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vwywwvvwwvwwv, WEATHER FORECAST (Reno and vicinity) FAIR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY; LITTLE TEMPERATURE CHANGE TEMPERATURE AT 2 P.M. TODAY 66. METALS Bar rold London 142 4d; fU. S. 31.80) Bar silver London (U.

S. equivalent 46.72c); N. Y. 454c Copper N. Y.

10 JO; export 10.60 Lead N. Y. 5.20 5.25; E. St. 5.05 Zinc East St.

Louis 5.05 Quicksilver New York 93.00 95.00 Tungsten-Wolframite 15.25 15.50 SIXTIETH YEAR SIXTEEN PAGES RENO, NEVADA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1936 SIXTEEN PAGES NO. 275 SIMPSON SNOB Home Situation Reviewed Spanish War in Decisive Stage As Battle Rages for Madrid ty President on Eve of DEFENDERS CLAIM Departure for Argentina J. P. Morgan Returns Home But Has Very Little to Say ROOSEVELT PLANS PRESIDENT OFFERS SYSTEM TO COUNT U. S.

UNEMPLOYED something about Mr. Roosevelt's election," a newsman said. "You didn't think any such thing," Morgan replied. "What do you think about Wallie Simpson being the next Queen of England?" somebody asked. "I don't think." "Would you like to see the budget balanced?" "Would you?" He was asked whether he believed the business improvement in England would continue.

"I think so he," he said. "They're getting along pretty well over there." DARK AND CLOUDY To a question whether he had noticed less fear of war in Europe this year than last, Morgan said: "I don't know about that. It's awfully hard to tell. It's very dark and cloudy." He was asked whether he had any statement to volunteer. "You never get into trouble until you volunteer statements," he replied.

"Well, Mr. Morgan, you're making it pretty tough for us to write a story," a reporter said. "That's exactly my intention," he NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (JP) J.

P. Morgan returned home today from a long vacation in England and Scotland, and successfully met a barrage of questions on subjects ranging anywhere from Mrs. Wallie Simpson to the Roosevelt landslide. SEES REPORTERS The financier, who usually avoids interviews, consented to see reporters in his sitting room on the Queen Mary; but they got precious little out of him. Before anybody could ask him a question, Morgan announced: "I'm not going to say anything about anything." "Well, how are you feeling?" he was asked.

"I'm feeling fine, thank you." He appeared to have recovered completely from the illness with which he was stricken last spring. He had a ruddy complexion and seemed to be in good spirits. "How old are you, Mr. Morgan?" was the next question. "I'm sixty-nine years old." "We assume you're going back to your office." you may assume it if you want to.

IH probably be doing the usual things." WRONG AGAIN "I thought you might want to say i REMAINS OF GIRL'SHIPS IN TROUBLE MISSING WEEK GIRDS FOR FIGHT OF 'REBELS' Eight Resolutions Offered At Tampa Condemning Suspension of Lewis Peace Proposals Are Made With Aim of Returning Insurgents to Fold TAMPA, Nov. 17. (JP) Pre saging a heated fight on the floor, eight resolutions condemning sus pension of John L. Lewis' ten rebel unions were introduced today at the American Federation of Labor con vention. BOYCOTT PROPOSED They conflicted with one resolution, introduced by John P.

Frey, president of the metal trades department, calling for expulsion of the rebels. Meanwhile the federation's high command had all but finally decided to propose convention approval of the suspensions and to continue efforts to bring Lewis and his industrial unions allies back into the federation. Frey not only proposed expulsion for "insurrection" but introduced a second resolution calling for an A. F. of L.

boycott on all goods produced by the rebels. His resolution in cluded in the rebel group the Typographical Union and the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers. These unions were not suspended but an officer of each belongs to Lewis' committee for industrial organization. OFFER PEACE MOVE The resolutions condemning suspension came from the California State Federation of Labor, the Wisconsin federation, the Pullman Porters, the Mercer county, W. central labor body, the Reading, central body and the warehouse employees of Cleveland.

The Wisconsin federation in its resolution, also proposed a peac move calling for adoption of Lewis' plan for bringing all steel and rubber workers into industrial unions and discarding of the Lewis plan for other mass production industries. Several others proposed unqualified A. F. of L. cooperation with Lewis.

Others of the 103 resolutions introduced today called for establishment of an independent labor party, freeing Tom Mooney and Angelo Herndon, A. F. of L. educational work against Fascism and condemnation of Italy's seizure of Ethiopia, and legislation for government manufacture of all munitions. WOULD BOYCOTT BEER Still others called for a boycott on canned beer until the cans are made by union labor, a negro workers' endorsement of the Black-Con- nery thirty-hour work bill, adoption of the child labor amendment to the federal constitution and limits on central bodies' rights to place employers with union contracts on unfair lists.

Other David Lil-ienthal, Tennessee Valley authority director, asked the convention to support the TVA program, saying "tne enemies of TVA are the enemies of labor." The Massachusetts federation of labor introduced a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment that would validate such measures as the NRA and the Guffey coal control acts, both outlawed by the supreme court. William Green, Federation president, called "the same old stuff" Lewis' statement that his unions wouldn't make peace until they were CHICAGO, Nov. 17. (JP) A fire in the record room of the county hospital menaced 350 patients in the eight-story building early today. Many patients were made uncom fortable by smoke from burning filing cases.

A more serious blaze was averted by two hospital employes' who played a stream of water on the flames until firemen arrived. MIAMI BEACH, Nov. 17. () George Ade, seventy-year-old Indiana humorist and author, is gravely ill at his winter home here and is undergoing treatment in an oxygen tent, it was learned today. He is suffering from a lung ail-1 ment.

LABOR ED UN OVER EXPULSION MENACES MANY HUMORIST IS ILL AT FLORIDA HOME I DELETED: BRITON Pages Torn from American Magazines and Question Is Put to Secretary Friendship of Ruler for Woman Brings Reference In House of Commons LONDON, Nov. 17. (JP) A Socialist woman member of the house of commons, in apparent reference to the king's friendship with Mrs. Wallis Simpson, asked from the floor today why pages had been deleted from American magazines reaching England "during the last few weeks." QUESTION PUT Miss Ellen Wilkinson directed the question at Walter Runciman, president of the British board of trade. "My department has nothing to do with that," Runciman replied.

The question was: "Can the presi- fient say, in the case 6f two American magazines of high repute which have been imported into this country, during the last few weeks at least two and sometimes three pages have been torn out? Can he say what is this thing which the British public is not allowed to see?" American periodicals have been reaching this country with references to King Edward and Mrs. Simpson, his recently divorced American friend, deleted presumably by the distributors. Later, the little, red-haired labor member for Jarrow, Huckling, did not deny she was referring to the Simpson case. CLAIM NO CENSORSHIP But she said archly: "As a Briton, I am not supposed to know anything about Mrs. Simpson." She explained that her American friends had showed her deleted portions of the last few issues of the magazine "Time," and added she was told "News Review" had received the same treatment.

Immediately' after" heruestfon'i'rtt commons, she said laughingly, the parliamentary secretary of one of the ministers sought her to explain there was no censorship of the magazines. "He told me the pages were torn out in the United States, not in England, in order to avoid the libel laws," she said. "But I immediately asked why, if this were so, the issues reaching subscribers by mail were left untouched. "If there is a libel, these mail issues obviously expose the publishers trf damages as much as the others' TO TRY AGAIN Miss Wilkinson explained she was not permitted to follow up her questioning of Runciman because of commons procedure. However, she announced she would "put down" a question for Sir John Simon, the home secretary, tonight, asking "whether this censorship of American magazines is done by government authority." Because she is leaving London tonight, she asked for a reply on Thursday from Sir John, who is in charge of police and all matters of public order.

STRIKE PEACE ENDED SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17. (JP) A peace meeting of shipowners and striking maritime men ended today shortly after it began and Harry Lundberg, secretary of the Sailors' Union, reported the employers "wouldn't budge an inch" on the key issue of the widespread walkout. Other comment was not immediately available but participants in the meeting said no additional conference had been called. It was the first time the opposing sides had come together since the strike October 30.

The strike has embraced 37,000 Pacific coast maritime workers and has spread to Gulf and Atlantic ports. ILL NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (JP) Sim-plicio Godino, twenty-eight-year-old Filipino, lad abed in a hospital a picture of health today; his Siamese twin brother, Lucio, was critically ill. Joined by muscular tissue at the base of the spin, the twins were taken to the hospital yesterday when Lucio developed pneumonia.

His temperature this afternoon was 105 degrees. Doctors said the likelihood of Simplicio's being affected was slight. The twins have separate cir- culatory systems and face away from each other in bed. ASKS SIMON WHY MEETING AM OU i PENETRATION OF CITY IS NOW Government Militia Hurled Against Insurgent Army In Fight at River Bombs Continue to Cause Heavy Loss with Many Dead Reported MADRID, Nov. 17.

(JP) Fascist attackers and the government defenders of Madrid threw the full strength of their air force, tank corps and artillery into a ferocious battle for the possession of the capital today. ENTER FOURTH MONTH Four months old tomorrow, the Spanish civil war appeared in its decisive stage. The thunder of artillery boomed ever louder and chatter of machine gun fire filled the center of the city as the government militiamen, whipped to a feverish fighting rage, hurled themselves against insurgent armies filtering across the Manza- nares river and into Madrid proper, They turned close range artillery fire on the Moors and Foreign Legionnaires who held doggedly to their battle -won positions in Unl versity City, inside the northwestern limits of Madrid. In successive waves, Fascist fighting planes droned over the center of the capital, spilling bombs and kill-; ing and wounding an unestimated number of persons. University City, once called the most up-to-date scholastic group in Europe, was the bloodiest battleground.

FIGHT ON CAMPUS ItstraIiairIgsY many of which just had been completed, became improvised fortresses, its campus a no man's land. At frequent intervals, the thunderous roar of high explosives shook the capital's "Loop" section. Windows fell with a clatter into the streets. Civilians huddled in cellars and subway stalons. Some of the bombs dropped in two morning aerial raids and some of the shells which cleared the city's barricades fell close to their shelters.

I During the second raid a burst a few feet from the famous Prado gallery, tearing a thirty-foot hole in the pavement and breaking the windows of the edifice. Persons walking in Hortaleza street In the center of Madrid, were sprayed with shrapnel. DEFENDERS CONFIDENT commanders directing the city edge battle expressed confidence their new lines would hold. They urged the city to remain calm and assured civilians the Fascists soon would be forced out of gun range. Attempting to pinch off the insur gent forces which had succeeded in crossing the Mancanares, the government laid down a violent barrage on tneir lines or communication.

The Fascists returned the fire. Again and again observers were forced to abandon their vantag points on the roofs of high buildings within the city as shells exploded in uncomfortable proximity, The scream of the shells as they passed was the only notice they were coming, Defense authorities, declaring the Bombardment was making ine worm gasp with its "wanton savagery," announced refugees from Aragon had reported the killing of jau government supporters in a "mass execution" by Fascists. At 2:30 p.m., officials declared they had stopped the Fascist penetration of the city. By that time the aerial bombs and shells had fallen in the Plaza San Miguel, in the North Station, in Martin de los Heros street and in the Cuatro Caminos workers' district. The bomb which struck in Martin de los Heroes street caused heavy casualties.

IS NEAR DEATH HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 17. (JP) The strength of Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink ebbed slowly today and it appeared likely that even if she recovers from a critical blood ailment she will never sing again. After a slight rally during the night her pulse grew weaker and her respiration more labored.

At the bedside in her suburban home are four of her children Mrs. Marie Fox of San Diego, and Henry, Ferdinand, and George. "I doubt very much if she will ever sing again," said her physician, Dr. Samuel Alter. HALTED SCHUMANN-HEINK of POSSIBILITY SEEN OF 'LOVE ANGLE' Investigator Running Down Clues Regarding Women In Life of Youth Officials More Inclined to Murder Theory Than at First, They Admit LOS ANGELES, Nov.

17. (JP) Chief Investigator Clyde Plummer of the district attorney's office said today he was investigating the possibility that Reid Russell may have been the victim of a "love slaying." STUDIES LOVE AFFAIRS He started an inquiry to determine what affairs of the heart may have figured in the life of Rus-sel, whose body was found last September 25 in the garden of Novelist Gouverneur Morris' Manhattan Beach home, a pistol in his hand. Plummer said he felt less inclined toward the idea that Russell committed suicide, as sheriff's officers and Manhattan Beach police decided he did in ending the first inquiry. Plummer did not say what basis he had for his new angle of inquiry, but he interviewed Russell's mother, Mrs. Victoria Russell, about his friendships with "women in the past few years.

He also said a life-long friend of Russell would come here from San Bernardino to knewof Russell's ro mances. AWAIT REPORT The question of whether Plummer will ask for exhumation of Russell's body depended on a report, expected by tomorrow, from Captain E. C. Crossman, firearms expert, on the .32 automatic pistol found in Russell's hand as he lay on bloodstained pillows in a lawn swing at the Morris home. Plummer said: "If Captain Crossman's report shows that the pistol has not been fired in some time, I will ask.

that Russell's body be exhumed and will caliper the bullet wound to determine whether it was a 22 or bullet that caused his death. "We suspect no one at this time, but intend to continue our investigation until it is established definitely whether this is a plain case of suicide or murder." MOTHER OBJECTS' Coroner Frank Nance said that if exhumation is requested, he will call an inquest. He said he personally observed powder burns inside Russell's wound. His autopsy surgeon, Frank Webb, reported the twenty-eight-year-old jobless salesman apparently died instantly and in the swing, as indicated by the quantity of blood beneath the head in the post-mortem examination. Russell's death, listed by Manhattan Beach police as a suicide, became the subject of a district attorney's investigation last week when his mother, Mrs.

Victoria Russell, insisted he did not take his own life. silenTscIn actor expires HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 11. (JP) The body of John Bowers, silent screen hero, was washed ashore today and a friend said he had taken his life in the way he wished. George Contreras, deputy sheriff and friend of Bowers, said Bowers was despondent over his decline from film fame.

Bowers, he declared, had announced his intention of committing suicide by getting in a boat and "sailing away into the sunset." Educator Dies GLENDALE, Nov. 17. (JP) Dr. David Ross Boyd, prominent educator, died today at his home here of a heart attack. He was eighty-three years old.

Mrs. Roosevelt At Request CHICAGO, Nov. 17. (JP) Mrs. Franklin D.

Roosevelt, here for a lecture, said one of her pet annoyances was to receive embroidery to be done in her "spare time." IN RUSSELL DEATH TO TAKE PART IN PEACE Hopes to Strengthen Ties Between This Country And South America Brief Discussion Is Held Today on Local Affairs By Chief Executive By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (JP) President Roosevelt made a rapid-fire review of the domestic situation today and said the hoped-for accomplishments of his trip to foreign shores starting tonight were self-evident. LEAVES TONIGHT Facing a largely attended press conference in the red-tapestried oval room of the White House, he told questioners his hopes by personal attendance at the initial session of the peace conference of twenty-one American republics which he himself called many months ago, spoke for themselves.

He leaves tonight for Charleston, S. where he will board the cruiser Indianapolis for Buenos Aires. Flanked by more than one hun dred newspapermen, the president said he would return to Washington about December 15, but might delay it forty-eight hours if he stopped off at Warm Springs, Ga. The president answered a series of of the responses were that: He had about finished the total estimates for the new federal budget but that Daniel W. Bell, acting budget director, had as yet to wind up hearings on details with the departments.

TREATY STUDIED Some stock exchange house would have to answer the question whether commodity prices have to go still higher to improve general recovery. The St. Lawrence waterway treaty with Canada was being studied by the state department, the federal power commission and the New York power authority, but that no negotiations with Canada were going on. We might have a statement to make on re-employment before leaving Charleston. He has approved $25,000,000 or $30,000,000 of new public works project grants, confined to projects that can be finished by July 1, 1937.

No new studies are being made of a proposed federal industrial licensing law. Plans of Brazilian and Uruguayan governments will determine whether he makes addresses in those countries on the way to and returning from Buenos Aires. He could not say whether there would be any federal move in the maritime strike before he embarked at Charleston. ANTICIPATES REST He has informed architects drawing plans for an inaugural parade review stand in front of the White House to keep expenses down and to design them along the lines of the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home in Tennessee. The president said he expected to have a very restful trip, and then.

after a pause, smiled as he added an exception. He referred to the day when the cruiser Indianapolis crosses the equator, when all who have not been that far have to be initiated into the Neptune society. The president has yet to get a diploma signifying he has crossed the equator. -A definite decision to lengthen his long-planned post-election vacation cruise into the twelve thousand-mile round-trip to the Argentine capital was made by the chief executive last night. He also accepted invitations to land for official visits in Brazil and Uruguay.

He will embark tomorrow morning on the speedy cruiser Indianapolis at Charleston, S. for the month-long trip. TO FURTHER POLICY 1 White House officials said that in deciding to go to Buenos Aires, Mr. Roosevelt considered the urgings of Latin-American officials, as well as his advisers who felt a personal visit would further his "good neighbor" policy." The president himself has expressed expectations that the conference will "give renewed hope and courage to the war-weary peoples of the world by demonstrating to them that the source of armed conflict can and will be eliminated from the Western hemisphere. Dispelling any idea that he would (Turn to page 3, Coi.

1) PARLEY WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (JP) President Roosevelt disclosed today he was considering a system of counting the unemployed by a method of self -registration. At his press conference, the president also announced appointment of a large committee of farm leaders, editors and others to study and report by February 1 on the "most promising ways of alleviating the shortcomings of the farm tenancy system." Secretary Wallace heads the committee. The president made known the unemployment census plans before leaving tonight for Buenos Aires where he will address the opening session December 1 of the Inter-American peace conference.

Asked to comment on the proposal of Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, that such a census be taken, the president said the subject was being studied and undoubtedly something would come out of it. He said the self -registration plan toward which he was working personally would be much simpler and cheaper than a door-to-door canvass. The latter method, he added, would soon become out of date and necessitate frequent periodic canvasses. SUPERIOR, Mont, Nov.

17. (JP) The bodies of. Antone Gustafson, forty, and Oscar Gervart, forty-five, gold miners buried in a slide at the windfall placer mine near here Saturday night, were brought from their mountain tomb today. TRAPPED IN TUNNEL Trapped in the narrow tunnel under the bed of Dry creek, the men were found on top of the oozing slide near the end of the one hundred-foot bore. "They might have been alive even last night when we thought we were about to reach them," said Fred Mass and Bud La Combe, partners of Gustafson and Gevart.

The bodies were not crushed, but their hands were torn and bruised, and La Combe and Mass said this indicated they had dug barehanded to clamber on top of the watery earth and rock. Fred Horning, owner of the property which had been leased to the four placer operators, said Gustafson and Gevart apparently died from exposure to cold and hunger. HOPE ABANDONED The rescue crew made up of CCC enrollees and volunteers, abandoned hope of finding the miners alive when their efforts to reach the men, begun early Sunday, were not successful within a few hours. They labored on steadily, however, working in relays. COURT FIGHT PITTSBURGH, Nov.

17. (JP) The common pleas court blocked today the effort of William N. Mc-Nair to regain the office of mayor. Unanimously, three judges ruled McNair's spectacular resignation October is "beyond recall," and that Cornelius D. Scully is lawfully mayor.

The judges, Thomas M. Marshall, Ralph H. Smith and James H. Gray, rejected, as an "extremely artificial technicality" the argument of McNair's attorneys that the resignation was not accepted properly. Is Annoyed for Embroidery "I generally send it right back with a note that one ought to have at least five or six hours sleep and that's about all I can get," the president's wife declared.

BODIES OF MINERS ARE LOCATED IN TUNNEL IN MONTANA MNAR ARE FOUND IN FIELD NEWTON, Nov. 17. (JP) The body of Little Georgia Hood, three years old, who wandered away from home a week ago today, was found today in a wheat field three miles south of here. FACE SCRATCHED Still clad in blue striped overalls and a blue sweater the body had mafty scratches on the arms, and face, scratches apparently caused by thorns and sticks. Clyde Smith, Wichita truck driver, discovered the body after catching a glint of golden hair in the sunlight.

Coroner M. C. Martin said the child's mouth was bruised, probably from falling and striking a clod. The body was just two hundred yards from the Dewey schoolhouse where school has been in session daily. It was seventy yards west of a paved highway.

FELL EXHAUSTED Smith said he had driven his truck along the highway twice daily since the child disappeared. Police said the child apparently had walked all night last Tuesday until she fell exhausted in the field, hardly moving before death. Searchers who had combed the area around the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hood had passed within 250 yards north of the spot.

BERLljOKYO PACT REPORTED MOSCOW, Nov. 17. (JP) A Tass official (Russian) News Agency communique handed out at the foreign office tonight asserted Ger many and Japan had signed a military alliance. The communique said the pact provided for joint action by the two countries in case either should be come involved in a war with a third power. The pact, Tass said, professes to be.

only a bloc opposing Communism. MOSCOW, Nov. 17. (JP) The Russian foreign off ice charged tonight that twenty-three Germans arrested for anti-Soviet activities were trying to get secret military information, spread Fascist literature illegally, and were attempting to destroy the Soviet state and its industrial enterprises. USA mm BERLIN ARRESTS said.

IN HEAVY SEAS OF ATLANTIC NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (JP) Two ships, one with her captain dead, wirelessed' they were in distress today in heayy.RFas.,nn, thcAtlantic. THREE DEAD Marooned in his radio room, the wireless operator of the British steamer Tweedbank dispatched word two men had been washed overboard and the captain had been killed. About fifty-two miles from Hamilton, Bermuda, her destination, the British steamer Sheaf Spear, wirelessed her engine room was leaking badly.

Vessels in the vicinity were asked to stand by. Radio-Marine Corporation announced receipt of a message from the Tweedbank's radio operator as passengers and crewmen of ships arriving from Europe told of mountainous seas which were so furious that in one instance they forced a lay-to for eight hours. IN STRONG WIND Capt. John W. Anderson of the S.

S. American Importer said waves were so menacing he was forced to forego trying to make headway for a full eight hours. "Then we put about and ran before the gale for twelve hours," he added. Described by the coast guard as probably en route from Liverpool to Hamilton, the Sheaf Spear is a 331-foot freighter of 3050 tons registered by the Spear line of London, at Newcastle, England. WASHINGTON, Nov.

17, (JP) Students at Howard University for Negroes ended their strike on behalf of their football team today while President Mordecai W. Johnson considered a list of "relief measures" sought for the players. Student leaders said, however, pickets would be maintained at Johnson's office. The team went on strike Saturday against abandonment of the football training table, thus forfeiting a game to Virginia Union University. French Strikers In Two-Hour Fight ROUXAIX, France, Nov.

17. (JP) Striking textile workers fought a two-hour battle among themselves today because they could not agree on going back to work. guards finally restored order. Missouri. The score was tied, 5-5.

It was about over, and his rider's last shot went wild. Heading straight to the ball, Old Nosey kicked it neatly between the goal posts for the winning score. OCEAN STUDENTS ND STRIKE Wheezing Old Polo Pony Wins Last Contest for I a rn a NORMAN, Nov. 17. (JP) Old Nosey, an aging polo pony, was wheezing along in the last chukker possibly his last game for the University of Oklahoma, against.