Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1937, Page 2

A—2 w% HULL ASKS WORLD | [waushingeon | TAFT'S SON GALLS 10 SUE FOR PEAGE Urges Nations to “Reverse Drift to Anarchy” by Re- solving Differences. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 26.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull last night urged the nations of the world to “reverse the drift toward international anarchy” and resolve their differences by methods similar to those used by the 21 countries participating in the recent Inter-American Conference at Buenos Aires. Addressing a dinner of the Council on Foreign Relations, Hull declared after reviewing the agreements adopted by the American countries that the entire world could “build a structure of enduring peace” upon the same basic principles formulated at the Buenos Alres conference. “There is every reason to believe,” he said, “that friends of peace, all over the world, hitherto laboring un- der the utmost discouragement, have taken increased hope from what was said and done at Buenos Aires. * * * “The work of the recent conference proves, in my judgment, that no part ,of the world needs to reconcile itself “fatalistically to the inevitability of war. Upon the same basic principles that " were implemented at Buenos Aires, the entire world can—and, I hope with all my heart, will—build a structure of enduring peace.” Says Issue Is the Same. The Secretary of State said every nation of the world is confronted by the same issue which the American republics faced. This issue he stated es follows: “In the portentous future which lies immediately ahead, will the nations mave further in the direction of in- creasing distrust and suspicion, of de- structive commercial policy, of grow- ing economic antagonism, of un- | precedented races in armaments, of | the worst extremes of militarism— | and thus inevitably plunge many parts | of the world either into military ca- | tastrophe or & crushing economic col- | lapse? Or will the nations, as at! Buenos Aires, embrace a program of | - understanding and trust, of friendly Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. BEAUTY, ENNIE GOODMA' , whose name has appeared in this column so often that, through sheer boredom, ‘ve are going to start misspelling it, called up yesterd. s to report on the war between physi- cians and cosmeticians. ' ©One of her doctors, a skin specialist, recently told her about people in the cosmetic trade; told her, she says, that the latter are his better cus- tomers. “They come here,” she quotes the speclalist, “to get their complexions fixed up so they can cite themselves as perfect products of their own lotions, etc.” [ SPEAKER. Huron Clegg, the Clegg part of it is right anyhow, is a research spe- cialist of the Social Security Board and a big man in local University of Wisconsin alumni circles. He was down for a speech at the last banquet of the group here and if you think he was good, you should have heard the one he would have made. The reason he did not wnake the better speech was that he could not find his jokes. Wouldn't trust his secretary with them but kept them himself instead. When it came time to make the speech, he could not find the jokes. * % k% TRUTH. L P. CHITTENDEN says he has * discovered a farmer who prob- ably tells the truth in his advertising. ‘While motoring on a Virginia road FOR AMENDMENT Opposes President’s Court Plan to Accomplish “Necessary Ends.” BY the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, February 26— Charles P. Taft, 2d, lawyer, of Cin- cinnati and son of the late President Taft, said here yesterday he was op- posed to President Roosevelt's Supreme Court reorganization plan. “The issues,” Taft said, “are social insurance, minimum wages, maximum hours and the control of the produc- tion of certain natural resources, prin- cipally agricultural. “I favor the passage of ‘& fairly specific amendment to the Constitu- tion to accomplish the desired and necessary ends. “But I am opposed to the President’s method to pack the Supreme Court. * * * The President’s proposal, if adopted, would accomplish no lasting purpose. All prior attempts to pack the Supreme Court have failed.” Farmers’ Support Urged. RALEIGH, N. C., February 26 ().— Claude T. Hall of Person County, chairman of the Tobacco Growers’ Ad- visory Committee, urged farmers last night to support President Roosevelt's Supreme Court reorganization plan as & means of Federal crop control. Asserting that tobacco compact legislation had failed because the Georgia and South Carolina Legisla- tures had refused to pass production agreements, Hall said “the only thing left for us at this time, therefore, is to turn our attention to Washington and put forth our best efforts to obtain some sort of Federal control.” In an open letter to members of his committee Hall said it was impor- | tant for farmers to “get in touch with | their Congressmen and urge their support of the President’s judiciary reform plan.” “Last November you voted in no uncertain terms your approval of President Roosevelt’s New Deal poli- cies to help place agriculture on a sounder economic basis,” Hall wrote. “The President, having interpreted this mandate from the people to pur- sue further his policies, is now en- | gaged in a life-and-death battle to and peaceful relations, of fair dealing | near Washington recently he saw this | remove some legal barriers which and co-operative effort for the restora- | tion of conditions of economic well- | being?” So far as the Western Hemisphere 15 concerned, he said, the answer has | been given. | “Our own country,” he asserted, “is | prepared to do its full part to bring it about that, on the basis of the ar- rangements reached at Buenos Aires, 3he nations of this continent will order heir lives upon a sane balance of national freedom and practical inter- national co-operation. We are con- fident that our sister republics will act likewise. “If we succeed, this will remain a healthy and hopeful hemisphere. And its 21 nations, with their quarter of | & billion inhabitants, freed by their | common action from the dread and scourge of war, should be able to en- courage and, to the extent consistent with their traditional policies, co- operate with other nations to sur- mount their difficulties by similar methods.” Solution Is Vital to Future, He said the work of the conference *touched the very heart of the tangled complex of problems which today plague the responsible statesmen of the world and upon the solution of which depends so greatly the future welfare of the nations.” “The 21 American republics have forged among themselves new ties of friendship and peace,” he declared. “More than that, they have, in my opinion, made a genuine contribution rot only to the safeguarding of peace, but to the strengthening of democracy and of international order as well. “While dealing with regional prob- lems, the conference pointed straight at the frightful deterioration of many essential international relationships everywhere and vigorously proclaimed 8 basic program for their restoration.” Speaking of the principles expressed sign: ANTIQUES FOUR AND SIX-POUND ROASTING CHICKENS * ok K % PASTIME. SOMEWHAT effeminate ladics’ i tailor in Washington was talking | the other day with a client about a | prominent Government officia) who was brought up in the Middle West by several aunts and who learned to | tat when he was 11 or 12. The tailor | paused in the midst of a fitting to ex- plain, “But, you know, I know a naval officer who does beautiful embroidery | —and he isn't a bit sissy either.” - * x ok x ONWARD AND UPWARD. | ISS ANNA REH works for the | Government, so she couldn’t say | much when the Government needed the Mayfair Apartments for offices and | dispossessed all the tenants. She found herself another home up near | Nineteenth and Eye streets. Funny thing, though. The insurance agent |for the Prudential Co. with which | she deals, was Mr. Moore when she |lived down at Twenty-first and C Clubs in their mid-Winter meeting announced a blanket wage increase | | streets. The one who comes to see ' here, Stinchfield defended the legal | of 5 cents an hour for workers em- {her now about her policies is Mr. profession against charges of “con- | Ployed on an hourly rate. effective | Muchmore. ‘Whether or not her apartment rent corresponds with these changes in designation, she doesn’t say. X kX % EMERGENCY. in the Buenos Aires agreements, he Out in front of a house in George- said: “The future of our entire civilization is bound up with the acceptance by all | governments of these fundamental | tenets of constructive statesmanship. ‘The longer important nations delay | their adoption, the graver will be the Jeopardy into which all worthwhile in- ternational relationships will be plunged. and with them the welfare, the happiness and the civilized ex- istence of all nations. “A government which substitutes for these principles policies based upon extremes of national pride, ambition, aggrandizement and ever-increasing armaments, renders the greatest pos- sible disservice not only to the world &t large, but to its own people as well.” SODA CLERK DIES Youth Told Hospital Physicians He Took Poison Tablets. ‘Woodrow Barnes, 22, 1370 Harvard sreet, who went to Emergency Hos- pital in a taxicab early Monday and informed physicians that he had taken 15 poison tablets, died today in Gal- linger Hospital, where he had been transferred. Barnes was a soda clerk in a store at Fourteenth and F streets. He had been in Washington about six months, | His body will be taken to his home at | Wilson, N. C.,, for burial. First Book on New York, The first book in English on the province of New Yor!. was “A Brief Description of New York,” written by Daniel Denton, a planter, in 1670. | TODAY. iemte: .Takes up bill to permit voluntary m;;mem of Supreme Court justices at 70. - Agriculture Subcommittee continues hearings on crop insurance bill. House: In recess. Merchant Marine Committee holds hearings on radio sea safety devices. - Rivers and Harbors Committee con- siders Michigan, Connecticut and Maryland projects. TOMORROW. " Is not expected to be in session. Houee: - Wil not be in session. Subcommittee on appropriations in ehagge of District supply bill resumes hearings at 10 am, . - - ! town—between Thirty-third and there stand two permanent “Emer- gency—No Parking” signs. Now dering whether Jimmie Roosevelt is the “emergency.” EXPLAINED. PERATIVE 13 has been doing scme and discovers that T. J. was (1) much annoyed at the editing doge on the Continental Congress and (2) much amused at the reason why the states- they did. This reason being that the Congress was meeting in a building and the flies were so troublesome biting silk-stockinged legs that the with the business. PEEEE s D. C. JAIL WAGE BOOST Repeal of Red Rider Also Asked by Dahlgren Group in Repeal of the “red rider” and a five-and-one-half-day week, with a ployes of the District Jail, were voted in two resolutions passed at an execu- Citizens’ Association last night in the home of the president, John P. Ca- In indorsing the jail resolution the organization asked that hours and same standard as Federal penal institutions. the membership drive and plans for & card party to be held March 11 in ART EXHIBIT TODAY Lecture to Accompany Display of A private lecture and exhibit of water colors by young Washington ton Hotel at 5 p.m. today by Eric F. Menke, who recently exhibited the Thirty-fourth, on “0” to be exact— some of the residents are just won- * k X Xk O research on Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence by the men didn’t demand more changes than which was next door to a livery stable gentlemen were anxious to get through FAVORED BY CITIZENS Executive Meeting. substantial increase in wages for em- tive meeting of the Dahlgren Terrace hill, 2636 Tenth street northeast. wages of employes be brought up to the ‘The committee also heard reports on Crosby Noyes School. Young Washingtonians. artists has been arranged at the Carl- collection at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany. Among artists whose works will be shown are Rowland Lyon, Phil Bell, who has worked on a number of murals for Federal buildings; Mitchell Jamison, now painting in the Virgin Islands, and R. A. Jansen. 4 | stand between success and prosperity | on one hand and individual competi- | tion and servitude on the other.” | i, Proposal Is Opposed. SYRACUSE, N_ Y., February 26 (/) —The Associated Industries of Ne' York, Inc., through its directors and advisory council, went on record yes- terday in opposition to President Roosevelt's Supreme Court proposals. The resolution, while it did not ob- ject to more Supreme Court justices, objected to the President’s plan for in- | creasing the number. Bar Leader Again Hits Plan. ST. PAUL, February 26 (P)—Fred- erick H. Stinchfield of Minneapolis, president of the American Bar Asso- | ciation, yesterday emphasized his pre- vious assertion that President Roose- velt's proposal to reorganize the Su- preme Court would “result in destruc- | tion of the Supreme Court and the | change of the fundamental principles of the Constitution.” | Speaking before members of the | Minnesota Federation oi Women's servatism.” “People charge we are conservative, that we cling to the past,” he said. “Perhaps it would be well for those who make such charges to wonder what there is in the world that is really new, and whether it isn’'t often true that, as to many of the pro- posals made generation after gen- | eration, what is good is not new, and what is new is not good.” 'BURGLAR éHOT DEAD HERE BY POLICEMAN Colored Man, Armed With Meat Cleaver, Killed by Officer in Restaurant. A burglar armed with a meat cleaver was shot to death early today by Fourth Precinct Policeman William H. Hall, colored, in a restaurant at 411 Fourth street southwest. The burglar was identified as Thom- as W. Martin, 35, also colored, 1245 Seventh street. The officer, detailed to watch the place at night after it had been entered several times re- cently, was maintaining his vigil in a side hall when he heard somebody forcing entrance through a rear win- dow on the first floor. The policeman reported the prowler tried to strike him with the cleaver. Hall fired one shot from his service re- volver and the intruder dashed into the kitchen, with the officer in pursuit. In the kitchen the burglar again rushed at Hall with the cleaver and the policeman fired the five cartridges that remained in his revolver. Three | of them took effect, one striking the prowler’s right leg, another his right hand and the third his breast. Mar- tin was pronounced dead on the scene at 2:38 am. . The restaurant is owned by Anna 1. Middledorf, 530 Taylor street. Hall, who is 43 and lives at 552 Twenty-third place northeast, was in technical custody of his commanding officer today pending an inquest. —_— MRS. NELLIE SCHROTH FUNERAL RITES HELD Requiem Mass Held in St. Joseph’s Church—Burial Was in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Funeral services of Mrs. Nellie Schroth, 72, who died Wednesday at her home, 702 Maryland avenue northeast, were held at her former residence this morning. Requiem mass was also held in St. Joseph’s Church, followed by burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mrs. Schroth, widow of the late Anton T. Schroth, prominent business man here, failed to rally from a seven-week illness. Surviving are two sons, John and Norman C.; a daughter, Elizabeth; a sister, Mrs. Marguerite McDertho three grandchildren and a great- grandson, all of this city, and a sec- ond sister, Mrs. Elizabeth McKay of San Diego, Calis, PRESIDENT PUSHES SOFT GOAL ACTION Something Must Be Done About Industry This Session, He Says. BY the Associated Press. President Roosevelt said today something had to be done about the soft coal industry at this session of Congress. He said he had not seen the new Guffey bill to stabilize the industry, but in response to questions at a press conference said action on some plan was essential soon. He reiterated that low-cost housing legislation should be passed this ses- sion and that the Wagner bill, al- ready introduced, was the subject of conferences going on between con- gressional leaders and various depart- mental experts. Asked about reports that radical changes are being considered in his executive reorganization program, the President said he had not heard of them and had not discussed the de- partmental reorganization questions with any one for three weeks. Senator Neely, Democrat, of West Virginia, chairman of a Senate Inter- state Commerce Subcommittee, said today his group probably would report favorably the Guffey-Vinson coal con- trol bill to the full committee by March 6 Neely's comment coincided with a2 assertion by Representative Casey, Democrat, of Massachusetts, that the bill would “ruin the coal industry.” Casey, who has introduced a bill to create a Fedgral coal trade commis- sion, contended the Guffey-Vinson measure was ‘“unconstitutional.” He said passage of the bill would be a “prelude to Government price-fixing in all commercial fields.” Another coal bill was introduced yesterday by Representative Sauthoff, Progressive, of Wisconsin, who pro- Iposed nationalization of the indus- try. Sauthoff described his bill as designed to better the economic con- | dition of the miners, .ower the price | of coal te consumers and stabilize | the industry generally. | His bill would provide for acquisition | of coal properties by contract, if pos- | sible, otherwise by condemnation. Strikes (Continued From First Page.) over demands for a 30-hour week in- stead of the present 40 hours. Con- | | ferences between Chrysler Corp. offi- | cials and the union were scheduled for Wednesday. Strikes in two Detroit packing com- panies threatened a week end short- age of meat here. | At the Newton Packir. Co. 18 drivers loaded their trucks and then sat down. They, were joined later by | a large part of the plant force of 300. A strike of 11 drivers for Swift & Co. had cut off normal deliveries of about 150,000 pounas of meat daily. Strikers Leave. Sit-down strikers left the Bowen Products Corp., which makes stamp- | | ings for automotive parts, pending | peace negotiations Strikes also were settled at the | Detroit Delivery Service, the Massa- | chusetts Laundry and the H. & H.| | Tube and Manufacturing Co. | | The Graham Paige Motors Corp. | March 1. Approximately 2,500 em- | ployes will be affected. A varied wage increase, averaging | about 5 cents an hour, was granted | December 1. | FIERCE BATTLE AT WAUKEGAN. | Officers Use “Trojan Horse” to Force | Strikers Out. WAUKEGAN, 111, February 26 (#).— Sheriff's deputies stormed the Fansteel | | Metallurgical Co.’s plants today and | evicted 61 sit-down striker: in a bat- | | tle of tear gas ana missiles that lasted ! | an hour and a half. They leaped in a surprise attack at windows of the two buildings in North | | Chicago which the sit-downers had held for 10 days. They peppered hun- | dreds of tear gas shells into the shat- tered windows, beat at nailed doors— and then stepped back while the strikers scrambled outside, coughing | and weeping. It was the first forcible ousting of sit-downers in Illinois, one of the first in the Nation. Only a week ago the sit-downers had repulsed an army of 125 deputies, beating them off with volleys of acid, bolts, pulleys and other missiles. Officers’ Strategy. Better strategy, personnel and equip- ment turned the tide of today's attack ir favor of 50 men led by Sheriff L. A. Doolittle. In contrast to the ‘rambling group of hastily recruited special deputies which was beaten off last Friday, Sheriff Doolittle led a picked group of uniformed regular deputies and police- men in today's onslaught. They struck swiftly before dawn. They caught. the sleeping sit-downers off guard. They stormed both build- ings—No. 3 and No. 5—simultaneously. But what swung the tide of battle was a makeshift “Trojan horse”— an 18-foot “battle” tower of wood and composition boards mounted on a truck. On each of its two landings stood three deputies, firing tear gas guns through portholes. The truck drove in close to No. 3 and from the level of the windows the marksmen opened fire behind ‘their protective shield. The cartridges knocked down card- board which the strikers had placed over windows shattered in last week's assault. Gas Grenades Hurled. In the background, other officers threw gas grenades until a cloud of gas billowed into the plant and over the factory grounds. . Shortly the doors of plant No. 3 were thrown open and the strikers emerged pellmell. They fled to the fence gates and disappeared. The “wooden horse” moved on to plant No. 5 and the procedure was repeated. Defenders of No. 5 dashed out, wip- ing their eyes, and disappeared in the darkness. Officers made no attempt to stop them. Sheriff Doolittle threw guards around the property, then gave his deputies a list of 82 men who were in the plant au the start of the sit- down February 17. The sheriff ordered them rounded up for appearances before Circuit Judge Ralph J. Dady, who issued a temporary injunction against the sit- downers and followed it with attach- ments for their arrest after they de- clined to vacuate. Max Swiren, company counsel, said an attachment had also been issued, This was a typical scene at the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. plant at Waukegan, Ill., today as a force of deputy sheriffs poured tear gas into the structure to oust strikers who had been on the sit-down since February 17. Two of these deputies have gas guns poised for action, while an- other dodges a striker missile. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937. Gas Attack Ousts Sit Strikers —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. secretly yesterday, for Meyer Adel- man, an organizer for the Committee for Industrial Organization. President Robert J. Altchison of the corporation told interviewers: “We will resume work as soon as possible. 'We consider the strikers former employes. However, the men who were held in the plant against their wills will be given consideration.” Spokesmen for the strikers said at the outset of the sit-down that com- pany recognition of their C. 1. O. affiliate—the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America—was the sole issue. Company representatives declined to discus the question with C. I. O. ! executives whom they termed ‘“out- side agitators,” but agreed to meet with any committee selected by their own employes. Mediators met separately with each group here and in Springfield. but were unable to arrange a conference of all parties. The early-morning foray against the plant was launched five hours after President Aitchison rejected Gov. Henry Horner's proposals for settle- ment. The Governor had suggested tacit recognition of the union. Attack Cost $3,000. Sherifl’s aids estimated the attack cost the county $3,000—principally for gas. No estimate was availablt on the amount of damage to the plant, which produces smal! metal parts for other manufacturing concerns. The work requires large quantities of acids, some of which was hurled BORAH'S PROPOSAL GOES BACK T0 1868 Would Revive Philosophy of Due Process That Died | Shortly After. Senator Borah's proposal to restrict the application of the due process of law clause of the fourteenth amend- | ment to matters of procedure would revive a judicial philosophy that ex- | pired with the business boom after the Civil War. | Should his proposed amendment be | adopted, a State law could not be declared unconstitutional under the due process clause 8o long as the pro- cedural requirements of adequate notice and a fair trial were safe- guarded. Originally this was the legal concept of the meaning of due process of law, but in this country there gradually deveioped a philosophy that the meaning of the phrase applied as well to the substance of legislation. The recent, Supreme Court decision invalidating the New York minimum wage law for women is a case in point. | | justices of the Supreme Court retire | legislation. Contract Right Held Injured. ‘ In a five-to-four decision, the jus- tices upheld a lower court ruling that the statute, requiring that women be paid a living wage commensurate with the value of their services, violated the due process clause of the four- teenth amendment because it de- prived women of the right to contract freely with employers. The right to | contract is a property right, and the amendment says no State shall de- prive any person of life, liberty or | property without due process of law. | The courts examined the substance of the law and decided the abridge- | ment of the freedom of contract violated the meaning of due process. Under Senator Borah’s amendment, | they could not have examined the | substance of the act, but could only | have made sure the offending employer wes given adequate notice and a fair by the strikers in their first successful | defense of the property. Four gas masks were available for the deputies. They had learned their lesson when some of the gas in the former attack billowed back on them and caused eye burns. The repeating gas rifles used today were capable of firing 24 shots a min- | ute—cartridges 3 inches long and 1| inch in diameter, filled with gas and able to carry as far as 300 feet. Sheriff Doolittle, huniing Adelman and Oakley Mills, one of Adelman’s assisiants, searched several hotel | rooms in Waukegan, but was unable | to find either. | Guards at the plant told the sheriff | & crowd had collected, throwing stones | at officers and threatening to shake down company fences. The sheriff ordered his men to use = tear gas if the throng persisted, and trial after the violation. said he “might have to appeal to the | Originally, the fourteenth amend- Governor” if sympathizers got out of | Ient was adopted in 1868 to protect hand. | newly freed Southern slaves. But m; Meantime, his men began a round- | Original purpose was all but forgotten | up of 91 sitters named in the attach- |in the expansion of business activity | ments. after the war. DOUGLAS STRIKERS IN JAIL. el Muek by ot p e | | It was used extensively by attorneys { for corporations and other business Pickets Recruited to “Carry on” Fight | concerns as a weapon to strike down Judiciary (Continued From First Page.) from California have justices of the Supreme Court retire? Would he have them retire when another President is in office whose appointees to the court the Senator from California thinks he would approve?” Senator Johnson said he favored the pending bill and then continued: “The Senator from Arkansas asked | me when I would be willing to have | under its provisions. I would have NEW TRADE PACTS: EXPECTED SOON Senate Approval Sends Ex- tension Bill to Write House. BY the Associated Press. Extension of the President's power to make reciprocal trade agreements cleared the way today for seeking pacts with Great Britain, Australia and other nations. Senate approval, 58 to 24, sent a three-year extension of the trade agreements law to the White Hou:e last night for signature. The original grant of power would have ended in June. Among the 15 nations which signed trade agreements with the United States during the last three years are Canada, Cuba, Brazil, France, Bel- gium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden. State Pepartment officials hope to negotiate possibly a dozen more agree- ments this year. Walter Runciman, president of the British Board of Trade, talked with President Roosevelt in January about trade relations. Australian Pact Seen. Observers saw hopes for a trade understanding between the United States and Australia in the as ment of an Australign diplomatic representative to Washington. The act gives the President power to cut the levies imposed by the Hawley-Smoot tariff act of 1930 as much as 50 per cent in exchange for equivalent reductions by other nations. This policy, which Secretary Hull urged to stimulate world trade for the United States, became an issue during the 1936 presidential campaign. Campaign arguments were heard again in the three-day Republican at- tack on the bill in the Senate. Op- ponents called the trade pacts detri- mental to American agriculture and an unconstitutional delegation of con- | gressional powers to the President. A group of Southern and Western Democrats, led by Pepper and Andrews | of Florida and Ellender and Overton of Louisiana, tried to amend the bill them retire when no bait was held out to them, when they could discern no suggestion that they were being driven from the court by other legislation.” McCarran as Peacemaker. Senator McCarran of Nevada. in charge of the voluntary retirement bill, | | | thought to throw oil on the troubled | | waters. | “I fear,” he said, “the Senator from California is putting into this retirement bill something that is not contained in it. As a matter of fact, if this bill had been law 10 years ago I do not believe the atmosphere of which the Senator speaks would have existed today. It is only a question of justice and fair play to the justices of the Supreme Court to pass this I do not know if any of the justices at this time will take ad- vantage of the privilege of retirement. But it is a privilege that should be accorded.” Senator Burke, an opponent of the President’s plan. obtaining the floor, said he would like to answer the ques- tions which Senator Robinson had propounded to Senator Johnson. “I would say that at any time after the bill now pending to change the court was withdrawn by its sponsor or defeated, a justice of the Supreme Court could avail himself of this re- tirement plan and retain my respect, but not sooner,” he said. Senator McCarran, when Burke con- cluded his statement, said that he hoped that there woulid be no attempt to join the President’s court bill with the pending bill; that they had noth- ing to do with one another. “It may be” said McCarran, “that the passage of this retirement bill will relieve the tension that now exists, but whether it does no hot, it should be passed.” Senator Austin of Vermont, oppo- nent of the President’s court bill, said that he favored the retirement bill. | He insisted there was no conflict be- tween his position on these two meas- ures, and agreed with Senator Mc- Carran that the retirement bill should be promptly passed. to prevent cutting farm tariffs below a level which would protect Americans against lower cost of production abroad. The amendment was adopted 41 to 36, but was rejected on a second votc, 42 to 39. OFFICER ORDERED BACK FROM ITALY Capt. White, Army Air Corye, Served Diplomatic Posts Abroad. Capt. Thomas Dresser White, Arm Air Torps, frst assistant military attache to Russia after diplomatic rc- lations were resumed. has been c“- dered back to the United States fri Rome, the War Department a - nounced today. Capt. White has been on duty f two yecrs as tant mil attache and sistant mL attache for t) Italy and assistant miii® attache for to Greece. was the Army represe tive to re Moscow in years when 17 ke reported there in January, 1934. Capt White is leave Rome T. D. White. about May 15 and to report at Maxe Capt. ap % well Field, Montgomery, Ala, ak-ut | September 7 as a dent in the Air Corps Tactical School for the 1937-8 course. The son of Bishop John Chanler White, Springfield, Ill. and a dee scendant of Gen. Francis Marion, “Swamp Fox” of Revolutionary fame, and of John C. Calhoun, Capt. White is well known here. He served two Against Plane Plant. LOS ANGELES, February 26 (#).— | Union organizers recruited pickets to- | day so “the strike will go on” as 341 sit-down strikers were fingerprinted in jail here after being led by gun-armed police from the Douglas aircraft plant | at Santa Monica. The pickets will be gates,” declared James Carter, strikers' attorney. 8inging and shouting, the sit-down group gave up its three-day possession of the plant yesterday, insisting they did so only because they had been as- “at all the the sured their cases would be heard | quickly. Previously some had declared they were ‘“ready to die” rather than give up. “The strike will go on until we force Douglas to abide by the law in recog- nizing our union (United Automobile Workers of America) and granting our just demands” for union recognition, wage and hour changes,” strike leaders said. Asserting he had not been notified of any demands, Donald W. Douglas, president of the world’s largest air- craft plant, announced willingness to meet “any legitimate labor group.” Pickets Organized. William Busick and Andrew Schmold- er, organizers for the United Automo- bile Workers, aircraft division, tained release late last night on $1,000 bonds and today organized pickets. The sit-down strikers surrendered after a tense afternoon in which vio- lence at times seemed Inevitable. More than 300 peace officers, armed with machine guns, tear gas bombs, clubs and pistols, surrounded the plant. They held warrants charging the strikers with conspiracy to violate California laws against forcible entry and trespassing. The warrants were issued on county grand jury indict- ments. Inside the plant the strikers stacked ordinary gas pipe, 18 inches or so in length. Then they opened tins of gasoline and set the fuel near airplane framework. The order came to dis- mount fire extinguishers. “What’s the idea starting a fire if we're going to put it out?” one man asl “These ain’t for the fire, hammer head; these are to squirt in the cops’ faces,” another replied. Labor Board Aide Heard. Dr. Towne Nylander, director of the Federal Regional Labor Board, ad- dressed them shortly after a shout was heard from inside. “We’ll die rather than leave.” Carter said in a statement Nylander assured the men that not later than March 5 a hearing would consider their charges—that the Douglas com- pany discharged union men, refused ob- | State laws to which their clients were | opposed. The “due process” provision of the | fourteenth amendment is the same that is in the fifth amendment, one of | | the 10 adopted in 1791 to protect the: rights of the people. The fifth amend- | ment was a restriction on the Federal | Government, while the fourteenth ap- | | plied only to States. What constitutes “due process of low” has never been defined exactly, except as specific cases have come before the courts. One authority called it the “law of the land.” “Due process” is one of the prime issues in the litigation now before the court involving constitutionality of the national labor relations act. That is a Federal law, however. to recognize the union and failed to conduct an election to determine col- lective bargaining representatives. The strikers first agreed to surrender | if $2,500 individual bail were waived | and each man released on his own recognizanee. Finally they came filing out in groups of about 30, outwardly in gay spirits. They shouted to a crowd of nearly 3,000 sympathizers, wives and curious, some perched on the roofs of nearby sandwich stands. Each | group was checked against the indict- | ment list, the men placed in cars or busses and taken to the county jail in Los Angeles. Surrounding of the Douglas plant, which employs 5,600, had been preceded by & sit-down strike at the plant of th. Northrop Corp., Douglas sub- sidiary, which has 1,150 employes, The plant was closed pith some 75 men remaining inside. Forty men in the Rocky Mountain Steel Products plant, Douglas supply source, walked out in sympathy. Deputy District Attorney U. U. Blalock announced he would seek grand jury indictments against site down strikers of the Northrop Corp., unless they evecuate immediately. Carter, strikers’ attorney, had urged the men to surrender peaceably as soon as officers surrounded the Douglas plant, but his pleas at first went un- heeded. The strikers armed themselves with fire extinguishers, short pieces of metal pipe and clubs, and put on arm bands 50 they could recognize one another it a fight began. “Howll you have your grave Steam-heated?” one striker yelled. “Oh, bury me not on the lone prair-ee-ee,” another sang. | “What I wanna know is, do you get your choice about the gas?” asked & third. One gas carried by the police was intended to draw tears, The other makes its victims sick, . Senator Borah of Idaho restated his | tours of duty at Bolling Field and belief that the retirement age for Jjustices of the Supreme Court should be made 75 years instead of 70 and also his opposition to having Supreme Court justices subject to call for duty in the lower courts after their re- tirement. He said he would not offer amendments to the pending bill, how- ever, since both the subcommittee and the full Committee on Judiciary wished the bill passed in the form in which it came from the House. Senator King of Utah said that he thought the retirement bill unfair in some respects and that he doubted the validity of certain provisions. “I have great doubts on the con- stitutionality of the bill in its present form,” said King. “I think it comes at an inopportune time as indicated by the Senator from California.” Lower Court Law Cited. At the outset of the debate on the retirement bill Senator McCarran called attention to the fact that Con- gress by law has provided for the retirement of judges of the lower courts. That law specifically excludes the justices of the Supreme Court from its operation. He said also that in 193¢ a bill for permitting the retirement of Supreme Court justices had been defeated in the House. “Again we said inferentially to the members of the Supreme Court that they should not retire,” said McCar- ran. Senator Robinson asked why the privilege of retirement has been denied | to Supreme Court justices. Senator McCarran suggested that a question of constitutionality may have been raised. This was denied, however, by Senator Borah and Senator Johnson, who in- sisted that there was no constitutional question involved, but that the de- cision not to include the Supreme Court justices in the retirement bill had been only a matter of policy. The law permitting the retirement of lower court judges at 70 years of age on full pay was passed many years ago. Backed by Robinson. Senator McCarran argued that it was only fair to the justices of the Supreme Court to accord them the retirement privilege. In this he was backed up by Senator Robinson. Mc- Carran called attention to the fact that the pay of the late Assoclate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Supreme Court had been cut 50 per cent, or from $20,000 to $10,000 & year, after Justice Holmes had rerigned, and that it was further cut by the operation of the so- called economy act. He explained that justices of the Supreme Court have the right to re- sign and presumably at full pay, as the law now stands, but that after a Justice has resigned it is possible, as in the case of Justice Holmes, for married the former Miss Rebckah Blaine Lipscomb of this city, & | granddaughter of the late James G. | Blaine. 'QUEZON HAS LUNCH WITH PRESIDENT Philippine President Presented to ! All Cabinet Members at Meeting. With two trays containing lght | lunches on the President’s desk be- | tween them, President Roosevelt and | Manuel Quezon. President of the | Philippine Commonwealth, sat and talked for an hour today. After this informal luncheon con- ference, the President had Quezon ac- company him across the hall to the cabinet room, where he presented him to members of the New Deal cabinet, | who had assembled for their weekly | cabinet conference. ! President Quezon arrived in Wash- | ington yesterday as the head of a dele- | gation which came to this country to ! discuss trade delations and to suggest certain possible changes in the Philip- pine independence act. | LEGION EXERCISES | Fort Stevens Post Meets at Paul Junior High. Fort Stevens Post, No. 32, of the | American Legion held its third an- | nual community patriotic exercises at | the Paul Junior High School last | night. Representative James L. Quinn of Pennsylvania addressed the group. Medals were presented to student winners of the recent essay contest in the 11 northwest graded and paro- chial schools. To Attend League Session. BERKELEY, Calif., February 26 () —Dr. Henry F. Grady, University of California College of Commerce dean, was en route to New York today, where he will sail for Geneva, Switzer- land, to attend a session of the League of Nations Raw Materials Committee on which he is the only American rep- resentative. his pay to be cut. Senator Robinson insisted that members of the Supreme Court who have served to a ripe old age ought not to be forced to take the chance of having their salaries cut after they have resigned.