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A—2 ¥x §1,500 MORE ASKED FOR BLOSSOM FETE Additional Contributions Are | Needed to Meet $3,000 Festival Expense. Additional contributions of $1,500 were sought today by the Washington Cherry Blossom Festival Committee, to assure & minimum of $3,000 for pay- ment of expenses of the program preparations. Business houses which are expected to bencfit financially from the presence of large throngs of visitors are espe- cially urged to make prompt contribu- tions. ‘The tentative budget of $5,000 to 47,000 already has been slashed to a flat $3,000. To date, donations have totaled $1,550, officials report. Festival Week of April 2. The festival is to be staged April 2, | & week from Friday, unless cold weather should delay the opening of the blossoms. If that happens, it is planned to stage the festival April 9. Confident additional donations will be received, Commissioner Hazen has directed C. Marshall Finnan, chair- man of the Arrangements Committee, to proceed with a contract for a fire- works display, to be a part of the show. Contributions to Date. Contributions reported to date are the following: Greater National Capital Commit- tee of the Board of Trade, $500; Washington Hotel Men's Association, $400; Laundry Owners and Dry Cleaning Association, $50; Beverage Association of Washington, $100; Po- tomac Electric Power Co., $100; Ches- apeake & Potomac Telephone Co., $100; Washington Gas Light Co., $50; S. Kann Sons Co. $25; Julius Gar- finckel & Co., $25; Woodward & Lothrop, $25; Raleigh Haberdasher, 325; Frank R. Jellefl, Inc., $25; The Hecht Co., $25; Lansburgh & Bro., $25; The Palals Royal, $25; Golden- berg's, $25; James E. Colliflower & Co,, Inc., $25. Dieckhoff (Continued From First Page ) not a career man, with some one who | for months past has been in close | touch with Adolf Hitler's foreign policy. Ambassador Luther, it was stressed, is considered to have done an excellent Job in a time of transition for the homeland. Dieckhoff, who previously served in | Washington as Counselor of Embassy and Charge d’'Affaires, has held the title of acting secretary of state since the death of Bernard W. von Buelow June 21, 18936 The Envoy-designate always in- sisted, however, he was merely acting | as a stop-gap pending the appoint- ment of a new permanent secretary. Hans Georg von Mackensen, Ger- man Minister to Hungary and son of the famous fleld marshal, will be named to Von Buelow's post. He is also a son-in-law of Baron Konstantin von Neurath, minister of foreign af- fairs and his new immediate chief. Dr. Dieckhoff Praised. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The appointment of Dr. Hans Dieck- hoff as German Ambassador to the United States is interpreted in respon- sible quarters as an earnest endeavor of Hitler to improve the existing cool relations between the two countries. There is no more shrewd or able diplomat in the Berlin foreign office list than the new Ambassador-desig- nate. While Hitler has sent to London the awashbuckling-like Herr von Ribben- trop, who flaunts the Nazi salute every | time he is given an opportunity, the | Fuehrer has decided to send to Wash- ington a quiet, soft-spoken man whnl knows American psychology and will not “heil Hitler” every two minutes. Dieckhoff is a career diplomat. He is a tall, heavy-set man from the Schwartzwald who has filled difficult posts in the past with ability. He was | counselor of embassy in Washington when Germany was in as bad favor in this country as it is now. He was | counselor of embassy in London at a time when German diplomats in that eity were socially and politically ostra- cized. Breaks Down Wall. By his tact and by his strong personality he managed, unobtrusively, to break the wall which was sur- rounding the German diplomats and created personal friends, which stood him in good stead during the diffi- cult years when Germany was not only a secondary power, but con- sidered practically an outlaw. Dieckhoff was careful never to par- ticipate in the political battles of his country, He is a servant of the state regardless of who is in power. Hitler was quick to notice the sterling quali- ties of the young diplomat—he is only 48 years now—and brought him from London to the foreign office, where he enjoyed a position believed to be stronger than that of his chief foreign secretary, Konstantin von Neurath. In Berlin, Von Neurath's chief job is to smooth over the ruffied feelings of the foreign diplomats. Dieckhoff is one of the brain cells which directs Germany's foreign Ppolicy. Even those diplomats representing the most antagonistic powers to Ger- many give the Ambassador-designate credit for his intelligence and tact in handling international affairs. Ability Recognized. His ability is recognized by all who have had dealings with him. Last Summer, when this writer was in Ber- lin, the rumor was circulated that Dieckhoff would replace Dr. Luther some time early in 1937. In discussing this report with the Ambassador of one of Germany's neighboring powers the Ambassador exclaimed, “I hope to goodness your information is wrong. That man is clever enough to mini- mize and offset all the mistakes of the German government which helps our cause in your country.” Maryland Enacts New Law to Curb Hasty Marriages BY the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, March 24—A new Maryland law requiring 48 hours’ notice of marriage inten- tions will put & curb on quick weddings at Flkton and other Maryland “Gretna Greens” after June 1. The new law, effective on that date, provides that $1 must be paid the clerk of the court two days in advance of issuance of & license. Millard C. Langfeld, Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. LETHAL. HAT man has come charging out of the closet again, the fellow with the puzzles. This time he brings one that he cannot solve himself, which makes him sort of a cosmic phenomenon—Man holding a mathematical bull by the tail. Here it is: Take any number composed of three digits, one to nine inclusive (782 for example). Reverse the order of the digits (287). Subtract the resulting number from the first one (answer, 495). Now reverse the remainder (594). Add them and you get 1,089. Furthermore, you'll get the same figure in the end always—1,089, so long as you don't make the first and last digits the same (as in 212), S SHADOWED. A large, flerce man who says he has an office on the east sire of The Star Building has just come in and demanded to know if we are hav- ing him followed by a dblimp. He 1insists that he cannot raise his head from the work in front of him without seeing that eternal blimp soaring around just outside his window. At night, after an 11-hour mon- union day, he goes home and re- treats to a dark room to read in peace the paper he started at § a.m, that morning. Most of his dreams are about smoked sausage. * ok % x MATRIMONY. SEVERAL little girls were staging a wedding for two dolls the other day when the mother of one child called to take her out for a Sunday afternoon ride. “But mother,” the little daughter cried, “we are just in the middle of getting them married. We couldn't stop now. Please let me stay until .. . ‘All right,” said her mother. * wait.” h, no,” said another little girl, “you need not do that. You all go ahead riding. We'll just divorce 'em will | now and they can get married again tomorrow.” X % X % DOG SENSE. JE HAVE trained ourselves so thoroughly to believe the stories people write in about their dogs that even this one seems credible. Fellow says he was at a party the other night where a wag was boring every one Stiff with a series of poor jokes. Noting the sad expressions around the room, a Gordon setter arose lazily table where several highball glasses were parked and with a grand swish of the tail brought forth from one of the partially filled glasses a dis- tinct ‘bong”—the gong It had the desired effect. * ok ok x WOES. UT a new piece of linoleum on the floor? Easy as ple, what? to the tale of a lady who recently bought linoleum and wanted it put down to replace an old floor covering. First of all, the retailer told her she would have to get the ancient linoleum removed by outside labor. Not part of his bargain. Then the gas com- pany had to be called to disconnect the stove. Then the retailer’s man came and put down the new stuff. But call the gas company agaln to reconnect the stove? Ah, nay. A plumber must be summoned for that purpose. When the procession had fin- ished marching through her house the lady was permitted to spill what- ever she chose on the floor. * ok Xk % PROOF. A big congregation was pouring out of a local downtown church. As if waiting for this opportunity, a man had perched himself on the running board of a car parked near the entrance. He was a shabby likeness of ome of the ancient prophets—long and unkemp hair, a beard almost to the waist. He stepped forth. “Sinners,” he shouted, “stop!” Unless ye repent, damnation is around the corner. I say unto vou...” A lady walked up to him. “Can’t you see? We just came out of that church. We're not sinners,” she said. “Hah,” said the old gentleman, drawing himself up with great dignity. “Look at that rouge on your face.” The lady crept away again. * X X % HOMECOMING. THE owner of that large light tan hotel out on Calvert street over- looking Rock Creek Park recently re- ceived a chain letter. It directed him to send a towel to the top name on a list, then write three coples of the epistle and mail it to three of his friends. The letter promised that eventually he would receive 27 towels for his trouble. “Sure,” he sald, tossing the letter away, “and all of them with the name of the hotel already on them.” HEALTH DIRECTOR DIES OMAHA, Nebr., March 24 (#)—Dr. 64, full-time health director here from 1933 until last June and on the city pay roll as & bacteriologist for more than 30 years, died of kidney and heart allments at & hospital here last night. He came to Omsaha in 1898, shortly after his graduation from Johns Hopkins Uni- versity and from Johns Hopkins Med- feal School. Surviving are his widow, the former Elizabeth Mathilda and two sons, Daniel and Millard, from his corner, walked over to a | So it would seem untll you hearken | THE EVENING | ‘AR, WASHINGTQC? D. C, WEDNESDAY MARCH 24, 1937. Leaders Leave for Detroit Strike Conference | | secretary declared, SECRETARY ROPER HITS “SIT-DOWNS” Seizure of Private Property Held Dangerous Both to Labor and Capital. BY the Assoclated Press. FORT MYERS, Fla, March 24— Sit-down strikes were eriticized las night by Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper as “provocative of grave consequences to both labor and business.” The secretary did not use the term “sit-down strikes” but said “a facto of vital concern to both business and labor is the new departure of certain labor units in seizing private prop- erty as a means of emphasizing grievances prompting strikes.” | “Nothing is more provocative of grave consequences to both labor and business,” Roper said, “than the | flagrant disregard of private property | rights through open deflance of the authority of the courts and the overriding of the sacredness of low and order.” He spoke at a banquet celebrating the formal opening of a barge and yacht canal from Florida's Atlantic seaboard to its gulf coast by way of Lake Okeechobee in the Everglades “The chief concern of business to- day, with recovery at high tide,” the “is the responsi- bility for keeping optimism within reasonable bounds and safeguarding the future against dangerous boom conditions. “I appeal to business and indu | trial leaders throughout the country to inaugurate conference studies witn leaders in agriculture and labor find ways to preserve our common economic and social structure from destruction, s These co-operative endeavors should also look to the formulatior of safeguards against inordinate prices by protecting the consumer to Walter P. Chrysler pauses to buy a book before boarding a train at New York for Lansing, Mich., where he was to attend conference on sit-down strikes. Right: John L. Lewis tipping a porter at the Union Station as he prepared to depart for the Lansing session. Large photo: The mass of humanity that jammed Cadillac Square at Detroit yesterday to protest police eviction of sit-down strikers. The Wayne County Court House can be seen in center background. Only the towering buildings kept demonstrators | from spreading into a wider area. —Copright, A. P. Wirephotos. trikes (Continued From First Page.) | ceedings and court orders for the | rest of 6,000 strikers had done. The Governor met Chrysler, chair- man of the board of the Chrysler Corp., and Lewis, chairman of the C. I O. in the executive offices of the | State Capitol shortly after 11 a.m | Six thousand members of the United Automobile Workers, a C. I. O. affil- iate, are defying a court order in their sit-down strike at Detroit, holding eight Chrysler production plants. Pressman With Lewis. A few minutes later Chrysler companied by K. T. Keller, corpora- Ition president; B. E. Hutchinson | finance chairman, and Nicholas Kelly, | attorney, entered the room. Murphy, who in a similar meeting | here two months ago obtained a tem- | porary truce agreement in the Gen- | eral Motors sit-down strikes, invited | Chrysler and Lewis to meet “in a joint jeffort to find a prompt, satisfactory solution without unwarranted delay in enforcement of the court’s order” | for eviction of the Chrysler strikers. Chrysler came from New York, as- serting that “we will not enter into any trade to get the men out of the plants.” Lewis States Plan. Lewis, coming from Washington, said the invitation suggested “that I | confer under duress” and added that | he would seek “to constructively con- | | tribute” toward a settlement. | The five conferees and James F. | Dewey, Federal Labor Department ! conciliator, were seated about a large table in the Governor's office. Other | members of the Chrysler party and |Ora E. Gasaway, an official of the | United Mine Workers who accom- | panied Lewis here, waited in an ad- Joining room. The Governor and Dewey conferred here last night, fitting together the | final details of a program Murphy | planned to submit to the conferees. His apparent course was to arrange a truce permitting evacuation of the Chrysler plants without resort to force, then seek a complete settlement and set up by legislative action the ma- chinery for handling future labor dis- putes without resort to strikes. U. A. W. WARNS FORD. “Can’t Stop the Union,” Leader Says at Detroit Rally. DETROIT, March 24 (®)—The United Automobile Workers of Amer- i ica last night massed its following for | a demonstration protest against police activities in smaller sit-down strikes in Detroit. The meeting was held on the eve of the Chrysler-John L. Lewis strike parley in Lansing. Homer Martin, U. A. W. head, told a throng estimated by a police official at 60,000 and union headquarters at 250,000 that “we as workers are going to get everything that is ours.” The huge assembly was in Cadillac Square, heart of downtown Detroit. The crowd was orderly but vociferous. It cheered half a dozen speakers, booed every mention of Mayor Frank Couzens and Police Commissioner Heinrich A. Pickert, and loudly acclaimed two reso- | lutions—one “condemning” Couzens | and Pickert and one asserting “there shall be no weakening” in the union drive. Martin pointed a portion of his speech to Henry Ford, third member of the automotive world's “big three.” “You can’t stop the union,” he said. ‘“* * * You might as well get resdy to do business with your organized workers.” Remarks to Mayor. Turning nis remarks to Couzens, he said, “Mr. Mayor, you join us in help- ing us eliminate the dastardly working conditions of our people and we'll quit sitting down.” Calling the Supreme Court “the greatest threat to democracy in the United States outside of flascism,” Martin said he stood “squarely behind | the President in his program” to re- | organize the court. To the “automobile manufacturers of the city” the u head declared: "| Frank S. Martel, ac- | own freedom. We organized workers are no longer going to tolerate condi- tions we have been forced to bear.” Sharing the platform with Martin and other U. A. W. A officials was president of the | Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor, an American Federation of | Labor afliate Martel lauded the | U. A. W. A. leadership for “the fine work you have done.” | Richard T. Frankensteen, organiza- | tion director, praised Gov. Murphy as having “stood generally on the principle of human rights against | Mention of Senator Robert | Follette, Progressive, of | drew a lusty cheer | Ed Hall, second vice president of the |U. A, W. A, was chairman. Leo J Krzycki, organizer among steel and garment workers, and Rev. Owen A Knox, a Methodist Episcopal min- | ister, also spoke. | The Chrysler strike drew attention meanwhile in scattered parts of the Nation. President Roosevelt said at Warm Springs, Ga., that he was watching sit-down strike developments closely, particularly in the automobile field. Gannett Hits Murphy. Frank E. Gannett, publisher and chairman of a group opposing Presi- | dent Roosevelt's Supreme Court pro- | posals, issued a statement at Roches- ter, N. Y., criticizing Gov. Murphy for his “failure to stamp out sit-down | strikes in Michigan.” | Michigan's own capital saw cousid- | erable activity concerning labor. A peace parley toward settlement of the Reo Motor Car Co. strike made “def- inite progress” toward a settlement, M. La Wisconsin spokesman, reported. State Representative Philip J. Ra- boi. Democrat from Iron Mountain, six-hour day and five-day week for virtually all Michigan industry. Raboi also presented a resolution censuring the Chrysler Corp. for refusal to grant | the U. A. W.s recognition demands. It went to committee without com- ment. Another proposal in the State Legis- lature would establish a State Board of Mediation and Conciliation with broad powers to intervene in labor disputes. Three Democrats and a Re- publican sponsored the measure, for which they claimed labor’'s indorse- ment. A welfare official reported relief ap- plications had increased in Detroit since the start of the Chrysler strike, and the Detroit Board of Commerce sald the loss of work by approximately | 90,000 wage earners affected by auto- mobile labor disputes had a depressing influence on retail trade. More than 10,000 Hudson Motor Car Co. employes have been idle due to a | strike that began the day of the | Chrysler sit-down, and nearly 20,000,‘ employes of the Briggs Body Plant | were thrown out of work by stoppage | of the Chrysler plants. Murphy Is Pleased. Gov. Murphy said he was “happy” | Lewis and Chrysler agreed to meet with him “because of my abhorrence of bloodshed and violence, or plung- ing the people of the State into a con- dition we all would regret.” “It has never been my aim to please either side,” the Governor said, “but to do the right thing. Such a policy may have moments offensive to one side or the other, but it is in the in- terests of the general good.” Strikes in five plants of the Bohn Aluminum & Brass Co. were settled overnight and sit-down employes who had held the plants for two weeks im- mediately evacuated. The strikes had made 3,500 workers idle. An 8-hour day, and 40-hour week, seniority rights, recognition of the United Automobile Workers as bar- gaining agency for its members and negotiation of wage rates are provided in the agreement. CHICAGO FREE OF STRIKES. Large-Scale Evictions Precede Nego- tiations on Demands. BY the Associated Press. Large-scale evictions of sit-down strikers marked yesterday a develop- ment on theestrike front. Mayor Max A. Templeton, acting as | offered & bill which would provide a | have made evacuation of their fac- tories and business establishments a prerequisite to negotiations on strikers' demands. Chicago was free from sit-down | strikes for the first time in a month after police dislodged hundreds of workers from plants and stores. Sit- ters also were evicted in several other States. Officials of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. announced the Lebanon, Pa., mill, which was closed March 4 by a strike, will be reopened tomorrow J. H. Edmonds, manager of the Lebanon plant, said a canvass of the company’s 3,300 workers conducted by the Employes' Association *shows con- clusively that the employes want to re- turn to their jobs." The mill was closed after a walkout which representatives of the Commit- tee for Industrial Organization said was in demand for a wage and hour agreement similar to that signed by Carnegie-Tllinois Steel cent stores was announced. Strikes at the Albrow Shoe Co. in Everett, | Mass, and the Malleable Iron Fittings | Co.. Branford, Conn., were settled, as was a dispute involving 600 Youngs- | town, Ohio, leather workers. New Strikes Called. | Mass., shoe plant, a Clinton, Mass., | leather goods factory, and a furniture | company at Flora, Til, the latter in- volving 300 sit-downers. Police were held in readiness at Boston after Police Supt. Edward W | Fallon said he had learned “serious labor trouble” might develop in down- town stores. Ohio’s labor diffculties receded | somewhat as city maintenance work- | ers ended a week-old strike at Akron, | and a threatened strike of street car workers at Columbus was averted at least until after tomorrow. About 600 sit-downers evacuated the under an agreement reached yester- | day to end the nine-day dispute, but | about 50 union molders started a sit- down at the Superior Foundry Co. | plant in Cleveland. | Akron maintenance workers, num- bering about 300, returned to work under an agreement which spokesmen said provided recognition of their union as a collective bargaining agency, seniority rights and min- imum wage demands. 10,000 Get Pay Raises. At Pittsburgh 10,000 employes of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur- ceived a guaranteed wage increase of 8 cents an hour for men and 6 cents for women. General Works Manager T. I. Phillips said he reached the final agreement with a committee of the employe representation plan, includ- ing representatives of the United Elec- trical and Radio Workers, an affiliate of the C. I. O. WRONG ADDRESS GIVEN FOR THREE-ALARM FIRE Damage in Sunday Night Blaze Was Limited to Place Next Door to Emile’s, Inc. In reporting a three-alarm fire Sunday evening at 1223 Connecticut avenue The Star inadvertently placed the address at 1221, which is next door, and which houses Emile's, Inc., hair dressers, toilet articles and other activities. The damage from the fire was con- fined to 1223 Connecticut avenue and did not cause any disruption to business at Emile’s. The same con- fusion of addresses led The Star to state that a gambling raid took place some time ago on one of the apart- ments in 1321, when, as a matter of fact, the raid took place in an apart- ment on an upper floor of 1223. The confusion in addresses was attributed to the fact that the build- ings adjoin, and that the firemen in protecting the premises at 1221 against spread of the flames from 1223 brought some of their hose through the entrance marked 13221. “Your slaves declared their In & n of disputes employers | The Stgpregrets the error. Tentative settlement of a sit-down |strike in five New York 5-and-10- | Strikes were called at a Mnlden,i | Ohio Leather Co. plant at Girard | ing Co. in three district plants re- | ITALIAN RETREAT BECOMES A ROUT Trucks, Tanks Tractors and Weapons Abandoned in Flight. The Guadalajara battle front in the Spanish civil war is described here by the famous American au- thor of “Death in the Afternoon,” “The Sun Also Rises” and other stories, whose war-time erperience as an ambulance driver with the Italian forces provided the material for his celebrated description of the Italian retreat at Caporetto in “'A Farewell to Arms.” BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY. By Radio to The Star ON THE GUADALAJARA FRONT, via Madrid, March 24—Rain and flurries of snow came down as went over the Guadalajara battle- field and on beyond, where govern- ment troops, some with blankets wrapped around their shoulders, were pushing on along secondary roads be- yond Brihuega, trying to establish contact with the fleeing Italian troops. The government infantry had en- countered resistance to the left of the main Saragossa road beyond | Utande and shells were spouting there, but otherwise there was a steady ad- vance against an enemy which seemed determined to retreat off the map of the Madrid region which we were following. Along the roads were piled aban- | doned machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, light mortars, shells and boxes of machine gun ammunition, and stranded trucks, light tanks and trac- tors were stalled by the s.de of the tree-lined route. Over the battlefield | on the heights above Brihuega were | scattered letters, papers, entrenching tools and everywhere the dead. Signs of Precipitous Retreat. Hot weather makes all dead look alike, but these Italian dead lay with waxy gray faces in the cold rain, looking very small and pitiful. They did not look like men, but, where a bursting shell had caught three of | them; the remains took on the shape of curiously broken toys. One doll had lost its feet and lay with no expression on its waxy, stubbled face. Another doll had lost half its head, | | haversacks, | while a third doll was simply broken | as a bar of chocolate breaks in your | | pocket. The line of battle ran from the | | heights through a scrub oak forest | and everywhere were signs of a sud- den, precipitous retreat. There is no | way of checking the amount of Italian losses in the Guadalajara battle, Estimates run to between 2,000 and 3,000 killed and wounded. | The principal results of the battle, | besides saving the Guadalajara road, | have been to provide the government with a major victory after eight months of defensive fighting and with & people united in its fury against | foreign invasion. Recruitng for a new army has reached a feverish pitch. When I| left Valencia, at 5 o'clock in the morning, I saw 2,000 men waitng for | the recruitng station to open. A wave of enthusiasm is sweeping over the population, so that supplies and gifts from the smaller towns are pouring into Madrid in columns of trucks, while the morale of the fighting forces has been very greatly raised. Cannot Depend on Italians. Generalissimo Franco, having ex- hausted his Moorish troops in re- Peated assaults on Madrid, now finds that he cannot depend on the Italians, not because the Italians are cowardly but because Italians defending the line of Piave and Mount Grappa against invasion are one thing, and Italians | sent to fight in Spain when they ex- | pected to go on gamrison duty in| | Ethiopia are another. I tall with an officer of the 11th Gov t Brigade who was all | through the Trijueque fighting, and he aid to me, columns of fours toward our defenses. They did not seem to expect any resistance, and when we opened fire they appeared to be completely confused “Later, I talked to prisoners who ad been at Malaga, where the Ital- fans entered the town practically un- opposed and they said they had been told it would be the same with Madrid The Italians advanced in along the road They expected to reach Guadalajara | on the second day, Alcala de Henares on the third day, and effect complete encirclement of Madrid on the fourth Italians’ “Once thei T ) ans fought well during the firs days, bu they were faced with the v s Spanish troops, strafing and bombing by govern planes, their morale broke and they ran when our troops attacked. They retreated so fast it was impossible to Morale Broke. lk?’p contact with them “Now, some resistance has developed to the left of Utande, but we don’t be- lieve the resistance comes from Italians. We think it is from Fascist militia troops.” There will still be bitter fighting for Guadalajara and the ground south of the main Valencia road, but, studying the terrain, I believe an encirclement of Madrid is now impossible unless Gen. Franco obtains huge reinforce- ments of better class troops than those which fought at Brihuega. The Government’s morale now is so high that there is danger of over- optimism, but it is necessary to re- member that Madrid was not selected as the capital of the country because of its climate, which is atrocious, nor because of its economic position, but because of its marvelous military posi- tion at the center of the Castilian Plateau. Madrid now is fortified to such an extent that it would be im- | possible to take it by direct assault The first attempt to cut the main Valencia road at Arganda cost Gen. Franco a bloody defeat. The second attempt to cut the Guadalajara road resulted in the biggest Italian defeat since Caporetto. Roads in Good Shape. Meanwhile, even if Arganda should ever be taken, and if the Guadalajara road, which it is possible to defend kilometer by kilometer with the finest natural positions, is ever cut as far down as Alcala de Henares, there are several secondary roads between the main highroads which have been put into shape for heavy trafic and are able to serve as lifelines for bringing in food from Valencia. I know those secondary roads are highly practicable, as we came over them from Valencia three days ago. In order to win the war, Gen Franco must encircle Madrid and cut the line of communication to the coast through Teruel, thus separating Barcelona and Valencia, or come up the coast and take Valencia. But, 50| long as the government holds its main army on the Castilian Plateau, Franco | must fight there and every day the government is proceeding with arming and training a new army, ready to take the offensive in & few months’ | time. It looks as though the turn in for- tunes of this war came when the sup- posedly invincible Italian mechanized columns were defeated on the Gua- dalajara front. (Copyright, 1937, by the North Americad Newspaper Alliance Inc.) VIRGINIANS. TO SPEAK ‘Will Address Forum of Local Real Estate Board. Two prominent figures in Virginia real estate—Robert L. Rush of Rich- mond, chairman of the State Real Estate Commission, and C. C. Collmus of Norfolk, president of the Virginia Real Estate Association—will be guest speakers tonight at the Washington Real Estate Board's forum at the United States Chamber of Commerce. Francis A. Murray, second vice pres- ident of the Capital realtor group, will address the board on “Property Man- sgement.” Morton J. Luchs, actin wident, will preside. L begins hearing on oill to license from higher prices than necessitated by the actual increases in the cost of Taw material, wages and other bona fide factors involved in production.” Roper then made his indirect con- demnation of “sit-down” strikes and added: “All of our problems can be worked out with equitable adjustments for all through conference methods conducted by representatives of all groups seeking Just and righteous solutions.” He called completion of the cross- | Btate waterway project “the realiza- tion of a dream of many years” and | said “it is my understanding that thus far $15,000,000 has been spent and | some $2,000,000 more will be required | He said the canal project should |make “our people more marine- minded” so that the United Stat would continue to lead the world i “safe and efficient water traffic.” De- spite “controversies and agitations be tween seamen and shipowners,” I declared, “our ships are the safest | the world.” Secretary Roper and members of : official party from Washington reac here last night after making the f crossing through the new canal Stuart on the Florida East Coas Roosevelt (Continued From First Pag denounce the strikes as “an challenge to law and order.” Dies said he had not yet lin the persons he expects to testi: behalf of the inquiry His resolution would create a seve: man House committee to look into a phases of the sit-down strike wa: with a view to recommending *rems dial legislation.’ In an informal discussion of such an investigation in the Rules Com- mittee today, Representative Cox Democrat, of Georgla. said no more would be known about the caus:s ana cures of “sit-downs” after an quiry was completed. “This is an American crisis and we ought to put the facts before the peo- ple,” Dies replied. Discussing sit-down strikes, Sacre- tary Perkins said at a press conference late yesterday she believed the:e should be some Government agency empowered to investigate strikes that do not yield quickly to mediation The question of exclusive bargainirg rights in industry, she pointed out, 1 comparatively new. She added tha the department was using only the old established method of conciliation in trying to restore production. Miss Perkins said the Government had no new theory of labor polic which could be applied to the “sit- down" strike. If the Supreme Court upholds the Wagner labor relations act. she said, that measure “would tend to reduce the reasons for labor | disputes.” The first congressional defense of | sit-down strikes was printed in the | House Record by Representative Ber- | nard, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, | after he had been refused the floor to discuss the issue. He was ruled out | of order. | Bernard said he had no desire to | see property rights violated, but added | “human rights must take precedence over property rights.” He declared the sit-down strike is a lawful method 1 Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Considers appointment of Joseph P. Kennedy as Maritime Commission chairman Judiciary Committee continues hear~ | ings on President's court proposal. House: Considers minor bills. Interstate Commerce opens hearings on bill natural gas lines. Rules Committee considers resolution to investigate anti-American influences, Naval Affairs Committee studies pay of warrant officers. TOMORROW. Committea to regulats Senate: May start debate on crop insuranct bill. District Committee meets on va. rlety of bills. 3 p.m. Finance Committee meets (executive session) at 10:30 a.m. on oil legisla- tion. Judiciary Committee continues hear- ings on court reorganization bill House: Resumes consideration of State Labor, Justice and Commerce appros | priation bill. Appropriation Subcommittees in | charge of Agriculture and Interior | Departments supply bills resume hear- ings. 10 a.m. Bubcommittee of District Committer Pt tate salesmen. 10:30 a.m.