Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1936, Page 1

(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain this afternoon, ending early to- night; much cooler tonight; tomorrow fair and cooler. at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 67, at 6:30 a.m. today. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 89, Full report on page A-7. Closing New York Markets, Page 20 No. 33,749. GAS BOMB SALES ENCOURAGED WHEN STRIKES LOOMED, PROBERS ARE TOLD Senate Committee, Investi- gating Industrial Espion- % age, Hears of Vast Outlays to Chemical Company. AGENTS VOICED HOPE FOR SERIOUS TROUBLE National Guard Officer Said to Specialize in Defense Advice to Concerns—Cut on Transit Profits Taken in New Or- leans. BACKGROUND— A labor espionage investigation was authorized by Senate last Sprihg, following persistent rumors that civil liberties were being vio= lated in connection with industrial- labor relations. Senator La Fol= lette was made chairman of In- vestigating Committee and $15,000 was provided for inquiry. Railway Audit & Inspection Co., engaged in private detective work in industry, was one of first con- cerns to be checked. Officials of firm refused to make records avail- able, then failed to honor summons to appear before committee August 21. Siz officials were indicted by District grand jury shortly after Chief Justice Wheat dismissed com- pany’s injunction suit to restrain Western Union and Postal Tele- graph Cos. from complying with subpoenas to produce its messages Jrom files. 7 BY JOHN C. HENRY. Intensive efforts to sell tear gas to the steel companies have been made by the Lake Erie Chemical Co. of Cleveland since labor started organ- izing efforts in that industry, it was disclosed today in testimony before the Senate committee investigating civil liberties violations. Through testimony given by A. S. Ailes, vice president of the chemical company, it was learned that the sell- ing efforts directed at the steel com- panies were in full accord with the company’s policy of soliciting business where labor troubles loom. Gas guns, grenades and candles were demon- strated frequently to prospectjve pur- chasers, it was brought out. In several cases, it was learned, agents of the company wrote to Ailes that they were hopeful of strikes, pref- erably “damned bad ones.” Blames Communists. “I'm sorry there are strikes,” Ailes said under questioning by Senator ‘Thomas, Democrat, of Utah. “I'm sor- ry there are Communists in the coun- try. If there weren't a lot of people like this in the country, there wouldn't be any need for my business. “But when trouble makers destroy property and wound employes, it is time to use gas. The reason for use of gas is to avoid need of bullets. “It is established policy of our or- ganization to sell only to the side of law and order, to persons of estab- lished reputation.” Ailes then defended secret pur- chasing of his goods, saying there was no need of letting employes know such supplies were on hand, because the need might never arise for gas- sing them. Senator Thomas then developed evidence showing the Lake Erie Co. had sold $17,000 in gas to a group of anthracite coal companies for com- combating “bootleg” miners. The sale ‘was made during the past Summer, \ Defends Transaction. Ailes defended the transaction, say- ing there was little danger to life in the gas sold and claiming that the protection was to check bootlegging dosses totaling $40,000,000 to $50,000,- 000 per year. “I'm not only improving industry, I'm improving society,” Ailes declared. “Before this exposure,” Ailes said fater, “the mine owners hoped to gas @ lot of “bootleg” holes without resist- ance. Now I'm ‘afraid they will meet & reception committee.’” Senator Thomas then read a letter in which were outlined the coal com- (See PROBE, Page A-3.) BETHESDA TO GET NEW POST OFFICE Allocation for $115,000 Building Formally Approved by Two [ Departments. A new post office, costing approxi- mately $115,000, will be constructed &t Bethesda, Md., shortly under an allocation formally approved today by the Interdepartmental Committee of the Treasury and Post Office Depart- ments. Punds for the structure will be ob- tained from the general appropriation Congress made some time ago to finance & pretentious program of post office construction work throughout the country. Approval of the appropriation was snnounced by the office of Smith W. Purdum, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, and it was said the work of selecting a site and preparing plans for the building will be undertaken at once. ‘The proposal was advocated be- fore the Inter-Departmental Com- mittee by Representative David J. Lewis of Maryland after a series of conferences recently with members of the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce and other civic leaders of this com- m unity. It is the second appropriation of its Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. C. Sold Tear Gas A. S. AILES, Vice president of the Lake Erie Chemical Co., who told the special Senate committee investigating industrial labor relations today that almost $500,000 worth of gas and equipment were sold to cor- porations and individuals be- tween 1932 and 1934, for use in breaking strikes. —A. P, Photo. SUBSIDY T0 BEGIN FORU.S. SHIPPING Three Members of Commis- sion, Wiley, Hamlet and Landick, Appointed. By the Associated Press. Administrative machinery was in the making today for a long-range, multi- million-dollar ship subsidy program as President Roosevelt gave the “go ahead” sign by appointing three of the new Maritime Commission’s five mem- bers. The program, enacted by the last Congress with the declared aim of en- abling American ships to sail the seas jon even terms with those of foreign | countries, provides for direct construc- tion and operating subsidies in place of existing mail contracts. Under the law, activities under the new legislation can be launched at (See SHIPPING, Page A-2.) BUS-AUTO CRASH INJURES 4 PERSONS Three Women and Man Hurt in Collision at 20th and New Hampshire Avenue. Four persons were injured shortly before noon today in a collision be- tween a Capital Transit Co. bus and a truck at Twentieth street and New Hampshire avenue. Two bus passengers injured were listed at Emergency Hospital as Mrs. Margaret Danhakle, 75, of 211 T street northeast, injuries to legs and hips, and Mrs. J. W. Ochetree of 2221 Forty-ninth street. Others injured were Lucille Willis, 29, colored, of 408 Florida avenue northeast, a passenger in the truck, and John G. Puller, 49, colored, 817 R street. The truck was going east on New Hampshire avenue and the bus was moving south on Twentieth street. The bus was driven by Thomas G. Baisey of Colmar Manor, Md, ac- cording to police. Puller suffered a possible fracture of the skull. A. ). BROSSEAU DIES Mack Truck President Was Resi- dent of Greenwich, Conn. NEW YORK, September 24 (#).— Alfred J. Brosseau of Greenwich, Conn, president of Mack Truck Corp., died last night at the Mount Sinai Hospital. He was a former husband of Grace Hall Brosseau, former national regent of the D. A. R. His widow, Mrs. Natalie Green Wal- len Brosseau, survives. R — RIFT REPORTED GRAVE LOS ANGELES, September 24 (#).— The Examiner said today a ’“good authority” at Angeles Temple has disclosed that Evangelist Aimee Mc- Pherson and her daughter, Roberta Semple, are on the verge of a perma- nent rift. Roberta, the Examiner said, is re- ported about to resign today as as- sistant business manager of the tem- ple and production manager of its radio station. b once by the three commission members | WASHINGTON, [IAPANESE LIVING IN SHANGHAI ASK FOR ADDED FORCE International Settlement Is Under Patrol of Tokio’s Marines. MILITARY CHIEFS SPURN PROTESTS FROM CHINESE “Action Before Words” Is Policy, Naval Attache Declares—Self- Defense Claim. BACKGROUND— Japanese penetration of China dates from victory over celestial empire in the War of 1894-5 and cession of Formosa to Japan. Ace quisition of lease of Liaotung Peninsula and South Manchuria railway in War of 1904-5 with Rus- sia culminated in 1932 in conquest of Manchuria and establishment of puppet state Manchukuo. Man- churian incident characterized also by invasion of Shanghai by armed Japanese forces and destruction of native city of Chapei after heroic defense by Chinese 19th Route Army, under Gen. Tsai Ting-chai. Truce May 5, 1932, resulted in withdrawal of Japanese troops later the same month. Sino-Japanese relations since 1932 marked by growing anti-Jap- anese sentiment and demand for firm resistance of Nanking govern~ ment against Japan’s penetration, political and economic. (Copyright, 1086, by the Associated Press.) SHANGHAI, September 25 (Fri- day) —Residents of Shanghai’s Jap- anese community, part of the inter- national settlement area under the military control of Japanese marines, early today asked Tokio to “dispatch immediately to China land and sea forces sufficlent to accord full pro- tection to Japanese lives and property.” The petition was sent in an at- mosphere slightly eased by the absence of further incidents following Wednes- day night’s shooting of three Japanese marines, one of whom died. Patrols of Japanese bluejackets con- tinued a vigilant patrol in the Hongkew area. Japanese Apprehensive. ‘The Japanese residents of the sec- tion, however, admittedly were ap- prehensive lest there be further trouble. Japanese officials backed by armed martial law, rejected curtly Chi- nese protests against invasion of the Chinese settlement, and warned the entire city to “keep its head cool.” Strong forces of blue-coated Jap- anese in tanks and armored cars and on motor cycles drew taut lines around & large area of the International Set- tlement in “self-defense” measures re- sulting from the killing of one marine and the wounding of two others. ‘The spot where the marine died was heavily guarded by squads with fixed bayonets. Military authorities con- tinued their investigation of the slay- ing, but released one Chinese held as & suspect. b “We are well in control of the sit- uation,” asserted Rear Admiral Eijiro Kondo, commander of special Jap- anese forces in Shanghai. “We are taking every necessary measure to (See CHINA, Page A-2) BRBADCAST APPEAL FOR COTTON PICKERS Planters Declare 10,000 Are Needed to Save Bumper Crops. By the Associated Press. CLARKSDALE, Miss, September 24.—Planters of the Mississippi Delta broadcast an appeal today for at least 10,000 laborers to pick a bumper yield of cotton. They faced ruin of acre upon acre of the South’s largest money crop un- less a labor shortage is alleviated rap- idly, they said. Samue! Hopkins, a leading Coaho- ma County planter, said Delta farm- er’s “can use at least 10,000 pickers” immediately. His statement followed a teur of cotton-growing counties. Plaaters said a serious labor short- age existed in the area from thL: Ten- nessee-Mississippi line on the north to Louisiana on the west and south. Hoboes gave the Delta & wide berth as policemen continued to drag tramps ;l:]ud'n box cars to work in the cotton Competition for labor was so keen planters brought Mexicans from the Rio Grande Valley under guard. Growers have been offering wages up to $1 a hundred . Some pickers gather 500 pounds a day, oth- ers 100 to 200 pounds. Boxer Quits Ring to Win Wife; Fights for Her By the Associated Press. Life, But Loses He had little money. A high-priced HOLLYWOOD, September 24— |surgeou offered his services for Friends told today in Hollywood the strange, sad story of the prise fighter who quit fighting to win a wife, then fought for her life—and lost. Two yedrs ago, Georgie Goodman, the fighter, married and retired from the ring. “My wife doesn’t like the game,” he explained. “She gets scared.” Fight clubs thought it was & shame. Georgie had won a Golden Gloves title in Chicago and fought on the United States boxing team in the 1932 Olym- pic games. A movie executive gave him a job as handy man. Important stars asked his advice be- fore they bet on a fight. They hired him to teach their children how to kind made in Montgomery County | box. in the past year, a new post office ‘building now being in the course of construction at Silver Spring. & ‘8 Two weeks ago, Georgle's wife be- came seriously ill. She needed an operation, A nothing. Georgie still lacked hospital expenses and money for the anas- thesia. Two years had elapsed since he had been in the ring. But he took a WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. [£ )lJ{ J\‘ Traffic Ticket “Fixing” Barred| By Hooe in Edlct for Lax Enforcement Held Factor in Automobile Accidents. Believing lax law enforcement would prove an important contributing factor to automobile accidents, Rice Hooe, new head of the corporation counsel's office at Police Court, has issued orders forbidding the “fixing” of any traffic tickets. Asked if this rule applied to those with political influence as well as the ordinary motorist, Hooe said: “If men appointed or elected to public office violate the laws of the land, they are even more culpable under the law than the average citi- = . “The policy of this office is to re- duce the ever-increasing traffic death toll, and if the refusal to fix traffic tickets will help us toward that goal, then we must refuse to fix them.” “Suppose one of the Commission- ers or a member of Congress requests that a ticket be fixed; would you do it?” Hooe was asked. Depends on Facts. “Not even for the President of the United States unless the facts in the case justified it,” he replied. “By that I mean there would have to be mitigating circumstances.” Hooe explained that his order was not intended to deprive his asso- ciates of their authority to refuse to issue papers in cases where the cir- cumstances do not warrant prose- cution. “If I or any of my associates finds after an investigation that there was no law violation or that the cir- Sa ety RICE HOOE. cumstances were such that the of- fense should be excused, the case will not be trken into court,” he said. “But there will be no fixing of tickets as favors to friends or the influential.” In furtherance of this policy, it was understood, Hooe recently refused re- quests from two Rolice Court judges that he quash papers in traffic cases. In each case he sent the papers back to the court “with regrets.” Another policy inaugurated by Hooe has resulted in considerable confusion in the handling of the work of the office. Hooe and three members of his stafl occupy ‘two rooms in the Police (See “FIXING,” Page A-2.) ‘Fortune’ Barred By Japan for H lrohlto Article By the Associated Press. TOKIO, September 24.—The Sep- tember number of Fortune maga- zine, published in the United States, was banned in Japan today because of an article which was declared to treat Emperor Hirohito indelicately. NEW YORK, September 24 (#).— The editors of Fortune magazine said today they did not know why the September issue has been banned in Japan. ‘They said so great was the care taken to avoid offense that the chrys- anthemum on the cover had only 15 petals, because the Emperor alone (in Japan) has the right to use 16. Toklo reports said the issue had been banned because of alleged in- delicate references to Emperor Hiro- hito. The September issue was devoted entirely to Japan. Five men, one of them s Japanese, worked five months gathering the material, two of the men spending three months in Japan. ‘The Japanese circulation is about 150. \ SENATOR NYE INJURED FARGO, N. Dak., September 24 (M —United States Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota and a companion suffered minor injuries last night when their automobile struck a drove of pigs near Edgeley, catapulted off the road, and turned over twice. ‘With the Senator was John Andrews of St. Paul, newspaper man and act- ing secretary for Nye. Nye suffered leg bruises and An- drews was. taken to a hospital at Edgeley suffering from shock. Readers’ Guide ‘Women'’s Features....C-4-5-6 ~ ELEVEN INDICTED AFTERBANK PROBE $1,000,000 Shortage Is Reported in Pennsylvania Institution. By the Associated Press. ERIE, Pa., September 24.—A Fed- eral grand jury climaxed a long in- vestigation of an alleged $1,000,000 shortage in the Commercial National Bank of Bradford, Pa. today by in- dicting 11 persons, including 10 offi- cers and employes of the institution. Stenographers and bookkeepers were accused in a long list of charges along with the higher officials, headed by President John T. Cunningham. ‘Those indicted besides Cunning- ham: Howard J. Benson, assistant trust officer; Floyd R. Pérmenter, trust of- ficer and euhier Stanley B. Benton, John W. Becker, office manager and director; W. Russell Hungerford, bookkeeper; W. Alderson clerk;' Wilson R. Campbell, president of the Farmers and Mechanics Trust Co. of Bath, N. Y.; Harold Miller, sav- P ings teller. The indictments came about one year after the closing of the institu- tion took the residents of the little town of Bradford by complete surprise. The 11,000 depositors who had ap- proximately $4,465000 in the bank, were protected by Federal deposit in- surance. Federal officers made the estimate of the $1,000,000 shortage. was disclosed after the assistant er, 47-year-old Frank W. Calkins, had been found dead in his garage from monoxide fumes. The coroner attributed his death to “probable suicide.” Judge R. C. Gibson immediately is- sued bench warrants for the arrest of the defendants, most of therg well (Set BANK, Page A-2) NATS RAINED OUT Final Game With Red Sox Will Be Played Tomorrow. The final game of the Red Sox's ¢ Fhening %im’ C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936—FIFTY PAGES. k%% D. C. BUDGET PLEA T0TOP $46,000,000 Final Forms Prepared for Estimates—Drastic Cuts Are Made. BY DON S. WARREN. Even after making drastic slashes in the 1938 estimates of their depart- ment executives, the Commissioners will send to the Budget Bureau ap- propriation requests for the next fiscal year amounting to from $46,- 000,000 to $48,000,000, according to estimates today at the District Build- ing. The Commissioners have not yet completed their examination of the appropriations statements submitted by their departments, but the staff of Budget Officer Daniel J. Donovan was engaged today in preparing final forms for the estimates as they will be sent soon to the Federal Budget Bureau. Should the Commissioners’ budget be fixed half way between the esti- mated total of $46,000,000 to $48,000,- 000, the total expenditures for 1938 would exceed present expected reve- nues by $5,500,000. Should the total to be requested by the Commissioners be fixed at $47,- 000,000, it would mean a reduction of $11,000,000 in requests of department executives. ‘These executives asked a total of $58,200,000, not counting trust funds, or a proposed increase of $14,600,000 over appropriations this year. Because of the financial plight of the District government, the Commis- sioners have indicated they will di- vide the budget into two parts. The primary portion would be covered, or nearly so, by 1938 revenues on the present basis of taxes, plus a Federal payment of no more than the $5,000,~ 000 appropriated this year. ‘This skeleton budget would cover only bare maintenance and the meet- ing of contractual obligations. It would not provide new construction proposed by various departments. The secondary portion of the budget would include part of the proposed new construction, as well as requested expansion of services, all of which would depend on either an increase in the Federal payment, new or higher taxes, or both. ‘The Commissioners have in they will ask the Budget Bm approve $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 for school building construction and the purchase of school sites and $250,000 for the building of the first of a series of five new health centers, or clinics, as requetsed by the Health Depart- ment. The Commissioners also are expected to recommend some addi- tional funds for buildings at the re- formatory and the work house, now badly overcrowded. Health Officer George C. Ruhland, who was absent from the city when the Commissioners reached his de- partment in their closed-door hear- ings, will be given an opportunity to plead for the full amount of his re- quests, which were more than double appropriations for the current year. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 135,988 (Some returns not yet received.) (P) Means Associated Press. NEW G. A. R. HEAD C. H. WILLIAM RUHE OF PITTSBURGH, PA Madison, Wis., Selected for the 71st Annual En- campment. SPIRITED CONTEST MARKS SITE CHOICE New Commander in Chief Served in 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Enlisting at 15. An 87-year-old Pennsylvanian who ran away from home when 15 years old to join the Union Army was unani- mously elected today to be commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is C. H. William Ruhe of Pittsburgh, a designing and con- structing mechanical engineer and superintendent of the Allegheny County Soldiers and Sailors’ Memorial Hall. Ruhe was elected almost without competition, the noimnation of George H. Pounder of Fort Atkinson, Wis., having been withdrawn when it be- came evident the Pennsylvanian would be elected. Ruhe served in Company L of the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry through the last campaign around Petersburg and up to the surrender at Appomattox. Other officers elected unanimously to serve with the new commander in chief are: Senior vice commander, Henry F. Russell, Alliance, Ohio; junior vice commander, Thomas M. Ambrose, Illinols; surgeon general, Dr. E. H. Cowan, Crawfordsville, Ind.; chaplain general, the Rev. J. King Gibson, Dayton, Ohio, the only one of the officers re-elected. Despite suggestions that the G. A. R. had reached its last national en- campment, the veterans voted this morning to hold their seventy-first encampment in Madison, Wis, next September. Madison was selected by an overwhelming vote after spirited campaigning on the part of San Fran- cisco, Milwaukee and Boise, Idaho. Grand Army men adopted & reso- lution flatly opposing the proposed construction of a memorial statue to Robert E. Lee in Arlington National Cemetery, declaring the leader of the Confederate armies should not be honored on hallowed ground of the national shrine. This afternoon the gallant old men who yesterday gave Washington one of the most stirring spectacles it has seen in years of parades, began leaving fow homes in all parts of the country. Auxiliary and allied organizations also were conducting their final busi- ness sessions today, several of them continuing into the afternoon. The last event on the programs of the six organizations which have been in simultaneous session here since last Sunday will be a dinner by the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic in honor of its past presidents, at 8 p.m. in the Washington Hotel. Of yesterday's events, the annual “camp fire” last night in the Govern- ment Auditorium ranked second only’ to the parade in its importance to the veterans. There they heard two re- markable addresses by their own mem- bers—one the life story of the retiring commander in chief, Oley Nelson of Slater, Iowa, the second by their judge advocate general, James W. Willett, of Tama, Iowa. They heard also an address by & younger veteran, Col. (See G. A. R, Page A-5.) BARREL SHIP READY FOR OCEAN CROSSING Former Sailor to Launch 9-Foot Craft Equipped With Radio and Other Advantages. Ev the Assoclated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., September 24— Launching of the oaken barrel ship in which Ernest Biegazski, ex-Great Lakes sailor, hopes to sail the At- lantic, was set for today. Built of staves three inches thick, bound with heavy iron hoops, the bar- rel is nine feet long and six feet eight inches in diameter. It can be sailed from the inside, with the hatch closed, with ropes which are run through “snuff boxes.” They keep the water out. It has & glass-inclosed conning tower, & hollow mast, which will act as a ventilator in rough weather, and a hollow steel prow in which Biegazski hopes to carry enough “tub mail” to earn money sufficient to educate his two children. “Slow Gas” Poison Discovered; Declared New Health Peril By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 24.—Science found & new health peril in the ma- chine age civilization today: “Slow gas” poison. Unseen and undetectable, said a Carbon monoxide in large doses has long been known as a producer of sudden, painless death. Motorists who sit in their garages with car motors running are frequent victims. ‘That smaller doses of the gas, in- when the atmosphere contained a hundredth of a per cent or less of the monoxide, it could be breathed in- definitely without danger. A mixture of five-hundredths of a per cent was able to cause symptoms of poisoming within several hours, and one-tenth to two-tenths of a per cent brought “severe symptoms dangerous to life.” One per cent was sure death. Dr. Beck described the slow poison- ing as “chronic carbon monoxide anoxemia.” His 79 test patients, he said, were exposed to it in several ways: From combustion of natural gas and illuminating gas; from gaso- line engines, chiefly automobiles; blast furnaces and coke ovens. “Chief complaints” produced by the gas, he said, were: Headache, vertigo, nervoysness, digestive disturbances, occasional incapicitation for work, weakness and tremulousness in the legs, functional nervous and mental symptoms, feelings of depression, rest- lessness, anxiety and fear, introspec- tion, emotional upheavals, memory de- fects, drowsiness and insomnia, speech and visual troubles, and even loss of the sense of smell. A + TWO CENTS. LOYALISTS BREAK DAM O REPULSE REBEL ADVANCE ON MADRID DEFENSES Government Believes Town of San Martin Destroyed and With It Insurgent Guns, Trucks and Horses. SITE WAS CONVERGING POINT FOR COLUMNS Socialists Earlier Reported ‘Pinch- ing’ Movement Had Checked Drive—Fascists Reveal Artil- lery-Infantry Attack on Capital From North. BACKGROUND— Spain’s bloody civil war, which has raged since mid-July, following an uprising of army in Morocco, has been marked by slow but steady gains by Fascist rebels against Leftist Popular Front government. Main action at present is cen= tered in Madrid-Toledo sector as insurgent commanders poise their armies for final assault, confident Jall of both cities is imminent, (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) MADRID, September 24.—Madrid's defenders, in a new and extreme thrust to stave off insurgent columns, announced today they had loosed the waters of Alberche Dam over San Martin de Valdeiglesias, scheduled point of convergence for Fascist col~ umns 36 miles west of the capital. ‘The government said it believed the town had been destroyed and with it considerable amounts of insurgent guns, trucks, horses and mules. (The heavily censored dispatch did not state how the waters were released. (Dispatches from Burgos, seat of the insurgent junta, said Fascist northern armies were driving through mountain passes with the intention of meeting a southern column in the vicinity of San Martin.) Troops Are Rallied. At the same time, the official radio ordered all militarymen in Madrid to report to barracks and their drivers to stand by at garages for orders. ‘The government also announced its forces in the Toledo sector were ree sisting an advance by several powere ful Fascist columns, 12)2 miles from the city. Reports that insurgents had cap- tured Toledo were denied categorically. All the capital's newspapers urged the militia to stand resolutely to “the end.” One editorial said: “The German soldiers who took Liege were not heroes who could boast of their victory. The Potsdam cadets who obtained that victory are filling pits around Liege with their dead bodies.” From the Alberche Dam more than 10,000,000 cubic yards of water rushed with tremendous force toward low ground, where much rebel war ma- terial and artillery was reported con= centrated. Bridges over the Alberche River, in the path of the flood, were believed indispensable to the insurgent ad- vance on Madrid. Execute “Pinching” Move. Earlier government forces were re- ported to have repulsed insurgent as- saults by frontal defenses near Ma= queda and rear attacks at Oropesa. ‘The “pinching” Socialist movement, the war ministry claimed, boxed the (See SPAIN, Page A-3.) NAVY PLANE CRASH KILLS PETTY OFFICER Pilot in Critical Condition After Ship Plunges From Low Altitude. By the Assoclated Press. NORFOLK, Va. September 24— One man was killed and another crit- ically injured in the crash of a Navy utility plane today on the dock at the St. Helena Coast Guard base. Aviation Machinist Mate P. L. Mc« Elroy, passenger, was dying when res- cuers dragged him out of the wreckage of the plane and succumbed on the way to the Naval Hospital. Aviation Pilot R. 8. Banker, attached to the St. Helena base, pilot of the plane, was unconscious and attendants at the Naval Hospital said he had lit- tle chance of recovery. Low flying was given by observers as the probable cause of the crash. The plane, witnesses say, had been flying over the Berkley area for almost an hour at ap altitude of not more than 500 feet. STEAMSHIP LINE HEAD DIES AFTER ACCIDENT Injuries Fatal to F. C, Munson, 60, President of Company Bearing His Name. By the Associated Press. PORT CHESTER, N. Y., September 24—Frank O. Munson, 60, president of the Munson Steamship Line, died today in United Hospital of iriternal injuries. His car crashed into a pole in Rye early yesterday. The police report said he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home alone to East Port Chester, Conn. Munson had been president of the steamship company for 20 years. He was appointed to the War Trade Board by President Wilson in 1917 to repre- sent the United States Shipping Board and served a year. His second wife survives him,