Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1936, Page 1

‘WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forscast.) Thundershowers this afternoon or to- night, followed by fair tomorrow; slightly cooler tomorrow; fresh west winds. Tem- peratures—Highest, 82, at noon today; loweat, 69, at 5:45 a.m. today, Full report on pege A-8. Closing New York Markets, Page 12 No. 33,723. MADRID 1S BOMBED BY FASCIST PLANE IN FIRST ATTACK ON CENTER OF CITY Citizens Wounded, Buildings Damaged as Blasts Rock Downtown Area—Second Raid Is Checked. POWERS MAP PARLEY TO “HUMANIZE” STRIFE Representatives of Government and Insurgent Factions May Be Invited to Conference to Lay Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he bening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1936 ~THIRTY-SIX PAGES. Hears Farmers’ Woes ! Plans for Exchange of Hostages | and Other Steps. BACKGROUND— Since revolt against Spain’s So- cialist government flared in Span- ! ish Morocco siz weeks ago, Fascist rebels have gained control of West- «'n Spain from Gibraltar virtually to French border, in addition to . other important strips of territory. Their chief objectives of recent warfare have been Madrid and northern key cities of Irun and | San Sebastian. Checked by Loyal- ists, they are continuing attempts to press jorward. i Strife pits Madrid’s so-called People’s Front—composed of So- | cialists, Communists, Anarchists, | etc—against most of army, land owners and militant clergy, allied to further Fascist rule, possibly with return of monarchy. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) MADRID, August 29 —Fascist Rebel aerial bombs exploded today in down- town Madrid for the first time. Several persons were wounded, hun- .dreds of windows were broken and | important government buildings were | damaged. ‘The attack was the fourth of the week, but the first successful on- slaught against the city itself. It was followed by a fifth venture by the Rebels which was frustrated by quick-acting Madrid Socialist gov- ernment airplanes. Citizens in the capital, accustomed now to the sound of bombs exploding in outlying regions near the city and | st airdromes, obtained their Initial| first-hand impressions of war irom the air. Roars Down in Power Dive. ‘The Rebel plane, apparently flying &t a great altitude, roared toward the center of the city in a power dive shortly before midnight when the streets were still animated by homeward-bound crowds. A few moments later the engines of the plane could be heard plainly, and two bengal lights were dropped, bril-| liantly lighting a vast area of the city. | Immediately two bombs were re- | feased from the plane and fell in the | garden of the Ministry of War, tearing | up great holes. The bengal lights fell in the Plaza Cibeles, lighting the great square flanked by the Ministry of War, the | Bank of Spain and the general post ! office. | Several hundred windows were broken by the bombs’ blasts, including those in the Bank of Spain, the post office and one in the nearby office of the Associated Press. No other dam- age resulted. Next Attempt Balked. ‘The next attempt to bomb the city was balked when authorities from the nearby town of Vicalvaro flashed the warning of the approach of the rebel airplanes. . Government planes took to the air immediately and flew in high circles over the city. Madrid militiamen mistook their own craft for rebel planes and di- rected a heavy rifle and machine gun fire at them, but the firing ceased promptly when the soldiers realized their error. Appearance of the rebel plane to bomb the city itself produced an in- tense attack by government planes and anti-aircraft guns which spat- tered tracer bullets after the swiftly Tetreating rebel machine. As it climbed, it dropped a third bomb in Parquillo street near the center of town, causing a small fire, which was quickly extinguished. More Bombs Released. In the southern part of the city several more bombs were released, one wounding several persons near & military hospital. Government airplanes patroled the (See SPAIN, Page A-3.) LOWER TEMPERATURES DUE FOR D. C. TOMORROW Thundershowers Are Forecast for This Afternoon or Tonight. ,i Rainfall 0.15 Inch. Already enjoying pleasantly cool ‘weather, the Capital tomorrow will ex- perience even lower temperatures, ac- gording to the forecaster. ‘Thundershowers are due this after- noon or tonight, he predicted, while tomorrow will be fair and “slightly cooler.” Yesterday’s “high” was 75 degrees. The temperature varied little over- night, the minimum this morning be- President Roosevelt shown talking over the drought situa- tion near Jamestown, N. Dak., with Steve Broun, a homesteader who _went to North Dakota 51 the President of the change in was the President’s second stop SOVETS DENAD TROTRY OUSTIG Exile Accused of Breaking Pledge Not to Plot in Norway Asylum.. By it ¢ Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, August 29.—The Soviet government today officially demanded that Norway expel Leon Trotzky, the exiled Russian Bolshevist leader. A government note handed to the Norwegian foreign minister by the Soviet representative in Oslo read: Norwegian government will not delay measures to deprive Trotzky of further refuge in Norwegian territory.” that the Soviet government had de- manded the exile’s return to Russia, Interned Last Night. The note made plain that Norway's refuse] would prejudice good relations would be considered a violation of international law. ‘Trotzky and his wife were jnterned by the Norwegian government last night and their two male secretaries arrested. The Norwegian government’s move presumably was caused by charges that the exiled bolshevist leader had broken his pledge not to indulge in revolutionary plots. In the Moscow trial of 16 conspira- tors against the Soviet regime wit- nesses charged Trotzky directly with hatching the plot to substitute a reign of terror in Russia for the pres- assassinate Dictator Joseph Stalin. Trotzky's Return Demanded. After the execution of the Moscow conspirators the official press of Russia back into Russia to stand trial for the (See TROTZKY, Page A-4.) NAVY DEPARTMENT SILENT ON PAPERS Refuses Information on Confiden- tial Publication Lost by Lieut. Moffett. ‘While a report persisted that the confidential publications lost by Lieut. (J. G.) Wiliam A. Moffett, jr, Anacostia Naval Air Station airman, were the same that John 8. Farns- worth, former naval officer, is accused of selling to Japan, the Navy Depart- ment declined to throw any light on the subject. Moffett was reduced 50 numbers in grade after a court- martial for losing the documents. The publications are said to be labeled “The Service of Information and Security,” but officers professed not to know exactly what Lieut. Mof- fett had lost. The young lieutenant yesterday was a guest at the commissioning of the new $4,000,000 destroyer U. 8. 8. Moffett, named in honor of his father, Rear Admiral Willlam A. MofTett, at the Boston Navy Yard. This is the last of_a series of siz ezciting stories in which @ returned war correspondent tells what he learned about Italy’s ambitions. BY EDWARD J. NEIL. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) NEW YORK, August 29.—Italy’s appetite for new lands, new power in the great seething area of the Near Fast apparently has only been whetted giges by her world- ing 68. The rainfall was measured at 0.15 of an inch. el |~ 8 ON MISSING PLANE Iiner Left Basra, Iraq, for Bah- 4 campfires in “The Soviet government expects the ! There was no indication, however, | between the two governments and | ent government and incidentally to | demanded that Trotzky be brought | years ago. Farmer Broun told Jarming conditions. Jamestown on a tour of the drought region. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. IROOSEVELT URGES ORDLGHTSPENDI Relief Cost May. Be High at First, He Declares in Pierre, S. Dak. By the Assoclated Press. PIERRE, S. Dak., August 29.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt, in a rear platform | speech from his train today, reiterated his advocacy of a long-range drought relief program, even though the cost may be great at first. Talking to several thousand persons | at the end of a tour of Federal relief | projects, Mr. Roosevelt asserted: “On the long-range program the principal thing is better land use.” Pleading again for co-operation in the task between all public agencies, he said, “Unless we do it we may lose a very large investment, not only of money, but human beings. “If it costs $1,000,000 to save $10,- 000,000 I think it is worth while.” « . Will Meet Two Governors. Conferences with Govs. Berry and Miller as well as Senatars from those States were arranged for the Chief Executive during his four-hour stay at Plerre. Then the special was to go to Rapid City, 8. Dak., for the week end. Sunday night the President will start for Salt Lake City to attend the funeral of Secretary Dern Tuesday. His conferences with Governors at Des Moines, Iowa; Springfield. Il and Indianapolis, Ind., next week will be delayed two days from the original schedule because of the Salt Lake trip. This also has caused abandon- ment, until later in the year, of the visit to St. Paul, Minn., and Lacrosse, Wis,, for further drought parleys and cancellation of a motor tour of West- ern Iowa planned for the day follow- ing the Des Moines conference with Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas and four other State Governors. Speaking to thousands packed around his train at Aberdeen, Mr. Roosevelt said he had been “doing a good deal of thinking about the fu- ture—not just taking care of the im- mediate needs caused by the drought (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4) P MUTE SENTENCED TO DIE FOR ASSAULTING WOMAN By «be Associated Press. YADKINVILLE, N. C., August 29.— A 21-year-old colored maq, deaf and mute, knew today through the manipulation of an interpreter’s fin- gers that he must die October 30. Raymond Early Moore was con- victed yesterday of criminally as- saulting a white woman. Judge J. H. Clement sentenced him to die in the gas chamber. The sentence was mandatory. When the interpreter told him of the court’s verdict, Moore turned his eyes to the back of the court room, where his wife, also deaf and mute, sat. Mrs. Mary Wilkins, 28, said Moore entered her room through a window and assaulted her after beating off her husband. Conquest of Ethiopia Whets Italy’s Appetite for Territory torn Spain and in Rome; secret for- tifications of Italy’s island strongholds in the Aegean Sea—all indicate that BRIGHT BUSINESS FUTURE FORECAST; CASH GAING CITED Federal and Private Agen- cies Point to Increases in July and August, PREDICTIONS INCLUDE AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS C. of C. Calls Attention to Gains in Carloadings, Industrial Pro- - duction and Employment. By the Assoclated Press. Cash gains in many fields of com- merce and agriculture were recorded today by Government and private agencies, The current business picture, in- cluding bright forecasts, covered such activities as farming, building, trans- portation and industrial production. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States called attention to in- creases during July and August in car loadings, industrial production, em- ployment, use of electric energy, con- struction and excise tax receipts. “All of the evidence does not re- flect solely increased spending, either,” said the chamber’s review, adding that, during the first half of 1936, de- ! positors in mutual savings banks in- | creased by 300,000. The total in July | stood at 14,340,000, it said, topping the 1929 figures by 20 per cent, Building Increased. The Labor Department, in a survey covering 759 cities, reported July building was greater by 2!; per cent than that of the previous month, while the estimated cost of new homes moved up 13.7 per cent. Compared with July, 1935, the number of per- mits for home construction was up 90 per cent and the estimated cost up 182.2 per cent. For the first seven building permits increased 101.3 per cent over the same period in 1935. Agriculture Departments figures in- money into the farmers’ pockets dur- ing July and stepped up the prices received for their products during August. While thousands of farmers were in distress because of ruined crops, the figures showed cash income from July farm marketings at $711,000,000, as compared with $582,000,000 the pre- vious month, and $451,000,000 a year ago. Officials reported July farm in- come the best since 1929 and noted that cash to farmers during the first seven months of the year was $4,024,- 000,000, the best for any similar period since 1930, Predict Larger Incomes. While this farm trend was de- scribed as ‘“characteristic under a drought situation,” the department statisticians predicted the rest of the year would show larger monthly cash was based on indicated “strong con- sumer demand,” and “continuance of heavy live stock marketings.” Another sharp advance was reported by the Association of American Rail- roads. Operating revenues of 113 lines were shown to have increased 27.4 per cent in July as compared with the same month in 1935. Total revenues for last month were $339,571,951, while in the same period last year the total was $266,583,197. Increases were reported in the net (See BUSINESS, Page A-4) ————ee 1 KILLED, 1 HURT IN QUARRY BLAST Premature Explosion of Dynamite Blamed for Fatality Near Bull Run. One man was fatally injured and another was critically hurt in a pre- mature explosion of a charge of dyna- mite at the Fairfax Quarry, near Bull Run, Va., this morning. A number of other workers miraculously escaped injury. Walter Harris, colored, died in Georgetown University Hospital shortly after arrival, while little hope is held for the recovery of his companion, Robert Hillard, also colored. F. N. Larkin, manager of the quarry, which is operated by the Fairfax Quarries, Inc., said the two men were loading & hole with dynamite pre- paratory to shooting off & blast when the charge exploded. Harris suffered the loss of a hand and sustained numerous other injuries, while Hillard received .severe powder burns, cuts about the face and body and a badly mangled hand. Several fellow employes gathered nearby were unhurt. Readers’ Guide months of 1936, the number of home | dicated the drought had put more | incomes than in 1935. This forecast | FUNERAL OF DERN HELD HERE TODAY Capital to Pay Its Final Tribute to Secretary of War. George Henry Dern, Secretary of War and twice Governor of Utah be- | fore he became a cabinet member, re- | ceived final tribute from the Capital today, after which his body was to be placed on a train for Salt Lake City, where he will be buried Tuesday. During the day the body of the Sec- retary, who died Thursday in Walter Reed Hospital, rested in state in the chapel of the Army Medical Center. Funeral services were scheduled for 4 pm. in Mount Pleasant Congrega- tional Church, 1410 Columbia road, | with a guard of honor from the 16th | Brigade posted beside the flag-draped | casket. Army posts throughout the country and in all American paid the last tribute yesterday with half- hour salutes from their guns while flags few at half-stafl. Services to Be Quiet. High Government officials and mili- tary officers, as well as the private citizenry, mourned the War Secretary, who succumbed to the ravages of in- fluenza. The funeral services here were to be quiet, as the Secretary would have wanted them. He always lived an un- ostentatious and quiet life in official- dom hers, and preferred to stay away from the limelight. After the services, with the Rev. Dr. Russell J. McClinchy officiating, the cortege was to proceed to Union Sta- tion, escorted by the 2d Squadron of the 3d Cavalry and the 1st Battalion of the 16th Field Artillery. At the station, the procession was to be received by a guard of honor con- sisting of a battalion of Infantry and & battalion of Engineers. The Police Department detailed 150 officers to funeral duty, with 100 to be at the station and 50 to be posted at PFourteenth street and Columbia road during funeral services. All days off for the department were canceled for today by official order. Aboard the funeral train to Salt Lake City will be Mrs. Dern, her three sons and two daughters, and a Cabinet delegation, including Secretary of Commerce Roper, Attorney General Cummings, Acting Secretary of War Woodring, Admiral William H. Stand- ley, Acting Secretary of the Navy; Acting Secretary of Labor Edward F. (See DERN, Page A-4) MYSTERY SHROUDS SLAYING OF 2 MEN New Yorkers Are Found Fatally Wounded—Believed Killed by Car Occupants. Ev the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 29. — Police sought a solution today to the mys- terious slaying on the lower East Side shortly after midnight of Jacob Avnet and a man tentatively identified as Morris (Mush) Fried. Both were 25. The two were shot, officers said, apparently when called from their car to talk to occupants of a sedan that had pulled up diagonally to the curb, blocking their way. Avnet died almost instantly of a bullet wound in the heart and Fried, shot in the abdomen, lived only a few minutes after he was taken to —_— SHIP CALLS FOR AID Balboa Station Fails-to Identify Vessel With 50 Aboard. You GOING,JIM! THAT'S OUR OLD STUFF! Youth,19,Criticized As Poor Shot, Kills Self With Revolver Fires Sixth Bullet Into Chest After Gallery Worker “Kids’ Him. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 29.—How 19- year-old Alex Storm, jr., met criticism of his marksmanship by firing a bul- let through his chest was reported to- day by investigators. He died last night shortly after he had startled a crowd at a shooting gallery by sending the last shot in a rented gun through his heart. Nick Matt and Perry Santos, at- tendants, told police Storm had earned the applause of spectators with some difficult shots with a rifie. Then he picked up a revolver, His first five | bullets went wild. “I told him he couldn’t shoot a re- volver,” Matt said. “He smiled and aimed the revolver at his chest and fired the last bullet. I was just try- ing to kid him. I couldn’t stop him.” MISS EARHART OFF TOENTER AIR RAGE Late Start Balks Record Attempt—Chatterton Derby Begins. Ey the Associated Press. BURBANK, Calif,, August 29.— Amelia Earhart took off at 7:29 am. (10:29, Eastern standard time) today in her new Flying Laboratory, bound for New York and the start of the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race September 4. A low-flying fog delayed her de- parture, but when she finally took the controls visibility was fair. She plans to make her first stop at Kansas City, where Paul Mantz, her technical adviser, will leave the plane and re- turn to Los Angeles. The lateness of her departure this morning apparently precluded any attempt at speed records. The third passenger aboard the big $100,000 transport sponsored by Pur- due University was A. C. McNieley, mechanic. 34 OTHERS TAKE OFF. Chinese Girl Fiyer Leads Entrants in Chatterton Derby. CLEVELAND, August 29 (#).—Miss Katherine Sui Fun Cheung, a Chinese girl fiyer from Los Angeles, took off at 10:29 a.m. today on the first leg of the Ruth Chatterton cross-country derby, scheduled to end at Los Angeles Priday. Thirty-three other pilots, including nine women, lined up and took off at one-minute intervals after Miss Cheung’s departure. The first leg of the flight will end at Cincinnati, where the fiyers will have luncheon. Miss Chatterton, in her monoplane, paced the fiyers. At a dinner last night she wished them “good luck.” Formosa Governor Named. TOKIO, August 29 (#)—The Em- peror today sanctioried appointment of Admiral ‘Seizo Kobayashi, retired, as governor-general of Formosa, suc- ceeding Kenzo Nakagawa, resigned. Skullduggery Comes to Light At Resettlement Administration (Pictures on Page A-3.) Skuliduggery at the Resettlement Administration came to light today. It posed for perhaps five—certainly three—pictures in May, before the The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. 3% Gor () Means Associated Press. CANDDATESOUGHT BY DLSONS PARTY Farmer-Labor Committee | Meets to Choose Nomi- nee for Senate. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, August 29.—The State Central Committee of the Farmer- | Labor party met today to select a | candidate for United States Senator to replace the late Gov. Floyd B. Olson on the November ballot. One of the problems before the | committee was whether several shifts | | of candidacies should be made on the | | ticket to meet demands of various | groups. Elmer A. Benson, United States | Senator filling out the unexpired term | of the late Thomas D. Schall, Repub- | | lican, is the Farmer-Labor nominee | | for Governor. His friends have urged | | him to make the race for the Senate, but Benson said he wants to remain in the gubernatorial contest. If this change were made, party leaders said, it would pave the way for Gov. Hjalmar Petersén, who last Mon- day succeeded Olson as the State's chief executive, to run for Governor. Petersen now is a candidate for State railroad and warehouse commissioner, but has asked that he be considered for the gubernatorial post. Both Representative Ernest Lundeen and Attorney General Harry Peterson | yesterday announced their “willing- | ness” to run for the Senate. Northern Minnesota sent a delega- tion to present the name of State Senator George Lommen of Eveleth for the United States Senate. Former Representative Prancis H. Shoemaker of Duluth has said he will file as an independent for the Senate regardless of the committee’s action. “LAKE DERN” PROPOSED Change for Utah Pool Sought by Officials in State. SALT LAKE CITY, August 29 (P).— A sky-blue lake high in the rugged Uintah Range southeast of Salt Lake City may perpetuate the name of George H. Dern, Secretary of War. Civic and State officials said they would request the National Geographic Board to rename it “Lake Dern” as a memorial to Utah's disti former Governor, who died this week in Washington. Dern, an outdoors lover, was a fre- quent fishing and camping visitor to the mountain pool and several years ago it became officially known as “Governor's Lake.” PEACE EFFORTS URGED League Asked to Harmonize Cov- enant With Anti-War Pacts. GENEVA, August 29 (#).—Argentina asked the League of Nations, in a note made. public today, to harmonize its covenant with the Kellogg-Briand and Rio de Janiero anti-war pacts. Co-ordination of these plans, the note said, “will make possible unity of the world's pacific efforts.” The note also recommended that military sanctions against aggressor nations should not be binding for League members not implicated in a dispute. Dakota, which always looks as though the drought had come to stay. In series II, another skull is posed against a background of scrubby grass, useless for grazing. The locale, according to the caption, is Penning- ton County, S. Dak., which is in the Yesterday’s Circulation, 129,130 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. 58,027,433 ASKED BY DEPARTMENTS IN338 ESTIMATES Requests by District Offi- cials Is $14,413,523 More Than for 1937. COMMISSIONERS PLAN EARLY PUBLIC HEARING Schools Request $12,033,612 for Maintenance and $5,492,000 for Building and Grounds. Appropriation of a grand total of 858,027,433, or $14,413,523 more than was approved for the current fiscal year, an increase of about 33 per cent, has been requested by District de- partment heads for the next fiscal year, according to tabulations made today at the District Building. The increase was sought by depart- ment heads in the face of repeated demands by the Commissioners that requests for 1938 be held to figures of strict economy. Before the city heads begin to pass judgment on the proposals of the de- partment executives, the public will be given an opportunity to expres its views on the details-as well as the total. The date has not been definitely fixed, but Budget Officer Daniel J. Donovan indicated today the hear- ings probably would start September 8. As soon as the public has been given its opportunity, the Commis< sioners at once will start calling dee partment heads before them to ex- plain their requests. If trust fund accounts are added to the total, the aggregate proposed for next year would amount to $59,462,433, as against a total of $45,048910 for this year. Virtually all the major departments |asked for large increases which they said were necessary to cover needs which have piled up during past econ- omy years. Schools asked $12,033,612 for main- tenance and operation, an increase of $1,106,159 over this year, and $5492,~ 000, for buildings and grounds, an in- crease of $3924500 over this year. All told, the schools seek an increase of approximately 40 per cent over this year. Major increases also were asked for welfare activities, police and fire- departments and for health services. 'WOMAN RUN OVER BY HUSBAND’S CAR Man Leans Out to Assist Wife, Easing Pressure on Foot Brake. Run over by her husband’s suto- mobile, Mrs. Daisey E. Wilsher, 40, of 1225 Maryland avenue northeast was perhaps seriously injured today. The husband, George F. Wilsher, 40, stopped the car on a steep grade on Potomac street, just north of K street, to let his wife out. In alighting, Mrs. Wilsher slipped on wet cobblestones. Wilsher leaned from the car to help his wife and took his foot off the brake. Mrs. Wilsher slid underneath and the right front wheel passed over her. At Emergency Hospital it was said she may have a fractured pelvis and internal injuries. _— ESCROW FUND FRAUDS REPORTED IN CHICAGO Assistant State’s Attorneys to Go Before Grand Jury With Charges on Tuesday. My tne Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 29.—Assistant State’s Attorneys Joseph Burke and Robert Wright said today they would appear before a grand jury Tuesday with evidence against nine persons in 98 cases of alleged escrow fund swindles, in Superior Probate and Circuit Courts. The alleged fraud ring, they said, obtained court orders to funds held in escrow. They said they had evie dence in 23 cases in Probate Court, 33 in Superior Court and 43 in Cir- cuit Court. Investigator Eugene O’'Connor of the State’s attorney's office said he had found that hoboes were repre- sented as missing heirs to defraud the courts of estate funds. LONDON FLIGHT DELAYED Weather Continues to Block Rich- man and Merrill. NEW YORK, August 29 (#).— Weather forecasts today indicated that the bad weather which delayed the start of the Harry Richmond-Dick Merrill round-trip flight to London yesterday would continue over the week end. Dr. James H. Kimball, Government meterologist advised Richman, owner of the plane, that storm areas still vrevailed in the Atlantic. i B e SRR POPE MORE CHEERFUL Still Weak, He Again Abandons Automobile Ride. CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, August 29 (A).—Pope Piux XI, who has been automobile ride in favor of a short rest in his Summer villa. Arab-Jew Fight Fatal.