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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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_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.)
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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.)
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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.