Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S Weather Bureau Forecast.) tures—Highest, 82, at 1:45 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 66, at 5:30 a.! Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer to- morrow; light variable winds, becoming gentle southwest tomorrow. Tempera- Full report on page A-7. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 No. 33,685. post office, Was m. today. Entered as second class matter hington. D. C. @h WASHINGTON, SAN SEBASTIAN RETAKEN BY SPANISH LOYALISTS AS LA LINEA IS BOMBED < Warships Open Fire From Gibraltar. PLANES JOIN IN ASSAULT 2,000 Miners Aid in Attack on Resort City. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, July 22.—A Reuter’s | (British) News Agency dispatch from Hendaye, France, said late today the Spanish city of San Sebastian had been recaptured by loyal forces. | An Exchange Telegraph dispatch | from Gibraltar tonight said Spanish | warships had opened a heavy bom- bardment of the rebel stronghold at La Linea, aided by airplanes. Loyalists -Storm City. { (Copyright, 1036, by the Associated Press.) | HENDAYE, France, July 22.—14)3:-1‘ Spaniards stormed the Biscay Bay | resort of San Sebastian with an army | of 2,000 miners and with a mountain | battery today in a desperate attempt to oust a rebel occupying force. (United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers apparently was a virtual prisoner in the Summer embassy in San Sebastian. The American Em- bassy in Paris reported it could not get in touch with him, as wires were cut. Control of the city was reported un- certain. | 1t lies but 10 miles from the French | border. | | A fusillade of shots was heard near | center of a battle between rebels and | the frontier about noon. The French | side, however, remained calm. The frontier was closed, but 32 French | <« Isolated AMBASSADOR BOWERS. UNABLE T0 REACH 1S, ABASSADOR 'Embassy at Paris Unsuc- cessful in Attempt to Com- municate With Bowers. By thr Associated Press. PARIS, July 22.—The United States Embassy tried unsuccessfully today to communicate with Ambassador Claude G. Bowers at San Sebastian, Spain, loyal forces. All communication lines were cut when insurgents seized the town last students were permitted to pass into | night, the embassy here announced, | their homeland under the escort of | and diplomats were unable to put Spanish popular front delegates. lthrough telegraph and telephone in- Returns With Force. | quiries after the fighting started. | The civil governor, who fled when | The Ambassador to Spain, it 'l51 the rebels seized the provincial cap- | believed here, went to San Sebastian | ital, returned this morning with the army of miners which he had enrolled overnight. { Other government forces, which withdrew yesterday to Fort Guadalupe overlooking San Sebastian, opened artllery fire on the city. The miners, serving as infantry, stormed the street barricades under the artillery barrage. San Sebastian was held by two reg- | iments of rebel soldiers. | A British consul, who crossed the with other members of his staff for | a diplomatic corps holiday on July 15 | {and has been isolated there by the | revolt. | Sees No Reason for Concern. £v the Associated Press. State Department officials saw no reason today for especial ccacein for the safety of Ambassador Claude G. | Bowers, whose Summer embassy is at San Sebastion, now reported to be in | the hands of Spanish rebels. i ‘The American Embassy in Madrid | U. S. N. Force! May Be Kept in Europe. 'PLAN WEIGHED, | HULL REVEALS (Two Warships Sent to Spain as Precaution. Bv the Associated Press A possibility that the generally un- certain European situation might im- pel the United States to re-establish a naval squadron in European waters | was indicated today by Secretary Hull, | The Secretary projected that, as two | | American men of war raced against | | time for Spanish waters so they | | might evacuate nationals if that were | | necessary. { The Secretary's suggestion was in i response to questions of newsmen | concerning the dispatching of two, | vessels to the strife-torn European | | country. | He said consideration of the ques-| tion had not progressed to any definite | point, but this Government was noi unmindful of the problem created for | it by the absence of vessels on permanent station in European waters. | Conferred With Standley. | He was asked specifically if in his| conversation yesterday the question >f re-establishment of an American squadron in European waters had beea taken up with Admiral Willilam H. | Standley, Acting Secretary of the | Navy. Standley ordered the two ves- | sels to Spain. There have been no United States vessels on permanent station in Eu- | ropean waters since 1929, when the last two cruisers—the Raleigh and the Detroit—comprising the American European squadron. were withdrawn. Until 1929 it had been the Navy's custom to keep two or three vessels cruising in European waters. The Secretary explained that his actlon in requesting dispatch of the war vessels to Spain was impelled by what he described as the increasing seriousness of the revolutionary situa- tion in that country. He emphasized the vessels were sent to Spain purely 4s a precautionaty | measure. .. President Roosevelt, he added. was fully informed of the measures taken. Americans Are Safe. Hull's talk with newsmen followed shortly after the embassy at Madrid border into France to report o his g cceeded in establishing personal tel- | flashed word of an important battle government, said: “The control of the city is uncer- | tain. The rebels took it yesterday and held it overnght, but this morn- | ing, shortly after Fort Guadalupe be- | gan dropping shells, the civil governor, | who had fled to a western province in | Asturias, came back at the head of | the miners who are battling the rebel troops on the street.” i The barricades over which they | fought were erected originally by the | Leftists of the Popular Front in order | to defend the city. They were abandoned under yes- | terday’s rebel attack, and today were | defenses for the insurgents. Vera, east of San Sebastian, still was held by the rebels this morning. Col. Luis de Villanueva, in charge of the Camplona insurgent column, which marched to the north border, said an- | other rebel column was within 40 miles of Madrid and that it was traveling slowly, picking up reinforcements as it moved. “We expect to take Madrid in two or three days or possibly longer,” said Col. de Villanueva., “We are in no hurry. because we want to do the job right. Y “Our plan is proceeding like clock- work now.” Villanueva added: “The southern (See SAN SEBASTIAN, Page 5) YACHT ON SHOALS FREED BY CUTTER Ben Bow, in Chicago-to-Mackinac Race, Is Battered by Storm. By the Assoctated Press. MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich, July 22 —The Coast Guard cutter Rush , succeeded in freeing the racing yacht Ben Bow from South Graham Shoals early today after the crew of seven men took a severe battering from heavy seas for eight hours during a squall. The yacht, owned by Joseph But- fer of Chicago and skippered in the annual Ohicago-Mackinac race by Peter Danly, ran aground at mid- night, heeling over at a 45-degree angle under a 40-mile windand rain- storm. The cutters Rush, AB-17 and Es- canaba were kept busy pulling rac- ing craft and cruisers off the beach #s the storm struck the harbor. Three cruisers and at least three racing craft piled up on the sandy beach when they slipped their moor- ings in the heavy wind, but they were undamaged. FLAMES DEFY 1,600 Men Rushed to Aid of Crews in North Central Montana. HELENA, Mont, July 22 (P.— Hampered by continued high temper- atures and lack of rain, 1,600 men struggled today to control fires that have swept through forests in North Central Montana for a week. Additional firefighters were rushed to aid crews combating two fires late icwetdly in the Moccasin Mountains, Lewiston. - Justice Department Agents Inves- P! i yesterday and its report of the con- | versation contained no suggestion that | American officials in San Sebastian | were in danger. Other foreign diplomatic repre- sentatives in Spain also maintain Summer embassies in San Sebastian. | U. S. COMMISSIONER ATTACKED IN HOME| | tigate Mysterious Slugging of Official. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 22.—United | States Commissioner David B. Head, slugged with a blackjack and bress | knuckles in his home, was recovering | today from painful injuries while | Justice Department agents hunted his | assailants. Whether the attack=was perpetrated by some of the hundreds of dangerous criminals who have faced Head during his 12 years as United States Com- missioner here was a subject of speculation. Head said he was assaulted as he | entered his South Pasadena home last | night. He bad dismissed his chauf- | feur and gone into the house alone. As he passed from a hallway to the living room, what appeared to be two | men attacked him suddenly. Nothing was taken from his pockets | and no valuables were missing from the house, investigators said. Head said he knew of no motive for the attack. HUGHES’ KIN IN FILMS HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 22 (®). —A pretty, young relative of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the United States Supreme Court is in the movies now. Kay Hughes, daughter of Evans Hughes of Los Angeles, who is a cousin of the Chief Justice, was placed under contract by Republic Studios after talent scouts reported favorably on her work as a dancer | ephone communication with Bowers near Toledo between armed militia and rebel troops. Eric C. Wendelin, third secretary of the embassy, reported to the State De- partment that all Americans in Madrid were safe, including employes of the telephone company. He said the situation in Madrid at |moon today, Spanish time, was quiet, but tense, and that the battle near | Toledo still was raging. A report sent at 1 p.m. (Spanish | time) by Consul William W. Corcoran at Vigo said that rebel military and civilian Fascisti were in control of the city; that calm had been restored and that a general strike had broken out. Corcoran said that the principal Galician cities “are completely dom- inated by rebels.” Under orders to evacuate Americans if necessary, one United States warship pointed its prow toward the coast of strife-torn Spain today while another prepared to head down from France. By flashing the orders to the battle- ship Oklahoma and the fast cruiser Quincy yesterday, State Department officials revealed their concern over the situation arising from the civil combat in Spain. They had received no word, however, (See AMERICAN, Page A-2) 2 KILLED, FIVE HURT IN FIRE TRUCK CRASH Chambersburg Apparatus Over- turds En Route to Small Barn Blaze. Srecial Dispatch to The Star HAGERSTOWN, Md, July 22— Two members of the Franklin Hose Company, Chambersburg, near here, were killed and five others, including the driver, seriously injured early to- day when the heavy fire truck failed to negotiate a curve near Fayetteville and struck a tree. The dead: David Gabler, 19, killed instantly, and Harold Snider, 325, Chambersburg merchant, who died in a hospital. Floyd L. Miller, driver, is in a serious condition. The firemen were called to extinguish a small barn and little theater player. blaze, Cupid’s Aide in Yuma to End Career of Uniting Film Stars ®y the Associated Press. YUMA, Ariz, July 22—Earl A. Freeman, the “marrying justice” who for a decade has been cupid's right- hand man in this Southwestern Gretna Green, turned his eyes today to retirement and the quiet of ranch than 6,000 wedding ceremonies, Among the movie at whose weddings he has officiated are Gloria Swanson, Jean Harlow, Clau- , Dorothy Mackaill, Jetta Goudal, Buster Crabbe, Richard Dix, Tom Mix, Grant Withers, Minna WITH SUNDAY MORN D. C, WEDNESDA ) ING EDITION 929 =y JULY BOYS,ISNT (T A GRAND AND d Wi i l wAN - “‘!! I ! I MANY PRONOTED | NP.W_A SHET |All But Three Divisions Af-' fected—Clas Heads Inves- tigation Department. BY NELSON M. SHEPARD. Transfers and new appointments of important P. W. A. officials were or- dered today by Administrator Ickes in the biggest shake-up his huge money- spending organization has undergone |in the past three years. Word came | of the changes as Ickes prepared to | put into operation his new $300,000,- 1000 construction program to aid in re- | lief employment. i Every P. W. A. division was affected | by the changes it was said except the | finance, public information and legal agencies. i | An outstanding change was the creation of & new P. W. A. division of | investigation, formerly headed by | Louis R. Glavis, who recently resigned | his post as Department of the Interior | and P. W. A. chief investigator. Angelo R. Clas, formerly of the housing division was made | an assistant administrator and will | be placed in charge of the new in- | vestigating division. Gray Succeeds Clas. Howard A. Gray, who has been an | inspector for the last two years, suc- ceeds Clas as director of the housing | division, which has charge of Ickes’ slum clearance and low-rent houaxmg‘1 | program. | Other changes include that of Jabez G. Gholston, director of the engi- neering division of P. W. A, ordered transferred to be chief of the in-| spection division. | While a separate investigation divi- | sion is to be maintained for P. W. A., | Bradley B. Smith will continue as act- ing director of the Department of In- terior division of inspection. He had | taken charge since the retirement of | Gravis, who recently became counsel | at a lower salary for a special Senate investigating committee to inquire into campaign expenditures. Buiger, promoted from assistant to di- rector of the engineering division. Secretary Ickes gave no official ex- planation of the changes affecting four of his principal divisions but said that the investigating bureau, now separated into two parts, would be able to render more efficient service. The new P. W. A director Clas, Ickes said, will have charge of all P. W. A. investigations, with particu- lar attention to construction methods and practices. Clas had just completed the work of setting up and planning the huge low-cost housing program which is being carried out in 35 cities. He has had wide experience as an execu- tive of manufacturing and steel cor- porations. After graduating from Harvard University, he was a prac- ticing architect in Chicago. Record of Gray. Gray, his successor in carrying forward the housing projects, had been director of the inspection division of P. W. A. since January of 1934, and has been with the organization almost since its beginning. He will utilize his experience in his new position in directing the inspec- tion of some 8000 P. W. A. non- Federal projects in connection with his new work. - Gray is from Win- netka, Ill, Secretary Ickes' home town. The new director of the in- spection division, Gholston, first joined P. W. A. in 1933. He was a consulting engineer in private ca- pacities for various ship and dock companies in Latin America. He is a native of Mississippi. Bulger, who becomes director of the engineering division, is another Harvard graduate and has had a long career as & private engineer. BERLIN GREETS LINDY BERLIN, July 22 (#).—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh landed at Staaken Airport today after a ilight from Cologne. 7 Col. Kastner, commander of the | | IN THE BAY OF FUNDY. Canadian Golfer “Calls” Hole-in-One, _ His Second in Day Py the Assoctatec Press. MONTREAL, July 22 —Nick Bessner has accomplished a feat which equals, if not surpasses, the wildest dreams of all hole-in-one club members, two aces in one day. ‘ Monday mbrning Nick fired with his No. 7 iron on the 125- | | vard fifth hole at Wentworth Golf Club and rejoiced to see his tee shot roll into the cup. As the foursome came up to the same tee in their afternoon round Nick remarked, “I'm going to do that again.” He did. and was just as aston- ished as his companions. i 1 i INCUMBENTS LEAD INMONTANA VOTES Senator Murray and Gov. Holt Top Rivals in Dem- ocratic Primary. Py (ne Associated Press. HELENA, Mont., July 22.—Senator James E. Murray and Gov. Elmer Holt today topped rival candidates for | Democratic nominations for the offices | they hold, with a third of the Mon- | tana primary election returns counted. | Tabulation of votes in 388 of the | ¢ Fpening Star 1936 —THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. CHIEFS CATHERING FOR LANDON FETE Snell and Others in Topeka as Nominee Is Promised Biggest Crowd. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., July 22.—Republic- Gov. Alf M. Landon tomorrow night of his nomination for the presidency. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,655 (Eome returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. BRANCH HELD SURE PERMANET SPLIT MEMBER OF NEW OF LABOR GROUPS MARITIME BUREAU IS HELD INEVITABLE Others of Commission to Break Seen as C.1.0. Unions Administer Ship Act Vir- Join in Refusal to Stand tually Picked. Trial August 3. 2333 (®) Means Associated Pre: 150 CANDIDATES OUT FOR FIVE NOMINATIONSi‘ AUTHORITY OF COUNCIL CHALLENGED IN ACTION Land, Johnson, Peacock, Schar- renberg and Others Mentioned for $12,000 Posts. | Charge of “Unholy Alliance” With Iron and Steel Insti- tute Is Reiterated. BY J. A. FOX. President Roosevelt practically has decided on the make-up of the United States Maritime Commission, which will administer the new ship subsidy ‘ltl. and will make the appointments { upon his return to the Capital, it was reported today. Harllee Branch, Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of ocean and air mail, is said to be a definite selection. | Listed as likely are: ! Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair of the Navy. a cousin of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Either J. M. Johnson. Assistant Secretary of Commerce. or J. C. Pea- cock, director of the United States | Shipping Board Bureau, Department of Commerce. Other Possibilities. Paul Scharrenberg of San Francisco, who now is succeeding the veteran Andrew Furuseth here as legislative representative of the International Seamen’s Union. In this same category is a West be Coast shipping man by the name of Be | Griffith from Seattle. There is a ! Stanley A. Griffith, head of a steve- ' BACKGROUND— Issue of unmionization by crafts vs. unionization by entire industrics has been found in labor movement in America from its very beginning. In recent years, controversy has headed up in two individuals—John L. Lewis, president of Industrigl United Mine Workers, and William Green, president of craft union controlled American Federation of Labor. Last November, Lewis headed Jormation of C. I. O. for purpose of spreading industrial unionization Last week, Ezecutive Council of Federation summoned 12 C. I. O unions to trial August 3 on charges of dual unionism. Fight threatens to be real showdown between per- manent factions. BY JOHN C. HENRY. | The labor movement in America was approaching an outright split to- day with the likelihood that two dis- tinct organizations soon may be carry- ing the banner now flown by the American Federation of Labor alone. Long convulsed with internal pains cause of the violent disagreement tween the craft and industrial unionists, the Federation seemed | | doring firm, there, but whether this is |an hosts converged on Topeka today. the candidate under consideration was ;hended by Representative Bertrand not certain. Snell of New York, chairman of the ators Bone and Schwellenbach of | National Convention, who will notify ' Washington it was said they had had At the offices of Sen- no correspondence that would link ?him to the appointment. His speech of acceptance ready, his| One other possibility is reputed to hair freshly cut and his family at his | side. Gov. Landon tore this week’s i | sheets off his appointment pad, but |1 Dot standing for re-election an | planned to greet Snell and other visi- with whom the President conferres tors as they arrive. John Hamilton, National Commit- tee chairman, was expected to arrive tomorrow and remain over Friday to discuss campaign strategy with the nominee, be Representative Edward Carlton Moran, jr., Democrat, of Maine, who d d | last week at Rockland. | | There are something like 150 candi- | | dates for the five places, but the im- pression is that the final choice will {fall in the group named. Department Representation Desired. President Roosevelt is represented headed for a break-up as leaders of these two factions contemplated de- velopments of last night. While interest thus was centering on labor’s factional strife, Philip Murray, chairman of the Organizing Commit- tee of the A. F. of L.'s Committee for Industrial Organization, announced that the membership drive in the steel industry had been extended to take in an additional 450.000 employes in fab- ricating and processing plants making steel products. This extension brings to approximately 900,000 the number of workers now sought for union mem- bership. At the same time Murray announced that C. I. O. agents are investigating reports that the steel companies have While Gov. Landon “visited” with as being particularly desirous that the | Peen placing extra deputy sheriffs on draped bunting even on fire hydrants. Biggest Crowd Expected. The Chamber of Commerce said the crowd would be the biggest ever here— more than 50,000, perhaps 100,000, persons. Anothgr “biggest” was a giant por- trait of Landon, which covered five stories of a 10-story building. Among the prominent visitors ex- | State's 1,237 precincts gave Murray | Pected to sit on the rostrum on the mission, because of the logical interest | that the three would have in the ! upbuiiding of a merchant marine which would stand also as the nucleus for a war-time shipping fleet. The ! Post Office Department tie-up is par- ticularly close, too, because of the mail-subsidy features of the Jones- | White act, now to be displaced, and | | the requirement for liquidating the { existing mail contracts by the end of the present fiscal year. Labor and industry representation | his family, just returned from a Colo- | post Office, Commerce and Navy De. | their pay rolls as a means of evading | rado vacation, holiday-spirited Topeka ' partments be represented in the com- legal obstacles in the way of forceful | defense against organization efforts. ! Among last night's developments was the issuance of a flat refusal on the part of the C. I. O. “to submit to the jurisdiction of the Executive Council of the American Federa- tion of Labor.” This defiance was in- terpreted at once and without cor- rection as a complete refusal to ap- pear before the Council on August 3 for trial on charges previously ap- | proved by the Council | And so strongly worded was the C. 16,153; Representative Joseph P. Mon- | South steps of the Kansas State House | also is said to have been decided upon, | I O- Pronouncement that the door to aghan, 14019; S. V. Stewart, 4,778; With Landon tomorrow night are at| Walter B. Sands, 2,668. i In 418 scattered precincts Gov. Holt | had 14,629 votes to 13,569 for Repre- sentative Roy E. Ayers; Miles Romney, 7.637;, H. L. Murray, 2,757, Frank Hayes, 578. | Expects Lead to Be Increased. Supporters of Murray and Holt said their leads would be increased by re- turns from Eastern Montana counties, where both candidates claimed strength. T. O. Larson had 4,190 votes for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 328 precincts. L. Ray Carrol had 3,257; Hugh Egan, 2,496; Jess H. Stevens, 2,417. In 385 precincts Frank A. Hazel- baker and Robert Pauline, Republican candidates for Governor, had 9318 and 3,206 votes, respectively, State Issues Involved. Strictly State issues were involved in the campaign which preceded yes- terday’s voting, and the five-cornered race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination held the center of interest. New Deal issues figured slightly. Justice Stewart, in his senatorial race, had campaigned with the slogan, “For re-election of President Roose- velt.” U. S. AGENT SHIFTED AFTER SPEED FINE Droney’s Duty of Guarding Presi- dent’s Grandchildren Given Another. Fy the Associated Press. NORTH HAMPTON, N. H,, July 22. —Secret Service Agent Robert F. Droney, who was fined for speeding while guarding two of President Roosevelt’s grandchildren at their nearby Summer home, is no longer stationed here. A change in guards has been made, it became known today, although it could not be lea: whether the shift would be permanent. Droney fined $5 and paid $4.50 court costs Saturday. guarding the children of James Roose- velt, eldest son of the President. P. Droney, Secret Service agent who Gombell, Barbars Kent, Billle Dove, | Richthofen air squadron st Stasken| guarded the children of James Roose- Loretta Young, Mary Astor, Sharon | Airport, greeted the United States|velt before he was fined recently for Lynn, Sally Eilers and Marjorie Ram- beau. From all over the world at Christ- come - greetings, and fiyers on behalf of the air ministry. Maj. Truman Smith, military at- tache of the United States Embassy, and Capt. James C. Crockett, assist- military attache, also met the speeding, was n * — ow on “a special said the speeding incident least 31 members of the Notification Committee, many Republican national Committeemen, and members of Con- gress. Other expected guests include two former cabinet members—Patrick J. Hurley of Oklahoma, former Secretary of War, and Arthur M. Hyde of Mis- souri, former Secretary of Agricul- ture—and Gov. Harry W. Nice of Maryland, and Col. Robert R. Mc- Cormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. ‘Those arriving today saw a city swathed in red, white and blue bunt- ing, decorated with Landon and Knox pictures and bright with yellow sun- flowers. Banners Across Avenue. Hundreds of banners were strung across Kansas avenue. Scores of soft drink and sandwich stands mushroomed about the 16-acre Capi- tol Square. Rosettes of the national colors were draped on the classic Grecian columns of the south facade, where Landon will outline to listeners over two na- tional networks his stand on public questions. His 3,500-word acceptance speech, confidants of Landon said, will out- line his philosophy of government and detail some of the major issues— sucn as farm relief, unemployment, Federal spending, labor and the Con- stitution. WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS. Landon Expected to Include United States Labor Attitude. As Topeka blossomed out in its finest bunting today for Gov. Alf M. Landon’s acceptance speech tomorrow night, Republican lieutenants contin- ued to predict a sweep, and a Demo- cratic campaigner, Gov. Paul V. Mc- Nutt of Indiana, declared “ill-omened elements of our society” are back of Landon. The Kansas Governor's speech, to be delivered about 8:30 p.m. (C. 8. T.), after the notification ceremonies, will (Se¢ LANDON, Page A-2) The commissionerships will pay | 812,000 annually, and the terms, at the outset, will run from two to six years, with one expiring annually, as is the case with other commissions. Succeeding appointments then will be for the full six years. The law pro- ‘ivldes—u is customary—that no more | than three members shall be of the |same political faith. The act goes | into operation with the appointment of the commission. If, as seems certain, Branch goes to the new commission, a vacancy will be created in the official staff of the Postmaster General, but, presumably, no thought has been given to choice | of & successor. INDIANA MAN HEADS |@. 0. P. Chairman Announces Ap- pointment of Purnell—Barta to Be Assistant. v the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 22—Appointment of former Representative Fred S. Pur- nell of Attica, Ind, as head of the speaking bureau of the Republican National Committee was announced today by John D. M. Hamilton, Repub- lican national chairman. Hamilton sald Purnell would take charge of the bureau about Labor day. In the meantime, he said, the office would remain in charge of A. K. Barta, Washington, D. C., lawyer, who will be Purnell’s administrative assistant. Barta said he had a tentative list of ate in the 29 States of the National Committee's Western division. Spy Sentence to Begin. LOS ANGELES, July 22 (#).—Harry Thomas Thompson, former Navy yeo- man, was en route today to McNeil Island Prison to begin serving a 15- year Federal sentence for conspiring to sell naval secrets to a Japanese officer. Night Final Delivered by Carri Anywhere er in the City Full Sperts Ball Scores, Race Results, Complete Market News of the Latest News Flashes from Around the World. What- er it is, youll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and service start at once. SPEAKERS’ BUREAU 600 Republican speakers who will oper- | any peace efforts between now and August 3 was believed firmly slammed. | Later. the forthright and belligerent | John L. Lewis, chairman of the C. I | 0., declared he didn’t even know there was a door. Alliance Charge Repeated. The refusal, challenging the coun- cil's rights to summon the committee members, and accusing it again of an unholy alliance with the American Iron and Steel Institute, was con- tained in a two-and-one-half-page letter directed to William Green, presi- dent of the A. F. of L. unions. With | mimeographed copies available be- fore the C. I. O. meeting yesterday afternoon really adjourned, it was obvious that the ultimatum had been prepared in advance and brought into | the session only for the signatures of those attending. The signed copy immediately was dispatched to Green by messenger. Later, Green acknowledged receipt of the document with a counter- charge that it was “a speech for prop- aganda purposes.” In a formal statement, he said: “This statement is accepted as a refusal to meet with the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor on August 3. “The answer filed can more appro- | priately be interpreted as a speech | for propaganda purposes rather than |a direct reply to the invitation of | the executive council to meet and | answer the charges filed. “The right and power of the execu= tive council to act in the premises and to deal with an emergency such as never before existed within the Federation of Labor will be passed upon and determined by the executive (See LABOR, Page A-3.) P Soviet Flight Success. MOSCOW, July 22 (#).—The Soviet fiyers Chekaloff and Baidukoff reported by wireless today they had flown 7.578 kilometers (about 4,700 miles) in their non-stop journey from Moscow over the polar circle to Far Siberia, passing over Petropavlosk and Kamchatka. Readers’ Guide Comics - Death Notices Editorial Finance _ Lost and Found ... News Comment Features A-9 Washington Wayside Women's Features __