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HOOVER IN FIGHT T0 END HE SAYS Will Speak in New York and Denver Next Month. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, September 5.— Speeches in New York and Denver by Herbert Hoover in behalf of Gov. Alf M. Landon's presidential cam- paign were listed high among the announced September plans of the former President as he headed East today. Prior to departing for several di- rectors’ meetings September 9 in New York, Mr. Hoover broke a long silence on what part he would play in the Republican ‘ampaign and said he had talked with Gov. Landon by tel- ephone Thursday. He did not say what they discussed. “I entered the fight a month ago,” he told news men before boarding & train. “I am going to be in it until the end.” Speeches to Be Made. ‘Mr. Hoover, who has lashed the administration in more than a dozen speeches and statements, climaxed by an attack on the New Deal at the convention which nominated Landon, said he would make other speeches in addition to those in Denver and New ‘York. Dates remained to be an- mounced. “Gov. Landon is mobilizing his | forces,” was his only comment on the telephone call. which, he said, was| made by the Kansas Governor. Political observers here considered it significant that Mr. Hoover's an- nouncement of his plans came shortly after he said he had talked with the Republican nominee. The former President did not indicate whether he would see Gov. Landon on the present trip. which may keep him in the East until just before the Novem- ber election. September 28 Denver Date. Mr. Hoover asserted his Denver ad- dress, before a mining conference, tentatively was set for September 28, but he was not certain of the date of his New York appearance. A few weeks ago he conferred at his Palo Alto home with Republican National Chairman John D. M. Ham- ilton. Observers said he may have referred to thi¥ meeting by his state- ment “I entered the fight a month ago.” MARRIED PRIEST RETURNS HOME Four-Day Hunger Strike Is Ended After He Presents Petition. Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. HAIL AND FAREWELL. LERICAL workers in the office of Gregory Cipriana, clerk to Judge Walter J. Casey, Police Court, are wondering just what happens to them in the course of a day, as indicated by the differ- ence in Cipriana’s salutations and fare- wells. “Good morning, gentlemen,” says Cipriana as he walks into the office 1o start the day. “Good night, boys,” he says, leaving that afternoon, with the farewell al- ways accompanied by & gesture which indicates something between melan- choly and despair over the way the day has gone. %k COMPLETION. Down at Fifth and G streets are two signs which would indicate that a gypsy fortune teller there took her cue for her advertising from the sign of e locksmith neighbor almost next door. “We can fiz anything but a broken heart,” the locksmith tells the world. “We Ax broken hearts,” ovpsy says. the - SAVING. 'HE world’s somethingest man turned up in a downtown office yesterday in the form of an executive on whose desk lay a mammoth draw- ing of the floor plan of one of Wash- ington’s largest apartment buildings. A colleague watched the rather gar- gantuan efforts of the first mentioned to take some figures off the drawing, transfer them to a sheet of paper and work out an elaborate calculation. “What,” he finally asked, “are you doing?” “We're getting some new rugs for | the apartment,” his boss explained, “and it struck me this would be an easier way of figuring sises than by getting a tape measure and doing the | actual measuring. Now that I'm into it, however, I think my assumption was wrong.” * % % % FIXITY With his hunger strike ended, Rev. John Baycura returned from Wash- ington to his Homer City, Pa., home today bearing the message for his flock that he had succeeded in hand- ing directly to a representative of the on which the cars used to meet New | Mrs. Markham said. Her 7-year-old | some things in this world do i not change. | Take, for instance, the street car | conductor on the Georgia avenue line. For years he has been on that rou THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1936. UTILITIES APPEAL [BI& FLOUR MILLS || Loyalist Wounded F1e ee Fallen City of Irun RULING ON LOANS Injunction Denied, 2 Firms Take U. S. Power Aid Issue to High Court, By the Associated Press. The Texas Utilities Co. and the Alabama Power Co. appealed to the Supreme ‘Court today in an effort to prevent the Government from making loans and grants to & num- ber of cities for ccnatruction of municipally-owned electric systems. They asked the tribunal to review s ruling by the District Court dis- anhatnl the petitions for an injunc- Cities involved are Plainview, Tex., and Florence, Shefeld, Tuscumbia, Decatur, Hartselle, Guntersville and Russellville. . ‘The power companies said the issues presented by the litigation are representative of more than 35 cases now pending in District Court here. ‘The questions involved are similar in a petition by the ., against & P. W. A, and grant to Greenwood County, . C., for construction of a power t at Buzzard Roost, which the court already has agreed to review. The petitioner said the question presented was whether the national industrial recovery act or the 1935 emergency relief appropriation act authorized “gifts or so-called loans of public moneys of the United States for the construction, at the sole ex- pense and risk of the United States, of purely local electrical utility plants which can serve no national public purpose.” Markham (Continued From Pirst Page.) degrees at St. John's. Rain and mist swept the coast from the Atlantic. Until the steamer report came in, only one point was believed to have heard the plane’s progress, and that report was only a conjecture. The drone of a plane believed to be hers was heard over Castletown Bere- haven on the western shore of Ireland left the runway at the Royal Air Porce Airdrome at Abingdon in Berk- shire. From there her course lay over the open sea—over the ocean graves of her ill-fated feminine predecessors in | East-West attempts, Elsie Mackay and Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, who perished with the men pilots who flew | their ships. | Her turquoise-blue, stock model ; plane carried no radio equipment. | She battled & 30-mile headwind in | negotiating the airline distance of 385 | miles from her starting point to Cas- tlefown. Her ship, “the Messenger," loaded with 260 gallons of gasoline, lifted | perfectly into the air from the long | Abingdon Airdrome runway at 6:50 |pm, British Summer time (12:50 p.m., Eastern standard time). ‘Next stop United States, I trust,” hierarchy of the Roman Catholic York avenue at Ninth and, at which |son was sleeping peacefully in an Eng- Church his protest against a rule of celibacy imposed on his sect, the Oriental Rite. Father Baycura, who has a wife and _three children, closed his four-day fast yesterday and departed by bus for Homer City at 4 pm. An hour be- fore, he had interviewed an under- _secretary of Msgr. Francis Hyland, secretary to the apostolic delegate to the United States, Most Rev. Amlete Giovanni Cicognani. To the undersecretary, the priest ‘presented his formal complain against _the marriage ban. He hoped it would in turn be handed by Msgr. Hyland, ‘to Msgr. Cicognani, who is now in Rome, and ultimately brought to the ‘attention of the Vatican. ! Father Baycura had vowed to take ‘no sustenance until he saw Msgr. Cicognani, but he seemed satisfied ¢that he had accomplished the next ibest thing. He was admitted to Msgr. ‘Hyland’s house after three days of {walking back and forth before it. The refusal to ordain for the Orlen- tal Rite priesthool young men already ‘married is a reversal of a 300-year- ‘eld policy and is driving tens of thou- ‘sands of Roman Catholics worship- ping in the Oriental Rite churches to the Greek Orthodox Church, Father Baycura contends. The ban, made effective in 1932, is mot retroactive. The Oriental Rite priests have never contended jShat men could marry after becoming Priests. The celibates of the sect are pom. COL. T.W. HAMMOND { DEAD IN NEW YORK Retired Army Officer Is Buried at } ‘West Point—Served Here | Many Years. Col. Thomas W. Hammond, 55, In- fantry, U. 8. A, retired, on duty here &t various times for fany years, died Wednesday in New York. Puneral services and burial were at West Point yesterday. Col. Hammond was in Washington with the War College division of the general staff and as assistant to the secretary of the general staff in 1917. From 1921 to 1922 he was on duty here with the old Militia Bureau, now the National' Guard Bureau. He graduated from the Army War College in 1923 and later served as liaison officer with the House Military Affairs Committee and as instructor at the War College. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carmelita Hammond of New York, and two sons, Lieut. Thomas W. Ham- mond, jr., now studying in Paris, and Lieut. Chester Hammond, aide to Brig. Gen. Charles D. Roberts in | times, the conductor always would call out, “New York avenue.” The cars go down Seventh street | now and at the approximate point | where New York avenue was en- | countered, they cross Massachusetts | avenue today. “New York avenue” still calls out the conductor and instead of con- | fusing the passengers, it just seems | to make them feel things are a little | more substantial and enduring in this world. * ok ko ALL ISN'T VANITY. ‘These candid cameramen, who go around snapping the public for posterity or maybe for the quarters it brings in, can tell you somethirg about human nature all right. ‘Take vanity,” one of them told s wayside operative, “it's not nearly bad enough to suit me. Or to suit any one else in this business either. “Only eight or ten put of & hundred we snap here in Washington want the pictures. This business could use a lot more vanity.” ¥ %k K SURVIVAL. G!:ORGE WASHINGTON was born on a solemn Priday in the month of February in the year 1732. If you add 200 years to that, you get the date 1932. Being fairly sure of these elemental facts, an operative was startled the other day to discover still in the telephone directory in cold type the “George Washington Bicentennial Commission.” Impelled to investigate, he called up. He got only a husky voice which announced that it was the “Commis- sion on the Constitution.” Under questioning, it said that the manager of the George Washington Bicenten- nial Commission would be in at 10 o'clock “tomorrow.” Next day our operative rang again. The same little ceremony was repeated that day and for the next three dsys with like lack of enlightenment. The day after that came the capture. The cool voice of a lady sald that it_was connected with the commission and could inform. It assured him that the commission was sure-enough still in existence. “What does it do?” asked our op. “Very little now,” the voice con- fessed, and our operative could get nothing more. e — For the first time since the World War the chief supplier of Chile’s im- ‘Washington. Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City @ Full Sports Scares, Race Results, News, Flashes from Around the World. Complete Market News of the What- youll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY ST. lish countryside home at the time. The take-off came after a week of | nerve-racking waiting for favorable weather. The aviatrix was visibly nervous at the start, lighting numer- friend. Her course afler leaving Ireland gave her an 1,800-mile over-water hop under & light full moon before she ap- proached the heavy weather forecast near land on the western side of the Atlantic. She said she expected to average 156 miles an hour on the projected 3,450-mile flight. That placed her possible landing in New York at be- tween 20 and 24 hours after her take- off, or around noon today. Cruising Range 4,000 Miles. “The Messenger” bore the markings “VP-KCC."” The single-engined, low- wing monoplane had a cruising range of 4,000 miles. Only a few friends gathered at the airdrome to say farewell. “I believe in the future of an At- lantic air service,” she said before taking off, “and I want to be in on it —at the beginning. “It is a difficult flight, I know. I just don't like the look of the map. The blue seems too vast between the friendly pieces of land.” A jug of black coffee and a package of fruits and nuts, her only food and drink, were stored in her plane's cabin. ‘The aviatrix, schooled in the dan- gers of flying over African jungles, wore a light gray jumper and gray flannel trousers, a jaunty white hat perched on her head and tufts of her blond locks whipped in the heavy breeze. Her take-off came only a day after Dick Merrill and Harry Richman, American fiyers, had flown from New York to Wales. Richman, stage and screen enter- tainer, shook his head when he heard Mrs. Markham had gone. “It would be folly to fight against that wind,” he declared. “I don’t think she will get far with a light plane. I wish she had talked to me before taking off, because I had & report from the United States ‘Weather Bureau about a hurricane off Bermuda.” The American fyers themselves were considering in London a take- off perhaps today on their return flight to the United States. They said they would await favorable weather reports. No woman ever has accomplished what Mrs. Markham essayed. Amelia Earhart Putnam, the Ameri- can aviatrix, flew the Atlantic from west and east alone, and Amy Molli- son crossed from Wales to Connecticut with her husband, James A. Mollison, in 1933. Mrs. Markham said she had had the Atlantic flight in mind for some time, “The chance to do it was given me by a Kenya syndicate interested in' aviation,” she explained. “They are backing me right through.” She started flying in 1931, when she ltug:ed after only eight hours’ instruc- On her first flight to England from Africa she wus forced made drive with his 7-year-old son today when friends tried to reach him PR o 8 little less than four hours after she | CLOSED BY STRIKE Minneapolis Industry Tied Up, With Five Labor Disputes On. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 5.—The wheels of this city’s huge flour mill- ing industry were stilled today by a strike—one of the five current labor disputes in Minneapolis. Three more flour mills and their private grain houses, including plants of Washburn Crosby Co., Inc., and the King Midas Mill Co., were closed late yesterday when pickets lines were thrown around them—completing the lie-up of the city’s major industry. Ask Recognition and Pay. Shutdown of these units in the strike of Flour, Feed, Cereal and Ele- vator Workers' Union 19,152 halted a milling industry with a capacity of more than 50,000 barrels of flour and feed per day. The union demands recognition and pay increases. A showdown impended in the W. P. A. workers' “holiday” involving approximately 6,000 men in the esti- mation of the sponsor, the Workers' Alliance. A committee from the Alliance ar- ranged to present demands for pay increases and shorter hours to State W. P. A. Administrator Victor Christgau. They promised to report results of the conference toa W. P. A. mass meeting Monday night and then consider the advisability of extending the walkout. Letter on Wage Levels. But Christgau, in a letter to the Alliance, asserted the P. W. A. wage levels in Minneapolis were the highest possible under an executive order of President Roosevelt. The present rate is $60.50 a month. The Alliance seeks & minimum of $20 for a 30-hour | week and an hourly wage of 68% cents for unskilled labor. Meanwhile, N. 8. Clark and Robert | Mythen, Federal mediators, completed the first of a series of parleys with 17 | firms effected by a strike of wholesale grocery truck drivers. Strikes were also in progress at a | wood-treating plant and a biscut company. Green (Continued From Pirst Page.) State Federation, where 70 per cent of the membership is affiliates with the C. I. O. Lewis disclosed that his own union, the United Mine Workers, | months in arrears in its dues to the | federation and declared that no more | payments are contemplated. Federa- tion dues are 1 cent per month per | member, meaning that suspension of | | 1,200,00 members will cost the federa- | tion $12,000 monthly. | Organization Hinted. | The C. I O. leader declined yester- | day to admit that a rival federation | | may be formed but added significantly | that “outcasts must organize to pro-! | tect themselves against the beasts of l!he forest | prowlers.” | The unions automatically suspended [today are the United Mine Workers, | | s aigareiles! as ahetecaivd lut-lme Amalgamated Clothing Workers, | | minute instructions from an aviator International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers, United Textile Workers, Oil Field | Gas Well and Refinery Workers, In- | ternational Union of Mine, Mill and | Smelter Workers, Federation of Flat | Glass Workers, Amalgamated Associa- | tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, | United Automobile Workers and United Rubber Workers. In addition, Charles P. Howard, president of the International Typo- graphical Union, and officials of the Cap and Millinery Department of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers, and Heywood Broun, presi- dent of the American Newspaper Guild, are members of the C. I. O. Howard expects to bring the issue |of C. I. O. affiliation before the I. | T. U. convention on September 12, | while the Cap and Millinery Workers are expected to clarify their position soon also. If both approve of affiliation, their suspension from the federation is expected to follow. The I T. U. has a membership of 73,400 while the Cap and Millery union totals some 15,000. — CATTLE FREIGHT RATE EXTENDED IN DROUGHT By the Assoctated Press. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion today modified & previous order to provide reduced rates for cattle shipments from drought areas to 16 non-drought States. The modification takes in three counties of Nebraska—Blaine, Dundy and Hooker—and all of Oklahoma. ‘The order, which provides a charge of 85 per cent of regular rates on out- going shipments and 15 per cent to bring the live stock back, affects 26 carriers. ‘The rates are for feeding grounds in the following States: Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa. Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis- souri, Montana, Nebraska, North Da- kota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wash- ington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. with the news that his wife, Mrs. Beryl Markham, had been reported sighted flying over Newfoundland on her projected non-stop solo flight from England to New York. Markham had been up most of the night pacing the fioor of his home while his wife was winging her way over the gusty, squall-tossed Atlantic. With their son Gervis, Markham left for the automobile drive just five minutes before the telephone brought the glad news. By the Associated Press. QUINCY, Mass, September 5.—A Quincy mother swam nearly a mile, is three | and other nocturnal | Upper: This radiophoto shows a dramatic scene on the French side of the River Bidassoa yes- terday after the Spanish city of Irun had fallen into rebel hands.. A wounded loyalist is bein? The ships in background bear refugees seeking a haven on French soil. Lower: Their faces grim, these loyalist women of Barcelona are prepared to share the made in a debris-strewn street taken to safety in a boat. fortunes of the Spanish civil war. after heavy fighting. Spain (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) entrance to the bridge to prevent government defenders still in Spain from fleeing into France. City Mass of Ruins. Pour armored cars, camouflaged with tree branches, rumbled out of Irun, driving a handful of govern- ment forces from a few isolated | trenches in fields near the city. Irun was a desolate mass of ruins. The largest hotel and several con- vents were among the buildings de- stroyed by fire. The walls of most houses were still standing, but the in- teriors were completely burned out. Bodies lay everywhere on streets lead- ing to the international bridge. ‘The victorious rebels sang their vic- tory songs as they strove amid wreck- age and fallen masonry. . Chickens squawked and ran wildly over debris and dead bodies. Help Seives to Food. ‘The rebels helped themseives to tinned food left in the wrecked cafes. The rebel columns which attacked the bridgehead numbered about 300 and were made up mostly of young men 18 to 25 years old. They were armed with shotguns, rifies ahd knives and wore several days' growth of beard. . Rebel artillery shelled the heights of the Forts of PFuenterrabia and Guadalupe, in which amall forces of government militiamen were holding out to the death. The rebel Capt. Sastan, who di- rected the attack on the bridgehead, said Prenchmen and Belgians were among the government defenders. ‘The rebel high command said it did not intend to launch an infantry at- tack on the bombarded forts for sev- eral days, but would instead con- solidate its newly won positions at Irun. At Fort Guadalupe the government defenders were believed to have a munitions dump and several large guns. GUNFIRE RAKES BRIDGE. —Desperate government defenders, who staged a daring counter-attack on Irun against victorious rebels, were driven from the International Bridge today by a vicious Fascist barrage. Rebel recruits massed their forces before the Spanish spproach to the Mother Swi}rw Mile to Rescue Boys, 8 and 5, in Oarless Boat This exclusive ph@ was International span snd laid down a scathing rain of machine gun fire on the bridgehead. Government militiamen beat a hasty retreat, carrying with them supplies of ammunition they had received earlier from Barcelona. The rebel attack came under cover of heavy artillery fire from Fascist field guns. Bending low to avold snipers, Carlist recruits converged on the bridge from two directions, down | the streets through the flame-seared city and through cornfields along the outskirts. Meet on Spanish Side. ‘The two forces met on the Spanish side in sharp hand-to-hand fighting. Superior numbers gave the rebels the advantage and they swarmed onto the bridge, sweeping the government de- fenders before them. Three of the Socialist forces, who had held the approach throughout the night, were left dead at the scene of | the fighting together with five wounded. Thirty-five more fled across the 100-foot river to safety on French territory. ‘Ten anarchists, who had joined the militiamen in the bloody defense of the bridge, died in the hail of bullets. Several rebel shells fell near the Prench customs housa at Hendaye, and others blew houses on the Irun side to bits. ‘The battle started when 200 Social- ists, who had fled before a fierce rebel attack yesterday, returned to seize the Spanish approach to the bridge. Driven From City. Hundreds of others crossed the Bid- assoa River in boats to Fuenterr Abia and converged on Irun before the reb- els consolidated their positions in the war-torn city from which they had been driven by flames. An international convention be- tween France and Spain, by which the Spanish use the railroad from Barce= lona through Hendaye, permitted de- livery of the munitions to the gov- ernment. Spain, itself, does not operate a parallel line in the northern section. Additional rebel troops arrived from the concentration point at Pamplona to reinforce the harassed Pascists struggling to maintain their Ppositions in the shell-scarred city. Billowing flames had driven the triumphant rebel forces from Irun during the night. On the outskirts the Fascists danced and sang to cele- brate their bloody victory over gov- ernment militia. ‘The persistent government troops ‘were safe for the moment as the rebels returned ‘to the corpse-strewn and blood-spattered streets behind waves of searing flame. ‘Westward along the coast govern- ment leaders assembled their scat tered forces. Artillery at Fort Gaude- lupe was moved to defense positions before San Sebastian. fuenterrabia, fortified government outpost and haven for foreign diplo- mats during early weeks of fighting, deserted. by fore the fall of the city remained Fleeing in doubt. militiamen who escaped the fury of the rebel drive U..5. GASH FEARED - BYMICHIGANG.0.. Republicans Demand Senate Probe Also Take in Federal Expenditures. By e Lssoctated Press. DETROIT, September 5.—Michigan Republican Jeaders met a Senate come mittee investigation of charges of ex« cessive campaign expenditures in the State today with demands that the group inquire into the use of Federal funds. Howard C. Lawrence, Republican State chairman, said “there is more (Federal) money being spent in this campaign * * * than all the money the Republicans of Michigan could raise.” Louis R. Glavis headed a group of investigators sent by the Senate com- mittee to inquire into charges that some $3,000,000 had been accumulated for use in Michigan, whose citizens vote in a primary election September 15. Sees Fight on Couzens. Frank Murphy, high commissioner of the Philippines, seeking the Demo= cratic nomination for Governor, said “the really big expenditures are beirg made” to prevent renomination (§ | James Couzens, incumbent Republicin Senator. Couzens received censure «§ party leaders recently when he & nounced he would support Preside § Roosevelt for re-election. Former Gov. Wilbur M. Bruckej Couzens’ opponent for the nomina tion, termed the Senate investigatior “rank intimidation,” and said ths treasurer of his Campaign Committee “informs me that we have not spent within $10,000 of the amount pere mitted by law.” Governor Welcomes Probe. In Indianapolis to attend the Presi- dent’s drought conference, Gov. Prank D. Fitzgerald said he welcomed a “sincere” investigation and added that “it most certainly should include the huge sums of taxpayers’ money which are being spent without their consent in buying the favor and support of large numbers of voters.” Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Re- publican, of Michigan, accompanying Fitzgerald, said if the investigators “will see that our Democratic friends are kept from trading bread for bal- lots, the visit will be well worth while.” Both Vandenberg and Archie R. Fraser, Brucker's campaign manager, questioned authority of the Senate to scrutinize expenditures in a Stata primary. A local committee seeking contribu- | tions to the Republican national! cam- paign has announced Michigan's quota as $500,000, with one-third to be used within the State. —_— | which the premier heads, instructed | to put the measures into force at once. | Col. Jose Asensio, present com- mander of the government forces in | fortified positions in the Guadarrama | Mountains, was promoted to a general | and named commander of all govern- | ment troops in Central Spain. | ‘The Spanish press acclaimed forma- i tion of the new government, with only one note of criticism creeping into laudatory editorials. A syndicalist organ, discussing its party affairs, said | “at least one sector of Spanish polite | ical opinion” was excluded, but con= ment troops blew up the main road tinyed, “We must unite to defend the at frequent intervals in their retreat.| cause of the working classes.” Homes. business bulldings—Irun in =~ Reliable sources E;pomd the new general—was razed and destroyed. government had full syndicalist sup- port despite exclusion of the party's members from cabinet representation. Government artillery began bom- bardment of the historic Alcazar at | Toledo, in which Fascists have volun- | tarily imprisoned themselves, the war | ministry reported. Rebels were declared to have taken refuge in the basement and under- ground rooms during the bombard- ment. Some artillery shells fell on | the official residence of the former | civil governor, which was reported to be connected with the Alcazar by & secret underground tunnel. Some government militigmen as- serted they entered the Alcazar | through the tunnel and engaged the rebels in a hand grenade battle be- neath the historic fortress. SHIP REPORTED SUNK. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. GOVERNMENT MEETS CRISIS. | Throws Entire Force Behind Troops | Fighting Rebels. | (Copyrisht. 1936, by the Associated Press.) MADRID, September 5.—The reor- | zanized Spanish government under the | leadership of Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, threw its entire official force today behind fleld troops fighting Fascist rebels. “All other political interests are to | be subordinated to this end,” an of- ficial statement declared. One of the first acts of ‘the new cabinet, which includes two Com- munists, was to be appointment of a generalissimo to direct all military operations against the insurgents. Some sources said Gen. Martinez Cabrero had already been named to the post, but a high official of the | ministry of war asserted “a definite decision has not yet been reached.” All Forces Represented. Insurgents Claim fo Have Halted Government Torpedo Boat. GIBRALTAR, September 5 (#).—A “The composition of the govern- | government torpedo boat leaving Bil- ment represents all political forces | bao was fired on and sunk by the that are on the various fronts fight- | rebel battleship Espana off the north- ing for a democratic republic,” the ern coast of Spain, an insurgent cabinet’s declaration said. | broadcast from Seville said today. “The government tenders friend-| Rebel airplanes from Spanish Mo ship to all countries and proclaims | rocco were reported to have forced & pacifism. ' The government also mani- | Malaga trawler loaded with fish fcg fests its unflinching purpose to main- | the government-dominated city to pw tain the integrity of its national ter- | in at the rebel stronghold of Ceuts ritory.” Spanish Morocco. The war ministry reported addi- tional victories in Toledo Province, where strong columns of Fascists have been attempting to cut a path to the provincial capital. The advance has been halted, the ministry asserted, and government troops are consolidating their positions in trenches west of Talavera de la Reina, 40 miles northwest of Toledo. Premier Largo Caballero called the new cabinet into session immediately after his appointment by President Manuel Azana. During the meeting, officials said, the situation on all fronts was discussed, campaign plans | formulated and the war ministry, MISS HUSSEY BURIED -Funeral services for Miss Anna Hussey, who died Tuesday after % long illness in Birmingham, Ala., weia held yesterday in Glenwood Cemetery. Miss Hussey, who formerly lived in ‘Washington, was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John B. Hussey of this city. She is survived by three brothers, John P. Hussey, Dallas, Tex.; Ed- mundson Hussey, Philadelphia, and Dr. Raymond Hussey, New Haven, Conn. The National Scene .BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. EW YORK, September 5.—The Des Moines conference may have proven a disappointment to those who looked for explosions. The President and the man who sgeks the presidency met and preserved every amenity. Some of our critical international neighbors may have expected pistols for two, or at least strong language. After the meeting, the Governor of Kansas told the re- porters that he found the President charming. Mr. Roosevelt probably said as much for the Governor to his close associates. It is worth remarking that Gov. Landon scrupulously refrained from taking advantage of an obvious opportunity to say “I told you so.” He refused to discuss for the press the letter he wrote to the President in 1934. Setting forth the plan of water impounding which the ad- ministration finally has had to accept. Alies Longworth. The new approach to the drought problem is the sensible one. Enough rain falls to obviate serious trouble. Now ‘we are to go about saving some of that rain water for the dry spells. An old idea in dry Kansas, and one that the.Nation is soon to adopt. (Copyrisht, 1936) *