Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1937, Page 6

A—6 &» DAHL, REPRIEVED, AWAITS EXCHANGE May Get Full Pardon to Re- | join Wife—News Men Drink to His Health. By the Associated Press. SALAMANCA, Spain, October 8.— The threat of a summary death re- moved, Harold E. Dahl still was in Jail today, but with the prospect either of early exchange for an aviator from the Spanish government side or a full pardon to free him to rejoin his wife. Probably the most dramatic of the events in the Spanish adventure of the 28-year-old Champaign, Ill., aviator | who was convicted of “rebellion” | against Spanish insurgency, came last | night when counsel, aviators and news- papermen told Dahl of the decision. ‘The international crowd was in the Jail office when Dahl was brought in. He knew the sentence was due, but he had been waiting two hours. He walked to the door, looked in, deathly pale in the blue denim coveralls in which he was captured last July while flying for the Valencia government. Color Returns to Face. Next to the door he was able to grab a hand and heard the whisper, “It’s all okay.” He took a deep breath and the color returned to his face as he walked to the middle of the room. Dahl walked to a table and waited, biting his lips. His counsel, Marques Del Marito, stepped up, grinned and read the sentence by a court martial of death for “rebellion” and reprieve. ‘There were general eongratulations, glasses were brought out and every one drank the health of the prisoner in sherry. While Dahl sat off in & eorner and wrote telegrams to his wife, who waits for him in Cannes, France, and to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who reprieved him from the firing squad, three Russian airmen, court-mar- tialed with him on Tuesday, were brought in while an interpreter read to them in Russian. Suddenly the blond Alexis Teodor Chercasov, one of the trio, still walk- ing with a cane and limping from a leg wound suffered when he was brought down, grinned, realizing he was not to be shot. Again there were congratulations and agaln a round of sherry. Dahl, still moderately ill from a stomach ailment following an op- eration in France early in the year, was likely to be transferred to a hospital while awaiting the exchange or full pardon. “THANK GOD,” SAYS WIFE. Knew Spanish Insurgent General Would Keep Promise. PARIS, October 8 (#).—Mrs. Harold E. Dahl answered her telephone at Cannes, France, heard a reporter say Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco had spared her husband's life and said, “Thank God!” “I'm relieved,” she said, “but I'm not surprised. “I believe Spanish gentlemen keep their promises. He (Francisco Franco, & cousin and aide of the general) wrote to me saying not to lose hope of seeing Harold come back to me. I didn’t. But when I heard about the court-martial it sounded terrible.” Shortly after her husband was cap- tured Mrs. Dahl wrote to Franco from her temporary home at Cannes, ask- ing that his life be spared. She sent a photograph of herself along with the letter. On September 23 she re- | ceived assurance that her husband would not be shot. “If it hadn't been for Franco's per- #onal letter to me,” she said, “I would have been a complete wreck by this time. But I knew he meant what he said. “Since the trial began and ended without a formal announcement of a verdict I have been running around in circles. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to think, even though everybody tried to make me think it wasn't serious. “I knew it wasn't, but now I take off my hat to a gentleman who doesn’t give a girl hopes and then wreck them. “I've been doing everything possible to get Harold exchanged. I expect to come to Paris soon to see whether the Spainsh government embassy can offer an exchange of prisoners. “I'm sure now that Harold soon will be back with me.” U. S. EXPENSES CUT IS URGED BY ADAMS Ways of Raising Revenue Must Be Considered at Same Time, Senator Asserts. Congress and the President will have %o eonsider both a reduction of ex- penses and ways of increasing revenue if the administration is to accomplish its aim of a balanced budget at the next session, in the opinion of Senator Adams, Democrat, of Colorado, mem- ber of the Appropriations Committee. While any changes in taxation would have to be determined by Congress, Adams believes reduction of expenses could be accomplished more easily by the President, through the process of calling in his cabinet members and directing them to save a certain per- centage of the total appropriated for their respective departments, to be left in the Treasury. From his experience in handling supply kills, Adams pointed out it is not easy to accomplish reductions while the bills are being enacted. He mentioned a 25 per cent saving in out- §0 because, he said, that was in the economy plank of the Democratic 1932 platform. He added, however, he would not advocate a flat percentage eut in all appropriation items, point- ing out that there are some fixed charges that cannot be cut, and be- cause some activities could not stand as much of a cut as others. Asked if he thought the budget balancing goal of the administration would be reached next year, Adams eaid “it is a financial possibility, and desirable, but economy always brings protests.”” Drafting new tax laws also is a difffoult task, he said, since there “i8 no pleasant way of raising revenue.” A CONTRACT TO BE LET Maritime Commission officials said last night the building contract for construction of a vessel to replace the Leviathan will be signed early next week. They said they expected the com- pleted draft to be dy upon the return of Chairman Jgseph P. Ken- Reprieved AMERICAN REBEL FIRING SQUAD. HAROLD E. DAHL, —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. SOVIET HAILS .S, AGGRESSOR VIEW Press Welcomes ‘Readiness’ to Take Active Part in Joint Efforts. Es the Associated Press MOSCOW, October 8.—Full Soviet support of decisive action against war- making nations was promised today by the newspapers Izvestia and Pravda, government mouthpieces. They welcomed the ‘“readiness of the United States to take an active part in joint efforts.” Izvestia, regretting that an effective quarantine against “Fascist aggres- sion” could not be expected, said “some governments need to change their words into action.” This remark seemed to be directed against Britain and France as well as the United States. “Roosevelt's declaration represents a very significant step forward along this line,” Izvestia commented. “The near future will show whether further steps will be made in this direction, “Needless to say, steps toward prac- tical collective counteraction to law- less, criminal, military aggressions will meet the full support of the Soviet nation.” One measure suggested by the Soviet press was revision of the American neutrality act. Mr. Roosevelt's conclusion that “neutrality in the present interna- tional situation cannot be realized and there is no protection against war,” Izvestia said, “indicates a tendency growing in American public opinion to revise the policy which has been maintained up to now.” Speech “Puzzles” Nazis, By the Associated Press BERLIN, October 8—The controlled Nazi press professed last night to be puzzled over what it described as the discrepancy between President Roose- velt’s Chicago peace address and large American arms sales to Soviet Russia. Mr. Roosevelt’s Chicago speech, the papers observed editorially, dramati- cally announced America hates war and actively engages in search of peace. Tremendous arms shipments to the Soviet, it Was added, demon- strate how earnestly the search pro- ceeds. The Berliner Boersenzeitung recalled President Roosevelt said 10 per cent of the world’s population is menacing peace and “threatening to break down all international order.” It added that since the bolshevism program of world revolution certainly aims in this direction “it really is difi- cult to grasp the fact the United States nevertheless is ready to sell Soviet Russia war materials which can only serve the purpose of further destroying the peace of the world.” Hunts Deer by Telephone. POCATELLO, Idaho, October 8 (). —Henry Devalcour hunts deer by tele- phone. He's awaiting a call now. 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While Embassy officials declined to state the exact object of the mission, they did not deny it might have been connected with possible Russian mili- tary aid for China. Foreign observers saw great signifi- cance in the, sudden departure of Bogomoloff and Lepin by special air- planes and their equally swift return, especially as they were summoned home by the Soviet government. China's foreign minister, Wang Chung-hui, expressed admiration to- day for the declaration of President Roosevelt against aggressor nations and the American State Department’s condemnation of Japan as a treaty violator. “Although Geneva's resolutions and decisions fall far short of that action China believed might be taken under the League covenant, these steps clearly demonstrate that the civilized world is at least spiritually - behind China in her present fight-against the aggressor,” Wang said. (The League of Nations con- demned Japanese “invasion” of China and called for a meeting of the signatories of the nine power ‘Washington pack guaranteeing China’s territorial integrity.) 2 in’81 Naval Academy Class Arrive in Capital for Reunion Two of the dozen members of the Naval Academy graduating class of ’81, here for their first reunion in 15 years. In the photo former Senator O. E. Weller of Maryland (left), president of the class, and Capt. W. H. Stayton of Washington, vice president and secretary, are reading a telegram from a classmate unable to attend. graduating class of the United | States Naval Academy came —Star Staff Photo. and got them back here for what he hopes to be the greatest reunion of TWELVE members of the 1881|rounded up his former classmates to town today to hold their first meeting since last they as- sembled as guests of the Japanese Government for a class reunion in Tokio in 1922. Three of the midship- men who entered the Naval Academy in 1877 were Japanese. Capt. W. H. Stayton, who helped to put prohibition out of business, all time. It happens that the captain, now retired, is the only surviving member of the first football team An- napolis put on the fleld—the team that started against the Army in 1880 and came off with flying colors. Three of his classmates also were on that team, but they have died. Capt. Stayton and his classmates “Posting” the town on g Ak It’s a sure sign we've got the goods! Wonder’s 10 -payment plan is the easiest way in the world to buy! Pay weekly . . . pay twice monthly . .. and don’t pay anything ex- tra! In all 27 years, we’ve never collected ‘such a fine variety of suits, topcoats and overcoats! And the same low $19.75 still holds good! The same straight maker-to-you way of doing business tells the story! Come in and come out with just about the smartest gar- ment you'll ever lay your eyes on this Fall! 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In the course of the first gathering last night, over the coffee cups, it was brought out that the class of 1881 boasts of three admirals, a full gen- eral of United States Marines, and one who was adjutant general of Ma- rines during the World War. The admirals are John Adrian Hoogewerf, deceased; Edward Everett Capehart, retired, and Henry Braid Wilson, for- mer head of the Naval Academy. The general of Marines was the late George Barnett, The adjutant gen- eral was the late Charles Henry Lauchheimer. It also was recalled that the former United States Senator and later Secretary of War, John W. Weeks, now dead, was & member of this class. While the entire class did not go through with the Navy, many of them stepping out into other walks of life, iheir surviving comrades claim that Annapolis never has turned out such & galaxy of talent. Some of them came to be the finest engineers in civil life. Others adorned the -arts and professions, their Navy class- mates declare, From now until Sunday, the class of "81 hopes to hobnob here in Wash~ ington. There will be a luncheon this afternoon at the home of a daughter of an old classmate, Secretary of War Weeks. She is Mrs. John W. Davidge —"Katherine” to the boys. This gath- ering will take place at her Rock Creek Drive residence. Tomorrow night will be the big fanfest, with a formal banquet at the Metropolitan Club and a roomful of yarns right out of the old Navy. Those who have checked in, so far, for the 1881 class reunion are: Robert Pierpont Forshew, William Henry Stayton, Henry Braid Wilson, James Hall Colwell, Henry Laird Ballentine, Ovington Eugene Weller, LeRoy Emmett, William Henry Gart- ley, Con Marrast Perkins, Isaac Brown Parsons, Daniel Morgan and Lloyd Bankson. William |. 500 REBELS SLAIN ON ASTURIAN FRONT Valencia Forces Repulse Several Vigorous Attacks and Close. Up Lines. By the Associated Press. 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