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Evening star., 1936-10-10
OFFENSIVE RENEWED.
War-Weary Government Troops At
tack as Syndicalists Protest.

tack as Syndicalists Protest.
MADRID. October 10 R).-Bedrag-
gled government militiamen fought
furiously today in a renewed govern
ment offensive at Pelayos as Syndi-
calists in Madrid charged inactivity
breeds decentralization"
Backed by artillery, the war-wearied
Socialist troops concentrated des-
perate attempt to regain the strategic
town of San Martin de Valdeiglesias
from positions 43 miles due west OF
Madrid.
The offensive was launched as Syn
dicalists in the capital criticized de-
fensive operations, asserting:
"Our forces should be sent to march
on insurgent attackers in order to
clear the whole central plateau"
The Socialist newspaper Informa-
clones caused a sensation in Madrid
by asserting Fascists had claimed as
sistance, during the final drive. from
fifth column inside the capital"
dispatches, concerning the "in-
side" column were cut drastically by
the Spanish censor, although indi-
cations were given mass arrests Of
Fascist suspects followed the news
papers story1
Shell San Martin.
On the Pelayos front, three gov
ernment six-inch guns rained steel on
insurgent encampments along the
eastern outskirts of San Martin.
Opposing the attack were strong
forces of Moorish Cavalry attached
to the Facist column which clashed
with Socialist militiamen in deadly
struggle on foggy hillside.
Smoke from the shells mixed with
| clouds banked low over the valley II
which San Martin is situated Will,
a government Tank Corps rumblet
ahead sending machine gun fire int
the insurgent lines.
Government commanders assertet
a Fascist column advancing from
Maqueda toward Navalcarnero wa
being supported by strong squadron
Of foreign bombers and fighters
The column was declared nearin,
valmojado. s miles southwest O.
Navalcarnero.
Evening star., 1936-10-10
.URNS MAY PROVE
SACK CRIME LINK
Vanish From Home of Bos-
ton Victim-Suspect Lyons
Feared Slain.
picture on Page A-O
By tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
WEYMOUTH, Mass, october 10
The disappearance of two large con-
crete urns from the home OF Mrs
Gracye Asquith, 4o-year-old widow.
identified as the Boston Harbor sack
victim. puzzled investigators today.
At the same time police advanced
the theory that John A. Lyons. So
year-old disabled World War veteran
and friend of the photographers
model, might have been slain. also.
Lyons was missing from his Boston
residence. His clothes were intact and
a Government pension check was
awaiting him.
Third Man Sought.
Police continued to question Oscar
Battalini, so, chef and odd-job man,
who said he last saw Mrs. Asquith
September 10. A third man-an en-
gineer aboard a fishing boat-was
sought.
This case isn't solved yet and it's
far from being solved at this mo-
ment," Capt. John F. Stokes, chief OF
State detectives, said.
The cottage of Mrs. Asquith was
found blood-spattered after the legs OF
a woman were retrieved from Boston
Harbor.
Flesh Found in Plumbing.
All available clues indicated she
was the victim, police said. They were
further convinced when pieces Of flesh
were discovered yesterday in the
plumbing system of the cottage. As
sistant District Attorney George Ar
buckle said he believed the woman's
body had been hacked apart in the
bathtub.
Investigators linked the unbound
head and torso with the missing
flower urns. One was large enough
to hold a body, they said.
Evening star., 1936-10-10

II did not think it would do any
more harm for me to chain him than
some one else" Leeth said from his
Jail cell. Robert would start and
run off-and he lied. tried to break
him of it: sometimes he stayed away
all night"
Oficials said Robert told them fear
of his stepfather caused him to run
away from home.
II don't care what they do" Leeth
said when informed the court might
place Robert in a home. Neither, he
said. did he care when he was released
from jail.
School officials notified authorities
when Robert came to school yesterday,
the heavy chain padlocked around his
neck and wrapped around his waist.
with several links trailing on the
ground.
Evening star., 1936-10-10
Ey tre Associated Press.

~ Tie ASS0cldteu FIeSs.
CHICAGO, October 10.-The bill
for alcoholic beverages in the United
States since the end of prohibition
was placed by the American Business
Mems Research Foundation today at
So, 900, 900. 900. or $4,65s.75 minute.
The organization said it used Gov
ernment figures and current retail
prices for its basis In calculating the
expenditure per family in post-prohi-
bition's 40 months at $259.65.
During the period extending from
the relegalization Of beer in April,
1888, to August l. 1885. the organiA-
ton placed the Nations drinking bill
at an average of s6,70s, 900 day.
Purchases, the report added, amount-
ed to $46, $50, 200 week and s20i.-
25S. 900 q month.
Liquor production was set at 4,5o7,-
Evening star., 1936-10-10

LONDON, October 10 (P).-For the
first time since the great war, women
are returning to work in the NUM-
tions factories.
The official London Gazette an
nounced today that women over 18
may be employed filling 3-inch NOR
tar bombs in certain factories.
Evening star., 1936-10-10
SEED IN HIS LUNG
16-Month-old Child Recovering
in Richmond.

RICHMOND, Va. October 10 P.-
Surgeons at Memorial Hospital probed
into q lung Of 16-month-old George
Allen Broughton and pulled out .
watermelon seed. 1t had been there
four days.
The child, a son of Mr.. and Mrs
J. Broughton Of Bestland. Esse1
County, was reported as doing fine'
today after the operation.
Evening star., 1936-10-10
BRUSH FIRE FLAMES
FATAL TO MECHANIC
Leesburg Mans Clothing Ignites
While Clearing Site for
Gas Station,
.eial Dispatch to The Star.

erecial Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, Va, October TO-
Flames enveloping his clothing from a
brush fire today fatally burned James
Breckenridge, a.. of Hamilton, en-
ployed as a mechanic in a Leesburg
garage.
He was burning underbrush to clear
q site for new gasoline filling station
when his clothing became ignited. The
brush fire was being fed with gasoline.
With his clothing ahame, Brecken-
ridge staggered about and tripped twice
to fall into the blaze. Other workers
stripped of his burning clothing.
Scared from head to foot, he died
shortly afterward at the Loudoun
County Hospital here.
Breckenridge, World War veteran,
leaves his wife and one son.
Evening star., 1936-10-10
MRS. LAURETTA E. HOLSON-
BAKE AND HER SON, DONALD.

Seven-year-old Donald Hardee lay
in Sibley Hospital today, the victim of
an automobile accident in which his
mother, Mrs. Lauretta E. Holsonbake,
33, was killed as they stood waiting
for a street car in rainswept safety
zone in the 5000 block of Wisconsin
avenue last night.
Mrs Holsonbake and the boy. son
by former marriage, were struck a
few minutes after leaving their home
at 1925 Wisconsin avenue. They were
on their way to meet her husband, H.
H. Holsonbake, at Mount Alto Hos
pital, where he is employed as a nurse.
The Holsonbakes had been married
about six months.
Was H. o. L. C. Stenographer.
Mrs. Holsonbake, a stenographer for
the Home Owners Loan Corp, was
taken to Georgetown Hospital in a
taxicab. Physicians pronounced her
dead on arrival. Her death brought
the District traffic fatality toll to "a
for the year.
The boy, after receiving first aid,
was removed to Sibley, where attend
ants said he spent fair" night. He
suffered a fractured leg and concus-
sion. The family maid. Celeste Gray
son. "a, colored. Alexandra. Va. who
was standing with them waiting for
a street car, was treated at George
town for shock, cuts and bruises.
Authorities said the automobile was
driven by John H. Coblentz, "a, Mid
dleton, Md. He was released under
81 1000 bond, pending action by Cor
oner A. Magruder Macdonald.
According to eighth precinct police,
Coblentz said he was blinded by the
lSan WOMAN page A.2l
Evening star., 1936-10-10
Guide for Readers

Complete Inder on Page AZ.
Evening star., 1936-10-10
FRENCH REDS YIELD
TOOFF|C|AL BAN ON
A[SACE MEETING
Reports Germany Increases
/ Frontier Guards Are
Held False.
COMMUNIST SESSIONS
TO BE LIMITED TO 10
Rightists, Peasants and Catholics
Join in Determined Move
to Halt Even These.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Peoples Front government 1rith
Leon Blum at head came to poDer
| as result OF May elections in
! France, and Immediately faced
! organized Increment by ertreme
Lettists for radical social legisld-
ton, increased wages and shorter
. hours.
Communists, despite their sup
port OF the Blum government along
NTH the Socialists and Radical
Socialists, took the lead OF 1cide-
spread occupational strikes in
French industrial establishments
phich continued through the Sum-
mer.
Evening star., 1936-10-10
Women Making Shells.

(See ITALY, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1936-10-10

(See LANDON, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-10-10

(See WOMAN, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1936-10-10

(See FRENCH, Page A-2.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-22
CHAIN STORE PLAN
FOR VICE Barred
Luciano Discussed Project
With Associates, Woman
Witness Says.
Ey the Associated Press.

EV the ASSOCIATED FreSS.
NEW YORK, May 22.-Charles
lucky Luciano, a witness swore in
Supreme Court today. once expressed
the desire to operate New York's sl2.-
600, 900 vice racket as c'Iain groceries
are run.
The witness, 29-year-old "Cokey
Flo" Brown. sweetheart of James
FREDERICK. henchman of Luciano, had
been recalled to the stand by Special
Rackets Prosecutor Thomas z. Dewey
at the trial of Luciano, FREDERICK and
others on charges Of compulsory
prostitution.
She was the second person to link
Luci: -, definitely with the wholesale
operation of disorderly houses in the
metropolis. She swore she attended
several conferences OF Luciano. Fred
erico, Little Davie" Betillo and
Tommy Bull Pennochio, at which
the vice business was openly discussed
in her presence.
Last October, Miss Brown said, Lu-
canio complained business was bad,
and expressed fears the Dewey inves-
tigation would imperil their safety.
She said Luciano told the others he
had thought Of putting the business on
chain grocery store basis. hiring
madames and paying them salaries.
outright, instead of letting them op-
crate Independently with girls booked
through the syndicate. However, Lu-
ciano thought it might not work out
as well. Miss Brown said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-22
RAND DENIES STRIKE.
Holds Syracuse Labor Statement As
to Closing Distorted.

NEW YORK, May % LP).-James
II. Rand, jr., president of the Reming-
ton Rand Co., denied last night that
there was a strike or lockout at the
company's Syracuse, N Y, plant.
In statement dictated to the Asso-
ciated Press in connection with reports
of the closing of the Syracuse plant,
Rand said:
Every time a statement has been
made by representative of the Amer
lcan Federation Of Labor about the
Remington-R and Co. the facts have
been distorted and misrepresented as
In the case of Syracuse today
There has been no strike whatso-
ever in Syracuse or in any other plant
and ballots passed out by the superin-
tendents yesterday in all 10 plants re-
suited in an overwhelming ballot
against strike or walkout. That in
cludes Syracuse.
Plans had been made to move the
present portable typewriter production
to 1lion two months ago and to con-
vert the Syracuse plant into a rebuild
ing plant for secondhand typewriters
and producing surplus parts for other
plants.
No action by Syracuse workers will
In any way affect the decision OF Rem
tngton- Rand"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-22
MD|VAN|. LETTERS
FIGURE IN TRIAL
Four of Alexis Notes Are
Reported Read as Baron
Seeks Divorce.
By the Associated Press.

BUDAPEST. May 22.-Attorneys
for Baroness Maud Won Thyssen, who
rode beside Prince Alexis Mdivani on
the night when he was killed in an
automobile accident in Spain, labored
lnconclusively today in a divorce
court.
They were attending another secret
hearing on the divorce action brought
by Baron Heinrich Won Thyssen.
It was reported in court circles that
the Baron's counsel produced four
letters Prince Mdivani was alleged to
have written the Baroness. The hus-
band. it was said. seeks to prove
through the letters there was more
than a casual friendship between the
Baroness and the Prince.
Baroness Won Thyssen commended
she knew the Prince only two weeks.
She is getting sum amounting to
$500 a month as temporary alimony.
Neither litigant was present at the
hearing which was indefinitely post
poned at the end Of today's session.
Another angle of the case came to
light when two French detectives ar
rived in Budapest.
Police are investigating the posi-
bility that thieves smuggled the jewels
into Hungary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-22
TYPEWRITER FIRM
:TRANSFERSPLAN
Remington-Rand to Merge
!. Syracuse With lion
49,:
Factories.
Nv the Associated Press.

Nv the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, May 22.-The Reming-
Ton Rand Co., manufacturers Of type
writers and ONCE equipment, closed
its Syracuse plant yesterday and an
nounced that it planned to move the
factory to lion. ...'
Fifteen hundred factory workers left
their jobs after a notice was posted
that the plant would be temporarily
closed "for the usual two-week Sum-
naer vacation"
Regarded rs Lockout.
Clair Bellows, president Of the local
Union Of the International Association
OF Machinists, said: I'VE consider this
in the nature of lockout, but we
don't say 1t actually Is one. Neither
do We say 1t is strike"
Later company officials issued a
statement saying that the Syracuse
plant was to be removed to Ilion and
consolidated with the lion plant.
Subsequently Mayor ROLAND B..
Marvin announced that he commune
Gated with James H. Rand, jr., presi-
dent Of the company He said that
Rand told him he would postpone
his decision on plans to move the fac
tory If the workers would agree to
the dismissal of certain group Of
employees.
Proposal Is Rejected.
A group of factory workers at q
meeting later shouted mo" to the
question put by one of its leaders,
DO you accept the proposal?"
The company also has plants at
Elmira, Norwich, Conn, and Cincin-
natl, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-22
20 Whales Refuse
To Desert Leaders,
Await Sure Death
Bv TIT Associated Press.

FORT MYERS, Fla, May ~. -
Death drew near for some 20 stranded
black whales today because they pre-
ferred destruction with their leaders
to rescue by humans.
The whales. led by four large bulls,
ran aground on q beach at nearby
Captiva Island.
Several parties Of fishermen saw
the peril Of the mammals. so they
secured ropes and managed to drag
several of the smaller ones back into
deep water.
The rescued animals promptly
lunged back on the beach.
The rescue workers were unable
to move the three and four ton lead
ers. so they finally were forced to
leave all to die. ..
1t was expected the hapless whales
would live many hours, since they are
air breathers. o..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-22
BALLOON RACER CHOSEN
Trotter to Pilot Goodyear Zep-
pelin Bag in q. s. Contest.

AKRON. Ohio, May % (P.-The
Goodyear-zeppelin Co. named Frank
Trotter pilot yesterday for its entry in
the national. balloon races July in
Denver. Vernon L. Smith will be aide
They will fly new balloon, the Good
year X.
Trotter has participated in three
national and two international races
and Smith has had many years ex-
perience with blimps.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-04

waiting for the sanction of Attor-
ney General Homer S. Cummings
in Washington before proceeding
against the leaders, and, possibly,
against all 404 strikers. q.
The complaints, he said, would
charge mutiny through the strikers
failure to move United States mails,
conspiracy to incite mutiny and in
terfering with the mails.
Action against all the strikers de-
ponds upon their willingness to
abandon their refusal to sail the
liner back to New York unless
granted immediate wage increases,
Hall said.
w. Harald Hoskier, west coast
manager of Panama Pacific, charg-
ed that the seamen struck in dis
obedience to orders from union
headquarters in New York to COM
plete the voyage before walking out.
A similar strike occurred on the
liner Pennsylvania of the same line
last year and a non-union crew was
recruited in San Francisco to take
the vessel to New York.
Hall said he discussed the mutiny
complaints with Cummings in three
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-04
GIRL LAUGHS;
SLIGHT HOPE
OF LIFE HELD

WESTON, w. Va, March 4. (U.R
Pretty Teresa Hawkins was lit
orally laughing herself to death to-
day. Physicians who have watched
her laugh for seven days said she
was growing weaker, though the
violence of her paroxysms decreas-
ed.
Teresa, 18-year-old daughter of a
railroad telegrapher, began laugh
ing without any preliminary all
ment while attending a movie with
other young people last Wednesday
night.
DR.. j. f. Offner, superintendent
of West ate hospital, was no more
able to diagnose her illness than
physicians of Johns Hopkins hos
pital, where she was treated until
yesterday. The girls parents said
Johns Hopkins physicians offered
them no hope of recovery.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-04
DRUNK DRIVER
FACES THIRD
SUCH CHARGE

Jack Kennedy, resident of the Ell
Centric area, was arrested for drunk
driving Tuesday Afternoon by Cali
fornia Highway Patrolmen T. Bump
and Roy Wells. Judge j. E. Simp-
son wednesday morning set his bail
at $3.50. He will be arraigned in
justice court Friday.
Three telephone calls concerning
Kennedys driving we're received at
the patrol office before he was found
by the officers. He was released
from the county jail this week after
having served AS days on a vagran-
cy charge.
Kennedy was arrested by patrol
men for drunk driving upon two
former occasions, officers said July
9, 1880. he was arrested for drunk
driving and sent to Patton to take a
drunk cure and August 2, 1890, he
was arrested upon a similar charge
and sent to take the so called cure
once again, according to officers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-04
Court Considers
San Diego Bonds

LOS ANGELES, March 4. UP
A fight testing a county's right to
issue bonds to retire special assess
ment issues rested with the state
supreme court today after being
carried before the tribunal by San
Diego county officials
The court took under advise
ment petition for a writ of man.
date to compel Auditor Comptroller
Chauncey r. Hammond to issue
$2,600,000 worth of bonds, voted at
a San Diego election last October
The issue was voted to cover in
debtedness of street improvements
financed by special assessments
under the NATION act.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-04
DEPUTY FINDS
SADDLES THRU
CIGARET BUTTS

Two valuable saddles stolen from
a garage at the home of Richard
Owens near Calexico several days
ago were found by Deputy Sheriff
Fred Elliott Tuesday night in a
camp occupied by Frank Allen and
his family.
The camp is situated near Cal
exico. One saddle was buried in
the dust near the camp fire and
the other was secreted in the brush
nearby, Elliott said
Allen was trailed from the Owens
garage, Elliott said. by the Mexican
brand of cigarettes he was smoking
The saddles we're valued at approx
imately $75 each, according to the
officer. Allen was brought to the
county Jail to await trial.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-04
N. Y. GENERAL
TRIKE CALL
HREATE D
Elevator Operators
Seek Sympathy
WalkOuts

NEW YORK, March !.
(UP)- M ayor Fiorello II.
La Guardia and federal me-
diators pressed for settle
ment of New York City's
elevator strike today while heads
of the Building Service Employees
Union threatened to call a nation
wide walkout of their members and
arranged to discuss possibility OF
general strike of organized labor in
greater New York.
The executive board Of the Inter
national Building Service Employees
Union in Chicago telegraphcd
George A. Scalise, International
vice president, that it had decided
that, if necessary and at your dis
cretion, it will pull out every build
ing service employe in the United
States"
Scalise has been helping direct
the strike here, which by Interrupt
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-04

A large number of prominent
men and women attended the
meeting to hear the talk by BiSh-
cp CantWell, one of California's
most outstanding religious leaders.
development of the Imperial
Valley is symbolical of the develop
ment of this nations western ter
ritcries," said Bishop CantWell. In
communities such as this, the AM
erican Culture takes it's deepest
root and finds its strongest inspir-
alton
History shows that most pio-
ncering was dcnc either in behalf
cf religious worship, or with
strong religious consciousness, he
said.
During the growth Of nations,
religion played an important part
in the minds of the populace,
he commented THE decline CT
Continued on Page 6, Col y
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-04
TO
HAVE CHARGE
OF MACHINES
Steve Harris. Named
Superintendent
Of Service

f. L. Hoffmeister, diesel
engineer, has charge of the
Imperial Irrigation district
diesel plant at Brawley, &C
cording to M. j. DoWd, chief
engineer, and Stevens Harris, for
mer employe of the Southern Sier-
ras Power company, will be local
superintendent for the power syS-
tenn at BraWley. Harris will have
charge of service and power dis
tribution.
After many years in marine work
as a diesel engineer, Hoffmeister
for the last 10 years had charge
of the diesel plant for the city
of Les Angeles in connection with
the department of water and pow
err, Dowd said. He has had wide
experience and will be in charge
permanently, according to DoWd.
Harris will assume his new du-
tics within the next two weeks
the duties being somewhat similar
to these he has. had with the
Southern Sierras in the past. He
grew up in the valley. DoWd said,
and is a son of j. Homer Harris,
superintendent of the water syS-
tenn at Calipatria and INLAND and
former superintendent of the water
plant at Imperial He is we'll quail
flied for the work, DoWd said, and
should be successful.
Several months ago the South
crn Sierras began sending Harris
to all Imperial Irrigation district
board meetings to report back to-
them any proceedings relative to
district power development or 9TH
er matters of interest to- the COM
pany.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-04
Indy LEASES
HAUNTED HOME
NEAR AIRPORT

LONDON, March 4. U.P - Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh has leased the
rambling Kentish country house in
which Caxton, England'S first print
er, is reputed to have been born and
where his ghost is supposed to lin
ger.
The house is known as Long
Barn" In it William Caxton is be-
lieved to have been born five CEN
turtles ago. Local gossip has it that
each moonlight night his ghost re-
turns to the room in which he was
born, and erects his creaking print
ing press.
Col Lindbergh is understood to
have selected the home because
there is an airdrome only five miles
from it. 1t is about 20 miles south
east by south from London.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-04
ROAD PROGRAM
TO BE HELPED
BY S. D. GROUP

To push plans for increasing au-
tomobile travel over U. S. Highway
80 and the Broadway of America, a
delegation of San Diego hotel men
will visit Ell Centre Monday for a
luncheon meeting with the cham
Der of commerce.
Recent inclusion of the STEMS
Pass road in the Arizona state high
way system will be discussed along
with plans for an information bu-
eau at Lordsburg, NJ M. designed to
direct travel over the route toward
Imperial Valley instead of the
northern route.
A large number of guests, inter
ested in boosting tourist travel over
Highway 80, is expected to attend
the meeting, according to Robert
Hays, chamber of commerce man
ager.