Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1937, Page 4

—4 wa HODRS REPULSED W FIRCE BATTLE Loyalists Report Ground =-§trewn With Bodies on Teruel Front. BACKGROUND— .~ Gen. Francisco Franco's siege of “Madrid, which has bogged down on mumerous occasions, was rencwed with intensity three weeks ago, awhen insurgent generalissimo daunched a drive to pierce gov- grnment lines to the south and eapture Madrid-Valencia highway, thus cutting in half the main artery ©f communication and supply. ©Campaign has met with some suc- Cess, but losses have been heavy e to stiff Loyalist opposition, BY the Associated P. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, August 5—An insurgent force, mostly white-turbaned Moors, was reported today to have been shattered in ~ hand-to-hand combat on the Teruel front Jdn another theater of the Spanish ‘War, the Bay of Biscay on the north, the insurgent gunboat Dato was re- ported to have sunk a small trawler of unidentified nationality. Insurgent advices said the boat attempted to run the blockade of the government port, Santander The Teruel battlefield, a section of the Javalon Mountains about 10 miles southwest of Generalissimo Francisco Frapco's lower Aragon base at Teruel, Wa$ strewn with the bodies of Moors, a government communique declared After the government troops swept their foe from heights in this combat yesterday in the Puntal Lazaro sector, fleld guns were dragged into place and heavy fire was turned on the insurgent position near Arrovo Frio, & small stream winding through that stretch of the eastern “badlands.” A large quantity of insurgent arms and munitions was said to have been captured in the Javalon sector and near El Cuervo, to the southeast The reorganized government force was fanned out north of an improved | highway into Cuenca, the provincial | digging in for defensive op- capital erations, If Franco's mechanized forces reach this highway they might quickly sweep into Cuenca While the government the Javalon Mountain blocked insurgent thrusts from Arroyo Prio and Toril, a nearby field base, contended insurgent advices reaching the French | border said Franco's troops had thrust into the Muela de San Juan Moun- | tains These heights adjoin the Javalon Mountains on the south and if insurgents have reached them they had skirted the government’s positions at Puntal Lazaro and were within a few miles of the Cuenca road Reporting on the Asturian front, in Northern Spain, the insurgent communique claimed a decisive defeat of a government force near Cuero, in which it said more than 500 bodies were left on the battlelfield. Session Called Suddenly. LONDON, August 5 (£.—The In- ternational Non-Intervention Commit- tee on the Spanish war was suddenly called together today by Lord Plym- outh, committee chairman. The call came after Lord Plymouth conferred with the German charge d'affairs Hope dimmed that the Soviet Union might be ready now to trade recog- nition of the insurgents as belliger- ents for simultaneous withdrawal of foreign fighters, Ambassador Ivan Mais remained | firm—despite reports his government | would yield—in his refusal to consider | belligerent rights for Generalissimo Francisco Franco until all foreigner have been withdrawn from both side: EIGHT PASSENGERS | TO DESCRIBE FIR City of Baltimore Engineer Says Blaze Forced Him Out I in 10 Minutes. BY the Associated Press BALTIMORE. August 5—J. F. Staley, Department of Justice attorney hedding a Federal board investigating the burning at sea of the steamer Cily of Baltimore, said last night “seven or eight” of the ship's pas-| scngers would be called to testify to- mogrow. Btaley's announcement came at the | close of the third day of testimony theinquiry board has heard from offi- cers and seamen aboard the vessel. ‘The City of Baltimore burned to the water's edge last Thursday night with the.loss of three lives. | Robert Neill, junior engincer aboard the: ship, testified only 10 minutes elapsed between the time he first heard of the fire and the time he was | forced out of the engine room by lhe‘ blaze. | Neill said he was on watch and a | fireman off duty ran into the engine | room to tell him the ship was ablaze, The fire pumps were already going, he gaid, when the chief engineer sig- naled him to start the pumps op- erating. | Neill said he received only five orders from the pilot house, all via the ship’s telegraph. He testified he did not hear the bell indicating an officer on the . bridge wished to communicate with him. On Saturday, Capt. Charles ©O. Brooks, master of the steamer, testified he had tried unsuccessfully to al the engine room and issue orders verbally. Netll said the five orders he received werey In order: Slow engines, stop, full 3peed ahead, half speed astern and stop. He said he executed all of them before he was forced to leave his'pbst. He left the engines stopped, he :said. HE' said there was no fire alarm in the engine room and it was im- le to hear the general ship alarm while the engines were going. Whistle blasts notified the engine Toom of the fire, he testified, < Must Be a First Time. LOS ANGELES (#).—Mrs. Ann Sie- gel wore silk pajamas into court when she gblained a divorce from Bert Sie- gel;"wealthy New York poultry mer- chant,~on charges of cruelty. 1 Thurmond Clarke observed he ‘had never seen any one so attired in ‘Ris- court, but added: “I suppose there Ypust be a first time for every- thingd e === Damaged by Hail. BURLINGTON, Colo. (#).—Amos & carpenter, looked skyward storm. A large hailstone stroek"#im in the mouth, knocked out action had | the | Mrs. Sallet, Dirse Wilkis. 1, and THE EVENI Karl August, 13. Diplomat Plans Trailer Tour of U. S. To see America in the American way, Richara Sallet, attache of the German Embassy, rigged up his trailer, Westward Ho, and made plans to carry his family into every State of the Union before going back to Germany. Picture shows the Sallet family getting ready for the start from Glenmore estate, near the Congressional Club, where they made their home while here. Around the table are, left to right, Herbert Woitken, 2Y,,; Miss Hildegard Issermann, governess,; Sallet, —Star Staff Photo. WARRANTS ISSUED IN'CLINIC CHARGES Two Granted, Four Others Refused After Birth Control Raids. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 5 —Municipal Court Judge Charles L. Carr today is- sued warrants charging Mrs. Leslie D. | Hawkridge, president of the Birth Con- | trol League of Massachusetts, and Caroline Davis with “illegally advertis- ing contraceptives.” Warrants sought against four others were refused The court declined to issue warrants | against Dr. Illia Galleani and Lorraine | Campbell, both of Boston; Morice Bis- coe of Newton and Frederika Williams of Brookime. Judge Carr said that “in view of the fact police officers did not actually see | them send out mail or literature, and under advice of counsel these people made no admissions” he would not sue complaints against them. Admitted Charges. | The warrants against Mrs. Hawk- ridge and Miss Davis were issued, the court said, as “they admitted sending | out literature in the mail.” | The warrants were sought after raids | | on Boston headquarters of the league | | and a branch office in the populous | South End district. | Walter Barrows, counsel for the women against whom warrants were granted, said they would appear in court for arraignment this afternoon. | Dr. Galleani pleaded innocent in | Brookline District Court yesterday to a charge of “unlawfully exhibiting and offering for sale drugs, medicine and instruments intended to prevent conception,” and was released in $500 for a hearing August 19 Applications for the warrants were made by Police Sergt. William H. Foley, who directed raids on Boston | headquarters of the league and its| branch clinic in the South End after a raid on the fashionable Brookline Latta Is Man of Moment, for He Will Deliver Nomination. By the Associated Press. The Capital's man of the moment is Maurice C. Latta, who will deliver President Roosevelt's Supreme Court nomination to the Benate. Most people don't know it, but Latta, not the United States mail, hauls the President’s nominations and | messages to Congress. So— Ever since Mr. Roosevelt hinted that | the Nation will learn the nominee's name only when it is given the Senate, | Latta is being watched like a honey- mooning movie star. Every time he pops up at the Sen- | | ate’s south door—one of those big, | brown presidential envelopes in his | | hand—a couple of solons jump. For 31 years Latta—a lanky, be spectacled Pennsylvanian—has been the human pony express between the | White House and Capitol Hill | As executive clerk of the White | House, he has addressed the Senate about 3,000 times, which is more than time. | A straight diet of Latta's little speech would get pretty boring. It is: “I am directed by the President of most Senators accomplish in a life- | Bearer of Roosevelt Messages Watched for Court Choice Hint £y MAURICE C. LATTA. | the United States to deliver to the | Senate a nomination in writing.” | The only times he varies | when he inserts the word for “Senate” and “‘nomination.” Latta’s route is historic Pennsyl- | vania avenue—the reverse of every | President’s inaugural ride. He makes | the trip by automobile, although in | times past he’s done it by horse, { trolley and even by foot it are “House" “message” for PROMISES QUICK PAINTER RULING Schedler to Define Duties | and Work Day in Union clinic. 1 All branches of the league, inciud- Dlspute' ing those in Worcester, Springfield, A prompt ruling defining the duties Fitchburg and New Bedford. closed | of a painter and the number of hours | yesterday under instructions from the | constituting & work day was promised | executive board The board recommended they be | closed. Mrs. Hawkridge said, “in spite of its complete confidence in the | legality of the work,” pending a court | decision. She was confident, she| said, that court decisions would soon | confirm the right of physicians to give contraceptive advice to ‘‘sick| married women” to preserve life “as approved by the American Medical | Association.” SENATE GETS BILL ON WAR PENSIONS House Passes Measure by 205-0. Funds Would Replace Risk Payments. By the Associated Press. The House sent to the Senate yes- terday a bill granting pensions to de- pendent “gold star” parents and widows of soldiers who lost their lives in the World War or as a result of the war. The pensions would replace war risk insurance payments which expire dur- ing the next three years. Sponsors said approximately 40,000 persons would benefit from the legis- lation. The cost was estimated at $8,900,000 this year. The pensions to parents would be $45 a month for one or a total of $50 for both the father and mother. Pen- sfons for widows would range from $37.50 to $45. Speaker Bankhead announced the vote as 205 to 0, N Finish your bath with a silky Your clothes slip on easily.. Salts, $1.00—all in a choice o two of his teeth and cut his lip. L A vesterday by Carl Schedler, Labor | Department attorney, sitting as ref- | eree in a dispute between union paint- | ers and the procurement division of | the Treasury concerning working con- | ditions on Government jobs here. Yesterday's hearing was held as an | aftermath to a city-wide strike of | union painters in protest against cer- tain practices by non-union contrac- tors doing painting work on Govern- ment buildings. Union Firms Stopped Bidding. A favorable ruling, it was said, would make it more difficult for non- union firms to secure contracts un- der the present law, which provides that contracts must be awarded the lowest responsible bidder. In recent years most union concerns have stopped bidding on Federal jobs here because they cannot meet the bids of the open-shop .firms. The present dispute centers around the work being done on the new city post office by the non-union firm of Coons & Raptis of Brooklyn. It was charged the firm has about 23 painters and 7 laborers working on the job. The union men contend the laborers are doing painting work in that they move scaffolds, arrange drop cloths to protect furniture and wipe up paint spots. For years, they say, this work has been done by painters, whose pay scale is more than double that of laborers. Five-Day Week Sought. The Brooklyn firm works its men eight hours a day, six days a week, paying the prevailing straight time scale of $1.571-7 per hour. The union representatives ask that all con- tractors be required to work the men only seven hours a day, five days a , cooling cloud of Coty Talc! .you keep that “just bathed" feeling hours longer. *.50c. Other Coty “coolers” are Eau de Toulette, $1.00 and $1.75... Dusting Powder, $1.00...Bath f world-famous Coty odeurs. 0 G COTY ) week, at straight time, and that they be required to pay double rates for work in excess of that schedule. J. M. Eckert, Chicago union paint- ing contractor, said he has been forced to stop bidding on Government jobs because of the lower wages paid labor- union competitors. He said his bid on the post office job was $84,000 and the original bid of the Brooklyn con- cern only $40,000. Harry 8. Wender, attorney for the painters, brought out that the differ- ential between union and non-union bids was only 2 or 3 per cent before the “device” of using laborers for painting work was conceived | delity. | was being applied by ers doing painting work by his non- | NG_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1937. CONFERENE ST N FOELTY CSE Parley of Important Officials of Three Agencies to Be Tomorrow. New hope for reorganization of the Fidelity Building and Loan Associa- tion loomed today as it was learned that a conference of important officials of three agencies concerned will be held tomorrow morning at the Treas- ury Department. In the conference will be repre- sented officials of the office of the controller of the currency, who is in control of the FPidelity; the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the First Federal Savings and Loan Association, which has been chartered by the board to take over Fidelity, but which had previously withdrawn from the picture, The conference was arranged by Mrs, Mark C. Bullis, chairman of a Shareholders’ Committee, who has been very active in attempting to get officials together to discuss the con- troversial case of Fidelity. The Treasury probably will be rep- resented by Deputy Controller Gibbs Lyons and others; the Federal Home Loan Bank Board will be represented by Horace Russell, its general counsel, amd Arthur J. Younger, chief of the board's savings and loan division, and the First Federal will be represented | by Harry P. Somerville, its president, and others. Mrs. Bullis will be present representing her Shareholders’ Com- mittee, This development followed swiftly today on the heels of several moves | yesterday centering around the Fi- Pressure Is Applied. From two different quarters pressure shareholders committees to bring about a reorgan- ization. In response to s plea from Mrs. Bullis, Somerville announced he was willing to resume consideration of the Fidelity problem. Said Somerville “The attitude of our board is the same as when it was organized—that is, if it can in any way assist the de- positors of Fidelity in effecting a re- ! organization plan, it is still willing to do so. Ready to Discuss Matter. He repeated what he stated in his letter of withdrawal written to the league, who also is legislative rep- resentative of the United States Build- ing and Loan League, and Chapin Bau- man, counsel of the Oriental Building & Loan Association. Th committee was appointed at a meeting of the Council of the District of Columbia League. After killing a leopard with a scythe found unconscious not far from the body of the beast. near Nagpur, India, a peasant was | GIRL VICTIM OF FEVER Ohio Child's Illnes Diagnosed as Rare Disease. CINCINNAT, August 5 (#)—Nine- year-old Anna Catherine Dill of Lebanon, Ohio, was listed tentatively today as & victim of the rare and dread Rocky Mountain, or spotted, fever. The child died late last night in a hospital where physicians had studied the case for several days. They reached a conclusion, attendants said, that symptoms and tests indicated presence of the fever, but sought specimens of a woodtick carrier, in an effort to further prove their diagnosis. Titanic Survivor Dies. Mrs. M. Leather, a stewardess on the Titanic, who was rescued when the liner went down, has just died in Birkenhead, England. Chase & Sanborn Dated Federal Home Loan Bank Roard to | liquidate the assets on an 85-cent| | basis. as estimated. there wasn't any | reason for a reorganization “However” he said, “if the de-| | positors of Fidelity still are desirous of having a reorganization I am per- | | fectly willing to discuss the matter with the proper officials.” Another depositors’ committee, working separately from Mrs. Bullis' | | group, planned to approach officials| | of the First Federal with a proposal | to reorganize Fidelity, pay 85 cents on | the dollar and enlarge the present| | Board of Directors of the First Fed- | eral. George A. Sullivan, contractor, chairman of this committee, and four | other members already have conferred | [ with officials of the office of the con- troller of the currency and of the Fed- | eral Home Loan Bank Board. They planned to continue their ne- gotiations today. Committee Is Named. The Fidelity problem has reached | the point where it has aroused leaders of the District of Columbia Building and Loan League to action. A commit- tee of three has been appointed, it was learned today, to “co-operate” in ef- forts to help solve the problm. The | | committe consists of Edward C. Baltz, | | secretary of the Perpetual Building & | | Loan Association; C. Clinton James, | ! counsel for the District of Columblai Tarn %o TEA Today/ Star of “WEE WILLIE WINKIE” SHIRLEY TE COOLING BREAKFAST for HOT WEATHER "SALAIA" The Perfect Tea for ICED TEA . A 20th Centur: MPLE caa.. Fox Picture S QUAKER PUFFED WHEAT the effect that “if the receiver could | COFFEE .27 DizizzzzzzzZZ?7 Cocomalt Ever Fresh “SUNSHINE” Puffed Wheat KELLOGG'S KRISPY CRACKERS “UNEEDA BAKERS” Social Tea Biscuits 2 =~ 19¢ PREMIUM FLAKES 27 19¢ pkgs. Fixt Waffie Mix we 21¢ MARCO D0G FOOD FOR 30 DAYS 30 DAILY CONTESTS Ig. pkg. 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