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BLAST SINKS SNIP.
Seaman Also Badly Burned
in Explosion at Nor
folk Pier.
Br the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va„ April 2—An ex
plosion wrecked and sank the Gulf
Oil Co.’s 33-ton fueling tanker. Gulf
Lass, at the dock here today, killing
Its master and burning a seaman.
Thomas Henry Russell, 51, of
Berkley, master of the 57-foot boat,
was killed as the blast shot part of the
deck house upward and enveloped the
tanker in flames at 7:30 a.m.
Thrown overboard with Russell was
Gideon Sawyer, his face badly burned.
An employe at the Gulf Oil Co.
plant. L. F. Hanbury, rescued Sawyer,
tossed in the w'ater, dazed and blinded.
Russell's body floated on the water
near him.
Bursts Into Flames.
A moment after the explosion the
boat burst into flames and quickly
sank to the bottom at the Berkley
dock.
Boats from the nearby naval sta
tion and Coast Guard post hurried to
the scene and South Norfolk firemen
threw water on the burning super
structure still above water. The craft
was used to fuel ships in Hampton
Roads.
Capt. Walter P. Cardozo of the
Navy yard tug, Daisy, who was near
ing the Gulf Oil dock, gave an eye
witness account of the explosion. "I
looked up just in time to see the
bodies of two men blown from the
pilot house on the Gulf Lass," he
said.
Both men fell into the water near
the tanker and were taken out by
others who swam out from shore.
"A few seconds after the explosion
fire broke out on the Gulf Lass and
burned until she settled to the river
bottom.
"The Gulf Oil siren sounded the
distress signal and shortly afterward
firemen and coast guardsmen were
on the scene."
Witnesses said the injured man was
able to give a brief account of what
happened before being taken to a
hospital. He said he had just turned
on a switch and that the explosion
occurred when the engine started.
Shipping men said the Gulf Lass
had recently been overhauled so as
to comply fully with the latest Fed
eral shipping regulations.
TO HONOR DAVIES
CLINTON. S. C., April 2 (/P).—Presi
dent William P. Jacobs announced
yesterday Presbyterian College would
confer honorary degree of doctor of
law's on Joseph E. Davies, United1
States Ambassador to Moscow, at ex
ercises here April 26.
Jacobs said he talked by telephone
to Ambassador Davies yesterday
f board the Queen Mary at sea and
that Davies said he and Mrs. Davies
would come here for the ceremony.
United States Senator James F.
Byrnes and Dwight E. Austin. New
York drug manufacturer, will receive j
LL. D. degrees at the same time.
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KNITTING BAG containing blue and
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A
Proposed Car Weight Tax
Bill Provides Levy of 35 Cents Per Hundred
weight—Schedule for Typical
Cars Given.
What will your automobile tax
cost under (.he proposed weight tax
provided in legislation proposed to
the House?
In giving such taxes yesterday,
some of the editions of The Star
based the computation of weight
tax for passenger cars on the
scheduled carried in the bill for
commercial vehicles. The error be
came apparent when printed copies
of the bills were made available.
Under the weight tax, the cost
to owners of typical cars would be
taxed 35 cents a hundredweight,
resulting in taxes as follows:
Chevrolet, Ford, Plymouth, Ter
raplane, Dodge, Hudson and
Graham-Paige—$8.75 to $10.50
(2.500 to 3,000 pounds).
De Soto, Chrysler, Nash, Stude
baker, Lafayette, Pontiac, Reo,
Hupmobile, Packard 120, Olds
mobile, Auburn and Lincoln—
$10.50 to $12.25 (3,000 to 3,500
pounds).
Hupmobile. Cadillac and Buick,
$12.25 to $14 ( 3,500 to 4,000
pounds).
Other models of Chrysler, Buick,
Packard and Cadillac—$14 to
$15.75 (4,000 to 4,530 pounds).
Lincoln, Pierce-Arrow and other
models of Packard and Cadillac—
$15.75 to $22.75 (4,500 to 6,500
pounds').
The rate for commercial vehicles
is figured on a weight limit scale
ranging from under 1,500 pounds to
over 12.000 pounds. The rate for
the various types per 100 pounds
would be as follows:
Not over 1,500 pounds—75 cents.
Between 1,500 and 2,000—$1.00.
Between 2.000 and 4,000—$1.25.
Between 4,000 and 6,000—$1.50.
Between 6,000 and 8,000—$1.75.
Between 8,000 and 10,000—$2.00.
Between 10,000 and 12,000—$2.25.
Over 12,000—$2.50.
The income tax bill exempts
members of Congress and other
elected or appointed officials of the
Federal Government serving a def
inite term from the tax. The ex
ception is made in the case of those
who live here.
D. C. Bill
(Continued From First Page !
some of the major features of the
measure if the points of order are
sustained.
The revolt against the action of the
Appropriations Committee actually
started yesterday, when the House be
gan general debate on the supply
bill. Three members of the Legisla
tive Committee, including Chairman
Norton, served notice that when the
bill is read for amendments they would
attempt to have 12 of the riders elim
inated on points of order. Joining
Mrs. Norton in the protest against the
riders were Representatives Nichols,
Democrat, of Oklahoma and Brew
ster, Republican, of Maine.
Compromises Spurned.
Efforts to iron out the differences
were made after the House adjourned
at a conference between Mrs. Norton,
Nichols and Chairman Collins of the
Subcommittee on Appropriations which
framed the supply bill. The discus
sion lasted for more than an hour,
but neither side would agree to a
compromise.
At its conclusion Collins issued a
statement in which he said he ex
pected points of order to be made
against provisions which are contrary
to the rules and lack merit, but pointed
out there should be no "serious ob
jection” to various items in the bill
from the Legislative Committee.
Collins’ statement follows;
"If there are legislative provisions
which are contrary to the rules and
which do not have merit, in the judg
ment of the members of the Legisla
tive Committee, I should rather expect
and should not feel in the least sur
prised or disappointed if a member of
that committee should make a point
of order against such provision or pro
visions.
"I am sure the members of that
committee have the same desire to
improve conditions in the District as
do the members of the Committee on
Appropriations. The purpose of each
is to provide and legislate for the Dis
trict in a fair and equitable and busi
nesslike way.
Free to Review Provisions.
“If the members of the District
Committee wish to make points of
order on items in this bill which, in
their opinion, do not have merit, then
it is their duty to endeavor to elim
inate such provisions from the bill,
and there will be no quarrel with me
or the Appropriation Committee be
cause of such action. I do not, how
ever, expect, and should be very much
surprised, if members of that commit
tee, despite the merits of propositions,
should make points of order simply
becaase the matters were not present
ed by that committee. There is not
a proposition in my bill which that
committee is not free to review and
to legislate upon subsequently, either
in confirmation or by way of modifica
tion.
“I have endeavored to co-operate
with the District Committee through
out the hearings, and I am sure there
should be no serious objections on
their part to the various items In this
bill.”
The principal target of attack will
be a rider transferring jurisdiction
over Gallinger Municipal Hospital and
the new tuberculosis sanatoria at
Glenn Dale, Md., from the Board of
Public Welfare to the Health Depart
ment.
Face Points of Order.
Points of order also are to be made
against the following legislative pro
visions :
iransterring 20 municipal play
grounds to the community center de
partment of the public schools.
Forbidding the Commissioners from
increasing the tax rate on real estate
in the coming fiscal year.
Transferring the office of the super
intendent of licenses from control of
the assessor to the superintendent of
weights, measures and markets.
Directing the Public Utilities Com
mission to make an investigation of
the "reasonableness'' of telephone
rates.
Permitting the Commissioners to
award contracts for repair work.
Giving the Commissioners control of
the new Police Court Building.
Gas Tax Diversion Opposed.
Diverting gasoline tax revenues to
support the Department of Vehicles
and Traffic and the Department of
Trees and Parking, as well as to pay
for snow removal.
Authorizing an investment of $750,
000 of water revenues in United States
securities.
Preventing salary increases of em
ployes receiving more than $2,000 a
year as a result of reallocations.
Precluding public school teachers
from doing clerical work outside the
class room.
Sales Besist&nce.
CENTER CITY, Minn. (>$>).—The
death of Oscar Peterson revealed his
extraordinary method of keeping auto
mobile salesmen away.
In his garage was found a car pur
chased 20 years ago and never used.
Frank Lorens, who sold Peterson the
car, said:
“He bought that car from me for
the sole purpose of keeping salesmen
from bothering him. He could tell
them he already had a new car.”
Concert Tonight.
The Boys’ Band of the Elks Club
will open its Spring concert season at
8 o’clock tonight with a program in
the auditorium of McKinley High
School. Capt. Taylor Branson and
Prof. John Zimmerman will be guQ6t
conductor*.
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PEERY DECLINES
TO MIX IN STRIKE
Virginia Governor Will Take
Action Only if Situation
Gets Out of Hand.
B? the Associated Press.
Gov. George C. Peery said he was
prepared today to take any action
he deemed expedient should local au
thorities become “unable to handle
the situation” at Covington, where
1,300 employes of the Industrial Ray
on Corp. are idle because of a strike.
Meanwhile, three officials of the
Resettlement Administration were en
route to Newport News to investigate
a strike by 27 hod carriers asking
higher pay at the agency's Homestead
Housing Project there
Miners from Wise, Lee and Dick
enson Counties heard Representative
John W Flannagan, State Senator
Robert W. Daniel and David Stevens
of Pittsburgh, member of the Inter- j
national Executive Board of the t
United Mine Workers, in a “Mitchell
day” rally at Norton yesterday.
Flannagan Replies to Glass.
The meeting coincided with a holi
day—John L. Lewis day—celebrated
by other miners through the Ap
palachian region, while negotiations
were under way in New York to effect
a new contract between the union
and operators.
Flannagan devoted the major por
tion of his address to a retort to Sen
ator Glass’ radio broadcast assail
ing President Roosevelt's court pro- ;
po; als.
W. D. Anderson, chairman of the
Legislative Council of the Virginia
Federation of Labor, who had com
plained to Gov. Peery that he was
"shadowed” on a recent trip through
the Clinchfield coal region, said he
had been told the Civil Liberties Com
mittee of Congress probably would in
vestigate charges that union or
ganizers are "guards and spies” of
coal companies in Dickenson County.
John Hopkins Hall, jr„ Virginia
commissioner of labor, said about 90
per cent of Virginia's 13.500 coal
miners are organized. The 1.600 em
ployes of the Clinchfield Coal Corp
at Clincho, Dickenson County, and
Dante, Russell County, represent the
only large single group not organized,
said Hall.
Judge John L. Connors, Federal
conciliator, said a settlement of the
textile strike at Covington did not ap
pear imminent. Action, he said, prob
ably would be delayed "a week or 10
days at least,” and added. "No efforts j
are being made to settle the strike at
this time.”
Gov. Peery informed the Roanoke
Chamber of Commerce that he would
not interfere with the strike at Cov
ington.
The chamber had wired the Gov
ernor a request "that you notify us
as to what steps you will take to pro
tect property rights in Virginia when
so violated by unlawful methods.”
The civic organization said its request
was prompted in view of the Coving
ton labor trouble and the fact "Roan
oke and vicinity is a large industrial
center.”
APPROVAL IS GIVEN
NAVY PROMOTIONS
Roosevelt Agrees to Board Ad
vance of 187 to Rank of Lieu
tenant Commander.
President Roosevelt today approved
the promotion of 187 lieutenants to the
grade of lieutenant commander and
270 lieutenants (j. g.) to be lieuten
ants.
In taking this action, the Chief
Executive approved the recommenda
tions of a Line Selection Board which
has been in session at the Navy De
partment since March 8. It was con
vened by order of Secretary Swanson
and Rear Admiral Henry E. Lackey,
director of the Shore Establishment
Division, was its president.
Serving with him as members were
Capt. Ralph A. Koch, commanding
the U. S. S. Seattle; Capt. George V.
Stewart, head of the Naval Post
Graduate School, Annapolis; Capt.
Arthur L. Bristol, jr„ commanding the
Naval Air Station, San Diego, Calif.;
Capt. Francis A. L. Vossler, on duty at
the Naval Academy; Capt. Abel T.
Bidwell, on duty in the Bureau of
Navigation, Navy Department; Capt.
William D. Brereton, jr„ attached to
the office of Naval Intelligence at the
department; Capt. Charles M. Yates,
also on duty in the bureau, and Capt.
William W. Wilson, inspector of ord
nance, in charge Naval Powder Fac
tory, Indianhead, Md. The board’s
recorder was Lieut. Comdr. Paul W.
Steinhagen, on duty in the Bureau of
Navigation.
Handicrafts Are Tested.
Handicrafts, including rug-making,
modeling, fretwork and handloom
weaving are being sted in London
as cures for nervous troubles.
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G. M. PEACE TALKS
OPENED IN DETROIT
Seek End to New Strike
Troubles—Chrysler Par
ley Delayed.
BACKGROUND—
Present year brought increasing
labor troubles to U, S. John L.
Lewis' United Automobile Workers’
sit-down strike at General Motors
plants affected 100,000 workers.
The strike ended in a truce in Feb
ruary. Then trouble teas threat
ened by U. A. IV. in Chrysler
plants, resulting in strike there
March 8. Negotiators are still
working on this dispute.
Wednesday night new strikes
broke out in G. M. C. plants, work
ers claiming the company had vio
lated its agreement in the opera
tion of the shop steward system.
BT the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April 2.—Resumption of
strike settlement negotiations between
Walter BP Chrysler and John L. Lewis
was deferred today until Saturday,
as efforts to settle new disputes in
General Motors plants were inten
sified.
William S. Knudsen, executive vice
president of General Motors Corp.,
and Homer Martin, president of the
United Automobile Workers, met in
an attempt to quiet sporadic storms
that beat about the General Motors-*
U. A. W. A. agreement reached just
three weeks ago today.
With Knudsen were Harry W. An
derson, industrial relations head, and
Floyd O. Tanner, director of manu
facturing, Martin’s aides were Wyn
ham Mortimer and Ed Hall, union
vice presidents.
A series of sit-down strikes, de
scribed by union leaders as spon
taneous and unauthorized, closed all
nine plants of the Chevrolet Motor
Co. at Flint, Mich., today.
Approximately 15.000 General Mo
tors workers were idle in Flint, as
union leaders prevailed upon sit-down
strikers to leave the Fisher body plant
and two plants of the Yellow Truck
& Coach Manufacturing Co. at Pon
tiac, Mich. Settlements also had been
announced of strikes begun yesterday
in two Chevrolet departments at
Flint, but those peace moves were off
set by new strikes that closed the
entire factory.
Dissatisfaction Seen.
There were some indications the
rank and file of the U. A. W. A. mem
bership was dissatisfied with the pro
visions of the agreement which set
forth procedure to be followed in col
lective bargaining and in dealmg with
employe grievances.
Union officials contended that the
strikes were spontaneous protests by
the workers against the refusal of
plant foremen to recognize shop stew
ards. The company contended the
strikes were clear violations of the
agreement, which provided that there
should be no interruption of work un
til all other methods of settlement
had been exhausted, and no strikes
without authorization of the interna
tional officials. They insisted that the !
company had adhered scrupulously to
the agreement.
Some union officials said they be
lieved the feeling among the workers
would be improved if shop committees,
limited to nine members by the agree
ment, were enlarged to provide for
representation of all departments.
Martin described the new strikes as
"temporary disturbances which will
work themselves out as understand
ing and co-oper-tion is established
through collective bargaining.”
He joined other union officials in
declaring that every effort would be
made to end the misunderstandings.
Shop Stewards Issue.
The Flint strikes followed the
election of new shop stewards, which
contributed to the misunderstanding
over who should be recognized as
the accredited representatives of the
employes.
The Chevrolet strikers congregated
in plant No. 4, the motor assembly
department, which is a key plant for
all Chevrolet operations. Between
400 and 500 men were occupying that
plant with handfuls of pickets at the
various gates. No conferences had
been scheduled.
Gov. Frank Murphy announced the
postponement of the Chrysler-Lewis
conference before he left Detroit for
Lansing today. He explained that
Lewis had been detained in the East
by negotiations between his United
Mine Workers and the bituminous
coal operators. Chrysler was re
ported to be engaged with company
affairs.
The Governor said he would confer
today with other representatives of
the Chrysler Corp. and the U. A.
W. A., but it was considered unlikely
that any settlement of the Chrysler
strike, which began March 8, could
be reached without the presence of
Lewis and Chrysler. The negotiations
have been deadlocked on the issue of
sole recognition.
Two thousand men paraded out of
the main plant of the Yellow Truck
and Coach Manufacturing Co. at Pon
tiac this morning, ending a sit-down
strike that began at 9 a.m. yesterday.
Recognition of union shop stewards
was the issue that precipitated that
strike. The Yellow Truck and Coach
Co. is partially owned by General
Motors, but corporation officials
claimed it did not come under the
G. M.-U. A. W. A. agreement. Terms
of the settlement were not announced.
Strike at Pontiac.
*A few hours earlier, strikers had
evacuated the Fisher Body plant at
Pontiac, which had been occupied
since Wednesday night. Charges of
discrimination against union work
men was given by spokesmen for the
strikers as the cause of that sit-down.
Production will be resumed in the
Pontiac Fisher plant and in the Pon
tiac Motor Co. plant, which obtains
body from Fisher, Sunday night and
Monday morning.
Despite the settlements in Pontiac,
approximately 108,000 automobile
workers were idle. Sixty thousand
of them were employed in the strike
bound Chrysler plants; 20,000 by the
Briggs Manufacturing Co., which
supplies bodies to Chrysler; 14,750 in
the Flint Chevrolet Plants; 1,100 in
Fisher Plant No. 2 at Flint, which
makes bodies for Chevrolet; 10,000 in
Lubrication
holey's
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Flood Scene Provided by Broken Main
Residents of Northeast Washington, many of whose homes were without water for several
hours last night, watched Water Department employes work to repair a broken main in the
1000 block of Rhode Island avenue northeast. Gushing from the ground between the curbing and
sidewalk, the miniature flood uprooted a tree, tore up several feet of concrete walk and flooded
streets to a depth of about 6 inches before workmen repaired the line about 4 a.m. The break
occurred at 10:30 o’clock last night.
The crowd above is shown at the corner of Tenth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast.
—Star Staff Photo.
the strike-bound Hudson Motor Car
Co. plant in Detroit, and 2,200 in the
struck Reo Motor Car Co. plant at
Lansing.
Labor troubles confronted General
Motors of Canada also. A meeting
between the management and the U.
A. W. A to avert a threatened strike
in its plant at Oshawa, Ontario, was
called today in the office of David A.
Croll, Ontario minister of labor, at
Toronto.
Agreement Is Seen.
The United Automobile Workers
announced that the local manage
ments of the Yellow Truck and Fisher
plants at Pontiac had agreed to abide
by any understanding on employe
representation reached at the con
ference between Martin and Knudsen
at Detroit.
The union said the Yellow Truck
management also had agreed to mini
mum wage scales of 75 cents an hour
for men and 65 cents for women
after six months of employment, and
had consented to meet once a week
with a committee of employes on
grievances, or at any time an emer
gency arose.
The Pontiac Fisher plant manage
ment, the union said, agreed to ne
gotiate on complaints of speeding
up the assembly line and to make
“mutually satisfactory" adjustments
of complaints that some jobs were
inadequately manned. The agreement
also included, according to the union,
reinstatement of a company police
man who had been discharged, and
four days’ notice of transfers of em
ployes to other departments.
HOTEL STRIKE ENDS.
“Day of Sit-Down Over,” Police
Tell Workers.
On other strike fronts. 200 em
ployes in the 21-story Book-Cadillac
Hotel at Detroit stopped work yester
day but left the hotel voluntarily.
City police appeared, informed strik
ers the “day of the sit^lown is over."
and within two hours the strike ended.
Gov. Prank Murphy, in the dining
room when the Book-Cadillac strike
began, was denied service, and left.
Negotiations over the previous strike
were in progress at the time.
Trouble developed among Works
Progress Administration employes at
San Francisco and Oakland. Calif.
Some ceased wwk in a move ap
parently designed to call about 30,000
W. P. A. workers in the San Fran
cisco Bay area from their tasks. It
threatened to reach State-wide pro
portions. A conference to that end
was scheduled for Saturday and Sun
day at Oakland.
Two small strikes broke out in Mil
waukee. Wis., and Sioux Falls, S. Dak.,
involving building trades workers.
Chicago’s corporation counsel upheld
the right of picketing in a case in
volving bowling alley pin setters. The
home of a non-striking employe of
the Stewart Die Casting Co. at Chi
cago was damaged. Painters in the
Nation’s second city won a dollar a
day pay hike to $10 for a six-hour
day.
Sixteen men and women started a
sit-down in a St. Louis Relief Admin
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lstration office. The city had 4,000
strike-idle.
A 10-t^nt-an-hour increase was
granted 2,300 Granite City (111.) Steel
Co. employes.
General Motors of Canada employes
deferred strike action as arrangements
for a conference were completed.
Six C. I. O. officials and organizers
were arrested at Lewiston, Me., on a
complaint charging conspiracy to pre
vent shoe employes from working in
the Lewiston and Auburn factories.
John L. Lewis was warned by Crown
Prosecutor Oscar Gagnon of Montreal,
Canada, he would face arrest if he
"brings his American labor tactics into
Montreal." The declaration followed
announcement that a Montreal unit
of the C. I. O. had been formed.
Coal
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browed president of the U. M. W., one
of the largest and most powerful labor
organizations in the country—-sat with
other negotiators in a conference room
here attempting to reach an accord.
Two sessions, one last night, failed
to bring a settlement of differences ,
and finally the negotiators called it a j
day to meet again at 1:30 p m. today.
Lewis said the operators had asked j
for “more time.”
"Evidently they want to think it
over," he added.
Weeks of negotiation since February
17, had narrowed the distance be
tween the miners and operators.
Original Demands.
The miners originally demanded
wage increases averaging 15 per cent,
a cut in the work week from 35 to
30 hours, two weeks vacation with pay |
and a guarantee of 200 days work
each year.
The operators originally sought an
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to 40 hours, with no change in pay
rates.
Some operators were willing to
meet the demands, but the union
would not allow any mines where
workers carried U. M. W. cards to
work until the entire industry signed
a new agreement.
With the exception of the members
of the Progressive Miners of America
in Illinois, most of the bituminous
mines are affected by the Appalachian
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BALTIMORE, April 2 —Relatives of
murdered Mrs. Mary Gunther mad#
arrangements for her funeral today
while Federal agents studied scanty
clues in the case and a colored sus
pect waited in the Baltimore City Jail.
The 55-year-old woman, found
beaten to death near her home a
short distance from tne Baltimore City
line, will be buried Sunday in a
family plot on her farm, near the
grave of one of her nine children.
Clothing taken from the suspect was
sent to Washington for an analysis of
stains. An inquest, scheduled for to
day, was postponed until next Friday,
when the Federal reports will be
available.
The suspect was held incommuni
cado. He was brought to Baltimore
from Anne Arundel County, where the
crime occurred, after Gov. Harry W.
Nice warned officers not to permit
mob attacks on him.
Members of the woman’s family said
today that it was merely chance
that she was driving along the road
where she was killed. Ordinarily one
of her sons drove the woman's hus
band, Herman, and a daughter to
their work. The son’s car did not
have 1937 tags, which were necessary
yesterday for the first time. Mrs.
Gunther drove them, her car having
the new tags.
Mrs. Gunther had been active in
welfare work among the poorer Negmes
j in the vicinity, her family said.
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