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LOVAUSTTERUEL
Government Force Reported
Fleeing Before Sweep
of Insurgents.
fcy the Associated Press.
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Feb. 19.—
Insurgent forces laid siege to Teruel,
"no man's land” city at the southern
tip of their Aragon salient, tonight
after driving government forces back
from mountain strongholds In a bitter
struggle.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco's
artillery dominated the city from the
northeast and his columns had cut
the highway to Corbalan. Govern
ment forces were said to have fled,
leaving thousands of casualties and
large stores of material.
(Dispatches to Hendaye, Fiance,
at the Spanish frontier, said Fran
co's armies were camped on all
sides of Teruel and were waiting
for the white flaR of surrender be
fore trying to take it by storm.
(Government advices acknowl
edged their troops had been driven
back to fortifications near Santa
Barbara, northeast of the city. In
surgent headquarters at Irun de
clared both the Santa Barbara and
Mansueto positions — the govern
ment's last Teruel defenses—had
been cut ofT from the. garrison in
Teruel and from the rest of gov
ernment Spain.)
Sweeping down on the east side of
the Alfambra River, the insurgents
were said to have advanced more than
a mile, crossing the Teruel-Corbalan
highway, a secondary government
communication line to the east.
The Insurgents declared they had
made the broadest advance since their
conquest of the west side of the Alfam
bra. The attack at Teruel culminated
a gain of several miles down the river
valley since Thursday.
Insurgent artillery and aviation
operated on a major scale to prepare
the way for infantry which had to
fight for each foot of progress.
Franco's officers said 100 planes,
bombed government positions in the
hills with complete freedom. They
said no government planes challenged
their mastery of the air.
Government forces turned machine
guns on the advancing insurgents from
hundreds of nests scattered among the
mountains.
TRADE FEARS HELD
NEUTRALITY ACT BAR
Nye Says Anxiety for Industrial
Profits Prevented Invocation
in Far^East War.
By the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va.. Feb. 19—Fear of
the loss of foreign trade and profits
to industry' was declared by SenatcJr
Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota here
tonight to be the real reason why the
Neutrality Act had not been invoked
In connection with the Sino-Jap
anese war.
Senator Nye. who addressed a joint
meeting of local chapters of the
American Association of University
Women and the Women’s Interna
tional League for Peace and Freedom,
said the neutrality law in operation
would hurt Japan “far worse than
China.”
The Senator also advocated a na
tional referendum before war is de
clared, and said that another attempt
to revive the question would b« made
at this session of Congress.
Speaking on “Preparedness for
Peace,” Nye said that America could
never hope to maintain peace unless
the profits were not only taken out
of war, but also out of the arma
ment race.
He asserted that Americans could
eliminate over 90 per cent of the
danger of being led into another war
if they chose to prepare themselves
for peace.
t/.S. Planes Feature Inaugural
Of Ortiz in Argentina Today
_DR. ROBERTO M. ORTIZ.
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Brilliant Ceremonies
Mark Induction of
Netv President.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 19.—Argen
tina's new President, Dr. Roberto M.
Ortiz, will be Inaugurated tomorrow
and brilliant ceremonies will mark
the occasion. Dr. Ortiz, who was
minister of finance in the regime of
President Augustin P. Justo, won the
election in September as the repre
sentative of the Concordancia er Gov
ernment party by 245 electoral votes
as against 127 for the radical candi
date, Dr. Marcelo T. Alvear. The
vice president, who was elected with
Dr. Ortiz, is Dr. Ramon Castillo. A
feature of the Inauguration will be
the presence of United States Army
airplanes, which made the flight espe
cially to participate.
The new President is chiefly known
abroad as the minister of finance in
the Justo cabinet, in which position
he followed a conservative and con
structive policy. Under his guidance,
Argentina carried out successful con
versions of government indebtedness
not only at home but in the United
States. The new President is noted
for his capacity for hard work. He
is 51 years of age.
His public career started in 1918
When he was elected a member of the
City Council of Buenos Aires. Later
he was appointed to the Chamber of
Deputies and while in that position
showed great interest in financial mat
ters. For some years before the de
pression. Dr. Ortiz was minister of
public works. During his term of
office he did much to develop shipping
facilities of Buenos Aires and other
ports. He also laid the foundation
for a far-reaching road building
policy, the results of which are being
shown in extensive highway construc
tion in Argentina today. As minister
of finance he was responsible for many
improvements in the structure of the
budget, for the redemption and con
version of dollar loans, and for the
success of a 200,000,000 peso internal
“repatriation loan,” an operation never
before attempted on such a scale in
Argentina.
Taking a broad view of the election,
it may be said that Dr. Ortiz was
returned on what might be called a
prosperity ticket. He will remain in
office for six years. The new admin-'
lstration will continue the policy of
the Justo government.
The new cabinet comprises some of
the outstanding figures in Argentina.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr.
Cantilo, has had a brilliant diplomatic
career and is at present Ambassador
to Italy. At the head of the ministry
of finance will be Dr. Pedro Groppo,
who was at one time Finance Minister
of the Province of Buenos Aires. He
was elected national deputy for that
province in 1932 and was a candidate
for re-election when he resigned to
accept his present position in the
cabinet.
Dr. Taboado, the new Minister of
the Interior, was formerly a national
deputy from the Province of San Luis
and later was chairman of the Post
Office Savings Bank. Senor Jose
Padilla, who will head the ministry of
agriculture, is one of Argentina’s out
standing business men and a promi
nent sugar planter. Dr. Manuel Ramon
Alvarado, who continues his post as
Minister of Public Works, is largely
responsible for the progressive policy
of public construction during the last
few years. Other cabinet appoint
ments include Dr. Jorge Coll, Minister
of Justice and Education; Brigadier
Gen. Carlos Marquez, Minister of War,
and Vice Admiral Leoh Scasso, Min
ister of Marine.
There are two important subjects
still pending between Argentina and
the United States. One is the ratifica
tion of the sanitary convention, and
the other is the long-awaited negotia
tion of a trade agreement.
(Coprritht, 1938, by New York ■mill
Tribune, Ins.).
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King’s Sisters to Visit U. S.
With their royal brother, King Zog of Albania, about to wed Countess Geraldine Apponyi
an American, his three unmarried sisters have decided to see America. They will sail from
Naples today. Left to right: Princess Maxhide, 26; Myzeyen, 29, and Ruhije, 27. They ivill
return for his wedding in April._ —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
Eight of Officers in South
America Have Seen Serv
ice or Lived Here.
Eight officers of the Army Air
Corps who are to fly today at Bueno*
Aires in connection with the inaugura
tion of the new President of Argentina,
following their record flight from
Langley Field in six "Flying Fortress’’
bombardment airplanes, have seen
service in Washington or lived here.
Five of them participated in the
first non-stop formation flight from
Miami to Panama last year over part
of the route flown during the past
week.
The flight commander. Lt. Col.
Robert Olds, is a local resident. He
was born at Woodside, Md . June 15,
1896, and was reared and educated
here.
Mai. Vincent J. Melroy was officer
in charge of the National Guard
Aviation, Militia Bureau, 1929-1933 in
clusive.
The others who have served here
are Maj. Edwin R. McReynolds. Capt.
Caleb V. Haynes, Maj. Harold Lee
George. Capt. Cornelius W. Cousland,
First Lt. Ralph E. Koon and First
Lt, William A. Matheny.
Majs. George and McReynolds and
Capt. Haynes have served in the War
Department. Capt. Cousland was on
duty in the office of the Secretary
of War for several years, and from
1929 to 1934 was on duty at Bolling
Field. Lt. Matheny and Lt. Koon
were op duty at Bolling Field In
1935-6.
Members of the flight who partici
pated in the non-stop flight from
Miami to Panama last year w’ere First
Lts. Matheny, David R. Gibbs, Torgils
G. Wold, Frederic E. Glantzberg and
Gerald E. Williams.
Another member of the Bueno* Aires
detachment, Capt. Nil B. Harding,
was quarterback of the Army football
team at West Point from 1924 to
1926 and w’as assistant football coach
there ir^ 1929, 1932 and 1933.
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Miss Sullivan Stricken.
ALEXANDRIA, Va„ Feb. 19 i Spe
cial!.—Miss Sadie Sullivan, 50, of 203
Rosemont avenue, sister of Roger Sul
livan, city treasurer, was stricken with
a paralytic stroke suddenly today w'hile
riding on a bus here. Her condition
was reported serious. !
British Warplanes Stamp Out
’ Rebellion in Northwest India
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 19.—Britain’* opera
tions with troops and planes to stamp
out rebellion among followers of the
Fakir of Ipl in Far Northwestern
India cost the lives of 193 soldiers and
almost 700 tribesmen in eight months,
an official report showed today.
The report by Gen. B. A. Cassel,
the Indian commander in chief, cov
ered the period from January 16 to
September 15,‘1937, and described the
military campaign begun in mid-April
when Gen. Sir John F. 8. D. Coleridge
was given full political control of the
Waziristan area with command of air
operations.
It said the Fakir was driven out,
but that did not halt the trouble. In
June three villages were “punished”
by air action for their complicity in
rebel raids, while a fourth village was
bombed to obtain the release of kid
naped Hindu girls.
The report followed a statement by
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
in the House of Commons that Britain
would limit the use of bombing planes
as a police weapon only in the event
of an international agreement.
The Fakir has not been caught,
although the situation now' has
quieted,
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Bulgaria Shakes Up Military.
SOFIA. Feb. 19 (0).—The Bulgarian
Supreme War Council ordered the re
tirement of 4 general officers, 12 col
onels and 2 captains.
STRATEGICBRIDGE
Chengchow Span Over Yel
low River Is Blasted to
Halt Japanese.
By the Asuoclated Press.
SHANGHAI, Feb. 19.—Chinese to
day blasted the longest steel bridge in
China In a desperate attempt to pre
vent a Japanese army from crossing
to tl»e south bank of the Yellow River.
All Yellow River crossings and fer
ries in the Central China area north
of Chengchow, where the life-line
Lunghai Railroad crosses the Pelping
Hankow line, were closed or de
stroyed.
Chinese defenses in Chengchow, just
south of the river, were reinforced.
The junction city is the immediate
objective of Japanese in the northwest
corner of the Lunghai corridor, at
tempting to sever China's main com
munications and join forces closing a
bottleneck from north and south.
Defenders in Flight.
Chinese acknowledged their troops
defending the north bank still were
in flight after a defeat a Sinsiang.
Pursuing Japanese swerved from
their main drive south to isolate the
Chinese along a spur railroad to the
west in an Important coal mining
area, about 20 miles north of the river.
A Japanese side campaign in Shansi
Province, aimed ultimately at the
3,000-mlle highway linking China and
Russia, swept forward. Japanese dis
patches reported capture of strategic
Rising Sun Pass,
The embattled area included the
southern edge of the Shansi high
lands. where the Great Wall Moun
tains drop abruptly to the North China
plains. Japanese, already holding half
of Shansi, claimed they now had taken
its most populous heart.
Japanese Press North.
On the eastern, coastal, side of the
180-mile-wide Lunghai corridor that
separates Japanese conquests in North
and Central China, another Japanese
army pressed north toward Suchow.
United States Consul John M. Al
lison reported from Nanking, where
he reopened the United States Em
bassy after Japanese captured China's
capital, that lawlessness had abated
and most Chinese had returned to
Assails “Deal”
LABORITE URGES EDEN TO
QUIT IN CRISIS.
HERBERT MORRISON.
Strife in England's cabinet
over British concessions to
Italy and the policy in the
Notification of Austria ap
proached a crisis yesterday
with a demand by Morrison,
secretary of the London Labor
party, that Anthony Eden
resign as foreign secretary
rather than submit to a ‘‘hu
miliating deal” with Italy.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
their homes. Japanese officers, whose
troops had been accused of serious
breaches of discipline, apparently were
enforcing strict order, Mr. Allison
said.
Japanese Boat Reported Sunk,
HANKOW. Feb. 19 (/Pj—Chinese
Air Corps officers today reported the ,
sinking of a Japanese torpedo boat, i
the destruction of eight enemy air- 1
planes and heavy damage to their
ground forces in a series of air raids, j
The raids, following up an air bat
tle yesterday in which 10 Japanese
pursuit planes and two bombers were j
reported shot down, were said to have
started with the sinking of the tor
pedo boat, anchored at Tatung, about
40 miles down the Yangtze River from
Wuhu.
DE VALERA GUARDED
Police Hold Back Huge Crowds
Greeting Him at London.
BT the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 19.—Cautious Scot
land Yard tonight deprived Prime
Minister Eamon de Valera of Ireland
of the boisterous welcome that kept
him Imprisoned in a railroad car on
his visit last month.
Strong cordons of mounted and
foot police held back tremendous
crowds that had surrounded the rail
road station to welcome De Valera,
arriving to resume Irish-Brltish con
versations which were adjourned in
January.
Soldiers Go to School.
Two enlisted men from Bolling Field
are included In the second class of the
Air Corps Weather School, Patterson
Field, Fairfield, Ohio, the War De
partment announced yesterday.
The local men are 8taff Sergt. Rob
ert M. Glenn, who is a native of Wash
ington, and Corpl. Daniel E. Boynton,
a native of Pleasantvllle, N. Y.
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only 22c more thon his 1937 bill.
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*
The average household consumer who odds
on Electric Washer ond an Electric Ironer now,
will have a monthly statement for electric
service only 4* mere than his 1937 bill.
Modern electric laundry equipment is popu
larizing home laundering because of its econo
my and convenience.
The average household consumer who installs
an Electric Oil Burner now, will have a monthly
statement for electric service during the heating
season only 34c mere than his 1937 bill.
More than 20,000 families on our lines are
profiting by the comfort and economy of auto
matic oil heat.
The average household consumer who Installs
on Electric Refrigerator new, will have a month
ly statement for electric service enly J4« mere
than his 1937 bill.
Over 91,000 Electric Refrigerators are now
on our lines.
The average household consumer who odds
an Electric Rooster new, will have a monthly
stotement for electric service only 11c more
than his 1937 bill.
Those who live in apartments will find that
on Electric Roaster is the ideal way to cool
cooking during hot weather.
The overoge household consumer who instolls
an Electric Range now, will hove a monthly
statement for electric service only $1.54 mere
than his 1937 bill.
Over 40,000 persons in Washington ond
vicinity are now enjoying Electrically cooked
meols every doy! These new rotes will increase
the number of users measurably during 1938.
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