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Evening star., 1936-09-18
WARD TO DEMAND
MICHIGAN RECHECK
Notifies Governor as Result Of
Close Vote in Senate Race
Against Brown.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, September 18.-Louis B.
Ward, former washington represent
alive Of Rev. Charles e. Coughlin's
National Union for Social Justice,
notified Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald to-
day that he would demand q recount
of votes cast for United States Sen
ate aspirants in the Michigan Demo-
cratic primary.
On the basis Of incomplete returns.
Ward was trailing Representative
Prentiss M. Brown for the nomina-'
ton by $3.50 votes, with "a precincts
yet to be Tailed. His telegram to the
Governor explained that he was ask
ing Q recheck ''in the interest Of good
government" and because this result
Is SO close"
Ward asked the Governor to warn
election oficials that the law requires
them to preserve the ballots.
He referred to his opponent ~ the
''presidential-Jim Farley-F Frank Muir
ply hand-picked candidate" Muir
ply, appointed by President Roosevelt
successively as governor general and
high commissioner Of the Philippines,
was the successful candidate for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
The latest returns gave Brown 123.-
40 votes for the Democratic nomina-
nQn tor Senator and ward 1ls,63e.
Evening star., 1936-09-18
HIGH WINDS SWEEP
NORTH BEACH AREA
More Than Score of Small Boats
Sunk-Summer Visitors
Leave.
n, /. stat, Correspondent OF rne Star.

N 4 Stan Correspondent OF Tne Star.
NORTH BEACH, Md, September
i8.-Residents of this area became IN
creasingly uneasy today as high winds
swept through here and neighboring
bayside resorts.
More than a score Of small boats
were sunk in the choppy waters Of
the Chesapeake, although no deaths
or injuries were reported. All the
damaged craft were moored close to
shore when the storm struck following
warnings from the Weather Bureau
yesterday afternoon.
Many Washingtonians, vacationing
here through the end of the Summer,
were leaving the area. One 35-foot
pleasure boat, owned by William E.
Green, 1927 Pennsylvania avenue
southeast, Washington, was tossed on
the beach. Green estimated damage
at about 500. Total damage to other
craft here will approximate $1,000,
native declared.
Year-around residents fear q shift
in the winds from northeast to south
. east. Such change. they say, would
bring o rise in the bay and food the
entire area, as it did three years ago.
Numerous trees have been uprooted
: and shingles have been torn from
several houses bordering the beach.
|, The present direction Of the wiz6
has kept the bay at low tide levels.
Evening star., 1936-09-18
INDUSTRY OFFERED.
GIFTS 'YARDST|CK"
Urged to Base Chest Dona.
tions on Proportion of
Community Taxes.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

Proposed as q broad basis for estab-
fishing o ''yardstick" Of corporate
contributions to community chests and
private charities, Donaldson Brown,
chairman Of the Finance Committee
OF the General Motors Corp, suggest
ed to the Conference of Mobilization
for Human Needs that industry's con-
tribution to community chest budgets
should be in the same proportion as
industry's taxes to total taxes Of each
community.
Browns presentation Of this for
mula, which is now being tested by
his corporation. was made at . gem
eral meeting of the conference, after
which the group resolved itself into
sections for detailed consideration Of
this plan and others as they might be
applied to different classifications Of
industry.
Specifying that his suggestion was
directed primarily at the manufac-
turing group, Brown himself led dele
gates from that group in detailed con-
sideration Of the formula. At the
same time. Wendell Willkie. president
Of Commonwealth & Southern Cor
poration, was discussing the question
in the utility field, and M. w. Glenn
ents, president Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. was leading a group Of rail-
road executives. A fourth section was
considering application of some such
plan to the chain-store field.
Plan Is Summarized.
Briefly. the General Motors plan
follows:
q. As applying to those employers
conducting factory operations within
the community, Q preliminary quota
should be established by applying to
the total community chest budget that
percentage which the aggregate local
taxes payable by these employers are
Of the total local taxes payable by the
entire community.
-. The distribution Of this prelim-
mary quota among the various en-
pioyers should be in the same propor-
tions Is the factory employment Of
the several employers bears to the
total factory output Of all these en-
ployers.
"3. In order to facilitate Judgment
on the part Of each employer as TO
the extent to which his preliminary
quota is subject to discount IN the
light of appraisal Of the various ac-
tivities embraced in the community
-. YTI1T1N NCT7C po0e A.lN
Evening star., 1936-09-18
FATE OF HUNDREDS
IN STORM SOUGHT
Many Along Coast Are Iso-
Iated-Nine-Foot Tide
Sweeps Island.
BY the Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, N. c., September
18.-High seas and disrupted COM
munications shrouded the fate oi
hundreds Of residents Of the North
Carolina Sound country today after q
tropical hurricane which was reported
to have attained a force of 80 miles
an hour at some points
Telephone lines were down through
out vast area, and wind still whipped
the waters of the sounds to prevent
communication by boat. All points
with which contact could be estab-
lished, however, reported no loss OF
life.
Fear for the lives Of approximately
400 inhabitants of Ocracoke Island, OH
the Atlantic banks northeast Of Beau
fort was dissipated this morning when
the Coast Guard wireless there, after
being silent for hours. reported none
were washed away by a 9-foot tide
which completely inundated the COM
paratively tiny sandspit during the
night.
Heavy Damage Reported,
However, damage was reported
heavy except at the highly located
lighthouse, l3s-year-old haven for
the inhabitants, last night. Coast
Guardsmen at Morehead City, which
received the report this morning,
said the island ordinarily was only
or 6 feet above high tide. There
is no town Of any importance, the
community being composed of scat
tered fishing families.
The Morehead City Station also
had a report of heavy damage, but
no loss of life, at Hatteras, fishing
community near the famous cape.
Coast Guardsmen there were quoted
as saying their station. Of lighter con-
struction and more exposed than
most structures in the settlement, was
intact.
Mantle, and the rest of Roanoke Is
land remained isolated. The Coast
Guard sadio there was out Of COM
mission.
The fate of a score Of mainland
communities which usually feel the
full force Of such storms was likewise
in doubt. All except the farthest
inland sections of 10 counties were
cut OF from outside communication.
There was no word from Swan Quar-
ter and other towns just across Core
and Pamlico Sounds from Ocracoke.
Elizabeth City. town of 10000 people,
was isolated, and telephone companies
accepted calls subject to hours Of
delay into Hertford, Columbia. Ply
mouth, Camden and other commune
ties of considerable size in the area.
Evening star., 1936-09-18
WOMAN FOUND 4
BEATEN TO DEATH
Mrs. Florence Goodwin, U. S.
EmpIoye, Believed Slain
After Arising.

Her head smashed by blows from a
blunt instrument, the nude body of
Mrs. Florence D. Goodwin, 43-year-old
Government worker, was found early
today lying across the bed in her
room at 1102 Sixteenth street.
She apparently had been the VIC
tim Of o criminal assault.
Mrs. Goodwin, believed to be the
proprietor of the rooming house ut
the Sixteenth street address. was
found by . roomer. Mrs. AlphonDo
Phillips.
Mrs. Goodwin was lying on a cot.
in the rear of the second floor, with
. pillow over her head.
Later, police found blood-stained
furnace shaker - presumably the
weapon used by her assailant-in the
furnace. The shaker was taken to
police headquarters for examination
by flngerprint experts.
Three Questioned.
After examining the body. Coroner
A. Magrlder Macdonald expressed.
the opinion she had been struck four
times.
Three occupants Of the house-Mrs.
Phillips, Chase and one other person,
whose name could not be learned
Immediately - were questioned by
police.
Formerly employed at the Veterans
Administration and the Navy De-
partment, Mrs. Goodwin had been
working up to the time of her death
as typist in the Treasury Depart
ment. Friends in the Treasury Pro-
curement Division, where she was sta
toned, said he was at work yesterday.
Body Still Warm.
Mrs. Goodwin's body was still warm
when she was discovered and blood
was running from the wounds on her
head. This led police to believe she
was killed shortly after arising.
When she failed to put in an ap-
pearance at her usual time this morn
ing. the houseboy, Carl Chase. COL
ored, 900 block of w street, became
alarmed and notified one of the room
ers. who found the body.
Friends said Mrs. Goodwin had been
estranged from her husband for about
eight years. He Is believed to be on
the West Coast.
Coming here from Detroit, Mrs.
Goodwin had been in the Government
service about 18 years.
Served in War Department.
Her first job was in the War De-
partment, taking . position there on
October 21, 1918. At various times
since she has worked in the Veterans
Administration, Navy Department and
the Commerce and Agriculture De-
partments. She went over to the
Treasury Department in 1881.
Friends said she attended Lansing
Business College at Lansing, Mich.
DR.. s. Feldman, pharmacist in q
drug store next to the rooming house,
said Mrs. Goodwin was In his estab-
lishment about o'clock last night.
So far as could be learned, this was
the last time she was seen alive by her
friends.
DR.. Edward Gookin, q physician liv-
ing across Sixteenth street, told police
he saw q light on the second floor
front Of the rooming house about
$50 this morning. Mrs. Goodwin's
room was at the rear of the house.
Evening star., 1936-09-18
Velocity of 80
to 40 M. p. HI.
Due Here.
CITYONCAPES'
STORM EDGE
Driving Showers
to Subside by
Tomorrow.

Washington and its environs will
feel only slight effects from the hur-
ricane, the Weather Bureau reported
today.
Winds are expected to reach Q
velocity between 80 and 40 miles an
hour during the late afternoon.
Shortly before noon, the Weather
Bureau here reported the winds were
averaging 81 miles an hour and that
one gust" registered IS miles an hour
Heavy rains are not expected, but
the forecast calls for probable light
rains" during the afternoon and
night.
The winds will be northerly during
the afternoon, but at night will shift
to northeast. They are expected to
subside by tomorrow morning.
Basing his forecast on telegraphed
reports from the Virginia capes at 3
am, Forecaster Charles Mitchell said
he believes the Capital too far inland
to be seriously affected by the storm.
Earlier predictions, made on 2 am.
reports. were that the winds here
probably would reach as high as 40
or so miles an hour.
Maryland Harder Hit.
Meanwhile, conditions In Southern
Maryland appeared less favorable.
Telephone wires were down in st.
Mary1 County, between the Potomac
and Patuxent Rivers, and nothing had
been heard from that section at 10 am.
From Calvert County. came reports
Of high wind at $50. No damage had
been reported, however, and rains
did not accompany the winds.
Despite reassuring reports for this
section, authorities were prepared for
any unexpected developments.
In 4 special order to precinct COM
manders, Police Supt. Ernest w.
Brown issued instructions that all Of
ficers OF duty were to keep themselves
available in case of an emergency.
Commercial and service air fields
were prepared for any eventuality.
At Boiling Field and Naval Air Sta
tion the progress Of the storm was
watched closely. and ground crews
were ready to put all planes in hangers
and place them on blocks in case Of
high water.
Schedules of airlines running up and
down the Atlantic Coast were dis
rupted, but ships headed north and
west out Of Washington were going out
on time this morning.
Eastern Airlines cancelled all flights
from washington Airport.
Because Of unfavorable winds last
(See STORM, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1936-09-18
HALF.HOLIDAY SET
FOR U. S. WORKERS
Roosevelt Orders Time Of for
G. A. r. Parade Next
Wednesday.

President Roosevelt has granted
. half-holiday to all Government
workers in the District next Wednes-
day, the day Of the parade Of the
Grand Army Of the Republic.
The half-holiday was authorized
in an executive order by the Presi-
dent today, excusing employees from
duty until pm. The order in
cluded workers at the Government
Printing Once and the Navy Yard.
As has been the custom In the
past, when executive orders have
been issued excusing Federal workers
from duty. the District Commissioners
VIII make the order ply to en-
ployes n ths locl oov&hmant
Evening star., 1936-09-18

A vicious storm raged IN the IAN
gier Sound area, lashing Crisfleld and
Smith, Tangier and Deal Islands.
Falling poles put electric service out
Of commission at Deal Island. The
schools were closed there because rain
water rose high in the streets.
All Dorchester County schools were
closed.
Wind and rain whipped the entire
lower Eastern Shore. Telephone toll
lines went down in the area from
Onancock, Va, to Cape Charles, Va.
Those that remained open were held
for emergency service.
At Salisbury the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co. received re-
port from a Cape Charles, Va, en-
ploye that wind had unroofed several
buildings there. The report said q
church steeple toppled into the street
and residents were evacuating a hotel
because of the condition Of its
roof"
Mrs. Margaret Lewis, Red Cross
emergency relief director for the
Eastern Shore, was prepared to direct
ICno IITTPpTCAN pace ACN
Evening star., 1936-09-18

Licensing and regulation Of parking
lots and garages which charge fee
for storage of automobiles were or
dered today by the Commissioners In
adopting . report by the District
License Committee.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Ed
ward w. Thomas and License Supt.
Wade Coombs were directed to pre-.
pare ofiicial regulations conforming to
plans outlined in the report. The
regulations will 90 into effect Novem-
Der /, under present plans.
The license fees will range from $40
to $25 per year, depending on the
siss Of the area Fed for the parking
Of yehiclaG
Evening star., 1936-09-18
b. the Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va, September ia
United States Coast Guardsmen, using
q breeches buoy and . lifeboat, today
rescued IA persons from two endan-
gered houseboats on the storm-swept
Elizabeth River.
A lifeline was shot aboard one craft
flying distress signals at the st.
Helena base and three men and three
women brought ashore.
Even while this rescue was under
way Guardsmen noticed similar sig
mails from q houseboat 200 yards far
ther up stream. A lifeboat was put
out and q man, his wife and six chill
dren brought ashore.
Evening star., 1936-09-18
TITULESCU'S CONDITION
CONTINUES TO BE GRAVE

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 18-The Ru-
manian delegation to the League Of
Nations today confirmed reports that
physicians, treating the statesman,
Nicholas Titulescu, at Saint Moritz
for serious illness, are trying to
determine whether he was dsliber-
ately poisoned.
The former foreign minister, ousted
in a recent cabinet shake-up, has had
two blood transfusions and his life
still is in danger, the Rumanians
said,
Evening star., 1936-09-18
Parking Lots and Garages
Ordered Under Regulations

Where the area is 1000 square feet
or less the fee will be $40; between
1000 and $4,000 square feet, SIS;
where the area is in excess of $4,000
square feet, SIS.
The Commissioners invoked the gen.
eral license act of 1882 to bring about
regulation of the parking areas. The
fees were designed to cover the cost
Of inspection Of parking areas and
were not intended to constitute taxa
tion FOR the purpose Of producing ad-
ditional revenues.
The committee, headed by Thomas,
considered the loss Of revenues to the
District from TIE razing Of numerous
lsee PARKING, Page A-3l
Evening star., 1936-09-18
Ne,v YOrk.Mian,i
Plane Sets Record
On Southern Trip
Eastern Air Lines Ship,
Aided by Storm,
on Flight.
BY the Associated Press.

MIAMI, Fla, September 17.-East-
ern Air Lines reported today the
coastal storm helped its southbound
plane from New York to clip two hours
and 18 minutes from its scheduled
flying time.
The plane arrived here at 5:37 am,
making the trip in 6 hours IL minutes.
1t flew from New York to Raleigh in
2 hours, minutes, averaging about
212 miles an hour. The storm center
off shore at that time caused q tail
wind from the North along the planes s
course.
Evening star., 1936-09-18
BULLETIN.

tcopyrisht. 1886. by the Associated ersss.l
MADRID, September 1S.-The Fas-
cists Of Toledo's Alcazar withstood the
tremendous explosion Of q ton Of TINT
today and, from the cellars of the
ruined castle, manned machine guns
to hold of charging government
militiamen.
Even as the government carried out
the first part of its terrible decision"
to blow up the Alcazar, powerful syn
dicalists in Madrid, IN an ht-point
program which they declared was the
only effective means of crushing fas-
cism, demanded conscription of all
able-bodied men and sweeping admin
istration reforms.
The first of three great mines, laid
under the turreted Toledo castle where
1,700 men, women and children have
withstood shell fire for two months.
exploded with q terrific roar at 6:15
am. today.
Most of the southwest tower and
the west facade crashed down in an
avalanche of rock and masonry, and
SONC4A4l1CA4O LA1C
to plant the flag of the republic and
rained hand grenades at the passages
leading to the cellars.
Machine Gun Fire.
From the underground vaults. Viz
cious machine gun fire answered the
charge.
The initial blast, one Of three laid
as the result of the government's
terrible decision" to blow up the Al.
cazar and its imprisoned defend.
ers following their final refusal to
surrender. enabled government troops
to occupy surface buildings of the
old castle, but, apparently, did not
shake the Fascists from their grim
determination to die rather than
give up.
Government commanders, with
hand-to-hand fighting raging in the
ruins six hours after the blast, ex-
pressed confidence the Fascists' doom
was sealed.
They planned a bayonet charge late
in the day, if possible; otherwise, they
said, explosion of the two remaining
mines would follow a final demand for
release of the beleaguered women and
children.
Most Of these were believed unhurt
in the lowest cellars of the Alcazar.
There was no way of telling how many
casualties the explosion had caused,
however.
Explosion of the first mine at Toledo
and the Syndicalist ultimatum in
Madrid conceded with new and strict
regulations limiting the stay Of for.
eigners in Spain.
These restrictions were decreed, Of
fcials said, after it was learned that
(See SPANISH, Page AID
Evening star., 1936-09-18
II Rescued From, Households
By Coast Guard at Norfolk

The refugees were quartered with
friends nearby. Coast Guardsmen did
not take their names.
The steamer City Of Newport News
Of the Baltimore Mail Line, which
sailed for the Maryland city yester-
day, was reported today to be an
chored and riding out the storm ut
Smiths Point, IS miles below Balti-
more.
The Norfolk Washington Lines
steamer District Of Columbia was
forced to move away from her dock
early today and anchor Oh Hospital
Point. Six tugs assisted her.
The top Of the dance hAr at Ocean
Evening star., 1936-09-18
Hitler amnesty
Frees 100000
Nazi Offenders
Critics of Government,
Clergymen and Others
Are Included.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. September 1s.-More than
Q half million Germans have been
freed from entanglements in Nazi law
by Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler's birth
day amnesty, an oficial communique
announced today.
The vast majority OF the cases, the
announcement said, were prisoners
convicted and sentenced to minor
punishments, those whose penalties
Csee AMNESTY, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1936-09-18
Many Drown in Nile.

CAIRO, Egypt, September 18 R.-
Forty-five Egyptian workmen. their
wives and children were drowned to.
day in the collision of their outing
steamer with a sailing boat in the
flooded river Nile.
Evening star., 1936-09-18
STEEL WORKERS
PRESENT DEMANDS
Want Right to Share in
Hiring and Firing of
Employees.
By the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH, September 1s.-Em-
ploye representatives Of the Carnegie
Illinois Steel Corps sheet and tin
mills have asked the management to
give them the right to share in the
hiring and firing Of workers, it was
disclosed today.
The group also requested q general
wage increase, ranging from 8 to Is
per cent; longer vacations with pay
and increased pension rates.
Thirty-six representatives, claiming
to act in behalf of $4,000 men, laid
their petition before mill superintend-
ents at . three-day executive confer
ence which has just adjourned.
Increase Held Impossible.
Their requests came only q few days
after President Benjamin F. Fairless'
announcement that the company would
be unable to grant . wage increase
at the present time without "jeop-
ardizing the business"
The employe group asked a nat
increase of 81 a day for all workers
receiving more than IS a day and an
increase for lower-paid workers to
bring their wage up to the IS mini
mum. On this basis, the amount
asked would be approximately % per
cent for the lower-paid workers and
about 9 per cent for those making
$12.50 . day.
Pension Rates Asked.
The representatives asked that pen
sion rates be raised from $l2 to $50
q month, minimum, and 500 q
month, maximum.
The action Is the third by employe
representatives since Fairless gave
them the company's position in .
general letter last Saturday.
Earlier, representatives Of the TO-
600 workers at the Homestead, Pa,
plant demanded nat $1.10 day
increase and q IS q day minimum.
At the same time they criticized the
management's conduct Of collective
bargaining negotiations.
At youngstown, Ohio, employees Of
the company proposed that stock
owning employees be represented at
the next stockholders meeting In an
effort to obtain higher pay.
Evening star., 1936-09-18
Ton of INT Wrecks Tower.
Government Troops Storm
Ruins, but Meet Hail of
Machine Gun Fire.
HAND-T0.HAND FIGHT
RACES AFTER BLAST
Full Conscription Policy Is De.
manded of Madrid Regime by
Syndicalists in New Ultima.
tum-Recruits From Catalonia
Go to Toledo Area.

BACKGROUND
Catalonia, the four prouince dis
trict Which administers its opr
governmental AFFAIRS, Dds success
tul weeks ago in driving Fdscists
from its territory. NoU, as Spanish
ciml par enters its ninth week,
Catalan assistance to the Madrid
administration unites the Syndicdl-
lists and Socialists In q concerted
driue against the insurgent Fascists.
BULLETIN.
(Copyrieht, 1886, by the Associated Press. J
MADRID, September IA
tremendous blast from two huge
mines ripped Toledo's crumbling
Alcazar to pieces today, and, gov
ernment authorities estimated.
killed or manned more than half
of the buildings 100 Fascist de-
tenders.
Evening star., 1936-09-18
Man Believed Drowned, With
Two Others Missing Section
of Boardwalk Swept Away.
VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
COMMUNITIES ARE ISOLATED
400 on Ocracoke Island Find Refuge at
Light House-HamPton Roads
Cities Hard Hit.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN
Apparently striking northward for assault New
Jersey York the Atlantic hurricane shortly after
p today had lost none its intensity the Weather Bu
announced.
Evening star., 1936-09-18

(See HUMAN NEEDS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1936-09-18
WEATHER.

%. 9. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Cloudy, with probable light rains this
afternoon and tonight; tomorrow gener-
ally fair; strong northerly winds this
afternoon. Temperatures-Highe 80,
at 1880 pm. yesterday; lowest, 81, at S
am. today. Full report on page ALT.
Evening star., 1936-09-18

(See HURRICANE. Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-09-18

(See RESCUE PaseA-a.l