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ROOSEVELT INTENSIFIES
DRIVE FOR COURT RILL;
FORD IS SEEN YIELDING
- * <• _ . _
Ashurst Tells
Course on
Issue.
NO COMPROMISE
W HILE WINNING
Wage and Hour Law
and Sit-Down Ban
Considered.
BACKGROUND—
Validity of national labor rela
tions act, questioned by some of
Nation’s greatest lawyers and in
dustrialists, has been in process of
being tested by courts for more
than a year. For weeks, while fight
raged in Congress over presidential
proposal to revise Supreme Court,
Nation au:aited ruling of highest
tribunal on any or all of five cases
under consideration there.
Victory by five-four margin leaves
question of need of court reform
still pertinent with administration
leaders expected to give some in
dication soon as to whether they
Krill look with favor on compromise.
President Roosevelt will hold fast to
his plan to reorganize the Supreme
Court it was indicated with certainty
today, despite yesterday's display of
liberality by that tribunal in upholding
the Wagner labor relations act.
This belief received material support
also from the Capitol as Chairman
Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee announced prior to the oppo
sition appearance of Federal Judge
John Clark Knox at today's hearing
on the reform plan, that the proposi
tion will be “pressed with greater
vigor.”
"There will be no compromise," the
chairman declared. "I’ve never heard
of a man retreating when he is win
ning. There will be no compromise.
Don't listen to any defeatist siren
singer who says this bill will be with
drawn.”
It w»as regarded as significant that
no Senator supporting the bill, with j
the exception of Ashurst, attended ]
the morning session of the hearing.
The chairman does not question wit
nesses.
Balance of Power Seen.
The “no compromise” attitude also !
was reflected at the White House, it i
being pointed out that under the
present attitude of the court the bal
ance of power over legislative enact- j
ments by Congress now rests with one ;
man. Associate Justice Roberts.
Under such circumstances, con- j
siderable doubt still would surround
legislation which the President is
known still to desire in furtherance of j
his social program. Included in this j
category is legislation on minimum j
wages, maximum hours and standards j
of working conditions, a subject on !
which Mr. Roosevelt soon may submit!
a message to Congress. Child labor
regulation also may become a subject
for further action, with the possibility
that congressional committees may
turn their attention to these issues
even before requested by the White
House.
In the legislative picture, also, was
the possibility that efforts will be made
to amend the Wagner act, and to es
tablish a legislative prohibition against
the sit-down strike.
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah
already has been quoted in favor of
including in the labor relations law
some specific safeguard for employe
minorities and for employers. Sen
ator Byrnes, Democrat, of South
(See LEGISLATIVE, Page A-7.)
22 HURT IN PLUNGE
OF BUS INTO CREEK
Vehicle Leaves Highway Near
Bridge in Fog 20 Miles South
of Brunswick, Ga.
Bs the Associated Press.
BRUNSWICK, Ga., April 13.—
Twenty-two persons were injured by
the plunge oi a Miami-New York
motor bus into White Oak Creek, 20
miles south of Brunswick, during a
fog early today.
Rescued by White Oak boatmen,
passengers said a woman they be
lieved to be a Mrs. Stewart of Char
lotte, N. C., was missing. She boarded
the vehicle at Jacksonville, Fla.
The bus left the highway at 3:30
am., near a small bridge and turned
upon its side in five feet of water.
Mrs. J. L. Drury, White Oak resi
dent, heard the crash and notified
other residents of the small commu
nity.
A rescue force of eight men secured
small boats and worked rapidly to ex
tricate the passengers.
“We were thrown from one side of
the bus to the other,” said Galen
Thompson of Storington, Me., one
of the injured. “By breaking windows
and opening doors we were able to pro
vide exits. Unable to see whether we
were in a wide river or a narrow creek,
we did not leave the bus, but stood
with water reaching to our necks until
boats arived. If the water had been
2 feet higher I believe all of us would
have drowned."
S. L. Matthews of North Augusta,
S. C., driver of the bus, sustained a
cut in the face.
"I had pulled out to pass a car,” he
said. “Unable to see because of the
fog, I failed to cut back into the
highway sufficiently to strike the cen
ter of the bridge spanning the creek.”
Hospital physicians said several of
the passengers suffered fractures, but
none was considered in a serious con
dition.
Some Justices
Plan to Retire,
Seiiators State
Er the Associated Preas.
Some Senators predicted today that
one »r more of the Supreme Court’s
so-called "conservative” justices—Mc
Reynolds. Van De van ter, Sutherland
and Butler—might soon retire.
The legislators cited long-current
[ rumors that some of the four were
eager to quit, but had clung to their
seats for two reasons:
1. They had no assurance of fixed
retirement pay.
2. Retirement might have resulted
in a realignment of the tribunal, be
cause it would permit President Roose
velt to name a new member.
The first consideration was removed
by the recent passage of the Sumners
act, guaranteeing full pay of $20,000 a
year to retired justices.
Decisions in the Washington
minimum wage and Wagner act cases
upholding administration measures, the
Senators argued, indicate a realign
ment on the court already has taken
place. In these rulings Justice Roberts
swung away from the “conservatives,”
with whom he previously had sided in
several 5-to-4 decisions.
All but Justice Butler in that group
are over 75. He is 71. None has given
any public indication he might leave
the bench.
RULING^ EFFECT
INFUTURESTUDIED
New Policy in Industrial Re
lations Seen in Wagner
Decisions.
Digest of majority and. minority
opinions in Wagner act cases on
Pages A-6 and A-7.
BY JOHN H. CLINE.
Refusing to deal with the Intricate
problem of interstate commerce in an
•'intellectual vacuum,” the Supreme
Court yesterday upheld the consti
tutionality of the Wagner labor rela
tions act in terms that may have a
profound influence on industrial rela
tions for years to come.
The decision took cognizance of the
tremendous growth of industry since
the advent of the "machine age” and
gave the Federal Government broad
powers to regulate employer-employe
disputes tending substantially to im
pede the free flow of commerce among
the States.
The epochal ruling, upholding the
right of collective bargaining, was an
nounced in five cases assailing the
validity of the Wagner act. The jus
tices were unanimous in one case—
that involving the Washington, Vir
ginia & Maryland Coach Co.—and
divided 5 to 4 in each of the others.
Hughes With Majority.
Chief Justice Hughes sided with
Associate Justices Roberts, Brandeis,
Stone and Cardozo in upholding the
legislation as applied to the Jones &
McLaughlin Steel Corp. of Pennsyl
vania, fourth largest in the country;
the Fruehauf Trailer Co. of Michi
gan. the Friedman-Harry Marks
Clothing Co. of Richmond, Va„ and
the Associated Press. The dissenters
were Justices Sutherland, Van De
vanter, McReynolds and Butler.
Immediately .speculation began as
to the probable effect of the decision
on President Roosevelt's proposal to
add six new justices to the court un
less present members over 70 retire.
Supporters of the President took the
view the 5-to-4 rulings still left too
much power in the hands of one man
and that even the broad language of
the opinion did not give the Federal
Government all the power it needs to
cope with modern problems.
ine opponents of the court plan,
however, gleefully contended that the
Wagner ruling, coupled with the mini
mum wage decision two weeks ago,
removed all necessity for adding new
justices to the court.
Pointing out that the principal ar
gument advanced in support of the
President's plan has been the desir
ability of securing a more enlight
ened interpretation of the Constitu
tion, they asserted this objective is
assured by the liberal position taken
by the present court in the wo rulings.
The court disposed of the bus case
(See JUDICIAL, Page* A-7.)
PRESIDENT MAY DEFER
RELIEF FUND MESSAGE
Budget Bureau and Treasury Un
able So Par to Work Out
Needed Figures,
ff? the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt may defer until
early next week his recommendation
to Congress for relief appropriation
for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
The message had been scheduled to
go to the Capitol tomorrow, but White
House officials said today the Budget
Bureau and the Treasury had been
unable to work out as yet needed fig
ures on receipts and expenditures.
These probably will be ready Friday,
officials said, adding the Chief Execu
tive would study them over the week
end before writing his message.
Mrs. Roosevelt in Tennessee.
GATLINBURG, Tenn., April 13 C4>).
—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, touring
the Great Smoky Mountain National
Park, planned today to motor to New
found Gap and then drive into North
Carolina to visit the reservation of
the Eastern band of Cherokee Indians.
U.S. Will Force
Recognition,
Is View.
UNION TO WAGE
NEW CAMPAIGN
Strike Not Neces
sary, Says Martin,
U. A. W. Head.
Bs the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April 13.—Homer Mar
tin, president of the United Automo
bile Workers of America, predicted to
day that the Federal Government
would "force" the Ford Motor Co. to
deal with the union under the Wagner
labor relations act.
Jubilant over the Supreme Court
decision upholding the Wagner act, he
declared that "a strike to force Henry
Ford to recognize the U. A. W. A. will
not be necessary now.”
Union officials announced that an
intensive membership campaign among
Ford workers would be begun imme
diately. One method of operation, Ed
Hall, second vice president, said will
be to broadcast appeals to Ford em
ployes from an airplane flying over
the Ford Rouge plant.
Hall recently made such a broad
cast through powerful amplifiers from
an airplane soaring over Detroit.
No comment was forthcoming from
the Ford Co. or from Henry Ford, who
announced recently from his Winter
home at Ways, Ga., that his company
would inaugurate wages "such as
never seen before as soon as this labor
mess is over.”
we made that statement shortly
after reports were published that the
Ford Co. planned a $10 minimum wage,
far in excess of union demands, to
combat the U. A. W. A. membership
drive.
Martin said the U. A W. A would
seek immediate reinstatement by the
Fruehauf Trailer Co. of seven em
ployes allegedly discharged for union
activities, with payment of wages dat
ing from the Summer of 1935 when
they were dismissed. The Fruehauf
Co. was one of five defendants in cases
decided yesterday bv the Supreme i
Court.
Chrysler Accord Stands.
The U. A. W. A. chieftain said the
union would stand pat on its agree
ment wuth the Chrysler Corp.. waiving
its right under the Wagner act to
petition for an election. The Wagner
act specifies that a union which proves
in an election that it has a majority
membership shall be entitled to exclu
sive recognition as the bargaining
agency, but Martin said that "we have
sole bargaining rights in Chrysler
plants under the strike settlement.”
The General Motors situation was
somewhat complicated by a strike in
the Oshawa (Ontario) plant of Gen
eral Motors of Canada.
Martin and other U, A. W. A. officials
(See FORD, Page A-4.)
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Italian Cabinet Meets.
ROME, April 13 (£>).—Italy’s cab- j
inet met briefly today to approve a
law banning enlistment of volunteers
for Spain.
It will meet again Friday, perhaps
to take action on long-expected law's
intended to increase the birth rate.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page Page
Amusements B-16 Radio.A-18
Comics . B-ll Society_B-3
Editorials ..A-10 Short Story__A-8
Financial _.A-17 Sports __A-14-16
Lost & Found A-3 Woman’s Pg. B-10
Obituary A-12
SUPREME COURT ISSUE.
Presidential message may follow Wag
ner act ruling. Page A-l
Decision to aid Ford campaign, union
official says. Page A-l
Impetus for ',*&te labor relations laws
seen in '1>4gner decision Page A-2
Digest of majority opinions on Wag
ner act. Page A-6
Digest of minority opinions on labor
relations cases. Page A-7
STRIKE SITUATION.
Canadian labor minister may act in
G. M. strike. Page A-l
Anti-picketing injunction sought in
Covington strike. Page A-4
FOREIGN.
Loyalist counter at Madrid shattered
by rebels. Page A-I
Defeat of Japanese cabinet pre
dicted. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
States may get larger share of relief
burden. Page A-l
Cse of smoke to make ice described to
chemists. Page A-l
H. L. Mencken proposes new Maryland
Constitution. Page A-5
Democracy at low ebb, Senator Lewis
warns in Radio Forum, page A-l*
WASHINGTON AND VICINITT.
Larz Anderson, ex-diplomat, dies sud
denly in West Virginia. Page A-l
State labor relations bill to be pressed
in Virginia. Page A-2
Corcoran art students stage burlesque
“sideshow.” Page A-S
Bombers begin Maryland-Virginia war
over game hostilities. Page A-3
J. C. Koons, C. & P. vice president.
dies suddenly. Page A-l*
Mrs. Norton hits proposal to investi
gate D. C. government. Page B-l
Garcia, alleged "full-dre6S burglar,”
on trial. Page B-l I
A
MEDIATION MOVE
IN CANADA WAITS
CONSENTOF G. M.
Labor Minister Prepared to
Aid Negotiations if
Firm Agrees.
HERSHEY EMPLOYES
RETURN TO POSTS
Agreement Ends Strike at Choco
late Plant—Mine Shoot
ing Probed.
BACKGROUND—
With automotive labor and in
dustry in the United States at
peace after a series of strikes, John
L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial
Organization has turned its organ
ization efforts to the General Mo
tors plant in Canada.
By the Associated Press.
OSHAWA, Ontario, April 13.—A
move by Canada’s minister of labor
to mediate the Oshawa strike pivoted
today upon consent by General Motors
of Canada, Ltd.
Meanwhile, other developments '
added fuel to the already heated con
troversy of international scope:
Hugh Thompson, John L. Lewis'
right-hand-man in the Oshawa strike,
asserted the United States Supreme
Court decision on the Wagner act
would cast the United Automobile
Workers Union in the role of sole
bargaining agent for General Motors
workers here and in the United States.
Premier Mitchell Hepburn of On
tario accused Lewis of trying to become
"economic and political dictator" of
both the United States and Canada
and declared that, if he came to
Canada and sponsored any overt act, I
or if any of his aides should do so. |
they would be jailed "for a good, long
time and there wouldn't be any bail." j
Membership Drive Plans.
Thompson announced a drive for I
membership would be started soon
among workers of the Goodyear rub
ber plant at nearby Bowmanville. L.
D. Leslie, an Akron. Ohio, organizer
for the United Rubber Workers, an
affiliate of Lewis' Committee for In
dustrial Organization, will arrive in a
few days, he said.
With Hepburn refusing to talk to
strikers so long as they were repre
sented by Thompson, Norman Rogers,
the Dominion minister of labor, of
fered to intervene.
Thompson said he would be glad to
have Rogers act and Mayor Alex Hall
of Oshawa said he expected to hear
from General Motors officials today as
to their attitude.
(The Dominion government corre
sponds to the Federal Government in
the United States. Hepburns posi
tion as the provincial executive corre
sponds to a governorship in the
United States.)
Awaits Company Consent.
If General Motors consents to the
mediation plan, the Oshawa Mayor
said, he \Vould ask Rogers to come
immediately from Ottawa. Rogers
said his department could act if only
one party to the dispute consented,
but added, "It would be better if both
sides were willing.”
The strike, affecting about 3,700
workers, went into its fifth day with
no record of violence. The company
did not attempt to resume produc
tion, halted to enforce a demand that
the U. A. W. be recognized the collec
tive bargaining agent.
The company has offered to sign an
agreement with a shop committee and
(See"CANADA, Page A-4.)
Krieger-Frooks blackmail trial con
tinued week. • page B-l
Capital Transit controller testifies in
valuation hearing. Page B-l
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-10
'This and That. PageA-10
Answers to Questions. PageA-10
Political Mill. Page A-10
Stars. Men and Atoms. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Paul Mallon. Page A-U
Mark Sullivan. Page A-ll
Jay Franklin. Page A-ll
Delia Pynchon. Page A-ll
FINANCIAL.
U. S. bonds ease (table). PageA-17
Daily oil output drops. Page A-17
Stocks advance (table). Page A-18
Curb rise led by oils (table). Page A-19
London gold hoard moves. Page A-19
Wholesale index down. Page A-19
SPORTS.
Chapman snaps out of doldroms at the
Plate. Page a.14
Sports rules violators likened to card
sharps. Page A-14
Base ball, track on college card tomor
row. P&g6
Parr fight seen as set-up for Max
Baer- Page A-15
Marathon veterans undaunted by
Father Time. Page A-15
Arcelli decision against Furr termed
"robbery.” Page A-15
Isemann’s status in pin world still
uncertain. Page A-16
Ace gold holdout converted to steel
clubs. Page A-16
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Vital Statistics. Page A-9
Traffic Convictions. Page A-9
Young Washington. Page A-9
Bedtime Story. Page B-2
Service Orders. Page B-6
Nature's Children. Page B-7
Dorothy Dix. Page B-10
Betsy Caswell. Page B-10
Crossword Puzsl*. Page B-U
City News in Brief. Page B-12
Letter Out. Page B-12
/tlMMiHCS
JUST ABOUT THROUGH!
Larz Anderson, Diplomat
And Traveler, Is Dead at 71
Long Illness Is Fatal to
Humanitarian and
Soldier.
Larz Anderson, noted diplomat of
several decades ago and prominent as
a world traveler, soldier and humani
tarian. died today at White Sulphur
Springs. W. Va , according to word
received at Washington Cathedral. He
was 71.
Mr. Anderson died of a heart and
kidney ailment after a long illness. He
had been under medical care at the
Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur
Springs for about four weeks. His con
dition became critical 10 days ago.
and his wife was summoned. The body
wall be returned to Washington for
private burial.
Mr. and Mrs Anderson long have
been leaders in Washington society.
Their home at 2118 Massachusetts
avenue has been the scene of many
brilliant gatherings. The King and
Queen of Siam stayed there during
their visit here several years ago.
The Andersons usually opened their
palatial residence during the early
Winter and early Spring. At other
LARZ ANDERSON.
_ —Underwood Photo.
season* they lived at their Summer
home, Weld, at Brookline, Mass., or
in the South.
Mrs. Anderson is widely known as an
(See ANDERSONTPage A-2.)
Will of Mrs. Mary Walker
Makes Gift Contingent
on Hanging as Unit.
Thirty-nine paintings by celebrated
masters have been left to the Cor
coran Gallery of Art by Mrs. Mary
Emma Griffin Walker, wealthy and
elderly widow, who died in Boston
April 2. The pieces of art form the
bulk of Mrs. Walker's valuable col
lection. which hangs in her former
home at 1314 Sixteenth street.
The bequest was disclosed today,
when her will was filed in District
Court.
Such noted masters as Sir Joshua
Reynolds, Gainsborough. Renoir,
Botticelli, Landseer, Constable. Monet
and Romney executed a number of
the paintings.
Mrs. Walker made the gift condi
tional on the Corcoran Gallery's ac
cepting the collection and hanging
it as a unit, to be known as the
“Edwin C. and Mary Walker collec
tion.” within six months after pro
bate of her will.
If this condition is not met the
paintings will be turned over to the
Detroit Institute of Arts, and if that
gallery does not accept them within
nine months after probate they will
be turned over to the residuary
legatee, Mrs. Mary Brewster Cassels
of Boston, a niece.
Executors Named.
Mrs. Cassels and Paul E. Lesh,
Washington attorney, weTe named
executors.
Lesh said it was impossible at pres
ent to estimate the value of the estate,
but that it probably aggregated sev
eral hundred thousand dollars.
Mrs. Walker, who was in her 80s
when she died, was the widow of
Edwin Chandler Walker, whose fam
ily came to Canada. She had lived
here many years.
She left her Summer home and
its contents at St. Andrews-by-the
Sea, New Brunswick, Canada, to two
grandnieces, Andree and Nancy Cas
sels, Boston, daughters of Mrs. Cas
sels.
Four paintings were left to a sister,
Mrs Elizabeth Griffin Brewster, and
(See PAINTINGS, Page A-2.)
BONNET CONFERS
Georges Bonnet, the French Am
bassador, conferred with President
Roosevelt today for about 15 minutes.
He refused to discuss with news
paper men the nature of his visit.
Melting Snow Filling Reservoir*.
DENVER, April 13 C4P).—Filling
reservoirs—Arizona's Roosevelt Dam
was two-thirds full for the second
time in 24 years—were reported
throughout the West today because of
melting snow-packs, assuring farmers
of more moisture this Summer than
last.
SIT-IN CRITICISM
Senate-Approved Resolution
Also Condemns Company
Unions and Labor Spies.
By the Associated Preas.
The House Labor Committee ap
proved today a Senate resolution de
nouncing sit-down strikes, company
unions and industrial espionage. The
committee vote was 11 to 4.
Chairman Connery said he would
seek to bring the measure before the
House next Tuesday.
The committee acted after defeat
ing. 8 to 7. a motion to delay ap
proval of the resolution until its
members had an opportunity to study
Supreme Court decisions on Wagner
labor relations act cases.
Representatives Keller, Democrat,
of Illinois, Gilday, Democrat, of Penn
sylvania, Dunn, Democrat, of Penn
sylvania and Schneider, Progressive,
of Wisconsin indicated they would
file a minority report opposing the
resolution, on the grounds the Su
preme Court’s action had made it
unnecessary and that Congress had
no power to legislate in connection
with the sit-down strike problem
Connery had conferred earlier with
James Roosevelt, son and secretary to
the President, and reported there
“might be some changes” in the reso
lution. The committee approved it,
however, without alteration.
Keller said only the absence of sev
eral committee members prevented
the adoption of the motion to post
pone action.
Some of those arguing for delay, the
chairman asserted, contended the
resolution might be interpreted now as
a blow at labor.
-«
Six Killed in Train Collision.
MOSCOW, April 13 (/P).—Six per
sons were killed and 13 seriously in
jured, it was announced today, in a
head-on collision of suburban trains.
Production of Ice From Smoke
Revealed to Chemists’ Society
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
Staff Correspondent ot The Star
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ April 13.—
Making ice out of smoke, poison rivers,
a new and paradoxical male hormone,
a fire-extinguishing chemical twice as
potent as those ordinarily used, and a
new vitamin were reported before the
American Chemical Society here this
morning.
A new chemical process which
promises to make every smoking fac
tory chimney in America a potential
commercial source of dry ice, widely
used as a refrigerent, was described by
Wellford Martin and D. H. Killeffer,
chemical engineers of New York City.
Dry ice is the solid form of carbon
dioxide. It has been obtained in the
past largely as a by-product of coke
ovens, at considerable expense and far
from the consuming markets. Conse
quently its use has been restricted.
The common method now used to
get rid of factory smoke is through
giant absorption towers. In the sys
tem described today the carbon diox
ide In the smoke is combined with
ammonia in the presence of water
vapor as it is passed through a tower.
This converts it into a form in which
nearly all of it can be recovered as
pure gas which can be converted to
dry ice on the spot, ready for the local
market.
Isolation and synthesis of a third
male hormone, epiallopregnalolone,
was announced by Dr. R. E. Marker
of Pennsylvania State College.
This new substance, in extremely
(See CHEMISTS, Page A-5.)
REQUESTS mm
NFU
Roosevelt Asks Congress
for Money to Start
Memorial.
President Roosevelt today asked
Congress to appropriate $500,000 so
construction of a memorial to Thomas
Jefferson can be started without delay.
The $500,000 estimate was sent to
the House by Acting Budget Director
Bell, who suggested it be incorporated
in a deficiency bill.
Bell pointed out that the Jeffer
son Memorial Commission, under
an act approved last June, is author
ized to enter into contracts not in ex
cess of $3,000,000 for construction of a
memorial.
Boylan Addresses House.
Representative Boylan. Democrat,
of New York, chairman of the Jeffer
son Memorial Commission, addressed
the House at the opening of the ses
sion today on the life and public
policies of Jefferson. Other House
members also paid tribute to Jefferson
Meanwhile, the Fine Arts Commis
sion and the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission submitted
reports to the Memorial Commission
on plans calling for construction of
j the memorial at the south side of the
Tidal Basin, in West Potomac Park.
While both Commissions refused to
divulge the contents of their reports,
it was learned they contained criti
cisms of the design of the proposed
memorial drawn by John Russell Pope,
New York architect. No objection to
locating the memorial in West Po
tomac Park was voiced by the com
missions.
The commissions urged the memo
rial group to have a study made of
the entire area which would be af
fected by construction of the memo
rial, with particular attention to high
ways, bridges and traffic problems as
well as landscaping.
Can Retain Own Experts.
It was pointed out the Memorial
Commission could retain its own ex
perts to make the study or could
assign the task to the National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commission
or the National Parks Service.
Should a formal memorial be con
structed at the Tidal Basin site, it
would be necessary to project Fif
teenth and Seventeenth streets
southward. Government officials de
clared. This would result in altering
the shape of the Tidal Basin so that
instead of the present informal shore
line, a series of straight lines would
be developed, officials said. They in
sisted it w’ould not be possible to have
the present informal shore line with
a formal memorial on the south
shore.
MSGR. SHEEN TO SAIL
TO EUROPE WITH SMITH
Former Governor Will Leave on
First Trip Abroad
May 15.
BT th# Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 13.—Former
Gov. Alfred E. Smith has made
reservations on the Conte di Savola,
sailing May 15, for his first trip to
Europe.
Included in his party will be Mrs.
Smith and Rev. Fulton J- Sheen
of Catholic University, Washington.
They will tour Italy and several
other countries on the continent.
MADRID IS ROCKED1
AS REBELS SMASH
LOYALIST COUNIER
Relentless Drive by Gen.
Franco Wipes Out Gov
ernment Gains.
TANKS DESTROYED
BY “BOTTLE SQUADS”
Insurgents Reinforced—Hand-to
Hand Encounter With Knives
Leaves Many Dead.
BACKGROUND—
Spanish civil war, nearing end of
ninth month, still is focused, about
Madrid as government troops are
succeeding in holding the capital
from the insurgent forces of Gen.
Francisco Franco.
Five-month siege of Madrid ap
peared near being broken recently
by Loyalists as vigorous attacks
forced rebels to retire from certain
strategic portions of the front.
However, attacks and counter-at
tacks continue to leave the results
of the tide of battle in doubt.
By the Associated Press.
MADRID, April 13.—Reinforced
insurgents today fought off govern
ment troops trying to forge a ring
around 3.000 of Gen. Francisco
Franco's men in University City, the
northwestern suburb.
Government officers said the enemy
was moving up heavy concentrations
of troops to resist thrusts against
Garabitas and Aguila Hills in the
Casa de Campo sector, west of Ma
drid.
The insurgents launched repeated
counter-attacks against government
lines in Casa de Campo and Univer
sity City. After an early-morning
lull, the sound of heavy firing, includ
ing the thunder of trench mortars,
told Madrilenos of the continuing
battle at the doorway to the capital.
Planes Again Active.
Clearing skies permitted rival air
men to resume their demoralizing col
laboration with the ground forces.
Gen. Andres Saliquet's veteran in
surgent legionnaires were reported to
have shattered a late night govern
[ ment attack in force, fighting hand
to-hand with slashing knives across
I the shell-torn no-man's land.
I With their unsheathed trench
| knives glittering in the light of ex
! Ploding shells and burning flares, the
insurgent troops leaped out of their
trenches and literally cut the gov
ernment assault to pieces.
300 Dead Strewn About.
When the final wave of Madrid
militiamen had been forced back
across the narrow open space dividing
the front lines, more than 300 of their
dead lay on the battlefield.
The weird, at times almost silent,
fighting surged back and forth as in
dividual sought individual for a duel
with cold steel.
The assault was the climax of a
series of thrusts throughout the day.
Gen. Jose Miaja's milicianos had
battered at insurgent positions be
tween the Casa de Campo, west of
the city, and the Escorial road, to the
northwest, yesterday morning.
Their final fierce efforts eame late
in the afternoon of the fourth day
of the government's attempt to crack
the insurgent hold on the western rim
of the capital.
Massed tank companies led the as
sault.
The wave of attacks began to break
before "bottle squads" of fire throwers
whose accurate aim turned the tanks
into blazing funeral pyres, disorgan
izing the infantry masked behind the
"land battleships.”
In one such attack, led by a unit of
(See SPANISH. Page A-3.)
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NAB BOGUS W. P. A.
PAY CHECK RING
Secret Service Frustrates Huge
Counterfeit Plot With
Arrest of 15.
By '.lie Associated Press.
Frank J. Wilson, chief of the Se
cret Sendee, said today his agents
had broken up "a wholesale plot to
counterfeit and cash W. P. A. wage
checks.”
Wilson said 15 persons were under
arrest in Chicago. Milwaukee and
Los Angeles. Among those in cus
tody, Wilson said, were Paul Mabo
lotti, former W. P. A. gang fore
man, held at Los Angeles, and John
Russo, arrested in Chicago.
"The break in the case came,” Wil
son said, "when one of the members
of the ring attempted to cash a check
while intoxicated and blunderingly
tried to identify himself with cards
bearing a name different than that
on the check.”
MORO WARRIORS FIGHT
POLICE IN MOUNTAINS
By the Associated Press.
MANILA. April 13.—Aroused be
cause, among other things, the gov
ernment frowns on a tribesman hav
ing more than one wife, wily Moro
warriors fought in traditional guerrilla
style today against the commonwealth
constabulary in the province of Lanao.
Reports were received that troops
had discovered two new forts in the
mountainous and heavily wooded
province where outlaws refused to sur
render peaceably.
The Manila Bulletin correspondent
at Dansalan, capital of the province,
said Moros hid in the underground
passages while 300 troops, aided by
artillery, captured the fort at Maka
guling Sunday. When the troops left,
the Moros reappeared and chased
away a handful of provincial polio*,
who had been left behind to destroy
undamaged portions of th* fort.