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noon and tonight; tomorrow, fair; fresh INeWS and WirephOtOS
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No. 1,665-No. 33,892. jSirAS.-SSiSSl.TS. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1937-116 PAGES. « „
LIBERAL BLOC IN SENATE
IS SPLIT BY COURT PLAN
AS WHEELER JOINS FOES
- <♦
Montanan Hits
Proposal as
‘Stop Gap.’
LA FOLLETTE’S
VIEW OPPOSITE
Progressive Sees
Move Demanded
by Popular Will.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
President Roosevelt’s judiciary re
organization bill has split the Sen
ate's liberal bloc wide open, it de
veloped last night, as two of its
dominant members. Senator Wheeler,
Democrat, of Montana, and Senator
La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin
expressed clashing views on the pro
posal to enlarge the Supreme Court.
In a strongly worded statement,
Wheeler, heretofore an ardent sup
porter of New Deal legislation, de
nounced the proposal as a “stop gap"
establishing a “dangerous precedent.”
The Montana Senator in 1924 was the
vice presidential running mate of La,
Follette's famous father, and he and
the younger La Follette generally have
thought much along the same lines.
However, in a vehement radio
speech later. La Follette championed
enlargement of the Supreme Court as
•‘the only way In which the popular
will may be translated into effective
action.”
Besides defending the President's
plan, he advocated an amendment to
the Constitution w'hich would give
CongTess power to override a decision
of the court declaring any act of
Congress unconstitutional.
Urges Amendment.
In his statement, Wheeler said
•■there is nothing democratic, pro
gressive or fundamentally sound in the
proposal advanced bp the administra
tion.” He urged Instead a constitu
tional amendment giving Congress
power to regulate hours, wages and
working conditions.
The disagreement between the two I
Senators came at a time when the
President's plan apparently had |
bogged down for the time being due |
to the sharp cleavage which a week j
of discussion of the proposals has i
brought about.
Wheeler’s defection added another
prominent Democrat to the many
who already have expressed deter
mined opposition. Earlier yesterday,
Senator Glass of Virginia, a veteran
of many contests in the Senate and
House, made his position entirely !
clear when he termed the plan
•'frightful" and said:
"I am utterly opposed to it and I
Intend to speak in the Senate. It's
a frightful proposition, and unprece
dented since the foundation of the
Government. I don't mean to say |
there have not been suggestions for
changing the number on the court, 1
bus just exactly this proposition is ;
unprecedented.”
Meeting Postponed.
Coincidental with the hammering
at the bill, a meeting of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, which is han
dling the legislation, was postponed
from tomorrow until the following
Monday. At that time, Chairman
Ashurst expects to get a report from
a subcommittee to which was referred
yesterday the bill calling for volun
tary retirement of Supreme Court
Justices when they have reached the
age of 10 and have had 10 years'
service on the bench. The measure
passed the House Wednesday by an
overwhelming vote.
Since the President’s bill was sent
to Congress 10 days ago, the Senate
Judiciary Committee has held one
meeting. The House Judiciary Com
mittee has held two without taking
up the measure. The House group
is scheduled to meet Tuesday, but
Chairman Sumners last night would
not venture a prediction as to whether
the bill would be taken up.
The avalanche of protests against
the idea of adding six new members
to the Supreme Court, plus more and
more outspoken opposition to the
(See JUDICIARY”Page A-57>
U. S. PLAN DEFEATED
BY ARGENTINE MOVE
Paper Says Project to Make Mon
roe Doctrine Multilateral
- Was Killed.
BUENOS AIRES, February 13.—The
newspaper Na Nacion said today that
Argentina killed a United States proj
ect to make the Monroe doctrine a
multilateral American declaration
prior to the Inter-American Peace
Conference last December.
Quoting an "extra-official source,"
Which observers believed might be the
foreign ministry, the newspaper said
that before the parley the United
States sounded out Argentina on the
project but that Argentine Foreign
Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, then
In Paris, "immediately gave a nega
tive response to those points which
were foreign to Argentine interna
tional tradition.”
(Under the doctrine first pro
nounced by President James Monroe,
in 1833, the United States declared it
would look with unfriendliness on any
attempt by a European power to inter
vene in any American republic. If the
doctrine were made multilateral, pre
sumably all the American republics
would declare it their own policy.)
The conference adopted a unani
mously sponsored peace convention
providing for consultation in the event
of war or threatened war inside or
outside the Americas, but without rigid
commitments in advance. a
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Edward Plans 3 Years’ Exile;
Wedding Details Go Forward
Won’t Think of Returning Home Yet.
Princess Mary in Tears at Parting
With Brother in Vienna.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. February 13 —Edward, Duke of Windsor, will not return to
England for &t least three years, a source close to the royal family said tonight.
The princess royal. Countess of Harewood. who wept on parting with her
brother at Vienna today, will bring to Queen Mother Mary and the brothers
of the former King full details of his plans.
These, it was stated, will include.;
arrangements for his marriage to Mrs.
Wallis Warfield Simpson, the Amer
ican woman for love of whom he
abdicated, after her divorce becomes
absolute. (She was granted a de
cree nisi—conditional divorce—from
Ernest Aldrich Simpson last October
27; it may be made absolute April
27.)
The princess royal will tell her
family that her exiled brother has
not made plans to return to England
even at the end of three years, but
that he is determined not even to
» "
think about it until that period has
elapsed.
The opinion has been held in Lon
don court circles recently that the
Dukes projected marriage might not
take place after all—not because the
former King was unwilling but be
cause Mrs. Simpson had grown cool
toward the idea since he relinquished
the throne.
The princess royal will inform her
mother and brothers and this belief
(See EDWARD, Page A-14.)
NEWHEADOFYALE
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Diplomat-Educator Named
to Succeed Angell,
Retiring at 68.
By the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.. February 13. i
—The Yale Corp. today elected Dr. j
Charles Seymour. 52-year-old edu
cator, diplomat, historian, university
administrator an alumnus, as the
fifteenth president of Yale University.
He is related to two of his prede
cessors.
He succeeds Dr. James Rowland
Angell, Yale’s head since 1921, who
retires in June, having reached the
retirement age of 68 for faculty mem
bers.
Dr. Seymour, a popular figure on ,
the Yale campus, was notified of his j
selection by Gov. Wilbur L. Cross,
an ex officio fellow of the corpora- j
tion. and Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin
of New York City. The new Yale
head became a member of the faculty
in 1911.
Describing the method of his noti
fication later. Dr. Seymour said:
“I was sitting in my office when :
Gov. Cross and Mr. Coffin called. I
thought they wer’ seeking some in- !
formation about the university ad-j
ministration. The news was a pleas
ant surprise. It is a great honor
and a tremendous responsibility.”
Selection of Dr. Seymour to head
the university places the office once
again in the hands of an alumnus.
The custom was broken only once.,
The exception was the election of |
Dr. Angell.
Informed of the corporation's action,
Dr. Angell immediately issued a state- !
ment lauding his successor. The Yale
president said:
“The university is most fortunate
h' the choice of ProVost Charles Sey
mour to be its next president. He
will bring to the position a lifelong
acquaintance with Yale and a sympa
thetic understanding of her traditions
and ideals. His training as an under
graduate at Cambridge, together with
his intimate contact with European
affairs, has given him a cosmopolitan
point of view invaluable for the head
of a great institution. • • •”
Dr. Seymour, New Haven-born, was
graduated from Yale with the class
of 1908. He attended public schools
here and took his bachelor's degree
from Kings College, Cambridge, before
matriculating at Yale.
The new Yale head, who for the past
(See YALE, Page A-97)
WEST VIRGINIA LAWYER
INDICTED FOR MATRICIDE
Charles Baldwin Accused of Slay
ing Mother at Home in
Huntington.
Br the Associated Press.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va„ February
13. — Charles Baldwin, 41-year-old
lawyer and member of one of Hunt
ington’s first families, was indicted
today for the slaying of his wealthy
mother, Mrs. Juliette B. Enslow.
Mrs. Enslow, 63-year-old widow of
Frank Bliss Enslow, lawyer and cap
italist, was found dead beside her bed
October 11 in the palatial Third ave
nue home which she and her son had
occupied for many years.
A week later a murder warrant was
sworn out for Baldwin, a son by a
former marriage.
The one-time coal operator pleaded
innocent at a preliminary hearing.
Arrests End Family’s Sit-Down
Strike to Obtain Poor Relief
Br the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, Minn., February
13.—A Rochester family’s three-day
sit-down strike for poor relief ended
abruptly late today with the arrest of
the parents on S counts and place
ment of 7 of the 14 children with a
welfare agency.
Janies V. Murphy, the father, was
lodged in the Olmstead County Jail
on charges of burglary, maintaining
a nuisance and disorderly conduct.
His wife was charged with the last
two offenses.
County police said the burglary
charge concerned the picking of a
lock on a janitor's supply room In Uu
Olmstead Court House where the fam
ily began the “strike” Thursday.
Seven of the children were declared
dependents, following a hearing before
Probate Judge Bunn T. Willson, and
turned over to the county Child Wel
fare Board. Later Mrs. Murphy was
incarcerated with her husband.
County authorities refused to con
tribute to the family’s support on the
grounds that three of the Murphy boys
were earning about $150 a month.
Before their eviction tonight the
family had prepared for a long siege.
A mattress, blankets, cooking utensils
and food were taken to the court
bouse.
FARNSWORTHTRIAL
OPENS TOMORROW
j
Former Navy Officer Faces
Charge of Plotting With
Japanese.
John S. Farnsworth, former Navy
lieutenant commander, will go on
trial before Justice James M. Proctor
in District Court tomorrow morning,
charged with conspiring with two
former Japanese diplomats to com
municate American naval secrets to
Japan.
Around the dapper figure of the
eratwhile officer, Government prosecu
tors will attempt to weave a net of
international intrigue and espionage,
with claims of secret meetings, stolen
documents and confidence betrayals.
. From all parts of the Nation and
even from the Atlantic and Pacific
battle fleets, some 50 witnesses will be
drawn to bolster the Government’s
contentions.
United States Attorney Leslie C.
Garnett and his assistant, Samuel F. ]
Beach, estimated that it will take •
approximately a week to present their
case alone, not allowing for time
which will be consumed by the de
fense.
Neither of the alleged co-conspira
tors will be present. Both now' are in
Japan. Although named in the in
dictment, they were not made de
fendants, since pro-ecuting officials
believed their diplomatic immunity
protected them.
Bath Have Left Capital.
They were Comdr. Yosiyuki IUmiya '
and Lieut. Ccmdr. Okira Yamaki. both
former naval attaches at the Japanese
Embassy here. Comdr. Itimiya was
said to have departed from Washing
ton in 1934. and Comdr. Yamaki a
year ago last Fall.
Naming of the two was a departure
from the usual custom of shielding
suspected foreign espionage agents.
It is understood that Farnsworth
will Insist on personally examining
Government witnesses when their tes
timony involves technical matters.
Much evidence of that kind probably
will be given during the course of the
trial, since Farnsworth is accused cf
seeking various naval secrets of a
technical nature from other officers.
His attorneys. William E. Leahy and
William J. Hughes, Jr., said yesterday
they have not yet decided on all the
details of the defense.
A majority of the Government’s wit
nesses are naval officers and their
families. Some have come to Wash
ington from as far away as the Pa
cific Coast, while others were in Flor
ida, Massachusetts. Virginia, Maryland,
New York and Rhode Island when
summoned to Washington. Several
were at sea.
The cost to the Government in
transportation costs alone will be con
siderable, although no estimate of its
magnitude was available.
Another Indictment Pending.
Another indictment Is pending
against Farnsworth, but he will not
be tried on that charge at this time.
It! alleges that he turned over to the
Japanese Government a confidential
Navy publication, entitled "The Service
of Information and Security.” He is
accused of taking this pamphlet from
the desk of Lieut Comdr. Leslie G.
Gehres in the Navy Department on
August 1. 1934.
The conspiracy indictment, which
was returned some weeks after the first
true bill, stated the alleged conspiracy
was carried on from January 1, 1933,
to July 13, 193S, which was the date
(See FARNSWORTH, Page A-14.)
RESCUERS BATTLE
DRIFTS TO REACH
100 Isolated in Two West
ern Communities and 7
Are Missing.
75 CUT OFF 6 WEEKS
FINALLY GET RELIEF
Crews Race Against Time to
Bring Aid Before Arrival
of Stork.
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. February 13 -
Rescue crews worked at top speed to
day in lour widely separated Western
areas to free more than 100 persons
in two snowbound communities and
to locate seven missing men.
Thirty-two persons, marooned since
December 27 on the snow-buried north
rim of the Grand Canyon, near Ja
cobs Lake. Ariz., notified approaching
rescuers their food was running low
and they feared another snowstorm.
The^ reported they would evacuate
their camp by taking to the canyon
trails on foot and moving to the south
rim tomorrow unless aid arrived be
fore then. The south rim Is 1,000
feet lower and has only half as much
snow as the marooned camp.
Tonight, however, they decided to
stick it out until rescuers arrive. Doyle
Smith, member of the snowbound
party, telephoned National Parks offi
cials at Jacobs Lake.
Waiting Is Tiresome.
Waiting for rescue is the most tire
some .part of fheir plight. Smith said.
"We read and listen to the radio,
play cards and just sit around,” he
said.
The camp contained two women,
one of them Mrs. Carl Cox. an expec
tant mother. Men in camp prepared
to move Mrs. Cox out on a sled in
event of emergency.
Rescuers, still 54 miles away, at
tacked the Intervening drifts with
three big snowplows, among them a
•'snowmobile” used by Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd in one of his South
Polar expeditions.
Highway forces fought their way
through rain to Denny, a mining camp
in the mountains of Trinity County,
Northern California, where 75 parsons
had been snowbound six weeks.
The Denny camp also contained an
expectant mother, Mrs. Roland Daly,
24. Forest Ranger Wesley E. Hotelling
reported tonight Mrs. Daly has ample
provisions and firewood, and la In no
Immediate need of assistance.
Doctor Volunteers All
Rescuers expected to reach the camp
tonight, but Dr. Morris Krutchkoff,
Eureka physician, volunteered to
head toward Denny in case the stork
got ahead of the highway crew.
Three searching parties sought five
men isolated by the record-breaking
January 31 storm In Oregon.
Late today searchers reported they
had found the body of one man. Mean
time, snow-shoed parties continued
their efforts to carry aid to the others.
Ironically, three of these men were
reported walled up in Starveout Cab
in near Glendale and presumably
out of rations. A man from the snow
bound country told rescue crews the
three men had food for only a few
days when the storm closed in.
Other searchers went through the
heavy forests east of Coos Bay in
search of A. J. Leaton. a trapper, who
left his cabin on Millicoma Creek 14
days ago carrying a 5-day food aupply
and had not been heard from since.
Short-wave radios guided rangers
in finding the body of Jack Wilbur, 40,
missing two weeks in the Mid Rogue
River section, west of Grants Pass.
DAKOTA STORM SEVERE. ..
Stock Losses Feared as Road and Rail
Contacts Close.
ABERDEEN, S. Dak., February 13
(/P).—Extensive live stock losses were
feared in Northern South Dakota to
day after wind-driven snow had re
blocked all highway and rail contact
with remote communities.
The high winds struck just as com
munication had been restored with
villages isolated for as long as three
weeks. Trains and trucks had brought
replenishment for empty larders
Thursday and Friday, but there had
not been time for importation of feed,
reported acutely short throughout the
area.
Ranchers previously .had reported
loss of as many as 300 head of sheep
and cattle because of storms. Now,
with marketing centers cut oil from
farmers again, it was feared losses
would mount rapidly.
QUINTUPLETSM3UARD
INCREASED IN ‘PLOT’
Police Investigate Stories of Kid
naping Scheme for Two of
Dionnes.
TORONTO, February 13 (Canadian
Press).—Five guards, instead of the
usual three, watched over the Dionne
quintuplets tonight as police inves
tigated stories of a plot to kidnap two
of the famous little girls.
Attorney General Arthur Roebuck
and police were inclined to brand the
tale of the plot a hoax, but were “tak
ing no chances.”
A telephone call from an unidenti
fied bus traveler brought news of the
reputed “kidnap plot” to a constable’s
wife in Etobicoke Township. The
man said he heard two passengers talk
of kidnaping two of the sisters, one
of them saying, “everything is ar
ranged.”
Efforts to trace the call were un
availing.
Meanwhile, the bright-eyed little
girls played to their Callendar nursery,
unmindful of the second “kidnap
scare” in two years. They will be S
years old next May 38.
An l-foot steel fence surrounds
the nursery, and it is around this
that the guards walk an unceasing
p** &
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You SUPPOSE
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‘Capital’s United Front Broken,’
Lewis Turns to Steel Drive
Will Have Ford and Chrysler Bargain
ing by Christmas; C. I. O. Chief
Says on Eve of Return Here.
By tht Associated Press.
DETROIT, February 13 —John L. Leals declared tonight that the Gen
era! Motors strike settlement broke "the united front of capital,” and pre
dicted victory for his Committee for Industrial Organization when it presents
its demands to the steel Industry.
Asked at a press conference if he believed strikes would be necessary
in the steel plants, he said:
”1 abhor strikes. I hope that the steel Industry will approach the prom
lem rationally. 1 aon t anticipate a.;
strike."
Of William Green, president of the
American Federation of Lafc-r. which
is at sword's points with the C. I. O,
Lewis said:
"I look on him as a good deal like
an elderly lady with a wooden leg.”
Asked If he believed the A. F. of
L. craft union* would seek representa
tion in future auto-labor conferences,
Lewis said: “We don’t know of any
membership the craft union* have in j
the motor Industry. So far they have ,
no more to do with it than Haile
(See UEWI8, Page "A-*.)”
Allow Seamen to Sign for
Voyages Without Dis
charge Books.
B7 the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 13 —
| Acting on acvice from Washing.on.
Government maritime officials here
bowed tonight to a Federal Court or
der against enforcement of the Cope
land act, making possible the quick
sailing of three vessels.
The Copeland act. assailed by three
of the seven unions involved in the
recently settled 98-day maritime
strike, requires seafaring men to carry
discharge books.
The Government officials' decision
made possible the Immediate signing
of crews for the three vessels—the
Dollar Lines' President Monroe and
President Lincoln and the United
Fruit Co.'s Cherokee—without requir
ing the men to have discharge books.
Departure of other vessels, however,
may be forestalled by new court ac
tion to be started by the Government
here Monday, seeking revocation of the
court order.
Confers With Cummings.
United States Attorney H. H. Mc
Pike, alter telephone conferences with
Attorney General Cummings, broke
the deadlock when he instructed
United States Shipping Commissioner
John Rylander to sign on the crews.
The Cherokee mace ready to sail for
Panama and the two Dollar liners
will leave tomorrow.
Confusion was general along the
water front for many hours before the
instructions came to Rylander to sign
on crews.
Pour ships, tentatively scheduled to
sail today, failed to leave port here,
but not all the delays were scribed
to labor difficulties.
Rylander’s deputies specifically de
clined to approve a crew for the
Oceanic A Oriental Line's steamer
Golden Coast, unless the workers pro
duce discharge books. The crew pre
viously had declined to accept the
books. The ship was listed to. sail to
day for Australia.
This tangle developed after Assistant
Secretary of Commerce J. Monroe
Johnson said in Washington he as
sumed the court order would permit
seamen to sail without the books, but
that it would not halt book distribu
tion.
Fear Discrimination.
Although many of the seafaring
groups showed no apposition to the
discharge books, the sailors, the
marine firemen and the cooks and
stewards attacked the law on the
ground it enabled employers ta dis
criminate against individuals.
Hie act was designed to promote
safety at sea. It require- all seafar
ing men below the rank of masters
to carry records of their employment.
Longshoremen’s union officials
sought to adjust the Jurisdictional dis
pute, temporarily, but the issue re
mains to be threshed emt finally by
arbitration. It involves whether long
shoremen working coastwise ships
shall have their own hatch tenders or
whether seamen or deck officers shall
act in that capacity.
Radio Programs, Page F-3.
Cs—lets Index, A-l
GREEN OPENS FIRE
ON GEN. JOHNSON
Sees Former N. R. A. Chief
Lending Assistance to
Lewis Group.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
William Green, president of the !
American Federation of Labor, last
I night accused.Gen. Hugh S. Johnson,
former N. R. A. chieftain and now a
newspaper columnist, of “service to
those unfriendly to the cause of labor
who would divide and weaken or
ganised labor and thus strengthen
the forces arrayed against labor.''
The accusation was contained in
a letter mailed yesterday to Johnson
in care of his newspaper syndicate in
New York and was declared by Green
to be "the considered judgment of
the Executive Council of the A. F. of
L. and by its direction.”
The conduct under criticism. Green’s
letter said, consists of writings by
Johnson in glorification of the leader
ship oi the Committee for Industrial
Organization and condemnation of
leadership of the A. F. of L. and may
be "inspired by motives of malice, of
good will or of indifference.”
Fresh Outbreak Seen.
In effect, the letter constitutes a
fresh outbreak of the internal strife
I which has torn the American labor
j movement for the past 18 months as
j Green refers to the C. I. O. group and
j their leader, John L. Lewis, as those
I who “would so flagrantly disregard
; their agreement and obligation and
J assume the role of irresponsible
dictatorship.”
While the federation attack upon
(See LABOR, Page A-6 )
MRS. WILSON IN MEXICO
Mrs. Meredith Accompanies Wid
ow of War President.
LAREDO. February 13 (/P).—Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, widow of the late
President, passed through Laredo
early today en route to Mexico City.
She was accompanied by Mrs. Edwin
T. Meredith, wife of the Secretary of
Agriculture in the Wilson cabinet.
They were invited by Joeephus Dan
iels, Amercan Ambassador to Mezco,
to be his guests.
RED-HAIREDBANDIT
ROBS FIVE PLACES
Spectacular 3-Hour Sortie
by Auto Nets Hold-Up
Men $400.
Speeding by car from place to place
within a period of three hours, a red
haired bandit and his accomplice last
night held up and robbed business
establishments in five different sec
tions of the Northwest area.
Detective Chief B. W. Thompson
called in all available plainclothesmen
and extra police were assigned to duty
in an attempt to capture the two
hold-up men who, police believe, were
driven from one hold-up to another
by a third man, who waited In the
machine while his companions com
mitted the hold-ups.
While these two eluded arrest, a
group of colored thugs also were
active, beating two elderly white men
and robbing one of them as they
walked on dark t tracts near their
home*.
Biggest Haul Over 1200.
The red-haired bandit and his aide
robbed a liquor store proprietor of
more than $200, a pharmacy of $75,
a grocery of between $50 and $100,
another drug store of about $25 and
a newspaper substation of $15.
Their first victim was T. J. Kowal
ski. druggist at 76 K street. Leveling
pistols at him while he was alone in
the store, the bandits forced him to
empty the cash register, containing
between $25 and $35. The fact that
Kowalski had paid out a considerable
sum of money a short time before
prevented the loot from being larger.
A. A P. Store Robbed.
Half an hour later the pair appeared
at an Atlantic & Pacific grocery at
1925 Pennsylvania avenue, where the
manager, P. E. Moyer, 1718 Massa
chusetts avenue northeast, and a
clerk. Donovan Bayles. 2405 Penn
sylvania avenue, were forced into a
back room while the cash register was
rifled of between $50 and $100.
The fast-working bandits made their
biggest “haul” of the evening about
9 o'clock when they made I. W. Hor
witz. proporietor of a liquor shop at
907 H street, turn over two days' re
ceipts. amounting to more than $200.
When they entered the place one
of the hold-up men asked for a bottle
of whisky. When Horwitz reached
for the shelf a gun was pressed
against his back and he was told to
keep quiet and open the registers.
Overlooked $25 in Silver.
Although they were painstaking
enough to relieve Horwitz of his
pocket change, the bandits overlooked
some $25 in silver in going through
the till.
The pair’s next “job” was at the
newspaper substation, located at 2348
Wisconsin avenue. There they robbed
the manager, J. T. Daily, who was
(See BANDIT, Page A-4.)
BALDWIN MAY RETIRE
LONDON, February 13 G4>).—When
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin re
tires—which he is expected to do
shortly after the coronation of King
George VI in May—he wUl be reward
ed with an earldom for his services to
the nation, the Sunday Referee said
tonight.
The newspaper said it had this in
formation “on the highest authority.”
It said he probably would take the
title Earl of Bewdley, that being his
seat in Worcestershire.
Raises Bring Auto Pay Rolls
To Highest Point in History
Mr the AmeUM Prsss.
DETROIT, February 13.—Boosted
by $40,000,009 this week, the steadily*
growing pay roll of the automobile in
dustry today stands at the highest
point in history.
Increases coincident with steadily
expanding production volume in the
last four yean have raised the aggre
gate earnings of automobile workers
from the depression low of (278,000,004
in 1033 to nearly (800,000,000. In
1(93 the industry’s product, including
parts, had a wholesale value of (793,
048,300; last year it reached (3,624,
413.000.
The previous high in earnings for
any year was in 193$ when the pay
roll of the industry totaled $747,
000,000. ^ 1
i
Wage increases were announced
this week by General Motors Corp., the
Chrysler Corp. and Packard.
General motors announced increases
averaging 5 cents an hour and total
ing $25,000,000 a year. Similar in
creases were put into effect in No
vember when the corporation also an
nounced distribution of a $10,000,000
“Christmas appreciation fund.”
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., General Motors
president, said the November and Feb
ruary Increases would raise wages to
approximately 25 per cent above the
highest prevailing in the pre-depres
alon period.
The Chrysler Increases averaged 10
"' (See AUT* PAY, Page A-A)
TO KEEP UNION AID
FROM OTY AFTER
AUTO LABOR RIOT
Strife-torn Anderson, Ind.,
Under Strict Military Rule
Following Disorders in
Which 10 Were Hurt.
MICHIGAN SYMPATHIZERS
HALTED 11 MILES AWAY
Occupants of Cars Refused Admis
sion Wear TJ. A. W. Insignia.
Planes Keep Troops Informed
of Maneuvers of Principals in
Dispute Over Organization.
BACKGROUND—
General Motors strike, which be
gan December 30 and ended last
Thursday, was marked by only
minor disorders, chiefly at Flint.
Recognition of United Automobile
Workers’ Union was main point at
issue in General Motors dispute.
After industry was tied up and
150,000 out of work Federal
conciliators, including the Secre
tary of Labor, tried to effect a
settlement, failed.
Then Gov. Frank Murphy inter
vened and brought about truce
signed Thursday. General Motors
agreed to recognize union members
and strikers agreed to evacuate
plants held by "sit-downs” 1or six
weeks. Negotiations looking toward
final settlement were agreed upon
and will begin Tuesday.
B» the Associated Press.
ANDERSON, Ind.. February 13 —
j National Guardsmen held strife-tom
; Anderson under bayonet rule tonight
j following an early morning skirmish
I in which shots were fired and stones
hurled, between union and non-union
automotive workers.
With bayonets fixed, troops patrolled
the streets. Other Guardsmen and
! State police established highway
blockades to hold back union members
' and sympathizers, most of them from
Michigan, who sought to bolster union
forces within this Oeneral Motors ac
cessory center.
At least 10 men were wounded In
the outbreak of violence, which left
the South Side Tavern, In which it
atarted, in ruing and brought an order
from Gov. M. Clifford Townsend plac
ing all Madison Count- under mili
tary control.
General Motor’s Corp.'s two units
here, the Delco-Remy and the Guide
Lamp factories, observed their usual
Saturday holiday and there were no
demonstrations around them.
Nearly 50 automobiles, bearing
i Michigan license plates and carrying
300 persons described by Lieut. Walter
: Metzner of the State police as union
! sympathizers, were turned back as
they neared Alexandria. 11 miles north
of Anderson and scene of a headquar
ters of the United Automobile Work
ers of America.
To Intercept Sympathizers.
Gov. Townsend said at Indianapolis
he had instructed Guard officers and
State police to intercept any union
sympathizers en route to Anderson and
let them know "they are not needed.”
"If their purpose,” the Governor
said, "is the maintenance of peace and
order, that purpose has been met by
the State of Indiana.”
Occupants of the long line of halted
cars wore arm bands and badges of
the United Automobile Workers. Many
of them were women. Asked why they
were en route to Anderson, their reply.
In nearly every case, was: “To see that
the union gets a square deal.”
National Guard planes droned over
the line of automobiles during the day
to keep State police advised, by radio,
of the situation. >
A meeting called earlier by union
leaders was canceled because mar
tial law prohibits such assemblages.
Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate
for President in the last election, ar
rived here late tonight and conferred
with union leaders. He said he oame
here because the situation "intrigued”
him and added that in his visit here
he found “these people lacked the in
herent rights of civil protection.”
Thomas said he was en route to Chi
cago, where he is to speak tomorrow
night.
Lieut. Graydon N. Harrison led
Guardsmen in a raid on the union
(See STRIKeTPagfTA^e.)
LINDBERGHS’ CHANGE
DISAPPOINTS CAIRO
Flying Couple Send Word They
Are Coming and Travel to •
Alexandria Instead.
By the Associated Press.
CAIRO. Egypt, February 13.—Col.
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh flew to
Alexandria today from Mersa Matrouh
in the Western Egyptian desert.
They caused some consternation
among Cairo police by sending word
“We are coming; don’t inform the
press," and then flying Instead to
Alexandria. Two hundred Carlo po
licemen waited vainly at the Almaza
Airdrome here until they we« lh«
formed the American flyers had land*,
ed in the coastal city. i v
May Go to India.
LONDON. February 13 CP).—Col.
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh may
extend their present aerial tour of the
Near and Middle East as far as India,
authoritative sources indicated to
night.
The Iranian (Persian) consulate
here disclosed that the colonel has ap
plied for permission to fly over Iran.
The application has been forwarded
to Teheran and the Iranian govern
ment’s reply wrill be communicated to
the UndbergW at Cairo.