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Evening star., 1937-02-22
STORM HITS CAROLINAS.
Houses Demolished at Charlotte,
Greensboro and Concord.

Houses Demolished at Charlotte,
Greensboro and Concord.
BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., February a.
Scattered North Carolina commune
ties began counting the cost today of
a severe storm which swept up from
South Carolina, cut a 3-mile path
through Charlotte, and wrecked homes
in the Concord and Greensboro area.
Many houses were demolished, but
only three serious casualties were re-
ported after the storm last night.
j. r. Simmons was badly hurt when
his house at the Charlotte dog pound,
along with all other pound structures,
was blown complete away.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Casstevens were
injured when their store-filling station
near Greensboro was overturned and
burned.
High winds cut an almost straight
path for 8 miles through Charlotte.
dipping to demolish some houses, and
then only ripping projections from
others. Power service in almost a
third Of the city was paralyzed, q
city generating truck was required to
light one hospital, and fallen trees and
wires disrupted traffic.
Evening star., 1937-02-22
Won NEURATH MET
BY VIENNA RIOTS
Dies as 100000
Pro.HitIerites and Foes
Demonstrate.
~ the Associated Press.

VIENNA, February 22.-One woman
died today as 100000 Austrian Nazis
and members of the Fatherland Front
party held a disorderly demonstration
at the arrival Of German Foreign
Minister Baron Konstantin Won
Neurath.
An official reported the woman was
struck over the head during slight
disorder in front of the Fatherland
Fronts headquarters. An investiga-
ton was ordered after preliminary
statements attributed her death to q
heart attack.
Eight Thousand policemen were on
duty as numerous organized groups Of
semi-disciplined Nazis. lining the
streets along which Won Neurath was
escorted to his hotel by Chancellor
Kurt Won Schuschnigg, pointed in a
wild chorus Of:
Hell Hitler!"
Cheers for Schuschnigg mingled
with the Nazi salute, making a bedlam
of the two miles of streets along which
the Nazi minister, believed on an i'm
portant mission to cement Austro-
German friendship. rode with his host.
Despite the police stationed every
80 feet, it seemed for time the op-
posing groups would clash.
Even after the party had passed,
police found it difficult to clear the
streets of the parading groups.
So dense did the press become that
the official party, including German
Envoy Franz Won Papen and Austrian
Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs
Guido Schmidt, was forced to take to
side streets.
when Won Neurath left Berlin by
train for Vienna last night, German
newspapers predicted his visit would
bring an end to anti-Nazi attacks In
the Austrian press and clear up prob
lens concerned with the restoration
Of the Hapsburg monarchy
Evening star., 1937-02-22
Boston Lawyer Dies.

BOSTON, February % UP.-George
r. Nutter, former president of the
Boston Chamber of Commerce and Of
the Massachusetts, Bar Association,
died yesterday at the age Of "A.
Nutter, one Of Boston's most widely
known attorneys, was graduate Of
Harvard Law School and at one time
was Q law partner Of Justice Louis
Brandeis Of the United States Supreme
Court .. -
Evening star., 1937-02-22

ceremonies planned to do honor to
the general who commanded the Con-
tinental forces in the Revolutionary
War. The most elaborate program is
the twenty-third joint celebration of
the Sons of the Revolution. Daughters
Of the American Revolution, Sons of
the American Revolution and Chill
dren Of the American Revolution,
which opened in Memorial Conti-
mental Hall at 10:45 am.
r. Walton Moore, Assistant Secre-
tary of State, the principal speaker
at the Continental Hall exercises, ap-
piled to Washington the words which
Joseph of Exeter wrote of King
Alfred the Great:
THE Old World knows not his peer,
nor will the future show us his equal;
he alone towers over others, better
than the past ones and greater than
those who are to be-"
The Marine Band opened the pro-
(see WASHINGTON, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-02-22
Confers With Windsor.

VIENNA. February % R.-Sr
Walter Monckton, attorney general for
the Duchy of Cornwall, left Vienna
today in the Duke of Windsor's plane.
presumably for London. He carried
briefcaSe in which, it was reported,
we're documents relating to royal f.
nancial provisions for the former King
of England. At Enzesfeld castle. an
Informed person said Sir Walter and
Edward conferred lengthily and with
perfect harmony.
Evening star., 1937-02-22
PLAYMATE is SLAIN

WATERFOWL, N. Y, February %
@.-Police today investigated a 10
year-old boys fearful story of how he
shot fatally his 8-year-old playmate
in a game.
Frederick c. Miller, jr., said District
Attorney Carl j. Hynes, admitted he
turned his fathers rifle on Frederick
S. Coburn as the latter hid behind a
bed in the Miller home Saturday
night.
Evening star., 1937-02-22
RIVAL CAMPAIGNS
L.0.ANDA.E,l,
I'm OIL PREDICTED
Steel Drive Seen as Unions
Turn to ChrysIer Recog-
milton Issue.
DEADLOCK CONTINUES
IN WAUKEGAN DISPUTE
Conciliators Fear Impasse May
Last Weeks-No Further At
tempt Made to Gust Strikers.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Sit-do,Dn strike wus introduced
into America on big scale in Gen.
erdl Motors United Automobile
Workers of America dispute in jan
uory. Temporary truce WaS signed
this month, and pdrleyS are being
held on permanent peace. Repre-
senting U. A. w. Uas John L.
LeDis' Committee for Industrial
Organization. This committee is
the result of split in the ranks
of the American Federation OF
Labor oper the craft Us. industry
organization issue.
After General Motors peace Dds
effected, other labor groups hare
resorted to sit-dotGns IN many parts
OF country.
BY the Associated Press.
The avowed intention of the United
Automobile Workers of America to
become sole bargaining agency for
Chrysler Corp. employees shared at
tention today with announcements OF
impending drives to unionize the steel
and oil industries.
An organizational director Of the
U. A. w. A.. unit of the Committee
for Industrial Organization, an
nounced at a union mass meeting in
Detroit last night the group would
make overtures to Chrysler officials
this week
John Brophy. executive director OF
the C. I. o., said its 28o steel union
lodges would soon discuss demands on
officials of the steel industry.
A campaign to organize the oil
fields, said Harvey C. Fremming, presi-
dent of the International Association
of Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery
Workers, will begin at Houston, Tex,
about April l with c. I. o. support.
There we're reports that the c. I. O.'s
rival. the American Federation OF
Labor, also would campaign to union
ize the oil industry.
Stalemate Persists.
The stalemate between some 80 sit.
down strikes and officials of the Fan.
steel Metallurgical Corp. in North
Chicago, Ill. persisted. The factory
management said 1t would not nego.
tiate with c. l. o. organizers. The
strikers said they would not deal
without them.
c. I. o. representatives in Newark.
N. j., said they had made headway in
New Jersey despite Gov. Harold G..
Hoffman's warning he would use every
resource to bar sit-down strikes.
In Detroit President Walter L. Fry
of a seat cover manufacturing con-
Germ remained in his Office determined
to sit it out" as long as strikers were
on a sit-down in his factory.
In New York pickets employed by
80 wholesale dry goods dealers pro-
tested in front of the wholesale dry
goods employees union headquarters,
The dealers contended. through their
picket proxies. the union denied them
the right to bargain collectively.
Troops to Be Recalled.
Col. Albert H. Whitcomb, command
ing the National Guard in militia
ruled Anderson. Ind. intimated the
troops would be recalled soon. The
Guardsmen took over the city after
10 persons were shot in a fight be-
tween unionists and anti-unionists.
Shutdown strikers. said by strike
leaders to number more than 1000.
held seven Detroit plants. Some 1900
women were said to be involved in the
disputes at four cigar plants.
Evening star., 1937-02-22
POISON TRIAL OPENS
IN DEATH OF THREE
North Carolina Carpenter Is Ac-
cused of Killing Two Wives
and Daughter.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, N. c., February %.
"A 39-year-old carpenter, Edgar Le-
roy Smoak. whom Solicitor John J.
Burney accused of poisoning his two
wives and young daughter to collect
insurance, was summoned to trial TO-
day on a first degree murder indict-
merit
Burney announced he would seek
to convict Smoak on an indictment
charging him with the death of the
daughter, 16-year-old Annie Thelma,
who died three months ago, and that
he would not press the other charges
unless the defendant should be as
quilted.
Beyond Smoak's blanket denial OF
the charges from his prison cell,
there was no indication Of the line
Of his defense.
Evening star., 1937-02-22
OvIEDO ATTACK PUSHED.

10000 Loyalists Seize Posts Within
Second Alcaxar."
BAYONNE, France, February % R).
Ten thousand Spanish government
militiamen of the north threw them
selves against oviedo, "the second
Alcazar," today, seizing numerous
posts within the insurgent-held city
itself.
Outlying streets were the scene of
carnage. Fighting, preceded by an
intense artillery. barrage. continued
after an all-night struggle.
Official Basque reports said the in
surgents within the city. who already
have withstood a terrifying three
month siege, even longer than that of
(See SPAIN, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-02-22
Habeas CORPUS Writ Sought.

WILMINGTON, N. c., February %
R.-Inman Clemmons, held in con-
nection with the prank" torch Staying
of Hobson Sellers. young truck driver.
came before Judge j. H. Clement here
today seeking release on a writ Of
habeas corpus. He is held for the
grand jury without bail.
Witnesses testified Sellers, feeling Ill
after drinking beer at q country party.
went outside to lie down and some one
poured gasoline on him and struck q
match. He died Q week later.
Evening star., 1937-02-22
DEADLOCK CONTINUES.
Waukegan Strikers Expect Dispute
Nav Last Weeks.

WAUKEGAN, Ill, February ga
prolonged stalemate between some 80
sit-down strikers and the management
of the Fansteeel Metallurgical Corp.
at North Chicago, ILL.,. was seen today
in their continued refusal to agree
on basis for negotiations.
Conciliators renewed efforts to ar
range a peace conference but admitted
(See LABOR, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1937-02-22

days ago.
BY the Associated Press.
Spain's civil war ragged today from
Oviedo, near the Bay of Biscay, where
government troops launched an Of
fensive, to Aragon, where insurgents
started wedge to drive a line to the
Mediterranean between Valencia and
Barcelona.
On the hard-fought Jarama River
front southeast Of Madrid, insurgents
reported capture of four and a half
miles of the road to Valencia, and
said the government-heldG Guadalajara
highway was under heavy fire. Sever
ance of that road would leave Madrid
without a trunk highway exit.
In renewed fighting at Oviedo, the
government reported dynamite -hurl-
ing Asturian miners aided in an attack
that netted a foothold in the in
surgent-held city, scene of bitter
battles last November.
Rebel Drive Repulsed.
An insurgent drive in Aragon in an
attempt to reach the Mediterranean
was reported repulsed by Madrid with
1000 insurgents slain. Madrid re-
ports also disputed insurgent claims
to capture of the Valencia highway
link.
The Aragon battles indicated insur-
gents apparently were in a three
cornered movement to cut off Madrid
from Valencia and Barcelona, and
leave it virtually isolated in terri
tory now held by Gen. Frances armies.
Besides the attack from the SOUTH
east. insurgent forces have been con-
centrated for months to the north
and northwest of the shell-scarred
capital.
10 Killed in Air Raid.
Ten persons were reported killed
in a Sunday air raid by two planes
on insurgent-held Avila. Ore bomb
fell in d group waiting in line for
food at poor house.
In London, the International Neu-
trality Committee assembled for an
evening meeting to complete its arms
embargo plan.
Russia, in official action at Mos
cow, formally banned volunteers from
going to the Spanish front. A gen.
eral ban on volunteers went into ef-
feet Saturday midnight.
Evening star., 1937-02-22
LINDBERGHS LEAVE
Take Off From Jodphur for Un-
announced Destination.

JODPHUR, India. February % up.
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
took off from Jodphur today at 1:50
p.me $3.50 am. E. S. t.. Their des-
tination was not disclosed. 49,
An authoritative source predicted
yesterday the Lindberghs might visit
Delhi to discuss possible establishment
of an airmail line linking India with
other airways already operating In
Europe and Asia.
(Plans for a new airmail system be-
tween England and India already have
been completed, to become effective
next October.)
Evening star., 1937-02-22
New York Has Quake.

ELMIRA, N. Y, February % R.-
Slight earth tremors were reported
here last night. but there was no
known damage
Evening star., 1937-02-22
Summary of Todays Star

FOREIGN.
Loyalist troops report success in at
tack on Oviedo. Page Al
900, 900 in demonstration as Won Neu-
rath reaches Vienna. Page Al
NATIONAL.
Jersey authorizes s25 900 for Redwood
staying probe. Page Al
Rival campaigns by A. F. L. and c. I.
o. seen in oil fight. Page Al
Farmer to be taken to scene Of well
murder. Page Az
Congress speeds pace lest session
drags into Fall. Page AS
DR.. Townsend to go on trial here To-
morrow. Page ALI
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Capital leads Nation in observance of
Washington's birthday. Page Al
Freakish storm causes dama''e in
Maryland and Virginia. Pare Al
Miss du Pont reported "doing very
well' after operation. Page AS
r. A. Sebring, veteran Police Court
clerk, dies. Page B-1
Death Of woman brings 1877 traffic
toll here to "a. Page B-1
Youth Congress winds up tour-day
session hers. ase B.1
Evening star., 1937-02-22
L0YAL|ST TROOPS
REPORT SUCCESS
IN OV|EDO ATTACK
Fierce Battle Nets FoothoId
in City Held by Insur-
gent Forces.
REBELS START DRIVE
TO CUT MADRID ROADS
Claim Capture of 4l1a-Mile Stretch
on Highway Leading to
Valencia.

BACKGROUND
After three and one-halt months
OF siege, Spanish insurgents, fail
ing to capture Madrid, hare turned
their strategy to attempts to iso-
late the capital by cutting of the
highways linking it Uith the rest
OF the country. An intensive at
tack on the Valencia road, impor-
tant coStal link. was started IL
days ago.
Evening star., 1937-02-22
WEATHER.

tO s. weather Bureau FOrecastJ
Fair and colder tonight; minimum
temperature about 26 degrees; tomorrow
partly cloudy; moderate west winds.
Temperatures-High SO, at pm. yes
terday; lowest, 35 at tbs am. today.
Full report on page A-l0.
The Washington times., 1937-04-23
Chain Letter NeW?
Tried by Family
For go Years

ANDOVER, Ohio dN.S0.
There's nothing new to this chain
letter idea which reached the pro-
portions of q nationwide craze
two years ago and has been crop
ping UP occasionally since.
Members of the Holcomb family
in nine States have been keeping
in touch with each other by means
of q chain letter system that has
flourished nearly so years.
A packet Of letters is kept circu-
lating continuously among the Hol-
combs. Each tells of the affairs
of the writer and his family. The
recipient of the packet reads the
letters, takes out the one he wrote
for the last round, and substitutes
q new one.
1t takes about three months for
q packet to circulate among the
widely-Scattered relatives of the
family in Illinois, Kansas, Iowa,
California, Florida, West Virginia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and
Ohio.
The custom was inaugurated
here around 1870 by Henry Hol-
comb, now dead, who exchanged
letters with his six brothers and
sisters after they left the family
homestead near Andover. While
but two Of the original seven sur
vive, cousins and nephews and
nieces have carried on the Gus
tom.
The Washington times., 1937-04-23
FLEEING POLICE,
I WOMEN DIE
|NCARCRASH

WOODSTOCK, Va, April %.
Racing away from an all-night
party at Stanton. Va, during
which they are said by police to
have stolen $3.50 from their male
companions, two comely young
women were killed near here yes
terday when their speeding auto
mobile crashed head-on into q
truck.
The driver of the car, identified
as Mrs. Victor Mann by q letter
found in her pocketbook, was hor'
ribly crushed. Her companion
Miss Emma Scifres, died several
hours later in a Harrisonburg
hospital without regaining con-
seriousness. Both were from At
laata, Ga.
Wanted BY Police
Chief Of Police John M. Webb,
Of staunton, said the women were
wanted for robbing two Staunton
citizens during party that began
with an automobile ride and
ended with a party in hotel.
The women checked out of the
hotel at $50 a. m. yesterday and
were travelling north when the &C
cident occurred at Edinburg.
One of the men who was robbed
was brought here by Chief Webb
today and first identified the
wrecked auto as the one in which
he drove with the girls Wednesday
night and later identified the
mangled bodies.
Names Guarded
Chief Webb refused to divulge
the names of the men but said
they were prominent Staunton
citizens" The men were so stupi-
fled by liquor they were unable to
remember how the women OBJ.
tanned the money, according to
police.
Frank Kelly, of jefferson City,
Tenn, driver of the truck, who
was released on $500 bond on a
technical charge of reckless driv.
ing, said he had just rounded a
curve in the highway when the
car, travelling at an excessive
rate of speed, doomed in front
of him. The crash was inevitable,
he said.
The Washington times., 1937-04-23
1890 Injuries Bring Death

CINCINNATI, O., April %.
O.N.S0-Coroner Frank Cop
peck, jr., attributed the death Of
Howard Sch~f, 20, to internal
injuries suffered seven years ago
in a football game. The coroner
said gravation of these inju-
rieS hasteneC. Schaf's death.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-06-04

on the job also-at least some of
them. Judge w. A. Anderson
lodging traffic on busy Mill City
intersection. =. Mayor Mark &C.
han doing the same thing in st.
Paul. E.. These dawgone motorists
some of them at least-have no
respect for the dignity of office or
age!!! Candidate General-F ormer
Mayor Leach led the Minneapolis
Memorial Day parade on foot and
not astride the familiar white
horse of yesterdays. A bystander
said the horse was dead. Leo
P. McHale, the most popular city
prosecutor Minneapolis has known
in years, and Gershwin, another as
sistant attorney, marching along
Fourth St., on the way to a war
with victuals. :.
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Cops Chase
Two; Gunfire
Hats Them

Two st. Paul vagrancy suspects
are weaker but wiser men today.
They attempted to run from cops.
Both are in the hospital now.
When officers Daniel Williams
and Robert Turpin saw two men
approaching passersby offering
something for sale they investi-
gated.
They found Daniel Williams, adj
dress unknown, and Henry Horton,
Bethel Hotel, with several pairs of
new shoes in their possession.
The officers started to put the
men in the squad car to take them
to the station and both of the sus-
poets broke and ran. One ran in
one direction with Officer Bob Will
liams chasing him. A couple of
shots stopped him. The other man
was halted when bullets from Tur-
pins gun spintered both legs. Both
men are confined to Ancker Hos
pital.
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furnished. $11.50 per month. Ma.
9142.
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Portland Vase Is Finest
Cameo Cut Glass Relic

The Portland Vase, celebrated an
Gent Roman glass vase or cinerary
urn, was found during the pontif-
cate of Urban VIII (1623-44) in a
marble sarcophagus (of Alexander
Severus, it is thought and his moth
er, Mammaea) in the Monte del
Grano, near Rome. It was at first
deposited in the Barberini palace at
Rome and hence is sometimes called
the Barberini Vase. It was bought
in ITO by Sir William Hamilton
and in 1887 by the Portland family,
who deposited it in 1910 with the
British museum, where it has since
remained, except for an attempted
auction in May, 1929, at Christies.
When no worthwhile bid was re-
ceived it returned to the possession
of the duke Of Portland, who an
nounced it would continue to be on
view at the British museum.
The vase was broken to pieces by
a lunatic in 1845, according to a
writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer,
but the fragments were very skill
fully united again. The vase is 10
inches high, with the ground of dark
blue glass, and the figure-subjects
which adorn it are cut in cameo
style in an outer layer of opaque
white glass. 1t is the finest specimen
Of an ancient cameo cut glass vase
known.
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Seen On Twin Town Streets:
Rev. Guy trying to talk a traffic
tag back to st. Paul copper. >. /.
Claude Burnaugh, a charming
femme and an unnamed male walk
ing along Third Street eating pop
corn or sumthin. Arthur Allen
trying to talk upon another park
ing tag from the hands of the new
shutdown Sanity City policeman.
. Devonia Goss walking down a
gravel road without her shoes. i.
The Minneapolis postal employe
who is liable to be called upon the
carpet for too ardent an interest
in politics? Leonard Colston,
one of the most efficient detectives
on the Mill City police force who
might go to the top except for the
accident of birth. Four ladies
from the Johnny Baker Post Aux
iliary were the best looking women
in the Memorial Day parade.
Commander Tela Burt's boys were
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-06-04

Formerly trombonist in the
Louis Armstrong band, who was at
the Paramount theatre on Broad
way and on the Armstrong radio
broadcast until recently, is now re-
hearsing his own swing organiza-
ton at the Woodside hotel in Har-
lem, preparing for gala debut.
Mosely, from Little Rock, Ark,
and the Cincinnati School of Music.
won fame as "the man with the
funny horn" (slide saxophone) be,
fore he joined Louis Armstrong
fourteen months ago.
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Twin Town Talk

probably doesn't but his chance remark
Joking Sixth Ave- last Sat- evening caused (many of the
nk lot of people from the Bass Lake
Sanity City riding for fall? What
Mnnepon getting ready tell his tale of to the
divorce Judge Minneapolis won't visit the sick the
hospitals members won't buy him car? Ed Brown
fined careless driving the other day.
Now Ed Smith, the papers big Shots looks good in his
new
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DON'T MISS THE HARLEM
VARIETY REVUE AND DANCE

DON'T MISS THE HARLEM
VARIETY REVUE AND DANCE
PRESENTING THE TWIN CITIES BEST TALENT
FORMER WTCN STARS
Vocaists, Dancers and Comedians
Phyllis Wheatley House
Friday Evening, June 4th, 1887, at 500 pm.
BY THE HARLEM VARIETY CLUB
by CHICAGO SWINGSTERS
Dorothy Ptman Musical Director
DANCING FOLLOWS SHOW
Admission General Admission 35c
Featung-June Hawkins, Kelly Stone Ann Harris and others