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GOLFERS START I ANNUAL MEET I Beverly Country Club. Chicago. Aug. 31.“-(U.R)—Two by two, anil i at 5-minute intervals, the field ofi 142 players set out today on the ; trail of the national amateur golf I championship. The two-day qualifying round, IS! holes today and tomorrow, will reduce the field to 52 players who I will begin match play Wednesday ' The first and second round matches, I 18 holes each, will be played Wed-1 nesday , with the quarterfinals' Thursday, semi-finals Friday and I final Saturday, all at 36 holes. j When Jack Westland, one of Chicago’s leading contenders, and Ells- ' wore Augustus. Willoughby. Ohio, j teed off at 8:30, Bobby Jones, five I times titleholder, was on hand as a spectator for the first time since | he made his big-time debut many years ago. With Jones out of competition, the tournament has no favorite. Many players who formerly played with the hope of reaching the final went out today with high hopes of actually winning the title. "As long as Bobby Jones was in the field.’’ commented George Voigt, “no one else had a chance to win the title. They played under a mental handicap. Now I feel that I have a good chance to win and 1 know there are many others who feel the same way about it.” Incidentally, Jones is said to favor Voigt’s chance above any other single player. Jones is not alone in this opinion as many who have followed the veteran New Yorker around Beverly in practice believe he has his game properlyattuned for a real championship | bid. On his last practice round i Sunday Voigt shot a 37-38—75, four I over par. Four former champions were en-1 tered. They are Chick Evans, Chi-1 cago, 1916 and 1920 champion. Max Marston, Philadelphia, 1930 champion, Francis Ouimet. Boston, 1914 champion, and Harrison R. (Jimmy) J Johnston, 1929 champion. Another ex-champion, Jesse Guil-; ford, Boston. 1931 titleholder, was! among the 11 withdrawals from the I original field of 153 who survived ■ the nation-wide qualifying test.! Others'—who withdrew were John; and Alaric de Forest. England, Dex-: ter Cummings. Chicago, J. Wood Platt, Chestnut Hill, Pa.; James' Push, Dayton, O.; F. D. Ross, Hart I ford. Conn.; Emory Stratton and Clark Hodder. West Newton. Mass.; | l ewis Credin. Detroit, and Lee j Chase, Buffalo. Cyril Tolley, former British am- 1 atenr champion, who unexpectedly entered last Friday. C. Ross Somer-1 ville. London. Ont.. Canadian am-I ateur champion, and Jack Cameron, I Montreal, are the only three foreign entrants,.although another play who I could t:rke the title away from the V. S. is Francis H. I. Brown. Honolulu millionaire. Except’the tenth green, which is had in spots, the Beverly course is in good condition. The course is 6.702 yards long and par is 71. Par follows: Out 453 443 544—36 In 353 444 435—35—71 During the practice rounds the past week only one player was able to equal par. Frank Dolp, gangling Portland. Ore., youngster, shot four birdies on the second nine Sunday to turn in a 71. He was out in 38 and back in 33. Roland Mackenzie. Hollywood.

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I Calif., and William Lawson Little, I Jr., San Francisco, are the only , other players who have come near par. Mackenzie had a 73 Sunday j and Little a 73 Friday. o LAST PLACE IS BIG BATTLE New York. Aug. 31 —(U.R) — If last place rather than first was the prize at stake in the American , league, there would be no lack of | interest in the 1931 race. For, whereas, the superiority of 1 the Philadelphia Athletics has I taken all the thrills from the penj nant race, the competition for last place is the keenest of recent , years. Three teams—Chicago. DeI troit anil Boston—are in a virtual | tie for the cellar berth, with St. ; Louis only two games ahead. The Chicago White Sox apparently were trying to retain undisputed ptfssession of the Berth yesterday, making eight errors afield, but then won the game against Detroit, 10 to 8. in 12 innings and now are tied with Detroit at .397 each. Boston remained only one point ahead, by dropping a 14 to 4 decision to the New York Yankees, i Lou Gehrig hit his 37th homer of the season. St. Louis scored a double vistory over Cleveland. 8 to 3 and 6 to 3. Walter Stewart held the Indians to seven hits in the open-1 er and Dick Coffman won the second game when his mates staged (i four run rally in the eighth. Washington's second place Senators defeated Philadelphia. 5 to 1. in the other American League i congest, cutting the A’s lead to l games. Alvin Crowder allow-1 i ed the champions only 7 hits. I "Fidgety Phil" Collins held the I New York Giants to one hit in the' i second game of a doubleheader to give Philadelphia an even I break. Collins' brilliant perform-' 1 ance gave Philadelphia 3 to 0 victory. In the second game, after I the giants had won the opener I 8 tn 2. The league leading St. Louis I Cardinals took advantage of two fine pitching performances to' | defeat Pittsburgh. 5 to 0 and 4 to : 1. Paul Derringer blanked the' i Pirates on six hits in 1 the opener' 1 'and Bill J’Jallahan allowed only! I seven hits in the nightcap. | Pat Malone of the Chicago Cubs! allowed Cincinnati only two hits' i in seven, innings but blew up after! Grimm's error in the eighth and I lost his game. 4 to 3. j Brooklyn and Boston shared honors in a double header. Eddie | Brandt bested Dazzy Vance in the first game. 3 to 2, but Brooklyn came from behind to take the secoifi. 4 to 3. Yesterday's Hero: “Fidgety Phil" Collins, whose one-hit pitching performance gave Philadelphia a 3 to 0 triumph over New York. A single by Hogan in the second inning, a walk and an error, prevented Collins from earning , "perfect game” fame. — -o — Status of Filipinos Filipinos are citizens of the Philippine islands but mt of the United States. There is no quota for them and they can he admitted without difficulty as "nationals" of the United States. This does not refer to Chinese laborers horn in our Island territories, who come under the exclusion laws

Major League Leaders Following averages compiled by the United Press include games played Sunday. August 30th. Leading Hitters G R H Pct. Simmons, Ath. 112 98 174 .385 Ruth. Yankees. 118 121 168 .379 Gehrig, Yankees 126 135 181 .358 Morgan, Indians 111 75 140 .354 Webb. Red Sox 121 81 162 .345 Davis. Phillies 101 23 114 .345 Home Runs Ruth, Yankees 37 Gehrig, Yankees 37 Klein, Phillies 31 Averill, Indians 29 Ott. Giants 26 o — “KNEW RIGHT FROM WRONG” DOCTOR SAYS (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE' jobs, construction work in Ohio, steel mills in Pennsylvania. "I asked him about sadism and explained that peoples sometimes enjoyed seeing others bled and in pain. He said he had no such tendencies. "I went over him physically to see if he.might have diseases liable to cause violent outbursts. He's perfectly normal as to physical j brain diseases. ' "Powers is a psychopathic personality as shown by his seclusive nature, wanderings, extreme restlessness. inability to understand himself and his sex life. "This type is not insane but nearer insanity than normal people. Panic can strike in a situation like ; this. There may be a secret lust for blood. Powers is of the hypopituitary type-squat, short build, pig-eyed, paunchy, with weakened sexual powers. "He is not insane but he has I been a border line case all his life." Dr. Mayer said, adding when questioned by police that "Powers is capable of knowing right from wrong." Powers complained of hearing strange noises, of receiving "inward commands" and uncontrollable impulses, police said. They believed he was thus attempting to lay groundwork for an insanity plea. His attorney. J. Edward Law, indicated that insanity would be the principal defense at his client s trial, date for which still was un- ' determined today. Although police had said they i were convinced there were no more f bodies buried in the same area where five already have been reI covered, near the garage, they said a strong odor emanating from the well caused them to believe at least one body was concealed in it. Little significance is attached to the finding of several sticks of dynamite and a long fuse in the garage, Detective Carl Southern said today, although it earlier was believed Powers planned to blowup the death chamber with the explosive to destroy evidence of the crime. There seems no connection be-1 tween the disappearance of Stan-1 atas Sfikbas and the Powers case. , Southern said. Sfikbas, operator of shoe shining parlors here, disap-1 peared several months ago, South- I ern said, but he had found nothing | to connect him with Powers’ ac- i tlvities. The detective said he has received requests to trace at least two missing women but names will not be released pending further investigation. He found reference to one in Powers' matrimonial correspondence, but there was no mention of the other so far. Southern said. Clarksburg, W. Va„ Aug. 31.— (U.R> —Picks and sledges pounded and chipped in monotonous unison today the cement floor of a windowless mountain garage as prison chain gangs hunted bodies of more sex-starved women believed murdered by a hill country romeo. Outside the garage in which five are known to have been hanged or battered to death, could be heard the labored breathing of other prisoners end the repelling sucking of striking muck as their spades explored the soggy ground in which the five were buried. In the county jail sat Harry F. Powers, fat, bespectacled, brazenly proud of lines written women, of almost every state, sex-frustrat-ed women who resorted to matrimony by mail. “Let them dig. They’ll find no more. I tell you five Is. all; there’s nothing more out there. Investigators believed more names will lie added to those of Mrs. Dorothy A. Pressler Lemke. I Powers' latest revealed victim*: ' and Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher and i her three children! Scores have corresponded with Powers or Cornelius O. Pierson as he called himself in most of the erotic letteis so far uncovered.

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Many of whom he wrote can not be found. Some may shun pubI licity. Some may have died a natural death. Authorities fear bodies of othI ers may be revealed by the waters of swift running Elk Creek nearby | which is hiring dragged systematI ically, or sealed below the cement floor of the garage Powers built two months ago and used later as his butcher house. Meanwhile, the thorough system and care Powers used in the execution of his crimes are. being I revealed by his own word, by let I ters, by word from relatives of I knwonl victims, and in women's letters arriving daily. The police version of Powers’ story of the execution of the five is: “On Aug. 1 I took al) five to the garage. I put the two women and the two girls in cells in thu basement under the garage, leaving the boy upstairs. “That night I went to the garage and hanged the two women. I let the boy watch it. When he screamed, 1 hit him over the head with a hammer until he was dead. Then I killed the two girls and buried them all at once." This story and confessions of the murders were obtained aft->r I police mistreated Powers, according to Edward Law, counsel for Powers. He said a preliminary hearing might be arranged for his client

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during the day. No date has lieen set for return of a writ against Sheriff Grinny and other police' officers he accused of barring him as counsel from Powers’ cell. Police said the cells of the garage were sound prAof. Upstairs | he had built a crudely designed,, scaffold. The victims were led to their exec.ttion there, one by one. Powers indicated. Bones and other evidence leading to a continuation of the hunt for more victims were found in i the ashes of a cottage near the Power home. It had been destroyed by a mysterious fire. Police revealed letters writtm to Mrs. Lemke, who married August Lemke in Worcester. Mass., and has been living at Nortblpro, Mass., with a sister, Mrs. Chester Fleming. Lemke is reported still living in St. Paul. One letter part of which is unprintable, said: “You certainly are a well preserved woman, to my way of thinking just the right size and weight. I never did take any fancy to a slim woman, but prefer them plump. “I suppose you have already begun the books I gave you." They were volumes on sex psychology by Havelock Ellis and Dr. W. F. Robie. “The chapter on ‘The Art of Love' in Rolle's books is the most valuable. Dr. Rohie t?lls me he has had letters from ministers

■ asking if they could have that | chapter reprinted in pamphlet form." A description of the contents of I that chapter and similar chapters I from other books followed. “When you have read some of • these books and know a little more about sex. I would like to suggest that we exchange our sex I histories.” There was much ot that type of suggestion in Powers' letter which closed with this comment: “I am sure that after you have j read the books I loaned you. you will see in marriage something beautiful and wholesome. I will say bve bye for this time. "A. C. M.” Mrs. Lemke's brother-in-law described two letters purportedly from her after she left Northboro with Powers. They were signed "Dorothy.” line from Uniontown. Pa., told of the end of the marriage venture, and the other from Chicago said Mrs. Lemke was I about to start a European, trip as | a woman's companion. It was recalled that neighbors of Mrs. Eicher had been told by Powers that she had gone to Europe. It was believed the two had been brought together, then under the pretense that one was to he companion to tlte other on, the European tour. “My wife thought the letters were in Dorothy's handwriting." Fleming said. "1 thought the

writing was too small and must have hpen copied. The words were spelled too good tor Dorothy. o Decatur Loses Extra Session Baseball Game Deeaur's Independent baseball team lost a tough game Sunday as i ternoon at the local diamond. The' score was 4-2 in favor of Markle.! but the visitors were forced to go l 13 innings to winn the tilt. Schnei-1 der, local t wirier held the opponents to one hit in the first nine inn-1 ings but costly errors paved the; way for a Markle winn. Hoosier Loses Life Nrbana, O„ Aug. M—(UP) —Wesley Legg, 46. Reynold', Ind., was •truck by an automobile and killed

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