Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1936, Page 1

(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, possibly showers; slightly cooler tonight. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 83, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-T7. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 No. 33,764. 21 NATIONS STUDY RUSSAKS CHARGE FASLSTS VOLATE NELTRALTY PACT Soviet Delegate “‘Satisfied” With Proceedings During London Parley of Non- Intervention Committee. BRITISH LABOR DEMANDS ARMS MARKET OPENING Anthony Eden, Conferring With Leon Blum in Paris, Reported to Have Agreed on Exertion of Every Effort to Prevent Col- lapse of Accord. BACKGROUND— Outbreak of Spanish civil war in mid-July gave rise to international fears that attempt of Fascist coun- tries—Germany and Italy—to assist the rebels and of others with strong aocialistic elements to help the Madrid Popular Front government might lead to conflict. French took lead in obtaining a non-interven- * tion agreement whereby principal European nations obligated them- selves mot to permit military as- sistance to either side. Violation of pledges by Italy and Germany charged Wednesday by the Soviet Union in ultimatum warning that unless flow of arms and implements of war from these countries to insurgents was stopped assistance might be lent to Madrid government. BULLETIN, (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, October 9. —The Spanish Embassy, coincident with critical sessions of the Internation- al Committee on Neutrality, late today charged that 700 Xtalian troops had participated with Span- ish Fascists in the capture of the Balearic Island of Iviza Septem- ber 20. (Copyright. 1936, by the Associated Press.) Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. } Rival’s Kisses '| AreFlat,G.O.P. || CandidateSays Women Held Uncon- vinced by Demo- cratic Caresses. ! By the Assoclated Press. + JACKSONVILLE, Fla., October 9.— | Kissing may not become a Florida | subernatorial issue after all, despite the Republican candidate's charge | that his Democrati¢ opponent’s cam- ! paign kisses are “flat.” i E. E. Callaway of Lakeland, the | Republican, made the charge last {night at Marianna, where he was campaigning. He said Fred P. Cone of Lake City, | the Democratic candidate, “is running | over the State making speeches and ikxsyng all the women that will let him, and if he will just kiss enough of them I will beat him by 100,000 i | | | | | votes, for every one he kisses will | | vote for me. “I have had dozens of them he has | tell me it was the flattest kiss th ever had in their lives and that they are afraid he will make just as flat a Governor.” i Cone was speaking in Fort Myers i laway made his statement, Candidate | Cone publicly kissed Miss Eleanor i Casen, recently named “Miss Florida” in a Stale-wide beauty contest. [TALIAN VETERAN . INFRANCE SHOT {Gravely Wounded—More Police Rushed to Alsace- Lorraine Area. BACKGROUND— Cries of “Prison for La Rocque” by Communists rang through Paris streets yesterday as Fascists and Rightists virtually forced the Blum government drastically to limit “red” meetings near the German border, which they deemed would be provocative to Hitler, arch mid- Europe foe of communistic doc- trines. By the Assoctated Press. METZ, France, October 9.—An- | tonio Mertazzo, described locally as an b last night. About the same hour Cal-' LONDON, October 9.—A RUSSIAN | gttache of the Italian Consulate here, expression of “satisfaction” came t0- yu5 gravely wounded in a surprise at- day from the secret session of 27/ (ack by unidentified motorists today European states pondering the grave continental crisis created by Moscow | and Madrid charges of Fascist assist- to Spain’s insurgents. | am satisfied with the proceed- | ings,” said Moiseyevich Kagan, Soviet mn an assault in the region already troubled by agitation against Com- munist plans for demonstrations over the week end. (Paris officials were informed the WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1936—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. LOYALISTS WAVER BEFORE FASCISTS THREE-WAY DRIVE Strategic Towns Captured by Rebels Southeast of Avila, TROOPS SEEK JUNCTION 35 MILES FROM MADRID Artillery, Aviation and Infantry Join in Shattering Ranks of Defenders. (Copyright. 1036, by the Associated Press ) BURGOS, Spain, October 9.—Triple columns of insurgent Fascists, battling through mountainous terrain, slammed against wavering government lines |toward a military junction 35 miles west of Madrid today. Fascist warriors captured three strategic towns in the rugged country | southeast of Avila: San Martin de Valdeiglesias, Navalperal de Pinares and Sotillo de la Adrada, | San Martin fell before the on- !slnught of a column commanded by | Gen. Emilio Mola advancing south- ward from Cebreros. Between Mola's forces and the |troops of Gen. Francisco Franco, | marching north from Almoro, stretch- | ed a crumbling Socialist defense line. | | The two Fascist divisions were only 8 | | miles apart, their commanders said. Navalperal went under insurgent | domination during fierce fighting and | counter-attacks ordered by govern- ment commanders because of the im- | portance of the town in defense of the capital. A third Pascist force, pushing east, seized Sciillo de la Adrada, to cap- | :iure a secondary mountain road junc- on. MY CHILD HAS DONE NoTHING. 1TS THAT MCNARY- HAUGEN KID THEY SHOULD TACKLE! 'i(n@ ” S I Vi ROOSEVELT OPENS CAMPAIGN INWEST Not Worried, He Says, as| Long as People Continue to Direct U. S. By tne Associated Press. Insurgents Scatter Defenders. The driving insurgents, in their ad- vance through the jagged Sierra de Gredos Mountains, sent Socialist de- | fenders scattering before them under | combined artillery, aviation and in- | fantry attacks. | | #The conquerors of San Martin | | tramped into the mountain town to | find in flames a seminary, useé by government forces as & munitions depot. | Left behind, however, were | trucks, 10 cannon and other war sup- | plies. | | Pascist headquarters at Burgos also reported the capture of Siguenza, a village in Guadalajara Province be- | sleged for days by recurring insur- gent and Socialist attacks and coun- ter-attacks, The government counter-ai‘ack at 27| DUBUQUE, Iowa, October 9.—Presi- | | dent Roosevelt opened his Western | | campaign here today with a declara- | tion that he was not “worried” so long as the future conduct of the | Nation remained in the hands of the people. | Addressing a welcoming crowd of | Towans from the rear platform of his | campaign special, the Chief Executive | asserted there was a “great moral | lesson pointing the direction which | our country must needs go” in an oration given by Father Sheehy at | funeral services several months -.oi for Senator Murphy of Dubuque. | | Towa, who was killed in an automobile | | accident. | | “He quoted at length from that| | tribute, which included a statement | | that “drastic measures” were neces: Scots Send 1-Word Cable to Unveiling; British Wire 1,500 Scottish scientists lived up to the thrifty reputation of their people in sending greetings to Washington to be read at cere- monies in which a bust of Lord Kelvin, British scientist, was pre- sented to the Smithsonian Insti- tution yesterday. English scientists dispatched a cable of 1500 words. praising Lord Kelvin, who died many years ago. Their Scotch brethren cabled a one-word message: “Felicitations.” It might be added that Lord Kelvin's greatest work was ac- complished in his 50 years at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. MAN LOSES NERVE IN SUCIDE. PACT The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. FOR TALK TONIGHT |Arrives on First Leg of In- vasion of Great Lakes States. | By rne Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, October 9.—En route to (Some retu; F¥H Convict Is Slain In FourthEffort ToEscapeGang Ramon Novarro of Puerto Rico Shot to Death by Guards. BY the Associatea Press. CULPEPER, Va, October 9.—Ra- mon Novarro, was shot and killed by guards today in an attempted break from a chain gang at State Prison Camp No. 11, a mile from Culpeper. It was the fourth time the convict, a Puerto Rican, had tried to escape | since he was brought to the Virginia | penitentiary May 13, 1930. | Five guards were escorting 70 con- | victs to work in a rock quarry near the camp this morning when Novarro broke from the line of marching men and ran into the fog. Guards J. H. Vaughan and W. B, Mathews opened fire. Four slugs| from their guns struck him in the| back and one hit him in the knee. Death was instant. | Dr. J. L. Stringfellow, coroner of Culpeper County, decided that the guards “shot in'line of duty.” Novarro received a 10-year sen-| tence in Nottoway County for robbery {and three years more at Hopewell for possessing stolen goods. Two at- tempts to escape brought him two more years' imprisonment, and he was waiting trial on a third charge of at- tempting to escape when killed today. | 1 GAIN ININGOME TAXES By the Associated Press. | Attributing the gain to reviving | (®) Means Associated Press. | been done here. | woo the 88 electoral votes of Illinois,. trade and new tax laws, Internal Rev- Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, Gov. Alf | enue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering | M. Landon arrived in Chicago at noon ' announced today a $313,707921 in- today for one of his major addresses crease in income tax collections dur-| | tonight as the Republican presidential ' ing the 1936 fiscal year. iEosarnces | Total Federal tax collections rose to A heavy rain fell as the Kansas $3520,208381, he reported in sub- Governor's Sunflower special pulled mitting revised figures for the year into the Twelfth Street Station of the | ended last June 30 to Secretary of the Tllinois Central Railroad, after having Treasury Morgenthau. made brief stops at Freeport and Rock- ‘This represented an improvement of | ford, 11, on the way from Topeka. | Republican leaders of Tilinois wel- comed the candidate with a parade $220,772,808, or 6.7 per cent, Helvering said. in spite of the invalidation of the lucrative agricultural adjustment | along Michigan avenue to a hotel' axes by the Supreme Court. | where Landon was to confer with Bt Besenuo St 1 | party leaders and rest for his address e sesng | The 285 per cent gain in income | taxes feflected, for the first time. the in the Chicago Stadium tonight. In the welcoming delegation was a chorus recruited to sing “Our Lan- | full effect of the 1934 revenue act, he Yesterday’s Circulation, 138,421. rns not yet received., TWO CENTS. NEBRASKA VICTORY FOR RODSEVELT MAY HINGE ON TRP in Doubtful |Many Votes 35-year-old cofl"‘“-} Column Expected to | Be Affected. OMAHA NEWSPAPER SUPPORT TRANSFERRED Religious Opposition to President on Increase Due to Com- munism Issue. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Sta® Correspondent of ine Star. OMAHA, Nebr, October 9.—Presi- dent Roosevelt's visit to Nebraska, scheduled for tomorrow, will swing the State definitely to the Democratic column in the presidential eleetion, his followers here believe. Nevertheless, for the time being, Nebraska is chalked up as a doubtful State. The best-informed leaders— including Democrats—admit that the State may go either way, Roosevelt or Landon, by a very narrow margin. The preponderance of opinion of the innocent (?) bystanders is to the effect that Roosevelt has the edge and will | carry the State. Much effective work for Landon has The Kansas Governor is a near neighbor. He is popular with many people in Nebraska. In addi- tion to the personal appeal which a man from this section of the country naturally has for Nebraska voters, this | State is not without its soreheads— against Roosevelt and the New Deal. | He is getting strong newspaper sup- port, especially in Omaha, the largest city, where both the World-Herald and the Bee-News are supporting the Republican candidate. Both supported Roosevelt four years ago, Religion Becomes Factor. Phere is a potentjal factor which seems to be making itself felt here, as well as in other States. It is a fear that the Roosevelt New Deal poli- cies are leading the country toward state socialism or something even more red. The more ardent church people, whether Protestant or Catholic, are inquiring more and more into this angle; some of them are declaring themselves in opposition to Roosevelt —although they supported him four vears ago, and even voted for the New Dealers two vears ago in the congres- sional elections. How widespread this tendency is. it is difficult to say at this time. It may be confined to a comparatively few persons. But that it is influencing some is testified to here. President Roosevelt's visit to Ne- | | | | N o e ey ny sary lo meet social proviems when MYystery of Vigil Over Body the victorious Fascists, who found | Murphy took office, and while some | - only women and children in the vil- |Of those measures may have been of Former Wife Ex- don.” one of the official songs of the added. Volunteers, a Republican organization. Higher rates imposed by the 1934 Party leaders of State and county|law, coupled with increased values, braska is designed not only to stimu- late the campaign now being eon= ducted by the New Dealers, but also representative on the European Non- | Wounded man was Antonio Bertazzo, T on ¢ Bommittee o erging | & disabled Italian World War veteran from the conference room when the | Who had no connection with the Metz group adjourned for luncheon. | Italian Consulate. Already, it was learned, the Soviet, | Italian, British, French, Belgian and German delegates had spoken. Open Markets Demanded. In Edinburgh, meantime, the Brit- | ish Labor party’s conference approved e demand that both Britain and France open their arms markets to| Madrid if it is shown the neutrality | pact either is ineffective or breached., The delegates, adding to a statement | by their national executive, expressed belief Fascist states already had| broken the accord. In Paris, where British Foreign | Becretary Anthony Eden paused on & dash back home from an inter- rupted holiday, informed sources said | Premier Leon Blum of France and Eden had agreed to exert every effort to prevent collapse of the non-inter- vention accord. Despite his statement. Kagan ap- peared glum following the first 2!3- hour session, 1t appeared, in fact, that the only concrete accomplishment had been that the Soviet delegates did not walk | out. Kagan said he would return for the later session. It was understood the first hours of the conversations were devoted | largely, to laying a groundwork for | subseqlent procedure, with the dele- | gations—beginning with the British— laying their cards on the table. Thus the stage was set for possible | verbal fireworks later on. | Lord Plymouth, as chairman and | spokesman for the peace-making Brit- ish, might have a ticklish task, ob- servers believed, if the meeting was turned into a debating ground Xor! rival Fascist and Communist forms | of government. Before the delegates was the prob- fem of determining a method to pre- vent glowering European cammunial; and Fascist camps from stepping: openly into the Spanish civil war— and possibly provoking Continental' conflict. g ‘The committee agenda included two specific questions: ! 1. A Russian proposal to send an " (See NEUTRALITY, Page A-2) | TWO FINES IMPOSED Senetorial Employe Charged With | Traffic Violations. James B. Murray, employed in a | senatorial office, was fined $100 for | driving while under the influence of liquor and $10 for reckless driving, in Upper Marlboro, Md., Police Court today. Murray was arrested at Camp Bprings, Md., September 27 by State Policeman R. C. Plush and was re- Jeased on $1,000 bond. He gave his address as 353 Senate Office Building. —_— 15 ARABS ARE SLAIN British Troops Seeking Syrian Leader Meet Encounter. JERUSALEM, October 9 (#).—Fif- teen Arabs were killed today by Brit- ish troops in the Nablus-Tulkaren ares during an intensive search for Palestine’s “public enemy No. 1," the Syrian leader Fawzi Bey Kawkazi. Fawei was not found. Two British tanks inflicted casualties on an Arab pand yesterday before they were stopped by the rebels. q A has received instructions to investi- gate the affair, the Paris advices stated.) ‘The Blum government rushed police reinforcements into Alsace-Lorraine as the shooting threatened to serve as a prelude to bloody clashes be- tween Communists and Fascists. Bertazzo's assailants approached him while he was visiting needy Ital- ian families. One assailant fired a pistoi from an automobile at close range, a single bullet striking the Italian. At the consulate it was said the at- tache suffered a serious wound in the region of his kidneys, but his life was not in danger. Shot in the back, Bertazzo stag-! gered into a cafe, where aid was sum- | moned, and he was rushed to a hos- | pital. Police started an investigation, but said they had no immediate clues as | to the identity of the assailant or the reason for the attack. BLUM ORDERS DEFIED. | Communists Prepare for Big Demon- strations. PARIS, October 9 (#).—French Communists openly defied government e 3 Page A-2) M. E. UNIFICATION VOTE TO BE TAKEN| Baltimore Conference Decides on| Action in 1937—General Ses- sion Acts in 1938. By the Assoctated Press. The Baltimcre Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South agreed today to vote in 1937 on the unification of Methodist Churches in America. General Conferences of dist Episcopal and Methodist Prot- estant Churches aiready have approved union with the M. E. Church Scuth, under the name of the Methodist Church. The General Conference of the M. E. Church South is expected to act in 1938 on unification. After action by the General Con- | ference, an affirmative vote of three- fourths of the memberships of all the | district conferences is required for final approval of the unification, (Barlier story on Page C-5.) The Italian Consul | the Metho- i lage with all male defenders hzvmg‘ fled or been shot dead during the assault. Staff officers of the insurgent| force which occupied La Adrada and | then marched into Sotillo de la Ad- | rada declared government casualties in the mountain campaign had been | heavy. | Aviation forces of the insurgent di- visions were reported to have bombed | Madrid daily where the population | was declared “terrified,” with evacu- | ation of women and children ncreas- ing. Fascist officials said men working . on municipal fortification projects were striking over failure to receive pay and volunteer recruits in the government militia were refusing to g0 to the front lines. i The insurgent high command sent | a new ultimatum to Madrid threa | ening to “blow it to pleces” unless | a surrender demand is acceptad. DISCIPLINE RULES MADRID. 1Plulbillty of Russian Aid Hailed Joy- | ! fully by Loyalists. | (Copsrist, 1930, by the Associated Press.) | | MADRID, October 9.—The Spanish | government buried its disappointment | over military failures to check an in- | isurgeni drive on Madrid today and hailed joyfully the possibility of Rus- | sian asa. Official sources acknowledged the i fall of strategic cities in the Sierra de Gredos and Guadarrama Mountain passes, gateways to the capital from the north and west. Rigid military discipline was forced on Madrid. Militia patrols stood guard through- out the night at key points in the city. Pedestrian traffic was banned in the Puerte del Sol—Madrid's Times Square—from 11 p.m. until dawn. While the insurgents pushed con- i sistently forward against Madrid in (See SPAIN, Page A-2.) | VARNUM COLLINS DIES Historiographer of Princeton Suc- cumbs at 66. PRINCETON, N. J., October 9 (). | —Vernum Lansing Collins, 66, histori- | ographer of Princeton University and | | its secretary from 1917 until 1935, died today at his home. He was considered {the leading apthority. on Princeton history. i He was born in Hong Kong, China, i and was a Princeton graduate. His widow and a son, Varnum Lan- sing, jr., survive. Wife’s New Hat “Out of an Ash By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 9.—This story is for men only. How many times, husband, have you told your wife her aew hat looked “like it came out of an ash can?” You may have been right in your surmise. James J. Wilson, assistant district attorney in charge of New York’s Commercial Rackets Bureau, says s0. Wilson has started an investigation of charges by the Millinery Stabiliza- tion Commission, Inec, that thrown into ash cans and rubbish plles are retrieved-by rag wxl. May Have Come Can> After All| secretly bought by some manufac- turers, reconstructed and sold to re- tailers. They are known in the trade as “ash can hats,” and the law ‘Wilson said, that plainly .and they are Wilson said | commission sold been right all slong. unwise the Senator “couldn’t stand | idly by and do nothing.” Ignored Rabble Rousers. I plained. | By tne Assoctated Press. accompanied the nominee to the hotel, | resulted in a $78,000,000 rise in estate | The Senator, the tribute went on, was determined that no one should | starve in a land of plenty and ig- nored the “swarming cries of rabble rousers, who today make both our hearts and ears ache.” Declaring Murphy was a close friend smoke-filled apartment in which Mrs. of his, the President asserted he want- Cordelia Black, 35, was found dead ed to read Father Sheehy's tribute last night. “instead of talking politics,” because | Corydon Black. 38, was “these words, while not political. are ' staggering about in the apartment by concerned with better government all the building janitor, investigating & over this Nation.” |curl of smoke coming from beneath Mrs. Roosevelt appeared on the plat- | the door. Mrs. Blacks body lay in CHICAGO, October 9.—A divorced form with her husband. The cheering crowd stretched back a hundred yards. and scores were perched on tops of houses and railroad sheds. | “I'm out here on what some might consider a political trip,” the Presi- dent said, smiling. “I'm trying to gain a better first-hand Information the bed room, the door of which was locked on the outside. Coroner's as- sistants estimated she had been deud about three days. Black, with blood streaming from a slashed wrist, lapsed into a coma | shortly after the tragedy was discov- | where he lunched with high officials | of the organization, including Chair- man John D. M. Hamilton of the Na- | ances. VICTORY DECLARED ASSURED. found Landon Confident as He Opens Mid- | dle West Drive. By the Associated Press. | ABOARD LANDON TRAIN EN | taxes and an $88,000,000 improvement in gift tax collections. Substantial increases in returns husband’s story of a suicide pact in | tional Committee. Some of the lead- from levies on alcoholic beverages, to- | which he said a deadly poison killed €rs had boarded his special traim dur- | bacco, securities issues, stock transfers | his former wife, but did not kill him, | ing the two Illinois stops at which and other miscellaneous items also | | today complicated the mystery of me“undon made brief platform appear- | were listed. Cost of collecting Federal taxes | rose slightly during 1936, Heivering said, noting that the collection of each $100 of reverue cost $147 as com- pared with $144 in 1935. Total ex- penses of adn.inistering revenue laws were $51,78: 3 Additional Assessments. | Audit and fie'd investigations of tax | ROUTE TO CHICAGO, October o—! Gov. Alf M. Landon asserted today | Feturns resulted in ihe levying of | the New Deal “has left us enough | $454.216,071 m additiona! assessments, | shreds of democratic self-government | While refunds on taxes illegally col- for the will of the American people | lected amounted to $38,701820, in- to be expressed at the polls next | Cluding :nterest. | as to the needs of the country in the ered, but recovered in a hospital today | and was quoted by Police Lieut. ! Thomas Mangan as saying his wife's death was the result of a suicide agree- ment, Monday night, he told Mangan. his days to come, too.” Information Useful. This information, he added, would | be “useful” to him, “whether I'm re- | elected or not.” f “I'm but a small unit in the fu- byt he lost his merve and tried & ture of the country,” he said. “The | polster his courage by drinking ::;?sk\a future of the Nation lies in the peo- | Finally, the third day in the apart-| wife swallowed a quick-acting poison, | | ed into Towa and Minnesota today for ple and I'm not worried 50 long as the | | conduct of it remains in your hands.” | As a preliminary to his first major ‘Western campaign speech at Omaha | tomorrow nigint, Mr. Roosevelt head- ! a series of motor parades, Federal works inspections, rear-platform talks and political and farm conferences. The political meeting was to take place on board his special train at St. Paul tonight, when Farmer-Labor and Democratic factional leaders gather to talk about the Democratic candi- dates for Senator and Governor, who withdrew recently with the announced purpose of uniting these forces in an effort to carry Minnesota for Roose- velt. Two Farm Conferences. ‘Two regjonal farm conferences ar- ranged for Dubuque and St. Paul | by Secretary Wallace, a member of the presidential party, also were ex- pected to receive some attention from the Chief Executive. The 11-car campaign gpecial, carry- ing the President on a 5,000-mile tour of 11 front-line battleground States, crossed Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois last night. A long service stop at Pittsburgh forced the train into high speed to make up time. The train arrived at Chicago at 5:30 am. (E. S. T.) and after a 25- minute stop resumed the trip. Besides - the farm meeting here, the President planned to make a rear-platform talk and motor in the vicinity to view the Eagle Point Park works progress project, a Mississippi River channel development and a civic water tower built with public works funds. Herring te Join Party. Gov. Clyde Herring, Democratic State Chairman Ed s David Murphy, brother of the late Senator Murphy, and the latter's mother and widow were to join the President’s party here, Tentatively, in addition to the brief (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3.) German Historian Dies. BERLIN, October 9 (#).—Friedrich von Oppelnbronikowski, writer - and historian, died here today. He was 8 years of age. ‘ ment with the dead his left wrist, Black said, and swal- lowed a small quantity of the poison. He said he dropped a cigarette into an upholstered chair. The smoke from this smoldering chair attracted | other tenants of the building. The couple formerly resided at Fort Worth, Tex. The suicide agreement, Black said, was reached after he fold Mrs. Black, from whom he was divorced about a year and a half ago, that he had de- ceived her by telling her he had a job. They had discussed a reconciliation, he asserted, ever since he came here from his home a month ago. Mrs. Black, known in the apartment build- ing as Cordelia A. Brousseau, her maiden name, was transferred here about two months ago by a railroad by which she was employed as a stenog- rapher. He said he visited his former mate here frequently and told her he was employed as an accountant. Sunday, he said, he disclosed to her that he had no job. The next day, he said, they decided to kill them- selves. Assistant States Attorney Mal Gogh-~ lan indicated he was not satisfied with Black’s story and would continue his investigation. Black was transferred from the hos- pital to the Bridewell Hospital. Aviatrice Leaves Singapore. SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, October 9 (#).—Jean Batten, New Zealand woman fiyer attempting to break the England-to-New Zealand flight record, took off today for Koe- pang after a brief stop for refueling. Guide for Readers Complete Index on Page A-2. P Amusements.. 5‘-: 'oman, he slashed | month” and “they are going to de- | Excess profit tax revenues mounted mand in no uncertain way that their | country be given back to them.” | “I'm starting on a trip through four of the Great Lakes States to con- tinue a fight in which there will be no slackening until the last vote has been counted on the third of November,” | the Republican presidential nominee said in a brief address prepared for delivery at Freeport, IIl, first stop on | his eight-day swing. | “That fight is going to be won. * * * The New Deal can be beaten. The American people can have their Nation back.” ¥ “We may be opposed by the great- est political machine this country ever has seen. Our opponents may have billions of dollars—of your money, in- cidentally—in their campaign fund. But when the people of this country become aroused there is no stopping them. When they are convinced, as they are today. that they are going to win, they will win.” Liberties Declared Threatened. Declaring “The American people are revolting against a Federal ad- ministration that gravely threatens their individual liberties,” Landon continued: have seen this spirit of fight and de- (See LANDON, Page A-3.) $7,894,807 auring 19335 to a total of ’311,509‘290. while capital stock taxes amounted to $94942,751. ‘The levy on distilled spirits and wines brought in $236,337,600, a gain of $60,879,706 over the previous year, and the tax on fermented malt liquors | resulted in the coilection cf $249,126,- 436, or $33,562,557 more than in 1935. FATHER PLEADS GUILTY TO BEATING INFANT A father charged with beating his | 7-month-old baby so severely that | she had to be admitted to Children’s Hospital, pleaded guilty today before Judge Walter g, Casey in Police Court, and the case was referred to the pro- bation officer for a report. Ethel Carter, colored, 17, mother of the infant, testified that her hus- band, Wardell Carter, 18, colored, awakened the baby, who was lying ill in her crib, spanked her for crying and then hit her on the head and face. The baby was taken to the hos- pital Wednesday and was still confined there today, it was testified. Her hus- band had been out drinking beer be- fore the beating, the mother said. “During the past three weeks I| probation for the defendant was requested by T. Edward O'Connell, his attorney. By the Associated Press. FINCASTLE, Va., October 9.—Wil- mer Dooley, 40, sought on a charge of beating his wife to death, was killed near here today after he jumped, au- thorities said, in front of a speeding Norfolk & Western passenger train. Coroner W. H. Breckenridge of Botetourt County, decided that “death was by suicide by jumping in front of a train.” Trainmen said Dooley ran from some underbrush and jumped on the tracks @ few yards in front of the ngine. The train was traveling about an hour, it was said. The body was hurled to one side of the tracks. Man Sought in Wife’s Death Dies Beneath W heels of Train Sheriff J. J. Noffsinger, Deputy Sher- D. Zimmerman and Special Officer O. D. Lemon immediately start- ed a search for Dooley. Deputy Sheriff E. C. Williamson and other officers said two small Dooley i to bring to an end some of the trou- bles which have existed among the | Democrats of the State. For example, Senator Burke, who does not believe in a number of things the New Deal has been doing, is to have a confer- ence with the President, and so is Arthur Mullen, former national com- mitteeman, who is on his way to | Omaha, too. Burke has kept very | quiet in this campaign. If he gets what he wants and a definite under standing, he is likely to get into the fight rather vigorously before the campaign is over. B There is a chance, but it seems & remote one, that the President will even try once more to pacify the Dem= ocrats who are supporting Terry Car- penter for the Senate—and Carpenter | himself. That row. it is believed, has | gone too far and will have to continue | until election day. President Reose- | velt is expected to make a strong | statement in favor of the re-election TRAINMAN IS KILLED SAVING THREE GIRLS Kentucky Colored Brakeman Is Hailed as Hero Before Auto Is Struck. By the Associated Press. | _ CALVERT CITY, Ky.. October 9.— In death, Charles Floyd, 56, colored, Paducah train brakeman, was hailed today as a hero. The Negro waved to three girls to flee their stalled automobile just be- fore it was struck by an Illinois Cen- tral freight train at a grade crossing here last night. Engineer A. B. Harper said Floyd's action probably saved the life of the driver, Myra Sue Dossett, 18, Gilberts- ville, Ky, as he said she appeared paralyzed with fear and might not have abandoned the car had it not been for Floyd's warning. Miss Dossett said she and her two companions, Vera Vickers, 18, Gil« bertsvile, d Iva Erwin, 23, Evanse ville, Ind.. fled after seeing a trai man wave to them as the train ap- proached. ‘The locomotive and 14 cars were derailed, causing a traffic tie-up on the line until today. Floyd, crushed in the wreckage, was the only person injured. F. B.RHODES ENTERS PLEA OF NOT GUILTY Former Head of Fidelity Building and Loan Association Be- fore Judge. Fred B. Rhodes, former head of the closed Fidelity Building & Loan Association, pleaded not guilty before Justice Peyton Gordon in District Court today to 4 indictments charging him with 20 cases of larceny and 8 forgeries. At the request of his attorney, Eugene Sullivan, Justice Gordon al- lowed Rhodes five days in which to withdraw his not gullty plea and file demurrers for other pleadings. The $5,000 bail under which Rhodes has been at liberty since his arrest July 18 was to stand unchanged.