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MILITARY CALLED
IN HUH_STRIKE
Entire Pecs, Hungary, Area
Controlled by Army to
Halt Spread.
By the Associated Press.
PECS. Hungary. February 25 —Mil
itary control was declared over the
entire Pecs mine region today to halt
the spread of a hunger-strike of 267
coal miners, isolated in their workings
far below the surface.
After the toll of dead In yesterday’s
rioting at the pit shafts »se to three,
with six others wounded, army au
thorities closed the university to pre
vent student sympathy demonstra
tions.
The strikers, reported dominated by
a militant minority, restored com
munication with the surface momen
tarily to ask that a trade union com
mittee be sent down to hear their
terms.
Committee Is Barred.
Authorities, however, refused to per
mit the committee to go below'.
The immediate objective of the au
thorities was to prevent the strike
from reaching proportions of a 1934
demonstration in which 1,200 miners
threatened mass suicide to enforce de
mands for wages greater than $2 a
week.
Their threat ended when the gov
ernment promised better working con
ditions. The present strike was aimed
at Increasing the dally rate of pay
from $1 to $1.20.
Gendarmes were stationed at other
shaftheads today to frustrate any at
tempts to broaden the strike. More
than 4,000 miners were barred from
the pits February 17 when plans for
• hunger strike were uncovered.
Crowd Stones Police.
Police and 300 men and women
clashed last night near the scene of
the present trouble. The crowd stoned
the police and the shooting followed.
Two of those injured are women
The condition of the 267 hunger
■trikers was not known today, for all
communication between the surface
and their dark refuge had been severed.
A mine official said it was impossible
even to drop food to them.
In the belief that part of the work
ings along the 656-foot shaft might be
filling with water or dangerous gases,
authorities considered efforts to restore
pumping facilities suspended by the
strikers.
1934 Veterans in Group.
They expressed the opinion a ma
jority of the group wished to return
to the families feverishly awaiting
them near the shaft-head, but were
prevented by a militant minority.
Among the group were veterans of
the 1934 strike. With the miners were
400 ponies used for underground haul
ing, which they declared would be kept
without food, too. A letter sent to the
men by the mine management was
returned unopened.
Maj. Emil Fey, former Austrian
cabinet member, and head of the
Danube Steam Navigation Co., owners
of the mine, asserted in Vienna that
“Socialists and agitators” had caused
the strike. He declared the workers
were provided with free housing and
coal and food at low prices.
Reorganization
(Continued From First Page.)
“encroachment’’ by the General Ac
counting Office upon the adminis
trative functions of the Treasury
Department.
The joint committee has before It
a motion to invite the General Ac
counting Office to send its agents to
explain these charges—which nearly
half the members of the joint com
mittee said they consider trivial and
few in number when it is taken into
consideration that they cover a period
of 15 years.
The new administration bill has 48
pages covering five titles. Title 1,
pages 1-3, “Gives the President
authority to reorganize the agencies
of the Government comparable to
that given him by the economy act
Of June 30, 1932, as amended.”
Title 2, pages 4-27, “Contains civil
service and classification act pro
visions.”
Title 3, pages 27-35, “Reorganizes
the auditing and accounting functions
of the Government.”
Title 4, pages 36-41, “Establishes
the Departments of Social Welfare
and Public Works and the National
Resources Board and changes the
name of the Department of the In
terior to the Department of Con
servation.”
Title 5, pages 41-48, covers defini
tions and general miscellaneous pro
visions.
Investigation Provided.
The bill provides that “The Presi
dent shall investigate the organiza
tion of all agencies of the Government,
including the agencies established or
affected by this act—other than the
General Auditing Office—and shall
determine what changes therein are
necessary to accomplish any cf the
following purposes:
(a) To improve the effectiveness of
administration management.
<b) To reduce expenditures to the
fullest extent consistent with the
efficient operation of the Government.
(c) To Increase the efficiency and
operation of the Government to the
fullest extent practicable within the
revenues.
<d) To group, co-ordinate, con
solidate, reorganize, and segregate
agencies and functions of the Gov
ernment, or any pert thereof, as
nearly as may be according to major
purposes.
(e) To reduce the number of such
agencies by regrouping and consoli
dating those having similar functions
under a single head and by abolishing
■uch agencies or such functions, or
any part thereof, as may not be
necessary for the efficient conduct of
the Government.
(f) To eliminate overlapping and
duplication of effort.
(g) To segregate in any agency of
the Government regulatory functions
which are exercised In essentially the
same manner as the functions of a
court are exercised, from any policy
determining, prosecution, enforcement
or other administrative or executive
functions, and to transfer any of the
above-mentioned functions from one
agency to another and so segregate
■uch functions in the receiving agency.
The section dealing with the Gen
eral Accounting Office provides for
the appointment of an auditor general
and assistant auditor general by the
President, with the approval of the
Senate. The respective salaries would
be $15,000 and $12,000. The terms
would be tar 15 years, and the auditor
general would not be eligible for re
appointment. Removal could be only
for eause, and then^ky joint resolu
Arline Judge Off for Reno
Film Actress to Ask Divorce From
Director—Plans to Wed Again.
Arline Judge and Wesley Ruggles shown as they appeared
at the Los Angeles county clerk’s office to file notice of their
intention to wed and take necessary vows.
. ■
By the Associated Press.
Hollywood. February 25 — |
Arline Judge, the curvacious
actress, was Reno-bound to
day to divorce Director Wes
ley Ruggles.
Friends believe she then will marry
Daniel Reed Topping, millionaire
sportsman, who last week figured in
an exchange of blows at a Hollywood
night club.
The brunette. Miss Judge, recently
adjudged by one beauty expert to have
the most perfectly developed figure
in the movies, took a train last night
for Reno because, her attorneys said,
she prefers to terminate her five-year
marriage to Ruggles in six weeks—
Nevada's residential requirement.
A Reno decree is effective imme
diately. In California it is necessary
to wait a year for the legal right to
remarry.
Last week end Miss Judge con
firmed her engagement to Topping
after he had exchanged blows in a
Hollywood night club with Pat Di
Cicco, actors’ agent who once squired
Miss Judge. Topping is owner of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, professional foot
ball team.
A property settlement, made before
Ruggles went to an Idaho film "loca
tion,” provides his payment of $1,000
monthly for support of 4-vear-old
Wesley, jr. It will be submitted to
the Reno court.
Miss Judge was a "kid” film player
when she and Ruggles were wed in
October, 1931. She gave her age as
19; he said he was 42. She tem
porarily retired from the screen to
become a mother. When young Wes
ley was an Infant, she would push him
through Beverly Hills in a perambu
lator. herself on roller skates.
She is a contract player now at a
major studio.
tion or impeachment. Except as to
titles and salary, the language is the
same as in the budget and accounting
| act.
Provision is made for an annual re
port to Congress by March 1 of the
audit for the preceding year.
The changes in the new bill pre
sented yesterday are explained as
follows:
It clarifies the standard as to the ,
reorganization of regulatory agencies (
by providing more specifically that
quasi-judicial functions shall be segre
gated from policy-determining, prose
cution, enforcement or other adminis
tration or executive functions, and
that after transfer the functions shall
be so segregated in the receiving
agency.
Restrictions Are Provided.
There is a provision, definitely, that
the President may not abolish an
existing department, the municipal
government cf the District of Colum
bia, or the Federal Reserve Board, and
further that he may not transfer all
of the functions of an executive de
partment or of the District of Colum
bia government, or any of the func
tions of the Federal Reserve Board to
any agency.
The new bill provides that the
regulatory functions of any Inde
pendent regulatory commission which
are quasi-judicial in nature may not
be exercised by or supervised by any
administrative or executive officer, but
shall be exercised by the regulatory
commission which shall be appointed,
removed and have tenure of office in
the manner prescribed by Congress.
There is a proviso, however, that in
the case of a large regulatory agency,
where expedite or routine action is
necessary, the functions may be exer
cised by an administrative or executive
officer, subject to the review of the
commission.
The section covering reorganisation
and extension of the merit system has
been amended by exempting, specific
ally, Judges of legislative courts from
appointment by the heads of execu
tive departments or independent agen
cies.
WILSON TOMB VISITED
Thirty members of the Democratic
women’s national organization made
a pilgrimage to the tomb of President
Wilson at Washington Cathedral yes
terday afternoon. Right Rev. James
E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington,
received the group and presided at
brief ceremonies in the Bethlehem
Chapel.
Mrs. Rose Forrester, commissioner
of labor conciliation, spoke of Mr.
Wilson’s vision for his country, and
Mrs. J. Borden Harriman and Mrs.
Charles Hamlin hung a wreath of
white flowers on the bronze gates of
his resting place in the Cathedral
crypt.
Strayer to Graduate 93.
Strayer College will graduate #S
students at the midyear commence
ment exercises in Memorial Conti
nental Hall at 8:30 p.m. today. Dr.
Joseph M. M. Gray, chancellor, ol
American University, will deliver the
graduation address on ‘‘Modern So
ciety vs. Education.”
FOR TASTIER
CHEESE
DISHES
76 PCT. OF BONUS BONDS
ALREADY ARE REDEEMED
3,456.466 of Estimated 3,550,000
Eligible Veterans Have Ap
plied for Cash.
Be the Associated Press.
The Treasury reported today that
76 per cent of the soldiers' bonus
bonds have been redeemed in cash.
As of February 20. It said, $1,799,
155.200 of adjusted service bonds have
been issued and $81,801,289 paid
veterans in odd-amount checks.
Of the bond total, $1,368,012,200
worth have been redeemed.
The Treasury said 3.456,466 of the
estimated 3,550,000 veterans eligible
for the bonus had applied for it on
February 20.
Umbrella in Coffin.
In the will of Miss Alice M. Cox,
just filed in London, she requested
that her umbrella, marked with her
initials, should be placed in her coffin.
FIGHT TO DEATH ON
TO TAKE OVIEDO
Loyalist Army Slowly Deci
mating 14,000 Rebel De
fenders of City.
BACKGROUND—
Spanish civil war, which began
last July, reached climax in violent
attack of rebels on Madrid, capital
and Loyalists’ stronghold, last No
vember. Madrid withstood the at
tack, despite predictions it would be
easy prey. For weeks the fighting
continued, with the loyalists dog
gedly holding on. The Fascist rebels
changed their tactics and concen
trated on cutting off the capital
from Valencia and other places
where aid was coming from. So 12
days ago they began drive to close
main roads to Madrid. Capital de
fenders answered with own counter
attacks.
By the Associated Press.
BAYONNE, Franco-Spantsh Border,
February 25. — Dynamite - hurling
Basque besiegers of Oviedo reported
today they had stormed the heights
dominating Naranco Hill, last insur
gent redoubt on the outer rim of the
devastated city.
The strangling circle was closed
around the insurgent garrison during a
night of the most murderous fighting
of the civil war. the government forces
reported, cutting off the city’s de
fenders from all hope of relief.
Push to Dominant Position.
At times struggling hand-to-hand,
the dispatches from the lines about
the northwestern provincial capital
said, the Basque miners pushed slowly
through the San Claudio quarter to a
dominant position overlooking the in
surgent fortifications.
At dawn there was an ominous lull
in the fighting, like dead calm before
a final assault.
The once-proud Oviedo was being
methodically battered to a mass of
smoking, jumbled ruins.
The Meabe quarter of the historic
city of Northwest Spain was reported
in flames after insurgent resistance
was crushed there in hand-to-hand
fighting.
A hospital, an orphanage and a
convent were said to have been
wrecked by dynamite and hand gren
ades and insurgent defenders driven
from their fortified refuge in them.
Fight to Death.
A large segment of Oviedo’s bloody,
but unbowed garrison was reported
waging a fight to the death from the
Vega Arms Factory on the sixth day
of battle.
While their comrades clung dog
gedly to lesser remparts or attempted
to stay the government attack by
hand-to-hand combat In the streets,
the arms factory detachment parried
thrust after thrust with rifles and ma
chine gun Are.
Basque dispatches said the 12,000 or
14.000 Insurgents were outnumbered
about two to one.
(The Insurgent high command at
Salamanca headquarters previously
had declared the attacking force was
routed and 2.500 of them killed in
"the most crushing defeat of the civil
war.”)
The occupation of a road Into
Oviedo from Orado, 12 miles west of
Oviedo, was declared by government
officers to have blocked reinforcements
for the garrison, leaving open only
one circuitous route out of the be
leaguered city to the sea. Oviedo Is
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Elaine Has New Escort
Elaine Barrie Barrymore, who has sued John Barrymore
for divorce, appeared early yesterday at a Hollywood night club
with a new escort, William Tannen. The latter is a young
screen actor and son of Julius Tannen, veteran actor.
_—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
14 miles south of the Bay of Biscay
coast.
Dispatches from the Gijon govern
ment headquarters said the attacking
troops had seized the Buena vista foot
ball stadium and to have defeated
shock troops rushed through to the j
garrison before the Grado road was
severed.
An armored train blasted at In
surgent positions in the Villal sector
while government militiamen struggled
hand to hand in the Villal market
place.
"Mop-up” squads of government
riflemen gouged into houses through
outlying sectors, hunting for Insurgent
snipers, the last strands of resistance
left as the combat converged into the
center of the city.
Much of Oviedo’* civil population
fled during the three months of siege
that preceded the government's move
to annihilate the insurgent force.
MINES ARE BLOWN L’P.
MADRID. February 25 (^.—Tun
neling militiamen, laboring feverishly
to forestall an insurgent attempt to
dynamite the government-held dental
clinic in University City, blew up
their own and their enemies’ mines
in a terrific explosion today.
Insurgents had mined part of the
ground under the clinic when gov
ernment soldiers ,-amed t the oper
ation. Squads of workmen hurriedly
dug a government tunnel underneath
the insurgent mine.
Then quantities of explosives were
tapped into place in the lower tunnel
and the two subterranean passages
exploded.
The explosion was the signal for
an artillery and machine gun duel
between opposing lines which lasted
for several hours, but resulted In no
change of respective positions.
Government forces. meanwhile,
fought bitterly today to strengthen
their position at the foot of strategic
Pinz&rron Hill, southeast of the capi
tal, preparatory to a mass assault up
the slopes to dislodge Insurgent artil
lery batteries.
The military command estimated
2.500 insurgents were slain in one
phase of the battle for possession of
the hill, west of Morata de Tajuna,
which dominates the Jsrama battle
field.
Insurgents still holding the summit
were said to have been placed in a
virtually untenable position by the
continued government battering and
were in danger of being forced to
abandon the artillery emplacements
from which they have been shelling
the vital Madrid-Valencia supply
route.
Throughout the night .cannon rum
bled through the shell-marked streets
of the village of Morata de Tajuna |
as the government rushed up rein
forcements.
20,000 Have Influenza.
Influenza caused more than 20,000
cotton operatives of Lancashire. Eng
land, to be absent from work at the
same time.
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IN TORSO SLAYING
Detectives Study Blood
Stains Near Place Where
Body Was Discovered.
By tnr Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, February 25.—Detec
tives studied today what they believed
were two blood trails near where the
nude torso of a young woman was
found on Lake Erie’s rocky east side
shore line.
The discovery by Detectives Peter
Merylo and Martin Zalewskl spurred
an Intensive police hunt for remaining
portions of Cleveland's eighth mys
terious decapitation slaying victim
since September 5, 1934.
The first torso was washed ashore
at almost the same spot. Six more
decapitation killings—five of them In
the desolate Kingsbury Run section a
few miles away—followed, culminating
In the latest discovery two days ago.
The clue started a new search of
the shore line for the woman's head
and arms, sought to establish her
Identity. Before the trail was found
detectives said they were without »
single lead In the hunt for the sex
crazed, surgically-skilled maniac they
believed responsible.
The investigation also was extended
today to sewers leading away from the
beach as detectives said a further
search of missing persons records re
vealed no one whose description cor
responded with the newest victim.
Mrs. Anna Ziber, 3*', walked into a
police station and ended concern for
her safety. Police said the only other
person they had considered, Miss
Flavia Pillot, 28, missing after coming
here on a visit from Canton, Ohio,
undoubtedly was safe.
Detective Merylo and Zalewski said
they first noticed blood stains near
the curb on heavily-traveled Lake
Shore boulevard, which led them to
believe that the torso and possibly
| other missing portions had been
brought there in an automobile.
The trail, which extended for two
and a half blocks on the boulevard,
i went down two dead-end streets lead
I ing to the lake. Almost midway
: between where the parallel streets end
three blocks apart at the lake the
latest torso was found. The stains
led almost to the beach.
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