Spaniards Still Snatch Siesta
Although Fierce War Is Raging
By RICHARD G. MASSOCK
DANGHARINEA, Franco-Spanish Frontier—Life in
those parts of Spain conquered by the insurgents creeps on
at its usual slow pace. Ruined storekeepers in battle-swept
towns wear worried faces but for the most part, the citizen
ry you see is indifferent to the struggle.
As General Francisco Franco’s
armies close on Madrid what civil
ian war enthusiam there may have
been seems to have disappeared.
Those who will talk about the war
profess quietly the patriotic belief
the fighting will soon be ended in
victory "against the reds.”
Same Old Routine
Until it does merchants sell out
their stocks from shelves that can
not be replenished until peace
comes. The hotels are filled with
camp followers. Daily siestas stih
last three hours when not a wheel
turns. Peasants in broad-trimmed
thick-felt sombreors ride their bur
ros through the streets or lead their
oxen on shell torn roads. Farm
wives spread chickens, rabbits, pep
pers, and melons on the pavement
of market places.
Families mourn their dead with- (
In their homes. Emotional flag i
waving is indeed rare. Yet nobody
speaks out against the war, per- |
haps because prison awaits the sus- ,
pected malcontent, and firing ]
squads the ‘‘traitor.”
•Nobody can he neutral.” said
the commandant of an occupied
city. "Either he be for us or against
us.”
Refugees Desert Towns
The anguish of civilians in cities
and villages, dsvasted by shell and
bomb, can only be supposed for
they have fled, leaving behind only
a few who hid throughout bom
bardments awaiting the liberator of
th«r political faith.
I saw no more than 100 civilians
in the battered streets of Toledo
though was told a few thousand
of, ,iU 25 000 inhabitants remained
in seclusion in their patios behind
nail-studded doors. Of those I saw,
four were women and two children
Joking with a couple of soldiers
who were eating lunch oft a mat
tress at a well in front of some
smoking ruins.
A matronly woman in widowed
black rode with me in a broken
down bus with six fascists from
Talavera to Toledo. Site had. she
said, lost her . husband and two bro
thers in the fight fbr Toledo. One
brother was a pilot of a nationalist
bomber shot down only a few days
before near the road we traveled.
Along the highway she could see
bodies of unburled soldlrs.
Widow Stoical
But bittei-ness was lacking in the
woman* conversation.
"They died for Spain's liberation
from the reds," she said without
emotion. "Their deaths w;ill be av
enged.”
In Toledo I crawled through a
gaping hole in a shuttered store to
find the proprietor picking among
his littered stock or cutlery. There
was not very much left.
Had this store been looted?
"Yes, but not much,” he said. “I
hid much of my stock upstairs
where I live. So did other store
keepers. But we are ruined; Every
body is gone. There are no custom
ers.”
Age Test Case
Is To Be Heard
GREENVILLE, Oct. 28<;P>—A case
designed to test the state school
commission's ruling that a child
must be six years old by October 1
in order to cuter school at a term
starting bek. e that date was on the
docket for trial in superior court
here today.
Eli Bloom obtained a temporary
restraining order preventing school
authorities from prohibiting his
daughter, Joanne, from attending
school. The child was six years old
only yesterday. The order was marie
returnable this week. Bloom con
tended his daughter
d a consti-;
tutional right to attend school.
American Shipper
Is Safe In Harbor
LONDON, Oct. 28.— (JF) —After
wallowing helplessly for 24 hours
in a wild storm on the Irish sea,
the 7,430-ton lines American Ship
per hove In Dublin Bay today,
victor over a destruction 100-mile
gale sweeping the British Isles.
An unidentified vessel was re
ported driven aground by the rag
ing winds which disrupted North
Atlantic shipping off the Irish
coast and spread destruction
through Scotland and Ireland.
Ope person was killed In Glas
gow where the terrific wind hurtled
a trolley car across a street. Three
persons were Injured.
In Belfast, northern Ireland, hun
dreds of tons of steel framework
crashed to the ground when the
top of a new grain elevator was
►•own off a dock In the harbor.
Communications lines were rip
ped out through a wide area.
rackets Picked
WINSTON-SALEM, Oct 28.—bP)
—F. S. Slate. Surry county tanner
reported to police hi* pockets were
picked''of 8110 while leaving * bank
CARTOONIST LIKES
TO DRAW GIRLS
Golf Champ Pictures
Life With Pen In
AP Feature
A setter bearing: a post mark of
Honolulu dropped on the drawing
oard of a desk presided over by
Pap, cartoonist and feature writer
whose SPORTS SLANTS appear
dally in the Shelby Daily Star.
A Chi'if#e youngster, with car
tooning ambitions, wanted the ori
ginal of a drawing reproduced in a
Hawaiian newspaper.
The picture was dispatched
promptly with a word, r encour
agement.
"Now," wrote Pap,\ "I am send-'
ing one of my drawings for your
collection. How about sending one
of your cartoons for MY collec
tion?”
The youngster responded and his
work of art occupies a place in the
scrapbook of the APs sports ar
tist . . .
That’s the sort of fellow Pap is—
a husky former track star, football
and baseball player and a golfer
now.
He’s A Golf Champ
Built like a line-cracking full
back, Pap’ is golf champion of the
New York chapter of the Baseball
Writers association. He has buckets
of medals and dozens of cups to at
test his prowess on the cinder and
board running tracks.
Although he had a Fordham
university scholarship, Pap’ decid
ed to go to art school—and the
Ram lost a capable athlete. Since
that time this native New Yorker
has searched for subjects and ma
terial about sports figures and set
down his findings in your sports
cartoon.
His first cartoon to appear in a
New York newspaper had Eleanor
Holm Jarrett, as childhood friend,
as its subject. Pap’ likes to draw
pictures of girls—“makes life worth
while,” he says.
Football is his favorite subject for
action, boxing and swimming for
the opportunities to depict ana
tomy. Horses are liked, too.
“To most people horses look
alike.” he says. “To me a thorough
bred has more expression in his
face than the average athlete has.
Trainers and handlers of horses
can’t be fooled. They go by mark*
ings, conformation end so on.”
Characteristics Pap’ remembers
especially of sports figures he has
drawn:
Babe Ruth, roly-poly body, thin
ankles.
Primo Camera, satchel feet and
snaggle teeth.
Gene Tunney, close-cropped hair
In the style by Corbett.
Benny Leonard, slick hair.
Jack Dempsey, beetle brows and
badger haircut.
Dozen of requests come to Pap’
for original drawings, usually from
youngsters. . . .
But he finds hard-bitten profes
sionals, like Babe Ruth and Lou
Gehrig, are Just as anxious to ob
tain pictures of themselves.
An office boy who begs the ori
ginals of his heroes and has them
autographed once presented a Pap’
cartoon of Babe Ruth to the Bam
bino, who liked the drawing so well
he kept it. Nothing to do but
draw another one for the young
ster—which Pap’ did.
Say Fuel Failure
Cause Of Crash
WASHINGTON. Oct. 2t.~ <#») —
The Bureau of Air Commerce said
today the crash of a big sight-see
ing plane at Pittsburgh September
5, in which 10 persons were killed,
probably was due to failure of the
ship’s fuel supply.
The flow of gasoline, the bureau
said, probably was cut off “due to
the fuel selector valve being acci
dentally pushed to the ‘off posi
tion.”
The selecter valve as so located,
it said, that a passenger may have
accidentally kicked it closed.
There was only one survivor of
the accident, Linda McDonald. 17
year-old Miami high school grad
; uate, and the bureau said she
"probably‘owed her life to the fact
that her seat belt was fastened se
curely.”
STATE WILL BUILD
SHORTCUT IN EAST
RALEIGH. Oct. 2* — (JP» — The
highway snd public works commis
sion toted today to proceed with
construction of the Cam den-Cur -
rituck shortcut with State Highway
funds.
The action Included approval of
an additional allocation of warn
$60,000 made necessary by insis
tence of the War department on
a change of location and a longer
draw span for a bridge arms* the
■ inland water way* ji
Tampa Citizens
I Become Aroused
About Violence
TAMPA. Fla.. Oct. 28.—</P>— Ar
rests, protests and a demand for a
Investigation In Tampa came a
fast-breaking sequels to the disturb
ance which broke up an address b
Earl Browder, communist part
presidential candidate, here Sundaj
Three men taken into custody lat
yesterday were released under $1.00
bond each. Charges of assault am
battery, aggravated assault with i
deadly weapon and affray wen
made against the three—Constabli
Fred W. Newberger, Deputy Con
stable John J. Parish and Lawrenc<
Ponder, former deputy sheriff.
SENTIMENT TWO SIDED
ON COTTON EXCHANGI
NEW YORK. Oct. 28—(/P)—Sell
ing was quite active. A good pari
of it was liquidation by longs dis
couraged by recent action of thi
market in the face of constructive
trade reports. The heavy ginning!
were also somewhat unsettling
causing many to believe that t
larger crop will be harvested thar
last estimate indicated. There wa!
good buying at limits on scale down
mainly for trade accounts, bott
foreign and domestic. Sentiment U
undoubtedly more two sided at th<
present time and there will likelj
be a tendency to limit purchase:
until the bureau report Is pub
lished.
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Patriotism, Self-Interest
May Decide Election Nov. 3
By BYRON PRICE
The Presidential calmpaign drives toward its ending amid
a confusion of tongues! more suggestive of bedlam than of
ordered clarification of the issues.
J * III, ViWWi - VM» IfUVUVIUll tlillBMlIU
, elusive. Opposing campagin Orators
■ speak of many things but seldom of
> the same thing, In a ‘direct meet
1 Ing of minds. Qualifications and
[ reservations clutter the political
landscape. \
To the historian of future times
!! this may well appear a remarkable
| and unexplainable characteristic \of
the great political battle of 1936.\
! At a time when questions of fii
; ture policy are of vital interest,
words without end are spent upon
the past. The members of the'
Hoover administration are explored
| diligently, and each party nominee
is confronted daily with some quo
tation of what he said on previous
occasions. Questions about the de
tail of what is to be done hence
forth go unanswered.
Even a regards the current phy
sical facts of the case, there is no
! common meeting ground. Mr. Roo
sevelt is accused of making the
| grossest misstatements about the
condition of the treasury, and Mr.
Landon is charged with telling
outright untruths about present
market prices and trade condi
tions. It is an extraordinary situa
non.
• • •
Two Factors Involved
The wires of argumentation being
tangled as they are, what will de
cide the election? There are two
sorts of indications.
No one can disregard the evi
dence that some on both sides are
fired by a deep-seated, even a zeal
ous, conviction that victory for
their candidate is absolutely es
sential in the national interest.
This type of conviction developed
early in the campaign, and appar
ently no arguments have shaken it.
At the same, other large groups
\of voters are showing unmistakable
signs of disregarding all of the
forensic pros and cops as to na
tional policy, and casting their bal
lots in accordance with what they
coheeive to be their own individual
interests.
There are those who feel that they
have derived and will derive much
betterment of their lot from the
acts of the present administration.
They are preparing to vote for Mr.
Roosevelt.
There are those who feel that
their security in their customary
and pursuits has been
damaged and will be menaced'
hereafter by the current course ofj
events at Washington. They are;
preparing to vote against Mr. Roo
sevelt.
It would be too delicate an oper
ation to attempt to sort out self
interest and patriotic conviction-In
specific cases, or to compute which
would be more powerful this year.
That both are present in the situs- -
tion, however, and that both are of
a type against which arguments
are not likely to prevail is evident
to all.
• • •
Argument Wasted On Many
It may be that a recognition of
this condition, and an understand
ing of the stubbornness of the
forces With which both sides were
dealing, has had its effect on the
character of the debate, right up to
the end.
When a voter is imbued in ad
ance with an overpowering devo
tion or an overpowering hatred,
whether the roots lie in abstract
social considerations or a desire for
self-protection, it doesn’t do much
good to talk with him on that par
ticular subject.
Speeches about shoes and ships
and sealing wax may be, in fact,
more diplomatic and just as effec
tive.
For there are some differences of
opinion which simply are past ar
guing about.
ELECTION PROBE IS
BEGUN IN HENDERSON
HENDERSONVILLE, Oct. 38. —
W—J. Harris (Correct) Sample,
member of thg state board of elec
-
tlons, today opened a hearing into
charges of absentee ballot h regu
larities in Henderson county.
W. C. Meeklns, Republican state
chairman. recently charged that
absentee ballots were issued with
out application of vot^T^
one ballot was altered a'ft " ^
marked. be,
Jupiter is somewhat is™.
all the other planets plujjj
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