Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1937, Page 7

" MADRID SHELLED INNEW OFFENSIE Government Forces Holding Back 30,000 Italians . on Northeast. BACKGROUND— Frequent artillery strafing of Madrid during the four months’ in- surgent scige resulted in stiffening the government lines of defense. Militiamen have been rushed to greet the invaders, with customary success. Air raids became fewer as a result of many plane battles in which rebel fyers were brought down, despite heavy loyalist losses. By the Assoctated Press MADRID. March 12 ().—Insurgent artillery blasted anew at this be- leaguered capital today as government commanders reported their war-fagged *“milicianos” were holding an army of 80,000 Italians in check on the north- eastern front, 44 miles away. Shells exploded in the Gran Via, an important thoroughfare, and struck the lower buildings of one section of the city. Several persons were believed hit and screaming ambulances raced to the shelled area. Several other per- sons were Kkilled or injured yesterday in another of the countless bombard- ments of the four-month siege. On the other hand, 300 insurgents were killed or wounded in Southern Spain, it was reported from Andujar, when they attacked Villanueva del Duque, Jaen Province. Ban Violation Charged. ‘The governmer meanwhile, prepare¢ a protest to th International Neutrality Committee, of which Italy is a member, terming the presence of Italian troops a grave violation of the European non-inter- vention accord. The government accused Italy of waging an “undeclared war” on Spain. In the face of combined assaults by artillery, planes, mechanized units and waves of infantrymen and machine gunners, Madrid's forces were reported to have forced a flattening of the in- surgent spearhead along a 23-mile front in Guadalajara Province, The jagged line bisected the Aragon= Madrid highway at Trijueque, 12 miles northeast of the city of Guadalajara which is 32 miles from Madrid. It ex- tended from Ccgolludo, north of the road, to Budia, on the south. Four Italian colum had been beaten from a closely-integrated war machine of narrow front into a broader and n ble organiza- tion, goverr red In view of t born resistance. they made no further efforts to advance on the direct route to Guadalajara More Italians Expected. The government's characterization of the conflict as rnational” was said to have been strengthened further d declaration of an soner of war, identified as no Antonio de Inino, that the Italian gove: 1t was planning to send even more “regular Italian troops” to Spain e major, described as the chief of an Italian machine gun unit in Guadalajara, was one of three officers and 42 men who became lost and were trapped by government militiamen. He was quoted as telling Gen. Jose Miaja’s staff that * 's support of Fascism in Spain is in line with the Italian policy to establish a league of Fascist countries. A defense ju aid, the attackers statement said dis- elosures by the prisoners on the com- position the insurgent forces in Guadalajara “fully prove Italy’s par- ticipation in this 2 One of the four divisions, the state- ment added, was from the regular Italian army, the other three made up of Blackshirt militia. GOVERNMENT LO! S HEAVY. Franco Legionnaires Batter Way Into Trijueque. SORIA, Spain, March 12 (#).—Gen. Francisco Franco's Legionnaires ma- chine-gunned and shelled heavily massed government troops today, bat- tering their way forward, yard by yard, in Trijueque, 44 miles northeast of Madrid emendous casualties were indi- ed in the close formations of Ma- s defenders. he battlefield about the little Span- Ish town was strewn with bodies and &bandoned weapons Many prisoners were taken, a com- | munique said, including two Italian Communist officers of a unit calied the “Garibaldi Battalion.” (Madrid's dispatches contained the fovernment’s admission that the of- fensive had reached Trijueque, 12 miles northeast of Guadalajara on the Aragon-Madrid highway, but said the insurgent spearhead had been flattened along a 23-mile front on either side of the road.) A 2-mile advance, fiercely contest- ed, brought the main body of insur- gents into Trijueque over the bloody, shell-ripped thoroughfare which tra.. verses Guadalajara Province and ends &t Madrid. About 20 miles north of Guadalajara City a second insurgent column trailed southward, cleaning up the right flank of the foremost body on the western edge of the sector. 1t took the important town of Cogol- ludo, 9 miles west of Jadraque, which was occupied Wednesday, and the Tearby villages of Veguillas, Monas- terio and Membrillera. REV. LOUIS O’LEARY WILL SPEAK TONIGHT To Deliver Sermon at Closing of Novena at Church of Im- maculate Conception. Rev. Louis O'Leary, O. P., will de- liver the sermon at the solemn closing of the Novena of Grace at the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 7:45 o'clock tonight. Rev. John K. Cartwright will offi- tiate at solemn benediction. Rev. J. E. Gedra will be deacon and Rev. F. P. Harrity subdeacon. Music will be fur- nished by the Immaculate Conception Academy Choir, under the direction of Prof. Harry Wheaton Howard. Vv masses will be at 2 am., , 8:15 am, 9 am., 10:15 am. and solemn high mass at 11:15 a.m. The latter will be sung by Father Cartwright, with Father Harrity deliv- ering the sermon on “Religion and the Holy Ghost.” Home Hygiene Class Planned. ARLINGTON, Va., March 11 (Spe- ecial) —Mrs. M. R. Byrne, registered nurse of Sibley Hospital, will be in charge of the class in home hygiene to be held at the Clarendon Health Center, 1119 North Hudson street, be- Jioning today. % Ato urban hospitals. Good Will Era Celebrated Edgar Morris, president of the Washington Board of Trade (left), and Assistant Secretary shown at the “pan-American night” dinner of the Board of Trade last night. TRADE UNIT HEARS s, TALK ON AMERIGAS HONORS SCIENTIST Sayre Is Main Speaker, Dip- lomats Guests at “Good Will” Program. | The era of good will among the na- | | tions of North, South and Crntral‘ America was emphasized last night | as Ambassadors and Ministers of the sister republics of the Americas and officials of the State and Commerce Departments joined with the Board of Trade in a celebration of Pan- American night. The celebration was held at the Mayflower Hotel as part of the trade body’s regular March meeting. One of the highlights was the raising of the flag of each republic, accompanied by the playing of each country’s na- tional anthem. Assistant Secretary of State Fran- cis B. Sayre, one of the principal speakers, said that, although each re- public of the Americas is vastly dif- ferent from the others, there is a common bond of understanding, of aspiration and a feeling of kinship existing between them. Urging fur- therance of President Roosevelt's “good neighbor” policy, he said: “The President not only advanced his ideas of the good neighbor policy, | but he acted on them and translated them into concrete realities. Hits “Dollar Diplomacy.” Warning against “dollar diplomacy,” Sayre said the future success of good relations with South America depends on the pursuit of a wise foreign com- merce policy. He said that no effort should be spared to extend Latin- American trade “so that all concerned may profit.” Dr. Don Adrian Recinos. Minister of | Guatemala, responded briefly to As- ! sistant Secretary Sayre's message on behalf of the South and Central American countries. The celebration was the first public demonstration of | the era of good will to be held in this country since the Inter-American | Peace Conference at Buenos Aires. | Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the | National Symphony Orchestra, gave | a brief talk on the orchestra’s cam- paign for a $110,000 sustaining fund, | saving that “art often needs to come | to business for help.” | | He pointed out, too, that any con- ‘ | tributions made to the orchestra be- | | fore Monday could be deducted from | income tax returns. This drew laugh- | ter and applause. | Dr. William McClellan, vice presi- dent of the National Symphony Or- | chestr'a Association, also spoke on the | | campaign. He said symphonic music | | is necessary to make Washington “a | complete city” in supplying the physi- | cal, mental and spiritual needs of its | residents. Reporting for a special committee | named by the trade body to study the | feasibility of subways in Washington, John J. Esch told the several hundred members and guests the subcommittee has recommended that Congress make provision for a survey of the subway question by experts. He cited the increase in population | and 1n the number of automobiles, | | and the concentration of Federal de- | | partments and businesses in the down- | town area as arguments for construc- | tion of subways in Washington. RAYON WORKERS ARRANGING STRIKE| | Parley at Covington Fails—“Defi- | nite Action” Due Next Week. BY the Associated Press COVINGTON, Va., | Robert Gaffney, Worker organizer, Synthetic Yarn Federation members would take “definite action” the first |of next week in the strike he said | they would call at the Industrial | Rayon Corp. plant here. Gaffney warned the strike would be called following breakdown of negotiations between union leaders and the plant management. H. B. Kline, vice president of the textile plant, said the failure of plant and union officials to agree on a pro- | gram hinged largely on one paragraph | “providing for a mutual agreement against discrimination, coercion and interference with employes because of | membership or non-membership in { any union.” President Lloyd Mays of Local 2214 of the Synthetic Yarn Federation, | Which claims a membership of 1,000 | workers here, said 99.8 per cent of | the members voted in favor of the strike if their demands are not met. Gaffney said the ‘“‘power of setting the strike date and putting the strike into effect was voted into the hands of the General Negotiating Commit- tee and just as soon as necessary ar- rangements can be made the strike | will be called.” m——s Patients Fly to Hospitals. The Soviets have established 40 aviation bases to transport patients March United 12— ‘Textile | the secretion from the thyroid gland, | —microscopically predicted today | | rector. of air commerce; Maj. R. W. from remote sections of the country A ‘ Tok v ENING STAR, WASHINGTON, B0, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937. of State Francis B. Sayre are —Star Staff Photo. CHEMICAL SOCIETY Dr. Vincent Du Vigneaud s | Lauded for Work on Sul- phur Compounds. The Hillebrand award of the Wash- ington section of the American Chem- | ical Society was presented at the an- nual dinner of the section at the Cos- mos Club last night to Dr. Vincent Du Vigneaud, professor of biochem- istry at George Washington Univer- sity Medical School, in recogniticn of researches on sulphur compounds. This work led during tnhe last few months to the first large-scale syn- thesis of glutathione, which occurs naturally in the animal body and is in some way associated with normal growth and possibly with the ab- normal growth of certain tissus in malignant tumors This, Dr. Du Vigneaud said in ac- cepting the award, was one of the outcomes of work started 10 years ago to determine the complex chemistry of insulin, the secretion thrown into | the blood stream from the Isles of | Langerhan in the pancreas, which is necessary for the sugar metabolism of the body and lack of which causes diabetes. Structure Eludes Chemistry. Insulin, Dr. Du Vigneaud said, is an extremely complex, sulphur-contain- ing molecule which cannot be synthe- sized at present. It is one of the hormones, substances produced by the glands of internal secretion in the mammal body which have very great physiological effects in exceedingly minute doses. Some of these, such as are relatively simple chemically and can be synthesized in the laboratory. Others, such as insulin, the secretion from the parathyroids which governs the calcium metabolism of the body, and the secretions from the pituitary glands in the brain which have sen- sational effects on all sorts of physio- logical behavior, are much more com- plex and up to now their structure i has eluded chemists. There is increasing evidence, Dr. Du Vigneaud said, that insulin—and probably the others—is one of the proteins, substances made up of various configurations of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sul- phur, which are essential element of food and probably play roles of as yet unexpected importance in the phe- nomena of life. Recent work elsewhere, he pointed out, has shown that the ultra-viruses invisible but re- sponsible for some of the most deadly animal, human and plant diseases— are extraordinarily complex proteins. Hitherto they have been describai as | probably living organisms, each com- | plete in itself, but on the borderline between the living and the non-living. | It also has been found that some of the ensymes are very complex pro- teins Arrangement of Atoms Noted. His studies of insulin, Dr. Du Vig- | neaud said, have convinced him that | the astounding physiological effects of | the substance are dependent on the architecture of the molecule, not on the proper proportions of its constitu- ent atoms alone, but also on their exact positions in relation to each other. Dr. Hans T. Clarke, professor of bio- hemistry at Columbia University Med- ical School, spoke on the history of | physiological sulphur compounds from i the first discovery of the amino acid cysteine in England 125 years ago as & constitutent of certain kinds of kidney stones. Since the beginning of the present century, he said, their significance has been more and more appreciated as necessary elements for growth of the body. GIVEN J. CARROLL CONE Former Assistant Director of Air Commerce to 8ail for Europe Wednesday. J. Carroll Cone, recently relieved of duty as assistant director of air com- merce, was honored at a testimonial dinner last night at the Shoreham Hotel. He will sail from New York next Wednesday for Europe to act as foreign aeronautical adviser to the Commerce Department. C. S. (Casey) Jones was toastmaster. Among the speakers were Col. J. Mon- roe Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Fred D. Fagg, jr., new di- Schroeder, new assistant director; Senators Copeland, McAdoo and Rey- nolds; Col. Edgar S. Gorrell, president of the Air Transport Association; Maj. Lester D. Gardner, secretary of the In- stitute of the Aeronautical Sciences; Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, gen- eral manager of Eastern Air Lines, and Dr. George W. Lewis, research director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Cone was given a gold watch. The dinner was sponsored by the National | bigger teeth in it COAL MEASURE SENT T0 SENATE House Passes Price-Fixing Bill Quickly, Upsetting Amendment Efforts. BY the Assoclated Press. Disposition of a price-fixing bill for the $11,000,000,000 soft coal industry became the exclusive responsibility of the Senate today as it received the measure rushed through the House yesterday afternoon. Passage in the House was the third vote of approval for such legislation in the past two years, that of yesterday being without & record vote. ‘The present bill, sponsored by Rep- resentative Vinson of Kentucky and Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania, is a slightly revised version of the original invalidated act. In rapid succession, the Democratic majority in the House beat back every attempt at amendment and sent the measure to the Senate in exactly the form in which it reached the floor. ‘The bill closely parallels both the invalidated act and its substitute which was hurried throtigh the House last session. Labor provisions of the invalidated act were eliminated from the revised bill, however, because the Supreme Court objected to them Before the present bill reached the floor the powerful House Ways and Means Committee had put new and producers who fail to comply with the code of fair competition prescribed by the law was increased from 131 per cent to 19'. per cent. At the same time, the committee lowered & tax to be levied on all pro- ducers to finance administration of the law. This levy was cut from 1! per cent to '; per cent. Representative Merritt, Democrat, of New York sought to reduce the tax further to !4 per cent, but failed on a voice vote after Vinson told the House the industry was averse to adding “a dollar of burden” to the United States Treasury. The House also beat down an amend- Aeronautic Association. ~ A penalty tax for | “Ride ’Em, Cowgirl!” Cast as hard-riding cowgirls, Agnes Doherty (on horse), niece of Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney, and Cuyler Schwartz, daughter of Senator H. H. Schwartz of Wyoming, will take a prominent part in the seciety circus at Fort Myer, Va , late this month. Proceeds from the show will be given to charity. —Harris-Ewing Photo. ment by Representative Mapes, publican, of Michigan, to place all em- ployes of the seven $10,000-a-year commissioners, charged with adminis- tration of the law, under civil service. The bill exempts certain clerks, law- | yers and experts Just before it went Re- | to a vote, | Supreme Court. Speaker Bankhead took the floor for the first time since his election to that office to indorse the legislation as ANTI-VIVISECTION BILL * A7 been introduced in this Congress by Senator Frazier, Republican, of North Measure Is Offered in Congress by | Pakota. Senator Frazier. It would make experimenting on liv- ing dogs in the District a misdemeanor An anti-vivisection bill, similar to|and fix penalties for conviction of the measures which have been pending in | offense. In previous Congresses the Congress for & number of years, has'measure met considerable opposition. Saturday March 13th G:{l 2:30—5 and 8:15 “legitimate, prudent and constitu- tional.” | He expressed hope it would pass the Senate and “run the gamut” in the & % MAYFLOWER HOTEL Admission, 25¢ Entire Receipts For Care of Needy in Nine Washington Hospltals