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Evening star., 1937-07-26

safety. The shower Of bombs and
bullets. starting at $3.50 am, lasted
an hour.
Authorities were unable to confirm
reports Of simultaneous shelling from
the sea.
Two previous aerial attacks on Bar
celona, allied with the Madrid -Valen-
cia regime. were believed to have
originated from insurgent air bases at
Mallorca, In the Balearic Islands
Casualties of the two other attacks
totaled 300 dead and hundreds Of
injured.
Artillery and aviation thunderec
over the infantry lines in the Brunei.
battle that ragged all day yesterday
and far into the night.
Government squadrons took to tn.
air when insurgent airmen swoopec
low over the government lines, spit.
ting deadly hail of lead.
Three Fiat Italian) fighting plane,
were reported shot down in one en-.
counter while official reports said tn.
government lost only one.
1nsurgent reports, however, claimee
far heavier casualties had been in
flicted on the governments air force!
with Is planes shot down in Sunday,
battle alone
'The chief OF staff of Gen. Franco'
Salamanca headquarters, Gen. Fran
cisco Martin Moreno, broadcast
report that total of l06 government
planes have been shot down in tn,
last l9 days, 81 by insurgent airmer
and Is by anti-aircraft batteries.
HE said the government air force.
mad suffered so heavily Madrid.
planes now ARE making only the
briefest appearances" in the western
engagement)
Close to Brunette the government
battallons staged series of sharr
counter-thruSts on the banks OF the
Guadarrama, but the insurgent line.
held firm around the town. Wave
after wave OF infantrymen swept over
the shell-plowed Terrain before thf
government militiamen finally were
dislodged.
Elsewhere in the western sector the
government said its lines held firm
Win only minor rectifications" of the
front and asserted the morale of it.
troops remained at high pitch.
redoubled insurgent attack on thx
Teruel front, northeast of Madrid
aiming to cut Valencia off from Bar.
celona. was reported by govern.
ment communique, which admitted
government lines had been modified
after an aerial and infantry attack
'lnsurgent reports to Henday or
the Franco-Spanish frontier reported
the capture of six important position.
on the Tereul front as we'll as i'm.
portant stocks of munitions, after in.
f1icting heavy casualties.)
Britain Pushing Program.
LONDON, July rs R,.-Grea,
Britain today pressed another effort
PROBABLY her last-to preserve Eu.
ropes non-intervention program lol
isolating the Spanish civil war.
British members of the 27-Natior
Committee, in a two-month stalemat.
since Germany and Italy withdrew
from the neutrality naval patrol drew
up list Of questions to be submittee
TO the guiding subcommittee at it:
meeting this afternoon. These cues.
tons were designed to deter1nin,
whether the British compromise pro.
posals have been accepted or rejected
by the other 26 nations.
The compromise plan, outlined b,
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. en-.
vls1oned withdrawal of all foreign
volunteers from Spain before consid
Grafton OF the ticklish problem q
granting belligerent rights to tnt
warning factions.
Evening star., 1937-07-26
EMBARGO ON MEAT
TO BUFFALO ASKED
Aid of Midwest c. 10. Units
Sought in Strike of 1000
Food Handlers.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
With egg, butter, sugar, -four and
canned goods deliveries shut of to
many Buffalo independents and
chain companies for the sirth con-
secutiDe day, retail merchants re-
ported the strike of food handlers
is rapidly barring shelues OF staples.
Prices OF basic foods are rising, and
buyers haze been forced to accept
second grades and of brands.
Evening star., 1937-07-26

Glen Cove Pea Soup-serve as is
Glen Cove Prepared Clam chowder
Glenwood Home Style Apple Souee
6SC0 Pure Cider Vinesor
Formdole Evoporoted Milk
Evening star., 1937-07-26

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is rapidly barring shelpes OF staples.
Prices OF basic foods are rising, and
buyers haze been forced to accept
second grades and of brands.
BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y, July &c. I. O.
Regional Organizer Hugh Thompson
today asked union butchers through
out the Midwest to help clamp meat
embargo on Buffalo to help 1000
striking food handlers in their fight
for closed shop contracts.
Thompson asked regional union ex-
ecutives in other cities to order their
men not to handle food shipments des-
tined for Buffalo
Officers Of the Longshoremen's and
SWitchmen's Union, an American
Federation OF Labor affiliate, an
nounced they would join the c. l. O.
embargo by refusing to unload meats
shipped by boat and rail to Buffalo.
Thompson asked outside assistance
on the food embargo after the Rev.
Father John P. Boland chairman of
the State Labor Relations Board re-
quested that no general blockade be
set up.
The c. I. O. meat embargo is a
slzzler, DR.. Boland said. The meat
end of the strike looks very serious"
24Hour Truce Expires.
Striking food handlers returned to
their picket lines and resumed efforts
to stop grocery deliveries after a "a
hour truce expired without an agee-
ment being reached.
AS Buffalo housewives sought to re-
plenish larders depleted by weekend
meals, State labor mediators sought
again a permanent settlement between
employers and the 1000 striking en-
ployes, who have kept grocery deliv-
cries tied up for six days.
The truce, during which strikers
promised to drop picketing and en-
barge efforts and wholesalers said
they would not move provisions, ended
at midnight and strike leaders imme-
dlately rallied forces to resume their
blockade on grocery deliveries to retail
stores.
Rev. DR.. John P. Boland, chair
man of New York States Labor Re-
lations Board, drew representatives OF
a. wholesale grocery merchants and
1000 striking truck drivers into a
new peace parley to discuss three pos
sible compromise plans they worked
out last night.
Proposal Discussed.
He asked Howard Toy and Samuel
Licata, officers OF the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor Teamsters' Union, to
present the plans to their men while
Raymond Wattles, representing the
food merchants, discussed the pro-
posals with operators.
Acute shortages were averted by
farmers who delivered produce directly
to some retail merchants. Many
householders motored to the country
over the week end seeking butter,
eggs and green foods.
Father Boland, who gave up most
OF his Buffalo church work only three
weeks ago to become head of the State
Board that will administer New York's
recently enacted little Wagner" law,
worked out the preferential shop COM
promises with strike combatants in a
long conference yesterday.
He did not detail the concessions
made.
Evening star., 1937-01-27
Church Wins
Court SkirnliSh
Orer Angelus
Judge Viii Not Grant
Preliminary Injunc.
ton Against Chimes.

Refusing to grant preliminary in
junction against the early morning
Angelus at the Most Blessed Sacrament
Church in Chevy Chase, District Court
Justice Jennings Bailey remarked that
he once lived across the street from a
fraternity, and he'd Take the chimes
any day"
Donald Bowie, jr., attorney for the
% nearby property owners who have
protested to the court that the ringing
Of the Angelus chimes at Z am. dis
turbed their slumbers, had hardly be-
gun to argue when Justice Bailey
stopped him.
This court will not undertake to de-
eide between different religions" the
(See CHIMES, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-01-27
SENATE PREPARES
T0PASS RELIEF
$3.50, ,O00,0 900 Flood Fund Is
Swept Along With House
Approval.
By the Associated Press.

Senate Democratic leaders took a
cue from the House today in calling
for speedy approval Of a $790 0,000, 900
flood relief fund.
A statement by Chairman Cary T.
GraySon Of the Red Cross that the
Ohio Valley disaster was the greatest
American emergency since the World
War Spurred congressional action.
Speaker Bankhead held the House
in session until dusk yesterday to OBJ
tain authorization for the money, in
tended originally to finance work
relief until July /.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee arranged for q quick study of
the bill. Even so, leaders predicted it
would be next week before the funds
can be used.
So great was favorable sentiment
in the Houses overwhelming Demo-
cratic majority that no record vote
was taken.
A Republican attempt to cut the
fund to $500,000,000 was defeated.
Representative Taber. Republican, Of
New York, proposed the reduction to
"put the brakes on the spending pro-
gram"
Representative Boileau, Progressive,
of Wisconsin, unsuccessfully led a
drive by the so-called liberal bloc to
increase the appropriation for regular
work relief to $1,040,000,000.
His proposal lost, 24l to %.
If necessary, all the money will be
used for flood refugees. Another ap-
(see FLOOD RELIEF, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-01-27
New Fires Menace Business
Area, Adding to Night Of
Terror 100000 Resi-
dents Are Homeless.
RIVER is STATIONARY;
OUTLOOK UNCERTAIN
Scope of Disaster Broadens, With
Blazes Causing $750,o0o Dam
age During Few Hours-0ffi.
GERS From Other Cities Called
to Help.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Janu-
ary 27.-A night of terror, of
flames leaping toward the
moon-bright skies, of brown
flood waters, body laden, lap
ping at lightless homes, gave
way today to the darkest
dawn in all the history of
once beautiful Louisville.
Pestilence tore at the city,
along with the tremendous food
waters of the Ohio, spreading
over 80 of the 40 square miles of
the city proper. The river had
remained stationary at ST. feet
for five hours, it was reported at
7 am. today. The Weather Bu-
reau declined to predict whether
the crest had been reached.
City Health Officer DR.. Hugh
Rodman Leavell estimated that
200 have died in three days of
flood diseases, in addition to the
first batch of drowning victims
20 found floating in the streets
of the inundated West End sec
ton.
Three separate fires that did
perhaps $75O,0e0 damage in all
and threatened for hours to
sweep the city just as the oil
inf1amed floods ravaged part of
Cincinnati had died down.
So began the fourth day of
hunger, fear of what the end may
be, cold and homelessneSs for
100000 out of the 100000 popu-
lation.
City officials expressed concern over
property in West Louisville, pointing
out that the Ohio River might cut
a new channel through that section
of the city. The swift current was
tearing a path through West Louis
vile and if the flood waters remain
there for any length Of time it was
feared the stream may change its
course
Into Louisville poured first aid from
all parts of the Nation as many cities,
(See LOUISVILLE, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-01-27
EVACUATION SPED
IN CAIRO VICINITY
Coast Guard Boats From
Boston Arrive to Aid in
Rescue Work.
BY the Associated Press.

CAIRO, Ill, January 27.-Coast
Guard cutters from Boston sped into
Cairo today to aid the evacuation of
this food-threatened area, operations
base for q grim, silent fight against
the turgid Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Women, children and invalids have
been deserting the area, extending
from miles above here on the Ohio
down to Southern Missouri on the Mis-
sissippi. BY boat, train and truck
refugees have been sent to shelter
bases as far away as st. Louis.
Arrival of Is Coast Guard cutters
from Boston this morning sent to %
the number of Government craft carry
ing on relief operations. Army planes
from Scott Field cruised the flood zone
locating isolated flood victims.
As the Army prepared to evacuate
all river bottom families from Cairo
to New Orleans, the Ohio inched
downward along the 60-foot seawall
here, showing the shadow of a victory
in the desperate fight to keep the
swollen confluence Of the two rivers
out of Cairo.
The early stage today was So feet
here, about 6-inch fall since engi-
neers bombed a Mississippi levee to
the south, releasing the pent-up flood
into a 131, ,000-acre spillway in Mis-
souri, and easing the pressure here.
Railroad service of the Illinois Gen.
tral into Cairo was abandoned today
as backwater swept over the tracks.
In Washington Secretary Of War
Evening star., 1937-01-27
FIGHT TO BAR D. c.
TAX RISE PLEDGED
Subcommittee Chairman Ex.
poets to Hold Down
Property Levy.
BY JAMES e. CHINN.

Irrespective of the outcome Of the
Jacobs plan for solving the fiscal
relations controversy between the
Federal and District governments,
Chairman Collins Of the House Ap-
preparations Subcommittee in charge
of the 1888 District supply bill gave
assurance today he would attempt to
prevent an increase in real estate and
personal property taxes in the coming
fiscal year.
Collins disclosed he planned to
write into the appropriation bill a
provision forbidding the Commission
ers to make any change in the
present sl.50 tax levy.
At the same time, Collins announced
that hearings on the 1888 bill prob
ably would start next Wednesday.
He also said his subcommittee would
make a thorough investigation Of
every important item recommended
by the Budget Bureau. even going to
the extent of personally inspecting
various municipal institutions and &C
tivities which need funds for improve
ments and expansion.
May Ignore Formula.
Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District
auditor and budget officer, has esti-
mated that approval by Congress of
the Jacobs three-point fiscal relations
formula would confront the District
with a revenue deficit of nearly
s1O,000,o0o in the coming fiscal year.
Collins announced determination to
prevent an increase in the tax rate
obviously indicates:
!. That the Jacobs fiscal relations
plan may not be considered seriously
by the subcommittee.
2. That any additional revenues
needed to offset a prospective deficit
will be raised by tapping potential
new sources of revenue.
In the first place, Collins is known
to be unsympathetic with the COM
plicated three-point formula for
determining the division Of expenses
between the United States and the
District. A member of the Mapes
Committee which made an exhaustive
study Of the fiscal relations problem
in 1881, he is still inclined to favor
5Coo TAv pooa A.oN
Evening star., 1937-01-27
U. S. JUDGE UPHOLDS
TAX FOR AID OF AGED
Rules Provisions of Social Sc
curity Act Are Consti-
fufinnnl
By the Associated Press.

Bs the Associated Press.
BOSTON, January 27.-Federal
Judge George B. Sweeney today upheld
the ccnstitutionality of the provisions
of the social security act which pro-
vide tax for assistance for the aged.
Judge Sweeney denied an injunction
to prevent the payment Of the tax
by the Edison Electric Illuminating Co.
of Boston.
The case was the first test of the
old-age provision Of the act in this
district.
The injunction was sought by
George P. Davis of Waltham as q
stockholder of the Edison company.
Davis recently sought similar in
junction against payment Of the un.
employment insurance tax by the Bos-
ton g. Maine Railroad. Judge Sweeney,
who also heard that case, upheld that
section Of the act.
In his ruling today that section
eight Of the act, covering old-age as
sistance, was constitutional, the jurist
said it was a valid exercise of the
taxing power Of Congress. He held
that the tax was intended to pro-
vide for the general welfare of the
country.
He overruled a contention Of coun-
sci for Davis that the tax was not
uniform throughout the country.
Evening star., 1937-01-27
JOINT ORGANIZING
PLAN SUPPORTED
Senate Rules Committee
Backs House-AskS
Nine Members.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

Creation of a joint congressional
committee to deal with reorganization
of Government bureaus was virtually
assured today. when the Senate Rules
Committee approved the House pro-
posal to follow that course.
The only change in the resolution
already adopted by the House was to
increase the representation Of each
branch on the joint committee from
seven to nine members.
Under the joint resolution, the SEN
ate membership would be named by
the Vice President. Senate leaders
declined to comment or speculate on
reports that the existing Byrd Com
mittee, which began studying reor-
ganization last Summer, would form
the nucleus of the Senate's group Of
nine.
No Restrictions Specified.
The only observation of Senate
spokesmen was that the resolution
places no restrictions on the Vice
President in selecting the personnel.
It is believed probable, however. that
Senator Byrd, Democrat, Of Virginia
and some of the other members of
the existing special committee will be
included in the Senate roster of the
joint group.
In addition to Byrd, the other mem
bers of the present committee are
Majority Leader Robinson Of Arkan-
sas, Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, Of
Wyoming; Minority Leader McNary
of Oregon and Senator Townsend, Re-
publican, Of Delaware.
Since the House decided to have its
group on the Joint Committee serve
also as Standing Committee of the
49, prOPG ANIzINrC pnno Ao1
Evening star., 1937-01-27
HUNDREDSCHARGE
j. s. LABOR ABUSE
Senate Civil Liberties Com
mittee Agents Probe Dis
examinations.
BY JOHN C HENRY.


Hundreds of complaints Of anti
labor determinations ir. Government
have been made to the
Senate Civil Liberties Committee, it
was learned today.
The charges are being studied by
committee agents, with action on all
those considered justifiable to be taken
at a later date. Many of the COM
plants have ben filed formally by
recognized unions having membership
within the Federal departments.
Among the departments and agen-
cies involved Are Justice, Interior, Re-
settlement, w. P. A. and others, it
was learned.
I'VE are concerned with instances
of discrimination ant coercion where
ever they are" Chief Investigator Rob-
ert Wohlforth said "We'll investigate
labor relations policies of Government
departments just as readily as those of
private corporations whenever We con-
slider such inquiry justified"
That many of the complaints filed
are not within the interest of the COM
mittee is indicated by the fact the
bulk Of the w. P. A. complaints, al
though not all, deal with wage and
hour conditions.
Spying on Frankensteen.
The committee this morning un-
folded story of extensive investiga-
tion of Richard L. Frankensteen,
former Chrysler employe and now a
full-time organizer of the United Au-
tomobile Workers, by two agents Of
Corporations AuXiliaries in the Sum-
mer of 1885. One of the agents, a
fellow employe. established friendship
with FrankenSteen, their wives became
(See LABOR, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-01-27
MERCURY DROPS TO 20;
RAIN FORECAST TONIGHT
Temperature at z AM. Lowest
Here Since Christmas
nav

The lowest temperature in more
than a month-29 degrees-was re-
corded this morning after predicted
rain or snow failed to materialize.
More rain is coming, however, the
forecaster says, and will get here
either late tonight or tomorrow. This
afternoon will find the skies becoming
overcast, while the "low" tonight Is
expected to be about 80.
The 20 this morning was registered
at 7 o'clock, the mercury remaining
at that level until nearly $50, when
it climbed a degree.
The last time similar temperature
was recorded here was on Christmas
day.
Evening star., 1937-01-27
MISS PERKINS SEES
HOPE FOR PEACE IF
'3DPARTY AGREES: ,:
Settlement May Be "Quit
Possible" She Says After
ParIey.
C0NFERS WITH LEWIS.
REPORTING PROGRESS
Sloan Issues Statement Repeatin 2
Denial G. M. C. Can Be Blamed
for Breakdown.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary of Labor Perkins said to-
day that her conference with John L.
Lewis and other spokesmen for Gen
eral Motors strikers developed sit
uation which will make a settlement
quite possible if the third party con-
sents."
At about the same time Alfred p
Sloan, jr, president of General Motors.
denied in New York that the company
is responsible for the breakdown Of
negotiations" with workers and re-
iterated the company's refusal to
negotiate until the plants occupied by
sit-down strikers are evacuated.
The General Motors head referred
to efforts made to make you
believe that General Motors is re-
Sponsible for the breakdown Of nego-
tiations,' and denied that such is the
case.
Criticized by Roosevelt.
Sloan was criticized yesterday by
both President Roosevelt and Miss
Perkins for declining to attend a pro-
posed strike peace conference here.
The Secretary evaded most of the
questions reporters fired at her after
the conference with the Lewis group.
She said. however, the meeting with
the strike leaders had made progress"
and that action may be developed as
the result of information received"
She said also that a new plan for
approaching settlement of the walk
out was under consideration. She
added she thought she could discuss
this plan better later today. She said
the plan was being studied" but de-
clined to say by whom or give any in
formation of its nature.
Lewis Sees Miss Perkins.
When Lewis came out of Miss Per-
kinS' Office, he said:
I'VE conferred with the Secretary,
gentlemen. We fully advised her on
conditions in General Motors plants
and how coercion is being exercised.
I'VE discussed further procedure and
policies. Anything else should come
from Miss Perkins"
The problem of enforcing labor
standards by law was brought into the
General Motors picture by President
Roosevelt.
The President told reporters he dis
cussed legislation fixing maximum
hours and minimum wages with labor
and business leaders in three confer
ences yesterday, and also touched on
proposals which might affect the au-
tomobile strike.
One proposal would give the Labor
Department power to subpoena wit
nesseS and documents during strikes
to determine causes and make findings
of fact.
With Lewis at the conference were
Sidney Hillman, president Of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and
Charles P. Howard, president of the
International Typographical Union,
both members of the Lewis committee;
John Brophy. director. and Len De-
caux. publicity director for the COM
mittee; Homer Martin, president Of
the United Automobile Workers;
Windham Mortimer, first vice presi-
dent; Ed Hall, second vice president,
and George Adds, secretary-treasurer,
(See STRIKE, Page A-2)