Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast,) Showers this afternoon night; tomorrow fair, not temperature; gentle north or northwest winds. Temperatures—Highest, today; lowest, 65, today. Full report on page B-1i, Closing New York Markets, Page 18 noon No. 33,728. RICHMAN, MERRILL DESCEND IN WALES AFTER FAST FLIGHT AGROSS ATLANTIC Fuel Supply Exhausted by Fog and Rain, Pair Lands Safely 175 Miles Short of Croydon. MIDOCEAN NOSE DIVE ONLY SCARE ON TRIP | Men to Go ,to London—Cus- toms Officials, After Scratching Heads, Decide 40,000 Table Tennis Balls in Wings Are Not Dutiable as Sporting Goods. (Copyrizht. 1936. by the Associated Press.) LLWYNCELYN, Carmarthenshire, Bouth Wales, September 3.—Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, American airmen out for a round-trip Atlantic- spanning speed test, landed in a South Wales field today, out of gasoline bu: safe. The spot is in a desolate part of Car- marthenshire. This village joins the larger town of Llandilo. It is almost directly on the fiyers’ plotted course. Flying at about 11,000 feet all the w%ay, the night club owner and actor | from New York and his veteran pilot sped across the Atlantic from New York in less than 16 hours to outshine the speed feats of an imposing list of ocean pilots, except perhaps one pair. Unhurt and without damaging their | powerful, low-wing monoplane, the Lady Peace, the Americans came down | at around 4:15 p.m. (10:15 a.m., East- | ern standard time. Hard rains on the | last lap of their journey had depleted | their fuel sooner than expected. Two Records Close. Richman estimated the fiyers were in the air “about 155 to 16 hours,” but did not know the exact landing time. However, D. R. Thomas, a baker at Llandilo, said he saw the plane flying over his place at 3:15 pm. (9:15 am, Eastern standard time) and that it landed shortly thereafter. This would make the fly- | ing time since Richman and Merrill left New York not quite 18 hours. [Records of trans-Aflantic flights thowed today that Richman and Mer- Till will have to compete with Bennett Griffin and James Mattern for ocean speed honors. Four years ago Griffin snd Mattern flew from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Berlin in 18 hours 40 minutes, making the ocean leg hop | from Harbor Grace to Ireland in 10 hours 50 minutes. [Logs of the Merrill-Richman hop | fail to show that they “checked in” | as they left land at Newfoundland, | but the first report that they were | over the sea came at 9:01 p.m. (East- | ern standard time) last night. They | were reported over Ireland at 7:17 (Eastern standard time), making the | elapsed time between the two reports | 10 hours 16 minutes.] Thousand Wait at Croydon. A thousand worried spectators had waited under heavy skies at Croydon for some sign of the plane, which ran into hard rains at the eastern end of its journey. They included the Amer- ican motion picture producer, Joseph Schenck, and Capt. Jimmy Haizlip, Bt. Louis speed fiyer. Finally a telephone in the airport communications office jangled. It was Richman, calling from Llwyn- celyn, When reporters reached him at Liwyncelyn, 4 thiles from the fieM, his first cry was: “I want some gas to get our bus off again: we want to keep our date with the lads at Croy- don.” Plane Lost in Storms, He went on: “We are absolutely O. K. The machine is in marvelous shape; noth- ing is wrong with her. We made a perfect landing. But you see, we got lost; yes, we got lost. “Our radio went on the bum. We hit a couple of storms and in one of them the lightning put the radio out. That was early this morning, so we ‘were without radio all these hours. “It was a very good flight. We flew practically all the way at 11,000 feet. We saw 9 or 10 boats, but only got a glimpse of them when the clouds parted a little. “I have kept a pretty good log of the trip, although I can't remember exactly what I have written in it.” "Hnl_(_way across the plane went (See MERRILL, Page A-5.) EDWARD HONORS DEAD OF GALLIPOLI King Pays Visit to Graves of Brit- ish in Turkey—Spill Into ‘Water Reported. By the Associated Press. ISTANBUL, Turkey, September 3.— King Edward interrupted his vaga- bond cruise today for a pilgrimage to the graves of British war dead at Gallipoli. A Turkish delegation boarded the British monarch’s holiday yacht Nahlin at Tenedos Island to welcome the King to Turkish waters on behalf of President Kamal Ataturk. Disembarking at Sedd-ul-Bahr, King Edward and his party, accompanied by the Turkish group, motored to Gal- lipoli to place wreaths on the British graves, The British monarch was reported to have been thrown into the water yesterday when a skiff he was rowing overturned in the wake of a motor and possibly to- much change in 77, et at 5:30 am, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. U.S. Treasury Holding Billion As‘Insurance’ in Foreign Crisis Morgenthau Asks 400 Million in New Cash for September 15 Financing. “Big W orking Balance” Explained. By tne Associated Press. Taking particular note of what he called “times and conditions” abroad, Secretary Morgenthau said today the Treasury would retain its present high working balance at the billion- dollar level as “insurance” against emergencies. At an early morning press confer- ence, Morgenthau announced also that the Treasury would seek $400,000,000 in new cash in a financing operation September 15. At the same time, he said, new Treasury obligations will be offered for $514,000,000 of 1.5 per cent Treasury notes maturing on that date. Called into the Secretary’s office before many Government employes were at work, newsmen were told that, because of conditions abroad, Mor- genthau felt it “very desirable” to follow the existing policy of keeping a big working balance in the Treas- ury’s general fund. The working bal- ance—that is, ready cash in the Treasury’s till—now stands at around the billion-dollar mark. Speaking with emphasis, Morgen- @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Toening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, '1936—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. thau said this policy costs the Treas- ury about $2,000,000 & year, but pro- vides “the safest insurance we can carry for the American people should anything unforeseen occur.” Regarding the request for new money, Morgenthau said it resulted in part from a 90-day delay in col- lection of “windfall” taxes on un- paid processing levies under the old A. A. A. and Treasury operations in financing current activities of the Hogie Owners’ Loan Corp. e H. O. L. C. current operations are being financed from the Treasury, he said, to eliminate the necessity for the corporation to borrow independ- ently. Small Cash Offering. In announcing he would seek to borrow $400,000,000 in the Treasury's Fall financing operation on Septem- ber 15, Morgenthau said this was one of the smallest cash offerings since he assumed office. He announced there would be a conversion issue for the $514,000,000 (See TREASURY, Page A-3) W.P. A. WORKERS JOIN IN WALKOUT Minneapolis Flour Industry! at Standstill as Strikes Spread. BACKGROUND— Strikes in various industries— large and small—have been called in Minneapolis during the last few days. Main points at issue are union recognition and wage in- creases. The Pillsbury “A” mill, one of the largest grain mills in the world, closed yesterday. | By .he Assocated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, September 3.—A walkout of W. P. A. workers today ;swelled the ranks of participants in | six Minneapolis strikes as the city's J\iruportnm flour milling industry 19- | mained at a virtual standstill. | The Workers' Alliance—demanding | 6834 cents an hour, a 30-hour week and a $20 weekly minimum wage— claimed 3,500 W. P. A. employes left their jobs in Minneapolis and Henne- pin County. All flour mills except one were idle or operating on & restricted basis be- cause of an elevator workers’ strike that has curtailed grain receipts. Union spokesmen said some 40 eleva- tors and at least six mills had shut down. b N. 8. Clark, regional director of the Nationa! Labor Relations Board, and Robert Mythen, United States De- partment of Labor conciliator, sought a conference with representatives of 17 wholesale grocery firms involved in a truck drivers’ strike. ‘They were also expected to move for settlement of the strikes launched | by the elevator and wholesale jewelry workers’ unions and walkouts at a wood-treating plant and & biscuit manufacturing company. State W. P. A. chiefs arranged & parley with leaders of the alliance, an organization of W. P. A. employes. M. G. Roberts, county secretary of the alliance, asserted eight major projects had been affected and threatened to extend the strike to smaller under- takings if the demands were not met. SENATE PROBING STRIKE AT ILION Remington-Rand Activities Being Studied, Says Labor Official. By LLe Associated Press. ILION, N. Y., September 3.—Harold A. Beer, president of the Central Labor Council, said today that an investiga- tor from the La Follette Senatorial Committee had arrived here to “get to the bottom” of the Remington Rand Co. strike. Beer said that the representatives of the committee, which is investigating company activities in strikes, would procure affidavits from strikers regard- ing “the so-called martial law, pre- claimed by the village, and other alleged abrogation of civil rights.” He added that the affidavits would be submitted to the committee and the | witnesses later subpoenaed to appear | before the committee in Washington. Beer contradicted a statement by the Remington Rand Co. that the company was not represented at the Buffalo conference this week by any official. He said J. A. W. Simson, secretary and chief of counsel of the company, was not only at the conference but also conducted sessions with strike leaders. “The most valuable people to our company are those who are still on strike and we want them back again,” Beer quoted Simson as saying. Beers | also quoted Simson as saying the con- ference was just a “feeler” to deter- mine what the strikers would accept. ITALIAN WORKER KILLED, FLEET INCREASE LIKELY B8y the Assoclated Press. . ROME, September 3.—The press ministry announced today an Italian worker had been killed in Barcelona and that Italian naval forces in Span ish waters probably would be increased. The worker's name was given Umberto Fazzalenda, faf children. He was boat, & dispatch from Athens to the London Daily Herald said. King Edward escaped injury. The motor boat, attached to the yacht Nahlin, turned quickly and he was pulled from the water, i Ly Spanish sought spokesman saiq, images were found in his house. Thesmnhh;mrnmthnlhm priests and some citizers to flee the country with art ¢ treasures of many GOUGHLIN GIVEN ROME APPROVAL Bishop . Gallagher Says Priest Should Have Sup- port of Followers. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 3.—Bishop Michael J. Gallagher of Detroit re- turned from Rome today asserting that the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin was free to continue his political activities and urging the radio priest's followers to continue to rally behind him. Naturally, the Michigan prelate said, authorities at the Vatican were dis- pleased at Father Coughlin’s calling President Roosevelt a “liar,” in viola- | tion of principles of the church oppos- ing attacks upon constituted govern- mental authority. Greeted at Dock. A hundred or more New York mem- bers of the National Union for Social Justice, Father Coughlin's organiza- tion, had gathered at the dock to greet the bishop and the priest as they descended the gangplank. A spokes- man ‘presented the prelate with a bunch of roses and in the hubbub of the pier the bishop addressed them. He praised Father Coughlin for & “courageous leader” using his every power to ‘“oppose the forces which threaten to-engulf this Nation in com- munism,” and interpreting the en- cyclicals of the Popes dealing ‘with social questions. “It is the voice of God speaking through the Holy Father and reaching you through the orator of Royal Oak,” he said. “I hope you never lose courage and continue to rally behind him until victory rests on the banners of the National Union for Social Justice.” Earlier, while the Rex was steaming up the harbor from Quarantine, Bish- op Gallagher sat in a corner of the main salon, Father Coughlin stand- ing beside him, and answered ques- | tions of reporters. He was asked about an editorial appearing in yesterday's issue of Osservatore Romano, authori- tative Vatican organ, criticizing Father Coughlin for calling President Roose- velt a “liar.” No Criticism in Rome. “Why do they attach so much im- poriance to this story?” he asked. “One version I read this morning admits that the editorial was neither official nor semi-official. There was no criticism of Father Coughlin in Rome. Before I left I corrected him for calling President Roosevelt a ‘liar’ and he apologized, and that’s all there was to it. . “If any one asks if the Vatican ap- proved of Father Coughlins calling the President a liar, the answer nat- urally would be ‘no’ Father Cough- lin’s speeches were never discussed unless I brought up the subject, and I never discussed Father Coughlin with any of the heads of the council. “Because this is a presidential year, a great deal of importance has been attached te nothing. Any one can say the Holy See does not approve of anybody calling the President a liar, whether he deserves it or not. That is self-evident and can be found in any book on ecclesiastical etiquette. “The holy father did not mention Father Coughlin. As long as the Vatican does not find fault we as- sume everything is hunk-dory. There will be nothing done to restrain Father Coughlin's activities.” ANARCHISTS LEAD LEFTISTS BLOCKING REBELS FROM IRUN Violent Onslaughts Fail to Shake Loyalist Defense of Bay City. SOCIALISTS PROPOSED TENTATIVE SURRENDER Moors Are Spearhead of Insurgent Assault—Armored Cars Shield Infantry. BACKGROUND— Spanish civil war, nearing its eighth week, finds Popular Front government—a coalition of So- clalists, Communists, Anarcho-Syd- dicalists and Liberal Republicans— defending the popularly-elected ad- ministration against the revolt of intransigeant Fascists and Mon- archists, composed of landholding aristocracy, capitalists, army and militant clergy. Loyalists have succeeded in hold- ing Madrid against repeated on- slaughts by rebel troops, while de- fense of key city of Irun had slowly weakened, with government forces retreating. San Sebastian, nearby Loyalist stronghold, not yet taken, however, by Fascists. (Copyright. 1036, by the Associated Press.) BEHOBIE, France, September 3.— Anarchists leading desperate govern- ment defenders with their backs to advance today‘along the last stretch to Irun. The rebels failed to gain an inch, despite violent onslaughts against the Bay of Biscay city. Anarchists took over command of | the government forces after Socialist | leaders proposed tentative surrender. Sixty Fascist hostages were marched to & cemetery at Irun, reports reach- ing here said, and shot. One six-inch shell scored a direct hit on a rebel machine gun crew and | screams of the wounded echoed 500 | yards to the spot in France where this correspondent stood. Stretcher bearers silhouetted along the horizon rushed aid. Bidassoa River highway and through parallel corn fields, the sound of gun- fire resounding through the hills. A spearhead of Moors pointed the Fascist rebel attack against Spanish Behobia. Five army cars led troops up the River road into the town, and 2,000 rebel infantrymen followed through flelds on both sides of the road and along the flat lands beside the river. ‘The Moors ran single file along the | river bank, with their heads bent low, heading for the town of Irum, just beyond Behobia. All of the rebel troops were raked by savage machine-gun fire from in- trenched Socialists. But it was several minutes before government riflemen spotted the Moorish soldiers, who carried rifles strapped to their backs and a grenade clutched in each hand. The grenades were hurled through windows into houses, where govern- ment machine gunners hid. “Supreme Attack” Essayed. The insurgent infantry, shielded by armored cars, had essayed a “supreme attack” against Irun. The foot soldiers pushed into action at 11 a.m., moving forward to join the Fascist advance guard in the streets of the Spanish town of Be- hobia, suburb of Irun. Five armored cars, spraying ma- chine gun fire, led the march down the exposed river road. Behind the cars moved several hun- dred infantrymen using the lumber- ing machines as shields against the savage fire of government militiamen lying flat on the roofs of houses out- side Behobia. More than 1,000 rebel reinforce- ments were massed around a curve in the river road awaiting their turn to move down the battle-scarred high- way. Shells Poured onto Rebels. Government batteries, meanwhile, side Irun as strong reinforcements rushed to aid haggard Socialist de- fenders. Lively fusillades of shots between both artillery and infantry forces con- tinued the battle near Behobia, Spain, ::rwzhout the night and early morn- g. The Socialist troops, under the com- mand of Anarchists, labored fran- tically to improvise barricades in the streets. of Irun in expectation of & renewal of the Fascist drive. A shell from the government artil- lery battery at Puenterrabia landed (See SPAIN, Page Man Drowns After 25 Minutes Of Terror on Piling of Bridge Py the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., September 3.—A man faced the terror of drowning for 25 minutes today and then joined in death his companion—already killed—as the result of the plunge of their automobile through an open draw bridge over the Elizabeth River. 8s they worked the machine slipped and toppled a number ¢f feet into the black waters. The two bodies were tight- ly into the front of the car by a load of coal which was thrown forward from the back seat by the car's im- pact with a safety gate on the draw- bridge, Chief Boyce said. Hughes was at the wheel of the automobile when it raced out from the Portsmouth side onto the bridge, the wall blocked insurgent infantry | QL HOSS, DIDYA EVER DREAM COME BACK MODERN PRESID WED IN A ENTIAL CAMPAIGN ON A SUPREME COURT DECIS|ON? Democratic Czechoslovakia Forgets Constant Threat of War in Pastime of Eating Every Third Building Is Restaurant and, Every Second House a Cafe—Agitation by France Keeps Arms Budget High. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, Staff Correspondent ot The Star. PRAGUE.—There is no doubt that Czechoslovakia is one of the few re- maining democratic countries in Europe. | ‘There are no enormous fortunes and no social classes, those who earn what is | considered here a substantial income, say $10,000 a year, do not try to be Its people are essentially simple. | The only Yesterday’s *kkk FouKS, | ASK YoU! IS THERE. ANY THING WRONG WITH THOSE Goop OLD HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS2 RITTER CONTENDS OUSTER IS ILLEGAL Judge Answers Attorney General’s Motion to Dismiss Suit. By 1oF Assoclated Press. Halstead L. Ritter, ousted Miami Federal judge, contended before the Court of Claims today that his con- viction by the Senate on impeachment charges violated the constitutional guarantee against being placed in in Washington wi Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. UP) Means Associated Press. ostentatious with their wealth. A new suit of clothes or a new dress is an | event in the family; every relative hears about it sooner or later. A new car | would make the lead in the society column—if the newspapers carried such a column. Both sides banged away down the | " Constantine Brown variety of sausages one can imagine. chase. The Czechoslovaks have but one passion— eating. They eat the whole day long, in publis places, in offices and at home. most serious occupaticns of their lives. Every third building has a restaurant and every second house is a cafe, with small tables neatly arranged on the sidewalks under brightly i colored awnings and larger tables with com- | son 4 fortable chairs inside where the real eating | business is done. Hot Dogs Served from Carts. And ag if these were not enough, there are hundreds of small carts on the streets carrying respectable containers with hot dogs and other such delicacies. In streets where restaurants and cafes are rare—say only one in every fifth building—there are artistically arranged delica- tessen shops with the most extraordinary It is one of th The sausage manufacturers have a genius for devising new combinations of Czechoslovakia's national food. And | inside these art shops there are tables where the customer who has no patience to wait until he gets home or to his office, can sample his pur- _The day begins with a simple breakfast of coffee, rolls, butter and jam. | MINE GAS BLAST TOLL REAGHES SIX Rescue Workers “Certain” Four Remaining West Vir- ginia Miners Are Dead. By the Associated Press. LOGAN, W. Va, September 3.— Weary rescue workers brought the bodies of two more miners to the sur- face of the Macbeth mine today, rais- ing the known death list from an ex- plosion to six, and spurring the hunt for four more men trapped in the pit. More than 100 feet of rock and dirt separated the rescue teams from the four. Officials said they were certain all were dead. 3 Rain drenched a haggard crowd ai the mouth of the mine while the workers underground moved forward inch by inch, hampered by falling timbers and gas fumes. About 1,000 persons stood about the property, among them the wives and relatives of the trapped men. Two More Bodies Found. Rescue operations centered about | 800 feet down and two miles from the | mine’s main entrance. The bodies brought out this after- noon were identified as th of Ed Saunders, 40, and Julius McShane, 45, both colored. All night the rescuers dug, struggling slowly through 250 feet of muck and debris, until. the bodies of two of the men, Grover Saunders, 28, and Wil- liam Reffett, 40, were found. ‘The two others, Elisha Watts, 32, and Andy Gazdik, 40, were killed by the explosion late yesterday. Officials reported 110 other men escaped un- harmed after the blast. Hope for Six Abandoned. The rescue crews expected momen- tarily-to find the bodies-of the four imprisoned men. Prentice Farley, mine inspector, said hope for them had been abandoned. They are: Jack Adkins, 50; Gus Mounts, 33; Tom Miller, 25, and Victor Corillo, 25. The wives of Refett and Grover Saunders were among the little sad- faced group waiting at the mouth of the mine. ‘Workers brought the body of Grover Saunders out first, and Mrs. Saunders shouted: “It’s Grover.” Priends led her away, weeping. Mrs. Refett was.twice bereaved, for Hutchinsan Coal Co., Which. operates mine, said: only & matter of & few hours (See BROWN, Page A. D. C. MANKILLED, WIFEHURT, INCAR Baltimore Pair Also Injured in Head-on Collision at Fredericksburg. John Knapp, 36, Chestnut Farms Dairy clerk, was killed, and his wife Etta, 32, probably fatally injured to- day in a head-on automobile collision on the Richmond-Washington High- way five miles north of Predericksburg. Knapp, who lived at 1332 D street northeast, died in Mary Washington Hospital at Fredericksburg half an hour after the wreck. Mrs. Knapp and the occupants of the other car—two brothers from Baltimore—alsc were taken to the hospital. Mrs. Knapp suf- fered fractured legs and internal in- juries, and physicians held little hope for her recovery. ‘The other injured were Joseph Her- man, 24, fractured nose and possible internal injuries, and his 15-year-old brother, Richard, who suffered a frac- tured leg, and may have been injured internally. According to State Policeman H. L. Robertson, Mrs. Knapp was driving one of the cars. He said a witness to the crash—P. W. Martin, a Washing- ton fireman—informed him the acci- dent occurred when the Knapp ma- chine ran off the road and in getting back swerved to the other side of the highway, colliding head-on with the northbound machine containing the Baltimore pair. Another Washington man died at the Alexandria Hospital last night from injuries received in an automobile accident a week ago. William H. Hurst, 31, 604 Tenth street southwest, succumbed to pneu- monia which developed from a crushed chest he received when his car over- turned 4 miles south of here on the Richmond Highway August 25. When another machine skidded and everturned on Lee Highway near Fair- fax last night, Mrs. P, T. Haizlip, occupants of the car were hurt. They are Mrs. D. T. Spencer, Roanoke, face Jeopardy twice for the same offense. In a 96-page answer to Attorney General Cummings’ motion to dismiss proceedings attacking the Senate’s action, the former judge contended he was removed from office on a final rticle of impeachment which only summed up the six counts on which he already had been acquitted. Claims Court Suit. Ritter filed suit in the Claims Court soon after his conviction last April repute.” Attorney General, ding the court was without jurisdiction over the Sen- ate, moved to dismiss the proceedings. Again contending he was entitled to his salary as Federal judge, Ritter said the Constitution limited impeach- ment proceedings to those involving charges of “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The answer said the seventh article in the charges against him stated no im- peachable offense. He said the Senate “acted upon the principle that ‘good behavior’ was so vague that the tenure of a judge is left to the pleasure of the Senate.” Called Illegal and Void. “Plaintiff (Ritter) asserts his re- movai from office was illegal and void,” the brief said. ‘“‘He has not abandoned the office. He is not guilty of laches, | He stands ready and able to discharge the duties of the office. An act of Congress provides for the payment of the compensation of such official. The defendant (the Government) refused to pay plaintiff. No other remedy is provided by law.” He claimed any court “whose judg- ment is relied upon” could inquire into the proceedings of a court of im- peachment. “The jurisdiction of & court to | render a judgment may be attacked in any proceeding in another court,” | Ritter contended, “and if it be shown that the jurisdictional facts do not | exist, such judgment will be declared | & nullity, notwithstanding the judg- ment may recite the existence of such Jjurisdictional facts.” AIR DERBY’S PILOTS WING TOWARD YUMA Spreckels Holds Lead by Narrow Point Margin—Jeanette Lemke Second. By the Associated Press. TUCSON, Ariz,, September 3.—With Prank Spreckels of San Francisco leading by a narrow margin of points, entrants in the Cleveland-Los Angeles air derby roared away from the Tucson Airport today on the next lap to Yuma. From there they will fly to San Diego, technically the finish of the derby, although the flyers will con- tinue to Los Angeles for the air races. Jeanette Lemke won the Douglas- Tucson lap. She is only a few points behind Spreckels in the standings. Point standings announced here: Spreckels, 988.19; Lemke, 986.63; Jer- ry Fairbanks, Los Angeles, 980.79; S. Armistead, Beverly Hills, Calif.,, 978.30; George Arents, Rye, N. Y., 978.29; Bruce A. Gimbel, Port Chester, N. Y., 977.94; Clara Living- ston, Jamestown, N. Y., 977.87; Grace Prescott, San Diego, 976.93; Steven Hawes, Pomona, Calif.,,976.71, and John Gaty, Elmhurst, N. Y,, 976.67. Gunman Slays Officer. CHICAGO, September 3 (A)—A gunman riding in a stolen police squad car and accompanied by a woman today shot and killed Pa- and head lacerations and s sprained ankle, and Mrs. 8. F. Crews, Roanoke, minor cuts and bruises. Services for Hurst, a former resi- dent of Springfield, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Temple Baptist Church here. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. May Hurst; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Pettey of and several brothers. Burial will be in Bethel Cemetery. trolman John B. Frost, 35, of nearby Lombard, IIl, who had pursued him in & commandeered automobile, Three Face Murder Probe. OAKLAND, Calif., September 3 (). ~—Three of four men under arrest for murder of a ship's gngineer face ar- raignment in Superior Court today with the prosecution urging an early evening paper the Circulation, 130,223 Somg returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT ARRIVES AT DES MOINES FOR LANDON TALK; CHEERED BY 10,000 Governor Stops for Shave, Is Expected at lowa Capi- tal for Drought Parley During Afternoon. MAY MISS LUNCHEON PRECEDING CONFERENCE Elaborate Precautions Are Taken by Gov. Herring to Insure Pri- vacy to Presidential Rivals and Governors and Senators at Meeting. BACKGROUND— The drought crisis of 1934 drew the attention of President Roosevelt and Governors of the States af- fected. A recurrence of the tragedy this year caused the President to embark upon a personal inspection, “non-political” tour of the swelter belt. He summoned to conferences Governors of several Midwestern States. One Governor, who made definite proposals for drought aid in 1934, was called to Des Moines today to have his say. He is Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, Mr. Roosevelt’s opponent for the presi- dency. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, September 3. —President Roosevelt arrived in Des Moines at noon today for his drought conference with Gov. Alf M. Landon and officials of Midwestern States. A crowd estimated at 10,000 by Highway Patrol Chief John Hattery cheered the President as he appeared on the rear platform of his train. Gov. Landon was expected an hour later. He stopped at Leon, Iowa, for a shave at 10:30 a.m. (Central stand- ard time) after a 200-mile automo- bile drive from Topeka. Driven to Capital. The President entered his auto- mobile immediately to be driven to the State house, scene of the cone ference. Gov. Clyde L. Herring and Mayor Joe Allen of Des Moines rode with Mr. Roosevelt. Streets along the route were lined with spectators. When he first appeared, Cavalry buglers played a salute to the Presi- dent. Cavalrymen lined the streets for a block at the station. Members of the President’s party followed in other official cars. National Guardsmen, highway po- licemen and police trooped out to handle the throngs. Gov. Herring arranged for Mr. Roosevelt and Gov. Landon to meet, for the Rrst time since they became their party’s 1936 standard bearers, at a luncheon behind the closed doors of his offices in the State Capitol Building. The President’s subsequent discus- sions with the Governors, Senators and other representatives of five of the States were also scheduled in the same sanctuary. Landon May Miss Lunch. Gov. Herring reported he received a telegram from Gov. Landon last night in which the Kansas Governor said he might not arrive in time for the luncheon. The Governor said, however, that one of his aides talked by telephone .ater with a Landon assistant and that the Landon party agreed to telephone the Iowa Governor's office at 11:30 am. (C. 8. T.) its whereabouts on the highway at that time, so a welcoming motorcade would be dispatched to meet the Republican nominee. In his telegram Landon pointed out that traffic conditions or “unforeseen circumstances” might delay his motor trip to Des Moines, and asked Gov. Herring not to “delay luncheon on my account.” Landon left Topeka at 6:17 am, Central time, today for the 250-mile automobile drive to Des Moines. He was accompanied by four ad- visers and reporters and photographers in a motor caravan of half a dozen cars. Audience Is Limited. The unique meeting of the Chiet Executive and the Governor of Kan- sas was fraught with dramatic pos- sibilities. But their sudience wa: limited. Herring said that when Mr. Roose- velt entered the Statehouse—after a circuitpus drive through flag-decked streets from his train—he would be seen only by approximately 60 lunch eon guests, the conferees and “possibly a few photographers” until he leavel late in the afternoon for his train ane a dinner there with the Governors. The President, Republican presiden. tial candidate, Governors, Senators (See CONFERENCE, Page A-3.) . Readers’ Guide Page. After Dark oo B-10 A-14-15- Lost and Found News Comment Features A-11 Washington Wayside. - 's,Features .....C-4-§