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A—4 %% DYKSTRA MAY GET WISCONSINU. POST Cincinnati City Manager Silent on Report He Will Be Offered Presidency. By the Assoctatea Press. MADISON., Wis, March 12.—The | Executive Committee of University of Wisconsin Regents, the Associated Press learned authoritatively today, | ill offer the university presidency to i rence A. Dykstra, Cincinnati city manager. | Dean George Sellery has been acting president since Dr. Glenn Frank was | ousted in January, climaxing a bitter fight within the Board of Regents over charges of administrative in- competence. A member of the Executive Com- mittee who would not allow his name to be used said the group has selected Dykstra from a long list of prospects, but that the deal had not been closed. Dykstra, at Cincinnati, would not | comment beyond saying no offer had been received from the regents. The executive committeeman said his group would meet probably Sat- rday or Sunday at a city and Cincinnati to discus with the 54-year-old public and former professor, When the committee’s choice is pre- sented to the Board of Regents as a whole at a meeting March 18 and 19, the committee member said, it is “practically certain” it will be ap- proved The committee was reported to have set $15,000 as the maximum salary to be paid the new president. Dykstra receives $25.000 a year at Cincinnati. Dr. Glenn Frank was paid $20,000 and expenses for the upkeep of the presidential mansion when he took office in 1921. but the sum gradually Was pared to $15,000 by the time he | was dismissed nfficial | | United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica apparently was the chief task to be completed today before representa- tives of each sign it. The formal affixing of signatures was delayed a day when the union said General Motors had made some changes in the final draft and insisted that ‘“original phraseology” be re- stored. There also were counter- charges of violations of the February 11 truce. Both sides indicated the delay did not signify a serious hitch in the ne- gotiations, which opened February 16 to compose differences left unsettled | in the truce that terminated the wide- spread strikes in the corporation's | plants. A conference between the Chrysler Corp., whose Detroit plants have been closed since Monday by sit-down strik- ers, and the U. A. W. A. proceeded, ap- parently with little if any progress, as they awaited action in Circuit Court | tomorrow upon the company’s petition for an injunction against the strikers and union leaders. Denied access to their plant offices Clarence A. Dykstra for several | months served as a member of the | Jacobs Committee, which undertook | &n exhaustive survey designed to bring | an equitable fiscal policy between Federal and District governments. The House Appropriations Subcom- mittee in charge of the District supply | bill now is considering the three-point | formula submitted by the Jacobs group. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, g FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937. May Take Post EXPECTED TO SUCCEED DR. GLENN FRANK. CLARENCE A. DYKSTRA, The city manager of Cincin- nati, is said to have been agreed upon as the successor to Dr. Glenn Frank as presi- dent of the University of Wis- consin. Dykstra said he has not been approached officially. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. COL. REEDER IS CANDIDIATE. CINCINNATI, March 12 ().—| Harry M. Cohn. attorney, said today | that Col. Russell P. Reeder, U. S. A, | retired, of Phoebus, Va., would be a candidate to A. Dyl - resign | to accept the presidency of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin. Cohn said he had received a letter from Col. Reeder announcing his in- | tention of seeking the position, which | Ppays $25,000 annually. Labor (Continued From F‘lrit}’flgrf) Gov. Frank ! did not settlement of the others. Murphy of Michigan said he intend to intervene A final agreement between the U. A W. A and General Motors Corp. on issues growing out of the G. M. C. | strike was delayed pending rephrasing | by the sit-downers, Chrysler execu- | | tives set up headquarters in a down- town building. The 55,000 employes of the automobile producer’s factories here were idle. It was estimated that about 5,000 of them remained in the plants. | Gov. Frank Murphy planned to re- | turn to Detroit from the State cap- ital, Lansing, for the week end, but | he indicated that the trip was purely personal. He said yesterday he had no intention of intervening in the Chrys- | ler labor dispute 3 There were no signs of a resump- tion of conversations between the union and the Hudson Motor Car Co., whose plants also are held by | sit-down strikers, leaving 10,000 work- ers idle. The management rejected the request of the U. A. W. A. for sole collective bargaining rights. Strikers still possessed the Reo Mo- | tor Car Co’s plant at Lansing. Three- fourths of the 2,200 idle employes were estimated to be remaining inside. conference scheduled for next Monday with officials of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.—giant United States Steel sub- sidiary that two weeks ago recognized the Lewis union as collective bargain- ing agent for its members. The railroad employes, claiming to represent 23,000 workers, announced the formation of a “System Federation Board” to represent maintenance of way employes of the Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore lines. Elmer C. Milliman, secretary-treas- urer of the A. F. of L. unif, said his organization would take over the Maintenance of Way Employes Union’s representation rights and ex- isting agreement with the Pennsyl- vania and other lines. The brotherhood recently asked for & flat 20 per cent increase for its mem- bers, and Milliman said a similar re- quest will not be made for the new members, most of them employed by the Pennsylvania and subsidiaries, The Pennsylvania group had been an independent union since 1922. He added common and semi-skilled labor in maintenance of way work now is pald from 40 to 43 cents an hour. The new system Federation Board elected these officers: Calvin W. Long, Lancaster, Pa., general chairman; William T. Haines, Wilmington, Del, secretary-treasurer; J. T. Redmond, Darby, Pa., chair- man; N. L. Naught, Wellsville, Ohio, and C. F. Holman, Fort Wayne, Ind., assistant general chairman. Elected to the Executive Board were J. G. Gradel, Philadelphia; Ed. Rich- ards, Orrville, Ohio; J. N. Chandler, Clure, Ocean City, N. J. Meantime, F. W. Bohne of Youngs- town, Ohio, chairman of the Steering Committee of employe representative of Carnegle-Illinois Steel Corp., said he expected an agreement to be reached soon on the representatives’ proposal to create a self-supporting union for steel workers. DOUGLAS RECOGNIZES U. A. W. A. Final Agreement Is Reached at Air- craft Corporation Plant. SANTA MONICA, Calif,, March 12 | ®).—The world's largest aircraft plant, Douglas, emerged from a 17-day strike today with the United Automo- as bargaining agent for its member- | ship among the 5,600 employes. A post-settlement statement by President Donald W. Douglas said: “The C. 1. O. has gained nothing by the strike that could not have been gained peacefully. I have always maintained my willingness to deal with any group or any individuals re- garding wages and working condi- tions.” An agreement he negotiated with the | reinstatement, starting Monday, of 297 of the 347 men indicted on felony counts because of a three-day sit-down demonstration two weeks ago. The manufacturer said 12 others were not employes and 38 were identi- fied with acts of violence in the strike. The 297 strikers found acceptable for re-employment must sign afidavits | of non-participation in acts of violence | and intimidation. The affidavits pro- | vide for dismissal upon conviction of any crime since the strike began. All will retain seniority ratings. Criminal | Fort Wayne, Ind.; George Temple- | charges against the sit-downers still | ton, Delmar, Md., and Thomas Mc- | are pending. | “Go back and build airplanes,” union leaders said last night at a mass bile Workers of America recognized | C. I O.-affiliated union provides for | 1 meeting and & picket line of 1,000 was disbanded. | A few hours earlier Superfor Judge Emmet Wilson in Los Angeles ruled a | sit-down strike at a bakery constituted illegal trespass. The union and Douglas tentatively agreed to a 5-day, 40-hour week; time and & half for overtime and double time on Saturdays and . olidays. Other provisions included: No discrimination against employes because of union activity. No lockouts or strikes during arbi- tration of disputes. The Douglas sit-down February 23 | shut off work on a $24,000,000 airplane | construction program. Two days later the 347 sit-downers were indicted on trespass conspiracy charges by the county grand jury and taken to jail. Some were released on bail and the | others on their own recognizance. The Douglas company and its sub- sidiary, Northrop Corp., where a sit- down strike also was conducted, re- opened March 1 and announced blanket wage increases of . cents an hour. The union had demanded 15 cents, e 2,900 GET RAISES Steel Castings Orders Increase. GRANITE CITY, 1ll, March 12 (#). | —A wage increase of 10 cents an hour, | effective March 14, was announced | yesterday by the Commonwealth Di- | vision of the General Steel Castings Corporation here. The increase af-| fects 2,900 shop employes. e General Firm | Gold prospecting is becoming active in Ecuador. | expanding Canadian plants. Two U. 8. Plants To Spend Huge Sum in Canada Premier Hepburn De- clares Labor Trou- bles Are Cause. By tnc Associated Press. TORONTO, March 12.—Premier Mitchell Hepburn said yesterday two big United States manufacturers had indicated to the Ontario government | their intention to spend $10,000,000 in The companies, recently harassed | by atrikes and other labor trouble, the premier said, would manufacture for export goods that now are being man- ufactured in the United States. The premier did not announce the name of the companies. “There is no reason why these United States subsidiary plants in Canada cannot take care of the ex- port trade now being handled by United States plants,” Hepburn as- serted. “Several manufacturers with international institutions have as- sured the government of their inten- tion to expand Canadian plants for this purpose.” | The premier made his statement | after a conference with representa- tives of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, who indorsed in prin- ciple a new minimum wage bill for men, now before the Legislature. MINISTERS ASKED ‘ TO AID RELIEF PLEA| Council of Social Agencies Points to Need for $2,465,000 Next Year. The Council of Social Agencies to- day sought the aid of Washington clergymen in appealing to Cong.ess for a District relief fund of $2,465,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1. In letters to pastors of all faiths the council pointed out that 3,000 employables in the city are unable to obtain relief because of 1 mitations of the present law and asked them to speak on the problem from their pulpits Sunday. ‘The council said the 3,000, whose families bring the total number of destitute to 10,000, cannot be helped if the recommended budget of $' 465 000 is not increased by $1,000,000. The council comprises 80 private and pub- lic welfare agencies. | “Public funds are the only resource and must be made available, if they are made avajlable at all, by appro- priation by Congress to the public assistance 1livision of the Board of Public Welfare,” the letter to the pastors on the plight of the 3,000 read. “The board, as you know, is a well conducted organization, but cannot spend %unds it does not have appro- priated to it. These are funds which we as taxpayers ought to be allowed to make available for fellow citizen: in distress. Present relief funds are not even adequate for the real needs of those who are unemployable, the | tiss Willson, Mrs. sick, the aged and otherwise handie capped.” The committee of the counci) which signed the letter consists of Rev. Rus- sell J. Clinchy, Mrs. William Kittle, Mrs. Harry S. Bernton, Allen Pope, Rev. J. X. Cartwright, Mrs, Eugene Meyer, Dr. Thomas Gosling, Dr. Pren- Ernest Gruening, Charles W. Pimper and Miss Belle Sherwin. PARIS READY TO CUT ARMS, SAYS BONNET Would Prefer General Reduction by Nations, but Has to Insure Security, Envoy Says. ES the Associated Press Georges Bonnet, new French Am- bassador to the United States, said last night his government is ready to accept “a general reduction of arma- ments.” In a radio speech, the envoy said: “When, in the course of history, a country has many times seen its fro tiers crossed and sofl occupied, it 1is entitled to believe that other nations will recognize its right to insure its own protection “The French nation did not want to take part in an armament race. It would have much p: ganization of collec Y. as it proposed in 1924 and 19; ing the ceept a ger arma ent. the hope | TOMORROW/, KITTY KELLY, SHOE OF STARS, STAR OF SHOES, GREETS WASHINGTON By Everey Knight, Our World-Wide Reporter This is a news article, containing facts as fascinating, as romantic, as filled with human interest as any success story you've ever read. know how to tell a true story. finish the entire thing. I am a reporter. Listen to this one. It isn’t very long. I don’t know how to write an ad. 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Kitty Kelly is deeply convinced that women understand value and that it is not necessary to be engaged in the shoe trade to know money’s worth in shoes. By the hundreds of thousands women have turned to Kitty Kelly’s exclusive comfort features, scintillating styles and outstanding value. The response, in fact, has been so meteroic that in shoe circles Kitty Kelly is spoken of as The Shoe Sensation of Today. | There, too, the company rejected the A. W. A’s request for exclusive 3 u. A dozen Detroit firms outside the bargaining rights. Engineers design- | automobile industry were plagued with | ;- 6% 7" | ’ | models wer sit-down strikes. At the Crowley- | oo els were permitted to | continue their work. Milner & Co., large department store, |~ yy .o than 200 del Sl i 3.000 employes remained on a sit-down ‘ 3 S ceasesitomiunion!, locals in various plants are to assem- while union and company officials | he nere tomorrow to ratify the Gen- planned a new conference | eral Motors-union compact. | The U. A. W. A. gained recognition | When the signing of the agreement from the Douglas Aircraft Corp. &S| o deferred yesterday, C. E. Wilson, | bargaining agent for its members | " 3 ' St General Motors vice presi . among the 5,600 employes at the Santa | ce president, said: of certain portions Joan Blondell “The King and the Chorus Girl” Coming to the Earle March 26 Don't miss this new picture _starring Fernand Gravet —the new French scnsa- tion—and Joan Blondell—a new Joan Monica, Calif., plant. President Donald Douglas of the company said an agree- | ment provided for reinstatement of | 297 strikers indicted on felony counts | for a sit-down demonstration two | Wweeks ago The race of the C. I. O. and its »ival, the American Federation of Labor, for members continued apace. The | A. F. of L. scored a gain when more than 200 delegates of the Maintenance of Way Employes’ Union voted at Pittsburgh to affiliate with the federa- tion. The railroad employes claimed representation for 23,000 workers. Earlier an official of the Steel Work- ers’ Organizing Committee announced eight of 22 emplove representatives of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.'s | ‘Vandergrift plant had aligned with the C. 1. O. Twelve of 14 employe repre- | sentatives of the McKeesport, Pa., Tin | Plate Co. voted to join a C. I. O.| affiliate. The C. I. O,, starting drives for mem- bers in the oil and textile industries, also announced plans for enrolling chemical, tile and gas workers in the | Kanawha Valley in West Virginia as a | new district of the United Mine Work- | ers. In Illinois the U. M. A. sought to represent all employes in the coal industry Violence in Taxi Drivers’ Strike. Police received fresh reports of vio- lence in Chicago's taxicab drivers’ strike. Roving squads of men slugged drivers, split tires, smashed headlights and windows and removed cab door handles in an effort to prevent non- striking drivers from operating. More than 4,000 workers were idle n several other Chicago strikes. Members of the United Rubber Workers' Union voted a strike at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. piants | &t Akron, Ohio. Ten thousand pro- duction workers and 1,500 office em- ployes were idie in the dispute over | union bargaining demands. The composing room forces of two Miami newspaper plants struck last night, but one group returned to work after a temporary pay increase pend- ing negotiations. The latter group consisted of 50 printers at the Miami Tribune. The Daily News was the other newspaper involved. A strike of garment workers er - ployed by the Tri-State Dress Manu- facturing Co. at Memphis, Tenn., ended when the company granted de- mands for a closed shop, 40-hour week and a $12 minimum wag>. A /ay: in- crease brought settlement of another | strike in the same city, involving 400 workers of the Chickasaw Wood Products Co. Forsaken by their sponsors, erst- while sit-downers styling themselves hunger strikers peacefully left W. P. A. headquarters in obedience to a police order. A squadron of patrolmen, motor cycle policemen and detectives—al- most as many officers as “strikers’— stood by as Police Chief Ira Martin’s ouster order was transmitted to t. e men and women who had occupied headquarters more than two weeks, ACCORD BEING REPHRASED. DETROIT, March 12 (). — Re- phrasing certain portions of an accord between General Mow Corp. and the “There are stiil several things to iron out. We don't like these 18 sit- down strikes we've had in 20 days. We already have an agreement of | February 11, and if the union doesn’t live up to that one, will it live up to another?” To this Ed Hall, a U. A. W. A. vice president, commented: “They, likewise, have an agreement, and if they don't live up to this one any better than they did their agree- ment of February 11, they will have a lot of sit-downs. Let them put that in their pipe and smoke it.” Officials of the Chrysler plant at Los Angeles, employing 1,100 men, announced that it would be closed indefinitely because of a shortage of materials. The New Castle, Ind., unit had closed earlier for the same reason. Homer Martin, president of the union, joined in the Chrysler con- | ference yvesterday and said the com- | pany turned down the union’s offer to prove in an election that it repre- sents a majority of the employes. “Here is another astonishing ex- | ample of the unyielding dictatorship of industry,” said Martin. He added that corporation officials “can come into no court with clean hands as long as they refuse to obey the law gy which they now seek an injunc- on.” “All we are interested in now,” re- marked B. E. Hutchinson, Chrysler finance chairman, “is the law on legal Possession of other people's property.” Deputy sheriffs read the Circult Court’s “show cause” order to strikers in some of the plants late yesterday and also at the U. A. W. A. head- quarters. A.F. OF L. CLAIMS GAINS. Ammounces Enrollment of Maintenance | of Way Employes’ Union. PITTSBURGH, March 12 (#).—The American Federation of Labor claimed & new ally toda; in the race with John L. Lewis for enrollment of the Na- tion’s workingmen—the Maintenance of Way Employes’ Union. More than 200 delegates of that union voted last night, on the eve of & meeting in Pittsburgh of Lewis’ lieutenants, to merge with the Broth erhood of Maintenance of Way Em- ployes, an American Federation of Labor affiliate. Philip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, Lewis unit that would enroll the Na- tion’s 550,000 steel workers in one big union, returned from Washington to confer with 18 subdistrict leaders of the campaign. They discussed final details of a e S e et il PONTIAC Sixes & Eights IMMEDIATE DELIVERY WE NEED USED CARS Flood Motor Co. Direct Factory Dealer 4221 Connecticut Ava. Clev. 8400 you'll simply adore her. NOT JUST ANOTHER SHOE STORE Once you behold this striking edifice, its grandeur of archi- tectural beauty and size, you will instantly sense that this is not just another shoe store but truly something spectacular and un- usual in your shoe shopping experi- ence. And when you feast eyes upon the very newest of the Spring fashion creations in footwear displayed in the windows, you will ment and exclaim that surely these gasp in amaze- shoes cannot be priced at merely $3. 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