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Evening star., 1937-04-07
SOCIAL SECURITY
| WILL Be ARGUED
Two Cases Involving Ala.
bama Act Go Before High
Court Today.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASsOClhteu fItsS.
The Supreme Court called today
for arguments on constitutionality OF
Federal and State social security leg
islation.
Up for debate at noon were two
cases involving the Alabama unem-
ployment compensation act, chal-
| lenged by the Southern Coal & Coke
Co, and the Gulf State Paper Corp.
Arguments will begin late tomorrow
on validity of the Federal social Sc
curity act, contested by another
Alabama concern, the Charles c.
| Steward Machine Co.
A final decision on both laws Is
expected before the Supreme Court
adlourns for the Summer early in
June.
The court already has upheld by
A vote similar New York State
statute. Justice Stone, generally re-
garded as favorable to the legislation
was absent be ause OF illness when
| that vote was taken.
A petition for reconsideration of the
New York decision, given without a
written opinion, has been pending
1
since December IA.
| The Federal act imposes a pay roll
tax ranging from l per cent In 1886
to per cent in 1888, and successive
years on employers of eight or more
persons.
Ninety per cent of the amount COL
| lected is refunded to States which
adopt an unemployment insurance
program approved by the Federal
Social Security Board. Alabama. New
York and a number of other States
have enacted such laws
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
at New Orleans denied the Steward
Machine Co. refund Of s46 paid
under the Federal act for unemploy-
ment insurance.
A special three Judge Federal Court
held the State act unconstitutional.
In other litigation, the Alabama
Supreme Court held the statute was
valid under the State Constitution.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Sit-DOWn
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providing for an investigation Of sit
down strikes, was lambasted as moth
ing but a witch hunt" by Repre-
sentative Maverick, Democrat, of Tex
as. The resolution is scheduled for
House action tomorrow.
Everybody knows the cause Of the
sit-down strikes" Maverick said in a
statement, "and yet the resolution is
to ind out the cause"
II do not propose to single labor out
and condemn its illegal acts" Borah
said, "and leave capital free to pursue
its illegal methods. If that be trea-
son, make the most OF It,"
The veteran Idahoan repeatedly has
blamed monopolistic industry for
much of the current industrial strife.
II am not disposed myself to con-
denim illegal practices Of labor in It's
fight with capital, also employing
illegal methods, so long as these illegal
methods do not involve the taking OF
human life" he said.
Until the State or the national
Government, or both, devise some
legal method by which labor can
secure its rights legally, I am not go
ing to condemn the action Of labor
engaged in q particular struggle for
its rights"
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, Of South
Carolina, who precipitated the con-
troversy last week by offering an anti
sit-down amendment to the coal bill,
was consulted In drafting the new
resolution
Other conferees were Senators
Robinson. Pittman, Barkley, Democrat,
Of New York; Bankhead, Democrat, Of
Alabama, and O'Mahoney, Democrat,
OF Wyoming.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
action. Twelve OF the squadron were
tri-motored bombing ships and the
remainder pursuit or combat planes.
Rebels Routed.

MADRID, April 7 tP).-A force OF
government soldiers stormed the
heights of Mount Chimorra, in Cor
doba Province, it was reported today,
and put their insurgent foes to bloody
rout In one of the most smashing VIC
tories Of the civil war.
The thrust, near the easterly end
Of the governments Pozoblanco front.
carried the shouting "Miliclanos'
within 3la miles of Villaharta, from
which a short drive would sever the
insurgents main line OF communica-
tions, the Cordoba Penarroya road
(Villaharta was enormously reported
captured last week.
Last night, after the government
column reached the summit Of Mount
Chimorra, detail was put to work
burying the bodies OF 400 insurgent
victims of the fierce attack.
When day broke the Madrid-Valen-
cia soldiers set out again, away from
the mountain top, to clear out scat
tered groups of insurgents caught be-
hind the suddenly formed new line.
800 Prisoners Taken.
Three hundred prisoners were taken
in the first wave Of attack up the
mountainside. The news agency said
the insurgent forces in this battle
were made up Of army regulars from
Cadiz and Granada together with
"reouetes" and "falangEtas.
Febus (ofncial Spanish news agen-
Cyl reported the death Of Mai. Gull
lermo Garcio, commander Of An In
surgent column, while trying to es-
cape in his automobile.
The majors chauffeur was captured.
Several insurgent regular army Of
ficers' bodies were found by the ad-
vancing militiamen.
Captured war materials included
three German-made tanks, one anti
aircraft battery, four trucks, many
machine guns and automobiles, and q
large quantity of rifles, sub-machine
guns and ammunition.
The government troops also seized
important stores Of sandbags, stone
and other fortification materials.
An insurgent truck caravan, BE-
lieved to have carried explosives, VA
bombed on q nearby highway wher
the attack was launched.
Flee In Panic.
Government troops surrounded
Mount Chimorra Monday night
When dawn came they attacked wttf
machine guns. The attackers slashee
at their rear.
Further west, another column VA
reported to have hammered It's wa!
through Caltraveno Pass and to b
advancing southwark on Espiel. an
other strategic town on the Cordoba
Penarroya road, heavily fortified b.
the insurgents.
The apparently imminent fall o
Villaharta would sever the insurgen
salient from its chief base, Cordoba
and further complete the government
ring being drawn about the insurgent
on the westerly extreme Of the from
at Penarroya.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Ships
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bombs they dropped. The nearest fell
100 yards away
At the same time, in the Bay Of Bis
cay, three other British destroyers
were escorting the British freighter
Thorpehall into the harbor of Bilbao
after the freighter had been menaced
by the insurgent cruiser Almirante
Cervera.
Official Basque reports said the
Thorpehall carried no munitions and
had = perfect right to enter Bilbao, .
Basque government port. The de-
stroyers Blanche, Brazen and Beagle,
stripping for action, forced the Almi-
rante Cervera to withdraw.
British Colors Evident.
The Gallant, when attacked yester-
day. was flying British colors and was
plainly marked with the red, white
and blue neutral stripes required in
Spanish waters, authorities said. They
were at q loss to explain the attack,
unless 1t was another Of the frequent
cases of mistaken identity" The
planes were flying at about 5000 feet,
it was reported.
A Spanish Government charge that
German warships were aiding insur-
gent vessels OF Spain and the reported
sinking yesterday, In the Bay Of Bis
cay, Of the Panama freighter Andra
served to increase the tension.
The Almirante Cervera was blamed
for the Andra's fate, at time when
the ship was leaving government San
tander after landing her cargo. The
fate Of the crew was lost In q thick
fog which settled down over the bay.
The German pocket battleship Adj
miral Graf Spec witnessed the Thorpe
hall incident. but, Bntish sources sasd.
did not participate in 1t.
The captain o3 ths oaSSAnd, oosnd
Evening star., 1937-04-07
10000 HOMELESS
IN MAN|lAF|RE
Mile and Half Area Laid
Waste in ThickIy Popu-
lated Tondo District.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, April IA million dollar
fire swept over more than IL square
miles of the thickly- populated Tondo
district today, leaving more than
10000 persons homeless, dead and
II injured.
The entire Manila Fire Department.
supplemented by fire equipment and
soldiers from Fort Santiago, fought
the blaze for more than four hours
before bringing it under control.
One death was attributed to the
fire. A paralytic residing at the edge
of the fire zone died from fright.
Many narrow escapes were reported
as panic-stricken residents risked their
lives to save their possessions.
Starting in a laundry, the flames
were famed by stiff wind and raced
toward Manila Bay Thousands Of
persons were attracted to the scene by
q billowing pillar OF black smoke.
The steady and swift march Of the
flames drove the Manila flremen back
and they were forced to ask aid from
the United States Army. Fire officials
said abatement of the wind probably
prevented more damage.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
SISTER OF MODEL
STAYS IN HIDING
Police Guard Mrs. Kudner as
10000 Scour New York
for Sculptor.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED TIese.
NEW YORK, April THE object
OF squint-eyed Robert Irwlns af1ec-
tions fed from her Long Island home
to seek sanctuary from the chance OF
another sudden and devastating rage
today on the part of the man accused
Of the triple murders of Beekman Hill.
AS New York's 10000 policemen
searched faces on broad avenues and
narrow cross streets in an effort to
apprehend the suspect in the killing
of Veronica Gedeon, artists model,
r. and two other persons. Mrs. Ethel
Kuduer left her Astoria residence for
an unnamed destination.
D.. Several detectives were detailed to
guard her and others we're assigned
to her home.
4, Theory of Policeman.
Assistant Chief Inspector John A.
Lyons said it was the psychopathic
sculptor's mad infatuation for the
then Miss Ethel Gedeon, dating from
1882 when he was a rooner in the
Gedeon home, that led Irwin to take
the lives of "Ronnie." her mother,
Mary, and a waiter, Frank Byrnes, at
Eastertile.
Ronnie and her mother discouraged
1rwin's courtship of Ethel, since mar
ried to another man
Meantime, every lead obtained by
police as to the whereabouts of the
divinity student and one-time inmate
of a hospital for the insane had
proved fruitless To round out their
picture of the mans personality, de-
tectives sought additional counsel
from psychiatrists.
Inspector Lyon said Irwin was de-
scribed by one doctor as a victim OF
dementia praecox with homicidal ten
denotes expressed in tendencies to
throttle others. Veronica and her
mother were strangled to death.
Choking" Mania Reported.
Erwin had a mania for choking
people," said Lyons The throttllng
habit asserts itself when he goes into
rage. When he is in the mood, he
is very dangerous person. and 1t
would take five good men to subdue
IllIil. ne IL oSAoiIS oA4a a
good amateur boxer"
He added Irwin once attempted to
assault criminally "a woman employe
of an institution in White Plains, N.
Y, where the sculptor held $40 a
month job.
Police raced the clock in the hunt
for Irwin, convinced that ultimately
a Oppressive paranoia would lead the
man to attempt his own life. Woro
was dispatched to rural areas te
watch for him when former associates
disclosed he liked farm work in the
d Spring.
Boston police advised the New York
department Irwin might be on the
steamship Kent, out OF Boston ano
due to dock at Baltimore Friday.
SOUGHT NEW RELIGION.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Considers sit-down strike resolution.
Judiciary Committee hears op-
ponents of Roosevelt court bill.
House:
Considers anti-lynching legislation.
Military Committee considers bill to
take profits out Of war.
Labor Committee resumes hearings
On investigation Of shipbuilding in
drstry.
Post Office Committee opens hear
ings on airmail legislation.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Program undecided, with possibility
of debate on stt-down strikes contin-
uing.
Territories Committee, 1890 am,
on nomination of Lawrence w. Cramer
to be Governor of Virgin Islands.
Education and Labor Subcommittee,
1890 am, on bill for the education
Of physically handicapped children.
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee,
10 am, on air transportation bill
Commerce Committee, 10:30 am,
on nominations to the Maritime Com
mission.
Judiciary Committee, further hear
ings on Presidents court bill.
House:
Considers special rules.
Education Committee meets, 1890
am.
Immigration and Naturalization
Committee meets, 10:30 am.
Subcommittee of the Appropria-
tions Committee resume hearings on
War and Interior Department supply
bills, 10 am.
Special subcommittee Of District
Committee in charge Of Collins tax
bills meets. 1890 am.
Rivers and Harbors Committee con-
s}drrx E1ori6o shin canal IN. 30 Am.
Evening star., 1937-04-07

troops over mountain barriers. Mola's
forces declared they found 876 gov
ernment dead in one sector and oc-
cupied heights dominating Amboto.
Barazar and Urquiola, mountain
passes midway on the 10-mile route
from Ochandians to Durango.
Basque troops defending Amboto
Peak-the loftiest barrier in the in
surgent advance on Durango, 16
miles from the Basque capital Of
Bilbao-were caught between the right
and left fanks OF Molas army.
BASQUE soldiers fought desperately
to hold the approach to the summit,
but were forced up both sides OF the
peak itself under heavy artillery and
machine-gun fire.
Large Stores Captured.
The insurgents claimed the Basques
left behind great stores Of ammunition
supplies, including 100000 cartridges,
1000 trench mortar shells, 1,500 hand
grenades, 10 trench mortars and
enough raincoats to equip all insur-
gents in the Durango sector.
Positions captured by the insur-
gents in the northward sweep included
the Basaguren and Urieta Peaks as
we'll as Ollargan Hills and Sumaltza
Pass. Two government planes were
reported shot down on the Bilbao
front.
The insurgent offensive appeared
to be split into four main units. One
operated along two highways leading
to Bilbao from Villarreal along the
valley OF the Arrotia River.
Another drove northward toward
Durango. The third was fighting
somewhere between Vergara and
Mondragon. The fourth protected
the extreme right flanks Of the Of
fensive from Ondarroa on the coast.
Reports that Basque troops had sum-
moned reinforcements from Asturias
Province were supported by captured
prisoners.
Many of them carried insignia of
three Asturian battalions.
Mola's left flank was reported to
have cut s miles deeper into the
Basque mountain country and had
taken Mount Ebigam's fortified sum-
nit from Bilbao's defenders. The
peak, more than 5000 feet high, is
south Of Durango.
The insurgent advance guard also
was said to have taken up new posi-
tions west Of Durango.
These successes, at terrific cost OF
life for the government troops, were
characterized as "a foot tn the half
open door" Of the Basque Province,
laying the road to Bilbao and the sea
open to Mola's legions on the seventh
day of their offensive.
Insurgent reports placed the num-
Der of dead, wounded or captured
among the Basque defenders at 10000.
Ships Bomb Bilbao.
BILBAO, Spain, April R.-A
suuadron of from 80 to 40 insurgent
ships new over Bilbao twice today and
bombed the front-lins defenses q
this Basque capital.
Anti-aircraft batteries Hoafad into
Evening star., 1937-04-07
PUBLIC FAITH.


Watching a blind news bender
in the Traffic Bureau reading
Braille the other day, chap de-
cided to prolong his observation BY
buying a newspaper. He dropped
q dime In the coin boz and tun,bled
among some pennies to make
change.
you Ddnt some changer" said
the blind Uonan. "Just a minute"
She reached IN her pocket and
produced it.
I neper leaue nickels in the
boz" she explained. "Too many
people take them. But they make
so much noise reaching In among
the pennies / can hear them and
supply the change they want."
X X X
LONG SHOT.
WHEN DR.. William Mann, the Zot
w director, went away for . vaca'
ton and an animal collecting expe'
dition, he betook himself Is far q
possible away from home. A friene
discovered that the other day when N
tried to send an airmail letter viz
Amsterdam to Medan, Sumatra, DR.
Mann's present address. Post ofac<
officials said Medan y farther ,awal
Evening star., 1937-04-07

for Mallorca to seek an explanation OF
the Gallant attacks, will act in concert
with the British vice consul at Palma.
If the explanation is not satisfactory
to the British. a stiff and formal pro-
test will go TO Gen. Franco.
A protest over the Thorpehall Incl
dent also was under consideration. Re-
minders already have gone from Lon
don to the insurgent capital of Sala-
manca that no reply has been received
to protests against the bombing OF
the British destroyers Havock and
Gypsy, in February.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
500 AT AD CLUB DANCE

Over 500 members and guests OF the
Washington Advertising Club at
tended the organizations annual jam
boree last night in the grand ball room
Of the Shoreham Hotel.
In addition to musical entertain
ment provided by Meyer Davis Or
chestra, the program included drawing
Of prizes and distribution OF gifts.
Sixty-four awards were drawn from a
large trasure bag, while 68 other spe-
cial prizes included an automobile, a
refrigerator, sets Of golf clubs, radios,
travelling bags and many others.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
20 MOROS KILLED
Guerilla Fighting With Philip

Guerilla Fighting With Philip
pine Troops Reported.
MANILA, April Pl.-Twenty
Moros, including nom combatants.
have been killed in two days guerilla
warfare with Philippine Common
wealth constabulary men on Min
danao Island dispatch to the Manila
Daily Bulletin from Dansalan said to-
day.
After surrounding fort held by the
Moros. the soldiers withdrew after a
prominent Moro chieftain promised
the outlaws would surrender, the
paper said.
Evening star., 1937-04-07

Scratches for Todoy-
(Clcar and Good
First race-Advocate, Jr.; May Mu-
sic, Happy Hostess, Cherrystone, Miss
Symphony. Tragedian.
Second race-Sylvia G..
Third race-Teneriffe, Late Day,
Gay Jack.
Fourth race-Retlaw.
Seve1th race-Bright Bird.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
perambulators Parked.

The new police court at Tottenham
England. has . special parking place
for baby perambulators.
Evening star., 1937-04-07

from Washington than any other
postal station In the world-almost
exactly on the opposite side Of the
Globe. Tho postage was 10 cents.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
OPPORTUNITY.
IN THIS day a telephone company
will telephone you in the early

I'm THIS day telephone company
will telephone you in the early
morning, for a small fee. and
L persuade you to abandon the
couch OF slumber. A professional
ghost writer will create your political
speeches or college themes on any
subject whatsoever. and scissors
grinders have sunk to keeping books,
showing precisely when the garden
shears and kitchen carving knife were
last ground to razor edge.
Possibly the final step in mechaniza-
ton of waking up. saying what we
think, having our scissors sharp and
feeling the tender emotions has been
attained by a West Coast firm We hear
about from a Washington friend. This
outfit keeps a file of the names and
wedding and birthday anniversary
dates of its clients, and when the
sacred day rolls around, calls up
to remind them the hour for senti-
ment has arrived.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
PLANE FALLS IN GULF
Army Craft in Accident Mile on
Galveston Shore.

offOk
GALVESTON, Tex, April CP).-
An Army plane making power dive
at a low target crashed into the Gull
of Mexico about one mile oil short to-
day. Coast Guard boats rushed to
the scene. Planes from Bar1dale
Field, Shreveport, are here engaged
in training.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
ELECTED DULUTH MAYOR
G. Rudolph Berghult Defeats s. F.

Snively, in Office Since 1921.
DULUTH, April 7 CP.-C. Rudolph
Berghult, 31-year-old student Of mu-
nicipal government and economics,
was elected mayor of Duluth in yes
terdays municipal election, defeating
Samuel F. Snively, who had held the
oflice since 1921.
Evening star., 1937-04-07

No doubt some enterprising Wash
ington service shop will soon snap
up the idea-in fact we may do 1t
ourselves, growing at last practical
instead of bitterly moody over the
decline and fall of everything except
machines and systems. No longer
then will there be those embarrassing
pauses in the homes Of our city, when
the little wife says coyly, DO you
know what day this is?" and the
husband, answering vaguely, Tues
day or something" crushes the gentle
spirit Of romance and sweet remem-
brance.
II thus it must be, we like to think
the service could extend to calling
up husbands one night week and
reminding them they have an i'm
portant business appointment, at
Casey's bar.
X X X
STONY.
On RiUer road, bet,Ueen Wash
ington and Potomac, Nd, there
is q big stone quarry oUned By a
Mrs Stone, Who Hpes in stone
house nearly knopn as Stone
hurst.
VOODOO.
HAVING long suspected that some
kind of evil spirits were at work
out in our barn because we never can
find what We want there, be it COW
or saddle pad, We were interested
in hearing from local friend what
the Eastern Pennsylvania farmers do
about these matters. They put up
hexafoos or witchfoot signs, called
bonngaringel in German.
This chap says he was motoring
up through the Pennsylvania agri-
cultural sector not long ago and saw
all manner OF cabalistic designs
usually a circle inclosing some geo.
metric symbol Customarily they are
made up in groups OF three, five or
seven in case you're thinking of trying
few, and they are guaranteed to
keep lightning from striking the barn
or persuade the COWS to stay on the
Job, free from interference at the
hands of witches. Just thought we'd
let you know.
X
ETYMOLOGY.
STEPHEN BoNsAL. dean Of Ameri-
- can war correspondents, tells his
confreres that the expression. nuts
to you" probably originated on a
train between here and New York.
back in the days when Richard
Harding Davis was the fair-haired
boy Of American journalism.
Bonsal says he and Davis were
riding the train when a butcher"
came through and tried to sell Davis
a copy OF THE Prisoner OF zenda."
"I've read it," said Davis.
Boy went away and came back with
Soldiers Of Fortune"
IT wrote It," said Davis.
Nuts to you" said the butcher
boy. thereby starting something.
Neither Mr.. Bonsal and for that
matter any one else, seems to have
any ideas about stopping 1t.
X y
SLUGGER.
4 FTER a boxing exhibition at q
mems club out in Woodside, Md,
the other night, an 85-pound young
ster named Johnnie Coakley Of Police
Boys Club No. 4, was offered piece
of cake. He took one bite, then
stopped abruptly. Asked If he could
have a paper napkin to wrap the cake
and take it home to his mother He
did, too, along with another piece the
hosts insisted upon his accepting.
We like this story because We think
it indicates something about the fu-
ture Of boxing, or young America, or
something. Anyhow, it's the only
really nice yarn we ever heard about
prizefghting or pri0efighters.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Rome

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1937-04-07

On Riuer road, betUeen Wash
ington and Potomac, Nd, there
is q big stone quarry oUned By q
Mrs. Stone, Who Hpes in stone
house nearly knoDn as Stone
hurst.
The Washington times., 1937-10-23
Boy Killed,
8 Hurt in
Crash

LURAY, Va, Oct. 23-One
CCC youth was dead today and
eight others were recovering from
injuries suffered last night when
two trucks collided on the Sky
line Drive, four miles east of here.
The dead youth was Robert
Cubbage, 81, Of Stanley. Va. He
was instantly killed, suffering a
broken neck, when he was thrown
from the vehicle.
Three Of the injured youths,
all taken to the hospital at Har-
riSonburg for treatment, are from
Philadelphia. They had just ar
rived at the camp three days ago.
They are Charles Fahrner, 10.
Harry Ward, 20, and Frank
Bagienski, 81.
Others injured In the crash
were Charles Morris, Harold Dot
felmoyer. Alton Lowry, Audrey
Vest and James Moore.
James Branham, 81, Of Char.
lottesville, Va, told Coroner Yer
gil Hammer he was driving along
the Skyline road, returning to
the camp from Luray where the
boys had been spending the even
ing, when the other vehicle came
around a turn on the wrong side
Of the road. The vehicles collided
and the CCC truck overturned.
An inquest into the death Of
Cubbage will be held today.