Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forccast.) Fair and colder, tomorrow fair; gentle to moderate northerly winds today, be- coming gentle northeast or east tomor- - Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos row. p.m., yesterday; lowest, yesterday. Full report on Temperatures—Highest, 68, at 3 37, at 7 am. page B-10. (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,668—No. 33,913. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, U. S. AGENTS’ RAID BARES HUGE RACING BASE HERE SERVING INTERCITY RING ‘Jew Boy’ Dietz and Cahill Seized. HIJACKING OF NEWS CHARGED Nine Others Held in Office Build- ing Invasion. BY WILLIAM S. TARVER. ! A racing information service which went into some 100 Washington gam- bling places and extended its leased wire connections into Baltimore, New York and Montreal was uncovered Jast evening in a raid by Federal men and local authorities on a suite of yooms in the Albee Building which had been under surveillance for more than five months. | Taken in the raid, which was made | with unexpected suddenness about | 6:30 pm, were William (Jewboy) | Dietz. 34. and his alleged partner, ‘William Cahill, 40, reported successors “ to the gambling empire of Sam Beard Seven others were arrested, and one | of them later released. Two others. | who said they were employes of th2 Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co, came to police headquarters to be "booked. All but the man released were charged with conspiring to vio- late the gambling laws. Many volumes of recorded con- wversations, written down by secret | agents from tapped telephone wires. | led officials to estimate that Dietz was | interested in a large proportion of the gambling establishments which 100k his service, Tax Violations Probed. Present among the raiders were #gents of the Internal Revenue Bu- yeau's intelligence division, and guard- | ed statements of Federal officials fore- | cast intensive investigations looking | toward a number of prosecutions for | income tax violations. Since October the intelligence di- vision, the alcohol tax unit of the Treasury Department, United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett and care- fully selected police officers have worked quietly and effectively gather- ing evidence of ‘what they say was a | buge gambling conspiracy. The guiding spirit in the investiga- tion, so far as its gambling aspects are concerned, has been Garnett, | whose record for prosecution of gamblers has far surpassed any of his predecessors, Some months ago the management of th> Albee Building became suspi- cious that the eighth-floor rooms oc- cupied by Dietz and his associates were being illegally used and notified the tenants that their lease would not be renewed. 2 From information disclosed by both Jocal and Federal investigators, the | ring “hijacked” its news from legitimate racing service, whose wires it tapped somewhere between herei and Baltimore. Complained to Garnett. | The legitimate concern, Nation- | Wide News, formerly the General | News Service, had complained to| Garnett that its news was being pilfered. | From the tap, the service flowed | into a broadcast station, from wmch} it was sent to the Washington head- | quarters, Assistant United Siates At- torney Roger Robb stated. | | | The exact number of “customers” to whom it was re-broadcast could not be stated, but was estimated to be in the neighborhood of 100. From the headquarters, it went out over direct leased wires from a central | switchboard to auxiliary switchboards in other sections of the city. Inves- | tigators said they were sure there were at least five or six of the: uxiliary FEDERAL WORKER INJURED BY THUGS | Miss Mary Lacey Slugged by Col- | ‘ored Man in Robbery Attempt. Miss Mary Lacey, 28, a clerk at the Treasury Department, was severely injured shortly after midnight last night whén struck on the head with 2 blackjack by one of several celored men who attempted to rob her and a male companion as they sat in the latter's automobile in front of Miss Lacey's rooming house at 5379 Nevada avenue. The girl was treated at Emergency Hospital after police aid was sum- moned by E. J. Kleeman, 34, of 2008 Monroe street northeast, her com- panion at the time of the attack, She suffered painful scalp wounds as a result of having been struck several times with the weapon, but her con- dition was reported as not serious. Kleeman, an employe of the Uni- versal Credit Co., told police the attack came shortly after he and Miss Lacey had driven up in front of her rooming house. He said the three colored men approached on the side of the auto- mobile in which the Treasury cleck sat, opened the car door and sought to grab her purse. When Kleeman reached over and attempted to shove them away, one of the men swung the blackjack about four times, most of the blows landing on the girl's head. The colored men then ran to a waiting automobile and fled empty- handed when the girl screamed and her escort shouted for aid. Radio Proxra;m, I’Txe F-3. Complete Index, Page A-2 William (Jewboy) Little last night shortly after Dietz, right. talking to Licut. George his arrest in a gambling raid. —Star Staff Photo. 36 and Turns Back to Frisco Pier. By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, March 6—One of the fastest sea rescues in recent maritime history took place today when the big Dollar Liner President Coolidge collided with the Tanker Frank H. Buck in fog-choked Golden Gate Channel. Twenty minutes after the crash the Coolidge reported the rescue of all as the passenger ship turned |back toward her San Francisco pier. | Whether the Coolidge was seriously diately. 1,064 Lives Endangered. The shadow of disaster fitted momentarily through the lives of more than 1.000 persons as the ships met. Aboard the Coolidge were 678 pas- sengers and 350 crew members. bound for Honolulu and the Orient. The in- bound tanker had a crew of about 36. | North Shore San Franciscans heard the crash but could not see it because of the fog. Fishermen to the wind- ward of the collision did not even hear the sound. “The fog, she so thick you can cut her with knife,” yelled a fisherman from a nearby trawler. Workmen on the Golden Gate Bridge aboyt a mile away could not (See RESCUE, Page A-3.) MAN OF 330 POUNDS RESCUED FROM CAVE-IN | Buried to Neck 12 Hours While | Companions Work Digging Him Out of Coal Hole. By the Associated Press. SHAMOKIN, Pa., March 6—Res- | cued from tons of eartt and rock in| a mountain coal hole, 6-foot, 330- pound Willie Politis rejoiced with his buddies today because he twice escaped death within a few weeks. For more than 12 hours “Big Wil- lie” was buried to his neck in the improvised mine which he worked with companiofis, While his friends prayed for his rescue, Willie directed a foreman and 10 miners from a nearby colliery who worked with all their might and all sorts of equipment to free him. In midmorning they brought Politis out. He blinked, grinned and started for town. Three weeks ago “Big Willie” was entombed for a short time. Rescued, he went right back to the job. Yesterday, he was first to go into .the mine after a dynamite charge blasted anthracite for the loaders. around him and held him fast. LINER WITH 1,000 150.000W.P.A.CUT RAVSITUTANRG APPARS AVERTE President Coolidge Rescues Governors of Six States! Confer With President | for 31/ Hours. By the Associated Press A 150,000-man slash this month in Federal work-relief rolls appeared last night to have been averted by a con- ference between President Roosevelt | and six protesting Governors | Gov. Elmer A. Benson of Minnesota, one of the six who talked for three and a half hours with the President vesterday afternoon, said the effect | of the discussions would be a month’s | postponement of contemplated re- /hands from the apparently sinking | ductions. tanker, which settled rapidly by the |, Whether the cut should be made in | April will be studied in the interim. Prior to yesterday's conference, Harry L. Hopkins, the works progress | damaged was not determined imme- | administrator, had told a House Com- “mmee that continued recovery and | & good agricultural year would permit lopping 150,000 off W. P. A. rolls in March. He said at a recent press conference, however, that no arbitrary cuts would be made. The Governors—from New York. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Wiscon- | sin, Illinois and Minnesota—protested against any curtailment, contending the States, counties and cities already | 7 (See GOVERNORS, Page A-15.) . S KING RANCH RECEIVER PLEA UNDER ADVISEMENT 4-Year-Old Suit for Accounting on Nation's Largest Cattle Domain Near End. BY the Associated Press HOUSTON, Tex., March 6.—Federal Judge T. M. Kemmerly took under ad- visement today a plea by dissatisfled heirs to place the vast King ranch in the hands of a court-appointed re- ceiver. The four-year-old | tion's largest cattle by Edwin K. and Chicago. They asked an “accounting” by trustees for the 10 years after the ;dealh in 1925 of Mrs. Henrietta King, | widow of the Civil War blockade run- | ner, Capt. Richard King, who founded | the vast ranch. Thomas Fisher, their attorney, con- tended annuities in the form -of monthly payments of $250 to $300 due the Atwoods had been cut off two years ago. He said the properties are worth $6,000,000. suit over the Na- domain was filed Alice Atwood of Jail Visitors to Register. TROY, N. Y., March 6 (#).—Call- ers at the Rensselaer County Jail to- day were requested to sign a guest book. “It will permit the depart- visitors,” remarked Sheriff Alexan- Loosened rock and dirt showered down | der C. Dewar, inaugurating the new | | policy. 3 By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, March 6.—Mrs. Pranklin D. Roosevelt said today she hates guns, but carries one when she motors alone. Lecturing here on “A Day in the ‘White House,” she was ushered about New Orleans by an escort of two | armed city detectives, assigned by her | hosts—but not at her request. She explained she never has guards in New York or Washington, “where | everybody knows me.” “I go about just as anybody else,” she said. “However, when I travel there are usually special guards fur- | nished me. But they are not detailed at my request. I would much prefer to go without them.” In reply to a question, Mrs. Roose- velt said bodily harm ‘“never enters my mind.” “I do carry a pistol with me when I ride alone in my automobile,” she i added, “but only then.” “Can you use it?” a questioner asked. “Well,” she said with a smile, “I had the same training with s pistol “I Hate Guns,” Mrs. Roosevelt Says, but Carries One on Trips that the New York National Guard has. Certainly I can use it.” But a little later, she confided, “I hate guns.” Mrs. Roosevelt gave her lecture here opening a tour of six Southern and Southwestern States. Approximately 7,000 persons, mostly women, heard her speak in the municipal auditorium, where the late Senator Huey P. Long often swayed political audiences. In an official reception on the big stage, the President’s wife wore a wine-colored gown with a flowered hat and a short veil. . She told of her daily life and that | of Mr. Roosevelt in the White House. | She said she believed people were in- terested because the White House “be- longs to the people.” She left the auditorium in company with Gov Richard W. Leche for Baton Rouge to make another talk tonight. Shortly after her arrival here today she held a press conference and then talked with her son, Elliott Roosevelt, in Fort Worth, Tex., by telephone. She made arrangements {o meet him tomorrow at Huntsville, Tex. 3 | ment to keep a better check-up on | D. C, SUNDAY BURKE LAUNGHES NEW ASSALT N COURT PROPOSL President’s Program Called Diligently Cunning and Deceptive. RADIO ADDRESS FIRST REPLY TO DINNER PLEA T Hearings on Bill to Begin Wed- nesday Before Judiciary Com- mittee of Senate. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Describing the attack of President Roosevelt on the Supreme Court as a “diligent and surpassingly cunning and deceptive program to discredit” the court in the minds of the people, Senator Burke, Democrat. of Ne- braska, replied to the President’s Victory Dinner address over the radio last night. The Nebraska Senator, one of the leaders of the opposition to the Presicent’s plan to remake the Su- preme Court and its decisions, linked with Mr. Roosevelt's attack on the | court Harry L. Hopkins, head of the W. P. A. and chief relief adminis- | wator. “A subordinate of the President,” | Burke said, “charged with the dis- | bursement of billions of public funds | for the relief of our needy citizens, | tells them that a reactionary Supreme | Court may prevent future payments. | “They have sown the wind.” con= tinued Burke, referring to the Presi- dent and Hopkins. “They should not be surprised if now we reap the { whirlwind. Following each fresh attack. an increasing number of | | our people, whose need is great and | whose confdence in our chosen leadership is high, are responding: *‘We can't bave everything we . and as quickly as we want it, | because the courts stand in the way. The President says so. Hopkins says the same. Then why wait. Away with the courts! We will leave it all to the President.” | | “Disservice to Democracy.” Serator Burke insisted that ‘“no greater disservice was ever done to the cause of democracy” than that which may result from these attacks of the Chief Executive and his sup- porters on the Supreme Court. Burke's speech was the first to be made in answer to the President’s appea! to the people and to the Democratic party to sustain him in his fight to have enacted into law the court bill which would give to the President authority to appoint a maximum of six new Justices of the Supreme Court. While Burke was assailing the Presi- dent’s court bill, Representative Flan- nagan, Democrat of Virginia, spoke in support of the measure. “You cannot,” he said, “destroy the national conscience by a judicial fiat. | This was attempted by a divided court in the Dred Scott case. You know the result. The people overruled a Supreme Court decision by force of arms. With this experience of the past like a red light flashing its warn- ing, shall we again permit four or five judges, who are out of joint with our | social and economic growth, to again | embroil us in trouble?” | Representative Rankin, Democrat | | of Mississippi, who also is supporting the President, tackled the problem from a new angle. He said he would introduce a proposed constitutional amendment to limit the terms of judges. He added that he expected quick and favorable action on it. | Senator Copeland, Democrat of | New York, opposing the President's | program, issued a statement replying | to the Chief Executive’s suggestion that the Supreme Court decisions had cast doubt over flood-control legis- lation. Paraphrasing Mr. Roosevelt's words in his victory dinner speech, Cope- | land said “when sweating men, pil- ing sandbags on the levee at Cario, | find time to study this question™ they will find that failure for flood con- trol was “not the fault of the Su- preme Court” but of “the President’s (See LINCOLN, Page A-12.) wnd WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION MORNING, MARCH 17, y Star 1937—124 PAGES. Every & FIVE CENTS Sunday Morning and Afternoon. TEN CEN AND HE MENTIONED | 047 500000 BUDGET AGREEDONFORD. New Taxes Studied by Com- | mittee—Gas Levy In- crease Likely. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Irrespective of the outcome of the Jacobs fiscal relations report, people who live in the District are facing an increase in taxes in the coming fiscal year—additional taxes and substitute taxes Members of the House Subcommit- tee on Appropriations, who are fram- ing the 1938 District supply bill. made that prediction last night as they struggled with the problem of trying to balance a $47.500.000 budget that is expected to be in excess of $11.- 000.000 in arrears. Several plans are under serious consideration for meeting the $11.- 000.000 deficit. All of them involve tapping potential new sources of rev- enue or increasing existing taxes and fees—plans proposed about five years ago by the special Mapes Committee of the House, and more recently by J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency engi- neer, who directed the latest study of fiscal relationship between the Fed- eral and District Governments The subcommittee has virtually de- cided not to make any cuts in the $47.500,000 total carried in the bud- get, although there are expected to be numerous reallocations in items. Because of this-fact, it has been con- fronted with the problem of finding ways of making up the deficit. al- ready higher than originally antici- pated because of increased costs of construction for projects already authorized. Special Revenue Bills. ‘The appropriation bill itself. under House rules, cannot contain legislation to raise the additional revenue, and for that reason the subcommittee is con- sidering an unusual step. As a sub- committee it proposes to sponsor spe- cial revenue bills, primarily for the purpose of giving its indorsement and co-operation to similar measures now before the District Legislative Commit- tee of the House. Indications are the subcommittee, in the revenue bills it plans to write, will call for an increase in the gasoline tax from 2 to 4 cents a gallon. a weight tax on motor vehicles, an in- (See TAXES, Page A-9.) e L 502 Bitten by Mad Dogs. SANTIAGO, Chile, March 6 (#).— ‘The Bacteriological Institute of Chile reported tonight that 502 persons have | been bitten by mad dogs in Santiago since January 1. $500,000 in Op On British Ship in New York ium Is Seized By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 6.—A raiding party of more than 60 Federal and city officers seized 600 tins of opium. of a value estimated officially as high as $500,000, aboard the British freighter Taybank early today. Eight men, including Oriental crew members and supposed land contact men, were taken into custody. A ship’s officer, Roland R. C. Jones, aided in examination of the prisoners, and Gregory O'Keefe, assistant port collector, emphasized no suspicion was attached to the officer. O’Keefe, saying the Treasury De- partment placed a value of $25 an ounce on pure opium, called it “the | most important seizure ever made in | an American port.” Hidden in After Hold. ‘The opium, contained in 600 brass cans in six bags, four of them osten- sibly for potatoes, one for rice and another for sugar, was hidden in the ‘Taybank’s after hold among the reg- ular supplies of paint, sawdust and Tope. Customs agents three months ago were informed, they said, that big supplies of opium were moving out of China. Since then, every ship from Oriental ports, including the Taybank, has been under surveillance. The inspectors closed in on the Taybank as she prepared to take on ! | Eight Arrested After Raid by U. S. Agents Include Oriental Members of Crew and Alleged Land ‘Contact Men — Gang Held Smashed. the last of her cargo before nilin‘g.‘ They struck at the ship, at the piers where the opium was to be unloaded and at the suspected headquarters of the Manhattan outlet for the nar- cotics. Delivery Slip Reported Found. Two. of the prisoners, one taken from the ship and the other arrested ashore, were said by the agents to have had in their possession the torn halves of a Chinese delivery slip. When fitted together, they said, the two pieces insured the delivery of the contraband to the right per- son. One half was alleged to have been found on the person of the ship's Chinese carpenter, Ah Man. The other, agents said, was found on Willie Bonanzi, descried as & Brooklyn bookmaker. To Be Arraigned Tomorrow. Other prisoners were identified as Dominic Buda and his brother, Tizio, East River boatmen; Sam C. H. Rosip, Malay storekeeper aboard the ship, and A. C. Gam, Malay second boatswain. They will be arraigned Monday. The Taybank, a small steamer of slightly more than 5,000 tons, which arrived recently from China, Singa- pore and the Straits Settlements, was (Ses OPIUM, Page A-9.) | Man Surrenders | ToShow Wife His Innocence Unable to Convince Her He Is Not a Bigamist. he Associated Press. CINCINNATI. March 6.—Thomas Gilliland, 39. an engineer, walked into central police station today and asked that he be held until he could prove to his wife Ethel that he had not been married before. “My wife believes I'm a bigamist and that I'm wanted for murder, Giliiland told Lieut. George Peargy. “I can’t convince her I'm innocent I told her I would surrender to police to prove I'm guiltless.” The difficulty started. Gilliland said, when his wife saw his picture in & detective magazine. The story told of a murder mystery at Granite City, IIl. in 1921, in which Gilliland was charged with killing his wife “I was innocent, but couldn't get any one to believe me,” he said. I wasn’'t even married " The mix-up resulted. he said. from the fact a girl with whom he had kept company had gone to Cincinnati to work about the time a ‘woman's body was found in a wheat field There, Gilliland said. Chief Roy Clark of Granite City finally found her and “brought her back to prove my inno- cence.” Later, he said. the body that had been erroneously identified as that of his girl friend was identified as that of another woman. Her slayer was captured and convicted, Gilliland said The magazine story told how the mystery was solved. Gilliland said. but did not say Gilliland had never been married Detective Chief Emmett D. Kirgan wired police of Granite City, and as- sured Gilliland he would be released i B015 SSCHUN KILLED GIRL OF 4 Struck Child With Brick and Rolled Body Into Stream, Sheriff Is Told. | By the Associated Press ‘ WINDSOR., Vi, March 6—State's Attorney Albion Parker tonight re- | ported a 5-year-old boy had informed him that another boy “just a few years | older.” hit tiny Beverly Ann Page with “a piece of a brick, knock her out” and rolled her into the shallow mill stream where her body was found yes- terday. Parker said the older boy denied the other youngster's charges after being questioned for an hour. The sheriff did not identify either of the boys, nor | would he divulge the exact age of the older boy. Both boys. he reported. had been allowed to go home after ques- B! J FEDERATION ASKS | RED RIDER REPEAL | Citizens Vote 42-35 Against ‘ Act and Spurn Sub- stitute. Outright repeal of the “red rider” was urged last night by the Federation of Citizens' Associations following a debate of two hours and one half. The vote was 42 to 35. Attached to the resolution, presented by Harry S. Wender of the Southwest Citizens' Association, was the state- ment that “The federation declares its unalterable opposition to communism and all other subversive doctrines.” The Wender motion was adopted as a substitute to one by George E. Sulli- van. chairman of the federation's spe- cial committee on subversive teachings, who asked the federation to favor adoption of the McCormack action by the House, which modifies the “red rider.” Immediately after the Wender mo- tion carried. Sullivan arose to an- nounce he was resigning from “any and all offices and positigns in the federation™ and would attend no more of its meetings. | ‘There were several cries of “Good!” from the delegates, but William McK Clayton of the Brightwood Associa- tion pleaded with Sullivan to with- hold his decision until the next meeting. Sullivan replied: “No, I'm abso- lutely through, and that goes for my own association as well.” He is a delegate from the Citizens’ Associa- tion of Takoma. Fight Made for Substitute. The action came after a determined | fight between opponents and pro- ponents of the red rider and the | McCormack substitute, which has been termed the “pink rider.” It was the second successive session of the federation that has been devoted al- most exclusively to the controversy. At the last meeting, a majority of the federation voted to discharge the Sullivan Committee “on Subversive Doctrines, but the vote was nullified by a ruling that a two-thirds majority was necessary to discharge & commit- | tee which had not submitted a final report. | The issue then was carried over to last night's meeting and was brought to the floor through a report by Sul- livan on the work of his committee. He moved that the federation indorse | the McCormhack amendment to the red | rider and declare its opposition to | enactment of the proposal of Represen- | tative Kennedy of Maryland for out- right repeal of the rider. | Sullivan's report declared repeal of | the red rider would be “heralded as (See RED RIDER, Page A-2) 400 GERMANS FREED J President of Czechoslovakia Lib- erates Political Offenders. | PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, March 6 | tioning. (®).—President Eduard Benes lib- The 5-eyar-old boy told his smry,‘ erated 400 Germans imprisoned for Parker reported, while sitting on the | Political offenses today in an amnesty knee of Sheriff Ernest Schoenfeld in | decree commemorating the 87th birth- the office of Police Chief John Edmund. | day of former President T. G. Ma- Parker's announcement came a few | sarvk. hours after Schoenfeld left a confer-| However, it was announced at the ence of investigators to declare: | same time that eight youths, members We know those responsible and ex- | of the outlawed Nazi party. had been pect to have them in custody shortly.” | sentenced to terms up to 15 years for “ » military treason. Called “Gang;of Dellson - Al ngm are students from Ger- Earlier another official asserted “& | ;.ni; sections of the republic who had | gang of young hellions” were being| .. stydying in Praha. questioned concerning 4-year-old Bev- erly’s death. After an autopsy today, Schoenfeld said the little girl's brutal death was a case of “murder by drown- ing.” Parker asserted tonight the 5-year- old boy told him that while Beverly "7 (See SLAYING, Page A-4) Locomeotives Required to Free Youth Pinned by Water Pipes BY the Associated Press. ‘the great pipes. Charity Hospital NEW ORLEANS, March 6.—Rich- | physicians were summoned. They ad- ard Leo Hymes, 20, of Beardstown, | ministered hypodermics to relieve I, arrived in New Orleans today Hymes' suffering. asleep in one of several 800-pound | Finaly it was decided to couple a water pipes loaded on a railroad | locomotive on each end of the train freight ca and Jolt the cars. This worked on the In the yards he crawled out. stood | second attempt. The pipes shifted. and yawned. There was a switching | Hymes was removed and taken to the jolt. The pipes shifted and pinned | hospital. him tight. Physcians said he suffered severe Trainmen heard his cries, but every | internal injuries, but probably would svailable man was unable to budge ' recover. _—————————— Two Trainmen Die in Wreck. WAPAKONETA, Ohio, March 6 (#P).—Two trainmen were killed late today when a Nickel Plate freight train jfhped an open switch at St. Marys and overturned. STEEL PAY RAISE 1S MADE GENERAL A. . L. ALUMINU UNITBOLTSTOCO. New Order of Carnegie-llli- nois Gives Flat 10¢ Hourly Increase to 110,000 of Its Skilled Workers. GREEN FORCES PONDER BOYCOTT AS REPRISAL Firestone Closes Plants “Until Further Notice"—Three “Sit- Down"” Strikes in Auto Parts Firms at Detroit Are Ended by Agreements. BACKGROUND— Last week was hailed by labor leaders in the United States as one of the most important in the his- tory of unionization. The leading steel companies, threatened with a strike, announced higher pay shorter hours, union recognition General Motors negotiations pro- gressed: Chrysler agreed to nego- tiate; smaller industries, taking cue Jrom steel and motors, reached agreements with workers, ending strikes. Meanuhile, attention turned to role of John L. Lewts, whose Com- mittee for Industrial Organization has been spearhead in new fight jor labor, and his relations with the American Federation of Labor Lewis' unions were suspended by the A. F. of L. last Fall and there has been no sign of peace as C. I. 0. has swung into action in recent weeks. Labor, despite gains, is still split. BY the Associated Press. “Big steel” announced a wage crease for thousands of its and semi-skilled workmen yest while labor disputes tied up duction in various other ind: in scattered districts. Carnegie-Tllinois Steel Corp.. the biggest subsidiary of the United States Steel Corp., disclosed the new iled day pro- | wage hike, a flat 10 cents an hour, to be effective March 16. It said would apply to the higher work: ciasses—hourly, tonnage and piece- work emploves—and would benefit about 93 per cent of the company's 120,000 employes. This is about 110,« 000 workers. Earlier in the week, the company | announced a 10 cents an hour ine crease and a 40-hour week for come mon labor Meantime. competition for labor's leadership became more acute as a union in the aluminum industry bolted the American Federation of Labor, led by William Green, and swung its allegiance to John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organizae tion. It was a new gain for Lewis, whose position already had been strength- ened during the week by recognition from ranking producers in the steel and electrical industries. A. F. L. Considers Reprisal. But Green's forces were not idle. Craft union leaders opposed to Lewi “vertical” organization program ind: cated they were considering several methods of reprisal. One was a boy- cott of capital goods produced by C. I. O. members. Another was refusal to recognize the Lewis label on consumer goods. Also considered were proposals for organizing rival unions The Firestone Tire & Rubber at Akron, Ohio, closed its i til further notice™ after U ‘Workers voted not to work until the company recognizes the union as the sole collective bargaining agent for its 10.000 production workers The rubber workers, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organi= zation, adopted their ultimatum in a three-point resolution that included also abolition of the employes’ con= ference plan, termed a ‘“‘company union,” and a demand for agreement by the company “to incorporate & settlement in a signed agreement (See LABOR, Page A-5.) FIRE KILLS 3 CHILDREN Trio Die in Beds While Mother Is Absent for Water. BARRE, Vt., March 6 (#.—Three children were burned to death in ther beds today while their mother was absent on a houschold errand and the father was at work. The three victims, all under five years of age, were children of Mr. and Mrs. George Farnham Mrs, Farnham haddeft the house to get a pail of water and returned to find her tiny home in flames. Another child apparently missed death because he was sent to a store on an errand. BOYS and GIRLS Do you want to know what other Washington boys and girls are doing? Each week TR S bl o ke and pictures of the work and play, the hobbies and pastimes of the young people in the Nation's Capital in a page designed especially for you. —e TURN TO IT TODAY and follow it each Sunday On Page F.7 Co.