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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Burea Fair and slightly colder tonight; to- morrow increasing cloudiness and some- what warmer; gentle shifti peratures—Highest, 63, at 2 day; lowest, 52, at 5 a.m. Full report on page A-9. Closing New York Markets, Page 10 84th YEAR. No. FOREIGN AFFAIRS 1S LANDON'S TOPIG AT INDIANAPOLIS Kansan to Speak Tonight in Bid for 14 Votes of Hoosier State. PARTY PLATFORM HELD. PACT WITHU. S. CITIZENS | Every Pledge Made in Campaign Carefully Weighed, G. 0. P. Candidate Asserts. (Text of Gov. Landon’s Tulsa Speech, Page A-5.) Br the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, October 24.—Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican nominee | for President, reached Indianapolis at | ©:45 am. (Central standard time) for | & 24-hour visit to this city, during which he will make one of the major | speeches of his campaign and confer with party leaders. Boarding the train at Clayton, Ind, @ half hour before its arrival here, were George A. Ball, Muncie manu- facturer and Indiana Republican na- tional committeeman; Ivan C. Morgan | of Austin, State chairman, and a score ©of other party leaders. ‘The Union Station was crowded with geveral hundred persons who cheered as the nominee left the train and en- tered an open car for a ride to the | Claypool Hotel. Moving eastward on a 3,000-mile dash from Pacific to Atlantic, Landon assigned this week end to a bid for Indiana’s 14 presidential electoral votes. In his speech at Indianapolis to- night he is expected to discuss foreign | effairs. The address will be broadcast. Turning his drive southward after leaving Indianapolis Sunday after- 33,779. | under President Wilson, left Hartford | today under a police escort following | a telephoned “tip” that an nttemmi which lies West of the Allegheny u Forecast.) ing winds, Tem- .m. yester- ay. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Colby Guarded From ‘Knifing’ After Rally Talk BAINBRIDGE COLBY. 85 the Assoclated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., October 24.— Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State would be made to “knife” him at the close of a Republican rally. Colby, addressing himself to *“con- science-Democrats,” at the rally last night charged President Rooseveit with being a voluntary or involuntary recipient of Communist support ard asserted “if his plans succeed, there will be no Democratic party.” ‘The tip, one of several received yes- terday, was telephoned to Bushnell @b WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1936—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. ## KEYSTONE VIGTORY FOR LANDON SEEN DESPITE GUFFEY New Deal Strength in West May Be Offset by Rest of State. 125,000 REPUBLICAN LEAD IS ESTIMATED Heaviest Increase in Registration This Year in G. 0. P. Phila- delphia Strongholds. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, October 24 —Sen- ator Joseph M. Guffey, Pennsylvania’s Democratic Caesar, might write as Julius of old, “all Pennsylvania is divided into three parts.” And thereby hangs the political tale of 1936. If Senator Guffey had only the Western part of the State—the part Mountains—to deal with, he mignt make good his boast that Pennsyl- vania is going into the Democratic column in the presidential race. Un- fortunately for Mr. Guffey and the New Dealers, there are two other pcp- | ulous section of the State. One is | the great Central section, with its thousands upon thousands of farms. The other is the Eastern section, in- cluding Philadelphia and adjacent | Memorial Hall where Colby spoke. “Will you get word to somebody | that there is some one in the fourth or fifth row who will knife Mr. Colby at the conclusion of his address?” A woman’s voice said over the tele- of the attendants at the hall. The police officers and the crews of two police cruiser cars went to the | hall, reinforcing two policemen al- ready on duty there. At the close of Colby's address, noon, Landon scheduled a speech- making stop at Baltimore, Md, at 10:45 a.m. Monday before reaching Philadelphia for a major address Monday night. Tuesday night he will speak in Pittsburgh. Then he planned to stop in Trenton, N. J, at noon Wednesday on his way to New York for the climatic speech of the campaign Friday night. “This campaign in Indiana as everywhere else is a fighting cam- paign on the part of Republicans and independents and Democrats for good government,” Landon said in a brief statement. “We want a government that is concerned about the economic rights and the opportunities of the average man. We want a government that is also concerned about the pocketbooks of everybody. We are all paying taxes every day in our lives. | “This is serious business to all of us. The kind of government that we are going to live under and do | business under in our local communi- | ties, in our State and in our Nation is | always serious business. “So 1 have weighed very carefully every word and every pledge that I have made in this campaign. I shall continue to do so. To me the plat- form adopted at Cleveland is a pact with the American people on which the Republican party must make good. Party platforms to me are not | to be thrown away in the waste paper basket after election.” | Swinging across ©klahoma, Mis- | souri and Illinois overnight, Landon | made some concessions to a cold and sore throat, but apparently was feel- ing much improved. Statements Held Untrue. At Tulsa, Okla., he denounced as *utterly untrue” and “deceitful vilifi- | cation” statements he attributed to an unnamed member of “my oppo- nent’s immediate family” that Kansas | school children were “deprived of | educational advantages.” Neither | the Governor nor his aides elaborated on the “immediate family” reference. | Wearing a hat, the candidate asked | the indulgence of the crowd—esti- | mated at 10,000—because of his cold. “I wear the same size hat as a | presidential candidate as I did when | I came down here as an oil man,” he added. “Where's your old hunting hat, Alf?” a voice shouted. “My wife took it away from mé» Landon rejoined, and the crowd laughed. Changing his tone, the candidate denounced “the malicious charge” that “458 schools have been closed in (See LANDON, Page A-2.) GIRL, NAIL IN LUNG, MAKES PLANE TRIP Bronchoscope to Be Used in Opera- tion—Former Efforts Are Unsuccessful. By the Assoctated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 24— Four-year-old Joan Oliver arrived at Temple University Hospital at 12:30 a.m. today just 612 hours after board- ing a plane in Chicago for a trip to Philadelphia to have a nail removed from her lung. The child, with her mother, Mrs. Clara Oliver, arrived at the Central Airport, Camden, N. J,, at midnight in a plane placed at their disposal by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, general manager of Eastern Airlines. They Jeft Chicago at 6 p.m. yesterday ar- riving at Newark at 11:05. at Temple University Hospital said the child was in no im- mediate danger and declined to say when an operation would be per- formed. The nail, lodged in her right bronchial tube, is to be extracted by & bronchoscope in the Dr. Chevalier Jackson Clinic. The girl swallowed the nail a week ago. Chicago doctors made several at- | nothing untoward happened. | Police escorted Colby from the hall to the Hartford Club and then to his | train. MUSSOLINIOFFERS “PEACE” MESSAGE Italy Ready With 8 Million Bayonets, but Seeks Calm, He Says. By the Associated Press. BOLOGNA, Italy, Octover 24.—Pre- | “launched” | mier ,Benito Mussolini what he proclaimed as a “message of peace” from this city of towers this afternoon. He spoke in the gorgeously deco- | not far from | rated Central piazza, the spot where almost exactly 10 vears ago a young fanatic fired at | him, splitting the sash on his chest. This was his first visit since that | day and he cried out to a hundred | thousand Bolognese that although Italy can count on 8,000,000 bay- onets,” she intends to live at peace with the world. 11 Duce definitely linked his “mes- | sage” with the six-year world eco- | nomic crisls, the consequences of which, he declared, had been suf- fered since 1929 by “millions upon millions of women and children.” Now, he said, he wants the world to “work in peace”-and have “peace in work.” Avoids. Mention of War, In an earlier speech at Corridonia the premier, avoiding direct mention of the Spanish civil war, had picked out the troublesome word “interven- tion” and had described it as repre- sentative of “the purest ideal of Fas- cism.” But in this glamorous old city, where the famous Leaning Towers of Asinelli and Garisenda rise hundreds of feet into the sky, Il Duce declared: “While the European horizon darkens under a cloud of uncertainty and dis. order, Italy offers to the world the admirakle spectacle of calmness and discipline, the civic Roman virtues.” However, he told the cheering multitude: “People like the Italian people, heirs to an ancient and magnificent civiliza- tion, have certain rights on the surface of this earth.” Offers Message of “Peace.” 11 Duce shouted, as he mounted the rostrum, his desire to “launch a mes- sage which should go beyond the mountains and the seas.” “It is a message of peace,” he cried. “Peace in work, and work in peace.” Before he spoke, the ~exultant (See MUSSOLINI, Page A-9.) By the Associatea Press. TORONTO, Ontario, October 24.— The Government of Ontario laid the Millar stork across its knee today and got ready to give it a spanking. The stork, accustomed to honeyed 1 | words, heard himself practically called & racketeer, Before his ears stopped burning from that he heard further that he was taking part in “the most revolting and disgusting exhibition ever put on in a civilized country.” It was Premier Hepburn who de- clared the mothers’ marathon, born to the strange will of Charles Vance Millar, had “become a racket” and that the government was going to take a hand in it. The Hepburn government is no tyro in dealing with baby situations. When Mrs. Dionne had her quintuplets, the | phone, which was answered by onz counties—Bucks, Chester, Delaware | and Montgomery. These two sections | | will offset Democratic gains made in | the Western part of the State and carry Pennsylvania for Landon. That 1s the considered opinion not | only of Republicans, but also Demo- crats, who are not allowing their | judgment to be warped by the en- | thusiasm either of Mr. Guffey or of Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic National Committee. I |am not referring to anti-Roosevelt | Democrats, but to Democrats who are | supporting the President. As they see it, its not in the cards to carry | Pennsylvania for the Democratic President. One of these Democrats, who told me two years ago that the State would elect Gov. Earle and Sen- ator Guffey over the Republican op- ponents, today estimated the Re- publican victory on November 3 at 125,000 for Landon over Roosevelt. Republicans insist that the margin will be much greater. In 1934, Roosevelt was at the peak of his popularity in Pennsylvania. The Republicans put forward a can- didate for Senator, former Senator David A. Reed, who was unpopular and & candidate for Governor who was not so unpopular as little known. plurality of 127,128 votes and Earle with a plurality of 66,239. The following year here a revulsion set in.- The Republicans elected a Superior Court judge with a lead of 1235815 and defeated a Democratic proposal to amend the constitution of the State along New Deal lines with a (See PHILADELPHIA, Page A-3.) MOTHER FINED $100 of Girl, 20, by Throwing Gasoline. Already facing charges of seriously injuring her daughter by throwing gasoline on her, Mrs. Matty Martha Bray, 43, was convicted of drunken- ness by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in $100 fine or 6 months in jail. She was committed to the District Jail in de- fault of the fine. Mrs. Bray was arrested on the drunkenness charge yesterday while free on $1,500 bond pending a hearing November 5 of the case involving the gasoline-throwing during a quarrel with her husband. Her bond was re- duced from $5,000 on the plea that she wished to visit her daughter in Gallinger Hospital, but could not do so unless the court set a bond she could meet. Mrs. Bray visited her daughter, Dorothy Fenwick, 20, in the hospital Thursday. She brought ice cream for the severely-burned girl and re- ported everything was going all right at_home, Miss Fenwick was cooking break- fast last Sunday when, according to police, her mother threw a two-gallon jar of gasoline at her step-father. The jar missed its mark, police said, and struck the wall above the stove at which the girl was frying bacon. The jar broke, splattering the fluld over Miss Fenwick and the stove. The girl's face, hair and shoulders instantly became enveloped in flames. Ontario Considers Curbing Stork Marathon “Racket” babies with nothing to show for what they have been through.” As evidence that the stork derby has developed into a “racket,” the premier foted the‘ Bureau of Vital Statistics has been swamped “by wom= en trying to get births registered that happened years ago,” so as to qualify for the $500,000 fortune awaiting To- government stepped in and, in the name of the King, adopted the bables as its own. tempts to extract it, then sent her to Philadelphia for an operation at the Jackson Clinic, which is noted for its success in remoying obstructions in the area of the lung. ) Today the government got ready to step into the mothers’ marathon to prevent “endless litigation that would leave these poor mothers and their J X\ promptly. Guffey was elected Senator with a | ON SECOND CHARGE| Drunkenness Case Follows Injury | Police Court today and sentenced to | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION REIGH RECOGNIZES [TALY N ETHIOPIA 'Accord Reached in Berlin Regarded in Some Circles as Blow at League. | BACKGROUND— Recognmition by Germany of Italy's territorial erpansion was jorecast by the recent establish- ment of a legation at Addis Ababa as had been predicted as one of the possible results of increased rapprochement between Berlin and Rome. Italy annexed Ethiopia formally in ceremonies May 9 when King Victor Emmanuel was proclaimed “King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia.” The annezation fol- lowed seven months of warfare. Many European nations have avoided recognition of the anneza~ tion on the grounds the action was condemned by the League of Na- tions. Such a problem at present confronts the United States with the presentation of credentials by William Phillips, newly appointed Ambassador to Rome, in a formal ceremony next month. | By the Associated Press, | BROME, October 24—Germany granted full diplomatic and political recognition to Itallan Ethiopia today | to strengthen relations between the two European fascist nations. The action, following Italo-German the full effect of international law, in contrast to virtual recogniticn Juty 25, when a German Consulate Wwas established in Addis Ababa, citing the action of Reichsfuchrer Adolf Hitler and the German govern- ment. Nazi recognition was the first ac- since formal annexation was pro- claimed May 9 by Premijer Mussolini (See RECOGNITION, Page A-2) MINERS IN PIT DEFIANT Black Flag Hoisted by 800 in Polish Wage Strike. BEUTHEN, Germany, October -24 (#).~Self-entombed in an under- Polish coal mine barricaded ' ap- proaches to the shaft today and hoist- ed a black flag at the pit head as a symbol of defiance. Frantic wives and children milled about the mine entrance. The strikers demanded higher wages and better working conditions. Summary of Page Amusements_C-16 '| Short Story.. C-9 Lost & Found A-3 | Woman's Pg.-.B-8 4 POLITICAL. Landon due to discuss foreign affairs at Indianapolis, Page A-1 Roosevelt asks business men to stay out of politics. Page A-2 Democrats report expenditure of $2,333,256 in campaign. Page A-2 Reed assails veteran economy meas- ure of Roosevelt. Page A-5 FOREIGN. Mussolini offers “message of peace” to world. Page A-1 Madrid accuses Portugal in sinking of ship, killing 40. Page A-1 Ontario prepares to curb stork mara- thon litigation. Page A-1 Germany recognizes Italy’s annexa- tion of Ethiopia. Page A-1 Ipswich court opens; to hear Simpson divorce plea soon. Page A-2 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Three Workers' Alliance leaders ar- rested in demonstration. Page A-1 Laborers seek $20,000 treasure in Ar- lington subdivision. Page A-1 Joint committee continues fight for bigger U. 8. share. Page A-1 O’Conor says magistrate's can try trafic cases. Page A-2 Maryland Democrats ask university employes for funds. Page A-14 Hazy fllood damage figures at Han- cock, Md., Page A-14 U. 8. riders hope for.break today after g Page A-14 conferences in Rome and Berlin, took | ‘The diplomatic proceeding was an- | nounced in an official communique | corded to the new Roman Empire | ground hunger strike, 800 miners-in a | LANSAKES! 1 WONDER IF Blind Alley Traps Auto Chased by Officer on Foot Hit-and-Run Charge | Against Driver Seized by Policeman Docenni. Something of & record was estab- lished today by Officer J. L. Docenni, alleged hit-and-run driver after a chase of several blocks on foot Docenni was patroling his beat when a car operated by Harry W. Mace, 5408 Thirteenth street, a con- tractor, was struck by another car at and knocked against a tree and mail {box. The officer started toward the | scene of the accident to investigate, but the second car kept going. Taking after the fleeing car on foot, | block, through an alley, and around | another block. |it in view, although losing ground, until the car turned into what he knew was a blind alley between Eighth and Ninth and Jefferson and Ingra- ham streets. A final spurt brought him to the car just as it pulled up at a fence at the end of the alley. At the sixth precinct the driver, John Byrd, 27, colored, 1040 Sixth street, was charged with reckless driving, failure to exhibit a driver's permit, and colliding and leaving after colliding. MAINE VOTE ABUSE DENIED BY OFFICIAL Status Advice Properly Given All Concerned. By the Associated Press. | PORTLAND, Me., October 24.—At- torney General Cylde R. Chapman of Maine last night answered criticism in Washington of his inte.pretation of Maine pauper laws governing voting by saying he had *‘consistently eral relief were not paupers under the Maine law. Chairman Lonergan, Democrat, of Connecticut of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee said in Washington investigators reported that “voters were threatened by state- ments from election officials to the | effect that they would not be eligible to vote and that these statements were supported by a letter from the office of the State’s attorney gen- o R S The committee also said its investi- gators reported Maine citizens on re- lief ‘had been classified as “paupers and were denied the right to vote” by a State statute. Today’s Star Amended answer paves way for appeal from school ruling. Page A-14 SPORTS G. W., victor over Wake Forest, en- visions unbeaten season. Page A-12 Central, conqueror of Eastern, looms as title repeater. Page A-12 Roosevelt and Wilson High teams beat prep elevens. Page A-12 Meny crack teams stake chances for national grid crown. Page A-12 Foot ball seer sees wins for Pitt, Duke and Gophers. Page A-13 Little Hoyas, G. W. High are winners over prep schools. Page A-13 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Alice ‘Longworth. Page This and That. Page Answers to Questions. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon. Page Mark Sullivan, Jay Pranklin, Page Headline Folk. Page REAL ESTATE. % g:uml building survey. Page Page Page A-2 A-6 A-6 A-6 A-7 A-7 A-T A1 A-7 Cc-1 C-1 C-4 C-6 Cc-8 ilding permits, Designed for Living. Home Modernization, Home Gardener.’ A-2 City news in briet, Auto Show Puzzle. Traffic convictions. ninth precinct, when he captured an | Georgia avenue and Kennedy street | Docenni chased it around ome | He managed to keep | Attorney General Says Relief| advised” that persons receiving Fed- | ¢ Foening Star WORKERS' PARADE ENDSIN 3 ARRESTS {Leaders Held After Dispute on Streets—Denied Roosevelt Audience. Three leaders of the Workers’ Alli- ance of America were arrested shortly | before noon today as 300 delegates ' | of the organization paraded in front | | of the Works Progiess Administration | after their spokesmen were denied an audience at the White House. David Lasser, national president; | Herbert Benjamin, vice presidsnt, and | John Kelly, Pennsylvania organizer, were taken to the third precinct in a patrol wagon. They were held for | investigation. The arrests were made when police | advised the delegates they were block- ing the sidewalk on New York ave- nue in front of the W. P. A. head- quarters, Told 1o “keep moving,” Lasser re- plied to Capt. Alfred Miller, third precinct: “I have a perfect right to keep on walking. Either let me alone or ar- rest me.” Jostling and Shoving. ‘There was considerable jostling and shoving before police finally caught Lasser and Benjamin by their belts and held them until the patrol ar- rived. a thin stream of blood trickled from his mouth. He claimed he was struck by a policeman. The delegation marched to W. P. A. headquarters after they had picketed They resorted to picketing when a committee of seven, headed by Lasser and Benjamin, was met at the Execu- and informed “the Executive Office was closed.” Likewise unable to see the Presi- dent's secretary, Lasser ordered his followers to walk up and down Execu- tive avenue. A dozen policemen who had followed them from the Y. M. C. A. Building at Eighteenth and G streets stood by to maintain order. The delegates, claiming to repre- sent 800,000 W. P. A. workers and organized unemployed, met at 10 a.m. in the Y. M. C. A. for a meeting cli= maxing a series of protest meetings throguhout the country. They came here to demand “a living W. P, A. wage.” Warned Against “Taking Orders.’ Before leaving the Y. M. C. A. Las- ser warned the delegates to proceed quietly, but to take no orders from any one, “not even a police officer,” except their own delegation chairman. Outside the building Capt. Albert Miller of the third precinct warned them they could not parade, threat- ening arrest for any violation of the order. After a short dispute the po- lice lined the delegates in a column of two extending to Eighteenth street. Police shunted the line of march by various streets to the White House. When most of them had assembled along Execubve avenue, Lasser told When Kelly was put in the wagon, | the White House for half an hour. | tive avenue gate by White House police | | which he declared does not meet the | McAneny asked Colladay if he would them of the situation and they milled (See WORKERS, Page A. By the Assoclated Press. | NEW YORK, October 24.—Capt. James Mollison, fresh from a test flight in the new airplane he will fly to London Monday, barring bad weather, observed today: “A man facing death can have some silly thoughts.” Hunched behind an ailing motor or lost in a storm, a flyer thinks it would be fine to be lying at that moment on & palm-bordered beach with his eyes closed. “Or,” -supplemented Mollison, “he thirkks about his favorite cocktail bar” Mollison has had some tight squeaks. He conceded he might have one next week, when he will try w0 put New York within 15 flying hours of London with a plane turning up 248 miles an hour at cruising speed. “But there are squeaks and there are squeaks,” he explained, looking into the amber depths of his “just occasional” highball. “Sometimes I've thought I was going to die for sure. 1 did when I suddenly came out of a cloud bank and stared a mountain in the face. You don't think. You just act. You jam a foot on the rudder and whip back the stick. But there’s the other kind of experience, when for two or § Flyers Have “Silly Thoughts” On Facing Death, Mollison Says The only in Associated (P Means Associated Unearthed Coins| | Lead to Hunt for Hidden Fortune Arlington Laborers Seek $20,000 in Excavation. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON, Va, October 23.— “Thar’s gold in them thar hills” was the theme today as laborers dug frantically in search for a mythical $20,000 treasure after several dozen pre-Civil War coins were unearthed in excavations for a new subdivision here. ‘Two gold dollars, dated 1853, and an uncounted number of silver half dollars. quarters and dimes, bearing dates prior to 1861, had been fouynd since a steam shovel scattered the coins in uprooting a tree stump late yesterday. Spurred by the tale of an 80-year- old resident of the area that $20,000 is buried somewhere nearby, the col- ored laborers neglected their work to dig in all directions of a circle raaiat- ing from the hole left by the stump. Although secretly pocketing any coins found, the men were known to have obtained at least two gold dollars this morning and more than a dozen silver coins late yesterday. Before they decided the colns may have more value the men sold several yesterday for as much as $2 to officials of the C. W. Clever Co., which has charge of the development. At a late hour this morning their search for some sort of hidden con- tainer that might hold the mythical treasure had been futile. ‘The money found was presumably | hidden just prior to the Civil War. | The scene is within 5 miles of the | home of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Ar-| lington Ridge. | The workmen are engaged in ex- | cavating foundations for homes in the | new Oaklee subdivision, located on the Lee boulevard about 200 feet east of | Glebe road. (Picture on Page A-9.) LARGER FEDERAL PAYMENT PRESSED Joint Committee Centers Attention on Inadequacy of District Budget. ‘The Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations will continue its fight today before President Roosevelt's special Fiscal Relations Investigating | Committee for a more libéral Federal | payment toward District expenses. Attention will be focused chiefly on the inadequacy of the District budget. ‘The proposal for a discussion of the budget came from George McAneny, chairman of the Fiscal Relations Ad- visory Committee, at the close late yes- terday of an all-day public hearing. Edward F. Colladay, vice chairman | of the Citizens' Joint Committee, who occupied the witness stand for nearly three hours at the initial hearing, will return to make a vigorous attack on the inadequacy of the budget. Colladay laid the foundation for the budget discussion by calling at- tention to the inequity of the present | $5,000,000 lump sum Federal payment, responsibilities of the United States. Colladay Queried About Return. As the session closed, Chairman return to take up the question of the “inadequacy” of the District budget. The chairman wanted to know “whether the people of the District of Columbia feel oppressive economy has been too great.” “I can say ‘yes’ right now,” rejoined Colladay. While the President’s experts are going into the question of the relation- ship between the Federal and District payments toward support of the (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) FORECAST IS WARMER This Afternoon and Tonight Ex- pected to Be Clear. Overcast and somewhat warmer weather is predicted for tomorrow by the Weather Bureau. ‘This afternoon, the forecaster says, will be fair with moderate tempera- tures, while tonight also will be clear but slightly colder. The mercury stayed well below 70 yesterday, the high being 63 at 2 pm. This morning’s minimum was 52 at 5 o’clock. three hours maybe you know you're going to die and hope you don’t.” The small-statured aviator, who has flown the Atlantic three times east to west, measured his words. “The instinct for self-preservation domi- natés the instinct of fear. You fight. “I guess my tightest squeak was in 1929 when I was flying a trans- port between Melbourne and Sydney. We bored into a storm. Bounced around for hours. My co-pilot got panicky and grabbed the controls. “We fought for the ship. Behind us were eight passengers, panicky, too. I finally got the control stick. My air speed indicator was frozen. The compass was going in circles. “I thought what a fool I was ever to have hopped off.---I thought of home, of the warmth of my favorite cocktail bar. I thought nebulously how nice it would be not to be where 1 was. “Then, suddenly, we flew out of it.” Mollison will use & twin-row, 14- cylinder motor of 700-horsepower in next week's flight. He will stop in Newfoundland en route, and hopes to pick up the coast of Ireland 8 hours out of Harbor Grace. Washington wit! | left immediately to join evening paper the Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 138,813 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. - PORTUGAL BLAMED IN FIRING MADRID SHIP, KILLING 40 Moscow Renews Demand Ports Be Closed in Neu- trality Move, ITALY WILL ABANDON PACT, LONDON HEARS Entire Non-Intervention Set-Up Still Deadlocked After Conference. Press. BACKGROUND— Shortly after outbreak of Spanish civil war last July, 27 nations joined in neutrality pact, pledged to keep hands off Communist- Fascist_struggle. Russia later ac- cused Italy, Germany and Portu- gal of furnishing assistance to the Fascist rebels. These three powers denied the allegations and, in turn, accused Russia of aiding the Com- munist forces. Russia denies aid- ing Madrid’s loyalist aefenders but seeks to bring about showdown 30 that if it is proved the Fascist Jorces are receiving help, Moscow may step in and attempt to rescue Madrid, the last stronghold of the Communist regime ir. Spain. Mean- while, troops of the Fascists ap- proach Madrid for a “final battle.” By the Assoclatea Press. LONDON, October 24. — Spain charged Portugal today with the death of 40 Spainish sailors during a naval engagement as Russia renewed her demand for a blockade of Portuguese ports to prevent shipment of muni- tions to anti-Madrid insurgents. The accusations against the Lisbon government were ‘made public by the Spanish Embassy while diplomats de- bated new measures to make interna« tional non-intervention in the civil war effective. The embassy said its information was received from the Spanish Embassy in Paris from a telgram sent by the subgovernor of Spanish Guinea, a West African possession. The Portuguese were charged with sending the motorship Ciudad De Macao, “with the hull and funnels painted simflar to those of a German vessel,” into African waters. Fired on Spanish Flag, Charge. On October 14, the émbassy as- serted, “the Ciudad De Macao fired without warning at very short range four shells at the motorship Fernando Po, fiying a Spanish flag, which set this vessel on fire and sank it. The captain and the crew of the Fernando Po were drowned.” The embassy also added fresh charges against Germapy, alleging, among other things: 1. Fifteen German submarines en- | tered the Mediterranean through the Gibraltar gateway the night of Octo= ber 19. 2. On October 8 *“160 German youths arrived at Seville in an open boat with 12 anti-aircraft guns” and insurgent troops advancing against Madrid. The subcommittee, which was called into session to review the gen- eral work of the full committee and consider whether or in what respect the neutrality agreement could be made more effective, will meet again Monday. The full committee will meet Wednesday. Set-up Is Deadlocked. It was apparent the whole non-ine tervention set-up was still tied in & tight knot, further snarled by over night developments which included Portugal’'s abrupt rupture of diplo- matic relations with Madrid. Francisco Calheiros, the Portuguese non-intervention delegate, said: “The subcommittee did not make much (SEE NEUTRALITY, Page A-9.) P. W. A. CLERK DIES IN 7-STORY PLUNGE Wife of Harvey R. Pierce, Former Virginian, Faints While Receiving News. The coroner’s office today was in- vestigating the death of Harvey R. Pierce, 40, of 3026 Porter street, who last night plunged from a seventh- story window of the Houston Hotel. Pierce, a clerk at the Public Works Administration here and a former resi= dent of Danville, Va., died in Emer~ gency Hospital shortly after he was taken there in an ambulance. He engaged and paid for the room in advance about noon yesterday. Police said no notes were found. Employes of the hotel said Pierce carried 8 suit case and said his wife might be up to his room later. As Pierce’s body hurtled through the alr it carrowly missed an electric sign above the entrance to the hotel. He was unconscious when picked up on E street near Ninth. ‘The man’s wife, Mrs. Harriet Pierce, fainted while police were talking to her at the hospital. BRITISH ABLE SEAMAN IS COURT-MARTIALED Others Disciplined for “Reluctance and Short Delay in Falling In.” BY the Associated’ Press. LONDON, October 24.—The British admiralty announced today that an able seaman had been “brought to court-martial” as a result of a breach of aiscipline aboard H. M. 8. Guardian." It was stated “eleven others were involved but less seriously” in the inci= dent, which led to the recalcitrant sailors being deprived of their daily tot of rum for three months. “I'll use a lazy means of navigating,” he said, “a modified rhumb line, It's less work” He gestured with the glass. “And say! That's spelled r-h-u-m-b, not r-u-m.” 4 The infraction, the admiralty said, “consisted of reluctance and & short delay in falling in* The sailors complained they had had insufficient rest.