Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight, showers tomor= row; not much change in temperature; gentle, shifting winds, becoming moderate southeast. Temperatures—Highest, 64, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 5:30 a.m, today. Full report on page A-19. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 85th YEAR. No. 339 0. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 65. DAMAGE 15 SLIGHT AS FLOOD GREST PASSES CAPITAL; FALL T0 CONTINUE Sandbag Brigade Is Halted When Waters Fail to Reach Expected Depth. Trio Rescued in River. WORK AT NAVY YARD HALTED BY PRECAUTIONS Air Travel Suspended as Field | Is Covered by Water—}{omes; in Chain Bridge Area Escape| Destruction — Highways Still Open. A tull page of pictures of flood scenes will be found on Page A-7, Further menace to the Capital's water front from the rain-swollen | Potomac appeared unlikely today after the river reached its crest and slowly started to recede, leaving a minimum of damage and causing | iwithdrawal of a hastily assembled sandbag brigade. Swirling down rapidly from the upper reaches, the crest—consider- ly below that experienced during e disastrous overflow last Spring— arrived around 3 am. High tide, between 9 and 10 o'clock this morning, had little effect on the condition of the river in this area. An official bulletin from the rivers and harbors division of the Weather | Bureau, issued this morning, read “The Potomac River continues to SKIFF UPSETS, MAN MISSING, 2 ARE SAVED Trio Tossed Into Potomac Trying 1o Save Sheep. The swollen waters of the Potomac River are believed to have claimed the life of Enoch Jenkins, 50, Masons Island farmer and father of eight children, who has been missing since the boat in which he set out from the Virginia shore shortly before dark last night with his son and another man to rescue his live stock over- turned. The son, Richard, 19, and Ronald Athey, 22. of Lucketts, Va., weak from exposure, were rescued early today from trees at the foot of Masons Island, where they had clung during the wind and rain that whipped the river to foam last night. The last they saw of the elder Jenkins was when the skiff in which they set out to rescue about 30 sheep they had managed to get into a small scow at the foot of the island overturned. Searching squads were scouring both sides of the river in the hope Jenkins might have succeeded in reaching shore, but little hope was held today. Jenkins, his wife and eight children left the island late yesterday afternoon (See FLOOD, Page A-5.) HARLAN WITNESS TELLS OF ATTEMPT 10 BUY SILENCE | Sheriff Offered Him $2,000 to “Hide Out,” Says fall at all points above Washington At Sycamore Island, Md. the crest| stage was 237 feet and at the Wis-| consin avenue gauge 14.2 feet at 4 am. today. Washington the river will stationary for several hours, followed by a slow fall at increasing rate.” missing and the heroic rescue of a woman and two men, swept down- | stream when a canoe capsized. | Missing was Enoch Jenkins, 50- gear-old White Ferry, Va., farmer, | who was last seen late yesterday after | & rowboat overturned and plunged him into the river while he attempts to make safe a scowload of sheep. John Williams, 38, tender at Ar-| lington Memorial Bridge, dared the surging river to bring about the rescue | of the woman and twe men who clung | to their capsized canoe. He swam to their aid with a life line. Activity at the Navy Yard ceased | temporarily today, all of the shops | having been closed last night in an- ticipation of high waters and ma- | chines being “jacked up” or removed | to safe places. The yard's power plant, immediate- ly on the water front, also was closed and only skeleton crews were kept on | duty, several thousand workers being | Telieved. Navy Yard Damage. Work, officials said, will be resumed | tomorrow. They said only minor dam- | @age has resulted. Air travel also was at a standstill, with Washington Airport almost com- pletely covered. A tie-up developed on No. 1 high- way between Washington and Alexan- dria when several inches of water | flowed over the road and slowed traffic. | ‘The burden on this road was twice as great as normally, the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, between Highway Bridge and Alexandria, having been | barricaded. Alexandria also felt the effects of the rising river, business along the | water front there being suspended{ when the overflowing Potomac filled | the first floors of many stores. | Shuttle bus service was started on | Jower Seventh street last night after tubes of the street cars underground | lines were flooded. Cars had to be towed from the Seventh street barn | to higher ground. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt's statement that he expected Congress to hold flood-control appropriations within his $30,000,000 budget allow- ance was challenged by Chairman Copeland of the Senate Commerce (See RIVER, Page A-2.) 51 SENATORS BACK CLERKS’ PAY BOOST Resolution Awaits Action Audit and Control Com- mittee. A 25 per cent salary increase for elerks to Senators and Senate com- mittees, introduced jointly by 51 mem- bers of the Senate, is awaiting action by the Senate Audit and Control Com- mittee, following its introduction in the form of a resolution late yes- | terday. Belief prevailed in some quarters at the Capitol today that if the reso- lution is approved it would improve the chances for consideration of the McCarran bill to raise the pay of em- ployes in the lower brackets through- out the Government service. The McCarran bill seeks to make $1,500 the minimum wage for full- time service, with smaller increases for those in the classification brackets between that figure and $3,600 a year. This bill has been side-tracked in the Civil Service Committee, at the re- quest of the Budget Bureau. Included among the 51 Senators who joined in proposing the pay in- crease resolution for Senate office per- sonnel are 11 of the 24 members of the Appropriations Committee. At present the basic salary rates of clerks and assistant clerks to Senators are $3,900, $2,400, $2,200 or $1,800. Nearly all clerks to committees re- ceive $3,900 and some assistant clerks $2,880. 4 in Former Deputy. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Hugh Taylor, bullet-scarred former In the tigal reach at| deputy and coal miner of “Bloody | remain | Harlan” County, Ky.. charged before | the La Follette Civil Liberties Com- | mittee today that High Sheriff T. R.| A survey of events directly linked | Middleton offered him $2,000 to “hide | with the high water revealed one man | Out” in nearby Clay County during the | Senate group’s investigation. With both hands crippled by wounds during an attempt on his life on the night of February 20, Taylor said he had spent nearly two weeks in Emer- gency Hospital here in March after he had been forced to flee the Harlan Hospital. ‘The shooting, Taylor said, was per- petrated by Deputies Frank White and ‘Wash Irving after he had refused to participate in the Musick murder. Only a ruse saved his life as he lay bleeding in a roadside ditch, the wit- ness declared. Taylor testified that Middleton and a friend, Clarence Poor, offered to pay him if he would hide in Clay County, adjoining Harlan. “Did you accept?” Belongings Recovered. “Yes,” Taylor grinned. He explained that his wife recov- ered from the sheriff’s office most of the belongings taken from him the night he was shot. and $62.50 of the promised $2,000 was paid. fused to consider that sufficient to bind the bargain, however, he said. A payment of $125 was made when the proposition was advanced by the sheriff, he added. In describing the shooting of which he was the victim, Taylor said only a ruse—letting blood from wounds in his hands flow over his chest, so it appeared he was fatally wounded— saved bim from further shots. Making his way to the Harlan Hos- | pital after White and Irving had rifled his pockets, Taylor continued, he was warned by a deputy whom he refused to name to get out of the hospital be- cause “Ben Unthank’s gang” was go- ing to get him. “Crawl if you have to,” he said he was warned. Getting himself removed to Pineville, Taylor said, he finally was brought to ‘Washington and entered Emergency. Earlier, the committee had been told how six heavily armed deputies, (See LA FOLLETTE, Page A-2.) QUEZON SAILS President of Philippines Will Visit in Europe. NEW YORK, April 28 (#).—Presi- dent Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth sailed today on the Normandie for a month’s visit in Eu- rope, accompanied by Mrs. Quezon and his two daughters. He plans to study co-operative farm- ing in Denmark and land tenancy in TIreland. President Quezon begged off on any interview, saying “‘everything has been said before and I haven't anything new to talk about.” He will return to the United States late in May. ch He re-| WASHINGTON, MCARRAN HITS GOURT PROPOSAL, INDICATING DEFEAT Line-up Likely to Be 10 to 8 Against Measure to En- large Bench. SENATE GROUP DECIDES TO VOTE ON MAY 18 Unanimous Consent Given for Comprehensive Ballot on Bill With All Amendments. BULLETIN, Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, the ‘“balance-wheel” member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced opposition today to the President’s court bill. His action virtually assured an unfavorable report to the Senate on the measure, those close to the committee said. Previously, checks of the com- mittee membership had showed it stood 9 to 9 on the bill. McCarran made the tenth adverse vote and assured a report against the bill, provided no one should change. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. By unanimous consent, the Senate Judiciary Committee today fixed May 18 as the day on which to vote on President Roosevelt's court bill and all amendments thereto. ‘On by unanimous consent, Chairman Ashurst explained, will it be possible | for the committee to vote on any amendment or any motion in relation to the court bill until May 18. This seems to postpone for nearly three weeks any test of strength in the com- mittee on the President’s proposal to increase the number of justices of the Supreme Court. The Senate Committee received to- day and placed in its record a letter from Solicitor General Stanley Reed, which defended the President’s judici- ary proposal. Ten statements on each side of the Supreme Court issue will be printed in the Record. Reed’s will be included. Senator Burke, Demo- crat, of Nebraska, an opponent of the | President’s program, said a large num- | ber of statements were in the hands of the opposition members of the com- mittee and 10 would be selected today or tomorrow. When the committee met this morn- ing. Senator Logan, Democrat, of Ken- tucky asked unanimous consent that the committee vote on all amendments | and on the bill on Tuesday, May 11. Benator Borah, Republican, of Idaho and Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, who are opposing the President’s bill, suggested this did not allow sufficient time for the committee. They suggest- ed that May 18 be fixed as the voting date. Senator Logan, who is support- ing the President’s bill, accepted the amendment to his proposal and sub- mitted & request for unanimous con- sent to vote on May 18. This was ac- cepted. | The committee then settled down to & desultory discussion of various } amendments which have been pro- posed. Senator McCarran, Democrat. | | of Nevada explained in some detail | : his compromise amendment, which | would give the President power to in- | crease the Supreme Court by two addi- | tional justices. Amendments proposed by Senators Hatch of New Mexico and McGill of Kansas and the Norris bill, | each of which would require a seven- to-five vote in the Supreme Court to | hold a law unconstitutional, also were | discussed briefly. For nearly three weeks the commit- | tee will meet an hour and a half each | day except Saturdays to discuss further | the President’s bill and amendments thereto. Unless the committee becomes weary of this job and by unanimous consent agrees to vote earlier than " (See JUDICIARY, Page A-2) RETAIL FOOD COSTS HIGHEST IN SIX YEARS Trend to Continue Upward Dur- ing May, Agriculture Records Show. By the Assoctated Press. Federal food experts predicted today the average family will need a little more money in the next few weeks to pay the grocer, butcher and baker. Agriculture Department surveys showed the general level of retail food costs recently has been the highest in six years. The economists said the general trend “will continue slightly upward during May and re- main above last year's level,” Supplies of many food products are smaller than a year ago, the econo- mists said, chiefly because of the 1936 drought. = ‘The survey said retail food costs are 7 per cent above last year. Only #ggs showed a downward trend. Final Decree to Likely to Be By the Associatea Press. LONDON, April 28.—Wallis War- fleld Simpson will be free on next Tuesday, May 4, to become the Duchess of Windsor, if her divorce case keeps its schedule in the courts. A final decree, making her divorce from Ernest Aldrich Simpson abso- lute, will be granted on that date unless there is some last-minute com- plication, which her lawyers believe is now beyond the realm of probability. Mrs. Simpson’s attorneys filed no- tice in Somerset House today that an application for the final decree was being made. When Mrs. Simpson and former King Edward VIII, who abdicated his throne for her love, would marry remained their secret, however. A report in the Southern Dally Echo, a Southampton newspaper, that they might wed on May 13, A Mrs. Simpson Granted May 4 coronation day, was denied by Wind- sor’s friends, who characterized such & possibility as “fantastic.” The newspaper said it learned “ex- clusively from most reliable sources” that a coronation day wedding was being considered, but had not been decided on definitely. ‘The notice was filed in the ordinary way by the solicitors’ clerk. It paved the way for the final step in the ac- tion which began at Ipswich last October, There, Mrs. Simpson was awarded & decree nisi, which necessitated a six-month period before the divorce could become abeolute. The interim ended yesterday, April 27. The final step will be the routine, formal issuance of the final decree during a session of the divorce court six days after notice of the applica- tion is filed. _ | that did not exist. ¢ Foem WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. 0, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 98, IF WE'D HAD FIFTEEN MEN ON THE COURT THIS NEVER wouLD HAVE HAPPENED VAGNER ACTTRAL URGED Y WERADY Assistant Labor Secretary | Addresses Chamber of Commerce Session. Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Sec- retary of Labor, today urged Lh(-‘ Chamber of Commerce of the United States to give the Wagner act a chance to demonstrate its possibilities before seeking to change it. Coupled with this admonition was | the veiled implication that—if experi- | ence justified—revision could be con- | sidered, business now charging the | legislation is one-sided. “Let us not forget,” McGrady said, “that at the time the Wagner act was written the attitude of at least some management as to the particular sub- | jects it addressed seemed to be that while there were prenty of duties on | the part of labor and rights on the part of management, the reverse of | “In other words, the Wagner act| invaded a field so one-sided in its practical application that its principal concern was to strike a new balance | and rectify a condition unfair on the other side. Perhaps this whole back ground has now been changed. but in these great fundamental changes we must remember that Rome wasn't built in a day. “There has been no real experience | with the Wagner act and that, permit me to say, was not the fault of labor. It was the fault of some management and the lower courts. In almost every | conceivable circumstance the lawyers | moved in on that law with the result | that the ink on it was scarcely dry | before the National Labor Relations | Board was paralyzed by injunctions on practically every front. It remained paralyzed until by the recent decision | T (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4.) of the Supreme Court in the Jones & Laughlin, Associated Press and other | related cases it was restored to the| potency with which Congress had bap- | tized it. Let's get a little experience with the new dispensation before we begin to write new laws.” McGrady spoke at the second ses- sion of the twenty-fifth annual con- | vention, which has heard a drumfire (See CHAMBER, Page A-2) Summary of Page. Amusements B-20 Comics ____B-14 . Radio Society . | Editorials __A-10 | Short Story. B-6 Financial __A-17 | Sports . A-14-16 Lost & Found A-3 | Woman's Pg. B-12 Obituary ___A-12 | FOREIGN. Basque forces at Durango fall back before rebels. Page A-1 NATIONAL. o Senate committee to vote on judiciary bill May 18. Page A-1 Killing of Musick boy described to Senate group. Page A-1 Administration. leaders seeking ways to curb prices. Page A-1 Roosevelt heads for New Orleans and fishing trip. Page A-1 McGrady asks trial for Wagner act be- fore change is sought. Page A-1 “Adjustable” economy measure gets bureau approval. Page A-1 President’s economy move held bar to flood control projects. Page A-1 Denhardt to tell story of tryst from stand. Page A-3 Jury-tampering charge slows up Park- er trial. Page A-3 Ohio River Valley flood crest leveling off. Page A-5 Federal corporation licensing bill in- dorsed by two witnesses. Page A-8 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Keller to inform House Jefferson Me- morial to cost $5,500,000 Page A-1 Gambling indictments sought against 100 persons. Page A-1 Man missing, two saved in attempt to rescue sheep in flood. Page A-1 Flood crest passes, further danger unlikely. Page A-1 First trial under 8. E. C. act scheduled here. Page A-2 Three Prince Georges areas reflooded by Potomac’s backwash. Page A-2 Byrd lientenant honored at National Geographic ceremony. Page A-6 Prominent persons attend Bishop Mc- Dowell rites. Page A-12 Dog’s devotion to her master brings near distaster. Page B-1 Capital Auditorium Commission to President Goes To New Orleans On Fishing Trip Will Board Potomac Tomorrow Night After Day in City. LYy the Assoclated Press ABOARD ROOSEVELT TRAIN EN | ROUTE TO NEW ORLEANS, Apnl‘ 28. — President Roosevelt traveled across rain-swept Virginia and the Carolinas today toward the warm wa- ters of the Gulf of Mexico and his long-planned rendezvous with tarpon. He will embark on the U. S. S. Po- tomac at New Orleans late Thursday for 10 days of angling off Louisiana and Texas. He will return to Wash- ington May 13, The President told his associates he WORKERS DESERT PLANT AMID HOOTS Ignore U. A. W. A. Pickets’ | Cry for Closed Shop in Indiana Rioting. By the Associated Press. CONNERSVILLE, Ind, April 28.— Eyes blood-shot from lack of sleep, approximately 600 workmen marched | from the Rex Manufacturing Co.'s | plant here today amid hoot: and cat- | calls of more than 300 United Auto- mobile Workers of America who had | patrolled outside of the building. Shouts of “We want a closed shop” came from U. A. W. A. pickets. The exodus from the plant was in decided contrast to the hand-to-hand combat last night, in which three men | suffered injuries requiring medical at- tention. Dozens of other workmen were cut and bruised in the rioting which followed the calling of a U. A. W. A, strike. Black eyes and bloody noses were numerous. Elmer Davis, U. A. W. A. organizer, " (See STRIKE, Page A-4.) Today’s Star Ickes hits proposed abattoir as “noisome offense.” Page B-1 Opponents of new auto tax plans to be heard tomorrow. Page B-1 Blackmail trial nears end in District Court. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Washington Observations, Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 Constentine Brown. Page A-11 Lemuel Parton. Page A-11 SPORTS. Spasmodic play factor in keeping Griffs off stride. Page A-14 Noted men honor G. U. athletes at dinner tonight. Page A-14 Vines, Perry top pro tennis show here tonight. Page A-14 Late start piling up twin bills in big leagues. Page A-14 Farr, now British ring idol, rates title shot. Page A-15 Levinsky takes lacing in London from Doyle. Page A-15 Weak U. S. tennis team picked to beat Japanese. Page A-15 ‘Women's bowling tourney gets under way tonight. Page A-16 FINANCIAL. U. S. bonds improve (table). Power production up. 0il output at new peak. Stocks go down (table), Curb list down (table). Union Pacific net jumps. MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. ‘Young Washington, Nature's Children. City News in Brief, Shipping News. Vital Statistics. Traffic Convictions. Service Orders. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Bedtime Story. Men’s Fashions. Winning Contract. Page A-17 Page A-17 Page A-17 Page A-18 Page A-19 Page A-19 Page A-2 Page A-8 _Page B-2 Page B-11 Page B-11 Page B-11 Page B-11 Page B-11 Page B-12 Page B-12 Page B-13 Page B-13 Page B-13 1937—FORTY Cross-word Puzzle. Page B-14 meet Priday. Page B-1 Letter Out. PageB-15 ng Star PAGES. WAYS TO CHECK PRIGE RISE SOUGHT Administration Takes Cue From Roosevelt—Wars on Monopolies. BACKGROUND— Anti-trust laws, first enacted in 1890 and later expanded as Amer- ican business showed pronounced trend to bigness, make it criminal offense for companies in interstate competition to establish monopolies or fix prices. Recently, Government considered anti-trust action against steel com- panies submitting identical bids on P. W. A. projects, but prosecution was not attempted. Tydings-Miller bill would relax anti-trust laws to extent of sanc- tioning resale contracts in States where legalized. Purpose of com- tracts is to prevent underselling by large retail organizations, By the Associated Press. Administration authorities. guided by a restatement of President Roose- | velt's views, cast about today for new | means to check climbing prices and prevent monopoly. | The President, before leaving on a Southern fishing trip, expressed his views in three ways: 1. He advised against speculation in the stock market. 2. He made public & report from Attorney General Cummings saying revision of anti-trust laws was de- sirable “in the face of the present | tendency to increase prices.” | 3. He wrote Vice President Garner of “the present hazard of undue ad- vances in prices,” voicing opposition | to a bill by Senator Tydings, Demo- | crat, of Maryland, to legalize certain price maintenance understandings. Mr. Roosevelt's statement on stock market speculation came as an after- math to his recent request that Gov- | ernment workers should avoid securi- | ties gambling. Same Views “Since 1927.” Asked whether this advice also was good for the general public, he replied he had been saying so since 1927. Mr. Roosevelt cited a small New York town in which most of the resi- dents lost their savings by playing the (See PRICES, Page A-4) PRESIDENT SIGNS LARGE NAVY BILL Appropriation Only Slightly Be- low Current Year, Which Is Record for Peace. By the Associated Press. The White House announced today that President Roosevelt signed the $500,000,000 naval appropriation bill for the 1938 fiscal year before leaving early this morning for a fishing cruise in Southern waters. The appropriation was only slightly below that for the current year, which set a peace-time record. It carried $130,000,000 for ship construction and armament, including funds to continue work on two battleships. The money will be applied to 81 fighting ships already building and will permit the laying down of eight more destroyers and four submarines. The act provides $14,000,000 for aviation and authority to enter into contracts totaling $15,000,000 more. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. L L Yesterday’s Circulation, 142,905 (Bome returns not yet recsived.) () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. 15 PCT. RESERVE ON FUNDS GETS PRESIDENT O. K. ResolutiontoImpoundPortions of Appropriations May Wait Till All Bills Are Passed. BA (KHEAD REVEALS STAND OF PRESIDENT TO AID CUT Taber Asks Revision of Estimates With Inflexible Method to Keep Budget in Balance in Face of Deficit. BACKGROUND— Determined fight for economy in Federal Government has developed in recent weeks as tax revenues fell below erpectations. House Republicans touched off drive by suggestion of flat 10 per cent cut in appropriations. In Senate, Byrd and Byrnes took up cudgles with proposals for economy through reorganization and through decreased relief appropriations. Principal criticism of flat reduction is that it fails to apply yardstick of need to each item, an objection that might be overcome by Cannon’s dis- creionary proposal. By the Associated Press. Speaker Bankhead sald today he was authorized to state that President Roosevelt favored impounding 15 per cent of all ap- propriations for Government departments and agencies for the next fiscal year. A resolution to impound that proportion of appropriations was introduced yesterday by Representative Cannon, Democrat, of Mis- souri. None of the 15 per cent would be available for expenditures unless released by the President. Bankhead said he did not believe there would be any immediate action on the resolution. He said until after all appropriation bills DURANGO CHURCH CHANGED TOFORT Decimated by Advance of Rebels, They Try to Halt Drive Toward Bilbao. BACKGROUND— The outcome of the Bilbao offen- sive has been viewed by some as a probable parallel of the outcome of the protracted Spanish rebellion, in the belief that capitulation of the city weuld permit Gen. Franco to withdraw much of his northern army and hurl it against Madrid. By the Associated Press. HENDAYE. Franco-Spanish Border, | April 28.—Grimly determined Basques turned a Durango Church into a fortress today in a dramatic attempt to stem the march of strong insurgent armies on Bilbao, their regional cap- ital. The Basques, members of three deci- mated battalions, crammed the Church | of Santa Maria in Durango, just 16 miles from Bilbao, dragged their can- | non within the walls and blasted at in- surgent attackers in ferocious salvoes. | But insurgent advices indicated their | stand might be in vain. These reports | said the vanguard of one of three in- | surgent columns which are marching | to the sea had encircled Durango and, already, was hurrying. virtually un- opposed, along the broad highway | toward Bilbao. Consider Evacuations. In that Basque capital, seat of im- portant munitions industries and one of the last government stands on the | Bay of Biscay on Spain's northwest | ledge. authorities began to consider evacuation of every woman and child. Intense fighting surged around the | once peaceful church in Durango. Forces of insurgent Gen. Emilio Mola appeared confident they soon would capture the edifice. But the Basques | believed a successful defense might | save both Durango and Bilbao. Southeast of Durango, on the other side from Bilbao, daring Basque raid- ers blew up a bridge and slowed the movement of main insurgent forces | nto the city. The span was being re- paired by Mola's sappers. Ten small towns were taken by the | three advancing insurgent columns— Marquina, Echebarria, Urbernaga, Bol- ivar, Arrozola, Axpel, Apatamonasue- rio, Abadiano, Acarror and Bazter- rechea. Before they got into the church 1or‘ their seemingly suicidal stand, the| Basques had opposed insurgent con- quest of Durango with armored cars. Circling Movement Succeeds. Then, it appeared, some of the in- surgents began an encircling move- ment to get to the Bilbao highway on This will permit procurement of 397 planes and two non-rigid airships. the other side of town and to starve | (See SPAIN, Page A-4.) Jefferson Memorial Cost Likely to Grow, Witnesses Say BY WILL P. KENNEDY. After testimony showing that while the Thomas Jefferson Memorial struc- ture and terraces can be erected for $3,000,000 at the Tidal Basin site, in order to get a proper development of the surroundings, the cost may run up to an additional $6,500,000. Chairman Keller of the House Li- brary Committee declared today he felt it his duty to report this to the House for action. Representative Secrest, Democrat, of Ohio moved that before this was done Keller and the ranking Republican member, Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, confer with John Rus- sell Pope, the architect, and report back to the committee. When the committee adjourned, no appointe ment had been made with Pope. The hearing is to be resumed tomorrow. =8 Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, was the prin- cipal witness today. He emphasized | that the Tidal Basin site has the full approval of the Fine Arts and National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sions and all other officials who con- ferred with the Memorial Commission if the surroundings are properly de-| veloped as a setting for the memorial. It was John L. Nagle, engineer for the Parks Service, who told the com- mittee it is impossible as yet to esti- mate the costs for proper treatment of the surroundings, but that what is implied in the plans of Architect Pope might cost from $4,500,000 to $6,500,~ 000 in addition to the $3,000,000 al- -« ready authorized. Cammerer emphasized that in all (See MEMQRIAL, Page A-2) | was empty. he thought it should be deferred have passed “Frankly, if it goes through.” Banke head said at his press conference, “it will be left up to the President to see what savings he can make.” The Speaker said he, too, approved the Cannon proposal. It appears evident, he added, that the President favors it in preference to a horizontal 10 per cent cut in all appropriations as suggested by Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina and Representative Taber, Republican, of New York. “It is practically impossible” tha Speaker asserted, “to provide for an | absolute horizontal cut in all appro- priations. You just can't do it without injustices in certain spots.” Would Include All Funds. If the OCannon measure went through, Bankhead noted, there would be specific appropriations that could not be touched. such as those for na« tional debt retirement, compensation for veterans and their widows and wages of Government employes fixed by law. The Speaker added, however, that Mr. Roosevelt has authority to dise miss “a lot of employes if he thought it necessary.” Asked whether the President could not effect economies now by with= holding appropriations from Federal agencies, the Speaker said Mr. Roose~ velt probably would not be seeking the power now if he already had it. The House Appropriations Commite tee, spurred by the economy demands, cut $18.828.605 today from the Budget Bureau's estimates for the second deficiency appropriation bill. The measure carried a total of $79,206,943. Taber, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, asked that the President revise his estimates of Government expenses in 1938 to balance them with expected income. Mr. Roosevelt said last week the deficit probably would be about $418,000,000. Yesterday House committees ap- proved a $25,000,000 increase in the Army's allotment for next year, but rejected a $300,000,000 program for aiding State school systems. The Appropriations Committee, which recommended $416,413,382 for military services in the year begine The Senate Appropriations Come mittee sliced 25 per cent from an earlier $1,655.000 deficiency appropri= ation bill affecting the Federal Trade Commission, the Railway Retirement Board and Bureau of Navigatior and the Mint. The House already had ap- proved the measure. President Roosevelt discussed econe omy efforts at his press conference vesterday. Adivsed of efforts of in- dividual Congressmen to ignore his requests for economy, he smiled and observed it all depended on whose baby had the measles. He said again he believes $30,000,000 will be a sufficient sum for present flood control activity, although de- mands for much more are before Congress. He expressed doubt that $25,000,000 could be saved by merging the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. and the Federal Housing Administration, as Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, sug= gested. Opinions in the House on the likeli~ hood of actually cutting costs ranged from Bankhead's predictian that the aggregate appropriations this session would be substantially less than the President expected, to the comment of Representative Gifford, Republican, of Massachusetts, that talk of reducing expenses is “just a spasm of economy.” Discussing the Army appropriation, Speaker Bankhead said: “It is unfortunate that we can't re- duce all appropriations. But the peo= ple are pretty strong for national de= fense. That is one thing that can be said in this crisis in international afe fairs.” Although the fund suggested for the Army next year is greater than this year’s appropriation, it is $358,079 bee low the budget estimate. ik FEU AL Boy, in Box, Hart by Car. PHILADELPHIA, April 28 (#).— Seven-year-old John Johnson was in- jured seriously by an automobile that struck a cardboard box in which the boy was sitting in the street yesterday, The driver said he thought thé, box