Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair with slowly rising temperature to= night and tomorrow; minimum tempera- ture tonight about 30 degrees; gentle south winds. Temperatures—Highest, 38, at 1:30 p.m. yesterday;,lowest, 20, at 7:10 a.m. today. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 33,889. 85th YEAR. No. STRIKE PEACE SIGNED; U.A.W. TO BARGAIN FOR OWN MEMBERSHIP ONLY Negotiations to 5 Cents Per Hour Wage Increase Be Resumed Feb. 16. STRIKE BARRED DURING TALKS Plants to Reopen as Soon as . Possible. BACKGROUND— United Automobile Workers of America, an affiliate of John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Or- ganization, 44 days ago launched . their sit-down strike in plants of General Motors. On December 22 General Motors refused to meet United Automobile Workers of America in general col- lective bargaining conference. Within few days widespread sit- down strikes in plants at Atlanta, Ga.; Cleveland and Norwood, Ohio; Flint, Mich., and Anderson, Ind., followed, throwing 150,000 out of work. The union had demanded recog- nition as “sole bargaining agency” Jor G. M. C. employes, abolition of piece-work systems of pay and other wage and working condition adjustments. BY the Associated Press. DETROIT, February 11.—The cost- liest strike in American automotive history ended formally today with the signing here at 11:46 a.m. (East- ern standard time) of a peace agree- ment between General Motors Corp. end the United Automobile Workers’ | Union. The signing occurred as the strike, estimated to have cost $1,000,000 a day in wages alone to General Mo- tors employes, entered its forty-fourth | day. ‘Terms of Agreement. ‘The text of the agreement follows: | “Agreement entered into on this | 11th day of February, 1937, between | the General Motors Corp. (hereinafter referred to as the ‘corporation’), and the International Union, united Auto- mobile workers of America (herein- after referred to as the ‘union’): “1. The corporation hereby recog- nizes the union as the collective bargaining agency for those employes of the corporation who are members of the union. The corporation recog- nizes and will not interfere with the right of its employes to be members of the union. crimination, interference, restraint, or coercion by the corporation or any of Its agents against any employes be- | cause of membership in the union. “2. The corporation and the union agree to commence collective bargain- ing negotiations on February 16, with regard to the issues specified in the letter of January 4, 1937, from the union to the corporation, for the pur- pose of entering into a collective bar- gaining agreement, or agreements, covering such issues, looking to a final and complete settlement of all matters in dispute. ““3. The union agrees to forthwith terminate the present strike against the corporation and to evacuate all plants now occupied by strikers. ‘4, The corporation agrees that all of its plants, which are on strike or otherwise idle, shall resume -operations as rapidly as possible. “5. It is understood that all em- ployes now on strike or otherwise idle | will return to their usual work when called, and that no discrimination shall be made or prejudices exercised by the corporation against any em- ploye because of his former affiliation ‘with, or activities in, the union or the present strike. “6. The union agrees that pending the negotiations referred to in para- gaph 2 there shall be no strikes called or any other interruption to or inter- (See STRIKE, Page A-2.) Hand Crushed In Door, Girl, 3, Finally Freed Mother Helpless, Child Fights Sobs W aiting Rescue. Unable to free her hand from a swinging door in which it was caught for more than 15 minutes, 3-year-old Ruth Oden fought to keep back the tears today while her mother and little brother stood by, unable to do anything but wait. The child had caught her right bhand in a door between the kitchen and dining room of her home, at 515 Florida avenue northeast. She was playing with her 4-year-old brother Beverley and had started to run into the kitchen when the mishap occurred. ‘The mother, Mrs. Naomi Oden, found she could not move the door either way, because that would have crushed the child’s fingers ever more. Comforting Ruth, she rushed to the telephone and called the fire rescue squad. “I guess it was only a few minutes, but it seemed like hours and hours before they arrived,” she said. And Ruth, all the time she was waiting for her rescuers to arrive, tried to act her bravest, but cried ilu: a little, while Beverley stood by The rescue squad arriver, and Pvt. N. C. Mortensen forced the door with & crowbar enough to allow Ruth to withdraw her hand. The child was taken to a hospital. ‘The mother said she was told the fingers were crushed but not broken. L4 There shall be no dis- | Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. O. Ch WASHINGTON, Granted by BY the Assoclated Press. Motors Corp. "announced wage creases of 5 cents an hour in all plants effective February 15, today, and a statement said the increase would aggregate $25,000,000 a year. An announcement made by Alfred P. Sloan, jr., president, said the in- creases would be effective February 15 in plants now operating and in other plants when they resume operations. The statement in full follows: “In view of the corporation’s ex- pressed policy of maintaining at all times the highest justifiable wage scale and in harmony with other in- creases that have just been made in the automotive industry, it will again increase wages 5 cents per hour in all plants in the United States now in operation. as of February 15, 1937, and in all plants not now in opera- tion, at such time as they may be reopened. « Detailed announcement will be made on an individual plant basis. “It will be recalled that on No- | vember 9 last an increase was also lgmnted—me total increase in wages Sloan Announces Hike Effective Febru- ary 15 in Plants Now Operating and OthersWhen They Reopen. DETROIT; February 11.—General | in- | General Motors to be disbursed on a normal yearly basis as a result of the proposed new increases now being put into effect |will be $25,000,000—November and | February increases together on the | same basis will amount to approxi- mately $55,000,000—the corporation’s average wage rate giving weight to | the above increase will be approxi- mately 25 per cent in excess of the highest prevailing in the pre-depres- sion period.” The last previous General Motors wage increase was announced Novem- ber 9, 1936, amounting to five cents an hour. It became effective immediately. In addition at that time the company | announced the distribution of a $10,~ 000,000 “Christmas appreciation fund” | to all employes who had been with the company more than six months, but who did not share in the management | bonus system. In March, 1936, Sloan announced | that the average hourly wage rate of the corporation current at the time was the highest in General Motors | | history, exceeding that for the peak | year of 1929 by approximately 25 per ! cent. DETECTIVE BARES G M. C.CONTAT Employe-Informant Report- ed Still on Pinkerton Pay Roll. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Pinkerton officials conferred in & local hotel room this week with an em- ploye-informant still on their pay roll in a General Motors plant, it was disclosed before the La Follette com- mittee today. Although direct Pinkerton service to General Motors allegedly was dis- continued January 31 of this year, | A. L. Pugmire, Detroit official of the agency, testified to paying a plant in- | services to the 15th of this month. formant $60 since February 1 for | | The informant showed up in Wash- | | ington this week, the witness then ex- plained, under subpoena by the com- | mittee. “Come clean, Pugmire,” La Follette | demanded as the witness hesitated while recounting developments in the hotel room. Pugmire next explained that the informant claimed he did not know why he was under subpoena, but it was agreed he would give Pugmire a secret sign in tne committee room the next day if he learned why he had | been brought here. “Have you seen this informant since you paid him?” La Follette asked. “Yes, within the last two or three days, here in Washington,” Pugmire answered. “And what happened?” ‘Witness Hesitant. The witness became very hesitant at this point, but said something about assuring his informant that his identity would not be disclosed. “Where in Washington did you see him?” “At my hotel room and in this | committee room,” Pugmire admitted. “At the Carlton Hotel.” Pugmire then testified that he asked the informant to come to his hotel after seeing him in the committee room earlier this week. “When did he come?” “The same day.” “Where did you meet him?” “n the lobby.” “Where did you go then?” “To my room.” “Did you go together?” “No, he followed after me.” Examined further, Pugmire said the informant told him of being under committee subpoena. Robert Mason, another Pinkerton agent, joined them there, Pugmire said. Because of Mason's suspicions that the informant had “sold out” to the committee, Pugmire said the whole in- (See LA FOLLETTE, Page A-2) 15 RESCUE[;FROM FIRE Three - Story Store - Apartment Burns in Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, February 11 (#).— Fifteen persons were rescued from roofs and fire escapes early today as flames attacked a three-story brick store and apartment, building not far from downtown Cincinnati. Dr. George C. Ruhland, District health officer, today urgently re- quested ‘all dog owners in a wide area in the northern séction of the city to keep their pets inside their homes because of reports that a mad dog area. ‘The request applied to all dog own- Home, east of Sixteenth street, and in the vicinity of the District line. ‘The southern boundary was not fixed. Meanwhile, Dr. Ruhland was con- ferring with an assistant, Dr. James G. Cumming, on whether to ask the LY - LEWIS YIELDED, CREEN DECLARES A. F. of L. Head “Regrets” U. A. W. Failed to Get Own Closed Shop. By the Associated Press. William Green, president of the American Federation of characterized the General strike settlement today as a sur- render on the part of John L. Lewis. Green expressed “regret” that the United Automobile Workers had failed to obtain a “closed shop” in depart- rents other than those claimed by A. F. of L. craft unions as their territory. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, directed the strike strategy of the united auto- mobile workers. “If any one lesson has been taught,” Green said, “it is that in a fight of | this kind the solidarity of all labor in the United States and Canada is needed.” | Green speaks for the federation’s | craft unions, which suspended the automobile workers and nine other | unions in the Committee for Indus- | trial Organization group last Sep- tember for trying to bring all the‘v workers in each big industry into one big union, regardless of traditional A. F. of L. craft lines. MARCH FINANCING STILL IS UNCERTAIN Morgenthau to Consult Reserve Board—Big “Baby Bond” Sale May Be Factor. By the Associated Press. The Treasury’s March financing plans, Secretary Morgenthau said to- day, still are in the making. Morgenthau said he would consult | the Federal Reserve Board. He added: “At this time it is a more difficult task to know what to do without having to pay too much for our money and without disturbing the money market.” The Reserve Board recently ordered a 331 per cent increase in deposit reserve requirements, which, when fully effective May 1, will “lock up” about $1,500,000,000 of loanable funds. The action has led to predictions of a stiffening in money rates. Morgenthau told reporters “baby bonds” sales aggregated $97,000,000 in January, a new peak, and that funds poured into the Government’s cash box from these sales might affect other financing operations. —_ FOUNDRY STRIKE ENDS PORT HURON, Mich., February 11 (P)—A strike at the Holmes Foundry Co. plant here, manufacturing cylinder blocks for the Hudson Motor Car Co., ended today. Company officials announced they had granted a demand of the United Automobile Workers for a 5 cents an héur increase in wages for those earn- ing less than 50 cents an hour. ‘The company, employing 600 per- ers residing north of the Old Soldiers’ | P8rk, Md., man went berserk yester- sons, resumes operations tonight. Warning Issued on Mad Dog Reported in Takoma Park Area all dogs found at tion, remove them to had bitten several persons and pos- |administer the rabies sibly other dogs in the Takoma Park |ment. Dr. Ruhland said he was informed a Boston bull owned by a Takoma day or the day be(m.nndreportedly] bit his owner and several other per- sons. It was reported one man had & finger virtually bitten off. The dog was caught yesterday and (8ce MAD DOG: Page A-3.) ¢ Labor, | Motors | ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION U. 5. SPAGE NEEDS STUDY ORDERED BY ICKES COMMITTEE Jefferson Auditorium Plan Not Involved Now, Says Interior Head. LOCATION OF MEMORIAL TO BE TAKEN UP LATER Boylan Opposes Public Hall Here in Memory of Early President. An immediate survey of present and future office space needs of all Fed- eral agencies was ordered today at the initial meeting of the new committee | appointed by President Roosevelt to prepare a 5-and-10-year building pro- gram for the Government in Wash- ington. Secretary of the Interior Ickes, chairman, announced after the meet- ing that such preliminary work was necessary “before the committee can go ahead with the formulation of any program.” He pointed out, however, that the question of an auditorium in honor of Thomas Jefferson does not enter spe- cifically into the plans of this new presidential committee. That is a question left for the determination of the commission appointed under the Robinson bill, which is now awaiting the President’s signature. As a mem- ber also of that congressional com- mission, Secretary Ickes, who was the first to indorse a Thomas Jefferson memorial auditorium, declined to dis- cuss those plans today as a matter of public policy. Auditorium as Memorial Opposed. He pointed out, however, that the location of the Thomas Jefferson Me- morial, regardless of what form it eventually takes, was a matter with which the General Building Commit- tee would be concerned. After a White House conference this morning, Representative Boylan, Dem- | ocrat, of New York, chairman of the | Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commis- sion, made known his opposition to having an auditorium serve as a me- morial to the third President. President Roosevelt, it is under- stood, told Boylan and his fellow commissioners to proceed with their plans to select drawings for a me- morial to be situated on the south side of the Tida! Basin. The commission proposes to build & handsome marble structure, perhaps in the form of a small temple, in which would be placed a statue of the author of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. Boylan said as he left the White House that the commission will meet in his office at the Capitol next Thurs- day to choose a site and approve plans before seeking the $3,000,000 appropri- ation Congress authorized a year ago for the Jefferson memorial. Dignified Structure Planned. “What we have in mind,” Boylan said “will be something dignified and | handsome with its architecture along | the lines of Mr. Jefferson’s own taste. | While I would be glad personally to | see Washington get a suitable audito- | rium, I will not agree to its serving as a national memorial to Jefferson.” | However, since President Roosevelt | has been reported ready to sign the Robinson resolution recommending the erection of the memorial auditor- | ium, it has been suggested that he will back both proposals. - With Boylan to the White House (See SPACE, Page A-4.) _ LINDBERGHS HOP AGAIN Monoplane Crossing Mediterra- nean for Visit to Tripoli. PELERMO; Sicily, February 11 (P). —Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh took off today for a flight across the Mediterranean to Tripoli, where they will be guests of the noted Italian airman, Gen. Italo Balbo, governor of ‘Tunis. . Lindbergh lifted his orange. and black monoplane into the air at 9:07 am. (3:02 A. M. E. S. T.). Air- port officials reported the weather along the route was reasonably good. Short Story. C-8 Society ..... B-3 " Sports C-1-3 Lost & Found A-3| Woman’s Pg. C-6 Obituary .._A-10 FOREIGN. French threaten to aid Spain socialist forces. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Roosevelt pushes courts proposal through conferences. Page A-1 Pinkerton contact with General Motors spy here disclosed. Page A-1 Regulation of heavy industries argued before Supreme Court. Page A-1 Six killed-when plane crashes into street. Page A-1 Supreme Court completes hearing on A. P. case. 2 Page A-5 Name “Tim” links suspect to Mattson kidnap-slaying. Page A-10 Postponement of security tax increase is asked. Page A-18 Chief Parker quoted as willing that Wendel go crazy. Page A-18 Hearings due on Mellon gift accept- ance bill. Page B-2 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Survey of building space needs or- dered at once. Page A-1 Red Cross flood relief fund nears $20,- 000,000 mark. Page A-4 “vate-on-bet” girl, freed, to seek divorce, Page A-11 Coroner’s jury ‘to probe insurance man’s death. Page A-18 House groups to hold meeting Tues- day on Jacobs report. Page B-1 135 more guards needed at Lorton, Capt. Barnard ssys. Page B-1 | .| Hearings on District appropriation NO,THEY HAVENT TURNED MOHAMMEDAN. ¢ Foening Staf D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1937—FORTY-SIX PAGES.***** IT'S JUSTAN OLD AMERI- CAN CUSTOM OF KEEPING mgg EARS e GROUND! //////// 7 74, Z a The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s (8Bome retu; e o T Z. THE CALL OF THE MUEZZIN! NAJJUMHELD SLAIN IN THEFT OF §2 | “Voluntary Statement” Al- legedly Made by Suspect Quoted at Inquest. BULLETIN. Lawrence Ricker, Robert W. Meizner and Eunice Gerardi were held for the grand jury by the cor- oner'’s jury. | of James Najjum, accused his compan- fon of beating the 54-year-old insur- ance collector into unconsciousness | after a robbery which yielded $2, ac- | cording to a voluntary statement intro- | i ::ced by the police at the inquest to- y. Quoting from the statement alleg- edly made by Lawrence N. Ricker, 24, | one of the prisoners, the beating was | administered by a companion, Robert Meinzer,” 23, Detective Sergt. Aubrey Tolson of the homicide squad told the coroner's jury. Najjum, who lived at 1809 North Capitol street, died Saturday in Sig- ley Hospital, three weeks after he was found on Chapel road, Seat Pleasant, Md. A gold watch, about $18 and other personal effects were missing when he was discovered by a motorist. Sergeant Testifies. Sergt. Tolson, who participated in the arrest of the two youths and 19- year-old Eunice C. Gerardi, quoted Ricker as saying he, Miss Gerardi | and Morris Wolfe went to a North| Capitol street restaurant, where they met Meinzer on the night of January | 20. Leaving the place, Tolson said, the four split up and drove off in two cars. At North Capitol and M streets they saw Najjum sitting on the curb, leaning against a tree. He had| scratches on his face. Taking the insurance collector with them, Tolson quoted them as saying, they drove to a nearby liquor store, ‘where a pint of whisky was purchased, with Najjum paying for it. All four then got into Ricker’s car, Tolson (See INQUEST, Page A-6.) ADMITS FIRING STORE SPOKANE, Wash., February 11 (#).— A 6l-year-old woman who said, “I {want to end my persecution,” told police she set fire to a store and post | | office at Minter City., Miss., 15 years | ago. | ‘The woman, Mrs. Wiltie McRae, was | | held today on a technical charge of | vagrancy while police investigated her story. bill postponed. Page B-1 New field of controversy enters “mar- ried workers” fight. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Answers to Questions. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon. Page Mark Sullivan. Page Jay Franklin. Page Delia Pynchon. Page FINANCIAL. Corporate bonds narrow (table). Page A-15 Page A-15 A-8 A-8 A-8 A-8 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 Corporate earnings gain. One of two youths held in the death | Six Die When Plane Crashes Into Street Before Lion Cage By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, February 11.—A German military plane dived out of a blinding snowstorm into a busy Berlin market place today, spraying the teeming square with burning gasoline, killing six persons and creating scenes of the wildest panic. It ripped through trolley wires like a giant cleaver and struck with a sick- ening crash directly in front of a moveable cage containing 15 lions, part of a small traveling circus. The terrified roar of the lions, strug- |gling to escape from the menace of fire that burst out through the screen of snowflakes before them, rose above the screams of street car passengers | and the cries of pedestrians. When ambulances edged their way through the mass of people and traffic, all five air force members in the plane were dead. The conductor of a street car died of burns from a live wire, and another trolley worker was injured. Several other persons were burned. The tri-motored Junkers plane ap- parently was trying for an emergency landing in nearby Schiller Park, sep- arated from the North Berlin scene of the crash by a small cemetery. It was believed the plane, lost in tku‘ |Flaming Gasoline Is Sprayed Over Pe- destrians Amid Scenes of Wild Con- fusion in Berlin Market Place. | blizzard, had circled for some time iooking for a landing place. Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, who ordinarily travels by air, was en route to his Berchtesgaden villa at the time of the storm. However, he was on a train today. | The burning gasoline was scattered over a wide area around the wrecked | plane. Several street cars in the im- | mediate vicinity were doused with | the flaming liquid. | The plane fell at the busy corner of Muellerstrasse and Zeestrasse. It caromed Off a street car, severing trolley wires, which were short- circuited. An automobile on the street caught fire and burned. ‘The air ministry said the plane was & military reconnaisance plane en |route from Stargard, Pomerania, to Jueterbog. Five airforce flyers in the plane were killed. Observers saw flames bursting from the plane when it crashed. The pilot apparently was trying to reach Schil- ler Park, a nearby recreation ground. (The intersection of Muellerstrasse and Zeestrasse is in the Nordpark (North Park) district of Berlin, ap- proximately a dozen blocks northeast of the Ploetzen See, a popular resort lake.) FRENGHTHREATEN A TOSOGALSTS to Cease Helping Spain Insurgents. BACKGROUND— Outbreak of civil war in Spain, with Fascist insurgents seeking to overthrow popularly-elected Social- ist government, drove deeper the chasm between Fascist and Social- ist governments in Europe. Ger- many, Italy and Portugal came to aid of rebels with arms and men, while France and Russia leaned toward support of the legal gov- ernment. Non-intervention agreement reached between principal govern- ‘ments of Eunrope, but failed to halt flow of volunteers and arms into Spain. France has threatened sev- eral times to help the Socialist gov- ernment unless Germany and Italy cease their activities, By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, February «11.—France re- newed her threats today to inter- vene in the Spanish civil war in be- half of the faltering republican gov= ernment unless Germany and Italy halt their aid to insurgent Fascists. Reports of recent landings of 12,000 Italian troops at Cadiz and foreign support in the Fascist capture of Malaga stimulated evident impa- tience in government quarters over delay of the Non-intervention Com- mittee to isolate the civil conflict. ‘The sudden resurgence of the ques- tion was high-lighted by a threat to air the whole problem of the civil war in Parlizment. Socialist Deputy Joseph Rous de- clared he would raise the point in Page A-16 Page A-17 Page A-17 Page A-17 Stocks swept up (table). Curb list higher (table). Clearings lag in week. Steel rate soars. SPORTS. Uncertainty of comebacks present puz- Page C-1 zle in big leagues. Catholic U. boxers get test in meeting Page Golf professional confident ;r“:mu ProSperous year. Cc-3 MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. After Dark. Nature's Children. Bedtime Story. City News in Brief. Betsy Caswell. Dorothy Dix. Crossword Puzsle. Page A-2 Page B-6 Page B-8 Page B-8 Page B-10 Page C-6 Page C-6 Page C-7 Page C-8 Page C-8 Page C-11 Page C-12 (See FRANCE, Page A-3.) Germany and Italy Warned | LABORACT ASE CLOSED BY REED Sutherland, in Cross-Exam- ining Solicitor General, Indicates Validity Doubt. BY JOHN H. CLINE. After undergoing a searching cross- examination by Justice Sutherland, who indicated he has grave doubts as to the validity of the Wagner labor relations act. Solicitor General Reed today concluded a Government effort to convince the Supreme Court that | Congress has the power to regulate conditions causing strikes in the steel | industry. | The solicitor general, arguing the Government's side of the suit brought by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. attacking the constitutionality of the Wagner act, had contended Congress has authority under the interstate commerce clause to regulate condi- tions causing labor disturbances when such conditions have a direct effect upon the flow of commerce among the States. Distinction in Regulations. He insisted there is an important distinction between the regulation of the causes of labor disturbances and the actual regulation of labor condi- tions such as wages and hours, which (See SUPREME COURT, Page A-2.) — Florida City Attorney Dies. SEBRING, Fla., February 11 ()— City Attorney Playford Alonzo Naylor, 40, died tcday following an appendi- citis operation a week ago. He was & native of Oakland, Md. graduate of the University of Virginia and son of former State Senator A. D. Naylor and Mrs. Naylor of Oakland, Md. His widow and one child survive. Scarcity of Girl Babies Irks Britain’s Bachelor Legislators By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, February 11.—Perplexed British legislators—bachelors all— besought the government today to do something about the strange scarcity of girl babies in England. * Bachelor Ronald Cartland, 30, Con- servative, put the question of the com- monwealth’s posterity up to the gov- ernment yesterday, urging it to “make recommendations thereto.” He was pdrticularly concerned that not enough girl babies were being born to take their places as future British mothers, thus accelerating the declin- rate. of his fellow members of the House of Commons, “why are we having fewer children than in the past?” Quick to answer was fellow Bache- lor and Conservative Richard A. Pilk- ington. Rising to his feet and fixing the members with a rebuking stare, he declared: “I learn with amazement and horror that even in this House there are nearly 200 bachelors.” “Shame! Shame!” the Commons cried. ‘Throughout the debate, Arthur Hay- day, member for West Nottingham and father of 17 children, sat in silence, even when the government promised & full investigation of Britain’s decrease in births. (P) Means Associated Press. Circulation, 143,231 rns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT WAGES FIGHT FOR COURTS REFORM WITHOUT ANY: COMPROMISE Length of Time Required for Constitutional Amend- ment, as on Child Labor, Reason for Position. CONFERENCES HELD TO PUSH PROPOSAL Senators and Farm Organization Representatives Consulted at White House—Voluntary Re- tirement Bill Meet Executive’s Favor. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Roosevelt today continued his efforts in behalf of his judiciary reorganization bill, holding confer- ences at the White House with a | number of' Senators and with repre- sentatives of a farm organization for | that purpose The Chief Executive was represented as being absolutely opposed to any | compromise on his proposal to add new members to the Supreme Court | of the United States. Neither a plan for a constitutional amendment nor the House bill permitting voluntary retirement of the Supreme Court Justices will satisfy him. | The President, it was said, takes the position that if it has been im- possible to get through a constitu- tional amendment dealing with child labor, after a score of years of effort, the young men of today might be gray beards or dead before an amend- ment giving Congress authority to regulate labor and industry and agri- culture could be put through. | For Retirement Plan. | _The voluntary retirement bill for ; Supreme Court justices, which the | House passed vesterday by a vote of 315 to 75, has the President’s approval. He said as much in his message to the Congress on the judiciary, for after discussing the need of having new | blood in the courts, the President | added, “In this connection let me say mayme pending proposal to extend to | the justices of the Supreme Court the same retirement privileges now avail- able to other Federal judges, has my entire approval.” Not all the House members who voted for the voluntary retirement bill, however, are in favor of the President’s plans for the Supreme Court. Indeed, a great many of them are not. Some of them voted for the bill because they thought it might make it more difficult for the President to get any other legislation regarding the highest court. Others voted for it because they hoped that, if enacted into law, sev- eral of the justices of the court, now of retirement age, would leave the bench and thus make it possible to |add the “new blood” to the bench which the President desires without additional legislation. Not Satisfactory Substitute. But while the voluntary retirement bill has the President’s approval, it by no means is satisfactory to him as a substitute for his plan regarding the Supreme Court. He will insist upon a law giving him authority to appoint additional justices of the Supreme Court whenever a justice of retirement age fails to retire or resign. The action of the House in passing the bill yesterday was, in reality, merely supplementary to the Presi- | dent’s plan. The Senate is likely to put through the retirement bill, too, it was said. Senator Ashurst, chair- man of the Judiciary Committee, and Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, have both expressed their approval of the measure which now goes to the | Senate for consideration: first, how- ever, by the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee. The President held up yesterday consideration by the House of a sec- ond bill reported favorably by the House Judiciary Committee and which the committee had planned to pass without further delay. This bill would authorize the Attorney General to in- tervene in any private suit in which the constitutionality of a Federal law (See JUDICIARY, Page A-4.) GENERAL MOTORS SHARES ADVANCE Jump Briskly Ahead to $70 at New York on Strike Settle- ment News. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 11.—Gen- eral Motors shares jumped briskly ahead to $70 in the Stock Exchange today on the strike settlement and some other motors and steels thrust into new high recovery ground. In spite of the aggressive forward drive of these groups, profit selling washed through some other sections of the market bringing losses of sev- eral cents to $1 or more a share early this afternoon. Chrysler moved un- certainly in early afternoon. Up several cents to around $2 & share shortly after noon were General Motors, United States Steel, Beth- lehem, Goodrich, Studebaker and Santa Fe. WINS YACHT RACE: Roderick Stephens, Jr., First in Miami-Nassau Event. NASSAU, Bahamas, February 11 (#).—The yawl Stormy Weather, skip- pered by Roderick Stephens, jr., of New York, was declared winner of the fourth annual Miami-Nassau yacht | race today.