Evening star. [volume], May 04, 1937, Page A-4, Image 4

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Secretary Perkins Proposes
Move to Help End
Strikes.
BACKGROUND—
Validation of the Wagner labor
relations act by the Supreme Court,
with the consequent establishment
of the right of collective bargaining,
resulted in both employers and
workers taking a second and more
careful look at this fundamental
piece of New Deal legislation. In
the past, provisions of the law often
had been ignored by both sides, but,
with its legality unexpectedly up
held, it loomed as a potent factor
in the settlement of future indus
trial disputes.
An immediate result was the
tailing of an employer-employe
conference by Secretary Perkins
with a view to smoothing the way
for effectuating the policies of the
act.
By the Associated Press.
Secretary Perkins proposed expan
sion of State labor mediation services
today to help settle and prevent strikes
during the development of collective
bargaining.
She said in an address prepared
for her second labor-industry collec
tive bargaining conference:
"The first of these conferences * * *
brought about the understanding that
it will be the purpose of management
and labor to practice collective bar
gaining as it is defined in the national
labor relations act (Wagner act), now
the law of the land under the recent
Supreme Court decision.
"Many employers and workers, how
ever, lack experience in collective bar
gaining. Because of this there will
be need for co-operation among State
and Federal agencies engaged in con
ciliation work—and representatives of
labor and management—so as to mini
mize stoppages of work through mis
understandings by either workers or
employers.
Highly Useful Service.
"Federal and State conciliators can
perform a highly useful service in the
public Interest, with the co-operation
I am sure they will receive from labor
and management in the coming
months.
“When differences arise and a con
ference is called which fails to make
headway toward an adjustment a
conciliator should be summoned.
“Negotiations should not be broken
off without calling on the services of
auch an expert. Very often his ideas
and advice will be helpful in finding
a solution or limiting the points of
disagreement.'’
Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan
and Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New
York have proposed mediation boards
for their States as part of a sug
gested labor relations law.
The Michigan measure, which
would prohibit strikes until the board
had exhausted all possibilities of me
diation, was opposed last night by
Homer Martin, president of the
United Automobile Workers of Amer
ica. He called it “Inimical to the
Interests of the working people.’’
Miss Perkins’ conferences grew out
of the Supreme Court validation of the
national labor relations act. She in
vited to today’s meeting more than a
•core of labor and business leaders,
including representatives of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, which
last week recommended amendment of
the Wagner act to provide labor union
responsibility.
Conference Attendants.
Those at the conference:
For industry—R. R. Deupree. pres
ident, the Procter & Gamble Co.;
T. G. Graham, B. F. Goodrich Co.;
Carl R. Gray, president Union Pa
cific Railway Co.; Frank Griffin, vice
president. Viscose Corp.; Jeremiah G.
Hickey, president. Hickey-Freeman
Co.; Gerard Swope, General Electric
Co.; S. Clay Williams, R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co.; Harper Sibley, former
president, and George H. Davis, pres
ident, Chamber of Commerce of the
United States; Harold Whitman, pres
ident, Esmode (Rhode Island) Mills.
Labor—James T. Carey, president,
United Electrical and Radio Workers;
John P. Frey, president, American
Federation of Labor Metal Trades De
partment; Sidney Hillman, president,
Amalgamated Clothing Workers;
Frank Morrison, secretary, A. F. of L.;
I. M. Ornbum, president, A. F. of L.
lAbel Trades Departments; Emil
Rieve. president, American Federation
of Hosiery Workers; M. H. Hodges. In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, and Ora L. Gassawas*, United
Mine Workers.
JEWISH WOMEN INSTALL
Mr*. Mark Lansburgh was installed
as new president of the Washington
•action of the National Council of
Jewish Women yesterday a- the Jew
ish Community Center. She succeeds
Mrs. Louis Ottenberg.
Mrs. Leonard B. Schlos6 conducted
the installation ceremonies, which in
eluded induction of other new officers.
Dr. Abram Simon said the opening
prayer.
Last of Famous Fire Horses,
“Old Tom ” Dies in Pasture
Stable Blaze Reddens
Sky and Sirens Wail
Farewell Dirge.
Plre sirens moaned a dirge for Old
Tom, last of the city’s gallant fire
horses, last night as he lay dead In
his pasture at the Blue Plains Gov
ernment reservation.
Last of the unforgettable trio—Bar
ney, Gene and Tom—the great dapple
gray steed, weakened by the Infirmi
ties of age, died shortly before sun
down.
A few hours later the sky on the
distant horizon turned red as a stable
caught fire in the 4700 block of Nich
ols avenue southeast. An alarm was
sounded at the Home for the Aged
and Infirm, at Blue Plains.
Prom the distance came the wall
of the sirens—a sound that had al
ways caused Old Tom to cock his ears,
shake his great head and paw the
earth restlessly.
It was a sound that brought back
visions of the days a quarter of a
century ago when Tom, a powerful
3-year-old gelding, became a fire
fighter. Visions of racing with his
white harness mates, manes waving,
nostrils flaring, sparks flying from
their iron-shod hooves.
Veteren firemen still talk of the
prowess and Intelligence of Barney,
Gene and Tom—of how they strained
their great hearts and powerful
muscles to drag heavy apparatus
through a blizzard to the scene of the
Knickerbocker Theater disaster when
motorized equipment broke down in
the drifts.
But it was the despised motorized
equipment that raced by Old Tom’s
pasture last night. As the apparatus
returned slowly from the fire, a watch
man asked the firemen if they had
come for the body of Old Tom. It was
the first intimation the firemen had
that the gallant old horse had died.
And as the apparatus continued back
to the fire house, the firemen sounded
OLD TOM.
—Star Staff Photo.
the siren low and mournfully and
tolled their bells.
Barney. Gene and Tom were retired
from service in the Summer of 1925
after citizens of the District collected
a fund to purchase them and spare
them the ignominy of being sold as
work horses.
Each year the handsome steeds
emerged from retirement to prance in
the fireman’s parade. Five year ago,
Barney and Gene died within a few
weeks of each other. Old Tom re
mained alone in his pasture. In re
j cent years he has been too feeble to
appear in parades.
Barney, Gene and Tom were at
j tached to old No. 8 Engine Company
I when they "joined the Fire Depart
ment and were named after the
officers stationed there, Capt. Thomas
Buckley, Lieut. Barney Haynes and
Sergt. Gene Trainor. Later, they were
transferred to No. 10 Truck Company
and their last assignment before re
i tirement was to pull the water tower.
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Carry All Town Elections.
Record Vote Cast in Ta
koma Park.
Incumbents scored a clean sweep In
Montgomery County elections yester
day, from Takoma Park, where the
j 1.754 votes cast established a record
| for an oS-year election, to Laytons
! ville, where only five votes were polled.
| The “home rule” slate won by a safe
margin in Takoma Park, Arthur L.
Conger receiving 1,022 votes, Dr. Ches
I ter C. Waters 1,018 votes and Wilward
C. Taft 993 votes. On the opposing
ticket Dr. E. Clyde Shade polled 750
votes, Frank C. Hayes 727 votes and
1 Calvil W. Hassell 703 votes.
The vote of 1,754 ballots, of which
23 were disqualified, was from 500 to
700 higher than cast usually in off
year elections and kep‘ election offi
cials at the polling place until almost
3 a m.
Elections at Garrett Park and Som
erset brought out some opposition, but
the results at Poolesville, Bames
ville and Laytonsville were unanimous.
Winfield C. Macgill, with 37 votes,
and W. G. McNulty, with 29, were
| elected to the Town Council at Gar
rett Park. Haile Chisholm got 25
votes and Charles L. Thomas 21 of
the 65 votes east.
At Somerset, F. W. Shaffer received
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25 votes and T. M. Cremins 24 votes
to win re-election. Holland Hunting
ton, with five votes, headed a scattered
field of eight candidates dividing the
38 ballots.
For the first time since local politi
cal observers can recall, the Pooles
ville election was unanimous, all the
incumbents receiving 49 votes. Those
re-elected—G. R. Gray, Charles B.
Sellman, Mrs. Julia Hall, Mrs. Howard
Fry and H. W. Spurrier—will elect
their own officers, but Gray is ex
pected to be re-elected Mayor and
Sellman secretary-treasurer.
The Barnesville vote, 13 ballots, re
turned the three commissioners, R. F.
Hays, C. C. Orme and J. R Lillard,
and the treasurer, E. T. Dixon, to
office.
At Laytonsville. all five votes cast
were for Roy W. Barber, G. G. Griffith
and L. D. Bell.
John A. Fleming. William N. Wag
ner and James B. Carry were elected
to the Citizens' Committee of the
Drummond special taxing area.
MAY RULE TODAY
Given Right to Return Mur
der or Manslaughter
Verdict by Judge.
By the Associated Press.
NEW CASTLE, Ky„ May 4—With
the Commonwealth demanding the
death penalty, attorneys prosecuting
and defending Brig. Gen. Henry H.
Denhart on a charge of murdering
his sweetheart, Mrs. Verna Garr Tay
lor, lined up for closing arguments
today before submitting the case to
the jury.
The jury which heard eight hours
of argument, at times bitter, yester
day, was instructed by Circuit Judge
Charles C. Marssall it could acquit
the 61-year-old war veteran or return
a verdict calling for a sentence rang
ing from a jail sentence to death in
the electric chair. Under the court’s
instructions the jury of 11 farmers
and on* filling station operator could
convict the general of first-degree
murder, voluntary or involuntary
manslaughter or a misdemeanor.
During the impassioned plea* of
counsel Judge Marshall frequently
had to caution the crowd which
packed the court room against any
demonstrations. A disturbance on the
stairways caused the judge to order
the doors closed.
Leveling a finger at the portly gen
eral. special prosecutor J. Ballard
Clark asked the Jury to impose the
death penalty. Gen. Denhardt, who
told the Jury last week that he loved
the attractive La Grange, Ky., widow
too much to have killed her and indi
cated that she shot herself because of
worry over the "Jealousy” of a rival
suitor, sat impassively through the
verbal barrage.
Defense Attorneys Rodes K. Myers
and Clarke Otte hammered away at
the Commonwealth’* circumstantial
I evidence.
Spain
(Continued From First Page.)
administration, which is lined up with
the Madrid-Valencia government in
the civil war.
Aside from those families, evacua
tion of civilians from tottering Bilbao
thus far had brought safety only to
foreigners, but removal of Spaniards
was expected to begin today.
There appeared little likelihood,
however, that many of the civilians
in Bilbao—estimated to number some
350,000 since the Insurgent grip tight
ened on the city—could be taken to
foreign havens.
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Diplomatic negotiations also brought
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dren of the Polish Consul at Bilbao.
He was accused of disclosing a list of
alleged victims of an anarchist raid on
a Bilbao prison. (Anarchists form a
powerful element among Bilbao’s de
fenders.)
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for Spaniards assembled by the
French consul. The British consul
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city to supervise other British evacu
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While the Basque Defense Council
asserted its troops were resisting
strong Insurgent attacks In the Du
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surgent communique said the offen
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clean-up action behind the newly
won positions.
The communique said Gen. Mola’s
system of attacking the Basques with
“flying columns” that cut off large
sections of territory had left isolated
groups of government soldiers behind
the insurgent lines.
Eighty-six of these “soldiers with
out an army" were killed lu skirmishes
and many others surrendered, the
statement added.
Near Santander, some 45 miles
west of Bilbao, government troops
attacked north of Espinosa de Brlcla.
The Insurgents claimed a success in
which the attackers suffered heavily.
Plane Bombs Zaragoza.
A government airplane bombed
Zaragoza, in Northeastern Spain, kill
ing 20 persons and wounding 30. An
insurgent statement said the missiles
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