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A2 = SLAYING OF TRID ISLAID 0 UTAHAN Man’s Pistol Fired Bullets That Shot Five Persons, Police Say. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, October 14— Police Chief W. L. Payne said today ballistics tests showed a pistol found in the possession of George L. Rut- Jedge, 31, fired the bullets that killed three persons and wounded two others near here last night. Chief Payne announced also in a formal statement a car used by Rut- ledge yesterday contained bloodstains. Rutledge was arrested shortly after & gunman dragged the battered body of Mrs. Blanche Nelson, 48, from a car, fired several bullets into it and then glew Mr. and Mrs. John L. East, farm- ers who apparently had witnessed the shooting. Deputy Sheriff Calvin Roberts said | Rutledge had known Mrs. Nelson for | several months and had attempted to make “dates” with her, but she| spurned his advances. Miss Blanche Nelson, 23, a daugh- ter of the dead woman, identified Rutledge as a man who called at the Nelson home two hours after the shooting. The daughter was not at Jome earlier in the evening and was unable to say whether her mother had & visitor, Posses Called In. “There’s no question but this is our | man,” said Chief Payne, who called in posses that had been searching through Northern Utah. | In the formal statement Chief Payne | gaid Rutledge had told officers, “I| might have done it.” He explained, Chief Payne stated, that he had taken several drinks in Rock Springs, Wyo., about noon yes- terday before leaving to drive to Salt Lake City. “When you drink, what happens to you?” Payne said he asked Rutledge. “I forget the whole world,” Payne quoted him as replying. A search of Rutledge’s apartment | disclosed a suit which nad been washed | recently. | “Rutledge explained he had washed | it because it was ‘dirty,’” Payne said. In addition to the three who died, two men were wounded, one dan- gerously, by bullets from the gun- man’s pistol. Shoots Two in Flight. After killing Mrs. Nelson and the | East couple, the killer sped away in | his car and while passing through | Bountiful, 10 miles north of here, | fired from his machine, one builet striking George Reich, 23, of Salt Lake City, in the head and critically wounding him Continuing his mad dash along the State highway, the slayer shot down | Keith Secrist of Farmington as he walked along the sidewalk. The death car then vanished. Sheriff Holbrook said the slayer drove to the vicinity of the East farm, | dragged Mrs. Nelson fiom the ma- | chine, shot her and crushed her head | in some unknown manner and then | turned on the Easts when he discov- ered they had witnessed the gruesome crime. East was shot through the body and head as he stood near an irrigation ditch where he had been working. Mrs. East was shot twice through the head while sitting in the | fact there would be far more worry Wealthy ol executive. The trial last- | family car waiting for her husband. Neighbors of the Easts returning home from church, found the bodies and called Sheriff Holbrook. The slayer's bullets deprived five persons of their parents. Surviving the Easts are a son, Glenn, 14, and a daughter, Lorene, 18, while Mrs. Nel- son's survivors include two daughters, Blanche and Mrs. Genieve Barber of Glendale, Calif,, and a son, Lawrence Nelson of Woods Cross, Utah. Mrs. Nelson's husband died several years 880, —— THOMPSON IS TOLD HE MUST DIE SOON Retains Composure When In- formed Appeal Is Denied by Governor. By the Associated Press. JOLIET, Ill, October 14.—They told Gerald Thompson today that his last hope of escaping death in the electric chair had vanished. Warden George Sehring of the old Joliet prison informed the condemned youth that Gov. Henry Horner had denied his attorney’s eleventh hour appeal for clemency, and that he must die early tomorrow to expiate the brutal murder of beautiful Mildred Hallmark. Thompson was visibly shaken. But he retained his composure. “Well,” he said, “I was afraid of that.” He resigned himself to the fate the law decreed for one of the most re- volting crimes in Illinois annals. In an attempt to relieve his de- Jection pending his trip down the corridor to death shortly after mid- night, he perused a prayer book. Guards related he had been a “good prisoner,” but as the minutes raced by he became surly. “Everything,” they said, “seems to ennoy him.” FRIEND DENIES HOOVER THINKS OF CANDIDACY Just Considering Issues, Declares Ben S. Allen as Train West Stops in Columbus. By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 14.— Former President Herbert Hoover re- mained in his berth this morning when a train carrying him to his Palo Alto, Calif., home stopped in Colum- bus, Ben S. Allen, his personal friend, was asked if Hoover would accept the Republican presidential nomination. “Mr. Hoover isn't even thinking about who the candidate will be,” re- plied Allen. He believes in .the old Quaker act. He's thinking of issues and clarifying them and getting the party in shape so it can present an intelligent opposition.” BRIDLE PATH CHANGED C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks, today announced the bridle path near the Calvert street bridge will be diverted during the demolition of that old structure from the west side to the J What’s What ind N Behind News . In Capital Huge Gold Influx Wor- ries New Dealers. U. S. Fears Fate of Midas. BY PAUL MALLON. HAT is puzzling the smartest banking men within the New Deal is that the finan- cial situation is getting so good, it's bad. They are not losing any sleep over it yet, but are fingering the gold importation figures daily with something less than enthusiasm. Their statistics indicate that more than $300,000,000 of gold came in within the last six weeks. Their in- side data lead them to believe that the end of this flood stream is nowhere in sight. That is what was behind the recent warning against inflationary stock prices by President Gay of the Stock Exchange; also the reply of Chairman Landis that his S. E. C. could not do much about it. To an outsider the new counter Gulf Stream may appear to be a Jruitful trade wind which will transform Uncle Sam into the Midas of all creation. It probably will, but you may recall what hap- pened to Midas. The fact i$ all this incoming gold merely increases the unsatisfactory | condition of excess reserves in Amer- ican banks. That condition was bad enough when our own natural excess of stagnant bank money swelled to | about two-and-a-half billions before European importations started. Last week it was $2,720,000,000, an increase of $106,000,000 during that week. = All that the authorities here see in i it, for the present, is that the banks, | already drowned in excess reserves, are having more water poured over | | them. It may not make much differ- |ence to a drowned banker whether the water is .10 feet deep or 15, but | the difference will be noticed when resuscitation work starts. - Also when the gold goes back to where it came from, the effect will be THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Rejoice After Trial Robinson Robinson’s mother is shown on left. ROBINSONS FREE; DIVORCE IN OFFING directly opposite that of a boom. Brake on Speculation. There is one happy overlooked cir- cumstance which has not yet been advertised. ~The Government has| learned that the recent increase in stock prices has already brought most of the stocks into a higher-margin class. That is, 50 to 60 per cent of | the stocks formerly purchaseable on a Speed Stoll successfully terminated, 25 per cent margin now require 45 per cent because of their increased value. Margin regulations are such that as stock prices climb the margin re- quirements enter higher zones. As stocks fall margin requirements de- | crease. | The effect is to keep a brake on speculation. If it were not for this about the gold situation than there has been. The way Cabineteers Hull, Roper and Swanson have been clashing in their announcements indicates that President Roosevelt would have done well to take them along on the boat with his two other scrappers, Messrs. Hopkins and Ickes. Desk-side reports indicate State Sec- retary Hull's temperature leaped 10 degrees when he read in the news- papers an announcement from Com- merce Secretary Roper apparently in- viting American business men to trade with Italy despite the President’s neutrality stand. At least, Mr. Hull burst forth with | & statement the following day saying that peace was more important than trade. He did not have to mention Mr. Roper's name to let Mr. Roper | know that the Commerce Department interpretation was being reversed by a higher auhority. Navy Secretary Swanson probably did not know it, but he was not sup- posed to say anything about prospects for a Fall disarmament conference. | The British have been trying to pro- | mote it and Mr. Hull has been keeping | the matter confidential. A sharp newsman trapped Mr. Swanson by asking if the Navy would send Admiral Standley as a delegate. Mr. Swanson said sure. The admiral, nearby, tried to step in with a denial, but Mr. Swanson insisted. Finally the admiral had to say flatly that perhaps the Sec- retary had better amend his flat prediction of a conference. The always agreeable Mr. Swanson agreed. The State Department fluttered when the news got around. It de- manded and received a transcript of Mr. Swanson'’s press conference. What some of Mr. Hull's officials said to Mr. Swanson’s officials virtually melted the telephone wires between the two departments. A pal of Joseph Kennedy, retired chairman of the S. E. C, says Mr. Kennedy resigned because he did not care to have charge of administering the new holding companies law. There may be something in that, but it is also true that Kennedy long had planned to leave this Fall. Innermost circles now are hinting that Kennedy will be back in Wash- ington in a cabinet position within 18 months. That allows time for a cabi- net reorganization after Mr. Roose- velt’s re-election, both of which all New Dealers take for granted. A Washington friend called Vice President Garner on the telephone at Uvalde the other day with what he though was some more or less exciting news. Mr. Garner is reported to have grunted a couple of times and ob- served (not asked): “Is that all. I'm goin’ fishin’.” (Copyright. 1935.) Howard Thurston Better. CHARLESTON, W. Va, October 14 (#).—Attaches at a local hospital re- ported today the condition of Howard Thurston is improved. The magician’s left arm and face were paralyzed & east of Rock Creek as a safety meas- wre for equestrian Lr.?c. week ago following & performance in & Charleston mfl’. Stoll Kidnaping Case Ends in Acquittal—Fugitive Still Sought. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky, October 14. Their year-long fight to win vindica- tion in the kidnaping of Mrs. Alice Mrs. Frances Robinson and her fa- ther-in-law, Thomas H. Robinson, sr., of Nashville, were back in Tennessee today. After a jury in Federal Court had deliberated 7 hours and 35 min- utes, the Robinsons were acquitted of | conspiracy charges yesterday in con- nection with the abduction of the | Louisville society matron, wife of a ed six days. [ With tears coursing down her cheeks, Mrs. Robinson greeted the verdict with the statement: “I don't | think I'll ever be this happy again.” “Thank God!" said Robinson, sr., choking with emotion, as he wiped tears from his eyes. Mrs. Robinson Plans Divorce. From Nashville came word that | Mrs. Robinson had made plans to di- | | vorce the fugitive Thomas H. Robin- son, jr., sought as the man who ab- ! ducted Mrs. Stoll, held her for six |days in an Indianapolis apartment | | and released her after collecting ran- | som of $50,000. Charles Embry of Mrs. Robinson’s | counsel announced that papers ask-| ing a divorce decree for her will be| filed as soon as they can be got ready. | | Berry V. Stoll, husband of the kis | nap victim, described the verdict es a | miscarriage of justice. Neither he nor Mrs. Stoll was in the court room when | the jury announced its decision. He | praised the Government agents and | prosecutors for their efforts in the | case, Faced Possible Death. ‘The Robinsons, indicted by a Fed- eral grand jury on two counts, faced e possible death penalty under the second, which also named Robinson, jr. This count, the first citation under the “Lindbergh law” in Kentucky, charged them with conspiracy to kid- | nap and hold for ransom Mrs. Stoll after which she was returned to her | home, “not unharmed.” Mrs. Robinson left after the trial | for Peagram, Tenn, a Nashville sub- | urb, and Robinson, was bound for his desk at Nashville in the offices of the State Planning Board. GREELY WEAKENS IN FIGHT FOR LIFE Arctic Explorer's Mind Remains Clear at Walter Reed Hospital. By the Assoclated Press. Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely was described today at Walter Reed Hos- | pital as “a little bit weaker,” but physicians considered his resistance remarkable. Il for several months, the 81-year- old Arctic explorer has spent a week in the hospital. He remains clear- minded and expresses pleasure at the correspondence pouring in upon him from well-wishers. -_— SOCIETY OF EDITORS MEETS IN CHICAGO Executives Discuss Plans for National Convention Here Next April. B the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 14.—Directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors met here yesterday to discuss plans for their three-day national con- vention of the organization to be held in Washington, D. C., next April. Grove Patterson of the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, president of the society, presided at the meeting. Directors discussed suggested changes in the so- ciety's constitution and by-laws for possible presentation at the annual meeting and studied s list of pro- posed admissions to the organization. ‘The society includes newspaper Newspaper after being acquitted of participation in the Stoll kidnaping. | zil, Chile, Cuba, Haiti, Peru, Uruguay, | mit More U. S. Apples and Pears. managing and directing editors and {editorial m.‘ ‘ \army, Happiness has replaced the concern that for a week marked the countenances of Thomas H. Robinson, sr. (right), photographed after leaving court in Louisville, Ky., (center), and Mrs. Frances Mrs. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. QFFICIALS RECEIVE - LATIN AMERICANS Representatives From 12 Countries Are Here for Aviation Week. Distinguished aviation officials of 12 | Latin American countries, the Nation's guests this week in a celebration of United States progress in commercial aviation, were received at the Com- merce Department this morning b Secretary Roper and other high Gov- ernment officials. The Latin Americans, arriving here by plane vesterday, will participate in a series of conferences, studies and so- cial functions as one of the outstgnd- ing features of the Capital's observ- ance of Air Navigation week, set for October 14-21 by presidential procla- mation. The party includes aviation officials from Argentina, Bolivia, Bra- Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, | El Salvadore and Mexico. Secretary Roper told the visitors: “The cultivation of friendly rela- tions can be effected far better by the | development of civil air commerce than through high-powered salesman- ship,” the Secretary declared. The official reception party also in- | cluded Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace and Assistant Commerce Secre- taries Johnson and Draper. Wallace said the studies of weather | conditions has been a major feature in the development of air commerce and better understanding between the United States and the Latin Amer- o R e = | discontinuance of Federal relief for |driven by Sheriff Clem Slack. Potter g | ican countries has resulted Austen Parla, Cuba’s chief air in- spector, responded to the welcoming | speeches. Tomorrow the representatives will attend a meeting at the Pan-Amer- ican Union of the Pan-American In- stitute of Geography and History. Maj. James H. Doolittle is scheduled to make an address. At a noon luncheon they will be guests of the Bureau of Air Commerce and in the D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1935. BORAH ANSWERED BY GOL. ROOSEVELT Senator Told “Trust-Bust- ing Issue” Is Not Major Campaign Issue. By the Associatec Press. NEW YORK, October 14.—Col. ‘Theodore Roosevelt disagrees with Senator William E. Borah that the 1936 Republican presidential campaign should be based on a “trust-busting issue.” “There are others that will over- shadow it,” wrote the prominent East= ern Republican to the Idaho Senator. His statement was in response to a letter from Senator Borah suggesting that the “question of monopoly les at the base” of campaign issue- making. Significance Attached. Some political .quarters in Washing- ton were quick to read into the ex- change of correspondence a desire of the Senator, not an avowed candidate for the Republican presidential nomi- nation, to learn the views of Eastern party leaders. “I entirely agree that monopolies are evil,” Col. Roosevelt said, “for I am a firm believer in the established American principle of competition. * * * “I believe that the Republican party should take a clear and unequivocal stand on this issue. “I do not agree, however, that this 'will be the major issue of thg cam- paign.” | leries in New York to a Germantown | gallery of S. M. K. Rehn, New York, afternoon Willis R. Gregg, chief of the Weather Bureau, will show the visitors the workings of his depart- | ment and its use {n aviation. 13 HELD IN HAVANA ON REVOLT PLANS Detained Incommunicado by Spe- cial Police in Alleged Attempt for Revolution. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, October 14.—Thirteen men, including several former officers of the navy, were held incommunicado today on secret charges which Diario de La Marina said resulted from al- leged plans of Cuban revolutionaries in Mexico to send an armed expedi- tion to Cuba. All those arrested arrived Saturday from Vera Cruz, where they made their way after their three-masted auxiliary schooner Salavator was wrecked off the coast of Mexico dur- ing a storm. The newspaper says the secret police affirm the 13 left here aboard the Salavator September 22 for Veru Cruz, where they expected to pick up other revolutionists on an expedition de- signed to overthrow the Mendieta government. The police refused to talk about the case, except to admit that the 13 men were held on serious charges. —_— PARIS CUTS FRUIT QUOTA But Other Nations’ Lack May Ad- PARIS, October 14 (#).—Importers said today that the French import quota for United States apples and pears for the fourth quarter of 1935 has been set at 5500 tons, 250 less than the quota for the last three months of 1934. They said the share allotted the United States would be increased if other countries failed to fill their quo- {as—a circumstance regarded as likely because of bad crops in Belgium, Switzerland and Turkey and the fact that Italy needs her fruit for her 1 “Col. Roosevelt, discussing what he | called the “scandalous waste” of pub- lic funds, charged “the administration has attempted to fog by borrowing the money instead of squarely facing the issue and attempting to raise it by taxation.” “This money all comes from the people,” his letter said. “Paying it back will be a burden that will rest on the shoulders of younger Americans than you and I, for it must either be paid back by taxation or by debt repudiation and inflation, which would bring destruction and misery upon all.” Uses N. R. A. Example. “The attempts to subvert the Gov- ernment,” Roosevelt said, “were fl- lustrated clearly when the N. R. A.| sought to usurp the legislative func- tions as well as the judicial.” | A further illustration, his letter de- | clared, was “when the power to levy | taxes was taken from the Legislature and turned over to the A. A. A. when one Government agency after another attempt to usurp the authorities of States and local units.” “It is axiomatic that concentration of power spells tyranny and that| tyranny inevitably spells ruin, misery | and penury for the rank and file of a | nation,” he observed. | Col. Roosevelt wrote that “we must | explain to the people in clear terms ’thn every article they use in their| | daily life carries in its cost a multi- | | tude of indirect taxes for a large per | | cent of the price of bread, meat and | clothes represents not merely neces- | sary Government functions, but the | | extravagance and follies of Govern- | ment."” Senator Borah, who called Col.| Zenge Embraces Mother Mandeville Zenge, on trial at Chicago, charged with the mutilation slaying of Dr. Walter Bauer, is shown kissing his mother, Mrs. J. Andy Zenge, of Canton, Mo., as they met in the judge’s chamber. father is at left. Roosevelt “the son of the only man who ever inaugurated a real fight| against monopoly in this country,” said in Boise, Idaho, that he had no comment on the reply. PAINTINGS ARE MISSING | Police Seek Art Worth $4,000, Lost in Move. SOUTH ORANGE. N. J.,, October 14 () —Robert MacBeth, New York art dealer, reported to police last night | that two paintings, having a total value of $4,000, were missing from a consignment being taken from gal- (Pa.) home. MacBeth told police he had been in- formed that the pictures were missing when the truck in which they were being shipped drew up to the door of Mrs. Herbert C. Morris in German- MacBeth said one of the paintings, | Robert Henri's “Portrait of & Young Girl,” was from his galleries at New York and was valued at $3,000. The other, “Man Feeding Chickens,” by the late George Luks, was from the and was valued at $1,000. Both were insured, MacBeth said. BOXER’S DOOM UPHELD British Court Decrees He Must Die for Slaying Waitress. LONDON, October 14 (#).—The high court today dismissed the ap- peal of Raymond Bousquet, Winnipeg boxer, better known as Del Fontaine, against conviction and sentence of death for the murder of a London waitress, Hilda Meeks. Bousquet was found guilty at Old Bailey for the shooting of the girl. At the trial counsel for the boxer strove for a verdict of guilty, but insane. He produced witnesses who declared Bousquet’s mind had been damaged in his ring career. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Republican Archeolo- gists May Again Dig Up Charley Ross. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif, Octo- ber 14—It'll be just too bad if the Republican organization in New York State is in as poor shape as some of the correspond- ents say. Be- cause, if there were no Republi- can porty in New York, it would be necessary to create one in' order that Col. ‘Theodore Roose- velt, jr, may continue to have Speaking candidates and the likes of such, some political archeologist, while morbidly probing in the ruins, has dug up as a pres- idential possibility for next year the name of none other than Gen. Helen Maria Dawes. Now then, if it's true that these startling coincidences al- ways come in pairs, it's time to find Charley Ross again. .(comuit. 1935. b‘ the HoflJm NEW BATTLESHIP REQUEST DRAWN Funds Also to Be Asked for 12 Destroyers and 6 Submarines. ‘The Navy Department prepared to- day to ask the Budget Bureau for oL Zenge’s —A. P. Photo. CLERK FALLS TOIDENTIEY ZENGE Defense in Emasculation Slaying Calls for Halt to Questioning. | By the Assoclated Press. | CHICAGO, October 14 —One of the A, A A, KICKBACK PLEA IS DISCLOSED Wheat Control Association Letter Asks Donations for Propaganda. BY AVID LAWRENCE. An example of how money de- rived from A. A. A benefits is to be used in a propaganda to maintain the flow of Government money to the farmer has just come to light. There are throughout the United States about 4,500 production con- trol association, which are composed entirely of farmers. These control associations are not themselves Gove ernment bodies, but they are never theless the instrumentality through which the Agricultural Adjustment Administration operates and through which allotments are made, telling the farmer how much or how little he may produce if he is to receive Government money. Letter Cited. Into the possession of this corre- spondent has come a photostatic copy of a letter, which reads as follows: “Wheat Production Control Associa- tion of Deaf Smith County, Tex. “Hereford Tex., October 5, 1935, | “Dear Sir: | “Our records show that you received | either a 1934 or 1935 wheat allotment | check from your contract in Deaf Smith County. No doubt you are familiar with all the propaganda and efforts which are being put forth to destroy the A. A. A. programs. Be- hind all this eflort and propaganda is a well organized group with plenty of funds, and they have one object in view—the destruction of the agri- cultural programs. “A farmers’ protective organization has been perfected for the purpose of fighting for the A. A. A. programs, but this organization cannot hope to be successful without help from every county in the State. Therefore, each county has been requested to con- tribute toward a fund according to the amount of money received from the agricultural programs. Deaf Smith County quota is $340. Even though more is secured there will be need funds to build a 35,000-ton battle- | State’s witnesses against Mandeville for these funds because the opposie ship, 12 destroyers and 6 submarines. | W. Zenge, on trial for the emascula- | tion has plenty of money to use The request is included in estimates ginning next July 1. tion slaying of Dr. Walter John Bauer, | fendant as the mysterious “T. S. Mr, H. G. Lucas, chairman of the Farme | for expenditures of the fiscal year be- | failed today to identify the young de- ers' Protective Committee. Brownwood, Tex., asks that we contact each of The prospective Navy budget also | Jones” who abducted the doctor from you and send our money as soon as | contemplates increasing the number of enlisted men in the service by a Michigan hotel. | The witness was Norman Jebele, | possible, | 50 Cents to §1. 6,500. The present strength is 83,500. | clerk of the Jennings House at Ann| “T am asking each of you to please The construction program is a step forward in Secretary Swanson’s de- termination to build the American Navy up to treaty strength by 1942. Battleships may not be constructed under the London naval treaty. That pact, however, expires January 1. 1937, and work would begin on the new | ship after that date. The last battleship constructed by the Navy is the West Virginia, built in 1923. The Navy now is in the midst of a large expansion program and has let contracts for the construction of 24 vessels during the current fiscal year. Apparently no construction for aux- illary vessels is contemplated in the budget estimates. It will be necessary for the service to ask Congress to au- thorize the building of oil tankers, submarines, destroyer and airplane tenders, as well as repair vessels and ammunition ships. { The enlisted strength of the Navy | recently has been 82,500, but during | the current fiscal year 11,000 addi- tional are befng recruited. Now, offi- cials asserted, the vessels are about 85 per cent of their manpower strength. TRANSIENTS PROTEST Schedule Demonstration in New | York Over End of Relief. | NEW YORK, October 14 (A —A group of the city's unemployed transients yesterday voted to stage a demonstration in front of City Hall October 25 to protest against the transients and to demand that the | city and State take over the relief | burden November 1, when Federal relief ends. They also voted to participate in | 2 national march on Washington if | | Federal relief actually stops Novem- | he was taken, uninjured, to ber 1. | Arbor. Bauer lived there last Sum- | mer while taking work at the Uni- | versity of Michigan. The State | charges Zenge registered at the hotel | as “Jones,” seizing the opportunity to | kidnap Bauer. 1 “Do you see Jones in the court | room?” Prosecutor Charles Dougherty | asked Jebele. Jebele looked around, | his glance passing Zenge, who sat at the counsel table. “I don't see any one who looks like him,” Jebele declared. Finally after Dougherty had ordered Zenge to stand up, the Missourian's defense attorneys objected and went into Judge Cornelius J. Harrington's chambers to demand that the ques- tioning be stopped. The State is trying to prove that Zenge, a 26-year-old Canton, farm youth, slew Dr. Bauer for revenge after Bauer had married Zenge's child- hood sweetheart. Dr. Bauer was a professor of chemistry at a Kirksville, Mo., college of osteopathy. o SHOTS END JOYRIDING Boy of 15, in Showroom Car, Leads Sheriff Wild Chase. LIBERTY, Ind., October 14 (# — James Potter, 15, quietly sitting .t the wheel of a new model automobile in a8 garage sales room here yesterday afternoon, suddenly decided to “go places.” Without permission, he roared out of the entrance and sideswiped a car set a fast pace toward Richmond while the back windows of the new car were shot out by the pursuing sheriff. The chase ended when Potter struck a motorcycle and injured the rider. The | car Potter was driving overturned, and the lock-up. AUTO SHOW PUZZLE CONTEST THIS IS PUZZLE NO. 7. PALE | MARTIAL . | Not spiritual. | Municipal officers. | | | Move by the foot. | | | | PACES The outlook. ! | | | A thick cord. Add a letter to each word shown in the left-hand column and rearrange the letters to spell a word for which the definition is given. Insert the new word below the definition and place the added letter in the last column oppo- site the new word. If the puzzle is solved correctly, the added letters will spell the trade name of one of the twenty-one (21) automobiles shown in the list below, to be exhibited at the Sixteenth Annual Automobile Show of Wash- ington, D. C., from November 2 to November 9, 1935, inclusive, at the Calvert Exhibit Hall, 2601 Calvert street north west, opposite Hotel Shoreham, under the auspices of Washington Automotive Trade Association, which, with the co-operation of The Star, is conducting DODGE FORD HUDSON HUPMOBILE LAFAYETTE LA SALLE AUBURN BUICK CADILLAC CHEVROLET CHRYSLER DE SOTO LINCOLN NASH OLDSMOBILE TERRAPLANE PACKARD PIERCE-ARROW PLYMOUTH this contest. PONTIAC STUDEBAKER The first puzzle appeared on October 8. The last will be published Oc- tober ‘2!’. Psre\?ioua puzzles may be seen in the files in the business office of The Star. Solve each puzzle, and not earlier than October 29, but not later than midnight, October 30, send all of the than twenty (20) words in Washington, D. C..” to the Washington Automotive Trade Association, 1 street northwest, Washington, D. C. solutions with a reason of pot more “As to Why an Automobile Show Should Be Held 1427 It is not necessary to send in the actual puzzles, but it is compulsory that the entries show the new words. The new words will not be given out or published, and no entries will be returned. i Officials of the Washington Automotive Trade Association, whose decisions will be final, will act as judges, and based on correctness, neatness and manner in which the solutions are submitted, as well as the reason for holding an Annual Automobile Show, will award prizes totaling $100 and 100 tickets to the Automobile Show, as follows: First prize, $50 and 12 tickets; second prize, $25 and 8 tickets; third prize, $10 and 6 tickets and 25 prizes of 2 tickets each. 1In case of ties duplicate prizes will be awarded. ‘Winners will be announced in the Automobile Show Section of The S8unday Star on November 3, 1935. Questions should be addressed to Washington Auto- ve Txade Association, 1437 I street northwest, Washington, D. C. Mo, “ contribute to this fund if you think the program is worth fighting for. Any amount you wish to give will serve a good purpose. It has been suggested that each contract signer |give from 50 cents to $1. We are leaving it to each person as to the amount he will donate “Please return this letter at once with your contribution, to J. A. Pite man, president of Deaf Smith County Wheat Association, Box 596, Here= ford, Tex. We do not want it to be {saild that Deaf Smith County f{: to do its part in this work. Tha you for your co-operating in this mate ter, I am | “Very Truly Yours, J “(Signed) J. A. PITMAN, ident. Contrib = “Please return this letter wit contribution or call by the office.” | Must “Stand In."” Well, the 4,500 production control associations have 20,000 officers and the committees on these commodity control associations have a member- ship of about 200,000. Last year about 111,000 of these members drew pay on a per diem basis, some small and |some larger amounts, but all the | funds came out of the cost of admine istering the A. A. A. These commite tee members are in constant touch with the millions of farmers who re- ceive A. A. A. benefits Since every farmer must “stand in™ with these allotment committees, it is unlikely that a farmer will ignore & request for contributions. Nowadays the fighting against the A. A. A is unquestionably related to party polie tics, 50, in a sense, the funds being raised are to defend the Democratic party program. Obviously the A. A. A. and the Dee | partment of Agriculture will claim no responsibility for the movement because these production control as- sociations have been set up so as to have a minimum of direct connection but & maximum of .ndirect connece tion with the Government. Thus the A. A. A. furnishes all the material for these propaganda efforts by the Prod= uction Control Association and sends speakers to attend the meetings and forums. The belief revails here that the A. A. A. is counting more heavily on these production control associa= tions. with their far-flung influence | throughout the agricultural areas, than on any other single factor in keeping the Democratic administra- tion's program from being repealed. Link Is Questioned. “What, ‘t might be asked, is im- proper about farmers raising funds to carry on a propaganda in their own behalf? The answer is Nothing whatever. The only impropriety arises in allocating a propaganda tax based upon henefits received from the Government of the United States and placing the handling of such a fund in the same agency as is directly ree sponsible for discretionary acts in allocating quotas. [The spcnsors of the plan probably thought they were doing no more than do manufacturers who raise funds to maintain a propaganda for a protective tariff. But even the latter activity seems to have been frowned upon in recent months in Washington as being peculiarly the malpractices of old dealers and noi, of course, by any stretch of the ime agination attributable to the New Deal. Basically, propaganaa is legitimate if it is frankly and openly authorized and sponsored &nd if it is the result of activities of trade »r farm associa- tions which do not in any way relate their fund-raising, even by implication, to favors that might flow from the Government or that might be with- drawn if the financial co-operation sought for propaganda purposes is not forthcoming. Furthermore, city folks might ask whether they should continue to sup= ply by processing taxcs that are ime posed on the cost of food and clothe ing the funds being usea for propae ganda campaigns to preven artificiale ly maintained prices frum being scaled down to benefit the housewife and the American laboring man. (Copyright. 1935.) e Japanese Warship Aground. KURE, Japan, October 14 (#)— The Japanese Navy's coast defense ship Asama, of 9,240 tons, went aground today near the Kure navy base and suffered damage to its hull, ‘Warships hastened to the aid of the vessel, wheat