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A—2 %% SCULPTOR HUNTED IN PENNSYLVANIA Reported Seen Hitch-Hiking. Killer May Have Made Death Mask of Model. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 8—To the ex- travagant details of an Easter triple murder in a Beekman Hill apartment police added today the weird and ghoulish possibility that the killer of Veronica Gedeon paused long enough to" press plaster upon her features for a death mask. As Pennsylvania authorities checked the chance that a sculptor-suspect, Robert Irwin, had been seen hitch- hiking near Stroudsburg, Alexander Ett], art supply dealer and Irwin's former employer, said indications pointed to such a mask having been made. Ett], an expert in the business, ex- plained the making of masks is rou- tine work of apprentice art students. Police scheduled another conference with him today in an effort to obtain additional clues to the identity of the man who slew “Ronnie,” her mother, Mary, and Frank Byrnes, a roomer. Grains of Plaster Found. Police said grains of plaster and a dirty washcloth had been found in the Gedeon apartment; a bit of agdhesive plaster was stuck to Ron- nie's neck, and a box of salt was left in the room Irwin vacated late last week. Ettl attached this possible sig- nificance to the finds: The washcloth contained soap such as is used by artists to prevent plaster of paris from sticking to the skin; tape often is used to pin back the hair in mak- ing masks, and salt makes plaster harden quickly. Irwin, Ettl told police, learned mask-making in Chicago, and in Jan= uary and February of this year ore dered from him supplies of jplaster, modeling tools and dry clay. Asks Federal Aid. John A. Lyons, in charge of the police detective division, asked Federal suthorities to watch transient relief camps on the chance that the chief suspect, apparently having deserted New Yorrk, was on his way West. The detective chief announced he had been advised a man resembling ¥rwin was seen hitch-hiking near Stroudsburg Tuesday. He quoted a traveling salesman as saying he gave 8 man resembling Irwin a lift be- tween Dingman’'s Ferry and the out- skirts of Stroudsburg. The salesman, unnamed, attributed this remark to his passenger, said Lyons: “There are just two funda- mental interests of man—sex and God. God is the stronger.” The same re- mark was made by Irwin in a recent interview. Inspector Francis Kear and Capt. Edward Mullins of the homicide squad quoted William Shields of Park Ridge, N. J, an acquaintance of Irwin, as saying the sculptor brooded for long periods after Ethel Gedeon, Veronica's 8ister, married Joseph Kudner. Lyons has said he learned Irwin was angry with Veronica and Mrs, | Gedeon for frustrating his romance with Ethel, dating from 1932, when he roomed in the Gedeon home. DEFENDS IRWIN, St. Lawrence Dean Says He Is “Being Damned Without Evidence.” CANTON, N. Y, April 8 (£ —Dr. Yaurens H. Zelye, president of St. Lawrence University, declared today that Robert Irwin is being “damned without evidence” by newspaper pub- Heity. Dr. Zelye said he considered the former Canton theological student now being sought by police of eight States for questioning in connection with the murder of Veronica Gedeon to be “an industrious, hardworking boy.” The university president made his remarks in an address before students in the State Agricultural College. At the same time Dr. John M. At- wood, dean of the Canton Theological School, addressed an open letter to the Hill News, campus weekly publi- cation, in which he declared that Irwin's “good record here is always to his credit.” Dr. Atwood said that “in all Irwin's association with either sex * * no instance of impropriety can be cited.” Meanwhile, New York Detectives Tom Tunney and Dan Sullivan ex- tended their search for Irwin to the Isle of Patnos, in the Grasse River near here. The officers searched a cabin which John Rost and Ernest Young, theo- logical school students, built on the island last Spring as a “quiet place to study.” AID IS REQUESTED. Baltimore Police Asked to Seek Trwin, Baltimore, April 8, (#).—Baltimore police received their first official re- quest today to make a search for Robert Irwin, wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of Veronica Gedeon and two other per- sons in New York. New York police asked the local force to meet the Coastal Steamer Kent when it docks here tomorrow. They also sent three photographs of Irwin. Congress in Brief TODAY. Benate: In recess. Judiciary Committee hears oppo- nents of Roosevelt court bill. House: Considers resolution for investiga- tion of sit-down strikes. Rivers and Harbors Committee re- sumes hearing on Florida ship canal. Education Committee resumes hear- ing on proposal to grant $300,000,000 & year to Btate school systems. Military Committee opens hearings on deportation of undesirable aliens, TOMORROW. Senate: Miscellaneous business. Education and Labor Committee, hearing at 10 a.m. on proposal to meke C. C. C. Corps permanent. Education and Labor Subcommittee, hearing at 10:30 a.m. on Federal aid for education of crippled children. Judiciary Committee, further hear- ings on President’s court bill. House: Program uncertain. Post Office Committee meets 10 a.m. Appropriations subcommittees in charge of War and Interior supply bills resume hearings 10 a.m. Subcommittee on Inland Water- ways of Interstate and Foreign Com- merce Committee meets 2 pm. : i | | | killed & few wild birds which was | plentiful in them parts. Turkeys, the Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. NUEVA HISTORIA. ROM :he staff of Time and Tied, Lorton Reformatory's admir- able publication, we have re- ceived a friendly note which is hereby gratefully acknowledged. Ace companying the billet doux was o copy of the March issue, and a clip- ping from the vivid writings of “Old Yegg,” whose commentary on Abe Lincoln inspired a story here a short time past. This one is entitled “Origin of Thanksgiving,” and after reading it we are prepared to propose in all seriousness that “Old Yegg” should undertake to rewrite American his- tory, both sacred and profane. In view of the statistics showing that all of us who haven’t been in prison stand a beautiful chance of getting there, such a book should reach a vast public, certainly many more peo- ple than ever understood or pretended to understand James Joyce and Eu- gene Jolas. Begin quotes: “Did you ever stop t' figure how Thanksgiving started®” asked the Old Yegg in No. 14, just before he bit into his tuna fish sandwich. “Well, here’s the lowdown: More'n 300 years ago there were a lot of square-johns in England who got throwed in the bastile real often for just goin’ to a different church than the King went to. Some district leaders who refused t' vote the King's ticket on election | day got throwed in the can along with these church guys. While they was all layin’ in jail waitin’ to be indicted, | they met a guy named Miles Stand- | ish, who told 'em they'd better take off for America, where they could vote | any party or go to any church they | wanted to. { So, when their bits were finished | they bought a ship called the May- flower and sailed for America. That was like goin’ to Byrd's ‘Little Artica’ now, for nobody'd ever been there or knode anything about it. Yet this | combination figured America was bet- ter than doin’ life on the installment plan in England. “They landed in Massachusetts O. K. at some whar{ called Plymouth Rock. The Indians was pretty thick up there. They'd been double-crossed by the French and Spanish hunters so much they thought these limies was from the same mob. So they put | 20 of the Pilgrims on the spot that | first year before the limies got organ- ized. After that the redskins wasn't handin’ it out any more—they was on the takin’ end! “Well, the Pilgrims built log cabins, | control officers, | anti-syphilitic drugs, | and improvement of the laboratory | THE EVENING SESSION STUDIES HEALTH REPORTS Recommendations to Im- prove Conditions Due in Meeting Today. The Thirty-fifth Annual Confer- ence of State and Territorial Health Officers of the Nation turned its at- tention today to the consideration of & number of recommendations and reports dealing with various public health problems. The reports were to be presented at a general session this morning by committees of the conference. Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran of the United States Public Health Service outlined the problems to be considered in his opening speech vesterday, and for the remainder of the day the com- mittees met separately to draw up their recommendations. The closing sessions of the con- ference today also were to be marked by an address by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche, under whose direction the health program provided under.the social security legislation is being carried out. Co-ordination Recommended. In his talk Surg. Gen. Parran urged & thorough overhauling “of what we have been teaching in the name of health education,” pointing out the need for more effective co-ordination of health education activities of the Health Department with the activi- ties of other Federal, State and local agencies engaged in educational work or participating in promotional activi- ties in fields closely related to public health. “It is my belief,” he said, “that much of the difficulty experienced by health officers in obtaining ade- quate appropriations and legislation and securing freedom from political interference in the selection and maintenance of properly trained pro- fessional and technical personnel can be definitely attributed to our failure to acquaint the public with the ob- Jectives, achievements and importance of health work.” Dr. Parran said the wisdom of Congress in providing for continuing grants in aid of health work is being amply demonstrated in every State and Territory. Declaring the devel- opment of air travel has brought again the menace of yellow fever, he | urged establishment of a special com- | mittee to consider the problem. On the question of social disease control he advocated appointment by | States of full-time venereal-disease free distribution of‘ standardization | diagnostic services, improvement in | treatment facilities and more efficient | case reporting. Promotion of programs directed toward improvement in nutrition, as advocated in a paper read by Dr. W. H. Sebrell of the National Insti- tute of Health, also received the sup- port of the surgeon general. o Judiciary (Continued From First Page.) planted corn an' stuff and was goin’ along 5o good after the first year, | they planned a celebration. Bein's there was no cows in America they redskins called 'em. The Pilgrims roasted these birds, stilled some corn | whiskey and had a swell blow out. When it was over they said, ‘This was | the McCoy; we've got t' hold another | racket next year!' And they did. Every year after that they held it about the same day. “That's how come Thanksgiving | day! Them ex-cons was so thankiful | they wasn't doin’ time they was sky high with happiness. They could worship any church they wanted to, and everything else was jake. They proved to the Indians they had cut out from the king's mob and the redskins | laid off 'em, tradin’ spuds for some of the Pilgrim's corn licker.” * % x X ADDENDA. From the March issue we gleaned two small items that seemed to personify the semi-ironic, rarely wistful attitude of the prison in- mate. One was a line mentioning the “All-Star Brownms,” & group of athletes who have played together in base ball and foot ball from 1930 through 1936 with mno contract trouble or break in the line-up at any time. The other was a quotation at the bottom of a page. A flller, mo doubt, but significant. It said: “God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.” ’rO FORESTALL overcrowding of institutions for the mentally harassed, and to stop those threaten- ing midnight telephone calls to the Wayside editor's home, we now give you the solution to the problem in our Monday column—the one about the chap who went up a hill & mile long at 15 miles an hour, and how fast would he have to travel down the same hill to average 30 miles an hour? The answer is that he would have to go down the hill in nothing flat. By taking 4 minutes to go up the hill, he eliminated the possibility of aver- aging 30 m. p. h, ever. Sorry if it bothered you (heh heh). SCHOOL PERFORMANCE “Pinafore” Will Be Presented To- morrow Evening. Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Pinafore” will be presented at the John Quincy Adams School at 8 p.m. tomorrow by parents, teachers and friends of the school Proceeds are tp be used in purchase of a new cycloramic curtain for the school stage. Mrs. Irene C. Pilson, president of the Parent-Teacher Association, and Anne Yago McGuffey, director of the pro- duction, announced the leading roles would include Mrs. Theo Morgan, Mrs. Vesta P. Lynn, Miss Estelle Gillchrist, Richard 8. MacCarteney, Leonard El- more, Lloyd Mathers, "A. Z, Foster ‘Wood and James H. Case, jr. b | would move today that the hearings be | closed, explained as the session opened | that he had not intended to seek an | wouldn't have the disposition to shut | I had in mind going on into next week. in the witness chair waiting to testify in opposition to the bill. Senator Hughes, Democrat, of Dela- ware, who announced Tuesday he immediate closing. “I understand Senator Burke (one | of the opposition leaders) has two Witnesses he wants to call Monday. I any one out. When I made my motion, I think both sides should have two or three more days each. My motion is to close the hearings at the end of next week.” Senator Logan, Democrat, of Ken- tucky then proposed that the motion | be considered in executive session next | week. “I think we should get together and talk this thing over,” he explained. “It should be done in closed session, Where we can make compromises. If we can discuss this motion there may not be any necessity for a vote.” There being no objection, Ashurst then ordered the executive session. Previously, the committee chairman had said he wanted the vote in open session. “Otherwise,” he added, “I'm afraid somebody might say I voted for the motion.” The committee also approved a recommendation by Senator Austin, Republican, of Vermont, that any member of the committee be permitted to vote in person or by, proxy if he requested this privilege in writing. Senator McGill, Democrat of Kansas, also insisted every member be given full opportunity to vote. “Over 75 Years Old.” Manning, who was introduced by Senator Bailey, Democrat of North Carolina, told the committee he was “over 75 years old.” He discussed at length the experiences of the South duriag reconstruction days, and stressed the important role played by the Supreme Court in protecting in- dividuel rights. Urging that the present court bill be replaced by a constitutional amend- ment, he said: The President’s bill would destroy the independence of the judiciary, and added: “This proposal startles and shocks s large numbher of the people of this country. What becomes of the in- dependence of the judiciary, and without that independence what is the judiciary worth? If we are not te have an independent judiciary, I would rather see none. * * * “The judges may make mistakes, but like honest men, like men of the high character they are they have the courage to correct their mistakes when satisfied that they have made a mistake. And now it is their con- demnation because one or miore judges admits that he has made a mistake, that his previous judgment was in error and that he now concludes that he was in error.” At the Justice Department, mean- while, Attorney General 5 denied that he had advocated an early conclusion of the hearings. The “more the plan is debated,” he said, “the more obviously its merits will be revealed.” He also said, referring to contentions that the Supreme Court is entirely able to handle its docket, that the tribunal reminded him of “a man who has indigestion, but boatsts that he can eat anything on the table.” He added: | sat beside his chief during the inter- STAR, WASHINGTON, LEWIS ASSAILS FORD ON LABOR Charges Company Has Used Coercion to Keep Men From Union. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 8—John L. Lewis charged today the Ford Motor Co. was preventing its men from join- ing labor unions through a system of intimidation and coercion. “Mr. (Henry) Ford's River Rouge plant in times past has been an arsenal—and still is today,” said the chairman of the Committee for In- dustrial Organization, “all of which, however, will not gain him the end he seeks.” Lewis made the statements during an interview in which he predicted membership of his labor committee within 60 days would exceed the 2,- 250,000 members of the American Federation of Labor. He declared his leaders would halt any strikes in plants of companies with whom the union has contracts. The reference to Ford came during a discussion of the automobile manu- facturer's statement in Ways, Ga., that he never would recognize the United Automobile Workers’ Union of America or any other labor union. “The concurrent resolution adopted by the Senate yesterday hits at Ford directly,” said Lewis. He referred to the resolution expressing the Senate’s opposition to sit-down strikes, ‘‘com- pany unions” or “any other unfair labor practice of employers.” Lewis continued: “Mr. Ford's position, however, is incidental. He has but one automo- bile company and a lot of quaint ideas. “His statement recently in which he said the labor unions were financed by international bankers was typical. He's either unwisely advised or non compos mentis, “Every dollar the C. I. O. has fis saturated with the sweat of the worker.” Lewis said organizers now are at work enrolling Ford employes and he predicted Ford would deal with the automobile workers union “in time.” Both Lewis and Philip Murray, his lieutenant in organizing the steel in= dustry, declined to comment on the ejection of strikers at the Hershey chocolate plant in Hershey, Pa. “We have not yet received a report on the situation,” said Murray, who view. Lewis said he could not comment, either, on the strike of General Motors employes in Oshawa and Windsor, Ontario. He said he was uncertain whether the General Motors agree- | ment covered these plants. BECKER IS WINNER OF BRIDGE TOURNEY Only Three Match Points Span First Three Places in Masters’ Play. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 8.—B. J. Becker, a Philadelphia lawyer who moved to New York only two weeks ago, last night won the American Bridge League's National Masters' Tourna- ment in & blanket finish that saw only three match points span the first three places. With 614 points, Becker compen- sated for a heart-breaking loss in the same tournament three years ago when a revision in the official scoring cost him the title by a half point after he had been accepting congratu- lations of his fellow aces for half an hour. The point and a half by which he beat out George Unger, also of New York, seemed too slim for com- plete comfort, but wide enough for elation. Unger’s 612'; looked good for the title for some time as the scorers went through their arduous task of compiling totals for 36 aces from America and Canada. Likewise in the running until Becker's score popped up was Robert Appleyard, young New Yorker, who was the only player in the event to lead two sessions. Appleyard finished with 611, dropping from s 136-point session Tuesday night to 110 yester- day afternoon. Dr. L. W. Lord of Baltimore, whose 133 was high for the final session, came in fourth, with 608, & point and 3 half ahead of David Burnstine of New York. —— House passage late yesterday, by a vote of 122 to 14, of the Sumners bill to allow the Attorney General to intervene in private suits attacking the constitutionality of Federal laws. It is designed to speed an appeal to the Supreme Court when lower Judges invalidate a law. Indications were the administra- tion leadership might seek to defer Senate action on this section of the President’s program in the hope of having the program voted on in its entirety. Senator Burke wanted the Judiciary Committee to act first and separately on the Sumners bill. “They want the bad to be acted on with the good,” he said of the Presi- dent's supporters, “but we shall try to get action on this bill on its own merits. The Serite committee postponed consideration of the Sumners bill pending more discussion of Supreme Court revision. Senators Burke, Connally, Demo- crat, of Texas, and King, Democrat, of Utah, opponents of the Roosevelt pro- gram, in a round table discussion last night, reviewed cases in which they contended the Supreme Court had up- held the rights of the people. F. H. Stinchfield, president of the Ameri~ can Bar Association, introduced them, saying: “An absolutely independent judici- ary has been the only certain protec- tion of the rights and liberties of any people. Politics plays no part in the Supreme Court.” Civil War Case Summarized. Connally summarized a case during the Civil War in which Landon Milli- gan of Indiana was sentenced to death by a military court without a jury irial. The Supreme Court held the military tribunal illegal, he said. Burke discussed a 1925 case in which an Oregon law designed to ‘“compel general attendance of children at pub- lic schools” was held unconstitutional. After the World War, a Nebraska law, forbidding teaching in German, was in- validated, he pointed out. King reviewed a recent case in which one Dejonge was convicted in Oregon “He takes care that there is noth- ing on his table that will disagree with him.” Another complication srose from for attending a Communist meeting. ‘The Supreme Court held the man was entitled to take part in a peaceable D. C, THURSDAY, Fifty Injured in Sit-Down Ejection Fifty were reported injured yesterday when irate farmers and “loyal” workers entered the | Hershey Chocolate Corp. plant at Hershey, Pa., and ousted sit strikers after a bloody battle. Note | the blackjack in the raised hand of the man aiding in the removal of one of the strikers A woman striker in the Hershey plant fights ejection. APRIL 8, 19317. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Hershey (Continued From First Page.) Ford (Continved Prom First Page.) | employes in a 4-mile march on the | factory. Murrie said he could not predict how long the deputies would be on duty. A detail of State police which arrived just before the battle ended yesterday was withdrawn soon after daybreak. The management of the Hershey plant estimated the employes had lost “almost $150,000” in wages since the strike was called last Friday by agents of the Committee for Industrial Or-| ganization, who insisted the company | violated an agreement made March | 17 with the Chocolate Workers’ Union for strict adherence to seniority The company disclaimed violation. | Murrie said the strike cost farmers | of six counties about $14,000 a day in milk sales. They supply 750,000 to 800,000 pounds a day. He said the corporation’s loss “would be consid- erable.” Loy Gave Up Job. The company president said John Loy, business manager for the United Chooolate Workers, afliate of the Committee for Industrial Organisa- tion, had given up his job in the fac- tory to assume office with the union. He added that Russel Behman, former foot ball player and president of the Hershey Union, would have to decide for himself whether he returns to work. | Behman, Loy and other leaders:| were driven out of the plant, hands up, with other strikers yesterday. They were badly beaten and were at- tended at a hospital. Physicians said that only one of the 25 injured received at the hospital was seriously hurt. In Harrisburg, Gov. Earle ordered an inquiry “to fix responsibility.” Maj. Lynn G. Adams, superintend- ent of the State police, said none of the ringleaders was found last night, but that he would go to Hershey to direct the investigation. HARLAN QUIZ TO OPEN Senate Coal Mining Investigation Starts Wednesday. ‘The Senate Civil Liberties Commit- tee announced today it would open Wednesday an inquiry into “the long history of violence in the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mining aresa.” Investigators said they would sum- mon Theodore Middleton, Harlan County sheriff, and officials of about & dozen coal companies to testify about the ‘“suppression” of union organizations. The killing of Bennett Musick, 19- year-old son of a United Mine Work- ers’ organizer, M. A. Musick, on Feb- ruary 9, will be one of the first inci- dents investigated, they said. BILL SETTLES CLAIM BY the Associated Press. The Senate passed yesterday s bill appropriating $3,500 to settle the claim of Ernest and Lottle Dunford of Ramsey Town, Henry County, Va. for the death of their child, Hattie, who was killed by & Civilian Conserva- tion Corps truck at Ramsey Town June 23, 1934. ‘The bill was passed by the House February 2, but an amendment was inserted by the Senate which must be adjusted between the two houses. Parking Space Reserved. LA , Wis. w‘—mnuyk- motorist, deving his car into a park- tnllot.vuh‘;ptanto(n;huby i half of these, about 87,000, are in the Detroit area alone. Its present wage scale is reported to be near $7 a day. The Ford auto- | motive plants operate on & 5-day, 40- hour week. Negotiations Continue. Further conferences with executives of three automobile companies en- gaged union negotiators today. One of these was & resumption of discus- sions in the office of Gov. Frank Mur- | phy at Lansing to settie the Hudson! Motor Car Co. strike which has left 11,000 Detroiters without work for a ! month. A preliminary session was held last night. The purpose of the other confer-| ences was to settle issues not dealt with in the agreements signed this week by Chrystler ané Reo Motor Car Co., ending their strikes. FORD MAKES DECLARATION. | | 1 “Will Never Recognize U. A. W. or Any Other Union,” He Says. WAYS, Ga, April 8 (#).—Henry Ford's long opposition to organised labor was ecrystallised today in a declaration that the Ford Motor Co. “will never recognise the United Auto- mobile Workers’ Union or any other union.” Ford in an interview at his Winter home yesterday also lashed at sit- down strikes, saying, “Those who| seize property not their own are in the same category as housebreakers. ‘The politicians who are elected as our public servants are policemen in a sense and should protect our rights.” In the course of the interview the 73-year-old manufacturer said he just had been advised of a brief sit-down at his company’s St. Louis assembly plant in which a few strikers “‘were escorted out peacefully.” “Any of our workers who strike will be escorted out of the plant involved,” he added. Does Not Reveal Plans, Beyond saying there would be no collective bargaining with union forces he would not indicate how he might deal with strikers not using the sit- down technique. There have been rumors he might allow any strike-closed plants to re- main shut indefinitely, invoking his resources to outlast the workers. Ford, who last month advised work- ers to “stay out of labor unions” for their own good, sald he felt workers participating in recent strikes “have lost—they're being organized and had their freedom taken away. They pay money to the unions and get nothing in return. “History shows that all improve- ments in labor have come out of in- dustry, and never out of coercion or politics. This is quite logical. If we don't do our part to create a market by paying good wages we can't sell our goods.” Just back from Dearborn, where he conferred with company officials dur- ing settlement of & strike in his Kan- sas City plant last Friday, Ford said “We made no concessions. Our men know what we can do and what we can't do. We'll deal with them in- dividually.” HOME BUILDING UP February Construction Is 51 Per Cent Over January Total. The FPederal Home Loan Bank Board reported today a 51 per éent in- crease in residential construction in Pebruary over January, and a 1183 per cent increase over February, 1936. It said 15,156 new dwelling units were provided during the month at an esti- mated ecet of $58,300,000. ! | plant of the General —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. company officisls three days this week, said, “This is just an old-fashioned walkout. “Bit-down strikes have been recog- nized as legal in the United States, but both federal and provincial gov- ernments in Canada hold legal " The walkout comes on the day fol- lowing the biggest pay day in the firm’s history here. A total of $323,- 152 was paid to the 3,700 werkers yes- terday for their past two weeks' work. | Oshawa | ordered | Several hours after the walkout the management production stopped at the Windsor Motors of Canada. This affected 400 more workers. Company officials, denying that a strike had been called at Wind- sor, said the plant was shut down because assembly lines here had been stopped. The officials said « subsidiary plant, the McKinnon Co. at St. Catherines, might maintain production. since it makes parts for customers other than General Motors. The 1,200 McKinnon employes were working as usual this them il- BOUNDARY BRIDGE BID RECOMMENDED Baltimore Contractor Gets Officials’ 0. K. for Temp- orary Span. A recommendation that Joseph A. LeVezza & Sons of Baltimore be given a contract for $24,875 to construct a temporary bridge across Boundary Channel is on its way to Secretary Ickes for approval, Federal officials announced today. The Baltimore firm Pproposes to do the work in 150 days H. J. Spelman, District Engineer for the Bureau of Public Roads of the Agriculture Department, announced the recommendation is being forwarded to officials of the National Park Serv- ice, as well as to C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capi- tal Parks. Eleven firms sought the job. The bridge will be constructed from the northwest corner of Columbia Island to the Virginia mainland. It will form an important link in giving access to the George Washington Me- morial Parkway. Spelman explained that the temporary bridge is to be built because of the necessity of permitting the earthen fill to settle. Bad founga- tion conditions were encountered by the engineers when they made tests on the spot. Road constructien is now going for- ward in the George Washington Me- morial Parkway, between Arlington Memorial Bridge and Rosslyn, Va. An overpass is to be constructed later over the railroad tracks to connect with the Lee Boulevard, projected at the north- | erly end of Arlington National Cem, tery and Fort Myer, Va The Bureau of Public Roads, at the request of the National Park Service, is studying plans for an extra span in the Key Bridge on the Virginia side. The George Washington Memorial Parkway drive is designed to pass une der the Key Bridge, to avoid a grads crossing, and will connect with the Lee Highway, up a ravine, just upstream of Rosslyn. Green 1Contgnued From Pirst Page.) pension of 10 unions in Lewis' Com- mittee for Industrial Organization, but decided not to expel them until further efforts had been made to end labor’s big civil war. The A. P. of L. Convention author- ized the Executive Council to call a special convention to consider expul- sion as soon as the council deemed such action advisable. A number of craft union leaders on the council have said privately there is no chance to settle the dispute peaceably. They also said the Lewis unions should be ousted immediately. Green said he had not yet decided when the council would meet, but from | informed sources it was learned the | meeting would be called within a few | days. | The letter threatening Prey's life Wwas written on stationery of the Rice Hotel at Houston, morning. The final break between the union and General Motors officials was be- lieved to have come over the com- pany's refusal to sign the *“Detroit agreement,” assented to by workers and company officials at Detroit. General Motors officials had ex- pressed willingness to bargain on hours of work, wage scales and all other points except recognition of the union and had refused to confer with a De- troit organizer, Hugh Thompson. The local organization received | orders “not to fool any longer” from | Homer Martin of Detroit, iaternational president of the union, after Thomp- son asked for instructions. Negotiations Collapse. Conferences adjourned Tuesday night with the feeling that a settle- ment might be reached within the next 24 hours, but yesterday's discussions failed to make any headway after the local unjon was ordered to obtain union recognition or strike. Louis Fine of the Ontario Depart- | ment of Labor has been representing the government at the conferences between James B. Highfleld, general plant manager, and Col. Prank Chap- pell, director of public relations, for General Motors and C. H. Millard, president of the local union, for the Workers’ Commiitee. ‘Thompson linked his declaration that ne more cars would be built in Canadian plants of General Motors until the union’s demands are met with the assertion that if an attempt were made to import cars into Canada manufactured : in General Motors plants in the United States, workers in those United States plants would be called out. Company officials locked the gates of the plant a few minutes after thousands of workers left their jobs. Three transport trucks drew up to the parts factory a few minutes be- fore 7 o'clock. Picketers were in- structed not to let them leave with parts. 8ix more trucks arrived a few minutes later. They were not allowed to enter. THREE-WAY DISPUTE. Workers at Tracter Plant Split in Three Factions. PEORIA, Ill, April 8 (#).—The labor dispute that closed the Cater- pillar Tractor Co. plant, employing 11,500 persons, developed into & three-way struggle today among em- ployes. Two groups—the Caterpillar Em- ployes’ Genera] Committee and the American Federation of Labor—called meetings today to set courses inde- pendent of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America. The Amalgamated union, an effili- | ¥ ate of the Committee for Industrial Organization, called the combination sit-down and picket strike in an effort to gain a written contract covering its demands, including the right to bargain collectively for its members. James Gentry, an official of the A. F. of L. Machinists’ Union, said com- pany employes belonging to A. P. of L. unions will ask for collective bar- gaining rights for the A. F. of L. The Employes’ General Committee did not identify its personnel. In a paid newspaper advertisement it called a meeting of non-union employes to determine their sentiment in a secret ballot on the question of returning to work in deflance of the strikers. Joseph Dernoncourt, C. I, O. organ- izer, charged the Employes’ General Committee’s mass meeting was “the first step in organizing a company union to try to smash the strike.” B. C. Heacock, president of the com- pany, said the factory would remain closed “pending consideration of how many men are desirous of working and how it will be possible to afford them that privilege without danger or personal violence.” 12 It said | “Get out of the picture you lous. You have not been a working man in 30 | years. Either stop your movement | against a progressive action or you | will be not only, killed, but, tortured | to make you be (human” | Frey said he never had heard of the signer. Mentime, Green, when asked for comment on the Chrysler strike settle- ment, said: “What did the workers gain? It was my impression that they were offered the same proposition before the strike as they obtained after weeks of suffer- ing " Green dechined to comment on the eviction of sit-down strikers in the ‘Hershey chocolate plant at Hershey, | Pa. r Murder. -old Sarel J. Pretorn stroom, Soutn murder. Boy, 16, Held fo | Bixteen-year. Africa, on a charge of Bowie Entries for Tomorrow FIRST RACE—Purse, %1.000 olds and up._maidens: 6 furlong Bakuntala (Fowler) Grey Heels > Black Boo Zinnia (Wagner) z Graceful Flight (Le Blane) | Trostar (Westrope) Walmiss (E. Smith) Ranicilla_(Gilb May Music Gor Pile Driver (Sa 3-yrars SECOND RACE —Purse. olds; maidens: 4 furlongs. Low’ Cuts (Richards) Bow Tip (Fowler) Leeal Light (Le Blanc) Sure Clond (Westrope ) Schley Goree (De Camillis) aRoval Rhapsody ~(Gilbert) Haopy Chief (Root) Way Out (Gordon) aSmoke Signal (Gilbert) . Whitney and Manhasset entry. £1.000; oke J.H. THIRD RACE—Purse. $1.000: claimings 3-vear-olds and up: 6 furlongs. More Pep 10 Malley) Briet (Porter) T x Bill Bleiweiss (Gordon) x Drieriad (Root) x Gentleman (Johnson) - x Pomposity_(Shelhamer) Sea Gull (Gilbert) Grainger (Porter) _~__ Deepwick (Westrone) Snow Coat (Fowler) x Sunline (Sarno» Bounding (Lindbers) x Meriga (Eccard) Eudes (Saunders) _ 8un Mica (Parke) Hearts Play (Gilbert) POURTH RACE—The Severn Handicap: £1.200 added: 3-year-olds and up: 6 furiongs. L A (Rosengarten) Master Lad (De Camillis) _ Sunned (Le Blanc) .. ____ Vote Boy (Jaekle) _ Good Omen (Duffy) FIPTH RACE—Purse, $1.000; claiming: 3-year-olds; 1. miles. xXLandscape ' (Jaekie) Sir Isaac (Westrope) SIXTH RACE—Purse. $1.009; claiming; 4-year-olds and up: 1% miles. XRollick (Shelhamer) - _ Popo (Hanford) < (O Malley) d anc) my D (Westrope) Pencader (Falion) Post Brigade (Johnson) Precious King (Gilbert) SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $1.000: claim- ing: 4-vear-olds and up: 1's miles. Rosesilla_(Westrope) Raffles Problem (Saunders) xJobakheta (Schmidl) _ Chatteress (Root) == Captain_Jerry (Peters)_ xMake It (Jaekle) xXMischiefmaker (Duffy) xGoody Goody (Barba) XGav Crest (Eccard) ) XApprentice allowance claimed. Clear and fast Scratches for Todoy— Weather clear—track fast. First race—Stipulate, Lady Briar, Thatch. & Second race—All go. Third race—Miss Sympheny, Teneriffe, Sun Drops, Chilly Ebbie. Fourth race—All go. Fifth race—All go. Sixth race—Chatteress. : Beventh race—Momentary, Jobak- heta, .