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G. M. DIESEL MOVE
sebum
Use of Crude Oil in Privately
Owned Passenger Cars
Now Question.
•y the Associated Press.
DETROIT, May 15—General Mo
tors' announcement of the establish
ment of a Diesel engine division has
started speculation anew concerning
the possible adaptation of the crude
oil burning power plant to privately
owned passenger cars on a commercial
basis.
Virtually every development thus
far perfected in this type of power
plant will be represented basically, in
in the line of engines to be produced
in the new division. Of the Winton
Diesel design developed by General
Motors, they will range from 20-horse
power single cylinder units up to 160
horse power six-cylinder type.
Gas Engine Not Threatened.
An Interesting fact in connection
With the decision of the corporation to
enlarge its Diesel manufacturing fa
cilities is that many of its own engi
neers have taken considerable pains to
explain why the future of the con
ventional gasoline engine is not
threatened immediately by research
Into Diesel possibilities.
None of the engineers will deny the
time will come wnen this type of
motor will be adapted to individually
owned passenger cars and probably
prove as satisfactory as any engine
now being manufactured. They point
out, however, that the field at present
for crude oil engines is in stationary
work, or marine and commercial ve
hicle use. In other words, they say,
Diesel is a "heavy duty” job at present.
Tremendous strides have been made
in reducing the weight of the cylinder
blocks of the Diesel-type motors, and
there are many who hold that the
fuel injector devices used on them have
distinct advantages over the conven
tional carburetlon principles.
Replacement Problem Obstacle.
The replacement problem, the en
gineers say, will be the big obstacle
once the orude oil engine is adapted
commercially to privately owned cars.
With more than 20,000,000 gasoline
powered passenger units currently in
operation by owners who believe their
vehicles have an asset value regard
less of how old these cars may be,
substitution of petroleum-driven cars
assumes sizeable proportions, the en
gineers explain.
Nevertheless, experimental work
With Diesel-type engines light enough
to be practicable for passenger cars is
not lagging. Many experimental road
tests have been made to establish the
feasibility of this design of power plant
in an individually-owned vehicle and
many more are looked for as part of
the routine work of the new General
Motors division.
MISS PHILIPS WINS
IN POSTER CONTEST
local Girl to Get Year's Scholar
ship at Art School
Here.
Miss Adelaide Z. Philips, cousin of
the late Daniel Chester French, sculp
tor of the statue in the Lincoln
Memorial and the fountain group at
Mrs. Phillips.
I Dupont Circle,
; has won a schol
arship prize In
the Twelfth In
ternational Hu
• mane Poster Con
test sponsored by
the Latham
Foundation at
Stanford Univer
sity, California,
it was announced
yesterday.
The award con
sists of a year’s
scholarship to the
National School
of Fine and Ap
plied Art here.
» Miss Philips, who lives at 908 Rit
tenhouse street, won a certificate of
merit in the 1934 contest of the
foundation, which promotes humane
education. She illustrated the year
books of Hyattsville High School while
a student there and has had three
entries exhibited in the Independent
Arts Exhibits here.
GEORGIA GROUP HEARS
GEORGE AND RUSSELL
Senator McAdoo Unable to Deliver
Scheduled Addreee to
Society.
Georgia Senators addressed a ban
quet meeting of the Georgia State
Society of Washington last night,
substituting for Senator McAdoo of
California.
McAdoo, born in Georgia, can
celled an engagement to deliver the
principal address, explaining he was
unexpectedly called out of the city.
The speakers, besides Senators
George and Russell, included several
Georgia Representatives. Representa
tive Whelchel, president of the society,
served as toastmaster.
A dance, the society's last of the
season, followed the banquet.
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FLAYSPRESIDENT
Tells Harvard Gathering
Suspicion, Distrust, Irrec
oncilability Are Creed.
By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. May 15.—Walter
Lippmann, newspaper columnist, told
more than 300 Harvard alumni here
today President Roosevelt “is our most
powerful alumnus.” but he flayed the
President for “making an official creed
out of suspicion, distrust and irrecon
cilability.”
The Harvard graduates, representing
all parts of the country, participated
in the fortieth anniversary celebration
of the associated Harvard clubs. The
program ends tomorrow.
Lippmann aaid, “I wish he (the
President) could find it in his heart
to forgive his enemies and to show
some cordiality to those who, though
they may differ with him on this or
that, respect his office and wish him
welL
Spirit of Class Warfare.
"I do not think that the spirit of
class warfare should receive even faint
encouragement from the seat of Gov
ernment, for once unleashed that spirit
will go far beyond the passing con
veniences of partisan politics.”
James M. Landis, Harvard Law
School dean, told the graduates “law
has assumed a social aspect it did
not possess when its operation was
limited to the police power.”
He pointed out a law school cur
riculum revision will emphasise the
new activities of an attorney.
Mackey Wells a Speaker.
Other speakers Included Mackey
Wells of Milwaukee, president of the
Associated Clubs, and Prof. F. W.
Taussig, president of the Harvard
Alumni Association.
President James Bryant Conant of
Harvard spoke. He said the univer
sity is experimenting In an "extra
curricular” education as a means of
meeting a criticism that college grad
uates have no capacity to continue to
grow intellectually and spiritually
after completing their regular college
courses.
He said a reading list will be pub
lished soon to guide students’ reading
and that an optional examination will
be offered to test the students' mas
tery of the subject.
PAROLE BOND URGED
Florida Legislator Would Make
Ex-Convicts Responsible for Acts.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 15 (>P).—
Representative Sheldon asked the Leg
islature today to require paroled and
pardoned convicts to post bond to pro
tect “any member of society" they
might injure in his person or prop
erty.
Sheldon proposed a bond of $1,000
for each year of sentence, running for
a period of time equal to the prisoner's
term.
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Many former Congressmen and Government officials like
the Capital so well—and find it such a profitable business site—
that they settle here permanently.
Most of those who stay are attorneys. Knowledge of the
law. official background and the all-important "connections”
form a triumvirate to attract clients.
A list of Washington lawyers is a sort of tabloid review of
recent history. Among them are:
No. 1. Square-jawed, one-time Iowa Senator, Smith Brook
hart.
No. t. Royal C. Johnson, who voted against entrance into
the World War and then resigned from the House, enlisted as
a private and came back with a wound and citations.
No. 3. Joseph P. Tumulty (left), suave, gentlemanly former
secretary to Woodrow Wilson, and Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary
of War in the Hoover administration.
No. 4. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, dark-eyed former As
sistant Attorney General.
No. 5. Harry B. Halves, former Senator from Missouri, co
author of the Hawes-Cutting bill granting Philippine inde
pendence, and an ardent gun collector.
No. 6. Former Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama.
No. 7. John Q. Tilson, one-time Republican leader of the
House.
No. 8. Clarence C. Dill, bluff, jovial ex-Senator from Wash
ington.
No. 9. Genial Jim Watson, former Senator from Indiana
and an unbeatable story-spinner.
Judiciary
(Continued From First Page.)
President's plan will be even larger in
the committee, 11 to 7, or even 12 to 6.
There has been considerable dis
cussion as to whether the committee
shall vote first on the original bill,
and then on amendments. This is
contrary to the regular parliamentary
procedure. It is the general prac
tice to vote first on amendments and
substitutes, in an effort to perfect a
bill before reaching a vote on it. I
Members of the committee said yes- !
terday it would take unanimous con
sent to reverse this procedure and vote
first on the bill. Whether this could
be obtained was doubtful. Now that
the "no compromise” edict has come
from the White House, it seems less
likely than ever that the bill will be
amended in the committee. Many of
the opponents of the bill are anxious
that the measure should be reported
to the Senate without change, be
lieving that it would be more vul
nerable and easier to defeat in Its
original form. j
Rumor of Retirement*.
A report circulated at the Capitol
yesterday to the effect that three
members of the Supreme Court would
retire under the provisions of the new
voluntary retirement act, if President
Roosevelt would drop his plan to in
crease the court by six. The justices
mentioned were Associate Justices
Brandeis, Van Devanter and Suther
land. Some opponents of the court
bill, however, took no stock in the re
port. One of them declared he con
sidered the circulation of such reports
a great Injustice to the members of
the court. None of the justices, he
insisted, would enter into any such
deal. He added that for some time
Justice Van Devanter had been de
sirous of retiring from the bench—
he is now 77 years old—but that un
doubtedly this conflict over the court
had delayed his doing so. If there is
any retirement at any early date, it
was said in other quarters, it would
probably be that of Justice Van De
vanter.
The opinion persisted that none of
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the justices would retire “under Are.” 1
Senator Johnson, Republican, of Cali
fornia, weeks ago in the Senate, when
the voluntary retirement bill for Su
preme Court justices was under con
sideration, sharply remarked that he
did not believe any Justice would avail
himself of the privilege accorded while
the President was engaged in trying
to put through his plan for the court.
And Johnson added he would have no
respect for any justice who did retire
under such circumstances.
The suggestion emanating from,
Postmaster General Farley that the
President would be able to persuade,
by one means or another, Senators
who have been inclined to vote against
the court program to change their po
sitions brought some measure of re- !
sentment yesterday. The fight over i
the court bill is plainly growing in
bitterness.
Stand of Copeland.
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of
New York, who has been an opponent
of the bill for weeks, issued a state
ment last night in which he said:
"I am not answerable to Jim Farley
for my conscience, thank God. And
right now my conscience is perfectly
clear.
“Compromise Is a double-edged
sword, because there will be no com
promise on our side. This is a mat
ter of principle with so large a group
of Senators that it is impossible for
the plan to be approved. Its defeat
is inevitable.
“I don’t say this to be disagreeable,
but all of us who are interested in the
progress of events in Washington know
the bill is not going to pass while from
40 to 50 men in the Senate are against
it."
The prospect for an early adjourn
ment of Congress, in the light of the
“no compromise'’ attitude of the Pres
ident, appeared very dim last night i
If the contest continues for weeks and '
months, some kind of compromise i
yet may be worked out to which the
White House will agree, it was sug
gested. One situation might develop
which would bring a comparatively ,
early disposition of the court bill. If
the opponents are firmly convinced
they have a majority against the bill
in the Senate and all compromises and
amendments are turned down, they
may permit a vote. In that situation,
the administration leaders will have
to decide whether they wish an early
vote.
Skunk Attend* Club Meeting.
OTTAWA, Kans. (A1).—A skunk at
tended a meeting of the Women's Pro
gressive Farm Bureau Club at the
home of Mrs. O. G. Wolf and it cost
him his life. Members of the club
scattered when the guest arrived. A
hurried call to the sheriff's office
brought Pat Dale, sheriff * deputy, who
•hot the animal.
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John Feeney of Boston Was Prom
inent Democrat.
BOSTON, May 15 (IP).—John P.
Feeney, 64. widely known Boston crim
inal lawyer and prominent in Demo
cratic politics, died today after a heart
attack.
Feeney had been ill for several
months.
He was personal counsel for former
Gov. James M. Curley, had been five
times Mayor of his native city of Wo
burn and was chairman of the Demo
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LABOR ACT DATA
Fahy, General Counsel, Says
Agencies Are Circulating
“Half-Baked” Advice.
Warning against "agencies dissem
inating half-baked Information" about
the national labor relations act was
Issued to the employers of the Na
tion in a radio address by Charles
Fahy, general counsel of the National
Labor Relations Board, in a radio ad
dress last night from Station WRC.
Reviewing the successful fight of
friends of the law to establish its con
stitutionality, Fahy declared it un
thinkable that industry should not j
now accept it.
That some employers, however, are
receiving advice as to means of evasion
is still a fact, he continued:
"It is somewhat disturbing," Pahy
said, "to notice that employers are
still receiving from certain sources
inaccurate advice as to the statute.
They were badly advised once before
as to its constitutionality. That ques
tion has been settled, and it is rather
curious that there is now a notable
amount of misleading information be
ing disseminated as to methods of
evading the act and as to possible gaps
in it. I say that this is ill advised
and misleading, because the statute is
not an easy one to evade. While it
is very moderate, in that it affords
legal protection only to fundamental
rights or liberties, the protection of
the rights and liberties is afforded in
generous measure. The prohibitions
against interference, influence and
corecton of employes in their rights
of self-organization and collective bar- (
gaining are framed in very general
language and cover all types of such
interference, influence and coercion.
“It is a very simple matter for em- j
ployers to refrain from such interfer- I
ence, influence or coercion. It is not j
a simple matter to endeavor to exert
such Interference, influence and coer
cion and escape the act, and if some
of the methods which some employers
seem to be devising to accomplish this
are carried out, they will unquestion
ably find that neither the board nor
the courts will tolerate such conduct,
however subtle. Nor should employers
readily accept advice as to this statute
without giving consideration to pre
vious board and court decisions under
it, defining what the act prohibits and
what it permits.
‘‘The most authoritative sources for
the guidance of employers are not
agencies disseminating half-baked in
formation about the act, or circular
izing employers who, they think, de-,
sire to scuttle the law of the United
States, The body of decisions ren
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cisions thus far rendered should ba
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solve.”
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CHIROPRACTORS NAME
DR. BAREFIELD HEAD
Virginia Association Elects Dr.
Boy Case of Alexandria
Vice President.
B5 the Associated Press.
ASHEVILLE, N. C , May 15.—The
Virginia Chiropractic Association,
meeting here today in conjunction'
with the annual convention of All
Southern States Chiropractors, elected
Dr. M. C. Barefield of Emporia, Va ,
president, and announced the annual
State meeting of the organization wiU
be held at Virginia Beach.
Other officers elected were Dr. Roy
Case, Alexandria, vice president; Dr.
J. Leighton Clark, Alexandria, secre
tary, and Dr. Clarence Outten, Lynch
burg, treasurer.
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