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GENERAL MOTORS
BACKSm. UNITS
Craft Leader Tells Members
to Go Back to Strike
Closed Plant. 4;
By the Associated Press.
The giant General Motors Corp,
which is beset by strikes, took sides
yesterday with American Federation
of Labor craft unions in their cam
paign to crush John L. Lewis’ in
dustrial organization drive.
John P. Frey, craft union spokes
man, announced General Motors’ posi
tion at the same time he told news
paper men he had advised craft union
members to go back to their Jobs at
the strike-closed Fisher Body plant
in Cleveland. Fisher Bodies is a Gen
eral Motors subsidiary.
The General Motors attitude was
disclosed in an exchange of telegrams
between Frey, president of the A. F.
of L. Metal Trades Department, and
H. W. Anderson of the corporation’s
Labor Relations Department in De
troit.
fTey asKea Anaerson i imisuay w
make no agreement with any organi
zation that would freeze the craft
unions out of General Motors plants.
Yesterday he received the following
reply:
•In line with the established
policy, you may rest assured that
General Motors has no intention of
entering into any agreement with any
other organization interfering with
legitimate jurisdiction of interna
tional unions affiliated writh the
Metal Trades Department of Ameri- j
can Federation of Labor.”
Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, is trying to bring all
the workers In each large industry,
Including automobiles, into one big
union. The federation last Septem
ber suspended 10 of its unions for
joining Lewis in his Committee for
. Industrial Organization.
•The craft leaders think highly
skilled workers should belong to the
Union of their craft, whether they
work in a large industry or a small
town shop.
Other developments In the labor
field:
Secretary Perkins, in her annual
report to Congress, said wage and
hour legislation was practical only
for fixing minimum standards. She
proposed "co-operation” and collec
tive bargaining for setting standards
above the minimum.
Miss Perkins and Edward F. Mc
Grady. Assistant Secretary, kept in
touch with the General Motors strike
situation by reports from Detroit con
ciliators. Miss Perkins, in turn, re
ported developments to President
Roosevelt.
Workers Seek Reopening.
A non-strikers’ committee at the
Fisher body plant in Cleveland,
claiming to represent 3,425 of 7.000
Idle employes, petitioned the company
to reopen the plant. In North Tarry
town, N. Y., 1.447 of 4.000 workers
pledged their "loyalty” to the com
pany and asked that the two General
Motors plants there remain open.
The Camegie-Illinois Steel Corp.
told the Labor Relations Board, in a
brief, that its employes were free to
join any union they chose, but that
they had accepted an employe repre
sentation plan. Lewis’ lieutenants
charged the plan was a "company
Union.”
Lewis would not comment on Frey’s
exchange with General Motors. His
attitude, as expressed by associates,
was that the craft unions were em
ploying strike-breaking tactics in the
ory. but were pow'erless to break the
strike In practice because they had
only a scattering of members in the
automobile industry.
Frey decried talk of breaking any
Strike. That, he said, was not the
Craft unions’ intention. They would
Hot send members back to work with
strike breakers, he added.
He said, however, in a telegram to
the Cleveland craftsmen, that they
Should resume ‘‘the work legitimately
theirs.”
Amendment
1 (Continued From First Page.)
4—-^
tile American Civil Liberties Union,
Aid Henry T. Hunt, legal advisor to
Secretary Ickes. It was said the Gov
ernment officials probably' would with
<fraw because it was not an adminis
tration project.
2 The meeting at the Cosmos Club
Included Government officials and
members of Congress who heard—in
Aidltion to Lewis and Norris—Ernst,
Representatives David J. Lewis, Demo
crat, of Maryland; Maverick, Dem
<Jprat, of Texas, and Merle Vin
cent, prominent Colorado Democrat.
Xll insisted action to counter the
Jfiwer being exercised by the courts
mas Imperative.
‘J "I am as sure as I am that the sun
to shining that we have the power
t&ider the Constitution to limit the
Jurisdiction of the courts,” Senator
Horris said.
7/He urged also a limitation on the
Judges’ tenure of office, saying:
w "It is obvious that judges living in
Ai atmosphere of luxury cannot be
Sven a conception of what's in the
■art of a poor man. The judge is
Sill not a divinity. The natural course
ir him is to seize all the power
]jb6sible.
*”In theory, it’s a beautiful thing
fbr a judge to be elevated above all
<$-dinary personal problems, but in
ceality it’s a dangerous thing.”
^ Norris favored depriving the lower
Xurts of their jurisdiction over con
tutional questions.
- John L. Lewis spoke in similar view.
*$3ur judiciary is falling into disre
pite and disrespect because there is a
conviction in the average man that
t}ie Supreme Court is settling these
problems on a basis of their back
bounds. their environment, and are
reaching for the law books to find
precedents to justify their attitude,”
$e said.
* “No doubt the average citizen of
this country stands on the right of
rngress to legislate so as to dispose
the major problems of the Nation
end so as to contribute to the per
petuation of its institutions.
* ‘‘Congress can hardly act now with
out having before it the thought that
before long it will be put on trial be
Jore the bench to show cause why Its
get* should not be nullified.
'I "The people I represent ask for a
Snstitutional amendment to remedy
e situation, if that is the procedure.
& not. surely there must be some
method whereby Congress can dis
charge its normal rights and duties.”
2 Representative Lewis, like John L.
hewis, of Welsh ancestry and a for
mer mine worker, suggested that Con
gress immediately pass again all acts
•yerthrown by the court.
**5t is a question of the life or death
M democracy in the United States,” ,
5
France Honors Landslide Hero
Mrs. Robert H. Dunlap, widow of the Marine Corps brigadier general who sacrificed his life
in France, in 1931, to save a French woman trapped in a landslide, yesterday was presented with
the Legion of Honor medal conferred posthumously on her husband for his heroism.
Mrs. Dunlap is pictured receiving the award. Left to right are: Mme. de Laboulaye, wife
of the French Ambassador; Mrs. Dunlap, Ambassador de Laboulaye and Mrs. Claude A. Swanson,
wife of the Secretary of the Navy. —Harris-Ewing Photo.
he said. “For myself, I am unwilling
indefinitely to continue as a member
of a make-believe Congress."
Representative Maverick's solution
was expressed by the hope that the
Supreme Court justices would recog
nize in making their decisions that
science and machinery have changed
the world. "If they won’t recognize
this.” Maverick said, “strip them of
their jurisdiction in constitutional
questions.”
Strike
(Continued From First Page.)
in five of our plants leave our prem
ises.
"However, at the last conferences
with the conciliators a set of demands
was presented from the union as con
ditions upon which the strikers would
move out.
“To have accepted these conditions
would have placed General Motors
in the position of condoning their
illegal action.”
Knudsen said the corporation
“asked nothing of the union except
the termination of the unlawful oc
cupation of its plants,” but that
“union officials were unwilling to
start negotiations on this basis and
insisted on further restrictions of the
corporation's freedom of action.”
The company executive expressed
"regret” at the delay in negotiations
and said: “Wt propose to do every
thing consistent with law and good
will toward all of our men or their
representatives."
Knudsen to See Managers.
Knudsen told newsmen that he
would hold a conference Sunday
morning with the managers of several
of the plants which have been closed
by the strike. He did not state the
purpose of their talks.
John Thomas Smith, vice president
and general counsel of General Mo
tors, returned to New York today after
consulting Knudsen and other cor
poration executives here. Earlier in
the week Alfred P. Sloan, jr„ Gen
eral Motors president, also visited the
corporation offices here and returned
to Newr York.
"There is a difference between rec
ognition of the union arm recogni
tion of the union as the sole bargain
ing agency for General Motors em
ployes,” Martin told newsmen prior
to the statement by Knudsen.
“General Motors must recognize the
union in order to hold conferences
with us. We do not consider that a
negotiable point. .
But recognition of the union as
the sole bargaining agency is a ne
gotiable point and still is one of our
eight demands. We do not, however,
demand that General Motors agree
on that point before negotiations are
opened."
The week-end shutdown found 93,
849 General Motors employes idle in
15 cities because of strikes, parts short
ages or lack of markets for products
of the plants employing them.
Despite the seeming impasse. Mur
phy said late today, "I believe both
sides want to work out a settlement.
It can be and should be done.”
Pre-Negotiation Demands.
Afew minutes earlier, the United
Automobile Workers listed their pre
negotiation demands as union recog
nition and a written guarantee
that, if "stay-in” strikers are with
drawn from plants they hold, the
corporation will not remove equip
ment or attempt to reopen the plants.
They also demanded immediate cessa
tion of anti-strike activity such as
circulation of petitions, "organisation
of vigilantes” and "threatening or co
ercion of employes.1’
The union's statement given to the
Governor said “you have already in
formed us that General Motors will
not subscribe to such a guarantee,"
and expressed determination “to con
tinue this struggle with all lawful
means at our disposal until genuine
and effective collective bargaining is
accorded to the employes” of General
Motors.
Knudsen reiterated in a telegram to
Msgr. John A. Ryan of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference the cor
poration's stand that “we cannot per
mit occupancy of our plants contrary
to law.”
.ms telegram was in response to an
offer of aid toward strike settlement
by Msgr. Ryan and two other clergy
men.
Assurance that General Motors
would not enter any agreement with
any organization “interfering with
legitimate jurisdiction” of craft unions
in its factories was given to John P.
Frey, president of the metal trades
department of the American Federa
tion of Labor, in a telegram from
H. W. Anderson of the corporation’s
labor department.
Craft Unions Not Bound.
Frey - telegraphed the Cleveland
Metal Trades Council that its craft
union members were "in no way
bound” by the action of strikers at
the Fiaher Body Co. plant there. The
Automobile Workers’ Union is an
affiliate of the Committee for Indus
trial Organization, whose leaders were
suspended by the Federation of Labor.
The U. A. W. A. statement late
today, declaring General Motors has
rejected “all reasonable proposals,”
said:
“The law of the land requires more
than a vague promise to be law abid
ing. It lays down definite specifica
tions as to what are the employer’s
obligations in the matter at genuine
r
collective bargaining. These have not
been met.”
Murphy, reporting that "both aides
have been doing their best” In the
conciliation conferences, expressed
hope "that the parties will soon place
their differences on a status of con
ciliation and arbitration, which should
characterize the handling of a great
problem like this in an advanced and
progressive community.”
At Flint, Mich., where 26,359 workers
were idle in four General Motors
plants, and Anderson. Ind., with two
plants employing 10.209 closed, anti
strike movements were under way.
George E. Boysen, former mayor of
Flint who was employed for 24 years
by General Motors, reported 8,500
persons had signed membership cards
in "the Flint Alliance for the security
of our Jobs, our homes and our com
munity,” and added, "when we obtain
enough members to be really con
vincing we will seek a conference with
General Motors officials to see if ar- 1
rangements can be made for reopen
ing closed plants.”
Appeal to Employes.
Homer P. Lambert, a cemetery man
ager, chairman of a newly-formed
"Citizens League for Employment Se
curity” at Anderson, made a public
appeal to employes of the Guide Lamp
and Delco-Remy plants there to "re
nounce foreign leadership.”
The chairman of a non-strikers’
committee at the Fisher Body Co.
plant at Cleveland, closed December
28 by a strike, announced 3.425 of the
7.211 employes were ready to return
to work. The Works Council at the
Chevrolet Motor Co. plant at Flint,
which closed at 1 a m. today, said
11,300 of the 11,485 men at work
when the plant shut down had signed
petitions asserting they were "not in
sympathy with the present organizing
movement.”
At North Tarrytown, N. Y.. a pe
tition of 1,447 of the 4,000 workers
requested General Motors not to shut
down two plants there and pledged
loyalty to the company union.
Michael J. Burke, president of the
Flint Federation of Labor, which voted
to support the TJ. A. W. A. strike to
the extent of a general strike If nec
essary, said today headquarters of
the Individual Federation Unions
would have to give approval before
their members could Join auch a
walkout.
inrrsier rwn notice.
Another big automobile concern, the
Chrysler Corp.. noting what it said
were reports of "Intimidation" of its j
workers, posted notices on bulletin
boards that "nobody has to join any
organization to get or keep a job in
this plant.”
The U. A. W. A. president recently
classified labor conditions in Chrysler
factories as ‘satisfactory.”
The corporation's notice said: "The
management of this plant will discuss
and settle any matter affecting condi
tions of employment with any em
ploye, with the employe himself, or
with any representative he chooses,
union, non-union, or any one else.”
ltnudsen Statement.
Knudsen’s statement last night on
negotiations follows:
"General Motors Corp. officials have
been in conferences with Gov. Murphy
and U. S. Department of Labor Com
missioners Dewey. McDonald and
O’Connor during the past week. We
have time and again expressed will
ingness to bargain collectively with
union officials on the basis of their
memorandum of January 4 upon the
sole condition that sit-down strikers
in five or our plants leave our premises.
“However, at the last conferences
with the conciliators, a set of demands
were presented from the union as
conditions upon which the strikers
would move out.
"To have accepted these conditions
would have placed General Moters in
the position of condoning their illegal
action.
“In a further effort to make prog
ress, and at the Governor’s sugges
tion, we wrote the following letter to
the Governor, dated January 8:
“ ‘General Motors Corp. representa
tives, immediately upon the evacua
tion of its plants by those employes
engaged in the sit-down strike, will
meet with the representatives of the
International Union of the United
Automobile Workers of America for
the purpose of bargaining collectively
on such of the proposals contained in
the letter from the international union
dated January 4, which deal with
matters of general corporate policy.
"Without Prejudice.”
" ‘Negotiations will be conducted
frankly and without prejudice to any
one.’
Unfortunately, the union officials
were unwilling to start negotiations on
this basis and insisted on further re
strictions of the corporation’s freedom
of action. So far as the corporation
is concerned, it asked nothing of the
union except the termination of the
unlawful occupation of its plants*.
“We regret exceedingly the delay in
negotiations affecting so many thou
sands of our employes. We propose
to do everything consistent with law
and good will toward all of our men
or their representatives, but we can
not condone the illegal occupation of
our plants.
"We express our sincere thanks and
appreciation to the Hon. Prank
Murphy, Governor of Michigan, for
his unremitting efforts to bring the
parties together on a basis of lawful
bargaining, in the hope of a speedy
settlement of a strike that is doing
unnecessary and irreparable damage
to hundreds of thousands of innocent
sufferers, and we regret that the ar
bitrary action of the union officials
has frustrated his endeavors.”
I
HIGH COURT CURBS
New York Justice Declares
Congress Should Be
Supreme.
Bt the Associated Press.
PATERSON, N. J„ January 9 —Three
amendments to limit the United States
Supreme Court's power over the
Constitution were proposed tonight by
Justice William Harman Black of the
New York Supreme Court.
“I believe that setting aside acts ol
Congress gives too much power to the
Supreme Court,” Justice Black said
in an address for delivery before the
Passaic County Bar Association. "The
exercise of this power unstabilizee
business and keeps it in a state ol
dangerous uncertainty."
Offers Three Amendments.
The jurist proposed the following
amendments:
1. That the Supreme Court shall
have no power to declare any amend
ment unconstitutional after it is legally
proposed and lawfully adopted, aj
Article V of the Constitution itsell
provides.
2. That the Supreme Court shall Mr
no event, by construction or otherwise
set aside or repeal any original section
or article of the Constitution itself.
3. That the Supreme Court shall
have no power to set aside an act ol
Congress as unconstitutional.
Commenting on the latter proposal
he said, “no other great country hat
any provision authorizing its highesi
court to set aside acts of its Congrest
or Parliament, or the highest law
making power.”
Criticize* Close Decisions.
Since the Supreme Court exercise.'
its power "in a nearly evenly divided
court.” Justice Black said, “this gives
one member of the court far more
power than the executive department
has. This member of the court whc
casts the deciding vote thus becomes
an unelected sovereign stronger than
any dictator."
The justice also suggested as a pos
sible remedy a provision whereby every
general law proposed for Congres.*
would be considered first by the
Supreme Court to see if H would b«
constitutional.
He recommended, too. appliance ol
the same rule to laws after they are
passed, but before they become effec
tive.
Black also urged regional repre
sentation on the Supreme Court, re
marking the court from a geographi
cal point of view now is "lopsided and
entirely out of balance.”
ESTATE OF HAYDEN
MAY BE $50,000,000
Associates Wonder About Disposi
tion of Wealth of Philan
thropic Bachelor.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 9.—Associate!
of the late Charles Hayden, bankei
and philanthropist who died Iasi
night, speculated tonight on the dis
position of an estate they estimated
was valued at more than *50,000,000
They recalled that the bachelor
financier several years ago confided
he wanted to provide scholarships al
Harvard and the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology and to leave large
sums to character-building groups like
the Boy Scouts of America.
Hayden made his money in copper
transportation and the banking busi
ness. At his death he was a directoi
of 52 corporations, among the largesl
in the world, and was an active figure
in the management of more than 70.
When he was not engaged in busi
ness affairs he was collecting ran
potteries and paintings and heading
philanthropic campaigns.
For his *150,000 planetarium, gift t(
the Museum of Natural History, he
was listed in the 1935 honor roll ol
the Nation, Liberal Magazine.
Once James W. Gerard, former Am
bassador to Germany, listed Hayden
as one of those ‘‘who are too busy to
hold political office but who determine
who shall hold such office.”
Funeral services will be held at St.
Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church Mon
day.
PREJUDICE ALLEGED
Attorney Files Affidavit Against
Justice James M. Proctor.
James Laughlin, attorney, who is
scheduled to go on trial before Jus
tice James M. Proctor of District Court
tomorrow on charges of forgery, em
bezzlement, larceny and larceny after
trust, yesterday filed an affidavit of
prejudice against the judge in an
effort to disqualify him from sitting
in the case.
Alleging that Justice Proctor “has
a bias and prejudice against him,"
Laughlin said it was his opinion he
“could not obtain a fair and im
partial trial” before the jurist.
The affidavit was filed without
knowledge of Laughlin's attorney, E.
Russel Kelly, who immediately there
after announced his withdrawal from
the ease.
A
MARITIME ME
PEACE IS NEARER
Coastwise Ship Workers to
Vote on New Plan at
Once.
Bjr the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 9 —
A Federal conciliator reported “set
tlement psychology” is enveloping the
12-day maritime tie-up tonight as
some of the striking unions moved
toward a. vote on peace proposals.
The end of the costly labor struggle
appeared in sight for at least one
group—the coastwise ships, which
carry about 10 per cent of the West
ern ports’ water-borne commerce.
Tentative agreements between the
schooner operators and five of the
seven striking unions were ready
either for formal votes of workers or
“feeler votes” on some phases of set
tlement proposals.
Two of the unions had tentative
agreements with the offshore oper
ators, who handle the other 90 per
cent of the coast's maritime trade.
Four other unions were considering
employer offers.
"Settlement psychology Is In the
air,” said Federal Conciliator E. P.
Marsh, "but I believe talk of a com
plete settlement 1s premature.’*
im.sAiv ms upiimiNUC.
Senator Charles L. McNary of Ore
gon, minority Senate leader, notified
Portland interests he had conferred
with President Roosevelt on the ship
strike situation and had “reason to
j believe the whole controversy will be
adjusted in a very short time.”
McNary said the President had re
ceived “thousands and thousands" of
telegrams regarding the tie-up.
Oregon's other Senator. Republican
Frederick Steiwer, made public m
Washington a letter in which he
asked the President to use his influ
ence toward settling the walkout and
expressed the belief no adjustment
would be reached except through that
course.
Wage Increases Involved.
Negotiators worked late in attempts
to whip into shape an embryonic
agreement between the Masters,
Mates’ and Pilots’ Union and the off
shore operators. This proposal in
volves an employer offer of wago
increases, union recognition and a
guarantee against discrimination in
exchange for unrestricted freedom of
the owners to choose ships' officers.
The Sailors' Union, which several
weeks ago reached a tentative agree
ment with the coastwise operators
involving a boost in pay from $62 50
to $80 a month, asked for a revision
making the pay $85.
Employers replied they could not
afford it and asked union spokesmen
to submit the original agreement to
a “feeler vote.” Strike leaders
agreed to do so next week.
INTERVENTION URGED
--*
Co-operative Council Appeals to Presi
dent in Strike Crisis.
The National Co-operative Council,
composed of farm co-operatives, yes
terday appealed to President Roose
velt to intervene in the Pacific Coast
maritime strike.
It said farm products valued at
millions of dollars have been “embar
goed and “the burden is becoming
I unbearable."
i
THE WEATHER
District of Columbia—Rain today
and tomorrow; much colder today;
moderate winds, mostly northeast,
Maryland—Rain and much colder
today; tomorrow rain in east and rain
possibly mixed with sleet or snow in
west portion.
Virginia Rain and colder, much
| colder in north portion today; tomor
| row rain and colder in east, and rain
i Possibly mixed with sleet and colder in
west portion.
West Virginia—Rain or sleet and
colder today; tomorrow rain or sleet
possibly mixed with snow.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah rivers
muddy late yesterday afternoon.
Report Until 10 P.M. Saturday.
Midnight-67 12 noon_60
~ a m- 67 2 p.m_75
4 a m- 67 4 p.m_75
2 5 S-51 6 p m-or
10 a m-64 10 n.m_ 61
Record Until 10 P.M. Saturday.
tgHishest. 76. at 3 p.m. yesterday. Year
aeo0*^1, 67. at 3 a.m. yesterday. Year
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 76, on January p.
Lowest. 30. on January 6.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
tti.v. Today. Tomorrow.
Low - R'14 am. 6:68 a.m.
-12:57 a.m. 1:43 a.m.
High - 6:31) p.m. 7:22 pm
- - 1:04 p m. 1:49 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
fun. today ....
Sun. tomorrow_ 7:27 vnh
Moon, today 5 44 q m V*>i nm
on* htftifl°hi1nr li?ht" mU8t b« turned* on
one-hali hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
CamtaMcurrentDmonth to date5)** the
Jam,ryh‘_Tel T*«»rd
Mabrrch*rr - «■**
ADril - — 2 76 8.84 ’91
Mar - — 227 »13 '69
",n»- — - 2-70 10.69 '89
July - 4.13 10.94 ’OO
August. - tSi 122? 32
September _I J * n'SI Jiti .~5
October _ Ssi 34
November _ J” S 2'2o
December . 3 Si, 5 52
Weather in Various Cities
, • Preeipl
^rTemperaiure^ tation.
Max. Min. 8nm
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Atlantic Cl?‘ R J.’ fl" 44 g-g}
SSS*:: i » ?! "
Bismarck. N. Dak._ R —1- '5
Boston. Mass-R4 4* R4
Buffalo. N. Y_3R no n-f t
Chicaeo. Hi._ jr ?2 ^ 014
Cincinnati. Ohio..! 38 rr 34 0-Sa
Cheyenne. Wyo_2” 12 in °'88
Cleveland. Ohio_34 34 in n Tfi
Dallas. Tex_I 22 ir 55 2 ' g
Davenport. Iowa_10 o in 005
Denver. Colo.. _12 fl in -
Des Moines. Iowa_8 —« r -
Detroit. Mich_30 30 "r hio
Duluth. Minn_—4 —rd _Zr 2 i?
El Paso. Tex-48 2S 4R 1
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MinneaDolis. Minn._ 4 —14 4 '
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Philadelphia. Pa_BR 48 flo
Phoenix. Arts._ 48 30 4ft I
Pittsburxh. Pa- 56 56 38 0.14
Portland. Me.- 54 3ft 50 0.0ft
Portland. Orec_ 26 22 22 0 43
Rapid City. 8. Dak . 18 —12 R
8. Lake City. Utah, ft —12 O
St. Louis. Mo-20 14 1R 0.42
San Antonio. Tex.. . 32 2B 30 0.02
San Diexo. Calif. 54 38 52 _
S. Francisco. Calif. 44 32 44 _
Santa Pe. N Mex._ 32 20 2« ...
Savannah. Ga.__ 78 «3 ftfl 0.J2
Seattle. Wash-- 32 30 30 0.14
Sprint field. Ill-18 12 18 0.04
Tamps. Pla._80 ft4 74
SaSM'S.-e58 S’ if
Cross Retriever Blessed
Demetrios Psarakis* 40-year-old ice cream parlor proprietor
of Jamaica, N. Y., being blessed by Archbishop Athenagoras, head
of the Greek church in the Western Hemisphere, after Psarakis
had retrieved the golden cross in the annual Greek cross day
ceremonies at Tarpon Springs, Fla. Psarakis bested 23 young
Greeks in youth's ritualistic plunge into Spring Bayou for the
golden cross, which was thrown into the water by the archbishop.
—A. P. Photo.
—
'Subway-Seaway From Lakes
| To Baltimore Is Proposed
By the Associated Press.
j CONNEAUT. Ohio, January 9 —
! Perplexed property owners furrowed
their brows tonight over what they 1
i termed an “all-time high" in projects ,
j —a proposed 303-mile electric sub- j
I way-seaway under the Alleghany ;
j Mountains, linking the Great Lakes
j with the Atlantic seaboard.
Three Pennsylvanians circulated j
\ petitions addressed to the Federal j
j Government in which signers urged
j Uncle Sam to build the Gargantuan
] artery of commerce from Conneaut
to Baltimore. Md.
Asa L. Carter of Cleveland outlined
the project to the War Department in
Washington today, but was informed
a special congressional order was re
quired before the subway-seaway
could even be considered.
Carter estimated the tunnel would
cost $375,000.000—but Army engi
neers said Carter's figure was about
a billion dollars off.
The petitioners—Agnes Gliwa. Peter j
Faust and William Carothers, of Al
j legheny County. Pa.—explained with
the aid of a 22-page printed pamph
let the undertaking would embrace:
A $180,000,000 two-way electric
freight subway.
A $90,000,000 motor traffic highway,
100 feet wide.
A $90,000,000 freight-balancing wa
ter tunnel at sea level.
A $15,000,000 freight-balancing by
product gas main.
The unprecedented tunnel, petition
ers said, would be labeled the George
Washington Speeding Seaway.
Arguments advanced in support ot
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Relief
(Continued From First Page.)
bach. Democrat, of Washington and
Murray, Democrat, of Montana and
Representatives O'Connor. Democrat, i
i of Montana; Piexoe, Democrat, of
Oregon; Voorhls, Democrat, of Cali
fornia and Smith, Democrat, of
Washington.
Congress members from Oregon. |
Washington, Idaho, Montana, Cali
fornia and Wyoming attended.
Bone said Mr. Roosevelt's recom
mendation of $650,000,000 to finance
W. P. A. through June 30 would pro
; vide only $130,000,000 a month, com
pared to an average expenditure of
j $170,000,000 in each of the last six
months.
"At least $40,000,000 a month more
will be needed to keep relief at its
present level,” he said, "and much
larger sums would be required to
handle the problem as it should be
handled.”
12,000 New Jobs Needed.
In Washington alone, he asserted,
“at least 12.000 new W. P. A. jobs”
are needed this month for “drought
refugees.”
Bone said needs of the other five
States had not yet been estimated, but
that they ran "pretty high.”
Schwellenbach suggested the situa
tion might be met without a net in
crease in the Federal budget, if
other States were willing to transfer
part of their relief funds to the
Northwest.
Other committee members said pri
vately, however, "such generosity is
probably too much to expect.”
At the conference, in addition to
those previously mentioned, were Sen
ators Steiwer, Republican, of Ore
gon and Schwartz, Democrat, of
Wyoming and Representatives Hill.
Leavy and Coffee, Washington Demo
crats; Clark. Democrat, of Idaho and
O'Connell. Democrat, of Montana and
J. E. Griffiths, Oregon W. P. A. ad
ministrator.
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the colossal proposition included:
It would reduce rail distance by
one-third between Lake Erie and
the ocean.
Cargoes would be aboard ocean
freighters seven hours after being un
loaded at Conneaut.
Total cost would be less than the
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway.
The subway would be immune to
military attack.
Potential annual freieht capacity
would total 700,000.000 tons.
DR. DE FORD DIES
Mother of Allen V. de Ford to Be
Buried Tomorrow.
Dr. Frances Allen de Ford, mother
of Allen V. de Ford, Washington mer
chandise broker, died yesterday at
her home in Philadelphia, according
to news received here.
She was the wife of Dr. M. de
Ford. Two daughters also are among
the survivors. They are Miss Alice
R. de Ford and Mrs. Maynard Ship
ley of Philadelphia.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day at 2 p.m. at 5629 North Six
teenth street, Philadelphia.
Communications Restored.
16 Marooned in Utah
Are Rescued.
B> the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 9.—The Win
ter-weary West cheered a forecast of
rising temperatures today.
Federal meteorologists promised re
lief over the week end in the States
beset by snow and subzero cold.
Frigid weather handicapped plow
crews, but they cleared most major
highways in the storm belt. Many
secondary roads were still buried un
der snow. Communication* to cities
temporarily cut off by sleet and Ice
approached normal.
16 on Bus Rescued.
Huge drifts blocked the highway
between Las Vegas, Nev., and Salt
Lake City. Approximately 50 mo
torists took shelter in filling stations.
A number of busses and cars turned
back. Sixteen passengers, marooned
j tor 24 hours in Southwestern Utah,
were brought out on horse-drawn
sleighs.
Two Indians perished in the Ari
zona storm. Search for two others—
6-year-old Navajo girls who disap
peared in the blizzard a week ago—
| was abandoned on the theory they
were dead. Twenty members of the
Hopi tribe, lost while hunting for
j them, were rescued.
Tram freed From Snow.
A passenger train, wedged in a
22-foot snow barrier for 21 hours, was
pulled free-and carried its 16 patrons
into Norfolk, Nebr. A freight engine
darted off ice clogged rails at Glen
wood, Mo. The brakeman was killed.
Freezing weather spread over Cali
fornia. Los Angeles had an overnight
low of 31.8, the coldest snap since
January 20, 1922. Icy streets oc
casioned many accidents there. A
reading of 32 gave San Francisco the
chilliest January 9 on record. Trade
I officials feared the citrus crop—valued
! at $112,000,000 a year—had suffered
extensive damage.
Twenty-three deaths were attributed
1 to the weather. Oklahoma had six.
California and Texas had four each,
Arizona, Utah and Nevada two each,
Nebraska, Missouri and Minnesota
one each.
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DALGLEISH TO TELL
OF TRANSPORTATION
Capital Transit Chief Engineer'^
Views to Feature Electrical
Engineers' Meeting.
R H. Dalgleish, chief engineer of
the Capital Transit Co., will discuss
modern transportation in a paper to
be read at a meeting of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers Tues
day at 8 p.m. at the Potomac Electric
Power Co. auditorium.
A film, entitled “Modern Transit."
will be shown as a part of the program.
Dalgleish will be guest of honor at a
| dinner to be given at the Raleigh
Hotel at 6 p.m.
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