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Evening star., 1936-05-05
MAN WHO SHOT OFFICER
GETS 10-YEAR SENTENCE
Harrisonburg Jury Fixes Maxi
mum Punishment in Elkton
ARRAY.
BY the Associated Press,

~ t4lC AoSOS1dLcQ SIeSS.
HARRISONBURG. Va, May S.
Dewey Shiflett, Is, was sentenced to
10 years imprisonment by Judge H.
w. Bertram in Rockinghom County
Circuit Court yesterday for the wound
ing OF George Morris, Elkton police
chief on March %.
The jury fixed his punishment at
the maximum on charge for ma
licious wounding.
Chief Morris, who was shot through
the abdomen as he approached Shift
flett's automobile, testified Shif1ett
fired four or five times, but that only
one shot took effect.
Morris said he intended searching
the automobile for liquor, as he be-
Leved Shifdett was drinking, The
ofhcer said he had warned Shifiett a
half hour earlier to leave town.
Shifflett claimed he fired in self
defense after the officer grabbed him
by the collar and moved to draw his
gun.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
A.F.L.PAR[EY AIRS
|NTRAMURAL ROW
Craft vs.. Industrial Unions
Is Biggest Case Before
Meeting Today.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A family dispute was an outstand-
ing issue before the American Fed
Grafton of Labor's Executive Council
today as it assembled for quarterly
meeting.
The perennial fight between the
craft and industrial unionists has
grown more bitter than ever before
since John L. Lewis, president OF the
United Mine Workers. and his allies
formed the Committee for Industrial
Organization.
Usually well-informed sources said
the council. dominated by craft men.
may be asked by some Of the craft
leaders to oust Lewis and the miners
from the federation.
The Lewis group believes all the
workers in each big industry should be
organized into one union. The craft
unionists contend that workers, as a
rule, should be organized along craft
lines.
For example, Lewis maintains that
all workers in the automobile industry
should belong to the United Automo-
bile Workers. The craft unionists in
sist the machinists in auto machine
shops should belong to the machinists'
union and that the carpenters should
join the carpenters union.
After the last federation convention
voted Lewis down, 2 to l. Lewis and his
friends organized the Committee for
Industrial Organization.
The craft unionists contend this
move meant dual organization. At
its January meeting the council urged
the committees abolition. Lewis has
stood his ground.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
IOWA GRAFT CASES
vO|DED BY COURT
Crusade That Won Pulitzer
Prize for Paper Is
Made Barren.
BY the Associated Press.

=
DES MONIES. Iowa, May 5.-Tne
State Supreme Court today wiped out
graft" cases against 81 persons in
dicted in crusade" which last
night won the Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
Gazette a Pulitzer prize.
The high State court held the in
dictmentS invalid. Its action marked
the legal death Of charges that a
Statewide graft and protection set
up for operators of slot machines ex-
isted and extended into the State
House in Des Moines."
Verne Marshall, editor of the Ga
zette. made the charges which prompt
ed the original investigation by a
special Woodbury. County grand jury.
The Pulitzer award. which his paper
received last night, was for the most
distinguished and meritorious public
service" among newspapers in his cam
paign.
The Woodbury. County grand jury
indicted in all As persons on 80
counts. Most of the charges were for
alleged gambling (slot machine) con-
spiracy The State claimed slot ma
chine operators paid for protection"
from law forces.
Attorney General Edward L. O'Con-
nor was the only one of As dependents
named in the original indictments who
faced trial. O'Connor was acquitted
by directed verdict in a retrial after
jury failed to reach decision.
Today's ruling reversed District
Judge Earl Peters refusal to quash
indictments against the 81 defend
ants
The courts opinion nullified in
dictments against Walter Maley, first
assistant attorney general; Ray Har-
rison. Des Moines attorney: Joe
Gagen. Des Moines professional bonds
man; C W. McNaughton, former
State agent, and 81 others.
Although the Supreme Court did
not mention Marshall by name, it
said one of the major grounds for
disqualification of the indictments
was payment of $700 by the Cedar
Rapids editor to H. M. Havner, spe-
cial prosecutor.
The court annulled the indictments
on the grounds Havner and M E.
Rawlings, Woodbury. County attorney
were not properly qualified to appear
before the special graft" grand jury
an Iowa statute prohibiting county
attorneys or assistants from accept
ing any fee from any one for services
rendered in a prosecution.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
Congress in Brief
BY LADY DRUMMOND-HAY,

1ODAY.
Senate:
In recess.
Finance Committee hears witnesses
in opposition to revenue bill.
House:
Considers private calendar.
Special Investigating Committee re-
sumes inquiry into Townsend old-age
pension movement with DR.. r. z.
Townsend as witness.
TOMORROW. -
Senate:
VIII not be in session.
Conferees scheduled to meet on Dis-
trict appropriation bill. 81
Finance Committee continues hear.
ings on tax bill.
House:
Considers conference reports. ~
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee begins hearings on bill to
regulate trading In unlisted securi..
ties, 10 am.
Indian Affairs Committee meetA
1880 am. =
. District Committee meets, 1880
yAm. ,
Evening star., 1936-05-05

The appointment of Hermann Goer-
ing as economic dictator of Germany
over Hjalmar Schacht is generally
supposed on this side of the Atlantic
to mean that DR.. Schacht Is on his
way out. On the contrary, 1t repre-
sents victory for him.
The tight betWeen Schdcht and
the radical Nazis has been bitter.
He opposed JeDish prosecutions,
political murders and the Rhine.
land occupation on the Wholly
practical ground that they hurt
Germany's foreign credit. Hitler's
extremists in the cabinet hape been
trying to get him out for long
time, but economic brains. are not
plentiful in the uppercrust OF Nnsi-
ism, and Hitler could not afford to
lose Schdcht.
Schacht is supposed to have told
Hitler not long ago that he could
not go on wasting his time fighting
the radical Nazis and would resign.
Hitler persuaded him to stay with the
promise that he would try to curb
the radical elements.
Schacht to Goering.
The Goering appointment does 1t.
Goering, as economic dictator, will
sign the DEGREES, but in reality Schacht
will draw them up.
The Nazi radicals who felt free to
fight Schacht will not dare to oppose
Goering.
1t is good idea. but our officials
doubt that it will work. They fully
expect trouble between Goering and
Schacht.
Among the 21s names on the
Frazier-Lemke petition are: Three
dead men-the late Representatives
Truax. Euckee and Lloyd-one who
Is retiring from Congress, Mrs Green
way; three who are not returning
because they are candidates for the
Senate. Representatives Monaghan,
Lee and Utterback; Representative
aoeppel. who was convicted on q
:harge Of selling . West Point ap-
Representative zioncheck,
Who Is conducting q sensational cam
,aign toward retirement.
tCopyright. 193oJ
Evening star., 1936-05-05
What's What
Behind News
il, Capital
Ballyhoo Booms Sale
of Bank Assets, but
It's a Secret.
BY PAUL MALLON.

BY PAUL MALLON.
- OMETIMES the governmental
publicity system falls down on
the job. For instance, here Is
~ Currency Controller O'Connor.
He has just perfected new promo
tional scheme for disposing Of the
assets of closed banks. Not only that,
but his scheme may disclose what is
wrong with the whole banking busi-
ness. Yet nary an announcement has
been made concerning 1t.
Basically the nep O'Connor plan
applies advanced 'Huey Long the
ories to banking for the first
time. 1t employs the sound truck
technique. The controller first con-
ceiued last Fall the idea OF sending
these bdllyhoo tallyhoes around the
country advertising his rumnlage
sales OF bank assets. 1t Dorked so
ueH at Gultport, Miss, that he
tried it again lately at st. Peters
burg and Miami. Now it has be-
come settled practice.
Giving credit where credit is due
O'Connor's friends say his success
has been stupendous, if not colossal
At. st. Petersburg his medicine show
took in S78.0 and, at Miami, s46 600
which are box ONCE records for those
two towns.
Evening star., 1936-05-05

O'Connor's Gulfport sound truck
travelled 1900 miles advertising the
assets of the closed Gulfport Bank.
Presumably 1t went as far at st.
Petersburg and Miami as the anti.
noise laws of Florida permit. 1t was
augmented by continuous radio an
nouncements, an auto sticker CAM
paign, thousands Of form letters and
signs painted feet high.
Appreciation Lacking.
O'Connors friends point out his
success shows that what is wrong
with the banking business is that
it is not fire-sale minded.
O'Connor is, however, running into
the same lack of appreciation suf-
fered by all leaders with too ad-
vanced ideas. One banker, when
asked what he thought about the
scheme, replied: Il fully expect to
hear next that the Treasury has
purchased a herd Of monkeys and
employed an army of organ grinders"
4 - 4
The State Department did not
similarly fall dopn on its publicity
job in announcing the ratification
Of the Canadian treaty.
Thirty-three sheets of paper, half
the usual typewriter size, were given
out, folded in the general announce
ment. Each sheet contained sep
arate benefit Of the treaty. The first
was headed Cotton Goods" and re-
cited what cotton products would be
benefited. Other half-sheets were
labeled Glass" Petroleum. Air
craft" Machinery" etc. No two
products were on the same sheet.
News men received little note from
the department which read as follows:
The attached material on conces-
sions obtained from Canada that are
of interest to your State, has been
in accessible form for your
Similar data as to the
interests of each other State will be
on request"
Decentralization Again.
In other words, each correspondent
was informed of the benefits to his
own locality. but not of the benefits
to others. Thus 1t appears that even
the State Department is decentralizing
Its international relations into local
appeals in accordance with the new
publicity scheme
which has been adopted by other
departments.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
VISITS TO wendell
BY PARKERS TOLD
Father and Son Called at SAM.
torium Several Times, Guard
Is Quoted.
BY the Associated Press.

BROOKLYN, N. Y. May 5.-Theo-
dore Kass, 20, who District Attorney
Francis F. X. Geoghan said guarded
Paul H. Wendell in a New Lisbon
N. j.. sanitorium from March 5 until
March %, testified today before the
grand jury investigating the kidnap-
ing of Wendell.
Wendell, disbarred Trenton attorney,
has charged he was abducted and
forced into a spurious confession of
kidnapping the Lindbergh baby, which
delayed the execution of Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann for three days.
Geoghan said Kass told him that
while Wendell was in the sanitorium
he was visited "a half dozen times"
each by Ellis Parker, sr.. New Jersey
detective. and his son, Ellis Parker,
jr. The son is the only one of the
five persons indicted for the kidnap-
ing who is still fugitive. There
are no charges against Ellis Parker,
sr.
Geoghan further said that Kass re-
ported to him that he had received
two payments from Parker. jr.,
one for s31 and the other for $45.
during the period he guarded Wendell.
The grand jury also heard testi-
mony today from Murray Bleefeld,
who. according to Geoghan, termed
the entire abduction and confession"
plot "all Parker sr.'s scheme"
Geoghan has said that he would
move to have the elder Parker testify
before the grand jury, but said that
ANY indictment would be strictly up
to the grand jury itself"
Meanwhile Geoghan said he was
seeking a person he described only as
a missing Trenton man." who, he
declared, would be able to furnish
"corroborative evidence" linking the
elder Parker with the Wendell abduc-
ton.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
NEWS
From LeOnardtOtCn
BY GEORGE MORGAN KNIGHT. JR.
Noted Correspondent.

LEONARDTOWN. Md, May S.
Yes Sir! There has been Matched
here chicken with just one leg
to a hen belonging to Mrs. Martin
Latham of Clements, it became known
here today. Just how the chick will
get around is not known but just the
same the story is true. Frequently in
the past there have been chickens
Matched out here with three and last
year four legs, but this is the first
time that any has appeared with just
one leg! Many feel that Mrs. Latham
has a real freak in her one leg chick
which has caused already wide spread
interest in the county communities,
an adds nicely to the list of freaks
which have been located here by
George Morgan Knight, jr., of Leon
ardtown. well known newspaper corre-
spondent. who is becoming known as
another Ripley" to his wide acquaint-
ance.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
JURY INDICTS WOMAN
IN GOSSIP" SLAYING
Mrs. Rachel Gillespie to Be Tried
at Elkton for Murder of
Mrs. Fisher.

BY the Associated Press.
ELKTON, Nd, May 5.-The Cecil
County grand jury indicted Mrs.
Rachel Gillespie of Charlestown yes
terday for the murder of Mrs. Emily
Fisher at the latter's Perryville home
last March %.
States Attorney e. D. Rollins an
neunced he would seek a conviction
of murder in the first degree against
AIRS. Gillespie. The petit jury was
summoned to reconvene May IA for
the murder trial.
The grand jury returned also six
presentments in minor offenses.
The murder was called "commu-
nifty gossip" Staying. 4,
Evening star., 1936-05-05
AL SMITH HONORED

NEW YORK, May CP.-Former
Gov Alfred E. Smith was voted the
medal of the Order of st. Sebastian
by the Catholic War Veterans, Inc,
last night.
1t is the highest honor given by the
organization and will be presented
May "a.
A resolution acclaimed the Happy
Warrior" as the outstanding Catholic
laying in the United States and
praised him as having met intolerance
with tolerance.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
Crash Kills Student Pilot.

ALTOONA, Pa, May 4 R.-Ken-
meth Young, 25-year -old student pilot.
crashed to death last night while
practicing for license examinations.
Witnesses said the undercarriage
struck a tree and the ship plunged
nose first to the ground.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
Manufacturer Dies.

NEW ORLEANS, May S R).-J.
w. c. Wright. rs, president of the
New Orleans Furniture Manufacturing
Co. before his retirement, died at his
home here yesterday.h
Evening star., 1936-05-05
Citizens Meeting Deferred.

The firal meeting of the 1856
season of the Progressive Georgetown
Citizens Association was postponed
last night. The next regular session
is scheduled for the first Monday in
October.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
OUT OF HOSPITAL

Robertson, Entombed in Mine Ten
Days, Goes Home.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May S up.
DIR. D. E. Robertson, still weak from
his recent Today Imprisonment In
the Moose River gold mine, travelled
by train today to his home in To-
ronto. Aside from weakness, he ap-
peared to have suffered little effect.
Alfred Scadding of Toronto still IS
under treatment for a severe case of
trench foot, but is improving rapidly.
Evening star., 1936-05-05

means that the League of Nations and the British
combined have not been able to stop Mussolini.
Eden's elevation to power was the direct con-
sequence of the English reputation of the
Hoare-Laval agreement. which was designed to
stop the italians before their African campaign
was fairly begun He represents the 11,oooo 600
British subjects who voted to back the League Of
Nations with sanctions and even armed force.
While the whole situation Is filled with implca-
tions and forebodings, one fact that stands out
clearly is that the League Of Nations has COM
pletely collapsed. Even the most tnveterate
internationalist of the Versailles treaty school
Evening star., 1936-05-05
The National Scene
BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH

ANTHONY EDEN at last swallowed humble
wv pie, composed principally Of advised
British nation to the Ethiopia
Evening star., 1936-05-05
SENATOR TRAMMELL I'LL
Condition Remains Serious After
Influenza Attack.

Influenza Attack.
The condition of Senator Trammell
Democrat, of Florida remained serious
today. He developed complications re-
sulting from an attack two weeks ago
Of influenza and pleurisy.
DR.. Walter A. Bloerdorn, his physi-
clan, said there was mo material
change" in the Senator's condition. He
is confined to his apartment at 1888
Sixteenth street.
Evening star., 1936-05-05
Alice Lsngworth.

LonrVorfh.
can longer hold to the faith that the League Is an
the peace Of the world.
tcopyrisht 1885,
Evening star., 1936-05-05
H|NDENBURG SET
FOR JOURNEY HERE
First Flight Over North At
Iantic Will Start
Tomorrow.

Preparations for the first cross.
ing OF the North Atlantic By the
giant Graz Hindenburo are de-
scribed here by a distinguished
British womdn journalist, who wiu
be one Of the passengers on the
voyage and who tDtu send dis.
patches from the dirship while en-
route,
Evening star., 1936-11-29
Lewis Bats in Runs.

"ASHINGTON'S kid third baseman
Nv also held the honor of making
the most total bases of any National
in single game. He got 10 in one
game, as did half a dozen other Amer
lean Leaguers. Lazzeri's is topped
the circuit and Joe Di Maggie, a
teammate and San Francisco neigh
Dor, ran second by driving across IL in
one game, when he hit two home
runs and two doubles in a contest
with Chicago on June "a. TroSky,
Earl Averill and Gerald Walker bat
ted for totals of II bases each.
Gehrig and Averill were the only
players to score five runs in one game,
the Yankee first baseman doing 1t
twice and Averill once. Four runs
were scored by player many times,
Lewis and Travis boosting the total
Forty-thre times was the feat of
making two home runs in game re-
corded, with Gehrig and Trosky top
ping the league with five such accom-
plishments. Red Kress and Lewis we're
the only Griffmen to enter this select
circle.
Cliff Bolton was, the hottest run
driver-in of the Washingtons for one
game, knocking across six scores to
tie with Bill Dickey, Wes Ferrell and
Pinky Higgins at this number. Laz-
zeri, however, set the pace with IL
and there were five cases Of players
accounting for seven runs.
In driving out triples in a single
game, Chapman and Stone shared
the lead at two three -baggers, along
with five others.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
Mats Get Scnnt Batting Geuison Fit Pro Ring

tional chess tournament, which was
won by Miss Soma Graf OF Germany.
During May, 1887, the Federation
Internationale des Echecs will hold its
team tourney. which has been won
on the last three occasions by the
United States, at Stockholm, and the
international body will include its
second individual women's tournament
on the May agenda.
To date America has not presented
the world with chess Minerva, but
the Marshall Chess Club in New York
City has announced an open tourna-
ment for women for the forthcoming
January. the winner to be sent to
Stockholm, all expenses paid.
Local feminine players might
take cognizance of this United
States national ladies' chess
tournament and file their Gre
dentials with the committee for
flyer in the New York battle
for the title of queen of Ameri-
can chess players.
A trip to Garbo's Sweden In April
Is delightful frolic for even intel
lectual chess queens There are all
sorts Of titles floating around, y'know
End Game No. 7.
Tartakower, Playing BlindfoId. Won.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
Stone Gets Five for Five.

T AZzERI. in addition to setting
major league marks, established
new American League record for driv-
ing in runs when he sent IL over the
plate on May a. The former record
was nine, being held by Jimmy Fox.
Tony fell one short of tying the total
base record of Is, held jointly by Lou
Gehrig and Ty Cobb.
Rip Radcliff of the White Sox
came closest to matching Campbell's
feat by getting six hits in seven trips
to the plate, while 10 players gathered
five for five. Among these was Johnny
Stone. outfielder of the Nationals, who
in one game made three singles, two
triples and drove across three runs.
There we're 80 cases of batters max
ing four hits in four times at bat,
with Hal Trosky of Cleveland doing
1t four times and Luke Appling, cham
pion batsman, three times. Ossie
Bluege. Red Kress and Cecil Travis
Of the Nationals each did it once.
Other Washington players to make
four hits in one game were Jesse
Hill, Joe Kuhel, Jake Powell Oater
traded to New York; and Carl Rey-
nolds, who made four hits in five
times at bat, as did Travis and Stone
and Buddy Lewis and Chapman. who
got that many hits in six trips Lewis
accomplished this particular feat
twice.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
SOCCER LOOP ENDS
FIRST HALF TODAY
Two Games on Monument Lot,
Two in Maryland on Tap.
Season Success so Far.

WITH Sun Radio already having
won the championship. the first
half schedule of the Recreation Soccer
League will be brought to a close this
afternoon. when four games engage the
loops eight teams now looking ahead
to the second half.
The Monument ground will be the
scene of two of the games the Heu-
rich Brewers Young Democrats and
Sun Radio-Italian Americans both
starting at 3 o'clock while two others
will be played in Maryland at 2::3o
O'Clock. One at Silver Spring finds
the Silver Spring eleven entertaining
the. German Sport Club while Marl-
boro plays host to Georges Radio
at Marlboro. Marlboro has yet to
lose game on its home field.
The first half has proved a highly
satisfactory series during which every
team kept all of its engagements and
every game was finished in spite of
disagreeable weather and often weak
ened teams.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
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White Forces Mate in About Eight Moves.
Morphy's brilliancy as pictured in
end game No. 6 goes thus: / R-K8,
QxR; 2 QxR. Q-K2; QxQ, KtxQ;
P-B6 and wins.
Robert Feeney overlooked the lead
ing play. But not Charles A. Carrico,
A. G. Dreyer. E. w. Allen and Clair
J. Bressler, all of whom continued the
game la Morphy.
Marshall Defeats Prieto.
A T THE Club de Ajedrez in San
Juan, Puerto Rico, is progressing
the first international invitational
masters congress in the islands his
tory.
Frank J. Marshall, retired United
States champion, and Irving KaSh-
dan. who is leading the field, are the
American masters present. DR.. Adolf
Seitz of Augsburg is another visiting
master. Facing this trio are five is
landers Benitez, Cintron, Gotay
Prieto and Cancio-champions of the
island, the Puerto Rican Chess Fed
Grafton and of San Juan.
In the initial round Of match
play Marshall. Kashdan and
Seitz offered Queens Gambits
in unison, but each was de-
clined.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
BOXING PROMISE
SEEN IN D. c. BOY
Long Amateur Ruler Here,
Lou Joins Money Clan
Tomorrow Night.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
nTNETNJTITvTUE shQrn . faced

DIMINUTTVE, sharp faced
. n Jewish lad, comparatively un-
n known to patrons Of Turner s
4 \ Arena, with singing SOUTH
paw sock that carved wide swath in
amateur ring circles. tomorrow night
will take his first step into profess
sional ranks, and with local boxing
as moldy as 1t now is. Washington s
caulifiower colony probably will adopt
him If he measures up to half the
promise predicted for him.
Fantastic as it may sound, Lou
Gevinson, the mild-mannered gentle
man to whom we refer. stands an ex-
cellent chance Of making this bali
wick fight conscious. He is entering
the paid clan at an opportune mo-
ment, what with the failure of local
larrupers to stand up under the fistic
gaff in recent months.
Ringworms who have viewed Gevin-
son in action have been impressed
to put it mildly. Pete Reilly, who
piloted Freddy Miller and four others
to the world featherweight cham
pionShip, was SO enthused over the
local simon-pure luminary that he
offered Gevinson 81 900 to sign a con-
tract. Benny Leonard, retired un-
defeated world lightweight champion
Is one Of many who are closely con-
nected with the boxing business who
have predicted a brilliant future for
Lou.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
LAYTON IS CUE VICTOR.

CHICAGO, November 20 P.-
Johnny Layton of Sedalia, Mo-, play
ing one of the greatest games in his
long career, defeated Kinreay Mat
suyama Of Japan. so to 20, in % in
nings, in an opening round match of
the worlds three-cushion billiards
tournament.