Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and much colder tonight and to- morrow; lowest temperature tonight about 32 degrees; northwest winds. Tem- peratures—Highest, 69, at 6:'30 a.m. to- day; lowest, 59, at 10:30 a.m. tod Full report on page A-23. Closing New York Markets, Page 22 85th YEAR. No. KIDNAP SUSPECT SURRENDERS FOR POLICE GRILLING Former California Convict| Walks Into Tacoma Headquarters. ANOTHER MAN IS HELD IN BLOCKADED PRISON| Search Is Pressed for Pair Who, Disappeared From Rented Cottage. By the Associated Press. Ex-convict sought for questioning in | Mattson kidnap-killing case sur- renders to police at Tacoma, Wash. Justice Department agents question prisoner under sentence for robbery. | Officers seek to identify shack con- | taining boy’s clothing as lair of kidnap-killer. ! Officers reported to have found ham- mer near site of boy's battered corpse. ‘ Potential suspects and clues pile up, | but officials refuse comment. B the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash., January 15.—Fred Orrin Haynes, former Folsom (Calif.) Prison convict, sought for questioning in the Charles Mattson kidnap-killing case, surrendered here today and was questioned in Detective Capt. Marshall Scrafford’s office. The detective said Haynes came into the city police station early today, | while State police were seeking a man and a woman who disappeared from a four-room furnished cottage n\'ef miles north of Seattle Wednesday—two days after the body of the 10-year-old boy was discovered near Everett, Wash. Another man, Lee Haskell Fowler, 36, was held in the county jail at Bellingham, Wash. The jail was blockaded while Federal officers inter- rcgated him. Chief William Cole of the State police, investigated the cottage north of Seattle and said neighbors reported a man resembling Haynes occupied it until Wednesday. A blue clay barbecue pit is along a creek nearby, but Cole said the “whole country there is of blue clay forma- tion.” Blue clay was found under the slain boy's fingernails. Three Names Used. Cole said three names were used | by the man and a woman companion who lived in the house. One was| used in renting the cottage, another in buying fuel and the third in tele- grams intended for the man after he and the woman had left. The woman also was sought. Neighbors, the chief said, reported the man was “in and out of the house at night.” He was supposed to be a photographer. An official source asserted the Bel- lingham prisoner, Fowler, declined to account, during several hours of ques- | tioning, for his whereabouts since | December 27, the night 10-year-old | Charles was seized for the $28000 ransom his physician father tried in ‘vain to pay. The same source said suspicion was | aroused by Fowler's sudden action in pleading guilty Tuesday to robbing a milling company December 17. He is under 20-year sentence. Woman Sees Picture, At San Jose, Calif., & former Seat- tle woman told Sheriff George W. Lyle a photograph convinced her Haynes was the man to whom she rented the cottage near Seattle two | months ago. Haynes has served a term in California for receiving stolen goods. | At Everett, the killer's trail grew | Prsiad o Bl dil ot el (See KIDNAPING, Page A-2) COLDER WEATHER MOVES ON CAPITAL| Freezing Temperature Is Expected | to End Freak Period—89 at 4 A M. Today. Colder weather, moving eastward, is expected to reach Washington tonight, bringing possibly freezing tempera- tures and ending a freak period which saw the mercury soaring to 69 degrees at 4 am. today. ‘The forecaster predicted fair and much colder weather tonight and to- morrow. The minimum probably will be around 32 degrees. Residents of this vicinity had the unusual experience of having the highest temperature of the last 24 hours at 4 o’clock this morning—ordi- narily the time when the “low” mark 1s recorded. The Weather Bureau de- scribed this as a very unusual occur- rence. Beginning at 46 at midnight Wed- mesday, the mercury climbed steadily yesterday and at midnight stood at 67 degrees. After reaching the peak at 4 am. today it started falling. The sudden rain sent the temperature down several degrees further. COOLIE ADMITS KILLING -U. S. WOMAN IN NANKING 15-Month-Old Murder Mystery Is Solved, Police Say—Robbery Held Motive. By the Associated Press. NANKING, January 15.—The 15- month-old mystery of the death of Dr. Susan Waddell Hsu, formerly of Berkeley, Calif, was solved today with police announcement a 'rick- shaw coolie had confessed her slay- | | | | ing. The body of the American woman, wife of Dr. Hsu Shih-chu, was found in a ditch beside a lonely Nanking yoad October 16, 1935. Police sald Liu Yung-hsing, the coolie, had confessed strangling and robbing her. Liu was being questioned about 33,862. Hazen and Allen Reap pointed SHIKEIIP BATILE 1 and German Air Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. As Dustrict @ ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937T—FIFTY PAGES. %k Commissioners L3 Roosevelt’s Action Ends Speculation on Retirement. President Roosevelt today nomi- nated Melvin C. Hazen and George E. Allen for reappointment as Dis- | trict Commissioners. The nominations were sent to the Senate early and were to be referred ; to the District Committee. This ends | speculation as to possible retirement | of one or more of the Commissioners. It is known that the President has been much pleased with the admin- istration of Washington's affairs by the present Commissioners. The re- appointments, therefore, were no sur- prise to those in touch with the sit- uation. Hazen is president of the Board of | Commissioners. Prior to his appoint- { ment to the board he had served for many years as District surveyor. Allen, before assuming the District Building post, had been in the hoteli management business here. | Allen had told newspaper men at the Capitol, near the end of the last session, that he planned to resign as Commissioner about the “middle of November.” That is, he meant | after the national elections. The statement, however, was not | final or conclusive and Allen after- ward said he would know more defi- | nitely later on. | Hazen and Allen have served as| head of the District government since | November 14, 1933. They succeeded Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer and Ma}. | Gen. Herbert B. Crosby. Their first commissions were given as recess appointments, since Con- | gress was not in session at the time. They were reappointed for the full term on January 15, 1934, when the appointments were approved by the | Senate. | GEORGE E. ALLEN. MELVIN C. HAZEN. ROME AND BERLIN *ASK BRITAIN'S AD TSeek to Trade Activity in Spain for Anti-Com- munist Stand. | BACKGROUND— Traditional balance of power policy commits Britain to middle- road tactics in Spanish crisis. Strict non-intervention demanded by France supported by Baldwin government but taken less seri- ously by Italy and even less seri- ously by Germany. Nazis, already outspoken in demand jor colonial empire, openly flout Russia as leading spirit of Spanish loyalist movement. | By the Associated Press. ROME, January 15.—British ad- herence to a European anti-commu- nism bloc was reported today in in- formed Fascist circles as the Italo- German price for strict non-interven- tion in the Spanish civil war. Should Great Britain decline the invitation which Premier Mussolini | Minister Wilhelm | Goering are reported drafting, Fas- | cists said the temptation for Ger- many and Italy to support the Span- ish insurgents openly would be great. If Britain joins Italy and Germany in the front against communism, however, these sources said, there need be no further obstacles to strict neu- trality in Spain. In the meantime, it was reported, no answer to the last British demand for non-intervention could be ex- pected until II Duce and Fuehrer Adolph Hitler’s first minister have fully determined the joint Italo-Ger- man procedure. France Also Inciuded. A similar invitation, it was said, would be extended to France. While full Prench participation was con- sidered doubtful, less adamant French support of the Spanish government would be an important phase of the agreement. Fascist sources regarded the French position in the ultimate four-power anti-communism bloc with a mental question mark. A storm of opposition was foreseen from the French Popular Front, and, even under the best of conditions, 1t was felt France would be greatly embarrassed to find a solution which would not conflict with her alliance with Russia. Nevertheless, it was felt in Rome, should the alignment be completed, France could be persuaded to lessen her interest in the popular front in Spain. Despite his arduous program of po- litical conferences —the spectacular air minister talked with Il Duce three (See EUROPE, Page A-3.) Notice to Subscribers Inaugural Editions Mailed January 19, 20 and 21 The Star carrier will call upon you within the next few days to take your order for mailing of The Star’s three Inaugural issues to members of your family and friends living out of town. The cost of the three issues, January 19, 20 and 21, is 15¢ mailed anywhere in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Foreign, 45c. For the single issue January 20, Inauguration day, includ- ing a 24-page tabloid and 16- page tabloid rotogravure sec- tion, the price is 5c. Foreign, 15¢c. Star carrier will collect other slayings in which he was be- lieved implicated, after which his death by was ordered, i for each order placed. THREATS CHARGED “TOGUARD OFFCER ‘Attorney Tells La Foilette Probers He Was Warned to Drop Flogging Case. BY JOHN C. HENRY. | Yelverton Cowherd, a labor attor- | ney of Birmingham, Ala, told the La Follette Committee today that Capt. William J. Hanna made threats | that he (Cowherd) would be “taken the Gelders case. | National Guard, and said to be head of a secret service maintained by ders as one of the Vigilantes who beat and flogged him last September 23. | | | STARTS IN SENATE WITHBYRD ATTACK Virginian Opposes Measure of Glass to Continue R. F. C. Functions. JOINT COMMITTEE PLAN SUPPORTED BY ROBINSON House Speaker Given Authority Yesterday for Appointments to Such a Group. BULLETIN, Overriding the opposition of Chairman Byrd of its Special Re- organization Committee, the Sen- ate jammed through by a 73-to-1 vote this afternoon the proposal to continue the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and five subsidiary emergency lending agencies for another two and one-half years. Byrd cast the only dissenting vote. Senator Glass, sponsoring the measure, offered a conciliatory amendment to extend the agencies only until July 1, 1938, but this was voted down, 52 to 22, BY WILL P. KENNEDY. ‘The fight in Congress over reor- | ganization of the Government struc- | st HEARING PROMISED ture started in the Senate today with ate Reorganization Committe obpos- ing the bill sponsored by his colleague, Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, to continue the functions of the Re- construction Finance Corp. | Senator Byrd argued that to extend this and other emergency agencies created by Congress for two and a half years would seriously interfere with an effective reorganization of the machinery of government. Byrd expressed conviction that these agencies should be continued only to July 1, 1938, at which time Congress could extend them further if the necessity arose. ‘This first clash over reorganization came simultaneously with an an- nouncement by Majority Leader Rob- inson that he proposed to co-operate with the House in organization of the new special joint committee on or-| ganization through which the Presi- dent’s proposals for reorganization would be sent. House Gives Authority. ‘The House late ‘yesterday had au-| | care of” if he didn't keep out of | with inquisitorial powers. | Co., was identified by Joseph S. Gel- | ommendations, while the Senator in-| Cowherd told the committee also of threats made against Gelders by Hanna on the afternoon of Septem- | ber 23. | He testified that another National | Guard officer, Maj. Harry E. Smith, | had told him that 15 out of 17 of- | ficers in the Birmingham district are on the pay roll of the T. C. I. It was testified previously that the National Guard has been supplied to the T. C. I on several occasions to handle labor troubles. Testifying that he accused Hanna of making the threats, Cowherd said he warned the officer he had “better keep your mouth shut, because the Government is interested in this case and I'm going to testify about it.” ‘Talking with reporters laier, Cow- herd said Hanna had been active in pressing for a campaign by the Ameri- can Legion Post there to keep the terms “Communist” and “labor” tied up together, thus attempting to brand all union members and labor organ- izers as Communists. Cowherd said that becsuse of this effort, he resigned frcm a Legion committee and was replnced by a law partner of Borden Bu.rr, counsel for the T. C. I, who apjeared yes- terday before the committee. A second witness before the com- mittee today also involved Hanna through circumstantial evidence. Carey E. Haigler, C. C. C. worker, re- peated conversation in which Hanna said “Reds” should be beaten with base ball bats. Gelders was beaten with a base ball bat as well as a strap. The background of evidence point- (See LA FOLLETTE, Page A-2.) SIX PERSONS KILLED IN OIL LINE BLAST Five Others Burned Seriously. Explosion Occurs in Attempt to Repair Leak. By the Associated Press. PRYOR, Okla., January 15.—Four women and two men were burned to death last night near Strang, Okla., when an oil line of the Gulf Oil & Refining Co. exploded while a crew of seven men was attempting to repair 8 leak. Five other men were burned seri- ously and were brought to a hospital here. The dead: Mr.. and Mrs. Currie Barnett, Guthrie, Okla. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gillam, Stroud, Okla. Mrs. John Estes, Avant, Okla. Mrs. John Lamb, Seminole, Okla. Injured were John Estes, Avant, foreman; Sim Beeson, Avant; Alton Awling, Shawnee; Joe Alton, Jenks, and John Lamb, Seminole. Reports here said the women were thorized the Speaker to appoint the | House members for such a committee The divergence between the Presi-| Hanna, an officer of the Alabama |dent and Byrd on reorganization seems to be that the administration frankly admits it expects to achieve | the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad |little money saving through its rec-| sists that at least $300,000,000 an- | nually can be promptly saved in the costs of Government. Mr. Roosevelt’s program calls prln-i cipally for reorganization in the in-| terests of efficiency, while Byrd feels| economy should be a main issue at| this time. Byrd, in a speech on the floor today, | emphasized that the Brookings Insti- tution, employed jointly by the Presi- dent’s committee and the Senate and House committees, has made specific recommendations affecting the emer- gency agencies, and that these recome mendations should at least recelve consideration from Congress before July 1, 1939. The Senator pointed out that the resolution under consideration not only would extend the loaning author- ity of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., but also would extend the life of other emergency agencles such as the Commodity Credit Corp., which does not expire until April 1; the Ex- port-Import Bank, which does not ex- pire until June 16; the R. F. C. Mort- | gage Corp., which does not expire until June 30, and the Electric Home and Farm Authority, which expires Febru- ary 1. He admitted these agencies are financed through the R. F. C., but in- sisted there is no pressing necessity for immediate action regarding the Com- modity Credit Corp., the Export-Im- | with by the so-called “average of the | age of the salaries of the total num- — P 1 | I i i PAL; YoU KNOW WHAT" ] TROUBLE IS, LooK AT ME! “EXPERT” TROUBLES! The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto, Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,685 (Some returns not yet received.) (®) Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. DONT U. 3. PAY RAISE Chairman Bulow Indorses Main Objectives of Mc- Carran Measure. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Hearings on the McCarran govern- | | ment pay raise bill will be arranged | | at an early date by Chairman Bulow | of the Senate Civil Service Commit- | tee, who announced he indorses in principle the main objective of the measure, to bring up the salaries of the lower-paid groups under the | classification act. | $3,600 and fixing $1,500 as the mini- | mum wage for full-time adult Fed- | eral employes, the measure seeks to bring about far-reaching improve- | ments in the administration of the | original classification act. | Notable among these changes would | be the repeal of the uniform system | | of efficiency ratings on which promo- | tions are based: extension of the clas- sification act to the fleld service and to new agencies, and provision for pe- riodical increases by advancing em- ployes one step each year within their respective grades until the maximum | of the grade is reached. Seeks to Protect Promotions. One of the first steps Senator Mc- | Carran, Democrat, of Nevada will take in the consideration of the bill | will be to find out whether the pro- | motion feature would be interfered grade” clause now in existence, which has the effect of retarding promo- | tions. | This clause was not in the original | classification act, but for a number | of years has been added each year as a restrictive proviso to each of the annual appropriation bills. It pro- vides, in substance, that “the aver- ber ot persons under any grade in any bureau, office or other appro- | priation unit shall not at any time | exceed the average of the compensa- tion rates specified for the grade.” | ‘There are a few exceptions to this rule, such as in the clerical-mechan- | ical service, where the pay is on an hourly basis, or where an employe is the only one in his office in a cer- tain grade. Senator McCarran wants to be sure that his measure will amend existing ernment employes the opportunity to law in such a way as to give Gov- advance gradually to the top of their respective pay grades. ‘The Nevadan suggested to Senator Bulow last night that a subcommittee (See REORGANIZATION, Page A-6) Summary of Page. Amusements A-18 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary -.-A-14 FOREIGN. U. S. counselor acts to rescue 21 Americans in Sianfu. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Byrd hits reorganization plan in Sen- ate speech. Page A-1 Peace in auto industry presaged by strike truce. Page A-1 Hearings to be held soon on Federal pay bill. Page A-1 2,000 Workers’ Alliance members stag- ing protest march. Page A-1 Mattson kidneping suspect held in blockaded jail. A-1 Senate probers told of threats against labor attorney. Page A-1 Hearst ordered to offer jobs to two dismissed employes. Page A-2 President to speak at dinner February 15 honoring Farley. Page A-15 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Commissioners Allen and Hazen re- appointed by President. Page A-1 New York jewelry store raided after arrest here. Page B-1 New Army scout cars in inauural 2 Page B-1 Woman's Pg.. C-4 parade. trapped in their motor cars as flames | D. C. traffic toll rises to six for leaped up from the pipe line. They Page B-1 year. had driven out to take their husbands | Revenue need cited as race bill argu- home from work. ment, Page B-1 Reports here said leaking oil be- | Bodies of 4 members of Boarman fam- came ignited from a torch being used | ily buried in one grave. in welding operations. All the dead and injured lived st Page B-1 Representative Dirksen finds flaws in. fiscal Page B-1 report. the Gulf Co. pump station, 7 miles | Mrs. Roosevelt visits Children's Hos- southwest of Strang. ” pital elinie. Page B-1 ) .| Social agencies picture relief needs (See PAY BILL, Page A-5) Today’s Star here. . Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. This and That. Page A-12 Answers to Questions. Page A-12 Washington Qbservations. Page A-12 David Lawrence. Page A-13 Paul Mallon. Page A-13 Constantine Brown. Page A-13 Headline Folk. Page A-13 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-13 SPORTS. Base ball manager is busy all year, Connie Mack avers. Page C-1 Louis’ defeat helped fistic game, says secretary of N. B. A. Page C-1 ‘Tennis players here form organization to promote pastime. Page C-2 Duke teams offer tests for Catholic U, Maryland tomorrow. Page C-3 ‘Woman golfers here planning heavy tournament schedule. Page C-3 FINANCIAL. U. 8. bonds up, others mixed (table). Page A-21 A. T. & T. net climbs. Page A-21 Weather curbs trade. Page A-21 Stock gains selective (table). Page A-22 Page A-23 Page A-23 Curb list narrow (table). Freight loadings jump. MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Trafic Convictions. | T. Johnson said he had been informed | 2,000 Workers Stage March For Relief and W.P. A.Funds Rain Fails to Interfere as Alliance Mem- | bers Prepare for W hite House and Capitol Demonstration. BULLETIN. | Marching to the White House with hundreds of banners flying, the Workers' Alliance of America this afternoon presented to Marvin Mclntyre, presidential secretary, a letter to the President demanding a deficiency appropriation of $1,- 040,000,000 for continuance and ex- pansion of the W. P. A. during the remainder of this fiscal year. | S | Upward of 2000 white-collar and In addition to lifting the salary ynskilled workers from 24 States—all | Roosevelt urging a deficiency appro- levels of all those receiving less than | oo 00 oo ance of | Priation of $1,040.000,000 to carry on America—started a march on the | ‘White House and Capitol at noon to- day in protest against any curtailment of the Government works and relief | program. | Massing at the Labor Department, | where they filled the auditorium to the | doors, the delegates, including many artists, writers, actors, teachers and other groups employed on W. P. A. projects, heard their leaders assail the administration before forming in a | column of fours on Constitution avenue. | The parade, authorized by Police | Supt. Ernest W. Brown, was to pass | the Executive Mansion, the United | States Chamber of Commerce and | come to a halt at the Capitol. | At the White House a committee | as to present a petition to President | — W. P. A. projects through the remain- ing five months of the present fiscal | year. | Other committees were to seek an | audience with officials of the United | States Chamber of Commerce in an (See WORKERS, Page A-2) ATTEMPTS RESCUE | OF 21 AMERICANS U. S. Embassy Counselor at Nanking Goes to Sianfu | to Plan Plane Use. By the Associated Press. NANKING, January 15.—Willys R. | Peck, counsellor of the United States Embassy, resorted to direct action to- day after diplomatic efforts had failed | to rescue 21 Americans trapped in| Sianfu. United States Ambassador Nelson | that Peck, traveling purely in a per- | sonal capacity but with his sanction, | had reached the walled capital of | Shensi Province, stronghold of Mar- | shal Chang Hseuh-liang's Communist- inclined armies. Plane to Be Used. He hoped, when he left here, to ferry all women and children in Sianfu by plane to Loyang. If unable to do this, he intended to go to Loyang and work there to liberate the Ameri- cans from their dangerous plight in the embattled area. Peck left at a moment's notice when he learned a government airplane was going to Sianfu with Nanking emis- saries hoping to negotiate a settlement of the crisis. Peck’s departure followed a report from Assistant Military Attache David Bennett, from Loyang, that all efforts had failed to win release of the de- tained Americans. Nanking military authorities in- formed Johnson that Peck had | reached Sianfu safely and was re- maining overnight with the plane. No mention was made of his efforts. Peck was under instructions to Jeave Sianfu with the plane, under no circumstances exposing himself to detention similar to other foreigners there. % For the last week, Johnson has en- deavored here, through Chinese offi- cial channels and privately, to com- municate with Sianfu, but has not | unidentified German woman arrived | OSSIETSKY AGENT GETS NOBEL PRIZE MONEY Unidentified German Woman Col- lects Peace Award Cash From Committee. By the Associated Press. OSLO, Norway, January 15.—An| here today and collected the Nobel | Peace Prize money recently awarded | to Carl von Ossietsky, invalid German pacifist. | The Nobel Committee turned over | to her 1,000 kronen (about $247) and | transferred the balance — 150,000 kronen (about $37,000)—to the Ger-| man Kommerzenbank. The woman said she was traveling incognito. | Von Ossietsky recently was awarded | the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize at the same time the 1936 award was made to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine foreign minister. | The German is secluded in a sani-| tarium under medical care, friends said, too ill to trave! to Oslo to col- lect his prize. . MOTORS INSPECTED FOR ROME-U. S. HOP Secrecy Guards Italian Prepara- tion as Air Minister Visits Plant. By the Associated Press. GENOA, Italy, January 15.— Gen. Giuseppe Valle, undersecretary of air, it was reliably reported today, re- cently inspected motors being con- structed here for an airplane to be used on a projected flight from Rome to San Francisco this Spring. - The government has not announcéd the planned flight, preparations for which are being made with utmost secrecy. Recent reports said a tri-motored plane would make the westward flight by easy stages and then fly back non- stop, seeking a new long-distance record. Maj. Attilio Biseo, a veteran of the Balbo mass flight to Chicago three years ago and Il Duce’s own pilot, it was said, would be at the controls, succeeded. The city is under a rigid censorship. possibly with Bruno Mussolini, the Premier's second son, as co-pilot. Horse Refused by Mrs. Whitney To Be Sold to Pay Stable Keep The Railway Express Agency ob- tained permission of the District Court today to sell a valuable saddle horse which it has been feeding and | ery stabling since November 25, while socially prominent Mrs. John Hay Whitney and a Toronto, Canada, woman continued to assert that the other was the owner. The board bill is running up every day, the express company told the court, and now amounts to $150, and there is no prospect that either of the two women will accept the animal. ‘What is behind the refusal of both women to admif ownership of the horse was not disclosed to the court, and all the express agency knows about it is that it received the horse from a connecting carrier, the Cana~ dian National Railway, for delivery to Mrs. Whitney in Wi The horse, which carries the high- sounding name of Cypress D. Beau, arrived here November 25, and deliv- was tended to Mrs. Whitney, which she “refused and declined,.” as- serting that the animal was not her property but the property of the shipper, L. L. Briden or Bredtin of ‘Toronto. The agency told the court it wasn't quite sure of the spelling of the ship- per’s name, but at any rate it wrote to Toronto for instructions. Back came the statement that “Cypress” was the “sole property of Mrs. Whitney,” and the shipper would not take him back. Accordingly, the express agency had to place Cypress in a stable, where the board bill was $3 a day. It has been in “almost continuous | several (See HORSE, Page A-5) ' PEACE PRESAGED INAUTO INDUSTRY BY STRIKE TRUCE Plants Will Be Evacuated by Monday, Union Promises. NEGOTIATIONS START MONDAY IN DETROIT Agreement Reached Before Dawn After 17-Hour Conference. Troops Go Today. BACKGROUND— Campaign for industrial or- ganization of labor reached head late last year with attempt of John L. Lewis’ Committee for In- dustrial Organization to enter automobile fleld. Occupational strikes, which began in November in Bendiz plant at South Bend, climazed with walkout of United Automobile Workers of America Jrom General Motors plants’ throw= ing mearly 115,000 men into idle= ness, Strike disorders Monday night Jollowed by appeal by Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan jor confer= ence with company and union heads in his office yesterday in an attempt to start megotiations for settlement. By the Assoctated Press. DETROIT, January 15.—A truce arranged before dawn today pointed the way to peace in the country-wide General Motors automotive strikes, By Monday morning, “sit-down” strikers whose two-week occupancy of General Motors plants has brought rioting and bloodshed, will march out. Representatives of the corporation and of the United Automobile Work- |ers of America will open negotiations looking toward a permanent settle- ment of their dispute at Detroit at 11 am Monday. Unless final argeement is reached sooner, the negotiations will continue for 15 days. Lacking a settlement at the end of that time, Homer Martin, U. A. W. A president said, “We will come back to the Governor’s office.” Terminates 17-Hour Parley. The armistice in the far-flung strug- gle of the union against the giant automobile concern terminated a 17« hour conference hetween representa- tives of each, meeting for the first time at the request of Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan. General Motors agreed not to oper- ate plants where strikes are in prog- ress mor to remove equipment or ma= terials “except for export” during the negotiation period. Plants closed be- cause of parts shortages, however, may reopen on a reduced basis “in order to alleviate distress.” Strikers in two Fisher Body plants at Flint, Mich.,, focal point of the strike, expressed mild disappointment at word they were to abandon their positions, which they defended Mon= day night in a battle with city police, resulting in concentration of National Guardsmen in the vicinity. Troops May Be Out Today. Gov. Murphy said the troops “should be out today, but we want to be sure there is no chance of violence.” Representatives of each revealed their agreement in statements to Gov. Frank Murphy, who made them pub- lic at 4:25 am. (Eastern standard time). Strikes called by the union have made more than 114,000 Gen- eral Motors workers idle and led to rioting at Flint, Mich., in which 27 persons were injured. “The evacuation of sit-down strikers will be effectuated as soon as practica- ble and before Monday morning,” the union said. General Motors has stipu- lated ever since Gov. Murphy began more than a week ago to arrange & peace parley that such a move must precede the opening of conferences for collective bargaining. “The union will in good faith en- (See STRIKE, Page A-4) \ENABLING ACT NEAR FOR MELLON’S GIFT Roosevelt Says Measure Will Be Sent to Congress in Very Near Future. President Roosevelt said today he expects he will be able to send to Congress very shortly a proposed en- abling act for the acceptance by the Government of Andrew Mellon's art collection and of his additional gift of a $9,000000 National Art Gal- lery. Department of Justice attorneys, he said, have been conferring with Smith- « sonian Institution officials and rep- resentatives of Mr. Mellon on the form of the proposed act. The President expects Attorney General Cummings to forward this re- port “any day now,” reporters were told at the White House press con- ference. LORD ASHLE.Y ENGAGED TO WED PARIS WOMAN Former Husband of Mrs. Fair- banks Will Marry Mlle. Fran- coise Sonilier. BY the Assoctated Press. LONDON, January 15.—~The en- gagement of Lord Ashley, former husband of Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, to Mile. Francoise Souilier of Pai was announced today. Lord Ashley was granted a divo decree nisi from Lady Ashley, a mer musical comedy actress, in an undefended suit which Fairbanks, then the husband, Pickford, as co-respondent. Dissolution of the Pig banks marriage becam: January, 1936, March the moving-pig ried the former »v A