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The Washington times., 1936-08-06
OmIies Won Aviation
Fame in the South

Aviation which brought fame
and the distinction of being the
first woman ever appointed to an
executive position in Government
aeronautics today brought to Mrs.
Phoebe F. Omlie widowhood and
the sorrows which go with 1t.
Her husband, Capt. Vernon c,
Omlie. of Memphis. Tenn, was
one of eight persons killed when
an air liner crashed near ST.
Louis last night, just five minutes
after it had taken off from the
airport bound for Chicago.
Mrs. Omlie, winner of numerous
air derbies and races, is special
assistant for air intelligence, a
highly technical position under
the National Advisory Committee
for AeronautiCS. She lives at the
Dupont Circle Apartments.
In 1922 she was married to
Captain Omlie and together they
organized the first commercial
school for aviation in the South.
The Washington times., 1936-08-06
ACCEPTS
PRINCIPLES0F
NEUTRALITY
Rome Asserts France
Must Act In Role
Of Guarantor

ROME, Aug. 6 G.N.S) The
Italian government today agreed
to the principle Of strict neutrality
in the Spanish civil war on express
condition that any such outside
aid, as given bv Soviet Russia ia
the Red government in Madrid, BE-
outlswed by international conven-
ton.
Replying to the note from France
asking international pledges Of
neutrality, an official Italian com
munique stated such assurance
would be given only If the follow.
ing assurances were promised in
exchange by France:
That all nations refrain from
loans and public subscriptions to
either side.
That all governments refrain
from propaganda tending to
arouse sympathy for either gov.
ernment or rebel forces.
That all nations refrain from
voluntary enrolment Of rebel
or red sympathizers to aid either
side.
That the French government
will guarantee neutrality will be
maintained by all parties to the
convention.
The Washington times., 1936-08-06
BY EDWARD HUNTER

LERIDA, Catalonia, Aug. 6
G.N.SO There is a tall, fair
young woman handling a ma.
chine gun in the ranks of the
loyalist army near the village Of
TaTdienta. northwest Of Sara.
goSSa.
Her only contrast to the hun
dreds of other women serving
the Catalonian armies on the
Saragossa front is that she is a
foreigner, Dutch or German. ]
was bound in honor not to name
her because Of the danger 1t
might cause her in the future.
Many Women Casualties
Details of the Amazonian Situa-
ton in the Spanish civil war were
revealed to me as traVerSed Cata-
lOnia from the French frontier
through the area where LoyaltiSts
are driving toward insurgent Sar-
agOSSa.
Many women have been killed
or wounded. One Red Cross nurse
was killed and a woman warrior
was wounded when they were hit
by an airplane bomb at Bujaraloz,
midway between SaragoSSa and
Lerida.
The wounded woman IS lowering
between life and death in a crude
field hospital. They had not been
told that when an airplane bomb
is dropped, it is best to fall flat
on the ground. They remained
standing, and their heads were
horribly gaShed.
Every regiment, in fact almost
every small detachment OF the
loyaliSt volunteer army includes
women. 1t was difficult for me to
distinguish them from men, and
they had to be pointed out to me.
A woman wearing the cOnVen-
tional uniform" of blue OVeralls
and red arm band or red cotton
shirt, and boots or heavy shoes,
looks at first like any man in the
line, even if she is aipretty woman.
With dust on her fa&e, an Amazon
may be easily mistaken for man
in need of shave.
No Sex Distinction
There are no aIl-Women regi
ments. There is no sex distinc
ton in the Red army of Spain.
When one of the AmaZons was
asked how it felt for q girl tC
live among men soldiers in bar
racks or farmhouse billetS or un
der the stars, she replied:
There Is no problem about
that. / haven't had any rest
for days. Neither has any of
the men. We don't have home
facilities on the battlefield, and
we're lucky II we can wash our
faces. We've got too much else
to think about. Sex is never
thought Of"
She said she was 10.
1t is impossible to estimate how
many women are serving in the
siege of Saragossa. The figures
do not distinguish between mer
and women. but there is at least
one girl in every detachment
The Washington times., 1936-08-06
GAS, POISON
FELL I MEN

Found unconscious in the gas
filled kitchen of his apartment at
100 Tenth st. N. w. Michael
Jacobs. %. was in a serious con.
6ition in Emergency Hospital to-
day.
A friend, William Reitz. Smelled
gas, climbed through a transon
and found Jacobs over the stove
with several burners opened. He
called an ambulance.
An unidentified man about 40
years old was in a critical condi-
ton in Gallinger Hospital today.
suffering from the effects Of
poison.
The Washington times., 1936-08-06
EIGHT KILLED
IN AIR CRASH

Continued from Page II
the failure of the pilot to answer
his regular radio call. Some min
utes were spent in trying to con-
tact the silent plane, but still a
crash was not considered until
the ship became overdue at points
along the line.
1t was then felt certain that 1t
must be down and a search was
Instituted.
The wrecked plane, with bodies
OF it's eight victims, was found
soon afterWard in the vacant
field.
The Washington times., 1936-08-06
WOMEN FIGHT
LIKE MEN IN
RED SPAIN
No Sex Distinction in
Radical Armies,
Writer Finds

WomenS part in the Spanish
CiUiI tDdr is intimately described
today in the first dispatch by
EdWGrd Hunter from Commun.
iStic Catalonia. Hunter, Deteran
IDdr correspondent Of the Man
churid, Shanghai, and Ethiop-
ian campaigns, is the first
American to penetrate Catalonia
to report scenes in SoUietised
Barcelona and other spots on
the Red front.
The Washington times., 1936-08-06
Fairfax Adopts New
nti-Dumpinq' Rule

FAIRFAX COURTHOUSE, Va,
Aug. 6.-An ordinance making it
unlawful to dump trash on private
property was approved here yester-
day by the county board of super
Visors. A public hearing on the
proposed ordinance will be held at
the September meeting of the
board.
The Washington times., 1936-08-06
Man, 88, Hit By Ram,
Su(Cumbs 10 Injuries

SEVERNA PARK, Md, Aug. 6
William Yanke, 88-year-old retired
farmer, Succumbed to injuries
late yesterday sustained when he
was attacked by a pet ram belong
ing to his son-inlaw, Herman j
KinderS.
Magistrate H. M. Sandrock is
sued a verdict Of accidental
death.
The Washington times., 1936-08-06
NEW MENACE
APPROACHING
FROM REAR
5000 Start March on
City From Seville
in Southwest
Continued from Page y

Radicals sank l,500-ton warShip in
Guadaluuivir River to impede
further reinforcements.
AIGECIRAS- 5000 more in
gurgent troops ferried from Mo
rocco, 5000 more expected before
offensive against Malaga begins
this weekend.
Edward Hunter, in
first dispatch by American CORE
spondent from Catalonia, tells OF
important part women warriors
are playing in Red army.
MISUNDERSTANDING claim vic
tory in Somo Sierra pass, killing
500 loyalists.
Loyalists within 10 miles Of in
surgent Almazar, and "GlJon is
surrounded.
The Spanish government today
announced capture OF Cadiz, one
of the chief rebel strongholdS
since outbreak of SPANS civil
war.
SARAGOSSA-Reds and 1900
insurgents clash IL miles from
here; Insurgents routed with
heavy losses.
CEUTA-M orocC seaport
bombed by loyal warshipS.
PARIS-Germany, Russia, Italy,
Britain, Portugal. agree lin prin-
Ciple" to non.intervent!on in
Spanish civil war, but Germany
wants communist activities to be
investigated.
HENDAYE.-General Francisco
Franco. commander of the Insur-
gent movement in Spain, has ar
rived on the mainland from Moroc-
co at the head Of 5000 troops, it
was reported here today. Franco S
exact whereabouts were a secret.
Spa aims President Accused
The Washington times., 1936-08-06

.-VOIE AMERICAA-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12
Cakes, Pies, Farm
Produce Pay Cost
Electric Devices
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In .Che Sir Walter HOtel.
BY J.. G.. DASKERVlxIL

Raleigh, Aug. 12-Form women in
Currituck county whose homes are
on the newlyJbuilS rural electric
lines, have bought many new electri-
cal appliances, especially electric
stoves and refrigerators, and are
paying for them by selling farm pro-
duce and cakes, pies, bread and rolls
which they bake in their new stoves,
State Rural Identification Authority,
Chairman Dudley Bagley of the
said today.
Il have never seen people enjoy
electricity more than they are down
there in Currituck and in that part
of Dare County reached by these new
lines" Bagley said. when I was on
my way back from there recently,
several of the farm women by whose
homes passed came out and insisted
that | come in and see their new
electrical appliances as well as lights
The electric stoves and refrigerators
have become a revelation to them in
saving labor as we'll as in convent
ence.
Many of these farm women are buy
ing their refrigerators and stoves
from money they are earning in
community market they have opened
down at Mays Head where they sell
bptte.% eggs, vegetables, preserves,
jellies and especially pies, cakes,
bread and rolls which they bake in
their new stoves.
'"The summer residents in the cot
tages down at Mays Head have found
all these things to be delicious and
the market is usually sold out few
hours after it is opened each day
Uniform prices for the various artic-
les offered for sale are posted on a
blackboard, SO there is no price cut
ting and every woman gets the same
price for whatever she has for sale.
The Dare and Currituck county
agents help organize the marked.
MANY of the women who have
bought electric stoves and are pay
ing for them by selling farm produce
and pies and cakes, say that the
stoves are going to pay for them
selves as result of the increased
amount of work-free hours they are
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12
ReBalfs
PIEDMONT LEAGuE

PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Durham 3; Asheville 2.
Richmond 5; Norfolk i.
Portsmouth ! Rocky Mount 8.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia /; Boston 4.
Washington Z; New York 3.
st. Louis 7; Chicago g.
Cleveland 6; Detroit s.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 81; Pittsburgh 6-3.
Boston s; Philadelphia 4.
New York 8; Brooklyn 8.
Chicago 6; st. Louis 4.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

/ have this day qualified before the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Vance
County as Administrator of the estate
of J.. w. Murphey, deceased, late OF
said County, and this is to notify all
persons having claims against the es-
tate of said deceased to present them
to me duly verified on or before the
7th day Of August, 1887, or this notice
may be pleaded in bar of their re-
covery. All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate
payment.
This 9Th. day of August, 1896.
AL. B. WESTER,
Administrator of J. w. Murphey
tf Estate.
A. A. Bunn, Attorney.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12
TALLER ILLUSTRATES
ATTEMPTEDES ESCAPE
Lee Yancey Discovers Negro
Passing Seven Hacksaws
To Granville Convicts

Oxford, Aug. 12.-Willie Lewis, Ne
gro, was trapped by Jailer Lee Yam
cey yesterday at noon while he was
attempting to pass seven hacksaws to
two white prisoners in Granville coun-
ty Jail. He was arrested and placed
In Jail to await trial in recorders
court next Tuesday.
Lewis, according to Jailer Yancey,
had seven hacksaws wrapped in oil
paper and stuck into a loaf of bread.
He went in the Jail to see a priosner,
Nancy Thorpe, with permission of the
jailer. Yancey became suspicious OF
Lewis and watched him. AS Lewis
passed the cells Of Walter FARRELL and
Tuck Wheeler, white prisoners, Lewis
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12
HENDERSON, IN c. DISPATCH WEDNESDAY AUGUST n 1886

pulled the wrapped packages of hack
saws out of the loaf of bread, poked
them to the white prisoners and CON
tinued on to the cell of Nancy Thrope
Lewis Immediately Arrested
Jailer Yancey arrested Lewis al
once and called Sheriff E. p. Davis
They got possession of the hacksaws
Upon investigation, the officers learn
ed that Lewis was paid $3.50 by the
swo white prisoners to get the hack
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12
Wife Preservers

NOTICE.
Having this day qualified as ad-
ministrator of the estate of Mrs. Sue
Henderson Hines, deceased, late of
Vance County, North Carolina, this
is to notify all persons holding claims
against said estate to exhibit them
before the undersigned on or before
the 18th. day Of July, 1887, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. ALI persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate
settlement.
This 10th. July, 1885.
D. P. McDUFFEE,
Administrator of Mrs. Sue Henderson
Hines.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12

saws, which were bought at Creed
moor.
Roth white prisoners are from Hen
derson, farrell has appealed to the
Granville county superior court when
found guilty in mayors court of driv-
ing an automobile while under the in
fluerce of whisky and of transporting
whisky. Wheeler is being held in
Granville county jail for Vance coun-
ty officers on the charge of murder.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12

bringing in which they may make
pies, cakes, bread and rolls for sale
or gather and market their garden
produce. There is no doubt but that
these rural electric lines are bringing
new happiness to all these people.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12
[Toda8Ga1ne:s'

PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Rocky Mount at Portsmouth.
Norfolk at Richmond.
Asheville at Durham.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington at New York.
Philadelphia at Boston.
Detroit at Cleveland.
st. Louis at Chicago.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York at Brooklyn.
Boston at Philadelphia.
Chicago at ST. Louis.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12
NATIONAL LEAGUE

1934-Radio broadcasters and orch
estra leaders form committee to ban
suggestive songs.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12
NOTICE OF SERVICE BY
PUBLICATION.

fOBllCAION.
In The Superior Court.
North Carolina:
Vance County:
Mary Dale, Administrative of the es-
tate of William Dale, deceased.
VS..
Mary Dale, Ernest Dale, Andrew Dale,
Harry Dale, and all other persons
who In any contingency are or may
become interested in the lands of
described in the petition herein
whose names, ages and residences
are unknown, if there are such in
esse, by their guardian ad Item.
The defendants Ernest Dale and
Andrew Dale, and all other persons
interested in the lands described in
the petition filed in this cause, will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Vance County,
North Carolina, said action being
filed by the administrative of the late
William Dale to sell land to make
assets to pay the debts Of the said
William Dale, deceased, and the said
defendants above named and all other
persons interested in said land will
further take notice that they are re-
quired to appear at the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of said
County in the courthouse in Hender-
son, N. c., on the 7th day of Septem-
Der, 1885, and answer or demur to the
petition filed in this cause, or the
plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said petition
This 9Th day of August, 1886.
e. O. FALKNER,
G. S. G. Vance County.
A. A. Bum. Attorney
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-12
Notice Of Sale Of Lane
For City Taxes
North Carolina, Vance County,
City of Henderson.

The following named having failed to their
the year 1885, due the City of Henderson, have this day
levied on the following estate situated the City of
erson which will the Court House Door Vance County
Monday September H. 1885, at IL o'clock Noon to satisfy
said taxes and the COST
This the 18th day of August 1886.
S. B. BURWEII, City Clerk.
Evening star., 1936-08-08

THOUSANDS of Washingtonians,
| motoring to Front Royal, Va,
/ for the three-day celebration
of the centennial of Warren
Evening star., 1936-08-08

Continued on Page B-5.)
Evening star., 1936-08-08

~ NE crop, at least, has flourish
4 Ehed in this Summers ter
rife drought-the crop of
~ schemes for making rain.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Bill Raymond, Safe Company Employe, Has
Learned Much of Human Nature and
Machines Many Myths Exploded.

now serving time for rif1ing Flor
ida safe of $4,000. The police got
him. Jail officials asked him to
oblige them by opening an Office safe
while he was awaiting trial.
Il watched him. Raymond says.
He went at it like a child-practi-
cally wrecked a nice safe. And he
didn't open it, either"
The recurrent story about a banker
having famous burglar released
from prison for day to open a safe
for him is just folk tale of the safe
trade, according to Raymond. No
sensible banker-and he says bankers,
unlike crooks, have plenty of sense
wants known criminal working on
his dial locks. The criminal could,
and probably would, return and do
the job unsupervised. And besides
there are professional safe openers.
Forgetting safe combinations isn't
as common as one might think, Ray
mond said, explaining the nature of
his duties. Business houses alter the
combinations of their money deposit
tories whenever an employe knowing
that combination leaves, most large
concerns receiving new numbers sew
eral times yearly.
In private homes the departure of
trusted buffers or personal maids is
followed by a call for a safe man,
who gives out new set of digits to
remember. Buffers must know the
olal combinations Of silver vaults or
else kitchen crises might occur If the
lady OF the house was late getting
nome from q cocktail party, musicale
or paddock.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
By VIII p. Kennedy.

THOUSANDS of Washingtonians,
motoring to Front Royal, Va,
for the three-day celebration
- of the centennial of Warren
County, now in progress, are seeing
for the first time John Marshall
Highway. now nearing completion
after l6 years of effort.
This highway, 80 feet wide. will
eventually be 2OO-foot parkway
from the National Capital to the
first great national park in the East.
1t is designed to accommodate heavy
tourist traffic from New England and
Northeastern States to the front door
of Shenandoah National Park, COM
prising 10000 acres of scenic beauty
and the famous 100-mile Skyline
Drive. which connects at the southern
end near Waynesboro with the pro-
jected 500-mile mountain-top highway
to the Great Smokes. At Front
Royal it leads to the entrance of
George Washington National Forest,
800 square miles in the Massanutten
Range, which, noted geologists say, is
an absolutely unique mountain area,
and to the famous United States
Governments Remount Station.
The John Marshall Highway. of
which only some IA miles remain to
be completed, is the shortest route
to the Shenandoah C72 miles from
Washington and has the slightest
grade, reaching an altitude of 918
feet at Manassas Gap. compared with
2,700 feet at Thornton Gap, on the
Lee Highway. with consequent saving
in time, gasoline and oil.
Lee Highway U. S. 211-Va. 500
overlaps the original route of John
Marshall Highway from Washington
through Arlington. Falls Church,
Fairfax and on to Gainesville. There
the new John Marshall Highway
QRoute $50 swings off to the right
and proceeds through Thoroughfare
Gap, the Plains, Marshall (which
was originally Salem), Markham and
Linden to Front Royal. 1t passes
through the Blue Ridge Mountains
on an almost imperceptible grade at
Manassas Gap.
1t is the short route to the heart
of the Shenandoah Valley, at Front
Evening star., 1936-08-08

quite unwittingly, was responsible for
a fine manual on cracking safes, pub
lished by the National Bureau OF
Standards about so years ago, as a
part of the bureaus research on locks.
RAYMOND says. It was the text book
of the underworld for decades, until
safe construction and locks changed
drastically.
Today a man in a Southern State
publishes a book for locksmiths SELL
ing for $25, with large sale among
students of safe-opening. according to
Raymond.
1T is full of misinformation," he
says.
A COLLEGE for safe robbers was
operated in New York some years
ago, until the police closed it. where
experts instructed the young on en-
tering all types and makes of vaults
and safes. Examinations were held
before graduation, alumni being let
loose to make a dishonest living with
minimum of risk.
But really skillful safe openers are
not crooks, Raymond contends. The
experts are making good living
working for safe and lock concerns.
It's poor business, he thinks, to work
all night on some money box only to
find nothing in it, the heart-break-
ing experience safe cracksmen often
endure. Raymond sums it up. "All
crooks are dumb" he says.
Raymond speaks disparagingly Of
the skill Of "Al" House, with an en-
viable reputation as "can opener,
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Bv VeSta Cummings.

~ RACKING SAFES Is the pro-
fession of William E. Ray
~ He does a high-class job,
too, is known as master with finger
tips, drills or acetylene torches, and
has never served a sentence in jail
Bill" Raymond works for safe
and lock company. He is one of the
men who might be rushed to your
place of business or home if you for
get the combination of your safe,
your wife for the emerald dog collar
she wants to wear to dinner.
Hundreds of persons die annually,
leaving wills of immense interest to
their relatives inside their safes, but
thoughtlessly taking the combina-
tions of those safes with them to the
grave.
Legalized safe-crackers like Ray
mond get at these documents eventu-
ally, by use of trained hands If pos
sible, or tools if necessary, while heirs
and attorneys stand by.
Calleo In 10 open a Dank Sale soon
after cashiers funeral, Raymond
noticed figure scratched on the face
of the door. Looking closer he found
three more. They proved to be the
combination numbers. It saved the
bank the price of opening the safe.
Another time Raymond found the
combination of a dead mans strong
box written on the wall nearby. Per-
sons have a habit of jotting down
combination figures in a handy spot,
he says. He always examines wood
work and wall paper before trying to
open safe.
Fearing that safe breakers oper-
ating outside the law might pick up
a valuable point or two, Raymond re-
fused to divulge the exact technique
of getting into safes without tools or
dynamite. The Federal Government,
Evening star., 1936-08-08
!" "|Want Fascinating Job? Crack Safes Legally

Raymond doesn't know why, but
husbands and wives never share the
knowledge of combinations jointly.
The man knows the one in the Ii
brary safe and wine cellar. the woman
the one to her jewelry safe and the
silver vaults.
When you buy a safe the comoina-
ton is usually sealed and tied to a
handle, and it is not the practice of
safe companies to keep a record of
that combination. If you have the
series changed the safe man tells it
to you and forgets it.
WARNING customers not to let
w these figures slip their minds
often results in their decision to
write them down and keep the paper
in the safe" Raymond says. 1t is
ritual now for him to point out the
disadvantage of having the combina-
ton locked up inside the safe itself.
He has had to open number of safes
with drills to get at these informing
slips of paper.
An unprincipled safe expert once
made a racket of remembering COM
binations. He did not burglarize safes
at night as he might well have done,
but when called to open a safe he
wrote the figures on his thumb nail
worked around the safe bit before
dialing it correctly, and then COL
lected a stiff fee from the grateful
owner. Raymond regards remember
ing combinations as unethical. Buy
ers want safe men to be excellent
forgetters. he says.
President Roosevelt had the combi-
nation of his safe changed to digits
associated with something dear to his
heart in his private life. Apparently
the President Just keeps the figures
in his head.
Human nature Is constantly break
ing down under tie strain OF pro-
CONTINUED on Page B-e)