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A2 PARKER LAWYERS EMPHASIZE CODE Message Figures in Cross- fire With Wendel—Trial Recessed 3 Days, BACKGROUND— Paul H. Wendel, former Trenton, N. J., lawyer, was abducted Febru- ary 14, 1936, in New York by three men he later identified as Murray Bleefield, Martin Schlossman and Harry Weiss. He was taken to a house in Brooklyn, held 10 days and tortured into falsely confessing he kidnaped the Lindbergh baby. B the Assoctated Press. NEWARK, N. J, May 8—A letter containing a coded message written by Paul H. Wendel to Ellis H. Parker January 4, 1936, and including a state- ment the Lindbergh baby was “not in sight” was emphasized by the defense yesterday during renewed cross- examination of Wendel in the Parker conspiracy trial in Federal Court, The message previously had been Introduced by the Government to show Wendel's association with De- tective Parker in his Lindbergh in- Vestigation, but specific phrases were stressed today as Wendel and defense counsel continued their wordy cross- fire Parker, chief of Burlington County detectives, and his son, Ellis, jr., are charged with plotting the kidnaping of Wendel in an effort to save the life of Bruno Richard Hauptmann and to enable them to profit through a sale of the purported “true solution” of the Lindbergh crime. Cleared After Confession. Allegedly as the result of torture, Wendel confessed to the Lindbergh kidnaping, then repudiated the con- fession and subsequently was cleared. The Wendel episode, however, delayed briefly the execution of Hauptmann 13 months ago. The letter stressed today was de- oded by Wendel as follows: “Sharpe knew Chauffeur Dutch Bchultz, known Faulkner; gangland tol-Bitz hands off, money hot, stay ’way, unload money, fish, Arrange to unload wife of chauffeur who ne- gotiated Knodon flanned; inny gang- land Haup Mann money passer. I am in a tough spot. Keep my name out of this. Baby not in sight. Will return soon if possible without get- ting hurt. Concrete as usual.” ‘The “baby not in sight” phase, one defense attorney aide said, showed it was Wendel's theory the body found two months after the Lindbergh kid- naping five years ago was not that of little Charles A. Lindbergh, jr. Wendel said the baby referred to in the phrase was the Lindbergh baby, but contended it was an assertion by @& man he talked with after Parker reputedly asked him to find “a stoop- shouldered German man with a limp.” Part of Message Own. This man—Wendel said he could not Identify him without referring to a note book he charged was taken from his possessions by the defense—made ell the statement except the phrases, “I am in a tough spot,” “Keep my rame out of this” and “Will return soon if possible without ggtting hurt.” ‘These, he said, were his 6wn and re- ferred to a need for money. The unidentified man, he said, meant Violet $harpe, maid in the Dwight Morrow household, who committed sui- eide during the Lindbergh case, where ‘Sharpe™ was written. *Tol-Bitz hands ©ff,” he said, -expressed the man's epinion Dutch Schultz and Faulkner (unidentified) “told Spitale and Bitz (Lindbergh intermediaries) to keep hands off” the Lindbergh case. “Money hot,” Wendel stated, re- ferred “money that passed as ran- som money. Asked who was to “un- load money,” he said the man meant "Fish” (Isador Fisch, one-time busi- mess associate of Hauptmann). “Kno- don” supposedly referred to Dr. John F. Condon, who served as ransom in- termediary for Col. Lindbergh, it was #aid, and “Haup Mann” was Haupt- mann. Explanations of other words were not brought out, nor was there &ny explanation of the significance of the message as a whole. Today’s session ended the trial's pecond week. Court recessed until "Tuesday, o 1 CHATAUQUA CENTER SEEKING $1,000,000 Campaign to Secure Endowment Begun by Society at An- nual Dinner. B: the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, May 8.—A campaign to raise a million-dollar endowment for Chatauqua Institution, 64-year-old educational center at Chautauqua, N. ¥, was announced last night at the New York Chautauqua Society’s fourth annual dinner at the Town Hall Club. The institution has been saved from bankruptcy and freed of an $800,000 debt, as promised in 1934 by the Chautauqua Reorganization Corp., €aid Sameul W. Hazlett, president of the corporation, in an address at the dinner. “Between now and the opening of the season on July 4, it i5 confidently expected that the receivership will be ended,” he said, “and the board of trustees will function again under the new reorganization plans.” He announced that a Chautauqua foundation is being formed to raise &n endowment for the institution. DESCENDANT OF BOONE, TEACHER-POET, 50, DIES Miss Elberta Shipley, Tennessee Native, Victim of Preumonia in New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 8—Miss Elberta Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. RULES. UST a trifle more than a year ago a relative of Clifford K. Berryman, The Star cartoonist, wrote to him asking for some copyright information, and inclosing & money order for $1 to cover expenses. Mr. Barrryman found the facts but lost the money order. The other day it showed up some- where around the house, and Mr. Berryman rushed from The Star to the Benjamin Franklin station to cash it. The clerk looked at the slip, shook his head and said, “Too bad. It's a year and a day old. Yes- terday, I could have cashed it. Today, no.” ‘Thereupon he gave Mr. B. a receipt for the order, and things began to happen. Soon the cartoonist's office was loaded up with long blanks which were to be filled out, returned to the Post Office Department. Mr. Barry- man followed instructions, even drew a few of his famous bears on the blanks for good measure. As yet, however, nothing has hap- pened, and he grows more impatient by the day, as the dollar is intended to assist the purchase of some tickets he has already reserved for a trip to Europe. We hate to break the news, but Mr. B. probably will get a couple more sets of blank forms in his mail soon, fill them out, then have to appear before a notary public, a retired lawyer and two Assistant Postmasters General. This, of course, may take time, as the Post Office Department is at the moment either attending the Derby or out to lunch, be back in 15 minutes from any time. * ok k% DIVIDEND. Sign in a restaurant near Four- teenth and I streets: THE BANK GIVES 2 PER CENT. (In this space was a picture of @ foaming beer mug.) WE GIVE YOU 6. * ok % TRICK. OST newspapers are extremely shy about printing the names of peo- ple who work for other journals, un- less the item happens to be cheerfully uncomplimentary. Overcoming this bashfulness, we do not hesitate to tell you a story about Dudley Harmon, & fair young lady who writes for the Post, our rival on only one day a week. As you know, flying in a large trans- port plane on a quiet day, one does not have the sensations of motion that ac- company train and motor travel. There are no whizzing telephone poles, no screeching brakes to supply the sense of speed and adventure. You merely fly, and probably go to sleep. Miss Harmon was up in a big pas- senger plane not long ago and chanced to gaze out the window. Below she saw a smaller airship, in which some men were busy taking pictures of her craft. She watched the little mono- plane for a moment as her conveyance passed over and beyond it, then said reflectively, mostly to herself: “Re- markable, isn't it? I never knew air- planes could fly backward that way!” * x % % BAIT. LAT‘EST. most refined form of tor- ture invented by a democratic Government is reported by an inform- ant who knows about our national af- fairs at sea (or are they?) He says that among those who receive quite regularly the mail bulletins on United States Navy ship movements are a number of prisoners in the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Maine. * %k % BONER. AmR attending her first diplomatic function of a lifetime last week, & young lady of our acquaintance is wondering whether she should give up champagne, diplomats, or both. Thing that impressed her most at this reception was the elegant array of uniforms, or the array of elegant uniforms, maybe. Seeing one peacock- ish gentleman after another stalk by, she quaffed liquids from the flowing bowl, thought how wonderful it all was. When she could contain her reflec- tions no longer, she started a con- versation with an especially glorious young man, asking him where in heck did he get all the gilt trimmings. Fel- low explained that the gorgeous raf- ment had been purchased for a spe- cial occasion—his wedding—15 years ago. The noise of small talk was great during this revelation, but they chatted on a while afterward, more or less hearing what they said to each other. As she was departing, however, our lady turned to the diplomat and said, “And I hope the suit will last you 15 years more.” “Fifteen years,” he said, vaguely. “Oh, yes, of course.” She was almost out the door when he realized what went on. He dashed over, “Listen,” he said, “I think you misunderstood. It is the boss who has the 15-year-old suit. I am a secretary and was in grammar school 15 years ago. This suit I bought last weels, Just for this party.” Kate Shipley, teacher and poet, who traced her ancestry to the families of Daniel Boone and Abraham Lincoln, died of pneumonia yesterday. Wifty years old, she was born in Eastern Tennessee, a daughter of Dr. Elbert Bevier Shipley, who rode horseback to attend his patients. Miss Shipley had been an outspoken tritic of the New Deal'’s potato control proposals and had served as vice presi- dent of the League for a Woman President and Vice President. A mem- ber of the lecture board of the New York City Board of Education, she was also a speaker well known elsewhere for the Daniel Boons costume she sometimes wore. “The Mother of the Emancipator” and “The Farmers. of Lexington” ‘were two of her poems. Mrs. Wilbur Perkins, a sister, of Carmel, Calif., survives, A SNAPSHOT. A reporter who visited the Zoo last Sunday saw a candid camera fan taking a picture of another fan who was taking a picture of a third camera man as the latter posed a group of people beneath a tree. So the reporter took a pic- ture of the three photographers, completing a magic circle of little lenses. Then he whirled about and scanned the horizom nervously, to make certain no one was taking a picture of him. Y i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. STUDEBAKER SEES BELIN RIDIGULES EDUCATORS TODAY, ~ SABOTAGE TALK Dr. Ballou to Be in Group Discussing Occupational Education. Though his own office is only a few blocks from the Federal Office of Edu- cation in the new Interior Depart- ment Building, Dr. Frank W. Ballou is going to pay a call on United States Commissioner of Education Stude- baker via Minneapolis, Milwaukee, In- dianapolis and Cincinnati. Dr. Ballou, superintendent of Dis- trict schools, is “visiting Washington with a dozen other school adminis- trators as part of a two-week tour of eight cities to study the problems of “matching jobs and men.” The group was to meet the commissioner at 9 am. to discuss occupational educa- tion with him and his assistant, J. C. Wright, in charge of vocational edu- cation. Party Leaves Tonight. The party, augmented by Dr, Studebaker is to leave for Providence, R. I, tonight. Yesterday afternoon the group met in the office of William H. Stead, as- sociate director of the United States Employment Service, for discussion of methods of getting and distributing job information. The objectives of the service, Stead said, are to provide an encyclopedia of job information and an occupational dictionary of the meanings of job titles and job terminology, and to classify jobs having similar require- ments. Such encyclopadias are pub- lished for three industries, the school- men were told, and 60 others are be- ing worked on now. Lauded by Dr. E. A. Lee. Examining one of the encyclopedias, Dr. Edwin A. Lee, head of the tour, which is sponsored by the National Occupational Conference, declared “the most significant information available is contained herein.” In additnon to Drs. Ballou and Lee, the following superintendents are members of the occupational study group: Charles B. Glenn, Birming- ham, Ala.; E. E. Oberholtzer, Houston, Tex.; Willis A. Sutton, Atlanta, Ga.; David E. Weglein, Baltimore; Einar W. Jacobsen, Oakland, Calif.; Worth McClure, Seattle, Wash.; L. John Nut- tall, jr., Salt Lake City, Utah; Carroll R. Reed, Minneapolis, Minn.; Homer W. Anderson, Omaha, Nebr.; Ben G. Graham, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Paul Loser, Trenton, N. J.; Alexander J. Stoddard, Providence, R. I, and also Dr. Robert Hoppock, assistant to the director of the National Occupational Confer- ence. P Stalled and Stolen. SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (#).—It looked | like a case of ingratitude to Pohce! Capt. James Hedge and Patrolman Floyd Hullinger when they offered to help a youth push a stalled car along a deserted street and the youth ran. | The officers discovered the car was | not stalled but stolen, Students Are Average. NEW YORK. (£ —A poll among seniors of the College of the City of New York by the Mercury, college publication, disclosed the average senior is 20 years old, five feet, eight | inches tall, and more than 350 an- swers indicated, believes, the greatest spiritual need of the ocollege is “‘women.” D. C. Survivor Saw Nothing Irregular on Hindenburg Voyage, He Says. Reports of possible sabotage on the Hindenburg were characterized as “ridiculous” today by Ferdinand Lammot, Belin, jr, 24, of 1623 Twenty- eighth street, who leaped 30 feet to safety when the German dirigible burst into flames. “There was absolutely no sign of anything amiss during the crossing,” said Belin, apparently unshaken by his narrow escape. “Everything was quite as it should be on any smooth- running liner.” Memorable Experience. Describing the vivid impression left by the disaster, Belin, son of the for- mer Minister to Poland, said: “I will never forget the few seconds between the time of the explosion and when I struck the field. I was taking pictures through the window and had just changed films when the ship was shaken by the blast. “As the tail dropped, about a dozen persons were thrown against the rear wall of the salon. As I grabbed an upright girder, one of the passengers knocked the camera out of my hand as he slid by. “We were at about 175 feet then and started to drop rapidly. Two stewards jumped out of a window, and I followed them.” Parents Are Located. Belin ran clear of the falling ship snd half an hour later succeeded in locating his parents, who had driven to Lakehurst to meet him, but had given him up for lost. Belin praised the dirigible's crew, whose members he called “courteous, eficient and loyal,” and expressed astonishment at the speed with which asbestos-clad rescuers tore at the burning ship. An aviation enthusiast himself, Belin said he has no intention of giving up flying. GOVERNMENT DEBT STILL MOUNTING Hits $35,039,956,335, Well Over | Figure Once Set by Presi- dent Roosevelt. By the Assoclated Press. The Federal debt already exceeds the figure which President Roosevelt once said he hoped would be the total for this fiscal year. A Treasury state- ment yesterday showed the debt mounted to $35,039,956,335 on May 5. The President said last January he expected the debt at the close of this fiscal year, June 30, would be $35,- 026,000,000. That figure was based on revenue | estimates, which were changed last | month after tax receipts, especially | March income taxes, failed to come | up to January expectations. The May 5 debt compared with a peak World War debt of $26,596,- | 701,648, In his revision of estimates two weeks ago, the President said the deficit for this fiscal year probably would reach $2,557,000,000, an in- crease of $309,000,000 over his Jan- uary deficit estimate. He did not comment on the effect of this re- vision on his previous debt estimates. With nearly two months of spending vet ahead, the deficit stood at $2,223,- 457,655.58 on May 5. Ready for Derby Today ah Kisses being planted on the head of Billionaire, Bradley entry, at Churchill Downs by two Chicagoans out to get the correct dope. Doris Bennett (left) and Frances Mader bestowed the kisses as they nominated the colt as their choice. Flashing back into the Kentucky Derby picture with a bril- liant workout, Pompoon is shown in action under a stable boy at the Downs. A satisfactory workout with a final burst of speed served to wipe out the taint of his defeat at Jamaica. > [ —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Mrs. Hazel King (left) threw her 5-year-old daughter Con- stance (below) from the porch roof of their flaming home at 5007 Belt road into the arms of her brother, John Holzwart (right), who was on the ground. Meanwhile, Myrtle Basferd, 19 (center), was trying in vain to save the life of her 94-year-old great- grandmother, Mrs. Louise Donaldson, who perished in the flames.—Star Staff Photos. Derby (Continued From First Page.) sought the answer to one question—the winner of the big race. Hotels, long since filled to capacity, sent late arrivals, who failed to make reservations, out into the homes of the | city. Rallroad cars provided tem- porary homes for hundreds of others while many sought “long lost” friends in an effort to obtain accommodations. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic moved at a snail pace through the main business district or on one-way | streets leading to the track, some 4 | miles from the center of the city. Prices jumped sky-high in many res- taurants and cafes while hungry race rans sought a bite to eat on the run. Hundreds picnicked near the Downs, Taxicabs were at a premium. War Admiral Favored. After studying past performances, listening to the latest tips and hear- ing the “hardboots” quote breeding of the horses like a child reeling off his A B Cs, the majority of visitors came up with the same conclusion that has prevailed for two weeks— that War Admiral and the Milky Way entry will be the ones to beat. | War Admiral had precedence and size against him, but, nevertheless, | was the 9-t0-5 choice on the strength | of his unbeaten 3-year-old record, including a galloping triumph in the Chesapeake Stakes two weeks ago. The little Man o' War colt, seeking victory in a race for which his famous daddy never tried, drew No. 1 post, | & position that will require all of his | early foot to escape interference. | Neither did Reaping Reward, star |of the 3-1 second-choice entry, re- | ceive any of the best of the draw. He | was placed near the outside in No. 17. Military, picked by many to suc- ceed if The Reaper fails, was more | fortunate. He drew No. 5, outside of the favorite, J. W. Parrish’s Del- lor, the Wheatley Stable's Melodist and William du Pont, jr.'s, Fairy Hill. Pompoon Encourages Backers. Casting about for a good longshot, just in case something happened to | the favorites, the Derbyites, for the most part, settled on four horses—J. H. Louchheim's Pompoon, Melodist, Dellor and Heelfly, the Texas flyer from the Waggoner Brothers’ Three D's Stock Farm. Pompoon, the erst- | while favorite, gave his backers en- couragement with a sizzling half-mile workout yesterday. Pompoon was held at 6 to 1, with | Melodist and Heelfly quoted at 8 to 1 | each, and Dellor, conqueror of Reap- ing Reward and Military earlier in the week, at 12 to 1. Some predicted that one of Maxwell Howard's pair of Sceneshifter and Fencing, trained by Earl Sande, would come through, or that E. R. Bradley would win his fifth Derby with Billionaire. Victory by any of the latter, as well as by Fairy Hill, winner of the Santa Anita Derby, and the nine members of the feld would be & decided upset, how- ever. | Barring an unexpected downpour | of rain and a muddy track, at least 19 of the overnight entries were expected | to start. Bernard F., owned by I. J. Collins, was the only doubtful starter. GUARANTEED PRICE FOR COTTON ASKED Southern Farmers Meeting at New Orleans to Offer Plan to Government, By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, May 8 —Southern farmers drew up a plan here yester- day to add millions of dollars to the value of the cotton crop through Gov- ernment subsidies. They gathered here at the call of Norris Williamson, president of the American Cotton Co-operative Asso- ciation and chairman of a committee named in Washington to outline a permanent farm program. ‘The group voted to ask Congress to guarantee a parity price for cotton which would make their income com- parable with that of corn and wheat producers. ‘The cotton farmer, they complained, had to sell his crop on the open market of the world and accept the world price, which he had to buy his necessities in a domestic market pro- tected by tariffs. Under the plan, for example, the parity price in 1936 was 16.40 cents per pound. Actually, the average 1936 price at 10 Southern spot markets for 7s-inch middling was 11.83 cents a pound. To realize the parity price of 16.40 cents a pound the Government would have to pay the farmer a bounty of 4.77 cents per pound. The subsidy, however, would be paid only on the amount of cotton within the farmer’s normal production quota. This would be determined through Pro rating the normal American pro- duction, which would be fixed by sdd- ATURDAY, | grandma was trapped,” ing 35 per cent to the amount of American cotton consumed in the previous year. L) MAY 8, 1837. & Fire Saved From Death in Fire EDUCATORS ELECT * ELLOTT A HEAD Purdue President Becomes Chairman of American Coun- cil at Last Session. Edward Charles Elliott, president of Purdue University, today was elected chairman of the American Council on Education, succeeding Raymond A. Kent of the University of Louisville. Elliott was named in the election con- cluding the council’s annual meeting at the United States Chamber of Com- (Continued Prom First Page.) Frank Donaldson, 49, a son of the| elderly fire victim, to safety. | Holzwart said he was awake when the lightning hit. “I was lying in bed looking out the window,” he related. “The thunder had awakened me, I guess. Suddenly.; there was a blinding flash and a| terrific clap of thunder. My hall door was open and in a second I could see the flames sweep up the stairs. The lightning must have gone right through the house to start the fire. “I yelled and climbed out the win- dow. T could see the others climbing out their windows. I can't realize that we missed grandmother. Every one seemed to think she had gotten out at first. “Too Heavy to Carry.” Mrs. King sald her great-grand- mother was too heavy for her and Miss Basferd to carry. “Just as soon as firemen got there, I yelled to them to hurry—that said Mrs, King. “The firemen hurried up the ladder, but as soon as they poked their heads in the windows they drew back gasping. They couldn't get in the room until the fire was almost out.” Apparently still stunned by their experience the survivors clustered in the wrecked house after firemen de- perted. They were joined by William Donaldson. 65, another son of the dead woman, who had stayed with friends last night. Mrs. Donaldson was born in Albany, N. Y., but came to Washington when she was a young girl. She had lived in the house in which she died for more than 25 years. Damage was estimated at $3,000. - INSURANCE CHANGE EFFECTIVE IN 1938 Broadened Coverage for Idle Provided in Measure Sent to Nice. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 8.—Mary- land’s broadened unemployment in- surance coverage will not go into operation until January 1, 1938, a check-up today of laws passed in the special session of the General Assem- bly showed. The Senate passed and sent to the Governor a measure by Delegate Leon Abramson, Democrat, of Baltimore, that would change the existing laws to make that provision. The recent regular session enacted | & measure to make employers of four or rore persons come under the cov- erage effective last January 1. Abram- sor's later bill changed the date to January 1, 1938, SIGMA X! INSTALLATION PITTSBURGH, May 8 (#)—Dr. Edward Ellery of Union College, Sche- nectady, N. Y., and Dean George E. Pegram of Columbia University will officiate today at the formal in- stallation of a chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi at Carnegie Institute of Technology. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Washington an- thropologist, will speak. Members of the faculty at Tech affiliated with the organization at other institutions petitioned for the chapter. The so- ciety, established a half century ago at Cornell, now has 69 chapters. As They Face merce Building. Other officers elected were: First vice chairman, Eugene R. Smith, Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; second vice chairman, Guy E. Snavely, Birmingham-Southern Col- lege; secretary, E. O. Melby, North- western University; treasurer, Cor- coran Thom, president of American Security & Trust Co, Washington; first and second assistant treasurers, | Frederick H. P. Siddons and James C. Dulin, jr. respectively. Siddons is | treasurer and Dulin assistant treasurer | of American Security. Kent and Samuel P. Capen, chan- | cellor of the University of Bucalo, | were named members of the Executive | Committee for terms of three years each, Elected to Committee. ‘The following were elected to mem- | bership on the Committee on Prob- | lems and Plans in Education for terms | of three years each: Lotus D. Coffman, University of Minnesota, Henry W. Holmes, Harvard University, Rev. Alphonse M. Schwitalla, 8. J., St. Louis University, and Burton F. Fowler, Tower Hill School, Wilming- ton, Del. Rev. George Johnson, secretary of the National Catholic Educational Association, speaking today, proposed that young people be given the op- portunity He descussed “The Deeper Significance of the Youth Problem.” session were Leon C. Marshall, pro- fessor of education at Johns Hopkins University and professor of political | economy at American University on “The Relation of Education to Gov- ernmental Administration,” and Bur- ton P. Fowler on “What Is Important in Education.” “Deprived of Responsibility.” “I wonder when all is said and done | 1f the great crime of modern society against youth,” Father Johnson de- | clared, “is not this: That it de- prives it of an opportunity of exercis- | ing responsibility. The conditions which lengthen the period of de- pendency for the young prevent them from coming to grips with reality in their formative years. “It is & rather frightening com- mentary on the trend of the times in this country that it almost amounts to a breach of good form to mention religion when matters of human wel- fare are under discussion. “It is the highest time, as far as the welfare of young people is con- cerned, that we bring religion out into the open and re-establish it in its proper and traditional place in American life.” HOBBY FAI R PLANNED LEONARDTOWN, Md., May 8 (Spe- cial)).—All students at Margaret Brent High School are preparing for the hobby fair to be held at the school May 14. The fair is sponsored by the Hobby Club. The fair will be larger than last year, and the general public is invited. Kite Funeral Tomorrow. SHENANDOAH, Va., May 8 (Spe- cial).—Grover Cleveland.Kite, 53 who died suddenly of a heart attack yester- day while at work in the Norfolk & ‘Western shops, will be buried tomor- row. He is survived by his widow, four daughters, Mrs. Frank Coakley of Portsmouth, Ohio; Mrs. Pete Powell, Mrs. Glenn Rodgers and Miss Lenelle Kite, and one son, Milburn Kite, all of Shénandoah. Post in Derby LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 8 (#).—The twenty 3-year olds named for today’s renewal of the Kentucky Derby, listed according to post positions, with owners, jockeys and probable odds: Horse. Owner. ‘War Admiral. Dellor- Melodist. Fairy Hill. aMilitary-. xCourt Scandal xMerry Maker.. aMrs, Ethel V. Mars entry. bMaxwell Howard entry. Jockey. . Charley Kurtsinger.. 9to 5 12to1 Charley Corbett._ Earl Steffen._ -----Hubert Le Blanc. ---Edwin Yager XCoupled as the field in the betting. q to exercise respon.nbthty,; Cther speakers at the concluding | TAYLOR MURDER SOLUTIONS SEEN Will Be Able to Name Killer Soon, Officials Claim. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 8 —The dis- trict attorney’s office held out the hope today of solving Hollywood's greatest mystery—Director Willlam Desmond Taylor's murder 15 years 2go. “From evidence discovered within the past few days we believe we may be able to solve the Taylor case,” read & statement issued by the district attorney’s office. Focal point in the inquiry was a pearl-handled pistol owned by Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, mother of Mary Miles Minter, star of the silent screen, Mrs. Shelby said she fired the pistol only once and did not know what had become of it. “For the first time in a number of years,” said Deputy District Attorney Eugene Williams, “the Taylor case file is nearly complete. I am now convinced that with the forging of one or two more links, we will be able to name the murderer.” FATHER COUGHLIN'S AIDE WINS IN SUIT By the Associated Press. WATERTOWN, N. Y, May 8—A Supreme Court jury yesterday re- turned a verdict of no cause of action in the slander suit brought by Pred V. Potter, 80, Star Lake store proprietor, against Louis B. Ward of Detroit, Mich,, aide to Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, famed radio priest. Potter charged that Ward called him & “crook” during a conversation over the lease of a Star Lake house in 1934, This was the second trial of the ac= tion brought by the bewhiskered Pot- ter, who, during both trials regaled spectators and court attendants with tales of his younger days as a cowboy at Dodge City, Kans., when, he sa he knew such famed characters as Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Materson, Buffalo | Bill, Clay Allison and Calamity Jane. The first trial a year ago ended in a disagreement. MOTHER’S DAY RITES Services Arranged at Fairfax and Pender M. E. Churches. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, May 8—Spe Mother’s day services have been ranged at Fairfax and Pender Met dist Churches South for tomorrow, it is announced by Rev. R. Carl Max- well, pastor of the two churches. Bervices at Fairfax Church will be held at 11 am. and at Pender at 8 pm Both services will include a special musical program. Norlyn Miller of Washington will sing at both serv- ices. | D.C. WOMAN IN CLIPPER | Department | | Among Pacific Plane Passengers. | MANILA, P. I, May 8 (/. —Pan- American Airway's Hawaii Clipper left for Guam this morning carrying among its nine passengers six pe: sons making the first east-bound tran: Pacific commercial flight from Asia to the United tSates. The six who started the flight in China included Miss Violet Sweet Haven, press section employe of the Department of Justice at Washington, D. C. The other three boarded the plane at Manila, Ita;ly (Continued Prom First Page.) Justice Employe a particularly drastic step which lead to seriously embittered relations between the two count Even before the official order. sev- eral Italian newspapers which had planned to send correspondents to the coronation had cancelled the arrange- ments. ‘The newspapers here as a whole will disregard details of the coronation ceremonies and print only what terse actual matter is distributed by the Stefani (semi-official) News Agency. Fhotographs of the coronation are banned. . (British liberal newspapers were loud in their jeers when Italians fighting with Spanish insurgents northeast of Madrid, were routed March. Now, even the Italian press has proclaimed that Italian volunteers fighting on the Bilbao front in Northe | western Spain “must not fail.”) | _ The press ban came on the eve of | Italy's celebrations of the first anni- | versary of the conquest of Ethiop: accomplished despite the League Nations sanctions which Great Brita led. At that time Italian feeling against the English ran high. But not eve: then was a measure like today’s initi- ated. During the sanctions tension only a few newspapers with “particu= larly objectionable” policies were ex- cluded from Italy. Today’s decision to ban the papers and withdraw the correspondents fol- lowed up a press campaign in whict the Italian newspapers repeated!y warned the British press that it might provoke & repetition of the sanctions reaction among the Italian people unless it changed its anti-Fascist tone. On the eve of the first birthday of Fascist empire, thousands of dusky warriors who helped in the conquest of Ethiopia mingled with cosmopolie tan crowds. They will march, 10,000 strong, to= morrow in a giant military review before Il Duce, commemorating the downfall of Haile Selassie’s Ethiopian kingdom and Mussolini’s proclamation of & modern Roman empire. BAN 1S IGNORED. Official British Recognition Is Denied Italian Boycott. LONDON, May 8 (#)—Italy's ac- tion in banning all but three Englisa newspapers and recalling Italian core respondents now in London was ofe ficially ignored here today. One person in authority said: “Really now, the British Empire will be able to withstand the horrible im- pact.” Some sources said they felt the Rome announcement was timed to coincide with the usual long week end of British officialdom, during which no official consideration ould “e given to the ban and no retaliation might be expected. x Acting under orders, virtually all Italian correspondents had left Lone don for the continent by early after- noon.