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Evening star., 1938-09-06
DEATH TO BE PROBED
IN HOSPITAL CASE
Prince Georges Hearing Set on
Fatality After Man Had Been
Discharged as Unhurt.

States Attorney Alan Bowie OF
Prince Georges County, Md. will con.
duct hearing at 2 pm. Friday into
the death Of Lafayette Vandiver, 30,
colored, Of 1882 Eighth street NV.
who died in Maryland State police
ambulance en- route to the Marlboro
Jail after being released from Casualty
Hospital as uninjured.
Vandiver was brought to the local
hospital after an automobile in which
he was riding turned over three times
near Woodville, Md, last Thursday
After an examination, he was released
10 Pvt Thomas r. Ferrell of the
Maryland State police. Ferrell said he
drove to Waldorf to get commitment
papers for Vandiver and then drove
to Marlboro, where the man was found
to be dead on arrival.
An autopsy performed by Drs
James G. Sasscer, Prince Georges
County Jail physician, and James I
Boyd of Forestville at the District
Morgue yesterday revealed that VAN
diver died Of fractured ribs which
punctured his lungs.
DR.. J. R. Young, assistant superin-
tenoent at Casualty Hospital, said
Vandiver was given an examination
and was found to be under the inf1u-
ence OF liquor. but that no outward
signs OF injury were revealed.
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LONDON is to have a footwear stvlex
exhibition in Novenoher
Evening star., 1938-09-06
CARDINAL $ BODY
To LIE IN STATE
Largest AssembIage G
Hierarchy to Attend
Rites Friday.
Fly the Associated Press.

FS the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Sept 6.-Catholics
mourned in ancient ceremonial rites
today the death of Patrick Cardinal
Hayes, leading American spokesman
of their faith.
With pomp and pageantry befitting
the passing of prince of the church,
the body of the 70-year-old cardinal
of charity" robed in full pontifical
vestments, will be taken to ST. Pat
ricks Cathedral during the day to lie
In state until Friday.
The prelate, archbishop of the larg-
est and richest Catholic diocese in the
Western Hemisphere, died peacefully
in his sleep Sunday at his summer
home near Monticello. N Y. A crowd
of $4,000 mourners lined Fifth avenue
yesterday as the body was brought to
the cathedral for brief services before
being removed to his eminence's resi-
dence here overnight.
Priests will chant the divine office
for the dead church leader each morn
ing and evening until Friday, when the
ceremonies culminate in solemn
pontlfical requiem mass. The cardinal
will then be buried with his predeces-
sors in crypt beneath the altar of the
giant Gothic cathedral.
The cathedral, robed in purple and
black. will receive the largest gather
Ing of the American Catholic hierarchy
here in a decade Friday. The three
surviving American cardinals and As
bishops are expected to attend the
final mass.
Evening star., 1938-09-06

shield was sprayed with oil. He wire
lessed the airport control tower a
warning, anxious to finish if he could,
even with frozen motor. The field
was cleared for him.
With three laps to go, he hung
doggedly to Turner's heels. He flashed
over the line in second place wheeled
about, cut his ignition switch and shot
in blindly, guided entirely by radioed
instructions.
Dangerous Landing.
Ortman drifted in over canvas
fence at the south end of the airport
with only feet to spare and landed his
fleet racer with his motor frozen and
his propeller idle.
Third place went to Steve Whitman,
Oshkosh, Wis; fourth to Leigh Wade
Of New York and Buenos Aires, fifth to
Joseph Mackey, Findlay, Ohio, and
sixth to Joe jacobson, Kansas City.
The other two entrants-Harry Crosby
and Arthur C. Chester, both of Los
Angeles-dropped out
For Turner yesterdays victory was
peculiarly consoling. Apart from the
fact that he pocketed $4,000 first
place prize money and $4,000 more for
setting a new Thompson record, he
finally broke through to cross the fin
lsh line ahead Of the field in an event
which he had blown" twice.
On two other occasions Turner cut
pylons and lost the race. On another
he pulled up with victory in sight when
his motor went bad.
Evening star., 1938-09-06

Switzerland, and the marriage fol-
lowed on the 23d of the month
After the wedding. the father made
a ges.ure of forgiveness. He granted
to his son the title of Count OF Cova-
donga in exchange for that Prince OF
! the Asturias, which belongs to heirs to
the Spanish throne. The ex-king also
allowed his son to retain the right to
be addressed as royal highness' and
settled on him a monthly allowance of
1920 francs, then equivalent to about
S1150
But the family breach was not
healed, for the ex-monarch refused to
receive his daughter-in-laW. In 1884,
when a quarrel over family affairs
separated the couple, the Prince fatty
refused suggestion that he go to live
with his father in Italy.
Ex-Queen Victoria. estranged from
her husband. sympathized with her son
throughout these troubles. She met
the new Countess soon after the we'd
ding. and they saw each other fire.
quently in Paris.
The 1884 quarrel was reported to
have been caused by the Countess re-
fusal to wear mourning when her hus-
bands youngest brother, who, like him,
was a hemophlliac, died from minor
injuries received in an automobile &C
cident. She left Paris for her home in
Cuba, but after six months series of
letters and cablegrams effected recon-
citation.
Ire prince sailed for New York, ar
irving May 80, 1885. and being met at
the dock by his wife 1t was his first
visit to America. and he said he'd like
to get job writing book reviews for a
newspaper. But no position eventuated,
and the couple went to Havana. After
his desperate illness there they again
separated The wife remained in Cuba
and her husband. announcing his in
tention of returning to Paris, sailed
for New York. where for weeks he dali
lied among the bright lights. tottering
into night clubs with the aid of two
canes.
Eldest of Six Children.
Born Prince of the ASturias May TO-
1907, Alfonso was trained to rule Spain
He was the eldest of four sons of AL
fonso XIII and Victoria. but only the
third, Don Juan. who later was desig-
mated official heir. was normal. The
second son. Don Jaime. was a deaf
mute. and the fourth. Don Gonzalo.
inherited the curse of hemophilia
There also were two daughters. In
fanta Beatriz and Infanta Maria Cris9
tina.
The family fled from Madrid when
the Spanish monarchy was overthrown
on April IA, 1881. Prince Alfonso told
later how he escaped from the revolu-
tionists by riding from the palace in an
ambulance, a pistol at his side. to an
obscure railway station. thence by rail
across the French frontier.
Evening star., 1938-09-06
TURNER S|zzLES
AIR FOR TROPHY
283-Mi|e Speed Sets Mark
in DueIing 0rtmann for
Thompson Race.
BY DEVON FRANCIS,
Associated Press Aviation Editor.


CLEVELAND, Sept. GA big guy
with a wide. toothy grin, has recap
tured the worlds choicest aviation
trophy for the United States at a
speed which those foolish visionaries
used to write about in the days of
the one-hoss shay.
Snugly seated in a silver-hued rae
ing plane, Roscoe Turner of Chicago
breezed around a 10-mile course for
634 minutes yesterday to jack up
to 283.419 miles an hour the pace for
the 300-mile Thompson Trophy race.
1t was just days chore for the man
who introduced pet lion cub to flying
a few years ago and shocked his more
conservative fellow aviators by appear
ing in public with brilliant blue uni
form of his own design.
Shows Americas Speed.
For Turner 1t was victory and
something more. To use his own words:
We've proved that we've got the
speed in this country, something for
Europe to shoot at
In annexing the final event Of the
three-day National Air Races, Turner
exceeded by 19 miles an hour the
pace set by Michel Detroyat of France
in the same race at Los Angeles in
1896.
Nobody could touch Detroyat two
years ago. He ran away from the
field not only in the Thompson race,
but in the less widely known and
slower Greve event.
So Turner had double satisfaction.
He walloped one of Europe's speed
aces and he won the Thompson race
for the second time to become the
only man who ever accomplished the
feat
Speed Duel With Ortman.
AS an oVertone to the Squabble
among eight entries for $45.00O worth
OF prize money, Turner and Earl Ort-
man Of San Diego fought a private
duel for the lead almost the entire dis
tarce Ortman had outfiown Turner
at Oakland only last May
Completely nerveless after driving
MS snip through 80 laps with clock
work precision. Turner ran a finger
over the official results sheet.
Il think the showings in this race
will mean something to American
aviation" he remarked
Ortman. too, bettered Detroyat's S
pace by miles an hours He also
exceeded it at Oakland to post a new
world mark, shattered by both Turner
and himself yesterday, for closed
course speed.
The San Diego flyer fought odds too
great TO overcome after Turner took
an option on the lead at the 50-mile
mark. Turner's ship, rounding the
pylons and flattening into the straight
aways at 300-mile-an- hour clip, was
faster
Ortman Warned Of Crash.
Moreover, toward the close Ortman's
Oil pressure began ebbing, with his
control stick in his stomach, he pulled
high. ready to abandon ship with his
parachute il necessary. His wind
Evening star., 1938-09-06
2I2-MILE REBEL GAIN
ALONG EBRO REPORTED
Franco Base Hears Yague's Men
Have Captured Range, Key
to Eastern Spain Front.

to Eastern Spain Front.
BY the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, France Cat the Span
ish frontier). Sept. 6.-Advices reach
ing insurgent border headquarters to-
day said Gen. Juan Yague's troops
made a general 21a-mile advance and
occupied the entire De los Caballos
Range, the key to the Ebro River
front in Eastern Spain.
The official insurgent communique,
however. failed TO confirm the re-
! ports but said only that many posi-
tions were taken during a continual
ton of an offensive that began Sat-
urday near Gandesa
Government dispatches maintained
the insurgents had succeeded in bet
tering their lines slightly at the cost
of heavy losses"
The insurgent front lines. insurgent
bulletins said. were 3l2 miles beyond
Corbera. town miles northeast of
Gandesa. Corbera was captured Sun
day morning in the offensive designed
to wipe out gains the government has
held for six weeks
On the Estremadura front in South
western Spain both sides reported at
tacks by the other had been repulsed,
with the situation remaining virtually
unchanged.
Barcelona reported seven insurgent
planes were shot down Monday in a
battle in which the government listed
six Of its own planes as lost.
Evening star., 1938-09-06
'Judge' Allen Opens Nev Office
As Insurance Executive Here
Form Commissioner
Refuses to Permit a
GOOd.bv Party.

George E. Allen, whose term as
Commissioner expired September l
after he declined to continue any
longer in Office at the request of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, opened up his new Office
in Washington today as vice president
OF the Home Fire Insurance Co. of
New York.
Mr.. Aliens office is located at 1922
K street NV and was the scene today
Of large gathering of old friends and
well-wishers who dropped in to pay
their respects and to wish him we'll
in his new undertaking.
The former Commissioner. who is
now known as Judge" Allen, having
been informally designed as such by
President Roosevelt, would not consent
to a formal goodby party at the Dis
trlct Building. which his many asso-
ciates there were anxious to arrange.
nor would he consent to anything re-
sembling a testimonial party in his
honor. He merely stepped out of
offlcial life into private life without
any ostentation. He, however. will
continue to serve the District in the
capacity of administrator of the Works
Progress Administration. which he has
held since this relief agency was
started more than four years ago.
Mr.. Allen will continue this work
without salary and will allot his time
between his new Office on K street
and the one in the w. P. A. Admins
tration Building on c street.
The Judge" left the District more
than two weeks ago for a brief vaca-
tion in Canada and to discuss his new
work with the officers of his company
in New York. He returned to Wash
ington Saturday. His new Office, while
not as spacious as the one in the
District Building is described as being
the last word in luxury and artistic
adOrnment
Evening star., 1938-09-06
Years on the
Test Bench
Prove 1t!

In 1888 number OF stondord,
stock ABC OIL BURNERS were
put on O test bench OF the ABC
footory ond storted running OF
their reeuIor operating speed.
Since thot time these OIL BURN
eRS have been running doy otter
doy, week in and week out
WITHOUT ATTENTION, WITH
OUT REPAIR, WITHOUT BEING
CREASED. OILED, CLEANED, the
equivalent Of l8 years Of service
in your home, ond service under
conditions more rigorous than any
home operotion could possibly
give.
Evening star., 1938-09-06
Covadonga
Continued From First Page.D


a truck. lost control and hit a pole
on the left side of the street.
DR.. c. P. Lamar. who attended the
Count. ascribed his death to trau-
matte shock. The flow of blood had
been checked shortly before the victim
died. but he had been placed in an
oxygen tent and given slight chance
for recovery.
Jack Fleming, the Counts secretary,
King Alfonso in Rome and Queen
Victoria, the Counts mother. in Lon
don Funeral arrangements were not
made Immediately. but Fleming said
the body might be taken to Spain
for burial.
Covadonga. the former Prince of
the AsturiaS. had made his home in a
Miami hotel since last fall, when he
and Marta Rocafort. his second Cuban
commoner wife, split up few weeks
after their marriage
Renowned Title.
The count. born Alfonso de Bourbon
y Battenberg, for love of a Cuban
girl. renounced his royal rights and
titles. suffered throughout his life from
the Battenberg malady. hemophilia. a
condition which causes its victims 10
bleed excessively from the slightest
wounds.
The disease CircumScribed the
princes every activity and kept him
almost continuously on the brink of
death. Occurring only in the men of
the Battenberg line-that of his
mother eX-Queen Victoria-it was
transmitted by the women of the
family to their sons through genera
tion after generation. The women
themselves were free from it.
Other ailments, some of which per-
sisted because his hereditary malady
prevented proper treatment for them
made the tall. slender, blond ex-crown
prince frail and cripple A malig-
nant tumor in one leg, which could
not be relieved by surgery because the
cut of knife probably would be fatal,
was the cause of an especially serious
illness at Havana in February, 1886
Twenty blood transfusions saved him
that time.
1t was in Swiss Sanitarium in 1882
that he met and wooed the beautiful
Edelmira Sampedro-Ocejo Robato
daughter of wealthy Havana mer-
chant. Both were there for treatment
and this fact, coupled with her status
as a commoner. accented the opposi-
ton of Ex-King Alfonso the young
mans father, to the match Despite
this refusal of consent. the bans were
posted in June. 1888. at Lausanne,
Evening star., 1938-09-06
HOLT ATTACKS LEWIS

HARRISBURG, Ill, Sept. 6 tP)--
Senator Rush D. Holt. Democrat. of
West Virginia attacked John L. Lewis,
head of the Committee for Industrial
Organization. as the greatest enemy
of labor in America today in a speech
at Labor Day celebration here.
Addressing 5000 members of the
Progressive Miners of America A. F.
of l.. affiliate Senator Holt called for
the defeat of this man Lewisl who
is doing more damage to labor than
all the induStrialists combined"
Evening star., 1938-09-06
HELD IN GIRLS DEATH

PORTSMOUTH,, N. H., Sept. &
(P,.-A former Maine and New Hamp-
shire convict was held for question
ing today in connection with the
death of 8-year-old Barbara Driscoll
whose battered body was found yes
terday beneath the loading platform
of an old shoe factory.
County Attorney Stephen Wheeler
said the man admitted he had been
in the railroad yards. but had denied
implication in the crime.
Dr. Timothy J. Leary. Boston medi-
cal examiner, said his autopsy showed
no evidence of any sexual offense"
and that death was caused by "ex-
treme violence" The child's head
had been crushed.
Evening star., 1938-09-06

London is to have a footwear stvIe.
exhibition in November.
Evening star., 1938-09-06

While Judge" Allen steadfastly de-
clined the Presidents urgings to remain
on in the District Building. he did
consent to serve the President in any
way possible, even to the extent to
making suggestions as to the selec-
ton of his successor He also will be
actively engaged in the interests of
the Democratic party and the New
Deal principles, and will no doubt take
an active part in the forthcoming
campaign.
Evening star., 1938-09-06
Millions Visit Mexico.

American tourists who crossed the
border without classified tourist cards
and remained in Mexico a very short
time last year totaled e,396.877, ac-
cording to estimates, and spent
$7,684, 900.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
"A MHLION FOR MARTYn

"A MILLION FOR MARTY.
q new novel. q feature of the
added fiction section with color
illustrations in the American
Weekly with Sundays Washing
ton Herald Times Telephone
Republic 1894 for home delivery.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
ELY TAKES HAND
IN NASH'S CASE

Intervening as "a friend Of the
family" former Governor Joesph
B. Ely, Of Massachusetts,, tele-
phoned United States Attorney
David A. Pine today and obtained
permission for Kenneth F. Nash,
alais j. Stewart, IS, of Boston, to
surrender voluntarily for arraign-
ment in District Court on a lar.
ceny after trust charge October
13.
Nash was indicted by the Dis
trict Grand Jury Wednesday on
complaint of william H. Bach
schmidt, local jeweler. He was &C.
cuSed of obtaining a $1,150 dia-
mond ring from the jeweler to
have it appraised. The ring was
found several weeks later in a
Baltimore pawnshop and Nash
was arrested in Boston.
Hailed before a United States
Commissioner in Boston, he was
held in 5000 bail for a removal
hearing September 13. In his
talk with Pine today, Ely got per
mission to have the hearing called
off on the promise Nash would
appear here voluntarily. Pine
agreed on the condition that
NaSh'S bond be raised by the Bos-
ton authorities.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
STORE OWNERS.
STRIKERS CIR D.
FOR LONG SIEGE.
3 Gangs Seek Peace
In Frisco WaIkout

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. Q
u.N.S). - Department-store en-
ployes and members of the re-
tailers council today prepared for
a long siege in the strike of 5000
employees in 27 major department
stores in San Francisco.
At the same time three organi-
cations started moves which they
hoped would bring the embattled
factions to an understanding and
q peaceful solution Of the strike
which moved into its third day.
FAVOR ARBITRATION
Mayor Angelo RosSi made new
attempts today to get members of
the retailers council to meet with
him.
Yesterday he met with union
officials and representatives of the
Central Labor Council, obtaining
their views preparatory to pre-.
Senting them to employers.
After the meeting with the
union officials, Mayor Rossi an
nounced:
Union men indicated that If
the retailers would submit the
question of Storewide seniority
to arbitration, the union would
60 a long way toward meeting
the employers on the question
of establishment of employment
lists"
One of the demands which the
employers have refused Is the
request of the union for prefer
ential hiring.
VIOLENCE MARKS STRIKE
Union officials, following their
conference with Mayor Rossi, re-
organized their picket lines, and
today building service men were
assigned to night picketing and
clerks to day duty. Pickets were
to work in four-hour shifts, it was
announced, and would be moved
from their present assignments in
front of the stores where they had
been employed.
Sporadic outbreaks of violence
marred the second day of the
strike.
One department store executive
and two non-striking statesmen on
Market Street were slugged, girl
was followed to her home and
beaten, a woman was struck by
a picket sign and two girl pickets
claimed to have been bruised in
q sidewalk scuffle. Nine were ar
rested including six picketS, a
strike sympathizer, a handbill dis
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
FAIR WAGES
Sterilization N OUe
Held Essential

CHARLESTON, 8. c., Sept. 9
GN.SO.-A major factor in bring.
ing the problem of basic wage and
hour standards to the boiling
point" was the stubborn contin.
uance of unemployment through
out the nation, Elmer F, Andrews,
administrator Of the Fair Labor
Standards Act, told the conven.
tion of Government labor officials
today. He said:
If wage and hour standards
were not to be debaSed to the
point where purchasing power
and our domestic market would
provide less and less outlet for
farm products and manufac-
tured goods and services, some
measure of stabilization of min
imum fair labor standards had
to be established.
Without this standard, this
sterilization, there would have
been a continuing tendency for
the chiseling employer to drive
out the fair employer, exactly
as, without standard of coin
age, base money tends to drive
out good money"
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
MILLION RAIL WORKERS VOTE
ON STRIKE AGAINST PAY CUT
Immediate Action
Held Unlikely
By Union

Strike ballots are being issued
to 1000, 900 railroad men in every
section of the United States,
according to information received
exclusively by the Washington
Times today.
The ballots, issued after efforts
Of a board Of mediation had failed
to move the railroads in their de-
termination to effect is per cent
cut in salaries of employees, will
be voted on immediately" an
official with the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers said today.
He added, however, that should
the men vote in favor of strike
it would not take place for at
least so days.
CUT DELAYED
The proposed cut, announced
by ITS Glass railroads Chose
valued at $1,000,000 or more) last
May, was to be effective July /,
1898.
However, because of provisions
of the railroad labor act, the pro-
posed cut was submitted to a
board of mediation.
The board and 81 railroad or
ganizationS representing trainmen,
brakemen, conductors, switchmen
and other employees, has been meet
ing ever since.
BOARD GIVES UP
Ten days ago the board gave UP
when the railroads announced
they would go through with the
cut and the organizations refused
to accept it.
If, an official of the brother
hoods said, the men vote for a
strike, President Roosevelt has the
right to appoint a fact-finding
commission to make report. After
that, "it'S in the lap of the gods"
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
BIDS ASKED
Work Starts Soon on
MlGnicipUL Court

The Districts vast PWA con-
struction program was officially
under way today when bids were
ordered for the new municipal
court building, the first project
in the program.
It was announced by Capt. H.
s. Bishop, jr., assistant engineer
commissioner, that advertisements
for bids would be placed next
week.
The new court building. which
will be located on Judiciary
Square, will be of the same design
as the recently completed Police
Court Building. The new project
will cost $500, 900, work to begin
on October % and to be completed
by April 28, 1910.
The Washington times., 1938-09-09
Teacher Shortage
Hampers Work
In Greenbelt

After a day spent in getting
used to the feel of pencils and
kindred things, nearly 10000 sub
urban pupils settled down today
in county school rooms, for some
real work.
Prince Georges county accounted
for nearly 1900 Of the boys and
girls, a portion Of them III Green
belt where a teacher shortage evi-
denced itself on the very first day.
PWA building during the sum-
mer months served to lessen the
overcrowding felt last year in Fair
fax county schools. The enroll
ment there is expected to reach
$500.
An increase over the 5000 pupils
attending Alexandria schools last
term was indicated. The surplus
or part of its expected to be
taken up by the new George
Washington High School annex
which, although open. is not fully
COMPLETED,