Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. y (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair, except local thunder- showers this afternoon and probably Monday; not much change in tempera- ture. Temperatures—Highest, 85, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 67, at 5 a.m. yes- Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. terday. ) No. 1,636—No. 33,689. Means Associated Pr 8. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION SUNDAY MORN NG, JULY SPAIN CLAIMS REBELLION IS CRUSHED ‘AS FRANCE REFUSES < Fall of Madrid Predicted by Insurgents. 'CAPITAL EXITS HELD BLOCKED Fascists Lose City in Southeast to - Loyalist Force. BACKGROUND— Spain turned leftward in Februe ary 16 election when Radical Front won victory at the polls, followed by amnesty for 25,000 members of Socialist and Communist parties. Spanish shift to radicalism fol- lowed several months later by Leftist victory in France, where Leon Blum early in June took over government at the head of a coali= tion of radical parties. Disturbances occurred in both countries, but outbreak was more intense in Spain, where Fascist and monarchist elements in the army resented repressive measures of the Left government. Crisis in unrest occurred last week, when revolt of army troops in Morocco quickly spread to Spain itself, resulting in the downfall of the Quiroga cabinet. @y the Associated Press. Spain's Liberal government, claim- ing that it had halted a Fascist ad- vance from the north 60 miles from Madrid and that rebels were bottled up in important southern cities, as serted early today it was in control | s of the nine-day-old rebellion. Col. Luis de Villanueva, commander | of an insurgent column at Vera, in the northwest, countered the govern- | ment's declarations with the assertion | that the revolters had blocked the exits from Madrid. He said the capital i would be forced to capitulate within a week because of food and water shortage. There were 161 American refugees st the United States Bmbassy in| Madrid, awaiting evacuation. The | State Department announced more than 130 Americans had been removed from the country. Albacete Surrenders. The Spanish government announced the surrender of Albacete, rebel cen- | ter in the southeast, after a steady | government drive and continued bomb- | ing of Fascist positions. It said re- volters at Cadiz, Seville and Cordoba were surrounded and claimed those important southern cities would fall into loyal hands within a few days. The French government, authorita- tive sources in Paris reported, refused | to send arms to help the Spanish | Popular Front government—similar in political complexion to that of France. The mayor of Irun, Spain, reported to French authorities at Hendaye that the rebels had been firing artillery shells across a projecting piece of French land on the Franco-Spanish border. He said he intended to send loyal fighters across this French area to get at the revolters. Paris was in- formed of this development. Cordoba in the southwest was un- der heavy fire from Leftist planes, while dynamite-armed miners occu- pied E1 Carpio, in Toledo Province, and shattered rebel strongholds. In the jagged mountain passes north of Madrid loyal troops held con- trol of the gateways to the capital, while revolutionaries paused on the northern slopes awaiting new move- ments. Rebels 60 Miles From Madrid. Rebel leaders acknowledged their columns were at least 60 miles from Madrid, but declined to disclose pro- Jected offensives. ‘The government handed a knotty diplomatic problem to the Socialist French government by asking ap- proval for immediate shipment of munitions from French ports. The request precipitated a sudden cabinet meeting, in which Premier Leon Blum found Radical-Socialist opposition to granting the aid. ‘The first actual contact was estab- lished at Fuenterrabia Fortress with United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers. Capt. Townsend Griffiss, air attache at the Spanish Embassy, went (See SPAIN, Page A-4.) QUEEN MARY NEAR ATLANTIC RECORD Women’s Battalion Recognized Officially By Spanish Regime By the Associated Press MADRID, July 25.—Women as soldiers were recognized officially in Spain tonight with the forma- tion of a militia battalion com- posed completely of feminine fighters. Reports from various sectors throughout revolt-torn Spain de- clared the women have been play- ing an active role in combating the Fascist revolution. Some have participated bravely, militia officers said, in fighting in the Guadarrama Mountains and in certain districts in South- ern Spain. 1. GIRLS'PARTY SOUGHT IN SPAIN Citizens in Madrid Safe. Mrs. Bowers, lll in Siege Zone, Better. By the Associated Press. Marooned in their embassy at Madrid, a group of 161 Americans last night awaited with reported calm the outcome of an important battle being waged by government and rebel forces about 50 miles north of the Spanish capital. Ambassador Claude G. Bowers was reported safe in the Summer embassy near San Sebastian. Mrs. Bowers, ho earlier was reported ill, was de- | cribed as improving and not in need of medical attention. The State Department last *night made urgent inquiries in an attempt to locate Mrs. Monica Owen of Cambridge, Mass., and a party of New England college girls. They had not been heard from since a few days be- fore the revolution began. Mrs. Owen and her charges have been touring Spain for some time. Bostan Man Sails. The State Department acted at the request of Robert D. Owen of Boston, who was so concerned over his failure to hear from Mrs, Owen, his wife, that he sailed for France Thursday to endeavor to locate her. The Owens' daughter, also named Monica, was in her mother’s party. He announced his intention of catching a steamer- last Thursday, on the date he requested State Depart- ment aid. The number of girls in Mrs. Owens’ party and their identities were not known at the State Department. A faint clue as to Mrs. Owens’ whereabouts was contained in advices from the American consul at Bilbao, who reported in reply to a State De- partment inquiry that Mrs. Owen had been heard from there on July 14. On that date she wrote a letter from Lagranja to Bilbao asking if bicycles were available for rental in Santander, in the northwest part of Spain. She indicated in the letter that she would arrive in Santander on or about July 20 wtih her party. As the evacuation of United States citizens and other foreigners con- tinued along the coast, American mili- tary observers in Madrid said they looked for no serious trouble unles troops “ran wild” in the city after either a de:isive victory or defeat in the north. Seek Method of Escape. Fearful of such an eventuality, State Department officials sought to deter- mine some means of removing the be- leaguered Americans from Madrid to the safety of United States vessels now in Spanish waters. But they saw no immediate avenue of escape. Talking direct to embassy officials on the trans-Atlantic telephone yes- terday, Secretary Hull was informed that all means of egress from the capital were shut off and that there was no chance, for the moment at least, for the refugees to get away. “The only way would be to evacuate by «irplane, which would be utterly unfeasible,” Eric C. Wendelin, third secretary in charge of the embassy, advised his chief in Washington. He explained that all railroad communi- cation with the capital had been cut. Nevertheless, Wendelin said the morale of the 161 in the embassy, a figure which included the official staff, was good and that there were sufficient supplies of food and water to last that number of persons comfortably for at_ least two weeks. ‘The 148 actual refugees in the em- bassy embraced virtually all of the native-born Americans among the ap- proximately 300 nationals in Madrid. British Liner Threatens Mark of Normandie for Westward Crossing. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—The Queen Mary raced tonight toward New York Harbor and a possible new westward Atiantic crossing record. The British liner reported she had stepped up to 30.40 knots average for & 24-hour run and Sir Edgar Britten, her commander, informed the Cunard ‘White Star offices he expected to bring her into quarantine by 11 p.m. (E. 8. T.) Sunday. Her average for the en- tire trip to noon today was 20.80 knots. If she touches quarantine by that time, the giant English ship would break by 3 hours and 28 minutes the brose Lightship. Sir Edgar said the Queen Mary cov- in the 24-hour run today, ship's time. Atlantic coast part in slowing her down on crossing and in cheating her at the Normandie's mark ext report from Sid Edgar was B The remainder, Wendelin said, were Filipinos and Puerto Ricans, ‘Wendelin added that American offi- (See AMERICANS, Page A-5.) TO SEND ARMS Blum’s Cabinet "Turns Down ’Appeals. HALT FLIGHT OF 17 PLANES |Nationalists Warn Aid Might Start European War. By he Assoc'ated Press. PARIS, July 25.—The French gov- ernment refused tonight to send planes, arm$ and ammunition to Madrid to help Spanish liberals crush the Fascist rebellion, authoritative sources de- | clared. Government deputies said the declined to approve either direct or indirect shipments of war equipment into Spain. While French leftists are sympathetic toward the Spanish popular front's fight, the deputies explained, the gov- ernment decided to remain faithful to the traditional policy of non-interfer- ence in the internal affairs of foreign powers. Officials said the government would refuse authorization to private firms to sell arms, ammunition or bombing, or scouting planes to Spain, Unable to Stop Plane Sales. ‘The government, however, is power- less to prevent the sale of commercial planes, they said. Rightest sources claimed a fleet of { 17 obsolete French Army airplanes had | been ready to take off for Madrid when | officials at Villacoublay Field received an order prohibiting the flight. | The same persons declared Andre | Malraux, a left-wing French writer, |flew to Spain Thursday with a large ! sum of money raised by the Interna- tional Red Relief Organization, but they added the French government had | no part in this flight. The cabinet's refusal to aid the Spanish Liberals came after French Nationalists warned the people’s front government any official assistance to the Spanish Liberals might touch off a European war. Blum Favored Aid. Premier Leon Blum and other So- cialists, it was reported, expressed a desire to send the arms. In the oppo- sition were Edouard Deladier, minister of defense; Yvon Delbos, foreign min- ister, and Camile Chautempts, minis- ter of state—all Radical Socialist sup- porters of the French Leftist Govern- ment. Daladier and Pierre Cot, air minis- | ter, were declared to have joined the Socialists in advocating aid to Spain, but Delbos and Chautempts continued 10 oppose such a move. Roger Salengro, minister of the in- terior, indicated France thus far has refrained from supplying any arms by saying German newspaper reports of French aid were “absolutely false.” Official sources said the cabinet meeting, which was called suddenly, was devoted almost entirely to debate on the Spanish request, which was first made to Delbos by the Spanish Ambassador at London when Blum and the foreign minister were in Great Britain for the Locarno conference. Socialist deputies insisted Blum ask Parliament’s approval before author- izing any arms shipments. Henry Berenger, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, made an appointment to confer with Delbos with the indication the foreign minister would be asked to appear be- fore the committee Monday. Fernando de los Rior, former Span- ish Minister, was reported heading the movement to gain new war sup- plies for the beleaguered government forces. The Embassy’s request was reported to have itemized the needs of the Madrid loyalists for 20,000 aerial (See FRANCE, Page A-7.) SENATOR SAFE IN CRASH Pittman Narrowly Escapes In- jury in Motor Accident. BLUFFTON, Ind, July 25 (P).— Senator Key Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada and Mrs. Pittman narrowly escaped injury today & half mile south of Magley, when the rear axle of their automobile sheared off, throwing the car into a utility pole and through a fence. A chauiffeur was at the wheel at the time of the accident, which occurred on a detour of State road 224. The Pittmans were en route from Washington to Tonopah, Nev., and after the crash came to a hotel here to spend the week end while their car is being repaired. Norwegian Consul’s Wife Slain By Youths Rioting in Street By the Associated Press. % SAINT JEAN DE LUZ, France, July 24—The slaying of the Nor- wegian Consul's wife and her nurse in San Sebastian, Spain, by boys barely big enough to hold rifiles was reported tonight by refugees reaching here from that city. . ‘Youths of 14 and 16, enlisted in the pected Fascists, the refugees said. Dona Carmen Adam of Havana re- counted the shooting of the Nor- wegian woman. She was wounded first in the arm, Dona Carmen said, when she peered through a curtain from her apartment. “She was helped down to an am- bulance by s nurse in uniform,” the Havans woman related. "Mth-!-) ple reached the sidewalk a deadly fusilade rang out. Both the nurse and the patient fell dead. The Con- sul's wife was expecting a baby within the month.” They were “brutally murdered,” Dona Carmen asserted by one of the boyish group roaming the streets. With Dona Carmen, who has been in Spain for four months, was her daughter, Prederica Julia Ruis Adam. A number of other Cuban tourists were among the 113 foreigners evacu- ated from San Sebastian today by the British warship Verity on her sec- ond trip. Several North Americans on the Verity sald comparative quiet had been restored in San Sebastian with- in the last 48 hours, but that heavy a8 French cabinet, at a special session, | C. OF C. REPORTS BUSINESS VOLUME 1S BEST SINCE 1929 Employment and Production Gains “Pulling In” Construction. * EXPORTS AND IMPORTS SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER Several Million Jobs Assured ‘With Government Encourage- ment and Co-operation. Fortifying itself with solid figures, the United States Chamber of Com- merce, a representative of the Na- tion’s business, led other agencies yes- terday in a round-up presentation of the most optimistic report on business since the depression began. Physical volume of business, the chamber predicted, would be the best this year since 1929. In addition to the upturn in employment as well as production in the manufacturing in- dustries, the ground swell of recovery is beginning to pull the economically important but tardy construction in- dustry into the upturn, according to the chamber. In the movement of goods through the channels of transportation, in the record of foreign trade, both exports and imports; in consumption of elec- tric energy, in the expenditures of con- sumers and in the freer resort to the money market for rew capital, the indices of substantial improvement are recorded. Answering the challenge of Presi- dent Roosevelt to private industry to supply jobs, & report by the chamber is in course of preparation. It is ex- pected to show the potentiality for several million jobs if Government en- couragement of and co-operation with business is forthcoming, and restric- tions and threats are checked. At- | tempting to stimulate employment at| once as well as to study simultane- ously the future possiblities for work, more than 500 business organizations | are co-operating in the chamber's survey program, it was disclosed. “Decided Increase” Shown. Bolstering the optimistic economic picture, Miss Frances Perkins, Secre- | tary of Labor, made public a report | by Isador Lubin, commissioner of labor statistics, showing “a decided increase” in building activity in June. Value of building permits was 34 per cent greater than in May. For the first six months of this year the con- struction total of $610,000000 repre- sented an increase of 76 per cent over the corresponding period in 1935. Lubin said the June increase was “especially significant,” since in five of the last seven years building per- mit valuations had been lower in June than in May. Comparing June this year with the same month a year ago, Mr. Lubin found a gain of 142 per cent in residential buildings, 81 per cent in non-residential buildings and | 52 per cent in additions ad repairs. The Departmet of Commerce in its weeky assessment of the business sit- uation reported maintenance of steel mill production at “the best levels of the recovery period, with & recent tendency to increase.” “June was the fourth consecutive month,” 4t said, “in which empioy- ment gains were recorded for the manufacturing and non-manufactur- ing industries surveyed regularly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fac- tory employment showed a contra- seasonal gain over May of 0.4 per cent, which lifted the bureau’s index to 86 per cent of the 1923-1925 aver- age, the highest figure reported since October, 1930.” The report of the United States Chamber of Commerce and the two Government agencies yesterday fol- lowed upon a prophecy by the Amer- ican Federation of Labor Friday that a stronger Fall pick-up than had been anticipated was being indicated now. It said observers were forecasting “a | votes to 10,938 for his principal op- | which brought the possibility of Gar- Wonr Be Long NOW TiLL V'LL BE A MEMBER oF HECLUB! Sty Stare 26, 1936—102 PAGES. I ON THE WAITING LIST. *¥ FIVE CENTS IN_ WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE [TEN CENTS > 7 X &7 s - NEL . - Il ", Tl i e 02, <2 : BLANTON TRAILS INTEXAS PRIMARY Behind 3,000 Votes in Race for Re-Election—Run- Off a Possibility. Ry the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex, July 25.—Repre- sentative Thomas Blanton, congres- sional veteran, was trailing by nearly 3,000 votes tonight in his battle for | renomination in the Texas primary. This was the first time in 20 years | Blanton was behind in a primary race. Incomplete returns to the Texas election bureau gave Blanton 8,192 ponent, Clyde Garrett, of Eastland. Fred Jaye of De Leon had 3262, | after 3 persons died of rabies and 71 rett and Blanton engaging in & run- off for the position. Representative South, twenty-first district, overcame an early lead of Dr. H. F. Miller of San Angelo. South had 11,026 to Miller's 3,770, Representative Nat Patton led in the seventh district, 7,590 to Emerson Stone's 4,448. Allred Boosts Majority. James V. Allred, young chief ex- ecutive of Texas, increased his ma- jority over four cpponents to 13,000 votes in early returns. Reports from 155 counties, includ- ing 6 complete, gave Allred 136905 :vota of the 260,808 tabulated. His nearest competitor, Tom Hunter, had 57,406. F. W. Fischer had 38,047; Roy Sanderford, 20,581, and Pierce Brooks, 8,869. was the runaway Senator Morris Shep- pard of Texarkana was making in his campaign for re-election. He held a majority of 63,358 votes. The “Father of Prohibition” had 133,094, Representative Joe Eagle of Houston, nearest in pursuit, trailed with 23,449. Representative Charles South, twen- ty-first district, was trailing Dr. H. I Miller of San Angelo. Eleven of 27 counties gave Dr. Miller 3,133 votes, and South 1,251. Dies Ahead of Smith. Representative Martin Dies, second district, was well afiead of Clyde Smith (See BUSINESS, Page A-3) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1, B-3. Washington Wayside—A-2. Lost and Found—A-3. Death Notices—A-10. Vital Statistics—A-10. Resorts—B-4-5. Sports Section—Pages B-6-11. Boating and Fishing News—B-9. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Edilogaé Articles — Pages D-1, Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D-2. Political Round; Up—D-3. Civic News and Comment—D-4. Veterans’ Organizations, Na- tional Guard, Organized Reserves—D-4-5. Women’s Clubs—D-4. Aviation—D-5. Cross-word Puzzle—D-5. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1, E-9. Well Known Folk—E-7. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-9. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1, F-4. John Clagett Proctor’s Article on Old Washington—F-2. “Those Were the Happy Days,” by Dick Mansfield—F-2. Radio News and Programs—F-3. Stage and Screen—F-5. Automobiles—F-6. Children’s Page—F-T. High Lights of History—F-T. s PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- aries—Pages E- m -1-4. Contract—G-5. of Woodville, 7,294 to 3,918. Representative Sam Rayburn of Bonham had 4,473 votes, well ahead of the 1,829 collected by Jess Morris of Greenville. Representative Maury Maverick, twentieth district, embracing Bexar County (San Antonio), was leading Lamar Seeligson, lawyer, 4,990 to 3,746. Representative Richard Kleberg was leading Adolph Seidemann in the fourteenth district, 4,701 to 1,094. e MOTHER, HELD, WATCHES AS BOY, 5, DIES IN FIRE Straw Shed Near Baltimore Be- comes Inferno—Three Chil- dren Escape. BALTIMORE, July 25 (#).—A 5- year-old boy was burned to death in & blazing straw shed at Hydes, near here, tonight, while his mother and a dozen men stood helplessly by. Trapped by flames which rapidly consumed the building and four tons of straw inside, Leo Kow: f % failed to flee with three pla tes who were with him when the fire started. Mrs. Frances Kowaleski of Bal- timore, who had taken the boy to visit the farm of his grandfather, One of the surprises of the election | Chicago Executes 200 Dogs by Gas In Rabies Scare Purge Ordered After Three Die and 71 Are Bitten. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 25.—There was a “gas purge” in dogland today as a result of a rabies scare. Two hundred pooches were executed in a few minutes in the Chicago dog pound’s carbon monoxide death chamber. ‘The mass “liquidation” was ordered | were bitten yesterday. The stray dogs were herded into a movable steel cage, several score at| a time, the cage was wheeled into the | death cell—about the size of a one- car garage—and in two minutes all in the cage were dead. All animald killed were homeless, and were either ill, crippled or other- wise considered & menace to public health. WORK ON “QUODDY 10 END SATURDAY Florida Ship Canal Also to Be Abandoned This Week. The Florida ship canal and the Passamaquoddy tidal power project, begun with such brave announce- ments, will be abandoned in mid- construction next Saturday. At 'Quoddy the departing workmen will leave behind a punctured boom, and in Florida only the gaping ex- cavations and a corps of Army Engi- neers making one last survey will re- main as souvenirs of the undertaking. ‘The War Department said definitely yesterday that there was nothing in sight to permit the work being car- ried on after the last day of July. The question which now confronts them is what to do with a quarter- built canal, and a half-built tidal power project, complete with com- fortable workmen’s village decorated in Colopial style. 'Quoddy is proving the most difficult to dispose of. The prospect of its con- struction was a tremendous shot-in- the-arm to the business life of the countryside ’'round Eastport, Me. A local boom developed very rapidly, and, such was the faith of the Eastporters in the ability of the New Deal to carry through the project in the face of congressional opposition, continued to grow almost until the project’s death sentence toward the close of the session. Countryside Worse of Now. Now it has collapsed sickeningly, leaving the countryside worse off than it was before 'Quoddy came. There- fore there is a special anxiety to put some one into the workmen's village to buy goods from the overstocked shelves of local storekeepers, and pick up general business again. The site has been offered to the Resettlement NEBRASKA DRIFTS FROMDEMOCRATS Effect Drought Will Have on | Result Argued—Papers Shift to Landon. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, 8ta% Correspondent of The Star. OMAHA, Nebr., July 25.—What this State needs is air-conditioning. If Roosevelt or Landon promised the people of Nebraska to do some- thing about cooling them, he could get a lot of attention and votes right | now. The hottest night in history— with the thermometer never going below 90 degrees—was Omaha’s record | Prida; Lincoln was one up Wwith the minimum temperature. What it has been doing in the day- time no one likes to think about, but it was 117 in Grand Island and 111 in Lincoln. There may be votes in this hot weather, at that. Unless there is rain, and plenty of it, in & hurry, Nebraska's big corn crop is going to be nothing at all. Even with rains, it probably will be less than 50 per cent of nor- mal. Other crops are suffering, too. A considerable amount of wheat has been destroyed. The politicians here are wondering | what will be the effect if the Roose- velt administration dumps a lot of drought relief money into the State. | Won't the farmers just naturally vote | for the President out of gratitude? | There's another school of thought | which holds that the party in power is always held responsible for un-| fortunate conditions—even the ‘weather. Drift to Republicans. To date Nebraska has been moving | over toward the Republican column. What it will be in November is an- | other thing. There are reasons for the shift from Roosevelt. Farmers have been displeased because they did not make bigger crops. They feel they would have more to sell at a time when the market is likely to| be extremely good. Business men gen- | erally are lined up against the New | Deal because they don't like its ideas of further regulation and the threat of greatly increased taxation because | of heavy Government expenditures. Republicans who voted for Roosevelt in 1932 have been flocking back to the old party. Landon, the n.epub-{ lican presidential candidate, is re-| garded here as “one of the folks,” a near neighbor. ‘There have been intraparty rows among the Democrats on a big scale. On top of all this, the newspapers which supported Roosevelt four years ago, the World-Herald and the Bee- News, now are aiding Landon. Indeed the Republicans here are very much encouraged and the Dem- ocrats are distinctly worried. Lan- don’s speech accepting the presiden- tial nomination at Topeka on Thurs- day has been well received. Even some of the Democrats grudgingly admit that the speech is likely to help the Republican candidate. Not only did the Republicans like the content of the speech but they are saying that Landon’s delivery has vastly improved over his delivery when he made a speech at Lincoln early in the year. They insist that they will be perfectly satisfied if he (See 'QUODDY, Page A-5.) (See NEBRASKA, Page A-3) Navy Flyer Thrown to Death As Pilot Seeks to Dodge Bird BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—A Naval Re- serve aviation mechanic was thrown to his death in the Atlantic Ocean today, the United States Naval 3d Dis- trict headquarters said tonight, when the pilot of & plane in which the mechanic was riding - attempted to Joseph Kowaleski, had to be held back by other spectators when she attempted to rush into the inferno to the child’s aid. The boy’s charred body was found in the debris. British Kill Eight Arabs. JERUSALEM, July 25 (Jewish Tel- egraph Agency) —Eight Arabs were slain in encounters with British troops in various parts of the Holy Land to- day as disorders which have claimed an estimated 170 Arab, Jewish and ‘Christian lives approached the end of dodge & bird. The jerking of the plane, it was explained, tossed Samuel H. Gladstore, Naval Reserve first-class seaman, and his seat out of the ship at a height of about 1,000 feet. Horrified bathers on the New Jersey Coast saw Gladstone attempting to open his parachute as he crashed into the sea about one-quarter of s mile southeast of the Lavallette Coast The plane Two Coast Guardsmen set out in a surf boat, recovering the body, which they described in a terse message to Coast Guard headquarters here as “badly smashed.” ‘The Coast Guard said the accident occurred at 5:10 p.m. (Eastern day- light-saving time), but identification of the body was not made until after communication with naval officials. - Gladstone’s body was brought to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and his father, H. G. Gladstone of Brooklyn, was no- ‘The plane had taken off from Floyd Bennett Airport, Long Island, where a Naval Reserve flying unit is based, and was heading back there after & flight over the New Jersey coast. It was a 'VN-4-type land plane. It was stated at the naval headquar- ters that an.investigation would be held to determine why Gladstone’s seat UNELE RELEASED N COED SLAYI BUTSTAYSINAL Remains Voluntarily After Habeas Corpus Writ Is Signed. PROFESSOR IS ‘WORKING WITH US,’ SAYS SHERIFF Night Watchman and Elevator Boy Remain in Custody as Five Are Freed. BACKGROUND— Helen Clevenger, pretty 18-year- old New York University student, was slain 10 days ago in her Ashe- ville, N. C., hotel while on her first vacation trip to the South. She was the guest of her uncle, W. L. Clevenger, 54, North Carolina Statc College professor, whose hotel room was @ same floor as hers. The girl was criminally assaulted and her face mutilated before she was shot. Hotel guests told of hear- ing screams. Several suspects have been questioned to no avail, B e Assoclated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C, July 25— Sheriff Laurence E. Brown anounced tonight he had released Prof. W. L. Clevenger, uncle of Helen Clevenger. slain in her hotel room here, but that the 54-year-old bachelor “chose” t3 remain in jail The sheriff told newspaper men: “Prof. Clevenger was released by me this afternoon, but he is volur- tarily remaining in jail to co-operat: with us in solving the murder of hi1 niece.” “That's rather unusual, isn't it>" the sheriff was asked. “Yes, it is.” “You mean to say Prof. Clevenge: is of more value to you in the jail than in the city?” “T did not say that,” the sheriff rc- torted. Admits Newspaper Men. The sheriffi admitted newspape: men to his office about 30 minut: after Superior Court Judge F. Donal Phillips of Rockingham announce: receipt of a message from Brown say- ing Prof. Clevenger had been re- leased. Judge Phillips disclosed he hac signed & writ of habeas corpus fo: the professor’s release and made il returnable at 6:30 p.m. The jurist added he sent Sherifi Brown s message stating that unles: Clevenger were given his freedom by that time, the habeas corpus hearing would be held. Clevenger, dairy specialist at North Carolins State College, was taken inta custody at 3 p.m. yesterday on his return from Ohio, where he attendec the funeral of his 18-year-old niece, He was the seventh person to be detained in the investigation of the murder of the blond young honor student, found shot and stabbed in her room at a fashionable hotel 10 days 2g0. Two Still in Custody. His technical release leaves only two persons, Daniel H. Gaddy. tht hotel night watchman, and L. D, Roddy, colored elevator boy, in cus- tody. No charges were filed against any of the persons detained in the case. They were held simply “for ques. tioning.” The sheriff flatly refused to elab- orate on the portly, gray-haired pro. fessor’s status. - “If Prof. Clevenger tried to walk out of the jail,” Sheriff Brown was *asked, “would you try to stop him?* “I've given you enough, boys,” Sher- ff Brown replied, and then added: “1 don't think he’ll try. He's working with us.” ‘The sheriff said he “understood” a writ of habeas corpus for Prof. Clev+ enger's release was drawn this after- noon. “Staying Voluntarily.” “When Prof. Clevenger found the writ had been drawn,” Brown related, “he told his brother, C. B. Clevenger, that he did not want any outside in- terference, that he was going to stay in jail until this thing is cleared up He's staying with us voluntarily.” The sheriff disclosed that the col lege professor, with whom his niecy was spending a vacation, was study. ing the evidence in the mysteriow case. “Clevenger,” Sheriff Brown said “js going through all the statement we obtained this week from employel at the hotel, and also the testimon) at the coroner’s inquest, to see if ht can cast any new light on the crime.’ Clevenger occupied a room aboul (See CLEVENGER, Page A-7) IOWA REPUBLICANS NOMINATE HALDEN Editor Is Selected by G. 0. P. te Make Race for Murphy's Seat in Senate. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, July 25.—Ber. ry Halden, Chariton editor, won th¢ Republican nomination for Unite¢ States Senator at the special Staty convention today to select a candidatq for the seat of the late Senator Louit Murphy, Dubuque Democrat. Halden won on the fifth ballot with 1,682 votes. Halden, who had trailed far behind in the previous four ballots, camn quickly to the front on the fifth ay the forces of James R. Rhodes, News ton publisher, first-ballot leader swung behind him. The roll call soon developed into ¢ contest between Halden and Guy Lin. ville, Cedar Rapids attorney. Only a few scattered votes were cas for candidates other than these twe¢ on the final roll call. in the plane was loose. Both the pilot and Gladstone were attached to the Wright aeronautical plant, Alrport, N. J. -l Halden will oppose Representativy Guy M. Gillette of Cherokee, nomi nated by the Democrats to run for tht 3