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RIFT, ANOUT SEEN INLEHMAN LETTER Sign of Party Salvation Also Held Effect of Court Plan Message. B: the Associated Press ALBANY, N. Y, July 20—New| York's political circles discussed today | the possibility that President Roose- | velt’s self-styled “strong right arm” | had been ‘'self-severed.” In the wake of the unexpected oppo- sition of the State’s Democratic Gov, | Herbert H. Lehman to the President's pourt reorganization bill, Republicans and Democrats joined in the unofficial debate. While he was Governor of New York from 1928 to 1932 Mr. Roosevelt often ealled Lehman, then Lieutenant Gov- ernor, “my strong right arm.” Lehman vucceeded to the governorship in 1933, A high Republican official who re- fused to be quoted professed to see in | Lehman's letter to United States Sen- | ator Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, of | New York, asking him to oppose (hei proposal, an indication “the strong | right arm has become self-severed.” 1 Severance Doubted. At the same time, a Democratic | leader, who likewise declined to com- ment publicly, doubted any severance, pointing to the portion of the Gov- ernor’s letter praising his predecessor’s social program and asserting: “I look forward to the opportunity »f eontinuing to support his courage- ous leadership in matters that are in | the interest of the social well-being of | our people.” The Democrat added that it “may be possible” the letter was written to | give the President an “out” on the plan which has precipitated protracted | congressional debate. ign of Salvation.” Others, both Democrats and Repub- licans, held the belief Lehman's state- ment was timed to delay temporarily the pending vote on the proposal, and one anti-New Deal Democrat saw the letter as “a hopeful sign of party sal- vation.” Lehman, vacationing at Hot Springs, Va., declined to discuss his action, as| did Senator Wagner, an ardent sup- | porter of the New Deal | Republican Assembly Speaker 0<: Happy to Little Philip Shane (center ately embraced by his brother Joan, 7, after he was returned playing with Alan and .Ioan_. Kidnaping (Col d From First Page.) Durham saw a sedan answering the | description furnished by Mrs. Shane | at the filling station at Berwyn, about | 2 miles from the Shane home. Just then he saw a nude child, chased by | | » woman, running from the car toward | a garage. | He stopped his motor cycle and | seized the woman, but she struggled so violently that two bystanders— James Walker, a former wrestler, and Charles Shaw—had to go to his assist- ance. The woman fought with finger- nails and teeth to escape the grasp of | the men, Just as Sergt. Durham and his two | civilian assistants were trying to put | her in the car, several other State policemen, including Vernon Spicer, | appeared on the scene. It was only with the aid of six policemen and their two civilian aids that the woman was taken to the Hyattsville Jail. She is nearly 6 feet tall and weighs about 180 pounds. i Calls Child Brother's. | Durham said he had learned wald D. Heck was the only State legis- lative leader who would be quoted ‘T am surprised,” he said, “but also | pleased to hear a close friend of the | President of the United States has #een fit to disagree with him on this | important legislation.” Court (Continued From First Page.) up again. “it is our purpose to con- tinue to discuss the bill.” Wheeler denied that faiiure of the bill's opponents to submit & motion | to recommit was an indication of | weakness. “We have the votes to recommit at any time we make the motion,” he said 1 | sergt From other sources, it was learned T Be Home ), 20 months old, is affection- and sister, Alan, 5 (left), and to his home safely last nigh Philip was taken away by a blond woman in a green car while —Star Staff Photo. that she had stopped at the filling sta- tion, where drinks are sold, to buy a bottle of beer. At the police station she declined to make any comment further than to repeat over and over: “That is my brother's child.” The only other words spoken by the | woman after she was taken into cus- tody were: “I don't want to,” when told by police to sit in a chair. She had to be handcuffed with her hands | behind her before she could be made to sit down. When she was put in a cell she beat incessantly on the door. Informed that his child had been found, Shane drove to Berwyn and returned his, son to his mother, where he was put to bed, seemingly having enjoyed his “outing." Shane said he could not under- stand the woman's claims that the child belonged to her brother, since he had never seen her before. Neigh- bors told of having seen the green sedan in the neighborhood times during the past three days. Sergt. Durham was in Upper Marl- boro today for a conference with State’s Attorney Alan Bowie to de- termine what charge is to be placed against the prisoner, that several Senators are anxious to | state their views before the motion to | recommit is put. It also was pre-| dicted that the motion would be made within a few days The administration forces continued today to insist that eventually they would pass & compromise measure.|Said the issue would be disposed of Indeed, it was said that a surprisingly | this week “without leaving a rift in| satisfactory compromise would be | the Democratic party. e healirainy Lewis, one of the 15 Senators | 3 | hitherto uncommitted. made it plain Compromise Unrevealed. | that although he did not like the | No indication as to what this com- | court bill, he would vote for it rather | promise would be was forthcoming, | than have all judiciary reorganization | although it has been reported that the defeated. | administration leaders were willing to His statement gave the administra- | agree that the bill should not apply to | tion 39 publicly-declared votes against | the sitting members of the Supreme | 41 publicly-opposed. | Court. | “The President has known I had, The court controversy came up at|in all of these months of legislative the start of & routine House session | Warfare on the judiciary bill, not today when Representative Dunn, Re- | favored the plan and form of the publican, of Pennsylvania appealed to | lcgislation,” Lewis said. “But I could members to sign his petition to force | NOt approve any course that humil- the President’s original court bill from | iated the President and served to the Judiciary Committee to the floor. | gratify political or personal enmities The House Judiciary Committee has|under the pretense of opposing the taken no action on the bill. | court bill. Vice President Garner, for the first | T 8m now anxious to bring about time in several weeks, presided over | ANV Mmeasure that will serve the ob- the Senate today. He returned to | ject of the President in reforming the Washington last night with the Sen- | Supreme Court, but in a manner ators who had gone to Little Rock, | Within the Constitution, and which Ark., to attend Senator Robinson's 8Vvoids the rift in the Democratic funeral. majority. Garner was an early caller today “If the substitute is the only meas- at the White House, conferring with | Ure that can be brought out as ;he Mr. Roosevelt for more than an hour | Fésult of the best judgment and action in the President's study. The Vice |Of the Senate, then I will vote for President left the White House in a | that rather than to have the President Jovial humor. The President’s next |Put In the position of being defeated caller was Bernard M. Baruch Or\g:\d{ dx;l:on&rgvd by his own United New York, who jStatesitenate. died. took_the Capital by surprise, said the President’s program as a whole repre- Agreement Among Senators. sented a great step forward in social When the Senate met today Senator | [e8islation, but that the court bill Barkley, acting leader, said there had | %OUld be contrary to the interests of been general agreement among the | the people and would create « *‘greatly Senators that there should be no at- | dangerous precedent.” tempt at business until Thursday. Atl candidate “by a single nod of the head or bat of the eye.” Senator Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip, who conferred with the Presi- dent yesterday, predicted a quick set- ! tlement of the court controversy. He | Postmaster General Farlev said of that time, he said, the President's | LENMAN's letter: I was not at all veto of the bill dealing with rates of | ¢oncerned when I read the message.” | interest on farm loans probably would | Other supporters said it would make be taken up. Beyond that he was|DO difference in the outcome. not prepared to go. Foes of the court bill, however, Senator McNary of Oregon, Repub- | N8iled the letter as “the final death lican leader, asked if it was planned | PIOW” to the measure. to go on with the court bill or to| “All that remains is to call the take up unobjected bills on the Sen- |COroner,” commented Senator Van- ate calendar. Barkley was unable to | denberg, Republican, of Michigan. say. Senator George, Democrat, of The court bill undoubtedly will come | G€0rgia, speaking in the National 10,000 LIONS GATHER FOR CHICAGO SESSION Representatives of 2,800 Clubs in | Eight Countries Meet for 21st Convention. By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, July 20.—Representa- tives of Lions’ 2,800 clubs in eight | countries gathered today for the open- ing of their twenty-first annual inter- national convention. The advance guard of delegates, which has trickled into headquarters for three days, was swelled by last- minute arrivals. Convention officials estimated 10,000 members and their wives would attend. Lions Interna- tional was founded 20 years ago in Chicago by Melvin Jones, present sec- retary general. The delegates, some in special cos- tumes for a scheduled parade through the Loop, represented clubs from Canada, Mexico, Cuba. Fanama, | China, Costa Rica and Colombla as | | well as all sections of the United | heavy gusts of artillery fire and by States. Makes Delicious Iced Tea "SAlL MIXED TEA . HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 200,000 ARE JOINED INMADRID BATILE Government Throws Aerial Forces Behind Lines of Insurgents. BACKGROUND— Madrid siege began last Novem- ber after forces of rebel Gen. Fran- cisco Franco had conquered large areas of Southern, Western and Northern Spain. Successful resist- ance to capture by Loyalist de- Jenders of Madrid forced Franco to complete conquest of morth. Cap- ture of Bilbao, Basque capital, per- mitted him to throw heavy rein- forcements into struggle around capital. Loyalists took initiative to break eight-month sicge lines. Battle now in sixth day. By the Associated Press. MADRID, July 20.—Rival armies, each believed to have 100,000 men in action, fought the destiny of Spain today in the sixth day of the greatest | encounter of the year-old civil war— “the battle for Madrid.” Confronted by a flood of seasoned reinforcements drawn by Generalis- simo Francisco Franco from less-active fronts, the government command speared back of the insurgent lines west of Madrid with aerial operations calculated to demoralize the fresh troops and shatter their lines of sup- ply. Government bombers dumped heavy cargoes of explosives on Navalaga- mella by four raids in yesterday's operations alone. Thousands of insur- gent troops were being rushed to the Valdemorillo and Quijorna sectors in an effort to pinch off a 100-square- mile pocket which government troops had carved out of insurgent territory in a two-week offensive Navalagamella, the strategic point from which insurgent infantry attacks several | up as 800n as the veto and the call of the calendar are out of the way. Vice President Garner said he would recog- nize Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, who had the floor and was speaking in opposition to the court bill at the time the Senate was in- formed of Senator Robinson's death. Copeland is prepared to go right ahead. The contest over the Democratic leadership is close, according to a number of the Democratic Senators. However, supporters of Harrison to- day predicted the election of the Mis- sissippian. Intertwined With Court. The leadership battle was inter- twined with the court dispute because Harrison drew his principal support from foes of the bill. Barkley's strength came largely from its friends, including a bloc of first-year Senators. Both candidates were committed personally to the bill. A contest over proxies may develop in the caucus. Harrison's backers indicated they would try to cast votes for Senators Glass of Virginia, Hay- den of Arizona and Bankhead of Ala- bama, who may be absent because of iliness. Barkley's supporters objected, say- ing the vote should be limited to those among the 75 Democratic Senators able to attend. Vice President Garner said he woulq Bot express a preference for either ] Radio Forum last night, “Kttacked the compromise bill now before the Sen- ate. It would authorize additional Supreme Court justices, at the rate of one a year, if members over 75 do not retire. The speech was Senator George's first against the bill, Britain plans to spend an addi- tional $17,500,000 annually to assist agriculture. - —_— We Can Remodel Your Watch the movement 1 good— » M. but why met put it n 5, mew cate with & moders Use Your Credit CASTELBERG'S 1004 F S1. M. W, DOOM POWDER sticks to roaches and water bugs, is carried to youn; and eggs in nests. Kills all in one application. Non - poi o:(:’ua.ll: EHA";I.: i‘. ’II“OI P(A;;.I"Ank' your dealer's " ki PHI AUTOMATIC TUNING | were being launched against the west- ern flank of Gen. Jose Miaja’'s salient, is & small town of a few sun-baked, one-story houses of adobe, surrounded by patches of wood. Twenty trucks bound for Navala- | | gamella from Cebreros, apparently the main insurgent concentration point on Madrid's western front, were bombt-di and machine-gunned by government | airmen at daybreak yesterday. | Navslagamella, western extremity of | an equilateral triangle formed by its line to the Valdemorillo and Quijorna sectors, is about 30 miles from Madrid and about five miles from each of the | other two towns, which have fallen to Miaja’s men. The insurgent hope of seizing | Madrid after more than eight months | of siege and the government's hope of hammering back the siege lines rested in the immense, co-ordinated opera- tions of infantry divisions, artillery | and airplanes. As Madrid goes, so the war is likely | to go. Insurgent divisions between the gov- | ernment’s “pocket” and the siege lines on the western fringe of the capital, meanwhile, continued their part of the pinching operation on the eastern side of Miaja's salient in a steady pressure from Villanueva del Castillo toward Villanueva del Pardillo. | " The virtually hand-to-hand fighting | was carried on under a blistering Sum- | mer sun. An insurgent patrol of pursuit | planes roared into the Navalagamella sector after the first two of the gov- ernment’s four air raids there yester- | day. A brief air battle ensued but the | government planes were able to | escape after bombing 20 truckloads of reinforcements. Bombers Sweep Back. | ‘The sky cleared momentarily. The government bombers, escorted by their fighting ships, swept back over the | town. | The insurgent patrol roared back | in battle formation. There was an- | | other series of “dog fights” which | | ended, the government reported, with the shooting down of an insurgent pursuit plane. The air raids continued, the gov- | ernment’s bombs raising huge col- | umns of smoke and debris from the | wooded fringes of Navalagamella which were believed to shelter bodies of insurgent troops. Insurgent infantry, protected by | | numerous tanks, pressed continuo ADA | warship as his rank and training | | great and I had a duty not to put in | The government | government declared its men had held LCO D. C. TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1937. Alfonso’s Son May Get Throne, Gen. Franco Informs Royalists Rebel Chief Shows Favor for Juan—Ex-King Out, However. By the Associated Press, SALAMANCA, Spain, July 20 —In- surgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco gave indications yesterday to his royalist followers that the Spanish monarchy eventually may be restored. In an interview in the royalist news- paper ABC of Seville, Franco made fewer conditions about a_restoration than in his proclamation Yast Spring uniting all the insurgent parties. The insurgent leader showed in- creasing favor toward 24-year-old Prince Juan de Bourbon, third son of former King Alfonso, as successor | to the throne his father was obliged | to leave in 1931. The insurgent leader indicated there was no hope, however, for a return of Alfonso himself, when he said: “If the moment for a restoration arrives, the new monarchy ought to be very different from the one that fell * ¢ * different in theory, in practice, and—even though painful, we must face the facts—even as to the person of the monarch himself. “He (the new monarch) would be a link between the new order and the traditional glories of Spain. “I have.the highest opinions of the talents, discretion and understanding of Don Juan, ho sought in the rst| XTIT jeft the country. days (of the civil war) to gb to the| " Tney regard the interview fe ront * © * I had to beg him to leave | Franco's most definite pledge for a Spain. monarchy possible under existing con- “He asked a post in command of | ditions. Franco also spoke glowingly of many | others of Spain’s aristocracy who have supported the insurgent cause Besides going far beyond any previ- | ous expression in favor of monarchy, Franco implied sgaln that he would not consider the withdrawal of foreign {fighters from his armies. | _PRINCE JUAN DE BOURBON. _ | iards in this war ® ® ¢ and if, some | time, & king becomes the head of state | he must come in the role of peace- maker and not be listed in the ranks | of the conquerors.” The Royalists, a considerable | strength in the insurgent ranks, were jubilant. They said the declaration would unify feeling among important insurgent leaders that popular Don | eliminate the strife that has marked Spanish Republicanism since Alfonso warranted, but I could not grant his request. My responsibility was very danger & life that some day may be very precious. “I must bear in mind furthermore that there are two divisions of Span- on all the towns eaptured by Miaja's “Milicianos” since his drive started. asserted, however, they were held at bay with a wither- | ing machine gun fire and showers of hand grenades. Fights Tanks With Grenades. Hand grenades were the principal defense against the insurgents' lum- bering tanks. It was trench and artillery warfare of World War intensity Artillerymen back of both circuitous lines kept up a deafening duel. Gov- ernment gunners planted shell after shell in the ranks of Franco's troops | who came charging against the gov- ernment trenches with fixed bayonets With each explosion in their midst the disorganized infantrymen retreated The explosive noises of battle, | mingled with the shouts of the fight- ers, spread a nerve-racking din over | the dusty, shell-torn plains With the reddening of the sun in the west and the coming of night. the | fresh victories on the Aragon front where, it said, Franco's forces oc- cupied important positions in the vicinity of Albarracin, including the Village of Bronchales tions were concentrated on the Madr front. A radio broadcast from Sal manca, Franco's general headquarters, said “hundreds of our planes” joined in the Madrid onslaught, “dropping | enormous quantities of explosives on the red fortifications.” The radio as- serted a government battalion was “decimated” by Franco's airmen. SHOPS TO REOPEN 1,000 Rail-Car Order to Employ 1,000 for 5"Months. MADISON, American Car nounced yesterday its shops here would be reopened about August to start work on an order oad cars. The w ! Railroad, w I 1 all their positions. for the Union Pacific 11l employ about 1,000 per- | sons for five months, company offices said. Several hundred men have been | preparing the plant for operation the | Jast few months, | 20 KILLED IN BOMBARDMENT. 100 Injured by Rebel Planes Attacking Tarragona, HENDAYE. Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, July 20 (P)—Twenty persons were killed and more than 100 in- jured in insurgent bombardment of Tarragona, Barcelona dispatches re- ported today Many buildings were destroyed by four insurgent bombers which swept over the town near Barcelona and the village of Cambrils last night The attackers circled twice to drop bombs, before anti-aircraft guns finally drove them off Insurgent onslaughts by land and air were reported by Generalissimo Franco's headquarters to have brought “an alteration” of battle lines on Madrid’s western front The insurgent communique ASHABLE INDOW SHADES Made of long-wearing Harts- horn Shade fabric. Made to measure at factory-like prices. U Hady; 1100 H St NE,2d 1, Lin 0879 —et TO P> Hospitalization INSURANCE Ax 0 60 Lese than per day E. 0. Wieland, 1343 H St. N.W. Room 209 Dlstrict 7456 Protect . 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Most of the insurgent aerial opera- group of 27 European nations ad- | Journed speedily today without facing ;what British Foreign Secretary An- | thony Eden said would be its “stand or fall” test. The only discussion was on the pro- lvmon of Britain's compromise plan for non-intervention in Spain assigning observers in Spanish ports. | British observers said the subcom- | mittee agreed in principle to the plan | which would substitute the observers for the international control fleet from | which Italy and Germany have with- drawn. They said a technical sub- committee would devise an operating | plan. The prime issue was expected to be the proposal to grant limited bellige- rent rights to both sides of the civil war., | Lord Plymouth, British chairman |of the non-intervention committee, presided at the meeting at which France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Bel- gium, Russia, Czechoslovakia and Sweden also were represented. “Whatever their difficulties, what- ever their preoccupations, whatever their provocations,” said the foreign secretary, “I pray that nations who be- gin their work tomorrow will never forget the alternative. 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