Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1937, Page 3

BAY STATE BUYING OF VOTES CHARGED Money Paid Democrats as G. 0. P. Swapped Favors, Is Charge. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 8 —Prominent po- litical leaders charged today that money was circulated at the Demo- cratic State convention a year ago for the votes of delegates and that “there was & mad juggling of votes and a swapping of favors at the last Re- publican convention.” State Auditor Thomas H. Buckley, Democrat, told the Legislative Com- mittee on Elections today that money was circulated at the Democratic con- vention for the votes of delegates and said “there was a general impression that delegates were bought and paid for to keep them in line.” Buckley spoke in favor of a bill to @bolish the pre-primary party con- ventions which held sessions in 1924 and 1936. Representative Philip G. Bowker, Republican, mad juggling of votes and a swapping of favors at the last Republican on- vention in Springfield.” “There were many things which happened at that last convention that would cause the people, had they known, to raise a cry of indignation throughout this commonwealth in favor of repeal of the pre-primary convention.” he said Buckley said: “It is a strong indict- ment of the political system of the commonwealth when delegates have their hotel rooms, wages and eating | expenses paid for, including other in- cidentals such as liquor and telephone <ails.” State Representative Timothy Murphy, Democrat, the way the pre-primary convention was manipulated a disgrace to the State Another Democratic representative, Thomas E. Barry, of Boston, termed the convention “a farce.” PEDESTRIAN CONTROL PLAN BEFORE BROWN System Proposed by Capt. Smith Said to Be Success in Some Cities. Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown had | before him today a plan for pedes- | trian control in the downtown area fubmitted by Capt. Milton D. Smith, traffic division commander. Maj. Brown said he was not certain when he would be able to study the plan and accompanying data, relative | to practices in other cities. Similar material was sent to Traffic Director | struggle for supremacy in a half dozen | | were made idle by the closing of the | W, tion. Under Capt. Smith’s plan pedes- trians walking against traffic lights would be “ticketed” Such a system has been successfully set up in In- dianapolis and elsewhere. m A. Van Duzer for considera- | LABOR HOUSING LEAGUE TO BE TALKED TONIGHT | City-Wide Conference Sponsored by Central Union—40 Units to Be Represented. A proposal to establish a Labor Housing League in the interest of “favorable renting and housing legis- | lation” will be discussed tonight at a city-wide labor conference sponsored | by the Washington Central Labor | Union at the Typographical Temple. More than 40 unions will have dele- | gates at the conference, according to Harry J. Thompson, chairman of the | Central Labor Union's Rent Com- | mittee. “Only through the united and per- sistent efforts of organized labor can we remedy the unfair increase of rentals, inadequate sanitation and fire | regulations and the enormous number of sub-standard houses,” he said. LOST. Bro leather ci ave. uebec st.. Saturday. Call Wisconsin BILLFOLD—Black. sum of monev and identificaty papers: Friday night or Sat- llr"]n Lhrm reward. John P. Rice. 805 A st. se i e BILLFOLD—Brown engraved Schaefer.”” _Call North 6320-J. DOG-—Larze bulldoz. brind| and white, bobbed Reward. 1509 H st. ne. “Karl E. male. at Langley. Va. Notify Spanish Store, Decatur old dove: in National Beauty 13th st. n.w. Reward. At- o* EARRING—Diamond and pearl: day_afternoon. between May Stoneleigh Court. Reward. Apt Tost Sun- wer “and 7. May- | FUR PIECE — Leibster label. 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A “BARGAIN ROOF” —is rarely any good. A roof of certain type is worth so much money.. If you pay less some one will be huri. Guess who i will be?. Tl M OONS 530, ‘COMPANY, 25 years' North 4423, declared, “There was a 3. of Boston, called | | | Mich., made unsafe by a recent ruins u‘z{h a thundering roar. pled while a crowd watched. The 100-foot steeple on the First Baptist Church at Ypsilanti, The structure is shown as it top- THE EVENING Church Landmark Goes fire, is brought down among the —Copyright, A P. erephoto. Labor (Continued From First Page.) members as a leader of non-union ac- tivities. A rompanv official said 35 union men “sat down” at their places when | the non-union workman to whose pres- | ence they objected appeared for work | | this morning. He said non-union em- | ployes threatened to stop work if the | man were discharged or transferred and that the plant was closed until the differences could be settled. Union Chiefs Gather Here. . Organized labor's rival factions de- | vised their strategy today for mem- | bership campaigns which will bring a industries. | Fifty organizers, seasoned by long- ! time service, gathered here to advise | with William Green, president of the | American Federation of Labor, on | strengthening their organizations in | the aluminum, cement, cereal, gasoline station and agricultural industries. Attention of John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization centered on a campaign to bring more than 1,000,000 textile mill employes | into the United Textile Workers r Regional officials of the U. T. W. discussed this campaign today, pre- liminary to a C. I. O. meeting tomor- row. One possibility considered was use of the sit-down strike in demand- ing higher wages, a reduced work load and recognition of the union. Green said his meeting had no con- | | nection with the organization cam- | paign of Lewis’ committee, but in both | | the aluminum and gasoline station | drives the federation faces opposition | from the C. L. O. | Signs of Break. Already there have been signs of disaffection among the aluminum | workers affiliated with the federation. The New Kensington, Pa., local, voted | last week to call a national convention to consider affiliating with Lewis’ com- mittee. The textile workers’ drive will take | the C. I. O. into the second phase of its long-range program. sociates had pointed every effort toward winning what organized labor a wage and hour agreement in the steel industry. This was virtually realized when Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., largest United States Steel subsidiary, signed a contract last week with the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, al- lied with the C. I. O. The United Textiles Workers, a Lewis union, started an organization campaign in 1933 when the N. R. A. gave an impetus to unionization throughout the country. Hundreds of new locals were established. The union membership rolls grew by leaps and bounds. Strike Results Disastrous. The Nation-wide textile strike in the Autumn of 1934, however, proved | disastrous to the union. Many new members drifted away, and sproradic organization campaigns since have proved only partially successful. Lewis now intends to throw all the | financial resources and moral sup- | port of his committee to a new Na- tion-wide textile organization drive. Francis J. Gorman, president of the textile workers, will be in command of the campaign. He will work with Lewis and- Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and one of Lewis' lieutenants in the C. IO Lewis intends to send hundreds of organizers into textitle centers scat- tered throughout the country. The campaign will center in New Englund and Southern textile States. Labor men espect the fight between Lewis and the American Federation of Labor to be manifest throughout the textile drive. The federation re- cently chartered a small spinners’ union, previously independent. The United Textile Workers claim the spinners’ territory. The machinists, headed by Arthur ©O. Wharton, a bitter foe of Lewis, also claim the right to enroll machine fixers in the textile mills. The Lewis union will insist that all textile mill employes go into one big union, open- ing the way for another . C. 1. O. leaders claimed several vic- 2020 M ST. Let Haley's Do It N.W. iln ! rival | Until last week, Lewis and his as- | had found impossible for 30 years— | tories over the week end, including: 1. The defection of the Aluminam | ‘Workers' Union’s largest unit, at the New Kensington. Pa. plant of the Aluminum Co. of America, from the A. F of L. ranks. 2. Recognition of a C. I. O. affiliate as bargaining agency for its members | |«employed at the Braeburn Alloys Steel | Co.. Pittsburgh, ending a strike of 300 | | workers. 3. The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.’s recognition of a C. 1. O. affiliate as the bargaining | agency for the union’s members. Meanwhile strikes harassed scores of business and industrial establish- | | ments on the wide front. ‘ At Akron, Ohio, 10,000 employes of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., uho' factory last week, waited for an agree- ment between company officials and representatives of the United Rubber Workers of America. The union | claimed approximately 8,000 workers | as members and demanded it be rec- ognized as their bargaining agency. Strikers at the Bethlehem Steel Corp.’s Lebanon (Pa.) plant voted de- | mands that the C. I. O. be recognized | as their bargaining agency and that the company institute a minimum wage of $5 a day. 1,200 Return to Work. Some 1200 employes of the Bohn Aluminum & Bross Co. returned to| work at Detroit pending settlement of a sit-down strike. Agreements over | | the week end ended strikes at the | following Detroit auto parts com- | panies: Detroit Stamping Co., Zenith | Carburetor Co., Timkin-Detroit Axle | Co.. and O. & S. Bearing Co. A C. I. O. fleld director said at Newark, N. J. the union will seek a contract with the Crucible Steel | Co., employing approximately 7,000 workers. The C. I. O. last week signed a contract with the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. Special police squads roved the | downtown and adjacent districts of | Chicago, intent upon preventing vio: lence in the strike that has crippled | | taxicab transportation. Few Yellow | Cabs and virtually no Checker ma- chines were seen on Chicago streets. | Striking drivers, who demanded wage and other concessions, organized a | union designed as a C. I. O. affiliate. | Negotiations between General Mo- tors Corp. and the United Automo- bile Workers of America, which opened five days after the widespread strikes were settled February 11, approached a conclusion today. The conferees have reached tenta- tive agreements upon all issues not | composed in the strike settlement, but | one and, when they recessed for the | week end, they said it was possible they would sign final terms today. The one question still before the | conference was the union's demand for & national minimum hourly wage. P s | FATHER OF 38 92-Year-Old Negro Has Child by Second Wife. BROOKSVILLE, Fla, March 8 (#).—Ambrose Hilliard Douglas, 92- year-old Negro, became a father for the thirty-eighth time when his wife Minnie, presented him with a 7-pound girl last night. It is her thirteenth child. Douglas’ first wife, now dead, had 25 children. The Hernando County Welfare Board presented the newest infant with a complete layette. 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During testimony by representatives of farm organizations from a dozen States indorsing the Pope crop insur- ance bill Senator McGill, Democrat, of Kansas said: “We mustn't mislead the farmers about what this bill will do. “We should take into consideration whether the Supreme Court will de- clare this bill and all others like it unconstitutional.” McGill, ance, added: “We're leading the farm- ers to believe we're going to put all this into effect, when, as a matter of fact, we probably won't.” Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho, author of the bill under consideration by the committee, commented: “We must admit frankly there is very grave doubt whether the Supreme Court will find this program consti- tutional.” He said this was true despite the exercise of great care in drawing the bill. C. C. Talbot of Jamestown. N. Dak., president of the Farmers' Union of | North Dakota, led off a list of farm leaders who testified for the Pope bill. SCHWARTZ ESTATE VALUED AT $150,500 Petition for Will Probate Filed. Bulk Left in Trust for Widow's Benefit. Charles Schwartz, Washington jew- | left an estate valued at $150,500, it was revealed in District Court today when a petition for probate of his will was filed The bulk of the estate was left in trust for the benefit of his wido Mrs. Dora K. Schwartz, 2419 Cal At her death the trust fund will be turned over to the jeweler's son | | and daughter-in-law, Samuel T. and | Eugenia L. Schwartz, who are named‘ as trustees. Mr. Schwartz’s interest in the firm of Charles Schwartz & Son was valued at $125,000. Bequests of $500 each were mnde to the Hebrew Home for the Aged, the Jewish Foster Home and the Jew- ish Consumptive Relief Association. | Mrs. Dora Schwartz was given $5,000 | outright. TRANS-LUX THEATER | To Press Key Turning on Lights | | for Benefit Performance Friday Night. Vice President Garner will partici- | pate in the formal opening Friday | night of the new Trans-Lux Theater, it was announced today by officials of the Newspaper Women's Club, which is sponsoring the ceremonies. From his suite in the Washington Hotel, the Vice President will press a key that will turn on the lights in ths theater. The ceremony will be wit- nessed by Margaret Hart, presideat | of the club: Roland Robbins, manager | of the theater, and Katherine Brooks, chairman of arrangements for the benefit. Proceeds from the affair will be used to aid the club’'s work in Chil- dren’s Hospital and for the main- | tenance of its fellowship fund. The ceremonies will take place at 9 p.m. | before an audience which will include | overnment officials, members of th: | diplomatic corps and other prominent | residents of Washington. Because of the limited seating capacity, no tickets will be sold at the theater. The few remaining tiskets | may be obtained from Miss Margaret | Germond, club treasurer, at The Star. SEE US IEFOIE YOU CLOSE ANY DEAL r Plymouth MID-GiTY Au'ro ¢o. Washingtows Oldest De soto and Blymouin Deater 1711 14th St. N.W. an advocate of crop insur- |~ eler, who died February 16 in Miami, 'S Including Shampoo Shoreham Bldg, I5th & H M. V. Schafer, ME. 8760 Lumber nd Millwork 2121 Ga. Ave. NOrth 1331 D. C, MONDAY, CARROLL PIERCE, BANKER, I3 DEAD Alexandria Financier Was Victim of Alleged Extor- tion Plot Last Year. Br a Staff Corresgondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 8— Carroll Pierce, 64, prominent banker and one time Mayor of Alexandria, died yesterday at his home, 113 North | Alfred street, after an illness of nearly two months. Mr. Pierce had been troubled with a lingering ailment for several years,} but had been confined to his home only seven weeks, members of the family said today. Six months ago he was the vicum of an alleged extortion plot which | resulted in the arrest by Washmgwn‘. authorities of a wom? and a man on charges of conspiring to blackmail. Mr. Pierce, who was president of the Citizens’ National Bank o' Alex- andria, wa. born in Rectortown, Va., on December 11, 1872, the son of the late Zachary Taylor Pierce and Mrs. Ann Bowdell Pierce. He was educated in the public schools of Fauquier County and at William and Mary College and taught in the schools of Loudoun County for several years following his grad- uation from the college at Williams- burg. He then entered the Loudoun Na- MARCH 8, ibrflught to trial despite Mr. Pierce’s tional Bank and was employed for | several yvears as a clerk. He entered the Citizens' National Bank as a cor- responding clerk in 1904 and was promoted to assistant cashier in 1905, then to the office of cashier and vice president in 1907, and finally to the | position of president in 1925. Mr. Pierce at one time was Mayor of this city and was a former presi- | dent and director of the Chamber | of Commerce and one of the organizers | and a past president of the Kiwanis | Club. He was likewise prominent in bank- ing affairs and formerly was a mem- ber of the Executive Councils of the | There's Nothing Like Having 8 = | GOOD ROOF It your roof leaks have our ex- pert men repair it and saw money. % FERGUSON 3831 Ga. Ave. £ 1 ' 2 COL 0567 Optometrists 608 13th N.W. Between F and G N.W. 1937. American Institute of Banking and the American Bankers’ Association. He was a past president of the Vir- ginia Bankers’ Association also. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ellen G. Pierce; three sons, Chester. G., Carroll, jr., and Edwin H. Pierce; four sisters, Miss Mary D. Pierce of Farm- ville, Va.: Mrs. Delia Ross of Alexan- dria, Mrs. Hattie Grasty of Orange, Va., and Mrs. Annie P, Gregd of Ham- ilton, Va., and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow in the First Baptist Church and burial is to be in Ivy Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Mary Krieger, 35-year-old for- mer Oklahoma school teacher, and Samuel Leighton Frooks, 52, New York lawyer and one-time congressional candidate, the pair arrested in the ex- tortion plot last September, will be death, it was announced by the district attorney's office today. The couple was arrested on charges of conspiring to blackmail the elderly bank president after he allegedly refused to live up to a promise to give the woman a job. Mrs. Krieger at one time lived at & fashionable Connecticut avenue apart- | ment. Frooks was a candidate at large for | the Republican nomination for Con- | gress. | LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON I. 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