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_A—2 =xx» MARITIME UNION OFA.F.L.LAUDED dreen Assails Rival Groups Which “Practice Sit- Down Strikes.” BACKGROUND— *" Growing concern has been felt in some quarters about lowly position of American merchant marine as compared with those of several Eu- ropean countries. To apply long- " time program of building up this source of national wealth and in- Nuence, Congress created Maritime Commission. One of troublesome factors in marine picture has been labor sit- uation where rival unions are at odds as they seek to improve con- ditions in industry where working , standards always have been poor and foreign competitive standards are even worse. By the Associated Press. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, told the Maritime Commission today it should | “frankly and courageously support” | the International Seamen's Union in | preference to labor groups which “ad- vocate and practice sit-down strikes.” A letter by Green, addressed to Com- mission Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy, ' was introduced at & commission hear- | ing on wages and hours in ocean ship- ping. The labor leader called attention to | a recent statement by Kennedy that the Government cannot permit labor factionalism and disloyalty “to jeop- ardize our position in international shipping.” Saying the A. F. of L. was in ac- cord with this view, Green asserted that the Maritime Commission was, in a measure, responsible for the de- velopment of ‘“destructive faction- alism.” Cites Commission Stand. He declared the commission “has assumed a neutral attitude and has re- | fused to recognize that there is a vital and easily distinguishable difference between factions.” Green said the commission should distinguish between a faction “that has no regard for solemn agreements and the faction that honors agree- ments—between those who advocate and practice sit-down strikes and the others who firmly oppose such methods of labor warfare in the maritime in- dustry.” Green made no direct reference to the Committee for Industrial Organi- zation, or its maritime affiliates, but said the shipping labor faction as- sociated with the A. F. of L.—the In- ternational Seamens’ Union—"has had @ Jong and enviable record for strict observance of contracts.” “The faction affiliated with the American Federation of Labor,” he continued, “does not practice nor does it condone either outlaw strikes, or sit-down strikes. ° “Under the circumstances, we con- tend that the Maritime Commission &hould not remain neutral, but should Yrankly and courageously support and encourage that faction which has by its record and by its past and present conduct demonstrated its loyalty and dts readiness to fight, if need be, for the maintenance and honest observ- ®nce of agreements.” £ After Green's letter was entered in the record Ira A. Campbell of New ‘York, general counsel for the Amer- Scan Steamship Owners' Association, esented the views of ship owners minimum wage, minimum hour and *working condition standards which ®he maritime body is formulating. ¢ Fears Unbearable Burden. * Campbell said the wage and hour %cales should not place an unbear- ‘able burden on shipping. The re- “quirements prescribed by the com- @mission will, in practice, apply to tdomestic shipping service as well as #ocean shipping, he said, asserting they should not impose a financial load on unsubsidized domestic commerce #which will retard its development Aand destroy it.” GORONER TO PROBE * M. J. MILLER DEATH ‘Autopsy to Be Held Today—Body © Was Found Floating Near Anacostia Bridge. . A coroner’s autopsy was to be held ‘today to determine any possible marks of violence on the body of Michael J. "Miller, 58, which was found floating in Fastern Branch at the Anacostia ‘Bridge yesterday after he mysteriously ‘disappeared from a gay house boat “Pparty Saturday night. * Nine persons, two of them women, “were questioned by police last night in connection with Miller's death. One man was released after giving an ac- count of the boat party. Detective Sergt. John Wise said Miller, a screen operator at the Dis- #rict sewage disposal plants, who lived at 751 Seventh street southeast, went "to the boat with friends. Several of sthe party left temporarily, and when they returned Miller was missing. No 'question was raised, however, as they Delieved he had gone home. A man and woman fell into the water while +boarding the boat, it was learned, but were pulled out by their companions. ‘Motor Cycle Hits . Auto After Jaunt : Without Rider Scattering traffic, a riderless motor wycle today sped 304 feet down Pif- deenth street, across Pennsylvania avenue and the triangle to crash into An automobile parked on E street across from the Commerce Building. s Running swiftlf behind the errant Jmotor cycle was its erstwhile rider, Voseph W. Rice of Cottage City, Md., .4 W.P. A employe. He told police he ot off to repair a stand on the back of the machine while stopped for s Zed light beside the Treasury. 5 The first thing he knew, he said, the motor cycle was running away from . Apparently, it had slipped into poar while he was working on the stand. “ Trafic Policeman W. W. Hill and “bewildered motorists and pedestrians “dodged out of the way as the ma- chinp—a heavy, three-wheeled affair ‘with» & side car—shot across the Ave- Vhen Rice finally caught up with motor cycle, it was jammed through of an automobile belonging e | horse show there, Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SKILL. ETTING on the race horses is & science. Any one sufficiently familiar with astrology, sleight of hand, the Plutovian theory, and the hot foot, can make money playing the ponies. We have known this for years, and witnessed profound confirmation of the fact last week end at Berryville, Va. During the races that follow the & horse named Miss Catalan won the 1lj-mile event on the first day, coming from far back to pick up the leader in the stretch and take the purse by a head. Next day when the distance test came up, Miss Catalan was entered again, ruled & 3-to-5 favorite. Fellow approached a bookmaker in the infield "I wanna bet $3 on Miss Catalan,” he said. “Aw phooey,” said the bookmaker. “You only win a dollar and a f that way. “She’s 3 to 5. win 3. “Haven't got $5,” said the man. “Then forget it,” said the book- maker. “Aw no, I wanna bet. How about $3 on that horse named Clifton’s Agnes?” “O. K. Three dollars at 3 to 1. | Done,” said the bookie. | The race was off. Clifton's Agnes went to the front. She stayed in Put up 5 and you | | | won easily. The man came around and collected his $9. It's a science, | pal. * X% *x % ANGLICISED. Hail-to-the-British Note. The people of the United States drank 7,500,000 pounds more tea in 1936 than in 1935. Total of 91,562,794 pounds for a country of 125,000,000 population. This clearly indicates that we are becoming as English as the English, but we meed not worry about the situation until somebody over here halts a championship tennis match or an international | polo game at ¢ p.m. because it is time for tea, blarst it all, and the | paying customers can jolly well wait. * x x x INGENUITY. POSSIBLY the only person to make | & profit out of the “pants | burglar” who robied dozens of homes | around here was G. Hodges Carr, who has a business out in nearby Maryland. Mr. Carr got his in free advertising. When photographers | looked him up to take a picture after he had been robbed, he said, “Sure, boys, let's move over here where the light is better.” He then stood in front of a truck used in his business. The photograph turned out beautifully, with a back- ground of the Carr truck and big, bold, black letters carrying the name of his firm. Got in the paper that way, too, the retouch artists appar- ently being too overcome with heat to bother about trivialities. * x % x CONTRACTION. ONE of our political columnists hints that Senator Vandenberg couldn’t run for President because his name is too long to fit in the newspaper headlines. We've figured out the answer to that one. The copy readers will handle it as they often treat Senator McAdoo's name. The Sena- tor from Michigan will become Van'- berg in the news sheets. He may have thought of it himself. He is a news- pPaper man, you know, and calls his wife his managing editor. The Senator also admits that every time he has an article appearing in & newspaper or magazine, he haunts the newsstands, fretting and fuming until he sees his brain child safely in print. You're telling us, Senator. * x x % G—IGOLO. MR‘ J. EDGAR HOOVER'S G-men occasionally draw exciting and dangerous assignments, more frequent- ly work themselves dizzy on good old, dull routine. As yet, however, none has been sent forth in reply to such 4 clarion call for aid as that mailed to Mr. Hoover's office recently. “My Dear Mr. Hoover: “For a few days after Christmas this year I plan to spend a few of my holidays in New York City. Would you let me have one of your worthy G-men to escort me for one or two evenings, considering, of course, that T will pay for all expenses incurred and be delighted to give you the best ref- erences any young woman, descended from & long line of interesting Colonial ancestors, can give?” *x % x TREATMENT. Seems our Mr. Melvin, the col- umn’s correspondent in Fairfar Station, Va., is no longer mystified by the fact that a doctor treating a friend for rheumatism cut the man’s toenails and sent them away for analysis. Ezplanation is that the nails were simmered down by some process to discover whether the patient had suficient sulphur in his system. He did not have, consequently is getting sulphur in his diet every day now. ‘We felt a follow-up story was due after the first item about the gen- tleman, his nails and his rheumatics, lest you join us in thinking, tem- porarily, that the medical profession had gone completely nerts. *x %% DISTINCTION. A CHAIN of beaneries around town has & branch office, or branch Newspaper front for a a mile and one quarter and | THE EVENING 700 Pickets, Including Wom- en and Children, Massed at Heppenstall Plant. BACKGROUND— Yesterday's rioting at the Hep- penstall Steel Co. plant was the second outdreak of violence in the seven-weeks' strike. Strike was called by the Steel Workers’ Organ- izing Committee of the C. I. O. in eflort to force a collective bargain- ing contract. BY the Assoctated Press. . PITTSBURGH, August 24.—Women and children joined their men folks on the picket lines at the strike-bound Heppenatall Steel Co. today as union leaders expreased fear of a renewal of yesterday's riots in which 13 were injured. Willlam Hart, head of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee local, massed T00 pickets at the plant, as- serting he had received “'a tip” that non-strikers would again rush the §ates, padlocked by strikers, Approximately 50 pickets were on duty yesterday as four carloads of non-strikers led by C. W. Heppen- stall, jr, company vice president, at- tempted to break the lines and open the gates. Heppenstall said that he had wished to enter the plant “on an inspection trip.” Recently he asked pickets to permit him to remove some machinery from the plant but they refused. ‘Two members of the Heppenstall family. S. B. and Max Heppenstall, were treated at a hospital for minor cuts received in the fighting. They were registered as Mr. Black and Mr. Whitman, Five strikers, an equal number of non-strikers and a policeman at Lawrenceville, where the plant is located, were battered in the hand- to-hand fighting with bricks, clubs, bottles and fists. All were treated at a hospital, but none was reported seriously hurt. Police reserves quelled the disorder and patrolled the tense strike area throughout the night. Hundreds of spectators, who thronged the streets | after the fighting, began to disperse | near dawn. Police searched the plant and re- ported there were no workers or muni- tions there. Hart charged they were “lying” about the workers and declared: “If the police don't bring them out, we're going to do it ourselves.” Police filed charges of inciting to riot against Guy Hall, a strike leader; Tom Dugan, identified as a picket, and S. B. Heppenstall, a company executive, OFT-MISSING GIRL AT RECEIVING HOME Nadine Vandergrift, 13, Picked Up With Youth, 18, on Their Way “to Get Married.” Nadine Vandergrift, 13, who was { reported missing for a fourth time | Sunday, was back at the Receiving Home today. Nadine, daughter of Harry Vander- grift, 5078 Sherrier place, a transit company employe, was picked up on Conduit road in company with a 19- year-old boy by Policeman D. O. Fletcher of the seventh precinct. “We are going to get married,” the boy was quoted as saying. Two weeks ago the girl disappeared for four days. She had been reported missing on two previous occasions. was being held at No. 7 precinct. Nadine will remain temporarily at the home. — 30 STATES CAN GET AID FOR HOUSING Failure to Adopt Legislation Bars Help to Virginia and 17 Others. By the Associated Press. Only 30 States are eligible to re- ceive loans and grants for low-cost housing under the new $526,000,000 program enacted by Congress. Howard A. Gray, director of the Public Works Administration hous- ing program, explained yesterday that benefits can be extended only tn States which have laws authorizing the creation of municipal or other housing authorities. The 18 States without such Iegis- lation, he said, are: Arizsona, California, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Washington and ‘Wyoming. These States probably will not be- come eligible before 1939, unless they call special sessions of their Legis- latures to pass essential laws. The law-making bodies of most of them do not meet again in regular sessions until 1939. The housing laws in many of the States were enac'ed this year, Gray said, at the suggestion of the Interior Department and in anticipation of the one. Housing aut tities separate from the States, counties and municipalities—will do the build- ing with & 90 per cent Federal loan and a 10 per cent local contribution. ‘The principal function of the Fed- eral agency, Gray said, is to approve applications for loans and see that the projects are developed according to authority and appointing its admin- istrator. Czechs Order Rail Supplies. The government of Csechoslovakia bas placed large orders for rallway supplies. Pending an investigation, the boy | STAR, WASHINGTON, Vinson to Return Soon to Begin Work on New Bills. BACKGROUND— Unforeseen fluctuations in busi- ness and political considerations have been two important factors in growth of hodge-podge Federal tax system. Adding to present dissatis- Jaction {3 existence of numerous duplicating levies applied by States and local communitids. With Federal expenditures con- tinuing to outstrip revenues, need of more eflective and more equit- able tar laws is becoming increas- ingly apparent. Firm intention to do a thorough and carefully considered job of over- hauling the Federal tax laws in the next session of Congress seemed evi- dent today as Representative Vinson of Kentucky, head of the special sub- committee of the House Ways and Means Committee named by Chair- man Doughton, disclosed that he will be back in the Capital within two weeks to start his committee on their task of studying needed revisions of the laws. Authorized to meet for hearings or other purposes during the congres- sional recess, the mne-man committee is expected to direct principal atten- tion to the effects of the undistributed corporation earnings tax, the capital gains and losses tax and some of the so-called nuisance taxes. All other Federal tax provisions, however, will come under the committee's scrutiny. Treasury Work Continues. Coincident with the House study and their expected recommendations will be a continuation of Treasury The department announced at the time it was aiding Congress in the inquiry into tax evasion practices that it would have a comprehensive plan for the January session of Congress. An objective of the Treasury De- partment program, it is reported, is to devise business taxes of sufficient flexibility 20 they would not be unduly burdensome during depression periods and would be at their maximum effec- tiveness in periods of good business. Fall Session Possibility. With the possibility of a special ses- sion of Congress being called in No- vember both the House study and that of the Treasury Department may be rushed sufficiently to allow consid- eration of their findings at that time. The Department program is being shaped under the direct guidance of | Undersecretary Roswell Magill, who sions. In addition to Vinson, the special House committee includes Representa- tives McCormack of Massachusetts, Cooper of Tennessee, Disney of Okla- | boma, Buck of California, Duncan of | Missouri, all Democrats; Treadway of Massachusetts, Crowther and Reed of New York, Republicans. Spark Fatal to Two. BADIN, N. C, August 24 (#).— Striking like a thunderbolt, an elec- | tric spark bridged two high-tension wires here today, killed H. B. Rhea | and R. A. Crawford and burned nine Carolina Luminum Co. Department work on the tax problem. | for revenue law revision in readiness | | son’s body in her apartment at 1633 directed their inquiry into tax eva- | other workers at a station of the|case for publication pending a de- D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1937. Crashing through several guard rails when its brakes I it finally came to rest in a ditch (Story on Page A ocked, this intercity off the Washington-Baltimore Boulevard Several of the 10 occupants were bruised, but none required hospital treatment. ) -1). bus is shown after , near Ammendale, Md. —Star Staff Photo. CASE OF JANITOR CLOSED BY POLICE McAfee’s Confession of Widow’s Slaying to Go to District Attorney. ‘The confessed slaying of Mrs. Hea- rietta Anderson, 36-year-old widow, by Major McAfee, 61-year-old colored Janitor, is a “closed case,” as far as the police department is concerned, Capt. Ira E. Keck, assistant chief of detectives, said today. Keck said McAfee's confession and other evidence in the case will go to the district attorney’s office for pros- | ecution after a coroner’s inquest to- morrow. Results of a complete au- topey of the body and tecanical study | of the clothing and death weapon—a furnace shaker—will be presented to | the coroner’s jury. ‘The colored janitor admitted the slaying after all-night questioning following the discovery of Mrs. Ander- L street Sunday afternoon. He sald, according to Keck, that he beat the | tractive brunette widow to death | with the furnace shaker after a quar- | rel in which she had threatened him | with ar ice pick. He was charged with first-degree murder. Some discrepancies i parts of | McAfee's story were revealed by fur- | ther investigation. He was quoted | as saying he was 70 years old and that he had killed a common-law wife 12 years ago. Records showed that he was only 61 years old and that the common-law wife was still alive, so far as police know. He was acquitted on a charge of assault with a deadly | weapon in connection with wundmzi | | | her. United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett declined to comment on the tailed study of the evidence. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 24.—Police of- ficlals pressed every available man into the search today for a 3-month- old girl and the abductor who snatched her from a baby carriage in full view of hundreds of shoppers. The child, Diane Carol, disappeared from the carriage outside a grocery in the North Side Wilsor: avenue dis- trict while her .mother, Mrs. Dorothy Lucas, 22, was making supper pur- chases yesterday. The abductor apparently escaped without arousing the suspicion of any one in the street crowds. Police were unable to find any one who had seen the baby taken. Nor did they uncover & plausible motive. Mrs. Lucas waited nearly an hour before notifying police. She said she mlnm:ethzom:dumlor.l some grapefrult juice. “You can have orange juice or to- mato fuice,” sald the counter man. “No grapefruit juice at all?” asked the . p. m. § “Say, what do you think this is, & restaurant?® » return. Police found the father at home, unaware of the abduction. The distraught mother collapsed when she realised the child was gone. The baby was still being nursed by Mrs. Lucas, described her as hav- 7 Kidnapers of Baby Elude Puzzled Chicago Policemen Mr. and: Mrs. Herman Lucas of Chicago grieve over the baby carriage from which their 3-month-old daughter Diane was reported to police as stolen yesterday. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ing brown eyes and brown hair, an olive skin, weighing 13 pounds and wearing & white dress and pink knit- ted shoes. Investigators expressed doubt the infant was taken for ransom. They said the parents were in moderate cir- cumstances. Lucas is a carpet layer and repairman. Police Sergt. Michael Ahearn ad- vanced the theory the girl was taken by & childless couple or by some mother who recently had lost & child. Mrs. Lucas suggested another theory when she told police a former woman friend of her husband had tried to break up their romance before their marriage, August 8, 1934. She said the woman lives in New York, but re- cently had been in Chicago. She was sought for questioning. Mrs. Lucas said she had received no threats against the infant. There were no notes in the carriage, which vas covered with mosquito netting when the mother last sa\- the child. | corpus action, the case will be taken | John W. Fihelly said he was agreeable WJURED IN TRAFFIC Henry Windel Struck by Auto at | Twenty-Fourth and M. Henry Windel, 31, an iron worker of 1734 Evarts street northeast, was taken to Emergency Hospital today with serious head cuts, brain concus- sion and possibly a skull fracture after he was struck by an automobile while crossing at Twenty-fourth and M streets. z The driver of the ear, Cecil Surratt, 25, Arlington, Va., was not held. Hos- pital attaches said Windel's condition Was “undetermined.” FATHER ORDERED EXTRADITEDIN SUIT Anderson Counters With | Plea for Habeas Corpus in “Child-Stealing” Case. District Court Justice P. Dickinson Letts today ordered the removal to California of Harry Leroy Anderson, | who is charged there with abducting | his 2'4-year-old daughter, Doris Kliz- abeth Anderson, but the father’s at- torneys immediately countered with petition for a writ of habeas corpus. | 8Should the court refuse to grant Anderson his liberty in the habeas to the United States Court of Appesls, | his lawyers, Wilbert McInerney and | Julian I Richards, declared. An ap- | peal will mean that Anderson's extra- | dition will be tied up for at least three | or four months, or possibly langer. The mother of the girl testified against her divorced husband today. She said she and Anderson were di- vorced in Nevada in 1935. Last June 3, she continued, he came to her San Luis Obispo, Calif., home and asked to be allowed to have Doris for the day. Instead of returning the child at 4 p.m., as the mother directed, Ander- son was said to have taken her to San Diego and wired Mrs. Anderson that the girl was with him. Prom Calitor- nia he brought her to Washington and then to Takoma Park, Md., where he established & home. | Meanwhile, Mrs. Anderson made 2 complaint to California authorities | against her husband, who was charged with “child stealing.” His extradition is being fought on that charge. Assistant United States Attorney to an early hearing on the habeas corpus petition. Meanwhile, Justice Letts allowed Anderson to remain at liberty under bail. e S COL. NORRIS STAYTON BURIED IN ARLINGTON Retired Army Officer Dies in Ohio Home—Was on Duty Here. Col. Norris Stayton, 57, United States Army, retired, who died Friday at his home in Lockland, Ohio, was buried todsy in Arlington National Cemetery. Col. Stayton, well known in this city, was on planning and procure- ment duty here in the office of the Assistant Secretary of War from Au- gust, 1930, to January, 1932. He also had served here in 1918-19 in the division of storage office. Col. Stayton first served in the Army in 1898 as an elisted man. He again enlisted in 1900 and served as & private and corporal until July 22, 1901, when he was commissioned a second lleutenant in the Coast Artil- lery Corps. 4 During the World War he served as a lieutenant colonel with the Na- tional Army until September, 1918, when he was promoted to colonel and served with the Quartermaster Corps of the Regular Army. He was retired in 1932 for disabllity reeeived in line of duty. Among survivors are his widow, Mrs. Alice Stayton and a son, Lieut. Tom V. Stayton, Coast Artillery Corps. —_— LIEUT. D. W. TOLSON FUNERAL IS THURSDAY The Navy Department announced today that funeral services for Lieut. (J. 8) David Watkins Tolson, U. 8. N, who died aboard the U. 8. 8. Pecos at Chefoo, Chins, on May 31, will be held at 2 pm. Thursday in Arlington National Cemetery. Officiating will be Lieut. Comdr. Joseph H. Brooks of the Navy's Chap- lain Corps. Honorary pallbearers will be Lieuts. A. J. Bolton, R. E. Perry, H. J. Hardwick, B. E. Moore, C. M. ‘Tooke, and G. L. Jones. ‘The leutenant, who is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Lee Tolson, was born here July 9, 1904. He was ap- pointed to the Naval Academy, com- missioned an Ensign in 1927 and served aboard the U. 8. 8. Utah, Bacramento, Wickes and the Old Frigate Constitution. He served as an instructor in the Department of Engi- neering and Aeronautics at the Naval Academy in 1934-35. He served on the U. 8. 8. Herbert later, until last November, when he was ordered to GUFFEY FORESEES SPECIAL SESSION in November—Scoffs at Third Party Talk. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 24.—United | States Benator Joseph F. Guffey, WATER SHORTAGE HITS SANTANDER Franco Links Six Columns Into Single Line for Attack on City. BACKGROUND— Troops of Gen. Francisco Franco have advanced steadily each day against last remaining stronghold of government troops on Biscayan coast of Spain—Santander. Franco needs troops now occupied in northern campaign for concerted drive against Madrid, which has withstood insurgent siege for more than nine months. By the Associated Press. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Border, August 24 —Insurgent Generalissimo Franco linked six columns into a single line today for a concentrated attack on Santander and announced the be- sieged city was thronged with thirsty tens of thousands of refugees Santander had been without regular water supply since the insur- gent troops captured the Arrila water- works last Friday. From Franco's headquarters can the declaration that made it “appar- ent that fighting in Santander Pro ince s virtually ended.” The insurgent chieftain's Salamanc headquarters predicted in a statemer that the rate of his army's advanc woula permit capture of the provincia capital, Santander, “before the en- of the week." |Senator Predicts It Will Be | Government reports. admitting part the insurgent claims, reportes fierce infantry attacks supported b fleets of tanks and large masses of astillery and aviation on the tig ing semi-circle centered on the Spa ish Government's last important Bis- cayan seaport. Los Corriales, southwest of Democrat, of Pennsylvania today pre- | dicted a special session of Congress | next November that would pass wage- | hours, anti-lynching and farm loan | bills. - | In an interview here, prior to de- parture for Europe tomorfow, Guffey scoffed at published reports of a “third | party” trend. He termed the South | “overwhelmingly” for President Roose- | velt'’s policies, and forecast a “new, | more liberal Democratic party” making its sentiments felt in the 1938 con- | gressional primaries. “All liberal elements will rally under the Democratic party instead of forming a third party,” he said. Does Not Expect “Purge.” Guffey, whose attack upon some of | his colleagues from the Senate floor | last Friday provoked heated response, | indicated he did not expect any sort of “purge” in the 1938 congressional primaries against those Senators who had displeased the administration. “The people will register their feel- ing.” he said. “Sentiment for Presi- | dent Roosevelt and the New Deal is getting stronger all the time, in my opinion.” Senator Guffey and a dozen other | Congressmen are sailing tomorrow on | the United States liner Manhattan for Europe. Guffey expects to take & rest and visit friends, but most of the others will attend the Congress of the Interparliamentary Union in Paris. Resigned As Chairman. The Senator, who recently resigned as chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Campaign Committee “because I wanted to be relieved of the re- sponsibility of getting 32 or 35 Sen- ators re-elected” was scheduled to make a radio speech tonight at 8:15 o'clock over Station WEVD here, on the New Deal labor policies and the C.1oO. “There is no necessity for a third party,” Guffey said. “The Demo- | cratic party is liberal and will re- main liberal. The Democratic party will last permanently as the liberal party, with all liberal elements united | under it.” ‘SAFE GANG’ IS HELD UNDER $40,000 BOND Four Colored Men Accused of Stealing $900 From Garden T-Shoppe. Four colored men, known to police as the “safe gang,” were held under $19.000 bond each for aotion of the grand jury when arraigned today be- fore Judge John P. McMahon in Police Court on one charge of housebreaking. In the particular charge today, they were accused of having stolen a safe worth $50 and $900 in cash from the Garden-T Shoppe, scene several years ago of the murder of a cashier in a hold-up. The court was informed that the district attorney’s office has four other housebreaking cases, involving the theft of safes, which they will present directly to the grand jury. Detective Sergt. Joseph Shimon said the police robbery squad would also present to the district attorney’s office for con- sideration of the grand jury five hoid- ups and one charge of stealing a car which are attributed to the four de- fendants. Those held were Robert G. Mosby, Mike Mitchell, Robert T. Brown and Richard Goodwin. “ASSAULT” WITH AUTO CHARGED TO D. C. MAN Tried to Run Down Officer as He Attempted to Escape Arrest, Police Say. Charged with using his automobile as & “dangerous weapon” with which ‘assault” Policeman Connor Gould of the Traffic Division, Tomas Boselli, 55, of 204 First street southwest, was held for grand jury action under $1,500 bond today by Police Court Judge John P. McMahon. Gould, who was struck early Satur- day by an sutomobile alleged to have been driven by Boselli, is & patient in_ Casualty Hospital, where he is suffer- ing from severe head injuries. Policeman Lawrence Hartnett, also of the Traffic Division, said he at- tempted to arrest Boselll for traffic violation on Bladensburg road. Boselli attempted to escape, Hartnett de- clared, and nesr Mount Olivet Ceme- tery came upon Gould, who was stand- ing beside a truck, with his motor cycle nearby, admonishing the driver for some infraction of the law. Hartnett sald Boselli struck both beleaguered city, was heavily she! by Franco's Palencia road column the government communique said Franco was driving that spearheac toward Torrelavega, seven miles nort of Los Corriales, in an effort quick) to isolate Santander from Gijon, a considerably less important govern- ment stronghold on the Bay of Biscayv about 90 miles to the west. Govern- ment troops, the Madrid communiqu=> asserted, were resisting stiffy. Torrelavega, heavily fortified for a last ditch battle by the governmen: army of Basques, Austrians and San- tander militiamen, lies only 11 miles from Santander. Insurgent advices insisted Franco's men were but three miles from Torrelavega The insurgent communique listed dozens of villages occupied in the wake of retreating defense troops and out- lined yesterday's operations in other sectors as follows: Twe Spanish Ships Attacked. CASTELLON DE LA PLANA, Spain, August 24 (#).—Two Spanish mer. chantmen escaped today from & tors pedo attack by what the masters re. ported were “foreign submarines” in the Mediterranean about 30 miley north of Valencia. They were the freighters Betis and Sebastian Martin. The Betis escaped similarly a week ago from an attachk south of Valencia. Planes Harass East Coast. VALENCIA, Spain, August 3¢ (). —Spanish insurgent airpianes harass- ed Spain’s East Coast communities today from Rosas, near the French frontier, to within a few miles of Vai- encia. Four persons were killed and sev- eral injured in bombing raids at Reus. Leaving Sagunta, the planes turned south toward Valencia itself, but were driven back by anti-aircraft guns. BIG FIRMS GIVE UP USE OF ROAD SIGNS National Advertisers Support Campaign to Eliminate Vir- ginia Billboards. Joining in the drive to eliminate signboard “eye sores” along the high- ways of Virginia, Philip Morris & Co. Ltd., manufacturers of Philip Morr: cigarettes, today announced its rep- resentatives would be authorized tc discontinue placing signs on the roads in that State. Notification was sent to J. Pinckne: Harrison of the Universal Leaf T member of the Advisor e Associated Clubs of Vir- ginia for Roadside Development, b O. H. Chalkley, president of Phil: Morris & Co. It is the first tobacc company to take such action. “I think that all of us deplore tie defacement of beautiful country scene: by gaudy advertising signs, whether they be billboards or other kinds, and We are naturally in sympathy with any movement that would tend toward minimizing such eye sores,” Chalkle; said in his letter to Harriso; Mrs. George Sloane, chairman of the Associated Clubs, and Harrison who is actively co-operating in the campaign, declared it is their belief that other cigarette companies shortl; will fall into line. Other national advertisers support- ing the campaign of the Associated Club by doing away with their outdoor advertising in Virginia, or confining sych advertising to commercial areas and the immediate premises, are Gulf Refining Co., manufacturers of “Gulf,” “Gulftube,” “Gulfpride,” “Su- preme” and the “New-No-Nox” avia- ticn grade gasoline; Packard Motor Co.,, Chrysler Corp. and Plymouth Motor Corp. State firms who are abandoning their roadside advertising are: Natur- al Wonders, Inc., Harrisonburg, Va. operating Melrose Caverns, formerly Virginia Caverns, and the Princess Anne Hotel, Fredericksburg. Through the Richmond Hotel Men's Association, six prominent Richmond hotels, the Jefferson, the John Mar- shall, the Richmond, the William Byrd, Murphy's and Rueger's, alsc have decided to abandon this type of advertising. NAMED DELEGATE Parliamentary Union's Conference, to be held in Paris from August 31 to September 5, it was announced today. Mrs. Jenckes, whose appointment came from Senator Alben W. Barkley. IR the union’s president, will sail tomor- row on the §. 8. Washington of the United States Line. She is the first woman to be sent as