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AF.OFL CLANS 7000 AUTO NEN Green Says That Number of Automobile Workers Are “Paid Up.” By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, February 23.—William Green, American Federation of Labor president, claimed a “paid-up” union membership of 20,000 in the automo- bile industry today and said no strike was planned. “We are thinking in terms of peace—in terms ‘of collective bargain- ing and independent workers,” he said. He conferred here today with the National Council of A. F. of L. automobile unions on a plan to weld auto workers into one large union. Authorize Negotiations. After Green's conference With National Council, a group which rep- resents 145 automobile labor unions, Francis J. Dillon, federation organ- izer, issued a statement saying the council had authorized Green to open new negotiations with the automobile manufacturers “for a mutually satis- factory working agreement relating to wages, hours and conditions of employment.” Dillon disclosed in his statement that Green would try for an immedi- ate contact with the manufacturers, explaining that the council delegates would remain in Detroit to learn whether the manufacturers will deal with Green. Dillon’s statement indicated that the A. F. of L. would continue to dis- regard the bargaining agencies being set up by the National Automobile Labor Board. Green made his claim of 20,000 paid-up union members and approxi- mately the same number delinquent in their dues because of unemploy- ment, in the face of Automobile Labor Board figures showing that the A. F. of L. represents only 4 per cent | of the automobile workers. Only Few Favor A. F. of L. The Labor Board said that of the 81,000 employes of 19 automobile plants who have voted in collective | bargaining primary elections, only 3,332 expressed preference for the A. F.of L. Eighty-six per cent of the eligible employes voted, the board | said. Green, an avowed enemy of the La- bor Board established by President Roosevelt a year ago to check a threatened strike, said that under its | plan of selecting collective bnnzuming committees in auto plants “no free, independent election could be held.” He criticzed its program, under which representation is proportionate | to the strength of various labor groups in each plant, and ™ 'urged abolition of the board. He proposed as a substitute & Labor Relations Board under the Jurisdiction of the National Industrial Recovery Administration. The pres- ent board, headed by Dr. Leo Wolman, is responsible only to President Roose- velt. Cites Organiaztion Difficulties. Green said the A. F. of L. is experi- encing the most difficulty in organiz- | ing unions in the automobile, steel and rubber industries. “Until 18 months ago,” he said, “au- tomobile men showed no desire to or- ganize, because of seasonal and other conditions. “We organized metal pol- ishers and some of the erafts, but never general automobile labor. Now we are trying to bring all classes of labor into our ranks.” A. F. of L. members in the automo- | bile industry now belong to “Federal” | labor unions, under direct jurisdiction of the parent organization. The plan under discussion today @8lled for for- mation of an autonomous “interna- tional” union to include all divisions of labor within the ind Adult Education Plan in Buffalo Includes 30,000 % By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., February An adult educational program, which started here with two teachers and a borrowed class room in the Spring of 1933, today has 30000 grown-ups enrolled in regular classes in more than 200 subjects. teachers working in 60 emergency | free schools. There are day and eve- ning classes. with 20.000 of the stu- dents attending day sessions. High school graduates who had lost hope of going to college—500 of them—are being given two years of regular college work: physically han- dicapped persons are learning to make | saleable toys from broomsticks and “STRIPED” JACKRABBITS EXPLAINED AS FAKES Pictures Show Shadows Cast by Fence Slats, Kansas Wants World to Know. By the Associated Press. DODGE CITY, Kans., February 23. —Kansas wants it known that its jackrabbits, detested though they may be as crop marauders, are not striped like zebras. ° For the benefit of those who may be offered photographs showing the animals with stripes across their backs, Kansas sportsmen explain they are “fakes.” Reports that such pic- tures were being offered by rodeos have been received here. The stripes, the sportsmen said, | are shadows cast by slats in a fence inclosing the rabbits. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Pair, slightly warmer today; tomorrow cloudy and colder; moderate southwest winds. Maryland—Pair, slightly warmer today; tomorrow cloudy and colder. Virginia—Fair, slightly warmer to- day; tomorrow partly cloudy, colder in | north portion. | West Virginia—Fair, warmer today; tomorrow cloudy, colder in north por- tion, probably followed by rain in afternoon or at night. Reports Until 10 P. M. Saturday. Midnight 32 12 noon ...... 2 am. 32 2 pm. 3 4 am, 31 4pm. 6 am. 32 6 pm. 8 am. 33 8pm. . 10 am. 34 10 pm. Record Until 10 P.M. Saturday. Highest, 39, 4 p.m. yesterday; year ago, 39, Lowest, 31, 10 p.m. yesterday; year ago 20. Record Temperatyres This Year, Highest, 62, on February 15. Lowest, —2, on January 28. Tide Tables. There are 4oo\s7pnnmellg‘ 1l A | squawk about it—they can't. | | (Furnished by United States Coast and Goedetic Survey.) Today. ‘Tomorrow. vee 11:482.m. 12:04 am. 5:51am. 6:28 a.m. 12:37pm. . 6:4lpm. 7:29 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises, Sets. | Sun, today 6:49 5:54 | Sun, tomorrow. 6:48 5:55 ‘Moon today...11:16pm. 8:46am. Automobile lights must be turned | on one-half hour after sunset. !ngh .o Low | High Low Precipitation. ‘ Monthly precipitation in inches in | the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1935. Average. Record. 708 '8 6.84 884 9.13 10.69 10.94 10.63 September. | October. November.. | December .. 3.3 | Weather in Various Cities. Precip!- ~Temperature~ tation. Max. Min. $p.m. | i The trio of dancers who will interpret the Blue Danube as part of the entertainment for the testimenial dinner for Public Printer A. E. Giegengack to be held at Wardman Park Hotel next Saturday at 7 pm. Left to right: Misses Alice Louise Hunter, Christine Stewart and Eda Vomacka. So far, more than 800 reservations have been made for the dinner, which is sponsored by Government Printing Office employes in conjunction with orgsnlnuonx and 1nd1vldu||s associated with the graphic arts industry. “Painless Education” Called Success After 4-Year Trial University of Chicago Plan Declared Exhilarating by Both Students and Professors. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 23.— After four years’ trial of the “‘new plan” of education at the University of Chi- cago, Dean Chauncey S. Boucher pro- nounces the new scheme of things “ex- hilarating.” “Scholarship,” asserted the dean, in a report to be published Monday, “is a major ‘student activity The Chicago plan allows the student to take as long or short a period as | he likes to prepare for the examina- tions which judge his readiness for academic degree. He may go to class +gg | or picnic on the midway. And the re- 01 | sult of putting the student on his own, said Dean Boucher, is: “Students have asked for more ex- aminations, longer library hours and | for more group meetings with instruc- ; | tors—in the last case knowing that B Birmingham, Als 3ismarck. N. Dak aston. Mass. iffalo. N ¢ ucego. Tl s Cincinneti, Ohio .. Cheyenne, Wryo. Cleveland, Ohio Davenport Towa.. D 1Colo 5 D: nes. Detroit. Mich, o+ Duluth. Minn. Mich Memphis. ‘Tenn. Miami. Fla Minneapolis Mobile Marguette, " Minn’ ew onenm Ia N sze Nebr. Nebr Ohifadeionia, Ba.. . Phoenix. Ari: Pittsburgh A Portland. Me 23— | Portland. Ores. Salt Lake City St Louis. Mo Tex sm Biewo, “cant. F cisco. Cal. 3 8 m N, Mex Sa vai ot Wagh: LoanasnhuoT sl b T Vicksburs WA D. 0.09 ,Kldnaped Chickens Gassed First. BALTIMORE (#).—Ckhickens stolen one Baltimore suburb no longer Max Schratke said the last two | times thieves cleaned out his coop old inner tubes; actors are being | they quieted the hens with gas trained in a stock company, and there | is a civic opera company under ex: perienced direction. There are classes for bookkeeping and typing. The State Education Department found the “best procf of their worth” in the high average of attendance, about 15,000 daily out of 20,000 en- rollment in the day classes. ‘There are child nursery schools and mothers are learning how to make | their famflies’ clothes and even the bed covers. Manufacturers CO-operate | o by giving odds end ends. Thousands of women are receiving cooking | courses similar to those given in high | &chool home econumiu classes. 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Dean Boucher, who under President Max Mason in 1924 started prelim- inary work on the new system, in- augurated under President Robert Maynard Hutchins in 1931, called the plan a success, but not without re- marking: “We claim no mystic for- mula for painless education.” In the first three years, 2,109 stu- dents took 9,931 examinations, and only 110 were ultimately dismissed for poor work. “‘Only 34 finished the first two years of college work in less than the normal | |term. After this period of general | | preparation the student advances to | the higher college division, in which he works toward the bachelor's degree. | The dean concluded that the new educational freedom was stimulating ‘w professor as well as pupil. He | quoted one faculty member as writing: “If five are absent from my class of 130 I know word has gotten around \lhnl I haven't much to offer that week. | value of making me teach better. | The policeman’s badge is off. Dean Boucher summed it up: “To educate one’s self is an arduous | process that may be painfully dreary | or delightfully exhilarating. * * * And |it can never be facilitated by any kind of pedagogical twilight sleep. I believe students and faculty alike have found the new plan exhilarating— and quite the antithesis of anything resembling pedagogical twilight sleep.” Named Mission Head. SALT LAKE CITY, February 23 {#)—The first presidency of the Lat- ter Day Saints Church today an- nounced the appointment of Abel S. Rich, principal of the church’s sem- inary at Brigham City, Utah, since 1915, as president of the Canadian Mission. | He will succeed John V. Bluth of | Ogden, Utah, who has headed the | | Mission since 1931. Mission headquar- | ters are located at Toronto. * '+ My assumption has the | ol FULL-LENGTH HUMAN X-RAYS DISPLAYED Maryland, Virginia and District Chiropractors Seen First of New Pictures. For the first time in the develop- ment of X-ray, full-size pictures of the entire skeleton were shown yes- terday and demonstrated by Dr. H. Lewis Thrubenbach on the opening day of the tri-State convention of Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia chiropractors. In Dr. Trubenbach's talk yester- day afternoon at the New Colonial Hotel, where the convention is being held, he pointed out that in addi- | tion to this being the first time such a full-length X-ray was possible it went even further, taking the picture while the bones were normally func- tioning. Another unusual angle is that the subject being X-rayed does not lay prone as heretofore has been the practice, but stands upright af ease in front of the photographic ap- paratus. Today marks the closing of the convention, the session yesterday clos- ing with a banquet and dance, with Dr. Frank T. Shyne of Washington acting as toastmaster. LORTON POPULATION UP A gradual increase in the number of prisoners incarcerated in the Lor- ton Reformatory in January was re- ported to the Board of Public Welfare | by Col. William L. Peak. At the end of January there were 1,293 men in the prison as compared with 1219 in January. 1934, and 1254 in December. 1934. The average daily population in January was 1,270 as against 1,255 in the previous month. WESTINGHOUSE Electric and Manufacturing Co. Of East Pittsbugh, Pa. Announce The Appointment of The Loughborough Qil Co. 1705 L St. N.W. As Authorized Distesbutor for Westinghouse Air Conditioning Products _ In Washington, D. C. And Nearby Maryland and Virginia The Loughborough Oil Company is entirely Washington owned and has been operated continuously for more than twelve years. Its officers are Mr. C. E. Galliher, President; Mr. C. H. Galliher, Vice President, and Mr. L. S. Scott, General Manager. ‘The Air Conditioning Division of the Company is under the direction and supervision of Mr. A. E. Beitzell, Air Conditioning Engineer, with more than seven years of practical experience in the designing and installation of Air Conditioning Plants of all types. . Mr. Robert C. Simms isin charge of installations, with more than ten years of practical experience in installing both large and small Air Conditioning Plants over a wide area. Mr. Elmer E. Rothe is the Field Representative of the com- pany. “The public is cordially invited to inspect Westinghouse Air Conditioning Products now on display at the Electric Insti- tute, on the ground floor of the Potomac Electric Power Company building, at 10th ¥ E Streets, N.W. IBETHLEHEM STEEL QUIZ SCHEDULED, Officials to Be Asked if Com- pany Would Submit to 100 Per Cent Tax. By the Assoclated Press. In an effort to gain support for its proposed war profits control legisla- tion, the Senate Muniiions Committee indicated informally yesterday it planned to toss at the Bethlehem Steel Co. a question as to whether it would submit to a 100 per cent tax on profits in time of war. ‘The Bethlehem company, going un- der examination tomorrow, will be the last of the “big three” to be questioned by the committee as part of its study of means of taking the profit out of war, To Be Questioned on Profits. While there was no formal an- nouncement on the procedure in ex- amining the ship company, it was indicated a question of its willingness to forego profits would be directed at its officials “for purposes of the rece ord.” The answer would be sought in support of tax legislation the com- mittee is preparing to curb the profits of war industries. “We must have evidence to support any demand we make for control of war Industries,” said Senator Nye, Re- publican, of North Dakota, chairman of the committee. In questioning shipbuilders the committe has already encountered a major difficulty in its efforts to deter- mine profits. Dissatisfaction was ex- pressed by several committee members at the Navy study of warship costs. The committee had looked to the Navy study as a guide, only to find the de- partment had no information of over- head or wage schedules.in the private shipyards upon which to base its estimates. Tabulation “Worthless.” One member described as “worth- less” a tabulation presented the com- mittee by the Navy showing construc- tion costs in the Government yards $2,000,000 less than the $11,500,000 price for cruisers in private yards. Senate committee members have expressed opposition to the principle of the war profits control bill in the House with its plan for setting maxi- mum prices at the outset of war and taking profits on a graduated scale. First witness on the Senate com- mittee stand Monday will be Eugene Grace, president of Bethlehem, and the examination was expected to con- tinue about two weeks, after which | naval officials will be called for a brief | questioning in preparation for draft- | ing legislation. DEATH PROBED FURTHER Analysis of Blood Ordered Philip McCullough Death. Following an autopsy yesterday afternoon, a chemical analysis of the blood of Philip McCullough, 37, of 33 R street northeast was ordered by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. McCullough _died early yesterday morning at Georgetown University Hospital, where he had been admit- ted on February 18 as the patient of a private physician. The autopsy was ordered to determine cause of death, in but Coroner MacDonald said results | of the blood analysis must be received before a decision can be reached. This will not be for several days, h said last night. Roosevelt Given License Plates Lower Than Lowest By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, PFebruary ° 23. — There’ll be no mistaking the President’s automobile in Georgia. ‘Today the Motor Vehicle Li- cense Department mailed plates to the Warm Springs home of President Roosevelt. They were made for the President’s use only and bore the letter “R,” noth- ing more. Georgia is his “second home.” He frequently occupies his cot® tage, the “Little White House,” on Pine Mountain at Warm Springs. o MARLAND BALKED ONRECOVERY PLAN Oklahoma iliouse Speaker| Thwarts New Governor’s Ambitious Program. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Februray 23 = Gov. E. W. Marland’s huge recovery program for Oklahoma—following closely the national plans of President | Roosevelt—is being battered and | altered by legislative opposition. | A fighting speaker of the House, Leon C. Phillips, is leading the stand | against immediate action on the mil- | lionaire Governor's plans. | Marland Challenges Phillips. Irked by failure of the Legislature to create and finance fiood control, | housing, new industries and planning boards, Marland challenged Phflhps to substitute a better plan. ‘The reply of the red-haired speaker | was that he bcpes to balance the budget, pass revenue measures, finance | the schools and provide for relief be- | fore getting around to Marland’s prn-‘ gram. | | Efforts are being made to bring .! compromise. The Governor announced | he would not permit the ouster of | Phillips as Speaker. But the Legisla- | ture adjourned Thursday until Mon- day without acting on any of the major administration bills. Planned Ambitious Program. T A former Representative, Marland gained wide attention when he an- nounced prior to his inauguration last January that he proposed to build | 50,000 subsistence homesteads in Okla- | homa, bring new industries to the | State, provide jobs for every man who | would work, and furnish old-age pen- | sions. Legislative opposition developed | when he asked approximately $35.- 000,000, of which $10,000,000 was to balance the budget and pay off the | deficit, $10,000,000 for schools each year and $5,000,000 for his emergency | recovery plans, with the remainder | for current operating expenses and emergency relief. Only one of a dozen measures suh- mitted has become law. It places a | 3-cents per package tax on clnrems | for one year. Continuance of N. R. A. Asked. CHICAGO, February 23 (#)—Con- | tinuance of the N. R. A. was asked | in & resolution adopted today at the | annual convention of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors. Armond W. Riley, deputy N. R. A. administrator in charge of the to- | bacco division, told the distributors | | secret rebates constituted an unfair | practice. RAISE BUY YOUR OIL BURNER A-S BETTY GOW RAPS REILLY AND HIDES Evades Reporters in London After Denouncing Lawyer for Hauptmann. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 23.—After one withering blast at Attorney Edward J. Reilly, Betty Gow went into hid- ing tonight. A diligent search of London hotels failed to locate the pretty Scot girl who, as Baby Charles A. Lindbergh's nurse, was the last person to see him alive and one of the star State wit- nesses in the Hauptmann murder trial. Miss Gow was believed to be with her mother, who met her at Southampton. Holds Attack “Brutal.” ‘The nurse broke her customary silence to take bitter exception to what she termed “brutal and unjust” attacks upon her by Hauptmann's de- fense lawyers. Rellly, she said, “went too far. To insinuate that I knew more about the tragedy than I made known to the court was most unjust. I am sure he would not have been allowed to do that in Britain. He should not be allowed to do it in America.” Reports that she became engaged | to be married while in the United States or that she intends to go on the stage are “all untrue,” Miss Gow said. “All I went to do is to return | to my home in Scotland and stay there to rest in peace. It feels so good | not to have a detective at my heels day and night.” “We want to forget that terrible time,” Betty's mother commented, “I | probably will send Betty away for a short holiday before deciding what she will do.” “Arctic Patrol” Planes Land. 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