Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain, possibly mixed with sleet or snow tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight, with lowest temperature about 32 degrees; gentle to moderate northwest winds. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 59, at 4 p.m. yes- terday; lowest, 41, at 10:30 a.m. today. @h Closing New York Markets, Page 14 No. 33,866. 8th YEAR. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1937— RAIN, SLEET, OR SNOW IS OFFICIAL FORECAST FOR INAUGURAL RITES o | Throng Grows Despite Bad Weather. TEMPERATURE DUE TO DROP pitol (lcremonyi Expected to Be Unchanged. While a cold rain beat down on the Capital, driving the growing throng ! of visitors from the streets, the pros- | pects for a bright inaugural were dashed this morning by Forecaster | Charles L. Mitchell. | “Rain, possibly mixed with sleet o | #now, tonight and Wednesday; colder tonight, with low temperature of about 32 degrees,” was the word that came from the Weather Bureau to dismay those who have banked on “Roosevelt Juck” to clear the skies that have been darkened for the past 48 hours. i Despite the outlook, there was no | thought of shifting the ceremonies | indoors from the Capitol Plaza, where ! shortly after noon President Roose- | velt will take the oath of office for | the second time. i Unless there is a “hurricane or bliz- rard” the program will go through as | set, Stephen Early of the White House secretariat said this morning. Will Attend Church. The President will go across to St. | John's Episcopal Church about 10 o'clock with his family and members | of the official household for the special | services arranged at his request. Aft- | erwards he will return to the White | House, where the congressional com- mittee will assemble to escort him to the Capitol about 11:30 a.m. © Mr. Roosevelt still was at work on his inaugural address today, and word from the White House was that it would not be ready until tomorrow morning. The length of time that has been devoted to its preparation lent additional emphasis to rumors it would be more than ordinarily im- portant. Extraordinary protection has been arranged for the President during the entire course of the ceremonies. As his party moves to'and from the Capitol a motor cycle detail and four | Army scout cars, under direction of | Supt. of Police Ernest W. Brown, will clear the way, and there also will be & heavy guard of Secret Service oper- stives and other police. Tke route will be over Pennsylvania | avenue, around the Treasury and east- | ward into Constitution avenue, enter- ing the Capitol grounds by way of | Delaware avenue, and proceeding to | the stands. Garner to Be Sworn First. There, after Vice President John Nance Garner has taken the oath from Senator Robinson of Arkansas, ma- Jority leader, President Roosevelt will be sworn in by Chief Justice Hughes. | The inaugural address will follow. | With the induction completed. the ! President will return to the White | House to be host, with Mrs. Roosevelt, | to a large number at a luncheon ar- | ranged for dignitaries attending the | Inauguration. | Shortly after 2 o'clock the presi- | | i vil | home was Rockford, Ill, and that he dential party will go to the court of | Fome a5 ocklord, 0. and that he | &8 o keep shipments of mu. honor to join members of the diplo- matic corps and other distinguished guests to watch the parade from the | broad gallery of a model of the Herm- itage, Andrew Jackson’s home in Tennessee. After the Governors have passed in review they will return to | the stand. | The marchers will include only two | non-military units, project workers | and student aid recipients of the Na- tional Youth Administration, and en- | rollees of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Others in line will be the| cadets from West Point and mld.smp-l ment from Annapolis, making their first appearance here in many years; cadets from the Coast Guard Academy London, Con=z PRISONER ADMITS THREATENING STARS Insists He Sent Extortion Notes to Relatives of Jane Withers and Freddie Bartholomew. B the Associatea Press. LOS ANGELES, January 19.—A small, bald, whiskered man, his hunger relieved, insisted behind jail bars to- day he wrote extortion notes to rela- tives of Jane Withers and Freddie Bartholomew, child film stars. The notes were signed “Ace of Bpades.” The suspect surrendered last night and gave his name as David Harris, 46. He is dark, but rather mild in appearance. Federal officials said they would charge him with mis- use of the mails. 1 was broke and hungry,” Detective Lieuts. Edward Romero and Thomas Ryan quoted Harrls as saying. “T thought I might get some money without really harming any one.” The note to Miss Myllicent Bar- tholemew, the child actor’s aunt and guardian, said “it will be too bad for Freddie” if police were notified. It demanded $25,000. ‘Two letters told Mrs. W. E. Withers to place $5,000 in a shoe box. “1f any one of us gets caught the other three will get you or Jane,” one letter warned. Harris, 4 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 96 pounds, told detectives he got the idea from reading about threats against Shirley Temple. He told the officers he had served wythree years for forgery in Minnesof and 18 months for grand larceny i Nebraska. Charles. L. Mitchell, chief weather forecaster, photographed today as he made his prediction for tomorrow—sleet and snow. —Star Staff Photos. SUSPET WOULD L MATISON Man, Who Tallies With Kid- naper, Would “Like to See Family Slain.” By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., January 19.— John J. Keegan, captain of police de- tectives, said today he was question- ing a man who fits “perfectly” the description of the kidnaper of Charles Mattson, slain Tacoma boy. He was identified by Keegan as George Wilson, 38, and was taken into custody by Patrolmen Don Galbreath and Jeff Gabler after they had noticed his resemblance to published draw- ings of the kidnaper. “I'd like to see eve quoted him as saying. “I wouldn't hesitate to do it myself. I'm glad the Mattson boy was kidnaped and glad he was killed. If I had an oppor- tunity I'd kill all families like that.” Later Keegan said: “We are continuing our investiga- tion. This man certainly resembles the published description of the kid- | naper. We will know better, of course, | | when the Mattson children see his picture.” Keegan said that Wilson, when asked families, shouted: “They haven't done anything to me but starve me to death.” Wilson said he was in Tacoma, but left there six weeks ago. He said his (See MATTSON, Page A-2.) POPE HAS “BAD DAY”; WEAKENED BY PAIN Recurring Condition in Swollen | Legs Follows ““Easier-Than- Usual” Night. By the Associatea Press. VATICAN CITY, January 19.—Pope Pius, suffering from recurring pain in | his swollen legs, was reported consid- erably weakened tonight after a “bad | day.” The Pope went about his usual morning routine somewhat refreshed by a night described as “easier” than usual. During the early morning hours the pain in his legs was reported to have increased, but the pontiff, ill for more than six weeks, welcomed another day of work made possible by his wheeled divan. member of the Mattson family killed,” the officers | SPANIARDS RELECT WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION HOUSED. C. GROUP AUTHORIZES STUDY OF ACOBSREPORT Proposal-of Senate Commit- tee Chairman for Joint Action Is Rejected. RED RIDER REPEALER PLACED IN CALENDAR/ e | Bill Will Be First District Measure to Be Considered at Cur- rent Session. BY JAMES E. CHINN, ‘The House District Committee today authorized an exhaustive study of the Jacobs fiscal relations report by two special subcommittees and at the same time ordered placed on the House cal- | endar the Kennedy bill providing for | repeal of the so-called “red rider” to | the 1936 District appropriation act. | Action on the red rider repealer came | as a distinct surprise and was cleverly negotiated by its author, Representa- | tive Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland. | His bill will be the first District meas- i | ure to go on the House calendar at the current session of Congress. As next Monday is scheduled to be | the first District day in the House, it | is possible Kennedy's bill may be | called up for consideration at that time. Chairman Norton of the Dis- trict Committee, however, has not definitely decided to seek action on that day or postpone consideration until February. In approving selection of two special | subcommittees to study various fea- | tures of the Jacobs report the commit- | | tee definitely turned down a proposal of Chairman King of the Senate Dis- CONTROL OF ARMS Burgos and Valencia Shun Non-Intervention Unit’s Suggestions. | BY the Associated Press. ! LONDON. January 19.—Spanish Socialist and insurgent governments rejected today the Non-Intervention Committee's proposal to control mu- nitions shipments to both sides in the Spanish civil war. The action by the Burgos and Val- encia governments met a gloomy re- sponse in British circles where it was | stated: “Everything is now up to Italy and Germany depending on whether they will shut off the flow of volunteers.” Complains of French Aid. Fascist Generalissimo Francisco Franco's rejection was flat, accom- panied by complaints that *“thou- | sands” of volunteers were crossing the | French frontier to fight for the So- | cialist government. | The Valencia reply, imposing nu- merous conditions to the suggested plan, also complained of enlistment of foreigners in the insurgent legions. Gen. Franco not only refused to ac- cept the specific suggestion, but also side-stepped the question of whether he would accept the principle of in- ternational control to isolate the civil | the reason for his hate of wealthy| ... Proposal Drafted in December. The proposal, drafted by the Inter- national Neutrality Committee of 27 | nations in December, was designed to tighten Spanish frontiers and coasts nitions from either Fascists or So- | cialists. Valencia January 1 after the com- 1mmee had approved its language in a session December 23. It did not include any suggestions regarding vol- | unteer recruiting in foreign coun- tries. The rejection left the situation as complicated as before, with only a possibility that a new plan, accept- able to both factions, might be worked | out. Removal Hearings Delayed. MADISON, Wis., January 19 (#).— Attorneys for major oil company executives under indictment on con- | spiracy charges announced yesterday | hearings for their removal to stand trial in Madison had been postponed until February 15. The hearings were set for February 1 in various cities. Defense counsel said Govern- ment attorneys agreed to the post- ponement. Wife Held for Killing Man After Handing Baby to Him BS the Assoctated Press. CLEVELAND, January 19.—Munic- ipal Judge Lewis Drucker bound Mrs. Flossie Hartman, 32, of Dunkard, Pa., over to the grand jury today on a charge of first-degree murder and handed county jailers the problem of caring for Mrs. Hartman's 11-month- old son Wayne. Mrs, Hartman is charged with the killing of her estranged husband Jo- seph. Still nursing her baby, Mrs. Hartman was held in a hospital ward of City Jail. ‘While waiting for her removal to county jail, policewomen, bailiffs and deputies tried to find some answer to the perplexing question presented by the baby. Until the present ad- ministration moved into the sheriff’s office two weeks ago, there was a rule °| forbidding the reception of babies. Detective Anthony Kosicki said Mrs. Hartman found her husband in an automobile with another woman last night and shot him five times. “Please get me out of here,” Kosicki quoted her as saying from the jail hos- pital ward, where she was held pend- ing filing of charges. Police said Mrs. Hartman told thi she arrived from Dunkard only a. few hours before the killing, which occurred in an -automobile parked across the street from Hartman's resi- dence. “I don’t know how she missed the baby,” said Miss Mary King, 34, who was sitting in the car also occupled by another man, Neil McKay. Miss King said she once had “gone steady” with Hartman in Pennsylvania. Miss King told police that McKay went into the house when Mrs. Hart- man came to the car and told her husband he had not contributed to the support of her and their three chidren. - “You didn't even send them a stick of candy for Christmas,” Miss King said Mrs. Hartman told her husband. She said Hartman asked his wife to get him some insurance papers from a trunk and she returned to the car a few moments later. Five shots were fired and Hartman fell dead at the wheel. Mrs. Hartman, who said the couple’s two other children, Roy, 9. and Joseph, 3, who are in a Waynesburg, Pa., orphanage, told police that she had come here to effect a reconciliation with her husband, from whom she had been separated six mont ‘The woman had been living at, Wunkard with. relatives | The plan was sent to Burgos and | | trict Committee that the Senate and House District Committees hold joint hearings on the new fiscal relations plan. Several members of the committee, | | including ~ Representative Schulte, Democrat, of Indiana, Palmisano, Democrat, of Maryland and Dirksen, | Republican, of Illinois, opposed a joint study. ‘Will Study Tax Plans. | One of the two special subcommit- tees will study proposals in the Jacobs report for new tax legislation to offset part of the $10.000,000 deficit the District will face in the coming fiscal year if the proposed three-point form- ula for solving the fiscal relations ! problem is approved by Congress. Kennedy was appointed chairman of this subcommittee. Named to serve with him are Representatives Schulte, Sacks, Democrat, of Pennsylvania: Dirksen and Short, Republican, of Missouri The other special subcommittee will study the 19 proposed statutory changes recommended in the Jacobs report. Representative Nichols, Demo- crat, of Oklahoma was selected to | head this subcommittee. Other mem- bers are Representatives Randolph, | Democrat, of West Virginia; McGee- | hee, Democrat, of Mississippi; Brew- | ster, Republican, of Maine, and Cole, Republican, of New York. | Mrs. Norton at the outset of the [ meeting—the first the committee has | held since Congress convened— | stressed the importance of the Jacobs’ report and the effect it would have on the District if Congress approved the | (See FISCAL, Page, A-5.) | | ——— %DRY GOODS RETAILERS CONSIDER OWN N. R. A.! | Program of Fair Trade Prnt:t.it:eui and Standard Hours and Pay Is Proposed. B the Associated Press. ¢ Foening Star 'WENTY-EIGHT PAGLES. THIS 1S GOOD, UNCLE. | SUGGESTED IT WHEN T'was PM.GENERAL ! SIX LIVES LOST IN FLOOD AREAS The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,262 RkKH (M) Means Associate 'HUGHES FLIES ACROSS U. S. IN 7 HOURS 31 MIN. Lands at Newark From Los Angeles, Workers Battle Swollenf Shattering Own 9-Hour Mark at Aver- age of 232 Miles Per Hour. Streams From Pennsyl- vania to Arkansas. By the Associated Press. The mighty Ohio River surged at flood stage along its entire 980-mile course today and other overburdencd Middle West streams threatened addi- tional destruction of life and property in at least eight States. From Pennsylvania to Arkansas workers battled flood waters created by heavy rains. Indiana. Ohio. Ken- turky, West Virginia, Illinois and Mis- |souri were other States menaced Ly swollen streams. ‘Thousands of persons fled from their homes when turgid waters engulfed lowlands in tise Ohio Valley, Missouri. Illinois and Arkansas, Six deaths wer® attributed to floods. two each in Illinois and Indiana, one in Missouri and one in Kentucky. W. P. A. Workers Fight Floods. Federal officials said more than 2.300 W. P. A. workers were fighting flond waters. They aided in rescues and laid thousands of sandbags against weakened levees. The Red Cross an- nounced establishment of a central disaster relief headquarters at Evans- ville, Ind. The Ohio reached a 57.3-foot level at Cincinnati early today, 5.3 feet over flood stage. Its waters virtualiy isolated Newport, Ky., where more than 800 families fled to higher ground. A: By the Associateg Press. NEWARK, N. J, January 19— Burning the wind at an estimated average speed of 332 miles an hour, Howard Hughes, the flving movie pro- ducer, today drove his high-speed monoplane across the continent in 7 hours 31 minutes for a new trans- continental speed mark. Hughes took off from Union air terminal, Los Angeles, at 2:14 am. (5:14 am. Eastern standard time) to- | ‘The new record breaks his old mark of 9 hours 25 minutes and 10 seconds, he set last January 14. He roared away into the mists east of the field after being sure he was 1dentified but came back in a few minutes and circled the field at terrific speed. apparently in an outburst of exuberance at setting the new mark. He set his fast ship down to earth {at 1:11 pm. Hughes was smiling broadly as he (Some returns not yet raaeived.) TWO CENTS. 1000 PIKETS DEFY TEAR GAS BONS FORCE AUTO BODY PLANT 10" CLOSE [Clash With Police Causes | Only Temporary Break in Lines Around Briggs Fac- tory in Detroit. INJURED ARE TREATED AT FIRST-AID STATION d Press. Workers Move at Brisk Trot in 20-Degree Temperature as Cir- cular Human Wall Is Formed in Front of Gate for Employes. Mass Meetings Are Held. By the Assoctated Press. | Police use tear gas as fighting re- sults from picketing at Briggs body plant in Detroit. Gov. Frank Murphy goes to Wash- ington to discuss automotive strike crisis with Federal officials; says “a solution will be found.” Secretary of Labor Perkins awaits his arrival. Flint Alliance, anti-strike organiza- tion, says it will “remain in back- ground” in defference to Murphy. | General Motors and United Automo- bile Workers accuse each other of violating strike truce. | k2 the Associated Press. | DETROIT, January 19.—A United | Automobile Workers of America picket line, estimated by a union official to number 1,000 men, withstood a police tear gas attack today and closed the Briggs Manufacturing Co.’s Meldrum avenue plant. A company official said at 8 am. | that “the plant is not operating.” The picket line then had dwindled to about 100 men. | Police Inspector Louis L. Berg was | temporarily overcome when a gas day and roared down across Newark | climbed from the open cockpit to | bomb exploded at his feet as he ate Municipal Airport, 2,490 miles away, at 12:43:27 p.m. making his official time 7 hours 29 minutes and 27 sec- onds. receive congratulations of field at- | taches. “I flew at 14,000 feet most of the (See HUGHES, Page A-3.) APPOINTEES TOACT ON POWER POLCY 5-Man Committee to Sug- Michigan Governor Arrives e gest Legislation on Federal Projects. Establishment of a continuing pol- Parkersburg, W. Va., the Ohio forced jcy of the Federal Government in the 230 persons from their homes. Red Cross workers prepared to evacuate 500 families from the Ohio River lowlands near Evansville, Ind. Swollen streams threatened serious consider legislative recnmmendmonsl property damage in the southern sec- tion of the State. A force of 1,750 men worked through matter of generating, transmitting and distributing electric power appeared likely today as a newly appointed committee prepared to organize and bearing upon this issue. | Selection of the committee was an- | nounced this morning by President the night reinforcing St. Francis River | Roosevelt with the membership com- levees in Southeastern Missouri, pre- paring for the zero hour today. Two United States Army engineers were | engulfed when a levee broke at Ken- nett, but pulled themselves to safety. W. P. A. Supervisor C. L. Blanton said the river must be whipped today “or it will whip us.” Farmers, share- croppers, W. P. A. workers and C. C. C. boys joined in the fight. The St. Francis poured through a 200-foot crevasse in the levee at Mo- ark, Ark., forcing scores of persons NEW YORK, January 19.—Proposal that the 6,000 store members of the National Retail Dry Goods Association adopt a program of fair trade practices and establish hour and wage stand- ards for employes was before a com- | mittee of the organization today. Embodying many principles of the national recovery act, the platform already has met the approval of the association’s board. It would have as other objectives: The elimination of child labor, reduction of unemploy- ment and making effective the greatest possible economy in distribution of goods and services. The committee will report on the proposal at Thursday's session. ‘The program was offered by Irwin D. Wolf, department store official of Pittsburgh, who said that members of the association have ‘“always reached toward social justice.” Summary of Page. Amusements A-12 Army, Navy.. B-9 ‘Woman's Pg.. B-2 Obituary ----A-10 NATIONAL. Howard Hughes flies across U. 8. in 7 hours and 31 minutes. Page A-1 Mattson kidnap witness to confront bearded suspect. Page A-1 Rep. Buchanan named head of Reor- ganization Committee. ~ Page A-3 Law to bar labor political contributions considered. Page A-4 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. D. C. Committee authorizes study of Jacobs fiscal report. Pagk A-1 Garcia held for grand jury under $25,000 bond. Page B-1 Grand jury to probe Maryland utility man’s death. Page A-3 Some D. C. hackers plan operating on hourly basis tomorrow. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. This and That. Answers to Questions. A-8 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-8 David Lawrence. (See FLOODS, Page A-7.) - DEBATES FILM TESTS Atlanta Society Girl Considered | for “Gone With the Wind.” ATLANTA, January 19 (#).—Susan Falligant, blond Atlanta society girl and junior at the University of Georgia, debated acceptance today of a contract for further tests for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the sereen version of “Gone With the Wind.” Miss Falligant, who is the daughter of Col. and Mrs. L, A. Falligant of Fort McPherson, revealed yesterday she had been offered a contract to follow up tests recently made here with more extensive filmings in New York. Today’s Star Paul Mallon. Mark Sullivan, Page A-9 Page A-9 Page A-9 Page A-9 FINANCIAL. Strike reflected in Wall Street (table). Page A-11 Curb stocks decline (table). Page A-15 Trading dull in bonds (table). Page A-13 Page A-14 Page A-13 District bankers meet. Commercial loans drop. SPORTS. Dean will be among five great pitching greats, Cobb avers. Page B-5 Tilden calls Von Cramm leading ama- teur net player. Page B-5 Golf has shown growth of 25 per cent during past year. Page B-6 Goodman rated best amateur linksman by national publication. Page B-6 Hot battles in Campbell’s Sweepstakes recalled as event nears. Page B-7 MISCELLANY. Young Washington. City News in Brief. Nature'’s Children. Bedtime Story. Betsy Caswell. Dorothy Dix. ‘Winning Contract. ‘Traffic Convictions. Page A-6 Page A-6 Page B-4 Page B-4 Page B-2 Page B-2 Page B-16 Page B-12 Py L posed of Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, Vice Chairman Frederic A. Delano ef the National Resources Committee, Commissioner Robert E. Healy of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Administrator Morris L. | Cooke of the Rural Electrification Ad- MURPHY HOPEFUL " OF STRIE PEACE Here for Parley on Auto- motive Disputes. By the Associated P Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan told newspaper men today he was “confident everything” in connection with the automobile strike “will work out all right.” Murphy arrived here this morning from Detroit for President Roosevelt’s | inauguration—and conferences with | Secretary Perkins and others, possibly the President himself, on the strife in the .utomobile industry. He declined to tell whom he would | see or when, but said: | { in mind.” | Murphy had breakfast with James | | “I have a definite plan of procedure | tempted to rescue William Myers, | plant manager, from a group of | pickets. Neither he nor Myers re- | quired hospital treatment. ‘The Briggs plant produces automos i bile bodies for the Lincoln Motor Car | Co. gnd the Dodge division of the | Chrysler Corp. Company officials said }that approximately 100 of the 1,800 | employes had been on strike since last week, although the plant continued to operate until today. Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. presi- dent, charging police launched a gas attack “without any justification.” telegraphed Gov. Frank Murphy of ichigan, who is at Washington, urg- g “such action as you may ‘deem | necessary to prevent further disorder | of this kind.” | | Picket Is Injured. | Several persons in addition to Myers and Inspector Berg were afe fected by the tear gas, and William Mackey, a picket, was injured when a fragment from a tear gas bomb struck him in the ey, but no casual- ties had been admitted to receiving hospital. A physician treated the ine | jured in an emergency first-aid sta- | tion set up in a beer garden across the street from the plant’s main gate. | Police said there were 2,000 pickets |in line when the first clash occurred as men of the 7 o'clock shift re- ported for work at the plant. _Richard Frankensteen, organiza- | tional director for thc United Automo- | bile Workers, who directed the demon= | | | | | ministration and Chairman Frank R. F. Dewey, Labor Department concili- | stration, said, however, that only 1,000 McNinch of the Federal Power Com- | ator, who helped arrange the unsuc- | pickets were involved. He said between | mission. Recommendations Required. Specifically, the committee is under instruction to make recommendations to the President for legislation bear- project in the State of Washington. At the same time, however, it is clothed with broader responsibility in regard to a general power policy, an issue which has been somewhat clouded throughout the first term of the Roosevelt administration and (See POWER, Page A-4) =5 BADLY BEATEN SOLDIER FOUND LYING IN STREET Fort Belvoir Man, 29, “Unable to Remember” Cause of His Injuries. Badly beaten about the face and | head, Daniel Ward, 29, attached to Company G, Engineers, Fort Belvoir, Va., was found lying in the street in the southwest section early today. Ward was semi-conscious when he was discovered by police at Virginia avenue and First street. At Gallinger Hqspital, where he was treated for multiple cuts and bruises, he was quoted by police as saying he “couldn’t remember” what had caused his injuries. ing upon utilization of the Bonneville | | cessful peace conference between the | striking United Automobile Workers and General Motors officials. | After breakfast the two went to | Murphy's hotel room. Murphy conferred with John L. ;Lewis in Secretary Perkins’ office in an effort to work out a solution of the General Motors strike. With Miss Perkins, Murphy and Lewis, head of the Committee for In- dustrial Organization, was James F. Dewey, veteran Labor Department conciliator. None would comment before the conference started. STRIKE DEADLOCK HOLDS. | Auto Workers and General Motors Make No Peace Moves. DETROIT, January 19 (#).—Dis- order flared again briefly today in the far-flung automotive strike as a “trotting picket line” of union strikers prevented workers from entering the Briggs Manufacturing Co. plant on Meldrum avenue and forced it to shut down. Apparently as far apart as when the strike first started, General Mo- tors and the United Automobile Work- ers of America made no further moves today toward a peace conference. Gov. Frank Murphy, still hopeful, was in Washington to discuss the strike " (See MURPHY, Page A-5) By the Assoctated Press. PARIS, January 19.—Iran’s govern- ment threatened today to withdraw hundreds of students from French schools unless the French government gives “satisfaction” for a magazine Jjoke about the Shah. An official of the Iran (Persian) Legation pointed out there were 600 Iranians in French colleges and uni- versities, 100 at Saint Cyr, the French West Point, and another 100 at the Brest Naval Academy. He added: “It is & French military mission which is training Iran's army. Frenchmen are running Teheran Uni- versity. a Frenchman is financial councilor to the Iran National Bank. there are many French commercial organizations ng over there for \Iran, Irked at Joke About Shah, ' Demands Satisfaction of Paris orders and who want to construct a with the Gulf of Persia. “Think about all that, and you can but regret with me over the incident which just occurred.” ‘The Iranian Minister to Paris, Mirza Abolghassem Khan Nadjm, left Paris hurriedly last night en route to Teheran. At the same time it was stated the Shah, butt of jokes in two French magazines, had canceled Iran’s entry in the forthcoming Paris ex- position. On the occasion of publication of the first joke the Shah protested to the French minister at Teheran, the minister inf Paris, and the ‘magazine apo) Then aother &« dav' gazine caused to- vy railway connecting the Caspian Sea 3,000 and 4,000 men moved from a union mass meeting to the plant at 5 a.m., but that most of the men left to go to work in their own plants be- fore he trouble started. The pickets—the largest mass line ever seen in a Detroit strike—formed |a huge circular human wall in front {of the employes’ gate, moving at a | brisk trot in 20-degree weather. ‘} Sound Truck Is Used. | Frankenstcen, wko had addressed the mass meeting in Dodge Union Hall preceding the demonstration, ran up and down the line, exhorting the men to move faster. From a sound truck came encouragement for the pickets. As several hundred Briggs workmen arrived shortly before 7 a.m. a police WITNESSES HUNTED, | SWIFT CASE WAITS | Packing Firm Accused by U. S. of Unfair Trade Practices. Hearing Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 19.—Govern- ment process servers today reported they had been unable to reach several witnesses sought to testify at the Gov- ernment’s RQearing on charges that Swift & Co., Chicago packing firm, had engaged in unfair trade practices, and the hearing, before an examiner of the Department of Agriculture, was postponed until tomorrow. Charges were filed against both | Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., but the latter firm secured a severance of the hearings. The hearings began last week. —_— RETAINS JERSEY SEAT Senator-elect Smathers to Return to Trenton. PRENTON, N. J., January 19 (P).— United States Senator-elect William H. Smathers of Atlantic City plans to attend the President’s inaugural at ‘Washington, but expects to return im- mediately to his seat in the New Jersey State Senate. Smathers, o. whose presence keeps State Senate mocrats within one vote of conf would not say when he would leave Trenton to be sworn