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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight, probably clearing to- morrow morning; warmer, temperature about 50 degrees; colder tomorrow and to= morrow night. Temperatures—Highest, 57, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 4 a.m. today. 4 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. q Star Closing New York Markets, Page 12 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Circulation, 145,854 Entered post office, Washington, D. 85th YEAR. No. — 33,926. er c. D . C; SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1937—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. #¥#% (Some returns not yet recely () Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. 'EARHART PLANE IS BADLY DAMAGED IN TAKE-OFF BUT THREE FLYERS ESCAPE LEFT WING SNAPS | AS TRE OF PLANE BLOWS 0UT AND SHP NOSES OVER Woman Aviator Cuts Off Ignition, Preventing Fire, After One Motor Bursts| Into Flame. BOTH PROPELLERS BENT | ON $80,000 CRAFT | | — i *Only Our Spirits Are Bruised,” | Says Flyer—DMeans thht} Around World Is Postponed, | but Not Canceled—Ship to Go | Back to Factory. | e Associated Press HONOLULU, March B Fred Noonan. Crash in Hawaii Left to right: Amelia Earhart, Capt. Harry Manning and —Wide World Photo. 20. — Amelia Earhart’s around - the - world plane skidded and crashed to- day while she was at- tempting to take off for INSURGENTS ENTER her two man companions Failure of Defenders at Uni- escaped injury. versity City Opens W The plane skidded on| yto RyebSIs e the wet concrete runway ! and the left tire blew out, BAC;K?RonyT S AR TR R actics of rebels in Spanish war wrecking the undercar- called for subduing all provinces 1'iage, and then marching triumphantly There was a burst of | ™ Madrid as the symbol of final 8 S | L victory. Beginning in North Africa flame from the engine and last July, rebels almost reached ob- ambulances raced to the ’ective Last November enough scene. provinces were conquered and they Tips on Wing. turned to the final drive on Madrid. The city was expected to fall with little resistance. But Madrid’s de- They arrived to find Miss| fenders held out and the rebels’ Earhart, white-faced, climb- 9’”}‘;55{':;” ’:gfflg?{"efiz&,m - ing from the wrecked craft. | o079 Sompiess | Ceriratbeity “Something must have| is impossibie, revel teaders stayed gone wrong,” she exclaimed. The globe-girdling plane, which had carried the avia- trix safely from Oakland, nearby and last month began a new campaign, one directed toward cut- Calif., tipped over on its left | wing. | | | | | | ting off all the roads to the capital and starving its defenders into submission. BY the Associated Press. Started at Dawn. NAVALCARNERO, Spain, March The fliers' companions, Fred J.|20.—Insurgent forces in the University Noonan, and Capt. Harry Manning, | City sector at Madrid’s northwest also escaped injury. The attempted take-off was made | COTRer were reported today to have shortly after dawn for the second | Smashed through the capital's de- stage of the world flight, a hop of | fenses into Northern Madrid. 1,532 miles to tiny Howland Island, | Word of crumpled resistance and southwest of here. | a sudden thrust into the long-besieged Miss Earhart entered the plant at | City was brought to this insurgent 8:10 am. (Pacific standard time) after | base by persons who said they saw | the incursion The troopers of Gen. Francisco The motors were given a final warm- | Franco were said to have beaten their ing up and then Miss Earhart|way to positions near Calle de Bravo “gunned” them as she headed down | Murillo, a large thoroughfare bisecting the concrete runway at Luke Field at | the northern portion of city from high speed north to south. The plane was about half way down The sudden advance was made pos- the runway when the accident oc- | sible, it was said, by the failure of a curred | (See SPAIN, Page A-10.) Wheel Hurled 40 “eet. | 1 4 30 HURT IN BUS CRASH The aviatrix, at the controls, appar- | Truck and School Vehicle Collide in Arkansas. ently cut the ignition switches as the 8-ton plane swerved, thereby prevent- | ing fire A scattered crowd of about 7% watch- ers, mostly Army men, saw a burst of flame from the left motor when the | pRESCOTT, Ark., March 20 (P)— plane crashed, and then the fire died | Thirty persons were injured, 20 seri- | ously, in the collision of a heavily- loaded truck and two crowded school | busses in rural Nevada County late last night. Most of the victims were children. out They were brought to & Prescott The left wheel snapped off and was hurled 40 feet from where the plane hospital. Physicians said three were in a critical condition, came 70 rest Manning and Noonan had taken their places in the craft Both propellers were bent, the left one badly. | The crash occurred at 8:19 a.m. (Pacific standard time). Miss Earhart stood in the cockpit, to | BLUM ON GUARD IParis Defenses Bolstered After Rightist Leader Warns Premier. | BACKGROUND— | Three major riots have occurred since Leon Blum took office last June as French premier. Outbreaks were generally considered a mani- festation of growing European strife between communism and fascism. Col. Francois de ia Rocque, leader of the Rightists, has proved Blum's implicable foe. Blum dissolved De la Rocque’s semi-military Croir de Feu shortly after taking office, and the Popular Front government now is investigating his Social party to determine whether it is a reconsti- tution of the Croix de Feu. BY the Associated Press. PARIS, March 20.—The People’s | Front supporting Socialist Premier | Leon Blum reinforced its capital de- fenses today amid Rightist threats of & possible uprising | Numerous platoons of mobile guards | —the exact number was undisclosed— | were brought from the provinces and | | stationed in various parts of the Paris | | area after Col. Francois de la Rocque, | | flery Rightist leader, sounded an ominous note of warning. Protesting the government’s ban on | political party meetings, De la Rocque | declared: “I cannot take responsibility | for immense uprising which such | tyrannical acts may arouse.” | The Rightist leader’s statement, co- inciding with the close of a govern- ment investigation into his social party, was considered in political | circles as a direct warning against | dissolution of the group he organized | after the government broke up his semi-military Croix de Feu. Well-informed sources believed Pre- mier Blum would announce such a ban Tuesday. Meanwhile the government author- ized a labor procession at the funeral tomorrow for victims of the Clichy riot, in which five were killed and approximately 300 injured during a clash Tuesday. De la Rocque protested also against the printers’ strike that prevented publication of his party: organ, Le Flambeau. An investigation, to place responsi- bility for the Clichy riot, is under way and Premier Blum agreed to submit to parliamentary interpellation on the Touchy question, which for a time threatened tenure of his government. (See FLIGHT, Page A-2.) Bankers Threatened. SACRAMENTO, March 20 (#).— ‘The Sacramento Union said today that Elmer W. Armfield, president of On Next Lap, \Reduction of Sp eed Is Problem Aviatrix Asserts the Yolo County Savings Bank, and another unnamed banker were threat- ened with death in extortion letters demanding $5,000 from each. BEFORE THE TAKE-OFF Alice Rogers Hager, special correspondent of The Sunday Star, who flew to Oakland, Calif., to cover the start of Amelia Earhart's epic globe-encircling flight, spent a week with the noted flyer and her official family before the take-off. - Her story of what she saw and heard as an eye-witness and close observer back of the scenes during the preparations for this history- making journey and her own account of the thrilling de- parture appears before her unfortunate acciden BY AMELIA EARHART. HONOLULU, March 20.—When my Lockheed touched wheels at Wheeler Field Thursday at dawn, I planned to continue to Howland Island late in the afternoon. However, after seeing the weather map of the territory to be traversed, prepared by the Navy’s chief aerog- rapher, Theodore Lindeman, it seemed better to wait one day. The data for that forecast came from Howland Island itself, gathered there by the Coast Guard cutter Shoshone. Lindeman showed me on the map, a blue and red line running north and south in the vicinity of 1 Tomorrow in The Sunday Star w :Expected Tailwinds May Prove Handi- cap in Arranging Daylight T ake-Off and Landing. The following personal story by Miss Earhart was filed t today which caused postpone- ment of the world flight. When the flight is resumed The Star will print Miss Earhart’s story exclusively in Washington. Hawail. It indicated a “weather froni” moving slowly west to east. Behind it followed more normal weather. Once this disturbance is out of the way, I can expect broken clouds be- ginning at 2,000 or 3,000 feet and rising to 4,000 or 5000 feet, then higher and higher as the day progresses—much the same as those which lay on the first portion of the course from Oakland. Incidentally, I am told similar formation is likely to be with me over the entire Pacific. The start will be made from Luke Field at Pearl Harbor. Improvements being made at Wheeler Field will make - AGAINST UPRISING | associations in the District. | | (See EARHART, Page A-2.) [4 H 16,000 IN FIDELITY 10 GET 8 PCT. IN REORGANIZING Reconstruction to Be Com- pleted Within 60 Days, Insuring Deposits. HOME LOAN BANK BOARD TO ACT ON OFFICIALS Shareholders to Hold Mass Meet- ing to Name New Officers in “'First Savings & Loan.” BY HAROLD B. ROGERS. Approximately 18,000 shareholders in the Fidelity Building & Loan Asso- ciation, closed since July, will soon be able to get back 85 per cent of their | investment under a plan for reor- | ganizing the institution, it was learned today. It is planned to reorganize the Fidelity into a new Federal Savings & Loan Association within the next 60 days. As soon as the reorganization is completed, shareholders will be able to cash in their holdings at 85 cents on the dollar, or leave the 85 per cent in the new institution, which will insure each account up to $5,000. | The reorganization was agreed to | today by the office of the controller of the currency and the Federal Home Loan Bank. The Fidelity was closed after the arrest of Fred B. Rhodes, former pres- ident. Rhodes was tried last week in | District Court on a forgery charge in connection with his management of the institution, but the jury was un- | able to agree on a verdict. Several other charges are pending against him. Amount of Funding Undisclosed. The total amount of money in- volved in the reorganization was not disclosed, but further financial de- | tails will be made public later. The reorganization into a new Fed- eral Savings and Loan Association is & new procedure in the history of closed financial institutions here. It will result in establishment of an in- stitution which probably will be known as the “First Federal Savings and | Loan Association of the District of Columbia." | Many of these associations already have been established throughout the | country and, according to latest fig- ures, there are more than 1,200 of | them operating under supervision of | the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The agreement between the office | of the controller of the currency and | the board was understood to have | been along general lines of the pro- posal submitted by the board follow- | ing a careful investigation into the | affairs of the institution. When the new institution is set up | its supervision will be under the Fed- eral Home Loan Bank Board instead of the controller of the currency, who supervises all other building and loan Several legal details remain to be worked out in regard to setting up the reorganized outfit. The general plan to be followed, however, will be | as follows: The receiver of the Fidelity, now in charge of the institution under au- thority of the controller of the cur- rency, would go to court to request official approval for sale of the assets of the old association to the new one on a basis of 85 per cent. When and if the court approves, the receiver would then act to sell the assets and the shareholders of the new institu- tion would be called into a mass meeting to elect directors. #hese directors, in turn, would pro- pose a slate of officers for the new association. But before these officers could take charge, they must be ap- (See FIDELITY, Page A-14.) Summary of Music ___ Obituary . Radio e Real Estate, C-1 to C-7 Short Story. A-7 Society ---A-T Financial .__A-12| Sports ____C-8-9 Lost & Found A-3 | Woman's Pg. B-8 LABOR SITUATION. Dewey joins Murphy in effort to end Chrysler strike. Page A-1 Senator Burke blames Lewis for sit- down strikes. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Amelia Earhart delays take-off for Howland Island. Page A-1 Double-murder evidence seen by police in death of couple. Page A-10 Texas school disaster brings expres- sions of regret here. Page A-3 FOREIGN. Insurgents enter Madrid, pursuing de- fenders of city. Page A-1 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. 18,000 Fidelity shareholders to get 85 per cent. Page A-1 Fired at by gunman, man is saved by book in pocket. Page A-1 D. C. supply bill reporting delayed until March 29. Page A-14 Permanent unit created to fight Po- tomae pollution. Page A-14 One thousand additional W. P. A. jobs provided here. Page A-14| P MAYBE WE OUGHT To STOP NOW BEFORE IT [ /mm ///’m P Wy “M /%fl ‘(i V(] \ % FALLS OVER! T [T [ I TS ES I T I D [l WAGE INGREASE T, J.FRICES O vy GWAGE 'NCREASE 22 L anodPRICESERR R tiy IV g (i [ J atilic 1A N L o CAPITAL LS yrl‘ i i | STRIKERS WARN OF BLOODSHED [F FORGE 1§ TRIED = 22 - === 1 o] 7 COURT IS VEWED AS STRATACAE St. Louis Editorial Writer Engages in Exchange With Senators. BULLETIN, Irving Brant, St. Louis editor, told Senator Connally today his attitude during the hearings on the President’s court bill has “been a disgrace to the Senate Judiciary Committee.” Chairman Ashurst started to rebuke the witness and Senator McGill of Kansas objected to putting the remark in the rec- ord. However, Connally insisted that it go in, saying, “I can take it on the chin. This is a free coun- try and he has & right to speak his mind.” BY JOHN H. CLINE. The Supreme Court is holding the country in the “paralyzing embrace of a judicial straitjacket,” the Senate Judiciary Committee was told today. The strongly-worded attack on the Judicial policies of the court was made by mild-mannered Irving Brant, chief editorial writer for the St. Louis Star- Times. Brant, author of the book, “Storm Over the Constitution,” engaged in a sharp facetious exchange with Sena- | tors on the committee while identifying ‘ himself. Asked if he was familiar with the platforms adopted at the last na- tional conventions, he replied: “Yes, but I'm under no illusions | about either of them.” | A strong advocate of President | Roosevelt's plan to add six new justices | to_the high court unless incumbents (See JUDICIARY, Page A-2.) BULLETIN NEW YORK, March 20 (®).— The executive offices of Remington Rand announced that the Execu- tive Committee of the board of directors today approved a tentative plan for settlement of the year-old labor dispute involving 6,000 em- ployes. Hazen favors new set of parking re- strictions. Page A-14 Teleflash Corp. removing equipment from Capital. Page A-14 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Answers and Questions. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon. Page Mark Sullivan. Page Jay Pranklin, Page Delia Pynchon. Page MISCELLANY. Vital Statistics. Young Washington. Service Orders. Trafic Convictions. Crossword Puzzle, Dorothy Dix. Nature’s Children. Bedtime Story. City News in Brief. Letter-Out. SPORTS. Pompoon choice of 103 Kentucky Derby eligibles. Page C-8 Dizzy Dean, thoroughly deflated, signs with Cards. Page C-8 Nats aim to cash in on base-running ability. Page C-8 Three basket titles at stake in Star tourney. Page C-9 A. A. U. boxing here tonight offers 17 bouts. Page C-9 FEE a2 g bbbboRhddk Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-6 Page A-6 Page C-10 Page B-8 Page A-9 Page A-9 Page A-4 Page C-11 Military Probe of Blast Opens; ' Burials Fill Da yin Texas Town |Nitroglycerin Found in Pipe in Ruins, Officer Told—Cause Disputed as Ex- pert Clings to Wall-Gas Theory. BY the *<soctated Press. NEW LONDON, Tex., March 20.— Burials of its 455 school-blast victims | occupied this vilage of death today | while the full force of a military in- | quiry sought the cause of the worst | catastrophe of its kind in modern times. Soon after sun-up the great pro- cesion of funerals began From | churches, private homes and funeral ‘Chapcls hearses streamed to burial | grounds. Volunteer ministers from over the vast East Texas oil region performed continuous services with almost clocklike precision. To a barnlike school hall adjoining the ruins of the once-imposing school LEWIS, NOT COURT, HELD STRIKE CAUSE C. 1. 0. Leader Alone Blame- able, Says Burke, Foe of Judiciary Bill, BY the Assoctatec: Press. Democratic opponents of the Roose- | velt judiciary bill, aroused by argu- ments that its enactment would lessen was no connection between Supreme Court decisions and sit-down strikes. “The one man responsible for the sit-downs is John L. Lewis, who is closer to the ear of President Roose- velt than any other man,” said Sena- tor Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska. SIf Che;t chairman, “would give the word, these strikes would end tomorrow. “Attacks on the court in Congress have caused large groups of our peo- ple to lose some measure of respect for law and the Constitution,” Burke con- tended, referring to outbursts in Con- gress yesterday, “and that condition would naturally engender discord.” Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala- bama, an advocate of the bill, declared during a heated Senate argument that the Supreme Court majority had so restricted Federal powers ‘as to make it impossible for Congress to pass leg- islation tending to alleviate strike con- ditions.” The administration position, in the words of Senator Robinson, majority leader, was that future policy to ease strike tension depended largely on the impending decision by the Supreme Court on the Wagner labor act. Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, enlivened the Senate debate on the sit. strikes and the courts (See SIT-DOWNERS, Page A-2.) building a military court headed by Maj. Gaston Howard summoned more than a score of witnesses who, it was hoped, could explain the cause of the tearing explosion. “We are not here to conduct & criminal court,” Maj. Howard said. “We merely want to help by trying to find out what caused the explosion and thus possibly do something to prevent such future disasters.” | Dr. E. P. Schoch, an explosion ex- pert from the University of Texas, was | called upon to give a final opinion on the blast cause at the close of the hearing. After a preliminary inves- tigation, he said there was no doubt (See DISASTER, Page A-2.) | industrial conflict, declared today there | referring to the C. I O. | | had waited for it for twu weeks. : splitsecond behind PRACTICED HOLDUP FAILS, TWOKILLED Four More Jailed as Crew of Waiting Police Beat Bandits on Draw. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 20.—A $30,000 hold-up, which went into rehearsal Thursday and opened late yesterda: before an audience of police detectives | in West Twenty-ninth street, put two | men in the morgue today and four | others in jail. | Meticulously planned, acted out | beforehand just to make sure, the looting of a fur manufacturer's sec- ond-floor plant at the evening rush hour was frustrated because detectives The dead men, who were a costly the police in reaching for their guns, were Joseph Epstein, 44, and Julius Richman, 33, both of Brooklyn and both with crimi- nal records. Four tightlipped, surly prisoners, captured as they emerged from the | building, gave these names: David | Silvers, 33; Joseph Catrone, 27; James | Thompson, 21, all of Brooklyn, and George Blickendorf, 27, of Ridge- | wood, Queens. | Thompson, who ran as detectives executed their coup in the midst of hundreds of homeward-bound work- ers, was woundea in the neck. Police said employes of Harry Bleiweis & Son, where the hold-up occurred, identified the four cap- tured men. Saul Price, assistant district attor- ney, said the arrests would clear up other crimes. Among the unsolved hold-ups is that in which Gypsy Rose Lee recently lost a coat. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Editor. PHILADELPHIA, March 20.—A re- port that the true “missing link,” a two-legged animal part way between man and ape, has been discovered in South Africa, was made to the Inter- national Symposium on Early Man to- day by Robert Broom of the Trans- vaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa. Broom discovered the head, except the lower jaw, in a cave at Sterkfon- tein last year. It was, he said, about 250,000 years old. The head showed it to be an animal of about the size and proportions of a chimpanzee. But its teeth, Broom said, ‘‘were F ind-ing of “True Missing Link” In South Africa Cave Reported | | almost entirely human.” No ape has ever been found with teeth like this animal. Its brain capacity was only that of a good sized modern gorilla. The belief that this animal was a descendant of the first human stock, a cousin of the branch of the family which developed into human beings, is based, Broom said, not alone on this new discovery. A similar animal with virtually hu- man teeth was discovered in another cave 300 miles away 12 years ago. It was a 5-year-old “baby.” Prof. Raymond A. Dart of Johan- nesburg immediately identified it as “(See MISSING LINK, Page A-10.) ' | plants 10 EVICT THEM Threaten Resistance Should State Troops Be Ordered Into Chrysler Plants to Arrest Sit-Downers. USING “ONLY WEAPONS,” THEY INFORM MURPHY “Don’t Intend to Leave Factories Without Satisfactory Settle- ment,” Employes Assert as Ten- sion Is Nearing Climax in De- troit. BACKGROUND— American labor’s newest and most spectacular weapon in seeking to force wage and hour adjustments— sit-down strike—first used on major Scale against General Motors by affiliate of John L. Lewis’ Commit- tee for Industrial Organization After siz weeks truce was negoti- ated to satisfaction of unmion and factories evacuated by strikers. Big Steel then came to terms with a union for first time. Chrysler crisis followed as United Automobile Workers, C. I. O. union demanded recognition as sole bar- gaining agency for firm's employes Sit-down started March 8 and com- pany obtained court order calling for evacuation of plants by 9 a.m. Tuesday, Strikers sat tight despite further court writ calling for their arrest for defying injunction. » BULLETIN. John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organi- zation, conferred here today with Assistant Secretary of Labor Mc- Grady about the Chrysler automo- bile strike. Lewis returned to the Capital last night from the soft coal negotiations in New York Neither he nor McGrady would dis- cuss today's conference beforehand. BY the Associated Press DETROIT, March 20.—Represent atives of 6,000 sit-down strikers, def; ng court orders for their eviction from Chrysler automobile plants, informed Gov. Frank Murphy today they were using “the only weapon we have” and warned that use of State troops to eject them would “lead to bloodshed and violence.” The statement came of TUnited Automobile America local unions in Chrysler which striking workers have held since March 8 in an attempt to enforce demands for exclusive bar- gaining rights It notified the Governor, seeking a plan for peaceful evacuation, that “we don't intend to leave these plants out a satisfactory settlement.” Arrest of the strikers was ordered by Circuit Judge Allan Campbell yes- terday. Sheriff Thomas C. Wilcox with a force of 120 deputies, has made no move to enforce the order at the eight automobile plants, where 20,000 union sympathizers on Wednesday shouted support of the strikers. James F. Dewey, conciliator of the United States Department of Labor, joined with Murphy today for the sec- " (See STRIKE, Page A-2.) Bishop Shocked As Sally Rand Rides in Parade from leaders Workers of Protests Appearance of Fan Dancer on St. Patrick’s Day. BY the Associated Press CLEVELAND, March 20.—Appear- ance of Fan Dancer Sally Rand in a large St. Patrick’s day parade here evoked a protest today from Bishop Schrembs of the Cleveland Catholic diocese. “I am deeply” humiliated and ashamed that a parade to honor the patron saint of Ireland should have | included an internationally known fan dancer whose performances on the stage have been so offensive to Cath- olics,” the Catholic Universe Bulletin, official organ of the diocese, quoted the bishop. In Springfield, Ohio, where the plume waver was appearing 4t a the- ater, she said she followed instruc- tions of a publicity man for a Cleve- land theater. “Of course, I like publicity, but I do not think that such things as a person’s private life or their religion should enter into it,” she commented. The Universe Bulletin further quoted Bishop Schrembs as saying: “That she rode in an open carriage next to the flat decorated to honor the blessed mother of God has shocked me greatly. I am certain that her in- clusion does not represent the mind of the great Irish people in my di-