Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1937, Page 9

SPANISH FACTIONS REACH STALEMATE August “Dog Days” Hamper Military, Diplomatic Operations. BY JOHN ELLIOTT. PARIS. August 16.—August dog @vs have come and paralyzed ~th nilitary and diplomatic operations m the European front. In Spain in- | #nse heat has forced suspension of fghting. A stalemate appears to pre- wil in the peninsula. ds so far have shown a marked super- firity over the Loyalists, who have yet H recapture a single important city i a year of fighting, nevertheless Gen Franco does not seem to possess aifficient resources to force a de- dsion. Barring active intervention v a Furopean power, it does not look mw as if the war would end this ear. Another stalemate exists on the dplomatic chessboard. The Non-In- tarvention Committee in London has aljourned to prevent a rupture. Al- tlough the British and French gov- emments have been able to prevent tie Spanish civil war from develop- ile intn a Furopen conflict, due to tte fiction of non-intervention, they hive not succeeded in getting a with- diawal of foreign combatants from Bain Danger in Alien Forces, Bo long as Premier Benito Musso- i maintains 80.000 to 100,000 Ital- a1 soldiers with Gen. Franco and thr Germans lend him 10,000 pilots ard terhnicians, the danger of a Fuwopean war arising out of the Span- is1 conflict will always lurk in the brrkground Meanwhile, Premier Mussolini has mide overtures for more friendly re- | Who owns the atmosphere? Ownership of Air Big Problem ‘To World Powers’ Legal Minds THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON and leave foreign harbors only by spe- cial arrangement with the govern- ments involyed. Students of air law said today that the theory of air ownership had in- cubated the possibility of one nation's Many Questions Remain Unanswered. ations Hold ‘Navigable’ Atmosphere Within Boundaries Is Own. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, August 16.—The ques- tion presented to the legal minds of the world's air powers today was:| While the reb- | As scheduled commercial airplane | national flights over the Atlantic Ocean were | physically do not exist. brought a step nearer to realization by intensive survey work, international air law was still in the making. | As vet unanswered were such ques- tions as these: Shall the salvage of aerial wrecks | be governed by maritime laws? What circumstantial evidence can | |be brought to bear against an aviator | y, who flies through the “nationalized” | air of a nation without permit and at such an altitude that he is neither seen nor heard? If an airplane crashes and causes damage, is the operator’ liable only in case of proved negligence, and what | judicial body shall determine if neg- | g ligence existed? Involved Questions. A long series of involved questions has cropped up to plague the legal | departments of intercontinental air | transport companies and., for that matter, those of the continental air E\uopean Continents this Summer, in anticipation of regular trans-Atlantic | » AP LG | carriers, By international convention and national statute, nations have ad- vanced the theory that each one pos- sesses all the “navigable” air within its boundaries—including its terri- torial waters. Individual States of the American Union have argued in like view by enacting laws to control the conduct of flving machines. across Java and Sumatra en route to Australia. The whole law of aviation the world over, still in a high state of flux, is | predicated on the establishment of ‘When Great Britain first enunciated the theory of air ownership in 1910 At an international eonference on air navigation in Paris the law of the sea and the law of the air parted com- pany. Whereas it would be considered an nfriendly act for one nation to deny entry to a foreign surface ship to its harbors, today practically every coun- | | try in the world exercises the right | | to ban entry of foreign aircraft both | into the air above its boundaries and onto its airports. | The flying boats executing sux\'ev service in the next few months, enter | ———— e R TR TABLE PADS controlling foreign competition with country, if it chooses to limit the number of foreign craft using its “nationalized” air, can jockey for air lanes. Few Radio Receiving Sets. With & population of 85.000 the colony of Granada has only about 125 radio receiving sets, according to a re- boundaries” “alr Which American manufacture. Laws Parted Company. between the American ard ESTABLISHED 1859 its own air transport companies. Each | commercial supremacy of the world's| cent survey, and most of these are of | 105 18) POST-MORTEM BABY LIVES SHORT TIME | Baby Delivered After Death of Mother at Wilkes-Barre Dies in Few Hours. By the Associated Press, WILKES-BARRE, Pa., August 16.-- Death claimed Pennsylvania's second post-mortem baby in two weeks to- day a few hours after 1t had been delivered from its dead mother in a caesarean operation at the Contagious | Diseases Hospital. Tiny Prances Mary Boccassini, born 'in a similar operation after her moth- MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1937. er's death, died a week ago in an in- cubator at a Philadelphia hospital, The operation was performed by Dr. Willlam A. Weaver, city physician, who had stood watch near the bedside of Mrs. Beatrice F. Sweet, the mother, victim of cerebrospinal fever, await- ing her death. Gems Found in Drain. Fifty-nine emeralds were found in & drain in a Bombay, India, police couit while the authorities were in- vestigating the theft of 130 stones from a rich merchant. The emeralds were identified as part of the collec- tion. Which of tae prisoners held on | suspicion of the robbery had placed | the gems in the drain was not dis- | covered. Delicious Double-Cooked ANN PAGE ANS 4 3 big 23 oz. cans ZSC 16 oz. cans AVIATOR FRANK HAWKS GET 4 HITS OFF TUNNEY | Lowell Thomas’ “Nine Old Men"” Beat “Pre-Historic Sluggers” as Broun's Wife Runs for Him. By the Associated Press. POUND RIDGE, N. Y., August 16.— Notable of the literary and amuse- ment circles, scrambling for their own amazement and for the benefit of the Pound Ridge Fire Department, here today. 2 ‘The fire department got $1,000 (admisison 50 cents), Aviator Frank Hawks of Lowell Thomas' “Nine Old Men” got four hits off Pilcher 25° For quick meals—just heat and serve.. Ann Page Beans are double cooked for extra tenderness and flavor—prepared with tangy tomato sauce and wholesome pork. Dutch transport airmen fly across Phone and representative w Stores Close NEW 1937 PACK got | themselves in a base ball box score | around %% A—9 | Gene Tunney of the “Pre-Historie | Sluggers” and Gene himseif collscted | four nits. The nine old men won, 11-8, One of the highlights was Broun ‘4C<mmg the missus) running the bases for Broun (Heywood, the corpu- lent columnist). Time of game—Four hours, Umpire—Anna May Weng. Mexican General Better. 10S ANGELES, August 16 () — Gen. Roman Yocupicio, governor of Sonora, Mexico, was reported reeov. ering rapidly today after an operation for obstructive jaundice. The surgery was performed Thurse day. Fodder 15 to be made from sune flower geed In Germany, JUST LOOK A mhese vawues | STANDARD QUALITY PEAS 4 Here’s another A&P super-value! Don't wa cans on your pantry shelf will prove a wise in Iatons hoth to Great Britain and Frince. Rumor has it that Il Duce, disppointed at his failure to win more acive support from Reichsfuehrer Hiler for his policv of adventure in Smin, has decided to make it up with Geat Britain. It remains to be seen wlether the coming Anglo-Italian ne- gaiations will get any further in paching up relations between London ami Rome than the mu heralded “gntlemen’s agreement” of last Jan- ury Possibly the meeting of the Assem- bl of the Ieague of Nations next mnth may furnish the test. If Gmeva decides that Eihiopia has cased 1o exist as a :lale & rond may be opened for the return of Italy to the League and mav mak ble the 1mg-deferred “Locarno” Conference in London to arrange & new Rhine- laid security pact replace the ageement denounced by Hitler in the 8pring of 1936 League No Rubber Stamp. But it must be remembered that, emtrary to common impression. the Lague ofNations 1s not a rubber stamp toregister the decisions of the British am French foreign offices as was shown 1at September, when the littie nations reused to unseat the delegation of Hiile Selassie as London and Paris withed. The small states, fearing for tirir own skins if such a precedent of reognizing the fruits of aggression wit established, may balk again this yar. to measure vour table. SEGMAN'S 802 F st. N.W. 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