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Evening star., 1937-08-29
LEGISLATORS FACE
COLORADO TRIALS.
Four Assemb|ymen and For
mer Aide to u. S. Senator
Among 9 Indicted.
= the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, August pa special
grand jury indicted nine men, includ-
ing four Colorado legislators and
Walter Lear, former secretary to
United States Senator Ed c. Johnson,
today.
The four legislators were charged
with violating their oaths and with
bribery in connection with activities
in the recent assembly They are
Representatives Marion E Strain of
Lamar, Republican, Truman C. Hall
and William j. Jennings, Denver DEM
ocrats. and Senator Willard B. Pres
ton OF Adena, Republican.
Sixteen indictments were against
Donald B. Clifford, secretary of the
State Board of Medical Examiners,
charging he offered bribes to the
legislators in connection with the
defeat of a State wholesale liquor
monopoly bill.
Lear, who served johnson as secre-
tary when johnson was Governor,
and three others were indicted in the
secret installation of microphones in
the private Offices of Gov. Teller
Ammons and the apartment of Fred
erick E. Dickerson, Denver Democratic
leader The three others are Erl H.
Ellis, Denver attorney; Walden E.
Sweet, Denver Post newspaper re-
porter, and Jack H. Gilmore, private
investigator.
Ellis was suspended from the bar
recently by the State Supreme Court
for participation in the microphone
installation.
The indictments against Ellis, Gill
more, Sweet and Lear charged they
secretly installed the microphones and
listened to conversations and per-
rnitted others to do So Anthony r.
Zarlengo, assistant district attorney,
said that By precedent the maximum
penalty for the offense is $1,000 fine
or one year in Jail, or both.
The maximum penalty for convic-
tion of bribery, Zarlengo said, is one
to Ave years Imprisonment in the
State Penitentiary.
District Judge Henry A. Hicks fixed
bond on each of the bribery charges
at $1,000 He set bond for the de-
PENDANTS accused of misdemeanors
at $500 each.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
j. s. AGENTS JOIN
DESPERATE HUNT.
Murder Suspect, Blamed in
Two Kidnapings, Sought
in North Carolina.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, N. c., August 2s-
The Governments ace man hunters
G-men-today joined in the search
for North Cardinals most hunted des-
perado-lanky, -visaged William
(BilD Payne, sought on a charge Of
murder and blamed by oficers for two
kidnapings within the last 48 hours
At Charlotte, district headquarters Of
the Federal Bureau OF Investigation
said, I'VE are after him"
Search for the escaped convict was
intensified after V. c. Blount, Lex
ington cotton mill worker, reported
that three men. armed with machine
guns. stopped his car last night, seized
it and took him for ride"
Blount told officers he recognized
one Of his kidnapers as Payne from
newspaper photographs.
At High Point yesterday a girl and
boy reported to police that a man
they said they identified from pictures
as Payne kidnapped them in Asheville,
forced them at gun-point to drive
him to Thomasville. where he took
their car and gave them 20 one-dollar
bills.
The two. Miss Lola Laverne Hedges,
is, and Sam Wolfe. 10, both OF Swan
nanoa, quoted the bandit as saying
he had not eaten for a week and
had been in the rain for two days
Payne escaped last February from
Caledonia Prison Farm. He and his
companions kidnapped two prison at
taches, later Communicated an auto
mobile and its driver and left their
hostages In darkness on 4 lonely coun-
try road
Last Sunday night a highway pa
trolman, 23year-old George Penn.
became suspicious Of two men in a
blue sedan who turned and fed from
a highway weighing station and gave
chase.
His body, riddled with lead slugs,
was found at the end OF country
road, 20 miles farther on. An auto
mobile apparently had been driven
across it. officers said.
Sheriff Laurence E. Brown Of Bun
combe County said fngerprints of
Payne and another escaped convict,
Wash Turner, were found on the bull
iet-ridled blue sedan, discovered parked
few hours later behind 4 midtown
Asheville hotel.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
GEN. N. G. ZALINSKI
DIES IN ATLANTA
Retired Officer Was 74-Won
Distinguished Service Medal
in World War.

Brig. Gen. Moses G. Zalinski, "A.
U. s. A.. retired, former assistant to
the quartermaster general here. died
yesterday in Atlanta, the War De-
patment announced.
Most of Gen. Zalinskis commits
stoned service was IN the Quartermas-
ter Corps, where he attained the rank
Of brigadier general in 1925, when he
was appointed assistant to the quar-
termaster general.
He received the DISTINGUISHED
Service Medal for his services during
the World War as quartermaster of
Base Section No. 2 at Bordeaux,
France.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 pm tomorrow at Fort Myer, with
burial in Arlington Cemetery.
Among the pallbearers will be Mai
Gen. Henry Gibbins, Brig. Gems Au-
gusts B. War1eld, Richard n Jor
dan and A. Owen Seaman; Col. Claire
r. Bennett, and Col Henry H. Sheen,
retired
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Washington's S
Own
Book Of Hours
7 o'clock pm.

And like dying lady, lean and
pale,
Who totters forth, wrapt in q
gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the
insane
And feeble wanderings of her
fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky
east,
A white and shapeless mass"
-(Shelly: Fragment.)
X
~ AY doffs her office dress and
puts on her evening gown
fashioned from the pastel
silks Of sunset. She is ready
for natures night club revelry, the
drinking Of the champagne of moon
light, dancing to the flddles of the
crickets. The gown trails over the
western hills. The evening star and
few bright stars in the southeast
are the brooches she wears.
She is the same who came dancing
pure maid in gingham gown, over
the eastern hills long hence. Now
she is sophisticated and luxury loving
Her cheeks are painted and her lips
rouged.
-
Now Is natures evenSong.
The same choristers that in leafy
choirs so joyously paeaned the dawn
are singing in plaintive, drowsy minors
their lyric OF star-risings.
One by one the voices fade and die
In the dusk. At last there are only
the notes of the hermit thrush, the
vesper sparrow and the robins. The
red-breasts are last, usually by a
minute or two. After the night chorus
apparently has ended the,e will come
a lone robin note from the bushes,
followed after an interval by another.
The birds evensong is briefer than
mathis. 1t seldom lasts more than
half an hour after sunsetting. The
singers are weary. An overpowering
drowsiness is over them. One by one
they cease singing and fall asleep,
even while = deep glow Of the late
departed sun still fingers in the east
ern sky. The night Of the feathered
songsters has closed around than.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
PASSENCERSFREED
FROM FEVER LINER
To Be Under Observation of
Local Authorities for Ty-
phoid Traces.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 28-The 1000
passengers Of the German liner
Hansa which arrived here yesterday
with typhoid fever in the crew. will
be under observation by their local
health departments throughout the
Nation for two weeks, the Federal
Health Service announced tonight.
City Health Commissioner John L.
Rice reported that 20 Of AZ cases of
illness in the crew definitely were
typhoid.
After three-hour conference with
city health officers and representatives
OF Mayor F. H. La Guardia, officials
OF the Hamburg American Line de-
cided to send the Hansa back to
Hamburg tonight with the full crew.
carrying no passengers and eliminat-
ing scheduled stops at Southampton
and Cherbourg.
All the incoming passengers were
released from the ship after examina-
ton by Federal immigration doctors,
who discovered the unreported sick
ness in the crew during their routine
inspection, disclosed none Ill.
Must Watch for Two Weeks,
The incubation period Of the
disease. during which it may not be
detected, is two weeks, however, and
DR.. Charles " Akin, head OF the
Federal quarantine service here, in
structed the health services of all
the passengers home States to keep
in touch with them during the period.
Health officials said that probably
the only danger of infection was
among passengers served by Third
Glass Steward Arnold Tauber. who
became i'll the second day of the
voyage. The other cases did not
develop until later.
Members Of the crew were al
lowed to go around the city until
late this afternoon. when they were
called back to the ship and police
guards posted at the pier.
No One Believed Endangered.
Health officials said their presence
mere had endangered no one because
any man well enough to 60 ashore
probably was not a carrier of the
germ.
The 325 passengers booked for to-
nights trip received refunds or pro-
visions for awaiting the next sailing
Of the line Monday.
DR.. Akin said there were no Federal
or local laws to prevent the Hansa S
sailing tonight despite the illness in the
crew. The line announced that the
precautlon' OF not taking passengers
was entirely voluntary . taken
solely in the iterests of the passengers
and meets with the express approval of
the authorities of the local and Fed
eral health bureaus"
Evening star., 1937-08-29
This Is Last Week for Entries
In Stars Snapshot Contest

Washington snapshot artist? Why
not?
If it doesn't, there's smaller money
to be hoped for in that split up OF
$4,000 to be paid in the national
a ards. Among the. thousands Of
snapshots submitted in The Stars
contest there have been = lot Of good
ones. A number of excellent ones.
The winners have hit 4 high level and
Washington camera fans should be
we'll represented in the national
contest.
That big amateur camera event Of
the year will be held, As last year, in
Explorers Hall of the National Geo.
graphic Society in October. A dis
tinguished committee Of judges will
make the awards after viewing the
work OF the best amateur talent Of
ths knd, which the pubic also viii
b invited % -.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
FARMERS URGED
TO BACK C. |. O.
John L. Lewis Informs Them
They Have Great Stake
in Crusade,

John L. Lewis. chairman OF the
c. l. O.. yesterday called upon the
Nations farmers to join with the
rural wage Garner in united action in
support OF the organization Of
workers.
Making his appeal in a foreword TO
pamphlet issued by the Cannery,
Agricultural, Packing and Allied
Workers Union, Lewis declared that
the working farmers Of America have
a great stake in the c. I. O's crusade
to raise the level of living of the
working people of this country"
Have Common Goal
Calling attention to the paradox Of
gigantic farm surpluses and millions
Of hungry people, Lewis continued:
steadily marching toward higher
standards Of living, can buy the farm
products they need, will the farm
problem be solved.
The American worker and the
American farmer have common
goal, and that goal is that every citi-
zen Of our country shall have the right
and opportunity to earn a decent
living.
"One Of the salient tasks OF the
C. I. o. in organizing the rural waee
Garner Is to cooperate with the work
ing farmer in reaching this goal"
Attacks Propaganda.
Commenting on the Lewis appeal
yesterdays issue Of the c. I. o. weekly
newspaper charged that 1T Is pre-
cisely because OF the power that lies
in farm and labor unity that profiteer-
ing reaction goes to such lengths TO
create division between them. Propa-
ganda against labor and the c. I. O..
has been more assiduously spread in
the farming areas than almost any
where else"
Evening star., 1937-08-29
MISSING SCOUTMASTER'S
CAR LINKED IN KILLING
Auto Was at Scene of RoAdside
Staying of Pennsylvanian,
Patrolman Says.

By the Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, August
28.-An automobile found in Mem
phis, Tenn. yesterday and identified
as belonging to Morris B. Close. miss
ing Rochester, N. Y, Scoutmaster
definitely was st the scene Of the
roadside Staying Of Charles w. Paget
near Kingdom City, No, July %, high
way patrolmen said tonight
They said this was established by
announcement OF Memphis officers
that clothing found in the car bore
the initial &C. w. P" and that letters
addressed to Pa9et were In the ma
chine. Paget was from Woodlawn, Pa.
Memphis police are seeking the
driver of the automobile A filling
station attendant in Kingdom City,
where the car stopped the night of
July 81 shortly before Paget was
killed. said Paget's companion was
not Close. The Scoutmaster disap-
peared July 19 en- route from Albany
to Rochester.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
MARTIN RENAMED
| U.A. PRESIDENT
Warning Factions OF Union
Make Peace Under
Lewis Plan,
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
United Automobile Workers.
c. !. o. AFFILIATE, made great pains
IN membership before and during
the automobile strikes last Winter.
After industrial peace came. Union
found diuision in ranks ouer inter
nal policies, Dith Homer Martin,
president heading progressive"
group, tauorin0 adherence to pres
ent policies. John L. LeUis. c. 10.
chiettdin, Went to contention Fri
day and appealed for united front,
opening ,Ody tor peace.
BY the Associs ted Press.
MILWAUKEE, August 28-Homer
Martin, former Baptist minister. was
Reelected president OF the United
Automobile Workers Of America to-
day after warning factions within tina
international union settled their df-
ferences under a compromise plan
suggested by c. I. o. Chieftain John
L. Lewis.
The compromise came hard on the
heels Of Lewis plea for harmony in a
convention address and the rallying
Of the union behind a drive To or
ganize 5000 employees of the Ford
Motor Co.
The convention delegates. wearied
by factional strife Of the last week,
and speeding toward early adjourn
ment, approved their 35-year-old lead
er by unanimous vote of acclama-
ton. William E. Dowell OF Kansas
City made the nomination.
Vice Presidents Elected.
Five vice presidents, provided for
under the compromise set-up, also
were elected by unanimous vote.
George Adde's, secretary treasurer, was
reelected unanimously.
A motion, however, to re-elect the
present II members Of the Interns-
tional Executive Board, which is n
be increased to II by the compromise
was howled down. Temporary chair.
man, Ora Gassaway of the Unlted
Mine Workers, ruled the board mem
bers should be elected later by district
caucuSeS
The vice presidents, all Of eoual
rank, are Wyndham Mortimer, Ed
Hall and Walter Wells, incumbents.
Richard Frankensteen and r. :,
Thomas.
Decide to Compromise.
The decision to compromise earlier
today by combining the opposing
states OF officers speeded the conyer
tons effort to heed Lewis plea for
harmony and drive to early compile
ton of business
Caucuses were called this morning
to discuss the plan, the unity faction
approving it shortly after presenta-
ton. The progressive group how
ever. led by Martin, argued for three
hours and a half before agreeing.
The progressive faction had sought
to oust Mortimer and Hall. unity lead
ers, and substitute Frankensteen and
Thomas.
Evening star., 1937-08-29

Hurry up with your snapshots for
the last week Of The Stars contest!
Next Friday, September 3, is the last
day on which they may be received.
The prize winner and other best snap
snots for the final week will appear
IN the rotogravure section Of The
Sunday Star OF September II.
After that comes the final choice Of
winners Of the four $25 grand prizes
in The Stars 10-week contest. Every
contestant who has had 4 snapshot
published during the contest has an
equal chance to land" one of these
four prizes
And to be among the four grand
prize winners means = chance at the
big money to be distributed to win
ners in the Newspaper National Snap
shot awards. There's $500 waiting
tor thu winner at ths grsnd prise In
ths national oootast W1u 4 eoms 10
Evening star., 1937-08-29
DR.. J. H. DOWNEY
DEAD IN GEORGIA
Inventor Of Fracture Table, in
Wide Use, Expires After
Operation.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, August 28-Dr. J. H.
Downey, founder of the Downey Hos
pital at Gainesville, Ga, and one Of
the leading fracture experts Of the
Nation, died here today Of 4 cerebral
attack following = minor operation.
He was inventor OF the Downey frac-
ture table. in wide use, and pioneered
in the use of suspended weights and
mechanics in treating fracture cases.
The physician went to Gainesville
in 1903 as an emergency doctor fol-
lowing tornado. His hospital. found
ed in 1912, was almost destroyed last
year when another tornado struck
the city.
DR.. Downey is survived by his widow,
whom he met during the 1903 catas-
trophe. She was nurse. Other sur
vivors include 4 brother, Dr. c. W.
Downey Of Tallapooea. Ga, and sis
ter who lives in his native town Of
Laurens, s. C.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Army Air Experts Explain
Robot Landing Equipment
Newest Safety Deuice Permits Bringing
DO,on of Plane IN Darkness or Fog
BY Radio Control.

runway. Contact with the ground
adjusts the wheel brakes. The air.
liner rolls to halt, still under robot
control
No eXtravagant claims We're made
for the landing device by the three
experts who developed it-Capts. Carl
J. Crane and George V. Holloman OF
the Air Corps, and Raymond Stout,
an englneer-but all admitted they
had high hopes the robot would add
TO the safety Of both military and
commercial flying in years to come
Two Years Of Research.
The device was the product OF two
years of research and experimentation
by the three experts and other tech
nicians at Wright Field. This week
the inventors equipped 4 big Army
cargo plane with the robot, which
made five perfect landings without
failure
One Of the hardest tasks Of all.
Capt. Crane admitted, was keeping
hands off, the controls after the
robot was in charge That gave US
the jitters, he grinned. but We man
aged somehow to keep our hands of
the controls i. and feet, too"
The system is still in the expert
mental stage. So far it has been
tested only on fields large enough to
permit blind or instrument landings.
The apparatus which lands the plane
is compact enough TO be packed in a
small locker trunk. and the ground
stations are not especially compli-
Gated. The cost of the system is not
prohibitive,' according to Capt.
Crane
Although the Army will not release
the invention for commercial use for
at least \ year Air Corps experts
hope that big mail and passenger
airports eventually will be equipped
with ground stations Of 4 type to
control landing robots
They pointed out that no standards
have been set up for blind landing
equipment at the country's airports.
and that the new ground stations
might become general without the
necessity OF replacing an obsolete and
costly system.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
"a SEAMEN ENTER
PLEAS OF INNOCENCE
Group Accused of Disobeying
Shipmaster Have Case Taken
Under Amusement.

By ths Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, August 2s-
Twenty-fou seamen, members of the
crew Of the steamship seatrain New
York, who took part. in a sit-down
aboard the vessel, pleaded innocent to-
day to charges Of violating the Fed
eral navigation laws and their cases
were taken under advisement.
The seamen were charged at hear
ing before three-member board of
the United States Bureau OF Marine
Inspection and Navigation.
The strike occurred August 18. The
men were accused Of disobeying orders
of the shipmaster while under ships
articles.
Norman E. Merrill of Washington,
d. c., chairman of the board, said
In the event the men are convicted
their seamen's certificates, issued by
the Department of Commerce, might
be revoked or suspended.
Evening star., 1937-08-29

Army Air Corps experts few here
yesterday from Wright Field at Day.
ton to describe an invention which
something like this within the next
II months:
A giant sirliner hurtleS through fog
and absolute darkness with no re do
direction beam to guide her or bring
her down in sight Of lights on the
ground, some 1000 feet below
The pilots are flying oy instru-
ments alone. Disaster might follow
the failure Of one OF a score Of in
dicators or failure of pilot to react
properly TO one or group OF in
struments.
The pilots know from dead reckon
ing that they are within 20 miles OF
the airport. They may know. too,
or believe that visibility is Dad all
the way TO the ground.
Even with perfect radio reception
blind landing by instrument Is
hazardous. There are too many gadg-
cts to watch, TOO many calculations
TO make at high speed, too manv
chances that human hands or feet
at the controls might react i'm
properly
Robot. Radio Controlled.
At this point the new invention
comes into play 1t is a robot which
controls direction. glide and air speed
through radio impulses received from
small ground stations near the air
port. The pilots merely place their
ship at an approximately correct al
titude with relation to the ground
stations and throw in the switch
which turns the big ship over to the
robot.
The robos takes charge of the throt-
tie and other controls. Perhaps the
plane already IS In line with the
port or it may be flying in the
other direction. The land stations
are placed about the field 30 that
planes can be guided in from one
of several directions, depending On
the wind. Only those stations which
guide plane into the wind are in
operation.
Liner Wheels About
The airllner wheels about in answer
to the automatic impulses from the
ground and begins to descend with
motor throttled at the speed to keep
the ship in the air without danger Of
losing tlving way. The plane passes
over the first station and heads for
the second then the third at the edge
Of the field. The robot automatically
compensates throttle and elevators for
too much or too little altitude
Thus the big airliner, unaided by
human hands. either at the controls
or on the ground, glides in to the
Evening star., 1937-08-29
ACCUSED MAN BEATEN
1000 Attack. Nan Accused Of
MolestinH Woman,

NEW YORK, August 20 Lp).-Pub-
lie resentment against repeated crimes
against women and children nared
today when a crowd Of 900 men and
women attacked John Ploshay. 81, Of
Queens in Fourteenth street SUBJ
way station.
Ploshay was badly beaten after
Joseph Carozza Of Brooklyn pointed
him out to the subway throngs as the
man who had molested a woman with
baby in her arms. Patrolman
Michael Flynn rescued Ploshay and
stood guard over him in q wash room
until police cars arrived.
With his face bloody and swollen
and his coat and shirt ripped. Ploshay
was booked at the East Twenty-second
Street Station on . charge Of dis.
orderly conduct. Caroszs was tho
complaining witness.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Examination Here Suggested

District Health Officer George C.
Ruhland today advised any passengers
from the Hamburg American liner
Hansa who may be coming to the Dis
trlct or its vicinity to 60 to the Dis
trlct health office for an examination
to determine If they have contracted
typhoid Dr. Rutland said he did
not know if any of the passengers were
District residents or were coming here
but suggested the free medical exami-
nation as a precautionary measure.
Evening star., 1937-08-29
SLAYS ROBBER
Los Angeles Jeweler Pursuee and
Beats Him With Pistol.

LOS ANGELES, August % UP.-
Pete Borisoff, 48, Russian-born jeweler.
pursued and beat to death with a
pistol today one of two men who held
up and robbed his shop.
Police captured the other man.
Borlsoff suffered a bullet wound in
the calf and scalp wound.
Many in the busy shopping district
near downtown Los Angeles fed to
cover as Borisoff and the pair ex
changed shots on the sidewalk.
The captured man identified him.
self to police as Clyde English. 80, 4
transient. and said he arrived here
q week ago from Louisville, XIV. He
said his dead companion was George
Moulton,
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Plane to Shower rs Brides.

CROWLEY, La, August 20 iP).-
Twenty-Five couples will be married in
Crowley on October 5. the day this
city celebrates It's fftieth ami
versary rs feature Of the nrst rice
festival.
The committee in charge of the
celebration has arranged for rice to
be showsred on the ceremonies from
An AirplAne
Evening star., 1937-08-29
Riot in India Fatal to Four.

LAHORE, India, August 20 (P).-
Three Moslems and one Sikh were
killed and several persons injured to-
day in riot In the village Of Jandiala
Sheridan, near here.