Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1936, Page 4

" A4 «x “MIRACLES” TOLD BY MINE RESCUED Ordeal of Watching Two Companions Die Related by Saved Pair. 8y the Associated Press. * MOBERLY, Mo, August 22.—From miner to miner and all 'round the countryside today passed the ‘“mir- acle” story—a stirring account of how two strong men were rescued alive from a coal mine that had been their black, gas-filled prison 110 feet under- ground for 72 hours. Discovery that their two compan- fons had died shortly after a fire and cave-in trapped the men Tuesday afternoon tinctured the story with sadness. Such a fate had been pre- dicted freely for all four. In a hospital today, J. W. McCann, 50, and Demmer Sexton, 37, the latter in a critical condition, clung to that *one chance in a thousand” for sur- vival given them by Arnold Griffith, chief State mine inspector, during the slowly passing hours while his rescue workers tore at debris blocking the bottom of the main shaft. The terrifying ordeal of watching Edward Stoner, Jr., 26, and George T. Dameron, 27, colored, drop dead; the dragging hours without food; the re- treat from menacing gases; the dread that the sound of rescue operations | might cease—these made up the dramatic story of McCann, oldest of the trapped four and the only un- married member. Tried to Help Men. “I did everything I could to give the men courage,” McCann related. “I told them every funny story I could think of so that they would cheer up. You can't fear death when you are laughing and telling funny stories. “But Stoner and Dameron would not be encouraged. Both knelt on the floor of the tunnel and asked God to save them. As for me, I knew that | if T was saved it would be through my own courage and my will to live. I tried to make Stoner and Dameron men trapped for three days in coffee in an ambulance. recover. | | | realize that we all had an equal chance of survival. The air which Sexton and T breathed was the same that Stoner and Dameron were breathing. It was no more in the books for those two to go than it was | for Sexton and me. “Dameron said to me, ‘I'm going to die, I'm going to die.’ I seized him by the wrist and, pressing it hard, I told him that he was not going to die. I told him that I could tell by the color of his eyes that he was going | to live—but it did no good. he didn’t believe me.” Spurning an offer of assistance in lighting a cigarette, the bearded miner boasted: “Listen, I may not look it now, but I'm a pretty tough fellow. I've worked a lot of places in a lot of countries and I know my way around.” Never Lost Presence of Mind. “I never lost my presence of mind the whole time I was in the mine” McCann said. A word picture of what went on down in the mine as obtained from | McCann: Four p.m. Tuesday he first learned of the fire, which reduced the main shaft to & choked hole of burned tim- ber and dirt. McCann and his com- panions “used the old mine trick” of | going far back into a tunnel and bar- | ricading themselves against fire damp. Two hours later when they came | out to search for better air, Stoner dropped dead. “He wouldn't keep his head down like I said,” McCann explained. In two hours more Dameron died. | As time went on Sexton grew weak, ‘was unconscious when reached by the rescurers and “would' have been dead in another 30 minutes,” said Dr. John Maddux. Said McCann: “I could hear the men working up in the shaft. I pounded on the timber and tried to make them hear me. I guess they didn’t.” “Oh, God, I was afraid you would give us up and stop digging,” McCann sobbed when Griffith appeared with his searching party to look upon the dark scene of life and death. Sexton Appeared Dead. Sexton was stretched on the mine floor and appeared to be desd. After treatment and administration of stimu- lants he mumbled through thick lips, “I knew you fellows wouldn't give us up.” Dameron, bridegroom of a week, was found with his arms locked in death around a wooden support. The body of Stoner, who with Sexton, had leased the mine and was putting it in shape for operation, was found far back in the tunnel. Griffith, who went sleepless while directing rescue workers in over:oming & heart-rending series of reversals, told of the climax to the search: “We broke through into the south entry shaft from the base of the main shaft at 1:15 o'clock (vesterday) * * * I found a dead pony about 40 feet from the base * * * We each held to & rope and made the first test for white or black damp * * * We were making the second test when we were suddenly startled by a shout deeper in the tunnel: “ ‘Here we are.’” It was McCann. Funeral services probably will be held Sunday for the two victims. Stoner is survived by his widow, a 6-year-old daughter, his parents, six sisters and two brothers. The coroner’s inquest into the tra- gedy is scheduled for Monday. The chief witness will be McCann who, despite his ordeal, braved a smile when thousands of spectators cheered his appearance from the mine prison. Then he said: “I thought of everything bad I had ever done in my life while I was down there.” REMINGTON-RAND PLANT QUIET AFTER DISORDER Employe Attacked, Company Guards Protected as Menacing Crowd Is Dispersed. By the Assoclated Press. CINCINNATI, August 22.—Quiet re- turned today to the Remington-Rand strike zone in suburban Norwood after disorders in which an employe was attacked, several company guards given a police escort, three strike sympathizers arrested and police of suburban Silverton threatened to use tear gas to disperse a menacing crowd. The company said there was no dis- turbance when a working force num- bering 24 was escorted into the plant this morning. Both Capt. Charles Coddington of county police and Marshal Joha Ball- I guess | Miners Remove THE EVENING S d—Two Dead “I can take it!” said J. W. McCann, 50, right, oldest of four a coal mine near Moberly, Mo. McCann, one of two survivors, joked with rescuers as he drank Hospital physicians said he would Aid came too late to Edward Stoner, jr., 26, one of two men who succumbed to the gas fumes. bringing Stoner’s cloth-cloaked body to the surface. This picture shows miners —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. DEATH GUN REPORT IS MADE BY FOWLER Ballistics Expert Formally Sub- mits Findings in Test of Henry Murder Weapon. A formal report identifying the shotgun used by the murderer of “Milsie” Henry was turned over to Acting Detective Chief Ira Keck to- day by Lieut. John Fowler, police ballistics expert. Details of the routine account were made known in a previous announce- ment by Fowler in which the gun, found recently in a secret compart- ment of the car in which Henry's | murderer rode, was identified as the killer's weapon. Identification of the shotgun was made by comparisons of markings found on shells near the murder scene and those left by the hammer of the weapon on other shells. Meanwhile, Keck said today, police are continuing their attempt to trace the shotgun and two pistols found with it from the manufacturer to the purchaser. Henry was killed four years ago. RALPH GREENLEAF REPORTED MISSING Wife of Former Pocket Billiard Champion Asks Police to Conduct Search. Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 22.—Mrs. Amelia Greenleaf last night appealed to police for aid in lcoating her hus- band, Ralph Greenleaf, former pro- fessional world champion pocket bil- Hard player, who she said has been missing since last December, She said she remained on their farm in Maryland when he started a trip in August, 1935. She heard from him regularly until December, but has had no word since that time, she . reported. Detective Bernard Collins said the Chicago agency which booked Green- leaf on his tour last year reported the tour was completed in December and that the agency had not heard from the player since. Greenleaf, now 36 years of age, held the pocket billiard championship of the world from 1919 to 1924 and in 1928, 1929, 1931 and 1932. Greenleaf was married at Elkton, Md,, in 1925 to Amelia Ruth Parker, actress, born of an English father and a Chinese mother and known on the vaudeville stage as Princess Nai Pal Tia. Ate Seeds, Won Contest. DALLAS (#)—A colored lad who won all the honors in rapid-fire water- melon eating at a melon party con- test here disclosed the secret of his rach of Silverton denied tear gas was used to disperse the crowd last night. q sucoess: “I won ‘cause I ate all the seeds.” i |ESCAPED PRISONERS’ ' CUSTODY DISPUTED Capital Police Plan to Prosecute Pair, Wanted by Mary- land Officials. An argument was in the making today over the custody of Merrill L. | Gall, alias Donald Shock, 32, and Wil- | llam Oliver, 36, escaped Maryland | convicts, who were shot here Wednes- day night by Ellsworth Farr of 3449 | Benning road northeast, as suspected chicken thieves. Gall is in Gallinger Hospital and Oliver in Casualty Hospital, and Capt. Hugh Groves, eleventh precinct com- | mander, is prepared to demand their trial on charges of housebreaking. To the contrary, Harold E. Donnell, State superintendent of prisons, wants Ito bring the men back to Maryland Gall to complete a five-year term for nine burglaries in Baltimore, and Oliver, three-and-a-half years for | chicken stealing and receiving stolen property in Capitol Heights. The men fled the penal farm at Roxbury last Saturday. Gall is recover: ing from his wounds, but Oliver is in serious condition. If Grove's idea prevails, the men, if convicted, would serve whatever sentences they receive here before being returnd to Mary- land. Donnell said yesterday -it was the ‘“usual courtesy” for officials appre- hending fugitives to return them to the jurisdiction they had fled, and press their charges at the completion | of the original terms. MANASSAS MAN DIES Syeciar Dispatch to The Star. MANASSAS, Va, August 22— Oliver E. Newman, 80, died at his | home in Mannassas yesterday after a short {illness. He was one of the pioneer business i men of Manassas and a member of the firm of Newman Trusler Co. Funeral services will be held at the home at 3 p.m. tomorrow and interment will be in the Manassas Cemetery, —_ Dancing Taught in Prison. Country dancing, gardening, Span- ish and cooking are being taught at & night school for women in Holloway Prison in England. Y. M. C. A, GYMNASIUM SWIMMING POOL HAND BALL, SQUASH Special Membership 3 Months $5'°° This Rate Not Available After Sept. 2 18th and G N.W. TAR, WASHINGTO NAZI SPAIN POLICY CAUSES SHIP FIGHT Bremen, in New York Har- bor, Again Scene of Demonstration. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 22.—Demon- strators protesting against the German government's Spanish policy precip- itated disorder on the liner Bremen today. Twelve persons were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct. The outbreak was the second involv- ing the Bremen in little more than a year. One man was shot and scores injured in July, 1835, after the Nazi flag was torn from the liner'’s bow and tossed into the Hudson River. An estimated 150 demonstrators, many dressed in evening clothes, quietly boarded the liner more than an hour before it was due to sail. Asif on a prearranged signal, they began shouting exhortations against the Nazi government, unfurling banners let- tered: “Down with Nazi intervention in Spain” Free-for-All Fight. Pler policemen and crew members rushed the invaders. Fists and deck chairs flew while hundreds of passen- gers and their friends looked on. The demonstrators, many of them women, doffed outer wraps and dis- closéd white sweat shirts bearing red letters forming such sentences as “End Nazi war movements” and “Free Simp- son.” Lawrence Simpson, an American seaman, allegedly was imprisoned by the Nazis more than a year ago after his removal from the liner Manhattan in Hamburg. Pass Out Handbills, In groups of twos and threes, the demonstrators marched through the ship, passing out handbills. Several girls whipped chains from their cloth- ing and fastened themselves to the railings fo the first class deck. The crew chopped the chains with axes. At the height of the fighting, Max Schmeling, former world heavyweight champion, arrived with his party to sail for Germany. He watched briefly and retired to his quarters. Police arrived in response to a riot | call, and the outbreak was quelled quickly. The demonstrators were ejected to the pier and then to the street. Eight of those arrested were women. The incident delayed sailing of the Bremen only five minutes. . Spain (Continued From First Page.) to capture Toledo before facing a vir- tually unimpeded road to Madrid. Simultaneously the rebel compa- triots in the northern section of Spain launched an assault on the San fe- basitan front, where the fighting be- tween the loyalist defenders and Fascist attackers has been waging pitterly throughout the week. The rebel junta shifted its head- quarters southward from Burgos to Valladolid to bring the nerve-center to their forces nearer Madrid. Priest Opposes Rebels. Within the Loyalist camp itself the Catholic Church's alliance in most cases with the Fascist rebel cause was outspokenly opposed by the Socialist priest Father Juan Garcia Morales, former member of the Spanish Cham- ber of Deputies, who charged many priests with aiding the rebellion while enriching themselves. An aerial battle between govern- ment and rebel planes was reported today over the province of Huesca. The “dog fight” followed bombard- ment of Viclen by rebel artillery. Some civilians were killed and wounded. Loyalists claimed their forces had captured the town of San Julian de Banso, cutting off communication be- tween Zaragoza and Huesca. ‘The bloody civil war in Spain moved to a decisive battle for control of Madrid, the ramifications of the Fas- cist-Monarchist vs. Socialist-Commun- SPRING the Home of YOUR ideal. In contour—and into which have planning. Furnishings by Potthast, Inc. Accessories Brown Tea Pot. Decorations by Wesley Heights by D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 Crash Takes Life of Business Executive This wreckage is all that was le, ft of an airplane in which Charles Ward Hall, 59, president of All-Aluminum Aircraft, Inc., Bristol, Pa., crashed to his death during a dense fog at Mount Rose, N. J., yesterday. Hall was en route from Trenton, N. J., to this city. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ist struggle were causing grave con- cern in European captitals. Nazis Assail Russia. In Berlin the situation became elec- tric with increasing anti-Russian fury sweeping the nation. The Nazis ac- cused the Soviets with aiding the Spanish Socialist-loyaltistic cause at the expense of the Fascist rebel forces toward which the Nazi government is sympathetically inclined politically. In New York the steel-clad attitude of the German government against the Socialists in Spain found expres- sion in riots aboard the German liner Bremen. Twelve persons were arrested on disorderly conduct charges after demonstrators protested pugilistically | against the Nazs' ultimatum to the Spanish Loyalist government. Gijon Barracks Dynamited. The newspaper Frente Popular, at| San Sebastian, reported capture of | | the rebel barracks at Simancas, out- | side Gijon, after loyalists had hurled | dynamite through the windows. Only 150 of 500 Fascists within the bar- | racks escaped, the dispatch stated. | It reported that all the officers either were killed or committed suicide to avoid surrender. Reports from Bungas said the Provin- cial Parliament at Navarre, oper- ating under the rebel junta, author- ized Jesuit priests to return. The Parliament voted to return property | to the clerics seized when they were expelied at the beginning of the re- public, the report said. REBELS NEARER MADRID, Southern Troops Reach Borders of Toledo—Goal 30 Miles Away. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) PAMPLONA, Spain, August 22— ‘The vanguard of southern rebel troops has reached the outskirts of Toledo, 30 miles from Madrid, in the march toward a crucial battle for possession of the Spanish capital, Gen. Francisco Franco, commander-in-chief, reported today. This indicated Fascist armies, in- augurating the “big push” in cfforts to overthrow the Socialist government, had turned eastward 60 miles from Navalmoral. The new position would place the southern troops directly below Madrid, with an unimpeded road to the capital if Loyalists at Toledo could be dis- lodged. Northern Columns Active. Fascist columns marched also from the north, rebel headquarters here said, their advance heralded by the | roar of artillery and preceded by aerial bombardment of Loyalist posi- Is the End of the Search Here, in “The Garden of Beoutiful Homes,” you will have found true sociol distinction you want for yourself and family. In an environment that nature has made resplendent in color and masterpieces of ingenious and artistic designing—and practical Such Is the Latest Addition— 4821 Woodway Lane Furwished and Open for Your Inspection—I0 a.m. to 9 p.m. How uniquely living comfort has been combined with housekeeping convenience. How happily you can visualize the family fitting into it. With what confidence you can plan your social functions with its hospitable facilities. $19, Bhops. W. C. & A. N. Developers and Builders 1119 Seventeenth Street. tions. A new offensive on the bitterly con- VALLEY the community that offords the en set these distinctive homes— 750 Out Massachusetts Avenue, turning into Cathedral Avenue — thence through Wesley Heights— following “Exhibit Home" signs to this Home in Spring Valley. Miller District 4464 tested San Sebastian front also was under way. Rebel officers emphasized, however, that the march would not be a frenzied dash. Troops halted frequently to consolidate positions and map the| strategy of the attack. Three columns already in the lofty Guadarramas north of Madrid, rebel leaders said, comprised the spearhead of attack from that sector. Fascist forces in the north alone| were numbered at 200,000. The south- ern army included Morocean native troops estimated to number 8,000 to 12,000, in addition to thousands of regular army forces. Gen. Milan Astray, one-eyed founder of the Spanish Foreign Legion, re- viewed 2,000 tassel-capped fighters, the frontal force for southern march- ers. Many young girls, dressed as men, marched with the “Falangistas,” Fascist forces of Jose Primo de Rivera, son of the late Spanish dictator. De Rivera's whereabouts was un- known. The Madrid government some days ago declared he was in jail at the capital. Other reports said he had been killed, while still others reported the Fascist organizer definitely was “alive and well.” A fresh Moroccan battalion reached | Northern Burgos, and the rebel junta shifted its headquarters from there to Valladolid to speed direction of the campaign. The Coruna rebel radio station breadcast that the previously loyal | garrison of Southern Malaga had re- | volted and that a furious battle was in progress in the streets. Nobel Prize Winner Dies. The station also declared Jacinto Benavente, winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1923, and the two | Quintero brothers, leading suanuhl dramatists, had died in Madrid. The Lisbon (Portugal) Radio Club | broadcast that Spanish rebels re- ported 15 French war planes, flying their own colors, had bombarded Na- valperal in the Guadarrama Moun- tains and other rebel strongholds. PRIEST BACKS LOYALISTS, Accuses Colleagues of Aiding War While Gaining Wealth. (Copyright, 1836, by the Associated Press.) MADRID, August 22—A Socialist priest charged his colleagues today | with aiding fratricidal war while WOODWARD 10™ 11™ F aANp G STREETS Thes o N 4.6x1.6 —mmea=- 3] b (3 TN y | 8.3x10.6 537 Rucs, Firre FLOOR. accumulating wealth and appealed to all Spanish Catholics for support of | the Socialist government. The government meantime claimed new victories on the civil war battle front and continued its seizure of Catholic institutions. “Spain’s only salvation now is sup- port of the government to the utmost,” asserted Father Juan Garcia Morales, former member of the Span- ish Chamber of Deputies, in a radio broadcast. “Isn't it paradoxical that there should be men and women of God aiding and abetting war and accumu- lating, as some accumulated, great stores of wealth while there is so much poverty on every side? “They justified their support of re- volt with assertions a rebel victory will mean regaining the church's lost prestige in Spain. “I believe that if the church had adopted different tactics this ruinous fratricidal war could have been averted.” He criticized priests and nuns, “blinded to true precepts of Catho- licity, who materially aided the pro- | voking of the present bloodshed.” Father Morales' vigorous efforts in 1931 on behalf of socialism caused him to be deprived by the Bishop of Ma- drid of license to hear confessions and say mass, but he was not un- frocked. 7 ) Save —y g ) Guest Rooms " HARRINGTON £ U..S. ARMS MAKERS AVOID SPAIN SALES State Department Cautions Inquirers Not to Deal With Either Faction. Invoking a “moral” embargo against exports of war materials to Spain, the State Department indirectly has advised inquiring munitions dealers that sales to either faction in the Spanish conflict would be incompate ible with America’s neutrality policy. The department disclosed today that several concerns within recent days had solicited its views on the propriety of filling orders from Spain for arms and munitions. In each case, officials of the Muni- tions Control Board set forth this Government's attitude by repeating to them instructions dispatched to all American diplomatic and consular agents in Spain August 7. Policy Is Emphasized. Directing attention to its “well- established policy of non-interference with internal affairs in other coun- tries,” these instructions expressed the American Government's determination to “scrupulously refrain from any in- terference whatsoever in the unfor- tunate Spanish situation.” Significantly, they added: “We believe that American citizens, both at home and abroad, are patriotically observing this well-rec- ognized American policy.” Under the law, the United States cannot apply its neutrality restrictions, including actual arms and financial | embargoes, in the Spanish strife be- cause a war between nations is not involved. No Violations So Far. Officials, admittedly hopeful that the spirit of the administration’s neutrality policy will be observed voluntarily nevertheless, said today there had been no violations of it so far. “Every one has played ball with us right up to the limit so far,” a State Department spokesman said in de- claring that no application for muni- :uom export licenses to Spain have | been filed here. Neither the identity nor the exact number of munitions firms which have | approached the State Department was | disclosed, although it was stated au- | thoritatively that they were “not very | numerous.” It also was not revealed | which side in the revolutionary strug- gle had sought to place orders with them. Two airplane manufacturers whick ipmvxo\my had consulted the depart- ment before accepting orders from Spain were told of this Government's | position in the same manner. | i Brazil's 1936-37 coffee crop will fill over 21,000,000 bags. 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