davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-11-17
DAILY OIL OUTPUT
MOUNTS SHARPLY
Scars Over 1900, 600. Bar
rel Mark, With Gain for
Week of 69,419.
BY Il e Associated Press.

TULSA, Okla. November l7.-Pro-
duction of crude oil in the United
States jumped over the 5000. .o0o-bar-
rel daily mark again for the week end
ing November IA. increasing 69,4l9
barrels daily to 3,035, ,949, the OIL and
Gas Journal reported today.
Oklahoma Increased production co.
525 barrels daily to 587, 1926, East Texas
was up 1877 to 477,347 barrels daily,
but all Texas showed a reduction of
20,924 barrels daily to 1.140.6 GAL barrels.
Louisiana decreased 3,875 to 230.370
barrels daily, California was up 7.750
to 593,500 barrels daily and Kansas
increased 1880 barrels to l67,075.
Eastern fields. including Michigan,
decreased 479 barrels daily to 143, ,33l.
There was an increase of 3,842 bar
rels daily in the Rocky Mountain area
to 1922 barrels daily.
Evening star., 1936-11-17

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.-Com-
pany's plants are operating at Ca
pacity.
Evening star., 1936-11-17
MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL November II. Gp.-silver
futures opened hrmer. IS higher. De-
cember. 46.35b; March. 46.40b; May.
q. SOB. b-Eid.
Evening star., 1936-11-17
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK. November II R.-Esss.
1l'4s3; irregular. Mixed colors: Special
packs. 40a421s; standards. 3ea39h: re-
friserators. firsts. 2sAa94: other mixed
colors unchanged.
Butter. 9.465; frmer Creamery. hisher
than extra. 33Aaa4: extra (92 score), 80:
ls4-T scores. 30a31: centralized 100
Cheese. 225O24 quiet and UNCHANGED.
Live poultry slow and weak, BY freight.
fowl: Leghorn, 10a12: other freight prices
unchanged.
Evening star., 1936-11-17
y tie Associatea Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 17.-Indus-
trial convertible bonds were the center
of spirited bidding today while the
main body of the bond market moved
ahead moderately.
A few of the wider gains late in
the session were in American Type
founders convertibles, up about 8;
Allis- Chalmers 4t2s, up around Az;
American Rolling Mill 4ils, up about
3, and Walworth, Is, up roughly ia
Rails showed broad improvement.
Loans of Southern Railway and Mis-
souri-KanSas-TeXa drew special sup
port.
U. S. Governments improved a bit
after uneven movements during the
forenoon. Treasury 33ss, 1943, ed
vanced about Is of a point. while the
general list held 2-32 lower to 6-32
higher,
Evening star., 1936-11-17
ADVERTISING TOTAL
STAGES ADVANCE
Retail Space in Newspapers Of 81
Cities Up 6.3 Per Cent
Above 1885.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 17.-Adver-
Using Age reported yesterday that
retail advertising in the newspapers of
81 major American cities increased 6.3
per cent for the 48 weeks ending No
vember 7 over the corresponding 1885
lineage.
Lineage placed in these newspapers
totaled IT'S, ,269, SOL. an increase Of 49,
359,322 over the 729,0l0,369 total in
1895.
Lineage for the week ended Novem-
Der Z totaled 21,227,692, an increase
of 1912 per cent over the 1925, ,748
total in that week last year.
Evening star., 1936-11-17
HUMBLE OIL ORDERS
S4,5OO,OOO DIVIDEND
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex, November IL
The Humble Oil & Refining Co. has
announced a stock dividend Of $4,-
100000.
Directors yesterday declared the
regular quarterly dividend of rs cents
a share on 100000 shares and an
additional dividend of IS cents a share.
The dividend will be paid December
26 to stockholders of record at pm.
November Is.
Evening star., 1936-11-17
BOOKKEEPING SERVICE

Books started. balanced. kept audited:
social security. iacomc tar consuitnHts:
fnpestiodftoHs. estLte management: accu-
,'dfe, prompt; moderate rates.
ACCOUNTING & AUDIT SERVICE
WOODWARD BLDG. DI. 1920
Evening star., 1936-11-17
METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK. November II Pi.-Copper
export. 1885. Tin firmer; spot and nearby,
51.75-S7h; future, 81 .37h-50. Lead
steady spot, New York 5.20-25: East st.
Louis. sos. Zinc strong: East st. Louis,
spot and future, 5.O5. Iron, aluminium
antimony, quicksilver. platinum and WOLF
ramite unchanged.
Evening star., 1936-11-17
INVESTING COMPANIES

NEW YORK November II lP.-Nev
York Security Dealers Association:
moon quotations.
Evening star., 1936-11-17
ViscOse Exercises
Option on Tract
At Front ROYAL
~ the Associated Press.

FRONT ROYAL. Va. November II.
The Viscose Co. Of Virginia an
nounced last night 1t had decided to
exercise an option on approximately
800 acres here for the construction Of
q plant for the manufacture of rayon.
The local firm Of Weaver g. Arm
strong was instructed to examine the
title and prepare deeds for the land.
The Viscose Co.. with its main Of
fees at Marcus Hook, Pa, has large
plant in Roanoke.
Evening star., 1936-09-17
TROLLEY AND AUTO
CRASH, ONE KILLED
Contractor Dead, Compan.
ion Injured in Nearby Vir.
ginia Collision.
(Picture on Page BID
BY q STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAN Correspondent OF he Star.
WEST FALLS CHURCH. Va, Sep
tember 17.-One man was killed and
another slightly hurt when their au-
tomobile and a Washington & Old
Dominion Railroad Co. street car COL
lided here this morning. No passen-
gers on the street car were hurt.
Claude E. Wheeler, go, a building
contractor of Vienna, driver of the
automobile, was killed when the trolley
dragged his small car 95 feet up the
tracks The top of his head was cut
off. His companion, Wayne Snyder,
a painter employed by Wheeler, was
thrown clear of the wreckage to escape
with minor cuts and scratches.
The street car was en- route to
Rosslyn in charge of Motorman w. H.
Fox. 33, of Sterling, and Conductor
J. T. Keys. Fox was released under
a $1,000 personal bond for his ap-
pearance at an inquest tomorrow
No charge was placed against him.
The accident occurred where the
railway company's tracks cross West
Broad street on the Leesburg pike.
The automobile was en- route to Wash
ington.
DR.. E. c. Shull of Herndon, acting
coroner, said he will hold an inquest
at Herndon at Z pm. tomorrow.
Wheeler's body was removed to a
funeral home in Vienna.
Wheeler is survived by his widow,
two daughters, Mrs. Helen Warren,
Vienna, and Mrs. Evelyn Clause of
Oklahoma, and son, Victor v.
Wheeler, of Florida.
Evening star., 1936-09-17
Du P0nt Is Linked to Arms Trust
In Germany by Senate Probers
Reported O,Uner of Stock in Company.
"Amasing Contract" With Spy Giera
Is Cited in Final Report.

Senator Nye, Republican. of North
Dakota. declared in its final report
that the international commercial in
terests of such large organizations as
du Pont and Imperial Chemical In
dustries may precede in the minds of
those companies the importance of
national policy ="
Such considerations of commercial
interests were apparently foremost in
the rearming of Germany. beginning
in 1924" the report continued, "and
in the sale of process which could
be used to manufacture cheaper mu-
nitions in Japan in 1882. shortly after
Secretary of State Stimson had taken
steps to express the disapproval OF
this Nation for ,Japsns military &C
tivities in Manchukuo"
When the United States arms en-
barge prevented direct Du Pont sales
tSee DU PONT, Page A-l6)
Evening star., 1936-09-17
ALCAzAR REBELS
GET TLAST Warning
Fortress Blasting Delayed in
One More Chance, to
Surrender.
copyright. 1886, by the Associated Press)

kCOpyrlgnt. 1900, Dy tLe ASSoCidleu EEe>s'J
TOLEDO. Spain. September IL
Execution by explosion of 1,700 men,
women and children in Toledo's AL
cazar was postponed at the last min
ute today, the Mayor of the city told
the Associated Press, to give the be-
sieged Fascists one more chance TO
surrender.
The postponement also was ordered
to put finishing touches to the mining
of the shell-battered citadel, the Mayor
asserted.
However, he said. the Alcazar is like
ly to be blown up soon"
Government forces warned the 1,700
defiant insurgents and the non-com-
batants last night that refusal to sur
render would mean destruction of the
historic fortress with probable death
to all inside.
(Although the government set dawn,
Spanish time, as the deadline.. late re-
ports today from London declared the
situation at Toledo was unchanged
apparently meaning the blast had not
been set off,
Each Charge Ton Of T. n. T.
Socialist laborer-soldiers. working in
cramped quarters in tunnels under the
Alcazar. completed laying the charges
of T. N. T. yesterday. Each charge
consisted of more than ton of the
high explosive.
The mines were placed on either
side of the southwest tower of the
ancient fortress-palace under the Pu-
erta de Carros carriage gate) and
under the Puerta Capuchinos (gate Of
the Capucines).
Electric cables connected the charges
along 100 yards Of underground wires
to two switches in the office Of Mayor
Perez Aqua in City Hall.
The wires, which may carry death
to the voluntary prisoners, were
strung along Juan Labrador and Bis
cult oven streets.
Lieut.. Col. Luis Barcelo, military
commander of the Socialist forces in
Toledo, asserted he would give the
defiant Fascists q final opportunity to
surrender. He said he might allow
them two hours to make up their
minds.
Defied Attack Months.
Then, he declared, If the warning
were not needed he would press the
switches to blow the Alcazar sky.
high and end the siege of insurgents
who have defied all government efforts
to dislodge them for two months.
The governments terrible deci-
sion"- such because Of the
possible death of the women and chill
dren-was reached after 10 days OF
7See TOT EDO Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-09-17
His Back to Supreme Court
In Mural Puzzles Cu1,,n,in gs
Painting Outside Office
Recalls Warning to
Ne,U Deal La,cyer.

~ APARTMENT OF JUSTICE
/ lawyers-and it is rumored
/ even Attorney General Cum
- mings himself are lifting
eyebrows and scratching heads over
a striking mural by the noted artist,
Henry Varnum Poor, depicting an at
torney, presumably Cummings, argu-
ing the gold cases with his back to
the Supreme Court.
Legal experts recall that in one of
the New Deal cases heard by the
high court, lawyer, who turned his
back to the court in much the same
attitude as that shown in the Justice
Department mural, was cautioned to
direct his remarks to the bench in
stead of the spectators.
At Entrance to Office.
Poor's mural, a striking fresco panel
at the right of the entrance to the
Attorney Generals Office, is one of a
group f1anking the entrance and facing
it, in the fifth floor corridor Of the
Justice Building Each panel is de-
signed to represent special phase Of
department activities. although some
visitors are having little difficulty in
Immediately identifying them.
The gold case panel is in two parts
the upper showing scene in the Su-
preme Court chamber during the gold
arguments and a small bottom sec
ton supplying key to the picture in
the form of money bags. stacks Of
coins and gold bars and folded news
paper with headlines concerning
Gold" and ~. S. Government"
Done in strong, deep blacks, blues.
yellows and other colors, the court
scene shows Chief Justice Hughes and
two associates, thought to be Brandeis
and McReynolds, looking down on the
back of a frock-coated attorney
arguing the gold clause cases.
Resemblance Is Altered.
In the original sketch, it is under
stood, the attorneys face was un-
mistakably that of Cummings, who led
the Governments arguments in the
celebrated gold cases. For some
reason not known, the face was
altered so it bears less resemblance
to the Attorney General
Comment has been created also by
the fact that another lawyer, seated
at table right close to the justices.
is resting his head on his arm ss
though quite bored with the whole
proceedings.
The panel on the opposite side of
the entrance represents T. v. A. 1t
shows valley farmer and his wife
Evening star., 1936-09-17
EXERCISES MARK
CONSTITUTION DAY
Document Is Adaptable to
Changed Circumstances,
Cummings Says.

Attorney General Cummings views
the Constitution, 149 years old today,
as an elastic document, subject to a
variety of interpretations and adapt
able to changed circumstances.
He said so today at a luncheon
meeting of the Kiwanis Club of
Washington. His address was broad
cast over a National Broadcasting
Co. network.
1T would be erroneous to assume, !"
Cummings said, that our people have
reached a final solution of all their
domestic difficulties or that the Con-
stitution sets forth the criteria that
will resolve every doubt.
"As civilization has advanced and
modern conditions have displaced the
practices of earlier days, innumerable
questions have arisen presenting as
poets of great difficulty
Meanwhile James c. Wilkes, chair
man of the Republican State Central
Committee in and for the District,
issued a Constitution day statement
contending Gov. ALI M. Landon
stands for constitutional honesty and
the New Deal for constitutional de-
generation" He described the Con-
stitution as ''the very heart and soul
of our American form of Govern
ment," and condemned President
Roosevelt for recommending legisla-
ton without regard to its constitu-
tionality."
Upset Of Laws.
Attorney General Cummings only
mention of New Deal laws that have
been upset by the Supreme Court and
of untested legislation that has been
challenged as unconstitutional was to
say that such occurrences were an old
old story.
The marked differences of opinion
which have been made evident In
more recent cases." he said, after cit
ing dozen instances of constitutional
controversy, "are but characteristic OF
the entire history of constitutional in.
depreciation"
1T Is not my purpose to comment
on any Of these decisions" he added
II advert to them merely for the
purpose of directing attention to the
fact that learned and patriotic men
may honestly take differing views OF
constitutional questions when new
problems of a perplexing nature are
presented"
Within the great house of the Con-
stitution there are many mansions.
The questions which are left
open within its four corners are fire.
quently susceptible of more than one
Interpretation based upon reason"
Expressing confidence that sane
treatment of the Constitution will en-
able that document to continue beat
ing actively as the heart of the Ma
tions fundamental law, the Attorney
General concluded with the statement
| that:
Many difficult problems confront
us. In a growing Nation this must
inevitably be so: but we propose to
solve them within the framework OF
our existing institutions, which it is
our dearest purpose to preserve"
In addition to the Kiwanis pro-
| gram, which also included tableauz
(See CONSTITUTION, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-09-17
PROSECUTORS AID
IN PROBES URGED
Police Head Suggests At
torney Be Assigned to
Major Crime Inquiries.

With view to bringing about a
better coordination of police and
prosecutive functions. Maj. Ernest W.
Brown, superintendent of police, to-
day suggested to United States Attor-
ney Leslie C. Garnett the advisability
of assigning an assistant district at
torney to aid police in investigating
major crimes in Washington.
The proposal, made in letter, fol-
lowed receipt of information by Maj.
Brown that the United States attor-
news Office had indicated interest in
such plan.
In his letter the police superin-
tendent is reported to have called at
tention to the fact that New York
and other cities have assistant prose-
cutors assigned to work with detec-
tives in homicide and other impor-
tant investigations.
Garnett,. questioned by The Star
prior to Browns action, said that
while such a plan had never been pro-
posed to him. it might be a good
idea" He indicated reluctance to ini-
tiate a proposal to that effect. how
ever.
The proposal by Brown follows re-
curing rumors of police dissatisfac-
tion over handling of some criminal
cases by the United States attorneys
Office. Criticism has been voiced in
some quarters over delays in bring
ing cases to trial, bond reductions
and nolle pressing of charges.
Although the plan might not pre-
vent delays in trial such as have oc-
CURED in the negligent homicide case
of Morgan Glaze, colored motor1st,
who was arrested more than a year
ago and whose trial has been post
poned five times, it is considered q
definite step toward more effective
administration Of justice.
Garnett, in an interview with The
Star, declared he has received no COM
plants from the Police Department
regarding the conduct of his office
and denied emphatically there have
been any unavoidable delays, improper
bond reductions or unjustified nolle
pressing of cases under his regime.
Cites Record Of Convictions.
He pointed to his record Of con-
victions as substantiating his conten-
ton that cases have been vigorously
and effectively prosecuted. In all
cases, he asserted, bonds have been
recommended high enough to insure.
in the opinion of the prosecutor, ap-
nearance of the defendants when
called. Bonds are not intended to
keep defendants in Jail, merely to
prevent them from leaving the juris-
diction Of the court, he said. There
Evening star., 1936-09-17
BY the Associated Press.

Working in secret, draftless Office,
IL Senate investigators are complet-
ing jig-saw puzzle composed of
thousands of scraps of torn paper.
For three weeks. they have been
piecing together letters they said were
seized from the waste paper baskets
of two companies. accused by the La
Toilette Senatorial Committee of de-
stroying records soughts by its agents,
investigating alleged violations of
civil liberties in labor disputes.
The committee has asked a District
grand jury to consider "contumacy"
indictment against six officers Of the
Railway Audit and Inspection Co. and
the Central Industrial Service and
Affiliated Firms.
They refused either to produce their
records or to testify at the commit
tees first open hearing August 2l.
Tuesday they petitioned Federal
court here to enjoin disclosure Of their
correspondence which had been trans
mitted by the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph Cos.
Evening star., 1936-09-17
CAPITAL MAY FEEL
STORM LATE TODAY
Weather Officials Lack Sufficient
Data, However, to Fore
cast Course.

Whether Washington will feel any
effects from the tropical hurricane now
racing toward Cape Hatteras, N. c.,
may be decided before mid-afternoon,
when the storm center is expected to
begin curving either to the West or to
the North and Northeast. If the storm
begins moving northward, Washington
may feel more of its force than If 1t
turns to the West from Hatteras, in
the opinion Of officials at the Weather
Bureau.
Meanwhile, the local forecast Is
cloudy and cooler weather tonight,
with rain and cooler tomorrow. In
creasing northeast winds, becoming
"fresh" tomorrow, are forecast.
Along the Maryland coast rain is
expected tonight with increasing
northeast winds, reaching gale force
on the coast late tonight at the time
Of high tide. Virginia also Is ex-
pected to get rain tonight in the
southeast section, with rain tomorrow
and increasing northeast winds. with
gales and high tides on the coast TO-
, morrow. 4
Evening star., 1936-09-17
Senate Probers Hunting Secrets
In Jig-Sa,v of Torn Letters

Investigators visited the companies
Offices in seven cities last month and
seized a stack of shredded letters.
A crew of letter "pasters," mostly
girls, has been working in three shifts
ever since, reconstructing the mass of
correspondence.
Because the slightest draft might
scatter the fragments and ruin a
weeks work, windows Of the sorting
room are tightly closed and electric
fans are barred.
Robert wohlforth, committee secre-
tary, said some Of his employees had
become adept, quickly recognizing the
related scraps through handwriting
typewriting print and color Of the
paper.
He added that the work virtually
will be complete before the committee
resumes hearings Tuesday. The in
vestigation was authorized during the
last Congress into charges that en-
ployes were being intimidated by spies
hired to prevent the formation Of
unions. 4
Evening star., 1936-09-17
BY the Associated Press.


A report asserting that E. l.. du
Pont De Nemours g. Co. owns $780,
67l worth of stock in a giant German
armament trust has been made public
by the Senate Munitions Committee.
The report showed the Du Pont
company controlled 1893 per cent Of
the voting stock of the Dynamit
Actiengesellschaft - largest German
explosives manufacturer-and had in
vested s1.159.904 in another German
chemical firm, the I. G. Farbenindus-
trie.
An informal agreement between the
Dynamit company and the Du Pont
firm providing for the exchange of
information and patents and the di-
vision Of sales territory also was dis
closed by the committee.
The Senate Investigators, headed by
Evening star., 1936-09-17
LETTUCE STRIKERS
FEAR MASSACRE
Citizens Who QueIIed Riots
"Have Gone HayWire,"
Leader Asserts.
Ey the Associated Press.

SALINAS, Calf, September IL
Saying that a massacre is awaiting
you," A. S. Doss. secretary of the
Fruit and Vegetable Workers Union,
today ordered pickets to remain of
the streets to prevent possible repe-
tition of bloody clashes with officers.
do not assemble in groups. as it
means wholesale murder to do SO, "
Doss said in a pamphlet issued to
strikers
AS officers prepared to cope with
any further disorders, the Citizens
Association of Salinas also warned the
strikers: THE disorders have aroused
public Indignation"
Doss charged that the grower-ship-
per association was keeping workers
in the sheds under duress and alleged
that officers fought with those inside
the sheds.
The pamphlet issued by the Strike
Strategy Committee, through Doss,
said:
THE trap is set and is waiting for
you with wide open arms. In con-
ference late last night with Vic Bar
logic, city manager, the Strategy Com
Evening star., 1936-09-17
PARACHUTE JUMPER
HIT BY PROPELLER
Raymond T. Morders, 19, of Capt.
tai, Injured at Tetotum,
Va.

Struck in the back by the propeller
of an airplane he was cranking at
Tetotum, King George County, Va,
Raymond T. Morders, 19-year-old
Washington exhibition parachute
jumper and student airplane pilot,
was seriously injured today.
According to an Associated Press
dispatch, Morders was struck by the
whirling blades when he tried to stop
the airplane. which started moving as
he cranked it by hand. Morders was
taken to Mary Washington Hospital,
Fredericksburg, Va. 80 miles from
the scene of the accident. It was
said that he stopped at Tetotum to
visit friends
Morders makes his home here with
his mother at 1888 Wisconsin avenue.
Although he has been under instruc-
ton as an airplane pilot for more
than year. Morders has been known
as an exhibition parachute jumper
locally for about three years.
Evening star., 1936-09-17
Gibbons, 2 Other u. S. Ne,vsn,en
Are Held by Rebels in SPai,

feature writer and radio commentator
and H. r. Knickerbocker Of Interna-
tional News Service.
Reports reaching the frontier stated
the three were arrested on charges Of
failing to obtain military permits from
the Burgos Provisional Junta.
The Ambassador said any action
toward obtaining their release would
necessarily be indirect and unofficial
since the United States does not rec
ogniSe the insurgent government.
Evening star., 1936-09-17
EDEN LAYS GROUNDWORK
FOR L0CARN0 SESSION
" the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 17.-Recov-
cred from an attack Of chickenpox,
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden re-
turned to the foreign Office today
and began drafting note to Locarno
power representatives in London in
an effort to centralize diplomatic
exchanges preliminary to Q five
power meeting.
Germany and Italy have asked for
adequate" diplomatic groundwork
before a date is set for the session,
originally planned for next month.
: Informed sources said the note
contained proposals as to steps which
must be taken before Britain, France,
Belgium, Germany and Italy can
meet.