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HUGHES DENIES LARGER
COURT MORE EFFICIENT;
BRANDEIS SHARES VIEW
Loiter of Chief
Justice Cited
by \\ heeler.
TRIBUNAL HELD
l V WITH WORK
^ :m Drvanlrr Also
in 0|)|x>silion
lo Increase.
r.V G. GOI'I.n LINCOLN.
Chief Justice Hughes, in a letter
presented today by Senator Wheeler
ef Montana to the Senate Judiciary
Committee, effectively disposed of ad
ministration charges that the Supreme
Court is behind in its work and that
pioper apiieals for hearing of cases
F.rc denied.
The letter, written by the Chief
Justice at the request of Senator
Wheeler, created a sensation at the
< mmittee hearing, which today heard
the first of the opposition witnesses
en President Roosevelt's bill to in
< : ease the membership of the Supreme
Court.
The letter disclosed that Associate
Justices Brandeis and Van Dovanter
concurred in disapproving of the pro
's a 1 Since Brandeis is regarded
throughout the country as one of the
Must, liberal and able justices in the
• turt's hist ry, his disapproval is con
sidered a serious blow to the adminis
tration.
Mr Hughe.-' letter said the Supreme
C nirt "is fully abreast of its work.”
He added, with regard to petitions of
certiorari, that if any error is n ade
in dealing with these applications, "it
is on the side of liberal; v."
Sees Efficiency Impaired.
"An increase in the number of
justices of th Supn m< Court
from any question o{ policy, which I
did not discuss, would r.ot promote
the efficiency of t lie court" wrote
the chief just: e “It is believed that
it would impair that efficiency so long
as the court arts as a unit."
The chief justice also answered a
proposal which has been made before
the committee that with more .justices
the court could hear cases in divi
sions.
"I: is believed that such a plan
’ iiild be impracticable. A large pro
V i non of the cases we hear are im
1> riant and a decision by a part of
lire court would be unsatisfactory."
In referring to Justices Brandeis
ei.d Van Decanter. Mr. Hughe-, wrote:
"On account of the shortness of
time. I have not been able to consult
with the members of the court gen
erally with respect to the loregoing
statement, but I am confident that
f: is m accord with the views of the
justices. I should say. however, that
I iv< been able to consult with Mr.
Ju. '. c Van Decanter and Mr. Justice
Braudel.-, and I am at liberty to say
tha" ;he statement is approved by
them "
letter Dated Yesterday.
J ho Chief Justice’s letter was dated
M irch 21
Senator Wheeler told the committee
t! ■: it Mr Roosevelt would submit to
C ogress a proposed amendment to
tie Constitution which would meet
the situation and at the same time
v .’.d abandon his "plan to park the
C'-irt." “we'll all get behind it."
Wheeler himself has offered an
em- ndment to the Constitution, un
cici which, by two-thirds vote of both
houses Congress could repass a law
tv hi li had been held unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court, and make It ,
valid providing a congressional elec
tion had been held in the interim.
He said he would be willing to aban- ,
don his own amendment and accept
some other that was satisfactory to the
President.
Before presenting the letter to the
committee. Senator Wheeler said on
the stand conrernm the President's
plan
"This proposal is not new to me
It may be to most of th? members
of this committee, if not all. The
administration did not take the com
mittee or the leaders of Congress into
its confidence on this measure. But
the proposal was made to me at the
last session of Congress. It was not
made by the President, but by men
■who are close to him.
"I said to those young men that
the proposal was wrong in principle
and that the American people will
never stand for it."
The Senator did not give the names j
r>f the "young men" to whom he re
ferred.
I was shocked and surprised,” said ;
Wheeler, "when I picked up a news- j
paper in New York and read the !
President's message and the letter of
the Attorney General. I was not vis
iting economic royalists in New York,
although I was over there to investi
gate some of them.
"I had not always been in agree
ment with decisions of the Supreme
Court. However, I have tried many
( See JUDICIARY. Page A-2.)
WOMAN IS FOUND DEAD,
DAUGHTER IS INJURED
By the Associated Press.
PLAINFIELD. N. J„ March 22 —
Mrs. Louis Kadesh. 60. was found
dead and her daughter unconscious
in their second-floor apartment today.
They apparently had been beaten and
stabbed by an unknown assailant.
The older woman's body was lying
in a pool of blood in her bed room ■
and the daughter, Bessie, 23, was on
a bed in the adjoining room. Both
were dressed in night clothes and
apparently had been attacked during
the night.
Kadesh, the husband and father. 1
pOwns a furniture store here and v*.s
said by authorities to be in Arizona h
I Chief Justice’s Letter
My DEAR SENATOR WHEELER:
In response to your inquiries, I have the honor to present the
following statement with respect to the work of the Supreme Court:
1. The Supreme Court is fully abreast of its work. When W'e
rose on March 15 (for the present recess) we had heard argument ’in cases
in which certiorari had been granted only four weeks before—February 15.
During the present term, which began last
October and which we call October term, 1936.
we have heard argument on the merits in 150
cases (180 numbers) and we have 28 cases (30
numbers) awaiting argument. Wo shall be
able to hear all these cases, and such others
as may come up for argument, before our
adjournment for the term There is no con
gestion of cases upon our calendar.
This gratifying condition has obtained for
several years. We have been able lor several
terms to adjourn alter disposing of all cases
which are ready to be heard.
Classification of Cases.
2. The cases on our docket arc classified as
original and appellate. Our original jurisdiction
is defined by the Constitution and embraces
cases to which States are parties. There are
not many of these. At the present time they
number 13 and are in various stages of progress
to submission for determination
Justice Hushes
Our appellate jurisdiction covers those cases in which appeal is allowed
by statute as a matter of right and cases which come to us on writs of
certiorari.
The following is a comparative statement of the cases on the dockets
1 See HUGHES' TEXT, Page A-2.)
Shaw Takes Responsibility
for Order for Gas Line
Connection.
BACKGROUND—
Entire Nation was shocked by
greatest child disaster in its history
last Thursday, when 4.5.1 pupils and
teachers acre killed as gas explo
sion of unknown origin demolished
"world's largest rural school'—Lon
don Consolidated—near New Lon
don. in Eastern Texas.
Early testimony at military court
of inquiry ordered by Gov Allred
revealed change from dry to wet
gas in heating system of school was
made few months ago. when oil
company line was tapped. School
was one of richest in world due to
location m valuable oil area.
By tnc A ociatea Press.
NEW LONDON, Tex . March 22 —
Flail and weary with grief. V.’. 'c.
Shaw, superintendent, told a military
inquiry today he was "partly respon
sible" for an informal gas line con
nection for the heating system of the
explosion-wrecked school and that he
had not known of any particular ob
jection to the connection.
The gas line is being studied among
numerous other factors in the search
for the cause of the disaster which
killed 455 children and teachers.
Shaw, who lost a son in the ex
plosion. was so weakened that he re
tired from the witness stand to a
nearby cot. He is a sufferer from
high blood pressure,
A clue to the ignition of the explo
sion was provided by John Dial, 15,
a student.
Light Switch Pulled.
‘‘A flash of fire blinded me.” Dial
testified, at almost the same instant
a man pulled a light switch in the
manual training room.
The gas connection of which Shaw
testified was with a line of the Parade
Gasoline Co. D. L. Clark, field fore
man ior that company, testified the
school had "tapped" the line for heat
ing fuel without his knowledge or con
sent
Shaw said he had talked with Earl
Clover Parade's superintendent, ob
serving the school was purchasing gas
while oil field gas was going to waste.
“Mr Clover did not give us specific
permission.” Shaw said, "and warned
that we were liable to be cut loose at ,
any time, but I concluded that he did
not particularly object.”
Janitors ran pipe from the school to
the company's line. Shaw said, and
he was "partly responsible” for giving
the order.
At one point Shaw testified:
“I tell you, I really couldn’t see
everything that was going on. We had
a janitor who was recommended to us.
We were told he could make connec
tions. etc.
"We thought he would be worth
something to us. He supervised that
really more than I could. I wasn’t an
i See BLAST, Page A-4.)
Cherry Blossom
Opening April l
Seen hy Finnan
llest Display Predict
ed for April II If
IF eat her Stays (Anal.
Present conditions Indicate the
Japanese cherry blossoms around the
Tidal Basin will be at their best be
tween April 4 and 11. C. Marshall
Finnan, superintendent of the Na
tional Capital Parks, definitely pre
dicted today.
Finnan made it clear, however, the
weather is the governing factor and
the present predication may be radi
cally altered.
Park officials ventured t.he opinion
that, with favorable weather, there
will be some showing of the trees
on Sunday. April 4. If the elements
are kind, the display on the following
Sunday should be the best. Later
the double-blossom variety will be seen
in East Potomac Park.
Finnan's prediction was made in
connection with a meeting of his
Committee on Arrangements for the
Cherrv Blossom Festival.
Main Army of Gen. Miaja
Moves Near Insurgent
Base at Siguenza.
BACKGROUND—
Siege of Madrid, last remaining
stronghold of Spanish Loyalists,
by insurgent troops has been
pressed for months, with little
headway gained. Recent offensives
have been repulsed, and several
have been turned into rout.
By the Associated Press.
MADRID. March 22.—The govern
ment's northeastern army reported to
day it had pressed the insurgent re
treat into a rout, capturing town after
town in a rapid advance on the in
surgent stronghold of Siguenza.
The main column of Gen. Jose
Miaja, commander of Madrid's armies,
was reported to be approaching Alma
drones, only 12 miles south of the in
surgent base of operations at Siguenza,
after a 28-mile advance from Guada
lajara.
At no point, dispatches from the
vanguard commanders outside of
Almadrones reported, had the pursuing
column been able to contact the fleeing
insurgents, routed in their fifth at
tempt to smasii Madrid's defenses.
Launching the drive on Siguenza
itself, government bombers dropped
26,000 pounds of explosives on insurg
ent concentrations and supply dumps.
Munition trains were said to have
been destroyed and one bomb found Its
(See SPAIN, Page A-4.)
Former Member of Star Staff
Describes Madrid Air Raid
(Unscathed by a shower of bombs
he could see diving toward him
from the skies, an Associated Press
war correspondent and a former
copy editor of The Washington
Star, tells of the sudden change
from tranquility to horror in an air
raid. Brihuega, where he experi
enced the raid and watched the
aerial dog fight that ended it, is
near the front lines of the Spanish
government's retreat northeast of
Madrid.)
BY GEORGE C. JORDAN.
MADRID, March 21 (VP) (delayed),—
Government ambulances, trucks and
automobiles still bring back refugees
and victims of the fierce land and air
fighting in upper Guadalajara Prov
ince.
The insurgent dead, left by the road
side as their columns flee in retreat,
are buried where they fall.
Most of the fugitives from the
smoke and thunder of the battle come
from Brihuega, the little mountain
town, where I saw an insurgent air ;
raid.
I arrived in Brihuega Saturday in a
government bus, before dawn. I was
with another American newspaper
man, two English correspondents, a
Spanish woman reporter and a photog
rapher.
We were strolling across the central
plaza when five tri-motored bombers
roared over the mountains which en
tirely surround the village.
“Follow me!” suddenly exclaimed a
Spanish officer who was our guide.
We ran for the open country, but
there was no time. As we reached
the first street of the plaza we looked
up. Two batches of bombs were
sloping tow'ard us from under the
planes.
The planes W'ere about 2.000 feet
high in a clear sky. In each batch
we estimated there were a dozen or
15 bombs.
We dropped where we were, buried
our heads in our arms » * * and
i SeeAIRRAiD._Page‘A-2.) '
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Pope's Encyclical Accuses
Nazis of Encouraging Anti
Christian Movements.
BACKGROUND—
Hitlers rise to pouer In 1933 has
been marked by constant conflict
between Catholicism and the Third
Reich. Focal point of dispute has
been education of youth Concor
dat of July. 1933. sought to erase
this and contained provisions for
the church to continue religious in
struction. with civic education left
to the state.
Concordat sanctioned dissolution
of Catholic Center party and for
bade churchmen to speak politi
cally. Nazis pledged uniform ed
ucational laws and granted the
church the right to maintain con
fessional schools, but youth groups
were forbidden to participate in
sport, social or educational activ
ities. Nazi youth rallies, to which
all were summoned, often were
made to coincide with the hour of
worship.
E> the Associated Press
BERLIN, March 22—Rupture of
Germany's relations with the Vatican
was hinted today after a strong papal
letter to Catholic congregations ac
cused the Nazi regime of violating
the German-Vatican concordat and
encouraging anti-Christian move
I ments.
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's news
J paper. Voelkischer Beobatchter, in an
editorial interpreted as an answer to
J the pastoral letter from Pope Pius
I XI. implied the Vatican concordat
might be canceled by the Reich.
"At the conclusion of the concordat,
the state could not know how the
church would later interpret its pro
visions,” said the newspaper, declar
ing that "even an agreement with
< See CONCORDAT. Page A_-57)
VOLCANO THREATENING
HAKODATE, Japan. March 22 (/P).
—The ominous rumblings of volcanic
Mount Komogadate drove the populace
of Southern Hokkaido to refuge in the
open air today in fear the fatal erup
j tion and tidal wave of 1925 might be
; repeated.
For five days the volcano on Hok
I kaido Island has been throwing out
black clouds of ashes, smoke and boil
ing mud.
Helpless Firemen
Listen In to (loneert
V File House Burns
By ti e A ‘•oclatea Press
PERRY. N Y March 22 — ;
Perry firemen responding to a
rural fire alarm, found them
selves helpless to fight the flames
because no water was available,
so they spent their time listening
to a phonograph concert.
Neighbors managed to remove
a phonograph from the burning
hou-e and when it was apparent
nothing could be done to fight
the fire, the firemen turned on
’he reeorri.s and en loved some
"hot' music.
New Steps Taken in Rush to
Nationalize Country's
War Industries.
E> the Associates Press.
PARIS. March 22 —The French gov
ernment, racing against time to na
tionalize the country's war industries,
took over two of France's larges!
airplane factories today and ordered
expropriation of a third.
In addition to the three plants
brought under the air ministry, the
government ordered nationalization of
the "stamping and mechanical con
struction ' company at Caudebec to
complete the largest single group of
private munitions works to be brought
under government con'rol ai one time.
Today's sweeping decrees left the
Renault munitions plant the only
major war industry in private hands.
The airplane plant orders put into
(See FRANCE. Page A-5.)
-•
45 Believed Drowned,
TOKIO. March 22 (43).—The Domei
<Japanese i News Agency reported 45
persons were believed drowned today
near Fusan. Korea, when a ferry boat
capsized. Twenty-five passengers were ■
rescued.
Lindberghs Are Guests.
NEW DELHI, India. March 22 i/PL—
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh,
on an aerial jaunt over India, were
luncheon guests today of the viceroy,
the Marquess of Linlithgow.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page Page
Amusements B-16 Radio B-8
Comics . B-12 Short Story B-13
Editorials A-8 Society B-3
Financial A-15 Sports A-12-13-14
Lost & Found A-3 Woman's Pg. B-10
Obituary A-10
NATIONAL.
President Roosevelt plans trip to
Philippine Lslands. Page A-6
Hull trying to inspire Europe to avoid
war. Page B-fi
Youth gives clue to ignition of school
blast. Page A-l
Wheeler leads off for opponents at
court hearing today. Page A-l
Hughes letter opposes increase in
court justices. Page A-l
Shaw collapses in blast inquiry by
military court. Page A-l
Townsend scorns Congressman's offer
to suspend jail sentence. Page A-2
FOREIGN.
Spanish government reports route of
insurgents. Page A-l
Reich may cancel concordat due to
criticism of Pope. Page A-l
France continues drive to nationalize
war industries. Page A-l
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Opponents of memorial site carry case
to President. Page A-l
Beauty salon and cement plant scenes
of three-alarm fires. Page B-l
TJ. S. Commerce Department probes
Earhart crash. Page A-7
Nursemaid, 16. seriously injured in
leap from window. Page B-l
Two die in week end traffic accidents
in D. C. area. Page B-l
Washingtonians throng churches and
parks as Spring begins. Page B-l
Appeals Court overrules I^C. judge in
sentence mix-up. Page B-l
Annapolis appointment bill intro
duced. Page B-l
Fidelity equipment examined prelim
inary to new set-up. Page B-l
Levee system pushed at Naval Air
Station and Bolling. Page B-l
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-8
This and That. Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
Washington Observations. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Paul Mallon. Page A-9
Dorothy Thompson. Page A-9
Constaintine Brown. Page A-9
Headline Folk. Page A-9
SPORTS.
Nats’ sudden punch bears out Harris’
prophecy. PageA-12
Current Pirates his best club. Traynor
declares. PageA-12
Bolton again missing, but Grift is un
worried. Page A-13
Turf odds, oddities unmatched, says j
Sande. Page A-13
Braddock spurns new $350,000 Berlin
fight bid. PageA-14
FINANCIAL.
U. S. bonds improve (table).
Page A-15
Stocks go down (table). PageA-16
D. C. power output gains. Page A-16
Curb list lower (table). PageA-17
W. T, Grant profits rise. Page A-17
Steel orders pile up. PageA-17
MISCELLANY'.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
City News in Brief. Page A-7
Young Washington. Page B-9
Letter-Out. Page B-12
Dorothy Dix Page B-10
Nature's Children. PageB-11
Bedtime Story. PageB-11
Winning Contract. PageB-13
Crossword Puzzle. £ Page B-12
JEFFERSON FIGHT
GOES TO PRESIDENT
Foes of Memorial Site and
Design Appeal to
Roosevelt.
Opponents of the site . ..d design of
the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, pro
jected for the south side of the Tidal
Basin took their ase to President
Roosevelt today.
The League for Progress in Archi
tecture. with offices at 1M? Thirtieth
street, comprising architect.-, lawyers
and others interested .in improved
housing railed Mr. Roosevelt's at
tion to "the unfortunate plans for the
proposed memorial in the hope that
your influence will be used to prevent
the serious mistake that would be
made if it is allowed to go ahead.”
Basing its opposition on three prin
cipal points, the league charged that
the site is badly chosen and is con
trary to the essence of the great plan
of L'Enfant; that the architecture is
not representative of Jefferson. Amer
ica or contemporary architecture, and
that the work was awar.'ed almost sec
retly. and without competition. The
communication was signed by Henry
S Churchill on behalf of the league,
a leader in the fight against the
memorial.
Reason for Stand,
The league advised Mr. Roosevelt
of these reasons for its stand:
"1. Thp site chosen is that desig
nated for a 'pantheon' by the Mac
Millan Commission of 1901, appointed
by Theodore Roosevelt to establish a
master-plan for the City of Wash
ington. This commission paid homage
to the L'Enfant plan, but transgressed
its spirit in many ways. There l«
no need here to go into the detail
of their transgressions, which were
due to the fact that they thought of
a city as consisting of buildings on
paper, whereas it really consists of
people and their perceptions of build
ings in space.
"The essential point Is that L'Enfant.
who planned perceptively, intended
that the entire south side of the Mall,
and also of what is now Potomac Park,
shounld be kept free of important
buildings for the very good reason that
any architecture seen from the north
is constantly in shadow, and therefore
merely a silhouette against the sky.
"Aside from the L'Enfant plan, the
chosen site is bad because it will re
duce the Tidal Basin to a formal pond,
destroying the cherry trees: the foun
dation conditions could hardly be
worse: there will be great traffic diffi
culty at the Highway Bridge.
"2. We submit that the architecture
of Imperial Rome is not the architec
ture of Jefferson or the New Deal.
Jefferson was himself a very great
architect, fully appreciative of the use
of site and topography, as the campus
of the University of Virginia proves.
"It is true that Jefferson used the
‘classic’ style. But in his day the
‘classic’ was the natural expression
of the architecture, there was no other.
Moreover, there must be made the
great distinction between th free and
living use of classic elements and the
pedantic adaptation of them. The
'classic' of Monticel’ and the campus
is without pedantry, it is alive today:
whereas the 'classic' of the proposed
memorial is dead before it is built.
"You. of course, know the tomb of
Jefferson at Monticello, with his own
simple epitaph. What possible rela
tion is there between that man and
this proposed monument? What re
lation is there between the marble pile,
with its burdensome terraces and steps,
its endless columns, and the living
spirit of Jefferson? And we do not
(See MEMORIAL, Page A-2.)
MINER FATALLY INJURED
BY POWDER EXPLOSION
Sparks From Electric Cable Set
Off Sticks Man Was Carrying
in Maryland Shaft.
By the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND. Md.. March 22.
—Allen C. Butler, Vindex miner,
died in Memorial Hospital here of
injuries suffered in a powder explo
sion at the Manor Coal Co. mine.
Butler was carrying a bag of powder
sticks, other miners said, and sparks
from an electric cable set off the
powder. Several other miners about
75 feet ahead of Butler in the shaft
escaped injury.
Butler, an employe of the company
about eight years, is survived by his
widow and four jjrildren.
DETROIT SIT-INS
OUSTED DESPITE
C. I. O. THREATS
'
Martin Heady to
Fall 175.000 From
Auto Factories.
_
GENERAL MOTORS
MAY BE HIT AGAIN
U. A. W. “Minute Men**
Organized to Protect
Work* >r»* Rights.
All Store *s Facing
Shutdown in
Plan idence.
8,000 WORKERS
GO Ol T TOD.A^
Big DrparOm-nl Firm*
Closed in Cilxwidr*
I )i*putr.
BACKGROUND—
IVnie of sit-down strikes started v th General Motors strike of
C ! O s automobile workers Settlement on term gati factory to unto7
leaders was followed by union rc(e,gnitwn by Big Steel and other gams
for movement
Encountering opposition when demanding sole collrctiic bargain
ing recognition of Chrysler manufacturers, workers began sit-don r
strike March >1 Court order vas signed to mict s-t-in but the ■ orkrr;
ignored it. and Chrysler has not Iwd them removed
Auto crisis is aggravated by statement Saturday by llorner Martin,
auto workers' head, that he will (all general auto strike m Detroit
unless police cease interference with strikes in auto-conuected firms.
By t!ie Af soclateci Pr*
DETROIl Mari h 22 —P lice ci n
tinued to evict sit-down strikers from
small captive plants today, in disre
gard of a United Automobile Workers
threat to rail a city-wide a utomotive
strike m retaliation.
Homer Martin. U A W nffi< ial.
who declared Saturday that a general
automotive strike would be called in
"every organized plant" in Detroit if
the police did not cease "raiding, slug
ging and blackjacking strikers and in
nocent bystanders." withheld comment
on the ouster of 25 strikers from the
Thomas P Henry Co printing plant.
Martin indicated m an interview
that the general strike, if called, might
involve General Motors
An hour and a half la'rr the Cue
Council refused a permit for a huge
demonstration called by the U A W.
for 5 pm Tuesday a' Cadillac Square,
in the heart of the city, to "show la
bor's strength."
Merlin D B'-hop educational di
rector of the U A W . said tiip dem
onstration would be held without the
permit.
Announr.r.g the mas. meeting Sat
urday night Martin said that 175.000
union member.- would assemble to pro
test the police raids
Evicted Without Violence.
The removal of the strikers from
the Henry plant, which they had oc
cupied since March 11. was accom
plished without violence.
A striker who admitted 50 police
men. led by Commissioner Heinrich A.
Picker:, said "We have been waiting
to surrender: I guess some of the
boys are pretty anxious to go home."
The strikers were questioned, then
left for their homes, carrying cots,
canned goods and other luggage used
m their 11-day occupation
The company obtained an order
from Circuit Judge Homer Ferguson
Wednesday for the strikers to show
cause why an injunction should not
be issued. A hearing was postponed
Saturday until today because the
order had not been served.
Recognition of the International
Typographical Union was the princi
pal issue in the Henry strike
Another threat of recall was tele
graphed today to Go\. Murphy, w ho
shrugged off a similar threat during
his successful efforts to end the recent
General Motors strike.
G. L. Williston. a manufacturer's
i See DETROIT, Page A-3.1
ELOPING FILM DIRECTOR
AND BRIDE SUMMONED
Face Di unk-in-Auto Charge
While on Way to Wedding
Ceremony.
By the A.ssoclaten Press.
GLENDALE. Calif.. March 22.—
i Thrice-married Emmett J. Flynn,
eloping film director, was summoned
j to Police Court with his bride today.
They faced a drunk-in-auto charge
i growing out of their taxicab trip to
matrimony at Yuma. Ariz . last week.
Mrs. Flynn, the former Margaret
Shelby Fillmore. 36. is a sister of
Mary Miles Minter. former screen
i star. Both made $50 bonds Friday.
The couple was arrested after a
j row over a $25 taxi bill.
Flynn is due to make a Los Angeles
i court appearance because he allegedly
' violated the probation granted after
, he pleaded guilty March 2 to drunk
. driving He pasted $250 bail on this
: charge Saturday night.
PLAN HELD DOOMED
London Hears Tokio Will Reject
Gun Limitation.
LONDON. March 22 (A3).—The Brit
ish government, informed sources dis
closed today, has received informal
advices from Tokio that Japan will
not accept the 14-inch gun limitation
on new battleships provided in the
London naval treaty.
“They ucrc digging a history class
out of the ground, from under
the bricks. * * * Children blown
to bits. It was an accident, per
haps an accident plus careless
ness. plus human error. But an
accident. Nobody did it on pur
pose. In Spain they are blowing
children to bits, day in, day out,
not from carelessness. On pur
pose."
Read Dorothy Thompson's
"Children and Tragedies"
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PROVIDENCE R I March 22 —
Forty-five stores were rinsed ted r in
the Providence shopping area a
city-wide strike against 1 400 retail
store got nderwai mder thi ■ -
tion of John L Lewis' Committee for
Industrial Organization Gov. Robert
E. Quinn warned both sidr< that the
public must come ahead of employer
and employe
C I. O leaders said they expected
to have on strike by nightfall’ 8.000
nf the 12.000 retail workers in the
city.
Twelve department and 5-and-10
stores closed Saturday and 33 were
closed today It was estimated un
official];,- that approximately 6.000 per
• sons were idle.
The shops closing their doors today
included chain clothing and shoe
shops ana millinerv and dr\ goods
establishments. Only food and drug
stores were excepted in the announced
intention of the labor union
Union Claims 7(1 Per Cent.
A- Go-. Quinn prepared to meet
representatives of owners and em
ploycrs this morning Joseph Sylvia.
State chairman of the Committee for
Industrial Organization claimed 70
per cent unionization of all the city's
I store workers.
The employes were called out on a
city-wide strixe yesterday morning a-,
a meeting at which Sylvia said 400
C I O. members rejected a com
promise offer of store owners and
agreed to insist upon their original
demands. The demands included a
10 per cent wage increase, recogni
tion of the union as the sole bargain
ing agency and four-week vacations
with pay for all workers.
Employers Terms.
Employers announced Saturday they
would grant two weeks vacations with
pat. compensation for all overtime,
time and a half for Sunday work
and a general study preliminary to
equalization of wages J Howard Mc
Grath. spokesman for the employers,
said tlie stores had been willing to put
into effect old N R A. wages and to
make any wage adjustments retroac
tive to today
McGrath announced the stores
which closed Saturdaj afternoon at
the height of the Easter buying rush
would remain shut todai. He said
the shops were closed "in the inter
ests of our customers and employes
and to avoid disorder, when they
learned a strike would be called.
A survey of other large stores in
dicated some might follow the lead
i of those closed Saturday, but a large
majority said they planned "business
as usual.- Others said they would
close if picketed.
Sylvia, working through the United
Shoe Workers of America, predicted
he would be able to marshal enough
men to picket the 1.405 stores He
made no estimate of the number of
store employes actually signed by the
C. I, O., but said he expected 8 000
: would be out before nightfall and
12.000 by tomorrow niglr
SOVIET MAY SEVER
FAR EAST RAIL LINK
Will Suspend Tiaffic Between Si
beria and Manchuria. Tokio
Paper Hears.
Bt Ur- Associated Prr-s.
TOKIO. March '22.—The newspaper
Nichi Nichi in a dispatch from
Hsinking. Manchukuo. today reported
that Soviet Russia intends to suspend
all rail traffic between Siberia and
Manchuria.
If this proves true, it probably will
suspend entirely one of the mam
highways of world travel, the trans
Siberian rail route between Europe
and the Far East.
The Soviet Railway Administration
already has severed connections be
tween its Ussuri Railway—between
Vladivostok and Habarovsk—and the
eastern part of the North Manchuria
Railway, formerly the Chinese Eastern
Railway, but now operated by Japan's
South Manchuria Railway as part of
the Manchukuo national system.
These two lines formerly connected
at Pograntchnaya. on Manchukuo's
eastern frontier, and did a flourishing
business in carrying Manchuria's
produce to salt water at Vladivostok.
The connection was broken when the
Russians charged Japanese and Man
chukuo authorities persecuted their
workers at the junction point.
2.150 GET PAY RAISE
Two Utica Textile Mills An
nounce Increases.
UTICA. N. Y., March 22 </P).—Ten
per cent wage increases affecting
2.150 employes were announced today
by two Utica textile mills, the Utica
and Mohawk Cotton Mills and the
local plant of the American Wool
en Co. A