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THE MENTIONED
TO SUCCEED DUCE
Grandi, Balbo and Ciano
Held Next in Line Under
Mussolini’s Plan.
i BY EDGAR C. STRUTT.
JtOME. April 3 (N.A.N.A.).—At a
tiBe' when Benito Mussolini is pro
jecting himself more and more into in
tePhational affairs, there is increasing
speculation as to who would succeed
him in the event of his retirement or
death.
The Duce himself does not appear to
attach much importance to the ques
tion, as he iokingly remarked last year
that he ‘'felt fit for another half cen
tury in the service of my country.”
It would be difficult to replace Mus
solini. because his individuality, his
ego. is rarely duplicated. Physically,
he bears a strong resemblance to Oc
tavius Augustus and Napoleon. But
he is not only a personality. Fascist
Italy looks upon him as the symbol of
the continuation of the power of
Rome through the ages.
Rule for Succession.
Mussolini has laid down a rule for
the succession to the leadership of the
Fascist party. He has ordered that
the Grand Fascist Council shall every
year select three candidates to the
leadership, inclosing the ‘'tema.” or
group of three names, in a sealed en
velope, which is delivered to the ad
ministrator or manager of the Fascist
party, Signor Marinelli, who locks it
up in the huge safe which also con
tains many millions of Fascist money.
It must be remembered that, al
though Mussolini's collaborators are
men of outstanding merit, they lack
his world-wide prestige and his pas
sionate eloquence which carries away
the crowds.
Perhaps the “terna” of prospective
successors would include Italo Balbo,
noted for his energy, one of the Fas
cist quadrumvirs in the march on
Rome in 1922. and at present governor
of Triploitania. He possesses most of
the qualities expected in a Fascist
leader, including that of youth, the
Fascist hymn being "Giovinezza.
Giovinezza, Primavera di Bellezza!”
(Youth, Youth, Springtide of Beauty!).
Married to Heiress.
Gen. Balbo cannot be exactly de
scribed as an Apollo, but he is an
athletically-built man In the early
40s. with a little black, peaked beard.
He has married one of the wealthiest
and most beautiful heiresses of the
Italian aristocracy and now owns a
magnificent castle in his native town
of Ferrara, the mere restoration of
Which has cost $100,000.
The second favorite would appear
to be Dino Grandi. Italian Ambassador
to the Court of St, James, whom the
King, on the Duce's suggestion, has
just created a count, chiefly in recog- i
mtion of his firm attitude during the
difficult period of the sanctions. He,
too, is in the 40s and a tall, handsome
man, gifted with a charming manner
which makes him an ideal diplomatist.
Perhaps, however, this very gift would
interfere with his success as a potential
successor of the Duce, as Italians have
become accustomed to regard him
more as a perfect ambassador than
as the leader of his country.
Again, there Is the present minister
for foreign affairs, Galeazzo Ciano,
son of Count Costanzo Ciano, the
admiral who sank the Austrian flag
ship In the Adriatic during the World
War, torpedoing her in a tiny mas, or
motor boat. It Is interesting to see
Count Costanzo Ciano, now President
of the Chamber of Deputies, with his
son, Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Duce's
6on-in-law, sitting at the bench of !
ministers. Galeazzo Ciano's candi- i
dacy, however, has small chance of !
success, because, despite his undoubted j
political talent and experience, be still |
has too much of that enviable gift
called ‘'giovinezza.”
Assassination Attempted.
Mussolini has escaped a number of j
attempts upon his life. He was seri
ously wounded during the war and
believes he bears a charmed life. He
spent a few days recently on the
Apennines, at Terminillo, with his
younger son, Romano, and was photo
graphed while skating on the ice,,
naked to the waist, at the risk of
catching influenza or pneumonia.
But, of course, the Duce cannot last
forever, and, in the event of his dis
appearance, the Grand Fascist Coun
cil would assemble and seek audience
of the King, to whom they would -
deliver the sealed envelope contain
ing the three names of eligible candi
dates to the Duce's succession. The
King would then open the envelope, 1
cast his eye on the names and appoint
the new leader or duce of Fascist
Italy.
When Mussolini and his Fascists
marched upon Rome in 1922, King
Victor Emmanuel III appointed him
prime minister. Technically, there- 1
fore, the Fascist revolution did not :
upset the constitution. The appoint
ment of a new prime minister by the
King, as outlined above, would conse
quently satisfy the scruples of legal
purists while continuing the hold
which fascism exercises over the
whole of Italy.
(Copyright. 19.17. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.l
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:j and Mrs. Henry
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Mrs. Charles B. Crawford, vice presi
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and Charles W. Pimper, assistant
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Capital Gets Glimpse of Circus
Bound for New York and the annual opening, Ringling’s Circus halted in the Potomac Yards,
across from Washington, yesterday in order to give the animals a meal and airing, required by
laiv. ,
The camels are shown being loaded back into their cars after a brief stop.—Star Staff Photo.
Spain
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ahead. The folk in the mountain
village of Ochandiano evacuated be
fore them. The Basque army, said
Insurgent commanders, was being bad
ly riddled, despite reinforcements.
Armored cars bucked the govern
ment lines, with varying successes.
City Is Evacuated.
From Madrid, came word the civil
population of Durango began whole
sale evacuation after a day in which
insurgent airplanes thrice bombed the
already sorely stricken town, taking
many lives.
A Febus (Spanish government)
News Agency disrpatch from Bilbao re
ported the authorities of Durango or
dered the evacuation and that by
nightfall caravans of automobiles,
carts and donkeys were on the road
to Bilbao, 16 miles to the north
west.
Three times today insurgent tri
motor bombers droned over Durango,
where more than 200 were killed and
600 wounded in fierce air bombard
ments Wednesday. Many bombs were
dropped today, adding greatly to the
destruction and claiming many more
lives, although no accurate count was
available.
A tragic situation was reported from
Santa Agueda, 10 miles southeast of
Durango and near Ochandiano, where
an asylum containing 1,500 mentally
deficient patients standing in no
man's land has been bombed from
the air.
Asylum Reported Bombed.
Government reports declared in
surgent airplanes dropped eight bombs
on the asylum and turned their ma
chine guns on attendants grouped in
a patio.
Basque authorities said they would
appeal to the International Red Cross
to aid the victims of this situation.
Incendiary, as well as explosive ,
bombs, were used at Santa Agueda, i
;aid government reports, and several I
suildings were set afire.
According to reports published in
Bilboa a blood transfusion hospital
plainly marked with a Red Cross was
among the buildings bombed at Santa
Agueda. Two nuns were killed there
and the hospital was badly damaged.
Basque reports also accused the
insurgent air raiders of swooping low
and turning their machine guns on
refugees of all ages and sexes fleeing
from Santa Agueda.
signs Drive Slows Down.
Basque military reports were more
lopeful tonight and asserted there
were signs of the insurgent drive
slowing down. They said a whole in
surgent column was wiped out Friday
while attempting to advance on Ara
nayona on the road from Vi’Iarreal
;o Bilbao. Several insurgent armored
cars were destroyed.
President Juan Antonio Aguirre of
he Basque regime, which Gen. Fran
cisco Franco’s insurgents are trying
o wipe out, announced the lines de
ending Bilbao still were holding, al
though the enemy had devoted all
>f another day—third of the offen
sive—to attempts to smash their way
-hrough, using tanks, armored cars
md airplanes.
The Febus Agency said government
croops made progress in their drive
coward Burgos, first capital of the in
surgent regime, in the area just west
of the fight for Bilbao. A government
column, moving southward on the
road from Santander, was reported to
have stormed and taken new enemy
positions in the vicinity of Sargentes,
more than halfway from Santander
to Burgos.
Coast Towns Battered.
Insurgent sea power battered the
gov emment towns on the coast, trying
to clear the way for Franco’s soldiers.
The battleship Espana, the cruiser
Velasco and heavily armed trawlers
poured shells into the string of pic
turesque government settlements in
the Lequeitio area.
Government pilots bombed the Es
pana yesterday and reported one hit.
Unconfirmed reports said the Span
ish government freighter Ana Maria,
flying the union jack and carrying
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650 tons of arms and food for San
tander, was stopped by insurgent
trawlers 45 miles south of Cape Fin
istere and forced to put into insurgent
Ferrol.
At Vitoria, on Bilbao's south,
Franco’s officers assembled a fleet of
100 bombing planes and as many pur
suit ships for an ambitious offensive
against the Basque lines. The Basques,
themselves, had only a score of planes.
A general Basque mobilization or
der rushed thousands of defenders into
government ranks, already amounting
to 15.000 or 20.000 well-equipped men.
Refugees from mountain villages
thronged into Bilbao—some reports
said there were 90.000 of them, creat
ing a serious problem for the Basqup
government.
There have been reports of dissen
sion both among the civil population
of Bilbao and in the ranks of Franco's
northern armies.
REBELS RETREAT TO SOUTH.
Try to Escape Trap in Coal Lands of
Cordoba.
MADRID, April 3 C45).—Insurgents
tonight set fire to forests and blew
up bridges to cover a perilous retreat
in Cordoba Province on the Southern
Spanish front.
Apparently they were trying to
escape a trap in the rich coal lands
of the province. Annihilation of
their force, reported in government
quarters to number 15,000 and to be
made up mostly of Italians, was be
lieved probable if a government
maneuver succeeded.
The Cordoba reports indicated gov
ernment troops had reached the out
skirts of Villaharta, Penarroya and
Ovejo—strategic towns between
Pozoblanco in Northern Cordoba and
the insurgent base of Cordoba City
to the south.
Capture of Villaharta would give
the government army control of the
Cordoba highway and cut off the in
surgent avenue of retreat.
Earlier reports said Villaharta had
been captured, but dispatches from
government headquarters at Andujar
said its fall was "imminent." The in
surgent army has retreated 15 miles
or more in a southeasterly direction
from Pozoblanco toward Cordoba. The
trap laid by the government would
bottle it up some 20 miles north of
Cordoba, important supply base.
Loyalists Advance.
Government, troops pressed another
advantage on the Aravaca front just
northwest of Madrid, advancing more
than a mile into territory held vital
to the defense of the capital. In
surgent dead was set at 300.
In two days, troops of Gen. Jose
Miifja, government commander in
Central Spain, have swept forward
2'-2 miles in this sector, dominating
the highway to Coruna, long closed
to government traffic because of near
by insurgent positions.
The Aravaca advance was regarded
as of great strategic importance since,
if successful, it would turn the in
surgents’ flank and affect their posi
tions in Casa del Campo, and in Uni
versity City, Madrid suburb, where
they have held out for months.
Government Infantry, led by tanks
and grenade throwers, attacked the
insurgents’ Aravaca positions after a
long artillery bombardment. The of
fensive followed a series of advances
in the Escorial area on the same
front.
Gen. Miaja said copies of more than
2.000 documents captured on the
Guadalajara front would be sent to
London, Paris and Moscow to prove
Italian intervention in the war. He
said they were from the general staff
of the Italian army fighting with the
Insurgents.
Semi-official Spanish government
reports in Paris said dispatches from
Cadiz confirmed the landing of 10,000
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week. The dispatch said they were
sent to Seville to reinforce insurgents
on the Cordoba front.
At Rome the Stefani News Agency,
which reflects government views, said
the Spanish news agency dispatches !
were "false and tendentious." It as- ;
serted French officials were worried
lest these dispatches produce "grave
prejudice to Italo-French relations.” j
However, reports of Italians landing
at Cadiz also were current at Gibraltar.
At Valencia, the government broad
cast reports, which were ridiculed at
Berlin, of German gas shipments to
the insurgents.
Insurgent reports said an attack
on their positions northwest of Madrid
had failed, government soldiers leav
ing 20 dead on the field when they
were beaten back.
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Fund Is Started
For 1-Pound Baby
Of Relief Clients
Child's Birth W'eight Is
Believed by Doctor
to Be 12 Ounces.
By the Associated Press.
ALBIA, Iowa, April 3— A fund to
provide care for Charles Peter Johns
ton. 16-ounce child born here Tues
day to relief client parents, was
started today.
The baby, weighed for the f.rst time
this morning, tipped the scales at
exactly 1 pound, Dr. R. A. Smith said.
Dr. Smith said he thought the baby
had gained an ounce a day since
birth, which would make his birth
weight 12 ounces, equal to that of
Jacqueline Jean Benson, Chicago’s
midget baby, known as the world's
smallest.
The baby was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Johnston in a two-room apart
ment, The 22-year-old father is a
W P. A. laborer. The mother Is 18.
Dr. Smith continued the child on
a diet of mother's milk and diluted
corn sirup and whisky. He is in an
incubator.
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NEW DEMANDS DELAY
DETROIT HOTEL PEACE
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April 3.—A peace pact
designed to end labor disputes in
Detroit's leading hotels encountered
a stumbling block today.
New objections and new demands
cropped up to prevent signing of
the agreement by a three-man board
of arbitration and halted negotiations
until Tuesday.
Mayor Frank Couzens, chairman of
the Mediation Board, said additional
proposals submitted to the board
shortly before the truce was to have
been signed necessitated the adjourn
ment to permit a study.
The demands were presented to the
board by the Waiters’ and Waitresses'
Association, the union that called a
24-hour strike Thursday in the 27
story Book-Cadillac Hotel, the Typo
graphical Union and the Laundry
Workers’ Union.
POOL ISM MIL
TO BUS! VICTIMS
Many Donate for Warm
Springs Project at
Gonzales, Tex.
Err the Associated Press.
GONZALES, Tex., April 3—A
steady stream of money today flowed
into the Gonzales Warm Spring
Foundation's "living memorial” to the
children who died in the New London
school explosion March 18.
Early in the week volunteer workers
put into mails 5,000,000 Easter seals
after Harold Michelson had started
the fund for a memorial therapeutic
pool in connection with the proposed
rehabilitation center here for crippled
children. The contributions ranged
from one to hundreds of dollars.
Presents $100 Check.
Michelson, a local man long active
in work for crippled children, handed
his check for $100 to Glenn Burgess,
executive secretary of the foundation,
\ttiose movement has the indorsement
of the Texas and the International
Societies for Crippled Children. The
foundation holds a State charter as a
benevolent institution.
Through public subscription and by
a bond Issue, Gonzales citizens had
purchased 400 acres of land and Pal
metto State Park was developed.
Forty acres were reserved for the foun
dation. There are flowing warm min
eral springs on the site.
rne uonzaies rounaauon, nice tnac
at Warm Springs, Ga., proposes to
build a hospital where crippled chil
dren may be taken for convalescence
following an operation and where non
operative cases may be treated through
prescribed underwater exercises in
warm pools.
Held Fitting Memorial.
“A warm-water pool, where little
crippled children can go to be made
well, seems to me a warmly human
and a fitting memorial to the chil
dren who perished at New London,”
Michelson said.
Ross Boothe, chairman of (he foun
dation, said the completed institution
would cost $250,000. He said the me
morial pool, to cost approximately $8 -
000, would be built first. Boothe said
nearly $4,000 is now on hand and
from $200 to $300 is being received
daily.
"If contributions continue to come
in as they are now, we will be able to
start work on the pool and center
soon,” he said.
Brill
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and told me he loved me and was
coming to me. He didn't say why
he left me
“Then, 10 minutes later, one of the
reporters told me he was asking for
an annulment.”
Her eyes filled with tears again,
and she moaned
“He can t do that to me. Til fight
it.
"I never in my life have taken a
drink of anything stronger than wine.
My former husband, George Macy,
can tell them so. And he would, too.
And so would all my friends.
"I love Bill, and I’m not going to
let his mother or any one take him
away from me. I’m going to get George
Macy and half of New York so
ciety to come here and testify to my
character.
“I don't know w*hat they think I am.
I married Bill legally. We were stone
sober, and there will be four wit- j
nesses for that. His mother and Bill j
and I discussed it all for two weeks
before the ceremony.
"Then we had two heavenly days
and nights together before he left me.
I'm a wife in more than name only,
and I'm going to keep my husband.”
She said the only accusation her
husband's mother had hurled at her,
during a short scene together yes
terday, was that she had used her in
fluence to “have the story of our
marriage published in Los Angeles.”
She left today for some unknown
destination near San Francisco and
said she intended to return to fight
the suit.
The heiress, when she divorced
George Henry Macy at Reno, sued
his mother, Mrs. Martha Law Macy
Kerr, and his stepfather, Allan H.
Kerr, for alienation of affections,
asking $150,000. It was later an
nounced the divorce contained a set
tlement of $100,000.
Her husband's parents, Dr. and
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JOYCE MATTHEWS
Of Denver, picked by Dave Gould, film studio dance director,
"the man with 10,000 telephone numbers,” as the most beautiful
girl in the United States. Of all the dance prospects, Gould
said, Miss Matthews—a blue-eyed blond, slightly plump, of me
dium height—is the most beautiful. She has been in the movie
colony less than a year and Gould believes she will become a
featured player. —a. P. Photo.
Moisture Banishes Thoughts
of Drought—Minnesota
Also Blanketed.
BT th* Associated Press.
BISMARCK, N. Dak., April 3.—Jubi
lant North Dakota farmers surveying
fields laden with up to one foot of
snow were described today as "sitting
on top of the world this Spring."
Thoughts of last Summer’s drought
that seared three-quarters of the State
were all but banished by the heaviest
April snowstorm on record and wtord
from the Bismarck Weather Bureau
that germination of grain was already
assured.
O. W. Roberts, veteran Federal
weather observer, was authority for
the optimistic outlook.
"With supplemental moisture In Mav
the crop prospects look great,” Roberts
said.
The heavy snow blanket extended
over South Dakota and early tonight
had covered virtually all Minnesota.
At Fairmont, in Southern Minnesota,
communication lines were down and
a large area was Isolated. Rail and
highway traffic was disrupted in parts
of the three States. Communication
lines were snarled over most of South
Dakota.
Mrs, William Brill, are divorced. She 1
said the physician had retired and
that both he and his former wife are
wealthy.
"They have three or four million
dollars’ worth of real estate,’’ she
said.
The bride’s father is a Birming
ham, Ala., steel executive.
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Ships
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less vessel drifted with the waves in
the mid-Atlantic and waited for aid
From early morning to midafter
noon her call kept sounding. She
was taking much water and she
needed doctors badly, she said.
The cry for help was repeated, the
Borkum’s wireless operator explained,
because his receiving equipment was
dead and he could not know if his
calls were heard.
Th'1 SOS gave the Borkum’s posi
tion as latitude 40.02 N. and longi
tude 35 21 W„ which would place the
boat about 1.000 miles East of New
York She sailed from Newport, Eng
land, on March 25. bound for Havana. 1
Cuba, and Mexican and Texas ports. |
Four boats—the German steamship
Ehrenfels, the French Colombie, the
British Tamaroa and the Zealandic—
started toward the Borkum. Then the
Tamaroa dropped out.
Lloyd's register lists the Borkum,
which formerly was called Ingram, as
of 3,670 gross tons. She is 369 feet
long, with a 50-foot beam. Her home
port is Bremen, Germany, and she is
owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd.
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Master Returns Lost Wallet to
Driver of Moving Van.
EAST ORANGE. N. J.. April 3 '7P>.
—James Russell’s police dog has
brought home some strange things,
but nothing quite like the latest—a
wallet containing $45.
Russell, scanning the classified col
umns. noted a moving van driver had >
last the wallet and returned it.
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