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ton here ever since the beginning
boxed in without weapons and with
out choice. Now, unable to manage
his girl he still had to go on. With
out word he turned his pony head
up the gluch.
He put his horse into the soundlesS
sand of the dry stream, and pressed
into shuffling jog; and they rode
for long time, while the slow twi-
light deepened. Wheeler thought
that he had never seen any desert
country so bleak and lifeless-
excepting the Red Sleep, where Cot
fee had found Bob Flagg wrapped in
eternal stiffness under the red rock.
And although Marian's pony
trailed close behind his own, il
seemed to him that he had never
been so utterly alone, in a vacant
world. Once as he swung crosswise
in his saddle to turn to Marian,
he caught her brushing tears from
her cheeks with her gloved fingers.
Presently, he said in low voice,
If a gun cracks, 60 to the ground,
and take any cover there is"
They plugged along another mile,
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that forgotten, nameless canyon, a
thousand horsemen could have been
hidden within the quarter mile. His
eyes were grim as he passed his
reins to the girl.
Marian, for the last time-won't
anything I can say or do make you
go back?"
moi" She smiled family a lit
tie grim stubborn smile. ''You can't
seem to understand that I"
A sharp report sounded above,
and Marian's pony suddenly folded
at the knees. It went down on it's
side like a great sand bag, and was
still before the echoes had died from
the rifle in the upper rocks. Wheel
er's pony reared, tearing free its
head, and bolted down the canyon.
He sprang toward Marian. She
had swung herself clear, and was
already getting up beside her fallen
horse. Get down-quick, behind
the horse! She hesitated but, he
did not. He seized her shoulders,
deity kicked her heels from Under
her and laid her flat behind her
dead pony. "Stay there!"
Continued Next Week.
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while the canyon narrowed. The
light was failing fast.
Marian whispered, Billy"
He stopped his horse and she
came up, stirrup to stirrup. Her
eyes were fixed on the high south
rim of the gulch. She said almost
inaudibly, There's a rider up there,
l saw him cross between those rab-
bit-ear rocks"
They sat still for long minute,
listening. The cash in the rocks
that Marian indicated was no more
than a hundred yards away on a
high angled line, and the dusk was
very still, but Wheeler could detect
no least sound of a walking horse.
1T must have been a trick of the
light" Wheeler said.
BILLY, saw him as plainly as
see you here, now"
He hesitated moment more, then
stepped to the ground.
Hold my pony"
Billy Wheeler's eyes were sweep
ing the upper levels as he stepped
out of the saddle. In the ragged
brush and upthrust lodges above
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now he snapped sharply awake.
''What did he look ike?"
"A scraggly little man with a rifle
in his hands; he was on a good sor-
rel with blaze face and one white
leg"
Good lord! Did he see your
81 don't think so. After he was
out of sight I got back here as fast
as I could. I was praying some
body would be here. But I've been
here over an hour. I thought no
body was ever going to come"
"Can you find the place where he
was?"
"Of course"
1t took fresh ponies an hours hard
work to take them to the place
where Marian had seen the armed
rider; yet Wheeler was astonished.
The "a riders were casting wide,
blocking off distant passes-and if
Marian was right, Magoon had dou-
bled back to take cover ALMOST un-
der their own roof. Marian led Billy
to a V-cut, in a gluch in a country
heavy with desert juniper and scrub
oak.
"He was riding down here, headed
west. was in those upper lodges. "
In the broad canyon the ground
was flinty, but in the bottom of a
slender ribbon of gravelly sand
wound a crooked course, marking
the run-off of last winters rains.
Working up-canyon, Wheeler pres
emily found what he was after; the
trail of a horse crossing a twist in
the sands of the vanished creek.
'Marian-you sure seem to have
done what failed us all! Can you
read that trail?"
mo"
"a tired horse, unshod, ridden
over rocks for three, four days;
trying to hurry, plugging along
steadily, and straight"
He let his voice trail of. Some
isolated memory from far back was
troubling him, trying to make itself
known. He knew this place; once
before, years ago, he had riddn
here, but only once, for the poor
feed called few cattle He remem-
bred bitter tasting water.
Suddenly he rem m b er d
There's some sort of old shelter
up here-some fool mining men had
it once. There's little water there,
not much good, and stock can't get
at it; riders don't 60 through there
once year. Marian, if can work
this right-we've got him.
''He has nearly three hours start,
Billy"
'But his horse is close to played
out. He'll figure to hide out up
there and rest. If I can come on
him before dark I can catch him in
a straight run"
Marian's eyes shone with a queer,
fearful light. ''Now? Tonight"
Fright now - within the four
miles,"
"You will be careful, won't your"
"Sure. By the time you get back
to the ranch your uncle should be
there. Tell him"
"By the time I get back?"
"Of course-he told Amos he'd be
back. Tell him to send somebody
with a fresh horse. I'm going
to"
'But I'm not going back"
He stared at her a moment. "You
sure are going back! What are you
Evening star., 1937-08-11
$1,000 REWARDS UP
FOR TWO BANDITS
Cummings Offers Sum for Arrest
of Cant and Hunt. Believed
Bank Robber Chiefs.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Attorney General Cummings yester-
day offered a $1,000 reward for the
arrest Of Hugh Cant and Alva D.
Hunt, whom he described As leaders
Of a gang of bank robbers operating
in the South
Cummings said one indictment
already has been returned at Gaines
vile, Fla, charging both men with
robbing Dixie County State Bank at
Cross City, Fla, January IA, 1886
and the pair also is wanted in con-
nection with q series Of other bank
robberies.
Cummings said the band of "des-
perate criminals" had committed nu-
merous crimes Of violence throughout
Florida and adjoining States. operat-
ing since 1920 as the Hunt-Gant gang
He named Riley Cant, brother of
Hugh, as apparently leader of the
mob until 1888, when he was shot
and killed while attempting to rob
a store at Penney Farms, Fla.
Among bank robberies attributed to
the Hunt-Gant gang are those of the
Dixie County State Bank, in which
the bandits obtained $4,000 the Co.
lumbia Bank at Tampa, Fla, when
they obtained loot totaling s3O,45O,
and the Farmers & Merchants Bank
at Foley, Fla. which was robbed June
2, 1885, OF 1920
Evening star., 1937-08-11
SACCARDI NAMED
CORRECTION HEAD
Backer of "Clinic to the Court
Appointed to Social Work
Position.

Vincent Saccardi, one OF the FIRST
hackers OF the movement here for a
clinic to the court" has been ap-
pointed chairman of the Corrections
Committee Of the Council of Social
Agencies, it was announced by the
organization yesterday.
AS manager OF the local Office OF
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co..
Saccardi has served for number OF
years as chairman Of the agency's
Insurance Committee and also has
represented the Board of Trade on
the Corrections Committee.
He was one of the principal figures
in drawing up the bill by which the
agency asked of Congress that a
psychiatrist, a doctor and a social
worker form a clinic R three TO act
as an adjunct to the District courts.
Although the bill never came before
Congress. 1t was said at the agency
today that Saccardi's appointment
would mean renewed drive for
bringing about esta ablishment Of the
clinic. The first step was expected
to be the rewriting of the clinic bill
for presentation at the next session Of
Congress.
Saccardi succeeds Ray I Huff, who
resigned recently to accept an ap-
pointment as superintendent of the
District penal institutions.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
Mine O,rner Missing 40 Hours
Returns as Rescuers Hunt Pit

from the slope with the five men who
had accompanied him underground
that morning
At the Herrin Hospital, Wilson told
attendants:
I'm not hurt. I'm hungry. Get
me something to eat"
He had not eaten since lunch Mon
day
Propped in a hospital bed, Wilson
told a dramatic story Of his wan
derings through the old mine after his
lamp went out. He had gone into
the old Peabody workings which con-
meet with his own mine. to examine 4
sectionsof coal
Il don't know how I hurt my head" -"
he said. 1T was either fall of
coal. or I bumped into something.
Il haven't any idea how far l wan
dered. Finally. after what seemed to
be days. I stumbled over a piece Of
track. I knew if l would follow the
track long enough I would come to
switch. Then knew I could find
my way out"
He pointed out that mine switches
always point to the mine bottom.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
U::A. W.PREPARES
TO DEMONSTRATE
Property Lines Are Watched
Carefully in Vicinity of
Ford Plant.

Il score OF U. A. w. A. members
Dds hurt in uolence May rs uhile
distributing leaflets to WorkerS
changing shifts at q Ford Motor
Co. factory in Dearborn, Mich. The
U. A. w. A. charged that Ford had
hired pug-uglies; Ford officials that
the uniontsts trespassed on pirate
ground.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
CLUB TO HEAR CURRAN

Police Court Judge Edward Curran
will discuss suggested changes in
Police Court procedure at luncheon
meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club at
the Carlton Hotel at 1890 pm. to-
morrow.
The speaker will be introduced by
Fred J. Rice. past president Of the
club. Arthur Defenderfer, president,
will preside,
Evening star., 1937-08-11
CIGARETTE BLAMED
IN FATAL SHIP FIRE
Investigation Board Member Says
No Sabotage in City of
Baltimore Blaze.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va. August ll.-Capt
Eugene H. Carlson, supervising in
spector Of the Bureau of Marine In
spection and Navigation. expressed be-
lief yesterday burning cigar or
cigarette caused the fire that de-
stroyed the bay steamer City of Balti-
more and claimed three lives.
The investigation developed no evi-
dence of sabotage, Carlson said on
his return here from Baltimore and
Washington after sitting as member
of the Investigation Board.
Its my theory" he said, that
some stevedore dropped a lighted
cigarette or cigar while loading the
cargo of sugar.
The bags were dry as tinder," he
continued, and the fire, famed by
the stiff breeze through the open
ports, smouldered unnoticed until it
suddenly burst through to envelop
that entire section of the Ship
Evening star., 1937-08-11
BY the Associated Press,

MARION, Ill, August 1l.-Jesse
Wilson, %. lost in the abandoned
workings of an old mine for 40 hours,
walked unaided from the slope today
while 80 rescuers searched for him.
Suffering from a cash on the head,
he was rushed in an ambulance to
the Herrin, Ill, hospital.
The mine owner had wandered near
ly a mile from his own mine into the
labyrinth Of tunnels in the old Pea
body No. workings.
Wilson said he had been wandering
through the old tunnels, almost the
entire time he was in the mine His
carbide lamp went out while he was
in the old workings
How he obtained the cash on the
head was not determined Immediately.
At the hospital his injuries were re-
ported not serious.
Volunteers were still searching for
Wilson when runner was sent under
ground to inform them he was safe.
Wilson had been missing since Mon
day afternoon, when he did not emerge
Evening star., 1937-08-11
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, August ll.-Volunteer
members of the United Automobile
Workers of America, estimated by
union officials to number between 800
and 1000, were assembling at noon
today for their second attempt to dis
tribute literature at the gates of the
Ford Motor Co. Rouge plant.
The first attempt, on May 26, ended
in the routing of the union members,
score of whom were beaten by Ford
employees. Four union officials and
organizers, including Richard T.
FrankenSteen, organizational director,
and Walter Reuther, president of the
West Side local, were thrown down
several flights of steps leading to an
overpass crossing Miller Highway to
the plant.
Reuther will direct the distribution
of literature by 500 men and women
today at gate 4, the scene of his beat
ing in May The distributors will be
assigned 10 ~ IOCdllOIlS III hlI.
To Garry Maps.
Because of the Ford Co.'S conten-
ton that much of the fighting on May
rs occurred on Ford property, the vol
unteers will carry maps today defining
the highway and property where pub
lie or private nature is disputed. Union
leaders have instructed them to avoid
the disputed areas.
State police, Wayne County sher-
IFS deputies and representatives of
the prosecutor Office will be present
today
No Ford Co. official would comment
but member of the service depart
ment, which polices the plant, said
he understood no attempt would be
made to interfere with the distribu-
ton, so long as the union members
stayed off Ford property"
Gov. Frank Murphy said yesterday
he had requested State police to use
their good Offices in negotiations to see
that the rights Of persons who want to
distribute literature in peaceful and
legal manner are safeguarded."
No Trouble Sought.
. Homer Martin, U. A. w. A. presi-
dent, said I'VE desire at all costs to
avoid trouble Our men have been in
structed to distribute only on known
and undisputed public property
Martin said he had been informed
that Ford sluggers" had been or
dered to prevent the taking of pictures
and that metal weights had been piled
4 on building roof 'ostensibly waiting
to be hurled at union distributors on
the street below"
The union head said that Mrs. Cor
nelia Bryce Pinchot. wife of Clifford
Pinchot, former Governor Of Penn
sylvania, would be an unofficial OBJ
server and that others would be pres
ent representing the Civil Liberaties
Committee of Senator Robert NJ La
Toilette. Progressive. Wisconsin and
the Conference for the Protection of
Civil Rights.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
SHIP PROBLEM STUDY
TO EMPHASIZE LABOR
Survey Called First Step Toward
Reha bilitating U. S. Mer-
chant Marine.

By the Associs ted Press
A study Of Americas shipping prob
lens, which the Maritime Commission
announced today, will lay special
emphasis on labor.
Chairman Joseph P Kennedy de-
scribed the survey as first step
toward rehabilitating the merchant
marine.
Kennedy said unsettled labor condi-
tions have assumed really serious
proportions" as an obstacle to develop
ment of shipping. Questioned by re-
porters, he said he had in mind the
disputes between the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor and John L. Lewis
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associat ted Press.
MADRID, August l1-Spanish
government sources reported today
Generalissimo Francisco Frances ar
tillery had shelled his own city of
Segovia to put down a revolt in the
insurgent ranks The rebellion was
said to be spreading through Province
after Province.
Government observation posts re-
ported brisk conflict WAS going on
in the city 43 miles northwest of
Madrid. The crackle OF machine gun
and rifle fire within Segovia, the
observers reported, could be heard
plainly from the nearby government
lines.
Own Stronghold Fired On.
Insurgent artillery batteries were
said to have opened fire on their own
stronghold from Quita Pesares.
Reports from far to the south said
that revolt was widespread in the
neighborhood of the city of Granada
and that Frances troops, rebelling
against his regime, had used rifles
and machine guns in an attack on the
city.
Then, these reports said, the re-
voting insurgents attacked the posi-
tions held by their former comrades
in the vicinity. The fighting was
said to have reached its height about
noon yesterday. Observers declared
that squadron Of insurgent war
planes had hovered low over Gra-
NADIA, but had not bombed the city.
Foreigners Battle Spaniards.
The Valencia defense ministry said
that its information was that one
group Of insurgents had revolted
against the Malaga authorities and
seized their barracks. The uprising
was suppressed, the government de-
clared, only after day and q night
of fighting in which foreign troops
were used against the Spaniards.
Internal fighting among insurgents
was also reported on the Toledo front,
south of Madrid, particularly at Car
pio del Tajo.
Insurgent authorities have consis-
tently denied there was any disaffec-
ton in the territory gained by them
in the more than year old Spanish
civil war.
Rebels Start New Drive.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish From
tier, August IL (H'(.-1nsurgent forces
on the Teruel front east of Madrid to-
day opened a new drive toward the
headwaters of the Tagus River, push
ing government defenders from the
village of Frias de Albarracin under
heavy fire.
Government commanders acknowl-
edged their troops had evacuated" the
village after desperate battle on the
western edge of the salient thrust by
Generalissimo Francisco Franco to-
ward communication lines connecting
Madrid and Valencia.
Prisoner Exchange Begun.
VALENCIA, August II (P,.-A pris-
oner exchange was begun yesterday
at the insurgent- port of Palma,
in the Balearics Seventeen hundred
government prisoners are to be re-
turned to the insurgents in an even
exchange when the transfer is COM
plete.
The American aviator, Harold E.
Dahl OF Champaign, H., now q pris-
oner at insurgent Salamanca, may be
among those exchanged.
Evening star., 1937-08-11

committee predicted only of its Ia
members would vote to permit House
debate tomorrow on the measure.
Informed persons said a movement
was under way in the committee to
defer the entire matter until next
year.
The House Labor Committee recon-
vened, meanwhile, in secret session to
consider additional amendments to
the bill. Legislators said the changes
were of q minor nature, including one
which would exempt railway express
clerks from the regulations.
Opposition in the Rules Committee
was headed by Representatives Dies,
Democrat, of Texas and Cox, Demo-
crat, Of Georgia. The former has
threatened to block both wage-hour
and housing legislation unless Congress
enacts farm program.
The Senate already has passed the
wage-hour bill 1t would permit a
board to fix minimum wages no higher
than 40 cents an hour and maximum
work week of not less than 40 hours
The uncertainty over the bill, as
well as over farm and sugar control,
threw Congress today into a pre-
adjournment muddle.
No administration chieftain on
Capitol Hill would predict what might
happen to the three measures.
Situation Complicated.
Complicating the situation was
comment from President Roosevelt
which some legislators interpreted to
mean special session to act on farm
legislation might be necessary.
A siZable bloc of congressman has
been clamoring for crop loans, par
ticularly on cotton, to strengthen
prices. Mr.. Roosevelt has said he
would not authorize such loans with
out assurance that Congress would
pass bill to control crop surpluses.
When reporter remarked yester-
day that there would be no loans if
there was no control legislation by
January, the Chief Executive replied
he guessed that was right.
Chairman johnson of the House
Democratic Steering Committee said,
however, it had been advised that if
Congress adopted a resolution to give
farm bill priority at the start of
the 1888 Congress, the President
would go ahead with loans. Resolu-
tions are pending in both Senate and
House.
Committee O. KS Sugar Bill.
The sugar bill won the approval Of
the Senate Finance Committee yes
terday after Chairman Harrison call
ed at the White House.
It modified a provision, adopted by
the House, restricting imports OF re-
fined sugar from Hawaii and Puerto
Rico. The committee proposed
freezing" refined quotas.
Whether the amendment went far
enough to meet administration objec-
tions and lift the threat of a veto was
not yet discernible.
In place of the usually well-defined
program for handling major bills to-
ward the close of the session, House
leaders could not say definitely what
would reach the floor next.
They had hoped to take up today a
wheat crop insurance bill and perhaps
the low-cost housing bill, both Of which
have passed the Senate. Committees,
however, delayed their recommenda-
tions.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
CharWoman Hurt,

A fractured leg was suffered last
night by Marion Barkley, AZ, of 1905 1
street southeast, a charwoman at the
city post office, when she fell down
an elevator shaft from the first floor
to the basement. She was taken to
Providence Hospital
Evening star., 1937-08-11
FREIGHT RATE CUT
IS HELD RU|N0US
Railroads Would Be Forced
Into Bankruptcy, Young
Tells Senate.
BACKGROUND

One primary ob1ectiue OF Robert
R. Young after acquiring control
OF 23.000-mile Van S,Uerinoen rail
empire 1raS to reoroanize the cor
porate structure OF the member
roads to preDent alleged "milking"
OF Chesapeake & Ohio, principal
revenue producer. His reorganizd-
ton plan inUolres merging Ale
ghdny Corp, top holding company
OF the Van Sreringen pyramid,
NTH Chesapeake Corp. another
holding company. He hopes this
,D1li produce better "olUnerShip
described as the only way OUT for
railroads.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
FRANCOBOMBARDS
REVOLVING FORCES.
Madrid Reports Rebellion
Against FaScists Runs
Through Provinces.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
GroDing discomfort among Gen.
Francisco frances legions against
presence OF italian and German
forces in Spain has been period
1cally reported. Frequent cases OF
desertion from the rebel ranks to
the LoyaliSt forces hare been re-
ported as Great Britain and France
hare strtren uainly to obtain NTH
draUdl OF So-cdlled "Uolunteers."
Evening star., 1937-08-11
Travels 5000 Miles to Wed.

Twenty-year-old Jessie Reid of
Abergele, North Wales. Is travelling
1924 miles to Melbourne, Australia,
to marry.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
Congress

Continued From First Page \
Evening star., 1937-08-11

BY the Associated Press.
Robert R. Young, head of the Van
SWeringen railroad system, predicted
today that all the Nations railways
will go into bankruptcy together if
the freight rate on coal is reduced ma
terially.
Such rate cut, now being conslG-
cred by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, would "injure many
thousands of security holders in the
coal roads" he told the Senate Rail-
way Investigating Committee
Young denied, however, that a rae
reduction would wreck" his pending
plan for reorganizing the % ,O0O-mile
system. On the contrary he argued,
the merger of the networks two chief
holding companies would help us to
withstand such shocks as rate cuts
wage increases or adverse legislation.
Cites c. & o. Finances.
Lawrence Brown, committee exam
lner, contended that the reorganiza-
ton was 'capitalized on the basis of
squeezing every penny of fair return
out of the systems chief income-pro-
ducing line, the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway.
He asserted that a fair return. as
defined by the Supreme Court. would
justify only $3.50 annual dividend
by the c. & O., all of which would
have to be used by it's parent holding
company to pay fixed charges
Absolutely nothing would be left
Brown said, for such contingencies as
wage increases or additions and bet
terments.
Young retorted that the proposed
capitalization would be "sounder" than
the present one and would be the best
we have any legal or moral right to
put through .-.,-
Says Line Was "Milked."
Senator Truman, Democrat, of Mis-
souri,, acting chairman, told the wit
ness that earlier hearings had shown
the c. & O. was MIXED many times
without the knowledge of its stock
holders for the benefit of other Van
Sweringen roads.
That Is going to be stopped" ex-
claimed Young, who only recently
gained control Of the system.
Committee Counsel Max Lowenthal
then criticized long series Of recent
incidents in the financial history
OF the c. g. O.. which he said in
cluded false bookkeeping and open
defiance" Of the c. I. O.
Evening star., 1937-08-11
Introduction of Sugar.

Sugar is believed to have been in
troduced to the Mediterra mean coun-
tries from Bengal about the fifth cen.
tury A. D.