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A—z . LANDON 1534 PLAN FORDROUGHTITED Letter to Roosevelt May Indicate Present View. Freight Cuts Asked. By tne Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans, September 1.— Federal-State co-operation for water conservation, a plan advocated by Gov. Alf M. Landon during the 1934 drought, was recalled by his advisers today as the Republican presidential nominee prepared for a drought con- ference with President Roosevelt. While the Kansan awaited replies on his appeal to railroads for a joint freight rate slash in parched areas, associates cited the stand he took WO years ago as a probable indication of his position when he meets the Chief Executive in Des Moines Thurs- day. In a letter to President Roosevelt on June 4, 1934, the Governor wrote: “The development of a comprehensive program should proceed from joint action by State and Federal author- ities.” Far-Reaching Benefits. “Any legislation or any administra- tive order which leads to immediate and effective steps in this direction will create permanent benefits beyond any present conception,” Landon added. “The people of our State have come to a realization of this. Your effort now in meeting the need will be most timely and of great help to present and future generations.” Observing that “no new legislation would be required,” Landon added: “The Kansas Planning Board, which I appointed at your suggestion * ¢ *is doing what it can in the de- velopment of a water pregram. “As an alternative to the creation of a new river authority, this plan- ning board, with the ilar boards of other States, might be given con- sideration as a possible agency for the accomplishment of these pur- | poses.” Co-operative Surveys Urged. The Governor urged Mr. Roosevelt “to exert your influence and authority | to provide means through which State and Pederal agencies may work to- gether in the completion of detailed engineering surveys of every small tributary.” i Larger streams, he said, already Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. _ FOUND. 1SS ALICE SATTGAST of the House disbursing office had M occasion to become perplexed the other day when a woman rushed in to inquire: “I'm looking for a girl who works on Capitol Hill; I don't remember her name or whom she works for; do you know who she is?” That might logically be expected to be the end of the story. The fact is, however, that some detective work identified the sought young woman as Miss Elizabeth Jones, of the office of Representative Sanders, Democrat, Texas. * %ok X COINCIDENCE. That expression currently on the face of Miss Elizabeth Templeton, to give a literal translation of it, means “the irony of it all!” It is there because of the pecul- iar timing of events in the life of Miss Templeton in recent days. She went horseback riding in Vir- ginia @ morning or so ago. In the course of the ride, a stirrup broke and Miss Templeton toppled. That afternoon, sighing at fate and filling her lungs with the Jumes of liniment with every long- drawn breath, it occurred to her to ask for the mail as one way of re- lieving both pain and boredom They brought it to her—a plea that she renew her subscription to the magazine that had r.ade Fev so enthusiastic (theretofore) about horses. IF vou found the clear, brilliantly blue heavens of Sunday and Mon- day exhilarating, it is because you do not see eye to eye with the Silent Messenger. Those very same skies, as he saw them, were filled with de- pressing and evil portents. He writes: U \. & ‘_,. * X ok % WORRIED. o4 T/ GoTs ForTeLi %5, TReBLE s 3 . (& had been surveyed by the War De- | " 5 partment while State agencies have | surveyed “hundreds of small proj- | ects.” Kansas officiais said Landon drought plans embraced a program for encouraging the building of small farm ponds, reservoirs on creeks and rivers and large lakes as required. After discussing drought conditions yesterday with Gov. Walter Welford of North Dakota, Landon dispatched telegrams to Western railroads urging that emergency drought rate reduc- tions apply on joint line hauls to avert “confusion and gross discrimi- Ration between farmers.” —_— FLOGGING TESTIMONY BRINGS NO INDICTMENTS North Carolina Grand Jury Ad- journs After Hearing Alleged Victims of Hooded Bands. By the Assoclated Press. ,WHITEVILLE, N. C., September 1. ~The Columbus County grand jury adjourned for the term yesterday without returning any indictments in the alleged flogging cases last Spring 4n the Clarendon section. The jury in its written report made no reference to the flogging incidents which it had investigated two days upon order of Judge M. V. Barnhill. | ‘Witnesses called before the jury m- | cluded five alleged victims of the night-riding band. They were Grace and Glenn Fowler, Dewey Cribb and Bertha Fowler and her daughter Inez. Between 30 and 40 witnesses were examined in all. Seven persons had told a previous grand jury they were taken out at various times by a hood- ed band and lashed on the bare back a&nd their heads shaved. Swarm of Bees Delays Mail. ‘When a swarm of bees took posses- tion cf a letter box in Drumgarby, Northern Ireland, the mail was de- layed 24 hours until Postman and Bee- keeper Thomas Farrel routed the buz- gers with carbolic acid. H ighway.Bandits TakeCarsin Two Daylight Hold-Ups Daring Thefts Start Wide Search in Franklin County. By the Assoctated Press. ROCKY MOUNT, Va. September 1.—Motor banditry in the broad day- light yesterday sent Franklin County deputies and all available State police in search of three gunmen who are &till at large. Three men blocked route No. 40 between here and Gretna with logs around 9 am. Sergt. R. W. George of the State police and Sheriff Harry B. Lee said. An automobile, driven by J. C. Tillow, who was accompanied by his father and Henry English, was halted. The machine was taken and the occupants’ cash was seized at gunpoint. The robbers disappeared in the two autos in the direction of Rocky Mount. Later in the morning, three bandits answering to the same descriptions of the trio in the first holdup, stopped E. Bennett Woods of Roanoke near Longview, made him exchange his machine for Tillow’s and took two “I know! I see! And I can feel | it in the air! Unless there is a change for higher ideals, we can't avoid this thing—the goat herds.” He is “truly worried,” he says, at having found the head of a huge goat in the skies where every one else (al- though he neglects to mention it) was | finding evidence of an end to heat, | perspiration, dirty and white linen suits, and stories of how much better Californians can play tennis than any one else. He should be worried! * x % X CAMPAIGN. E late Senator Huey P. Long and the trailer craze are blamed by | Arkansans for what returning Washe ingtonians call the “goofiest” primary the Wolder State has seen in years. Senator Long, in his whirlwind tour of the State for Senator Hattie Cara- way in 1932, introduced the sound- truck idea for office seekers into the State, and now come the trailers to add to politicians’ caravans. The natives are suspicious. even, of every car having a radlo. Mrs. E. R. Hicks of Washington and Poca- story of having stopped in Bradford, | Ark. At a filling station a bystander heard the radio, peered into the car, and asked: “Who's this candidate ernor?” for Gov- * ok koK FREAKISH. EMBERS of a Chevy Chase fam- ily have become conscious that they are developing into a group of freaks in that they no longer are able to get out of chairs like normal individuals. Instead of planting the feet firmly on the floor and moving upward and outward, members of the family go through a conspicuously odd series of movements which involves: 1—Lifting the feet off the floor; 2—Leaning for- ward and inspecting the terrain' im- mediately in front of the chair; 3— Putting the feet down gingerly and shuffling them about in a exploratory fashion; 4—Leaning forward sud- denly, throwing all the weight upon the feet and springing into an upright position. A dog that sleeps at the feet of any one who happens to sit down in the house, and which has been stepped on at least a dozen times by each mem- ber of the family, is responsible for the elaborate artificiality which has crept into what is normally one of the simplest gestures of life. * ok X X ILLUSION. In Frederick, Md., there was for years a spring which became highly popular as a place to keep bait fish. One man in particular said he could never keep bait fish at home because the city water was injurious to them—they would usually die when placed in water drawn from a faucet in his home. Recently, in connection with a P. W. A. project, an old water line was removed and almost immedi- ately the fine old spring dried up. checks totaling $100. It had been fed from a leak in the main. Base Ball Scores, Race Results, will start at once. Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City [ ] Full Sports Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. What- ever it is. you’ll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and service hontas, Ark., recently returned with a | THE EVENING ALABAMA WARS ONAUTORUSTLERS Thieves in Trucks Cause Heavy Loss to Southern Cattlemen. By tne Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala., September 1. —aAlabama armed today against motor- ized rustling, which has caused heavy loss to cattlemen and brought a gun battle reminiscent of Western frontier days. State highway patrolmen sought four supposed rustlers who engaged in & running gun fight with L. J. Jones on his farm in Southern Alabama. Jones said he and three companions surprised the four men while they ‘were preparing to load some of Jones' cattle. Jones and his friends shot at the marauders and the fire was re- turned. The would-be thieves escaped in their truck, but left behind a bloody hat, shot full of holes—which led to the belief that one of the four was killed or wounded. Commissioner of Agriculture R. J. Goode called on all owners of the State's 1,125,000 head of cattle to reg- ister their brands and assigned field men to keep a close check on sales at stockyards. “There has been a lot of rustling,” Goode said. “It's impossible to say how much. The rustlers drive at night in fast trucks, steal animals, then sell them in distant markets, often in other States.” DENIES BISHOP WHITE DIVORCED HUSBAND Son, Also Bishop in “Pillar of Fire” Church, Explains Court Action. Bishop A. K. White, son of Bishop Alma White, founder of the Pillar of | Fire Church, with national head- | quarters at Zarahpeth, N. J., has re- quested The Star to correct an allu- sion to Bishop Alma White's “divorce” in Lemuel Parton’s column “Headline Folk and What They Do.” On Feb- ruary 6, 1921, Bishop White filed suit for divorce against her husband, Rev. | Kent White, at Trenton, N. J., but on a showing that “affection existed on both sides” no divorce was granted and the action was withdrawn. Bishop White explained that during the years of his father's subsequent residence in England there has been | no spiritual misunderstanding between them and that his mother’s action had been moved by exigent matters of church polity which made it seem | expedient to her to seek a court de- | termination of interests and control, | entirely in the interest of the church. She is, said Bishop White, a con- sistent opponent of divorce, as she was at the time of the “possibly ill-ad- vised” action and that only doctrinal and managerial matters caused her appeal to the court. The Pillar of Fire Church, estab- lished by Bishop Alma White in Den- ver in 1901, removed to -New Jersey in 1908. Since then BisHop White has established the following schools: Alma White College, Zarapeth Bible Seminary, Belleview College, Bible Seminary and Preparatory School, Denver; Mount Hermon Academy, Cincinnati; Galilean Training School, Los Angeles, and Alma Bible College, London. Bishop White is the author of about 35 books on religious, patriotic and educational subjects; the author of | more than 150 hymns, and the founder of 7 periodicals. She also has | founded two radio stations—WAWZ | at Zarapeth and KPOF at Denver. WIFE GETS 10 YEARS IN TRAIN WRECK PLOT Man Accused of Conspiring to Kill Husband Faces Trial This Month. By the Assoclated Press. MILTON, Fla., September 1.—Cir- cuit Judge L. L. Fabisinski denied Mrs. Mary Vann's plea for a new trial yesterday and sentenced her to 10 years’ imprisonment on charges of | conspiring to kill her husband by wrecking the passenger train he operated. ‘When asked if she had anything to say, Mrs. Vann replied: “I am not guilty.” The judge told her all evidence pointed to her guilt. He sald she had a fair trial. The 40-year-old woman burst into tear as she left the court room. She and Earl Travis, a carpenter, were charged with plotting the death of Mrs. Vann's 60-year-old husband to permit them to collect his life in- surance and be married. Travis is to be tried this month. Two colored men pleaded guilty to the charge they removed spikes from rail on two occasions. Vann, veteran engineer, said his train roared safely over a buckling rail on two occasions. He defended her steadfastly, declaring his belief in her innocence. Allen Langston and Allen Findley are in jail awaiting sentence. Langston, 70-year-old “voodoo doc- tor,” said Mrs. Vann offered him $400 or $500 for “a good job” of wrecking the train. CLEMENCY PETITIONED Lingle's Mother Reported Asking Freedom for Brothers. CHICAGO, September 1 (P).—Wil- liam Hale (Big Bill) Thompson, for- mer mayor of Chicago, said yesterday Mrs. Emily Darst of Kansas City, mother of Alfred Lingle, slain Chi- cago newspaper man, had signed a pardon petition being circulated in behalf of Leo Brothers, serving a 14- year sentence for Lingle’s death. ‘Thompson said Mrs. Darst told him she “never believed Brothers had any- thing to do with the killing of my son.” Lingle was slain in a pedestrian sub- way in 1930. - Would Ban Women at Bars. OMAHA, Nebr., September 1 (P).— ‘The Omaha Bartenders’ Union yes- terday announced intention of seek- ing passage of a State law prohibit- ing women from entering or purchas- ing beer or liquor at bars in Nebraska. Thomas Delmonico, secretary and business agent of the union, said he | ‘ng company partner, feared their patronage would bring § < Reach Parting of Ways? The New York American today said Mrs. Louis Reed, jr., the former Marion Snowden, had left her husband of three months, with whom she is shown, and planned an early start Jor Nevada to obtain a divorce. Prince Girolamo Rospigliosi. She is the former wife of —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. < INQUEST AWAITED | IN ICKES DEATH Funeral Plans Deferred Un- til Inquiry Into Shooting Is Made. By tne Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, September 1.—Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, se- cluded in his suburban Winnetka home, awaited an inquest today into the death of his stepson. Wilmarth Ickes, 37, found shot through the head yesterday with a pistol lying on his chest. ,Members of the family indicated funeral plans would be deferred until the inquiry was completed. Police Sergt Harold Lewis of Winnetka, who declared the slain man “unques- tionably killed himself,” indicated he might have brooded about ill health. When Ickes arrived from Wash- ington last night by plane Michael Straus, his secretary, said the cabinet member had been advised last Friday that his stepson had learned he had contracted tuberculosis. The body of Young Ickes, a print- married and father of three children, was found in his bed room at the Winnetka home just a year after the death of his mother, Mrs. Anna Wilmarth Ickes. She was killed in an auto- mobile accident at Velarde, N. Mex. The slain man was married to the former Elizabeth Dahlman of Milwaukee. Their children are Don- ald, 12; Anna, 10, and Barbara, 6. Other survivors were Robert Ickes and Mrs. Requa M. Bryant, adopted children of Ickes, and Raymond, their son by birth. —_— QUIZ COUNSEL NAMED Carl I. Wheat of Los Angeles was appointed by the Communications Commission yesterday as associate counsel in its investigation of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. ‘Wheat, who will assist Samuel Beck- er, special counsel, will be in charge of the inquiry into long-line toll rates and other rate matters, the commis- sion said. o Fairfax “Trusty” Borrows Taxi to Quit Jail on Spree Sheriff Just Misses Er- rant Prisoner at Various Inns. By & Btaff Correspondent of The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, September 1.—A one-eyed trusty, who borrowed an- other prisoner's taxicab to “go on a spree” last night, was the object of a police search by Fairfax County officers today. The trusty, Sam Shreve, serving a 90-day sentence for driving while drunk, “borrowed” the keys to a taxicab owned by another prisoner, Cecil Brown, and drove off. Sheriff E. P. Kirby said he was told at various inns he went to in search of Shreve that the trustee had already been there and left. “He's just gone off on a spree,” Sheriff Kirby said this morning after looking to see whether the errant Shreve had returned. “He won't re- turn voluntarily now; we’ll have to pick him up,” the sheriff said. A police lookout for Shreve and the taxicab was brpadcast over the Wash- ington radio system. The REED AND BRIDE 10 BE DIVORCED Former Marion Snowden | Leaves Husband After Only 3 Months, Paper Says. 8y tne Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 1.—The New York American said today Mrs Louis Reed, jr., the former Marion Snowden, after three honeymooning months in Bermuda, had left her second husband. ‘The paper said the one-time Princess Rospigliosi is sailing homeward today on the Monrach of Bermuda and that it learned from her friends she would make an early start for Nevada to ob- tain a divorce. Reed, socially prominent son of a retired attorney, told a friend over trans-Atlantic telephone last night, the paper stated, that he would go to Reno if Mrs. Reed did not make the trip there. “There won't be any reconciliation,” he was quoted as saying. ‘The couple married in Jersey City late in May, shortly after the oil heiress and Prince Girolamo Rospi- gliosi were divorced in Mexico. They were accompanied on their honeymoon by Reed's 4-year-old daughter Mimi, child of his first wife, the former Marie Hoffman, heiress to a chain-store fortune, CHOIR BOY SUSPECT NEARS SANITY TEST Inquest Into Widow Murder Re- sults in Order Holding Youth for Grand Jury. By wre Associatec Press. CHICAGO, September 1.—Roland Munroe, 15-vear-old choir boy, held for the hammer slaying of an aged widow, was headed for a sanity hear- ing today. Counsel for the young prisoner and Assistant State's Attorney Richard Devine said yesterday they would ask an early examination by Dr. Harry Hoffman, head of the Criminal Court behavior clinic. Devine disclosed he would also seek a murder indictment against the youth. At the inquest yesterday into the death of the widow, Mrs. Agnes Rof- feis, 65, Munroe was ordered held to the grand jury on a murder charge. Capt. Martin McCormick testified the boy had confessed he beat the crippled woman to death with a ham- mer and cane last Saturday night in a robbery that neted a few trinkets. Munroe sought to amplify his ver- sion of the crime by contending he acted in self-defense after Mrs. Roffeis struck at him with a pair of scissors. Capt. McCormick said no shears were found. STAUBUS TOPS GUARDS OF D. C. IN RIFLE SHOOT Special Dispateh to The Star. CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September 1—Edwin L. Staubus, & corporal in the Ordnance Department of the Dis- trict National Guard, topped the other ‘Washington entrants in the .30-caliber service rifle shoot here yesterday with a score of 96. Staubus, who received a bronze medal for his efforts, was only 3 points below the national winner in a field of 1,790 of the country’s best shots, a record number of contestants. National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. ACKSON HOLE, Wyo., September 1.—The President recognizes that waste of public money is an important issue in the cam- paign, makes an effort to meet it, even in his preliminary non-political warming-up in the drought area. He says he considers it worth while to spend a million to save ten million. That sounds well when you hear it the first time, but it has its weakness as a statement of fundamental eco- nomies. ference whose For instance, doesn't it make any dif- million is being spent to save what ten million, and suppose the ten million is spent along with the one, making minus eleven at the bottom of the column, who is ahead? Then again, what ten millions were saved for the millions spent on such magnificent boon- doggles as the Florida canal, Passamaquoddy, Alice Longworth. sidewalks through desarts and Nation-wide leaf- raking exercises? Are any millions saved when millions are spent for a host of jobholders to spy upon farmers for the purpose of preventing the planting of food crops, while the cost of Rying climbs like & thermometer in the Dust Bowl? 3 (Copyright, 1936.) |that her mother was married STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1938 6.0P.OFFERSS1,000 AS LETTER PRIZE Democrat May Win by Writ- ing Reason for Roose- velt Support. ‘The Republican National Committee is looking for three Democrats to di- vide $1,000 in prize money among them. All they have to do to prove they are Democrats is to tell why they are “for Roosevelt.” All they have to do to win the $1,000 is to tell it better than anybody else in less than 200 words, The announcement of the contest was made last night by Willilam Hard, radio commentator, in & broadcast under the auspices of the Republican National Committee. He said “the political habit of dodging the argu- ments of opponents is one that should yleld in a democracy to full, frank direct debate.” To judge the output the Republicans have signed up Prof. T. V. Smith of the University of Chicago. Mr. Hard described Prof. Smith as “a professor of philosophy * * ¢ author of many books * * * member of the State Sen- ate of Illinois on the Democratic side ® ¢ * a scholar and a New Deal Dem- ocrat.” Such qualifications, Mr. Hard pointed out, should prepare him to recognize good New Deal arguments when he sees them, if he does. The contest rules follow: For the best letter, $500; for the | second best letter, $300; for the third best letter, $200. All listeners may compete except those who are officers or employes of Democratic party organizations,. na- tional, State or local. | No letter may be more than 200 words long. [ All letters must be mailed by mid- night September 10. WOMAN IDENTIFIES STARVATION VICTIM Daughter Confirms Belief of Neighbor That She Once Lived in Washington. A 43-year-old Washington woman, who died in B Baltimore hospital Sun- day after being found helpless from starvation and exhaustion in a room- ing house near the water front there, was identified last night as Mrs. Nellie Marscell, 300 block of V street Identification was made by the woman's daughter, Miss Catherine Marscell, who police here located at the V street address. Mrs. Marscell was found on the floar, huddled under a sheet. She was unclad and so weak that police were | unable to get a coherent story from her. After reading newspaper accounts of the woman's death, a former neighbor in Baltimore tentatively identified the body at the morgue. Police learned from Miss Marscell in | Baltimore several years ago and came | to Washington, where she and her husband operated a tavern. They met financial reverses, lost the tavern | and separated. Mrs. Marscell re- turned to Baltimore. Baltimore authorities said that al- though they had not completed their investigation, they could see no pos- sibility of criminal action developing from the death. . FIRE LOSSES IN CAPITAL HIGHER, REPORT SHOWS | Fire Chief Schrom Notifies Com- missioners Figure Was $486,407 Compared to $341,420. The Commissioners were notified to- day by Fire Chief Charles E. Schrom the fire loss in the District during the past fiscal year amounted to $486,407, | which exceeds the figure for the | previous year by $144,973. Schrom said the per capital fire | loss during the past fiscal year of 82 cents was substantially under the | figure fire control authorities con- sidered “very low.” He told the Com- missioners the department had made 228359 fire protection inspections during the past year, and had served | 11,296 notices to abate fire hazards. MRS. EMMA C. YOE,_65, NATIVE OF CITY, DIES Mrs. Emma C. Yoe. 65, native of | ‘Washington, died Sunday at her home, | 5401 Seventh street, after a long ill- ness. Mrs. Yoe, who was educated at the Immaculate Conception Academy, had been a member of the Catholic Church of the Nativity for the last 13 years. She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Catherine Griffin, Mrs. Josephine | Lowell, Mrs, Mary Forbes and Mus. Margaret Burdine, and & sister, Mrs. Mary Malone, all of this city. Funeral services will be held at the Church of the Nativity at § am. to- morrow, following brief services at her late home. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Nebraska Beauty Contest Without Swimming Suits Long Frocks Ordered by | S.ate Fair Board for 'Entrants. Br tne Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr., September 1.— Selection of Nebraska's entrant in the annual Atlantic City Bathing Beauty Contest became sort of a “sight un- seen” proposition today. The reason is that participants in this State's elimination test won't wear swimming suits. Instead, by order of the State Fair Board and in the name of modesty, they will don long frocks. Approximately 110 girls will parade in the “evening gown beauty pag- eant,” to be held in conjunction with the fair September 9 and 10. Three judges will be instructed to appraise the visible pulchritude of the well-draped young women. Other attributes will also be con- sidered, said W. A. Herington, man- ager of the show. Pressed for an ex- planation, he added: “The tape measure will tell.” When the winner gets out to At- lantic City she may doff the trailing| gown and wear as scanty a bathing suit as she chooses. mmm'uumuu;v ¢ COKE T. BRIGHT. EIGHT ENTERED IN BENDIX RACE Five Women and Three Men Will Compete in Cross- Country Event. By (bt Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 1—Five women and three men were entered today in the Bendix Trophy race across the United States September 4 as a prelude to the national air races in Los Angeles. The eight fiyers, each of whom will make the 2,500-mile trip alone, will compete for $15,000 in prize money. ‘They are Mrs. Amelia Earhart Put nam, Laura Ingalls, Jacqueline Coch- rane, Louise Thaden, Miss Martie Bowman, Ben O. Howard, 8. J. Witte man and Joseph Jacobson. Col. Roscoe Turner was forced to withdraw because of his crack-up Sunday in New Mexico. His westward record, set in 1933, is 11 hours 30 minutes. The Bendix event is a free-for-all, open to any size plane flying over any route. The only limitations are that the contestants shall take off from Floyd Bennett Field. Brookiyn, and land at Los Angeles Municipal Airport before 6 p.m., Pacific standard time, the same day. SPRECKELS WINS 00. Californian Takes Prize in First Half of Derby. DALLAS, Tex., September 1 (#).— Frank Spreckels, research chemist of | San Francisco, was announced as | winrer of the $1,000 Cleveland-Dallas half of the Ruth Chatterton air derby here last night. JOHN H, BRIGHT. Brothers, who are being sought by a posse for the kill- ing of two peace officers and another man who sought to arrest them at Horge Creek, Calif. X —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. FAIRATMARLBORO ATTRACTS THRONG Racing and Exhibits Fea- ture Program Opening Today. UPPER MARLBORO, Md.. Septem- ber 1 —Residents of Southern Mary- land were converging today on loca grounds for opening of the annual. | five-day fair featuring horse racing and farming displays. William G. Brooke, secretary of the Southern Maryland Fair Association ponsor of the exhibit, predicted a | daily attendance of 4,000. More than 1230 horses, under 46 trainers, were quartered here, while 18 trainers had 70 more at Bowie. Seven races were scheduled for to- day in a program headed by the Upper Marlboro Purse, a 512-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up. All flelds during the fair will be limited to eight starters, the gate capacity. | Pointing out the $712.371 total of beiting at Cumberland during the 10- | day meeting there this year, track offi- cials predicted heavy wagering here. The daily double will be based on first and third races. Some $2.500 in awards will be given to winners in the display competitions Farm products. live stock and house- hold goods will be shown. A special | 4-H Club exhibit will feature work of boy and girl members. No ceremonies will mark the fair. | according to County Agent P. E. Clark | Judges of displays include W. R.| Ballard, garden products; B. E. Carmichael and L. W. Ingham. live stock; W. B. Posey, tobacco; F. W.| Oldenburg, wheat and corn, and George Quigley, poultry. MRS. REYNOLDS’ RIDE IN TRUCK “CLOSED” District Attorney Aide Sees No. “Bribery Evidence” in $20 Payment. By the Associated Press. MINEOLA. N. Y., September 1.— Albert M. de Meo, assistant district attorney of Nassau County. said last | night he considered “closed” his in- vestigation into events foliowing the borrowing of a Valley Stream butch- er's truck by Mrs. Helene Fortescue Reynolds last Tuesday night. De Meo said he found “no evidence | of bribery” in connection with the | dropping of charges in the case after the payment by Mrs. Reynolds of $20 to the owner of the truck. The announcement followed the questioning of 11 persons, seven of them socially prominent relatives and friends of Mrs. Reynolds. Mrs. Reynolds, who said she drove home to Glen Cove in the truck as a “lark,” is the daughter-in-law of Richard 8. Reynolds, financier and metal manufacturer, a distant rela- tive of the North Carolina tobacco | manufacturing family. Sister of the former Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, central figure in a sensational assault and murder case in Hawaii several years ago, she was married recently to Jullan Reynolds, who is assoclated with his father in business. Spreckels, by winning the first half, |is in line for the sweepstakes trophy to be given by Miss Chatterton to the high-point piiot in the flight between | Cleveland and Los Angeles. Second place went to Bruce Gimbel of Port Chester. N. Y., who won the hop from Hot Springs to Dallas yes- terday. Miss Clara Livingston of James- town. N. Y., was third in the first ha] of the derbv and second in the Hoa Springs-Dallas lap. Standing of the flyers from fourt’ | through tenth places, all of whom wi share in the prize money: Georg Arents, Rye, N. Y.; John P. Gat ! Elmhurst, N. ¥.: Jerry Fairbanks, Lc | Angeles; John Ed Todd, Pomone Calif.; Helen MacCloskey, Bureau cf Afr Commerce, Washington, D. C Miss Jeanette Lempke and Steve: Hawes, Pomona, Calif. Fourth to tenth place winners in the Hot Springs-Dallas prize mone: were Leland Harward, New York City Peggy Salaman, London; Spreckels, San Francisco; Max M shall, Xenia, Ohio; George Aren: Rye, N. Y.; Benjamin King, Washing- ton, D. C.; Jerry Fairbanks, Los An- geles, Calif, and Grace Andersci Phoenix, Ariz. MILK STRIKE DATE IS DECLARED SE. New York Decision Made, Say: Producers’ Official, but He Refuses Details. Bv tne Assoclated Press. DELHI, N. Y., September 1.—Felix Piseck, secretary of the New York Milk Producers’ Federation, Inc., said today that the date for a milk strike has been decided upon and would be made known 36 hours before it is to take effect. The statement came during a speech to dairymen from Delaware and Otsego Counties here. Questioned later, he would not say where or when the decision on a strike date had been made, or by whom it had been sanctioned. Felix Piseck and his brother, Stan- ley. president of the producers’ feder- ation, have been leaders in the move- ment for a milk holiday if demands for a $3 per hundredweight price for all milk and abolition of the classified price system are not met. Stanley Piseck said Wisconsin milk and cream were being shipped into the New York Market. He declared: “We're going to have genuine co- operation from Wisconsin and all milk and cream coming out will be stopped | by the Agriculture Commission and the Health Commission.” (Agriculture Commissioner Joseph D. Beck of Wisconsin said in a state- ment at Madison, Wis., last week: “We haven't shipped any milk or cream into New York for six years because our products are barred by New York laws.”) WIDOW WHO DROWNED SON, 2, ADMITS GUILT |Plea to Manslaughter Charge, However, Avoids Trial for Wife on Murder Count. By the Associated Press. NEWBURGH, N. Y., September 1.— In a surprise move, Mrs. Dorothy Sher- wood, 28-year-old widow, pleaded guilty today to a charge of first-degree manslaughter for the drowning of her 2-year-old son Jimmy in a creek in August, 1935. She entered her plea just as County Judge Jonathan D. Wilson was pre- paring to call jurors to try her a sec- ond time for murder in the first degree. Judge Wilson said he would sentence her September 16. The manslaughter charge is punishable by 10 to 20 years in prison. Mrs. Sherwood was convicted of first- degree murder and sehtenced to death last January, but the Court of Appeals recently set aside this conviction and ordered a new trial. Heat Chaser Ends °36 Work Praised by Insp. Edwards With applause for its work from Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, acting superintendent of police, The Star'’s heat chaser today officially ended its 1936 career of humanitarianism. After five successive days too cool to make it feasible for the truck to tour the streets and hand the brow-mopping officers an ice-cold drink, it was decided need for the heat chaser truck was at an end for the time being. “I don’t know anything that has ever been done for the policeman in hot weather that meant more,” Edwards said when he learned the truck was to be put away. “The Chestnut Farms Dairy de- serves the gratitude of the force for lending the truck which made the service possible. “It brought the men much com- fort, and often the cool refresh- ment enabled the men to carry on under the most difficult of circum- stances. “The Star has done a great thing in bringing refreshment to policemen at a time when the po- liceman could not leave his post to get a cool drink for himself.” ‘The heat chaser service was in- augurated July 30. In the month of it§ career it gave away to 1,600 policemen 275 quarts of orange Juice and 30 cases of soft drinks. / ,