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A—2 ww% CORDOBA PRESSED BY LOYAL TROOPS —Railroad and Highway Life- lines May Be Snapped by Southern Drive. BACKGROUND— Spanish Morocco cradled revolt against Madrid government in July. Civil war has raged unabated since, insurgent forces occupying by far the most territory in the first sweeps to seize power and set up own seat of guvernment. Loyalists, holding fast to Madrid, charge Italy and Germany aid rebel forces. BY the Associated Press. MADRID, April 2—Mechanized government columns rumbled toward strategic, insurgent-held Cordoba to- day in a renewed threat to isolate southern insurgents from their field base Two lifelines—the Cordoba-Badajoz Railroad and the highway between the front and Cordoba City—were the objective of the fresh government assault. The city is headquarters for Insurgent Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de Llano’s southern force. Opposing armies battled on four fronts. Major action was concentrated along the southern lines while addi- tional forces engaged in spirited con- flict in the Far North. The fighting summarized: North of Cordoba—the town of Ovejo was the focus of the southern battle zone. Government militiamen aimed their attack at the town, only 16 miles north of insurgent Cordoba and 5 miles northeast of the insur- gent - held highway. Government planes, reconnoitering ahead of ground troops, bombed Cordoba. Rebels Move Up in North. In the Far North—Government eommanders admitted hard-driving In- surgents had penetrated their lines to the town of Gorbea, taking four vant- age peaks, but contended Basque sup- porters halted the advance a dozen miles from the Biscayan coast. Heav- fest fighting was at the juncture of Guipuscoa and Alava provincial fronts. In Burgos Province—In fresh spurts, government troops renewed efforts to break through the Insurgent ring pro- tecting Burgos, capital of Gen. Fran- cisco Franco's government. Govern- ment militiamen, firing from behind Improvised breastworks near Sar- gentes, combined with artillery and aviation. No definite progress was re- ported. In the Guadalajara sector: War ac- tion was confined to artillery duels as rain suspended most activities in the sector northeast of Madrid. Line of Trenches Taken. The Febus (Spanish) News Agency gaid insurgents captured a line of trenches near La Trecha, Oviedo Province, by a ruse during a midnight truce parley in no man'’s land. While government leaders discussed the battle situation, insurgent demoli- tion squads cleared paths through gov- ernment barbed wire entanglements, the agency reported. The peace parley suddenly concluded, insurgents swept through the lanes, forcing the militia- men to. fall back to secondary posi- tions. In Bilbao, Basque President Juan Aguirre called a new session of his cabinet to review the progress of the civil war in the north. He also re- ceived a delegation of Englishwomen engaged in relief for non-combatants in the war areas. While beleaguered Madrid rejoiced in a belief that government successes far from her own siege lines had re- lieved the threat of invasion here, a series of fierce battles were fought on the eastern Basque front at a heavy cost of insurgent lives. A desperate insurgent attempt to offset recent major reverses, notably in Cordoba and Guadalajara Provinces, was believed to have inspired the flerce but thus far futile offensive in the Basque country of Northern Bpain. The fighting fanned out along a broad front south and west from the middle of Guipuzcoa Province, as Franco's strategists hurled tank, avi- ation and cavalry units at the Basque troops. At some points, positions changed hands several times. Basque Spearhead Holds. ‘The Basque defenders were re- ported holding their lines, including a spearhead within 30 miles of the former insurgent capital, Burgos, from Santander to the North on the Biscay Coast. An insurgent cavalry unit which plunged ahead of infantrymen was cut off and surrounded in the town of Gorbea. 4 PEAKS ARE SEIZED. Mola’s Rebels Take Vantage Points in Balbao Drive. VITORIA, Spain, April 2 (#).—The northern insurgent army, commanded by Gen. Emilio Mola, speared deeper today the wall of mountains protect- ing the Basque capital, Bilbao, and scized four lofty vantage points. The rain-burrowed mountain sides ‘were reported strewn with enemy dead and wounded as the mass offensive reached points within 20 miles of Bilbao, where Mola, one of Gen. Fran- cisco Franco’s right-hand men, hoped quickly to crush the Basque allies of the Madrid-Valencia government. Four peaks of the Cantabrian Moun- tain range south and southeast of of the Biscay Coast city were wrested from stubborn defenders, it was re- ported—Mounts Gorbea, S8an Adrian, Curruceta and Murumendi. Hundreds of prisoners and great quarntities of arms and munitions were abandoned to the insurgent of- fensive. Desperate Counter Attacks. ‘The government forces counter at- tacked in desperate atempts to halt the two-headed drive and regain ground lost when Mola’s men crashed into their lines with an accompany- ing air and artillery attack two days 8go. Despite rainstorms which made oper- ations difficult, Mola's men were said to have met successfully the govern- ment counter thrusts and to have forced the Basque or government troops to fall back in disorder to rear- guard positions near Bilbao. Mola's airmen, daring the mists that overhung the mountains and the wind and rain that lashed the ground forces, bombed the opposing lines “unmerci- fully.” This attack was carried on without opposition from the air, ad- verse conditions apparently having grounded government air operations. ‘The offensive in the north overshad- owed operations elsewhere, but the in- surgeny general staff announced Fran- co’s forces on the Guadalajara front, northeast of Madrid, were far from idle and had pushed their line ahead to “important” but unnamed positions, putting Madrid troops to flight. f Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SALUTATION. ROBABLY the best - natured newspaper scribe in town is our own Harold Rogers, whose fame for geniality has spread far and wide. As the weather has improved of late, Mr. R. has been taking the last few blocks of his jour- ney to work at a brisk walk, Each day as he passed Thirteenth and Pennsylvania avenue he heard a cheery voice chirping ‘“Morning, Harold.” “Good morning, good morning,” quoth Harold, smiling, and went upon his way. The other day it suddenly occurred to him he should slow down and take a look at the chap who always put out that unflaggingly cheerful salutation. He looked. It was a news vendor, hawking a certain morning paper. * ok K % SURE THING. The Department of Justice, or whoever it is that hangs up those “Wanted” circulars about crim= inals, really has the bee on one missing culprit. No chance of his getting away with a thing by dis- guising his voice, name or hair. A placard over at the Ben Frank- lin Station reads: “Wanted: Ben- jamin Roden Bradley, alias Ben Bradley.” Just to make a sure thing of it. * ok X ok DIRECTIONS. LAD working in this office the other night looked up from his type- writer to be confronted by a tall chap dressed in white tie, tails and topper. “I say,” I-sayed the fellow, “could you give me a bit of help? I'm on a treasure hunt. Looking for the white hope of Democracy. Could you tell me what that is?” Our scribe made a few random sug- gestions, none of which seemed to clear up the situation. The visitor left. Few minutes later two other people came charging in, asked for assistance in finding three foreign newspapers. “Listen,” said the scribe, “this hunt is taking up too much of my time, and besides I gave our last foreign newspapers to the white hope of De- mocracy. He just went down in the elevator.” The second set of visitors fled, fear- ing the arrival of the man with the net. * ok % x CLASSIFICATION.. A’r ONE of the local cafes, the fel- low who made up the combina- tlon wine list and list of non-alcoholic potables must have sampled the for- mer as he wrote. By the time he got down to “mixed lemonades” he in- cluded under the heading: Milkshake. Whiskey eggnog. What, no chocolate rum punch? * % ¥ x REVISED VERSION. A HOUSEWIFE alighting from a street car at Triangle Park one afternoon early this week was sur- prised to note a mob of about 200 peo- ple massed on Champlain street. She edged up to the crowd and asked a by- stander what went on. “A man and a woman had an argu- ment and she shot him.” Not relishing such scenes, the house- wife walked on. At the corner of Euclid and Champlain a taxicab rounded the corner, the driver jammed on his brakes, leaned out and asked a citizen “what happened?” Quick as a shot the fellow answered, “nothing much. A taxi driver just overcharged a woman 10 cents and she shot him, bless her heart.” * ok x % SOFT TOUCH. The night before Easter at the Sylvan Theater rehearsal for Easter Sunday’s sunrise concert, James B. Smiley. young organist-about-town, made an odd bit of musical history. He played “Awake the Harp” from Haydn’s “The Creation”—with his Gloves on! REPLY. THE sit-down strikes in this coun- try inspired one news service edi- tor to a masterful idea ... he would investigate the technique in foreign lands, compare it with that in our own. Hot wires were whipped off to foreign correspondents asking them to de- scribe the government policies in deal- ing with strikers, the prevalence or absence of violence, the methods of maintaining striker morale, dozens of other bright little points. Each wire ended with the further admonition. “Give detailed picture exactly how are they conducted?” His man in Russia read the essay through carefully and then sent the laconic answer. “Here they're not.” FASHION SHOW NETS $1,000 FOR HOSPITALS A check for $1,000, the proceeds of the recent Connecticut Avenue As- sociation fashion show, was presented yesterday by B. Houston McCeney and S. E. Shreiner, association president and treasurer, respectively, to Rev. Calvert E. Buck, chairman of the United Hospital Association Commit- tee, at the Mayflower Hotel. Departing from its custom, the asso- ciation charged admission to the show March 13, and white-clad nurses from a local hospital collected the quarters as the spectators entered. Children’s, Columbia, Episcopal, Emergency, Garfleld, Georgetown, George Washington, Homeopathic and Providence Hospitals will benefit. Germany’s Silk Sale. Germany sold over $20,000,000 worth of silk and rayon goods sbroad in 1936, " THE EVENING THROATS SLASHED, MOTHER, SON DIE Lynchburg Tragedy Discov- ered When Father. Also Cut, Moans Over Phone. BY the Associated Press, LYNCHBURG, Va, April 2—Wil- liam E. Craghead, whose moans heard over a fallen telephone led to dis- covery of the bodies of his slain wife and son in their apartment, was given a “chance” by doctors today to survive a slashed throat. Police Chief Virgil B. Grow, who directed a probe into the tragedy, sald evidence pointed to a double murder and attempted suicide. Detectives under his command studied & blood-stained note which they said was signed “Willlam” and read, in part: “I can’t stand it.” Given Transfusion. Officers said they found a large kitchen knife in the apartment, which had been locked from the inside. Craghead, department superintend- ent at a pulp mill, was strengthened by & blood transfusion last night after being rushed to a hospital, where a surgeon sewed his severed esophagus and windpipe and the gaping wound in his throat. Doctors said the jugular vein had not been cut. Firemen summoned to the second- floor apartment broke in and found the body of Mrs. Craghead, 34, in one bed room and the body of the son, Dan, 10, in ancther. Their throats had been slashed from ear to ear, and they had bled to death. Found on Carpet. Craghead was found on & blood- stained carpet. Beside him was the telephone, its receiver dangling. An operator who said she heard moans come over the line notified police. Unable to enter the apartment and hearing nothing, they left. M. E. Thomas, whose family, friends of the Cragheads, occupied the adjoining apartment, said he heard groans, called the fireman and notified police again. After rushing Craghead to the hos- pital, detectives took finger-prints, photographs and other evidence before permitting undertakers to remove the two bodies. ey Sit-Down (Continued From First Page.) made, under Senate rules Byrnes “would get nowhere with his resolu- tion.” Vice President Garner took a hand in the dispute to point out that “the Senate can take up any matter by a majority vote at any time.” Meanwhile, prominent Senators of both parties joined in urging that the Senate avoid a vote either condoning or condemning sit-down strikes. Presentation of the Byrnes amend- ment late yesterday evoked some of the most heated debate heard in the Senate this session. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, voiced “deep regret” over the manner in which the sit-down issue had come to a head. “If this measure comes to a vote and is defeated,” he said, “the in- evitable conclusion will be that the Senate has refused to condemn sit- down strikes. “This Senate can't afford to have any one, rightly or wrongly. say that it condones such methods.” White House Challenged. The Michigan Senator denounced administration silence and called for & “firm announcement” from the White House to clear up “this sit- down trouble.” Robinson attacked Byrnes’' proposal as an unwarranted attempt to extend Federal powers beyond their present scope. He repeatedly has asserted in dis- cussions of sit-downs that the Gov- ernment has no power, under pre- vailing Supreme Court decisions, to interfere in such “local affairs.” The House, which will consider sev- eral Senate amendments to the Guf- fey act after Senate passage, also de- bated sit-down strikes yesterday. Representative Bradley, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, called on the body to “thank God” that the President and Gov. Murphy of Michigan would not permit “bayonets and bullets” to be used in settling the issue. “It is better to spill a little blood,” replied Representative Short, Republi- can, of Missouri, “than to coddle and encourage this form of lawless violence that will lead to the spilling of much blood.” The recent assertion of Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, that sit-down strikes resulted from “the organized and calculated and cold-blooded sit-down of a few great vested interests” against the national labor relations act brought a reply from the National Association of Manufacturers. “In giving approval by inference to the sit-down seizures of industrial plants he (Wagner) takes the position that the end justifies the means,” the association said. “He differentiates between laws that have governed mankind since the be- ginning of civilization making illegal the seizure of private property and a single act of which he is the author— an act that even organized labor lead- ers declined to invoke during the Gen- eral Motors stirke.” Holds President Has Power. In the Senate, the discussion fre- quently turned to how much power the Federal Government or Congress has to deal with the question, as dis- tinguished from State governments. The debate reached a climax with Senator Johnson, Republican, of Cali- fornia, contending the President has a means of dealing with the problem through a section of the Federal code relating to “insurrection, domestic violence or combinations.” Senator Vandenberg joined in to declare that, aside from the power of the Federal Government, there is a moral responsibility resting on the ‘White House as well as the Senate to exercise ‘“persuasive spokesmanship.” Caution on Hasty Action. Most of those who entered yester- day’s debate cautioned against hasty action on the amendment. Even Johnson of California, who vehe- mently denounced sit-down strikes and promised to stand by Byrnes, urged the South Carolinian to make the issue plain ‘by‘ referring spe- cifically to sit-down strikes in the amendment, Then, he added, Sen- ators may vote as they see fit on the direct issue. In offering the amendment Byrnes declared he favored the declarations of labor policy already in the bill on collective bargaining and against ! STAR, WASHINGTON, Giant Airliner Named for City s i Miss Mary Senate Howes, di % Bisons aughter of Assistant Postmaster General W. W. Howes, christening the American Airline’s new 21-passenger liner, the Washington, just before it left Wash- ington Airport yesterday afternoon on its initial flight to Chi- cago. mercial use. American Airlines executive: companies and newspaper men coercion of workers, and did not see how any one could object to the addi- tional declaration proposed in his amendment. Asked by Senator Borah if the lan- guage of the amendment meant sit- down strikes, Byrnes said that was his construction of it. After Senators Barkley of Ken- tucky and Minton of Indiana, Demo- crats, had pointed out that some miners live in company houses, Byrnes modified the amendment so that the | written order to leave would apply that unless such an agreement was only to the property where men work | and not to dwellings. Senator Guffey, Democrat, of Penn- sylvania said that in some Llaces the mine property consists of 30,000 or more surrounding acres and asked how far the men would have to move. Senator Austin. Republican, of Ver- mont announced he would vote against the amendment because he does not believe Congress has the power to lay down any of the labor policies de- clared in the Guffey bill. Amendment Twice Modified. Barkley wanted to know why a declaration against sit-down strikes should be placed in a bill relating to the coal industry, where no strikes of that kind have occurred, when the policy would not apply to other indus- tries in which sit-down strikes have occurred. Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat, | of Washington pointed out Byrnes had twice modified the amendment after 20 minutes of debate, indicating the inadvisability of hasty action on so | important a question. Senator Minton said he agreed there was no way of enforcing any of the labor declarations in the bill and, therefore, he was ‘“against packing the bill.” Declaring that “as a friend of union labor I am opposed to sit-down strikes,” Johnson of California, as- serted his readiness to vote on the | issue. “I think we do a great disservice in this body when we debate the ques- tion and say it is unlawful, but—but— but.” When Johnson read the section of the Federal code which he contended gives the President power to deal with such situations, Robinson contended that before the Federal Government can send troops a State government must indicate its desire. Vandenberg arose to agree with the views of Johnson. He polnted out, however, that if the amendment should be defeated because of the way it is presented on the pending bill, the impression would go out that the Sen- ate had refused to condemn sit-down strikes. For that reason, he said, he wanted to see the question fully dis- cussed. After reviewing the labor troubles in his own State in recent weeks, Van- denberg read a letter from Mayor Couzens of Detroit, requesting him to “urge the President and Congress to use their efforts to terminate sit-down strikes, and to bring about proper methods of ‘settling such labor dis- putes.” With no sign of the debate letting up, Robinson moved a recess until today. Earlier in the afternoon the Senate had agreed to all committee amendments in the soft-coal control measure and voted down all efforts by Senators Borah and Austin to maxe | changes the committee had not ap- proved. - VOLIVA TABERNACLE DESTROYED BY FIRE Church Head Believes Blaze Was Set Intentionally—Radio Station Ruined. 55 the Associated Press. ZION, Ill, April 2—Fire destroyed the Shiloh Tabernacle and Radio Station WCBD today, and Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of the Christian Apostolic Church, said: “I haven’t any doubt it was intentionally started.” Voliva estimated the total loss at between $600,000 and $700,000. He said the tabernacle, built in 1902, was valued at between $500,000 and $600,000 and the radio station at $150,000. The religious leader said he and an attendant discovered the fire and sounded the alarm. “I saw smoke coming from many different places in the large building,” he said. “I went in and discovered flames in rooms as far apart as 200 feet. “The building was steam heated, and new botlers had recently been in- stalled. The besement was concrete. ‘There is no question but that the fire ‘was of incendiary origin.” o The ship is the largest and fastest land plane in com- s, representatives of other airline and women made the trip. —Star Staff Photo. Prices (Continued From First Page.) approximately 75 newspaper men crowded about his desk, the Govern- ment has to start thinking of dis- couraging Federal expenditures for heavy goods. There was need, he continued, for more expenditures at the bottom and less at the top because buying of con- sumer goods meant a spreading of | purchasing power. Asked if the Wagner low-cost hous- ing bill would not lend encouragement to further production of heavy goods, the President said if that measure were passed this year there would not be heavy expenditures under it | for some time to come. | NEARLY ALL GOODS UP. Cotton, Wool, Wheat Have Risen, as Well as Heavy Commodities. NEW YORK, April 2 () —How prices of basic commodities have shot up in recent months under the im- petus of both expanding industrial de- mand and armaments requirements, as criticized at Washington today by President Roosevelt, is illustrated by comparison of spot prices now and & year ago. On April 1, 1936, steel billets were quoted at Pittsburgh at $28 a ton. To- day the figure is $37. Copper, today | 17 cents a pound, was 9.25 cents a pound a year ago. Lead has jumped | from 4.6 cents to 6.95 cents, zinc from | 4.9 cents to 7.5 cents and rubber from ! 1515-16 cents to 27 cents. | Some other prices follow: Hides, 17 cents a pound from 13 cents; crude oil at Bradford, Pa., $2.67 a barrel from $2.45; midland upland cotton, 15.17 | cents a pound from 11.69 cents; wool, $1.05 a pound from 90 cents; wheat at New York, $1.59% & bushel from $1.197. In Time With Future Policy. Saying he was concerned about the rapid rise in prices of materials enter- ing into heavy goods, the President said the present situation was in line with his public works planning for the future. Asked if he favored continuation of the 4 cents excise tax on copper, he said it made no difference if it were left on or taken off at the present time. Meanwhile, Secretary Perkins an- nounced that Government agencies purchased supplies worth $93,598,652 during the first six months the Walsh- Healey public contracts act has been in force. ‘The act which became operative last September 28, requires private con- tractors selling supplies to Federal agencies to conform to the Govern- ment’s standard on minimum wages and maximum hours. Contracts Nearly Doubled. During the first three mnoths the contracts totaled $27,656,981. The number of contracts nearly doubled in the next three months and amounted to $66,032,670. Three emergency organizations—W. P. A, C. C. C. and Resettlement Ad- ministration—accounted for 43.4 per cent of the supplies, totaling to $40,- 588,001. Nine executive departments spent 47.8 per cent, or $44,791,912. ‘The largest single purchaser was the Navy Department, whose supply con- tracts aggregated $30,076,803. A large part of the money went for wire and cable contracts, airplane engines and parts, and storage batteries. Secretary Perkins said 52.16 per cent of the supply contracts went for textile mill products, petroleum, iron and steel. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Continues debate on Guffey-Vinson coal bill Judiciary Committee hears opposi- tion witnesses on Roosevelt court bill. House: Concinues consideration of District appropriation bill. Rules Committee resumes hearing on resolution to investigate sit-down strikes. d Agriculture Committee acts on farm tenancy legislation. Education Committee continues hear- ings on providing $300,000,000 annual grants to State school systems. TOMORROW, Senate: Will not meet unless Guffey coal bill fails to pass today. Interstate Commerce Committee meets on air transportation bill. House: Not expected to be in session, € ~ | year aggregated $3,728,449,453, an in- D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1637. CUTIN ARMS NOW HELD INADVISABLE Davis to Discuss Peace, but Derfies Plan to Call Conference. BS the Associated Press. LONDON, April 2—Norman H Davis, America’s ambassador at large said last night he will discuss world economic and peace co-operation with British statesmen, but that the time is not yet ripe for an international | disarmament conference. ‘Tension created by the Spanish civil war and widespread suspicion in the | European mind made disarmament impracticable now, he asserted. His disavowal of any United States intention to propose an armament conference now, coincided with that of Secretary of State Hull in Wash- ington. And it came, too, after general re- action in European capitals against| such a conference at this time, a step- | ping up of Franco-British aerial arm- aments and new efforts by those two nations to settle the question of for- eign volunteers in Spain. An apparent softening of the Italo- | German attitude inspired France and Britain to urge again that non-Span- ish fighters be withdrawn from the Spanish civil war. Attitude of France. A French foreign office spokesman avowed that the government “is more optimistic that the Spanish war will not entangle Europe than at any time since the war began.” An effective neutrality control scheme will be in operation within 10 days, both French and British sources predicted. Some observers thought the new effort to get foreign fighters out of Spain was inspired by reports of dissension and revolt against Italians fighting in the insurgent army. Demonstrations against the insur- gent regime were reported today from Valladolid and Algeciras, and reports still persisted that there was serious reaction against Gen. Francisco Franco in Spanish Morocco, where he staged the beginning of his fight to overthrow the Spanish republic. Some French officials anticipated withdrawal of foreigners in Spain, but felt Italians in the insurgent army might attempt one more offensive before agreeing to go back home. Sees Tension Eased. Davis noted a slight relaxation in the Spanish tension and added his view that the civil war had “‘a sobering influence” on all Europe. Here for the International Sugar | Conference opening Monday, Davis said he intended to discuss all matters pertaining to key points in American | foreign policy: Economic co-operation, | peace, disarmament. He reiterated that the most im- portant of these was economics and stressed the need for world-wide re- duction of trade barriers as a stepping stone toward any future armament restrictions. British onlookers were quick to pro- claim that, whatever the eventual desire of the United States in world affairs, there would be no “dramatic move of any kind” during Davis' xuy; here. INCOME TAX SHOWS 69 PER CENT RISE March Receipts Total $700,272,- 831, but Still $140,000,000 Short of Estimates. B> tne Associated Press. The Treasury’s March income tax receipts totaled $700,272,831, an in- crease of 69 per cent over the same | month last year. It was about $140,- 000,000 short of informal estimates, | however. The Treasury statement for March 31 showed today that all receipts for the first nine months of this fiscal crease of $628,469,615 over the same period a year ago. Gross expenditures also climbed, standing at $5,520,982,140, or $183,- 871,791 over the same period a year ago. The higher total spending repre- sented an increase in general govern- mental outlays, which were offset, in part, by a reduction in emergency ex- penditures. General expenditures for the period | this year totaled $3,386,007,605, com- | pared with $2.906,809,460 a year ago, | the increase resulting from greater | outlays under the social security act, river and harbor programs, national defense activities and inclusion of | emergency conservation work in the | “regular” budget. — - PEACE PARLEY DENIED President Roosevelt told newspaper men today that foreign newspaper re- ports that the United States was planning an international conference on peace and other subjects were press-inspired. He recalled Secretary Hull's press conference yesterday and said Hull answered the question categorically and correctly when he said there were | pole, ripping light wires from poles Town Left Dark As Hit-Run Car Rips Power Line Machine Downs Pole, Wrecks Drug Store, Speeds Away. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 2.—Police thought today they could identify a hit-skip driver's automobile if they could find it. They said this all happened in a few seconds: The car broke down a power line and houses along an entire block. A large area of the city’s South Side was left dark. The auto wrecked the front of a drug store, blocked traffic on one street for several hours, and caused a fire alarm that sent several companies to the scene. SIT-DOWN CLOSES HERSHEY FAGTORY 2,000 to 2,400 Workers of Chocolate Company Reported Idle. BY the Assoctated Press. HERSHEY, Pa., April 2—A sit- down strike began today at the plant of ‘the Hershey Chocolate Co. Russel Behman, president of the Hershey Committee for Industrial Organization, charged the company had violated three clauses agreement made March 17. He said between 2,000 and 2,400 workers | struck and that the entire plant was shut down. William F. Murrie, president of the of an Then the driver backed the still- functioning car out of the drug store window and departed promptly. In his wake, power lines sputtered until the power was turned off. There LORDTWEEDSMUR EN ROUTE HOME Canada’s Governor General and Wife Say Good-by at White House Tea. Canada’s governor general, Lord Tweedsmuir, was on his way back to Ottawa today after a full round of visits and tours in Washington for the past two days. Final activities of the talented Cana- dian statesman and his wife included attendance at a White House tea late yesterday, during which they made their farewells to President and Mrs. Roosevelt, and attendance at dinner at the Canadian Legation last night. On the final day of his visit of state the governor general followed a stren- uous program of ceremonial events. He motored 30 miles to Annapolis early in the morning to inspect the Naval Academy, review a parade of midshipmen and receive a salute of 21 guns. Returning to Washington shortly after noon, his lordship was enter- tained at luncheon by 8ir Ronald Lindsey, the British Ambassador, while | Lady Tweedsmuir was the guest of Secretary of Labor Perkins. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt attended the latter affair. Capitol, Lord Tweedsmuir told the House: “Your Nation and mine in a very special sense are the guardians of the special form of government we call democracy.” He spoke from the Speaker’s rostrum, a short time after saying to the Senate that “the future lies in the hands of the English-speaking peoples.” “We have the same definition of what constitutes greatness and good- ness in human character,” he added. “We have the same task abroad, the same economic problems and very similar constitutional problems.” Gas (Continued From First Page.) Courtenay was having trouble with her eyes and would be out a few more days. Miss Lawrence was employed at the Patent Office. The lengthy suicide note, police said, disposed of the personal effects of both. Tt also requested that the bodies be cremated together, police said. On February 15 Miss Courtenay filed a petition in District Court for permission to change her name to Adrienne Letetia St. John, explaining that her parents had separated when she was 14 years old and that she desired to take the name St. John as a mark of affection for an aunt, Rebecca St. John Manser, of Sussex, England. On March 19 Justice F. Dickinson Letts rendered a decree making the change of name official. Miss Lawrence is survived by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Theo- dore Lawrence of Bethesda, Md., and three brothers, Dudley, Lester and Randolph Lawrence, who live in this city. At the Lamont street apartment Lester. Lawrence said his sister had he had never heard her speak of suicide. The Lamont street apartment was neatly furnished and lined with book- shelves. There were twin beds in the room in which the girls were found, but both bodies were on a single bed. ing and had pulled a blanket over their heads. Carpet for Coronation. Preparing Westminster Abbey for the coronation May 12 calls for 1,900 square yards of carpet, 6,000 square yards of fabric for the ceilings and no plans afoot for proposing a con® ference of any kind. walls and 1,000 square yards of blue and gold brocade. Still Missin ill Missing BY the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 2—John Hunt, alias “St. John the Revelator,” alias “Jesus Christ,” still was missing from his Beverly Hills “heaven” to- day, sought on Mann act charges in- volving a 17-year-old Denver girl. The pudgy, 200-pound white fol- lower of Father Divine, colored reé- ligionist, is accused of transporting pretty Delight Jewett here from Colo- rado for immoral purposes. United States District Attorney Pierson M. Hall said he was consid- ering charges against several close associates of Hunt in Father Divine'’s local flock. The last clue to Hunt's whereabouts was a report by a Pasadena coach works, where a $25,000 “throne car” is under construction for him and his Negro cult leader. The 33-year-old scion of a wealthy Cleveland family appeared at the shop last Saturday, dramatically an- nouncing himself as “Jesus, the Christ,” attendants said. When he ordered the car built two months ago, be told & salesman he was “St. John the Revelator.” Majestic fittings are planned for the 10-passenger machine, supplied with s 265-horsepower engine of expensive make, Follower of Father Divine in “Abduction” An elevated “throne” is placed in the center of the rear seat, flanked on either side by star-shaped windows. A canopy of milk-white plush, dot= ted with golden stars, has been de- signed. A dais before the throne 1s wide enough for four secretaries, or “recording angels,” as Hunt described them. On the radiator he ordered placed an elaborate “dove of peace.” Federal officers were informed the “rolling throne” was destined to be used on his West Coast visits by Fa- ther Divine and at other times by Hunt. A push-button, it was planned, would slide down the top of the ton- neau, revealing the occupant of the throne “to the multitude.” Detectives, seeking evidence that Hunt induced Miss Jewett to come to California in the belief she was the “Virgin Mary,” received reports from three Palm Spring hotels. Last Christmas eve a man and woman drove up in a luxurious limousine and said they were disciples of Father Divine, declared hotel at- taches. Two of the hostelries refused lodging to the couple when they reg- istered as “Jesus Christ and the Virgin ¢Mary.” A third permitted them to stay the night with no further identi- ‘Beation. A few hours later, on a visit to the | The girls were attired in night cloth- | Hershey corporation, said only a few ! departments were affected. The Hershey company granted a | pay raise March 17 Man workers were given an increase of 12 cents an hour; women, 7 cents Behman said three clauses of the agreement had been broken One { provided that time and overtime be "equaliy spread over all shifts; another gave seniority rights, and Behman |said, the company had laid off a number of C. I. O. representatives |since the agreement went into ef- fect. Murrie denied the company had not | kept 1its part of the bargain. | W. S. Grouse, secretary to Murrie, |explained the company had laid off | between 75 and 100 workers, but said | the Committee for Industrial Organi- |zation had been notified that these | were dropped after the Easter orders | were filled. Most of these were mar- ried women, Grouse said. DIES RESOLUTION FACES TEST TODAY to Plan for Congress ‘‘Sit House Committee Consider Strike" Inquiry. Deciding against prolonging hear- |ings on the issue, the House Rules | Committee planned to consider execu- | tive session this afternoon the Dies resolution for a House investigation of the sit-down strike The committee met this morning | with the intention of hearing further testimony for and against the resolu- | tion, but decided such procedure mere- |1y would delay action unnecessarily. Because four members of the com- | mittee were absent, however, it was decided not to consider voting at that time. | Chairman O’Connor, Democrat, of | New York, said there was no as- |surance that a vote would be taken | this afternoon, saying rather that | the whole matter of what to do next | will be taken up at that time. 'HUNDREDS WATCH RACE OF WAITERS | John Richards Is Winner in Un- usual Contest Staged This Morning. John Richards, 25, slender, dapper and sprightly hotel employe, was the winner of a waiters’ race staged on Fifteenth street alongside the two- | block-long Department of Commerce Building this morning. Richards won a sprint in which a score of entrants were required to carry a tray in their right hands, | balanced head high, and containing | either four glasses of water or a large | pitcher filled with the same fluid. Hundreds of Commerce Department | workers watched from the tiers of windows overlooking Fifteenth street and police crowded back spectators who lined either curb. | Two preliminary races were run— tone a relay and the other between | waitresses garbed in various national dresses. | The stunt was staged as an intro- duction to a motion picture featured | by a head waiter and opening today at R-K-O Keith's Theater. Bowie Entries for Tomorrow up; claiming; been in poor health recently, but that | P: XTuleyries Star (Duffy) Mazyniata (Hanford) xGentleman ~ (Barba) Sir Isaac (M. Peters) (Gordon) . __ (McMullen) “~~" (Dufly) Morris) RACE—4 years up; $1.000: 6 furlon xGood Flavor (Grigg) Tall Cedar (Fowler) ______ Little Argo (E. Smith) . Scatterbrain (Westrope) Philippi Boy (Wholey) - Zebulo (Barba)_ Sitear THIRD _RACE—3-year-olds and up; claiming. $1.000. 6 furlongs. Lady Carrot (Seunders) | Crushed Ice (Hanford) xSally Quick (McMullen) XEpitaph (Jaekle) Hearteast (E,_ Smith) Submarine (8. Renick) _ XDilwin (Gordon) xWise Bun (Barba) __ Lady Briar (Parke) XSun Abbott (Eccard) xSun Drops | xFagkeantry | xltsie Bitsie xIn Step (R SECOND =1 claiming; FOURTH RACE—3-year-olds and claiming: $1.000; mile and 70 yards xKindred Spirit (Dunbar) = xEudes (R. Morris) xContinuity_(Barba)___ XTedsim (Gordon) Justa Flight (O'Malley, Dedication (Richards) _ Flying Dere (Westrope) Z Irish Vote (E Smith) = FIFTH RACE—Bowie Handicap: purse. $1.500 added: 3-vear-olds and up: 1 mile a Araho Stable entry. EIXTH =RACE—4-year-olds claiming; $1,000; 1/ miles. x Quiet Please (Morris) = x Hollyhock (Gordon) z2 Chance King (S. Renick) = x Braving Danger (Shelnamer) Dutch Uncle (Richards) —___ Bullding_Trades (Porter) X Chief Yeoman (Barba) x Hunterdon (Duffy) SEVENTH RACE—Four years up; claim« ing: £1,000; 1% miles. xRollick _ (Morris) xHappy Easter (Grigg) ___ xDeparted _(Shelhamer) Captain Jerry (M. Peters, Rudenia (De Camellis) xPopo (Eccard) xDash In (Cubitt) _ Airway (T. Fowler) Star Wick (E. Smith! xJimmy D. (Eccard) Dormido (Westrope) - xApathy (Barba) ___ | XxBoocap (Barba) and Scratches for Today— Clear and fast. Third race—Lady Carrot, Emvee, Wise Bun, Gentleman, Dilwin, Pass. Fourth race—Love Potion, Bounding, Millicent. Sixth race—Infilee. Seventh race—Boocap, Tragedian, Chastieress, Mometary.