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NETRALITY BILL OPPOSTION SEE McReynolds Believes House Will Support His Own Measure. By the Associated Press. Chairman McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee pre- dicted today the House and Senate would disagree on the amount of discretion the President should have in controlling the export of goods to warring nations. He said he believed his committee would substitute his own neutrality proposal for the Pittman “peace act of 1937," passed yesterday by the Senate. McReynolds' measure would give the President broader discretion in placing restrictions on the shipment of war materials to belligerents. ‘The Pittman measure, approved by the Senate, 62 to 6, after three days of heated debate, would: Prohibit export of munitions to belligerents. Allow other goods to be shipped to warring nations, provided for- eigners held title to them before they left this country, Give the President discretion to say what goods, other than muni- tions, could be shipped to bel- ligerents on American ships. Outlaw American travel on ships of belligerents, except under rules laid down by the President. Ban American buying and seil- ing of belligerents’ bonds or obli- gations. Prevent the arming of American ships trading with belligerents. ‘The Senate accepted an amendment proposed by Senator Bone, Demo- crat, of Washington to withdraw Gov- ernment protection from American ships carrying goods in violation of the law. ! In passing the bill, the Senate fgnored the pleadings and the warn- ings of two men who have led it in the past on matters relating to inter- national relations—Senators Borah, Republican, of Idaho, and Johnson, Republican, of California. Instead it followed the advice of the younger men who made up the Mu- qitions Investigating Committee of a year or two ago, and Senator Lee, Democrat, of Oklahoma, himself a war veteran. Lee stirred the chamber yesterday with a plea to remember “those who can’t speak to you today” and not to “weigh gold against blood.” Borah contended the bill would bring “contempt and assault” on the United States, while Johnson called it & “scuttle and run” policy. THE EVENING Washingeon] SLOM OUTNE Wasside |G LABORPILEY Tales Refuses to Permit Random Observations Union to Speak for of Interesting Events All Employes. and Things_ BY the Associated Press, NEW YORK, March 4.—Alfred P. IN REVERSE. Sloan, jr., president of General Motors LOCAL merchant who sells | Corp., today addressed a message 0 things on the installment plan | all employes emphasizing the prin- had the shock of a lifetime | ciples of labor relations to be follow: the other day when a custo- | by the company under the settlement mer came in and announced he wanted | of the recent sit-down strike. to open an account in reverse—pay Explaining “how we stand today,” first and bus afterward. The mer- | Sloan summed up as follows: chant said he’d brood over the scheme, | 1, General Motors agrees to deal -ng u:tl:‘:e;u:“ t:e“ida lnyho'?m : with the United Automobile Workers’ was very simple. )} He disliked owing bills, He hated Union, only so far as its own members rned. the thought of having to pay for | v Gen “2. General Motors has not recog- things at a certain time, maybe when ecognize, he felt like spending the money on el Sy corn fritters instead. Therefore, he urion] s 3pesting o all tistwykers: in any plant. would like to pay the store money | «3 zrhpe privilege of joining or not when he was in the mood, come down | joining any union is & matter entirely later and pick out the specific articles | o¢ your personal choice. the money already had bought (if | «4 you do not have to pay tribute you're still with us). Furthermore, he | ¢, anybody to hold a job in a General said, he never did like the installment Motors plant. I told you that in my plan, old style. Things he had bought message of January 5. That still and not paid for sat around the house, holds good.” with bills coming due, until he ac- - quired a positive dislike for them. sl bt B This way, he thought, he would like | Lon ‘0 BiS stitement, stresed in eyeryihing he s “The increase of wages you received dSmnn fella,” said the storekeeper, | ;, going back to work had nothing to A0 jopencd (b the acooumt do with the nexoullt:nr::)' . Positions Dec! Unfair. TUMBLE, Continuing, the president declared: Transportation keeps rearing its “It was originally claimed by the ugly head in these yarns, this time | ynited Automobile Workers' Union rather prettily in a romantic way. that it should be the bargaining Seems a lad who rides the same agency for all General Motors em- bus home every night had become ployes in all plants, irrespective of @ great admirer of a beautiful | whether they were members of the union or not; i. e, an exclusive bar- gaining position. “Next, they urged that this par- ticular union should represent, as a bargaining agency, all the workers in the General Motors plants on strike —again, whether those workers were members of this particular union or not. Any blond who also invariably took the 5:10. He was having no luck meet- ing her, on account of the minute she sat down she always went to sleep. He grumbled about this to himself, cursed the fates, and se- cretly dubbed her “The Sleeping Beauty.” The other evening he was sitting across the aisle from her, dreaming morosely, when the “Manifestly, both positions were un- fair and unjust. always taken the position, and still stands on that position, that its work- ers should have the right to be repre- form of representation that in their judgment is to their best interests. General Motors has done nothing. and should do nothing, to prejudice those inalienable rights. This is the posi- | tion that General Motors has always | held, and neither these negotiations nor the understanding that has ie- sulted from same, has in any sense General Motors has | | sented by any organization or any | STAR, WASHINGTO! VOLERGE MARKS SEVERAL STRIKES Disputes Tie Up ?0 Firms as New Labor Troubles Are Reported. BY the Assoclated Press, New strikes and outbreaks of vio- lence in-old ones, emphasized today the prevalence of industrial disputes, almost forgotten in the jubilation over organized labor's compacts with the steel industry. Upward of 40,000 workers were idle in disputes affecting a half hun- dred business and industrial firms. While strikers and employers sought compromises, leaders of the Commit- tee for Industrial Organization viewed with satisfaction its contract with the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. and mapped plans for the eventual union- ization of all industrial workers in the Nation. Supporters of John L. Lewls, domi- nant figure in the C. I. O, said the drive in the steel industry would be extended to the oil, automotive and textile industries. C. I O. units sought recognition as the sole bar- gaining agencies for Chrysler Motor Corp. and General Electric Corp. em- ployes. A shee union was projected by the New England C. I. O. council. Eight-Point “Demand.” Officials of General Electric Co., the third giant corporation closely related to J. P. Morgan & Co. to negotiate with labor, today awaited presenta- tion of an eight-point “demand” pro- gram by the United Electrical & Radio Workers of America. With Francis T. Bartow of J. P. Morgan & Co., and Henry S. Morgan of Morgan, Stanley & Co., on the Gen- eral Electric Board of Directors, the company has signified willingness to negotiate with the electrical and radio union, which is an affiliate of the C.1.O. Carnegie-Illinois Corp. announced it would continue to deal with all em- ploye groups despite its recognition of the C. I. O. as the bargaining agency for members of that organization. Supporters of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.’s plan to employe representa- tion considered today forming an in- dependent union to oppose extension of Lewis’ organization of 540,000 steel- workers. A member of the corporation’s Em- ploye Defense Committee said the | group was studying the possibility of such an independent labor unit He added the committee’s decision would be submitted, possibly today. to Benjamin F. Fairless, Carnegie- D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1937. Arraignéd in New York Child Murder and stared straight into the camera. Left: For a fleeting moment, Mrs. Norman Gatto, held in connection with the death of 4-year-old Joan Morvan, relazed her vigilance in trying to shield her face from photographers— She is shown being taken to court at New York. Howard Magnussen, 26, confessed slayer of Joan as he underwent questioning in_what police called the most brutal murder in Long Island history. Right: —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. 1.0 FIGHTS ON, GNDRIG A FL Lewis Broadens Campaign as Green Threatens Sus- pension of Members. By the Associateo Press. Forces of John L. Lewis broadened their industrial unionization campaign today in the face of a new American Federation of Labor threat against tee for Industrial Organization. Cheered by the agreement with the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.. Lewis’ associates declared he would seek eventually to unionize all industrial workers in the United States. Lewis himself, back in Washington, was silent on his next move and on members who support Lewis’ Commit- Resigns SUYDAM RESIOS DL PLST I3 Cummings’ Aide Will Go to Editorial Staff of Newark News. SECOND CHILD'S DEATH IS PROBED Boy of 15 Months Dies of Fractured Skull and Severe Contusions. B the Associated Press NEW YORK, March 4 —Murder by rape was the conclusion written by police today on the sordid death of 4-year-old Joan Morvan, but by odd coincidence New York authorities were confronted with the unsolved | and violent death of another child. a boy 15 months old. Within a period of three days the two children died, the Morvan girl from injuries inflicted, the State charged, by Howard Magnussen, 26, candy maker. But of the death of Gordon Keith, jr.. an infant in arms, Bronx official- dom knew little. Dr. Louis Lefkowitz, a medical examiner, reported the boy, son of Mrs. Catherine Keith, a waitress, employed in Manhattan, had succumbed yesterday to a fractured skull, a brain injury and severe con- tusions of the arms, legs and abdo- men. How and when the injuries wers suffered no one professed to know. As George A. Titlzer of the Bronx began an inquiry he said he had de- | veloped these facts: Mrs. Keith left the child with th~ Foundling Hospital six months agc and he was given into the care of an Elmsford, N. Y., woman. When Dr. A. A Barberio and Margaret Consi- dine, a nurse, both of the hospital, made a routine inspection of the Elmsford home Tuesday night, they | found the child in convulsions. In the Suffolk County Jail in River- head, N. Y., meanwhile, Magnussen slept fitfully. He has been charged with first-degree murder. ‘The mother of the baby, Mrs. Dor- othy Morvan, divorced from Joan's father, tried futilely upon her arrival from Northfield, Vt., to obtain custody of her other child, George Morvan, jr. Officials of the Society for the Preven- | tion of Cruelty to Children, which took charge of the 30-month-old boy, told her the courts must settle any ques- tion of custody. George, jr., had been in the home of his father. shared by Mrs. Norma Gatto, a divorcee. Both the father and the woman were held on charges of felonious assault and improper guardianship as a result of Joan's death. Henry Suydam, special executive as- | sistant to the Attorney General, has resigned to accept an editorial posi- tion with the Newark (N. J.) Evening News, it was announced at the De-| partment of Justice today. In a letter accepting the resignation as of March | 31, next, Attorney General Cummings expressed “very great regret” at the| loss of his aide, who has been the cabinet officer’s close adviser on mat- | ters involving public relations and publicity. Suydam, in a letter dated March 1, 0’DELL FUNERAL TODAY Body of Veteran Actress to Lie in Beaufort, 8. C.,, Home. BEAUFORT, S. C, March 4 (®) — Maude O'Dell, veteran actress, who died of a heart attack while awaitin2 her cue in a New York theater last week, was to be buried today in this town, where she was born 65 years ago. The body reached Yemassee by train at 10:30 am, and was brought to bus® suddenly lurched to one side. Sleeping Beauty fell out in the aisle. He picked her up. * % * % A WHAT? A MISS FLORED GLENN was seat- ed in a smart cocktail room the other afternoon chatting with a friend when a page boy appeared at her elbow and said confidentially: “Mad- am, the hearse is waiting for you.” Then he vanished. Miss Glenn thought the thing over a while and then decided to let it pass. She felt fine. About five minutes later the same Ppage popped up again. Ilinois’ president. A. F. of L. Remains Hostile. C. 1. O. gains did not heal its| breach with the American Federation of Labor. President William Green said the federation will not tolerate extension of support to a dual and rival organization. The Cleveland Federation of Labor suspended all five member unions affiliated with the C. Lo Several additional steel firms an- ! nounced higher wages. Among them | were the Laclede Steel Co., employing | 1,400 in factories at Alton and Madi- | son, Ill; Sheffield Steel Corp., employ- | |ing 2,500 at Kansas City; American ! the demand of the federation that its participating organizations re- | pledge their loyalty. C. L. 0. Unions Suspended. —Underwood Photo. Unions backing his Committee for Industrial Organization were suspend- ed last year from the A. F. of L., whose | officers favor organization of workers | 5 by separate crafts instead of by en- | tire industries. i While President William Green was en route here from his Ohio home | the federation made public a letter | to all member groups declaring the time has come “to draw a line and Others May Be Dead in Ruins make a distinction between the Amer- | ican Federation of Labor and the| of Two 5-Story East Side | reminded Cummings of his long-felt | desire to return to newspaper wWork |and pointed out that “a most favor- | able opportunity” has now presented itself. altered that position. “General Motors cannot recognize any union, or any group, as the ex- clusive bargaining agency for its work- ' ers and thus deny the rights of those workers to be represented by some other agency, if they so desire. There must be no misunderstanding on that point. Against Discrimination. “On the other hand, General Motors has no intention of discriminating be- tween organizations by which fits workers may wish to be represented. Manifestly, General Motors could not take any other poamon‘hdbeullxum it would be unfair and wo prejudice “Madam,” he said, more urgently |gne organization of workers, as against Voting with them against the bill were Senators Austin, Republican, of Vermont; Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire; Gerry, Democrat, of Rhode Island, and Lodge, Republican, of Massachusetts. Senators King, Demo- crat, of Utah; Copeland, Democrat, of New York and Gibson, Republican, of Vermont were paired “against the measure.” The closest vote of the day was 44-31 against an amendment by Senator Borah to make the so-called cash- and-carry program discretionary with the President. A few minutes earlier the Senate had turned down, 48 to 24, an amend- HENRY SUYDAM. Regrets Departure. “I shall leave the Department of Justice with real regret,” Suydam wrote. “The varied duties that have been assigned to me have brought me in contact with all phases of the | activities of the department during a most stirring time. I regard it as a Beaufort. A funeral service was | privilege to have had such an experi- 'scheduled in St. Peter's Catholi ence.” | Church about noon, after which “It has been a particular gratifica- ' burial will be in the churchyard. tion to have been associated with you Miss O'Dell was playing a part in during the development of your pro- | “Tobacco Road” when she was ment by Senator Vandenberg, Repub- lican, of Michigan in the other di- Fection—to remove the discretionary suthority for the President to deter- | mine what commodities could be shipped to belligerents on American vessels. In a speech just before the final vote, Borah said: “All things may lead to controversy and war, but no nation, ahead of time, | should indicate its willingness to yield | its rights. The proposal seems to me | to indicate we are headed for nothing but complete abandonment of our rights at sea, our right to carry food- &tuffs essential to the human family.” A similar plea had come earlier from Johnson. He contended Con- gress was “abdicating its last and most important function,” the right to declare war, to the President. L Sees Contempt of World. » The bill, Johnson said, would “make us contemptible before the world.” ¥ “I want peace,” he said, “but I don’t want peace at the cost of honor. I might vote for a bill of this sort if :t brought peace, but it won't.” Lee replied that both Borah and Johnson were “here” when war was declared. “Have either of them brought forward a program to try to keep us out of the next war?” he asked. “You can't go into the insane asy- lums here, shocked boys, and -then talk property against life. Then recalling that he had lost & “pal” who marched beside him in the Army, Lee told the Senate he was talking for “those who can’t speak to- day” in urging enactment of the bill. He said it was “only getting America out of the line of fire.” Appeal Made by Bone, Another appeal for the lgw was made dring the day by Senator Bone, one of the old Munitions Committee mem- bers. “People everywhere say ‘war is hell,’ but add ‘don’t touch our trade,’” he added. “International law went into the ash can during the last war. Why discuss it?” Bone said commerce with belligerents ‘was “as dangerous as gun-nmnlng and dope peddling, as far as the ultimate moral effect on civilization is con- Senators Capper, Republican, of Kansas, and Davis, Republican, of Pennsylvania, also spoke for the bill. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Routine business. La Follette Committee studies in- dustrial armament business. Wheeler Committee continues rail- road financing inquiry. House: Debates Navy appropriation bill Military Committee resumes hear- ings on bill to remove profits from war. Agriculture Committee studies farm tenant proposals. Merchant Marine Committee con- tinues hearings on seamen’s discharge books. ‘TOMORROW. . Senate: Will not be in session. Military Affairs Committee, regular weekly meeting. & House: Continues debate on Navy appro- priation bill Indian Affairs Committee meets at 10:30 am. ‘ this time, “the hearse is waiting out~ | ynother. They must all have equal side the door.” treatment. * Miss Glenn arose and followed him ) c out, wondering what could be the|asoeors will megotiate oply with the gag. The gag was a hearse, waiting &t | ynion_ it will continue to negotiate | the door. She stood stock-still for | wirh any group, or with any in- | & moment, then a woman came out 8 | giviqual employe desiring to negotiate side door, walked over to the hearse | inqjyiqually, in any or all of its plants. land got in beside the driver. They | «gut in order to demonstrate its drove away. | “Poddon me, madam,” said the page | boy, “I must have called the wrong | good faith, General Motors agreed | the date of this letter it will place all that during the six months following | person,” and he disappeared again, | the facts before Gov. Murphy before filled with those shell- | to her tea and crumpets, woman. | * ¥ X X FRESH STUFF. a dazed t partment of Agriculture scientists lin charge of administering the food of a color photography process to | | tell whether or not food is fresh. We | visage platoons of Popeyes running about the restaurants of the country, candid cameras in hand, checking up on the general condition of spinach. * X X x SCHOLARS. | 'THE research scholars who study the Congressional Directory are beginning to pour.their findings in {upon us. We hear, for example, of & { brilliant gentleman, a member of | Phi Beta Kappa, whose name is Ver- | mont Connecticut Royster. He is a | newspaper correspondent, and our in- formant says the name is the out- come of the States’ rights enthusiasms of a great-grandfather Royster, down in Raleigh, N. C., who named his first child after two States. Finally he had seven children, 14 State names under one roof. A daughter was called Vir- ginia Caroline, one son New York Massachusetts. The custom survived in the family for a while, but now Vermont Connecticut Royster is the :"nly one who carries on the old tradi- on. RN DEANS. Another Congressional Directory fan points out, without comment, that the biography of Senator Sheppard of Tezas says, “Dean of Congress by virtye of having a longer continuous service than that of any other living member.” The biography of Senator Smith of South Carolina says, “Has the honor of being dean of the Demo= cratic Senators.” Says the list of continuous service of Senators: “(1) Senmator Borah, Republican of Idaho, from March 4, 1907; (2) Senator Smith, Demo- crat of South Carolina, from March 4,1909; (3) Senator Ashurst, Demo= crat of Arizona, from March 27, 1912; (4) Senator Sheppard, Demo- crat of Tezas, and Senator Pitt- man, Democrat of Nevada, from January 29, 1913.” | leaving Miss Glenn to wander back | THOSE guardians of purity, the De- | ! and drug act, report the development | it negotiates with the representatives of any other group of employes in the plants that were on strike so far as certain matters of general corpo- rate policy are concerned. “This means that if any organiza- | tion, truly representative of General on any question of general policy, and then General Motors is 50 sentative, bound to negotiate and will negotiate. “General Motors agreed to this be- cause it has no intention of discrimi- nating, but it has every intention of protecting its workers in their right to a free and unprejudiced decision as to how they wish to be repre- sented.” Sloan concluded with the declara- tion that the wage increase, received by the workers on their return from the strike, was “entirely outside the negotiations” and was & “general in- crease in the wage scale, not only in the automotive industry, but other industries.” G. M. STOCK SALES BY SLOAN REVEALED 12,873 Shares Disposed Of in January by Head of Corporation. BY the Assoclated Press. A Securities Commission report of stock transactions for January showed today Alfred P. Sloan, General Motors president, sold 12,873 shares of the corporation’s common stock during the month. He retained ownership of 11,8068 shares, and listed indirect ownership of 732,641 shares. . Donaldson Brown sold 11,667 shares during the month, reducing his hold- ings to 6,258 and retaining indirect holdings of 225,137. Sales by other officials of the cor- poration included 1,228 shares by John Lee Pratt, 1,000 by George Whitney, 995 by R. H. Grant, 900 by John T. Smith and 465 by Albert Bradley. Irenee du Pont disposed of 3,033 under an optional agreement which reduced his holdings to 15,954 shares. Gifts recorded during the month in- cluded 6,700 shares of E. I. du Pont, ¥ E i ] = | Motors workers, desires to negotiate | if Gov. Murphy decides that that | particular organization is truly repre- | | trucks were burned in a blockade by Steel and Wire, 325 at Anderson, Ind.; lt:olm'mlo Fuel & Iron, 7,000 at Pueblo, | “This does not mean that General |COl°- 15,000 Get Wage Increase. A wage increase of 7 cents an hour and institution of a 40-hour week, affecting about 15,000 steel workers, was announced today by the Tennessce Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. United States Steel subsidiary and largest Southern steel producer. The Briggs Manufacturing Co.s giant Mack avenue plant, shut down for more than 10 hours during the night, resumed operations today, end- ing a sit-down strike which affected 14,000 employes. Company officials met with repre- sentatives of the United Automob Workers of America and an unde: standing was reached before day shift workers entered the plant. Two drivers were beaten and two 2,000 striking Rhode Island truck drivers, who struck for a closed shop, 48-hour week and wage increases. Police and 250 strikers and sympa- thizers fought a tear gas and rock ba tle near the strike-bound Perenni: Dye Works at West Warwick, R. I. 66 Jailed in Riot. At Sarnia, Ontario, 66 persons were jailed after hand-to-hand fighting be- tween 300 non-union workmen and a group of sit-down strikers at the Holmes foundry. The Ilatter were driven out. Eight persons were seri- ously hurt. The non-automotive strike picture in Detroit took on a brighter tone to- day with the opening of negotiations in two 5-and-10-cent store sit-downs, an- nouncement of tentative agreements to end strikes in two of the city’s larger restaurants and the settlement of several other labor disputes. A strike was threatened at the Mid- continent Oil Corp. at Seminole, Okla., employing 12300. . Two thousand workers were idle in a strike at the No. 2 Akron, Ohio, plant of the Firestone Tire & Rub- ber Co. Thirteen mills were closed and 500 workers were idle in the Berks County, Pa., hosiery strike. A sit-down strike of 500 men and women in the box shop closed the ‘Monroe, Mich., plant of River Railsin Paper Co., employing 1,250. Two hun- dred workers, most of them women, sat down in the Aladdin Industries plant at Alexandria, Ind,, to force discharge of & woman supervisor. Sit-Down Strikes End. Strikers ended a sit-down at the Ferro Stamping Co., Detroit, but 400 others remained in the Timken-De- troit Axle Co. plant in the same city. A sit-down strike of 1,500 men ended at the Murray Corp. of America plant at Detroit under an agreement for union recognition, a 40-hour week and & conference on wages. Also settled was the seven-week-old strike at the La Crosse (Wis.) Rubber Mills, affect- ing 1,200 workers, and & sit-down of 40 bindery workers at the Regen- steiner Corp., Chicago printing plant. At Torrington, Conn., & spokesman for six manufacturing firms said the 40-hour week and time and a half for overtime will become effective next Mondsy. It affects about 4,700 workers. Soviet Officers Decorated. Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion.” The letter, signed by Green, said the Committee for Industrial Organ- | ization had refused to arrange for & meeting with federation representa- tives to try to adjust their dispute and reunite organized labor. The only possible interpretation of this refusal Green said, is that the C. L O. is persisting in trying “to impose the substitution of minority rule for majority control within the | organized labor movement.” Lewis declares, on the other hand, | that the rank and file of federation | members are behind him. Only One Attitude Seen. “In the issue which has arisen” Green continued, “there can be but | one attitude which all can assume as | members of the A. F. of L.; it must be uncompromising support of the Amer- ! fcan Federation of Labor. * * * “The Executive Council cannot and | will not tolerate the extension of sup- | port to any organization classified by | the council and a convention of the Structures. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 4—Flames roared through 2 five-story tenements in the teeming regions of New York's lower Fast Side early today, killing at least two persons, driving 200 more into the streets, and injuring 11 men of the massed forces fighting the most | spectacular tenement fire in years. | Mopping up in the ruins in the | heart of the Ghetto, firemen found | two bodies burned beyond recognition, | and predicted that several more were | still in the shells of the ancient build- ings. Outburst at 3 A.M. Flames burst from the upper stories of the first building, at 137 Suffolk street, with the intensity of a blast furnace shortly after 3 am. Within two hours a similar tenement next door was roaring, too, from top to | bottom. The bulk of Manhattan's fire | forces battled from adjoining roofs to | A. F. of L. as being a dual and rival | ! organization. preserve the highest and best interests of the A. F. of B.” The Lewis organization nevertheless of the federation’s policies. Among Lewis’ early endeavors, hit supporters predicted, would be cam- paigns to organize employes in the oil and textile industries. He also is expected to continue membership drives in steel and auto per cent representation for negotia- tions with employers. Green, before leaving Coshocton, ©Ohio, for Washington, said two factors contributed to the Carnegie-Tllinols agreement with the Lewis union: Recognition of the economic necessity for a 40-hour week and Government pressure for a 40-hour week to permit steel firms to meet the Walsh-Healey act governing contracts for supplying the Navy with steel for new ships. EDWARD S. WILD DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Funeral Services Planned Tomor- row for Employe of Government Printing Office. Edward S. Wild, 72, of 6824 Fifth street, died yesterday at Garfleld Hos- pttal after an illness of 10 days. Wild, a proofreader in the Govern- ment Printing Office, was employed there for the past 30 years. He was & member of B. B. French Lodge, No. 15, of Masons. ‘Wild is survived by three nephews, Roger E. Craley and V. Raymond Cra- ley, both of this city, and Julian Wild of Martinsburg, W. Va.; a niece, Mrs. C. C. James of Clear Springs, Md., and a grand-nephew, E. 8. Miller of Roanoke, Va. Funeral services will be held at .| the Takoma Park Presbyterion Church tomorrow at 2 p.m. Burial will be in ‘Washingon Memorial Cemetery. Firemen’s Group to Meet. Hospitalization for retired firemen hurt in line of duty will be discussed by the Retired Firemen's Association at 8 o'clock tonight in the Typograph- of officers “It is the firm determination of the | council to take such action as the facts | may justify in order to protect and | crowded East Side, burned like pine | was going ahead with its efforts to set | up industry-wide unions in disregard | | fled a policeman. factories in the hope of winning 100 | halt further spread of the flames. From all parts of the island the | flames were visible, twisting high into the air as the buildings, typical of the torches. One frightened dweller | turned in an alarm a mile away. Discovered by Girl. | The fire was discovered by a girl | returning from & party and she noti- As the alarms started sounding, police ran through the narrow, darkened hallways, pound- ing on doors, driving the 200 families into the streets. Firemen carried dozens down ladders from upper floors. Four tenants were burned, or injured, as they scrambled down the fire escapes. Flames roared almost unchecked through the flimsy structures until the roofs collapsed and the walls caved. Emergency hospital stations were set up in nearby streets to care for the injured, none seriously hurt. Neighbors took in the refugees, most of whom escaped in night clothes. While the blackened ruins still smouldered and police pulled apart debris looking for more bodies, Deputy Tenement House Commissioner Harry M. Prince demanded an investigation. He said there had been failure to remedy fire ordinance violations filed against both buildings by his depart- ment. “Last December,” Prince said, “13 violations were filed against one build- ing and 11 against the other. These violations covered practically every- thing that could be said against a building housing human beings. The fire escapes were of old fashioned type, with vertical ladders instead of the zig-zag kind required by law. There were no fire-retarding wall materials in the halls.” —_— SENATORS TO BE GUESTS Will Attend Exhibition Drill at Fort Myer Riding Hall. Members of the Senate Military Ap- proprations Committee and their wives will be honor guests at the exhibi- tion drill to be presented by the of- ficers and enlisted men of the 3d Cavalry and 16th Field Artillery to- morrow at 2:45 p.m. at the Fort Myer Riding Hall Members of the committee who will attend the drill and the luncheon are Senators Copeland, New York. chairman; Bridges, New gram for the control of crime. As a | stricken. | member of your personal staff I have|other performers The show went on, with extemporizing to been honored with your confidence | cover her absence, and the audience forget.” Cummings, in his reply today thanked Suydam for his “splendid and faithfully rendered” service. “The matters assigned to = Cummings said. “have been ma | and with an association I shall never | was unaware of her death back stagc | Mrs. Jarrett, escaped the flames. = = Clock Workers Get Pay Raise. LA SALLE, Ill, March 4 (#).—Of cials of Westclox division of the Gen eral Time Instrument Corp. have ao- nounced a 10 per cent wage increace | for employes, effective March 29. varied, all requiring the exercise of tact and ability with which ycu are s0 well equipped.” They said the increase would in- | not a lawyer, Suydam was -eappointed |1ast July with a new title, “special | under Minister John W. Garrett. Originally Named in 1934. Suydam was originally appointed as a special assistant to Cummings, with non-legal qualifications, ‘n September, 1934. Because of a proviso in last year's appropriation bill against pay- ment of salary to any special assistant clude all hourly piece work and pre- mium rates and estimated it would amount to $280,000 annually. Your Income Tax executive assistant.” In the $10,000 post Suydam has been a confidant of Cummings in matters relating to press, radio and other means of publicizing activities of the department. Before going with the department of Justice, Suydam had attained prominence in journalism. During the World War he was a correspondent overseas for the Brooklyn Eagle, and also served as an attache in the American Legation at The Hague, Tips, Prizes and Bonuses Must Be Included in Filing Return. I Of the millions of income-tax re- turns that are filed annually, the vast majority are from salaried persons and wage earners whose income is derived from personal services. In general, compensation for per- sonal services should be reported for taxation purposes in the year it is received or unqualifiedly made subject to demand. Compensation credited to the account of or set apart for a tax- payer, without any substantial limita- tion or restriction, and which may be | drawn upon by him at any time, is | subject to tax for the year during | which so credited or set apart, al- i isi though not then actually reduced to Affirm They Will Not Visit possegssion. If the services were ren- Nation. dered during the year 1935, or even ! prior thereto, but the compensation The American Government has| was not received, or made ungualifi- moved in a new direction to keep its | eqly subject to demand, by the tax- nationals out of trouble in Spain, the | payer until the year 1936, the entire State Department announcing yester- | gmount s taxable in the year re- day that all citizens hereafter apply- | cejved, or made unqualifiedly subject ing for passports must make afidavits | v, demand, when the taxpayer is re- that they do not intend to go into| porting on the cash receipts and dis- that country. Those refusing to make | pyrsements basis, which is the basis affidavit will not get passports. used by most persons in reporting net The action of the department was | ynoome. understood to have been prompted | he names of all employes to whom by moves in some quarters here t0| payments of $1,000 or over a year are organize military and medical aid for [ made must be reported. The informa- one side or the other and was in ac- | yon return should be made on form cordance, it was explained, With es-| 1599 gccompanied by transmittal form tablished policy of strict non-inter- | 1596, showing the number of returns ference in the Spanish civil strife. filed. These returns should be filed Up to now passports simply have | on or pefore February 15, 1937. been stamped “Not Good in Spain. All of the various types of compen- The department pointed out thal|gegion ynless specifically exempt by those persons wishing to alleviate suf- | gapyte or exempt by fundamental fering in the war zone should make |15y ‘should be included in the tax- contributions to the Red Cross. payers return of gross income, such e as salaries, wages, fees, commissions, SHOW HORSES BURNED | bonuses. tipe. ~honorariums, Brises, awards, retiring allowances for past services, etc. Where services are paid Three of Lewis Stable Perish in Belmont Park Fire. for in whole or in part with some- thing other than money, the fair mar- ket value of the thing taken in pay- NEW YORK, March 4 (#).—Fire of | ment must be included as income. undetermined origin swept through & | Other items subject to tax are fees stable in the center of “millionaire’s | received by ministers of the gospel for row” at Belmont race track last night, | funerals, baptisms, masses and like killing three show horses from the | services; executors’ fees, directors’ Nightingale Stables of Mrs. Elizabeth | fees, Federal jury fees and prizes Arden Lewis. The animals, all prize winners, died in spite of the efforts of Mrs. Percy received in contests of various kinds. The salaries of Federal officers and Jarrett, wife of the Lewis trainer, who burning stable and U. S. ACTS T0 BLOCK JOURNEYS TO SPAIN Citizens Seeking Passports Must employes are subject to tax, includ- ing the salary of the President of the United States and judges of courts of the United States taking office after the date of enactment of the revenue act of 1932, which was June 6, 1932. . | The salary of the Vice President of the United States and the salary of mem- bers of the House of Representatives and the members of the United States Senate are also subject to income tax. 4