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Evening star., 1936-07-31
$4,000 HEAR KNOX
ASSA|L NEW DEAL
''Free Enterprise" Held
Chief Issue in Acceptance
Speech.
Tert of Col. Knor's speech on
page A-8.
BY JOHN H. CLINE,

STAN correspondent OF Tne star.
CHICAGO, July 31.-Sounding a
ringing appeal for return to an
America of "free men and free enter
prise" Col. Frank Knox last night
formally accepted the Republican
nomination for Vice President before
a shouting throng in Chicago's huge
municipal stadium.
A crowd of $4,000 persons filled
every seat in the hall and stood out
side to hear the nominee preach the
doctrine Of the "sef-respecting and
self-reliant men who made America
not q doctrine of the soft and spine
less kept citizen Of a regimented
State"
Senator Frederick Steiwer Of Ore
gon attended to the formality of noti-
flying Col. Knox that he had been
selected as Gov. ALI M. Landon's run
ming mate on the Republican ticket.
The colorful ceremonies, under the
direction of Chauncey Mccormick, got
under way with an elaborate enter
tainment program featuring local
stage celebrities. Gathered on the
speakers stand were men and women
prominent in political and business
life. Among them were Senators Ar
thur Vandenberg Of Michigan; John
G. Townsend and Daniel o. Hastings
Of Delaware; L. j. Dickinson Of Iowa;
Representative Chester Bolton Of Ohio,
(See KNOX, Page A-5,)
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Return of Mounted Policemen
To District Sought by Bro,vn

The mounted policemen, who dis
appeared from the streets Of WASH
ington more than five years ago, will
return If Police Supt. Ernest w.
Brown is successful in his effort to
get funds to buy horses.
Maj. Brown disclosed today he Is
planning to ask the Commissioners to
include In the District budget esti-
mates for the 1898 fiscal year an item
of about $500 for the purchase Of at
least six good horses for police work.
He proposes to use the mounted off,
GERS almost exclusively in traffic work
and In handling crowds during pa
radeS.
Ever since Maj. Brown has been ut
the head of the Police Department he
has been anxious to bring back the
mounted officer. Because Of budget
limitations in the past, however, he
has hesitated in asking for funds for
purchase Of horses.
Evening star., 1936-07-31

With the return of the mounted
officer, Maj. Brown plans to adopt a
new system for caring for and stabling
the horses. Under the former ar
rangement the officer had to purchase
his own mount and feed and stable
him, for which he was allowed $3.50 a
year additional compensation. This
arrangement, however, was not 20 sue
cessful from o police standpoint, Mai.
Brown said, because some Of the OH
cerS-an Of whom were detailed IN
the outlying sections-spent too much
time looking for green pastures.
The horses Maj. Brown wants win
be used exclusively in the business
section, where there are no grazing
grounds. and fed In stables under po-
lice auspices.
So far as Maj. Brown knows, there
Is only one mounted officer in the
District, and he II attached to the
park police tores.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
His Rent Unpaid,
Sculptor Is Euicted
In Turbulent Scene
Durig Waues Receipt
for Letter, but That
AUaiLs Nothing.

Ernest Durig, well-known sculptor,
paced the floor and Indignantly waved
registered letter receipt at officers
and newspaper men in the front room
of his home, at 1923 Sixteenth street,
this afternoon while a deputy marshal
and two assistants, backed up by po-
lice. dispoSsessed him for non-pay-
ment of rent.
Notice of dispossession was served
by mail day before yesterday by the
landlady, Margaret v. Bliss, who dis
continued efforts to remove Durig six
months ago on another tempestuous
occasion when he paid rent claimed
in arrears.
Meanwhile, Durig said the receipt
he angrily displayed was for a reg
istered letter containing 5000 sent to
his lawyer for payment of the rent.
(see DURIG, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1936-07-31
French Radicals
Propose Alliance
For Spanish Peace
By the Associs ted Press.

6y tne AsSocli TED FreSS.
PARIS, July 31.-French Radical
Socialists, frightened by alleged Italian
Intervention in the Spanish rebellion,
proposed three-power attempt today
to settle the civil war.
Their suggestion came on the heels
of government orders to investigate
the crash of one Italian seaplane and
the forced landing of another in
French North Africa. The planes were
declared to be carrying munitions to
Spanish rebels.
France, Great Britain and Italy we're
proposed by the Radical-Socialists for
membership in an international COM
mission to arbitrate the struggle be-
tween Spanish Fascists and Loyalists.
A precedent for their suggestion,
they said, was set in China, where
neutral powers arbitrated an internal
dispute.
Leftists Urge Arms Support.
\ Extreme Leftists, at the same time,
urged the Spanish government be al
lowed to buy airplaneS, arms and am
munition from France.
Rightists continued to insist on strict
neutrality to prevent France from
being drawn into a war.
The three suggestions were to be
placed before the Socialist government
of Premier Leon Blum for official ac-
ton.
The French inquiry into the air
plane incident began upon receipt of
adviceS from Oran and Casablanca,
French; Morocco.
The first Of the Italian ships crashed
at Saida, French Morocco, killing four
of its occupants and injuring two
others SO seriously they were taken
to hospital at Berkane.
The other plane landed near the
mouth of: the Moulouya River after its
gasoline supply was exhausted.
Four others were reported to have
reached Spanish Morocco safely.
French sources asserted the ships
were tri-motored planes flying from
Sardinia.
At Dram it was declared the planes
were loaded with machine guns and
ammunition, but these reports were
denied in CaSablanca advices, which
said the cargoes included bombing
equipment but no guns nor bombs.
Witnesses observing the forced land
ing near the river mouth told French
officials objects" were dropped into
(see FRENCH, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1936-07-31
MISSOURI GIVEN
DROUGHT RELIEF
5000 Needy Farmers Get
JobS-IoWa Counties
Also Added.
ey tie Associated Press.

ey tke Associated Press.
Extra w. P. A. jobs were ordered
today for additional sections Of the
parched Midwest.
Aubrey Williams, deputy Works
Progress administrator, ordered 5000
needy farmers put to work In Missouri
Gov. Clyde L. Herring of Iowa said
after conference with Williams that
well have 40 Iowa counties"
Reporting that Nebraska's 90 coun-
ties are virtually all, excepting a small
amount Of pasture land, in the same
condition as the % State counties
which have been designated officially
as drought areas, Gov. Roy L. Coch-
ran of Nebraska appealed to williams
to "cut the red tape" and permit State
w. p. A. administrators to 60 ahead
with the drought program without
consulting Washington.
Both Governors said they would
confer during the day with Secretary
Wallace. They also arranged a joint
conference with Williams and Rexford
G. Tugwell, the resettlement admins
traitor, for late in the day.
$4,000 Jobs Given.
Williams action in adding Missouri
to the States receiving extra w. P. A.
aid as result of the drought brought
the total quota of w. p. A. drought
jobs in the great plains to 72,000.
Williams said he had instructed
Matthew s. Murray, Missouri w. P. A.
administrator, to put the 5000 to
work on water conservation and
supply projects and other public
works"
designated as emergency drought areas
by the Agriculture Department, VIII
liams said arrangements had been
completed to provide jobs at once In
Bates and Vernon Counties in con-
junction with the State Relief Ad-
ministration.
williams told reporters that r. c.
jacobson, w. p. A. field representa-
tive, had reported plans for the drought
Job program "well under way" in Kan
sas and Nebraska.
He added employment would begin
'in q few days" in those States and
Missouri.
Study C. C. C. Help.
Howard o. Hunter, assistant admin
istrator in charge of the w. P. "A.
drought program, reported he had
started surveys in Wyoming to de-
termine how Civilian Conservation
Corps labor could be used with w.
p. A. workers "to arrange q joint cam
paign for speedy development Of water
resources"
Williams said approximately $4,000
western and Central Western farmers
now had w. p. A. jobs. Employment
was listed as follows: North Dakota,
14,351; South Dakota, 13,500; Mon
tana, 1926: Minnesota, 1,153; Wyom-
ing, $50; Colorado, 657.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
LaW of AIinlOny
|LearnedTOOLate
TOAUOid Prison
ID. C.. Man Held Not
Liable as Precision
Is Omitted.

Charles Baggett 450o Canal road
probably could have saved himself O
60-day jail term back in 1882 II he
had known then what he knows now
about the legal technicalities Of ali
mony.
Justice Oscar r. Luhring of District
Court held today that the omission oi
q specific alimony provision from the
final divorce decree which Mrs. Nettie
Baggett obtained August l, 1881. re-
lieved Baggett Of liability to pay. al
though four years ago he was COM
mitted to Jail for default Of alimony
under the same decree.
Mrs. Baggett, who lives at 1874 Elev-
enth street northeast with their IL.
year-old daughter, Mary Louise, OBJ.
tanned an interlocutory decree for alb.
solute divorce and alimony of $40 6
month for support Of the child or
April 13, 1891. When the final decree
was drawn four months later. however
provision for custody of the child anc
alimony was omitted.
The next June Baggett was cited fol
contempt Of court for failure to meet
the monthly payments and was COM
mitted to jail.
But when his former wife brought 9
similar contempt petition before the
court last month Baggett employed
Attorney Jean M. Boardman, who
moved that the petition be dismissed
After brief hearing. Justice Luhrins
agreed to dismiss the wife's action
holding in effect that because pro.
vision for alimony was not put into the
final decree, Mrs. Baggett cannot col
lect the $552.50 which she claims Il
due.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Officers Numbers
Stub Wins, but Does
He Get the Money?
This is an ironic story.

This is an ironic story.
Robert r. Egan today testified
in Police Court he bought
chance on a numbers game from
James Kane, Al, colored. He
said he paid for it with a half
dollar and received mo. 528" and
rs cents in change.
Several hours later No. 528
"came through" emitting Egan
to $135, a return just $40 times
his original investment. Egan
says the winning number was the
pari-mutuel total Of pay-offs on
the first three races at Suffolk
Downs.
But does Egan get the money?
He does not! He Is q member Of
the police gambling squad and
arrested Kane right after buying
a chance. The half dollar was
marked, he said.
Judge Edward M. Curran In
Police Court today ordered Kane
held for the grand jury in $1,000
bail on q charge Of operating a
lottery.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
MILK REGULATION .
REVIEW ORDERED
Threat of Price Boost Brings
Quiz on Import Pos
SibiIity.

Countering threats Of an increase In
the retail price of milk, the District
Commissioners today directed Health
Oficer George C. Ruhland to review
regulations governing importation Of
milk to determine II they are drastic
or unreasonable" or are responsible to
any degree for the high cost Of milk
here.
DR.. Rutland was instructed to rec
ommend changes as promptly as pos
sible If he found the existing rules are
not to the public interest.
The rules have been in force for
many years and require high stand
ard in production conditions and quail
ity Of product.
The move today is an outgrowth
of the hearings before officials of the
Department Of Agriculture on pro-
posed adoption of milk marketing
agreement for this area. The pro-
posal is for establishment Of an ad-
ministrator to control prices. Also in
volved are reports that because of
the drought, there may be an in
crease IN retail charges.
No Peril Contemplated.
Commissioner Allen, who sponsored
the action taken by the Commissioners
today, declared none of the Commis-
sioners has any intention Of lowering
milk standards, which must be met
by all shippers serving this market,
to q point which would arouse any
question.
However, he said, the Commissioners
want to know If the standards are Sc
unnecessarily high that they limit the
shipments from other jurisdictions to
a degree which enables the local in
dustry to maintain an unnecessarily
high price level. Heretofore there
have been protests against the stand
ards required by the Health Depart
ment. Some of these have come from
persons in the industry and some from
consumers. The question has been de-
bated at meetings of the Federation
of Citizens Associations.
Elwood Seal, assistant corporation
counsel, who was assigned by the
commissioners 10 act as observer
at hearings on the milk marketing
proposal, has explained that there is
no prohibition against shipments OF
milk here from any section of the
country, provided the shipments meas
ure up to the requirements. He has
recommended against lowering the
standards.
Mrs. John Boyle, jr., consumers
counsel, has suggested that the way
be paved for larger shipments from
other jurisdictions, as a means of
meeting the threat" of increased re-
tail prices.
A resolution adopted by the Com
misSioners reads In part:
"It has been said from time to time
(See MILK, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-07-31

: Among those evacuated from Ma
drid were Mildred Meyers and Mary
Burton Of Washington.
In Spain proper 1000 fresh troops
and q squadron of bombing planes
converged in the northeast to bolster
loyal forces in an offensive against
zaragoza and Huesca.
They were determined to win the
rebel Strongholds, 40 miles apart, by
nightfall.
Refugees reaching Plymouth, Eng
land, told of devastation and brigand-
age in revolt torn Barcelona, with
soldiers, many of them drunk. footing
and pillaging."
Priests Reported Killed.
Priests, they said, were being driven
out and murdered" and nuns were
being assaulted and killed" as snipers
in automobiles mounting machine
guns ranged through the streets.
Reports from government sources
tended to indicate the rebels were be-
ing hard pressed on all fronts.
In Hendaye, France, adviceS were
received that the northern rebel COM
mander, Gen. Emilio Mola, abruptly
had changed his plans for marching
on Madrid and had dispatched his
troops toward San Sebastian.
French Radical-Socialists proposed
three-power attempt to bring peace
to Spain. The French government Or
dered an investigation Of the crash
of an italian seaplane and the forced
landing of another in French North
Africa.
Government announcements were
signally optimistic.
Luis CompanyS, provincial President
Of Catalonia, reported many CASUAL
ties" in bloody battles on the slopes
surrounding Zaragoza, but elsewhere
Loyalsts were pictured as gaining
ground against the insurrectionists.
Columns Of loyal militia were re-
ported couverging on Cordoba and
Granada, southern rebel trouble spots.
Government airplanes dropped
propaganda leaflets urging rebels to
desert their commanders.
From North Central Spain rebel
strongholds reinforcements were
blackening the roads to San Sebas-
tian, with a major battle for this
access to the sea in prospect.
Added significance was given Mola,s
march northward in light of govern
ment insistence that Guadarrama
mountain passes, providing entry to
Madrid, were in complete control of
Loyalists.
Leftists took over the city govern
ment of Barcelona, unSeating rightist
members of the Municipal Council.
Advices received in Perpignan, France,
said committees resembling Soviet
groups had assumed control Of indus
tries IN Catalonia Province.
Leftist bands in Gijon were re-
Evening star., 1936-07-31
GERM PLOT Barred
At LEGION TRIAL
Milk to Have Been Injected
for Delivery to Jews,
Says Defendant.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Black Legion activities i1ere
barred by Investigations tollotcing
discovery of the body OF uictim,
found to hare been slain by Dayton
Dean tn O Detroit suburb. Deans
confession inpolred many Others
and led to a general search and
the arrest OF nearly score OF al
legged members of the band.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 31-Prosecutol
Duncan c. McCrea announced today
that q Black Legion defendant claims
the terrorist society once plotted tc
infect q large number Of Detroit Jew.
with typhoid fever by putting germs
in milk and cottage cheese delivered
to them.
The plot never was carried out.
McCrea, who made no comment on
the report, said his Investigators OBJ
tanned the statement from William
Guthrie, q Black Legion printer, who
Is held on q charge of conspiracy to
riot by burning a Communist camp
and breaking up a political meeting
Guthrie named high-rankine
Black Legion oficer, who has been
arrested in the investigation here, and
another man-deScribed by him as q
chemist and bacteriologist"-wh is
being questioned by the prosecutor S
Office.
Threatened to Tell.
The plot failed, Guthrie said, be.
cause he threatened to notify police
and refused to let the two men breed
germs in his basement, where he hac
warm bath and massage rooms.
The Black Legion's ritual pledged it:
members to fight against communism
Catholics, Jews and certain othel
groups.
Guthrie said "the chemist" went tt
his home last November or Decem-
ber" with the Black Legion officer anl
went into the basement.
'I had a bath and massage place, >
Guthrie said cit was always nice
and warm and ] had to keep a higf
temperature of heat. He said hi
wanted to breed germs in my base.
ment in the Wintert time"
William E. Dowling, assistant
prosecutor, asked:
@. Did they say what the nature
Of the germ life was?
A. Yes, they said it was typhoid.
@. Did they say what they wert
going to do with that germ life?
A. Yes, they started talking about
(See GERM, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Air Carrier Seized i'm French
Morocco as Radicals i'm Paris
Urge Intervention.
u. S. CITIZENS LEAVE MADRID:
COTO VALENCIA TO BOARD BOAT
10000 Fresh Troops Sent to Northeast to
Help Loyalists Storm Two Rebel
Strong holds Near Zaragoza.

BACKGROUND
Virtually udal
of King Alfonso 1884,
the classes to keep the country the Reds"
Establishment the
between Landowners, the peasants
political
these IS considered Rhs Cente h 2O6 The
Left, with II parties, holds 267
LISBON Portugal, 81 P1The wireless
night miles
that Pardo,
Eleven Italians huge Italian seaplane
seized today French voiced
fear of repercussions from Span 4day revolt
The oored plane forced down the coast carried guns
Another, which crashed burned loaded with machine
bombs hand italian ammunition
third plane part of eputed feet of six route to rebel
headquarters in Morocco missing in fierce Mediterranean
Virtually all Americans desiring to leave Madrid
ated safely today to the port Of Valencia where they will be taken
aboard the United States cruiser Quincy.
SO Americans had left Embassy the group which
departed by night arriving Valencia safely today
and going hotel expecting board the cruiser later in the
Seventy persons remained at the embassy of them
Fpnos About 100 other United States citizens still living
their homes Madrid unwilling leave for the present
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Have the G-Men Been ''Rnnning
WId With Their Guns?
Were John Dillinser, Eddie Green, "Baby Face"
Nelson, "Pretty Boy" Floyd summarily Executed
by Government Gunmen?"

These questions time by
confused unwaranted
gunplay the disclosure that
Service been trying to find
to such queries through undercover inquiry
Now for time rceyed official auhori
inside these shooting The
attending shoongs Dnnger
Green Nelson Fred Barker viii be detailed series
of exclusive articles beginning today Page AS.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Deputy Minister Dies in Fire.

SEBEC LAKE, Me-, July 81 R.-
Norman Mckenzie, 81, Nova Scotian
deputy minister Of mines and public
works, was burned to death yesterday
in q flaming cottage. He ran inside
the cottage to recover his)Relonging'
Evening star., 1936-07-31

American Honor Bestowed on
Jochim of New Jersey.
BERLIN, July 81 (P-Alfred A.
Jochim Of Union City, N. j., veteran
gymnast, today was assigned the hon.
or of carrying the American flag in
the formal exercises tomorrow OPEN
ing the elevelth Olympic games.
James w. O'Connor of Venice, Calif,
and Fred Lauer of Chicago, water
poloists, were appointed color guards.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Yesterdays Advertising

The circulation Of The
Star daily and Sunday reaches,
nearly all of the homes Of the
buying class of people in
Washington and the nearby
counties Of Maryland and
Virginia. x
Evening star., 1936-07-31
AGREEMENT RATIFIED
Turkey Votes Fund In Dardanelles

Refortif1cation.
ANKARA, Turkey, July 81 (P.-An
extraordinary session of Parliament
today unanimously ratified the Mont
reaux convention for Turkish reforti-
fication and control of the Dardanelles
and voted an extra War Department
credit Of 100000 for armaments and
Notifications.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
SLAYER DIES IN CHAIR

Texan Who Killed Casket Maker
in 1884 Pays Penalty.
HUNTSVILLE, Tex, July 81 R.-
Glenn Warren was put to death in
the electric chair early today for the
murder of Charles e. Cansler, ST.,
elderly zavalla casket maker, in Feb
ruary, 1884. Warren was placed In
the chair at 1901 am. and pro-
nounced dead eight minutes later.
Evening star., 1936-07-31

.(See SPAIN, Page Asp
Evening star., 1936-07-31

(See KNOX, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Great Market Place

Washington stands out as a
market place, not only on
account Of the thousands of
new people here, but because
of the high average buying
power of its population.
Washington merchants ap-
peal to the daily needs and
desires of this vast audience
through the columns of The
Star.
Yesterdays Advertising
Gocal Display
Lines
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Evening star., 1936-07-31
WEATHER.

90 o. weather Bureau ForecastO
Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow;
slightly warmer tomorrow; gentle winds,
mostly north and northeast. Tempera-
tures-Highest, rs, at 4:45 pm. yester-
day; lowest, 50, at $3.50 am. today.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
OLYMPIC FLAG VOTED

(See MILK, Page A-2.)
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(see HURRICANE, Page A-5O
Evening star., 1936-07-31

(See FRENCH, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1936-07-31

The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press News
and Wirephoto Services.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-11
TIPPECANOE MARCH
TO Be DRAMATIzED
WPA Historical Writers to
Present Pageant.

A dramatization of the famous
150-mile march of the army OF Gen.
william Henry Harrison from Vim
cennes to Tippecanoe in the fall OF
1911 is to be presented on the site
of Old Fort Harrison. near Terre
Haute. at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon.
Scenes from the history of In
diana are tc be re-enacted by staff
members of the Federal writers
project of the Works Progress Adj
miniStration.
The Harrison or Tippecanoe trail
covers IL counties and ends at Tip
pecanoe battlefield near Lafayette.
where one of the bloodiest battles
of the states Indiana history was
fought.
On site overlooking the Wabash
River near Terre Haute, Gen. Har-
rison drilled his army and con-
structed the fort in months time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-11
TROLLEY OPERATOR Is
ROBBED, POLICE TOLD
Armed Bandit Gets SIS in Hold Up
at 10th-st and Tibbs-av.

Roy Collins, 35, of 3245 w. Wash
ington-st, trackless trolley operator
reported to police today that an
armed bandit held him up at 10th
st and Tibbs-av when he stopped
the car and took SIS.
A masked burglar, surprised while
ranSacking the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl w. Weyl, 1920 Guilford-
av, Saturday night, drew revolver
robbed them of $37 and watch
valued at $50, police were told.
Slugged by two Negro bandits
early yesterday in the 1900 block on
Commerce-av, Charles Palmer, Sc
of 1888 N. Keystone-av, was robbed
of SIS, he told authorities.