Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1936, Page 1

(U. 8. Weather Bureau Poreeast.} Partly cloudy, probably a shower late tonight or tomorrow; somewhat cooler tomorrow; gentle to moderate southwest, tomorrow, Temperatures—Highest, 94, at 3:45 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 74, at 5:30 am. today, Full report on Page B-2. Closing New York Markets, Page 20 No. 33,708. REBELS EXECUTE 1,000, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he ‘WASHINGTON, | ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Star D. C, SOUVENIR HUNTERS BURN SPANISH CITY; AT HANGING TEAR AMERICAN A HOSTAGE/0D FROM FACE [ 2 Mass Slaying War Threat Over France Guarantees Blum Cabinet As Long as Crisis Lasts REPORT COMES Strong Leftist Front, Backed by Armed FROM LISBON| orce, Supported by Communists Who Fear Fascism’s Rise. { Includes 100 ~ Women. State Department Seeks Rescue of ' Texan. BACKGROUND— Republican revolution ousted House of Bourbon from Spanish throne in 1931, and Spain since then has been marked by growing expression of Leftist sentiment, which crystalized February 16 in election of a government of the Popular Front, coalition of radical parties. Subsequent measures taken to suppress Rightist activity were cli- mazed by the slaying of Juan Calvo Sotelo, Rightist leader, more than four weeks ago and the soon fol- lowing outbreak of the current civil war with Fascist army leaders, landowners and churchmen seeking 2o destroy the ezisting regime. Fighting has centered chiefly in the morth afound San Sebastian | end Irum, in the south around | Cordoba, Seville and Granada and | around Madrid. | While the State Department was making strenuous efforts to effect the release of an American reported with 38 members of the staff of a British mining company held as hostages by Spanish government forces, a dispatch fram Lisbon, Portugal, today declared thet more than a thousand loyalists had been shot in & mass execution by rebel forces at Almendralejo. A hun- dred of those killed were reported to be women, ‘The American, was reported to be J. O. Ambler, whose address is listed here as S8an Antonio, Tex. William Phillips, Acting Secretary ©of Btate, directed the American Con- sul at Seville, Charles A. Bay, to com- municate with the British Consul there and “associate yourself in a most em- phatic manner with itions fJooking to the safety and rescue of Mr. Ambler.” Ambler was seized at $he mine near Huelva. City Reported in Flames. ‘The Assoclated Press quoted the ®orrespondent of the Lisbon news- paper Diario Noticias as reporting the gity of Badajos was in flames. ‘The newspaper report on the execu- tions of the 1,000 came from Rosal de Ja Fronteira. The town of Almenoralejo is in Badajoz Province, which is largely in eontrol of the rebels. The capital city of Badajoz itself is held by govern- ment troops. Badajoz was fired, said reports Feaching Lisbon by a rebel airplane sttack.in which 19 incendiary bombs Wwere dropped on the city. ' Refugees Enter Country. Refugees streaming across the Portu- border said most of the vic- tims—the number is not given—were innocent women and children and old people, The State Depariment here also was Informed that the American tourists who were evacuated yesterday from Granada where they had been strand- #d since the outbreak of the Tevolu- tion, were taken out of the danger Eone in & military a‘rplane and landed safely at Seville at 1 p.m. yesterday. They were taken immediately in & special automobile to Cadiz, where they went aboard the American bat- iean was left behind in Granada. He is J. H. Jordain of Atlanta, Ga., who wolunteered to stay there because there ‘was no room left for him in the plane. Meanwhile hundreds of other per- bons faced possible death before firing mquads in reprisal for rebel bombard- ment of government-held towps on the Spanish northern seaboard, Scores, augmenting some 700 *Rightist” hostages incarcerated in Ban Sebastian, were seized by govern- ment militia in reply to a rebel threat to destroy San Sebastian and its ipeighboring town of Irun. A rebel warship lay off shore in A (8ee SPAIN, Page 5.) HEAT MARK OF 95 § TODAY FORECAST Cooling Showers Tonight or To- morrow Predicted to Break Heat Wave. f i ) 8 5 i i § s i : | : E . N | ! i fi??iig 3 ey Es 3 i1 3 § | ] 14 i ] i 1L BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PARIS.—A cabinet crisis in France is unlikely as long as the inter- national situation remains as strained as it is today. Fear of Germany and, up to a point, of Italy has more or less brought all political factions to their senses. Blum continues to be attacked in the Chamber, and especially by the newspapers, but however unpopular he may become he will not be forced to resign until the imminent danger of an international conflagration is over. After that we shall see. Elements of the Right do not want Blum out because of their knowledge that every ministe- rial crisis in Prance strengthens Germany and Italy in Central and Eastern Europe at the expense of the republic. The Leftist parties, and especially the Com- munists, who begin to distrust their prime minister, will not force him out because they believe that France must show a strong united front if she wants to be the champion of Com- munist democracy against Fascist dictatorship. French Communists have become recently the upholders of militarism in France. Follow- ntine Brown ing strict not only advocate a strong army, but also instructions from Moscow, they an increase in the duration of military service. Communist Speaks Well of Louis XIV Reign. During the July 14 military parade on the Champs Elysee, Communists waving red flags were louder than Col. de Ra Roque’s adherents in shouting “vive I'armee.” At a Communist party meeting I attended a few days ago I was surprised to hear a speaker reverently evoke the memory of Joan of Arc, thus: “The proletarian girl who saved Prance.” He even had a good word for the glorious reign of Louis XIV. My escort, a French newspaper man, was not surprised. “You see,” he said, “our Communists have become nationalist (See BROWN, Page A-4.) SKLLEDINCRASH OF ARHY BONBER Fourth Member of Crew Jumps to Safety With Parachute. By the Assoctated Press. NEW KENT COURT HOUSE, Va., August 14.—An Army plane erashed and burned on a farm near here last night, killing three of its crew of four. ‘The fourth man, Pvt. N. D. Flinn, 21, of McGuffey, Ohio, jumped to safety with a parachute. The War Department announced the names of those killed as Lieut. Willis 8. Marvin of Riverside, Calif.; Pvt, John H. Mayher of McKeesport, Pa, and Pvt. James M. Crittenden of Roanoke, Va. A board of investigation, composed of Langley Field officers, was reported en route here. Another detachment from the air base took Flinn and the three bodies back to Langley Field, leaving two men to guard the wrecked plane, Landing Gear Lowered. R. A. Burion of Beaver Dam, a former licensed pilot, who examined the wreckage and talked with Army mechanics, sald indications were that the pilot was attempting to land when the plane crashed. He said the re- tractable Janding gear had been low- ered and slots on the lower wing, de- signed to check the speed in landing, were opened, Mrs. C. P. Crump, who lived near the scene in an isolated section of New Kent County, not far from the Pamunkey River said Flinn told her the motors “chocked” 5,000 feet up. Flinn was quoted as saying the pilot told the other three to jump, but he waited until the ship 300 or feet above the ground ceeded in the He landed in a & slight cut on th and the ship flipped forward on its back. Nearby residents said several explosions were heard immediately fol- lowing the crash. Oontrary to earlier reports, the ship was not believed to have caught fire until it struck ground. C. P. said he saw blue and red flashes while (8ee CRASH, Page A-2) $530.000 ALLOTTED 10 BOLLING FIELD W. P. A, Funds for Develop- ment Project Approved by Roosevelt. After weeks of worrying over the financial difficulties of the Bolling Field development project, the Quar- termaster Corps of the Army has re- ceived a $590,000 allotment, it was learned today, to keep the extensive work going. President Roosevelt approved the allotment from Works Progress Ad- ministration funds shortly before leaving Washington yesterday. Defi- nite assurance that the money will be turned over for the expenditure soon after it goes through Treasury chan- nels expedited plans for construction of runways at the Army’s big air base. Some weeks ago the Quartermaster Corps appealed to the White House for funds to continue the work at Bolling, where nearly 1,200 men certi- fied by the District W. P. A. are now employed in grading the field and constructing runways. Due to heavy drains on the funds reserved for Bolling Field to do im- perative work at other Army airports, the money available for materials had been expended. It was necessary several weeks ago for the President to turn over $75,000 of W. P. A. funds to keep up the pay roll. ‘While no official check was available today, it was estimated about $300,000 of the full Bolling Pield fund had been transferred to projects outside ‘Washington since enlargement of the flying fleld was begun in July, 1935. As late as last June $51,952 was trans- ferred from Bolling Field to Scott Fleld, Belleville, Ill, which also is undergoing extensive improvements. Lieut. Col. William Ord Ryan, com- mandant at Bolling Field, said today only one of the four new runways is near completion. This is an east-west runway, which he sald was about 25 per cent completed. Grading of the other three runways is about 70 per cent finished, but the major work remains to be done. The longest of these runways, extending north and south, will be a little over 4,000 feet. They will have a width of 150 feet, with a slag bed. Earthquake Reported. Georgetown University today re- ported an earthquake which began at 3:21:17 p.m. yesterday and ended st 5:30. The distance was estimated at 8,300 miles. Direction was uncertain. but it was probably in the vicinity of Formosa, the university said, and was of moderate intonsity. Rush to Colored Man’s Side Made Before Breath Leaves His Body. 10,000 THRONG GATHERS TO WITNESS EXECUTION Woman Sherif Watches, but Leaves Springing of Trap to Former Policeman. Ey the Associated Press. OWENSBORO, Ky., August 14— Souvenir hunters ripped the hang- man's hood from the face of Rainey Bethea immediately after the 22- year-old colored man was hanged here today before a huge throng for assault upon & 70-year-old white woman, Bethea still breathed when a few persons from the crowd rushed the 4-foot wire inclosure about the scaf- fold and scrambled for fragments as momentoes of the spectacle. The crowd, estimated at upwards of 10.- 000, was for the most part orderly, except for a few hoots during admin- istration of the last rites by a priest. Mrs. Florence Thompson, sheriff, who directed preparations for the hanging, staged in a 3-acre lot, left to Arthur Hash, former Louisville policeman, the throwing of the trig- ger which dropped the man to his death. She did not appear publicly. Trap Sprung at Signal, S Hash sprung the trap upon signal from Consulting Executioner G. Phil Hanna at 5:28 a.m, Central Stand- ard time. Dr. W. L. Tyler and Dr. B. H. Selgler, Owensboro, pro- nounced Bethea dead at 5:44!2 am. Dr. Tyler said the neck was broken cleanly by the drop. He expressed surprise that the heart beat continued 1612 minutes. Bethea wrote his sister, Ora Fladge, Nichols, 8. C., asking that he be buried beside his father and declaring that he was “saved.” = The letter, written last night at Louisville, where he was held from the time of his arrest, was made public by Jailer Martin J. Connors. It said: “This is my last letter and I have told them to send you my body and I want you to put it beside my father and I am saved and don't worry about me because I am going to meet my Maker. “You must pray to meet me some day in the other world so you must pray. Heard sister that we will meet some diy and don't you worry at All because I saved. Looking to meet you some day in the other world, 80 bood-by and pray that we are to meet again some day again.” Bethea was baptized a Roman Cath- olic two weeks ago by Rev. Herman Lammers, who converted him in jail at Louisville. The hanging climaxed a night of excitement in Owensboro, whose nor- mal 25,000 population was swelled by many thousands for Indiana, Ili- nois and surrounding Kentucky coun- ties, lured by the first public hang- ing ever held in this county. The crowd came in automobiles, and by hundreds on freight trains. ‘Throughout the night the specta- tors pushed into ehoice positions to watch Bethea die. Thousands milled about the streets oconverging upon the scene. Several women fainted in the crush after the hanging. Many Women and Children. About half of those who fought and shoved to get closer to the inclosure were women, young girls and children. Babies in arms and toddlers by the score clung to their mothers. An hour before the execution, the lot was full and several thousands had surged through the gates into the space reserved for officials. Towards § o'clock as the sun rose, s _crimson disk, partly shrouded by (See HANGING, Page A-3) SIX MINERS PERISH IN GAS-FILLED DRIFT — Four Are Believed Killed in At- tempt to Rescue Their Comrades. BY the Associated Press. MOUNTAIN OITY, Nev., August 14. —Gas today was blamed for killing six nundeephthlumu_lnmtymwc Co. mine. Positions of the bodies in a winze on the 500-foot level convinced fellow ‘workers that four of the men perished while attempting to drag their com- rades from a gas-filled drift yesterday. The dead: John Sheppard, 31, of Wellington, Colo.; Lawrence Willis, 32, of Emmett, Paroled With Braddock’s Help, |~ g { HE if! i g il g i | g ¥ i i CLEVELAND CROWD HALS ROOSEVELT President Interrupts Flood Control Tour to Visit Exposition. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, August 14.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt arrived in Cleveland at 9:40 a.m. (Eastern standard time) to- day to inspect W. P. A. projects and visit the Great Lakes Exposition. Rain threatened as the President’s special train pulled into the Euclid avenue railroad station to the cheers of a welcoming throng. Smiling broadly and waving to the crowd of greeters, the President left the train nearly half an hour after its arrival. Crowds flanked flag-draped Euclid svenue for a glimpse of Mr. Roosevelt on his ride to the downtown section. It was his first visit to Cleveland since he took office. Met by Geverner. He was met by Senator Robert Bulk- ley, Demacrat, of Ohio, Gov. Martin L. Davey and Mayor Hirold H. Burton. ‘The President entered an open au- tomobile inside the station. A proces- sion of 20 automobiles, preceded by motor cycle police, formed to escort his car. To pay the visit to Cleveland, Presi- dent Roosevelt interrupted his inspec- tion of flood areas in Pennsylvania and New York. The presidential train, which bore Mr. Roosevelt westward from Johns- town, Pa., where he viewed yesterday at first hand the scene of last Spring’s disastrous floods, stopped for some time during the night in order not to arrive ahead of the scheduled time. ‘The President’s automobile proces- sion was to proceed from the down- WAEONS | town area to the enlarged Cleveland Airport and the new Lake Front boulevard, both Federal works projects. A $2,961,000 preliminary flood-con- trol program for Western Pennsylvania rivers carried the President’s official “O. K.” after his visit to the ares. Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsyl- vania emerged last night from an hour’s conference of the President, Federal and State officials at Johns- town with an announcement of Mr. Roosevelt’s approval of allotments of work-relief funds for a start on that district’s flood projects. It came within four hours after the President had assured Johnstown residents the Federal Government would co-operate fully in taking every possible step to prevent floods. Mr. Roosevelt promised this co- operation “so long. as I have any- thing to do with it,” while seated in the tonneau of an open car. The sun was slipping down behind the high hills which squeeze the “flood city” into a valley and increase the perils when the Conemaugh River and Stony Creek reach high-water stages. He had just concluded a 30-mile (See ROOSEVELT, Page 5.) 50 POLICE ON.GUARD IN NEWSPAPER STRIKE Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sus- pends Publication in Walk- out of Guild. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, August 14.—Fifty police- men formed a cordon around the Seattle = Post-Intelligencer Building here early today and hurriedly escorted FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1936—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. 0, 1 TOLD YOU IT WAS WRONG To ALLOW THAT KID IN'! The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. kKK (P) Means Associated P Yesterday’s Circulation, 129,680 (Bome returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. HOLT DENOUNCES MONEY CHANGERS 10 COUGHLINITES Senator, Convention Key- noter, Wildly Applauded by Delegates. ‘SOCIAL REVOLUTION’ IS HIT BY COUGHLIN ress. Fight in Prospect Over Campaign Course on Aid to Lemke. Huskies Come From Behind to Defeat Italy—Kiefer, U.S.,Sets 100-Meter Back-Stroke Record. By tre Associated Press. GRUNAU, Germany, August 14— Coming from hehind in the last 500 | meters, the University of Washington today won the Olympic 8-oared rowing | championship. After Italy had maintained the lead from the start right up to the 1,500~ meter mark, the Huskies came through with a brilliant spurt to win the title and keep unbroken American domina- tion of 8-oared rowing competition. Starting with 1920 when the United States first entered 8-oared Olympic competition, American college crews have won each time—Navy in 1920; Yale in 1924; and the University of California in 1928 and 1932. | REOPENING ASTOR CASE THREATENED Attorney for Dr. Thorpe Throws Bombshell Fol- lowing Agreement. BACKGROUND— Dr. Franklyn Thorpe got uncon- tested divorce from Mary Astor April 20, 1935, receiving custody of their daughter Marilyn. Out-of- court agreement gave mother siz months’ annual custody of child. On July 14 film star sued to regain full custody, charging Dr. Thorpe Jorced her into divorce terms by threat to “scandalize” her. Supe- rior Court Judge Dudley Valentine set July 28 as hearing date. On July 27 Dr. Thorpe answered former wife’s suit by charging she was an “unfit and improper per- son” to have custody of Marilyn. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 14.—Re- sumption of the Mary Astor child- custody battle was threatened today with its exchanged charges of illicit film colony romances—also a demand for & new look into the auburn-haired actress’ diary on life and love. Only a few hours after court ap- proval of an agreement in the tem- pestuous case, the new bombshell was fired suddenly by Joseph Anderson, attorney for Miss Astor’s former hus- band, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe. Anderson said he was angered by a post-agreement statement in behalf of Miss Astor, which, he charged, ‘was prepared in sdvance of the de- cision. He also said he based his in- tention to seek resumption of the case on the belief the signature of Roland (8ee ASTOR, Page 5.) The Americans’ spurt in the final 500 meters gave them the champion- ship by a quarter-length margin over Italy, the 1932 runner-up. Washington was clocked in 6 min- | utes 254 seconds, far behind the course and Olympic record of 6:00.8 | the Huskies set in Wednesday’s trials. ‘Water and weather conditions, how- ever, were bad today. Germany was adjudged the third- place finisher in a blanket finish with Great Britain, which was fourth. Hungary was fifth and Switzerland sixth. Barely a length and a half sepa- rated the three leaders at the finish | (See OLYMPICS, Page A-2) RUSSIANS BLANE TROTSKY IN‘PLOT' Soviets Jail 16, Charging Counter Revolutionary Activities. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 14.—Sixteen per- sons were thrown in prison today by the Soviet government in the biggest counter-revolutionary plot to be an- nounced by the government in more than a decade. Directing the plot, said secret po- lice who uncovered it, was the exiled Leon Trotzky, now in asylum in Norway. ‘The government charged that Trot- zky was planning a terroristic cam- paign, including attacks against Sov- iet leaders. It said he had sent five agents from abroad into Russia to help carry out his plans. (Only last week Trotzky was given a clean bill of health by the Norwegian government after he had been accused by young Norwegian Fascists of en- deavoring to foment revolutions in France and other European countries.) The discovery of the plot originally was made by the Department of Do- mestic Affairs. Two of the biggest figures in Soviet Russia were arrested in connection with the alleged crime against the government. They were Leon Kame- neff, former assistant head of the Council of Commissars, and Gregory Zinovieff, former chairman of the Executive Council of the Third Inter- nationale. David Lawrence on Political Swing 'S THERE a definite swing away from the New Deal? Are Republicans flocking back to their party? Is the third party strength increasing? What factors are underlying the present trend of the country’s attitude toward Government policies? These and many other questions will be answered in articles written by David Lawrence, Washington com- mentator, who has started on a tour of the country which will take him into 40 of the 48 States and will keep him on the road practically all the time until election day. Each day he will describe to his readers the senti- ment and opinions of the people in the States as he visits them. On Saturday, October 31, he will make a summary of the entire situation and present his forecast of the way the scales will.swing. Read thy Devid Lawrence Articles and Watch the Trend of Opinion—They Are Printed Each Day in THE EVENING STAR BACKGROUND— Rev. Charles Coughlin, radio orator, for a long time a supporter of President Roosevelt, turned against him after his inauguration and has made the President and his policies targets for many of his radio addresses. For his National Union for Social Justice, assertedly non-political, the priest claims more than a million members. By tne Associsted Press. CLEVELAND, August 14.—The opening session of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin’s National Union for Social i Justice convention cheered wildly to- day an assertion by West Virginia's youthful Senator, Rush D. Holt, that “the money changers have not been driven from the temple.” The 31-year-old Senator, a Demo- crat, making the keynote address of the convention, brought delegates to their feet with this reference to the sixth of Father Coughlin’s 16 points— abolition of the Federal Reserve bank- ing system. “I can quote no better than from William Jennings Bryan,” said Holt, “Bryan said in 1923, ‘the Federal Re« serve Bank that should have been the farmer’s greatest protection, has be- come his greatest foe. * * * If the Wall Street speculators are in control of ity it would be better to repeal it.’ " In Sympathy With Union. ‘The West Virginian, who said he accepted the invitation to address the Coughlin organization because of his sympathy with its principles of social Jjustice, interspersed his speeca with criticism of Congress, policies of the Roosevelt administration and public utilities. “It is not my intention to advocate or oppose the election of any candi- date or political party,” he told the delegates. He upheld attempts to “raise the mortgage burden of the farmer.” which, he said, had brought cries of “inflation.” “We cannot have prosperity,” he declared, “as long as the farmers of America cannot purchase, and those farmers cannot purchase as long as they have no money to spend and are confronted with the unparalleled mortgage debt which takes every penny of their money.” Father Coughlin told delegates: “We will not participate in any social revo- lution which would reduce such good people who are represented here to tincups and beggary.” Father Coughlin added: “America hasn't failed, nor has the Constitution, but it is sad to remark that sometimes Americans fail to preserve the Consti- tution.” : As Father Coughlin appeared at the (See COUGHLIN, Page A-2.) WOMAN SLUGS MAN, PLUNGES TO DEATH Tried to Hang Herself After At- tacking Suitor, Sheriff Says. Py the Associated Press. WESTMINSTER, Md,, August 14.— Miss Grace Lippy, 30, plunged to her death today from a third-story win- dow after, Deputy Sheriff Walter Shipley said, she had slugged her suitor with a hatchet and tried to hang herself. Deputy Shipley said John Hyde, a stone quarry worker of near Windsor, whom the official described as the man with whom Miss Lippy “kept com- pany,” summoned him to the wom- an's apartment and told him what had happened. Hyde's injuries were not critical. Hyde told the officer he went to Miss Lippy's apartment at her re- quest. She asked him to open a wine dow, Whipley quoted him as saying, and as he did so, she hit him in the head with a hatchet. Hyde told Shipley he was knocked unconscious and when he came to he saw ‘the woman hanging in s door- way. He cut her down, he said, and went for help. He told the officer he returned to find Miss Lippy had cut her throat. Shipley said Hyde told him he ran our into a hallway to call an officer, Meanwhile, he said, Miss Lippy crawled out on a fire escape and dropped 40 feet to the ground. She lived only a few minutes, Readers’ Guide Cross-word Puzzle - Death Notices - Melcher in Hollywood..._A-9 News Comment Features A-11 ‘Washington Wayside Women'’s Features ... ¢ -