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Evening star., 1936-08-07
LEMKE WILL WIN,
DECLARES SMITH
Share Wealth Head Says
Election Will Be Decided
in House,

A prediction that the National Union
party will get enough electoral votes
in November to throw the presidential
election into the House of Representa-
tives, where Representative Lemke Of
North Dakota will be the ultimate
victor. was made here today by Rev.
Gerald L. K. Smith.
The former aide Of the late Senator
Huey Long, speaking before the Ma
tional Press Club at noon. outlined the
strategy of the Union party, to which
he has pledged the support Of the
share-the-wealth movement in con-
junction with Rev. Charles E. Coughlin
and DR.. F. E. Townsend.
Il can't say how many votes the
Union party will get, nor how many
States we will carry" Smith explained.
A minister in the Christian Church. he
still breaches occasionally, although
he has no pastorate.
II do claim" he said, that we can
carry enough States to WELD the bal
ance of power in the electoral college
and prevent either the Democratic or
Republican candidates from securing
a majority there.
IF we can do that, the election of
Lemke is assured. The Republican
electors would never vote for Roose-
welt and half the Democrats are
against him already. Once the Fed
eral money runs out, he's gone"
Revelation Promised.
Smith claimed Louisiana for the
Union party, IF we can get Lemke's
name on the ballot" A mass meeting
in New Orleans August IS. at which
he and Father Coughlin will speak, will
be a revelation to those who are
scofflng at the new party's strength,
he said.
The Union party does not expect to
carry a large number of States in the
solid South" but expects to create
enough opposition to draw much of
the Democratic fire in that section,
according to Smith.
"If we can make a good fight, even
If a losing fight, in the South, We will
accomplish our purpose" Smith as
serted. What money they have to
spend there, they can't spend in
Michigan and several of the States
where our real campaign will be
waged."
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Membership Offered
President of A. F. L.
In Bartender Union

President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor,
who neither smokes nor drinks
and once studied for the ministry,
has been offered a membership in
the Bartender's Union.
Charles E. Sands, secretary of
"Old" Local rs her, today ten
dered Green a membership In his
union "in order that the business
of the great A. F. of L. may con-
tinue uninterrupted"
If the United Mine Workers.
which Green represents on the
Executive Council and which was
suspended with nine other indus
trial unions Wednesday, are ex-
PEELED by the convention in No
vember, Green will have to be
elected to membership in some
union in good standing to main
tain his position on the council
and as head Of the federation.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
BY the Associated Press.

.
MILTON. Fla, August Mrs.
Mary Vann, 40, was convicted today
of Being "an accessory before the
fact in a conspiracy to commit mur-
der" by hiring two colored men to
attempt to wreck the railroad train
on which her 60-year-old husband
was engineer.
The conviction carries a possible
sentence of from to 40 years i'm
prisonment. Mrs. Vann remained
calm as the jury reported after de-
liberating 11iz hours.
William Fisher. sr., attorney for the
Pensacola grandmother, notified Judge
L. L. Fabisinski he would file a mo-
ton for a new trial. The Judge said
he would hear the motion August
81 at Crestview, Fla.
Mrs. Vann was liberated under the
$1,000 bond posted by her husband,
L. w. Vann. shortly after she was ar
rested in April The husband has
maintained a belief in his wifes in
nocence.
The State claimed Mrs. Vann and
Earl Travis. 35-year-old former car
penter and night club operator,
planned the husbands death so they
might collect his life insurance and be
free to marry.
The defense rested late yesterday
after the defendant denied State testi-
mony that she plotted with Earl Travis,
her alleged lover. and Allen Langston
and Allen Ffndley to kill 6o-year-old
L. W. Vann by derailing his train.
Langston, known among Pensacolans
Evening star., 1936-08-07

Zoo officials are planning an
open box full of holes, hoping the
weasels will 60 in and out of the
box instead Of around and around
their wire enclosures.
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STOP, THIEF.
THE routine of existence in Catoctin
Park. near Frederick, is enlivened
for Government workers employed on
a Federal project there by catching
live snakes. A sizable collection of
rattlers. copperheads and black snakes,
all caught by the workers, is displayed
in administrative headquarters in the
park.
Oddly enough, attempts have been
made to steal some of the snakes,
officials report. Several suspects were
nabbed by night watchmen, who still
don't understand why any one would
want to raid a snake cage after dark.
If the snake-nappers' efforts con-
tinue to be futile, some of the larger
specimens may be offered to the Wash
ington Zoo this Winter, it is said.
GRACIOUS.
ONE of the politest drunks who ever
took ride in a patrol wagon was
picked up on Connecticut avenue near
Taft Bridge at 9 o'clock the other
morning.
He conversed in a genial manner
with his blue-coated captor until the
patrol wagon arrived and tried to
wave the officer in ahead of him up
the rear steps of the public vehicle.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
AID DRIVE PLANNED
BY MANUFACTURERS
National Association Is Offering
Story of American Indus.
try to People.

Va w - SSfAS'
Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August THE Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
announced last night the extension Of
its information campaign by the use
of newspaper advertising.
The first of five full-page adver-
tisements appears in Chicago news
papers today and the association said
advertisements will be run during the
next few weeks in cities throughout
the country. They will be financed by
individual manufacturers in each
community.
To carry the story Of American
industry to the people," the associa-
ton said its series would deal with
these subjects: What is your Amer
lean system all about?" Machines
and employment, taxation, American
standards Of living and Americas to-
morrows."
c. M. Chester, president of the as
sociation, commented that an indus
trial information program has been
carried on for three years, but that
"industry's silence in the face of con-
tinued criticism against the American
business system has been misunder.
stood. The association feels
that the time has arrived to provide
the public with the real facts about
the American system"
Evening star., 1936-08-07
VENGEANCE SEEN
IN FOUR SLAY|NGS
Warning Factions of New
York Vice Gangs Under
Police Scrutiny.
Py trt Associated Press.

w hooOSAoIc0 FIeSb.
NEW YORK, August 7.-Police, in.
vestigating four slayings Of the last
three weeks. worked today on the
theory that they were caused by
gangland vengeance stirred by war;
ring factions Of underworld vice rings.
Dominick Didato, alias Terry Burns,
80, said to have been ousted several
years ago by the recently convicted
Charles c'Lucky') Luciano as leader
of a racketeering organization, was
shot to death last night in front Of
lower East Side restaurant.
He was killed a few hours after
police announced they had linked
three other recent slayings.
Of1cers were reported working on
the theory that differences with a
vice ring led to Didato's death They
were trying to determine whether it
was related to the other three.
Others Schultz Associates.
Detective William King Of the New
York Bureau of Missing Persons and
Oficer Henry Senft said the other
three slain men were former asso-
ciates Of the late Arthur dutch
Schultz Flegenheimer, on>rtime beer
baron, who was killed several months
ago.
They were William Hess1er, whose
body, bearing 48 stab wounds, was
found trussed in a trunk in BROOKLYN
Tuesday; Edmond Pauchot, killed II
dave 400 in dou,rfnur1 AHopba+too
and man identified as Frank Clarity,
alias Frank Mcdonald. So, whose
body. trussed and weighted with iron
and the skull crushed, was discovered
Sunday in Long Island Sound near
Greenwich, Conn.
Mickey O'Neill, 19-year-old bur.
lesque dancer, who was questioned BY
Nassau County authorities after dis
covery Of Hessler's body in Brooklyn,
aided in the identification OF the body
found in Long Island Sound, King
said.
Further Questioning.
She remained in custody Of Brook
lyn police as a voluntary witness.
Officers said they would question her
further.
Police said Hessler, Clarity and
Fauchot incurred the displeasure of
the vice ring by attempting to "shaks
down" disorderly houses which de-
pended on the ring for protection.
Didato had s2,16O.22 in his pock-
cts when killed.
He was shot about three and one
half blocks from police headquarters.
A .38-caliber pistol with four ex-
ploded shells was found beside his
body.
Accursio Abruzio, bartender and
waiter in the restaurant, said he
heard no shots. Officers said they
found no witnesses who could say
they heard shooting
The pistol was subjected to tests for
possible fingerprints of the trigger.
man.
Evening star., 1936-08-07

highness, and they made such a hit
that the sport was continued for CEN
turies, despite the Puritans and various
uplift organizations.
The hybrids obviously are of pioneer
stock and have no family traditions.
The little brown aristocrat's forbears
were trained artists, dancing for the
crowned heads of Europe, while the
hybrids' parents were mooching fish
from the Eskimos.
The hybrids have been named, put
on a special diet provided with
special pool, protected from public
feeding, photographed for the news
papers and the newsreels, and written
up in scientific publications.
Yet not even the keepers have taken
the trouble to name the little brown
bear, whose parents and grandparents
before him were born and reared In
Washington.
He Is shown in the photograph eat
ing humble brown bear bread and look
ing perfectly furious.
Tomorrow: The piomy Hippo
from Liberia.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
AUTHORITIES PRESSING
PROBE OF BOYS DEATH
1r the Associated Press.

Gr the Associated Press.
HIGHLANDS. Va, August Com
monwealth's Attorney Carl Gillespie
and Deputy Sheriff Dan c. Taylor
investigated further the death Of
Amos Altizer, 17-year -old youth. whose
body was found late Wednesday in
woods near Whittaker's Ridge with q
pistol wound in the head
A jury of six mountain men said
the wound was self inflicted or fired
accidentally.
The boy was seen leaving the home
Of his parents about II am. to assist
neighbors in stacking hay. Two rel
atives said they heard two shots fired
about noon from the direction Of the
body.
Miss Mona Smith, 10, of Raven died
early Monday morning from a .22-
caliber rifle wound in the heart, re-
ported self inflicted, at the home of q
relative.
No motive for either shooting has
been advanced.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
ESKIM0S STARVING

Arctic Trader Reports Discovery
of Conditions.
JUNEAU. Alaska. August Z CP).-
Eskimos along the Arctic rim are fac
ing starvation, according to a radio
message from Capt c. D. Peterson,
veteran Arctic trader, to the COVER
nors Office from Herschel Island.
Some of the natives, Peterson mes
saged, were in a seriously weakened
condition and their reindeer are dy-
ing. Peterson said he had given away
all he could spare of his ships sup
plies
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Jury C0nuicts Woman as Aide
In Conspiracy to XIII Husband

as "voodoo doctor" testified Travis
watched him remove spikes from the
rails.
In addition to denying the conspiracy
story Of the two colored men, who have
pleaded guilty to q similar charge,
Mrs. Vann denied any affair with the
35-year-old former Alabama carpenter,
and said she loved her husband.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
0'CONNELL is CHOICE

Wins Fort Stevens Post Support
in American Legion Campaign.
John H. OConnell is to be supported
by the delegation of Fort Stevens Post
in his campaign for election as de-
partment commander at the annual
convention of the District of Columbia
Department of the American Legion at
the Mayfower Hotel next week. The
post so instructed its delegates at its
meeting last night.
O'Connell, past commander of
Costello Post, has been membership
officer of the District department the
past year. Under his direction, the
department mustered the greatest
membership in its history.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
4 Z z z
GENTLE WARRIOR.

oEN LIE WAhhlOR.
Ordinarily in encounters between
birds and dirplanes, 1t Is the bird
tDho comes of second best-usually
a uery poor best. 1t remained for
a mother meadow lark, Nth
brood OF just-hatched fledglings
to eUen the score.
1t happened during a cross
country cruise OF Marine Corps
Squadron VB-6M from Qudntico,
Va. During a take-of, one of the
pilots, a great nature Iouer, spotted
mother and brood on the nest just
before his landing Dheel was about
to blot them out. He gape just q
touch OF. brake to Suing hin, clear
OF the nest and the airplane un-
Evening star., 1936-08-07
BY w. Fl. SHIPPEN, JR.

BY w. III. SHIPPEN, JR.
THIS little brown bear represents
the third generation Of an old
Washington family, but he was
L born in an evil hour.
When the papers should have been
announcing his arrival last Spring,
three upstarts stole the spotlight.
Their parents were comparative new
comers and they were born across the
park in one of those connected dwell
ings on Bear Row.
In addition, the cubs we're hybridS,
the offspring of a polar bear father
and an Alaskan brown bear mother.
Yet the public showered peanuts and
attention on the trio of doubtful an
cestry and left the little brown bear to
his own devices.
He is the descendant of long line
of European brown bears. Perhaps
his ancestors did not come over on
the Mayflower, but they once enter
tanned Queen Elizabeth at a command
performance.
That was in 1878. Thirteen brown
bears consented to be baited with bull
dogs for the edi1cation Of her royal
Evening star., 1936-08-07

ing Of a marker on the spot from
which the first airplane flight was
made, rs years earlier.
On the way to Kitty Hawk, aboard
a steamer from Washington to Nor
folk, on Sunday morning, November
Is. Hockaday insisted that church
services be hello or ne would Jump
overheard and swim ashore to attend
church. He became so insistent that
impromptu services were arranged.
Former Senator Bingham of Connec-
Evening star., 1936-08-07

I orio US team
m e m b ers and
their wives on
the terrace of
the Shoreham
Hotel last night.
J. Arnold An
derson, chair
man of the club
NJ e m b e r S h ip
Committee, con-
graduated Ehr-
Itch and his as
sociates on the
v t ory they
gained with a
total of Sc MEM
bership applica.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Brides Story Wins Annulment.

SAN FRANCISCO. August Z (P).-
Mrs. Margherita GluStich, seeking an
annulment Of her marriage to Peter
Glustich. said her husband, imme-
diately after the wedding ceremony,
kissed one of the bridesmaids. walked
out with her and didn't return for a
month. The annulment was granted.
Evening star., 1936-08-07

ticut. then president Of the National
Aeronautic Association. preached the
sermon; William P. MacCracken, jr,
then Assistant Secretary Of Commerce
for Aeronautics, led the hymn singing,
and William Stout. designer Of the
Ford tri-motored airplanes, accom-
panied at the piano
Next day. en- route across Currituck
Sound on Coast Guard boat, Hocka-
day fell overheard Loudly he called
for Divine help and then, getting no
Evening star., 1936-08-07

have balanced the diet nicely with reports that
the radio priest has been disciplined, has not
been disciplined, has been scolded by his
bishop has been praised by his bishop; that he
was communicating with Rome by telephone,
cable and special messenger and was roundly de-
nounced by an unidentified parsonage in Vatican
City. The sum and substance seems to be that he
may do all the campaigning his heart desires so
long as he does not call the President liar
From the point Of view of the American
citizen who does not take the passing scene too
solemnly, 1t would be pity if Rome were to
debar the Michigan priest from political activity
On the nther hand there .1,,o halie.,a
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Feathers
Continued From First Page.)

Of 200 aeronautical people from all
parts Of the world who participated
in an international aviation con-
ference in Washington and then went
to the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk,
N. c., on December II to participate
in the laying of the corner stone Of
the Wright Memorial and the unveil-
Evening star., 1936-08-07
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
Of Interesting Events
and Things.

WAY OUT.
~ LIVER METzEROTT, Wash
1 ington lawyer who knows
about constitutional ques-
~ tions and politics. says that
ever present issue, "if." has crossed
the minds Of several Of his clients in
connection with the current presi-
Dental campaign.
IF tragedy should fall upon the
candidates Of any party what would
happen?" he has been asked.
If q presidential candidate should
die between his nomination and elec-
ton, Mr.. Metzerott says. the National
Committee Of the candidates party
is authorized to fill the vacancy or
call convention for that purpose.
The vice presidential candidate would
not become the presidential candidate
unless selected by the committee or
the convention.
The committee or convention also
would fill the vacancy If vice presi-
dental candidate should die, accord
ing to Mr.. Metzerott. He says this
happened once, in 1912. when Vice
President James S. Sherman. a can
didate for reelection on the ticket
with President Taft, died on October
30, only q few days before the elec-
ton.
The Republican committee desig-
mated Nicholas Murray Butler to fill
the vacancy.
II n X X
HEADQUARTERS.
The palattal new Post Office
Department Building may be head
quarters for all the post Offices
of the United States, but it doesn't
hare any letter chutes from the
upper floors. like those in most
office and apartment buildings. II
you are on the fifth or sirth floor,
to mail your letter you must take
the elevator to Benjamin Franklin
Station, located, as you knoU, at
the street leDel.
X
WEASEL.
THE fierce, nervous energy Of the
= weasel makes him a difficult
animal to keep in captivity because
he wears himself and his coat out in
his constant racing about his cage.
Evening star., 1936-08-07

assistance, he saw MacCracken at the
rail and called. Bill MacCracken,
save me-" So MacCracken got a boat
hook, hooked 1t into the seat of Hook
aday's trousers, and he was hauled
aboard spluttering, and clad in over
size Coast Guard dungarees, in which
he proudly attended the ceremonies.
Hockaday staged somewhat SINH
lar feather demonstration" in the
streets of Philadelphia during the
Democratic National Convention.
Evening star., 1936-08-07

AFTER you, sir" he said with a
flourish.
"Oh, no, sir; after you, SIR" grinned
the policeman, who at length pre-
vailed.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
CONTEST WINNERS
OF "AD" CLUB FETED
Ehrlich Host to Team Members
and Wiyes-Receives
Prize,

Alvin @. Ehrlich, chairman Of the
winning team In the membership
contest ot'<the Advertising Club Of
Washington, was host to the vic.
Evening star., 1936-08-07
The National Scene
BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGwORTH

nEVERLY HILLS. August 7-There delightful variety
the successive reports about what is happening to Fathe
/ Coughlin. two weeks now aoencie
Evening star., 1936-08-07

that the order to and desist to come,
some interesting and spectacular history under spotlight
q microphone.
(Copyrishk 1850
Evening star., 1936-08-07
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Evening star., 1936-08-07

Tomorrow: The pi1nly Hippo
from Liberia.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-07-25

SEC RULES IN
Low BRACKETS

Amendment Of the rule of the
Securities & Exchange commission
liberalizing the issuance of securi-
ties in sums under 100000 has
been announced in Washington, d.
C., a copy of the ruling being
available in the library of Montana
Oil & Mining Journal.
The announcement says in part:
"Rule 2O1 is designed to afford
conditional exemption to securities
of not less than specified denomin-
atoms. Prior to the amendment,
Rule 2O1 prescribed as a condition
OF the exemption that no securities
OF the same class sold within the
preceding year should have been
sold otherwise than for cash. Under
the amended Rule the exemption
may be available to evidence of
Indebtedness even though other Sc
curities Of the same have within a
year been exchanged by the issuer
with its existing security holders
prior to the amendment the
rule also provided in substance
that the exemption afforded by the
rule should be available only to
securities sold at par. The amend
ed rule permits the sale of evil
dences of Indebtedness exempted
by the rule at not less than 80
per cent Of their principal amount.
Shares of stock in a corporation
and similar interests in a trust or
unincorporated association to be
entitled to the exemption provided
by the rule, but still have a par
or, IL no-par, a stated value Of not
less than 800, and must be Of
fered to the public at a price not
less than par or il no-par the stated
value thereof"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-07-25

will get the other 50 cents per barrel.
To buy oil for ~ cents a barrel and
sell 1t at 81 per barrel is Of course
good business. Such a royalty lis GER
tatnly good buy" especially when
there are two producing wells ON the
barrels per day and the other with an
initial Of 1O5 barrels per day.
For our members who bought two
years ago, this royalty is paying about
is per cent on the inYestment-the
acreage is large. The person who buys
at three times our cost will get but
six per cent ON his investment. That
is not much. Yet when we stop to con-
slider that more than 40 more wells
viii be drilled on this property, it is
apparent that the six per cent return
on the investment is very minor con-
sideratiOn.
Recently we secured a Cut Bank roy
atty with one small producing well. We
bought 1t without regard to the we'll.
So far as we are concerned, we do
not care about producing wells or rate
OF return. III 1t is OIL LAND. we want
to buy. the oil under that land as
cheaply as possible. We want to buy
oil for 1c per barrel, If possible. IL this
is not possible, we viii pay cents
or 10 cents or whatever price is neces-
sary. In this case we paid six cents per
barrel
There is the possibility that the ground
may contain as much as TWICE as much
oil as we are figuring on. In that case
the price is cents per barrel. There
is the further possibility and probability
that the oil win bring not only 81 per
barrel but possibly over the next 10 or
rs years some of this oil may sell for
So per barrel. That is the SPECULATIVE
feature of the investment. We try TO keep
UNDER rather than OVER in our
estimates.
When the investor reduces royalty
prices to the business of BUYING OIL,
he makes no mistake. If we are COM
fident that a piece of ground Is oil Land,
we figure carefully what we want TO
pay for a barrel of oil In underground
storage and pay accordingly.
Our eastern client who took this roy
atty does not want non-prOducing roy
a1ties. He wants only producing royalties.
He figures that PRODUCTION is the
proof that a given tract is OH land. He
viii doubtless read these lines and we