Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1937, Page 13

BLBAD ENERGE, PROSPERDS Y Siesta Not on Schedule of Basque Capital, Thorn in Franco’s Side. Most of the war news out of Spain hag described fighting around Madrid or scattered engagements along the “southern front” near Cordoba and Malaga. But there is also & “north- ern front"—a thin crescent encircling & section of beautiful seacoast and rugged mountains along the Bay of Biscay. This tiny spearhead has been & thorn in the side of Gen. Franco's rebel forces since the war began last July. While it has aided the Madrid regime by threatening the rebel rear, It has also set up its own autonomous government, called “the Basque Re- public,” with the seaport of Balbao as its capital. “Bilbao is just the opposite to what popular fancy imagines the typical Spanish town to be,” says a bulletin from the National Geographic So- ciety here. “The city is energetic, smoky and prosperous, and the siesta has no place in the Bilbaocan daily schedule. Spanish is a secondary language, for most Bilbaoans speak Basque—a strange tongue that is said to be absolutely unrelated to any other European language. No Stranger to Noise. “While the zooming of war planes, the distant rumble of artillery fire and the chattering of machine guns in the hills are ominous sounds to Bilbeo residents, the city is no stran- ger to noise. In normal times this ‘Pittsburgh of Spain’ hears the whis- tling of trains, the raucous sirens of steamers coming up the River Ner- vion and the rattle and roar of iron foundries and ship-building yards from early morning until late at night. “Despite its ‘un-Spanish’ atmos- phere, however, Bilbao has its flat- toned church bells, its cries of street venders and the inevitable early morning clatter of blinds and shutters as homes come to life and shops open for business that one hears nearly everywhere on the Iberian Peninsula. “There are two early morning in- eidents in Bilbao that apparently are unique. One begins when the ofl lamps of the anguleros are put out. Anguleros are fishermen who since midnight have been catching angulas, or little white, almost transparent | - worms (perhaps it would be better to | call them tiny eels), only 2 inches | long. Tramping home with lamps | in hend and long-handled nets over | their shoulders, the anguleros are a picturesque sight. When a batch of the eels is fried in olive oil and served in an earthenware dish, with the oil still popping when brought to the table, gourmets proclaim them to be among the world’s delicacies. “This rare titbit inhabits the River Nervion and is caught along the stone walls of Bilbao's quays, being lured into the nets by the fishermen’s ofl lamps. Woman Stevedores. “Another distinctive feature of Bil- boa's civic life is the woman steve- dore, whose chatter and cries echo along the water front at dawn. Bil- bao owes much of its jmportance as a port to the heavy outward-bound traffic in iron ore from nearby mines and the heavy imports of coal to fur- nish fuel for many Basque industries. “Modern machinery now handles most of the iron ore, but woman work- ers still unload some of the coal car- riers by hand or, perhaps to be more explicit, by head. A continuous line | of bare-footed “stevedorettes’ to coin s word, move up one gangplank with bushel basket in hand and down an- other to the coal dumps on shore with a heaping basketful of coal bal- anced on their heads. “When these toilers gather, shortly before daybreak, to begin work, there Js a great row and ado about pre- ferred places in the line, some gang- planks being slightly nearer to the eoal heaps than others. “The iron deposits which are the source of most of Bilbao's wealth lie back in the hills. Most of them are worked with British capital The old English words bilbo, for cutlass, and + bilboes, for iron fetters, indicate that the town has long had trade relations with its neighbor to the horth. In addition to its mining and metal- lurgic industries, the city also exports wine, flour, paper, glass and hides. Bilbao lies 8 miles up the River Nervion from the open ses, but its quays csn be reached by ocean steamers.” DATES ARE SET One-Act Play Event to Be Held September 11 to 21. The 1937 one-act play tournament sponsored by the Community Center Department will be held in the Roose- velt High School Auditorium Septem- ber 11-21, with finals October 23, it ‘was announced yesterday by Elizabeth K. Peeples, director of the department. Rules now are ready for distribution and all groups interested are requested to get in touch with the center as soon 8s possible. A committee of five rep- resentatives from drama organizations are in charge, with Mrs. Peeples as chairman ex-officio. 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The convention will be grested by Commissioner Hasen and Richard E. Harrls of the American Security & Trust Co., who is general chairman. STUDENTS HONORED Capital Youths Named to Staff of V. P. I. Publication. M. &4, Pilcher and R. M. Allen, jr,, both of Washington, have been elect- ed editor and business manager, re- spectively, of the Tech Engineer, pub- lication of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va, it was learned here yesterday. : P. D. Sleeper, jr., also of Washing- ton, has been elected sergeant at arms of the cadet corps at the same achool. ROPER TO SPEAK AT NEW ORLEANS Secretary of Commerce to Address Dinner in Observance of Foreign Trade Week. National observance of foreign trade ‘week will begin May 17 with an address by Becretary of Commerce Roper at & dinner arranged by the New Orleans Association of Oommerce and other foreign trade groups at New Orleans. Other cabinet officers and Federal officials will participate in similar pro- grams in various parts of the country during the week, Roper announced. The week is sponsored by the Com- merce Department in co-operation with the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Foreign Trade Council and other national and local organizations. Director of Air Commerce Fred D. Fagg, Jr., will speak in Miami May 18 on the export phases of American avi- ation. Assistant Becretary of State Francis B. Sayre is to speak in New York May 19 at a luncheon meeting which also will be addressed by the Ambassadors from Great Britain and Argentina. WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 18 1937—PART ONE. FATHER AND SONS BANQUET LISTED Hebrew Congregation Brother- hood Program to Be Featured by Entertainment. Movies, clowns, vaudeville acts and Assistant Secretary of Commerce J.) music will be on the program for the Monroe Johnson will apeak in Peoris, I, on May 20. Secretary of Btate Hull i to deliver & Nation-wide radio address from ‘Washington the evening of May 22. It is probable he will read President Roosevelt's annual maritime day mes- sage a3 & part of this address. —_— ‘Women of Braxzil are taking to American cosmetics. 2 fourteenth annual father and son banquet of the Brotherhood of the ‘Washington Hebrew Oongregation, to be held at 6:45 p.m,, April 29, at the Mayflower Hotel. Arch McDonald, sports commen- tator, and Arthur Godfrey, radio an- nouncer, will be present. Ida Victoria Clark will play the accordion. Art Lang will give a yo-yo demonstration. In addition, there will be acts from downtown theaters ard members of the New York and Washington Amer- ican League base ball teams will be Ppresent, it was said. Sidney B. Lust is general chairman of the Arrangements Committee, Har- old Strauss is president of the broth- erhood. Prizes of base balls, base ball gloves, clothes and radios will be awarded the “son” who writes the best essay on “What the Father and Son Banquet Means tc Me.” These must be sub- mitted by April 35 at the Temple Sunday school. Death Takes Holiday. HIAWATHA, Kans. (#)—A horse- drawn hearse which cost $1,600 when new with its resplendent silk and glass sides more than an inch thick was sold for $1—to the community’s sec- ond-hand man. Sleepless Man Dies. BUDAPEST (#).—Korly Otlik, who spent 15 sleepless years as a conse= quence of a head wound suffered dur- ing the World War, is dead here of influenza. 8ince he never slept, he spent his days and nights reading, eating and walking—the last when libraries and restaurants were closed. 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