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Evening star., 1937-07-21
'KELWAY NAMED
TO SUCCEED KUHN
Appointment of New Manaq-
ing Editor of The Star
Is Announced,

Benjamin NJ McKelway, assistant
managing editor of The Star. today
was appointed managing editor. to
succeed Oliver Owen Kuhn, who died
last Sunday.
The appointment was announced
by Newbold Noyes, associate editor.
on behalf OF Theodore w. Noyes. edi-
tor OF The Star, who is out of the
city.
Mckelway, who Is Al and a native
OF North Carolina, has been with The
Star since March, 1920, serving sue
cessively as copy editor, reporter,
assistant city editor. city editor, news
manager and recently as assistant
managing editor.
A resident OF the District OF Co.
lunlbia since 1908, he was educated
at Western High School, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and George
Washington University.
Formerly he was reporter on the
Washington Times and Washington
Herald and managing editor of the
New Britain, Conn, Herald.
During the World War he was aide
de camp to Brig Gen. Lloyd M. Brett,
commanding the l6Oth Infantry Bri-
gade, and served in the battles OF St.
Mihiel and the Argonne.
He is married. has three sons and
resides at 207l Park road.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
HULL GIVES DUNN
new STATE POST
Named Adviser on Political Re-
lations-Old Job Goes
to Moffat.

Appointment Of James Clement
Dunn. head of the division of Euro
pean affairs of the State Department,
to the newly created post of adviser on
political relations has been announced
by Secretary of State Hull
At the same time the secretary an
nounced the appointment of Jay
Pierrepont Moffat, foreign service
off1cer and until recently American
Consul General at Sydney, Australia
as successor to Dunn.
In his new post Dunn will have
charge Of supervising such divisions
having general charge of relations
with foreign states as may be assigned
to him and with giving advice on 'spe-
cial questions and performing other
duties Of supervisory or advisory
nature" the State Department an
nounced.
1t has not been decided which divi-
sions will be assigned to the new of1ice.
Dunn is a native of Newark, N. j..
and entered the Foreign Service School
in 1919. He has been on duty in the
State Department here since 1927,
following duty at various foreign posts.
He became chief Of the division of
international conferences and proto-
col in 1928 and was made head Of the
European division two years ago.
Moffat, native of Rye, N. Y, also
entered the Foreign Service School in
1919, and after foreign service came
to Washington in 1881 to take the
post of chief of the Western European
division. When this was merged with
the European division under Dunn in
1885, Moffat was sent to Sydney.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
TREASURY AGENTS
WILL GO TO SCHOOL
Special Training Will Be Given
Enforcement Group During
Next Few Months.
B. the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The Treasury, seeking to make its
faT-enforcement activities more ef-
feetive, said yesterday it would give
special training to enforcement agents
during the next few months.
A series of tuo-Week training pc
RODS will be held for Secret Service.
Coast Guard. narcotics, customs al
cohol and tax agents.
Procedure for searches and seizures
criminal investigation and the COM
pilation of evidence will be empha-
sized.
Attention will be given to the
work OF microscopes, ballistlcs ex-
perts, Handwriting experts, physicists,
chemists, ultraviolet ray techniciaps.
photograp pliers and technicians of the
Treasury Department laboratories.
the announcement said.
The training assemblies will open
July rs in Boston. Detroit and San
Francisco, with other cities scheduled
as follows:
August 9. New York, Chicago and
seattle; August %, Atlanta, New Or
leans and Denver; September 7, Bal
tlmore, Louisville and Kansas CITY.
september 20, Philadelphia, Atlanta
ana Chicago; October 4, New York.
new Orleans and St Paul.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
MAN IS INDICTED
I'm CASE
DC. Grand Jury Charges
Attempted Extortion.
81 Other Returns.

Charged with threatening the life
ot.Mrs. Nellie J. Hanford and her SON
81 j. Hanford, unless he was paid
et209e, Earle William Gott was in
diatAd by the District grand jury today
opa charge of attempted eXtortion
.rGott is said to have admitted writ
Ing to Mrs Hanford, widow of Henry
Hanford, Evening Star executive,
Threatening to kill her and her son
uf1fess paid
Mrs. Hanford and her other son,
Wesley G. Hanford, turned the letter
OYER to the Federal Bureau of Investi-
cation, and Gott was trapped when
hs called at local hotel and accepted
=. dummy" package supposedly con-
tanning the money. He was arrested
SHORTLY thereafter in Franklin Park,
unable to post $4,000 bond he was
committed to jail.
The grand jurors reported 4S other
Indictments to Justice Oscar r. Luh-
ring and ignored charges in three
cases
.Those indicted, with the charges
against Ihenl, were,
Matthew E. Logan and Joseph NJ
Rogers. non-support; John Hopkins,
0cie Davis, James T. Briscoe, John
RStewart. Charles A Briscoe, Caeser
r. Alexander, William Norris. An
drew J. Bell, Robert White. George
w. Miller. John Leapley and Phillip
Spinelli, joy-riding; Lewis Davis and
Owen T. Cavanaugh, joy-riding and
grand larceny; Charles E. Duvall and
Louis F.. Lombardi. housebreaking
end larceny; John R. Ball. Armstead
Owens. Ora jenkins. Ester Jasper,
John L. Gillian and Robert johnson,
grand larceny; jeff Bailey, assault
with ln4nt to commit robbery John
j. Sloane and James Wilson. attempt
to commit robbery: James ]. Tyler,
robbery, assault with intent to COM
NIT robbery and assault with a dan
serous weapon; Charles A. Dean,
Leonard E. Irving. Mozella Farrell,
Helen Ford, Lewis Mason, WILDER H.
Grimmett. William Smith. Wilbur A.
Lewis and Albert Miller. robbery;
Thomas Thompson, houSebreaking.
Montray Evans Isiah B Gordon,
Willie NJ. Graves. Robert Taylor, Eli
Christian Carpenter, Francis Dixon.
Samuel Robinson, Pitt Hockaday,
housebreaking and larceny: George
Tinker. housebreaking and assault
with a dangerous weapon; Benjamin
M Drew, assault with a dangerous
weapon: Wesley Young, Marshall
Wells, Louis H. Singleton. Burton
Gardinl. william Jones and Dennis
W. RosSier, assault With a dangerous
weapon: Marshall Fulton, rape. Fred
Adam Hooks and Edward Robinson,
violation Of the gaming regulations.
and Bernard S. Travers, taking money
from the mails.
The following were cleared of the
charges Indicated: Wallace H. Sham
ley, assault with a dangerous weapon;
Addison Marlborough, robbery. and
John T. Oden, grand larceny,
Evening star., 1937-07-21
SENATE VETO ACTION
is DUE TOMORROW
Borah Reports Agreement Reach
ed With Barkley on Farm
Loan Interest Bill.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho
said yesterday he was cleared for Sen
ate action tomorrow on President
Roosevelt's veto of lower farm loan
interest rates.
He said he rea ached an agreement
with Senator Barkley, Democrat, of
Kentucky. acting majority leader, to
act on the Presidents veto message
then, before we take up the court bill
again"
The House overrode the veto, $50
to 90.
The interest rate measure would
continue for another year the ga per
cent emergency" rate on approx
mately $4,000, ,oOo, 900 of Federal Land
Bank loans and then calls for a 4 per
cent rate for another year.
It would also cut from S to 1 per
cent the interest on more than $780,
100000 of land bank commissioner
loans.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
LAST TRIBUTE PAID
OLIVER OWEN KUHN
"Conquered Life in Terms Of
Work. Declares Rev.
R. H. Miller.

SorroWing relatives, friends and as.
sociates OF Oliver Owen Kuhn, manav.
ing editor Of The Star. paid final
tribute to him yesterday afternoon at
funeral services in the National City
Christian Church, Thomas circle.
Rev. Raphael H. Miller, the pastor.
eulogized Mr.. Kuhn as Journalist and
citizen in simple but impressive rites
IN the flower banked church. Secre-
tary of Commerce Daniel c. Roper,
longtime friend of Mr.. Kuhn. was
among the host of mourners, represent
ing all walks Of life.
He went as he would have wanted
to CO. the minister said He fell
full-armored, front-faced, on the bat
tlefleld where no foe had ever mads
him afraid"
Pointing out that Mr.. Kuhn lived
life to the full" Mr.. Miller said he
conquered life in terms of work" and
he counted life not by reward but by
opportunities 1t afforded"
He asserted Mr. Kuhn was min
tter's son who carried on his fathers
good works through the medium Of
journalism
He believed an interpreter of news
was just as important AS a maker Of
news the clergyman said. He
believed that reporter was an am
bassador of good news"
There were brief rites a. Rock Creek
Cemetery, where the body was placed
in vault.
The honorary pallbearers were Theo-
dore w. Noyes, Frank B Moves, Flem-
ing Newbold, Newbold Moves. Victor
Kaufman. Samuel H Kaufman,
r. M. Kaufman, George Adams
Howard and Crosby N. BOYD.
Active pallbearers were G.. A LYON,
Benjamin M McKelvay, Herbert F.
Corn, G. Gould Lincoln, Le Roy W.
Heron, William Gait Burns J. Russell
Young and William Drew.
Mr.. Kuhn. who died SUNDAY ss
Emergency Hospital from uremio
poisoning and complications Is sur
vlved BY his mother. Mrs Emma Coll
Inns Kuhn of Indianapolis. Ind: his
widow, Mrs Lenora M R. Kuhn: three
daughters, Lois Mary, Eleanor Margaret
and Frances, and two sisters. Mrs.
William T. Rose Of Indianapolis. and
Mrs Raymond T Harrison Of Detroit,
Mich. The mother and sisters cams
to Washington shortly before Mr..
kuhns death.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
PARDONS GRANTED
JAILED BANDITS"
Cummings Issues Releases
for Two, Is Convinced
Crime Was Karpis'.

Attorney General Homer Cummings
today issued the necessary papers for
the release from prison of Anthony
Tony Labrizetta. "a, and George
Sargent. 49, serving 25-year terms for
mail robbery it is claimed they did
not commit.
President Roosevelt, acting on Cum
mings' recommendation. yesterday
granted unconditional pardons to the
two men, who are residents Of Akron,
Ohio.
While Cummings report to the
President was not made public, it was
learned at the Department of Justice
that officials are convinced the crime
for which La abrizetta and Sargent were
imprisoned was committed by Alvin
Karpis, notorious kidnaper, and his
gang of bandits.
Labrizetta and Sargent were among
several suspects questioned by postal
inspectors Immediately after the SIPS
600 machine-guu robbery of a mail
truck at Warren, Ohio. on April "a,
1885. The pair was partially "identl-
fed" by witnesses. and convicted after
two trials by jury.
Throughout their period of arrest
and prosecution the men insisted they
were innocent and were the victims of
a 'frame-up" The evidence against
them admittedly was mostly circum-
stantial.
Less than seven months after the
Warren robbery similar hold-up
occurred at Garrettsville, Ohio, under
circumstances that pointed to the
same gang in each case. The second
robbery was found to be the work of
Alvin Karpis, Harry Campbell and
others Of their crowd. and this pair
confessed the Garrettsville hold-up
after their capture by Federal Bureau
of Investigation agents.
Although Karpis was noncommit-
tai regarding the Warren robbery.
subsequent investigation strength
ened the belief that the Karpis gang.
and not Labrizetta and Sargent, was
responsible.
Cummings acted on the advice of
Pardon Attorney Daniel Lyons, who
made thorough study of the case.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
FRATERNITY EXEMPTION
IN SECURITY ACT ASKED

Unanimous support of a bill now
pending in Congress to exempt COL
lege fraternities and sororities from
the provisions of the social security
act was voted yesterday by the newly
organized Interfraternity Club at
luncheon in Schneider's Restaurant.
The measure indorsed was intro
duced by Representative Buck Of
California and has been referred to
the Ways and Means Committee, OF
which he is a member.
The group, composed of members
OF IL national social college fraterni-
ties, voted to hold its luncheons on
the third Tuesday of each month at
Schneider's; the next being August
H. Possible dinner meetings also
were discussed.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
0KLAH0MAN HEADS
FIRST VOTERS BODY
Chosen by Executive Committee
to Succeed Brooklyn, N. Y,
Youth.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Herbert Palmer OF Oklahoma City
was selected yesterday to head the
First Voters League of America. a
youth organization formed during last
years political campaigns, when it
worked for President Roosevelt and
other Democratic candidates.
Palmer was chosen by the organiza-
tons Executive Committee to sue
coed Leon l.. Sclawy of Brooklyn.
N. Y. as president. SclaWy became
chairman Of the board of directors.
Senator Lee, Democrat, OF Okla
homa became chairman of the
leagues advisory board, composed of
Congressman.
Other officers named: Wilson
Brown. Oklahoma City. director of
public relations; Floyd E Harper,
Upton, Ind, first vice president; Eve
lyn E. Godfrey, Washington, secre-
tary; Charles K. Milroy Washington,
treasurer, and Nathan R. Sobel, Al
bany, N. Y. general counsel.
Additional vice presidents: Oscar
E Boline. Wichita. Kans., second vice
president; Winfield Scott Chadwick.
Neburn, N c., third vice president;
Clifford E. Mann Winter Haven, Fla,
fourth vice president; Anne Shapiro
Philadelphia, fifth vice president, and
Walter Brambell, Kansas City, Mo,
sixth vice president.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
g. STRIKE RIOTERS
FACEPROSECUT|0N
Chicago Police Cleared by
Jury's JustifiabIe Homi-
eide Verdict.
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July 21-A verdict Ct
justifiable homicide returned by cor
oner's jury at an inquest into the death
OF 10 men slain in the Memorial day
steel strike riot speeded prosecution
today Of 81 participants In the labor
clash.
Six unemployed American Legion
members who comprised the jury. alb
solved the police Of responsibility for
the slayings after hearing testimony
for week and celebrating 1t for 50
minutes yesterday.
Nal Coghlan, assistant States at
torney, said he would push proceedings
against the 64 strikers and sympathis-
ers on the basis OF evidence developed
at the inquest. They were charged
with conspiracy to riot, an offense
which carries penalty of one to fve
years in prison upon conviction.
Slain by Unknown Officer"
Each Of the riot victims, the jury de-
cided. was slain by bullet fired from
a gun held in the hand Of an unknown
police officer
The jury's report said the riot
started when large body Of strikers
and strike sympathizers numbering ap-
proxlmately 800 to 1000 persons,
many of whom were armed with clubs
and missiles. attempted to force their
way through police line, apparently
intending to enter the plant Of the Re-
public Steel Corp" in South Chicago.
From the testimony presented. We
the jury believe this occurrence to be
justifiable homicide"
Steel Influence Charxed.
The verdict drew FIRE from union
leaders and attorneys. Thorlow
Lewis, counsel for the Illinois district
Of the United Mine Workers OF Amer
lea and c. l. O. representative at
the inquest said
apparently the Republic Steel
Corp. has a lot of influence-more
than the La Toilette senatorial COM
mittee. Apparently Chicago looks at
the massacer with different eyes than
the rest of the world"
The La Toilette committee, which
investigated the riot, has not yet re-
ported its findings to the Senate.
Nicholas Fontecchio, district di-
rector for the Steel Workers Or
ganizing Committee, said We didn't
expect any more from that outfit
They kill our people and it's their own
court, SO you couldn't expect them to
convict themselves.
Claims Arming by C. I. o.
Coghlan, who represented the
State, called the verdict a just one
and said the testimony showed to
a moral certainty that c. T. O. lead
ers supervised the arming of the mob
and planned and melted a violent
attack upon the police" He said the
strikers were misled by insane lead
ership."
Witnesses at the inquest gave con-
f1icting testimony. Some asserted the
strikers precipitated the riot by hurl-
ing missiles and firing a shot. Others
testified the demonstrators only sought
to establish peaceful picket line and
that police fired without provocation.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
ELECTRIC COMPANY
ACCUSED BY N. |. R. B.
Complaint Charges Coercion of
Employees Into Affiliated
A. F, L, Union.
By the Associated Press.

B, the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, July 2l.-The Ma
tional Labor Relations Board issued a
complaint today against the National
Electric Products Co. OF Ambridge
Pa, charging the company coerced
and intimiated employees into Joining
a union affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor.
Regional Labor Board Director
Charles T. Douds set August 2 for a
hearing on the complaint.
The complaint grew out Of charges
by the United Electrical and Radio
Workers of America, affiliated with
the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization.
The United Union called a strike
several weeks ago, after the company
signed a closed shop contrac5 with
the international Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, an A. F. Of L,
union.
The Labor Board charged the COM
pany hired men in an attempt to
break the strike, gave tinan ncial sup-
port to \ labor organization, dis
charged employees for union activities
and refused TO bargain with the United
Union, which asserted It's member
ship included a majority of the
workers.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
U.S.. Flyer, Captured by Rebels,
Disconsolate in Spanish Jail
Champaig gn, Ill.,, Man Fears He Is Man
Without a Country-May Face
Firing Squad.

now-particularly when the only inter-
est was money.
Il am not a Communist and never
was, but had no Job and I heard
could get plenty of money for flying
in Spain. thought I was coming
here as instructor"
Dahl came to Spain with two other
Americans also hired on a month-to-
month basis and arrived at Madrid
June "a. He said he had signed up in
Mexico
Learned In U. S. Army.
The aviator explained he had learned
flying in the United States Army at a
Texas field about 1881 and became a
reserve pilot. He added he was q
graduate of Columbia University.
He few only twice for the Madrid
forces-July 10 and r.
Il took off about 5 80 in the after
noon COT July l2) with fight of about
As pursuit planes protecting about 25
bombers. We were over Boadilla Zap
parently Boadilla del Monte, few
miles west of Madrid) when the air
above was suddenly full of Nationalist
(insurgenD fighters.
Two planes near me came down in
flames and another fluttered down and
spun out of control. Before I knew
what hit me plane above had riddled
my ship so completely that the fabric
flew off the wings.
Il was flying alone in biplane of
Russian make similar to. the American
Curtiss C-12. I was up about 5000
feet. bailed out with my parachute
and landed in an orchard on the front.
I did not know where I was. just
sat and waited and a squad of soldiers
came and got me.
They took me to Navalcarnero,
then here"
Dahl called the aerial warfare "the
bitterest fighting imaginable" and said
the governments air force was almost
entirely made UP OF Russian atrmeu.
Evening star., 1937-07-21

Finally he stopped in front Of this
lass. bowed and said fiercely, But
how does one brush ones teeth?"
She thought he ought to know that
at his age, but he explained that there
was something very wrong with the
water jugs. No water came out. To-
gether they Investigated. She found
the jugs had cellophane caps on them
She broke through one cap. Senor
said, "Ah, wonderful. these Ameri-
cans" and brushed his teeth.
Later they became good friends.
Nice trick, if you can turn it, senor
pal.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
OMAHA STILL STUCK:
OTHER SHIPS STAND BY
Construction Bureau Man Flies to
Scene to Help Puzzle Out Nays
Latest Problem.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The Navy still was trying today to
float the light cruiser Omaha, which
grounded off Castle Island Light,
Crooked Island, in the Bahamas, on
July 10.
Comdr. Melville w. Powers. naval
constructor from the Bureau of Con-
struction and Repair, went to the
scene by plane to assist the command
ing officer, Capt. Howard NJ Mecleary
in floating the 7,050-ton warship, the
Navy Department disclosed.
The tug Patriot and the oil tanker
Salinas, with lighter, are standing
by the Omaha to remove ammunition
end other material to tighten ship.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
De VALERA CHOSEN
PRESIDENT AGAIN
Reelected for Third Term
by Dali, 81 to So, Despite
Cosgrave Attack.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, July cl.-Eamon de Va
lera was reelected President of the
Irish Free State today by the new Dali,
parliament, by vote OF 81 to 50. 1t
will be his third term.
William T. Cosgrave. opposition
leader, vigorously opposed the election.
contending that the majority of votes
cast in the recent general election were
against De Valeras policies.
Cosgrave also condemned the new
constitution which sewers the last link
between the Free State and Great
Britain and changes the country's
name to Fire pronounced "Airy"D.
The country approved the constitu-
ton in election early this month De
Valera's party won 50 places in the
Dali Eireann, lower house. the same
number taken by all the other parties
together.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
STEEL PAID TAYLOR
$166,862 LAST YEAR
Irwin Received $130,310, Accord.
ing to S. E. C. Report-Sl05,399
for Standard Oil Head.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
The United States Steel Corp re-
ported to the Securities Commission
yesterday it paid Myron c. Taylor.
chairman of its board. sl66,862 last
year w. A. Irwin, president Of big
steel" received sl30,310.
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana re-
ported sl05, ,3s9 for its president. E G.
Schubert, and Air Reduction Co. $780,
1853 for its president, c. E. Adams.
Other salaries shown in annual
corporation reports included:
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., P. w.
Litchfleld, president, ss2 1000.
Sharon Steel Corp. Sharon. Pa,
Henry A. Roemer, president, s78.641.
Collins & Aikman Corp, New York.
Willis G. Mccullough, president,
s75,22O.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
D. c. WOMEN HELD
IN VICE CLEANUP
Two Will Be Given Hearings
in Baltimore on Mann
Act Charges.

Continuing their cleanup OF vice
conditions in Baltimore and vicinity,
special agents of the Federal Bureau
OF Investigation today added two
Washington women TO the list of Is
persons taken in 10 raids since May Is.
The two, Helen Burness and Billie
Edwards, were to be given hearings
before United States Commissioner
James K. Cullen in Baltimore on
Mann act charges. Miss Burness will
appear today.
Miss Burness was arrested here yes
terday at an undisclosed address. In
secret indictment returned July 6
by the Federal grand jury in Balti-
more she was charged with transport
ing from Washington to Baltimore for
immoral purposes Caroline ST. John,
one of the key witnesses for the Gov
eminent in the roundup. She was
arraigned yesterday before Cullen and
released on 81 500 bond for hearing
today.
Named in the same indictment with
4Nll>S IuLiltSS "rIt Ed"dIU l.. bTIUS-
ley of this city and Mary Lehman
and Lillian Post Of Baltimore. all of
whom were arrested several weeks ago
by Federal agents and who are await
ing trial.
Miss Edwards was arrested in
Portsmouth, N. H, yesterday. She is
being removed to Baltimore for ar
raignment. Her Washington address
was not given.
Bernard j. Blynn, United States
attorney at Baltimore, said he will
seek early trial dates for the two
girls, for the trio named with Miss
Burness in the indictment and for
f1ve other defendants, Helen and
Charles Cipris, Sally Kluke, Betty
Byrd and Mary Tedesco.