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Evening star., 1936-11-19

Nuns inscribed on an illuminated
parchment the names of $4,000 who
contributed $150.000 for new chapel
at Liverpool, England.
Evening star., 1936-11-19

quarterly or semi-annual payment. TAM
nual rats--not including extras. tAccu-
mriateo z pa,H aiv,aends raia snis ,.nsrsed yed
In receivership or being reorganised.
Evening star., 1936-11-19

Stocks and Sales
Dividend Rate. Add00. High. Low. 2:55.
Nipissing tab0c)- 2X 2k 2H
Mona Elec ta4oc) 10 1oh loh 10,t
North Am L q P 2 1 ~
North AmL&P Of zoos sl,1 81 81
Nor Am Util Sec-- ~ ~ ~
Evening star., 1936-11-19

Stocks and Sales
Dividend Rate. Add0O. High. Low. $3.50.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-20
BIG FISH LURE
ROOSEVELT

ABOARD SCHOONER LIBER-
TY, OFF SHELBURNE HARBOR,
N. S., July 20-0N.S0 Reports
that tuna, cod, pollock and had
dock were running off the south
eastern Nova Scotian coast in.
Spired President Roosevelt to
move out of his weekend harbor
at Shelburne and cruise the
schooner Savanna off shore for a
day of fishing.
Weather developments and
weather is most tickle in these
waters-were to determine where
the presidential flotilla would
anchor for the night. If reason
ably fair weather held, he planned
to sail up the outer coast of Liv-
erpool. If fog set in he probably
will return to Shelburne, where he
and his three sons spent the week
end achored about two miles off
the town. He might even start
back around Cape Sable in the di-
rection of Yarmouth.
Although the President is many
miles by land and sea from
Washington, he is keeping abreast
of all developments throughout
the world. Daily he gets a con-
densed radio news service which
goes to all navy vessels, and
which the conveying destroyer
Hopkins faithfully copies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-20
SWEEPS
DANISH SHIP

Zamboanga, P. l., July 20
G.N.SO Her engine rooms and
hold afire. the 6,000-ton Danish
freighter Nora Maersk from
Copenhagen apparently was
doomed to be total loss here
today.
The big ship locked yesterday
to load copra, and several hours
later a mysterious engine-room
explosion rocked her from stem
to stern. The fire broke out at
once.
The second assistant engineer
was reported badly burned, but
the rest Of the crew and seven
passengerS-five Americans and
two Chinese-escaped unframed.
Local firemen today were I'M
able to fight the raging fire,
since the vessel is anchored too
far out in the harbor.
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RHODES FACES
COURT AUG. ;
Continued from Page u


with the larceny of $4,000, which
he received from the Fidelity AsSo-
citation in the form of loan"
The "loan." it is alleged, was made
to Rhodes through a straw" man
for construction. Rhodes, how.
ever, is charged with using most
of the money to meet an overdraft
Of his own account with the COM
pany, of which he was formerly
president.
At the same time, Mr.. Barnett
declared that he was not ready to
announce whether or not any of
the former officials of the Associa-
ton will be employed in winding
up the affairs Of the Fidelity. At
the office of the association, in
quiry for officials was met by the
reply that they are no longer
with" the association.
AS explained by the office of
the comptroller general. the ap-
pointment of a receiver for any
bank or similar institution here
automatically cancels the connec-
tions of officials with the closed
company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-20
M|SLED
BY OFFICERS,
REPORT
Turn Destroyer Guns
on Cadiz, Unaware
They Aid Revolt

NDON, July 20 QN.SJ.
Unaware that their officers we're
rebelling against the government,
the crew of the Spanish destroyer
Churruca followed orders and
turned their guns on Cadiz, &C
cording to news received by radio
in London today.
Cadiz was subjected to heavy
bombardment up to the time the
last word was received at md
night.
Besides the fighting in the south
Of Spain, reports from Bordeaux,
France, said that shooting con.
tinues in San Sebastian, on The
Bay of Biscay. Many casualties
have been caused by Snipers firing
from the Hotel Maria Cristina,
there.
DestrOyers Ready
The British destroyers cairo and
Orion are standing by at Plymouth
ready to rush to Spain for the
protection of British subjects if
needed, the admiralty announc ed,
while the destroyers Whitehall ana
Wild Swan have been ordered to
remain at Gibraltar for possible
evacuation of BritonS from Spain.
The London Daily Mail reported
today from Hendaye that IS
Spanish workers in the Rio Tinto
mines were killed in a fight with
rebels. The workers, according to
the report. we're rushing to the
front to battle the insurgents with
dynamite, but we're ambushed near
La Panoleta.
The military governor at Jerez
de la Frontera, heart of the sherry
wine district, issued an order that
all workers must return to their
tasks within "a hours, or be shot,
The Mail reported.
General Coded Submits
A Reuter- agency dispatch from
Las Palmas. Canary Islands, said
that military authorities are in
control of Teneriffe and Las Pal
mas. A general strike is in
progress there, and the military
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-20
ALLIES
TO TOUR i. 5.
FOR LEMKE
Townsend, CoughIin,
Smith Set Dates for
Joint Speeches
By WILLIAM S. NEAL

CLEVELAND, July 20 U.N.SJ.
The campaign tour of leaders Of
three widely known organizations
in an effort to put Representative
william Lemke, Union Party candi-
date, in the White House, today
was tentatively scheduled to open
in Chicago on September Z.
The speakers will include Lemke,
DR.. Francis E. Townsend, whose
old-age pension organization ended
it's convention here yesterday;
Father Charles E. Coughlin of the
National Union for Social Justice,
and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith,
claimant to leadership of the Huay
Long share-the-wealth movement.
Other joint meetings are sched-
uled for Philadelphia on Septem-
Der l, Kansas City on October 3.
and New Orleans on october 10.
A Pacific Coast tour is planned
to start in California on Octo.
Der IT.
The alliance, formed during the
Townsend convention, was &C.
mented when Lemke told 10000
ToWnsenditeS in a mass meeting
here yesterday that he will sign
the $200-a-month old-age pension
bill if Congress enacts it into law.
While not fatty indorSing the
Townsend plan, Lemke declared
for an old.age revolving pension,
praised DR.. Townsend for his fight
for adequate pensions and de-
nounced the Roosevelt security pro.
gram as a sham.
Both the Roosevelt Administra.
ton and the Republican party
were denounced by Lemke, DR..
Townsend and the Rev. Gerald
Smith. They concentrated their
attack upon the "Roosevelt-Farley
dictatorship"
While DR.. Townsend attacked
the Roosevelt Administration,
Conner Smith of Oklahoma, vice
president, was making a speech
defending it. Smith attacked
Father Coughlin, branding his
liar" and "betrayer" speech as
vilification.
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authorities expect trouble as a re-
suit of their order that all work
erS return to work by Monday,
but so far there have been no dis
turbances.
London also heard that General
Coded, Catalonian autonomy
leader, spoke over the radio from
Barcelona announcing his per-
sonal surrender to the govern
ment, and appealing to the re-
mainder Of the Barcelona rebels
to submit.
A Reuter- message received in
London said the Spanish govern
ment has suspended all banking
operations for 48 hours, declaring
a moratorium on all debts for the
same peroid. Not more than 1000
pesetaS may be drawn from banks
at one time, the government ruled.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-20
Lenlke Hits President
And 'BrainleSS Trust

CLEVELAND, July 20 0NsO.,
Representative William Lemke,
presidential candidate on the so
called Union party ticket, bitterly
attacked the New Deal" in an ad-
dress yesterday before 5000 Town
sendites, branding it the enemy
of democracy"
Castigating the Roosevelt ad-
ministration and simultaneously
declaring himself for old age re.
volving pensions, Lemke declared:
"YOu cannot be for the Town
send movement and the Demo
cratic administration.
THE Administrations in
flated borrowing under the New
Deal means national lunacy.
We no longer have representa-
tive government. Due to cor.
rOded and corrupt political Sys-
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tenn, your Congressman no
longer write laws. The laws are
written by q brainlesS trust
ENEMY OF DEMOCRACY
"The New Deal has become
the enemy Of democracy. / was
forced to part company with
an Administration which does
not keep its pledges. / did not
like to part company with a
man considered a personal
friend, but this Government is
greater than any man born.
"They promised to drive the
money changers out of the
temple and drove them to the
basement where they mixed the
medicine and put more poison
in it than ever before. They
have put out money with moth
ing but hot air behind it,"
SECURITY ACT RIDDLED
Lemke ridiculed the social Sc
curity act, capstone of the New
Deals 1886 legislative program
as an insecurity program" de
claring:
This is sham legislation In
tended to cheat and deceive the
members of your organization
and leader. 1 say any man or
woman who works to the age Of
40 or so has created enough
wealth to last him or her for the
rest of their lives and should get
compensation without taking q
beggar'S OATH"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-20
Man, tO3,Loved Work,
Not Tobacco, Alcohol

BERGENFIELD, N. j., July 20
G.NSO.-Chauncey William John
son, Bergenfield'S oldest resident,
celebrated his 103d birthday to.
day, attributing his longevity to
hard work. II always worked
hard" said the former school
teacher who later acquired a chain
of hotels throughout New England
and the South. Retired from &C.
tive business for the past Is years.
Johnson said he never used to-
bacco or alcohol.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-20
Man Gets IS Years,
Wife 5 for Assault

DAVENPORT, Iowa, July 90
Q.N.S0 Freeman Smith, IS,
relief worker, today began a
25.year sentence at Fort Madison,
Iowa. State penitentiary for
criminal assault and his wife,
Mabel, started a five-year SEN
tence for enticing young girls
to her husbands room. Parents
of at least 10 girls, all under IA
years of age, filed complaints
that the girls were approached
by Mrs. Smith, and later GRIM
inally attacked by Mr.. Smith.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-20
The Winds Do Blow

GORHAM, Mass. GN.S0.-Na-
ture pays no heed to calendars
which say it is July. Motorists try
ing to reach the summit of Mt.
were stopped six miles
up on the road by three inches of
snow which extended as far down
as the Half Way House.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-20
CENSOR PUT 5
LID ON NEWS
ABRUPTLY
RoyaIists Routed By
Cannon Fire, Last
Report
CONTINUED from Page u

mined number OF non-commis-
stoned men, were captured or sur
rendered after a sharp clash with
loyal troops. The strongest rebel
group, concentrated in the Mon
tana barracks after the insurgents
captured the buildings with artil-
lery fire, surrendered after a four
hour bombardment with Six-inch
mortarS.
The white flag of surrender was
flown from the rampartS of the
fort at 10:40 q. m.
About 500 young Fascists quar-
tered inside the barracks we're
taken prisoners. Rebels holding
the Getafe barracks surrendered
earlier and a large quantity Of
rebels arms and ammunition was
seized.
The Vicalvaro and Maria Girls
tina barracks, also seized by
rebels when they entered the city,
capitulated shortly afterward.
Shippers ACTIVE
The government urged the
Socialist militia, most Of whose
members are young men still IN
their teens and numbering alto
gether about 10000, to remain
calm in the face of disorders, al
legedly aggravated by Sniping by
Fiscists hidden on roof-tops.
According to the authorities,
the FascistS are endeavoring to
provoke the militia into armed
outbreaks all over the city.
In general, the government
claims, the situation throughout
the provinces is improving.
Loyal warships are bombarding
Cadiz, where the governor gen
eral, with civil and assault
guards, is holding out against a
rebel attack. Loyal forces are
slowly gaining ground" at Sc
vile, understood up to now to
be in rebel hands. Forces from
other provinces are rushing to aid
the beleagured authorities.
According to the government
spokesman, the Seville radio sta
ton broadcast an urgent appeal
for q hydroplane, needed for the
use of General Francisco Franco,
rebel leader, interpreted here as
meaning he is preparing to flee
the country.
Rebels Bombed
General Quiepo De Llama, rebel
leader at Seville, telephoned
Madrid to inquire after the safety
of General Mola. insurgent chief
tain who set out from Burgos
but was put to flight by Madrid
bombing planes.
Meanwhile. obeying instructions
from Madrid, general strike
was declared through the interior
and Galicia.
Siege of the Montana barracks
started late last night. Shortly be-
fore Z o'clock this morning a mi
litiaman presented himself at the
entrance of the barracks to de-
mand surrender.
It was a rebel colonel who an
swered:
"In the name of my cOmpan-
ions, I say that we will not sur
render. We are not playing
politics. We want to save
Spain from a regime of bandits.
We will not fire until you fire"
Commander of the besieging
militiamen decided to promise a
truce for half an hour, during
which time the rebels sent for
bread. At expiration of the truce
the militia opened bombardment
with three and six-inch Schneider
mortars.
The rebels replied with light
mortars, machine guns =.
Editors note: At this point, the
Madrid telephone operator cut in
on the wire, announcing there
would be no further conversations
with Madrid until this EVENING"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-20
Six in Family Killed;
Infant Is Survivor

WASHINGTON. Pa, July 20
GN.SO. -Two-year-old Thelm q
Myers today was the lone survivor
of a family of six, five of whom
lost their lives in the wreckage
of their automobile near here.
The dead we're: John Myers, %;
his wife, Is; their 6-monthS-old
twins and son, Robert, 4.
Evening star., 1936-12-06
Shortage OF Iron.

Japan is short of iron and steel
scrap and Is trying to find sources
Of supply other than those in the
United States.
Evening star., 1936-12-06

new toys and clothing In exchange for
the usual pasteboard.
Gordon Hittenmark. "Your Time
keeper" Of WRC. called up In high
good humOr to say that his doll house
opened Saturday morning at the Will
lard Hotel corner. Fourteenth and F
streets, and that 1t would be open
There's even 4 slot for late stayers-
out to deposit gifts. With the assist
ance Of Alpha Zeta Beta Sorority
Members Virginia Lewis. Mildred
Mackin. Marion Anders. Janet Rock,
Mary Belle Mcintyre. Dot Miller and
Kathryn Cunningham of the Willard
staff. Gordon Is operating the doll
center.
Debutantes went shopping in the
Saturday rush to buy q gift for TIE
toy party at the pail mall room of
the Raleigh Hotel next Wednesday
night, where contributions to the
poor will be the only cover charge
At the same time headliners from the
Earle Theater rehearsed for this event,
to be broadcast over WRC at l0:3o
pm. The Raleigh party. they say,
comes under the heading Of . ma jor
social event.
Santa Claus called up and said he
was looking forward to mixing with
diplomats and Federal and District
Government dignitaries at the Shore
ham toy ball December Is, when tive
entertainment Of the evening will be
broadcast from 1890 pm. on. and the
cover charge Is contribution TO
charity. He will be pleased. he de-
clares. to ride up Connecticut avenue
with . police escort. It's q change
from reindeer. He knows. he says,
Evening star., 1936-12-06

taps one or the other, and rubbing
noses pleasantly after the battle is over
Their owner recently sent q picture
to q doctor friend, also dog lover
which consisted of his own head and
the head Of one of his pets.
The doctor admits he had to look at
the picture twice to make sure which
was which.
SLEEP.
A YOUNG man named Bill Owens,
who stays out until all hours.
makes sure he'll get up in the morning
by leaving a call at the desk Of the
apartment hotel where he lives and
then setting the alarm to go of 10
minutes before the call is due.
The system usually works. The
other morning, though, he shut of
the alarm at $40 and sleepily crawled
back in the hay. The expected hap
pened; sleep came back in . hurry.
Then the phone rang.
Did you leave q call for 9:30?"
asked the voice from the desk.
Yes" was the sleepy reply.
Well" said the voice. you'd better
get up then, because it's after TO-"
CHAMELEON.
The chorus girl is in again. Not
the same one irho has frightened
these columns before, maybe, but
one just like her.
This lass turned up at the cabaret
the other night a decided brunette
after havino left the place at noon
Just as decided blond.
Say, you look speH," said sis
ter choryphee. "Is that the shade
it used to be before you had it
bleached7"
Gee. kid" said the dyed lass, ~
can't remember uhdt the natural
shade Uds.'
MAIL.
WOMEN, it seems, get a great kick
out of dropping letters down
those nice mail-shoots in tall build
ings and watching them disappear.
This fact was evidenced q few days
ago in q downtown office building
when one secretary told another as
she got in the elevator with a hand
full of letters, Il just love to drop
letters in on the top floor and watch
them 60 down"
This reminded our eavesdropper Of
the story of what happened in q New
York skyscraper.
Evening star., 1936-12-06
Judges Policy
Cuts Sentences
Of All Women
Their Punishment to
Be Only T,UO-Thirds
of Mems.
b the Assoeiateo Press.

b the Assoeiateo Press.
PITTSBURGH. December 5.-Judge
NJ A. Musma nno said today he had
adopted a policy Of giving women de-
PENDANTS sentences only two-thirds as
heavy as those given men for similar
of1enses.
The presiding Judge of Allegheny
County courts announced his new plan
will apply in every case-'barring ex-
traordinary and especially aggravating
circumstances"
woman" he explained. "is made
Of . finer and more delicate fabric
than man, and thus reacts more sensi-
lively to hardship and distress"
He inaugurated the policy by cutting
10 days from 30-day sentences he gave
each of two women for driving auto
mobiles while under the influence of
liquor. He ordered Margaret Ruse. So
cially prominent painter, and Marie
Davis released tomorrow from the
county Jail, where he sent them last
month.
The bushy haired jurist, leader Of .
campaign In the county against
drunken motorists. said part of his
court philosophy Is this: The pri-
mary purpose of incarceration or any
penalty imposed by law Is not punish
ment but deterrence."
And it takes more discipline to deter
q man from wrong doing than 1t does
. woman, he concluded.
Evening star., 1936-12-06

great many Washington chimneys
and steam radiators and he hopes this
year to get acquainted with some he's
been forced to miss other years.
Those full socks on Christmas morn
ing will be made possible, too. by the
Russian Club Troika. the Heigh-Ho
and the Club VOlga Boatman. where
Christmas parties will be held, Decem-
Der IA at the Troika and December
Is at the Heigh-Ho and Volga Boat
man. Guests are invited to bring
something for the Star-Warner Bros
N. B. c. campaign.
John J. Payette. general zone man
ager for Warner Bros. called up to
say that he was glad he happened to
have two charming small folk-living
dolls-on his program for this week
He urges attendance at the toy matt
nees The schedule for them is as
follows:
Earle-Jane Withers In the Twen-
tieth Century Fox production, Paddy
O'Day."
Metropolitan-Joe E. Brown in
Warner Bros "Earthworm Tractors"
Tivoli-Freddie Bartholomew in
United Artists Little Lord Fauntle-
roy
Ambassador-Harold Lloyd in the
Paramount picture. The Milky Way"
Uptown-Laurel and Hardy in
M-G-M's Bonnie Scotland
Penn-Laurel and Hardy in M-G-
Ms Bohemian Girl"
Apollo-Eleanor Whitney in the
Paramount picture, "Timothy's Quest"
Home-Joe E. Brown In Warner
Bros Sons O. Guns"
York-Buster Crabbe in the Para
Evening star., 1936-12-06
Ickes to Speak in Forum

"THE future of housing and
public works, and the prob
lens involved. will be dis
\ cusSed by Secretary Harold L.
Ickes of the Department of the In
terror and Public Works Admins
traitor, in the National Radio Forum.
tomorrow at 1890 pm.
The National Radio Forum Is ar
ranged by The Washington Star and
broadcast over the network Of the
National Broadcasting Co.
For more than three years Ickes
has been in charge of the public
works program Of the Government.
Projects of all kinds and in every
State of the Union have been started
under his direction apd many Of them
have been completed. Public works
were undertaken on huge scale to
help the country toward re-employ-
ment and recovery.
With the coming Of recovery, the
part which public works is to con-
tinue to play is Of great interest.
There is great need in the country for
improved housing, and 1t is along that
line that the Government may be ex-
pected to do . great deal.
Evening star., 1936-12-06

These tiny folk ,ou the air Wednesday night at II
o'clock National Broadcasng Co. that is part
Of The StarWarner BrosN C. Christmas toy campaig"
planned there being forgotten child In Wash
igton this Christmas They Oue and George Brano 50
and 40 inches ta respectively who part OF the Earle
Thedter stage shoW this Ueek.
Evening star., 1936-12-06

1t seems that Just such q system
for disposing Of mail was installed
in one Of those so or 10 story struc.
lures, and when the first mail was
taken out by the postman, what he
found. to his surprise. was little more
than q pile of ashes. This tragedy
opened up q new field Of research, and
shoot systems now have loop-the-loops
and other gadgets along the down.
ward path to slow up the progress
of the epistles SO that friction will
not burn or scorch them.
FANS.
DOWN in Fredericksburg. Va, there
~ are some things the good burgh-
ers take seriously and foot ball is
close to tops.
Recently q group of Washington
reporters descended upon the town to
cover" q murder story. Instead of
the undercurrent of excitement there
should have been in q place like Fred
ericksburg during o murder investi-
cation, the local news boys found
amazing peace and quiet. The town
was not quite as deserted as a de-
funct Western mining village, but
almost.
The reporters hunted up some of
the authorities on the case-but found
them not. They went to interview
the various witnesses-but found not
. witness. Then they discovered the
reason. Everybody in town-"Every
one but the prisoner and the corpus
delecti." one reported said-was at
the foot ball game.