Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1936, Page 4

HEARING ISURGED- ONG.0.P.CHARGES :_Hepuhlican Committee Asks Action on “Corruption” in Pennsylvania. By the Associated Press. 5 The Republican National Commit- tee said yesterday unless the Benate Campaign Expenditures Committee holds open hearings, before election on charges of “New Deal corruption” in Pennsylvania, it will “stand self- | convicted of being a partisan agency of the Roosevelt administration. * The senatorial committee slready has ordered an investigation of al- legations by Senator Davis, Republi- can, of Pennsylvania that Works Progress Administration employes in his State are being deprived of politi- cal freedom, but Chairman Lonergan has said the question of hearings will depend on the outcome of the in- ‘westigation. - ZOffering to give the Lonergan com- fhittee photostatic copies of affidavits and other “evidence” in its possession, the Republican committee~ said the {riformation would - be broadcast “in order to insure that this evidence will bé heard in the ultimate court of appeal—the court of public opinion— and not be suppressed and hidden.” “The high court of public opinion will weigh the evidence and arrive at & conclusive verdict on this subject,” the committee said. “And this {ribunal will not be satisfled by the ¢ommittee’s effort to pocket the evi- dence snd squelch the hearings through the method of turning over évidence to its corps of well-trained detectives.” I Asserting it was “reluctantly forced believe” the Lonergan’,group in- ed to wait until after th election %o “determine how many ballots were stolen or gained by corruption” rather fhan attempt. any prevention, the Re- publican National Committee said: «“The Senate Campaign Investigating QGommittee may be deaf to the scream- scandal in Pennsylvania; the pub- is not.” . ~ At Lonergan's office, officials de- ed to say whether the committee's chief investigator, Louis R. Glavis, had zfun his inquiry in the Keystone te. . : Spain - (Continued From First Page.) fong cabinet meeting, was ‘explained By the government as being “for the benefit of the nation.” - Another measure decided on by the ministers forbade the exportation of gold and silver. 2 "The government decided to super- wse the activities of banks by a “directing committee.”™, Observers ex- pressed belief it would\ be composed of the popular front parties—which joined to gain am electoral victory last February—for the duration of the civil war, ATTACK FLANKS. . i Government Forces Move Out in Sur- prise Maneuver. WITH GOVERNMENT TROOPS, MORA, Spain, October 3 (P).—Gov- ernment forces tonight fought to oup~ flank the Fascist southern wing closer | ing in on Madrid from Toledo. “ Fresh reinforcements sent up to the front lines from Madrid swung in & se maneuver out and around | e town of Olias Del Rey, about 30 | miles south of Madrid on the main highway from Toledo. The line stretched over an impor- tant railway bridge and off to Mora, which is 55 miles almost due south of the capital, thenee zigzagging south- west and southeast. Fascist “Black Birds of Death"—as the government men term the insur- gent warplanes—spotted the troop movements and bombed the most.con- cpntrated government units. sThe railroad line into Madrid, an- efher target for the insurgent air- 1men, escaped serious damage, but two houses were demolished by the 14 kpmbs loosed by the aviators. #8triving to break the Fascist arc efound Madrid from the north, west d south, the government military h command ordered strengthening tBe defense of strategic Aranjuez and Castillejos, below the capital =These two cities, with highroads to sea, are only about 15 miles edst the Olias-Bargas front, and have biden named by the Fascist leaders as two of their next objectives. “Refugees from the battle areas to- night streamed. back into Mora, their household belongings carted along or piicked on dray horses and mules. ' FIGHT IN STREETS. » 5 Fjscists Report Battle Among Bilbao | 4 Defense Groups. «SAINT JEAN DE LUZ, France, Oc- téber 3 (#).—Spanish Fascist radio tions reported tonight many per- sans had been killed in street fight- 1 inside government-held Bilbao, en a group of women, demonstrating t8r the surrender of the city, were ked by anarchists. e insurgent broadcasters declared tHe women organized a public meet- ing in a street, at which they asked far the ending of the war. Basque Nptionalists rushed to their defense ainst the anarchists, the radio re- said, and a serious fight ensued. “Refugees sympathetic to the gov- emment who reached here earlier, de- | , however, that Bilbao was quiet aad the Basque Nationalists were in | government forces broke and retreated, | goza, in northeastern Spain,'600 Fai- cfmplete control. :Insurgent warplanes renewed a bom- { 25 YEARS EXCLUSIVELY OPTICAL Smart, New THE HI-BO FRAME Beautifully furnished with the new, high ear piece. 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At the Nalon, the Fascists said, the leaving a number of dead on the bat- tlefleld. Most of these were of apparent for- eign nationality, the Fascists added. ADVANCE REPORTED. Insurgent Columns Move on Navalcar- nero, Broadcast Says. RABAT, French Morocco, October 3 ().—The Spanish Fascist radio sta- tion at Cadiz reported tonight twé in- surgent columns were advancing on Navalcarnero, about 20 miles south- west of Madrid. 3 One column, the b caster de- | clared, was pushing slong the high- way, from Talavera de :‘.‘Rdnu,w Madrid, while the-other the *To-1 ledo-Madrid road, near -Jllescas and cut across*toward’ NavaicAthero, .. -: On Quinto Hill, 25 milés from. Zars= cists were holding out against a gov-] ernment attack and had sworn to die rather than surrender, the Fascist broadcaster declared. SALAMANCA PICKED. Fascist Headquarters to Be Established There, Is Report. LISBON, Portugal, October 4 (Sun- | day) (P)—The correspondent of -the | newspaper Diario Lisboa, at Caceres, | Spain, reported today the Spanish Fascist administration had decided to establish general headquarters at Sal- amanca, in western Spain. The newspaper report said Gen. Francisco Franco, Fascist command- er in chief, who will become dictator of Spain if his forces are victorious, and Gen. Emilio Mola, one of his lead* ing aides, had passed through Caceres with other members of Franco's gen- eral staff, en route to Salamanca. (The seat of the insurgent junta has been at Burgos, in northeastern Spain, since shortly after the war broke out.) VILLAGES CAPTURED. Fascist Northern Army Rushes Ad- vance on Madrid. BURGOS, Spain, October 3 (#).— The Fascist northern army pressed its advance on Madrid tonight, .cap- turing villages in the Gredos Moun-| tains, west of the Loyalist capital. The battle line pushed forward near the important objective of San Martin de Valdeiglesias, 36 miles due west of the capitol. % 2 Fifty of the enemy were killed,: it was reported. Ten cavalry squadrons mopped up in the area. R On the Guadarrama front, is was announced, the advance had been re- newed after the governmient forces resisted_stubbornly. i Gen. Francisco Franco, supreme- in- surgent commander, desighated the generals he hopes will lead vietorious armies into Madrid. \ Gen. Mola Appointed. i Gen. Emilio Mola, oonqueror - of Irun and San Sabastian,’ was: placed in command of the northern armies. The southern wing of ‘the Fascist forces was placed under Gen. Gonzalo Queidm de Llano, Franco's hight-hand man at the Seville base, 5 Franco himself, dictater-appointee # Personal attention given all ex- aminations by Dr. A. 8. Shah, should -the insurgents triumph, as- sumed personal leadership of the pro- visional Junta at Burgos, replacing Gen. Miguel Cabanellas, whom Franco named inspector-general of both armies. Franco, after reorganizing the Junta into seven departments, and announc- ing that he would send a delegate to present the insurgent case to the League of Nations, devoted his activi- ties to direction of the final cam- paign to take Madrid. 4 Monarchy is Hinted. Once taken, Franco said, the gov- ernment capital will be placed under complete control of military men, and a royal restoration might be considered “when we are convinced the proper moment has arrived.” Franco signed a decree giving the command of Fascist forces on the Guadalajara front, west of Madrid, to Gen. Jose Moscardo, the “hero” of the siege of the Alcazar. (Moscsrdo was in command of the 1,200 Fascist men, women and children, who held out for 72 days of shot, shell and dynamite in the ancient cadet school in Toledo, then held by the government.) HEAVY TOLL REPORTED 2,300 Loyalists Siain at Toledo, Fas- cists Announce. HENDAYE, France, ' Qctober 4 (8unday) (#).—Reports from Toledo, Spain, early. today said 2,300 gov- ernment fighters were killed in the capture and “clean up” of that city last week by the Fascists. Ninety government militiamen, who took refuge in a seminary after the occupation by the insurgents were reported captured and killed after holding out nearly a week. The Fascists set the building afire after a siege which bid. fair to de- velop like that of insurgents in the old Alcazar fortress who were liber- ated when their comrades marched into Toledo. Reports to the border said the last defender of the seminary was killed yesterday, after he was forced out of refuge by the flames. Eleven Russian officers and two French artillery officers were said by Fascists to have been found among the government dead after the cap- ture of the seminary. -— ‘Total cost of the new city hall at Cork, Irish Free State, recently opened, is placed at $930,000. A TRUE lover has not?) this to make. Phone NA. 1107 ACCURATELY FILLED . the Saragossa front in northeastern Spain to face the Fascists and per- militia soldiers-dance with the girls of the village while their fellow —Wide World Photo, CLAIMS VETERANS HAD PHONEY DEAL E. E. Spafford, Former Legion Head, Scores Roosevelt in Note to Democrats. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 3.—The Re- publican State Committee today made public a letter by Edward E. Spafford, former national commander of the American Legion, saying, “The New | Deal candidate for President has given the veterans a phoney deal.” The letter was addressed to Col. Louis A. Johnson, chairman of the Democratic Veterans' Committee. In it Spafford asserted Mr. Roose- velt had: “PForced” passage of the economy | act, which “was aimed directly at | those who had borne the brunt of fighting for our country.” Held “the veterans to ridicule,” in addition to vetoing the bonus act. Broken “his oath to uphold the Constitution.” “Shattered the solemn obligations of our beloved country when he clipped the coinage.”, . “Ordering veterans who had assem- bled in the ital to express their grievances * * * to be sent to the Florida Keys. ‘There over 2,000 of these veterans met their death because of neglect.” s “Tried in our land to pit class | against class.” “Caused Russia to be recognized and placed on an equality with God- fearing nations.” Homeless Man Dies Seeking Sleep in | Gas-filled House BY the Associated Press. MANCHESTER, England.— Arthur Blake, 53, a homeless rag- picker, broke into a deserted house in the night and went to sleep on the floor. There he died. He had not been able in the darkness to read a big notice outside that the house was to be demolished and, as & preliminary, had been filled with deadly gas. the new STEINWAY GRAND for only § 885 STEINWAY IN ALL PARTICULARS is your opportunity. THE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS ey WALLACE ATTACKS FOES OF FARMER Tells lowans Landon Should Renounce Them if He Is a “Liberal.” DECORAH, Iows, October 3 (#).— Secretary Wallace said tonight that if Gov. Alf M. Landon is a “liberal” he should “at once renounce the sup- port of these few powerful men who have always been the enemies of ag- riculture and of the general welfare.” In & speech here, winding up a week of campaigning in the farm belt, the Agriculture Secretary said “the same old crowd” was “behind the throne” of the Republican party. In the past, Wallace said, the in- terests to which he referred were “the big packers, the speculators of Wall Street and La Salle Street and cer- tain lords of corporate industry and finance.” W False Whiskers, But since 1933, he added, these in- terests “have been wearing false whiskers and smoked glasses.” “They call their disguise the Amer- ican Liberty League,” he 3ald. “The agricultural branch of the Liberty League is called the Farmers' In- dependence Council.” Contending these people pretend- ed “they are in no way identified with the national Republican leader- ship,” Wallace said “their money is and 30 are some of their trained seals®? ° . “It was the rich men of the Liberty League who poured the money into Maine to ofl the Landon machine :ly in September,” the Secretary d. “What they have done for Msine they will no doubt do in Iowa. I suggest that farmers watch for evi- dence of their spending during the coming weeks.” Inflaming Easterners. Wallace said a vice president of the Farmers' Independence Council “is now in charge of the Republican campaign in the East” and identified him as “Charles W. Burkett, not long ago hired by William Randolph Hearst to do a series of articles for the Hearst press misrepresenting the farmers’ adjustment programs.” The Secretary said the Republicans had attempted to “Inflame Eastern consumers against food prices while promising Western farmers parity in- come.” Turning back to Landon, Wallace | sald the Republican nominee “is ask- ing the American people to accept more promissory notes than any pres- idential candidate in my experience ever has, and in every one of his promissory notes the space for the amount is still a blank.” “The objectives which the Gov- | ernor of Kansas applauded eight months ago the candidate “completely reversed himself.” Dealing specifically with the Lan- don farm proposals, Wallace said, “The Landon program offers what can only be called a dole.” - Landon g iy (Continued From First Page.) “certain that New England and the East will go for Landon.” “The fight is in Illinois, Ohio and | Michigan,” Block said, naming three of the four States on Landon's next campaign trip. He added: “I feel certain of Landon’s election an¥ have since the beginning.” Split in Support. Mrs. Landon went to cheer for her alma mater, Washburn. Peggy Anne Landon, a student at “K. U.” was an ardent backer of the opposing eleven. The Governor, a graduate of Kansas University, told newsmen he would just cheer “for Kansas.” ‘The nominee planed to spend a quiet Sunday. He said no major engage- ments or activities were listed prior to his departure Thursday. In Chicago, October 9, Landon was expected to discuss the Federal budget. Aides predicted that his Cleveland speech, October 12, would deal with Government organization and civil A& If you have always wanted to own a Steinway (and what true music. You can purchase the new Steinway Grand Piano for only $885. This is, in every particular, as fine a piano as Steinway knows how “Liberal terms can be easily arranged. Come in tomorrow and see, hear, play this amazing instrument. Our stock is at its best, consisting of personal and carefully selected instruments.’ E. F. DROOP & SONS CO. 1300 G Street “iosms .5 femos from | Kansas now condemns as ‘scarcity,’” | Wallace said, contending Landon had | | be spent in Columbus. 1036—PART ONE. Lady Astor Back in Dixie LADY ASTOR, - American-born member of the British Parliament, shown in Mirador, the home where she was born, during her current visit to the United States. lottesville, Va. service, and the one at Detroit, Octo- ber 13, with relief. Itinerary of Tour. Thursday, October 8—Leave Topeks at 7 pm. (Central standard time) via the Santa Fe. Priday, October 9—Illinois: Arrive and Chicago 11 a.m. in the Chicago Stadium t! the Landon train will leave at 11 pm. via the Big Four Rallroad for Cin- cinnati. Saturday, October 10—Ohio: Arrive Cincinnati 7:45 am., attend a break- fast meeting and leave from the Win- ton Place Station at 9:15 a.m.; Hamil- ton 10 am.; West Middletown 10:20 am.; Dayton 11 am. Springflield 12:03 pm.; London 12:40 p.m. and Columbus 1:40 pm., where Landon plans to attend the Ohlo State-Pitts- burgh foot ball game. The night will 11—Remain Sunday, October Columb Monday, October 12—Leave Colum- | bus 9 a.m. (via B. & O.); arrive Mount Vernon 10:05 a.m.; Millersburg 11:08 am.; Orville 11:56 a.m.; Akron 12:46 p.m., and Cleveland 1:10 p.m. Landon will spend the night in Cleveland and leave the next morning for Detroit on a schedule still undeter- mined. After his Detroit speech Tues- The home is just ou in; e of Char- —Wide World Photo. day, October 13, the Governor was scheduled for two days of rear plat- form appearances on the homeward route through Michigan, Indiana and Tlinois. ALUMNI TO MEET Judge Cooper to Address Clemson Association. Federal Judge Robert A. Cooper of Puerto Rico will be guest speaker at 7 p.m. tomorrow at s meeting of the Clemson Alumni Association at the University Club. Plans for attending the Duke-Clem- son foot ball game at Durham, N. C,, Saturday will be formulated. OLD GOLD AND SILVER will bring you DEMOGRATS QUIT MINNESOTA RACE Seek to Solidify Party and Farmer-Laborites Be- hind Roosevelt. By the Associated Press. BT. PAUL, October 3.—Minnesota's gubernatorial and United States sen- atorial campaigns tonight had been narrowed to two-party races following the unprecedented withdrawal of the Democratic nominees for those offices in an effort to solidify Farmer-Labor and Democratic forces behind Presi- dent Roosevelt. Cancellations for Patrick J. Delaney of St. Paul, senatorial nominee, and for Pred A. Curtls of South St. Paul, for Governor, were filed with the-sec- retary of State by Judge J. F. D. Meijghen, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee. Delaney’s withdrawal left the Parmer-Labor candidate, Representa- tive Ernest Lundeen of Minneapolis, alone to oppose Representative Theo- dore Christianson, Republican n inee. The gubernatorial race was nar- rowed to United States Senator Elmer A. Benson, Farmer-Labor, and Mar- tin A. Nelson, G. O. P. candidate, de- feated two years ago by the late Gov. Floyd B. Olson. None would come ment immediately on the move. Both Delaney and Curtis, in pre- pared statements, asserted they were retiring to define the issue more clearly between “progress and reaction” and to promote re-election of President Roosevelt, thereby insuring “progress thus far made.” “The progress thus far made,” Cur- tis said in his statement, “can only be insured by re-electing Franklin D. Roosevelt President and electing El- mer A. Benson Governor of Minne- sota.” In New York James A. Farley, Democratic national chairman, com- menting on the action, said: “This means that the Democrats and the Farmer-Laborites in Minnesota will now be able to unite whole-heartedly in support of President Roosevelt and the Farmer-Laborite candidates for the Senate and the governorship. This will bring victory for both the President and the Farmer-Laborites." 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