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ENGLAND. FRANCE
AGREE TO PREVENT
LANDING OE MORE
ITALIANS IN SPAIN
Possibility of Using War
ships to Halt Ships Dis
cussed by Powers as New
Accord Is Formulated.
NEUTRALITY MACHINERY
WILL BE TRIED FIRST
Valencia Loyalists Report Sud
den Disappearance of Fascist
Soldiers From Front Near Ma
drid—Officials in Rome Silent
on Developments.
BACKGROUND—
Since Spanish civil war began
last July charges of intervention
by foreign powers in struggle re
garded. as betwen Fascists and
Communists have threatened peace
of Europe. Germany and Italy
recognize rebel Fascists and Non
Intervention Committee represent
ing 27 nations has been trying to
keep war from spreading because of
participation by German and
Italian troops on one side and Rus
sians on the other.
Great Britain has pursued watch
ful course as her former ally,
France, nearer to the scene of the
Spanish fighting and under the in
fluence of a Left regime at home
has turned more and more to sym
pathize with the cause of the Left
ist Loyalists in Madrid.
By ' -'dated Press.
LONDON, March 25.—Great Britain
and France agreed today they must
prevent further landing of foreign
volunteers — especially Italians — in
warring Spain.
Representatives of the two powers
discussed the possibility of using
warships to halt troop transports en
route to Spain, but postponed any
decision pending the outcome of the
International Non-intervention Com
mittee’s control plan.
The Franco-Bntish accord, as dis
cussed, would go further than the
neutrality scheme, under which the
movements of troop transports merely
are to be reported to neutralitv head
quarters by patrolling warships of
Britain, France, Germany and Italy.
Diplomats said Paris and London,
however, are in accord that the “ma
chinery of the Neutrality Committee
shall be tried out thoroughly in re
gard to the problems relating to
Spain.”
Future Course Uncertain.
The big “if” in the entire situation
was the future course of those gov
ernments which have been accused
of sending military assistance to both
sides of the Spanish civil war.
The Franeo-British agreement was
negotiated by Foreign Minister Yvon
Delbos of France and Sir George
Russell Clerk, British Ambassador to
France.
Referring to the Neutrality Com
mittee's control plan as "work already
accomplished." British sources de
clared the problem of withdraw-ing
foreign volunteers already in Spain is
for future consideration.
They insisted the committee's ma
chinery be utilized to the utmost Just
as soon as Admiral M. H. Van D ' n.
general administrator, sets the date
when the plan shall become effec
tive.
Meanwhile, London and Paris will
follow a "wait and see” policy, they
said.
From Valencia came word special
government aerial scouts reported a
"sudden disappearance” of all Italians
from insurgent divisions on the Gua
dalejara front, northeast of Madrid.
Officials at Valencia announced the
I oyalist aerial observers spotted in
surgent reinforcements of Spanish
Fascists, following the recent i n
surgent retreat on the Guadalajara
salient.
But there was no trace whatsoever
(See EUROPE. Page A-2.)
MELLON ART BILL
SIGNED BY PRESIDENT
Way Cleared for Construction of
Great Gallery in
Capital.
President Roosevelt has signed the
bill accepting Andrew W. Mellon’s
$65,000,000 art gift to the Nation, ac
cording to word received at the White
House today.
This clears the way to go ahead with
the offer, under which Mellon will
build a $10,000,000 National Gallery of
An on Constitution avenue between
Seventh and Fourth streets. The
former Treasury Secretary also has
agri ed to give the Government his val
uab'e collection of masterpieces, paint
ings and sculpture, valued at $50,
000,000.
The third portion of the gift is a
$5,000,000 endowment fund, from
which additional art works could be
acquired from time to time, and also
to meet part of the cost of supervising
the gallery. The Government will be
required to furnish only the annual
maintenance fund for the gallery of
about $300,000 a year.
The bill of acceptance outlines a
policy under which only art works of
similar high quality to those now being
given the Government could be added
to the permanent collection. The
Board of Governors, however, could
authorize temporary exhibitions of
other art works. It has been pre
dicted that the National Gallery of Art
eventually will give this country one
of the foremost collections in the
world.
The gallery will be governed by a
board of nine, four Government offi
cials and five general trustees.
John Drinkivater
British Author,
Dies in His Sleep
Heart Attack Fatal to
Writer of ‘Abraham
Lincoln.*
JOHN DRINKWATER.
By the Associated Press
LONDON, March 25.—John Drink
water, famed British novelist
and dramatist, died today at
the age of 54.
The distinguished poet, v hose
dramatizations of characters of Brit
ish and American history were among
his best-known works, died suddenly
of a heart attack while asleep at his
London home.
Apparently in normal health, he
had attended the Oxford-Canibridge
boat race yesterday and later went to
the University Club for an evening
with friends.
His widow, Daisy Kennedy, the Aus
tralian violinist, was injured March 11
(See DRINKWATER, Page A-15.)
HIKES PH OF 3,1
Increases May Be Used as
Argument for Higher
Fare.
Wage increases for about 3,300 em
ployes of the Capital Transit Co.,
involving some office workers, as well
as those in operating and maintenance
classifications, were announced today
by the company’s Board of Directors.
The increases range as high as 3
cents per hour over present rates. In
actual wage payments and additional
social security tax payments, the in
crease will amount to around S228.000
yearly, it was said. Of this total,
about S221.000 will go to employes and
the remainder to tax.
The company has about 3,700 em
ployes.
The board's statement announcing
the increases follows in full:
‘'Effective April 3, an increase in
wage rates will be put into effect in
giving trained men operating two-man
cars 2 cents per hour and those
operating one-man cars and busses 3
cents per hour above present rates.
All other hourly employes, except
common labor in the way depart- j
ment, will receive 2 cents per hour
additional.
Classification Changes.
“Adjustments in classification of
employes in the shops and garages
will be made in addition to the above
increase in hourly rates. A propor
tionate increase will be given those
in the lower-salaried brackets.
“This will increase the annual pay
roll and social security tax payments
of the Capital Transit Co., by about i
$228,000 and will bring such payments
up to about 58 per cent of gross rev
enue.”
Approval of the wage increase, some
experts believe, would be used by the
company as an additional argument
iSee~TRANSIT, Page~A~-2~)
EUROPEAN WAR HELD
“UNLIKELY” BY LAMONT
Morgan Partner Admits, However,
His Statement Is Merely
a “Hunch.”
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 25.—Thomas
S. Lamont, Morgan partner, return
ing today on the French liner Paris
after an eight weeks’ visit abroad, re
gards the possibility of a European
war as “unlikely.”
“I haven’t any particular reason for
this statement—it’s just a hunch,”
Mr. Lamont said.
Asked whether he saw any danger
signs in the heavy purchases of Amer
ican securities by foreign interests,
Mr Lamont replied: “You can’t blame
investors in nervous Europe for want
ing to invest in booming America.”
RETIREMENT LAW
FOR JUSTICES IS
URGEDATHEARING
Amendment Setting Age
Limit at 70 or 75 Held
Best Plan.
LAW SCHOOL DEAN SEES
•RELIEF’ REQUIRED NOW
Cites Objections to President's
Proposal Before Senate
Judiciary Committee.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
A constitutional amendment provid
ing for compulsory retirement of Su
preme Court justices at 70 or 75 years
of age was advanced today by Young
B. Smith, dean of the Columbia Uni
versity Law" School, as the best method
to meet the present demands for “new
blood” in the court.
Dean Smith appeared before the
Senate Judiciary Committee in oppo
sition to President Roosevelt's bill to
increase the membership of the court.
His amendment was offered as an al
ternative. Six of the present number
of the Supreme Court are over 70 and
four of them are over 75.
Earlier at this morning's session
Fred Brenckman, representative of the
National Grange, had told the com
mittee the bill was “an attempt to in
timidate and coerce the Supreme
Court.”
Smith, the first law college head to
appear against the plan, said Mr.
Roosevelt's proposed enlargement of
the court unless justices over 70 re
tire would "threaten the independ
ence of the Supreme Court and might
permanently impair the confidence of
the people in that court.”
Would “Correct Situation.*'
“Such an amendment would more
surely correct the present situation
than would the President's bill,” he
said, referring to his proposal. “It
would avoid the bill's objectionable
features. It would provide immediate
relief that is needed and at the same
time establish a prcedent against Con
gress and the Executive, without an
amendment adding new justices to the
court because they disagree with its
decisions.”
The witness pointed out that his
proposed amendment would not
change the number of justices, but
would result in infusion of “new
blood” into the court “now,’’ as well
as establish a definite policy for the
retirement of justices in the future.
He said he believed his amendment
could be ratified within a short time
if it were submitted through constitu
tional conventions in the States.
Dean Smith prefaced his statement
by saying he is and always has been
a Democrat, that he had voted for
President Roosevelt for Governor of
New York and for President in 1932
and 1936. He denied he was a “de
featist lawyer,” and insisted he was
in favor of many readjustments in the
social structure.
Discusses President’s Bill.
In discussing the President’s bill, he
said:
“The pending proposal should not
be adopted for the following reasons:
“I. There js no certainty as to what
will be the result if the proposal is
adopted.
“2. Even if the adoption of the pro
posal corrected the present situation
(See JUDICIARY,"Page A-2.>
MERLEOBERON’S
INJURIES SERIOUS
Production of Film in England
Halted for “Three or
Four Months.”
By the Assoclatea Press.
LONDON. March 25.—Production of
the $500,000 film. “I, Claudius,” was
halted today when it was learned
Merle Oberon, Hollywood motion pic
ture actress and star of the produc
tion, had been more seriously injured
in an automobile accident March 16
than had been thought.
The stag’s doctors said she would
be unable to return to work for three
or four months.
At the tim# she was injured Miss
Oberon was treated for cuts on the
right side of the face, behind the
ear and on her neck. Her secretary
said she would not be disfigured by
the injuries.
BECOMES ENGAGED
Niece of Postmaster General to
Wed Hollywood Dentist.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 25
(/P).— Dorothy McNulty, stage and
screen actress and niece of Postmaster
General James Parley, announced her
engagement yesterday to Dr. Lawrence
Scroggs, Hollywood dentist.
Miss McNulty is the daughter of a
New York newspaper man.
Roosevelt Court Nominee, 68,
Willing to Quit at 70, He Says
Bj the Associates Press.
The nomination of Judge Robert
Lee Williams of Oklahoma to be a
Federal circuit judge went to the Sen
ate today with an expression of his
willingness to retire when he reaches
70. That would be in less than two
years.
"This would be in harmony with the
President’s judicial program and court
plan, which I indorse and approve.”
Williams said in a letter to Attorney
General Cummings. Williams was 68
years old last December 20.
The letter was made public at the
White House when President Roose
velt's nomination was announced.
Williams, a Federal district judge
since 1919, was named for the Tenth
Circuit Court of Appeals, embracing
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas,
Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Under the judiciary retirement law
he is eligible to retire when he is 70,
having served more than 10 years on
a Federal court.
In expressing his willingness to step
down voluntarily, Williams wrote:
"I hope you will pardon this letter
and that it will not be considered as
inappropriate or improper.”
The Attorney General, in referring
Williams’ letter to Chairman Ashurst
of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
said he believed the committee should
know Williams’ attitude before con
sidering the nomination.
Cummings aaid he forwarded the
letter at the suggestion of the Presi
dent. ^
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SILVER SPRING
YOJJTHJOLIED
Parr Hooper McQueen Fa
tally Hurt When Car Turns
Over in Virginia.
Parr Hooper McQueen, 19, of near
Silver Spring, Md., student at the
University of the South, Sewanee,
Tenn., and son of an official of the
Washington Gas Light Co., was killed
early today and three classmates were
injured in an automobile accident
near Wytheville, Va., according to an
Associated Press dispatch received
here.
Two of the injured youths were
from Washington, one being the
grandson of the late John Joy Edson.
The injured are:
Gilbert Edson, 19. son of Mrs. Bes
sie Edson, Shoreham Hotel. He suf
fered shock.
Finley Wright, 19, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred E. Wright, 1134 Wyom
ing avene, head injuries.
Wallace Gage, Williamstown, Mass.,
suffered a broken shoulder.
The accident occurred when Ed
son's car, in which the students were
en route to Washington for the Easter
holidays, overturned on a mountain
between Wytheville and Marion.
Wright was driving.
McQueen’s body was taken to a fu
neral home at Rural Retreat, Va., near
the scene of the accident, and the
three injured were rushed to a hos
pital there. Wright’s mother said, just
before leaving here to go to her son,
that he had been removed to Jefferson
Hospital in Roanoke.
McQueen was the son of James Rus
sell McQueen, superintendent of serv
ice of Washington Gas Light Co., and
a grandson of J. B. McQueen, presi
dent of H. L. and J. B McQueen, Inc.,
printers, at 520 Tenth street.
The Associated Press dispatch
quoted County Officer Frank Slater as
saying Edson’s roadster overturned 14
miles west of there. The highway on
wffich the accident occurred is in the
mountains of Southwest Virginia.
Theater “Sit-Down” Off.
PARIS, March 25 (/P).—The ‘'sit
down’’ strike at the Sarah Bernhardt
Theater was called off today, when the
actors decided “the show must go on.”
Stagehands also agreed to await
their pay envelopes patiently and
help put on the show Saturday.
Germany to Train
Match Makers in
Eugenics Campaign
tty the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 25.—Match
making by properly qualified
Nazi officials soon will be placed
on a legal basis in an effort to
secure healthy offspring from
sound parent stock.
A training course for the
aspirant match-makers in eu
genics and heredity laws will be
started April 7 under the auspices
of the labor front and the t^azi
racial office. A final examina
tion will qualify practitioners.
HEAVY TEMM
Quake Appears Centered in
Imperial Valley South
of Pasadena.
By ihe Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. March 25 —South
ern California shook this morning
with a heavy earthquake. It appeared
to be centered in the Imperial Valley
or south of the Mexican border in the
Gulf of California area.
It was 8:49 a m. when an area of
about 10,000 square miles quivered.
Los Angeles and its environs were
[ swayed by a long and continuously
increasing motion. Long Beach re
ported it was quite unlike the heavy
1933 shock, which came as a jolt. To
day’s movement w’as a sort of
i rhythmic shimmy, with an east-west
motion.
Santa Monica, Glendale, Pasadena..
Anaheim and Alhambra promptly re
ported similar effects, while to the
! south the intensity seemed to be
; greater. In the San Bernardino
Riverside region it was a good shake.
Dr. C. F. Richter of the seismological
laboratory of the Carnegie Institution
termed the disturbance “strong enough
to cause considerable damage near its
point of origin."
This he estimated to be 110 miles
southeast of Pasadena, either in the
mountains of San Diego County or on
the east side of the Imperial Valley, a
rich agricultural district at the Mex
ican border.
There were no immediate reports of
damage or injuries.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page. .
Amusements A-16
Comics -C-i
Editorials —A-10
Financial A-22
Lost* Found A-3
Obituary -_-A-12
Page.
Radio_D-8
Society_B-3
Short Story. C-5
Sports D-l-2-3
Woman's Pg._ C-4
SUPREME COURT ISSUE.
Amendment to limit number of jus
tices urged. Page A-l
STRIKE SITUATION.
8,500 stay-ins march out of eight
Chrysler plants. Page A-l
Sit-downers ballot to evacuate auto
plants. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Fire razes Jersey City home, killing
7 persons. Page A-2
Death of driver’s wife brings bus trag
edy toll to 20. Page A-4
Borah proposes substitute child labor
amendment. Page A-9
Rules Committee head predicts Nazi
investigation. Page A-9
FOREIGN.
John Drinkwater, British novelist, dies
from heart attack. Page A-l
England, France agree to keep Italian
troops from Spain. Page A-l
Fascism threatens to draw Europe into
war, says Prof. Laski. Page A-5
Air raiders bomb Madrid in five-hour
attack. Page A-8
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Son of gas company official killed in
Virginia crash. Page A-l
Capital Transit hikes wages of about
3,300 employes. Page A-l
Snow and freezing temperatures fore
cast for District. Page A-l
Arguments opened in false statements
trial of Davison. Page A-2
Suggestions to help 3,000 employables
given in broadcast. Page A-2
Woman, recovering from gas explosion,
dies in fall. Page A-2
Governor blames Maryland budget de
lay on House beer party. Page AA3
Compromise possible in case of dentist
held In girl's death. ^ Page A-3
———■ I —— I I .— 1
Former Army captain acquitted on
charge of slaying. Page A-24
First traffic death in 15 days; year’s
total at 36. Page B-l
Funds asked for viaduct, subway cir
cle alterations. Page B-l
Capt. Mansfield may succeed Lamb
as traffic head. Page B-l
Driver indicted in traffic death of Mrs.
Redman. Page B-l
Man seriously injured in plunge down
Union Station airshaft. Page B-l
editorials and comment.
Editorials. Page A-10
This and That. Page A-10
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Paul Mallon. Page A-ll
Jay Franklin. Page A-ll
Mark Sullivan. Page A-ll
Delia Pynchon. Page A-l'l
SPORTS.
Travis is playing short for Nats in
masterful style. Page D-l
Cleveland club is found difficult to
rate by scribes. Page D-l
Tilden’s tennis days over, defeat by
Perry demonstrates. Page D-2
Shelby fiasco should be lesson to ring
moguls, Dempsey avers. Page D-3
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Young Washington. Page B-2
After Dark. Page B-12
Service Orders. Page B-14
Traffic Convictions. Page B-14
Vital Statistics. Page B-14
City News in Brief. Page B-14
Dorothy Dix. Page C-4
Bedtime Story. Page C-6
Nature’s Children. Page C-6
Crossword Puzzle. Page C-7
Letter-Out. Page D-5
FINANCIAL.
Corporate bonds up .table). Page A-21
Clearings well above 1936. Page A-21
Stocks advance! table). Page A-22
Curb prices higher (table). Page A-23
Construction gains sharply. Page A-23
Earnings report* favorable. Page A-23
Freezing Temperatures
Forecast Within 24 Hours.
Cool Easter Likely.
Freezing temperatures and possibly
snow are slated to give 4-day-old
Spring a severe jolt within the next
24 hours.
The sudden change will begin this
afternoon or tonight, according to
Forecaster Charles L. Mitchell, when
a cold disturbance moves into the
Capital from the West.
Light rain and wpossible snow flur
ries,” Mitchell said, will accompany a
falling mercury, with a "low” of about
26 degrees being recorded before dawn
tomorrow.
Tomorrow is scheduled to be “fair
and colder,” with fresh but diminish
ing northerly winds.
An unexpected windstorm, with an
opening blast that sent the velocity
recorded up to 45 m.p.h., came from
the southwest shortly after noon. The
Weather Bureau said intermittent
gusts probably would occur during the
afternoon.
The cold wave will be general east
of the Rockies, the Weather Bureau
reported.
Just how long the cold will last here
is problematical. Mitchell said, but it
appears low temperatures will prevail
through Saturday and "there will be
no more mild weather before next
week.’’
Balmy breezes, which have swept the
city since Spring made its debut Sat
urday night, continued yesterday, driv
ing the temperature up to 57 at 5 p.m.
and keeping it from dropping lower
than 52 at 7 a m. today.
SNOW HITS MIDWEST.
Communities Cut Ofr in Worst Winds
of Year.
as tte Associated Press.
CHICAGO. March 25.—Crippled
communication lines, isolated com
munities and paralyzed highway trans
portation provided evidence today of
the Winter’s worst snowstorm in sec
tions of the Middle West.
While winds whipped snow into big
drifts in Minnesota and the Dakotas,
rain, sleet, hail, dust, tornados and
~ (See~WEATHER, PageA-4.)
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MISSING BOAT HUNTED
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla.. March 25
(JP).—Coast Guardsmen were ordered
to resume search today for a missing
18-foot sailboat with four persons
aboard.
The craft* put out from Clearwater
Tuesday night for a three-hour sail
and failed to return.
Aboard it were Lester Clark, 20, a
drug clerk, and Cleon Mosely, 20. a
waiter, both of Clearwater; Miss Irene
Paris, waitress, from Fort Wayne,
Ind., and Miss Madona Mae Forweick,
waitress, from Neline, Ohio.,
8,500 STRIKERS
MARCH OUT OF
8 AUTO PLANTS
Men Prepare to Establish Picket
Lines Until Bargaining
Rights Are Settled.
CHRYSUER-UEWIS CONFERENCE
TO RESUME THIS AFTERNOON
C. I. O. Chief Is Notified of Full Accept
ance of Agreement—Troopers to Be
Placed at Factory Gates.
m!
BACKGROUND—
Chrysler sit-down strike second offensive of John L. Lewis’ Commit
tee for Industrial Organization, which, was formed in 1935 and last year
broke with the American Federation of Labor over method of organ
izing workers in present-day industrial establishments.
Earlier this year C I. O. conducted prolonged strike against Gen
eral Motors, which was concluded in February under truce, after numer
ous violent outbreaks and calling out of troops. Gov. Frank Murphy
took leading part in settlement of General Motors strike and has led
mediation efforts in present Chrysler troubles.
By the Associated Press
DETROIT, March 25.—More than 8,500 striking automobile
workers marched in swirling snow today from eight Chrysler Corp.
plants they have held since March 8, but prepared to establish
picket lines until their strike for exclusive bargaining rights is set
tled.
The “sit-downers” in the Chrysler Kercheval avenue plant, the
last to vote on the peaceful evacuation agreement, gave their
approval about 12:40 p.m., and in a few minutes began to leave
the factory.
Word of the Kercheval vote was telephoned to the big Dodge
plant and 5.000 strikers there marched at once from the plant.
About 1,400 strikers in the Kercheval plant cheered the an
nouncement of plans to end the sit-down phase of the strike, but
asked for a speech from Homer Martin, president of the United
Automobile Workers’ Union, before they gave final assent.
Negotiations to Be Resumed.
Gov. Frank Murphy at Lansing received word at 12:45 pm.
that the evacuation had started, and said the negotiations be
tween Walter P. Chrysler, corporation chairman, and John L.
Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Organization, on
the union’s demands, would resume this afternoon.
Martin and Frankensteen, organizational director of the U.
A. W„ hurried by bus to the Dodge plant to take part in a parade
there. A crowd of several hundred gathered at the Dodge plant
cheered the arrival of the union officials.
Congress Leaders
Believe Sit-Downs
Beyond U. S. Power
Br the Associated Press.
Administration leaders in Congress,
who expect to discuss the labor situa
! tion with President Roosevelt this
week end. said today they believed
the Government could do little now
about sit-down strfkes.
"There is no constituional power
i for interposition of the Federal Gov
ernment.'1 said Speaker Bankhead,
“unless there should be a state of in
surrection which a State could not
handle. That seems highly improba
ble." ,
Representative Rayburn. Democrat,
of Texas, House majority leader,
agreed that the Federal Government
had little power unless a State asked
i for assistance.
i Senator Robinson. Democrat, of
, Arkansas, leader of the Senate ma
! Jority, said a solution of the strike
j situation would be difficult until the
Supreme Court decides whether the
Wagner labor relations act is consti
! tutional.
He suggested that some agency like
1 the Railway Mediation Board might
be considered to assist in solving labor
troubles, but added:
"Right now, I don't see much that
we can do because the (Supreme)
Court has held that neither the Fed
eral Government nor the States can
deal with labor problems."
Representative Dies. Democrat, of
Texas, who proposed an investigation
i of sit-down strikes, suggested today
j that participants in such strikes be
! declared violators of Federal anti
l trust laws.
He would subject them to fines not
exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not
exceeding a year, or both. He was
I writing his ideas into a bill to be in
; produced at once.
Under his plan, an employer would
j have to notify the sit-downers to
' iSe«TSIT-DOWN7 Page A~3~)
Use of Flags on Graves of Dogs
Is Hit by Nearby Legion Post
(Picture on Page A-2.)
By a Stafl Correspondent ot i*ne Star.
SILVER SPRING. Md„ March 25.—
Aroused at the “improper and un
patriotic” use of the American flag
in decorating the graves of “pet
poodles” and other animals, the
Cissel-Saxor Post, American Legion,
has made a protest to the Secretary
of War.
A resolution introduced by Thurman
C. Metcalf, a former post commander,
merely named “an animal cemetery
in Montgomery County,” and officials
were not sure what could be done
about it. Copies of the resolution,
however, were also to be sent to the
Montgomery County Council of the
Legion and chapters of the* Daughters
of the American Revolution in an
effort to bring the protest to the at
tention of other patriotic groups.
Metcalf declared that not only were
flags used to decorate the animal
graves, but when they became faded
from exposure, they were thrown into
a nearby gully with withered flowers
and other refuse. Whether there is
any law against it or not, it consti
tutes desecration, he asserted. One
of the graves in question, he said, was
the grave of a poodle named Skippy.
Mrs. R. C. Bimey, co-proprietor with
her husband of Um Aspen Hills Ken
nels and the elaborate and only known
ajiimal cemetery in the country, said
today the only graves decorated with
the flag that she knew about were those
of Rags, a mongrel Airedale wounded
and gassed with the 1st Division in
France during the World War, and
Staff, another World War hero.
It was possible, she said, that in
dividuals who had buried their pets
in the cemetery from time to time dec
orated them with flags, especially on
Decoration day. However, there are
several thousand dogs buried there,
hundreds of them poodles and hun
dreds named Skippy, Mrs. Bimey ex
plained.
She was quite sure none of the own
ers intended any desecration in plac
ing flags on their pets- graces, and
knew of no law against it.
War and Navy Department officials
pointed out that regulations covering
use of the flag in the armed forces
refer only to persons, and make no
provision or mention of the use of the
flag in connection with burial or graves |
of animals, although many units of;
both branches have mascots, which,
like all persons, must some day die.
Neither service, nor the American
Flag Association, which has a national
headquarters office in Washington,;
were able to recall any law qpvering l
the question raised by the Legion post.
A
• r rankensteen announced com
pany police would take charge of
all factory gates and the union
would establish peaceful picket
lines. He indicated that he ex
Eected some State troopers would
e stationed at entrances also
as observers.
Lewis Is Notified.
As the evacuation went for
ward. union officials notified
Lewis at Lansing of the devel
opments.
Union officials said the plants
were “in better shape than when
the strike started." They said
the men had paid extra atten
tion during the strike to keeping
,the plants clean and the machin
ery protected.
High officials of the United Automo
bile Workers of America, who approved
a truce yesterday at Lansing, carried
its terms to the rank and file in each
of eight production plants here, travel
ing by bus over snow and ice covered
streets and highways.
The agreement on which the strikers
voted provided for clearing of the
plants and further negotiations be
tween Chrysler and Lewis on the union
demands for exclusive bargaining
rights.
Pickets shouted “closed shop" at
Martin and other leaders as they ar
rived in the dark hours before dawn
at the huge Dodge plant, which em
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AIRMAIL TO EUROPE
POSSIBLE THIS YEAR
Farley Predicts Early Start of
Trans-Atlantic Service in
Louisiana Talks.
By the Associated Press.
ARABI, La., March 25.—Postmaster
General James A. Farley said here
today regular aimail sevice to Europe
may be inaugurated this year.
He spoke at the dedication of new
post offices here and at Gretna, small
towns across the Mississippi River and
below New Orleans.
"Within the past year we have
instituted a trans-Pacific airmail serv
ice between the United States and
the Far East," he said, "and a similar
service across the Atlantic to Europe
will probably be inaugurated during
the present year.
"Our foreign airmail system, like
our domestic airmail service, is the
finest and most extensive in the world.
These foreign routes encircle and
serve the countries of South and Cen
tral America. They also embrace
routes to Cuba, to Mexico and to
Canada. Modern airmail service has
been provided among the islands of
the Hawaiian group and improve
ments have been maae in the Alaskan
airmail service.”
The Postmaster General reported
business conditions were improving
throughout the Nation.
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VIRGINIAN NAMED
A. C. Carter Made Chairman of
Alaska Democratic Committee.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 25
UP).—A Virginian was Alaska's Demo
cratic chieftain today.
The Alaska Democratic Central
Committee convention yesterday in
stalled. Aubrey C. Carter, formerly of
Danville, Va., as its chairman. Car
ter is kin to Secretary of the Navy
Claude Swanson and Senator Carter
Glass. His parents lived in Blair*, Va.
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