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ARMED MASSES LEAVE MADRID
TO BATTLE REBELS IN PROVINCES
AS SPANISH CIVIL WAR SPREADS
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San Sebastian
Area Seized
by Bolters.
MANY KILLED
NEAR BORDER
Casualty List 300
in Barcelona
Fighting.
BACKGROUND—
The fact that King Alfonso, quit
ting his country in 1931, left Spain
a virtual feudal state, with little or
no middle class, is seen by some
observers as a major contributory
cause of the current revolt, which
is an effort of the army and the
upper classes to keep the country
from communism.
There has been a constant strug
gle between landowners, the church,
workers and peasants since the es
tablishment of the republic.
Spanish army officers have tradi
tionally meddled in politics, and
none of the republican governments
has been able to eradicate their in
fluence. After the Leftists won in
the elections of last February, a
fight between radicals and conserva
tives has been inevitable.
BULLETIN.
BORDEAUX, France. July 21
(IP)—French correspondents, who
returned today from Spain, de
clared that the northern rebel
army had advanced to a point only
35 miles from Madrid.
(Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.)
MADRID, July 21.—Armed masses
of peasants and workers, concentrated
In five marching columns, thrust
toward rebel strongholds today while
thousands of civilian militiamen
formed a steel circle around Madrid.
From Vera, on the French border,
came news 3,000 victorious rebels
from Pamplona, preceded by machine
gunning warplanes, seized the an
cient Basque provinces of Quipuzcoa
and Navarre tonight, with many loyal
defenders reported slain.
Wireless reports from French Mo
rocco to Marseille said loyalist ships
had resumed their bombardment of
Ceuta.
The loyal masses marched from
Madrid on Valladolid and Zaragoza,
which the government acknowledged
were the principal rebel centers. Oth
er columns moved on Burgos and
Toledo.
The mountainous region of Guadar
rama, 40 miles from the capital, was
patrolled by hundreds of militiamen
who swarmed through the passes and
manned Leon Peak, dominating all
points against any attempt at insur
gent attack.
Thousands in Outskirts.
Five thousand other militiamen
were concentrated near the university
and in the outskirts of Madrid.
Everywhere in the country, the gov
ernment insisted, peasants and loyal
workers were coming to the aid of the
federal forces.
The force marching on Zaragoza,
some of them from Barcelona, was re
ported composed of 5,000 peasants and
workers, armed by civil guards, who
were directing their operations.
Capt. Rexach. aviation officer, who
bombarded insurgents in Ceuta, re
turned to Madrid and reported he had
destroyed rebel gasoline supplies in the
Spanish Moroccan port, thus crippling
the insurgents' mechanized forces.
The government also stated the
rebels in Mellila, Spanish Morocco,
were fleeing to the French zone.
The death, in a Portuguese airplane
accident, of Gen. Jose Sanjurjo, would
be rebel leader, was declared a vital
blow to rebel hopes.
Loyal Navy Helps.
An official announcement said the
loyal navy had strengthened the hand
of authorities in preventing arrival of
rebel reinforcements from Morocco.
An attempted Insurrection of engin
eers stationed at El Prado, near
(See SPAIN, Page A-5.)
BUCK REPORTED
OUT OF DANGER
Stock Broker Taken to Hospital
Yesterday Suffering From
Poison.
Benjamin R. Buck, 50, former
Washington stock broker, who was
taken to Emergency Hospital suffering
from poison late yesterday, was re
ported out of danger today by hos
pital authorities.
Buck was found on the floor of the
bath room in the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. George Belt, 5526 Ninth
street. An empty bottle which had
contained poison was found beside
him.
Taken to the hospital, he was re
ported in a serious condition, but re
sponded to treatment and was reported
recovering today.
Buck was indicted here in 1929 on
several counts and after a long legal
battle pleaded guilty in 1931 to one
of the charges—conspiracy to operate
a bucket shop. He was given a two
year sentence, but was placed on pro
bation. The other counts were not
pressed.
In July, 1933, Buck and two other
persons were presented by the Balti
more grand jury on charges of con
spiracy and fraud in obtaining approx
imately $20,000 from a Lewistown, Pa.,
physician. Buck and the others
named in the presentment were said
to have been operating in Baltimore
as the Delmarva Grain Corp.
* In another presentment, Buck was
accused of obtaining about $7,000 from
an Easton, Md., man by fraudulent
^nethods. |
Rebel Leader, Hero of Morocco, j
Killed When Plane Crashes
Gen. Sanjurjo Was Re
ported Bolters’ Choice
for President.
Ry the Associated Press.
LISBON. Portugal. July 20 (de
layed by censor).—A broken propellor
sent Gen. Jose Sanjurjo, 64-year-old
RifT war veteran, to his death today.
The hero of Morocco was reported
to be the choice of the Spanish rebels
for President should their uprising
be victorious.
(Gen. Sanjurjo led an unsuccessful
attempt by monarchists to seize the
government in a revolt in 1932. He
had met the widow and children of
the slain monarchist leader, Jose Cal
vo Sotelo, when they fled from Spain
last week.)
Sanjurjo died in the blazing wreck
age of a plane while his wife, who had
just bade him farewell on his trip to
revolt-torn Pasin, led in the frantic,
but unavailing, attempt at a rescue.
The pilot of the plane. Juan Antonio
(SeeTSANJURJO, Page *A-57)
GEN. JOSE SANJURJO.
HOOVER PROBING
INOOIRVOF SaF
F. B. I. Head Facing Report
“Brokerage Accounts”
Are Scrutinized.
BY REX COLLIER.
Reports of a mysterious investiga
; tion of J. Edgar Hoover's "brokerage
accounts” have prompted the Federal
Bureau of Investigation director to
make an inquiry as to their origin, it
' was learned today.
Questioned about rumors of an
undercover check-up on Hoover’s
financial affairs, the F. B. I. head ad
mitted that he was “looking into" such
reports with a view to finding if they
are true and, if so, who is "so curious”
about his personal affairs.
He commented that if any one Is
trying to find out about any brokerage
dealings It is “a waste of time.”
"I have no brokerage accounts,” he
declared, “so that any effort to find
them will prove futile.”
Inquiry Not Completed.
Hoover declined to reveal how he
learned of the reports. He said his
inquiry has not been completed.
This disclosure came as Treasury
officials continued their investigation
of activities of Secret Service men in
St. Paul and Chicago in delving into
the official affairs of Hoover's agents
in those cities.
Joseph E. Murphy, veteran assist
ant chief of the Secret Service, has
been called upon to explain what he
might have told his men in those
cities that could have been misinter
preted by them as instructions to in
vestigate handling of the Dillinger
case by G-men.
Murphy, arriving from California
yesterday in response to a summons
from W. H. McReynolds, administra
tive assistant to Secretary Morgenthau,
was in conference with McReynolds
and W. H. Moran, chief of the Secret
Service.
Chicago, St. Paul Agents Here.
Thomas J. Callaghan and Grady L.
Boatwright, agents in charge of the
Chicago and St. Paul offices, respec
tively, also are here for interrogation.
Boatwright is said to have named
Murphy as the “superior officer” who
directed him to question witnesses
about the fatal shooting by G-men
two years ago of Eddie Green, Dillin
ger gangster.
Murphy, reached by telephone in
Los Angeles last week, was quoted by
McReynolds as expressing “horror”
that anything he might have told his
men had been “misconstrued” by
them.
Callaghan is being questioned about
(See G-MEN, Page A-3.)
DISMEMBERED BODY
MEDICAL SPECIMEN
Dismembered parts of a whit*
man’s body, found in the District gar
bage disposal plant at Cherry Hill,
Va„ today, turned out to be a speci
men used by medical students at a
Washington university.
The nature of the gruesome find
was determined by Coroner A. Ma
gruder MacDonald, who accompanied
four homicide squad detectives to
the plant after discovery was report
ed by Supt. John G. Grane.
KILLING TOD FUN’
ISLAIDTOIEGION’
Colored Man Shot to Death
for ‘Entertainment,’ Cult
Member Says.
Bv thf Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 21.—Prosecutor
Duncan C. McCrea announced today
that Dayton Dean, confessed Black
Legion “triggerman’’ in the slaying
May 12 of Charles A. Poole, had told
of a new killing, in which members of
the terrorist organization shot a col
ored man to death "just for the hell
of it” May 25, 1935, near Pinckney,
Mich.
The victim, Dean said, was Silas
Coleman, 43, a World War veteran.
He was lured to a desolate spot on the
pretext he was to collect wages due
him, Dean told McCrea, and shot down
for the entertainment of a Black
Legion drinking party.
McCrea said he would ask warrants
today charging Sve men with kidnap
ing Coleman from his home here.
Since Dean said the slaying occurred
in Livingston County, McCrea said
charges also would be brought there.
The men Dean accused of partici
pating in the slaying are Harvey
Davis, Jack Bannerman and Ervin D.
Lee, who are held for trial for the
Poole slaying; Charles Rouse, awaiting
trial as an accessory after the fact in
the Poole case, and James Roy
Lorence, who was released after ques
tioning in the Poole slaying.
In a formal statement to McCrea,
Dean said Coleman was killed because
one of Dean's superiors In the Black
Legion said he wanted to "see what it
feels like’’ to shoot a Negro.
Four members of the Black Legion
and their wives were spending a week
end at a cottage near Rush Lake, in
Livingston County, and the slaying
was arranged to furnish "a little ex
citement” for the men in the party,
Dean related.
The Black Legion members, he said,
induced the colored man to accom
pany them, led him into an isolated
section of marshland, and opened fire.
Wounded by one bullet, Coleman fled
in terror, he said, but the terrorists
tracked him down and emptied their
guns into his body.
Coleman's body was found by a
fisherman. It had been pierced by 18
bullets and was propped against a
pole in the marsh.
PROJECTS GET 0. K.
New W.P.A. Plans Call for $310,
764 Expenditure.
New projects to cost $310,764 were
approved today by Aubrey Williams,
deputy works progress administrator,
to extend the works program being
carried out with the $1,425,000,000 re
lief fund voted by the last Congress.
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TRAIN KILLS 12
BUCHAREST, Rumania. July 31
(jP).—Police today reported 12 per
sons dead and 32 injured when a
train, pulling into the station at
Becureni, Bessarabia, plowed into a
throng of passengers which had over
flowed on to the track.
Dog Goes on Trial for Life,
Charged With Drowning Boy
By the Associated Press.
BROCKPORT, N. Y„ July 21.—
Idaho, a mongrel pup, went on trial
for his life today, charged with caus
ing the death of a high school student
who was bathing In the barge canal
near here.
The bizarre case divided this vil
lage of 3,000.
Scores of letters have come to the
dog’s master, 22-year-old Victor For
tune, and Justice of the Peace Homer
B. Benedict, some demanding that
the animal be put to death and others
that his life be spared.
Idaho was tentatively Identified at a
hearing as the dog who caused the
recent drowning of Russell Breeze.
>. Witnesses said that while Brage
was in the water a dog plunged into
the canal and climbed on his back,
hampering his effort to swim and in
terfering with the attempts of his
companions to rescue htm
Daniel Haughton, 21, testified at the
hearing that the dog leaped on him
while he was swimming in the canal
July 11.
Fortune was summoned to show
cause why Idaho should not be de
stroyed as a dangerous animal. He
says he will defend the dog as just a
playful pup whose actions were in
'keeping with the spirit of the swim
ming party.
If this defense fails, he has Indi
cated he will take bis pet away before
the death aeataaoa aan be copied out.
British Viessel
m
Standing by
at Malaga.
U. S. CITIZENS
BELIEVED SAFE
State Department
Kept in Touch
by Envoys.
J •'
A British warship was standnig by
today at Malaga, Spain, prepared to
safeguard British and American citi
zens in that southeastern Spanish sea
port.
Word of this precaution against
harm in Spain's fierce civil war was
received by the State Department
from Herbert O. Williams, the Amer
ican consul at Gibraltar.
Williams cabled the department this
morning that British officials at Gi
braltar informed him the captain of
the British ship H. M, S. Shamrock
was in contact with the British and
American consuls at Malaga "and has
assured that all possible measures will
be taken for the safeguarding of Brit
ish and Americans in Malaga.’’
Thus far the State Department has
received no reports that any American
lives were in jeopardy in the revolu
tion.
1,582 Americans in Spain.
The number of Americans in Spain
was estimated by the Department at
1.582, however, including 30 diplo
matic and consular agents.
The total represented only citizens
who had registered as residents of
Spain as of January 1, 1936. They
were distributed as follows:
Madrid, 466; Barcelona, 660; Tar
ragona, 1; Bilbao. 155; Malaga, 72;
Seville. 51; Valencia, 61; Vigo. 61; Las
Palmas, Canary Island, 26; Tenerife,
I Canary Islands, 29.
Ambassador Claude G. Bowers, now
In residence at his Summer home at
San Sebastian, Spain, reported at 6
p.m. yesterday (Spanish time) that
the revolutionary movement, appar
| ently led by Gens. Franco, Quiepo del
Llano and Mola, and supported by
1 Fascists and other rightist elements,
! had “assumed large proportions." He
' added it was impossible to obtain any
j definite information. Wires between
! San Sebastian and Madrid had been
cut.
Messages to Consulates.
The Ambassador has dispatched
telegrams to every American consulate
in Spain to inquire as to the situation
and the welfare of Americans. He had
no assurance, however, that his tele
grams could be delivered.
He reported that the Spanish gov
ernment had requested all loyal sup
porters to arm themselves and had
distributed arms at San Sebastian to
the Socialist Youth and other repub
lican organizations.
In San Sebastian and neighboring
towns barricades had been erected and
bridges blown up on roads leading to
Victoria and Pamplona. The Am
bassador added there was sporadic
shooting in the streets and roads,
probably the result of arms in inex
perienced hands.
The civil governor at San Sebastian
was quoted as saying the frontier was
closed to all except diplomats.
Americans Believed Safe.
Earlier today other reports indicat
ing that Americans in the area affect
ed by Spain’s civil war were safe so
far were made public by the State
Department.
Those in Madrid, however, have
been urged by the American Embassy
to remain indoors and arrangements
have been made for their transfer to
the embassy if necessary.
This information came from the
American Minister to Portugal, Rob
ert G. Caldwell, who talked with the
American Embassy at Madrid by tele
phone from Lisbon at 11:30 a.m. today.
Minister Caldwell said he talked to
Eric C. Wendelin, third secretary of
the embassy, who informed him that
the rebellion in Madrid was suppressed
by government forces yesterday.
“Quiet but Serious.”
Wendelin was quoted as adding that
conditions “are quiet but serious.” He
said he had been unable to telephone
from Madrid and was uncertain
whether his telegrams dispatched from
the Spanish capital were being de
livered.
Wendelin is in charge of the em
bassy while Ambassador Bowers is in
residence at his Summer home at San
Sebastian.
He told Minister Caldwell that Mal
aga was reported to be in the hands
of rebel forces and that these forces
were reported marching to Madrid.
Communications Cut Off.
From Gibraltar, American Consul
Williams reported as of fl pm. yes
terday that communications with
Spain were cut off: that Algeciras
and La Linea were in the hands of
insurgents; that many persons were
(See AMERICANS, Page A-3.)
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History Turns Back 75 Years
As Manassas Is “Refought”
Huge Crowds See 66Jackson Standing
Like a Stone Wall99 and "Federals''
66Routed” After Long Fight.
(Pictures on Page B-l.)
BY MARSHALL BAGGETT,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
MANASSAS. Va.. July 21—History
is being flashed back on the Bull Run
battlefield near here this afternoon as
1 modern military units reproduce a 75
year-old war scene before 25,000 spec
ators.
i To the roar of cannon, the rattle of
(musketry, the sound of bugles, the
rolling of drums and caissons and the
battle cries of "Yankees” and “Rebels,”
events of a hot July afternoon in 1861
are being re-enacted over the same
I ground which reverberated to them
three-quarters of a century ago.
The Marines have landed as they
: charge and counter charge in Federal
blue upon Thomas Jonathan Jackson's
long gray line. Shells burst from Con
federate and Union artillery fire. Blue
and Gray clad soldiers throw up their
arms and "die.”
Regiments of Sherman's brigade
swarm over the Henry House Hill,
through its orchard and around its
outbuildings to drive back the first
Confederate line.
A crisis is reached.
‘ See, there is Jackson standing like
a stone wall , rally on the Virginians,” j
shouts Gen. Lee.
The first Federal charge is checked, j
The battle settles into a see-saw en
gagement and the thousands who have
come to witness it settle back in their
seats after being stirred by the open
ing scene.
From every vantage point on nearby
slopes, men, women and children look
over upon the “theater" of this anni
versary battle as they sit and stand in
and on hundreds of parked automo
biles, boxes and a small grandstand.
Gov. George C. Peery, a party of
Virginia officials and members of the
State Legislature view the scene along
with Army officers. Farmers from
miles around, who have brought their
families, are here on a gala holiday.
"Fire and fall back" is the order as
the Marines and Infantrymen forsake
modern war methods to take time to
ram their "powder" into muskets and
cannon.
The crowd cheers as first the Gray
and then the Blue appears victorious.
(See MANASSASTPage A-4~>
HAMILTON LIKES
SMITH’S AniTUDE
Landon Chieftain Says Ex
New York Governor Will
Make Views Known.
Br the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 21.—Republican
Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, upon
his return from a conference in the
East with former Gov. Alfred E. Smith,
today said the New York Democrat
would “make known his views" during
the coming presidential campaign.
The former New York Governor and
Democratic candidate for the presi
dency in 1928 announced prior to the
Democratic National Convention that
he might “take a walk” if President
Roosevelt's present policies were con
tinued.
Hamilton said he “did not care to
go into detail" about how former Gov.
Smith will participate, although he
explained that this was one of the
subjects discussed when the two met
yesterday in New York.
Pleased With Attitude.
“I was very pleased with his general
attitude,” the tall Kansan told re
porters at a press conference.
Hamilton did not say whether Smith
would take the stump under the
auspices of the Republican campaign.
The Republican chairman said that it
would be "presumptuous” for him to
(See HAMILTON, Page A-3.)
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CHARLESTON HOTEL
IS SWEPT BY FIRE
125 Guests Flee as Five-Story
Structure Suras—Loss
Set at $300,000.
By the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., July 21.—
Fire swept through the flve-story
Fleetwood Hotel, in the center of
Charleston, early today, injuring three
men and causing damage estimated in
excess, of $300,000.
One hundred and twenty-five guests
fled, some in their nightclothing, while
smoke billowed up through the build
ing. Henry P. Butts, son of the own
er, said all guests had been accounted
for.
Two firemen were cut by broken
glass, and William Newman, a drug
clerk, was slightly injured when a fire
hose burst.
Butts said tbe fire caused extensive
damage to the Silver Bro.’s Co. De
partment Store, the San Cohen Shoe
Store and Mangel's Jewelry Shop, aU
cm the ground floor.
Butts added:
“Firemen told me the blaze started
in the kitchen of Silver’s Department
Store and swept up through the
building. The principal damage to
the stores was from waif.” I
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RAIN FAILS TO AID
DROUGHT AREAS
Observers Say Precipitation
Came Too Late or Was'
Insufficient.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 21.—Reports that
recent rains had failed to shake the
drought in a wide area of the com
and cattle belt centered attention of
Federal and State officials today on a
long-range program for relieving the
stricken dwellers.
Observers in such typical drought
ravaged States as Nebraska. Iowa,
Missouri, Oklahoma. Montana. Illi
nois and the Dakotas said that in
much of their territories the rain
fall either came too late or was in
sufficient to counteract the effects of
prolonged aridity.
At Washington the Works Progress
Administration announced authoriza
tion of 69,000 drought relief jobs in
North Dakota. South Dakota. Mon
tana. Minnesota. Wyoming and Colo
rado and 20,000 in the South.
$3,393,000 in Subsistence.
W. P. A. officials asserted 350 water
conservation projects in the Western
States already had put 24,150 men to
work, providing almost the sole source
of employment for needy farmers.
All approved projects, the announce
ment said, would be completed, re
quiring an average of five months.
The Resettlement Administration,
distributing $3,393,000 in direct sub
sistence grants to farmers, explained
its general plan called for the remov
al of hard-hit families to fertile land
as close as possible to their former
homes.
The Federal Surplus Commodities
Corp. reported the shipment of 777
carloads of food and 175 carloads of
live stock feed for distribution in
drought areas and in co-operation
with the North Dakota Welfare Board
arranged for the shifting of sheep
from arid areas to more fertile graz
(See DROUGHT, Page A-5.)
REROUTED TRAFFIC
;
Some Gains Made, but Nor
mal Movement Is Month
Away.
Downtown traffic, despite some im
provement, still moved at a snail's pace
today as a result of re-routing and con
struction work, and is not expected to
reach normal for a month. Traffic
Director William A. Van Duzer pre
dicted this morning.
Street cars, some of which ran as
far as 27 minutes behind schedule
yesterday, were speeding up as motor
men became accustomed to their new
runs and the public became familiar
with the new transfer points and load
ing platforms. Cars ran from a minute
or two behind to a maximum, of 12
minutes behind today.
With a resetting of traffic lights to
provide additional time at certain in
tersections. and changes in loading
platforms to permit more cars to be
loaded at the same time, further im
provement is looked for.
Normal conditions cannot be ex
pected. however, until the construction
work on Fourteenth street between
New York avenue and H street is com
pleted. About 150 men are still at
work repaving the street after the track
changes made Sunday.
Fourteenth Street Changes.
Several changes in traffic lights will |
be put in effect during the next few
days. Van Duzer said. More time will
be allowed for north-south traffic on
Fourteenth street and westbound cars
on Pennsylvania avenue will turn
north on Fourteenth on the red light
to prevent congestion of westbound
vehicle traffic.
A new traffic light will be in work
ing order at Fifteenth and G streets
Friday, as will a new lighting cycle
at Fifteenth and New York avenue.
The light at the latter'intersection
will be converted by Friday to a three
way cycle, permitting east-west traf
fic in both directions. At present east
bound vehicle traffic is not permitted
to go through to New York avenue,
but is turned south onto Fifteenth
street. Northbound traffic on Fif
teenth street will be permitted to turn
left onto Pennsylvania.
Several changes in the position and
size of loading platforms will be ef
fected immediately to provide addi
tional space for passengers to board
and leave street cars. The platforms
for westbound cars on Pennsylvania
avenue at Fourteenth and for south
bound cars on Fourteenth street at
Pennsylvania avenue will be increased
(See REROUTING, Page A-5.)
TEDDY ROOSEVELT, JR.,
MAY BE VETS’ CHOICE
Mentioned at Convention as Can
didate for National Com
mandership.
Ey the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, July. 21—Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., was mentioned today as
a possible candidate for the national
commandership of the Disabled Vet
erans of the World War, in convention
here this week.
Eastern delegates brought up the
name of President Theodore Roose
velt's son and attempted to muster
support of veterans from the Middle
West. A new commander to succeed
Marvin A. Harlan of El Paso, Tex.,
will be elected Thursday.
Other leading candidates for the
post included Leo Murphy, Boston;
Fromme Barbour. Cincinnati, Joseph
Kerst, Harrisburg, Pa.; Thomas Ker
rigan, Portland, Oreg., and Charles
McCarthy, Fresno, Calif.
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SHERIFF PREDICTS
‘BREAK’ IN PROBE
OF CO-ED SLAYING
Hints He Expects Soon to
‘Crack Wide Open’ Mys
tery Murder.
VIOLINIST IN CUSTODY
FOR NEW QUESTIONING
Second Pass Key to Hotel Boom
Held Most Important Clue
in Case.
BACKGROUND—
Blond. 18-year-old Helen Clev
enger was slain by a mysterious
assailant Wednesday night in her
room at a fashionable Asheville,
N. C., hotel. She was shot with a
.32-caliber gun after having been
stabbed in the face.
Wifnesses told police a man
dashed from the hotel into a thun
derstorm shortly after the time the
murder was believed to have oc
curred.
By llie Associated Press.
ASHEVILLE. N. C., July 21.—Sheriff
Laurence E. Brown hinted today he
expected soon to “crack wide open'*
the mystery slaying of Helen Cleven
ger. 18-year-old New York University
student.
The sheriff said important develop
ments had been uncovered, but he re
fused to discuss the nature of the new
information.
He said he probably would question
Mark Wollner. 35-year-old interna
tionally known concert violinist, ex
haustively today.
Wollner was held for the third day
“for investigation.”
The sheriff described a pass key to
the hotel room where the pretty New
York girl was slain as the most im
portant clue toward solution of the
case.
The key was found in the lock on
the outside of the door to Miss Cleven
ger's room, while the regular key,
blood-stained, was found behind a
radiator.
No Specific Charge Placed.
There was no specific charge against
Wollner, whose studio is across the
street from the fashinable hotel where
the girl was criminally attacked, muti
lated and shot to death last Wednes
day night.
Since he was questioned first upon
his incarceration Saturday night, the
musician has had contact with no one
except the jailor, who brings him his
meals. He has been allowed no visitors
and has seen no newspapers.
The sheriff said he had questioned
Wollner only about his whereabouts
the night Miss Clevenger was slain.
He quoted the prisoner as saying he
was at home all night.
Wollner’s story, the sheriff said,
was corroborated by Miss Mildred
Ward, 19-year-old daughter of the
musician's landlady.
Brown declared he had eight wit
nesses who reported seeing Wollner
at various hours last Wednesday night
and early Thursday morning.
Miss Ward Also Detained.
Miss Ward was being detained for
questioning, as was Daniel H. Gaddy,
the hotel night watchman.
The sheriff said he did not believe
Gaddy had a direct connection with
the murder, but that “he may have
forgotten some of the things that
happened in the hotel that night.”
W. H. Rhymer, music store propri
etor and close friend of Wollner,
called on the sherff last nght and was
refused permission to see the violinist.
Wollner was taken* into custody at
Rhymer's home.
“I'm ready, if necessary," Rhymer
said, “to put up $20,000 bond for
Wollner's release. He is innocent,
and his detention has done him ir
reparable harm.”
The sheriff said flatly that he
planned to hold Wollner under the
present status as long as necessary.'
Rewards Total $1,000.
Meanwhile. $1,000 in rewards was
offered for the capture of the killer—
$200 each by the city, county; State,
Asheville Hotel Men's Association, and
the North Carolina Hotel Men's Asso
ciation.
Law officers are not entitled to the
rewards.
The sheriff stated the hotel engi
neer told him he had all the pass keys
(See CO^EdTPage A-4.)
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PLANES, RADIOS AID
FOREST FIRE FIGHT
Thousand Men Battling Three
Blazes in Montana Na
tional Forest.
Bj the Associated Pres*.
HELENA, Mont., July 21.—Air
planes and portable short-wave radios
were pressed into service today to
aid nearly 1,000 men battling three
forest fires in the Lewis and Claris
National Forest.
The planes brought supplies and
advised fire crews from the air of
progress against the flames. Thou
sands of acres of valuable timber have
been destroyed. The radios kept the
crews and Are headquarters at Great
Faljs advised of changes in tactics.
W. B. Wiley, forest supervisor, said
be expected the fires to be brought
under control today as reports indi
cated last night the crews had hem
med in the blazes.
Other forest fires raged today in
both Eastern and Western Canada.
While thousands of watchful rangers
and volunteers stayed on duty in On
tario despite a generally improved sit
uation, hastily-recruited fire fighters
contested flames in the region of Al
berta's Jasper National Park.
The most serious of Ontario’s 250
reported fires roared over 40 acres of
timberland at the headwaters of the
Goulais River in the Sault Ste. Marie
area. |