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KIDNAP SUSPECT
SURRENDERS FOR
POLICE GRILLING
Former California Convict
Walks Into Tacoma
Headquarters.
ANOTHER MAN IS HELD
IN BLOCKADED PRISON
—
Search Is Pressed for Pair Who
Disappeared From Dented
Cottage.
By the Associated Press.
Ex-convict sought for questioning in
Mattson kidnap-killing case sur
renders to police at Tacoma, Wash.
Justice Department agents question
prisoner under sentence for robbery.
Officers seek to identify shack con
taining boy’s clothing as lair of
kidnap-killer.
Officers reported to have found ham
mer near site of boy's battered
corpsse.
potential suspects and clues pile up,
but officials refuse comment.
►» the Associated Press.
TACOMA, Wash., January 15.—Fred
Orrin Haynes, former Folsom t Calif. >
Prison convict, sought for questioning
in the Charles Mattson kidnap-killing
case, surrendered here today and was
questioned in Detective Capt. Marshall
Bcrafford's office.
The detective said Haynes came into
the city police station early today,
while State police were seeking a man
and a woman who disappeared from
a four-room furnished cottage five
miles north of Seattle Wednesday—two
days after the body of the 10-year-old
boy was discovered near Everett, Wash.
Another man, Lee Haskell Fowle’-,
S6. was held in the county jail at
Bellingham, Wash. The jail was
blockaded while Federal officers inter
rogated him.
Chief William Cole of the State
police, investigated the cottage north
of Seattle and said neighbors reported
a man resembling Haynes occupied it
until Wednesday.
A blue clay barbecue pit is along a
creek nearby, but Cole said the “whole
country there is of blue clay forma
tion.” Blue clay was found under the
•lain boy's fingernails.
Three Names Used.
Cole said three names were used
by the man and a woman companion
who lived in the house. One was
used in renting the cottage, another
in buying fuel and the third in tele
grams intended for the man after
he and the woman had left. The
Woman also was sought.
Neighbors, the chief said, reported
the man was “in and out of the
house at night.” He was supposed
to be a photographer.
An official source asserted the Bel
lingham prisoner, Fowler, declined to
account, during several hours of ques
tioning, for his whereabouts since
December 27, the night 10-year-old
Charles was seized for the $28,000
ransom his physician father tried in
Tain to pay.
The same source said suspicion was
aroused by Fowler's sudden action in
pleading guilty Tuesday to robbing a
milling company December 17. He is
Under 20-year sentence.
Woman Sees Picture.
At San Jose, Calif., a former Seat
tle woman told Sheriff George W.
Lyle a photograph convinced her
Haynes was the man to whom she
rented the cottage near Seattle two
months ago. Haynes has served a term
In California for receiving stolen
goods.
At Everett, the killer's trail grew i
(See_iaDN APING rPage^A-2.)
COLDERWEATHER
MOVES ON CAPITAL
Freezing Temperature Is Expected
to End Freak Period—69
at 4 A.M. Today.
Colder weather, moving eastward, is
expected to reach Washington tonight,
bringing possibly freezing tempera
tures and ending a freak period which
saw the mercury soaring to 69 degrees
at 4 a.m. today.
The forecaster predicted fair and
much colder weather tonight and to
morrow. The minimum probably will
be around 32 degrees.
Residents of this vicinity had the
unusual experience of having the
highest temperature of the last 24
hours at 4 o’clock this morning—ordi
narily the time when the "low” mark
Is recorded. The Weather Bureau de
scribed this as a very unusual occur
rence.
Beginning at 46 at midnight Wed
nesday, the mercury climbed steadily
yesterday and at midnight stood at 67
degrees. After reaching the peak at
4 a.m. today It started falling. The
sudden rain sent the temperature
down several degrees further.
.COOLIE ADMITS KILLING
•U. S. WOMAN IN NANKING
35-Month-Old Murder Mystery Is
Solved, Police Say—Robbery
Held Motive.
£? the Associated Press.
NANKING, January 15.—The 15
month-old mystery of the death of
Dr. Susan Waddell Hsu, formerly of
Berkeley. Calif., was solved today
with police announcement a ’rick
shaw coolie had confessed her slay
ing.
The body of the American woman,
wife of Dr. Hsu Shih-chu, was found
In a ditch beside a lonely Nanking
road October 15, 1935.
Police said Liu Yung-hstng, the
coolie, had confessed strangling and
robbing her.
Liu was being questioned about
other slayings in which he was be
lieved implicated, after which his
death by strangulation was ordered.
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Hazen and Allen Reappointed
As District Commissioners
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Roosevelt's Action Ends
Speculation on
Retirement.
President Roosevelt today nomi
nated Melvin C. Hazen and George
E. Allen for reappointment as Dis
trict Commissioners.
The nominations were sent to the
Senate early and were to be referred
to the District Committee. This ends
speculation as to possible retirement
of one or more of the Commissioners.
It is known that the President has
been much pleased with the admin
istration of Washington’s affairs by
the present Commissioners. The re
appointments, therefore, were no sur
prise to those in touch with the sit
uation.
Hazen is president of the Board of
Commissioners. Prior to his appoint
ment to the board he had served for
many years as District surveyor.
Allen, before assuming the District
Building past, had been In the hotel
management business here.
Allen had told newspaper men at
the Capitol, near the end of the last
session, that he planned to resign
as Commissioner about the "middle
of November.’’ That is, he meant
after the national elections.
The statement, however, was not
final or conclusive and Allen after
ward said he would know more defi
nitely later on.
Hazen and Allen have served as
head of the District government since
November 14, 1933. They aucceeded
Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer and MaJ.
Gen. Herbert B. Crosby.
Their first commissions were given
as recess appointments, since Con
gress was not in session at the time.
They were reappointed for the full
term on January 15. 1934, when the
appointments were approved by the
Senate.
GEORGE E. ALLEN.
MELVIN C. HAZEN.
ROME AND BERLIN
ASK BRITAIN'S AID
Seek to Trade Activity in
Spain for Anti-Com
munist Stand.
BACKGROUND—
Traditional balance of power
policy commits Britain to middle
road tactics in Spanish crisis.
Strict non-intervention demanded
by France supported by Baldwin
government but taken less seri
ously by Italy and even less seri
ously by Germany. Nazis, already
outspoken in demand for colonial
empire, openly flout Russia as
leading spirit of Spanish loyalist
movement.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, January 15—British ad
herence to a European anti-commu
nism bloc was reported today in in
formed Fascist circles as the Italo
German price for strict non-interven
tion in the Spanish civil war.
Should Great Britain decline the
invitation which Premier Mussolini
and German Air Minister Wilhelm
Goering are reported drafting, Fas
cists said the temptation for Ger
many and Italy to support the Span
ish insurgents openly would be great.
If Britain joins Italy and Germany
in the front against communism,
however, these sources said, there need
be no further obstacles to strict neu
trality in Spain.
In the meantime, it was reported.
no answer to the last British demand
for non-intervention could be ex
pected until II Duce and Fuehrer
Adolph Hitler’s first minister have
fully determined the joint Italo-Ger
man procedure.
France Also Included.
A similar invitation, it was said,
would be extended to France. While
full French participation was con
sidered doubtful, less adamant French
support of the Spanish government
would be an important phase of the
agreement.
Fascist sources regarded the French
position in the ultimate four-power
anti-communism bloc with a mental
question mark.
A storm of opposition wax foreseen
from the French Popular Front, and,
even under the best of conditions,
it was felt France would be greatly
embarrassed to find a solution which
would not conflict with her alliance
with Russia.
Nevertheless, it was felt in Rome,
should the alignment be completed,
France could be persuaded to lessen
her interest in the popular Iront in
Spain.
Despite his arduous program of po
litical conferences — the spectacular
air minister talked with II Duce three
(See EUROPE," Page~A-37)
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THREATS CHGED
; 10 GUARD OFFICER
Attorney Tells La Follette
Probers He Was Warned
to Drop Flogging Case.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Yelverton Cowherd, a labor attor
ney of Birmingham. Ala., told the
La Follette Committee today that
Capt. William J. Hanna made threats
that he (Cowherd) would be “taken
care of" If he didn't keep out of
the Gelders case.
Hanna, an officer of the Alabama
National Guard, and said to be head
of a secret service maintained by
the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad
Co., was identified by Joseph S. Gel
ders as one of the Vigilantes who beat
and flogged him last September 23.
Cowherd told the committee also
of threats made against Gelders by
Hanna on the afternoon of Septem
ber 23.
He testified that another National
Guard officer, Maj. Harry E. Smith,
had told him that 15 out of 17 of
ficers in the Birmingham district are
on the pay roll of the T. C I.
It was testified previously that the
National Guard has been supplied to
the T. C. I. on several occasions to
handle labor troubles.
Testifying that he accused Hanna
of making the threats. Cowherd said
he warned the officer he had “better
keep your mouth shut, because the
Government is interested in this case
and I’m going to testify about, it."
Talking with reporters la;cr, Cow
herd said Hanna had been active in
pressing for a campaign by the Amed
can Legion Post there to keep the
terms “Communist" and labor” tied
up together, thus attempting to brand
all union members and labor organ
izers as Communists.
Cowherd said that because of this
effort, he resigned from a Legion
committee and was replaced by a
law partner of Borden B..rr, counsel
for the T. C. I., who ap>eared yes
terday before the committee.
A second witness before the com
mittee today also Involved Hanna
through circumstantial evidence.
Carey E. Haigler, C. C. C. worker, re
peated conversation in which Hanna
said “Reds" should be beaten with
base ball bats. Gelders was beaten
with a base ball bat as well as a
strap.
The background of evidence point
(See LAFOLLETTE, PageA-2.)
SIX PERSONS KILLED
IN OIL LINE BLAST
Fire Others Burned Seriously.
Explosion Occurs in Attempt
to Bepair Leak.
By the Associated Press.
PRYOR, Okla., January 15.—Four
women and two men were burned to
death last night near Strang, Okla.,
when an oil line of the Oulf Oil &
Refining Co. exploded while a crew
of seven men was attempting to repair
a leak.
Five other men were burned seri
ously and were brought to a hospital
here. The dead:
Mr. and Mrs. Currie Barnett,
Guthrie, Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Glllam, Stroud,
Okla.
Mrs. John Estes, Avant, Okla.
Mrs. John Lamb, Seminole, Okla.
Injured were John Estes, Avant,
foreman; 8im Beeson, Avant; Alton
Awling, Shawnee; Joe Alton, Jenks,
and John Lamb, Seminole.
Reports here said the women were
trapped in their motor cars as flames
leaped up from the pipe line. They
had driven out to take their husbands
home from work.
Reports here said leaking oil be
came ignited from a torch being used
in welding operations.
All the dead and injured lived at
the Gulf Co. pump station, 7 miles
southwest of Strang.
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SHAKE-UP BATHE
STARTS IN SENATE
WITH BYRQATTAEK
Virginian Opposes Measure
of Glass to Continue
R. F. C. Functions.
JOINT COMMITTEE PLAN
SUPPORTED BY ROBINSON
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House Speaker Given Authority
Yesterday for Appointments
to Such a Group.
BULLETIN.
Overriding the opposition of
Chairman Byrd of its Special Re
organization Committee, the Sen
ate jammed through by a 73-to-l
vote this afternoon the proposal
to continue the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. and five subsidiary
emergency lending agencies lor
another two and one-half years.
Byrd cast the only dissenting
vote. Senator Glass, sponsoring
the measure, offered a conciliatory
amendment to extend the agencies
only until July 1. 1938. but this
was voted down. 52 to 22.
BY WILL P. KENNEDY.
The fight in Congress over reor
ganization of the Government struc
ture started in the Senate today witn
Chairman Byrd of the Special Sen
ate Reorganization Committe oppos
ing the bill sponsored by his colleague,
Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia,
to continue the functions of the Re
construction Finance Corp.
Senator Byrd argued that to extend
this and other emergency agencies
created by Congress lor two and a
half years would seriously interfere
with an effective reorganization of
the machinery of government.
Byrd expressed conviction that
: these agencies should be continued
only to July 1, 1938, at which time
Congress could extend them lurther
if the necessity arose.
This first clash over reorganization
came simultaneously with an an
nouncement by Majority Leader Rob
l lnson that he proposed to co-operate
I with the House in organization of the
| new special joint committee on or
' ganization through which the Presi
dent’s proposals for reorganization
would be sent.
House Giyas Authority.
The House late Teaterday had au
thorized the 8peaker to appoint the
House members for such & committee
with inquisitorial powers.
The divergence between the Presi
dent and Byrd on reorganization
seems to be that the administration
frankly admits it expects to achieve
little money saving through its rec
ommendations, while the Senator In
sists that at least $300,000,000 an
nually can be promptly saved In the
costs of Government.
Mr. Roosevelt's program calls prin
cipally for reorganization In the In
terests of efficiency, while Byrd feels
economy should be a main issue at
this time.
Byrd, in a speech on the floor today,
emphasized that the Brookings Insti
tution, employed jointly by the Presi
dent's committee and the Senate and
House committees, has made specific
recommendations affecting the emer
gency agencies, and that these recom
mendations should at least receive
consideration from Congress before
July 1, 1939.
The Senator pointed out that the
resolution under consideration not
only would extend the loaning author
ity of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp . but aL»o would extend the life
of other emergency agencies such as
the Commodity Credit Corp., which
does not expire until April 1; the Ex
port-Import Bank, which does not ex
pire until June 18; the R. F. C. Mort
gage Corp., which does not expire until
June 30, and the Electric Home and
Farm Authority, which expires Febru
ary 1.
He admitted these agencies are
financed through the R. F. C., but in
sisted there is no pressing necessity for
immediate action regarding the Com
modity Credit Corp.. the Export-Im
(See REORGANIZATION?Page~X6?
' Pa YOU OONT'
KNOW WHAT
Trouble is,
Look at M Ely
“EXPERT” TROUBLES!
U. S. PAY RAISE
HEARING PROMISED
Chairman Bulow Indorses
Main Objectives of Mc
Carran Measure.
BY J. A. O'LFARY.
Hearings on the McCarran govern
ment pay raise bill will be arranged
at an early date by Chairman Bulow
of the Senate Civil Service Commit
tee. who announced he indorses in
principle the main objective of the
measure, to bring up the salaries of
the lower-paid groups under the
classification act.
In addition to lifting the salary
levels of all those receiving less than
$3,600 and fixing $1,500 as the mini
mum wage for full-time adult Fed
eral employes, the measure seeks to
bring about far-reaching improve
ments in the administration of the
original classification act.
Notable among these changes would
be the repeal of the uniform system
of efficiency ratings on which promo
tions are based: extension of the clas
sification act to the field service and
to new agencies, and provision for pe
riodical increases by advancing em
ployes one step each year within their
respective grades until the maximum
of the grade is reached.
Seeks to Protect Promotions.
One of the first steps Senator Mc
Carran, Democrat, of Nevada will
take in the consideration of the bill
will be to find out whether the pro
motion feature would be Interfered
with by the so-called "average of the
grade” clause now in existence, which
has the effect of retarding promo
tions.
This clause was not in tne original
classification act, but for a number
of years has been added each year
as a restrictive proviso to each of the
annual appropriation bills. It pro
vides, in substance, that “the aver
age of the salaries of the total num
ber of persons under any grade in
any bureau, office or other appro
priation unit shall not at any time
exceed the average of the compensa
tion rates specified for the grade.”
There are a few exceptions to this
rule, such as in the clerical-mechan
ical service, where the pay is on an
hourly basis, or where an employe is
the only one in his office in a cer
tain grade.
Senator McCarran wants to be sure
that his measure will amend existing
eminent employes the opportunity to
law in such a way as to give Gov
advance gradually to the top of their
respective pay grades.
The Nevadan suggested to Senator
Bulow last night that a subcommittee
(See PAY BILLrPage A-5T
Summary of Today’s Star
Pa«e.
Amusements A-18
Comics_B-14
Editorial —A-12
Financial_A-21
Lost & Found A-3
Obituary A-14
Page.
Puzeles_B-14
Radio .A-1S
Short Story. A-»
Society_B-J
Sports _C-l-3
Woman * Pg.. C-4
FOREIGN.
U. S. counselor acts to rescue 21
Americans In Sianfu. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Byrd hits reorganisation plan in Sen
ate speech. Page A-l
Peace in auto industry presaged by
strike truce. Page A-l
Hearings to be held soon on Federal
pay bill. Page A-l
2,000 Workers’ Alliance members stag
ing protest march. Page A-l
Mattson kidnaping suspect held In
blockaded jail. Page A-l
Senate probers told of threats against
labor attorney. Page A-l
Hearst ordered to offer jobs to two
dismissed employes. Page A-2
President to speak at dinner February
15 honoring Farley. Page A-15
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Commissioners Allen and Hazen re
appointed by President. Page A-I
New York jewelry store raided after
arrest here. Page B-l.
New Army scout can In lnauural
parade. Page B-l
D. C. traffic toll rises to six for
year. Page B-l
Revenue need cited as race bill argu
ment. Page B-l
Bodies of 4 members of Boarman fam
ily buried in one grave. Page B-l
Representative Dlrksen finds flaws in
fiscal report. Page B-l
Mn. Roosevelt visits Children's Hos
' pits! clinic. Page B-l
ft
Social agencies picture relief needs
here. . Page B-I
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
This and That. Page A-12
Answers to Questions. Page A-12
Washington Observations. Page A-12
David Lawrence. Page A-13
Paul Mallon. Page A-13
Constantine Brown. Page A-13
Headline Folk. Page A-13
Dorothy Thompson. Page A-13
SPORTS.
Base ball manager is busy all year,
Connie Mack avers. Page C-l
Louis’ defeat helped fistic game, says
secretary of N. B. A. Page C-l
Tennis players here form organization
to promote pastime. Page C-2
Duke teams offer tests for Catholic U.,
Maryland tomorrow. Page C-3
Woman golfers here planning heavy
tournament schedule. Page C-3
FINANCIAL.
U. 8. bonds up, others mixed (table).
Page A-21
A. T. Sc T. net climbs. Page A-21
Weather curbs trade. Page A-21
Stock gains selective (table).
Page A-22
Curb list narrow (table). PageA-23
Freight loadings Jump. Page A-23
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Vital Statistics. Page A-S
Young Washington. Page A-1S
City News in Brief. Page B-»
Betsy Caswell. Page C-4
Dorothy Dlx. Page C-4
Bedtime tSory. Page C-5
Winning Contract Page C-5
Nature's Children. Page C-5
Traffic Convictions. Page C-ll
r
2,000 Workers Stage March
For Relief and W . P. A. Funds
Rain Fails to Interfere as Alliance Mem
hers Prepare for White House and
Capitol Demonstration.
BULLETIN.
Marching to the White House
with hundreds of banners flying,
the Workers' Alliance of America
this afternoon presented to Marvin
McIntyre, presidential secretary, a
letter to the President demanding
a deficiency appropriation of *1,
040.000.000 for continuance and ex
pansion of the W. P. A. during the
remainder of this fiscal year.
Upward of 2.000 white-collar and
unskilled workers from 24 States—all
members of the Workers’ Alliance of
America—started a march on the
White House and Capitol at noon to
day in protest against any curtailment
of the Government works and relief
program.
Massing at the labor Department,
where they filled the auditorium to the
doors, the delegates, including many
artists, writers, actors, teachers and
other groups employed on W. P. A.
projects, heard their leaders assail the
administration before forming in a
column of fours on Constitution avenue.
The parade, authorized by Police
Supt. Ernest W. Brown, was to pass
the Executive Mansion, the United
States Chamber of Commerce and
come to a halt at the Capitol.
At the White House a committee
was to present a petition to President
Roosevelt urging a deficiency appro
priation of $1,040,000,000 to carry on
W. P. A. projects through the remain
ing five months of the present fiscal
year.
Other committees were to seek an
audience with officials of the United
States Chamber of Commerce in an
i See WORKERS. Page A~2 J
ATTEMPTS RESCUE
OF 21 AMERICANS
U. S. Embassy Counselor at
Nanking Goes to Sianfu
to Plan Plane Use.
By the Associated Press.
NANKING. January 15—Willys R.
Peck, counsellor of the United States
Embassy, resorted to direct action to
day after diplomatic efforts had failed
to rescue 21 Americans trapped in
Sianfu.
United States Ambassador Nelson
T. Johnson said he had been informed
that Peck, traveling purely in a per
sonal capacity but with his sanction,
had reached the walled capital of
Shensi Province, stronghold of Mar
shal Chang Hseuh-liang's Communist
inclined armies.
Plane to Be Used.
He hoped, when he left here, to
ferry all women and children in
Sianfu by plane to Loyang. If unable
to do this, he intended to go to Loyang
and work there to liberate the Ameri
cans from their dangerous plight in
the embattled area.
Peck left at a moment's notice when
he learned a government airplane was
going to Sianfu with Nanking emis
saries hoping to negotiate a settlement
of the crisis.
Peck’* departure followed a report
from Assistant Military Attache David
Bennett, from Loyang, that all efforts
had failed to win release of the de
tained Americans.
Nanking military authorities in
formed Johnson that Peck had
reached Sianfu safely and was re
maining overnight with the plane. No
mention was made of his efforts.
Peck was under instructions to
leave Sianfu with the plane, under no
circumstances exposing himself to
detention similar to other foreigners
there.
For the last week, Johnson has en
deavored here, through Chinese offi
cial channels and privately, to com
municate with Sianfu, but has not
succeeded. The city is under a rigid
censorship.
OSSIETSKY AGENT GETS
NOBEL PRIZE MONEY
Unidentified German Woman Col
lects Peace Award Cash
Prom Committee.
By the Associated Press.
OSLO. Norway. January 15—An
unidentified German woman arrived
here today and collected the Nobel
Peace Prize money recently awarded
to Carl von Ossietsky, invalid German
pacifist.
The Nobel Committee turned over
to her 1,000 kronen (about $247) and
transferred the balance — 150,000
I kronen (about $37,000)—to the Ger
' man Kommerzenbank. The woman
said she was traveling Incognito.
Von Qssietsky recently was awarded
the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize at the
same time the 1936 award was made
to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine
foreign minister.
The German is secluded in a sani
tarium under medical care, friends
said, too ill to travel to Oslo to col
lect his prize.
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MOTORS INSPECTED
FOR ROME-U. S. HOP
Secrecy Guards Italian Prepara
tion as Air Minister
Visits Plant.
By the Associated Press.
GENOA, Italy, January 15.— Gen.
Giuseppt Valle, undersecretary of
air, it was reliably reported today, re
cently inspected motors being con
structed here for an airplane to be
used on a projected flight from Rome
to San Francisco this Spring.
The government has not announced
the planned flight, preparations for
which are being made with utmost
secrecy.
Recent reports said a tri-motored
plane would make the westward flight
by easy stages and then fly back non
stop, seeking a new long-distance
record.
MaJ. Attilio Biseo, a veteran of the
Balbo mass flight to Chicago three
years ago and II Duce's own pilot, it
was said, would be at the controls,
possibly with Bruno Mussolini, the
Premier’s second son, as co-pilot.
Horse Refused by Mrs. Whitney
To Be Sold to Pay Stable Keep
The Railway Express Agency ob
tained permission of the District
Court today to sell a valuable saddle
horse which it has been feeding and
stabling since November 25, while
socially prominent Mrs. John Hay
Whitney and a Toronto, Canada,
woman continued to assert that the
other was the owner.
The board bill is running up every
day, the express company told the
court, and now amounts to $150, and
there is no prospect that either of
the two women will accept the animal.
What is behind the refusal of both
women to admit ownership of the
horse was not disclosed to the court,
and all the express agency knows
about it is that it received the horse
from a connecting carrier, the Cana
dian National Railway, for delivery
to Mia. Whitney in Washington.
i
The horse, whicn carries tne nign
sounding name of Cypress D. Beau,
arrived here November 25, and deliv
ery was tended to Mrs. Whitney,
which she "refused and declined.." as
serting that the animal was not her
property but the property of the
shipper, L. L. Briden or Bredtin of
Toronto.
The agency told the court it wasn’t
quite sure of the spelling of the ship
per’s name, but at any rate It wrote
to Toronto for instructions.
Back came the statement that
"Cypress” was the "sole property of
Mrs. Whitney,” and the shipper would
not take him back.
Accordingly, the express agency had
to place Cypress in a stable, where
the board bill was <3 a day.
It has been in "almost continuous
(See HOR8K, *age A-5.)
t
PEACE PRESAGED
IN AUTO INDUSTRY
BY STRIKE TRUCE
Plants Will Be Evacuated
by Monday, Union
Promises.
NEGOTIATIONS START
MONDAY IN DETROIT
Agreement Reached Before Dawn
After 17-Hour Conference.
Troops Go Today.
BACKGROUND—
Campaign for industrial or
ganization of labor reached head
late last year with attempt of
John L. Lewis’ Committee for In
dustrial Organization to enter
automobile field. Occupational
strikes, which began in November
in Bendix plant at South Bend,
climaxed with walkout of United
Automobile Workers of America
from General Motors plants’ throw
ing nearly 115,000 men into idle
ness.
Strike disorders Monday night
followed by appeal by Gov. Frank
Murphy of Michigan for confer
ence with company and union ,
heads in his office yesterday in an
attempt to start negotiations for
settlement.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT. January 15— A truce
arranged before dawn today pointed
the way to peace in the country-wide
General Motors automotive strikes.
By Monday morning, ‘'sit-down"
strikers whose two-week occupancy of
several General Motors plants has
brought rioting and bloodshed, will
march out.
Representatives of the corporation
and of the United Automobile Work
ers of America will open negotiation!
looking toward a permanent settle
ment of their dispute at Detroit at 11
a.m Monday.
Unless final argeement is reached
sooner, the negotiations will continue
for 15 days. Lacking a settlement at
the end of that time. Homer Martin,
U. A. W. A. president said, "We will
come back to the Governor's office."
Terminates 17-Hour Parley.
The armistice in the far-flung strug
gle of the union against the giant
automobile concern terminated a 17
hour conference between representa
tives of each, meeting for the first
time at the request of Gov. Frank
Murphy of Michigan.
General Motors agreed not to oper
ate plants where strikes are in prog
ress nor to remove equipment or ma
terials "except for export” during tha
negotiation period. Plants closed be
cause of parts shortages, however, may
reopen on a reduced basis "in order to
alleviate distress.”
Strikers in two Fisher Body plants
at Flint, Mich., focal point of the
strike, expressed mild disappointment
at word they were to abandon their
positions, which they defended Mon
i day night in a battle with city police,
! resulting in concentration of National
Guardsmen in the vicinity.
Troops May Be Out Today.
Gov. Murphy said the troops
i "should be out today, but we want to
be sure there b no chance of violence.”
Representatives of each revealed
their agreement in statements to Gov.
Frank Murphy, who made them pub
lic at 4:25 a m. (Eastern standard
time). Strikes called by the union
have made more than 114,000 Gen
eral Motors workers idle and led to
rioting at Flint, Mich., in which 27
persons were injured.
“The evacuation of sit-down strikers
will be effectuated as soon as practica
ble and before Monday morning,” the
union said. General Motors has stipu
lated ever since Gov. Murphy began
more than a week ago to arrange a
peace parley that such a move must
precede the opening of conferences for
collective bargaining.
"The union will in good faith en
" (See-STRIKE, Page A-4.)
ENABLING ACT NEAR
FOR MELLON’S GIFT
Boosevelt Says Measure Will Be
Sent to Congress in Very
Near Future.
President Roosevelt said today he
expects he will be able to send to
Congress very shortly a proposed en
abling act for the acceptance by the
Government of Andrew Mellon's art
collection and of his additional gift
of a $9,000,000 National Art Gal
lery.
Department of Justice attorneys, he
said, have been conferring with Smith- ■
sonian Institution officials and rep
resentatives of Mr. Mellon on the
form of the proposed act.
The President expects Attorney
General Cummings to forward this re
port "any day now.” reporters were
told at the White House press con
ference.
LORD ASHLEY ENGAGED
TO WED PARIS WOMAN
Former Husband of Mrs. Fair
banks Will Marry Mile. Fran
coise Sonilier.
Br the Associated Press.
LONDON, January 15.—The en
gagement of Lord Ashley, former
husband of Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks,
to Mile. Francoise Souther of Farty
was announced today. /
Lord Ashley was granted a divos
decree nisi from Lady Ashley, a/
mer musical comedy actress, liy
in an unaeienaea suit wnicn
Fairbanks, then the husband/
ncKiora, as co-responaeni.
Dissolution of the PiaF
Danas marriage oecam&
January, 1936, and /
Marcn me moving-pig
ried the former Lay