Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, followed by rain beginning late this afternoon or tonight; night, tomorrow occasion: warmer; gentle to moderate winds. Full report on Page A-12. warmer to- al rain and () Means Associated Press. No. 1,661—No. 33,864 Entered as sacond class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, NATION'S CITIZENS READY T0 DESCEND ON CAPTAL FOR INAURURAL RITES Outpouring May Eclipse All Previous Demonstrations of Kind, Survey of Passen- ger Traffic Indicates. PROSPECTS FOR CLEAR WEATHER UNCERTAIN Schools Will Be Closed Wednesday. Hotels Prepared for Overflow Contingents—State Societies Will Welcome and Entertain Guests From Back Home. BY REX COLLIER. By rail, air and highway, a cross- After Clash T. V. A. Chairman for National Policy to Eliminate Abuses. | By the Assoctated Press. The undercover feud between Chair- man Arthur E. Morgan and Director David Lilienthal of the Tennessee | Valley Authority burst into the open | last night, when Dr. Morgan pub- | lcly proposed a nationa} truce with private power interests. Morgan suggested a policy | Dr known | surrender” board -member. “I believe we should deal with the | | private power companies to the end of eliminating abuses, while preserv=- ing the right of the people to ac- quire their own power service by | public ownership if they choose,” Dr. Morgan said in a statement. | Morgan abstained from mentioning his colleague, but asked pointedly: “Shall men who administer pub-| ! lic project drift into an attitude of | a fight to a finish against the pri-| | vate power companies?” i Major Questions Raised. Dr. Morgan's statement raised three | major questions for an immediate ap- | praisal: 1. Will the President shake up the Morgan Proposes Power Truce With Lilienthal ? to be in conflict with the “no- | attitude of his younger section of the Nation’s citizenry last | T- V. A. Board to assure smooth ad- night was ready to converge on the | Ministration, and if he does, whom bustling, decorated National Capital Will he eliminate, Lilienthal or Mor- | DR. ARTHUR E. MORGAN. | —Underwood Photo. D. ¢, BACKGROUND— Swnd WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION INSURGENT BOMBS WRECK CONSULATE OF U. 5. IN MALAGA Archives Saved as Planes Damage Building Closed Last September. LOYALISTS REPULSE ADVANCE ON MADRID Turn Back Fascists, Who Hurl Hand Grenades as They Charge Barricades. Arguments over neutrality oc- cupy European powers as Spanish civil war rages on, Tens of thousands of “volun=- teers” have joined in Spanish fighting, until now there are Ger= ‘mans, Italians, French, British, Russians, Poles, Americans, Portu- guese, Belgians and others on either side. Once major powers officially = - = denied charges they helped Spanish loyalists or insurgents. Now none make secret of fact their citizens Y Star SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1937 —106 PAGES. =x == s Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. FIVE CENTS “THE BOY STOOD ON THE BURNING DECK!"” in a patriotic pilgrimage to the color- ful ceremonies attending the re- induction into office next Wednesday of President Franklin Delano Roose- velt. Reputedly blase Washington was aflutter with final preparations for the quadrennial spectacle, as the van- guard of a mighty host of inaugural visitors was reported due to arrive within the next 24 hours from far- flung points. The outpouring of enthusiasm was to be a fitting climax to the epochal demonstration of approval given President Roosevelt by America’s vot- | ers last November. gan? Lilienthal had a brief White House audience Friday and announced himself satisfied with the result. 2. Is the administration ready to ,abandon the agreement with private power interests, under which Com- monwealth and Southern Corp. is buying T. V. A. power? 3. If it should abandon the agree- ment which expires, in effect, when | the Commonwealth and Southern con- tract ends February 3, would that step indicate an immediate struggle to the finish with the utilities? Lilienthal declined to make any | comment on his chairman’s statement. The aggressive young director, who re= | vamped the Utilities Commission of | | DAVID LILIENTHAL. —Harris-Ewing_Photo._ { from Washington whether to proceed have gone into the war. By the Associated Press. GIBRALTAR, January 16.—The| United States Consulate at Malaga, | Spain, was wrecked in a raid by Spanish Fascist planes this morning, Herbert O. Williams, United States Consul there, said tonight. The building was closed last Sep- tember 20 and the man in charge was not hurt, Williams said. The archives were saved, Willlams said, | adding he was awaiting instructions | to Malaga to take possession of them. (The State Department in Wash- MARLANDRECENES THREAT N MAIL | | | Oklahoma Governor Gets Extortion Note Demand- ing $5,000. $14,000 Gold Bar Gone From Safe Of Liner Paris Mail Driver Finds Slit in Bag Held Con- stantly Guarded. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK,' January 16.—The HAPESD.C.DAT MAY UDE HOLSE jlacobs Report, However, to Have Serious Study, Says Collins. |TEN CENTS | FT SEWemnR STRIKERS LEAVING PLANTS AS CHIEFS MAP PEACE TALKS |Bands Play as Singing Work- ers Quit Sit-Down Posts After Weeks. |MARTIN AND KNUDSEN DISCUSS STRATEGY Daily Parleys Begin Tomorrow With Both Sides Expressing De- sire for Early Settlement. BACKGROUND— The United Automobile Workers of America, afiliated with John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization, presented workers’ grievances and demands to Gen- eral Motors Corp. last month. Recognition of U. A. W. as sole bargaining agency for the workers wes a major demand. Others were for higher wages, shorter hours. General Motors refused to see the union representatives as sole bargaining agents for workers and impasse developed. Sit-down strikes began, closing many G. M. C. plants and putting more than 133,000 out of work. Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan brought op- posing sides together for talk Thursday and agreement was reached to begin settlement mego- tiations Monday. Workers agreed to leave plants; G. M. C. agreeing not to reopen them. By the Associated Prees. DETROIT, January 16.—Union “sit- | down™ strikers, with bands playing and banners flung out in the breeze, | began evacuation of General Motors | plants today as leaders optimistically That the outpouring may eclipse all | Wisconsin for the La Follette group a | By the Associated Press. BY JAMES E. CHINN. previous demonstrations of the kind | few years ago, is known to feel. ho was indicated last night when a sur- | ever, that his efforts to formulate pol- vey disclosed that the greatest pas- ' iy in the valley have reflected the { charted a course for negotiations bee ginning Monday to settle the widee | spread automotive tie-up. ington, announcing the building was - wrecked by an -aerial bombing, said| OKLAHOMA CITY, January 16.— no Americans were endangered.) | Gov. E. W. Marland, threatened in a ‘ | manner in which a $14,000 bar of gold | The Mepes fiscal relations re- vanished from a ship at sea mystified | port, which, in 1931, recommanded the police tonight. believe that renewal of contracts wit the Commonwealth and Southern should hinge on several conditions, | a Federal payment toward District ex- | senger traffic movement in the city's history is in the offing. Every means of transportation into Washington is taxed to capacity with reservations, the check showed. The first arrivals of consequence are expected by rail tomorrow, with the peak anticipated late Tuesday. views of the President. In some quarters he is reported to MATTSONSLAYING Weather prospects for Wednesday | were uncertain. The Weather Bu- reau’s weekly “outlook” predicted ram“ the first part of this week, probably | BLAMED ONFEAR among them abandonment by private (See POWER, Page A-13) | LEVEES FORTIFED AS RVERS CLINB Two Spanish government planes: $5,000 extortion note, cited his pistol ending by Wednesday. Falling tem- | peratures were on the weather hori- zON. If the weather is fair, the President plans to use an old family Dutch Bible in the ceremony. He used this Bible in taking the oath four years ago. If there is rain, he will not risk ruining the venerable book. 'Son “Knew Too Much,” Says‘ Heart-Broken Father, in Statement. | BACKGROUND— Chasing a rabbit, Gordon Mor- Allbe_ schools, public and parochial, will beé closed during the day to en-| frozen corpse of Charles Mattson able children to attend the in-; in an isolgted Lven near Everett, augural. | Wash. Find began widespread Hotels were prepared to receive hunt for kidnapers by Federal overflow contingents of inaugural | agents massed in Pacific North- guests from many States. A “Pull- west. Ransom demand of $28,000 man city” will be born almost over- | made in note dropped at Mattson night on railroad property to care| home never met, due to inability for thousands coming by special train. of family to make satisfactory ar- The Board of Trade will aid in pro-| rangements. viding shelter for other guests in | Identity' of kidnapers believed zome 20,000 rooms listed by board- | still mystery with agents reviewing ing houses and private owners. | cases involving degeneracy and While the President’s ban or civil- | dementia. dan marching units caused cancel- | = lation recently of hotel reservations for | BY the Associated Press. more than 350 members of Tammany | TACOMA, Wash., January 16.—Dr. Hall, the effect was to provide last- | W. W. Mattson tonight charged the minute accommodations for late ar-|kidnaping and brutal murder of his rivals. Most of the leading hotels are son Charles to a bungling fiend and booked to capacity, however. 1em accomplice who became fright- Many Excursion Tratns. lf,'fq,k::e, EStroyed | Ihe shoy becanse Railroads are running a large num- | While Federal and local officials ber of solid trains for special dele- weeded out arrested suspects from gations, extra cars for srpn!ler groups 1 coast to coast, the physician ex- and innumerable excursions for the | pressed the conviction that the crim- general public. {inal would be “brought to justice,” Transportation demands are shift- | and said he then would tell more ing so rapidly as the big day nears|about the yicious crime. that railroads were unable at a| Sacramento (Calif.) police today late hour last night to estimate the | released Arthur Madsen, 26, former probable influx of passengers. | member of a public works camp at row, 19, came upon the beaten, In many instances, the sightseers Tillamook, Oreg., after questioning will occupy the train quarters for |him in the case. Police Capt. Fritz the duration of the stay here, ar- (Kaminsky said a careful check of rangements having been made to|Madsen’s recent movements convinced park the long lines of Pullmans at|him Madsen had no connection with such points as Benning, Fourteenth |the case. street southwest and Seventeenth | Seattle officers said Fred Orrin street and Pennsylvania avenue south- | Haynes, former California convict east, where they can be serviced am- | Who surrendered yesterday after be- ply and have convenient local trans- |ing sought three days, virtually was portation facilities available. feliminnted as a suspect. The Chesapeake & Ohio is mov-| _Thinks 2 Kidnapers Involved. ing in two specials tomorrow morn-| The physician significantly referred ing, one from Mississippi that was|in his statement to the kidnaper as routed through Louisville and the “this man and whoever his col- other from Oklahoma, via St. Louis. ‘Two out of Ohio will get in Tuesday. Beveral Governors and their parties are mak;ngwti-}e trip in these, the (See INAUGURAL, Page A-5.) WARM RAIN IS DUE LATE IN AFTERNOON Fair Weather Is Forecast for In- auguration Ceremonies on Wednesday. A warm rain that is expected to continue intermittently through Tues- day—but stop before the inaugural ceremonies Wednesday, barring unfor- seen meterological complications—is due to start late this afternoon or night. The Weather Bureau added that this morning and early afternoon would be overcast and that tonight will find the temperature rising. The mercury, according to an earlier forecast, was scheduled to drop around the freezing mark before dawn today. ‘The inauguration weather outlook was made-in a special bulletin issued yesterday by Forecaster Charles L. Mitchell, who explained he was not making a definite forecast so far ahead of time. Providing the rain ceases before Wednesday, indications are that clear skies and low temperatures will be the setting for the inauguration, ‘wwheu said. league is.” Once more this empha- | sized that more than one man was | being hunted for the crime. | He reiterated everything possible | was done to ransom the Loy and ex- pressed belief the tragic end would have been the same had the case been handled differently. “Is it possible,” he asked, “that | little Charles was sacrificed to fur- | ther stimulate previously enraged | public to the enactment of even more “drutlc laws, both in the prevention {of and the punishment of this awful | crime? “If this is true, we feel that Charles shall not have died in vain.” His remarks were made in a signed (See KIDNAPING, Page A-4.) Return of Wintry Weather, May Help Stem Floods in Middle West. Ly the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 16.—A host of workmen fortified levees in the danger zones of the Midwestern flood | basin today. | The Mississippi, Ohio, White, Wa- | | bash, St. Francis and Kaskaskia | Rivers continued to rise, but :he re- | turn of Wintry weather after unsea- | | sonable warmth and rain resulred in | | the recession of most tributaries. | The St. Francis smashed through | its levee 10 miles east of Paragould, | in Arkansas, near the Missouri line, | flooding thousands of acres of fertile lowlands. The W. P. A. engineer at | | Cardwell, Mo, reporting several weak | | spots in the levee on the Missouri | | side were causing concern, said 750 men were fighting to save the dike. | W. C. Bradsher, Paragould ginner ! | and banker, estimated some 100 fam- | llies and seven or eight thousand acres | of cleared land in the eastern part of | Greene County probably would be af- | fected by water from the break. Southwestward, the White rose 8.2 | feet above the 23-foot flood level at | Batesville and began to rush past the flood stage at Newport, Clarendon and | other downstream points. The Weather Bureau, however, said the stream would crest at 32 feet at Bates- | ville tomorrow. | Highway 68" Menaced. Observers said a foot further rise | in the White River at Newport would force closure of U. S. Highway 68. The stream measured 27.8 feet there today. A 31-foot stage was predicted for Monday. The Ouachita River, already spread out over a seven-mile area near Camden, rose an additional .4 foot there today, but the Weather Bureau said the stream would crest at 33 feet there tomorrow. The force of men piling sandbags lon the embankments along the St. Francis in Missouri was doubled. Re- inforcements increased their number to 1,500. The levee threatened to give way at Holcomb and Senath and was severely tested at Kennett. Wilhel- | mina and Glennonville were reported completely encircled by icy waters, Muddy water coursed over South- ern Indiana as flood crests moved down the White and Wabash. Many highways and rail lines were blocked. Roy Dugan drowned when his auto- { mobile plunged into a road washout 1 (See FLOODS, Page A-3.) S Radio Programs, Page F-3. Complete Index, Page A-2. Tammany Cuts Inaugural Plans Due to Ban on Tammany Hall loves a parade, but its enthusiasm depends greatly on its privilege of participating. Soon after President Roosevelt led his fellow Democrats to a sweeping election victory last November, Tam- many made immediate plans to con- tribute the biggest . civilian delega- tion in the coming imaugural parade. With its customary efficlency the New York organization soon there- after made hotel reservations in ‘Washington, taking as many as 100 rooms in & single hotel and similar blocks in other places. When President Roosevelt and Civilian Parade . Chairman Grayson of the Inaugural Committee decided against - long, | fled eastward toward Malaga. | Fascist military hospitals at Alge- dropped bombs today near an Alge-| ciras hotel from which Gen. Gonzalo | Queipo de Llano, Southern Fascist commander, was believed directing an | insurgent offensive, { Damage Is Slight. | Soaring over the city—just across| the Bay of Algeciras from Gibraltar —at-2:15 pm., the airmen dropped their high-explosive projectiles close | to the Hotel Reina Cristina. Damage was slight. Fascist land batteries and & gun-| boat fired on the raiders. The planes ‘They paused, however, at Estepona, the coast town captured Thursday by the insurgents, and dropped many bombs. They concentrated their attack on insurgent columns moving against Marbella, about 30 miles southwest of Mal , the objective of the south- ern Fascist offensive. Gen. Queipo de Llano's army of 20,000 was driving toward govern- ment-held Malaga after seizing Este- pona. Accounts reaching Gibraltar said ciras and Linea were packed with | (See SPAIN, Page A-12) | JUDGE ASSAILS RAIDS ON RACE NEWS OFFICE Disqualifies Self From Hearing Appeal to Restrain Miami Sheriff. By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla., January 16.—Circuit Judge Jefferson B. Browne, rapping law enforcement “by unlawful meth- ods,” disqualified himself today from hearing an appeal to restrain the sheriff from raiding offices of a sport- ing news service. The former Florida Supreme Court justice announced his decision when Walter Hagerty's suit for temporary injunction against Sheriff D. C. Cole- man was called. Cheriff Coleman’s ax - swinging deputies broke into the news service offices last Tuesday, seizing 36 tele- phcnes, The sheriff, whose men arrested an employe of Hagerty on a gambling operation charge, contends he best can stop profitable horse booking activities in Miami by preventing the bookies from obtaining fast race information. prowess tonight and declared he would | be his own guard. | “I am one of the best pistol shots | disappearance secret, to no avail. | in Oklahoma, and I can take care of myself,” he replied to a penciled note | paris when she left Havre, and that | signed “Bilk” threatening him and Mrs. Marland. Dwight Brantley, in charge of the Oklahoma office of the Federal Bu-| reau of Investigation, assigned agents to work with State Crime Bureau op- eratives. Refuses to Increase Guard. After posting a $500 reward for | information on the note writer and | giving the note to the Crime Bureau, , Marland refused to increase the ex- “I don’t need any more guards than I have already,” he said. ‘The note was in an envelope post- marked here yesterday. It demanded $5000 in unmarked bills as “a donation” and said a later note would outline procedure for de- livery. It directed Marland to place ecutive mansion guard.. ’ | | | an advertisement in the Oklahoma City News saying: “Business deal gone through. Slim.” The note referred to Marland as a “rich man” and warned, “If you say anything to the police” it would “be | too bad for you and your wife.” Marland, once wealthy head of the $60.000,000 Marland Oil Co., laughed at the rich man reference. He said the note apparently came “from an educated person.” “If somebody else had received the letter,” Marland said, “I would have | made it a damned substantial revard. I hope if anybody else does receive a letter like that they will report it to police.” Text of Extortion Note. The text of the note, which was mailed, read: : “You are a rich man and I want you to give us a donation ¢f $5,000 in bills that are .0t marzed. If you know what is good for you you will not say anything sbout this to police or anybody else. If you do it will be too bad for you and your wife. “You are being watched :o don't pull any funny stuff, because we know every move you make. “Place an ad in Oklahoma News in personals saying: ‘Business deal goes through.’ Sign this name: ‘Slim.’ And I expect to see ad by Monday. You will get another letter giving in- structions. Bilk.” American newspapers in the The Washington Star_ The New York Times. Detroit News. Chicago Tribune New York News... Pittsburgh Press Milwaukee Journal.. Los Angeles Times___ 8t. Louis Post Dispatch._. wavering lines of civilians in this year's parade, Tammany found itself with hundreds of marchers on its hands, but no opportunity for them to display their walking ability. Fi- nally it was decided most of them wouldn’t even come down to Wash- ington to watch the parade, and can- cellations of at least two large blocks of hotel reservations followed.. Making their decision some three weeks ago, there was adequate time left for letting most of the released | rooms 3 E 3 Year 1936 Year 1935 . WASHINGTON NEWSPAPERS The Evening and Sunday 2d Newspaper (Morning and Sunday). 3d Newspaper (Evening Only) &Mvoml.n( and Sunday) 4th Newspaper S5th Newspaper The Record for 1936 The 10 Leading Newspapers For the past five years THE STAR has led ALL| (Figures from Media Records, Inc.) Baltimore Sun (Evening and Sunday) .. THE STAR'S Increase in Adve ening Only) total amount of advertising. Lines 22,975,043 21,755,814 20,763,125 - 20,444,045 . 19,838,944 18,654,072 18,582,498 17,085,012 16,660,770 16,595,632 - 22,975,043 21,837,189 1,137,854 Increase: Star. 22,975,043 11,519,865 - 11,347,932 - 10,159,785 815,053 Deep fog and ocean storins beset e liner from Paris to New York. For three days the police kept the th All that any one knew was that the gold was aboard the French liner it was missing when she -ocked in New York. Fog May Have Aided Thief. One theory was that the vrecious bar was removed from the ship’s hold while the Paris lay fogbound in Quarantine last Wednesday and Thursday. A small boat could have slipped up to the liner's side in the (See GOLD, Page A-2.) JONT CONMITTE Proposes Special Group Be Created to Study Fis- cal Relations. i Voicing “disappointment™” over some phases of the report of the Jacobs | Fiscal Relations Committee, the Fed- | eration of Citizens’ Associations, after |a debate in which fisticuffs were threatened last night proposed that | & special joint committee of the House | and Senate be created to conduct | hearings on the fiscal proposals. The federation withheld detailed expression of its views on the fiscal the many recommendations and the huge quantity of statistical findings in the Jacobs report, now awaiting action in Congress. In urging that a select joint com- mittee of Congress be named to con- sider the document, the federation had the view that better and mora fair treatment would be given 1 such a committee were named. The membership obviously was per- turbed over implications in the Ja- cobs committee report, which would abolish the lump sum Federal pay- ment, substitute a system of “reim- bursements” and call for a $10,000,000 boost in taxes here, if adopted along with the proposed 1938 budget. Fisticuffs Threatened. The session was tumultuous at, times and at one point in debate a state- ment by George E. Sullivan that some members were “thin skinned” provoked the threat of fisticuffs. F. J. MacDonald, Dahigren Terrace dele- gate, walked swiftly from the rear of the room toward Sullivan, but order was restored when Sullivan modified his statement. The federation adopted a report by L. A. Carruthers, chairman of its Fiscal Relations Committee, urg- ing full congressional hearings, but . (See FEDERATION, Page A-3.) penses of $6,500,000, is destined to have more influence on the House Ap- propriations Subcommittee, in charge of the city’s 1938 supply bill, than its latest successor—the Jacobs report, which proposes to scrap all former principles of . fiscal relationship. Representative 'Ross A. Collins, | Democrat, of Mississippi, who has just accepted chairmanship of the | last night as he made preliminary plans for starting hearings on the | Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica, whose strikes threw 115,000 of the | giant automobile concern® wage earn= | ers out of work, led 400 to 500 strikers | from the Cadillac division plant here | & short time after two-score “site | downers” emerged from the Fleetwood | factory. At about the same time 75 strikers | subcommittee, gave that impression | vacated the guide lamp plant at Ane derson, Ind. A 12-piece band provided music for FEDERATION URGES scheme to permit a careful study of | | appropriation bill. | While Collins admits he is not | familiar with all of the details of the Jacobs report, he indicated he js not in sympathy with its proposal to sub- stitute a complicated threz2-point formula for determining how much the Federal and District governments owe each other for an interchange of services. In the presence of news- paper men he would discuss only what he described as the “merits” of the Mapes report. | Collins, incidentally, was one of the | six members of the House who wrote | the Mapes report, after an exhaustive | study of the fiscal relations problem. | Only two other members of the com- mittee are still in Congress—Repre- | sentative Mapes, Republican, of Mich- |igan, and Patman, Democrat, of | Texas. “One of the best committees ever | selected in Congress made that re- port,” said Collins. “And one of the best tax experts in the country, George Lord of Detroit, assisted the committee.” | Since the 1938 budget estimates are predicated on adoption of the Jacobs three-point formula, Collins said the plan naturally would be given serious PRISONER TWICE STEALS RADIO CAR FROM POLICE First Makes Away While Hand- cuffed to Steering Wheel. Abandons Car, Gets It Again. By the Assoclated Press. ATTLEBORO, Mass, January 16. —Police sought tonight an escaped prisoner who stole their cruising car twice last night and abandoned it early today in a wooded section of nearby Canton after removing the radio and heater and smashing ai the windows. The hunted man first made off with the car last night while he was handcuffed to the steering wheel and while Patrolman Elliott Higgins, who had arrested him, sought another prisoner. Later Attieboro police were advised the machine was found aban- doned in Stroughton, but all the win- dows and doors were locked, and the prisoner, along with the handcuffs, | was missing. spot the car was again missing. Today Canton police found the machine again abandoned in a wooded section. Flunking Fine to Elevate Oklahoma Students’ Grades BY the Associated Press. NORMAN, Okla., January 16.—A flunking fine for failing students at the University of Oklahoma was de- scribed by President W. B. Bizzell to- day as an experiment to lft student grades—not to enrich the school treas- ury. The $3 fine each semester hour failed goes into effect this second sem- ester to students who enroll January 29 and 30. The estimated total was placed by Registrar George Wadsack at more than $12,00. . “There is no interest in the money at all” as far as the university is conceérned, Dr. Bizzell explained. “The hope is that it will stimulate students to pass their courses. “It is not permanent, but I think we will have to consider how it works over_ two or three semesters since the first semester it js in effect is not a fair test.” The money taken in will be used, ‘Wadsack said, as part of the uni- versity’s revolving fund to “pay ‘for the overload work for instructors.” ‘Wadsack described “overload” as the work of the university of putting the same student through the same course twice. Dr. Bizzell explained by bringing about more passing grades “the State doesn’t have to pay twice because the student fails.” - The enrolment fee at the university is $10 a semester. There is no tui- tion. Wadsack said students last Spring semester failed in almost 4,500 hours. Of the 1,183 students whose report carried the fatal “F,” only 13 per cent of them were women. The student body apparently doesn't seem to mind imposition of the fine, campus lng‘ aaid. ‘When Stoughton police reached the | the singing workmen, whose departure, | coupled with other scheduied evacua= tions, removed a “sore spot” in the | strike picture which had blocked st~ tlement negotiations for more tham two weeks. Not until Gov. Frank Murphy, after riots at Flint, Mich, ordered 2,300 National Guardsmen and brought of ficials of General Motors and the union together in his office at Lan- | sing, was agreement reached for re- moval of the “sit-downers,” whom the corporation had termed “clearly tres- passers.” Martin, Knudsen Confer. | In conference with William 8. | Knudsen, executive vice president of | General Motors, Martin today are | ranged final details of daily parleys for settlement of eight union de- | mands, starting at 11 a.m. Monday in | the corporation’s offices here. The union head said “it seems quite evident there is a desire on the part ! of General Motors to reach a set- tlement.” Knudsen had said the Gov= ernor’s conference agreement showed | “we are willing to co-operate, to get | somewhere.” General Motors and the U. A. W. A, each will be represented by three pere sons and a secretary in the negotiae tions. After Monday, sessions will be held from 10:30 am. to 4:30 pm. daily with each side issuing a formal statement afterward. A 15-day period for the negotiations was set aside by the agreement. Some observers expressed belief that lacking complete agreement at the expiration of that period, the negotiators might formulate agreement on what dif- ferences had been composed, and leave the others for arbitration. Gov. Murphy, without formal ex- planation, today canceled orders for demobilization of the Guardsmen sen to Flint. Mayor Harold E. Bradshaw at Flint said he had asked their re- tention over the week end until after “sit down” strikers vacate two Fisher Body Co. plants there. It was outside the Pisher plant No. 2 last Monday night that strikers engaged in a street (See STRIKE, Page A-11.) CANAL ZONE PLANES JOIN KINGSLEY HUNT American Airman Missing Nicaragua Expected to Start Signal Fire. B3 the Assoclated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, January 16. Nine United States Army airplanes from the Canal Zone spent today in crisscross flights over a large part of Northeastern Nicaragua looking for E. W. Kingsley, American airman missing in that district since Wednes~ day. The searchers were on the watch particularly for smoke signals, since Kingsley and other pilots flying over Nicaragua’s mountains and jungles had an agreement that any of them grounded in the interior would build big smoke fires. No such signals were seen. Kingsley, formerly of Glendale, Calif., operator of the Nicaraguae Atlantic Coast Airways (N. A. C. A), disappeared after -taking off from Managua at 7 a.m. Wednesday to fly supplies to the Bonanza mines, about 80 miles from the East Coast. The search centered on the area west and southwest of Puerto Cabezas on the Caribbean. Maj. George Beverly, commanding the United States Army planes, cone ferred with Nicaraguan officisls on the plan of search, National Guard and cis are taking part. in