Evening star., 1937-01-07
ANOTHER VESSEL
MAY CLEAR j. S.
BEFORE EMBARGO
.$4,507, 900 Munitions Cargo
for Spain Rushed as
Cuse Craft Sails.
Technically PREVENTS
ROOSEVELT SIGNATURE.
Department of Justice May Block
Further Volunteers Under
Penal Code.
BY the Associated Press.


A parliamentary knot which held
up signature Of the speedily enacted
Spanish arms embargo gave rise to-
day to the possibility Of another race
to ship war materials to the Loyalist
army.
House and Senate jammed through
the embargo late yesterday with only
one dissenting voice, but a technical
ity may keep President Roosevelt from
signing it into law until tomorrow
afternoon.
Before that action could make the
shipment illegal. Richard Dineley, San
Francisco munitions dealer. hoped he
might be able to get a $4.507 900 cargo
of planes and arms en- route to Spain.
One shipment of planes. shipped by
Robert Cuse Of Jersey City. was car
ried from New York on q Spanish
freighter yesterday while the en-
barge resolution was rushed through
Congress at q pace reminiscent Of
the emergency banking bills four years
ago.
Weather Delays OficiaIs.
Dineley, ready to take advantage OF
the delay. said he could get his goods
on the sea In "a hours, but that he
had to wait for Spanish officials fly
ing here from Mexico City. Bad
weather delayed them.
Meanwhile Federal authorities In
New York said Justice Department
agents were prepared to stop the ex-
portation of men. arms and aircraft
to Spain through New York. which
has been the principal port of en-
barkation for American recruits for
the Spanish war and principal export
center for American planes.
Assistant United States Attorney
John Daley yesterday dug up . sec
ton of the criminal code providing
q maximum penalty Of three years
imprisonment and q $1,000 fine for
any one enLsting or seeking enlist
ments in foreign wars. He referred
the matter to the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation.
It was believed the Federal men
were prepared to step in and halt
munitions and plane shipments a
soon as the Spanish neutrality act
becomes law.
Administration leaders, deciding al
the last minute to try to halt Cuse'.
shipment, offered the embargo resolu.
ton in both House and Senate aftel
President Roosevelt finished his ad.
dress in midafternoon.
The measure. blocking export o.
arms or munitions to either side ir
the Spanish civil war. tipped through
the Senate, 80 to 0. The House latel
approved it, 403 to /. and both bodie!
adjourned until tomorrow.
The Senate, however, had failed Il
authorize Vice President Garner Il
sign the resolution outside Of q ses.
sion. That keeps it from the White
House until the Senate convene,
again.
One Vote Against Passage.
House action was slowed down BY
an objection from Representative
Bernard. Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota
a new member, who later cast the
sole vote against the measure.
An hours debate brought Republi.
can cries of gag" and non-partisar
effort by one group to include al
countries in the ban.
The latter was ruled out Of order
with Chairman McReynolds Of tht
Foreign Affairs Committee pointing
out a complete neutrality program
would be considered in q few weeks
When the House roll call started al
is pm, however, the freighter MAJ
Cantabrico already was outside terri
torial waters, with part, Of Cuse!
$2,777, 900 order of secondhand plane'
and engines.
It was the licensing Of that cargo
last month by the State Department
that precipitated the demand for tht
Spanish embargo. The neutrality Law
itself does not provide for banning
shipments to participants in civi
wars.
The freighter, speeding down Nev
York harbor, was halted once by tn
Coast Guard for service in an actiol
by two American flyers seeking pa.
for aiding the Loyalists.
Mexico Attitude Is Issue.
Customs officials decided, however
the papers couldn't be served. and tn
ship continued on her way. He
manifest showed she was bound TO
Vera Cruz, Mexico, arousing specula
ton because Of the Mexican govern
ment's recent assurance 1t would no
(See NEUTRALITY, Page A-2.)