Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair and cooler tonight; to- morrow cloudy, probably followed by showers in the afternoon or at night. Temperatures—Highest, 83, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 75, at 4:45 a.m. today. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 No. 33,714 post office, Wi Entered as second class ashington, matter D. C. () WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936.—FIFTY PAGES.*%**x* GERMAN WAR VESSELS IN SPAIN TO RESIST “UNJUSTIFIED” ACTS; HALTED IN SOUTHWEST REBELS Madrid Is Told Seas Must Be Free. NAZI ADMIRAL | WARNS SPANISH ‘Advises Loyalists’ Fleet to Avoid Trouble. BACKGROUND— s News of the bloody Spanish civil conflict has become secondary to the swift-rising tide of extra- national interest in the two fac- tions. World war again threatens. With Spanish Loyalists now making an effort to blockade sectors of thee coastline, Germany, Italy and France, neighboring supporters of fascism and socialism, are brought sharply into war focus. International law requires that if the Madrid government is to de- cree a blockade, it must first make it effective and all-embracing as to coastline. (Copyrisht. by the Associated Pres BERLIN, August 20.—German war ships in Spanish waters were ordered | tonight to meet all “unjustifiable acts” of force with force. The stringent orders followed a curt Nazi ultimatum in which Madrid was | warned the German warships would | take “all means” to prevent repeti- | tion of such incidents as the reported search of the German steamer Kam- erun on the high seas. | German naval reinforcements in the | shape of seven warships now are en route to Spain. Admiral Carl, commander of the Nazi warships, wirelessed the com- mander of the Spanish Government | fleet and advised him he had given | the order to reply to untoward inci- dents forcibly. Text of Telegram. Admiral Carl’s radiogram read: “After settlement of the first breach of law made by the cruiser Almirante Valdez before Seville (an apparent reference to reported damage to Ger- man property in Seville through bom- bardment by the warship) the cruiser Il Duce Directs A old ones seem to have disappeared. I rank of for the rigation ments, ‘Constantine Brown. other cities of Italy. money. 1.5 SHPS TOLD T0 LEAVEHARBOR |Loyalists Warn of Plan to Bomb Palma, in Balearic Islands. Libertad yesterday afternoon forced the German steamer Kamerun to fol- | low her outside of Spanish waters and | searched her with armed soldiers. | “This action against a German ship is a breach of the right of free ship- ping on the high seas. “I am not disposed to tolerate such acts of force. “I have instructed my sea forces to meet all unjustifiable acts of force from your ships with force.” The admiral’s radiogram was in line with Reichsfuehrer Hitler’s orders, al- ready transmitted to the Madrid gov- ernment. The official warning resulted from the reported search revealed yester- day of the Reich’s Kamerun outside Spanish territorial waters off Cadiz. An official Nazi newspaper in Ber- lin said the steamer had been stopped by “Red Spanish pirates.” In Rome it was reliably reported Italy was delaying demobilization of the class of 1914 recruits, and 200,000 | troops were ordered into war games at Avellino. Such steps, it was said, resulted from Italy’s determination to present & strong front against the possibility the Socialist regime would be vic- torious in the Spanish war. French Plan Handicapped. The new aspects of both German and Italian attitudes toward a general European neutrality caused France to regard with pessimism the chances of completing her proposed pact of non-intervention in the Spanish civil war, in which rebellious Fascists seek to overthrow the present Madrid So- cialist government. Conclusive answers still were awaited in Paris from Berlin and Rome after two and a half weeks of negotiations led by France and joined by Great Britain. A new line of thought was injected (See SPAIN, Page A-5.) GERARD EXPLAINS BET ON ROOSEVELT Anglo-Saxons Can’t Welch, He Says, Telling About Can- celing Wager. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 20.—James W. Gerard explained about that bet to- day. ‘The former Ambassador to Ger- many returned to New York from a trip to Europe full of optimism that President Roosevelt would be re- elected and full of ideas about the duties of citizenship. Before leaving for Europe he had offered 2 to 1, with himself on the long end of a $10,000 wager, to any comer challenging his statement the President would win in November. ‘Then, on the high seas, he settled the bet when he was taken up—at a cost of $3,400. “When 1 found a bettor on an elec- tion cannot legally vote,” he explained, “I offered to pay the full sum to charity to call the bet off. An Anglo- Saxon cannot be a welcher. It was finally settled that I pay $1,700 to Robert Greene, the betting commis- sioner, and the same amount to Le- grand B. Cannon, who offered to cover my bet.” He came home to work in the campaign, observing, “They always give me the same job—to go out and get it. I'm something of a Labrador retriever, The only trouble is, when someone sees me coming, he goes out the window.” American vessels were given 10 hours today to get out of the harbor of Palma, in the Balearic Islands, or face the dangers of a Spanish government attack on the rebel-con- trolled city from air and sea. Anxious for the safety of 33 Amer- icans still there, the State Depart- ment immediately instructed the heavy cruiser Quincy, which arrived at Pal- ma this morning, to sail with all those who could be persuaded to leave, including Robert D. Longyear of Cam- bridge, Mass., the American consul. | The warning of an imminent at- tack on Palma was transmitted to the American consul at Barcelona by | Capt. Alberto Bayo, chief of a gov- ! ernment military column which has landed in the islands. Translation of his message relayed to the State Department said: “Spanish chivalry obliges me to re- quest you to advise with the greatest rapidity vessels of the nation which you represent which are anchored in the Bay of Palma de Mallorca that 10 hours from receipt you advse they abandon the jurisdictional waters since I see myself obliged to open bombardment air and sea against the said place.” Lynn W. Franklin, consul at Barce- lona, immediately notified the Quincy, which presumably communicated with Consul Longyear. The Spanish officer was believed to have telegraphed American officials in Barcelora instead of at Palma in order to prevent the information fall- ing into the hands of rebel forces at the latter place. After the warning the Quincy was asked to broadcast word of it to all American shipping in the vicinity. The battleship Oklahoma was re- ported also arrived off Palma. There was no information here as to what other ships might be in the threatened zone. Less than three weeks ago more than a score of Americans were re- moved from Palma by the American export liner Exochorda just a few hours before government airplanes bombed the city. Heir Backs Show. NEW YORK, August 20 (&)— Jimmy Donahue, the Woolworth heir, was reported in advices from London today to have gone into the the- atrical business. rapidity—for BEurope. this building program Mussolini that all houses built before 1938 shall be ex- empt of taxes for a period of 25 years. A state bank is helping to finance this building pro- gram, and what applies to Rome applies to most (See ITALY, Page A-2) ‘Y oung Italy’s’ Ringing Praise For Mussolini Drowns Out Timid Whispers of Critics ppeal to Youth—Ex- cludes Graybeards From Advisory Posts—Masses Held Won to Leader. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROME.—When you cross the frontier from France into Italy you realize at once that Italy is a young state, or better, a state of young people. The don’t know whether Mussolini has dis-. posed of them or has ordereo them to hide. But in the fields, in railroad stations, in trains you may sec no more than one man in ten who is over 60 years of age. This is purticularly noticeable in the army. Officers, over thes a major, who used to show their gray or white hair under the military cap, seem *o have become all either dark or blond. It may be that they have their hair dyed. Italy is & hard-working nation; it is castor ofl loafers. Everywhere you go you see new roads being built, railroads electrified, ir- ditches and canals being built and houses constructed everywhere. In Rome, for instance, all old houses which have been ob- structing the view of the Roman ruins are being torn down; the population is forced to move into new houses, and especially apart- which are being built with amazing In order to encourage has decreed Mussolini has little use for the past generation—the generation “rotted by pre-war liberalism ano peliticianism.” He is directing all his efforts to create a new generation of Italians, hard, self-sufficient and arrogantly proud | of being Italians. And in order to do that he spared neither efforts nor PRESIDENT MAPS DROUGHT AID PLAN Confers With Wallace on Relief Problem After Studying Reports. BULLETIN. HYDE PARK, August 20 (#).— Louis J. Taber, master of the National Grange, said today Presi- dent Roosevelt had suggested a conference of farm organizations after the November election to consider “an intelligent approach” to crop insurance and rural credit as substitutes for present drought relief methods. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYDE PARK, N. Y, August .20.— President Roosevelt today is coptinu- ing his effort to work out a program to meet the additional problems re- sulting from the drought in the Northwestern section of the country. Facts and figures placed before him since coming here have convinced him that it is necessary to put an addi- tional strain on the Treasury in or- der to extend relief to impoverished farmers in the drought area and to meet other problems that have been presented. The President today is studying the situation with Henry A. Wallace, Sec- retary of Agriculture. This afternoon, at the conclusion of his conference with Wallace, he will talk with Louis J. Taber, master of the National Grange. Secretary Wallace, who will accom- pany the President on his forthcom- ing inspection tour of the so-called “dust bowl,” brought to the President (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4.) JUDGE UNDER KNIFE Montgomery Jurist Operated on for Appendicitis. By » Staff Correspondent ot Tne Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, August 20— Judge Charles W. Woodward of the Montgomery County Circuit Court was in a “very satisfactory” condition at Garfleld Hospital in Washington to- day following an emergency operation for appendicitis. Judge Woodward became ill last Uniil Tokio Visitors Leave The arraignment of former Lieut. Comdr. John S. Farnsworth on charges | the city. of conspiring to sell American naval secrets to Japan was postponed in Dis- trict Court today for fear of “embar- rassing” visiting Japanese naval offi- cers, Farnsworth was to have pleaded to a second indictment against him which charged he conspired with Comdr. Yosiyuki Itimiya and Lieut. Comdr. Okira Yamaki, formerly connected with the Japanese Embassy, to sell in- formation pertaining to the naval af- fairs of this country. Farnsworth was brought to the court house this morning along with the regular contingent of prisoners awaiting arraignment, but was re- turned to the jail shortly after noon without being brought into the court room. -It was understood high State Department officials had requested the postponement of the arraignment until The visiting party, here on a good- will tour, is composed of Vice Admiral Zengo Yoshida and approximately 1,000 members of the Japanese Navy, including officers, midshipmen and enlisted men. Admiral Willlam H. Standley, dcting Secretary of the Navy, told the Jap- anese midshipmen yesterday their visit will be a force toward the breaking down “of the barrier of doubt and suspiciom which is gradually coming between our two peoples.” Itimiya and Yamaki, who were said the incident was embarrassing to the Japaness Navz. Defense Set Up 100 Miles of Madrid. REPORT REBEL HOSTS ROUTED Fascists Deny Loss of Advantage in Bitter Fight. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) MADRID, August 20.—Government forces, in hot engagements with Fas- cist rebels, today established a new line of defense about 100 miles south- west of Madrid. Navalmoral de la Mata was reported in flames, with rebels in headlong flight before victorious government troops, and at Alia the government declared the rebels were routed after a two-hour siege. (Rebel sources reported from the Portuguese border, however, that Col. Julio Mangada’s government army had been defeated in the attack on Naval- moral.) The march, from rebel strongholds outside of Badajoz to the present bat- tle line, represented a Fascist forward movement against Madrid of approxi- { mately 100 miles, on the basis of their | last previously reported positions. Battle Described. A government source in describing | the battle said: “During the first hours | of the morning Navalmoral de la Mata was in glaring flames as the fire spread from house to house. the barrage from loyal rifles and sur- render to the militia. “At dawn the column approached | up and surround the town where the | rebels were barricaded. shooting from the rebels and the after the siege started. “Alla, duly fortified, is impreg- nable. It has several thousand in- habitants and rich crops. Farmers now are busy harvesting. “From Alia we can dominate al- most the whole Sierra Mountains of Extremadura (ancient Spanish prov- ince which includes several present provinces in the vicinity). “Republican flags now are waving from all the houses of the town. “When the flags were hoisted the militia stood firm with raised fists.” Toledo Towns Held. Government quarters declared every town in the province of Toledo was in their hands. Reliable reports from Gibraltar stated that the rebel commander, Gen. Emilio Mola, had advised his col- league, Gen. De Llano at Seville, to send no new troops narthward. (Mola asserted he had sufficient strength with which to crush Madrid in iess than a week. Radio reports said the Fascists had captured Albu- querque and Olivenda and shot down two loyalist airplanes near Badajoz.) Loyalist forces of the Socialist gov- ernment, marching on Teruel and Granada, expressed their determina- tion to “save Spain from fascism by the end of August.” Battle to Death Urged. Former Premier Diego Martinez Barrio. addressing Madrid soldiers, called upon them to “take again the oath we took at the beginning of the uprising: It is better for us to die than live as slaves.” A government broadcast urged citi- zens to disobey orders from rebel gen- erals calling to service soldiers who served under the last five conscrip- tions. “If you cannot do anything else,” the government broadcast ad- vised citizens of captured towns, “flee from the city.” In Alicante, Manuel Martinez Nieto, a refugee from Granada, said govern- ment troops since Saturday have oc- cupied several towns in the vicinity of Granda, including La Zubia. Rebels in Granada, he said, were running short of food and ammunition and their situation was desperate. He denied reports the Alhambra had been destroyed, but he said the rebels (See BATTLE, Page A-5.) FAIR AND COOLER IS FORECAST HERE Temperature Mounting Slowly, but Relief From Excessive Humidity Is Promised. A forecast of fair and cooler weather, with light northerly winds, gave the Capital some hope of relief from the excessive humidity today, although the temperature was mounting slowly. Cause of principal discomfort, the humidity was registered at the un- usually high figure of 92 per cent at 8 am., with an almost total lack of wind contributing to the uu:kyd;;- mosphere, By 2 p.m., however, & - ing sun and a light breeze had brought it down to 43 per cent. Temperature at that time was 93 degrees. Yesterday’s humidity ranged from 81 per cent at 8 am. to 68 per cent at noon, and a jump to 83 per cent at 8 pm. The maximum temperature was 83 degrees at 5 pm. At the Weather Bureau it was ex- afternoon -or 3 remain nostherly and “Rebels no longer could withstand s o | coal miners today threatened to defy | Alia. The troops were ordered to split | “The column advanced despite some | enemy began to flee about two hours | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associa_ted Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 129,576 (#) Means Associated Press. AL a0 ATTABOY N RESCUERS GRON INPATEN Threaten to Defy Orders and Force Way Down Perilous Shaft. (Pictures on Page A-4.) | Bv the Assoctated Press. MOBERLY, Mo., August 20.—Their patience frayed by two days of fruit. less rescue efforts, a grim company of officials and force their way down a waterlogged gas-filled air shaft in an attempt to reach four fellow workers, entombed in a collapsed mine tunnel. Arnold Griffith, chief State mine inspector, directing rescue operations at the main shaft, posted a special guard at the abandoned air duct to keep friends of the entombed men from entering. Attempts to reach the imprisoned miners through the air shaft were abandoned yesterday by Arnold, who said the narrow vent was filled with deadly black damp. Four-man res- cue crews, working in relays, concen- trated their work on the debris-locked main shaft. f Cave-in Followed Fire. The four miners were entombed Tuesday afternoon when fire swept the mine superstructure, causing the vertical main shaft to crumble. At the bottom of that shaft the rescue crews toiled. The four were caught in one of two horizontal tun- nels leading away from the base of the debris-choked shaft. Unless they barricaded themselves in some recess, little hope was held that they escaped the deadly gas fumes now filling the mine. Working through the night in 20- minute relays, two men slowly re- duced the pile, tossing burned timber and dirt into a 1,000-pound capacity bucket, while a third man watched for any signs of the workers being overcome. Fresh air was blown down constantly to the three, cramped in & space 7 feet wide. At Least 25 Feet to Go. If the 15-foot-high cage at the bot- tom of the shaft was intact, the men had only about 25 feet to go. If it was only a mass of debris, then the barrier exceeded 40 feet. But there was no assurance that when the men reach the tunnels more debris would not be encountered. A pulley, operated by a truck, drew the full bucket to the surface, where anxious relatives and friends of the entombed quartet waited through an- other long night. “Sometime today,” was the earliest promise Griffith could make. Three of Four Married. The imprisoned four were: Dem- mer Sexton, 37, married and father of one child; A. W. McCann, 50, un- married; Edward Stonner, jr., 26, married, and George T. Dameron, 27, colored mule driver, married. Stonner and Sexton eased the mine two weeks ago and were getting it ready for operation when fire broke out. More than 3,000 persons thronged the area near the mine last night, crowding as close to the rescue scene as State highway patrolmen would permit. Scores of coal miners par- ti¢ipated in the rescue work. Tomorrow’s Bargains Important shoi) zlng day to- morrow for thrifty buyers— Odd Lots, Remnants, Friday Savings and Bargains are featured in today’s Star. Also, Suits, Dresses and Fur Coats {Moore Describes Alleged | and of course Food and Gro- ceries for the week end. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display.) Lines 24,584 17,011 10,488 8,172 7,414 The Evening Star_ 2nd Newspaper___ 3rd Newspaper... 4th Newspaper___ 5th Newspaper___ The Star’s circulation has increased more than 30,000, both daily and Sunday, dur- ing the past ten years and 15,000 di the past two years and now running about 9,000 ahead of last year. There are few homes in Wash- ington and suburbs where The Star is not read, and read vening Nebraska Finds Too Much Cash Can BeProblem Has No Place to De- posit $1,379,493, | | So Holds It. Ev the Assoctated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr,, August 20.—State Treasurer George E. Hall had a unique problem today—Nebraska's treasury has too much cash on hand | For instance, the State’s cash bal- | nce increased from $8,147,507 9,627,000, or $1,379,593, in 19 day: The amount of checks and drafts on hand now totals $1,381,000 and there's no place to deposit them, so they are held as cash on hand. “Banks,” Hall said, “do not want State funds. They have more money | than they can use, and I do not like to ask them to qualify and give security for State deposits which are not likely to remain in banks very long. “I have a State checking account on one bank which has asked me to withdraw it.” Hall said the balances should drop in the next four months because of heavy scheduled expenditures, A pur- chase of $300,000 worth of Govern- ment bonds has just been authorized and the State has no debts to pay since the State constitution bans indebtedness. LASHED, ASSERTS SLAVING SUSPECT Scene on Stand in Co-ed Murder Trial. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C, August 20.— Martin Moore told Judge Don Phil- lips today he was beaten with a rubber hose before he confessed the killing of Helen Clevenger at the time of his arrest. J. F. Clevenger of Great Kills, Staten Island, N. Y., father of Helen Clevenger, fainted as Moore ap- proached the stand and had to be carried from the court room. Moore said the hose was wielded by a “fat man,” who also used his fist in seeking to obtain the Negro's story. Moore said one of the blows was to his stomach. Deputy a Witness. The 6-foot-3 prisoner, of dull de- meanor, said the beating was admin- istered in the presence of Deputy Sheriff Tom Brown. He saild “the fat man™ also told him officers had found his finger- prints on a lampshade in the girl's room. Moore's attorneys were countering a determined prosecution effort to enter in evidence the signed confes- sion, which said the man went to Miss Clevenger’s hotel room at 1 a.m. July 16 to rob it, but killed her in panic lest he be discovered when she screamed. Judge Don Phillips refused, at least temporarily, to allow Sheriff Brown'to testify regarding the confession. With the jury out of the room, Brown denied from the stand that duress or inducements were' used to get Moore to confess, but said he did (See LASHED, Page A-3.) (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. RUSSIAN PLOTTERS SOUGHT FASCISM LEADER ADMITS Zinovieff Confesses Plan to Seize Control of Soviet Government. 2 CONVICTS SHOT BY D. C. FARMER One of Fugitive Pair Wound- ed by Buckshot Seriously Hurt. Two escaped Maryland convicts, “model” prisoners in the State penal farm at Roxbury, were in hospitals here today, brought down by a blast rom the shotgun of a District farmer | who thought they might be chicken hieves. The fugitives were: William Oliver, 37, seriously wounded in Casualty Hospital, and Merrill Gall, alias Don- ald Schock, 36, in Gallinger Hospital with lesser buckshot wounds in the face and right hand. They escaped from the prison farm, 6 miles south of Hagerstown, shortly after 10 p.m. last Saturday. Ellsworth Farr, 74-year-old truck farmer, was asleep in his home at 3449 Benning road northeast last night, with a 12-gauge shotgun lying under his bed for protection against chicken thieves recently prevalent in that neighborhood. Awakened by Broken Glass. He was awakened by the tinkle of broken glass from his bed room window. Without getting out of bed, Farr grabbed his gun and fired one barrel at the dark window space. There was a cry of pain and he heard the patter of hastily retreating feet. Farr got up, went outside and found a chair under the window and blood- stains on the sill. Shortly afterward a wounded man moaning “Oh, God, I've been shot!” stumbled up to a watermelon huck- ster's stand near Farr’s house. Wil- liam C. Beall, 661 F street north- east, a newspaper photographer, who ‘was buying a melon at the stand, took the injured man to Gallinger, where he said he was Donald Schock, 36, of Baltimore. Meanwhile, police, on information that Gall had been seen sitting on a rajlroad embankment with another man just before he was shot, began a search for his companion. About 7:30 a.m. eleventh precinct police received a call that “a man injured in an automobile accident” was lying in a field between Benning road and Central avenue on the Mary- land side of the District line. Oliver Taken to Hospital. Policeman R. L. Eubank and’ Theo- dore Parks responded in a scout car. They found the man later identified as Oliver and took him to Casualty. (See CONVICTS, Page A-3.) LOCOMOTIVE BLAST KILLS 2, INJURES 1 Boiler on C. & 0. Freight Train Blows Up Near Beck- ley, W. Va. By the Assoclated Press. BECKLEY, W. Va., August 20.—A locomotive boiler on a Chesapeake & Ohio freight blew up today, killing two trainmen and seriously burning a third. Physicians at the Raleigh General Hospital said Brown Nunally of Hin- ton, the engineer, and Blaine Simms of Raleigh, the conductor, were killed. Ray Singer, the fireman, suffered burns, which the physicians said were critical. The engine, pulling a string of | freight cars on the Piney River Divi- slon, stopped at a water stop at White Stick, 5 miles from here. Separate Fathers of Twins Puzzling Claim, Say Doctors By the Assoctated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 20.— | Columbus obstetricians indicated to- day that the State division of chari- ties would have a' difficult task straightening out a reported case of divided paternity of twin girls, now 10 years old. Mrs. Luetta Magruder, division chief, disclosed that a Columbus woman had asked her help in ob- taining custody of both girls. The womans’ husband, Mrs. Magruder sald, was willing to let the mother have one girl, which he contended was another man’s daughter, but re- fused to surrender the other, of which he professed to be the father. Leading obstetricians here, declin- mwhmwdbyme.nld:m saild blood tests might indicate that a man could not have been the father, but could not establish identity of the father. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the journal of the American Medical As- sociation, commented in Chicago that such cases were “very rare” but have been demonstrated scientifically. “I recall two cases in which it was sclentifically demonstrated that twins could have separate fathers,” he said. “One was about the time of the Civil War, when a woman gave birth to a white child and a black one.” He sald he did not recall de- tails of the other case. Mrs. Magruder said the Columbus woman’s husband had placed the twins in a Wheeling, W. Va,, institu- tion. She planned to confer with medical authorities before any action in the case, MAN’S SUICIDE BLOCKED STALIN ASSASSINATION Conspirator's Secretary Ended Life Rather Than Carry Out Death Orders. (Copyright. 1936, by the Assoctated Press.) MOSCOW, August 20.—Gregory Zinovieff, accused instigator of & bloody plot against the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin, testified at his trial today the terrorist conspiracy, if suc- cessful, would have put Russia on the road to Fascism. Accepting the full guilt for the con- spiracy, alleged to have included the intended assassination of Stalin and other high Soviet figures, the famous old Bolshevist declared: “I went all the way from opposi tion party power to counter-revolu- ‘tion and terrorism and actually Fase cism.” Earlier, in a dramatic moment of | the trial of Zinovieff and 15 others, | testimony was brought out that an attempt to kill Stalin in 1934 failed because Zinoviefl's secretary come mitted suicide rather than carry ouf the death orders. Abandoned Marxian Principles. Zinoviefl’s admission he had abandoned the principles of Karl Mara in resorting to individual terrorism was made as an explanation of how and why he plotted to kill Stalin an¢ unseat the government. However, Zinovieff defended hit | actions by saying “the evolution of our struggle against the party nat | urally and inevitably led to terrorism Neither Zinovieff nor Leon Kam- eneff, who preceded him to the stand made any attempt to deny they wert | fully responsible for the conspiracy. | In fact, Zinovieff confessed he ha{ {md and deceived others for ma | years, but now, having «o furt] | “illusions,” had resolved to tell thy “pure truth.” He started off with a declaration that despite whatever the world might | think, his group never broke with the | exiled Leon Trotzky, accused as thy absent master of the plot, following their 1927 expulsions from the Com- munist party. Deceived the Party. “We never broke or betrayed ow alliance,” Zinovieff testified. “Wedid however, deceive the party by playini the role of double-crossers througl pledging loyalty anew to the party is order to use the same weapons Trotzky was employing, but in a different man- ner.” Zinovieff appeared particularly in- | censed by the accusation of another defendant yesterday that he was 8 “liar.” “Yes,” he said, “I lied ever sinct the struggle against the governmen! started. “It was necessary to lie. “But now I am determined o tell the whole truth, “I have not the illusions of my gravt (See RUSSIA, Page A-4.) |OLSON REPORTED ‘GROWING WEAKER' Governor Tolerates Feeding Witl Increased Difficulty, Say Doctors. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, Minn,, August 20.- Gov. Floyd B. Olson, Minnesotat Farmer-Labor executive, critically I of a stomach ailment, is growiny weaker and is having increased diffi culty in feeding, Mayo Clinic physi cians announced at 9 am. (Centra standard time) today. The official bulletin said: “There has been no marked changu in the Governor's condition. He i apparently somewhat weaker. He § tolerfting feeding with increases amount of difficulty. Pulse and tem perature are practically normal.” Earlier, Maurice Rose, the Gov ernor’s aide, said his chief spent 1 “rather restless night” and sufferet with intermittent pains which th latter indicated were of a “localizet nature in the abdomen.” Rose spent the entire night in th Governor's sick room. Watchdog Is Stolen. NEW EBRITAIN, Conn., August 2| (#).—Police were searching todsy for a thief who stole a fox terrier from the jewelry store of A. H. The jeweler complained he left thy dog to guard the store in his absency yesterday, and when he returne¢ nothing was missing but his watchdog Readers’ Guide Melcher in Hollywood. News Comment Features A-11