Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1937, Page 2

PROBERS T0 HEAR OF LABOR POLICEES Senate Civil Liberties Quiz Will Be Resumed Thursday. | The part which industrial and em- loyer organizations play in labor re- nuum will come under scrutiny this Wweek of the Senate committee investi- gating violations of civil liberties, it was announced today. Reopening their hearings on Thurs- | day, the committee will take testi- mony from three officials of the Na- tional Metal Trades Association and others familiar with the policies of the association. Those under subpoena include Homer D. Sayre, commis- sloner of the N. M. T. A,, Chicago; O. R. Abbott, employment manager, also of Chicago; L. A. Stringham, Eastern representative of New York, and W. J. S. Duverdier. Because of the illness of witnesses scheduled for today, the committee announced Saturday it would recess until after the inauguration. Orig- inally, it had planned to hear testi- mony concerning labor relations poli- cies of the American Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, a subsidiary of United States Steel Corp. The same witnesses will be summoned later for this pur- pose. Next Monday and Tuesday the committee has scheduled two officials of the Corporations Auxiliary Co. of Cleveland, another concern furnish- ing “industrial service.” The officers under subpoena are J. H. Smith, presi- dent, and Dan G. Ross, sales manager, Rome (Continued From First Page.) seat in League councils, vacant since imposition of Ethiopian war sanctions, and use her influence to bring Ger- many back to Geneva. Official circles expressed indignation at reports the Spanish government at Valencia had naturalized foreign vol- unteers now fighting for Madrid. Official Fascist sources said such a decree had been published in the Valencia official gazette. They de- clared Italy's reply to the Ilatest British note, asking that volunteer enlistments be stopped, might take cognizance of the reports. Italian and German volunteers are fighting with the Fascist insurgents against volunteers of Russian, French, British and other nationalities on the government side. Virginio Gayda, authoritative Fas- cist writer, said in a Giornale D'Italia editorial: “It is plain this naturalization is enly a farce. “It is destined to cover human con- traband going to Spain and forestall the open and clear-cut proposal of TItaly and Germany to remove all for- eigners participating in the war.” BLOCKADE PLAN DEBATED. Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. TRIP TO WHERE? EARKEN to the sad tale of ‘Mr. Witherspoon, a passenger on the big transport airplanes of Eastern Alrlines—and, as the expression goes, how! Mr. Witherspoon boarded an air- plane in Chicago the other night to go to Louisville. Weather condi~ tions did not permit a landing in Louisville, so Mr. Witherspoon was carried to Atlanta. With a good-natured smile, Mr. Witherspoon. allowed as how he was going to Mobile, as well as to Louis- ville, and he guessed he might just as well catch Louisville on the way back. So, riding on a pass, issued because he had missed Louisville, Mr. Wither- spoon embarked for Mobile. Weather again reared its dripping head and New Orleans was the first stop. Next day, still smiling, Mr. Wither- spoon, again on a pass, took off from New Orleans for Mobile. Even if this were fiction, the airline boys say in discussing the affair, it would not sound right to say that Mr. Wither- spoon once again missed Mobile be- cause of weather. But that is just what happened. And to make the tale utterly fantastic, he then set out for Louisville, his original des- tination, missed that, too, and wound up in Chicago with a batting average of exactly zero. “But,” he assured the embarrassed airline people, “it was a swell ride.” And he proved it by taking the next airplane back to Louisville, * &k x & SEE-SAW. The other morning a Chevy Chase bus pulled up at the corner. A woman coming down the side street saw it, at the last moment, and started to run. The driver, however, had closed the door and pulled out as she got under way. Seeing this, the woman stopped. At that moment the driver caught sight of her and stopped, whereupon the woman resumed her running. But the driver, realizing he had blocked the cross street, started up again. The woman, see=- ing this, stopped running. Having cleared the intersection, the driver again pulled up to the curb and waited. Finally the pros- pective passenger observed this and started to sprint across the street, but the driver, evidently discour- aged, again got under way just be- Jore she reached the bus. The woman made a final halt, placed her hands on her hips and gave vent to her feelings. Ele- mentary lip reading revealed what she said, but it cannot be reported in a family newspaper. Non-Intervention Committee Is Called H Into Session. LONDON, January 18 (#)—The Non-Intervention Committee to iso- late the Spanish civil war was re- ported today to be considering a re- vived plan to blockade the conflict- torn peninsula. As insurgent Fascists and Socialist government forces increased their| efforts with the end of the first six months of the war, the non-inter-| vention group was called into session * % * % DEVICE. | FFICER PRINCE, who rides a | motor cycle in No. 8 precinct, has something, too. His is for rainy day by the way. You may have no- ticed that when s motor cycle officer sits on his iron mount his raincoat opens wide spaces between the buttons. You would guess that rain would drive through the opening and you would be right. to act on a subcommittee’s compli- | cated proposal for halting all aid to the combatants. Observers felt, however, the com- | mittee faced a blank wall arising from the apparent reluctance of the major European powers to take positive action. Situation Summed Up. Authoritative sources summed up| the stalemated situation as follows: Great Britain has enforced a firm ban on volunteers snd asked other nations to follow her lead. France| and Russia have agreed in principle, but declined to act until joined by Italy and Germany who have delayed answering until they formulated a Joint policy. Informed circles noted an increas- ing tendency to divide Europe into three political camps with Britain standing alone and holding the bal- ance of power between Franco-Rus- sian and Italo-German understand- ings. Attention was focused on the prob- able answers from Germany and Italy to the British demand for non-inter- vention. Authoritative sources con- sidered their attitude, believed to have been developed last week in confer- ences between Premier Mussolini and Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goering, would mean success or fajlure for the committee plan to check aid to Spain. ‘The subcommittee plan was said to be based on four features: 1. Neutral observers in all Spanish ports. 2. Issuance of clearance papers at neutral ports for all shipping bound for Spain. 3. A neutral six-power naval patrol to check the papers of vessels in Span- 1sh waters. 4. Neutral commissioners at high- way and railroad points of entry on the French and Portuguese borders, Crash (Continued From First Page.) Tuesday. Both planes crashed in the same mountain region as they neared the Burbank Airport. “Both crashes occurred within a half mile of the deposits of uranium I found in 1933, when I was search- ing for the source of Placentia Can- yon River bed gold,” the veteran en- gineer related. ‘The radioactivity of the metal is so great that it will produce a distinct impression on a photographic negative wrapped in black paper.” His theory recalled the recent re- port of the Copeland Senate Subcom- mittee that the the guiding radio beam of the Van Nuys station here is “generally unreliable.” In stormy weather, when electrical Impulses are doubly conducive, at- traction of the ore might even throw the Pederal radio beam out of focus as well as influencing radio equip- ment aboard a low-flying airplane, Stanley theorized. He offered to lead Federal inspectors to the uranium deposits, if they con- sidered his evidence of sufficient im- portance. Maj. R. W. Schroedér, Federal chief of airline inspection, said & hearing on last week’s air disaster would be held either tomorrow or Wednesday, depending on the condition of the in- Jured pilot, Willlam W. Lewis. / ing & rubber apron from chin to knees, under the coat, that is doing very well at last reports, * % % x BHOW. PUBLIC hearings in connection with Congressional investigations have become a feature attraction of Wash- ington and almost without exception play to capacity crowds. Among the audience always are found a few “regulars” who seem deeply interested in exploring all subjects whether it be the practices of Wall Street, those of the Navy or how to establish con- ditions of more work and less pay for the country at large. BSo dependable, in fact, have some of these regulars become in their at- tendance that one veteran committee secretary is offering to bet they would be on hand if the hearing were sched- uled for the North Pole. “I'll bet,” he says, with conviction, “that at 9:45 that morning you could look out over the ice in all directions leading to the pole and find black dots creeping their way toward the hearing. They'd all be carrying brief cases, too, he added as an after- thought. *x k¥ TH!R! is a ‘“one-two” tomcat at Eighteenth and L streets north- west. When he wants to get into the store that seems to be his daytime residence, he doesn't meaouw or scratch timidly. He stands up on his hind legs and in approved pugilistic form delivers right and left punches of no mean power and with Joe Louis rapidity, at the glass panel. Upon latest check, however, he hadn’t got in. LY GEE, GIRL! The long hours, hazardous life and moderate pay of a Federal agent do not prevent hundreds of persons from annually applying to the Justice Department for appoint- ment in the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation. Even housemaids, apparently, can’t resist the lure. One letter, addressed to the Denver bureau office of the F. B. 1., follows: “Dear Head G-Man: I have al- ways wanted to be @ G-man. I would like nothing better than to be a G-man. I am a girl and do housework, but I would rather de a G-man than to do housework. S0 if you will write ang tell me how I can get to be ¢ G-man I will appreciate #.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1937. M SOMEAUTOLOTS MAY RAISE PRICES Baxter Warns Gouging Will Be Held Imposition on D. C. Visitors. A number of downtown parking lots plan to increase their rates for in- auguration day by offering advance reservations of space for $1 a car, it was learned today. Operators of several lots, on the other hand, sald their rates would not go up Wednesday, and that every effort would be made to take care of regular customers who patronize them daily. Norman W. Baxter, assistant chair- man of the Inaugural Committee, said any increase would be construed by the committee as a “reflection on the District and an imposition on the visitors.” Baxter said Washington business men had assured the committee that prices for hotels, restaurants and park- ing lots would not be boosted for the inaugural. District authorities, at present, have no power to regulate parking lot charges. Most of the lots offering reservations of $1 sald their regular rates of 50 cents a day would prevail for unreserved space. The $1 rate will prevail from 8 am. to 6 pm. Wednesday. Managers of several other parking lots were still without word from their headquarters as to whether the rates were to go up Wednesday. - Seamen (Continued From First Page.) —_— Representative Sirovich, which calls for postponing enforcement of the Copeland bill for six months. We be- lieve that immediate favorable action DR.A.L OBERLE DIES SUDDENLY Petroleum Technologist Is Found Unconscious in Basement of Home. Dr. Alfred L. Oberle, 54, petroleum technologist and a former member of the Society of American Military En- gineers, died in Emergency Hospital last night shortly after being found uncénscious in the basement of his home at 1915 Thirty-seventh street. An autopsy was performed on his body today, but Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald said the cause of death could not be determined until a chem- ical analysis had been completed. ‘The coroner said Dr. Oberle was found unconscious by his wife, Mrs. Grace Oberle, who had him taken to the hospital. Dr. Oberle held patents on & num- ber of petroleum processes, most of which were patented since 1931. According to records at the Patent Office, the sclentist secured patents in 1932 and 1933 on a process for making anti-knock gas. He also invented a process and apparatus for heating petroleum jelly, described as an eco- nomical method of distilling oil for gas and other by-products. Dr. Oberle also secured, in 1933, & patent for a new process for pro- ducing carbonaceous material for getting by-products from the residue after the petroleum is distilled. Other phases of his work dealt with several types of carbons, such as de- colorizing, medicinal, gas mask and collodial carbons. Some of these per- tained to processes for refining sugar and water purification. 7 SOCIAL SECURITY FIELD POSTS T0 OPEN by Congress on this resolution on the |Board Announces Space Obtained Prince has devised a way of wear- | one hand would remove an obstacle that now makes more difficult the settlement of the 1l-week national maritime strike. “It also would provide sufficient time for Congress to consider the proposed amendments, to hear testi- mony from authorized representatives from the maritime unlons, the public, the shipowners. “We fee] sure that on the basis of such public hearings Congress would adopt modifications of the bill that would really make it & bill that would increase safety at sea, protect the general public, and at the same time guarantee the fundamental rights of American seamen.” Unable to obtain a permit to parade yesterday, some 500 of the demonstra- tors marched out of Baltimore shortly after midnight and slowly made their way through the rain along the Balti- more Boulevard. Trucks and busses shuttled back and forth between Balti- more and the Capital to speed up the | procession, but stragglers still were coming in at 9 am. Carry Few Banners. Pea jackets, knitted caps and even oil skins identified the marchers as seamen, and a few banners proclaimed their dissatisfaction with the clause in Copeland’s bill which, they claim, will “blacklist” union agitators. Met at the District line as they entered the city by way of Bladens- burg road, the vanguard of the pro- cession was accompanied by a hand- ful of policemen to a lot at Fifteenth and H streets northeast. There they huddied about fires in smal] groups and later scrambled for a place in line when hot coffee and the “makings” for cigarettes were handed out from supply trucks. The Baltimore contingent had been here about 3 hours when busses from New York, Norfolk and Philadelphia started to arrive. for 3 Offices in Virginia and ! 4 in Maryland, | By the Associated Press. The Social Security Board has leased floor space for the early open- ing of three field offices in Virginia and four in Maryland, the agency an- nounced today. Offices in Alexandria and Norfolk, Va., will be in the post office build- ings, and in Staunton, Va, in the Leader Building at 11 North Central street. Another Virginia office was opened today in the Rosenberg Build- ing in Roanocke and a fifth office has been in operation for several weeks at Richmond. The Maryland offices will be in Annapolis, Hayes Building; Cumber- land, post office building; Hagerstown, Grand Building, and Salisbury, White and Leonard Building. The fleld offices assist in maintain- ance of wage records of workers for whom social security accounts have on old-age benefits and other phases of the social security act. | selected from civil service lists. NOTED SPOTS OPEN Sightseers Granted Additional Hours on Visit Here. The National Park Service an- nounced today that the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and the Lincoln Museum, as well as the | house on Tenth street in which Abra- ham Lincoln died, will be open from 9 am. to 10 p.m. tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. Officials explained that these addi- | tional opening hours are being author- | | ized to accommodate the large number of people in Washington for the in- | auguration. o JOHN T. SADLER. President’s Smile Lures Two Veteran Inaugural Watchers AUGUST BRUEHL. John T. Sadler, 80-year-old native of Washington, will look forward to seeing his seventeenth consecutive in- augural parade Wednesday more be- cause of President Roosevelt’s happy smile than anything else. Mr, Sadler doesn’t like gloomy pa- rades which, he says, are caused by the attitude of the President who has just taken the oath of office and is riding slowly back Pennsylvania ave- nue from the Capitol to the White House. “President Roosevelt will smile that great smile of his and wave his hat like he really means it, and I know this parade will be a gay one.” Some Presidents seem bowed, almost depressed by the great responsibility they shouldered a few minutes before at the Capitol, Mr. Sadler believes. He remembers that Grant, Hayes and Harrison “showed in their faces that they were very solemn and serious. The crowd can see this and they get serious, too.” “Teddy” Smiled, Too. “I believe ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt took his Jjob as seriously as any President ever did, yet he was so good humored and energetic that he could almost make & parade by himself. Mr. Wilson was very serious, even in his first inaugu- ration. In the second one he was probably thinking that the country would be in the war pretty soon.” Mr. Sadler lives at 128 Leland street, Chevy Chase, Md. August Bruehl, retired printer, is also of the opinion that a President’s sttitude and personality have much to do with the tone of inaugural parades, Franklin D. ‘Roosevelt has the best | West Point and the midshipmén from | Berry, those from Oklshoms. Annapolis. representing insugural personality and appearance, A says Bruehl, who has watched every Chief Executive pass down the Ave- nue since Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Garfield was the next most striking figure because of his impressive fore- head, he said. Has Never Paid for Seat. From a grandstand seat made to order at the second-floor window of his home, at 1205-1207 Pennsylvania avenue, Bruehl watched a great many of the parades. Later he viewed them from The Star Building or from the Capitol, but never paid for a seat in the grandstand. “There is something about an in- augural that makes it different from any other parade,” he said. “I get a new thrill with each one. They are never exactly the same. I'll never forget Fitzhugh Lee, commander of the 3d Division, marching down the Avenue in Cleveland’s first adminis- tration, I think it was. What a tre- mendous ovation the man got! And lame Commodore Robert Evans hob- bling ahead of a snappy Marine contingent with his bent leg. That was in Cleveland’s second.” Cleveland’s first was the nicest of them all from the point of view of weather conditions, and Garfield’s, with its attendant rain and slush, was the worst, he says. Most of the Presi- dents rode in open barouches with either two or four horses, he added, Taft, as far as he could remember, being the first to ride in an auto- mobile. It the weather is good Bruehl in- tends to watch this inaugural from the vicinity of the Capitol and looks forward to seeing the cadets from L3 been set up and furnish information | Small staffs for each office will be | Dog Hikes to Old Home—750 Miles Maz, a big German police dog, trotted 750 miles over snow-covered highways to Des Moines, his old home?whcn he pdid not gx‘ke Denver, Colo., where his owners, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Martin, took him when they moved. When he arrived yesterday after a 47-day trip, he was too tired to romp with Kirby Wilmore, 3, a former playmate. | —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. COVERNDRSTOEE HOUSINGFROMAR Projects In and About D. C.| to Be Viewed From Blimp by Visitors. Governors visiting the Capital for the inauguration were invited by the Central Housing Committee today to take & bird’s-eye view from the blimp Reliance of housing projects in and about Washington. The airship will make hourly flights from the Washington Airport tomorrow and on Thursday and Fri- day, carrying the State chief execu- tives over Colonial Village, the 700- unit housing project financed by the Federal Housing Administration, and over Langston Terrace, project for colored tenants now under construc- tion here by the housing division of the P. W. A. ‘The ship will then head north to Greenbelt, the Resettlement Adminis- | tration project near Berwyn, Md, where it will land. The Governors, only four of whom can make each| trip, will be taken by automobile on an inspection tour of the project. The Governors will be the honored | guests tomorrow at a noon luncheon | in the Mayflower Hotel arranged by | the Central Housing Committee. Fred- | erick A. Delano, chairman of the| committee, will be the only speaker. | it was explained, is remaining at home because the Legislature is in session. Gov. Bibb Graves headed the Ala- bamans. Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan is leaving for the inauguration tonight. Virtually all the State groups are due in tomorrow. Beginning this evening and contin- uing through Thursday, these visitors will be entertained by their local State societies and other organizations. —_——— . 0il (Continued From First Page.) in London that the Iniand Explora- tion Co., controlled by Seaboard Ofl Ca., had been given a 75-year con- cession opening 270,000 square miles of oil-bearing territory in Afganistan. The territory was described then as “probably the greatest untapped ofl reserve in the world.” J. M. Lovejoy of New York, president of the Sea- board Ofl Co., is president of the In- land Exploration Co. HART'S HUMOR RECALLED. Former Minister to Iran Once Was Newspaper Reporter. By the Associated Press. A high point in the diplomatic ca- reer of Charles C. Hart, former Min- ister to Iran and a principal figure | in a huge oil deal there, was an offi- | cial report he sent to the State De- partment on “the need of exercise Hart, who was a Washington news- paper correspondent from 1912 to 1925, was recalled by State Depart- ment officials today as a man with | ‘The committee tomorrow will open an exhibition in the Jefferson room ! | at the Mayflower showing the activi- ties of the Federal Government in the | fleld of housing, and on Wednesday, | Thursday and Friday. evenings there will be motion pictures of Europeln | and American housing. 1 Inauguration (Continued From First Page.) | at the sight of blooming magnolias ' and rambler roses—artificial ones. | | Magnolia and Southern pine trees| tower on either side of the temporary | two-story colonlal structure. Boxed | hedges rimmed the high-columned | porch where Mr. Roosevelt will sit. | The atmosphere recalled that! Jackson's inauguration was the first held out of doors. Historians call that parade the longest in history, because his followers gathered in such num- | bers on the 1,500-mile trip to Wash- | ington that Daniel Webster exclaimed: | “This i3 not & parade, it's a revo- | lution.” “The President has asked that the Hermitage be left standing for 10 days or so after the inauguration to let as many as want make a visit,” Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman | of the Inaugural Committee, said. Works on Address. After attending morning services at St. Thomas' yesterday with Mrs. Roosevelt and their grandchildren, Eleanor and Curtis Dall, the Presi- dent spent the afternoon and evening working on his speech. Almost all of the immediate presidential family will be here Wednesday, the only | absentees being Franklin Roosevelt, | Jr., now in Florida recuperating from an illness, and Mrs. John Boettiger, their daughter, who resides in Seattle. Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother, plans to leave her New York | home for Washington tomorrow. In addition to the thousands who | Will be eyewitnesses to the inaugural | ceremonies, uncounted millions will get an instantaneous account by radio. For more than five hours, starting in the morning and continuing into the afternoon, microphones scattered all over the Capital will be in action, to cover every phase of the celebration. The four chain groups—N. B. C., C. B. 8, M. B. 8. and Intercity will par- ticipate in this coverage. Tickets for the parade stands are moving briskly, and Chairman Gray- son announced yesterday that all but three of the boxes available for the concert in Constitution Hall Wednes- day night—the only official entertain- iment offered by the Inaugural Com- | mittee~had been disposed of. To Be Concert Guests. Mrs. Roosevelt will attend the con- cert, having with her the President's mother and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the wartime President. One box has been set aside for vis- iting Governors—30 or more in num- ber—and their wives, and many of these State executives have taken large blocks of tickets for their staffs and other members of their parties. The net proceeds go to Washington charities. Grayson said that the official medals, the only official souvenir sponsored by the committee, also are selling rapidly, and that those want- ing them should make purchases im- medfately. Only 1,000 of these medals were made available, and once this number is disposed of, the die will be destroyed. The medals are on sale at R. Harrls & Co, Galt Bros, Wood- ward & Lothrop and the Mayflower, Shoreham and Willard Hotels. The State parties began arriving this morning, special trains bringing in del- egations from Mississippi and Okla- homa and a large group coming from MicHigan and Alabama. Gov. Hugh White led the Mississippl visitors and Lieut. Gov. James A. . Berry I8 Gov. B. W. Mariand, who “a grand sense of humor.” Many of his reports were written in a humor- ous vein. One that drew laughter around the| world related how the British Minister to Iran had been hurt in a horse- riding accident and said other able- bodied members of the diplomatic corps were laid up with exercise in- | Juries. Hart, whose “bad leg” kept him from exercising, said he was the only one fit for duty. His report was widely published in this country and broad. al 3 Born in Bryant, Ind., in 1878, Hart | was & newspaper publisher and editor from 1897 to 1910. After his Capital reporting experience, he was appointed Minister to Albania by President Cool- idge in 1925. Four years later he was assigned to Persia, remaining there until 1933. Following his resignation, he came to the United States, but later went back to the East. Friends said he found the climate there more agreeable. FIRE LOSS $2,500,000 Five Acres of Wooden Buildings at Melbourne Swept. MELBOURNE, Australia, January 18 (#)—A $2,500,000 fire spread through 5 acres of wooden buildings at the Victoria Docks today—the hottest day of the Australian Summer. Four tied-up vessels were endangered. One, the British Port Wellington, caught fire and was set adrift. The blaze was extinguished in midstream. a HISTORY IN MRS, . A MOFFETT 10 SEEK DIVORCE Wife of Former Head of F. H. A. May Charge Men- tal Cruelty. E¥ the Associated Press. PALM BEACH, Fla., January 18— | Mrs. James A. Moffett, the former | FASCISTS CAPTURE EY G N SOUTH Take Marbella, Opening \Way to Strategic Port on Mediterranean. By the Assoctatec Press. AVILA, Spain, January 18.—The insurgent high command announced today Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de Liano’s hard-driving southern army had cap- tured the barrier city of Marbella, opening the way to Malaga. strategic government port on the Mediterrae nean Large amounts of arms and am- munition were seized, the communique sald, when the advancing Fascist forces fought their way into the ecity. Marbella, only 35 miles from Malaga and called the barrier city because of its strong fortifications, was believed the last obstacle to the capture of Malaga, objective of the southern drive. Gen. de Llano’s reinforced army of 20,000 was expected to push along the narrow corridor between the moun- tains and the sea. The communique said more than 100 Socialist officers and soldiers de- serted to the Fascist armies during the battle. Fascist Shells Burst in Central Plazas of Madrid. MADRID, January 18 (#).—Spanish Fascists began the seventh month of their attempt to overthrow the So- cialist government today with renewed bombardment of the capital. A half dozen shells burst in Madrid's central plazas, damaging commercial buildings, although no casualties were reported. The fresh artillery assault began as foggy weather was replaced by bright sunshine. “Kim" Moran, sald today she plans | to divorce her husband, former head | of the Federal Housing Administra- tion, “on grounds just as mild as can be.” “It will be an altogether friendly suit,” she said, “and I'm going to take | back my former name, Mrs. Joseph | F. Moran.” | Her attorney, J. Kenneth William: morrow or Wednesday, when papers are returned from New York. He said the grounds probably will be mental cruelty. The Moffetts have a palatial Win- ter residence on the ocean front here. ‘They have been married since Novem- | ber, 1934. Moffett was head of the Federal Housing Administration until he re- signed to become vice president of the Standard Oil Co. of California. Mrs. Moffett has three daughters, Mrs. J. F. Carlisle, jr.; Mrs. Warren Johnson and Mrs. Adelaide Moffett Brooks. Mrs. Brooks' husband, David Brooks, died in plunge from the eighth | story of a New York building several | months ago. Moffett’s first wife, nee Adelaide McMichael, died in similar manner in 1934, 'HIGH COURT RECESS UNTIL FEBRUARY 1 Washington State Wage and Gold Bullion Decisions Not Announced. The Supreme Court recessed until February 1 today without announcing | tionality of the State of Washington's minimum wage law for women and & | dispute as to whether the 1933 reso- lution prohibiting payment of obliga- | as coin. In & brief session. the justices acted only on a few petitions for review of | the disbarment of Louis Fried, Wash- ington attorney, already disbarred in the District Court. The justices also were asked to make no ruling in a controversy raised by the Howes Bros. Co. of Boston over constitutionality of the Federal social security act. The company said valid- ity of the Massachusetts unemploy- ment insurance law hinged on validity of the Federal statute, but State off- clals said no Pederal question was in- volved. T N e N S T R e T THE MAKING Inaugural Editions The Evening Star MAILED, POSTAGE PREPAID, ANYWHERE IN UNITED STATES, MEXICO OR CANADA Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday January 19th, 20th & 21st 1 5 ¢ Three Copies (Foreign Mailing 45¢) January 19 Edition January 20 Edition January 21 Edition Alone (Mailed) 5¢ Alone (Mailed) 5c Alone (Mailed) 5¢ Bach issue will contain a full and complete coverage In words and pictures of the second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. On Wednesday, January 20, Inguguration Day, will be included a special 24-page tabloid edition, aond a 16-page rotogravure tabloid section, featuring illus- trated features of the present and past inaugurations and pictures depicting the beauty of the Nation’s Capital. The three issues mailed anywhere in the United States for fifteen cents. The three inaugural issues will be mailed promptly to ony address in the United States, upon order. Send list of names and addresses, accompanied by 15c, to The Star, Eleventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Subscriptions Will Be Taken at Star Want Ad Stations and Hotel News Stands No Telephone Orders or Charges son, said the suit will be started to- | ‘decislons in cases involving mmtim-: | tions in gold applied to bullion as weil | decisions by lower courts and ordered | In the Clinico Hospital in North- western University City, a large force | of Fascists was threatened with an- | nihilation after being isolated on an | upper floor of the war-scarred build- ing. The besiegers of the capital, them- | selves besieged after a three-day So- cialist onslaught in the northwestern | section of Madrid, kept up a desperate rifle and machine gun fire. | The Madrid forces maintained their | new positions, however, and a detach- | ment pushed the defense lines ahead to the north side of the mine-wrecked hospital. The dynamite blast was set off yes- terday after lengthy preparations by the government militiamen, who tried to storm all the scattered hospital buildings at once. When the mine blew out the stair- way, their only means of escape, the Fascists mounted machine gun nests on an upper floor. | The operating room and theater of | the hospital, where powerful machine | gun nests had been concentrated, were reported destroyed. For more than nine hours guerrilla fighting spread through the ruined halls as the insurgents sniped at So- cialists swarming through lower floors. War office advices said Fascist ate tacks met stiff opposition in Guadala- jara Province, northeast of Madrid, and in the neighboring provinces of Cordoba and Jaen to the south. The brief dispatches did not divulge the results of the fighting in the south. Insurgent artillery and infantry at- tacks on Socialist concentrations near the towns of Abadanes and Saelices | in Guadalajara, they said, were re- pulsed. Refugees from Jaen Province said the Fascists were increasing their ac- tivity in the South and were turning out large stores of munitions from | seized factories. PLAN TO LOWER TARIFFS. VALENCIA, Spain, January 18 (#). | —The Spanish Socialist government hastened action today to increase im- ports essential to combatting the revoe lution. Plans were announced to lower tar- iffs on some prime necessities and to abolish duties altogether on others. | For the same reason, taxes on sugar imports recently were cut 60 per cent. A commission representing all mine istries, it was announced, is to be ap- pointed with full power to recommend revision of the schedules. Another commission was said to be planned to negotiate new commercial accords with other governments, to adopt measures for the release of frozen credits abroad and to take steps to restore Spanish foreign trade to normal. 'MIDDIE YULE WEDDINGS RESULT IN DISMISSALS BY the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, January 18.—Two midshipmen, who married during their Christmas leave in violation of Naval Academy regulations, today were dis- missed from the academy and the naval service. Midshipman George Hails Foster, Montgomery, Ala., married Miss Mary Helen Scott, Bessemer, Ala, on De- cember 29. Midshipman Ambrose Gloshen Wit- ters, Milroy, Ind., married Miss Edythe Marie Bigham, Batesville, Ind,, on De- cember 31. Both midshipmen were members of | the class to graduate in June. Senate: In recess. House: Probably will receive bills to extend life of Reconstruction Finance Corp. and to authorize $50,000,000 loan for crop production. Coinage Committee considers bill to extend stabilization fund and Presi- dent's power to devalue dollar. Appropriations Subcommittees cone tinue hearings on relief and departe mental supply bills. TOMORROW. Senate: Will take up bill extending stabili- zation fund powers until June 30, 1939. No committee meetings scheduled. House: Program uncertain. Judiciary Committee holds organi- zation meeting at 10 a.m. Interstate Commerce Committee holds organization meeting at 10 am. District Committee meets at 10 am. to organize and begin study of Jacobs fiscal relations report. Deficiency and Justice Subcommit- tees of Appropriations Committee con- tinue hearings at 10:30 a.m. [ 3