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EDEN WARNS COMMONS FIRES OF EUROPEAN WAR FLAME
POWERS BREAK
NEUTRALITY
PROMISES
Volunteers Flocking
From 4 Countries
In Spanish War
By KINGSBURY SMITH
LONDON. Dec. 2 (I.N.S.).—The
menacing subject of participation
of foreign volunteers in Spain's
civil war was unexpectedly tabled
at a meeting of the International
Committee for non-intervention in
Spain today.
Although British Foreign Secre
tary Eden has solemnly warned
that the situation now contains
all the ingredients to ignite the
flames of a new European war,
the committee postponed the ques
tion of volunteers until Friday,
and decided merely to urge both
sides in Spain to approve immed
iate establishment of international
land and sea control.
New Crisis Imminent
Government officials feared a
new crisis may be imminent, fol
lowing reports here that from
12,000 to 15.000 Germans. French,
Russians and Italians, many of
whom are said to be trained ar
tillerymen and aviators, are either
fighting in Spain or en route to
join insurgent or loyalist armies.
According to Whitehall’s infor
mation 5.000 or 6.000 Germans
have arrived at Cadiz or Seville.
Other advices said 4,000 French
are fighting on the side of the
Madrid government, and Spanish
Fascist sources declared "hun
dreds” of Russians are directing
government operations in Madrid,
Malaga and Barcelona.
Eden Warns Commons
Government sources claim hun
dreds of Italian aviators and artil
lerymen are aiding the insurgents.
Eden, rushing to the House of
Commons to join in the debate on
the neutrality shipping bill,
warned that non-intervention was
not being observed satisfactorily.
He urged commons to adopt the
government’s ban on British ships
carrying arms to Spain.
Russia Sends Rome
Protest on Ship Search
MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (I.N.S.).—So
viet Russia last night dispatched
a stem protest to Italy against
the alleged searching of several
Russian ships in Italian ports
and against purported discrimina
tion displaced against Soviet
sailors by Fascist officials.
The protest, marking a sudden
grave intensification of the grow
ing Italo-Soviet tension, was deliv
ered to the Fascist government
by the Russian Ambassador in
Rome.
Berlin Charges Pact
Between Russia and Spain
BERLIN, Dec. 2 (I.NJS.).
While disclaiming responsibility
for the presence of German
volunteers in Spain, the official
Nazi correspondence Issued a
statement today charging a secret
agreement has been reached be
tween Soviet Russia and the
radical government in Madrid.
Moscow has agreed, the state
ment charged, to supply Madrid
with arms and munitions in re
turn for 500,000,000 gold pesetas,
which the party correspondence
cited as proof Russia is violating
the non-intervention agreement.
Some quarters regarded the
charges as foreshadowing some
new move by Chancellor Hitler,
but reports the government plans
to denounce the non-intervention
pact were officially denied.
Stating no regular Nazi troops
are in Spain, Germany accused
other nations of responsibility for
the influx of foreign volunteers
into the Madrid area.
MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (I.N.S.).—The
Soviet embassy in Rome has ad
dressed a strong protest to the
Italian government against al
leged searching of several Russian
vessels in Italian ports and "es
tablishment of a discriminatory
regime for Soviet seamen,” it was
announced today.
LONDON. Dec. 2 (1.N.5.) .—ln
formation that the Spanish loyal
ists have recently been rein
forced by 15,000 foreign troops,
including a Soviet regiment from
Siberia, was reported today in a
dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Talavera de la Reina. The
dispatch said the Siberian regi
ment numbered 3,000, complete
with officers.
ISTANBUL, Dec. 2 (1.N.5.).
Acting under the terms of the
Montreux Straits convention,
Soviet Russia has asked Turkey
for permission to send Russian
warships through the Bosphorus
to the Mediterranean, it was
understood today. Permission
was asked on the grounds war
ships are needed to convoy Rus
sian merchant vessels to Spain.
French Vote Forced
Strike Arbitration
PARIS. Dec. 2. (I.N.S.)—Accept
ing the dictate of Premier Leon
Blum In his effort to end French
industrial discord, the Chamber of
Deputies today voted for com
pulsory arbitration and concilatlon
of labor disputes, 438 to 130.
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JOHN RINGLING (shown with his ex-wife), the last of
the five brothers who built up the world’s largest circus,
died early today in New York at the age of 70. He di
vorced the second Mrs. Ringling last July. International
News Photo.
FLIERS KILL 80
IN MADRID
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impossible to determine the
nature of the gas used by the
rebels.
Insurgents Lose Posts
The Hospital Clinicc in Univer
sity City, one of the first strategic
buildings occupied by the insur
gents when the tide of war ran in
their favor a fortnight ago, was
destroyed by government shells
and the insurgents compelled to
evacuate.
Insurgents also were driven out
of the village of Pozuelo on the
northwestern outskirts as loyalists
sent a rain of heavy shells in this
direction. Many were reported
killed.
Throughout the night, a "police
squadron” of 50 government planes
circled ceaselessly over the city to
ward off any insurgent aerial at
tacks.
The longest and fiercest battle
yet fought for possession of Mad
rid ended temporarily at noon
yesterday, with position in gen
eral unchanged. The conflict has
developed into a war of attrition,
with each side attempting to wear
the other down by steady, relent
less pounding.
Reports in Madrid confirm for
eign dispatches telling of thou
sands of foreign fighters rushing
to the battlefields of Spain to
throw in their lot with one side
or the other.
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JOHN RINGLING
DEAD AT 70
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Springs and Yellowstone Park
railway in Montana.
At Ringling's bedside when he
died were his sister, Mrs. Ida Ring
ling North; his nephew, John Ring
ling North; and a life long friend,
John Hennessy.
His first wife died in 1929, and
he obtained a divorce from his
second wife last July at Sarasota,
\ Fla., winter quarters for his circus,
where he also had a home.
In precarious health for several
I years, Ringling—or "Mr. John"
I as he was known to the circus
world—was stricken with pneu
monia last week.
Harness Maker’s Son
Son of a harness maker of Ger
man descent, Ringling made his
advent into the world of the big
top as an urchin when he gave
his first one-ring circus in his
parents’ back yard and charged
five pins admission.
At one time his circus properties
were estimated to be worth $50,-
000,000, but financial troubles, as
well as physical and marital, be
set him in the later years of his
spectacular career. His fortunes
suffered a severe setback with the
depression, but he managed to
retain control of his circus prop
erties through astute financial
manipulations.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1936
MANY ENVOYS
OF U. S. WED
FOREIGNERS
New Decree Recalls
Marriages Abroad;
May Lose Jobs
The State Department turned
the tables on Dan Cupid today,
i making that cheerful little dart
shooter a target for darts himself
when he alights near American
diplomats in foreign lands.
This action became the law of
the Government through an Ex
ecutive order by President Roose
velt forbidding members of the
diplomatic service from marrying
foreigners. The department said
it felt a diplomat loses his useful
ness to the service when he creates
such a circumstance and those
who trip to the altar without seek
ing permission must automatically
resign.
There is no precedent for the
Government’s action but numerous
other countries have similar bans
invoked upon their diplomats.
Noted Examples
In the past quite a few diplo
mats have married foreigners, the
former Ruth Bryan Owen, minis
ter to Denmark, being the latest.
Following her marriage to Capt.
Boerge Rohde, of Denmark, she
resigned from the service.
Among other American diplo
mats who have taken on foreign
born mates are: Ambassador to
Brazil Hugh Gibson, who married
a Belgian girl in 1922, Minister
to Canada Norman Armour, who
married Princess Myra Kouda
cheff, of Russia, in 1919.
Maxwell K. Moorhead, consul
general at Istanbul, Turkey, mar
ried Muriel Ermatinger, of St.
Thomas, Ontario, in 1936; Thomas
Dewitt Bowman, consul general of
Mexico City, who married Lillian
Parker Bowman, of Nova Scotia,
in 1916; Leland B. Morris, consul
general of Alexandria, Egypt, who
married Marie Aimee De Zaba, of
Smyrna, Turkey, in 1917; Arthur
Bliss Lane, minister to Esthonia,
who married Cornelia Thayer
Baldwin, of Florence, Italy, in
1918; George A. Bucklin, consul
general at Wellington, New Zea
land, who married Emeline Wood
Porter, of Peterbor, Ontario, in
1904.
Many Canadians
Pierre de Lagarde Boal, Coun
selor of the Embassy in Mexico
City, who married Mlle. Jeanne de
Menthon. of Paris, in 1919; Ely E.
Palmer, Consul General of the
Canadian Embassy, who married
Miss Eno Ham, of Napanee, On
tario, in 1913; Hugh H. Watson,
Consul General of Halifax, Nova
Scotia, who married Eugenie Lil
lian Ellison, of Wallasey, England,
in 1923, and Irving L. Linnell, Con
sul General at Canton, in Kwang
tung, China, who married Lilian
B. Fisher of Prince Rupert, Brit
ish Columbia. Canada, in 1914.
Such bachelors in the service as
William C. Bullitt, United States
Ambassador to France and Robert
C. Kelley, Chief of the Eastern
European Division of the Service,
may come under the order. The
late Warren Delano Robbins, for
mer Minister to Canada, who mar
ried Irene de Bruyn, of Buenos
Aires, might have been affected
by the order, it was said.
Wheel of Progress
Opposed so Abattoir
The Wheel of Progress. Wash
ington's women's club, went on
record yesterday as opposed to the
granting of a permit to Adolph
Gobel, Inc., for construction of a
slaughter house in the vicinity of
Benning Viaduct.
Shirley Temple
Awaits Ruling
On Hays Suit
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SHIRLEY TEMPLE
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2—(1.N.5.)
Whether Shirley Temple, child
film star, must pay $500,000 to
Jack Hays, her former agent, for
alleged breach of contract, was be
ing studied today by Federal Judge
Harry Hollzer.
After lengthy arguments in
which Mr. and Mrs. George Tem
ple, parents of Shirley, insisted,
through attorneys, that the con
tract had been bought by them for
$25, Judge Holl’''r took the case
under advisement.
Hays claimed he "discovered”
Shirley.
Racquet, University
Clubs Are Merged
Two of Washington’s clubs, the
Racquet and the University, were
merged yesterday.
New officers were elected and
furnishings and equipment re
moved from the old University
Club building at Fifteenth and I
Streets Northwest. Headquarters
were established at the old Rac
quet Club building, 1135 Sixteenth
St. N. W.
Spencer Gordon, local attorney,
was elected president of the new
organization, Stanley F. Smith,
first vice president; Donald H. Me
Knew, second vice president; Har
risen Brand, jr.. secretary, and
Claude M. Houchins, treasurer.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2—(1.N.5.).
Violence broke out along New
York’s embattled waterfront to
day as union longshoremen re
fused to unload the French liner
Champlain and striking seamen
tried to tie up the United States
liner Manhattan at her North
River pier.
The striking seamen overturned
and smashed a taxicab and an
automobile full of private detec
tives. Three men were hurt
seriously. Six seamen were ar
rested.
Heavy cordons of police were
thrown about Pier 62 as rumors
spread that the striking seamen,
resentful at the longshoremen
for lack of cooperation in the
“outlaw" seaman’s strike, would
attempt to unload the French
ship in defiance of the powerful
International Lonkshoremen's As
sociation.
One seaman was stabbed as he
reported for work on the Clyde-
Mallory ship, the S. S. Brazos, and
two were beaten, one seriously, as
they sought to board the Manhat
tan.
For the first time since the sea
men’s strike began, weeks ago, po
lice were armed with riot guns.
Six emergency squad cars, five
patrol wagons and a host of de
tectives filled the streets near the
Manhattan’s pier.
The sudden action of the long
shoremen against the Champlain
was in retaliation for the refusal
of French dock workers to unload
American ships recently. Joseph
P. Ryan, head of the longshore
men’s union, declared his men will
move nothing off the French ship
except mail, passenger’s baggage
and perishable cargo.
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KIMBERLY, Dec. 2.—(1.N.5.).
Captain James A. Mollison hopped
off from here for Cape Town on
his attempted record flight at 11
a. m. G. M. T. today (6 a. m. E.
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actress, ordered by New
York court to testify in
$18,200 business suit or face
contempt charge. Miss Brad
ley alleges she is ill.
FLIES 12,000
MILES, CAUGHT
HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 2 (1.N.5.).
Grace Bradley, the film actress
who traveled 12.000 miles to Eng
land and return trying to avoid
a process server only to find the
persistent fellow waiting for her
at the airport, was under orders
today to "tell it to the judge.”
The red-haired actress failed to
give her deposition yesterday to
attorneys for Al Rosen, her for
mer theatrical agent who is suing
her for $18,200 of allegedly unpaid
commissions.
Superior Judge Robert W.
Kenny, informed that Miss Brad
ley was ill, requested that a phy
sician's note to that effect must
be produced or else a contempt
of court ruling might be made.
COURT FREES
VERMONT'S
GOVERNOR
Jurisdiction at Issue
As Case Comes
Before Judge
RUTLAND, Vt„ Dec. 2 (1.N.5.).
I Governor Charles M. Smith of
Vermont was free today of charges
that he concealed thefts of a for
mer bookkeeper from the Marble
Savings Bank, of which he is
president.
Judge John S. Buttles ruled
that the charges only constituted
■ a misdemeanor, and that the
county court therefore had no
jurisdiction.
Similar action was taken in the
case of two other men, Robert B.
i Fellows, former State bank com
missioner, and Bert L. Stafford,
a trustee, also charged with con
cealing bank thefts.
State’s Attorney Asa Bloomer,
who filed the charges against
Governor Smith, stated today
that he contemplated further ac
tion against the governor.
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BALTIMORE, Dec. 2.—Coinci
dent with the announcement of
E. W. Scheer, president of the
Reading-Jersey Central Lines, of
the appointment of Charles A. Gill
as general manager, A. K. Gallo
way, superintendent- of motive
power of the Baltimore and Ohio’s
Eastern lines, has been made Gill’s
successor as superintendent of mo
tive power and rolling equipment.
Concurrently the Baltimore and
Ohio announced the following ap-
1 pointments:
G. R. Galloway becomes super
intendent of motive power. East
ern lines, Baltimore, succeeding A.
K. Galloway.
E. J. McSweeney becomes super
intendent of motive power. West
ern lines, Cincinnati, succeeding
G. R. Galloway.