Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle winds, mostly northeast. Temperatures —Highest, 86, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68, at 3 a.m. today. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 No. 33,705. post office, Wa: Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. REBELS SMASHING LOYALIST DEFENSE OF SAN SEBASTIAN Tolosa, South of Resort, Is Taken in Drive for Out- let on Sea. GUADARRAMA SECTOR 1S WITHOUT ACTIVITY Bitter Hand-to-Hand Fighting Oc- curs on Mountain Sides Near Oyarzun. BACKGROUND— Spain’s influence as a world power, dating from the discoveries of Columbus in the New World and her development of a closed co- lonial system there, began to de- cline in 1588 with the defeat of the Spanish armada by the British. The rebellion of the Spanish | eolonies in America in the 1820s made Spain again a strictly conti= mental European power, and her de- i feat by the United States in 1898 put the finishing touches to the movement begun two centuries earlier. The historic Bourbon monarchy fled in 1931, when a republican revolution swept the country. The current civil war is the expression of the resentment of the Spanish masses against centuries of rule by the church in league with the land- owning class. It finds Fascists and Monarchists trying to overthrow the Leftists Popular Front regime. BULLETIN. A new appeal to Americans to leave the danger zone of the Span- ish revolution was dispatched to- day by William Phillips, Acting Secretary of State, in a message to the American Embassy at Madrid, which State Department officials said applied also to all other strife-torn cities in Spain where Americans are located. Phil- lips said it was sent because of reports indicating an increasingly serious situation at Madrid and the possibility that present facili- | ties for reaching Valencia by train from the capital may be disrupted. By tbe Associated Press. Spanish loyalists laid down a deaf- | ening barrage of shells and bullets in | the south today to stop the rebel drive on Madrid as a general rebel offensive began on the San Sebastian-Irun front. Insurgent troops occupied Tolosa on the road to San Sebastian, Bay of Biscay seaside resort. Apparently repulsed for the time | being in the Guadarrama Mountains, the doorway to Madrid on the north, the insurgents in turn concentrated a | savage attack against loyalist-held | communities on the Peninsula’s north- | ern seaboard. The deep-throated explosion of | shells along the entire front abutting | 8an Sebastian and Irun ostensibly be- | tokened the opening of the rebel at- | tack in the far north which was in- | tended to consolidate rebel control from the Guadarramas to the ocean. Evacuation Held Voluntary. Headquarters of government Leftist | troops at Irun admitted Tolosa had | been taken by Fascists. The government, however, insisted | the city voluntarily had been evac- uated by loyalists in an effort to draw the rebels into a trap. Loyalists, it was said, had taken up better positions north of the city and would endeavor to encircle the Fascists in the town and force their surrender. ‘Tolosa is a few miles south of San Bebastian and 31 miles northwest of yebel-held Pamplona, troop concen- gration point. What was described as a general eebel offonsive got under way throughout the San Sebastian-Irun area, Bitter hand-to-hand fighting took place on the mountain sides facing Oyarzun, shell-racked community 7 miles southeast of San Sebastian, from which foreign diplomats resident there for the Summer were forced to flee less than a fortnight ago. Guadarrama Front Quiet. The rebel offensive in the north, which if successful will achieve a dual purpose—destruction of Loyalist eontrol on Spain’s northern seaboard, and the opening of an avenue to the sea for rebels in need of arms and smmunition—was launched during a period of quiet on the Guadarrama front. In that sector, only a few dozen miles north of Madrid, Fascist forces depleted by the withdrawal of troops gor the drive in the north, apparently marked time waiting to see what suc- cess rebels in the south of Spain en- countered in their effort to sweep worthward on Madrid. The ultimate strategy of Gen, Francisco Franco's Moroccan troops striking north and northeastward is to Join hands with Gen. Emilio Mola's drive from the north on Madrid and encircle the capital city in an attempt to smash the Leftist regime. ‘The immediate objective of the Missing Cruisers And 26 Passengers Are Safe in Port 2 Boats Were Object of Search on Lakes Michi- gan and Ontario. By tne Associated P GREEN BAY, Wis., August 11.—Two large power cruisers for which craft on Lakes Michigan and Superior had been searching were safe in port today with their 26 passengers. The 35-foot Faith of Carvers Bay, Mich., returned to her home port today. The 42-foot Betty Jean of Milwaukee tied up at Port Washing- ton, Wis,, where she was towed last night after breaking her rudder. The Faith, taken out on a pleasure cruise Saturday, had not been in trou- ble and returned to port only because the master of the steamer Winyah of Duluth told Capt. Charles Keendta a widespread search was under way for her. The Faith was crusing in Lake Su- perior near Isle Royale, where 1,800 men are fighting a forest fire. In ad- dition to a crew of two, she carried | 18 persons, all from Carvers Bay vicinity. 15 PATIENTS FLEE AS ASYLUM BURNS 1,600 Inmates Rushed to Safety as Citizens Form Human Lane. By the Associated Press. MT. PLEASANT, Iowa, August 11. —Hospital authorities and highway police today sought 15 patients, be- lieved to have escaped last night when fire destroyed the Iowa Hospital for the Insane here. None of them was believed to be dangerous. Dr. Leonard Ristine, director of the hospital, estimated damage to build- ings and equipment would total $200,- 000 and immediately laid plans for housing the 1625 inmates, all of whom were safely removed from the building. The inmates were tempo- rarily housed in Iowa Wesleyan Col- lege dormitories. The fire. which Dr. Ristine said probably broke out in the recreation hall, destroyed the entire center sec- tion of the hospital. At Des Moines, Robert Miller, sec- retary of the State Board of Control, said the loss would amount to “sev- eral hundred thousand dollars.” Prison Trusties Help. It the hospital were rebuilt the funds would have to come from the State Executive Council's contingent fund, Miller said. Trusties from a nearby prison farm assisted in fighting the fire. “I can't imagine how the blaze started,” Dr. Ristine said. “There wasn’t any inflammable material in the recreation hall.” Many of the 5,000 spectators assisted in controlling the inmates as they were hurried out of the flaming structure. The townspeople locked arms to form a cordon. Down this lane formed by the crowd the attendants conducted their deranged charges—a number of them screaming and wailing in their fright. Patients Carried Out. A number of patients, unable to walk, were carried from the blazing building. Several employes, trapped in their apartments on the upper floors and clad only in night clothing, were brought to the ground on ladders. Ladders also were used in the rescue of members of the New London Fire Co.—one of six rushed to the scene from surrounding towns. They nar- rowly escaped death or injury when a floor of one of the wings collapsed. The assembled fire fighters devoted their efforts to preventing a spread of the flames from the main structure. Fire Spreads Rapidly. ‘The fire started in a wing contain- ing the kitchens, dining halls ahd em- ployes rooms late last night. I. spread rapidly and at 12:40 a.n. the six-story tower surmounting the main structure collapsed. Dr. Ristine directed the evacuation. Many inmates spent the night huddled together on the grounds, while others were housed in smaller buildings. Special trains and busses were called to take them to other institutions at Clarinda, Independence, Woodward and Cherokee. RAIN NOT PREDICTED Gray Skies and Gentle Winds Keep Down Temperature. Gray skies and gentle winds from the northeast were expected to keep down the temperature here at least throughout tomorrow. No rain was predicted, although the Weather Bureau said cloudiness would prevail. Despite sunny weather, the tem- perature yesterday did not go above the 86 recorded at 3:30 p.m. It had @h ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1936—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. TWO NATIONS QuIT OLYMPIC GAMES IN SOCCER DISPUTE Peru, Colombia Withdraw After Contest Is Ordered Replayed. U. S. ENTRANTS SWEEP SPRINGBOARD DIVING Japanese Swimmers Triumph in Men's Relay and Women's Breast Stroke. Point Scores Men's Swimming, Diving. LU e 25 |Germany .. 7 Japan 25 France 3 Hungary . 14 |Great Britain 1 Women's Swimming, Diving. Holland . 17'2 | Denmark Germany . 112 | U. S, Japan __. 10 |Greal Argentina. 5 (Points, which are unofficial, are figured on basis of 10 for first place and 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for the next five places, respectively.) -4 1 n 1 By tbe Assoclated Press. BBRLIN, August 11.—The entire Peruvian delegation will be withdrawn from the Olympic games and will leave for Paris tomorrow as a result of the dispute centering around last Satur- day’'s Olympic soccer game between Peru and Austria, it was announced today. This decision was reached after a wireless telephone conversation be- tween Peruvian Olympic officials and Oscar Benavides, President of Peru. The Colombians, on instructions by their government, informed the Peru- vians they also had decided to with- draw from the games. They asked whether the Peruvians would play anywhere in Europe be- fore quitting the Continent, but Mi- chael Dasso, a member of the Peru- vian Olympic Committee, replied “Pos- itively, no.” ‘We've no faith in European athletics,” Dasso said. “We have come here and found a bunch of merchants.” United States Divers Triumpb. Paced by Dick Degener of Detroit, the United States meanwhile scored its second successive clean sweep in the Olympic springboard diving cham- pionship, but saw its 800-meter relay swimming combination soundly thrashed by the Japanese and looked on with only academic interest as Hideko Maehata, another Japanese ace, romped off with the women's 200- meter breast stroke crown. Degener, third in the springboard | event at Los Angeles four years ago. when Mickey Galitzen and Harold Smith finished one-two, nosed out his teammate, Marshall Wayne of Miami, Fla., for the title this time with 163.57 points. Wayne was second with 159.56 and Al Greene of Chicago took third place with 146.29. Otherwise the Americans were forced to yield the spotlight to the Land of the Rising Sun, although Jack Medica and Ralph Flanagan qualified for the 400-meter free style final and Alice Bridges and Edith Motridge Segal successfully passed their initial tests in the women’s 100- meter backstroke event. The 1932 champion, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, | looked on in the role of spectator. Worid Record Is Set. Japan's relay combination of Masa- nori Yusa, Shigeo Sugiura, Shoji Taguchi and Shigeo Arai established a new world and Olympic record in beating the United States by 15 meters in the 800-meter relay final. The Japanese were clocked in 8 min- utes 515 seconds, shaving 4.6 sec- onds off the new world and Olympic standard they had set up in the trials yesterday. The United States, with a re- vamped line-up, easily held the others safe, but could not threaten the win- ners. With Flanagan and Johnny Macionis of Yale replacing Charles Hutter of Cambridge, Mass, and (See OLYMPICS, Page A-2.) —_ URGES SEARCH PRESSED Actress Says “Spare No Expense” in Hunt for Mother. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., August 11 (#)—Helen Chandler, American ac- tress now playing in England, asked police today to “spare no expense” in & search for her invalid mother, Mrs. Frances Chandler, 48. missing six weeks. “Please press search. If necessary I will return to aid,” a, cablegram from Miss Chandler read. Mrs. Chandler, under a nurse’s care, disappeared from her Hollywood heme June 25 after withdrawing $100 from a8 bank. Detective Lieut. J. L. Dwight said he believed the actress’ mother is living slipped to 68 at 3 am. today. No drastic temperature change was fore- cast. Ebel offensive appeared to be the (See SPAIN, Page A-3.) ALVERSON TO LEAVE EMERGENCY COUNCIL Roosevelt Finally Consents to Chairman’s Resignation, Ef- fective September 1. President Roosevelt has finally con- sented to the resignation of Lyle T. Alverson as chairman of the National Emergency Council, which important post he has been occupying for nearly 8 year. It was said that Alverson's p in retiring is to give his attention to his personal affairs. When he ac- cepted the chairmanship, succeeding Frank Walker, Alverson told the { President he would not be able to serve throughout the year. ! A alone somewhere in the city, since she frequently had expressed a wish for “complete solitude.” Two Rebel Generals Sentenced To Die by Catalan War Chiefs By the Associated Press. BARCELONA, August 11.—Two rebel leaders here were found guilty of insurrection against the constituted government of Spain today and sen- tenced to death by a Catalan war council. The council sat on board the prison ship Uruguay in the harbor. The condemned men were Gen. Manuel Goded and Gen, Burriel. Their trial lasted 5% hours. Only a brief consultation by the war council marked the end of the trial. Then, turning to the prisoners’ counsel, they announced their verdict —death. Goded was in dress uniform. Bur- riel wore civilian clothes. Standing before those who judged him in th dining room of the prison A ship, Goded appeared unmoved as he was told he must die for fomenting insurrection against the government, but his companion was visibly shaken. The board’s decision must be ap- proved by the Catalan military audi- tor, but this, government leaders said, would be a mere formality before the pair officially were condemned to death. Presiding over the tribunal, which included four lieutenant colonels and one major, was Col. Guilleron Pena | Cusi. ‘The government prosecutor de- manded the death penalty for the two generals as leaders of the rebellion. Their counsel pleaded that the two were only the agents in Barcelona of the true leaders of the uprising. N S\ N SPEAKING OF MUSIC FOR ANIMALS! MARY ASTOR DIARY CENTER OF BATILE Actress’ Attorney Blocks At- tempt to Introduce Portion. Kaufman Hunted. BULLETIN, LOS ANGELES, August 11 (#).— Judge Goodwin Knight sharply criticized opposing attorneys in the sensational Mary Astor-Dr. Frank- lyn Thorpe marital dispute today and ordered an adjournment until 2 pm. (5 pm. E. 5. T.) to expe- dite the court hearing. Py tne Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 11.—The purple-penned diary to which gay Mary Astor intrusted the secrels of her film colony life focused attention today at her celebrity-studded child custody suit. A way to unlock the legal door to its contents was sought at a trial which already has introduced in evi- dence such prominent names as John Barrymore, the actor; George S. Kauf- man, the playwright, and Bennett Cerf, former husband of Actress Sylvia Sidney. John Anderson, counsel for Miss Astor's ex-husband, Dr. Frankiyn ‘Thorpe, said he would make strenuous efforts to introduce the journal as evidence the red-haired Miss Astor is not a fit parent for her 4-year-old daughter Marylyn. Miss Astor brought suit to break the order granting the handsome physician sole custody. Anderson earlier tried to introduce a portion of the actress’ diary and Roland Rich Woolley, Miss Astor’s attorney, protested vehemently. The new move was disclosed by Anderson after his questions drew spirited denials from the dainty wit- ness that she carried on boudoir af- fairs with a number of men, whose names he brought up like rabbits from a hat. Kaufman was sought today on a bench warant issued after he did not appear in court in response to a subpoena. The actress has testified that Dr. Thorpe knew of and condoned her relationship with Kaufman. Anderson coss-examined her at length about it, eliciting sharp denials she had told her husband she lived with the writer. A. P. M. Narlan, co-counsel for Dr. Thorpe, quoted Irving Thalberg, movie producer, as saying the lanky play- wright had “disappeared.” Hour after hour, Miss Astor sat through Anderson's extended cross- questioning. She spoke in a low, flat voice. Only occasionally did she flash any show of fire. Questions about drinking were in- (See ASTOR, Page A-2) PRISONER KILLED ON WAY T0 TRIAL Georgian, Accused of Slaying Wife, Is Shot Down by Her Brothers. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Ga. August 11.—Sheriff Frank Couch said Harry Howe, ac- cused of the shotgun killing of his wife April 26, was slain by two of her brothers today on the way from jail to ‘the court house. The brothers, Worth and Pinson Brown, were ar- rested. “Just as we reached the court house lawn,” the sheriff said, “they stepped out from behind a bush and began firing with pistols. They didn't say anything. Howe started to run.” Couch said the prisoner fell before four shots. Howe was to have gone to trial to- day on a murder charge for the kill- ing of his wife. Her body, only partly clothed, was found in the woods April 27 beside a motor truck which offi- cers said was registered in the name of her husband. The two brothers offered no re- sistance to arrest. The sheriff said the county grand jury is now in ses- sion, indicating an early investiga- tion of the case. —_— Last Survivor Dies. BARNSLEY, Yorkshire, England, August 11 (#).—Alfred Brown, engine- man at the Wharncliffe Woodmoore Colliery, who was the sole survivor of the Barnsley mine explosion, died in & hospital today. His death brought the total fatalities to 58. R. H. Ickes Accused In Traffic Crash; Must Face Hearing Man Described as Secre- tary’s Son Is Charged With Drunk Driving. Ry tne Assoclated Press. WOBURN, Mass.. August 11 —Dis- said today he had issued a complaint charging Robert H. Ickes, described by Patrolman John Dolan as the son of the Secretary of the Interior, Har- old Ickes with operating a car while under the influence of liquor. ‘The complaint will be heard August 19, Loring said. He added that he acted after Sergt. Charles Harold of ‘Winchester police reported that a car Harold said was operated by Ickes struck a parked car in Winchester at 1:20 am. No one was injured, but fenders of both cars were dented. Ickes was alone in his car, while the other ma- | chine was unoccupied. Ickes was not detained. ‘The cabinet member’s son has been here since June working as a clerk on the | Public Works Administration sewer project. LINDBERGH SHOWS ARTIFICAL HEART Flyer Demonstrates Inven- tion to Large Audience of Scientists. Ry the Assoclated Press. COPENHAGEN, August 11.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today demon- strated his mechanical heart to a large audience of fellow scientists. America’s noted flier, who turned to the laboratory in co-operation with Dr. Alexis Carrel to invent an arti- ficial heart, appeared on a platform before the International Congress of Experimental Cytology to explain the apparatus. Only 10 scientists at a time were admitted to a small room where the apparatus was working with a piece of thyroid gland. The colonel and Dr. Carrel together explained the details of the heart's operation. Mrs. Carrel was present, but the colonel's wife did not attend the dem- onstration. Dr. Carrel started the explanation of the apparatus with a short lecture outlining modern cell study. He ad- mitted much exploratory work was yet to be done. Nourishment Not Known. Nourishment of the cell, he stated, was among the things that science did not know, but with the apparatus which he and the colonel have de- veloped, “We have something very important for the study of the ques- tion of how to keep cells alive. “Thanks to modern physiology, we now understand how cells build up living matter.” In the first groups of scientists to watch the demonstration were the Frenchmen, E. Faure-Fremiet and Albert Policard. Each of the groups which filed into the small demonstration room re- mained about 15 minutes. The colonel himself exhibited a re- tiring modesty in explaining what his :2:" of the experimental work had n. Death Notices Editorial _____ Lost and Found Melcher in Hollywood. News Comment Features A-9 --A-2 Women’s Features trict Court Clerk Charles H. Loring | ‘Woburn-Winchester-Medford | 9 SENATORS FACE PRIVARIES TODAY 0Old-Age Pension Arkansas Issue as Robinson Seeks Fifth Term. Br tne Assoclated Press. Presidential politics went into tempo- rary eclipse today as State primaries— in which two prominent Senators sought renomination—attracted atten- tion. Townsendism was an issue in Arkan- sas as citizens there voted their choice from United States Senator down to constable. Joseph T. Robinson, Demo- cratic leader of the Senate, seeking a fifth term, was opposed by Cleveland Holland, Fort Smith attorney, who bears the indorsement of the State Townsend Plan Convention, and J. Rosser Venable, Little Rock attorney, who criticized Robinson’s legislative record. Pension Feature in Idaho, ‘The $200-a-month old-age pension plan also featured the primary cam- paign in Idaho, where Senator Wil- liam Borah fought for the Republican nomination toward a sixth consecutive term. His opponent was Byron Defen- bach, former State treasurer, who is supported by Townsendites. C. Ben Ross, former cowboy and three times Idaho's Governor, con- tested for the Democratic senatori nomination with United States Attor- ney John Carver. Florida had a special primary today to settle a contest between former Gov. Doyle E. Carlton and former Judge C. O. Andrews for the Demo- cratic nomination to succeed the late Senator Park Trammell. While President Roosevelt and Gov. (See PRIMARIES, Page A-4.) NAVAL OFFICER’S WIFE, ILL, TAKEN FROM SHIP Mrs. Clarence Hinkamp, Brought Ashore by Plane, Rushed to Boston Hospital. By tne Assoclated Press. BOSTON, August 11.—Mrs. Clar- ence Hinkamp, wife of the command- ing officer of the U. 8. S. Wyoming, was taken to Baker Memorial Hos- pital for treatment after the Coast Guard plane Canopus rushed her here from a steamer off Nantucket Light Vessel. Hospital authorities said Mrs. Hin- kamp, who was en route to Norfolk, Va., from Europe, was not “danger- ously ill.” They declined to disclose the nature of her illness, but said she was under observation at present. The Canopus, flying from the Salem base, took Mrs. Hinkamp off the steamship City of Baltimore at 7 am. MISS PERKINS SPEAKS U. 8. to Work for Better Life, She Tells Labor Body. GENEVA, August 11 (P)—Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor in the Roosevelt cabinet, told the In- ternational Labor Organization today that irrespective of political parties, the United States steadfastly will work for a better life for the Amer- ican people. She was applauded when she described the need for raising stand- ards of living of the world’s workers. Secretary Perkins stressed the nec- essity of living up to the words of : “To create is the victory of per- ot the victory of force.” $38,250 Worth The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. %%kKkK (P Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 129,923 (Some Teturns not yet recsived.) TWO CENTS. TWO JAPANESE NAVAL OFFICERS NAMED IN PLOT Former Aides of Embassy Here Cited in New Spy Indictment Against F PRESENT NAVAL arnsworth. ATTACHE DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF ACCUSED U. S.MAN Foreign Pair Believed Protected by Diplomatic Immunity—Both Have Left Posts Here. Departing from the usual custom of shielding suspected foreign espionage agents, the District grand jury today named two former assistant naval attaches of the Japanese Embassy as the Japanese agents who allegedly conspired with John S. Farnsworth, former United States Navy lieutenant commander, to sell American military secrets to Japan. The Japanese, named in a second indictment against Farnsworth as alleged conspirators were Comdr. Yosiyuki Itimiya and Lieut. Comdr. Okira Yamaki. authorities believe they are protected they were identified. Comdr. Itimiya was said to have last Fall. several times and having taken him to naval attache’s office is located. enterprises. 2,400-Mile Drive NetsD.C. Taximan $260 From 2 Vets Pair Use Bonus Checks for Trip to San Antonio, Tex. By 1he Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., August 11.— Army life memories and a pair of bonus checks gained San Antonio two new residents today—and netted Taxi | Driver Ray Rose $260 and a cross- country tour. Last Wednesday Sergt. Denny O'Brien, 51, and William Harney, 56, both retired, collected their bonus checks in Washington, D. C., and struck up a conversation of the good old days—30 years in the Army. Sergt. O'Brien recalled a visit to San Antonio in 1911. Sergt. Harney said it sounded like a nice place. So they called a cab in Washington. Driver Rose responded and picked up the two “fares” for Texas. Thus began a leisurely 2.400-mile motor trip across the country. Rose took his wife to Charleston, S. C., for a visit, then chauffeured the two Army men across Florida, Louisiana and into Texas. The journey ended at 5 p.m. Mon- day. Rose started back alone—with $260 “cab fare” safely tucked away. ESKIMO STARVATION PERIL IS GROWING Medical Missionary on Arctic Rim Says Natives Are Eating Shoes and Boots. B2 the Assoctated Press. BARROW, Alaska, August 11.—Dr. Henry W. Griest, Presbyterian med- ical missionary, said today 500 Eski- mos on the Arctic rim are on the | verge of starvation. One died of hunger. Dr. Griest said the natives are eating shoes, boots, coverings from boats and animals that had been dead a “considerable length of time.” Joe Arney, Dr. Griest said, died soon after bringing his emaciated wife and children on a hungry trek from the interior to the coast. “Many others are now exhausted from hunger and would have been dead long ago but for eating their sled dogs,” Dr. Griest said. He said he received a message from ‘Tom Gordon, a Scotch trader on Bar- ter Island, about 200 miles east of Point Barrow, that if prospective food supplies reached the island soon “many lives probably can be saved.” The Government has ordered food placed aboard the motor ship North Star, which sailed from Juneau Sun- day. MARINE OFFICER GIVEN MEDAL FROM NICARAGUA B the Associated Pross. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 11.— Capt. Samuel 8. Jack, U. 8. M. C, a student at the Navy Post-graduate School here, yesterday received the ploma. The cross was awarded by the President of the Republic of Nicaragua for services in that country. of Narcotics Seized on Liner in Boston By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 11.—Customs agents found 70 pounds of narcotics valued at $38,250 hidden in the sand ballast and on the shelter deck of the Black Diamond Line freighter, Black Tern, on her arrival today from Antwerp. The captain, S. F. Ing, and offi- cials of the line were absolved from any connection with the attempted smuggling by the Federal agents, who said the seizure was the largest ever .B-12 “l made in the port of Boston. Ing wirelessed customs men last night when 13 pounds of narcotics were found on the shelter deck. Agents who boarded the vessel refused to «allow any one to land or board the vessel pending further search, which yielded an additional 57 pounds packed in tins wrapped in French newspapers, and buried in the bal- last. Capt. Ing said the vessel was bound for New York and stopped here to discharge freight. They were not indicted themselves. & Nicaraguan Cross of Valor and di- | It was understood prosecuting by diplomatic immunity. The indictment did not include the official status of the Japanese, but at the office the Japanese naval attache in the Alban Towers Apartment, departed in 1934 and Comdr. Yamaki Employes of the hotel reported having seen Farnsworth at the apartment the fourth floor, on which the Japanese Capt. Tamon Yamaguchi, present naval attache, stated that he did not know Farnsworth and that his office had had no dealings with him. Japanese naval officers, he said, are prohibited in engaging in private commercial “Overt Acts” Set Forth. After outlining the alleged con- spiracy, said to have been carried out | from January 1, 1933, to July 13, 1936, the indictment set forth the following overt acts: ! That on January 1, 1933, Farns- | worth went to 3729 Morrison street. ‘That Farnsworth went to the Navy Department on August 1, 1934, and on January 1, 1935. ‘That Farnsworth went to Annapolis, Md., on April 1, 1935. That Farnsworth went to Alban 'l";;uers on January 1 and February 1, 1935, Address Explained. The address, 3729 Morrison street, is the home of Kiyoshi K. Kawakami, Washington correspondent for the Osaka Daily, where Farnsworth is al- leged to have met Comdr. Itimiya January 1, 1933. Kawakam! said that Comdr. Itimi- va had a room in a private home near “his and asked permission to meet a man whom he later learned was | Farnsworth in his study, explaining he | did not wish to entertain a stranger | in his bed room. } Kawakami granted permission and the Japanese naval officer and Farns- 1. worth met there for a conference, the correspondent stated. He said he was ! not present and only saw Farnsworth as he was going out the door. Farnsworth, Itimiya and Yamaki, according to the indictment, “know- ingly, willfully, unlawfully, corruptly ‘and feloniously conspired with each ‘ other and with divers other persons to the grand jury unknown to unlaw- fully deliver and attempt to communi- cate to a foreign government—to wit, | Japan"—various documents “relating to the national defense, with reason to | believe an intent that such things, or any of them, were to be used to the injury of the United States and to the | advantage of Japan.” Documents Are Specified. ‘The indictment specified the follow- | ing documents: “Writings, code books, signal books, sketches, photographs and negatives, blue prints, plans, maps, models, notes, instruments and appliances.” In these specifications the indict- | ments followed the language of the espionage statutes and did not disclose | which of them are alleged to have | been involved in the charge of con- | spiracy. | The case was presented to the grand | jury by Assistant United States Attor- ney Samuel F. Beach. Among the wit- nesses were Lieut. (j. g) William S. Pye, now stationed at San Pedro, Calif , and Lieut. Comdr. Thomas P. Wyn- koop, stationed at Bremerton, Wash. | Both flew here from the West Coast to appear as witnesses. Witnesses Disclosed. In the first indictment Farnsworth was charged with turning over to the Japanese government confidential naval document entitled: “The Service of Information and Security.” He al- legedly took this pamphlet from the desk of Lieut. Comdr. Leslie G. Gehres on August 1, 1934, the date of one of the alleged overt acts in the second in- dictment. In addition to Gehras, other wit- nesses at the first inquiry were Lieut. Comdr. Edward A. Mitchell, Fulton Lewis, jr., newspaper correspondent, | who supposedly told the grand jury of statements Farnsworth is alleged to have made to him: A. R. Rosen, Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation agent, and Miss Grace Jamieson, employe of a photostat concern. Arrested here last month, Farns- worth is being held in the District Jail in lieu of $10,000 bond. HINDENBURG AHEAD OF FORMER RECORD Zeppelin, Averaging 100 Knots Over Part of Course, Due to Set New Mark. By ire Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 11.—The Zep- pelin Hindenburg, averaging 100 knots over part of her course, ap- peared to be certain of setting a new trans-Atlantic record on her return voyage to Frankfurt-am-Main, Ger- many, from Lakehurst, N. J., today. Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann, master of the airship, told of the speed in & radio message to F. W. von Meister, special United States representative for the Hindenburg operators.