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CORDOBA PRESSED
BY LOYAL TROOPS
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lines May Be Snapped
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BACKGROUND—
Spanish Morocco cradled revolt
against Madrid government in July.
Civil tear has raged unabated since,
insurgent forces occupying by far
the most territory in the first sweeps
to seize power and set up own seat
of government.
Loyalists, holding fast to Madrid,
charge Italy and Germany aid
rebel forces.
By the Associated Press.
MADRID. April 2.—Mechanized
government columns rumbled toward
strategic, insurgent-held Cordoba to
day in a renewed threat to isolate
southern insurgents from their field
base.
Two lifelines—the Cordoba-Badajoz
Railroad and the highway between
the front and Cordoba City—were the
objective of the fresh government
assault. The city is headquarters for
Insurgent Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de
Llano's southern force.
Opposing armies battled on four
fronts. Major action was concentrated
along the southern lines while addi
tional forces engaged in spirited con
flict in the Far North. The fighting
summarized:
North of Cordoba—the town of
Ovejo was the focus of the southern
battle zone. Government militiamen
aimed their attack at the town, only
16 miles north of Insurgent Cordoba
and 5 miles northeast of the insur
gent - held highway. Government
planes, reconnoitering ahead of ground
troops, bombed Cordoba.
Rebels Move Up in North.
In the Far North—Government
commanders admitted hard-driving In
surgents had penetrated their lines to
the town of Gorbea. taking four vant
age peaks, but contended Basque sup
porters halted the advance a dozen
miles from the Biscayan coast. Heav
iest fighting was at the juncture of
Guipuscoa and Alava provincial fronts.
In Burgos Province—In fresh spurts,
government troops renewed efforts to
break through the Insurgent ring pro
tecting Burgos, capital of Gen. Fran
cisco Franco's government. Govern
ment militiamen, firing from behind
Improvised breastworks near Sar
gentes, combined with artillery and
aviation. No definite progress was re
ported.
In the Guadalajara sector: War ac
tion was confined to artillery duels as
rain suspended most activities in the
sector northeast of Madrid.
Line of Trenches Taken.
The Febus (Spanish) News Agency
said insurgents captured a line of
trenches near La Trecha, Oviedo
Province, by a ruse during a midnight
truce parley in no man’s land.
While government leaders discussed
the battle situation, insurgent demoli
tion squads cleared paths through gov
ernment barbed wire entanglements,
the agency reported. The peace parley
suddenly concluded, insurgents swept
through the lanes, forcing the militia
men to fall back to secondary posi
tions.
In Bilbao, Basque President Juan
Aguirre called a new session of his
cabinet to review the progress of the
civil war in the north. He also re
ceived a delegation of Englishwomen
engaged in relief for non-combatants
In the war areas.
While beleaguered Madrid rejoiced
In a belief that government successes
far from her own siege lines had re
lieved the threat of invasion here, a
series of fierce battles were fought on
the eastern Basque front at a heavy
cost of insurgent lives.
A desperate insurgent attempt to
offset recent major reverses, notably
In Cordoba and Guadalajara Provinces,
was believed to have inspired the
fierce but thus far futile offensive in
the Basque country of Northern
6pain.
The fighting fanned out along a
broad front south and west from the
middle of Guipuzcoa Province, as
Franco’s strategists hurled tank, avi
ation and cavalry units at the Basque
troops. At some points, positions
changed hands several times.
Basque Spearhead Holds.
The Basque defenders were re
ported holding their lines, including
a spearhead within 30 miles of the
former insurgent capital, Burgos,
from Santander to the North on the
Biscay Coast.
An insurgent cavalry unit which
plunged ahead of infantrymen was
cut off and surrounded in the town
of Gorbea.
4 PEAKS ARE SEIZED.
Mola's Rebels Take Vantage Points in
Balbao Drive.
VITORIA, Spain, April 2 (JP).—The
northern insurgent army, commanded
by Gen. Emilio Mola, speared deeper
today the wall of mountains protect
ing the Basque capital, Bilbao, and
seized four lofty vantage points.
The rain-burrowed mountain sides
were reported strewn with enemy dead
and wounded as the mass offensive
reached points within 20 miles of
Bilbao, where Mola, one of Gen. Fran
cisco Franco’s right-hand men, hoped
quickly to crush the Basque allies
of the Madrid-Valencia government.
Four peaks of the Cantabrian Moun
tain range south and southeast of
of the Biscay Coast city were wrested
from stubborn defenders, it was re
ported—Mounts Gorbea, San Adrian,
Curruceta and Murumendi.
Hundreds of prisoners and great
quantities of arms and munitions
were abandoned to the insurgent of
fensive.
Desperate Counter Attacks.
The government forces counter at
tacked In desperate atempts to halt
the two-headed drive and regain
ground lost when Mola’s men crashed
Into their lines with an accompany
ing air and artillery attack two days
ago.
Despite rainstorms which made oper
ations difficult, Mola’s men were said
to have met successfully the govern
ment counter thrusts and to have
forced the Basque or government
troops to fall back In disorder to rear
guard positions near Bilbao.
Mola’s airmen, daring the mists that
overhung the mountains and the wind
and rain that lashed the ground forces,
bombed the opposing lines "unmerci
fully.” This attack was carried on
without opposition from the air, ad
verse conditions apparently having
grounded government air operations.
The offensive in the north overshad
owed operations elsewhere, but the in
surgent general staff announced Fran
co’s forces on the Guadalajara front,
northeast of Madrid, were far from
idle and bad pushed their line ahead
to "important” but unnamed positions,
putting Madrid troops to flight.
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Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SALUTATION.
PROBABLY the best - natured
newspaper scribe in town is
our own Harold Rogers, whose
fame for geniality has spread
far and wide. As the weather has
improved of late, Mr. R. has been
talcing the last few blocks of his jour
ney to work at a brisk walk.
MORN) *1
Each day as he passed Thirteenth
and Pennsylvania avenue he heard a
cheery voice chirping “Morning,
Harold.”
"Good morning, good morning,”
quoth Harold, smiling, and went upon
his way.
The other day it suddenly occurred
to him he should slow down and take
a look at the chap who always put out
that unflaggingly cheerful salutation.
He looked. It was a news vendor,
hawking a certain morning paper.
* * * *
SURE THING.
The Department of Justice, or
whoever it is that hangs up those
"Wanted" circulars about crim
inals, really has the bee on one
missing culprit. No chance of his
getting away with a thing by dis
guising his voice, name or hair.
A placard over at the Ben Frank
lin Station reads: "Wanted: Ben
jamin Roden Bradley, alias Ben
Bradley.” Just to make a sure
thing of it.
* * * *
DIRECTIONS.
T AD working in this office the other
night looked up from his type
writer to be confronted by a tall chap
dressed in white tie. tails and topper.
“I say,” I-sayed the fellow, “could
you give me a bit of help? I'm on a
treasure hunt. Looking for the white
hope of Democracy. Could you tell
me what that is?”
Our scribe made a few random sug
gestions, none of which seemed to
clear up the situation. The visitor left.
Pew minutes later two other people
came charging in, asked for assistance
in finding three foreign newspapers.
"Listen,” said the scribe, “this hunt
is taking up too much of my time,
and besides I gave our last foreign
newspapers to the white hope of De
mocracy. He just went down in the
elevator.”
The second set of visitors fled, fear
ing the arrival of the man with
the net.
* * * *
CLASSIFICATION..
y^T ONE of the local cafes, the fel
low who made up the combina
tion wine list and list of non-alcoholic
potables must have sampled the for
mer as he wrote. By the time he got
down to “mixed lemonades” he in
cluded under the heading:
Milkshake
Whiskey eggnog.
What, no chocolate rum punch?
* a * *
REVISED VERSION.
Ji HOUSEWIFE alighting from a
street car at Triangle Park one
afternoon early this week was sur
prised to note a mob of about 200 peo
ple massed on Champlain street. She
edged up to the crowd and asked a by
stander what went on.
“A man and a woman had an argu
ment and she shot him.”
Not relishing such scenes, the house
wife walked on. At the comer of
Euclid and Champlain a taxicab
rounded the comer, the driver jammed
on his brakes, leaned out and asked
a citizen “what happened?”
Quick as a shot the fellow
answered, “nothing much. A taxi
driver just overcharged a woman 10
cents and she shot him, bless her
heart.”
* * * *
SOFT TOUCH.
The night before Easter at the
Sylvan Theater rehearsal for Easter
Sunday’s sunrise concert, James B.
Smiley, young organist-about-tovm,
made an odd bit of musical history.
He played "Awake the Harp" from
Haydn’s "The Creation"—with his
Gloves on.'
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REPLY.
'T'HE sit-down strikes in this coun
try Inspired one news service edi
tor to a masterful idea ... he would
investigate the technique in foreign
lands, compare it with that in our own.
Hot wires were whipped off to foreign
correspondents asking them to de
scribe the government policies in deal
ing with strikers, the prevalence or
absence of violence, the methods of
maintaining striker morale, dozens of
other bright little points. Each wire
ended with the further admonition.
"Give detailed picture exactly how are
they conducted?”
His man in Russia read the essay
through carefully and then sent the
laconic answer.
"Here they’re not."
FASHION SHOW NETS
$1,000 FOR HOSPITALS
A check for $1,000, the proceeds
of the recent Connecticut Avenue As
sociation fashion show, was presented
yesterday by B. Houston McCeney and
S. E. Shreiner, association president
and treasurer, respectively, to Rev.
Calvert E. Buck, chairman of the
United Hospital Association Commit
tee, at the Mayflower Hotel.
Departing from its custom, the asso
ciation charged admission to the show
March 13, and white-clad nurses from
a local hospital collected the quarters
as the spectators entered.
Children’s, Columbia, Episcopal,
Emergency, Garfield, Georgetown,
George Washington, Homeopathic and
Providence Hospitals will benefit.
Germany’* Silk Sale.
Germany sold over $30,000,000 worth
of silk and rayon goods abroad in
1936.
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THIS SLASHED,
MOTHER, SON DIE
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Lynchburg Tragedy Discov
ered When Father- Also Cut,
Moans Over Phone.
bj the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG, Va., April 2.—Wil
liam E. Craghead. whose moans heard
over a fallen telephone led to dis
covery of the bodies of his slain wife
and son in their apartment, was
given a “chance” by doctors today
to survive a slashed throat.
Police Chief Virgil B. Grow, who
directed a probe into the tragedy,
said evidence pointed to a double
murder and attempted suicide.
Detectives under his command
studied a blood-stained note which
they said was signed "William” and
read. In Dart: “I can’t stand it."
Given Transfusion.
Officers said they found a large
kitchen knife in the apartment, which
had been locked from the inside.
Craghead, department superintend
ent at a pulp mill, was strengthened
by a blood transfusion last night
after being rushed to a hospital,
where a surgeon sewed his severed
esophagus and windpipe and the
gaping wound in his throat. Doctors
said the jugular vein had not been
cut.
Firemen summoned to the second
floor apartment broke in and found
the body of Mrs. Craghead, 34, in one
bed room and the body of the son,
Dan, 10, in another. Their throats
had been slashed from ear to ear, and
they had bled to death.
Found on Carpet.
Craghead was found on a blood
stained carpet. Beside him was the
telephone, its receiver dangling.
An operator who said she heard
moans come over the line notified
police. Unable to enter the apartment
and hearing nothing, they left. M. E.
Thomas, whose family, friends of the
Cragheads, occupied the adjoining
apartment, said he heard groans, called
the fireman and notified police again.
After rushing Craghead to the hos
pital, detectives took finger-prints,
photographs and other evidence before
permitting undertakers to remove the
two bodies.
Sit-Down
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that unless such an agreement was
made, under Senate rules Byrnes
"would get nowhere with his resolu
tion.’’
Vice President Garner took a hand
in the dispute to point out that "the
Senate can take up any matter by a
majority vote at any time.”
Meanwhile, prominent Senators of
both parties Joined in urging that the
Senate avoid a vote either condoning
or condemning sit-down strikes.
Presentation of the Byrnes amend
ment late yesterday evoked some of
the most heated debate heard in the
Senate this session.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of
Michigan, voiced "deep regret” over
the manner in which the sit-down
issue had come to a head.
“If this measure comes to a vote
and is defeated,” he said, "the in
evitable conclusion will be that the
Senate has refused to condemn sit
down strikes.
"This Senate can’t afford to have
any one, rightly or wrongly, say that
it condones such methods.”
White House Challenged.
The Michigan Senator denounced
administration silence and called for
a "firm announcement” from the
White House to clear up "this sit
down trouble.”
Robinson attacked Byrnes’ proposal
as an unwarranted attempt to extend
Federal powers beyond their present
scope.
He repeatedly has asserted in dis
cussions of sit-downs that the Gov
ernment has no power, under pre
vailing Supreme Court decisions, to
interfere in such “local affairs.”
The House, which will consider sev
eral Senate amendments to the Guf
fey act after Senate passage, also de
bated sit-down strikes yesterday.
Representative Bradley, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania, called on the body
to "thank God” that the President and
Gov. Murphy of Michigan would not
permit "bayonets and bullets” to be
used in settling the issue.
“It is better to spill a little blood,”
replied Representative Short, Republi
can, of Missouri, "than to coddle and
encourage this form of lawless violence
that will lead to the spilling of much
blood.”
The recent assertion of Senator
Wagner, Democrat, of New York,
that sit-down strikes resulted from
‘‘the organized and calculated and
cold-blooded sit-down of a few great
vested interests” against the national
labor relations act brought a reply
from the National Association of
Manufacturers.
"In giving approval by inference to
the sit-down seizures of industrial
plants he (Wagner) takes the position
that the end justifies the means,” the
association said.
"He differentiates between laws that
have governed mankind since the be
ginning of civilization making illegal
the seizure of private property and a
single act of which he is the author—
an act that even organized labor lead
ers declined to invoke during the Gen
eral Motors stirke.”
Holds President Has Power.
In the Senate, the discussion fre
quently turned to how much power
the Federal Government or Congress
has to deal with the question, as dis
tinguished from State governments.
The debate reached a climax with
Senator Johnson, Republican, of Cali
fornia, contending the President has a
means of dealing with the problem
through a section of the Federal code
relating to “insurrection, domestic
violence or combinations.”
Senator Vandenberg joined in to
declare that, aside from the power of
the Federal Government, there Is a
moral responsibility resting on the
White House as well as the Senate to
exercise "persuasive spokesmanship.”
Caution on Hasty Action.
Most of those who entered yester
day’s debate cautioned against hasty
action on the amendment. Even
Johnson of California, who vehe
mently denounced sit-down strikes
and promised to stand by Byrnes,
urged the South Carolinian to make
the issue plain by • referring spe
cifically to sit-down strikes in the
amendment Then, he added. Sen
ators may vote as they see fit on the
direct issue.
In offering the amendment Byrnes
declared he favored the declarations
of labor policy already In the Mil on
collective bargaining and against
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Giant Airliner Named for City
Miss Mary Senate Howes, daughter of Assistant Postmaster
General W. W. Howes, christening the American Airline’s new
21-passenger liner, the Washington, just before it left Wash
ington Airport yesterday afternoon on its initial flight to Chi
cago. The ship is the largest and fastest land plane in com
mercial use.
American Airlines executives, representatives of other airline
companies and newspaper men and women made the trip.
—Star Staff Photo.
coercion of workers, and did not see
how any one could object to the addi
tional declaration proposed in his
amendment.
Asked by Senator Borah if the lan
guage of the amendment meant sit
down strikes, Byrnes said that was
his construction of It.
After Senators Barkley ol Ken
tucky and Minton of Indiana, Demo
crats, had pointed out that some
miners live in company houses, Byrnes
modified the amendment so that the
written order to leave would apply
only to the property where men work
and not to dwellings.
Senator Guffey, Democrat, of Penn
sylvania said that in some places the
mine property consists of 30.000 or
more surrounding acres and asked
how far the men would have to move.
Senator Austin. Republican, of Ver
mont announced he would vote against
the amendment because he does not
believe Congress has the power to
lay down any of the labor policies de
clared In the Guffey bill.
Amendment Twice Modified.
Barkley wanted to know why a
declaration against sit-down strikes
should be placed in a bill relating to
the coal industry, where no strikes of
that kind have occurred, when the
policy would not apply to other indus
tries in which sit-down strikes have
occurred.
Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat,
of Washington pointed out Byrnes
had twice modified the amendment
after 20 minutes of debate, indicating
the inadvisability of hasty action on so
important a question.
Senator Minton said he agreed
there was no way of enforcing any of
the labor declarations in the bill and,
therefore, he was "against packing
the bill.”
Declaring that "as a friend of union
labor I am opposed to sit-down
strikes,” Johnson of California, as
serted his readiness to vote on the
issue.
‘‘I think we do a great disservice
in this body when we debate the ques
tion and say it is unlawful, but—but—
but.”
When Johnson read the section of
the Federal code which he contended
gives the President power to deal with
such situations, Robinson contended
that before the Federal Government
can send troops a State government
must indicate its desire.
Vandenberg arose to agree with the
views of Johnson. He pointed out,
however, that if the amendment
should be defeated because of the way
it is presented on the pending bill, the
impression would go out that the Sen
ate had refused to condemn sit-down
strikes. For that reason, he said, he
wanted to see the question fully dis
cussed.
After reviewing the labor troubles
in his own State in recent weeks, Van
denberg read a letter from Mayor
Couzens of Detroit, requesting him to
“urge the President and Congress to
use their efforts to terminate sit-down
strikes, and to bring about proper
methods of settling such labor dis
putes.”
With no sign of the debate letting
up, Robinson moved a recess until
today. Earlier in the afternoon the
Senate had agreed to all committee
amendments in the soft-coal control
measure and voted down all efforts by
Senators Borah and Austin to maae
changes the committee had not ap
proved.
VOLIVA TABERNACLE
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Church Head Believes Blaze Was
Set Intentionally—Radio
Station Ruined.
8? the Associated Press.
ZION, 111., April 2.—Fire destroyed
the Shiloh Tabernacle and Radio
Station WCBD today, and Wilbur
Olenn Voliva, overseer of the Christian
Apostolic Church, said: "I haven’t any
doubt it was intentionally started.”
Voliva estimated the total loss at
between *600,000 and *700,000. He
said the tabernacle, built in 1902, was
valued at between *500,000 and
*600,000 and the radio station at
*150,000.
The religious leader said he and an
attendant discovered the fire and
sounded the alarm.
“I saw smoke coming from many
different places in the large building,”
he said. ”1 went in and discovered
flames in rooms as far apart as 200
feet.
"The building was steam heated,
and new boilers had recently been in
stalled. The basement was concrete.
There is no question but that the fire
was of incendiary origin.”
Prices
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approximately 75 newspaper men
crowded about his desk, the Govern
ment has to start thinking of dis
couraging Federal expenditures for
heavy goods.
There was need, he continued, for
more expenditures at the bottom and
less at the top because buying of con
sumer goods meant a spreading of
purchasing power.
Asked If the Wagner low-cost hous
ing bill would not lend encouragement
to further production of heavy goods,
the President said if that measure
were passed this year there would
not be heavy expenditures under it
for some time to come.
NEARLY ALL GOODS lTP.
Cotton, Wool, Wheat Have Risen, as
W’ell as Heavy Commodities.
NEW YORK, April 2 UP).—How
prices of basic commodities have shot
up in recent months under the im
petus of both expanding Industrial de
mand and armaments requirements,
as criticized at Washington today by
President Roc*evelt, is illustrated by
comparison of spot prices now and a
year ago.
On April 1, 1936, steel billets were
quoted at Pittsburgh at $28 a ton. To
day the figure is $37. Copper, today
17 cents a pound, was 9.25 cents a
pound a year ago. Lead has jumped
from 4 6 cents to 6.95 cents, zinc from
4.9 cents to 7.5 cents and rubber from
15 15-16 cents to 27 cents.
Some other prices follow. Hides. 17
cents a pound from 13 cents; crude oil
at Bradford, Pa., $2.67 a barrel from
$2.45; midland upland cotton, 15.17
cents a pound from 11.69 cents; wool,
$1.05 a pound from 90 cents; wheat at
New York, $1.59% a bushel from
$1.19%.
In Time With Future Policy.
Saying he was concerned about the
rapid rise in prices of materials enter
ing into heavy goods, the President
said the present situation was in line
with his public works planning for the
future.
Asked if he favored continuation of
the 4 cents excise tax on copper, he
said it made no difference if it were
left on or taken off at the present time.
Meanwhile, Secretary Perkins an
nounced that Government agencies
purchased supplies worth $93,598,652
during the first six months the Walsh
Healey public contracts act has been
in force.
The act which became operative last
September 28, requires private con
tractors selling supplies to Federal
agencies to conform to the Govern
ment’s standard on minimum wages
and maximum hours.
Contracts Nearly Doubled.
During the first three mnoths the
contracts totaled $27,656,981. The
number of contracts nearly doubled in
the next three months and amounted
to $66,032,670.
Three emergency organizations—W.
P. A., C. C. C. and Resettlement Ad
ministration-accounted for 43.4 per
cent of the supplies, totaling to $40,
588.001. Nine executive departments
spent 47.8 per cent, or $44,791,912.
The largest single purchaser was the
Navy Department, whose supply con
tracts aggregated $30,076,803. A large
part of the money went for wire and
cable contracts, airplane engines and
parts, and storage batteries.
Secretary Perkins said 52.16 per cent
of the supply contracts went for textile
mill products, petroleum, iron and steel.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
Continues debate on Guffey-Vinson
coal bill
Judiciary Committee hears opposi
tion witnesses on Roosevelt court bill.
House:
Continues consideration of District
appropriation bill.
Rules Committee resumes hearing
on resolution to investigate sit-down
strikes.
Agriculture Committee acts on farm
tenancy legislation.
Education Committee continues hear
ings on providing $300,000,000 annual
grants to State school systems.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Will not meet unless Guffey coal
bill fails to pass today.
Interstate Commerce Committee
meets on air transportation bill.
House:
Not expected to be in session.
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CUT IN MS NOW
Davis to Discuss Peace, but
Denies Plan to Call
Conference.
B» the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 2—Norman H
Davis, America’s ambassador at large
said last night he will discuss world
economic and peace co-operation with
British statesmen, but that the time
Is not yet ripe for an international
disarmament conference.
Tension created by the Spanish civil
war and widespread suspicion in the
European mind made disarmament
impracticable now, he asserted.
His disavowal of any United States
intention to propose an armament
conference now, coincided with that
of Secretary of State Hull in Wash
ington.
And it came, too, after general re
action In European capitals against
such a conference at this time, a step
ping up of Franco-British aerial arm
aments and new efforts by those two
nations to settle the question of for
eign volunteers In Spain.
An apparent softening of the Italo
German attitude inspired France and
Britain to urge again that non-Span
ish fighters be withdrawn from the
Spanish civil war.
Attitude of France.
A French foreign office spokesman
avowed that the government “is more
optimistic that the Spanish war will
not entangle Europe than at any
time since the war began.”
An effective neutrality control
scheme will be in operation within 10
days, both French and British sources
predicted. Some observers thought the
new effort to get foreign fighters out
of Spain was inspired by reports of
dissension and revolt against Italians
fighting in the insurgent army.
Demonstrations against the Insur
gent regime were reported today from
Valladolid and Algeciras, and reports
still persisted that there was serious
reaction against Gen. Francisco
Franco in Spanish Morocco, where he
staged the beginning of his fight to
overthrow the Spanish republic.
Some French officials anticipated
withdrawal of foreigners in Spain, but
felt Italians in the insurgent army
might attempt one more offensive
before agreeing to go back home.
Sees Tension Eased.
Davis noted a slight relaxation in
the Spanish tension and added his
view that the civil war had "a sobering
influence” on all Europe.
Here for the International Sugar
Conference opening Monday, Davis
said he intended to discuss all matters
pertaining to key points in American
foreign policy: Economic co-operation,
peace, disarmament.
He reiterated that the most im
portant of these was economics and
stressed the need for world-wide re
duction of trade barriers as a stepping
stone toward any future armament
restrictions.
British onlookers were quick to pro
claim that, whatever the eventual
desire of the United States in world
affairs, there would be no “dramatic
move of any kind” during Davis' stay
here.
INCOME TAX SHOWS
69 PER CENT RISE
March Receipts Total $700,272,
831, but Still $140,000,000
Short of Estimates.
i B? tne Associated Press.
The Treasury's March income tax
receipts totaled *700,272,831, an in
crease of 69 per cent over the same
month last year. It was about *140,
000,000 short of informal estimates,
however.
The Treasury statement for March
31 showed today that all receipts for
the first nine months of this fiscal
year aggregated (3,728,449,453, an In
crease of *628.469,615 over the same
period a year ago.
Gross expenditures also climbed,
standing at *5,520,982,140, or *183,
871,791 over the same period a year
ago.
The higher total spending repre
sented an increase in general govern
mental outlays, which were offset, in
part, by a reduction in emergency ex
penditures.
General expenditures for the period
this year totaled *3.386,007,605, com
pared with *2.906,809,460 a year ago.
the increase resulting from greater
outlays under the social security act,
river and harbor programs, national
defense activities and Inclusion of
emergency conservation work in the
“regular” budget.
PEACE PARLEY DENIED
President Roosevelt told newspaper
men today that foreign newspaper re
ports that the United States was
planning an international conference
on peace and other subjects were
press-inspired.
He recalled Secretary Hull’s press
conference yesterday and said Hull
answered the question categorically
and correctly when he said there were
no plans afoot for proposing a con»
ference of any kind.
Town Left Dark
As Hit-Run Car
Rips Potver Line
Machine Downs Pole,
Wrecks Drug Store,
Speeds Away.
By tnc Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 2—Police
thought today they could identify a
hit-skip driver’s automobile if they
could find it.
They said this all happened In a
few seconds:
The car broke down a power line
pole, ripping light wires from poles
and houses along an entire block.
A large area of the city’s South
Side was left dark.
The auto wrecked the front of a
drug store, blocked traffic on one street
for several hours, and caused a fire
alarm that sent several companies to
the scene.
Then the driver backed the still
functioning car out of the drug store
window and departed promptly.
In his wake, power lines sputtered
until the power was turned off. There
EN ROUTE ROME
Canada’s Governor General
and Wife Say Good*by
at White House Tea.
Canada's governor general, Lord
Tweedsmuir, was on his way back to
Ottawa today after a full round of
visits and tours in Washington for the
past two days.
Final activities of the talented Cana
dian statesman and his wife included
attendance at a White House tea late
yesterday, during which they made
their farewells to President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, and attendance at dinner at
the Canadian Legation last night.
On the final day of his visit of state
the governor general followed a stren
uous program of ceremonial events.
He motored 30 miles to Annapolis
early in the morning to Inspect the
Naval Academy, review a parade of
midshipmen and receive a salute of
21 guns.
Returning to Washington shortly
after noon, his lordship was enter
tained at luncheon by Sir Ronald
Lindsey, the British Ambassador, while
Lady Tweedsmuir was the guest of
Secretary of Labor Perkins. Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt attended the
latter affair.
A few hours later, on a visit to the
Capitol, Lord Tweedsmuir told the
House:
"Your Nation and mine in a very
special sense are the guardians of the
special form of government we call
democracy.”
He spoke from the Speaker's rostrum,
a short time after saying to the Senate
that “the future lies in the hands of
the English-speaking peoples.”
“We have the same definition of
what constitutes greatness and good
ness in human character,” he added.
"We have the same task abroad, the
same economic problems and very
similar constitutional problems.”
Gas
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Courtenay was having trouble with her
eyes and would be out a few more days.
Miss Lawrence was employed at the
Patent Office.
The lengthy suicide note, police said,
disposed of the personal effects of
both. It also requested that the bodies
be cremated together, police said.
On February 15 Miss Courtenay
filed a petition in District Court for
permission to change her name to
Adrienne Letetia St. John, explaining
that her parents had separated when
she was 14 years old and that she
desired to take the name St. John
as a mark of affection for an aunt.
Rebecca St. John Manser, of Sussex,
England.
On March 19 Justice F. Dickinson
Letts rendered a decree making the
change of name official.
Miss Lawrence is survived by her
father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Theo
dore Lawrence of Bethesda. Md., and
three brothers, Dudley, Lester and
Randolph Lawrence, who live in this
city. At the Lamont street apartment
Lester. Lawrence said his sister had
been in poor health recently, but that
he had never heard her speak of
suicide.
The Lamont street apartment was
neatly furnished and lined with book
shelves. There were twin beds in the
room in which the girls were found,
but both bodies were on a single bed.
The girls were attired in night cloth
ing and had pulled a blanket over
their heads.
Carpet for Coronation.
Preparing Westminster Abbey for
the coronation May 12 calls for 1,900
square yards of carpet, 6,000 square
yards of fabric for the ceilings and
walls and 1,000 square yards of blue
and gold brocade.
Follower of Father Divine
Still Missing in “Abduction”
bt the Associated Press.
L08 ANOELES, April 2.—John
Hunt, alias "St. John the Revelator,"
alias "Jesus Christ." still was missing
from his Beverly Hills “heaven" to
day, sought on Mann act charges in
volving a 17-year-old Denver girl.
The pudgy, 200-pound white fol
lower of Father Divine, colored re
ligionist, is accused of transporting
pretty Delight Jewett here from Colo
rado for immoral purposes.
United States District Attorney
Pierson M. Hall said he was consid
ering charges against several close
associates of Hunt in Father Divine’s
local flock.
The last clue to Hunt’s whereabouts
was a report by a Pasadena coach
works, where a $25,000 “throne car”
is under construction for him and his
Negro cult leader.
The 33-year-old scion of a wealthy
Cleveland family appeared at the
shop last Saturday, dramatically an
nouncing himself as “Jesus, the
Christ,” attendants said. When he
ordered the car built two months ago,
be told a salesman he was “St John
the Revelator."
Majestic fittings are planned for the
10-passenger machine, supplied with
a 285-horsepower engine of expensive
make.
«
An elevated “throne" is placed in
the center of the rear seat, flanked on
either side by star-shaped windows.
A canopy of milk-white plush, dot
ted with golden stars, has been de
signed. A dais before the throne is
wide enough for four secretaries, or
“recording angels,” as Hunt described
them. On the radiator he ordered
placed an elaborate “dove of peace. ’
Federal officers were informed the
“rolling throne” was destined to be
used on his West Coast visits by Fa
ther Divine and at other times by
Hunt.
A push-button, it was planned,
would slide down the top of the ton
neau, revealing the occupant of the
throne “to the multitude.”
Detectives, seeking evidence that
Hunt induced Miss Jewett to come to
California in the belief she was the
“Virgin Mary,” received reports from
three Palm Spring hotels.
Last Christmas eve a man and
woman drove up in a luxurious
limousine and said they were disciples
of Father Divine, declared hotel at
taches. Two of the hostelries refused
lodging to the couple when they reg
istered as “Jesus Christ and the Virgin
Mary.” A third permitted them to
•tay the night with no further identi
fication.
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SIT-DOWN CLOSES!
2,000 to 2,400 Workers of
Chocolate Company
Reported Idle.
By rhe Associated Press.
HERSHEY, Pa., April 2— A sit
down strike began today at the plant
of the Hershey Chocolate Co.
Russel Behman, president of the
Hershey Committee for Industrial
Organization, charged the company
had violated three clauses of an
agreement made March 17. He said
between 2,000 and 2,400 workers
struck and that the entire plant was
shut down.
William F. Murrie, president of the
Hershey corporation, said only a few
departments were affected.
The Hershey company granted a
pay raise March 17. Man workers
were given an increase of 12 cents
an hour; women, 7 cents.
Behman said three clauses of the
agreement had been broken. One
provided that time and overtime be
j equally spread over all shifts; another
gave seniority rights, and Behman
said, the company had laid off a
number of C. I. O representatives
since the agreement went into ef
fect.
Murrie denied the company had not
kept its part of the bargain.
W S. Grouse, secretary to Murrie.
explained the company had laid off
between 75 and 100 workers, but said
the Committee for Industrial Organi
zation had been notified that these
were dropped after the Easter orders
were filled. Most of these were mar
ried women. Grouse said.
DIES RESOLUTION
FACES TEST TODAY
House Committee to Consider
Plan for Congress “Sit
Strike’’ Inquiry.
Deciding against prolonging hear
ings on the issue, the House Rules
Committee planned to consider execu
tive session this afternoon the Dies
resolution for a House investigation
of the sit-down strike.
The committee met this morning
with the intention of hearing further
testimony for and against the resolu
tion, but decided such procedure mere
ly would delay action unnecessarily.
Because four members of the com
mittee were absent, however, it was
decided not to consider voting at that
time.
Chairman O’Connor, Democrat, of
New York, said there was no as
surance that a vote would be taken
this afternoon, saying rather that
the whole matter of what to do next
will be taken up at that time.
HUNDREDS WATCH
RACE OF WAITERS
John Richards Is Winner in Un
usual Contest Staged
This Morning.
John Richards, 25. slender, dapper
and sprightly hotel employe, was the
winner of a waiters' race staged on
Fifteenth street alongside the two
block-long Department of Commerce
Building this morning.
Richards won a sprint in which a
: score of entrants were required to
1 carry a tray In their right hands,
j balanced head high, and containing
either four glasses of water or a large
pitcher filled with the same fluid.
Hundreds of Commerce Department
1 workers watched from the tiers of
windows overlooking Fifteenth street,
and police crowded back spectators
who lined either curb.
Two preliminary races were run—
one a relay and the other between
waitresses garbed in various national
dresses.
The stunt was staged as an Intro
duction to a motion picture featured
by a head waiter and opening today at
R-K-O Keith's Theater.
Bowie Entries
for Tomorrow
FIRST RACE—3 years up; claiming;
Sl.OOo; 0 furlong?.
Chatteress <Root> _ 117
Pass 1E. Smith' _.._1 ‘J'J
Emvee 1 Eccard) _ 115
xTuleyries Star (Duffy)_ lie
(Mazyniata vHanlord' _ l \',
xGentlemar. iBarba' -- 115
Sir Isaac <M. Peters' _ 107
, xSun Drops (Gordon) _ 11*1
! xfagkeantry < McMullen) - — 115
xltsie Bitsie (Dufly> _—- 115
xln Step (R. Morris' 115
SECOND RACE—4 years up; claiming.
$1,000: 6 furlon.es.
xGood Flavor (Grigg). __ 113
Tall Cedar (Fowler) _111
Little Argo <E. Smith). _—-11*
Scatterbrain (Westrope) . _ 110
Philippi Boy (Wholey) - - 11
Zebulo (Barba)- _ 107
THIRD RACE—3-year-olds and up;
claiming $1,000. H furlongs.
Lady Carrot 'Saunders) __ 115
Crushed Ice (Hanford' _10
xSally Quick (McMullen) _ 07
xEpitaph (Jaekle' _ 117
Hearteast (E Smith) _ 115
Submarine <S. Renick)_ 1*
xDilwin (Gordon) _ 11«
xVVise Bun (Barba)_1 o’
Lady Briar (Parke) _ ___ 1 <»*I
xSun Abbott tEccard) _ 117*
FOURTH RACE—.'1-year-olds and up:
claiming: $1,000: mile and 70 yards.
xKmdred Spirit (Dunbar)- 113
xEudes <R. Morris) - _ I I 1
xContinulty (Barba). _ 10'.'
xTedsim (Gordon) _ 01
Justa Flight (O'Malley)_ 113
Dedication (Richards! _117
Flying Dere (Westrope)_ 11'-'
Irish Vote (E Smith) _ 117
FIFTH RACE—Bowie Handicap: purse.
$1,500 added: 3-year-olds and up: 1 mile
and 70 yards.
a New Deal (E. Smith)_ 114
Flayox (Lindberg) _109
Kenty (Hanford) 103
Oalumet Dick (Richards' - lid
a Mucho Gusto (Westrope) -lid
Weston (De Camillls) _109
a Araho Stable entry.
EIXTH RACE—4-year-olds and UP:
claiming: $1,000: 1,‘« miles.
x Quiet Please (Morris) -IQS
x Hollyhock (Oordoni -10fl
Chance King (S. Renick) -- 117
x Braving Danger (Shelhamer)-11'
Dutch Uncle (Richards) - 114
Building Trades (Porter) - ll'J
x Chief Yeoman (Barba) - lOo
x Hunterdon iDuffy) 111
SEVENTH RACE—Four years up; claim
ing: $1,000: lVa miles.
xRollick (Morris) -106
xHappy Easter (Grlgg) - lid
xDeparted (Shelhamer) - 105
Captain Jerry (M. Peters)-—-lift
Rudema (De Camellis)_ 10ft
xPopo (Eccard) _ 10H
xDash In (Cubitt) _ 110
Airway (T. Fowler)-lift
Star Wick (E. Smith)-111
xJimmy D. lEccardi_ lnd
Dormido (Westrope)-117
xApathy (Barba) - 10ft
xBoocap (Barba) _101
Scratches for Today—
Clear and fast.
Third race—Lady Carrot, Emvce,
Wise Bun, Gentleman, Dilwin, Pass.
Fourth race—Love Potion, Bounding,
MiUicent.
Sixth race—Infilee.
Seventh race—Boocap, Tragedian,
Chat twees, Monetary.
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