Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today and tomorrow; iiitie change in temperature; moderate to fresh north- west winds. Temperatures—Highest, 46, 8t 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 25, at 1:30 Full Associated Press | News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Afternoon. a.m. yesterday. Full report on page A-9. w) No. 1,671—No. 33,934 Means Associated Press. Entered as second class matter post_office, Washinston, D. O. he 3 oy Stae WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1937—108 PAGES HANDS-OFF POLICY ON STRIKES IS ADOPTED BY ADMINISTRATION; CHRYSLE % Roosevelt Sees Leaders for 2 Hours. SIT-DOWN CRISIS| HELD CLEARING Robinson Asserts U. S. Statutes Not Yet Violated. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The administration will maintain a hands-off policy in the sit-down strike situation—at least for the pres- ent and unless there is violation of & Federsl statute or a call from State authorities for aid to maintain law and order. ‘This was the burden of a statement {ssued last night by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, leader of the Senate, fol- lowing a two-hour-and-a-quarter con- ference with President Roosevelt at the White House, in which Vice Presi- dent Garner participated Senator Robinson. as he and the Vice President were leaving the Execu- tive Mansion, dictated the following: “There are two conditions under which Federal action may be invoked in cases of acute strikes, namely: ‘Where Federal laws are violated or where Federal property, including the mails, is interfered with. Unless one of these conditions exists, Federal in- tervention or action, under the Con- &titution and decisions of the courts, is not wairanted. “The second condition is in cases where State authorities, under the Federal law, ask the services of Fed- eral agencies in the preservation of law and order and in the prevention of violence. “Neither condition has so far arisen. “Except in instances where {inter- state commerce is interfered with, where a Federal law Is disregarded, | the Federal Government does not and cannot, undr the Constitution, initi- ate action. | “It is felt that the sit-down strike | situation, In a general sense, is im- proving.” House Leaders Confer. Prior to the conference with the Vice President and Senator Robinson, the President spent an hour with Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn of the House. The seriousness of the sit-down strike situation was soft-pedaled at the White House, after President Roosevelt's return to Washington from Georgia yesterday. The easing of the situaticn in De- | troit, brought about by the removal | of the sit-down strikers from the Chrysler plants and a probable agree- ment between the corporation and | R CONFEREES ADJ Sit-Down Techn ique Effective In Mass Production Industries New Type in Automotive down” is undebatably effective. that control over a single gadget ma; functioning of an industry or a city. Prophets of disaster long have be acted with unified purpose, These m young fellows with college educations and a knowledge of mass psychology. | They are, perhaps, the type that would | have been absorbed by industry itself before the war. Then labor leaders were apt to be a grim, gruff lot. This new sort likes to mix a good deal of campus-style horse-play into indus- trial warfare, to pep it up with foot | ball song parodies, and to listen to of Leadership and Strategy Developed by Labor Organizations Field Dispute. This is the first of a series of articles on the technic and direction of the sit-down strike, labor’s most formidable weapon, as it has operated to paralyze the motor industry in Detroit, BY THOMAS R. HENRY. 8taft Correspondent of The Star. DETROIT, March 27.—Quite aside from its ethics or legality, the “sit- It is s0 effective, in fact, that even the consummate masters of this new technique in industrial warfare are uneasy over its potentialities. because it has found the great weakness of modern mass production—the fact It is effective y cripple, if not stop altogether, the en sounding the warning that 8 or 10 men in key positions could make life impossible in a modern metropolis, if they en would not be high officials. They would be, for the most part, overalled mechanics. Add to this clever leadership—bright < symphony orchestras on spare eve- nings. Merlin D. Bishop, spectacled Brook- wood Labor College graduate who is educational director of the United Automobile Workers of America, was rehearsing the latest pep songs with another of the union's international officars Thursday afternoon when he (See SIT-DOWN, Page A-3.) SHIPSRUSHTOAID OF U.S. FREIGHTER Big Liner Turns to Go to Rescue After Second Distress Call. BY the Associated Press. HONOLULU, March 27.—Ships in a wide area of the northwestern Pa- cific turned today to the aid of the leaking and helpless American freight- | er Volunteer, with a crew of about 40, | which was fighting a losing battle | against the sea 840 miles off the coast | of Japan. A second distress call within four hours turned the big liner Empress of Canada off her course to go to the rescue. At the same time several Jap- anese freighters began a race to the Volunteer’s side. In the van of the rescue ships the British freighter Fresno City nenred, the scene in a 240-mile run she start- | ed when the Volunteer sent her first call for help at 12:30 a.m. (Pacific standard time). Again Calls for Help. A second call for help at 4 am. to the Empress of Canada said: | the workers, is believed to have put s different light on the White House | conferences. The crisis which ex-| isted in Detroit having passed, the demands by members of Congress that the administration take some | steps without delay are being laid aside, at least for the time being. Any recurrence of sit-down strikes would revive them, however. While the President himself made no statement regarding the sit-down strikes, the congressional leaders and Secretary of Labor Perkins, who also conferred with Mr. Roosevelt, threw cold water on the widely published reports that the President had re- turned to Washington to do ‘‘some- thing” about the strikes. No Presidential Plan Indicated. If the Executive has any such plan n mind, it was not admitted in any | of these quarters. . Furthermore Speaker Bankhead, be- fore going into conference with the President, denied flatly that Mr, Roosevelt had intimated to him or to | Majority Leader Rayburn that he de- #ired to talk over the sit-down strike | situation with them. | When Speaker Bankhead and Ray- burn were leaving the White House the Speaker, pointing out that they ~ (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-6) PUERTO RICO FEARS NEW CLASHES TODAY Troops “On the Alert” After Re- ports Demonstrations Are Planned. 7 the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, March 27.—The government tonight ordered National Guard companies and the 65th infantry regiment to remain “on the alert” in their barracks to- night because of reports that Na- tionalists planned independence dem- onstrations tomorrow. Police said that although Mayor Manuel Marin had refused to grant » permit for a Nationalist parade at Mayaguez tomorrow, they had in- formation Nationalist leaders intended %o carry out their plan. Authorities feared a repetition of Jast Sunday's disorders at Ponce, where 18 were killed in firing be- tween police and demonstrating Na- tionalists. The sudden and unannounced re- turn to Puerto Rico of former Senator Luis Munor Marin, an independence sdvocate, was considered significant. Munoz Marin, who flew here from Washington, is not a Nationalist, however. He cautioned against force- ful means of gaining independence. The guard was increased about La Princesa Prison, where Pedro Albizu Campos and other Nationalists sent- enced for conspiracy are being held. They were convicted last July United States Marshal Draughon said he had not received orders to remove them to United States prisons. 4 “The Fresno City is coming to my | assistance. Water is gaining fast. Re- quest you come also.” The Empress of Canada was 635 miles from the Volunteer. The various messages indicated the Volunteer's crew had been fighting trouble since being buffeted by a se- vere storm two days ago. “We've shipped 8 feet of water in our No. 1 hold and our pumps are un- able to control it,” said a roundabout message from the Volunteer shortly before noon. “We are proceeding at reduced speed at latitude 25:35 north, longitude 153:45 east.” Left New Orleans Feb. 7. Under command of Capt. W. W. Geldert of Algiers, La., the 7,717-ton ship left New Orleans February 7 for the Pacific Coast, and then headed for Kobe, Japan, via Honolulu, with a cargo of cotton and merchandise. She is owned by the Lykes Bros.-Ripley Steamship Co. The Volunteer was the fourth ship to encounter trouble in the Pacific in | the last fortnight. On March 13 the British freighter Silverlarch, afire for several days, turned her eight pas- sengers adrift in lifeboats 400 miles northeast of Honolulu as the U. 8. 8. Louisville raced to the rescue. The passengers were Dpicked up by the cruiser. The freighter crept in to Hon- olulu, where the blaze was put out. Message Reoeived. NEW ORLEANS, March 27 (#)— E. A. Jimison, marine department manager of the Lykes Bros.-Ripley Steamship Co., Inc., here late today received a relayed message from Capt. Geldert, master of the disabled freighter Volunteer, reading: “Expect Fresno City reach me 12 p.m., March 28 (about 10 p.m. Central standard time). Twelve feet of water in No. 1 hold. Unable to control.” FRIEND 15 SHOT: ENGINEER QUIZZED L. A. Dent, Jr., Questioned | After J. C. Lanahan Is Wounded. Jerry C Lanahan, 21, of Oxon Hill, | Md, was in a serious_condition in! Emergency Hospital lurnllht with a bullet wound near his heart, while| police were holding a close friend for | questioning in connection with the shooting, which occurred in an aparte thent Hiotide A2 1701 Bark foad yesterday afternoon. The man being held, Louis Addison Dent, jr., 31, 3300 Sixteenth street, was sa{d to have been in & room alone with Lanahan when the single shot was fired, and is said to have had the gun used, a .22-caliber revolver, in his hand when others in the apartment rushed in Arriving before lanahan was re- moved to the hosepital, Inspector Ed- | ward J. Kelly and tenth precinct po- lice said Lanahan told them Dent had fired the shot. Later, however, In- spector Bernard W. Thompson, chief | of detectives, and Detective Sergt. ‘Walter Beck said a note from Lanahan | to his wife had been found in the room, this discovery leading them to believe the wound might have been self-inflicted. They declined to dis- close contents of the note. Three Are Released. Present in the apartment at the time of the shooting, in addition to Lanahan and Dent, were the former's sister, Mrs. Ethel Robertson; her cousin, W. 8. Clark of the Park road address, and Richard McAuliffe, 1711 Lamont street. All were taken to the station house for questioning and later released. Clark, son of Mrs. Edna Clark, who rents a room in the Park road apart- ment to Mrs. Robertson, a widow, said he arrived at the apartment a few minutes before the shooting. Mrs. Robertson, he said, was in the kitchen when the shot was heard and he rushed into the room to find Dent holding the revolver. Dent was look- ing at the gun, but said nothing either then or later, Clark said. Police were notified by Emergency Hospital after & call was received for an ambulance. Police did not disclose the results of their early questioning of Dent, other than to say he denied doing the shoot- (See SHOOTING, Page A-10) Hoover Expected in Miami. MIAMI, Fla, March 27 (®— Former President Herbert Hoover is expected here about April 1 to be the guest of George F. Getz, former treasurer of the Republican National Committee, on & fishing cruise to the Florida keys. Bingham Gave BY the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla., March 27.—Mrs. Al- freda M. Bingham received a final di- vorce decree from former Senator Hiram Bingham of Oonnecticut todsy after she testified he recognized her presence by “a kind of grunt,” al- though he greeted their two dogs “very affectionately.” “Absolutely like s stranger,” was her reply to a question regarding his conduct toward her in their marital relationship in recent years. “When he came home at night in Washington,” she said in & transcript of testimony released today, “we had two dogs and he would always greet them affectionately and effusively, but he kind of condescended by giving a kind of grunt to me &8 recognition of my precense, that is gll. He did not greet me the same way he did the two dogs.” As to his conduct and general r- -~ Wife ‘Grunts’ But Petted Dogs, Court Told versation regarding current affairs, she testified: “He took the attitude that I had a very inferfor mind, a ‘'very inferior brain, and wanted me to understand he felt that way, so he often told me, ‘You don’t understand this,’ or ‘You don’t understand -that.’” She said she asked Bingham to take her back into his affections about two or three years ago. “I begged him to try and have a reconciliation, but he would not even speak to me. He turned his back.” One of her seven sons, Woodbridge, had testified previously he believed the trouble began about 10 years ago on a trip to the Orient. “It began, as far as I saw it, in Ja- pan,” he said. “* * * My mother was ill and he made no attempt, as far as T could make out, to bri bout good feeling between them. ® OURN |Fail to Find Settlement Basis. GOV. MURPHY IS OPTIMISTIC Phraseology Main Barrier, Official Source Avers. BACKGROUND— February 24, two weeks after settlement of major issues in Gen= eral Motors strike, Chrysler dispute began when R. T. Frankensteen, organizing director of U. A. W. A., telegraphed Walter Chrysler re- questing a “national conference” to work out “a collective bargaining agreement.” Subsequent negotia~ tions broke down and courts grant- ed injunction to force eviction of plants held by sit-downers.” Com- pany oficials branded strike “a form of revolution” which ‘“‘cone cerns everybody.” Lansing con= ferees were blocked by U. A. W.'s demand for sole bargaining rights among 67,000 workers. BY the Associated Press, LANSING, Mich,, March 28 (Sun- day) —Negotiations in the Chrysler Corp. strike adjourned at 12:30 a.m. (Eastern standard time) today until 1 p.m., apparently without finding & solution to the deadlock over union demands for the sole right to bargain for the firm's 67,000 employes, most of them now idle. A source close to the conference said it was “simply a matter of phraseology” and that out one sentence separates the two groups.” Gov. Frank Murphy retained his optimistic attitude, and told newsmen the conference was “moving forward.” “There will be a settlement,” the | Governor said, adding that he was “satisfied” with progress made so0 far. He sald the “situation is about the same” as when he spoke to reporters | at the previous recess taken for | dinner. Leading the opopsing groups of con- ferees were Walter P. Chrysler, chair- man of the sutomotive concern, and John L. Lewls, leadér of thé unibn forces as chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Gov. Murphy said that because of & bituminous contract conference in New York, Lewis, also president of the United Mine Workers of America, would have to leave Lansing tonight (Sunday). In event that the strike has not been settled by then, the Governor said, the conference will be recessed until mid- week, probably reconvening Wednes- day. He said Chrysler also probably would leave the city during the recess. At Detroit the Chrysler Corp. an- nounced yesterday that it would begin distribution Tuesday of pay checks for work prior to the strike. Several Plans Submitted. An authoritative source said that several plans for settling the Chrysler automotive strike had been submitted to the peace conference, but none has been satisfactory to both sides. A rumor circulating outside Gov. PFrank Murphy’s conference room was that one proposal under consideration was for the Chrysler Corp. to recog- nize the United Automobile Workers of America as the collective bargain- ing agent for its own members and refrain from recognizing any other group. This lacked official confirma- tion. During the afternoon union coun- sel asked Circuit Judge Allan Camp- bell at Detroit to issue a mandatory injunction requiring the company to recognize the U. A. W. A. as the sole bargaining agency for the 67,000 Chrysler employes, 60,000 of whom are idle. Request Is Obstacle. The union's request for exclusive bargaining powers has been the chief obstacle to settlement of the three- week-old strike since the sit-downers evacuated the plants they had held 18 days. When the conferees recessed to eat, Gov. Murphy, jovial despite the dis- comfort of a cold, told newsmen: “I doubt if we finish tonight. Every- thing is going satisfactorily, however.” He said that he personally favored an PEaster recess, resuming the first of the week. A reliable source close to the con- ference said it was significant that (See AUTO LABOR, Page A-3.) THREE D. G, MEN HURT IN FATAL ACCIDENT Leesburg Woman Killed, Hus- band Injured in Triple Crash Near Hamilton. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG, Va., March 27.—Mrs. Leith Rawlings, 21, of this town, was killed and her husband and three ‘Washingtonians were injured in & triple automobile crash near Hamil- ton, eight mjles from here, tonight. - Rawlings was in Loudoun County Hospital here, where physicians said his condition was undetermined. The other victims suffered minor hurts. They are Rodney Jones of 1530 Rhode Island avenue, Jack Futz of 215 R street northeast, and Joe Brown of 208 R street northeast. The Rawlings car, traveling west on the Purcellville-Leesburg pike, was side-swiped by a machine containing two unidentified colored men and thrown into the path of the Wash- ingtonians’ vehicle, driven by Brown. “He told me definitely at this time (8es BINGHAM, Plll‘ Passersby brought the victims to the hospital. l * Every FIVE CENTS | TEN CENTS | THOUGHT IT TOOK ONLY THREE WEEKS) TO HATCH! R MusT SOMETHING MusT BE THE ™M, AUITH \T. GETTING oL \T'S <k AWFUL™ | SPEAKING OF EASTER EGGS! Cool Weather Due to Curtail Traditional Easter Parade Early Observance of Day Results in Decrease in Number of Visitors. Roosevelts to Attend Services. With fewer visitors than usual, due to the early observance of the holi- day, the Capital was ready today for its annual celebration of Easter, but the prospect of unusually cold weather cast a chill over the aspirations of those who had planned to parade their new Spring finery in the traditional promenades. Easter bonnets will be safe from rain, according to the predictions of Weather Forecaster Charles L. Mitch- ell, but the temperature is apt to hover somewhere between 30 and 40 degrees. by Washington's visitors arrived train, bus and private automobile, but | their number was far from record- breaking. Several special trains and & number of busses were operated, however, and the Washington tourist camp reported a capacity crowd, with about 75 trailers wheeled into line last night. Most of the hotels were filled, but this factor bore little* re- lation to the Easter crowds, since the percentage of guests has been high all Winter. Roosevelts to Attend Church. President and Mrs. Roosevelt will lead the thousands attending church services this morning. Mr. Roosevelt will wear & black cutaway coat, striped trousers and top hat, but Mrs. Roose- velt had not decided last night what she would wear. They will attend 8t. Thomas' Episcopal Church. Mrs. Roosevelt also will attend the Knights (8ee EASTER, Page A-2) CORCORAN OPENS PAINTING DISPLAY 15th Biennial Exhibition Preview Attended by Bril- liant Company. The Fifteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paint- ings, an event of national importance in the world of art, opened last night at the Corcoran Gallery of Art with a preview attended by a brilliant com- pany of guests, many from distant points. The exhibition, largest in the his- tory of the gallery’s biennial shows, will be thrown open to the general public today at 2 p.m. for four hours. Thereafter the show will be open daily through May 9. Leaders in art circles here and in other cities joined with dignitaries of public and private life of Wash- ington in viewing last night the col- orful collection of 461 paintings se- Jected by a distinguished jury of art- ists as worthy of inclusion in the notable exhibition. Board Receives Guests. Members of the Board of Trustees of the gallery, of which George E. Hamilton is president, received the guests and, with C. Powell Minnige- rode, director of the gallery, aided in guiding the visitors through the 14 galleries in'which the pictures have been hung. The main lobby and grand staircase were decorated with palms and other foliage, which formed & striking background for the hun- dreds of guests. An orchestra played in the lobby during the evening. Of special interest to the throng ‘were the four paintings chosen by the jury for the W. A. Clark and the Cor- coran awards. Early in the evening, in Director Minnigerode’s office, the $5,000 in cash prizes and the Corco- ran medals and honorable mention certificate were presented to the for- tunate artists. Yesterday afternoon the winners were congratulated by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt during a visit to the gallery. Mrs. Roosevelt appeared greatly im- pressed with ‘he exhibition. She was escorted through the galleries by Director Minnigerode. 8he readily agreed to pose with the winning artists for newspaper and news reel photo- graphers. She paused to chat with Edward Bruce, head of the Treasury art project. Hopper Landscape Wins First. ‘The prize-winning paintings are “Cape Cod Afternoon,” a landscape by Edward Hopper of New York, who was presented with the first Clark prize of $2,000 and the Corcoran gold (8ee CORCORAN, Page A-5.) EARHART PLANE LOADED Placed on Ship to Be Taken to Los Angeles for Repairs. HONOLULU, March 27 (#).—Amelia Earhart’s big monoplane, damaged in the accident that interrupted her projected world flight & week ago, was loaded aboard the liner Lurline today. The plane will be taken to Lo Angeles for overhauling before Miss Earhart resumes her globe-girdling flight, perhaps May 1. B. K. FOCHT, HOUSE MEMBER, EXPIRES Pennsylvanian, 74, Stricken in Taxicab on Way to Theater. Representative Benjamin Kurtz Focht, Republican, of Pennsylvania died suddenly in a taxicab last night after being stricken with an acute heart attack. He was 74 years old and had been in Congress since 1907, though his tenure was broken twice. Focht and his secretary, Miss Lottie E. Stetler of the Continental Hotel, had just finished dinner when the seizure occurred. Leaving a down- town restaurant, they got into a cab, intending to go to a movie. “I noticed that Mr. Focht looked s little i11,” said Miss Stetler. “When we got to Fifteenth and F streets he slumped in his seat and I ordered the driver to go to Emergency Hospital.” On arrival there Representative Focht was pronounced dead. Dr. George W. Calver, Capitol phy- sician, revealed that he had been treating Representative Focht for a heart ailment for about a year. Only Friday, he said, his patient dropped into his office and said he “felt great.” Appeared Weli Yesierday. Attaches of the Burlington Hotel, where Mr. Focht had lived for several years, said he appeared in good health when he left the hotel yesterday morning. After a conference with Dr. Cal- ver, Dr. A. Magruder MacDonald, Dis- trict coroner, permitted the removal of the body to the Zurhorst under- taking establishment at 301 Fast Capi- tol street. Late last night Miss Stetler had been unable to get in touch with Representative Focht's family in Lewisburg and Pittsburgh. She said (See FOCHT, Page A-11.) D.C. BANKTO PAY SECOND DIVIDEND Federal-American Plans to Distribute $1,248,000, Starting April 5. BY HAROLD B. ROGERS. Payment of a 15 per cent dividend to 23,000 depositors of the closed Fed- eral-American National Bank & Trust Co., amounting to more than $1,248,- 000, will begin Monday, April 5, it was announced last night by Cary A. Hardee, receiver. Hardee has ar- ranged a system of paying depositors in groups—some each day—to avoid confusion and crowds in the office, 1336 New York avenue. “Notice will be mailed to each de- positor,” the receiver explained, “with instructions to call at the bank for dividend checks on the date indi- cated in the notice.” He asked depositors to adhere astrictly to the notices and to bring their cards with them for identifica- tion. The payment will constitute the second dividend from this bank, which distributed the first dividend of 80 per cent in September, 1933. Other Dividends Promised. Hardee said “further dividends will be available to the depositors at a later date as the bank has a large amount of assets on which it cannot realize at the present time. Neither would it be advisable to liquidate at once. No intimation as to the time of further payments an be made now.” He promised, however. “a further payment at the earliest possible moment.” The Federal-American was the largest Washington bank to fail to reopen its doors after the bank holi- day of March, 1933. It had a capital stock of $2,000,000 and total assets of a book value of $17,095,563.64. The institution was first placed in the hands of a conservator, John Poole, former presiddnt of the bank. Through sale of some of its assets to the new Hamilton National Bank and a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corp., it was able to pay 50 per cent to depositors when the Ham- ilton bank opened in September, 1933. In addition to paying out the 50 per cent, which went to unsecured creditors, the Federal-American has paid out secured and preferred lia- bilities totaling $4,576,047.42. The loan from the Reconstruction (See FEDERAL-AMERICAN, A-11.) OIL WELL FIRE CHECKED ‘\50 Quarts of Nitroglycerin Used to Blast Flames. ARDMORE, Okla., March 27 (P).— Using 50 quarts of nitroglycerin, pro- fessional fire fighters today blasted flames from the Wright-Smith Oil Co.'s No. 3 Yates, a gasser in Gar- vin County. Glowing ruins, however, threatened to reignite the gas. Oil men esti- mated damage at $50,000. Fed by an estimated 20,000,000 cubic feet of gas, the flames roared deflance three days and nights. Production 20 Pct. Over °29 Held Need to Offset Machines BY the Associated Press. W. P. A, researchers declared yes- terday so many labor-saving machines and techniques have developed in the last eight years that business would have to boost its production 20 per cent above the 1929 volume to reduce unemployment to 1929 figures. Corrington Gill, acting W. P. A. administrator, said the report empha- sized anew the necessity of keeping in tauch with technological trends s0 the Government may help work- ers “who find themselves without 8 source of inceme as & result of in- dustrial, economic and social change.” He suggested it’ would be desirable to set up Government machinery to keep abreast of changes in industrial technique. “This would make it possible to determine at the earliest moment the industries, occupations and areas most likely to be affected,” he asserted. Such information, made available to labor, industry, the general public and governmental and private agen- cies, would suggect acaptations in ! hiring policies, dismissal wages, hours of work, retraining, employment office programs, unemployment insurance, relief and other forms of social se- curity,” he added. The report was submitted to Gill by David Weintraub and Harold Posner after a research survey. Gill viewed the present discussion of labor-saving devices as a continu- ation of the controversy born in Eng- l1and during the industrial revolution. “Our economic system has not evinced an ability to make the neces- sary adjustments fast enough,” he said. “It may, therefore, be expected that the dislocations caused by tech- nological progress will continue to present serious problems of industrial, economic and social readjustment.” The report carried charts which showed that even during the pros- perous 1920s there was substantial unemployment. i | “Unless production in all types of | services increases considerably and keeps pace with technological change, we are faced with & permanent un- employment situation,” Gill said. \ COMPROMISE OUT, ASHURST SAYS OF NEW COURT PLANS Will Have Clean Victory or Defeat, Senate Leader Declares. CLOSE OF HEARINGS : BY APRIL 10 IS SEEN Proposal for Substitution Cannot Be Made in Committee, Judi- ciary Chairman Declares. BACKGROUND— Vered at invalidating decisions of the Supreme Court on several major parts of New Deal legislative program, President Roosevelt last month astounded most of Congress and the Nation by proposing ez- tensive revision of the highest judiciary set-up. Salient features ©of his program were retirement of justices at the age of 70, increase in number from 9 to 15 and direct appeal of constitutional cases. Most effective fight against plan thus far has come from Senate in- dependents and members of Presi- dent’s own party, with court re- vision by amendment being princi- pal alternative. BY the Associated Press. Benator Ashurst, Democrat, of Ari- zona, debonair leader of the fight for the Roosevelt court reorganization bill, emphatically closed the road to com- promise last night. At a time when opponents of the bill are advancing a number of come promise suggestions, generally in the form of constitutional amendments, Ashurst declared none would be ace cepted, Earlier in the day, opponents dis- cussed a suggestion that they go to the ‘White House in & body to see if the President cannot be persuaded to ac- cept one or another of the alternative proposals. But, said Ashurst, “the President should not and will not make any change in his own plans.” For him- self, he added: “Never shall it be said that I slipped through the meshes of a compromise. I am against compromise. I want & clean victory or a clean defeat.” Governors Back Plan. ‘The week end brought, too, & cone certed radio drive for the bill by the ors of four Southern States, Govs. Leeche of Loutsiana, Graves of Alabama, Rivers of Georgia and Johne ston of South Carolina urged enact- ment of the bill as the simplest and best method of reeolving the conflict between court décisions and adminis= tration desires. All stressed the weight of public opinion whirh has manifested itself behind the New Deal's legislative program, Gov. Graves, answering Chief Justice Hughes' argument that there is no undue congestion or delay in the court's business, cited the long wait for decisions on major legislation. Ashurst, his usual good humor and expansiveness enhanced by the fact he was celebrating the twentys fifth anniversary of his entrance td the Senate, sat at his desk yester= day and, with ample gesticulation and abundant metaphor, answered questions about the status and prose pects for the bill. It will be impossible, first of all he said, for. the opposition to proe pose in committee that a constitutional amendment be substituted for the President’s bill. The rules of parliamentary . ‘ocedure forbid, he added. Deman Vote on Bill “The bill must first be voted up or down,” he added. “Then they are at liberty to bring up any consti- tutional amendment they desire. But there must first be hearings on them.” He predicted the hearings on the President's bill, in recess until Tuese day, would be short lived. “Along toward Saturday, April 10, two weeks hence” he said, “I think the hearings will close. Of course, with the understanding that if a Senator wants a citizen to be heard, th&t (See JUDICIARY, Page A-4.) PERU AVIATOR GETS PRAISE FOR FLIGHT Revoredo Acclaimed in Buenos Aires After Solo Trip From Lima. B3 the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, March 27— Argentine Army flyers tonight sce claimed Peru's craek airman, Armando Revoredo, for his “daring and well-planned achievement” in making the first non-stop 2,000-milé solo flight between Lima and Buenos Alres. Revoredo, an aviation commandet, landed his yellow monoplane at fl Palomar Airport at 3:07 p.m. todiy, just 13 hours and 51 minutes after he left the Peruvian capital. Smiling, Revoredo stepped from hig plane showing little sign of fatigue after the hazardous flight, part of it over the Andes, to receive the congratulations of high Argentine Army officers and the Peruvian Ama bassador, Felipe Barreda Laos. Revoredo then went to the air basy office to talk by radiophone with his wife and mother in Lima. R e O Lindberghs in Baghdad. BAGHDAD, Iran, March 27 (#).— Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived here today at 12:45 pm., Greenwich time (7:45 a.m. Eastern standard time) after a flight from the Bahrein Islands and Basra. 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