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warmer tomorrow; lowest temperature in Washington With the
about 36 degrees; gentle to moderate Associated Prp<?<? Npw«S
winds. Temperatures—Highest. 67. at j ttV- U , . WS
2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 1 a.m. anfl WirephOtO berVICeS.
today. Pull report on page B-12.
Closing New York Markets, Page 16 (Some returns not yet received.)
85th YEAR. No. 33,911. SST-S WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1937—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. **** <*>> M..n. Associated Pr..., TWO CENTS.
COURT PLAN FOES
STB TO ACTION
AS E PRESIDENT
APP LSlIATl
Fight Intensified by Speech
in Which Roosevelt Warns
Democracy Is Threatened
by Present System.
PROMISES BIG BATTLE
WITHOUT COMPROMISE
Demands Immediate Considera
tion of His Proposal in Carrying
Issue to Voters—Several Sena
tors Regret Determined Posi
tion Taken by Chief Executive.
Full Text of the President’*
Speech on Page AS.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Undaunted by President Roosevelt's
attacl upon the Supreme Court and
upon themselves in his victory dinner
speech last night, opponents of the
President's court bill today prepared
a further campaign of their own.
Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne
braska. issued a terse comment:
"I commend the President for his
eloquent statement of the splendid
objective he has in mind for a better
America.
“I utterly condemn the method by
which he proposes to reach that goal.
Unless checked by an aroused public,
his program will result ir a severe
setback to the .inward march of
democracy."
Regrets Position.
Senator Wheeler of Montana, one
of the leading liberal Democrats, re
plying to the President’s statement,
said: “The Democratic platform dic
tated by the President himself pro
vided for meeting New Deal reforms
by constitutional processes. The con
ditions which exist in the Ohio River
Valley and the dust bowl are identical
with those which prevailed at the time
the platform as adopted. The oppo
sition in the Supreme Court issue has
sought to keep the argument on a
high plane. It is regrettable the Pres
ident has sought to inflame the pas
sions of the people with the conten
tion that the Supreme Court is respon
sible for the dust bowl and the Ohio
flood."
A number of opponents of the Presi
dent's court bill conferred today at
the Capitol on plans to meet his at
tack.
Senator Burke is to speak over the
gadio tomorrow on the court issue.
Senator Wheeler is to make an ad
dress in Chicago the day after the
President’s "fireside talk,” which comes
next Tuesday.
Senator Glass. Democrat, of Virginia,
It is understood, also will deliver an
address in opposition to the court
plan, probably over the radio.
Among backers of th- court reor
ganization proposal who commented
on the President's speech were:
Postmaster General Parley—“It was
one of the greatest addresses ever de
livered in this country. History will
co record it.”
William Green, president, American
federation of Labor—“It will arouse
the people to realization of what the
judiciary reorganization plan really
means."
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming—“The greatest speech he
ever made. Maybe he has just begun
to fight.”
Secretary Wallace—"It will make
the farmers think more than ever
about the problems we face in trying
to help them.”
With the first round of his battle to
revamp the Supreme Court back of
him. President Roosevelt stood com
mitted to an intensive fight without
compromise.
The warning to the country .and to
the Democratic party that decisions
by the Supreme Court threaten
democracy in this country, delivered
by the President at tfie Democratic
Victory dinner in the Mayflower Hotel
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4.)
Phone Company
Ordered to Drop
Hand Sets Levy
The extra charge made by the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
lor use of the French hand-set type
of telephone is to be eliminated.
The Public Utilities Commission to
day ended protracted controversy over
the extra charge by issuing an order
requiring that the fee be eliminated
after next December 31, and limiting
payments made between the end of
this month and the end of the year to
15 cents a month.
The present charge for the hand
sets now is 15 cents a month for a pe
riod of 12 months, or a total of $1.80,
after which there is no extra charge,
or the payment of a cash sum of *1.50.
Under the new order customers may
have the French hand sets installed
and pay a rate of 15 cents a month
up to December 31. If a telephone
subscriber ordered the ' French set
April 1, therefore, he would have to
pay a total of $1.35 instead of $1.80
on the old monthly basis, or $1.50
cash.
Originally, the company made a
charge of 25 cents a month for as long
as a subscriber used the hand sets.
Later that was reduced by commission
order to 25 cents a month for a period
of 18 months, or $4.50 for the period.
The commission today also made a
reduction in some of the labor charges
of the aompany for changes in the
style or type of equipment. For a
shift from one type to another the
charge will be $1 instead of $1.50
after April 1. For moving the loca
tion bf a telephone used by a sub
scriber. however, the charge will re
main at $1.50.
Premier King and Roosevelt
May Talk Hemisphere “Front”
Prime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada (left) as he ar
rived at Union Station this morning. With him is Sir Herbert
Marler, cabinet member. —Star Staff Photo.
The possibility of a Canadian- j
American discussion of a “united >
front" of nations of the Western
Hemisphere in their affairs with the
rest of the world loomed today with i
the arrival in Washington of Ca
nadian Prime Minister W. L. Mac
Kenzie King for an overnight visit
with President Roosevelt at the White
House.
The prime minister, recalling his j
own days as a newspaper reporter in
Toronto when a young man, held a
short conference with newspaper men
at the Canadian Legation at noon.
He was informed that President
Roosevelt had stated this morning
their conference would embrace all
subjects of international Interest to
the continents of North and South
America.
In this connection, he was asked
whether they would discuss a “united
'See KING. Page A-3.f
MILLER SHIELDING
ANOTHER, IS BELIEF
Sheriff Says Dentist Named
Man Responsible for
Girl’s Condition.
BY IRVING F. LASH.
Staff Correspondent 01 The Star.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va„ March
5.—Possibility that Dr. Richard G.
Miller is shielding some one in the
strange death of Cleo Sprouse arose
today when it was revealed by investi
gators the dentist claimed to know
the identity of the person responsible
for the young high school girl's con
dition.
Sheriff A. J. Mason Smith, present
at the questioning of Miller in the
Henrifo Jail at Richmond, where he
is being held on a murder charge,
quoted the dentist as saying Cleo told
him the name of the man.
An empty pint bottle of gin, the
contents of which Dr. Miller is re
ported to have said he drank, "but
didn't feel,” and another partially
filled bottle of distilled water were
found near the spot where the 18
year-old girl’s body was discovered.
Girl's Family Suspicious.
The finger of suspicion was first
pointed at Dr. Richard G. Miller, fam
ily dentist charged with the chloroform
murder of 18-year-old Cleo Sprouse, by
relatives shortly after her body was
discovered, it was revealed today.
The investigation and subsequent
arrest of Dr. Miller, now held incom
municado in the Henrico County Jail
at Richmond, resulted from informa
tion furnished Commonwealth At
torney W. O. Fife by Robert Walker.
34, cousin of the high school girl, that
he had seen the 53-year-old dentist
and his pretty cousin together on the
street several times and that she had
been a frequent visitor and patient at
Dr. Miller’s downtown office.
Another member of the family,
Walker told Fife, had seen the dentist
in the business section before he was
arrested Wednesday, and Dr. Miller
turned and hurried away, apparently
to avoid a meeting.
“Dr. Miller is your man,” Walker
said he told Fife.
Meanwhile the dentist’s statement
that Cleo would have become a mother
normally within about five months was
confirmed by an autopsy, Fife said to
day. Dr. Miller said, however, that ne
was not responsible for her condition.
Seek Murder Indctment.
Meanwhile, officials rounded up
loose ends of the investigation which
they claim solves the mysterious death
of the young high school student,
whose body was found by two Unl
isee CHLOROFORM. Page A-2.)
5 TO BE QUIZZED
Otis Hilderbrand Fatally In
jured During Argument
Near Airport.
Five ushers from a downtown thea
ter were taken to Arlington County
this afternoon for questioning in con
nection with the death early today of
Otii Hildrrbrand.
24-year-old Otis
Hilderbrand. cap
tain of ushers,
who was fatally
injured during
an argument at
a Ailing station
near the airport.
An autopsy at
the District;
Morgue this aft- I
ernoon revealed
that Hilderbrand
died as the result I
of a fractured
skull. Hilder
brand suffered an
eye injury, it was
said, which might have been caused
by a blow from a fist with a ring on it.
The argument followed a farewell
party which the ushers had given for
an employe of the theater who was
leaving to accept a promotion.
The party was held at the home
of Garrett D. Mooney, 22, at 1314
Thirteenth street.
Tell of Drinking.
The ushers told police that all ex
cept one of them had done consider
able drinking. After the party they
drove in two automobiles to nearby
Virginia to get some sandwiches. They
had stopped for gas when the dispute
arose.
Homicide squad detectives were told
that Hilderbrand and another usher
had an argument, and at least one
blow was aimed at Hilderbrand. A
third usher jumped'between the dis
putants and Hilderbrand fell, striking
his head on the cement pavement.
Whether Hilderbrand was knocked
down or pushed down was not known.
The fWe ushers taken to Virginia to
(See USHER, Page A-2.) *
POUNDAGE FOILS ESCAPE
BELGRADE, March 5 (A>).—Life in
Milwowiltza Penitentiary agreed so
well with Ivan Kralec he gained 18
pounds and lost his chance to escape
today.
The engineer, seeking to flee through
a tunnel dug to his exact measure
by friends from the outside, was un
able to force four extra inches of
waistline through the hole and stuck
fast.
Father Missing9 Mother Dead.
Two Little Girls Get D. C. Aid
District authorities planned today
to assume the care of 4-year-old Bar
bara Moore and her sister Veronica,
13, who have lived with neighbors
since their father disappeared a fort
night ago and their mother died last
Friday.
Meanwhile, Barbara played with a
new doll given her by her temporary
guardian, Mrs. Julia Kelley, and
seemed blissfully unaware of her tragic
circumstances as she trooped about
Mrs. Kelley’s home at 511 Third street
on her small errands.
Barbara’s elder sister was making
her temporary home with Mrs. Eva
Wilson on the floor below. The neigh
bors took in the children after the
father left the city.
The Division of Child Welfare
planned today to take Barbara and
Veronica to the Receiving Home for
Children until they can communicate
with the father or the mother’s rela
tives living in New York and Vermont.
The children will become wards of the
District if suitable homes cannot be
found for them with relatives.
Since September the mother, Mrs.
Grace Moore, 29, had lain in a ward
at Gallinger Hospital, desperately ill
with tuberculosis. The father and
three children took a room at the Third
street address.
Mrs. Kelley and Mrs. Wilson helped
him to care for the children and be
came attached to them. The father
and children moved away several weeks
ago. After a fortnight later, Mrs.
Kelley said a taxicab stopped in front
of her home and Barbara and Veronica
got out.
The children were carrying a small
radio, a few pieces of extra clothing
and some dishes and cooking utensils.
The two came into Mrs. Kelley’s room,
which she shares with her 84-year-old
mrother, and Veronica said:
“Mrs. Kelley, my father has left
town with Donald. He said we should
come and live with you and he would
(See CHILDREN, Page A-4.)
FRANCE U SBAN
ON GOLD TRADING,
TRINISJEXPENSES
Blum Cabinet Asks Public
Support for National
Defense Loan.
FRANC PEG AT 21.50
TO DOLLAR EXPECTED
Sweeping Revision of Fiscal Pol
icy Begun—Hoarding Held
Dodging Duty.
Br the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 5.—Premier Leon
Blum’s Socialist government bolstered
uncertain French finances today by
lifting the ban on domestic gold trad
ing, promised drastic curtailment of
public expenditures and urged “every
Frenchman” to support a new national
defense fund—"the only one which
the Treasury will Issue during the
course of the year.”
The loan will contain a clause giv
ing subscribers the option of being
repaid either in francs, dollars or
pounds, it was announced later, in the
expectation of attracting British and
American as well as French money.
Lifting the ban on gold for home
trading will be effective Monday.
To revive confidence, parliamentary
circles said, the government neces
sarily must peg the franc, at least un
officially.
Financial circles expected the Bank
of France, with the backing of the
treasury and under the tri-partite
agreement among France, Great Brit
ain and the United States, to keep
the franc at 21.50 to the dollar, ap
proximately the present market price.
May Peg Franc at 21.94.
Parliamentary circles thought It
more probable Vincent Auriol, minis
ter of finance, would seek to peg the
franc at 21.94, a slightly lower rate,
in order to aid foreign trade and pre
vent further strain on French finances.
In a trio of measures which reviewed
the entire scope of France's deficit
ridden account sheet. Premier Blum
proclaimed a sweeping revision in his
financial policy.
The premier promised the “needs of
the treasury will be brought to a figure
which should not exceed the normal
capacity of treasury placements or
loans.”
He based his principal hopes on at
tracting hidden gold from hoarders’
caches and repatriating French gold
which, has flowed outside the country
in the last five months since the de
valuation of October, 1936.
“Half of these needs,” he said,
corespond to the 19.000.000.000 francs
($883,500,000) in extraordinary de
fense credits for 1937.
“Civic Obligations” First.
This national defense financing.
Blum asserted, will not allow any
Frenchman to “plead his personal in
terests in order to dodge his civic obli
gations.”
“The rest of the treasury needs
should be easily covered by normal op
erations in a short-term market," he
added.
The premier announced a commis
sion of four financial experts “will
manage the equalization fund, which
(See FRANCE, Page A-67)
HUGHES FLIES SOUTH
Leaves New York in Airliner.
Believed En Route to Miami.
NEW YORK, March 5 (A>).—Howard
Hughes, flying millionaire, who set a
new transcontinental speed record re
cently, took off in his Douglas airliner
today for a destination believed to be
Miami, Fla.
Officials at the field said Hughes, al
ways taciturn, merely intimated that
he was flying to Florida. He took only
his mechanic in the ship he bought
some time ago from Transcontinental
Western Airlines, where it had been in
use as a “flying laboratory.” This was
not the ship in which he made the
transcontinental record.
Workers at the field said he took
“about enough" gas to fly to Miami.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page. | Page.
Amusements _C-4 Radio .D-4
Comics _C-7 Short Story...C-6
Editorials_A-10 Society -B-3
Financial ..A-15 Sports .D-l-3
Lost & Found A-3 Woman's Pg...C-5
Obituary _A-12
FOREIGN.
Goebbel's newspaper in Berlin assails
Mayor La Guardia. Page A-l
Blum cabinet lifts ban on gold trad
ing. Page A-l
London plans steel cables in sky to
check raiders. . Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Award holders oppose settlement of
Black Tom case. Page A-l
Canadian premier’s visit linked to St.
Lawrence waterway. Page A-l
A. F. of L. opens fight on C. I. O.
unionization drive. Page A-l
Opponents map fight on Roosevelt
court reform. Page A-l
Terrorism during textile strike de
scribed to committee. Page A-l
Sea captain faces murder charge after
woman’s story. Page B-4
Morgan partners questioned on ‘‘res
cue loan.” Page A-4
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Father missing, D. C. to care for two
little girls. Page A-l
Maj. Brown denies big-time gamblers
are "screened.” Page A-3
Conferences on fate of Fidelity begun
by experts. Page A-2
Thousands of Navy Yard workers to
be laid off. Page B-l
Representative Engel, denounces D. C.
health conditions. Page B-l
Traffic claims 33nd victim as safety
drive is pushed. Page B-l
OLIV/E BRAMCH
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Neutrality
NOODLES ,
EJJT TR WOULD \
^ I NEVER HAVE \
THOUGHT /
ofThap/
U. S. Apologizes to Germany
For La Guardia Slur on Hitler
Berlin Press Cites New York Crime
Conditions in Renewed Attack
on Mayor.
By the Associated Press,
The United States apologized to Ger
many today for remarks made recently
by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New
Yourk about Chancellor Adolf Hitler,
The State Department said that
James C Dunn, chief of the Division
of Western European Affairs, in an
oral statement to Dr. Hans Thomsen,
counselor of the German Embassy,
said, in substance:
■'The German government through
its embassy here makes complaint
against certain utterances of Hon.
Fiorello La Guardia in a public ad
dress at the Hotel Astor in New York
on March 3. stating that such utter
ances seriously and severely reflect j
upon the head of the German state
and the German government.
"In this country the right of freedom
of speech is guaranteed by the Consti
tution to every citizen and is cherished
as a part of the national heritage.
This, however, does not lessen the
regret of the Government when ut
terances either by private citizens or
by public officials speaking in an indi
vidual capacity give offense to a gov- 1
emment with which we have official
relations.
"I very earnestly deprecate the ut
terances which have thus given offense
to the German government. They do
not represent the attitude of this Qov
(See LATGUARdTaT Page A-J.)
I
Alabaman Tells Probers He
Was Threatened With
Death as “Agitator.”
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Terrorism under benevolent auspices
of the West Point Manufacturing Co..
a textile concern with plants in Ala
bama and Georgia, was described be
fore the La Follette committee today
by a Southern tradesman, who said
he was beaten and threatened with
death by a squad of Railway Audit &
Inspection Co. armed guards employed
by the concern.
Speaking with a marked Southern
drawl, Ester Groover of Lannett, Ala.,
said the assault occurred in Septem
ber. 1934, during the textile strike,
with one man covering him with a
machine gun, while another member
of the four-man strong-arm squad
beat him. The reason given, Groover
said, was that he had been "agitating"
in favor of the union.
Other beatings also took place.
Groover- said, some of them after set
tlement of the strike, while the armed
squad roamed the countryside threat
ening persons suspected of connection
with organized labor.
The arms used, four Thompson sub
machine guns, were sold by Federal
' Tsee LA FOLLETTE, Page A-J.)
Chest broadcast brings job offers to
unemployed men. Page B-16
Real estate regulation bill given Senate
D. C. Committee. Page C-l
FINANCIAL.
Bonds hesitant (table). Page A-15
Trade pushes ahead. Page A-15
Freight loadings down. Page A-15
Steel leads stock rally
(table). Page A-16
Curb list mixed (table). Page A-17
SPORTS.
Nats’ rookies are displaying power at
bat at Orlando. Page D-l
Eastern and Western quints battling
for championship tonight. Page D-2
Capital athletes will be prominent in
Baltimore indoor meet. Page D-2
Finance is a heavy favorite in Widener
Cup race at Hialeah. Page D-3
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-l*
This and That. Page A-16
Answers to Questions. Page A-l*
Washington Observations. Page A-l«
Political Mill. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Paul Mallon. Page A-ll
Dorothy Thompson. Page A-ll
Constantine Brown. Page A-ll
Lemuel Porton. Page A-ll
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Vital Statistics. Page B-8
Young Washington. Page B-18
City News in Brief. Page C-l
Betsy Caswell. Page C-5
Dorothy Dix. Page C-5
Winning Contract. Page C-6
Bedtime Story. Page C-6
Cross-word Puzzle. Page C-7
Traffic Convictions. ' Page C-8
Service Orders. Page D-4
Letter-Out. Page D-4
Hammer Murders Commit
ted as Daughters Lay
Asleep in Bed.
BT the Associated Press.
CLEARFIELD. Pa.. March 5.—Dis
trict Attorney Carl Belin today held
the 4l-year-old wife of a coal miner
on a charge of beating her two daugh
ters to death with a hammer this j
morning.
Belin said Mrs. M. Jennie Galley
killed her daughters as they lay in
bed in their one-story cottage at
Hawkrun, Clearfield County. They
were Virginia, 17, and Marie, 5.
The mother, he said, waited until
her husband. Turiaf Galley, and her
son Gustov went to work, then hit the
girls over the head “15 or 20 times”
and told a neighbor what she had done.
Belin and Sheriff Clarence Ammer
man arrested the woman. The district
attorney said he was convinced she
was “a mental case” and that he
would have a committee of physicians
appointed to examine her. He stated:
“She didn’t seem at all sorry about
her act, didn’t shed a tear, but she
wanted to kiss the bodies before we
took her away.
“She said she hit the older girl in
the face with the hammer because
she didn’t want to spoil her new
permanent wave.”
The district attorney added:
“The mother told us that after she
had hit the girls she stood and
watched them slowly die.
"She isn’t remorseful and explained
that neighbors said her girls were
dumb in school, and she didn’j want
the neighbors talking that way. She
said she loved her girls very much
and was afraid that some one would
get them.”
Bank Official Diet.
PALM BEACH, Fla., March 5 <^»).—
William A. Simonson, senior vice presi
dent and director of the National City
Bank of New York, died today.
SABOTAGE CASE
SETTLEMENT HIT
48 U. S. Claimants Fight
$22,000,000 Payments for
‘Black Tom’ Blasts.
BY REX COLLIER.
With more than *22.000,000 of Ger
man reparations money at stake, a
group of 48 American award holders
today opened a battle against proposed
settlement in that amount by the
German-American Mixed Claims Com
mission of the famous Black Tom
Kingsland World War "sabotage"
cases.
A brief filed with the commission on
behalf of the Standard Oil Co. of New
Jersey, the International Harvester
Co., the 8inger Manufacturing Co. and
other reparations claimants chal
lenges the legality of a tentative agree
ment approved by Robert W. Bonynge.
American agent before the commission.
Permission to intervene in opposition
to the settlement is asked.
Roland 8. Morris, former Ambassa
dor to Japan and now professor of in
ternational law at the University of
Pennsylvania, points out on behalf of
the award holders that the suggested
settlement would surrender the only
available reparations money to claim
ants whose charges of German sabo
tage in the New Jersey munitions ex
plosions have never been proved.
Blasts Destroyed Munitions.
The claimants in the sabotage cases
are the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co..
the agency of the Canadian Car Ac
Foundry Co., and some 50 insurance
companies, all of whom seek damages
as a result of the "sabotage" explosions
at the Black Tom. N. J., terminal of
the railroad company and at the
Kingsland, N. J., plant of the foundry.
Four persons were killed, many per
sons injured and more than 300 car
loads of ammunition destroyed In the
explosions, the first of which occurred
January 11. 1916, at Kingsland. and
the second on July 29, 1917, at Black
Tom.
The American Government, acting
on behalf of the claimants, charged
the explosions were the deliberate
work of German spies. Reams of
evidence were introduced seeking to
prove that German agents were con
ducting a campaign of sabotage in this
country at the time of the New Jer
sey explosions. Germany produced
trunkfuls of documents to disprove
the charges.
The cases were first settled in fa
vor of Germany in 1932, but a rehear
ing was granted when the United
States produced a workman at whose
(See SABOTAGE, Page A-3.)
DOG AIDS BURGLAR
Trained to Bark Twice if Police
man Appears.
BUDAPEST, March 6 <*>).—Dona
Serfoezoe told police today her dog,
which barked once when he sighted
a civilian and twice when a police
man was coming, should really have
credit for the 30 burglaries she con
fessed.
If the Job seemed difficult, she ex
plained, she even let the dog climb
through open apartment windows and
carry things down while she watched
outside.
London Plans Air Raid Defense
By Cage of Steel Cables in Sky
__t_ j*. --
1937 Cost of War Ma
chine Mounts to
$1,348,695,000.
B» the Associated Press
LONDON, March 5.—The British
air force today disclosed its plan to
defend London from air attack by a
cage of steel cables in asking Parlia
ment for appropriations that would
boost the total 1937 cost of Britain's
war machine to £269,739,000 ($1,348,
095,000).
The air ministry announced its ex
pense estimates for the current year
would reach £82,500,000 ($412,500,
000) or more than double the amount
asked for last year.
The Royal Air Force, Viscount
Swlnton, secretary of state for air,
announced, would be increased to
70,000 officers and men with a first -
(See LONDON, Page A-6.)
“Balloon Barrage”
Held Good Defense
Against Air Raids
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 5.—Military
experts today stressed the "bal
loon barrage" as one of the most
efficient of modern weapons
against an attacking airplane
fleet.
The balloon barrage consists of
a series of kite balloons which
support steel cables. Prom the
cables hangs a screen of wires.
Any contact with these wires,
however slight, is said to be
enough to wreck an airplane or
cause a pilot to lose control of
his machine.
The idea was tested, with suc
cess, at Paris during the World
War.
AUTO UNION READY
WITH ULTIMATUM
TO CHRYSLER AS
STEEL UNITS SPLIT
Martin to Oemand Motor
Officials Recognize U. A.
W. A. as Sole Bargaining
Agency for Employes.
A. F. OF L. AID ASKED
IN PITTSBURGH FIGHT
“Company Union” Faction Urges
Green to Provide Active Assist
ance in Organizing Workers Op
posed to C. I. 0.—Drive in Shoe
Industry Draws Fire.
BACKGROUND—
Plans of John L. Lewis’ Commit
tee for Industrial Organization to
organize all workers in each mass
production industry into one large
union, regardless of the work they
do, has been opposed strenuously
by American Federation of Labor,
traditionally in favor of organiza
tion by craft.
United Mine Workers, of which
Lewis is president, and nine other
C. I. O. unions were suspended,
but not expelled, last year from
A. F. of L. for ‘‘insurrection."
By the Associated Press.
Homer Martin, president of the
United Automobile Workers of Aiut
ica, announced in Detroit today the
union will present an “ultimatum'' to
Chrysler Corp. officials this afternoon,
demanding an immediate answer to a
request for recognition as sole bar
gaining agency for the automobile
producer’s 67.000 employes.
• Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, employe
representatives, claiming to represent
50.000 workers of Camegie-Ulinois
Steel Corp.. appealed to President
William Green of the American Fed
eration of Labor to help them fight
John L. Lewis' Committee for Indus
trial Organization.
The representatives voted to drop
their present form of collective bar
gaining and telegraphed Green for
counsel and advioe on reorganization
of the so-called "company union "
Leaving a conference with Chrysler
officials, Martin said:
“The corporation is face to face with
the question of whether it will or will
not recognize the union as the sole
collective bargaining agency.
‘‘There will be no dodging or post
ponement of this issue. This is a union
ultimatum."
He added that the ultimatum had
not been presented in the morning
meeting, but that he expected an
answer “one way or the other" this
afternoon.
The action of the Camegie-IUinois
(See LABOR. Page A-2.)
WOMAN ASSAULTED
IN CHEVY CHASE
Hold-up Man Sought by County
Police After Attack Near
Leland School.
By a Stall Corresponcent ot The star.
BETHESDA. Md.. March 5— A
white man who made a criminal at
tack on his victim last night after
robbing her of her purse, near the
Leland Junior High School, was be
ing sought by Montgomery County
Police today.
Police were reticent about revealing
details, but admitted that plaster casts
of footprints found in the vicinity
where it occurred, the 6700 block of
Forty-fourth street, in the center of
the Chevy Chase residential area, were
made this morning.
The victim, a young matron. 24,
who lives in Chevy Chase, not far
from the scene of the attack, told po
lice she was on her way home last
night about 10:30 o'clock, when a man
came up behind her and demanded
her pocketbook. He said:
“Put ’em up, sister: this is a
stick-up.”
The young woman drew away a few
feet and threw her purse toward him.
The man. whose face was masked with
a white handkerchief, but whom she
said was white, picked up the pocket
book and then ordered her to walk
around to a vacant lot behind a nearby
house, where the attack took place,
she reported. Later the man fled with
the purse.
Detective Sergt. Theodore Vollten
of the county police and officer Jack
Berry have been placed in charge of
the investigation.
Woman of 110
Belle at Frolic
Of Florida Club
Modern Dress Cred
ited by 105-Year
Old for “Youth”
By the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., March 5.
—Mrs. Martha Weeks, 110, is looking
younger than ever, Charles W. El
dridge, 105, said at the frolic of the
Three Quarter Century Club.
“I guess it's because she's dressing
more modern,” said Eldridge, at the
annual Winter event, attended by
10.000
Mrs. Weeks, a resident of Lithia,
near Tampa, was honor guest. Until
a year ago she did her own house
work. but now her neighbors help out.
She declined an lnviation to spend
the night as a guest of a local hotel.
“I’ve got to go home and feed my
hens.” she said. “They’ll wonder
where I am.”

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