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Guns of Government Craft
Leveled at Sloop in La
Pallice Harbor.
■y'the Associated Press.
T»A PALLICE, Prance, June IS.—
Mutinous sailors on the Spanish gov
ernment destroyer Ciscar trained their
guns today on a French sloop of war
In' La Pallice Harbor. French and
British warships in the vicinity were
cleared immediately for action.
'‘The British destroyer Bulldog, the
French destroyer Fougueux and the
French sloops Epinal and Dubourdieu
tpere lined up facing the Ciscar.
'One hundred and sixteen rufugees
from besieged Bilbao were on the
Spanish ship. French authorities
risked the Spanish Consul at La Ro
chelle to try and persuade the Cis
car’s men to land them.
Start of Mutiny.
*• The mutiny broke out when Comdr.
fenrique Margati and Lieut. Vicente
Ascensi of the Ciscar tried to land.
vjTheir sailors, apparently thinking
tfie, officers were deserting the ship,
threatened them with pistols. But the
Officers succeeded in getting ashore
under the watchful eyes of French
customs officers.
- TVary port officials called on the
Fpugueux, which sped here from Brest.
H. M. S. Bulldog and the French
sloops, which had been cruising out
side the harbor, returned to watch the
Ciscar. They were prepired to bring
th§ Spaniard's crew to order quickly,
should the mutineers fire their leveled
gtms.
Guards Line Dock.
«wfrcnch mobile guards were lined up
0ft the docks at the request of Margati,
who said he feared the “threatening
#ft-itude" of the crew.
"’Late in the day, however, another
officer of the Ciscar came ashore and
•Sid the crew was quieting down.
' Margati told French authorities he
brought the destroyer into La Pallice
Ctrflx a broken screw blade and to load
Oflf as well as to land the refugees. He
bad expected to return at once to
fSpanish waters.
< While the French and British men
b’ war watched the Ciscar. the British i
Bteamers Thorpehall and Alice Marie
landed nearly 500 other refugees from
Bilbao.
TO REJOIN PATROL.
Reich and Italy to Aid Non-Interven
<T tion Body.
♦
£ LONDON, June 16 (^P).—Germany
*nd Italy formally announced today
(heir decision to resume co-operation
with the International Non-Interven
Qon Committee and to take an active
part in the neutral patrol of Spanish J
waters.
* German and Italian Ambassadors
(fade the announcement in a joint
communique which said the decision
♦as reached "as the result of the
•greement on Saturday, June 12. be
tween the four powers responsible for
tfae naval patrol."
• The two countries withdrew from '
(lie committee May 31 after warships
Of both Italy and Germany had been
Bombed by Spanish government planes.
German warships bombed Almeria in
reprisal, alscr. :
Meeting Is Planned.
t A meeting of the International Com
fiittee may be held next week, al
though It may await the answer of
the Spanish government and the in
4irgents to requested guarantees that
patrol ships would not be attacked.
. British political sources welcomed
£ a s>gn of improving Anglo-German
relations the news that Baron Kon
stantin von Neurath, Adolf Hitler’s
^breign minister, would visit London
•ext week.
y Generally well informed persons said
wiey believed Neville Chamberlain,
Britain’s new prime minister, was re
sponsible for the invitation to Berlin.
Chamberlain, they pointed out, has
taken a great personal interest in
British foreign affairs since he suc
ceeded Stanley Baldwin May 28.
f Purpose of Visit.
A foreign office announcement said
Von Neurath's visit, beginning June 23,
V°uld “offer an opportunity for an
•xchange of views on matters of com
mon interest to the two countries, and
j^rticularly the Spanish problem.”
-Political informants forecast the
German Minister and British officials
fould discuss Britain’s proposal for
Withdrawing foreign volunteers from
w e Spanish civil war and, perhaps,
*?uld consider a new Western Euro
pean security pact.
“The neutrality agreement prohibits I
the movement of foreign volunteers |
to Spain, but there has been no move
to withdraw' those there w’hen the non
intervention accord became effective
In March.
A. G. YOUNG RITES HELD
Services for Bureau of Engraving'
Employe Are at Home.
Funeral services for Albert G.
Young. 59, plate printer at the Bu
reau of Engraving and Printing, were
held yesterday at his home, 2804
Fourteenth street, where he died Sat
urday of a heart ailment.
Mr. Young had been employed at
the bureau for 37 years, and was a
member of the Plate Printers’ Union.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary
A. Young; a son. Thomas A. Young
two daughters, Miss Rita Young, this
city, and Mrs. Walter Stewart, jr., of
California; a brother, Harold J
Young, Brooklyn, N. Y., and one
grandchild.
Manila, P. I„ real estate sales have
been breaking all records recently.
Fleeing to Bombproof in Spain
Pedestrians at Bilbao fleeing to bombproof shelters built deep under the city. Scene during
recent bombardment by insurgent planes. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Spain
(Continued Prom First Page !
frem well within the city, battered
residential and business districts with
a heavy bombardment.
Basques were reported struggling to
prevent anarchists from burning Bil
bao to keep it from falling into the
hands of insurgents.
Columns of smoke were said to be
rising over Baracaldo. on the west
bank of the Nervion River just 2 miles
north of the ancient city. Insurgent
observers reported serious disorders
had broken out in the Achuri section
of Bilbao.
Basques who wanted to evacuate
were said to be fighting the extremists
who sought to fire the houses and
present Insurgent Generalissimo
Francisco Franco with only the ruins
of victory.
Refugees Head for Santander.
Thousands of refugees were stream
ing out of the long-beleagured indus
trial center along the still-open roads
westward to Santander, where it was
thought likely the Basque government
would be moved If the city's last de
fenses fell.
Pitiful scenes were witnessed along
the roadsides, where the refugees—
many of them sleepless for four days
and more—straggled with their bun
dles of cherished possessions to at least
temporary safety.
One group arrived in Santander
after a 100-mile trek, only to be met
by an insurgent air raid.
All available buildings in Santander,
including schools, halls and motion
picture theaters, were converted into
shelters for the refugees.
Red Cross Aids Evacuation.
They were fleeing Bilbao on foot,
by rail and by sea. Four large mer
chantmen and a fleet of small fishing
trawlers flying the flag of the Red
Cross brought many of the women
and children to Santander.
The evacuation of the women and
children and the men too old for
fighting was sped by the spatter of
bullets ricocheting through streets
from the insurgent guns on the hills
that form the eastern border of the
city.
Those who remained hurriedly bar
ricaded the streets for a last stand
against the invaders, who had taken
up their advance guard positions in
the outskirts of Begona, a suburb
Just across the Nervion River to the
northeast.
Early Capture Forecast.
An announcement from the official
Spanish insurgent radio station at
Salamanca said Franco expects to
complete the capture of Bilbao within
the next 24 hours.
The insurgent chieftain was said
already to have ordered the civil gov
ernor of San Sebastian to proceed im
mediately to the Basque capital to re
organize civil affairs there.
A column of legionnaires swept the
northern coastal plain, occupying the
towns of Plencia, Lemonlz and Gorliz,
and forced the crossing of the Burton
River, which flows parallel to the
Nervion 4 miles to the east.
It was the northern pincer of the
movement by which Franco hopes to
encircle the city before ordering the
general advance of his crack army
into the capital itself.
Moving Toward Junction.
The southern wing, with its field
base at Galdacano, 5 miles southeast
of Bilbao, completed the crossing of
the Ibaizabal River and was moving
toward a junction with troops from
Begona and the Santo Domingo
Heights beyond.
Franco’s troops held places on three
sides of the city, leaving only the
Nervion to be crossed and the heights
on the west to be occupied before the
order for the occupation went out.
The insurgent right wing lay on the
Bay of Biscay somewhere between
the villages of Plencia and Barrica,
swinging in toward Las Arenas, where
the bay narrows to become the estuary
of the Nervion. .
From in front of Las Arenas, the
line cut straight to the southeast,
edging always closer to the Nervion
until it reached Begona, which is on
the river itself.
Passing over the heights of Santa
Marina, which look down into Bilbao,
just a little over a mile to the west,
the line hooked around the southern
outskirts of the capital, the jump-off
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Italian Army Chief,
Simply Don't Swear
By the Associated Press.
ROME, June 16.—Profanity got
ft dishonorable discharge from
the Italian Army today.
Gen. Alberto Pariani, under
secretary of war, issued a de
cree squelching cursing in the
ranks and started measures to
enforce his orders.
Second offenders will be pun
ished. Military chaplains will be
requested to deliver sermons on
purity of speech. Large placards
have been posted in all barracks
reminding the troops:
“Swearing dishonors the sol
dier. It is prohibited by mili
tary regulations.”
point for Franco’s effort to clear the
western heights.
"The rout of the enemy becomes
greater every day," an insurgent com
munique asserted. "There are more
dead abandoned and more stocks of
war materials captured.”
More than 5.000 Basque prisoners
were reported taken in the last few
days of fighting.
The insurgents encountered their
stiffest resistance south of Begona and
northwest of Galdacano, where Gen.
Fidel Davila is attempting to effect a
junction of the two wings of his army.
Heavy Shelling at Madrid.
MADRID, June 16 04*). — Madrid
suffered the worst night shelling of ;
its seven-month siege today, with in- j
1 surgent shells pounding into the
heart of the capital at the rate of 20
or 30 a minute.
Government artillery immediately
responded in a long-range duel.
The Grand Via, Alcala street and
Cibeles Square, all in the center of
the city, received the brunt of the
bombardment, along with several sub
urbs.
It was the second bombardment
within 12 hours. During the late
afternoon yesterday insurgent shells
claimed a few casualties.
The day was marked by unusual
air activity on the part of the gov
ernment on all fronts. During the
afternoon government bombers raided
the insurgent barracks at Huesca and
the railroad junction points in that
sector.
In the evening they dropped their
deadly cargo on insurgent positions
near Loma Gorda and then bombed
the Zaragcza airdrome.
TWO BANDITS BIND
CLERK, ROB STORE
$24.50 Is Taken From Cash Reg
ister in Hold-up of Shoe
Concern.
Two bandits robbed the Thom
McAn shoe store at 803 H street
northeast of $24.50 early today, leav
ing the assistant manager. Julian Hol
bert, 3420 Thirteenth street, bound
hand and foot in a rear room.
Holbert was cleaning the sales room
when the men entered, wdth their
hands in their pockets as though they
carried revolvers.
One of them poked Holbert in the
ribs and directed him to the back
room, where they tied him up on
the floor. They rifled the cash reg
ister and fled.
Holbert's calls for help were
answered by a customer. As soon
as he was freed, the assistant man
ager summoned police and gave them
detailed descriptions of the robbers,
neither of whom was masked.
--•
Farmers of Finland are more pros
perous than at any time in seven
years.
SWIMMING POOL
$509 Turned Over to Coun
cil of Social Agencies
for Reopening.
Total donations of $509.50, col
lected by The Evening Star In the
campaign to open the swimming pool
at the Y. W. C. A. at 614 E street,
were turned over to the Council of
Social Agencies today.
Miss Edith Coulson of the council,
under whose auspices the pool will be
operated accepted the money on behalf
of her organization and said work will
begin Immediately to recondition the
pool.
By July 1. some 5.000 under
privileged children of the downtown
area will have opened to them all the
facilities of a first-class swimming
place.
Even though the campaign closed
yesterday, several more donations
came to The Star this morning.
Following are the donors:
Nellie B. Bonwit__$2 00
Lillian V. Daugherty_2 00
A. G. H__3.00
Keith McBee _ 1.00
At the annual get-together of spon
sors of the Opportunity House in the
Harris Hotel yesterday afternoon
Arthur Clarendon Smith presided and
extolled the efforts of all concerned
in The Star's campaign to open the
Y. W. C. A. swimming pool.
Guests and speakers at the meet
ing were Miss Sybil Baker, supervisor
of playgrounds in the District; James
Ring of the Alley Dwellings Author
ity; Miss Bessie Baker, director of
Opportunity House, and Miss Coulson.
Those interested in the campaign
gathered at the Y. W. C. A. pool this
morning, where the money collected
by The Star was turned over to Miss
Coulson.
. ... 9-.——
MECHANICS’ GROUP
TO INSTALL RUPPEL
Officers Elected as Order Holds
Meetings Here—Jenkins
to Speak.
Andrew Ruppel, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
will be installed tonight as national
councilor of the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics, succeed
ing Eugene B. Martin, Nashville,
Tenn.
The Installation ceremony will be
conducted at the Mayflower Hotel,
w-here the National Council of the
junior order convened yesterday for
its two-day biennial session.
Itha McFarland, Portland, Ind., was
without opposition for election as na
tional vice councilor, succeeding
Ruppel.
Omer C. Stubbs. Covington, Ky.,
was re-elected treasurer of the order.
Winston-Salem. N. C., was selected for
the 1939 council meeting.
Representative Jenkins of Ohio ad
dressed the council this morning.
At yesterday's session, James L.
Wilmeth of Philadelphia, national sec
retary for the last 14 years and for
mer chief clerk of the Treasury De
partment and director of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, was made
honorary past national councilor.
Senator Reynolds of North Caro
lina, the main speaker, discussed im
migration legislation and explained
provisions of several bills he has
introduced for restriction of immigra
tion and deportation of aliens.
Edward B. Pitts, convention chair
man, advocated congressional action
to exclude “undesirable aliens.”
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STRIKER THRONG
SMS 3 HOTELS
2,000 in Kansas City Mob
Dispersed by 25 Auto
Loads of Police.
By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. June 16 —A brick
throwing crowd of 2,000 strike sympa
thizers smashed windows in three
major hotels here late last night and
was dispersed only after 25 automobile
loads of policemen resorted to tear
gas.
Three persons were arrested and
one policeman was injured. About 40
windows were broken in the three
hotels, which are among those affected
by a strike called 17 days ago by Amer
ican Federation of Labor unions de
manding a closed shop.
Union officials said the group as
sembled only for a demonstration and
charged the brick throwing began only
after missiles had been thrown from
a hotel into the crowd.
The crowd gathered at the entrances
to the Muehlebach, major downtown
hotel. Police called for reinforcements
as bricks and other /nissiles rained,
breaking three huge plate glass win
dows in the bar room.
About 60 officers charged the crowd
splitting It into two parts. One group
went around to the other side of the
hotel and smashed windows there be
fore a second charge by police scat
tered them. Another group sped to
the Pickwick Hotel nearby and threw
stones before police arrived.
DUE $1,520,159,683.
PAID $163,143
Finland Responsible for Lone War
Debt Entry as France and
11 Others “Regret.’’
Bv the Associated Press.
Due $1,520,159,683: paid, $163,143.
That was the status today of Europe’s
war debt to the United States after the
passage of another semi-annual in
stallment date.
The major debtor nations conformed
to expectations by continuing the de
fault on their war-time obligations.
France, however, went a small step
farther than usual in its polite note
of regret. It expressed a hope that it
might ' soon” find a satisfactory op
portunity to discuss a settlement.
Formal notes from France, Great
Britain and Hungary yesterday left
only Estonia still to be heard from
and there was no indication that it
intended to make any move toward
payment at this time.
Only Finland, of 13 debtor nations,
has continued to make its semi-annual
payments without interruption.
France, which owes $85,312,520 in
current and past due installments, ex
pressed its usual thanks to the United
States for assurances that this country
would be happy to consider any pro
posal for settlement.
N. F. F. E. Delegates Named.
Election of delegates to the annual
convention of the National Federation
of Federal Employes in Springfield,
111., in September, was announced to
day by Local 262. They are J. O.
Burnham, W. E. Perry, Mrs. Ola G.
King. Mrs. Sue Inge and Mrs. Virginia
Schaefer.
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Nudity Complaint
First Problem of
Neiv Police Chief
North Bench Citizens Ash
County for Special
Beach Patrol.
By tbe Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, June 16.—Anne
Arundel County's new chief of police,
former Sergt. John H. Souers, }r.,
must face the bare facts—the naked
truth, so to speak.
As one of his first problems, when
he takes office as chief of the newly
organized county police force, Souers
must consider the complaint of the
North Beach Citizens’ Association, to
wit: Nudity on the beachfront.
E. M. White, association secre
tary, wrote the county commissioners
that “the growing practice of men
and women parading our shore and
going bathing minus the necessary
shirt to cover their breasts and chests
is offensive to the eye and not con
ducive to the best interests of law
and order * *
The association asked through
White that Special County Officer
Bruce Lyons be assigned as beach
patrol. Thomas J. Cullimore, presi
dent of the Board of Commissioners,
ordered the matter referred to the
county's new police department.
Du Pont Bridesmaids
MRS. JAMES P. POLK,
Long Island, N. Y.
When Ethel du Pont be
comes the wife of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, jr., June 30, many
of the Nation’s socially prom
inent families ivill be repre
sented at the ceremony. Here
are three of the six brides
maids. —A. P. Photos.
U. S. PROJECT GETS
OUTSIDE SUPPORT
Co-operative Groups to Aid
Continued Operation of
Garment Factory.
Bv the Associated Press.
HIGHTSTOWN, N. J., June 16 —
Hersey Homesteads, a Resettlement
Administration project, received out
side support today to continue opera
tion of the Government-built garment
factory.
Benjamin Brown, executive director
of the Workers' Aim Co-operative As
sociation and spokesman for the col
onists, announced an agreement
whereby five consumer co-operative
associations would dispose of gar
ments made by the settlers.
He also announced that the Home
steaders’ Corp. had signed a five-year
lease on the community factory, be
ginning July 1. which provided that
40 more families move to the settle
ment within three weeks to join the
80 already there.
Maj. John O. Walker, head of, the
management division of the Resettle
ment Administration, and Boris
Drasin, president of the workers’
group, signed the lease, which it was
reported, would mean eventual con
trol of the settlement without Federal
participation.
Operation of the Government-owned
factory has been financed since its
opening last Summer by the colonists,
each family contributing $500 to the
Workers’ Aim Co-operative Associa
tion, which managed the plant.
The plan to have the co-operative '
association take the output of the |
settlement was reached at a con- !
ference of executives of the co-opera- i
tives involved, the Ohio State Co
operatives, the Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau Co-operatives, the Central
States Co-operatives, Eastern Co
operatives Wholesale, Inc., and the
Federation of New Jersey Consumers’
Co-operatives.
LEWIS TO FIGHT HERE
Light-Heavy Champion to Face
Reddish on June 28.
John Henry Lewis, world light
heavyweight boxing champion, has
been signed to meet Willie Reddish,
colored Philadelphian, here at Griffith
Stadium June 28 in a 10-round non
title bout, it was announced today by
Joe Turner and Earl McDonald, co
promoters of the card.
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New Shatterproof Glass.
A shatterproof glass that can lie
tooled like wood or metal has been de
veloped in Germany. It dissolves in
benzol, chloroform or alcohol.
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100,000 SEE ASHEVILLE
RHODODENDRON PARADE
Procession of 1.428 Persons. 72
Floats, 14 Bands Nearly 2
Miles Long.
Br the Associated Press.
ASHEVILLE. N. C , June 16.—More
than 100,000 persons lined the streets
of this mountain city today to witness
the most elaborate event of the tenth
annual rhododendron festival—the
grand parade, including 72 floats, 14
bands and bugle corps, 1.428 costumed
persons and 92 horseback riders.
Officials said the procession would
be almost two miles long, requiring 80
minutes to pass a given point.
Other events on the day’s program
were Indian games and the rhodo
dendron pageant.
The festival will be concluded
Friday.
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RECOGNITION ORDER
Court Declines to Outlaw Com
pany Union of Grey
hound Lines.
By th€ Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June 16.—The
United States Circuit Court of Appea’i
in a majority opinion yesterday upheld
an order of the National Labor Rela
tions Board requiring the Pennsylvania
Greyhound Lines, Inc., to reinstate ft', e
employes to Its Pittsburgh garage, but
refused to compel the company to
withdraw recognition from the Em
ployes’ Association, a company union.
In an opinion by Judge Joseph Buf
fington, the court held that sectioas of
the board’s order relating to the Em
ployes’ Association "should not be en
forced because there Is no warrant in
the (national labor relations) act for
such action.
"No election has been held; th«
union enjoined has not been notified
or heard, but in advance of an election
by the men, said union Is for all prac
tical purposes outlawed, and that
without a hearing.”
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