Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1937, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON , D. C, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1937. " EARHART HUNT POPULATESILES Probably Largest Number of People on Record Go to Phoenixes. Through the intensive search for Amelia Earhart, the Phoenix' group of South Sea islands has drawn prob- ably the largest number of persons on record, according to a National Geographic Society bulletin. ‘The population of the whole group, according to the society, ranges from 40 to zero. The Phoenix group, to which the Navy's ships and planes were reported = to have veered from Howland Island, the goal which the famous aviatrix missed, numbers eight islands. Only two, Hull and Sydney, are reported inhabited with any permanency. On these colonists, who come and go, tend small coconut plantations and prepare copra for shipment. Three of the other islands show #igns of previous occupation by set- . tlers who worked the now cxh:\us(cdl guano deposits. One of the smaller islands, Canton, was visited recently by the National Geographic-Navy expedition which photographed the total eclipse of the sun. “The coral islands of the Phoen! group,” said the bulletin, “are scat- tered through a rezion roughly five degrees square, just south of the Equator and east of the intérnational date line. he coribined land sul face of all eig would hardly add up to 16 square miies, and it is dis- tributed over some 23.000 square m of the Pacific. A dangerous coral »reef north of the group (Winslow) and another south of it (Carondelet) double the extent of the Phoenix area. Only one of the islands, McKean, s all dry land. Each of the others consists of a lagoon outlined by a| rim of terra firma. Canton, the larg- est, is & thin strip of land 27 miles in circumference and a quarter-mile wide, wrapped around a lagoon 9 miles in length “Poenix Island, one of the smallest, is less than a mile long. Its very existence was oned until the islands were finally identified and the actual eigt ed from a mythical dozen repo: various times. They ~are skirted by shipping lanes between Australia and Hawai 1,800 miles to the northeast.” " Flight (Continued From First Page.) will be out of touch with ~from 24 to 36 hours until th the Canadian mainland and their red-winged monoplane the United States Pacific Coast They took off at 3:22 am. (8:22 p.m., Eastern standard time, Sunday) with few formalities on the Arctic sky trail. In the face of apparently unfavorable weather for low flying in the fogey Arctic regions, Gromoff reported he was flying above the elouds afier passing Archangel. land for strike point toward The latter lies | | | | | While the East sweltered, Westerners held a ski tournament Glacier, 45 | wore opercoats. The ski run was warm—58 degrees—so after practicing, th Nature’s Air Conditioner at Work over the week end on St. Marys miles west of Denver. Those swim suits are for photographic effect; nearly every one else e contestants take a swim in Weather | nearby ice-cold lake. l Drowns ’ —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. that there is to be no business transacted as long as the administration leaders insist on keeping the Senate’s “legislative ! court bill opposition {Valencia Computes Wound- SPANISH WAR DEAD PUT NEAR MILLION ed at Twice That Figure in 51-Week Struggle. BACKGROUND— Spanish civil war has been one of bloodiest civil strifes in history, ranking next to the Russian revo- lution with its 5,000,000 dead in fighting and famine during the four vears it lasted. Casualties in battle on Spanish peninsula have been supplemented by widespread crecutions of ci- vilians on both sides and of deaths from hunger. By the Associated Press. VALENCIA, July 12—The toll of human lives in Spain's 51-week-old | civil war was estimated today as| nearly 1,000,000, although government officials are unable to set any definite | figures for either deaths or property | loss. The death toll for the first five montis of the war was given as 700,- 000 in figures published three months ago by’ the government pmpaganda: office. The number of soldiers killed at the | front recently has been set at more | than 100,000 for both the government and the insurgents. Government sources believe insurgent losses now | outnumber their own because of the | great cost in lives of the insurgent capture of Bilbao Wounded have been computed as at least double the number killed. These figures are admitedly a rough esti mate. “he government is doing its' best (o compile casualty lists, but the work is still in progress and for the most part unpublished. It is believed | no very reliable list for the early days | of the war, before the government forces were well organized, will ever | be available. | Three Spanish government war- ships waged a two-hour battle with the insurgent cruiser Baleares today after the cruiser attacked the empty oil tanker Campilu, which spectators said was flving a French flag i The combat took place a short dis- tauce offshore, 20 miles south of Valencia. Shore witnesses said none of the vessels appeared to have been hit | Lloyd’s register lists a tanker Cam- | pilo as a Spanish vessel registered at | Seville. Tanker Near Beach. The tanker, fleeing from the cruiser, came to within 200 yards of the beach, | when the government vessels suddenly appeared from behind a nearby point | and opened fire on the insurgent ship. While cannon boomed back and | forth between the cruiser and the | government ships the tanker escaped to Valencia | Just as the government vessels ar- | rived on the scene the insurgent ship i Wwas beginning to fire on the freighter. | One shell falling only a few yards | short of the mark During the battle, several projec- tiles from the insurgent cruiser landed ! on shore. Two fell near the Summer home of the British Embassy staff chattered over a 100-square-mile gov- | ernment salient thrust into insurgent| territory as the opposing planes pounded the ground forces. Before dawn, Incendiary bombs had traced out the ground positions for heavy bombing. In the face of the in- surgent attack, government troops held their gains. Thousands of insurgents Madrid's gates for months were threatened with disaster outside the insurgent lines west and northe west of the besieged capital. The government defense ministry | bat- | announced Gen. Jose Miaja’s talions captured Villanueva del Pardillo, 15 miles west of Madrid, and took 900 prisoners, including the past eight| iFrance to End Spain Border by the government drive slashing into | seven officers. LOYALIST ADVANCE ADMITTED. Confirmation of Reports Given by Insurgent Sources. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, July 12 (A).—Official insurgent sources today admitted the govern- ment offensive west of Madrid had | which made the first changes in battle lines | there since February by carving out a strategic slice of insurgent territory south of Escorial. The admission came in a statement by insurgents: “We have established a powerfv line of fire against the en- emy drive.” Positions in the new line were given at Villaneuva del Pardillo, Villafranca | del Castillo, Villanueva de la Canada, and Brunete, which are in govern- ment hands The insurgents declared the govern- ment had lost more than 10,000 dead and wounded in the offensive, aimed to break the siege of Madrid Yesterday's fighting appeared to be the turning point in the campaign, the insurgent sources said, since gov- ernment action was limited to an at- tack against e insurent position near Villanueva del Pardillo. FRENCH SHIP CARRYING CARGO TO SPAIN FREED Br the Associated Press BORDEAUX, France, July 12.—The French freighter Tregastel, which a Spanish insurgent cruiser seized seven days ago with a food cargo for govern- ment-held Santander, Spain, returned here today with her cargo intact The Tregastel's officers said insur- gent authorities released the ship at a port near Bilbao. It was indicated another attempt would be made to cross the Bay of Biscay to Santander. “Kidnaped” Ship Cheered. BAYONNE, France. Ju 12 (P)— Reports from Pasajes, insurgent-held Spanish seaport near the French frontier, said today a crowd of cheer- ing townspeople greeted the arrival of a tanker which had been “kid- naped” from the Spanish govern- ment, The ship, the Campoamor. was taken from Verdon Harbor near Bor- deaux during the night of July 6 by a group of young National ving in Spanish towns near the border, the reports said r *xe A—3 PATROL DEADLINE TONORRDH NOOK Control if Portugal Fails to Act. the Associated Press PARIS, July 12—An official spokes- man declared today that France has set tomorrow noon as a deadline after she will start withdrawing facilities for international control of her Pyrenees frontier unless Portugal re-established them on her border. B | House of Commons today that Great, | Britain has protested to Italy against | Italian press charges that British in- tervened in Spain in behalf of the Spanish central government. Representations, he said, were made through the British Ambassador to Rome, who was “instructed to meke 1t clear that these allegations were en- tirely without foundation.” Meanwhile, Great Britain's foreign office worked against time to find a way of restarting the stalled ma- chinery of Spanish non-intervention before an irreparable breakdown throws Spanish frontiers wide open, Foreign office officials spent long | hours at their desks considering pro- grams which might enable Britain to fulfill the mandate given her by 26 nations to find a workable non-inter= vention plan to keep the civil war iso- | lated. French officials declared their gov- | ernment was making no idle gesture They said Charles Corbin, French Ambasador to Great Britain, would advise the, Non-intervention Com- mittee today of the decision Eden Outlines New Plan. Unless Portugal alters her attitude immediately, they said, international observers on the Franco-Spanish frontier will find all facilities sus- pended. Diplomatic sources declared that British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had outlined a new two-point neutrality control plan to Sir Eric Phipps, Great Britain’s Ambassador to France, on a week end cruise off Deauville The compromise plan to keep men and arms from reaching Spain was said to have been presented for eluci- dation to the French government It would provide for reconstitution of the land and sea cordons around Spain with French and Bri taking over all the naval p Italo-German observers aboard patrol vessels Would Draft Permanent Program. Then a permanent patrol program be worked out to place neutral vers in all non-Spanish ports and airports likely to be involved in Span- ish commerce to see that no war sup- and the plies or volunteers went to Spain. | BRITAIN PROTESTS TO ITALY. Hits Press Charge She Intervenes for nish Loyalists. J 12 (), —Foreign Anthony Eden told the Spa Auto Painting haleys 2020 M ST. N.W. 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It was believed, however, that the fiyers would take precautions to avoid IWashington Washington flying over moisture-laden areas in order to escape the dangers of ice forming on the winds. They were prepared, nevertheless, to combat ice. Gromoff was accompanied on the flight by Co-pilot Andrei Yumosheff and Navigator Sergei Danilin. ‘The Soviet North Pole weather ob- servation camp radioed that favorable weather conditions were in store for the flyers, who said they wo possible with San Francisco as their Probable destination. Davies Bids Trio Farewell, United States Ambassador Joseph E. Davies had been invited to see the fivers off at Tschelkavo Field, about 35 miles outside Moscow, but he said his farewell earlier. Just as a silvery dawn broke over the Russian hemlock forests, the three aviators stepped out in brown leather ‘Aiying suits to receive the farewell wishes of Dr. Otto J. Schmidt, leader | of the Soviet North Pole expedition, | whose department sponsored the new | flight. i Commissar for Military Defense | Moses L. Rukhimovitch and Gen. J. I | Alksnis kissed the fivers full on the lips before they boarded the plane Wwhich bears the markings “URSS No. 25-1." | Aboard the plane were seven and one-half tons of gasoline, a fuel load greater than that carried by their predecessors on the trans-Polar route, . Valeria Chekaloff, Georgi Baidukoff &nd Alexander Beliakoff. Dr. Schmidt said the flyers would “follow the same route as Chekaloff to the Pole and then -proceed as weather conditions indicated.” | “They hope to better the distance record and will land when necessary,” said Schmidt. “There will be no at- ‘tempt at speed—only distance.” The three fliers landed at Van- couver, 5,288 miles from their take- off point, alter 63 hours 17 minutes in the air. About 300 persons saw and his companions depatt. Gromoff is one of the Soviet Union's leading airmen and was reg- ular pilot of the giant airplane, Maxim | Gorky, which crashed in May, 1935, killing 49 persons. He was ill at the time, and was not aboard. Yumasheff, a major in the red army, holds two pay-load flight rec- ords and Danllin is a professor of air navigation. A third trans-Polar flight is ex- pected to be made soon with Sigis- mund Levaneffsky as pilot. Levan- effsky attempted such a flight in August, 1935, but was forced to turn back when motor trouble developed. Gromoft Radio Links Arranged. SEATTLE, July 12 (P)—Two vital communication links were set up to- day for three Soviet pilots on a pro- Jected non-stop flight from Moscow to the United States. A. Vartanian, Soviet representative here, said the same arrangements had been made for handling messages to and from the plane as during the re- cent flight which ended 22 days ago &t Vancouver, Wash. The United States Army Signal Corps and various Canadian stations will give weather reports and receive reports of the plane's progress. Seattle and Anchorage, Alaska, will be the key points. S. Smirnov, Soviet | radio engineer, is stationed at Anchorage. Czechs Use Radium Signs. Signs at crossroads in Czechoslo- vakia are being painted with radio- ld con- | tinue down the Pacific Coast as far as ' | Narbert A. Schueler, 23, who is sta- | tioned at the reservation. 1 Swam 30 Yards to Shore. Suddenly the canoe overturned. Schueler quickly swam the 30 yards to shore, where to his horror he realized that Chism had not followed him. He quickly re- turned to the scene of the up- set, but by the time Chism had been pulled ashore he was i | dead. | Chism, his relatives said to- day, was a victim of infantile paralysis and un- able to swim. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary E. Lloyd, & Veterans’ Admin- | istration employe; two brothers here, | Clarence and Arthur; a brother, Laurence, in Middleburg, Va, and a sister, Edna. | Marshall drowned in Queens Creek, Mathews, Va., near New Point Com-‘ fort, where he and his wife were| spending the day with Mr. and Mrs. Broaddus Sadler. He went rowing on | the creek as soon as he left the table ! where he had eaten a hearty dinner. | Finding the heat distasteful, Marshall took off his clothes in the boat and jumped overboard for a | swim. Almost at once he shouted for help. Five minutes later Sadler, his brother, Judson Sadler; Charle$ Morgan and Stanley Liversay reached him, but found him already dead. Between 300 and 350 families in six West Virginia communities were driven from their homes yesterday when two creeks overflowed, the Asso- ciated Press reported. Ten Bathers Shocked. In Chicago, 10 Lake Michigan bathers were burned and shbcked when lightning struck a tree under which they had sought shelter during a thunderstorm. Several were knocked unconscious and later revived by life guards. At Durand. Mich., a windstorm last night unroofed several buildings, up- Jesse W. Chism. rooted trees and damaged crops. De- | troit's temperature dropped 18 degrees in five hours after a night shower. It reported a maximum of 91. The death toll was mounting stead- | ily. New York led 24 other States | with a fatality list of 62. New Jersey | followed, with 44, and Connecticut had 38. An Associated Press survey showed the following deaths by other States attributed to the heat. PHILIP MARSHALL. opinion the committee probably would work out a constitutional amendment. Similar to Andrews’ Plan. The suggestion made by Senator Van Nuys is similar in most respects to the amendment offered by Senator | Andrews, except that it does not pro- | vide for the membership of the Su- preme Court-fluctuating with the num- ber of judicial circuits. Senator Steiwer said he thought the proposed constitutional amendment probably would provide for compulsory retirement of Supreme Court justices at 75. If such an amendment is recom- mended by the Judiciary Committee, opponents of the court bill and the compromise will seek to have the con- stitutional amendment adopted and the court bill sent back to the Judi- ciary Committee, thus killing that leg- islation. When the Senate met at noon Sena- tors Pope of Idaho and McGill of Kansas, Democrats, authors of the new “ever nomal granary” bill, sougnt in vain to obtain permission to intro- duce that measure. Senator King of Utah, an opponent of the court biil, objected. The decree has gone forth from the Sl o el el DL?AI' TRY THE NEW | senator Copeland, Qemocrat, of New Spanish government, and a battle | York, made an attempt to get some alarm was sounded. action on & conference report on the War Department non-military ap- | propriation bill. !" Senator Robinson asked unanimous consent that the conference report be considered and voted on not later than 2 pm. today. To this request Senator O'Mahoney promp objected. The appropriations carried in the War De- partment bill will soon be seriously | needed, it was said. 'NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER OFF FOR MORE TESTS By the Associated Press. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. July 12.— The U. S. S. Yorktown, newest of the Nation's aircraft carriers, steamed out | of Hampton Roads today for official | iNa\y Department trials in the Atlan- tic off Rockland, Me. In command was Capt. 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