Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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EARLE ATTACKS JAMES AT HERSHEY RALLY
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 1938
PRICE TEN CENTS
BRITAIN 'EASILY' FORCED TO FIGHT
DENOUNCES REMARKS ON WPA, RELIEF
Myra Reeves, Reason Gone, "'"'"'"'"""'"'""'"" ^"'""^ Now Suicidal Maniac
Her Husband Killed by Margaret Drennan, Who Named Him Betrayer, She Now Lies Bound to Her Bed in Mental Hospital
Marlboro, N. J., Aug. 27.  (UP» Myra    Reeves,    her    reason    gone, strained  at  the   bonds  which  held her to a bed in Marlboro .State Hos-
lieved Mi.ss Drennan's story lhat she had shot R?eves to prevent a second betrayal by him.
p O Ikl HAnl   ^^^ ^" ^ "^° '" Jviariooru .-jlhi-c nun'       j\ few months after her acquittal
uOVCrnOr   bays   IMeW   Ueai   piul tonight and moaned that she   Miss Drennan gave birth to a baby
Cares for Those Wade Jobless by GOP
HUGE GATHERING
100,000 Crowd into Hershey to Attend Harmony Picnic
Hershey. Pa., Aug. 27. (UP) Gov. George H. Earle came back today from an abbreviated Latin- Americim aerial vacation nnd ask¬ ed support of Pennsylvania's New Deal candidates in the fall elec¬ tions in one of his most powerful speeches before an enthusiastic throng of 100,00 party followers.
The chief executive teamed with Charles Alvin Jones, Pittsburgh, bespectacled Democratic guberna¬ torial candidate on the same ticket on which Earle is running for U. R Senator, in a»king for a repudi¬ ation of the "reactionary Rcpub- llran leadership" and support of their "libera! mandate" at the polls in November.
Huge Uatherlitg
They addre»»ed one of the big¬ gest gatherings in Democratic poli¬ tical history, comprised of loyal supporter* who paid Jl each for tickets to the huge picnic-rally in this model chocolate manufactur¬ ing community.
Earle arrived at the Harrisburg airport shortly b«4'>MK'««on and. after going over his speech at the executive mansion, came to Her¬ shey. He had been precede by thou- «ands  of  other  Democrats.
He and Joncs made their bid for Democratic administration support at the November election in this atmosphere of gaiety and color be¬ fore the vast assemblage which jammed  the   big  ball  park.
.Innes Aaka Liberalism
.lones appealed to the 100.000 party supporters lo "serve as cou¬ riers in the cause of Democracy and carry the iss\ic of liberalism neainst reaction back to every city. Ic'vn.  village  and   farm."
.loncs assailed tho (;. O. P.. and :<.iid the "once great Republican parly is a bnnkrupt shell in Penn¬ .sylvania."
"It is bankrupt morally." he add¬ ed, "because its principles have heen subverted to privilege. It is bankrupt mentally because its poli¬ cies are stagnated into 'do-nothing- ism' in a land seeking action to relieve its pres.sing economic and social Ills. It is bankrupt physic¬ ally because its machinery is para¬ lyzed in the grip of a amall group of  selfish   reactionary   die-hards.
'The  Republican  party  in   Pcnn- ¦^ylvania  is bankrupt  in  everything hut finance.s.    That is because Pew. ' Orundy and Cooke  have plenty of , money   and ... are   ready   to   buy their way back Into power."
i''.nr|p Attarks .lainrii
Earle centered an elaborate at¬ tack on Judge Arthur H. James. Rep\iblican nominee for Governor, whom he accused of "wholesale libel" and running on a ticket sup¬ ported by "such figures ns former Stale Senator John McClure, cen¬ tral figure In the great Delaware cnunty crime conspiracy, and for¬ mer State Senator William Clark, Chester county, convicted of at¬ tempted   bribery.
He termed McClure and Clark ] "a fine group of campaign man¬ agers for a judge who still sits on the bench of one of our highest ' tribunals . . . just the same old gang, out after the same old thing ¦ . . to exploit the state for the benefit of their wealthy campaign contributors."
Earle lashed furiously Into James
for the  "presenl Republican effort
'n smear the hundreds of thousands
nf self-respecting men and women
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wanted to die.
The  2.'i-year-old  brunette,  turned
into  a  suicidal  maniac  by  tragedy
piled   upon   tragedy,   was   kept   in
i 'sheet restraint" while doctors and
! psychiatrists    strove    to    ease    her
i mental torture.
!    Myra Reeves 'irst tasted tragedy on Sept. 7, 1B.37. at the Iselin, N. J., cottage in which she lived with her I husband.   Paul    Reeves,   and   their i two children.    On that night,  Mar- ' garet   Drennan,   20-year-old   secre¬ tarial   student    who    lived    a    few blocks away, shot Reeves to death, and Myra returned  from  the mov¬ ies to find her husband's nude body on the floor.
The attractive young widow's next ordeal was Miss Drennan's trial and acquittal on murder charges at New Brunswick. From the stand the tear-stained Mrs. Reeves begged ler husband's killer ; to "tell the truth," but the jury be-
which she said was Reeves'.
Her grief nassuaged, Mrs. Reeves surrendered legal control of the two children to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Houlroyd. and went to Linden to live with them.
She. met Joseph A. Sherwood of Linden, a neighbor five years her senior. On Aug. 12 they went on a party with friends. They had some drinks, but Myra's gaiety died when one of the other women twitted Sherwood about a former sweetheart.
She and Sherwood quarreled in his automobile. Before anyone could extend a restraining hand. Mrs. Reeves opened a door snd leaped to the pavement. They took her to a ho.spital at Long Branch where for days she was near death of a skull  fracture.
Dr. J. Berkeley Gordon, hospital psychiatrist, said il was "im¬ possible" to say how long her suicidal mania would  persist.
FLEET ORDERED INTO NORTH SEA BATTLE STATION
England Aroused hy Nazi .Attitude in Czechoslovakia; Ready to Back up Demand for Peace by Military Might; Hitler's Army Termed Menace
Emperor Hirohilo of Japan, center, arrives by car at Yokosuka to inspect an air base where quanti¬ ties of planes and  armaments are
being turned out for the Japanese forces in China. Thn Japanese army and navy are now engaged In a fierce struggle on the Yangt/.e
River, attempting to smash through to Hankow, Chinese provincial capi¬ tal. The Chinese are yielding ground slowly   in   this   sector.
Harlan County Mines   • Sign Contract With Union
REBELS CLAIM
SEN.WA0SW0RT11 VOLPE OPENS
SAYS ROOSEVELT 'BRIBES' PEOPLE
Speaks in Indiana As GOP Opens its Congressional Drive
Washington.  Ind..  Aug.  27.   (UPi
The Republican party touched off its 1938 congressional campaign today in the hayfield of a gentle¬ man farmer whose slogan is "Don't kick    do something about it."
The host was Homer Camehart. 41-year-old former Hoosier who manufactures musical instruments at Buffalo. N. Y. His guests in¬ cluded John D. M. Hamilton, chair¬ man of the Republican National Committee; Rep. James W. Wads- worth. N. Y.. a potential 1940 presi- ilenllal nominee; Sen. .Iohn G. Townsend. chairman nf the Repub¬ lican senatorial campaign commit¬ tee; Rep. .loseph M. Martin jr, head of the congressional campaign committee, and approximately 2!>.- 000 midwestern Republicans. Says People Are "Bribed"
Wadswnrth. the main speaker, accused President Roosevelt of "bribing" the American people wilh federal funds in an attempt to scuttle Congress and the Supreme Court.
"Wc may as well face the fact that he and his advisers despise the Congress and the Supreme Court and so long as he sits in the White House every conceivable ef¬ fort will be made to bring the Congress and the court to sub¬ jection." Wadsworth said.
"Wherever we turn we are con¬ fronted with federal money -bil¬ lions of it.    It is u.sed braienly."
HURRICANE BELIEVED HEADED FAR TO SOUTH
Ready to Make Payment to Survivors Of Mine Explosion
Santo Volpe, proprietor of Volpe Coal Company, operating Butler Colliery and others, announced yes¬ terday morning that negotiations are underway for the payment of compensation to survivors of 10 workers who were killed in a mine explosion at Butler .Slope on June 3. He also declared that the com¬ pany is prepared to enter into agreements with six men who were injured in  the  disaster.
Payments will be made on the basis nf the old compensation law. which has been in force for many years. Volpe explained however, that in the event the new com¬ pensation act is declared constit\i- tional, it will amend its agreement to conform. Under the new act. larger weekly benefits are required.
The new act has been rejected by many anthracite operators, the Volpe Coal Company among them. No date has been set for hearings on the act in Ihe Dauphin County courts, it was learned yesterday. In that connection, W. J. Brennan of the compensation department of I Continued   on   Page   A-8>
Expect to End Bloodiest Labor Fight In U. S. History
Washington, Aug. 27(UPi John L. Lewis, president of the United .Mine Workers of America, an¬ nounced tonight the signing of a contract with the Harlan County, Ky.,  coal  operators  association.
One of Ihe bloodiest labor strug¬ gles in American history has gone on  for years in Harlan county.
Lewis  said  the  contract was  the standard   Appalachian    agreement, ! extending until  April  1,  1939.    He said the Harlan county group, last substantial group of soft coal oper¬ ators    to    withstand    unionization, had  agreed  to  participate  in joint ' conferences   for   a    new   contrp/;t i with the rest of the operators for the  first  time  in  many  years.
Cheek-off Provided
The standard contract provides a minimum wage of $6 a day for northern miners and $5.70 for southern mines. In effect, the standard UMW contract affords a closed union shop, but this is not a  specific  contract   provision.
The contract provides for a check-oft  nf  union   dues.
Repeated efforts by the mine workers union to organize the Harlan miners or to negotiate with the operators had met with bitter¬ est   opposition.
The strife in Harlan county, marked by bombings, killings and violence of every type, has been investigated repeatedly. The La Foollette civil liberties committee conducted an inquiry which was followed by a Justice Department prosecution.
The Justice Department invoked an old statute and indicted a group of Harlan county operators on charges of conspiracy to prevent the exercise of civil liberties by (Continued   on   Page   A-9>
'Borrowed' Car, Crossed Country
East Providence, R. I., Aug. 27. (UP) — Explaining that he bor¬ rowed an automobile from a local showroom "to show my family," James E. Rascher, 28, of Westbrook, Conn., pleaded guilty in district court today of stealing the car.
Still at the wheel of the "bor¬ rowed" car, Rascher was seized yesterday after, police said, he had driven it across the conti¬ nent to California and back. He was held for the grand jury.
N BRIIISH PORT
Call it Beaten In Fair Fight; Ebro Drive Eases
SHERIFF DOUBTS STORY OF CRUCIFIED YOUTH
Brownsville,  Tex.,  Aug.  27   (UP)
Tension eased in this Mexican border city tonight as barometer readings indicated that a tropical hurricane headed for the coast of Mexico probably would move ii.- land many miles to the south. The barometer had risen.
It was expected that heavy winds and high tides would strike the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in this vicinity later tonight, but there was liltle anxiety over dam¬ age it might cause.
There remained some anxiety, however, over the safety nf in South Texas sportsmen who were believed  to be trapped.
Contributions to McAdoo Campaign Found Illegal
Reno, Nev., Aug. 27. (UP)- Sherlff Ray Root said today he be¬ lieved Edward Collins, 27, former California convict, is "hiding some¬ thing" in his story of being strip¬ ped of hie lothing and nailed to a wooden cross.
"There is no doubt that Collins was nailed to the cross by some other person, since It would have been impossible for him to nail both feet and both hands," Sheriff Rool said, "but there is consider¬ able doubt as to his story of events leading to the crucifixion."
"His story that he was attacked hy two former associates in crime named Swede' and 'Dago' who were angered over Collins' decision to go straight sounds weak to me," Root said. "If this were true, he undoubtedly could identify his as¬ sailants, because he said he had known them eight years.
District Attorney Ernest Brown said if the two men believed to have crucified Collins are caught the state probably will bring charges of kidnapping and may¬ hem and ask the death penalty <inder Nevada's 1937 anti-kidnap law.
Brown said Collins had told au¬ thorities to "forget" attempts to apprehend his attackers, because he had "forgiven " them.
Gibraltar, Aug. 27 (UP) Span¬ ish Nationalist authorities at Bur¬ gos said today that the government destroyer Jose Luis Diez, badly crippled in port here after 20 of her crew were killed and 14 wound¬ ed in an attempt to run the straits into the Mediterranean, should be turned to them.
As an alternative they suggested that Great Britain keep the de¬ stroyer until the end of the war. They said the Jose Luis Diez was beaten in a "fair fight."
The ship limped into port here early today. Juan Antonio Castro. 27-year-old commander of the de¬ stroyer, told reporters that three destroyers of the Italian Faico type attacked his ship along with the insurgent cruisers Canarias and Velasco and two armed merchant ships.
Ebro  Drive Slackens
Hendaye. Frcnih-SpanLsh Fron¬ tier, Aug. 27. (UP) Generalissimo Francisco Franco has slackened his drive on the Ebro River front In northeastern Spain after a month-long unsuccessful counter- offensive which proved the cost¬ liest of the war, governmeni re¬ ports  asserted tonight.
Nationalist reports said the Ijoy- alists had lost their driving power in the Ebro sector, but admitted the government still has 10 full- strength divisions on the field.
HULL PUTS AMERICA ON SIDE OF PEACE
Federal Employees Paid into Fund; ^ Called Voluntary
Another Bmno Case Conspirator Put in Luzerne County Prison
Joshua Nilo, 40, charged with , who shared in the $1,000 reward for conspiracy and aiding in the es- ! capturing Bruno. He was brought cape of Joseph Bruno, political lo Wilkea-Barre and remanded to leader who is now serving time for jail by l.^uis Buono, who was the "massacre" in Kelayres, Pa., Bruno's superior officer as chief of two years ago, was brought here | detectives in Schuylkill county, from New York City and locked In Nilo came to Kline township and the Luzerne County Prison yester-   established a night club, according
to Buono, who further claims that Nilo took Bruno in his own car to Garrome's home in Hazleton ot\ the night of the escape. Both Nilo and Garrome are under indict¬ ments in Bruno's escape.
day afternoon. His alleged ac- jcomplice, Rocco Garrome, has been fconflned In the county prison since
August   22.
Nilo was arrested  hy  Detectives
Frank Phillips and Daniel Sheehy,
Boston, Aug. 27. (UP)—The .Senate campaign expenditures committee found tonight that federal em¬ ployees in California have con- 'tributed unlawfully to the renomi¬ nation campaign of Sen. William G. McAdoo, D., Cal, but not as result of "a.ssessmcnl3 or solicitff'- tlons." ,
The announcement was made by Sen. Morris Sheppard, D., Texas, committee chairman, after a con¬ ference here with Sen. Wallace H. White. R. Me , and a proxy for Sen. David I. Walsh. D., Mass., committee members. Walsh is In | New York.
Sheppard said the committee would continue to investigate the charges until the California elec¬ tion November 8. He expected the next meetings to be held Septem¬ ber 8 at Washington. The Cali¬ fornia primaries will be next Tues¬ day. I Find I^w Violate
"Evidence    thus    far    presented 1 persuades   the   committee,"   Shep- j pard  said,   "that  there   have   been j violations   in   this   California   pri- i mary of the  (federal!  statute . . .j making  it   unlawful   for  a   federal official  or employee to make  con¬ tributions   to  tlie  election   of  sen¬ ators   or   for   other   political   pur¬ poses."
Such contributors, he said, are liable   to   fines.   Imprisonment   or i
Father of Radio' Not so Proud
Hollywood, Aug. 27. (UP)—Dr. Lee de Forest, called the "Father of Radio" because of his invention of the tube used in receiving sets, was not so proud of his offspring tonight.
Dr. de Forest, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, described as "sickening" the trend in modern radio programs toward "all swing and  croon."
"The programs," he said, "arc not only poor, but the Interrup¬ tions for commercial announce¬ ments are maddening. It isn't at all as I imagined It would be."
Dr. de Forest said that 32 years sgo, when he invented the radio tube, he had looked for¬ ward  fo  specialized stations.
"For example," he explained, "one would broadcast symphonic music and opera, another dance music, and so on. Bul now too many stations are sending the same   thing."
Television may force commer¬ cial announcements to become "subtler," he said.
MAN KILLED BY TRAIN
At 11:3.") last night the battered body of Walter Kowalczyk, 40, of 80 Cleveland street, Hudson, was found along the Delaware and Hudson tracks near Mayock Cross- m Hudson. He had been hit by a train, believed to have been the south bound due in Wilkes-Barre at  11:4.3.
His face badly battered, he was first recognized by the eyeglasses he wore. One of nis legs had been severed from his body.
The body was discovered shortly after the accident and the case re¬ ported to the Hudson yards. Plains police were called and Deputy Coroner Miller took charge of the body.
Kowalczyk, a married man who is also survived by five small chil¬ dren, was employed as a miner in the Conlon Coal Company.
Washington. Aug. 27 lUPi Sec¬ retary of State Cordell Hull threw the moral weight nf the United ! States into the balance nn the side of peace today in an effort to fore¬ stall outbreak of a general war in Europe.
Utilizing the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact as the occasion for a formal statement, Hull reminded the nations of Europe that they have pledged their honor to keep the peace. He buttressed this re¬ minder with another, that modern experience has demonstrated that j war  does  not  pay  dividends.
"Not even a victor can gain from i war."  Hull  said.
He pointed directly at the Ger- j man-Czechoslovakian controversy by calling the roll of those present at the ceremony of the signing .if the Kellogg-Briand pact. These are the nations now engaged in war or involved in the growing crisis which  threatens  war.
By WEBB  MILI.KR
Copyright 1»X8 By the Inited Pre.*
London, Aug. 27 (UPi Great Britain tonight threw her full mili¬ tary, moral snd diplomatic power behind the fight for peace In Europe.
Strongly expressing confidence that war can be avoided, bul em¬ phasizing that Britain "might eas¬ ily" be forced to fight, the cabinet of Prime Minister Neville Cham¬ berlain began an aggressive drive to ward off any sudden explosion lhat might cause war in Centra! Europe and, in the long run, to swing the balance toward peaceful solution of international quarrels. Want  <'ieoh  Peace
Czechoslovakia's conflict with Nazi Germany over the minority Issue was the immediate center of attention as British government leaders went into action after many weeks of dangerous, ineffec¬ tive stalemate in negotiations for alleviation of both the Czech and Spanish civil war crisis. Their flrst objective was to prevent any hin¬ drance  to the  peace  negotiations.
The opening barrage included:
1.—Sir John Simon. speSKmg for fhe cabinet at Lanark, outlined Britain's "positive policy for peace" but - warning Germany against any sudden blow at the Czech.s- de¬ clared that any outbreak of wj^r,. "like fire In a high wind", wa.s likely to involve England and all Europe. Navy In North Sea
2.-Forty-two warships of the home fleet were ordered to the North Sea battle station. While the orders for naval concentration off the east coast of Scotland were routine, it was impossible to ignore the fact that Britain's naval might will be in the North Sea while the Nazi party annual conference ia in session at Nuremberg, beginning Sept. K, a date which Europe Is now looking forward to with con¬ cern. First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff-Cooper, returning from a visit to Denmark, will confer with  cabinet   leaders  next  week.
3. The government issued an unusual if not unprecedented state¬ ment praising the Czech govern¬ ment for its conciliatory attitude toward the minority problem and deploring action of the Sudeten (Nazi) German minority in with¬ drawing its orders to party mem¬ bers to refrain from retaliatory at¬ tacks. In many ways, the state¬ ment from official British sources, commenting on internal affairs of another nation, was the most striking development of the day. It emphasized the concern and de¬ termination of British leaders th facing the current crisis. Nail   Army   a   Mena<^«
4.—Winston Churchill, powerful dissident conservative leader, in a speech at Theydon Bois, in Essex, warned that the world was moving steadily toward a climactic show¬ down and that, while "war certain¬ ly is not inevitable" the danger will not be ended until Hitler's military demonstrations are abandoned. "It is the most grievous thing that during this hour," he said, "the fate of European peace should lie in the hands of a single man."
5.    The      British     cabinet     sent Frank T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin back ! to Prague with secret new instruc- i tions in regard to negotiations for solution of the Czech problem.    He conferred with Viscount Runciman, the British mediator, upon his ar- j rival. I
8. Reaction to Simon's speech, awaited in London with the great¬ est interest, was quick and favor¬ able at Prague; slow and expected to be quite different in other capi¬ tals. Czech official circles regard¬ ed   the   declaration   as   easing   the
general situation In Europe, giving Runciman more time to find a solu¬ tion and strengthening the Cham¬ berlain  declaration  of March 24th that   Britain    probably   would   be 1 drawn into any war caused by the j French    alliance    with   Czechoslo- • vakia.   Paris official circles viewed ' the speech  as a "timely warning" ! to Hitler at a grave moment. Not Real Issue in Berlin
¦ In Berlin, first reaction to the speech was that Sir John had "side-stepped" the real issue which Nazis consider to be the moral and legal soundness of their demand for greater rights for the Sudeten minority.
I These developments, coming on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Kellogg-Briand treaty to out¬ law war. indicated the approach of Europe's troubles toward a turning point which the British hope will ; be in the direction of peace.
Sir .lohn's speech in Scotland, dealing comprehensively with for¬ eign poliry and directly with the Czech issue, was in effect the ex¬ pression of the government and had been given a careful build-up internationally in order to make it effective. Brushing aside hii legalistic and diplomatic phrase¬ ology, the speech was viewed gen¬ erally as telling Hitler that Ger¬ many must face the probability of a general war in which Britain would join if violence or intimida¬ tion Is used to force the Czech quarrel to a showdown; or even If Germany fails to co-operate in peaceful  solution.
The action of the British govern¬ ment in relea.sing its statement on the attitudes of the Czech govern¬ ment and the Siidctens was a spec¬ tacular surprise in view of usual policy on such matters. It was the result of the announcement yes¬ terday by Sudeten or Nazi leaden that their followers were released from orders not to "fight back" against enemies which the Nazis had purported were "Marxists." Czech officials branded the an¬ nouncement illegal. Hit  .Sudeten   Attitude
The British statement, comment- ing also on the recent Czpfh offer of further concessions to the minorities, said:
"Official quarters in London wel¬ come the conciliatory attitude dis¬ played by the Czech government in suggesting a new basis for ne¬ gotiations with the Sudeten Deutsche leaders with the express object of meeting the latter's fundamental  demands.
"It  is  hoped  that  this  contribu¬ tion  may  meet  a  constructive re¬ sponse  and   that  every  effort will (Continued  on   Page  A-9)
GERMANY WANTS EARLY SOLUTION OF CRISIS
Berlin, Aug. 27 (UP)- Germany has "pointed out" to several Euro¬ pean capitals the need for an early solution of the Czechoslovaklan minority crisis, it waa understood tonight  in  reliable sources.
Diplomatic representatives of th« Reich were understood lo have ap¬ proached several governments — reported to include Russia and Yugoslavia but not France—with a view to assuring them that Ger¬ many does not want any action she might take toward tho Czechs construed as an attack.
(It was believed in London that knowledge of the German de¬ marches was partly responsible for drastic action by Britain today to warn Germany against a blow at Czechoslovakia.'
German Nazis took the view that Sir John Simons' speech today side-stepped  the  issue.
LIGHTNING SET FIRE INJURES 3 PERSONS
Leaves So, Carolina Senate Race; Convinced He Was 'Third Man'
both.
Two candidates opposing Mc¬ Adoo in the primary, Sheridan Downey of Atherton, Cal., and James W. Mellen of Los Angeles, brought the charge that officiala and employees of the Internal Rev¬ enue Bureau and other federal em¬ ployees In California were "asses- (Gontinued on Pa«e  A-8)
GOSSETT  LEADS
REP.   \V.   E.   .'MoFARI.ANE
Wichita Falls, Tex., Aug. 27. (UP) Ed Gossett, Wichita Falls attorney, took an early lead tonight over Rep. W. E. McFarlane who was endorsed by President Roosevelt for re-election to Congress from the   13th   district.
Returns from 33 boxes in two of the 15 counties in the district gave Gossett 4374 votes and McFarlane 4073.
Providence. R. I. Aug. 27 A dozen persons, including two flre¬ men and a city official, were in¬ jured tonight when a lightning-set fire swept the grease house of the Steere Mill, threatening the area for an hour. Loss was set at S75,000.
Six     other     firemen      narrowly escaped  injury  or  dealh   when  the roof collapsed. They were  trapped j behind  a  high  wire   fence  around i the mill.
In North Providence, which bore the   brunt  of  the  storm,   the   roof was blown from a house. The occu- , pants,  Mr.  and  Mn.  John  Miner, were unhurt. |
Columbia, S. C, Aug. 27. (UP)— , The    South    Carolina    Democratic primary    was    simplified    tonight when    State    Senator    Edgar    A. j Brown,  one  of two  pro-New  Deal \ candidates   for   the   U.   S.   Senate withdrew from the race.
Brown's withdrawal made the race a straight-away fight for the New Deal or against it—as Sen. Ellison D. (Cotton Edi Smith, con¬ servative Democrat, was left with only one opponent. Gov. Olin D. Johnston.
Johnston received an inferential endorsement from President Roose¬ velt earlier  this month when  the
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Chief Executive paused in Groena* ville, S. C. for a train-stop addreii.
Brown's announcement cam* a« a climax to ten weeks of "clrcui" stump campaigning by the threa candidates. Brown said he waa quitting because he had reached "the unhappy conclusion that I am the third man in this race."
Brown, in announcing his d«« parture from the senatorial war, did not throw any support t(j lohnslon. He and Johnston hava been bitter critics of each other and Smith during the campaign. Their feelings toward the national administration, however, hava agreed generally.
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