stop Landon" movement, others,
who thought "the only question is, who
Is to be candidate for Vice Presi-
dent?" brought forward the name of
Gov. Nice.
Headquarters of the "Nice-for-
President campaign" were opened this
morning in parlor H, the Statler Ho-
tel, with buttons to be distributed,
banners and Streamers exhibited and
a band obtained to serenade the al
ways smiling Governor. The 16 votes
of the Maryland delegation are in
structed for Nice for President until
he releases them They are abso-
lutely in his hands to do with as he
pleases. The real hope of the Mary
land delegation, however, is that he
will be chosen as the vice presiden-
tial nominee. They believe that If a
Western man is nominated for Presi-
dent the outstanding Republican VIC
tor in the East two years ago should
be given preference for the vice presi-
dency. They figure Nice's greatest
strength right now in the convention
muddle is that he has not tried to
(See NICE. Page A-Q1
Evening star., 1936-06-08
JURY ACQUITS SEVEN
OF u. S. FRAUD PLOT
Were Accused of Conspiracy in
Considering Irrigation
Project Plans.

By the Associated Press.
A District Supreme Court jury today
acquitted seven men of charges of con-
spiracy to defraud the Government in
1894 during consideration Of plans for
q $4,s63, 900 irrigation project in
Willacy County, Tex.
The defendants were: William A.
Harding. former member of the Willacy
County district board; Frank p Nc
Elwrath, Corsicana, Tex, contractor;
Perry A. Welty and Charles r. Olberg,
former P. w. A. engineers, and L. C.
Hammond, H. w. Cole and James P.
Barry, San Francisco lumberman.
They were acquitted Of accusations
that they had attempted to induce the
p. w. A. to substitute California red
wood in construction of a conduit for
a Rio Grande irrigation system after
p. w. A. had allocated money con-
ditionally to the Willacy County Water
Control and Improvement District
No. l.
The verdict came at 11:27 am. after
the jury had deliberated since 3:43 pm.
last Friday. The trial started April 20.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Cor Crashes Parked AHplane,
Driuer Accused of Being Drunk

Airport officials said the plane, an
eight-passenger Stinson, was dam
aged to the extent of 5000. Another
plane was brought here from New
York to permit the company to main
tain its schedule.
There was neither passenger or
pilot aboard the airplane which had
been parked outside the hangar be-
cause the fields facilities are not
sufficient to house all planes using
the airport, company officials said.
Dempsey was arrested by Officers j.
=. Conway and Lyman King.
Evening star., 1936-06-08

Fighting low clouds, light fog and
intermittent showers, % year old
Bob Buck of Westfield, N. j., who at
the age of Is began setting juvenile
aviation records, flying triangular
course today from Washington to New
York, to Norfolk and return in an at
tempt to establish new world record
and two national ones.
Although Buck took off from Wash
ington Airport and checked over the
official starting line at Boiling Field
at 6:37:15 am, heading toward New
York, he was not reported over the
check points at Floyd Bennett Airport
until 10:26:15, Eastern standard time,
according to the Associated Press.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
is DROWN AFTER CRASH

Ship Collides With Barge in
Yenisei River.
MOSCOW, June 8 R.-Sixteen
passengers aboard q ship on the
Yenisei River drowned Saturday in
collision with a barge, delayed dis
patches reaching the capital re-
ported today.
A motor vessel carrying 26 men
and women workers in lumber plant
crashed into the barge near Kras-
noyarsk, in Central Siberia, the dis
patches related. Only 10 were res
cued.
T. Yenin, operator of the boat, was
arrested on q charge of causing the
accident by abandoning the wheel
to collect fare.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Rv the Associated Press.


DETROIT, June 8.-Thifteen men
charged with the Black Legion kid
naping and execution" of Charles A.
Poole were ordered held for trial today
on both counts by Common Pleas
Judge Ralph w. Liddy.
The Judge had announced earlier
that he was convinced all 13 should
be held for trial on the kidnapping
charge, but that there was some ques-
ton in his mind whether all Of them
also should be tried for murder.
The 13 are Dayton Dean, Black
Legion executioner, who voluntarily
testified last week that he had emptied
two revolvers into the body of the
young W. P. A. worker because I
was supposed to do it,; Harvey Davis,
Black Legion officer from whom Dean
said he took his orders; Erwin D. Lee,
Urban Lipps. Paul R. Edwards, Edgar
Baldwin, Herschel Gill, Lowell Rush
ing, Thomas R. Craig. John R. Ban
herman. John S. Vincent, Virgil Nor
row and Albert Stevens.
Elements of Planned Crime.
This was not a crime committed
in the heat of passion" Judge Liddy
said. 1T has all the elements of a
planned crime, clearly premeditated
by at least some of these men. There
may be some question as to whether
some of them planned it, but I am
convinced that is a question to be
disposed of at the trial and not here
This is a very sinister spectacle
OF an organized group attempting to
usurp the function of government to
punish men for what the group be-
lieves is an offense. 1t strikes me
that with all the law enforcement
agencies of the State combined in the
prosecution of this case, the defend
ants will have a speedy trial.
Il therefore hold all the defendants
for trial in Circuit Court on both
charges of kidnapping and murder
without bail"
Two hours of argument preceded
the decision.
An officer of the Conference for the
Protection of Civil Rights announced
early today that Senator Elmer A.
Benson, Farmer-Labor. of Minnesota
would reach Detroit during the day
to conduct personal investigation of
| the Black Legion.
Dickstein to Arrive Later.
Miss Marie Hemple, secretary of
the conference, said Senator Benson
had telegraphed that Representative
Samuel Dickstein, Democrat, of New
York would join him here later in
the week. They will seek evidence to
support pending joint resolution for
Congressional investigation of the
hooded night riders and similar or
ganiSations.
Meanwhile grand jury resumed its
search for evidence connecting the
Vigilantes, who Haunted .the deaths
head insignia, with other acts of vio-
lence.
Six men are charged with fog
ging an Ecorse steel worker. Will
liam w. Voisine, village president Of
down-river Ecorse, said last night he
had been told that the objective of
the Black Legion was to control en-
ployment in industrial plants and, by
obtaining jobs for members, to become
dominant politically.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
BY a Stan Correspondent of The Star.

SOUTH WASHINGTON, Va, June
s.-william A. Dempsey, 17oo block D
street northeast, Washington, was ar
rested early today by Arlington County
police, who said he had crashed his
automobile into the tail Of an Amer
lean Airline passenger plane parked
outside the Washington airport
hanger.
Police charged Dempsey with driv-
ing while drunk. In County Court
today his case was set for June Is by
Judge 3. M. Hedrick. He was re-
leased under $500 bond.
Evening star., 1936-06-08

hours, Barbara
Wallace, IA, was
recovering from
shock and slight
injuries today at
her home, at 20I9
I street.
Policemen and
iremen ,extricated
the girl from the
organ at IL an.
yesterday after
nremen, VINO haQ
worked more than
an hour, had cut
away part of the
18-foot pipe. The
pipe, police said,
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Buck Fights Nasty Weather
In FLIGHT for Three Records

Official observers here were mysti-
fed by the long delay in reaching
Floyd Bennett. 1t was estimated the
little monoplane, even with its capacity
load of n gallons of fuel, would aver
age about 100 miles an hour, and
Buck had been expected to pass over
the New York field at about $3.50 am,
returning over Boiling about noon.
Official observers at Floyd Bennett.
according to the Associated Press, said
they believed Buck must have gone
first to willoughby Spit, near Norfolk,
where another official check station has
been established. This would have
(see BUCK, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1936-06-08
SLAYING CONFESSED


q. s. Officials in Arkansas Say
Man Admitted Killing Ranger.
WALDRON. Ark, June 8 (P.-
State Ranger John Hendricks an
nounced today a man booked as
Adell Allen, "a. of near Waldron,
confessed to him and other officers
that he had shot and killed Deputy
United States Forest Ranger Eben
Bethel last Tuesday.
Bethel, who had been investigating
forest fire of suspected incendiary
origin, was found slain near his light
truck on lonely mountain road. He
had been shot twice with a rifle from
short range.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Six Killed in italian Parade

POLA, Italy, June (P.-Six per-
sons we're killed and IS others injured
during constitution day military re-
view yesterday when two artillery trac-
tors overturned on an incline,
Evening star., 1936-06-08
MATS RAINED OUT

Single Game With Indians to Be
Played Tomorrow.
Today's game at Griffith Stadium
between the Indians and Nationals
was postponed on account of rain.
There will be a single game tomorrow.
The downpour also necessitated
postponing the fight between Marty
Gallagher and Bob Tow until tomor-
row night, when the entire same card
will be offered, starting at $3.50 o'clock.
Evening star., 1936-06-08

Gil to take any action, Babcock from
his sick bed served notice that any
thing they did, particularly in his
absence, would be illegal and that he
would contest it.
The statement issued by the
council:
whereas the pamphlet entitled
(See BABCOCK, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1936-06-08

was only l8 inches in diameter.
Physicians said she was unharmed
except for the pain of hunger and
(See ORGAN, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Nude Girl, IA,
Rescued after
HidMgmOrgdn
Tells Conflicting
Stories Concerning
Presence in Pipe.

Found nude in the pipe organ of
Metropolitan A. NJ. E. Church, where
she had been hiding more than "a
Evening star., 1936-06-08
IS IN BLACK LEGION
HELD ON Z COUNTS
Group Is Bound Over for
Trial on Murder and
Kidnap Charges.

BACKGROUND
Ritual Staying of Detroit P. W. A.
1oorker May 13 brought first kno1cl-
edge OF band OF hooded night
riders and the spread OF terrorism
throughout Michigan. Subsequent
Developments hare reUedled bomb
tngS, fogoings and murder. InUesti-
cations hare brough to light mem
berShip OF many high officials.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
WEATHER.

%. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Showers this afternoon, followed by
generally fair tonight and tomorrow; not
much change in temperature. Tenn
peratures-Highest, 86, at 1880 pm. yes
terday; lowest, "a, at Sis am. today.
Full report on page AS.
Evening star., 1936-06-08

(See BABCOCK, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-06-08

ST. PETER, MINI, June 8 P),-
Identification of two men captured
at st. James, so miles from here,
today, as members of the l6 Grim
inally insane men who escaped
from the State asylum Sunday, re-
duced the number still missing TO
IL.
Evening star., 1936-06-08

(See LANDON, Page 81
Evening star., 1936-06-08

(see BUCK. Page A-5)
The Washington times., 1936-04-28

He stated that on the night
the girl disappeared his wife'S
brother, Golney Seymour, came
to his house and told him he
had killed the white girl because
she refused his advances. Sey-
mour, whose arms and clothing
were saturated with blood, threat
ened to kill Gatewood and his
wife If either mentioned him in
connection with the murder. The
only reason he told Gatewood
about it, he said. was because
the former had seen his horse
tied to the white girls fence.
He said he had offered to take
the white girl to the dance on
his horse. His confession, given
after his arrest to the Special
Agent read:
owe arrived ut the little can
yOn and we each got down and
walked across to the far side.
there took hold Of her and
attacked her. She got mad and
commenced to fight me. She
threw rock at me and hit me
in the breast. She got a knife
out Of her purse and also picked
up another rock and started to
throw it at me and Just as she
did threw q rock at her and
hit her and Knocked her down.
"After / hit her with the rock
I went over to her, took the
knife away from her, put my arm
under her neck and stabbed her
In the neck. After had stabbed
her she got up and walked down
the canyon for q short way and
laid down. She was still breath
ing when I got on my horse and
left her"
Seymour was tried March IA,
1882, and on March II was found
guilty Of murder in the first
degree with recommendation for
a life sentence. He was. SEN
fenced to life imprisonment in
Mcneil Island Penitentiary, near
Takoinas washington.
The Washington times., 1936-04-28

front Of the house. Like a maniac.
he sped off into the darkness.
Other roomerS in the house ran
to the street and returned with
Private j. T. Newkirk Of No. 6,
who summoned other police and
reported on the slaughter.
Lieut.. David T. Dunnigan Of the
Sixth precinct, knew that Cope
land had relatives at 1400 Carroll
burg Pl. s. w., and SurmiSed COR
rectly that the Negro killer would
seek haven there.
The Capture
Accompanied by Detective Ser
geant Beckley, Lieut.. William H.
Bremerman. Detective William
Wright and police reserves, Lieu
tenant Dunnigan FASTENED to the
Carrollburg Place address and
sighted Copeland through q front
window.
Springing up the front steps,
Dunnigan forced the door. Cope
land swept q lamp to the floor.
AS Dunnigan entered the gloom Of
the hall his figure, Silhouetted
against the street lights, became
the target for the large calibre
bullet which spattered from the
murderer'S gun and Lieutenant
Dunnigan nfelesS body pitched to
the threshold.
Despite q warning:
"IU kin anyone that enters"
Lieutenant Bremerman and Detec-
tive Wright sprang through the
door.
A shot flashed out Of the dark
ness then came the sound Of run
ming feet as Copeland dashed for
the rear exit.
A fusilade Of shots from the
guns of officers stationed in the
back yard greeted the fugitive.
Copeland dashed back into the
house and hid In q rear room
under a bed while Bremerman and
Wright secured closets and halls
for the now blood-Soaked killer.
Copeland submitted m ekly
enough, for the ammunition OF
his 10-shot automatic was ex-
hausted. He was taken to Calm
ger Hospital, where it was found
that six Of the police bullets had
found their marks.
For two months Copeland'S con-
dition was critical. He gradually
rallied, however, and was removed
to the District Jail to await action
Of the Grand Jury and trial for
the triple Sayings.
In jail Copeland. apparently
hopelessly crippled, hobbled about
on crutches and established him
self as meek and self effacing. He
had abandoned his desperate
characteristics, it was believed,
and was evidently reconciled to
his fate.
Less than a year after the
slaughter, however, all illusions re-
garding Copeland'S reformation
vanished.
On April 81, 1919, a guard at
the District jail found the bars
sawed from the tiny window OF
Copeland'S cell. On the bunk pill
lows and bedclothes had been ar
ranged to look like the form Of q
sleeping man. The bars Of win
dow on the east corridor upon
which Copeland's cell faced were
also sawed and the murderer had
made his escape.
Sole souvenirs of Copeland'S so
journ were the clutches upon
which he had lifted himself to a
certain degree Of misplaced SYM
| pathy.
UA-nA~
The Washington times., 1936-04-28

Because the murder occurred on
the Indian reservation, which is
Government property, the case
was turned over to the Federal
Bureau Of Investigation, Depart
ment of Justice. .
j. Edgar Hoover selected a spe-
cia1 agent, whose work as trapper,
cowboy and sheriff in Texas fitted
him for the work, to take charge
Of the case. n:
Seven Indians had already been
arrested in connection with the
murder by order Of the District
Attorney Of Tucson, Ariz., and IS
others questio Toned. The Indians re-
Sented this and refused to talk.
More than $500 of them had
gathered ct Wl1iteriver for the
annual, roundup and fair. The
reservation was so jammed with
Indians and dogs it was almost
impossible to do any effective sur
veillance or questioning as the In
dams would be in camp at White
river one night and 40 miles away
shipping cattle the next.
Tribal Secrecy
Two definite suspects, Peter
Kessey and Claude Gilbert, were
confined to the reservation Jail
but finally released.
To make the task more diff
cult local Indian interpreter were
found untruStWorthy and the
Federal agent had to send to the
San Carlos reservation, 80 miles
away, for Tom Dosela, official
Apache interpreter.
:. The Oman finally succeeded
In securing information. to- the
effect that an Indian, Robert
Gatewood, had seen his brother
an,law, Golney Seymour, in the
vicinity Of the white girls house
on the evening Of July Is.
- Gatewood, fearing reprisaB
from other Apaches, was secretly
brought to the agents quarters
late at night and questioned.
The Washington times., 1936-04-28
tive Story - = From District Police Files
Fear Drives unsupported
Criminal to Murder
Three Officers

Like Poes "TeTale Heart the knocking on the door at
76 st. N E., at m, May al, 1913 brought beads OF
cold sweat the brow Of unsupported criminal went
further than did Poe's fantastic tale.
It set in motion chain Of Sugng fears which were to
burst their bonds in crimson stain marking May g. 1919
as one of the boodst in the annals Of the Metropolitan
nnica