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Evening star., 1937-07-29
RIOT COUNT HOLDS
TWO IN CAMBRIDGE
Strike Leader Arrested,
Third Man Sought on Bus
Operators Complaint.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associsteo Press
CAMBRIDGE. Nd. July 2q-Poljce
today held Lonnle Nealan. one of the
Leaders OF the Phillips Packing Co.
strike. and another man while thev
sought a third on charges Of lnciting
to riot
Nealan and Richard Phillips were
arrested on warrants sworn out By
Albert Kern, operator of a bus line
running between Cambridge and the
southern end Of Dorchester County.
Kern also sWOre out a warrant for a
third man who has not been arrested
although police are looking for him.
The warrants arose from threats Kern
sald he received after bus was stoned
near one of the Phillips canning plants
during the strike early this month.
States Attorney J. German Hill
said that Kern's bus was stoned
without warning one day because some
OF the Phillips employees rode it to the
plant. The following day, he said. the
operator Of the bus was threatened
with further violence If he continued
to operate, and efforts were made to
stop the bus Hill said the bus line was
not connected with the Phillips Pack
ing Co.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
TOWNSEND MUST HOLD
PUBLISHING COMPANY
Ordered to Maintain 1t in Status
Quo Pending Disposition
of Suit.

CHICAGO, July 30 (P).-Dr. Fran
chs E. Townsend pensiOn-plan advo-
cate. was ordered by the Circuit Court
yesterday 70 maintain the Prosperity
publishing Co. a Townsend enter
prise, in status quo pending disposition
OF suit he filed against J. w. Brinton,
a former associate,
ToWnsend's suit charged Brinton.
former vice president and general
manager of the Townsend oreanlza-
ton, withheld $4,000 cashiers
check deposited in a Chicago bank
to pay prizes in a subscription con-
test conducted by the Prosperity Co..
publisher Of the Townsend National
Weekly
Judge Daniel P. Trude ruled Town
send could not alter or dispose of the
company's assets until after the suit
is heard, although he can continue
to manage the business. Brinton in
cross complaint. alleged Townsend
intended to sell the company, lessen
ing the value Of II shares of stock
he holds.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
us. M|N|MUMPAY
MEASURE OFFERED
Ramspeck Proposes $1,000
Lowest for FuII-Time
Adult Employees.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Agitation for higher sdldrv scale
for Government employees has been
increasing during past tmo years.
Thus far. organized employees haze
concentrated on seeking establish
nent OF minimum OF $500 yearly,
as provided BY McCarrdn bill. Fed
erdl employees nom get rs days an
nual leaue and IS days sick leaue.
Chairman RamSpeck of the House
Civil Service Committee today intro
duced an administration bill to estab-
llsh a wage minimum OF $1,000 for all
iull-time adult employees OF the Gov
ernment. This would affect $4,000
persons by increasing their salaries to
$1,000, effective July l, 1888 He said
he does not expect any opposition and
that when 1t will be passed depends
on how long Congress remains in ses-
sion"
This bill will be taken up by the
House Civil Service Committee just
as soon as Chairman Ramspeck is re-
neVed from his service on the Labor
Committee which has the wage and
hour bill before it. He said that the
Civil Service Committee will promptly
report the bill he introduced today
and that administration leaders Will
arrange for carly action in the House.
Senator McCarran throughout the
session has been endeavoring to get
action on a bill to establish a $500
minimum for adults, full-tlme work.
ers, with small increases for other
loW-salarled employees up to $4,000.
This measure was sponsored in the
House by the late Representative WILL
liam P. Connery. then chairman of
the Labor Committee. The admin
lstratlon. however, asked that action
on the $500 minimum bill be post
poned pending further study.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
ORTHODOX YUGOSLAVS
PUSH CONCORDAT FIGHT
Thousands March Pass Bier of
Patriarch in Demonstration
Of Solidarity.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia. July %
Orthodox church members bv The
thousands marched past the bier of the
patriarch Mariana yesterday in a DEM
onstratlo1 Of solidarity against The
governments proposed concordat with
the Roman Catholic Church.
Members Of all classes. rich and
poor, statesmen and peasants. paid
tribute to the dead orthodox church
head in demonstration such as this
country has not seen since the last
century's unlflcation against the Turks.
At the funeral ceremony today the
turnout OF church followers is ex-
pected to exceed even that which
marked the late King Alexanders fu-
neral.
A movement gained headway TO
canonize the patriarch. who, until his
death last Friday. led the orthodox
church fight against ratification of the
concordat.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
THREAT TO SUSPECT
IN KIDNAPPING DENIED
Inspector Calls Report of Warn,
ing to Manning Strewl
- Lie
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
B1NGHAMTON, N 7, July 20
The record of the trial of eight n1el
for the 1893 KIDNAPPING of John J
O'Connell. jr, today held the denIa
of high-ranking New York Cit,
policeman that he ever threatened use
Of ''phony" ransom notes against one
defendant
The witness, Deputy Inspector Rich.
ard Oliver, gray-haired, 27-year vet.
eran of the force, was one of severa
metropolitan police officials called t
rebut defense testimony.
Oliver asserted under cross -exami.
nation that he had seen MannlnQ
Strewl, "go-between" in the ransom
negotiations and now on trial. at the
Albany County Jail in August. 1888
after O'Connell was released
Didn't you tell Strewl that If he
did not identify the men in certain
photographs you had that you voulc
use those 'phony ransom notes agains,
him?" asked Joseph G. NJ Browne
counsel for Strewl.
mo, that's lie" Oliver replied.
StreWl has admitted writing three
Of ten ransom notes introduced by the
Government, but claims they were
dictated to him by police after O'Con-
nell was freed. He contends their in.
PRODUCTION is an effort to frame" him
Evening star., 1937-07-29
WEATHER FAV0RS
THIRD POLAR HOP
Russians Planned to Leave
This Morning for
America.
By the Associated Press.

oy tlle hShOCIEteC Press.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July %
Daylight around the clock and ideal
weather conditions most of the way
lay head of third Soviet trans-Polar
alrplane fight, scheduled to start
from Moscow today for an unan-
nounced destination in America
An American-tralned pilot, Sigls-
nund Ievaneffsky, known as the
"Llndbereh of Russia" set the take
off for am. eastern standard time.
Three to five other persons Will ac-
company Levaneffsky in a four-mo-
tored plane.
Absence Of word of a take-oF after
the announced time recalled delay of
Moscow in announcing previous trans
polar flights The first venture was
net reported for "a hours.
Refuel at Fairbanks.
Fairbanks was listed as a refuehng
stop, A group Of Russian engineers
hastily completed establishing a re-
suellng station here. where the plane
can land, take on gas and then fly
on-posslhly to Chicago or New York
The United States Signal Corps
giant Northland radio network was
busy again long before the fight
started sending out reports Of good
weather most OF the way and of ideal
temperatures prevailing on the Ameri-
can side Of the Pole
From here to within 1900 miles of
Moscow 1t is daylight "a hours a
day at this time of the veav
Fairbanks is about $500 miles from
Moscow.
1t was Levaneffsky who eSsayed a
flight over the North Pole route in
August, 1885. but was forced to re-
turn to Moscow because of broken
oil feed line when he was well over
the Arctic Ocean.
Aided Rescue of lOI Marooned.
Three years earlier he and other
Russian aviatorS brought planes here
for use in resCulng l0l persons who
had been marooned on an ice foe off
Cape Karen IN Northeast Siberia.
The Two previous Soviet nonstop
North Pole flights were made in
elngle-motoved planes.
The first ended June 2l at VAN
eouver Wash. about 5000 miles from
Moscow. The second ended in a
pasture near San Jacinto, Calf. set
tins new nonstop world fight
record Of 6,2G2 miles.
S A. Snirnov Russian radio or
elneer, ard Michael BeMakov. hydro
n1eteorOlogist, ere in charge Of prepa-
ratlorS to greet the trans-Polar flyers
when they reach Fairbanks CO.
operating with them are Willis Glas-
gov. in charge Of the United States
Signal Corps station, and r. L. Frost,
United States weather observer. and
Fairbanks city officials and business
men
Pilot William Lavery and Mechanic
Clyde G. Armstead. who few to the
Polar regions with the Russian relief
party. offered their assistance. They
uesr the ribbon of the Order Of Lenin.
highest Soviet decoration, for their
work with the expedition.
One runway $500 feet and another
5000 feet long are avallap bic at Weeks
Field, municipal airport.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
GEORGES JOURNEY
T0|RELAND SCORED
British Press Asks Why Il
Was Necessary Rulers
Visit Belfast.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 29-Protest sps,nst
the official arrangements tha, too.
King George and Queen Elizab beth TO
Northern Ireland for coronation cele-
oratlon that was marred by widespread
political terrorism was voiced here to-
day
The Daily Mirror, referring to the
peril involved in the visit yesterday,
said:
May we ask why it was thought
necessary for the King and Queen to 20
to Belfast?"
Belfast police carried on an exhaus-
tive inquiry Of powerful land mlrs
which exploded near the route Of tho
royal procession. but had made no ar
rests in that connection.
Power Plant Believed Target,
The Ulster authorities declared ths
explosion, at a warehouse. vas delhi
erately planned and executed but
there was no official intlmation # was
an attempt on the life Of the King
Rather, it was thought the terror!s's
had tried To damage the clty's MAN
power and light plant, which vas
nearby.
Belfast authorities waited last night
until the KING and Queen were safely
aboard the royal yacht and homewaru
bound before they announced:
There was found in the hole caused
by the explosion what looks like bag
Of rags and which also contained some
explosives Explosives in the bag had
been placed against a store. and 20 the
explosives was attached a considera bic
length of fuse-possibly Tune fuse.
The fuse was found and is in the pos
session Of the police
The midday explosion. within a halt
mile from where George and EIzabe,n
were riding TO City Hall was but ora
item Of an array Of sabotage ana ter-
rorism that was credited To Irish Re.
publlcans who are opposed 70 he
monarchy.
Frontier Hills Secured.
Northern Ireland's civic guards
secured the desoIate hills Of the Ulster
and irish Free State frontier where
wholesale burning Of British customs
hutS occurred.
The Daily Mirrors S comment on the
afalr was biting The Times termed
yesterdays events childish ebuln-
tons but the Telegraph found II
difficult to speak with restraint" The
conservative Morning Post remarked
the civilized world by now is too
familiar with the noXlous character
of Irish gangster politics TO feel any,
thing but disgust for their --latest mani.
festation"
Across the Irish Sea the hunt for
the extremists was under full SWAY.
Civic guards carrying rlfes and ma
chine guns combed the COUNTRYSIDE
throughout the night and finally ar
rested three men encamped on noun
tain top.
Police said they had discovered
plot TO dynamite trains carrying police
and other visitors on their return TO
the Londonderry area from Belfast.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Released C0nuict Threatens
Nelv Crimes Unless State Paws

If they don't send me home? I've
got to live, don't I? I'll steal"
Reeves, alias Bob Reed and Jack
Hensley, swapped the prison shoes for
a pair of sporty oxfords and bummed
a sky-blue shirt and brown tie from
a laundry owner, yesterday But he
still wasn't satisfied with his suit,
"A copper can spot this suit as the
kind they give released prisoners" he
said. ANY kind of man who hires
laborers can spot it mile away"
He said his trade was electro plating
and that he could not get work Of
that sort Ia the South.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:

1ODA1.
Senate:
May vote on Wage-hour bill
Government Reorganization Com
mittee holds closed session.
House:
Considers flood-control planning
legislation
Senate House Committee studies bill
to plug tax loopholes
Rivers and Harbors Committee cor-
tinues hearing on regional planning
bill.
Agriculture Committee considers
crop-insurance bill.
Labor Committee continues revision
Of wagehour bill.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
May consider housing bill if wage
and hour bill is passed today.
House:
Will consider Panama Canal toll bill.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee begins hearings authorizing
investigation Of public utility corpora.
tions, 10 an.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
THREE BOYS ARE HELD
TO JURY IN ROBBERY
No Bond Allowed Two Because
Of Investigation Pending
in Another Case.

Three l7-year-old boys were held
for the grand jury, two of them with
out bond. when arraigned before Po-
lice Judge Isaac R. Hit on a charge
of robbing Andy Evans, 3l2 C street
All pleaded not guilty
They are: James W. Frady, 802
Sixth street southwest; Cecil r. Ken
nedy, 1912 Rosedale street northeast,
and George Waterholter, sos H street
The first two were held without bond
Bond in the case of Waterholter was
set at $l,500.
Detective Sergt. Joseph Shimon
said no bond was permitted the two
youths because of a pending investi-
cation into another case.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
BURNS HASTEN DEATH
OF CONFEDERATE CHIEF
Gen. Lucius Many, 81, Was Com.
mander of 1st Brigade of
Southern Veterans.

Southern Veterans.
By the Associated Press
COURTLAND, Va. July 29.-Gen.
Lucius L. Many, Confederate veteran,
died at his home here yesterday. He
was 81 years old. Funeral services
will be held here this afternoon.
Gen. Many, a nephew of Gen. M.
William Malone, served in Company
G, lst Virginia Regiment, and Com
pany H Of the 9th Regiment in the
War Between the States. He was
commander of the Urquhart Gillette
Camp, United States Confederate Vet
erans, and of the lst Brigade, U. c. v.
Serious burns suffered several
months ago were considered a con-
trlbuting cause of Gen. Manry's death.
Gen. Many was native and life
long resident of Courtland.
Surviving are three sons, L. NJ,
W. j, and E, S. Many, and a daugh-
ter. Mrs. G. w. Reese. al of Court
land.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
MEXICANS EXECUTED
IN SPANISH REBELLION
Envoy Reports Four of Munitions
Ship Captured by Insur-
gents Were Shot.

BY the Associated Press
MEXICO CITY, July 29-The for
elgn department was informed yester-
day that four Mexican members of the
crew of the Spanish munitions ship
Mar Cantabrico. captured by the in
surgent cruiser Canarias off Spain in
February, had been executed at Ell
Ferror for "rebellion.''
A report from the Charge d'Affaires
at Lisbon. Portugal, said the Mexicans
Jose Carlos Gallo, Manuel Zavala.
Alexandra Franco and Ricardo Solor-
zano-were court t-martialed aboard the
prison ship Contramaestre Casado.
along with Spanish members Of the
government ships crew, and shot.
The Mar Cantabrico. loaded with
airplanes and other war supplies. sailed
from Vera Cduz February 9. She was
near Spain when the Canarias cap
tured her.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Italy Gusts Journalist.

ROME, July 20 (P,.-Dr. Franz
Klein. an Austrian journalist CORE
spending for the newspaper Basler
Nachrichten of Basle, Switzerland,
was expelled from Italy yesterday be-
cause of what the Government consid-
cred attacks on the 1talo-German CO.
operation.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Recaptures Bass on String.

OKLAHOMA CITY (P).-Dr. Dale
Collins swears to this: He and his
party caught IS bass and strung them
on a line. The line came loose and
slipped into the lake, Collins diving
unsuccessfully after them Fifteen
minutes later he had strike Up
came all Is bass, still neatly strung
Evening star., 1937-07-29
By the Associated Press.

RALEIGH, N. c., July 29.-Marcus
Reeves, IS. of Bellwood. H., walked
out of Central Prison yesterday after
completing four-year term for lar
ceny and told State officials to send
me home or I'll break the law"
The slight, reserved former convict
said last night he would take his
case to Gov. Clyde R. Hoey today
They released me with new suit,
pair OF prison shoes, a gray prison
shirt and no money" he told re-
porters. Il can get job in Illinois.
but not here. It'll cost the State SIS
the price Of ticket home-for men
to 60 stra1sht.
Evening star., 1937-07-29

Paper sailed end over end, came
to rest with a neat kerplunk on the
front porch of a subscribers house.
The carrier boy stepped on the
gas, drove on down the line until
he came to his next customer, where
the same miraculous pitch was re-
peated. If you don't think its a
neat trick, try it.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
1a5Mf] a ,
&EX5}==S 8 =: Fl: ::':; j.
ia
U&-

from match to good cure for chest
colds
One man even sauntered up to the
desk one day and inquired confden-
TALLY:
Got any magazines?"
Yes, sir said the clerk; $500,
Ueeklies and monthlies."
Evening star., 1937-07-29
QUERIES.

WAITING at the periodical desk in
Congressional Library the other
daV We heard an elderly lady ask 4
clerk
Have you some travel literature.
folders and brochures?"
No, madam he said. II think the
regular travel agencies could help YOU.
Or we have the magazine Travel
Indeed not said the lady
Strange request? Not at all. Peo-
pie who work up there are accustomed
to being asked for almost anything,
Evening star., 1937-07-29
BRITAIN IS BACKED.
Other Nations Approve Neutrality
Proposals in Principle.

Other Nations Approve Neutrality
Proposals in Principle.
LONDON, July % (PD.-Informed
sources said today that the nations
pledged to isolate the Spanish war
have stamped British proposals 20. K.
in principle, with reservations.
A committee spokesman said about
half the 26 other members of the
n-lntervention Committee have re-
piled to Britain's QUESTIONABLE on her
latest proposal" neutrality blockade,
withdrawal of volunteers, limited bel
ligerent rights for both sides"
The fundamental difference, the
spokesman said, was still whether
belligerency would be recognized Or
volunteers would be withdrawn first.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Geyser to Run Trains.

Engineers are harnessing a huge
geyser near Larderello, Italy A
power house is being built, and the
geyser will drive four turbines pro-
ducing in all $4,000 kilowatts. The
energy will be used to operate electric
trains for passengers and freight.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
40 Is Summer Temperature.

PARSONS. w. Va, July 20 Up
Thermometers in Tucker County sank
yesterday to new lows on the coldest
day of Summer The temperature
dropped to 40 at Davis, A at Thomas
and 46 In Parsons.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
RV the Associated Pre-.

HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish From
TIER, July 29.-Spamsh insurgent mill
tary authorities said today the Rus
sian commander" of an international
government brigade had been killed
defending Madrid.
Dispatches identified the command
er as Gen. ArubenSco' and said fur
ther that the foreign chief" of the
Attn international Brigade was cap
tured with all his general staff.
lnSurSent sources said new often
slve against governmental Santan-
der, on the Bay of Blscay, was i'm
mlnent"
Generahssimo Francisco Frances
Eastern army meanwhile was reported
today to have driven across the Teruel-
Cuenca provincial border poised like
a scalpel over the Spanish govern
ment's Madrid Valencia lifeline.
While the battle for Madrid on the
inland clty's western front lapsed
into deadlocked lull, the insurgent
chleftans legions. some 100 miles
east of Madrid. were reported thrust
ing slowly south from the rocky
Albarracln sector toward the pro-
vlnclal capital. Cuenca
The drive was AIMED al the vital
highway link between Madrid and
Valencia, Mediterranean port and
temporary capital OF the Republican
government.
May Bring Final Victory.
Severance Of this route. over which
supplies. troops and communications
nave passed back and forth between
the two ma Tor cities held by the GOV
eminent, might bring the final victory
which Franco was unable 70 achieve
IN nearly nlEe months Of siege at
Madrid.
cOmmunlQue from the inS,Irgent
general headquarters at Salamanca
said the Insurgents were concentrating
their fire on the governments superior
positions in the desolate universities
Mountains
Inc communlque took coen!zance of
the arrival Of government reinforce
ments, including a foreign brigade. to
protect the Madrid Valencia road
only remaining direct line of commu-
nlcation between the present and for
rer capitals
Ihe insurgents claimed conquest Of
more than TOO square miles on the
Teruel-Cuenca front. while the gov
eminent hurriedly dug fortifications
at Cuenca, which is only about 30
miles northeast Of the nearest point
on the important highway.
Struggle Unnoticed.
Developments had been under way
on this mystery front" for 20 davs
while lnsurcent and government
armies wrestled for mastery of the
capital front But they went almost
unnotlced in the heat of the battle at
Madrd's gates
Franco and the Spanish govern
ment matched statistics in conflicting
claims of victory west of Madrid.
where today's chief activity was burial
Of the dead and fortificatlon work.
The insurgents put the cost of Gen
cSr'S -NtId a SoNtl liIIIeliJ kNlIeQl llJO
msurgent rearguard territory on the
Madrid front at 800 fighting planes
and 10000 casualties. They called the
drive an expensive failure.
The government estimated Franco
had lost 10000 to $4,000 men and had
poured about Sl5,OO0.OOO worth of
war materials into the struggle to
keep intact his siege lines. Francois
losses in the air totaled at least 100
planes to the governments 20 or 30
1t was said in Madrid
Insurgents said that many of the
governments 1000 dead still lie in
piles under the blazing sun in now
abandoned trenches and the she'll
raked villages west of Madrid
BRITAIN IS BACKED.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Educators Record Perfect.

Having served so years as master
In Yelje Grammar School in Sealand
without missing a day. B. NJ Jensen
has Just retired,
Evening star., 1937-07-29
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SWING.

0W 1INIf.
~ RIvING near Falls Church the
other day, the car in front
of us slowed down, driver
- swung his left arm out the
window in one of those ambiguous
gestures that make traffic the con-
fused mess that it is We we're
about to bestoW a few choice re-
marks upon him when we noted
that in his hand was a rolled news
paper, which he drew back, poised
a moment at the peak of the back
swing, then tipped straight across
the front of his car.
Evening star., 1937-07-29
REBELS CAPTURE
FOREIGN CHIEF
Brigade Staff Also Cap
tured-Death of Russian
Commander Is Claimed.


Failure to capture Madrid after
almost nine months OF siege, found
Gen. Francisco Franco shifting his
1nsuroent attack to Bilbao, BASQUE
capital in north. Capture OF citu
released thousands OF troops and
again push on M1drid mas resumed
NTH renemed force. Government
resistance has been stubborn, ho1o-
euer, and ground gained has been at
great cost.