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By the Associated Press. | MOUNT STERLING, Ky, January 14.—William Hightower, Harlan County labor leader, was convicted of murder | conspiracy charges by a jury In Circuit | [Court here today. His sentence was {fixed at life imprisonment. | The verdict was the same as that | iven Willlam B. Jones, secretary of the miners union at Evarts, of which Hightower was president. Jones, first jof nearly 30 defendants in the case, was convicted December 10. Hightower, 77 years old. and Yor 40 | vears a coal digger, heard the verdict {read without emotion. The jury took his case late yesterday and deliberated in all about two hours and 40 minutes. Coal Field Clashes. | The trials, 10 of which were sent | here on change of venue, followed | clashes in the Harlan County coal fields, culminating in fighting at Evarts in which four men were killed. High- tower, Jones and others were charged with ' having plotted the deaths of | deputy sheriff mine guards in further- ce of their attempts to unionize the tern Kentucky coal fields. All denied the charges Members of the jury said they took only one vote, and that was this morn- ing, and that all favcred conviction, with life imprisonment Jury Fixes Penalty. Under Kentucky law the jury fixes the penalty. Judge Henry R. Prewitt had given it only three possible ver- [ dicts—conviction with the death sen- | tence, or life, or acquittal. A life pris- oner 'is eligible to parole after eight and a half years. Mrs. Hightower and Mrs. Joaes sat | near the defendant as the verdict was read. The two women looked at him | and he fixed his eyes on the jury. Judge Prewitt had warned that he would send to jail any person making a demonstra- tion, and the verdict was quietly re ceived. Circult Judge Henry R. Prewitt yes- | terday remanded to Harlan County the remaining Evarts mine murder cases, and in so doing, made practically a moot question of the fight of the Knox- | ville News-Sentinel for reportorial rep- resentation in his court room during these trials. | A certified copy of Judge Prewitt's | order was sent to Frankfort for pres- | entation today to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. The Appeallate Court, | highest in the commonwealth, has un- | der consideration the plea of the Knox- ville News-Sentinel for a permanent writ of probibition setting aside Judge | Prewitt’s order barring that news- paper’s reporters from his court during the mine _trials. Judge Prewitt said transfer of the cases from Harlan County had cost the commonwealth between $8,000 and $9.000, and said he had fulfilled his obligation in hearing tte Jones, High- | tower and William Burnett cases. Burnett was acquitted of a charge of Slaying Deputy Sheriff Jess Pace in | Harlan County a month before the e | CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ! TODAY. ’ Card party, Keane Council, Knights of Columbus, 918 Tenth street, 8 p.m. Meeting, Chemical Society of Wash- Meeting and buffet supper, Washing- | ton Board of Trade, Willard Hotel, 8 pm. Chapter, | Meeting, Kappa Sigma | Alpha Sigma Lambda Praternity, Wil- lard Hotel, 8 p.m Dinner, Washington _Commandery, | Knight Templars, Willard Hotel, 7 p.m. | Dinner, Ladies’ Aid, Lutheran Church | of Atonement, North Capitol street and | Rhode Island avenue, 5 p.m. | Address, Tucker Humphries, Men's | Club, St. Mark’s Parish Hall, Third and A streets southeast, 8 p.m. Card party, benefit St. John's Episco- pal Chureh, Thirty-fourth street and Rainier avenue northeast, 8:30 p.m. Music appreciation hour, Women's | City Club, 736 Jackson place, 8:30 p.m. FUTURE. Luncheon, special gifts unit, Com- | munity Chest, Willard Hotel, tomorrow, | 1 pm. 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DO~ mrmfl 3 ANNOUN | HIGHTOWER GIVEN | is ‘said and done | portant | distributional breaks to mak Distribution in Favor of Culbertson Was Factor, Says Lenz. BY SIDNEY S. LENZ. NEW YORK, January 14.—After all the only really im- thing in my long-drawn-out jth Culbertson is whether or not it proved any- thing He con- tended that his bidding system was so ‘far superior to mine that my chance of winning was practically nil. Of course, he took the precaution of limiting my choice of partners, but that was merely a detail. Culbertson played with five different partners and I played with two. With Jacoby, who had not played my system T lost an av- match w Sidney S. Lenz. atil he played with me, :*lxl'axle" of 1203 points per \\:Tsmmr; % Comdr. Liggett. who was my y‘)?r‘(ncr the very first time I tried out the 1-2-3 system, my average gain every session we plaved was 1310 points. The readers' reaction to this statement is a natural one: “Why didn't you play with Liggett at the start?” My only Teply is that, after I was challenged by Culbertson, Oswald Jacoby was the first person to ask me pt him as a partner. I had confidence in him at that time— and still have Given the same cards that Jacoby and I held, there is no assurance that 1 would have fared any better with Liggett Distribution Was Factor. The distribution of the cards was {he guiding factor and by this I do not hecessarily mean the aces and kings. Th the 150 rubbers we played, the quick- trick values held by Culbertson were over 200 more than were held by my Dartners and myself. Even this was not Pn unsurmountable handicap, but the Jocation of certain cards at_critical times were fatal. A queen with my right hand adversary would result in Winning & rubber, while the contract Would be defeated if it were on my left. A rubber won or lost Is worth about 2 points, so it requires very few ieteioh e up 8,980 points. We played 879 deals—a matter of 45,708 cards. Holding exactly the same cards that we did. a switch of only six cards from one adversary's hand to the other would have been sufficlent to win this match. Naturally, the shifting process must take place where it will do the most good, but ft clearly illus- trates the potential vame of favorable distribution at critical moments. Official System Natural. There was little to choose between the two bidding systems, except that the 1-2-3 official system was natural, logical agd simple. The approach-forc- ing systen features an opening bid of two in sult as anr absolute demand that the biddimgibe kept open. This bid Was employed $Wice in 20 sessions of play. Once it terminated in a small slam declaration, which was made, and the second time it was used the contract was defeated three tricks. At all other times, except the few pre-emptive bids that were made, & bid of one was used and there was no way of knowing whether it was a minimum bid or one that would land the game with the slightest aid from the partner. On my system, a great number of two bids showed strong game possibili- ties without forcing the partner to resporidy | jith trickless hands. The three bid; which is the forcing bid in this system, occurred very little oftener | than in the other system, but it was always at hand when an absolute force was required. The thinking player will readily un- derstand how unreasonable it would be to give up this useful, intermediate two-bid for a two-bid that can be used by good players but once in every 10 evenings of play. Penalty Insufficient. One thing that was brought out by this match was the insufficiency of penalty allowances for sets on un- Vulnerable hands. The idea of large penalties when a side is vulnerable is intended to give the under-dog a chance to catch up. It does not actually work that way. A side holds all the cards for three consecutive rubbers, the losers not scoring one point or even making a bid. On the fourth rubber, he luck changes a bit, and a game is won by the other side. With an opportunity to win a rubber on the next deal, the unvulnerable side over- bids and saves the rubber at a Compara- tively ‘small penalty. 1 believe the penalties should be increased, when not vulnerable, even if the contract is not doubled. Many psychic bids were made and doubled, whereupon the “psy- chicers” escaped in other bids that could be defeated for hardly enough points to offset the probable loss of game. It would seem that 400 points would not be too much of a penalty for the fourth trick of & defeated contract, even if undoubled and not vulnerable. This would be the greatest damper on psychic bids that could be devised. ©On deal No, 842, this hand appeared LENZ. S—K 81 H—K J 1043 D—10 4 3 C—AS8 CULBERTSON. MRS. CULBERTSON. S—A Q1053 §—J 2 H—Q H—9762 D—AQ9TS5 D.—6 2 C. 3 C—1076412 LIGGETT. 85—962 H—A D—K C—K The bidding SOUTH. WEST. NORTH. 1 no tr. Double 2 hearts Pass 2 spades 3 hearts Pass 4 diamonds Pass Pass EAST. Pass Pass Pass 200 Offered to Be Partners. North and South were a game in and 90 points on the second game. Lig- gett's opening bid was rather weak and he could not be expected to rebid. I did not double the bid of four dia- monds, as I was anxious to have my pertner give me an assisting bid, if pos- sible. The contract was defeated four tricks, an inadequate penalty of 200 points. Of course, we could not have made four hearts, but with more equit- able penalty allowances we probably @ WA & FOR STARTLING CEMENT Friday, January 15th NOLAN MOTOR CO. 1111 18th N.W. DEcatur 0216 How the Contestants See It W eakness of Official Sys- ‘ tem Proven by Match, Sayss Culbertson. | BY ELY CULBERTSON. | | NEW YORK, January 14.—After five | | days spent in' an Intensive study of the hands played in my bridge tourna- | ment with Sidney S. Lenz, my faith | n the approach forcing system of bid- | ding has been strengthened jmmeasur- ably and my belief that the official system of bidding used by Lenz and | his partners is inadequate to cover the | Vast_ majority of hands is buttressed | by the most convincing proof. | Even a super-| | ficlal study of the | hands discloses | that it was adher- | \ ence to the car- | 3 dinal principles of | | the approach forc- | | ing system that | enabled us to pile up our command- ing lead and fo give us our de- cisive victory. | The skill of | Lenz and both his { . partners as players : is not even open | to question. Lenz's masterly play has | been seen by bridge players | everywhere and that of both Oswald | | Jacoby and Comdr. Winfield Liggett, | | .. if less well known, is equally de- | | serving of praise. However, the most skillful driver cannot get more than the utmost out of a poor engine and am now more thoroughly convinced than ever that the official system of | contract bidding is a poor engine re- | gardless of how skillful the driver | may be. | "It is weak because the principles of | the system tend to obscure the doubtful features of the hands, so far as the partner is concerned, and give to op- | ponents far too much information, | particularly on the intermediate hands, | which are the center of this system | of contract bidding. | Must Hold Trump Support. One of the fundamental features of | the approach forcing system is that | unless you hold adequate trump sup- | port (three trumps headed by at least | the queen, or otherwise four small trumps), do not raise your partner’s| | opening suit bids of one or two, re- | gardless of outside strength. This | principle assures to the partnership | control of the trump suit and tends | to insure the declarer against unfortu- | nate breaks which wreck many con- | tracts. Through adherence to this | principle the statistics disclose that |1 and my partners played 34 trump | declarations in which we held 10 of the trumps. Lenz and his partners played only 22 such declarations. We | had applied, it will thus be seen, the| | approach principle to our bidding until | | we discovered the best bid in the com- | bined hands. | Contrast this with the fact that in | hands in which eight trumps were held | by the declarer and his partner, Mr.| |Lenz and his partners played 137/ | hands, while we had only 114 such| | hands, When it came to & question | of declarations containing only seven | | trumps in the combined hands, the | difference in the bidding systems is even clearer. We had 46 such hands. | while our opponents had 63. This | alone accounts for 1,000 or more points of our lead and this principle is en- tirely lacking in the official system because of the “no-trump complex” of | its founders. | Evades No-Trump Bid. | The second cornerstone of the ap-| ch system is to always prefer any biddablé suit to a no-trump when opening the bidding, and as a rule use the same tactics when responding to partner’s bids. This principle assurss| the exchange of information as to distribution (suit lengths) as well as | the honor-trick content; of the hand.| It enlightens partner and permits him | | to make intelligent responses, rather| than grope in the dark and hope that | by hook or crook, by favor of the gods | | of chance or the furies of fate, that| you reach the correct final contract. Because of adherence to this principle, although in many instances we overbid | | deliberately in order to prevent our | opponents from making game or a valuable part score, we played many | Ely Culbertson. | | | would not have had to contract for | mcre than nine tricks. I very much regret that T was unable to reply to all my well-wishers who | wrote me and gave me good advice dur- ing this contest. Over 200 players of- fered to team up with me and show up | the enemy. Many suggestions were of- | fered as to dealing the cards after a |long and strong hand had appeared | One hard-boiled old-timer even spoke |of fingernail scratches on aces and | | Kings. I don't know if he was suspi- |clous of Ely or—me. However, as we used a new deck of cards for every deal, |all extraneous influences can be dis- | missed. The numerous charms and | horseshoes were also singularly inef- fective, especially 14 rabbitsfeet. I can- not_understand the impotency of these rabbitsfeet, unless Ely received 15. (Copyright, 1932) | /I(,’tu /4 - | and | the ) less unsuccessful contracts than did our adversaries. The records show that Mr. Lenz and his partners undertook 162 unsuccessful contracts. We were un- successful in making of 142, This difference is startling indeed and in the course of even an evening’s play would make the difference of being a considerable loser or a considerable winner. Must Keep Bidding Open. The third cornerstone of the approach forcing system is embodied in the one over one response to an opening bid the minimum one no-trump Tesponse to an opening bid. It can be stated thus: “Do not pass your part- ner's opehing bid in a suit when there has been no intervening adverse bid except with a blank hand. The bidding must be kept open either through a raise, if able, showing another biddable suit with about one honor-trick, or when unable to show a suit, bid a nega- tive no-trump with about one and one- half honor-tricks.” Through the use of these responses by my partner, there were opportunities for the exchange of necessary information entirely lacking in the bidding machinery provided by official system and used by my opponent and his partners How inefficient the system of bid- ding used by our opponents was is disclosed in the eighth hand of the 141t rubber NORTH 5—8 4 H—QJ9T5 D—4 3 —Q°32 WEST (CULBERTSON). 5—963 H—10 8 6 4 H—A D—K 6 D—Q C—108176 c—K SOUTH (LIGGETT) S—AKQ107 H.—None D—A 10752 C—A J 9 Schenken opened the bidding with one heart and Comdr. Liggett made a jump overcall of two spades. This was the final contract. He did not have available to him the overcall in oppo- nent's bid sult which is a feature of the forcing system and the equivalent of a strong takeout double. Using this bid in the approach forcing system. game In spades should have been bid and of course should be made. Shuts Out Information. How the responses in the official &ys- tem tended to shut out valuable infor- mation as to suit distribution is_dis- closed " in the bidding of the hand elow: (LENZ). 2 EAST (SCHENKEN). 5—J 5 MR. LENZ (NORTH). S—K 74 H—J 8 4 D—84 C—AK752 MR. CULBERT- MRS. CULBERT- SON (WEST). SON (EAST). 5—Q 10 5 H—K 10 7652 D—QJ 6 C—6 C—J 984 The bidding: SOUTH. WEST. NORTH. EAST. 1 diamond. Pass. 2 no trump.Pass. Pass. Pass. Of course, in the approach forcing system, Comdr. Liggett should have used that most eloquent of all bids, the monosyllable “pass.” But granting the correctness of his bid of one diamond, under the approach forcing system the response by North would have been two clubs and even though a game contract in clubs was undertaken, the most serlous thing that could have happened would have been the defeat of the con- tract by one trick for a mere 100 points, whereas Lenz, playing the hand at & contract of two no trump vulnerable, suffered a loss of 700 points, as he was defeated four tricks. This is the last article of the series reviewing the recent bridge battle of the century. Of course I am entirely satisfied with the demonstration of the merits of the approach forcing system, but I feel that the most worthwhile result of all, the focusing of interest in the intellectual game of contract bridge, has not been sufficiently stressed. If the match had done no more than help millions temporarily to forget their troubles and demonstrate the high ethical standards of the game under | terrific strain, it would have been worth all the time devoted to it and all the sleep lost by reason of playing it. (Copyright, 1932, by Ely Culbertson.) LYON TO GIVF LECTURE “Manchuria” Will Be Chevy Chase Community Center Topic. Gideon A. Lyon, assocjate editor of The Evening Star, will lecture on Manchuria,” at a community lecture tomorrow night at Chevy Chase Com- munity Center, Ben Murch School. The_entertainment is being sponsored by Mrs. F. K. Espenschied, secretary of the center. Mr. Lyon's lecture will be illustrated by scenes of China and Japan. It will be preceded with a program of juvenile dancing, beginning at 7:30, under di- rection of Mrs. J. P. Tolford and Miss Margaret Carmody, instructors at Chevy Chase Center. T7‘/,'/ al C/e/u‘{mr(’ SSALE B ... 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The guessing contest will offer a na- tionally known character masquerading as “the Old Woman,” and the amateur sleuth who penetrates the disguise will win a fine pair of shoes donated by a local dealer. Judges of the contest will be Mgr. Edward L. Buckey, Rabbi Abram Simon and Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo. Judge Booth to Preside. ‘The entertainment will be presided over by Chief Justice Fenton W. Booth of the United States Court of Claims, while Thomas W. Brahany will assist as master of ceremonies. Dancing will be- gin at 10 o'clock in the large ball room with music by Sidney's Mayflower Hotel Orchestra. ‘The program prior to the dance in- cluded an illustrated talk on Manchuria by Gideon A. Lyon, associate editor of The Star, and entertainment features by Edwin C. Steffe; George O’'Connor, Matt Horn, Fred East, Willlam Ray- mond, Edward J. Walsh and George H. Wilson. 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