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The Washington times., 1936-11-16
By THOMAS A. LOAYZA

MADRID, Nov. 16 Q.N.S0.
Insurgent assertions that a foot
hold has been gained by invading
troops within the borders of Ma
drid itself we're answered today
by a slashing loyalist aerial at
tack directed against insurgent
air bases.
While the capital counted more
than 100 dead as a result of week
end air raids, a fleet of loyalist
planes attacked Avila and Tori
jos, crippling seven German-made
airplanes in the former town. Air
craft and hangers were bombed
at TorrijoS.
In an attempt to calm a popu,
lace panicked by insurgent claims
the capital has at least been in
vaded, the loyalist Junta issued a
communique insisting the invaders
were forced to retire. 1t said:
"The rebel attempt to cross
the 'Frenchmen'S Bridge yes
terday was the most violent and
bloody of any yet launched.
After a fOur-hOur battle, during
which government troops blew
up the bridge, the enemy was
forced to retire without reaching
its objective. Three tanks were
put out of action"
Government spokesmen insisted
the fliers who bombed Madrid yes
terday we're German or Italian.
The declared:
Spanish insurgent pilots re-
Continued on Page 2. Col. II
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
FATHER, SON
MUST BEGIN
JAIL TERM
Two Men Denied Delay
Until District Jury
Law Is Tested
International e1-ews Service

Representative John H. Hoeppel
CD of California, and his son,
Charles, under sentence of four
months to a year in Jail on con-
viction of conspiracy to sell West
Point appointment, today lost an
appeal to the Supreme Court for
rehearing of their petition for a
writ of review.
The action exhausted the
Hoeppels appeal to escape service
of the sentence.
The Hoeppels have been held in
Jail in Richmond, Va, in default
of bond.
In their rehearing petition they
sought delay until the high court
rules on constitutionality of a law
under which Government employees
can serve on jurieS in the District
of Columbia. They maintained
their case hangs on the COURTS
ruling on the law.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
D. {. PERSONAL
TAX UPHELD
International News Service


The Supreme Court today de-
MED the petition of William Cog
ger for review of his unsuccessful
suit in lower courts to have the
District of Columbia personal
property tax law declared uncon-
stitutional.
Cogger contended that the law,
by exempting members of Con
gress, the President and Cabinet
officers, violated constitutional
guarantees.
The District Supreme Court
held the act valid in granting a
mandamus to the Commissioners
to compel Cogger to file re-
turn. The Court OF Appeals did
not pass on the constitutional
question, but held that he could
be compelled to file a return.
Cogger's chief reason in appeal
ing was oobtain decision on
the constitutional question by the
highest court.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
French Pilot Seeks
Paris-TokYo Record

PARIS, Nov. 16 GN.S).-Seek-
ing a record for the Paris-Tokyo
round trip solo flight, Andre Japy
today was winging over Eastern
Europe in a special monoplane.
Japy, one of the contenders in the
unfinished Paris-Saigon race, left
LIE Bourget Airport at 11:46 p. m.
Sunday (6:46 p. m. E. S. TD and
passed over Strasbourg at 1923
a. m
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
80 Robbery Suspects
Held inHOtel Raid

criminals flock to the cities in an
attempt to pick up loot.
With a crime wave under way
here for several weeks, with scores
of persons victims of purse snatch
ers, strong-arm men and thugs,
police are making every effort to
rid the city of undeSirables.
Lieut.. John Fowler, department
criminologist, has been assigned to
direct the robbery squad, and the
raid today was staged under his
supervision.
Polcie officials admitted this is
only the first of a series of raids
to be staged until the crime wave
has abated and criminals have
been taken into custody or have
| fled the city,
The Washington times., 1936-11-16

East, a German-Japanese military
alliance of inestimable weight in
the world balance of power has
been agreed upon between Berlin
and Tokyo.
Information to this effect was
brought to Shanghai today from
Tokyo by Paul Patterson, presi-
dent of the Baltimore Sun, through
a japanese censorship so strict
that two Tokyo newspapers were
suspended for publishing hints of
the alliance, and foreign CORE.
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
EXPLOSION.
AVERTEDAS .
TENANTS
Oil Trucker Dares
Death; Grocer Aids
Trapped Families

Two expectant mothers and q
crippled man were carried to
safety early today as fire broke
out in an apartment house at
Tenth Street and Rhode Island
Avenue Northwest.
Scores of tenants who fled the
flames scantilly clad, huddled in
the freezing wind as firemen
fought the flames. and one of the
expectant mothers was rushed to
Columbia Hospital.
Feats of heroiSm were enacted
as the fire forced the tenants to
carry their effects to the street.
One woman, Mrs. John Barton,
remained at the side of her hus.
band who lay stricken in bed, re.
fusing to allow him to be moved
until she was sure no other alter.
native remained, for fear he
might succumb to the pneumonia
attack he suffered last week.
Explosion Averted .,
When the fire started, F.. D. wa.
then, of 4031 Ninteenth st. N. E..
was filling the gas station tank
from his 2,0O0-gallon truck. With
flames licking his feet and legs
and the truck in imminent dam
ger of explosion, he drove the We
hicle away from the flames. He.
escaped with slight burns on his
legs.
Eugene Wemple, manager of a
Sanitary grocery store at Eleventh
and @ Streets, around the corner
from the burning building, smelled
smoke and ran to investigate.
Hearing the screams of women,
he rushed into the blazing build
ing and awakened many sleeping
tenants. On the third floor Wem-
pie came upon George H. Maiden,
who is in i'll health and has only
one leg. Malden's wife was at
tempting to get him out of the
building.
Picking the man up in his
arms, Wemple carried him to the
street, then went back into the
building and aided other tenants.
He could not persuade Mrs. Bar.
ton to leave, however.
Women Trapped
Mrs. S. R. Painter, with ner 23-
month-old son Bobby and Mrs. S.
w. Jenkins, who shares an apart
ment with her on the first floor,
carried their belongings to the
street. Visiting them at the time
was Mrs. Levi Taylor and her 20
month-old child, Norma Lee. The
three women's husbands we're at
work when the fire started.
Mrs. William Daniel, who lives
on the second floor, first carried
her 2-yeaT.old daughter, Rosa Lee,
to safety.
Mrs. Louis B. Cook and her 49,
month-old daughter, Judith, hud'
died in the cold, with many others
until the fire was over.
Sidney Pearson, an attendant Of
the filling station nearby, could
not give the cause of the fire.
It is believed, however, that
fumes from the gas truck became
ignited by an oil stove inside the
station.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
Reveal Japan, Reich
In War Alliance

Details of the new military a.
lance. betWeen. Germany. and
Japan, erecting barriers of guns on
each side of the Sopiet Union, 10ere
disclosed to International NeUS
Service in Shanghai today By Paul
Patterson, president of the BGIti-
more Sun, on his GrriUGl there
from Tokyo.
BY M. C. FORD
Copyright. 1885, by
International News SerVice)
SHANGHAI, Nov. 16.-Flanking
the Soviet Union with the might
est war machines of the West and
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
Bandit Victims Safe

PEIPING, Nov. 16 Q.N.S0.-The
Rev. and Mrs. Abraham WienS, of
Dinuba, Cal, who were reported
captured by bandits, today tele-
graphed the United States embassy
saying they were safe at Chotze-
shan, in Suiyan Province.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
Rescue Crew Seeks
Two Trapped in Mine

SUPERIOR, Mont, Nov. 16
0N.SO "A rescue crew of so men
strove frantically today to save
two miners entrapped in a cavein
in the Windfall placer gravel tun,
mel, Is miles south of here, from
being drowned.
Water which poured from a
spring into the lower levels of the
mine, where Antoine Gustafson, 40
and his partner, Oscar Gevart, 45
were imprisoned Saturday by a
fall of rock and dirt, was being
damned in an effort to keep ii
back until the men could be re
moved.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
7 |NSURGEN7
A|RPLANES
WRECKED
Madrid RetaIiates For
Deadly Raids Over
Capital Sunday

AVILA, Spain, Nov. l6 U.N.S).
Spanish nationalist troops under
Col. Juan Vague swept into
Madrid from the northwest to-
day, it was officially announced
from white headquarters at Salar
manca.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
Howard Hughes Crashes

NEW YORK, Nov. 16 GN.SD.
Howard Hughes, millionaire flier
and former film producer, had
escaped injury today from the
slight crackup at Curtis Field OF
an airplane he was plotting. A
strong wind caused the plane to
nose over as Hughes landed after
keeping a golf engagement.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
.'COULDN'T BE
BETTER''

u simply couldn't have
gotten better results from
my furnished apartment
ud in the Herald and
Times Double Quick
Won't Ads. Congrutuld-
tons" suYs Mrs. VIM.
Dinsmore.
The quickest way 10
rent your rooms, apart
ment, or house is TO ddver-
tise in the Herald md
Times Double Quic
Won't Ads, District $3.50 or
District 1000.
The Washington times., 1936-11-16
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair and colder with lowest temperature
about rs tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer.
MEAN rENEnED ATT1DEc
Evening star., 1936-04-19
CH|LDREN'S CARE
TO Be DISCUSSED
Topics Scheduled for Ma
tional Convention of
Christ Child Society.

The national convention Of the
Christ Child Society will be held here
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
April 27-29, with delegates from IS
States In attendance, Miss Virginia
Merrick, president of the society, an
nounced yesterday.
Concluding the session will be a
dinner at the Wardman Park Hotel
on April 30 at 1880 pm. with Bishop
John w. Mcnamara as guest of honor.
DR.. George Ruhland, District health
officer, will speak on "Convalescent
Care for Children" at the annual
meeting Of the society, to be held a
week from Tuesday in the huge new
gymnasium at the Christ Child Settle
ment. 608 Massachusetts, avenue
northeast. Other speakers will in
clude Miss Jane Hoey of the Social
Security Committee, on Settlement
Work in the Prevention of Juvenile
Delinquency" and Representative
O'Connor Of Rhode Island, dentist
Congressman, on The Value Of Dental
Care"
The Christ Child Society Settlement
specializes on the problems to be
discussed in these three talks. 1t
operates modern fresh air farm and
convalescent home for children at
Rockville, Md. and established the
first free dental clinic in Washington.
In addition to the speakers men
toned, the settlement house will be
open all day April % for public in
spection.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
DriHers abandon
Fishing for Bit
At Hospital Well
Shift Is Made in Work
at Glenn Dale
SdnGtOrium.

Well drillers at Glenn Dale, Nd. site
of the Districts two tuberculosis hos
pitfalls, have stopped fishing" for the
driller's bit that inconveniently drop
ped to the bottom of we'll No. several
months ago.
Col. Dan I. Sultan, District En-
gineer Commissioner, who attended
the dedication of the Childrer's Hos
pital on the site yesterday. said drilIers
have left the bit buried in the mud and
sand, shifted the hole few inches
and are trying to reach rock bottom.
The well is now 800 feet deep.
Water has been struck at various
stages Of the well. it was said Num-
Der well is adequately supplying all
the water needs of the hospital Col
Sultan said. and added that "it won't
be long now" before the third we'll is
completed. Number well is not being
used at all For several months it has
been yielding muddy water.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
P STREET PAVING
ASSESSMENTSDUE
Property Owners Must Pay.
Rate May Be $3.50 Per
Square Foot.

Property owners along P street in
Georgetown not only are to be deprived
of the sentimental value of the
old Belgian cobblestone paving from
Twenty-eighth street to Wisconsin
avenue, but also will have to pay as
sessments for new paving, of probably
$3.50 a front foot, it s!me out yester-
day at the District Building.
Furthermore, study Of dusty old
tones indicated assessments had been
levied back before the 1880s, but even
if property owners could produce re-
ceipts they would be Of no avail, it was
said.
While the amended District paving
law provides generally that when one
assessment has been paid for paving
there can pe no later repetition at the
expense of the abutting property own
erS, there is a provision outlawing
original assessments OF the P street
paving date.
Certain on Assessments.
Oficials of both the street and as
sessing divisions were certain there
would have to be a new assessment for
the new paving which the Commls-
Evening star., 1936-04-19

sioners decided Friday must be laid to
replace the old cobblestones.
In ruling that the work must pro-
ceed, the Commissioners turned deaf
ear to the pleas Of group Of George
town residents that the historic stones
be retained.
Highway officials explained that re-
paving is essential because the street
car tracks have been abandoned and
are scheduled to be taken up soon.
Only the car track area cannot be re-
placed, they said, because the base for
the remainder of the pavement is too
sandy and uncertain.
Concrete Base Necessary.
While the Commissioners might be
persuaded to lay new paving con-
sisting Of square cut stone 0nstead OF
the round-edged Belgian type), some
officials said it would be necessary to
lay a concrete base which would
greatly increase the cost.
Under the paving law half the
cost may be assessed against property
owners, with the exception of the
intersections, for which the District
pays all, and of cases of corner and
irregularly shaped lots. But in nc
case can the assessment exceed $3.50
a front foot or three and half cents
per square foot of the owners property
Rates have not been calculated
finally, but it was said the cost would
run around $3.50 front foot. On q
lot so feet wide and 100 feet deep,
therefore, the cost would be $125
Owners are allowed three years in
which to pay the bill.
The controversy recalls suggestions
considered several years ago that the
cost Of paving all streets in the Dis
trict should be charged against Dis
trict revenues generally, instead of
against abutting property owners who
Evening star., 1936-04-19

by the tuberculosis Association from
1917 to 1923, he explained, provided
the idea of sanatorium care on "a
hour basis.
Club Furnished Impetus.
It was not until December Of 1928
that the Monday Evening Club fur
nished the impetus that resulted
eventually in Congress making the
first appropriation for the Children's
Sanatorium. Mrs. Grant was appointed
chairman of the Legislative Commit
tee to help put the bill through Con-
greSS. AS the other members OF the
committee, DR.. CroSson mentioned DR..
F. G. Smith, assistant surgeon general,
Public Health Service; DR.. William
C. Fowler. District health officer; DR..
j. Winthrop Peabody, superintendent
of the tuberculosis Hospital; DR..
George M. Koker, president of the
tuberculosis Association; George S.
Wilson, director of the Board of Pub
lie Welfare; DR.. Percy Hickling, chair
man of the Health Committee of the
Board of Trade; DR.. Joseph Rogers,
similar chairman for the Chamber of
Commerce, and DR.. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent of public schools.
The original appropriation of $780,
300 later was increased to S625, 900 and
approved by President Hoover in 1880.
Next followed the purchase of the 216-
acre site at Glenn Dale, looking to the
location of the adult hospital at a
later date. On June 80, 1882, Mrs.
Grant, then president of the Tuber-
culosis Association, lifted the first
shovel of earth for the Childrens
Sanatorium.
Congress provided an additional
100000 in the Spring of 1888 for
completion of the institution as orig
inally planned to provide 300 beds. In
the same bill it appropriated 100000
to plan an adult hospital.
Dedicate First Unit.
To-day we dedicate the first COM
plete unit in this splendid undertaking,
representing an expenditure of over
$2,000.0O0," DR.. CroSson said.
Rev. DR.. w. L. Darby. executive
secretary of the Federation Of
Churches, delivered the invocation at
the exercises and Rev. DR.. Lawrence
Sheehan, assistant director of Catholic
Charities, pronounced the benediction.
On the stage, in addition to the
speakers, were Senator Gibson, Re
publican, of Vermont, who sponsored
Evening star., 1936-04-19
TALL CEDARS TO MARCH

Members of Forest No. 104 of the
Tall Cedars of Lebanon, combined
with Baltimore's Forest No. As, will
join the Johnny J. Jones exposition
shows in a parade from Union Sta
ton Plaza Wednesday night to grounds
at Fifteenth and H streets northeast,
where the fraternal organization is
sponsoring show.
A permit for the parade already has
been issued. 1t will proceed from Sec
ond and California streets northeast
down Second to G. street, east on G
to Third street, then north on Third
to K street, east on K street to Mon
tello avenue and down Montello to
Neal street, which leads directly to
the lot.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

had not paid one assessment. The
argument was that streets are not
laid for the benefit only Of those
living along 1t.
In other words, all District resi-
dents would pay for all the new pave
ments, just as they now pay for all
street requirements. Many District
officials favored the plan but have set
it aside, for the present at least, fear
ing congressional critics Of the Dis
trict would have a new weapon in
charging that District taxpayers do
not pay enough taxes.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

pated, but also because hillary draln-
age from liver and gall bladder is
not normal.
Hence, ordinary laxatives that act
only on bowels to temporarily relieve
constipation still leave you feeling
terrible. Pluto Water, however with
its amazing double dction), relieves
all these troubles at the same time.
First, Pluto gives you a sure, gen.
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Evening star., 1936-04-19
URGES BUS STOPS

Roberts Proposes Service Along
Stretch of 18th Street.
Establishment OF bus stops along
Eighteenth street from Calvert to
Connecticut avenue during non-rush
hours is proposed by Peoples Counsel
William A. Roberts in petition to
the Public Utilities Commission.
Roberts believes this would meet
complaints from some patrons along
this section of the bus line that they
have inadequate service. The present
nonstop stretch saves little time,
Roberts argued.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

the first appropriation; Dr. William D.
Tewksbury, Dr. j. Winthrop Peabody,
superintendent of the Adult Hospital,
and DR.. D. L. Finucane, superintendent
Of the Children's Sanitarium.
Among others at the dedication were
Elwood Street, director of public well
fare. and Rev. David v. McCauley,
S. j., dean of the Georgetown Medical
School. An orchestra of the United
States Army Band furnished music.
Mrs. Grant was absent in New Or
leans attending a convention.
Before and after the dedication the
new wings were thrown open for in
spection.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
KEYSTONE CLUB DINNER
Platform on Traffic Matters for
Year to Be Discussed.

Members Of the keystone Automo-
bile Club will celebrate the COM
pletion of two years activities in
Washington at a banquet to be held
Thursday at pm. in the main ball
room Of the Willard Hotel.
The clubs platform on traffic mat
ters for the coming year will be pre-
sented for adoption at the meeting.
The entertainment program will in
clude music by the George Washington
University Glee Club and several spe-
cialty acts by New York entertainers.
]. Borton Weeks, president of the club,
will speak.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

Constipation, liver
and gall bladder
troubles often come
together. Millions
suffer them daily
yet don't know why.
Often, physicians
say, it is not only be-
cause Ynu're cnnsti.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia-Fair, not so
cool today; tomorrow partly cloudy
and warmer; gentle to moderate west
winds.
Maryland and Virginia - Fair,
slightly warmer in interior today; to-
morrow partly cloudy and warmer,
possibly followed by local showers in
extreme west portions in afternoon.
West Virginia-Fair, slightly warmer
In west portion today; tomorrow partly
cloudy and warmer, followed by show
ers in afternoon.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
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BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Army Band.
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy conducting,
at the Army Band Auditorium to-
morrow evening at o'clock.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

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HOUSE & HERMANN
Silver Spring. Md.
INDIAN HEAD ELECTRIC CO.
Indian Head. Nd.
MARYLAND ELECTRIC
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1O6 Maryland Ave-,
Hyattsville. Md.
MORELAND MOTOR CO.
Waldorf. Md.
WARNER ELECTRICAL SUPPLY
II29 King St., Alexandria. Va.
3I51 Wilson Blvd. Clarendon, Va.
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