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informs House of Commons of govt's decision not to accord belligerent status to Franco regime, and to introduce legis for regulation of Brit shipping in emergency

MEASURE A COMPROMISE; Cabinet Divided Over Belligerent Status for Franco Rebels.

Saarland (freighter), damaged en route from west coast or South Amer to Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg-American Ship Damaged by Fire at Sea

upholds constitutionality of Act in 4-4 decision

JOB INSURANCE ACT OF STATE IS UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT; JUSTICES DIVIDED, 4 TO 4

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State Dept orders closing of U S Embassy in Madrid and evacuation of staff and nationals to Valencia

U.S. Abandons Madrid Embassy; Staff Is Ordered to Valencia; Wendelin Directed to Take With Him All Americans Who Will Go -- Expects to Arrange for Automobile Transport Tomorrow -- Building to Be Kept Open as a Shelter. WASHINGTON SHUTS MADRID EMBASSY

Held liable for money advanced to parents in relief fraud cases

Children in Relief Fraud Case Held Liable For Money Advanced to Parents by City

pleads with convention for support of majority rule; convention gives support

A.F. OF L. APPROVES C.I.O. SUSPENSION, BUT OFFERS PEACE; Convention, After Stormy Debate, Adopts Report Holding Door Open to Settlement. PLEADS FOR LABOR UNITY Critics Attack Council's Acts as Illegal, Unfair and Destructive to Autonomy. A.F. OF L. APPROVES C.I.O. SUSPENSION

GERMANS ENRAGED AT DEATH PENALTY IMPOSED BY SOVIET; Press Fulminates at Moscow for Putting Reich Citizen in Jeopardy in Siberia. ENVOY MAKES NEW PLEA Berlin Admits Agreement With Japan on Reds -- Four More Germans Seized in Russia. GERMANS ENRAGED AT SOVIET VERDICT

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outlines financing plan and estimate of revenue at dinner opening bond sale

CITY DRIVE OPENED FOR BONDS OF FAIR; Leaders Declare Investment Sound Financially and in Community Spirit.

Battle for Madrid renewed; Rebel planes raid city; J Deutsch, former Austrian War Min, offers services to defense junta; German nationals and Spanish rightist refugees, housed in German Embassy, ordered to leave; evacuation of non-combatants pushed; Rebel Moors attack houses converted into fortresses at edge of Madrid ; govt offensive along Biscay Front threatens Tolosa and San Sebastion

MADRID IS ROCKED BY SHARP FIGHTING; Battle Is Renewed at Night After Only Desultory Firing -- Planes Raid Capital.

Crash into private car carrying O P Van Sweringen considered as possible contributory cause to death, Scranton

O.P. VAN SWERINGEN DIES ON TRIP HERE; Builder of Rail Empire Victim of Heart Attack on Train in Hoboken at Age of 57. HIS COACH IN SLIGHT CRASH Control of Vast System May Pass to Two Middle West Financiers. O.P. VAN SWERINGEN DIES ON TRIP HERE

O'Mahoney Holds Ruling Shows Mr. Dooley Right

Directors of Natl Retail Dry Goods Assn approve code governing relations with consumer, govt, employes and producers; summary; State laws sought

RETAILERS INITIATE A VOLUNTARY NRA; Agreement Among Merchants of Nation Proposed by Dry Goods Association.

Captured with 3 other correspondents by Leftists while on tour of Madrid front

Four Correspondents Captured

Rebel Moors Storm Houses

MADRID, Nov. 23. -- Six shells struck the heart of the city today. One aerial incendiary bomb fell in the War Ministry courtyard. Several militiamen were wounded and many windows shattered by the explosions.  

Center of City Is Shelled

Wide Floods in Nicaragua

W N Cromwell receives Order of Grand Cross

FRENCH HONOR CROMWELL; American Philanthropist to Get Grand Cross of Legion of Honor.

Loyalist Offensive in Far North

ROME, Nov. 23. -- Reports from Madrid that Italian submarines attacked Spanish warships off Cartagena were officially denied in Rome this evening. Italian warships, it was said, are still in Spanish waters, but they are there solely for the protection of Italian citizens and property and have categorical instructions not to interfere with the civil war in any way.  

Italy Denies Implication

Williamsburg Bridge, truck ablaze halts traffic

Fire Halts Bridge Traffic

Queen Elena Sees U.S. Envoy

Loyalist govt accuses Italy and Germany of aiding Insurgent fleet, infers Reich complicity in Cartagena attack; official denials from Rome; Brit naval circles believe govt cruiser was disabled by mine

November 24, 1936

Headlines from November 24, 1936

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MEASURE A COMPROMISE; Cabinet Divided Over Belligerent Status for Franco Rebels.

Hamburg-American Ship Damaged by Fire at Sea

JOB INSURANCE ACT OF STATE IS UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT; JUSTICES DIVIDED, 4 TO 4

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