Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and somewhat warmer today; to- morrow cloudy followed by showers. Temperatures—Highest, 80, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 70, at 10 p.m. yester- day. Full report on Page A-13. (#) Means Associated Press. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 1,638—No. 33,703. he ‘WASHINGTON, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION D. C, SUNDAY MO RNING, AUGUST 9, FRENCH EMBARGO ARMS TO SPAIN AS REBELS CONVERGE ON MADRID; ALFONSO SPEEDS TOWARD Portugal’s Adherence Given to Neutral Plan, Paris Cabinet Withdraws Reservation. GEN. MOLA ATTACKS CAPITAL FROM NORTH, FRANCO SOUTH Three Powers Recognize Rule of Gen. Franco in Spanish Morocco by Accepting Passport Visas. BACKGROUND— Threat of war in Europe arises in Spanish civil war from sympathy of various governments for the Leftist Popular Front regime, in power since the elections February 16, or for Fascists and monarchists, who rebelled more than tiree weeks ago under leadership of Gen. Francisco Franco and Rightist army officers. France, jearing new dictatorship on her southern frontier if rebels were victorious, took lead ir. movement for a nmeutrality agreement among chief European mations. Approvals “in principle” have been general, but reservations have accompanied virtually every adherence to the pact. More than half Spain in hands of insurgents, with Madrid threatened from north cnd south. Insurrectionaries brought from Morocco across Straits ¢; Gibraltar under fire from Loyalist warships. Py the Assoclated Press. While France banned exportation of war materials to strife- torn Spain, indicating its confidence other powers would keep hands off the civil war, Italy joined Germany in protesting to Madrid yesterday against the alleged killing of nationals. These moves came as insurgent Moroccan soldiers marched rlong rebel-held roads toward Madrid from the South. To the North, in the Guadarrama Mountains, brother Fascist fighters pounded incessantly at the semi-circle of steel which was the liberal government’s challenge to any army determined to capture the capital, France’s cabinet, having received Portugal's agreement “in principle” to remain neutral in the Spanish struggle, decided it ho longer needed to reserve its previously announced “liberty of action” on shipment of war supplies to Spain. All Answers Favorable With Reservations. Portugal was the last nation to reply to France's general appeal to important European powers to stay clear of the civil strife. French officials indicated all answers had been favorable, although there were some reservations. In Tangier, international zone, a committee representing three of the powers which direct the Tangier zone—but not ncluding | the Spanish government—recognized today, by implication, the rebel administration of Gen. Francisco Franco in Spanish Morocco. A communique, issued after a meeting of representatives of | Great Britain, France and Italy—which with Spain supervise the gone’s affairs—stated that “passports visaed by authorities now directing the Spanish zone” would be “recognized as valid.” Ministers and consuls of those countries, as well as officers from French, English, Italian and Portuguese warships in the harbor, attended the session. Loyal Spanish Warships Depart. The group voted “to prevent by persuasion the return of Bpanish government ships” to the harbor. Loyal Spanish warships had departed last night on orders from Madrid, causing relaxation of tension in international circles here. Rome announced the killing of two Italians in Spain—one of them “barbarously in his own home.” It protested strongly to Madrid, as had Germany over the alleged execution of four Germans at Barcelona. Eight Nazi warships were in Spanish waters. On the war front, Spanish Loyalists responded to rebel assaults shell for shell, and Madrid Leftist headquarters asserted its vic- tories were widespread and decisive, that the rebel cause was a lost cause. The Leftist regime listed success upon success throughout Bpain to bolster its claim of imminent general victory. Yet, on the north-central front, Gen. Emilio Mola began moving reinforcements up to the Guadarrama front. He pre- pared the terrain, and took stock of ammunition and guns, for his objective was to join hands with Gen. Franco’s troops from the South—men ferried across the Straits of Gibraltar under gun- ERLIN % In Germany EX-KING ALFONSO. PARIS WITHDRAWS FREEDOM 10 AGT 'Long Negotiations Are Seen Over Text of Accord on Neutrality. | Br the Ascociated Press. PARIS, August 8 —France tonight | banned exports of all war materials to Spain as an indication of its con- | fidence that world powers would | | agree to keep out of the Spanish civil war. The cabinet’s decision that it no | longer needs to reserve “liberty of | | had described as “foolish” reports tha Germans Deny Knowing of Arrival. EX-KING LEAVES CZECH CASTLE Report of Hitler Parley Termed Foolish. By tne Assoclated Press. BERLIN, August 8.—Ensconced in a luxurious car of French manufac- ture, former King Alfonso of Spain entered Germany tonight as Reich officialdom wrestled with the question of neutrality in relation to Spain's civil war. Germany answered French queries as to Reich adherence to a general hands off, with acceptance in prin- ciple and with another question: “Will Russia be neutral?” Official voice was given to Ger- man press allegations that Spain was being “bolshevized” when the foreign office made it clear that any action committing Germany to & non-inter- vention agreement awaited a clarifica- tion of Soviet policy. Knowledge of Visit Denied. As Alfonso was whirled along Ger- man highways, ostensibly for a visit to the Olympic games in Berlin, the foreign office denied any knowledge of his arrival. “We have no information on the subject whatsoever,” a spokesman said. Earlier in the day the foreign office ! t Alfonso was coming to Berlin to con- fer with Chancellor Hitler or possibly with Count Ciano, the Italian Min- ister of foreign affairs. Leaving Metternich Castle at Koen- igswart, in Czechoslovakia, his tem- | | magnificent action” on the shipment of war sup- | porary residence, the former mon- plies, followed the agreement by Por- | tugal, “in principle,” to remain neu- tral in her neighbor's revolution. arch’s machine was followed by an- other, bearing a Spanish license plate. Among the occupants of the second | With Portugal’s reply in hand, offi- | car were two Praha detectives who cials indicated that all nations to |stand guard at the castle. They ac- whom the French appealed to join | companied him as far as the border. | & neutrality agreement in the Span- | The identity of any other-occupant or fire—for a final, smashing attack on Madrid. Legions Drawing Northward. Rebel communiques said Franco's legions were drawing northward steadily. Edging north, they related, a column under Gen. Denito captured Siguenza and Alcolea. Still another, under Col. Castejon took Alendralejo. Insurgents under Col. Ascencion took Merida, cutting the railroad line from Badajoz to Madrid. But the government slashed without quarter at the rebels on three fronts, Flames lighted by Loyalist warships razed Algeciras, southern, rebel-held seaport. scribed deadly attacks in the province of Huesca, between Zaragoza and the French border. Reports conflicted. The govern- ment said it had suppressed a Fascist revolt in Badajoz Province, said by the rebels to be well dominated by them. Moreover, the government announced steady advances in the mountains be- tween Madrid and the rebel-held ter- gitory toward the Bay of Biscay. . Franco Reported in Morocco. ' The Fascists, said Leftist authori- ties, were losing all hopes of winning the fight. They pictured Gen. Franco as still fn Spanish Morocco attempting to 3and more troops on the Spanish pe- pinsula. Already he had brought, by ship #nd plane, an estimated 8,000 soldiers from Africa to Spain. In some rebel quarters it was feared Loyalist success at Algeciras, southern seaport burned during a government bombardment yesterday, might upset defenses created to protect troop transport, especially since the rebel gunboat Dato was burned defending the city. At Burgos, Rightists said their forces repulsed a loyalist attack on the community of Badajoz and took numerous prisoners. Within Madrid the government sus- pended the Cortes (Parliament), in- definitely, and Leftists renewed the drive against political enemies. Diplomats were dismissed, and in (See MADRID, Page A-4.) Government dispatches de- | o | HEROINE “GROUNDED” | Nellie Granger Gets New Post lUnfil She Overcomes Nervousness. KANSAS CITY, August 8 (#)— Nellie Granger, hostess heroine of the | airliner crash April 7 in which 12 persons were killed near Uniontown, :Pn., ‘was given temporary ground duty | today. The Kansas City Star said the rea- |son is to help her overcome the | nervous effects of her harrowing ex- i perience. The Star says Miss Granger, who resumed her duties as hostess June 4, had been “carrying on,” though ner- vous, until she heard the news Thurs- day of the crash of a Chicago and Southern airliner near St. Louis, in which eight were killed. | ish crisis had answered favorably, | despite the reservations of some. Many Portuguese Reservations. Portugal accepted with many res- | ervations, but sources close to the Quay d'Orsay indicated London would ' try to prevail on Portugal to adopt strict neutrality. After a lengthy meeting with Pres- ident Lebrun, Premier Leon Blum's | cabinet also planned to launch an | immediate inquiry with a view to sup- pressing false reports of the Spanish | situation. Britain’s formal acceptance of the French proposal for an international agreement to withhold arms from | both sides of the Spanish conflict | was received. Sources close to the government said Britain’s support was expected} to draw Germany, Italy and Portu- gal into final agreement despite the reservations of Premier Mussolini to the French query and the delay of an official German response. Actual negotiations over the text of such an agreement, the same sources indicated, would probably be long. They represented the French govern- ment, however, as confident the re- | determined. | ward Berlin he must have been graph- ‘ | an “Italian marquis.” | permit of occupants of the second car was not Had Many Visitors Recently. As Alfonso traveled apparently to- | ically reminded of the civil war in his | native land. Czechoslovakian Com- munists had traced whitewashed slo- | gans on the pavement reading: “Down | with Alfonso” and “Long live the Span- ish republic.” Other occupants of the castle re- fused to talk about the King's de- parture. Townspeople said he recently had received many visitors, including | Agreement in principle was the limit in satisfaction the Nazi state would French Ambassador Andre Francois-Poncet when he asked wheth- | er the Reich would enter an eight- nation agreement to let Spain settle its internal quarrels with no outside | interference. Official German dubiousness over | the effectiveness of such an action | was reflected in the presence in Span- ish waters of eight Nazi warships. The agreement “in principle” with the French view was tagged with res- ervations as to the character and scope RUSSIAN FLYERS DOWN IN CANADA Plan to Resume Trip to Alaska, Thence to Siberia, When Weather Clears. By tre Associated Press. SEATTLE, August 8.—Nicholas So- koloff, representing Amtorg, Russian trading agency, said tonight the Rus- slan fiyers, Sigismund Levanevsky and Victor Levchenko, en route to Siberia, via Alaska, were forced down by poor visibility at Bella Bella, B. C, late to- day. They planned to resume their hop to Juneau, Alaska, tomorrow morning, weather permitting, he said. ‘The Russians, in a new low-winged Vultee monoplane, took off from the Sand Point naval air base on Lake Washington here early today. Bella Bella is more than 300 miles north of Vancouver, B. C. Sokoloff said the plane failed to an- swer calls tonight and he assumed the men were ashore waiting for clearer weather. “Namesake” Forces D. C. Man To Deny Report He Drowned When letters, signed “R. H. Felt- well,” began to appear in Washing- ton newspapers last Spring, R. H. Feltwell of 1370 Oak street was mildly annoyed. But yesterday, when police found a mysterious coat on the seawall sidewalk, near Hains Point, and the coat contained letters ad- dressed to “R. H. Feltwell, 1370 Oak Street,” his annoyance increased to exasperation. Feltwell, a heating engineer, was called at 5 am. with the news that he was believed to have drowned. The police told him of finding the coat, a blue one, with letters addressed to him in the pocket, that there was a straw hat beside the coat, and they were checking to see if he were miss- ing, or if he had left the coat and hat there. “No,” said Mr. Feltwell to both questions, adding that he knew noth- ing about it. That was when his annoyance began to take a serious turn, /e Then hours later, reporters heard of the mystery and began their own investigation. One of them called at Feltwell’s apartment to ask for a pic- ture and biographical ifformation in the event death was established. Chuckling at his visitor's funeral expression, Feltwell identified himself. He said he had seen the coat and the envelopes and that they were not his, although he believed himself to be the only Robert H. Feltwell. The drowning theory was suggested by a typed note found pinned to the discarded coat, which said: “What is the limit of divine forgiveness? “Will there be this forgiveness even for me? “Should I have taken the F. A. advice and try again? “But what I do I do.” The addresses on the envelopes di- rected to Feltwell had oeen typed with & blue ribbon similar to that used for the note on the coat. Other addresses (See “NAMESAKE,” Page 3.), s which the Reich non-intervention pol- icy might assume. The foreign office, however, assured | the French Ambassador Germany was | fully aware of the danger of war in connection with Spain’s civil conflict and was go-operating with other Eu- ropean powers to produce a neutrality agreement which would prove effective. Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1 to B-3. Washington Wayside—A-2. Lost and Found—A-3. Death Notices—A-10. Resorts—B-4. Sports Section—Pages B-6 to B-10. Boating and Fishing News—B-9. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—D-1, D-3. Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D-2. Political Round-Up—D-3. Civic News and Comment—D-4. Veterans’ Organizations, Na- tional Guard and Organized Reserves—D-4-5. Crossword Puzzle—D-5. Stamps—D-5. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1 to E-10. Well-Known Folk—E-6. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-10. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1, F-4, John Clagett Proctor’s Article on Old Washington—F-2. “Those Were the Hapgy Days,” by Dick Mansfield—F-2. Radio News and Programs—F-3. Stage and Screen—F-5. Automobiles—F-6. Aviation—F-6. Children’s Page—F-T. High Lights of History—F-T7. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- maries—Pages G-1 to G-4. Contract—G-5. Classified Advertising — Pages G-5 to G-13, Sty Star 1936—106 PAGES. =* News FIVE CE AND _SUBU] Full Associated Press and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. NTS [TI‘JN CENTS RES | mrsrweee HERE, I CAN DO BETTER WORK! U.. STAR BREAKS DECATHLON MARK Morris Tops Pair of Team- mates—Relay Quartet Ties Record. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor, BERLIN, August 8—Three Far- Western youths swept the boards for America in the Olympic decathlon competition today, led by Colorado’s Glenn Morris, who smashed his own world record, scaling Olympic heights as a climax to his first year in all-round competition. | The Fort Collins automobile sales- | man, who got the idea admiring Jar- ring Jim Bausch capture another record-cracking Olympic tussle at Los Angeles in 1932, outstripped two Cali- | Killing, one by one, their dog team, for | fornians, Bob Clark and Jack Parker, while running up the amazing aggre- gate of 7.900 points. The 24-year-old former Colorado State College foot ball and track! star’s performance was capped by a sensational stretch sprint concluding the 1,500-meter run, which carried him to the tape in 4:33.2, and gave him sufficient points to beat his own world mark by exactly 20 points. Morris’ exploits in the strenuous 2-day, 10-event test enabled him to wipe out the Olympic record his for- mer idol, Bausch, set by 502 points, under the new scoring system. | Bausch operated under the old sys- tem, but his figures translated total 7,398 points. Five Crack 3,000-Meter Mark. Earlier in the day Volmari Iso- Holo of Finland set the stage for record-smashing performances. The§ swift and durable Finn became the | first champion to repeat, as he paced | the field in the 3,000-meter steeple- chase final to a 9:03.8 victory. He | and the next four finishers all lowered his former Olympic record of 9:14.6. Kaarlo Tuominen, another Finn, trailed his countryman by three sec- onds, as Alfred Dompert of Germany, producing a great stretch drive, took | third, followed by Martti Matilainen | of Finland and Harold Manning of | Wichita, Kans, all of whom were | under Iso-Holo's 1932 mark. Tuo- minen’s time was 9:06.8; Dompert, 9:07.2; Matilainen, 9:09, and me1 Kansan, 9:11.2. The semi-final day of the blue rib- bon competition also saw Jesse Owens return to competition and lead off the 400-meter relay team to a world- record-equaling 40-second preliminary triumph and the American women's (Continued on Page B-! olumn 1.) CARDENAS ASKS TALKS TO BLOCK BIG STRIKE 70,000 Men Involved in Prepara- tions for Walkout in 3,000 Factories. By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 8.—Presi- dent Lazaro Cardenas, returning from a month-long visit to Northern Mexico, sought today to avert a threatened strike of 70,000 men who have an- nounced their determination to walk out of 3,000 factories August 15. Both major labor syndicates are proceeding with strike preparations on the basis of a labor department opin- ion employers must pay wages for the nine days of the recent electrical strike. ‘The department, however has not replied to an open letter from the em- ployers demanding to know what legal basis it had for its assertions. Cardenas, it was understood, will seek a conference between the em- ployers and labor leaders in hopes of a settlement, ]llelp/zer HOLLYWOOD The Star’s dramatic critic writes of the stars of the Movie Capital beginning today on Page A-4 in The Sunday Star Starving Eskimos Eating Sled Dogs, | Doctor Reports ‘ Reindeer Supervisor Re- fused Permit to Take Herd to Tribes. Et the Associated Press POINT BARROW, Alaska, August PROGRAMOF.0.P. OUTLINED BY KNOX “Worst Managed Business” Needs New Manager, 8.—Hungry Esk beginning to Henr, V. byterian medi- reported today. | k Daugherty, Barrow isor. again had been from his superiors to drive 3,000 re ne Barter Island dis he Govern- ment's aative wards are reported near starvation, Daugherty. Greist said. ma ilar request last May wr t of the Eskimos first was disco Greist told of one native family said Fr reindeer superv refused authori food _“They ate them. skin and all” he (See ESKIMOS, Page A-4) 3,000 MORE MEN ASKED FOR NAVY Enlistment Increase Needed to Man New Ships in Year Ahead. An increase of 5000 men for the| Navy is planned in tentative depart- mental estimates for the Budget Bu- | reau which are in process of being | drafted to provide the Navy's budget for the next fiscal year. i This increase in the enlisted strength is demed necessary by naval officials | to permit adequate manning of the| new ships which will be put into com- ' mission during the fiscal year ahead. He Asserts. ANTINEW DEALERS ORGANIZE BODY TO FIGHT ROOSEVELT ‘National Jeffersonian Dem- ocrats’ Formed at De- troit Parley. {NO OTHER CANDIDATE RECEIVES INDORSEMENT Former Senator Reed Announces Plans to Send Speakers “Into Every State.” BACKGROUND— Antipathy toward the policies of President Roosevelt among several Jormer Democratic leaders has been growing since Alfred E. Smith, 1928 party nominee, split with his Jormer associate some four years ago. An unheeded plea to this year's Democratic convention to put Mr. Roosevelt aside and nominate a “genuine Democrat” was sent by Smith, jormer Gov. Ely of Mas- sachusetts, Bainbridge Colby, Sec- retary of State under President Wilson, former Judge Daniel F. Cohalen of New York and Harry Breckinridge, New York attorney. | By tne Assoctated Press. DETROIT, August 8.—A new po- | litical organization to be known as “the National Jeffersonian Demo- crats,” was formed here today in an effort to rally anti-New Deal Demo- | crats into active opposition to the re- election of President Roosevelt ‘While renouncing President Roose- velt, the conference did not indorse any other candidate. Ev tre Assoctated Press. CONNERSVILLE, Ind, August 8 — Col. Frank Knox, charging the Gov- ernment now is “the worst managed campaign as Republican vice presi- | dential candidate here tonight by out- lining what a Republican administra- tion would offer in place of the New | | Deal, At the head of the new organization is James A. Reed, former Democratic Senator from Missouri, who an- nounced plans for sending speakers “into every State in the Union,” and | business in the world,” opened his for machinery roughly paralleling that of the two major parties. Reed em- phasized, however, that the organiza- tion was not a “new party.” The organization was effected at & | meeting attended by more than 40 “Such a business needs a new man- Democrats opposed to President ager,” the Chicagoan told a State Roosevelt. Preceding its formation, & rally of Indiana Republicans. The subcommittee drafted a declaration of scene was an outdoor meeting, in u ' opposition to Mr. Roosevelt, asserting natural amphitheater in Roberts Park | at the outskirts of Connersville. | O. T. Flint and Malcolm Tingley, | co-chairmen, estimated that the crowd in the grandstand and on the grassy hillside totaled 50.000. Telling “what the Republican party has to offer,” Col. Knox declared that it successful in the Fall it would give “honest business” a free hand, but strike out against monopoly, sweat shops and “exploiting employers.” It proposes in addition, said Knox to reduce taxes and “end waste of the people’s money.” “With this program in operation | the forces of recovery will be un- leashed.” Knox asserted. “Idle to Receive Work.” “Millions of unemployed will be re- turned to honest work and earned wages.” ‘The colonel's address in this East | Central Indiana city of 12,000 was the | first, he said, of the Republican na- tional campaign. It was the first major address by Col. Knox or Gov. Alf M. Landon, presidential candi- date, since their acceptance speeches. | For Knox, it marked the first stop | on a coast-to-coast stumping schedule which will take him into 35 States. His address climaxed a day and night Six cruisers and one aircraft carrier |TAlly in which Indiaca Republicans will be joining the fleet. They repre-;‘“"‘he" their drive to regain State sent a net addition to the size of the |Offices. The meeting was held in Navy and no ships will be retired to (See KNOX, Page A-15.) make room for them. Thus an en- e e s |WIDOW OF AVIATOR BENNETT MARRIES The increase will bring the enlisted strength, if the Budget Bureau ap- proves, to a total of 105,000. The Navy has authorization to bring its total to 100,000 during the present fiscal year. The preliminary budgetary plans call also for funds to commence build- ing in the next fiscal year at least six submarines and twelve destroyers. The building program might possibly be increased if found necessary to keep pace with construction in Great Britain, which has already invoked the escalator clause in the present London naval treaty. That quantitative limi- tation pact expires December 31, leav- ing the field open to any amount of construction thereafter. The Navy Department plans to do no more than (See NAVY, Page A-4) _— “Politics” Laid to Robbers. HAVANA, August 8 (®)—Four armed men entered the home of Fran- cisco Salazar today, seized $2,200 in cash, and took Salazar and his daugh- ter, Inez, in an automobile to a Hav- ana suburb where they were released. The Salazars said members of the group claimed to be police agents look- ing for incriminating documents. Hav- ana police said they were searching for the four. Becomes Wife of Arthur Hoffman, Representative of Music Publishers’ Group. By tre Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 8.—Mrs. Cora Lillian Bennett, widow of the aviator, Floyd Bennett, was married today to Arthur Hoffman, representative of a music publishers’ group, at his Brook- lyn home. The bride, who learned to fly after the death of Bennett in 1928, was ap- pointed last December to direct a study of domestic service by the In- dustrial Re-employment Bureau of the Works Progress Administration. The Bennetts were married in 1916 at Ticonderoga, N. Y. Hoffman is secretary of the Society of Old Brooklynites. His first wife, the former Vietta Hiler, died last October. Bennett died of pneumonia result- ing from exposure in his rescue flight to Labrador to aid the crew of the stranded German trans-Atlantic plane the Bremen. His widow helped to dedicate New York's $4,000,000 airport named in his honor in 1931. Plane Wreckag Of D. C. Wom The fate of a Washington woman and three other occupants of an air- plane, which disappeared in the Alaskan wilds a year ago, was re- vealed yesterday when a prospector came on & few charred bones and the remains of an airplane on a barren mountain range 175 miles east of Fairbanks. Mrs. John Lonz, the former Miss Betty Glaum, an F. E. R. A. worker here, was a bride of only a few weeks when she took off from Dawson with her husband and two others on a flight to Fairbanks that never was leted. co%}:e plane was piloted by Arthur F. Hines, and the third passenger was Alton Nordale of Fairbanks, clerk of a Federal court. The puty_ disap- peared last August 19, and airplanes searched the White River country e Bares Deaths an and 3 Others for weeks in a futile effort to locate it. The searchers were encouraged from time to time by reports from airplane pilots and prospectors who had glimpsed wavering columns of smoke in the mountains from some unexplained source. It was hoped the passengers might have survived a forced landing. John Hadjukovich, the prospector, flew to Fairbanks yesterday and re- ported the gruesome discovery. He said he and two companions came on the charred wreckage and bones at a 5,000-foot elevation on a range ris- ing from the Healy River, a tributary of the Tanana. The Associated Press reported that Hadjukovich brought the number plate of the burned airplane to Fair- (Bes PLANE, Page A-12) ~ | the group would not support him foi | re-election and soliciting the co-op eration of others “if they feel that our conclusions are sound.” No Group Indorsement. A number of those who participated have publicly declared their support | for Alf M. Landon, the Republican nominee, but Southern opposition de- veloped and there was no outright group indorsement of the Kansas Governor. Leadership for the meeting here was furnished by Reed, Joseph B. Ely, former Governor of Massachu- setts; Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under President Wilson, and Henry Breckinridge, who opposed Mr. Roosevelt in several primary elec- tions. Asked what the organization’s cam- paign tactics would be, Sterling E Edmunds of St. Louis, who was namec secretary, said he and his colleague would wage an intensive campal against Roosevelt, leaving it to t individual judgment of their followe:s whether to vote for Landon or stay at | home on election day. “Principles” Are Cited. A declaration of principles, drawn up by & committee, charged the Roosevelt administration had dis- closed “a perversion of heart and spirit, which can neither be remedied nor condoned.” It added: “We will, therefore, not support for re-election the candidates of the Phil- adelphia convention for President and Vice President, and we call upon all loyal and sincere Democrats to con- sider the question of their duty to the country in the approaching election with the same earnestness that has guided our deliberations—joining with |us if they feel that our conclusions are sound and our anxiety for the future of our party is justified.” “The conference decided,” an ac- companying statement said, “that it would not at this time and on this occasion stress President Roosevelt's disregard of the platform upon which he was elected, his various breaches of campaign promises solemnly re- peated from time to time, his light regard for his oath to preserve and defend the Constitution, and his dis- respect for the great court charged with upholding and interpretation of the Constitution; his frequent dispiays of contempt for this great instrument of freedom, his repudiation of the traditional principles of the party to which he owes his election as Presi= dent, the appalling and wanton waste " (See OPPOSITION, Page A-12) BROMLEY DEATHS BRING PLEA TO CLOSE HILL Caoroner's Jury Recommends Ac- tion After Probe of Accident Fatal to Colmar Manor Trio. By tne Associated Press. BEAVER, Pa, August 8—A cor oner's jury recommended today the closing of steep Faliston Hill, where three members of the Bromley family of Colmar Manor, Md, died in & flaming automobile Thursday after & moving van skidded and crashed into it. Only Bonita Bromley, 16, survived the crash that took the lives of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs, Bert Bromley, and her brother, Bertram, 12. Bromley was an employe of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion at Washington. The jury recommended the drivers of the truck, W. Mason McCullough and Albert Brain, both of Detroit, Mich., be held for court. They are charged with involuntary man- slaughter, Miss Bromley attended the inquest. She and the other members of family were en route from their ho: in Colmar Manor, Md., for & vacation in California.