Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Light rain, possibly changing to snow flurries with a cold wave tonight; tomor= row fair and colder; temperature tonight about 26 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 66, at noon today; lowest, 51, at 10 p.m. today. Full report on page A-23. Closing New York Markets, Page 22 85th YEAR. No. Entered as second class matter post office, Washjngton, D. O. ENGLAND, FRANCE AGREE TO PREVENT LANDING OF MORE [TALIANS INSPAIN Possibility of Using War- ships to Halt Ships Dis- cussed by Powers as New Accord Is Formulated. NEUTRALITY MACHINERY WILL BE TRIED FIRST Valencia Loyalists Report Sud- den Disappearance of Fascist Soldiers From Front Near Ma- drid—Officials in Rome Silent on Developments. BACKGROUND— Since Spanish civil war began last July charges of intervention by foreign powers in struggle re- garded as betwen Fascists and Communists have threatened peace of Europe. Germany and Italy recognize rebel Fascists and Non- Intervention Committee represent- ing 27 mations has been trying to keep war from spreading because of participation by German and Italian troops on one side and Rus- sians on the other Great Britain has pursued watch- ful course as her former ally, France, nearer to the scene of the Spanish fighting and under the in- fiuence of a Left regime at home has turned more and more to sym- pathize with the cause of the Left- ist Loyalists in Madrid. March 25.—Great Britain and France sgreed today they must prevent further landing of foreign volunteers — especially Italians — in warring Spain Representatives of the two powers discussed the possibility of using warships to halt troop transports en route to Spain, but postponed any decision pending the outcome of the International Non-intervention Com- mittee's control plan. The Franco-British accord, as dis- | cussed, would go further than neutrality scheme, under which movements of troop transpo: are to be reported to neutra quarters by patrolling warships of Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Diplomats said Paris and London, however, are in accord that the “ma- chinery of the Neutrality Committee shall be tried out thoroughly in re- gard to the problems relating to Spain.” Future Course Uncertain. The big “if” in the entire situation was the future course of those gov- ernments which have been accused of sending military assistance to both sides of the Spanish civil war. The Franco-British agreement was negotiated by Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos of France and Sir George Russell Clerk, British Ambassador to France Referring to mittee’s control plan as * accomplished.” British clared the problem the the the Neutrality Com- vork already sources de- for future consideration. They insisted the committee’s ma- chinery be utilized to the utmost just as soon as Admiral M. H. Van D "n, general administrator, sets the date when the plan shall become effec- tive. Meanwhile, London and Paris will follow a “wait and see” policy, said. From Valencia came word special government aerial scouts reported a “sudden disappearance” of all Italians 0f the Capital Transit Co. by about | from insurgent divisions on the Gua- dalejara front, northeast of Madrid. Officials at Valencia announced the Loyalist aerial observers spotted in- surgent reinforcements of Spanish Fascists, following the recent i n- surgent retreat on the Guadalajara salient. But there was no trace whatsoever (See EUROPE, Page A-2.) MELLON ART BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT Way Cleared for Construction of Great Gallery in Capital. President Roosevelt has signed the bill accepting Andrew W. Mellon's $65,000,000 art gift to the Nation, ac- cording to word received at the White House today. This clears the way to go ahead with the offer, under which Mellon will build a $10,000,000 National Gallery of Art on Constitution avenue between Beventh and Fourth streets. The forrer Treasury Secretary also has agreed to give the Government his val- uab'e collection of masterpieces, paint- ings and sculpture, valued at $50,- 000,000. The third portion of the gift is a $5,000,000 endowment fund, from which additional art works could be acquired from time to time, and also to meet part of the cost of supervising the gallery. The Government will be required to furnish only the annual maintenance fund for the gallery of about $300,000 a year. The bill of acceptance outlines a policy under which only art works of similar high quality to those now being given the Government could be added to the permanent collection. The Board of Governors, however, could authorize temporary exhibitions of other art works. It has been pre- dicted that the National Gallery of Art eventually will ‘give this country one of the foremost collections in the world. The gallery will he governed by a board of nine, four Government offi- '.m.s and flve general trustees, ‘ of withdrawing | foreign volunteers already in Spain is | John Drinkwater || British Author, | | Dies in His Sleep | | Heart Attack Fatal to Writer of ‘Abraham Lincoln. | | JOHN DRINKWATER. | By the Associated Press | ONDON, March 25.—John Drink- | water, | and dramatist, died today at | the age of 54. The distinguished poet, whose | dramatizations of characters of Brit- ish and American history were among his best-known works, died suddenly | of a heart attack while asleep at his London home. | Apparently in normal health, he had attended the Oxford-Cambridge boat race yesterday and later went to the University Club for an evening with friends. His widow, Daisy Kennedy, the Aus- | tralian violinist. was injured March 11 ' (See DRINKWATER, Page A-15.) | HIKES PAY OF 3300 Increases May Be Used as Argument for Higher Fare. ‘Wage increases for about 3,300 em- ployes of the Capital Transit Co., involving some office workers, as well as those in operating and maintenance classifications, were announced today by the company’s Board of Directors. The increases range as high as 3 cents per hour over present rates. In | actual wage payments and additional ‘. cial security tax payments, the in- crease will amount to around $228.000 vearly, it was said. Of this total, about $221.000 will go to employes and the remainder to tax. The company has about 3,700 em- ple The board’s statement announcing the increases follows in full: “Effective April 3, an increase in wage rates will be put into effect in giving trained men operating two-man cars 2 cents per hour and those operating one-man cars and busses 3 | cents per hour above present rates. All other hourly employes, except common labor in the way depart- ment, will receive 2 cents per hour additional. | Classification Changes. | | “Adjustments in classification of employes in the shops and garages will be made in addition to the above | increase in hourly rates. A propor- merely | lity head- they | tionate increase will be given those | | in the lower-salaried brackets. | “This will increase the annual pay | roll and social security tax payments $228,000 and will bring such payments | up to about 58 per cent of gross rev- enue.” Approval of the wage increase, some experts believe, would be used by the | company as an additional argument |EUROPEAN WAR HELD “UNLIKELY” BY LAMONT Morgan Partner Admits, However, | His Statement Is Merely a “Hunch.” BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 25—Thomas S. Lamont, Morgan partner, return- ing today on the French liner Paris | after an eight weeks' visit abroad, re- | gards the possibility of a European | | war as “unlikely.” | “I haven't any particular reason for | this statement—it's just a hunch,” Mr. Lamont said. Asked whether he saw any danger | signs in the heavy purchases of Amer- ican securities by foreign interests, Mr Lamont replied: “You can’t blame | investors in nervous Europe for want- ing to invest in booming America.” | ch famed British novelist | WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, RETIREMENT LAW FOR JUSTIGES IS URGEDAT HEARING Amendment Setting Age Limit at 70 or 75 Held Best Plan. LAW SCHOOL DEAN SEES ‘RELIEF’ REQUIRED NOW Cites Objections to President's Proposal Before Senate Judiciary Committee. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. A constitutional amendment provid- ing for compulsory retirement of Su- preme Court justices at 70 or 75 years of age was advanced today by Young | B. Smith, dean of the Columbia Uni- versity Law School, as the best method to meet the present demands for “new blood™ in the court. Dean Smith appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in oppo- sition to President Roosevelt's bill to | increase the membership of the court. | His amendment was offered as an al- ternative. Six of the present number of the Supreme Court are over 70 and four of them are over 75. Earlier at this morning's session Fred Brenckman, representative of the National Grange, had told the com- mittee the bill was “an attempt to in- timidate and coerce the Supreme Court.” Smith, the first law college head to appear against the plan, said Mr. Roosevelt's proposed enlargement of the court unless justices over 70 re- tire would “threaten the independ- ence of the Supreme Court and might permanently impair the confidence of the people in that court.” Would “Correct Situation.” “Such an amendment would more | surely correct the present situation | than would the President’s bill,” he | said, referring to his proposal. “It | would avoid the bill's objectionable | features. It would provide immediate | relief that is needed and at the same | time establish a prcedent against Con- gress and the Executive, without an amendment adding new justices tc the court because they disagree with its decisions.” The witness pointed out that his proposed amendment would not change the number of justices, but | would result in infusion of ‘“new | blood” into the court “now,” as well as establish a definite policy for the | retirement of justices in the future. | | He said he believed his amendment | | could be ratified within a short time | if it were submitted through constitu- | tional conventions in the States. | Dean Smith prefaced his statement } by saying he is and always has been | 8 Democrat, that he had voted for | President Roosevelt for Governér of | New York and for President in 1932 \and 1936. He denied he was a “de- | featist lawyer,” and insisted he was | in favor of many readjustments in the | social structure. ‘ Discusses President’s Bill. | | In discussing the President’s bill, he said: “The pending proposal should not be adopted for the following reasons: | “1. There js no certainty as to what | will be the result if the proposal is | adopted. | “2. Even if the adoption of the pro- | posal corrected the present situation MERLE OBERON’S INJURIES SERIOUS | Production of Film in England | Halted for “Three or Four Months.” | By the Assoctatea Press. | LONDON, March 25.—Production of the $500,000 film, “I, Claudius,” was halted today when it was learned Merle Oberon, Hollywood motion pic- ture actress and star of the produc- tion, had been more seriously injured in an automobile accident March 16 than had been thought. The star’s doctors said she would be unable to return to work for three or four months. At the timg she was injured Miss Oberon was treated for cuts on the right side of the face, behind the ear and on her neck. Her secretary said she would not be disfigured by the injuries. BECOMES ENGAGED | !Niece of Postmaster General to Wed Hollywood Dentist. HOLLYWOOD, Caiif, March 25 ().—Dorothy McNulty, stage and screen actress and niece of Postmaster General James Farley, announced her engagement yesterday to Dr. Lawrence Scroggs, Hollywood dentist. Miss McNulty is the daughter of a New York newspaper man. 'Roosevelt Court | By the Associated Press. | The nomination of Judge Robert | Lee Williams of Oklahoma to be a Federal circuit judge went to the Sen- ate today with an expression of his willingness to retire when he reaches 70. That would be in less than two years. | “This would be in harmony with the President’s judicial program and court plan, which I indorse and approve,” Williams said in a letter to Attorney General Cummings. Williams was 68 years old last December 20. The letter was made public at the White House when President Roose- velt's nomination was announced. Williams, & Federal district judge since 1919, was named for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, embracing . Willing to Quit at 70, He Says Nominee, 68, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Under the judiciary retirement law he is eligible to retire when he is 70, having served more than 10 years on a Federal court. In expressing his willingness to step down voluntarily, Willlams wrote: “I hope you will pardon this letter and that it will not be considered as inappropriate or improper.” The Attorney General, in referring Williams’ letter to Chairman Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he believed the committee should know Williams’ attitude before con- sidering the nomination. Cummings said he forwarded the letter at the suggestion of the Presi- dent. ‘ ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION THE CHIEF SAYS IF T DOESN'T BURN ITSELF OU' HELL BE LOOKIN'INTO T CHIEF US FIRE _DEPT. 1937—FIFTY-SIX PAGES. ¢ Foening Star * SILVER SPRING YOUTH KILLED Parr Hooper McQueen Fa- tally Hurt When Car Turns Over in Virginia. Parr Hooper McQueen, 19, of near Silver Spring, Md., student at the University of the South, Sewanee, | Tenn., and son of an official of the! Washington Gas Light Co., was killed early today and three classmates were | injured in an automobile accident near Wytheville, Va., according to an | Associated Press dispatch received here. | Two of the injured youths were from Washington, one being the gréndson of the late John Joy Edson. The injured are: Gilbert Edson, 19, son of Mrs. Bes- ! sie Edson, Shoreham Hotel. He suf- fered shock. Finley Wright, 19, son of Mr. and | Mrs. Fred E. Wright, 1134 Wyom- ing avene, head injuries. Wallace Gage, Williamstown, Mass., suffered a broken shoulder. The accident occurred when Ed- son’s car, in which the students were en route to Washington for the Easter | holidays, overturned on a mountain | between Wytheville and Marion. | Wright was driving. McQueen’s body was taken to a fu- | neral home at Rural Retreat, Va., near | the scene of the accident, and the | three injured were rushed to a hos- | pital there. Wright's mother said, just before leaving here to go to her son, that he had been removed to Jefferson Hospital in Roanoke. McQueen was the son of James Rus- | sell McQueen, superintendent of serv- ice of Washington Gas Light Co., and a grandson of J. B. McQueen, presi- dent of H. L. and J. B. McQueen, Inc., printers, at 520 Tenth street. | The Associated Press dispatch | quoted County Officer Frank Slater as | saying Edson’s roadster overturned 14 gles west of there. The highway on wRich the accident occurred is in the mountains of Southwest Virginia. ——— Theater “Sit-Down” Off. PARIS, March 25 (#).—The “sit- down” strike at the Sarah Bernhardt ‘Theater was called off today, when the actors decided “the show must go on.” Stagehands also agreed to await | their pay envelopes patiently and i help put on the show Saturday. Summary of Page. | Amusements A-16 | Radio Comics - C-7 | Society Editorials -__A-10 | Short Story. C- Financial __.A-22 | Sports . D-1-2- Lost & Found A-3 | Woman's Pg.. C- Obituary -._A-12 | SUPREME COURT ISSUE. Amendment to limit number of jus- tices urged. Page A-1 STRIKE SITUATION. 8,500 stay-ins march out of eight Chrysler plants. Page A-1 Sit-downers ballot to evacuate auto plants. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Fire razes Jersey City home, killing 7 persons. Page A-2 Death of driver’s wife brings bus trag- edy toll to 20. Page A-4 Borah proposes substitute child labor amendment. Page A-9 Rules Committee head predicts Nazi investigation. Page A-9 FOREIGN. John Drinkwater, British novelist, dies from heart attack. Page A-1 England, France agree to keep Italian troops from Spain. Page A-1 Fascism threatens to draw Europe into war, says Prof. Laski. Page A-5 Alr raiders bomb Madrid in five-hour attack. Page A-8 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Son of gas company official killed in Virginia crash. Page A-1 Capital Transit hikes wages of about 3,300 employes. Page A-1 Snow and freezing temperatures fore- cast for District. Page A-1 Arguments opened in false statements trial of Davison. Page A-2 Buggestions to help 3,000 employables given in broadcast. Page A-2 ‘Woman, recovering from gas explosion, dies in fall. Page A-2 Governor blames Maryland budget de- | ern California Germany to Train Match Makers in Eugenics Campaign BY the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 25.—Match- making by properly qualified Nazi officials soon will be placed on a legal basis in an effolt to secure healthy offspring from sound parent stock A training course for the aspirant match-makers in eu- genics and heredity laws will be started April 7 under the auspices of the labor front and the Nazi racial office. A final examina- tion will qualify practitioners. HEAVY TEMBLOR HITS CALIFORNIA Quake Appears Centered in Imperial Valley South of Pasadena. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 25.—South- shook this morning with a heavy earthquake. It appeared to be centered in the Imperial Valley or south of the Mexican border in the Gulf of California area. It was 8:49 am. when an area of about 10,000 square miles quiverea. Los Angeles and its environs were swayed by a long and continuously increasing motion. Long Beach re- ported it was quite unlike the heavy 1933 shock, which came as a jolt. To- day’: movement was a sort of rhythmic shimmy, with an east-west motion. Santa Monica. Glendale, Pasadena.. Anaheim and Alhambra promptly re- ported similar effects, while to the south the intensity seemed to be greater. In the San Riverside region it was a good shake. Dr. C. F. Richter of the seismological SNOW DUE T0 ROUT CAPITAL'S SPRING Freezing Temperatures Forecast Within 24 Hours. Cool Easter Likely. Freezing temperatures and possibly snow are slated to give 4-day-old Spring a severe jolt within the next 24 hours. The sudden change will begin this | afternoon or tonight, according to Forecaster Charles L. Mitchell, when a cold disturbance moves into the Capital from the West. | Light rain and “possible snow flur- ries,” Mitchell said. will accompany a falling mercury, with a “low” of about 26 degrees being recorded before dawn tomorrow. Tomorrow is scheduled to be “fair and colder,” with fresh but diminish- ing northerly winds. An unexpected windstorm, with an opening blast that sent the velocity- recorded up to 45 m.p.h., came from the southwest shortly after noon. The Weather Bureau said intermittent gusts probably would occur during the afternoon. | | The cold wave will be general east |of the Rockies, the Weather Bureau | reported. | Just how long the cold will last here ! is problematical, Mitchell said. but it appears low temperatures will prevail through Saturday and “there will be no more mild weather before next week.” Balmy breezes. which have swept the city since Spring made its debut Sat: urday night, continued yesterday. driv ing the temperature up to 57 at 5 p.m. and keeping it from dropping lower than 52 at 7 a.m. today. SNOW HITS MIDWEST. Bernardino- | Communities Cut Off in Worst Winds | agreed that the Federal Government | of Year. | B3 tre Associated Press. laboratory of the Carnegie Institution | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,816 (Bome returns not vet received.) Rk TWO CENTS. 8,500 STRIKERS MARCH OUT OF 8 AUTO PLANTS Men Prepare to Establish Picket Lines Until Bargaining Rights Are Settled. CHRYSLER-LEWIS CONFERENCE TO RESUME THIS AFTERNOO! C. 1. O. Chief Is Notified of Full Accept- ance of Agreement—Troopers to Be Placed at Factory Gates. BACKGROUND— Chrysler sit-down strike second offensive of John L. Lewis’ Commit- tee for Industrial Organization, which was formed in 1935 and last year broke with the American Federation of Labor over method of organ- izing workers in present-day industrial establishments. Earlier this year C. I. O. conducted prolonged strike against Gen= eral Motors, which was concluded in February under truce, after numer= ous violent outbreaks and calling out of troops. Gov. Frank Murphy took leading part in settlement of General Motors strike and has led mediation efforts in present Chrysler troubles. By the Associated Press DETROIT, March 25.—More than 8500 striking automobile workers marched in swirling snow today from eight Chrysler Corp. plants they have held since March 8, but prepared to establish picket lines until their strike for exclusive bargaining rights is set- tled. The “sit-downers” in the Chrysler Kercheval avenue plant, the last to vote on the peaceful evacuation agreement, gave their approval about 12:40 p.m., and in a few minutes began to leave the factory. Word of the Kercheval vote was telephoned to the big Dodge plant and 5,000 strikers there marched at once from the plant. About 1,400 strikers in the Kercheval plant cheered the an- nouncement of plans to end the sit-down phase of the strike, but asked for a speech from Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers’ Union, before they gave final assent. Negotiations to Be Resumed. Gov. Frank Murphy at Lansing received word at 12:45 p.m. that the evacuation had started, and said the negotiations be= tween Walter P. Chrysler, corporation chairman, and John L. Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Organization, on the union’s demands, would resume this afternoon. Martin and Frankensteen, organizational director of the U. A. W., hurried by bus to the Dodge plant to take part in a parade there. A crowd of several hundred gathered at the Dodge plant cheered the arrival of the union officials. = = S = Frankensteen announced com- pany police would take charge of all factory gates and the union would estabiish peaceful picket lines. He indicated that he ex- Eecled some State troopers would e stationed at entrances also as observers. Lewis Is Notified. As the evacuation went for- ward, union officials notified Lewis at Lansing of the devel- opments. Union officials said the plants were “in better shape than when the strike started.” They said the men had paid extra atten- tion during the strike to keeping sthe plants clean and the machin- ery protected. High officials of the United Automo- bile Workers of America, who approved a truce yesterday at Lansing. carried its terms to the rank and file in each of eight production plants here, travel- ing by bus over snow and ice covered streets and highways. The agreement on which the strikers Congress Leaders Believe Sit-Downs Beyond U. S. Power By the Associated Press. Administration leaders in Congress. who expect to discuss the labor sit tion with President Roosevelt this week end, said today they believed the Government could do little now about sit-down strikes “There is no constituional power 1for interposition of the Federal Gov- ernment,” said Speaker Bankhead. “unless there should be a state of in- surrection which a State could not | handle. That seems highly amproba- | ble.” Representative Rayburn, Democrat, Texas, House majority leader, Io( | had little power unless a State asked for assistance. Senator Robinson, Democrat, of 1ay on House beer party. Page A3 Compromise possible in case of dentist held in girl's death. ‘ Page A-3 termed the disturbance “strong enough | to cause considerable damage near its point of origin."” This he estimated to be 110 miles southeast of Pasadena, either in the mountains of San Diego County or on the east side of the Imperial Valley, a rich agricultural district at the Mex- ican border. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Today’s Star Former Army captain acquitted on charge of slaying. ‘Page A-24 First traffic death in 15 days; year's total at 36. Page B-1 Funds asked for viaduct, subway cir= cle alterations. Page B-1 Capt. Mansfield may succeed Lamb as traffic head. Page B-1 Driver indicted in traffic death of Mrs. Redman. Page B-1 Man seriously injured in plunge down Union Station airshaft. Page B-1 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Jay Franklin. Mark Sullivan. Delia Pynchon. SPORTS. Travis is playing short for Nats in masterful style. Page D-1 Cleveland club is found difficult to rate by scribes. Page D-1 Tilden’s tennis days over, defeat by Perry demonstrates. Page D-2 Shelby fiasco should be lesson to ring moguls, Dempsey avers. Page D-3 MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. Young Washington. After Dark. Service Orders. Traffic Convictions. Vital Statistics. City News in Brief. Dorothy Dix. Bedtime Story. Nature’s Children. Crossword Puzzle. Letter-Out. FINANCIAL. Corporate bonds up ,table). Clearings well above 1936, Page A-21 Stocks advance( table). Page A-22 Curb prices higher (table). Page A-23 Construction gains sharply. Page A-23 Earnings reports IIVDI'I;IC. Page A-23 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-2 Page B-2 Page B-12 Page B-14 Page B-14 Page B-14 Page B-14 Page C-4 Page C-6 Page C-6 Page C-7 Page D-5 Page A-21 CHICAGO, March 25.—Crippled | prpansas, leader of the Senate ma- communication lines, isolated COM- | 4ority said a solution of the strike Page A-11 | munities and paralyzed highway trans- portation provided evidence today of | the Winter's worst snowstorm in sec- tions of the Middle West. While winds whipped snow into big drifts in Minnesota and the Dakotas, rain, sleet, hail, dust, tornados and (See WEATHER, Page A-4) - MISSING BOAT HUNTED (#).—Coast Guardsmen were ordered to resume search today for a missing aboard. The craft’ put out from Clearwater Tuesday night for a three-hour sail and failed to return. Aboard it were Lester Clark, 20, a waiter, both of Clearwater; Miss Irene Paris, waitress, Ind,, and Miss Madona Mae Forweick, waitress, from Neline, Ohio. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 25 | 18-foot sailboat with four persons | drug clerk, and Cleon Mosely, 20, a | from Fort Wayne, | | situation would be difficult until the Supreme Court decides whether the Wagner labor relations act is consti- | tutional. | the Railway Mediation Board might | be considered to assist in solving labor troubles, but added: “Right now, I don't see much that | | we can do because the (Supreme) Court has held that neither the Fed- | eral Government nor the States can | deal with labor problems.” Representative Dies, Democrat, of Texas, who proposed an investigation of sit-down strikes, suggested today that participants in such strikes be | declared violators of Federal anti- trust laws He would subject them to fines not exceeding $5.000 or imprisonment not exceeding a year, or both. He was writing his ideas into a bill to be in- troduced at once. Under his plan, an employer would the sit-downers to | nave to_notify the_sit-down (See SIT-DOWN, Page A-3.) (Picture on Page A-2.) By a Staft Correspondent of ‘I'ne Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., March 25.— | Aroused at the “improper and un- patriotic” use of the American flag in decorating the graves of “pet poodles” and other animals, the Cissel-Saxon Post, American Legion, has made a protest to the Secretary of War. A resolution introduced by Thurman C. Metcalf, a former post commander, merely named “an animal cemetery in Montgomery County,” and officials were not sure what could be done about it. Copies of the resolution, however, were also to be sent to the Montgomery County Council of the Legion and chapters of the- Daughters of the American Revolution in an effort to bring the protest to the at- tention of other patriotic groups. Metcalf declared that not only were graves, but when they became faded from exposure, they were thrown into a nearby gully with withered flowers and other refuse. Whether there is any law against it or not, it consti- tutes desecration, he asserted. One of the graves in question, he said, was the grave of a poodle named Skippy. Mrs. R. C. Birney, co-proprietor with ber husbend of 'i Aspen Hills Ken- flags used to decorate the animal | Use of F iags on Graves of Doggs Is Hit by Nearby Legion Post nels and the elaborate and only known animal cemetery in the country, said today the only graves decorated with the flag that she knew about were those i of Rags, a mongrel Airedale wounded | and gassed with the 1st Division in France during the World War, and Staff, another Worid War hero. It was possible, she said, that in- dividuals who had buried their pets in the cemetery from time to time dec- orated them with flags, especially on Decoration day. However, there are several thousand dogs buried there, hundreds of them poodles and hun- dreds named Skippy, Mrs. Birney ex- plained. She was quite sure none of the own- knew of no law against it. pointed out that regulations covering use of the flag in the armed forces refer only to persons, and make no provision or mention of the use of the flag in connection with burial or graves of animals, although many units of both branches have mascots, which, like all persons, must some day die. Neither service, nor the American Flag Association, which has a national headquarters office in Washington, were able to recdll any law gpvering the question raised by the Legion post. He suggested that some agency like ers intended any desecration in plac- | ing flags on their pets' grades, and | War and Navy Department officials | voted provided for clearing of the plants and further negotiations be- tween Chrysler and Lewis on the union demands for exclusive bargaining rights. Pickets shouted ‘“closed shop” at Martin and other leaders as they ar- rived in the dark hours before dawn at the huge Dodge plant, which em- (See STRIKES, Page f—fi ) AIRMAIL TO EUROPE POSSIBLE THIS YEAR Farley Predicts Early Start of Trans-Atlantic Service in Louisiana Talks. BY the Associated Press ARABI, La., March 25.—Postmaster General James A. Farley said here today regular aimail sevice to Europe may be inaugurated this year He spoke at the dedication of new | post offices here and at Gretna, small towns across the Mississippi River and below New Orleans. | “within the past year we have | instituted a trans-Pacific airmail serv- ice between the United States and the Far East,” he said, “and a similar | service across the Atlantic to Europe | will probably be inaugurated during | the present year. | “Our foreign airmail system, like our domestic airmail service, is the | finest and most extensive in the world. | These foreign routes encircle and serve the countries of South and Cen- tral America. They also embrace routes to Cuba, to Mexico and to | Canada. Modern airmail service has | been provided among the islands of | the Hawaiian group and improve- | ments have been made in the Alaskan airmail service.” The Postmaster General | business conditions were | throughout the Nation. reported improving VIRGINIAN NAMED A. C. Carter Made Chairman of Alaska Democratic Committee. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 25 ().—A Virginian was Alaska’s Demo- | cratic chieftain today. The Alaska Democratic Central Committee convention yesterday in- stalled, Aubrey C. Carter, formerly of | Danville, Va,, as its chairman. Car- ter is kin to Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson and Senator Carter Glass. His parents lived in Blairs, Va. i