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Evening star., 1937-07-25
YOTH1NG is more infuriating to
l the genuine dog lover than to
Y overhear some witless, fool

remark, on seeing a woman
with dog, She d be doing more good
If she were taking care of a baby"
And nothing could be more untrue
than the inference that dog owners,
dog lovers, or dog showers, do not
have babies
Just a casual survey Of the most
active dog fanciers in this locality
and there is no reason to believe that
Washington is unique in that respect
reveals the interesting fact that the
average size family among dog breed
ers is larger than the average among
Evening star., 1937-07-25
QUEENS GAMBIT DECLINED.

Beginning promptly at pm. the
'slmul' continued until l1:15 pm
when the tournament director, Simon
Naldel. proceeded to adjudicate seven
uncompleted games.
Individual
Evening star., 1937-07-25
SLE'SLONE HEAVY
OF CLASS IN YEARS
Tommy Is First Since Moir,
Burns Victim, to Gain
Serious Recognition.

'NOMMY FARR Snt the flrSt
British heavyweight champion
since Charley Mitchell to have
a shot at the heavyweight title,
as somebody has said. When Tommy
Burns had earned recognition for his
claim to the title following the re-
tlrement of Jim Jeffries, he took 1t to
London and exposed it to the round
house swings of Gunner Moir, then
the English champion.
. Now, Burns wasn't very big and he
Wasn't great fighter by any means
but he was the champion and q fight
ing champion at that and Moir had a
chance to reap undying fame by
knocking him out.
AS soon as the match was made I
put good bet on myself" Burns told
me. I'd never seen Moir, but I knew
the English heavyweights weren't
much good as rule. Then, a couple
weeks before the fight, the Gunner
was boxing an exhibition one night
and put on cap and raincoat and
sneaked into gallery seat to watch
hlm-and. as a result of what I saw.
rushed out and doubled my bet"
Burns knocked Moir out In the
tenth round.
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Strictly Up to Steele,

CHOULD Apostoli defeat Thil, and
the chances are that he will,
Steele will have to come to terms and
defend his claim to the title by fight
ing the Californian instead of picking
the likes of Gorilla Jones, Frank Bat
taglia, Babe Risko and Charley (Hobo)
Williams. Steele will be up against it
and the chances are he will be unable
to get more than s25,0oO, the price he
had to put up to get crack at the
title, when and if he decides to bow
to the inevitable.
Lou Brix, acting for Escobar. struck
a good bargain in getting $12,5OO for
the services of the little Puerto Rican.
He is getting $500 more than he de-
manded for Sixto to defend his title
against Jeffra or K. o. Morgan.
Jettra will have hard time getting
down to lib pounds. He has two de-
cSlons over the bantam champion
These were overweight. Jeffra looks
nne at l24 pounds, the mark he has
been showing in gym work. and Esco-
bar may pull the same stunt he did
against Indian Quintana, who, max
Ing the weight, was a one-punch VIC
tim OF the Caribbean Tornado,
Evening star., 1937-07-25

DE PALMA HAS MILE MARK.
Ralph de Palma holds the Indian
apolis speedway record for compe'
tive miles driven with a total Of 4O61,
Evening star., 1937-07-25

weight champion, dispose of Hobo
Williams in eight rounds in the fea-
ture of show promoted by the
Variety Club. 1t was an entirely sat-
isfactory card from every angle.
That show was financial success,
but more important than that, per-
haps, it attracted fans who could be
converted into regular patrons were
they offered something worth watch
ing.
Fans here repeatedly have
demonstrated they will plank
their do-re-mi on the line il tai
ent Is presented.
You probably wouldn't walk across
the street to see Buck Jones in Two
gun Kelly If it cost you q dime, but
you doubtless have paid six times
that much gladly to peek at Arliss,
Gable, 10y. the Barrymores, ETC., in
outstanding flickers There is a
sneaking suspicion that the boxing
public is patterned somewhat along
that line.
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Jefra in Danger,

IEFFRA will last longer than that
but he is in for a sound thrashinp
II he is weak at the weight.
The Ross-Garcia fight does not hold
much interest. Barney whipped the
Filipino twice and figures to do 50
again. The motive prompting the
staging of this fight is to appease the
wrath OF the local commission, which
insisted Ross should meet Garcia be-
fore any one else.
Ross is in line for lucrative engage
ment should Montanez triumph over
Ambers. A Ross-Montanez fight for
the welterweight crown is bound to
do $350,0O0 at the gate, and that is
big money. This match would wind
up the outdoor season for Mike Jacobs
and stamp him as the most enter
prising promoter of all time.
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Frye, Henson Pitch Today.

THE prime favorite to win the Vir-
ginia and Metropolitan champion
ships, Deadpan Raymond Frye Of
Orkney Springs, Va, is visiting Clay
ton c. Henson of Arlington, present
State title holder and this afternoon
at 2 o'clock they will shoot an exhibi-
ton match on Thompson's courts.
Due TO pressure of business, Henson
has had little time this Summer to
pitch horseshoes, but in recent work.
outs at Mcmillan has begun to show
the old Henson wi1ardry that once
made him the outsta anding fipper In
this part of the country He should
be at his keenest when the play-offs
arrive.
Frye will be the defending champion
in the annual Mclean, Va, carnival
invitation tournament to be held Au-
gust 4. Before issuing invitations to
the eight pitchers who Will compete
in this tournament, Chairman Henry
Huschke will examine the scores in
the qualifying round Of The Evening
Star championships.
WOOdfields Gain Lead.
IN THE meantime, the pennant race
in the District Suburban League is
waxing hot. The Woodfelds in the
last matches took the lead from Sellers
Sales Service by percentage points.
In order, they defeated Brentwood,
u; lost to Sellers, 5-4. then COM
pleted their schedule by cleaning up
the Goode Cleaners, 30. In order
to finish on top, Sellers must win l3
OF 18 remaining games.
The remaining matches: Brentwood
VS.. Goode Cleaners, Sellers Sales Serv-
ice VS.. Mount Rainier, Sellers Sales
Service vs.. Fleshman Ice & Coal,
Mount Rainier VS.. Brentwood, Mount
Rainier vs.. Goode Cleaners.
The league figures:
Evening star., 1937-07-25
this Wednesday, 8 pm, Parkside
Hotel,

The public Is invited to visit the
chess lounge and participate in the 10
second melee. A gratis membership for
one month In the Social Chess Divan
will be awarded the victor in the
speedy elimination contest. Ladies are
welcome.
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Continues Through Friday.

MYTH Bernard McCarty Of the play
ground headquarters staff and
Harry Woodfield, secretary Of the Dis
trict Horseshoe Pitchers Association
directing, the qualifying test will start
tomorrow at 7 pm. and the six courts
at Mcmillan will be turned over each
evening through the following Friday
to the tournament prelim.
On August 2 and 3, the Maryland
survivors will battle for the Old Line
State championship; the Virginians
will follow, on August and 6, with
Washingtonians scheduled August 9
and 100 The piece de resistance of
the tournament, the Metropolitan
play-off, will be held August IL and
l3
1t was the plan of the tournament
management to stage the entire pro-
gram at Mcmillan, thus centralizing
the affair on one of the finest horse
shoe layouts in the country, but the
management is not adverse to con-
tlnulng the arrangements Of the past
If enough pitchers desire them. The
Virginia championships have been held
on George Thompson's courts at Falls
Church and the Maryland play-offs
at Brentwood. Scores OF horseshoe
fans take in all the sectional events
and for these Mcmillan Park would
be just about ideal However, the
horseshoe editor is open to express
sions in the matter.
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Hesse: VIA, D-4, LII,

ENGAGING 19 opponents simulta-
neously at the Social Chess
Lounge, Parkside Hotel. Carl Hesse,
one OF the strongest class A players
IN the District, scored IA wins, drew
and lost only l game-an excel
lent record considering the quality
OF the opposition.
Conrad WilInich, who learned
his chess as = lad in Europe, was
the sole victor against Hesse.
Refusing the proffered Queens
Gambit, Willnich developed a powerful
position which Hesse realized on the
tWenty-fourth move was extremely en-
barrassing and so resigned.
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Chess Problem No. SO.
BY M. BARULIN. Second Prize.
De Problemist."
BLACK-II MEN.
WHITE-g MEN.

" HIIE-V MIN.
White to Play and Mate In Two.
pROBLEM NO. 81, by N. Easter, Is
solved easily in two moves, the key
being: Kt-KKt5.
Correct solutions arrive from the Angel
prlze trlo-E. W. Allen. A. G. Dreyer and
Sergt Alton 0. Coppage. Daniel Breeskin,
senolhe an accurate key. adds -. the
tWo-moVerS are much nicer and less
brain -wreckers." Paul Hodges and Charles
Carr1co on the other hand, prefer three
movers as they say 2-er can be solved
from the printed diagram alone.
Which do the thousand and one
fans prefer? Another solving contest
Is in the ofing.
Evening star., 1937-07-25

Caught in the act! Coulon and
his mammoth Great Dane Eric
Evening star., 1937-07-25

Copyright. July e5. 1887 by Raul Miller.)
Evening star., 1937-07-25
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

r. ROM the standpoint of pro-
~ moters. the boxing business.
like kiss in the dark, is some
4 times thrilling, but always
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Finding of Body
Of MattsOn Child
Described BY Boy
BY the Associated Press.

TACOMA, Wash, January 12-The
story Of the finding OF the frozen body
of l0-year-old Charles Mattson and
the family's reaction to the discovery
was told graphically today by the boy
who stumbled on the body in brushy
area near Everett, Wash.
Gordon Morrow, 10, who was chas-
ing rabbit at the time, said:
1T was the most awful experience
ever had
II stumbled and fell. I hit some
thing soft
II looked down and there he was
all naked lying in the snow.
1T was a horrible sight. I was so
frightened guess I nearly tainted. I
don't remember getting up. but I
know stood and looked down on his
little form stretched out there in a
pocket in the ground.
He looked awful. Some one had
beaten him all over. His head was
crushed.
Il didn't stay to look any more. I
just ran right to my home and
shouted at my father: There's little
boy lying out in the woods. think
he is the Mattson boy
My dad went back to the place
with me and he looked at the little
boy, too.
~ think it's the MattSon boy, too
! he said
Then ran a half mile to tele-
phone so the officers would know.
Il don't want to see anything like
| that ever again"
Evening star., 1937-01-12

highway to the place Charles beaten
body lay. Likewise, they recorded au-
tomobile tire tracks at the roadside.
Similarities between the Charles A.
Lindbergh, jr., kidnap-killing in New
Jersey In 1882 and the George Weyer-
haeuser kidnapping in Tacoma in May,
1885, were visible In the Mattson case.
To these were added the possibili-
ties . demented person or . "chance"
kidnaper had committed the crime.
Pickup orders were CUT for many
persons whom authorities considered
possible suspects.
Prowlings about the George G..
Franklin mansion and the finding Of
. ladder there late in November were
not overlooked. The Franklins, be-
lieving an attempt was underway to
kidnap their 5-year-old son, John, fed
to California. Their place Is about
two blocks from the Mattson residence.
A ladder found there was sent to the
F. B. I. at Washington. D. c., for
study.
State and municipal police contin-
ued to study Shelton, Wash, phases
Of the case, which resulted in . man
hunt in the region Sunday, January 3.
Police Chief Harold Bird Of Ia
coma, who had maintained q hands
of" policy in the case, issued an ap-
peal to the public to give every as
sistance to the authorities.
"All persons who own beach homes
can be Of much assistance to the
police in this case" Chief Bird said,
If they will 60 to their Summer
homes and inspect them. II they
find the houses have been broken
into or anything out Of the way has
occurred they should call the near
est law-enforcement agency"
All methods of escape the kidnaper
could have used after seizing the boy
were reconsidered, including the pos
sibility he fed down . steep bank
In back Of the Mattson estate to .
Evening star., 1937-01-12
MAGAZINES HEADS
IN PIT. A. TO MEET

Editorial policies and expansion Of
circulation among 1000 900 members
of the organization will be considered
in meetings here from Wednesday to
Saturday Of directors Of the National
Parent-Teacher, oficial magazine Of
the National Congress Of Parents and
Teachers.
Ofhcers attending the meeting will
be Mrs. Frederick Hosmer, Auburn.
N. Y; Mrs. B. r. Longworthy. Win
netka. HI; Mrs. Hamilton ShAfier.
Dayton, Ohio, and Mrs Simon Lap
ham, Providence, r. I. Many Of the
visitors. including Mrs. Hugh Brad
ford Of Sacramento. Calf, past presi-
dent Of the national congress. plan
to stay in Washington to attend the
Inauguration.
Mrs. c. c. Hines Of Washington Is
director Of the magazines work in
the District.
Following up q Nationwide study
Of several months on the problem Of
traffic safety, parent-teacher aSsocia-
tions this month are devoting particu-
lar attention to the subject Family
Safety and the Community" in con-
nection with q program in the study
course offered in the national maga-
zine.
Evening star., 1937-01-12

boat stationed along the waterfront.
Last Sunday officers Investigated
freshly" abandoned shack on
Squaxin Island in Southern Puget
Sound. Embers in . stove showed
the shack had been deserted not
more than an hour before officers ar
rived aboard q private yacht. A
launch was found abandoned nearby.
Messages Of sympathy poured in on
the family after the boys death be-
came known, the Tennessee Senate
adopted q resolution expressing SYM
pathy for the parents and the fer
vent hope that justice shall speedily
overtake the author Of this terrible
crime"
The series OF six classified adver-
tisementS in the Seattle Times used
by the family to communicate with
the kidnaper were . record of the
Mattsons' futile efforts to pay the
ransom and recover Charles. The
notes showed eagerness to complete
the deal. But the last message, first
appearing Sunday and repeated yes
terday, contained the sentence:
In view of lapse Of time also desire
new proof my son Is alive and we'll"
A bearded man, wearing a loosely
tied mask which slipped once from his
face, broke q French window glass in
the living room of the Mattson home
at 8:45 pm. Sunday night, December
81. and compelled William Mattson to
unlatch the door.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Search

Continued From First Page)
fort in dealing with the criminal
menace"
It was the first time since the
wasted remains Of the Lindbergh baby
were found, under similar circum-
stances, nearly four years ago. that
the White House has issued q formal
statement deploring q crime and
ordering Q search Ito the end" for
the perpetrator.
Cummings was issuing to reporters
at the Justice Department . similar
statement at the time the President
was making public his announcement
at the White House.
"All the facilities at the disposal OF
the Department Of Justice have been
turned loose on this case," Cummings
stated.
I'VE propose to follow it to the end.
IT have just offered q reward OF
$4,000 for information furnished to
q representative Of the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation Of the Department
Of Justice leading to the Identification
and apprehension Of the criminal.
THE local police and other law en-
forcement agencies are working ir
close cooperation with US.
II am desperately sorry for the
stricken family"
Hoover Directs Mobilization.
J. Edgar Hoover. director OF the
F. B. l., was directing from Chicago
mobilization Of more Of his men In
the Northwest.
News Of the discovery of the Matt.
son boys battered body in a thickei
1ear Everett, Wash, was taken to
President Roosevelt in his study early
last night as he concluded q lengthy
press conference dealing with his re.
organization message.
For . moment the President studied
the headlines In the evening papers
That is unbelievable-ghastly." he
said.
Mrs. Roosevelt also had seen the
news. She called the President and
they discussed the case for severa!
minutes, both expressing hope the
report would turn out to be un.
founded.
The President then instructed Sec
retary Stephen Early to determine the
authenticity Of the story. Wher
finally it was learned that the iden.
tity of the slain boy had been estab.
lished beyond . doubt, the President
telephoned Cummings and told hin
in effect to get" the murderer at al
costs.
Meanwhile, experts In the r. B.
laboratory here were ready to analyz,
mud and other evidence that nigh
provide q clue to the murderer.
| The Omen admittedly faced q cas-,
Evening star., 1937-01-12
G-MEN PROBE STORY
OF LINDBERGH CASE
Letter From Sweden Claims Four
Men and Woman Kid
naped Child.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Justice Department agents are max
ing a routine check of story told by
Gunnar Swedberg Of Stockholm,
Sweden, that the kidnapers OF Charles
A. Lindbergh, jr, were four men and
o woman.
Skeptical officials revealed today
that a letter from Swedberg and a
long signed statement were received
at the State Department recently.
Swedberg contended Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, the German carpenter
executed for the kidnapping, was in
volved only in collection OF the ran
som.
Part of the evidence" he reported,
1t was said, was that he had seen the
map of a house resembling the Lind
bergh home at Hopewell, N. j., in the
possession of one of those he accused.
Bureau of immigration records
show that a Gunnar SWedberg was
deported from New York City May %.
1882, for failure to meet immigra-
ton requirements. Stricken with pull
monary disease, Swedberg had be-
come public charge within five years
Of admission to this country. oficials
said.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
with unprecedented problems in the

with unprecedented problems in the
field Of kidnapping investigations.
Two circumstances of Importance
have combined to lift the Mattson
case out Of the category Of ordinary
kidnapings and, consequently, TO rem
der useless much of the investiga-
tive technique that led to solution
Of other Federal abduction cases.
The first circumstance Is the fail
ure Of the kidnaper to collect the
ransom.
The second Is the fact that the
crime appears to have been the work
Of q lone wolf" kidnaper o. mani
acal tendencieS
With no ransom trail TO follow,
the special agents Of Hoover's kidnap
squad are deprived Of one source Of
clues that has sent dozens of big
time kidnapers to prison within the
last few years.
With no professional gang Of
"snatchers" involved-as the evi-
dence to date seems to indicate
Investigators may find it useless to
search for information in underworld
centers. source they have found
productive in many other cases.
The $4,000 demanded by the alb
ductor Of the Mattson boy was pre-
pared but never delivered, due to
inability Of the father to make proper
contact with the kidnaper. The serial
numbers of that money had been
carefully recorded by F. B. I. agents.
Had the boy been returned safely
after payment Of the ransom, the
bureau then would have distributed
to banks, filling stations, post Offices
and other places throughout the Ma
ton many thousands Of printed copies
OF the list Of serial numbers.
The machinery for this widespread
distribution was ready to swing into
action at moments notice.
1t was a trail of recorded ransom
money that led to the capture and
conviction Of Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann In the Lindbergh case.
In the case Of lone wolf" eS-
pecially one with insane tendencies,
1t Is difficult to secure information of
any value from underworld sources.
Investigators cannot anticipate where
crazy man may hide or how he will
behave.
Ransom letters received from the
kidnaper Of the Mattson boy appar-
emily are the chief clue to his identity.
These letters are said to be under ex-
animation now by handwriting and
fngerprint experts at the F. B. I. labo-
ratory.
Silt, reported found on the body of
the boy, will be sent here for petro-
graphic analysis scientific method
OF determining chemical components
Of dirt and other articles. Different
types Of earth present different petro-
graphic pictures to the F. B. I. expert
Thus, If a suspect is found with silt
OF the exact type found on the mur-
dered boys body, 1t will aid in identi-
flying the man as a participant ir
the crime.
Evening star., 1937-01-12
Crime Committed
Euery 20 Minutes,
Says Edgar HOOuer

A major crime Is committed every
20 seconds somewhere in America,
according to j. Edgar Hoover. direc-
tor of the Federal Bureau Of Investi-
CATION.
Some one dies by the hand Of an
other man every IS minutes, he added,
in an address yesterday before the
student body of Notre Dame Uni
versity, South Bend, Ind.
The records show. he said. that
many prisons are disorganized, ill
kept, and "often are hotbeds of agi-
tation."
I'VE are amazed to learn" Hoover
declared, that there is no such thing
as q life prisoner-that the average
man who receives a life sentence
stays only 10 years behind bars, and
even then may be granted the benefits
Of the radio. the daily newspaper and
Of what magazines he may desire"
Evening star., 1937-01-12
kidnapping

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1937-01-12
DEATH OF MAN, SC,
FOURTH THIS YEAR.
Capital Transit Mechanic
Injured in Accident
49,, New Year Day.

Washington's 1897 traffic death toll
stood at four today. following the
death Of Dennis Toomey, 56, OF 1926
Trinidad avenue northeast. Toomey
died in Casualty Hospital yesterday OF
injuries received in an accident New
Year day.
A mechanic for the Capital Transit
Co., Toomey was crossing near FIJI
teenth and H streets when knocked
down by a car operated by Ohmar K.
Henderson, 40, Of Riverdale, Md, po-
lice said.
Native Of County Cork.
The victim was native Of County
Cork, Ireland, and came here about
30 years ago. He was unmarried.
Joseph King, Is, Of 333 Eleventh
street southeast, and Lowell Williams,
Is, of 623 Pennsylvania avenue, re-
ceived severe cuts yesterday in a two
car collision at North Capitol and E
streets. A cut on Kings left hand re-
quired Is stitches.
Charged With Speeding.
William v. Parks, -, of $40 Massa-
ehusetts avenue northeast, driver Of
the auto in which the pair was riding,
was charged with speeding. The
operator of the other car-Harold
Jones, 2S, colored, 7o3 Sixth street
northeast-was operating without a
District permit, police said.
Nine -year-old Sterling Saunders
colored, "a r street, received a
fractured shoulder last night when
struck by an automobile near hi,
home. The car was driven by August
Dopson, 28. colored. "a r street
police said.
Evening star., 1937-01-12

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1937-01-12
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 1.-THE
covered home of DR.. w. w.
Mattson was a house of sorrow today.
Grief-stricken over the death Of
Charles Mattson, 10. a kidnaper's VIC
tim, his parents turned to their two
remaining children, William, is, and
Muriel, IA, for comfort.
DR.. Mattson, stiff Tipped during the
trying days when he negotiated with
the kidnaper, broke first as the news
came the boys frozen body had been
found in a thicket.
Mrs. Mattson, convinced q week ago