Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair, lowest temperature about 34 degrees tonight; tomorrow fair and slightly warmer; moderate winds, mostly northwest. Temperatures—High- est, 50, at 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 36, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-10. Closing New York Stocks on Page 11 85th YEAR. No. 33,947. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch ¢ Foem WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1937—FORTY-TWO PAGES. ##% FORD TO INCREASE PAY AND RAISE PRODUCTION; G. M. CANADA UNIT OPEN Financiers Back Unions, | Says Magnate. | NEW METHOD ARE PROMISED ‘Real Competition’ to Begin When trikes End. BACKGROUND— Settlement of General Motors Chrysler, Hudson and Reo sit-down strikes leaves the United States without a tie-up automotiwe | plants for the first time since last November United Automobile Workers' America. an afiiliate of John W. Lewis C. 1. O. however, has | launched drive to organize 150.000 workers in Ford plants and has | met with defiance. | Strike spread to Canada on Thursday, when 3.700 workers in Oshawa plant of General Motors | were called out by U. A. W. A. in fight for eollective bargaining recognition, in of By ihe Associated Press. { WAYS, Ga. April 10.—Henry Ford ! said today the Ford Motor Co. will demonstrate “wages, production and competition such as never seen be- fore” when current strike disturbances kubside. | ‘The 73-year-old Detroit manufac- turer in an interview at his Winter home here reiterated charges that war- seeking financiers are backing labor | unions. He asserted also his company has been “holding down production so | 8s not to take advantage” of strike- | beset competitors | Ford said Wednesday he never | would recognize the United Automobile | Workers’ ociation or any other | union for collective bargaining. He de- clined comment today on announced | plans of the U. A. W. A. to unionize | his plants despite this statement | Promises “Real Competition.” | “When this strike mess is over,” Ford faid. “we’ll demonstrate some real | competition in quantity production | new methods that will call for | more skill, higher wages and a larger | number of employes.” | Ford wouid not say whether he has & definite plan at this time to boost his mimimum wage, now at $6 per | day. He recalled that his minimum ‘wage was $7 per day at one time, prior io the depression. “Labor union organizations are the worst thing that ever struck the earth, because they take away a man’s inde- pendence,” Ford said. “Financiers Are behind the unions and their ob- ject reduce the income of workers, and eventually bring on war.” “We Are Workers Together.” Discussing the relationship between amployer and employes, Ford said: “We're all workers together, the | men and I “There shouldn't be any bargaining dealing necessary. Our company pays the best wages it can, and al- ways has. We keep a surplus on hand 50 as to be independent of financiers, | but our surplus has not increased. ‘We can pay more when we increase the quantity of our production.” “We have been holding down our production lately so as not to take ad- | vantage of others during the so-called sit-down strikes. When these are over, there will be wages, production and competition such as never seen before. “My son, Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Co., and 1, had a con- | ference in Dearborn last week. We discussed the strike situation first and then talked about our men. He's very keen on revising present methods in production, salaries and efficiency. | I'm in accord.” ar Newspaper Tax Voided. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 10 (#). ~—Attorney General Jack Holt ruled Yesterday the sale of a newspaper is the sale of a servise and not subject | o Arkansas’ 2 per cent sales tax. The le has been collected for nearly {wo years under Arkansas’ original sales tax act. TOMORROW IN THE SUNDAY STAR * ok Kk % The Patronage Raid Goes On. Civil service reform pledged by the Democratic platform and urged in the President’s reorgan- ization message remains a pious hope. But undermining of the merit system continues as a practical reality. The generally unnoticed but effective attacks on the merit system by the Seventy- fifth Congress are described in an article in the Editorial Section. * ok ok ox Charity Racketeers In Washington. Over a quarter of a million dol- ‘lars found its way into the pockets of hundreds of organized “charity chiselers” during the past year in one of the most vicious rackets practiced in Washington. How these racketeers, operating in the name of charity, ply their crooked trade, the methods they use to mulet and defraud their victims and to rob the poor, will be ex- plained in an article in the Fea- ture Section. | HENRY FORD. 750 NEW YORKERS POKETING W P A Orderly Group Demanding Pay Boosts, Sick Leave and Vacations, A well-dressed and orderly group of 250 W. P. A. white-collar workers from New York was picketing W. P. A. headquarters here today to demand 20 per cent wage increases, sick leave and vacations with pay and the stop- page of pay cuts and dismissals. Leaders announced they would estab- lish a “death watch” and continue the | picketing here with reinforcements from New York until they are granted | | 8n opporiunity to lay grievances be- fore Administrator Harry Hopkins. Other leaders, however, said arrange- ments had been made to leave for New York at 5 p.m. today. The demonstrators took sdvantage | of a Saturday holiday and cherry- blossom-excursion rates to Washing- ton to make up a party that arrived here on a special train at 7 a.m. The workers ride to W. P. A. headquarters, in the 1700 block of New York avenue, in taxicabs Half Are Women. About were women and many of these wore expensive fur coats. The men also were well dressed, in warm coats, gloves and scarfs. the streets as the picket line was | formed for a block in front of the | W. P. A. headquarters. | marched briskly The picketls with placards up- raised. These bore inscriptions which said: “No Pink Slips,” referring to dismissal slips: “Increase Wages Twenty Per Cent,” “Doctors, Dentists, Nurses Must Not Be Dismissed,” “Vacations With Pay,” “Sick Leave With Pay.” The demonstrators said they repre- sented some 15,000 administrative em- ployes of the W. P. A. in New York whose wages and hours of work, they said, had been reduced under the new curtailment program. Spokesman for the group was Nor- man Schrank, anizer of the City “(See W. P. A, Page A-10.) |ACTRESS ON HONEYMOON VIRGINIA CITY, Nev., April 10 () —Arline Judge, brunette screen actress, honeymooned today with her wealthy new husband, Daniel Reed Topping, New York, whom she mar- ried yesterday a few hours after her divorce in Reno from Film Director Wesley Ruggles. The ceremony uniting Topping, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, pro- fessional foot ball team, and Miss Judge was performed by Judge Thomas F. Moran, who had granted her the divorce. Oklahoma Plane Kills Two. OKLAHOMA CITY, April 10 (#).— | Pilot Perry Mullins, 28, and Ralph Kelley, 23, died instantly when their airplane crashed from 500 feet near here today. half of the demonstrators | A chill wind swept | & 60 Employes Enter Plant Unmolested. PICKET LINE ONLY JEERS Delicate Situation Passes Without Police Call. OSHAWA, Ontario, April 10 (Ca- nadian Press) —Sixty men and women workers of the strike-closed General Motors of Canada plant walked with- out molestation through a picket line today and went back to work in the parts department. Thus a situation which the C. I. O. affiliated Automobile Workers Union, the company and government officials all had feared might break inte open trouble passed peacefully—with no more incident than the prolonged jeers of the 160 pickets. The main plant, from which 3,700 union workers have struck, remained closed. The parts department was re- opened for motor car and truck repair purposes and not for actual produc- tion. A dozen girl workers were among the 60 who filed through the pickets today. At the time, provincial authorities massed police reserves in nearby Toronto, ready for instant action, but they were not needed. Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario, outspoken oppo- nent of the C.I. O, had promised gov- ernment protection for the returning parts department workers. Mayor Is Pleased. “I am highly pleased there has been no trouble,” said Mayor Alex Hall. “I am glad the strike has continued orderly. There is no reason why it should not.” Provincial Constable Tom Mitchell (and Police Chie! Owen D. Friend, | accompanied by 14 deputies, watched | the workers file through the picket | lines. The Oshawa mayor had waited half an hour at the headquarters of C. I.O. Organizer Hugh Thompson, who said upon his arrival that he wanted to “retract” a previous suggestion that ian “accident” might happen to re- | turning workers. Thompson ex- plained he meant no “threat.” “Stewards of the union promised to give safe conduct to strike-breakers through the picket lines,” said the organizer. “But they had thought there might be individuals hanging around who might start something. But that is all out and the union ab- solutely will protect strike-breakers and see that they get safely out of the plant.” Interpreted as “Threat.” the Thompson as “sounding threat.” With the reopening of the parts department, the course of the strike appeared to depend on two factors: 1. Whether the plant would at- tempt to ship out passenger car parts, which the strikers oppose, or merely “emergency” parts for ambulances and such necessary vehicles, to which the strikers have no objection. 2. Whether separate conferences which Premier Hepburn has called with General Motors and union rep- (See STRIKE, Page A-3.) FINDS GLD PENNY Farmer Plows Up Coin Minted in England in 1806. PLUM HILL, Ill, April 10 #).— Henry Schilecte, Plum Hill Township farmer, plowed up an English penny minted in 1806 in a field here. The 131-year-old coin was found in a field that was once the site of a Baptist church, established by the first settlers of Washington County, in whet was known as the Kinyon Settlement. Many of these early resi- dents were of English descent. “accident” statement very much like a Hughes, 75 Tomorrow, Silent On Question of Retirement By tle Associated Press. Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Jus- tice of the United States, will be 75 years old tomorrow. Today he called the usual secret weekly conferenc of the nine justices, four of whom are older than their chief. The meeting may result in final determination of the constitu- tionality of the national labor reia- tions act. Mr. Hughes declined to make any statement concerning his attainment of that age which he once said could be more easily defended than 70 as a compulsory retirement period for Jjustices. Whether he has changed hi8 mind about that, Mr. Hughes alone knows, but he has given no indication that he intends to retire. Since he became Chief Justice, in 1930, he has not missed a day in court through illness. There was no announcement as to how the Chief Justice expects to observe his birthday. Twenty years ago he observed it by making a speech in praise or Woodrow Wilson, who had defeated him for the presidency the previous November. War had been declared five days before, and the Nation was mobilizing. Addressing the Dwight Alumni As- sociation in New York, Mr. Hughes spid then: “We have tonight a eondition in Y which we are realizing what our democracy means and the tests to which it is subject. We speak of the principles underlying our institutions. “What is their security? Their se- curity is not in any form of words embodied in either Constitution or statute. Their security is in the abid- ing love of democracy that exists in the hearts of the people.” Mr, Hughes first came into public attention through a series of rate investigations in New York in 1805 and 1906. He had fried to shun political activity, but in 1906 he en- tered the fight to defeat William Ran- dolph Hearst for the governorship. He was elected Governor twice. In the closing days of his second term, in 1910, President Taft appointed him to the Supreme Court. He remained on the bench until 1916, when he quit to run for President. Mr. Hughes returned to the eourt in 1930 as Chief Justice, appointed by President Hoover. Despite the extra court-work burden carried by the Chief Justice he hLas written more than the average number of opinions in the current term. Of the 105 opinions handed down up to last Monday Hughes wrote 14; Vandevanter, 5; McReynolds, 15; Brandeis, 9; Sutherland, 13; Butler, 10; Roberts, 18; Stone, 6; Cardozo, 17. The last-named four justices are younger than Mr. Hughes. » Mayor Hall earlier had interpreted | HOT FIGHT RAGES INLOYALIST DRIVE 10 SHATTER SIEGE 3,000 of Gen. Franco’s Men Reported Isolated in Ma- chine Gun Trap. MANZANARES BRIDGE TAKEN FROM REBELS “End May Be in Sight” Within Next Few Weeks, Minister of Air Believes. BACKGROUND— Spanish civil war nearing end of ninth month with tide turning in Javor of loyalists, who have held out for five months against per- sistent siege of Madrid by Gen. Francisco Franco’s troops. Insurgent advances reported ‘meanwhile from Northern Spain, where they are attempting to cap- ture the Basque capital of Bilbao, Bay of Biscay port. Italian troop reverses in Spain may lead Premier Mussolini to plunge into the Spanish war with Jull strength in order to assure ultimate victory. By the Assoctated Press. MADRID, April 10 —The second day of the government’s major coun- ter-offensive o break the insurgent 8rip In Madrid Province brought ter- rific combat today at the very doors | of the city. | While 3,000 of Gen. Francisco| Franco's men were reported isolated | by a machine gun trap in University | City, the northwestern suburb, the government opened a deafening artil- lery and saerial strafing of the whole array of siege lines. An Associated Press correspondent. saw Gen. Jose Miaja's government | artillery plant five out of six 6-inch | shells squarely on the roof of one | strategically located building on a hillside overlooking the Casa de Campo sector to the west. So long as Gen. Jose Miaja's “Mili- | | cianos” hold the gains made in a con- | tinuing, full force counter-oensive to | shake Franco's army from Madrid's | | skirts, the 3,000 troops will remain iso- | lated. menaced by the shattering fire of massed infantry, artillery and | planes. Insurgents Lose Bridge. | A bridge over the Manzanares River, | which the insurgent besiegers had | used to connect forces in University | City with the adjoining Caga de Campo | sector, was wrested from them in yes- | terday's launching of what may be a | decisive campaign to break the semi- | circle of siege lines now five months | old. It appeared to be an “at all costs” offensive. Official reports gave no estimate of government casualties, but told of widespread insurgent losses. The re- | ports admitted, however, that Gen eralissimo Miaja’s losses were heaviest | in that area, due west of the city. (A communique from Franco's Sala- | | manca insurgent capital asserted Miaja | | 1ast 2,800 men in the broad attack at | the city's western front. Many were | killed, according to the statement, and | numerous prisoners, mostly Russians, Czechoslovakians and Spanish Aus- turians, were captured. The cnmmu~! nique added that two entire govern- | ment battalions were annihilated in an | action on the outskirts of Oviedo on‘ the northwestern Biscay front.) | Indalecio Prieto, minister of air and | navy in the Madrid-Valencia govern- ment, declared fighting in Spain would be intense and probably decisive in the next few weeks. After that, he added, the end “may be in sight.” The war, he asserted, now will be car- ried to the enemy on a decisive scale. Miaja advised newspaper men to be (See SPAIN, Page A-2) Summary of Amusements_C-20 Art B-2 Books B-3 Church News, 1 Real Estate, Clto 11 Society _A-7 Short Story._A-10 B 5-6-7 Comics ._._A-13 Editorials A-8 Financial ___A-11 | Sports .._C 12-13 Lost & Found-A-3 ' Woman's Pg__B-8 | STRIKE SITUATION. Henry Ford promises increased wages and production. Page A-1 McAdoo suggests profit-sharing for- mula for labor. Page A-3 FOREIGN. Hot fight rages in loyalist drive to break siege. Page A-1 Balbo made commander of Italy’s forces in Africa. Page A-10 NATIONAL. Wagner act decision may decide fate of court bill. Page A-1 Eight persons feared drowned in tug- boat sinking. Page A-1 Court plan issue in Texas election to Congress. Page A-2 V. S. spending cut needed to balance budget. Page A-3 Supreme Court hears arguments in social security case. Page A-3 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Social Security Board changes in ‘prospect. Page A-1 Nice asks ruling on power to veto bookie levy. Page A-1 Festival scheduled tonight despite 47- degree forecast. Page A-1 D. C. building program seen outgrowth of committee study. Page"A-1 ‘W. P. A. headquarters picketed by 250 N. Y. workers. * Page A-1 Chief Justice Hughes to be 75 to- MOITOW. Page A-3 Status of Virginia werkers hinges on parleys next week. Page A-3 Superimposed highways urged by traffic authority. Page A-14 Kennedy and Collins confer on D. C. tax bills. Page A-14 Health “tag day” is announced at bospital meeting. Page A-14 ~ - PRIMING Yesterday’s Circulation, 142,296 (P) Means Asscciate: d Press. TWO CENTS. THE PUMP! o b e HOW ARE WE GOIN ,To STOP T 7 2 T0LEGALIZE BETS Power to Veto Book- making Levy. BY the Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, April 10.—Disclosing he had asked the attorney general to rule whether he could veto one sec- tion of a bill, Gov. Harry Nice said today that “if I do sign est of reluctance.” Legalization and taxation of book- making is one of the phases of the State relief program. in the same measure with more than half a dozen other taxes “I have written to the attorney eneral to find out if I can veto one tem of the bill,” the Governor said. the book- | | making bill, T wili sign with the great- | | | NI[}E RELU[}IANT Bud get Bureau Lifts Opposition ToD.C. Auto I nspection Law Compulsory The way has been paved for enact- ment of a compulsory automobile in- spection law in the District by the withdrawal of opposition to the meas- ure at the Bureau of the Budget. Sen- | ator Reynolds of North Carolina re- vealed today. The Commissioners can now return | to Congress the proposed compulsory It is included | he constitution provides that the | Governor may veto any financial item in a bill of appropriation, but whether this measure could be classed in that category remains to be seen. “I am studying the bookmaking provision now and I will wait for a reply from Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor before T make any further announcement as to what action I | may take as to bookmaking. “The question of vetoing a bill that up 1s & serious matter. I would have to have sound and unquestionable reasons for any course I take on this | matter. “I have no guarantee that, if should have to reassemble the Legis- .C.BUILDINGPLAN € automobile inspection bill which was killed in the Senate last year because the Budget Bureau refused to approve it, Senator Reynolds pointed out. The proposed bill, which was resub- mitted to the Budget Bureau two months ago, would authorize the Dis- trict to establish and operate three municipal garages for safety inspec-' A ting Measure Killed Governor Asks Ruling on| Last Year in Senate Can Now Be Re- | vived by City Heads, Reynolds Say tions. have year Recent revelations by Automobile Association 1sed-car deal biles with defective brakes and other ! safety appliances prompted him to ask the Budget Bureau to explain its objections to a compulsory inspection law, Senator Reynolds sald, and added I have today received word from | D. W. Bell, acting director, to the ef- | fect that the bureau now approves sub- mission of such a proposal gress (See INSPECTION, Page A-10.) Motorists would be required to their cars inspected twice each the American that some OURT FATE SEEN - OEEKS §72000000 INWAGNER RULING would strike down the entire reliet set- | Five-Year Prospectus May Line-up Close in Senate. lature to enact other relief legislation | anything better would come out. “This bookmaking tax is supposed to raise $400,000 yearly. I'm not ques- tioning that estimate. The estimate is the business of fiscal experts of the | State “I have been wondering whether legalized bookmaking would interfere with the investigation of the Depart- ment of Justice and the Federal Com- munications Commission into trans- mission of illegal news over wires. Legalization of bookmaking in Mary- land probably would result in trans- mission of information into States where bookmaking is not legalized. “I have had fewer protests or ap- rovals of this particular item than " (See BOOKIES, Page A-3.) Today’s Star District launches drive against “loan sharks.” Page A-14 Reforestation held elosing up “wide open spaces.” Page A-14 W. P. A. lists jobs already completed here. Page A-14 Causes of 128,768 violent deaths in U. S. listed. Page A-14 Five U. S. agencies in new homes to- day after move. Page A-14 Housing bill amendments suggested by D. C. group. Page A-14 D. C. pianist scores at Virginia Music Convention. Page A-14 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT.. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Answers and Questions. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon, Page Mark Sullivan. Page Jay Franklin. Page Delia Pynchon. Page SPORTS. De Shong fights for slab berth in Nats’ “Big Four.” Page C-12 “Dark horse” tennis year seen by Bill ‘Tilden. Page C-12 Feller will win 30 games, is prediction of Terry. Page C-12 Derby future bookmaker stands to lose heavily. Page C-13 Clubs, ball may be changed to check golf scoring. Page C-13 Snead leads Charleston golfers. Little is barred. Page C-13 Duckpinners vote to keep George Ise- man at helm. Page C-13 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Vital Statistics. Bedtime Story. Young Washington. Nature’s Children. Crossword Puzzle. City News in Brief. Betsy Caswell. Dorothy Dix. Traffic Convictions. Service Orders. Letter-Out. © Do ww 0w E Page Page C-14 Page C-14 Page C-15 | pointed last February. { the commission | Be Used by Roosevelti Building Commission. Chairman Collins of the House Sub- committee on District Appropriations expressed interest today in the Com- | im- | provement program for the District. | missioners’ five-year $75,000.000 Mr. Collins is a member of President Roosevelt's Building Commission, ap- Collins explained had urged all Federal departments as well as the District government | to submit statements outlining their | present and future needs and ex- pressed belief that the Commissioners’ | five-year program is an outgrowth of that request, although it was not de- termined that the needs sent to the White House were prepared for the Building Commission. Many of the projects in the Dis- trict program, especially additional school and library facilities, Collins said he favored and would like to see carried out At the same time, he asked: “Where is the District going to get the money?” Collins pointed out the District is facing a deficit of $6,000,000 in the coming fiscal year and that he had introduced a series of tax bills designed to produce the needed rev- enue. “Everybody knows I favor more library and school facilities,” Collins declared, “but I believe economies can be affected in school adminis- tration costs through consolidations.” Representative Brewster of Maine and Shafer of Michigan, both Re- publican members of the District Legislative Committee of the House, also gave their indorsement to the idea of long-range planning, but ex- pressed doubt if the District in its present financial condition would be " (See D. C. BUILDING, Page A-2) Plan Defeat Seen if Law Is Upheld. | BACKGROUND— Frustrated in his legislative am- bitions by adverse Supreme Court decisions, President Roosevelt on February 5 asked Congress for au- thority to appoint siz new members to the court unless present justices over 70 retire. The proposal met with an immediate unfavorable re- sponse in Congress and through- out the country As Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on the bill, more than 20 constitutional amendments were submitted by Senators who ‘ believe governmental changes should be achieved by amendment instead of “packing” court. The President, however, is reported de- termined that bill shall pass, | gardless of amendments re- | Bs the Associated Press. The Senate line-up on the Roosevelt | | court bill appeared so close today | imngm be tipped either way by the | Supreme Court decision on the Wagner | labor law. | Opponents of the court reorganiza- | tion program counted 43 sure votes {on their side. They claimed several additional | “probable” votes and forecast that a decision upholding the Wagner law | would win their battle for them. It would demonstrate, they said. that a revised court was not needed for approval of social and economic legis- lation | Administration leaders insisted they |had more than a majority of the | 96 Senators pledged to vote for the bill, (See COURT, Page A-2.) blossom Fete Toniéht Defi;s Prospect of 47 Temperature Despite snow flurries in outlying Washington this morning and a pre- diction of 34 degrees in temperature for tonight, the Japanese Cherry Blos- | som Festival will be held as planned at 7:45 p.m. providing there is no rain, it was announced today by C. Melvin Sharpe, general chairman of the pageant. A forecast by the Weather Bureau set an approximate temperature of 47 degrees for the time of the fete. No rain was predicted, though officials said snow was falling over the moun- tainous regions of nearby States. The forecast for tomorrow was partly cloudy and colder, with an average temperature of about 55 degrees. The low temperature forecast for tonight caused no apprehension among park authorities for the safety of the blossoms. Frank T. Gartside, assistant super- intendent of the National Capital Parks, declared that smudge pots will not be brought into play again, since only with subfreezing temperatures are the blossoms damaged. Conferring with David Saunders, v chief of the Horticultural Division of the National Capital Parks, today, Gartside said that the blossoms ring: ing the Tidal Basin are now 60 per cent out. Gartside emphasized that he has never, in his long years of ex- perience with the Washington park system, seen the blossoms looking so well. At the present time the trees present the pink-colored blossom, which will later bleach out to white in the sun- shine, the assistant superintendent explained. Many persons believe that pink tinge is superior to any of the other colorings on the Japanese cherry trees at this season. Because of thé large crowds now in the city to view the blooms the Na- tional Park Service announced today the Washingion Monument would be kept open until 10 o'clock tonight and tomorrow. An air view of the blos- soms may be obtained from the Mon- ument windows at night while they | are lighted by the flood lights. Cheered by clear skies, hundreds of tourists and Washingtonians flocked | 7 (See BLOSSOMS, Page A-2) b were selling automo- | to Con- | Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen | | that some members said the balance | SECURTY BOARD CHANCESSEEN I * LATIVER NAMING Two Democrats Are Already [ Members—Miles Shift Plan Reported. |POLITICAL AFFILIATION | QUESTIONED IN SENATE Nomination of Winant Successor Has Remained in Committee Without Action, BACKGROUND— Among those prominently men- tioned for a mew cabinet post of Welfare Administrator, Chairman Winant of Social Security Board voluntarily bowed out of the picture in connection with his present office while his name was pending before Senate committee a few weeks ago During political campaign of last Fall he had resigned post in order to take stump for President Roose- velt, BY J. A. FOX. in the membership of 1 Security Board is in pros- pect, it developed today as result of nomination of Murray W. Latimer, a Democrat, to a vacancy on the board, | which alread two Democratic | members—all that the law allows. | Concurrently, there was a report that Vincent Miles of Arkansas, whose two-year term on the board ends in August, was slated for a transfer to another Government post. However, Miles said he had not been informed that any change was cop- templated. Latimer, the public’s representative on the Railroad Retirement Board, of which he is chairman, recently was named by President Roosevelt to fill the unexpired six-year teim of G. Winant, chairman of the Social Security Board. Winant, a New Deal Republican, had resigned, nd term does not expire until 1941. Arthur J. Altmeyer, the four-year member of the board, then was designated chairman. Alte er, a Wisconsin Democrat, for- mer was Assistant Secretary of Labor A change the Soci M Expert on Social Security. From all indications, the question of Latimer's political affiliation did ! not arise when he was named to the | Social Security Board, which, under { the law] can not be made up of more | than two members of a party. He | is considered an expert on social se- | curity legislation and aided in estabe lishing the present set-up. When the nomination went to the Senate Finance Committee, however, the fact that he is a Democrat was raised and the nomination has re mained in committee without action. Miles said today that any report of his transfer was news to him. He said he had wanted to leave the board | several months ago because a financial ;sacr:ficp was entailed by his remaine {ing. However, he added, there was much organization work to be done and that he felt it his duty to stay on | the job. Action on 1. C. C. Awaited. In the meantime, interest also has been stirred in transportation circles | over the continued failure of the | President to act in the case of two members of the Interstate Commerce | Commission, whose terms expired De- | cember 31—Joseph B. Eastman and | Hugh M. Tate | Both continued in office by virtue | of a law enacted last year which pro= | vides that incumbents on this com- mission hold on until their successors have been appointed and qualified; | before that & commissioner auto- | matically stepped out at the end of | his seven-year term, unless renomis nated | Eastman is an Inaependent and Tate a Republican, and in case either or both were not reappointed, succes= sors would have to come from a mi= nority party, as the commission now has all the majority members allowed by law, with six Democrats sitting. There has been no word from the ‘White House to account for the delay, and observers have come to the con- clusion that the President feels there | is no particular reason to hurry. EIGHT DISAPPEAR - AS TUGBOAT SINKS | Delaware River Victims, Includ- | ing Girl, Believed Drowned. Two Saved. | By the Associateq Press. CHESTER, Pa., April 10.—Seven men and a girl aboard the tugboat Radiant were missing today after the | vessel sank in the Delaware River | near Essington. Two of the crew were | saved. The missing—Alfred Robinson, first ngineer, Camden, N. J.; his 15-year- old daughter; Ira Robinson, brother of Alfred; Woodie Owen, deck hand: Emery Ralph, deck hand; L. Mitchell, fireman, Philadelphia; John Hurley, fireman, Camden, and R. Calles, cook. Capt. Reuben S. Daisey, 57, and Anthony Clark, first mate, escaped by | swimming to a barge the tug had in tow. Capt. Daisey, suffering from expoe | sure, was taken to his home. His son, Dewitt Daisey, said his | father told him “the water was very cold and we don't think the others had a chance.” The son related that his father told him “all were on geck about midnight, enjoying the ride. The tug left Girard Point between 7 and 8 o'clock (last night) towing a barge of the Gulf Re- fining Ce. to Bridgeton, N. J. | "“When they got opposite Essington, | near Tinicum Island, the tug, without | any warning whatever, turned over on |its side with a lurch. Father and ! Clark were thrown into the water.” £