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WEATHER
Cloudy Tonight and
Tomorrowi Probable Rains
MARKETS
Stocks Gain; Wheat
and Cotton Up
VOLUME 2—NUMBER 173
SPANISH REPUBLIC FIGHTS FOR EXISTENCE
SHOWERS BREAK
HEAVY HAND OF
SWELTERING HEAT
NATION TURNS THANKFUL
EYE TO RELIEF FROM
HEAVENS
CHICAGO, July 20 (TP).—The na
tion went back to work today re
freshed by a definite break in the
oppressive heat wave.
Showers and cool winds began to
break the sweltering heat over the
week-end. Today the weather bu
reau predicted there would be no im
mediate return of the sweltering tem
peratures.
The break in . the heat wave was
featured by furious storms through
out Kansas and Missouri. Two peo
ple were killed by an 82-mlle an hour
gale that whipped the region. At
least a dozen were hurt. Com and
other field crops were beaten to the
ground by the wind’s force.
Breeze Helps
A refreshing lake breeze held the
mercury in the low 70’s at Chicago.
Newark, N. J., reported 71 degrees
Boston 68, Albany 63, Buffalo 64,
Burlington, Vt„ 63, Cleveland 68, De
troit 66, Pittsburgh 64, Washington
74, Richmond, Va„ .75 Raleigh, N.
C. 74. Cincinnati 72, Columbus 66,
Indianapolis 67, St. Louis 71 and
New York City 72. Baltimore has
temperatures at 72 degrees with re
freshing showers on the wayq.
Scattered thunderstorms and show
ers are expected during the dav ;n
the middle west, but the eastern
states look forward to mostly clear
skies today and tomorrow.
Storms In West
Residents of four midwestem states
looked upon a scene of devastation
today after a harrowing night in
which gales and heavy thunderstorms
cost a terrific damage and the lives
of two persons.
Shrieking winds accompanied by
thundering rains swept down from
Omaha, Neb., across Missouri, lowa,
and Kansas The storm caused the
death of two persons in Missouri and
serious injuries to at least 10 others.
The gale uprooted scores
of fees* la Leaven worth, ‘ Kansas,"
when it tore down power and tele
phone lines. An hour later it roared
through Kansas City, plunging the
city in darkness.
Near Des Moines, lowa, the wino
crushed several farm buildings and
almost levelled the state fair ground
buildings. Temperatures dropped as
much as 30 degrees within two hours.
Four persons were injured at Pat
tonsburg: Missouri, when the gale
blew over a tent sheltering 400 atten
dants of a revival meeting. In all
four states, farmers reported the
heaviest rains in more than a month
G-MEN CLAMPING
DOWN ON ‘SPIES’
ANTHONY PARIS NABBED
TAKING NOTES ON CAR
RIER “SARATOGA”
LONG (BEACH, Cal.. July 20 (TP)
Another spy scare started today with
the arrest of Anthony Paris, accused
of taking notes on . Uncle Sam’s air
craft carrier Saratoga. Paris, a tran
sient who used to live in New York,
was the third man arrested within
recent weeks in connection with naval
espionage. He is being held on a
vagrancy charges until federal au
thorities can question him.
Navy men said Paris numbled some
thing about a special code with his
wife when they asked him to decipher
the notes he had taken aboard the
Saratoga One midshipman said the
notes looked to him like Japanese
character:.
PRESIDENT TAKES
WHEEL OF YACHT
NEARS START OF HOME
WARD RUN FROM SEA
VACATION
SHELBURNE, Nova Scoati, July 20
(TP).—A clear sky and a brisk wind
greeted the presidential party aboard
the schooner ‘‘Sewanna’’ when they
awoke today after Sunday's fog and
light rain.
Fresh and cleanly shaven after a
day's rest aboard the 56 foot schoon
er, President Roosevelt ordered the
sails hoisted. Taking the wheel the
sun-tanned chief executive guided
the craft out of Shelburne harbor
t and pointed her prow southward.
He didn t announce his schedule
for the day but it Is expected that
tonight will find the "Sewanna” near
Cape Sable, well started on her re
turn trp to United States waters. ■
STRIKE BREAKER WHIPPED
WHIT'WELL, Tenn., July 20 (TP)
Police went looking for three men to
day accused of beating a strikebreaker
of the Black Diamond Coal Fields. A
“P* 1 . Tom Duffdy. told the
sheriff the men dretsed themselves
n women’s clothes and whipped him
or his strikebreaking activities at the
• nes. .
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PHONE 6183
Tugwell Visits Drought Area
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Rexford Guy Tugwell, Rural Resettlement Director, is greeted on his
arrival at Bismarck, N. D., to view the conditions caused by drought.
Tugwell, in dark suit, is being welcomed by Governor Tom Berry of
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WORKERS DELAY
SIT DOWN STRIK
AKRON, July 20 (TP)—Mem
bers of the Goodyear local rubber
workers union agreed today not to
call any sit-down strikes during
the next six weeks.
Union official* said they hoped
to end the sit-down strikes per
manently. None of those held in
the past have been sanctioned by
the union.
TRADE COMMISSION
MAKES ANALYSIS
OF INDUSTRIES
REPORTS FAVORABLY ON
’ COSTS OF LABOR, PROF
ITS AND INVESTMENTS
WASHINGTON, July 20 (TP)—
The federal trade commission report
ed a favorable analysis today of labor
costs, profits and investments within
the woolen and worsted textile in
dustry. The commission after exam
ining 254 companies found that for
the half of last y=ar only the dying
and finishing units failed to better
their lots over the same period of
1934. The 254 companies averaged in
vestments of $1,600,000. Raw ma
terials absorbed about 51 per cent of
the total manufacturing costs com
pared wtih 47 per cent for the pre
vious period. Labor absorbed about
one per cent less,than the 32 percent
of 1934. The commission found that
the companies had total net sales of
more thah $157,000,000. -•
Assuming no change in the colume
of production -or In labor efficiency,
a reduction of five hours frOm the
usual 40-hour week would have neces
sitated an increase of more than four
per cent in prices. The same price in
crease would have been necessary had
wages been directly increased. The
woolen and worste ddyeing and fin
ishing unite lost about thre and a half
pef cent on an invtstment of $971,000
in textiles. The loss was about two
per cent more than that in 1934. .’
CHINESE OFFICIALS SEEK
KINSMEN OF U. S. SUICIDE
SHANGHAI, July 20 (TP).—Chi
nese officials are trying today to
iteach American relatives of a to
bacco factory manager who was
found shot to death in his Shanghai
hotel room early today.
The dead man is Marshall. Shalr
ston, a native of Stella, Va. Inves
tigators said a pistol was found at
his side. A suicide verdict is believ
ed likely.
Shairston was 40 years old and
married. He was manager of the
Shanghai plant of the British-Amer
ican Tobacco Company.
FOUR NATIONS SEEKING “NUNOCA”
DESPERATE HUNT ON BY DOZENS OF VESSELS FOR
MISSING BRITISH MOTORSHIP.
TAMPA, Fla, July 20 (TP)
Dozens of ships of four nations con
tinued their desperate search today
for the long missing British motor
ship Nunoca.’’
The ship was due at Tampa on
July 8 after leaving Georgetown in
the West Indes on July 4. She car
ried nine American and four British
passengers and a crew of nine. Not a
word has been heard from her. Al
though she carried no radio, she has
not even been sighted by a passing
ship.
Consistent searches by United
States coast guard cutters and air
planes all around the Jlorida penin-
WOLLNER HELD IN
CONNECTION WITH
MURDER OF CO-ED
FINGER OF SUSPICION IS
POINTING AT WASH
INGTON MUSICIAN
ASHEVILLE. N. C., July 20 (TP)—
Detectives were carefully sifting a
mass of conflicting. reports today as
to the whereabouts of the handsome
Washington musician Mark Wollner,
I the ■ftig'ht Hie pretty New York co-Wt
Helen Clevenger was slain.
Wollner. is being held now as chief
suspect in. the mysterious death of the
girl at the fashionable Battery Park
Hotel last Wednesday. Although he
vigorously denies having any connec
tion with the case, the defectives
thought they had something when
they found out he was suffering from
a badly injured foot.
Hotel employees said they had ssen
a man rushing from the hotel Wed
nesday night and had seen him fall
in scaling a wall in making his get
away. Sheriff Lawrence Brown said
he considered Wellner’s injury very
significant. • > .
But- Wollner’s fiancee in Asheville,
19-year-old Mildred Ward, said the
musician had been visiting at her
home that night. Her testimony, how
ever, was contradicted by a young
Asheville restaurant worker, Charles
English who said he’d seen Wollner,
early the next morning, looking dis
hevelled and sleepless. A neighbor of
Miss Ward, Lavada Whitaker, also
declared he’d seen Wollner walking
around the Ward home fully clothed,
at dawn.
■ Both Miss Ward and Wollner are
still being closely • questioned, but no
charges of any sort have been pre
ferred against Wollner.
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INVESTIGATION STARTED
INTO BAY LINER CRASH
BALTIMORE. July 20 (TP).—The
federal board of steamship inspectors
will begin its investigation today of
the .boat crash that endangered the
lives of Governor Harry Nice, a num
ber of state officials, and 250 pas
sengers. ’
The freighter Golden Harvest
rammed the Bay liner State of Vir
ginia near the entrance of Baltimore
harbor Tuesday morning. Governor
Nice and other passengers were
thrown to the floor and a large hole
was ripped in the side of the Bay
beat. The governor and passengers
were brought back to Baltimore by a
passing ferry boat.
sula have been unavailing. Cuban au
thorities have detailed several vessels
to be on the lookout for the 110-foot
vessel in West Indian waters and
they have been joined by Honduran
ehips searching along the Central
American coa4t. British off.cials at
Jamaica have ask'd all outgoing
ships* to keep a close watch.
What buoys the hopes of the search
ers is the fact that there have been
no serious storms in the Caribbean or
nearby waters since the Nunoca left
Georgetown. It is hoped that the
missing vessel merely has develop’d
motor trouble and may have put in
at seme out of the way place for re
pairs.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JULY 20, 1936
LABOR’S PROBLEM
ON WEST COAST
TO BE SETTLED
TWO UNIONS TO THRASH
OUT DIFFERENCE OF
OPINION
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20 (TP)—
The number one problem to the west
coast shipping industry and more
than 7,000 sailors will be thrashed
out in San Francisco today.
The international seamen’s union
and the sailor's union of the Pacific
axe competing for the right to repre
sent west coast marine workers in
labor dealings with sh.p owners. To
day, the national labor relations
board will attempt to settle the ques
tion.
Representatives from both unions
as well as employes’ organizations
will be called before the board to
give their arguments. At present, the
I. S. U. holds the contract to repre
sent the seamen. The agreement is
good until Sept. 30. Several months
ago an agreement pledging the two
unions was broken allegedly by I.
S. U. executives.
The International Seamen’s Union
heads charged that the sailor's union
was too relentless in 4ts attitude to
wards ship owners. The sailor’s union
leveled counter charges that the I.
S. U. was working for the interest
of the employers and not the work
ers. Since the split, the I 8- U.-
has made several attempt* to im
pound the funds of the rival unicm
and thus force it out of existence. So
far, the sailor’s union has won all
the cases brought against it.
Officers of the two unions believe
that an attempt to straightetn out
charter difficulties between the rival
organizations will come some time
next month.
ITALY REGAINING
ITS EQUILIBRIUM
INTERNATIONAL STAND
ING MOVES NEARER PAR
BY TURKEY’S ACTION
ROME- July 2« (TP).—-Italy* ‘n
ternational standing moved nearer
par today.
Turkey’s announcement that it has
ended its Mediterranean mutual as
sistance pact with Great Britain is
cheering news to Premier Mussolini.
In making the decision, Turkey joins
hands with France, which recently
made a similar declaration- terminat
ing the pact with John Bull.
The mutual assistance agreement
was signed while Italy was pouring
troops into Ethiopia. Mussolini at
that time warned Great Britain that
any Interference in the African con
flict would result in war in the Medi
terranean. Since the close of the
Ethiopian war, Italy has refused to
join in all international parleys—
maintaining that she would not re
join the League of Nations family un
til Britain's Mediterranean treaty ia
scrapped. • • ■ ’ - ’
Meanwhile, Turkey prepares to re
militarize the Dardanelles zone under
the new Montreux pact some time to
morrow.
BARONESS TO PAY
DELINQUENT BILL
JUDGE RULES SIOO PER
WEEK TO WIPE OUT
DEBT
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 20
(TP).—Baroness Johann von Liebers
dorf must pay SIOO a week to Waiter
Haas until she pays off the $5,000 he
says she owes him for groceries.
Haas tried to get a garnishment or
der against the income of the baron
ess and her husband—a New York art
dealer. Justice Frederick Close of
White Plains Supreme court told
Haas he would rule for SIOO a week
it Haas would drop the fight for gar
nishment. Haas agreed. He told the
court that the Baroness Von Liebsrs
dorf has a $28,000 a year income
from a trust fund and that her hus
band makes $50,000. So—he said—
he didn’t understand why they could
not pay their grocery bill at once.
FORMER DANCER
GETS NEW TRIAL
ACTION OF JURIST ‘SLIPS’
DOROTHY SHERWOOD
FROM CHAIR
NEWBURH, N. Y., July 20 (P) —
The former burlesque dancer and
Salvation Army girl, Dorothy Sher
wood, will gst a new murder trial
Sept. 16 on charges that she drowned
her baby because he was starving.
In her first trial, Mrs. Sherwood
was convicted of first degree murder.
The young Newburgh mother was
snatched from the electric chair Mr
a new trial. After she had spent five
and & half months in Sing Sing’s
death house. Judge ( nathan Wilson
today set S:pt. 16 as the date for
Mrs. Sherwood’s new trial.
A special pane! of 151 venir i jen
will be drawn on Sept. 1 for the
trial. . .
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A new figure looms on the Kan
sas political horizon as Walter C.
Neibarger. above, 38-year-old
rtewspaper publisher of Tonga
noxie. Kas.. wages a campaign for
the Republican senatorial nomina
tion in the Sunflower state, oppos
ing the veteran Senator Arthur
Capper. Both men are friends of
Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas,
G. O. P. presidential nominee.
Although he is in favor of the na
tional Republican platform. Nei
barger has an agricultural pro
gram all his own. Its chief plank
calls for regaining foreign trade
ind the use of war debt credits in
ports.
RELATIVES WORK
FOR RELEASE OF
JOHNFARNSWORTH
SUSPECTED SPY SUFFER
ING FROM CAUSES OF
• ALCOHOLISM
WASHINGTON, July 20 (TP)—
Relatives of the suspected Spy John
Farnsworth—accused of having sold
U. S. navy secrets to Japan—ware
arranging for his defense today and
trying to meet the SIO,OOO bond set
for his temporary release.
Farnsworth, said by physicians at
the n*Mons capital to be suffering
from ’.coholism, conferred with his
cous. Cber Ward Farnsworth of Chi
cago. And after the conferences the
cousin left by plane for Cincinnati
to. confer with Farnsworth’s father
about getting counsel for the former
lieutenant commander/ of the navy’.
Ct was thought the two also would
try to arrange the .bail necessary to
get the suspected espionage agent out
of jail until his trial a week hence.
Physicians said . Farnsworth’s phy
sical condition had improved greatly
since he was jailed a week ago. He
is still confined to the infirmary sec
tion of the jal, however.
PFEIFFER TRIAL
IN SECOND WEEK
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
CONTINUES DRIVE TO •
CONVICT SUSPECT
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 20 (TP).—
The federal government opened a
drive today to convict the last sus
pect in the William Hamm, Jr., kid
naping. *
I The defendant is a former twin
cities night club operator. Jack
Pfeiffer. Former public enemy Alvin
Karpis and five others of his mob
either hive pleaded guilty and await
sentence, or have been sent to prison.
The secnd week of Pfeiffers trial
finds it transformed into an investi
gation of charges against the St. Paul
police force. Pfeiffer is accused of
arranging police protection to tip
the gang when the hideout was to
be raided. *
A former Karpis mobster, Convict
Byron Bolton, testified that the gang
paid Detective Tom Brown $25,000
of the SIOO,OOO ransom for protec
tion.
Today, Federal Prosecutor George
Sullivan plans to call a score of wit
neses to back up Bolton's charges.
POLICE KILL EX-CONVICT
WHO TERRORIZED NURSES
CHICAGO, July 20 (TP)—Police
killed an ex-convict nam’d William
Keane today after he had terrorised
the nurses of lying-in hospital. Keane
was surprise dby the nurse suprrin
t'ndent, Mrs. C. M. Hart, as he crept
up the backstairs of th®, nurses home. I
She called police for help. Nine police
squads raced to the rescue while the |
nurs’s huddled in fear on th? ground ’
fleer. •
Two hours later police shot Keane
to death as he tried to crawl under
a bed
LEWIS IS SEEKING
ORGANIZATION OF
RAYON INDUSTRY
MILITANT LABOR HEAD
NOW TURNS EYES TO
NEW FIELD
WASHINGTON, July 20 (TP).—
Militant measures to organize Amer
ica’s rayon industry—largely con
trolled by the industrial tycoons, the
Du Fonts—were announced by the
United Textile Workers today.
The Textile Workers Union is a
member of John L. Lewis's commit
tee for industrial organization which
is now engaged in the gigantic task
of organizing the sprawling steel in
dustry.
The move to organize the rayon in
dustry, starting August 1, was an
nounced by Frances Gorman, vice
president of the Textile Workers
Union, even as the committee for in
dustrial organization prepared for one
of the most momentous meetings in
its history.
That meeting, starting tomorrow in
Washington, is scheduled to map out
a plan of strategy for the committee
in its fight with its parent organiza
tion, the American Federation of
Labor. The federation opposes the
committee's methods of organizing
the steel industry and has ordered
it to explain its defiance or else suf
fer suspension from A. F. of L. ranks.
Appearing unaffected by the order,
the committee has given no indica
tion whether it will ever bother to
answer it But administration labor
colciliators. led by the assistant sec
retary of labor. Edward McGrady,
are believed busy tryipg to arrange
a truce between the two major labor
groups in the country.
The mayon industry has more than
50,000 employes in Virginia, West
Virginia, New England, Pennsylvania,
North Carolina, Georgia, ’ Tennessee
and New York. Gorman said the
industry is one of the newest, yet one
of the most prosperous, in the coun
try.
SEEK SETTLEMENT
IN LABORTRISIS
GUARDS WITHDRAWN IN
“ STEEL WORKERS DIF
FERENCES
STERLING, 11., July 20 (TP).—
Guards were withdrawn today from
the Northwestern Barbed Wire Com
pany plant in an effort to speed a
settlement, of the . steel workers’ strike.
However,, Sheriff E, A. WamHiion
kept more than two dozen deputies
on call, ip case any new violence
breaks out. . \ ’
More than 1,000. walkers marched
off the job on July 7, without mak
ing definite’ demands . of their, em
ployers. Heads* of the wire company
said they believed the strike was a
move in. the nation-wide effort to
unionize the steel industry.
Frequent,riots that followed, the
walkout have resulted’ in the' arrest
of 18 persons. An outbreak Saturday
reslted in a<call for ’the National
guard. .
Sometime "within the next few days,
union heads and company executives
wil gather around a conference table
and attempt to mediate the dispute.
MILL IS HEADING
FOR EXTINCTION
AMOSKEAG, COTTON CON
CERN, BE. LIQUIDATED >
BY COURT ORDER
BOSTON, July 20 (TP)—The larg
est cotton ihill in the country, the
Massive Amoskeag . plant’ in Man
chester, N. H., seems headed for ex
tinction today. Attorney Arthur Black
is expected to recommend liquidation
when he hands in-his master's;
to Federal Judge George Sweeney In
Boston today. ■ • • •-
It is doubtful that Judge .Sweeney
will take immediate action, however.
A congressional investigation Commit
tee will b’gin. a survey nto the fi
nancial condition of the Amoskeag
mills on Thursday. Interested persons
believe that the court’s, decision-will
be postponed until the congressional
committee ends its investigation.
OPEN WAR SIMMERS IN CHINA
PROVINCIAL ARMIES LINED UP READY FOR COMMAND
TO START HOSTILITIES.
SHANGHAI, July 20 (TP)—Armies
of Kwangtung and Kwangs! provinces
are near open warfare today.
The two Canton provinces united
in opposition to Japanese advances
in North China until a few hours ago.
But with the . removal of General
Chen Chi-Tang Fom commander of
the Kwangtung forces, the alliance |
has steadily weaken'd.
Chen’s former troops are drawn up ,
and ready .to resist expected advances
of the Kwana\?si forces. Military
leaders of the kwangsi province ap
pear to tiflnk that the removal of
Chen opens the ''oor for them to take
PHONE 6183
MONARCHIST CHIEFS DEMAND
KING ALFONSO’S RESTORATION;
REBELS TAKE TEN PROVINCES
SUCCESS OF REVOLT STILL IN DOUBT; UNOFFICIAL RE
PORT CLAIMS MADRID HAS SURRENDERED;
BANKING, STOCK TRADING SUSPENDED.
MADRID, July 20 (TP). —The Spanish republic is figKting
today for its very existence.
Army rebels have demanded the restoration of King Alfonso
on the throne of Spain. . . „
The rebel commander. General Francisco Franco an
nounced flatly that the aim of the revolution was to overthrow
the republic. The general called upon the present government to
surrender, lock stock and barrel.
OBSERVERS FEAR
RIFTS IN RANKS
OF TOWNSENDITES
LEMKE MAKING STRONG
BID FOR SUPPORT OF
PENSION MOVEMENT
CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 20 (TP)—
The California doctor who has prom
ised S2OO a month to all Americans
over 60 is wondering today what ef
fect last week’s convention will have
on his followers.
The California doctor, of course, is
Dr. Francis E. Townsend. He said
farewell to his followers last night
after assuring them that everything
was sweetness and light in the organ
ization.'
Rifts Expected
Disinterested observers, however
fear that the weak-long convention
may have developed seme serious rifts
among the old age pensioneers.
Yesterday, the Union party candi
date for President, William Lemke,
the North Dakota Congressman, made
a fiery plea for support from the
Townsendites. He ripped into the
New Deal and President Roosevelt'#
aft'BUtUsiration with both hands, prate-,
ed the late Louisiana Senator, King
fish Huey Long, and promised to
work for the Townsend Old Age Pen
sion Plan-. - .
Lemke said he would support old
age pensions if successful in his pres
idential fight. He called President
Roosevelt’s social security program
“a, sinecure of social insecurity."
The Oklahoma Townsend leader,
Gomer Smith, was conspicuous by his
absence from the closing ceremonies
of the Townsend convention. Smith,
a vice president of the movement
drew the wrath of Dr. Townsend last
week by praising President Roosevelt
and announcing that the New Deal
would get his. vote.
.This statement as made to .the as
sembled delegates a few minutes after
the Reverend - Charles E. Coughlin,
Detroit’s radio priest, launched, a bis
ter attack on Mr. Roosevelt and calleet
on the Townsend convention delegate*
to support Lemke for . president,
j Dr.- Townsend didn’t like hjs Okla
homa .lieutenant’s speech a bit.. He
started a drive for Smith’s resigna
tion. „• An .executive board meeting
voted for Smith against Townsend.
Townsend,. bowing to defeat, suffered
a severe setback in prestige, but he
managed-to end the Townsend con
vention with all factional squabbles
smoothed- out—on the surface, ar
least.
CLYDEPANGBORN
READY FOR DASH
GIVES MOTOR FINAL TUN
ING FOR CONTEMPLAT
ED FLIGHT
DALLAS, Tex., July 20 (TP)—
Speed Pilot Clyde Pangbom gave the
motor of his special plane a final
tuning today he prepared for his
.round trip flight to Paris.
Fangborn delayed his take-off from
Dallas yesterday because • of ’weather
conditions. His ‘‘flying wing” is a
specially made ship designed for -high
altitude flights. - ■
The veteran flier plans to leave the
airport sometime today on a leisurely
flight to the east coast. In a few days
he intends to take off from New
York to Paris and then try a non
stop return flight to Dallas.
command of his former legions.
After a five-year period in virtual
command of the Kwantung territory,
the deposed General Chen fled and
is report’d to be hiding in
under Brit.sh protection.
One report said that Chen had left
a large sum of money with Kwangsi
i General Li Tsung-Jen to provide
| means for Kwangsi troops to make
! th-ir way back to their homes. In
support of this report is the d spatch
that says General Li suddenly left his
troops and flew back to Kwangsi—
abandoning his troops without so
much as a “goodbye.”
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TRANSRADIO PRESS
The successful of the revolt is still
in doubt. The rebels claim that ten
provinces in Spain are now under
the control of the Insurrectionists.
An unofficial report from Gibraltar
said that Madrid had fallen. How
ever, a dispatch from Bayonne,
France stated that Madrid was still
holding out. It was reported that all
roads into the city were heavily bar
ricaded against the rebels marching —
from the south.
Seek Public Support
Other dispatches leaking through
the rigid censorship indicated that
the present government—headed by
its third premier in two days— was
still in power. Reportedly the gov
ernment has suspended all banking
and stock trading and declared a
moratorium on debts. The morato
rium was seen as a move to rally pub
lic support for the republic. The gov
ernment is arming volunteer citizens
to meet the army rebels. The num
ber of insurrectionists have been es
timated from 20,000 to 50,000.
The revolt first flared in Spanish
Morocco when the monarchist rebels
seibzed the forts along the Mediter
ranean. A government attack by
land, and sea and air failed to oust
the rbesl. Naval squadrons joined
the ranks of the insurgents. General
Franco was rushed from Madrid to
suppress the movement, Then Fran
co turned on the republic and an
nounced he would lead the rebels
into Madrid.
Report from Paris satd
ing planes had poured down shell
and fire on the rebels a Cadiz. Gar
risons in northern, and central Spain
were reported to be in a turmoil fol
lowing an alleged order that all sol
diers were released from obedience
to their officers. This order permit
ted the rank and\file of loyal troops
to turn on any superor officers .who
joined the revolt.
Rebel* Big Winners '
Latest reports from Gibraltar said /
that the rebels triumphde at Seville,
Burgos and Malaga. Malaga is re
ported to be in flames. The British 4
admiraty dispatched a destroyed to \
Maaga to protect the property of ■
British citizens. Two cruisers at Ply
mouth were also instructed to stand
by for sailing orders to ■ Spanish
waters.
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COAST GUARDSMEN
SAVE YACHTSMEN
PATROL RESCUES ENTRY
IN MACKINAC ISLAND
CONTEST
CHICAGd, July 20 (TP).—-The
eight men who spent several hectic
hours aboard the storm-tossed • yacht,
Marchioness, are thanking their lucky
stars for the U. S. Coast Guard to
day.
The 60-foot yacht sent out distress
signals whim a gale swept away it*
most ami rigging. Four coast guard
cutters patrolled the lake all night
and sighted the distressed shp this
morning.
The Marchioness, was one of the
entries in the annual, Mackinac is
land race, which started from Chi
cago last Saturday.
HARD - WORLD!
EX-PRESIDENT OF PERU
FINDS COUNTRY IS
UNGRATEFUL ’ *
LIMA, Peru. July 20 (TP)—Colo
ikl Luis . Alba is a bitvdoubtful of his
native educator’s hospitality today.
Alba once ruled as president of
Ecuador. One of the revolutions which
spring up every' now and then in
small South American republics top.
pled the colonel’s administration. That
was in 1931, and Cokmel Alba waa
banished—nevfer to return to Ecuador
again.
Ecuadorian administrations came
and went, as administrations do, and
last May a president sympathetic to
Alba took office. The ban against the
former president was lifted an Alba
rushed back to the country’s capital.
Guayaquil, to beg-n rebuilding his
fortunes ■
Now, however. Colonel Alba is an
outcast once more. The very president
who invited him to return to Ecua
dor has ordered him exiled <>n charges
of plotting to overthrow the govern
ment. The ex-president is sadly head
uig for Chile, wh're, he says, he e»
psets to spend the rest of his life.