Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1936, Page 1

(U. 8. m-m-wm mm:' & Generally fair f and slightly warmer; moderate northerly winds, becoming variable xm“m‘ . ‘Temperatures—Highest, am. yesterday; lowest, 39, at noon yesterday. Full report on Page B-4. Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION (P Meauns Associated Press. No. 1,656—No. 33,829, 47 DIE IN SPANISH SUBMARINE SUNK OFF MALAGA BY “FOREIGN" VESSEL Suspicions of Loyalists Are | Aroused by Torpedoing of | Underseas Craft Near Straits of Gibraltar. FASCISTS ABANDON ATTACKS ON CAPITAL Rebels, Balked in Furious As-| saults in Suburbs, Resort to | “Encircling Siege of Starva- tion” in Effort to Force Sur- render. BACKGROUND— For fle months Spanish Fas- eist insurgents have been batter- ing militia of the Spanish Popu- lar Front government in bloody civil war. Fascist Leader Franco pushed loyalists back to gates of Madrid, but for four weeks has been unable to capture city. Rec- ognition of Franco by Italy and Germany seemed to spur loyalists to greater determination to defend Madrid. Facsists now control most of Northern, Central and Southern Spain. Loyalists hold Eastern area, including populous cities of Bar- celona and Valencia. France and Britain recently renewed efforts to halt war, through mediation at- tempt, conditionally received by Rome and Berlin. Previous non- intervention pact cooly received by Hitler and Mussolini, openly sym- Eutered as dicond class ‘ashicgton, matter post office, W D. O. WILMOT W. TREW. HIT BY TWO GARS, WILMOT W. TREW, REALTOR, 5 KILLED First Auto Throws Man in |Front of Cab—Three Others Die of Injuries. An hour before he was to drive to Baltimore to spend the evening with his two young grandchildren, Wilmot W. Trew, 56, a leading Washington real estate dealer, was struck late yes- terday by two automobiles in front of his house at 5900 Sixteenth street and killed instantly. Meanwhile, Anne L. MacArthur, 51, pathetic to rebels. B the Associated Press. VALENCIA, Spain, December 12.—‘ ‘The ministry of marine of the Spanish | Socialist government issued a com- munique tonight saying its lubmnrmei C-3 was torpedoed and sunk by an-| other submarine, “evidently foreign.”| The Spanish underwater ship was said to have gone down with 47 of its crew aboard off Malaga, seaport on the southern coast of Spain, near the | Straits of Gibraltar, l As far as was known, officials said, | only the submarine’s captain, Agustin | Garcia, and two seamen were saved. They were reported picked up later by the vessel Artabro. The C-3 was built at Cartagens, | chief naval arsenal of Spain, in 1928. | Her displacement was 915 tons on the surface and 1,200 tons submerged. | Bhe was 247 feet long. | With two sets of eight-cylinder Diesel engines delivering 2,000 horse- | power, the vessel had a speed of 16 kncts on the surface and eight and | one-half knots when submerged. Her armament consisted of one 3- inch anti-aircraft gun and six 21-inch torpedo tubes, four in the bow and two in the stern. FASCISTS DROP ATTACKS. MADRID, December 12 (#).—Fascist fnsurgents have abandoned efforts to smash their way through Madrid's de- fenses and resorted to an encircling “giege of starvation,” the capital's military leaders believed tonight. Nevertheless, the capital rushed its | of evacuation of women and | children. The Evacuation Committee estimated 300,000 persons had been escorted from the metropolitan area and that 200,000 more would go shortly. Despite isolated pushes in the uni- wersity city suburban “sector, which | were repulsed, indications were that | the Fascists’ main objective was to | surround the city and cut its com- munications with the south toward Valencia. . ‘Ten persons were killed today and & score wounded by insurgent artillery bombardment, but this was regarded mainly as & screen for the more im- portant attempt to enforce a siege that by cutting off food supplies would force the city to surrender. LEAGUE ACTS TO END WAR, GENEVA, December 12 (#).—Unan- {mously backed by the League of Na- tions Council, France and Great Brit- ain will concentrate their energies to- ward bringing to a quick end the Span- (See SPAIN, Page A-10.) NEW ENGLAND FEARS DAMAGE BY FLOODS Rising Waters in. Six States _ Cause Apprehension—Pond of 1109 D street southeast, died at/ Emergency Hospital of a fractured skull received last night when struck by an automobile at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue. Her death brought the year's traffic toll to 93. One other victim of a traffic acci- dent in nearby Maryland and Virginia died in a Washington hospital early today. He was Harold Cook, 18, of Wood- stock, Va., died in town Hos- pital as & result of injuries sustained ‘when the car in which he was riding with his father, Charles Cook, 40, col- lided with a truck yesterdsy on the Lee Highway at Hall's Hill, Va. The €ldér Cook was also taken to Georgetown, where his condition is described as serious. Henry Donaldson of 1712 North Quebec street, Arlington, driver of the truck was not held. Neither he nor Walter Donaldson, with him in the vehicle, was injured. Samuel Bernard Farnum of Pater- son, N. J., the driver of the first car to strike Trew, was released in cus- tody of Representative Bertrand Snell, Republican, of New York, House mi- nority leader, who is a friend of Far- | N num's family. Farnum’s car threw Trew into the path of a taxicab driven by Vernon L. Derrickson of 1808 Kalmia road. Both will appear at & coroner's inquest tomorrow at 11:30 am. Another traffic victim last night was Marcellus Pickrell, 60, of Waldorf, Md., who died in Sibley Hospital after being struck by a car driven along the road near his home. David K. Porter of 102 D street southwest, driver of the car, was held at Waldorf pending an investigation. A few minutes before the accident in which Trew was killed, he had| | alighted from the car of Ben L. Prince, ' | former collector of taxes for the Dis- | trict, who lives directly across the, street from the Trew home at 5913 Sixteenth street. The two men had| spent the afternoon at the Columbia | Country Club. Drove Car to Alley. Prince drove his car a few hundred WASHINGTON, D. C. MUTINOUS TROOPS CAPTURE LEADER OF CHINESE STATE Chiang “Detained” With| Several of His Generals by Chang’s Forces. HEAD OF UPRISING ASKS WAR AGAINST JAPANESE Circular Telegram Also Demands Restoration of Manchuria, Tokio Hears. BACKGROUND— Chiang Kai-Shek, undisputed leader of Chinese National govern= ‘ment’s army for eight years, also holds post equivalent to that of prime minister. Steadily he has spread Nanking’s rtule and, at same time, been building up war machine which is seen China’s only hope of successfully resisting Japan’s encroachments. Ineffective in face of spread of Japanese influence on Asiatic mainland, China lost provinces of Manchuria and Jehol in 1932-33, saw Japan establish “independent” state of Manchukuo. Year ago autonomy of flve North China provinces was proclaimed, with Japanese influence plainly seen. By the Associated Press. ‘TOKIO, December 13 (Sunday).— Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, hitherto all-powerful military and administrative head of the Chinese state, was a prisoner today at Sian- Fu, capital of Shensi Province, of mutinous troops commanded by Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang, one-time war lord of Manchuria, Domet (Japanese) News Agency dispatches from Shanghai and Nanking reported. Domei sald the Chinese Foreign Office at Nanking officially admitted that the generalissimo was “detained” by mutineers. With him were cap- tured several of his highest generals. Chinese authorities at Nanking un- reservedly admitted today Generalis- simo Chiang was being held prisoner at Sian-Fu as a result of a military rebellion in the Shensi provincial capital, Detention of the military and ad- ministrative leader by Marshal Chang, the Nanking government declared, faced them with one of the gravest crises in the history of China’s Na- tionalist movement. Marshal Chang, leader of the up- rising, Domel said, issued s circulsr telegram demanding, first, immediate military operations against Japan; second, restoration of Manchuria to China; third, re-acceptance by the Chinese government of the policy of the late Sun Yat-Sen, “father of the Chinese revolution,” of recognizing communism. the nation to join him in s war against Japan. With the executive yuan of the anking government in emergency sessions to deliberate on the crisis, and & state of alarm declared | throughout the country, the govern- ment refused to accept these demands until Gen. Chiang was released. Marshal Chang was ruler of Man- churia’s four provinces until the (See CHINA, Page ) VETERAN POSTAL OFFICIAL REMOVED Mansfield, Mass., Postmaster Is Accused of Shortage—Case Third in New England. By the Associated Press. MANSFIELD, Mass., December.12.— ‘The third reported postal short. age in New England in less than a feet to an alley, which curves back (See TRAFFIC, Page A-16.) e FRANK MAY RESIGN WISCONSIN U. POST Will Offer to Quit or Be Foroed Out Wednesday, Madison Paper Says, BY the Associsted Press. MADISON, Wis., December 12.—The Capital Times said tonight that Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, would submit his { more than $5,000. Roosevelt Yule Tree Cut. week led to the removal from office today of Carroll L. Bessom, postmas- ter here for 24 years. Postal Inspector William McMil. 1an, who said Bessom’s accounts w short $1.000, declared that, like Elisie F. Pesature, assistant cashier of the Providence, R. I, ‘main post office, who committed suicide Thursday, Bessom_lost the money at & race track. In North Thetford, Vi., earlier fn the week, Postmaster Otis D. Bond shot himself to death when a postal inspector making a routine audit un- covered a discrepancy of $300. McMillan declared Bessom freely admitted having lost the money gam- bing. Investigators at Providence de- clared after Pesature’s death that he, t00, had been a heavy loser at race tracks. They placed his shortage at SHIPSTEAD UNDER KNIFE Senator Undergoes Operation for "{W. P. A, DEMONSTRATION 150 Urge Removal of California Administrator. SAN FRANCISCO, December 12 (®)—More than 150 W. P. A. workers and sympathizers demonstrated to« day in front of W. P. A, He issued a proclamation calling | SCIENCE REVEALS FORGE THAT BINDS ENTIRE UNIERSE Termed 10,000,000,000,- 000,000,000,000,000,000,- 000 Times Gravity. CARNEGIE LABORATORY REPORTS DISCOVERIES Newly Isolated Energy Declared One of Nature's Two or Three Fundamental Factors. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Direct obsepvation and measure- ment for the first time of an hitherto undefined force in nature, as signifi- cant as gravity or electricity, was an- nounced yesterday in the annual re- port of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. It is the force that binds all things together. . Without it there could be no earth, no living thing, no universe—nothing heavier than hydrogen, lightest of gases and supposed “mother sub- stance” of creation. The vastness of this force can be expressed only in figures so great that they transcend human tion. Unit for unit, it is 10 to the 36th power—represented by the number 10 followed by 36 ciphers—greater than the force of gravity. The attraction between two particles each weighing less than two septril- lionths of a gram is 10,000,000,000,- 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times as great as the gravitational attraction of the whole earth for a single ome of these particles. Significance in Experiments. The experiments during the past year at the Carnegie Institution's Ter- restrial Magnetism laboratory, on the edge of Rock Creek Park, promise to be as significant, according to some physicists who have followed their progress, as Sir Isaac Newton's dis- covery and formulations of the laws of gravity nearly 300 years ago, or of gravity nearly 300 years ago, or Ben- periment, which is a convenient mark from which to date understanding of the true nature of electricity. They have been carried on by Dr. M. A. Tuve and a group of physicists working under his direction, assisted in their deductions by some of the Na- tion’s foremost mathematicians. The isolation of the force is the culmina- tion of 10 years of intensive effort. Since the first actual measurement was made, nearly 10 months ago, every other project of the high voltage laboratory has been dropped while the physicists have concentrated on this ‘work. A preliminary announcement, which attracted little attention at the time, was made at a meeting of the Ame: can Physical Society here last Spring. Since then the work has progressed to the point where there was no hesi- tation in the institution’s annual re- port to the trustees in the statement that this was one of the two or three fundamental forces in the universe, (8ee ATOMS, Page A-3.) HAMILTON EXPECTED TO KEEP PARTY POST Be-Election as National Chair- man Is Predicted by Senator ‘Watson. BY the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, December 13.— Former United States Senator James E. Watson predicted here tonight John D. M. Hamilton would be retained as national chairman of the Republican party when the G. O. P. National Committee meets in Chicago Thurs- day. “The rank and file of the party is not concerned with organization af- fairs at the present time,” Watson said in reference to Hamilton’s pro- posal to resign. “There has been no aiscussion of the subject and no thought given to the matter of na- tional leadership. Therefore, I think Hamilton probably will be re-elected by the Nationsl Committee, and I think, under the circumstances, he PARLEY WILL VOTE 2 PEACE PROJECTS Arbitration in Event of War Provided at Buenos Aires Session. B3 the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, December 12— Two projects for peace, security and YES, Yes, THEY ARE. MOST INTERESTING B WOULD Yoy MIND SHOWINg E SOMETHING Now? SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1936—132 PAGES. ## oNLY 1O MORE SHOPPING DAYS TikL S 8 (& ey GREATEST TOY DRIVE ASSURED BY RECRUITS| Seven Federal Depa rtments and Many Bureaus and Agencies Join Boo‘st for “Forgotten.” With seven Government depart- ments and a majority of the Federal bureaus and agencies in Washington definitely enlisted today in The Star's Christmas campaign, being conducted non-intervention in the Western World, | in co-operation with the Metropolitan unanimously sponsored by representa- sped through an inter-American con ference committee tonight toward final approval by the full conference Tues- day. The measures, approved by scclama- tion in a peace organization commit- tee meeting, were: 1. A plan for maintenance of peace and security which provides for con- sultation in the event of war within the American continents or war abroad which menaces American peace. 3. A reiteration of the resolution of the 1933 Pan-American Conference for non-intervention by ane nation in another’s affairs. This carried also & Mexican amendment for cons it intervention appears necessary. Observers pointed out the smend- ‘ment gives Latin-American approval of the plan advocated by Presid.nt Roosevelt and United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull, under which in- tervention, if necessary, would be by Jjoint action after consultation. Statement of Hull Hull told the committee: “Our work must be looked upon with satisfaction by supporters of peace in every nation.” The achievements of the parley, he said, meet with “utter disgust a war-makers and troubie -makers. Pan-American Union officials de- scribed the unanimity in sponsorship of the peace plan before it reached the conference floor as unique in the his- tory of inter-American discussions. tion | Police Department, the Parent- Teacher Association, Warner Bros. and the National Broadcasting Co., it seemed that the drive’s aim to pre- vent any one in the Nation's Capital being forgotten at Christmas time might be closer to realization this year than ever befors in the city's history. The Treasury, Commerce and Jus- tice Departments notified Harry R. Daniel, co-ordinator for the Federa! Employes Christmas campaign yes- terday that support of employes in FARMER ISHUNTED AS GIRL KIDNAPER, PROCLAIM GEORGE Accused of Holding Carolina | London Crowds Cheer New | Child, 14, Prisoner for Six Weeks. BS the Associated Press. WHITEVILLE, N. C, December 12.—Deputies tonight had found no | trace of Albert Shepard, 44-year-old farmer, who, Sherif H. D. Stanley said, kidnaped s 14-year-old high school girl and kept her barricaded in a garage for six weeks. ‘The parents of the girl, missing from each office on their long corridors has been added to Mr. Daniels’ list. The State, War, Navy and Labor Departments ady in line. Federal folk ended the first week CENTS DUKE OF WINDSOR 10 ENIOY WINTER SPORTS OF TYROL, VIENNA REPORTS Ex-British King Is Expected to Reach Innsbruck To- morrow, Says Austrian Chancellory, TRAIN IS SCHEDULED TO STOP AT ZURICH o TEN Edward and Party Eat From Suit Cases—Rumors in Vienna Say Mrs. Simpson Plans to Go to Enzersfeld, Scene of Summer Vacation. BY the Associated Press. VIENNA, December 12.—The Aus- trian chancellory said tonight Edward, Duke of Windsor, is expected to coms to Innsbruck tomorrow, perhaps to enjoy the Winter sports season of the Tyrol. There were unverified rumors that Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson planned shortly to go to Enzersfeld, in Lower Austria, where Edward was a guest on his vacation last Summer, and that perhaps the two might meet there. (Mrs. Simpson indicated today there were no plans for her and Edward to meet soon and that he definitely would not come to the Riviera villa where she has been staying.) SPEEDS ACROSS FRANCE. Edward Remains tn Car as Curious Jam Stations. of organization on behalf of the needy | BY the Associated Press. 4 with a formidable number pledged to assist Santa Claus, Mr. Daniel said. | A vast amount of time spent at his | desk with a telephone at his ear on Mr. Daniel's part, while he assisted | marshaling | themselves into functioning collection | Government workers units, has resulted in these impressive results. F. A. Birgfeld, chief clerk of Treas- ury, notified Daniel that the Treasury Department is organized in all its sctivities and that circulars have been (See TOYS, Page ) BRITISH PEOPLE Monarch at Medieval Pageant. B the Associated Press. LONDON, December 12.—Under dreary skies Britain proclaimed George VI King today while Edward VII sought in a foreign land the solace of the love that cost him the throne. As golden-uniformed heralds moved through foggy London streets in me- The full conference was expected to | her home since October 28, swore to a | dieval pageantry which twice within give it final approval Thesday, and|Warrant for the middle-aged, married | a year has heralded a new sovereign, then it would be sent to the Ameri- | farmer. The garage was raided Thurs- | the crisis of Edward's abdication can governments for ratification by legislatures. . Felipe Barreda Laos, Peruvian dele- gate, asserted the two projects “mean day night, the sheriff said, and the girl rescued, but Shepard, half clad, escaped through a trap door. When found, the sheriff said, the passed into history. ‘With unruffied calm the British peo- ples accepted the melodramatic change of sovereigns and turned from all republics in America hereafter will| girl was in an underground compart- the prince-King they loved so well to exercise international police power.” | ment under the garage on Shepard's | his tall, family-loving brother, George President Roosevelt’s “good neigh-| farm, He quoted her as saying she —but with deep sympathy and a god- bor” policy and his sponsorship of the | had been living with Shepard against speed to him who found the burden of Inter-American Conference were hailed by delegates at the committee session. Roosevelt Is Hailed. Béfore the peace plan was approved in the committee, its enthusiastic members decided to send him a mes- sage of thanks for his initiative in proposing the parley. z Secretary Hull declared in a radio address the existing inter-American (See PEACE, Page A-10.) Indorses Star Christmas Campaign. “The beauty of the Christmas season is enhanced by the happiness of all the people. The joy of the sacred feast day consists not only.in enjoying also in aiding others to enjoy them. “In this period of good cheer, which in a very special way belongs to the children, no child should be denied the simple pleasures so dear to the young heart. Through various agencies food, cloth- ing and shelter are being fur- Department and the Parent- Teacher Association are co- operiting, it is hoped to pro- vide toys for the little ones God's blessings-ourselves, but | her will for several weeks, and that she had been his prisoner since she disappeared from the Evergreen High The sheriff said the girl told him a taxi driver appeared at the school and asked for her and she was told her father wanted him to take her home. Instead, she said, she was driven to Chadbourn, where Shepard e efg ¢ seg ol 288 §EE kingdom too heavy without “the wom- an I love.” Before the musty battlements of St. James' Palace, proud heralds hailed the new King. Trumpets shrilled as principal king of arms, proclaimed “our only lawful and rightful liege So tonight the British people were anchored safely in new allegiance to second son of the revered George | V and his plump little Scottish com- it agé ABOARD ZURICH EXPRESS, France, December 12.—Edward Dayid Windsor, who yesterday was King of England, sped across France tonight in quest of private life, Windsor's immediate destination was Vienna, railroad officiais said, ale though his ultimate refuge still was kept secret. The train on which the former mon= arch traveled was scheduled to stop at Zurich, Switzerland, but officials said his private car would be switched to another train under last-minute instructions and would continue to the Austrian capital tomorrow. With a staff of five men and accome panied by his dog, the former mone arch of the world’s largest empire occupied an ordinary Pullman car of this fast express on its overnight trip to Switzerland. Beyond Switzerland, Edward’s plans were unrevealed. He may stay somewhere in Switzere land and enjoy the Winter sports of whieh he is fond, or he may go ta Austria, which some sources say he prefers, for temporary retirement until he can wed Wallis Warfield Simpson after her divorce decree nisi from Erne t Simpson becomes final next April 27, Remains in Car. Accompanied by an aide, secretary, valét and two detectives, Edward ree mained in his car as the train chugged |along the route from Boulogne, through Amiens, Reims, Mulhouse, en route to Basel and Zurich, Switzer- land. The train was filled with the usual assortment of passengers, who sat in compartment or dining car discussing excitedly the unexpected thrill of ride | ing with the first monarch ever to | voluntarily renounce the British | throne. | At station platforms along the route | the curious craned necks in the hope Edward would emerge from his car. He reached Boulogne at 4 pm. aboard the British destroyer Fury. Dinner on Suit Cases. Edward’s first evening meal in voluntary exile was served on & makeshift table, his simple dishes perched precariously on stacked-up suit cases. There was no dining table in his compartment. Windsor and his companions dined in his private Pullman between Boue logne and Etaples. The dinner was prepared in the regular dining car , | in accordance with a specially ordered menu. The bill of fare included consomme, filet of sole, chicken salad, ice cream and cheese. After dinner Windsor asked for & “good, hot cup of coffee.” There was specially cooked meat for the dog. During a brief stop at Amiens Ede ward remained in his car, the cure tains of his compartment drawn shut, Detectives of the French Surete barred (See EDWARD, Page A-5.) STRIKERS BATTLE AS WOMEN CHEER Drive Of 100 Miners Seeking Work in Strike-Closed