Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Falr tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tomorrow; gentle south and southwest winds. Temperatures—High- est, 77, st noon, today; lowest, 68, at 6:30 am. today. Full report on page B-2. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 No. 33,740. post offic WHITE 5,000 VOTES AHEAD OF BRANNIN NEARLY COMPLETE BALLOT RETURNS, G. 0. P. Governorship and 3 House Candidates Win as More Than 306,000 Go to _ Polls, Shattering Record. BARROWS 43,000 AHEAD OF DEMOCRAT OPPONENT Third Party Tickets Fail to Make Headway — Brewster Is Re- elected by 20,000 Margin Over Mabee—Oliver, Townsendite, Is First District Victor. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Republican sweep in Maine’s election yesterday returned that State to its normal political stand. ‘The question political Washington was asking itself today was whether it | meant that tlie United States, which normally until 1932 was believed to have more Republican voters than Democratic, would follow in Maine's footsteps in November. Republican leaders, greatly encour- aged by their victory in Maine, insisted the Landon-Knox ticket would win in | November. | Democrats flatly denied this. For four years Maine has been in the Democratic column in its State elec- tions. In 1932 and again in 1934 Louis J. Brann was elected Governor by the | Democrats. Yesterday Brann was de- | feated by Senator Wallace White, Re- | publican incumbent, in the senatorial | race, by nearly 5,000 votes. With 7 precincts still to be heard from, the | White vote was 157,861 to 152,876 for | Brann. The precincts still to be heard | from were in White territory. Barrows 42,000 ahead. In the gubernatorial race, Lewis O. Barrows, Republican, at present sec- retary of state, defeated Harold Du- bord, Democrat, by more than 43,000 votes. The vote, with 7 precincts atill out, stood; Barrows, 172,093, Du- bord, 129,064. | All three congressional district con- | tests were won by the Republicans. Thus Maine will have a solid Repub- | lican representation in the next Con- | gress after having had only one out of three Representatives in the House during the last two Congresses. Ideal weather brought out a flood of voters to set a primary record of ballots cast. | Cold calculation of the election re- turns shows them bringing aid only to the Republicans. Whereas Maine has had a democrataic Governor for | four years and two Democratic mem- | bers of the House, it now has neither | & Governor nor any member of the | House of that party. | Furthermore, the 40,000-plus vie- | <ory of the Republican gubernatorial candidate is a very substantial victory and higher than a normal Republican | lead in Maine. ‘The contest for Senator had created she greatest interest. Gov. Brann's personal popularity with the voters was %o great that the Democrats believed he had a chance to win. As it was, ehe came within about 5,000 votes of Benator White's total, a narrow mar- gin in Republican Maine. Brann was the New Deal's white #ope, But Brann himself kept away from the New Deal and President Roosevelt in the campaigning. He knew he had to have a large Repub- lican vote to win. At the very close of the campaign he was found insist- ing that the New Deal did not enter Into the senatorial election. Brann ran strongly in the citles. He carried 12 out of 20 of Maine's municipalities, but was killed off in the rural districts. He and White both hail from Lewiston, a Democratic stronghold. Brann carried the city by more than 8,000, but this was not enough for him. In Portland, Maine’s largest city, the Brann lead was 95 votes. The New Dealers would have been entirely content today had Brann emerged a victor—despite the fact he did not campaign actively for the New Deal. Apparently Sensing the fact that Maine was on the way back to the Republican fold, Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic National Committee decided long ago fo place all his eggs in one basket—the Brann basket—in Maine and did what he could to persuade Brann to make the (See MAINE, Page A-3.) ! BRIDGE BLOWN UP New Outbreak of Holy Land Dis- orders Reported. JERUSALEM, September 15 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency).—The Allenby Bridge in Jericho was blown up today and a freight train was derailed near Kfar Ginnis in a new outbreak of Holy Land terrorism. No casualties were reported. Police sought the source of ship- ments of tomatoes fo Jewish mer- chants in which bombs were con- cealed. Plant to Be Sold. BOSTON, September 15.—Creditors and bondholders of the defunct Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. today approved sale of the firm’s huge Man- chester, N. H., plant to a group of Manchester citizens for $5,000,000. Referee in Bankruptcy Arthur Black approved the action, Entered econd class wmatter L3 Win in Maine WALLACE H. WHITE, JR,, Re-elected U. S. Senator, LEWIS O. BARROWS, Elected Governor. RALPH O. BREWSTER, Re-elected Representative. Comment Leaders of Both Sides ' Give Views on Maine. Gov. 'Alf M. Landon said today “the Maine election has proved that the people of this country are aroused to the dangers and determined to preserve their system of Government and of life.” “The people of Maine have sounded a call that will find an immediate response throughout the Nation,” the presidential nominee added, terming the election ‘significant’.” James A, Farley, Democratic Na- tional chairman: “Republican Maine remains Re- publican in-a local election by a re- duced majority. “A Republican Senator retains his seat by a margin so small that it may take a recount to determine the ac- tual vote. “Perhaps a better way of stating the situation would be to state that Maine continues Republican by a ma- @h WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1936 —SIXTY-TWO PAGES. ¥ FRANCO PLEDGES 25000 FOR REBEL MARCH ON MADRID Will Send Men to Talavera for Drive, Capital Re- ports Say. TOLEDO IS BELIEVED IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVE Fascist Flyers Bombard Santa Alalla—Infantry Thrown Back in Attack on Mountain Pass. BACKGROUND— Since the outbreak of the civil war in Spain last July the rebel forces have been striking regularly at cities surrounding Madrid, the capital city. The revoit began in the south, spread up the Medi- terranean coast and finally last week covered virtually the entire Northern (French) border. Still @ loyalist stronghold, Madrid is the reported objective of forces gather- ing in the southwestern section of the nation. Rebel gains have signified ad- vance of Royalist-Fascist theory of government as opposed at Socialist- Communist theory, practiced by the official government of Spain under a mandate given in a victory at the polls last Spring by a Left- ist coalition. (Copyright. 1u36, by the Assoclated Press.; MADRID, September 15.—The gov- ernment high command announced today Gen. Francisco Franco, Fascist commander in chief, 25,000 reinforcements to the Talavera march on Madrid, after the Talavera chieftains had told him: “The militia is braver than we are.” Authorities said their information came from a Fascist deserter who re- ported the main rebel forces were en- camped west of Talavera de la Reina, with two vanguards stretching toward Avila and San Martin de Valdeiglesias, the latter city only 36 miles west of Madrid. The Pascists are trying to establish a line linking Castile and Andalusia, the deserter said, with the Avila col- umn under the command of Lieut. Col. Yague, whose headquarters are back of Talavera. ‘The government believed the im- mediate objective of the Fascists was to speed up their march on Toledo, advancing by way of Talavera and Calera y Chozas, crossing the Al- berche and Tietar Valleys. It was Col. Yague, the deserter was | had _pledged | ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION RESCUERS NEAR RICHMAN, MERRILL Rickenbacker Lands Plane at Harbor Grace in Aid Flight. 8y the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 15.—Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's rescue party drew swiftly toward its objective to- day—the isolated bog at Musgrave Bay, Newfoundland, where the trans- Atlantic flyers; Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, were grounded. Rickenbacker, flying a plane with supplies and spare parts for the round- trip ocean fiyers, landed at the Harbor Grace (Newfoundland) Airport at 10:25 am., Eastern standard time. Between that point and the rock- bound bog lay 150 miles of rough terrain, but at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, an official said the rescue ship could probably land on a near- by beach and then proceed with the work of rehabilitating the Richman- quoted as saying, who told Franco| Merrill plane, Lady Peace, for its con- the government forces were “braver” and asked for reinforcements. An official communique said Fas- cist flyers had bombarded Santa Olalla, 24 miles northwest of Toledo, and several other towns, “without ob- taining their objective.” The enemy also attempted to ad- vance through the Boqueron Mountain pass, but . an official report said a counterattack threw them back, with three machine guns and 55 rifles cap- tured by the government. Authorities declared the Fascists in Spanish Morocco had shot 200 persons in putting down an uprising there 15 days ago and that 23 more soldiers died before a firing squad in the zone last Saturday. The government itself, it was an- nounced, has imposed the death pen- alty on 81 army officers since the start of the civil war, nearly 9 weeks ago, executing 77 of them already. Fifty-two were executed at Alicante, 8 at Lerida, 2 at Barcelona and 10 at Murcia. Eighteen others were sentenced to life imprisonment at Madrid and two at Barcelona. The Agrarian Reform Institute, it was announced, has delivered 150 addi- tional rural estates for direct exploita- tion by the families of landless farm- ers In a series of sharp engagements gov- ernment militiamen were said to have kept the Fascists from advancing on Madrid in the central area. The Socialist lines repulsed Fascist attacks, an official announcement de- Block, Arriving Denied Landon By e Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, September 15.—The offices of Paul Block, publisher of a chain of newspapers, announced re- ceipt of a telegram today signed “Alf M. Landon,” which said the Repub- lican presidential nominee was “very sorry” the publisher had been “un- able to join my train.” Block was refused permission to attach his private railroad car to the candidate’s special campaign train at ‘Worcester, Mass., yesterday. The telegram, as announced by Block’s secretary, follows: “Am very sorry you were unable to join my train today, as I had been looking forward to opportunity of talking with you. But just learned from newspapers that you were in Worcester and regret that necessity of being in New York tonight pre- vented you from coming aboard. Hope you may be able to board my train at some future time, or if you hap- pen to be coming to Kansas you will stop in Topeka. “ALF M. LANDON.” Block’s secretary, who said she had not yet reached the publisher for com- ment on the private car incident, said Block had recently conferred with Gov. Landon and expected to confer with him again at Milwaukee on Sat- urday, September 26. ¢ Block, whose newspapers have been supporting Gov. Landon, went to (See SPANISH, Page A-5.) in Private Car, Train Hook-Up Worcester yesterday to meet the Governor. He had previously tele- graphed Gov. Landon and the candi- date had replied he would be glad to see him. The engine and baggage car of the Landon train, after being split from the campaign special, picked up Block’s private car. A conference on the plat- for ensued and the private car was not attached to. the special. Block re- mained in his car. Reports from Worcester were that the conductor of the campaign special refused to allow the Block car to be attached because his orders covered only the original complement of the candidate’s train. Landon spokesmen said the Gover- nor’s party did not know Block was arriving in his private car, and that when the publisher did arrive he was advised it was against policy to at- tach a private car to a campaign special. They said the same rule had been applied previously when a West- ern railroad official had desired his private car be attached to the Landon special on the Republican candidate’s first Eastern trip. Block’s car was attached to a ual; tinued flight to New York. Await Rescue Eagerly. Merrill and Richman awaited res- cue eagerly, confident they would have little trouble when Ricken- backer and his crew of pilots and me- chanics arrived. Fishermen in the neighborhood looked over the big ship curiously as it rested in the bog and volunteered their help in the job of getting it back in the air. Richman and Merrill were refreshed by a night’s sleep. Rickenbacker, veteran airman, tele- graphed from Sydney, Nova Scotia, | this morning to Floyd Bennett Field: Plane Carrying Gasoline. “Arrived here 7:10 am. Eastern standard time. Everything O. K. Taking on gas. Hope to arrive at Har- bor Grace about 10:30 am. Eastern standard time. This is no place for a straw hat.” 7 Word was later received from Syd- ney that the rescue ship had taken off at 8:23 am., Eastern standard time. They are carrying gasoline and spare parts for the flyers’ damaged ship, Lady Peace. Richman, night club entertainer, and Merrill, transport and airmail pilot, came to earth near rock-bound Musgrave Harbor, Newfoundland, yes- terday afternoon, and spent the night at the home of T. W. Abbott, a mer- chant, a short distance away. Messages Flood Town. * Reports from the lonely. coast town were meager as a Ssolitary girl tele- graph operator sought unsuccessfully to keep abreast of the heavy influx of messages inquiring abeut the fyers. The Lady Peace took off from Southport, England, at 9:03 pm. (Eastern standard time) Sunday night, and their landing at Musgrave (See RICHMAN, Page A-5.) Naval Parley Held. LONDON, September 15 (#).—Rep- resentatives of Norway, Sweden, Den- mark and Finland met today in the foreign office preliminary to naval dis- cussions with Britain, which hopes to secure their adherence to the London naval treaty through bilateral agree- ments, E ¢ Foening Star : JIM,YOUR DONKEY'LL HAVE To EAT IT AND LIKEIT! Ape Which Killed Pet Dogs 1s Shot To Death by Girl By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, September 15.—Miss Martha Schmidt, quiet and 26, who says she never before handled fire- arms, brought down a 65-pound ape with one blast of a shotgun. The shooting occurred, not in the jungles of the anthropoid’s native South America, but at Miss Schmidt’s home in Suffolk County, Long Island, yesterday. The ape, christened Jocko, escaped from a roadside restaurant stand five days ago, killed two dogs and did some general terrorizing before it showed up at Miss Schmidt’s door. Her spaniel was one of the dogs killed, and she was ready for the ape with a borrowed shotgun. The charge not only killed Jocko, but shattered 18 panes of glass in & greenhouse adjoining the home. LANDON PROMISES SOUND SOIL POLICY {True Employment Pledged as Special Train ‘Speeds Into lllinois. By the Associated Press. ABOARD LANDON'S TRAIN EN ROUTE TO TOPEKA, September 15. —Gov. Alf M. Landon brought a per- sonal pledge to the agricultural Mid- dle West today of a “sound program of soil and water conservation” that will provide “genuine employment.” As his train sped into Illinois the Republican presidential candidate said: “I pledge a sound program of soil and water conservation that will con- serve our basic resources and provide an immense amount of genuihe em- ployment as contrasted with the pres- ent system of makeshift jobs.” In an earlier outline of conserva- tion views given New England audi- ences, the Kansan said “drought and flood are but two aspects of the same problem.” The Governor is expected to detail his agricultural program in a farm speech next week at Des Moines, Iowa. Landon kept in close touch with the Maine election as he traveled west- ward, but reserved comment until def- inite determination of the results. Landon left New England and New York, with their respective blocs of 41 and 47 electoral votes, expressing his appreciation of “the great crowds and the enthusiastic receptions.” Leaving details of his farm program for later addresses, the candidate re- called that he once had submitted a plan to President Roosevelt and said: “There are good plans in the pig- eonholes in Washington.” Two years ago Landon wrote the President, suggesting a program of construction of farm ponds, lakes and reservoirs on tributary streams, and soil-erosion control to combat drought and flood. Landon challenged Roosevelt ad- ministration conservation activities yesterday as lacking aggressiveness. As the presidential special cut through Central New York late yes- terday, carrying the candidate on a second campaign through President Roosevelt’s native state, an agricul- tural program for that State and those a was announced as the subject of a traveling conference with half a dozen farm leaders. These included heads of the New York Grange and Farm Bureau Federation and Pred Sexhuer, president of the Dairymen'’s League. “There is need of an inventory of our resources,” the Kansan had told the crowd at Springfield pressed about the rear platform of his car. “We must cease our prodigal waste. We must begin the long task of restoring a portion of what we have allowed to slip away from us.” “We have been as profligate with the rainfall as with the soil. I am S e e e and the Valley sustained ROOSEVELT CALLS INSURANGE HEADS Summons to White House Is Believed Inspired by Charge of Knox. By tne Assoclated Press. President Roosevell went into a conference with nine insurance com- pany executives today at the White House. At the sameé time, one of his secretaries said the President had no intention of starting a Federal Department of Insurance. Explaining the purpose of the con- ference, Stephen T. Early, the secre- tary, told newspaper men it was to find out the present financial status of insurance companies, as compared with 1830, when President Roosevelt, as Governor of New York, started a series of business conferences which he has carried on since coming to ‘Washington Early added the conference was to see what the Federal Government could do in the way of helping in- surance companies further to im- prove their situation. Knox Speech Incidental He said the President first began talking about today's conference last July; that on August 24 he sent out the first letters on the subject; that formal invitations went out on his return from his drought trip, and that it was only accidental and inci- dental that they followed the Sep- tember 5 speech by Col. Frank Knox, Republican vice presidential nominee, at Allentown, Pa., in which Knox de- clared insurance policies were not se- cure under the New Deal fiscal poli- cies. Those who filed into the President’s office for the meeting were James Beha, superintendent of insurance of (See INSURANCE, Page A-2.) GUFFEY MAIL CHARGE PROBE DROPPED BY U. S. Postal Inspectors Find No Evi- dence of Franking Law Violations. By the Assoclated Press. The Post Office Department's in- vestigation into charges that Senator Guffey, Democrat, of Pennsylvania had mailed in Detroit franked envelopes containing political matter was brought to an end today when postal inspectors reported they found no evi- dence of postal law violations. “None of the envelopes was ever mailed,” Roy M. North, Acting Third Assistant Postmaster General, _said, German Air Fleet Reported Winning War for the Rebels By the Associated Press. The New York Times, in a dis« patch in today’s editions from its correspondent at Caceres, Spain, reported that town had been “made into a gigantic air base, filled with German aviators.” The dispaich Jollows: —_— CACERES, Spain, September 14.— Picked troops of the rebel southern army are advancing again from Tala- vera de la Reina toward Maqueda, where one road swings north to Mad- rid and another south to Toledo, and it looks as if the Leftist defenses of the capital are beginning to crumble. But the insurgent success has been made possible by just one factor—the power of Gen. Francisco Franco’s German air fleet. Madrid’s eivil guards and militia fought the flower of the insurgent army to a standstill outside Talavera until the German planes got into action two days ago. For this writer has been able to solve the mystery of Caceres, Gen. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. (#) Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 133,274, (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. REPUBLICANS SWEEP MAINE ELECTION A. F. G. E. OUSTS 5 D. C. LODGES; COMMUNISM HIT 34 Unitsin U. S. Dropped After Debate Marked by Near- Physical Encounters. THINLY VEILED CHARGES OF RED ACTIVITY SEEN IN LOCAL CASES Farm Credit, Rail Retirement, Security and Public Assistance Division of D. C. Are Groups Affected. BY J. A. FOX, Btaff Correspondent of The Star, DETROIT, September 15.—After a debate so heated that a physical clash was threatened momentarily between two partici- pants, the American Federation threw out 34 lodges—5 of which a of Government Employes today re in Washington. Thinly veiled charges of Communism apparently formed the basis for the move against the Capital locals, though in the case of only one—Securities Exchange—was the issue directly defined. There it was asserted a member of the Communist party is taking an active part in the lodge. The others involved are Farm Credit, Railroad Retirement, Social Security and Public Assistance Division of the District of Columbia. The membership is over 600. Other locals affected were Works Progress in Boston and 28 W.P. A. units in Florida. This last group has only a small member- ship, and the convention was told they had been formed in an abortive effort by those concern ed to get control of the Florida 4 Federation of Labor. Aid Is Rushed To Storm-Tossed Norwegian Ship Other Vessels Answer Call as Hurricane Sweeps Atlantic. 8y e Assoctated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, September | 15.—A latter-day viking in command | of the Norwegian steamship, Torvan- ger, calmly radioed nearby vessels to- day that the hurricane-bred seas had | smashed her rudder and were tum- | bling water into her holds. But no distress call came from the craft in the path of a tropical hur- ricane. The master of the Torvanger told his story to the Coast Guard cutter, Unalga, and another Nor- wegian steamer, the Noravind, The cutter inquired urgently if as- sistance were needed. The Noravind radioed she was leaving her course and steaming toward the Torvanger, which gave a position approximately 500 miles north of Puerto Rico. Earlier last night the Noravind had geported she was in the edge of the Indies-born hurricane and feeling winds of gale force. The hurricane was sweeping the area near the Torvanger, but radio reports did not make clear if-the ves- sel felt its full effect. —_——— SKELETON EXPLAINED Medical School Specimen Not Slayer's Victim, Coroner Says. CLEVELAND, September 15 (F).— Coroner A. J. Pearse said today a skeleton found buried in East Cleve- land was a discarded medical school specimen and not a seventh victim of the mad Kingsbury Run slayer. L. D. Mennell, a school teacher, said the skeleton belonged to him, the coroner said. Mennell reported he buried it Labor day wheh he moved from the vicinity. Two boys discovered the skeleton on their way home from school. They noticed several bones protruding from the earth in a weed-grown feld. answer to jail here or led to their being held and permitted to send only censored dispatches. The secret is that Caceres has been made into a gigantic air base filled with German aviators who go out mornings to bomb Madrid and its Loyalist defenders and who drive the Loyalist planes that have hampered the insurgent advance from the skies. This is an amazing international situation, for foreign airmen are lit- e the uprising for one side in the Spanish revolution. The writer has seen 10 huge green German |would not be able to function The ouster action came on the report of the Executive Council urging revo- cation of temporary certificates of af- filiation which had been granted the | units. Broadly, the charge was none co-operation. Housecleaning Urged. It was offered by Cecil E. Custer, national treasurer, who said either the federation must clean house or it ef- ficiently, £ Custer asserted he and three other members of the council are facing re- | cal charges now because of their op- Position to those it was proposed to oust. It was one of this trio—G. Carrol Diamond of Washington, vice presi- dent—who seemed momentarily on the verge of coming to blows with Henry Rhine, also of Washington. Rhine was leading the fight of the lodges under fire. On a roll call, the ouster was voted 161 to 40. The strength mustered on his vote indicated the convention also- would oust Justice Department Lodge, No. 21, charged with picketing. The Ex- ecutive Council yesterday voted to rece ommend to the convention suspen- sion of the lodge for the second time, Babcock to Appear. ‘Today’s developments put into the background temporarily the contro- versy over E. Claude Babcock, who is preparing to offer a defense of the charges of political activity on which the Executive Council brought about his withdrawal from the presidency several months ago. As Babcock’s resignation from office—submitted when the council voted to recall him for an attack on Democratic personnel policies dis- tributed by the Republican National Committee—was laid before the cone vention last night, the council pre- sented also its report dealing with this issue, and Babcock immediately (See A. F. G. E, Page A-2) _— ROOSEVELT CHATS WITH RUNNING MATE Luncheon Served on Executive's Desk as He and Garner Go Over Campaign. President Roosevelt and Vice Presi= dent Garner had an hour’s chat at the White House today, during which & light luncheon was served on the Chief Executive’s large, flat-topped desk. This was the first meeting of the two Democratic standard bearers since the nomination ceremonies in Phila- delphia nearly two months ago. The Vice President has been more or less in seclusion at his Uvalde, Tex . home. He has taken no active part in the campaign thus far, but it is under« stood he has been billed by the Demo- cratic National Committee for several radio speeches. Garner is scheduled for a confer- ence within a day or so with Chaire man Farley of the national commit- tee, at which it is expected they will work out a definite campaign program for the Texan. Garner is still vice chairman of the committee. Another caller at the White House toda,” was Judge John E. Mack, a neighbor of the President In bombers and 17 pursuit planes take off for action from a huge field con- structed almost overnight by thou- sands of workers. The Rebels say 400 were killed in one raid in Madrid. So carefully guarded is Caceres that the German aviators no longer make the pretense of wearing Spanish uni- forms and they clamber into their planes and take off openly, as this writer is able to testify, It can hardly be contended now that the Germans are training Span- (Bee GERMAN AVIATORE Fage &-5y. Dutchess County, N. Y., who placed Mr. Roosevelt’s name in nomination at the last two Democratic conven- tions. The President’s conference with in surance executives consumed a cone siderable part of the forenoon, bu* he found time to work in a number of other engagements. Among the : were engagements with Secretary of Com- merce Roper, Raymond L. Buell, presie dent of the Foreign Policy Associse tion; Robert H. Jackson, A sta: Abe torney General, and Daniel W. Bell, acting budget director,