Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Possibly a local thundershower this afternoon or tonight, followed by ge! erally fair tomorrow; continued wa: gentle winds, mostly southwest. Temper= atures—Highest, 95, at 4 p.m. yesterday; g T 3 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associaped Press News and Wirephoto Services. - Foenin lowest, 68, at 9 p.m. Full report A-8, Closing New York Markets, Page 12 No. 33,716. CHICAGO EXPERT NAMED 10 STUDY FISCAL AFFAIRS OF D. C. BEGINS JOB J. L. Jacobs Says Procedure for Survey Is “Fairly Well Outlined,” but Withholds All Details. FINDINGS TO BE READY FOR NEXT CONGRESS Three Other Authorities Are Ap- pointed by President Roosevelt to Aid in “Comprehensive” Study Designed to End Lump Sum Disputes. BACKGROUND— The fiscal relation between the Federal and District governments has been an annually recurring problem ever since 1925, when Con- gress ignored substantive law re- quiring the United States to pay 40 per cent of the expenses of the Capital City and substituted a lump-sum payment, which has dwindled to $5,000,000 for the cur- rent fiscal year. To settle the controversy, the 1937 appropriation act for the Dis= trict authorized the President to appoint an impartial committee to yecommend a fair and equitable Federal share toward District ez- penses. J. L. Jacobs of Chicago, an admin- istrative and tax expert, was named today by President Roosevelt to direct the study of fiscal relations between the Federal Government and the District of Columbia, and im- mediately went to work in temporary offices in the Treasury Building. To assist Jacobs in the survey, the President named the following Ad- visory Committee: George McAneny, president of the Title Guaranty Trust Co., New York City. Clarence A. Dykstra, city manager, | Cincinnati, Ohio. James W. Martin, chairman of the Kentucky State Tax Commission. The President’s selection of these experts to conduct this study was made principally upon the recom- mendations of D. W. Bell, acting di- rector of the budget. Coatless, despite the air-cooled condition of the Treasury Building, Jacobs went over a program of pro- cedure for the study, which District officials hope will end permanently the annually recurring battle over the amount the Federal Government should pay toward the expenses of | the District. Procedure Outlined. Jacobs said the procedure is al- publication he would only add: “Our objective will be to make the study as comprehensive as possible. The picture will be developed as we go along. We will consider all data and all factors dealing with these subjects. Later we will call on Dis- trict officials and individuals more familiar with the question, to submut any information they may have.” Jacobs will make his headquarters in Washington. Temporarily he will have an office in the Treasury De- partment Building, but Acting Budget Director Bell plans to arrange special quarters for him in the Commercial National Bank Building. While the major portion of the work In connection with the survey will be done by Jacobs, the Advisory Com- mittee named by the President to assist 1im, will meet with him from time to time and go over the mass of material he plaas to collect in connection with his work. The initial meeting of the Advisory Committee and Jacobs is expected to be held shortly. Bell Is Silent. Acting Budget Director Bell, who went to Hyde Park this week to dis- cuss the personnel of the Special Fis- cal Relations Committee with the President, was reticent when ques- tioned about the activities of the com- mittee. He said he proposed “to keep out of the picture.” It is known, however, that the President left many of the details in connection with the selection of the committee to Bell. Report Due Early in 1937, In announcing the appointments, it was said at the President’s office at Hyde Park that the purpose of this fiscal relations study is to examine into the various elements, conditions and facts affecting this problem, and that this study is to be completed in time for presentation of the reports and recommendations at beginning of the next session of Congress. Starting in motion this machinery e Dt (See SURVEY, Page A-3), MME. TROYANOVSKY HURT IN CAR CRASH Wife of Soviet Envoy Resumes Trip Here After Accident in Wyoming. By the Associated Press. CHEYENNE, Wyo, August 22— Mme. Ann Troyanovsky, wife of Alex- ander T. Troyanovsky, Soviet Am- bassador to the United States, ex- pected to resume her journey to ‘Washington today after an automo- bile accident east of Cheyenne. Mme Troyanovsky suffered shock and a possible fractured rib. Her 17-year-old son, A. Troyan- ovsky, and her secretary, Miss Lida Jvanov, were bruised. ‘The son said he was driving in & rain and wind squall when their car skidded and overturned. ‘The party will continue their trip by train, < Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. J. L. JACOBS, Selected by the President to study fiscal relations between the District and Federal Gov- ernment. 9 PRISONERS BEAT Arrive After Warden Is Subdued. BY 3 Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 22.—An attempted break at the Rockville jail was frustrated early today by two Montgomery County policemen after nine prisoners picked the lock on their cell door and clubbed into sub- mission & night warden on duty in the main corridor of the lock-up. The prisoners held the warden, | Hugh Walker, 42, of Gaithersburg to after choking him and beating him |into unconsciousness with three iron bars torn from the beds in their cell. Escaped Serious Injury. Walker, despite the visciousness of | the attack, escaped serious injury. The attempted break came shortly after 3 am., when Walker was on duty alone in the jail atop the Montgomery Court House. Jailer Joseph Moxley and his family were asleep in his quarters some dis- tance from the scene of the attempted break and were not ardused. Walker was at one end of the corridor when the men emerged from their cell and leaped upon him. He resisted but was quickly subdued by the prisoners, who then prepared to make a dash for liberty through the main entrance of the jail. Police Sergt. Joseph A. Nolte and Patrolman Ira Hover, returning from their beat in a radio cruiser, heard the commotion as they drove into the parking lot at the rear of the Court ready fairly well outlined, but for | House and dashed upstairs in 2n ele- vator which leads directly into the jail from police headquarters on the first floor. Dash Back to Cells. Upon hearing the elevator stop at the cell block, the prisoners dashed back into their cells and offered no resistance when Nolte and Hover ar- rived on the scene. They were trans- ferred to another cell for safekeeping. It was learned that the prisoners escaped from their cell by picking the inner half of a double lock on the door, but it was not immediately ascertained how this was accom- plished, The three iron bars used by the prisoners in their attack on Walker were found hidden in the cell by Nolte and Hover. Decline to Discuss Case. Sheriff G. Edington Bell and Jailer Moxley declined to discuss the at- tempted break until they could confer at the jail this morning. It was learned, however, the leaders - were two prisoners held on minot charges, one for investigation and the other for*larceny, Their names were not learned. Two of those who attacked Walker, who was removed to his home in Gaithersburg after first aid treatment, were being held for murder in the death of William S. Ward, 65-year-old carpenter, who was beaten to death and robbed on June 7 at a house under construction at 4806 Leland street, Chevy Chase, Md. They are John Thomas Dove, col- ored, of Scotland, Md., and William H. Parr of Charlottesville, Va, . S I TEN HURT IN CRASH Scores Shaken Up as Street Cars Collide in Chicago. CHICAGO, August 22 (#).—Ten per- sons were injured and scores were shaken up in a collision of two street cars on the Southwest Side during yesterday's rush hour. Most of the injured suffered bruises and were treated at the offices of nearby physi- cians. The crash occurred, witnesses said, when a northbound car jumped the tracks and the rear end swung around into a southbound car. ROCKVILLE JAILER Escape Foiled When Police the floor and banged his head time | | after time upon the concrete walkway | Che ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1936—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. #%% Study Fiscal Relations CLARENCE A. DYKSTRA, Who will assist Mr. Jacobs. JAMES W. MARTIN, Also a member of the advisory committee. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. LANDON GREETED BY LIMA'CROWD Tells Ohioans Good Govern- ment Is Issue in Early Morning Talk. By tnt Associated Press. ABOARD LANDON TRAIN EN ROUTE EAST, August 22—Gov. Alf M. Landon, speeding across Ohio where he spent much of his boyhood, told a crowd of Lima, Ohio, residents today “I'm glad to be back in the Buckeye State.” ‘The Republican presidential nomi- nee, en route to West Middlesex, Pa. to deliver a speech this afternoon opening his anti-new deal drive in the East, was introduced by former Gov. Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati. “I am gratified at this crowd which turned out so early, leaving their homes, offices and the farm,” Landon said. He arrived in Lima at about 6:3 am. (E. S. T), five minutes ahead of schedule. “Good government will be the issue in this campaign. We must have a Congress that will stand by its Con- stitutional rights. “As American citizens we are en- titled to Constitutional rights and we haven't been getting them for the past three eyars,” said the Kansas governor, who spent his boyhood at Marijetta, Ohio. The train stopped about 10 minutes and continued across the State. On the Tam O'Shanter golf course, outside the little Northwestern Penn- sylvania town of 1,189 inhabitants, the Republican presidential nominee was scheduled to speak at 3 pm. (Eastern standard time), to a crowd party leaders have predicted would approximate 100,000. The candidate chose “The Ameri- can Way of Life” as the subject of his first formal speech since he accepted the nomination almost a month ago and the first of three billed for his stumping tour into vote-heavy East- ern territory. Landon opened his third day of rear platform speaking and hand- shaking at Lima, the first of six stops scheduled for the journey across the Buckeye State—scene of his early school days. No Place for Politics. Before leaving arid sections of the farm beli, the Kansan told crowds at several points yesterday that “no individual and no organization should meet this (the drought) problem from the point of view of politics.” “I am not concerned about where the credit goes in the solution of the problem of the drought, just so we meet it in a humane and constructive and sensible way,” he reiterated. His remarks were made at Cedar Rapids, Clarence and Clinton, Iowa, only a few hours after the President (See LANDON, Page A-2) e Four Drown in Collision. HELSINGFORS, PFinland, August 22 (P)—Four persons were drowned today when the 15,135-ton British lLiner Atlantis sank a Finnish trawler in a collision in the harbor. Two Langston Terrace Bids Are Rejected as “Excessive” |3 Administrator Ickes today abruptly rejected as “ercessive” the two bids for construction of buildings for Lang- ston Terrace, P. W. A.’s $1,600,000 low- rent housing project in Washington. Ickes said the $1523,000 bid of the J. Slotnik Co. of Boston, and the $1,555,000 bid of Charles Tompkins, ‘Washington, were “so far in excess of reasonable estimates for the work that the Public Works Administration’ would not be justified in awarding the contract.” His action was based on a report from Howard A. Gray, director of [ housing, who said the low bid sub- mitted was considerably above what housing division architects considered reasonable. Readvertisement for new bids was under consideration. Contracts will be let as soon as & reasonable bid is received, Ickes indicated. The Tompkins company dug the foundations for Langston Terrace, which is to provide 317 family units FARLEY TELECRAN BACKING BLANTON PRONPTLY DENED Democratic Chairman Re- pudiates Indorsement in Texas Primary. MESSAGE PRAISES CONGRESS CANDIDATE May Have Been O0ld Message When He Supported All Demo- crats, Says New Yorker. ‘The prompt repudiation by James A. Farley of a mysterious telegram purporting to be an indorsement of Thomas L. Blanton by the chairman of the Democratic National Com- mittee complicated the close run-off primary today in the seventeenth Texas district for the House seat now held by Blanton. i The telegram, reported by the As- sociated Press as received by a Texas newspaper, declared: “Congressman Tom Blanton should be returned. He has contributed much to legislative progress and the people of his district should recognize his worth.” Audacity Unlikely. Asked if it were possible that such a message might have been sent over his signature from Democratic head- quarters in New York, Farley said over the telephone to The Star: “Frankly, I doubt it. I doubt If anybody would have the audacity to do such a thing when my policy of refraining absolutely from participa- tion in primary fights is so well known. “Blanton and McFarlane (candi- date for renomination in the thir- teenth district) both wanted me to |send along an indorsement, but I re- fused, just as I have refused in all such cases this year. I'm not sup- porting Blanton or any other candi- date in a primary fight, and you may quote me to that effect.” Chairman Farley said it is possible | the quoted message is an old one| sent during the 1934 campaign when he supported all Democrats by a| personal letter. Such an indorsement, | however, was not intended for any other campaign than the 1934 one, he said. Blanton is engaged in a run-off | fght with County Judge Clyde L. Garrett for the nomination in an election being held today. In the first primary last month, Judge Garrett polled about 24,000 votes, as compared to slightly under 20,000 for Blanton. A third candi- date claimed about 7,500 ballots with Garrett's figure being short of a ma- | Jority of the total votes cast, such a majority being necessary for nom- ination. The repudiated telegram was made ublic just as Blanton closed a stren- uous speaking campaign with an ad- dress from the doorstep of Judge Gar- rett’s office. The judge, however, has | matched Blanton in a bitter campaign, | }wlth both candidates speaking sev- | | eral times daily. Blanton, first elected to Congress in 1616, has been returned every term except 1928, when he made an unsuc- cessful attempt to gain a Senate seat. Because of his careful scrutiny of all appropriations and frequent ob- Jections to those going elsewhere than Texas, Blanton has become known as a “watchdog of the Treasury.” As a member of the House Appro- priations Committee, he became last session the chairman of the subcom- mittee in charge of the District supply bill. For many years he has fought to lower the Federal contribution to the District government. Blamed Washingtonians. Blanton publicly has blamed Wash- ingtonians for his failure to capture the nomination in the first primary, claiming that a “slush fund” was sent into his district by residents of this city. He has charged also that the util« ity interests have helped finance the fight against him and blamed re- sentment over postmaster appoint- ments as an additional factor. Since the first primary, most of his efforts have been directed at gaining support of the nearly 8,000 voters who cast their ballots for the third candidate last month. With this can- didate out of the present race, the decision of these voters is expected to turn the present fight. In another run-off primary today in the thirteenth district, Representa- tive McFarlane, seeking re-election, and Ed Gossett were opponents, while Mayor Oscar Holcombe of Houston and Albert Thomas were paired in an eighth district race. The winner will succeed Representative Eagle, who at- tempted unsuccessfully to wrest the senatorship from Morris Sheppard. JEWS DENIED ENTRY Spanish Refugees Not Admitted to International Territory. TANGIER, International Zone, Morocco, August 22 .(Jewish Tel- egraphic Agency).—Jewish refugees from rebel-controlled Spanish Moroc- co said today many are not being ad- mitted to the international territory. Jews arriving here said they were fleeing rebel levies on -their prop- erties to finance the insurrection and faced reprisals if compelled to return bhome. They said the Jewish community of etuan was forced to make a “contri- bution” to the rebel cause and some Jewish leaders were arrested. A’S LEAD NATS, 5-0 Pound Cascarella for Total in -Second Inning. Italian Army, Already Large, To Be Increased as Duce Sees How Force Impresses World Triumphant in Africa Adventure, Fas- cists Now Believe They Are Invincible. Militarism Steadily Progressing. 1w BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. ROME.—Ttaly is the strongest military power in Furope today. don't agree with that, the invisible censor won't consider you a true friend | of Italy. It is, of course, difficult to say which is the strongest power on a continent where the entire national effort of every country is directed toward rearma- | ment; when practically two-thirds of indirectly toward armament: where the yard- stick of progress and civilization is military pre- paredness. But there is no doubt that Italy has a highly respectable military force, fully prepared for any emergency. MAX SCHMELING WHY Not [? THOSE FELLOWS CAME BACK! If you the national income goes directly or Yesterday’s Ci irculation, 128,171 (Some returns not yet received.) (®) Means Associated Press. Joe Lours, POLITIGS T0 WAIT FIGHT ON DROUGHT President Defers Campaign Activity Until After September. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYDE PARK, N. Y, August 22— President Roosevelt today was pon- dering over reports and plans deal- ing with the general political situa- | tion brought to him late yesterday cratic National Committee and a group | of other party leaders. | There is reason to know that Far- ley and the other leaders have map- ped out a final campaign drive, which TWO CENTS. REBEL SHIP SHELLS 3 FORTS IN' NORTH AS PUSH BEGINS 10 CRUSH MADRID lgualda, San Marcos and Guadalupe Attacked by Espana—France Wires Roads Across Border. MINISTRY ENDEAVORS TO PLACATE GERMANY, Overtures Also Made to Great Britain, Promising Not to Search Vessels on High Seas. Troops Batter at Gates of To- ledo in South. By the Assoclated Press. Renewing the rebel attack in the San Sebastian-Irun section, the 12- inch guns of the battleship Espana bombarded the forts of Igualda, San Marcos and Guadalupe today. Observers said the rebels had diffi- culty in spotting their objectives, but the bombardment continued un=- abated. Government militiamen meanwhile gained several strategic points near Ventas in skirmishes with rifles and machine guns, but otherwise the op- posing camps maintained their posie tions on the northern front. Barbed-wire entanglements were strung across all roads leading from the Spanish frontier as a second line of defense against fighting which, it was feared, might spread across the border into France. SPAIN SEEKS SETTLEMENTS. Makes Overtures to Berlin and Lon- don on Ships Issues. Br the Associated Press. Augusto Barcia, Spanish minister of state, said today at Madrid the | by Chairman Farley of the Demo- | Kamerun incident would be quickly settled to the satisfaction of both Germany and the loyalist government. At the same time, London reported the Madrid government had assured Great Britain it does not propose to search on the high seas British ships | plan calls for the President himself | suspected of carrying supplies to | shouldering the major part of the | ..o - Her land army is practically mobilized; there still are some 1,200,000 men under arms at the present moment, not counting whatever troops are in Ethiopia. This army, so the rumor goes, will be partially demobilized after the August war games. There is some doubt about it. Mussolini might take advantage of the present strained international situation to keep his re- servists under arms. This for two reasons: First, he wants to be prapered for any eventual- ity, and second, he does not know what to do with these reservists—mostly farm hands who will go back and swell the number of unem- Constantine Brown ployed. They might dare be discontented. The army does not pay them much in ready cash—about 5 cents a day. But it | gives them decent clothes, boots, fair food and several cigarettes a day. the Eldorado for the Italian peasant. either. As long as they are in the army they get some relief. It's Their families don’'t want them back Hence, it is probable that the reservists won't be sent home—for a while at least—and that the new men will merely increase the number of the Italian standing army. (See ITALY, Page A-9) EXPLOSION HURTS 3 IV BASENEN Mystery Blast Envelopes Two Boys—Mother’s Hands Burned. BULLETIN, David Riordan died in George- town Hospital about 1 p.m. Four-year-old David Riordan and his brother, Thomas, 3, were critically injured in & mysterious explosion which shook the basement of their home at 5444 Nebraska avenue shortly before noon today. Their mother, Mrs. Gladys H. Rior- dan, who rushed into the cellar when she heard the blast, was burned about the hands and arms when she beat out the flames which enveloped their bodies. The children and their mother were rushed to Georgetown Hospital, where David was reported most seriously burned. Both boys were burned on the face, chest, arms and legs. Their father, Thomas D. Riordan, is a building contractor with offices at 33 M street. ‘The cause of the explosion could not be determined immediately, but firemen, who entered the smoke-filled house with gas masks, reported they found a metal container—believed to hold paint—in the basement. Possibility & short circuit may have caused the blast also was seen, how- ever, when the firemen reported a joist to which a fixture was attached was still burning when they entered the basement. Mrs. Riordan expressed belief the explosion was caused by “spontaneous ohorn:,uuum of somé paint in the cel- At the time of the blast Mrs. Rior- SOVIET PLOTTERS DEATH DEMANDED “Mad Dogs Must Be Shot,” Prosecutor Says of 16 Conspirators. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 22.—The death penalty for all 16 confessed conspira- tors against the Soviet Union was :| demanded today by Prosecutor Andrey J. Vishinsky. “The mad dogs must be shot,” Vi- shinsky demanded. “Every one of them must be killed.” His dramatic demands concluded arguments of the prosecution lasting more than three hours. ‘The prisoners blanched visibly be- fore the onslaught of words. “A pitiful and disgraceful end awaits these people,” said Vishinsky. “I add my voice to the millions of indignant voices of the toiling masses in demanding the death penalty for all 16 defendants.” Defendants Weep. Several of the conspirators in the plot to overthrow the Soviet regime and assassinate Dictator Joseph Stalin, See RUSSIA, Page A-3) load of personally carrying out these | plans. During the six weeks’ inten- | | sive campaign, just in advance of | | the election they have planned, Mr. | Roosevelt will conduct the main offen- sive. Much Traveling Planned, In view of this arrangement, which from all indications was agreed to by | the President at his political pow-wow | in the library of his mother’s home here last night, Mr. Roosevelt will do considerable traveling and talking after the first of October. Neither the | President nor any of his associates | will agree that his forthcoming tour | | of the drought States has any politi- | cal aspects. They indignantly resent any reference to politics in connection | with this trip upon which the Presi- dent will embark next Tuesday night. | Political Speaking Deferred. Mr. Roosevelt insists that he will engage in no personal campaigning before October. To a group of news- paper correspopdents here he made it plain that he intends to avoid po- litical speeches before that time. Therefore, according to his own defi- nition of the words “politics” snd “campaigning” nothing he has to say publicly in advance of that time should be interpreted by others as having any political significance. Mr. Roosevelt does not agree with some political observers and others, who contend that it is virtually impossi- bie for a President, who is a candi- date to succeed himself, to do any- thing, or say anything, which do not have some distinct political bearing. Mr. Roosevelt’s strong feelings in this matter were impressed upon a group of newspaper men talking with him late yesterday, when he said he had no campaign plans at this time. Asked if he did not consider tie large gathering at Charlotte, N. C., which he is scheduled to address Septcmber 10, somewhat in a light of a political rally, inasmuch as this meeting will be attended by Democrats from five or six nearby States, Mr. Roosevelt (See POLITICS, Page A-2) Airliner Crashes. ATHENS, August 22 (#)—The Im- perial Airways flying boat from Alex- andria to Brindisi crashed in landing today on Mirabella Bay, killing one | passenger.: Another passenger Wwas believed drowned. Five other pas- sengers and a crew of four were res- cued. Heat Returns After Sudden Cooled temporarily by last night's unexpected rainstorm Washington to- day faced high temperatures again, with the Weather Bureau predicting a possible maximum of 95, the same as yesterday's “high.” There is & possibility of local thunder showers late this afternoon or tonight, the forecaster said, but to- morrow will be generally fair and con- tinued warm. At 9 oclock this morning the mercury was at the comfortable level of 71 degrees, but the humidity was " | by Robert Minick, with eight passen- to Capital Cooling Storm since July 23, when 2.24 inches fell A strong northeast wind that reached a velocity of 32 miles per hour preceded the storm and helped cool the city. Just before the rain the humidity was 91 per cent, During the day, however, the humidity varied, being only 40 per cent at 3 p.m. Yesterday's maximum temperature was 95, recorded at 4 pm. While no serious damage was re- ported, the heavy rain filled gutters and disrupted traffic in some sections of the city. At the peak of the storm a southbound street car on Four- teenth street between G and F was held up for 30 minutes by a tornout plow. An Eastern Airlines plane piloted gers aboard, circled the city for 20 minutes when the lights of Washing- ton Airport were obscured by the rain: | mands.” ‘The position of the government on the blockade inside Spanish territorial waters was still under discussion with British officials, Madrid sources said. Great Britain on her part is making urgent representations to Berlin and Madrid to clear up the airplane and Kamerun incidents in order to bring Germany into the fold of the French propased non-intervention agreement. Italy’s acceptance of the neutrality agreement, with reservations, was wel- comed in British official circles as a step forward toward eventual conclu- sion of a general European accord. Germany has sent two protests to Madrid on the reported search of the Nazi steamer Kamerun, and has indicated this incident must be cleared up before Germany would bind her- self to any neutrality pact in Spain. Barcia said the Spanish govern- ment was studying the German notes | on the Kamerun incident “with all care to the importance of their de- He said the foreign min- istry was carrying out the necessary discussions which the circumstances demanded. Rebels Begin “Big Push.” The Spanish rebel armies today pressed forward in their “big push’” on Madrid, with the vanguard of their forces driving toward Toiedo, 30 miles south of the loyalist capital. Gen. Franco, leader of the rebel military, said the advance would not be precipitous, but a steady, slow progress with frequent haits 1o con- solidate the newly-won positions. At dawn the rebel forces had only (See SPAIN, Page A-4) 200 ROUTED AS CAVE-IN FLOODS COAL MINES 50 Homes Damaged Near Wilkes- Barre, but No Casualties Are Reported. By the Associated Press. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., August 22.— A surface cave-in at Hughestown drove nearly 200 persons from their home: early today. A survey by police revealed abouf 50 homes were damaged. Doctort from Pittston rushed to the scene but no casualties were reported. The cave-in occurred over work- ings of a company whose mines were flooded last March. Pumps are stil removing water from the pits. Neighbors provided shelter for the men, women and children who were fouted. Readers’ Guide Page. -B-6 In attempting to land on the soaked field Minick almost-overran the run- way. He was forced to make & sharp turn to avoid running on the high- way near the airport. * ¢ 1