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Evening star., 1937-02-01
.PARKERS' PETITION
DENIED BY COURT
Indictments Against Two in
Wendell Case Held Valid
by U. S. Judge.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEWARK. N. j., February In
dictments for conspiracy under the
Lindbergh kidnapping law against
Ellis Parker. Burlington County de-
tective chief. and his son, Ellis. jr.
we're held valid today by Federal
Judge Guy L. Fake. He dismissed
their pleas in abatement in the Paul
H. Wendell kidnap case.
The court also dismissed similar
pleas by Mrs. Anna G. Bading, secre-
tary 10 the elder Parker, and G
Clinton Zeiler. Burlington County de-
tective, who were indicted for purjury
in connection with their testimony
before the Federal grand jury which
returned true bills against the Parkers.
The detective chief and his son we're
accused in the indictment of con-
spiracy to abduct Wendell, former
Trenton attorney. in New York and
later bring him to New Jersey. Wendell
charged he was tortured into making
a false confession in the Lindbere h
baby kidnapping. He repudiated the
confession, but a Mercer County grand
jurys investigation OF it delayed the
execution of Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann for three days.
The Parkers attacked the indict-
ments on the grounds an unauthorized
person tstenographerI was present in
the grand jury room: no Negroes
were on the jury panel; the jury was
not drawn in accordance with the
law: the indictments were returned
after the grand jury term had expired
and that the evidence before the
grand jury did not warrant indict-
ments.
Evening star., 1937-02-01

does not necessarily indicate that
gambling Is involved.
In the bishops written opinion.
shooting craps and similar games
are pure gambling" because they in
volve no skill on the part Of the player.
Cards. he explained, combine chance
and skill.
Speculation on real estate or other
business propositions. he asserted. is
another matter. While there Is an
element of chance. the dealings are
legitimate way Of conducting busi-
ness and Is not immoral"
There has been a lot Of muddled
thinking on this subject" Bishop
Cannon said in the statement. Il
thought the matter through thor
oughly before buying stocks 20 years
ago"
Deplores "HypOcriticar' Attitude.
Bishop Cannon expressed the opinion
that ministers and laymen may in
dulge in stock market transa lotions
without violating the scriptural ad-
monition to keep "unspotted from the
world" He said he deplored the
"hypocritical attitude that some
people have taken in this connection.
Testifying through his legal proxy,
Robert H. McNeill. Bishop Cannon
readily divulged his purchases of stock
through a New York concern about
1927. In response to question. the
hi he fryp ~ot
shop"
Cannon's place on the witness stand
was taken by McNeill after the court
had been informed of the bishops
illness in a hospital at Durham, N. C.
McNeill read Cannon's answers from
a long deposition taken while the
churchman was in Sibley Hospital
here last June.
Although McNeill remarked that he
failed to see the pertinence of the
stock transactions, he said he would
not object to Whitefords review of
them through the reading Of q series
of kilograms exchanged between Cam
non and the New York concern. These
records showed that Cannon put up
$4,000, and at one time was credited
with . profit of about $4,000.
Criticism in the press and elsewhere
Of the bishops dealings with an alleged
bucket shop" the jury has been ad-
vised, led to an inquiry by the General
Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, at Dallas, Tex, in 1890.
At that time, the court learned, Can
non promised to discontinue his stock
market operations.
When Whiteford. just before court
adjourned last Friday. asked Bishop
Cannon in the deposition whether he
had kept that promise. the clergyman
refused to answer on the grounds that
the question was an invasion of his
personal rights. The bishop persisted
in his refusal. despite Whiteford's re-
iterated demands for an answer, and
the question went unanswered today.
as Whiteford digressed to take up
the 1927 stock dealings.
Representative Tinkham was present
again today for the trial, but spent
most OF the morning chatting with
friends in the corridor outside the
court roon
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Congress i'll Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Considers ssoo,ooo,ooo relief-de-
hciency bill.
Judiciary subcommittee resumes
hearing on O'Mahoney bill for Federal
licensing Of corporations.
House:
Takes up independence Offices bill.
TOMORROW.
Sen.+e:
Further debate on emer ency relief
efficiency bill unless it passes tonight.
House:
Considers private calendar and re-
sumes debate on independent offices
appropriation bill
Interstate Commerce Committee re-
sumes consideration of long and short
haul bill at 10 am
Rivers and Harbors Committee con-
siders miscellaneous resolutions at
1890 am.
Foreign Affairs Committee considers
neutrality legislation at 1890 am.
immigration Committee meets at
1890 am.
Subcommittee on Appropriation in
charge of District supply bill begins
tour Of District institutions at $50
am.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
mrs. A. A. CAPR0N,
NOTED NURSE, DIES
Was Red Cross and Military
Welfare Worker After
War Service.

Mrs. Lillian Capron. prominent for
38 years as Red Cross and mill
tary welfare worker. died Saturday
night at Walter Reed Hospital, the
War Department announced today.
Mrs. Capron was the widow Of
Capt Allyn A. Capron, first American
officer killed in Cuba during the
Spanish War. He fell in action on
June "a. 1898. at the Battle of Las
Guasimas on the road TO Santiago.
Mrs. Capron, who had been in
charge OF welfare work in the office
of the chief of the Air Corps since
December Z. 1927. was a member of
the Columbia Hospital Board here
and was charter member of the
Providence Hospital Auxiliary. which
established the free ward for chill
dren at that institution
She was in charge of raising funds
under the direction of President Theo-
dore Roosevelt for the Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery monument to the
Rough Riders. the regiment in which
her husband served.
Served In Cuba.
Mrs. Capron was born in Boston
November ls, 1887. She joined the
Red Cross in 1899. and went to Cuba
as a member of the Clara Barton Re.
lief Expedition. After a year of dis
tinguished service she was sent e
the Philippines by Miss Barton t.
study the situation there and tc
recommend a program of activity 70:
the Red Gross. One Of her recon.
mendations, for the establishment d
industrial schools. later was adopted
as Federal policy. She was highly
commended for her work in fighting
yellow fever and the bubonic plagl,,
in the islands.
During the World War Mrs. Capror
served as . nurse and canteen worker
with the Red Cross in France. ST.,
was close to the battle front through.
out the Argonne drive. and va,
known affectionately as mother" :;
hundreds Of American soldiers. Since
the war she has taught domestic
science and health hygiene classes ir
the District Chapter of the Red Cross
Founder Of War Unit.
She was a life member Of the Rough
Riders Association and the Richard j
Harden Camp, United Spanish Wal
Veterans. She was a founder of tht
National Lineal Society Of the Spanish
VIZ, a patriotic organization created
for the relief of families of soldiers
sailors and Marines.
Funeral services will be held at II
am. tomorrow in Birch's funeral par.
lors, with the United Spanish War
Veterans in charge. She will be buried
in Arlington National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
MALAGA NEARLY ENCIRCLED.
Mediterranean Port Is Facing Isola
ton From LOyaIistS.

Mediterranean Port Is Facing Isola-
tion From LoyaIists.
BY the Associated Press
SALAMANCA Spain, February l.
Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de Llano's south
ern drive against Malaga thrust the
spearhead of his Fascist army within
sight OF the sea today. virtually isolat-
ing the important Mediterranean port
from Socialist territory.
The insurgent front line described
a wide arc from Marbella, IS miles
west Of Malaga, to the small village
of Otivar, 40 miles eastward. where
from the mountain heights Zen. de
Llano's advance guard were in sight
of the Mediterranean.
Only Scant few miles were open
are narrow connecting corridor be-
tween the beleaguered city and the
rest of government-held Spain.
Supply Depot Captured.
Swimming the flooded Cacin River,
the Fascist attackers captured a gov
ernment supply depot east Of Malaga.
factory converted into a workshop
for manufacturing bombs and hand
grenades.
Near Albania, in the flooded Cacin
River Valley, the Socialist column
seeking to relieve Malaga was reported
to have retreated with little or no
resistance to Gen. de Llano's advanc-
ing Legionnaires.
The Semi-circle of the Fascist posi-
tions ran from Marbella, on the Med
iterranean. northeastward to Ante
Guerra, rs miles almost due north of
Malaga.
Then it swept east and southeast
to Albania for a swing to the Heights
of Otivar. in the Almijara Mountains,
which dip precipitously to the sea,
allowing at some points scarcely
enough level terrain for the trunk
highway to the east.
Madrid reported government
forces were menacing Granada on
De Llano's left flank. after taking
the towns of Beas de Granada and
Quentar and inflicting heavy cas-
ualties.
Socialist prisoners at Quentar
were freed when the military jails
fell into government hands.)
Troops May Go to Madrid.
Foreign observers indicated once
malaga was completely cut of and
the insurgents capture several smaller
Mediterranean ports. Generalissimo
Francisco Franco could leave only q
few troops to hold the Malaga lines
and concentrate his armies against
Madrid if weather permitted.
While the Fascists pushed forward
their southern frontier the Madrid
lines remained practically stationary
with attacks and counter attacks
begged in the mud from the long
early Spring rains.
Evening star., 1937-02-01

Warning Service. said the outlook was
very favorable"
Paducah a Ghost Town.
Red Cross and other sources have
estimated the death toll in the flood
at 400, with the known dead at 1852.
Property damage is set at figure in
excess of 100000 900. with $4,000
homeless and 236,007 marooned.
On the Ohio River above Cairo
which sits on a slender neck of land
where the Ohio dumps its watery load
into the Mississippi, Psducah. Ky-
temporarily became ghost town.
Complete evacuation was ordered as
a health measure.
While Louisville. Cincinnati and
other Ohio River towns, battered and
bruised by their worst flood. cheer
fully turned to rehabilitation efforts.
man-made dikeS on the long river
front. from so miles below Cairo to
the Gulf. held the flood waters of
the Mississippi. Army engineers re-
iterated their predictions the levees
would meet the test when the crest
Of the flood passes down the Missis-
sippi late this week.
IF vigilance. supplies and man
power can do it. the levee line will
be held at all costs" said Lieut.. Col.
Eugene Reybold. who Is directing the
vigil Of ll5.000 men along the Missis-
sippi's 81 ,000, 900 900 dixie system.
Above Cairo, residents OF Tamms
began evacuation as the river grad
ually rose in its streets. The only dry
SPOT in Harrisburg, city Of $4,000
northeast of Cairo, was the business
section. Harrisburg is ~ miles away
from the rivers normal course.
Plug Miner Breaks.
Flood fighters in the Cairo sector
had a busy night plugging minor
breaks. The Slough Landing Neck
dixie gave way at Bessie, 10 miles
north of T1ptonville. but engineers
said 1t would not endanser the
Tennessee city. The flood waters
cut across the / 1la-mile neck OF the
horseshoe bend to rejoin the
Mississippi and ease the strain at
New Madrid. Mo, at the head Of the
bend.
Thirty -one men were reported
missing today as dredges grappled in
murky waters at New Madrid, Mo-,
where a steel barge carrying more
than 100 levee workers sank Satur-
day night in fiood- prevention spill.
way
Col e. C Kenton. United States
Army Engineer. who added We feel
certain these men will turn up soon,"
announced a complete list of those
unaccounted for Earlier he said all
had been accounted for. then revised
that announcement that at least one
was missing.
Awaiting q report from the Flood
Commission. headed by Harry Hop
kins. w. p. A. administrator, which
began an inspection Of the flood areas
today, President Roosevelt was ad-
vised that 10000 Federal relief
workers were aiding nearly million
persons driven from their homes. The
Red Cross counted s56,603 persons
whose homes had bean flooded and OF
these 676,l76 abandoned them.
Meanwhile. the Red Cross said it,
goal Of s1o.oo0.o0o for the food relief
was In sight.
Evening star., 1937-02-01

I pulled my stepfather off of my
mother. and returned to the stove.
Bray told police that his wife threw
a jar of gasoline at him and that the
glass shattered on the wall over the
stove. enveloping his step-daughter
and the whole end of the room in a
sheet of flame. Miss Fenwick said she
scarcely knew what happened. She
did not see the jar thrown and was a
mass of flames without knowing their
origin.
The burning girl ran into a hallway
and collapsed. A roomer, Nicholas
Linden. heard her screams and went
20 investigate. He saw the girl burning
and found bucket of water, which he
threw over her.
Bray told the jury he tried to beat
out the flames with his hands, but the
girl tore free from him and dashed
into the hall, where she collapsed.
Officer John F. Ulman of the second
precinct was called to the scene i'm
mediately after the fire. He said he
found the terribly burned girl stand
ing in a corridor with arms extended,
crying.
do something. do something.
Please won't somebody do something!"
The officer took the girl to Sibley
Hospital in his scout car and later
she was transferred to Gallinger Hos
pital 1t was testified that Mrs. Bray
was intoxicated when arrested after
the fire
Sergt. Dalglish said the mother was
again intoxicated when she was ar
rested a second time Saturday, after
the death of her daughter. In state
ment to Dalglish, Mrs. Bray admitted
throwing the jar of gasoline at her
husband to scare" him. The mother
was quoted as saying the jar struck .
clothes line and glanced of against
the wall over the stove.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
PRIEST CASUALTIES.
PLACED AT 90 PCT.
Spanish College in Rome
Also Reports II Bishops
Dead in Revolt.

By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY. February Sta
tistics published in the Vatican news
paper. OSservatore Romano. and at
tributed to the Spanish College in
Rome, asserted today between 40 and
so per cent of the Spanish priesthood
and II bishops have been killed by
reds in the civil war.
The article said:
Before the war the Spanish clergy
was composed of so bishops, 33 500
priests and 20,640 members OF re-
ligious orders"
The casualty estimates, it added
were based on 200 letters from bishops
and priests and on the testimony of
1873 priests and bishops who fed Spain
to come to Rome.
This testimony indicates for all
Spain that 40 to so per cent of the
priests and IL bishops have been as
sassinated by the Reds" the college
stated
In nine dioceses the percentage of
priests executed was 80 per cent. At
Malaga it rea ched an even 80 per cent
Reports from % dioceses indicate
almost all of the churches have been
burned.
Many localities have been victims
Of hatred Of the Communists. but that
does not mean precise orders have
been given in regard to them. But
the massacre of priests and destruc-
ton of churches,wa certainly ordered
in high quarters.
1T is still difficult to say who was
responsible for these high orders"
Evening star., 1937-02-01
CONCERT NEXT SUNDAY
AT HOLY COMFORTER
Church Building Fund to Benefit
by Musical Event Febru-
ary 7 and 8,

A fifth anniversary concert for the
benefit Of a new church building fund
Is scheduled for the Holy Comforter
Boys Band at 3 O'Clock next Sunday
and Monday. February and 3, at
the Holy Comforter School Audito-
rum, Fifteenth and East Capitol
streets.
The band has a membership of so
and is directed by Father Joseph
Denges. assistant pastor of Holy Com
forter Church. In yesterdays Star
it was enormously reported the con-
cert would be given last night and
tonight.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Court
Continued From First Page.)

won in the Thurston County Superior
Court. That tribunal awarded the
railroad a judgment of S25,466 for
taxes paid under protest for 1929 and
1888. inclusive.
The Great Northern contended the
State was receiving more from rail-
roads than was required for their
regulation and that some Of the
money was used for regulating un-
connected public utilities.
Replying. the State contended there
was no evidence that the fee of one
tenth Of per cent of the gross oper-
ating revenue from intrastate activi-
ties was unreasonable or excessive.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
PROSECUTOR PLEDGES ACTION

NEWPORT, Tenn, February
P.-District Attorney General J. w.
Wolfenbarger said today he would
take whatever legal steps We can
take" in regard TO the marriage Of
S-year-old Eunice Winstead and az
year-old Charlie Johns in Hancock
County.
Louis Rhea, County Court clerk, said
the license was obtained January IL
by Charles friend. Sam Wolfe, who
gave the brides age as 1s.
When I learned she was Just q
child 1 investigated and found her
parents didn't object" he said. so
far as know. the present Tennessee
law allows marriage At any age If the
parents agree"
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Spanish Civil War
Costs United States
$4,000 Annually

State Department officisls es-
innate the Spanish civil war is
costing the United States about
$l28.000 a year.
Wilbur j. Carr. Assistant Sec
retary OF State, testified before a
House Appropriations Subcom-
mittee the maintenance of naval
vessels in European waters as a
result Of the crisis in Spain would
cost sl2S.074 on an annual basis.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
DISTRESS.

THE night copy desk of The Eve
ming Star had momentary thrill
and visions of big story the other
night. when the voice of the Wash
ington police radio announcer came
in over the Office set:
alexandria cruiser No. l. Go to
city Jail! Jailer needs help!"
Visions of possible Jail break
spurred the night editor to hasty
effort to locate a photographer and
the Alexandria correspondent OF The
Star. who could not be found imme-
diately.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Family Operates Packets.

Capt. w. H. (Buck) Leyhe. St Louis
River pilot. and members of his family
have operated packet boats on the
Mississippi for 7s years.
Evening star., 1937-02-01

An ingenious telephone operator got
the bitter truth. No jail break. Nc
big story. The jailer was only having
trouble getting an unruly prisoner into
the municipal dungeon and needed a
couple of husky policemen to put the
finish to the job that only policemen
can put.
PROTECTED.
Perhaps you haze to be a Oman
to appreciate this anecdote, but
it Is being laughed at today ouer at
the Department OF Justice.
"A State trooper, uhle discuss
ing modern crime methods, warned
a ne,Dly elected sheriff, relatipe to
murder cases:
Don't let any one near the
body. Don't let any one euen see it
until I hare a chance to eramine
it,
Some time later the sheriff
rushed into the barracks and an
noanced that J. D. had
been murdered.
did you tollow instructions,'
asked the trooper.
~ sure did, ,Uds the happy an
sWer. Nobody sdD him. I'pe cot
him outside in the hearse noU.'"
Evening star., 1937-02-01
MAY SELL MAGAZINE
Butterick Directors to Act on De-
1s~n NV DrNnnaa1

Butter1Ck D1reCtOrS TO AcL on DC.
lineator Proposal.
. NEW YORK. February l R.-A
proposal to sell Delineator, womens'
fashion magazine, will be acted on
at a special meeting February IL.
directors Of Butterick Co., Inc, noti-
fed stockholders today.
A loss of about 81 ,000, 900 would be
incurred by publishing the magazine
throughout 1887, directors said, dis
closing they have prospective pur-
chaser and urging authorization Of
the sale.
Butterick Co., Inc. publishes fashion
magazines I'd dress patterns.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Holy Carpet Sent.

The Mammal. or holy carpet. which
has not covered Mohammed's tomb at
Mecca since 1925, is to be sent again
from Egypt.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Travels in Muscle" Plane.

Heine Hoffman Of Offenbach-on-
Main, Germany, covered 467 yards in
his homemade muscle-propelled air
plane,
Evening star., 1937-02-01
CHILD MARRIAGE
BAN|SDEMANDED
Tennessee Leaders Protest
Wedding Of Girl, 9, to
Man, 22.
BY tie Associated Press.

by ti.e AASOClbteo Prem.
SNEEDVILLE. Tenn. February H.
The marriage Of strsppins. 22-year.
old Charlie Johns to a 9-year-old girl
brought demands today that Tennes,es
enact laws banning such alliances.
Mountain neighbors and civic lead.
ers in Knoxville, so miles away. joined
in protests, while the girls parents
defended the match.
Mrs. Jane Becker, widow, who lives
in q cabin across a hollow from the
Johns farm. said the marriage ''orter
not be allowed; that child's unac-
countable."
Judge Denounces Marriage.
Rev. Walter Lamb. 53-year-old Bap-
tist clergyman, told reporters he con-
Quoted the ceremony for Johns and
little Eunice Winstead in the middle
Of a road January 19 because they
told me they were going to get some
one else if didn't marry them
Judge HUI B. Webster OF Domestic
Relations Court in Knoxville said the
marriage should not be tolerated and
Handbook County and all other coun-
ties in Tennessee should see that
curb Is put on such reckless alliances"
Mrs. Wiley Morgan. president Of the
Tennessee Federation Of Womens
Clubs, said: "Women's and mems or
carnations have an obligation to de-
mand social decency. That such
thing could occur in Tennessee Is dis
appointing, but it should spur US to
demand thorough reform"
State Held Party 10 Crime.
Rev. J. K. Haynes. Baptist minister
OF Knoxville. asserted:
The State itself Is q party to this
crime against society.
AN organized appeal should be
made to the Legislature to modernize
our marriage law"
Mrs. Urban Meas OF the State
Parent Teacher Association held that
everything possible should be done
to induce the Legislature to pass
Law prohibiting child marriages"
Parents of the couple remained un-
perturbed.
Mrs. Lewis Winstead, mother Of tha
bride, said. If they love one another.
then getting married Is the thing to
do."
If they want to live together and
be happy, then people should leave
them alone" she told reporters.
Two years ago the Legislature re-
pealed Law requiring that girls
under l8 and boys under 81 must give
five days notice of intention to wed
before being granted a license. unless
they had the written consent of their
parents.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
MAVERICK.
MAVERICK.
THE word maverick" would prob.
ably prove stickler to many II
they met it in one Of those In.


TINE word maverick" would prob
ably prove stickler to many If
they met it in one Of those In.
telligence tests. To get to the
point. the word means simply an
unbranded animal in cattle-raising
terms.
Representative Maverick of Texas
tells his friends that he is often ac-
cused of just sort of appropriating his
name. it being very common term in
his home State and he being good
Texan The truth, however, Is just
the reverse.
The Maverick family was among
the very early settlers in Texas. and
it built up quite fortune in ranch
ing.
The Mavericks rode the plains in
those early days. looking for stray
cattle, and when they came upon
them they branded them with their
own mark-in this manner they in
time built up large herds. Other
ranchers weren't long in catching on.
anu StIdy Cdtllc llOll Iiicll VII AdNC
been called mavericks.
Representative Maverick is quite
proud of his name also in its appli-
cation to his place in the House of
Representatives-he claims to be
stray steer and does not follow the
herd.
X
NAME.
This tuds learned during the re-
cent campaign. but tor some red
son Dns suppressed. Ruth Bryan
O1Uen Rohde calls that 6-toot Dan
ish captain husband OF hers
Mickey Mouse"
INADEQUATE.
EATING has been called an art by
some of the worlds epicureans.
but to most humans it resolves itself
principally into habit. 1t is refresh
ing, therefore, when one encounters
true delicacy about such matters as
in the following comment overheard
at an emergency breakfast in corner
drug store: