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10 wnrg racnoif THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1939 ought his aid in their planned at GUARDSMAN LONG ILLNESS That's The Ticket! Friendlier Place! Opera Star To Fly To Cincinnati Today For Husband's Debut POWER SHOW Aimed At Hitler, LAFITTE DEEDS Recalled By Plan Is Cut And Bruised As Automobile Sideswipes Parked Private Riding On Running Boardjthan his wife, Gladys Swarthout, To Build Aerial Bases Near New Orleans. Pirate Actually Racketeer No. 1 Once Represented By Federal Attorney. BY TOM SANCTION. New Orleans, July 15 (AP) Word down from Washington of! tack on New Orleans.

They offered him a Captaincy in His Majesty's navy with command of his own men, and lands and pardons for the lot in event of a victory. There also was a subtle threat that refusal would be met with prosecution upon the inevitable triumph of Britannic arms and ius.tice a warsnip sauea up ana down the gulf awaiting an answer, Lafitte reported the offer to Louisiana authorities and at the same I time volunteered the services of jhis men in the American Army. General Jackson, then at Mobile, dispatched a sulphuric refusal. But when he arrived at New Orleans be changed his mind. For his forces were small and the city weak in natural defenses.

Accounts of the battle attribute 'the American victory in large to the deeds of the of'Dominique You and Rene At any rate, Jackson made I ULIiri J. 1 1 a i ii au uci tan the contemplated establishment ofjmeasul'e piles of military masonry Uncle Sam's mighty bombers overt I Sheridan, July 15 (AP) John Phillips, assistant movie show manager, thinks he may have discovered a surefire formula for ridding municipalities of dandelions in a hurry. He advertised he would five one free theater ticket to every child who dug; 10 pounds of dandelions from Sheridan lawns. The day after the offer appeared In newspapers a dandelion pile began to grow In the street in front of Phillips's box-office and it didn't stop until it reached five tons. The success was so astonishing civic organizations took up the plan, sponsoring; "dandelion shows a ticket in exchange for 10 pounds of dandelions." And Sheridan has visions of "being a dandelion-free city.

Fuehrer's mind from the outset as to what the consequence would be if he were to move again, unless it were against a country such as Hungary, which already is within the axis orbit and does not enjoy an Anglo-French guaranty. Both London and Paris are employing every means to show that they would fight. A declaration made Monday by Chamberlain in the House of Com mons was intended to show that even if Danzig leaders were to pro claim the union of the Free City with the Reich, without any overt move on the part of the Reich, Brit ain, backed by France, would support Poland with arms in any step she might take to restore the status quo of Danzig. And this warning was only one of many which have been issued from London and Paris. Yet doubt persists as to whether i highly favorable mention of the New Orleans in less than two Lafitte gangs services: brought recollections to residents! "The General cannot avoid giv-here of a time when it was neces-iing his warm appreciation to' the manner in which those gentlemen aary to call upon the noted brigand, uniformly conducted them- Jean Lafitte, to save the city.

8ejves wnile under his command." Although New Orleans is thel REVERSAL OF OPINION. econd largest port in the United A fcw wepkg befme he had States, its defenses have changed feired to tnpse "gentlemen" as little since the British forced "pirates and hellish banditti." By haughty General Jackson to make' official proclamation, President deal with Lafitte's lusty crew to Madison folave thm their Bara" i tarian trespasses, beat off the English attack. Aftpr the war Gentleman Jean In 1815, the British sailed through roae the crest of public favor, for Lake Pontchartrain to the edge of a while. But respectability was one the city without the loss of a and good-paying racket an- Of Friend's Car City Officials Shaken Up Slightly. William Debruler, 21 years old, 1409 Main Street, suffered cuts and bruises last night when a friend's automobile on whose running board he was riding grazed a parked machine.

The youth, a private in the Ohio National Guard, had accepted a ride with the friend to the Free- man Avenue Armory. He was released after treatment at SU Mary Hospital. City Manager C. O. Sherrill and Safety Director Harry Wernke were given a slight jolt yesterday when Wernke's automobile was hit in the rear by another car at Seventh and Race Streets.

Wernke, who was driving, was waiting for a traffic light when a car in the rear bumped him. The cars were not; damaged. Wernke and Sherrill were on the way to Coney Island for the municipal outing RECEIVES SKULL HURT Htai Avenue, suffered" a possible skull fracture when he was knocked bv an automobile driven by Jack Barrie, 625 Rockdale Avenue, Rockdale Avenue and Reading. Road. Police said Stein was hit when he stepped from a loading platform Miss Ruthie Gibberson, 44.

835 Hutchins Avenue, was treated at General Hospital for scalp cuts which, police said, she received at Reading Road and McGregor Ave- I with th. mjiitsrv. andivil War veteran and Walnut But little was gained from this son. During the World War the only harbor defenses were two I 80 miles down the river, which were overhauled hastily and manned with a few guns and others dating from Civil War days, struck up as camouflage. The forts of St.

Philip and Jackson, deserted since Admiral Far-ragut ran between them on a tormy night in the early years of the Civil War, now are not even; good picnic grounds. Antiaircraft defenses here are nonexistent. IN JACKSOVS DAT. Even in Jackson's day, the port was unprepared. The crusty Gen-! eral, with Lafitte, saved New Or- i leans from behind a breastwork of I Cotton bales.

I When that battle was fought, a peace in the War of 1812 already had been concluded at Ghent, two weeks before. But a number of mili- 4 si sr Viictni'ian Koito oTni'Cena ii th.t it of hp a i being convinced. In some 1 1. IL. nue by an automobile driven by was marching in front of his home Harold Gould, 836 East Ridgewayin protest against Risk's vote on Washington, July 15 (AP) The Chamber of Commerce of the I nited States noted a sign todav that businessmen are regaining their former standing on Cap'tal Hill.

In Its biweekly business review, the chamber said congressional committees were according "courteous treatment" rather generally now to businessmen-w 1 1 "In sharp contrast with intimidating tactics employed in earlier sessions by some committee members." "This happy development," it added, "perhaps indicates a change in attitude in Congress toward business. "Also, it shows an honest desire on the part of many of our national lawmakers to gft the advice and counsel of practical businessmen on legislative issues." MRS. ALICE L. WOLFE. Widow Of Walnut Hills Jeweler To Be Buried Today.

Services for Mrs. Alee Linn Wolff, widow of William Wolff. Hills jeweler, will be held today at the residence of her -randdaughter, Mrs.E. W. Wabnitz, 6028 Cary Ave nue.

College Hill. Burial will be in Spring Grove. Mrs. Wolff, who was 92 years old, died Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital after an illness of one week. Born in Germany, she was brought to this country at the age of 3 by her parents.

After their marriage in Ripley, Ohio, in 1867, she and her husband moved to Walnut Hills, where Mr. Wolff opened a jewelry store on McMillan Street. They lived there for 40 years. Mrs. Wolf is survived by three daughters, Mrs.

R. F. Armstrong, Mrs. Anna M. Jacobs, and Mrs.

Harry Howes, 13 grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren. MRS. BEATRICE JOHNSON. Wife Of Bond Hill Physician To Be Buried Tomorrow. Services for Mrs.

Beatrice Jane Johnson, wife of Dr. IvanS. C. Johnson. 1139 Cheyenne Drive, Bond Hill, who died of pneumonia Friday at Holmes Hospital, will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Hodapp funeral home.

Carthage. Burial will be in Rest Haven Memorial Park. Mrs. Johnson, who was 35 years old, had been a patient at the hos pital five days. She was active in Eastern Star and Girl Scout circles.

Members of the Eastern Star will hold services at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the funeral home. Besides her husband, a daughter, Patricia Jane; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shepley, Leesburg, 'Ohio; a brother, William Shepley, Dayton, Ohio, and a sister, Mrs. Opal Chitty, Bowersville, Ohio, sur- vive her.

MRS. EMMA HOPE. Wife Of Former Democratic Leader To Be Buried Tuesday. Mrs. Emma Hope, wife of John J.

Hope, formerly prominent in local Democratic politics, and mother of John J. Hope, credit manager of the Crosley Cor poration, died yesterday at her rest hpmm 4qo PnWn in Avpnup Mrs Hone who" 69 etr. old had' Mope, Tno was oa years oiu, nau nope wno was cm, been ill more than two years. tT i i ri xier nuM a V.UU.U. the old Seventeenth Ward, nAaAn TAfi rf flltr.

ing the mayorship or uustav laiei. At that time Mrs. Hope's brother, Charles Roth, was County Treasurer. John Hope, is with the sales department of the Crosley Dis- i i quarters, it is true, the view is held that if it had not been for the Anglo-French stand, Danzig would already be within the fold of the Reich. Now considering the Free City too dangerous to the Fuehrer, these quarters suggest, has decided to turn his attention elsewhere for the present, perhaps to Hungary.

On the other hand, it is conceded that he may be playing on the nerves of London and Paris, he. did Jast with the intention of pulling off the final Danzig coud in late August or in September. Avenue. I Hit bv an automobile driven, by Harry Hill, 129 West Third Street,) Newport, at Pearl Street and Broad-1 way, Otis Boone, 56, 212 Broadway suffered a bruised left hip. THREE ARE INJURED.

Three persons were injured early yesterday when an automobile driven by James Ford, 45, printer, 145 West Sixth Street, hit in the rear by another machine, was thrown against a light pole in the center of the intersection of McMillan Street and Victory Parkway Ford suffered a rib fracture and a cut on his knee. Miss Bertha Blackerby, 42, 1511 Dixmont Avenue, a right leg fracture and cuts, and Miss Mae McCartin, 39, same address, fractures of the right wrist and arm. They were riding with Ford. All were taken to Bethesda Hospital. Police said Ford's car was hit in the rear by a machine driven by Albert Bonnlander, 36, 1429 Bowman Avenue, who was cited for ailrlAaa dmiirirtnr British at New Orleans which made if band" was back this particular treaty stick and I Galveston by an Amer.can war-which saved the entire valley ofjshlP- Tne commander demanded the Mississippi for the United tnelr surrender.

Lafitte protested gtates I his personal innocence and his dis- mH approval of the raid. As a more Two developments to date have'Dame University. He entered the jf knew he couid no longer I operate frora Barataria as many of the old boys as would come, he sailed to the Island of Galveston, which was without a garrison, and took it over. Texas then was Spanish. Lafitte called his settlement Campeachy.

There the scum of the earth assembled. Thieves, outlaws, slatterns, gamblers they festered to his headquarters and brawled for shares in its "take." Lafitte still dealt with the merchants who came to buy his goods. His mob, sailing now under the flag of Venezuela, kept the warehouses -upolied with Spanish cargo. In side deal, kept secret from his men, Lafitte sold cargo to Senor Fatio, the Spanish Consul at New Orleans, what information he could gather concerning the movements of rebellious groups in Texas, His men made raids into Louisi ana, stealing Negroes from one Plantation for sale to another. On convincing gesture, he hanged the leader and surrendered the party.

At last, the settlement was blown down by a hurricane. Lafitte came secretly to New Orleans to borrow money on his remaining assets, slaves who had survived the storm, and returned to rebuild. But both the settlement and his prestige, thriving with evil health before the storm had fallen into a final wasting. Fights and mutinies broke out. Prizes became scarce as merchant ships avoided the area.

Finally, the mob in 1821 plundered an American vessel. The U. S. S. Enterprise appeared off Galveston and its Commander, Lieutenant Kearny, demanded the town be abandoned.

Lafitte asked for two months to evacuate and the request was granted. When the time was up he sailed away. The departure was done with a finality that gave his career a last domantic flicker. Lafitte disappeared forever. SHOOTING tiii FOllOWS Cafe BWl Over Woman, Poliee Sav Klolter Apnu Man Wounded Sen sly Yoolh Is Held.

Claude Bull, 21 years old West Liberty Street, was held yes When Frank Chapman makes his Cincinnati operatic debut at the Zoo tonight in "Lucia Di Lammer-mour" there will be one among his well-wishers in the audience who enjoys international operatic fame. That well-wisher will be none other or the Metropolitan upera. Officials of the Summer Opera Association received word last night that Miss Swarthout would arrive by airplane by 7:30 o'clock tonight to lend her moral support to her husband's first appearance at the Zoo Opera pavilion. Chapman, a baritone, will be heard in the role of Sir Henry Ashton in "Lucia." This will be his first Appearance in Cincinnati since he sang the lead in a Princeton Triangle show here in 1922. Nearly all of his operatic career Deilcr KLIUVtll III U11S lUUUliy 1U1 his concert and radio work.

Miss Swarthout will make her own Zoo Opera debut in the title role of "Carmen" on July 25. In the first week of August she will appear with James Melton in "Mignon." The attendance at the concluding performance of Aida last night was announced as 2,256. The all- time attendance record had been set the night before, when Rose Tentoni and Melton were starred in Traviata, Solon Socks Picket After Soaking Him With Garden Hose Lincoln, R. July 15 (AP) Congressman Charles F. Risk, Republican, Rhode Island, exchanged blows tonight with a "picket" who the Federal Relief Act.

The anested on an at' tack charge, was listed by police as Paul Pencook, 42 years old, of Woonsocket. Ernest Gignac, State Representative, Republican, Woonsocket, who had been parading in front of the Providence home of Senator Peter G. Gerry earlier in the day, said he 1 saw the Congressman turn a gar-i aen nose on fencooK. Gignac said Pencook hit Risk I with a sandwich man board he was wearing and the fight started. Risk denied turning the hose on the pickets "intentionally," explain ing he was watering his lawn.

"Maybe this fellow got wet, I don't know," he said. "Suddenly a man who had been parading up and down ran over onto my lawn and swung at me. "I hit him a good clout. I protected myself from the blow he aimed at me with my right elbow home. FTP Workers Kept In WPA Employment tl I I lntll OeptemDer Jl, Washington, July 15 (AP) Workers on Works Projects Administration theater projects got a sixty-day extension of employment today.

Recalling a previous order for compieie liquidation or me meaieri projects by July 31, Colonel F. C. complete liquidation of the theater ii'da Harrington, WPA Commissioner, instructed that project worker be throueh gen- c.a'r!ed throU.Bh lemoer au. ne saiu. noweve manv woud i dismissed August 31 under the new relief act's requirement that those employed 18 consecutive months be given a thirty-day furlough.

Uarrlnirtnn anirt Via rernllerl his previous order after receiving as- surances from Representative C. A. Woodrum, Democrat, Virginia, that was the intent of Congress that theater employees be carried on the rolls until October 1. Woodrum was Chairman of a House Appropriations Subcommittee which handled the relief bill. A committee from Actors Equity Association called on him yesterday The extension of employment to otner projects, ne aaaea.

"While we have no sympathy with atheism, or agnosticism or materialism, we stand for the freedom of the atheist, agnostic and materialist in his religious or irreligious convictions. "So also the Jew and the Catholic are entitled to protection in the exercise of their relicious liberty." Approximately a third of the more than 12,000,000 baptists in the world are Negroes, most of them living in the Southern states. All will be represented at the congress and Dr. Newton said a "most cordial and complete, example of racial cooperation haa been set in arrangements for the gathering. "The Central Committee on Ar rangements," he explained, "is com posed of 15 persons, eight or wnom I ATr.

land I hit him on the jaw with my Floretta Zellers, 27, Negro, Bur-i lington, was eut and bruised, 6 kii -Today was the third day protests when an automobile in which she wim 'have been staged in front of Risks Is Fatal To Judge. M. 0. Burns Served As Butler Prosecutor And City Solicitor One 01V Founders Of Hamilton Eagles, K.0f C. Lodges.

SFSCtAL DISPATCH TO THIS KNQOmtH. Hamilton, 15 In failing health since last September, M. O. Burns, 72 years old, Butler County Common Pleaa Judge, died this afternoon at his home, 917 Virginia Avenue. A native of Hamilton, Judge Burns was a practicing attorney here for more than 50 years and served the city as City Solicitor and the county as Prosecuting Attorney before being elected to the Common Pleas bench in November, 1936.

He began his judgeship February 9, 1937. Active in fraternal organizations, -he was one of the founders of Hamilton Eagles Lodge, and its President. His activity in the fraternity led to his selection in 1926 as Grand Worthy President of the national lodge. He was one of ths drafters of the old age pension legislation sponsored by the lodge and later enacted into law by the Ohio General Assembly. GRAND KNIGHT OF K.

OF Judge Burns also was cne of the founders and a Grand Knight of Father Butler Council of Knights of Columbus. He was instrumental in the organization of the Catholic Knights of Ohio and was a Past President of the Hamilton Chapter Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. He also was a member of Hamilton Elks Lodge. He was active in Democratic party affairs in the county and state and was a Past President of the Butler County Bar Association.

Judge Burns was educated in Hamilton parochial schools and in 1886 was graduated from Notre Cincinnati Law School and graduated in 1888. Shortly after being admitted to the bar he re- turned t0 HamiUon and practice. ELECTED CITY SOLICITOR. When still in his twenties he was elected City Solicitor and served two terms from 1891 to 1893. Turning his attention to county offices, he was elected Prosecuting Attor- ney in 1910 and gained the distinction of being the only person to be -named to that office for three consecutive terms.

After his third term, he retired to private practice until 1936, when he was elected Common Pleas Judge. Illness forced him from the bench last September. Judge Burns way a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Judge Burns was born in Hamilton April 26, 1867, the son of Pat- rick and Rose Minor Burns.

Ha married Emma L. Metzner, Hamil-' ton, June 15, 1893. He is survived by his widow, three sisters, Mrs. Anne Hogan, Detroit, and Mrs. Agnes Hellebush and Mrs.

Catherine Tully, Hamilton, and three grandchildren, Jus- itine, Michaela, and Edwin Apfeld. Funeral arrangements are incom- i bd.y. taken to the i Funeral services for Judge Burns I will be conducted Tuesday at 9:30 o'clock at the residence and at 1(T at St. Mary's Church: Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.

LEAGUE TO PAY HONOR TO OLDEST BAUVEREINS Fifty-three building associations of Cincinnati and Hamilton County that have been established for 80 years or longer are to be honored at the fifty-third annual outing and dinner of ihe Hamilton County League of Building Associations at Coney Island Thursday. Herbert E. Fahrenbruck is Chairman for the affair. Former Judge George F. Eyrich, Executive Committee Chairman, will make an address paying tribute to the organizations for long service to the community.

Fred A. Frletsch, League Presi-. dent, will be toastmaster. The following are to be honored: Accommodation Loan and Building Com pany. Andcrann Ferry Building and Loan Company, Addison Building and Loan Company, Builncu Men'a Federal Savings and Loan Aajociatlon.

Baltimore Avenue Loan and Building Company. Clevea-North Bend Building and Loan Company, Cabinet Loan and Building Company. Columbia Building and Loan Association Company, Delta Loan Association Company, Enierprisa Building Association Company, East Walnut Hills Building and Loan Company, Exposition Building and Loan Company. Eagle Savings and Loan Association, Flschmann Loan and Building Company, Flndlay Loan and Building Company No. 3, Foundation Building and Loan Company, Finance Loal and Savings Company, Ger-mania Building Association No.

3, Glen-dale Building and Loan Association Company, Garfield No. 2 Loan and Building Company, Gloria Loan and Building Com- Hanover Building Association Com pany, Homestead Havings and J-oan company, Irish Building and Loan Company, June Building Savings and Loan Company. Lion No. 1 Loan and Building Company, Lincoln Building Association No. 1, Lincoln Building Association, Mercantile Building and Loan Company, Mount Washington Loan, Building, and Deposit, Norwood Building and Loan Company, Nonpareil Building Association Company, Northwestern Building and Loan Company, Ohio Mechanics Building and Loan Company, Odeon Building Association Company, Oakley Building and Loan Company, Pries Hill Eagle Loan and Building Company No.

1, Provident Loan Company, Progress Building and Loan Company. Qulckwithdrawal Building Association Company, Riverside Building Association and Loan Company, Republican Loan and Building Company, Ringgold Building and Loan Company, Seventh Ward Loan and Building Company, Supreme Loan and Building Company, Sampson Savings and Loan Company, Twenty-third Ward Building Association Company, Tannery Building Association Company, Unity Loan and Building Company, Valley Central Building and Loan Company, Vina Street Cabla Loan and Building Company, Victoria 8av-Inga and Loan Association, Wnrklngmen' Building and Savings Company. OPERA STAR OF 90S DIES. Kingston, N. July 15- (AP) Mrs.

Auguste Seidl-Kraus, 85 years old, Metropolitan Opera star of the 90's, and widow of the widely known conductor, Anton Seidl, died 'today at Orthmann'i Sanitarium; Tip As Britain, France "Practice" For War. Mass Flight, Proposed Fleet Move Ape Last Summer's Nazi Act, Report. BY RALPH W. BARNES. (Copyright, 1939.

New York Tribune, Inc.) London, July 15 Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minis ter, and his aids have learned' something from Chancellor Adolf Hitler, and they are putting it into practice. During the "dangerous weeks" of this summer they are indulging in a formidable display of force to attain their end, just as last summer the Fuehrer did to attain his. Hitler's purpose a year ago was to secure the Sudeten territory of Czecho-Slovakia without fighting for it. He succeeded. The purpose of the British statesmen is to deter Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini from attempts at further aggression, which they are thought to be planning.

This week has brought significent developments in the program of Britain, along with France, to appear ready for a fight, In the hope that an appearance of readiness will serve to forestall the fight. Tuesday 120-odd. British bombers nosed southward in an unparalleled sham bombing raid over France. Everyone of the planes returned to its home base without mishap, Apart from other factors, th expedition, which is to be followed by others, was intended to show the Fuehrer the newly gained! prowess of British military aviation. In case of war, it was made clear, Germany instead of France would be the objective of the bombers.

FLEET TO MANEUVER. Thursday Mr. Chamberlain an nounced that 12,000 naval reservists w.ould man "bout the reserve fleet, which would be! jnto commjssjon to participate i in war games in August and Sep-; tember, probably in the North Sea. i I- lest xnoumzauuri oi me neei. i iic army and the air forces are to participate with the fleet in warlike maneuvers on a scale never before attempted by this country.

Friday detachments from the crack British Guards Brigade led for the first time the jsusmary I military procession on the Champs Elyssees in Paris in celebration of the French national holiday." Viscount Gort, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, took the salute at the review, along ywith General Gustave Marie Gamelin, commander of all the French fighting forces. These novel features of the day were intended to display to Germany Anglo-French solidarity as allies. Today the first of Britain's new conscripts, or militiamen, began assembling at depots to undertake tneir ix months' training. The present ocntingent of more than another of about the same size in September. DEFENSE COST UPPED.

The week also brought an indi-cstinn of the hiee scale of Brit ain's defense efforts in general Thursday Sir' John Simon, Chan-i Ilor of the Exchequer, announced in ine mouse oi turamuni mat vised estimate of the country Kill tn th i-mi 4U. preparedness bill for the cur- rnt ver wo 730.000.000. fieure 82 cent more than that of last year. Last summer Hitler bolstered his display of force by summoning to the colors large masses of army reserves. Today Britain is following a similar policy, but apart from calling up a substantial share of the reserves of a small but highly trained regular army, this country is summoning Into the field in rotation the bulk of the units of the territorial army, the equivalent here for the National Guard in the United States.

During August and September, considered the crucial months, a land force of 750,000 men or more probably will be under aims, Hitler's campaign of a year ago has been described often as a gigantic game of bluff, in which saber rattling played an important role. There were three factors In the game. The first of these was the actual display of force as manifest in the calling up of reserves. The second involved boasts of Germany's military strength. Hitler and his aides exaggerated greatly.

HOW MUCH BLUFF? The third factor was the show of determination to fight for the annexation of the Sudetenland if it could not be obtained otherwise. There is much difference of opinion as to how much bluff was involved in the bold front which Hitler displayed. Since the "peace at Munich" the majority view has been that the Fuehrer would not have resorted to arms If Britain and France had made it crystal clear which they failed to do-that rather than let the Fuehrer take the Sudetenland, they would back Czecho-Slovakia with their armed might. It is possible that Hitler would h'ave found some means of modifying his stand if London and Paris had taken a bold stand at the beginning of the controversy, and maintained it, but as the dictator's demands mounted in the face of the display of Anglo-French weakness, it became progressively more difficult for him to turn back. True, none, with the possible exception of two or three, persons in Hitler's immediate entourage, can make claim to certainty as to what time held to the view that possibly the Fuehrer would have stuck to his guns with the inevitable issue of a European war.

Clearly, Britain's policy, together with that of France is now direct- ed toward leaving no doubt la thej 18 I great romantic pirate of Lafitte; the records of 'his day reveal him rather as the forerunner of the big-hot bootleggers and a pioneer of American rackets. He and his older but less talented brother, Pierre, came here from France in 1809, in the restless tides of immigration set going by the protracted wars of the continent. They set up as blacksmiths. Smuggling had prevailed for yearr In Louisiana. The Lafittes decided to turn a few dollars at it.

So they entered the trade as front men, taking orders from thriving local merchants and delivering the bootlegged materials for the smugglers. After a time they decided that the contraband industry needed organization. They proceeded to take it ver. BASE OF OPERATIONS. They set up a base of operations along the Bay of Barataria a hundred miles below New Orleans on the coast.

The place afforded fine anchorage and it was defended from the Gulf by the narrow, windswept island of Grand Terre. A lacework of lakes and bayous, ex cellent for hiding and escape, gave access to New Orleans. Trie mob became Known as tne Baratarians. Good citizens, when The mob became known as the buying the bootlegged goods, whispered to one another of blood-chilling piracy. In the modern legend of the Lafittes, many of these tales have come to be taken as fact.

But Impartial historical sources tell another version. Actually, the Baratarians operated as privateers under a letter of marque from the Republic of Carta, gena, which was then in revolt from Spain, and they did not sport the Jolly Roger of piracy. On the sea, they had full rights, under the great system of international courtesies, to capture the ships of Spain. Legally, they could not bring these prizes into Louisiana because Spain was then at peace with the United tSates. So they smuggled them in.

M.nv hi.tnr,i inriir.f. that the Lafittes did not even sail with their raiders. Rather they were the brains of the mob. They made and maintained the necessary commercial contacts with wealthy parish planters and New Orleans merchants. PUBLIC ENEMY NO.

1. Nevertheless, bv 1812. Jean Lafitte "DO "7 iree on xeiievuc flniut, near Piedmont Street. She told police the driver abandoned the car after the accident. CITY BRIEFS Boy Grabs Purse A ten-year-old Negro boy grabbed a purse containing $4 from the hand of Mrs.

Mary Koebel. 1016 Underwood Avenue, last pight at Sixth and Race Streets, she told police. I Grocery Is Looted 'TTw I f'l ak lnntprl Harir Rrothprs a re aarlv esteiday Har Brothers! Grocerv. 101 Winkler Street, ofli .1 cartons of cigarettes, two boxes or The loot was valued at $71. Thief Takes 45 Chickens Forty-five chickens valued at $41 were stolen from a pen at the home of Henry Redemier, 2139 North Bend Koad, early yesterday.

Two Women Robbed Two boys I snatched her purse, valued at $5iit and containing $4.50. Anna Hulse- mann, 1021 Kreis Lane, told police last night. She said the theft took Rosemont Avenue. A young Negro snatched her purse, containing I $2.50 and a ring valued at $2.50, at Central Parkway and Oliver Street, Corporation. A native of Cincinnati, Mrs.

Hope terday in connection with the; for th" "J1? a resident of the West End- She serious shooting of Wilourn H.ll.!and husDand ceiebrated their 31. 522 Klntter Avenue in frAnf inn, J. 1, place at St. Lawrence Avenue near (October 19. She was a member ofir, the West Liberty Street address.

Sergeant Albert Millward and t.4. i j' Patrolmen Paul Wuellner and josepn wenoerg saia me snooting was thf aftermath of a quarrel between Bull and Hill over Hill's I caused serious concern among British and French statesmen as they press their efforts to convince the Fuehrer that further aggression win iiul pay. fiisi, uie bjuw progress of the negotiatiods to bring Soviet Russia irfto full collaboration in the "peace front," and cond tne fajIure of thg great of the United States to respond to the efforts of President Roosevelt to secure a relaxation of the embargo of American war supplies to belligerents. A two-fold certainty of full Anglo-Frepch-Soviet collaboration from the outset in case of a new aggression, and of unlimited American supplies to the former allies in case of war, might be sufficient, It is thought, here, to cause Hitler to refrain from attempting further adventures. INN HOSTESS Arrested As Fugitive pMM Indiana inrinnnti Wtlllllin Is Trarrd By Fingerprints After CoHrt Di-niissal.

A woman registered as Grace Price, alias Freida Hinds, 45 years old, 24 West Fourteenth Street, who, police said, escaped from the Indiana Reformatory at Indianapolis eight years ago, was' arrested yesterday by Lieutenant Clem Merz and Detectives Carl Blanken and Benjamin Schaefer, Cincinnati officers, and Marshal Frank Niehaus of North College Hill. The woman was found in Sundale Inn, Sundale Avenue and Hamilton Pike, North College Hill, where the officers said she was hostess. Last week the Price woman was arrested by the vice squad, but was dismissed in Municipal Court Later Detective Chief Emmett D. Kirgan received information from Washington that her fingerprints identified her as Frieda Willis, who was sentenced to a one-to-ten-year term in the Indiana reformatory on a forgery charge. She escaped after serving three months.

The inn where she was arrested formerly was known as the Pelican Club. On Easter morning, April 18, 1928, Marshal Peter Dumele was shot to death when he tried to stop a holdup of a dice game in the place. The slaying, subsequent investigation and trials of the alleged gunmen, received much publicity. Rodney Ford, one of the robbers, was executed in the electric chair and two others, Breck Lutes and John (Toddy) Messner, were sentenced to' lffe terms for Dumele's murder. Later Robert Zwick, tried for the murder of a witness against Ford, was sentenced to life.

FIRE DAMAGE $200 When Family Leaves Without Disconnecting Electric Iron. An electric iron caused $200 dam age last night at the home of Rus sell Folzer, 7000 Cambridge Avenue, Madison Place, county police re ported. Smoke in the dwelling waa detected by a newspaper carrrier, Earl Black, 6205 Madison Road, who summoned Duncan Clark, 6931 Cambridge Avenue. Clark broke a nanel from the front door and ex tinauished the blaze. The iron, left connected in the family's absence, burned the ironing board, a rug, 1 fthfAIICrh the floor when Clark arrived.

Firemen mill was ya.iv may were not called, sister-in-law, Mrs. Isabelle Parkway and Clifton Hills Lane. 31, widow, 1523 Linn Street, in ajBuria, will b(, Tueadav in st. Jo. Pauline Carney, 1042 Evans Street, does not apply to administrative reported.

land supervisory employees of the Attempt to Rob Home Return- theater employees are on the rolls, ing home earlv last night, John Su-1 must be dismissed by July 31. der, Box 80, Sidney Road, Western Hence no activities will be carried Hills, found that an attempt had on during the last two months that been made to enter his residence theater emplofees are on the rolls, by forcing a rear kitchen window. I Harrington said. Every effort will Neighbors told Deputy Sheriff John! be made, however, to transfer them Schulte and Patrolman Clifford Jacobs, Cheviot, that they had seen Harrington estimated the exten-a Negro on the premises shortly be-sion of employment would cost fore the Suder family returned. $850,000.

had established himself as public tucky, wag beaten severely on thej enemy No. 1 here. He was thehead and face He told poljce nei a th iniuries the battle, a proclamation of Governor Clai-: i borne attacking the smuggling the cafe, but insisted that Hilli -j l. Religious Persecution Theme For Baptist World Congress central Avenue care. A disorderly conduct charge was filed against Mrs.

Tucker. Bull was held for investigation Bull, a native of Southern Ken-j WB mn me ngnt. Hill, who denied the police ac-j uver inn. i ucKpr. nam i at him without cause.

Bull, who, police said, was too intoxicated to give clear 8tory aaid Hm fo, loef. hm' thrfate'ng him. unue sum iney learned iron) Mrs. Tucker that Bull went into his home for his revolver, then returned to the sidewalk and fired one shot, which hit Hill in the abdomen. I Hill was taken to General HosDital 1 iiuojuai.

FAMED ARCHITECT DIES. New York, July 15 (AP) Frank SL Patrick Church, Cumminsville. Surviving her besides her hus- band and son, is a daughter, Mrs. Harry Obersberg. The body will lie in state to- morrow night at the Busse and seph New Cemetery.

ANGUS M'NEILL. Death Takes Newspaper Cartoon- st Former Cincinnatian. Angus McNeill, former Cincinnati Times-Star cartoonist, died yester- day in a Chicago hospital. He was yea's Mr. McNeill lived in Cincinnati from 1901 to 1903.

In that time he wnrkeH with 4 WhitefnrH an artist on The Enouirer advertising staff. At various times he worked also in Louisville, New Orleans, and New York City. For the last 20 years he was a resident of Chicago. DICTATOR GIVEN WATCH By Moose Lodge At Annual Out ingLate Judge Honored. United States Commissioner Wil liam P.

Hohmann, Dictator of Cin cinnati nf Maah0 received gold watch last night from mem- silence was observed bv the diners 'dictators of the lodge. I Among the speakers were Mayor; I James G. Stewart and Isaac Feld.l mpmhen of the Rnnreme Council nf Moose, who announced that a mem-! bet-shin camDaien would he launched uuiiry ana mt jpie wn0 jmi.u.i- teed it. The Governor on this occasion rnor on mis uvi-osiuu was taking notice of the Shooting: of a revenue agent. The me.n had seized a shipment, of Barataria merchandise, and the Lafittes it appeared, wanted it hack.

This was one of the rare occasions when Jean Lafitte used his weapons. Actually, he disliked violence because it scared off the people with whom he did business. A journalist of the day once re- ported that in the middle of a AhriAtino- irrau with fovprnmpnt men Jean called out above the rifle Atlanta, July 15 (AP) A Baptist affirmation that religious persecution is a "crime against God and man" was quoted today as an indication of the approach the sixth Baptist World Congress may take on the question of religious intolerance. Dr. Louie D.

Newton, Atlanta Chairman of Arrangements, forecast an attendance of 50,000 from nations for the Congress begin- ning next Saturday and said it would be the "largest and most significant" religious meeting of 1939. "Its purpose," he added, "will be to promote the Christian spirit throughout the world. The prin- bly, and freedom of the press will; be emphasized." As a characteristic exposition of Baptist principles. Dr. Newton cited the following jtatement of the late I Dr.

E. Y. Mullins of Louisville, Ky J. Helmle, 70 years old, retired bers of the lodge at their thirtieth architect who designed the George annual outing at Coney Island. The Washington Masonic Memorial at presentation was made by Judge Alexandria, the Bush Terminal! William P.

Handley. toastmaster. here, and other structures in the Approximately 500 persons it-United States and Europe, died to- tended the dinner. A period of day at his summer home in Port Washington, Long Island. He also in memory of the late Judge Wil-ciples of freedom of worship, free-had a home in Sarasota.

Fla. I liam Lueder. one of the first dom of speech, freedom of assem- fire: 'I desire you to know that I am adverse to such strifes, but at the ame time you must distinctly understand that I prefer losing my life rather than my goods." Legal proceedings against the Lafittes were never effective. In one case the brothers employed as a counsel a skilled but underpaid John R. Grymes, and the even more distinguished Edward Livingston.

Livingston had arrived a few years before from Mew York and had written a criminal code for Louisiana, a work still admired by scholars. Not long afterward the fortunes of war presented Lafitte with a rare opportunity. The British were moving up for the Battle of Orleans and are Negroes and seven white. All, he would have done if Britain's sub-committees are composed of and France's backs had stiffened in joint chairmen, one white and one (the last days of September. Most Nesrro.

Iserious observers in Berlin at the FILM PAIR WTTJ Virginia City, ily 15 (AP) Manda Duff, 25 years old, film actress, was married today to Philip Three of the five welcoming! speakers of the first session will be Negroes. One of these. Dr. K. Williams of Chicago, will preside over the congress when Dr.

George W. Truett of Dallas Texas, delivers his presidential address. Dunne, 31, a screen writer. Miss-goon to form a class to be initiated officially adopted tt the Baptist Duff is the daughter of Dr. H.

S. Iduring the state convention in Sep-1 Congress in Berl'n in 1934. Duff of Santa Barbara, Calif. 'tember. The class will bear thel "The government which perse-Dunne'i father was Peter Finleylname of Senator Robert A.

Taft, alcutes men for religious beliefs corn-Dunne, author ot "Mr. Dooley." Ilife member, tmits a crime against God and man..