Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1936, Page 8

A—8 #» NEW TEST FACED BY GOLD CLAUSE Supreme Court to Decide Whether Measure Ap- plies to Bullion. BY the Associatea Press. A new test of the celebrated “gold clause” resolution barring payment of obligations in gold was called up for debate today before the Supreme Court. Fwo and a half hours were set aside for arguments on whether the measure applied to contracts for payment if biillion as well as coin, LAt issue was an appeal by the Holyoke (Mass.) Water Power Co. from a ruling by lowei courts that con- tracts for gold bullion or the equiva- lent in currency could be paid off at their face value in present-diy de- valued money. Leases 40 Years Old. Because of devaluation, it sought to collect $28,874 more from the American Writing Paper Co. of Massachusetts for leases entered into 40 years ago for water power rights on the Con- necticut River.- Thirty minutes was allotted to So- licitor General Stanley Reed to argue © as & “friend of the court” that if the MRS. ANITA L. BAKER, £3, BURIED ON LONG ISLAND Woman Who Lived Here Many Years Helped Found Ecking- THE EVENING STAR, ARTILLERY DUEL RAGING AT MADRID Insurgent Shells Crash Into Heart of City in Long- Range Battle. By the Associated Press. MADRID, ber 11.—Insurgent shells crashed the heart of the Spanish capital today as Fascist and Socialist batteries blasted away in & - | long-range artillery duel. ton Presbyterian Church. Funeral services for Mrs. Anita Linton Baker, 63, who died last Sat- urday st Stony Brook, Long Island, N. Y., were held this week at Port Jefferson, Long Island, according to word received here today. Mrs. Baker, wife of Rev. George Fenner Baker, lived in Washington for many years, until her marriage in 1900. She was an active worker here in connection with the founding of the Eckington Presbyterian Church. She had done considerable painting in oils and water colors, having studied art under a number of well known teachers. Besides her husband, she is sur- vived by her father, Edwin H. Latch, and daughter, Miss Elizabeth Baker of* Stony Brook, and a son, Francis How- ell Baker of New York City. A heavy insurgent infantry drive on the Western front from Montlos to Pozuelo was cracked, the government Teported, in a bitter three-hour strug- gle. The Fascist attack cllmlled the fifth week of the siege of Madrid. Under cover of artillery, Gen. Fran- cisco Franco's insurgent troops pushed their offensive while a biting wind blew down from the snow-capped Guadarrama Mountains, Heavy Fighting. ‘The fighting was heaviest around Poguelo, to the west of the city, and around the San Fernando Bridge. Intense government shelling in the Guadalajara sector northeast of the clty was reported from Castilblanco. Officials speeded the evacuation of the. capital’s non-combatant popula= tion to the Eastern coast as the gove 100 Cedar Chests IN MANY ARTISTIC DESIGNS At Tempting Xmas Prices WASHINGTON, ernment took steps to guard the food supply. The severe cold sent Madrilenos searching through the houses for wood. Others stood in line for hours to draw allotments of fuel. Adding to the rigors of the cold in the city, & shortage of matches de- veloped, and persons on the streets with lighted cigarettes were surround- ed by others asking for lights. Over the capital, insurgent pur- suit planes scattered leaflets calling for the city’s surrender, while gov- ernmert planes took off to bomb the Tllescas Railway station just south of Madrid. Louis de la Pre, 44, correspondent for the Paris Soir, died today, just three days after he was injured with three others when their plane was shot down by an unidentified war plane over Spanish insurgent territory. D.- C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1036. 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