Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1937, Page 5

- ARMISTIGE MOVE GIVEN SUPPORT France, Belgium and Vati- can Approve British Proposal. BACKGROUND— The British government, through #s own Ambassadors, has been seeking to learn the attitude of Joreign nations on the armistice for some time. It was reliably dis- closed that they have encountered 70 refusals for active consideration of the plan. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, May 21.—France, Belgium and the Vatican were reported today by a usually well-informed source to have approved a British plan to bring about an armistice in Spain and with- drawal of foreign volunteers in the eivil war. Both Cathoiic and Socialist sources suggested the Belglan government 'would be likely to conduct negotiations with both the Spanish government and its foe, Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco. ‘The British plan, it was said, called for dispatching of international com- missions to Spain and gradual appli- eation of the truce until it covered all government and insurgent held terri- tory, simultaneously disarming and sending home foreign soldiery. Inquiry in Other Capitals. Britain was described as conducting “discreet inquiry” in other capitals, | seeking a general accord to terminate the sanguinary conflict that started last July. A foreign office spokesman said he had no knowledge of the “inquiry,” but French dispatches from Brussels, ‘where Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos 'was conferring with Premier Paul van Zeeland of Belgium, said the talks Wwere concerned with French approval of the peace plan. Meanwhile, widespread doubt pre- vailed in diplomatic quarters that such & campaign could succeed. It was pointed out that bitter hatred divided the warring legions in Spain. The Valencia government's request of yesterday that the League of Na- tions Council consider intervention in the conflict threatened to alienate Italy from the armistice plan, it was said. France and Britain were reported to be opposing the Spanish government ‘ move to thresh out the dispute at Geneva, preferring to advance their original plan which brought the ban on .arms, munitions and volunteers for the war through the 27-nation neutrality group. Valencia previously accepted in principle a plan to settle the war by plebescite, but Salamanca, head- quarters of Franco's authoritarian government, has not replied. The at- titude of both sides to the proposed recall of volunteers was not known. (An insurgent spokesman, Gen. Jose Milan Astray, yesterday broad- cast a warning that any one in the insurgent ranks who “pronounces the word ‘armistice’ will be considered a traitor.”) “In red Spain and abroad it may | be possible to speak of armistice, but | Nationalist Spain is fighting for its existence, its independence, its civil- ization and its grandeur,” he said. (This was taken as the insurgent answer to the British armistice pro- posal.) TWO GERMANS TO DIE. Military Rebellion and Charged to Flyers. BILBAO, Spain, May 21 (#).—Two eaptured German aviators were sen- tenced to death today on charges of military rebellion and murder. The two officers, downed on the Basque front, were convicted by a | popular tribunal of waging warfare | Murder ' against the government of Spain in | the forces of Insurgent Gen. Francisco Franco. They are Capt. Walter Kienzel and Lieut. Gunther Schulze. A Febus (governmental Spanish) Agency ac- count of the trial said Capt. Keinzel testified he had beem in the regular German Army before he came to Spain voluntarily last January. Influenced by German press photog- raphers, whe convinced him that So- viet Russia was aiding the Spanish government, Capt. Keinzel enlisted 1o oppose the “Russian influence.” He said he arrived at Cadiz, Spain, Feb- ruary 18 aboard the German steamer Hilma, which he boarded at Kiel, Ger- many. His first command in Spain, he sald, was an escadrille of nine war planes protecting insurgent communication 1lines in the sector near Talavera de ia Reina, west and south of Madrid. ‘Then he was transferred to Vitoria, insurgent base on the ncrthern Span- sh front. BOMB HITS REFUGEE SHIP. Yacht From Bilbao Reported Struck During Air Battle. By the Associated Press. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, May 21.—Insurgent Spaniards broadcast today an announcement that incendiary bombs, dropped during an insurgent-Basque government air battle, had fired the Basque yacht Goizeka-Izarra, carrying refugees from Bilbeo. Diplomatic sources disclosed that the Goizeko Izarra was expected to arrive at Pauillac, France, tonight, ‘Where hundreds of refugees from the civil war have been landed in recent weeks Although the communique said the ©Goizeka-Izarra was carrying an un- disclosed number of refugees “to Eng- land,” it was believed she was bound, instead, for Bordeaux, where she landed 500 Bilbao children on a previous trip. It was not known whether any children were aboard at present. There were other insurgent reports that the ship was carrying several high officials of the Basque government, as well as 7,000,000 pesetas worth of jewels and silver belonging to members of the Basque cabinet, Bilbao’s mud-smeared’ militiamen went over the top today in a series of stabbing counter-attacks to beat in- surgent invaders back from the city's last line of fortifications. ‘The counter-drives, launched yester- day with support of a squadron of government planes, were reported by the Basque Defense Council to have put Italian-reinforced forces of Gen. Emilio Mola to flight in the Munquia sector, nine miles north of the Basque capital. Road to Rome Rushed. Berlin's 800-mile road to Rome through the Brenner Pass is expected to be ready for the Rome Exhibition in 1941, 2 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1937. Basque Loyalists Pray Before Battle | | Basque Loyalists, known for their ptety and their ferocity in battle, jront as they prayed before a field altar in a lull between battles. standing beside the priest, has worn his pistol to the altar. w58 pictured on the Bilbao The man in the foreground, —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Keene (Continued From First Page.) just remembered he had a red face and I thought at the time that he was probably an old soldier from the | Soldiers’ Home."” Eby said he opened his stand the Keene again. Earlier Purser Thomas J. Shannon, jr., of Norfolk, told the board a maid came to his office after the ship docked at Norfolk and informed him some- thing had happened in state room 79, which had been occupied by Keene. When he found the room in disarray and bloodstains on the bed, he sum- moned police, Shannon said. His berth, Shannon said, was only five state rooms removed from Keene's, and he heard no unusual noise during the night. Son Questions Witness. Later Shannon was recalled to the stand at the suggestion of Charles F. Keene, jr., the missing man’s son, who | asked him if he recalled a conversa- tion they had had last Saturday. Judge J. Frank Staley of the Justice Depart- ment, chairman of the Board of In- quiry, said he did not think the board would be interested in the conversa- tion, and young Keene bristled and said: “You are interested in falsehoods, aren't you?” Staley told Keéne he could proceed and the former naval officer asked Shannon the following question: “Do you remember telling me a blond named Mrs. Loper, whose first name you did not know, called your Norfolk office and said she had oc- cupied the state room next to my father and had gome information about his death?” Shannon said he did not recall such a conversation and likewise denied having told a newspaper reporter that a mysterious woman had telephoned the steamboat company’s Norfolk of- fice. Detective Sergt. J. J. Cassidy of the | Maryland State police, told Judge | Staley “conflicting statements” had | arisen in the case and asked per- mission for a private conference. Young Keene asked permission to at- tend the conference, but this was de- nied him by Judge Staley. Cassidy and another detective ser- geant, Marlin Brubaker, said the ap- pearance of Mrs. Loper was a com- plete surprise to them. They did not know she had communicated with either the steamboat company or the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection since her name was brought into the case. ‘TheMast witness at today’s hearing was Ella Montgomery, colored stew- ardess, who discovered Keene's dis- appearance. She said she did not know whether his cabin door was locked before she opened it with her key last Friday morning, but she re- membered that a key fell from the lock inside the door when she applied her key. After one look at the room she summoned the purser, she said. Judge Staley recessed the hearing to a date to be determined later. Son Disappointed. ‘The appearance of Mrs. Loper on the witness stand came as a distinct shock to the son of the missing man, who had believed the woman who oc- cupied the state room adjoining his father's would be able to aid in solu- tion of the mystery. 'y Richard C. Daniels, attorney for Keene, asked Mrs. Loper why she had not communicated with authorities earlier, and she replied she did not realize she was being sought. “I have an affidavit from the steam- boat company to prove I did not call,” Mrs. Loper said, regarding the report- ed telephone call to the steamboat company. Later in the day, Mrs. Loper testi- fied, she read of Keene's disappearance in a Norfolk paper. “Just imagine anything like that happening on board, I said to myself,” Mrs. Loper testified. “The story did not say what cabin the man had dis- appeared from and I never dreamed that it was the one adjoining mine. “All this to-do with my name in the papers was very discourteous, I think. There was no reason why I could not have been located very easily. My name was on the records of the boat and in the telephone book, but I never heard anything from any one until I saw my name in the paper.” Mrs. Loper said she retired to her state room early, but did not go to sleep immediately because some men in the salon outside her door were playing a pinball game. “Im the kind of sleeper that can't sleep when there is any noise, and I didn't go to sleep until all the noise outside died down,” Mrs. Loper testi- fied. “I guess it was after 11 o'clock before I went to sleep and I didn’t awaken until 5 o'clock. If there had been an unusual noise, I am sure I would have awakened, because I al- ways awaken at home when there is any unusual sound.” next morning before the boat reached | Old Point Comfort, but did not see Mr. | | Comdr. H. C. Cornell, Judge Staley She said she did not aris until A after the boat left Old Point Com- fort. After she saw her name in the paper, Mrs. Loper said, she communi- cated with Chief Inspector Bugene C. Carlson, who is in charge of the Nor- folk office of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection of the Commerce Department. Carlson, a member of the board of inquiry, served her with a subpoena to appear at today's hearing, Mrs. Loper said. First witness before the board—the members of which are Coast Guard and Carlson—was Capt. Chap Posey, master of the District of Columbia. He said he was not acquainted with Keene and did not know that a pas- senger by that name had been aboard his vessel until late last Friday after- noon. He said he left the boat an -hour after it docked in Norfolk. At that time, he had received no report of any unusual occurrence on the trip. He was told of Keene's disappearance when he returned that evening at 4:45 o'clock to pilot the boat back to Wash- ington, Capt. Posey said. He told the board that watchmen punch a clock near Keene's cabin every 20 minutes and that records showed the watchman had made his rounds on schedule the night the passenger vanished. Capt. Posey said a narrow catwalk encircling the boat would have en- abled any one to enter and leave Keene’s cabin through the window. A lifeline is fastened just above the catwalk, he said. One of the most significant clues in the beffling case is the fact blood- stains were found on the guard rail of the aft deck 10 feet from Keene's cabin window. Keene’s eyeglasses were found shattered on the cabin floor. He was unable to see without the glasses, his family declared, and it would have been impossible for him to have made the treacherous trip along the catwalk to the aft deck without them. Judge Staley announced at the open- ing of the hearing that the board's primary interest was in determining whether there had been any negligence on the part of the steamship company or the crew of the District of Columbia. The Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection decided to launch a formal investigation early this week after the Federal Bureau of Investigation refused to intervene in the case, and Virginia, District of Co- lumbia and Maryland police authori- tles showed no inclination to accept re- sponsibility for solving the case. —_ HORSES STILL NEEDED ‘WELLINGTON, Ohio, May 21 (#).— Perhaps Old Dobbins still has & chance in this modern mechanical age. At least reports from William B. Murray, horse-breeder of Rochester near here, would seem to indicate that the tractor and the automobile have not yet entirely replaced work horses. Murray disclosed he had sold 33 horses since January 1, for a total of $16,150. D. C. Bill (Continued From First Page.) tangible property rate during the coming fiscal year, but it was knocked out on the floor of the House. After a preliminary examination of District officials as to the need for adding $1,000,000 to the unemploy- ment relief fund, the subcommittee recessed this afternoon until Monday with prospects the hearings will be completed by the end of next week. It also was learned today that whether the Appropriations Sub- committee considers tax amendments as part of the supply bill will depend on what develops in the House within the next week. ere were indica- tions that if separate tax measures have begun to move by the time the Senate Subcommittee is ready to re- port the supply bill, efforts to combine the taxes with the appropriations will not be pressed. The Commissioners are working on a program that would add $7,500,000 to the city's general fund through a 2 per cent sales tax, inheritance tax, an automobile weight tax and a 2 per cent insurance tax on net premium assets. They also will propose adding 1 cent to the gasoline tax, placing $1,000,000 more in the gas tax.paving fund. The welfare section of the appro- priation bill as passed by the House contains $6,866,440, a reduction of $228,435 below budget estimates, which was deducted from the funds of a number of institutions. One large cut of $103,880 was in the administrative expenses of the work house and reformatory. The House reduced the budget esti- mate for unemployment relief from $1,465,000 to $1,411,500 by restricting the amount for personal services. e Amelia Earhart to Fly East. 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