Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1936, Page 4

DIPLOMATS J0IN FIDAC EXERCISES Envoys of Five Nations At- tend Rites at Tomb of Unknown Soldier. Diplomats from five allied nations Joined yesterday with the District De- partment of the American Legion in annual Fidac exercises at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. Ceremonies at the tomb at 3 p.m. were part of similar observances held in other allied countries under spon- sorship of the International Fidac Congress, formed 16 years ago fo work for the cause of peace and to draw allied ex-service men closer together. Ceremonies Are Colorful. The American Legion Guard of Honor, the Legion Auxiliary Color Guard and a khaki-attired guard from Fort Myer participated in col- orful ceremonies in which the Legion and its auxiliary, Fidac, and repre- sentatives of Rumania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Italy placed wreaths upon the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Diplomats present were Dr. gugene Bonardelli, Counselor of the Italian Embassy; Lieut. Dushan Sekulitch, Yugoslavian Legation; Lawrence Bun- gardeanu, attache of the Rumanian Legation; Dr. V. L. Palic, attache of the Czechoslovakian Legation, and Michael Budny, representative of Count George Potocki, Polish Am- ‘bassador. Lindburg in Charge. Horace W. Lindburg, District Legion eommander, was in charge of the ex- ercises. He expressed regret at the nability to attend of the Rev. Father | Robert J. White of Catholic Univer- | sity, United States representative serving as vice president of the Inter- national Fidac Congress. The invoca- tion and benediction were given by Dr. Howard Snyder, chaplain of the District Department of the Legion. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 29, 1936—PART ONE. Fidac Honors Unknown Soldier General view of the Unknown Soldier’s Tomb at Arlington yesterday at the annual Fidac exercises there. the World War. Similar services were held throughout the world. The Fidac is an international association of veterans of the 11 allied nations of —Star Staff Photo. however, it would appear to be almost impossible for any measure to get by | both Houses of Congress to which the President is opposed. The Democratic leadership in the | Senate probably will be unchanged, | with Senator Robinson of Arkansas as the majority leader. In the House, | it is expected that Representative Bankhead will be re-elected Speaker. The fight there is for the floor lead- ership, with O'Connor of New York, Rankin of Mississippi and Rayburn of “Texas the principal contenders. Mead, also of New York, has been put forward, possibly as a compromise son's defeat for re-election. One of the issues raised in the campaign against Sisson was that he wanted to pave the way for facts of communism to be taught in the District public schools. “I am afraid,” she declared, “that because of Sisson’s defeat, many mem- bers of the House will not vote for the bill in the form it was originally introduced. The purpose that his bill ACE SAYS REBELY CANRAZE MADRID Rickenbacker Is Certain Franco’s Men Are “Pull- ing Punches.” NEW YORK, November 28 (N.AN.A).—Despite its position as the first major city in history to be bombed from the air by an enemy at its gates, Madrid is teaching nothing to strategists anxious for a test of the relative efficiency of bombing raids and air defense according to Capt. Eddie V. Rickenbacker, Ameri- can war ace and now an air transport | official. “Only two things have been | proved by the five-weeks' bombing of | Madrid,” and Capt. Rickenbacker. “One is that Spain was not a frst- rate air power and did not have modern equipment and the other is| the insurgents have been holding | back and have been very choosy about | where they laid their eggs. “With 50 or a hundred planes— and it seems they have more than that—the rebels could level Madrid easily in a day. With each plane dropping 10 or 20 incendiary and high-explosive bombs, a fair-sized | squadron could destroy every single | building in the place, wreck its water | mains and electric conduits, obliterate | its subways, completely eliminate the | possibility of conducting any sort of | |orderly existence within its walls. | Obviously the rebels are holding back | in the hope of conquering the city, | and not a pile of rubbish on the earth | where Madrid once stood. Loyalists Show Weakness. | “As for defense, the government | has revealed no modern equipment | |except in its newly acquired planes. | Its anti-aircraft guns seem to be| Widower Spends Days in Hospital “Near” His Wife BY the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn, November 28.—P.. J. McHugh sits in his rocking chair at a hospital day after day—and rocks. He isn't {ll—he likes the hospi- tal because he feels he is nearer to his wife of 45 years. She died there last February and it was the last place he saw her alive. Twice 8 week he makes a pilgrimage to the cemetery with flowers. He tried to hide his grief by travel, but gave it up last week to return to the hospital. they can intercept the raiders before they reach vulnerable spots.” “The anti-aircraft would have to be unlimited in amount,” he said, “and would have to fire 75-millimeter shells—or bigger—at machine-gun speed, 600 & minute. In that way the guns could lay down a barrage of yary- ing range and lead the enemy plane through it as the hunter does a bird. I don’t know of any such gun avail- able now, but work is proceeding along those lines.” The captain characterized Sir Thomas Inskip's plan to protect Lon- don with a system of wire nets strung from balloons as “unworkable.” “You couldn't get the nets high enough to be of any use,” he said, “and keeping bailcons filled Wwith gas and a squardon to replace those sent down for refilling would be so costly as to break any nation that tried it. “In planning the defense of a city | there is one important point to be considered and I don't see, yet, What all the consideration in the world can develop against it. This is the devel- opment in blind flying. “In the old days fog was the de- fender’s friend. Today it is his dead- liest enemy. Zero visibility would not prevent a bomber from flying to an | would have accomplished, can be | about as efficient as those we had in | indicated spot on the map and drop- Wreaths for the Fidac, the Legion | .angidate. O'Connor, who has been and the auxiliary were placed UPOR chairman of the Rules Committee, | the tomb by Lois Schaumlefle and | seems to be in line for the post. He William McLoughlin, the latter & |guq acting floor leader in the House member of the Sons of the American | in the Jast session, following the deth Legion. j | of Speaker Byrns. Lindburg spoke briefly at the open-| = senator Harrison, chairman of the ing of the exercises and outlined the | pinance Committee, stands fast in objectives of the International Fidac|pic declaration that new taxes will | Congress. In Paris the president of o pe jmposed in the coming session the congress, Carle del Croix, laid & ,¢ Congress. There may wreath upon the Tomb of the Un- | amendments to the corporate surplus known Soldier there. law revisions, if his committee finds such revision necessary. He expecis Congress y December. He is also quoted as (Continued From First Page.) ing that there may be some amend- —— = ments to the social security act. He area of the world, not to mention the {has set himself against an amend- situation in the Far East, is gIVINg |ment which would relieve wage earn- the :mmim.strmont v}enty ‘w_ ]fi:'l_nk;m of the pay-roll tax for old-age about. New neutrality legislation nsions, however. seems bound to come befere Con- pe’rhs subcommittees of the House gress for consideration, with Sena- | Appropriations Committee will begin tor Nye of North Dakota as & prime | work early in December on some of the mover. The present law will be major appropriation bills which are strengthened, if possible, and made | (5 come before Congress. They will permanent. tion on a constitutional amendment which will make it impossible for Con- gress to declare war unless the terri- | Texas, chairman of the Appropria- | tions Committee, has declared thei | must be a paring down of appropria- tory of the United States was actually | tions. His committee will have the nvaded, without first submitting the | first whack at this work. question to a referendum of the| ,pmong the most interesting of all be minor | tax law, and an effort made at tax- | to get his Joint Committee on Tax | Revision together in Washmg!oq in Representative Ludlow have before them the budget figures, | of Indiana, Democrat, already has an- | which later will be submitted to Con- | nounced he intends to press for acs|gress py the President. Buchanan of | people. His proposed amendment would go further and direct the Gov- ernment to conscript a!l plants and yards producing war munitions of any | kind in the event in order to “take | the profit out of war." “Spending Program.” Another problem which promises to give trouble is the “spending pro- gram.” There are very definite groups in Congress, one of which believes in going ahead with a big spending pro- gram and the other violently op- posed to such spending. There is good reason to believe the President him- | self is determined to bring down gov- ernmental expendityres. Particular ly does he wish to make cuts in so- called emergency agencies of the Government which were, set up toi meet the unemployment situation. It | is one thing, however, to build up | Government agencies and Govern- | ment spending and quite another to | eut them down. Members of Con- | gress who have constituents and Iriends on the pay roll are likely to fight like tigers to keep them on the job. Nevertheless, there is like- lihood of a determined effort to re- duce the personnel in some of these Government agencies. The President, in the light of his overwhelming victory at the polls, should have a comparatively easy time in getting favorable action on his recommendations to Congress. He may, however, have difficulty in check- ing moves of some groups in Con- gress. The Democratic majority i“i the House is so large as to be almost | unwieldy—and also in the Senate. The | House Democrats number 335 to 88 Republicans, 5 Farmer-Labor and 7 Progressives. In the Senate there will be 75 Democrats, 17 Republicans, 2 Farmer-Labor, 1 Progressive and 1 independent. Take it by and large, Perfection in reaTurep 6Y F. S. Harris C RCA VICTOR ic Yoice Model 9-K-2—A 5-band Superheterodyne with the revolutionary new Magic Voice! —police, aviation and ama- teur calls, the U. S. Aviation Weather Reports, i American ente: casts. Magic Brain, Magic Eye, Metal Tubes. Phonograph connec- tion. Music-speech control. A superb volue! EASY LARGE TERMS ALLOWANCE CALL COL. 0100 FOR A M the matters which are to come up in Congress is the question of relief. The President has indicated that the ad- ministration will need an early appro- priation of $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 to carry on relief work for the present fiscal year. What is to be done for Works Progress Administration and Public Works Administration and in what proportions still is to be deter- mined. Congress is to meet on Tuesday, Jan- uary 5, under a special resolution adopted at the last session. Under the “lame - duck” Constitutional amendment, Congress is directed to meet on January 3 each year. How- ever ,the 3d this year falls on Sun- day. Since it was not advisable to meet on Sunday, the old Congress picked Tuesday, instead of Monday, for the opening. Charles F. 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They hindered what will be done when Congress girafing of enemy trenches, but could Senate District Committee has no standing subcommittees and that bills referred to it by the Senate are con- | sidered by special committees, and as a result there are few delays in getting action on a measure. Shift to Be Made. In an attempt to get early con- sideration of the joint resolution to give the District national representa- tion, Mrs. Norton plans to ask Speakep ! Bankhead to refer the measure to her committee, rather than the Judiciary Committee where it failed | to receive a hearing at the last session of Congress. | “I am confdent if we can get the bill in our committee,” she declared, | “hearings will be held and a favor- able report will be made to the | House. And I am equally confident the House will adopt the resolution Mrs. Norton indicated the bill to the effect of the “red rider” would be framed differently from the one which Representative Sisson, Democrat, of New York, sponsored at the last session. It will not call for outright repeal, as did the Sisson | measure, she intimated but will ac- complish the same purpose. The new “red rider” repealer, Mrs. | Norton declared, would in no sense be a compromise. She indicated it would relieve public school teachers of the present “silly procedure” of signing an affidavit every pay day that they had not taught or advo- cated Communism, but at the same time, would penalize the teacher who “advocated” the Communistic form of government in the class room. Communism Issue. In the form that Sisson introduced the “red rider” repeal bill, Mrs. Nor- ton is fearful it might not be approved by the new Congress because of Sis- Bridal FEATURING 20 DIAMONDS Admired by all who see it! It really is a masterpiece of the jewelers’ art, The engagement ring boasts of 13 diamonds while the harmonizing wed- ding band features seven. In white or yellow gold, rider’ will lose its potency.” Mrs. Norton said no decision has been reached yet as to the sponsors of | the bill to destroy the effect of the “red rider,” or the bill to legalize | horse racing. Both of these questions, she declared, would be considered at the first meeting of her committee. Mrs. Norton will return to Wash- ington December 7 to attend a meet- ing of the Airport Co ission, of which she is a member. "§e received a telegram today from Chafrman King of the Senate District Committee urg- ing her to attend this session because the commission at that time will con- sider the report of Gen. Westover as to the merits of various sites proposed for Washington's long-advocated mu- nicipal airport. ‘SIT DOWN’ STRIKERS LAY IN SUPPLIES | Midland Steel Workers Say They May Demand Conference Tomorrow. Py the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, November 28.—The 1,200 men on a “sit-down” strike in the Midland Steel Products Co. plant here laid in food supplies today for the week end, and their leaders said they may ask for a conference Mon=- day with company officials on wage demands. The strikers, who said they were determined to “sit in until Christmas” |to obtain pay increases, were pro- vided with coffee, sandwiches and to- bacco by their wives and the 150 | women employes who also quit Fri- ! day noon but left the building. Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica, said that if the company did not take action by Monday on the plant union’s demand for wage boosts | of “about 10 per cent” the strike lead- would demand & meeting with | ers company officers. Midland officials added nothing to a statement Friday that the plant was “closing” in view of the strike. The men in the plant, which manu- factures steel automobile frames and other metal products, prepared to sleep on floors and benches, and the | women set up a kitchen in a nearby building. R e e Danes Aid Farmers. Legislation designed to preserve the number of independent farms was started in Denmark in 1769. Combination 5110 No extra charge for credit 1004 F St. N.W. Open Saturdsy Til'9 PM. [ convenes, and I am certain the ‘red | o possibly drive us high enough to | interfere with efficient scouting or bombing. “The hiring of such men as Bert Acosta to bolster their air force is of quite dubious value. Acosta used to be one of the best commercial pilots in the country, perhaps in the world, | but he has not kept up with modern | developments in aviation. And even | the best commercial pilot of today would be of little use in an air army. | “The technique of fighting in the | air has changed completely since the | last war. What has happened in the last two decades is that a band of | snipers have been developed into & | tightly knit, cohesive, mass-maneuver- | ing army. “In the last war we were all snipers, but the day of sniping is over. One hundred snipers today can't stand up in an attack against a numerically in- | ferior squadron of vlanes deploying | and maneuvering in formation. Military Flving Specialized. “Even at the moment of contact, | when dog-fighting begins and in- dividual action is the rule of proceed- ure, a commercially trained pilot would be of little value. nique of military highly specialized. | “For example, there is the tech- nique of the turn to be mastered. When flying at commercial speeds, | turns can be made with the throttle | wide open. But you have to slow up your plane to turn at a speed | | between 300 and 400 miles an hour. ‘The problem is how much—and when. Then there is the matter of gauging the arc of the turn. When you're flying at 6 miles a minute, estimating | your position has to be practically a reflex action. “Of course, commercially-trained | pilots—men like Acosta—can learn these things more quickly than un- trained men, but Acosta is learning in a school where failure means death. | “Another thing against Acosta is his | age. War-time flying is a young man’s | game. Diving at terminal velocity is | a basic move in a dog-fight and when | you pass the borderline of 30 or 35 the | chances are you will not have the enormous physical stamina required | | to fight off the rush of blood to the | head and the strain on the heart. | You must be at top efficiency every single split second of the time to give yourself a chance in a dog-fight.” “Only One Answer.” Capt. Rickenbacker said the only answer a city could make to enemy airplanes, besides planes of its own, was “anti-aircraft guns placed where Arthur Convenient Terms The tech-| ying has become too | | ping shells on it. But not all the blind flying instruments in the world will enable defending planes to find an in- visible, speedy enemy.” (Ccpyright. 1936, by the North American l Newspaper Alllance Inc.) B | (Continued From First Page.) | bayoneting their way through Fascist ! defenses. (Five hundred government soldiers were killed, the Teneriffe, Canary Is- land, Fascist radio station announced, in a battle at Escorial, 25 miles north- west of Madrid, according to the | Havas (French) News Agency. | Trench Mortars Captured. [ | The Madrid troops “routed” an! | insurgent army at Pozuelo de Alarcon and foiled an attempt to cut com- munications with El Escorial, the government announced. Foreign| volunteers comprising the interna-| tional brigade pushed back Fascists ! several miles and captured two trench | mortars south of Madrid. A fresh column of cadets arrived to bolster the Socialist army, but rain put & stop to vigorous offensive by | either side during the day. ‘That the condition of the capital, with reduced food supply and in | daily fear of aerial bombardment, was | | eritical was evidenced by visiting ‘members of the British Parliament in an appeal for “large scale action” by neutral powers to lessen horrors of the ciege. To Madrid's million inhabitants ESTABLISHED 1832 ABE OFFICIAL PIARD METROPOUTAN - SMALL fcranp 1505 Only 5 feet Linch long EASY TERMS Bench, Delivery, Service Extra KITT'S 1330 G Street Jordan PIANO COMPANY Beautiful Organ Musie in Your Home Christmas The Hammond Organ for the home 1.2775 No Pipes No Chest 4 ft. 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GIJON, Spain, November 28 (#).— The government announced today in an official communique that a strong offensive, in which dynamating of Asturian mines played a major role,| had been launched on the northern city of Oviedo, in Asturias province. The general attack on the insurgent stronghold, the government said, met with immediate success and resulted in the capture of three towns in the outlying Oviedo district, with heavy ! losses to the Fascist defenders. “Our forces have started a strong offensive,” the communique stated. “In the Trubia sector they occupied Valdupo and Monte de la Parra. In Grullos they took Monte Cinero, which was later abandoned because of heavy insurgent concentrations. In Collot, government forces arrived as far as Ventanielles. The enemy losses were high.” It was understood that Col. Arranda, insurgent commander in the Oviedo| sector, had made an urgent appeal for reinforcements. * (French reports said that the Astu- | rlan miners had dynamited the im- portant bridgehead at Valdupo, break- ing communication between Oviedo and Col. Arranda’s headquarters at Grado to the west. * (These reports said that the Oviedo garrison was not strong enough to re- sist a determined government assault.) The official war bulletin claimed that the insurgent attack on Madrid was being demoralized. FASCIST TOWN ATTACKED. Say Santander Bombed. Bridgehead Destroyed. SAINT JEAN DE LUZ, France, November 28 (&) —Spanish Socialist government troops renewsd their campaign on the northern front today with attacks against Fascist Grado, Vitoria and Tolosa. Reports that Fascist war planes had bombed Santander, Bay of Biscay city, and caused heavy damage there were broadcast by the insurgent radio station at Seville. The Valdupo bridgehead was destroyed, French reports from Gijon said, and Socialist militia asserted they captured the town and inflicted heavy losses on the insurgents. New fighting was reported also at Oviedo, and the Seville said Socialist militiamen were driven back there. FEAR LEAGUE ACTION. Reports France and England Favoring Neu- trality Committee. GENEVA, November 28 (#).—Great Britain and France were represented tonight as desiring to keep the Spanisn civili war from League of Nations consideration lest new threats to international peace result from bitter public debate. The two nations felt the European Neutrality Committee should continue to deal unhampered with the civil war crisis, League circles declared. The Spanish Socialist government asked the League Council yesterday to consider what it termed a menace to world peace created by Italo- German recognition of the insurgent Fascists now besieging Madrid. The League Council would meet in Geneva early in December to con- sider a course of action unless Pranco. British pressure succeeded in allow= ing the European Committee to handle the troublous problem alone. At best, League sources said, the Council would pass a resolution de- claring danger to world peace as a re- sult of the civil conflict in Spain and then turn back to the Neutrality Com- mittee the job of specific action. Whether Germany should be invited to appear before the League was posed also as a difficult question of pro- cedure. The Madrid government charged the non-League member Nazi state as well as Italy, with sup- plying aid to the Fascist junta. There was one unconfirmed report the League Council might hold a session in London, where the European Neutrality Committee sessions are | held. Ecuador (Continued From First Page.) in Ecuador in September, 1935, forcing the resignation of President Antonio Pons. Pons himself had been chosen by the army a month earlier to re- | place President Jose M. Velasco Ibarra.) ‘The Calderon rebels, it was be. | lieved here, were associated with a civilian movement because shots wera | reported fired from windows of resi- | dences as the revolt broke out in the | streets. | Signal Started Revolt. | Several pistol shots were fired at the Calderon barracks and this ap- peared to be a signal. Immediately several shots were fired from houses and the revolting battalion rushed artillery pieces to a nearby hill. One of the cannons, apparently fired accidently, destroyed the front of a house near the barracks, causing several casualties. Several arrests were made in Quito last July when the government an- nounced discovery of a revolutionary movement by soldiers, workers and peasants. Among those arrested then were a colonel and a captain. The government said the rebellion had been set for August 10, and was to have started simultaneously 12 several cities. 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