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NATION'S HNS
n TO DESCEND
ON CAPITAL FOR
INAUGURAL RITES
_
Outpouring May Eclipse All
Previous Demonstrations
of Kind, Survey of Passen
ger Traffic Indicates. j
PROSPECTS FOR CLEAR |
WEATHER UNCERTAIN
Schools Will Be Closed Wednesday.
Hotels Prepared for Overflow
Contingents—State Societies
Will Welcome and Entertain
Guests Prom Back Home.
BY REX COLLIER.
By rail, air and highway, a cross- j
section of the Nation’s citizenry last
night was ready to converge on the
bustling, decorated National Capital
in a patriotic pilgrimage to the color- j
ful ceremonies attending tne re
Induction into office next Wednesday
of President Franklin Delano Roose
velt, i
Reputedly blase Washington was
aflutter with final preparations for the
quadrennial spectacle, as the van
guard of a mighty host of inaugural
visitors was reported due to arrive
within the next 24 hours from far
flung points.
The outpouring of enthusiasm was
to be a fitting climax to the epochal
demonstration of approval given j
President Roosevelt by America's vot- j
ers last November.
That the outpouring may eclipse all \
previous demonstrations of the kind
was indicated last night when a sur- j
vey disclosed that the greatest pas
senger traffic movement in the city's
history is in the offing.
Every means of transportation into I
Washington is taxed to capacity !
with reservations, the check showed. 1
The first arrivals of consequence are
expected by rail tomorrow, with tne
peak anticipated late Tuesday.
Weather prospects for Wednesday j
were uncertain. The Weather Bu- i
reau's weekly "outlook” predicted rain j
the first part of this week, probably j
ending by Wednesday. Falling tern- j
peratures were on the weather hori- j
eon.
If the weather is fair, the President
plans to use an old family Dutch
Bible in the ceremony. He used this
Bible in taking the oath four years
ago. If there is rain, he will not risk
ruining the venerable book.
All schools, public and parochial,
will be closed during the day to en- j
able children to attend the in- j
augural.
Hotels were prepared to receive
overflow contingents of inaugural j
guests from many States. A •‘Pull- j
man city" will be born almost over- !
night on railroad property to care j
for thousands coming by special train, j
The Board of Trade will aid in pro- j
viding shelter for other guests in !
some 20,000 rooms listed by board
ing houses and private owners.
While the President's ban on civil- 1
lan marching units caused cancel- i
lation recently of hotel reservations for
more than 350 members of Tammany I
Hall, the effect was to provide last- j
minute accommodations for late ar
rivals. Most of the leading hotels are j
booked to capacity, however.
Many Excursion Trains.
Railroads are running a large num
ber of solid trains for special dele
gations, extra cars for smaller groups
and innumerable excursions for the !
general public.
Transportation demands are shift- !
lng so rapidly as the big day nears |
that railroads were unable at a;
late hour last night to estimate the |
probable influx of passengers.
In many instances, the sightseers
will occupy the train quarters for j
the duration of the stay here, ar- j
rangements having been made to
park the long lines of Pullmans at
such points as Benning, Fourteenth
street southwest and Seventeenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue south
east, where they can be serviced am
ply and have convenient local trans
portation facilities available.
The Chesapeake Ohio is mov
ing in two specials tomorrow morn
ing, one from Mississippi that was
routed through Louisville and the I
other from Oklahoma, via St. Louis, i
Two out of Ohio will get in Tuesday, j
Several Governors and their parties !
are making the trip in these, the |
(See IN A U G U RAL ~Page A - 5.) j
WARM RAIN IS DUE
LATE IN AFTERNOON
—
Fair Weather Is Forecast for In
auguration Ceremonies on
Wednesday.
A warm rain that is expected to
continue Intermittently through Tues
day—but stop before the inaugural
ceremonies Wednesday, barring unfor
seen meterological complications—is
due to start late this afternoon or
night.
The Weather Bureau added that
this morning and early afternoon
would be overcast and that tonight
will find the temperature rising.
The mercury, according to an earlier
forecast, was scheduled to drop around
the freezing mark before dawn today.
The Inauguration weather outlook
was made-in a special bulletin issued
yesterday by Forecaster Charles L.
Mitchell, who explained he was not
making a definite forecast so far
ahead of time.
Providing the rain ceases before
Wednesday, indications are that clear
skies and low temperatures will be
the setting for the inauguration,
• Mitchell said k
Morgan Proposes Power Truce
After Clash With Lilienthal
t
T. V, A. Chairman for
National Policy to
Eliminate Abuses.
By the Associated Press.
The undercover feud between Chair
man Arthur E. Morgan and Director
David Lilienthal of the Tennessee
Valley Authority burst into the open
last night, when Dr. Morgan pub
licly proposed a national truce with
private power interests.
Dr. Morgan suggested a policy
known to be in conflict with the "no
surrender” attitude of his younger
board -member.
"I believe we should deal with the
private power companies to .the end
of eliminating abuses, while preserv
ing the right of the people to ac
quire their own power service by
public ownership if they choose,” Dr.
Morgan said in a statement.
Morgan abstained from mentioning
his colleague, but asked pointedly: !
"Shall men who administer pub
lic project drift into an attitude of
a fight to a finish against the pri
vate power companies?”
Major questions liaised.
Dr. Morgan's statement raised three
major questions for an immediate ap
praisal:
1. Will the President shake up the
T. V. A. Board to assure smooth ad
ministration, and if he does, whom
will he eliminate, Lilienthal or Mor
gan? Lilienthal had a brief White
House audience Friday and announced
himself satisfied with the result.
2. Is the administration ready to
abandon the agreement with private
power interests, under which Com
monwealth and Southern Corp. is
buying T. V. A. power?
3. If it should abandon the agree
ment which expires, in effect, when
the Commonwealth and Southern con
tract ends February 3, would that
step indicate an immediate struggle
to the finish with the utilities?
Lilienthal declined to make any
comment on his chairman’s statement.
The aggressive young director, who re
vamped the Utilities Commission of
Wisconsin for the La Follette group a
few' years ago, is known to feel, how
ever. that his efforts to formulate pol
icy in the valley have reflected the
views of the President.
In some quarters he is reported to 1
DR. ARTHUR E. MORGAN.
—Underwood. Photo.
DAVID LILIENTHAL.
_—Harris-Ewing Photo, j
believe that renewal of contracts with
the Commonwealth and Southern
should hinge on several conditions,
among them abandonment by private
(See POWER, Page A-13.)
MATTSONSLAYING
Son “Knew Too Much,” S^ys
Heart-Broken Father,
in Statement.
BACKGROUND—
Chasing a rabbit, Gordon Mor
row, 19, came upon the beaten,
frozen corpse of Charles Mattson
in an isolated area near Everett,
Wash. Find began widespread
hunt for kidnapers by Federal
agents massed in Pacific North
west. Ransom demand of $28.000
made in note dropped at Mattson
home never met, due to inability
of family to make satisfactory ar
rangements.
Identity of kidnaptrs believed
still mystery with agents reviewing
cases involving degeneracy and
dementia.
—
By the Associated Press.
TACOMA, Wash., January 16.—Dr.
W. W. Mattson tonight charged the
kidnaping and brutal murder of his
son Charles to a bungling fiend and
an accomplice who became fright
ened and destroyed the boy because
he “knew too much.”
w line reueiai ana local omciais
weeded out arrested suspects from
coast to coast, the physician ex
pressed the conviction that the crim
inal would be "brought to justice,”
and said he then would tell more
about the yicious crime.
Sacramento (Calif.) police today
released Arthur Madsen, 26, former
member of a public works camp at
Tillamook, Oreg., after questioning
him in the case. Police Capt. Fritz 1
Kaminsky said a careful check of
Madsen's recent movements convinced
him Madsen had no connection with
the case.
Seattle officers said Fred Orrin
Haynes, former California convict
who surrendered yesterday after be
ing sought three days, virtually was
eliminated as a suspect.
Thinks 2 Kidnapers Involved.
The physician significantly referred
In his statement to the kidnaper as
"this man and whoever his col
league is.” Once more this empha
sized that more than one man was
being hunted for the crime.
He reiterated everything possible
was done to ransom the boy and ex
pressed belief the tragic end would
have been the same had the case
been handled differently.
"Is it possible,” he asked, "that
little Charles was sacrificed to fur
ther .stimulate previously enraged
public to the enactment of even more
drastic laws, both in the prevention
of and the punishment of this awful
crime?
“If this is true, we feel that
Charles shall not have died in vain.”
_His remarks were made In a signed
(See KIDNAPING,'Page~A~(f)
LEVEES FORTIFIED
AS RIVERS CLIMB
Return of Wintry Weather
May Help Stem Floods
in Middle West.
by the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 16—A host
of workmen fortified levees in the
danger zones of the Midwestern flood
basin today.
The Mississippi, Ohio. Whit?, Wa
bash, St. Francis and Kaskaskia
Rivers continued to rise, but the re
turn of Wintry weather after unsea
sonable warmth and rain resulted in
the recession of most tributaries.
The St. Francis smashed through
its levee 10 miles east of Paragould.
in Arkansas, near the Missouri line,
flooding thousands of acres of fertile
lowlands. The W. P. A. engineer at
Cardwell, Mo., reporting several weak
spots in the levee on the Missouri
side were causing concern, said 750
men were fighting to save the dike.
W. C. Bradsher, Paragould ginner
and banker, estimated some 100 fam
ilies and seven or eight thousand acres
of cleared land in the eastern part of
Greene County probably would be af
fected by water from the break.
Southwestward, the White rose 8.2
feet above the 23-foot flood level at
Batesville and began to rush past the
flood stage at Newport, Clarendon and
other downstream points. The
Weather Bureau, however, said the
stream would crest at 32 feet at Bates
ville tomorrow.
Highway 68 Menaced.
Observers said a foot further rise
in the White River at Newport would
force closure of U. S. Highway 68.
The stream measured 27.8 feet there
today. A 31-foot stage was predicted
for Monday.
The Ouachita River, already spread
out over a seven-mile area near
Camden, rose an additional .4 foot
there today, but the Weather Bureau
said the stream would crest at 33
feet there tomorrow.
The force of men piling sandbags
on the embankments along the St.
Francis in Missouri was doubled. Re
inforcements increased their number
to 1,500. The levee threatened to give
way at Holcomb and Senath and was
severely tested at Kennett. Wilhel
mina and Glennonville were reported
completely encircled by Icy waters.
Muddy water coursed over South
ern Indiana as flood crests moved
down the White and Wabash. Many
highways and rail lines were blocked.
Roy Dugan drowned when his auto
mobile plunged into a road washout
(See FLOODS, Page A^3.)
*
Radio Programs, Page F-3.
Complete Index, Page A-2.
Tammany Cuts Inaugural Plans
Due to Ban on Civilian Parade
Tammany Hall loves a parade, but
its enthusiasm depends greatly on its
privilege of participating.
Soon after President Roosevelt led
his fellow Democrats to a sweeping
election victory last November, Tam
many made immediate plans to con
tribute the biggest civilian delega
tion in the coming inaugural parade.
With its customary efficiency the
New York organization soon there
after made hotel reservations in
Washington, taking as many as 100
rooms in a single hotel and similar
blocks ill other places.
When President Roosevelt and
•
Chairman Grayson of the Inaugural
Committee decided against long,
wavering lines of civilians in this
year's parade. Tammany found itself
with hundreds of marchers on its
hands, but no opportunity for them
to display their walking ability. Fi
nally it was decided most of them
wouldn’t even come down to Wash
ington to watch the parade, and can
cellations of at least two large blocks
of hotel reservations followed..
Making their decision some three
weeks ago, there was adequate time
left for letting moat of the released
mom*- £
INSURGENT BOMBS
WRECK CONSULATE
OF U. S. IN MALAGA
Archives Saved as Planes
Damage Building Closed
Last September.
LOYALISTS REPULSE
ADVANCE ON MADRID
Turn Back Fascists, Who Hurl
Hand Grenades as They Charge
Barricades.
BACKGROUND—
Arguments over neutrality oc
cupy European powers as Spanish
civil war rages on.
Tens of thousands of "volun
teers’’ have joined in Spanish
fighting, until now there are Ger
mans, Italians, French, British,
Russians, Poles, Americans, Portu
guese, Belgians and others on
either side.
Once major pcnccrs officially
denied charges they helped Spanish
loyalists or insurgents. Now none
make secret of fact their citizens
have gone into the war.
By the AssocUted Press.
GIBRALTAR. January 16.—'The
United States Consulate at Malaga.
Spain, was wrecked in a raid by
Spanish Fascist planes this morning,
Herbert O. Williams, United States
Consul there, said tonight.
The building was closed last Sep
tember 20 and the man in charge
was not hurt, Williams said. The
archives were saved, Williams said,
adding he was awaiting instructions
from Washington whether to proceed
to Malaga to take possession of them.
(The State Department in Wash
ington, announcing the building was
wrecked by an -aerial bombing, said
no Americans were endangered.)
Two Spanish government planes
dropped bombs today near an Alge
ciras hotel from which Gen. Gonzalo
Queipo de Llano, Southern Fascist
commander, was believed directing an
insurgent offensive.
Damage Is Slight.
Soaring over the city—just across
the Bay of Algeciras from Gibraltar
—at-2:15 p.m., the airmen dropped
their high-explosive projectiles close
to the Hotel Reina Cristina. Damage
was slight.
Fascist land batteries and a gun
boat fired on the raiders. The planes
fled eastward toward Malaga.
They paused, however, at Estepona,
the coast town captured Thursday by
the Insurgents, and dropped many
bombs.
They concentrated their attack on
insurgent columns moving against
Marbella, about 30 miles southwest
of Malaga, the objective of the south
ern Fascist offensive.
Gen. Queipo de Llano's army of
20,000 was driving toward govern
ment-held Malaga after seizing Este
pona.
Accounts reaching Gibraltar said
Fascist military hospitals at Alge
ciras and Linea were packed wdth
(SeeSPAINT Page' A-127)
•-•
JUDGE ASSAILS RAIDS
ON RACE NEWS OFFICE
Disqualifies Self From Hearing
Appeal to Restrain Miami
Sheriff.
Ey the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla., January 16.—Circuit
Judge Jefferson B. Browne, rapping
law enforcement "by unlawful meth
ods,’’ disqualified himself today from
hearing an appeal to restrain the
sheriff from raiding offices of a sport
ing news service.
The former Florida Supreme Court
justice announced his decision when
Walter Hagerty'a suit for temporary
injunction against Sheriff D. C. Cole
man was called.
Cheriff Coleman's ax - swinging
deputies broke into the news service
offices last Tuesday, seizing 36 tele
phones.
The sheriff, whose men arrested an
employe of Hagerty on a gambling
operation charge, contends he best can
stop profitable horse booking activities
in Miami by preventing the bookies
from obtaining fast race information.
✓
“THE BOY STOOD ON THE BURNING DECK!”
THREAT IN MAIL
Oklahoma Governor Gets
Extortion Note Demand
ing $5,000.
By *he Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, January 16.—
j Gov. E. W. Marland, threatened in a
$5,000 extortion note, cited his pistol
prowess tonight and declared he would
be his own guard.
| “I am one of the best pistol shots
| in Oklahoma, and I can take care of
| myself,” he replied to a penciled note
signed “Bilk” threatening him and
Mrs. Marland.
Dwight Brantley, in charge of the
| Oklahoma office of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation, assigned agents
to work with State Crime Bureau op
eratives.
Refuses to Increase Guard.
After posting a $500 reward for
information on the note writer and
giving the note to the Crime Bureau,
Marland refused to increase the ex
ecutive mansion guard..
“I don't need any more guards than
I have already,” he said.
The note was in an envelope post
marked here yesterday.
It demanded $5,000 in unmarked
i bills as "a donation” and said a later
note would outline procedure for de
livery. It directed Marland to place
an advertisement in the Oklahoma
City News saying: “Business deal gone
J through. Slim.”
The note referred to Marland as a
"rich man" and warned, "If you say
anything to the police" it would "be
too bad for you and your wife."
Marland, once wealthy head of the
$60,000,000 Marland Oil Co., laughed
at the rich man reference.
He said the note apparently came
"from an educated person."
"If somebody else had received the
letter,” Marland said, "I would have
made it a damned substantial reward.
I hope If anybody else does receive a
letter like that they will report it to
police.”
Text of Extortion Note.
The text of the note, which was
mailed, read:
"You are a rich man and I want
you to give us a donation cf $5,COO
in bills that are not marked. If you
knew what is good for you you will
not say anything shout this to police
or anybody else. If you do it will be
too bad for you and your wife.
"You are being watched to don’t
pull any funny stuff, because we know
every move you make.
"Place an ad in Oklahoma News in
personals saying: ‘Business deal goes
through.' Sign this name: ‘Slim.’
And I expect to see ad by Monday.
You will get another letter giving in
structions. Bilk."
The Record for 1936
The 10 Leading Newspapers
For the past five years THE STAR has led ALL
American newspapers in the total amount of advertising.
(Figures from Media Records, Inc.)
Lines
The Washington Star... 22,975,043
The New York Times.. 21,755,814
Detroit News_*_ 20,763,125
Chicago Tribune _ 20,444,045
New York News...... 19,838,944
Pittsburgh Press. 18,654,072
Baltimore Sun (Evening and Sunday)_ 18,582,498
Milwaukee Journal_ 17,085,012
Los Angeles Times_ 16,660,770
St. Louis Post Dispatch__ 16,595,632
THE STAR'S
Increase in Advertising
Year 1936 . 22,975,043
Year 1935 . 21,837,189
Increase: 1,137,854
WASHINGTON NEWSPAPERS
Hie Evening and Sunday Star_— 22,975,043
2d Newspaper (Morning and Sunday).11,519,865
3d Newspaper (Evening Only).—.. 11,347,932
4th Newspaper (Morning and Sunday).. 10,159,785
5th Newspaper $venlng Only). $15,053
$14,000 Gold Bar
Gone From Safe
j
Of Liner Paris
Mail Driver Finds Slit
in Baft Held Con
stantly Guarded.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK,' January 16—The
manner in which a $14,000 bar of gold
vanished from a ship at sea mystified
the police tonight.
Deep fog and ocean storms beset
; the liner from Paris to New York.
For three days the polio® kept the
disappearance secret, to no avail.
All that any one knew was that the
gold was aboard the French liner
Paris when she left Havre, and that
it was missing when she "Otked in
New York.
Fog May Have Aided Thief.
One theory was that the arecious
bar was removed from the ship’s hold
while the Paris lay fogbound in
Quarantine last Wednesday and
Thursday. A small boat could have
slipped up to the liner’s side in the
(See GOLD, Page A-2.1
— m . ■ i —
FEDERATION URGES
JOINT COMMITTEE
Proposes Special Group Be
Created to Study Fis
cal Relations.
Voicing "disappointment" over some
phases of the report of the Jacobs
Fiscal Relations Committee, the Fed
eration of Citizens’ Associations, af*er
a debate in which fisticuffs were
threatened last night proposed that
a special joint committee of the House
and Senate be created to conduct
hearings on the fiscal proposals.
The federation withheld detailed
expression of its view’s on the fiscal
scheme to permit a careful study of
the many recommendations and the
huge quantity of statistical findings
in the Jacobs report, now awaiting
action in Congress.
In urging that a select joint com
mittee of Congress be named to con
sider the document, the federation
had the view that better and more
fair treatment would be given if
such a committee were named.
The membership obviously was per
turbed over implications in the Ja
cobs committee report, which would
abolish the lump sum Federal pay
ment, substitute a system of "reim
bursements” and call for a $10,000,000
boost in taxes here, if adopted along
with the proposed 1938 budget.
Fisticuffs Threatened.
The session was tumultuous at times
and at one point in debate a state
ment by George E. Sullivan that
some members were "thin skinned’.’
provoked the threat of fisticuffs. F.
J. MacDonald, Dahlgren Terrace dele
gate. walked swiftly from the rear
of the room toward Sullivan, but
order was restored when Sullivan
modified his statement.
The federation adopted a report
by L. A. Carruthers, chairman of
its Fiscal Relations Committee, urg
ing full congressional hearings, but
. (See FEDERATION. Page A-3.)
MAPES D. C. DATA
MAY GUIDE DOUSE
Jacobs Report, However, to
Have Serious Study,
Says Collins.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.
The Mapes fiscal relations re- :
port, which, in 1931, recommended
a Federal payment toward District ex- ;
penses of $6,500,000, is destined to
have more influence on the House Ap
propriations Subcommittee, in charge
of the city's 1938 supply bill, than its !
latest successor—the Jacobs report,
which proposes to scrap all former
principles of fiscal relationship.
Representative Ross A. Collins.
Democrat, of Mississippi, who has
just accepted chairmanship of the
subcommittee, gave that impression
last night as he made preliminary
plans for starting hearings on the
appropriation bill.
While Collins admits he is not
familiar with all of the details of the
Jacobs report, he indicated he is not
in sympathy with its proposal to sub
stitute a complicated three-point
formula for determining how much
the Federal and District governments
owe each other for an interchange of
services. In the presence of news
paper men he would discuss only
what he described as the ‘‘merits” !
of the Mapes report.
Collins, incidentally, was one of the
six members of the House who wrote
the Mapes report, after an exhaustive
study of the fiscal relations problem.
Only two other members of the com
mittee are still in Congress—Repre
sentative Mapes. Republican, of Mich- I
igan, and Patman, Democrat, of
Texas.
‘ One of the be6t committees ever
selected in Congress made that re- j
port,” said Collins. “And one of the
best tax experts in the country, |
George Lord of Detroit, assisted the j
committee."
Since the 1938 budget estimates are
predicated on adoption of the Jacobs
three-point formula, Collins said the
plan naturally would be given serious
(See MAPESrPage A-3.)
PRISONER TWICE STEALS
RADIO CAR FROM POLICE
First Hakes Away While Hand
cuffed to Steering Wheel.
Abandons Car, Gets It Again.
By the Associated Press.
ATTLEBORO, Mass , January 16.
—Police sought tonight an escaped
prisoner who stole their cruising car
twice last nteht and abandoned it
early today in a wooded section of
nearby Canton after removing the
radio and heater and smashing ah
the windows.
The hunted man first made off
with the car last night while he was
handcuffed to the steering wheel and
while Patrolman Elliott Higgins, who
had arrested him, sought another
prisoner. Later Attleboro police were
advised the machine was found aban
doned in Stroughton, but all the win
dows and doors were locked, and the
prisoner, along with the handcuffs,
was missing.
When Stoughton police reached the
spot the car was again missing.
Today Canton police found the
machine again abandoned in a wooded
section.
t
Flunking Fine to Elevate
Oklahoma Students’ Grades
B? the Associated Press.
NORMAN, Okla., January 16.—A
flunking fine for failing students at
the University of Oklahoma was de
scribed by President W. B. Bizzell to
day as an experiment to hft student
grades—not to enrich the school treas
ury.
The <3 fine each semester hour
failed goes into effect this second sem
ester to students who enroll January
29 and 30. The estimated total was
placed by Registrar George Wadsack
at more than <12,00.
“There is no interest in the money
at all’’ as far as the university is
concerned, Dr. Bizzell explained. “The
hope is that it will stimulate students
to pass their courses.
'Tt is not permanent, but I think
we will have to consider how it works
over, two or three semester* since the
first semester It in effect is not a
fair test.” f
The money taken in will be used,
Wadsack said, as part of the uni
versity’s revolving fund to “pay for
the overload work for instructors.”
Wadsack described “overload” as
the work of the university pf putting
the same student through the same
course twice.
Dr. Bizzell explained by bringing
about more passing grades "the State
doesn’t have to pay twice because the
student fails.”
The enrolment fee at the university
is *10 a semester. There is no tui
tion.
Wadsack said students last Spring
semester failed in almost 4,500 hours.
Of the 1,183 students whose report
carried the fatal “F,” only 13 per cent
of them were women.
The student body apparently doesn’t
seem to mind imposition of the fine,
campus lea dei! said.
PLANTS AS CHIEFS
MAP PEACE TALKS
Bands Play as Singing Work
ers Quit Sit-Down Posts
After Weeks.
MARTIN AND KNUDSEN
DISCUSS STRATEGY
Daily Parleys Begin Tomorrow
With Both Sides Expressing De
sire for Early Settlement.
BACKGROUND—
The United. Automobile Workers
of America, affiliated with John L.
Lewis' Committee for Industrial
Organization, presented workers'
grievances and demands to Gen
eral Motors Corp. last month.
Recognition of U. A. W. as sole
bargaining agency for the workers
was a major demand. Others
were for higher wages, shorter
hours. General Motors refused to
see the union representatives as
sole bargaining agents for workers
and impasse developed. Sit-down
strikes began, closing many G. M.
C. plants and putting more than
133,000 out of work. Gov. Frank
Murphy of Michigan brought op
posing sides together for talk
Thursday and agreement was
reached to begin settlement nego
tiations Monday. Workers agreed
to leave plants: G. M. C. agreeing
not to reopen them.
BJ the Associated Press.
DETROIT, January 16.—Union "sit
down” strikers, with bands playing
and banners flung out in the breeze,
began evacuation of General Motors
plants today as leaders optimistically
charted a course for negotiations be
ginning Monday to settle the wide
spread automotive tie-up.
Homer Martin, president of the
United Automobile Workers of Amer
ica, whose strikes threw V5,000 of the
giant automobile concern% wage earn
ers out of work, led 400 to 500 strikers
from the Cadillac division plant here
a short time after two-score "sit
downers” emerged from the Fleetwood
factory.
At about the same time 75 strikers
vacated the guide lamp plant at An
derson, Ind.
A 12-piece band provided music for
the singing workmen, whose departure,
coupled with other scheduled evacua
tions, removed a "sore spot” in the
strike picture which had blocked set
tlement negotiations for more than
two weeks.
Not until Gov. Frank Murphy, after
riots at Flint, Mich., -ordered 2,300
National Guardsmen and brought of
ficials of General Motors and the
union together in his office at Lan
sing, was agreement reached for re
moval of the "sit-downers.” whom the
corporation had termed "clearly tres
passers."
Martin, Knudsen Confer.
In conference with William S.
Knudsen, executive vice president of
General Motors. Martin today ar
ranged final details of daily parley*
for settlement of eight union de
mands, starting at 11 a.m. Monday in
the corporation's offices here.
The union head said “it seems quite
evident there is a desire on the part
of General Motors to reach a set
tlement.” Knudsen had said the Gov
ernor's conference agreement showed
"we are willing to co-operate, to get
somewhere.”
General Motors and the U. A. W. A.
each will be represented by three per
sons and a secretary in the negotia
tions. After Monday, sessions will be
held from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
daily with each side issuing a formal
statement afterward.
A 15-day period for the negotiations
was set aside by the agreement. Some
observers expressed belief that lacking
complete agreement at the expiration
of that period, the negotiators might
formulate agreement on What dif
ferences had been composed, and leave
the others for arbitration.
Gov. Murphy, without formal ex
planation, today canceled orders for
demobilization of the Guardsmen sen
to Flint. Mayor Harold E. Bradshaw
at Flint said he had asked their re
tention over the week end until after
“sit down” strikers vacate two Fisher
Body Co. plants there. It was outside
the Fisher plant No. 2 last Monday
night that strikers engaged in a street
(See”STRIKE7 Page A-1L)
CANAL ZONE PLANES
JOIN KINGSLEY HUNT
American Airman Missing in
Nicaragua Expected to Start
Signal Fire.
B> the Associated Press.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, January 16.
Nine United States Army airplanes
from the Canal Zone spent today In
crisscross flights over a large part of
Northeastern Nicaragua looking for
E. W. Kingsley, American airman
missing in that district since Wednes
day.
The searchers were on the watch
particularly for smoke signals, since
Kingsley and other pUots flying over
Nicaragua’s mountains and jungles
had an agreement that any of them
grounded in the interior would build
big smoke fires. No such signals were
seen.
Kingsley, formerly of Glendale,
Calif., operator of the Nicaragua
Atlantic Coast Airways (N. A. C. A.),
disappeared after taking off from
Managua at 7 a m. Wednesday to fly
suppUes to the Bonanza mines, about
80 miles from the East Coast. The
search centered on the area west and
southwest of Puerto Cabezas on the
Caribbean.
Maj. George Beverly, commanding
the United States Army planes, con
ferred with Nicaraguan officials on
the plan of search. National Guard
and clvilianjplanee are taking part.