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(U. 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) Fair and colder tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 32 de- grees; fresh northwest winds diminishing at 10:30 a.m.; lowest, 46, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page A-3. i Closing New York Markets, Page 13 84th YEAR. No. 33,807. LOYALISTS OPEN BOMBARDMENT ON PART OF MADRID HELD BY FASCISTS Building in Northeastern Section Is Recaptured as University City Corps Is Strengthened. FREEZING RAIN HALTS AIR RAIDS ON CAPITAL Bpanish Merchant Ship Reported Sunk on Eastern Coast by In- surgent Cruiser—Evacuation of Noncombatants Pushed as Food Shortage Threatens. BACKGROUND— With Fascists at gates of Madrid as Spanish civil war is in fifth ‘month, Britain let it be known her warships would treat insurgent ves= sels as “pirates” if they touched British merchantmen. This was in reply to Fascist threat that port of Barcelona would be destroyed, if necessary, to keep armaments from Madrid Socialists. Non-intervention committee of European powers was formed in September, but two members—Italy and Germany — have ertended - recognition to rebel regime of Gen. Francisco Franco. BULLETIN. GENEVA, November 2f (#).— The International Red Cross Committee today appealed to Spain’s warring factions to neu- tralize a section of Madrid for the protection of the civilian non-combattant population. BY the Associatea Press. MADRID, November 21.—Madrid’s gunners rolled batteries up to Univer- sity City this afternoon and began a heavy, short-range bombardment of | the positions still held by Fascist in- vaders. They announced the recapture of the National Institute of Biology, in | the Northeastern Madrid section, and said withdraw of their forces from Casa De Campo Park, across the Man- wanares River from Madrid on the west, had strengthened the University City Corps. Reports reached Madrid of the sink- dng of a Spanish merchantman off Palamos, on the eastern Spanish | coast, by 40 Fascist shells from the in- | surgent cruiser Canarias. (The re- ports were strikingly similar to those | heard at Franco-Spanish border points | four days ago and rebroadcast by in- surgent radio stations last night.) A day of heavy, freezing rain gave the greateful capital respite from serial bombardment. Transportation Offered. Pressed by an increasing food short- age, the government offered free transportation to the Eastern Levante regions of Spain for 'women, children and old persons of both sexes. The intense cold increased the| hardships of the homeless. All available apartments in the so- | called neutral zone in the northeastern | part of Madrid were ordered listed, to | find a refuge for the destitute. As| many as nine or ten families were| living in single apartments as the| evacuation of the northwestern and western sections increased. | However, the defense junta an- nounced all entrances to Madrid were blocked effectively and promised the suffering of Madrilenos would be only “temporary.” ‘The diplomatic corps, it was de- elared, again has prompted its mem- bers to urge their respective govern- ments to “take steps to prevent a re- (See SPAIN, Page A-12) BOWIE FA\iORITE TAMPERING SEEN Moonside Out of Lynch Memorial After Morning Trial Brings Blood. Special Dispatch to The Star. BOWIE, Md, November 21— Trainer Thomas Malone of Eddie Kane's Moonside, favorite for the Thomas Kirby Lynch Memorial Handicap, today’s mile and one-six- teenth secondary feature, reported to Race Secretary Jack Campbell this morning, that some one broke into the horse’s stall last night and tam- pered with him. When Malone took the gelding out to open him up for today's race, he noticed the gelding breathing heavily. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. O. he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1936—FORTY PAGES. ## Two Couples Are Left Bound In Woods After 3 Rob Them Left to right: Misses Thelma and Mary Elizabeth Shelton, Gordon Riggles and James Steele. WO men and two young women | were left gagged and bound with their own neckties, hand- kerchiefs and stockings in a wood below Mount Vernon last night by three armed bandits who drove away in their victims’ automobile after robbing them of their valuables. The highwaymen held up the two couples at 10:30 p.m., and it was 4:30 a.m. before they were able to wriggle loose from their bonds and notify Fair- fax County (Va) authorities and ~—Star Staff Photo. United States park police here. Be- sides their car, they lost $33.75 in cash, two hunting licenses and two rings. The victims were Gordon Lewis Riggels of Fairfax Station, Va. and James Colvin Steele and two sisters, Miss Thelma Shelton and Miss Mary Elizabeth Shelton, all of Fairfax. The four were kidnaped from a parking place known as Riverside View, a little more than a mile north of Mount Vernon on the Mount Ver- (See ROBBERS, Page A-12.) FIGHT ON FLOOR FORC.L.0.PLANNED Minority Faction of A. F. L. Contacting Delegates for Monday Clash. -BY JOHN C. HENRY, Btaff Correspondent of The Star. TAMPA, Fla, November 21.—Pos- sessed of voting strength that does not appear at this time to be of any | significance, but determined that the issue will be fought out in open debate on the convention floor, a resolute minority of delegates to the fifty- sixth annual convention of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor is working busily over the week end on a defense of the Committee for Industrial Or- ganization. The convention is in recess until Monday. Meetirig last night in caucus, the group named a committee which will apply itself over the week end to con- tacting delegates of some influence and voting strength, particularly offi- cials of national or international unions, who might be willing to join in a co-operative strategy for action from the floor. Prominent among those to be ap- proached, possibly with a view of being made the key figure in the fight against ratification of the executive council’s suspension action against 10 member unions of the C. I. O, will be J. C. Lewis, representative of the Towa State Federation and himself a member of the United Mine Workers, the union of John L. Lewis, C. L. O. chairman. The Resolutions Committee will seek to have the C. I. O. controversy made a special order of business for Monday afternoon, it was learned today. With considerable debate certain, it is still | b€ hoped to dispose of this matter in time for convention adjournment Wed- nesday night. Member of Committee. Lewis is a member of the Resolutions Committee before which the expulsion resolution and more than a score of others in support of the C. I. O. are now being considered. * Others to be sought' out by the newly named minority committee are Max Zaritsky, president of the United Hatters and a member of the C. I. O, and delegates present from th Inter- national Typographical Union. The strategy, in brief, will be for spokesmen of this minority to be se- lected in advance with their talking points already lined up. To avoid surprise action by the federation lead- ership working with the majority of the Resolutions Committee, this pro- STATEPACT STUDY URGEDBY G.0F . Business Men Are Urged to Consider Compacts for Industry Rule, Br the Associated Press. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States urged business men to- day to give “most careful attention™ to State compacts as a means of in- | dustrial regulation. Chamber directors approved a committee report asserting such | agreements among States having simi- | |lar interests would provide “respect for the constitutional reservation to the States of all powers not expressly granted to the Federal Government.” This, it was said, would enable courts reviewing the agreements to “take a more liberal view than in con- struing legislation purporting to be based upon limited Federal powers.” Compact Subjects Mentioned. As possible subjects for compacts, the committee mentioned labor legis- lation, electric utility regulation, milk | production, corporate charters and natural resources, including bitumi- | | nous coal and its competitive fuels | and timber. The report today followed a cham- ber statement yesterday that Fed- eral work relief “should be brought to a close.” Although not proposing an imme- diate fermination, the directors advo- cated a gradual cutting down as bus- iness improves. The chamber foresaw continued gains in re-employment and this view was supported by a Labor Department report that 220,000 workers received jobs in combined manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries be- tween mid-September and mid-Octo- T, “There can be no substitute,” the chamber report said, “for private en- terprise in the development of im- proved economic conditions.” Advantages in Agreements. ‘The Committee on Compacts, head- ed by Fred W. Sargent, president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, reported that “there are obvious ad- vantages” in State agreements, which would be subject to approval by Con- gress. “As to matters of a regional kind,” determine for themselves the form and extent of joint action. * * * “This method is extremely flexible. It is adaptable to a wide variety of subjects and situations.” Compacts, it was said, would pro- mote “expansion of home rule,” but, at the same time, would give Congress authority “to see that matters are C. 1. O. faction will be constantly vigi- lant from the time the convention reopens on Monday morning. Most of those meeting last night were delegates of State federations, Federal labor unions or central bodies, few of th':m controlling more than a ; i § gs dealt with by the States in ways that are consistent with any national in- terest.” Fall Kills English Writer. LONDON, November 21 (#).—Os- bert Burdett, English writer, died to- it said, “the States in the region can | Books HLLTOP ALUNN AWATREVENGE TLT WITH TERPS Thousands Move on College Park as Fued Is Renewed in Homecoming. POWERFUL LINE GIVES HOYAS SLIGHT EDGE Catholic University and Western Maryland Will Clash at Brook- land Field. ‘The blue and gray of Georgetown mingled with Maryland’s black and gold colors today, as thousands of foot ball fans converged on College Park to 5=~ an anciént gridiron rivalry re- sumed by teams rated as almost equally matched. The game is a major “home-com- ing” event for Georgetown alumni. Hundreds of them have collected in ‘Washington from all over the coun- try, hoping to watch the Hoya team turn the tables on the Mary- land eleven which humbled them last year, The streets of Washington reflected the foot ball spirit hours before the kick-off at College Park, set for 2:30 o'clock. Special busses were running at 15 minutes past every hour from Tenth and E streets. Streets and highways were full of holiday traffic. Additional thousands of fans were drawn to Washington for Catholic University’s closing game of the sea- son with Western Maryland, starting at Brookland at 2 o'clock. Timed to 1 P.M. Workers. The later kick-off at College Park was arranged to give Government em- ployes and other workers time to reach the game after the office clos- ing hour. The fans anticipated a fairly even battle between the powerful line of the Hilltoppers and Maryland's fast backfleld, featuring Bill Guckyeson. This ball carrier is hailed as one of the brightest stars to appear locally in recent years. With greater man power, however, Georgetown seemed to be a slight fa- vorite, despite the fact that several important players are still nursing injuries received in a strenuous game with Manhattan, when the Hoyas (See HOYA-TERP, Page A-3) EXPERT ON AMERICANA ACQUITTED IN COURT W. C. Smith Was Accused of Re- ceiving Books Stolen From Congressional Library. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, November 21.—Com- mon Pleas Judge Alfred Mack ac- quitted today William C. Smith, one | of the Nation’s authorities on Ameri- cana, on a charge of receiving books stolen from the Congressional Library in Washington. Smith, who waived a jury trial, denied knowing that books sent to him | by Omer Hittle, alias Stanley Wemyss, | a confessed book thief, had been stolen | from the Congressional Library and | from public libraries in Cleveland, | Olean, N. Y., and other cities. | FREEZE LIKELY TO GRIP | CAPITAL AGAIN TONIGHT | Mild Low of 46 Reached at 7 A.M. Today—Clear Sky Forecast. Preezing weather will grip the Capi- tal again tonight. After 24 hours of comparatively mild temperatures—with a “high” of 56 at 3 p.m. yesterday and a “low” of 46 at 7 am. today—the mercury is sched- uled to start down with the sun this afternoon. ' The skies will be clear tonight and tomorrow, according to the forecaster, and the overnight minimum will be about 32 degrees. At 10 am. it was 57. Lost & Found A-3| Woman’s Pg.. B-8 NATIONAL. A. E. L. minority group plans to take C. 1. 0. fight to floor. Page A-1 Social Security Bosrd considering amendments to act. Page A-1 Federal income soars along with talk of budget balancing. Page A-1 State compact study for industrial gems from Boston home. Page A-3 FOREIGN. Loyalists bombard part of by Fascists. . Eight German sailors go Madrid held Page A-1 .| 6 sentenced for operation of rum ring SOCIAL SECURITY | CHANGES STUDIED Board Officials Told to Offer Suggestions for Amend- ing Act. The Social Security Board is giving | consideration to the possibility of amending the social security act. At an executive session yesterday afternoon, the first since John G. Winant returned to the chairmanship, the various officials of the organization | were instructed to report within the next month any suggestions they might | have for changing the law. | ‘There have been several suggestions for revision from outside the bn-rd} and at the office of Senator Clark, | Democrat, of Missouri, it was said an | effort likely would be made again in | the next Congress to exempt from the | act those privete concerns operating their own pension systems. | A similar view was taken at the of- | flce of Seunator King, Democrat, of | Utah, who last session headed a joint congressional committee in pressing for the Clark bill providing such ex- emption. King was expected to call | an early meeting of the committee with | regard to the bill, which has its ap- | plicability on the old-age benefit phase | of the act which now is being put into the Security Savings & Commercial operation. ‘There also has been some sentiment | for changing the set-up of this old- age retirement fund, which ultimately is expected to reach nearly 50 billion | dollars. Much of the criticism directed | against the act has centered on the | potential size of this fund and even | friends of the measure have opposed creation on such a vast scale. Another change in the act that has been given some study would suard States enacting unemployment insur- | ance legislation next year from losing their share of this year's unemploy- | ment insurance taxes. Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, chairman of the Finance Committee, said yesterday that he ex- pected only minor revisions in the social security system. As plans went forward today for enrolling next week 26,000,000 work- ers for old-age benefits, the Business Advisory Council called on employers throughout the country to co-operate wholeheartedly in the program. To- day is the dealine for the return to the post offices of employers’ appli- cations, listing the number of their employes, and the applications for the employes, under which each will be given an account number, go out Tuesday. in Richmond. Page A-2 Demand for four-number auto tags exceeds supply. Page A-2 Sale of whisky in Dorchester County, Md., ruled illegal. Page A-5 Howard team disbanded as officials refuse to “buy” meals. Page A-10 Oliver L. Fassig, scientist, seriously in- jured in auto accident. Page A-16 Red rider legislation draws attack on two fronts. Page A-16 Arbiters of U. S. payment to District hear Commissioners. Page A-16 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. This and That. Page A-8 Answers to Questions. Page A-8 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-§ Page A-9 Page A-9 Page A- Page A-! Page A-9 Comparative scores “prove” | heavily, dropping his gun, which dis- | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. (®) Means Associated Press. SENATOR, WHY CANT YOULET US x\ I | Bank President Recovers From Hunting Mishap Francis G. Addison, Jr., Shot by Accident in Virginia. FRANCIS G. ADDISON, JR. Francis G. Addison, jr., president of Bank, is in Emergency Hoepital re- covering from a hunting accident in which he was shot in the leg. While hunting near Predericksburg, | Va., Thursday, with Ernest F. Mecklin, Washington patent attorney, he was walking across a field on the way to | lunch when he stumbled and fell | charged. | spirits. TRINIDAD OFFICIAL GREETS PRESIDENT Roosevelt Gets Ceremonious Welcome as Party Boards Cruiser. BY the Associated Press. PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, No- vember 21.—Historic Trinidad, dis- covered by Christopher Columbus in 1496, ceremoniously welcomed Presi- dent Roosevelt today on his arrival aboard the cruiser Indianapolis. Although the President deferred landing until his return from Buenos | Aires, Deputy Gov. A. W. Seymour, in | gold-braided blue trousers, white tunic | and red-feathered tropical helmet was received by the President in the ad- miral's cabin. Pull honors of a band and bugle “Ruffies” greeted the boarding party, | which included A. 8. Movrogordato, inspector general of the Trinidad con- stabulary; W. Moessner, the American consul, and Mrs, Seymour and Mrs. Moessner. President Roosevelt also recéived the | press in his cabin, recalling a visit he | made to Port-of-Spain 32 years ago with his mother and his college room- mate. The President said his speech to be delivered to the Inter-American Peace | Congress at Buenos Aires was not | | yet completed. He signed hundreds of | letters after reading airmail dis- patches from Washington, brought | aboard on his arrival. Dressed in gray trousers and an old | coat, the President appeared in good | He said he had read one de- tective story since leaving Charleston three days ago. An ardent fisherman, the President went on an angling expedition in this Mecklin took him to Predericksburg, where he was given medical attention and later brought to Washington. It | was reported at Emergency Hospital today that the wound is not serious | and that he is making satisfactory | recovery. Addison is a former president of the | District Bankers' Association, has | served as chairman of the Better Business Bureau and on_many com- mittees of the American Bankers' As- sociation. PROFIT IN PRISON WORK, INMATE SPURNS PAROLE Making Furniture Behind Walls Nets Bay State Prisoner $93 Bank Balance. BY the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 21.—Joseph Treboski, 46, of Worcester, model State prison inmate who doesn’t want to leave the institution because he can “make more money in prison than outside,” will have his wish granted. The State Board of Parole has de- cided not to release him. He has served two years of a four-year sen- tence for breaking and entering, and was eligible for parole today. Treboski, the State commissioner of corrections said, is a carpenter by trade and has specialized in making inlay furniture in prison. The sale of his prison-made wares has netted | him a bank balance of $93. tropical harbor after the ceremonial reception. Accompanied by Col. Wat- son, his military aide, and Capt. Mec- | Intire, his personal physician, the President dropped his line in quest of | finny prizes from a whaleboat 10 miles off shore. Meanwhile, James Roosevelt, wear- ing a white uniform of a major of Ma- rines, accompanied Capt. Paul Bastedo, presidential aide, to shore to return the official visit. Deputy Gov. Seymour made the former call on the President in place of Gov. Sir Murchison Fletcher, who was officially visiting Tobago. During the stay here crew members were granted several hours’ shore leave. The departure for Rio de Janeiro, the President’s next stop, was sched- uled for late afternoon. From there Mr. Roosevelt will continue to Buenos Alres. The Chief Executive retired early 1ast night for a good rest after watch- ing maneuvers of planes released from the cruisers’ decks in the afternoon. NO LOCKS BARS PUPILS PROVIDENCE, R. I, November 21 (#).—Locks usually keep people out of buildings, but lack of locks is keep- ping them out of North Smithfield’s new P. W. A. grammar school. The school is finished, but the locks haven't arrived and so it cannot be turned over to the townsfolk. Federal engineers promise an O. K. when the doors don't have to be nailed up. “Proposal” to Actor May Bring 300th Prize to Local Woman HE proposal which Mrs. Pearl McPherson of Chevy Chase just another competition for Mrs. McPherson, who admitted today that she had won 209 first prizes during MRS. PEARL McPHERSON. tar Staff Photo. Yesterday’s Circulation, 140,540 (Some returns not set 1eceived.) TWO CENTS. FEDERAL REVENUE UP 170 MILLIONS N FOUR MONTH Swollen Income Expected to Help Balance Budget. TREASURY CITES GAINS IN BUSINESS SINCE JULY, Increased Flow of Federal Taxes Noted in 53 of 70 Channels Tabulated BY the Assoclated Press. Talk of a possible balanced budget in 1937-1938 was followed today by Internal Revenue reports that the Government’s income surged upward $170,000,000 in the first four months of the present fiscal year. With business gaining daily, receipts of the Treasury from July 1 to Octo=~ ber 31 were $1209,242,000, compared with $1,037,689,000 in corresponding months last year. Encouraged by these figures, Treas- ury experts said new estimates “obe viously” justified a prediction of Chairman Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi of the Senate Pinance Committee that the budget will be balanced in the fiscal year beginning next July 1. Flow of Gold Considered. The continued inflow of gold, and what, if anything, should be done to offset its effect on the Nation's credit situation was considered today by the Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee. The committee, which has charge of the Federal Reserve Banks' palicies in the purchase and sale of Govern. ment securities, conferred earlier this week with Secretary Morgenthau. President Roosevelt recently request- ed fiscal officials to study the inflow of foreign money with a view to de- termining whether control measures should be undertaken. An increased flow of money into the Government came through 53 of the 70 tax channels. Among them were individual income taxes (up $35,415,~ 000), corporation income taxes (up $44,838,000), liquor taxes (up $37,130,» 000) and levies on tobacco, gasoline, automobiles, mechanical refrigeratora and sporting goods. $199,247,000 in October. For October, the $199,247,000 revee nue was $7,020,000 above the same month a year ago. Treasury experts said “only a mode erate decline” in Government exe penses would be necessary to balance | outgo with income at the present rate. | There were reports that, in additian | to expected decreases in the relief burden, the budget now being pre- pared would cut allotments to several | New Deal emergency agencies. Chairman Harrison, arriving in the Capital yesterday, predicted a gradual curtailment of the Works Progress Ade ministration, the Resettlement Ade ministration and other agencies “as the emergency disappears.” EIGHT ARE MISSING AS U-BOAT SINKS 12 Escape After German Sub- marine Collides With An- other Vessel. BY the Associated Press. LUEBECK, Germany, November 21. —The fate of eight German sailors, carried to the bottom of Luebeck Bay |in the damaged U-boat No. 18, was sealed beneath the waters of a Baltic | inlet today. The submarine collided with an unidentified vessel during torpedo practice yesterday. Twelve of its crew egcaped; eight others went down with the undersea craft. Authorities abandoned hope for the eight, although they did not order a halt to efforts to raise the U-boat. The area around the harbor was rigide ly policed, with no civilians allowed near. News of the disaster was withheld from residents of the city for more than 12 hours. Then the navy de- partment announced the accident, but gave no details. An official statement, issued later, said the U-boat collided with “another war vessel” while still on the surface. Twelve men, including the come mander, who were above deck or near the top hatch, escaped quickly. The remainder were trapped below. The U-18 is one of Germany's new submarines, belonging to the Weddi- gen U-boat flotilla, formed after the signing of the Anglo-German naval treaty. WARDEN’S WIFE OUSTED FOR SAKE OF MORALE Estrangement Causes Judge to Grant Injunction Sought by Prison Executive. BY the Assoclated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I, November 21, ~—Mrs. Hilda L. Dunn, estranged wife of Warden Arthur C. Dunn, has left the official residence on the Rhode Island State prison grounds, ordesed by a judge to do so “for the sake of the prison's morale.” Mrs. Dunn is seeking separate sup- port from her husband on the ground of extreme cruelty. The warden, ase serting his wife entertained prison guards and gossiped about him, obe tained the injunction ordering her out, Judge Alberic A. Archambault, granting the order, said he felt “the presence of both in the same house at the institution is conducive to bad morale.” He awarded Mrs. Dunn an allow« ance of $25 weekly pending hearing of her suit, and $200 for witness and counsel ’