Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1937, Page 7

MANY CANCELING CORONATION TRP Change of Rulers Blamed for Waning Interest of Americans. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 29.—The change in the leading role in Britain's coro- nation and mishandling of ballyhoo for the pageant were cited today as possible reasons for cancellations of steamship bookings by Americans. Passenger officials of various lines Wwere agreed on only one point—that there has been a definite ecancellation wave and that it affects only *‘corona- tion bookings.” As the great liners of the Atlantic sailed for Europe with many empty cabins (the S. R. O. signs had been hung out and then pulled down), these . officials gravitated their remarks around five principal reasons: 1. Substitution of George VI for Edward VIII as the main attraction. (“Yes,” said Marcel Delaporte, pas- senger traffic manager of the French Line, “the change of rulers may have had something to do with it. Two- thirds of our coronation bookings were made last year before King Edward’s abdication.”) 2. Bad handling of British publicity which inadvertently created the im- pression here that London will be| too crowded for comfort during cor- | onation week 3. The recent statement of Lord | Marley that Americans would do well | to stay away from the pageant because of profiteering. 4. High prices of seats along the coronation routes and steep rates for | hotel and other accommodations. 5. American business men being re- luctant to leave their businesses at this time because of threatened labor | trouble and pending legislation. The Europa sailed yesterday with space for 75 additional cabin passen- pers. The Normandie, able to carry | 700 in cabin class, had only 510. Many cancellations have been received for | the Paris, sailing May 4. The Aqui- tania sailed yesterday shy 100 passen- gers who had been booked. The Ber- engaria will sail Tuesday with & simi- lar number of empty cabins, once | booked, officials said. Officials of all lines said bookings by | post-coronation sailings are unaffected, &s proof that many Americans simply | have decided not to see the show. LONDON TURNS GAY. Four Miles of Streets Being Decorated For Coronation. e Associated Press. LONDON, April 29.—Old London was in the full flush of pre-coronation preening today. | With only 13 days left before the | day of grandeur—May 12—when le‘ Ben will boom forth at noon and & King will be crowned, it is a changed | London. ‘ What was the Mall has become a | long line of masts topped by heraldic lions. A “Gateway or Triumph"” is! rising at the foot of Whitehall. A “maypole” is being built at Charing Cross. Stands along Hyde Park flaunt | red, white and blue bunting. | London, with gathering speed, is | £oing gay. Parliament Square looks as though | & circus were coming to town. Canvas- eovered grandstands block every view. | It is costing a great deal of money | to make stolid, sturdy London a city of festival. To “dress” four miles of streets in Westminster, for example, will take $115,000. | The electric lights represent an esti- | mated 10.000,000,000 candlepower. White and Gold Prominent. White and gold play a prominent part in the decorations that flutter in the April wind. Blue and white banners, too, are being hung. The statue of Charles I, at Charing Cross, is being surrounded by ban- nered masts. There will be a living | guard for the statue on coronation day. | Two 60-foot masts in Whitehall, | carrying a large streamer and ban- ners, will mark the entry to Pariia- ment Square. | Long blue banners surmounted by golden crowns and white and gold | flags drape the entrance into Regent street from Picadilly Circus. | There will be three separate proces- | sions on the morning of May 12 when | King George and Queen Elizabeth | leave Buckingham Palace for their | trip to Westminster Abbey. | ‘The first, leaving the palace at 9:30 am., will be headed by two motor cycle policemen, providing something of an American touch. | Then will come an officer of the war ’ staff, trumpeters, a squadron of guards, i a military band and the first division | of the captain's escort of guards. | Following will be a long line of | state landaus with royal guests and | royalty's representatives. The second | division of captain’s escort of guards | will complete the unit, with mounted | police on all sides of the visiting roy- | alty. The second procession, leaving the | palace at 10 am., will be led by another guard escort. In state lan- daus will follow members of the Brit- | ish royal family in the following order: Queen Mother Mary. Princess Elizabeth, the heiress pre- | sumptive. Princess Margaret Rose. _The Duke and Duchess of Glou- eester. The Duke and Duchess of Kent. The Princess Royal and the Earl ©f Harewood. Viscount Lascelles and the Hon- orable Gerald Lascelles, sons of ‘the Princess Royal and the Earl of Hare- wood. The third procession, the big show of the day, will be built around the state coach, drawn by eight cream | colored horses. 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PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES TO THE GOLDEN CAPE WHICH KING GEORGE VI WILL WEAR. The Duke of Norfolk, Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan- Howard, earl marshal and premier duke and carl of England, receives 100 pounds a year for his services as right-hand man to the King at state functions, which have been performed by his Jamily since 1493. He is the first of the peers after the royal UPPER: NEWLY MADE LIGHTWEIGHT CROWNS FOR THE PRINCESSES ELIZABETH AND MARGARET ROSE. LOWER: ROUTE OF THE CORONATION PROCESSION. family to kiss the King’s cheek and touch the crown following the coronation. In the next photo the members of the Royal School of Needlework are touching up the recently reconditioned golden cope which was originally made for King George 1V, 116 years ago. It was also worn by King George V, the present King's Jather. The coronets to be worn by the two daughters of the [t i RN THE MARQUESS OF ABERDEEN AND TEMAIR IN HIS CORONATION ROBES. —A. P. and Wide World Photos. King are of silver gilt with jewellike chasing and are mounted with the cross-plate and fleur de lis. They were made by Gar- rard & Co., crown jewelers. The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, one of the peers in attendance to the King and Queen at the coronation, is shown for the first time dressed in the robes he will wear. %% A—7 Britain Prepares Big Broadcast of Coronation Events 58 Microphones to Be Used to Tell World of Happenings. LONDON, April 29 (NANA).— Radio listeners all over the world will hear the King's voice in the broadcast of the coronation service from Weste minster Abbey on May 12. The plans of the British Broadcasting Corp. for the biggest and most complicated out= side broadcast ever undertaken are now complete. During the day 58 microphones will be used, 32 for the ceremony and scenes at the Abbey, 11 along the route and 15 by English and foreign observer. The total weight of equip- ment to be installed is 12 tons, and 473 miles of wire will be used. Ree Leef * Its quicker ‘because it's oonfuls of Capudine ir Almost before yo the headache has eased awa are comfortable again take. No narcotics Ei for neuralgic and other p functional causes CAPUDINE fo- HEADACHE but as yet uncrowned, will be visible to the crowds through curved glass windows. This is the order of the pageant: Sovereign's escort of royal horse | guards. | The King's barge master and 12| watermen. Cabinet ministers. Members of the royal household. The King's Indian orderly officers. Aides de camp from the navy, army, air force, territorial army and special reserve. Commander in chief of the army, navy and air force. Admirals, fleld marshals, wir marshals. | War office staff and army council. An escort of colonial cavalry. Escorts of officers of the Indian cavalry. | The first and second divisions of the sovereign's escort of guards. The state coach. Equerries in waiting, military aides | de camp, the third and fourth divi- | sions of the sovereign's escort of i guards, the royal standard and escort. | Royal " horse guards, in shining | breastplates and plumes. | The three processions will merge after the abbey ceremony, nugmenwdi greatly by more military bands. S;);ain (Continued From First Page.) | ishly to evacuate 300,000 non-combat- | ants from Bilbao and pleaded with | world powers to find a haven for them. | Insurgent headquarters at Vitoria announced the Guernica occupation in That city, once the Basque capital and the shrine of their proud and in- dependent race, lies 20 miles northeast of Bilbao, behind the main line of insurgent advance on Bilbao, the pres- ent Basque capital and industrial stronghold. The Basques are fighting | Airplanes laid waste to Guernica and machine guns, killing an esti- mated 800 persons and leading to bit- ter recriminations between the Basques | and the insurgents. The Basques as- serted German-made planes carried out the “massacre” at the direction of a German-Italian staff; the insur- gents and Berlin authorities denied they were responsible for such’ “bar= barity” and hinted the Basques them- selves destroyed the town. Sudden Defense Encounted. To the south of Guernica, the main insurgent advance on Bilbao ran into a sudden Basque defense between Du- rango and Bilbao, 16 miles away. In Bilbao itself, President Juan An- tonio Aguirre called upon the powers to provide a sanctuary for his hordes of refugees, but pledged the fighting men of the Basque republic to stand firm in defense of their capital, asking “nothing” from the world. British Liberals and Laborites moved to aid the evacuation, but ac- tual help of the British Navy appar- ently awaited a Basque-insurgent agreement. - The Basques had lost Durango in vicious street fighting. But today they reorganized their lines less than 16 miles east of Bilbao after an orderly retreat from Durango. Then they launched a fierce counter- offensive. Heavy fighting was reported from the front lines at noon. The Basque and government troops were trying to keep the insurgents from marching along the level, paved highway to Bilbao. The defense troops captured two IT’S WHAT THE owner says THAT COUNTS! “The Norge Oil Burner in our store heats three floors and basement . . . cut our heating cost nearly in half.” That's an OWNER talking. If you want oil heat at its best—phone us for the name of your nearest Norge dealer! NORGE WHIRLATOR OIL BURNER |food ships from St. flags, one of them Italian; took 17 Moorish prisoners and brought back | three Italian soldiers who deserted to the governmen: lines. Officials admitted, however, that the Basques were in retreat on other fronts, where three prongs of the insurgent forces are converging on their march to Bilbao. Officers re- ported their troops were retiring in complete order, shortening and con- solidating their lines. Basques, terror-stricken by the at- | tack in which 800 civilians were said to have died, charged waves of bomb- ing planes first made Guernica unin- habitable by their barages. then an armada of pursuit ships slaughtered | women and children who fled to the fields, strafing gun fire. The Basque cabinet met in emer- gency session at Bilbao to help the city’s war-swollen population find refuge from the menace of devastat- ing aerial machine-gunners and the dread pressure of approaching armies, but cold water was dashed on their hopes for immediate refugee evacua- tion by the British fleet. them with machine- Spokesmen for the British foreign | office said it would be necessary first for the Basques and their insurgent foes to agree on the evacua- tion of perhaps 100,000 refugees from the besieged capital under the pro- tecting guns of British men-of-war. decide how it can help., the Basques demand for them, four Jean de Luz, France, slipped through an ineffectual insurgent sea blockade on the Bay of Biscay—escorted to the 3-mile line by a British destroyer. That brought to 12 the food vessels that have reached Bilbao. MADRID MUNITIONS SAVED., Death Toll Above 300 for Three Days of Bombing. 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