Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1937, Page 4

THE EVENING ”. S ENT[RM'NERS Attorney Target of Gunmen FND BRITAN 0L British Artists’ Federation Protests Employment for Coronation. BY the Associated Press. LONDON. March 8.—American en- tertainers were given a cold welcome today for the coronation of King George VI Looking forward to a period of top billings around May 12, the British | Variety Artists' Federation protested to the ministry of labor against the im- | portation of foreign competition—par- ticularly American. The British stars outlined three de- mands to add to the woes of officials already burdened by problems ranging from who is to sit where to is it going to rain: 1. Local talent should be given em- | ployment preference during the coro- | nation fesuvities. 2. The split on entertainment pro- grams should be 60 per cent British cent foreign and 40 pel 3. Ev time two foreign acts get work in Great Britain, one British act should be hired in that foreign coun- try. The last clause was understood to be directed particularly at the United States, where, the British stars com- | plained, noi enough British stars were employed. A quick survey of Britain—even be- fore the coronation has begun to have | 8 real effect on the entertainment ed there are about m artists at present on the boards of British theaters. e Ja moment. little government the Guadala) taking the dir Rebels Shell El Rastro. Several were killed and others wounded El Rastro, outside Madrid. by ery shells as hail and storms brought temporary peace to Madrid's front- line defenses Shiveri er. there is ry traffic over st of it still persons militiamen es ready to re- were concen- a sector, southeast and on the Corunna of Madrid. both of shelled by the trated on of the ca nwes which were 1 government ve: The i ents have been prevented thus far, official government reports | stated, from re-establishing communi- | cation between the El Pardo sector | and the Aravaca and University City region after a vital bridge was blown up by a government mine. Claims Capture of Six Ships. (Dispatches from Lisbon said in- surgent Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de| Llano, speaking over the Seville radio, | @sserted insurgents captured six gov- | ernment ships in the Mediterranean | Sunday. Four trawlers and two steamers, loaded with ammunition and volunteers, comprised the insurgent haul, the general stated.) In Madrid. police engaged in a| clean-up of Carlists—extreme Right- | 1s—and asserted they discovered a book containing names and details | of a Carlist militia throughout Spain. Numerous suspects were arrested. (Dispatches from Valencia an- nounced insurgent planes, coming | {from the direction of Majorca, bombed | Pozul and Farnaca, villages north of | Valencis, causing three casualties, but | little damage. BLOCKADE PLANNED. LONDON, March 8 (#).—The In- ternational ‘““Hands-off-Spain” Com- mittee worked today to set up a per- | eonnel staff of high-ranking mxhlnry" and naval officers to administer the partial blockade of the civil war which | France insists be put into effect by | March 13, DELAY GRANTED JORDAN IN T-SHOPPE SLAYING Month Allowed for Action on Plea to President—Execution Date April 23. Thomas Jordan, who was scheduled to die in the electric chair March 19 for the Good Friday murder six years &g0 of Mrs. Lizzie S. Jaynes during a hold-up of Garden T Shoppe, received a month’s stay of execution today from Justice Peyton Gordon of District Court. The reason for the postpone- ment was that a petition for executive elemency for Jordan is pending at the ‘White House. | Attorneys Harry T. Whelan and | William B. O’Connell contend that | Jordan should have been found guilty | of nothing greater than second-degree | murder. April 23 was set as the new execu- tion date. Mrs. Jaynes was cashier of the | restaurant. | Hole in windshield of car made by bullet, fired by unknown gunmen, that wounded District Attorney Burton Fitts of Los Angeles last night top of the car. The flattened lead was dug out of a hole in Fitts was driving to his parents’ home when shot. Close-up of Fitts, as he was rushed to the operating room, clearly shows how the pain of the gunshot marked his face. Note the cigarette held in his right hand.—Copyright A. P. Wirephotos. piaconiontdy £ Fitts (Continued From First Page.) around here,” Cushman commented as the party prepared to retire to the living room. “I don't think it wise, Buron, for you to sit around this house with all the shades up.” Pulled Down Shades. Cushman thought he heard foot- | direct line with Mr. Fitts' heart,” Dr. Blank said. “The slug struck the | elbow, shattering the bones, which apparently deflected the bullet's fiight, | sending it through the windshield.” Fitts’ guests at his home heard the | shot and summoned a physician while the district attorney was mumbling at the home of his parents: “Mother, I'm shot.” Had Planned Inquiry. ! Fitts had planned to visit the Dougs STAR, LINERINCOLLISION SENTTO DRYDOCK President Coolidge Leaves Oil Tanker Disabled After Saving 36. BY the Associated Press. 8AN FRANCISCO, March 8.—Dol- lar Steamship officials ordered their $8,000,000 liner Ccresident Coolidge into dry dock today as an aftermath of a ship collision Saturday that left the second vessel a derelict in Golden Gate Channel waters. The around-the-world liner's 678 passengers all were ashore. The Cool= idge rescued the tanker crew of 36. Outcome of a dogged battle against the sea for possession of the associ- ated oil tanker, Frank H. Buck, still was in doubt. After drifting seaward almost 5 miles following the collision in a heavy fog Saturday the tanker drifted toward shore again. Tugboats and Coast Guard cutters had three lines aboard her and her owners were hopeful of wrenching her free from a mudbank about 100 yards off shore. The tanker's stern was high in the air, but her broken nose was thrust into the mud and out of her gurgled slowly the cargo of black oil she brought northward from Ventura, Calif. Steamship officials estimated loss | from the collision at $650,000. Ship (Continued From PFirst Page.) WASHINGTON, | scene in the state lounge saloon when dozens of first-class passengers, gath- | | ered to watch a motion picture, were pitched into a screaming, struggling | mass. The film, “Ave Maria,” had just reached its climax. with Benia Mino Giglis singing the “Toreador” song. | Hurled Against Stanchion. i The Italian passenger suffered an abdominal rupture and died two days | later. | The seaman, who was fatally injured, was thrown against a stanchion and his backbone was broken. Three | American doctors among the pas- | sengers contributed their skill to the | | fruitiess attempt to save the sailor's life An emergency operation was per- formed during the storm, but lack of facilities aboard for a blood trans- fusion was understood to have handi- capped the effort Passengers said the | was so rough that it most of the time to cabins with safety. Meals could not be served in the dining salons. they said, and sand- | wiches were passed out to passengers | as they clung to the handrails of the | public rooms. The Rex docked yester- day after a nine-day crossing from New York. 1. S. Powers of Terre Haute. Ind., said that for a while “the sea had been somewhat rough but not violent. “A great number of first class pas- sengers were in the state lounge room | | seeing motion pictures. “Suddenly the boat reeled, struck with immeasurable force. Men and women passengers and ships atten- | dants went careening across the floor in a heap of scrambled chairs and screaming people. “After that single blow the boat | righted itself, the passengers picked | themselves up and the show went on, | { while attendants carried out the pas- | entire Crossing | was impossible remain in the steps outside the house and pulled las plant and investigate reported at- senger who was seriously injured | down the living room shades. Fitts tacks on employes who go to work “Friday night we were struck by | disregarded suggestions that one of his daily through a picket line of the | another blow, but this was not as guests accompany him when he left to Committee for Industrial Organiza- | strong as the first.” his father to discuds projected work on the ranch. “As I drove down the lane I sud- denly saw a black sedan parked back of a clump of bushes at the entrance of my driveway,” Fitts said. “In the car were three or four men, and there were no lights burning. “I jammed on my brakes and came to a dead stop, thinking that I would whirl my car around and speed back to my house. “At that moment fire spurted from the parked sedan. A shot rang out. My windshield was shattered. and my left arm dropped helpless from the steering wheel. “As the black sedan roared ,down the boulevard I got my car in gear and drove to the home of my parents.” First Concern for Daughter. Fitts’ first concern, when he reached there, was for his 10-year-old adopted daughter, Mary Lou, who has been under guard for some time since threats were received by officials. “Don’t let them get Mary Lou!” he muttered later as he was given opiates at a hospital. Dr. Benjamin Blank, chief county jail physician, said the attorney's life was saved through the fact the bullet struck his elbow, deflecting its course from his heart. “The elbow, in this case, was on EDUCATIONAL. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS OF LAW AND OF ECONOMICS AND GOVERNMENT Spring Term Begins March 15, 1933, Summer Term Begins June 15, 1937. Registrar's Office 818 13th St. N.W. Phone Nat. 6617. Open for regisiration § a.m. o 7 p.m or 3 days onl TODAY’'S GREATEST VALUE BY ONE OF AMERICA'S LARGEST MANUFACTURERS TABLE PA NEVER PRICED LOWER FOR THIS GENUINE QUALITY ‘sllld‘ Special for this Sale Extra leaves to 12 in., 55¢ ORDER TODAY! 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