Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today, tomorrow mostly cloudy; little ¢hange in temperature; gentle va- winds, becoming southerly. riable Full report on Page A-9, (UP) Means Associated Press. No. 1,644—No. 33,745, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Limping Fischer Wins Golf Title From McLean on 37th HURRICANE DYING INNORTHERN SEAS; 1DEAD, 15 MISSING Heavy Property Damage on Coasts of 8 States Lashed by Gale. GOVERNMENT WARNINGS CREDITED BY OFFICIALS Sinking of Fishing Steamer Takes 8 Victims—Fight of Crew for Lives Related. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—A hur- ricane swirled Northeastward over the Atlantic off Massachusetts tonight, bound for oblivion at sea. The coasts of eight States had felt its fury, but only seven persons were known to be dead. Fifteen were miss- ing. ‘There was heavy property damage along the shores of North Carolina, where the low-pressure area struck Thursday night; Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ripde Island and Massachusetts. Connecticut escaped the blow. A high-pressure area was “riding hard” on the hurricane, forcing it farther and farther away from the American coast. Most of the property damage was to small boats anchored in shallow waters along the coast. They were smashed to bits or beached, high and dry, by the winds which hit with strengths as high as 100 miles an hour. Storm Warnings Aided. The small loss of life was at- tributed to the work of the Govern- ment Weather Bureau, which since September 10 had watched the pro- gress of the hurricane from its point of origin in the West Indies. The bure:... issued repeated warnings of the storm’s movement on a great circle course from the Southeast to North Carolina, then along the coast, and veering, at last, to the Northeast. The greatest loss of life was in the sinking of the fishing steamer Long Island in Delaware Bay. Three men are known to have drowned and four are missing. Three persons were known to have been killed in Pennsylvania and one perished in Maryland. Hindenburg on Last Trip. Through the high pressure area headed the Zeppelin Hindenburg, coming to the United States on her last westward Atlantic crossing of the season. Unperturbed by the hurri- cane ares at sea, the big dirigible was traveling steadily, expecting to reach Lakehurst, N. J., at 6 a.m. tomorrow. Another German aviation activity unhampered by the storm was that of Lufthansa. the trans-Atlantic airline, which sent its motorship Schwaben- land right through the gales to anchor at Port Washington, N. Y. From the Schwabenland, Tuesday, will be catapaulted a flying boat which will head across the Atlantic to the Azores. SHIP FIGHTS STORM. Burvivers of “Long Island” Wreck Tell of Battling Seas. LEWES, Del,, September 19 (#).— The whine and whistle of a tempest had abated tonight, and although the toll of dead was probably seven, this port counted among its living 35 for ‘whom hope virtually had been aban- doned. The white-capped sea which swal- Jowed the fishing steamer, Long Island, gave up three dead, among them the vessel’s master, Capt. Romey George. Four others were missing. Thirty-two of the crew, after cling- ing for nearly four hours in a tossing lifeboat, found snug harbor aboard a coal barge. Coast Guardsmen took them to shore. Three crewmen, one the master’s son, swam to shore with the aid of bits of wreckage. ‘Worst Storm, Says Captain. Capt. Willlam Bertrand, pilot of the fishing craft, said 42 had been aboard. He told of the battle with house-high ‘waves, and although 30 years at sea and shipwrecked once before, the (See HURRICANE, Page A-4.) r Madrid U. Dean IsNamed Spain’s U.S. Ambassador By the Assoclated Press. MADRID, September 19.—Fernando @e 1os Rios, one-time foreign minister and now dean of Madrid University, N. Y., yesterday. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. Staff Correspondent ot Tie Star. GARDEN CITY, N. Y, September 19.—Lanky John Fischer, 24-year-old post-graduate law student at the Uni- versity of Cincinnati, is the new amateur golf champion of the United States. The 6-foot 11%-inch bean pole from Fort Thomas, Ky., stroked a 25-foot putt into the cup on the thirty-seventh green at Garden City late this after- noon for his third straight birdie to MILK “HOLIDAY" \OTEDINNEW YORK Northern Dairymen Protest State’s “Unfairness” on Price Plea. By the Assoclated Press, WATERTOWN, 'N. Y. September 19.—Aroused by what they ecalled “unfair” treatment at the hands of State officials and milk dealer or- ganizations, & committee of 13 grim- faced dairymen voted today to call a milk “holiday” Thursday, Septem- ber, 24. The “Committee of 13" had been named to represent several thousand dairymen in North Central and North- ern New York. The committee’s decisior. was brought from the back room of a north country court house here and received immediate approval from the 150 dairymen who sat in the court chambers and declared themselves ready to withhold their milk from New York State markets, They approved a five-point “strike program,” demanding: Abolition of the classified price plan, “cost of pro- duction, plus a reasonable profit”; price fixin; in advance by direct negotia- tions witl dealers, abolition of whole- sale-retail price fixing and establish- ment of New York City health stand- ards for milk produced in Upstate New York. Under an increase announced yes- terday by Agriculture Commissioner Peter G. Ten Eyck, New York State dairymen will receive $2.90 per 100 pounds (47 quarts) for fluid milk, ef- fective September 25. This was the second increase grant- ed after public hearings in little more than a month on farmers’ representa- tions that the Summer drought had increased production prices. Effective August 16, the price was raised from $245 to $2.70. Subse- qwtently farmers demanded a flat $3 rate. The call for the strike came after the nortt country forces joined Felix and Stanley Piseck, co-heads of the New York Milk Producers’ Federa- tions, In:, and leaders of a central New York group of dairymen. The farmers cheered Stanley Piseck when he shouted, “This north country is needed and with this north country we can trim ‘em.” Piseck urged the strike, declaring that “we are going to show the State what we can do and we are going teach the State to put honesty their departments.” to in Zeppelin Reported. |win the championship from young he WASHINGTON, The putt that won a championship. Johnny Fischer sink- ing the 25-footer on the thirty-seventh greem at Garden City, —Coryright, A. P. Wirephoto. Jock McLean, the brilliant Scot from Glasgow, who sells whisky for a living. PFischer came away back to win the crown and succeed Lawson Little, jr., as champion, fighting back from the ragged rim of defeat to win three of the last eight holes and square the match with & 12-footer for a birdie ca the thirty-sixth, and win the thirty-seventh with a putt that barely lobbed over the lip of the cup. No putts for a championship ever were better figured than those (Continued on Page B-6, Column 1.) DEATH IS BLAMED ON ‘TRIRD DEGREE Man Slain by Police During Questioning, Attorney General Asserts. By the Assoeiated Press, UNIONTOWN, Pa., September 19.— Attorney General Charles J. Mar- giott! declared tonight an investiga- tion showed that Frank C. Monag- han, hotel keeper, was “barbarously and brutally beaten to death” while under questioning by officers in con- nection with the stabbing of a de- tective. Two State troopers and a county detective are charged with murder in connection with Monaghan's death. Margiotti, after a three-day in- quiry, during which he summoned more than a dozen witnesses, made this statement: “The ‘third degree’ is a relic of the dark ages and cannot be tolerated mm this day of enlightened civiliza- tion. Use Prohibited in State. “Its use is absolutely prohibited in Pennsylvania. This insidious prac- tice will not go unpunished in this State. Officers engaged in such prac- tices must be brought to justice. “My investigation of the Monaghan case discloses without question that Frank C. Monaghan, sr, was bar- barously and brutally beaten to death (See THIRD DEGREE, Page A-18) 400 IN DANCE HALL ESCAPE LIVE BOMB Deadly Missle, Hurled Back Out- side, Explodes—One Killed in Fight. By the Associated Press. GRENOBLE, France, September 20 (Sunday).—A young Communist, who gave chase to political opponents after they attempted to bomb a hall in which 400 persons were dancing at Vies died early today of wounds received a running gun battle. The bomb was tossed into the midst of the dancers, but one of them picked it up,and hurled it outside. It ex- ploded noisily, setting fire to & neigh- boring building and breaking windows in others. The dancers were thrown into a iy SStag \ WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION MADRID ENCIRCLED, INSURGENTS READY FOR ‘FINAL ATTACK' Fascists Report Guadar- rama Defenses Penetrated by Their Troops. SOUTHERN WING MOVES FORWARD ON TWO LINES Government Militia Continue Pounding Alcazar Ruins to Rout Out Blast Survivors. BACKGROUND— Spanish Fascist forces—composed of army leaders supported by land- holding aristocracy, capitalists and clergy—Dbeginning revolt against popularly-elected Leftist govern- ment in mid-July has won all Southwestern and Northeastern Spain, together with a strip along Portuguese Frontier. Position con- solidated throughout area they hold, rebels converge upon Madrid in two columns from the south and one from the north. Whereas insurgents possess well= knit, harmonious organization, op erating as single unit toward seiz- ure of power, government defenders have to fight conflict within their own ranks resulting from wide range of opinion represented by Popular Front component factions— Liberal Republicans, Socialists, Moscow Communists and Anarcho- Syndicalists. By the Associated Press. BURGOS, Spain, September 19.— Fascist armies tonight were ready for a “final attack” on Madrid. The northern and southern armies, an insurgeat announcement said, were ringed around the Spanish capital. The northern wing of the Fascist army, the Fascist junta asserted, had driven into the Lozoya Valley south of the Guadarrama Mountains which cup Madrid. The government troops protecting the city’s water reservoir resisted stubbornly, it was reported. By this troop movement, the in- surgent leaders said, the government forces battling in the mountains were open to attack from the rear, The southern wing of the Fascist army, under the commander in chief, Gen. Prancisco Franco, was asserted to by proceeding along two lines. in 8t. Jean tonight proclaimed that the tide the Spanish civil war has now defi- nitely turned in their favor. Government forces, they asserted, were on the defensive “all along the line” except for a few isolated sectors. ‘The Flscists are in control of almost the entire northeastern coastal sector near France, with Bilbao, the major northern city, remaining under gov- ernment control. At Oviedo, in the north, however, ice, of The insurgent leaders tonight de- clared that the forces of Gen. Emilio Mola, conqueror of Irun, San Sebas- tian end Orio, in the north, were (See SPAIN, Page A-3.) LARGEST NUGGET SEEN Prospector for 8ix Years Shows 43-Ounce Find. VANCOUVER, September 19 (Ca- nadian Press).—What is believed to be the largest nugget ever found in Canada is on display here tonight. Weighing 43 ounces, it was found by Carl Lykegard, who for six years has hunted for the yellow metal in North- ern British Columbia. Readers’ Guide - PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1, B-12. Washington Wayside—P:%e A-2. Lost and Found—Page A-3. Death Notices—Page A-12. Educational—Pages A-14, A-17. Sports Section—Pages B-6, B-11. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Page D-1. Editorials and Additional Fea- tures—Page D-2. Polltlgu% Round-Up—Pages D-3, Veten;m; Organizations, Nation- al Guard and Organized D-6, D-T. serves—] Cross-Word Puzzle—Page D-7, Women’s Clubs—Page lgs'l. Resorts—Page D-8. PART THREE. Society Section. -| Society News and Comment— How They Stand Today Possible Division of the States’ Electoral Votes, Based on The Star’s Political Correspondence. Sure 49 146 Landon ’ Roosevelt 118 3 Doubtful 219 e ) Ter j The Star begins today its standing (in electoral votes) of't.!.i:kgwmncn candidates, e 48 States. as estimated by its This stan will ates. For full de of the States Pages E-1, E-9. Well-Known Folk—Page E-6, Barbara Bell Pattern—Page E-9. PART FOUR. F!utun Section. News it Pages F-1, F-4. ag ““;r_ocbor': Article on John ere Py ) Dick Mansfeld Page ¥- R.ndit} N:ewu and Progrum—!ll’gzie 8 and Screen— | :?89 PTF- F-5. Children’s Pq' e—F-7. PART FIVE. D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1936—116 PAGES. # A FELLER 'I'HESE' CERTAIN HURRICANES! U.S. Tax Exempt Property Here Rises 62% as Lump Sum Drops Holdings, Increased in Six Years, Would Yield $9,851,000, $5,000,000 More Than Federal Share to City. BY JAMES E. CHINN, ‘The estimated value of tax-exempt, Government-owned real property in the District increased nearly 62 per cent in the last six years—a period in which the Federal lump sum contribu- tion toward expenses of the municipal government dropped from $9,500,000 Fred A. Allen, District tax assessor, made this disclosure y in - formation his office is preparing for J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency en- gineer and tax expert, appointed by President Roosevelt to direct a com- prehensive study of fiscal relations between the Federal and District Gov- The value of Government-owned real property, based on the latest as- sessment, as shown in Allen’s report, totals $657,081,505, which would yield D.C. SCHOOLSAWA %,000 TOMORROW Greatest Congestion in His- tory of System Expected During This Year. Faced with the greatest congestion in their history, Washington’s public schools will open tomorrow morning with an anticipated first day’s enroll- ment of close to 95,000. Before the year is over a maximum enrollment in excess of 103,000 is expected. ‘The school year will get under way after a year in which extension of the system’s physical equipment has been limited to little more than 26 new class rooms. This new space will be called upon to absorb a gain in num- ber of pupils ranging from 3,000 to 3,500, or an average of 115 to 135 for each new class room. School authorities, however, were optimistic so far as future building is concerned, for they believe Congress and the District Commissioners will act favorably on their proposal for a Pending the new building program, some relief is afforded by 11 projects for which fufds already have been .Tha only new building available tomorrow is the Bundy Elementary School for colored children, on the site of the old John F. Cook School, on P street between North Capitol and Pirst streets. This eight-room structure will permit the transfer of elementary pupils from the over- crowded Cardozo High School at Ninth street and Rhode Island avenue. Anacostia Building Rushed. A wing has been added to the Ana- costia Junior-Senior High School and the entire bullding is expected to be mpmedbylhemlddloo(mlcmol year. This will relieve the over- crowded conditions in Eastern and McKinley High Schools which have = | been hazards for the last several years. Other additions available tomorrow will be 10 rooms and a gymnasium at (See SCHOOLS, Page A-18.) CHILDREN MAKE TOYS OF LOST DEED BOOKS Cut Indices Off Volumes Before Parents Discover Their Real Value. By the Associated Press. - WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Septem 19.—Five Williamsburg and James City County deed books dating from the middle of the past century were recovered here today, the playthings to the District in taxation, at current rates, if Federal holdings were taxed, a total of $9,85121258, or nearly $5,000,000 more than Congress ap- propriated as the Federal share to- ward expenses of the municipal gov- ernment in the current fiscal year. Nearly six years age the Bureau of Bfficiency, which since has passed out of existence, placed the then financial obligation of the Federal Government towards the National Capital at $10,- 183,391 This finding was reported to the Mapes Committee of the House after the bureau had made an extended study of many lines of consideration of the District’s tax and financial conditions. The bureau’s report, submitted No- 'vember 26, 1930, placed the obligation (8ee FISCAL RELATIONS, A-10.) Jurymen Charged With Drawing Slips To Reach Decision By the Associated Press. ALEDO, Ill, September 19.— A petition for a new trial for John Collins, which charges that the Mercer County Circuit Court Jury which convicted him of the slaying of Roger Johnson arrived at its verdict by drawing slips of paper marked “guilty” or “inno- cent,” was on file here today. A hearing on the petition before The petition declared the jury prepared six slips, four of which were blank, one with the word “guilty” and the other with the word “innocent.” It charges that the jurymen drew from these slips to arrive at a verdict after 70 ballots had been taken. All the jurymen have been subpoenaed for the hearing. REPORT SUBMITTED ON TOWNSEND PLAN Congressional Committee Find- ings to Be Read by Bank- head Before Given Public. By the Associated Press. The report of the special congres- sional committee investigating the Townsend old-age pension plan was filed yesterday with South Trimble, clerk of the House of Representatives. He said it would not be made public until it had been read by Speaker Bankhead. The voluminous report was compiled by 'Representative Bell, Democrat, of Missouri, committee chairman, and James R. Sullivan of Kansas City, committee attogney. ‘Trimble did not reveal how many of the eight committee members had ROOSEVELT CALLS POWER POOL TALK Conference Set September 30 to Discuss Project for Southeast. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt yesterday issued a call for a conference of representa- tives of public and private interests to meet at the White House on Sep- tember 30 to discuss the possible es- tablishment of a Southeastern power pool through the co-operation of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the private utility interests in that section. In announcing the conference, Mar- vin H. McIntyre, assistant secretary to the President, explained it was being called at this time because the existing contracts between the Com- monwealth & Southern, one of the big power utilities of the South, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, for interchange of power and common use of transmission facilities, are due to soon. According to this expiring contract, there already exists what Secretary McIntyre termed a rudimentary power pooling. In a statement of the Presi- dent made public by McIntyre, Mr. Roosevelt made it plain he is anxious to have a plan worked out that will establish these so-called power pools. Benefits Are Cited. The President said such a pool of private and public interests and fa- cilities would benefit all concerned and should make it possible to furnish the public with cheap and abundant power. The President’s hope also is that a plan, such as he has in mind, will not only be possible in the Southeast but in other regions of the country as well, and that it will serve to pro- mote the rapid expansion of the Government’s rural electrification program, thereby bringing about what he describes as the proper development of the unparalleled natural resources of this country. Those invited to attend the White House conference are Wendell L. president Commonwealth & Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. TEN CENTS SEWHE] RODSEVELT SHRINE! PROBE CONSIDERED N PENNSYLVANA W. P. A, Inquiry May Come Before Lonergan’s Sen- ate Committee, i SIGNS URGING PRESIDENT BE RE-ELECTED SCORED Republican National Committee Claims Work Is Done at Taxpayers’ Expense. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The Senate Campaign Investigating Committee may investigate charges that the W. P. A. in Pennsylvania is being used to coerce relief workers to vote for the re-election of President Roosevelt. Such an investigation, once started, might move to other States, West Virginia, for example. Senator Lonergan of Connecticut, chairman of the Senate committee, issued a statement yesterday saying that the matter would be laid before the committee at its next meeting, September 28. At the same time he made public a letter from Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, Ree publican, strongly urging that an ine vestigation of political activities of the W. P. A. be made in his S ‘This letter, Senator Lonergan said, “would form the basis of the committee's action.” “Specific charges,” continued Senae tor Lonergan, “given out by the Ree publican National Committee regarde ing the Pennsylvania situation have never been formally presented to the committee.” Specific Charge Revealed. The G. O. P. National Committes more than a week ago made public & long series of specific charges of polite ical activity by the W. P. A. in Penne sylvania, which the committee said was backed by affidavits. While the committee did not lay these aMdsvits before the Senate committee, it made clear that the Senate committee would be given all data and information it had should the Senate committes ask for it. Last night the Republican commite tee added to its charges that the W. P. A. is operating politically in the Keystone State. “W. P. A. workers paid by the tax- payers are being forced to erect monuments and roadside signs urging the re-election of President Rooseveit and State and local Democratic cane didates in Pennsylvania,” the come mittee statement said. “These so- called ‘Roosevelt shrines’ are the latest step in the New Deal’s brazen and shameless attempt to divert relief funds to its own political ends.” The broad charge has been made by Republicans that Federal relief funds and work relief funds have been and are being used to gain votes for ths New Deal candidates all over the country. They have pointed to tha arguments made by New Deal can- didates and their supporters, urging the voters to support them because of the millions of dollars of Federal funds they have been able to obtain for their municipalities, counties and States. In fact, the Republicans have sought for weeks to make the use of Federal funds an issue in the campaign. They lay particular emphasis on the fact that these funds are raised from the taxpayers all over the country. Letter Brings Charges to Issue. Senator Davis’ letter to the Lonergan Committee, under date of September 12, seemingly has brought to an issue the charges that the W. P. A, despits protests of Harry L. Hopkins, relief + | administrator, and of President Roose- velt, is engaged in the coercion of i | voters. The Davis letter follows: Owen D. Young, chairman of the board, General Electiic Co.; Russell C. Leffingwell of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Chairman Arthur E. Morgan, H. A. Morgan and David E. Lilienthal of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and torney, of New York City, and Alexan- der Sachs, research director of Lehman Corp., have also been invited to par- ticipate. Statement of President. reached at this conference, & basis will perhaps be laid for working out similar signed the report. He indicated it | Projects- might not be made public until Con- gress reconvenes. " In explanation of the scope and (See POWER, Page A-3.) 17 Miners Entombed Two Hours; Only Anxiety Over Late Supper By the Assocmated Press. PEKIN, Md, September 19.~The rescue of 17 miners, trapped by » fall of rock last Wednesday, came to light todsy. Residents of this little mining did not become known until today, al- though the men were trapped for two hours on Wednesday afternoon. to learn de- come at 5:30 p.m. to take them out of the mine. “The newspapers inform me that you are making an investigation in the matter of the coercion of voters in the State of Pennsylvania. I am opposed to the coercion of voters, either by the Government, by ine dustry or from any other group. America can only be safe when citizens are free to vote their convictions. As chairman of your committee, you ars not going to overlook the coercion of voters that is taking place on the Works Progress Administration Pennsylvania. I know of nothing so (See SHRINE, Page A-6.) NOTED FLYER KILLED TAXIING ON GROUND Campbell Black’s Plane Hits Ane other Maneuvering at Speke Airdrome. By the Associated Press. LIVERPOOL, England, September 19.—Tom Campbell Black, noted Eng= lish distance fiyer, was killed today at Speke Airdrome when his plane and 2 Royal Al Force ship collided while both were taxiing to take off. Campbell Black won the 1934 Enge land-Australia air race with C. W. A. Scott. The pilot of the Royal Air Force ship was uninjured. Campbell Black died route to a hospital. He was piloting the ship, Miss Live erpool, in which he planned to fly in & to Johannesburg, South Africs. veteran airman last September to bail out of a plane with . H. G. McArthur over the west bank of the Nile in the Sudan on an at- flight from London to Cape Town. Campbell Black in 1935 was mare ried to the English actress, Florence Desmond, who had promised to bee come his gbride if he won the race. King Pushes State Bill. HONOLULU, September 19 ().~ Samuel Wilder King, Hawall's dele~