Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1937, Page 6

A—6 ¥x» R.C.A. TOGETNEW DENANDOF LB Workers’ Intention Revealed After $40,000 Johnson Fee Is Bared. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Despite the “highly satisfactory” $40.000 labor counsel of Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, columnist and former N. R. A. administrator, the R. C. A. Manu- facturing Co. of Camden, N. J., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America, will receive a demand for a new labor relations agreement later this month, it was de- clared today by James B. Carey, presi- dent of the United Electrical and Radio Workers, an affiliate of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Appearing before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee yesterday after- noon, Carey testified that most of the points of the strike settlement agree- ment of last Summer “have been vio- lated anyway.” Carey’s appearance yesterday came after considerable testimony of a somewhat sensational character on the background and developments of the strike called by the C. I. O. union last June in the R. C. A. plant Services “Highly Satisfactory.” Most interesting of these disclosures was the fact that Gen. Johnson received $40.000. expenses, for his counsel on the strike issue. According to minutes of a di- rectors’ meeting of R. C. A, these services were “highly satisfactory.” In a letter to Committee Chairman La Follette, Johnson claimed that he entered the case at the urging of both David Sarnoff, president of R. C. A., and John L. Lewis, chairman of the C. 1. O. Johnson further claimed that the strike was settled “by direct nego- tiation between myself and Mr. Lewis” and that both Lewis and the R. C. A, board of directors considered his $40,- 000 fee not exorbitant. It was disclosed that R. C. A. also paid $26,132 to Robert Maisel, well- known labor intermediary, for labor counsel. Aside from these two fees for advice, the subsidiary manufacturing company produced a special strike ac- count showing that the tie-up of about one month cost them $831,026.28. Of this amount, $156,193 was paid to the Manning Industrial Service of Newark for strike guards. Hoffman Aided Sherwood Unit. Scarcely less interesting than Gen. Johnson's service to the strike-bound corporation was the disclosure that plus some $5,600 in | Planes Have Too Many Gadgets That Need Watching, She Says. Antonje Stressmann, flyer, who crossed the Atlantic in the world's largest flying boat and later hopped from Pernambuco to Rio de Janeiro | in a midget plane, is a disciple of sim- plification—of reducing things to their least common denominators. Yesterday, on a quick visit to Wash- ington, she paused to explain. When she arrived in the United States from her native Germany in 1931 she knew no English. She sim- ply bought a 49-cent dictionary, read an outstanding daily newspaper for an hour or two each day and went fre- quently to the movies, which gradually taught her the association between actions and words. When she motors long distances— | she has driven more than 50,000 miles |in this country—she wears trousers, | plain, ordinary men’s pants. They simplify driving. Another Aim Now. And now Miss Strassman, whose | English is as expert as her flying and her automobile driving, has a new “simplification” aim—she wants | help bring about plane piloting. She discussed this in- her return from a three weeks' vaca- tion to her job with a large commer- cial aviation concern. A smile flashing on features deeply browned by Florida sun, Miss Strass- man said: “I want to be helpful in the devel- opment of apparatus, instruments and devices which make safe flying so me- chanical that the pilot can really go back to handling the controls instead of watching numerous instruments.” There are too many instrume.ts | which require attention in the big planes of today, Miss Strassmann added. She believes many of them can be co-ordinated and simplified | without any sacrifice of safety. | Was Actress Eight Years. | A pioneer among women in aviation, | | having taken up flying in 1927, Miss | Strassmann has a variety of other in- | terests. She was for eight years a | stage actress, her last performance | having been in Berliu in “A Midsum- | mer Night's Dream.” | The exaltation one gets from flying wooed her away from the theater, she sald. Next to flying she likes motor- ing; next to motoring, golf. She has | driven cars in all but three of the | United States and golf balls in several. Woman Flyer of Atlantic Seeks to Simplify Aviation to | simplification of | event toward which she is looking terest while in Washington today on | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, ) TARCH 12, 1937. ANTONIE STRASSMANN. —Star Staff Photo. ican oil company, or she would have been in a predicament, for a revolu- tion was on in Brazil and motor fuel was not to be had, even at a price. Miss Strassmann expects to become an American citizen in 48 days, an eagerly. “I love this country,” she said. “I first came here to travel with an ex- hibition of German airplane models in connection with an advertising | scheme for a big New York depart- ment store. I sent the exhibition home and began to fly this place and that. After being here a year and a half, I decided it was the country where I wanted to live permanently.” Miner Saves Own Life Sidetracking Car for 2 Killed BY the Associated Prass LOGAN, W. Va, March 12.—Miner John Bodnar sidetracked his mine lo- comotive—and saved his life. The 24-year-old motorman was on his way out of the Mackbeth Mine last night, his “trick” ended. Joe Fry and Troy McCoy came along on another motor, pulling a string of “empties.” Bodnar switched into another head- ing to wait for them to pass. Scarcely had they gone on when a | U.S. REORGANIZING Bi-Partisan Body Considers Offering Own Program to Revamp Agencies. BY the Assoclated Press. A bi-partisan group in the Congres- sional Committee on Government Reorganization hinted today its mem- bers might present their own program for revamping executive agencies, un- less the majority agrees on a bill “within a reasonable time.” The President’s recommendations for consolidating and reshuffing scores of Federal bureaus have been before the committee for nearly two months, they noted, but no legislation has been drafted. The committee has discussed a bill submitted by Mr. Roosevelt's reor- ganization experts, but both pro- ponents and opponents agreed it was no more than a basis for study. Impatient for action, Senators Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia; McNary, Re- publican, of Oregon, and Townsend, Republican, of Delaware, began as- sembling materfal which they eventu- ally may weld into their own com- prehensive reorganization scheme. The nucleus for this program is a Brookings Institution survey, under- | taken last Summer for Byrd's original Reorganization Committee. Members of the group said any leg- islatio they might offer would call for far greater economies than Mr. Roosevelt's recommendations, and would authorize Congress rather than the President to carry them out. The President’s program—suggest- ing two new executive departments and many minor changes—Ilaid its emphasis on efficiency rather than large economies. Mine (Continued From First Page ) | last September; Tuphon Podloska, 42, coal loader, single; Gazel Vankovitch, coal loader, married, six children; Riland Karns, 30, coal loader, singl Tom Brodocko, 48, coal loader, single; Sam French, 26, colored, coal loader, single. Columbus Raleigh and Dow Chambers were first listed among the missing, but a check showed they had been transferred to the day shift and were not in the mine. Possibility of Survival. H. N. Clendening, engineer at the President’s Cow-Milking Ability GROUP NAY PRES Is Affirmed by Son-Secretary James Roosevelt, son of the Presi- dent, held his first press conference as a member of the Whité House staff today. He announced his father has cleared up a dispute between two New York youths over whether the Chief Execu- tive could milk a cow. ‘The answer? He can. Cecil T. Francisco and Robert G. Monroe of Granton, N. Y., addressed their inquiry to the President March 3. The letter was written in pencil on ordinary lined tablet paper. It said: “Dear Mr. President: We—that is, said that you never milked a cow. I said you had. I wish you would be so kind as to let us know. “Yours very respectfully.” Then followed the scrawle@ signa- Cecil and I—had a little dispute. He | tures, indicating the writers were young boys. The reply, which James sent for- ward today was typewritten on regular White House stationery. It said: “Dear Cecil and Robert: “The President has asked me to answer your letter of March 3 and tell you that he has milked a cow, having learncd when he was a small boy. However, he would like to emphasize that he never claimed to be an expert at it and is considerably out of prac- tice. “I hope this settles your little dispute and with best wishes to you both, I am yours very sincerely, (Signed) “JAMES ROOSEVELT, “Administrative Assistant to the President.” wire barrier patrolled by State police. There were a hundred or so, all si- lent. Most of the 120 men regularly shifts with rescuers, feet down in MacBeth thousands that termine definitely whether there is | fire, but there is plenty of smoke and dust. “We are putting up timbers as we go and taking in the fresh alr with | This explosion occurred about four entries beyond the scene of the other, a distance of several hundred feet. It | required 40 hours to reach the last | bodies. Fresh crews constantly relieved the diggers and not for a moment did the tiresome work stop. Two crews of six men were able to work at the same time in the dark, shale-piled depths. EXPLOSION UNSOLVED. FAIRMONT, W. Va, March 12 (&) —Officials of the Hutchinson Coal Co., which has its principal offices here, said today they did not know what caused an explosion in their Macbeth mine near Logan, in which it is feared 18 men may have lost their lives. Truman E. Johnson, vice president | of the company, left here this morn- mediately upon returning from Wash- ington, D. C., where he had been with other operators on a committee urging | passage of the Guffey-Vinson coal con= trol bill. Johnson said the latest safety de- | Beth Mine after an explosion there last September and daily tests had not disclosed the prevalence of explosive mixtures of mine gas. employed at the pit were working in | of | Inspector Waldron issued a report | “We have been unable to de- | ing for the scene of the disaster im- ! vices had been installed in the Mac- | proved by the Bureau of Mines. But also, he said, it uses trolley power lo- comotives which give off sparks and certain mining machinery which lack approval. He said the Bureau of Mines has conducted safety classes at the mine and approved methods there include the use of electric cap lights, “per- missible explosives” instead of black powder and a mixture of rock dust to counteract dangerous coal dust. Harrington said if there are 18 | dead, the explosion will be the worst | since December 23, 1932, when 54 | miners were killed at Mowequa, Ill. JOHN T. EVERETT DIES HERE AT 83| Former Employe of 0ld Center Market Incurred Hip Frac- ture March 7. John T. Everett, 83, former employe \’or the old Capital Traction Co. and later a special policeman at old Center Market, died yesterday in Providence Hospital. Mr. Everett received a hip fracture March 7 when he suffered a stroke and | fell in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Howard Cheeney, 441 Riggs road northeast, where he had lived for the last several years. Later, pneumonia | developed. A native of Madison Court House, Va, he came to Washington at an early age and worked for the Capital Traction Co. for 30 years, being in charge of the company’s blacksmith E. V. Dunstan, stationed at Fort 8am Houston, Tex,, and a sister, Mrs, Thomas Wilson of Alexandria. MRS. DUNSTAN DIES | Former Washington Resident, 85, Dog Recovers Lost Money. REDMOND, Oreg. (#).—Opportu~ 8Buccumbs in Auburn, Ala. By 2 Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 12— ‘Word has been received by Mrs. James | Dity knocked for a stray pup—now A. Hulfish, 616 North Washington | there's a new dog on the W. A. Miller street, of the death in Auburn, Ala,, | rancp. ;’;r’,;f:,:t?;&,fi{%rbwfgh?xail:‘"‘ 85.8 | Miller lost his billfold while plow Mrs. Dunstan is survived by three |ing. As he started to look for it, up sons, Prof. Arthur Dunstan of Auburn; | trotted the pup, billfold in his teeth, Harry Dunstan of Tennessee and Cspt. ' Miller took the dog home. 205 F STREET See these new HALF-TONE Suspenders by SWA - SNER OF 'SD o= 6 Grosner introduced these distinctive new suspenders—‘another novel aid to well- grooming.” In half-tones of all desirable Spring shades —ma- roon, blue, tan, green, and grey. Pair $1.00 and $1.50 and SWANK HALF-TONE JEWELRY to wear with half-tone shirts and ties. A complete selec- $1'50 o $3.50 aset tion Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jer- | Driving North from Florida, Miss sey had “sold” the company the serv- | Strassmann paused at Pinehurst, N. ices of the Sherwood Detective Bureau | C., 1ong enough o play 18 holes of of New York, a strike-breaking organ- | 80lf; then drove on. ization, through a personal letter to| In 1932 Miss Strassmann, only E. T. Cunningham, president of the R.| Woman among 13 men, flew across the C. A. subsidiary. | Atlantic. New York to Berlin, in the “I have been acquainted with Mr.| huge German flying boat DO-X. She Sherwood for some time,” Gov. Hoff- | recalls they left Newfoundland on the man wrote, “and have been most | Same day Amelia Earhart did on the | favorably impressed by his work.” most famous of her solo hops. After engaging the Sherwood serv-| At the invitation of Dr. Hugo Eck- ices, R. C. A. was forced to discontinue | ener, Miss Strassmann took a small, them because the reputation of Sher- 60-horsepower plane to Pernambuco, | wood guards was such that Jersey offi- | Brazil, aboard the Graf Zeppelin. cials refused to deputize them. ‘R. C., There she assembled it and flew to A. paid a bill of $2,300, however, as the | Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. Her | easiest way to terminate the contract. | gas and oil were supplied by an Amer- | terriffic blast swept the mine and Fry and McCoy were hurled to their | deaths. Bodnar told his story: “The power went off and the lights | went out. “I jumped from my motor and ran mine, said some of the men might be | alive if they had time to barricade | themselves against deadly fumes Federal which rose after the blast. But the | Logan Disaster. opinion of nearly all the workers was ' G. W. Grove of Pittsburgh, heading that opportunity never was given the | Federal investigation of a mine ex- trapped men. plosion at Logan, W. Va., advised his all the way to the outside. It must A rew crowd gathered about the pit | superiors today he believed—tentative- have been a half mile. | as dawn broke over the mine, where ly—the explosion was of electrical “I guess T was the first man out of | 10 other miners lost their lives in a | origin. the mine. I wasn't hurt—but, be- | blast last September 2. | lieve me, I was scared and scared | Most of them were men. The tear- a-plenty. That other one (explosion) | ful women, who had stood through last September was too fresh in my most of the night, had returned home mind. | to care for their children and to catch | “I was through work, of course: but | a little rest while waiting word from if I had gone on down the main trac® | the entombed. | I guess I wouldn’t be here. | The crowd was grouped behind | o v SEEN shop when retired about 20 years ago. ELECTRICAL (ORIGIN SEEN. ||37.% g, anecial policeman at the old iRy TRy Center Market until about 10 years ago. His former home at 3534 New | Hampshire avenue was one of the early buildings in that section. He was & member of the Odd Fellows and | Junior Order of United American | Mechanics. | Besides Mrs. Cheeney, among his | survivors are two other daughurs.j Mrs. W. Braden Appleby and Mrs. | Harry Gosnell, both of this city. Funeral services will be held at 2| p.m. tomorrow at the Riggs road ad- | Investigator Reports From GROSNER of 1325 ¥ Street Daniel Harrington, director of the Health and Safety Branch of the Bureau of Mines, kept in touch with | Grove by telegraph, Harrington said the mine employs | dress. 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