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Operators Assessed $70,
000 in One Year, La Fol
lette Group Reveals.
BACKGROUND—
Strike-breaking and espionage
tactics were first concern of Senate
Committee probing violations of
civil liberties as weeks of hearings
disclosed vast expenditures for
these purposes by anti-union cor
porations.
In more open and more violent
manner operators of Harlan Coun
ty’s rich soft coal fields have fought
unionization and curbed virtually
all liberty of employes to degree
that has become Nation-wide scan
dal. In 1935 Kentucky Commission
reported conditions “unbelievable."
_______
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Despite an almost complete absence
ot adequate financial records, the La
Fpllette Civil Liberties Committee es
tablished today that the Harlan Coun
ty, Ky., Coal Operators’ Association
kept its coffers well filled with funds
to fight unionization efforts in the
rich soft coal mines of that area.
' Taking in as much as $70,000 a
year through assessment of its mem
bers, the association spends less than
half of this sum on routine activities.
This conclusion was reached on the
basis of persistent committee ques
tioning of George S. Ward, secretary
of the association, who said he pur
posely kept few records but admitted
that assessments were doubled when
ever union membership drives loomed.
Patching together the partial figures
tOr 1936, the committee established an
Income of $49,000 for that year, with
about $34,000 in expenditures ac
counted for and $6,000 uncovered as a
bank surplus. Under further question
ing, Ward accounted for part of the
remaining $9,000 by gifts of $1,200 to
the Boy Scouts, $500 to the Girl Scouts
and miscellaneous expenses such as
supplies and insurance.
Ward then told of an expensive trip
to Frankfort, the State capita!, to op
pose legislation. One of the bills de
feated would have forced operators to
redeem scrip at its face value. The
Committee was told by a witness yester
day that Harlan miners were paid in
scrip and that companies reduced this
by as much as 20 per cent if an em
ploye insisted on redemption in cash.
V. M. \Y. Organizers Watched.
Faced with a collection of can
celed checks drowm this year. Ward
said most of the expenses involved in
those eases were devoted to keeping
surveillance of U. M. W. organizers in
the county.
Ben Unthank, whose whose salary
was $150 a month, received two checks
totaling $2,325 for this purpose in
February, it was said.
.- “How do you know what Unthank
goes with this money?" La Follette
jpked.
»* “I don’t know," Ward replied.
“Does he Just come in and say he
needs a thousand and you give it to
him?"
“Yes, and I take no receipts. I don't
want to know who is working for
him.”
“Why not?”
; "I don't know. I just don't want the
Information.”
“Does the testimony we heard yes
terday explain why you don't w-ant to
know what Unthank does with your
money?”
Witnesses yesterday said Unthank
hired men to dynamite a union or
ganizer's home and attempt his
murder.
“No,” Ward insisted.
Although denying the association
participates in politics, Ward disclosed
In response to questioning that he is
chairman of the Republican County
Committee, w-hile S. J. Dickinson, as
sociation president, is chairman of the
Democratic Committee.
Supported by Tonnage Assessment.
Ward, who has been an employe of
the association since 1916 and its
secretary since 1931. testified that the
Organization is supported by a ton
nage assessment on its members, the
normal rate being one-half cent a ton.
Explaining periodic increases of the
assessment rate to 1 cent a ton, Ward
ga id the double levy was Imposed in
1933 and again at the first of this year
because of organization drives by the
ynited Mine workers.
Ward estimated that the associa
tions yearly income averages between
$60,000 and $70,000. It has seven or
•ight regular employes, he said, in
cluding Unthank, the deputy sheriff
Whom committee agents have been
•eeking for a month.
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Anti-Lynch
. (Continued From First Page.)
fctroy the last vestige of the power of
the sovereign States” and make the
States "puppets and servants" of the
federal Government.
t Although Republicans decided at a
conference last week to support the
bill. Representative Wadsworth, Re
publican, of New’ York took the floor
to urge its defeat.
J "In my opinion, it is a snare and a
delusion It can never be enforced.
Jt will bnng disillusionment to mil
lions.’' he declared.
Referring to the lynching of twro
polored men in Mississippi Tuesday,
the New Yorker said he was shocked
by it and added the belief that "the
majority of the well-meaning citizens
of Mississippi were shocked."
> Damage Provision Attacked.
Wadsw’orth attacked a provision of
the bill that would make counties
liable for damages to a victim's family,
be said the laws of his State and pos
sibly many other States made no pro
vision w’hereby county authorities
could pay damages a Federal court
plight impose.
"This law would give the Federal
Government the power to hold such
County officers In contempt of court
and tie up the governmental ma
chinery of the county," he said.
' "It would give the Federal Gov
ernment the power to destroy the
county.”
A Kentucky Democrat, Representa
tive Creal, followed Wadsworth with
> plea for the bill.
' He said his State had not had a
•lynching in seven years. He at
4ributed this to a drastic State law.
* “Why don’t the other States pass
similar laws?” he asked. “If they
4did perhaps we would not be debat
•tog this measure now.”
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
HUMANIZED.
HOSE who have not learned
pedagogy—whether It i* an
art or a science, you decide—
may feel badly at times that
teachers are so abstract about their
subjects. But just try to humaize
them and you may And that the
whole thing slips away.
A story illustrating the point comes
to us concerning Mrs. Milliken, who
teaches at Leland Junior High School.
A woman happily disposed toward the
humanizing of the characters and
events with w'hich she deals, she tried
it recently with a description of the
handsomeness of an historical (we be
lieve) figure.
Right in the middle of it, however,
one of the young impressionables of
the class heaved a conspicuous and
irritating sigh for the glorious men of
the past.
Mrs. Milligan was forced to drop
the whole darned thing and lecture on
the inanity of puppy love.
You see, it Just goes to show.
* * * *
HIKER.
So you think the children of to
day are not Spartans, hunh? And
that they are inclined to ignore the
etiquette of the grown-up sports
they adopt?
Stop thinking it long enough to
listen to the story of young Ned
Walter. He was bound for a hike
in Rock Creek Park the other day
and as a prelude was monkeying
around with a knapsack large
enough to carry a couple of pack
animals in. His father came upon
him just as he was filling it to
the top with potatoes.
“You can’t cook those in the
park," the. elder Walter warned.
“They won’t let you start a fire."
"We’re not going to cook them."
replied young Ned. "We're just
using them to fill the knapsack.
How can you hike without a heavy
load?"
* * * *
CURE.
A friend of the Wayside was dining
the other noon in an Italian restau
rant. Directly across from her at the
next table was a gentleman eating
spaghetti. No Italian, he engulfed
the long strands vigorously but with
out technique, ignoring dangling ends
completely.
Fascinated by the vigor of his at
tack. our friend caught herself be
ginning to stare. Whereupon she
turned her attention to her own
lunch and forgot the other diner.
A few minutes later she hewd a
voice at her elbow saying, “I hope
you enjoyed watching me eat my
spaghetti."
Looking up, she saw the gentleman,
his spaghetti all consumed, standing
at her table. Not knowing just what
to say, she kept silent.
"Humph!" humphed the man, de
parting. "What you need, young
woman, is to visit a psychiatrist!”
♦ * * *
CODE.
JJOW would you like to hear a pretty
Incredible story about two visitors
who had a date with a local girl
whom they remembered from years
ago (when all three, and you and I,
were very young)?
Well, at any rate, they were on
their way to her swank hotel when
they both fell to wondering what time
had done to her.
“I wouldn’t know,” said the one
who had not thought of that angle
first. ‘T have not seen her in years,
myself.”
So they started working up a code
by which they could discuss it with
out the girl understanding. The key
question was to be "Do you think it
will be warm tomorrow?” If the an
swer was affirmative, the answerer was
supposed to think that the girl was
pretty.
They met her a few minutes later
at the hotel. After the preliminaries
of reunion were over, the girl bowled
them both over by asking, in all in
nocence:
"Do you think it will be warm to
morrow?"
They broke down then and told
her the plot.
* * * *
TRIP.
TAXI driver told us this one:
A gentleman came out of a
local hotel, hailed his cab and in
structed him to drive slowly out Six
teenth street.
They went some 20 or 30 blocks and
nothing was said by either driver or
driven, the taxi owner’s opening re
mark about the weather having been
squelched by his passenger, who was
staring intently out the window.
The drive continued clear out to Six
teenth street extended, near the East
West Highway, the fare still staring
out the window, the driver sitting si
lently but filled with curiosity. Then
he was ordered to drive back the same
way he came, but still slowly.
IfckSU
Back at the hotel, the fare finally
offered an explanation. It seemed he
had been intoxicated the night be
fore and whenever he felt he was too
tight to negotiate downtown traffic, he
always headed for the wide open
spaces on Sixteenth street, parked his
car and took a cab back to the hotel.
He was a bit upset because they
couldn’t find the car this particular
day.
’’;What kind of a car was it?” our
cabbie asked.
The fare described it. *
"Is that it over there?” the driver
asked, pointing to one smack in front
of the hotel.
It was!
* * * *
ENCORE!
Some tweet childish, voices lifted
in song at church last Sunday let
down a friend of the Wayside
pretty suddenly and seriously.
Under their protection, he
thought to be very funny when he
Man Admits Seeing Killing
Five Years Ago—Motive
Kept Secret.
Bt the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 15.—The
murder of Norman R. Bechtel, a
church worker, five years was be
lieved solved today when William
Jordan, colored chauffeur, told at a
hearing before Mayor S. Davis Wil
son that he was present at the killing.
After he publicly stated to the
mayor that he had voluntarily signed
a statement implicating himself but
that he did not do the slaying, Jor
dan was held without bail for a fur
ther hearing next Wednesday.
Bechtel, 31, and active in Mennonite
Church affairs, was found stabbed to
death on the grounds of an estate in
the German town section. He had
attended a church meeting in Lands
dale. north of Philadelphia, and met
his death on his way to his home late
at night.
Questioned by the Mayor, Jordan
said that three colored men and a
colored woman named in the state
ment were involved in the killing. One
of the men has since died. The Mayor
turned aside questions as to whether
the three others were in custody.
The Mayor declined to discuss the
motive at the hearing. Earlier he said
that the killing might have been due
to a combination of robbery, revenge
and an aspect of the case he did not
care to discuss at this time.
•. •
Court
(Continued From First Page.)
further and eliminate the age and
retirement provisions of the Roosevelt
bill, under which the increase in the
court would be conditional on failure
of justices over 70 to retire.
McCarran said he "hoped" the ad
ministration would be sympathetic to
his proposal, but administration
spokesman made it clear that the
President was campaigning for his
own bill with as much determination
as before the Wagner act decisions.
McCarran said he was prompted to
introduce his plan by the Wagner de
cisions. the increased business of the
high court and the increased popula
tion of the country. He described it
as the product "of my own thought
without consultation with any one.”
Present Members Would Stay.
“It Is fair.” McCarran added, “and
would remove all criticism. No
legitimate charge of packing the court
could be made, because the present
membership would remain. It would
give President Roosevelt, who has ap
pointed no members of the court, an
opportunity to appoint two.”
His amendment would also clarify
the language of the Roosevelt measure
with respect to additional judges in
the lower courts.
It would retain the provision for the
appointment of up to 50 additional
judges, but provides that the increase
would be permanent and not drop back
as the older judges retire.
Smith Called Before Committee.
Smith was called before the Judici
ary Committee by Senators opposed
to the bill after three members of the
cabinet had made it clear there would
be no let-up on the part of the admin
istration to secure passage without
compromise.
As chairman of a special committee
designated by the association to con
vey its views to the Senate. Smith said:
“The true objective of the measure
is to force the judiciary to adopt the
constitutional views of the Executive
and Legislature. The effect is clearly
to defeat the balance of powers essen
tial to constitutional government. The
real reason for the proposed measure
must be the selection of justices whose
views on known or future legislation
are different from the views of Justices
now sitting.
“The President's advisers are per
fectly willing to keep the Supreme
Court, but they insist that the court
interpret the Constitution in accord
ance with their views.”
Advances 2 Objections.
Smith advanced the following three
basic objections to the bill:
1. The proposal, in the manner pro
posed, is in a moral and spiritual
sense unconstitutional.
2. The effect of the proposal is to
appoint to the Supreme Court, last
refuge of the oppressed, men whose
broad views will be known before they
accept appointment.
3. The proposal will not obtain its
objective and the changes proposed
can be made by amendment to the
Constitution.
Discussing his second objection,
Smith told the committee:
"No decent, reputable lawyer has
ever tried a case who would accept, in
the most important litigation, a juror
whose views with relation to the case
were known in advance. Both law
yers and laymen condemn and fear
packed juries or partial juc Tes. In
practically all cases of presen impor
tance the Federal Government is a
party and a citizen the adverse party.
"If the people know in advance of
a hearing that the administration has
selected a judge who will be presumed
to favor the Government’s contention,
respect for his decision must be gone.”
18,695 Returned Ballot*.
The detailed results of the bar asso
ciation poll, Smith said, showed that
of the 29,616 members of the associa
tion 18,695 returned ballots. Eighty*
six per cent were opposed to the plan
and 13 per cent in favor of it. A total
of 142,320 non-member lawyers were
sent ballots and 44,021 returned against
the plan and 11,770 were in favor of it.
Of the total lawyers voting, 56,153
were reported against and 14,333 in
favor.
Paul F. Hannah of Washington,
secretary of the Junior Bar Confer
ence, told the committee 80 per cent
of his organisation had voted against
the President’s plan. The conference,
he said, is a national organization of
members of the American Bar Asso
ciation who are under 35.
Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, has been in
vited to appear before the committee
tomorrow morning to discuss the bill.
reached his wife while passing the
collection plate. Holding it in
front of her and being very cer
tain the barrage of melody would
cover hie words, he said:
"Come on, lady, shell out."
Just as he said it, the song stop
ped and his words went bouncing
off the walls of the church for
every one to hear; especially for
one elderly woman to hear. Her
nasty took left Mm feeling quite
irreverent and monstrously morti
fied.
Doctor’s Task Held
Harder on Heart
Than Is Laborer’s
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 15.—It'» four times
harder on the heart to be a physician
than a laborer or farmer, a doctor
reported today.
Dr. Harry L. Smith of Rochester.
Minn., drew his conclusions from a
study of the clinical records of 1,831
patients at the Mayo clinic. He re
ported his findings to the American
Medical Journal.
Dr. Smith studied the Incidence of
coronary sclerosis, sometimes called
the “disease of the lntellgentslR,”
among physicians, bankers, lawyers,
clergymen, laborers and farmers. The
affliction is characterized by harden
ing of the nerves, ligaments and blood
vessels around the heart.
Of 307 physicians’ records 10.7 per
cent revealed incidence of coronary
sclerosis: of 300 bankers, 5.3 per cent;
of 304 lawyers. 4.6 per cent: of 306
clergymen, 4.6 per cent; 306 laborers,
2.6 per cent, and of 308 farmers, 2.5
per cent.
He concluded that occupation In
fluences the Incidence of the disease.
“The incidence Is lowest among
those who do manual labor and high
est among those who do mental
work,” Dr. Smith stated.
The average age of subjects of the
clinical records was 52 years.
---■■■-•.
Press Spreads Details of
Mississippi Mob
Killings.
BACKGROUND—
Religious attacks of Nazi regime
now directed agalnrt the Catholic
Church and the Jews, the former
because it stands in the wag of
complete Nazi conquest of Ger
many and the latter because of the
essential anti-Semitic aspect of
Naziism.
Objective of Nazis was estab
lishment of a national church, but
efforts of German Christians failed
before insistence of Evangelical
Church that it retain its identity
and ecclesiastical authority.
9t the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 15.—The entire Ger
man press appeared today with ban
ner lines atop ‘ Horrible Details of the
Negro Lynchings'' In Mississippi.
The concerted publicity for the tor
ture and lulling of two Negroes last
Tuesday by a Duck Hill. Mias., mob,
which was enraged by the slaying of a
country merchant, coincided with
charges that American churches were
permitting "vicious” anti-German
‘ machinations ”
Officially sponsored comment on the
lynchings contrasted them with “hu
mane German racial laws.” but re
frained from direct attacks on the
United States in connection therewith.
Outcry of Disgust Reported.
There were complete details, how
ever, of how the Negroes suffered, and
German readers were informed that
“an outcry of disgust has swept the
American public, certain circles of
which usually try to Incite feeling
against Nazi Germany and its racial
laws, which are enforced in a humane
manner.”
(Germany's so-called Nurnberg
racial laws, passed in 1935, dis
tinguish between German “citi
zens" and Jewish "subjects" and
proscribe certain intercourse be
tween the two.)
At the same time the inspired Nazi
press locked furious tirades against the
showing in the Riverside Memorial
Church in New York of an anti-Nazi
film seeking to raise *400,000 for the
relief of Christian German refugees.
The outbursts, in phrasing that
showed their common origin, carried
such headings as "anti-German lying
film!” and "Jewish emigrants stirring
up hatred before the altar!"
Dr. Fosdick Chief Figure.
The official German news agency,
Deutsches Nachrichtenburo, said, in
discussing the film which has Dr.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the
Riverside Church, for its chief figure:
“This film reveals with terrible clear
ness the un-Christian methods with
which a new anti-German drive is to
be launched in the American churches
by a small un-American clique whose
aim is to misuse American religious
sentiments for nefarious ends."
At the same time the press played
up the lynching of two Negroes at
Duck Hill. Miss., sparing their readers
none of the details of the torture.
The press in its anti-American cam
paign also has stressed disastrous eco
nomic consequences of the strike wave
in the United States.
The attacks on American churches
and economic and living conditions,
however, was just one phase of the
widespread onslaught on all anti-Nazi
activities.
In addition to renewed attacks on
Catholics and Jews, the drive spread
into all phases of German official life.
Heightened by what was described
officially as “a very sharp protest” to
the Vatican over Pope Pius’ Easter
encyclical accusing the Reich of vio
lating the 1933 concordat, wide pub
licity has been given to revived prose
cutions of Catholic priests and nuns
for violation of foreign exchange regu
lations and charges of high treason
and immorality.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
May take up Harrison-Black edu
cation bill.
La Follette Committee continue*
investigation of Harlan County, Ky.,
labor conditions.
Judiciary Committee hears oppo
nents of Roosevelt court bill.
Labor Committee continues hear
ings on Wagner housing bill.
House:
Resumes debate on Oavagan anti
lynching bill.
Labor Committee considers per
manent extension of Civilian Con
servation Corps.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Program uncertain.
Indian Affairs Committee meets,
10:30 a.m.
Finance Subcommittee holds hearing
on veterans' legislation. 10 am.
Territories Committee takes up
Lawrence Cramer nomination, 10:10
am.
Judiciary Committee continues hear
ings on President's court MU.
JURY COMPLETED
AT RHODES TRIAL
Second Hearing of Forgery
Count Against Fidelity
Loan Ex-President.
BACKGROUND—
The Fidelity Building and Loan
Association, organized in 1929 to
make loans on property in nearby
Maryland and Virginia, closed its
doors last July after expanding
into a $5,000,000 organization.
Fred B. Rhodes, who had resigned
from the presidency a short time
previously, was indicted, and went
to trial last month. The jury dead
locked.
A jury of nine men and three
women today began hearing the sec
ond forgery trial to Fred B. Rhodes,
former president of the now closed
Fidelity Building <fc Loan Association.
Selection of the Jurors proceeded
slowly, the defense particularly exer
cising challenges, and nearly an hour
and a half was consumed before the
12 finally were chosen and sworn.
Rhodes, 61, is charged with forging
a *1,500 withdrawal slip against the
account of Desire A. Irr, elderly Gov
ernment Printing Office employe of 65
K street, who was a large depositor
at Fidelity.
Thus is one of eight counts alleging
forgery on which Rhodes was in
dicted. He also faces 20 counts al
leging larceny.
New. Witnesses Named.
In opening the case before Justice
Peyton Gordon in Criminal Di
vision No. 1 of District Court, Assist
ant United States Attorney John J.
Wilson announced the names of a
number of possible witnesses who did
not appear at the first trial a month
ago, when the jury dealocked. Among
these is S. F. Pickering of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
After selection of the jury, Assistant
United States Attorney Howard Boyd,
who is aiding Wilson in the prosecu
tion, began outlining the case to the
jury.
After Boyd had gone into the in
volved series of transactions in which I
the withdrawal slip figured, William E. i
Leahy, chief defense counsel, making
his opening statement, told the Jury:
“Mr. Rhodes never got a 5-cent piece ■
out of that transaction.”
Necessity of Action.
Wilson objected as Leahy placed the
foundation of Fidelity in 1929 and '
told of Rhodes' connection with it, de
| ciarmg this irrelevant. Justice Gor- j
don, however, allowed him to proceed.
Leahy then set up the defense con- j
i tention that whatever was done was
necessary to keep the association go
ing in the face of opposition by the
controller of the currency.
Mrs. Ruth S. Horner, former as- j
slstant secretary and assistant treas- i
urer of Fidelity, who is now employed j
in Rhodes’ law office, was called as the ,
first Government witness, and repeat- j
ed her previous testimony that the I
withdrawal slip was prepared by j
Rhodes to cover an overdraft on the
company 's books.
Rhodes was indicted after the
Fidelity closed last July 18.
In the first trial Rhodes testified that
the Irr withdrawal slip figured in a
series of involved transactions neces
sary to keep Fidelity going in the face
of a fight by the controller of the
Treasury. He felt thta Irr's resources
were at his command, he said, because
of the latter's offer to aid in the dis
pute with the controller's office, which
was pictured as trying to close the
building association.
Repudiated on Stand.
Irr, on the stand, repudiated any
understanding of the sort.
Leahy and William J. Hughes, jr.,
who conducted the defense at the first
trial, have been joined by William E.
Richardson for the second. The Fi
delity now is being reorganised by the
Government.
D. C. MAN FOUND
DEAD IN BURNED CAR
Identity Is Traced Through Tags
on Vehicle in Accident at
Ashland. Va.
Killed when his automobile crashed
into an abutment and caught lire on
United States Highway No. 1, about
3 miles south of Ashland. Va.. the
charred body of a man believed to be
William H. Britt, 38. of 1013 E street
southwest, was found early today in
the smouldering wreckage of the car.
Mrs. Britt was prostrated when po
lice told her of the accident. She
said her husband left home last night
to drive to Charlotte. N. C, in the
automobile he purchased only a week
ago.
Tag numbers on the automobile
were the only clue to the motorist’s
identity, police said. The body was
carried to Crew and Perkins funeral
establishment in Ashland to await
positive identification.
Virginia State police said they are
satisfied that the death of the motor
ist was accidental. State Trooper J.
A. Houchens said Britt was driving
alone when the car hit a bridge
abutment, overturned and burned.
Besides his wife, Britt is survived by
four children—James. 9; Donald, 7;
Shirley, 5, and Jerry, 3.
Britt, a paperhanger. was driving to
Charlotte to attempt to collect a debt
for a friend of the family, it was said
at his home.
Fire
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children aside in their fight to get out
of the car. Fischer was trying to help
a woman through a window when the
crowd knocked him down and bruised
and skinned his knee.
Miss Kirkmeyer said it was “every
man and woman for his or her self.”
She broke a window in the back of the
car, climbed through, and clung to the
bars for a moment until the car was
halted. She cut her hands in break
ing the window.
In the confusion, Mrs. Smith be
came separated from her children,
Audrey, 5, and Alvin G. She was still
searching frantically for them after
the blaze had been extinguished and
order restored. They were found un
hurt, wandering about in the crowd.
Mrs. Quinn, after being treated for
injuries to her ankle, legs and back,
•aid she was attempting to prevent
the younger Smith boy from being
trampled when she was suddenly
thrown to the street.
“The door must have flown open
and the crowd pushed me,” she said.
A
Death Discloses Qift
Larz Anderson Revealed as Donor of
Chapel of St. Mary.
The Chapel of St. Mary at Washington Cathedral,
designed by Frohman, Robb and Little, architects. In this view
the magnificent altar and reredos depicting the life of the
Blessed Virgin Mary are shown. Star Staff Photo.
- A- i
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
LARZ ANDERSON, diplomat and
traveler, who died at White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va ,
Tuesday, was the “anonymous
donor” who gave the Chapel of St.
Mary to the Washington Cathedral.
His gift became known when it was
announced that his ashes will be en
shrined there. Right Rev. James E.
Freeman, Bishop of Washington, con
firmed the story this morning.
The chapel is considered one of the
mast beautiful portions of the Cathe
dral. It occupies five bays of the
north choir aisle, adjacent to the
Great Choir, and is 115 feet long, 25
feet wide, and the height from the
floor to the ceiling is 43 feet. Seats
are provided for a congregation of 400
persons.
Planned for services connected with
the work and worship of women par
ticularly, the chapel shelters an altar
inscribed, "The Way—The Truth—
The Life,” with an exquisitely carved
rered06 portraying scenes from the life
of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The cost of the entire unit, with
its decorations, was $500,000.
Bishop Freeman explained that the
gift resulted from a visit paid to the
Cathedral by Mr. Anderson about ten
years ago. “I was leaving the grounds
one day,” the bishop said, “when I
met Mr. Anderson coming toward the
building. We turned back and I con
ducted the visitor through such por
tions of the structure as then wera
finished. Mr. Anderson was deeply im
pressed and told me that he was in
spired to take an interest in the work.
Within a week he asked me to visit
him at his home in Brookline, Mass.,
to discuss the contribution he pro
posed to make.
"I believe he found spiritual satis
faction in his generosity. Mr. Ander
son, I know, was profoundly moved at
the beauty of the services when the
chapel was dedicated.”
No publicity attended the gift at
the time when it was given. Bishop
Freeman added, "because Mr. Ander
son preferred to remain an anonymous
benefactor of the Cathedral."
Firm Flead Quits
Job on Demand
Of Sit-Doivners
By the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE. April 15.—Fred E
Yahr. for 18 years head of Yahr
Lange. Inc., wholesale drug company,
was in retirement today—at the de
mand of 115 employes who staged an
eight-hour sit-down strike to gain
their end.
Yahr, who is 65 and has been as
sociated with the concern for 37
years, relinquished active manage
ment of the business under the set
tlement, but retained the title of
president, a seat on the board of di
rectors and his stock in the firm.
The striae began when the em
ployes came to work yesterday morn
ing. Yahr denied strikers' charges
he had followed a policy of hiring
young men at low salaries and firing
them after they had advanced to bet
ter jobs. He termed the strike “redic
ulous.”
"I am perfectly happy and satifled
with the terms of the deal," Yahr
said last night. “I feel I have been
here long enough, and the employes
are satisfied with terms of the agree
ment.”
"Tonight I go home to stay.”
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Strikes
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tary. and Wyndham Mortimer, a vice
president, accompanied by an attor
ney, conferred with Circiut Judge
Arthur Webster, who issued the in
junction. at his home last night and
then gave Sheriff Thomas C. Wilcox
a check for $8,050 for the release of
79 women and 41 men.
Five of the 15 who were not freed
were U. A. W. A. organizers and
included Victor and Walter Reuther,
brothers.
A union sound car taken to the
plant, which manufactures automobile
locks for the Chrysler Corp., was im
pounded by police.
HEPBURN DECLARED ■DICTATOR.’
Union Demands Premier Withdraw
Strike Negotiations.
OSHAWA, Ontario, April 15 (/Pj —
Oshawa's embattled C. I. O. Union
of General Motors workers demanded
today the Ontario’s premier withdraw
from strike negotiations, accusing him
of a "dictatorship” that would rob
workers of their right to strike.
By formal resolution, the local of
the United Automobile Workers of
America, an affiliate of John L. Lewis'
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion, sought to shove Premier Mitchell
Hepburn out of the foreground to
make way for Dominion Intervention.
The workers went on record "as re
fusing to conduct any negotiations as
long as Premier Hepburn is a party
to them.”
The union's cry of "dictatorship”
was reminiscent of Hepburn's own
charge that Lewis, through the Os
hawa and other C. I. O. units, was
trying to establish himself as a “po
litical and economic dictator” in Can
ada and the United States.
The General Motors employes’ reso
lution said “the dictatorship of Premier
Hepburn would deprive all workers
of their last resort in an Industrial
dispute, namely the right to strike.”
The declaration accused the provin
cial executive of having “substituted
compulsion for arbitration” and urged
him to step out “and allow the Do
minion Department of Labor to act as
mediators."
The resolution was adopted at a
mass meeting of 2 000 men and women
last mght after Hepburn forced resig
nation of two disaffected members of
his cabinet. Labor Minister David
Croll and Attorney General Arthur
W. Roebuck.
Both Croll and Roebuck were con
sidered extremely liberal members of
the Ontario government. They were
labor lawyers before joining with Hep
bum. The Rremier, leader of the Lib
eral party, is proprietor of a large
onion farm.
After the resignations the premier
took over the labor portfolio himself
and one of his first acts was to ask
the Dominion government not to in
tervene.
The outcove of the union's request
for intervention from Ottawa to end
the week-old tie-up affecting 3.700
workers was doubtful, in view of that
fact.
Labor Minister Norman Rogers and
Prime Minister MacKenzie King indi
cated there would be no federal inter
vention, however, in the absence of
requests from Hepburn or General
Motors of Canada.
Hepburn, meanwhile, declared he
had "no immediate intention" of call
ing a general election to seek a man
date from Ontario's voters on his
attitude toward the Lewis labor move
ment. He said, however, that cir
cumstances might arise at any time
to make such a course necessary.
Roebuck, relieved of the attorney
generalship, wrote to the premier his
argument "the unions of this country
have an undoubted legal right to
organize in such form as in their
wisdom they saw fit and should have
an equal freedom with employers in
choosing their affiliations and rep
resentatives."
The Dominion government and sev
eral provinces were confronted with a
rising tide of labor disputes. Widely
separated strikes held mors than 4,400
workers idle, including those In Osh
awa, while 5,000 Montreal garment
workers were under call to quit work
today.
C. I. O.-affiliated miners, 1,000
strong, threatened to strike at Pernie,
British Columbia, unless demands for
wage Increases and union recognition I
were met,
PITTSBURGH WORKERS RETURN.
—
Disputes Settled in Various Industries .
in District.
PITTSBURGH, April 15 (^.—Set
tlement of disputes sent 3.500 men
back to work today in the Pittsburgh
district. *
Eight hundred employes of Hub
bard St Co., hardware manufacturers,
ended a four-week strike when the
company agreed to recognize the Steel
Workers’ Organizing Committee.
Five hundred men at the Coshocton
Iron Works at Monongahela won
recognition of the committee and a
$5-a-day basic wage in a week-long
strike.
Approximately 1.000 painters settled
differences with the Master Painters
and Decorators’ Association and re
turned to work at an $ll-a-day wage.
They had received $9.SO a day.
TEXTILE AGREEMENT SIGNED.
NEW YORK. April 15 (/Pi.—An
agreement providing for a wage in
crease and recognition of the Textile
Workers' Organizing Committee as the
sole collective bargaining agency for
employee has been signed by the Vis
cose Corp., largest producer of rayon
in America, and the union.
Sidney Hillman, chairman of the
affiliate of John L. Lewis’ Committee
for Industrial Organisation, an
nounced last night a contract carrying
essentially these provisions:
Consumers’ Counsel Holds
Drop in Charge Is
Indicated.
Decision of the Maryland-Virgima
Milk Producers Association not to
grant a seasonal reduction in Wash
ington's 14-cent milk price on May 1
was challenged today by Donald E
Montgomery, consumers' counsel of
the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
tration.
Montgomery pointed out that the 1 -
cent price boost agreed to by the A.
A. A. last Pall was purely an emer
gency measure because of poor pas
turage and the expense of feed, and
that the conditions which necessitated
the increase no longer exist.
"Pastures are in excellent condition
now," Montgomery declared, "because
of favorable weather. There should be
a seasonal reduction in the milk price,
in view of the fact that the cost of
production has fallen.”
Fall Statement Recalled.
Director B B. Derrick of the asso
ciation announced yesterday that the
14-cent price established November
1 for a six-month period would be
continued after the expiration date
of the agreement May 1.
Montgomery said Derrick, in asking
for the higher price last November
argued that the "Washington pro
ducer must depend heavily on pur
chased feed-stuffs until at least in
the Spring, when pastures may bring
some relief.”
Montgomery said he could not un
derstand how, at this time of year,
the producers can state that in
creased production during the next
few months will not justify a lower
price.
The consumers’ counsel called at
tention to the fact that consumption
of fluid milk in the District fell oft
12 per cent following the price in
crease last Fall He stressed the point
that local prices are higher than in
comparable cities on the Eastern sea
board.
Spread Greater Here, Too.
"The spread between consumer and
producer prices of milk also is greater
in Washington than in other cities."
Montgomery declared. “The present
delivered price of milk here is only
5 per cent below the 1925-1929 average,
while average local retail prices of
all foods are almost 20 per cent below
the figure for those years.”
Montgomery said the present de
livery price of milk is 13 cents in Bal
timore and a cent cheaper in Boston.
Philadelphia and New York, and that
a seasonal reduction in the price of
butter is in progress.
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CONGRESS SEEKS BILL
SENT TO WHITE HOUSE
Congress today will ask the White
House to send back to the Capitol for
correction a bill which inadvertently
listed James Roosevelt as a "lieuten
ant" instead of a “lieutenant colonel.”
The purpose of the bill was to au
thorize certain officers, enlisted men
and civilians of the Army. Navy and
Marine Corps to accept decorations
tendered them by foreign govern
ments.
Young Roosevelt was commissioned
a Reserve officer in the Marine Corps
before accompanying the President to
the South American Peace Confer
ence and had the Order of the South
ern Cross conferred on him by Brazil.
Graw Entries
for Tomorrow
, RACE—Purse. 51,000: 2-year
olas. 4''a furlongs.
Yomer (Le Blanc i i,,
Tuleyries Lin (De Camillas) "' DO
Do It (Wagner) __ * n*
a Grim Reaper iFallon)_ ~ ~ im
National <S Renick)__ iT*
Hunting Home M Peters).I;;;;;:; 114
b Jolly Jack <Richards>___ 114
b Sudanese (McDermott'.. "~ 11*
* Smokf Signal iFallon)_ ..""II 122
a J. H. Whitney and Manhasset "stable
entry
b W. M. Jeffords entry.
SECOND RACE—Purse. 91.000; 3-y*ar
old maidens; 6 furlongs.
Bareback <6. Renick'_
Gray Heels ‘Austin'_ * ~
Balkonian tO Malley*_tjg
Diplomacy <Le Blanc* __ _ 11^
Dugnamany -M. Peters*_" ~~ iic
Fyan ‘Richards' _“7 ijo
White Hot ‘Fallon)_ZZIIZZI”~ ug
THIRD RACE—Purse. $1,00(1; claiming:
3-year-olds. (1 furlongs
Rise and Shine >De Camillas). _ _ ill
Melicent (Griggi
Swift Plash (M. Peters)
xStory Time 'Sarnoi. __ _ 104
Trauwina (Fallon) _ _ m»
Gold Spray (Kurtsinger)_ _ jn
Grand Anna (Wagner;.
Working Girl 'Merritt _ ” " iny
xJmx iLe Blanc) _ ltiR
xBounding 'Morris) _ _ _ 100
Catomar (O'Malley) _ 107
FIPi'H RACE—Purse. $1,000' elalming'
■v-year-olds: R furlongs.
Little Whisk (Peters) 107
xDashing Doe 'Eccard) ]oR
xEarly Broom 'Sarno' _ 10R
xHarry's Dream ’Le Blanc). _ I in
Opoca (OMallev) _ 107
Brief (De Camillas). 107
Radons ’Jackson) __ " llj
True Tune (Rosengarten). Ill
Toothpick (Wagner) 107
xTouche (Le Blanc) __ - - - j,,
xAlahad (Le Blanc). 103
FOURTH RACE—Purse. $1,000: 4-year
olds and up; R furlongs
a Chief Yeoman (Wagner) _ ln$
War Emblem ■ De Camillas) " ins
Turkey Run (Richards). ' log
Sir Quest (Kurtslngert _. _ " log
Green Melon (Le Blanc) _ _ 111
Blank Highbrow (Morris)
Billy Bee (Saundersi _ 173
a Sunned <Haritos> 107
a Mr. and Mrs. B F. Chrlstam's entry.
SIXTH RACE—Purse SI.000; S-year
olds. mile and 70 yards.
Tonlanna (Le Blanc) __ ins
Jackie D (E. Smith) __ . __ 110
Muscatine (De Camillas) _ lio
Merry Maker (Saunders). .. _ 133
Frisco Kid 'Saundersi __ 107
Trina (Peters i . _ 117
SEVENTH RACE—Purse $1,000: 4
year-olds and up; claiming. I,1, miles
x aSlr Windsor (Sarno) . __ 109
a Dutch Uncle (O'Malley) _ 113
xHollyhock 'Le Hlanc) _104
Pepper Patch (Jackson) _112
xxandra i Eccard i _104
Chance King (Schmidl) _ 112
xScatterbraln (Le Blanc) _ 100
Hit and Run (De Camillas' . . log
a G. Christos and D. P. Veneztano entr'-.
xApprentice allowance claimed.
Raining and slow.
Scratch* for Today—
Cloudy and fast.
First race—Hard Chase.
Seventh race—Monroe and Sails n
dry.
Havre de Grace Workouts
\ MILE
Lucky Run :3T*a Amnul _ 38
Flnl :;)0 Hard Chaae :37
Smoke Signal :3?J, Brav. Danger .3*s4
Grim Reaper :37’* Belahaaaar 38
'j MILE.
Toothpick :53 Ladogan :S1*»
Her Reigh 48Jj Micro _ 51
Court Sc'dal ts’s Tlney Boy . SON
War'r Queen 54's Jim Corn 51*j
Aunt Flor :50 Tuleyrlea Led .50J»
S MILE.
Takua_1:03 Dartle_1.04
84 MILE
Apathy 1:19 Flavor_
Grand Girl _ 1:1P*» Chaaar
Quickly 1:10 Exaggeration
Cancel_1:184»
1 MILE
SSFzl&flHE.
Black Boo 1 SON vinca
t*dflHd 1:4n»* Dark Hoi>a _