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INSURGENTS ENTER TOWN OF BRUNETE Thousands Reported in Hard Fight on Key City Near Madrid. BACKGROUND— Rebels made quick gains in civil war which began year ago. Drive against Madrid began last Novem- der, but Loyalists held city. Fight- ing slackened during Winter. In- surgents turned attention in Spring %o northern drive and Madrid two weeks ago began drive to oust foe from eity's environs, met counter- offensive and fighting has been heavy. By the Arsociated Press. MADRID, July 24.—Spanish insur- genta entered the important town of | Brunete, 15 miles west of Madrid, after a day-long attack, the govern- ment announced late tonight. Ever since the insurgent troops of | Gen. Francisco Franco launched their violent counter-attack last week, bat- tling to regain territory taken in & | government drive westward from be- | sieged Madrid, the shell-battered town | of Brunete had been their prime ob- fective, The fighting today, government eources said, was the most severe in | the bitterly contested sector. Gov- ernment troops were subjected to in- tensive shelling and machine gunning before insurgent infantry engaged | them at close quarters. Government reports said the in-| wmirgents reached the outskirts of Bru- | nete shortlv after noon, but were | hurled back to their original positions | west of the town. The insurgents relentleasly attacked again, and, offi- efal reports tonight said, entered the | town. ‘The government said many Moors were in the insurgent ranks. Fighting Still Rages. Heavy fighting was still going on tonizght in Brunete, government ad- vices said, as the insurgents strove to drive the defenders completely out of | the town. Casualties were high. An insurgent fighting plane was re- ported shot down in a 20-minute air battle over La Albericia airfield. Twenty government warplanes took off and engaged six insurgent bomb- ers, with 21 fighting planes protecting them. Insurgents attacked from a semi- eircular front southwest of Brunete end south of Quijorna. Last Sunday Brunete was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting of the war, involving more men and more heavy weapons—particularly airplanes —than any other conflict of the civil war, 200,000 in Battle Lines. Tt was estimated then that about 200.000 men, almost equally divided, were in the opposing lines. Brunete is the tip of the govern- ment's south-pointing “thumb.” Loss of 1t would endanger the whole salient and the men and munitions Miaja's troope have massed inside. A success- ful government advance from Brunete would aim at Navalcarnero, the in- gurgents’ supply and communication base for the aiege. Insurgent troops, attacking at small objectives rather than risk s large- ecale offensive on the strongly de- fended government lines, have local- ized the fighting all week. They have struck, however, at all | sides of the government salient dip- | ping southeast from Valdemorillo and | southwest from Villafranca del Cas- tillo to Brunete, ‘ ( THOUSANDS REPORTED DEAD Rebels Refuse to Let Defenders Rest | a Minute, SALAMANCA, Spain, July 24 (F).— Insurgents advanced to Brunete to- night in an encircling movement which threatened to close off the sa- lient down which government forces pushed three weeks ago in an effort to lift the siege of Madrid. Failure of Madrid troops to break through insurgent lines south of the beseiged city and join the troops driv- ing down the salient apparently robbed the government attack of its etrategie value, insurgents said. Prizoners reported government losses were tremendous and that thousands | ©of bodies were strewn on the plains west of Madrid, where one of the | greatest battles of the Spanish eivil Wwar i8 raging. | S0 bitter has been the fighting that no time was taken out to bury the dead | Insurgents said they were not let- ting the Madrid defenders rest a min- ute. Artillery has been blasting stead- ily at government positions for days | and bombing planes have harassed the city. WEBSTER'S FRIENDS QUIZZED BY POLICE | Efforts to Learn Motive for Mur- der of Providence Physi- cian Pressed. Br the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I, July 24.—De- tectives investigating the slaying of Dr. George W. Webster, fashionable | physician, tonight turned to a close questioning of his friends—leaders in medicine and persons of high social standing in the Rhode Island capital =for a motive in the murder. Two detectives began a round of questioning of prominent acquaint- ances of the 39-year-old obstetrician, &lain by two bullets early July 16 in the doorway of his home here. ‘The names of those questioned were carefully guarded by Deputy Police Bupt. James J. Cusick. Confidence that the case would be solved was expressed by Thomas H. Roberts, chairman of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners. “I am highly satisfled with the way Deputy Cusick is handling the case,” Roberts asserted. Meanwhile investigators combed a mile area around the elaborate Web- ster town house for any Army auto- matic from which a ballistics expert said the death bullets were fired. A box of .45-caliber cartridges found near the slain doctor'’s home has failed to provide any leads to the ‘weapon, Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, July 25, 1937. FOREIGN. Tokio warns of war unless China with- drawa troops. Page A-1 Japanese to attempt flight from Tokio to New York. Page A-1 Insurgents enter town of Brunete after hard fighting. Page A-2 NATIONAL. Talk of adjournment gains momentum in Congress. Page A-1 Four freed, five sentenced as Scotts- boro case ends. Page A-1 Truce in Buffalo strike fails to allevi- ate food shortage. Page A-1 Cancer research center to be built near Bethesda. Page A-1 Hunt sped for Scoutmaster after coat is found. Page A-2 8. Chamber studies Labor Board decisions. Page A-2 Roosevelt to promote 26 to either major or brigadier general. Page A-10 Martin assails civil service bill as stab at merit system. Page B-2 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Two drownings follow capsizing of small boats in river. Page A-1 Conferees act this week on District tax bill, Page A-1 Kennedy plan for D. C. reorganization nearly completed. King drafts bill for airport at Camp Springs. Page A-1 New effort to be made to obtain suf- frage for District. Page B-1 District specifically included in Wag- ner housing bill Page B-1 House may clear calendar of D. C. bills tomorrow. Page B-1 Health Department considering rigid “nuisance” code. Page B-1 Striking painters await three possible developments. Page B-1 Comadr. L. B. Combs assigned to model basin construction. Page B-1 Randolph Leigh to head Suburban Community Chest Unit. Page B-5 SPORTS. Ferrell's pinch-batting enables Nats to beat Browns twice. Page B-6 Budge pressed but gets split for Yanks in cup tennis. Page B-6 uU. of batting lead. Page B-7 Base ball rapidly is gaining ground in foreign countries. Page B-7 Johnsen-Heffner play Lynch-Breese in mid-Atlantic final. Page_ B-8 Flying Scot annexes classic, Rosenna is victor at Delaware. Page B-9 Farr gives considerable boots to rating of British heavies. Page B-10 Horseshoe flippers to open The Star title play Monday. Page B-11 John Harding, jr., shows way to vet- eran sailing skippers. Page B-11 MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside, Obituary. Shopping news. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial articles. Pages D-1-3 Editorials and comment. Page D-2 Civic news. Page D-4 Cross-word puzzle Page D-4 | Military and veterans’ news. Vital statistics. Stamps. Resorts. Educational Winning contract. PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. Pages E-1-10 | Well-known folk Page E-4 | Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-Hl‘ PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features Pages F. John Clagett Proctor. Page Dick Mansfield, Page Automobiles. Page Amusements. Page Children’s page. Page Radio programs. Page PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Industry shows strength. Page D. C. trade advances, Page Stocks edge up. Page Stock table. Page Bond table, Page Curb table. Page G-4 Lost and found. Page G-4 Classified advertising. Pages G-4-13 REFERENCE TO BONES TO STAND AT TRIAL | Court Denies Plea of Three Ac- | cused of Murdering Their Kinsman. Page A-2 Page A-8 Page B-4 Pages D-4-5 Page Page Page Page Page -1-4 F-2 F-3 F-3 F-5 F-6 F-7 G-1 G-1 G-1 G-2 G-3 By the Associatea Press. BURGAW, N. C, July 24—A de- fenseless motion to strike out refer- ences to a pile of bones, to which a State’s witness said one of the de- fendants led searchers, was over- ruled today in the trial of three men charged with murdering Paul Kroch- malny, their kinsman, and cremating his body. A. A. Nelms, a private investigator, had testified yesterday that the bones were found among ashes on a farm about 200 yards from the home of Adam Smith upon whom, the witness said, Pete Krochmalny had attempt- ed to lay the blame for his brother’s murder. The State charged that the three men slew their kinsman soon after he sold his home in Toledo, Ohio, and came to the' St. Helena community near here so that they could keep $1,160 in money orders which “old” Paul had sent to himself and which had been erroneously delivered to his nephew and namesake before he ar- rived. A WOMAN’S AGE Oregon Lady Refused to Tell It, Denied Auto License, Jailed. MEDFORD, Oreg., July 24 (#).— Mrs. Florhanna Beckman's refusal to give her birth date in applying for a driver's license led to a 30-day jail sentence today. Ruled Judge William R. Coleman in sentencing her for non-possession of a license: “You have defied this court, the State police and the secretary of State long enough.” Records show she had appeared in I Magazin Blast Kills Six. BUENOS AIRES, July 24 (#).—Six persons were killed and one wounded when s powder magazine exploded today in the Seismographic Com- mission quarters at Malarque, Men- dosa Province. The building was de- etroyed and neighboring houses were damaged. ] court thrice before on a similar charge. CAROL AT CONCERT LONDON, July 24 (#).—King Carol of Rumania, on an incognito vacation visit to England, today attended a matinee concert of the music of Nicolo Page A-1! Travis splurges and goes within point | FORITS RULINGS Has Failed to Interpret Act Consistently, U. S. Cham- ber Holds. Declaring that decisions of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board “have net yet provided definite and consist- ent interpretations of the act which will enable employers to understand clearly the extent of their obligations and their rights under the act.” the Chamber of Commerce of the United States last night made public a study of board rulings in approximately 200 cases completed in the two-year life of the Wagner labor relations law. The digest was offered without comment other than that it was an attempt “to make clear the actual rulings, freed from the surrounding circumstances of each case, for it is through the rulings that an under- standing can be obtained of the ap- plications of the act made by the board.” It added that “because of the pur- pose of this study, statements as to, rulings are made without reference to any views respecting desirability or undesirability, validity or invald- ity.” Cites Three Factors. The report cites three major fac- tors that have entered into the board’s decisions — employers’ rights, bargaining unit and majority rule— and sets out principles that have been followed in developing these. In defining employers’ rights, the summary said, the board has held: “An employer has no righ: himself to request a proceeding by the board for an election among emploves to ascertain the majority choice of a representative for collective bargain- ing, but if the employer joins with &n outside labor organization in mak- ing such a request he is given stand- ing by the board. “An emplover has a right to dis- charge an employe for inefficiency, | misconduct, or other cause unrelated | to his membership in & labor organ- | ization, but this right has been denied in some instances, where an employe used company time for union activi- ties, the board undertaking to deter- mine that there was not interference | with quantity or quality of work per- formed. Right of Employer. “An employer has a right to refuse to accept demands made upon him | in the course of collective bargaining, but not to terminate collective bar- gaining for that reason, or because the labor organization involved is vio- lating an existing agreement.” On the issue of bargaining unit, the | report continued, “one plant nmnmz; four operated by an employer was held a bargaining unit, while all six plants of another employer were held to constitute a bargaining unit, and | there was no determination as to the | plants of another emplover on the | ground the evidence was inconclusive. | In other instances it has been held there are several units within a plant “When the board, without holding an election, certifies an organization to represent emploves in collective | bargaining, it requires proof that the | organization in fact is authorized to act for a majority,” the report adds. “When the board holds an election it has followed several principles. In its annual report. which was dated Jan- uary, 1837, and which covered the pe- | riod ended with June 30, 1936, the | board stated that to the end of this period it had issued all certifications | after elections on the basis that a | majority of those eligible to vote had | cast ballots for the organization certi- | fied. In fact. it had during this period refused certification after an election in which less than oneJfourth of the | elizible employes voted. | “On July 3, 1936, however, the board | issued a certificate based on the re- | sults of an election in which a ma- | jority of eligible employves voted, but less than a majority voted for the organization accepted by the board. This was followed by other cases, in- cluding a case in which, although only about one-third of the eligible em- ployes voted, the board certified the organization receiving a majority of this minority.” Report Quotes Consideration. The report quotes these consider- ations which are said, in varying de- gress, to have had weight in each case: History of labor relations in industry; history of labor relations between em- ployer and his employe; skill of em- | ployes; functional coherence of em- ployes; mutual interests of employ wage rates; organization of emplo; er's business: form self-organization | takes; eligibility rules of employes’ organizations. “The board.” the report says, “has repeatedly ruled that discharges or layoffs of union members for reasons not considered by the board to be convincing and adequate constitute illegal discriminations against labor organizations whenever there is sub- stantial evidence that the terminstion of employment was attributable to union acivities.” One of the cases cited was that recently decided against the Willard Hotel when a waiter and waitress were ordered restored to duty by the board. TRAILER STRIKE SETTLED Agreement to Send 500 Back to Jobs After Two-Week Layoff. DETROIT, July 24 (#£)—The two- week-old strike which left 500 em- ployes of the Fruehoff Trailer Co. idle has been settled, it was announced tonight. Loren Houser, an organizer for the United Automobile Workers of Ameri- ca, and company officials made the announcement but withheld terms of the settlement. They said the agree- ment was reached in a conference Friday and approved by union workers today. One of the Supreme Court rulings upholding the Wagner national labor relations act was in a case appealed by the Fruehoff firm, SALVADOR QUITS LEAGUE Cabinet Decides Nation Will Withdraw. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, July 24 (A).—The cabinet decided tonight Salvador would resign from the League of Nations. Three other Central American na- tions—Guatemala, Honduras and Nic- aragla—gave notice last year of their withdrawal from the League. Under the League Covenant, two Paginini, nineteenth century Italian composer and violinist. years must elapse before the resigna- tion becomes effective. 14 | tions | night, This painting, “Portrait of teenth century Italian painter masterpieces lent to the Corc erhibition by Umberto Pini, Ita NEW YORK HUNTS FOR SCOUTMASTER State Police Head Orders Systematic Search for Morris Close. By the Associatad Press, ROCHESTER, N. John A. Warner. superintendent of State police, today ordered tematic search along the Cherry Valley Turnpike for Morris B. Close, 23. miss- ing Rochester Scoutmaster, whose coat was found on a slain man near King- dom City, Mo The road will be blocked off in sec- and searched by uniformed Y., July 24 —Mal patrols Searchers were working nn the the- ory that Close, who vanished while driving home from Albanv Monday was robbed of his automobile and clothing and possiblv slain The man, whose body was found in Missouri, was tentatively identified as Cameron Wayne Pedley of Oregon, | Mo., a former United States Marine, but a check of the dead man's finger- | prints in Washington showed they did not correspond with any in the files ' of the Marine Corps Prosecutor T. A Faucett of Calloway County, Mo., said that two cousins of Pedley viewed the body and, although they had not seen him in eight vears, faid it resembled Pedley in some ways and in others it did not. Faucett said he had established that the dead man was one of two occi- pants of a car bearing New York State license plates which hought gasoline at a Kingdom City filling station Wednesday night Police are searching for the automo- bile and the other occupant Meanwhile, Robert Close, the miss- svs- | Alessandro Vittoria,” by the sir- . Veronese, is one of seven rare oran Gallery of Art for public lian collector—Star Staff Photo. LAWNAKER DIES AFTERHOTEL FIRE R. R. Dennis Succumbs After Leading Ocean City Force in Fighting Blaze. By the Associated Press OCEAN CITY, Md, July 24 —Dele- ®ate Ralph R. Dennis, veteran member of the Marvland legisiature and a Democratic leader in Worcester Coun- ty. died of a heart attack tonight after fighting a fire at a hotel here. He was 46 Dennis, who was chief of the fire company turned from the hotel to his confec- tionery store. His wife. daughter Bet- ty Jane. 16, and Dr. Frank J. Town- send were with him at the time of his death Frank W. Truitt, fire company, said that when a chim- ney fire broke out about 8 pm. at the George Washington Hotel he rounded up members of the company himself because it was felt an alarm might ex- cite people at the resort treasurer of the Wwas one of the first to reach | of the blaze. He went to the top floor of the six- story hotel, climbed out a window and up a ladder to the roof. Using chem- icals, he led the firemen in extinguish- ing the blaze. Fumes affected him and he came down from the roof. Returning to his store, Dennis be- came ill and called Dr. Townsend end he was stricken while talking with the physician and his family. He first was elected to the Legis- lature in 1818 and served to 1920. He was re-elected in 1930 and had served slv since then. Before 1918, s principal of the high school the scene ing man’s brother. and his father went to Buffalo today to lay the case before Nat Pieper, head of the Western New York division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. comment on the case. SEAMEN AIDED Maritime Union Votes for Bill to Assist Filipinos. NEW YORK. July 24 (#).—Congres- sional action to permit Philippine sea- men to receive citizenship papers, pro- | vided they country were prior admitted to May 1 to this 1934, was urged today by the constitutional con- | vention of Union. Such a policy, & resolution main- the National Maritime tained, would be in line with the same | procedure followed in cases of other aliens considered eligible for cit- izenship. The conventon voted to suspend *for 99 years” Joseph Murphy, a steward of the United States liner Washing- ton, for alleged pro-company activities. CLAIMS GLI DER RECORD BUENOS AIRES, July 24 (#).—The German glider pilot, Hans Ott, riding on a brisk wind, flew over the River Plate today in what he declared was a world record flight over water for gliders. He said he traveled 31 miles. Oti was propelled into the air at Colonia, Uruguay, and landed at the airport of Quilmes, in the suburbs of | Buenos Aires. He was in the air 43 minutes, he said. Pieper would not | TOM MIX’S MOTHER, 88, DIES AT HOME Former Film Star to Pass Through Capital Today on Way to Pennsylvania Funeral. Tom Mix, whose circus opens here tomorrow, was notified yesterday at | Winchester. Va. of the death of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Mix, at her | home in Dubois, Pa. Irish Moran, personal representa- tite of Mix, said the former star of movie Westerns planned to come through Washington today on his way to the funeral, arrangements for which had not been completed last night. Mrs. Mix was 88 years old and had been in failing health for some time. ‘The Mix circus is coming here from Winchester for a three-day engage- ment, starting tomorrow night. NEW ALASKA QUAKES Minor Tremors Are Felt in Vi- cinity of Fairbanks. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 24 (#).— Minor earth tremors were felt in the vicinity of Fairbanks again today, while rumblings audible here indi- cated the earth fault was readjust- ing itself after sharp shocks yester- day morning, last night and again at 10:02 am. (3:02 pm, Eastern standard time) today. Senator McGill in Forum KANSAN TO OUTLINE “EVER. ENATOR GEORGE McGILL, Democrat of Kansas, will be guest speaker on the National Radio Forum at 9:30 p.m. to- morrow. Arranged by The Washington Star, the forum program is broadcast over a national network of the National Broadcasting Co. and is heard locally through Station WMAL. Senator McGtll, hailing from one of the great agricultural States, will speak on legislative attempts to estab- lish the “ever-normal granary.” In conjunction with Senator Pope, Dem- ocrat of Idaho, McGill is sponsoring one of the farm bills now pending. Recent speculation as to the extent of the legislation desired before the end of the present session has listed the farm bill as one of the major measures um‘duu for consideration. s ORMAL GRANARY” EFFORTS. SENATOR McGILL. became 11l after he had re- | Dennis s%ung onto a fire truck and | OLD [TALIAN ART Rare Paintings of 15th and 16th Century Masters Exhibited. A group of rare paintings by old Italian masters, brought from Italy recently with government permission, has been lent to the Corcoran Gallery of Art for public exhibition until Octo- ber, the gallery announced yesterday. The paintings, by such celebrated fifteenth and sixteenth century artists as Tintoretto, Veronese, Lotto, Car- paccio and Gozzoli, are among works of art allowed to be taken from Italy under a revised policy with respect to Italian art treasures. Before the rules were relaxed, Italian officials forbade the exportation of such masterpieces. A number of American collectors have purchased some of the exported works in recent weeks. Loaned by Connolisseur. The exhibit, now at the Corcoran Gallery, is a loan by Umberto Pini, art connoisseur and collector of Bo- logna, Italy. He brought the pictures to America for inclusion in a recent Cleveland art exhibition. There are two Tintorettos, “The | Dream of Alessandro Farnese” and “Madonna With Child, and Land- scape.” Tintoretto, meaning “little dyer,” was the nickname of Jacopo | Robusti, who was born in Venice in | 1518, and who died there in 1594. | Known for his rich and powerful | work, he produced one of the largest paintings on record, “Paradise,” in the palace of the Doges, in Venice. Veronese, whose real name was Paolo Galiari, is represented by two paintings, “Portrait of Youth” and “Portrait of Alessandro Vittoria.” Veronese, 30 called because he was born at Verona, Italy, in 1528, became one of the great painters of the Vene- tian school before his death at Venice in 1588. Paintings of Pensive Aspect. “Madonna, Child and St. John" is | the title of a work by Lorenzo Lotto, | born in Venice in 1480. His paint- | ings are characterized by their pen- | sive, introspective aspect. Lotto died at Loretto. Italy, in 1556. | “Precepe” (Nativity), by Vittore | Carpaccio, is in the exhibit. Carpac- | | cio is famous for his series of pfllnh} ings on the life of St. Ursula, at the Academy of Venice. He was born at Istara, Italy, in 1450, and died in 1522, Benozzo Gozzoli is represented by | & “Madonna and Child.”" Gozzoli, best | known for his murals in the Medict Chapel in the Ricardi Palace, Flor- | ence, was born in Florence in 1420 | | and died in Pisa in 1498 | | According to gallery officials, Pini | intends to dispose of the paintings to | American collectors. | BENJAMIN F. COLE DIES AFTER INJURY Formerly a Prominent Business' Man Here, 84, Was Active in | Church, Club Circles. | | | free.” | titles, that the books probably would Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. DEFINITION. HE announcement of Federal investigators that the burning of the airship Hindenburg was due to ignition of hydrogen by a “brush discharge,” interested news- men, They asked Secretary of Commerce Roper to define the term. “in a few words.” Mr. Roper look baffled, and turned to_ South Trimble, jr., chair- man of the Investigating Committee. Mr. Trimble sighed. Genery “Well,” he welled, “it took some ex- perts two hours to define it to us. We tried to boil it down to one paragraph in the report. If any of you gentlemen can do better, you will be performing | a real contribution to science and pub- lic education.” The news lads changed the subject. * * ok % GLASS HOUSES. In a recent radio broadcast the Department of Commerce (don't we carry on about that outfit?) had an erpert describe the virtues of one-way glass—stufl you can look out of, but not see into. Nert day came a voice over the telephone : “Listen, I want some of that one=- way glass. I'll pay almost any price. People keep looking in my house, and it is losing me money.” Fellow in the D. of C. thought the man was bats until he er- plained that he owned an historic house down near Fredericksburg— ome of those Virginia show places where tourists pay s0 much a head to look at the antiques, the archi- tecture, the paintings, the owners. This chap said somebody had dis- covered that you could stand on the lawn and see in the house, and most of his cash trade had promptly disappeared. * % % PERSECUTION. SO NOW people have to poke fun at us, in weather like this. Had a story not so long ago about & bookshop up on H street that had a | MAYORALTYRACE FURTHER SNARLED Copeland Decision to Run in Both Primaries Adds Complications. BY HENRY PAYNTER. NEW YORK. July 24—United States Benator Royal 8. Copeland's determination to run in both Repuba lican and Democratic mayoralty prie maries on an anti-New Deal plate form advised by former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, resulted in more compli- cations today The city Fusion party, chief bul- wark of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, outspoken supporter of President Roosevelt, today suddenly developed A bitter internal row comparable to that already raging in Democratic and Republican organizations locally. A private arrangement among some local Republican organization leaders to back Copeland for the mayoralty primaries with a ticket including two city Fusion party candidates enraged Fusion leaders. The acceptance by these two candidatés caused the first rift in Fusion's ranks G. 0. P. Group Backs La Guardia. A group of prominent liberal Ra- publicans, who are still considering running pro-New Dealer La Guardia as a candidate in the Republican pri- maries on an anti-Tammany plat- form (as they did successfully in his first campaign) joined with La Guar- dia today in eriticizing the Republi= can organization leaders for conside ering a Tammany Democrat as their choice. The five county Democratie orzani- 7ations of the city are already in the throes of a finish fight essentially over the New Deal The four pro-New Deal county Deme ocratic organizations are backing Grover A. Whalen, head of the 1933 World's Fair Commission. Thev are also lending aid to a full-fledged ree volt within Tammany Hall (which has jurisdiction only in Manhattan) led by Jimmy Hines. powerful Harlem leader and ally of Postmaster General James A. Farley. Hines tried in vain last week to prevent Tammany's des- ignation of Copeland as its choice for the mayoralty. Tammanv is res sponding by advising anti-Whalen re« volts in the other counties, Dismayed by Defections. A leading backer of La Guardia, Samuel Seabury, whose sensatinnal investization of Tammany figures some vears ago was followed by the elec- tion of La Guardia on a fusion, re= form platform. showed his di: may toe day over the defection of Charles D, McGoldrick, backed twice by La Guar- dia in campaigns. and Alderman New- bold Morris to the Copeland-Repub- liran ranks. Charles C. Burlingham, 1ot of books on a table, with a placard announcing “All books on this table | Predicted, after a look at the | be there forever, not being worth what was asked. And what did they do? Put a placard in the window with the col- umn pasted on it, caption reading, “Wayside is wrong again” (wheredja get that “again” stuff?) and announc- ing that all the books are gone. “We have even better bargains on Benjamin Prankhin Cole. 84, of 1412 | Massachusetts avenue, former promi- | | nent business man. died yesterday in Emergency Hospital from pneumonia and complications, resulting from a | hip fracture suffered last Tuesdav| when he fell in his home. Coroner A Magruder MacDonald issued a certifi- | cate attributing death to eamplications | resulting from an accidental fall. Following a long business career, Mr Cole. shortly after the World War, was emploved in the office of the quarter- master general, War Department, where he had charge of work in con- nection with returning the American war dead to this country. Subse- quently, from 1923 until he resigned | in 1926, he was #n aaditor in the finance department of the War Department. A native of Fredericksburg. Va., Mr. | Cole came here as a young man and | | entered business. Later he became | secretary-treasurer of the Lanston | | Monotvpe Machine Co. Also, as & | member of the old Columbia Hotel Co., he was one of the first owners of the Raleigh Hotel. He also was a director of the hotel for & number of years. ‘ Mr. Cole was widely known here in | business. church and club circles. In | | point of number of years of member- | ship, he was believed by relatives to | have been the oldest member of Cal- | | vary Baptist Church. He was a char- | ter member of the Blue Ridge Rod| and Gun Club and at one time be- longed to several other clubs and | organizations. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Carter Cole, several nieces and nephews, Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the Wheeler-Thomp- son Funeral Home, Fredericksburg, Va. Burial will be at Fredericksburg. POLICE mii IN WEST TO RETURN MONTAGUE Extradition Hearing for Golf Wizard Set Tuesday by Gov. Merriam. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 24 —Sheriff | Percy T. Egglefield of Essex County, N. Y, and two husky State troop- ers arrived today to take John Mon- tague, Hollywood's mysterious mas- ter of the golf links, back to face a T-year-old robbery charge. “We're taking no chances” said the 150-pound sheriff, who told of reading about Montague's strong-man feats. “Monte's a powerful boy. Gov. Frank Merriam arranged for an extradition hearing in Sacra- mento for Tuesday. Because of this, District Attorney Buron FPitts said today arraignment and preliminary hearing set for Monday were deferred. Sheriff Egglefield carried a war- rant charging Montague, under his true name of La Verne Moore, par- ticipated in & hold-up of a roadhouse near Jay, N. Y., in 1930. CAPONE LIEN FILED U. 8. Seeks $17,166 Income Tax From Gangster's Wife. MIAMI, Fla, July 24 (#).—Notice of a Federal income tax lien of $17,- 166 and penalty of $28.14 against Mrs. Mae Capone as transferee of her hus- band, Al Capone, was filed today in United States District Court. Notice of an identical lien against the imprisoned former gang leader for taxes during the years 1926 through 1029 was filed last week. Title to his Palm Island estate hers has been transterred to his wife. [ | rinth of alleys and side streets, disap- the 25-cent table” quoth they. O. K. We prophesy that all those will be there forever, unless they get moved to the free table. * x x x AUTHORITY. chairman of the Fusion Committes, expressed himsel! in vigorous lane guage. as did Charles A. Tuttle, fore mer United States attorney, who had expected to include the pair on the independent La Guardia slats. Senator Copeland said in an intere view he would “accept with grest pleasure” an invitation to run in the Republican primaries, as well as the Democratic Striking his anti-New Deal keynote, he declared: “Extravagant spending in Washe ington reflects definitely on the wele fare of the people of the city of New York. Just stop to realize the signifi- cance of the high prices the peopls are being forced to pay for food. You OB CRAIN, who syndicates a col- | umn on dogs and owns a fleet of pooches himself, was sitting in that | park near Nineteenth and Pennsyl- vania avenue the other dayv, watching | his frolicsome police pup at play. Lady came by with a wire-hair terrier strain- | in on a leash “Aw, let 'im off that string.” Mr. Crain. “He won't go away while my dog's here." The lady. a trifile doubtful, did as he | said. Wire-hair wheeled and ran | across the street, ducked into a laby- said ‘ peared. By virtue of much advertising and trouble, the lady recovered her dog. Mr. Crain has not quite yet recov- ered his composure. x % ¥ % STOPOVER. “7!:'\'!‘. seen many a bus driver do many a weird, almost occult, hing to pass away the time while vaiting for his schedule to eatch up with him. but a chap out on the Park road run hit the peak the other day during a layover. Climbed out of his bus and picked raspberries, for himself, while Time drooled slowly on its way. ok ox % ANNOUNCERS Friend of ours who monkeys with short-wave radio apparatus has made quite a study of the language, customs, peculiarities of the ama- teur radio operators. Her tabulation shows the most- used words on amateur stations are: (1) “And-da” (2) “so-ah,” (3) “well-ah,” (4) “dut-ah.” No hoopla. * ok % X ATHLETE. AT gag about it being more dan- gerous to take a bath than to swim upstream in Niagara Falls (insurance statistics, theng you) may not be so daft at that. We were talking the other night with Bob Wilson, once a famed Yale athlete and now manager of the best-known of Washington gro- ceries. Wilson said he'd played nine years of varsity foot ball in school and college, four years of college hockey, never had a serious injury, anything that bothered him for more than a week or so. Now he has to wear an elastic knee bandage if he plays tennis, wouldn't dare risk putting on a pair of skates. Reason—a badly wrenched knee, sus- tained since he came here to live. He got it playing touch foot ball. MORGENTHAUS SAIL Secretary Has Lunch With 8hir- ley Temple at Studio. HOLLYWOOD, July 24 (#).—Sec- retary of the Treasury Momgenthau and family boarded a ship at San Pedro tonight for a vacation trip to Honolulu. At noon he visited & mo- tion picture studio and had lunch with Shirley Temple. will find that the extravagant expen- ditures being made in Washington by the national administration and the heavy taxation made necessarv by these expenditures are very decidedlv contributing factors Higher food costs and higher costs of living for the people. with increasing taxation, means higher rent Reports Hundreds of Wires, He said “dozens of Republican lead- ers and hundreds of Republicans” had written and telegraphed him, pledg- ing their votes. Samuel Untermyer, erstwhile Tam- many adviser, said he hoped Copeland would lose in the Republican primary, and added: “The reactionary wing of the local Republican party, in seeking to nom- inate Dr. Copeland, is ‘hitting below the belt’ I venture to predict that Dr. Copeland will drive away three decent Democratic votes for every dis- gruntled Republican vote corraled.” POWDER EXPLOSION WRECKS VILLAGE 55,000-Pound Blast Kills One and Injures 40 in Town Near Belgrade. By the Associated Preas. BELGRADE, July 24—An explo- sion of 55000 pounds of gunpowder damaged every building in the village of Stragari today. All that remained of the magaz where the charge was set off. pre- sumably by the heat, was a hole in the ground about 40 feet deep. The watchman was killed and about 40 other persons were injured, some when buildings in the village ecol- lapsed. The force of the explosion threw several patients from their beds in a hospital about 2 miles away. Most victims were treated for shock and for injuries inflicted by flying debris. WILL IS FILED Estate Left by Mrs. Lowden Valued at $500,000. OREGON, I, July 24 (#) —The will of Mrs. Florence Lowden, wife of former Gov. Frank O. Lowden, was filed here for probate today. The value of her estate was estimated at $500,000. The former Governor was named beneficiary until his death, when the estate will be held in trust for the couple’s four children. Mrs. Lowden, who died July 8, and her sister, Mrs. Harriet Schermer- horn of New York, were beneficiaries of the estate of their father, George M. Pullman, developer of the sleeping car. FALL KILLS COUNTESS LONDON, July 24 (#).—The attr: tive 33-year-old Countess of Cardigan was killed tonight when she fell from & seventh-floor window of a west end hotel. Her body landed in the street. She was clad in an evening dress and had just dined. Police started an investigation to determine whether the fall was accidental. The countess was the wife and heir to the Marquess of Allesbury,