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iftmttpi'luu Etmtmg Argus Fair and Slightly Warmer Tonight anil Tuesday Shower Wednesday UNEXCELLED advertising MEDIUM PRICE WO CENTS MONTPELIER VERMONT MONDAY MARCH 21 1938 VOL XXXXI NO 121 DICTATOR SPANISH CHECKS ADVANCE OK INSURGENTS OPPOSE COTTON (PETROLEUM BOARD MANAGES MEXICAN OIL INDUSTRY TARIFF CHANGES and Southern Billion Dollar Naval Expansion Bill Passed by Representatives Government and Labor in Joint Operation of Nationalized Business Loyalist Resistance Stiffens as Troops Fight in Mountainous Territory BOMBINGS CONTINUE FOREIGN PROBLEM Two-Year Controversy Be tween Companies and Unions Ended Republican Attempt to Send Bill Back to Committee is Defeated Rebels Now Forty Miles from ('oast Government Pours in Reinforcements SAILOR DYING OF GUN WOUND OVERWHELMING VOTE Radioman in Critical Condition After Altercation With Comrade HENDAYE France at the Spanish Frontier March 21 (A?) The great Aragon offensive was at a standstill today just short of the Catalan border Advance bases were being consolidated for a new 'drive In the Torrcvelilla sector I An attack launched from the Edward Kmig'y-Rydzeaniz-Alcorisa line yesterday gave ACTIVE DUTIES Relinquishes Business Management of Publishing: and) Financial Holding's NEW YORK March 21 (A1) Wil liam Randolph Hearst 75 and "con scious of the uncertainties of is relinquishing active business manage ment of his vast publishing and finan eial holdings The publisher has appointed Clarence Hearn former New supreme court justice and for years hi personal attorney and political protege to reorganize and consolidate his ramified business interests In his new post Shearn will act as voting trustee of the publisher's stock in American Newspapers Inc parent holding company for the Hearst enterprises White chairman of the executive committee of American Newspapers Inc said that Shearn and a committee of Hearst executives chosen by the publisher last October would carry out Ileai wish place on a more permanent basis a comprehensive plan of managements for all of his varied enterprises newspapers magazines art objects mines ranches and real Hearst according to manual for 1937 owns 95 per cent of the stock of his chief holding company and is trustee for the rest Under the reorganization plans a statement by White said the publisher and his family their beneficial Interest in the White said the Hearst publications employed 27000 persons and consisted of 23 newspapers American nine magazines in this coun-try and three in England (above) supreme commander of Poland's army and virtual dictator of his country had his troops tanks and planes along the Lithuanian border ready to strike if Lithuania failed to answer the Polish ultimatum satisfactorily But Lithuania capitulated to demands for renewal of diplomatic and trade relations and renouncing Wilno historic capital Measure Authorizes Construction of 46 New Warships and 950 Airplanes WASHINGTON March 21 The house approved overwhelmingly today the administration's billion-dol-iar naval expansion bill Final passage came after defeat of a Republican attempt to send the bill back to the house naval committee with instructions to eliminate the provisions for three new battleships The bill goes to the senate The measure authorizes construction of 46 new warships 22 auxiliary vessels and 950 airplanes which President Roosevelt said were needed "specifically and solely because of the piling up of additional land and sea armaments in other The recommittal motion offered by Representative Church ((R 111) a member of the naval committee who has opposed the program since its introduction was defeated by a vote announced by Speaker Bankhead as 276 to 114 Northern Manufacturers Register Objections WASHINGTON March 21 (i'P) Northern and southern cotton manufacturers opposed today any turift concessions on their manufactured (foods in the proposed trade agreement with the united kingdom Claudius Murchison president of the Cotton Textile Institute representing more than 80 per cent of the cotton mills in the United States said tariff concessions would: Compel a displacement of American textile labor and machinery Cause final collapse of the domestic price structure with no hope of recovery Cause loss of balance in our eco nomic structure increasing our dependence upon foreign markets and Force a costly and painful transfer of workers from occupations and industries and areas to which they are adjusted into new modes of life which rest precariously upon the fortunes of foreign trade" Murchison said in a statement prepared for the committee for reciprocity information that about 80000 textile workers were unemployed ami upon the states for their Terming present tariffs he testified 380000 textile employes working only about two-thirds of normal time and receiving two-thirds of their customary The industry he continued been on an over-capacity basis for 15 years and the end of this condition is not yet in sight The great stream of involuntary bankruptcies and voluntary liquidations has not yet run its course already heavy internal problems of territorial adjustment of surplus machinery of wage and hour standards merchandising methods competition of substitute fibers and fabrics can not be added the shock of an additional problem in the form of more intensified foreign competition unless we are resigned to complete collapse" Murchison described the plight of the industry as desperate that in one large area (New England) wage rates have been recently reduced by (Continued on Page Five) SOUTHAMPTON March 21 (A) Thomas Wilson 25 radioman second class critically wounded in an altercation Sunday evening at Amagansett was given little chance of recovery today by Dr David Edwards at Southampton hospital Patrolman Anthony Bedell said the assailant was Radioman Robert Gammon 24 whom he arrested a few minutes after the ghooting Gammon was held in the Suffolk county jail Riverhead pending action by third district naval authorities in New York city Both sailors were attached to the radio compass station at Amagansett and Wilson was about to relieve Gamon when shots were fired District Attorney Henry Tasker of Suffolk said shots from a service pistol penetrated abdomen Tasker said Gammon toid an incoherent story about "brooding over domestic troubles during his eight-hour turn of duty Tasker quoted Gammon as saying he a footstep ASKS REDUCTION MEXICO CITY March 21 (fl) A petroleum board jointly representing the Cardenas government and lalwr ventured today into operation of nationalized oil industry The board assumed responsibility for producing gasoline and other crude oil products to supply the needs on the same scale as when the oil industry was controlled by 17 British and American companies The problem of maintaining foreign markets loomed large on the changing Mexican economic horizon as President Lazardo socialistic government and its union allies undertook operation of the industry A two-year controversy between foreign oil companies and the 18000 union laborers brought about nationalization of the industry under a presidential decree last Friday The companies already paying their workers the highest wages in Mexico had protested they were unable to continue operation if they met increases granted by an arbitral board and approved by the supreme court It was estimated these increases would boost labor costs to the industry between $7200000 and $12000000 Labor demands for reduced working hours and other benefits had been granted An order was issued to the Mexican mint to coin a large number of silver pesos which the bank of Mexico and its branches will exchange upon demand for paper bills Officials said this measure was taken so the peoplo would have no more apprehension about soundness of the peso The bank of Mexico it was announced will not resume dealings in foreign exchange until the financial crisis precipitated by expropriation of the foreign oil industry is settled The companies were expected to United States Chamber of Commerce Recommends Surtax be Decreased the insurgents the village of Coden era 10 miles southeast of Alcaniz but they failed to take Torrevelilla just south of Codenera Stiffened government resistance along a new defense line established in the rugged mountain terrain outside Torrevelilla stopped the forward movement a Barcelona communique said The insurgents however said they halted to establish advance bases adequate for the mass of men participating in the drive toward the Mediterranean coast General Francisco army has been estimated at between 100000 and 150000 men Thousands of government reinforcements have been poured into the new Torrevelilla line to prevent the insurgents now scarcely 40 miles from the coast from smashing through and dismembering government Spain Insurgent bombing planes continued their raids on coastal cities striking yesterday at Tarragona Reus Benicarlo and Shunto Government advices said the damage was light The latest survey Of casualties in last demoralizing raids on Barcelona and surrounding suburbs placed the number of dead at 834 and the wounded at 1279 (Great Britain joined with France in protesting to the insurgents against the Barcelona bombardments The protest pointed out that such attacks were contrary to principles of international law Thousands of demonstrators paraded London streets in protest against the raids) ITALIANS WITHDRAW TROOPS LOME March 21 (JP) The first de- 1 tjt station door and opening tachmcnt of Italian troops withdrawn WASHINGTON March 21 The United States chamber of commerce recommended today that the maximum surtax on large individual incomes be reduced to 40 per cent from the present 75 per cent The latter rate now applies to net incomes of more than $5000000 a year Chairman Harrison (D Miss of the senate finance committee hAs suggested the maximum tax might be reduced to 60 per cent In a statement prepared for committee the chamber also suggested repeal of the undistributed profits tax and further revision of the capital gains The house modi- from Libya as a concession to Britain came home today and informed sources predicted that a British-Italian friendship accord would be concluded by Saturday Almost 4000 officers and men which bad helped garrison north African colony disembarked at Naples Informed persons said the accord would provide for British support of recognition for Premier Ethiopian conquest through the league of nations and withdrawal of all Italian from the Spanish civil war through the 27-nation non-intervention committee it he fired blindly He gave no rational reason for the shooting Tasker said Because the assault took place on government property Tasker said naval authorities are taking over the investigation and Gammon will be removed to Brooklyn naval prison sometime today Both Gammon and -Wilson are married Wilson of Mansfield Mass married a childhood sweetheart Ver-madel Johnson a nurse who is an expectant mother address as not given Both sailors had been in the navy seven years and according to naval authorities each had an excellent fight the expropriation decree through fied both those lcvies lts Keneral attacks on constitutionality of Presi- tax revision bill KIDNAPPING ALLEGATION NASSAU Bahamas March 21 (AP) Forrester Scott Philadelphia lawyer and big game hunter and Stanley Boynton an aviator faced the solemn dignity of a British court today on harges growing out of an alleged attempt to seize two daughters and whisk them back to the United States by seaplane Magistrate Osborne Bancroft will investigate charges of attempted kidnapping and determine if the case should be remanded to the attorney general for presentation to the supreme court He will however deal summarily with charges against Scott of assaulting the nurse Miss Helen Smith of Wilmington Del and carrying an unlicensed revolver The two men have been held in the Nassau prison since Wednesday when Detective Captain Frederick George Lancaster accused them of attempting to seize Eva and Zoe Scott 6 and 3 respectively former wife now Mrs Henry Clark Boden said before the hearing she expected to British A Adderly negro attorney indicated the principal defense would be a Pennsylvania court order giving Scott part-time custody of his daughters Mrs Boden a granddaughter of the late Dr and Mrs Alexis I DuPont of Delaware indicated she would testify to a Wilmington Del decree which gave her absolute control of the Believe Six Persons Drowned on dent Cardenas' act BISHOPS MAKE PLEA Besides cutting surtaxes there have been suggestions for broadening the income tax base Senator Borah (R Idaho) told reporters he found strong sentiment for that proposal in a canvass of his colleagues oppose it" he said are trying to shift the burden of taxes on the low income class least able to Treasury Position WASHINGTON March 21 The position of the treasury March 18: Receipts $120 090 631 67 Expenditures $14154420232 08839160423 COM ITTEE APPOINTED CONCORD March 21 Appointment of a county farm security advisory committee for Rockingham county was announced today Ralph Blake of Exeter rural rehabilitation supervisor said that loans will Ik? made to farm tenants in this county under provisions of the Bankhead-Jones farm tenant act The committee includes George A Bassett of Fremont Clarence Gow-an of Stratham and Herman Yeaton of Hampton Falls The committee will aid in selection of farmers to receive loans ARMORY INSPECTIONS CONCORD March 21 (P-Annua! armory inspections by federal officials for the several units of the New Hampshire national guard got underway today Battery A (searchlight) of the 197th coast artillery was the first organization to be inspected Representing the government is Major Arthur Winton of the coast artillery corps while Major George Morrill represents the state pay" Senator Norris (Ind-Nab) an administration supporter said he opposed any lowering of present income tax exemptions The chief problem facing the senate committee is how taxes can be (Continued on Page Six) WOMAN BADLY BEATEN INSURGENT BOMBS SHATTER BARCELONA NEW YORK Match 21 (iT) A group of 61 Protestant bishops today awaited a reply to its pleu that the Catholic hierarchy of America use its influence with General Francisco Franco to halt bombing of civilians in Spain The bishops representing Methodist and Protestant Episcopal churches in 36 states declared in an open letter: realize that the Catholic hierarchy in this country has for reasons which seem good to it chosen to defend the Franco (insurgent) cause It is for this very reason knowing that word from you would carry weight and force that "oon you to act We believe that you see as clearly as we do that regardless of any possible merits of General position the war which began as a military uprising and a purely Spanish struggle is showing itself with every increasing clarity to be an integral part of a general program of conquest in which on other points the nazi-fascists have not hesitated to attack the Catholic church and Christianity The letter asserted General Fran aerial bombing of Barcelona and other cities was inhuman" and without military justification Heading its signers was the Most Rev Henry St George Tucker presiding bishop of the Episcopal church BROCKTON Mass March 21 (API Arrested on complaint of a 65-yea'-old woman that she had been stabbed apparently with a hypodermic needle beaten and robbed a man booked a James Campbell 29 of Brockton to hy faced arraignment in district court Campbell was arrested yesterday shortly after Mrs Etta Packard was found dazed and suffering from a bro ken arm Brockton hospital attache reported her condition as critical The woman was quoted by Patrol man Thames A Barry as saying she accepted a lide from a man thinking (he knew him and that she lost con eiousness when she was stabbed after resisting his advances Found later on a lonely road Mrs Packard reported her poeketbook containing $8 was missing WILLIAMSPORT Pa March 21 (A1) Old rafting tradition was cast into the discard today as police and volunteer searchers dragged the murky waters of the Susquehanna river for the bodies of six men believed drowned in the crash of the against a bridge pier One man was dead He was Van Scoyoc 66 of Philadelphia a Missing were Thomas Proffitt Chester a news reel cameraman Dr Taylor Burgess of Montgomery borough Conner chief pilot of the raft of Burnside Harry Berringer of Tyrone Malcolm Mac Farland of New York and Holly of Bradford Proffitt was recording the re-enact ment of old rafting practices when the 112-foot craft made up of 51 huge white pine hurled all but one of it 48 passengers into the river Levy (Bud) Conner of Glen Campbell builder of the raft and brother of the missing chief pilot said the 200-mile trip would be resumed after repairs were made today But Coroner Dr Thomas Bran don declared the craft could not leave its mooring place until after he completed an investigation The clumsy vessel had passed through far more perilous places than the scene of the tragedy In its week long journey from the headwater of the Susquehanna river There seemed to be some misun derstanding said those aboard the raft as to which arch of the bridge the steersmen should head for Wil liam Rsmenyder 80-year-old river veteran who watched the raft go by said it was floating diagonally across the current The raft struck the pier head on WIFE DEAD GAINESVILLE Fla March 21 Mrs Elinor Miriam Frost 65 of Amherst Mass wife of Robert Frost noted poet died yesterday after a brief illness Mrs Frost suffered a severe heart attack Friday The body will be cremated at Jacksonville and the ashes sent to Amherst for services The Frosts were married in 1895 at Lawrence Mass Mrs birthplace Besides her husband she is survived by two daughters Mrs Leslie Frost Francis of Cambridge Mass and Mrs Irma Frost Cone of Hanover and a son Carol Frost of South Shaftsbury Vt MAY MEET IN VIENNA BERLIN March 21 Informed nazis here ami in Venna predicted to day that the new reiehstag of greater Germany would hold its first session in Vienna instead of Berlin to please the Austrians April 20 the 49th birthday of Adolf Hitler was considered a likely for the meeting The reiehstag will be elected April 10 On the same date Austrians will vote on their absorption into Germany STRIKE IN LUDLOW LUDLOW Vt March 21 The 300 textile workers employed at the Verd Mont mills here and in Smith-ville went on strike this morning in accordance with a vote taken Saturday The mills were picketed at 6 this morning but no employes attempted to enter the plants The strike vote was taken after representatives of the TWOC had failed in an attempt to dissuade the DEPRESSION OVER BUFFALO March 21 T) A depression is over when the cigarette stubs get longer Joe Zombro self-described walking delegate of the International association The rear of the raft lifted out of the i told police after his arrest on a va- water aqd the front dug under Then grancy charge "The depression is i it settled swung broadside to bang-lover How can I tell? Why when ing sidewise against the sixth pier you can pick up big cigarette and i The joltund loose flying logs knock- cigar stubs on the streets that the ed the crew and passenger into the test of prosperity in any river said- DRISCOLL REAPPOINTED WASHINGTON March 21 (P)-PresIdMtt Roosevelt sent to the senate company officials from putting 15 (today the reappointment of Stephen per cent wage cut into effect Union 'M Driscoll to be imlloelor of customs officials stated that only two worker district 2 at St Albans Vt era voted against a strike Scenes like this showing inhabitants of Barcelona Spain hurrying past bomb-wrecked street car were commonplace during the intensive insurgent bombing ol this loyalist capital recently I he toll of dead bodies found mounted to 640 but it was feared that more than 1300 persons perished in the uir raids This picture wa radioed from London lo New York.