Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight; gentle shifting winds. Temperatures—Highest, 94, at 5:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 67, at 7:15 a.m. today. Full report on page A-2. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 No. 33,690. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, . ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, BOMBS WRECK FAMOUS ALCAZAR IN FIERCE FIGHTING AT TOLEDO:; U. S. REFUGEES FLEEING < Loyalists Open Big Drive on Rebels. CAPITAL QUIET; GUARD HEAVY Revolters Are Held| Losing in Wide- spread Battles. BACKGROUND— " Civil war flares in Spain as brother fights brother in bloody struggle between government “lib- erals” and the Fascist rebels. More deeply, it is a struggle be- tween the “masses” and the “up= per classes”; when King Alfonso fled he lejt a country with vir- tually no middle class as a balance wheel. Fascism—the strong role of Italy, Germany—is the slogan of the Rightists, backed by the old professional army. They are lead- ing the present revolt. Revolutionary Socialism and per= haps cven communism is the ban- ner of the government Iiberals, the masses of workers and peas- ants. These Liberals, who won the February elections as the “Popular Front” party, are now in power and fighting to maintain that power. BULLETIN. MADRID, July 27 UP).—Vicious fighting broke out anew this after- noon on distant fronts of the Span- ish civil war while American and British refugees were being evac- uated from their crowded embassies in Madrid. An unconfirmed report from the south said the Alcazar at Toledo, center of attack by government tanks, armored cars and bombing planes, had surrendered. By tre Associated Press. TOLEDO, Spain, July 27.—A fierce battle was in progress today in this ancient Gothic capital, with govern- ment forces pitting tanks and armored cars against Fascist insurgents. Planes bombed the famous Alcazar, one of Spain’s most historic monu- ments. It crowns the peak on which the city is built. One side of the monument had been reduced to ruins and the other was burning fiercely. The Alcazar, a huge, square build- ing, with a tower on each corner and a fine arcaded patio, stands on the highest ground in the city, which itself occupies a rugged granite prom- ontory. Originally the Alcazar’s site was an ancient Roman fort, now it holds & military academy. Toledo appears as a giant fortress from a distance, defended on three sides by the River Tagus and on the north by a double wall. MADRID IS QUIET. Grave Threats to Capital Unknown, as Censorship Is Enforced. MADRID, July 27 (#)—With loyal guards ana militiamen strengthening their mountain positions in the Guadarrama Range northwest of the capital and striking out for complete rebel surrender at scattered other fronts, Madrid's people went light- heartedly about their daily routine— completely unaware of the proximity of rebel armies. They took their evening promenades, sipped long drinks on sunny cafe terraces. Terrified a week ago when the re- bellion first flamed across Spain from | Spanish Morocco, they believed them- selves secure today. They knew nothing of the grave threat to their capital from both Northwest and South by Fascist forces —armies which a week of fierce fight- ing had rendered all the more grimly determined to obtain their objective. Newspapers have been ordered to conceal the truth. Government broadcasts gave no ink- ling of how close the rebels actually have approached. Return to Normal. Hence, life in the capital virtually has returned to normal in the last few days. The water supply has neither been contaminated nor cut off, since Madrid'’s reservoirs are on the south side of the Guadarrama Mountains, and the rebels have not yet been able to cross this sternly-defended barrier. Streets of Madrid are still being washed five times a day. No attempt has been made to stint the supply. All chief hotels have been cgm- mandeered for hospitals. Socialist militiamen guard the doors. Other youthful, armed workers stand guard outside shops, banks and public buildings. Government headquarters for the (See SPANISH, Page A-4.) LABOR ROW VICTIM Second Man Dies of Wound in Alabama Plant Clash. TALLADEGA, Ala., July 27 (#).— A labor clash of last Wednesday claimed a second life today while Na- tional Guardsmen patrolled the streets and a special session of the grand Jury began an inquiry. Joe Hayes, one of three brothers bombed in heavy rebel-loyalist MADRID @ A general view of Toledo, with the famous Alcazar Monu- ment-fort towering above the city. The Alcazar is being fighting. KARPIS SENTENCED 10 LIFE JAIL TERM Fitzgerald Given Like Pen- alty in Hamm Kidnap- ing Case. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, July 27.—Alvin Karpis and Charles Fitgzerald, participants in the $100,000 William Hamm, jr.,| kidnaping, today were sentenced to life terms by Federal Judge M. M. Joyce. Both had pleaded guilty earlier. Before sentence was imposed, Kar- pis, asked by the court whether he had | anything to say, declared: “Jack Peifer is absolutely not guilty | because I know the circumstances. He had nothing to do with the kid- naping.” Declared “Fingerman.” Piefer, a St. Paul night club oper- ator, charged as “fingerman” in the case, was convicted of a part in the abduction plot by a Federal court Jjury Saturday. Before imposing sentence, Judge Joyce labeled kidnaping as “one of the most_henious crimes known to law.” “Kidnaping is one crime the Amer- ican people will not tolerate,” said Judge Joyce. “Its unpopularity as a vocation is largely due to the crystali- zation of sentiment of the Congress of the United States by the presence of | the statutes as well as the unrelent- ing diligence of those charged with running down kidnapers.” Judge Addresses Karpis. Judge Joyce then addressed Karpis first and said: “It is the judgment of the court that you, Alvin Karpavicz, or Karpis, be confined in the Federal Peniten- tiary at Leavenworth or at such penal institution as the Attorney General may designate, for the remaining period of your natural life.” He pro- nounced similar sentence on Fitz- gerald. Fitzgerald also asserted Peifer never was present at Twin City kidnaping gang hideouts, as Byron Bolton, con- fessed kidnap plotter, had testified. Still awaiting sentence, along with Bolton, is Edmund C. Bartholmey, former Bensenville, I, postmaster, whose home, Hamm, St. Paul Brew- ing Co. head, identified as the place where he was imprisoned four days. The abduction occurred June 15, 1933, ARAB GENERAL STRIKE ENTERS HUNDREDTH DAY Ky the Assoclated Press, JERUSALEM, July 27.—The Arab general strike against Jewish immi- gration reached its hundredth day in an atmosphere of undiminished tension this morning. Authorities were alert against a possible signa! for concerted disorder. Members of the Arab Btrike Com- mittee took luncheon yesterday with the Emir Abdullah of Amman and the emir renewed attempts to conciliate the trouble. Results of the conference were not divulged. Twelve Arabs, allegedly continuing guerrilla warfare with the attempted ambush of a bus convoy, were re| killed in a fight with British soldiers in the hills of Judea Sunday. IYSTERY SHROLDS MURDER OF GR Officials Silent in Brutal Ho- tel Slaying of Helen Clevenger. BACKGROUND— While on her first vacation trip South several weeks ago Helen Clevenger, 18-year-old New York University student, was brutally slain in an Asheville, N. C., hotel. W. L. Clevenger, her 54-year-old uncle, was traveling with her and occupied rooms on same floor where crime was committed. He was detained and was principal witness at the inquest. He declared he did not hear the screams which other witnesses reported having heard on the night of the murder, when the girl was criminally as- saulted and her jace mutilated before she was shot. Several sus- pects are being held. | By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C, July 27— Sheriff Laurence E. Brown's investiga- tion of the baffling Helen Clevenger slaying became as mysterious today as the circumstances of the pretty Staten Island college girl's burtal murder in the Battery Park Hotel here July 16. Police Chief Willlam J. Everett, whose department has heretofore played almost a silent role in the in- quiry, said, however, he was investi- gating certain angles of the case and might “have some news this after- noon.” Another mystery was the status of Prof. W. L. Clevenger, uncle of the slain girl, who was originally “de- tained for investigation” late Friday, and then officially “released” Satur- day when habeas corpus proceedings were started, but to the accompani- ment of an announcement that he chose to stay in jail. Question About Release. Clevenger, professor of animal hus- bandry at North Carolina State Col- lege, Raleigh, was reported to have left the jail yesterday. Sheriff Brown, however, throughout the day refused to admit that the dairy expert was outside the prison. “Prof. Clevenger,” he said senten- tiously to reporters today, “is up on the fifteenth floor.” ‘The jail occupies the fifteenth floor. Asked if the professor had been out, he refused to say. To prove that Clevenger was actu- ally in jail, Brown seized a telephone and asked for a jail connection. “Hello, Prof. Clevenger,” he spoke into the instrument. “I'll be up right away.” “Sheriff,” a reporter asked, “when will you have some announcement for us?” “Not for the next three or four days,” the officer answered. Guy Weaver, attorney for Prof. Clevenger, said the latter had gone to (See MURDER, Page A-2.) NATS IDLE TODAY CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 27 (#).— The game scheduled between Wash- ington and the Cleveland Indians here today was postponed because of wet grounds. There will be a double- header Wednesday. By the Assoclated Press. SAINT JEAN DE LUZ, France, July 27.—Four American diplomatic officials sailed today for Fuenterrabia, Spain, where United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers has taken refuge during the Fascist rebellion. They indicated they would attempt to induce the Ambassador to leave the fortified city because of fear of rebel attack. The four were Hallett Johnson, shot down in front of the Samoset cotton mills, was the second man to die. Deputy Sheriff John Bryant died shortly after the battle. Ten men, all textile union mem- bers, have been imprisoned on murder warrants in connection with the Bry- ant death. % counselor of the United States Em- bassy in Madrid; Walter Schoellkopf, secretary of embassy; Biddle Garrison, Bowers' private secretary, and Capt. Townsend Griffiss, air attache from the Paris Embassy. ‘They left on the United States Coast Guard cutter Cayuga. Bowers Urged to Flee Spain, Set Up Embassy at Biarritz Johnson said if the Ambassador in- sists on staying at Fuenterrabia, the Summer embassy would be set up there. “We would have a difficult time caring for tourists at San Sebastian before finally evacuating them,” John- son said, “During the fighting it was difficult to learn what was going on outside the hotel in which we were barricaded. But we knew the government was .arming the to the iy townspeople to repel “In rounding up the Americans we had to send cars carrying red flags and escorted by armed guards.” Reliable sources said the Cayugs | in Vigo, Spain, prompted American | | advise the State Department he was Special Train Takes Group to Coast. GOVERNMENT GIVES HELP Citizens in Danger at Vigo, Consul Reports. By the Associated Press. MADRID, July 27 (by secret courier to Hendaye, France).—After a week of terror, huddled in their embassies, American and British refugees today were being evacuated to Alicante, on | the southeast coast of Spain. The government placed a special train at their disposal. It was assumed they would board a British destroyer at Alicante, where the refugees were due to arrive to- night. Unconfirmed reports said two Brit- ish women refugees were violently as- saulted by rioters before they found sanctuary in the embassy. United States citizens sheltered in the embassy, sleeping on mattresses placed on the floor of the grand salon or in emergency quarters elsewhere in the building, numbered 161 at last reports. Diplomats in Spain and in Wash- ington have been intent for days on plans to evacuate them with safety from the zone of civil war. Many women and children are in- cluded in the beleaguered group. U. S. CITIZENS IN DANGER. Diplomat Says 23 at Vigo Must Leave Immediately. B the Associated Press. An increasingly alarming situation Consul William W. Corcoran today to | evacuating 23 Americans and Cubans | on a British cruiser. At the same time the American | cruiser Quincy was steaming toward Alicante, on the southeast coast of Spain, to rescue more than a hun- dred Americans and other foreigners | reported taken there by train from Madrid. Asserting that apprehension in Vigo was increasing hourly “as the mili- tary and Right elements are appar- ently becoming less hopeful and in- creasingly nervous,” Corcoran said that if the military authorities should fail, mob rule and anarchy would follow. He added the military had called | out all conscript classes from 1926 to | the present. Wives Remain in Area. Corcoran, whose home is in Massa- chusetts, said his wife and the wife of Vice Consul Warren C. Stewart, | whose home is at Baltimore, would | remain in Vigo for the present and | that the consulate would continue to function. The cruiser proceeded immediately to Alicante after touching briefly at Malaga. While the Navy Department was advised of this rescue effort, the State Department received a message which strengthened hope for the safety of a group of New England college girls touring Spain. Consul John D, Johnson at Madrid advised the department he had in- direct information that the American students at La Granja are safe. These ‘were believed to include the group headed by Mrs. Monica Owen of Cambridge, Mass. Mrs. Owen and the college girls had not been heard from since a few days before the revolution be- gan. On Saturday the husband of Mrs. Owen—Robert D. Owen of Bos- ton—was so concerned over the situ- ation he said he was sailing for France to try to find her. | Highways Open Again, Although the State Department had no details of this, Eric C. Wendelin, third secretary of the embassy, re- ported that the highways and rail- road from Madrid to Valencia, near Alicante, were open again. It was assumed that any official dispatch telling of actual evacuation from the embassy to the seacoast had been de- layed. Fleeing before sanguinary fighting in and near San Sebastian, members of the Summer embassy staff took refuge on the United States Coast Guard cutter Cayuga, which bore them and their diplomatic records to the isolated villa occupied by the Ambas- sador in nearby Fuenterrabia. Ambassador Claude G. Bowers re- ported to the State Department that “impossible conditions” prevailing in San Sebastion made it necessary to move the chancery to Fuenterrabia. Bitter fighting was continuing, Wendelin reported, in the mountains (See AMERICANS, Page A-4.) Readers’ Guide Amusements Answers to Questions. Comics Death Notices. Editorial News Comment Features__A-9 Radio ___- Sports -A-12-13-14 Washington Wayside. -2 ‘ Women's Features___ 3 | By the Associated Press. g Star MONDAY, JULY 27, 1936—THIRTY PAGES. 3% 3k ok Kk | DIDNT DREAM THAT WAS A GIANT CRACKER. WHEN l_gl'mr.w 1T NEW BLACK EGIN CRINES REVEALED Detroit Police Running Down | Latest Confessions of “Executioner.” BACKGROUND— Ezistence of a night-riding band of terrorists known as the “Black Legion” was first disclosed this Spring when police investigated Jatal beating of a young husband at Detroit by a mob which accused him of cruelty to his wife. When the wife denied her husband had been cruel officials began wide probe which revealed a series of crimes which were laid to the “Legion.” Many of its members were rounded up and several ad- mitted night rides, beatings and other forms of intimidation. Other previous unsolved deaths were de- clared traceable to the lawless mob as investigations still continue. DETROIT, July 27.—Detroit and suburban police scrutinized their rec- ords of unsolved crimes in which Negroes were victims today after Day- ton Dean, confessed Black Legion “ex- ecutioner,” had told of a second un- provoked attack by Black Legionnaires on a Negro. In his latest statement, Dean said Harvey Davis, Black Legion “colonel,” ordered him and Charles Rouse to “drive around and find a Negro—any one so long as he's black,” and then fired a shot into the back of the first | Negro they saw. Police said the victim was Edward Armour, 33, a factory worker, who was shot at the door of his home in the suburb in February, 1935. Armour, who was in a hospital for months, will view Dean, Davis and Rouse to- day. Story Is Denied. Davis denied Dean’s story, but Ecorse police said the bullet taken from Armour’s back was fired from a pistol taken from Davis. Dean said Davis' insistence upon shooting “any” Negro followed an un- successful attempt to find Clarence Oliver, Negro campaign worker for Mayor William W. Voisine of Ecorse. Oliver had been marked for death by the Legion, dean asserted. Mayor Voisine, who also was the target of an unsuccessful Black Legion death plot, according to another of Dean's numerous statements, ordered Ecorse police to seek possible Black Legion ramifications is a dwell- ing fire in which James E. Bailey, a | Negro campaign worker, burned to death in February, 1934. Face Court Examination. Davis, Rouse, Ervin D. Lee, John Bannerman and James Roy Lorance will be given a court examination to- morrow in connection with the un- provoked slaying of another Negro. Dean again was their accuser. The victim in that case was Silas Coleman, 42. Dean said the Negro was shot to death there because Davis “wanted to see how it feels to kill a Negro.” Filing of kidnaping and murder charges in connection with Coleman’s death brought to 10 the number of criminal cases brought against Black Legionnaires during two months of (See CRIMES, Page A-2.) RAIN BREAKS D. C. HEAT; PROSTRATION REPORTED Charles H. Porter Showers Tonight and Tomor- row Forecast. ‘Thunder showers today gave the Capital additional relief from the heat, while the weather forecast indicated the mercury would stay in a cool range until tomorrow. One heat prostration was reported yesterday. Charles Henry Porter, em- ployed in the boiler room of the Con- tinental Hotel, overcome, was taken to Casualty Hospital. After treatment he was removed to his home, 30 I street. Rainfall in the 24 hours to 8 am. today was 0.23 inch, the Weather Bureau announced. The temperature was 67 degrees at 7:15 a.m. and climbed to 71 at 9:50 a.m. The heat wave broke last night after the high for Sunday had been reached at 5:30 pm. Tt was 94 degrees -at that hour. The low for Sunday was made exactly 12 hours before, 5:30 a.m., 68 degrees. Overcome. Udet Crashes GERMAN ACE IN ACCIDENT AS LINDBERGH WATCHES. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ST 123611 SUNDAY'S Circulation, 136,724 (Some returns not yet received.) (P) Means Associated Press. AGTIONTOBLOCK Forbid Investment Trust Investigation. | | 8y ke Associated css. Justice Oscar Luhring of the Dis- trict Court refused today to issue & temporary order forbidding the Secur- | ities and Exchange Commission to in- | vestigate investment trusts. | The court’s action came after the | commission had recessed public hear- LIEUT. ERNST UDET. WARNEMUENDE, Germany, Jyly 27 (A).—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, watching a test flight of a new type tirplane, today saw his fMend, the noted war ace, Lieut. Ernst Udet, drop to safety in a parachute when the plane fell to pleces in the air. Udet, who is chief of the technical division of the air ministry, suffered only minor injuries and surgeons said he would be able to fly again within about a week. STOCKS MOVE P 517053 0R MORE Many Issues Are Lifted to Highest Levels in Sev- eral Years. By tbe Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—Vigorous demand for common stocks in today's market lifted many issues $1 to $3 or more & share to new high. levels for the past several years. Motivating power for a continuaticn of the advance was furnished by fa- vorgble earnings and dividend an- nouncements. Consolidated Edison led the forward push at the opening following action of the commpany’s directors in voting a 50-cent disbursement to stockhold- ers, against 25 cents paid in previous quarters. ‘While some profit taking appeared in the afternoon, conspicuous gainers included Consolidated Edison, North American, American Water Works, Columbia Gas, United States Steel, Bethlehem, General Motors, Chrysler, ‘Westinghouse, Allied Chemical, Mont- gomery Ward, Sears, Roeburk; Douglas Aircraft, J. I. Case, Deere, American Telephone, Western Union and Amer- ican Can. Woman Strangled. PORTLAND, Oreg., July 27 (#).— Twelve hours of investigation left police without a clue today to the identity of a woman who was found strangled in Washington Park, a single strand of beiling wire wrapped around her throat and knotted twice. The woman was about 50 years old | ings in its investment inquiry pending outcome of legal efforts to block them | Corp., an investment trust. | He sought to prevent the commis- sion from subpoenaing him as a wit- ness in the investigation and from examining the papers of the corpora- tion. Hearing Set August 5. Justice Luhring set a hearing for August 5, at which attorneys for Fisher will ask a temporary injunc- tion to hold up the investigation. David Schenker, attorney for the Securities Commission, attacked Pish- er's request for a restraining order as “a subterfuge and a trick to delay the hearing.” He said the investigation would proceed on schedule this morning. Schenker told the court that Pisher owned “only two shares of stock, which are now worth $4.” “Fisher is bringing this action be- cause he is afraid to testify,” he added. Commission officials said no papers of the equity corporation would be used in the investigation prior to the hearing August 5. Commissioner Robert Healy mean- while had recessed the commission’s hearing until Schenker should return from court. Under a mandate from Congress to develop a broad outline of the policies and activities of investment trusts and investment companies, the Commis- sion had asked its first witnesses to appear today. ‘The commission planned to examine such subjects as investment policies, nature and scope of activities, contents of portfolios, corporate structures and whether “control and influence” has been exercised over companies in which (See 8. E. C., Page A-2) TEXAN, 30, I.S CHARGED WITH MURDERING WIFE Woman Shot, Pushed From Car and Run Over—Pair Were Separated. By the Associated Press. AMARILLO, Tex., July 27.—Louis J. Kirk, 30-year-old bricklayer, was held on a murder charge today in the death of his estranged wife, who was shot through the head, pushed from an automobile and run over yesterday. Officers started searching for Kirk after talking with the couple’s two young sons, who jumped out of the car. Arrested last night, he waived preliminary hearing and was held without bond. Kirk and his wife, & comely bru- nette, had been separated about & month, and her divorce action was pending. Friends told of his attempts and dressed plainly. to persuade her to return, Clambake Fails Don Clothes to By the Associated Press. LONG VALLEY, N. J, July 27— Will Searles—farmer, constable, ex- ponent of a draped form, and clam- bake promoter extraordinary—won- dered todsy “what's come over the nuders?” He said he intended to reconnoiter a bit with his telescope later in the day and see what he could see over in the direction of the camp of nudists he is trying to drive off Schooley’s moun- tain. Searles said he couldn’t figure out what made the “nuders” suddenly put on clothes—abbreviated though they were. a hand sore from auto- of his strategy in & campaign to peek ’ When Nudists Fool “Peekers” the nudists out of his neck of the ‘woods. ‘Will had hoped the crowd of peekers would convince the nudists they couldn’t have privacy as long as they camped on property next to his farm. He tried the same tactics last year, and resumed the fray when he heard the nudists were back this year. ‘Will led his guests down a dusty road to the camp property of the Morris County Y. M. C. A, where the best view of the nudist camp is to be had. But no nudists did they see. ‘Will then told his guests about the damage he said the nudists had done to his blackberries. (Last year his chief worry was his mules, which, he said, were unnerved by the sight of a nudist.) “They've killed all the berries this year with their running around,” he said, “That means no pies and no n0s a S 3.E. . PROBELOST District Court Refuses to| The order refused by the Distriat | | Court was asked by Frederick T. | Pisher, a stockholder in the Equity TWO CENTS. BLANTON, LAGGING INVOTE, BLAMES 0.C. TAXDODGERS Enormous Slush Fund Sent to Distcict From Here, He Charges. POSTAL APPOINTMENT RESENTMENTS CITED Paid Agitators Spread Falsehoods Among Voters—Garrett Leads by 4,700 Ballots. By tke Associated Press ABILENE, Tex., July 27.—Repre- sentative Thomas L. Blanton, traile ing by 4,773 votes in his race for re-election, attributed his showing to resentment about postmaster appointe ments * * * plus paid agitators spread< ing falsehoods about me.” The latest tabulations of votes cast in Saturday’s Democratic primary showed the veteran seventeenth dis- trict Congressman had only 19,738 votes, as compared with 24511 for Judge Clyde L. Garrett of Eastland County. The third candidate, Fred O. Jaye of De Leon, had 7,447, Second Primary August 22, Garrett and Blanton will settle the issue in the second primary August 22, “Whether I stay in Congress is going to depend on my friends,” Reoresentative Blanton said. “The controlling issue last Saturday was not Garrett's or my respective fitness, but was resentment about post- master appointments which are no part of my legislative duties, plus paid agitators spreading falsehoods about me. “The real issue now is whether the voters of the district are going to allow Washington money, dis- gruntled and unsuccessful postmaster gpplicants, and old political enemies to replace me. “If you want me, I want to serve you; but if you do not, I will be happy and satisfied at home. Washington Slush Fund. “Undoubtedly the election con- vinces you there was spent an enor- mous slush fund sent into my district by the Washington taxdodgers who have sworn to defeat me. The money was spent cleverly in having paid organize ers cover every voting precinct in the counties. * * * “Their work was done quietly over a long period of time and I had no opportunity to refute same. I made a clean campaign, strictly on my record of service. My friends felt so confie dent that, with a few exceptions, they were not active in my behalf® RUN-OFF NECESSARY. Garrett Leading, but Gets Only Plu. rality of Ballot. DALLAS, July 27 (#)—Representa- tive Thomas L. Blanton, Democrat, in the seventeenth congressional district, today was facing the necessity of a run-off election to save his seat, with his opponent already favored, as a result of drawing a primary plurality on Saturday. Returns thus far available showed Blanton trailing Clyde L. Garrett of Eastland by nearly 4500 votes as the count stood at 17,975 for the present member and at 22,453 for his opponent. A third candidate, Fred C. Jaye, polled about 7,000 votes, enough to prevent Garrett from re- ceiving an outright majority of the total ballots cast. Career Here Stormy. Blanton, whose congressional careet has been featured by many stormy episodes of a personal nature, and who has achieved considerable notoriety for his sponsorship of the “red rider” preventing any teaching about come munism in the District of Columbig schools, first came to Congress in 1916, He was out in 1928, when he lost ta Senator Connally in the race for g | Senate seat, but he returned in 1930, Rising to a position of influence on ,me House Appropriations Committee, | he has consistently fought to reduce | lump sum appropriations for the Dise trict of Columbia. The run-off is tentatively set for August 22. In the other Texas contests, Senatot Morris Sheppard; Gov. James V, Allred and 11 Representatives appear to have clinched their offices without further contest. Dapper Jimmie Allred virtually cinched his re-election as Governor. Latest returns from the Democratie primary boosted his votes to 439,134, giving him a definite majority. Opponents of the 37-year-old Gove ernor lost their last chance of having & runoff between the incumbent and the mext highest man when Allred’s lead climbed to 35.049. It had been 28,588 on last night's tabulation. Total of 843,219 Votes Cast. Of the total of 843,219 votes counted by the Texas Election Bureau since Saturday’s balloting, Tom Hunter way credited with 194,114, F. W. Fischer with 114,862, Roy Sanderford with 67,590 and Pierce Brooks with 27,51§ in the Governor's race. Sanderford campaigned with the active support of former Governol James E. Ferguson. Senator Morris Sheppard likewise sailed through the election without danger of having to enter a runoff, He picked up 478,523 votes, while his nearest opponent, Representative Joe Eagle, was able to gain but 111,140, A run-off appeared probable in the railroad commissioner race, Frank Morris, Dallss, or Carl Hardin, Ste- phenville, opposing Ernest O. Thomp« son, incumbent. Thompson polled 317,963. Morris had 119,417 and Har- din, 118,287. Representative Maury Maverick, po« litical youngster and member of a ranch family, seeking re-election, led Lamar Seeligson by 11,780 to 8,324 in the twentieth district. ‘Those apparently assured of renom- ination are Martin Dies, Sam Ray- burn, Luther Johnson, J. J. Mansfield, J. O. Buchanan, Fritz Lanham, Rich- (See BLANTON, Page A-3.) A