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Evening star., 1936-08-22
Jury DEADL0CKED
IN MUENCH TRIAL
Four Defendants Calm Pend.
ing .''Gift of God" Baby
Outcome.
Bv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KAHOKA, Mo-, August 22-After
more than 10 hours fruitless delibera-
ton, the second Muench "gift Of God"
baby conspiracy case jury was excused
at 1910 am. today, with instructions
to resume deliberations at am.
At midnight Circuit Judge Walter
A. Higbee had called the jury into
court, but sent them back, as he had
done earlier, to continue deliberation
The four defendants, DR.. and Mrs.
Ludwig o. Muench, Attorney Wilfred
Jones and Mrs. Helen Berroyer, ap-
peared to be calm as the rural jury
deliberated their fate. The four were
charged with attempting to gain un-
lawful possession of unwed Anna
Wares baby and pass it off as Mrs.
Muench's own child.
Instructions to Jury.
The case went to the jury at 3:45
pm. Friday with instructions it might
find any two or more of the defend
ants guilty.
The maximum penalty under the
charge Is one year in Jail and $1,000
fine for each.
The first case, brought here from
st. Louis on change of venue last
April, ended in mistrial after a
juror told Judge Higbee he had been
approached with bribe offer.
Associated Prosecuting Attorney
Frank E. Matthews closed the States
argument by repeating that titan
haired Mrs. Muench, former st. Louis
society figure, who announced birth
of child one year ago this month,
privately accused DR.. Marsh Pitz-
man, wealthy st. Louis bachelor, with
being the child's father and sought
to obtain $250,00O from him through
the child
DR.. Pitzman testified he had be-
lieved for time he was the baby's
father, and paid Mrs. Muench Sl4,5OO.
Anna Ware, Pennsylvania servant
girl to whom the ST. Louis Court of
| Appeals returned the controverted
baby. said Mrs. Muench wanted her
baby Ito palm off on the public as
her own"
Declared Baby Own.
Showing emotion at times during
the trial, Mrs. Muench pleaded that
the child was her own, that she never
| accused DR.. Pitzman of being its
father, and that the money she re-
ceived from him was loan for her
defense fund" when she faced
charges in the 1881 kidnapping of DR..
Isaac D. Kelley, for which she was
acquitted. She announced the baby
was a gift from God. sent to me
in my time of distress"
The State alleged Jones obtained
the Ware baby for the Muenches and
/ Mrs. Berroyer helped him transfer it
/ from the home of midwife.
Evening star., 1936-08-22

start, put neatly sliced ball plunk In
the Chesapeake Bay. He just stood
there on the tee for moment, cogi-
tating the malevolence Of the fate that
follows golfers. That, at least, is
what he thought he was doing. He
discovered it was far worse than that
when he looked around for the caddy.
Not seeing him, he finally called.
Yes, boss" said the caddy, peek
ing out cautiously from behind tree
a good 20 yards away, "1'm coming as
soon as you get that club-throwin'
CLINT out Of your eye"
X X n
KNOCK, KNOCK.
On the last trip OF the Wash
ington Senators to Nep York, two
local base ball scribes hoped into
one of Gotham's ornate taricdbs
and instructed the driper to head
for the Yankee Stadium. Neu
York cabs, unlike our o,Dn, hare
heavy glass partition separating.
the operator from his passengers.
but portion OF 1t slides back for
purposes OF communication.
After proceeding q feD blocks,
one OF the writers changed his
mind. and Dtshina to notify the
Evening star., 1936-08-22
CLASH is AVERTED
AT BAKERY PLANT
Police Called as Neighbors Fear
Fracas Between Strikers and
Non Union Drivers.

Police were called to the plant of
the Dutch Baker Boy, Inc, at Ninth
and Monroe streets northeast, today
to avert what residents of the neigh
borhood believed was a threatened
clash between striking bakery driver
statesmen and non-union drivers start
Ing on their morning rounds.
No violence resulted however. and
all but three pickets dispersed after
the non-union men left on their
routes.
Robert c. Lester, business agent Of
the Bakery Drivers Union, said some
LII feeling resulted from attacks on
three of the travelling pickets" as
signed to follow the company's trucks
on their routes. One man, James
S. Gurney of Kensington, Md, is un-
der care of a physician because of a
beating administered by five men
in Capitol Heights, Md. Lester said
The men followed Gurney's car as
he tailed" the company's truck and
attacked him after he had crossed
the District line into Maryland, Les
ter claimed.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
BANDITS SLAY 81
JAPANESE SUBJECTS
Two MaAchoukuans Also Killed
in Raid on Walled City
Near Border.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, August pa thousand
bandits killed 80 Japanese subjects
and 2 Manchoukuans in a raid or
the walled town of Fusung, near the
Korean border of Manchoukuo, Dome
News Agency dispatches reported to-
day.
They said the well organized and
heavily armed bandit army swarmed
into Fusung last Sunday, overpow-
cred the small japanese garrison, and
razed more than two-thirds Of the
buildings.
The bandits carried of hostages
when several Japanese Army bomb
ing planes from Singking forced them
to retreat.
The bandits apparently singled out
Japanese or Koreans for their VIC
Tins. OF those killed were SOL
diers, 2 policemen and ~ civilian
residents.
A japanese infantry column from
Supingkai occupied the town after
the airplanes routed the marauders.
The attack was the high spot in
q marked revival Of bandit activities
in Eastern and Central Manchoukuo.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
Well Diggers Wanted.

OKLAHOMA CITY R.-What
Oklahoma needs, complained Ron
Stephens, assistant State w. p. A.
administrator, is more well diggers
and fewer delegations asking for well
diggers.
"A delegation told me they could
get water within IA feet Of the sur
face" he said. They drove 100 miles
to get Federal aid to do it. They
could have dug the well while they
were getting there and back"
Evening star., 1936-08-22
VICE DRIVE TURNED
UPON CONNECTICUT
Thirteen Arrested in Nutmeg
State and Three in New York
by Federal Men.

A Justice Department campaign
to wipe out white slavery In Con-
necticut has been launched with the
arrest of three men in New York
and l3 additional persons in Connecti-
cut, J. Edgar Hoover. director OF the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, told
the Associated Press last night.
The three men we're arrested in
New York by F. B. I. agents and
charged with violating the Mann act.
They were to be arraigned today on
complaints charging them with be-
ing fugitives from Connecticut, where
the warrants for their arrests we're
issued.
The trio-Joseph Petrucelli, Ar
thur Tasseln and Bentazzo Enrico-
were said to be members Of a we'll
organized ring which takes girls to
Connecticut from Ssachusetts, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
A number of the 13 persons ar
rested in Connecticut are women, all
of whom have been charged with vio-
lation Of the white slave traffic act.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
PIEDMONT DAIRY GROUP
SETS FESTIVAL DATE
Manassas Fete Will Be September
25-Slate of Officers
Elected.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SPECIAL Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS. Va, August 22-At a
mass meeting held in the Town Hall
at Manassas last night the sixth annual
Piedmont Virginia Dairy Festival was
organized and Friday, September Is.
set as the date for the event this year
r. S. Hynson of Manassas was re-
elected president of the association
Lake Triplett of Marshall was elected
first vice president; Ben Middleton OF
Herndon, second vice president; Sam
Luckett of Alexandria, third vice presi-
dent; DR.. George Cooke of Manassas.
secretary, and R. L. Byrd of Manassas.
treasurer.
The board of directors was enlarged
and will include all county agents,
home demonstrators and agricultural
teachers for the territory covered by
the association, which comprise Arling-
ton, Culpeper, Fauquier, Fairfax
Loudoun, Madison, Orange, Prince
William, Rappahannock, Stafford and
Spottsylvania Counties and the cities
of Alexandria, Fredericksburg and
Washington, D. c.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
LandOn
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Continued From First Page)
invited him to a drought conference
at Des Moines September /. an invita-
ton Landon said he would accept.
To settle the drought problem, the
nominee said, I'VE should combine our
initiative and efforts, just as our pio-
neer forefathers who settled this State
combined their efforts to meet the
great problems Of their day"
After making stops at other points
Of Ada, Bucyrus, Crestline. Mansfield
and Canton, the Landon special train
was due at West Middlesex at ! 80 p m.
His address delivered, Landon ar
ranged to go to nearby Newcastle to
attend dinner conference Of Repub-
lican leaders from Pennsylvania, Ohio.
New York and West Virginia He
planned to sandwich in a visit to the
home of 85-year-old Mrs. Mary Reed
Baird, who was his nurse after his
birth September 9. 1887.
On Sunday morning the Governor
will return to West Middlesex for per-
sonal visits and possibly to attend
church services at the Methodist
church where his grandfather. Rev.
William H. Mossman, once served as
pastor.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
SCRIBE.

p EADERS of one of the local papers
lost chance at q pretty snappy
feature story the other day, but this,
perhaps, will compensate them.
The story was about Detective Roy
E. Blick, vice squad man, who was
victimized to the extent Of a pretty
snappy Panama hat while he testified
before the grand jury. AS every one
knows, court reporter likes nothing
better than to write stories about de-
tectives from whom things are stolen.
The first of the press room lads who
heard about Blick's hat leaped to the
typewriter to perform his pleasant
duty. He was just putting the finish
ing touches on the little gem when an
associate walked into the room. The
associate was told about the whole
thing.
so you steal hats to make stories?"
asked the associate, pointing to
Blick's headgear, which the other
man had removed while writing the
story.
The hat. with the story pasted in
side, was returned to its owner.
CLINT.
1T TOOK a Sherwod Forest caddy to
convince certain Washington
golfer that he-the latter-is a pretty
terrifying looking gent when things
60 wrong with his game.
1t was on the third hole that the
golfer, after q better -than-average
Evening star., 1936-08-22
SAN MICHELE AUTHOR
NOW READS OWN BOOK
Operation Restores Sight of DR.
Muntne Of Capri Long After
Completing Work.

ROME.-After many years DR.. Axel
Munthe Of Capri has been able to
read for the first time his own famous
Story Of San Michele, read by hun
dreds of thousands Of people all over
the world, but never till now by the
man who wrote it.
DR.. Munthe's sight was almost gone
by the time his book was finished, and
he could only listen while it was read
aloud to him. For a time he saw
little save light and darkness, but an
operation by Prof. Vogt of Zurich,
Switzerland, has restored his sight
and with the aid of spectacles Dr.
Munthe has at last read for himself
the story which has delighted so many
1t pleased him, he confesses in his
Introduction to an illustrated edition
Of San Michele to be published.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
WATCHMAN BOUND
DURING ROBBERY
Colored Bandits Escape With SIS
Following Hold-up Near Ben.
ming Viaduct.

Glover Clayton. 700 block Of Fourth
street northeast. watchman on a prof.
ect of the Bayne e. Wright Construc-
tion Co., was held up and tied hand
and foot by two colored men in a
robbery near the Benning viaduct
last night.
The bandits, according to the
watchman, forced him into the office
where they bound him. took his keys
and stole S25 from the cash drawer
They escaped by running down Q
railroad track near the property.
Police also received reports Of two
minor robberies last night. Victims
were:
Matilda Milhem. 81 r street, who
reported a colored man jumped on
the running board of her car and
snatched her purse containing $3.50
when she halted for a stop" light at
New jersey and New York avenues.
Carlton w. Corbin, 1910 Twelfth
street, manager of store at 1901
Ninth street northwest, said two
colored men entered the place and
one snatched a bag containing s25
in bills while the other one was ask
ing Corbin for a bar Of soap. Both
escaped.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
INSURANCE FIRM
WILL REORGAN|zE
Liquidator Order of Old Pa
cific Mutual Set Aside
by Judge.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 22.-Super.
ior Judge Henry VI. Willis late yes.
terday vacated orders by Presiding
Superior Judge Douglas L. Edmonds
appointing State Insurance Commis-
sioner Samuel Carpenter as liquidator
of the old Pacific Mutual Life Insur-
ance Co. and approving a plan of
reorganization Carpenter submitted.
Judge Willis acted on the ground
that Judge Edmonds was disquali-
fed because he holds Pacific Mutual
policy, but upheld Edmonds' ap-
pointment Of Carpenter as conserva-
tor. The company is operating under
new incorporation under his di-
rection.
The hearing will be resumed Mon
day, when Judge Willis will hear
arguments on motions to dismiss the
whole case. Attorneys for interven-
ing groups contend the act under
which the proceedings were insti-
tuted is unconstitutional, and that
Carpenters appointment even as
conservator is, therefore. invalid.
Hopes Business Will Continue.
Judge Willis expressed hope that
liquidation of the company would not
be necessary and that its business
would continue under direction Of Car
penter until such time as it could be
restored to other control.
Earlier today Deputy State Attorney
General John Flynn told the court only
one offer to purchase assets of the old
company had been received by Pacific
Mutual officials. He said the offer was
not considered because it provided no
protection for interests of non-can-
celable liability to policyholders. In
adequate reserves for this class Of poll
cy caused Carpenter to seek reor-
ganization of the company q month
ago. he said at the time.
Irving Walker. counsel for a group
of intervening stock and policy hold
ers, disputed F1ynn'S statement about
purchase offers, but Judge Willis ruled
that this phase was out Of order for
the present.
Other Questions Not Involved.
Judge Willis said the question Of
whether there had been any misman
agement or misconduct in the COM
pany's affairs is not involved in this
hearing.
The question Of solvency OF the
company may come up" Judge Willis
said. What caused the Insolvency. if
it exists, is matter in which this
court has no concern"
Commissioner Carpenter recently
sued George I. Cochran, former presi-
dent of the company. and seven other
former officers and directors for SILL
65l, which he contended is due be-
cause of alleged illegal transfers,
gifts, donations and contributions ii
handling the company's assets"
Evening star., 1936-08-22
.CLEVENGER CASE,,'
ARGUMENTS BEGIN
RebuttaI Witness Hits Claim
of HaI|boy He Didn't Know
Coed Was Slain.
BY the Associated Press.

6y tne AsSOClhteo FresS
ASHEVILLE,. N. c., August o.
Evidence was completed today at the
murder trial of Martin Moore, huge
colored hallboy. charged with killing
Helen Clevenger in her Battery Park
Hotel room early the morning Of
July Is.
A defense motion for nonsuit was
denied and Judge Donald F. Phillips
ordered arguments by counsel to start
Immediately.
Rebuttal testimony ended shortly
after James Pinkins, scrub man at the
hotel, testified that the 22-year-old
defendant sought to evade his work
on Miss Clevenger's floor the morning
after the crime.
Pinkins also contradicted Moore's
testimony that he did not know Of
Miss Clevenger's death until 7 pm,
July Is. Her body was found by her
uncle about $3.50 am.
Repeats Conversation.
The 18-year-old, l08-pound New
York University coed was killed about
l am. that day. Pinkins said Moore,
hallboy, told him between and 10
o'clock" in the morning. There's a
woman sick or dead up on the Sec
ond floor"
Ed Frady, hotel engineer, testified
Pinkins told him of the conversation
with Moore.
Pat Branch, hotel manager, ques-
toned about Moore's re-enactment of
the crime August 8. said he saw no
force exerted upon the Negro during
the demonstration.
The 18-year-old, 108-pound New
York University coed was killed about
! am. that day. Pinkins said Moore.
6-foot 3-inch hall boy, told him be
tween 8 and 10 o'clock" in the morning
There's woman sick or dead up on
the second floor"
Finkins said the defendant. who
repudiated a confession with the claim
1t was vrung from him by beatings
after his arrest, told him he had wo.k
to do on the second floor, but was not
going there because Of the sick
woman"
you go on and do your work"
Pinkins said he told Moore. IF that
woman's sick she amt studying about
you"
Sheriff Laurence E. Brown, who
headed the 24-day investigation, ch-
NAKED by Moore's arrest while in pos
session of what experts identified as
the death gun, testified Pinkins told
him the same story Immediately after
the hallboy's arrest.
Arguments to Be Brief.
The State rested at 1915 am. the
non-suit motion was perfunctory and
Sanford Brown began speaking for
the defense after Judge Phillips also
denied motion to strike from the
record all references to Moore's re-
pudiated confession.
Scroop Styles Of defense counsel
said, We're going to try to hold argu-
ments to an hour and half for each
side"
You have not been shown" Brown
argued, in whose hands the gun was
when the deceased was slain If you
disregard the confession the State con-
tends was voluntarily given. you have
only circumstantial evidence against
this boy"
Shortly after Brown began his
speech the gaunt prisoner slipped low
in his seat, rested his head on the
back Of his chair, closed his eyes and
let his long arms hang limp. He oc-
casionally licked his lips. Later he
lifted his 6foot 3-inch frame and
gazed sleepily at the jury Of middle
aged men. most Of whom have daugh-
ters.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
EUROPE DESIRES
PEACE, SAYSGRAY
Chancellor of A.U. Describes
international Movement
After Foreign Trip.

One of the most encouraging fea-
lures of the European situation today
is a sincere international movement
for world peace. which has the sup
port of more than 100000 Europeans
in every walk of life, DR.. Joseph NJ
Gray. chancellor of American Uni
versity, reported today on his return
from a tWo-month visit to Germany,
Czechoslovakia and Austria.
Despite the persistent news of mill
taristic activities throughout Europe
Evening star., 1936-08-22
FINAL PROBATE PAPERS
FOR TRAMMELL FILED
Of 5000 Cash Left Widow, Lawyer
Who Acted as Administrator
Gets 500.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BARLOW Fla. August 22-Final
probate papers in the settlement of
the estate of the late United States
Senator Park Trammell were filed
here yesterday.
OF the 5000 cash bequeathed to
Trammells widow 500 was awarded
to ]. P. Marchant, attorney, who acted
as administrator.
Marchant reported to the County
Court that notice to creditors had
been published. that he had collected
as administrator S4,242 from a New
Orleans life insurance company and
that he had paid it over to c. I. Wig
gins, receiver of the First National
Bank of Lakeland.
An accounting of the estate showed
that the insurance policy had been
made payable to the Lakeland bank
as collateral for loan.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
WANTS CITIZENSHIP

LOS ANGELES. August "a Cp).-
Duncan Renaldo, film actor. who was
a man without country six years,
yesterday took out his first papers
for United States citizenship.
He served Federal prison term
on conviction of making false state
ments in an application for a pass
port to Africa, where he played in
Trader Horn" several years ago
Recently he re-entered the United
States on Rumanian quota.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
FARMERS ON STRIKE

PARIS, August % R.-The pros.
pect that Partisan dinner tables might
be barren of cabbages loomed las,
night as 5000 truck farmers in regions
outlying Paris quit their fields in a
wage dispute growing out or a poor
season.
Crops shortened by unusually cool
and rainy weather, the farmers COM
planned they were unable to sell yepe-
tables because most Parisians were
away on vacations.
The proprietors Of the farms sought
to cut their hired hands wages from
4 francs (about "a cents) to 80 francs
an hour.
Evening star., 1936-08-22

Father, of course. came home near
daybreak, and little unsteady on his
feet. But he didn't forget Merle.
Into her bed room he walked as quietly
as possible under the circumstances.
Gently. he picked up a cover and
wrapped it around her shoulders and
started to hug her just as gently.
Suddenly. an adult figure rose in the
bed and showed him roughly aside.
Get away from here. you drunk. "
shouted a woman's voice.
1t was his mother-in-law.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
DEMOCRATS GET.
NEW YORK BREAK
6. O. P. Unable to Agree on
Opponent for Lehman.
Forces Split.
Bylhe Associated Press.

NEW YORK, August 22.-With the
campaign for Governor occupying an
important position in the election
In, New York State, the Democrats
appeared today to have gained head
start in that their candidate already
j51chosen. t.i
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman is seeking
reelection. while the Republican
leaders have not yet agreed on an
opponent.
The Eastern division managers Of
Gov. ALI M. Landon's campaign pub
licly have expressed a hands of"
policy in the State situation, but pri-
vately they do not conceal their hope
f6r a quick achievement of harmony.
The Kansas Governor probably will
canvass the governorship contest in
bis forthcoming visit to New York
State.
The central figure in the Republic
an controversy is the Onondaga Coun-
ty leader, Clarence R. King of Syra-
cuse.
City Leaders Hit King.
King has aroused the ire of New
York City leaders, who previously
had expressed willingness to unite
behind an upstate candidate to op-
pose Lehman because of his failure
to declare his personal choice between
the two Syracuse aspirants for the
nomination. Mayor ROLAND B. Mar
win and State Senator George R.
Fearon.
Inasmuch as the State convention
Is not until September %. the lead
ers believe a pre-convention build
up" of a favorite is necessary.
Opposed to Fearon and Mayor Mar
vim is the candidacy of Supreme Court
Justice William F. Bleakley of neigh
boring West Chester County. Unless
the Onondaga County leader comes to
an early decision where he will throw
the support of his organization, some
of the metropolitan leaders are pre-
pared to abandon the idea of an up
State candidate to oppose Lehman-a
New Yorker-and give their support tc
Justice Bleakley.
The Landon managers feel a pro-
tracted controversy over the governor.
ship may become threat to Landon's
chances to carry New York, with its
81 electoral votes.
The Democratic convention, also or
September %, at Syracuse, will serve
principally for the formal renomi-
nation of Gov. Lehman, and will be a
rally for President Roosevelt.
Labor Backs Democrats.
The SO campaign in New York also
finds, for the first time, organized
labor in the field with political party
The State Committee on labor's
Eon-Partisan League-which includes
such pro-Roosevelt union leaders as
Maj. George L. Berry, John L. Lewis
Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky-
organized the American Labor party
to support the candidates. of Presi.
dent Roosevelt and Gov. Lehman or
an independent basis.
The Labor party ballot will include
the same list of presidential electors
as the Democratic, with the Labor
leaders we'll represented on the slate
approved by the Democratic State
Committee this week. Some of these
labor leaders look upon the Labor
party in New York as the forerunner
Of national labor party in 1910.
Evening star., 1936-08-22

DR.. Gray said,
there is a strong
a n d grow i n g
movement for
peace a n d an
earnest striving
for economic sta
bility as a basis
for such peace.
There is an ac-
tive international
peace federation
with headquar-
tiers in CZecho-
slovakia which
numbers 5000
900 members in
that country and
Evening star., 1936-08-22
Girls, 13, Signed for Films.

HOLLYWOOD, August % @.-
Thirteen is q lucky number for three
girls who fixed their names to movie
contracts today.
Age 13, they are Jeanne Dante, who
recently appeared In q New York stage
play; .Deanna Durbin, q singer. and
Peggy Ryan, Q classic dancer.