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FORTY-THIRD YEAR FAIR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MORNING FOGS NKAR COAST: SOMEWHAT UNSETTLED OVER MOUNTAINS FRIDAY; NO CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Rebel Cruiser Sinks Foreign Vessel Off Coast of Barcelona Insurgents Continue Hold in Hill Gained Near Madrid, Heat Halts Tank Attacks (By United Press) BARCELONA, Spain, July 23. (Friday) The Spanish rebel cruiser Canarias, after torpedoing and sinking a foreign merchantship north of here, entered the harbor last night and poured shells into Barcelona. The Febus news agency said at least four persons were killed and 15 wounded. The attack occurred at 11 p.

m. after government warplanes sought vainly throughout the. day to find the insurgent ship. The planes took off upon receiving a report that a foreign ship was sunk about 65 miles north of here at Cape Bagur. Trucks of Beer Rushed to Front WITH THE NATIONALISTS OUTSIDE MADRID, July 22 Blistering heat today struck down more nationalist soldiers than enemy bul-lots as Gen.

Francisco Franco's legions beat off repeated loyalist attacks on hill No. 660, a pine-studded foothill of the Siena Guadarramas 15 miles west of Madrid. Carlists, Fascist volunteers and even the heavily-swathed Moors from Africa fought stripped to the vnjst in the 104-degree heat, the viust experienced in the Sierras in years. Loyalist Tank is Stalled, Captured A corps of tr.uck drivers risked their lives to bring thousands of gallons of beer to the troops over roads peppered with rifle, artillery and machine-gun fire. The fleet of commissary trucks carrying iced beer, orangeade and tpmonade into the steaming pit of the battle along the loyalists' 10-mile salient was followed by motorized water trains.

Discard Uniform Cap for Sombrero A "flying" column of Spanish Fascists captured the entire crew of a loyalist tank which had become a scorching oven because of the heat generated by its machine guns. It is Impossible to remain more than an hour in a tank during this weather and, as a result, tanks are being used by both sides only dur- (Continued on Page Two) Barbers' Price Fixing Outlawed (By United Press) C'AN DIEGO, July 22. The fourth district court of appeals, in session here today, outlawed an ordinance passed by the Bakcrsfield city council, designed to fix minimum prices for haircuts, shaves and shampoos and at the same time set a precedent in dealing with similar ordinances in various California cities. The action was in the form of a writ of habeas corpus granted A. L.

Kazas, Bakersfield barber, who had been found guilty by a municipal court of charges of violating the ordinance and sentenced to the county jail. fWELL, I'll Tell You: By Bob Burns No matter how much money a father has, he should make his boy go out and work once in a vjiiie just to learn the value of nrfmey. I knew a man down home who owned a shoe factory and made a lot of money, but he never made his son work a day in his life and always gave him all the spending money he wanted. Finally durin' the big financial crash the father lost his shoe fac-toiy and his money too, and had to go back to half soling shoes at eighty cents a pair. One day the boy walked into his father's cobbler shop and says, "Dad, give me $1.00 I've got a data tonight." The old man says, "Son, do you know I have'ta half sole five pairs of shoes to get The son says.

Well, I'll wait go ahead and half sole 'cm but make it snappy!" (Copyright. 1937V L. A. to Probe Fake Accident Racket Charge (Bv Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, July 22. Charging a widespread fake accident scheme, Deputy District Attorney George Stahlman said today he would ask the grand jury next week to indict four attorneys and 10 physicians.

said months of investigation, with the aid of insurance company detectives, had shown suits involving thousands of dollars were filed here each year by persons who simulate injuries after staging fake accidents on streets or in public buildings. Settlements of judgments total ing $25,000 were involved in four cases he is ready to present to the grand jury, Stahlman said, and numerous others are in preparation. "In one case," he said, "a man told us his wife conceived the idea of falling in oil in a filling sta tion with the hope of obtaining a new dress from the proprietor. "She staged the fall, he told me, and inadvertently twisted one knee. She sought medical treatment and the doctor urged her to see a lawyer." The lawyer, Stahlman said, sent her to a hospital and there she underwent a needless abdominal oper ation, later filing suit for $27,000.

Certain papers and records connected with the operation are missing from the hospital files, he said. Mystery Veils Murder inL. A. (Bv Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, July 22. Shot three times in the back, the body of William Jacobson, 45, service station-grocery operator, was found early today near his living quarters adjoining his place of business.

Sheriff's officers were undecided whether the slaying took place during an attempted robbery, or was the result of a quarrel. Some of the slain man's pockets were turned wrong side out, but one pocket contained $80. Officers said the man was accustomed to carrying large sums of money. Curb on Marijuana Passed by Senate Bv United Press) WASHINGTON, July 22. The Senate today passed and sent to con ference a bill designed to curb the illicit use of marijuana.

The bill requires that all dealers in the product, manufactured from hemp, pay an occupational tax and register with the collector of intern al revenue. A nominal transfer tax would be imposed on all transfers between registered dealers and a prohibitive tax placed on transfers between unregistered persons. Girl, Nine, Mother (Bv United CHICAGO, July 22. Elaine Harnett, nine, prefers her mother's love, a black puppy dog and the chanee to play with her baby brother to the promise of inheriting $500,000, she decided in the court tf Judge Walter La Buy. Elaine had lived with her grandmother, Mrs.

Mae Kirkpatrick, for six years. Early in June of this year, her mother, Veronica Harnett, 30, asked that the child be sent home. A quarrel with Mrs. Kirkpatrick developed. Police settled it.

Mrs. Harnett and Elaine's father, Earl, separated. The mother took the problem to it Regular Ticket Wins Out Over Opposition Supporters of Whalen for Mayor BITTER PRIMARY LOOMS Both New York Senator, Former Police Commissioner Will Seek Party Nomination (Bv Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 22 Tammany, stronghold of Manhattan's Democrats, upheld its leader James J. Dooling tonight and voted Senator Royal S. Copeland, New York Democrat, as Tammany's candidate in the forthcoming Democratic primary for mayor.

The district chieftains balloted 15 11-12 for Senator Copeland, and 8 5-12 for Grover Whalen, who has been designated by the Democratic leaders of four other Now York City boroughs, as their candidate to oppose the incumbent Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, fusion candidate, Four of Boroughs Backing Whalen The test of Dooling's leadership, several times threatened in recent months, came in a meeting of the executive committee. A week ago, Dooling said that Senator Copeland was Tammany's candidate. The Democratic leaders of Kings and Queens counties, of the Bronx and of Richmond county, declined to follow Dooling and selected Whalen, former police commissioner and now president of the New York World's Fair corporation, to carry a New Deal banner in the campaign.

Copeland Pledges To Put Up Battle Whalen immediately said he would run but added that he thought the campaign should be fought on local issues without ref erence to the New Deal or other national affairs. Senator Copeland also said he would see the thing through and regardless of tonight's outcome it was almost certain that both Whalen and Copeland would be in the Democratic primary. During the week, antagonists of Dooling in the Wigwam coupled the Copeland move with a renewal of a drive to oust the leader and Dooling went into tonight's meeting, battling both for his choice of Copeland and his own job as leader. Tax Ratios of Counties Raised (By Associated Press) SACRAMENTO, July 22. The slate board of equalization today voted a 10 per cent increase in the assessment rolls of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.

The increase was voted, Richard Collins, chairman of the board, said, so as to make the tax ratio of the two counties equal to others in the state. Charles L. Tomlinson, assessor of Santa Barbara county, argued against the board increasing the assessment of $91,576,909, which he said was fair to all taxpayers. Reports to the board showed the Ventura county assessment totaled $80,419,715. Last Monday the board increased the $19,303,090 assessment roll of Sutter county by 10 per cent.

Prefers to Wealth Judge La Buy. To this court came William Gaertner, 72, brother-in-law of Mrs. Kirkpatrick. "I am worth, conservatively, a half million dollars," he testified. "I intend to leave it all to Elaine, but not if she lives with her mother." Judge La Buy pondered the problem, then announced he would let Elaine decide for herself.

"I've been with mother two weeks," she said. "I love her. I like to play with my little brother, Bobby. Mother promised me a black puppy dog, too. I want mother more than millions and millions of COPELAND 10 CARRY BANNER FOR TAMMANY U.

S. WEATHER FORECAST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY cMWjpaper fiv Jan Bevtmino Counter. ANft THE TIAn.Y Cop Offers To Pay Cab Man's Fine (Bv United Press) NEW YORK, July 22. Two miracles turned up in court today when Benjamin Sturtz, Bronx cab driver, explained to Magistrate Alexander Brough why he was so willing to pay a $1 fine for an illegal left turn. A patrolman ordered Sturtz to make a left turn on Broadway when fire apparatus answered an alarm on Forty-fifth street.

A second patrolman, Arthur K. Hunter, saw the illegal turn and handed Sturtz a ticket. The first policeman intervened but when Hunter insisted upon issuing a ticket, the other officer handed Sturtz a $1 to pay the fine. After the cab driver told the magistrate this story, Brough suspended sentence and said: "That's a miracle. You take the dollar home and frame it." "Not a chance," Sturtz replied, "I'm going to find that first cop and give him back his dollar." That makes two miracles.

(Bv Associated Press) CHICAGO, July 22. Temperatures climbed over much of the nation today as a new heat wave moved in. J. R. Lloyd, forecaster at the Chicago station of the weather bureau, reported temperatures ge a 1 1 were above normal and would go higher.

He softened the forecast, however, with the explanation there were "fair indications that it will not last long." He said it would be "really hot tomorrow" in the central plains regionKansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Southern Minnesota and the lower Missouri and upper Mis- sissippi valley. It will be hot also, he said, on the southern plains. Thermometer readings of 100 and above were expected in some places. he said, with temperatures in the 90s not uncommon. Many western spots sweltered yesterday.

Ten points reported read ings of 100 degrees or above. Yuma, reported 108, the highest. Temperatures were above normal in the Far West and much of the way eastward. The Ohio valley, southeastern states and New England enjoyed weather near or slightly below normal, however. Pueblo, with 98 degrees, topped the readings today.

Other reports included: Phillipsburg and Goodland, Denver, Oklahoma City and Huron, S. 96; Minneapolis, North Platte, and Pierre, S. 94; Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha, 90; Cincinnati and St. Louis 86; Washington, 84; Detroit and Buffalo, N. 82.

Rescue Captain Given Plaudits (By United Press) SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 Capt. M. E. Olsen today received the plaudits of the nation for the heroic act of saving 820 refugees from a volcanic eruption at Rabaul, New Guinea, May 29. Standing on the bridge of the Golden Bear, the Matson line freighter in which he and his crew of 35 carried the women and children of Rabaul to safety while more than 500 others perished, Olsen received national and state dignitaries.

Edward C. Moran, Federal marl- time commissioner, brought to the gray-haired sea captain a message of congratulation from President Roosevelt. Photographed from all angles, in terviewed and admired, Captain Olsen retired in bewilderment to seek peace in his cabin. 'Tin a seafaring man and I've sailed the seas for 35 years but I'm no match for these reporters," the captain said. "I don't want to address any luncheons.

All I want to do is go fishing." Cancer Research Is Favored by Senate (By United Press) WASHINGTON, July 22. The Senate today passed and sent to the House a bill to authorize the establishment of a $750,000 Federal cancer research institute and to provide an annual appropriation of $700,000 to fight the disease. i HIST HIT Iff HHT II ORAN'nff Wl.T NKWS BY STAMPEDE 10 ADJOURN WILL VEX MIS Routed Administration Leaders Find Pressure to Quit as Court Battle Settled ROOSEVELT KEEPS SILENT Exact Position of President Not Divulged Following Defeat Of Pro-Court Senators By KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Associated Press Writer) WASHINGTON, July 22 Administration forces in Congress began rallying on a new defensive line today even before the court bill controversy was swept aside in the Senate by an overwhelming vote. Yet the line they selected only emphasized the completeness of their rout in the bitter court fight.

After Senator Robinson's death a little more than a week ago, a vir tual stampede for quick adjournment of Congress started. Today, administration supporters were digging in against a renewal of that stampede as a result of the vote that shelved the judiciary bill. Quick Action on Courts Expected Elated leaders of the anti-court bill forces expected to complete their job of writing a new bill over tne next week-end. Thus quick action on it by Congress will be possible. But certain WANT SLUM BILL (Bv United Press) WASHINGTON, July 22.

President Roosevelt is determined to press for enactment at this session of Congress of two major pieces of legislation a broadscale program of slum clearance and a wags-and-hour measure. Friends of the President tonight said they were confident the rebuff he received from the Senate on his supreme court bill would not in any way affect the major objectives of his "second New Deal." Sources close to the President said he hoped these two legislative milestones would receive favorable consideration now although it was learned that certain advisers have suggested it might be well to let the wage and hour measure rest. administration men in both houses want action also on other projects like wage-hour, housing and farm legislation before Congress quits. Capital Asks if Justices to Resign In illustration of the swift change that swept over the capital scene with Senator Robinson's death, it may be recalled that less than 10 days ago administration spokesmen were then counting heavily on these very bills to aid in the court drive. They had hoped that supporters of the various bills would decide that a revamped court was necessary to make such legislation "stick." Aside from this, several questions (Continued on Page Two) Heir to English Title To Leave Southland, (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, July 22.

Francis William Robert Boreel, a 55-year- old bachelor, received reporters on the front steps of his modest home today. They came to tell him that he apparently is heir to an ancient English baronetcy and that, before long, the neighbors will be privi leged to address him as "Sir Francis." Francis was surprised to learn of the death of his cousin, Sir Jacob Boreel, who, dispatches from Lon don today said died July 16 in Over- een The Netherlands. But he wasn't amazed to hear he was inheriting a title. He knew he "was in line for it." "I haven't seen Sir Jacob for 85r a month 5c a ropy i Prorate for Citrus Receives Approval Of Federal Court Exchange Manager Commends Decision Which Sustains Verdict in Lower Court (Bv Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, July 22. Remarking it was not for the court to determine the political wisdom of a Marxian thesis, the United States circuit court of appeals today sustained the constitutionality of the amended agricultural adjustment act.

Specifically the appellate tribunal affirmed an injunction restraining the Edwards Fruit of Colton, from shipping oranges and grapefruit in defiance of a regulatory order by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. Three Justices Join in Verdict The decision was written by Justice William Denman, who played an active part in initial hearings on President Roosevelt's court reorganization bill. It cited the national labor relations act and the United States supreme court's recent decision on the Jones Laughlin steel case. Justice Francis Garrecht concurred in the 58-page decision and ALASKAN GUY (By United Press) FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 21. Earthquake shocks rocked Fairbanks early today, causing thousands of dollars damage and endangering lives.

The first shock struck the city at 7:09 a.m., Alaskan time (9:09 P.S.T.) and minor temblors were felt intermittently throughout the day. The quake was the most severe ever felt in the history of Fairbanks, old residents said. The quake was felt through an area reaching several hundred miles on all sides of Fairbanks, in interior Alaska. Fairbanks was just recovering from a devastating flood which submerged portions of the town for several weeks in May. Many downtown buildings and homes in the lower sections of the city were damaged most by the quake.

Fairbanks is out of the usual Alaskan earthquake zone and the shock sent hundreds of terror-stricken residents into the streets. SELIGMAN, July 22. Residents of this community in northwestern Arizona reported to "the outside world" today that this district was rocked Tuesday by an earthquake which rattled windows and dishes and made floors weave. Little damage was reported. They said the temblor, moving north-south, came at 3:49 p.m., and lasted several minutes.

A second quake was felt at 8 p.m. jSach was accompanied by a rumble. FALL FATAL SAN DIEGO, July 22. Dominic Vitrola, 39, died in a hospital here of burns sustained when he tripped and fell into a huge vat of boiling water at a seafood cannery where he was employed. about 20 years," said Francis.

"He was here about five years ago but I was visiting in Florida. He wrote me a letter. I saw him about 20 years ago when I visited in The Netherlands." A civil engineer, Boreel was employed by the Canadian Pacific railroad "traveling all over" until 15 years ago when he came to Los Angeles. One of Francis' ancestors was an ambassador from Holland to England. The first baronet was created in 1645 and titles descended to his Dutch family.

In 1619, King James I knigh ed the ambassador and then he receive'd a royal warrant as a baron of Erg-land in 1653. If there's an estate. Francis said today, he will go to claim it. "But I don't want to live abroad," TREMOR FIFTH IN CALIFORNIA WITH 1B1.B40 POPULATION AND WITH 20,157 SQUARE MILES IS LARGEST IN AREA IN AMERICA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1937 Justice Bert E. Haney wrote a separate concurring opinion.

The fruit company admitted shipping fruit without applying for allotment quotas under the existing AAA marketing agreement and contended the law, even as amended, was unconstitutional because it illegally delegated legislative power to the secretary of agriculture and violated the "due process" clause of the constitution. Colton Shipper Fears Regulation Justice Denman wrote that the act and the secretary's orders "with intent to prevent or ameliorate the evil and harm of economic depression is within the Federal police power and not contrary to the fifth (constitutional) amendment provision for liberty of contract." "Congress may directly regulate production of commodities to be shipped in interstate commerce," the decision said. "It is not for us to appraise the (Continued on Page Two) VETO IF F. D. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 22.

The Senate overrode President Roosevelt's veto of continued low interest rates on farm loans by a vote of 71 to 19 today. This action made law of the low interest extension, the House having voted previously to override the veto. It was the second time this session that both branches of Congress voted to override a veto. On June 1, over presidential objections, they passed a bill extending the tempor ary Government insurance-policies of World war veterans for another five years. A coalition of 53 Senate Democrats, 15 Republicans and three independents voted to override the (Continued on Page Two) 4 Flood of Money Major Problem (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES.

Julv 22. The nation's bier monetary nroblem is what to do with "the flood of money from all over the world to this country," Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau said here today. "We expect to balance the national budget this year," he continued, "and are now financially mind-easy. "Considering where we started from in 1933. I think we have done a trood 1ob.

The unemployment problem is foremost in the mind of the President. Federal expenditures for relief are off 40 per cent, as of July last and July, 1936." Secretary Morgenthau and his family are on their way to Hono lulu for a vacation and wul sail Saturday. Refuses He Asserts he added. "I like California too well. I'll come back here to live so I can hunt and fish and play tennis." Francis was born in Paris In 1S82.

His mother was English and his father was Dutch. His grandmother, Sarah Langdon, ne says, was a granddaughter of the first John Jacob Astor. LONDON, July 22. Francis William Robert Boreel of Los Angeles, California, was believed today to have fallen heir to an ancient English baronetcy. "DeBrett's Peerage," an authentic tome on the British nobility, indicates that Boreel is heir to the title of the late Sir Jacob Boreel who died July 16 at Ovetcen, The Netherlands.

FDR. SCHEME TO BE BURIED Foes of Court Packing to Bring Out Reform Plan for Lower Federal Judiciary STRUGGLE IS ABANDONED Administration Leaders Quit Losing Fight, Agree to Keep Court Independent (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON 99 The Senate handed the Roosevelt court bill over to its enemies in the iurhViarv committee today to be stripped of its furiouslv-riis. puted provision for increas ing the membership of the supreme court. For the first time, administration leaders frankly admitted defeat, conceded that their long fight for enactment of a measure changing the makeup of the nation's high tribunal had reached an unsuccessful end. Younger Democrats Remain for Scheme Under an agreement reached today, the committee is now to redu the once robust and dispute-awakening measure to a thin shadow of its former self, to a few non-controversial clauses on the lower courts.

On the first roll call vote thi the Senate has had in nearly sij month3 of controversy, the administration leaders voted, with thj jubilantly gleeful opponents of thi bill, that such procedure followed. Committee Session Fixes Bill's Fate But, a younger group of Democratic Senators, adhering to th end to the President'i plan, declined to follow. Indignantly ir some cases, they voted against recommitting the bill. The result of the roll call was 70 for recommittal, 20 against. With the undisputed death of the supreme court provision and other disputed clauses, a suggestion for a constitutional amendment, of un specified form, emerged from with in the administration, regarded by some as the beginning of a new administration drive.

Secretary Ickes was its backer. Hiram Leads Cheer When Bill Scrapped An unusual session of the judi ciary committee, attended by leaders of both sides in the controversy, settled the fate of the bill earlier in the day. The opposition was in clear control. It was decided that Senator Lo gan, Kentucky Democrat, should move recommittal, and that the committee should then draft a new (Continued on Page Two) 1 Girl Disappears From Rowboat; Fear Kidnaping (By Associated Press) ELKTON, June 22. The Federal bureau of investigation was asked tonight by Clark Samuel, Lancaster, business man, to look into the disappearance of 18- year-old Jane Wohlsen on the theory she had been kidnaped.

The girl is from Lancaster and was visiting at Samuel's summer home at Red Point, hear here. She disappeared yesterday from a rowboat in which she had gone fishing. State's Attorney E. D. E.

Rollins said tonight the disappearance "looks like a simple drowning. Cecil county officers, puzzled with what they termed "peculiar" circumstances centering about a black- hulled sloop, continued their investigation into the disappearance tonight. The Rev. C. B.

Traill, of Talley-ville, director of a cout camp near Red Point beach, laid saw the girl swimming near her row-boat yesterday. A black sloop pulled up near her, ht said, but he was unable to se whether not into it. He said si" were la th boat' 1 TRIBUNA.