Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) . tomorrow prob- not much change in S Temperatures today— lowest, 70, at 5 a.m. @ Partly cloudy tonight ably local showers; temperature; gentle mostly southwest. Highest, 89, at 1 pm.; Full report on page A- Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 12 ariable winds, 4. = 85th YEAR. No. 102 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 2. ch WASHINGTON, REQPENED STEEL PLANTS HUMMING AS THOUSANDS 0F WORKERS RETURN Troops and Police Guard Men of Youngstown and| Republic as They Enter and Leave Mills. “STRIKE OVER,” SAYS OFFICIAL OF REPUBLIC | — | Bhifts Are Changed Without Dis- | turbance—C. I. 0. Announces | March of 2,000 on Cincinnati to Protest Use of National | Guardsmen to Gov. Dave;". | BACKGROUND— i Steel strike, which has forced | idleness of 100.000 workers in seven | States, has been marked with 12 deaths and hundreds of injuries since it was called. May 25, by John L. Lewis' C. I. 0. Walkout was called when three big independents —Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland—rejused to sign Woman Candidate | Passing Out Buns Instead of Cigars‘ By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, June 26 —Mrs. Mil- dred M. Clements, Republican can- didate for Mayor of Annapolis, today set another precedent in pclizical maneuvers in this city Instead of passing out the tradi- | tional campaign cigars she is pass- ing out cinnamon buns to her friends. Furthermore she is making the buns herself Mrs. Clements said she would find some time during the dav to prepare the delicacies for which she is noed | in this city of good cooks. Mayor Louis N. Phipps, her demo- cratic opponent, was preparing to take | | a leat from the books of Presidents and go fishing But Mrs. Clements said she planned to spend the week end working up | material for her first campaign speech to be delivered next Friday. IRWIN ESCAPES CLEVELAND HOTEL {Flees When Kitchen Girl, 19, Questions Alias After Seeing Picture. BACKGROUND— Easter Sunday. in their Beek- man Hill apartment, in New York. Veronica Gedeon, pretty model; her mother, Mrs. Mary Gedeon, and a bargaining contracts. Effort was later directed toward Bethlehem, | and Cambria plant at Johnstown, Pa.. was closed by martial law last Sunday. A few days later Gor Davey of Ohio sent National | Guardsmen into the Mahoning | Valley area. | BULLETIN. | COLUMBUS. Ohio. June 26 (P — The C. 1. O. filed in Federal Court today & suit to enjoin Gov. Martin L. Davey from using National | Guard troops in the Mahoning Val- | ley to proiect men returning to work in the strike-embroiled steel mills. | Pederal Judge Mell G. Underwood | et a hearing for next Thursday on | the motion. B 1he Assoctated Press 1 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 26— | Claims that their plants were “flooded with workers” were made by officials of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and the Republic Steel Corp. today. Mills of the concerns, closed for a month in a strike called by the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, ' hummed with activity. Ohio National Guardsmen and city police guarded ! the movements of workers in and out of the plants opened last night. In Johnstown, Pa. the Cambria works of Bethlehem began to resume | operations. There was no interference | from lightly-manned picket lines. “The strike is over as far as we are concerned.” said Roy Leventry, dis- | trict manager of Republic Steel. Claim Strikers Holding. The 8. W. O. C., in a full page advertisement published here today, declared “the first 48 hours (of the | back-to-work movement) show that the strikers are holding to a man.” After a change in shifts at the | plant at 7 am, Leventry said be- | tween 4.000 and 4.500 men out of a normal force of 6,000 had entered the gates Youngstown Sheet & Tube officials estimated 60 per cent of a normal 14.000 employes had returned. There were no disturbances as the shifts changed. Republic reported that one blast furnace had made a cast at midnight, the first production in the plant since May 26. Answering the S. W. O. C. advertise- ment, a_committee of steel executives #aid: “Defeat is staring them in the face. We have just begun to fight.” | Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, regional executives of the C. 1. O. said more than 2,000 persons were on their way from Cincinnati to Columbus to pro- test to Gov. Martin L. Davey against | the use of troops in policing the back- | to-work movement. Workers Swarm Through Gates. With National Guardsman, uni- | formed police and deputy sheriffs on | (See STRIKE, Page A-4) IS e | WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN GAS-FILLED ROOM Body of Mrs. James Griffith Dis- | covered Before Open Burners of Stove. Clad in pajamas, the body of Mrs.| Catherine Ellen Griffith, 28, l‘ns‘ found by her husband today in a chair | beside two open gas burners of the kitchen stove in their third-floor | rooms at 606 East Capitol street. The husband, James M. Griffith, | Capital Transit Co. workman, said he | found his wife about 6:30 am. her head cradled on her arm on the edge | of the stove. He said she apparently | had arisen from the bed where both ‘Wwere sleeping between 2 and 6:30 a.m. Usually, he said, she arose to prepare | breakfast about 5:30. | Griffith and friends of his wife said #he was of an unusually happy dis- position, although the husband stated she seemed somewhat depressed last night after the two had returned from seeing a movie. Griffith said he attempted to re- vive his wife by artificial respiration before the arrival of the fire rescue squad, which worked over her about 20 minutes. She was pronounced dead by a Casualty Hospital physician. Mrs. Griffith had a 10-year-old son Buddy by a former marriage. He lives with her father, Louis Ross, 1408 A street *southeast. Musick Found Guilty. LOS ANGELES, June 26 (#).—How- ard L. Musick, wealthy patent medi- cine dealer, convicted of failing to pro- vide for his 72-year-old mother, will be given a probation hearing Tuesday. His mother is on relief. * | who police said “definitely” | the bar boy | Tozzer roomer were slain. Assistant Chief Inspector John A. Lyons of the New York police named Robert Irwin as the slayer early in April. Joseph Gedeon, 52, the murdered girl's father, has been under close surveillance. Yesterday he pleaded ouilty to having an unlicensed re- volver and will be sentenced July 2. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, June 26.—An artist was Rob- ert Irwin fled his shabby, dim-lighted room and left only & slender trail to- day for authorities seeking him for | New York City’'s famous Gedeon mur- ders. A kitchen girl, a clerk and a half- dozen oiher emploves at a leading downtown hotel identified a bar boy | there as the sculptor-divinity student charged with slaying last March 28 pretty Veronica Gedeon, her mother and a man who roomed at their East Side flat. “The man definitely is Irwin,” de- clared Detective Lieut. Stephen Tozzer as a widespread hunt was started for the fugitive a few hours after he van- ished from this Lake Erie city. The kitchen girl, attractive, chubby, dark-haired Henrietta Kosianski, 19, started police on an Intensive search of the former insane asylum inmate, | accused of murder in triplicate. Sees Resemblance in Picture. She recognized, as she thumbed through a detective story magazine Wednesday night, a resemblance be. tween the 20-year-old man named as the killer of art’s good-time girl, and who had worked at the hotel for a month and a half. Miss Kosianski, who said “I didn't tell police because it occurred to me only as a coincidence,” asked him playfully last night: “Say, Bob, what is your real name, anyhow? “Robert Murray, why?" she said was | the reply. “Then I said did you ever hear of | Robert Irwin and he turned his back | to me and said ‘no’—sounding kind of indifferent. 1 didn't see the expres- sion on his face. He turned and walked out of the hotel kitchen and that was the last I ever saw of him.” She took the picture to other hotel | employes and all remarked of the | close resemblance. Three hours later, | she said, “nobody knew where he was.” | “I hadn't thought of him as a mur- | derer. It was only after he was gone | that I realized he must have been | | Irwin.” Registered as Murdock. Detective squads, piqued at the time | elapsed between his disappearance and when it was reported several hours later, hurried to a cheap hotel. There they found no trace of the man, whom they were told had reg- | istered April 8 under the name of | Jack Murdock, and had informed the | hotel on June 11 that the name Mur- dock was a mistake, and that his name really was James Murray. In the apartment, Tozzer said, were !ound a dozen’ New York papers. Several of them referred to the Gedeon murders, and part$ of each story had been clipped out. Also left behind was & shabby pair of low-heeled black shoes which had | been half-soled. Inside was the name of a firm ending with the faintly decipherable letters “Ltd.” This, said, corresponded with a | police circular showing Irwin owned | a pair of Csnadian ‘made shoes. He was “positively identified” by | Miss Koscianski, a clerk, Manuel Meridas, and at least a half-dozen other hotel employes. “There is no doubt about it,” Tozzer declared. Smkes at 23 Hotels Averted SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 (#)— Strikes at 23 Class B hotels were averted today when operators and union heads signed agreements cover- ing preferential bargaining. Approxi- mately 300 workers are affected. Strikes continued at the city's 16 major hotels. Sheet of Flame To Sweep Pests FromAr gentind By the Assoclated Press. BUENOS AIRES, June 26.—Argen- tina is making ready to mass 100.000 powerful flame-throwers against an enemy within her borders—Ilocusts. The national board of defense an- nounced 100,000 flame-throwers will be used to attack the pests. The government would pay faimers who trap adult locusts with iron bar- riers three American cents for 66 pounds. The government asked Congress for $3,300,000 for the locust war. D,CWONANSLAI, HUSBAND STABBED BY DRUNKEN HoST Wilson Jones, Jr., in Cell, | | Sobs He “Doesn t Remem- ber Tragedy J. W. MORRIS WOUNDED | TRYING TO SAVE WIFE Tells of Events Preceding Trag- | edy—Murder Charge Filed in Prince Frederick. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. PRINCE FREDERICK, Md.. June 26.—A soft-spoken country youth was | charged here today with an attack on | | his “best friends” with a butcher knife, | killing Mrs. James W. Morris of 528 Mihnesota avenue northeast, Wash- | ington, and ecritically wounding her husband. Police said he was crazed with liquor. | Mrs. Morris was slain as she sat be- | side her husband, in their automobile, | by Wilson Jones, jr, 27, at whose | father’s cottage at Parkers Wharf | they were staying. Mrs. Morris was stabbed in the left breast so savagely | that two ribs were severed and her | lung was laid bare. Another deep | gash was inflicted in her right leg. Morris was stabbed in the right chest After the killing Jones fled into his father’s house where he was arrested in bed a short time later by State Policeman Charles Magaha on a war- rant charging him with murder. He | was dazed with drink, the policeman | reported. D. | Jones Sobs in Cell. | In the tiny Prince Frederick jail | Jones recovered his senses several hours later and sobbed that he could not remember anything about the tragedy. “I never drank so much in my life before.” Jones said. “When I woke up in this cell this morning I thought 1 was here for fighting. My God, 1! | cannot imagine stabbing Mrs. Morris. She was one of my best friends and so was her husband. “4 can't remember last night. It seems to me I was in a fight. I must have thought Morris was beating me, but now I don't know who I was fighting or who it was. I know I was in a fight, though. because | | look at this black eye and my head !'is covered with bumps.” | Morris Fights for Life. | Morris, fighting for his life in the Calvert County Hospital here, asked through clenched lips: ‘Have they got Jones in jail?" Then his eves filled with tears as he told, gasping for each breath, how | tragedy marred the week end of re- | laxation he and his wife had planned. ' “We came down here yesterday afternoon,” he related. “I have been coming down here fishing for 15 years and ususlly I stayed with Mr. Jones, | sr., at Parkers Wharf. He runs a store there. Mrs. Morris and T went out fishing alone in a row boat in the afternoon. Last night youag Jones suggested that he and hic wife and Mrs. Morris and 1 drive over to| Broomes Island for a party. We went to the dance hall over there and had some beer and Jones began drink- | ing whisky heavily. I don't know how many drinks he had. I went out| on the lawn for awhile and when I came back Mrs. Morris was comfort- | ing Mrs. Jones, who said her husbflnd had hit her a terrific blow in the face | and almost knocked her out. They told me Jones had been out out of the place. He was in the back seat of the car when we left to start nome. I don't believe we exchanged a word | —certainly not an unpleasant one— on the trip back. Tells of Slaying. “When we stopped at the house he | jumped out of the car and ran inside. He came running back with the butcher knife. Without saying a word he plunged it into Mra. Morris, who was sitting beside me nearest the door, and then reached over before I could do anything and stabbed me. Then he ran away.” Morris said he did not know where Mrs. Jones was when the stabbings | occurred, but authorities were told that she leaped out of the car imme- diately behind her husband and fled to & nearby vacant cottage, where she hid. Jones’ father came to the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Morris and called Dr. Page Jett, who pronounced the woman dead, and brought the husband to the hospital. Young Jones is employed in his father's store. He was married five years ago and has a 4-year-old daugh- ter. An inquest was to be held at the | funeral home of A. A. Harkness & | Son at Mutual, Md,, this afternoon. 'PLAYING DAYS OVER, °COCHRANE IS QUOTED “Can't Say” Whether He Will Continue as Manager, Injured Catcher States. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 26.—In a copy- righted interview published today, Joe ‘Williams, sports editor of the New York ‘World-Telegram, quotes Mickey Coch- rane as saying definitely he will “never catch another game.” Williams interviewed Cochrane in a Detroit hospital, where the manager of the Detroit Tigers is recuperating from 8 skull fracture, the result of being “beaned” by Bump Hadley of the Yankees in a game here May 26. “As a player I'm through for all time,” Williams quoted Cochrane as saying. “Whether I'll continue as manager I can't say. I'm not think- ing about my base ball future these days. All I'm thinking about is get- ting well.” Cochrane, discussing the accident. blamed himself. He explained that ‘with the count “3 and 1” he was “pre- pared to take the next pitch, whether it was over or not.” He said he lost the ball in the sun. anything sbout ] | ment of Senator Bailey WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C., SATURDAY, y COURT DISCUSSED ATPARTY POWWOW ON ISLAND IN BAY ‘Nobody Got Religion,” How- ever, Bailey Reports on Return From Outing. CONGRESSMEN PRAISE DAY’S ENTERTAINMENT Love Feasts Continue Through Tomorrow—Second Contingent Leaves for Talks . BACKGROUND— With Dewmocratic members of Congress growing resentful and re- bellious over legislation sought by President, party leaders arranged three-day harmony conference on secluded Jeflerson Island, in Ches= apeake Bay. First group of Democratic legis- lators returned from conjerence with President yesterday. Chief causes of dissension in party ¥re the court reorganization proposal, presidential disinclination to inter= Jere with C. 1. O., and relie/ ad- ministration, BY G. GOULD LINCOL JUNE CANNERS MENACE Staff Correspondent o. The 8t ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 26.—Sand- | wiched in between bav and beatitudes on Jefferson Island, President Roose- velt is trving to soften the ‘hard hearts of recalcitrant Democrats on the court bill issue. The Chief Executive, himself the honor guest of the Democratic club whose headquarters. is an island in Chesapeake Bay, began today his se- cond genial reception of members of the House and Senate. It will be topped off with a third day of the same LOMOITow, There were no signs of tempest in Chesapeake Bay, judging from the reports brought back from the island. About 140 senators and representa- tives made the pilgrimage yesterday. All of them, when they returned to the mainland, testified to the super- lative character of the entertain- ment. Practically all of them insisted there had been no serious business undertaken. Protests that there had been no discussion of legislative prob- lems flew thick and fast. Some Claim Headway Made. But here and there it leaked out that small knots of three and four had discussed the Supreme Court issue And there were some who insisted that headway was beinz made, looking to & compromise on this measure which has for five months blocked the whole | administration program. The compromise put forward by several of the Democrats—and rumor has it that Senator Tydings of Mary- land and Majority Leader Rayburn of the House were included in the list— | looks to a Supreme Court of 10 asso- ciate justices and a Chief Justice—a court of 11 instead of nine as at| present. At the same time such sturdy oppo- nents of the President’s plan to in- crease the membership of the Supreme Court as Senators Van Nuys of In- diana, Byrd of Virginia, Clark of Mis- souri and Bailey of North Carolina, declared there was no change what- | ever in the Senate line up on the court bill. “Nobody got religion,” was the com- The North Carolina Senator insisted, howevas, that the party had been superb and that every one had a good time. ‘It was just & party, like any other party,” | | he said. ] Joins Demagogue Club. I The most colorful happening of the | President's first day on the island | was his initiation into the Demagogue Club of the House. Unofficially this is the name given the group of House Democrats who gather in the cloak | room and grouse about the adminis- tration and its measures—ail pri- vately. Introduced by Speaker Bankhead, Representative Martin Dies of Texas | put the President through the initia- | tion, finally declaring him unanimous- ly elected a member of the club for | life—without the ‘necessity of paying (See PRESIDENT,. Page A-3) Summary of Page. | Page. | Amusements C-16 Music ... B-3| Art B-3 | Obituary A4 _ B-2| Real Estate, \ Church News, C-lto10 | B-4-5!| Radio i A 7 Comics ____B-6-7 | Short Story_. B-8 Editorials .. A-6 Society A-8 Financial ___A-12 | Sports ___A-10-11 Lost & Found C-10 | Woman's Pg. A-9 FOREIGN. T Duce promises capture of Madrid soon. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Mahoning Valley steel plants reopen peacefully. Page A-1 Renovated tax program, of permanent nature, to be asked. Page A-1 Congressmen reveal court discussed at Jefferson Island. Page A-1 Bernice Felton acquitted in hitch- hike murder case. Page A-2 Action on farm tenancy bill to be sought immediately. Page A-2 Queen Anne commissioners say Ras- kobs co-operate on taxes. Page A-2 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Loyal Phillips employes threaten to run unionist from town. Page A-1 Annspolis withdraws petition for State bond issue referendum. Page A-1 Crazed by drink, host slays District ‘woman. Page A-1 Girl, 7, and seven other persons hurt in trafic accidents, Page A-2 ! Loyal | Anne, Md., said he would talk with | killing J. E. Wilson, ordered all evi- President “in fog™ over District finan- eial probiem. e Page A-14 P ) Jj 926, 1937— THIRTY-EIGHT ¢ Fhening %iuf PAGES. »*% YES, THE CRiTicS ALL SAY 1M BEST IN SCENES LIKETHIS! The only evenmg paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 137,292 (Some Teturns not yet received.) (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENT LEADER OF UNION' Say He Caused Trouble and Should Be “Run Out of Town.” By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Md., Phillips Packing Co. truck | drivers descended early today on the home of & union leader here and at- tempted to force him to withdraw from the strike-clouded city The union leader, Edward Hicks. lives with his wife at the home of William H. Massey, about a mile from the packing company’s tight!y-closed plants. Massey said about 15 or 20 truck drivers came to his home shortly after dawn and demanded to see Hicks June 26— | Massey said he talked with the drivers and that they told him “We want Hicks. He causea all this trouble and were going to run him out of town.” Drivers Are Dissuaded. Massey, who formerly worked for the packing company, said he and his wife managed to dissuade the | drivers frem removing Hicks forcibly and that they finally withdrew. | Earlier, Massey said. the truckmen had gone to the strike headquarters near the plants and attempted to re- turn some trucks captured by strikers | to the company garuge. Pickets were sleeping in the trucks, however, nnd‘ that move also was abandoned. About dawn & group of strikers sped | to a dense woods on the outskirts of | the city in response to a report com- pany goods was being smuggled | through strike lines. The report proved false. Mayor to Confer. | State Labor Commissioner Harry | ‘T. Phoebus, from his home in Princess Col. Albanus Phillips by phone this | morning and would decide then whether to return here for further at- | tempts to secure an agreement Wwith | the strikers. Mayor Charles E. Browhan said he would confer with strike leaders soon concerning Hicks. BULLET IS CLAIMED LAWTON, Okla, June 26 (®.— Ralph Deeds, Elgin, Okla., constable, put in a claim today for a bullet from the arm of Charlie Sands, who died in the electric chair. District Judge Henry Hoel, who presided at the trial where Sands was convicted of dence returned to its owners. The | bullet, fired by Deeds in the same fight in which Wilson was killed, was | an exhibit. Today’s Star House delays transit probe pending Dirksen's return. Page A-14 ‘Vanguard of Boy Scouts converging on tented city. Page A-14 Citizens appear at Utilities Commission transit hearing. Page A-14 | EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Stars, Men and Atoms, Page Answers to Questions. Page David Lawrence. Page H. R. Baukhage. Page Mark Sullivan. Page Jay Franklin. Page Lemuel F. Parton. Page MISCELLANY. Traffic Convictions. Vital Statistics. Shipping News. Young Washington. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Nature's Children. Cross-word Puazsle. Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. SPORTS. Tony Piet's roughness fomenting Chi- s0x-Nats feud. Page A-10 European fight dynasty now is in Pprospect. Page A-10 Cincinnati Reds set hot pace in Na- tional League. Page A-10 West's rowing dominance hurting As) A-6 A-6 A-6| Page ] : ‘Harmony Party Uncrashable Prying News Even Fisherman’s Disgui Beard Fail to Get Hi D ance of Je BY WILLIAM An open letter to One-Eye Connoli themseives as gate-crashers: GALESVILLE, Md. June 26. Dear One-Eye: T'd just like to see vou trv and Jefferson Island. The boys are having they won't let a stranger. however innocent-appearing, get near enough to hear the ice clink in their glasses. I tried and I know as Alcatraz Island is to get off. Evem do all but display election certifi- cates, In the guise of a native fisherman on one of those Chesapeake Bay putt- | putts shaped like a slice of water- melon, I tried yesterday to get es near as possible to the President. The epedition ended at the island dock. on the far end of a 200-foot There a Secret Service man politelv conveyed 10 us that we were to shoo. ; TREASURY PLANS TAX OVERHAULING Will Ask 1938 Congress to Set Up a Permanent Levy System. BACKGROUND— President Roosevelt three weeks ago announced he was going to expose America’s millionaire tar evaders. A joint congressional committee heard a long list of names of alleged evaders and the inside story of how they supposedly beat the law. Close these loop- holes, Secretary Morgenthau said, and the Government would make enough money to make it unneces- 3ary to increase tares. By ihe Associated Press. Treasury officials disclosed today they will ask the 1938 Congress for a thorough overhauling of the tax structure, designed to make further | changes unnecessary for many years. Under the new system, they said, rates could be varied from year to| year, depending on economic con- dftions and governmental needs, with- out changing the general tax laws. Thus, instead of changing the type of taxes or the method of taxation, Congress could raise or lower ex- isting levies simply by amending the law. Ordinarily the revenue laws themselves are altered from year to year to meet the changing fiscal needs of the Government. Hope to Plug All “Leaks.” Authorities said they hope to elim- inate any existing inequities, clunfy‘ the tax statutes and close all revenue “leaks.” The tax system was not properly co-ordinated during the fiscal emergencies since the depres- sion, they said. The Treasury is making an all- inclusive study of Federal lexies with & view to enactment of a new gen- eral revenue law. This is apart from | the current congressional investiga- tion into tax evasion and avoidance. The Treasury studies will trace the operations of all present taxes, to- gether with their effects on various income classes and on economic and | social conditions. Some of the so-called nuisance taxes may be eliminated, authorities said, particularly where the expense of col- lection almost equals revenue. Extended Twe Years. At President Roosevelt's request, Congress has extended a score of these | taxes for two years. The levies cover such items as gasoline, sporting goods, telegraph and telephone messages and automobiles. Careful study is being given to the income tax and the new surtax on un- distributed corporate profits, but offi- cials said recommendations for revis- ing them have not yet been drafted. The capital gains section of the in- come tax, which imposes a levy on realized increases in the value of se- curities, also 1is being thoroughly scrutinized. Mr. Roosevelt has urged Congress to confine activities at this session to 'Keepsie regatta. Page A-11 Dizziness of golf shown here in Mid- Atlantic play. Page A-11 plugging loophoies. The Treasury study, he noted, will be available to 3 Jefferson Island is as hard to get on this week end pier. | man Dls('overs e and Week’s Growth of im Within Speaking flerson ]sland. A. BELL, v and, for Vha' matter, to all who fancy crash President Roosevelt's party on themselves a chummy stag affair and Democratic Congressmen must have to <+ The club house is in a clearing. | The clearing ix patrolied by Secret Service men. Even had I waded ashore I would have been noticed be- fore I so much as got a glimpse of the President’s smile. Furthermore, there are natural obstacles to any landing party on curiosity bent. The island is surrounded by water so shal- T (See HARMONY Page A-3.) ANNAPOLIS QUITS BOND ISSUE FGHT Withdraws Referendum Pe- tition to End “Embarrass- ment” to Counties. Special Dispatch to The Biar. | ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 26—The | | city of Annapolis today withdrew its | | petition demanding & referendum on | the $9.000.000 State-wide bond issue, the committee in charge announced. The referendum on the bond issue was started in an effort to block the | | fight being made on the bill creating | | & bond issue of $1,000.000, which is | to be used to erect an office building | in Annapolis. The opponents of the office building | have filed a petition bearing over 10.- | 000 names and the case is now before , the Maryland Court of Appeals. In amnouncing the withdrawal of | the referendum petition against the $9,000,000 bond issue, the committee | in charge, composed of David S. Jen- kins, chairman; Mayor Louis N. Phipps, Clarence E. Tyler and William U. McCready, said: “The committee in charge of flllng\ | the referendum petition against the | | $9.000,000 State bond issue has de- cided not to go through with filing | the names necessary to make it im- perative for the people of Maryland to vote en this issue in November, | 1938, | “The committee believes that it | had sufficient reason for starting this petition for a referendum. It was felt | at the time that such a movement | might cause those responsible for the petition on the office building bill to withhold their attack. “The committee does not desire to | cause the counties and the State of | Maryland any further embarrassment in view of the State hospitals, xnsu-w | tutions for the insane, the demands | | of the State prison labor program, the | apparent need of the Universiy of | | Maryland and the roads funds needed to match Federal appropriations.” SHIP ON FIRE AT SEA 800 TO 900 MILES OUT Freighter's 8 O S Is Relayed by Steamer California—Left New York Tuesday. B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 26.—The Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. said today that the British freight steamer Sandgate Castle was reported on fire at sea. No position was given, but it was believed that the freighter, which sailed from New York June 22, bound for Cape- town, South Africa, was eight or nine hundred miles southeast of New York. | The steamer California of the An- chor Line relayed an 8 0S message from the Sandgate Castle at 10:25, Eastern standard time. The Sandgate Castle is a British steamer of 7,364 tons gross register. It is owned by the Union Castle Mail Steamship Co.,, Ltd, of London and sailed for Capetown carrying a gen- eral cargo. | will be discussed by | vention Committee pregnable, Newspaper Editorial Says Franco Will Divert North- ern Troops. | SANTANDER CAMPAIGN COMPLETION AWAITED | New Plan Prepared for Italian and German Co-operation in Neutrality Patrol. BACKGROUND— Twenty-seven nations united lost September in a Non-Intervention Committee to prevent the delivery to either faction in Spanish ciril war of war materials or troops Bonds of committee strained ni- merous times by arrival in Spain of German and Italian arms and “volunteers™ Some of latter hare been jound to be regular Italian Army contingents A four-nation patrol of Spanish sea and land frontiers was dis- rupted early this month by bomh attack on German cruiser Deutsch- land. Germany and Italy withdren from the patrol on the occasion last week of an alleged new attack on the cruiser Leipzig, ihe Assoclated Press. ROME, June 26 —A promise that Mfidl’ld would fall shortly and the E\n'upean crisis thereby be ended was published editorially in Premier Mus« solini’s newspaper Il Popolo dTtalia today, and diplomatic sources at- tributed authorship to Il Duce himself, The article said that the Spanish capital would fall as soon as Insurgent Generalissimo Prancisco Franco could finish cleaning out the Basque prove B inces along the northern frontier Franco's troops have taken Bilban and now are driving against San- tander. last major city on the North= ern Spanish coast. ‘When this drive is complete, the editorial said, Pranco will throw the entire weight of his forces against Madrid. Separate Action Unwelcome., Government officials agreed that Italy and Germany would not wel- come any separate action bv France and Britain to fill the gap in the naval patrol off Spain created by Italo-German warship withdrawal from the Non-Intervention Committee blockade. The officials, however, found cause for optimism in that the question the Non-Inter- in London next week. Italy and Germany, outside tha naval patrol to keep men and arms from Spain, still are members of the committee. and it was expected their views would be given most careful consideration. Awaits Basque Conquest. The Popoio d'Italia editorial, in a general discussion of the Spanish War, said: “The crisis will definitely be resolved upon the day on which Gen. Franco is freed of the last resistance of the Basques and may throw against the central front all the weight of his well-tempered forces, galvanized by & spirit of victory. “There will be. as often happens, an acceleration of operations. The iron band around Madrid, like that around Bilbao, which seemed im- will be broken.” PARIS PREPARING PLAN. Favors Putting Neutral Observers on French, British Ships, | By the Associated Press. A new plan to get a measure of Italian and German co-operation in the international naval patrol of Spain was reported being prepared today in Paris. Informed sources said the program provided for placing Italian observers on French ships and German repre- sentatives on British vessels, to main- tain supervision of any movement of arms of foreign fighters to Spain. Amplification of Proposal. That scheme was an amplification of the Franco-British proposal that | their ships fill the gaps in the neus trality cordon created by withdrawal of Italian and German ships. Authoritative Rome sources de= clared, however, Italy would oppose | maintenance of the patrol by Briish | and France alone In some Italian quarters it was said there was no need of closing the holes, because Italian and German ships were con- tinuing an independent wa‘ch. Wnile participating in the neutrality patrol they had been stationei along the eastern Spanish coast, off govern- ment-held territory. Britain and France Blamed. German newspapers, although they expressed approval of British Prime | Minister Neville Chamberlain's attie tude toward the Reich as expressed in his speech yesterday, blamed Britain and France for the breakdown of co- operation among the four grea: west- ern European powers. On the actual fighting front, insur- gents were reported massing troops in the Jarama region itheast of Madrid, menacing the important nigh way from Madrid to Valencia on the Mediterranean. CATALAN CABINET QUITS. Companys Will Form New Ministry Monday. BARCELONA, Spain, June 26 (#).— Another short-lived Catalan cabinet resigned today. President Luis Companys said he would form a new ministry Monday after consulting party leaders. It will be the fourth since March, Two governments under Premier Jose Tarradellas were separated by a pro- visional administration. 4