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GOV. HORNER ASKS
SHERIFF. 10 DELAY
OUSTING SIT-DOWN
STRIKERS IN PLANT
Forcible Eviction Is Tem
porarily Abandoned to
Give Conciliators Chance
to Act.
HEAT, WATER SHUT OFF;
SANITATION IS SERIOUS
78 to 82 Men Behind Nailed
Doors Have Sufficient Food,
Blankets for Comfort—Corpora
tion’s Attorney Refuses to Deal
With Outside Organizer.
BACKGROUND—
Mushroom growth of sit-down
strikes followed spectacular Gen
eral Motors-C. I. O. controversy in
which courts eviction order w-as not
enforced by authorities seeking
compromise. Gov. Murphy of
Michigan achieved national promi
nence in reaching settlement: the
while stressing “human rights”
angle in face of "property rights”
view of courts.
By the Associated Press.
WAUKEGAN. 111. February 20 —
Acceding to Gov. Horner's request that
conciliators be given a chance. Sheriff
L. A. Doolittle temporarily abandoned
further efforts today to eject sit-down
strikers forcibly from the Fan-Steel
Metallurgical Corp.’s $1,500,000 plant.
Ensconced behind nailed shut doors
of two factory buildings in North
Chicago, the strikers awaited word
from conferences called in Waukegan
to evolve a basis of settlement.
Heat and water were shut off in the
buildings, where windows were shat
tered yesterday in a two-hour battle
between the defenders and special
deputy sheriffs trying to serve a court
order to evict them.
Sources outside the beleaguered
plant said the sit-downers apparently
had sufficient food and blankets for
„ their comfort, but sanitation condi
tions grew worse hourly.
Occupants of the buildings were
estimated at between 78 and 82.
Conciliators w'ere on the scene.
Martin P. Durkin. State director of
labor, arranged a meeting with offi
cials of the company, and expected
later to confer separately with
union men.
Outside Organizers Banned.
Max Swerin, attorney for the corpo
ration. said he was ready to meet with
any delegation the strikers might
select from their own ranks, but de
clined to discuss settlement with "any
outside organizers.”
“We will not recognize the C. I. O.
or any of Its officers.” he said In a
statement.
Spokesmen for the strikers said the
demonstration was called solely to ob
tain recognition of their union, affili
ated with the Committee fo Industrial
Organization.
A brief melee between special offi
cers and a crowd outside the plant en
sued last night when strike sympa
thizers ripped badges from several
officers. The deputies swung their
clubs and base ball bats and eventu
ally the crowd dispersed, although
' (See STRIKE. Page A-27)
‘President Wants
You to Join / Is
C.I.O. Labor Plea
Hoffman Says Tactics
in Plants Reason
for Warnings.
By the Associated Press.
TRENTON. N. J.. February 20.—
The circularizing of employes of
Trenton steel firms with alleged C. I.
O. literature headed. "The President
Wants You to Join the Union,” Gov.
Harold G. Hoffman disclosed today
was one of the things which prompted
his recent warning against ‘‘sit-down”
•trikes in this State.
The Governor said he would am
plify his warning to the Committee
for Industrial Organization in a
speech Monday night (on a coast-to
coast radio network).
“Nothing I say is to mean I favor
abrogation of the rights of legitimate
organized labor,” he said. "I’m mere
ly giving advanced notice that meth
ods such as was used in Indiana and
Michigan will not be tolerated in New
Jersey so far as I can prevent it.”
Circularizing of Trenton industries,
Hoffman aaid, has been "going on for
•everal weeks.”
The Trenton firms circularized are
John A. Roebling's Sons Co., the Amer
ican Steel & Wire Co. and the Crescent
Insulated Wire & Cable Co.
On the envelopes in which the
circulars were received was this: “A
message to you from the President."
The reply envelope is addressed to
E. J. Lever, field director. Steel Work
ers’ Organizing Committee, C. I. O.,
Hotel Lorraine, Philadelphia.
In one comer of the circular is a
blank to be filled In by the worker,
■tating he accepts membership in the
association and authorizes the steel
workers’ Organizing Committee to act
for the signer as “a collective bar
gaining agency in all matters pertain
ing to rates of pay, wages, hours of
employment, or other conditions of
employment.
“The National Labor Relations
Board, official United States Govern
ment agency created by the last ses
sion of Congress, has the legal power
to hold an election in your plant, to
let the workers decide for themselves
which organization shall serve as their
collective bargaining agency.’*
f A
500 Youth Paraders Stage
“Sit-Down” at White House;
2 Arrested, Others Dispersed
“Congress” Squats on Sidewalk When
Whole Membership Is Not Permitted
to Call on the President,
After 500 members of the American
Youth Congress had terminated a
parade to the White House by start
ing a “sit-down” strike in South Ex
ecutive avenue because they were not
permitted to see President Roosevelt,
two of their leaders early this after
noon were arrested and released under
$25 bond on a charge of disorderly
conduct.
The “sit-down" strike lasted about
half an hour and was dispersed by
park police after they arrested William
Hinckley of New York City, chairman
of the youth congress, and Abbott
Simon, also of New York, legislative
representative for the organization.
Members of the congress had said
they were going to “sit there in the
street” until President Roosevelt saw
them all.
The President earlier had agreed to
see a delegation of the leaders at 4 p.m.
Want Schools, Not Warships.
The parade had been orderly up to
the time the head of the column
reached the intersection of West
Executive avenue and State place,
near the southwest comer of the
White House.
There the leaders halted and the
2,500 youthful marchers began chant
Boss Sits Down
With Strikers,
Becomes Host
Orders Dinner for All
and Settles Down
for Siege.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT. February 20—Walter L.
! Fry. president of the Fry Products Co.
; of Detroit, became the Nation's No. 1
; boss sit-downer today.
When the 100 employes of the com
pany, which manufactures covers for
automobile seats, sat down demanding
wage and hour concessions. Fry picked
up a sandwich, found himself a cot
near a telephone and sat down with
them.
"If the workers can sit down,” said
Fry, "so can I. and I’ll sit right here
in the plant with them and last as long
as they do.”
Fry ordered dinner for all the strik
ers.
“After all. I'm part of the strike
now.” he said, "and they are all going
to be my guests.”
New Yorker to Be Ques
tioned in Slaying of
Union Man.
Ey the Associated Press.
TEANECK. N. J., February 20 (#).—
A wealthy New York subway builder.
Samuel Rosoff, was wanted for ques
tioning and offered to appear today in
connection with the slaying of R. Nor
man Redwood, a labor union leader,
which authorities linked with labor
union troubles in Manhattan.
Returning to Manhattan early to
day from Atlantic City, Rosoff said
he would appear at Hackensack (Ber
gen County seat) later In the morning
for questioning by County Prosecutor
John J. Breslin.
Redwood, business manager of a
subway workers’ union in New York,
was fatally wounded by a fusillade of
bullets fired from an automobile as he
sat In front of his home here last
night. The other car speeded away.
Shot on Arrival.
He had just driven to his Laurelton
Parkway residence from his New York
office. The open door of his car indi
cated, police said, that he had jumped
back onto the front seat in a futile
effort to escape the burst of fire. A
gun of the caliber used in the slaying
was found on a highway near here. It
was sent to the New York police bal
listic expert.
The prosecutor said he was told the
life of Redwood had been threatened
if he did not call off a strike in New
York.
Joseph Fay, president of the Hoist
ing Engineers’ Union of Newark, also
would be questioned. Breslin said.
Meanwhile he held without bail as
material witnesses two associate offi
cers of New York Local 102 of the
Compressed Air, Tunnel and Subway
Workers’ Union, identified as Austin
Muldoon and James Llnch.
The two were held, the prosecutor
<See SUBWAY, Page A-12.)
ing, “We want schools, not battle
ships.”
Ordered to move on by park police,
about 500 of the marchers sat down
in the street. After arresting two, the
police hauled the leaders to their feet
and ordered them to resume the
march.
The parade, which started at Sixth
street and moved up Pennsylvania
avenue, was planned U> emphasize In
terest in passage of the $500,000,000
American youth act.
As the young men and women
marched, they shouted:
"We want jobs! That’s the Ameri
can youth act!”
The procession was led by a "Pil
grim father," dressed in tall hat,
brown coat and knee breeeches and
carrying the blunderbuss popular in
the Massachusetts Bay colony 300
years ago.
Behind the Pilgrim father came
youths dressed as a laborer, a farmer
and a scholar, symbolic of the need
for unity of all groups.
"Youth is our first concern,” read a
banner carried in the van of the
parade.
The bill, passage of which was sought
' (See YOUTHS. Page A-l6.)~
COES IN EFFECT
27 Nations Pledged to Clamp
Down Arms Blockade
March 6.
BACKGROUND—
Shortly after outbreak of Spanish,
civil war. last July 27, European
nations joined in neutrality pact,
pledging to keep hands off Com
munist-Fascist struggle.
Russia later accused Italy, Ger
many and Portugal of aiding
Fascist rebels. These three powers
denied the allegation and, in turn,
accused Russia of furnishing assist
ance to the Communist forces.
Still later in the struggle it was
disclosed that volunteers from vir
tually all of the nations of Europe
were fighting, either with the
rebels or Communists.
Bjr tb* Associated Press.
LONDON, February 20.—The Na
tions of Europe clamped down an em
bargo on fighting men for Spain today
to halt the menace of “the little world
war’’ of civil conflict converting the
continent into its battlefield.
Even while they timed their strin
gent measures—long-term Jail sen
tences in some cases—to take effect
at midnight tonight, 27 nations were
pledged to impose a workable war
blockade by land and sea around the
peninsula by March 6.
Portugal alone, of the members of
the International Non-Intervention
Committee remained to be converted
entirely, but informed observers felt
her objections to foreign observers on
her soil' would be overcome over the
week end.
This last stumbling block was ex
pected to be .met by a compromise
allowing British Inspectors to see that
Portugal keeps her pledge not to send
arms or guns to her war-torn neigh
bor.
The Italian ban on volunteers, an
nouncing "penal measures” as punish
ment, was published officially last
night.
Czechoslovakia took radical meas
<See SPAIN, Page A-12.)
Spaniard Hides
In Tomb 60 Days
To Save His Life
By the Associated Press.
LISBON. Portugal, February
20.—The newspaper Seculo told
today how Alvaro Esteva, a
Spanish manufacturer with in
surgent sympathies, played dead
in Malaga Cemetery for two
whole months.
Esteva said he hid in an empty
coffin in the family tomb to
escape government troopers dur
ing government domination of the
seaport. He emerged last week
when the insurgents took the
town.
Each night, said Esteva, he
heard the screams of persons be
ing executed in the graveyard.
He subsisted on food which his
sisters concealed in wreaths
which they laid each day upon
graves.
His hair. Jet black two months
ago, turned a snowy white.
Ethiopians Try to Assassinate
Italian Viceroy at Celebration
By the Associated Press.
ROME, February 20.—Marshal Ro
dolfo Graziani, viceroy of Ethiopia,
was slightly wounded by a hand
grenade, an official communique an
nounced today, when rebellious natives
at Addis Ababa attempted to assassi
nate him as he presented them with
gifts.
Many others, including the Coptic
Bishop Abuna Cirillo, were gravely
wounded, the announcement said,
when the natives hurled the grenades
during a huge celebration of the birth
of Prince Vittorio Emanuele, future
Emperor of Ethiopia.
The Ethiopians penetrated the
gathering at noon yesterday, the com
munique declared, as if coming up for
gifts distributed in the baby prince’s
honor. As the ceremony was about
to end, they drew the grenades from
beneath their white shammas aad
i
threw them at the group surrounding
the viceroy on the rostrum.
The officials were knocked off their
feet by the force of the explosions
and when Grazianl picked himself up
he found he was slightly wounded by
the fragments.
Aviation Gen. Aurello Liotta, chief
of the Italian East African air force,
lay unconscious at his feet, seriously
wounded, beside the Abuna Clrillo and
several native chieftains in their
colorful costumes.
The tremendous confusion covered
the escape of the bomb throwers.
The viceroy, dressed in his gray
green marshal’s uniform, had just
finished an address when the attempt
was made.
It was his first appearance after
his return to Addis Ababa from a
recent two-week tour of Southern
Ethiopia.
4
FAIR TRADE LAW
CHANGES ON PAY,
HOURSCONSIDERED
Program May Be Advanced
Before Court Plan Is
Settled.
MANDATORY STANDARDS
WOULD BE IMPOSED
Roosevelt Reported Regarding
New Way to Control Wages,
Time Favorably.
B7 the Associated Press.
Unimpeachable authorities disclosed
today President Roosevelt is consider
ing a flexible program to outlaw ex
cessively low wages and long hours
through revision of the fair trade prac
tice and anti-trust laws.
Besides fixing mandatory wage and
hour standards, the projected legisla
tion would provide for a broad system
of voluntary agreements under which
business men could ban unfair and
wasteful trade practices.
Mr. Roosevelt, it was emphasized,
has not had time for a detailed study,
but was reported to regard it favorably.
Officials said administration legal
experts believe the program could be
fitted into the present framework of
the Constitution and past Supreme
Court rulings. If the President finally
approves, they said, the court reorgan
ization issue therefore need not delay
its presentation.
Details of Proposal.
Under the proposal. Congress would
make it a violation of fair practice
laws for Industries engaging in inter
state commerce to pay excessively low
wages or work employes unduly long
hours.
A new board would be created to
formulate wage and hour standards
for each industry. This board prob
ably would be attached to the present
Federal Trade Commission.
It would fix the standards after in
dustry-wide hearings, much as the old
N. R. A. codes were drafted. Its
regulations, however, would be limited
to wages and hours.
The labor standards, officials said,
would be aimed entirely at elimination
of sweatshop conditions. Among mini
mum standards would be abolition of
child labor.
Collective bargaining would be relied
on to provide for wage and hour stand
ards above those prescribed by the
board.
On a complaint that the wage and
hour regulations had been violated,
either the board or the Trade Com
mission could issue a "cease and de
sist" order. After a hearing, fines or
other penalties might be imposed.
Penalties Question Uncertain.
The question of penalties has not
been definitely settled, but White
House advisers were said to oppose
Jailing of violators.
Present activities of the Trade Com
mission in the trade agreement field
might be transferred to the Commerce
Department. The commission now
merely gives assent or disapproval to
fair trade agreements formulated
voluntarily.
The Commerce Department or other
agency would participate in drafting
the agreements and in administering
them.
The Government would take an
active part in defending the agree
ments against court or other attacks.
This, officials said, probably would
help to promote a co-operative work
ing arrangement between business
and Government.
The agreements would be designed
to wipe out false advertising, giving
of unearned discounts and similar
(See TRADE, Page A-27)
PLANES DROP FOOD
Relief Reaches 75 Members of
Snowbound Fisgah Colony.
PORTLAND, Oreg., February 20 OP).
—Seventy-five members of snowbound
Pisgah Colony ate hearty breakfasts
today—part of a thousand pounds of
food dropped to them by airplanes.
Food had diminished to near the
vanishing point when the planes
reached the colony, 35 miles from
Portland, yesterday. Its members In
clude first ofienders from Portland
municipal courts.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page. Page.
Amusements C-12 Music _B-4
Art r_B-3 Obituary _A-6
Books _B-2 Radio ._A-9
Church Real Estate Cl to 7
News ..B-5-6-7 Short Story ..C-7
Comics -_A-15 Society _A-7
Editorial_A-8 Sports ...A-10-11
Financial ...A-12 Woman’s Pg. B-8
Lost Sc Found A-3
NATIONAL.
Dust-stricken Kansas town appeals
for medical supplies. Page A-l
Wealthy subway builder to face New
Jersey murder quiz. Page A-l
Filibuster power of Senate court plan
opponents seen. Page A-l
127,000 General Motors workers return
to work. Page A-3
Green to ask Justice probe of steel
bidding. Page A-l
President considers regulation of
wages and hours. Page A-l
Twelve naval planes off for three weeks’
cruise in Caribbean. Page A-6
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Alleged aide of ‘‘red-haired bandit”
surrenders. Page A-12
Hearings begin next week on new D.
C. tax sources. PageA-16
Increased need for social legislation
predicted. Page A-16
Conferees may meet next week on red
rider Issue. PageA-16
Federal official’s stepson, 12, badly
hurt In traffic. Page A-16
D. C. employs# warned on eve of re
organization study. Page A-16
4
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-8
This and That. Page A-8
Answers and Questions. Page A-8
Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Paul Mallon. Page A-9
Mark Sullivan. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Delia Pynchon. Page A-9
SPORTS.
Base ball intrenched as Cuba's chief
sport. Page A-10
Mixed show to pack Maryland Coli
seum tonight. Page A-10
Steele decisively beats Risko in keeping
title. Page A-10
Clif Bolton, still ill, is problem for
Ngts. Page A-10
Bag limit won’t hamper golf pros,
Hagen says. Page A-ll
Young Sam Snead is Ryder Cup choice
of Sara sen. Page A-ll
Tech, out of race, holds key to basket
race. Page A-ll
Track and field army attacks records
tonight. Page A-ll
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
City News in Brief. Page A-4
Traffic Convictions. Page C-8
Young Washington. Page A-6
Vital Statistics. Page A-4
Nature’s Children. Page A-6
Dorothy Dlx. Page B-8
Bedtime Story. Paga A-8
Croat word Ptwle. Page A-I3
Letter-Out. P>«® 0-8
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DUST AREA ASKS
MEDICAL SUPPLIES
Kansas Town Officials Send
Out Appeal as Influenza
Increases.
B» the Associated Press.
HUGOTON, Kans., February 20
Pleas for more medical supplies and
nurses went out today from this dust
plagued town of 1,500 in Southwest
ern Kansas after two more deaths
brought to 14 the number of victims
of Influenza and pneumonia.
“We need help." declared Dr. T G.
Gammell. city health officer. "We
must have more nurses and more
supplies.”
South in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
at Guymon and Texhoma, a dust
soiled snow fell early today. Good
well and Boise City. Okla., and Elk
hart. Kans., also had snow.
Elated Guymon residents stood out
in the failing flakes, stained a red
dish brown by the blowing topsoil.
A slight haze which hung over that
section cleared rapidly.
Dr. Gammell declared two emer
gency hospitals in church bssements
were inadequate to cope wi*h this
city’s health situation. He reported
13 persons seriously ill, and said he
was unable to estimate the number
of persons less seriously affected.
Oklahoma health authorities have
said that dust itself does not cause
disease, but that It can aggravate
respiratory weaknesses.
Basement Hospitals.
Six of the seriously ill here were in
one basement hospital, five were in
the other. Attempts were being made
to care for the other two at their
homes. Two Red Cross nurses, one
at each hospital, were on duty.
"We are having an abnormal num
ber of deaths," he said. ”1 am cer-<
tain the dust Is causing a majority
of the deaths directly.
"We have no hospital here, and the
basements of our churches are our
only facilities for use as hospitals.
Yet the space is inadequate to care
for the number of persons 111.”
Windows of the basements were
caulked to aid in sealing them against
the dust and blankets were used over
doors.
The snow will do more good than
< See DUST, Page A-2?)
---
7 ON MISSING PLANE
SYDNEY, Australia, Fpbruary 20
(TP).—Seven persons, including W.
Fountain, a New York architect, were
unreported today on a flight from
Brisbane along a route swept by gale
winds.
Their craft, carrying five passen
gers and two pilots, left Brisbane yes
terday afternoon. It last was re
ported about 220 miles from its desti
nation. Searching planes were or
dered out.
Point Barrow Hospital Burned;
D. C. Nurse, Safe, Sends News
I
Everything Lost in “Most
Northerly Point” Fire,
Reports Say.
A radiogram reassuring the mother
of a Washington nurse was the first
news received here today of a fire that
last night razed a Government hos
pital at Point Barrow. Alaska, most
northerly point of United States ter
ritory.
The message came from Miss Mary
E. Speanburg. 27. former Central and
Western High student and graduate
nurse at St Elizabeth's Hospital.
It was addressed to Mrs. Cora M.
Speanburg, nurse at the Hurtt Home
for the Blind, 3050 R street, where
she also lives.
The radiogram, received shortly
after midnight, read:
"Hospital destroyed by fire. Every
body safe. Everything lost but & few
(See FIRE, Page A-2.)
GREEN ASKS PROSE
1 OF STEEL BIDDING
Says A. F. L. Will Insist on
Walsh-Healey Labor Stand
ards Being Kept.
Br the Associated Press.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, said
today he would ask the Justice De
partment to determine if there had
been any irregularities in bidding on
Government steel contracts.
He said the A. F. of L. Council
would oppose any attempt to break
the jam in the flow of steel to navy
yards for new ship building by modi
fying or setting aside the labor stand
ards set up for Government con
tractors in the Walsh-Healey law.
John L. Lewis’ Committee for In
dustrial Organization, to which the
A. F. of L. officials are opposed, has
already started a campaign to unionize
the unorganized workers in the steel
industry.
Naval officers, worried by the fail
ure of steel companies to bid for
contracts to supply the Navy’s steel
needs, have said construction of new
ships, stressed in naval policy be
cause of the activities of other na
tions. might be held up.
They asked Secretary Perkins to set
aside the labor standards requirements
under emergency power *given her La
bor Department by the Walsh-Healey
law, but she has not done so.
The President has called for re
ports from both departments. He
asked Attorney General Cummings to
investigate “identical bids” on Gov
ernment contracts last Pall. No report
has yet been made public.
Officials disclosed meanwhile that
the Navy recently blocked a proposal
that the Government sell Its idle
armor plate plant at Charleston, W.
Va.
Both they and President Roosevelt
(See STEEL, Page A-2.)
MARY SPEANBURG.
TO BALLOT THEFT
G. 0. P. Election Judge Tells
of Remorse at Stealing
“Neighbors’ Rights.”
Br the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. February 20—Mrs.
Delilah Chaney, a Republican election
judge, testified today in the vote theft
trial of five other election workers
she wept last November, "because I
had to steal the rights of my
neighbors."
Mrs. Chaney was a Government
witness in the trial of a second group
of defendants of the 75 indicted by a
grand jury investigating Kansas City
election practices. The first trial
resulted in the conviction yesterday
of two Democratic precinct officials.
Saw Ballots Dumped.
The witness said she saw John
Luteran, Democratic precinct captain
and one of the defendants, dump bal
lots from the ballot box to a cardboard
box that was removed from her sight.
She did not see those ballots again,
she said.
“Did you ever take part in counting
those ballots?” asked Sam C. Blair,
assistant district attorney.
"I did not.” Mrs. Chaney replied.
“Do you know whether or not the
ballots were counted?”
She replied in the negative.
“What were you doing?”
“I was sitting at a table crying,” she
answered.
Seeks to Extend Charges.
Extension of startling charges against
five election officials was the Gov
ernment's aim in summoning new wit
nesses.
Already witnesses have testified:
That a defendant claimed on the
night of the election last November,
when Kansas City joined the Demo
(See ELECTIONS, Page A^2T)
Japan to Send Economic Mission
Here in Move to Expand Trade
By tbc Associated Press.
TOKIO. February 20.—Japan, seek
ing to maintain the steady expansion
of her export trade, is preparing to
send economic missions of high offi
cials and influential business men to
many parts of the world, it was au
thoritatively stated today.
Preparations are under way for
such missions to visit the United
States, Great Britain, South America,
China and the Dutch East Indies. Al
though some of these visits were pro
jected before the recent change of
government, the newspapers refer to
these plans as “Hayashi economic
diplomacy.’'
Gen. Senjuro Hayashi is foreign
minister as well as prime minister.
The dispatch of a mission to the
United States and England by the
Japan Economic Federation is ex
pected to be the first step. Newspa
pers have mentioned as possible heads
of this group Chokiuro Kadono, vice
president of the wealthy Okura inter
ests, and Manzo Kushida. director
general of the huge Mitsubishi trust
and an alumnus of the University of
Pennsylvania.
This mission would naan visits to
A
M.
Japan in 1935 by an American group
under W. Cameron Forbes and a
British party under Lord Bam by.
The mission to China will be headed
by Kenji Kodama, former president of
the Yokohama Specie Bank, a strong
advocate of closer economic ties with
and a more liberal political policy
toward China.
A mission of 10 members, supported
by the Tokio Chamber of Commerce,
is scheduled to leave in June for Ar
gentina. Brazil. Chile and other South
American countries. The principal
objective would be to find new mar
kets for Japan's expanding chemical
and metal Industries.
Kazue Kuwashima, recently ap
pointed Minister to the Netherlands,
will make a tour of the Dutch East
Indies en route to his post at The
Hague. In Java and other Dutch pos
sessions he will attempt to Improve
Japan's trade relations.
He will be the first Japanese Min
ister to Holland ever to visit the rich
Dutch empire in the Far East, which
has been one of Japan's most prof
itable markets, in spite of political and
j economic friction in recent years.
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OF FOES OF COURT
New Dealers Doubt Senate
Opponents Will Resort
to Device.
DRIVE TO “EDUCATE”
PUBLIC IS PUSHED
Roosevelt Remains Firm, but
Leaders Believe Compromise
on Issue Is Possible.
By the Associated Press.
Members of both sides in the contro
versy over enlarging the Supreme
Court agreed today there were suffi
cient Senate opponents to block action
indefinitely if they chose filibustering
tactics.
Administration seaders, however, ex
pressed doubts that any group of
Senators, no matter how sizable,
would be willing to prevent a vote.
Roosevelt backers continued to pre
dict victory. Opponents were not
talking filibuster: they were after
enough votes to beat court reorgani
zation. and declared they had almost
enough.
Privately, however, foes of the
President’s program said they would
talk long and hard to “educate” the
Nation on the issue. They were ready
to combat any move to curb debate
by cloture, that infrequently used
Senate procedure for forcing a vote.
Despite administration unwilling
ness to face the possibility of filibuster,
it was this possibility which haa
given rise this week to talk of com
promise.
Roosevelt Adamant.
President Roosevelt, according to
those who have talked with him, is
in no mood to compromise.
Some, however, said they believed if
some scheme could be found to ac
complish his aims without a constitu
tional amendment that would win
over some of the opponents he would
accept it.
Secretary Ickes expressed the ad
ministration's opposition to an amend
ment in addressing the Texas Legis
lature last night.
"The child labor amendment has
been knocking at the doors of Legis
latures 13 years and hasn’t been
adopted yet." he said.
“Didn’t the people vote for the
New Deal during the next four years?
Are they willing to wait 20?”
The court issue reached the Senate
floor in general debate yesterday for
the first time, although the bill is not
yet before it. Senators Robinson of
Arkansas and Ashurst of Arizona
Democratic chieftains—supported the
President’s recommendations as mild
and logical against interrogations of
Senators Bailey. Democrat, of North
Carolina and Bone, Democrat, of
Washington.
Wheeler Hits Plan.
The case of the opponents w&a
voiced last night by Senator Wheeler,
Democrat, of Montana in a radio ad
dress charging the administration waa
trying to “pack” the court.
“If there must be dictatorship in
America,” he said, “I nominate th*
American people.
"A liberal cause was never won by
stacking a deck of cards, nor by
stuffing a ballot box. nor by packing
a court.”
Wheeler, saying he spoke as a lib
eral who had been the Progressive
party candidate for Vice President in
1924, urged adoption of a constitu
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FIREMEN TRAPPED
BY FALLING ROOF
Seven Are Hurt and Fate of
Three Is in Doubt at
Nashville Blaze.
By the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE. Tenn.. February 20.—
Seven firemen were injured and three
were trapped under a falling roof,
their fate undetermined. In flames
which destroyed one building and
damaged another on the edge of Nash
ville’s business district today.
Spectators expressed fear that the
missing men were dead, crushed by the
debris. Physicians said none of the
injured firemen rescued appeared to
be in a serious condition.
The fire originated In the four
story building housing the W. E.
Stephens Manufacturing Co. Only
the walls were standing an hour after
the alarm was sounded. The flames
spread to the adjoining Neely-Harwt.’l
Co. building.
The firemen were injured when the
upper floors of the Stephens Building
collapsed, sending burning timbers
crashing to the basement. Falling
debris blocked all entrances and mada
the search for the missing men diffi
cult.
Nearly all of the city’* fire-fighting
equipment was pressed into service.
Fire Chief F. B. Moore said the
trapped men were members of Engine
Company No. 1. who were working on
the first floor when upper floors gave
way. He said he believed thjy fell
into the basement and were killed.
Moore gave their names as Lieut.
Joe Keefe, Charles T. Oberchain and
Tommy Maddln.
Property damage was estimated un
officially at $300,000.
Dan Searcy, one of the seven res
cued firemen, said his company cut &
hole through the side of the building
and was operating a hose line “when
the floors above us crashed down."
“There was a thundering noise
above us, a sheet of flame and all
went blank,” he said at the hospital.
KENT REACHES FRANCE
LEBOURGET, France, February 20
(JP).—The Duke and Duchess of Kent
arrived here today by plane from
London. They were reported to have
arranged to leave by train tonight for
Vienna, where they will visit the Duke
of Windsor.
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