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WEATHER. ~ , -—-— (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) £ Generally fair and continued cool today; v Fllll Associated PreSS tomorrow, fair and somewhat warmer; f XT j .... moderate northwest winds today. Tern- JNeWS and WirephotOS peratures—Highest, 45, at 3 p.m. yester- c.,_ _• , day; lowest, 36, at 6 a.m. yesterday. olinday Morning and Full report on Page B-4._ Every Afternoon. G45) Mean* Associated Press. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION — , _ ~No. 1,673—No, 33,918. pos\eiofflc7, w»nhVst“n,mD.tta WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 11^ 1937—126 PAGES. * FIVE CENTS I TEN CENTS ~~ .. i . - - - — , - 1 " - - IN WAgHINQTOU AW suburbs1 elrfwhfwf NEW G. IYL STRIKE THREAT TO FORCE C. I. 0. Affiliate Head De cides to "‘Give Them a Little More Time to Make Up Their Minds” on Union. SIT-DOWN SETTLEMENT DECLARED VIOLATED Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario Hit for Ending Nego tiations Including Organizer. Brass Band Greets Committee on Return Prom Toronto. BACKGROUND— Sit-down strikes, which have tied up General Motors, Chrysler, Hud son and Reo plants in United. States at one time or another since last November, now center in walkout in General Motors factory at Osha wa, Canada. Workers left the plant Thursday at call of United Auto mobile Workers of America. At same time John L. Lewis, chairman of C. I. O., announced drive to organize workers in plants of Henry Ford. Veteran automobile manu facturer immediately took up the challenge with declaration that Ford Motor Co. would never recog nize any union. By the Associated Press. OSHAWA, Ontario. April 10— Homer Martin, president of the United Auto mobile Workers, tonight threatened a possible new strike in United States plants of the General Motors Corp. if the strike of 3.700 workers in the General Motors of Canada plant here Is not settled amicably. “If they don’t make cars in Canada Under union conditions.” the head of j the C. I. O. affiliate told a mass meet- j ing of strikers, “they won't make them In the United States. We’ll give them a little time to make up their minds.’’ Martin, coming to Oshawa with strike leaders shortly after a break down of negotiations in Toronto, de clared the agreement ending the Mich igan sit-down strike was supposed to apply to Canadian General Motors workers as well. Agreement Held Broken. By refusing to recognize the U. A. W. A. as the workers' representative for collective bargaining. General Mo tors, Martin asserted, broke the Mich igan agreement. He predicted, how ever, that the strike would be settled soon because the company did not want the union to break the Michigan agreement. Other speakers at the mass meet ing. as peaceful as picketing has been 8t the strike-bound plant, attacked Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario who refused to receive a strikers’ com mittee including Hugh Thompson, C. I. O. organizer. Strike negotiations were thus tem porarily terminated. A brass band and a parade greeted Martin and the committee as they returned to Oshawa. More than 1,000 strikers and strikers’ wives met the committee's automobiles at the edge of Oshawa and paraded back to union head quarters with them. Oshawa's 12-piece band led the parade. Picket lines around the Gen eral Motors’ plant were almost de serted for the celebration and shops were emptied as the parade passed. Flag on Martin's Car. The hood of Martin's car w’as draped with a union jack. He was scheduled to speak here tonight, When the parade reached Martin's hotel he climbed to the top of his car and pledged the support of Ameri can auto workers and the C. X. O. to the strikers. "I bring you greetings from 400,000 united auto workers over in America— or the United States,” he said. “We now' are making our first step in Canada, making a great brotherhood of auto workers throughout the American continent. "As I came into Oshawa I passed the luxurious home of Mr. <R. S.) McLaughlin, president of (Canadian) General Motors. I was interested to note the rather palatial grounds and the private airfield. ‘ WhRt we need is more money, more wealth, more food, more cloth ing for the common people of North America and the world. I also remembered there is only one way we can accomplish that, and that is through democratic organizations of your own choosing. “It will be our purpose to organ ize ourselves into freedom and into (See STRIKE, Page A-4.) SIX BRITISH OFFICERS ARE REPORTED KILLED S5 Held Slain and 40 Wounded in Border Clash in India. ■5 the Associated Press. NSW DELHI. India, April 10.—Six British officers were officially reported killed and five wounded today in a skirmish with tribesmen on the north west frontier. Unconfirmed reports placed the casualties at 25 killed and 40 wounded in the remote territory where spas modic guerilla warfare recently has cropped out again. A convoy of 45 trucks and armored ears was said to have been attacked on the road from Manzai to Wana by tribesmen who were believed to be followers of the rebellious fakir of Ipi. The fighting occurred near the western exit of the Shahur Tangi, & narrow gorge with sides nearly 600 feet high. Radio Programs, Page F-3. Complete Index, Pare A-2. Cherry Blossom Queen Crowned; 50,000 See Fireworks Display Commissioner Sultan crowning Sakiko Saito queen of the Cherry Blossom Festival. —Star Staff Photo. AGAINST the blue-black sky of a cold April night, Washington crowned its 1937 Cherry Blos som Queen last night in color ful ceremonies at the Potomac Park Tidal Basin. Accepting the crown with all the grace of a queen was the black-haired, sparkling-eyed daughter of Japan's Ambassador to the United States, 10 year-old Sakiko Saito. "Through our common love of these exquisite flowers, we can better under stand each other and be good friends,” Queen Sakiko told District Commis sioner Daniel I. Sultan in her soft accented voice. "Under the canopy of cherry blossoms, it is my great pleasure to offer the hearty greetings of Japa nese children to the children of the United States.” After two postponements because of (See BLOSSOMS, Page A-6.) 120 Festival Visitors Are Unable to Find Place to Spend Night At least 120 Cherry Blossom Festival vesitors probably saw dawn break this morning without being able to find a plare to sleep. Shortly before 2 a.m. the Amer ican Automobile Association called police headquarters and said: “We've got between 120 and 150 persons here for whom we can t find any sleeping accom modations. Is there anything you can do?” The only quarters police could offer were barred cells, and even those were crowded. t TO AID LABOR ACT Walsh Proposes Ban on All Concerns That Fail to Comply. isr the Associated Press. Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa chusetts, oo-author of the Walsh Healey act, proposed yesterday "black listing” of industrial concerns which fail to comply with the national labor relations act. After a conference with Representa tive Healey, Democrat, of Massachu setts, who introduced the act in the House. Walsh said he would offer an amendment authorizing the controller general to prohibit firms violating the labor relations act from bidding on Government contracts for three years after the violation. The Walsh-Healey act imposes cer tain labor standards on firms con tracting with the Government, while the labor relations act guarantees the right of collective bargaining and out laws employer interference with j unions. Walsh also said he would suggest that the Walsh-Healey act apply to j all contracts over $2,500. At present it applies only to those over $10,000. The purpose of reducing the amount, he explained, is to prevent bidders from "splitting up their bids in order to avoid the Labor Department’s supervision.” Walsh also proposed that dealers or jobbers bidding on Government con tracts be required to obtain from the firm carrying out the contract a "certificate showing the labor require ments of the act” were observed. The proposed amendment would provide penalties against any con tractor misrepresenting conditions. “ODD MAN” MET OF ICKES ATTACK Secretary Declares He, Not the Court, Decides on the Constitution. BJ the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 10.—Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes told a mass meeting at the Chicago Stadium tonight, “Don’t let the odd man (on the Supreme Court) nullify your vote of last November.’’ “The Constitution is not even what the justices say it is,” he asserted in a prepared address before a gathering sponsored by the Chicago Committee for the President's Court Plan. “It is —as it always has been—what the odd man among the justices says it is.” Recalling Justices Sutherland, Van Devanter, Butler and McReynolds had rendered the minority opinion In the recent Washington minimum wage case, Ickes said: “Four justices whose age averages 74/2 years have served notice on the Nation that they are on a sit-down strike and will not help the people work out their modern problems. “Four out of nine votes are loaded —packed against the people. “Arrogant Minority.” “And what that arrogantly non-co operative minority thinks of a country that doesn't like to pay $20,000 a year to sit-down judges, we may learn from that enlightening homily on sports manship of Mr. Justice McReynolds (See ICKES, Page A-3.) .-1 - Barn Empty After 50 Years. BERGER, Mo., April 10 (£>).—After three successive years of drought the barn of S. A. Hall, veteran farmer, is empty of both corn and hay for the first time since its construction in 1887. Tennessee Girl, Married at 12, Divorces Fiddling Youth at 14 By the Associated Press. UNION CITY, Term., April 10.— A pretty, brown-eyed girl—married at 12 and divorced at 14—picked up the threads of her childhood in a share cropper's cabin near here today. Dorothy Warren, a grave, slender child aged beyond her years, fell in love with Willie Faulk, then 13, a fiddle-playing schoolmate, two years ago. They ran away to Hickman. Ky.— just across the nearby border—and were married. Dorothy was in the third grade. The runaways came back to live with the young wife’s parents, but things didn’t run so smoothly. Doro thy decided to get a divorce. “Dorothy and her father and mother came into my office about a month ago,” Attorney E. H. Lannon recalled today. “She was a right pretty girl, tall and quiet. “They decided on a divorce and the hearing was held Thursday before Chancellor W. W. Herron. “Willie was all right for a while after he married, they testified, but pretty soon he picked up his fiddle— he was quite a fiddler—and left home. “Willie, like a lot of country boys, liked music and went around playing for dances and on the street corners. Once he went to Texas and stayed for several months. "When he came home, Dorothy said, he moved out of the house and re fused to live with her. ‘‘The parents didn’t object to the marriage and everything was all right ao long as Willie stayed at home. Dorothy was satisfied. But Willie was a little too young, 1 guess. “He’s still playing his fiddle lor the country folk ever there.” BACKER OF COURT EXPANSION PLAN WINNERJNTEXAS Johnson Beats Nearest Op ponent for House Seat by Two to One. ROOSEVELT PROPOSAL OPPONENTS TRAIL Former Youth Administration Head in State to Succeed Late Representative Buchanan. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., April 10.—Youthful Lyndon B. Johnson, who shouted his advocacy of President Roosevelt's court reorganization all over the tenth Texas district, was elected today to the seat in Congress the late James P Buchanan held 24 years. Prom a hospital bed where he was operated on for appendicitis two days ago. he happily received reports of an emphatic victory over seven opponents, and said he considered the result a vote of confidence in Mr. Roosevelt and his program. Two opponents, Polk Shelton and C. N. Avery, both of Austin, where Johnson was given a large lead, con ceded the victory after an unofficial tabulation showed Johnson would not be headed. Opponents of Court Plan. Shelton campaigned on the court issue, calling the people to beware of “the move to pack the Supreme Court." State Senator Houghton W. Brownlee of Austin, who ran far be hind. also opposed the court plan. Other entrants in the race were County Judge Sam V. Stone of George town, Merton L. Harris, former as sistant State attorney general: Ayres K. Ross. Townsend plan advocate, and Edwin Waller. All are Democrats and all except Shelton and Brownlee had spoken for the court reorganization. With an estimated 90 per cent of the total vote reported, the tabulation gave Johnson. 7.187; Stone, 3.460; Avery, 3,443: Shelton, 3 368: Harris. 3.317: Brownlee, 2.586; Ross, 942, and Waller, 16. Avery for years was campaign man ager for Buchanan, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Johnson was given a large lead in Travis County, site of the State Capi tal, where he had been located several years as head of the National Youth Administration for Texas. He resigned that position to make the campaign. Formerly Served Here. Hi* home county of Blanco gave him three times a* many votes a* the combined total for his opponents. Johnson served from 1932 to 1936 a* secretary to Representative Richard M. Kleberg of Corpus Christi, Tex., and was elected president of the Little Congress, an organisation of secre taries of Senators and Representa tives. Pair weather helped to attract size able crowds to the polls in the dis trict, but early voting indicated the total number of ballots cast would fall short of the maximum strength of approximately 50,000. Today’s was the first congressional election in which the court question was at issue. Shelton campaigned vigorously against "stacking the court" and in a last-minute statement said the question to be settled was his plat form "against the change in the court and my opponents blanket approval of the change without the submis sion of an amendment.” Brownlee of Austin, a State Sen ator, recently voted for a Senate res olution sharply criticizing the Presi dent’s proposition, but in the cam paign did not emphasize the matter. Neither the State or the national Democratic administrations took a hand in the campaign. Gov. James V. Allred stated several times he had no official preference. On a visit to Austin, Postmaster General James A. Parley said his concern only was that a Democrat be elected. Elliott Roosevelt, son of the President, ex pressed hope, however, that Johnson would win. -— FIRE HITS BUS TERMINAL ---- Mechanic Burned in Blaze Caus ing: $75,000 Damage. CHARLOTTE, N. C., April 10 (/P).— Fire swept through the terminal of the Queen City Coach Co. here to day. doing damage estimated at $75,000 and seriously burning M. L. Porter, a mechanic. Terminal employes said the blaze started from a gasoline leak in a bus. Ten busses were destroyed or dam aged. —-• Grounded Liner Refloated. CAIRO, Egypt, April 10 OP).—'The liner Viceroy of India was refloated tonight after running aground and blocking all shipping in the Suez Canal. The IB,627-ton vessel of the Pen insular ti Oriental Line, was en route to England with 700 passengers. She was refloated only after part of the cargo was unloaded. YOUR Taxes . . . A committee of the House plans to begin study this week of eight or nine tax bills which may affect your pocketbook in as many different ways as there are bills. As a taxpayer of the District or as a resident of a State who lives in the District—YOU are affected. Beginning tomorrow, The Star will analyze and explain these bills in a series of articles written to familiarize you with their provisions. Follow the series on YOUR TAXES in The Star. p^siix^smcE l WASHINGTONl EVER NORMA, GRANARY gfr immtrns ACT /m QUIXOTE | / ACT £_ THEMS \ WlNDMILLS! . BOSS]! THE Xi Russian BALIXT SIT DOWN STRIKED THE ! EAST ROOM JAH.io, 194 | THt COURT IS UMAWIMOUS I Whoopez ' iVe Wow A SUPREME COURT. Decision at LAsry Wl is. to peep. NO SCOTCH,; jlCKES? y _FEATURES OF THE SPRING DINNER OF THE GRIDIRON CLUB. ill AND WALLACE Textile Conference Also Will Hear McGrady in Deadlock. To save the World Textile Confer ence from a hopeless deadlock on the question of a universal 40-hour week, the United States, host of 26 other na tions represented at the meeting yes terday. decided to send Secretary of State Hull, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, and Edward F. McGrady. As sistant Secretary of Labor, to address the conference one after the other to morrow morning. The United States has a double interest in inspiring the delegates to the conference to bury their tradi tional differences and work toward the short wwk week. In the first place, this country operates on a 40 hour week and is at a competitive dis advantage with longer hour countries. Model Method for Peace. In the second place, Hull looks on such a meeting as a model method of guaranteeing world peace, because at Its best it can equalize international economy through discussion instead of through warfare. If the 62 govern ments which make up the Interna tional Labor Office, sponsor of the con ference, can agree on international regulation of the textile industry, it is felt the way is opened for interna tional co-operation in solving all economic problems. Progress toward agreement to recommend to a June meeting of the International Labor Office in Geneva that it draft a 40-hour week covenant, limited to the textile industry, was jolted by the decision of the manage ment representatives at the confer ence to stand solidly together in order to stall off the united demand of labor representatives for the short week. Before the conference at the De partmental Auditorium opened it was agreed to divide the delegates into sev eral committees to study various as pects of the textile question. The employers—with the exception of the United States, France and Belgium, where the 40-hour week is operative— vo.ted to change this technique and were successful in having the confer ence meet as a Committee of the Whole, so that the employers would not be separated. Wish to Curb Invasion. The combined pleas of Hull, Wal lace and McGrady, it is hoped, will move the employers to search more diligently for a way to meet the de mand for a 40-hour week. The de mand is motivated not only by a de sire to see social justice done the worker, but also from a wish to curb invasion of markets by Japan, India and China with goods made by labor working long hours for small pay. Representatives of the French and Netherlands governments united yes Fsee TEXTILE7 Page- A-12.) Sit-Down Strike Is Reversed by %/ Cigar Makers Quit Work Because They Do ISot Want to Quit W ork. By th* Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 10—Five hun dred workers at the De Nobile Cigar ! Co. plant in Long Island City quit • work today because they do not tvant to quit work. It was a sit-down strike in reverse. The idea was not to halt produc tion. but to keep It going. The workers sat down after the com pany issued notices yesterday saying this week would be the last in which the company would make cigars this year. Workers blamed the shut-down order on a surplus of stocks, and said that since this was true it was per fectly logical for them to quit work in protest against quitting work. The (See SIT-DOWN, Page A-4.) FOR D. C. ATTACKED Federal Payment Neither Adequate Nor Equitable, Federation Declares. Protesting that a Federal payment of but $5,000,000 toward expenses of the National Capital w'ould be neither adequate nor equitable, the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, meeting in special session last night, disagreed with numerous actions taken by the House in its framing of the 1938 Dis trict appropriation^act. The body reiterated its stand against any increase in the realty tax rate and opposed a boost of 25 per cent in water rates, holding that the cut in these rates made several years ago should be retained. In direct contrast to the position taken by spokesmen for many religious and social work organizations of the District, and in opposition to recom mendations of the Commissioners and the Board of Public Welfare, the fed eration opposed any increase in the appropriation for emergency relief. Its action was a recommendation that Congress should appropriate no more for relief than the sum of $1,465,000 recommended for disbursement during the next fiscal year by the Budget Bureau. There was no debate over the action on the relief item. The House in its (See FEDERATION, Page A-2.) GRIDIRON CLUBMEN HIT COURT PUN Skit, Witnessed by Roose velt, Shows Jurists in Rubber-Stamp Roles. Portraying a rubber-stamp Supreme Court of 15 members, all made up to resemble Caspar Milquetoast, the Gridiron Club last night climaxed its Spring dinner at the Willard Hotel before President Roosevelt, Chief Jus tice Hughes and a distinguished audi ence with this searing musical descrip tion of the court proposal: “So if we're pressed to state our view, We'll hold our noses ..nd say to you— It's delib’rate, it's deceptive, It's deplorable, it’s delirious, It's de novo, it's delimit. It's de bunk, it's de-lousy!” As the major issue of the day, the Supreme Court held the center of the club's stage. And toward the end of the dinner. President G. Gould Lincoln paid respects to the birthday of the Chief Justice, then only a few hours away. A chorus of club mem bers, joined by not a few in the distinguished company, enthusiastical ly sang: "Happy Birthday to You!” to the Chief Justice, in what turned into a genuine ovation. Sweeps Wide Range. The club's alternately merry and biting satire swept over a wide range of public questions, in song and quip: A presidential fireside chat was graph ically re-enacted at the “modest suburban home of a prince of priv ilege.” The sit-down strike was acted out in all the details, including dinner pails, when the C. R. O.—Committee for Republican Organization—sat down in the east room of the White House and recaptured the Govern ment from the Democrats on Jan uary 20, 1941. They proclaimed a new President—“the man who showed you how: John L. Lewis.” In ancient Castille, too, were seen Don Quixote, a dreamer, and ever faithful Sancho Panza Garner. The evening's entertainment swept (Continued on Eighteenth Page.) -. Rumania Guards Wheat. BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 10 <JP).—The government put a tempo rary halt on Rumanian wheat exporta tion today, fearing a domestic short age because 250,000 carloads already had been exported in 1937. No restriction was placed on imports. Oil Struck on Ford Property. LONG BEACH, Calif.. April 10 (JP). —Henry Ford struck oil here today. A well came in on Ford Motor Co. property at the rate of 2,000 barrels a day and of 21.2 gravity. Matman’s Attack on D.C. Radio Man Brings Riot at Bout Here BY BURTON HAWKINS. A minor feud flared into a full fledged riot last night at Turner's Arena as Laveme Baxter, who por trays the role of a villain in mat circles, attacked Tony Wakeman, WOL sports announcer, thereby causing spectators to pounce on the burly grappler’s frame in wholesale lots before he could be quelled. Baxter, before entering the ring to tangle with Floyd Marshall, who hitherto always has been cast in equally villainous parts, walked up to Wakeman, who was sititng on the press bench, picked him up and gen erally manhandled the former Penn State foot ball, wrestling and swim ming star. Aside from being messed up a bit, Wakeman was undamaged and laughed it off. Baxter, however, con tinued the assault more vigorously after he had pinned Marshall. Step ping from the ring the snaggle toothed matman pounced on Wake man, who then was sitting in the first row of ringside seats. This time Wakeman struck back, raising a large lump under Baxter's left eye. The infuriated Baxter launched a return blow but immedi ately was mobbed by ringside spec tators. many of whom long had ached for a crack at the grappler, and finally found their opportunity to cash in. Benny Bortnick, who had refereed (Continued on Page B-10, Column 5.) BRITISH REPORTED REINFORCING NAVY ON BASOMAST Battle Cruiser Hood Goes From Gibraltar on Se cret Mission. FOUR VESSELS OF FOOD WAIT AT FRENCH PORT Captain of Merchantman Reveals Warning Received From In surgent Chiefs. BACKGROUND— Since start of Spanish civil war last July Britain has had occasional friction with loyalist forces, but frequent incidents have occurred with the rebels on high seas in latter’s attempt to shut off all sup plies of food and arms going to the Madrid-Valencia government. Loyalists, who have withstood five-month siege of Madrid by forces of Gen. Francisco Franco, are slowly forcing insurgents away from their objective by a series of concerted attacks by land and air. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 10.—Sudden de parture of the mighty battle cruiser Hood from Gibraltar tonight led to reports Britam was reinforcing her naval strength on the Basque coast as a result of Spanish insurgent threats to interfere with foreign shipping. The Hood, world's largest warship, sailed west from Gibraltar after officers and sailors were rounded up hurriedly from cafes and Gibraltar streets. The admiralty did not disclose her desti nation. Four Vessels Held L'p. Four British vessels loaded with food consigned to Bilbao, besieged Basque port held by Spanish government forces, meanwhile were being held up at St. Jean de Luz, France, after re ported threats by Spanish insurgent* they would seek to prevent all food ships entering the port—even at the risk of an incident with the British Navy. The captain of one of the waiting merchantmen, it was reported from the French port, asserted he haa been informed officially by the insurgent* food supplies for Bilbao henceforth were to be regarded as war material. Lnique Situation Studied. Informed sources in London con firmed that the ships were being held up, while what was termed "an uniqu* situation” was being considered. This was interpreted as meaning that Britam must decide how far she is whiling to go to protect her shipping. INSURGENTS REPULSED. Madrid Besiegers Are Forced Back by Loyalists. MADRID, April 10 UP).—Govern ment forces threw Madrid's besiegers 200 yards back from the Franceses Bridge tonight, successfully holding their “cleaver line’’ between the In surgents’ two main siege positions on the west of the capital. The bridge, on the wooded western edge of the city, spans the Man zanares River where the three-day battle plunged into another night without signs of abating. The span had provided contact tjptween strong insurgent garrisons in Casa de Campo Park and University City, which It links. Defense communiques said tha forces of Gen. Jose Miaja gained the vital territory in an intensive two hour battle in which insurgent cas ualties were heavy. Hill Bombed Six Times. Garabitas Hill, key to the insurg ents’ Casa de Campo positions, wai bombed six times during the day. Tha El Aguila Hill, on the north sida of the former royal park, was re ported taken by storm when defense troops surged forward and drove off their enemy in hand-to-hand con flict. With the government troops ham mering to pierce the siege lines on two sides, their almost solid hall of machine gun and rifle fire waa aimed both at the El Aguila Hill and at a cemetery on the south side of tha park once owned by the Bourbons. Garabitas Hill, standing between the two, is the ultimate goal where (See SPAIN, Page A-7.) -• OUSTING OF THREE U.S. WOMEN PROBED Ambassador Phillips Asks Italy for Information on Ethio pian Incident. Hy the Associated Press. ROME. April 10.—United States Ambassador William Phillips tonight informally asked Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano for information or. the expulsion of three American women missionaries from Ethiopia. His request was made during a visit arranged several days ago, before ex pulsion of the trio was made known by Fascist Editor Virgtnio Gayda In the Giornale d'ltalia. At the United States Embassy, It was said the Ambassador had not been instructed by the State Depart ment to act on this case, and the Ambassador's inquiry did not consti tute a protest. Ambassador Phillips told Count Ciano he had no information other than that in the Gayda article. The foreign minister promised additional data. Diplomatic sources observed that since the Rome Embassy has not as sumed jurisdiction over American in terests in Ethiopia, a delicate question might arise if the State Department in Washington should desire to make representations. Sir Eric Drummond, British Ambassador also called on Count Ciano to ask an official expla nation of the expulsion of British missionaries from Ethiopia.