Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and tomorrow; colder; moderate shifting winds, becoming fresh northerly. Temperatures—Highest, 78, at - noon today; lowest, 58, at 6:15 a.m. today. Full report on page Closing New York Markets, Page 22 84th YEAR. No. SOCIALISTS RALLY DEFEATED TROOPS QUTSIDE MADRID Insurgents Drive New Spearhead to Within Ten Miles of Capital. i ! WOMEN AND CHILDREN URGE MEN TO ARMS Fascists Extend Lines to Join Columns for Double Drive on City. BACKGROUND— Bloody Spanish civil war, which broke out in Morocco and spread to * the mainland last July, continues to rage bitterly with Fascist pushing a new spearhead to within 10 miles of Madrid. The conflict, which has developed into a struggle between two op- posing jorms of government— fascism and communism—threat- ens to embroil other European na= tions. Russia, in sympathy with Communist Loyalists, has charged Italy, Germany and Portugal with sending assistance to insurgents, claiming the mon-intervention ac- cord signed by 27 nations has been violated. Her demands for “prac- tical measures” have been delayed by Neutrality Committee in London, BULLETIN. SALAMANCA, Spain, October 22 (#)—Spanish insurgents today were reported to have ordered their warships to sink any Russian ships carrying arms to Spain's govern- ment troops, 85 the Assoclated Press. MADRID, October 22.—Government commanders rallied disordered Social- Ist forces today before an expected in- | surgent attack on Mostoles, slightly | more than 10 miles southwest of Madrid. In deep trenches and behind impro- vised entangments of barbed wire the | Madrid troops took up new positions after a weakening retreat from Naval- carnero, key city of the government’s capital defenses on the Maqueda high- | way. Gen. Jose Asensio, Socialist gen-| eralissimo, ordered his general staff to reorganize the divisions of militiamen, swelled by civilian recruits drafted into war service in Madrid. The Socialist outposts on other | {ronts—Torrejon de ls Csizada, Bru- nete and El Escorial—braced for an anticipated Fascist drive to straighten the battle lines before pushing ahead toward Madrid. Women in Demenstration. Women and children in the capital | Joined in a huge demonstration to en- list all able-bodied men in the govern- ment's frontier service. “It’s better to be heroes’ widows than cowards’ wives,” the feminine re- | cruiting squads screamed during a | hysterical procession led by “La| Pasionaria,” Communist deputy who | heads the Women's Defense Commit- tee. The tramping throng—young and pld, some with babies in their arms and children clutching at their aprons—invaded stores and offices to drive male employes from desks and benches into the ranks of military | defenders. Mundo Obrero, Communist news- paper, advocated formation of & “feminine war corps” to replace at home men drafted into the Socialist armies. Destruction of two Fascist bombing | planes was claimed during an aerial attack on the eastern coastal city of Cartagena, important zovemmentf naval and aviation base. | The insurgent smash—using in- | fantry, artillery and aviation—car- ried the attackers through Navalcar- nero into the rolling country between Navalcarnero and Madrid, a bare 20 miles. Fascist fighting planes hovered over | (See SPAIN, Page A-2.) BRITAIN MAY BUY BOMBERS FROM U. §.| But Air Ministry Refuses to Confirm or Deny Reports. BY the Associated Press. LONDON, October 22.—The air ministry refused today to confirm or deny persistent reports that the British government s about to place American orders for high-speed bombers and 1,000-horsepower fighting planes. The Royal Air Force defense sf is known to be below par because of a shortage of plant facilities and skilled workers, Manufacturers have been falling behind in their efforts to cope with the demands of the government gearmament program. A group of aircraft designers and production managers returned recently from America with a favorable report on United States Army aircraft prog- yess, These experts were reported to | have constructed several new types 33,771. 120 per cent more merchandise than | Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. K Collapse of Neutrality Pact Feared as Russia Plans Bolt Threat to By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, October 22.—Swift Ger- man and Italian counter-activity, in the event Soviet Russia makes good her threat to bolt the Spanish neu- trality pact, was forecast by informed quarters today. ‘With bitter Fascist-Leftist wran- gling over the non-intervention crisis rapidly nearing a climax, collapse of the “hands off Spain” accord ap- peared imminent. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, | already advised by French officials | that Russia had defnitely determined to quit the pact, awaited momen- tarily formal notification of Russia’s intentions. The Soviet denunciation, informed sources said, would not be delayed be- yond the next meeting of the non- intervention committee which Lord Plymouth, the chairman, called into session for tomorrow. Immediately upon Russia's with- Germany and Italy Seen Prepared to Act in Event Soviet Carries Out Withdraw. drawal, it was said, Germany and Italy would plunge into counter measures to offset any aid dispatched by Moscow to siege-ridden Madrid. (Dispatches from the Soviet capital said Dictator Joseph Stalin was pre- pared to send 100 warplanes to Madrid in the event of a rupture.) German charges, aired by Prince Otto von Bismarck, German Charge d'Affaires at London, in a note to Lord Plymouth, last night flatly ac- cused Russia of already having sent more than food to unhappy Madrid— namely, planes, guns and ammuni- tion. The German note, angrily denying Soviet charges of Nazi aid to the Spanish insurgents, left Lord Plym- outh with replies from Italy ‘and Portugal still to be received before he summons the Neutrality Commit- tee to reconvene. “We do not really care what the committee does now,” a Russian | (See NEUTRALITY, Page A-2.) PRESIDENT OFFERS NEW ENGLAND AID LARDON ASSLS NONDUAL CUR iPeril to Constitution Told Points to Two Solutions of Problem in Address at Hartford. (Roosevelt Text, Page A-10.) BY the Assoclated Press. HARTFORD, Conn, October 22.— In a bid for the eight electoral votes | of Connecticut, which went Repub- lican in 1932, President Roosevelt de- clared here today that Connecticut was a “happier” State than it was four years ago and pledged the Fed- eral Government to “do its share” toward flood control in New England. Speaking extemporaneously before a cheering throng in Bushnell Park, the Chiet Executive said he was here in | a twofold capacity. “I am here to talk with your of- ficials about floods,” he said. “I am here also, I am told, as a | candidate for President.” “The reason why your Government i in Washington has to keep in close | touch with the States and cities,” he said, “is the fact your river here | crosses four States: The problem of | floods involves more State. Gives Two “There are two approaches to that problem, first by the method of co- operation between States—the inter- state compact method—and I'm glad to say the States of New England are working together planning for the con- trol of floods. But that method is in- sufficient in itself. “You cannot ask the State of Ver- mont, for example, to pay the entire cost of controlling the waters that | pass through Vermont. The benefits are to come to Massachusetts and Connecticut.” He said the Federal Governnment stood ready to do its share toward| flood prevention in the future. “It's a happier Connecticut I come back to than it was in 1932, he said. “I don’t particularly like figures, but | in this State employment in the city of Hartford alone is 45 per cent greater this year than it was in 1932. Pay Rolls Increase. “Aggregate pay rolls are 82 per cent greater than the Spring of 1933. ‘Twenty-three thousand workers have been re-employed by private industry and the pay rolls are running at the rate of $44,000,000 a year more. Build- ing construction is up four times what | it was and the retail stores are selling they sold then. “I regard the State of Conecticut as very much a part of the Nation,” he said, adding: “I am glad that prosperity is back with us again. And, believe me, it's going to stay.” He concluded with a belief he would get a telegram on the 3d of No- vember telling him the State of Con- necticut was in the Democratic col- umn. The President drove to the park through streets lined with cheering (See EOOEEVELT', Page A-3.) _— SMITH FAVOR REPAID Lehman Shifts Radio Time for Foe of New Deal. NEW YORK, October 22 (4).—Gov. Herbert H. Lehman will return the favor former Gov. Alfred E. Smith granted when he waived reservation of a half hour’s radio time to permit President Roosevelt to speak. Smith, campaigning for the Jeffer- sonian Democrats against Mr. Roose- velt's re.election, will speak from Chicago tonight, from 9:30 to 10:30 pam., Eastern standard time. Lehman, driving for re-election with the President on the Democratic ticket, was scheduled to broadcast from Syra- cuse from 9:30 to 10 p.m., but ne announced last night that, at Smith's half an hour, to 9 pm. By the Associatea Press. IPSWICH, To Ider'wif-y “Other Crowds on Way to Okla- homa City. (Landon Text, Page A-11.) BULLETIN. EL PASO, Tex., October 22 (). —Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential candidate, was ordered by Dr. Prank Schuster today to remain in bed on his special train en route to Oklahoma City. Dr. Schuster, who was called to the special train here, told the Governor a throat infection he is suffering might spread to the larynx and temporarily destroy his voice, unless he rests. The doctor declined to permit the candidate to appear before a crowd that had anticipated a platform speech here. B the Assoclated Press. | ABOARD LANDON SPECIAL EN | ROUTE TO OKLAHOMA CITY, Oc- | tober 22.—Gov. Alf M. Landon car- | ried eastward today across New Mexico and a corner of Texas a cam- paign contention that “regimentation of the individual and curb of his lib- erties underlie every one of the New Deal’s plans.” Heading for Oklahoma City where an address tomorrow morning is ex- | pected to touch an Government “re- lief and waste,” the Republican presi- | dential candidate paused last night at | Phoenix, Ariz, to say “I take my stand on the American system of government against all comers.” Ahead today lay only railroad oper- ating stops with a possibility the Kansan might, or might not appear. A sore throat which bothered Landon yesterday was reported cured. At Phoenix, a crowd estimated at 3500 by Mayor John H. Udall| cheered as Landon concluded and | bent over the railing of his private | car to grasp the outstretched hands of scores. “The fundamental issue as I see it in this campaign,” Landon asserted, | “is whether we shall maintain our | American system of government or whether we shall surrender it for an- other and very different system. Challenge to Americans. “This is a question above party, & question that challenges our most serious consideration not as Demo- crats or Republicans, but as Ameri- cans. “Through the Constitution our fore- fathers gave the Government they es- tablished certain rights and duties. But they specifically kept for them- selves and their children the right to live their own lives, to speak freely, to write freely and to worship accord- ing to the dictates of conscience. “Today,” Landon continued, “the people of this country have a choice between the American system they have always known and an opposite system. This will determine whether they and their children will remain a free people, capable of self-govern- ment, or be dominated by an all- powerful central authority. “I am not questioning the humani- tarian intentions of the present ad- ministration. But I do wish to point | out the threatening character of the means the administration uses to carry out its intentions. *There can be no question as to the road down which we are being led.” Asserting “this threatened change in our form of Government is not re= mote,” the nominee declared the New Dealers “have allowed nothing to deter political, social and economic life.” Forms of Government “under which all power is placed in the hands of & ruler with the people getting only such incidental liberties as he allows to trickle down to them,” Landon said; request, he had moved the time up [ SOU Mrs. Simpson May Be Forced | made in a letter sent to Secretaries | va | Building Corp. of Camden, N. J. | have more than $100,000,000 worth °‘i | intent to create anti-administration WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION e ————————————————————————————————— WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1936.—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. ### POLITICAL FIRING IN SHIP YARDS - REPORT PROBED Navy Acts on Assertions Plan Is to Discredit Administration. PLANTS IN 6 CITIES ARE LISTED BY UNION Hundreds Reported Discharged at Newport News and Other Places Recently. By the Assoctated Press. The Navy Department today said an investigation would be made of as- sertions by a marine workers' union that shipyards holding Government contracts were laying off workmen in an effort to destroy confidence in the Roosevelt administration. A statement issued by the office of Admiral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations, said “an exhaustive investigation will be made by the Navy Department and appropriate ac- tion will be taken in the premises.” Hundreds Reported Out. Navy officers said the assertion was Swanson and Perkins. The letter— written by the Industrial Union of Marine and Ship Building Workers of | America—said hundreds of shipyard workers have been laid off in the past few weeks, even though shipyards were far behind their construction schedule. Firms the union said were mying off men were the Bethlehem Ship Corp,, Quincy, Mass.; United Shipyards, Inc., Staten Island, N. Y.; Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., Newport News Shipbuild- ing & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Federal Shipbuilding Co., | Kearny, N. J., and the New York Ship | The union said these companies uncompleted contracts on hand and that they are from 2 to 12 months behind construction schedule. Hired at Another Yard. The letter contended that deliberate | feeling had been demonstrated “by the fact that the Sun Shipbuilding | Corp. in Chester, Pa., the only yard | with any considerable amount of pri- vate contracts, is hiring all the me- chanics it can get.” !Vatican’s Leading Adviser The union added that workmen were being given the impression that “pri- | puwmyhmuuumwwk.v ‘while the Government is turning them | | out on the street.” | Miss Perkins also told newsmen she | had ordered an inquiry into & com- plaint that private shipyards were lay- | ing off employes. DOCTORS MAY OPERATE ON SENATOR COUZENS Surgery Planned for Today to Relieve Obstruction Causing Uremie Poisoning. Ey the Associated Press. DETROIT, October 22.—Physicians planned to operate on Senator James Couzens today “to relieve an ob- struction which has been indirectly responsible for the uremic poisoning” from which Couzens has been suf- fering at Harper Hospital since Octo- ber 14. The operation was decided upon at | noon today. Dr. Hugo A. Freund said Senator Couzens' condition was “no worse,” but that it had been decided “something should be done right away” to restore the normal function- ing of the right kidney. Summary of Amusements. '655 - C-9 -A-12 -A-21 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary -...A-14 POLITICAL. Charges of political firing in Marine circles to be probed. Page A-1 Record New England crowds greet President. Page A-1 President promises New England flood- control aid. Page A-1 Landon, on way to Oklahoma City, warns of curbs. Page A-1 Committee probes advertising proceeds | of Democratic book. Page A-1 Woman's Pg.. C-§ NATIONAL. Admiral Standley favors giving reds Page A-1 Woman” CARDINAL PAGELLI PAYSVISITTOC. U, Calls for Realization of Spiritual Values. In a progress of great significance for Catholics in the United States, | the scarlet-cloaked papal secretary of | state, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, today | moved about Washington before ad- | miring throngs who knelt as he passed. | The cardinal, who is outranked in hierarchical importance only by Pope | Piux XI, began his day in Washing- | ton by blessing America before 4,500 | archbishops, bishops, monsignors, priests, monks, nuns, learned Catholic men and students in the gymnasium of Catholic University. The Vatican's most influential ad- | viser ealled for a new realization of | | the importance of things spiritual in | the United States, and he said of the young Catholics of this country: “They must not rest until the| church develops into a mighty light | house, {lluminating all the activity of this old, great country, in whose pres- | ent and past the Holy Father has an especial interest arising from his love for America.” Jeweled Ring Sparkles. As he spoke, he gesticulated with his right hand and the light in the ceiling of the gymnasium brought brilliant refractions from the large emerald and diamond ring he wore on his index finger. On his head was a scarlet skull cap, and from his shoulders to the floor flowed a silken scarlet cape to indicate his status as a prince of the church. ‘The Catholic University grounds re- sembled an Italian city on a feast day when the cardinal left the gymnasium. ‘White-robed Dominicans, brown-cas- socked Franciscans and hundreds of other religious representatives from the other 30 priestly and monastical | orders affiliated with the university crowded at the heels of his eminence as he strode toward the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. As the procession moved to the (See CARDINAL, Page A-4.) Today’s Star Two injured in head-on crash on Bal- timore Boulevard. Page A-5 | District government fights issuance of Benning abattoir permit. Page B-1 Youth, 19, held under $10,000 bond on extortion charge. Page B-1 Michaux announces co-operative farm community for colored. Page B-1 Citizens’ Joint Committee’s fiscal pres- entation plans. Page B-1 Runway construction on disputed land at airport near finish. Page B-1 Brig. Gen. Gasser to head 16th Bri- gade on October 26. Page B-7 SPORTS Central favored over Eastern in grid tilt tomorrow. Page D-1 George Washington fears letdown for Wake Forest game, Page D-1 Minnesota is far from record in win- streak. Page D-2 be staged ning No city open golf event to . Page D-3 thifs year. FINANCIAL, U. S. bonds sag in heavy trading (table). Page A-21 Bank clearings increase. Page A-21 Republic Steel net soars. Page A-21 Speclalty stocks up, others mixed (table), Page A-22 Ourb list narrow (table). Page A-23 Continental Can profits drop. Page A-23 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Page A-2 Page A-12 Page A-12 Page A-12 Page A-12 Page A-13 Page A-13 Page A-13 Page A-13 PageA-13 § 144 greis [} & i ¢ Fpening Star — Daughter Dying Of Burns, Bond Of Mother Is Cut Plea of Woman Ac- cused of Hurling P Means Associate RECOVERY PLAN PARTY * HURRAN FOR, ' K{ LANDON | LU | | i 7 £ NEW DEAL QUERIED ON“AD" REVENUE Senate Probers Ask if Part of Money Represented Gasoline Allowed. Charged with throwing gasoline on her daughter during a quarrel with! her husband, Mrs. Matty Martha Bray, | 43, had her bond reduced from $5.000 ' to $1.500 today on the plea she wished to go to the bedside of the girl, re- ported near death from burns in Gal- | linger Hospital. The bond, originally set by the United States attorney's office, was cut by Police Court Judge Walter J. Casey after Mrs. Bray's attorney, M. Edward Buckley, declared the young woman was “dying” Mrs. Bray's husband, Samuel, 60. joined in the request for a reduction, explaining the smaller bond could be met. Miss Dorothy Fenwick was cooking | breakfast last Sunday when, accord- ing to police, her mother threw a two- gallon jar of gasoline at her step- father. The jar missed its mark, po- lice said, and struck the wall above the stove at which the girl was frying bacon. The jar broke, splattering the fluid over Miss Penwick and the stove. In a moment her hatr, face and shoulders were a mass of flames and she ran screaming into the hall, where she collapsed. Nicholas Linden, a roomer, extinguished the flames while another lodger summoned an ambulance. In reducing the bond, Judge Casey continued the case until November 5, pending the outcome of the girl's con- | dition. The family lives at 429 K street. REICH DIRIGBLE SALE NS, SEEN Newark Newspaper Reports American Interests May Buy Ships From Germans. BY the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, October 22.—The Newark Star Eagle said today it had learned on good authority that Ameri- | can interests may buy from German builders two dirigibles similar to the Hindenburg and enter the trans- Atlantic transport fleld. 1t is understood, the newspaper said in a copyrighted article, that Dr. Hugo Eckener, head of the German Zep- pelin Corp., and his associates have presented the proposal to Department of Commerce officials and certain commercial interests during recent weeks. The Germans, it was said, plan to build three sister ships of the Hin- denburg, which made 10 round-trip flights between Germany and Lake- hurst this Summer. The Germans, under the plan out- lined, would keep the Hindenburg and one of the other ships. The trans- Atlantic service would be operated with four airships jointly by the Ger- mans and the American interests. The purchase price of the dirigibles, | tisers in Contribution. 8y the Associated Press. The special Senate committee in- vestigating campaign expenditures said today it had asked the Demo- cratic National Committee to explain whether funds received from adver- “The Book of the Demo- cratic National Convention of 1936™ represented payments for advertising | or included additional political con- | tributions. The information whs requested as a result of a complaint by the Re- publican National Committee assert- ing the payments in question actually were contributions in “the guise of advertising.” The Republican committee con- tended such payments violated the | corrupt practices act, which says it |15 unlawful for any corporation to contribute to political campaigns in- volving the election of presidential and vice presidential electors. In New York W. Forbes Morgan, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, said he would be “very glad” to answer any questions raised by the Senate committee concerning the advertising revenue from the book. Morgan said the program book “was handled in identically the same fash- ion as the Republican convention book, and was handled by the same or- ization, the John B. Gallagher He said the book would net around $150,000 profit to the Democratic Na- tional Committee from advertising and sale. Morgan said it was “ridiculous to talk of coercion” in connection with the advertising in the book, con- tinuing: “Can you imagine us being able to coerce such an advertiser in the book as Henry Ford, for example?” Meanwhile, the committee had be- fore it reports received in response to the first questionnaires ever sent to presidential candidates for personal accountings of their campaign con- tributions and expenditures. Similar questionnaires were sent to the vice presidential nominees. After listing President Roosevelt's expenses as $10 for postage and a donation of $500 to the Dutchess County (N. Y) Democratic organiza- tion, the report covered the following items: The Landon-for-President Commit- tee spent $164,572 supporting Gov. Landon for the Republican nomina- tion, but the Kansan said he had no personal receipts or expenditures to list. Gov. Landon reported receipts of $163480 to the Landon-for-President Committee, or a little more than $1,000 less than expenditures. Vice President Garner reported no contributions and no expenditures. Knox Lists Receipts. Col. Frank Knox, the Republican vice presidential candidate, listed res ceipts of $144,818 and expenditures of $143,259, through the Frank Knox for President Committee, which supported him for the presidential nomination. Knox also reported personal receipts (See DIRIGIBLE, Page A-2) Admr. Standley (See CAMPAIGN, Page A-5.) Favors Giving Radicals Free Rein in Ellipse An “American Hyde Park,” like that in London, where spokesmen for any cause may speak unmolested, was sug- minds and hearts of men. By oblique argument and duplicity, by deceit and chicanery, they seek to convert the unwary to their tainted, unwholesome ever & policy of “alert awareness” for the United States. He said there is “a drift in many » Page A-2.) The only evening E in Washington wit! Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. aper the Yesterday’s Circulation, 138,851 (Some returns not yet received.) ———— TWO CENTS DEMOCRATS CLAIM PITTSBUREH EDCE OF 10000 BALLOTS Registration in Allegheny County Is 10,000 Ahead of G. 0. P. CHANGE IS STARTLING IN LAST FOUR YEARS d Press. Roosevelt Forces Also Hold Nearly All Jobs and Expect Relief Vote. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent ol Zhe Star PITTSBURGH, Pa., October 22— The Democrats are riding high and handsome in this western metropolis of Pennsylvania. And why wouldn't they? They have a registration of voters 10,000 stronger than the Republicans in Allegheny County, which includes the city. They have the offices, State, county and Federal, with few exceptions. They have—as they believe—the support of a great body of voters on relief, either direct or P. W. A. In September the number of families on direct relief alone in Pittsburgh was 25,000. And they have—as they insist—the huge majority of steel and iron workers with them, not to mention other la= bor. The Democrats predict they will carry the county by 100,000 for Roose= velt. James H. Duff, the red-hajred Republican county chairman, is will- ing to bet his shirt—and his trousers along with it—that no such thing will happen. He scouts the idea that the Democrats will take the county by half that figure. Much hangs on the outcome. Carried Allegheny in 1932, It's a tough job the Republicans | are facing in this city, which at one time was in the grip of the G. O. P. Back in 1922, when the anti-Hoover drive was on, Roosevelt carried Alle- gheny County by 37,000 votes. Two years later, when Santa Claus was unloading his pack, Gov. Earle had the county over his Republican op= ponent by a lead of 74,000. Is Roose~ velt as strong over Landon today as Earle was in 1934 over Schnader? | Some say he is and others are not so | confident. The change in the party registrae | tlon in four years' time has been startling. In 1932 the Republican | registration was 425,000 and the Demoe | cratic 50,000, And today the Demo= | crats have 10,000 more than the Ree | publicans It is true, registration meant little in 1932, for on election day Roosevelt ran off with a lead of 137,000 in this county. Presumably, | this year all the Democrats, the sup= | porters of the New Deal, are regise | tered Democratic. A new item enters | into the calculation. There is an in- | crease in registration of about 200, | 000, showing the huge interest there (See LINCOLN, Page A-17.) SALE OF BROWNS HELD NEGOTIATED | Prospective Purchasers Reported to Be a Group of St. Louis Men. | B¥ the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, October 22.—The Post- | Digpateh said today negotiations were under way for the sale of the St. Louis Browns and quoted President Will | Harridge of the American League in | confirmation of the report. ‘The prospective purchasers were said to be a group of St. Luoisans, in- cluding Donald L. Barnes, president of the American Investment Co. Wil- |llam O. de Witt, treasurer of the | National League St. Louis Cardinals, was reported interested in the deal and slated to become general man- ager of the Browns. Harridge, in a telephone conversa= tion from Chicago, was quoted as say- | “A deal is on. I do not know the names of the prospective purchasers, and probably will not know them until the sale is consummated, at which time the league will be con- sulted as to whether the prospective new owners are acceptable to the other owners.” The newspaper said settlement of details was delaying the purchase, which it reported involved only the club’s franchise and players at a price of about $350,000. The Phil Ball estate, owner of the team, would retain Sportsman’s Park and lease it to the purchasers of the Browns under the same arrangement by which the Car- dinals use the field. The paper reported Rogers Hornsby, “who had come to a parting of the ways ‘with the Ball estate, despite a contract with two more years to run, is considered an asset by the prospec= tive new owners and will remain as manager of the team.” Barnes declined to discuss the re ported purchase plans and William R. Cady, a director of the Browns, ree ferred inquiries to Louis B. Von Weise of New York, president of the club and one of the Ball estate executors. De Witt said he “didn’t care to affirm or deny” the reported negotia= tions. —_—— LEAVES DISTILLERY 0. H. Wathan Retires From Board of Kentucky Firm. NEW YORK, October 22 (#).—Otto .| H. Wathen today announced his re- tirement as vice president and director of the National Distillers’ Products Corp. A member of & family identified with the distilling industry in Ken- tucky since 1788, Wathen said his re- tirement, following that of his two brothers, Richard E. and J. B, jr., con= stituted the first complete breakaway from distilling activities in four gen- erations of the family. &