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Commissioner Would Allow
Former Takoma Park
Treasurer Freedom.
Bz tht Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 15. — Recom
mendation of a parole for Bryan Davis,
former town clerk and treasurer of
Takoma Park, Md., from serving more
than half of his sentence for embezzle
ment of town funds was sent to Gov.
Harry W. Nice yesterday.
W. David Tilghman, Jr,, State parole
commissioner, also recommended free
dom for nine other inmates of State
penal institutions following hearings
on their applications. He denied the
requests of 15 prisoners.
Among those denied were applica
tions of Harry Surasky, serving a 10
year term in connection with Mary
land’s only "kidnaping” case in recent
years, and Leon Schmidt and John
Wallace, serving sentences for murders.
Tilghman recommended favorable
action on the applications of Robert
W. Gibbs, convicted in Prince Georges
County in 1936 of malicious destruction
of property and sentenced to one year
In the House of Correction.
eurastcy was convicted in 1933 in
Baltimore of participating in the "kid
naping” of Albert Hendler, 22-year-old
son of L. Manuel Hendler, an ice
cream manufacturer. Young Hendler
was seized on November 18, 1932, and
held two hours before being released.
Judge Robert F. Stanton, in sen
tencing Surasky and two companions,
said it would have been a kidnaping
case except that the victim was not
taken out of the State and he was
more than 16 years of age. The judge
said Surasky had no part in sending
the extortion note five months later
to the elder Hendler.
Schmidt was sentenced to a life
term in 1924 for the slaying of Patrol
man Frank Latham in Baltimore.
Wallace received an 18-year term for
the slaying of Grover Amick in an
attempted hold-up of the Old Colonial
Tea House at Bladensburg in 1931.
AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
PLAN RESEARCH SESSION
Thomas Mldgley, Jk., Will Be
Main Speaker at Meeting
in Cosmos Club.
Thomas Mldgley, jr„ vice president
of the Ethyl Gasoline Corp. and
Kinetic Chemicals, Inc., will be guest
speaker at 8 p.m. tomorrow at a
research meeting of the Washington
section of the Society of Automotive
Engineers at the
Cosmos Club, to
follow a dinner
at 6:30 p . m .
Midgley’s subject
will be "Some
Philosophical As
pects of Re
search."
Dr. Frederick
G. Cottrell,
founder of the
Research Corpo
ration of New
York, and Dr.
Lyman J. Briggs,
director of the
Bureau of Stan
mom a* Mldrley, Jr.
dards, will lead an Informal discussion
on the topic. Participants will Include
Dr. George W. Lewis, director of re
search, National Advisory Committee
of Aeronautics, and C. B. Veal, re
search manager for the society. Dr.
H. C. Dickinson, chief of the Heat
and Power Division of the Bureau of
Standards, will preside at the meeting.
Europe
(Continued From First Page.)
belief the British government would
see that its merchant marine stayed
outside the Spanish 3-mlle limit.
The cabinet, cheered by the 345 to
130 vote of confidence after last
night’s stormy debate In the House of
Commons, stood firm on its policy of
refusing to recognize the Franco
regime as a belligerent.
As if in answer to Laborite and
Liberal charges of "cowardice" and
aiding the insurgents to "starve out
women and children,” the government
sternly warned the Insurgents they
would be held responsible for any
damage to British merchantmen.
How far Britain was prepared to
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go in such an eventuality was not
disclosed despite the bitterly sarcastic
question of former Prime Minister
David Lloyd George:
"What do you propose to do—sue
Franco?’'
The renewed warning to Franco,
outgrowth of the determined opposition
effort to censure the Stanley Baldwin
government for refusing to convoy
food ships into insurgent-blockaded
Bilbao, indicated Britain still held
an apprehensive view of the inter
national dangers in the situation.
Foreign Secretary Anthony 2den,
in replying to the censure motion in
Commons, declared the committee was
ready to proceed to the question of
volunteer withdrawals and added:
“If ever this country can make a
contribution to bring this conflict to
an end, that contribution will be made
readily and eagerly.”
Eden's statement, suave and devoid
of oratory in the sureness of the
victory which the government ma
jority indicated, ended the heated de
bate which not only blasted at the
government’s war policy, but casti
gated individual cabinet members.
Observers considered, however, deli
cate questions of international law
might be involved if British warships
entered Spanish territorial waters as
the result of interference with ship
ping on the Basque coast.
Since Franco has been refused bel
ligerent rights, his starvation blockade
of Bilbao was considered by experts
to be illegal and any action of his
against foreign vessels could be held
to be piracy.
Theoretically, it is the duty of the
recognized Spanish government to pro
tect foreign ships in her territorial
waters and whether Britain has the
right to protect her merchantmen
within the 3-mlle limit under the spe
cial condition puzzled international
lawyers.
Shippers, indicating their willing
ness to bow before the government’s
policy, said such theoretical discus
sions were so much “spray in the
wind."
"It is just a case of Whoever does
what he wants to without effective
opposition is right," one said.
They declared if their food ships
could break through the blockade
that would show it was not complete
and would justify any British action.
“But if we can’t break through, that
sets a principle justifying Franco.”
SIX AMERICANS JAILED.
PERPIGNAN, France, April 15 (/P).—
Six Americans were sentenced to one
month In prison today on charges of
attempting to enter Spain to volunteer
in the government army. They were
arrested near Thuir April 8, the third
group to have been arrested within a
week.
The Americana, who told police
they sailed from New York March 25
aboard the liner Manhattan, Identified
themselves as:
Aba Letvin, 22, student, New York;
Morris Simon Fishman, 34, grocer,
Los Angeles; Everett Willoughby, 26,
metal worker, Marlon, Ohio; Albert
Byron Sanford, 29, mechanic, Roch
ester, N. Y.; Raymond Elvin Tiger, 24,
salesman, Alfalfa, Okla.; Herbert Hart
Hutner, 27, writer, Brooklyn. N. Y.
ARTILLERY CEASES FIRE.
Insurgents In University City Reported
Isolated.
MADRID, April 15 (£*).—Heavy ar
tillery fire on the University City
front in Madrid abruptly subsided to
day after insurgent troops failed to
break through steadily encircling
government lines.
The government declared that 3,000
Insurgents In the suburban stronghold
had been cut off completely from sup
plies of food and ammunition.
Asturian dynamite throwers, gov
ernment artillery and machine gun
ners kept up a steady Are during the
night, sweeping the Manzanares River
Bridge, connecting link with insur
gents In Casa de Campo, a parks
section on the western side of the
capital.
Heavy shelling of the capital yester
day by insurgents sent at least a dozen
persons to hospitals.
Penus, official Spanish news agency,
reported insurgents failed in an at
tempt to recapture the hermitage of
Santa Quiteria on the Aragon front,
dominating the Huesca and Zaragoza
highways.
Storms Delay Fighting.
Heavy storms were said to have
halted fighting in the Basque country
in Northern Spain, where insurgents
are trying to capture the port city of
Bilbao.
Fenus said government troops, how
ever, had succeeded in cleaning out
the last of insurgent entrenchments in
the Bilbao sector at Mount Sabigain.
In University City several insurgent
attempts to break through the ex
plosive circle and relieve the gar
rison were shattered yesterday. The
insurgents hurled tanks several times
toward the small, still open but shell
raked gap into University City, but
were caught by vigilant ‘‘dinamlteroe"
and forced back.
Insurgent infantrymen made a des
perate attempt to advance behind the
tanks, but were met with a deadly
spray of thousands of machine gun
bullets.
Fire Concentrated on Span.
Fire was concentrated on the partly
destroyed wooden bridge spanning the
Manzanares River between Casa de
Campo and University City. Artillery
bombardment prevented Insurgent at
tempts to repair the bridge.
Insurgents clinging to their fortified
positions in the battle-scarred build
ings of University City showed no
signs of capitulation to the govern
ment's siege or promises their lives
would be spared if they surrendered.
(A communique from the insurgent
general headquarters at Salamanca
declared the University City liaison
with the rest of Franco’s army still
was intact and that the government’s
western front drive appeared to have
ended.
(The report denied Gen. Jose Miaja,
the Madrid commander-in-chief, had
gained any new positions in the nearly
week-old offensive and said he had
suffered terrific losses.)
Report Storming Heights.
Government troops in Jaen Province,
far to the south of Madrid, were re
ported in a dispatch to the newspaper
Claridad to have stormed the heights
of El Cabezo (the Summit), where
1,500 persons, including an insurgent
force and many women and children,
have been under a starvation siege
since the beginning of the war last
July.
The attackers were said to have
captured the palace of Lugar Nuevo,
which shares peak with the Sanctuary
of the Virgin De la Cabeza, and driven
the refugees into the stone-walled
sanctuary. The claim was not officially
confirmed.
Insurgent planes dropped food to
the refugees. The group recently was
said to have been prevented from sur
render by a hard-fisted reign of terror
by two insurgent officers.
“Baby’’ Weighs 200 Pounds.
PORT SCOTT. Kans. OP).—Mrs.
Mae Bellinger’s husband is out of
town a lot, but she feels safe—thanks
to "baby.”
"Baby,” who sleeps on the floor
beside her bed is a 200-pound, 17
month-old pet lion.
It S. KING AID
Declares Low-Rent Projects
Not Possible Without Gen
erous Subsidies.
By the Associated Press.
Mayor Fiorello H. La Ouardia of
New York told a 6enate group today
"proper, decent, low-rent housing Is
not possible without very generous
Government subsidies.”
He testified at a Labor Committee
hearing on the Wagner bill for a
blllion-dollar Federal housing pro
gram, based on making loans to State
and community housing authorities
for slum-clearance projects and low
income housing units.
Private capital," La Guardia said,
"cannot build, at present costs of ma
terial, labor and land, houses within
the reach of low-income classes.”
He aserted efforts of the Public
Health Service to check disease were
"destroyed” when, "at the same time,
we close our eyes to disease-breeding
buildings.” He said there were 64,488
"old-type” tenements in New York, of
which "at least 40,000 exist in viola
tion of law.”
More than $1,000,000,000, he esti
mated, would be required to eliminate
New York’s slums.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who
has directed the P. W. A. housing
activities, said in a message to the
committee that it would be best to
intrust the new program to the In
terior Department.
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ILL AT HOME HERE
Declared to Be Suffering From
an “Acute Respiratory
Infection.”
John Garland Pollard, former Gov
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of the Veterans’ Board of Appeals, is
til at his home, 1028 Sixteenth street,
suffering from an “acute respiratory
infection,” it was disclosed today.
“We are not alarmed over my
father’s condition," said John Garland
Pollard, Jr. "While he Is quit* sick,
we do not think his condition could
be called serious.”
Pollard, who Is 66, has been In 111
health for several months. He re
cently returned from a trip to Florida,
where he went In an effort to regain
strength from an Illness which kept
him confined at his home for several
weeks.
On completion of his four-year
term as Governor In 1934, Polard w s
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