-i Government Turns to 75 Indicted in Kansas City Scandal. 8r ths Associated Press. KANSAS CITY. February 23.— Eleven out of the first 14 persons sum moned to trial on cnarges of vote fraud conspiracy awaited sentence to day as the Federal Government turned to the original list of 75 Indicted for more trials. The "score” to date is: Seven con victed, 4 pleading no defense and 3 on which a jury was unable to agree. Six Democrats and one Republican have been convicted of conspiring to defraud more than 200 voters In two of Kansas City’s 460 precincts by bal lot box stuffing, ballot tampering and Intimidation last November 3. A jury yesterday convicted all five defendants before It. One was John A. Luteran, a Democratic precinct cap tain, who was identified by his at torney, William G. Boatright, during questioning as a member of the "goat faction.” The “goats” are the fol lowers of the powerful Democratic or ganization leader, T. J. (Boss) Pender gast. as contrasted with the "rabbits,” Democratic followers of Representa tive Joseph B. Shannon. Shannon was a witness before the grand jury. A previous jury convicted two men but were unable to agree on three other defendants who may be re tried. The three Republicans and one Democrat who pleaded no de fense, placing themselves at the mercy of the court, will be sentenced Thurs day along with the seven convicted. Judge Merrill E. Otis’ most extreme choice could be a $5,000 fine or 10 year sentence—or both. “We are ready to go ahead,” United States District Attorney Maurice M. Milligan said as he eyed the names ol the next group of six, three Democrats and three Republicans. Judge Otis, against whom Luteran was quoted by a witness as voicing a vague threat, gave considerable at tention to the precinct captain in his jury instructions. “Luteran conducted himself in such a manner that both Republican and Democratic women told you they were terrified of him,” the judge said. Spain (Continued From First Page.) with an insurgent drive from South ern Spain.) A coastwise advance of southern forces was reported started toward Valencia after capture of Malaga two Weeks ago. (The Madrid dispatch relating to Insurgent efiorts to take Viver was sharply censored.) VALENCIA IS BOMBED. _ Damage Is Slight as Rebels Recon noiter in City. VALENCIA. Spain, February 23 (/P). —Insurgent air fleets dropped incen diary bombs on the Port of Valencia today in two separate raids. With an insurgent ground spearhead threatening to break through to the sea 34 miles north of this temporary seat of Spanish government, insurg ent planes droned over the port sec- j tion of Valencia first at 2:30 a.m., then ; at 7:30 a m. The damage from the incendiary ' bombs which they dropped was saM 1 to have been slight, however. Authorities believed the main pur- j I>ose of the raiders was to reconnoiter. | HARD FIGHTING AT BAYONNE. ‘ - Government Claims Troops dosing in on Rebels. BAYONNE, Franco-Spanish Fron- | tier, February 23 (fP).—Ovideo’s dyna- | mite-battered garrison lunged at a tightening ring of government be siegers today and proclaimed itself •‘invincible.” Bloody door-to-door fighting raged in the center of the Biscayan provin cial capital, said a government radio report. The ancient city’s streets echoed to \ the blasting handiwork of Asturian ! • dinimateros”—raw-boned, devil-may care miners who bolstered infantry attacks with makeshift dynamite bombs. President Juan Antonio Aguirre of the Basque national regime, said 10,000 government troops were closing in on Col. Miguel Aranda’s compara tively small insurgent detachment, which has been bottled up In the city lor three months. Insurgent officials estimated the at tackers’ losses at 4,000 men. The new Insurgent radio station at Oviedo broadcast a message from the "second Alcazar"—recalling the 72-day siege of 1,200 insurgents in the Toledo Alca Ear before rescue last September 27. It was a defiant contradition of gov ernment reports. The Oviedo barracks and surround- ; Ing buildings—targets of artillery and j planes—were smoking ruins. The city’s bull ring, which once rang to cheers for brightly costumed torea dors, bristled with the guns of govern ment captors. A city reservoir and an asylum also fell. Poll Taken on Authors. A recent poll by a London literary review disclosed the three most pop ular authors in England are Bernard 6haw, H. G. Wells and Lord Dunsany. -- Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Considers reciprocal trade act ex tension. Joint committee studies Oovemment reorganization bills. La Follette Committee studies in terferences with collective bargain ing. House: Considers District of Columbia leg islation. Foreign Affairs Committee discusses permanent neutrality legislation. Agriculture Committee continues hearings on farm tenancy legislation. TOMORROW. Senate: Probably will continue debate on reciprocal trade Agreement resolution. Joint Committee on Reorganization, executive, 10 a.m. Home: Considers miscellaneous bills on calendar. Immigration Committee resumes hearings on bill to protect the artistic and earning opportunities of actors, 10:30 a.m. District Committee meets, 10:10 a.m. « Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events i and Things. REPRISAL. HERE’S retribution in this \ I world after all, quite a few I persons are deciding on the * basis of a tale going around at cocktail and gossip parties. The story really begins some months ago. There was a party one Sunday night, a quiet affair with a few people present until an interruption came in the form of a visit by the police. "You’ve been reported as disturbing the peace,” the officer told the host. “By whom?” asked the host, who already knew the answer. “Your next door neighbor,” the officer told him. The police looked around, decided the whole report was malicious, apolo gized to the victim, and went away. The host felt like going over, poking the neighbor in the nose and really disturbing the peace, but eventually decided to leave the matter to time. Time got around to evening the score just the other day. The man who did the reporting, in the course of seeking a date with a girl, hap pened to mention that he knew Mr, So-and-So. “So do I,” said the girl, quickly adding two and two, "and I was a guest at his party when you called the police.” The story is being told around, Aesop-like, as reflecting what hap pens to those who hate their neighbors. •r t the Associated Preu. CHICAGO, February 23.—The "big push" of John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization—union ization of the Nation's 500,000 steel workers—gloved nearer a showdown today. Lewis and his supporters regarded the General Motors’ strike settlement as the opening wedge of their plan to unionize mass-production workers and prepared to come to grips with steel for the first big drive in the industry since 1919. The last concerted attempt to or ganize steel workers failed after a strike marked by rioting on a wide front and mobilization of State and Federal troops. Lack of Unity Blamed. C. I. O. leaders here attributed the failure of the strike to lack of unity among the various participating unions and were determined to avoid the weak spots of the 1919 drive. Nicholas Fontecchlo, C. I. O. field representative in the bustling Calumet area, Immediately south of Chicago, said the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee had enlisted more than half of the region’s estimated 60,000 workers and soon would be ready tp meet all other districts in a national convention. “The delegates themselves will de cide the course, on a Nation-wide basis,” Fontecchlo said. "I assume they will demand recognition of their union, shorter hours and increased wages. “We expect to make these demands of the Americaq^ron and Steel Insti tute, the parentTiody of the steel in dustry.” John Brophy, executive director of the C. I. O., also said a steel conven tion will be held soon and offered the prediction the steel industry would announce a general wage boost in anticipation of the move. The in dustry granted a 10 per cent raise last November. Defy Gov. Hoffman. While plans also were being drawn at Pittsburgh, where fully 50,000 workers are employed by Camegie niinois Steel Corp., the C. I. O. pre pared to organize in New Jersey despite Gov. Harold G. Hoffman’s warning that companies’ property rights would be protected. [ When Lewis formed the C. I. O. to organize workers by industries and I brqke with the American Federation I of Labor over the craft organization ; issue he mentioned the steel industry j most prominently as his goal for mass j production unionization. Fontecchio said the final failure of ; the 1919 strike was due to “the fact that the unions were organized by crafts and there were so many of them that they couldn’t get together.” j “SIT-DOWN” STRIKES SPREAD. Several Settlements Reported, How ever, in Detroit DETROIT, February 23 (A>).—An epidemic of Detroit strikes spread again todav as several settlements were reported. Brief sit-down strikes in two plants of the Briggs Manufacturing Co., makers of automobile bodies, were t among those settled. Workers in the trim department of the Mack avenue , plant halted work for 43 minutes to ■ day in a protest of United Automo i bile Workers against a “speeding up” | of production. The company said no concessions were made. Explanations of the distribution of recent pay in creases ended a brief sit-down last night in the Highland Park plant Thirty employes of the Star | Terminal Transfer Co., which trans ports liquor for the Michigan Liquor Commission, struck today, shutting off supplies to State stores in seven counties. Drivers and checkers were demand ing 75 cents an hour. Warehouse helpers and guards asked 70 cents. The men said the present maximum wage was 50 cents an hour. At the Atlas Barrel (hi Associated Prcu. Legislation to revive Federal regu lation of the soft-coal Industry won its first major test in the new Con gress yesterday. The House Ways and Means Com mittee voted, 1# to 6, to approve ft revised version of the invalidated Gulley-Vinson control law. The committee, members .said, in corporated in it even sharper en forcement teeth than the old act con tained. It increased a so-called com pliance tax from 13% per cent to 18% per cent. This tax would apply to the sale price of coal at the mines of producers violating the act. Excise Tax Reduced. The committee reduced from 1% per cent to % per cent, however, an excise tax designed to provide funds for administration. Coal experts said this would save the industry approxi mately $8,000,000 annually, compared with the cost of the former law. All producers would be subject to the % per cent tax. Price-fixing lies at the heart of the new measure. It provides creation of 23 district price-fixing boards em powered to establish minimum prices for coal produced in their areas. Such prices would be subject to review by the National Bituminous Coal Com mission, which also would be em powered to fix maximum prices If necessary to protect consumers. In place of the labor-regulating pro visions of the original Guffey act, on which the Supreme Court based its Invalidation of that statute, the new bill contains simply a statement of collective bargaining policy. Goes to House Next From the Ways and Means Com mittee it will go shortly to the House floor. Chairman Charles F. Hosford, Jr., of the National Bituminous Coal Com mission termed the revised bill much stronger fian its predecessor. Under it, so-called “captive” coal (produced by a concern for its own use* would be exempt from the opera tion of a soft coal code and producers of It could not be subjected to the penalty tax. However, Hosfortl told reporter* thia exemption would apply only where the corporate entity of the producing and consuming com pany were Identical. “The provisions of this law cannot be evaded simply by resorting to the device of a subsidiary corporation,” he declared. C. E. Smith, another commissioner, said this would mean the Bethlehem Mines Corp , a subsidiary of the Beth lehem Corp., would be required to comply with the code or pay the “com pliance" tax. Split Along Party Lines. Although the names of committee members who voted against the bill were not made public, some said the split was largely on party lines Representative Crowther, Repub lican, of New York, said the opposed the bill not only because he was doubtful of Its constitutionality, but because he regarded it as a forerunner of an "Infestation” of such laws and bureaucratic government. Representative Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky, co-author, asserted: "I believe the bill meets every test of the law." Chairman Neely of a Senate Inter state Commerce Subcommittee named to study the bill, said his group prob ably would be called together today or tomorrow to consider action on it. La Follette (Continued From First Page.) Saginaw and Flint during the recent strike was described by Joseph B. Ditiel, another U. A. W. member, who told of members of a union dele gation being attacked by vigilantes In those cities. Recounts Experiences. Ditzel took the stand first to recount some of his experiences as a member of the General Motors Works Council in a Chevrolet plant In Toledo. After the management refused any real bar gaining, Ditzel said, and rebuked him for a suggestion that men be paid extra for Sunday work, he quit the council. . In 1935, Ditzel continued, he Joined the automobile union. During the recent strike, Ditzel said he was sent to Saginaw to work. Go ing over to Bay City with a union delegation, Ditzel then told of being threatened by a vigilante group and being escorted by police back to Sagi naw. Among the vigilantes, the wit ness testified, was a Chevrolet fore man, Jack Carpenter, from Toledo. Back in their Saginaw hotel, still with a police escort, Ditzel said one of the union group was beaten up and kicked In the hotel lobby while he was hit with a blackjack. Finally, he said, the group was put In a taxi and taken to Flint with a police escort. With vigilante cars Ideal Farm-Factory Community To Be Built in Georgia by Ford Br the Associated Press. WAYS, Oa., February 23.—In this South Georgia community on the banks of the Ogeechee River, Henry Ford will carry to fruition his dream of an ideal industrial community sur rounded by farms able to sustain It. As part of his broad program for this little town 18 miles from Sav annah, Georgia’s chief seaport, the Detroit automobile manufacturer an nounced today, an automobile parts factory will be erected. “Well have an Industry here," he said. ‘‘A draftsman Is at work now cm preliminary plans. Automobile parts will be manufactured, but we haven’t determined what kind. It all depends on what fits." The plant will employ the people of this community, which formerly knew farming, fishing and lumbering as its chief source of Income, and will be closely affiliated with Ford’s newly completed manual arts school here. “We will aim, as we do in our other plants, to have the proper proportion of people of all ages,” said the manu facturer, whose Winter home cm nearby Richmond Plantation was fin ished a few days ago. “We won’t have to Import anybody either. Folks right here will have plenty of skill. Everybody will have a part In farming whether he owns a farm Jointly or in his own name. - "Everything hinges around the school and the future of those edu cated here. Well turn out skilled mechanics and their services will be sought eagerly by others.” Boys and girls will be taught agri culture and industry in the manual arts school as part of their academic training. Hundreds of persons now are at work on various projects the motor car manufacturer has under way in this section. He Is actively In touch with the work dally and Is personally acquainted with those on the job. . A community house containing 30 guest rooms, a large ball room, lounge and dining room for use of the school children and their parents has been completed. Roads are being graded, ditches opened, landscaping Improved and buildings of many kinds erected. He said he considered the location for the plant ideal from every stand point. “Look at this growth of timber," he said, waving his hand In the direction of tall pines. “It’s a great source at fertiliser, power and revenue. We’re near the railroads here, too.” He said he did not know when the plant would be completed and he pre ferred not to estimate the probable cost € Boy, 3, Sees World Alone Johnny Starts on Tricycle, Changes to Bus to Go to Mount Vernon. Johnny Lumsden, jr., 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Lumsden, who celebrated Washington’s birthday anniver sary by making a long pilgrimage tQ Mount Vernon while his parents sought his whereabouts. —Star Staff Photo. IS tricycle lost during the course of an unannounced pil grimage to Mount Vernon yesterday, 3-year-old Johnny Luma den, Jr., climbed into hl> red wagon today and solemnly promised his parents he’d make no more holi day tours without permission. Playing in the yard of his home at 814 Independence avenue south west yesterday, Johnny suddenly was overwhelmed with the desire to travel. So without a word to his mother, he set out on his tricycle. As he neared the A. B. & W. bus terminal at Eleventh and D streets, however, he decided to continue his tour by motor, so dismounted. Aptly enough, for George Wash ington’s birthday he chose a Mount Vernon bus. Providence stepped in to aid the young pilgrim, for he en tered simultaneously with a mother and her small son. Johnny Joined the unsuspecting party and since he is too young to require a fare, the driver— also unsuspecting—allowed him to continue. When the bus arrived at Mount Vernon, however, Johnny remained steadfast in his seat while the mother and her son alighted. The driver called to the woman that she'd left her son. "He’s not my boy,” she replied. With this turn of affairs the driver took charge, and Johnny was returned to the Washington terminal. The bus station’s responsibility didn’t end at once, however. Johnny ate ice cream and bananas, but wasn't very helpful about where he lived. Then the police were called, and the truant, delighted with his adven tures, was soon in the arms of his anxious parents. i trailing them, Diztell testified that the union car finally was side6wiped and three occupants badly Injured. Two of them still are in a hospital, he said, nearly four weeks after the occurrence. Travis Is Quisled. Travis was brought to the stand next, with questioning first directed at the Chevrolet strike in Toledo in 1935, the occasion on which Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. Mc Grady was shadowed by Pinkerton detectives working for General Motors. Remarking that the committee had been left In a "mystic maze” by Oen 1 eral Motors officials on the real re ■ sponsibility within the corporation for j framing and applying labor relations I policies. Senator La Follette asked Travis if local plant managers had completed agreements with the union in any instances. Tra-cited several cases of local officers being forced to submit even minor issues to Detroit headquarters of the company. Charging that cteneral Motors espionage cut union strength in Flint in 1935 from 26.000 to 122 paid-up member*. Travis told the committee that he then was forced to carry on organization work in such secrecy that he met workers in unlighted rooms at night. Recess Likely ror ic uays. The committee hopes to complete its open examination of General Mo tors labor policies In today’s sessions, with a recess planned for about 10 days before opening new inquiries with the increased appropriation. Yesterday the committee concen trated cm anti-union practices inq Fisher Body plants m Baltimore, hear ing testimony of intimidation from Michael Gallo, William Pearlman, Glenn Rowland and Peter De An gelis. all of whom are members of the United Automobile Workers. In substantially the same stories, each of the four told of being threat ened by fellow workmen with knowl edge of officials of the plant and finally of being escorted off the prop erty by company guards. Although the point was made in each case that the men were not deprived of their employment badges, they re ceived notices from Personnel Director Walter J. Canavan not to return to work after the strike ended. Gallo and Rowland both quoted Ray N. Wismec. plant manager at Baltimore Until February 1, as say ing he would "not tolerate” unionism In his plant, and Gallo told of the manager warning him that some of the union men would be “taken for a ride.” Atlanta Operative Heard. The committee also heard James T. Johnson, who once worked for Pink erton In Atlanta, and Harry Dorsey tell of their activities in the Commit tee of "Loyal G. M. Employes.” Both denied that the management knew of this group’s formation in advance, although Dorsey testified that Edgar C. Malpas, present plant superintend ent, lent him the key to the station ery on numerous occasions _ so he might have cards printed and ad dressed to employes in support of the "loyal” group’s activities. Dorsey also testified that he spent about «180 for post cards and stamps for such notices. Called to the stand for a second time, Malpas admitted knowing that Dorsey was soliciting employs* in the "loyalist” cause. Farnsworth (Continued prom Pirat Page ) attorney during the hearing, inter rupted to ask Hughes if he did not t.hint that pressure was exercised on him by letting him believe for seven months that his plea would be not guilty and then "painting an entirely different picture at the last moment.” Justice Proctor told the attorney he need not answer, and then said: “I don't think any showing has been made to justify the court in permitting the withdrawal of the plea. The de fendant's motion is overruled.” When Farnsworth asked Justice Proctor to advise him If he had any appeal from the ruling, the jurist told him to consult an attorney, but later said he would have Farnsworth’s ex ception to his decision recorded so that it might form the basis to an appeal. Justice Proctor instructed Assistant United States Attorney Samuel F. Beach to submit a statement contain ing the history of the case not later than tomorrow, and to have a copy of it served on Farnsworth in his Dis trict Jail cell. He said he wanted such a statement to guide him in im posing sentence. Farnsworth Indicated he intended to retain other counsel and appeal. Garnett Tells of Conversation. One of the high lights of the hear ing was an account furnished by United States Attorney Leslie C. Gar nett of a conversation with Farns worth after he had pleaded "nolo contendere.” Garnett said Farnsworth asked per mission to see him and was brought to his office. “I told him I was willing to assume that excessive alcoholism had weak ened his moral fiber so that he ac cepted $20,000 from the Japanese gov ernment," Garnett declared. “ ‘Well, that's $5,000 a year,’ Farns worth replied,” Garnett continued. "I told him we had proof that he got 23 $100 bills in one day to cover his expenses from Ohio to Washing ton, and he said ‘No, it was $3,000.’ He left my office in perfect good humor and seemed satisfied with his i plea.” When the hearing began, Leahy asked permission for him and his associate, Hughes, to withdraw from the case. Justice Proctor, however, refused to allow the withdrawal until Farnsworth said he had discharged the attorneys. Beach recounted the history of the case since Farnsworth's arrest July 13, and said the defendant was thoroughly aware of all details of the charges. He presented an affidavit by Deputy United States Masha 1 Robert L. Bon ham, who was present during the con ference in a court house witness room a week ago yesterday, at which Farns worth, Leahy, Hughes and Hughes’ secretary, Caroline Wlmsatt, were present. Ab I1U bill 1C. BWiuwui either of the attorneys or the secre tary try to get Farnsworth to plead “guilty” or "nolo contendere” because of the disgrace a public trial might bring to his family. The court at tache said neither of the attorneys even mentioned Farnsworth’s family. Beach concluded by charging that Farnsworths petition for permission to change his plea was "merely a trick in the hope he would catch the Gov ernment unprepared. He is trifling with the Government and he is trifl ing with the court.” Farnsworth explained that the let ter he wrote Justice Proctor last week asking to be allowed to withdraw his plea was caused by publicity given his case, although he had been assured that it would receive “only routine” mention in the newspapers. He said he was not blaming his attorneys so much for his plea as he was his family. He told the court that members of his family had said the publicity of a trial would interfere with the chances for promotion of a brotbfr-in-law who is in the Navy. He said he had never doubted his plea would be “not guilty” until the day before he was brought into court. “When my attorneys came to me, I told them that I wouldn't plead ‘guilty’ if the President of the United States asked me and I had to serve only one day in Jail,” Farnsworth said. Referring to Leahy, Farnsworth declared: "I didn’t hire him. He was hired by my family to save the family name at my expense. Now I am going to save it myself." Asserting that he was not a spy, but had merely represented himself to be one in order to sell a story to the Hearst newspapers, Farnsworth said that if put on the stand he would prove “80 per cent of the things the Government claims I did.” He added there was no need for bringing a great number of witnesses here lor his trial. ▲ Asks Woman’s Party to Withdraw Aid on Eve of Appeal in Patricide. On the eve of court action at Wise, Va., next Monday on her ap peal from conviction of the murder of her father. Edith Trigg Maxwell has shaken up her defense counsel. It was learned today. Under the new set-up, Charles Henry Smith. Washington and Alex andria criminal lawyer, will act as her only attorney. She has asked the National Wom an's Party, which has been assisting her since her conviction, to drop its legal efforts In her behalf. As a re sult, former State Senator M. J. Ful ton, who was engaged by the party, has been withdrawn from defense counsel. * Miss Maxwell’s uncle, A. T. Dotson, also has withdrawn. These changes, reported at Rich mond, were confirmed by Smith at Alexandria today. Smith, engaged in a case now being heard in the Alex andria Corporation Court, said that he had been advised of the changes by telephone and that he has not had an opportunity to talk to his client since the defense realignment was made. "Until I have an opportunity to go to Richmond,” Smith said, “there is nothing much that I can say about the case. It is true that the National Woman's Party has been asked to sus pend its activities m behalf of Miss Maxwell and that its attorney and Mr. Dotson have withdrawn.” Smith Indicated that he will go to Richmond upon conclusion of the present case in the Corporation Court to make final arrangements with Miss Maxwell tor the proceedings Monday at Wise, Va. The court there will be asked to set aside the verdict and to grant Miss Maxwell a new trial and a change of venue. Sit-Down (Continued Prom First Page ) been amicably settled by both parties and work will be resumed at 8 o'clock Thursday morning. “All parties have agreed to refrain from making any further statements or discuss the terms of the settle ment.” President Walter L. Fry, who be came the Nation’s No. 1 boss sit downer in retaliation for a strike of his employes last Friday, tumbled onto his cot in his office to get some sleep immediately after the settlement was announced. Fry declined to answer any ques tions, but Glancy said the company president would end his strike and leave the plant later in the day. Some of the 110 employes who participated in the sit-down already have left the premises, Glancy said, and the rest would- leave during the day. Glancy, who resigned last Decem ber as chairman of the Michigan State Public Trust Commission, de clined to elaborate on the settlement statement or to identify the employe representatives who paricipated in the conferences. Fry said yesterday he had refused to deal with organizers of the United Automobile Workers of America, but declared he was ready to meet with his own workers at any time. The union said then that Fry refused to meet the employes if they were ac companied by a U. A. W. A. repre sentative. The plant employes 350, mostly girls and women. In starting his sit-down Fry told the strikers: “If you wont work, then I won’t go out and get orders to provide you with work. Something must be done to curb sit-downs. The uncertainty has the whole country on edge.” Comment from union officials end individual employes was not available immediately. Begins .ncauuons. Glancy began his role of volunteer mediator only yesterday. He said he had heard about the strike while In Cleveland on a business trip. On his return to Detroit Glancy called on his old friend. President Fry, "to see exact ly what a sit-down strike looked like.” Glancy said he began contacting people and "soon we had them into a conference. Now the strike is settled." The strike started last Friday and yesterday the U. A. W. A. made public an open letter to Fry, which said: “Our girls who have been slaving for you at 33 to 36 cents an hour want a minimum of 60 cents an hour. The boys who have slaved for 33 to 65 cents an hour want a minimum of 75 cents an hour. "We want an eight-hour day, a 40 hour week, time and one-half for over time, seniority rights, the right to col lectively bargain through a union of our own choosing, and weekly pay instead of twice a month.” Fry said the company went on a piece work basis at the employes' re quest last November, when a wage in crease was granted. Employes of his company, he said, make from 36 to 68‘2 cents an hour. Most of the workers operate sewing machines. The Fry plant operated on a reduced basis during the General Motors strike and the sit-down began the day it re opened on full time shifts. "I think that industry will have to come to its senses and stop these strikes. I’m trying to show my work ers—and all people—the other side of the picture. The shoe’s on the other foot now. They’ve got to make indus try work for them.” The idea of a boss staging a sit down strike may be funny to some people, but I’m sorry to say that I can't see anything funny'about it. "I’m sitting here because I would feel cowardly if I ran away under existing conditions. I’m staying here to protect my property and to find out what my people want.” LENTEN SERVICE Under the Auspices OF The Washington Federation of Churches Epiphany Episcopal Church TOMORROW AT 4:45 PM. Preacher: DR. EDWARD H. PRUDEN First Baptist Church THE PUBLIC IS INVITED « ' «