Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tomorrow; gentle vari- able winds. Temperatures—Highest, 78, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 67, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A-12. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 .+ No. 33,706. BORAH, ROBINSON LEAD IN PRIMARIES AS TOWNSENDITE WINS IN' FLORIDA Idahoan Has 26,593 to 7,945 for Defenbach—Ar- kansan Leads Opponents, 108,988 to 39,137. ANDERSON IS VICTOR FOR TRAMMELL'’S SEAT Gov. Ross Appears Certain to| Fight It Out With Borah—Pen- sion Advocate Wins Close Race | for Post Left Vacant by Death | of Speaker Byrns. | Victor in Primaries, Arkansas Judge Dies Ignorant of Outcome By the Associated Press. PINE BLUFF, Ark., August 12. —Chancellor Harvey R. Lucas was renominated for the bench in the fourth judicial district at Tuesday's Democratic primary election. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Miss Barrie Ends ‘Engagement’ With John Barrymore Trailing with only 2,956 votes against 4,132 in nearly complete returns, his opponent, United States Commissioner Coy M. Nixon of Pine Bluff, admitted defeat. But Chancellor Lucas, known throughout the State as the first Arkansas judge to declare a de- pression moratorium on home- stead foreclosures, was dead. He succumbed to a heart ailment at | | his home last night, unaware of | | the outcome. Party officials were undecided what course they would follow to fill the vacancy in the ticket. By tne Associated Press. Two Senate old-timers—Robinson, Arkansas Democrat. and Borah, Idaho Republican—won substantial leads for renomination over advocates of the townsend old-age pension plan in pri- maries yesterday. In Florida victory for the Democratic senatorial nomina- tion was conceded to a Townsend sup- porter. Charles O. Andrews, by iormer Gov. Doyle E. Cariton. | Latest figures from Little Rock gave Robinson, the Der atic floor lead- er, twice as many votes as his two opponents. Gov. C. Ben Ross was leading John Carver for the Democratic nomination to oppose Borah. The Florida primary was occasioned by the death of Senator Park Tram- mell. | A margin of 13 votes brought victory in the official count today to Richard | M. Atkinson, Townsend-supported | Nashville, Tenn., attorney, in his race for Democratic nomination for the | congressional seat held by the latc Joseps W. Byrns. 4 BORAH FAR IN LEAD. Certain to Meet Gov. Ross in Election Clash in November. BOISE, Idaho, August 12 (#)—Wil- liam E. Borah, veteran Republican. | and Democratic Gov. C. Ben Ross were swept today by mounting Idaho pri- mary pluralities toward a general elec- | tion clash over the Senate seat Borah has held three decades. The 71-year-old dean of the United States Senate ran up an apparently | overwhelming lcad in his race with | ‘Townsend-backed Byron Defenbach, former gubernatorial candidate and Btate treasurer. The champion of $200-a-month pensions for the aged trailed with | 7,945 votes to Borah's 26,593 in re- | turns from 498 of the State's 850 precincts. One Townsend-indorsed congressional candidate also lagged. Another was unopposed. E. C. Davis, State Townsend man- eger, had publicly claimed Townsend “control” of 100,000 of Idaho’s 200,- 000 eligible voters. And before yes- terday's State-wide balloting close | friends of Borah said the Senator was not convinced Townsendites would not poll a heavy vote. Gov. Ross Weathers Storm. Gov. Ross, tanned ex-cowboy, weathered a storm over State tax policies and drew away from United States District Attorney John Carver, although his lead was far short of Borah’s, with slightly more than half the total State precincts heard from. 1In 453 precincts, Ross, now complet- ing a record as the only native Idahoan to reach the Governor’s chair and the only Governor to serve three terms, polled 19,581 votes to 15,745 for Carver. Ross said as he eyed his lead: “I'm just as confident as ever that T'll take Senator Borah for a cleaning.” Defenbach said “Borah’s 3-to-1 lead was a little more than I ex- pected him to get.” Asked if he would run on the Inde- pendent Townsend ticket in the No- vember 3 general election—he was nominated at a State Townsend con- vention yesterday—he added: ~“I expect to have an interesting statement to make in that connection * * ¢« I am first a Republican and my services are at the disposal of the party.” Townsend Manager Davis said his group would “carry on to the finish.” Race Still in Doubt. An eight-sided race for the Demo- eratic gubernatorial nomination re- mained a matter of conjecture, Mayor Barzilla Clark of Idaho Falls, munici~ pal power champion, held a siight margin over Attorney General Bert H. Miller, with Lieut. Gov., G. P. Nix of Moscow third. Frank L. Stephan of Twin Falls— the defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate when Ross captured a third consecutive term in 1934—clinched his party’s nomination over L. .———-—-———————& (See PRIMARIES, Page A-4.) | @h WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON CREW SHATTERS RECORD: U.S. NATATORS WIN Medica Sets Mark in 400- Meter Race as Japanese Stars Trail. U. S. GIRL, 13, TRIUMPHS IN DIVING COMPETITION “Baby” of Team Leads in Clean Sweep of Event—Chicago Boxer Is Beaten. Point Totals Men's Swimming. Hungary 14 | Gt. Britain_. Women's Swimming. el 20 | Argentina .. _-17'; | Denmark . Germany -16'2 | Gt. Britain_. Japan ___.11 ! (Points, which are unofficial, are based on 10 for first place and 5. 4, 3, 2, 1, respectively, for the next five places.) By ine Associated Press. BERLIN, August 12.—The American Olympic outlook took on a brighter hue today on the might of her Far Western representatives. The University of Washington eight cracked the course and Olympic record in 6:008 in its rowing trial, Jack Medica established a new Olympic mark winning the 400-meter free-style swimming title, and little Marjorie ELAINE BARRIE. Y the Assoctated Press. HOLLYWOOD, August 12—Dark- eyed Elaine Barrie, 21-year-old | actress, broke her “engagement” to Actor John Barrymore, but kept the | veteran screen lover's 8!p-carat | diamond ring today. Gestring led an American sweep in the pringboard diving final. Until the Pacific Coast oarsmen struck out in their “husky clipper” th~ | | American Armada, | continued to trail their German as | well as other foreign rivals. But Al | Ulbrickson’s sweep-swingers sent in other classes, a crowd of 25,000 at Grunau on “Der Lange See” back on its collective heeis as they smashed the course mark of 6:09 and the former Olympic standard of 6:03.2 made by California’s Bears | in 1928 in beating a gallant Britisn boatlead by half a length. The Britons | were timed in 6:02.1. Barrymore, ill with a serious lil-‘ ment, lay in a sanitarium secluded and silent while the brunette New Yorker announced at her apartment: | “Receat events have shown con- clusively that it would be imposible (See BARRIE, Page A-2.) LAWYERS CONFER | WTH ASTOR JUDGE Both Hopeful for Peaceful Settlement, but Say None Yet Reached. BULLETIN. LOS ANGELES, August 12 (#).— | The stumbling block to a settle- | ment of the Mary Astor-Dr. Frank- lyn Thorpe marital dispute, said Attorney Joseph Anderson today, is “extraneous matter not intro- duced in evidence. By the Assoctated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 12.—With | attorneys for both sides in the Mary | Astor-Dr. Franklyn Thorpe marital | dispute saying that no agreement has been reached, the lawyers went into conference with Superior Judge Good- win J. Knight at 10 a.m. today, the hour set for the resumption of the trial. The attorneys, without saying what | was the point preventing an agree- | ment which involves the custody of the couple’s 4-year-old daughter, Marylyn, indicated they were still hopeful for a settlement. “We are prepared, however, to con- tinue the trial of the case if we do not get our terms,” said Joseph Ander- son, attorney for Dr. Thorpe. Judge Opposes Sparring. Judge Knight yesterday expressed hope that an agreement between the attorneys could be reached, and warned that unless they speeded up trial of the suit and stopped asking “irrelevant questions,” he would take the questioning of witnesses into his own hands. Judge Knight locked himself in his chambers with Anderson and Roland Rich Woolley, the latter Miss Astor's attorney. “We definitely have not reached an agreement,” said Woolley. ‘“However, we have not given up hope.” An attorney for a powerful film in- dustry group, asking first that his name be withheld, said in an inter- view “there’s a lot going on behind the scenes.” “We've tried hard and sincerely,” he added, “to meet the demands of the legion of decency and other groups— and we don't want that whole situa- tion to be stirred up again.” The movie actress’ attorney, how- ever, replied today: “Miss Astor has not been intimi- dated by Hollywood motion picture magnates. We consented to a truce in (See ASTOR, Page A-3.) HARRISON CALLED White House Summons Senator to “Important Conference.” Senator Pat Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi has been summoned hur- riedly by President Roosevelt to a con- ference here tomorrow morning. ‘The purpose of the conference was not disclosed. Stephen T. Early, one of Mr. Roose- velt’s secretaries, said: Otherwise, Germany. for the second straight day, monopolized the naval tests, her oarsmen capturing their heats in the pair-oared with coxswain, four-oared without coxswain and dou- ble scull events. U. S. Oarsmen Trail. Americans rowed fifth behind the Germans in the former events and also were fifth in the sculling heat when the judges awarded fourth place to Australia after studving photo- graphs of the finish. The sculling heat was won by France in 6:48. Medica negotiated the 400-meter final in 4:44.5, clipping one second off the new Olympic mark set up by Japan’s Shumpei Uto, who placed sec- ond in the championship race, while Ralph Flanagan of Miami, America's other finalist, took fourth behind Shozo Makino of Japan. The 13-year-old Margie Gestring of Los Angeles, baby member of the American team, mates, Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Mrs. Dorothy Poynton Hill of Los Angeles, as the | trio, in that order, gave Uncle Sam his second straight diving sweep. The | men, led by Dick Degener, did it yes- terday. Chicago Heavyweight Loses. The American basket ball team, top- heavy favorite to clinch the Olympic title, moved into the semi-final round with a 56-23 victory over the Philip- pines, but the boxing squad lost another member when Art Oliver, Chi- cago heavyweight, lost on points to Tanberg of Sweden in a second-round bout and was eliminated. It was the first time out for the Chicagoan, who had drawn a first-round bye. Meanwhile the numerous disputes which threatened to disrupt the yachting competition in the six and eight meter classes apparently were | settled. The committee awarded the first-place gold medal to Italy in the larger class and Norway defeated Ger- many in a sail-off for second place. However, the contestants weren't satisfied with the committee’s action in naming Italy winner and another meeting was to be held today to con- sider the latest difficulties. Germany carried off team and indi- vidual honors in the men’s gymnastic competition, while the equestrian sports began with the dressage event. Taken unawares by a strong British challenge, Washington's crew turned loose its power to win the first heat of eight-oared rowing competition. Overhaul British Crew, Trailing most of the way after a slow start, the Huskies flashed a sen- sational spurt and overhauled the British in the last few strokes to win by a scant half length. The victory qualified the Huskies, Poughkeepsie champions, for Friday’s final, but it took all the power they had to make the grade. With the stroke oar, Don Hume of Olympia, Wash,, still under weight as (See OLYMPICS, Page A-4.) Readers’ Guide Cross-word Puzzle . Death Notices _____ Melcher in Hollywood. News Comment Features A-11 Radio -_______________B-11 Serial Story . “I called Senator Harrison last night and asked him to come to an impor- tant conference with the President to- morrow morning. That is all I can say about it.” A-14-15-16 Washington Wayside. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1936—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ¢ Eoening Star BETWEEN SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS! IINNESOTA'S FIRE - PERIL WORST EVER State Forester Fears Wind | Will Sweep Forest Blazes Out of Control. Ry the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn., August 12.—Con- ditions in Northern Minnesota, spotted with dangerous brush and timber fires, never have been so serious, Grover | Conzet. State forester. said today. He warned the situation is growing worse daily. } “We fear a high wind will whip| many of the fires out of control.” said! | Conzet. “We are buving fire-fighting equipment and getting it into the areas as rapidly as possible, but we can't get enough equipment. “Today we are shopping by wire and | telephone all over the United Staies {in an attempt to buy all the hose available.” | Simultaneously, E. V. Willard, Stat Conservation Commission, left by plane for the fire districts. [ Fresh Outbreak of Fires. | Conzet's announcement came with fresh outbreaks of forest and brush | fires in Minnesota and Wisconsin that threaten lives and property. Eght hundred men fought the Ben- | nett frre in Upper Wisconsin as this blaze again changed direction and | threatened both Bennett and Haw- | thorne, directly in its path. Haw- | thorne residents were ready to evacu- | ate. | There was a heavy rain last night, | but none fell in the path of the fires. | eclipsed her older | > In Minnesota, near the Canadian | boundary, a timber and brush fire | roared out of control in the unsettled | Kabetogama Peninsula country. Forest | fighters were beset with difficulty in combating this conflagration since it was in an almost inaccessible region and men and equipment had to be | transported by water. Rush Reinforcements. Reinforcements were rushed to dan- | ger points along the North Woods fire | lines today as several uncontrolled | conflagrations raised apprehension anew. | Flames that originated 20 miles | south of Superior, Wis., charred more | than 3,000 acres of forests and leaped across the Minnesota border near Duxbury. Two hundred men and equipment were rushed to the aid of a crew of 650 struggling to stem the fire. Keep Anxious Vigil. Residents of the Chaffey, Wis., sec- tion fled. Anxious vigils were kept in | the villages of Kingsdale and Clover- ton, Minn. Three serious blazes worried Roseau County rangers in the Beltrami Island State Forest in Minnesota. C. C. C. men and others who had been em- ployed in the fight in other districts were released for service there. Fire that has swept over 27,000 acres of timberland on Isle Royale—a vir- tual water-bound furnace in Lake Superior—moved within a mile of a Chippewa Harbor resort. A motor ship and a Coast Guard cutter stood by to take off a family residing there. The steamer Seminole and the naval training ship Paducah carried 600 C. C. C. youths from Wisconsin to the assistance of 1,200 others seeking to halt the wind-whipped flames, 9,000 Fight Blazes. Some 9,000 fire fighters hemmed in most, of the 60 Minnesota forest and brush blazes with earth works. They were cheered by a forecast of rain in Wisconsin and Minnesota wood lands, where many sections have been with- out precipitation for two months. Northern Minnesota property losses were estimated at $250,000 by Sen- ator George Lommen of Eveleth. Supervisor R. U. Harmon of the Superior National Forest said Govern- ment expense in controlling the blazes amounted to $30,000 to date. The charred body of Andrew Leima, 70-year-old widower, was found near Palo in Northeastern Minnesota, where a week-end fire wiped out 22 farms. 4,000 TOWNS FLOODED BOMBAY, August 12 (#).—Four thousand villages were submerged by raging floods today which ruined 20,000 homes. The torrents struck approximately one-third of India, while another third of the country was offering prayers and sacrifices for relief from drought and famine. The floods destroyed roads and crops as dams burst. Authorities opened refugee camps in.ghe United Central Provinces and at other points. Track “Sun Kinks” Wreck Freight Train Twice in Same Day BV (ne Assoctated Press. GAINESVILLE, Tex., August 12.—Railroad crews straightened out “sun kinks" today in the track that wrecked the same freight train twice in one day. When extreme heat warped the rail 12 miles west of here yester- day a Missouri-Kansas-Texas freight lost nine cars and the caboose. The rest went on—and a few minutes later another warp toppled 10 more cars on a bridge. DROUGHT RAVAGES MAY RUN 3 YEARS Economists of U. S. Agencies Fear Long Battle to Achieve Normalcy. By tre Assoclated Press. Official predictions that two, per- haps three, years would be required for recovery from drought devastation of the past two months, today faced Federal agencies designing relief for sun-scorched regions. Economists at the Agriculture De- partment made this forecast as they surveyed a shortage of feed for live stock and predicted abnormal market- ing of hogs and cattle. They said drought and other condi- tions would greatly reduce the live supplies of meat and dairy animals, and the present arid season would cause a reversal of the recent upturn in numbers. Detailed plans for two important trips into the drought area meanwhile were pushed. President Roosevelt announced he would leave here August 25 on a tour of Middle Western drought areas. He conferred yesterday with Morris L. Cooke, chairman of the Great Plains Drought Committee, which he has asked to draft a long-range na- tional relief program. Plan to Visit Nine States. Cooke and his group of administra- tion planners, including Resettlement Administrator Tugwell, will depart this week end by train for Amarillo, Tex. Traveling by automobile, they will make a 10-day inspection of nine Stutes. They plan to meet Mr. Roose- velt on August 27, probably at Pierre, S. Dak. Agricultural economists, after sur- veying the entire farm picture, re- ported “farmers of the prairies are tightening their belts to get through to next Spring as best they can.” “Higher prices for, milk, butter fresh vegetables and fruits,” they said, soon would make all consumers con- scious of drought devastation. A “deceptive” trend, they added, would be increased marketing of meat animals the next few months, because of feed shortage, with a sharp re- versal expected late this Winter or early next Spring. Meanwhile an A. A. A. official gave “virtual assurance” of Government actlon to conserve seed supplies. Farmers' fears regarding these sup- plies, raised by the drought-shortened corn and Spring wheat crops, brought an assertion from Capt. Carroll Power of the A. A. A. Commodities Purchas- ing Division that seed purchases of both grains were “under discussion.” President Roosevelt was questioned SPY PLOT CHARGES HIT BY JAPANESE |Farnsworth Conspiracy Al-| legations “Embarrassing,” | Says Spokesman. Action of the District grand jury | in naming two Japanese naval officers | as co-conspirators in an alleged spy | plot here is “embarrassing” to Japan, according to an Associated Press dis- patch today from Tokio. The indictment charged former | | Lieut. Comdr. John S. Farnsworth, | | U. 8. N., with plotting to sell Amer- | |ican naval secrets to Japan, and | | named Comdr. Yosiyuki Itimiya and | Lieut. Comdr. Okira Yamaki. both of the Japanese navy, as his fellow con- spirators. A Japanese naval spokesman told the Associated Press the incident is “admittedly embarrassing,” but dis- claimed responsibility. Now on Duty in Tokio, ‘The spokesman acknowledged the two officers formerly served in Wash- | ington and now are assigned to duty in Tokio. “In America, as in Japan and else- | where, there are always unscrupulous | persons trying to sell foreign attaches worthless information.” he said. “Al- though our hands are clean in these cases, stories published in America are | | admittedly embarrassing to the Japa- | nesse navy. Yesterday's indictment. the second | | against Farnsworth, accused him of | meeting the two foreign naval officers | several times while they were serving as assistant naval attaches at the Japanese Embassy here. | Japanese Not Indicted. | Although named in the bill, the | Japanese were not indicted, officials taking the view they were protected | by dlplomnltic immunity. The first indictment accused Farns- worth of turning over to the Japanese a confidential publication entitled “The Service of Information and Se- | curity.” The second indictment con- | | tained a blanket conspiracy charge | and did not allege the sale of any specific documents. Farnsworth, who is being held in the District Jail in lieu of $10,000 bail, was | dismissed from the Navy in 1927. 'SIX MEN TRAPPED AS BUILDING FALLS Two Are Rescued as Firemen Dig for Others Following Blast in Lincoln, Nebr. Ey the Assoc'ated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr, August 12.—Six men were trapped under tons of brick and wood when the south wing of the three-story brick building of Grainger Brothers' wholesale grocery collapsed today following an explosion. Two of the men were rescued with- in a few minutes and rushed to a hospital for treatment of their in- Juries, Firemen were digging in the debris for the other four. Officials of the wholesale grocery and fruit company said they believed the explosion occurred in a cooling system in the basement of the struc- The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. FookRK ture, in downtown Lincoln. Most of Lincoln’s fire apparatus was called, but fire did not break out. (See DROUGHT, Page A-2.) ZIONCHECK’S FUNERAL NEXT LARGEST TO BYRNS’ Romney Comments on Rites At- tended by More Than 3,000 Persons. EY tne Assoclated Press. SEATTLE, August 12—Kenneth Romney, sergeant at arms for the House of Representatives, said today Representative Marion Zioncheck'’s fu- neral yesterday was the largest, save one, that he had witnessed in 20 years as a congressional aide. One of Romney’s formal duties is to escort congressional delegations named to attend funerals of members of Congress, and he said he recalled but one—that of the late Speaker Joseph W. Byrns—that was larger than Zioncheck’s. More than 2,000 persons jammed the auditorium, and about 1,000 waited outside. Romney said Mrs. Zioncheck, the former Rubye Louise Nix, probably will return East within < few days. By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Spain, August 12.—Be- sieged rebels, running short of food and drink, are living a grim war epic behind thesancient walls of a Roman fortress on the highest of Toledo’s seven hills. ‘There are about 1500 beleaguered men and women still holding out des- perately on this twenty-second day of their siege within the famous Alcazar. The fortress is bombarded by gov- ernment guns from the land and ma- chine guns from the air. Rations and ammunitions are dwin- dling rapidly. The little force knows it is lost unless rescued speedily. The besieged hope against hope that Gen. Francisco Franco’s army from the south or Gen. Emilio Mola's from the north will save them before starvation or lack of ammynition forces sur- render. pt Government miiitary commanders, . (P) Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 129,772 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. SAN SEBASTIAN TAKEN, CHIEFS REBEL CLAIM Alfonso Reported Waiting for Propitious Moment to Fly Back to Spain. LOYALIST MILITIA DECLARED ABANDONING SEASIDE RESORT French Council of Ministers Is Sum- moned in Special Session Tomorrow on Neutrality Agreement. BACKGROUND— Resentment of the army and landholding and capitalist classes at repressive measures taken by Spain’s Leftist Popular Front govern= ‘ment since the elections oy February 16 is finding expression in civil war, in which Fascists and Monarchists are seeking to overthrow the popularly-chosen Leftist Tegime. Virtually imprisoned within the interior of continental Spair, in- surgent forces have hammered at north seacoast for an outlet to the sea and a means of importing arms and munitions for the advance- ment of the insurgent cause. Guadarrama Mountain passes, held by Loyalists, guard Medrid, capital, from onslaught of rebels from the morth. Forces crossing Straits of Gibraltar from Morocco menace capital from south. By the Associated Press. Capture of San Sebastian, lending new impetus to the Span- ish civil war by providing an outlet to the sea for insurgent forces, was claimed by rebel headquarters at Burgos, Spain, today, as indi- cations came from Dellach, Austria, that former King Alfonso was poised to fly back to Spain at a propitious moment. Meanwhile, the French council of ministers was summoned into special session tomorrow to cope with a crisis in the Blum government’s drive for a neutrality accord. Fascist artillery laid down a rain of steel on the San Sebastian- Irun area in the general offensive to destroy government control on the northern seaboard. Militia Reported Evacuating Resort. Rebel headquarters announced that government militia had abandoned the Bay of Biscay resort in the face of rebel onslaughts. The populace of the resort, once the Summer home of King Alfonso, was reported by the Burgos provisional government to be streaming out of the city. Destruction of government control along the entire northern seaboard, and particularly in Far Northwest Spain, is the goal of | the freshly launched Fascist drive. Thousands of militiamen were withdrawn from the Guadar- rama Mountain front a few miles north of Madrid for the assault. Loyalists Well Lodged on Heights, Madrid’s troops were well lodged on the heights surrounding San Sebastian, but conditions in the city steadily were growing worse. The water supply had given out, and authorities advised the | citizens to seek their own sources of water from springs outside | the town. Frente Popular (Popular Front, or government) officials said | they were expecting 150 members of the French Socialist party to cross the border tonight as reinforcements for the Madrid troops. Numerous cases of tetanus worried authorities in San Sebas- tian, who face an acute shortage of serum to fight the ailment. Yesterday the town of Tolosa, not far south of the twin com- munities of San Sebastian and Irun, fell before a rebel attack. State Department Watches Move for Neutrality Accord Ey the Associated Press. The State Department’s declaration of America’s intention not to inter- vene in the Spanish revolutionary crisis was followed today by a dis- | closure the department is being kept | closely informed of the French gov- ernment’s efforts to organize an in- ternational neutrality compact. This information was issued in the nature of a clarification of persistent reports from abroad that France had sounded out this Government on the possibility of United States participa- tion in such an agreement. It was stated officially that France had neither asked nor been given this Nation’s views toward the proj- ect, and pointed indication was forth- coming that neither such an overture nor an actual invitation to the United States to co-operate in the undertak- ing was expected here. Factual Data Sent Here. Information concerning the French measures, it was said, has been con- veyed to this Government in the most informal way through the American Embassy in Paris and the French Em- | bassy here. It has been confined solely to factual data concerning France’s moves to localize the Spanish civil conflict, these sources said. The first official expression of policy since the opening of the Spanish re- bellion came last night, when Acting Secretary Phillips made public instruc- tions he said had been sent to all United States Government representa- tives in Spain. In this statement, Phillips em- T (See HANDS OFF, Page A-3) 1,500 Rebels Eat Cavalry Horses In Siege of Alcazar Fortress i leaving the siege, estimated there were between 1,200 and 2,000 rebels within the Alcazar, which has been Spain’s military academy since 1887. Among the besieged are about 800 civil guards, 100 military cadets, students at the academy. and many civilians, includ- ing priests, women and children. This rebel group took up its stand in the Alcazar and defled government troops entering the town July 21. The rebels took with them into the fort- ress several hundred rifles, a number of machine guns and about 3,000,000 cartridges. ‘The besieged force is known to have a quantity of hand grenades, but probahbly no artillery. Six of the defenders who escaped from the citadel at night told of the severe shortage of provisions. The rebel force expected the siege to last only a fgw days. Facing hun- Advices from Irun said men iand women sympathetic with the Madrid government and de- | termined to prevent an over- throw of the Communist-Social- ist regime there, were fighting | side by side to thwart capture of the city by rebel militia. The |rebels were reported within 3 miles of Irun. More than 200 Catalonian vol- unteers from the government- ' held town of Barcelona on the (See S , Page A-3.) RECKLESS DRIVER GETS 90-DAY TERM Increased Penalty Invoked First Time by Judge on Plea of Guilty. The increased maximum penalty for reckless driving provided by the last session of Congress was invoked for the first time by Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court today in sentenc- ing Johnnie Smith, 23, colored, 715 Lamont street, to 90 days in jail Smith had pleaded guilty. Judge Hitt acted after George D. Neilson, assistant corporation counsel, described an accident at Eighth and T streets July 22 in which six persons were injured when a taxicab, driven by Smith and being chased by police, collided with a car operated by Myer Glassman of Baltimore. “The new maximum penalty of $250 or 90 days in jail is more commensu- rate with the seriousness of this type of violation than was the former maximum of $100 or 30 days in jail,” Judge Hitt declared. According to the statements fure nished by- officers and Glassman, Smith was being chased by a police scout car at 50 miles an hour when the accident occurred. Following the crash, Smith jumped from his taxi- cab and fled on foot, officers stated. Judge Hitt also assessed Smith 60 days in jail on a charge of leaving after colliding and 30 days in jail for operating without a permit. He previously had been sentenced to pay a $25 fine or spend 30 days in jail on a charge of operating a taxicab without a license. HEAT WAVE EXTENDS OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., August 12 (#)—A blazing sun extended today in Oklahoma a current heat wave which has cost 11 lives and raised to 99 the number of victims attributed to the heat since July 13. Seven deaths in Oklahoma were at- tributed to heat yesterday as the mer= cury went to a record high of 116 at Ada, 116 at Chickasha, 117 at Shawe nee and 113.1 at Oklahoma City. Three deathg attributed to the heat were reported m Texas.