Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, warmer tonight; minimum tem- perature about 40 degrees; tomorrow, partly cloudy, slightly warmer; moder- ate winds. Temperatures—Highest, 45, at noon today; lowest, 31, at 2 a.m. today. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Full report on page B-2. New York Markets Closed Today WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered a5 sacond clas matter WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1937—FORTY-SIX PAGES. ## iFs C “TDEFENDERS DOWN Yesterday’s Circulation, 144,613 (SBome returns not yet received.) TWC CENTS. DELAY N ACTION 85th YEAR. No. 33,890. PLANT REOPENINGS (#) Means Associated Press. 9 N Roosevelt’s Court Proposals e P RUSHED BY G. M. C. FISHER UNIT READY | cummin Full-Time Operation of Cleveland Factory Is Set for Today. 140,000 WILL BE GIVEN WORK WITHIN 12 DAYS Firm to Be Operating at Capacity in Short Time, Knudsen Says. Victory Claims Differ. BACKGROUND— Last December United Automo- bile Workers presented demands to General Motors Corp. for confer- ence fo discuss wages, hours, work- ing conditions and recognition of union as sole collective bargaining agency. G.M.C.refused. U.A.W. ordered sit-down strikes, which put about 150,000 workers out of their jobs. Involved were problems arising from introduction of sit-down prin=- ciple on big scale in United States and attitude of John L. Lewis, C. I. O. leader. Both sides were adamant. Federal labor officials’ attempts at conciliation*were futile. Finally, ajter long negotiations, Gov. Frank Murphy arranged peace pact, which was signed yesterday. B3 the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, February 12—General Motors Corp. speeded preparations to- day to start again the wheels of its mammoth industry and restore full- time work to 140,000 strike-affected employes at increased wages. Full-time operation of the Fisher Body plant at Cleveland will begin late today, officials announced, as other Ohio employes of G. M. C. planned quick return to work in fac- tories at Toledo and Norwood, Cin- cinnati suburb. Edward J. Gleason, assistant man- ager of the Cleveland plant, said pro- duction would begin on the afternoon (3 pm. E. S. T.) shift, returning the employes to work considerably sooner than others of the 10,000 employed in the three cities. “Our maintenance men went into the plant last night to inspect the machinery,” Gleason said. “They found everything in fine shape. That means we can resume production at once.” The Buick division of the world's largest automobile producer was the first to announce its reopening. It said 12,500 of the 16,000 workers at Flint, Mich, would return Monday end that the remainder would be called back during the week. Capacity in 12 Days. William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors, said that within 12 days after operations are resumed the corporation would be operating at capacity. This calls for | the production of 225,000 passenger cars and trucks monthly, “Sit-down” strikers whose occupa- tion of three key plants at Flint—the Fisher Body Nos. 1 and 2 and Chev- roiet motor assembly No. 4—had a spectacular part in the paralyzation of operations, jubilantly marched out last night. Cheered by their families and throngs of union members and sym- pathizers, the strikers paraded from the factories six hours after General Motors executives and the United Au- tomobile Workers of America had signed in Detroit the agreement that ended the prolonged dispute. Plants to Reopen Soon, Knudsen said as many as phssible of the corporation’s factories, scat- tered throughout the United States, would reopen the first of the week. In- ventories of parts other than bodies have been built up during the strike. As soon as bodies reach the assembly line the output of cars and trucks will be speeded up to the 225,000-a-month schedule al “Stop orders” issued at the peak of the strike were canceled yesterday, Knudsen said, permitting resumption of the flow of materials and paris supplied to the corporation by non- subsidiaries. He estimated General Motors consumes 15,000 tons of ma- terials daily. ‘Trade observers predicted General ‘Motors will extend its high volume production later into the Spring than usual to compensate for the decline in production during the strike. The assembly of passenger cars reached a comparative zero point just before the strike was terminated. A pay increase of 5 cents an hour becomes effective when the workers re- turn to their jobs. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., corporation president, estimated this will add $25,000,000 to General Motors’ annual pay roll in announc- ing the wage rise yesterday simul- taneously with the signing of the strike-settlement terms. Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. presi- dent, called representatives of every Fruit of 18 Months’ Study He Began After N. R. A. Reversal sand Reed Collaborated Upon Plan—Constitution Route to Social Legislation Spurned as Too Slow. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Roosevelt’s judiciary reorganization plan, frankly designed to make it possible for Congress to deal with social and economic problems, is the result of a study running back for almost a year and a half, it was revealed today. The President became convinced right after the decision of the Supreme Court holding invalid the national recovery act that something must be done if these social and economic problems were to be met successfully. He believed then, as now, that they cannot be handled by action of 48 separate State legislatures and that they must be handled through the national legislature. The selection of the plan for adding.. additional or new justices to the Supreme Court, and so make it pos- sible to obtain a more liberal inter- pretation of the Constitution validate ing the New Deal acts of Congress, was made because it was regarded as the quickest and surest method, and because it could not be attacked as unconstitutional. Congress has the power under the Constitution to change the number of justices of the Supreme Court. The final decision on the plan was made by the President, in consulta~ | tion with the Attorney General and the Solicitor General, after his re- turn from Buenos Aires. Attorney General Cummings and Solicitor General Stanley F. Reed were designated by the President, immediately after the election last November and before he left for South America, to go over the various proposals for solving the problem of making liberal legislation stand up. They, and they alone, in con- (See JUDICIARY, Page A-2) SEAMEN THREATEN STRIKE RENEWAL Union Demands for Delayed Enforcement of Copeland Act Sent President. BACKGROUND— The maritime strike began in San Francisco October 29 last year and quickly spread to Seattle and to Eastern seaports. Agreement January 4 that the American Steamship Owners’ Association and the Federal Maritime Commission should use their authority to ad- just the differences was the begin- ning of peace. John Lawrenson, secretary of the Joint Maritime Strike Council, appealed to the commission to use its influence to obtain a referendum on whether the strike should continue or offi- cials of the International Seamen should act as labor’s spokesmen for Atlantic and Gulf coast workers. Seven maritime organizations voted in the referendum, and the agree- ments were accepted by a-darge majority of the workers.” BY the Associatea Press. SAN FRANCISCO, February 12— The threat of another maritime strike, growing out of union opposition to a Federal hiring law, hung over Pacific Coast ports, just recovering from a 98-day tie-up that cost an estimated $686,000,000. Officials of three marine unions in- volved in the recent strike telegraphed President Roosevelt and Secretary Roper that commerce “again will be paralyzed from the Pacific Coast” un- | less enforcement of the Copeland act is delayed. Specifically what action the unions would take was not stated. Some union workers have theatened “sit-down” strikes if enforcement is begun before | maritime leaders present proposed amendments to the bill, Record Books Required. The act provides that seamen must carry books showing records of their employment and ability. Sponsors contend it will protect efficient workers and assure them of jobs. The unions declare it furnishes employers infor- mation from which they can blacklist men for union activity. Enforcement of the provision for grading a seaman’s ability has been suspended until February 20. Union officials asked last night that the date be extended to March 25. They said the United States shipping commis- sioner here, acting on Washington in- structions, had informed shipowners and unions no articles would be ap- proved unless crews accepted the dis- charge books. “Would Paralyze Commerce.” “If shipping commissioner persists in this stand it means that foreign and intercoastal commerce again will be paralyzed from the Pacific Coast,” said the telegram to President Roose- velt from Harry Lundeberg, secretary- treasurer of the coast sailors; J. E. Ferguson, secretary of the marine firemen, and E. F. Burke, secretary of the cocks and stewards. ‘They asked for presidential inter- vention “until full opportunity has been presented to press both extension and amendments in Congress.” The message declared shipowners were in accord with the request. The recent strike tied up 239 ships and affected nearly 40,000 men. —_— MURPHY COMMENDED Roosevelt Silent, However, on Workers’ Strike Methods. President Roosevelt said today he Jocal union in General Motors plants tion in the collective bargaining con- ference to open in Detroit Tuesday. agreemen through the help of Gov. Frank Murphy and Federal Labor Conciliator James P. Dewey. The Governor will not participate in the forthcoming nledcobhtlom unless requested by both sides. Gov. Murphy, commended earlier by President Roosevelt for his conciliation efforts, received a telegram from Sec- retary of Labor Frances Perkins ex- pressing her “appreciation of your bril- (See STRIKE, Page A-4.) S TAEEEETE T FIRE LOSS $125,000 CINCINNATI, February 12 (P).— Fire believed to have started from destro; ) was very happy over the General Mo~ tors strike settlement. Asked to comment at his press con- ference, he said Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan had done a splendid job. He refused to discuss the “sit-down” methods adopted by the workers, RESCUERS BATILE GET. SNOW DRIFTS Attempt to Reach 73 Iso- lated Miners in Northern California. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, February 12— Rescuers plowed through 9-foot snow drifts today at a rate of only 2 miles a day, taking food and assistance to 73 snowbound miners and prospectors in New River Valley, Northern Cali- fornia. Many of the miners in the Trinity County sector had their families with them. Roland Daly, mail carrier, needed a nurse for his 24-year-old wife, an expectant mother. Forest Ranger Wesley Hotelling said the rescuers hoped to reach the miners the snowbound were feared to be run- ning low. In Southern Idaho highway crews struggled across drifted lava desert to rescue two young men, hlinded by the sunshine on the snow, and to save 31 hungry horses from circling coyotes. Thirty miles from the nearest rail- road and 80 miles from their homes at Shelley, Sam Bradshaw, 22, and a companion called “Webb"” awaited the rescue party. Pilot Ralph Knapp of Pocatello dar- ingly landed with supplies yesterday in the frozen badlands that extend southeast from “Craters of the Moon.” Leonard Cox, jr., 23, companion of Bradshaw and Webb, returned late yesterday to his home, in Shelley, 17 miles northeast of Blackfoot. He was near exhaustion and suffering from exposure. The three young men went out last week to round up the horses belong- ing to Leonard Cox, sr. Cox and Knapp flew over the region Thursday and dropped snow glasses, medicines and ski roles. “We sighted 18 of the lost horses,” (See RESCUERS, Page A-3.) AUTO OF NEWLYWEDS DERAILS TRAIN Two Killed and Six Injured at Grade Crossing in California. EY the Ascociated Press. SELMA, Calif, February 12.—Two were hurt when the southbound “Ow1” passenger train crashed into the stalled automobile of a honeymoon couple here today. The train was de- railed. The driver of the automobile, P\, K. Ritchie, 43, of Porterville, Wis.,, was held for questioning. Southern Pacific officials sald he was married last night at Porterville and had started on a honeymoon trip to Mor- gan Hill. The couple jumped from the car Just before it was struck. ‘The dead were J. F. Milles of Bak- ersfield, engineer, and R. E. Brown, fireman. The injured, all Californians, were W. A. Smith, express messenger; Mrs. Hannah Mozelle, Mrs. W. H. Embler, W. H. Embler, J. D. Buchanan and Frank Bradford. LAND NEAR CAIRO CAIRO, Egypt, February 12 (P)— Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, en route to Cairo from Tripoli, landed at Mersa Matrouh, in the Western Desert, at 3:25 p.m., Greenwich time, today (10:15 a.m. Eastern standard time). ‘They sald they intended to remain overnight in the town, approximately 300 miles from Cairo. Italians Celebrate Birth of Boy To Crown Princess Marie Jose By the Associated Press. NAPLES, February 12.—A boy, who may some day rule the Italian Empire, was born today to Crown Princess Marie Jose in the seventeenth-centyry royal palace overlooking sparkling Vesuvius Bay, Naples and Italy began festive cele- who follows Umberto, di- an hour later when a palace aide, fol- lowing Italian custom, hung a blue and white ribbon on the door of the roya} residence. . Although a birth is usually an- nounced by only & white ribbon. the blue was added today because it is the color of the royal house of Savoy. ‘The crown princess, attendants said, 'was “resting comfortably” and “rejoic- within three days. Food supplies of | men were killed and six other persons | 3 FASCIST PLANES INMADRID BATTLE Land Forces Thwart Nu- merous Attempts to Break Through Barricades. VALENCIA HIGHWAY STRUGGLE RENEWED Artillery Backs Infantry in Halt- ing Insurgents Along Vital Communication Lines. BACKGROUND— Insurgents began new activity on the Madrid front following the Malaga victory of the early part of the week. Gen. Franco has indi- cated a desire to push to a conclu= sion the Spanish Civil War which began last Summer, and many German and Italian troops have been found among this army of 20,000 at Malaga. BY the Assoclated Press. MADRID, February 12.—Five Fas- cist fighting planes, engaged in furious sky battles with Socialist pilots, were shot down today on the outskirts of Madrid. Government defense officials said “some” of the insurgent fiyers bailed out of their planes, landing in hattle zones below with parachutes. Land forces of the opposing armies were declared officially to have clashed in numerous engagements during the night as Fascist attackers sought to break through government barricades outside the capital. An insurgent assault on the Uni- versity City sector forced the militia- men back from their advanced posi- tions in the northwest district of the capital, reached during the past few days of almost incessant, see-saw fighting. Renew Drive for Highway. Simultaneously, strong Fascist col- umns opened attacks on the Usera district and Vaciamadrid, south of the capital, 1n a renewed drive to gain con- trol of the highway to Valencia. Both southern attacks were unsuc- | cessful, officials said. The war office !rcported government artillery, but- | tressing Socialist infantry along the | vital communications line, prevented | the insurgents from advancing. (Fascist commanders declared their cavalry forded the Jarama River last night, followed by foot troops which overwhelmed the defenses and reached a point where side roads east of Madrid join the Valencia highway. (Bombing squadrons, artillery and hard-riding Moorish horsemen ap- proached Arganda, 12 miles southeast of Madrid, they said, after a devastat- ing attack which drove the Socialist defenders from their trenches with heavy loss of life. (The officers sald outposts were es- | tablished and lines of machine guns set up both along the highway and secondary roads, tortuous detours which. they declared, provisions mo- | torcades have been using since the direct route was severed earlier in the week.) Machine Gun Fire. Before the insurgents swept back into West Park, government officials had reported a combined attack by (See MADRID, Page A-3.) JOHN LEWIS, 57 TODAY, STILL CONFINED TO ROOM Recovering From Mild Attack of Influenza—May Leave De- troit Tonight. By the Associatea Press. DETROIT, February 12.—John L. Lewis observed his 57th birthday to- day, recovering from a mild attack of influenza. Mrs. Lewis, who arrived frem Washington yesterday to make certain that her husband obeyed his doctor’s orders, was with him. The militant chieftain of the Com- mittee for Industrial Organization kept to his hotel suite, although a member of his staff said he would not remain in bed. Under orders to “relax,” he put aside all business. Lewis’ tentative plans were to re- turn to Washington this week end, al- though there was a possibility he might leave tonight. Summary of Lost & Found A-3 Obituary ...A-12 FOREIGN. Five Fascist planes shot down on out- skirts of Madrid. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Pinkerton official ‘ordered to produce original reports. Page A-1 Rescuers press on to reach snowbound miners. Page A-1 Labor and farm problems sidetracked by court plan.. Page A-1 Seamen threaten strike renewal over Copeland act. Page A-1 W. P. A. to drop 2,000 administrative employes by July. Page A-2 Hope seen for 1937 adoption of child labor amendment. Page a-5 Public debt found to have reached $34,500,000,000 peak. Page A-9 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. ‘Wheeler to push for outright repeal of red rider. Page A-1 Flood loan corporation bill is signed into law, Page A-6 Rabid dog scare allayed by Ruhland and Ellicott. A-8 LA FOLLETTE ASKS TOWARD NONE, WITH CHARITY ORGINAL REPORTS | Pinkerton Officials Go to Get Them in Place of Copies. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Climaxing a stormy cross-examina- tion of 10 Pinkerton officials, Senator La Follette today ordered Ralph Dud- ley, a vice president of the agency, to procure immediately from a down- | town hotel room 52 original espionage | reports of which only copies had been | | furnished the Civil Liberties Commit- Dudley left at once, accompanied by ’ Robert Blazer, another Pinkerton offi- | cial, and Robert P. Wohlforth and an- other agent of the committee. | ‘The reports were originally turned in | to the Pinkerton office in New York from the Detroit area and admittedly had been “revised” and “corrected” be- fore being copied for the committee. R. H. Peterson, Pinkerton's assistant superintendent in Detroit and super- visor over much of the agency’s work for General Motors Corp., told the committee that he removed some of the agency’s records from its Detroit office after a committee subpoena was served last August. Later, he said, he destroyed some “personal” papers among the records, but returned the rest to the office on orders of his superiors. ‘The papers originally were passed to | him through a sliding panel in the Pinkerton offices while a committee agent was there examining the files, he said. Subsequently, Peterson testified, much of the business of the Detroit office was cleared through his apart- ment, with operatives’ reports being brought to him. These papers were examined and “corrected,” he said, before being taken to the office. R. S. Mason and A. Lawrence Pugmire, also assistant superintendents, did most of the “correcting,” Peterson said. “The plan was for Pugmire and Mason to take the designations of (See PINKERTON, Page A-3.) —_— PRISONER TRIES TO DIE Mexico Police Say Frenchman | Didn’t Want to Be Deported. MEXICO CITY, February 12 (#).— Maurice Egiese, 30-year-old French- man, was in critical condition today, police said, after he slashed his throat and arms in a jail cell because he wanted to avoid being deported to the United States. . Egiese had been told yesterday the government had decided to send him to Laredo, Tex., where United States authorities were reported awaiting him as a narcotics smuggling suspect. He asked for shaving materials and an hour later, prison guards said, he was found in his cell bleeding from the throat and arteries of his arms. Today’s Star President leads Nation in Lincoln birthday observance. Page B-1 D. C. may get both auditorium and Jefferson memorial. Page B-1 Social Security Board gets more office space. Page B-1 Brief diary kept by Clarence Trader may furnish evidence. Page B-2 SPORTS. Major moguls are bothered by great | number of balkers. Page C-1 Rule that keeps Cooper out of Ryder matches held unfair. Page C-2 Catholic U. ring team looms as real threat to Terps. Page C-3 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. City News in Brief. Traffic Convictions. Vital Statistics. Betsy Caswell. Dorothy Dix. Nature’s Children. ‘Winning Contract. Crossword Puzzle. Letter-Out. ‘Young Washington. EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Page A-10 Page A Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 PageA-11 Page A-1' Page A-17 Page A-17 Page C-5 C-5 ©-8 ( C G -("?(@@@ Y] FOR ALL. FEBRUARY 12, 1937. Privately Owned, Japanese Phone May Soar to $1,725 BY the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, February 12.—Prices of Japanese telephones, owned outright by the telephone user, are skyrocketing because the sup- ply is limited. Some business men believe the price may reach the 1920 record of 3,450 yen (at that time $1,- 125). Japanese own their own tele- phones — the instrument, the switchboard connection and all rights of sale or transfer. Be- cause the supply is limited, busi- nessmen have become telephone brokers, buying instruments that come up for sale and reselling them at a profit or renting them on a monthly basis. URGES OUTRIGHT RED RIDER REPEAL Wheeler to Seek Substitute - for Modified Wording Passed by House. Unsheken in his belief the *“red jrider” should be repealed outright, Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon- tona, announced today he will ask | the Senate to substitute repeal lan- guage for the modified measure passed by the House Monday. Back at the Capitol after an illness of several days, Wheeler said either he or Chairman Black of the Educa- tion and Labor Committee will call up the question when the Senate re- convenes Monday. Substitution of the complete repeal clause for the House language will clear the way for a con- ference between the two houses for final decision. The Senate already has passed an outright repeal bill, but the House took up its own measure and amended it to remove the ban only from the teaching of communism. Thus the bill still would provide that no salary could be paid any one “advocating communism or other un-American doctrines, or treating any such doc- trine with favor or support.” The only other change the House made was to relieve teachers from the pres- ent requirement of filing statements each pay day that they have not taught or advocated communism. Senator Wheeler said the difficulty (See RED RIDER, Page A-2.) PLANE GOES 80 MILES WITH ONE MOTOR DEAD Four Passengers Landed Safely in Missouri After Blowing of Cylinder Head. BY the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., February 12.— Gene Stotts, American Airlines pilot, brought his 14-passenger plane down here safely last night after flying 80 niiles with a dead motor. One of the ship's two power plants blew a cylinder head near Waynes- 1lle, Stotts said. After bucking & 50-mile-an-hour head wind as far as Springfield, he de- cided to come down. Passengers were C. E. Coleman, New York City; C. V. , Kansas City; C. H. Morrill, New York, and L. G. Moffet, Chizago. The plane ¥as fiying from Chicago to Fort Worth. Probert Will to Needy and Animal Leagues The will of L. C. Probert, vice presi- dent of the Chesapeake & Ohio and other, railroads; ~who died in Los ngeles, Calif., February 32, has been filed for probate in the Orphans’ Court at Rockville, Md. Th estate is valued at between $100,- 000 and $125,000, of which $60,000 was in life insurance, and the remainder in real estate and personal property, including his 200-acre estate, Home- 10 | land Farms, near Olney, Montgomery County. Executed February 24, 1936, shortly after his wife's death, Mr. Probert re- queathed $5,000 each to Harriet N. Butler, Lakewood, N. Y, and Anna Evans Relk, Washington; and $1,000 each to George Roland Langlois, =Y i bR (... S — < Q)/; = g = l{t :) - H.0.L.C.TOCLOSE ON'160,00 HOMES Officials Expect 70,000 To- tal Now to Reach One in Six by July 1 of 1938. ‘The Home Owners’ Loan Corp. by July 1, 1938, probably will have insti- tuted foreclosure proceedings against 160,000 of the 1,021,800 homes on which loans have been made. This was disclosed by officials in hearings before the House Appropria- Iuon.s Committee on the 1938 esti- mates. The independent offices ap- propriation bill, containing an appro- priation of $30,000,000 for the H. O. L. C. for the next fiscal year, has passed the House and now is in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Before the committee, officials of the H. O. L. C. stated that more than 70,000 foreclosures already have been authorized and possession had been taken of 17,800 properties up to No- vember 30. Take Over One of Every Six. Asked for an estimate on the total foreclosures expected, officials placed the figure at 160,000 by July 1, 1938, which would mean that the organiza- tion would take over about one out of every six of those homes whose mort- gages were refinanced in the three- year period of emergency lending which expired last June. The H. O. L. C. estimate went to Congress asking for $32,000,000 for 1938, an increase of $3,000,000 over | the $29.000,000 appropriated for this | year. The House committee cut the‘ | estimate down to $30,000,000, and it | stood at that figure when the bill was passed by the House and sent to the Senate, Expenses of H. O. L. C. totaled $35,- 000,000 in 1935; $34,000,000 in 1936. and the appropriation of $29,000,000, it is said will not be enough. Further requests for deficiency appropriations to finish 1937 are expected. U. S. to Be Largest Holder. Outlining the extent of foreclosure proceedings already closed, or pending, Horace Russell, H. O. L. C. chief counsel, told the committee: “During the fiscal year 1938 the corporation will own more individual pieces of property than were ever in a single ownership before.” Chairman John H. Fahey said col- lections of interest and principal have amounted to about 76 per cent of the matured obligations. “Subject to continued improvement in general economic conditions, which will enable borrowers to meet their obligations in a more satisfactory manner,” he said, “and subject fur- ther to adequate provision for admin- istrative expenditures necessary to put acquired properties in condition to produce income, the corporation is practically self-sustaining.” Fahey assured the committee that no property would be sold “at less than fair value,” and that no more properties would be offered in any one market than it could absorb. —_—— VIENNA FEARS CLASH Army Ready to Block Violence on Dolifuss “Putsch” Anniversary. VIENNA, February 12 (#).—The Austrian Army was held in readiness today to meet threats of Communists and Socialists in their secret publica- tions that they would “revenge” the death of their comrades on this, the third anniversary of the bloody Doll- fuss “putsch.” Although no disturbances were re- portéd, police took into custedy 276 former Socialist leaders. Aid Church, Walter 8. Jackson, Glenn W. Benson, Ethel Stocks, Genna Stocks and Lillie Stocks, the last four employes at Homeland Farms. Francis Miller of the Sandy Spring Bank was named executor. The will made the bequests “as marks of recognition of devotion” to the testator and his late wife and di- rected that his estate be sold within a ONPAY BILL ASKED BY BUDGET CHIEF Bell Reveals Comprehensive Administration Study Is Under Way. REQUESTS CONGRESS TO AWAIT RESULT Letter Reply to Appeal for Report on Measure Sponsored by McCarran. BY J. A. O’'LEARY. Revealing that the administration is having a study made of the whole subject of classification, pay and re- tirement conditions in the Government service, budget director Daniel W, Bell today recommended that Con- gress defer action on the McCarran pay bill pending that study. His position was made known in a reply to the request of Chairman Bu- low of the Senate Civil Service Com= mittee for a report on the McCarran measure, which seeks to establish $1,500 as the minimum wage for fulle time Government workers, with ine creases for the other salary grades be= low $3,600 a year. Bell's letter fole lows: “I have your letter of January 15, inclosing a copy of bill S.-741, introe duced by Senator McCarran (Demo= crat, of Nevada) and asking for my comment thereon. Study Being Made. “A study of the general subject of classification, compensation and re- tirement of Government employes is now being made with a view to making a report to the present Congress eme bodying recommendations for the ene actment of legislation in the interest of improved personnel conditions. “In these circumstances, I feel that action on this bill, and any other bill of like character and import should be deferred while this study is under way, and until the President makes a report to Congress on the subject.” Senator Bulow indicated that the course suggested by the Budget Bureau of waiting for the President's report probably would be followed. Objects of Measure. Although its primary object is to provide better compensation for eme ployes in the lower salary groups, especially those receiving less than $1.500 a year, the McCarran bill also calls for important changes in the method of determining how promoe tions should be made from one salary step to another within the classifica= tion grades. The bill would abolish the mandae tory, uniform system of maintaining efficiency ratings under existing law and substitute an elastic provision that would allow the Civil Service Commise sion to decide to what extent it is practicable to record the quantity and quality of the work of employes. If such records were found desirable, the commission would lay down the rules, but any records so maintained would be open to the inspection of both the commission and the employe. If the commission decided such rece ords are impracticable, employes would be advanced one salary step within their respective grades each year, until the maximum was reached, provided the head of the department certified the employe’s efficiency warranted the promotion. Shortly after he had introduced his bill McCarran had a conference with the President. Although he did not reveal what took place, the Senator indicated later he had received sym= pathetic consideration. The McCartan bill did not touch on the existing retirement law, but there are separate proposals pending to liberalize the age limits for op- tional retirement. The budget director’s letter indi- cates that retirement questions also are being included in the survey which he said is being made. DEAD MAN AND GIR ARE FOUND IN CAR Carbon Monoxide Fumes Blamed for Death at Baltimore—Wom- an Semi-Conscious. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, February 12.—A dead man and a semi-conscious young woman were found today in an auto- mobile parked on a country lane near Baltimore. Baltimore County police said the couple apparently were over- come by carbon monoxide fumes. The windows of the car were tightly closed and the engine was running. Chris Dietz, jr, Baltimore County resident, brought the young woman to a hospital here, where physicians said her condition was critical. A driver's registration card and other papers found in the dead man’'s pocket bore the name of Franklin Warms of Baltimore. Old mail in the woman’s purse was addressed to Miss Mary Umberger, also of Baltle more. Dietz said he had seen the lights of the car in the lane about midnight last night. His father had noticed the lights earlier. Today, when Diets started to drive his sister to a nearby street car line, the sedan blocked the lane. Police said the sedan was equipped with a heater, and that the fumes from a broken muffler apparently seeped into the car through the floor boards, officers said. BILL ASKS FLOGGING RALEIGH, N. O, February 12 (#).— year after his death. All farm imple- ments, including wagons, machinery, harness and tools, be given to Central Union Mission farm in Howard County, Md., “as & bequest from my deceased wife and me.” ‘The residue is left in trust, to be dividéd equelly into four (See PROBERT, Page A-3) A Public floggings for drunken drivers was proposed today to the North Caro= lina Legislature. A bill was introduced for the erection of the whipping posts at each of the 100 county seats. They would be used exclusively for the drunken drivers, Second offenders would get 10 to 39 lashes. Q N