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Evening star., 1938-06-22
TAX CLAIM FOUGHT
BYHARD|NCPAPER
Marion Stars New Owners
Attack Assessment in =.
High Court Plea. \
Py the Associated Press.


A tax dispute growing out of the
sale by President Warren G. Harding
of his interest in the Marion, Ohio,
Star reached the Supreme Court yes
terGay. q
The Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc,
owner of the Star. filed an appeal
challenging a $3.50 Federal income
tax deficiency assessment for 1880
and 1881.
Part Of the contract for sale of the
paper provided that an agreement
would be made whereby Mr. Harding,
after he left the presidency, would be
employed as editor for 10 years at
$4,000 a year.
In the event of his death the money
was to be paid to Mrs. Harding or to
his estate
The contract for sale of the paper
was dated June l8, 1923. The Presi-
dent died in California the next
August 2.
Although contending that no en-
ployment contract had been executed,
the purchasers said a compromise was
effected under threat of suit from
Mrs. Harding
The money was paid to Mrs Harding
until her death, in 1924. In 1880 and
l93l-the years at issue--it was re-
ceived by Mrs. Abigail Harding Lewis,
one of Mr.. Harding's sisters.
In filing its income tax return for
those years the newspaper sought to
deduct the amount paid Mrs Lewis on
the ground that it was an ordinary
and necessary expense.
The Board of Tax Commissioners
declared, however, that the payment
was part of the price OF the Presidents
interest in the paper The Sixth Cir
cult Court of Appeals sustained the
assessment.
Evening star., 1938-06-22
FIRES SWEEPING
WESTERN CANADA
Flames Are Roaring Along ESQ.
Mile Front in Province
of Alberta.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
EDMONTON. Alberta, June a.
Forest fires, termed the worst In Al
berta's history, swept across q $50
mile front today in Western Canada's
bush country.
The flames spread rapidly in the
wake Of hot, rainless spell, causing
heavy timber losses. Fires threat
ened sawmills and farm homes and
at least one community, Caroline,
with population of so.
Telephone communications with
Caroline. so miles northwest Of Call
gary, were broken yesterday.
Heavy black clouds of smoke hung
low over Edmonton, Calgary and
Lethbridge, grounding airplanes.
Flights from Prince Albert and other
Northern Saskatchewan points were
cancelled.
The fire ragged over an area ex-
tending from the British Columbia
border to Rochester, so miles north
Of Edmonton. Flames were uncon-
trolled in the Sturgeon Lake area, $50
miles northwest of Edmonton, and
were sweeping along both banks Of
the Smokey River, southeast Of Grand
Prairie.
j. A. Hutchinson, assistant provin-
cial forestry director. said the fires
were 'the worst in Alberta's history"
Evening star., 1938-06-22

Kenzie remarked to his wife as they
sped by. He did not stop to investi-
gate. assuming that If anything serious
developed it would be noted by other
motorists. Traffic was heavy at the
time.
Dress Is Similar.
Mr. Mackenzie examined the dead
woman's dark blue, red-fowered cot
ton print dress at Prince Frederick last
night, and said it was similar to the
one worn by the woman he had seen
on the highway. He was not able to
recognize the body, explaining he had
not looked closely at the woman's
face as he passed the struggling pair.
States Attorney Arthur w. Dowell
of Calvert County said the incident
reported by Mr.. Mackenzie appeared
to be the best clue yet developed in
the case
Leads Prove Vain.
Investigators had followed numerous
other possible "leads" without success
in efforts to unravel the mystery of
the woman's identity and how she
came to her death.
State and county authorities still
are investigating reports Of q bru-
nette dressed like the dead woman
being beaten by fat man at North
Beach last Friday evening, and seen
two hours later on the highway near
Lyons Creek. crying and attempting
tor hail passing motorists. However,
they were frankly skeptical of con-
Meeting these incidents with the ap-
parent murder.
Poison Death Is Possibility.
A post-mortem examination by DR..
Page Jett showed Mrs. Lewis ap-
parently had been killed sometime
after noon Sunday. She had not
drowned because there was no water
in her lungs. DR.. Jet found no
definite evidence of the cause of death,
asserting he believed she either had
been poisoned or smothered to death.
A dozen cuts on her face and head.
which looked as If they had been in
flicted by sharp bits Of glass; could not
have been fatal, he said. Contents
Of her stomach were being analy1ed
for poison.
Officers believed she may have been
one OF Washington week end party
at one Of the beaches on Chesapeake
Bay.
One OF the cuts CO her head NAV
have been sufficient tN cause uncon-
sciousness, DR.. Jett said. Then her
assailant, officers theorized, may have
smothered her to death and tossed
her body into the creek from the
bridge on the highway en route back
to washington,
Evening star., 1938-06-22
SLAYER Of BOY.
PLEADS TO Jury
Man Who Showed Lad Off
Cliff Seeks to Evade
Electric Chair.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALPINE. Tex, June 22.-Francis
Marion Black, jr., pleaded with a
shirt-sleeved jury of West Texans to-
day to save him from electrocution
for his confessed MacAbre murder of
a 13-year-old boy.
The unemployed piano tuner is &C
cused by the State OF throwing Mar
vim Dale Noblitt of q 4O0-foot cliff
to collect $1,000 insurance policy
on the boys life.
Il started several times to shove
him over" confession introduced by
the State yesterday said. Il had quite
lot of trouble getting up my nerve
to do it. But I finally put my
right hand on his belt and my left
on his left shoulder and showed him
of the cliff"
The confession related that Black
badly in need of money after losing
his wife's savings in stock negotia-
tions, decided to hire boy under pre-
tense of adopting him. He persuaded
Mrs. Bobbie Smith of San Benito,
Tex. to give him custody of her son,
Marvin Dale. on the promise of cloth
ing and educating him in return for
work.
Blacks statement related he origi-
nally planned to drown Marvin Dale
but learned he was good swimmer. "
Then, Black said, he bought the boy
bicycle, in the hopes he would get
run over by an automobile and save
me the trouble of doing away with
him.
The fatal trip to the mountainous
Big Bend area near here early this
month followed, Black related He
said that after he plunged Marvin
Dale to death he went to the bottom
Of the cliff Ito make certain he was
dead"
Evening star., 1938-06-22
Bad Egg Made Good.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, (R.-A man
walked into City Court and announced
My name is Egg, and I'm bad and !
want to be sent to prison."
Judge Marion j. Rice accommodated
Wilfred E. Egg, %, of Jasper, by giving
him a 60-day sentence at the State
penal farm on . charge OF intoxication.
Boy, I feel like . good egg now."
1gg said
Evening star., 1938-06-22
LANDSLIDE FOR BARROWS.
Lead Over Fernald in Maine Race Is
Nearly $4,000.

PORTLAND, Me, June % tP1.-
Gov. Lewis o. Barrows' avalanche of
votes which buried State Senator Roy
L. Fernalds bid for Republican guber-
material nomination, stood at nearly
SO, 900 today.
Virtually complete returns in Mon
days primary gave Gov. Barrows
1880. Mr.. Fernald 24.3S7 The Bar
rows lead was more than double the
10000 ma jority by which he was nom
mated two years ago over Bin w.
Page. Skowhegan banker.
A clean-sweep for all major Repub-
lican incumbents automatically placed
them against Democratic nominees,
also chosen Monday. in the September
State election which often has been
termed by political leaders as q
weathervane for national sentiment.
The September ballot lineup will be
Governor-Barrows against former
Gov Louis J. Brann Cd, Lewiston,
unopposed in the primary for third
term nomination.
United States Representatives:
First district-Representative James
c. Oliver (R) against Harold B.
Emery CD, Limington.
Second district d - Representative
Clyde H. Smith (R) against F. Har-
old Du0ord CD. Waterville.
Third district-Representative Ralph
O. Brewster (R) against Melvin P. Rob-
erts CD. Fort Fairfield. Neither had
opposition.
Evening star., 1938-06-22
DEATH MYSTERY
HOLDS 4 IN JAIL
Coroner's Jury Asks Further
Investigation in Case
of Handyman.
~ the Associated Press.

/" Ire Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Md, June a.
Three men and woman we're held
today for further questioning in the
death by violence of Elwood Murphy,
q handyman, about 58 after a
coroner's jury requested further in
vestigation.
The jury declined to reach a verdict
last night despite the assertion by
States Attorney German Hill I'VE
believe tthe death) was murder" i"
The jurors continued the hearing for
an indefinite period
The four were arrested near Finch
vile, where Murphy's battered body
was found draped over his bicycle.
Witnesses reported last night the
bicycle was unscarred and his clothing
was untorn They signed statements
which Mr.. Hill said were not complete.
II don't believe Murphy received
the fatal injuries at the place he was
found" Mr. Hill said. No motive for
the death has been established, he
added. Mr.. Hill declined to make
public the statements the four signed
Seeks Special Jury.
Armed with a strongly worded
coroner's jury verdict in another
case. that Fred Brown 48-year-old
farmer, murdered his young wife and
mother of his child, Mr.. Hill pressed
today for special grand jury to hear
the case
Mr.. Hill planned to confer this
morning with Judge T. F. Insley on
the possibility of recalling the April
term grand jury
While Brown sat in stolid silence
.and with calm countenance, the jury
brought in verdict yesterday that the
farmer deliberately and maliciously"
strangled his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth
Brown, to death.
The latter, II years old, was soon
to have given birth to Browns second
child. Mr.. Hill said Brown confessed
killing her and throwing her body into
the Nanticoke River, after weighting
it with four pillow points He said his
wife had threatened to take their in
fant son and leave him after quarrel.
) Brown did not testify at the hear
ing. but was represented by James A.
McAllister, former States attorney of
Dorchester County.
Evidence Before Jury.
Testimony that Mrs. Brown stayed
at their home the night of June l3
after asserting Fred wouldn't let me
in was given by Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Sackett of Reids Grove. They are
neighbors of the Browns Mr. Hill said
Brown confessed killing his wife the
evening of June IA.
Arrayed before the jury for in
spection were the four plow points
which had been bound to Mrs. Browns
body; her tennis shoes and the anklets
she was wearing, and pieces of her
print dress.
The jurys verdict read:
I'VE find Mrs. Elizabeth Brown died
of strangulation at the hands of her
husband, Fred L. Brown, who delib-
erately, maliciously and of malice
.aforethought did strangle Elizabeth
Brown to death"
Evening star., 1938-06-22
Film Shown in Court,

During the damage suit Of worker
for injuries received in a lumber MILL
film of the huge saw in operation
was screened for the benefit Of the
jury, in Napier, New Zealand. The
man claimed he had been injured
while operating the saw, and the pic
ture showed it in slow motion as a
description of the work done was given
You are the first jury in British
Dominion which has had the honor
of seeing evidence this way" declared
Judge Blair.
Evening star., 1938-06-22
QUIET JULY PLEDGED

ANNAPOLIS. Md, June % (Spe-
claD Annapolis is due to have the
quietest July 4th in its history.
Police Commissioner Thomas G..
Basil said he had instructed police to
carry out the letter of the law and
arrest proprietors of business concerns
selling fireworks, as well as those
who discharge them.
Evening star., 1938-06-22
STAGE VETERAN DIES

NEW YORK, June 21 (P).-Jack
Squires, 43, veteran of many musical
comedy roles on Broadway, died yes
terday of heart attack.
He played the juvenile lead in the
road company of The Chocolate Sol
dier." His other musicals included
Very Good, Eddie" Yours Truly"
Artists and Models" Rio Rita" and
The Laugh Parade" He was born in
Camden. N. j.
Evening star., 1938-06-22
Murder
Continued From First Page.)

close friend coming forward to identify
the body
Officer H. c. Carl, Maryland State
police f1ngerprint expert, reported
failure in an attempt to secure finger
prints yesterday afternoon because of
the condition of the fingers.
He came to Washington later in the
day, however, and secured the CO.
operation of Dr. Richard NJ Rosen-
berg. deputy District coroner, and John
Styers, Treasury Department clerk,
described by police as an authority on
|hngerprinting.
BY using chemical prepared by DR..
Rosenberg. they succeeded in obtaining
good prints from the fingers of the
woman about midnight, as her body
lay in the rural undertaking establish
ment of w. H. Hutchins g. Son, near
Prince Frederick, Md.
Fastening back to Washington, the
investigators checked through the F.
B. I. files and about am. today
matched the prints.
Corpl Magaha, leading the investi-
6dClOll lOI tllC WAL ldlLu otdUC :,
and other officers then went home to
bed, returning to resume their investi-
cation later today.
A few hours before the identification
was made Maryland authorities were
told of woman having been seen
attempting to escape from a man in
an automobile bearing District license
tags Sunday evening, near the spot
where the body was found Monday
morning
Man Tells of Fight.
1t was about am. Monday when
two colored men noticed the body, with
the head and shoulders floating above
the water in Lyons Creek, beside
bridge on the Southern Maryland bou-
levard-the route from Washington to
numerous Chesapeake Bay beaches in
Southern Maryland
James c. Mackenzie, carpenter
who lives near Camp Springs, Nd,
told authorities he and his wife were
driving to North Beach late Sunday
when they saw woman struggling
with a man in a parked car about a
quarter of a mile from the creek,
toward Washington.
OF the same general appearance as
the dead woman, she was kneeling ON
the front seat of the car, with the door
open beside her, and screaming "let
me out" as a man beside her held her
hands, Mr.. Mackenzie said.
THAT looks like q fight" Mr.. Mac
Evening star., 1938-06-22
LEADING
BY 5000 VOTES
Gallagher Tops Democratic
Candidates - Stassen
Ahead in G. O. P. Race.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 22.-Gov.
Elmer A. Benson today held a COM
manding lead over former Gov.
Hjalmar Petersen, his opponent in q
bitter race for nomination as Farmer
Labor candidate for Governor, as in
complete returns from Mondays
primary election struggled in.
Leadership of the States dominant
political party was at stake in the
voting, which, for a time, see-sawed
to give the advantage first to one, then
to the other candidate. Gov. Benson
piled up a big margin in the Twin
Cities and the Northern Minnesota
iron range districts, labor strongholds,
while Mr.. Petersen drew his strength
from the rural districts.
Democratic Race Close.
Early today, with returns in from
3,l69 Of the States 3,739 precincts,
the vote stood 1877, 7,4l3 for Gov. Benson
and 178, 1888 for Mr.. Petersen.
A close race was also in progress in
the Democratic party. with Thomas
Gallagher, young Minneapolis at
attorney, holding about a 2,50O-vote
margin over the nearest Of five op-
ponents for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton, Fred Schilplin, st. Cloud pub
Usher.
Returns from 3,l16 precincts count
ed in the Democratic race gave Mr..
Gallagher 1854; Mr.. Schilplin. 49,
958: Michael Murray, 1896; Victor
Anderson, United States district at
torney for ST. Paul, 1907; Charles
Lethert, 4,088, and Joel Anderson,
1926.
Leading the Republican field Of
four Harold StasSen. Dakota County
attorney, had an apparently unbeat-
able advantage over Martin Nelson
twice the Republican nominee and
twice defeated by Farmer-Labor can
didates in general elections.
With SOTO precincts reported, the
returns gave Mr.. Stassen 100, ,786; Mr..
Nelson, 64,835: Mayor George E
Leach Of Minneapolis, 50,865. and
Harson Northrop, 2.940.
LANDSLIDE FOR BARROWS.
Evening star., 1938-06-22

Brussels sprouts was sold in the
markets Of Belgium as early as 1918.
Evening star., 1938-06-22
QUEENS MOTHER ILL
Daughter Flies to Bedside OF
Countess of Strathmore.

Countess of Strathmore.
LONDON, June % (P.-The seri-
Gus illness of Queen Elizabeth's 76-
year-old mother, the Countess of
Strathmore, today caused another
daughter to make flying trip to her
London bedside.
Lady Rose Leveson Cover the sec
ond daughter of the countess, flew
from the Isle of Man. The Queen, in
residence in Buckingham Palace, al
ready was in London.
Evening star., 1938-06-22
Fight

Continued From First Page
Evening star., 1938-01-08
EIGHT ARE HURT
IN D. c. TRAFFIC
Woman Suffers Injuries to
Head When Street Car
and Auto Collide.

Eight persons were injured, one per-
haps seriously, in traffic accidents here
during the past "a hours.
-Four Of the victims were hurt when
their automobile turned over in a COL
lision with street car at Second and
Indiana avenue NV.
In this crash, Miss Elizabeth Min
nick, 80, of 1864 Harvard street NV,
suffered head injuries that were de-
scribed at Casualty Hospital as serious.
The same accident, sent MIR. and
Mrs. Wallace Jarboe. both 81, of 55
M street NV, to Casualty, and Glenn
ent P. Battista, 40, of GIT Sherman
avenue NV, said by police to have
been the driver of the automobile, to
Emergency Hospital.
Mr.. Jarboe received several rib frac-
lures, his wife received conclusion and
multiple cuts and Mr.. Battista a
broken toe and cuts on the leg and
arm
Thomas L. Pryor, 43, colored, 1Oll
Fairmont street NV, was cut about
the head when mail truck he was op-
Grating was in collision with another
truck at North Capitol and E streets.
Mrs. Esther M. Duke, "a, of 5000
Fourteenth street NV. received in
juries to her leg, head and back when
knocked down by street car at Four
teenth and Randolph streets NV. She
was taken to Garfield Hospital.
Dorothy E. Wilhelm. 81. of 1916
Monroe street NE. and Thomas F.
Cummings. "a, of 526 South Dakota
avenue NE, were bruised when struck
by an automobile in the 1900 block Of
Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
CHARLESL. COY,
MUSICIAN, DEAD
Veteran Composer One of
City's Most Enthusiastic
Baseball Fans.

Charles L. Coy, 72, veteran musician
and composer. who for many years
was one of Washington's most enthu-
siastic baseball fans. died yesterday
Of a sudden illness in his home at 724
North Carolina avenue Sc
A retired clairinetist Of the United
States Marine Band, in which he
served from 1891 to 1919, Mr.. Coy for
long time had never missed big
league game at Grifiith Stadium.
He always kept a. box score care
fully and was quick to call to the
attention of sports writer any mis-
take made in newspaper. The park
management came to know him so
we'll that he had been assured that
any time there was not vacant seat
in the stands when he arrived clair
would be placed in an aisle for him.
Mr. Coy was known professionally
as Arthur Tregina. For many years
he taught music here until short
while ago. specializing in the teach
ing OF Instrumentation. harmony and
counterpoint.
Among his compositions were "Tol-
stoi Symphony" played last fall by
the Marine Band. and numerous
Overtures and marches.
Mr.. Coy, a native of Vermont, Is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary H.
Coy.
Funeral services will be held at II
am. Monday in Lees funeral home,
Fourth street and Massachusetts, ave-
niue NE. Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
Radio Flood Forecasting Plan
To Be Tested IN Pennsylvania

A radio system, linking all the riv-
ers, will automatically tap out mes
sages, constantly telling of conditions
on the streams. the most minute fall
or rise. This information will flow
into a headquarters station and thus
warnings will be broadcast to the
State at large.
DR.. Bogardus said that "the effec-
tiveness of the system depends, of
course, entirely on intricate studies of
past floods. That will take time
He pointed out that the system
would be doubly valuable because most
of Pennsylvania's important cities and
industrial centers are relatively close"
to headwaters of streams.
The model is only part Of Penn
sylvanias long-range food preven-
ton program, which will cost nearly
$100,000,000 and take probably 20
years to complete.
The 1886 flood in Pittsburgh, Johns
town and many other sections of the
State caused damage estimated at
SAT 100000. It took several score
lives.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
Three Convicted IN RObberies
Whipped at Post In Delaware

Warden Wilson, given the task Of
carrying out today's sentences, de-
clared that whippings serve as a crime
deterrent and keep big city" crooks
out of Delaware.
A strong opponent is Elmer J. Leach,
who formerly held Warden Wilson's
job.
"A penal institution as society has
come to recognize" Mr.. Leach said,
must be curative. fitting the inmate
to take his place in society.
But when a man is taken out into
the yard, shackled to a post and
lashed on his bare back in view Of
the public, that man certainly does
not leave the post with as good q
feeling toward society as when he
went there
In the last nine years 227 prisoners
have been whipped in Delaware, more
than half Of them for larceny. Break
ing and entering, wife beating and
robbery account for most OF the others.
Women no longer are punished by
whipping.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
MOTHER IS VICTIM
! OF FbRUTALATTACK
Ba|Iston Woman Beaten,
Tied, Gagged and
Assaulted.
BY a stan Correspondent of The Star.

BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
BALLSTON, Va, Jan. 8.-Cluhhed
with q pistol butt, tied, gagged and
attacked by an unidentified COL
ored man as she neared her home
at 4lo6 Ninth street north, here early
last night, Mrs. Virginia Miller, 80
year-old mother Of four children, today
was confined to her bed with severe
bruises and lacerations.
Arlington County police, led by De-
tectives Hugh c. Jones and Harry L.
woodward, last night combed the
neighborhood for more than seven
hours without finding trace Of the
man described by Mrs. Miller as her
attacker.
Mrs. Miller told her father, Howard
A. Smoot. with whom she has made
her home since separating from her
husband several months ago, that she
alighted from a bus a block from her
home at pm.
Dragged Into Alley.
As she started to pass the entrance
Of an alley about $50 feet from her
home, Mrs. Miller told her parents,
she was struck on the back Of the
head with q pistol. She said she saw
the gun, but could not describe her
assailant. She said, however. that
she was sure he was colored.
With a muttered 1--WE got you now"
the man dragged his victim into the
alley where the assault took place
alley where the assault took place, she
declared.
Following the attack, she said, the
man rifled her pocketbook, taking So,
and left the purse and papers lying in
the alley. He then rolled her into q
water-f1lled ditch and ned.
Father Begins Search.
Mrs. Miller was found by Charles
James. 4007 Fairfax drive, Ballston,
who was attracted to the scene by the
struggles of the woman to free her
self. Mr.. James freed the attack VIC
tim and took her home.
Police are holding the woman's
pocketbook, papers, the rope with
which she was bound and a lipstick
with which her attacker smeared her
face before he fled the scene
Mr.. Smoot. who himself was q po-
liceman in Arlington County for IA
years, this morning began a systematic
search Of the neighborhood in an at
tempt to locate his daughters as
sailant
Evening star., 1938-01-08
b the Associated Press.

HARRISBURG. Pa. Jan. ga
model" flood forecasting system. with
a radio finger" on the pulse" of
the rivers to warn of danger, soon will
be tested by food-conscious Pennsyl-
vania
DR.. James Bogardus, secretary of
forests and waters, said yesterday it
might be months before the set-up is
completed, but that experiments could
be made before long.
I'VE have something here by which
we hope to make impossible repetition
of the disastrous floods of 1886" he
added. I'VE call it model because
We worked it out with Federal authori-
ties to get a pattern which other
States could follow
One hundred stations have been
established along the main water
ways. These have been designed to
register the amount of rainfall.
Speciallymade gauges are being in
stalled. They will show the rainfall,
from which trained observers will de-
termine whether streams are going to
swirl out of control