Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder, with lowest tempera- ture about 26 degrees tonight; tomorrow, fair and warmer; diminishing northwest winds. Temperatures—Highest, 46, at noon yesterday; lowest, 34, at 7:15 today. Full report on page A-9. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 33,802. 84th YEAR. No. REBELS FIGHTING BITTERLY FOR SPAN 0 GAIN FOOTHOLD IN MADRID PROPER Insurgents Claim Position Is Held Within City, but Cen- sored Dispatch From Loy- alists’ Side Denies It. HEAVY BARRAGE RAINED ON SUBURB OF CAPITAL Five Fascist Planes Bomb Work- ers’ Quarters—One, Hit by Shrapnel, Falls in Flames—At- tackers’ Artillery Heard 25 Miles. BACKGROUND— Fascist rebellion beginning in July with an army uprising in Morocco brought most of Northern, Southern and Western Spain under control of insurgent forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and Gen. Emilio Mola. Loyal Leftists con= tinue to hold eastern territory astretching from Barcelona to Ali- cante. Slow but steady drive upon Madrid from north, west and south has brought rebels to gates of Spanish capital, with indications several recognition from sympa- that the Fascist regime will receive | H thetic governments when Madrid | és captured. BY the Associated Press. MADRID, November 16.—Violent fighting for control of a crossing of the Manzanares River and “French- man’s Bridge” raged today as insur- gent troops struggled to gain a foot- Entered as second class matter post office, Washingtor, D. O. Engagement of Th WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1936—FORTY PAGES. Mary Pickford And Buddy Rogers Announced Mary Pickford and Buddy during a motion picture scene. | By the Associated Press. OLLYWOOD. Calif.. November 16.—Mary Pickford confirmed today her oft-rumored en- gagement to Charles “Buddy” Rogers. band leader and actor. Miss Pickford is 43. Rogers is 32. Miss Pickford said Mrs. Bert Rog- | ers, mother of Buddy, would fly to | Hollywood tomorrow from Olathe, | Kans., to take the official announce- | ment next Friday or Saturday. “The announcement will be made hold in University City. The censor deleted 25 words of the dispatch at this point. Insurgents have announced officially that Moors and Foreign Legionnaires had occu- pied a position in University City, a northwestern section of Madrid proper. (Previous Madrid dispatches report- ed the government had bombed Los Franceses Railway Bridge, apparently the Frenchman's Bridge referred to today.) | University City itself was under the heaviest shell fire of the siege, now in | its eleventh day. But the main battle lay between the Insurgent forcés on the other side of + the Manzanares and government forces on the Madrid bank. Population Evacuated. The ecivilian population on the fringes of University City was evacu- ated as shells dropped into the side streets, smashing house fronts and| pavements. This correspondent, in a personal tour of the whole river front from | Princesa Bridge on the extreme left| flank to within several hundred yards | of “Frenchman's Bridge,” found the| government troops * * * (the cen- | sor again deleted five words). At the Princesa Bridge, the Fascists were reported a mile and a half on the other side of the bridge, with their lines converging toward the river | to a point just before the “French- | man’s Bridge,” where the insurgents| were about 500 yards from the river. | Steady rifie and machine gun fire | was exchanged between the entrench- ed forces. (Eleven more words were here cut out by the censor). It was apparent the insurgents were developing a strong attack for posi- tions at the edge of Madrid itself. However, one officer told me: “The enemy isn’t in University City. They are making a strong attack, however, :f‘_enher in force. We are repelling Artillery Fire Ceaseless. ‘The strength of the insurgent push was indicated by the ceaseless artil- lery and machine gun fire from Uni- wversity City, from which automobiles were banned. On the fringes of the section were heavy barricades (10 words censored). All along the river bank the devas- tating effects of Fascist bombardment could be seen. Houses were wrecked, (See SPAIN, Page A-2.) —_— ASHES OF HOUSE YIELD FIVE BODIES Four Children and Older Brother Die as Fire Sweeps Home. B the Associated Press. IRWIN, Pa, November 16.—Fire- men dug the burned bodies of four children and their 21 - year-old brother from ruins of their home in Hahntown, a little mining town, early today. None could be recognized. at a small reception to be held at the | Beverly Wilshire Hotel,” said Miss | Pickford. “The reception will be | planned on the arrival of Mrs. Rogers. No date for the wedding has been set, Rogers shown in an embrace except that it will be held some time in the Spring.” | Hitherto rumors that the two would wed have been met by silence or di- | rect denials. This morning, however, Judge Bert Rogers in Olathe said that he had talked to his son by telephone and that the formal announcement of | the engagement would be made Fri- | day in Hollywood. Miss Pickford, the former wife of Douglas Fairbanks, confirmed the en- gagement through her personal rep- | resentative, Mark Larkin. No comment was forthcoming from Rogers. . Mary Pickford, “America’s sweet- (8ee ROGERS, Page A-4.) LS ASKEDTO RN SOCAL AD ALV La Guardia Would Reverse Cash Flow From Federal Unit to States. Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York City told the chief ex- | ecutives of 100 other cities here to- day that the administration of the social security program should be en- tirely in the hands of the Federal Government. “Unless we have uniform adminis- tration of the security law, the en- | tire program may be thrown out of gear,” La Guardia said in his ad- dress opening the fourth annual United States Conference of Mayors at the Mayflower Hotel. His whole talk stressed the inter- relationship of the Federal and local governments. He emphasized the municipalities’ dependence on Wash- ington for relief money, public works aid, housing grants and debt adjust- | ments. Wants Funds Flow Reversed. He urged his fellow municipal chiefs to support a constitutional amend- ment empowering Congress to pass se= m and other economic legislation Supreme Court should throw out the law, and said: “I am going to make a recommenda- tion, of which I perhaps will be the only supporter. There is a great de- mand on the part of the States for more power in administering the se- curity program. Instead of the Fed- eral Government making contributions to the States to administer the law, the reverse should be true.” La Guardia, who is president of the conference, urged establishment of a Federal agency to finance municipali- ties, a place “where a well-admin- istered city could borrow money against its own securities at a con- scionable rate of interest.” He sug- gested the Federal Reserve Board could supervise this activity. The New York Msayor withheld any estimate of the amount of money he felt the Federal Government should provide for relief during the coming year, but said that at least $500,000,- 000 should be appropriated to meet the added needs of the current year, for which $1,450,000,000 was provided. The biggest problem before the (See MAYORS, Page A-2) Bepihat g ZHREE -3 £ i o STATE T0 PROBE Prisoner, Left Unattended, Burns to Death at Colonial Beach. | By & 8tall Correspondent 0.°The Star. COLONIAL BEACH, Va., November 16.—Arthur W. James, State commis- sioner of public welfare, said in Rich- late investigation of the fire which swept through the Colonial Beach Town Hall early yesterday, burning | alive an overnight prisoner, left un- | attended in a jail cage in the building. Damage to the building and equipment was estimated at $15,000. The prisoner, John Coates, 31, was cremated in the steel cage when his screams failed to attract attention until roaring flames swept through the frame building to prevent possible rescue attempts. - His charred body was, removed hours later from the twisted steel cage, which had collapsed from the intense heat of flames, fed by gasoline in tanks of three trucks and other town equipment stored in the building. He died within 20 feet of fire ap-. paratus, lodged in the front part of the hall. Commissioner James said the in- vestigation would start as soon as he could communicate with Dr. Roy K. Flanagan, jail inspector for the: de- partment, who was in Washington today. Coates, a son of E. 8. Coates of Pomona Farm, near here, was locked irr the steel jail cage in the rear sec- tion of the hall and left unattended. Although members of a special com- mission to study jail conditions in Virginia were gathered in Richmond (See JAIL, Page A-3.) 3,711 Taken Off Relief Rolls. HARRISBURG, Pa., November 16 (®)—A total of 3,711 persons left Pennsylvania’s relief rolls during the first week in November, reducing to 136,550 the number of unemp! receiving aid. Karl De Schweinits, State relief director, . attributed the reduction primarily to employment under the Federal works program. § § g ¥ 3 b iz EI°EE B : EEEE; M ! g M gégs R i ag : b EE i | H il 4 if ef g i : | § E ] : ] FATAL JAIL FIRE mond today he will make an immed- ! WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION JPPEL FOR UNTY VIGED BY CREE TOAF.L SESSON Urges Lewis’ Group to Re- turn and Settle Row in “Man Fashion.” RESOLUTION URGES C.1.0. UNITS’ OUSTER Roosevelt Wires Greetings. Printers’ Union Delegates Are Seated. BACKGROUND— John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers Union and nine allied groups were suspended two months ago by the Ezecutive Council of the American Federation of Labor for Jorming the Committee for Indus- trial Organization which aims to bring all employes of each large industry into one big union. Ezxpulsion of the rebel union has been asked at the Tampa conven- tion now in progress. Such action would precipitate the greatest labor war of recent years. BY JOHN C. HENRY, Staff Correspondent ot The Star. 'AMPA, Fla., November 16.—Wil- liam Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, today asked those who have split with the federa- tion to come back to it and settle their differences in “man-fashion” through democratic procedure. Green's appeal was made in this opening address before the fifty-sixth annual convention of the federation. Strongly worded, it retreated not one inch from the action of the Executive Council in suspending 10 member unions of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Green did not include in his appeal for “unity” any word of concession to their intentions to organize the trial lines. ‘Willing to Arbitrate. He did, however, declare without reservation that the federation stands ready to meet further for purposes of exploring possibilities of peace with the factions headed by John L. Lewis. At the same time President Green denied the real issue of the present split is that of industrial versus craft unions, but insisted it to be one of democratic majority rule within the organization as opposed to minority rule by force. This same reasoning is applied in the Executive Council’s re- port to the. convention. Countering this appeal from the federation president for restoration of unity within the labor movement, however, was the introduction this morning of resolution calling for rev- ocation of charters and certificates of affiliation of all A. F. of L. unions | now affiliated with the C.I. O. Greeting From Roosevelt. After he finished his speech Green | read the following telegram from President Roosevelt: “My Dear Mr. Green, I regret very | much that it will not be possible for me to attend the annual convention {of the American Federation of Labor beginning its sessions in Tampa on Monday. Will you please express this | regret to the officers, delegates and visitors at your convention and con- vey to them my sincere good wishes for a successful meeting. The return of prosperity has restored hope and happiness to citizens in all parts of the country so it seems to me that your sessions this year will be held under most auspicious circumstances. The spirit of optimism again pervades the land and I trust that your de- liberations will be fruitful of results which while promoting security for the individual will, at the same time, safeguard the fundamental interests of the Nation as a whole.” after Green’s speech, the Credentials Committee awarded con- vention seats to Charles P. Howard (See LABOR, Page A-3.) Summary of Obituary ...A-12 NATIONAL. Mary Pickford confirms engagement to Buddy Rogers. Page A-1 La Guardia urges U. 8. administer all all social security. Page A-1 Russell death note revealed as re- enacting is ordered. Page A-3 McGrady seeks new proposal for mari- time strike peace. Page A-4 David Brooks, Moffett’s son-in-law, dies in 14-story fall. Page A-5 Two killed in flight to bedside of dying man. Page B-13 FOREIGN. Rebels fighting bitterly for span lead- Page A-1 Woman's Pg.B-14 Despite demand, Roosevelt prefers simple inauguration. Page A-2 Social security application in D. C. to be explained in talks. Page A-2 Secretary Hull, Bishop Freemsn in- dorse preaching mission. Page A-2 Chest units' week end activities help mass production industries on indus- | . | Dark-fired tobacco market opens to- 6 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. ¢ Foening Star The only evening paper in Washington with the A.ssocla_ted Press News and Wirephoto Services. FH% FATURDAT'S 3 THE COUNTRY IS PUZZLED, TOO! CHEST FUND T0PS A)PER GENT MARK Total of $796,904.89 Re- ported at Meeting—38,- 310 Contribute. Surpassing the 40 per cent mark of its final goal, the Community Chest campaign today piled up a grand total of $796,904.89, contributed by 38310 | persons, This was reported today as the daily report meetings of the Chest were | resumed at the Willard Hotel. The | four solicitation units turned in re- | ports for their week end activities | |since the Friday report luncheon of | | $197,744.77 from 21,961 givers. | The percentage of the total Chest goal of $1,969.000 jumped from 30.43 | per cent last Friday to 40.47 per cent today. The units reported' as follows: Special assignment,. 39 givers | amounting to $20,165 today for a grand total of 465 givers amounting | to $438,416, which is 77.37 per cent of its goal. Group Solicitation, 4,580 givers, | | amounting to $34,117.65 today: total| |to date, 7,582 givers, amounting to| | $85,034.35, which is 21.04 per cent of | | its goal. Governmental Unit. Governmental, 15697 givers,| | amounting to $116,080 today; total to | date, 26,536, amounting to $206,675.46, which is 28.5 per cent of its total of | its goal. Metropolitan, 1.645 givers, amount- | ing to $27,381.18 today: total to date, | 3727 givers. amounting to $66.799.08, ! which is 36.3 per cent of its goal. | Coleman Jennings, campaign chair- | man, announced that a feature of to- morrow's luncheon will be the dra- matic appearance of another of t. four designated ‘“public enemi which the campaign this year is rais- | 1 (See CHEST, Page A-7.) e PLANS AIR MINISTRY Japan to Establish Control Over All Aviation. | TOKIO, November 16 (#).—Crea- tion of a new air ministry for both civilian and military aviation, with an annual budget of 3,000,000 yen (about $755,000) virtually has been de- cided upon, well-informed sources said today. An extensive reshuffiing of the Jap- anese diplomatic service also was re- ported under contemplation. Today’s Star morrow at Lynchburg. Page B-1 Police to arrest unruly strikers at celanese plant. Page B-1 This and That. Answers to Questions. Washi n Observations. The Political Mill. David Lawrence. Paul Mallon. Constantine Brown. Jay Franklin. Headline Folk. SPORTS Hoyas, Terps forget defeats to prime for clash Saturday. Page A-14 Rams lead Pitt, Marquette, L. 8. U, 'Bama as bowl aspirants. Page A-14 U. 8. bonds rally (table). Du Pont Stocks advance (table). D. C. power output soars. Curb list higher (table). Columbian Carbon net up. MISCELLANY. | exhorted the more timid classmen to | duct themselves in orderly fashion | trustees through a committee. |Caurt Tells Witness to Re- Howard University Strikers Demand Aid for Grid Players Hundreds Sign Petition at Meeting on Campus After Refusing to Enter Class Rooms. Supporting its foot ball team in| protest against the lack of training| table and adequate athletic facilities, | the undergraduate student body of | tated Saturday, when Howard's team went to a movie instead of meeting Virginia Union University in a foot ball game. The game was forfeited gpapar's ireulation, 147,501 returns not yet received.) UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. SOCIAL SECURITY MACHINERY PUT INTO OPERATION Mailing of Application Forms to 4,000,000 Employers Is Begun Today. LARGEST FEDERAL TASK SINCE THE 1917 DRAFT Irtformation Asked on Which Pay- ments to 26,000,000 Workers Will Be Based. The Government today began to set up its records for the vast old-age benefit plan. From 45,000 post offices, application forms were going to some 4,000,000 employers to obtain the information on which payments to 26,000,000 workers eventually will be based. It was an unprecedented task, the nearest ap- proach to which was back in 1917 when the draft was launched. Classes Excluded. ‘The classes excluded from operation of this program are: Those individuals in business for themselves or over the age of 65, agri- cultural labor, domestic service in private homes, casual labor not in- | cluded in the employer’s trade or busi- ness, officers and crews of ships, workers in Federal, State or local gov- ernments, and “service performed in the employ of a corporation, com- munity chest, fund or foundation, ore ganized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposcs, or for the pre- vention of cruelty to children or ani- mals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual” The employers' applications, which are to be returned to their respective post offices by Saturday, are being de- Howard University went on strike to- and hundreds of spectators were re-} livered by the carriers in all the larger day. | Class rooms were deserted except for a handful of students who arrived before the strikers took up positions at the entrances to study halls and “strike for the team.” At 11 o'clock a good proportion of ! the student body of 1950 massed on the campus in front of Douglass Me- morial Hall to hear leaders of the walkout discuss plans of action. A middle-aged woman, understood | to be & former student, was cheersd | when she urged the strikers to con- | and present their demands to the| A petition calling for better treat- ment of the team was drawn up and signed by hundreds of students. ‘The strike movement was precipi- ORDERED TOTALK, 'BRIEN SEES JURY veal Who Shot Him July 21. Joseph E. O'Brien, who refused last week to testify before the grand jury, was taken into the grand jury room again this afternoon under specific orders from Justice Peyton Gordon of District Court to tell who shot him July 21 when, police say, he was “put on the spot” in the 200 block of Sec- ond street southeast. Justice Gordon ordered O'Brien and Harry (Spike) Berhle, who was with O'Brien at the time of the shooting, to give to the jury the name or names of the person or persons who shot the former, and the time and place of the shooting. Pleading their constitutional right of immunity from self-incrimination, both O'Brien and Berhle refused to testify last week, and prosecuting of- ficials announced they would take them into court in an effort to com- pel them to do so. After two postponements, the mat- ter finally came up for hearing this morning, but had to be postponed when Attorneys Myron G. Erhlich and F. Joseph Donohue, representing the witnesses, protested that the law requires that the grand jury itself make the complaint to the judge concerning recalcitrant witnesses. Early this afterncon Assistant United States Attorneys Clinton Ver- non and Irvin I. Goldstein brought the grand jury into the court room and the foreman handed Justice Gordon a list of questions. After perusing the list, Justice Gordon de- cided the witnesses could be com- pelled to answer only as to who shot O'Brien and the time and place of the : Police have rounded up six men and charged them with assault with intent to kill. They are Charles (Rags) Warring, John W. Sweeney, Clarence L. Ware, Joseph S. Bond, George F. Tear and Samuel- (Monty) Montgomery. 15 KILLED, 100 HURT IN DYNAMITE BLAST Storehouses at Marseille Ex- plode—Rescuers Recover it 8. | meet in funded their money. The players, according to an editorial in the Hilltop, Howard school paper, had had to borrow money to eat, and many of them live on a diet of “hot Led by co-eds who wore placards suspended from their necks, the stu-| dents earlier in the day formed in groups on the campus to sing and cheer, “Strike for the team!” was the most popular chant, but some groups forgot the team momentarily to poke fun at the faculty. “All the deins have big feet that | reach from here to Seventh street,” were the words of one song. One student, who was accused of locking the doors of Douglass Memorial —_— (See HOWARD U., Page A-4) ABATTOIR DENIED BUILDING PERMIT Application of Adolf Gobel, Inc., Refused on Tech- nical Grounds. An order was issued by the District Commissioners today denying the ap- plication of Adolf Gobel, Inc, to re- bulld and enlarge its slaughter house and meat rendering plant at Benning road and Kenilworth avenue adjacent to new Federal park developments in that section. Action was based on technical rea- sons only, the reasons set forth in the order having ignored the “public nuisance” issue which the Commis- sioners themselves and interceding Federal officials had stressed as their principal reason for opposing re- sumption of slaughter house opera- tions. Except for that matter, the action of the Commissioners was entirely expected. They based their conclusions on recommendations from Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal. A special board meeting had been called for considering the abattoir permit. Six Reasons Set Forth. Six technical reasons, based mainly on important omissions made in the plan submitted by the Gobel Co., were set forth as sufficient cause to deny the application. This information had been obtained from the special com- mittee of District officials which had investigated the plans and previously had recommended issuance of the per- mits provided certain were met. L Seal explained today the order of the Commissioners would be used in connection with an amended answer which would be filed tomorrow in Dis- trict Court. There is pending there a suit brought by the company for a writ of mandamus to compel the Commis- sioners to issue a building permit. Seal was asked what would happen the Gobel Co. revised its plans to the technical objections set forth the Commissioners’ order. He merely shrugged his shoulders and replied: “We will cross that bridge when we | places, which have carrier services. | In the small offices, they are handed out at the office as is other mail. In Washington the distribution was | held up until the last delivery at 1 p.m. today. | Co-operation Urged. In this connection, Postmaster Vine cent C. Burke asked today for the co- operation of employers in filling out these forms and getting them back in the hands of their carriers without delay, so that the post office can pro- ceed with its pert in the operation with dispatch. A week’from tomorrow, the appli~ cations to employes will go out through the same channels. These forms will serve both to set up the accounts 6n which the benefits will be paid after January 1, 1942, and to furnish information on which tax collections will be inade by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, starting next January. The tax starts out at & rate of 1 per cent on each dollar of ‘worker's wages, and on each dollar of employers pay roll, and will increase gradually until 1949, when employe and employer each will rontribute 3 per cent. The benefit payments will range from '$10 to $85 monthly. System Explained. Vincent M. Miles, member of the Social Security Board, explained the information-gathering operation in & speech prepared for delivery today bee fore a conference of governors at St. Louis. “Beginning today,” he said, “post offices will distribute to employers a form known as the ‘employers’ appli= cation for identification numher. This form will ask of the employer only seven simple questions, answers to which will enable the Post Office De- partment to know how many em- ployes’ application forms to deliver to each employer.” The questions are: The business (See PENSIONS, Page A-2.) BROWN APPOINTED TO COUZEN’S POST Michigan Governor Names Sena- tor-Elect to Fill Unex- pired Term. By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich.,, November 16— Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald of Michigan today appointed Prentiss M. Brown, Democratic Senator-elect, to fill the unexpired term of the late Republican Senator James Couzens. Brown was named to the Senate in the recent general election, defeat- ing former Gov. Wilber M. Brucker, Republican. Gov. Fitzgerald announced he made thé appointment of Brown for-the interim before his term would begin in January to obtain for him seniority rights in Senate committee assigne ments. Brown, a native of St. Ignace, Mich, in the upper peninsula, was a. per= sonal friend of Couzens. He has served two terms in the House of Repe resentatives. Brown, after his election, voluntar~ 1ly re-entered his quarantined hame, where a 14-year-old son is recovering FARLEY EXPECTS BOOM Predicts “Greatest” Prosperity on Arrival in Britain. SOUTHAMPTON, November 16 (#),