Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair with a cold wave and lowest tem- perature about 20 degrees tonight; tomor- row fair and continued cold;: warmer Friday. Temperatures—Highest, 58, at 4 lowest, 46, at 3:30 a.m. p.m. yesterday; today. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 84th YEAR. No. Full report on page A-6. 33,804. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ah ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1936—FORTY-SIX PAGES. " ITALY, REICH RECOGNIZE REBEL CAUSE IN SPAIN AS MADRID IS TOTTERING < < Franco Regime to Be Sent Envoys. ITALY GREETS | NAZI EDITORS Special Mission Is Received From Berlin. B the Associated Press. | ROME. November 18—Italy and Germany. the world's great Fascist powers, formally recognized the in-| surgent regime of Dictator-Designate Francisco Franco in Spein today. ‘The joint action came on the Italian “day of ignominy and iniquity,” the first anniversary of the day on which most of Europe’s powers—not includ- | ing Germany—resorted to League of | Nations sanctions in a futile effort to| stop Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. | It followed by less than a month an | Italo-German agreeraent under which | the two countries, both accused by the Spanish and Russian governments of aiding the Spanish insurgents with men and arms. agreed to work together on major problems of Europe. Text of Communique. An official cemmunique issued in Rome stated: “In consequence of the fact that Gen. Franco has taken possession of | the greater part of Spain and the de- velopment of a situation which shows with increasing clarity that in the re- maining part of Spain one cannot speak of the exercise of a responsible governing power, the Fascist govern- ment has decided to recognize the government of Gen. Franco and send to that government a Charge d'Af- faires to begin diplomatic relations “The Charge d’Affaires will go there immediately. The present diplomatic representatives have been recalled.” (Simultaneously, in Berlin, Ger- many granted official recognition to the Franco provisional government, with headquarters at Burgos.) The Italian preuurenu. in an- nouncing the recogmition by both powers, said no other government would be recognized in Spain. No Other Recognition. That meant no recognition would be granted to any government set up eventually in Barcelona or elsewhere by the present, constituted regime in Spain. The announcement was made at the moment that dozens of leading Ger- man Nazi editors and correspondents, | about 8 o'clock this morning, was sur- | who reached Rome this morning on}rqunded by mystery for several hours. | babies over portable stoves. a special mission under the guidance First announcements said the cause refugees sat on the bare platform nings told a small army of workers at of the Berlin press bureau. had ar- rived for an inspection of the Italian press ministry. ‘Without exception they were in mus- | Henri Salengro and Jean Ryckbusch, | government barricades fell out of the ' units GEN. FRANCO. FRENCH MINISTER COMMITS SUICIDE ‘Death of Roger Salengro Is | Laid to Rightist “Cam- paign of Infamy.” By the Assoclated Press. | LILLE. Prance, November 18 —Min- ister of the Interior Roger Salengro died today in a sealed and gas-filled | room, a suicide, his brother said, be- | cause of a Rightist “campaign of | infamy.” His death created grave new prob- lems for the French government of | Premier Leon Blum. Observers con- sidered the possibility the Rightist op- | position, which had repeatedly charged | Salengro was a war-time deserter, | might base a new attack on the grounds | that the government protected a | “guilty” man, f Both a court of honor and the | Chamber of Deputies recently clearsd | Salengro of the desertion charges, | which Rightists described as consti- | tuting “betrayal” of France. | Salengro's private secretary con- | firmed the suicide announcement by | Henri Salengro, the minister’s brother, | who declared Roger Salengro was [ “harassed and broken in health by the campaign of infamy against him.” At the same time, it was learned in Paris that the cabinet had received new and secret charges against Min- ;Sur Salengro during a meeting to- | day. | The death, which was discovered of death was heart disease. |ing for many hours later. but both 'Panic-Stricken Are Fleeing Shells. 'BOMBARDMENT RAISES HAVOC ‘ Populace Jams Sub- ways Amid Wild Scenes. BY the Assoclated Press. MADRID, November 18.—Packed four-deep in subway stations, terrified men, women and children made an underground city of bombarded and besieged Madrid today. Quarreling and jostling for elbow room or even curling up on the plat- forms beneath the shuffling feet of the crowds, Madrilenos sought safe refuge from aerial bombs and artil- lery shells while Fascist invaders and defending militiamen fought house to house in a corner of the city. Tanks Reported in City. (Unconfirmed advices from in- surgent sources just outside Madrid | were standing on the Paseo De Rosales in Madrid, after crossing into the city over a miitary bridge.) i Many of those who jammed the subway stations tried to push aboard | | trains running to the eastern sections | | of Madrid and away from the bom- | barded western and central portions | | The exodus to the eastern area be- gan after Fascist bombers rained ex- plosives and insurgent gunners sent | & barrage of shells ripping into the | business and residential districts. | Pew Madrilenos slept during the night as the thunder of a terrific bombardment from Fascist batteries | echoed throughout the terrorized city. Fires Rage. Fires blazed in the central district "as insurgent invaders threw all avail- ‘nble man and gun power into the drive to capture Madrid. { | The northwestern section was trans- | formed into a virtual no-man’s land as attackers and defenders fought building-to-building battles in the | University City district. | The flood of refugees crowded to | | capacity the platform of the Gran Via subway station, the deepest of all | Madrid’s underground transportation network. i Glands of Hanged Criminal Are Transferred to Invalid BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Btaff Correspondent ot I ne Star. BALTIMORE, November 18.—The said Fascist tanks and armored cars | astounding story of how endocrine | annual convention of the Southern glands of a criminal who was hanged were surgically transferred to an in- | valid, resulting in two years of vibrant health and a dramatic change of per- sonality, was revealed for the first time today by Dr. Hugh H. Young, world famous surgeon of Johns Hop- kins University. The case formed part of a remark- ' able exhibit by Dr. Young and Wil- | liam P. Didusch, set up at the 5th| Regiment Armory in Baltimore for the Medical Association. The convention opened today with more than 4,000 physicians and surgeons from the | southeastern United States in at- | tendance. ‘The patient, a man of 48, was a pitiful object when first brought to Dr. Young's clinic. He had suffered (See DOCTORS, Page A-10.) | PUSH CHEST DRNE, CHARMAN URGES 53.91 Per Cent of Quota Is Raised—$227,000 Per Day Set as Goal. Announcing that the ninth annual Community Chest campaign so far had | raised only 53.91 per cent of its quota of $1.969.000, Coleman Jennings, cam- LEGISLATVE GAN FORLABORISSEEN Miss Perkins Says Walsh- Healey Act “Must” Be Extended. BY JOHN HENRY, ROOSEVELT URGES 8taff Correspondent of The Star TAMPA, Fla., November 18.—While | Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins | carefully avoided any reference to| Yesterday’s Cii * %Kk (®) Means Asscciate rculation, 140,985 (Bome returns not yet received.) d Press. TWO CENTS. UNIDN CHIEF SEEKS QUICK SETTLEMENT OF BENDIX DISPUTE Automobile Workers’ Head to Ask Company for Conference. EMPLOYES OCCUPYING PLANT ORDERED SHUT Disturbance Attributed to Firm Showing Preference to Its Own Association. Br the Assoclateq Press, SOUTH BEND, Ind., November 18— Homer Martin, international president of the United Automobile Workers of America, arrived here today by air- plane with the "announcement he settlement” of the combined sit-down strike and lockout at the Bendix Products Corp. The youthful labor leader, after a brief conference with officers of the Bendix Union, said he would ask offi- cials of the company for a conference to open negotiations. Inside the extensive shops of the | manufactured for most makes of auto- estimated to number from 600 to 1,500, | mobiles and airplanes in the United FAIR JUB SHARING | States, a chilled group of workers, | remained in defiance of the shutdown Work for OId and Unskilled in Industry Sought by Executive. B the Associated Press. President Roosevelt called on in- dustry today to give a “fair share” of | jobs to older workers and to un-| skilled labor. He deplored the policy under which, | he said, “many of the largest indus- tries will not hire workers over 40 years of age” In a statement issued at the White House as the Chief Executive trav-| eled toward - South America, Mr. | Roosevelt said re-employment has in- creased rapidly, with the result that relief rolls in August were 28 per | cent under the peak of 5,316,000 fam- ilies and single persons, reached in January 1935. “Despite this decline,” he contin- | ued. “a large number of unemployed remain on the W. P. A. and other | governmental agencies. Mr. Roosevelt said: “Industry should continue and in- crease its re-emplovment efforts. To Lines of men and women four deep | paign chairman, today charged Chest ' labor's family troubles and confined | reduce substantially the unemploy- | formed beforé the train doors. Fami- | Workers with the responsibility of her address to reviewing the progress | ment relief rolls, industry must hire a i“es quarreled with one another for | | space. Roughly clad laborers jostled | well-dressed young Spanish girls. Mothers warmed milk for their | Other | | floor eating their dinner, which they | | soldiers arriving on trains from the aringing in an average of $227,000 each day for the next four days. which and prospects of the Nation under the Roosevelt administration, a rising larger number of the older workers and the unskilled workers. This would be about $100.000 increase over | tide of sentiment in favor of healing problem will, I hope, be recognized by the amount reported today. | “If we are to achieve our goal,” Jen- | the Willard Hotel luncheon, “you will | No official statement was forthcom- | had brought with them. War-weary have to go out and fight.” The report from five solicitation | today showed 20,072 gifts ing over the fifty-sixth annual con- | vention of the American Federation | of Labor. 1 Into this atmosphere both Secretary Perkins and George L. Berry, Federal co-ordinator for industrial co-opera- tard-colored uniforms, bearing the the minister's private secretary, said|cars, collapsed on the blatform and amounting to $129,405.17, bringing the : tion, brought visions of greater gains swastika. i Told of the rebels' recognition, the | secretary of the Spanish Embassy said | he had received no official notification. | He refused comment. | It also was announced Italy had re- | fused to join a French protest to Berlin | against Germany's abrogation of the | river internationalization clauses of the treaty of Versailles. | This newest denunciation of the post-war pact was made public last Saturday. Identical Communique. (The German government, through | {ts official news agency, issued a com- munique virtually identical to the one given out in Rome, except that the| words ““Reich government” were sub- stituted for “Fascist government.” ‘The Spanish war was one of the points on which the two powers agreed to | take united action during last month’s | visit to Berlin of the Italian foreign | minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. (The Berlin communique said Ger- | many would ‘“recognize the Franco | government and enter diplomatic re- | lations therewith.”) STATE'S EXECUTIVES TO HONOR GEN. CRAIG Gov. Park to Pin Distinguished Service Medal on Army Chief of Staff. BS the Associatea Press. KANSAS CITY, November 18— Btate Governors moved their twenty- eighth annual conference to Kansas City today to honor the Army’s chief | of staff after voting in favor of Con- gressional action to make the bene- fits of the social security act Nation- wide at once. Pointing out that 32 States now are without unemployment compen- sation laws, the 20 governors in a meeting at Jefferson City, Mo., yes- terday urged enabling action by the next Congress because many State Legislatures adjourned before the so- gial security act was adopted. Gov. Guy B. Park of Missouri will pin the Distinguished Service Medal on Gen. Malin Craig, Army chief of staff and a native Missourian, to- night. HONOR FOR SOLDIER Gettysburg Battlefield Dedication to Be Observed. GETTYSBURG, Pa., November 18 (). —Maj. Calvin Gilbert, 97, the last veteran of the Civil War in Gettysburg, will place a wreath on the grave of battle waged in and around this town. The occasion will be the 73d anni- versary of the dedication of the na- tional cemetery on the battlefield. i the death was a suicide. Later, physicians said the minister had taken his own life. They de- clared he was sprawled on the kitchen floor, in front of open gas jets. The doctors placed the time of death at 11 pm. last night. Salengro had been personally de- (Se¢ SALINGRO, Page A-5.) RUDY VALLEE’S EX-WIFE IN SERIOUS CONDITION {Fay Webb Rallies Slightly at Hospital After Second Blood Transfusion. BT the Associated Press. SANTA MONICA, Calif., November 18.—Fay Webb, divorced wife of Rudy Vallee, rallied slightly today after a second blood ' transfusion. but Santa Monica Hospital reported her condi- tion was “not hopeful.” She remained in a coma. The 27-year-old beauty was stricken with peritonitis after an abdominal operation last Friday. Her father, Capt. Clarence E. Webb of the Santa Monica police, said Vallee | had telephoned frequently to learn of her condition. “I'm sure Mr, Vallee would do any- thing he could to help,” the father added. “The past is all a closed book, and I bear him no malice.” — Murderer Is Executed. NASHVILLE. Tenn., November 18 (). —Elmer Barrett, 23-year-old col- ored man convicted of murdering W. N. Hardwick, Knoxville grocer, in a robbery, died in the electric chair at Tennessee's State Penitentiary today. He was the ninth person to be exe- cuted there this year. Police Pursuit OfF leeing Boys Awakens Town One Caught, 2 Escape in Midnight Chase at Alexandria. B & Btalt Correspondens o, The Star, ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 18. —Three National School boys and six policemen played a mod- ern game of “cops and burglars” here shortly after midnight this morning. ‘The boys are said to have escaped last night. The score was tied, 2 to 3, at the end of an exciting half hour. Speeded up to 75 miles an hour at one time, the “game” had residents in all parts of Alexandria leaning out of bed room windows and calling (See PURSUIT, Page A-3.) 2 went to sleep. E (See SPAIN, Page A-5.) | GERMANS ACCUSED OF PLOT BY SOVIET {23 Charged With Plot for Over- | | throw of Regime—Reich-Japa- nese Secret Pact Reported. By the Assoclated Press | MOSCOW, November 18.—Russia last night charged 23 Germans with | participating in a widespread plot to | overthrow the Soviet regime after a | communique declared Germany and Japan had signed a secret military pact against Russia. An offical statement alleged the Germans. recently arrested in Moscow | and Leningrad. plotted to steal secret | military information, to wreck in- dustrial plants and to kill governmental leaders. 1 Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff, a communique said, told German Am- | bassador Freidrich Werner von der | Scholenberg that several of those under arrest confessed their guilt. The assertion that Japan and Ger- many signed a military alliance di- rected against Russia was contained in an earlier statement issued through the foreign office and credited to the Tass official (Russian) news agency. PARIS HITS REPORTED REICH-JAPANESE PACT French Officials See Danger of World War—Italy Expected to Take Sides. B the Associated Press. PARIS November 18.—Official quar- ters today characterized the reported German-Japanese accord as a “dan- gerous move which might lead to World War.” Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos con- ferred with Viadimir Potemkin, Rus- sian Ambassador to France, concerning the reported anti-communism front, which official circles said Italy was ex- pected to join. Officials said it was a step toward dividing the entire world into separate “predatory and non-predatory” groups of nations. They declared there was grave danger of Japan lining up with Germany, Italy, Austria and Hungary against France and Russia for “mili- tary purposes” as well as to fight against the Communist doctrine. Plane Hunter Fined. BELOIT, Wis,, November 18 ().— Larry Hughes, business manager of the Rock County Airport, was fined and oosts yesterday for hunting Seese from an airplane. grand total to date up to 79,005 gifts Some of the refugees simply lay amounting to $1061,612.62, which is | through 53.91 per cent of the quota. | Stirring appeals were delivered to | the workers by Newbold Noyes, former | campaign chairman and former presi- dent of the Chest, and by William Mec- | Clellan, campaign chairman last year. | A feature of the program was the | appearance of one of the four public enemies, “Hunger,” who defended him- for labor through legislation and constitutional amendment whenever necessary. From Miss Perkins, for instance, | came the declaration that the Walsh- Healey act “must” be extended during | the coming session of Congress to be far more sweeping in its inclusion of contractors and employers in fixing | wage standards. | From Berry came a prediction voiced | (See CHEST, Page A-19) Surhmary of Page. | Amuscment__B-12 | Puzzles Army Orders B-5| Radio _____ Comics .. B-15 | Short Story___B-5 Editorial - A-8 | Society B-3| Finance ... A-15| Sports C-1-4| Lost & Found A-3| Woman's Pg. B-11 Obituary - A-101 NATIONAL. Berry and Miss Perkins see legisiative gains for labor. Page A-1 Union chief.seeks speedy settlement of Bendix dispute. Page A-1 Mix-up on Tugwell resignation due to forgetfullness of clerk. Page A-1 Tugwell resigns to become executive of American Molasses Co. Page A-1 President Roosevelt embarks for Buenos Aires. Page A-1 Roosevelt calls on industry to give jobs to older workers. Page A-1 Gov. Landon to retire from politics; | Hamilton ready. Page A-1/ Romance which stirred Baltimore in | 1914 is ending in Reno. Page A-1 Peace attempts persist in A. F: of L. convention. Page A-1 Strange case of gland transfer disclosed at medical convention. Page A-1 1,500 workers occupy Idle Bendix plant at South Bend. Page A-1 Mayors ask $750,000,000 public works appropriation. Page A-2 President commends Government mu- ral exhibition. Page A-2 Dividend disbursements by U. S. firms near $500,000,000. Page A-2 Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, fa- mous opera singer, dies. Page A-3 Mine Workers warn Green against C. 1. O. opposition. Page A-4 Indictment of Townsend and two as- sociates to be asked. Page A-4 Evidence tangles Kentucky slaying Page A-5 mystery. Navy's health good, Admiral Rossiter reports. Page B-2 Prospects for completion of Florida Ship Canal revived. Page B-2 FOREIGN. Salengro, French minister of interior, suicide, brother says. Page A-1 Rome and Berlin recognize rebels as Madrid totters. Page A-1 Russian officers declared in command in Madrid. Page A-5 Japanese menace to Suiyuan reported increasing. Page A-10 Bdwards' guards seize man who puts hand on monarch’ssrm. Page A-10 | School (See A. F. OF L, Page A-4.) Today’s Star WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Injunction against police surveillance sought. Page A-1 Community Chest gifts near half of quota. Page A-1 Escaped Training School boys lead police merry chase. Page A-1 Admiral Grayson may be inaugural chairman. Page A-z\ Howard U. foot ball team awaits an- | swer to food demands. Page A-5| Members of liquor ring sentenced at Norfolk. Page A-6 Colonial Beach threatened with suit in jail fire case. Page A-10 Two damaged vessels limping toward home ports. Page A-12 Cumberland celanese strike parley slated here tomorrow. Page A-19 New evidence of motorists banned in bonding racket charge. Page B-1 Secretary Ickes emphasizes opposition to abattoir in Capital. Page B-1 Board to consider building program. Page B-1 Jesse C. Duke waives removal hearing in Hogppel case charges. Page B-1 Crack B. & O. train wrecked at Hyattsville. Page B-1 D. C. physician, “nervous,” goes on “socking” rampage. Page B-1 Msgr. Corrigan to be inaugurated to- day as C. U. rector. Page B-1 Merchants urge Ninth street busses substitute for cars. Page C-10 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. ‘This and That. Page A-8 Answers to Questions. Page A-8 New Books at Random. Page A-8 Washington Observations. Page A-8 David Lawrence, Page A-9 Paul Mallon. Page A-9 Constantine Brown. Page A-9 Jay Franklin. Page A-9 Headline Folk. Page A-9 MISCELLANY. City News in Brief, Page B-6 Bedtime Story. Page B-8 Men’s Fashions. Page B-8 Nature's Children. Page B-8 ‘Young Washington. Page B-8 Betsy Caswell, Page B-11 Dorothy Dix. Page B-11 Vital Statistics. Page C-5 Page C-10 ily large number are older workers— | the breach in labor's ranks was sweep- | industry.” Many Are Old Workers. “These workers are to a large ex- tent unskilled and a disproportionate- | 40 years and over. The sharpest re- vival in employment has been among skilled workers and relatively young | workers.” | Declaring that under present indus- | trial policy many clder and unskilled ! persons would be condemned to per- manent unemployment, he said: “It is scarcely necessary to point to the seriousness of this policy to the unemployed. Long-continued unem- ployment for the older workers re- | sults sooner or later in unemploya- | bility. | “The non-employment df unskilled | workers likewise leads eventually to unemployability—and this means a permanent problem of support. And the burden of support is carried ulti- mately in large measure by industry itself.” Many businesses are responding to previous pleas to increase employ- ment, Mr. Roosevelt said. but “obvi- ously industry has not yet increased its employment sufficiently to permit the Government to withdraw its aid to the unemployed.” 1937 Plans Come Later. He said a supplemental appropria- tion will be asked to carry relief through this fiscal year. Plans for the next fiscal year will be an- nounced later, he added, indicating they would depend largely on how in- dustry heeds his pleas “to give work.” COLDEST WEATHER OF SEASON IS NEAR Frigid Air Mass From Hudson Bay to Plunge Temperature to 20 Degrees Tonight. The coldest weather of the season— with the temperature dropping to 20 degrees—is expected in Washington tonight. The forecaster said masses of cold air are moving in on the Capital from Ontario and the Hudson Bay region. While fair weather will pre- vail, low temperatures are in pros- pect for the next 36 hours. Friday is expected to be warmer. Temperatures as low as 20 de- grees are rather unusual for No- vember. The mild weather of the last 24 hours also was a little out of the ordinary for this late in the Fall. The mercury climbed to 58 degrees yesterday afternoon and dropped to only 46, the “low” mark. shortly be- fore 4 am. today. An hour later, It | order issued Tuesday morning. No Move to Eject Workers, Martin declined to say whether he had advised the men and women of his organization to stay inside the shops until a satisfactory settlement was reached, but there was no move- ment on the part of the workers to leave and no attempt by the man- agement company police. “My preliminary investigation shows the disturbance here was caused by the company union (Ben- dix Employes' Association) constantly | being played off against the union | men.” Martin said. “They were always getting the gravy.” Until Martin raised the question the only discernible issue in the con- troversy was unionization. Thomas J. Jeflers, president of Federal Union, No. 9, of the automobile workers, de- clared last night he and his support- ers would not leave the plant until thg company azreed to “100 per cent unionization.” Committee Inside Plant. With Jeffers inside the plant was the full membership of the union's Executive Committee of seven men. Contact with union leaders outside was made through the windows. There was no sign of disorder. In- side the unheated plant, the idle work- 2rs amused themselves by good-natured booing of guards and “front office” em- ployes and by community singing. Vincent Bendix, president, said the company would not recede from its position that it has the right to give employment to any person regardless of union affiliation. Several hundred workmen who re- ‘used to leave the plant yesterday when ordered to do so by John P. Mahoney, vice president in charge of manufac- turing, shivered in the cold factory buildings. Sympathizers passed coffee and sandwiches to them through win- dows. Suspended Indefinitely. Mahoney had informed the work- men plant operation would be sus- pended incefinitely. Bendix' employes received through | the mails a form letter from Mahoney advising them that “we have been forced to shut down the Bendix plant temporarily. Continuing, the letter said: “This is no fault of yours and cer- tainly no fault of ours. “You are losing wages every hour simply because a small group of in« considerate workers refused to work Tuesday morning when they entered the plant. “Naturally that stopped everybody else from working. “We didn't want to eject the dis- turbers or cause any trouble, s0, when they refused to get on the job and stood around, there was nothing left for us to do but shut off the power and close up the plant. “We have been observing both the letter and the spirit of the law in our relations with our employes. “We do nothing to prevent members of any labor union from working here. Membership Not Required. “At the same time, we do not re- quire any of our employes to be mem- bers of any labor union.” Against this statement was a flat demand by Jeffers for 100 per cent unjonization of the plant. . He made his statement from a win- dow of the aircraft plant. Inside with him, he claimed, were 1500 union (See BENDIX, Page A-2.) Police Escorts Ban Sought in Court by Pair Alleged Companions of O’Brien Chaper- oned Since Nov. 10. Charging that a policeman has stayed with each of them for 24 hours a day since November 10, to their great “humiliation and embarrass- hoped to effect a “speedy and amicable | Bendix Corp., where vital parts are | to have them ejected by | was back up in the 50s. Wage Earners Increase. Traffic Convictions. FINANCIAL. U. 8. bonds lead rise (table). Page A-15 Electric power index gains. Page A-15 Realizing checks stock rally (table). Page A-16 Ourb lst advances (table). Page A-17 PHILADELPHIA, November 18 (#). —The number of wage earners in Pennsylvania factories increased more than 1 per cent and was accompanied by a 6 per cent jump in employe- hours and wage disbursements dure ing the month ended October 15, the Federa] Reserve Bank of Philadelphis reports. 1 4 ment,” Harry Behrle and Willlam Carpenter, alleged companions of Joseph E. O'Brien when he was shot July 21, asked District Court today for an injunction against the Police De- partment, Asserting the constant surveillance will destroy their “health and busi- ness,” the pair petitioned Justice Jo- seph W. Cox to put an immediate end to the unwelcome companionship. When they came into court early (See m. NS, Page A-2.) TUGWELLRESIGNS POSTS T0 ASSIST MOLASSES FIRM Dr. W. W. Alexander Slated to Direct Resettlement Administration. UNDERSECRETARYSHIP REMAINS UNDECIDED Charles W. Taussig and A. A. Berle, Jr., Ex-Brain Trusters, to Be Business Associates. BT the Asscclated Press. Rexford G. Tugwell announced to- | day he had resigned his two jobs in the Roosevelt administration to be | come executive in a molasses come | pany. | In Memphis, Tenn, Tugwell told newsmen he had handed President | Roosevelt his resignation as Undere | secretary of Agriculture and admine | istrator of the Resettlement Admine istration. Shortly afterward the American | Molasees Co. in New York announced | he would become executive vice presis dent of that firm. In the absence of the President— | now en route to Buenos Aires—the | White House made public Tugwell's | letter of resignation and the latter's acceptance with the statement that | “later on I fully expect to ask you to come back to render additional service.” Tugwell told reporters Dr. W. W, | Alexander, chief deputy in the Re- settlement Administration, would suc- | ceed him in that post. At Alberquerque, Joseph L. Dailey, | assistant administrator of resettle- | ment, said he would resign soon and return to New Mexico to practice law. Spokesmen at the Agriculture Dee partment said they had no idea as to who might succeed Tugwell as Under= secretary. Alexander Former Clergyman. Alexander, 52-year-old former clergy- man, has been much interested in | racial and tenant problems and has been Tugwell's assistant for a year and a half. The White House exchange of letters disclosed no definite date for Tugwell's | resignation to become effective was stipulated, the President asserting that when he had returned from his trip to { South America that could be talked over between them. Tugwell's letter, which was handed to President Roosevelt yesterday, a few hours before the Chief Executive left on the first stage of his journey to the Buenos Aires Peace Conference, said: | My Dear Mr. President “For reasons which have been dis- | cussed between us more than once, I should like to be permitted to resign from the Government and return to private life within the next few months. “I have served through the better part of your first term as President with growing confidence in your polie cies and in you. I do not need to say that if you ever have real need for | me again I shall be on call. “Respectfully yours, “R. G. TUGWELL.” Text of Roosevelt Reply | The President’s reply follow | “Dear Rex: | “I fully understand the reasons that make you feel you should, for awhile, at least, return to private life within the next few months. You have given generously and efficiently of your services to the Government for | the past four years and I want you | to know that later on I fully expect to ask you to come back to render ad- ditional service. “Later on when I have returned (See TUGWELL, Page A-5.) 'NICE TO “CONSIDER” SPECIAL SESSION Governor Will Contact Washing- ton on Unemployment Insur- ance Legislation. BY the Assoclatca Press. BALTIMORE, November 18.—Gov. Harry W. Nice wired the Evening Sun from St. Louis today he would “se- riously consider” the necessity of a special legislative session to act on unemployment insurance. The newspaper asked the Governor to express his views on the need of & special session to enact legislation ene abling Maryland to secure returns from the pay roll tax supporting the Federal unemployment insurance plan, Nice, who is attending the Govere nors’ Conference at St. Louis, said, in part, in his telegram: “Governors’ Conference will probe ably adopt resolution calling on the President and Congress to advance the deadline from December 31 to some time in 1937. - “‘Cost of extra session must be cone sidered and compared with loss to Maryland through failure to call extrs session. On my return will seriously consider the matter, probably contact Washington, await action Governors’ Conference and proceed with caution. “Will not commit myself at this time. If extra session necessary, 10 days will be sufficient. Therefore, De- cember 21 would be about appropriate time.” PO, GREEK EX-PREMIER DIES Alexander Papanastasiou Fought Restoration of Monarchy. ATHENS, Greece, November 18 (). —The death of former Premier Alex- ander Papanastasiou deprived the op- position to the restored Greek mon- archy today of one of its most brilliant leaders. Papanastasiou, a labor leader and advocate of republican .government, died yesterday of a heart attack. He was twice premier, in 1924 and 1932, of the 1l-year republic which was termined when King George e~ turned to the throne last year.