Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1936, Page 1

(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature; gentle northeast and east winds. Temperatures—Higlest, 76, at noon yesterday; lowest, 62, at 6:15 am. today. Full report on page B-19. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 33,729, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. BEFORE REBELS’ Plight of 500 Unknown—Exe- cution by Firing Squads in Cemetery Today Reported. REFUGEES SWARM OVER SPAN FOR PROTECTION BY FRENCH Insurgent Advance Forces Move on San Sebastian—Battle Rages Around . International Bridgehead. BACKGROUND— Spanish insurgents, seeking to overthrow Popular Front in order to prevent communization of Spanish government, have met staunch re- sistance from Loyalists, composed of workers and peasants. Rebels want northern key cities of San Sebastian and Irun in order to import arms and ammunition to press their assault upon Madrid, which has withstood re- peated onslaughts of Fascist Legionnaires, By the Associated Press. MADRID, September 4. —Premier Jose Giral Pereira resigned today and a new government was announced for war-torn Spain. The Socialist extremist leader, Francisco Largo Caballero, was named prime minister and minister of war. The new cabinet contains six Socialists, two Communists, two Left Republicans, one Republican Unionist and one Ezquerra (a olitical faction in the Valencia and Catalan regions). One min- ster, yet to be chosen, probably will be a Basque Nationalist. Indalecio Prieto, Socialist “strong man,” was named minister of air and navy. Giral Pereira remained in the cabinet, however, as minister without portfolio. Others in the cabinet: Juan Negrin, secretary of the treasury; Julio Alvarez Del Vayo, gecretary of state; Jose Tomas Piera, secretary of labor; Jesus Hernandez, minister of education; Vicente Uribe, secretary of agri- culture; Bernardo Giner de los Rios, communications; Anastasio Degraciz, industry and commerce; Angel Galarza, interior; Mariano Ruiz Funes, justice. It was announced that “because of the length of the civil war, the government believed it advisable to resign to make way for a government embracing all parties comprising the Popular Front. @ “President Azana accepted ulating the regime on the way it difficult period.” our resignation after congrat- handled affairs during this most Insurgents to Complete Occupation After Exodus From Furnace of City (Copyright. 1936, by the Associated Press.) HENDAYE, France, September 4—Raging fires engulfed al- most the whole of Irun todapy as victorious Fascist rebels advanced through the fallen city. Flames shot high across the border into France. into the sky and clouds of smoke rolled Rebel troops in completing their occupation of the one-time Socialist government stronghold advanced warily down the streets through the blazing ruins. Behobia, across the border in Spain, was completely occupied by the rebel forces. Want Best Relations With France. A Fascist colonel crossed the international bridge to Behobie in France and informed French officials he and_his chiefs were | ious to maintain “the best of relations” with France. anxl_?_:e colonel crossed the rebel-held bridge between French Behobie and Spanish Behobia, twin frontier towns separated only Ly the Bidassoa River. X Spanish head of the other in ternational bridge, between Hen- daye and Irun, was recaptured from the victorious Fascists early this afternoon by a small and nilitiamen. A young Spanish militiaman,< who crossed this latter bridge, wearing a submachine gun slung from his shoulders, carry- ing a fried chicken in one hand and holding a can of potted meat | in the other, declared the gov- ernment force holding the bridgehead against the rebels had been reduced to 15 men. | They were armed with hand | grenades, machine guns and| shotguns, and kept up a con-| tinuous fire from behind mat- tresses and sandbags against the | rebels, who were hiding in a cornfield 200 yards away. Nearly 500 government strag-)| glers, the youth declared, still| were scattered throughout Irun, fighting street battles. Other government militiamen who crossed the narrow river told conflict- ing tales of the plight of some 500 hostages. Some said they were lined up against & cemetery wall and shot by militia ex- ecution squads this morning. Others declared they were transferred by mo- tor car to San Sebastian, present goal of the rebels. These hostages had been held at Fort Guadalupe. Last-minute refugees continued to " (See SPAIN, Page A-2) 8 RESCUED AT FIRE BYW.P.A. EMPLOYE Nick Koffman Slides Down Rain Pipe at 813 Third Street With Child. Five children and three adults were rescued early today from a fire at 813 Third street by a W. P. A. tinner's helper, who slid down a rain spout with one child, caught another dropped from a second-floor window and helped the others down a Jadder. Nick Koffman was awakened by smoke in his second-floor room shortly before 3 a.m. He found the stairway in flames and roused other occupants of the floor, including his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawis Pantos, and their five children. Koffman slid down the spout with B-year-old Jimmy Pantos, caught 3- year-old Angelo in his arms as. the boy’s mother dropped him from a second-story window and found a lad- der which he raised for the others. Meanwhile, a neighbor had turned in a fire alarm. The ground floor was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mantos. When firemen arrived they Jearned Mrs. Mantos had fainted in the building. She was carried out and later treated at Casualty Hospital ‘i,or burns about the face and shoul- ers. The blaze started in an opening off a ground-floor hallway and quickly spread to the staircase. The damage "u estimated at about $200. desperate band of government Crusade of Prayer For Spain’s Peace Is Asked by Pope By the Assoclated Press. CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Sep- | tember 4.—Pope Pius asked,today for a “crusade of prayer” for the ills be- setting the world—especially in war- torn Spain. The holy father disclosed his fer- vent desire for such a crusade to & group of Italian pilgrims. He spoke to 200 members of the Franciscan Tertiary Orders. He urged them to pray, and to tell their friends to pray and spread be- fore the world his desire for a prayer crusade for misguided youth, espe- cially because of “flagrant evils and discord—particularly in that country where brothers are killing brothers and outraging souls in the midst of sacrilege and horrible carnage.” POLICE SEARCH WO00DS FOR PROWLER SUSPECTS Deny Reports Authorities Fear Attempt to Kidnap Two Guar- dabassi Children. By the Associated Press. PRIDES CROSSING, Miss, Sep- tember 4.—Police searched the wooded area around the Summer estate of Count Francesco Mario Guardabassi in the fashionable North Shore colony today after receiving reports five men ‘were seen prowling about the premises. A male companion of the Guarda- bassi governess reported to police the strangers, one dressed in woman’s apparel, were inquiring for the garden- er's cottage at 1 am. Police Lieut. William J. Tobin denied reports authorities were working on a theory the quintet had sought to kid- nap the Guardabassi children, Fred- erico, 7, and Junio, 4. Count Guardabassi left for New York yesterday, where he planned to sail for Rome. His wife, the former Rosalind Wood, daughter of the late president of the American Woolen Co., was at home with the children. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Htar WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1936—FIFTY PAGES. skkkk NEW CABINET FOR SPAINIRELIEF ASSURED | AS BLAZING IRUN FALLS) THROUGH WINTER, ATTACK JOSE GIRAL PEREIRA. Resigns as Premier. FRANCISCO L. CABALLERO. Forms new cabinet. - x \ GEN, EMILIO MOLA, Leads attack on Irun., SHARP NOTE SENT JAPAN BY SOVIET Peace Endangered by Bor- der Situation, Protest Says. Inquiry Proposed. BACKGROUND— Recent clashes along the Man- chukuoan border have heightened the tension between militaristic Japan and Russia. The recent ex- ecution of a Russian who, Japan asserted, fired at her soldiers has strained further the relations be- tween the couniries. Russia fears Japanese penetra- tion into Mongolia, which would endanger the trans-Siberian Rail- road, only link between Russia proper and her Pacific territory. By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, September 4.—Soviet Russia sharply warned Japan today it considers continuation of the pres- ent situation on the Soviet-Manchu- kuan border “intolerable” and danger- ous to the cause of peace. The Soviet Union proposed im- mediate establishment of & mixed Soviet-Japanese-Manchukuan com- mission to inquire into the many inci- dents on the desolate frontier. At the same time, Moscow pointed out the Japanese government had con- sented officially to establishment of such a commission last February 14, and contended delay in its creation was “entirely” the fault of Tokio. ‘The protest was delivered to Shichi Sakoh, the Japanese charge d’affairs, by B. I. Kozloffsky, head of the second Eastern Department of the Soviet Alleges 1t alleged “ceaseless fabrication” by Japanese-Manchukuan militarists of false reports of firing from the Soviet (8ee RUSSIA, Page A-4.) Strikers, Barricaded in Plant, Cut Off City’s Power Supply £y the Associated Press. TRENTON, Mo, September 4.— Workers at the Missouri Public Serv- ice Co. plant here pulled switches and barricaded themselves in’the build- ing today, depriving the city of elec- trical power and water, as & protest against & city move toward a munici- pal plant. F. J. Richardson, chief engineer, said the workers refused admittance to any one. He said they had sufficient supplies to remain in the building indefinitely, and would stay until City Council members were ready to confer with them. The strike came after the Oity Council let contracts for construction of a city power plant. It left Trenton without power to operate the ..ty's electric water pumps. Edinburg and Brimson, communities, also were without T ay ROOSEVELT SAYS Leaves Landon Meeting in Des Moines—Kansan Urges Rural Aid. 320,000 FARM FAMILIES ESTIMATED AS TOTAL Governors Think Burden of R. A. and W. P. A. Will Be Greatly Curtailed. By tne Assoctated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, September 4. —President Roosevelt, heading for Springfield, Ill, and a continuance of his Midwest drought conferences to- day, was understood to have assured seven Governors at a conference here yesterday that all in need would be cared for until Spring. At separate conferences with each Governor, the President discussed ways of meeting immediate needs of farmers and their families through the coming Winter and a general out- line of a long-time program. As for the long-range program, the Chief Executive was said to have stressed the need for dam construc- tion, water conservation aad more scientific use of land, including trans- formation of thousands of atres of crop land into pasture and trees, Landon Gives Views. Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, Re- publican presidential nominee, left a recommsendation with the President which, in some respects, resembled the proposals of the President’s Drought Committee. It called for: Immediate relief work for needy farmers on dams, roads, ponds and general rural rehabilitation. A long-range program of water con- servation and flood control in which the Federal and State governments would co-operate. Governors submitted estimates show- ing a maximum of 320,000 farm fami- | lies in the seven States represented | would require W. P. A. and resettle- ment aid this Winter. As the President and Gov. Landon went their separate ways the Nation | studied reports of the epochal meet- | ing. Before the Chief Executive headed for Hannibal, Mo., on his special train and the Republican nominee pointed his automobile toward the Kansas capital at Topeks, Gov. Landon said: ere was an exchange of views. 1s always productive.” He added that “I left a report, but it was largely covered by the Presi- dent’s own line of inquiry at the con- ference.” Urged Rounded Program. A letter that Landon wrote to Pres- ident Roosevelt in 1934 held that any plan for the construction of dikes aleng the lower Mississippi as a flood- | control measure would be worthless without a co-ordinated program call- | Ing for reservoirs and dams along the upper Mississippi and its tributaries to | slow the flow and conserve water re- sources of the Great Plains area. The conferees met with a hearty handclasp in the offices of Gov. Clyde Herring in the Iowa State House. They chatted amiably about fishing at a chicken luncheon. They conferred for 40 minutes about the problems raised by the drought. They engaged in more conversation over their portions of filet mignon at a dinner aboard the President’s diner. But the Democratic and Republican standard bearers steered clear of the moot subject of politics, reported the Governors and officials of six other States, who sat in on the drought conference. “If You Take My Place—" “The nearest thing ‘to politics I heard,” one Governor related, “was when the President remarked to Lan- don, ‘If you take my place in the White House, be sure you don't use too big & boat to go fishing.’ “But the President was just kidding. He'd just been explaining that he liked to go fishing on a small boat because he didn’t have to take a lot of people along.” _"A grand day,” was the way Mr. (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3.) A. F. OF L. DECLINES TO ACT IN STRIKE Seattle Council Tried to Promote Newspaper Settlement, Says Green. By the Assoclated Press. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said today the federation “cannot interfere” in the American Newspaper Guild strike against the Seattle Post-Intel- ligencer. Green made his statement in releas- ing a report on the guild strike from Rowland Watson, A. F. of L. repre- sentative in Seattle. “Efforts to conduct a hearing upoi the complaint filed by the American Newspaper Guild and to promote a Syp E3s rfi%g members of the local Newspaper Guild 50 ‘that industrial pesce may be re- -aummmmw«rma.- ANDTo THINK AT oué TIME [ AD GREAT HHoPEs FoR IT! The only in Washington wit Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. evening gaper the Yesterday’s Circulation, 131,487, (Some returns not yet received.) (UP) Means Associated Pre AFTER NEARLY THREE LONG YEARS! \Czechoslovak Premier Doubts Reich and Italy Must Figh To Achieve Their Objectives Hodzg Believes Aggressive Attitudes Are Prompted By Diplomatic Rather Than Military Purposes. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. A Slav from the President Edouard Benas. garian Parliament. with his tongue but also with his fists. reer in Hungarian jails. stroying food speculation. a visitor is handed from one cerberus Then he has to wait. PRAGUE.-—~MIlln Hodza #s Czechoslovakia's premier. Hodza has been a fighter all his life. over 50 now—he entered politics as a minority representative in the Hun- In those days Slovakia was under Hungarian domination. And as a militant member of opposition in the Budapest Parliament, he had to fight not only South, he has more experience in domestic politics than his friend, At the age of 26—he is He has spent a good portion of his parliamentary ca- In any country outside Czechoslovakia Hodza would be described as a Socialist of the Left. | He has determined ideas about social justice (except in the case of the Czechoslovak citi- zens of German stock) and as minister of agri- culture he has put through the important bill of organizing the Czech co-operatives and de- Now, he is at the head of Bene's cabinet and as such lives in one of the palaces which the government confiscated from the Austrian no- bility when the republic was created in 1919. Prime ministers do not last long in Europe, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. But ‘while they last they want to enjoy their position. Special Police Guard Their Excellencies, Special police and detectives are detailed to guard their excellencies, and Milan Hodza to another befere he is able to pene- trate the sanctuary where his excellency's private secretary reigns supreme. ‘The approaches of the eighteenth century palace of the Czechoslovak SEA FLYERS REACH CROYDON AIRPORT Richman and Merrill Have Narrow Escape in Stop at Bristol. By the Associated Press. CROYDON AIRDROME, England, September 4.—Formally completing the eastwatd lap of their proposed round trip, trans-Atlantic sky holiday, the Americans, Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, landed at Croydon at 2:57 pm. today (8:57 a.m., Eastern standard time). They flew from South Wales, where their fastest ocean crossing paused in a cow pasture yesterday, by way of Bristol. ‘The Broadway baritone and Merrill, his pilot, had to hurdie an errant motion picture lorry in taking off from the cow pasture and Merrill called it a “close shave.” Less than 200 persons, most of them members of the airport staff, wit- nessed the completion of the flight in a pouring rain. The reception was completely informal. This contrasted sharply to the ten- sion at Croydon yesterday, where 1,000 persons waited for hours for the Americans, only to learn they had come down in South Wales, out of gasoline, after a record speed trip of less than 18 hours from New York. Before he and Merrill motored into London, Richman said: “We expect to fly back to the United States as soon as we get favorable wind and weather. We probably will be here for two or three days.” Merrill, landing earlier at Bristol In a heavy mist on his way to keep what Richman called “our date with the lads at Croydon,” said the monoplane Lady Peace narrowly missed the movie Rain Delays Take-Off. Heavy rain and fog delayed the departure from Llangadock until noon. Then, as the bad weather abated, the fiyers took off, determined to begin the return flight to New York after a ‘welcoming celebration in London and “whenever we get favorable weather.” ‘While waiting & change in weather the fiyers summoned workmen to cut down a hedge separating their plane from a small emergency landing fleld adjoining the pasture to gain a longer runway for the takeoff. The adventurous pair chafed on the ground as & heavy mist, followed by rain, blanketed the entire country- side. The tops of the nearby Welsh (See RICHMAN, Tt-l)_‘ (See CZECHS, Page A-5.) SENATORS ORDER MCHGAN INURY $3,000,000 Held by Parties | for Campaign Use, Com- mittee Hears. By tre Assoclated Press. A “complete investigation” of all State and national political activities in Michigan was ordered today by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Com- mittee. The Michigan investigation was or- dered by the committee after it had received charges that approximately $3,000,000 in cdhtributions had been accumulated by “political parties and candidates” for use in the campaign for major offices this year. Last week the committee directed that & similar investigation be made in Pennsylvania, where complaints were made that steel company em- ployes were being intimidated in con- nection with the presidential election. Glavis Ordered to Detroit, Chairman Lonergan announced that the committee’s chief investigator, Louis R. Glavis, had been instructed to proceed immediately with several assistants to Detroit. Glavis and a staff of assistants have been in Pennsylvania since Monday in- vestigating political activities. Loner- gan said some of the committee’s agents would remain in Pennsylvania. Lonergan said the Michigan com- plaints came from “citizens and at- torneys” and included a charge that more than $500,000 now was available to one political party for expenditure in the senatorial and gubernatorial race alone. Committee officials said (See MICHIGAN, Page . N.Y. A. Gets Quoddy Buildings ‘For Use as Training School By the Assoctated Press. ‘The War Department announced to- day that the buildings and equipment at the Passamaquoddy Tidal Bay proj- ect, in Maine, would be turned over to the National Youth Administration for use as & training school. ‘The announcement said that as a result of the suspension of construc- tion activities on the project the War Department would make available to the Youth Administration all housing facilities, shops and equipment. The facilities, the mninnuvnt explained, CGIVIL SERVIGE SET ASH.0.L.G. GUIDE Roosevelt Calls for Applica- tion of Its “Standards” to Agency. Hinting of legislation to put the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation under civil service, President Roosevelt to- day called for the application of civil service “standards” to the organiza- tion. ‘The President’s suggestion was made Jjointly in letters dated August 25 to Harry B. Mitchell, president of the Civil Service Commission, and John H. Fahey, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The action did not actually place the vast lending agency under civil | service. That, the President explained, ‘would require an act of Congress, “Pending legislative authority,” he | said, “it is appropriate and entirely | possible to apply the principles” of the civil service laws to the H. O. L. C. The move was not explained in detail except that Fahey indicated that when vrofessional and technical employes are needed, the civil service will hold examinations. Present job- holders will not be required to take examinations to hold their posts. “It means,” Fahey said, “the ulti- mate adoption of civil service stand- ards of efficiency throughout the cor- poration and anticipates the possibility of future action by Congress to place the organization under civil serv- jce. * o ® “Although H. O. L. C. was set up in a short period during the stress of the emergency in home finance, for more than two and a half years the cor- poration has been engaged in the de- velopment and application of pre-em- ployment tests and minimum require- ments of employment corresponding to those of the civil service.” He estimated the H. O. L. C. is now employing 15,740 persons in 258 offices | throughout the country. Last January 31 there were 19,548 employes in 300 field offices, but taper- inff off of lending activities led to the reduction in personnel. “The announcement does ot mean,” Fahey said, “that employes of the corporation will be required to take civil service examinations as a requisite to continuance in their posi- tions, nor wilP they be displaced by employes from the certified lists of the Civil Service Commission.” President Roosevelt said in his let- ter to Fahey he believed the work of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and its subsidiaries, of which the H. 0. L. C. is largest, had been stabil- ized. The H. O. L. C, which lent large sums to home owners in distress, was organized “to meet a financial crisis in the urban home field,” Mr. Roose- velt said, and the law creating it placed its employes outside civil serv- ice. Now that H. O. L. C. work has been stabilized, he said, “I believe that so far as possible, every advantage should be taken of the standards and prac- tices developed under civil service law.” ROOSEVELT CHILD HURT Daughter of James Roosevelt Cuts Foot on Beach. PORTSMOUTH, N. H,, September 4 (#).—Sara Delano Roosevelt, grand- daughter of the President, was con- fined to her home at Little Boars Head today with a foot cut she re- ceived from broken glass while walk- ing on the North Hampton Beach. A member of the household of Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt, the child’s parents, said she would be up and about “in several days.” are for temporary use by N. Y. A. in conducting a training school as a part of its youth program. ‘The facilities will be maintained by the War Department, but the school will be conducted by the Youth Ad- ministration. Representatives of N. Y. A. are now engaged in preparing detailed plans for operations and assembly of school personnel. The faculty and students of the school are to be assembled promptly TWO CENTS. ENGLISH WOMAN BEGINS SOLO HOP ACROSS ATLANTIC Beryl Markham Hopes to Be *First of Sex to Make Westward Crossing. NEW YORK IS GOAL OF GREEN MONOPLANE Few Friends See Low-Wing Ship Take Off—Craft Has 4,000- Mile Range. (Picture on Page A-4.) By the Associated Press. ABINGDON, England, September 4.—Mrs. Beryl Markham, blond Eng- lish society woman, took off today on an attempted non-stop flight to New York. Flying alone, the tall, 33-year-oid matron lifted her green monoplane, The Messenger, into the air at 6:50 p.m,, British Summer time (12:50 p.m.,, Eastern Standard time). Only a few friends saw Mrs. Marke ham, who is the mother of a 7-years old boy, take off from the Royal Air Force Field here. She seeks to be tke first woman to make the westward Atlantic crossing alone, Mrs. Markham's single-engine, lowe wing plane has a cruising speed of 150 miles an hour and a range of 4,000 miles. Waiting for the last few days for favorable ocean weather at Abingdon, she took off for America ahead of the American round-trip flyers, Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, who reached South Wales yesterday after a flight of less than 18 hours from New York. Richman and Merrill expect to start their return flight within a few days. Moon to Light Sky. Mrs. Markham, who has an aerial background of adventurous exploits in Africa, will have the advantage of a full moon on her lone night flight across the hazardous sea. But the weather reports otherwise were none too favorable. The air ministry reported she faced 40-mile headwin some places at & height of 1,500 feet. Low clouds and rain belts also spot- ted her course most of the way across Ireland and the Atlantic. Although Amelia Earhart Putnam made the eastward Atlantic crossing solo, Mrs. Markham, if she succeeds, will be the first woman to fly the sea from the other direction. “I believe in the future of an At lantic air service,” Mrs. Markham said before hopping off. “I want to be in it—at the beginning. “It is & difficult flight I know. I just don't like the look of a map, the blue seems too vast between the friendly pieces of land.” Soloed in 8 Hours. Mrs. Markham, sister-in-law of Sir Charles Markham, colliery baronet, grew up in Kenya and flew solo after only 8 hours’ training. She became a big-game hunter by air, spotting animals for hunters on the ground. She made flights from Africa to London on three occasions. More recently she acted as pilot to & French financier. Tall, blond and athletic, Mrs. Markham has kept & rigorous traine ing schedule in preparation for the gruelling attempt. “I have had the Atlantic flight in mind for some time,” she explained. “Then the chance to do it was given to me by a Kenya syndicate interested in avietion. They are backing me right through.” WEEK-END FORECAST IS FAIR AND MILD Clear Skies Today and Tomorrow Also Predicted by Weather Bureau. A fair and mild Labor day week end is forecast for the Capital by the ‘Weather Bureau. Today and tomorrow also will be fair, with little change in temperature, according to the forecaster. Clear skies are expected Sunday and the mercury probably will go a little higher than during the last several days. The same conditions are ex- pected Monday. With the weather outlook clear for the holiday, motor clubs today pre= dicted an unprecedented volume of automobile travel out of Washington over the week end. Basing their observations on the number of calls received for road in- formation, the Keystone Automobile Club said all nearby resorts seem to be getting a full share of tourist travel this week end. —_————— Russian Director Dies. NEW YORK, September 4 (#.— Nikita Balieff, Russian director of the “Chauve Souris” and famed as a witty master of ceremonies, died last night after an iliness of two days suffering from a kidney ailment. He was 53 years old. Readers’ Guide Lost and Found - News Comment Features A-9 Radio _B-14 Serial Story .. Washington Wayside_ (See QUODDY, Page A-2.) Women’s Features ___.