Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1937, Page 4

LOVALSTS REPORT BRUNETE ADVANCE Insurgents Also Chalk Up Gains Near Teruel in Eastern Spain. BACKGROUND-- Spanish Fascists, meeting bitter resistance in their repeated assaults upon Madrid. have turned to clean up hittle remaining Loyalist control in North Spain and to attempt to eut the Madrid-Valencia Railroad i order to shut off sources of rein- forcements for besieged government forces. Loyalists have claimed some advances made in counter-drive to break sicge lines around capital, Mother Gets ‘Precious Package’| By the Associateq Press | HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- | tier. August 14— Government troops thrust forward a mile in & surprise attack on the Brunete front outside Madrid today as the insurgents ham- mered out new gains on the long Teruel spearhead 100 miles east of Spain's principal city. Opponents locked in the 13-month- old civil war concentrated their battle efforts on separate cenural Spanish war fronts and each chalked up vic- tories in the shell-torn zones Government sources declared Gen Jose Miaja's government troops had forced their way into entrenchments near Brunete, the war-shattered vil- lage now held by the insurgents after | having changed hands at least four times during the civil wa Tnsurgents Report Advance. Tnsurgent reports asserted General- fssimo Francisco Pranco’s “methodi- cally” advancing war machine forced | government troops to evacuate posi- | tions near Frias on the southwestern | edge of the Teruel salient by which | the insurgents hope to cut communca- tions between Madrid and Valencia on the seacoast | Tnsurgent authorities closed the western section of the Franco-Spanish frontier. The government, in an offi- eial communique, asserted the closing was because of grave internal dis- orders in San Sebastian, but insurgent | Authorities said the move was made tn prevent news of insurgent opera- | tions in San Sebastian and other northern cities from leaking out The Valencia defense ministry re- | ported other disturbances in insurgent | territory, saving that insurgent t soldiers were jailed in Ceuta, Spanish | Morocco, for refusing to go to the | front. Eleven officers and civilians were said 1o have been executed last Priday after conviction on charges of eonspiracy The government said fighting was heard within the insurgent lines near Guadalajara, northeast of Madrid, and n other sectors Danish Vessel Sunk. The 1931-ton Danish vessel Edith was bombed and sunk by four in- surgent planes 30 mi h of Bar- relona, forcing the ship's crew of 20 and a French non-intervention ob- server to take to lifeboats. The men were saved by Spanish fishing ships, Another maritime incident was re- ported from Tunis, on the North African Coast, where the captain of the French freighter Peame told suthorities his ship had been halted At sea by an unidentified submarine that fired & torpedo across his bows The freighter was permitted by the muysterious assailant to proceed, however. Valencia reports declared the in- murgent ship Jupiter was seriously damaged in a naval engagement with the government destroyer Ciscar off Gijon, New Refugees Barred. PARIS. August 14 (#)—France in- formed the British government today f& could not shelter more Spanish refugees until some part of the 50,000 now living in France were repatriated or sent to other countries. At the Quai d'Orsay it was explained refugees crossing the border , would not be turned away, but authorities were anxious that British merchant- men taking refugees out of Santander and other ports should know that | Prance s “filled up.” TEACHER “EXPECTED” | BOARD TO DROP HER Her Attorney to Seek Court Test of Pennsylvania's Tenure Law. By 1he Associated Press WAYNESBURG, Pa., August 14— | Mrs. Laura Morris received a rural | #chool board's refusal to re-employ her with a grim, “I expected it,” today as her attorney prepared to seek a court test of Pennsylvania's new teacher tenure law. The middle-aged teacher’s demand for reinstatement to the one-room Baily School where she taught 11 years was denied last night by the Whitely Township Board, which rharged her with cruelty and incom- | petency and teaching pupils that | “man_came from monkeys.” J. Ernest Isherwood, counsel for Mrs. Morris, attacked the board's Action, terming it A “weakness® of the tenure law that a “school board | eruld aft as prosecutor, judge and This statement conflicted with a precedent-setting decision of Judge George H. Rowley of Mercer, Pa. who upheld yesterday a school board's | 8uthority to preside at & hearing on Its own complaint against a teacher. | British Car Revenue Up. Revenue from motor licenses in Britain in the first half of this year WAs $6.800.000 higher than in the | same period of 1936. _ A LOT OF PEOPLE EVIDENTLY WANT PUMPS A lady from Silver Spring, Md., writes that she ran on ad- vertisement for Pump for Sale in last Saturday’s and Sunday’s Star. She says that the Satur- day’s Stor was hardly off the press when she got a call and from then on until 10 p.m. had 29 calls, but sold the pump to the second person who called. PUMP. Mvers electric ecomplete with tank; tion: good bargain. deep well; ®ood condi- She further says that some- thing was accomplished in a few hours that the men had been talking about for six months, From the above there are evi- dently o lot of people still in the market for pumps and that on ad in The Star will sell them. The orizinal unsolicited letter s en file in The Star Office. Arthur Koch. 6, who cross United States alone, was reuni mother, Mrs. Victor G. Elliott, years. He arrived tagged like a that he speaks only German. other side of the note JAPANESE MASS 120N NUKOE Reinforcements Mobilized for Quick Rush Into North China. By the Associated Press TIENTSIN, August l4-—Japanese | war commanders were reporied au- thoritatively to be massing 12000 troops in Mukden, Manchukuo, today as reinforcements for a quick rush into the war-torn North China region. The Japanese were said to be pre- paring 100 troop supply transport new trains to troop concentrations into embattled Hopeh Province at the rate of 12 trainloads a day. Already & steady stream of Japa- nese soldiery is pouring in, many units passing hurriedly through Tientsin, apparently heading for the more acute trouble zones, north of Peiping, at Nankow Pass and at Shanghai 5,000 Pass Through Tientsin. It was estimated 5000 had gone through Tientsin in the last 24 hours. The heaviest concentrations were being sent north to Nankow Pass, where Japanese troops have pounded in vain against the 4,000 Chinese de- fenders of the gateway Province and Mongolia Other reinforcements were being hurried south of Peiping on the Peiping-Hankow Rallway. where it was considered most likely major Japanese and Chinese forces would clash eventually. Japanese reports said after 30 hours of continuous assault Japsn's army had inched its way to the western mountainside at the entrance of the important pass, pushing the Chinese defense forces farther into the canyon Chinese Have 75 MM. Guns. On the eastern side of the siope the Chinese manned 75 millimeter mountain guns and machine guns to pour a deadly fire into the ranks of Japanese attackers The Japanese assault, bolstered by tanks and heavy guns, apparently bogged down when it reached the mountaivside and the burden was THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Marsr e A Mas Yrerad ¥ Buivir Sne FRINCI S0, 0 1 o) B mer &7 M A LS edsn el AMan i ed the Atlantic Ocean and the ted at Oakland, Calif., with his whom he hadn’t seen in three parcel, with the notation, right, His menu was written on the thrown onto the infantry. Approxi- mately 2000 men were in the Japa- %o back the assault. Japan Plans “Concrete” Action. TOKIO, August 14 (#). nese cabinet decided to take “concrete measures” today in the Shanghai crisis, but what new steps were projected was | not disclosed. As the cabinet went into session the Taxio press predicted an extraordinary | session of the Diet soon to consider finances of the military campaign and probably to impose a war-time eco- nomic system on the empire The extraordinary Diet session which ended only last week appropriated 419,- 000,000 yen ($121.500,000) to support | the operations in China The navy department issued a state- ment that Japan had been considering the offer of foreign diplomats in Shanghal to mediate Sino-Japanese differences at the very moment the Chinese aerial bombardment occurred today. WE NEED USED CARS IN TRADE ON NEW PONTIACS FLOOD MOTOR Co. 4221 Conn. Ave: Clev. 8400 to Chahar Grace Gray DeLong Life Reader Adviser Consultations; $1 Hours: 11 AM. to 9 P.M. Telephone: MEL. 5234 PSYCHIC MESSAGE COUNCIL 1100 Twelfth St. N.W. 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