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A—2 xx ULTIMATUM GIVEN ON RS NORHAN Coffee Shop Manager De- manded Discharge of Waitress. An ultimatum that either she would leave or Mrs. Mabel Norman, waitress, must be discharged was presented by Miss Evelyn Miller, manager of the | Willard Hotel coffee shop, to the hotel management late in January, Miss | Miller told the National Labor Rela- tions Board today. Appearing as a witness for the hotel in the hearing on the complaint that Mrs. Norman was discharged because of testimony given in a previous board hearing, Miss Miller said that her trouble with the dismissed waitress reached a climax when Mrs. Norman | made fun of her previous testimony. Miss Miller said that Harry Somer- ville, manager of the hotel, said he | would try to smooth things out. Mus. Norman finally was discharged on February 28, about a month after the | ultimatum Cards Were Signed. Miss Miller told the board of refusal by the waitresses, after they had Jjoined the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union, to sign the so-called contract cards at the first of the year. She told them, she said, they would have to sign or quit, and there was u period of about one hour when all the waitresses were theoretically out of the hotel. Later, however, they signed the cards. Somerville was expected to testify | tod | For a few moments yesterday | afternoon the case threatened to in- volve Maxie Baer, the casual prize fighter, as a witness told how the Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. LOGICAL? R. R. K. SHARP of 2019 N street northwest has offered us a hand in unravelling the mystery of the coins that were mentioned in our recent ‘I. Q.” story. We could figure out wry a coin that read “Caesar 36 A. D.” would be a phoney, since the year 36 was not referred to as “A. D.” Thing that stumped us was the coin reading “George I, 1736,” which also was sup- posed to be a counterfeit, although there is nothing wrong with the date. Mr. Sharp points out that the first George doubtless did not refer to | himself as George I, but merely as | George Rex or soLiething, since he was | first of the line. | “Did you?” says Mr. Sharp, “ever hear Queen Victoria referred to as| Victoria 12" The answer is, we haven't. * kK ok SIDELINE. A certain local real estate editor, who has been staging a model home program, recently used two attrac- tive, pajama-clad young ladies for atmosphere in photographing an infemor scene. Few days later he received a letter in the mail from a citizen who said, “I am not interested in model homes, but what is the chance of getting a couple of addresses?” * * | RECOVERY. | present Mrs. Baer, nee Mary Sulli- | van, former hostess of the Willard | Coffee Shap, used to allow Mrs. Nor- i man to have her own sweet way | about hours of work, etc. This part of Mrs. Norman's career | was described with gestures by Edna | v another waitress at the | shop, who emphasized that she didn't X . Norman. At one point in imony it became so evident that she was getting to dislike Jacob | Blum, board counsel, also that Trial | Examiner Edwin S. Smith was forced | to warn her to treat Government | counsel with respect. “Dragged” into Union. ' Mrs. Watkins was unique to the extent of being the only witness yet | produced who said she did not join | the Hotel and Restauraint Workers’ | Union of her own free will. She was | “practically dragged” into it, she ex- | plained, when all the other waitresses | in the shop joined last December. | “How would you feel if everybody | Joined?" she asked Mr. Blum, who had | no ready answer. | Mrs. Norman found a friend later in | the day, when Mrs. Ida Lebert took ! the stand | Mrs. Lebert said she was pretty sick | of the whole business and she wished | they would let her alone and let her just be a waitress without bringing ! overish voice. | THE day after the 29th Division banquet the proprietor of a well- | known restaurant received a call from | an ex-soldier with a distinctly hang- | Were's TU ' “Say,” he moaned, “did you find a set of false teeth around there?” “No,” was the reply, “but I think I'm going to any minute now. I've | sent for a plumber.” | brun at He was right. x X X % 1 SIT-DOWN. | JE DOFF our hat and toupe to the | pioneers who have shown a | breathless Nation how to take fits| | dogs for a walk while sitting down. | On Reservoir road last Sunday after- | noon motorists noticed a car moving slowly next to the curb, while a black | spaniel frolicked on the grass a few blocks from Western High School. | The driver of the car, a middle-aged | woman, was dividing her time between | T was called by Alfieri THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1937. AFFAIR WITH DUCE TOLD BY WOMAN Attacker of De Chambrun Says He Broke Up Friend- ship With Premier. BY the Assoctatea Press, PARIS, March 23.—Mme. Madeline La Ferriere, dark-eyed beauty who police said admitted she shot Count Charles De Chambrun because he thwarted her love for Premier Mus- solini of Italy, was granted today a week’s respite from an intensive police probe of the attack. The investigating magistrate an- nounced he would resume questioning of Mme. La Ferriere March 30. She testified to her friendship with “my Benito” during a three-hour session yesterday. To the question “why did you shoot De Chambrun?” Mme. La Ferriere re- plied, her lawyers said: “Because I appealed to De Cham- brun’s honor to keep my secret. And he agreed. Later I found out ke told all.” Mme. La Ferriere was said to have told of her vain efforts to see “my Benito” after months of cordial reia- tions with Il Duce and of charging | De Chambrun made false accusations portraying her as a spy Woman’s Story. Her attorney said Mme. La Ferriere | told the court: “I went to Rome in April, 1936, to get an interview for the newspaper La Liberte several times for an- other newspaper, La Tribune des N tions. “During the first part of July he quit communicating with me. I went to see Alfieri (Dino Alfieri, Italian Press Minister). Mussolini. “On July 4 I went to see De Cham- Farnese Palace. To him related the whole story of my rela- tionship with Mussolini and I swore him to secrecy. De Chambrun said not to be disturbed because Mussolini had not received me, as his grand- daughter was ill. “De Chambrun said an audience he was supposed to have had with Mus- solini had been postponed. So I wrote to Mussolini the same day and was received July 6. I gave him & ques- tionnaire for La Tribune des Nations. He was ‘very gallant, very fine.’ “It was understood he would fix a date for a rendezvous within 48 hours, but I heard nothing. Four days later I demanded to know why I couldn't see ‘my Benito.’ Offered Plane Ticket Home. “He replied it would take several days before I could see him and if I had something to do in Paris he would give me a return airplane ticket. “I was pleased to return to Paris because I had a job with Francois la Tour (resigned chief of the interna- tional exposition) and I wanted to explain why I had stayed so long in Rome. “I returned to Rome July 18. Al- her into “court.” But since she was | WAtChing the dog and watching traffic. | fieri gave me the questionnaire back, there, she emphasized that she was | ready to tell the truth and plenty of it. | In substance, Mrs. Lebert's testi- | mony was to the effect that some of the girls had spent a lot of time and | energy trying to get Mrs. Norman | out of the hotel. ' . Pole tcrmtgnjed From Pirst Page.) has been living on Rudolf for six months, building an air base and | weather station, Molokoff and Alexeiff were among | the pilots who recently said it would | be possible to establish an air base at | the pole, which can be reached by | flight from Rudolf Island, first landing men by parachute who would stake out a field for the landing of planes. Supply Planes to Follow. | The advance polar party, it was suggested, then could communicate Wwith Rudolf Island by portable wire- less. Supply planes would follow to | the Pole to establish a permanent | camp and base | An actual flight to the pole prob- | ably will not be attempted for two | or three months. { The secrecy surrounding Schmidt's trip, it was believed, was due to Soviet | embarrassment over the 1935 failure | of the Levaneffsky flight. Now the | government likely will work quietly | on its plans until it is able to an- nounce a polar flight as accomplished. Before he left Golovin said he ex- pected to cover the distance from Moscow to Rudolf Island, about 2,500 miles, in from 25 to 30 flying hours. “I hope to cross the Barents Sea in two hours,” he added. Congress in Brief TODAY.® Benate: Debates bill to remodel Capitol. Judiciary Committee hears Raymond | Moley oppose Roosevelt court bill. Agricuiture Committee considers erop-insurance bill Commerce Committee considers reso- lution to permit appointment of Jo- seph P. Kennedy as Maritime Com- mission chairman. House: Considers State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments appropriation bill. Rules Committee conducts hearing on resolution to investigate alleged radio monopoly. TOMORROW. Senate: Scheduled to take up the Robinson resolution relating to the appointment of Joseph P. Kennedy to be a member of the Maritime Commission, which was favorably reported from commit- tee today. Judiciary Committee will continue hearings on the President’s court bill. House: Considers calendar, Appropriation subcommittees in charge of War and Agriculture De- partment and deficiency supply bills resume hearings at 10:30 a.m. Interstate Commerce Committee meets 10:30 a.m. Rules Committee meets 10:30 a.m. Indian Affairs Committee meets 10:30 am. Rivers and Harbors meets 10:30 a.m. Immigration 10:30 am. Public Buildings and Grounds Com- mittee meets 10:30 a.m. District Committee meets am. miscellaneous ‘bills on Committee Committee meets 10:30 Instantly surmising that the lady was taking her dog for a walk, other | motorists pulled around her and went | on their way without the customary | impolite remarks * ok X % i QUERY. ‘HE scapegoat of this story shall blush unseen and unknown for all the hand we'll have in giving him away, but we cannot resist the temp- | tation to report that an assistant! city editor down here the other day | went racing all over trying to find our | political writer, G. Gould Lincoln, in | order to ask him who is at present the president of the Gridiron Club, the most famous of all newspaper clubs. Some one had telephoned the office and wanted to know. The answer is that our Mr. Lin- coln is the president himself. % % % SHOWER. Francis Kiep decided he'd intro- duce a new custom when he was | about to be married a few weeks back. Brides-to-be are always much-feted and much-showered, Mr. Kiep noted. Why not, he rea- soned, showers for grooms-to-be, t00? So he had his friends give him a shower—a “bottle shower,” to be specific about it. Got himself quite a cellar laid by. Even the waggish chum who insisted he was going to bring a bottle of milk on accaunt of milk was bottled goods, finally broke down and contributed a jug of wine. * k% | CACHE. LADY living out in the 31° bock | of Newton street northeast might have been out of postal touch with friends for years if a small boy hadn't | been playing in her front yard the other morning. She went out to get | the morning’s correspondence, turned empty-handed from the mail box. “You got mail,” said the lad. “I saw the postman bring you two let- ters.” But that was all he said.| Wouldn't say where the letters were. | Lady looked again in the mail box. It | still was empty. { Then she started a search and finally, in an unused milk box which had been on the porch for some time, she found her two letters. Found also a whole handful of Christmas cards, one from an intimate friend whom she’d been twitting for not sending her a card at Yuletide. JURY CONFERS MINUTE, FREES MAN IN STABBING Colored Man Claimed to Have Acted Only After Being Injured Himself. Deliberating only one minute, a District Court jury yesterday re- turned a verdict of not guilty in the trial of Leroy Leggett, colored, who was charged with first degree murder in the fatal stabbing of J. C. Myers, also colored, last April. The jury had harly left the court room of Justice James M. Proctor when it announced it had reched an agreement. Leggett had contended he acted in self defense. His attorneys, Robert I. Miller and Wesley McDonald, who is secretary to Senator Reynolds of North Caro- lina, offered evidence that Leggett was seriously stabbed before he drew his knife and defended himself. H L) signed by Mussolini. But there was nothing said about the rendezvous. I was astonished, for he had been so agreeable to me.” The attorney said La Ferriere tes- tified she found she had lost her job | with the exposition, although Vittorio Cerruti, Italian Ambassador to France, intervened for her. Racing Bill (Continued From First Page.) came as opponents of the bill pre- pared to file a minority report with the House. This report was drafted by Representative Hull, Progressive, of Wisconsin, and is understood to con- tain eight signatures. Long Controversy. Ev since the bill was favorably reported by the committee nearly two months ago it has been involved in controversy. Charges were made by Representative Shafer, Republican, of Michigan that it was “railroaded” out of the committee. The committee approved the bill by a 10-to-8 vote with the use of two proxies—those of Nichols and Repre- sentative Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland. Several attempts were made in the last few weeks to have the measure reconsidered by the committee. Bates |and Shafer were responsible for that | action, but they were blocked by par- limentary rules. Under parliamentary rules, how- | ever, Nichols, who is recorded as voting in favor of the bill, can make the mo- tion for its reconsideration. If there is no objection the committee is re- quired to recall the measure for re- consideration. I got it and returned to | | see Mussolini 1 got the impression | he was standing between me and! || Fiscal Critic | | Representative Gifford Repeatedly Discusses U. S. Debt. By the Associated Press A hotel man with a mind for figures and a hobby of making scrap books front in the House as one of the principal Repub- lican critics ad ministration fiscal policies He i5 Repre- sentative Charles I Gifford of Massachusetts, one of 2 band of 89 opposing the 330 Democratic mem- bers. Every few days the New Eng- lander, who speaks with the manner and voice of a Shakespearean actor, bobs up to discuss the national debt and the taxes that he says will be required ‘w retire it. | “We must pay for the excesses of Rep. Gifford he said in a recent speech. “It remains for us of the minority to speak plainly, though we suffer Ilhe weariness of futility.” Gifford, serving his ninth term, is something of a “Treasury watchdog” | by nature. He studies regular finan- cial reports from his home town of | Cotuit, his State, his bank and other institutions in which he is interested. | If he finds anything that looks wrong, he speaks up, friends say. He retires to his office when the day’s session is over and, after spend- | ing a little time playing a “fiddle” he keeps by his desk, clips articles for his own scrapbooks and pictures for similar volumes for his grandson. While he is doing this, he jots down notes for his next speech. ENPLOYERS HALT * COAST'S SHIPPING. Los Angeles Firms Charge ‘ Union Broke Strike | Promises. BY the Assoclated SAN PEDRO, Calif, March 23— The port of Los Angeles faced com- plete paralysis today. An order suspending all ship load- ing and unloading, effective this morning, was given by Front Employers’ Association last night. About 30 ships were affected. It was the association's reply to the stationing of seamen pickets at the doc of the freighter Lancaster The association charged violation of the agreement which ended the 99-day strike of maritime unions this Winter. “We have no alternative but to sus- pend ship loading and unloading | operations until such time as the con- troversy over refusal of the long- shoremen to pass through a picket line established by other marine unions around the Lancaster can be | adjusted in accordance with the | agreement,” the association said Picketing of the Lancaster began | last week | Pacific demanded that members of | East Coast unions hired on the freighter be replaced by West Coast union men and be transported back East by the ship operators “This intolerable situation, if car- ried to its logica: conclusion, would rapidly result in the ship owners being compelled to employ men for half of a round voyage direction and transfer of the crew back and forth across the continent,” said the employers. “CHARGE ACCOUNT” DOG | DIES OF OVER-EATING BY the Assoclated Press. HURON, S. Dak., March 23 —Duke, 8-vear-old springer spaniel, who cained Nation-wide mention a year | dog with a| charge account, is dead at the home | ago as America’s only of his master, E. C. McKenzie. A veterinarian attributed death to plain | overeating. Duke attracted much attention a vear ago last January when it became | known that every afternoon he en- tered a grocery store and received a portion of hamburger, which was charged to his account. The bill was | paid monthly. British Hunt “F l:):in g Dllchess”; | Crash Into Water Is Feared Duke of Bedford Directs Search for 71-Year- Old Aviatrix. BY the Associated Press. LONDON, March 23.—Emergency | workers in the Fenlands turned from | their struggle with a flood today to | hunt for Britain’s “flying duchess,” | the 71-year-old Duchess of Bedford, in the fear she had crashed on some watery field. It was believed she might have mis- taken land covered with several feet | of water for a smooth, dry landing place yesterday while flying solo from | Woburn on what was intended as a short jaunt. Airplanes roared off in the cold, clear dawn to comb the territory for a | sign of the duchess’ missing ship and police resumed search of Monks | ‘Woods, 13 miles from Petersborough, where a gamekeeper said he saw a| plane last night. “I saw a plane flying very low over the wood,” he related. “It was snow- ing hard and the machine disappeared from view, the engine seemed to halt and I think the plane must have come down.” Petersborough is west of the Fen- lands and north of London. Woburn, where Woburn Abbey, seat of the Duke of Bedford, is located, is about 40 miles northwest of London. Five hundred men searched the Woburn district through the night, using hurricane lamps to penetrate | the remote sections of snow-covered | woodlands. The Duke of Bedford spent most of | the night directing searchers from | his home. Friends said his fears for | DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. the safety of his wife, who made her first solo flight when she was 65, were mitigated by the duchess’ knowledge of the country. The duchess took off at 3:30 p.m. (10:30 am,, E. S. T.) and she was ex- pected to return two hours later after “a short trip around.” The titled aviatrix took up flying | when she was 62 and has flown many thousands of miles. She has one child, the Marquess of Tavistock, heir to the dukedom of Bedford. y | for his grandson has stepped to the of | Republicans | ‘Pxpendxlur&\ that brought the votes,” the Water | The Sailors’ Union of the | in either | COURT PLANHELD AID T0 PROGRESS |Wallace Tells Virginia Farm Bureau “Interests” Fight Proposal. BY the Assoclated Press. | RICHMOND, March 23.—A ‘very simple and very practical” method of assuring progress for national welfare | was Secretary Henry A. Wallace's de- scription today of President Roose- velt's proposed changes in the Su- preme Court. | The cabinet member told the Vir- ginia Farm Bureau Federation’s an- nual convention here last night the proposals were in accord with the Democratic platform, which “prom- ised to seek amendment only if those problems cannot be effectively solved | by legislation within the Constitu- | tion. | “That legislation is now before the | | Congress,” he said, “simple, feasible, | direct and capable of passage imme- diately.” | Accuses ‘“Interests.” | He charged “interests which op-; | posed the President in the last elec- | tion do not want a workable solu- | tion” to current national problems and said the ‘“‘present constitutional | attitude of the Supreme Court is the last barrier between them and the | people.” | | “These interests feel they must! | keep the barrier at all costs,” Wal- | lace said. | He told his farm audience recent | | decisions of the Supreme Court threatened to block attempts of the administration to establish ‘“neces- sary safeguards for agriculture, labor | and industry.” He sald ‘“nobody” claimed the President’s plan was unconstitutional. | “It simply proposed to add new blood to the Supreme Court,” he said, | “enough younger men who have been | out in the hurly-burly of a changing world to bring the majority opinions of the court into line with the think- ng people 50 that the attitude of the people as expressed in the election may be converted into action, that is | all.” | Farmers who were inclined to think | of “the Supreme Court and of the | Constitution as somehow the same | thing” did not realize “that the court | had gradually taken on powers not | granted by the Constitution,” Wal- | lace told the federation | The men who wrote the Constitu- | tion, averaging 29 years younger than | the present Supreme Court, “had no intention,” he said, “of fastening a policy-making judiciary upon the country. | “They believe in leaving matters | of policy to the President and Con- | gress.” Hits Former Connections. Wallace said it would not make *so | much difference that the majority of | the justices formerly made their liv- | ing out of the intricacies of corporate | | finance, if the Supreme Court in pass- ing on laws of Congress, passed on them only from a legal point of view.” But farmers, laboring men and small business men, he declared, “be- come very greatly concerned” with the Justices’ former connections if laws are tested from “the policy point of view.” The Secretary said the justices were | doing what they believed best for the country, but that “they believe hon- estly that the people, speaking through elected Representatives, do not know | what is good for them.” | “Legal Doubts” Unsettled. Declaring that “legal doubts” sur- | round most of the congressional legis- | lation of the last four years, Wallace | — 'Three Palm Trees Are Crowdin g said the ultimate decision of the court remained in doubt on such pieces of legislation as unemployment relief, old-age pensions, unemployment com- i pensation, soil conservation, the se- | curities act, the holding company act, | | the labor relations act, the T. V. A. “and dozens of others.” The decision invalidating the agri- | cultural adjustment act, he sald, | “handed over” $200,000,000 paid *in ‘reallly by farmers and consumers” to the processors and made court action necessary for the Government to recover “some of this legally stolen money." | Other Speakers. John R. Hutcheson, director of the | | Virginia Agriculture Extension Divi- | | sion, who spoke on the same program, told the Farm Bureau Virginia soil | was poorer today than it was 25 or even 30 years ago. “The conservation program will help remedy this situation,” he said. Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, urged that industry and labor join | with organized agriculture for a co- ordinated program. He said stabilized | price levels were needed to head off the threat of inflation. N eutrality ) (Continued From First Page.) | surgent defeat northeast of Madrid. | _(The defenders of Madrid have | charged that captured insurgents dis- | closed the backbone of the fifth assault | against the Spanish capital on the | | Guadalajara front was three divisions | | of Italians. | (Officials in Rome scouted the idea ior any political significance in Il Duce’s return.) The French sources expressed the belief the Italian premier might now | decide whether to withdraw support | from Insurgent Generalissimo Fran- cisco or to go to his aid more di- rectly. Valencia Protest Weighed. The protest of the Valencia gov- | ernment that it could not consent to the patrol of its coasts by Italy and agenda for today’s meeting of the committee. The note declared the government would not permit nations it charged With openly intervening in behalf of the insuregnts to control its coasts and consequently could not concede the right to search its ships to the naval units of the proposed blockade. Italy and Germany were assigned patrol of the eastern Mediterranean coasts of Spain under the isolation blockade agreement, while Great Britain and France took over the southern and northwestern coast off the peninsula. The Valencia objection brought re- newed discussion of the old proposal to call in neutral nations as observers and ploicemen of the Spanish borders and coasts instead of delegating the control to the five interested powers of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the Soviet. LOYALISTS PRESS PURSUIT. Advance Toward Strategic Centers of Mola’s Army. MADRID, March 23 (#).—The gov- ernment pressed its pursuit of Gen. 0 Supply Germany held first place on the | Man Crippled by 186-Foot Dive‘[;H“_[] [}[]URT B"_I_ From San Francisco Bay Span “ May Be Paralyzed for Life, Providing He Survives. BY the Associated Press. ‘ SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.—The | dublous distinction of outdoing Steve | Brodie by diving 186 feet from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was held by Ray Wood today—at the cost of a broken back. He probably will have to live 1n a | wheel chair the »est of his life, par- tially paralyzed, physicians said. That is, if he lives. | Of his leap, 51 feet more than Brodie’s purported 135-foot plunge off Brooklyn Bridge to fame and fortune in 1886, the 30-year-old St. Louis professional diver recalled today “I stepped off backward and counted four. Then I bent double and grabbed my left thumb with my right hand. As I came out of the jack- knife I held my hands over my head to break the impact of the water. “That was all I remembered. I must have hit the water with terrific impact.” Hopping off a truck that carried him onto the bridge, Wood climbed over the side, threw off a robe revealing him in padded bathing suit and foot ball helmet, shouted “Is everything O. K.?” to a boat below and leaped. Wood, who asserted he performed the feat solely for publicity and with no chance, of immediate financial gain, jumped feet first from the lower deck of the span yesterday. As he fell he was whipped by a strong wind and struck the water with a loud splash. In the boat rode his wife, Mrs. Ber- nice Wood, and his mother, Mrs. B. M. Wood. Both said they had seen him leap 184 times off bridges from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Aurora Bridge in Seattie. Told her husband would be a cripple it he lives, his wife said: “All we ask is that he lives. does we'll get along somehow:."” If he Upper: Lower: | District Bar Asso HITBY D.C. BAR Char:cery Procedure Turned Down in Acting Upon Score of Measures. The House bill substituting chancery for criminal procedure in the Juv Court was opposed last night by the iation, which acted | upon almost a score of matters pend- ing before Congress. Disapproval of the juvenile court bill was a divided vote after lengthy discussion, as the association met i special session in the Mayflower Hotel. The action was recommended by James R. Kirkla reporting for a Wood as he made his dive from the bridge. i Back broken, Wood is shown in a San Francisco hospital with his wife, Mrs. Bernice Wood, and his mother, Mrs. Bessie Wood, at his bedside. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Clipper Base on Pacific Atol HONOLULU, March 23 (&) — The Pan-American OClipper, ex- ploring a projected air route be- tween Alameda, Calif., and Auck- land, New Zealand, took off for Kingman Reef at 6:21 a.m. (11:51 am. Eastern standard time) today. BY the Associated Press KINGMAN REEF, March 23 (Via Pan-American Airways Radio).— America’'s smallest colony—situated on a 90 by 100-foot sandbar 3,000 | miles from the mainland—is ready for the latest trail-blazing flying boat. Three palm trees, planted in 1922 by an unknown “discoverer,” already have caused an overcrowding prob- ! lem—that’s how small the _-land is. A mere speck in the ocean, it is 1,067 miles from Honolulu, where the Pan-American clipper was tuned up today for this next stop on a 6,820- mile flight from California to Auck- land, New Zealand. The giant ship arrived in Honolulu last Thursday from Alameda, Calif., but engine trouble held up its take-off. Capt. Edwin J. Musick, in command, expected the trip to take eight hours. | remain | | overnight before taking off for Pago | The clipper probably will Pago, American Samoa, 1,546 miles southwest of Kingman Reef. Kingman Reef is one of the small- | est of the many atolls which dot the | From Pacific, said Allie J. Copeland, chief neer at the Kingman port. At present a small shelter and flagpole occupy much of the available room Six Pan American colonist. by Airport Manager Stewart S S have managed to mark off additional dry land area where radio direction- finder towers will be erected. At island’s highest point, 3 feet above sea level, metal fuel tanks will be sunk. The crest of the coral mound looks & 5-mile lagoon, the only operating site for big sea-going Clip- pers in this vast Pacific Ocean area The lagoon, protected from house- high breakers on two sides, is smooth enough to permit a launch to cruise with safety. The company’s supply steamer, North Wind, serving as a temporary station for this airport, is anchored on the lee side of the northeast reef. its two surmounted antenna towers, radio directional beams were expected to keep the Clipper on its course. On the return trip the Pan American ship’s crew planned to make exten- sive ground and lagoon tests. Find- ings will be incorporated in plans for permanent base facilities for pas- sengers when r ar four-day service between the United States and the Antipodes is opened. d over- ideal Emilio Mola's insurgent army today | against the strategic supply centers| of Jadraque and Almadrones, 53 miles northeast of Madrid, to smash Mola’s | attempt to reorganize his routed forces. Picked squadrons of government bombers harrassed the insurgent rear guard positions, where insurgent com- manders were speeding their effort to| unify their disorganized forces. Insurgent resistance, to cover the| reinforcement, developed along the west side of the Aragon highway. The diversion centered on Hita, where a small detachment put up a determined resistance until it was forced to with- draw slowly. Insurgents Falling Back. The government’s virtually unop- posed advance, six days after the de- feat of the main body of the in- surgent assault army, placed the capi- | tal's defenders within striking dis- tance of the positions held Ry the| enemy at the outset of their fifth drive | against Madrid. | The vital positions at Almadrones and Jadraque, distribution centers for the supply of the insurgent divisions, were all that stood in the way of the government sweep of upper Guadala- hara Province. Insurgent air squadrons turned their attention to Madrid after a week’s silence late yesterday, but were driven oft by anti-aircraft batteries without dropping & bomb. Early today a secomd squadron droned over the city but no explosives were dropped. Government pursuit planes took to the air and circled wide, on the alert to intercept pos- sible raiders. Minister of Public Works Julio Just, | served cities in Spain | coast, liaison officer of the cabinet at Va- lencia to the Madrid defense admin- istration, announced work had been started on 19 of a projected network of 39 roads which “within a month will make Madrid one of the best in regard to transportation links.” The minister acknowledged the re- lated problems of transportation and evacuation were the chief worries be- ‘semng the government. The semi-official Febus News Agency reported insurgent planes had bombed | Tarragona Monday in the early morn- ing and disappeared over the Mediter- ranean. Shortly afterward they re- appeared over Alcarral, on the eastern and by the light of a flare dropped three more bombs, destroying one house and wounding its five occu- | pants. MRS. JANKOWSKI DIES; FUNERAL RITES TODAY Mrs. Valerie Jankowski, « Sunday at her home, 1636 Thirty- third street, the result of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered March 15. She is survived by her husband, Constantine Jankowski; a son, Henry F. Jankowski, a junior in the George- town Dental School; a brother, S. Ciborowski, Scranton, Pa., and a sister, Mrs. Eleanor Furgala, Edwards- ville, Pa. Mrs. Jankowski, her hus- band and son came here several years ago from Long Island. Funeral services were held today in Holy Trinity Catholic Church, fol- lowing brief services at the George W. Wise Co. funeral home, 2900 M street. Burial was in Holy Rood Cemetery. 58, died | legislative committee, and the burden of supporting the committee’s report, was borne by Leo P. Harlow, who s the principle of the proposed legis tion was laudable, but that the bi as drawn, was too broad and vague and cloaked the Juvenile Court with | excessive power Among those who spoke of the bill was H former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, who said a similar meas- ure works satisfactorily in Colorado. Raised. idespread d favor hompson, Mortgage Procedure A recommendation of business importance was te revising t sure procedu ed by a special mittee of the tion, headed by Frederick A. Fenning, provided t 1 foreclosure actions go through that out-of-court com- to all parties erest 15 days bef filing of a foreclosure petition. Aft the issuance of a foreclosure decree by the court, the sale tised for six weeks sale, the owner of the equity of re- demption would be allowed 90 davs in which to redeem the property be- fore the entering by the court of & final order confirming the sale. A collateral provision was to effect that in a suit for a deficie: e fair value of the prope than the price obtained a On motion of Gr | former secretary of } was voted to recom: that the fore- | closure measure apply to exis well as future morigages and deeds ssociation, Legal Aid Given Many. Dean Hill Stanley, chairman of | association’s Legal Aid Commit | reported that his group began work yesterday in Municipal Court, caring for 15 or 16 indigent cases the first day. Leo McG e and Austin Canfield inaugurated the service In connection wtih its legal aid work, the association disapproved the Senate bill to establish a small claims br h of M pal Ci It con- tended its Legal Aid Committee obvi- ated the need for the small claims body. Refraining from acting upon the Senate bill to take from Federal dis- trict courts the power to issue injunc- tions suspending operation of Fed- eral laws, the Legislative Committee nevertheless expressed doubt as to the measure’s constitutionality. Its rec- ommendation that give further study to the question her Con- gress can deny to courts powers which are inherently part of the judicial powe! as accepted the association Other Action Taken. The following action was taken other measures the House bill habitual criminal a Indorsed proper labe: quantities. Opposed a Senate bill to revise th procedure in lunacy cases by commitment of lunatics out hands of a jury and vesting in commission of two physicians one lawyer, Recommended passage of an amend- for for the Disu he Senate bill to requi g of coal sold in smal it a and “numbers’ Indor he Senate bill to set up a commiss: of three to rewrite the District Code, but recommended it be amended so that the commission members need not be residents of the District; so that they would be ap- pointed by the District Court rather than the President; so that they be not required to give up their private practice of law, and so t the re- written code would not be submitt to the court for approval before to Congress e House bill to raise t marriage in the trict from 16 to 18 years, for males, and from 14 to 16 years for females Approved the House bill to raise the t and similar Approved in principle the House bill permitting small loans in the Di Postponed action on the House bill to create the office of public defender Recommended reti pay for judges of the Police, Municipal and | Juvenile Courts as embodied in a House bill BURLEITH BUS ROUTE PLEA IS RETRACTED | Georgetown Citizens Decide to Accept Two-Way Use of Q Street. The Georgetown Citizens' Associa- ! tion, meeting last night in St. John's Parish Hall, retracted a request that | Burleith-Trinidad busses travel one way east on Q street and one way | west on P street | The busses now traverse Q street in both directions west of Twentietit | street, and the association had fa- vored the one-way change at a previ- ous meeting. A letter from the Pub- lic Utilities Commission stating the change would not be fair to the traveling public at this time brought about he association’s decision. The association indorsed the re- | port of M. O. Leighton, chairman of | the Washington Board of Trade's Subcommittee on Miscellaneous Proj- ects, showing the need for abolishing Potomac River pollution. It was fshown that the city depends upon the river for its water, and pollution is a great health factor to be con- sidered by civic groups Bertran D. Hulen, State Depart- ment correspondent of the New York Times, addressed the association on | foreign affairs and on “covering” the State Department. | A memorium was drawn in mem- | ory of Robert Auld, a member who died recently. A copy was directed sent to his family. )