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Evening star., 1939-07-17
River Murder Puzzle
Revived as Victim
Reports 10 Police
Wife Had Identified
Body as That Of
J. A. Leonhurdt

The appearance here of a Vir-
ginian whose wife had identified the
body of a murder victim at Waldorf
as his placed police back in the
dark today in their efforts to clear
up the mystery.
James Albert Leonhardt, 81,
walked into the seventh precinct
yesterday to announce he was any
thing but dead-lesS than "a hours
after seven persons, including Mrs.
Leonhardt, had viewed the body at
Waldorf and declared it his.
Charles County Sheriff Robert v.
Cooksey said the murdered man,
whose battered body was found float
ing in the Potomac River near Mar
shall Hall Thursday morning, will
be buried by the county in a name
less grave.
Mr.. Leonhardt explained today
that he left Washington May Is,
after coming here from his home
at Elkins Station, near Great Falls,
to transact little business"
He said he ran into friend who
suggested they 60 to New York. "I
had some money I received about a
year ago when l sold a farm 1 had
inherited from my mother" he ex-
planned, 80 I says why not. So
away we went
Mr.. Leonhardt. who was taken
from No. 7 to Gallinger Hospital for
observation, said he and his COM
panion, known to him only as Ray"
stayed a few days at the Worlds
Fair. journeyed to Atlantic City and
subsequently to North Beach.
He returned here Saturday and
was staying with friends" at
Thirty-third street and Prospec.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Rev. Joseph |. Fink,
Formerly Of D. C.,
Dies al Age Of 81
One Time Assistant Pastor
At 81. AIoysius Expires
In Pouehkeepsie

The Rev. Joseph I. Fink, S. j., g.
until several years ago assistant
pastor of st. Aloysius Catholic
Church In this city, died late yes
terday in st. Francis Hospital
Poughkeepsie. N. Y, according to
word received here.
In 1928 Father Fink became as
Sociated with st. Aloysius Church
as assistant pastor and at the same
time became chaplain of the Little
Sisters of the Poor, Third and H
streets NE. He served in those
two Offices for about eight years
until he left, because of failing
health, for the Novitiate of st. An
drew-on-H Hudson, Poughkeepsie.
In 1927 he was prefect of dis
cipline at Gonzaga College here, a
position he had held in 1919. He
taught mathematics at the college
in 1927 and also had the distinction
OF serving 1t as treasurer for about
two years, until June, 1922, when
he was appointed pastor of the I'M
maculate Conception Church at
Mechanicsville, Md.
Born in Reading, Pa, Father Fink
was educated in parochial schools
there and at Canisius College, Buf
falo, N. Y, being graduated from
Canisius in 1897. He entered the
Society of Jesus in August, 1897. He
studied for the priesthood at Wood
stock College, in Maryland, and was
ordained in June, 1909, by Cardinal
Gibbons. In the early years Of his
priesthood he served in the missions
OF Montego Bay, Jamaica, British
West Indies.
Funeral. services were scheduled
to be held in the chapel of St
Andrew-on-H Hudson and burial will
be in the Novitiate Cemetery there
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Nazi Germany 'sArt
Shining in Heavens,
Fuehrer Declares
Hitler Opens Exhibition
At Munich; Avoids
Mention of Donziq
BY the Associated Press.

MUNICH, Germany, July IT,
Adolf Hitler opened the German
National Art Exhibition yesterday
with a 15-minute address notable
In a world watching the tense Dan.
zig situation because 1t contained no
mention Of the Free City. or any
other political question.
The Fuehrer was content to re-
view German art briefly and to de-
scribe Nazi contributions to it, which,
he said, show that "the National
Socialist star of art is shining in
the heavens"
His address and the opening of the
exhibition were the high points of
the third annual German art week.
Goering on Yacht Trip.
|. The only political tinge to the
festivities came in the introduction
of Hitler by Nazi District Leader
Adolf Wagner, who said the art
celebration grows in the same
measure and tempo with which the
Fuehrer augments the Reich"
Although Hitler made no men
ton of politics. a political atmos-
phere pervaded the occasion, with
almost all high Nazi officials pres
ent except Field Marshal Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, who was on a
yacht trip through German canals
and streams.
The question of Danzig, which
Hitler has promised to return to
Germany, gathered momentum
through the continued presence
here of Danzig Nazi Leader Albert
Forester and the statement by a
well-informed source that "the Ger
man Reich holds that the time has
come to free German-Polish rela-
tions from this problem"
Must Influence Art"
In his address Hitler told Ger
many's artists that in times of swift
revolutionary developments those
who form political and worldly
outlook Of people must attempt
when necessary to influence artistic
forces even at the risk of serious
infringement of them in the sense
OF a common attitude toward the
world"
Only in that way" he continued,
can surviving art be prevented from
separating itself from the actual
life of the people and therefore
isolate itself more and more
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Town Adopts FLAG

OAKLAND, Nd, July II (P.-
Mountain Lake Park claims to be
the smallest settlement with an off,
cial city flag of its own. The Council
adopted a quartered ensign, which
bears representation of Backbone
Mountain, the park and Deep Creek
Lake to carry out the towns name,
plus the coat of arms of Maryland
in the fourth quarter of the flag
Samuel Philpot, Baltimore artist
designed it.
Evening star., 1939-07-17

Zagreb, Yugoslavia, will hold its
greatest automobile show this year.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Bund Silent on Whereabouts.
Head of AstroIoqers
To Attend Fete

The destiny of the United States
will be forecast by Earnest A. Grant,
president of the American Fedora
ton Of Scientific Astrologers, when
the Mississippi Young Democrats of
the District meet Wednesday at
8 pm in the Raleigh Hotel.
In addition to Mr.. Grants
horoscope reading of the United
States, the program will include
talks by Representative Colmer of
Mississippi and Roy Miller, former
director of finance for the Demo-
cratic National Committee. Miss
Harmona Horn will give a program
on her concertina.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Col. Phillips Is Named
To Aid Admiral Byrd
Special Dispatch to The Star,

specIaI DISPATCH to The Star
CAMBRIDGE, Md, July 17.-Ap-
polntment Of Col. Albanus Phillips
president of the Phillips Packing
co. OF this city. as food counselor
Tor the Government Colonization
Expedition to the Antarctic to be
headed by Rear Admiral Richard E.
BYRD was announced today.
Col. Phillips appointment was
the first official action taken by
Admiral Byrd following his appoint
ment by President Roosevelt to COM
mand the expedition which will
stake out American claims to ap-
proximately $4,000 square miles Of
new territory in the Antarctic.
Evening star., 1939-07-17

avenue NV. Yesterday he was
shown paper in which story told
Of his wife identifying his body at
Waldorf He then went to the
police station.
Sheriff Cooksey said there was a
remarkable resemblance between the
Virginian and the man whose body
was found in the river. All Other
efforts to identify the body have
failed.
Fingerprints submitted to the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation did
not tally with any on file there. All
identifying labels were removed
from the mans clothing.
Post-mortem examination showed
the man was killed before his body
was thrown in the river, Mr.. Cook
sey said. His skull was fractured by
repeated heavy blows, and no water
was found in his lungs.
Investigation Hopeless.
I'VE have explored every posi-
bility, and are up against a dead
end" the sheriff said; the body viii
be buried by the county tomorrow
We will reopen the case if any useful
information comes to hand, but the
man might as well have dropped
from another planet for all we can
learn of his identity"
Mr.. Cooksey said the mans de-
scription does not tally with the
description of any men missing in
metropolitan centers on the Middle
Atlantic seaboard.
The murdered man was between
30 and so years old, well-dressed
and had cheap watch and 50 in
change in his pockets. The watch
was still running when the body
was found, indicating the corpse had
not been inNhe river more than two
hours prior to discovery, Mr.. Cooksey
said.
I'VE know he was murdered by
blows on the head" Mr.. Cooksey
concluded. I'VE don't know anything
else. Until his identity is established
If ever, 1t is hopeless to continue the
investigation.
Mysterious Phone Calls.
Mrs. Leonhardt, accompanied by
. cousin. nephew and a neighbor
Mrs William Winston, went to Wal
dorf Saturday after two of her sis
ters and brother-in-law had made
tentative identification of the body
Friday.
Newspaper accounts, giving de-
tailed descriptions of the dead man
caused Mrs. Leonhardt to suspect
that the body was that of her hus-
band, who had been missing myste-
riously for nearly two months.
A series of unexplained telephone
calls to the home of Mrs. Winston
whose telephone is the nearest one
to the Leonhardt home, added tt
the family's belief that the body wa.
that of the missing Mr. Leonhardt.
Mrs. Winston said some one callee
Thursday to say that taxicab hae
been sent to North Beach for Mr.
Leonhardt. He did not appear ane
on Friday the caller rang again tt
reveal suspicious that the body ir
Waldorf might be that of Mr.. Leon.
hardt.
Mrs. Leonhardt, after viewing thu
body, said she was sure" it was tina
Of her husband.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
$430 Theft Reported

Madge Kinds, 1920 Massachusetts
avenue NV, reported to police to.
day that burglar had entered hel
apartment with duplicate key tc
steal 1886 in cash and a camera
valued at $45 The camera and
some of the money, she said. be-
longed to Aline Last of 1880 I street
NV, guest.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
M. P. Smith to Speak

MERRIFIELD, Va, July II (Spe-
aD.-Melvin P. Smith of Amman
dale will speak at meeting of
the Merrifield improvement Asso-
citation tonight at the home Of Mr.
and Mrs. Frederick Compton.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Thief Robs Camp Fund

BALTIMORE, July II (R.-A thief
stole $3.50 from the Office of the
Maryland League for Crippled Chill
dren last night-enough to send IL
children to a summer camp for q
week each.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Kuhn Fails 10 Appear
For Arraignment
On Drinking Charge
Massachusetts Officer
Says Bund Leaders
Language Was Profone
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass, July II.
"A man who identified himself as
Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German
American Bund, failed to appear at
the appointed hour at the South
bridge District Court this morning
to answer to charges of drunken
ness and using profane language
after brush with a Webster, Mass,
policeman.
Shortly before 10 am. (E. S. t.
nearly two hours after Mr.. Kuhn
was supposed to be present in court,
his case was called by Judge Louis
Rieutord. The name of the bund
leader was called twice, but no one
answered. The court adjourned for
the day few minutes later.
Newspapermen asked Judge Rieu-
tord If he was going to default Mr..
Kuhn and declare his bail forfeited,
or whether the case had been con-
tinued.
II don't want to talk about it,
was the only answer the courts S
presiding justice would give
Mr.. Kuhn was arrested yesterday
by Motorcycle officer Henry Plasse
after the former allegedly had ad-
dressed some uncomplimentary re-
marks at him, and was held for
approximately four hours before be-
ing released in $54 bail.
Mr.. Kuhn was with a party Of
friends at the time and Mr. Plasse
said he stopped the group because
the man who was about to drive
the party's car had been drinking
He said he held the keys until a
man who was entirely sober ap-
peared to claim them.
He added that just as the party
drove of Mr.. Kuhn made remarks
which caused him to be placed under
arrest and booked for arraignment
this morning.
Bund Silent on Whereabouts.
NEW YORK, July II (R.-Ger-
man-American Bund officials de-
clined today to disclose the where
abouts of their leader, Fritz Kuhn,
who was released on bail after four
hours detention yesterday in Web
ster, Mass, on charges of drunken
ness and profanity.
c. w. Kunze, spokesman for the
bund, said it was expected that Mr..
Kuhn would forfeit his bail by not
appearing in Webster for arraign-
ment today. Mr.. Kuhn was arrested
by traffic officer while motoring
in Massachusetts, with q party Of
friends.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
1875 Antitrust
Complaints Received

Assistant Attorney General Thur
man Arnold, in charge of the JUS
tice Departments antitrust divi-
sion, announced today the division
had received 1875 complaints in
volving alleged violations of the
antitrust laws during the fiscal year
ending June 30.
In report submitted to Attorney
General Murphy, Mr. Arnold point
ed out that complaints covered more
than 40 industries and services in all
sections Of the Nation.
Evening star., 1939-07-20
The Political Mill
Three Groups, Two Of Them Democratic,
Eoeer for Farley Roosevelt Split

booster since the days of the 1882
convention when McNutt would not
turn his State delegates over to
Roosevelt until after the nomination
had been cinched for the latter by
the action of, the Texas and Cali
fornia delegations. He would, doubt
less, have advised against the Nc
Mutt appointment.
Mr.. Farley, like Secretary Hull of
the State Department, Secretary
Wallace of the Department of Agri-
culture, Secretary Hopkins of the
Commerce Department, Mr.. McNutt,
and many other officials of the
Roosevelt administration, has been
mentioned for the Democratic presi-
dental nomination next year. His
friends say that he is entitled to his
day in court-if Mr.. Roosevelt is
not himself candidate for another
nomination. They can see no JUS
tice in a thumbs down Farley
movement at the White House. They
believe he is as much entitled to
fair neutrality-suspicious. at
the White House-as any of the
other presidential possibilities; that
he is entitled to win the nomination
If enough of the delegates are favor
able to him.
Viewed As Logical Candidate.
Furthermore, Farley supporters
insist that the Democratic national
chairman would be the logical can
didate to weld the party factions to-
gether; that he has warm friends in
every camp and all over the coun-
try. The more conservative Demo-
Gratis, some of whom have been
frankly opposed to parts of the New
Deal, would not shy off from Far
ley, 1t is said AS for the New Deal
ers themselves, no one has been a
greater booster for the Roosevelt
New Deal than the Postmaster
General, who has carried the
torch throughout the country. His
strength, they say, lies in the fact
that he has literally thousands of
friends in every section; that he is
known to them personally by the
thousands, that his name is familiar
to every boy and girl as well as
every man and woman the country
over. Furthermore, the position he
has held as national chairman of
the Democratic party has given him
great following of men in key
positions in State and county and
precinct.
The fact he is Catholic is urged
against Mr.. Farley as a presidential
candidate. What happened to Al
Smith in 1928 is recalled. But the
Farleyites insist that the religious
issue would not be strong in 1910;
that the country is more tolerant.
They say that AL Smith had the pro-
hlbitionlsts all against him in 1928,
too; and that the Republican nomi-
nee, Herbert Hoover, was running at
a time of great prosperity in the Ma
ton. Smith was known to few per-
sons personally west of the Hudson
River when he started his campaign.
Foes Use Counter Arguments.
These are the arguments of the
Farley boosters. His New Deal op-
ponents-and others - insist that
Farley does not fill the bill for the
presidential job; that he is a ma
chine politician and not statesman.
His supporters say that he can stand
Evening star., 1939-07-20
'MiddIe-CIoss League
To Seek Members
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ELYRIA, Ohio, July 20.-Penny-
a-day memberships will be offered
for sale to finance Prof. Walter B.
Pitkin's Middle Glass League, "
launched here June 20 as a bulWark
against minority group assaults on
middle-class wealth.
J. E. Neuger, first lieutenant in
the noted authors middle class
revolt said today unemployed per-
sons between 18 and 25 would be
hired at $40 a week to solicit mem
berships and to circulate ques-
tionnaire to learn what Lorain
County people are thinking"
On the basis of these findings a
program of middle-class action will
be formulated to serve as pattern
for other communities, Mr.. Neuger
said.
He declared Prof. Pitkin, author
OF Life Begins at 40" and several
other best sellers, was writing a
manual setting forth the aims of
the league.
Evening star., 1939-07-20
Aubrey Williams Sees
Opportunity for Youth
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI. Ohio, July 20--One
truth which Aubrey Williams, head
of the National Youth Administra-
ton, says he has drawn from the
depression is there's still opportu-
nifty for American youth"
And youth is taking advantage OF
it, he believes
Here on an inspection of projects,
Mr.. Williams declared today:
There's still opportunity for
American youth despite the fact that
it has grown up in one of the worst
periods in the past 40 or so years"
Mr.. Williams stated he had made
study of 10000 boys and girls who
left grade school without means to
complete higher education and that
IS per cent sought employment.
Mr.. Williams declared IS per cent
Of those leaving school in 1929 found
jobs and 70 per cent of the 1888 class
also found employment.
Evening star., 1939-07-20

10 nave FdTley, u. Uouid Lincoln.
the national chairman, as an ally.
There is still another group-but
not Democratic-Who would be
tickled to death to see such a split
the Republicans.
But Mr.. Farley is not splitting
with President Roosevelt. If there
is any retirement from the cabinet
by the man who managed two presi-
Dental campaigns for the Chief
Executive, it will be at the invitation
of Mr. Roosevelt.
What would be the position of the
President, in the eyes of the voters,
if he undertook to slough off Jim"
Farley? In the first place, he would
be accused of rank ingratitude. Far
ley may have disagreed with the
PreSident-and has on occasion. But
he has never been disloyal to his
Chief"
President Himself Is Silent.
Some of the third termers OBJ
ject to Farley because, they say, he
has not come out for the President
for third term. The President.
on the other hand has never told
his chief political lieutenant that he
was candidate for another nomi-
nation. Nor has he, as far as can
be learned, ever definitely said to
Mr.. Farley or to any one else that
he. the President. would not accept
another nomination. Presumably
Mr.. Farley will speak out when he
gets the "go-ahead' signal. 1t is
whispered here and there that
Farley is against a third-term NOM
ination. But he has never said so,
and never discussed it.
What would be the Presidents po-
sition with the Catholic voters of the
country-and particularly with the
Irish Catholics who hold so many
key positions in the Democratic Or
ganization in large number of the
States outside Of the Solid South
if he gave MI Farley his walking
papers? Mr.. Roosevelt rode over a
lot of them when he won the nomi-
nation in 1882 from Al Smith of New
York. But he had Jim" Farley with
him, as his campaign manager in
those days. 1t was Farley who
toured the country months before
the Democratic National Convention.
making Roosevelt solid with a lot OF
the Irish.
Mr.. Farley is about to sail for Eu-
rope with his two daughters. Eliza
beth and Ann, for a seven weeks stay
there. He will not return to this
country until September II. He is
going at time when the sniping at
him, and reports of a coldness be-
tween him and the President, have
been on the increase. 1t is noticeable,
however, that up to date neither the
President nor Mr.. Farley has been
doing any talking about unfriendly
relations between them. On the sur
face at least, the relations between
the two have remained cordial
McNutt Consultations Unnecessary
Comment is made to the effect
that the President appointed Paul v.
McNutt to be Federal Security Ad-
ministrator without consulting Mr..
Farley. AS a matter of fact, the
President did not need to consult
Mr.. Farley in regard to McNutt-he
knew already what Farley thought
about the former Indiana Governor
Farley has never been a McNutt
Evening star., 1939-07-20

And What.
They Do
Zukor Says Films
Should Avoid Politics
And Propaganda
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

There may be a "kultur kampf"
brewing in Hollywood. Producers
are shying away from social signi-
f1cance," while the new Motion Pic
ture Guild, Inc, starts production Of
vital subject" films. The first IS
Erika Mann's School for Barbar-
ians."
Such films mean trouble, in the
opinion of Adolph Zukor, small,
sturdy crop-haired, 66-year- old
movie patriarch, just back from a
four months study of the film busi-
ness in Europe. He says:
Hollywood should turn out pic
lures that are primarily entertain
ment and avoid anything that is po-
litical, propaganda or controversial
in the first analysis"
For 27 years he has found straight
entertainment the mother lode OF
the f1ickers. When, two years ago,
he became chairman of Paramount,
IN management shake-up, he was
set with $4,000 week and 7h per
cent of the net. When he landed
here from Risce. Hungary, at the
age OF l6, he had $40 sewed in nis
vest. Relatives steered him into a
sweeping job in an East Side fur
shop. He established his own fur
business and took side road, later
the main highway with Marcus
LoeW in a nickelodeon, He says he
knows what he knows, but hires
other people to know what he doesn't
know. That's his success formula.
His caulif1oWered ear is cut-back to
his boxing days.
Wearing a speckled cap with big
tassel on it and chewing a dead
cigar, Joe Jacobs has talent for
the fabulous and fantastic, and
makes living using it. 1t is he
and none other, who, managing
Tony Galento, fans up the Louis
Galento fight into 100000 for his
gargantuan Tony and the usual cut
Of 331s per cent for Mr.. Jacobs.
1t was he who made Max Schmel-
ing an Aryan demi1god, and it mat
tered not at all that Mr.. Jacobs was
non-Aryan, as he got special rates
at the Hotel Bristol in Berlin. and
quite lot of kudos all over the
Reich. Whichever way Tony falls,
and sports writer's now say this is
the only betting issue, Mr.. Jacobs
will be doing all right. Cashing in
on the implausible and the impos-
slble is one of the best things he
does.
He grew up in Hell's Kitchen. in
an Irish neighborhood, where fight
ing is highly esteemed. At the age
OF Is, he picked up a Lambs Club
bellhop and billed him as the
Fighting Actor" Later he had
frankie Genaro. flyweight cham
pion; Mike McTigue and Benny
Valger, the latter a money" fighter,
who, Mr.. Jacobs said. could out
pernt them all" He is sarcastic,
sharp-faced little man. with a gift
for making anything seem possible.
tReeased by Consolidated News Features)
Evening star., 1939-07-20
He Will

the situation special President believe
all these special add favorable
He Will
The only that while delegations
support third term few OF them would
President
his choosing And them
only Solicitor H
Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins.
The truth practically speaking
willing
if he WILL
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Evening star., 1939-07-20

Roosevelt. Both
are Democratic,
a t lie a t b y
name. The first
is made up of
the vociferous
third termers-
the hundred per
centers - vari-
ously dubbed the
81 n ner circle"
and the palace
guard" The sec
ond, is composed
of a n t i-third
term Democrats
who would like
to hoNo Earlou
Evening star., 1939-07-20

Tee 10 90 nOtn-
ing at this ses-
sion of Congress
with respect to
the revision of
t h e neutrality
laws.
In m a n y re-
spects the Sen
ate policy is the
W ors t blow to
E con o m C re-
Covery that yet
has been admin
istered. The ef-
fectS of the ac-
ton will be felt
{,, tl,o c,,-;tol,irn
Evening star., 1939-07-20

IuSlVe, but that OF Michigan, While
made doubtful by the unfriendliness
of the Van Waggoner organization,
may probably be substantiated In
California, the Democratic factions
are split. but all profess to be loyal
to the President. Then Kentucky,
where the docile Senator Alben w.
Barkley will be favorite son, might
be added to the list,s and so might
two or three more Of the big Mid
western farm States In each State