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The Weather Read Complete "United Press Leased Wire Coverage NEA Feature! Daily in Your ALABAMA: Fair In Interior, partly cloudy near the coast probably local thundenhewen on the tout tonlfht and Sunday. Heme Paper (Issued Dally and Sunday Morning by Consolidated Publishing Co.) VOL. 56. NO. 238.

ANNISTON, SATURDAY, AUG. 27, 1938. 5c a Copy 20c a Week by Carrier Today's Cotton Cotton 8.75 eBzaVsTMrawmuam. BWASGhool-Bon4L0llN PROGRAM STORM Britain Calls On Nazis PreseYveFedce OrElsel Is Called unci 1 ON 1 938 COTTON I ANNOUNCED i IN WEST GULF: Hurricane Expected to Reach Brownsville Late This Afternoon RESIDENTS IN PATH URGED TO PLAY SAFE Two Hundred Houses Wreck-ed At. Yucatan Peninsula Village EW ORLEANS, Aur.

17. (U.m ftqusUr conditions increased In the west girt! today as a West Indian hurricane pi toward the Texas-Mexican bordeV MOVES ON TEXAS Election By i Two New Elementary Buildings, One Addition Asked By Board Of Education ATHLETIC STADIUM IS PLANNED BY OFFICIALS Second Bond Issue To Deal With New Sewer Line To Ctioccolocco Creek Anniston voters will go to the polls on September 28 to decide bonds will be Issued for two school buildings and one addition, an athletic stadium and a new trunk Hno Cos the sswsgo dlspossl 4jrheriorMwaazBected.io ach -7- i ex, taie inn afternoon accompanied by 75-mile-per houvwinds. The speed of the hurricane Increas ed two miles ner hoar durln. tklfvenlrl evening Ordinances calling for the elec-Ttlon were passed Friday afternoon at the meeting of the City Council which was recessed late Thursday night. One ordinance calls for a OOOT)ohosuerTBintooner-repre senting 55 per cent of the cost of two new elementary school buildings and an addition to another building.

The same ordinance calls for a 120,000 issue, this amount representing 59 per cent of the cost of the proposedniMdTum. A second ordinance provides for a 1100,000 Issue to install a new sewer line to Choccolocco Creek. The sewage system improvement may or may not be built, due to what the council decides later. It was necessary to pass the ordinance at this time, however, for there must be a vote of the people if V.the bonds are chargeable to the city's constitutional debt limit, and application for a PWA loan and grant must be in Washington not later than September 30. Debts for school purposes are exempted from the city's debt limit If some plan of monthly assessment for sewer FIGURE IN "KIDNAP" Alleged attentions to Elizabeth K.

W. Berry, 54. lower photo, were at the bottom of a plot to kidnap and mutilate Irving Baker at Olym-pla, three of four men held have confessed. The fourth Indicated he backed out when ha learned details of the plan. Dr.

Berry had complained of Baker's alleged attentions to his wife, and the men held charge he obtained their, assistance In an effort to punish Baker in TESTIFIES Ousted TV A Director Before Probe Committee KNOXVULE: Aug. 27. Congressional investigators of the Tennessee Valley Authority had before them today ousted TV A Chairman A. E. Morgan's side of the controversy among TV A directors arising from Senator George L.

Berry's marble claims. reviewed Jila. opposition to con cilia ton of the TlH Director David E. Llllenthal had wanted to "go easy" In dealing with 4rie.Tneaseei'4aofr-,',w- Although the conciliation was de cided upon over the strenuous ob jections of then Chairman Morgan, it later was abandoned and the claims of Senaior Berry and asso ciates for $5,000,000 damages on lands flooded by TVA'a Norrls Lake wm-xmwtrwtrtgnmmmum' court Morgan quoted Llllenthal In three Instances which he said Indicated that the latter wished to "go easy" in handling the claims. When TV A officials intimate mere migni be something wrong with the Berry claims, Llllenthal said, according to Morgan, '1 have been reading statements by staff members impugning the motives of a labor leader I have heard enough of that and I dont want to hear any more Berry has an Investment: he has somethln comlng and whatever is there, he should be paid for.

LOSE LIVES PARIS, Aug. 27. U. Eight French aviators lost their lives when two army planes crashed near Pau. dispatches said today.

One plane crashed last night the other this morning. There were four men in each plane. Mapaiejau. 1. A nt-j aw i a raws us eonnectlone la agreed upon, the bonds for that Improvement would not be charged to the debt limit However, if there is no assessment, 1 It becomes a general obligation.

Tns city is just oeiow its oeoi limit and some doubt was expressed that 1 rtha Issue would be valid as straight obligation. I Sir John Simon Restates English Policy In Event 0f( Conflict On Continent CZECH WAR WILL DRAG BRITISH IN, SIMON AVERS Sudeten Germans Are Advised To Exercise "The Right Of Self By WEBB MILLER (Copyright 1938. By United Frees) LONDON, Aug. 27. Great Brit- am threw her fall weight into an effort te avert a general European war today.

Sir John Simon, chancellor of the Excheoner, In a formal statement BriUln'a policy, ealkd -oa Ger many te cooperate preservinj peace, and repeated the wamlrj that Britain might be forced tnte war if Ctechoalavakls) la invaded. The admiralty ordered 43 war ships of the borne fleet into the North Sea for autumn maneuvers. The chief of the economic sec tion of the foreign office flew to Czechoslovakia with secret instructions to Viscount Runclman, British mediator there. The cabinet waa highly dlsquleted-Over in cluding the following: I. instructions by the Sudetea Oerman minority party fh Czechoslovakia to its follower! to exercise the right of self defense" against aUeged Bgtreslon by-Ciechs.

The matter wu regarded so Important that the government took the almost unprecedented step of issuing a semi-official statement de ploring; the order. A eeneerted and obviously li-eplred systematic German pre campaign, against CseehoaUvalla. 3 Be ports from Vteeount British adviser la the Csecho. Slovak minorities dispute, bursting the possibility that the Cseche-slovakXgevernment eould not Ij prasest Into snaking sufficient eon-eeesisne ftewteei the demands the Sudeten Germans and Hitler. the Czechoslovak situation wu entering another period of acute anxiety which would reach lt pejs.

during the Nasi party congress at Nuremberg commencing September 8. Government circles admitted ti British diploma Ue eorrespondenii that another period of strain rT As. a discreet precaution. iea warships-will be-eoncentrat in the North Sea theatre of oper i- Uona month. The la partly a mid business precau tion and partly for moral effect 1 Oermany.

..5 John. Slmon'a jpeecb on. Tr" -ish policy today wu the. first i- a series by British statesmen resigned to prepare public i for whatever action the government considers necessary when i time eomes. Keyjnen ofthe cablnett their almost 8acrosanct holiday 1, will gather In London for a hud Monday.

Alfred Duff Cooper, first Lord the Admiralty, after a cruise in C.s Baltic and a long talk with Kir Christian pf Denniark Cor-T hagen, la hurrying back to Londo For the moment, with IfiQOjc.) men under arms and several hun dred thousand under nigh pressure digging fortifications facing France, Adolf Hitler held the diplomatic initiative. Future developments depend on whether Hitler and the German general staff consider a gamble of Intervention In, Czechoslovakia, when a suitable occasion arises, is too great Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels," German minister of propaganda, once publicly admitted that previous Nszi coups entailed gambles which were weighed when a decision was taken. The times Berth) correspondent warned today that incident which may result from the Sudeten party "self defense" decision might "culminate In a grave incident which Oermany would not be content to meet merely with newspaper polemics." The Dally Mall splashed a story under a Paris dateline that Germany had asked Jugoslavia ar 1 Roumanla for assurance of their neutrality in event of Oerman Intervention In Czechoslovakia. It said thst the French governmer.t informed (he British government of this news and that the Sudeten conference Wednesday of JPrlmt Minister Neville Chamberlain, VU-count Halifax, foreign secretary, and Sir John Simon, chancellor the Exchequer, wu the result, Oeneral R.

S. Noble, chairman of the board of trustees of Garner Hospital appeared before the council and asked that the City of Anniston make application for a PWA loan and grant to provide a much needed extension to the bos-pUaL- Flans for Um proposed- addition are now being drawn by JU Kenan, special engineer, and aa- THE NEC REPORT Reiginninf today on the editorial page, The Anniston Star la pleased to present a series of articles by. Southern industrial, agricultural, civic and academic leaders on the report by the National Emergency Council. Today Donald Comer of Birmingham, an industrialist who has been In the vanguard of progress for years, give his -personal views on the economic problems of the South and suggests practical remedies. Believe British American Trade Treaty Finished HYDE PARK.

N. Aug. 27. 0JB President Roosevelt today accepted the resignation of Adolf A. Berle, Jr, assistant secretary of tate, and last of le original raln-trusters.

Berle was splinted last Feb" arywdirwg inderstood that ie was to work in negotiations or a British- American trade 'reaty. In his let- er of resignation I in Lai te said that "cer- work" i had orwerded, and this was taken to. mean that the long-awaited treaty Was ready. He was the second member of the Tittle" cabinet to resign this week. Roewell Magill, under-se I retarr of the treasury, was tha oth- er.

Berle, a member of the faculty of Columbia University, New York City, and identified with Mayor F. H. LaOuardlal fusion administration, said he was resigning because he had accepted office on a tern oorary basis. He said the Presi dent could make ha resignation effective any time in September (hat he wished. The President made It effective on September 18.

State Senator Offered Talladega Probate Judgeship TALLADEGA, Ala Aug. 27-U was generally here, that on August 28 Senator D. Hardy Riddle, president pro tem of the Alabama State Senate and superin tendent of the State School for Deaf and Kind- at-TaBadegar would take the oath of office as probate Judge of Talladega County under a gubernatorial appointment to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge X. A. Hammett Judge Hammett's death occurred last week aftef" several months "of declining health.

His condition grew so bad that he was forced to withdraw from active support of Mr. Riddle in his campaign last spring for Oovemor of Alabama after starting Riddle's campaign manager The appointment of Riddle was announced Friday afternoon by Oovernor Bibb Graves, but Senator Riddle had not made known this morning whether he would accept. However, it was eenerallv under. stood he would accept the appoint- aieni. When and if Senator Riddle does accept the appointment the state schools at Talladega will be operated by the executive committee of three from the board of 13 which le in charge of operation of the school.

The board win choose Sen aior Riaaie's successor if be resigns to accept the probate tudn aiv Lpointment FIRST TAX CASE-HERE Crystal Springs Operator Charged With Saks Tax Evasion Sam Bacon, operator of Crystal Springs, swimming and picnic re-eon on the Oadsden Highway northwest of Anniston, today had posted $300 bond pending appeal to Circuit Court of tils conviction on charges of falling to remit sales taxes. It was the first conviction under the sales tax law in' this county. He stood trial in Calhoun County Court Friday and wu assessed a fine of 1100 and costs by Judge J. B. Holman.

Whether there is a question for the jury to decide had not been made known today and it wu not determined whether it would be a Jury or non-Jury bearing in Circuit Court Bacouj, according to testimony In the bearing, had claimed that be had no record of. bis gross receipts and, therefore, sould not accurately determine the amount of tax due any wu due. ADOLF A. BERLE. JR.

niiiTrvrrnrnii "nnnT Hill IL LLIILUIII UIIUI i I II lliLiJ Ul 1 HLJJJilLL WW. i Ba BILE WILL TAKE sociates. IRK FILLS 1ST METHODIST PULPIT SUNDAY Rev. C. R.

Bell, To Preach On Oxford Group Movement Tomorrow Night Robert Warnock, Jr, ministerial student at Emory University, will be in charge of the morning services Sunday at the First Methodist program will be presented under the direction of Mrs. L. B. Liles. The services will be conducted P5' W.

W. s. Morns, premaing eiaer Anniston District The Bev. Ralph rclld, who recent ly Teslgrhkl as pastor of the West Anniston Baptist Church, will conduct his last services there Sunday He will assume diiMes as pastor of a Birmingham Church "next week and soon will enter Howard College where-he-wUhbe-a membepf-thr SenMtr Class. The Rev.

Charles R. sen, win conduct a special service for young people Sunday morning at tha Par ker Memorial Baptist Church. "What i Can a Man Do About It Today?" is the subject he will discuss. He will begin a aeries of sermons on the Oxford Group movement Sunday night preaching on "Outdance of Mack Janes Te Preach Mack Jones, local ministerial student who has been conducting numerous services here this summer, will preach at the morning services at Central Presbyterian Church Sunday in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. J.

E. Stauffer. No evening preaching services have been planned. C. O.

Moseley, superintendent of Anniston Schools, will teach at the Men's Bible Class Sunday morn tag. The Rev. Perry Claxton of Pow derly Baptist Church will conduct both the morning and evening services at the First Baptist Church. His father, the Rev. L.

N. Claxton. pastor of the local church, will eon- duct services at the Pow derly church. The James- M. Stoney whs- has been away on his vacation will copal Church Sunday.

He will con- duct Holy Communion at 7:30 o'clock Sunday and will be hi charge of the- morning, prayer and sermon service at 11 o'clock. Denahee At Bahama The Rev. J. Donahoo of Chat tanooga, Tenn, will conduct services at Ruhama Baptist Church Sunday morning. No services have been ar- ranged lor Iha evening Jiour Young people of the congregation will be tn charge of services at the evening hour at the First Presbyte rian Church.

Dr. Melton Clark, pas tor, will preach at the morning hour on "That It Might Be Fulfilled "The rterr L-Ararte; paarttrrwfll' preach--en Taul as a Christian" Sunday morning at the McOov Methodist Church. He will preach on "Disturbing Public Worship Sunday night Laymen of the church wfll be to charge of both the morning and evening services at Northslde Bap- tut Church in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. Ira D. Harris.

J. 8. Astln. the minister of the Noble Street Church of Christ, will speak at both the morning and eve ning services Sunday. Communion services will be ob served Sundsy morning at the First Christian Church under the leader- snip of A.

A. Humphries and 8. Doss. The pastor, the Rev. Forrest L.

King. Is away dh a vacation trip, sites Glvee Topic The- Rev. O. D. Wattes, pastor, will preach on "His Broken Body and the Christian Hope" Sunday morning at the Olen Addle Bap tist Church.

The Lord's Supper will be observed at the close of the sermon. The pastor win preach at the evening hour on A New crea tion." Tha Junior Quartet of North side Baptist Church will be on the program at the JO-minute song service which will precede the eve nlng sermon. The Rev. E. C.

Johnson win preach on "Ood's Question to His Church" Sunday morning at the Carpenter Memorial Methodist Church. "Ood's Promise to His is the topic for the ere nlng sermon. The Rev. W. K.

E. James of Ox ford Baptist Church will preach special summer's end sermon Sun day morning. "Rejoicing Captives of. Christ" Is the topic. He will preach at the evening hour on "Great Sins and Greater Grace The Rev.

A. F. itelfsnyder, evangelist, will conclude his one-week revival at the Baptist Tabernacle Sunday night The Rev. Halph Howe, pastor of tha church, will deliver the morning sermon. The Rev.

Olenn Tingley and the Rev, Mr. Relfsnyder will conduct a serv ile at 1:30 'dock tonight THE LORD CALLED SELMA. Aug. 17. (UP The Rev.

Fayte Wlngate. 71. told hi congregation al the Le-ITand Street Church of God: "I am now walking in the newness of life, I am ready to meet tha Lord whenever he calls." As he spoke the last word, he (eU dead of a heart attack, DEWEY IMG LI fiectjrfTfafrr-ant To 'Be Introduced" NEW YORK. Aug. 27.

Ol.R) Dis trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's agents today sequestered several persons from Connecticut expected that James Hines, Tammany Hall leader, and the late Dutch Schultz, lottery racketeer, consorted together weekends. The witnesses, nine of whom were reported to be under guard in a hotel, were expected to substantiate the testimony of Dudley Brothwell, Fairfield, riding master, who said Schultz and his bodyguard. Lulu Rosenkranz, frequently found solace from gang wars on Connecticut bridle paths, and that one day In August, 1035, Hines was with them. After George Weinberg, who managed the racket for Schultz, had completed four days of in criminating testimony against court "was adjourned for the week-end.

Dewey announced he bad 37 more witnesses including his star, J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, "attorney general" for the mob. who, like Weinberg, pleaded guilty to the same indictment which named Hines. They were all charged with having conspired to operate a racket that grossed 120,000,000 annually. Hines was accused of hav ing sold political protection to the gangsUrsHe ta on Uial lOone, It was also reported that among other surprises, Dewey was preparing to Introduce records of Schultz's voice, made by wire-tapping federal agents while Investigating Schultz's Income tax payments.

The records were obtained by William Mellln, Internal Revenue Department Investigator, and supposedly had been turned over to Dewey," to -be used when Davis tes-4 tlfies. said- to Include waiters from- two Bridgeport hotels, two former boxing promoters and the operator of a nrtltscnoblr Jefferson Body To Investigate Tef teller Demise BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 27. ITJ.sblIcitbr George 'KWktleklkh-nounced today that the grand Jury would Investigate the death of Raymond Tefteller, 15-year-old Inmate of the Alabama Boys' Industrial School.

Tefteller died on July 30 In a Birmingham hospital. His mother charged he was beaten to death. The Jury will reconvene Monday and unless It declines to take up the case of Tefteller, "the entire record of his death and related events will be investigated," Bailee said. "We feel that for good of all persons concerned, an official Investigation of the whole affair should be made by the grand Jury. "We Intend to start from scratch and go Into all phases of the case as though no other Investigation had been conducted." Bailee said 23 witnesses have been subpenaed to testify concerning the youth's death.

Including Birmingham and Florence physicians who examined the body, the boy's mother and officials of the Industrial school. Governor Bibb Graves announced last week after an Investigation that he was convinced Tefteller was not beaten. His statement drew the criticism of Solicitor R. T. 81mpson.

of Florence, who charged the investigation had been "white washed." SEWER GAS IGNITES Firemen CaDed To Owens Grocery Store Three Tintes Sewer gas was definitely deter mined today to be the cause of three trips by, the Anniston Fire Department to Owens Grocery Store across the street from The Anniston Star within the last two Two trips were made this morning. The place where the sewer gas Ja escaping had not been determined today. However, it has flared into flames beneath the store three times. Fortunately the blase was discovered each time before it. had an opportunity to do much NINES WITKSCHULTZ 0T ERYDEiTH Department Of Agriculture Sets Rates From 5.30 To 10.75 Cents VARIANCE IN STAPLE TO DETERM'NE PRICE Commodity Credit Corporation To Set Aside Fund WASHINGTON, Aug.

37. U.R The Department of Agriculture today announced a loan program for the 1938 cotton crop, setting rates at from 130 to 11.75 cents a pound. I 1L. 1937 corn crop rrom se ie cenis a bushel. Established on a base rate of 8:30 cents, a pound for 7-1 middling, the cotton loans will range over the announced scale depending on variance in grade and staple.

The increase in corn rates will enable farmers with corn already under loan to obtain an additional loan of seven cents a bushel, Agricultural Adujstment Administra tion officials said. tion announced it had set aside $100,000,000 to finance the cotton loans with the approval of President Roosevelt. Cotton loans will be available at the full rate to growers who did not knowingly overplant their 1938 acreage allotment. Loans to non co-operators will be at 80 per cent of the full rate. The cotton loans became mandatory under the new farm act when the average price fell below 1.27 cents a pound 52 per cent of parityon the 10 spot markets last week.

The farm act provided that cotton loans be made at between 52 and 75 per of 17 to 11.80 on 7-8 inch middling. The department explained that the base rate of 8.30 cents was near the minimum because of the large amount, of cotton already under government loan and the large supplies of world cotton. Twentyrsecond. Infantry To fest Two Guns Two new recently issued lo Headquarters Company of the 22nd Infantry at Fort McClellan, win be used In the regular fire, arms target practices which commences about the middle of September, It was reported Saturday at post head quarters. The ew- W-eallbre- rifle and -thof.

81 millimeter guns will be fired. The latter will be used at the Howitzer range, but It has not been determined Just where the 50-call-bre guns will be fired. The Fourth Tank Company will begin, plan- Jort. firing practices the latter part of the week. The company Is commanded by Major Rlcnard F.

Falrchlld who If now post executive officer. The tanks will be moving, firing at still targets. So far the Headquarters Company Is the only unit of the 22nd Infantry that has received the two new type weapons. The September firing will, be the first time that they have been used by the company. JAP TROOPS OPEN Invaders To Press Forward On Three Main Fronts SHANOHAI, Aug.

37. UK Japanese troops, massed for weeks, started a general offensive at sunrise to-oay In an effort to break the deadlock on the Yangtee and force their way to Hankow, emergency Chinese capitaL It was to be a three way drive. First the Japanese sought to fight directly up the river, US air line mile and many more as the plodding Infantrymen go to Hankow. A second army drove directly south from the Yangtse toward Nanchang, planning to strike westward and cut the Hankow-Canton Railroad. A third army, north of the Yangtse.

drove westward toward the Pelping- Hankow Railroad. The Japanese faced the best Chinese troops, hundreds of thousands of them, In forces ranging from dl visional corps, and army strength down to guerrilla bands of a score or so. They faced treacherous river currents and capricious floods. They faced an outbreak of cholera, malaria and dysentery as deadly as Chinese bullets. But apparently they had orders to break through at whatever tost i TWO NEW wn IIWDMVETODAY i Oeneral Noble suggested that 13.000 annually from reve nues of 'the 'department would amortize the cost of the proposed addition.

He suggested a -hntwt -Umm the second best snornlnf. Persons In the path of the storm Were Ureed thtr federal hHrr4rn warning system to take all precautions to guard life and property. An advUory Issued at 1:30 a. C. 8.

by the Weather Bureau said: "From reports avails blc at a. the troplral hurricane was apparently central about 250 miles southeast of Brownsville, moving west-northwestward 15 to 16 miles per hour, attended by hurricane winds near center and gales over considerable area. "The front of the storm la already showing squally conditions on coast and winds will Increase today on lower coast of Texas, reaching at least gale force at Brownsville and hurricane winds on extreme northeast coast of Mexico. "Center probably will reach coast south of Brownsville late this afternoon Attended by considerable tide at mouth "of Rio Grande and on extreme northeastern Mexican coast. All Interests In path of storm urged to safeguard life and property.

Pleasure and fishing craft alone Texas coast south of Oalveston should remain In port and all persons should stay off ex posed coastal Islands south of Mat agorda Bay. Northeast storm warnings are displayed south of Corpus Chrlstl to Brownsville. 188 Houses Wrecked MEXICO CITY. Aug. 27.

(U.B-Two hundred houses were wrecked Ccaumeir" Yucatan yesterday by a hurricane, dls- rooted and considerable other dam- age was done by wind and high waters. No casualties were report- Smith Reappointment May Arouse Senate Fight Aug. 37.U. A Senate vote on confirmation of Donald Wakefield Smith's reappointment, to the National. Labor Relations Board appeared today as the likely major test of President Roosevelt's 'strength in the new Congress, convening In January.

Opposition to Smith, nominated yesterday for "a five year term, may find the American Federation of Labor Joining anti-Wagner Act Senators in opposition to the President Such a test would provide a guide not only to Mr. Roosevelt's Senate strength, but also to the political power of John L. Lewis' CIO which gave passive support to the reappointment of the 38-year-old former Pennsylvania steel worker. stole two pieces of lumber and drove him to an isolated spot along the Truckee River east of Reno. The men nailed one piece of lumber across the other, making a cross Collins was told to strip and lie oh the cross, extending his arms "Just like Christ did." Collins said be screamed for mercy, but the men nailed him to the cross, poured kerosene on hi clothes, set them on fire, and fled.

Soon at terwards, he said, Dabney, who left without disclosing his identity, came along. Four inch spikes were driven through each of Collins' hands and one through both of his feet The erow was coated with Mood. Police believed that Collins knew his assailants and that their motivation bad been less casual than Collins said. He admitted that he had ben associated with "Swede" andT-pago" in criminal enterprises and that they bad been involved in tha San Diego payroll robbery for which he served time. He wu released August 3.

ON CONFIRMATION Hospital bonds would be a general obligation of the city and charge able to the city's debt limit, it was stated. tem of the council, appointed a special committee to investigate the DroDosal of the hospital trustees. H. H. Witt is chairman of the com mittee and other members are those on the schools and hospital and water" and-Ughir committees." LOYALIST VESSEL ESCAPES SEA TRAP Mwentv Men Lost, 14 Wounded In Running Fight GIBRALTAR.

Aug. 27. U.R-The Spanish destroyer Jose Luis Diets steamed into Gibraltar today, crippled, having lost 20 men killed and 14 wounded an attempt to run the straits Into the Mediterranean. The destroyer left Le Havre, France, last Saturday, with a picked crew which had arrived from Barcelona Completely refitted dur i Ing months in French shipyards, Ex-Convict Is Crucified On Rucle Cross, Left By Highway TJENO, Nev Aug. Ed- IV ward Collins, 37, an ex-convict told police today that he had been the ship had orders to try to reach the East Coast Nearly the whole Nationalist fleet was waiting for It as were the big guns of the Forte at Ceuta.

Spanish Morocco, across the rtraits. Continuous gunfire broke out from the Ceifla. side at 2:30 a. m. today.

Searchlight on Camero Point In Nationalist Spain across the bay from Gibraltar, swept the rtraits. A little, more than hours later, the Jose Luis Dietz crept Into this port and safety. Soon afterward, the Nationalist cruiser Cana-rlas and three destroyers anchored across the bay. ofViMgeclras. The 14 wounded were landed here and admitted to the British military hospital.

It was Indicated that most of the 30 men who died 1 drowned when an explosion oc-curred In the fore head compart-sment of the destroyer. crucified by two men "Swede" and "Dago." Earl Dabney. a passing motorist beard screams to one sJHe of a road outside Reno last night He called police. Police found a naked man Collins nailed to a cross which bad been left flat on the ground. The nails were pulled out and Collins was taken to a hospital, weak from loss of blood and shock.

It was believed he would recover. Collins told this story. He was leaving a Baptist evangelical meeting and met two men who had served time with him in the San Chientin. penitentiary, known to him only as "Swede" and "Dago." They asked bun to "pull some Jobs" with them. He refused.

They were outraged and said: "All right if you to make a Christ of yourself, well help you." Whereupon, at pistol point, he was ordered into a large black sedan. Tint the drove) to a lumbar yard. Kasts Pretest PRAOUE, Czechoslovakia. Ac 27. U.d The German legation protested strongly to Foreign Mink' Kamtl Krofta today against "affront to the Oerman army the Oerman people" contained a newspaper article about tha tary parade held In Berlin in fc of Admiral Nlcholu Horthy.

garian regent The protest demanded pun! ment of'thcac responsible for ing arid publishing the article. declared such a press camps': i poisoning the -atmosphere. 1 r. riXB JOBS FOR 4-384 WASHINGTON, Aug. 37.

UJ-The National Youth Administration announced today that Its Junior Job placement service found Jobs in July for 4JM young people. Registrations numbered 17,371..