Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buréhu Forecast.) Mostly cloudy with moderate tempera- ture today; tomorrow, rain and colder; light variable winds. Temperatures— Highest, 57, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and 48, at 5 a.m. yesterday. Full Teport on Page B-2. (UP) Means Associated Press. No. 1,651—No. 33,794. Entered ‘second class matter post office, Washinston, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1936—110 PAGES. =* F ASG'SIS REA[]Y Father Coughlin Drops Radio; TODAY [F BRIDGE ARE NOT BLOWN UP Approaches to Spans Are in Control of Insurgents After Loyalists Are Swept Aside in Battle. SOCIALISTS’ CABINET FLEES TO VALENCIA Defense of Capital Taken Over by Military Committee After Civil Government Officials Leave City—Guarantees Against Pil- lage and Crime Are Issued. BACKGROUND— Rebellion against Spanish gov- ernment composed of Socialist- . Communist coalition of Leftists started in Morocco last July. Entire world watched subsequent develop= ments with anziety, seeing signifi- cance in first open warfare be- tween Fascist and Communist ele- ments Conflict quickly spread to main- land with successive insurgent vic- tories bringing them to the gates of Madrid. BY the Associated Press. LEGANES, Spain, November 7.— Bpanish Fascists tonight awaited the signal to fall upon Madrid as they commanded the approaches to four bridges across the Manzanares River only a few hundred yards from the capital’s city limits. Insurgent leaders declared if the bridges rematned intact in the morn- ing it would be possible for their forces to enter Madrid tomorrow. (This dispatch was flled at 6 p.m., Madrid time tonight (1 p.m., Eastern standard time). (The London foreign office was in- formed by G. A. D. Ogilvie-Forbes, British Charge d’Affaires in Madrid, that Fascist troops were entering the city at 5 p.m. (noon, Eastern standard time). There was no confirmation of this in the Leganes dispatch.) Sacialists Swept Aside. The Fascists in their attacks to- @day swept aside-the resistance. of the Socialists like a heavy wind scatter- ing leaves. As night fell they were in control of the approaches to the Princesa, ‘Toledo, Segdvia and Vallecas Bridges. t leaders feared the So- cialists might dynamite the bridges, delaying their advance. ‘While the center columns of the Pascist forces drove ahead for the bridges, columns under Col. Handsche Castejon, Gen. Jose Asencio and Col. Juan Yague, preceded by tanks, raced through the Casa de Campo, exten- sive former royal park on the right bank of the Manzanares River. Fighting in the wooded areas of the former royal domain marked the Bocialists’ last stand in this sector on the right bank of the river. ‘Through a shifting curtain of steel laid down by insurgent batteries of 6-inch guns, the Socialists wavered and fled. They resisted only on the extreme left and right wings, where they .counter-attacked flercely but were quickly repulsed. Fascist leaders said only one more signal remained to be given and their mechanized' army would roll ahead to take by force the Spanish capital. Fought in Cold Rain. The troops fought today under a ¢old rain driven by a high wind. From the rear the artillery fire of insurgent batteries reverberated into the front lines as shells were poured into the Socialist militiamen just out- side of the capital. The sky at times seemed full of air- Pplanes. Some of the craft were insurgent uibers dropping their cargoes of ex- plosives over the Socialist lines under trying to drive off the bombers or send them crashing to earth. ‘The Fascists said they shot down two Socialist pursuit planes, while on (See SPAIN, Page A-5.) TAR KETTLE BLAST BURNS 20 CHILDREN Metal Drum Explodes, Flinging Boiling Substance Over Lit- tle Onlookers. BY the Associated Press. ' GABSAWAY, W. Va,, November 7.— A flaming cauldron of tar exploded, of them seriously. Physicians at a Sutton hospital said Eva Mae Mullens, 12, and her brother Jack, 13, were the most seriously burned. Their condition was pro- Others burned seriously of Silence Is Adopted Toward Ad- ministration. B the Associated Press. DETROIT, November 7.— Rev. Charles E. Coughlin announced to- night that his National Union for Social Justice, which he said was “thorougly discredited” as the result of Tuesday's national election, will cease to be active and that he was “hereby withdrawing from all radio activity in the best interests of all the people.” His National Union, he said in & farewell broadcast, “is not ‘dead; it merely sleeps. It will live as long as truth lives, because the 16 principles of the Union) are immortal.” Recounting his views of the presi- dential election, the Royal Oak (Mich.) priest announced the Union will adopt a “policy of silence” toward the New Deal administration. His withdrawal from the radio field is a fulfillment of a promise made at the Cleveland convention of the Na- tional Union last Summer when, after the Union indorsed the Union party presidential candidacy of William Lemke, the priest said he would aban- PRESOENT URGE TOREEACTAAA, Farmers Spurn Crop Insur- ance, Ask Roosevelt to Defy Supreme Court. BACKGROUND— Ever since days of Biblical history mankind has wrestled with the problem of spreading the heavy crops of good years over the de- mand of poor years. 5 Atacking the problem in the early days of the New Deal, the Roose- velt administration conceived the A. A. A. with payment of farm bounties for controlled production. Snagged on constitutional objec- tions of the Supreme Court, this program was partly destroped, but in the recent campaigns both President Roosevelt and Republican nominee Landon proposed substi- tutes which would accomplish the same objective. Anzious for immediate action, the farmers have come to Wash- . to"press their demands. Bixty farm leaders representing most of the national farm organizations yesterday urged President Roosevelt to defy the Supreme Court and re- enact most of the crop control legis- lation declared unconstitutional by the court last Winter, including the agricultural adjustment act and the cotton and potato production con- trol acts. Meeting here with Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace, the farm leaders cast a jaundiced eye on the crop insur- ance proposal which President Roose- velt and Gov. Alf M. Landon put forth almost simultaneously during the elec- tion campaign. Crop insurance was all right in its way, but it would fall far short of pleasing the farmers, who, so their ments such as were handed out un- der the A. A. A. Plan te Bring Pressure. The farm spokesmen, no less than the leaders of organized labor, lost no time in serving notice they would bring strong pressure to bear on the administration as soon as Congress convenes in January to restore in one form or another the benefits outlawed by the Supreme Court. Labor leaders made known Friday that they are drafting a legislative program calling for enactments assuring higher wages, shorter hours, collective bargaining (See FARMERS, Page A-2.) GIRL TURNING TO STONE; PHYSICIANS HELPLESS Medical Science Unable to Stem Strange Malady of Iowa Child. BY the Associated Press. DAVENPORT, Iowa, November 7.— Three-year-old Joan Ila Belk, vic- tim of the dread disease, osteosclerosis :xmlh, was slowly turning to stone ay. Affiicted with the strange malady when she was 5 months old, the child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ila Belk of Massbach, I, was under treatment here at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Carl Johnson. Although specialists have admin- istered & number of blood transfusions, all efforts to prevent the spread of if E§§ sk spokesman said, would be satisfled | with nothing less than benefit pay- His National Union “Asleep_” 10 ENTER MADRID',.... REV.CHARLES E.COUGHLIN. don the air if Lemke failed to poll 9,000,000 votes. “Of the millions of members of the National Union who pledged to sup- port its indorsed candidates because (See COUGHLIN, Page A-10.) PRESIDENT SEES PARLEY SUCCESS International Broadcast Talk Emphasizes Harmony and Friendship. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt last night voiced hope that next month’s Inter-Amer- ican Peace Conference would provide new hope and courage for & war-weary world by demonstrating “that the scourge of armed conflict can and will be eliminated from the Western hemi- sphere.” In a special international broadcast from the White House, arranged by the Pan-American Unoin, the Chief Executive said the conference at Buenos Aires affords an unprecedented opportunity for friendly co-operation among the nations of the Americas. Understanding Friendship. “No previous Inter-American Con- ference,” he asserted, “has assembled with the assurance which we possess today that every American govern- ment and all of the American peoples now realize their joint responsibility for making sure that all of us on this continent march forward in harmony and in understanding friendship to- gether along the paths of progress and of peace.” Greeting the other 20 nations which will participate in the meeting and saying “godspeed” to the American delegation, President Roosevelt added: “Nevertheless, satisfactory as the international relationships on this hemisphere may be, much is still to be done.” He said he felt confident that on the solid foundation of inter-Amer- ican friendship, equality and unity the conference at Buenos Aires will be able to take further steps for the mainte- nance of peace. The text of the President’s address follows: “Today the delegation of the United States to the Inter-American Confer- ence for the Maintenance of Peace, together with the delegations of sev- eral other American republics, are sailing from New York for Buenos Aires, and I am taking this opportu- nity to wish them godspeed and at the same time to send a wprd of greet- ing to the peoples of the 21 American nations. It will be an ayspicious mo- ment, indeed, when our own represent- atives convene with those of the other nations of this hemisphere in the cap- ital of our great southern neighbor. “I say auspicious advisedly, for it is STORM PERILS KING Boris of Bulgaria Brings Yacht Safely to Port. 0 . GOVERNMENT CHANGES HINTED N FSCAL STUDY Committee Delves Into Cost Phases During Testimony by City Officials. DONOVAN SAYS SERVICES OVERLAP “VERY LITTLE” Anditor Scoref “Overlordship” of Federal Control, Urging Fair Expense Share. Reorganization of the District gov- ernment in the interest of efficiency and economy is one of the factors under consideration by the special committee appointed by President Roosevelt to find a solution to the perennial problem of fiscal relations between the United States and the District. J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency engi- neer and tax expert, who is directing the fiscal equity study, left that im- pression yesterday near the close of a continuous 415-hour public hearing at which the committee gave a group of major District government officials an opportunity to explain the main- tenance and operating costs of the departments they head. Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor and budget officer, who had been on and off the witness stand periodically throughout the protracted hearing, was subjected by Jacobs to & barrage of questions relating to for- mer moves looking toward reorganiza- tion of the municipal government. Finally, Donovan was asked specifical- ly to what extent overlapping and duplication exists in the District serv- ices. “Very little,” Donovan replied em- phatically. Jacobs first wanted to know what had happened to the recommendations made by the Brookings Institution for reorganizing the municipal govern- ment. Donovan answered: “Nothing.” Special Study Explained. Next Jacobs inquired about the re- sults of the exhaustive reorganization study made several years ago by a special committee composed of Dono- van, former Budget Director Lewis Douglas and Willlam A. Roberts, who resigned November 1 as people’s coun- sel. Briefly, Donovan outlined the his- tory of the siudy, explaining that nine volumes were written and turned over to Chairman King of the Senaté District Committee, but the tenth and final volume, which was supposed to have contained the findings and recommendations, was not prepared for several reasons. First, he said, Douglas found little time to devote to the study, and when the time came to write the final vol- ume, differences arose between him- self and Roberts. Roberts, however, Donovan dclared, wrote a tenth vol- ume which embodied his own personal views. . Jacobs declined to admit at the conclusion of the hearing that there is any thought on the part of the fiscal relations experts at thgs time (See FISCAL, Page-A-3) NEVADA IS DENIED RIGHT TO LIMIT SIZE OF TRAINS Federal District Court Holds 70- Car Law Unconstitutional. Enjoins State. BY the Associated Press. RENO, Nev, November 7.—Ne- vada’s 70-car train-limit law, enacted in 1935, was held unconstitutional to- day in a 325-page decision filed in Federal District Court by M. A. Dis- kin, master in chancery. An interlocutory injunction handed down by a three-judge Federal court May 6, 1935, was made permanent in the findings. It enjoins the State Yrom enforcing the law, which would limit the number of cars in any train operated within the State's borders to & maximum of 70 cars. The Southern Pacific Railway Co. attacked the law on the ground it violated the commerce clause of the United States Constitution as well as the due process clause of the four- teenth amendment. It was understood that the case eventually will be taken to the United States Supreme Court. AVY'S 3-0 defeat of Notre Dame, produced by of Bill Ingram, who booted the only puints of, the classic PEAGE PARLEY SET BY LABOR LEADERS Green and Lewis Map Con- ference to Iron Out Factional Rift. BY JOHN C. HENRY. ‘The probability that the bitter con- |kins of W. P. A. once crashed the troversy which has split the labor | gate to her private elevator in the | new Labor Department Building, and movement in America into two de- termined factions may be adjusted in a man-to-man conference between William Green and John L. Lewis was accentuated yesterday after an ex- change of telegrams between the two factional leaders. The initial move in this direction special committee, as the Executive Council of the federation was pre- pared to do, but declared itself in favor of the man-to-man conference between Lewis and Green. Ready to Co-operate. - : Questioned at his hotel here last replied immediately. Although he de- clined to disclose the full content of his reply, the federation president made it plain he is ready to co-operate in any peace gesture and said he would have adequate opportunity to meet with Lewis early in.the coming week. He will leave for Tampa en ‘Wednesday or Thursday, he said, to attend department conventions sched- uled prior to the national convention of the federation, opening on Novem- ber 16. Although the C. I. O. decision to submit the factional dispute to parley between the leaders is the first in- dication of any on their part to compromise, it is noted that Pittsburgh reports quote Lewis as still insistent that any reconciliation must include a lifting of the suspension order against 10 C. I. O. unions and assurance of willingness by the Fed- eration Council to co-operate or at least allow continuance of the present industrial organization drives within the mass production industries. Reports that Dubinsky and Zaritsky exerted pressure in behalf of the peace parley seem logical in view of activi- ties of these C. I. O. members last month. Both conferred with Green in New York on at least one occasion and Zaritsky's union finally passed & resolution proposing appointment of (See LABOR, Page A-3) Navy Beats Notre Dame, 3-0; Tulane Is Routed; G. U. Wins same against Richmond, 12-0. Catho- lic U., however, fell victim to a West Virginia Wesleyan touchdown in the last three minutes of play which cost it' its third succcessive defeat, 24-19, and Gallpudet was swamped by its “biggest” foe in years at New York, C. C. N. Y, 35-0. Other scores: Himpton Institute, 35; Howard, 0. Staunton Military Academy, 20; |and decided she preferred the mam ¥ night, Green admitted receiving the;‘h' District Commissioners, appeals telegram from Lewis and said he had } HOW THingS HAVE CHANGED! GRANDFATHER USED To TALK OF THE DWINDLING DEMOCRACY. Labor Secretary Reveals How Lift Caught Hopkins W.P.A. Administrator Was Rescued From Her Elevator. BS the Associated Press. Secretary Perkins revealed yester- day that Administrator Harry Hop- then had trouble getting out of it. “I have never used the elevator myself,” said the Secretary. “As a matter of fact Mr. Harry Hopkins 1s the only person who has taken a ride in it.” The spacious entrance to the pri- _vate elevator has been locked since workmen fnished the building. Sec- retary Perkins fook one look at It | entrance. Asked what prompted this | decision, she said she supposed it was because by using the main lifts (See ELEVATOR, Page A-12) CHESTWILLLAUNCH FUND PLEAS TODAY “Be a‘C’ Man ” Is Slogan of Drive to Open Formally Next Thursday Noon. With an official proclamation from | from pulpits of all churches and | through many other agencies, the | Community Chest launched through- | out the national Capital today its an- | nual appeal for funds, keyed to the slogan “Be a ‘C’ Man.” The “C” in the slogan, stands for “Community Chest,” and has been adapted from a popular designation of governmental lingo, “G” man for “Goverrfment” men of the Justice De- partment, and “T” men for “Treas- ury” agents. Chest buttons this year carry the insignia “C Man.” These preliminary appeals precede the formal opening of the public drive, which is set for next Thursday noon, when the general public will be asked to contribute to the support of Chest agencies. Several special units of the Chest, already are active, and plan meetings daily. The proclamation of the Commis- sloners, signed by Melvin C. Hazen, president of the board; George E. Al- len, and Col, Dan L Sultan, pointed eut that “another Community Chest campaign is at hand.” “Again we are asked by one gener- ous gift,” they declared, “to help our (See CHEST, Page A-16.) Strikers’ Terms Met. SAN FRANCISCO, November 7 (). —Three of 15 Bay district optical 8 40-hour week for surface grinders and benchmen. Union officials said the grinders have received about $30 weekly. Mrs. Roosevelt Every ‘Afternoon. FIVE CENTS [mmum|||llll|llll 1 | G-MENHOLD TW INABDUGTION CASE Seat Pleasant Brothers Charged With Kidnaping and Robbery. Accused of kidnaping the bock- keeper for a Capitol Heights lumber company election night and forcing him to open the company safe, from which they stole $1,232, Arthur, alias | Richard Halfpap, and his brother War- ren, both of Seat Pleasant, Md., were arrested here yesterday by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In announcing the arrests last night, J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the bureau, said the men were questioned at the Justice Department and that both ad- mitted participating in the crime. The brothers were being held incom- municado last night, awaiting their | removal to Baltimore, where they will | be arraigned on the charges. The bookkeeper, Riddell Porter Bowman, told the Federal agents he ‘was working in the basement of his home at 3100 Date street, Mount Rainier, about 8:45 p.m. last Tuesday ‘when one of the kidnapers knocked at the door. When he opened the door, Bowman said, the man pointed a gun at him and ordered him to get into & car parked at the curb. Bowman said he obeyed the com- mand and found the second man seat- ed in the automobile. He did not know either of them. Drove to Firm’s Office. The kidnapers then drove Bowman to the office of the Stembler-Ford Lumber Co., Inc., in Capitol Heights, | passing through the District on the | trip. After forcing Bowman to open | | the safe and taking the money, the men drove to Hyattsville, where Bow- | man was released about 11 p.m. Bowman notified the Federal agents, who began an investigation which re- sulted in the issuance of a warrant in Baitimore yesterday charging Arthur Halfpap with kidnaping Bowman and transporting him from Maryland into | the District. The agents refused to say how they identified Arthur as a participant in the case, but it was believed Bowman identified a photograph of him in the criminal files. - Armed with the warrant, the agents arrested ‘Halfpap here yesterday aft- ernoon. Questioned at the local of- fice of the bureau, Halfpap, according-| to the agents, admitted the kidnaping and robbery and said he was accom- panied by his younger brother Warren. Arrested a short time later, Warren also admitted complicity in the offense, the agents said. Separated to Elude Pursuit. In the confession, as related by the agents, the brothers said that after releasing Bowman they drove to Fif- teenth and H streets northeast, where they separated to frustrate pursuit, meeting later at Arthur’s residence in Seat Pleasant, where they counted the money. Arthur Halfpap then hid the money in his home, changing the hiding place several times, but finally burying it in a can beneath the floor of his garage, according to the agents. The agents last mght dug up the can and found $1,010 of the money. : The remaining $222, according to (See KIDNAPING, Page A-17.) Wants Rest, But Keeps Strenuous Schedule strenuous life, if possible, for her e today on a lecture tour for her phil- anthroples. Her schedule is: Philadelphia, No- vember 8; Oak Park, Ill., November 9; Minneapolis, November 10; Milwaukee, Saginaw, Mich., November 18; Flint, November River Forest, Ill, No- HULL'S SHIP SAILS AFTER BEING HELD IN PORT BY STRIKE: WALKOUTS SPREAD Eastern Maritime Workers Change to Active Picket- ing, but Most Critical Situation Still Is in West. FOOD SPED TO ALASKA; ' 600 STRANDED IN HAWAII Shipyard Employes in San Fran- cisco Quit Jobs—Labor Depart- ment Working on Concrete Pro- gram, Says Secretary Perkins. Marshals to Discharge Cargo. BACKGROUND— Since September 30 Pacific Coast maritime unions and employers have been unable to agree on the workers' “fundamental demands” concerning the hiring of labor. On that date expired their agreement, reached after the Dbitter 83-day strike of 1934, in which seven were killed, giving the unions control of “hiring halls.” Arbitration eflorts were made before and after expira~ tion of the agreement, but failed, and the unions called out 37,000 workers on the Coast. It since has spread to Gulf of Mezico and At- lantic ports BY the Associated Press. A Nation-wide strike against Amer- ican shipping increased in intensity today without sign of intervention at ‘Washington. After being delayed 10 hours in New York Harbor by the seamen’s strike, the United States delegates to the Inter-American Peace Conference at Buenos Aires sailed last night for South America on the Munson liner Americein Legion. 4 The liner, scheduled to sail at 2 p.m., ¢leared Quarantine at 9:48, after riding at anchor off the Statue of Liberty since midafternoon. The dele- gates, headed by Secretary of State i Cordell Hull, were delayed while Easte ern strikers changed their tactics from a “sit-down, folded-arms"” strike to ace tive picketing. Thus, after two weeks of spreading strife from San Francisco to both coasts, methods of strikers became uniform; but the tie-up was still most critical on the Pacific side. The paralysis of West Coast ship- ping caused by the strike of 37,000 union workers spread to shipyard workers in San Francisco—6,000 of them, union leaders claimed, but em« ployers disputed that figure. Alaska Relief Pushed. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins concentrated her efforts on seeking relief of an emergency situation in Alaska, where many towns dependent on sea commerce soon will be ice= bound and still have not received Win- ter supplies. Relief for Southeastern Alaska was assured as maritime unions authorized shipments by rail to Prince Rupert, Canada, and from there by mail boats as far as Juneau, Alaska. Gov. Poindexter of Hawaii asked aid for 600 travelers marooned in Honolulu. Dwindling finances, he said, made the situation “serious” for some of them. Strike attempts in Boston continued in the face of decreasing support and defiance by loyal members of the I S. U. Eighteen picketers in Phila- delphia were released when defended in court as having been orderly. Violence was reported on Balti- more’s water front, where 11 men faced disorderly charges, and later two others were arrested on a charge of beating a seaman, but were dismissed. Gerritt Vanderstaay, agent of the Atlantic and Gulf Sailors Union in Baltimore, vacated his office and liv- ing quarters at a hotel. He said he left because of threats of violence. He laid the threats to strikers. Edward Platt, chairman of the Bal- timore Strike Commitee, wrote Secre- tary of Commerce Roper and Secre- tary of Labor Perkins that Govern- ment agencies there were “actively en- gaging in strike-breaking.” N Miaon e ATarloa I LA R0, (See STRIKE, Page A-5.) MEXICAN OFFICIALS PROBE ARMS RING Capture of Five After Running Gun Fight Leads to In- vestigation. BY the Assoclated Press. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., November 7—~Ramifications of what they be- lieved to be an international arms smuggling ring were being checked by Mexican customs officials and mili- tary authorities at Reynosa and San Fernando, Mexico, today following capture of four automobiles, five men and a quantity of arms in a running gun fight earlier in the week near San Fernando, 100 miles south* of Brownsville. 29, The five prisoners, one of them erl- ously wounded, were questioned at, Reynosa, and will be taken to Nuevo Laredo for trial. Meanwhile military forces continued to scour the brush- lands near San Fernando on the theory Two of the gun-fight participants, one of whom is believed to have been an American, escaped.