Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - August 28, 1938, Joplin, Missouri J. - THE fair In local and somewhat warmer In north portion Monday generally warmer In fair in west and light scattered showers In somewhat warmer in north portion Monday generally somewhat cooler in northwest continued warm Sunday and fair Sunday and VOL. NO. 16. Of flea tit Fourth Hired FULL Lobe FULL PRESS REPORTS District Edition 32 MEN KILLED IN NAVAL VESSEL DAMAGED Spanish Government Destroyer and Four Insurgent Ships Stage One-Sided Fight in THOUSANDS WATCH BURSTING SHELLS Loyalist Graft Limps Away After Portside Bow Is Struck and Puts Into Port at Aug. 27.-(#)-A Spanish limped Into port today from a one-sided naval battle In which Its captain said 32 men insurgents held as The the 1,650-ton Jose Luis fled the two and battle with four insurgent severely battered and with bodies of 20 of the The youthful of the government Juan Antonio 27 years told story of the encounter through the Spanish consul at 1 Killed by The 26 prisoners aboard composed the crews of two insurgent armed trawlers which the destroyer had prior to the engagement with the four the commander They were placed in the fore part of the destroyer and were killed when the craft was struck by a shell from the insurgent cruiser Canarias The other victims were two members of the crew of the Jose Diaz and six men who were lost Ten of the destroyer's crewmen were * Attacked at 2:15 A. M. The Jose Luis Diez was attacked at 2:15 a. m. 10 miles southeast of by the insurgent cruiser and three some of Antonio Castro were None of the four craft had lights as the battle The young government commander said the insurgent craft opened fire from the vicinity of Spanish I as Ceuta and Carnero Point insurgent batteries co-operated by playing searchlights upon the Jose Luis The attacked vessel returned the fire After hours of heavy firing which awoke a shell from the hit the portside trapping the 20 men and damaging the engine Fearing his ship would Antonio Castro changed his course and sped for where his wounded were Thousands Watch Thousands had watched the brilliant fireworks display of searchlights and bursting shells from vantage points on the Rock of Tonight the bodies of the dead Were aboard the British destroyer Vanoc and taken out to sea and buried in the vicinity of the battle Explaining the Jose Luis Diez 4 left a week ago for a Mediterranean Antonio Castro said proudly did cross the straits and if the engine room had not been damaged in the fighting we would have gone on fighting until the last member of the crew was no longer The Jose Luis with a big hole immediately in front of the fore gun was berthed in shallow water to forestall possibility of Dispatches insurgent said insurgent officials expected the British either would the vessel or hand her over to the insurgent fleet But the British admiralty indicated she would permitted to proceed as Boon as was SUNDAY AUGUST 28, 1938. Kvery Monday PRICE FIVE CENTS Loan Rate on 1937 Corn Is Increased to 57 Cents Agricultural Department to Lend 7 Gents More a Bushel Than in Also Announces It Will Make Advances On Cotton at From 5.80 to 10.75 Cents a Will Place Floor Under Present HURRICANE EXPECTED TO HIT WASTE LANDS Aug. 27.-UP)- Weather observers here predicted the tropical hurricane moving the Gulf coast would strike J between 50 and 100 miles south of Brownsville tonight raging inland across uninhabited wastes of Wind of gale up to 50 miles an were expected in this but no extensive property damage was Lowland residents along the gulf had fled to safety after warnings from the coast guard and weather An abnormally high tide sent gulf waters coursing across low-lying Padre island in the Gulf north of and fishermen and residents there had fled to safety The power plant and warehouses here were boarded Governor James V. Allred authorized mobilization of a San Benito company of the Texas national guard for emergency duty in case Aug. 27. - - The agriculture department broadened its efforts to halt farm price declines today by announcing it would make leaps on 1035 cotton at rites ranging from 6.80 to 10.75 cents a and increase the loan rate on 1937 corn from 50 to 75 cents a This action was taken a few days after tho department of labor had reported the general level of farm prices declined during the previous week to the lowest level in four Offered for Twofold The leans were offered for a twofold To finance farmors desiring to withhold crops from markets until supplies are smaller and prices may be and to place a floor under present Corn prices rose about a cent and a half a bushel Immediately after the loan was The cotton loan is the second lending program inaugurated since The first offered wheat growers loans averaging about 60 cents a wheat prices on farms average about 5 cents a bushel below the loan rite officials of excessive supplies Officials anticipated some grower dissatisfaction with the cotton loan but they expressed the opinion many would take advantage 6f it. Growers doing so have everything to gain and nothing lo they Free to Surrender They explained in the event cotton prices were below the loan at the time of the loan the borrower would be free to surrender his cotton as full payment of his The government would assume any On the other should prices the borrower could pay off the loan and sell his cotton at the higher All federal commodity loans are made oy the Commodity Credit Corporation That agency set aside for cotton loans and loans on 1937 corn JIMMY WADLEIGH COMMITS SUICIDE SHOT FROM SMALL RIFLE FATAL TO MEMBER OF PIONEER JOPLIN James H. 48 years member of a pioneer family and a candidate for nomination for mayor in shot and killed himself yesterday afternoon at his 3104 Joplin Wadleigh's act. was attributed to by members of his He had failed to find employment in recent according to information given Coroner and had threatened to commit suicide in the past several Body Found by Returning home from downtown where she had been Mrs. discovered her husband's body on the kitchen Her small was with Coroner following examination of the said apparently had been dead between 30 minutes and an Mrs. found the body about 4:30 A caliber repeating rifle was near the body with the barrel propped up by a portable typewriter powder burns around the wound apparently had leaned over the and pressed the trigger with a The bullet struck near the Dr. Winchester said there was no doubt that the death was Police also No one heard the shot and trie exact time of the death could not be Wadleigh formerly was employed as mining editor of The Joplin Globe and News Herald and was widely known throughout the district He was in charge of the mining department of the newspapers from 1922 until 1936 and was one of a group instrumental in founding the Tri-State mineral museum at Was Born in Wadleigh ran for nomination for the office of mayor last but Born in he had lived all his life in this He was a graduate of Joplin schools and attended the University of During the world Wadleigh served in the aviation corps as a student He was a member of the Joplin American Legion post and of the Masonic Blue the Scottish Rite bodies and the besides the is a George A. Wadleigh of The body was removed to the Funeral services probably will be held LOYALIST LINES HOLD IN FIGHTING IN CATALONIA At the Spanish Aug. 27.-UP)-General commander of the government army in central visited his defenses on the front today and declared center of a valuable mercury mining would be Government troops in the rich southwestern mine center have halted an insurgent offensive and taken the initiative with On the northeastern Ebro front in scene for a month of some of the war's heaviest insurgents were continuing their attack against hills north and south of said government without cracking CAMPAIGN GIFTS HELD UNLAWFUL COMMITTEE FINDS FEDERAL EMPLOYES HAVE TO Aug. 27.-(IP)-Seventeen days of investigation into the coming California primary brought an announcement today from a special senate committee it had evidence of federal employes contributing unlawfully to groups seeking renomination of Senator William G. The committee said it proposed to continue its investigation charges a deputy collector of internal name was not and others associated with Senator McAdoo had assessed government employes for campaign Chain Letter Commenting on the Georgia primary next Senator Morris chairman of the Baid in a press conference after the meeting here the committee's investigator there had been instructed to investigate a government employes were circulating a chain letter on behalf of the renomination of Senator Walter F. The senator said he also would call the committee's attention to the Appointed to investigate senatorial campaign expenditures and use of government the committee declared in a statement its investigators had obtained affidavits that unlawful contributions in California were made internal revenue officials and employes and other governmental officials and evidence thus far the committee these unlawful contributions to have been voluntary and not the result of assessment or The committee said it possessed affidavits to the effect suggestions were made to employes that it would be to the advantage of employes to but no evidence is before the committee contributions were made in response to such Senator Wallace H. was only other committeeman member attending the Sheppard said the committee would meet next in about September 8, to consider a reported union of works progress administration employes and from other HOURLY TEMPERATURES Joplin got a slight when temperatures remained in the 90s after two days of 100-degree maximum was 98 and the minimum 72. A year ago yesterday the maximum was 95 and the low 73. Hourly 1 a. i p. 2 a. 2 p. 3 a. 3 p. 4 a. 4 p. 5 a. 5 p. 6 a. 8 p. 7 a. 7 p. 8 a- 8 p. 9 a. 9 p. 10 a. p. 11 a. p. Noon Weekly Weather Upper Mississippi and lower Missouri Local showers first of generally fair showers again toward temperatures mostly near or below normal in central and north portions and near or above normal in FOUR SWISS ARMY PLANES HIT SIX MEN KILLED Ships Crash Into Mountain While Flying in Dense Fog Fliers Seriously CRAFT ON WAY TO TAKE PART IN AIR SHOW Alpine Searching Organized by Aviation Finds Wreckage of One Aug. 27.- of five Swiss army planes flying in formation crashed into a mountain in a fog near Schwyz Six flyers were reported to have boon killed and two seriously The five observation planes left Dubendorf field in the afternoon to participate in an air show at Lugano airport on As they passed near Schwyz they ran into a dense Four planes crashed into a mountain top of a some of whoso peaks are 8,000 feet An Alpine searching organized by aviation sent back word it had found the wreckage of one plane with two of the occupants injured and those in the other planes were EIGHT TO BE SEIZED IN CONVICT DEATHS Coroner Says Know Who Turned on the Heat That Killed Four and Prostrated a Aug. 27.-Coroner Charles H. Hersch said late to-day or more guards and would be arrested in the baking of four convicts to death in steam-heated punishment cells at the - Philadelphia county The arrests will be made at an Inquest the coroner know who turned on the heat that killed the four and prostrated a score of Hersch believe we have an airtight Hersch has blamed the deaths on a squad of tough He said at least one of the after the heat had turned sent the steam pouring back into the battery of radiators that line the walls of the corridor in an insolation building called the Investigators estimated the temperature reached 190 BRIGHT BELT TOBACCO MARKET AVERAGES N. Aug. 27.-VP)- Sales on the eastern North Carolina bright belt tobacco which opened averaged between and a hundred Prices were slightly lower than en the North Carolina and South Carolina border which weeks The border belt average has been slightly over Clinton Minister Aug. 27.-(^Pi-Friends of the Rev. A M. a state observed his close of his 33 years as a Christian church pastor last night with an informal party on his Mr. 65 years will retire on a pension provided by the FANS SHOULD FORGET NANCY IS ONLY 17 Age ft Twentieth Now to Her as Aug. 27.-
