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Both Sides Consider Logan
Proposal to Vote on
Amendments Last.
BACKGROUND—
Demands for a compromise have
been advanced from sereval quar
ters since President Roosevelt on
February 5 announced his plan to
increase the membership of the
Supreme Court by a maximum of
six unless present justices over TO
retire. The White House, however,
has refused to listen to any com
promise suggestions, despite the
fact that the Senate Judiciary
Committee is reported to stand 10
to t against the bill.
BT G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
will hare before it for one more week
the President'* bill to increase the
membership of the Supreme Court.
The showdown will come on Tuesday,
May 18, when the committee votes.
The committee now is divided, 10
to 8, against the bill in its original
form. Both side* have been consider
ing a proposal by Senator Logan of
Kentucky to vote on the bill before
voting on any amendments. There
ia strategy in the proposition, appar
ently, for both aides.
Several of the committee members
have offered amendments, notably
Senator McGill of Kansas and Sena
tor Norris of Nebraska, who might
be willing to vote against reporting
the President’s bill if their amend
ments were to be voted on later. Mc
Gill and Norris have both been count
ed by the administration leaders as
among the committeemen who will
support the President. However, if
Norris and McGill, or one of them,
should vote "no'* on a motion to re
port the bill favorably—before their
amendments had been disposed of—
the showing of the supporters of the
bill might be worse than 10 to 8. It
might, for example, be 11 to 7, or
even II to 8.
Chance for Compromise.
On the other hand the administra
tion leaders might be able to avoid
an adverse report on the bill If, after
the committee had voted against re
porting It, a majority supported the
bill In amended form. Here would be
opportunity to compromise and bring
In a bill with a favorable majority
report
It la against all parliamentary
usage to vote on a measure before
voting on proposed amendments and
substitutes. It might take a unani
mous consent agreement In the com
mittee to follow the course proposed
by Senator Logan.
The general impression prevails,
however, that no matter which course
Is followed, the bill will eventually be
reported adversely to the Senate In
Its present form—so far as it relates
to the Supreme Court. Unlees the
administration agrees to a compro
mise. and so Informs Chairman
Ashurst, the Senators supporting the
bill will resist all amendments, and
enough of the opponents are expected
to do the same thing to assure de
feat of the proposed amendments.
Berry Vote Chalked Up.
President Roosevelt returns to
Washington Thursday. He Is expected
to get into the fight for his court
bill without delay. Wavering Senators
will be called upon to fish or cut bait.
Already the President is credited with
having won a vote by Insisting upon
the appointment of Maj. George L.
Berry as Senator from Tennessee, fill
ing the vacancy caused by the death
of the late Senator Bachman, a foe
of the court bill, according to his
friends.
At the same time, it may be ex
pected that some of the Democratic
Senators who do not like the pros
pect of a hard and bitter fight with
some of their Democratic colleagues
over this court bill, will urge the
President to agree to some kind of
a compromise. They will point out
to him that all major legislation,
or almost all, is the result of com
promises, compromises between the
Congress and the President, or com
promises between the House and
Senate.
Chairman Ashurst continued yes
terday to declare for a "clean victory
or a clean defeat, without compro
mise.” There are other members of
his committee, however, slated to
vote for the President's bill, who
would very much prefer a compromise.
Several opponents of the President’s
plan to Increase the Supreme Court
by a maximum of six new justices will
deliver addresses over the radio to
morrow night. Senator Burke of Ne
braska Is to speak in the National
Radio Forum at 10:30 p.m. against
ths Mil. Pour Senators, Copeland of
New York, Byrd of Virginia, Gerry of
Rhode Island and McCarran of Neva
da—all Democrats—will address a
mass meeting in Philadelphia and
their speeches, too, will be trans
mitted by radio across the country.
MeAdoo to Appear.
The Judiciary Committee meets at
10:30 a.m. tomorrow to continue its
"discussion’’ of the bill and amend
ments. Senator MeAdoo of California
Is to appear before the committee on
Tuesday in support of a proposal he
has offered to increase the court to
IS members, either by bill or by con
stitutional amendment, or by both,
and at the end of 25 years, let Con
gress decide what the number of the
court shall be. His plan also contem
plates compulsory retirement for aged
justices.
The administration forces insist they
are gaining by delay In consideration
of the Supreme Court bill. They see
it more and more difficult for Demo
cratic Senators and Representatives,
particularly those who come up for re
election next year, to oppose the Presi
dent on this issue. The nearer the
election comes before the bill is voted
on the more votes the administration
expects to get. In the meantime,
Chairman James A. Farley of the
Democratic National Committee, con
tinues to crack the whip and demand
votes for the President's bill as evi
dence of party loyalty.
Ladd Articles Dag up.
Three article* written by the late
Senator Edwin F. Ladd of North Da
kota and published in Henry Ford’s
Dearborn. Independent in 1923 at
tacking the Supreme Court have been
placed in the hands of the adminis
tration forces. Ladd, one of the Pro
gressive Republicans of the Northwest,
supported in 1924 the late Senator
La Follette of Wisconsin, Progressive
candidate for President. Senator Ger
ald P. Nye Is Ladd’s successor in the
Senate. The articles are entitled:
“Has the Supreme Court Usurped Pop
ple’s Power?” "Congress Lax In Not
Checking Supreme Court” and “Source
of Misfortunes and Corruption.” Sen
ator Ladd went the whole route, insist
ing that the Congress should be su
preme In writing the laws and that
the Supreme Court had usurped the
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Readers' Guide
and
News Summary
The Sunday Star, May 9, 1937.
FART ONE.
Main News Section.
FOREIGN.
Insurgent* press closer to Basque
oapltal. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Screen Actors’ Guild near walkout
this week. Page A-l
Ohio Wesleyan U. girl student disap
pears. Page A-3
Snell warns inflation 1* due to U. S.
spending policy. Page A-l
Welrton cited to N. L. R. B. by union
organisers. Page A-J
Court bill showdown due after one
more week. Page A-l
President to see Congress chiefs on
return here. Page A-4
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Commissioners to report favorably on
daylight-saving bill. Page A-l
Commissioners considering tax on
business firms. Page A-l
Pour found guilty of motorist extor
tion plot. Page A-2
Horses burned to death in Pimlico sta
ble lire. Page A-l
Federation of Churches starts welfare
department. Page B-l
2,000 expected tomorrow as Red Cross
opens convention. Page B-l
Ickes to lay Langston corner stone on
Thursday. Page B-l
“Cat” burglar suspect qulned by Dis
trict police. Page B-l
Officials asked to name auditorium
commission advisers. Page B-l
SPOUTS.
War Admiral romps to victory In Derby
w'lth Pompoon next. Page B-*
Nationals trim Tigers and move up to
sixth place. Page B-8
Three stables in running for leading
show honors. Page B-7
Underdog Georgetown golf team gains
league lead. Page B-8
McDiannld and Sabin capture Chevy j
Chase doubles. Page B-8
District yachtsmen are attracted to
East Coast test. Page B-9
Eleven all-time records fall in men’s
pin tournament. Page B-lt
Cabinet Dick, Thorson score in Pim
lico, Jamaica stakes. Page B-ll
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Lost and found. PageA-3
Obituary. Page A-l!
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial article*. Pages D-l-3
Editorials and comment. PageD-2
Civic news. Page D-4
Military and veterans’
news. Pages D-5-7
Women's clubs. Pages D-6
Parent-teacher activities. PageD-S
Cross-word puzsle. Page D-7
Resorts. Page D-S
Stamps. Page D-l*
Winning contract. PageD-M
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society news. Pages E-l-12
Well-known folk. Page E-4
Vital statistics. Page E-S
City new* in brief. Page E-S
Service Order*. PageE-lfi
Traffic conviction*. Page E-lfi
Barbara Bell pattern. PageE-11
PART FOUR.
Feature Section.
News features. Pages F-1-4
Radio programs. Page F-2
John Clagett Proctor. Page F-4
Amusements. Page F-5
Dick Mansfield. Page F-S
Automobile*. Page F-fi
Aviation. Page F-fi
Children’s page. Page F-7
PART FIVE.
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Financial, Classified.
Industry holds high level. PageG-1
Stocks ease, bonds gain. PageG-1
D. C. trade advances. Page G-l
Stock table. PageG-2
Bond table. Page G-Z
Curb table. Page G-4
Educational Page G-5
Classified advertising. Pages G-5-17
MAILERS SETTLE
NEWARK STRIKE
Morning Ledger Agreement Call*
Off Picket Line, Permits
Publication.
Ft the Associated Press.
NEWARK. N. J., May *—Edwin
Russell, associate publisher, an
nounced at midnight a “tentative
agreement’’ had been reached be
tween the Newark Morning Ledger
and striking mailers’ union members
which would make possible publica
tion of the Sunday edition.
The agreement, Russell said, pro
vided for withdrawal of a mass picket
line of mailers and sympathisers
which had kept most of the employes
from entering the plant tonight.
The pickets soon started to disperse
st J employes of various department*
entered the building.
A handful of editorial department
employes had worked through the
evening preparing stories.
Russell said he could not estimate
how late the edition would be.
ARBITRATION IS OFFERED
IN LONDON BUS STRIKE
By ths Associated Press.
LONDON, May ».—'The London
Transport Board today offered to arbi
trate all differences in the city’s bus
strike of 25,500 workers except the
strikers' principal demand for reduc
tion of the working day from eight
to seven and a half hours.
The bus operators also asked for
slower running schedules.
A spokesman said the transport
board would be willing to refer the
dispute to a court of inquiry.
There was no definite indication
that the strike would end before the
coronation Wednesday, but some news
papers predicted the busses would be
running by Monday at the latest.
power to pass on the constitutionality
of act* of Congress.
“It was intended,” wrote Ladd, in
collaboration with James Martin Mil
ler, in the Dearborn Independent,
"that the Congress should be the su
preme branch of government, and
that the Congress would have to go
back to the people and report every
two yean.” It was Ladd’s contention
that if Congress put through laws
that did not agree with the Consti
tution, then the people would turn the
Congress out and repeal the uncon
stitutional laws.
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Organizing Group Charges
Workers Are Ousted for
Union Activity.
B> ttit'AuocUtea Press.
PITTSBURGH, May ’The Steel
Workers’ Organising Committee car
ried Its fight with the Weirton Steel
Co. to the National Labor Relations
Board today with a charge the firm Is
violating the national labor relations
act by dismissing workers lor union
activity.
Weirton Steel Is a subsidiary of the
National Steel Corp.. of which Ernest
T. Weir is board chairman. The steel
workers’ committee is a major affiliate
of John L. Lewis' Committee for In
dustrial Organization.
Regional Director Clinton S. Golden
of the steel workers’ committee told
the labor board that Weirton had
fired 160 workers for joining the union
since the Wagner measure became law
in July, 1935. He asked that Weirton
be ordered to return the men to work
and pay them approximately $180,000
for lost time.
Affidavits Are Filed.
Golden also filed with the board
affidavits from Weirton workers who
said they were beaten and forced from
the mills last week because of their
activities in connection with the steel
committee. He asked that their cases
“be placed in the same category as
that of employes dismissed because of
union membership and activity."
Golden said the attacks "were under
direction of Claude Conway of the
Weirton Employes’ Security League
and were evidently prearranged fol
lowing the return • • • of Chairman
E. T. Weir.
"Immediately thereafter, according
to the information in our possession, a
meeting between company officials and
members of the notorious hatchet
gang, some of whom already are under
subpoena by the La Follette Senate
Committee, was held. The assaults
followed this conference and are con
tinuing whenever any of the employes
of the company are spotted wearing
insignia indicating union member
ship.”
Five With Firm 26 Years.
The committee said that the dis
missed employes’ affidavits show that
five were with the firm 26 years, that
21 others were with the company more
than 20 years, and that the average is
between 10 and IS.
The charges are the first filed with
the board against any big steel com
pany since the Supreme Court decision
upholding validity of the Wagner act.
Ernest Dunbar, director of the sixth
regional office of the board, said they
will be investigated next week.
MERRILL TO START
OCEAN HOP TODAY
Foot Weather and Delay in Inital
lation of Radio Delayi
Flight.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May Dick Mer
rill'* take-off on his proposed round
trip flight to London to deliver photo
graphs of the Hindenburg disaster
and bring back coronation pictures
was postponed tonight until tomor
row afternoon.
Poor weather and delay In com
pleting installation of radio equip
ment and test flights were given as
the reasons.
The veteran commercial pilot and
trans-Atlantic flyer had planned to
leave Newark, N. J., Airport this aft
ernoon and take off from the mile
long runway at Floyd Bennett Field,
Brooklyn, but remained in Newark
instead.
United States Weatherman James
H. Kimball raid mist all along the
Atlantic Coast to Newfoundland would
have made flying under 9,000 feet
difficult.
Merrill plans to take along Jack
8. Lambie, his regular commercial
co-pllot.
Latest plans were for a take-off at
3 p.nv, Eastern standard time, to
morrow.
SURF WRECKS SHIP
WHEN 21 ARE SAVED
Crew and Captain of Schooner
Trinidad Await Orden at
Raymond, Wa»h.
By the Associated Press.
RAYMOND, Wash.. May *—Res
cued by daring Coast Guard surfmen,
Capt. I. Hellesto and 20 members of
the crew of the steam schooner Trini
dad awaited orders here tonight while
heavy seas pounded their grounded
craft to pieces off the mouth of Wil
ls pa Harbor.
Coast Guardsmen effected'the res
cue, after an all-night battle, with the
loss of but one life. 8econd Officer
Werner Craft was washed overboard
shortly after the Trinidad struck,
listed and started sinking and break
ing to pieces 3 or 4 miles off North
Spit.
The Trinidad, and the surf boat*
which went to her rescue after she
started showing flares in the stormy
night, carried no wireless, so It was
not until the men had been trans
ferred to the tug Ruth E. and brought
here today that details were available.
Crew members’ accounts and Coast
Guard reports, however, Indicated the
Trinidad, outbound with a capacity
cargo of lumber for her home port,
San Francisco, struck about 8:10 p.m.
It was not until 4:30 a.m. today that
the Coast Guardsmen could reach her
lee and the survivors could leap to
safety. At that time only the Trini
dad’s bridge was above water.
YALE CORPORATION
PICKETED BY STUDENTS
Divinity Group Protests for Sec
ond Time Pailure to Renew
Prof. Davis’ Contract.
By the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Coim., May 8 —
Per the second time in less than
three months, Yale divinity students
end representatives from New England
colleges picketed today a meeting of
the Yale Carp, in protest against the
corporation’* failure to renew the con
tract of Prof. Jerome Davis.
Of the estimated 85 students who
carried 40 large signs in a demon
stration at Woodbrldge Hall, 55 were
from the divinity school, where Davis
is a faculty member, while the re
maining participants represented
Dartmouth, Massachusetts Stats Col
lege, Smith, Vassar, Yale College, and
Connecticut-Wesleyan.
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Photo Interview With Ford
Henry Ford as he posed 1or a picture interview at his
office in Dearborn, Mich.
“Politicians are parrots for international financiers . .
“They want business to pay tribute to money lenders . .
. . Congress has heard Jrom home." ~A. P. Photos, j
U. S. Hears How Harvard Trio
Ran $80,000 to $30,000,000
By the Associated Press.
The Securities Commission yester- |
day heard a story of how three young
Harvard graduates, by investing less
than $80,000 of their own money,
acquired control of nine investment
trusts with assets of $30,000,000.
The tale of their meteoric rise in
the financial world was recited by
E. F. Henderson of Boston, who, with
George Henderson, his brother, and
Robert L. Moore, a classmate in 1916.
own the investment firm of Henderson
Bros.
Henderson Bros, was brought into
the S. E. C. investment trust investi
gation through its recently acquired
control of General Investment Corp.,
a concern whose history is under
inquiry.
Henderson testified that the Harvard
trio's assets at the time they began
building their investment trust pyra
mid consisted of their ownership of
the World Radio Corp., proprietor
of 31 radio stores in New England.
A considerable portion of the $200,000
assets, he added, was in installments
due on radios they had sold.
Began With *10.000.
Beginning three years ago with
an original investment of *10,000,
Henderson explained, the three men
had gradually acquired controlling
interests in the nine investment
trusts, utilizing the assets of each
in turn to provide means to purchase
control in the next.
At present—according to the com
mission's chart submitted in evi
dence — Henderson Bros. controls
World Investment Corp., Beacon Par
ticipations, Central Capital Corp.,
Standard Investing Corp., General
Investment Corp., Utilities Equities
Corp., Atlantic Securities of Boston,
International Equities Corp., and
Allied International Investing Corp.
Henderson emphasized that while
they had secured control of the In
vestment trusts with a small Invest
ment, they had developed several of
them from “sick” companies to profit
able trusts through good management.
Utilizing the slide rule which he al
ways carries (he also attended Mas
sachusetts Tech) Henderson recited
the snow-ball-like acquisitions in
mathematical fashion:
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Three year* ago sufficient stock In
Beacon Participation* was purchased
from the Beacon Trust Co. for *10,000
to secure control of $25,000 assets.
Henderson said that next they ac
quired Atlantic Securities, another
"very sick" investment trust, by an
investment of *28.000. Its assets, he
said, totaled *450,000.
Henderson brothers next, utilizing
the asset values of Beacon and At
lantic. secured control of Allied In
ternational with an investment of
*100.000.
They then, he continued, organized
Central Capital Corp., with *600.000
capital contributed by the three trusts
they had acquired. They did not put
up any of their own funds, he said.
In the middle of February, Hender
son explainea, Ernest B. Warriner in
formed him he was on the verge of a
nervous breakdown and had to dis
pose of the investment trusts he con
trolled. Henderson brothers on March
2 bought control of one Warriner com
pany, Standard Investing Corp., for
$850,000. Central Capital Corp. put
up *400.000 cash and arrangements
were made to pay the remainder in
time payments.
BRAZIL COURT SENDS
35 REBELS TO PRISON
B1 t&e Associated Frets.
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 8.—Brazil's
National Security Tribunal today sent
35 men to prison lor participating in
the 1935 Communist insurrection.
Held in prison while their trials
were in progress, the men received
terms up to 27 years. Similar charges
are faced by 1,288 others.
The tribunal designated three as
leaders of the unsuccessful uprising:
Carlos Prestes, former army captain,
was sentenced to 16 years and 8
months in prison; Arthur Ewert, also
known as Harry Berger, a former Com
munist member of the German Reich
stag, 14 years and 4 months, and Pedro
Ernesto Baptists, 3 years and 4
months.
The tribunal's decisions can be ap
pealed to the supreme military tri
bunal.
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Court Bill Critic in Forum
SENATOR BURKE TO SPEAK TOMORROW NIGHT.
SENATOR EDWARD R. BURKE
of Nebraska, a foremost con
gressional opponent of Presi
dent Roosevelt's proposal to re
organise the Supreme Court, will
apeak on the court bill In the Na
tional Radio Forum tomorrow at
10:30 p.m.
The Forum is arranged by The,
Star and broadcast over the coast
to-coast network of the National
Broadcasting Co.
A Democratic member of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee, which re
cently concluded extensive hearings
on the measure. Senator Burke has
taken a principal part In the con
test against the President’s plan to
increase the membership of the Su
preme Court by a maximum ot six
Justices.
The opposition, under his leader
ship, has developed strength enough
in the Senate committee to vote down
the President's proposal.
Attorney General Cummings spoke
In favor of the court plan in the
Forum two weeks ago,
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SENATOR BURKE.
FOUR HELD GUILTY
IN EXTORTION PLOF
Garageman Convicted With
2 Maryland Policemen
and Ex-Officer.
B» the Associated Press.
ELLICOTT CITY, Md., May «.—A
Howard County Circuit Court jury
today brought in a verdict of guilty
against two suspended Maryland State
policemen, a former State officer and
a Savage. Md., garage owner on
charges of conspiracy.
The jurymen deliberated a few
minutes less than an hour.
During the day all four defendants
had testified In their own defense,
denying the charge they conspired to
extort money from Washington boule
vard motorists.
The defendants are Albert Mark
ley and John Taylor, suspended State
policemen; John Wheeler, former
State policemen, and John Herbert,
the garageman.
Mercy Recommended.
The Jury recommended mercy In
Taylor'* case.
Wheeler and Herbert denied today
they conspired to force motorists to
patronize the latter’s shop. The State
charted three State officers got a
percentage from Herbert for repair
work directed to him.
Herbert denied that he had paid
commissions either to the officers
or to any other persons.
The garage proprietor also denied
that he had made a statement to
MaJ. Enoch Barton Garey, former
superintendent of State police, that
he "Jacked up” prices so Ik could
pay ofT the officers.
He repudiated a State-Introduced
statement bearing his signature and
asserted the signature "must have
been placed there when I was drunk.”
Tells ef Drinking.
He said that when he went to MaJ.
Garey's home, where he allegedly
signed the statement Implicating him,
that he had already drunk wine and
beer and that he drank whisky at
the major's home.
Wheeler also denied that he forced
any motorists to patronise Herberts
garage, contradicting the testimony
of Herbert Starin, Indianapolis truck
driver, a State witness.
The former officer asserted he did
not make Strain take his truck to
Herbert's place when he arrested him
on a charge of having a faulty motor.
He said they went toward the
garage because there was a magistrate
close by. He allowed Strain to park
the truck on a vacant lot, he said.
6,203 FARM DEBTS
CUT $1,878,072
Resettlement Administration Ad
justments in Principal Cover
Pour States.
Bj tL* Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY, Ala . May I —
The Resettlement Administration an
nounced today that 6,203 farm debt
adjustments, involving a reduction
of $1,878,072 in principal, had been
made in Alabama, Florida. Georgia
and South Carolina, from September,
1935, until May, 1937.
The adjustments were effected, the
administration said, by bringing
farmers and creditors together in
agreements on debts which might not
have been paid, except for a reduction,
adjustment or general rearrangement
of terms.
The adjustments are made through
committees In various counties and
districts.
Besides the total adjusted. 2,355
cases still are pending.
Total debts of the 8,203 farmers
were $9,581,425 before adjustments
made, and $7,703,353 afterward.
In Alabama 2.304 adjustments were
made, scaling debts from $2,371,760
to $1,844,159; in Florida, 1,592 adjust
ments. $3,936,146 to $3,248,424; in
Georgia, 863 adjustments, $2,387,174
to $2,006,793. and in South Carolina.
794 adjustments, $886,345 to $603,977.
COUNTESS COVADONGA
GIVEN DIVORCE IN CUBA
Romance of 1833, When Former
Prince of Asturias Gave Up
Title Recalled.
By the Aeioeieted Pres*.
HAVANA, May The marriage
for which the Count of Covadonga—
once prince of Asturias and heir ap
parent to the now-vacant Spanish
throne—abandoned his claims to that
throne in 1933 ended here today.
The Court of First Instance granted
the divorce sought by the count’s
pretty Cuban wife, former Edelmira
Sampedro. accepting her charges of
“abandonment of domicile.’’ The
countess was granted $100 a month
alimony and right to possession of all
property given or promised her by the
count. That Included about $3,000
worth of Jewelry.
The decree left both free to marry
within five days. The count said he
considered it a “birthday anniversary
present, because I will be 30 fears old
May 10.’’ His name has been linked
romantically with that of Marta Rocs
fort, Havana society girl, but he would
say nothing about plans or another
marriage.
The countess said reports she would
marry soon were ridiculous.
MOTHER OF TWO BOYS
DIES OF FALL INJURY
Widow Sustains Skull Fracture in
Drop of Few Feet While Wash
ing Windows.
Mrs. Ruth Crump, 43, widowed
mother of two young boys, died last
night in Casualty Hospital from in
juries received Tuesday when she
fell while washing a window at her
home, 615 Sixth street.
Though she fell only a few feet
from the first floor window, Mrs.
Crump received a skull fracture. The
two boys aVe Billy, 7, and Jimmy, 10.
NAMED TO CLUB
Warner, Herald Tribune Bureau
Chief, Oridiron Member.
Albert L. Warner, chief of the
Washington Bureau of the New York
Herald Tribune, last night was elected
unanimously an active member of
the Gridiron Club. Mr. Warner for
several years has been h eterge of
the local bureau.
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W ashington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
^SENTIMENTALIST.
AFTER devoting years of his life
to driving the big gray timber
wolves out of the West (they
eat cattle, but uncooked),
Stanley P. Young, principal biologist
of the Biological 8urvey, decided to
gives the hungry lupines a break. Most
of them are dead anyhow, so Mr.
Young wrote a book called “lost Stand
of the Pack,” containing nine tall tales
of nine famous wolves, not including
the Disney model.
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Volume is illustrated with actual
photographs of some of the wolves, but
whether there were any Interviews we
haven’t heard. Can imagine the anti
wolfers from the Survey patting one
of the shaggy brutes on the head and
weeping over his life story, the while
holding the dagger of the Borgia* in
waiting.
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FAN.
Dashing up to Harry Jordan, as
sistant manager of the local news
reel theater, a rotund chap gasped
yesterday: “Have the Hindenburg
pictures come in yet?"
“Sure" said Jordan, “the first
showing is on now."
' The man thrust a IS bill under
the box office wicket, picked up his
change and his ticket and strolled
lazily down the street.
a a • a
SAFETY FIRST.
HPHE steeplejack who is painting the
A four faces of the clock on the old
Post Office Building always locks the
tower door after him when he climbs
out to rig his tackle and lower himself
down the side of the building on his
bo'sun's chair.
Reason? Because you can never
tell what an amateur camera fan
will do to get an unusual shot for
his photo collection. They're apt.
to slip out on the roof to get the
proper "angle,” and some of the
more rabid ones might even cut a
rope to manufacture a picture of a
steeplejack hanging from his rig, be
ing rescued by firemen.
* * a *
REWARD.
INCIDENTALLY, the fact the clock
1 on tne Post Office is being paint
ed at all gives us great satisfaction.
You may remember that we com
plained bitterly that there was this
huge timepiece straight across from
our office windows, but because most
newspaper men are near-sighted or
sleepy or both, no one got the slight
est benefit from it.
We howled about the necessity of a
good coat of paint on the clock face
and hands, and the results doubtless
are not in the least connected with
our crusade. Indeed, now that we
can tell the time merely by a glance
out the window we’ve decided clocks
are a nuisance and have petitioned
the management for an hourglass,
adjusted in three-quarters time.
* a * *
SKI JUMP.
008SIBLY the longest ski jump
ever made by an American is that
of William David Judson, jr., who
used to live here before he took up
the business of writing plays and be
ing a husband In New York. Last
year Mr. J. bought himself a coun
try place up in the Berkshlres, where
the hills are steep and the skiing fine.
A great ski enthusiast, he labored
all last Summer with an ax and
some other axmen. clearing ski runs
on his property, connecting them up
with trails already cut in the sur
rounding country. Then he waited
impatiently for Pall and the good
old Massachusetts snows.
When Spring came he was still wait
ing, and no snows—none worth men
tioning in conversation with a real
ski artist. Knowing of his plight, we
wondered what would happen to his
disposition while he sat around the
house another four months, gently
cursing the green trees and grass and
reading books on the Christiana turn.
Yesterday we had our answer. The
telephone rang. A familiar voice said,
“Hello."
"Hello,” we said.
“This is David,” said the voice. “I'm
in Baltimore. We are on our way to
Chile. Nuts to the Berkshlres. You
can ski In the Summertime in Chile I! I”
* * * *
BARRISTRESS.
Two lawyers were talking in a
restaurant down near the District
Supreme Court Building. One of
them told about his secretary, who
had recently attended a convention
for the advancement of modern
women, the delegates spending a
good part of their time discussing
the achievements of their sex.
Finally they got around to the
subject of woman lawyers.
"Why one of the most prominent
marriage law attorneys in Wash
ington is a woman—Miss Jean M.
Boardmanthe secretary said.
Across the table from the nar
rator of this yarn a tall, husky fel
low broke into uproarious laughter.
He was Jean M. Boardman.
* * * *
BAFFLED.
JOHN L. LEWIS was seated in the
” lobby of a downtown hotel the
other day, obviously extremely per
plexed about something. Approach
lng a bit closer, a friend of ours heard
Mr. Lewis humming the opening bars
of an aria from "Carmen.” He began
again and again, carried the tune a
Utile way, hesitated and lost it, started
all over.
At that point an attorney for Mr.
Lewis' United Mine Workers came
upon the scene.
“It goes this way,” he announced,
whistled the bars that had stumped
Mr. Lewis, went away leaving the
labor leader humming contentedly
ta himself.
I
Thundering Guns Endanger
Refugees Being Evacuated
by French Ships.
BACKGROUND—
Gen. Francisco Franco, shifting
his attack from Madrid to Bilbao,
capital of Basque provinces, where
thousands of Loyalist refugees had
fled, endangered lives of women
and children and inspired efforts of
foreign ships to evacuate the city
of non-military elements.
Many women and orphaned chil
dren were taken to France by rescue
ships in past week as insurgents
pressed their attack on the city.
•r the Aieoelated Preu.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Border,
May 8—Insurgent guns thundered
closer to Bilbao tonight; footsore de
fenders of the Basque capital crowded
women and children aboard three
French refugee vessels.
The heaviest fighting centered about
a hill In the Solluve Hills, about 11
miles east of Bilbao. The Basques'
last-line positions weae growing more
perilous by the hour.
A trio of French warships stood
by oft the 3-mlle limit in the Bay
of Biscay to protect the evacuation
ships, taking away 2,400 noncom
batants Nearly 3.000 already had
gone to France. Great Britain sent
the destroyers Fearless and Foxhound
of the home squadron to Biscayan
waters to help protect the ships.
Insurgents' tanks crawled over
Basque trenches and raked them with
machine gun fire. The insurgents
said they captured strategic Solluve
Hill, dominating the region between
Guernica and Cape Machichaco,
northeast of the capital, enabling the
three columns that took it to move
nearer Bilbao with less danger of a
flank attack.
Their plan was to give the weary
defenders no rest, keeping them from
recuperating for a counter-attack.
Basque* Hold Ground.
Basque commanders Insisted, how
ever, that a terrific attack on the hill
had failed to budge their force*. But
they acknowledge that wooded elopes
there were set afire by Insurgent air
bombs The hill commands the Ber
meo-Bilbao highway.
Basque heavy artillery ahelled insur
gent-held Bermao, Biscayan port, from
emplacements southwest of Cape Ma
chichaco. Insurgent planes silenced
the batteries.
Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
Franco called upon Bilbao to surren
der, declaring he did not want to de
stroy the city.
Thousands of leaflets were dropped
over Bilbao by tnsurent planes, say
ing: "Lay down your arms. Nation
alists do not seek to destroy your
beautiful city. They wish to see it
flourish. Renounce your criminal
leaders."
New Classes Called Out.
The Basque government ordered
mobilization of the 1928. 1938 and
1939 army classes and 1927, 1937 and
1938 navy classes in three days.
Insurgent planes also bombed
trenches and fortifications about Bil
bao. Several ammuntion sheds were
reported destroyed.
Appearance of some government
planes in the north cheered the hard
pressed defending armies. Three
squadrons of these carried out wide
range bombing expeditions yesterday.
The long-distance Spanish govern
ment planes must fly to reach the
Basque front from Madrid has hin
dered defense air operations. Much
of the territory they must cross to
take aid to their northern allies is
held by insurgents. Government
sources also pointed to lack of air
ports as another stumbling block to
helping the Basques in their opera
tions about Bilbao.
3,000 REFUGEES SAIL.
Three French Freighters Carry Them
to Bordeaux.
BILBAO, Spain, May 8 i^PY—Three
thousand more refugees from this
bombed and besieged city sailed for
Bordeaux today aboard three Franc!
freighters.
The ships—the Calimare. Margaus
and Chateau Palmer—flew the French
tricolor as they glided down the Ner
vion River into the Bay of Biscay
with a convoy of French flghtir.j
ships to protect them from possible
attack by the insurgent fleet.
The refugees, women, children and
aged men, will join the more than
2,800 who were taken from the war
zone to peaceful French villages on
two Spanish ships earlier bh' week
The evacuations made almost no
appreciable dent, however, in the
300,000 civilians who have congested
Bilbao in flight from the embattled
Basque provinces and who govern
ment authorities hope to move be
fore insurgent artillery can reach fir
ing range.
FIGHTING NEAR TOLEDO
Government Troop* Repulse Rebel
Counter Attack*.
MADRID, itay S (A*).—Government
troops, aided by bombing plane?
tanks and armored trains, fought
furiously today to hold their lines
around Toledo, in face of a heavy in
surgent counter-offensive.
For weeks the government soldiers
had threatened to surround the
ancient Imperial city, 40 miles south
and slightly west of Madrid. Toledo
was captured by insurgents last Oc
tober 27, and an embattled Insurgent
garrison in the Alcazar then was de
livered from government besiegers.
Insurgents concentrated their drive
from Toledo toward the south anil
east.
REVOLT TOLL HEAVT ,
V. S. Ambulance Report* Ml Killed
In Barcelona.
VALENCIA, Spain, May • OP).—An
American ambulance unit, reaching
here tonight from Barcelona, esti
mated 500 persona were killed and
1,500 wounded in the anarchist rebel
lion in the Catalan capital. •
Order had been generally restored
when they left the city yesterday,
they aaid. They were detained there
five days by the uprising.
The Americans said they arrived
at Barcelona May 2 and put up at
the Orlente Hotel, and when fighting
broke out the next day found them
selves in the center of the district oc
cupied by the anarchists. They re
mained in the hotel most of the time
until the government gained control
of the aituation.
None of the group, headed by Dr,
Abraham Ettleson ol Chicago, was in
/bred.
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