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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair and somewhat warmer; gentle east shifting to southeast winds. Temperatures—Highest, 86, at 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68, at 7 am. today. Full report on page A-13. Closing New York Markets, Page 20 No. 33,739. WEATHER IDEAL, VOTERS FLOCKING T0 MAINE POLLS Republican Hopes Spurred " by Prospect of Record Balloting. INTEREST IS CENTERED IN SENATORSHIP FIGHT Governor, Representatives and Other Minor Officials Being Selected Today. BY the Assoclated Press. PORTLAND, Me., September 14— Clear, crisp weather stimulated voting today in Maine's “indicator” State election, with political leaders predict- ing a record poll. While the Nation waited impatient- 1y for results of the first election in the country—disputed index of na- tional sentiment in presidential years —reports came from officials and election clerks of a heavy turnout. “This is Republican weather,” said Arthur E. Sewall, chairman of the Re- publican State Committee. “The people of Maine are piling up a record vote today, which means substantial Republican majorities.” Some Polls Crowded. Perhaps in no other election have major parties organized to the extent of the present in seeing that every registered voter had opportunity and transportation to reach the polis. From some places came reports that intense interest led crowds of voters to polling places without waiting for transporta- tion by party workers. The secretary of state's office esti- mated the total vote would approach, and might exceed, 300,000. The echoes of an unprecedented campaign in which three presidential nominees visited Maine hung over the polling booths as a United States Benator, a Governor, three Repre- sentatives and minor State and county officials were chosen. The largest recorded Maine vote was 295,538 in the 1932 presidential election, Maine was one of six Hoover States that year. Eleventh-Hour Oratory. Accuracy of the slogan, “As goes Maine so goes the Union,” has been debated since its coinage in 1840, but Republicans and Democrats made ex- ceptional use of it in the campaign which ended last night in a flurry of eleventh-hour political oratory, cen- tering mostly around the New Deal. Republicans sought, besides the | Etate dominance lost four years ago, & victory presaging what its leaders called “return to national sanity.” Democratic candidates predicted freely a victory that would uphold the Federal administration, which they said had returned prosperity to Maine | and the Nation. President Roosevelt, Gov. Alf M.| Landon and Representative William | Lemke were the three presidential aspirants to come to Maine during the campaign. Landon predicted “a great victory” at Portland Saturday night; Lemke aided his party candidates and fore- cast his own success, and Roosevelt 1n | & non-political visit to Eastport prom- ised, “We will have Quoddy,” refer- ring to the abandoned $40,000,000 tide- harnessing project there, Interest in Senate Fight. Polls opened generally at 6 am (E. S. T.) and were to close at 7 p.m. although towns of 300 population or | less could close two hours earlier. The fight between United States Benator Wallace H. White, jr., Repub- lican, and Democratic Gov. Louis J. Brann for Whte's Senate seat drew the widest interest. White attacked the New Deal and all its policies; Brann, although appeal- ing to the people chiefly on his State record, upheld the need and use- | fulness of Federal relief money in | Maine. Brann's ticket mate, F. Harold Du- bord, defended Roosevelt policies heartily against Republican attacks. His Republican opponent, Lewis O. Barrows, was equally vehement in as- sailing New Deal expenditures and what he termed similar extravagance of the Brann regime. James C. Oliver, Republican, con- testing with United States Repre- sentative Simon M. Hamlin, Demo- crat, for the latter’s.first district seat, had both Townsend and Union sanction. Three Claim Townsend Aid. Of four second district candidates, three claimed Townsend support from one source or another. Clyde H. Smith, Republican, was indorsed by the State Townsend manager. Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, ally of Dr. Townsend, spoke for A. Raymond Rogers, Unionite, and the district's Entered as second ciass matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1936 —THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. #**** Maj. Franco to Sell Treasures To Raise Cash May Fly Back to Spain After Auction of Furnishings. BY BLAIR BOLLES. To raise money for the Spanish rebel cause, Maj. Ramon Franco, brother of the leader of the revolution and Spain’s most famous fiyer, has decided to dispose at auction most of the treasures of art and furniture in his*Cheévy Chase house. Two weeks after thel sale, which opens a week from today, Maj. Franco, who resigned last Wednesday as air attache.of the Spanish Em- bassy here, expects to return to his native land, perhaps by plane. He has in mind a Sikorsky to use for a flight across the Atlantic, which he spanned in 1926 from Cadiz to Buenos Aires. The fiyer supportél the present government of Spain until a week ago, when he resigned his diplomatic post following .the execution of the navigator of his Argentine flight, Capt. Ruis de Alda, and of Gen. Capez. He decided to go to the aid of the rebel cause and avenge his friends on receipt of a letter four days ago from Gen, Francisco Franco, his brother, from whom he had not heard in over a year. The night the letter came, Maj. Franco gave a farewell party at his home, 3601 Rittenhouse street, and next day sent almost all his posses- BULLETIN SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sep- tember 14 (#).—Irving G. Thalberg, 37, noted motion picture producer and husband of Norma Shearer, died today. FASCISTS PREVENT * COUNTERATTACK Set Up Regime in San Se- bastian and Turn Toward Bilbao Port. BACKGROUND— Charges of “propaganda” have been made against news from Ma- drid Loyalist and Gen. Mola’s rebel Jorces in Spanish civil war, Claims and counter claims of advances have been many since outbreak of Fascist-Communist clash in July. Result is that outside world is little familiar with actual status of op- posing armies, but is well ac- quainted with great damage and loss of almost 100,000 lives, these facts being reputed by partisans of both sides. The rebels, favored to win by most military strategists, have been on great offensive in mnorth for last week, climaz being capture of San Sebastian last Saturday. (Copyright, 1936, by the Assoclated Press.) SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Septem- ber 14—Fascist warriors completed | their occupation of San Sebastian to- day by setting up a civil administra- tion headed by the Governor of Pam- plona, provincial capital of Navarre. Strong lines of Fascist troops held | the city from possible counter-attack ! by the defeated Socialists who fled before the Insurgent advance yester- day with arms, ammunition and other war equipment. Military and civil authorities began speedy rehabilitation of public serv- ices which had been paralyzed for | days during the Fascist siege of the | Basque resort. Water and electric service were re- established shortly after the invaders, accompanied by Moorish legionnaires, marched into the costal city early yes- terday. Supplies of food were rushed to the city from which officials esti- mated approximately 10,000 civilians and foreigners have fled. Col. Jose Beorlegui, commander of the Fascist forces, claimed possession (See SPANISH, Page A-T) e NATS LEAD CHISOX, 4-2 Go Ahead in Sixth—XKuhel Hits Home Run. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO, September 14.—Joe Kuhel's home run in the first inning and a rally in the sixth, with Sington singling two mates across the plate, gave the Nationals a 4-to-2 lead over the Chicago White Sox in the sixth inning of the opening game of today’s double-header. (See MAINE, Page A-4.) NEW SPANISH ENVOY 'SELECTION IS DENIED Embassy Cflnrge d’Affaires Says No Word Received on Cal- deron Successor. By tne Associated Press. Enrique Carlos de la Casa, new Charge d'Affaires at the Spanish Em- bassy, issued a statement yescterday saying there had been no official word that a successor had been appointed to Ambassador Luis Calderon, resigned. “With reference to the rumors stat- 4ng that Fernando de los Rios has been appointed Ambassador from Spain to ‘Washington,” said the embassy state- ment, “Mr. de la Casa, new Charge d’'Affaires, states that up to the present time there has been no official com- munieation received to that effect.” ‘The embassy had announced Satur- day night the appointment of De la Casa, consul at San Francisco, as Charge d'Affaires. Calderon vacated ‘his dip! tic post shortly after Com- munists entered the cabinet of the Madrid government, for Rebel Cause MAJ. RAMON FRANCO. sions to the auction rooms of the Washington Art Galleries, 722 Thir- teenth street—106 lots in all, including china, old chests, Renaissance plaques, busts, mantillas, shawls and dozens of other treasures he brought to America with him from Spain a year ago. Only the bare furniture he, his wife and his daughter require for their immediate needs are left in the house. The major is reported confident he will be back in this country within six months, but he is turning all his (See FRANCO, Page A-2) HITLER TO FOSTER PRIVATE INDUSTRY Reichsfuehrer Declares He Will Not Permit Bureau- cracy in Germany. BACKGROUND— Hitler's stubborn position against communism dates back to his as- sumption of control of after-war Germany. When the Reichsfueh- rer early complained about the terms of the Versailles treaty, which he later upset, he frequently declared that if it had not been for Germany communism would have overrun Europe years ago, and, accordingly, Europe had failed to recognize this fact in its stern 7 dealings with the Germans. Re- cently Hitler again has emphasized to the world his mation’s position and willingness to take up arms to erush any menace from communis- tic Russia. (Copyright. 1936, by the Associated Press.) NURNBERG, Germany, September 14.—Germany will guard jealously the | principle of private enterprise in busi- ness, Chancellor Adolf Hitler asserted | today. The Nazi dictator denled that his lishments under governmental control and declared: “I will never permit bureaucratiza- tion of German industry.” The reichschancellor’s views on the business future of his country were outlined in an informal conversation at Nurnberg Castle after a source close to the Fuehrer had predicted a decree to make effective his four-year plan for economic independence might be made public this week. “I am convinced there must be com- petition to bring the best to the top,” Hitler declared. “I could take over all business, but what would I have then —nothing but a bureaucracy. Nationalization of German industry, Hitler predicted, would result in “work- ers and executives losing interest” in their jobs and “it would not be long before they would become mere job- holders expecting automatic advance- ment by seniority instead of initiative.” “Great improvement in manufac- turing processes springs from keen (See HITLER, Page A-5.) HURRICANE SCOURGES SEA OFF PUERTO RICO 550 Miles Northeast of San Juan, Storm Moves Toward Atlantic Coastal Shipping Lanes. 8v the Associated Press. HAVANA, September 14.—A tropical disturbance was reported today about 550 miles northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, moving in & north-north- west direction. ‘The United States Weather Bureau said the storm was of hurricane in- tensity and was attended by gales and squalls over & wide area. McMahon Given Year’s Term For Pistol Act Before King By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 14.—George Andrew McMahon was found guilty today of producing a revolver near King Edward VIII with intent “to harm his majesty.” He was sen- tenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. McMahon was acquitted on two of the three charges placed against him after he “slithered” a loaded revolver at the monarch as he rode by in a military procession on Constitution Hill July 16. The pudgy, crippled Irish-Scot tes- tified “a foreign power” had wanted: him to shoot the King on an earlier occasion and had tried to enlist him 25 a spy against Britain, Before the verdict was reached McMahon pleaded with the court to send him to prison to protect him from those whom, he said, he had :::l"ed by failing to carry out the The jury deliberated only 10 min- utes. McMshon said the King was fo have been shot on the ceremonial birthday trooping of the colors last June 23, and t::t he was to receive £150 ($750) for doing the sheoting. That was before the occasion, last July 16, when McMsahon “slithered” a revolver at the feet of the King's horse. The prisoner said he had told the British war office of the purported “foreign power” plot. Sitting in the witness box, he wrote on a piece of paper, which was handed to the judge, bening - Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITIO! POPE ASKS FIGHT ON RED MENACE 10 PREVENT CHAOS Says “Mad Forces” of Com- munism Are “Undermin- ing All Civilization.” SPANISH PERSECUTORS OF CHURCHMEN CITED Pontiff Invokes “Special Love Born of Mercy” for Those Whose Deeds Are ““So Odious.” BACKGROUND— Pope Pius XI, since he became head of the Roman Catholic Church in 1922, has faced the problem of growing communism and anti-clerical activities in many sections of the world. In strong terms he has cried out against re- ligious persecution in Mezico, Nazi substitution of “state religion” for the church, and more particularly against Soviet Russia’s fight on re=- ligion. Now added to the list of coune tries censured by the Pope is Spain, where Loyalist forces of the Com= munist government have murdered priests in the course of the civil war, (Copyright, 1936, by the Assoclated Press.) CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Sep- tember 14.—Pope Pius XI, in strong, passionate tones, gave his blessing be- fore the whole world today to a mili- tant defense against the “mad” forces of communism. Declaring these forces menaced, in tragic Spain and elsewhere, “the very foundations of all order, all culture and all civilization,” the holy father, nevertheless, invoked “a special love born of mercy and compassion” fer the Spanish persecutors of bishops and priests and called upon consti. tuted authorities of all nations to “oppose these great evils with every remedy and barrier that is possible.” He asked his listeners to “love” | these “others,” in spite of their “deeds and methods of persecution, so odlous and so cruel,” and to “love them with a special love born of mercy and com- | passion, to love them, and, since we can do nothing else, to pray for them.” | Sees “Utter Chaos.” Sadly, he foresaw utter chaos if | “those who have & duty in the matter do not hasten to repair the breach—if, indeed, it is not already too late.” Five Hindred of the Spanish ref- ugees to whom the Pontiff tendered his heartfeit greetings and admiration were in the throne room of the papal villa when the Pope entered. As he reached the hall, the deep notes of the Castel Gandolfo bell tolled | in solemn beauty. Cardinal Pacelli, the papal secretary | of state, spoke briefly. Then the holy | plans for the future of the nation in- | {ather began, after raising his hand in | cluded marshaling all industrial estab- blessing for the refugees. His first few words were faltering, but his voice gradually grew strong. , At a few of the more intense mo- ments it broke with emotion, but the words themselves did not stumble. Prolonged applause followed the conclusion of the 40-minute speech. In many lands the devout heard the plea for & militant defense which, the Pope acknowledged, would be “both difficult and dangerous, for it is only too easy for the very ardor and difficulty of defense to go to an | excess which is not wholly war- ranted.” Nevertheless, he said the crisis in Spain is a “school in which the most serious lesson is being taught to Europe and to the whole world—to a world now at last wholly steeped, ensnared and threatened by subvers- ive propaganda, and more especially to a Europe battered and shaken to its very foundation. “The tragic happenings in Spain speak to Europe and the whole world and proclaim once more to what extent the very foundations of all order, all culture and all civilization are being menaced.” A curious feature of the speech, which was delivered in Italian and translated in English, German, French and Spanish, was the fact that the holy father not once used the word “communism,” although Vatican sources sald the major portion of it was directed against it. He spoke of “forces”—*“forces of subversion”—and the like. Once, it was believed the pontiff had in mind his own gradually weak- (See POPE, Page A-4.) ADELE HOPE, ACTRESS, DIES OF BULLET WOUND Former “Most Beautiful Blond on American Stage” Killed Self, Police Say. BY the Assoctated Press. HARRISON, N. Y., September 14— Adele Blood Hope, once known as “the most beautiful blond on the American stage,” died today, & few hours after her daughter, Dawn Hope, found her lying in her bed room, & bullet wound in the head. Charles Conner, chief of Harrison police, listed the death as a suicide. Miss Hope told Conner her mother had been “financially pressed” and worried a great deal in recent weeks. Mrs. Hope reached the peak of her stage success 20 years ago in “Every- woman,” a play in which she toured the principal cities of the Nation. | She later organized a series of stock companies, making frequent appear- ances herself, and toured the Orient with her own company in 1922.' She was born in San Francisco and made her first public appearance at Sy F Associated SATIERAY® 1256 (P) Means Associated P THE PINE TREE POWDER CAN! ROOSEVELT 10 St INSURANCE HEADS Refutation of Knox Charge Held Likely Aftermath of Conference. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. A conference scheduled for tomor- | | row between President Roosevelt and a | | group of insurance company execu- | tives gave rise today to speculation | | over whether a refutation is planned | of recent charges of Col. Prank Knox, | Republican nominee for Vice Presi- | dent, that insurance policies are not safe under present administration fiscal policies. Although it was said the meeting was scheduled at the White House | before the Knox charges wereemade, it | was reported in a reliable quarter this morning that the company executives will- issue & reply after their conference: with Mr. Roosevelt. Other than to acknowledge plans for |- the meeting, the White House declined to discuss the pending conference. It is not expected that refutation of the campaign accusation will come from the President himself, but rather from the business leaders. In Chicago, the Republican National Committee released a supporting | charge to the effect the Roosevelt po- litical leaders are alarmed by the pos- sible loss of votes of life insurance | policy holders. To offset this, the| committee said, the insurance com- | pany officials are being brought for- | ward to deny the Knox charges. The Republican statement was | issued in the name of A. A. Ballan- tine, Undersecretary of the Treasury under President Hoover. Charge Caused Furor. The charge made by Col. Knox a | short time ago caused a furor in in- surance circles. Insurance companies have enjoyed one of the most pros- perous years in the past 12 months and there is reason to know that Col. Knox's claim that nobody’s policy is safe has provoked resentment, not only among New Deal supporters, but throughout the insurance field. During his recent visit here John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, questioned re- garding the Knox insurance speech, was represented as virtually indorsing the statement. Following a week end of relaxation while cruising on the presidential yacht on the Potomac River, Presi- dent Roosevelt today entered on what | he expects to be an unusually busy week. He was faced with a large amount of accumulated business, as well as & long engagement list In addition he had a protest from Earl Browder, Communist candidate for President, that he was forced to cancel a speaking engagement in Tampa, Fla, because the hall in| which he was to speak was padlocked. The President also has oeen in- formed of protests made to the War Department against the proposition made by Maj. Gen. Moseley, 4th Corps Area commander, that the Civilian Conservation Corps be ex- panded to take in every 18-year-old youth in the country for six months, not only for work and education, but for military training. Engagement List. The President’s engagement list had an international aspect. On the list were Hugh Grant, American minister to Albania; the French Ambassador, who called to present informally Paul Raynaut, former French minister of finance; the Brazilian Ambassador, calling to present the Brizilian min- ister of communications, and Dr. E. H. Gruening, director of Insular Posses- sions and Island Territories of the In- terior Department.. Readers” Guide Page. Amusements ... .._..___. B-16 -B-12 -B-12 -A-12 Editorial - Finance___ Lost and Found News Comment Features A-11 A-15 B-2 —eeeee---A-13 -—---A-16-17-18 Washington Wayside.....A-2 Women's Features........B-10 . ; \ France Regrets Attack of Press Made on Bullitt WILLIAM C. BULLITT. £y the Associated Press. PARIS, September 14 —Edwin C. Wilson, the United States Charge d’Affaires, today made representa- tions to the Quai d'Orsay against a Royalist newspaper's attack on Wil- liam C. Bullitt, American Ambassador- designate to France. He received the government’s “re- grets” from Pierre Vienot at the for- eign office. Both at the embassy and at the | foreign office officials said they con- | sidered the incident closed. ‘The newspaper, Action Francaise, | accused Bullitt of pro-Russian sym- pathies and charged he was acting as a “Soviet agent” to promote a Franco-German war “which Dictator Joseph Stalin of Russia desires.” “It is & perfect shame and abso- lutely ridiculous when one knows the career of the new Ambassador,” foreign office spokesman said. It was pointed out there is no French | law controlling the press in such mat- ters, and the government is powerless to prevent such occurrences. The Action Francais recalled that Bullitt, who was transferred from Mos- cow to Paris to succeed Jesse Isidor Straus as Ambassador, married the widow of John Reed, Harvard-educated Communist. It said he had advocated American recognition of the Soviet Union and had participated in conferences with Maxim Litvinoff, Russian foreign min- ister, and Bernard Baruch, an unoffi- cial adviser to President Roosevelt, be- fore the recognition pact was signed. BULLITT WITHOUT COMMENT. William C. Bullitt, Ambassador- designate to France, today charac- terized the assertion by the Paris newspaper L’Action Francaise that he was a “Soviet agent” as “too ab- surd and ridiculous to warrant any comment.” —_— Killed in Plane Crash, FOND DU LAC, Wis., September 14 (#)—John Schaap, 28, of Milwaukee was killed yesterday when his air- plane crashed at Marytown, Wis, northeast of here. Sheriff Gilbert Booth said he believed Schaap lost control of his machine. Coroner Joseph Murray said there would be no inquest. AVALANCHE DEAD HUNT S PRESSED iLake Loen, in Norway, | Searched for Bodies—74 Die in Valley Flood. (Picture on Page A-3.) | By the Associated Press. LOEN, Norway, September 14— | Rescue parties today searched beauti- | ful Lake Loen, turned into a death- | trap by a roaring avalanche and re- | sultant flood. for the bodies of ma: | of the 74 victims of one of Norway's | great natural disasters. | | The twin villages of Bodal and | Nesdal, nestled at the foot of 6,388- | foot Rogne Mountain in this famous | tourist region, were virtually wiped out when a huge mass of rock slid | down into the lake with a terrifying | rumble and sent a great wall of water sweeping over the area. ‘The natives, startled from their early morning sleep, had no chance to escape from the great wave which poured through the narrow valley feet broad and 1,500 feet high—rolled | into the lake. Temporary Hospitals Set Up. Relief workers, including doctors | and nurses who flew here from Bergen | and Oslo, established temporary hos- pitals in the few remaining homes in | | this beauty spot. Bodies of human beings and ani- mals, as well as furniture and house- | hold articles, floated on the surface of the lake. There were scores of | corpses of silver foxes, bred by the farmers of the region. An old steamboat, perched 350 feet up the mountainside since a similar | disaster in 1905 in which 60 were killed, was swept another 300 feet higher by the immense wave. The water rushed a mile inland at | some points, destroying an electricity plant, sawmills, roads and bridges. Most of the survivors in Bodal and Nesdal—only about 20 were saved, dition—Ilost all their possessions. “The avalanche made a noise like thunder,” said one of those rescued. “Nothing is left of my family or my home—everything is gone.” The flood swept one farmer 1,200 feet, but he came through alive. He had been asleep in a small field house. | Several of those killed were carried | hundreds of yards, and some appar- ently froze to death. W.P.A. CLERK IS KILLED | IN PLUNGE FROM BRIDGE | Py tre Associated Press. MASONTOWN, Pa, September 14—A woman identified by witnesses as Miss Alice M. Frankenburger, 54, a Government worker at Washington, D. C., jumped or fell to her death from the Masontown Bridge into the Monongahela River yesterday. Officers said she was en route to Carmichaels to visit a brother. Miss Frankenburger, a clerk at the | | Works Progress Administration, lived at 1531 O street. She was a native of Morgantown, W. Va, and had lived in Washington since July, 1935. Funeral services are to be held to- morrow in Smithfield, Pa. Virginia Judge Liquor Sale: By ™he Associated Press. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. Septem- ber 14.—Circuit Court Judge Freder- ick Coleman, in a charge to the Staf- ford County grand jury today, sharp- 1y criticized liquor law violations and said that sale of intoxicants by the A. B. C. system was larggly respon- sible for Virginia's high number of jail commitments last year. Pointing to the 77,977 jail commit- ments last year, he said the number was “astounding” and that probably 80 per cent could be traced to the use liquor. “Never in the rank prohibition days : | Hquor ' laws—particularly those as to drunken driving. Scores A. B. C. in Jury Charge There are conflicting laws on the Sunday sale of wine and beer, he said. “Sundays have become legal days to dispense beers and ale, wines and champagne, something that was not permitted even in the old bar room days, notwithstanding the statute law of this State prohibits the sale of wine, beer, ale and champagne, or other intoxicating liquors on Sunday. “Under the law, not even a bottle of ginger ale can be sold on Sunday.” The judge issued a warning to county officers against carelessness or neglect in enforcing liquor laws, and served notice that any officer cited to him as being neglectful in his duties would be required to show why he should not be removed. Pointing out that Stafford received $4,068 as its part of A. B, C. profits last year, Judge Coleman said this should be used in enforcement of The only in Washington wit ol (Some returns not yet reci after the massive rock—at least 1,200 | | and 13 of them were in serious con- | evening paper the Press News and Wirephoto Services. don. 140,090 ved.) TWO CENTS. RICHMAN FORCED 10 LAND PLANE INNEWFOUNDLAND Singer and Merrill Pass Cape Race at 12:05 P.M,, Radio Reports. PLANE BROUGHT DOWN AT MUSGRAVE MARSH 8 Cire: ress. Seven-Hour Silence Broken When Richman's Voice Was Heard, but Message Failed. BACKGROUND— Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, singer and pilot, have been abroad since September 3, when they sat their plane down in a South Wales pasture, short of gasoline and 18 hours and 38 minutes out of New York. Aside from a trip to Paris and various festivities in London, they spent much of their time awaiting favorable weather for the take-off home. The trip was postponed two or three times because of adverse weather reports, and Richman ex- pressed alarm when Mrs. Beryl Markham, English flyer, took off for a west-bound hop in the face of conditions that levied a pre- carious toll on her fuel supply. BULLETIN. (By the Canadian Press.) ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland September 14 —Harry Richman's plane Lady Peace, in which he and Dick Merrill were attempting a flight from England to New York made a forced landing three miles from Musgrave marsh on the northeast coast of Newfoundland at 2:20 E. D. T. today. It was not known immediately if the fiyer: escaped injury in the landing. (Copyright, 1436, by the Assoclated Pres NEW YORK, September 14.—Radic reports to Floyd Bennett Field saic Harry Richman and Dick Merrill wert sighted off Cape Race, Newfoundlanc today at 12:05 p.m. Eastern Standar. time. Earlier reports from the pair flyin the Atlantic were heard at 10:05 a.a. after seven hours of silence. Both the Eastern Air Lines Sta- tion at Newark, N. J., directing the flight, and Press Wireless, Inc., re- ported hearing the radio telephone of the Merrill-Richman plane, Lady | Peace, at the same moment. | Neither radio station was able to :mlke out what was being said, al- though the voice was identified as Richman’s. Static conditions garbled the attempt at conversation. 2,500 Miles From England. At that time, it was estimated, Lady Peace should have been about 2,500 miles out from England, headed for | Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N. Y., and a landing some time after 4 p.m. The fiyers, making the return flight on their round-trip to London from New York, had last been heard from during the early morning hours. Ap- parently they were receiving their radio guidance from America without difficulty, since they were attempting | to answer calls made at other than the scheduled periods. They made a radio contact at 3:07 am, Eastern standard time, giving their position as 1,181 miles west of Southport Beach, from which they started at 9:03 pm, E. S. T, yesterday. Since the total distance over the great circle route they followed is 3,350 miles, the veteran airmail pilot and his Broadway singing friend had | covered approximately one-third their course in six hours, according to the | 3:07 report. | Their blue and silver monoplane (a Vultee powered with “a 1,000-horse- power Wright Cyclone motor), was headed straight for Cape Race, New- foundland, the first point of America they expected to reach. Technical experts of Eastern Air Lines, of which Merrill is senior pilot, kept an all-night vigil, furn- ishing and receiving radio contacts. Said one official: “Dick and Harry seem to have just about perfect weather from the looks of the map. The chart shows tail winds of 25 to 30 miles an hour for them from about 500 miles east of Cape Race, all the way to New York. “At 7 am. they should have been entering about two hours of rain.” Broadway tuned its collective voice to cheer Merrill and Richman as the first flyers to make a round-trip trans- Atlantic airplane flight. GABRILOWITSCH DIES OF YEAR'S ILLNESS Noted Pianist and Conductor of Detroit Symphony Suffered Stomach Ailment. By trie Associated Press. DETROIT, September 14.—Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the De- troit Symphony Orchestra since 1918, died today after a long illness. He was 58 years old. Gabrilowitsch had been ill since the Spring of 1935, when he collapsed after giving a piano recital in New York City. He underwent two opera- tions at Henry Ford Hospital in 1935 in an attempt to relieve the stomach disorder which had caused his iliness. He had been on leave of absence from the Detroit Symphony since the start of his iliness. Gabrilowitsch is survived by his wife, Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, daughter of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) whom he married in 1909, and a daughter, Nina. An internationally famous pianist and orchestra director for 40 years, Gabrilowitsch made his debut at the age of 18 in the European musical centers. He was born in 8t. Peters- burg (now Leningrad) February 7, 1878,