Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureai Porecast.) Fair, cool tonight; tomorrow fair, warme Sunday. Temperatures—Highest, 19, at noon yesterday; lowest, 50, at 6:30 a.m. on page B-13. today. Full report No. 33,750. LOYALISTS MASS FORGES AS REBELS APPROACH TOLEDD 10,000 Militiamen Rushed to Defense, With Fascists Ten Miles Away. INSURGENTS MOVING FORWARD CAUTIOUSLY Draw Up Artillery and Armored Cars - in Preparation for Heavy Fighting. BACKGROUND— Bloody civil war which has torn Spain for 69 days continues to rage in the Madrid-Toledo sector with unabated fury. Rebel forces have been making steady gains since the conflict, which started in Morocco in mid~ July, spread to the mainland. Vice tories in the north have permitted them to consolidate gains in South- ern and Western Spain and to cone centrate their forces on the capital. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) TALAVERA DE LA REINA, Spain, Beptember 25.—The Fascist army driving toward Toledo to rescue their beseiged garrison in the Alcazar, ap- proached the main government de- fenses today. More than 10,000 government mi- litiamen were reported massed out- side Toledo and insurgent com- manders, despite their haste, became more cautious, as they came almost within sight of the city. Leaders hesitated to send in a fly- ing column for fear they would be cut off and massacred. Batteries of artillery and armored cars were brought to the front from Torrijos to | prepare for heavy fighting. Another Fascist army, pushing along the meain highway to Madrid, slowed up similarly in an attempt to consoli- date its positions beyond Maqueda. Within 10 Miles of City. ‘The vanguard of the Toledo attack beating down crumbling government defenses, marched within 10 miles of the city. Headquarters of the Southern in- surgent army declared Fascist troops Maqueda-Toledo road, which brought their front ranks within sight of the | provincial capital. | Government losses in scattered en- | gagements were heavy, whiie the attacking insurgents suffered only a few casualties. ‘The retreating Socialist troops aban- doned quantities of war materials in hasty flight before the advancing in- surgents, an official announcement declared. Reinforcements Arrive. Strong reinforcements of legionnaires and regular infantrymen joined the Fascist drive after an enthusiastic send-off in the public square at| Talavera. Soldiers and civilians sang ! patriotic hymns to the accompani- ment of a military band. Fascist commanders declared their | planes dropped supplies of food and | ammunitions to besieged comrades in | the razed Alcazar at Toledo toward whose rescue the insurgent advance is aimed, (The headquarters report con- flicted with government statements the Fascist drive on Madrid and To- ledo had been halted with a flood of ‘water from the Alberche River dams.) Aides of Gen. Francisco Franco, commander of the southern Fascist army, said plans for the military cam- paign had been shifted to allow one column to push toward a point mid- way between Madrid and Toledo on the southern highway. ‘This change was made, they said, in an attempt to cut the capital from the provincial city. Rebel Forces Advance. (Official reports from Burgos, seat of the insurgent provisional govern- ment, declared the Fascist troops on the southern battle line had advanced beyond Torrijos, on the road between Maqueda and Toledo. Gen. Franco’s forces repulsed a (See SPAIN, Page A-4.) Hostages Placed In Line of Fire Of Rebel Shells Threatened Attack on Bilbao Fails to Entered as second class matter post ofice, Washington, D. C. races on the Potdmac today. | N A 5-mile duel over the Hains Point course Alton O'Brien of Perth Amboy, N. J., national comet champion, got the verdict over D. Verner Smythe, Washington champion, in a feature of the sailing races, which this morning opened the {tenth annual President’s Cup regatta. { Attracting 21 entries, the largest in | the nine classes contesting for trophies {offered by The Star, the comet race from the outset resolved itself into a made a steady advance on the | BOURSE TIGHTENS l Foenit - WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936—FIFTY PAGES. ***# O’Brien, National Champion, Beats Smythe in Comet. Race Earl Klein of Shady Side, Md., climbs aboard his overturned * comet after it capsized in one of the early events of the sailing —Star Staff Photo. battle between O'Brien's Aquila and Smythe's Sassy. Smythe got the jump, hitting the starting line on a stiff porth wind just as the gun barked. For the first lap of 212 miles he held a small advan- tage, but at the start of the second lap O'Brien, skilifully aided by Mary Nolan, also of Perth Amboy, went into the lead and was never headed. The third to finish was Red Don, (8ee REGATTA, Page A-2) NEW WORLD WAR IN FRANG CRISIS| HELD ON IN SPAIN tion as French Cabinet Discusses Situation. 87 the Associated Press. PARIS, September 25.—The Paris Bourse acted today to suppress ex- | Spaniard, Julio Alcarez Del Vayo, told | the League of Nations assembly today travagant speculation while the Prench Cabinet weighed means to protect the troubled franc. The first cabinet meeting of the day ended in silence, but brought rumors & special session of the Cham- ber of Deputies might be called next week to discuss measures to defend the franc. Other rumors said the ministers were split on the question Upon recommendation of Louis Edouard Jacob, head of the Bourse, members agreed that all buying or- ders must be:paid promptly on the settlement day and that all selling orders must provide for actual de- livery. of securities. Settlement days come twice a month, the next falling at the end of Sep- tember, when purchasers must pay cash. Financial authorities said the meas- without paying, planning to sell later when stocks rose against the falling . itiona} increases in the dis- count rate of the Bank of France, the. traditional -technical measure to combat temporarfly the flight of capital. 2. Government measures to prevent An exchange of views between the — | British and French treasuries, in- bardment of this northern coastal city, scheduled for 1 a.m. today, failed to occur after the defenders had placed 4,000 prisoners near points which were to be targets of the at- TR !%%Eé Efizgés gk i ot (See' FRANCE, Page A-3.) COOL WAVE TO END . SOON, IS FORECAST eof Eég n: f E g i i £ IMoves to Prevent Devalua-|Madrid Envoy Tells Geneva Democracy and Oppres- sion Are Foes. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 25. — The “the bloodstained soil of Spain already is the battlefield of world war.” In what delegates construed as an attack on Germany, Italy and Portu- gal for allegedly arming the Spanish ts, the Madrid envoy warned the assembled statesmen that future wars will not be a conflict between states. Instead, he said, the battle will be between ' two groups of ideas, between “democracy and oppression.” Considerable applause followed the conclusion of his speech. He mentioned no nation by name, but - grouped the states which he sccused as those whose political struc- ture coincided “with that to which the rebels desire to reduce Spain.” Anthony Eden Stand. + Del Vayo spoke after Anthony Eden of Great Britain had declared his nation, ardently believing in. demo- oratic government, will “allow none to wrest it from us.” ‘The Spaniard assailed the European non-intervention agreement as “direct and positive intervention in behalf of the rebels” and as “a blockade of the lawful Spanish government.” Del Vayo also pledged that the present Spanish regime never would interfere with the internal politics of other countries. tes regarded this statément as an effort to dispel any fears that an extremely radical Spain. would influence the political conditions of her neighbors. Del Vayo insisted the non-inter- vention accord was a detriment to Madrid and an advantage to the rebels. He said his government had sent notes to all signatories, denounc- ing the agreement. “When normal relations of Spain are interrupted, when the export (by other European nations) of war ma- terials ordered by the lawful Gov ernment suddenly is stopped, we (8ee WAR, Page A-3.) GERMAN FLYING BOAT LEAVES FOR BERMUDA Zephir's Captain Hopes to Reach Goal, 770 Miles at Sea, by trans-Atlantic survey flights, Washington, N. Y., at 7:03 &.m. today, bound for Bermuds. Joachim AGTION BY CHIANG AWAITED AS JAPAN ADVANCES FORGES China’s Dictator Believed on Way to Capital to Con- sider “Incident.” EMPEROR’S MARINES SEIZE CHAPEI CONTROL Move Into Native District as Note Demands Guarantee Against New Attack. BACKGROUND— Sino - Japanese relations since 1932 invasion of Shanghai and de- struction of native city of Chapei by Japanese forces have been marked by growing anti-Japanese sentiment in China and demands for firm re- sistance of Nanking government . against Japan’'s penetration, politi- cal and economical. Cession of Formosa to Japan after war of 1894-5 was followed in 1932 by conquest of Manchuria and establishment of puppet state of Manchukuo as Japan felt increas- ing meed for expansion from its island empire. (Copyright. 1936, by the Associated Press.) SHANGHAI, September 25." China’s dictator, Chiang Kai-Shek, night was believed returning to his | capital from Southern China to take the troubesome Shanghat incident into his own hands. While Japanese marines seized po- lice control of the Chinese Chapei dis- trict here and Tokio government of- ficials asserted they would “proceed according to events and necessities,” large quantities of official baggage was forwarded north from Canton, where the generalissimo has been sojourning. Chiang himself was expected to fiy to Nanking within & few hours, Can- ton reports said. At Nanking, the Shanghai incident involving the shooting of three ma- rines and the preceding affair at Han- kow, where a Japanese consular po- liceman was slain, formally were given a place on the growing list of Sino- Japanese troubles awaiting settlement. Note Demands Guarantee. The Japanese consul-general, Yaki- chiro Sumo, handed the national gov- ernment foreign office & note demand- ing the government guarantee there be no recurrence of sych incidents. ‘While the text of the communica- tion was not disclosed, it was under- stood it informed Nanking these two incidents “like others in Ohins in recent months” were “acts of anti- Japanese terrorism.” ‘The foreign office expressed its re- gret but made no specific reply. In Shanghai blue-coated Sapanese marines, brought into patrol tiee streets of the Hongkew section of the Interna- tional Settlement after an attack on three comrades Wednesday, moved into the Chinese district with pistols and rifles and fixed bayonets. Traffic was limited on two main highways and even foreigners, driv- ing to two golf courses north of the city, were stopped and searched. Many foreign residents of Shanghai condemned the Japanese action strongly, but the only reply was “we must protect our nationals.” Three Suspects Held. ‘Three Chinese suspects were brought into a Chinese court for preliminary hearing in connection with the fatal shooting of one marine and the wounding of two others, but no defi- nite facts were disclosed during the court session. The suspects denied knowledge of the attack and police were unable to produce direct evidence. The Japanese patrol lines in the Hongkew area were shortened slight.y as the marines marched into the Chi- nese district. The highest Japanese authorities rvprugnfln( the Tokio foreign office, war and navy ministries, were sum- moned to & secret conference, the nature of which they declined to disclose. Representatives of the armed Jap- anese forces, however, declared loudiy the “period of conferences is over. From here on there will be nothing but action.” Area Scene of 1932 Battle. ‘The area patrolled by the marines included the district through which Japanese and Chinese troops battled (See A, A-4) CHINESE KILLS UNCLE Chicago Restaurant Proprietor Shot in Crowd. CHICAGO, September 25 (#).—A young and well dressed Chinese walked into the Paradise Inn, a West Side Chiriese restaurant, early today and view of 30 patrons shot and killed John Eng, 60, part owner of a chain of restaurants. ED IF | LIKE THIS ONE MAN ANOTHER MAN WouLb JusT BEIN DOIN' EVERYTHING BUSINESS! SPEAKING OF LANDON ASSALS NEW DEAL TARIFFS Declares “Farmer Has Been Sold Down the River.” Moves Into Wisconsin. Text of Gov. Landon’s ad- dress on Page B-8. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, September 25— Gov. Alf M. Landon pointed his presi- dential campaign into Wisconsin, home of the pro-Administration La Follette Progressives, today after a de- nunciation of the New Deal's reciprocal tarift agreements before a cheering throng st the Minneapolis City Audi- torjum. . Gov. Landon fleft Minneapolis at 8:55 a.m. Central standard time. A dozen rear-platform talks from his special train in & two-day swing P with social security, at Milwaukee Sat- urday night, “In too many of the present agree- ments,” he declared last night in his tariff address, “we are the fellow who got the blind horse.” To the crowd which filled to over- flowing the block-long auditorium— it has a seating capacity of 10,000— he pledged protection of “the Amer- ican market for the American farmer” and promised that “Republicans are going to trade not against but in the interest of American producers.” His audience cheered repeatedly as Landon. speaking deliberately, said: “The Republican party * * * does not condemn the principle of reci- procity. It condemns only the kind of trade agreements now being: made. It condemns them because they are injurious to American citizens and offensive to'American principles, * ¢ * “I am opposed to & policy of iso- Iation. I want to see a prosperous (8ee LANDON, Page A-3.) FRENCH RIGHTISTS * HELD PLOTTING COUP Labor Head Declares They Plan to Overthrow Government “in October or November.” By the Associated Press. of panic.” “In October or November,” he de- “Hello, uncle” the siayer said in | the Chinese before he whipped out & pis- tol and shot Eng. He then turned snd ran out.ito the street. - | New Coughlin Warning Likely, Declare Prelates at Vatican By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, September 25— Prelates said today they “wouldn’t be surprised” if the Vatican were obliged to give Father Charles E. Coughlin % ” than the one the Osservatore, authoritative Vatican administered when newspaper, recently 1t said it was not proper to attack con- stituted authorities; much less so for oAty i | £ i | substitute for radium. “ONE-MAN” igns MME. IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE QUITS BLUM CABINET. MME. IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 25.—Mrs. Irene Joliot-Curie, daughter of the discov- erer or radium, resigned today from the Prench cabinet. The newspaper Le Pigaro predicted her resignation as undersecretary for scientific research and attributed it to “technical differences with the gov- ernment.” Mme. Joliot-Curle, together with her husband, Dr. Frederic Joliot, re- cently announced the “discovery of a She left her scientific research to enter the cabinet of Premier Leon Blum. PRESENT SPEA AHEAD OF SWITH Roosevelt Thanks New Deal Critic. for Courtesy in Radio Time Conflict. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., September 25. of President which you hold,” and “I do not desire to interfere with your having s Nation-wide audience.” Campaign Tours Mapped. President Foosevelt said today his first campaign swing into the West probably would terminate at Denver, MRS. ROOSEVELT LEAVES Goes to Join Husband st Hyde Park After Illness. Mrs. Pranklin D, Roosevelt, who has been ‘confined to her room at House for more than " Associated Yesterday’s The only eve in Washingm:hvgi aper the Press News and Wirephoto Services. Circulation, 136,934, (Some returns not yet received.) UP) Means Asscciated P CARS— SHEADS MURDER INGURY REVNED Janitor, Confessing Goodwin Crime, to Be Quizzed in Teacher’s Slaying. With an alleged confession to the brutal murder of Mrs. Florence | Dougherty Goodwin already in their hands, homicide squad detectives to- day planned to question a 37-year- old colored man regarding a two-year- old similar crime—the slaying of Miss Mary E. Sheads, 64, a retired school teacher, Both murders occurred in apart- ments on Sixteenth street under sim- ilar circumstances, the motive in each apparently being robbery. Evidence was found in the Sheads case indi- cating the slayer was colored. Capt. Ira L. Keck, assistant chief of detectives, said Norman Wesley Robinson, alias John Willlams, who early today is alleged to have con- fessed the Goodwin murder, appears to have been in Washington in May, 1934, when Miss Sheads was strangled in her room at 2000 Sixteenth street. Robinson, court records show, served a 30-day sentence here that year for larceny. At the request of Capt. Keck, United States Attorney Leslie C. Gar- nett today assigned Assistant United States Attorney Irving Goldstein to collaborate with detectives in the in- vestigation. Evidence for Inquest. Robinson’s signed statement, ob- tained with the aid of science, will be in custody of police when they appear at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at & coroner's inquest in the week-old murder of Mrs. Goodwin, 43-year- old Treasury typist. Accompanied by headquarters de- tectives, Robinson returned to the scene of the crime last night and re- enacted the murder in detail, the officers said. Police expected to re- -|SOVIET WARNS FOES cover a key to the rooming house which, they said, Robinson admitted 'having in his possession, but later dis- Pposed of. Capt. Keck, assistant chief of de- tectives, said credit for the reported solution of the murder rests largely Silken Threads Clue. Tiny silken threads taken from the dressing-gown of the myrdered woman were compared with particles removed from beneath the suspect’s fingernails. A microscope, police said, revealed that the two samples were identical. Bloodstains on the colored man’s shirt at the. time of his arrest were analyzed -and found -to be of the same type as those on the bed in which the sleeping woman was mur- dered, the officers declared. Other bloodstains were found on a pair of trousers in the suspect’s room, in the 1400 block of Ninth street, they said. Robinson, police said, told them his motive was robbery. He had been unemployed since leaving his job at the rooming house, 1102 Sixteenth street. and returned just before day- light last Friday morming. After letting himself in through a (See CONFESSION, Page A-2.) ress. DETECTIVE AGENTS ADMIT PURCHASE OF UNION PLANS Pinkerton Operatives De- fend Practice Before Spe- cial Senate Committee. ARMY OFFICER NAMED AS HAVING INFORMATION Espionage Probers Told Personal Habits of Labor Reported for 100 Firms. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Defending the practice, officials of the Pinkerton National Detective Serve ice today admitted that information has been bought from union labor of- ficials and sought from at least one of« ficer in the Army Intellgence Service. ‘Testimony before the special Senate committee which is investigating labor espionage also disclosed that opera- tives of the company have shadowed industrial employes so closely that they know what the workers read and even what they do on picnics. Employes of about 100 industrial concerns have been under surveillance of this nature, it was shown. Pinkerton officials insisted, however, that their agents have done no strike- breaking work since the famous Homestead, Pa., steel riots in 1892. The Army officer named as available for information on Communist ac- tivities was Maj. Herring at Port Logan, Kans, Most of the information concerning the “Pinkertons” was furnished ‘n testimony by R. A. Pinkerton, president of the agency, and Asher Rosseter, general manager. Keeps Identity Secret. A. S. Mason, assistant superintendent for the Detroit office, gave the informa- tion that one officer of a local union had been selling information to the agency prior to August 1, 1936. He is not on the pay roll now, Mason said. Ray L. Burnside, another assistant superintendent, said he knew of one union officer now selling information, but he declined to identify the man on grounds it would endanger the indi- vidual, The union informant is operating in ‘Toledo, Burnside said. The Pinkerton agency paid $488,000 for information in 1835, records showed although it was explained that not all of this was industrial work. Rossiter said that he knew of no doc- tors, lawyers, newspaper men or preachers selling information. White- collar workers, manual laborers and women are on their “agent” lists, he said, Under questioning by Chairman La Follette of the Senate Committee, the Pinkerton witnesses admitted being forced out of Wisconsin by a law re- quiring registration of all operatives. It is thought likely that La Follette will recommend national legislation patterned after the State law. Four years of investigating work for the Pennsylvania Railroad brought Pinkerton agency revenue of $217,000, testimony showed. Relentlessly, Chairman La Follette insisted that the large industrial ace counts of the company were “labor espionage” without distinction between labor organization involved. Rossiter insisted throughout that the various billings for “radical” ine vestigations were directed exclusively at Communists. Other Firms Mentioned. General Motors, Fisher Bodies, Beth« lehem Steel and Baldwin Locomotive companies had large accounts with Pinkerton, it was revealed. An automobile account spoke of shadowing Adolph Germer, whom Sen- ator La Follette identified as an or- ganizer for the Committee on Induse trial tion. X The “picnic” investigation was cone ducted for Fisher Bodies. Rossiter explained that the company has about 12 solicitors of business and admitted that need of labor espionage may be cited in trying to pick up business. Newspapers and labor pube lications are watched for news of labor disputes, it was testified. At the outset of today’s session La Follette read a telegram from Theo=- dore Roche, president of the San yesterday by I. H. McCarty, salesman for Lake Erie Chemical Co. La Follette said a transcript of the McCarty testimony would be fure nished to Roche and Quinn and they will be given an opportunity to ape Owned 70 Per Cent, Pinkerton, who is in his early 30s, said he was 70 per cent owner of the: OF WAR READINESS | v Voroshiloff, in Military Review, Assails Barbarous Intentions of Enemy Nations. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, September 25.—Soviet Russia, a “cataract on the eye of & capitalistic world,” is “ready to meet