Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1937, Page 3

ROOSEVELT FIT FOR MANY TASKS Greeted at Station by Mrs. Roosevelt and Group of Friends. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. A tanned President arrived back in Washington today after his two-week vacation at Warm Springs, Ga. President Roosevelt’s special train pulled into Union Station at 11 o'clock and a few minutes later he was on his way to the White House looking the picture of health and giving every * evidence of having been benefited by his rest in the hilly pine tree section of Georgia. He had a smile of confi- dence as he waved to a group of friends at the station and indicated he is ready to tackle the many prob- Jems awaiting him. The President was met at the sta- tion by Mrs. Roosevelt, who was at- tired in a riding habit with a long | biue cape over her shoulders. She | was accompanied by 5-year-cld Billy | Donner Roosevelt, eldest son of Elliott | Roosevelt; Vice President and Mrs, Garner, Secretary of State Hull end Attorney General Cummings This group was received by the | President aboard his train, where they exchanged greetings and talked a few minutes before starting for the White | House. | The much-traveled President plans | to spend only a month here before he Jeaves on another trip which will give | him an opportunity to enjoy tarpon fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. He | 11 leave Washington the last week | in April for New Orleans, where the presidential yacht Potomac will be | #waiting him to take him on his fish- | ing cruise. This will be for the period | of about a fortnight. President Roosevelt will don his silk | hat and best suit to go to church to- | morrow at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church. He will be accompanied | by Mrs. Roosevelt. On Monday the President will follow his usual custom | #nd leave hiz desk to go to the rear | portico of the White House and watch the thousand: of children rolling eggs The journey back from Warm Eprings was umeventful. The White FHouse mail pouch was put aboard the | train before midnight which made it | possible for the President to glance through the current issue of The Star | . before he returned. Sit-Down (Continued From First Page.) laws which will end “this type of defi- | BNt insurrection” at once. | Representative Dies, Democrat, of | Texas, who has proposed stopping sit- cown strikes through application of the anti-trust laws, said he believed pommittee hearings on his measure would begin soon. “Local authorities have shown they | an’t cope with the situation,” he de- | clared. “Congress should not evade | the responsibility. It is a national | problem and should be handled na- THE EVENING S AR, WASHINGTON, President Three generations of Roosevelts were on hand at Union Station this morning as the President arrived back from his vacation in Warm Springs, Ga. N Shown here in a White House car as they left the station are, left to right, President Roosevelt; Granddaughter Sarah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt; Mrs. James Roosevelt, daughter- in-law of the President; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and grandson William Donner Roosevelt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt. —Star Staff Photo. CRITICS OF JUDGE Prompted Williams’ State- ment He Would Retire at 70, Thomas Says. | BY the Associated Press. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma said today he had prompted the written statement of Judge Robert L. Williams of the Eastern Oklahom: Federal Court that T he would retire at 70 if named to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne- braska, said yesterday he did not ap- prove elevation of a judge “who con- cedes he is 0 near the age of senility that he is willing to quit in § two vears.” Wil- liams was 68 last December. Judge Williams. gionally.” Miss Perkins’ letter characterized as | » misinterpretation ~ McCormack’s | statement to the House that she had | expressed doubt as to whether sit-down | sirikes were illegal. She replied that early in the General | Motors strike she had told reporters, *the legality of this sit-down method bhas not yet been determined by the pourts.” This, she declared, was “a statement of fact.” Her letter continued: “Since that time the Michigan wourts have taken final action in or- glering the evacuation of plants and X have never questioned that these de- + grees were within the competent juris- diction of these courts. Nor should disobedience to these orders be coun- seled by any Government official.” Praises Gov. Murphy. She said Gov. Murphy of Michigan | Was to be congratulated for solving dif- | ficult problems in industrial relations { *in a peaceful way i« the public inter- | Commenting that Williams' promo- tion ‘“comes in for criticism by the enemies of President Roosevelt's pro- posal to make some ‘changes in our Federal judicial set-up,” Thomas said in a statement: / “Having known Judge Williams timately for more than 30 years, indorsed him for promotion to the Z in- | Federal Circuit Court. “In frequent conversations, Judge Williams advised me of his desire to retire at the age of 70, and desiring to see him promoted to the Circuit Court prior to retirement, I suggested to the judge the advisability of writing At- torney General Cummings direct, stat- { ing that in the event he was promoted | that it would be agreeable for him to retire at the age of 70 years. “I am convinced that this promo- tion is in the public interest. One vacancy exists in the Tenth Circuit Court at this time. One of the sitting justices 1s ill and hence the vacancy should be filled with a judge who can enter the court and begin efficient work at once. Judge Williams fills est and in that of all, disputants.” “The action of the United Automo- | dile Workers in vacating the Chrysler plants shows that responsible labor | eaders can and will comply with court | rulings on private property rights,” she added. ! McCormack, in a speech in the, FHouse Thursday, had said that “if in Jhe past the Secretary of Labor had been merely careless in her state- snents, I hope in the future she will be more careful not to make inciting re- | marks.” | Among the signers to the Lowell telegram were Paul E. Fitzpatrick, Ed- mund W. Longley, M. L. Madden, James L. Richards, Bernard J. Roth- well and Dr. David D. Schannell. They contended no question of right of labor to “liberal wage | healthful working conditions” is in- | wolved Proposals for Federal action already had piled high in anticipation of to- day’s discussion by the President, Vice | President Garner, Senator Robinson Gpeaker Bankhead and House Floor | leader Rayburn.” | | | classes religiously, this requirement.” Senator Lee, Democrat, of Okla- homa, who joined Thomas and the entire Oklahoma House delegation in indorsing Williams, termed ‘“ridicu- lous™ criticism of the judge’s desire to retire, recalling that Representative or Senator announces that he will run for office for only one term.” Lee and Thomas said they believed the controversy might delay indefi- nitely Williams' confirmation in the Benate. ‘Pope {Continued From First Page.) | tive the Christian life and apostolates. He invited the laity to co-operate with the clergy “in the intensification of the Christian life in good works in every field of activity, private and public, assisting the more needy morally and eco- nomically with social Christian good works.” In this manner, he said, “you will | effectively contribute to the well-being of your country.” The letter was dated as of Easter Sunday, although it was made public | today The Pope paid high tribute to Amer- | ican bishops who assisted the Mexican ng hursday noor K Posst ard PECIAL NOT! ] AILY TRIFS MOVING LOADS AND PART 0ads to and fiom Balto. Phila sand New (793 Prequent ps Lo other Bastern ities, “Depeudable Bervice Since 18H6." HE DAVIDSON TRANSFER & STORAGE ). Phone Decatur 2500. | OUR SLAG ROOF manship—always assure you of a solid o Job. _Ask for our “estimatei KOONS ROOFING VSt NW. 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NEW YORK, March 27 (#)—Three gunmen took a $2,711.95 pay roll from messengers of the Court Press, Inc, yesterday and escaped after tying their victims to hot steam pipes. The messengers, Irwin Liberman and Daniel Hughes, each 22, were held up at the lobby of a building at 130 Cedar street, where the Court Press has offices on the second floor. They were backed into a dim fire well, serving as an inside fire escape, and tied with wire to steam pipes. Both suffered minor burns before Hughes worked himself free and then released Liberman. They were bound about 1l “frequently a | BY the Assocated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I. March 27.— Those people who do not ride in auto- mobiles, sometimes referred to as vanishing Americans, made public their rules for survival today, pro- mulgated at the first All-Pedestrian United States. The National Pedestrian’ Association decided, after looking over last year's casualty statistics, that its members had best declare a closed season on themselves 4f their particular species were not to be extinguished altogether. There were legal, as well as an- thropological, aspects of the thing. “Keep on going across the street, H. Blanchard of Providence, executive director, advised. “Legally you're in the right, even if you're dead.” Prof. Roger L. Morrison of the Traffic Conference ever held in the| even if the light turns red,” Arthur | SENAmR ANSWERS‘Pedestri(ms Fight Extinction, Closing Season for Motorists University of Michigan was less given to levity and more to mathematics. “If you could keep the pedestrians over 50 in bed after dark,” he said, “we’d have half the problem solved.” He added the green-lighters, statis- tically, had four times as many chances for survival as red-lighters. suggested motorists really would have a sportier chance at pedestrians if streets were widened so it required more time to cross, and from Birming- ham, Ala, came a report that Boy Scouts with bamboo poles were com- bating pedestrian mass suicide. | Some advice was given motorists, too. 'If a man in a car wants to finish off a man on foot properly, said the association, let him install a | pointed radiator ornament. That im- | pales the man, keeps him out from | under the wheels and saves wear and | tear on the springs. Strikes (Continued From First Page.) generals in opposing camps, comment.- ed after yesterday's sessions. Both were prepared to leave for New York tonight and to return if neces- sary. Gov. Murphy reiterated that the ‘‘conference will continue until a settlement is reached.”, The Governor, wearied by long hours and worn by a heavy cold, used the overnight recess to confer with James F. Dewey, Federal labor con- ciliator, on further strategy in the struggle for an agreement. The goal was the return to jobs of more than 1 60,000 Chrysler employes, 20,000 Briggs | body plant workers dependent on the | Chrysler demand, and an undeter- mined number of other wage earners | similarly dependent. Murphy was known to regard a set- tlement of the Chrysler deadlock as | certain to smooth the way to agree- | ment in two other motor strikes— | the Hudson dispute at Detroit, with more than 10,000 idle, and the Reo | Motor Car Co. strike here, with 2,200 | out of work. Extent of recognition has been the stumbling block in all three disputes, as it was in the General Motors Corp. strike which ended February 11 after 44 days. The first of the automotive | “big three” to feel the *sit-down" | paralysis, General Motors | production after compromising on that | point and pending a final settlement, | which came just two weeks ago. | Observers believed Chrysler, too, | would resume production after agree- {ment on recognition, with negotia- tions on other! points following. | Industrial disputes have cut heavily into the State’s major industry and one of the three most important in the Natlon since the first of the year —a year holding prospects of nearing record production. The General Motors strike threw 125,000 employes out of work and ad- ditional thousands were made idle by the resultant loss of demand. A little more than three weeks after that tie- up ended the Chrysler and Hudson strikes began on the same day, fol- lowed shortly by the Reo sit-down. “Spontaneous” Sit-Downs. General Motors production has been | interrupted 20 times since the Febru- {ary 11 agreement by “spontaneous” sit-down strikes, but none extended | beyond a day. One occurred yesterday |in the Chevrolet small parts plant at Bay City, Mich | 1t ended after less than two hours with an agreement to negotiate the differences next week. The plant em- | ploys 2,300 persons. Approximately 90,000 automotive workers are idle now in Detroit alone. Surveys indicated this has affected | retail business there and relief offi- |cials reported a sharp rise in the ratg_of new applications. Unlke the General Motors strike, | nearly all of the automotive strike idle | are concentrated in Detroit. The Chrysler situation advanced | notably toward peace with evacuation by ‘“sit-downers” of eight plants Thursday. State police took charge of the gates when strikers left and the plants were opened to clerical and cer- tain other employes not concerned with production. One result of the evacuation will be the distribution of $2,000,000 in back salaries. CAB SERVICE RESTORED. CHICAGO, March 27 (#).—Taxicab service reached normalcy in Chicago today, after a 21-day drivers’ strike marked by sporadic outbreaks of vio- lence, including a riot in the Loop. Signing of three agreements by offi- clals of the Checker and Yellow Cab companies and strikers’ representa- tives ended the strike last night. Several hundred of the city’s 5,500 cabmen returned to work at once and others reported for duty at 6 am. today. The agreements were signed at a | City Hall conference called py the City Council's Committee onr'fhns- resumed | portation. They provide for recogni- tion of the Midwest Taxicab Drivers’ Union, organized by the strikers, as bargaining agency for its members, re-employment of the strikers without discrimination and adjustment of wages and. working hours by a joint | arbitration board. Decisions of the board will be retroactive to the time the men returned to work. { VIOLENCE FLARES IN DETROIT. | Theatergoers See Clash of Drivers in Cab Dispute. DETROIT, March 27 (#).—Violence | drivers of the Checker Cab Co. here. told police was taken from him by six | men was foufid hanging on the edge of |a breakwater at suburban Grosse | Pointe Farms. | Theatergoers last night witnessed | & spirited brief clash as, police said, | non-union drivers attempted to de | stroy signs carried by pickets. DIVORCE GRANTED udge Trammell Signs Decree at Miami on Grounds of Mental Cruelty. EY the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla, freda M. Bingham a divorce from former Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut today. Judge Trammell signed the final decree this morning after a transcript of the testimony, in which Mrs. Bing- ham charged the former Senator with mental cruelty, had been filed. She sought no alimony. Bingham's attorneys had read into the record a general denial of the charges, although he did not testify. He has been ill in Washington. LAND AT BASRA BASRA. Irag, March 27 (#).—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in their sports monoplane-at 9:35 a.m. (4:35 am. E. 8. T.) today and took off again shortly for an undisclosed destination believed to be Baghdad. The Lindberghs, returning from Islands in the Persian Gulf. MODERN | CASEIN PAINT Twelve beautiful black. Modex co —high light Will not crack, lingering odor. Phone your order—it will be del: Harry Barsantee of Hartford, Conn,, | flared today in a labor dispute among | | A taxicab which Robert Germer | TO MRS. BINGHAM March 27.—Judge | Worth M. Trammell granted Mrs. Al- | Indla, spent last night on the Bahrein | \ D. C, SATURDAY, GROUND STUDIES ADVISORY OPINIONS MADE AT SAMOA Clipper Crew Ready to Start | Final Lap of Trip to New Zealand. BY EDWIN C. MUSICK, Captain, Pan-American Clipper. By Radio to The Star. PAGO PAGO, Samoa, March 27— Ground studies—surveys of approaches to landings—were made yesterday at this third station on the 7,000-mile air trade” route under survey by Pan- American Airways ' ~tween the United States and New Zealand. ‘The lay-over here is affording us an excellent opportunity to familiarize ourselves with tide and other charac- teristics of beautiful Tutuila Harbor, which are as essential to flyers as to mariners. Our research into such meteorolog- ical records as are available, supple- mented by those of more recent date compiled by our own new station here, are centering on the interesting ques- tion of the period of visibility of “The Rainmaker,” the highest peak in this mountain group, particularly during the seasons of greatest rain, haze and fog. Our studies have been satisfac- tory and indications are that this will become one of the most important air landmarks in the South Pacific in fu- ture years. Ship Routine Maintained. Ship routine was maintained aboard the clipper yesterday, with everything in readiness to continue @ur flight over the remaining stage of 1,800 miles to Auckland, but the weather on the course ahead is still not of the best for the purpose of aerial survey. ‘Weather of a kind which will afford greatest visibility is of more impor- tance on the last stage of our flight than on any others because of the fact our route lies across a long series of coral island groups, which we must survey. Our flight will mark the first time that many of these islands ever have been observed from the air and their contours must be carefully recorded, also all other general aspects, includ- ing harbors for future service to air pilots. Plan to Study Haapai Group. We are particularly desirous of studying the condition of the Haapai group and the Tonga.abu group. These lie in the first sector of our plotted course, south-southeast from here. All available mariner’'s reports are that anchorages are few in number in the Haapai group, although this riay not be a fact and the reports due entirely to the limitations of surface explora- tion. One of the special duties of officers on watch during’this part of the forthcoming flight will be to check and verify all possible sheltered waters af- forded by these stepping-stones across the South Pacific. The speed with which the storm that has been centered for the last several days north of the Island of New Zealand moves off our projected course will determine the time of our take-off. If we leave here at dawn tomorrow, as now seems possible, we shall cross the international dateline in the early hours of the morning, and although our flight should require no more than 12 ora 13 hours, we will arrive at Auckland Monday evening, | which means we will have practically no Easter at all. (Copyright, 1937, by the North Americ s Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Girls Enroll in Y. M. C. A. Class. | | COLUMBUS, Nebr. (#)—The floors | | of upstairs apartments in Columbus | | shuddered. So did the people who live | | downstairs. | The reason: The Young Men's Chris- | tian Association announced 145 young | women were enrolled for tap-dancing | classes. ! BEFORESYEE.OS!JAg DEAL On a New De Soto or Plymouth {| MID-CITY AUTC CO. Washington’s Oldest i De Soto and Plymouth Dealer 1711 14th St. N.W. Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St N.W. Corner of 12th and “L* Circles Daily, 2:30 & 7:30 P.M. 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Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat, of Washington, drafted a resolution asking the nine justices to agree to express their views on the legality of major bills before Congress or just adopted. It would prevent long delays and uncertainty, he said. Schwellenbach contended a prece- dent was established by Chief Justice Hughes’ letter to Genator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana doubting the constitutionality of dividing the court’s work between two or more groups of justices. “This is clearly an advisory opinion,” he said, “on a matter which has never been presented to Congress.” The idea, he added, was advanced | when the Constitution was drafted. President Washington later asked the court, he said, a series of questions on treaties with France, but acted before getting a reply. Discussion Relaxes. Discussion of the President’s bill re- laxed during the Easter week end, al- though compromise proposals con- tinued to be offered. Both sides re- mained adamant, however, against giv- ing ground on basic principles. Senator Connally, Democrat, of | Texas, a foe of the President’s pro- posal, suggested a constitutional amendment fixing the size of the Su- | preme Court at nine ,authorizing val- | untary retirement of justices at 70 | and requiring them to leave the bench at 75. He explains it “just so happens” the amendment would be in line with Mr. Roosevelt's objectives inasmuch as it would bring, on ratification, immedi- | ate retirement of five justices who by that time would be over 75. He con- tends the people rather than Congress should vote on any court change. “The only thing'T am hesitant about is that some one would say I am weak- ening in my opposition to the Presi- dent’s bill,” Connally said. “I am not, at all.” Favors State Conventions. Connally expressed a preference for action on an amendment by State | conventions instead of by Legislatures, although he said he was not sure the | amending clause of the Constitution | I Held as Slayer HARRY FRENCH. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ~ . Slaying J =] (Continued From First Page.) door, but he couldn’t find the knob and I opened it for him. “When I returned Claude was start- ing to lie down on a couch him if he was badly hurt. He said he would be all right.” ‘Wrote Story of Own Shooting. He died four hours later with five bullet wounds in his body. On arrival at the hospital, he had telegraphed to San Francisco the first account of the shooting, ending: “Condition of McCracken serious.” He named French as the assailant. Sheriff’s Deputy George Kelley told the jury French admitted he shot Mc- Cracken. A. Hafer, a storekeeper, wept as he testified he had loaned a .22 auto- matic pistol to French just before the shooting. “French seemed normal and happy and said he wanted the weapon for target practice with a friend,” Hafer said. District Attorney K. A. Wylie, who conducted the inquest, said he was unable to find a motive, but Sheriff John Sharp asserted he was one in the constant battling between the two newspapers. MORE GRAIN IS USED Increased Amount Required in Production of Liquors. An increasing amount of grain from farms is being used for whisky, beer and alcohol. The Agriculture Department re- ported today that more than 100,000,- allowed Congress to call conventiom;OOO bushels of corn, barley and rye and arrange for election of delegates. | were used in the last fiscal year to Belief that this could be done was | voiced by Senators Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska and O’Mahoney, Demo- crat, of Wyoming, opponents of the | President’s bill. 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