Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weataer Bureau Forecast.) Fair and cooler tonight; tomorrow fair with moderate temperatures; moderate northerly winds. Temperatures—High= est, 92, at 3 p.m. yesterday. Lowest, 71, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-10. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 33,711 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1936—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. SPANISH REBEL SHIPS SHELL SAN SEBASTIAN; HOSTAGES HELD SLAIN| < Threat to Kill 1,900 May Be Fulfilled. NORTH DRIVE | IS FORECAST Three Bombs Hit French Town Over Border. BACKGROUND— Harried by Communist clamor for @ “baby Russia,” the Spanish gov- ernment has seized the wealth in church vaults, enrolled woman sol- diers and resorted to hostage meth- ods to avert defeat. Defense of Madrid is main concern of federals as rebel forces continue to press for ultimate victory. Observers of bloody civil war have been unable to forecast the outcome. This ac- counts to some degree for lack of open intervention to date on the part of European nations vitally in- terested in the conflict between communism and fascism. BULLETIN. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) MADRID, August 17.—One of the bloodiest battles of Spain’s month-old civil war was fought Jate today in the ancient western Province of Estremadura, Wwith 20,000 government troops and mili- tiamen trying to break a rebel blockade along the Portuguese frontier. BULLETIN. ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France, Au- | gust 18 (#).—German sailors re- | ported today that 500 prisoners held as hostages by Leftist govern- ment forces at Bilbao were burned | alive when rebel shells set fire to their warehouse prison. By the Associated Press. HENDAYE, France, August 17— Rebel warships bombarded Irun and | San Sebastian today and Spanish loyalists were reported executing Fascist_hostages in retaliation. Loyalists had served an ultimatum that the first shell from a rebel war- #hip would be the signal for massacre | of the prisoners held aboard two steam- ers in the Bay of Biscay Harbor, and frontier reports said the execution had begun. The attacks against Irun and San | Bebastian began simultaneously, indi- | cating a major offensive along the | northern seaboard. The huge battleship Espana di- rected heavy fire against Fort Guad- alupe, but the government stronghold had not been hit. Guadalupe’s guns did not reply at | once to the ship’s fire, being faced with the dilemma of submitting to | yebel fire or shelling the rebel war- #hips at the risk of dropping projec- tiles on French territory across the| Bay of Biscay. The Fascist warships were believed to be purposely avoiding direct hits on the fort because they feared explosion of large munition stores would kill many of the rebels held prisoners there. About 1,200 hostages were held at Irun and 700 at San Sebastian. Re- ports along the border said firing | £quads began executions soon after | the bombardment started. Shelling Subsides. The shelling of Guadalupe subsided early in the afternoon, after a 2)2- hour assault and two persons were wounded when a bomb fell on a farm at Fuentearrabia were the only known casualties. Government leaders, encouraged by | what they said was the failure of the Tebels to attack by land, indicated they were ready for an early counter- offensive. This week, they stated, would be “decisive.” Refugees arriving in increasing num- bers from Irun and San Sebastian said that three rebel ships, the Espana, the Velasco and the Almirante Cervera, ‘were ranging back and forth between Ban Sebastian and Cap Des Figulers, the limit of French territorial waters. Plane Attack Reported. Bome of the fleeing Spaniards, who numbered 300, said two government planes from the airdrome at San Sebastian had succeeded in bombard- ing the rebel warships, but this could not be confirmed. Dispatches from Bilbao said the rebel destroyer Velasco shelled Fort Santurci, starting fires there but caus- ing no casualties. The bombardment apparently was intended chiefly to demoralize the government defenders. Irun, fearing a surprise attack, gpent & night of nervous watching. All lights were turned off, and volun- teer militia kept guard. ‘There was tense watchfulness on (See SPAIN, Page A-4.) VINCENT SHEEAN ILL Ambulance Plane Flies Stricken Author to Geneva. LONDON, August 17 (#.—An am- bulance plane bearing Vincent Sheean, the author, reported seriously ill, landed at Heston Airdrome from Dublin today, refluelled and took off for Geneva. ‘The plane, Florence Nightingale, the first of its type to be used in this country, was reported conveying the writer to Geneva for attention by a specialist ; + . ) But Violence French Crisis Seems Sure, as in S pain Is Believed Out of QQuestion France. mostly roughnecks—there are at least Doriot is a true proletarian. doctrines at their source.”” Moscow expenses for a trip to the U. 8. 8. R., spent several months and became an ganizing the “Jeunesse Communiste” ( ticket. still is his constituency. covered that the French are much too a public meting he is honored by half a' crowd behaves, and half that number would be enough. But when Doriot has & public meeting—never fewer than 15,000 people, JaquesDoriot Admittedly Rising Leader. Days of Blum Regime Numbered. Franc’s Revaluation Seen. ¥. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PARIS.—There is no question that Jaques Doriot is the rising leader in The Blum administration admi@@jt freely. When Jean Bergery has logen policemen to watch that the 60 Mobile Guards and twice that num- ber of policemen around the meeting place. The son of an ironworker from Picardy, he himself worked in a steel mill until he was 22. and joined the Communist movement with such an enthusiasm that he landed in jail for 12 months. He wanted to “drink the Communist He is a high-strung man e paid his where he honorary soldier of the Red army. Proud of his title, he returned to France, where he was active in or- the Com- munist youth) and he was elected to the Cham- ber of Deputies in 1924 on the Communist St. Denis, the hotbed of communism, But this year Doriot abandoned com- | munism for nationalism. This change of front, | he explains, is due to the fact that he hated, las a Frenchman, to be the paid servant of a foreign oligarchy—the Moscow dictatorsnip. He hates Communism now as much as he hated Fascism. Both doctrines, Doriot explains to his listeners, have a common aim: The establishment of a dictatorship not only | within but also without their national boundaries. methods and have the same political philosophy. Constantine Brown. They both use the same And Doriot has dis- individualistic to bow to one individual, to have their lives and their thoughts registered by a doctrine supervised (See BROWN, Page A-3.) 1..SHIP BOARDED Loyalist Submarine Fires Shot Across Bow 2 Miles Out. Ey tne Associated Press. BOSTON, August 17.—The master of the American export liner Ex- cambion, arriving today from Mediter- ranean ports, reported his boat had been boarded at sea August 8 by Spanish Loyalist officers from a sub- marine which first fired a shot across the freighter's bow to halt her. The captain, W. W. Kuhne, said the government submarine followed his vessel for two hours in the darkness off Cape de Gata, off the Spanish Coast, apparently in the belief she was a rebel vessel, or carrying fleeing in- surrectionists from the civil war. After he had assured the submarine's officers of his neutrality and his papers had been examined, Capt. Kuhne re- lated, he was allowed to proceed. ARBITRATION URGED FOR WAR IN SPAIN Uruguay's Foreign Minister Pro- poses American Governments Offer Aid. By the Associated Press. . MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, August 17.—A proposal that American gov- ernments seek to arbitrate Spain’s civil war—as a “good turn” for the nation which discoverd this continent —was advanced here today. Forelgn Minister Jose Espaltar pro- posed the arbitration efforts in messages to other governments, “In the face of the civil war which is rending Spain,” he said," the nations of the American continent, discovered and brought to civilization by its genius, cannot remain impassive spectators.” War would accomplish no perman- ent answer to Spain’s troubles, the foreign minister contended, “because even in the supposed case that after much bloodshed, ruin and infinite pain, one of the parties impeses its domination, the unquenched hates and vengeances would be such that the fight would start again.” LOYALISTS TAKE OFF SPANISH COAST REBEL JAIL FORT {Many Killed in Bitter Fight.! Paima Next Prize of Federals. (Copyright. 1936, by the Associated Press.) | MADRID, August 17.—Spanish gov- ernment troops captured Fascist reb- | els barricaded in the Gijon Jail\in | bitter fighting today and began a “victory march” across the Isle of Mallorca. Many were killed, loyalists reported, in the battle to oust the Gijon rebels, who fired through barred windows of the jail and from the army engineers’ barracks until forced to surrender. Three columns of the Socialist gov- ernment army landed at Mallorca, rebel stronghold in the Mediterranean, and captured several towns. Citizens greeted the army with shouts of “Long | live the republic!” the loyalists as- | serted. Major Battle Predicted. Capture of Palma, the capital, was the objective in the new offensive and a fierce battle was predicted there shortly. [ A report reaching London today said 500 Spanish government troops had been killed and 250 imprisoned in a rebel trap after landing on Mallorca. It related that the gov- ernment troops were allowed to disembark in the neighborhood of Porto Christo. Then the rebels at- tacked.] In Northeastern Huesca Province, the government announced capture of the towns of Alberobajo, Taller and | San Daniel. Peasants were reported fleeing from Teruel Province, Eastern Spain, to the city of Calatayud, near Zaragoza, to escape impending conflict of Loyalists and rebels. Bloody battles raged through South- western Badajoz Province, where the government sought desperately to stem the rebel march toward Madrid. (Portuguese dispatches said rebels captured Badajoz City and that streets there were strewn with bodies of massacred Loyalists.) The Madrid government seized mil- lions of dollars from church re- Positories. Authorities said more than 200,000,- 000 pesetas (nominally, $26,200,000) in currency, gold, jewels and negotia- ble securities were taken from a bank (See BATTLE, Page By the Assoctated Press. MILWAUKEE, August 17.—Recov- ery of his hearing after a lapse of more than five years was a mitigated blessing to 6-year~old Carl Thelin, jr., his mother disclosed today. Annoyed by the human voice, her son declared the sound he found most pleasant was the soft noise of water lapping against & raft beneath a bridge over the Milwaukee River. He used to play the piano when he could “hear” the music only through the vibrations in his finger tips. He stopped playing when he began hear- ing. And “the radio,” he said bluntly, “is an old jabber box.” Certain voices, especially high- pitched ones of children, annoy the round-eyed curly-haired lad who after a tonsil-adenoids operation last July 24 heard his mother speak and then asked: “Mother, that sound you made with your lips—is that what you told me & voice was?” Boy Who Recovers Hearing Is Annoyed by Human V oice Today Carl took his daily lesson in how to make the sounds he once un- derstood only by movements of the lips. Deaf since suffering brain men- ingitis when seven months old, he built up by lip-reading a vocabulary as large as most children command at his age. Firecrackers, sparkling and flashing, delighted him before he could hear. Now their noise pains him. When the sounds about him become unbearable, his mother puts cotton plugs in his ears. His parents said what he enjoys most is to climb aboard his raft on the river, have his father anchor it beneath the bridge, and listen to the water’s echo. “I have a feeling that Carl was re- gaining his hearing fully two weeks before his tonsils and adenoids were removed,” Mrs. Thelin said. “I think the operation was the stimulus for his first reaction to his new-found sense.” I g WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION AND I ONLY HAVE FUNDS FOR HOUSING A (‘}(0 % %476 "4, ¢ % 4 4 4 A 0% = fi‘h \v"l ‘F&Q‘\ '\':,,;/‘.'t‘,‘ |’ b4 s =y 13 o “U LR R RS () P W A AND W. P. A. PROBLEMS WERE NEVER LIKE THIS ! ¢, ¢ Foening Star * %Kk 1 A y’fl' / 4 THREE QUESTIONED INHOTEL SLAYING Nude Body of Woman, 24, Found in Room on Hus- band’s Return. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 17.—Three col- ored persons, two women and a youth were taken into custody today for questioning in connection with the killing of Mrs. Mary Louise Tram- mell, who was found beaten to death in a hotel room on the near South Side yesterday. The crime was cent months. ‘Those held were Mrs. Myrtle Hynes, 55; Mrs. A, L. Martin, 30, and Claude P. Davis, 18. The two women were seized after telephone numbers found in a note book dropped in flight by a colored man who was found prowling at the hotel a week ago were traced to their addresses. From them the identity of the prowler, who they be- lieve may have killed Mrs. Tram- mell. Davis is day bell boy at the hotel. The police said they intended to ques- tion him about his activities yester- | day and Saturday. The nude body of the 24-year-old victim, a former Knoxville, Tenn., ste- nographer, was found yesterday by her husband of a year and a half, Thomas Trammell, 40, in their third- floor room at the State Hotel. Strangled and Beaten. She had been strangled and beaten and her skull had been fractured in two places—by either a hatchet or a sharp-edged brick, in the opinion of Chief Deputy Coroner Victor Schlae- ger. The wound which caused death was three inches long and above the left eye. Her neck bore the imprint of hands. Officials said she also had apparently been criminally assaulted. The killer had folded her arms over her body, twisted blood-stained sheets around her and dropped & pillow on top of the battered form. Detectives uncovered three major clues—bloody fingerprints on the bed, a note book dropped by a colored prowler who fled from the hostelry a week ago and the imprint of a canvas shoe on a window sill. Peers Through Transom. Trammell, steward on a Grand Trunk Railroad dining car, made the gruesome discovery about 4 p.m. yes- terday when he returned from a trip to Michigan. Unable to gain admis- sion, he peered through a transom. He notified the desk clerk, John Bon, who hurried up the fire escape, climbed into the room and opened the locked door from the inside. Investigators theorized her assail- ant also used the fire escape. . Then Willlam Schumacher, 67, in- formed detectives he had frightened off a colored man who sought to enter his second floor room in the same fashion a week ago. That prowler dropped a small note book containing several entries concerning (See SLAYING, Page A-3.) Lightning Fires Trousers. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., August 17 (P).—Friends sympathized today with Harold Lester, who lost his money, his driving license and his trousers when lightning struck his house and set fire to the pants. Lester, however, took the matter philosophically. He said he was glad he wasn’t in the trousers. Readers’ Guide Page. Amusements Answers to Questions Comics Cross-word Puzzle Death Notices_- A-15-16-17 Lost and Found < Melcher in Hollywood____A-11 News Comment Features_.A-9 Sports - Washington Wayside._ ‘Women'’s Features_.._.-B-11 the fourth hotel | room slaying of women here in re-| police hoped to obtain clews to the | | Coughlin Returns to Detroit; Pastor Asks Townsend’s Arrest, Physician Says Radio Priest Is Suffering From Exhaustion. BACKGROUND— Father Charles E. Coughlin, De- troit radio priest and exponent of “driving the money changers from the seat of Government,” once a staunch supporter of President Roosevelt and now a bitter joe of the administration, recently joined forces with Dr. Francis E. Town- send, old-age pensionist, and Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, share-the- wealth backer, in a campaign against major political parties. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, August 17.— Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, feeling much better after a night of rest, left by train today for his home in Detroit. The priest'’s address to his National Union for Social Justice was halted yesterday when he was overcome by illness during a denunciation of the Roosevelt administration, Dr. George P. O'Malley, Cleveland physician and personal friend of Father Coughlin, said the priest was suffering from exhaustion and a ner- vous disorder, superinduced by the T (See COUGHLIN, Page A-4) Too Il to Attend Hear- ing, He Tells Court. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, August 17.—Ben Sa- | charow, attorney for Rev. Alfred J. Wright, former director in the Town- SATURDAY" Circulation, 5 122,33 and Wirephoto Services. SUNDA’ 3 S Cireulat 0 137522 (Bome returns not yet received.) *% Ninth Baby Born To Contestant in $500,000 “Derby” Father Expected Twins, but Is Satisfied It’s a Boy. Py the Associated Press. TORONTO, August 17.—The Cana- dian press reported today that Mrs. Gus Graziano gave birth to a boy last night in a Toronto hospital, making nine children her total in the Charles Vance Millar “baby derby.” Millar, who died October 31, 1926, left about $500,000 to be given to the Toronto mother bearing the most babies in the 10 years after his death ‘The standing: Twelve children—Mrs. Martin Ken- ny, whose claim is disputed by the other mothers. Ten children—Mrs. Arthur Timleck and Mrs. John Nagle. Nine children—Mrs. Graziano and move up a notch within a few days. The Grazianos. who had expected twins, named the new boy Benito Mussolini. Said the father: “As long as we keep on having boys we'll go right along having chil- dren. “Benito 15 the fourth boy in a row. “As soon as we have a girl we'll sign off.” The 37-year-old mother added: “I'm just as proud, though we ex- pected twins. I don't care so much about the chances for the money. I'm satisfled where I am.” COOLER WEATHER DUEHERE TONIGHT {Temperature of 92 Expected Before Relief From Heat Arrives. send Old-Age Pension organization, | asked Common Pleas Judge George | W. Kerr today to order the arrest of Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of the pension plan, and Gilmour | Young, national secretary, for failure | to appear at a deposition hearing | here. | Dr. Townsend and Young were| scheduled to testify at the hearing in connection with Mr. Wright's receiv- | ership suit against the Townsend or- ganization, | | “I want a citation issued for Dr. | Francis E. Townsend and I ask your | | honor to see that Dr. Townsend be not encouraged to make mockery of the courts of justice,” Sacharow said. He then asked for the arrest of Young. At national headquarters of Dr. Townsend in Chicago, it was said the aged founder of the pension plan was | | suffering from “extreme heat, over | exertion and fatigue” and under a (See TOWNSEND, Page A-4) DAKOTAS' RELIEF ESTIMATES MOUNT 75 Pct. of Farm Population to Need Aid, Williams Reports. B3 the Assoclated Press. Aubrey Williams, deputy works progress administrator, said today that “regardless of favorable changes in weather conditions, approximately 75 per cent of the total farm popula- tion of North and South Dakota will need relief assistance by late Fall.” Williams based his estimate on re- ports from Howard O. Hunter, assist- ant W. P. A. administrator, and How- ard Drew, representative, who con- ferred on drought damage in the two States at Chicago. “About 60,000 farm families in each State,” Drew reported, “are heading toward destitution because of drought devastation. At least 120,000 farmers in the two States will need help by late Fall or early Winter, either in the form of W. P. A. jobs or loans and grants for feed and seed from other Federal agencies.” ‘With 22,000 in North Dakota and 18000 in South Dakota, already at (See FARMS, Page A-2) OHI0 CRASH FATAL T0 SAMUEL FREEMAN Auditor of Federal Communica- tions Commission Is Killed at Crossing. Samuel B. Freeman, 49, an auditor for the Federal Communications Com- mission, died today in Mercy Hospital at Canton, Ohio, of injuries suffered Saturday night when his car was struck by a train 14 miles south of that city. Mrs. Preeman and their two chil- dren were seriously injured in the ac- cident, which occurred at Minerva, Ohio, according to an Associated Press dispatch. Mrs. Freeman was not noti- fled of her husband’s death. Their home here was in the Keystone Apart- ments at 2150 Pennsylvania avenue. Mrs. Freeman was employed as stenographer for the special House committee headed by Representative Sabath of Illinois, which investigates real estate bondholders’ reorganiza- tions. The nature of her injuries or those of her children, Barbara, 5, and Richard, 2%, was not stated in the press dispatch. Freeman, who had been in the Fed- eral service many years, served as chief clerk for the Panama Canal Commission, ‘The family left here Saturday for a vacation trip to Chicago, Freeman’s former home. A brother, Dr. I Val Freeman, now resides there, and an- other brother, Albert, recently left TYPHOONS BRING FANINE MENACE [Converging Storms Wipe Out Luzon Crops—Many Dead on Island. Fy the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, August 17—At least 11 persons were killed by a typhoon which today left homeless natives of Northern Luzon Island threatened with famine. Pleas for government aid said many more were believed killed in the storr, which swept in from the Pacific Saturday. The storm destroyed practically all native houses and 90 per cent of the crops in Cagayan River Valley. As the storm struck and then passed on toward the China coast, three ships caught in its grip sent distress calls. One vessel has not been heard from since. North coast lighthouses were lev- eled. The United Stats Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Pathomer lay on a rock reef at Port San Vincente, a victim of the typhoon. The vessel's Filipino crew and American officers came off safely and were encamped on the shore, Navy advices said. (From Hongkong came word that the British steamer Sunning, carrying 40 passengers, was aground and water- logged in Junk Bay, off the China coast. One hundred workmen were reported to have been buried alive in (See TYPHOON, Page A-7.) to have been | Relief from the oppressive heat of the past few days will arrive tonight, but without rain, the Weather Bureau predicted this morning. Before it comes, however, the tem- perature is expected to reach 92, equaling yesterday's high mark set at | 3 pm. was 90. Fair skies will prevail and the tem perature tomorrow will be moderate, the bureau said. ‘Northerly breezes were forecast. { The humidity explanation for un- comfortable weather conditions held good during the week end and was | still true today, the humidity at 8 a.m. | being 83, compared to 77 at the same | hour yesterday. A “fairly comfort- At 2 p.m. the temperature | able” humidity is 30. At midday yes- | | terday the humidity was 57. at 6 a.m, today. CENTRAL STATES SWELTER. Continued Heat Predicted for Midwest Plains Area. CHICAGO, August 17 (#).—Con- tinued heat was predicted for tonight and tomorrow in the north Central States by Forecaster A. W. Cook today. The heat which has blanketed the plains States and the lower Missouri River Valley was expected to extend, in lesser proportions, into the Great Lakes region tonight. Temperatures, Cook said, might reach into the 90s in portions of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minresota, Illi- nois and Indiana, with the “high 90s” probable in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Southern Illinois. No rain was forecast to relieve the wave of abnormally high tem- peratures which reached a Sunday peak of 113, engulfing Kansas, Ne- braska, Oklahoma and Missouri, Heat Deaths Reported. Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma each reported two new heat deaths yesterday as these maximum readings were listed: Bartlesville, Okla., 113; Kans, 109; Concordia, Kans., and Falls City, Nebr, 106; Springfield, Mo, and Grand Island, Nebr., 105; St. Joseph, Mo., and Omaha, 104; Okla- homa City, 102; St. Louis, 101. Massachusetts counted four drown- ings, Connecticut two and New York, Rhode Island and Maine one each as thousands of Easterners sought relief at the beaches. Boston Near Record. Boston's reading of 94 yesterday was within one degree of a 59-year record. New York had a top of 88 as 600,000 perspiring residents rushed to Coney Island. Showers were in prospect for both points. The mercury at Chicago dropped from 93 to 73 in 12 hours. A parallel slump was enjoyed at Milwaukee as cooler conditions prevailed in Min- nesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Northern Tllinois. Topeka, By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, August 17.—Jesse Owens, broke and suspended by the Amateur Athletic Union because he failed to make an exhibition tour of the Scandinavian countries, cheerfully Joosed a series of sharp cracks at the A. A U. today, asserting, “There’s monkey business in it somewhere.” “The A. A. U. is trying to run the Olympics on strictly business lines and take over college athletics. Some- body’'s making some money some- where. They are trying to grab all they can and we can't even buy a souvenir of the trip.” ‘The brown bullet from Ohio State was busy in his hotel this morning signing autographs and talking on the telephone. Jesse said he plans to talk to those who have made him offers to turn professional when he returns to the United States. Then he resumed firing on the A. A. U. “The boys can’t even afford a sight- seeing trip. Some have to remain here until August 26 because the Czechoslovakian trip is canceled. So they are forced to sit around the hotel without having any money. £ Owens Lays Suspension Order To A. A. U. “Monkey Business” “I had to cable home for what little money I had there and now it's all gone.” Brundage Comments. BERLIN, August 17 ($).—Com- menting on the suspension of Jesse Owens by the Amateur Athletic Union, Avery Brundage said today that “or- dinarily such a suspension would be effective pending a hearing, but the facts in this case appear to be ob- vious.” Brundage, president of the A. A. U., said that Dan Ferris, secretary-treas- urer of the A. A. U, had handled all the details of Owens’ suspension for failing to go through with a tour of the Scandinavian countries, but consulted him before acting. “Ferris handled all details after con- sulting me. Under the A. A. U. rule suspension of an athlete is automatic whenever he fails to fulfill competi- tive obligations at a meet in which he is entered,” Brundage said. Brundage said he had talked to Owens Saturday night, suggesting that Jesse give the fullest consideration to all angles of the case before for- seking his amateur status, 4 (P) Means Associated Pre: Mrs. Grace Bagnato, who expects to | { income produced. The night's low temperature was 71 | TWO CENTS. NATIONAL INCOME NEAR 60 BILLIONS, HIGHEST SINCE 1929 Commerce Officials Fore- + cast First Balance in Six Years. {81 BILLION WAS PEAK; LOW MARK HIT IN ’32 Statement Containing Estimates Prepared in Answer to Sen- ate Resolution. By the Associated Press, Commerce Department officlals to- day forecast a 1936 national income close to $60,000,000,000, balancing | ?;f;ness outlay for the first time since | The department's estimates, con- tingent on a maintenance of present trends, were based on readings of vari- ous business barometers for the first seven months of the year as compared with similar figures for 1935. After dropping steadily from the | $81,034,000,000 peak produced in 1929, the national income hit a low of $39,545,00,000 in 1932. Since then it has pointed upward Last year's !‘racnme was reported at $52,959,000,- 000. Officials said they expected that in- | come produced and income paid out | would approximately balance. Since 1929 income paid out has exceeded This excess was only $628,000,000 last year, compared with the $8,817,000,000 figure for 1932. When income paid out exceeds in- come produced it means, in effect, that industry and business are oper: ing “in the red” to the extent of the excess. Similarly, when income pro- duced tops that paid out the excess is regarded as savings. ‘The biggest slice of income paid | out goes for compensation of em- ployes, usually amounting to between 64 and 68 per cent. Next in line are dividends, interest, and income with= drawals by the owners of businesses. With the predicted rise in national | income this year, an upturn in per | capita income of employes also was 1expected by Commerce Department officials. From the 1929 high of $1,466, the per capita reached a low | of $1,097 in 1933 and for 1935 was ysl 201, or 819 per cent of the 1929 level. Among the most important sources of income are manufacturing, trade and service activities. | The Commerce Department has been compiling estimates of national income since 1929 in response to & Senate resolution calling for a study | of the subject. As computed by the department, na- tional income produced is the net valpe of goods and services produced in any one year. It Tepresgnts the value of all commodities produced and services rendered, less the value of raw ma- | terials and capital equipment which | has been consumed in the process of production. Thus, the estimate of income pro- | duced is arrived at by estimating total | value of all production and subtract- | ing from this the estimated value of 'gmds used in the process of produc- | tion. 120 U. S. REFUGEES REPORTED ON SHIP Quincy Heads for France—156 Americans Still Remain in Madrid. By the Assoctated Press. The American heavy cruiser Quinc: was reported by the State Department to be en routs today for Nice, France, carrying approximately 120 American refugees and several foreign nationals | from the danger zone of the Spanish revolution. ‘This number included 37 additional Americans, among them 26 women |and children, who left Madrid by | train on the night of August 15. They arrived safely at Alicante, on the east coast of Spain, where they were | taken aboard the Quincy yesterday | morning. The other refugees aboard included about 70 Americans evacuated from | Palma, in the Balearic Islands, and |12 from Ibiza. The American Embassy at Madrid reported that with the departure of the 37 Saturday night, 156 Americans still remain in the Spanish capital, of whom 49 were being given refuge in the embassy. Of the total, approxi- mately 37 are Puerto Ricans and 36 Filipinos. The. latest information concerning the movements of the battleship Ok= lahoma was that she arrived at Mae |laga, on Spain’s southern coast, Sate urday afternoon. She apparently pro= ceeded there from Gibraltar, where earlier the vessel had landed Amer~ ican refugees who embarked at Cadiz. FOUR DIE IN AIRPLANE Craft Burns After Crash Into Tree in Arizona Take-Off. PHOENIX, Ariz, August 17 (P).— An ugly, charred area marked the spot today where four men crashed to their death at dusk yesterday in a privately-owned plane. ‘The victims, all burned badly, were: Phil Torrey, 30, restaurant own= er; Harold D. Baker, 37, ice and coal company manager; H. E. Lindsey, 41, tavern owner, and Dwight F. Hanson, 34, soap manufacturing company rep- resentative. All but Lindsey were pilots. Rosario Martinez, 4, was injured fatally when an ambulance rushing to the scene collided with the Marti- nez family car. Eye-witnesses said the plane. piloted by Torrey, struck a tree shortly after