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Evening star., 1939-05-26
BergdoI| Property in Somerset
Is Sold to Satisfy Tax Claim

A portion of a 133-acre tract in
Somerset, Md, facing Wisconsin
avenue, owned by Mrs. Berta Berg
doll, wife of Grover Cleveland Berg
doll, the World War draft dodger,
which is valued at nearly million
dollars, was scid last month for
tax claim OF $S,657, a search of
Montgomery County MD tax rolls
revealed today.
The property was assessed in 1928
at $500, 200. but is still assessed as
acreage. Property on the east side
of Wisconsin avenue immediately
opposite the Bergdoll tract is as
sessed at So 900 an acre, which would
put the value of the Bergdoll tract
above 100000, county officials es-
timated.
The tract has been sold for
taxes several times in the past 10
years. When Wisconsin avenue was
widened nearly a decade ago, q
12-foot strip taken off the Bergdoll
property was paid for by cancella-
ton OF approximately $1,000 in back
taxes due at that time, when the
property was still in the name of
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Guard Officers Inspect
Site of Muneuyers

Col. John w. Oehmann, comman-
der of the 121st Engineers, District
National Guard, today Joined Maj.
Gen. Milton A. Reckord, Baltimore,
commander of the 29th Division, and
other National Guard officers in an
inspection of the Gainesville (Va.)
area where Sd Corps Area field ma
neuvers will be held in August.
The group visiting Gainesville in
cluded Maj. William T. Roy, COM
manding the 29th Division, Special
Troops, which are part of the Dis
trict Guard; Col. Kenneth Purdy,
Virginia Military Institute; Col.
Shepherd Pike, Regular Army in
structor for the District Guard. and
Capt. Cooper Rhodes, Special Troops.
The tour was arranged to select
the location for units of the 29th
Division, including the Maryland
District and Virginia National
Guards, during the maneuvers
scheduled for August 5-19.
Evening star., 1939-05-26

Bergdoll's mother, Mrs. Emma C..
Bergdoll.
A part of the tract was sold in
1884 for delinquent taxes totaling
$4,59l and another portion the fol-
lowing year for $4,366 in back taxes.
The total amount due today in back
taxes amounts to $15,614. The prop
erty was sold early this year by Mrs.
Bergdoll to her daughter in law
Mrs. Berta Bergdoll.
The tract was advertised for sale
about two months ago to satisfy
Judgment against Mrs. Emma C.
Bergdoll, awarded by Pennsylvania
court. but the sale was enjoined in
the Circuit Court here on the ground
that Mrs. Berta Bergdoll had bought
the property in good faith without
knowledge of the judgment and
that Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll owned
sufficient property in Philadelphia to
satisfy the judgment without levying
on the tract here.
In her petition asking that the
sale be restrained, Mrs. Berta Berg
doll, who was then in Germany, said
she expected to return to the United
States to reside permanently.
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Roosevelt and Wallace
Held Leading in Iowa

President Roosevelt and Secretary
OF Agriculture Wallace are running
one-tow in the presidential book of
former Gov. Nelson G. Kraschel Of
Iowa, the latter disclosed after q
visit to the White House yesterday.
IoWans, the Ex-Governor said,
would never be satisfied with any
candidate except the President "or
some one In harmony with his views"
Amplifying the latter qualification,
Mr.. Krsschel explained that his
fellbw Iowans are great admirers"
of Mr.. Wallace.
He emphasized that he favors
keeping the Democratic party liberal
in both its candidate and its plat
form.
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Congress in Brief
TODAY,

senate:
Considers creation Of special
railroad bankruptcy court.
Labor subcommittee considers ma
tional health program, 10 am.
Subcommittee hears testimony on
bill to outlaw labor spies. 10 am.
Interstate Commerce subcommit-
tee considers bill to permit inter-
state shipment of fight films, 10
am.
Monopoly Committee hears rep
resentatives of little business" "
10:30 am.
House:
In recess.
Rules Committee considers pro-
cedure for vote on Townsend old
age pension plan, 1890 am.
Labor Committee continues hear
ings on Wagner Act revision, 10 m.
Evening star., 1939-05-26
President Sees Benefits.

President Roosevelt said at a press
conference today that a projected
international conference to divide
world markets for cotton would be
in the direction Of helping to solve
the cotton problem He declined,
however, to say it would provide a
complete solution.
Disclosure that the United States
would call such a conference this
summer or fall was made by Secre-
tary Wallace in speech today at
Little Rock, Ark.
Meanwhile, Agriculture Depart
ment officials said they were not yet
ready to disclose what countries
might be invited to the cotton con-
ference.
Evening star., 1939-05-26
7. w. Group to Meet

Youth organizations and the at
titudes of youth with respect to
current problems will be discussed
tomorrow at a luncheon meeting of
the Public Affairs Committee of
Phyllis Wheatley Y. w. C. A., 90l
Rhode Island avenue NV. The
luncheon is scheduled to begin at l
o'clock, and reservations were to
be accepted up to 4 o'clock this
afternoon.
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Army Prison Holds
BergdolI, Ready
To Face Music
Disposition Of Cose Is
Not Clear os Army
Begins Investigation

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May S6.-GroveI
Cleveland Bergdoll, the Nations
No. Stacker" was back in the
land of his birth today, confined ia
an Army prison cell and admit
tedly ready to face the music" fol
evading the World War draft.
A short, squat man with q round
face, Bergdoll was arrested yester.
day on a charge of desertion as he
arrived aboard the liner Bremen
from Germany and hustled to Gov.
ernors Island, where 10 years age
he was convicted as a deserter, dis
honorably discharged from the
Army and sentenced to five years In
a military prison.
Military authorities said he would
be held prisoner pending investi.
cation, but the immediate disposi.
ton was not clear. !.
Army Given Precedence. :
immigration authorities were In.
structed by Secretary of Labor
Perkins to give the Army prece.
dence in the case, even though
Dill which would exclude BergdoD
from entry into the United States
still Is pending in Congress.
Bergdoll, who offered his services
In 1914 to the German aviation
corps, sought exemption when
drafted for the United States Army
IN 1918. When this was refused he
evaded draft authorities. After his
sentence he escaped his guards, fed
to Canada and since has lived in
Germany.
He faces a possible 4-year-and.
lO-month term in Jail for desertior
on his unexpired term and O new
trial for escape.
He Was Homesick.
No longer the debonair race-tracb
driver and amateur aviator who. in
1918, won the reputation as the
"playboy of the Eastern seaboard
Bergdoll looked like a plump busi.
nessman from South Germany
Bergdoll's wife Berta of Philadel.
phia, his son Erwin, 5, and a sister
were waiting at the pier, but wers
unable TO see him. The Bergdolls
four other children were in Phila.
delphia with their grandmother
Mrs. Emma Bergdoll, widow of .
wealthy brewer.
There are many reasons why ]
am coming back" he said, smiling.
"Homesickness. My wife. MY chill.
dren. Yes. Yes. My mother, too
| want to bring my children up in
the United States. I would do anv.
thing for my family"
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Final Release

The second half Of Cesar
Franck's symphony in D
Minor"-flnal offering of The
Stars music appreciation cam
paign-is available at the spe-
cial booth in the lobby of The
Star Building. All 10 symphonic
masterpieces included in The
Stars offer may now be OBJ
tanned at the booth, which is
open daily from am. to pm.
Through the cooperation of
the National Broadcasting Co.,
The Star is presenting over
WMAL each weekday morning
excerpts from the symphonic
works featured in the cam
paign. The program on which
the recordings are heard, To
days Prelude" is presented
from $50 am. to TBS am,
and The Star records may be
heard at approximately 7 am.
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Radio Will Be Used
To Remind Nation
OF Memorial Day
Veterans Administrator
Will Be Speaker
On Series Sunday

Leaders of veterans organizations
will take to the radio over the week
end to call the public's attention to
forthcoming Memorial Day serv-
ices.
Maj. Gen. Frank T. Hines, ad-
ministrator of veterans affairs, will
speak Sunday at lis pm. over
Nationwide hookup originating
through Station VOL.
He will be introduced by Harlan
Wood, past department commander
of the American Legion and chair
man of the General Arrangements
Committee of the C. A. R. Memorial
Day Corp.
Tomorrow between 730 and $50
am. speakers will include James G..
Yaden. president of the Memorial
Day Corp, over WRC: Howard S.
Fisk, representing the American Le-
gion, over WJSV; Phillip r. Belt,
department commander. Veterans
of Foreign Wars, over WMAL, and
William B. Covert, representing the
Disabled American Veterans, over
VOL.
On Monday morning between 7:30
and $50 James T. Brady, depart
ment commander, American Legion
will speak over WJSV; Mr.. Wood
over WRC; DR.. Walter o. Hess, de-
partment commander. D. A. ", over
WMAL, and Ralph Chambers, vice
president of the Memorial Day
Corp, over VOL.
The speakers will make appeals to
the public to contribute flowers for
the Memorial Day services. They
are anxious to have fresh-cut flow-
ers sent to neighborhood public
schools, fire houses or police sta
tions on Monday before pm
There they will be collected and
distributed to local cemeteries.
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Corcoran School Awards
Will Be Made Toniqht

Ceremonies marking the close OF
the school year and including final
awards in the annual scholastic art
competition will be held by the Cor
coran School of Art today at 8 pm,
in the auditorium of the school at
Seventeenth street and New York
avenue NV.
The awards, totaling $3.50 in cash
prizes, will be made by C. Powell
Minnigerode, director of the Cor
coran Gallery of Art. The Sue
cessful students will be presented
to the director by Richard Lahey,
principal of the school. The public
is invited to the exercises. The work
of the students will be on public ex-
hibition at the school.
Evening star., 1939-05-26
BergdoH Return Ban
Measure PigeonhoIed

The Senate Military Affairs Com.
mlttee pigeonholed today House.
approved bill which would have
prohibited the return to this country
OF Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Worlo
War draft evader.
Bergdons return on the German
liner Bremen yesterday and his
prompt arrest by Army officials ap.
parently circumvented congressional
efforts to keep him out Of this
country.
Chairman Sheppard said the com.
mlttee decided to pass over con.
sideration of the measure in.
definitely.
Evening star., 1939-05-26

There has been no material change in
weather conditions during the last ~ hours
Pressure remains low from Minnesota and
me 1akqtaS soutnwaIa 70 tne lower Rio
Mexico. and from Alaska southea stward
to Alberta Dawson Yukon. % 81 inches;
Del Rio Tex, .S2 inches. and Springfield,
MINI. and Dodge City. Kans.. 29.sS inches.
Pressure remains high over practically all
other sections; Moosonee, Ontario, 1880
$50 miles southeast of New York City
20.36 INCHES; Walker Bay. District Of
inches. and Portland Greg. 30.1S inches.
Showers have occurred in the North Pacific
States and almost generally east of the
Atlantic and North Atlantic States, the
upper Ohio Valley, and the lower Lake
middle and lower Mississippi VlI valley, Cairo, m
Ill.. and New Orleans. La reporting the
greatest amounts, ] so inches. Tempera-
ture changes have been slight as a rule
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Weather Report
FURNISHED by

Bureau)
mostly fol-
lowed Sunday little
temperature: gentle
Maryland Virginia-Geneay mostly
cloudy followed by showers and after
night; Sunday
West VrgnaMosty cloudy tonight
morrow; not much change temperature; Sunday
Evening star., 1939-05-26

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 30, on May r.
Lowest. l., on February 90
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
From room yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 90 per cent, at 4 80 am. today.
Lowest, 56 per cent, at lis pm. yes.
terday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Evening star., 1939-05-26


chdeas House shown above in the garden Mrs Robert ten 1924
town garden pilgrimage tomorrow for benefit Chndrs Among
Mrs M Smith $3.50
q Underwood
Evening star., 1939-05-26

Poland has become the largest
fax exporter in the world.
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. 20. at 4:10 pm. yesterday
Year ago. 6s.
Lowest, 66. at pm. today. Year
ago. 81.
Evening star., 1939-05-26

FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-21
Supreme Court Rules On
Dabney School Squabble
School Authorities Make Tentative Plans for
Opening; Counsel for Plaintiffs Claim Case
{or Scott Not Lost.

pnl-ng by the State Supreme Court
Yesterday on the Dabney school con-
..,...v left argument still going on
,ndav as To who was the WIN
n the litigation over election of
principal.
armnevs representing Dabney
.ns who sought mandamus to
.. the Vance County Board of
~5...-on to re-elect B. A. Scott
'ai5 ,reir case had not been lost,
,rF5lr attorneys representing the
"+-,d af education claimed a victory,
IN ,hool authorities went forward
I'M. tentative plans to open the Dab
~sy school next Monday or some
..o,e daring the coming week.
Al the end of five or six pages of
,he Supreme Courts decision was
+rr notation "ReVersed'.
Following series Of injunctiOns
Is.t week. one by each side, con-
.snt Judgment was given by Judge
II Frizzelle in Louisburg ordering
+be >cnool not to open pending the
c,lnrtrrc Court decision on the coun-
y school boards appeal from Judge
: + Thompson 5 OVerruling OF a de-
,,rrr,r il sought against the man.
dar,uS of Dabney citizens. The case
v.as 3rgued before the Supreme
Cont last Tuesday and the request
v.as made that ruling be given as
earlv as possible in the interest of
sett.ng the school started. The rul-
rg that renewed debate today was
handed down late Wednesday.
Counsel for the plaintiff Dabney
citizens contended that the Supreme
Court upheld Judge Thompson over
ruling of the county school boards
nIea In abatement, which claimed it
lad elected NJ. H. Randolph as Dab
rav principal after the citizens had
started tLeir mandamuS action. The
ulanttt attorneys said the Supreme
Court had reversed Judge Thomp-
sons refusal Of the county boards
demurrer and that the court had
sent the entire matter back to Vance
Superior Court for placement on the
cril docket for pleading and trial.
These attorneys cOntended that the
status of the situation now is that
here IS no valid principal of Dab
nev high school: that B. A. Scott, who
was reelected by the Dabney school
committee. has no status until he
proves the allegations set forth in
the mandamus action, and that Ran
d0lph. under the Supreme Courts de-
c.sion. was not legally elected.
The main portion of the Supreme
Courts decision follows verbatim
While the plaintiffs, other than B.
A. Scott. no doubt, are vitality con-
cerned about the school Of their dis
rict and the personnel OF the teach
ecs therein. they possess no legal
right in connection with the election
and approval of a principal such as
would enttle. them to maintain an
action against the defendants (here-
matter referred to as county author
tiles 70 compel them to approve the
election Of a principal by the district
school committee hereinafter re-
terred to as district authorities). 1t,
therefore, clearly appears that there
Vas error in the judgment of the
Court below in Overruling the de-
murrer as to the plaintiffs who are
private citizens Of the district
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-14
Shorty, Bigboy
Hogue Score
Impressive Wins

SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 13. CUP)
-Jacumba's fighting twins, Bigboy
and Shorty Hogue, scored two i'm
pressive wins at the Coliseum here
last night when Big Boy, 145, belted
out a six-round decision over Hen
ry Majcher, las, Pittsburgh, and
Shorty, 152, won a six-round deci-
sion from Karl Lester, 145A, Paci-
fic Beach.
Bigboy clipped Majcher with a
right to the chin that sent the
barrel-chested Pittsburgher to the
canvas for a nine count early in
the first round and then belted him
around the ring for five more
rounds to gain Referee John Perry's
decision.
Twice Shorty put Lester down for
counts of nine in the second round
of the return match with powerful
rights to the midriff. The red head
came back strong in the third, how
ever, and had enough to last the
six rounds.
After the fight Shorty complain
ed of painful right hand. Cursory
examination showed it to be sprain-
ed, but no bones were believed
broken.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-14
AMERICAN 4 LEAGUE
Today's Sports Parade

one side are the suckers, determin-
ed to beat the odds against them
if it takes the last dollar of rent
money. On the other side are the
track operators, smooth, SNUG,
bland, and sure behind their Mag
mot line of percentage.
The operators win 80 battles of
a hundred. Race tracks are Uttered
with the empty wallets of those
poor souls whose horses didn't come
in
Today-at the Preakness - the
suckers had the track in a corner.
Johnstown and Gilded Knight, in
the smallest field in "a years, were
cinch to run 1-2 and pay at least
10 cents on a dollar.
So what? So nothing, except the
track took it on the lam, WEIGHED,
ran for cover, and showed the white
feather.
No one would complain if the
track, on normal days, showed the
same consideration for the bettor.
But there still isn't a man old
enough to remember the time a
ticket seller at a race track told a
purchaser that, due to the large
number of entries, he would be fool
ish to risk a show bet. The tracks
are perfectly willing to take it in
when the odds favor them, but
curl up when a small field and a
stand-out horse place them in a
financial jeopardy.
Sore as I AMI came down with
a carefully boarded So to wager
on JohnstoWn and Gilded Knight
to show-I am sort of glad Pimlico
took the stand that it did. In the
future it will save me time and eff
fort in my stories about important
racing stakes. I won't bother to
try to turn phrase about sport
of kings and the improvement of
the breed. I'll just wind up and
treat it for what it is--a gambling
proposition with no holds barred.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-14
BY UNITED PRESS

The Los Angeles Angels resumed
their dive for the storm cellar of
the Pacific Coast league today, and
held Just a slim one-game margin
over SeattleS Rainiers. The Ser
aphs lost again last night, to 7,
but it took them u innings to do
ii.
1t looked as though the Wrigley
Rascals might win, up to the
eighth inning, when they held a
lead of TO 5. but the Rainiers
mauled Lee Stein for two runs in
the 18th. The Angels tailed once
once in their half of the inning
and had two men on when Hal Tur-
pin, who came in to relieve Weber,
forced Charley English to hit a
bounder down the first base line.
San Franclsco.s sassy Seals look
ed silly in losing. II to 2, to Port
lands Beavers. The previously un-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-14
MARKET QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK, May 13. CUP)-Un-
easiness over the foreign situation
held stocks in a narrow rut in the
short session today and pared trad
ing volume 10 around the Smallest
totai in a year.
Bonds were mixed. Wheat set up
gains extending to a cent bushel
and cotton futures showed late ad-
vances rsngingfto almost 10 cents
bale.
shares gave only mixed response TO
favorable senate action on farm
appropriations. Montgomery Ward
pushed up around = point to 4S Is,
but Sears Roebuck could do no bet
Ter than scale an early fractional
International Harvester issues
were strong, the common rising al
most a point and the preferred
points.
chrysler showed a small gain to
67& after an early fractional de-
cline, while General Motors also re-
placed a small loss with moderate
gain. steel leaders were firm. L. ,.
Steel sold hlightly above its previ-
Gus close of At.
new high at 223s to feature gen
orally firm utility section. Rails
we're quiet.
Coppers were steady and electri-
al equipments and oils firm. Dou-
glas Aircraft led an improvement
in aviations with a gain OF almost
a point to 63h following favor
lble first quarter earnings report.
Johns ManvilIe dropped IL to II.
Du Pont. Eastman Kodak. Fire
.tone preferred, Hershey preferred.
International Business Machines
and Warren Bros. preferred were
IN l 10 points. Public Service OF
Tew Jersey preferred gained ~
1876. ,o,oo
stock sales approximated 10000
hares, the second smallest short
session since last June. and com
JARED with 10000 shares a week
lgo. Curb stock sales approXimat l.
ID $4,000 shares, the smallest sat
urday since last August, compared
With 10000 shares week ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-14
By HENRY McLEMORE

BALTIMORE, Md, May 13. CUP)
Suckers, arise Beat your plow-
shares into swords, grab your mar
lin spikes, see that your powder is
dry. and then advance on the gen.
tlemen who operate the Pimlico
race track.
They plan to do us in, to give us
the works To suddenly turn and
bite the hands that feed them.
They plan to do all of this today,
too.
The word is out that the Pim-
lico boys are not going to accept
show bets on the entry of Johns
town and Gilded Knight in the
Preakness. You can bet JohnstoWn
and Gilded Knight to win or place,
but not to run third. They want
none of that, and to protect them
selves against what seems a sure
loss have dragged out paragraph
4, section %, item II Of the rae
ing code, or something like that,
which gives them the right to
waive a show pool and limit the
betting TO the first and second
horses.
There is no denying that it's
smart business. Johnstown and
Gilded Knight, one or the other of
them, is certain to show. Under
the Maryland racing law show
bet must be paid at the race OF
no worse than 10 cents to a dollar.
Baltimore is crowded with persons
who came here for the express pur-
pose of playing Johnstown and
Gilded Knight to show-to bet on
a sure thing.
1 maintain they should have that
right. Don't try to sell me the
argument that no sportsman would
deliberately back something he
couldn't lose on. At a race track,
craftsmanship is forgotten. At a
race track, American ones, at least
the battle line is clearly drawn. On
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-14

to nose out Cleveland, 4-3, in the
only other American league game,
Brown came in with the bases load
ed and one out He struck out Ben
Chapman and tossed out Ken Kelt-
ner.
The Cardinals Increased their
National league lead to game and
half by Staving off a ninth in
ming rally to lick the Reds, 81.
After Cincinnati had scored twice
in the ninth, Curt Davis stopped
them. The Cards three IN men"
Pepper Martin, Joe Medwick and
Johnny Mize, got three hits each.
Mize hit two homers and Pepper
Martin one.
Bill Posedel, eX-Dodger, pitched
the Boston Bees TO a Us victory
over Brooklyn. He allowed 12 hits
but was aided by three double plays.
Buddy HaSsett, another eX-Dodger,
plagued his former mates with
three hits.
The Phillies beat the Giants, 1916
dropping Bill Terry's club back in
to the National league cellar. Nor
ris Arnovich's homer with two
mates on base was a big punch in
the eighth. Ott Danning and Bo-
nura hit homers for the Giants. An
cient Syl Johnson, who came in as
a relief pitcher, received credit for
the victory.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-14
Seattle Again Bumps Los Angeles to
Move Within One Game of Coast
League Lead; Padres Lose

beatable rookie Larry Powell yield
ed three hits. four walks and four
runs in the tWo-thirds of an inning
he worked aginst the Portland
powerhouse, and Wilkie, who sue
ceeded him, didn't fare much bet
ter. He was touched for II hits
and four more runs before Frazier
took up the burden in the seventh
Hollywood tightened its grip on
fourth place with an easy 7 to
win over San Diego.
Sacramento and Oakland split a
double header, the Cardinals win
ming the opener to and the
Oaks the seven-inning nightcap,
to l. Tom Seats limited the Acorns
to five hits in the first game. Ben
Cantwell was the losing pitcher.