Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly lowest temperature about 36 degrees; gentle to moderate winds. Temperatures—Highest, 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 7 am. today. Full report on page B-12. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 warmer tomorrow; 85th YEAR. No. COURT PLAN FOES STIRRED 0 ACTION AS THE PRESIDENT APPEALS TONATION Fight Intensified by. Speech in Which Roosevelt Warns Democracy Is Threatened by Present System. PROMISES BIG BATTLE WITHOUT COMPROMISE Demands Immediate Considera- | tion of His Proposal in Carrying | Issue to Voters—Several Sena- tors Regret Determined Posi- tion Taken by Chief Executive. Full Text of the President’s Speech on Page A-5. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Undaunted by 2resident Roosevelt's attack upon the Supreme Court and | upon themselves in his victory dinner speech last night, opponents of the President’s court bill today prepared | @ further campaign of their own. ; Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne- | braska, issued a terse comment: i “I commend the President for his eloquent statement of the splendid | objective he has in mind for a better | America. : | “I utterly condemn the method by | whick he proposes to reach that goal. DUnless checked by an aroused public, | his program will result ir a severe | setback to the nward march of democracy.” 33,911 Regrets Position. Senator Wheeler of Montana, one of the leading liberal Democrats, re- plying to the President’s statement, | said: “The Democratic platform dic- | tated by the President himself pro- vided for meeting New Deal reforms by constitutional processes. The con- ditions which exist in the Ohio River Valley and the dust bowl are identical with those which prevailed at the time the platform -as adopted. Thc oppo- sition in the Supreme Court issue has sought to keep the argument on a high plane. It is regrettable the Pres- ident has sought to inflame the pas- sions of the people with the conten- tion that the Supreme Court is respon- sible for the dust bowl and the Ohio flood.” A number of opponents of the Presi- 67, at Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. @b WASHINGTON, Premier King and Roosevelt May Talk Hemisphere “Front” Prime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada (left) as he ar- rived at Union Station this morning. With him is Sir Herbert Marler, cabinet member. The possibility of a Cnnndiarkl American discussion of a “united front” of nations of the Western Hemisphere in their affairs with the | rest of the world loomed today with the arrival in Washington of Ca- nadian Prime Minister W. L. Mac- Kenzie King for an overnight visit with President Roosevelt at the White House. The prime minister, recalling his —Star Staff Photo. own days as a newspaper reporter in } Toronto when a young man, held a | short conference with newspaper men at the Canadian Legation at noon. | He was informed that President | Roosevelt had stated this morning their conference would embrace all subjects of international interest to the continents of North and South America. In this connection, he was asked | | whether they would discuss a “united | i (See KING, Page A-3) MILLER SHIELDING ANOTHER, ISBELIEF Sheriff Says Dentist Named Man Responsible for Girl’s Condition. BY IRVING F. LASH, 5T08E QUZZED - INUSHER'DEATH Otis Hilderbrand Fatally In- jured During Argument Near Airport. Five ushers from a downtown thea- Staff Correspondent o1 The Star. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March | ter were taken to Arlington County this afternoon for questioning in con- dent’s court bill conferred today at|5—Possibility that Dr. Richard G.' nection with the death early today of the Capitol on plans to meet his at- tack. Senator Burke is to speak over the radio tomorrow on the court issue. Senator Wheeler is to make an ad- dress in Chicago the day after the President’s “fireside talk,” which comes next Tuesday. Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, it is understood, also will deliver an | address in opposition to the court | plan, probably over the radio. Among backers of th- court reor- ganization proposal who commented on, the President’s speech were: ostmaster General Farley—“It was one of the greatest addresses ever de- livered in this ‘country. History will | #0 record it.” William Green, president, American rederation of Labor—“It will arouse the people to realization of what the Jjudiciary reorganization plan really means.” Senater O'Mahoney, Democrat, of ‘Wyoming—*The greatest speech he ever made. Maybe he has just begun to fight.” Secretary Wallace—"It will make the farmers think more than ever about the problems we faee in trying to help them.” With the first round of his battle to | revamp the Supreme Court back of him, President Roosevelt stood com- mitted to an intensive fight without compromise. The warning to the country and to the Democratic party that decisions by the Supreme Court threaten democracy in this country, delivered by the President at the Democratic victory dinner in the Mayflower Hotel (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4) Phone Company Ordered to Drop Hand Sets Levy The extra charge made by the| Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. for use of the French hand-set type of telephone is to be eliminated. The Public Utilities Commission to- day ended protracted controversy over the extra charge by issuing an order requiring that the fee be eliminated after next December 31, and limiting payments made between the end of this month and the end of the year to 15 cents a month. The present charge for the hand sets now is 15 cents a month for a pe- riod of 12 months, or a total of $1.80, after which there is no extra charge, or the payment of a cash sum of $1.50. Under the new order customers may have the French hand sets installed and pay a rate of 15 cents a month up to December 31. If a telephone subscriber ordered the "French set April 1, therefore, he would have to pay a total of $1.35 instead of $1.80 on the old monthly basis, or $1.50 cash. Originally, the company made a charge of 25 cents a month for as long as a subscriber used the hand sets. Later that was reduced by commission order to 25 cents & month for a period of 18 months, or $4.50 for the period. ‘The commission today also made a reduction in some of the labor charges of the eompany for changes in the style or type of equipment. For a shift from one type to another the charge will be $1 instead of $1.50 after April 1. For moving the loca- tion ®f a telephone used by a sub- scriber, however, the charge will re- main at $1.50. f ' | murder of 18-year-old Cleo Sprouse, by | municado in the Henrico County Jail | Miller is shielding some one in the | strange death of Cleo Sprouse arose | today when it was revealed by investi- | gators the dentist claimed to know the identity of the person responsible | for the young high school girl's con- | dition. Sheriff A. J. Mason Smith, present at the questioning of Miller in the | Henrigo Jail at Richmond, where he | | is being held on a murder charge, quoted the dentist as saying Cleo told | him the name of the man. | An empty pint bottle of gin, the contents of which Dr. Miller is re- ported to have said he drank, “but didn't feel,” and another partially filled bottle of distilled water were | found near the spot where the 18- | year-old girl's body was discovered. Girl's Family Suspicious. The finger of suspicion was first pointed at Dr. Richard G. Miller, fam- ily dentist charged with the chloroform relatives shortly after her body was discovered, it was revealed today. The investigation and subsequent arrest of Dr. Miller, now held incom- at Richmond, resulted from informa- tion furnished A Commonwealth At- torney W. O. Fife by Robert Walker. 34, cousin of the high school girl, that he had seen the 53-year-old dentist and his pretty cousin together on the street several times and that she had been a frequent visitor and patient at Dr. Miller's downtown office. Another member of the family, ‘Walker told Fife, had seen the dentist in the business section before he was arrested Wednesday, and Dr. Miller turned and hurried away, apparently to avoid a meeting. “Dr. Miller is your man,” Walker said he told Fife. . Meanwhile the dentist’s statement that Cleo would have become a mother normally within about five months was confirmed by an autopsy, Fife said to- day. Dr. Miller said, however, that ne was not responsible for her condition. Seek Murder Indctment. s Meanwhile, officials rounded up loose ends of the investigation which they claim solves the mysterious death of the young high school student, whose body was found by two Uni- (See CHLOROFORM, Page A-2.) 24-year-old Otis Hilderbrand, cap- tain of ushers, ; who was fatally injured during an argument at a filling station near the airport. An autopsy at ~ the District| Morgue this aft- | revealed | ernoon that Hilderbrand died as the result of a fractured skull Hilder- brand suffered an Otis Hilderbrand. eye injury, it Was said, which might have been caused by a blow from a fist with a ring on it. The argument followed a farewell party which the ushers had given for an employe of the theater who was leaving to accept a promotion. The party was held at the home of Garrett D. Mooney, 22, at 1314 Thirteenth street. Tell of Drinking. ‘The ushers told police that all ex- cept one of them had done consider- able drinking. After the party they drove in two automobiles to nearby Virginia to get some sandwiches. They had stopped for gas when the dispute | arose. Homicide squad detectives were told that Hilderbrand and another usher had an argument, and at least one blow was aimed at Hilderbrand. A third usher jumped "between the dis- putants and Hilderbrand fell, striking his head on the cement pavement. Whether Hilderbrand was knocked down or pushed down was not known. The five ushers taken to Virginia to- (See USHER, Page A-2) * e POUNDAGE FOILS ESCAPE BELGRADE, March 5 (#).—Life in Milwowiltza Penitentiary agreed so well with Ivan Kralec he gained 18 pounds and lost his chance to escape today. The engineer, seeking to flee through a tunnel dug to his exact measure by friends from the outside, was un- able to force four extra inches of waistline through the hole and stuck fast. Father Missing, District authorities planned today to assume the care of 4-year-old Bar- 13, who have iived with neighbors since their father disappeared a fort- night ago and their mother died last Friday. Meanwhile, Barbara played with a new doll given her by her temporary guardian, Mrs. Julia Kelley, and seemed blissfully unaware of her tragic circumstances as she trooped about Mrs. Kelley’s home at 511 Third street on her small errands. Barbara’s elder sister was making her temporary home with Mrs. Eva ‘Wilson on the floor below. The neigh- bors took in the children after the father left the city. The Division of Child Welfare bara Moore and her sister Veronica, - Mother Dead, " Two Little Girls Get D. C. Aid District if suitable homes cannot be found for them with relatives. Since September the mother, Mrs. Grace Moore, 29, had lain in a ward at Gallinger Hospital, desperately ill with’ tuberculosis. The father and three children took a room at the Third street address. Mrs. Kelley and Mrs. Wilson helped him to care for the children and be- came attached to them. The father and children moved away several weeks 8g0. After a fortnight later, Mrs. Kelley said a taxicab stopped in front of her home and Barbara and Veronica got out. The children were carrying a small radio, a few pieces of extra clothing and some dishes and cooking utensils, The two came into Mrs. Kelley’s room, which she shares with her 84-year-old planned today to take Barbara and Veronica to the Receiving Home for Children until they can' communicate with the father or the mother's rels- tives living in New York and Vermont. The children will become wards of the . mrother, and Veronica said: “Mrs. Kelley, my father has left town with Donald. He said we should come and live with you and he would (See CHILDREN, Page A-¢) WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, FRANGE LITS BN ONGOLDTRADN TRINS EXPENSES Blum Cabinet Asks Public Support for National Defense Loan. FRANC PEG AT 21.50 TO DOLLAR EXPECTED Sweeping Revision of Fiscal Pol- icy Begun—Hoarding Held Dodging Duty. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 5—Premier Leon Blum'’s Socialist government bolstered uncertain French finances today by lifting the ban on domestic gold trad- ing, promised drastic curtailment of public expenditures and urged “every Frenchman” to support a new national defense fund—*“the only one which the Treasury will issue during the course of the year.” The loan will contain a clause giv- ing subscribers the option of being repaid either in francs, dollars or pounds, it was announced later, in the expectation of attracting British and American as well as French money. Lifting the ban on gold for home trading will be effective Monday. To revive confidence, parliamentary circles said, the government neces- sarily must peg the franc, at least un- officially. Financial circles expected the Bank of France, with the backing of the treasury and under the tri-partite agreement among France, Great Brit- ain and the United States, to keep the franc at 21.50 to the dollar, ap- proximately the present market price. May Peg Franc at 21.94. Parliamentary circles thought it more probable Vincent Auriol, minis- ter of finance, would seek to peg the franc at 21.94, a slightly lower rate, in order to aid foreign trade and pre- vent further strain on French finances. In a trio of measures which reviewed the entire scope of France's deficit- ridden account sheet, financial policy. The premier promised the “needs of the treasury will be brought to a figure which should not exceed the normal capacity of treasury placements or loans.” He based his principal hopes on at- tracting hidden gold from hoarders’ caches and repatriating French gold which. has flowed outside the country in the last five months since the de- valuation of October, 1936. “Half of these needs” he said, corespond to the 19,000,000.000 francs ($883,500,000) in extraordinary de- fense credits for 1937. “Civic Obligations” First. This national defense financing, Blum asserted, will not allow any | Frenchman to “plead his personal in- terests in order to dodge his civic obli- gations.” “The rest of the treasury needs should be easily covered by normal op- | erations in a short-term market,” he added. The premier angounced a commis- sion of four financial experts “will manage the equalization fund, which (See FRANCE, Page A-6.) HUGHES FLIES SOUTH Leaves New York in Airliner. Believed En Route to Miami. NEW YORK, March 5 (#).—Howard Hughes, flying millionaire, who set a new transcontinental speed record re- cently, took off in his Douglas airliner today for a destination believed to be Miami, Fla. Officials at the fleld said Hughes, al- ways taciturn, merely intimated that he was flying to Florida. He took only his mechanic in the ship he bought some time ago from Transcontinental Western Airlines, where it had been in use as a “flying laboratory.” This was not the ship ‘in which he made the transcontinental record. Workers at the field said he took “about enough” gas to fly to Miami. Summary of Page. Amusements _C-4 Comics Editorial Financial Lost & Found A- Obituary ...A-12 FOREIGN. Goebbel’s newspaper in Berlin assails Mayor La Guardia. Page A-1 Blum cabinet lifts ban on gold trad- ing. Page A-1 London plans steel cables in sky to check raiders. Page A-1 __A-15| Sports . Woman’s Pg.. NATIONAL. Award holders oppose settlement of Black Tom case. Page A-1 Canadian premier’s visit linked to St. Lawrence waterway. Page A-1 A. F. of L. opens fight on C. 1. O. unionization drive. Page A-1 Opponents map fight on Roosevelt court reform. Page A-1 Terrorism during textile strike de- scribed to committee. Page A-1 Sea captain faces murder charge after woman's story. Page B-4 Morgan partners questioned on “res- cue loan.” Page A-4 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Father missing, D. C. to care for two little girls. Page A-1 Maj. Brown denies big-time gamblers are “screened.” Page A-3 Conferences on fate of Fidelity begun by experts. Page A-2 Thousands of Navy Yard workers to be laid off. Page B-1 Representative Engel denounces D. C. health conditions. Page B-1 Traffic claims 32nd victim as safety drive is pushed. Page B-1 § Premier Blum | proclaimed a sweeping revision in his | FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1937—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. SQZE EFERRED = PRI y i I g ¢ Foening Star waRr. OLIVE BRANCH TS <% U. S. Apologizes to Germany For La Guardia Slur on Hitler Berlin Press Cites BY the Associated Press. The United States apologized to Ger- many today for remarks made recently by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New Yourk about Chancellor Adolf Hitler, The State Department said that James C. Dunn, chief of the Division of Western European Affairs, in an | oral statement to Dr. Hans Thomsen, | counselor of the German Embassy, | said. in substance: | “The German government through |its embassy here makes complaint | against certain utterances of Hon. Fiorello La Guardia in a public ad- dress at the Hotel Astor in New York | on March 3, stating that such utter- |ances seriously and severely reflect New York Crime Conditions in Renewed Attack on Mayor. upon the head of the German state and the German government. “In this country the right of freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Consti- ' tution to every citizen and is cherished as a part of the national heritage. This, however, does not lessen the | regret of the Government when ut- | terances either by private citizens or 1 by public officials speaking in an indi- | vidual capacity give offense to a gov- ! ernment with which we have official relations. “I very earnestly deprecate the ut- terances which have thus given offense to the German government. not represent the attitude of this Gov- (See LA GUARDIA, Page A-3) MILL TERRORISH - INSOUTH RELATED 'Alabaman Tells Probers He Was Threatened With Death as “Agitator.” BY JOHN C. HENRY. of the West Point Manufacturing Co.. | a textile concern with plants in Ala- bama and Georgia, was described be- by a Southern tradesman, who said he was beaten and threatened with Inspection Co. armed guards employed by the concern. Speaking with a marked Southern drawl, Ester Groover of Lannett, Ala., said the assault occurred in Septem- ber, 1934, during the textile strike, with one man covering him with a machine gun, while another member of the four-man strong-arm squad beat him. The reason given, Groover said, was that he had been “agitating™ in favor of the union. Other beatings also took place, Groover- said, some of them after set- tlemept of the strike, while the armed squad’ roamed the countryside threat- ening persons suspected of connection with organized labor. The arms used, four Thompson sub- machine guns, were sold by Federal " (See LA FOLLETTE, Page A-2) Today’s Star Chest broadcast brings job offers to unemployed men. Page B-16 Real estate regulation bill given Senate D. C. Committee. Page C-1 FINANCIAL. Bonds hesitant (table). Trade pushes ahead. Freight loadings down. Steel leads stock rally (table). Curb list mixed (table). SPORTS. Nats’ rookies are displaying power at bat at Orlando. Page D-1 Eastern and Western quints battling for championship tonight. Page D-2 Capital athletes will be prominent in Baltimore indoor meet. Page D-2 Finance is a heavy favorite in Widener Cup race at Hialeah. Page D-3 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Washington Observations. Page A-10 Political Mill. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 Constantine Brown. Page A-11 Lemuel Porton. Page A-11 MISCELLANY. Wi Wayside. Vital Statistics. Young Washington. City News in Brief. Betsy Caswell. Page A-15 Page A-15 Page A-15 Page A-16 Page A-17 Page A-2 Page B-8 Page B-18 C-1 C-5 C-5 C-6 C-6 C-1 Dorothy Dix. ‘Winning Contract. T Terrorism under benevolent auspices | fore the La Follette committee today | death by a squad of Railway Audit & | TWO GIRLS SLAIN, MOTHER IS HELD Hammer Murders Commit- ted as Daughters Lay Asleep in Bed. BY the Associated Press. CLEARFIELD, Pa., March $.—Dis- trict Attorney Carl Belin today held the 41-year-old wife of a coal miner on a charge of beating her two daugh- ters to death with a hammer this morning. Belin said Mrs. M. Jennie Galley killed her daughters as they lay in bed in their one-story cottage at Hawkrun, Clearfield County. They were Virginia, 17, and Marie, 5. The mother, he said, waited until her husband, Turiaf Galley, and her son Gustov went to work, then hit the girls over the head “15 or 20 times” | and told a neighbor what she had done. Belin and Sheriff Clarence Ammer- man arrested the woman. The district attorney said he was convinced she was “a mental case” and that he would have a committee of physiciau: appointeqg to examine her. He stated: “She didn’t seem at all sorry about her act, didn't shed a tear, but she took her away. “She said she hit the older girl in the face with the hammer because she didn't want to spoil her new permanent wave.” ‘The district attorney added: “The mother told us that after she had hit the girls she stood and watched them slowly die. “She isn’t remorseful and explained that neighbors said her girls. were dumb in school, and she didn’} want the neighbors talking that way. She said she loved her girls very much and was afraid that some one would get them.” Bank Official Dies. PALM BEACH, Fla., March 5 (#).— ‘William A. Simonson, senior vice presi- dent and director of the National City Bank of New York, died today. Kk They do | The only Yesterday’s (UP) Means Associated Press. evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services, circulation, 144,173 (Some returns not yet receivad.) TWO CENTS. AUTO UNION READY WITH ULTIMATUM 10 CHRYSLER AS STEEL UNITS SPLIT SIBDTAGE CAE SETLENENT HT 148 U. S. Claimants Fight $22,000,000 Payments for ‘Black Tom’ Blasts. BY REX COLLIER. man reparations money at stake, a group of 48 American award holders | today opened a battle against proposed | settlement in that amount by the German-American Mixed Claims Com- | mission of the famous Black Tom- | Kingsland World War “sabotage” cases. A brief filed with the commission on behalf of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, the International Harvester With more than $22,000,000 of Ger- | Martin to Demand Motor Officials Recognize U. A. W. A. as Sole Bargaining Agency for Employes. A. F. OF L. AID ASKED IN PITTSBURGH FIGHT “Company Union” Faction Urges Green to Provide Active Assist- ance in Organizing Workers Op- posed to C. I. 0.—Drive in Shoe Industry Draws Fire. BACKGROUND— Plans of John L. Lewis’ Commit- tee for Industrial Organization to organize all workers in each mass- production industry into ome large union, regardless of the work they do, has been opposed strenuously by American Federation of Labor, traditionally in favor of organiza- tion by craft. United Mine Workers, of which Lewis is president, and nine othe C. I. O. unions were suspended, but not expelled, last year from A. F. of L. for “insurrection.” BY the Associated Press. | Homer Martin, president of ‘the | United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica, announced in Detroit today the union will present an “ultimatum™ to Chrysler Corp. officials this afternoon. | demanding an immediate answer to a request for recognition as sole bar- gaining agency for the automobile producer’s 67,000 employes. * Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, employe Trepresentatives, claiming to represent 50,000 workers of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., appealed to President William Green of the American Fed- eration of Labor to help them fight John L. Lewis’ Committee for Indus- trial Organization. The representatives voted to drop Co,, the Singer Manufacturing Co. and | their present form of collective bar- other reparations claimants chal-| gaining and" telegraphed Green for wanted to kiss the bodies before we | | lenges the legality of a tentative agree- ment approved by Robert W. Bonynge, American agent before the commission. Permission to intervene in opposition to the settlement is asked. Roland 8. Morris, former Ambassa- dor to Japan and now professor of in- ternational law at the University of Pennsylvania, points out on behalf of the award holders that the suggested settlement would surrender the only available reparations money to claim- ! tage in the New Jersey munitions ex- plosions have never been proved. Blasts Destroyed Munitions. The claimants in the sabotage cases are the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. the agency of the Canadian Car & Foundry Co., and some 50 insurance companies, all of whom seek damages | as a result of the “sabotage” explosions at the Black Tom, N. J., terminal of the railroad company and at the Kingsland, N. J., plant of the foundry. Four persons were killed, many per- sons injured and more than 300 car- loads of ammunition destroyed in the explosions, the first of which occurred January 11, 1916, at Kingsland, and the second on July 29, 1917, at Black Tom. The American Government, acting on behalf of the claimants, charged the explosions were the deliberate work of German spies. Reams of evidence were introduced seeking to prove that German agents were con- | ducting a campaign of sabotage in this | country at the time of the New Jer- | sey explosions. Germany produced trunkfuls of documents to disprove the charges. The cases were first settled in fa- ing was granted when the United States produced a workman at whose (Sec SABOTAGE, Page A-3) DOG AIDS BURGLAR Trained to Bark Twice if Police- man Appears. BUDAPEST, March § (#).—Tlona Serfoezoe told police today her dog, which barked once when he sighted a civilian and twice when a police- man was coming, should really have credit for the 30 burglaries she con- fessed. If the job seemed difficult, she ex- plained, she even let the dog climb through open apartment windows and carry things down while she watched outside. 1937 Cost of War Ma- chine Mounts to $1,348,695,000. BY the Associated Press LONDON, March 5—The British air force today disclosed its plan to defend London from air attack by a cage of steel cables in asking Parlia- ment for appropriations that would boost the total 1937 cost of Britain's war machine to £269,739,000 ($1,348,- 695,000). The air ministry announced its ex- pense estimates for the current year would reach £82,500,000 ($412,500,- 000) or more than double the amount asked for last year. The Royal Air Force, Viscount Swinton, secretary of state for air, announced, would be increased to 170,000 officers and men with a first- "(Bee LONDON, Fage A ? London Plans Air Raid Defense| By Cage of Steel Cables in Sky < | | “Balloon Barrage” Held Good Defense Against Air Raids By tbe Associated Press. | LONDON, March 5—Military | | experts today stressed the “bal- loon barrage” as one of the most efficient of modern Wweapons | | against an attacking airplane fleet. 4 | The balloon barrage consists of | | & series of kite balloons which 1 support steel cables. From the cables hangs a screen of wires. Any contact with these wires, however slight, is said to be enough to wreck an airplane or cause a pilot to lose control of his machine. The idea was tested, with suc- cess, at Paris during the World War. ants whose charges of German sabo- | vor of Germany in 1932, but a rehear- | counsel and advice on reorganization of the so-called “company union." Leaving a conference with Chrysler officials, Martin said: | “The corperation is face to face with | the question of whether it will or will not recognize the union as the sole collective bargaining agency. “There will be no dodging or post- ponement of this issue. This is a union ultimatum.” | He added that the ultimatum had not been presented in the morning meeting, but that he expected an answer “one way or the other” this afternoon. The action of the Carnegie-Tllinois (See LABOR, Page A-2) | | 'WOMAN ASSAULTED IN CHEVY CHASE | Hold-up Man Sought by County Police After Attack Near Leland School. By a Staft Corresponcent ot The Stae. BETHESDA, Md., March 5—A white man who made a criminal at- tack on his victim last night after robbing her of her purse, near the Leland Junior High School, was be- ing sought by Montgomery County Police today. Police were reticent about revealing details, but admitted that plaster casts | of footprints found in the vicinity | where it occurred, the 6700 block of | Forty-fourth street, in the center of | the Chevy Chase residential area, were made this morning. | The victim, a young matron, 24, who lives in Chevy Chase, not far from the scene of the attack, told po- lice she was on her way home last night about 10:30 o'clock, when a man came up behind her and demanded her pocketbook. He said: “Put 'em up, sister; stick-up.” ‘The young woman drew away a few feet and threw her purse toward him. The man, whose face was masked with a white handkerchief, but whom she said was white, picked up the pocket- book and then ordered her to walk around to a vacant lot behind a nearby house, where the attack took place, she reported. Later the man fled with the purse. Detective Sergt. Theodore Vollten of the county police and officer Jack Berry have been placed in charge of the investigation. Woman of 110 Belle at Frolic Of Florida Club Modern Dress Cred- ited by 105-Year- Old for “Youth.” By the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla,, March 5. —Mrs. Martha Weeks, 110, is looking younger than ever, Charles W. El- dridge, 105, said at the frolic of the Three Quarter Century Club. “I guess it's because she’s dressing more modern,” said Eldridge, at the annual Winter event, attended by 10,000 Mrs. Weeks, a resident of Lithia, near Tampa, was honor guest. Until a year ago she did her own house- work. but now her neighbors help out. She declined an inviation to spend the night as a guest of a local hotel. “I've got to go home and feed my hens,” she said. “They'll wonder where I am.” q this is a