Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weathier Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy and colder today; tomor- row, fair and colder; moderate to fresh west and northwest winds, diminishing tomorrow. Temperatures—Highest, 65, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 33, at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on Page B-3. Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. G (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,652—No. REBELS REPORTED WITHIN MADRID; LOYALISTS PLEAD FOR BRITISH HELP insurgents Cross River, Re- . porter Told—53 Die in Air i Raid—Spanish Emissary ; " Appeals to Parliament. 33,801. MISSION IS REVEALED BY LONDON PAPER Budden Fascist Shakes Crowded Plaza in Heart of Capital, Injuring More Than 150 and Causing Widespread Damage. . BACKGROUND— Heaviest fighting in Europe since World War has raged in Madrid during last few weeks as rebels against Communist regime intensi= fed drive to capture city. Begin= ning last July in Spanish Morocco, the rebellion spread rapidly to the mainland, with the insurgent Jorces making gains repeatedly. Military observers believed Loyalists were so weakened that Madrid would be taken when the “ring of steel” was completed. Loyalists evidently concentrating on desper= ate fight have withstood severe at- tacks with enemy at gates of city. Spain and Italy have been accused of aiding the Fascists and Russia of aiding the Communists, but international complications have been dwarfed in recent weeks by intensity of actual fighting. B the Assoclated Press. Unconfirmed and unofficial reports said Spanish Fascist troops entered the edge of besieged Madrid Saturday after insurgent airmen killed 53 per- sons in a bombardment of the city. ‘The report received by a correspond- | ent with the Fascist troops outside | the capital said the attackers forded the shallow Manzanares River between the Toledo and Princess Bridges, south of the city after a lull in government artillery fire in that section. | A dispatch from Madrid, where cen- | sorship is strict, made no mention of | any entry into the capital, but said| the so-called “International Legion"— | 8 body of foreigners fighting for the | « government—repulsed an attempt by | Fascists to invade the city by crossing | the Los Franceses Railroad Bridge | over the Mazanares. Madrid's de- | fenders withdrew from some positions to the south as a matter of “prudence,” the government radio said, however. APPEAL 1S TOLD. Parliament Asked to Block "HM-;BACKGROUND— cre,” Paper Says. LONDON, Novembtr 14 (#)—The Madrid government, the Sunday Ref- | eree asserted today, has sent an urgent | ¢ appeal to members of the British Parliament to save the Spanish capital | from the Fascist siege and “prevent | the most horrible massacre in modern | history.” | ‘The newspaper said an emissary of | Premier Francisco Largo “Caballero | reached London by plane today lndi presented his appeal in a private meet- | ing of members of the House of | « Commons. i He pleaded, the newspaper con- ' Entered as second class ashington, matter post _office, Wi D. C. Engagement of Bombardment | i | | he g WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1936—154 PAGES. ## Ethel du Pont To Young Roosevelt Revealed LIN D. ROOSEVELT, JR. P. and Harris-Ewing Photos. BY the Assoclated Press. ] ‘ ] rlLMINGTON. Del., Novem-| ber 14.—Mr. and Mrs. Eu- | gene du Pont announced | tonight the engagement of their daughter, Miss Ethel du Pont, to Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr.. son of | President and Mrs. Roosevelt. | ‘The wedding will take place the | latter part of June. | Miss du Pont is the eldest of the! four children of Mr. and Mrs. du | Pont of Greenville, Del. Her father | !is & member of the board of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Miss du Pont is a niece of Lammot du Pont, president of the company; | Pierre S. du Pont, chairman of the board, and Irenee du Pont, a member of the board. After her early 2ducation at the Tower Hill School, Wilmington, Miss du Pont attended the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn. Indica- tions of her friendship with young Roosevelt became apparent in 1934 because of his frequent visits to the Walker School while a freshman at Harvard. Miss du Pont, blond and of medium height, was selected by the artist, Don Flowers, as the most beautiful and most eligible of the wealthy “bachelor girls” in America. She is an ardent horsewoman and skillful (See DU PONT, Page A-4) STRIKERS BESIEGE 5. WASHIGTON {By Land, Sea and Air Sail- | ors Picket Pride of U. S. Marine. Bitterness has Dbecome more marked in the maritime strike which has gripped the Pacific, Gulf and Atlantic Coasts. Negotiations between shipowners and seameén have failed repeatedly. Since Sep- tember 30 Pacific Coast maritime unions, who started the strike, and i employers have been unable to | agree on the workers' “fundamental | demands” concerning the hiring of labor, chief of which is union con- trol of “hiring halls.” Seamen else~ where remain out in sympathy. B the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, November 14—With- | DEATHOF RUSSELL 10BE RE-ENACTED Detectives to Carry New | Probe to Gouverneur Morris Home. BY the Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, November 14.—On | | the lawn swing at the palatial Gouv- | | erneur Morris Beach home where his ' ! body was found last September, de- | | tectives Monday will try to re-enact | | the death of Reid Russell, 25, first | | called suicide, but now the center of a reopened investigation. Capt. Clyde Plummer of the district | attorney’s office said today ‘mvestiga- | tors would return to the writer's Manhattan Beach residence after | questioning Morris, his wife, Mrs. ! Ruth Morris, and Lila Lee, film ac- | tress, a guest at the Morrls home at the time Russell's body was found. During the questioning, Mrs. Mor- | tinued, that members of the house ac- out a dime in their “war chest,” but . ris became il and left the room, say- company him back to Madrid in an | with unlimited faith in their new- |ing she had nervous indigestion. She ! effort to save the capital's million | found leadership, New York's striking | asked for pineappie sherbet. and a half inhabitants from catas- | sailors hitched up their beits today | eating some she said she felt better ;and laid siege to the United States 'and returned. trophe. Emissary Makes “Impression.” i The emissary was described only as | & Scotsman of 33 who made “ a pro- found impression” on the parlia- mentarians who listened. He was said by the newspaper to . have told the legislators he had defi- | nite information that Fascist Comadr. ¥ Francisco Franco, angered by Madrid's | resistance, was preparing to gas the | city. { But he declared, according to the | newspaper, the Socialistic government | believed Franco would noi dare use | such a weapon if responsible observers were in the capifal. 53 KILLED IN AIR RAID. | Crowded Plaza Bombed by Rebels, 150 Injured. MADRID, November 14 (#).—Fas- eist aviators killed 53 persons and wounded at least 150 today in sudden bombardment of a crowded capital plaza, where workers had gathered + o discuss the defense of Madrid. Today’s raid was one of the most disastrous to the capital, and damage was extensive. Dead and wounded liner Washington. By land, sea and air they picketed | the pride of the American Merchant Marine when she arrived from Ham- | burg bearing P. A. S. Pranklin, chair- | man of the ship’s mother comp-ny.i who returned from a Europedn trip with the declaration, “The Govern- ment could end this strike if it would take some action.” | “Our-contracts with the union don't | em to mean anything,” he said. ! ‘'This strike is costing us a fortune. | It has ruined our entire business on | the Pacific Coast. We are put in an | | outrageously unfair position, caught | right in the middie of an internal | union struggle.” The rank and file seamen, who re- | pudiated their union officers two weeks jago and aligned themselves behind | the square-jawed, fiercely handsome | Joseph Curran in a demand for new | i wage and working agreements, ex- | pressed a determination to prevent the Washington from leaving on her | regular eastbound crossing Wednes- | day. An airplane was hired for one hour by the strikers and sent out to “picket” the liner as she steamed up the bay. Department of Commerce regulations Atter | The Morrises and Miss Lee came voluntarily to Plummer’s office today | to aid in the inqury, reopened at the request of the dead man's mother, Mrs. Victoria Russell. Reveals Sympathetic Letter. Mrs. Morris told Plummer that sev- eral days after Russell's death she found a note from him which said: “I told you I would do it and now you see.” The investigator later made public | a sympathetic letter Morris wrote Mrs. Russell shortly after her son's death | which said in part: ! “Your boy had my affections and I think I had his. * * * Why he came | here to end his troubies I cannot know. He was always so courteous ' and considerate. But surely he was | old enough to know he was letting people who had been kind to him in for a.lot of slander, scandal, sus-: picion and God knows what.” i In both the first and the present | inquiry, Mrs. Morzis and others said Russell had been depressed over | | financial troubles and several times talked of suicide. Mrs. Morris sai | l | d she burned the note lay about the streets. Panic swept| made it necessary to cancel plans to | because she “thought it best,”” deci the crowd. One bomb crashed through » supposedly bomb-proof subway. In an angry demand for reprisal, o Military Governor Jose Miaja ex- shower the vessel's decks with leaflets | {calling on the 600 members of her | crew to join the walkout. ! _Verbal appeals were shouted ing the case had been closed, and | thought it a mistake to bring it up ! again,” Plummer reported. Russell had been a frequent visitor horted his troops to “wipe out 50,000 (See SPAIN, Page A-3.) Refuses a Kiss, Car IsWrecked; Damages Lost B the Associated Press. causes of the accident, Auditor Wil- fred B. Feiga said in his report filed in Superior Court. Bellows, who asked $1,000 v damages, said Mucha lost control of the car. fi (See STRIKE, Page A-5) ! 4 | T (Se¢ RUSSELL, Page A-4.) Howard Students Talk—Strike After Team Refuses to Play A seemingly sympathetic student body talked pnnrlyle&"'i’tnitvmnhofld‘ not have to borrow money for break. i # l A.F. OF L. LEADERS SCORN BERRY PLAN Green Sees Arbitration Pro- posal “Not Acceptable - to Either Side.” EXPULSION OF LEWIS FACTION TO BE URGED Resolution to Be Introduced To- morrow at Opening Session of Convention. BACKGROUND— United Mine Workers’ Union, of which flery John L. Lewis is presi- dent, and nine allied unions were suspended two months ago by Ezecutive Council of American Federation of Labor for forming Committee for Industrial Organiza= tion, which aims to bring all work- ers in_each big industry into one big union without regard for tradi- tional A. F. of L. craft union lines. Ezxpulsion of rebel unions will be asked at A. F. of L. convention at Tampa, Fla., this week. Labor men agree this move would start greatest labor war since A. F. of L. dis= placed Knights of Labor as key- stone of American labor movement 50 years ago. BY JOHN C. HENRY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ‘TAMPA, Fla, November 14.—In- creasingly bitter in their hostility to- ward John L. Lewis and his confeder- ates on the Committee for Industrial Organization. leaders of the American Federation of Labor tonight were pre- paring for one of their most moment- ous conventions since the turbulent | World War era. So noticeably has this antagonism | deepened during the past few days that an arbitration proposal made in- formally this afternoon by Maj. George L. Berry, co-ordinator for in- dustrial co-operation, and president of labor's Non-Partisan League and | of the Printing Pressmen’s Union, has | been dismissed virtually without con- sideration. | The proposal, in brief, was for arbi- | tration through appointment of com- mittees of equal number from each | side in the controversy with a neutral individual to serve as arbiter. By agreement in advance, the arbiter’s decision would be accepted by both sides. William Green, president of the fed- | eration, moting that the suggestion | was not before him officially, passed it | | | over with the curt comment that it | “probably would not be acceptable to | either side.” Not Discussed at Meeting. Coming from a meeting of the ex- ecutive council later, Green said the proposal had not even been discussed. Other members of the council, ques- tioned after the session, either re- jected the suggestion or declined to comment. John Coefleld, president of the Plumbers’ Union and a Republican in | politics, not only rejected the proposal | without reservation, but criticized the | ethics of such an effort being made by an individual connected with the Federal Government. Berry insisted, | however, he was acting only in his | capacity as a leader in labor's own | circles. i From leaders outside the council | came more outspoken denunciation. | John P. Frey, president of the metal (See LABOR, Page A-2.) DISTRICT MAN KILLED, WIFE HURT IN CRASH Accident in Vir- ginia. BY the Associated Press. McKENNY, Va., Novermeber 14— Maurice Dean of Washingion was killed and his wife seriously hurt in a triple automobile crash one mile south of here on U. 8. Route No. 1 late tonight. Persons living near the scene of the accident said the Dean car was sideswiped by a southbound machine and crashed into a third car. Occu- pants of the other machines escaped with only slight injuries. Dean'’s body was removed to Peters- burg. His wife was taken to a Peters- burg hospital. ‘The tfelephone directory lists a Maurice Dean living at 2126 P street. Maurice Dean Is Victim in 3-Car | VVHOOPEE ! FIVE CENTS TWO CHEST UNITS $599,160 Given by 16,349 Contributors, 30.43 Pct. of $1,969,000 Goal. units of the Community Chest cam- paign organization today will carry forward the drive for the Chest ob- Jective of $1,969.000 by November 24. These units of C-men are the Metro- politan and the Special Assignments groups. Otherwise, the Sunday recess in Government and business brought to a momentary halt the solicitation, but full work will be resumed tomorrow. Attractions prepared for public ex- hibition in two downtown department stores are groups of babies from two institutions supported by the Chest. Nurses fo Attend Babies. Babies from the Washington Home for Poundlings will find a new tempo- rary home in the windows of Lans- | burgh & Bro. department store, and babies from the Florence Crittenton | Home will be placed in a Palais Royal window, Nurses will be in attendance at both places. Coleman Jennings, campaign chair- ! man, who daily has appealed to the I’worken at the noon luncheons, said | the situation here had changed ma- | terially since last year, necessitating | substantial support for the Chest. “Since the Community Chest cam. ing changes have occurred in the division of welfare responsibilities be- tween the Federal, District and pris vate organizations. “These changes, without a possi- bility of immediate modification, havs thrown upon the local community a greater burden than it has carried since 1931-32. “It is true that the Federal Gov- ernment has, at the present time, given jobs to thousands of people on public works; in fact, there were 11,- 175 District residents on the rolls of the W. P. A. on October 1; the-great lief rolls. In addition, 5413 families (See CHEST, Page A-2) {CREW OF SIX RESCUED AFTER SHIP BURNS Schooner Destroyed by Fire Off Cape Saumon—Men Picked Up From Lifeboat. BY the Associated Press. QUEBEC, November 14.—The six- man crew of the 117-ton Marie Ama~ ble, which burned off Cape Saumon, reached here today aboard ¢he coastal schooner Metis, which rescued them from a lifeboat. The ship caught fire at 2 a.m., Capt. David Tremblay said, but rescuers were prevented from reaching her by fog and heavy seas. “We didn't have a chance to fight the fire,” one of the crew said. “A strong southwest wind whipped the flames and the vessel s0on was ablaze from stem to stern.” Yale Trims Tigers; Army Loses; ALE'S great rally, which over- came a 16-point handicap and enabled it to beat Princeton in a free-scoring game, 36-23, proved the high light of yesterday’s battles on the Nation's gridirons. Two of the three major undefea and untied elevens, Northwestern and Marquette, continued on their winning ways, the Wildcats stopping Mich- igan. 9-0, and Mississippi falling before Marquette, 33.0. Santa Clara, the third big school with a clean jslate, plays St. Mary's today at San Francisco. { . The service schools won and lost, Navy finding double satisfaction at the end of the dasy in which it trimmed Harvard, 20-13, and learned fallen, 20-6, before Middies’ victim of G.W. and C.U. Win; G.U. Beaten | quarter touchdowns which beat the Terps, 13-7; Catholic U. delighted its old grads to a 7-8 conquest over North Carolina State, and American U. surprised its homecoming crowd with a 14-6 win over Johns Hopkins. George Washington ran roughshod over Catawba, 50-0, but Gallaudet was trounced, 39-0, by Mount St. Mary’s, at Emmitsburg. Other scores: Columbia, 17; Syracuse, ‘Temple, 6; Villanova, 0. Dartmouth, 20; Cornell, 6. Pennsylvania, 19; Penn State, 13. oYy STAYONIOBTODAY Despite the week end holiday, two | Boy, 9, Carries Youngster Struggles Up Three Flights of Stairs With Lad, Aged 4. Nine-year-old Billy Kidwell, playing on the sidewalk in front of his apart- ment at 676 Fourth street northeast last night, saw an automobile bearing down on a little boy he knew. It was over in a minute, and Rob- ert S. Dyke, 4, who lived in the same building with Billy, was on the ground, his jaw broken and his head cut. Before the driver of the car could alight, Billy had Robert in his arms and was carrying him up the steps to | his mother on the third floor. Child, Struck Home Dying Down by Auto -~ Billy kicked at the door and Mrs. ! Grace Dyke, 32, saw the crushed form in his arms when she opened it. Robert, her only son, who a few minutes before had slipped away from a merry gathering of youngsters in his own apartment, was dying. The first available means of trans- portation—the car of the driver that struck the child—was used to take Robert to Casualty Hospital, where physicians tried in vain to save his life. Shortly before midnight he died. Police sald the car that struck him paign last November,” he said, “sweep- | was driven by Joseph F. Pitts, 19, of 726 Maryland avenue northeast. The police were told that Robert walked | from behind a parked car. | Mrs. Dyke, wife of Robert S. Dyke, has one other child, a daughter, Joan, 3. — AUTOPSY IS HELD & i majority had been taken from the re- | INWIDOW S DEATH {Stain on Road Is Studied as Accused General Awaits Trial. BY the Associated Press. LA GRANGE, Ky.. November 14— Verna Garr Taylor established today that the socially prominent Blue Grass vember 6 from one bullet which cleft her heart, although two shots were reported to have been heard. Investigators for Coroner D. L. Ricketts, who exhumed the body for an unexpected autopsy last night, while this aristocratic community slept, studied the findings of two physicians. At Louisville Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, accused of mur- dering the attractive widow, con- ferred with attorneys preparatory to next Friday. Detective Sergt. John I. Messmer, chief of the Louisville Criminological Laboratory, said the autopsy Jhofi (See DENHARDT, Page A-5.) R R e G-Men Arrest Suspect. DALLAS, Tex., November 14 (#).— Department of Justice agents an- nounced the arrest here tonight of Herbert Crangle, who they said was wanted in Suffolk, Va., in connection with a fake eye doctor ring. The officers said Crangle operated under the name of “Dr. Avery.” Special Dispatch to The Star. OXON HILL, Md., November 14— Clinton Perrigo, 49-year-old farmer, former Prince Georges County consta- ble, ended his life by drowning in the Potomac River this afternoon after withdrawing his savings of $500 from s bank and distributing it among relatives and friends. His body, a length of wire tied sbout the ankles and looped around & tree near the water’s edge, was recovered by inmates of the District of Columbia Home for the Aged, st Blue Plains. Justice of the Peace J. R. Creecey had been despondent since the death of his wife, several years ago, with- drew his entire savings of about $500 earlier in the day and gave it away. ‘Evidence yielded by the grave of Mrs. | beauty met death the night of No- | his examining trial at New Castle ROBERT S. DYKE. SECURITY BOARD BEENSEIROLLNG |Post Office to Deliver Forms Listing 26,000,000 to Employers Tomorrow. ‘The machinery of enrolling 26.- 000,000 wage-earners for Federal old- age benefits when they become 65 { starts turning tomorrow. Post offices over the country will deliver to employers blank forms to furnish data that will be the basis of the comprehensive system of records necessary for making the pay- ments that start January 1, 1942. Between three and one-half and four million of these forms already have been placed with the Post Of- fice Department for distribution. They ask such information as name of employer, location and character (See SECURITY, Page A-3.) Farmer Ends Life in River After Giving Away Savings A brother, Maurice Perrigo, of Oxon Hill, told authorities Clinton appeared at his home in the early afternoon and left $354 with his wife, refusing to offer any explanation beyon “wanted her to have it.” CENTS ROOSEVELT PLANS CONGRESS ACTION ON REORGANIZING Also Will Seek Legislation to Bring New Units Into Civil Service. RECOMMENDATIONS DUE IN HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE TEN Number to Get Status Dependent on Emergency Agencies to Be Retained. President Roosevelt, at the coming session of Congress, will seek legisla- tion to reorganize Government depart- ments in the interest of economy and efficiency, and to bring under classi- fied civil service employes of those emergency agencles which are to be made permanent. This was learned at the White House late yesterday, after the President had conferred with members of the Civil Service Commission and mems= bers of his special committee on gove ernmental reorganization, ‘The President will discuss the quese tion of reorganization in his forthcom- ing annual message to Congress, it was learned, and later in the session | will send to Congress a special message | specifically recommending legislation, ] This legislation would empower the | President by executive order to extend | the classifled list, but the intention is | not to do this by a blanket order, but | to admit emergency employes through | examinations, which would not neces- inrfly be competitive in nature. There | are approximately 300,000 unclassified | workers now employed in the entire i Government establishment. Civil Service Long Urged. | Civil Harry B. Mitchell, president of the Service Commission, who, in | company with Commissioner Leonard | D. White, discussed this matter with | the President, said the number of workers to be brought under civil serv- ice would, under a commission pro- posal, be guided by the extent to vhich emergency agencies are to be q |Yetained. The Commission has con- sistently urged civil service for the new groups that are to be permanent. | The President already has indicated that Resettlement, the Civilian Con- servation Corps and the National | Youth Administration will be ab- sorbed by existing departments or some new agency to be created under reorganization, and there are other | establishments, set up outside of civil service that are destined to remain & part of the Government machine. Mr. Roosevelt discussed reorganiza- | tion with Louis Brownlow, former | District Commissioner and now chair- man of the committee which the Chief | Executive named on this subject. A | Senate group headed by Senator Byrd ;or Virginia, and one from the House, | of which Representative Buchanan of | Texas is chairman, also are studying the subject. Luther H. Gulick of New York, one of Brownlow's aides, accom« panied him to the White House. Brownlow and Gulick were with the President two hours. They said their | report would be ready for the Presi- dent in a few weeks. Committees Mark Time. The Senate and House committees 4 virtually are marking time pending re- ports from the Brookings Institution, | which is engaged in some fact-find- | ing studies for them. | While the reorganization studies were, generally speaking, entered on for the purpose of eliminating so- called useless agencies and overlapping functions, there were indications yes= terday some officials are looking at the problem from a much broader standpoint. “Simplification of procedure in do- ing business with the Government should be one of the principal aims,” one official said. “Economy is ade mirable, but in view of large fixed charges, such as the interest on the public debt, pensions, postal system appropriations and similar items, the amount that could be saved by per- sonnel reduction and bureau elimina= tion would be comparatively unime portant.” In connection with the reorganiza- tion plans, the old agitation for merger of the War and Navy Departments into a Department of National De- fense is stirring again, it was made known. A number of such bills are lying dormant in committee files, and it was said that requests had been received for reconsideration of these. The Navy budget was another topie (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-5.) $500 BOND IS SET FOR EX-LEGISLATOR Former Indiana Representative to Face Jury on Reckless Driving Charge. Former Representative Ralph E. Updike of Indiana was held under $500 bond yesterday for jury trial in Trafe fic Court on a charge of reckless driv- ing after he pleaded not guilty before Judge John P. McMahon. Updike was arrested by Policeman Maurice C. Barco, third precinct, fol- lowing a collision between his car and & truck driven by William H. Richards, 24, of Hyattsville, Md., at Twentye sixth and I streets Friday afternoon. Richards was slightly injured in the crash, as was Updike’s brother-in-law, Arie P. Renn, 45, of 6053 Twenty= second street, a passenger in the fore mer Representative’s car. The truck driver’s scalp was lacerated, while Renn was reported to have suffered & —e Radio Programs, Page F-3. Complete Index, Page A-2. ’ \