Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1937, Page 1

WEATH ER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Light snow and not quite so cold, with lowest temperature about 28 degrees to- night; tomorrow, cloudy with slowly ris- ing temperature. Temperatures—High- est, 43, at 1:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 22, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full 1 renort page A-6. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 — 8th YEAR. No. 33,9 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 16. CUMMINGS OPENS FIGHT WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1937 —THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. %% BEFORE SENATORS FOR ROOSEVELT COURT PLAN Held Out of Balance. HUGE CROWD AT HEARING Court Injunction Power Hit in Statement. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Opening for President Roosevelt's bill to permit an increase in the Supreme Court, Attorney Gen- eral Cummings today told the Senate Judiciary Committee: Our governmental machinery has gotten out of balance and that balance must be restored beiore it can ef- fectively fur.ction.” The Attorney General declared the President’s plan is the most effective remedy that has been suggested. say- ing “It aims at restoration of the full legislative power so that the Con- gress can perform its constitutional function. What we desire to avoid is a ‘tortured construction of the Con- stitution.” ” Cummings. the first witness to be heard in the Senate Committee's con- sideration of the President's bill, spoka not only to the Senate Committee but to a huge crowd of interested spec- tators which filled every seat and cor- ner of the big marble caucus room in the Senate Office Building After scores of flashlight photo- graphs had been made of the com- mittee and the first witness, the At- torney General read a prepared state- ment setting forth the reasons for the proposed legislation. He said the question of judicial reform is not new; that eminent judges, lawyers, the case etatesmen and publicists for many land bellhops went back to work to the | years had complained of the defects in the judicial system. Differ on Means to End. “What we differ about, if we differ at all,” Cummings said, “is the means of accomplishing the purposes we hold in common. That our judicial processes on the administration of Justice are in need of improvement is hardly in need of debate. “The President's plan rests on four pillars based on the following proposi- tions: “The impossible situation created by the reckless use of injunctions in restraining the operation of Federal laws. “The presence on the Federal bench of aged or infirm judges. “The crowded conditions of the Fed- eral docket, the delays in the lower courts and the heavy burden imposed upon the Supreme Court ‘The need of an effective system for the infusion of new blood into the | Judiciary.” Wlien Cummings had concluded his | prepared statement, Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, one of the lead- ers of the opposition forces, asked the Attorney General if there might not be eight-to-seven decisions if number of Supreme Court justices &hould be increased to 15. Cummings admitted this might be 80. but added that he did not con- sider it likely. But if that situation should de- " (See CUMMINGS, Page A-2.) EXPLORER REPORTS NEW REDFERN CLUE Told by Brazilian of Plane With Sputtering Motor Over Mining Camp. BY the Assoclated Press. GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, March 10—J. G. Le Van, American explorer, who emerged from the Hinterland jungles after his porters had deserted him on a scientific ex- pedition, said today he had a clue to where Paul Redfern crashed. Redfern, United States aviator, dis- appeared in August, 1927, on a pro- Jected non-stop fliftht from Brunswick, Ga., to Brazil. Recurrent reports he was a captive of a jungle tribe have kept alive hopes he would come back. Several rescue missions have tried in vain to find him. Le Van, who yesterday ended a month’s struggle to find his way out of the desolate grassy savannas, said he met a Brazilian who had a possible solution of the Redfern mystery. The Brazilian, Le Van said, told him he was at a mining camp on a tributary of the Amazon River at the time Redfern was lost. He saw a plane which he discovered Ilater matched the description of Redfern's, Le Van said. Le Van said the Brazilian told him the plane was sputtering and circled the camp three times as if seeking a landing place. He quoted the man as being certain the plane could not have gone much farther. e EARHART PLANE TESTED Manning Pilots Flying Labora- tory 50 Miles Over Ocean. LOS ANGELES, Merch 10 (#).— The transport airplane in which Amelia Earhart hopes to encircle the globe was put throug an extended test flight today. Capt. Harry Manning piloted the $80,000 flying laboratory to San Fran- cisco and out to sea 50 miles and re- turned here at 8:25 am. Communi- cation was maintained with a short- wave radio station here. [ the | ATTORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGS. WILLARD STRIKERS RETURN T0 POSTS, Await Conciliation Parley Tomorrow—Forty Girls Barred at Pants Firm. (Pictures on Page B-1.) | With more than 60 sit-down strikers at the Willard Hotel back on the job | pending a conciliation conference to- morrow, 40 girls were locked out of two pants manufacturing plants here today because they participated in a brief sit-down demonstration yester- day The managers and strikers at the Willard slept off headaches today fol- lowing a 26-hour deadlock that frayed their nerves and interrupted their rest. | The truce was announced last night by Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed- | ward McGrady. | ‘Whereupon striking waiters, cooks |strains of “Happy Days Are Here | Again” and “The Star Spangled Ban- | ner,” as rendered by the orchestra in |a room almost devoid of customers. | Both sides claimed at least a partial | victory. | Manager Issues Statement. | Harry Somerville, manager of the | hotel, issued a brief formal statement | to reporters. and when asked to en- large upon it, drew his hand across his | brow, shook his head and said: | Somerville was no less in need of rest than Morris Verbov, business agent for the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Alliance local, an affiliate | of the American Federation of Labor. | The alliance called the strike, which | began at 6 p.m. Monday, with the active assistance, the alliance said, | of more than 100 sit-downers. | “I'm happy it's all over—now I can | g0 to sleep!” Verbov declared quite | emphatically. “I've been on my feet for 48 hours. We feel much has been accomplished and we are convinced that more can be gained through co- operation than through fighting!™ The outcome was that the Willard management agreed to discuss wages, hours and arbitration with “duly con- stituted representatives of the union,” | would not press any demands for a ‘closed shop.” While all this was being decided, the maids at the Mayflower Hotel con- gratulated themselves upon a 15 per cent wage increase granted late yes- terday shortly after they held an in- formal conference and decided upon a (See WILLARD, Page A-5.) U. S. VIEWS ON CHINA HELD IDEAL BY SATO Minister Up ‘“Equality” Talk Before Jap- anese Parliament. | BY the Associated Press TOKIO, March 10.—Foreign Min- ister Naotake Sato, elaborating his “new deal for China” policy before Parliament, urged Japan today to pat- tern her relations with China after the United States. Sato, who electrified the Diet in his maiden speech by a proposal to re- vamp Sino-Japanese relations on a basis of “equality,” declared “in many cases Chinese studying in Japan re- turn home with il feeling for Japan. “When we consider that those Chi- nese who studied in the United States and who are now holding important posts in the Chinese government manifest great friendship and admira- tion for the United States, we become conscious of the necessity for Japan to cultivate greater generosity toward the Chinese.” Foreign Follows BY the Associated Press, NEW YORK, March 10.—The New York Times today in a special dis- patch from London said seizure of the Spanish motorship Mar Canta- brico resulted from the placing in the hands of a New York agent of Gen. Francisco Franco detailed plans for the ship’s voyage the evening of January 6, the day the Mar Canta- brico sailed from New York. A mysterious person visited the apartment of the agent, left a pack- age and departed without saying a word. The package was found to contain what purported to be copies of cor- respondence between the Spanish Am- bassador in Washington and his agents in New York. One document referred to the sail- & “Excuse me, boys, but I neeu sleep!” | |and the union spokesmen said they | <> President’sAim No Judicial Legislation. '5-TO-4 RULING | ONGOLD CITED Executive Denies He Aims to Be Dictator. Full text of President Roose- velt's address will be found on Page A-7. President Roosevelt told the Ameri- can people last night the purpose of his court bill is to make the Supreme | Court relinquish power it has | usurped—the legislative power. | He denied flatly that he himself is | seeking to control the courts person- ally. He declared the' the Supreme Court is making it impossible for the Ameri- can people to protect themselves, through congressional action, “against catastrophe by meeting squarely our modern social and economic condi- tions” Warming to his subject ir. his “fire- side” chat, delivered over the radio from his desk in the White House, tne Chief Executive again demanded “new and jounger blood” in the Su- preme Court. At the outset of his address, the | President said that when he first came into office the country was in the midst of a great banking crisis, and that with | the authority of Congress, the Nation was asked to turn over ail its privately | held gold, dollar for dollar, to the | Government. The recovery of todaw, | he said, proved how right that policy had been. Yet when two years later the gold law came before the Su- | preme Court upon its constitutionality, is was upheld by a 5-to-4 decision. Sees One-Vote Danger. “The change of one vote,” he said, “would have thrown all the affairs | of this great Nation back into hopeless | chaos. In effect, four justices ruled | that the right under a private contract to exact a pound of flesh was more sacred than ihe main objectives of the | Constitution to establish an enduring | Nation.” During the course of his address the | President denied some of the charges which have been brought against him | by opponents of his court bill. He de- nied, for example, charges that he himself wishes to be a dictator; that | he wishes a controlled and not an in- | dependent judiciary and that he has disregarded the pledges contained in the Democratic platform about seek- ing a constitutional amendment. Again his appeal was made in the interest | of the laborer and the farmer and to | meet the need of “one-third of a N | tion ill nourished, ill clad, ill house | The President Insisted that it was | In the public interest to maintain a | “vigorous judiciary.” That policy has been defeated, he said, by the fact " (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-2) ‘THREE FLYING BOATS RIDE SEA ALL NIGHT British Planes Forced Down While on Way From Singapore to Hongkong for Games. BY the Associated Press. HONKONG, March 10.—Three fy- ing boats of the British Royal Air Force arrived here safely today after having spent a night afloat on rough waters off an island- south of here under guard of two British destroyers. They had been forced down while flying from Singapore to Hongkong to take part in large-scale army. navy and air maneuvers in the Hongkong area. The destroyers Duchess and West- cott, hastily dispatched from the Hongkong base, stood by the disabled craft, riding heavy seas. A fourth flying boat, unconfirmed reports stated, alighted with the other planes, but when its anchor cable parted and heavy seas threat- ened to swamp the craft, it managed to regain the air and fy blind over high, fog-hidden hills into Hongkong. Air Commodore A. W. Tedder was that reached port. Crane Kills W. P. A. Workers. PHILADELPHIA, March 10 (®)— Three W. P. A. workers were killed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard today by the boom of a small traveling crane Wwhich fell on them. Seizure of Arms Ship Is Laid To Work of Spy in New York ing of the Mar Cantabrico from New York to Mexico and thence to Europe. Another contained a plan for trans- portation of the ship at sea into an imitation of an Flder-Dempster liner that somewhat resembled her in gen- eral outline. Still other documents gave the wire- less code to be used at sea for com- munication with the Spanish gov- ernment. ‘The person with whom the package was left, not thinking at first the documents were important, communi- cated them to colleagues whose first impression was that this was an elaborate hoax. Arrival of the ship at Vera Cruz ac- cording to schedule changed their minds and thereafter the Insurgents watched every move the vesss] made. 0 d $ COUNGEL REBUKED IN RHODES CASE Leahy Told to Take Seat During Scene—Former Fi- delity Head Testifies. BULLETIN. Fred B. Rhodes, former president of the Fidelity Building and Loan Association, charged today during a bitter exchange with the Govern- ment prosecutor at his forgery trial, that the controller of the currency is keeping Fidelity shut “‘because of his fight on me.” In a hectic session in which defense | counsel was rebuked from the bench for “impertinence” and ordered to take a seat, Fred B. Rhodes, former presi- dent of the Fidelity Building & Loan Association, today took the stand in his own behalf in District Court, where he is being tried on a forgery charge. The flare-up occurred while Rhodes, under questioning by his attorney, | William E. Leahy, was outlining his re- lationship with Desire A. Irr, a heavy depositor at Fidelity, against whose account Rhodes is accused of forging 2 $1,500 withdrawal slip. Rhodes had | testified that the Fidelity was in con- stant contreversy with the office of the | controller of the currency back in | 1928-31, and that the controller'’s office ;nnllly had ordered the building asso- | ciation to close six branches. This | Fidelity had refused to do, h> said. | Wanted Branches Kept Open. | Irr, he continued, was conversant | with the situation and had told him “to do anything necessary to keep those branches open” and not to hesi- | tate to call on him for anything Irr could do. Justice Peyton Gordon, pre- siding in Criminal Division No. 1, in- terrupted the witness to ask: “Did you take that to mean you | could use his money?” “Mister,” Rhodes said heatedly, | turning to the judge, “I wouldn't use his money without giving him credit | for it, but I took it to mean he would give me every dollar he had.” “If he can draw that conclusion— if that is the basis of his defense—I'll | let it go to the jury,” the justice said. Leahy then attempted to druw from the witness how often Irr had repeat- ed this remark. Assistant United States Attorney John J. Wilson ob- Jected, and’ Justice Gordon upheld him. Again and again, Leahy rephrased this question, continually drawing the objections of Wilson, which always (See RHODES, Page A-3.) SRS Coulee Dam Toll 36. GRAND COULEE DAM, Wash- March 10 ().—The accidental death toll among workmen on Grand Coulee Dam stood at 36 today, following two deaths on consecutive days. The last | victim, Harry E. Miller, 31, was crushed MAC, HAVE ANY Q to death beneath a tractor. Summary of Page Amusements B-18 said to have been aboard the plane | Edif Financial ___A-17 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary -..A-12 FOREIGN. 10,000 youths join Madrid defenders as rebels threaten. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Outright expulsion of all C. 1. O. unions considered by A. F. of L. Page A-1 Senate committee opens hearings on court reform. Page A-1 Professor proposes alternative to Roose- velt court proposal. Page A-3 New maritime commission ready to assume duties. Page B-7 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Rhodes attorney rebuked for “im- pertinence.” Page A-1 ‘Truce ends Willard strike; conciliation tomorrow. Page A-1 Subways recommended to end traffic congestion here. Page A-4 Symphony drive for $110,000 gets under way. Page A-8 Edith Maxwell, denied third trial, plans appeal. Page A-12 Pure food and drug measure passed by Senate. Page A-12 Woman, 33, injured in fall from hus- band’s car. Page B-1 Fireman dies of traffic injuries; toll at 34. Page B-1 A-14-16 ‘Woman's Pg. B-11 Mellon art bill may ocome before Senate tomorrow. Page B-1 House sees flaws in Jacobs report on District of Columbis, Page B-1 NO,CHIEF, THEY'REON A OF THEM Cherry Trees . Seen Likely to || Bloom Earlier May Blossom Here Ahead of Usual | Schedule. ‘The Japanese cherry trees in West Potomac Park, around the Tidal Basin, will be in bloom somewhat | ahead of schedule, according to pres- | ent weather indications, Frank T.! Gartside, assistant superintendent of the National Capital Parks, said teday. He declined, however, to predict an exact date. The second week in April is the usual blooming date for the trees, | Gartside said. | ‘Warm weather, he explained, will | hasten the blooming, while cold weath- | er will retard it. ‘The trees have a good crop of buds, and these are in good condition, so that there should be a good display | this year, he said. 10000 YOUTHS JOIN MADRID'S TROOPS Defense of Capital Is Bol- stered as Rebels Threaten From Northeast. BY the Associated Press. MADRID, March 10.—Between 10,- 000 and 12,000 newly mobilized youths tramped to their barracks at dawn | today to join in defense of a capital threatened by a strong mechanized | insurgent army from the northeast. | Withdrawal of government forces | to more strategic positions along the | Guadalajara-Zaragoza highway, above Guadalajara, was announced after re- ports the offensive had been halted about 60 miles northeast of Madrid. (Advices to the insurgent headquar- ters at Avila said Gen. Francisco Franco's Guadalajara columns had swept forward 12 miles along the road to Madrid and were within 17 miles of the provincial capital, Guadalajara, or 49 miles from Madrid.) Insurgent forces—characterized here as “Italian and Spanish” troops—ap- parently made a new effort to advance on Guadalajara or to veer toward Brihuega. Brihuega is about 6 miles south of the Guadalajara road, and such a move would indicate the insur- gents were trying to outflank Guada- lajara. (The Avila report asserted Franco's warriors had captured heights north and east of Brihuega.) Between 14,000 and 16,000 Italians were reported by the government to (See SPAIN, Page A-3) D. C. committee favorably reports child blindness bill. Page B-1 Grandmother, 48, and baby badly burned. Page B-1 Son held as witness against father in murder case.’ Page B-8 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Washington Obeervations. Dawid Lawrence. Paul Mallon. Dorothy Thompson. Constantine Brown. Lemuel Parton. SPORTS. Chapman rated chief morale booster of Nationals. Page A-14 ‘Worry over Cards’ infield giving Frisch insomnis, Page A-14 Big league pilots always: find berths for hitters. Page A-15 Mount Rainier enters Star tourney with fine record. Page A-15 Judge Steffen, famed grid tutor, dies, aged 51. Page A-15 MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. City News in Brief, ‘Traffic Convictions. Service Orders. Young Washington. Nature’s Children. Bedtime Story. Dorothy Dix. Crossword Puzsle. Letter-Out. Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-2 Page B-6 Page A-6 Page B-9 Page B-1 Page B-12 Page B-12 Page B-11 Page B-13 Page B-14 Page B-§ Page B-12 The only in Washington wit Associated Press evening paper the News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,156 (Some returns not yet received.) UP) Means Associate d Press. T'WO CENTS. INDEPENDENTS BID FORAF.L. CHARTER Steel Group Opposed to C. I. 0. Gets Advice of Green’s Aide at Parley. BY the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, March 10.—Employe representative forces of Carnegie- Illinois Steel Corp. looked toward an American Federation of Labor charter today as a possible weapon in !helr‘ war on John L. Lewis’ industrial union. John P. Frey, veteran vice president of the A. F. of L. and head of its metal trades division, said he had mapped the procedure of obtaining a charter at a conference last night with the supporters of the employe representa- tion plan. Frey also stated employe representa- tives of the corporation, which has | recognized Lewis' Steel Workers' Or- ganizing Committee, had previously asked President Willlam Green to grant | them a federation charter. Meanwhile, David Williams, repre- sentative of the American Federa- tion of Labor, returned to his Pitts- burgh headquarters today with in- structions from President William Green to “lift” the charter of the Aluminum Workers' Union at New Kensington, Pa. The union, largest local in the sluminum industry, bolted to the John L. Lewis Committee for Indus- trial Organization last week and car- ried its $27,000 fund with it. Many to Ignore Call. A call for a national convention to form an industrial union April 12 was issued by the local's leaders, but Williams said he had received as- surances from 17 other locals that they would ignore the call. He added he was prepared to take legal action to force return of the $27,000 to the A. F.of L. Coming here at the request of the newly formed American Union of Steel Workers, sponsored by the representa- tives, Frey commented: “Green couldn’t do that (issue & charter) any more than the Governor of Pennsylvania could issue a charter to a city in Ohio.” The federation leader continued: “They were looking for information and advice, and I gave them both. I explained what my department really is—how it carries out a definite policy of joint action so everyone in a metal manufacturing establishment belongs to a shop federation.as well as the intemnational union, so that in reality the setup federates all together.” He said there were “no understand- (See LABOR, Fage A-3. 18 MEXICANS KILLED Armed Band of More Than 250 Attack Two Ranches. MEXICO CITY, March 10 (#).— Dispatches received today from Gua- najuato reported 18 peasants had been killed by an armed band of more than 250 men in an attack on the Zangarro and Burras ranches. The killers fled to the mountains with federal troops in pursuit. Farm rivalries were given as the motive for the assault. 30 BLASTS SHAKE BLAZNG STEAMER ATDOCK INBOSTON Flaming Nitrate Cargo Perils Water Front Before Being Subdued. GENERAL ALARM GIVEN; TWO FIREBOATS SUFFER Plates Buckle Like Tissue as In- tense Heat Envelops Danish Vessel. BY the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 10.—A fierce blaze aboard the nitrate and sugar laden freighter Laila—marked by a series of explosions—finally was brought under control today after a thrilling struggle by sea and land fire-fighters to protect the menaced Boston water front. Only one injury was immediately reported. Capt. William J. Marshall of fireboat No. 31 was burned on the face and hands in one of the explosions and was taken to the Hay- market relief station. So hot was the blaze as the burning nitrates poured out a column of acrid black and yellow smoke that the ship’s forward plates buckled like tissue. Within an hour the entire forward part of the vessel was transformed into a blackened hulk to the water line. Ship Hauled Into Midstream. Risking another and more serious explosion, four tugs finally managed | to get lines aboard and hauled the ship into midstream, checking the spread of flames onto the crowded water front. A general alarm was sounded. Four fireboats poured tons of water onto the vessel. One caught fire itself. Scores of pieces of land apparatus drenched the entire vicinity to pre- vent sparks from igniting nearby | buildings. | loading the vessel reported all on board had escaped. One stevedore who had | been aboard said that at the first puff of smoke and flame every one had stopped working and rushed for the dock. The vessel, of Danish registry, was tied up to a dock in the Mystic | River at the time the fire started. Firemen said they counted 30 ex- plosions during the early course of the fire, some of them heavy enough to | shake the vessel from stem to stern At the height observers counted ex- plosions at the rate of nearly one a minute. With each blast billows of smoke shot high into the air. Two Fireboats Damaged. Two of the fireboats. which darted | close to the freighter between explo- sions, were damaged. One caught fire and had to withdraw temporarily. The sion. Only a skeleton of the vessel's bridge remained and all .orward of that was blackened hulk by the time fire head- quarters finally said the blaze was sub- dued. The 4,000-ton freighter is owned by J. Lauricksen Co., Ltd., of Copenhagen. She carried a crew of 29 officers and men. P BANDITS KILL TEN JAPANESE SOLDIERS | Many Others Fall in Lungkiang Province Battle With 400 Outlaws. BY the Assaciated Press TOKIO, March 10.—Dispatches from that 10 Japanese soldiers had been killed and nine seriously wounded in a fight with 400 bandits near Peischen- cheng, in Lungkiang Province, near Tsitsthar. The bandits left 45 dead, the dispatches said. Coincidentally, Japanese Army head- quarters at Hsinking announced that the number of bandits in Manchukuo had dropped from 300,000 in 1931, to 10,000 at the end of February. SABOTAGING CHARGED ‘Weather Reports Changed in Rus- sia, Causing Disasters. MOSCOW, March 10 (#).—-Enemies of the Soviet were accused today of sabotaging Russia’s weather reports. Under the headline, “Enemy in meteorological station,” the newspaper Izvestia reported from Archangel one plane had crashed and another been forced down because a radio station at Lechukom sent out false weather reports. Dignity Mingles With Tension In Senate Hearing on Courts Judicial dignity mixed with ele- ments of the spectacular afforded the background against which the Senate Judiciary Committee today began its epochal consideration of President Roosevelt’s proposal to revamp the Nation’s Supreme Court. ‘The spectacular effects, however, ‘were contained principally in the no- ticeable tension which pervaded the large Senate caucus room as the 18- man committee of Senate lawyers filed in solemnly to take their seats in semi- circle behind the hearing table. Fully cognizant of the importance of its task, the committee abandoned its customary informality about arriving for a meeting and evidently met in an adjoining room before making a dig- nified appearance through a door at the rear of the caucus room. In the center as they took their seats was tall and courtly Chairman Ashurst of Arizona. One-time cowboy, the gracious Westerner has become famed for his elqguence and his in- timate command ef quotations from English literature. Today he was wearing s formal culawuy coat with & ] white-edged vest showing beneath and pince-nez glasses hanging by a black silk cord. Directly in front of him sat At- torney General Cummings, deliberate- speaking Connecticut Yankee. As he talked from a prepared manuscript in support of the presidential proposal, Cummings leaned forward slightly to allow two microphones to catch his words. They echoed hollowly from the marble-tiered walls of the rcom. Occasionally, he gestured with his hands or thumped the arms of his chair to emphasize a point. In rectangular design, some 100 newspaper men were allotted seats nearly surrounding the witness. Mes- senger boys dashed back and forth from the room as the newsmen sent their stories in “takes.” Seated close to the Attorney Gen- eral were two of his best known aides, young and brisk-looking Assist- ant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and the legal-appearing Solicitor General Stanley Reed. Both followed their chief’s presen- (Bee HEARING, Page A-3.) Longshoremen who had been un- | other was put entirely out of commis- Harbin, Manchukuo, today reported | when the Japanese conquest began, | A.F.OFL.MAY QUST (.1.0.UNIONS NEAR OWNFEDERATION Complete Divorcement Be- lieved Near as Lewis Issues “Charters.” |EXPULSION POWERS GRANTED AT TAMPA Green's Executive Committee Is Able to Inflict Sweeping Pun- ishment if It Wishes. BY JOHN C. HENRY. William Green, president of | American Federation of Labor pared today to confer with other fe: eration leaders on the advisability outright expulsion of all unions a filiated with the Committee for In- | dustrial Organization. Ten of these | unions already are under suspension, | with five other later affiliates not yet under “discipline” by the A. F. of L | Possibility of this complete division in the two great factions of the Ame: | ican labor movement arises out of yesterday's decision of the C. I. O. to “issue certificates of affiliation to na- tional. international State, regional, city central bodies and local groups whenever it is deemed such action is advisable.” | By authority voted at the federa- tion's convention in Tampa last No- | vember the Executive Council of the | A. F. of L. is empowered to take the expulsive action prior to placing the issue before the entire membership of the federation Explaining the decision of yester- day. John L. Lewis, chairman of the C. 1. O, declared the plan to issue the certificates of affiliation is pri- marily a “protective” measure made necessary by the punitive action of the federation. First such charters he admitted, probably will go to C. I. O. local units in the Maryland-Dis- | trict of Columbia area, where the State federation, at request of Green, has ordered expulsion of such C. I O. units Similar action by federation units already has been taken in Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio New Federation Indicated. Regardless of this “protective” guise, however, the plan amounts more nearly to establishing the foundation of & permanent and integrated new labor federation. No definite arrange- ment for dues and financing has been completed as yet, Lewis said. “The C. I. O. has caught the imag- ination of the workers,” Lewis said in | discussing the movement to make it | more permanent in nature. “Its | achievements of the past few months have demonstrated its effectiveness and made workers realize the degree of protection available to them under its auspices.” Ranking in immediate importance with these plans to establish more firmly the structure of a new labor organization were announced plans for intensive C. I. O. organization drives in the textile, oil and shipbuilding in- dustries. With a potential goal of one and one- quarter million workers in the loosely | integrated textile industry, organizing procedure there will follow the pattern so successful in the steel industry, it was announced. Hiliman and Aides Chosen. To this end Lewis named Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers, as chairman of the Organizing Committee, with the following aides: Thomas Kennedy of the United Mine Workers, Francis J. Gorman and Emil Rive of the United Textile Workers, Charles Weinstein of the clothing workers, T. F. Burns of | the United Rubber Workers and an additional member, not yet' selected, | from the Ladies’ Garment Workers. Funds of the United Textile Work- | ers, of which Gorman is president, are to be turned over to the Organizing Committee, with additional sums from the C. I. O. “Ample finances” will be available, Lewis said, with head- quarters in New York and organizing “(See UNION SCHISMS, Page A-4.) th MUSSOLINI LEAVES FOR TOUR OF LIBYA Premier's Visit Will Be First to Colony in More Than Decade. Will Review Warships. BY the Associated Press. GAETA, Italy, March 10.—Premier Mussolini left today aboard a heavy cruiser on a 10-day military and po- | litical tour of inspection in the Italian Province of Libya. Il Duce was expected to arrive at Tobruk at the extreme Eastern end of the province March 12. At Tobruk the premier, as minister of the navy, will initiate his busy visit—first to the colony in more than 10 years—with a review of naval | maneuvers of more than 50 of Italy's | newest warships. From Tobruk, accompanied by | Marshal Italo Balbo, the governor | general, II Duce planned to open the 1,250-mile highway along the Libyan coast by an automobile trip. The Fascist chief was scheduled to make an important political pro- nouncement some time during his four-day stay in Tripoli. An imposing military review was planned in his honor. SNOW FORECAST Rising Temperature Predicted for Washington Area. A light snow during the next 24 hours, with a slowly rising tempera- ture, was forecast for Washington today. A 28-degree low was predicted for tonight, followed by cloudy and warm- er weather tomorrow. The minimum for the last 24 hours was 22, at 6:30 am. today, and the high yesterday was 43, at 1:30 pm. [