Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain and continued cool tonight and tomorrow; moderate east and northeast winds. Temperatures — Highest, 77, at 1:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 57, at 7:15 am. today. Full report on page A-6. Closing New York Markets, Page 22 No. 33,754 - KILLING OF 600 PRIESTS BY LEFTISTS IN TOLEDO REIGN OF TERROR BARED Entered as second class matte: post office, Washington, D. C. @ " Street Rioting Alcazar Commander Sacrificed Son Rather Than Surrender “Die Like a Hero,” Father Wrote When Loyalists Said They W ere Holding Preceded Retreat. ATTACK BY GAS IS WITHSTOOD Only 80 Alcazar De- fenders LostLives in Fort. BULLETIN, CASABLANCA, French Morocco, Beptember 29 (#).—First reported sunk in a sea battle, the Spanish government destroyer Gravina reached here today and landed several wounded members of he: crew. They reported it was the government destroyer Almirante Juan Ferrandiz which went down in the battle in the Straits of Gibraltar. BY RICHARD G. MASSOCK. (Copyright. 1936, by the Associated Press.) TALAVERA DE LA REINA Spain, Beptember 29.—Gaunt prisoners of the Alcazar came out of Toledo today to tell epic stories of wholesale death and “prophetic” birth. They said virtually all the priests in the city—numbering 600—were glain in a reign of leftist terror that preceded the fall of Toledo to the insurgent armies. ‘They told how, within the Alcazar’s | ruins, the birth of two babies was re- garded as an omen of their deliver- ance. Starved, strangely waxen, emaciat- ed, they related how they lived on black bread, on horse meat, on hope. They declared that to the other horrors of their 72-day siege was add- ed an assault by poison gas. Only 80 Slain. The Fascist survivors confirmed offi- cial insurgent figures which stated only about 80 of their number were slain and 500 wounded. These figures placed the total in the Alcazar at 1,200, although previous reports have made it 1,700. Even today some unofficial estimates said 70 per cent of the total was killed or wounded, but this was not confirmed. The women and children all escaped injury, these survivors said, but their living quarters could have held out but two more days. In the looting and killing which raged while the guns of insurgent at- tacks boomed outside the city gate all the priests in the Toledo Cathedral were executed, save one, who was cele- brating mass in an underground chapel, the Fascists said. ~Everything was destroyed around the Alcazar,” declared one of those who resisted government attacks on the historic fortress. He said the leader of Toledo Fas- cists was one of the victims of the deadly barrage of dynamite, gasoline ana shells which rained into the in- surgent haven Thousands of Shells Landed. Indicative of the tremendous So- clalist assault on the Alcazar was a detailed record kept by occupants, who counted shells and other missiles used in the bombardment. The record shown to me by a sur- vivor listed these items: Shells landed, 11,200: aviation at- tacks, 30; explosive missiles used, 1,500 hand grenades. 2,000 dynamite bombs, 600 aerial bombs, 35 gasoline tanks thrown from airplanes, 200 bottles of inflammable liquid. The record also said the highest number of artillery shells loosed against the besieged fortress in one day was 472. Three of the self-imprisoned Fas- cists committed suicide and five died natural deaths, the list claimed. Fif- ty-seven insurgents inside the Alcazar “disappeared by explosions” and 30 others deserted or unaccountably dis- appeared. Government forces lost 500 soldiers in the withering steel barrage which swept through the streets of the war- battered former capital of Spain. One Fascist bomb, survivors asserted, killed 40 Socialist militiamen and wounded 80 others. Capture at Desperate Moment. Capture of Toledo, often called the “Rome of Spain” because of the large number of priests living and studying in the city, came at a desperate mo- ment for the self-imprisoned Fascists in the Alcazar. “Only courage inspired by radio re- ports that our soldiers were advanc- ing to save us, and food dropped from planes, kept us going,” asserted a survivor who had spent 72 days in- side the fortress’ walls. In one wing of the Alcazar, he said, 700 survivors huddled together await- ing liberation by the forces of Gen. Francisco Franco, leader of the rebel- lion against the Madrid government. “Women and children first was the rule when the food was rationed out,” this survivor told me. “All the flour, sardines and condensed milk dropped by the planes from our army was given to them. Bread From Stale Grain. “The 600 fighting men defending the grim old building against the So- cialists subsisted on bread baked from flour ground out in primitive hand mills from stale stocks of grain. “All the men came out of the Alca- ear with their bodies wasted by starva- tion. Each person had only a quart of drinking water every day.” Many of the survivors were near (See SPAIN, Page A-2.) Zephir Arrives in Azores. HORTA, the Azores, September 28 {#)—The German Lufthansa flying boat Zephir arrived at 1:10 p.m. G. M. T. (8:10 am., Eastern standard time) today from Bermuda. The Zephir left Bermuda early last night. ) Heir, Later | By the Assoctated Press. | LISBON, Portugal, September 29.— A story that Col. Jose Moscardo, in- surgent commander of Toledo's Al- cazar, sacraficed his son rather than surrender the fortress was reported today from the Fascist-captured city by Jose Augusto, correspondent of Diario Noticias. Augusto said the government, dur- ing the 72-day siege of the Alcazar, sent Moscardo a note informing him his son was a hostage and would be executed unless the Alcazar was sur- rendered. The commander sent back a note to his son which read: “Those traitors | have proposed that I should save your life at the cost of the lives of my brave men and my honor. I hope you @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936—FORTY PAGES. x%x% Executed. will die like a hero after praying loudly: ‘Long live Spain!' Your life will then be eternal!” ‘The son was executed forthwith, the correspondent added. Other Diario Noticias dispatches from Talavera said the birth of two babies in the dank subcellars of the Alcazar was regarded as a prophecy from Heaven of deliverance for the besieged. This gripping story was told by the first cadet to be brought from the Al- cazar to a Talavera Hospital, where he lay wounded -today. “The babies, like angels, came from heaven to bless us,” said the cadet. “A special nursery was arranged and (See LISBON, Page A-2.) ELEMENTS CHECK FIRES IN OREGON {Cooling Fog Blown in From | Sea Eases Danger, Ob- servers Believe. Ey the Associated Press. MARSHFIELD, Oreg., September 29. | —The elements, which whipped forest | fires into such a fury that they de- l stroyed a town, caused nine deaths and $3,000,000 damages, came to the | aid today of Southwestern Oregon’s | 400,000 smoke-covered acres. | | A cooling fog blown in from the sea | and a dying east wind prompted weather observers to believe that pre- | viously threatened towns now were certain to escape the fate which befell | | the coastal City of Bandon, Heart- ened residents quickly tackled re- habilitation. | Only skeletons of buildings remained | in Bandon. The business district was | destroyed, along with about 400 homes, | | by fire that forced the 1.500 residents | to flee to the beach Saturday night. | Property losses at Bandon alone were | | estimated at $1,500,000. Coos County | Judge Hugh McLain of Marshfield | tentatively estimated damage in | Southwestern Oregon would total $3,000,000. | In California, State forestry officials | estimated damage in a dozen Northern | counties at more than $1,000,000 in an | area in excess of 300,000 acres. | | The situation was considerably easier at Myrtle Point and Coquille to the| | southeast, where all-night watches were maintained. Federal and State agencies, combin- | | ing with private individuals, public organizations and officials of neigh- | boring cities, rushed the work of caring for homeless and destitute. Coast Guard cutters stood off the | Oregon coast in the event it becomes necessary to move more residents from the fire zone. Medical attention was available for those blinded by the heavy veil of smoke rising over the country as high as 16,000 feet. Assurance of assistance was relayed here from President Roosevelt at Hyde Park. Rexford Tugwell, director of the Resettlement Administration, has been ordered to survey the needs of the people. FEDERAL AID PROMISED. Aid in the form of Federal grants, loans and relief jobs to victims of the Oregon forest fire area was promised yesterday by the Resettlement Ad- ministration. A statement by Resettlement Direc- tor Tugwell said the White House had instructed that agency and the Works Progress Administration to render “any possible aid.” The Tugwell statement said the Portland regional resettlement office had been wired instructions to sur- vey needs of farmers for Federal aid in the area swept by fire. e TWO KILLED IN CHASE CHICAGO, September 29 ().—A wild early-morning chase through Loop streets at an 80-mile-an-hour clip to- day ended in death for two men sus- pected of being shop window-smashing burglars. The two—one identified as James Munno, 21, ex-convict—were shot by detectives who fired a submachine gun from a pursuing squad car. BLUM SUPPORTED BY 350-10-221 VOTE Deputies Approve Cut of One-Fourth to One-Third in Franc’s Gold Content. COUGHLIN-LEMKE VOTES MAY DECIDE FATE OF MICHIGAN Results of Trends in State Are Uncertain as Elec- tion Approaches. REPUBLICANS, BATTLING, ARE CLAIMING VICTORY ported Being Lined Up for Democrats. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of ‘Ihe Star. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., September 29.—Michigan, home of Father man from Manila”; “Jim” Couzens, and several automobile manufactur- ers, is in the throes of political ma- ternity. No one is quite sure whether the baby will be Republican or Demo- | eratic. One thing is clearly evident. The Re- publicans are on their toes and fight- ing. They believe they have an ex- cellent opportunity to carry the State for Landon against Roosevelt and they are definitely sure they will elect a Republican Governor, a Republican Senator and pick up several House seats. Republicans Stage Come-Back. The Wolverine State started on the long trail back to Republicanism in 1934. It elected a Republican Gov- | ernor, a United States Senator, Van- | denberg, and took back several con- | gressional districts from the Demo- | crats. The Republicans do not be- lieve that the State is now going to | execute an about face and return to | | New Dealism. They point, too, to the results of the primary on Sep- tember 15, when there were cast| 507,864 votes in the Republican gu- | BACKGROUND— Ajfter five years of maintaining monetary policy against current of devaluation, to which most other nations, including Great Britain and United States, succumbed, Europe’s “‘gold bloc” came to end Friday with announcement Blum government of France would seek to reduce gold content of franc under protection of agreement with Britain and America to guard against market raids on franc. Following French lead, Switzer- land, the Netherlands, Latvia and Greece moved to realign currencies in eflfort to maintain “economic equilibrium.” American stabilization fund was made available by Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau Saturday for support of franc, pound and dollar after he spent $5,000,000 to pur- chase £1,000,000 thrown on New York exchange by Moscow State Bank. His charge of attempt to raid pound was denied by Soviet. (Copyright. 1836, by the Assoclated Press.) PARIS, September 29.—Adjustment |of the French franc with the Brit- ish pound and United States dollar was approved today by a weary Chamber of Deputies after a 25-hour session. The vote on the government-spon- sored proposal was 350 to 221. The devaluation measure, which | reduces the gold content of the franc | by between one-quarter and one- | third, was sent immediately to the | Senate. Exportation and importation of gold was prohibited in a decree pub- lished after the session in the offi- cial journal. The order became ef- fective immediately. Co-operation of the United States and Great Britain in establishing a “monetary * equilibrium” agreement was cited by Premier Leon Blum in a final appeal to the tired Deputies. He asserted the devaluating bill (See FRANC, Page A-3.) DRUKMAN INQUIRY PROSECUTOR QUITS Successor to Geoghan Announces Resignation—Brutality Laid to Police. By the Associated Press. BROOKLYN, N. Y., September 29.— Hiram C. Todd today announced his resignation as special prosecutor in the investigation of the Sam Drukman murder case. He was appointed last January by Gov. Herbert H. Lehman to supersede District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan of Kings County. Simultaneous with the announce- ment by Todd, the special grand jury which has been investigating the case returned a presentment charging the New York police with negligence and brutality. The grand jury said it based its charge of brutality on the treatment accorded Fred J. Hull, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the Drukman case. Colorado Storm By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, September 29.—Eleven deaths were attributed directly or indirectly today to Colorado's worst September snowstorm, and damage was estimated in millions of dollars. Dead as a direct result of the storm were Pilot C. H. Chidlaw of El Paso, Tex., and Mr. and Mrs. Ben T. El- kins of San Francisco. Their plane crashed near Walsenburg in a sud- den, vision-blotting snow flurry. Thousands of workers started the task today of erasing the unsightly wreckage of the storm, confined mostly to trees and shrubbery in Den« ver, Pueblo and Colorado Sprrings. All are tourist cities proud of their Summer-time appearance. In Denver alone park officials es- timated the damage to the parks at $1,000,000 and said s econservative 2 Costs 11 Lives, With Huge Property Damage summary of the loss to private prop- erty owners would be $6,000,000. For blocks, gigantic trees that had grown for more than 50 years and were the pride of pioneer residents of the city, were battered to the ground. Some trunks a foot or more thick were split as though struck by lightning. Not a single section of the city escaped loss, officials said after a tour. In some blocks, solidly lined with foliage that had been Summer-green before the storm suddenly broke Sun- day, every tree was splintered and bat- tered to the pavement, making a tangle that traffic could not penetrate. Power and other electric service was restored to all parts of the city, and tram and bus service was back on schedule. At one time yesterday more than 3,000 telephones were out of order, the wires knocked down by falling branches. bernatorial primary to 377,135 in the | Democratic and when the Repub- | | licans polied 503,691 votes in the sen- | atorial primary to 331,799 in the Dem- | | ocratic. In that primary the Re- | | publicans nominated former Gov. ! | William M. Brucker for Senator, with | a plurality of 113,000 over Senator | | Couzens, who had declared his sup- | port of President Roosevelt. | The Democrats argue that the| | primary figures are really an evidence | | of Democratic strength, instead of | | Republican. They say that Repub- | lican primary vote this year was less | by 200,000 than n 1932, and that the number of votes cast in the Demo- | cratic primary this year is greater| than in any Democratic primary of | the past. And they are claiming that a raft of New Deal supporters went into the Republican primary {to vote for Couzens, who will be back voting for Roosevelt on No- vember 3. They say, too, that while the Republicans cast 58 per cent of the primary vote this year, they cast | 68 per cent in 1932. Uncertain Cross Currents. ‘There are a number of factors and cross currents in Michigan that are making it difficult for the politicians | this year. First, there is the W. P. A. and other work relief agencies, in- cluding the work on the highways. These organizations, it is charged, are | lining up the workers to support the Democratic national ticket, although | the lining up is as crudely attempted as in some other States. Then there is the defection of the Negroes from the Republican party. Large num- bers of them are expected now to vote for Roosevelt when in the past they have voted Republican. Frank Mur- phy, United States High Commissioner (See LINCOLN, Page A-5.) SUIT MAY PARALYZE CHICAGO ELECTION Taxpayer Asks Injunction, At- tacking Permanent Regis- tration Law. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 29.—Circuit Judge Cornelius J. Harrington was asked today for an injunction which, in its fullest possible effect, would paralyze the election machinery of the city of Chicago. Arguments were called on the peti- tion of Grace Herzberger, a taxpayer, for a temporary order restraining the Board of Election Commissioners from making any official act under the State’s new permanent registration law. Her suit alleged the act was invalid because it was passed at a special ses- sion of the Legislature, which in itself was illegal. Cassius M. Doty, an attorney for the election commissioners, said the legality of the session would be de- fended on the grounds the Governor had complete power to call it and that the courts have no authority to review the call. More than 1,200,000 voters have been registered under the new election law. Doty said it was possible they might all be disfranchised if an injunction were issued. Readers’. Guide Page. Answers to Questions..__A-12 B-11 B-11 A-14 Cross-word Puzzle - Death Notices Editorial Lost and Found - News Comment Features A-13 4 Coughlin, Frank Murphy, the “gentle- | THAT LANDON CHAP TOOK MY LAST GOOD JOB AWAY HERE HE Relief Project Workers Are Re- % WINANT RESIGNS TOATTACKG. 0.P. Social “Security Chairman; to Campaign for Act as Private Citizen. BACKGROUND— John G. Winant, stern-faced New Englander, established repu- tation for liberalism while serving two terms as Governor of New Hampshire. When textile strike of 1934 threatened New Deal recovery plans and seemed likely to become bitter industrial war, President Roosevelt named Winant as medi- ator. In the same year, the New Hampshire man was named head of American delegation at the In- ternational Labor Office in Geneva. Last Summer, he became first chairman of the Social Security Board. In his speech last Saturday Gov. Landon directed his principal criti- cism of ‘coercive” jeatures of un- employment compensation provision and at the heavy tar and reserve jund contemplated in the old-age pension section. By the Assoclated Press. Suddenly resigning his post as chairman of the Social Security Board, John G. Winant, former Republican Governor of New Hampshire, took to the campaign war path today to de- fend the New Deal social security act | against Gov. Alf M. Landon’s criti- cism. His first speech was scheduled for tonight at New York, the Democratic National Committee announced. Speak- | ing with him at 10:30 o'clock over the Columbia Broadcasting System will be Miss Grace Abbott, former chief of the Labor Department’s Children's | Bureau. | ‘Winant resigned in a letter to Presi- dent Roosevelt, who named him as the Republican member of the three-man board last year. The former Gov- ernor said that since the board was a non-partisan agency whose mem- bers should not be active in politics, he was resigning to speak for the security act as a private citizen. Calling the act “America’s answer” to a “great human need,” he struck at the Republican platform plank on social security and at Landon, who re- cently called the New Deal measure “unworkable and stupidly drafted.” Holds Statements Untrue. Both the platform and Landon, Winant said, “have definitely rejected the constructive provisions of the act, only to fall back on the dependency dole—a dole with a means test, which in my State includes the pauper's oath and disenfranchisement. “The statements that provisions of this act are ‘a fraud on the working- man’ and ‘a cruel hoax’ I believe are untrue.” “I have never assumed,” Winant added, “that the social security act was without fault. I had assumed and even hoped that time and experience might dictate many and important changes.” But Gov. Landon’s address at Mil- waukee, he said, “was not a plea for the improvement of the act, it was a plea to scrap the act.” Winant's letter, sent to the White (See WINANT, Page A-4.) TWO DIE IN TRAIN WRECK Coaches of Louisiana & Arkansas Are Derailed. SHREVEPORT, La. September 29 | (#)—Two persons, including the en- gineer, were killed and several others were hurt when a Louisiana & Ar- kansas passenger train was derailed at Moores Station, 8 miles south of ‘Winnfield, about midnight. One of the dead was said to have been a guard on duty in connection with the strike of transportation work- ers on the L. & A. No other details of the accident were available at the railroad company’s office here. Scheduled Strike Called Off. PARIS, September 29 (#).—A sched- uled strike of truck-gardeners in the Paris region was called off today by the Peasants’ Defense Committee, with @ threat to renew the call and extend the strike to the provinces unless the price of vegetables is increased. The Halles, Paris’ great central mar- Kkets, were calm today after s night of disorders caused by the truck garden- ers, who attempted to march on the city, prevent the sale of vegetables and induce the market workers to join & FROM ME. S AGAIN! | Germany Begins Conscription to Increase Forces Executes Hitler’s Or- der to Increase Arms to 800,000 Men. | (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) | BERLIN, September 29.—A wide- | spread increase was ordered in the | German military establishment today | as Nazi officials began conscription to raise their fighting forces to 800.000 | men under the new two-year compul- ory service rule. Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler decreed an increase to 300,000 youths for the spade corps—the government labor service—which is the preliminary training unit of the standing army. Some 30,000 of the first draft will | be inducted into the labor service | October 1, simultaneously with be- | tween 200,000 and 300,000 of their | slightly older comrades called to the | (See GERMANY, Page A-5.) 1000 ARE SEZED | N CRIME RADS Nation-Wide Arrests Made | in Liquor and Narcotics Clean-up. By the Associated Press. Striking suddenly in cities from coast to coast, Treasury law enforce- ment agencies today had made nearly | 1,000 arrests and seized several hun- | dred illicit stills in a drive against | narcotic and liquor law violators. | With 2,500 agents mobilized for the | | offensive, preliminary reports showed | more than 400 persons had been | | taken into custody on narcotics charges. Most of these were arrested for al- | leged peddling of narcotics, officials said, and prosecutions will be launched in all cases. ‘The Narcotics Bureau and the Treasury's Alcohol Tax Unit headed the drive, described as a periodic “clean-up.” The Coast Guard, Cus- toms Bureau and other Treasury en- | forcement agencies co-operated. Preliminary reports from the Alco- hol Tax Unit showed its agents had taken several huridred persons, to- gether with more than 100 automo- biles alleged to have been used in illicit liquor operations. Seizures of stills were expected to run into che hundreds when final reports from the field were received. The drive against illegal distillers was aided by earlier “scouting” work done by the Coast Guard's big am- phibian airplanes, which serve as “spotters” for the Treasury agents. Three parole violators were num- bered among those taken in the drive, officials said, two being arrested in Texas and one at Toledo, Ohio. Texas led the list of States in total arrests with 149, Arrests were made in widely scattered cities and quantities of nar-| cotics were seized. At San Antonio, | ‘Tex., agents found a store of mari- huana, The San Francisco Bay area of California was the scene of much ac- tivity. Federal and State agents| arrested 20 persons, besides seizing | (See RAIDS, Page A-4) | AIR RECORD CLAIMED FARNBOROUGH, England, Sep- tember 29 (#).—The royal air force announced today Squadron Leader F. R. D. Swain had established a world altitude record of 49,967 feet. The announcement said Swain flew an experimental plane at Bristol yes- terday, exceeding a record of 48,698 feet set last month. His ship was powered with a special 138-horsepower Pegasus motor. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. (®) Means Associated Press. [10F 12 CONVIGTED OF LEGION MURDER Michigan Terrorists Found Guilty of “Execution” on False Rumors. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, September 29.—Eleven of the 12 men charged with plotting the Black Legion “execution” of Charles A. Poole on an isolated subur- ban road last May 12 were convicted today in Circuit Court. Of the 11, all but four were con- victed of first-degree murder. The jury of nine men and three women held two of the others guilty of second- degree murder, and Judge Joseph A. Moynihan returned a second-degree murder conviction against the two de- fendants who had waived a jury trial. The jury, which had listened to the prolonged testmony in the case since September 10, required an hour and 25 minutes to reach its decision. Mrs. Rebecca Poole, comely young widow of the man the 11 were con- victed of luring to-his death in “pun- ishment” for false rumors that he had mistreated his wife, was in the court room when the verdict was returned. Only One Acquitted. The acquittal of Herschell Gill, the | only defendant freed on the charges by the jury, had been suggested by | Assistant State Attorney Chester P. O'Hara. Five of those convicted of first- degree murder—"Colonel” Harvey Davis, Ervin D. Lee, Urban Lipps, Paul R. Edwards and Edgar Baldwin—were present when Poole was shot to death by Dayton Dean. the confessed “exe- cutioner.” The two others convicted of first-degree murder were John Bannerman and Lowell Rushing, who were charged with taking an active part in the death plot. The jury convicted Thomas R. Craig and Virgil Morrow, both of whom at- tended the meeting in Findlater Hall where the State charged the “execu- tion” plot was agreed upon, of second- degree murder, with a recommenda- tion of leniency for Morrow. Maximum Is Life Imprisonment. ‘The bench returned the second-de- gree conviction against Albert Stevens and John S. Vincent, the oldest of the defenfiants. Both of them also were at the Findlater Hall meeting. Under Michigan law the maximum penalty for first degree murder is life imprisonment. Second-degree con- viction leaves ¢he sentence to the dis- cretion of the court. The cold-blooded killing of Poole, a young W. P. A. worker, followed false neighborhood gossip that he beat his wife. The intensive inquiry that followed exposed the Black Legion as a group of hooded night riders that terrorized its own members and sought to impose its racial and religious prejudices on poli- ticians in cities of the Detroit area. Dayton Dean, chunky two-gun “ex- ecutioner,” who calmly testified he shot down Poole at close range on orders of “Col.” Davis, was a frequent, willing witness before grand juries investi- gating ramifications of the secret or- der. He also was the principal wit- ness in the present trial. Uprising Plot Charged. In Wayne County (Detroit) nearly a | score of kidnapings, floggings and con- spiracies to murder and incite to riot were charged against members of the society. An indictment charging its leaders with criminal syndicalism al- leged they plotted an armed uprising | against the Federal Government. At nearby Pontiac a grand jury named 86 public officials and employes as members of the terrorist organiza- tion, but claims that it had 6,000,000 members in the United States were dis- counted by authorities. Poole’s wife was in a Detroit hos- pital with a 5-day-old baby, her sec- ond child, the night her husband pleaded vainly for his life on a lonely country road. She said charges that he beat her were “ridiculous.” ~ See the World’s Series With The Star The Star scoreboard will give a play-by-play description of the world series base ball games between the Giants and the Yankees, beginning tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. with the first contest at the Polo Grounds, New York. Immediately after the game The Star will be on the street with the box score and full details. Yesterday’s Circulation, 136,942 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. RHODES INDICTED ON 24 CHARGES, TOTALING $43518 Former Loan Head Faces Counts of Larceny and Forgery. TRUE BILLS ARE RESULT OF LONG INVESTIGATION Accusations Involve Transactions Concerning Building Operations on Virginia Property. BACKGROUND— Fred B. Rhodes, at one time a well known attorney here, was ar- rested last July 18, after Treasury and Justice agents allegedly found irregularities in the conduct of the aflairs of the Fide'ity Building & Loan Association, which Rhodes had headed as president. Subse~ quently Rhodes was charged with the larceny of $13,000 from the in- stitution, which was placed in re- ceivership. He denied the charge. Pred B. Rhodes, former head of the Fidelity Building & Loan Association, who was arrested July 18 simultane eously with the closing of the associae | tion by the controller of the currency, | was indicted today on 20 larceny and four forgery charges. The alleged larcenies aggregate $43,519.59 of Fidelity funds. The charges were contained in three separate true bills, one with 20 Jarceny counts, the second with one count of forgery, and the third with three forgery counts. Assistant United States Attorney John J. Wilson said Rhodes probably would be tried first on the forgery indictments, since the | transgctions are less involved than those giving rise to the larceny allegations. Rhodes, who is 60, is at liberty under $5.000 bond. He is married, has four children, and lives at 4715 Seventeenti street. For several years he has been identified as an attorney with im- | portant banking litigation, and main- tains law offices in the National Press | Building. Long Investigation Made. The indictments are the result or | a lengthy and intensive investigation | by Treasury and Justice Department agents and by Wilson and his asso- ‘clam. Howard Boyd. | The larceny charges were brought under section 691 of the District code, | which provides that any misappropria- | tion of building and loan association | funds shall be considered larceny and i punished as such. | Since the maximum penalty for | grand larceny is imprisonment for from 2 to 10 years, Rhodes, if found guilty, could be sentenced on the lar- | ceny indictment alone to from 40 to 200 years. Forgery also carries a 2-to- 10-year maximum, bringing the total possible sentence up 48 to 240 years. The alleged larcenies occurred dure ing a period from October 12 to De- cember 11, 1935, inclusive, and, for the most part, involved transactions in regard to Rhodes' building opera- tions on tracts of land near Alex- andria, Va. Unauthorized Drafts Claimed. In eight of the larceny counts, the Government claims that Rhodes, without authorization, drew on the | Fidelity’s account in the Second Na- | tional Bank to finance construction of houses on his Virginia property, debit- ing his own account in the Fidelity with corresponding overdrafts. These withdrawals were said to total 7,528.10. Another allegedly unauthorized check was in the amount of $925, and, (See RHODES, Page A-2.) 'RUFFING IS PICKED TO FACE HUBBELL Yankees' Manager Names Right- Hander to Hurl Series Opener. | By tne Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 29.—Joe McCarthy, manager of the New York Yankees, today nominated Charley (Red) Ruffing, burly right-hander, for pitching duty against the New iYork Giants in the opening game of the world series at the Polo Grounds tomorrow. Carl Hubbell, great south- | paw, will pitch for the Giants. Four men, blue-lipped with cold, waiting stolidly at the bleacher en- trance to the Polo Ground for the gates to open tomorrow, this morning had their minds intent on taking the cash and letting the credit go. Remarks about the glory of being the first to enter when the gates swing back fell on deaf and frost-chilled ears, but when it came to a discussion of prices to be paid for one of the first places in line, or for posed photo- graphs, autographs, statements and life histories the replies were terse and to the point. ‘The first place in line was quoted this morning at $150 by the holder, Anthony L. Albano, 38 years old, an unemployed chauffeur from Brooklyn, who has been camping at the Eighth avenue entrance for 11 days. Second place, held by William Mc- Coy, 17, @lso of Brooklyn, had not achieved this morning a definite rating on the bid and asked lists, but McCoy, who is an understudy of Albano's in the waiting-in-line business, and who also arrived there September 18, sourly ignored suggestions that he might take a mere $35 or $40 for his position. o 4 COOL WAVE HELD DUE TO REMAIN “FEW DAYS” ‘The forecaster held out little hope today for a “break” in the current cool wave, “at least for a few days.” Rain and continued cool weather is in prospect for tonight and tomorrow, the forecaster said, adding that warmer weather is not expected for several )