Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1937, Page 4

A4 MILITARY GALLED INHUNGER STRIKE Entire Pecs, Hungary, Area Controlled by Army to Halt Spread. BY the Associated Press. PECS, Hungary, February 25.—Mil- ftary control was declared over the entire Pecs mine region today to halt the spread of a hunger-strike of 267 coal miners, isolated in their workings far below the surface. After the toll of dead in yesterday's rioting at the pit shafts sose to three, with six others wounded, army au- thorities closed the university to pre- vent student sympathy demonstra- tions. The strikers, reported dominated by & militant minority, restored com- munication with the surface momen= tarily to ask that a trade union com- mittee be sent down to hear their terms. bt Committee Is Barred. Authorities, however, refused to per- mit the committee to go below. ‘The immediate objective of the au- thorities was to prevent the strike from reaching proportions of a 1934 demonstration in which 1,200 miners threatened mass suicide to enforce de- mands for wages greater than $2 a week. Their threat ended when the gov- ernment promised better working con- ditions. The present strike was aimed at increasing the daily rate of pay from $1 to $1.20. Gendarmes were stationed at other shaftheads today to frustrate any at- tempts to broaden the strike. More than 4,000 miners were barred from | the pits February 17 when plans for & hunger strike were uncovered. Crowd Stones Police. Police and 300 men and women elashed last night near the scene of the present trouble. The crowd stoned the police and the shooting followed. Two of those injured are women ‘The condition of the 267 hunger strikers was not known today, for all communication between the surface and their dark refuge had been severed. A mine official said it was impossible even to drop food to them. In the belief that part of the work- ings along the 656-foot shaft might be flling with water or dangerous gases, suthorities considered efforts to restore pumping facilities suspended by the strikers. 1934 Veterans in Group. They expressed the opinion a ma- Jority of the group wished to return to the families feverishly awaiting them near the shaft-head, but were | prevented by a militant minority. Among the group were veterans of the 1934 strike. With the miners were 400 ponies used for underground haul- ing, which they declared would be kept without food, too. A letter sent to the men by the mine management was returned unopened. Maj. Emil Fey, former Austrian cabinet member, and head of the Danube Steam Navigation Co., owners of the mine, asserted in Vienna that *“Socialists and agitators” had caused the strike. He declared the workers ‘were provided with free housing and | reorganization of regulatory agencies eoal and food at low prices. o Reorganization (Continued From First Page.) “encroachment” by the General Ac- ecounting Office upon the adminis- trative functions of the Treasury Department. The joint committee has before it & motion to invite the General Ac- eounting Office to send its agents to explain these charges—which nearly half the members of the joint com- mittee said they consider trivial and | few in number when it is taken mm\ consideration that they cover a period | of 15 years. The new administration bill has 48 pages covering five titles. Title 1, pages 1-3, “Gives the President authority to reorganize the agencies of the Government comparable to that given him by the economy act of June 30, 1932, as amended.” Title 2, pages 4-27, “Contains civil service and classification act pro- visions.” Title 8, pages 27-35, “Reorganizes the auditing and accounting functions of the Government.” Title 4, pages 36-41, “Establishes the Departments of Social Welfare and Public Works and the National Resources Board and changes the name of the Department of the In- terior to the Department of Con- servation.” Title 5, pages 41-48, covers definl- tions and general miscellaneous pro- visions. Investigation Provided. The bill provides that “The Presi- dent shall investigate the organiza- tion of all agencies of the Government, including the agencies established or affected by this act—other than the General Auditing Office—and shall determine what changes therein are necessary to accomplish any of the following purposes: (a) To improve the effectiveness of sdministration management. (b) To reduce expenditures to the fullest extent consistent with the efficient operation of the Government. (c) To increase the efficiency and operation of the Government to the fullest extent practicable within the revenues. (d) To group, co-ordinate, con- solidate, reorganize, and segregate agencies and functions of the Gov- ernment, or any part thereof, as Arline Judge THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1937. HGHT m I]EMH []N Elaine Has New Escort Off for Reno Film Actress to Ask Divorce From Director— Plans to Wed Again. Arline Judge and Wesley Ruggles shown as they appeared at the Los Angeles county clerk’s office to file notice of their intention to wed and take necessary vows. BY the Associated Press. OLLYWOOD, February 25— actress, was Reno-bound to- day to divorce Director Wes- Friends believe she then will marry Daniel Reed Topping, millionaire an exchange of blows at a Hollywood night club. adjudged by one beauty expert to have the most perfectly developed figure for Reno because, her attorneys said, she prefers to terminate her five-year Nevada's residential requirement. A Reno decree is effective imme- to wait & year for the legal right to remarry. Arline Judge, the curvacious ley Ruggles. sportsman, who last week figured in The brunette, Miss Judge, recently in the movies, took a train last night marriage to Ruggles in six weeks— diately. In California it is necessary Last week end Miss Judge con- firmed her engagement to Topping after he had exchanged blows in a Hollywood night club with Pat Di Cicco, actors’ agent who once squired Miss Judge. Topping is owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, professional foot ball team. A property settlement, made before Ruggles went to an Idaho film “loca- tion,” provides his payment of $1,000 | monthly for support of 4-year-old | It will be submitted to | Wesley, jr. the Reno court. Miss Judge was a “kid” film player when she and Ruggles were wed in October, 1931. 19; he said he was 42. She tem- porarily retired from the screen to become a mother. When young Wes- ley was an infant, she would push him through Beverly Hills in a perambu- lator, herself on roller skates. She is a contract player now at a major studio. tion or impeachment. Except as to| titles and salary, the language is lhe same as in the budget and accounting act. Provision is made for an annual re- port to Congress by March 1 of the audit for the preceding year. The changes in the new bill pre- sented yesterday are explained as follows: It clarifies the standard as to the | by providing more specifically that quasi-judicial functions shall be segre- gated from policy-determining, prose- cution, enforcement or other adminis- tration or executive functions, and that after transfer the functions shall be so segregated in the receiving agency. Restrictions Are Provided. ‘There is a provision, definitely, that the President may not abolish an existing department, the municipal government cf the District of Colum- bia, or the Federal Reserve Board, and further that he may not transfer all of the functions of an executive de- partment or of the District of Colum- bia government, or any of the func- tions of the Federal Reserve Board to any agency. The new bill provides that the regulatory functions of any inde- | pendent regulatory commission Which | are quasi-judicial in nature may not | be exercised by or supervised by any | administrative or executive officer, but shall be exercised by the regulatory | commission which shall be appointed, | | removed and have tenure of office in | the manner prescribed by Congress. There is a proviso, however, that in the case of a large regulatory agency, where expedite or routine action is necessary, the functions may be exer- cised by an administrative or executive officer, subject to the review of the commission. The section covering reorganization and extension of the merit system has been amended by exempting, specific- ally, judges of legislative courts from appointment by the heads of execu- tive departments or independent agen- cles. WILSON TOMB VISITED Thirty members of the Democratic women's national organization made a pilgrimage to the tomb of President Wilson at Washington Cathedral yes- terday afternoon. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, received the group and presided at brief ceremonies in the Bethlehem Chapel. Mrs. Rose Forrester, commissioner of labor conciliation, spoke of Mr. Wilson's vision for his country, and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman and Mrs. Charles Hamlin hung s wreath of white flowers on the bronze gates of his resting place in the Cathedral erypt. Strayer to Graduate 93. Strayer College will graduate 93 students at the midyear commence- ment exercises in Memorial Conti- nental Hall at 8:30 p.m. today. Dr. Joseph M. M. Gray, chancellor. ol American University, will deliver the graduation address on “Modern So- ciety vs. Education.” {76 PCT. OF BONUS BONDS ALREADY ARE REDEEMED | 3,456,466 of Estimated 3,550,000 | Eligible Veterans Have Ap- plied for Cash. | By the Associated Press. The Treasury reported today that 76 per cent of the soldiers’ bonus bonds have been redeemed in cash. As of February 20, it said, $1,799,- 155,200 of adjusted service bonds have been issued and $81.801.289 paid veterans in odd-amount checks. Of the bond total, $1,368,012,200 worth have been redeemed. The Treasury sald 3,456,466 of the estimated 3,550,000 veterans eligible for the bonus had applied for it on February 20. Umbrella in Coffin. In the will of Miss Alice M. Cox, just filed in London, she requested | that her umbrella, marked with her initials, should be placed in her coffin. She gave her age as | 10 TAKE OVIEDO Loyalist Army Slowly Deci- mating 14,000 Rebel De- fenders of City. BACKGROUND— | Spanish civil war, which began last July, reached climaz in violent attack of rebels on Madrid, capital and Loyalists’ stronghold, last No- vember. Madrid withstood the at- tack, despite predictions it would be easy prey. For weeks the fighting continued, with the Loyalists dog- gedly holding on. The Fascist rebels changed their tactics and concen- trated on cutting off the capital from Valencia and other places where aid was coming from. So 12 days ago they began drive to close main roads to Madrid. Capital de- fenders answered with own countere attacks. BY the Associatea Press, BAYONNE, Franco-Spanish Border, February 25.— Dynamite = hurling Basque beslegers of Oviedo reported today they had stormed the heights dominating Naranco Hill, last insur- gent redoubt on the outer rim of the devastated city. The strangling circle was closed around the insurgent garrison during a night of the most murderous fighting of the civil war, the government forces reported, cutting off the city’s de- fenders from all hope of relief. Push to Dominant Position. At times struggllhg hand-to-hand, the dispatches from the lines about the northwestern provincial capital said, the Basque miners pushed slowly through the San Claudio quarter to a dominant position overlooking the in- surgent fortifications. At dawn there was an ominous lull in the fighting, like dead calm before a fina] assault. The once-proud Oviedo was being methodically battered to a mass of smoking, jumbled ruins. The Meabe quarter of the historic city of Northwest Spain was reported in flames after insurgent resistance was crushed there in hand-to-hand fighting. A hospital, an orphanage and & convent were said to have been wrecked by dynamite ‘and hand gren- ades and insurgent defenders driven from their fortified refuge in them. Fight to Death. A large segment of Oviedo's bloody, but unbowed garrison was reported waging a fight to the death from the Vega Arms Factory on the sixth day of battle. While their comrades clung dog- gedly to lesser remparts or attempted to stay the government attack by hand-to-hand combat in the streets, the arms factory detachment parried thrust after thrust with rifles and ma- chine gun fire. Basque dispatches said the 12,000 or | 14,000 insurgents were outnumbered about two to one. (The insurgent high command at Salamanca headquarters previously had declared the attacking force was routed and 2,500 of them killed in “the most crushing defeat of the civil war.") The occupation of & road into Oviedo from Grado, 12 miles west of Oviedo, was declared by government officers to have blocked reinforcements for the garrison, leaving open only one circuitous route out of the be- leuuered city to the sea. Oviedo is WHEN WEST HAS A SALE—IT'S A REAL SALE LAST CALL! SEMI-ANNUAL REDUCTIONS END SATURDAY WESTYLE SUITS AND OVERCOATS FORMERLY $35 8 .50 FORMERLY $40 Elaine Barrie Barrymore, who has sued John Barrymore Jor divorce, appeared early yesterday at a Hollywood night club with a new escort, William Tannen. The latter is a young screen actor and son of Julius Tannen, veteran actor. 14 miles nuth of the Bay of Biscay coast, Dispatches from the Gijon govern- ment headquarters said the attacking troops had seized the Buenavista foot ball stadium and to have defeated shock troops rushed through to the garrison before the Grado road was severed. An armored train blasted at in- surgent positions in the Villal sector while government militiamen struggled | hand to hand in the Villal market place. “Mop-up” squads of government rifiemen gouged into houses through outlying sectors, hunting for insurgent snipers, the last strands of resistance left as the combat converged into the center of the city. Much of Oviedo's civil population | fled during the three months of siege that preceded the government’s move to annihilate the insurgent force, MINES ARE BLOWN UP. MADRID, February 25 (#.—Tun- neling militiamen, laboring feverishly to forestall an insurgent attempt to dynamite the government-held dental clinic in University City, blew up their own and their enemies’ mines in a terrific explosion today. Insurgents had mined part of the ground under the clinic when gov- ernment soldiers :armed .f the oper- ation. Squads of workmen hurriedly dug a government tunnel underneath the insurgent mine. Then quantities of explosives were tapped into place in the lower tunnel and the two subterranean passages exploded. The explosion was the signal for an artillery and machine gun duel between opposing lines which lasted riday Specials | their position at the foot of strategic —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto. for several hours, but resulted in no change of respective positions. Government forces, meanwhile, fought bitterly today to strengthen Pinzarron Hill, southeast of the capi- tal, preparatory to a mass assault up the slopes to dislodge insurgent artil- lery batteries. The military command estimated 2,500 insurgents were slain in one phase of the battle for possession of | the hill, west of Morata de Tajuna, | which dominates the Jarama battle- fleld. Insurgents still holding the summit | were said to have been placed in a | virtually untenable position by the continued government battering and were in danger of being forced to abandon the artillery emplacements from which they have been shelling the vital Madrid-Valencia supply route, Throughout the night cagnon rum- | bled through the shell-marl zed streets , of the village of Morata de Tajuna | as the government rushed up rein- forcements. 20,000 Have Influenza. Influenza caused more than 20,000 ' cotton operatives of Lancashire. Eng- land, to be absent from work at the same time Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St N.W. Corner of 12th and “L” Circles Daily, 2:30 & 7:30 P.M. Graee Gray Delong. Reader Personal IB“"IC'I for spiritual nelp and guidance m. be arranged by a visit ta the Council House or Telephone Mewvsolitan 5234 Consuitation $1 There was an immense throng of buyers here Wash- ington’s Birthday morning. Some of you couldn’t get waited upon—so here is a last-day opportunity to get what remains of the odds and ends—and small lots. Cash and carry sale—no charges—no C. O. D.s— no deliveries—no returns. final. 13 Men’s $30 and $35 Suits—$11.75 2/40; short, 42; long, 38; stout, 39. 6 Top Coats—Were $30—$11.75 Sixes: Roguler, 1/37, 1/38, 1/39, 1/40, 1/42; fong, 1/39. 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CLEVELAND, February 25.—Detec- tives studied today what they believed | were two blood trails near where the nude torso of a young woman was found on Lake Erie’s rocky east side | shore line. ‘The discovery by Detectives Peter | Merylo and Martin Zalewski spurred | an intensive police hunt for remaining | portions of Cleveland’s eighth mys- terious decapitation slaying victim since September 5, 1934. The first torso was washed ashore | at almost the same spot. Six more decapitation killings—five of them in the desolate Kingsbury Run section a | few miles away—followed, culminating in the latest discovery two days ago. The clue started a new search of the shore line for the woman's head |and arms, sought to establish her identity. Before the trail was found detectives said they were without & single lead in the hunt for the sex= crazed, surgically-skilled maniac they believed responsible. ‘The investigation also was extended today to sewers leading away from the beach as detectives said a further search of missing persons records re= vealed no one whose description cor= responded with the newest victim. Mrs. Anna Ziber, 34, walked into & police station and ended concern for her safety. Police said the only other person they had considered, Miss Flavia Pillot, 28, missing after coming here on a visit from Canton, Ohio, | undoubtedly was safe. Detective Merylo and Zalewski said | they first noticed blood stains near the curb on heavily-traveled Lake Shore boulevard, which led them to believe that the torso and possibly other missing portions had been brought there in an automobile. The trail, which extended for two and a half blocks on the boulevard, went down two dead-end streets lead- ing to the lake. 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Ave. (e) To reduce the number of such sgencies by regrouping and consoli- dating those having similar functions under a single head and by abolishing such agencies or such functions, or any part thereof, as may not be necessary for the efficlent conduct of the Government. (f) To eliminate overlapping and @uplication of effort. (g) To segregate in any agency of the Government regulatory functions which are exercised in essentially the same manner as the functions of a oourt are exercised, from any policy- determining, prosecution, enforcement or other administrative or executive functions, and to transfer any of the above-mentioned functions from one agency to another and so segregate such functions in the receiving agency. The section dealing with the Gen- eral Accounting Office provides for the appointment of an auditor general and assistant auditor general by the President, with the approval of the Senate. The respective salaries would be $15,000 and $12,000. The terms ‘would be for 15 years, and the auditor general would not be eligible for re- appointment. Removgl could be only for cause, and then, Joint resolu- 4.15 4.50 FORMERLY $50 7..50 ® NO CHARGE FOR ALTERATIONS ‘o Sidney West,~14™:G EUGENE C. GOTT, President FOR TASTIER CHEESE DISHES Charge Accounts— Monthly Settlements— or 12-Pay Plan BORDEN’S CHEESES