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A=2 exw COAL PROBE BARES UNIONFIGHT FUNDS Operators Assessed $70,- 000 in One Year, La Fol- lette Group Reveals. BACKGROUND— Strike-breaking and espionage tactics were first concern of Senate tommittee probing violations of eivil liberties as weeks of hearings disclosed vast expenditures for these purposes by anti-union cor- porations, In more open and more violent manner operators of Harlan Coun- s rich soft coal fields have fought unionization and curbed virtually all liberty of employes to degree that has become Nation-wide scan- dal. In 1935 Kentucky Commission reported conditions “unbelievable.” BY JOHN C. HENRY. Despite an almost complete absence of adequate financial records, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee es- t&blished today that the Harlan Coun- t§, Ky., Coal Operators’ Association Kept its coffers well filled with funds to fight unionization efforts in the xich soft coal mines of that area. Taking in as much as $70,000 a year through assessment of its mem- bers, the association spends less than half of this sum on routine activities. “This conclusion was reached on the Basis of persistent committee ques- tioning of George 8. Ward, secretary of the association, who said he pur- posely kept few records but admitted that assessments were doubled when- ever union membership drives loomed. Patching together the partial figures | for 1936, the committee established an | mcome of $49.000 for that year, with | about $34000 in expenditures ac- counted for and $6,000 uncovered as & bank surplus. Under further question- {ng, Ward accounted for part of the remaining $9.000 by gifts of $1,200 to the Boy Scouts, $500 to the Girl Scouts and miscellaneous expenses such as supplies and insurance. ‘Ward then told of an expensive trip to Frankfort, the State capital, to op- pose legislation. One of the bills de- feated would have forced operators to redeem scrip at its face value. The committee was told by a witness yester- dry that Harlan miners were paid in scrip and that companies reduced this by as much as 20 per cent if an em- plove insisted on redemption in cash, U. M. W. Organizers Watched. Faced with a collection of can- eeled checks drown this year, Ward sa1d most of the expenses involved in those cases were devoted to keeping surveillance of U. M. W. organizers in the county. Ben Unthank, whose whose salary was $150 & month, received two checks fotaling $2,325 for this purpose in Pebruary, it was said. ~ “How do you know what Unthank @pes with this money?” La Follette peked. “I don't know,” Ward replied. ‘Does he just come in and say he needs a thousand and you give it to him?" “Yes, and I take no receipts. I don't want to know who is working for “Why not?” “I don't know, I just don't want the Information.” “Does the testimony we heard yes- ferday explain why you don't want to know what Unthank does with your money?” Witnesses yesterday said Unthank | hired men to dynamite a union or- | his | ganizer's home and attempt Ward insisted. Although denying the association participates in politics, Ward disclosed in response to questioning that he is Chairman of the Republican County Committee, while 8. J. Dickinson, as- sociation president, is chairman of the Democratic Committee. | Supported by Tonnage Assessment. Ward, who has been an employe of the association since 1916 and its secretary since 1831, testified that the Organization is supported by a ton- Rmage assessment on its members, the Bhormal rate being one-half cent a ton. . Explaining periodic increases of the assessment rate to 1 cent a ton, Ward §aid the double levy was imposed in 1833 and again at the first of this year because of organization drives by the United Mine workers. Ward estimated that the associa- fion's yearly income averages between $60,000 and $70,000. It has seven or eight regular employes, he said, in Bluding Unthank, the deputy sheriff | yhom committee agents have been ! seeking for a month. . s : Anti-Lynch . (Continued From First e.) e E28 Btroy the last vestige of the power of he soverejgn States” and make the tates “puppets and servants” of the Federal Government, ! Although Republicans decided at a eonference last week to support the | bill, Representative Wadsworth, Re- publican, of New York took the floor | to urge its defeat. : “In my opinion, it is a snare and a delusion. It can never be enforced. It will bring disillusionment to mil- lions,” he declared. . Referring to the lynching of two polored men in Mississippi Tuesday, the New Yorker said he was shocked by it and added the belief that “the majority of the well-meaning citizens ©f Mississippi were shocked.” + Damage Provision Attacked. Wadsworth attacked a provision of the bill that would make counties liable for damages to a victim's family. Ike said the laws of his State and pos- pbly many other States made no pro- Vision whereby county authorities could pay damages a Federal court might impose. G “This law would give the Federal Government the power to hold such kounty officers in contempt of court and tie up the governmental ma- chinery of the county,” he said, “It would give the Federal Gov- ernment the power to destroy the county.” A Kentucky Democrat, Representa- Live Creal, followed Wadsworth with A plea for the bill < He said his Btate had not had a Adynching in seven years. He at- Aributed this to a drastic State law. # “Why don't the other States pass imilar laws?” he asked. “If they #id perhaps we would not be debat- 4ng this measure now.” | { . W ashington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. HUMANIZED. HOSE who have not learned pedagogy—whether it is an art or a science, you decide— may feel badly at times that teachers are so abstract about their subjects. But just try to humaize them and you may find that the whole thing slips away. A story illustraiing the polnt comes to us concerning Mrs. Milliken, who teaches at Leland Junior High School. A woman happily disposed toward the humanizing of the characters and events with which she deals, she tried it recently with a description of the handsomeness of an historical (we be- lieve) figure. Right in the middle of it, however, one of the young impressionables of the class heaved a conspicuous and irritating sigh for the glorious men of the past. Mrs. Milligan was forced to drop | the whole darned thing and lecture on the inanity of puppy love. You see, it just goes to show. * % K % HIKER. So you think the children of to- day are not Spartans, hunh? And that they are inclined to ignore the etiquette of the grown-up sports they adopt? Stop thinking it long enough to listen to the story of young Ned Walter. He was bound for a hike in Rock Creek Park the other day and as a prelude was monkeying around with a knapsack large enough to carry a couple of pack animals in. His father came upon him just as he was filling it to the top with potatoes. “You can’t cook those in the park,” the elder Walter warned. “They won't let you start a fire.” | “Were not going to cook them,” replied young Ned. “We're just using them to fill the knapsack. How can you hike without a heavy load?" i | * x X x CURE. A friend of the Wayside was dining the other noon in an Italian restau- rant. Directly across from her at the next table was a gentleman eating | spaghetti. No Italian, he engulfed out technique, ignoring dangling ends completely. tack, our friend caught herself be- ginning to stare. Whereupon she turned her attention to her own lunch and forgot the other diner. A few minutes later she hegrd a voice at her elbow saying, “I hope you enjoyed watching me eat my spaghetti.” Looking up, she saw the gentleman, | his spaghetti all consumed, standing at her table. Not knowing just what say, she kept silent. { (umph!” humphed the man, de- parting. “What you need, young | woman, is to visit a psychiatrist!” * % x x CODE. HOW would you like to hear a pretty incredible story about two visitors who had a date with a local girl whom they remembered from years ago (when all three, and you and I, were very young)? Well, at any rate, they were on their way to her swank hotel when they both fell to wondering what time had done to her. “I wouldn't know,” said the one who had not thought of that angle first. “I have not seen her in years, myself.” So they started working up a code by which they could discuss it with- out the girl understanding. The key question was to be “Do you think it will be warm tomorrow?” If the an- swer was affirmative, the answerer was supposed to think that the girl was pretty. They met her a few minutes later at the hotel. After the preliminaries of reunion were over, the girl bowled them both over by asking, in all in- nocence “Do you think it will be warm to- morrow?” They broke down then and told her the plot. * k% ¥ TRIP. TAXI driver told us this one: A gentleman came out of a local hotel, hailed his cab and in- structed him to drive slowly out Six- teenth street. They went some 20 or 30 blocks and nothing was said by either driver or driven, the taxi owner’s opening re- mark about the weather having been squelched by his passenger, who was staring intently out the window. The drive continued clear out to Six- teenth street extended, near the East- | West Highway, the fare still staring out the window, the driver sitting si- lently but filled with curiosity. Then he was ordered to drive back the same way he came, but still slowly. Back at the hotel, the fare finally offered an explanation. It seemed he had been intoxicated the night be- fore and whenever he felt he was too tight to negotiate downtown traffic, he always headed for the wide open spaces on Bixteenth street, parked his car and took a cab back to the hotel. He was a bit upset because they couldn't find the car this particular day. “;What kind of a car was it?” our cabbie asked. The fare described it. 5 “Is that it over there?” the driver asked, pointing to one smack in front of the hotel. It was! Some sweet childish voices lifted in song at church last Sunday let down a friend of the Wayside pretty suddenly and seriously. Under thetr he thought to be very funny when he ) the long strands vigorously but with- | Fascinated by the vigor of his at- | THE EVENING BECHTEL MURDER THOUGHT SOLVED Man Admits Seeing Killing Five Years Ago—Motive Kept Secret, By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 15.—The murder of Norman R. Bechtel, a church worker, five years was be- lieved solved today when William Jordan, colored chauffeur, told at & hearing before Mayor S. Davis Wil- son that he was present at the killing. After he publicly stated to the mayor that he had voluntarily signed a statement implicating himself but that he did not do the slaying, Jor- dan was held without bail for a fur- ther hearing next Wednesday. Bechtel, 31, and active in Mennonite Church affairs, was found stabbed to death on the grounds of an estate in the German town section. He had attended a church meeting in Lands-. dale, north of Philadelphia, and met his death on his way to his home late at night. Questioned by the Mayor, Jordan said that three colored men and a colored woman named in the state- ment were involved in the killing. One of the men has since died. The Mayor turned aside questions as to whether the three others were in custody. The Mayor declined to discuss the motive at the hearing. Earlier he said that the killing might have been due to a combination of robbery, revenge and an aspect of the case he did not care to discuss at this time, _ Court (Continued From First Page.) further and eliminate the age and retirement provisions of the Roosevelt bill, under which the increase in the court would be conditional on failure of justices over 70 to retire. McCarran said he “hoped” the ad- ministration would be sympathetic to his proposal, but administration spokesman made it clear that the President was campaigning for his own bill with as much determination as before the Wagner act decisions. McCarran said he was prompted to introduce his plan by the Wagner de- cisions, the increased business of the high court and the increased popula- tion of the country. He described it as the product “of my own thought without consultation with any one.” Present Members Would Stay. would remove all criticism. legitimate charge of packing the court could be made, because the present membership would remain. It would give President Roosevelt, who has ap- pointed no members of the court, an opportunity to appoint two.” His amendment would also clarify the language of the Roosevelt measure with respect to additional judges in the lower courts. It would retain the provision for the appointment of up to 50 additional Jjudges, but provides that the increase would be permanent and not drop back 85 the older judges retire, Smith Called Before Committee. Smith was called before the Judici- ary Committee by Senators opposed | to the bill after three members of the | cabinet had made it clear there would be no let-up on the part of the admin- istration to secure passage without | compromise. designated by the association to con- vey its views to the Senate, Smith said: “The true objective of the measure !is to force the judiciary to adopt the constitutional views of the Executive and Legislature. The effect is clearly to defeat the balance of powers essen- tial to constitutional government. The real reason for the proposed measure must be the selection of justices whose views on known or future legislation are different from the views of justices now sitting. “The President’s advisers are per- fectly willing to keep the Supreme Court, but they insist that the court interpret the Constittution in accord- ance with their views.” Advances 3 Objections. Smith advanced the following three basic objections to the bill: 1. The proposal, in the manner pro- posed, is in a moral and spiritual sense unconstitutional. 2. Phe effect of the propecsal is to appoint to the Supreme Court, last refuge of the oppressed, men whose broad views will be known before they accept appointment. 3. The proposal will not obtain its objective and the changes proposed can be made by amendment to the Constitution. Discussing his second objection, Smith told the committee: “No decent, reputable lawyer has ever tried a case who would accept, in the most important litigation, a juror whose views with relation to the case were known in advance. Both law- yers and laymen condemn and fear packed juries or partial ju.ves. In practically all cases of presen. impor- tance the Federal Government is a party and a citizen the adverse party. “If the people know in advance of o hearing that the administration has selected a judge who will be presumed to favor the Government’s contention, respect for his decision must be gone.” 18,695 Returned Ballots. The detailed results of the bar asso- ciation poll, Smith said, showed that of the 29,616 members of the associa- tion 18,695 returned ballots. Eighyme six per cent were opposed to the plan and 13 per cent in favor of it. A total of 142,320 non-member lawyers were sent ballots and 44,021 returned against the plan and 11,770 were in favor of it. Of the total lawyers voting, 56,153 ‘were reported against and 14,333 in favor. Paul P. Hannah of Washington, secretary of the Junior Bar Confer- ence, told the committee 80 per cent of his organisation had voted against the President’s plan. The conference, he said, is & national organization of members of the American Bar Asso- ciation who are under 35. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, has been in- vited to appear before the committee tomorrow morning to discuss the bill. reached his wife while passing the collection plate. Holding it in front of her and being very cer- tain the bdarrage of melody would cover his words, he said: “Come on, lady, shell out.” Just as he said it, the song stop- ped and his words went bouncing off the walls of the church for every one to hear; especially for one elderly woman to hear. Her nasty look left him feeling quite trreverent and monstrously morti- fled. r “It is fair” McCarran added, “and | No | As chairman of a special committee | STAR, Doctor’s Task Held Harder on Heart Than Is Laborer’s By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 15.—1It's four times harder on the heart to be a physician than a laborer or farmer, a doctor reported today. Dr. Harry L. Smith of Rochester, Minn, drew his conclusions from a study of the clinical records of 1,831 patients at the Mayo clinic. He re- ported his findings to the American Medica] Journal. Dr. Smith studied the incidence of coronary sclerosls, sometimes called the “disease of the inteligentsia,” among physicians, bankers, lawyers, clergymen, laborers and farmers. The affliction is characterized by harden- ing of the nerves, ligaments and blood vessels around the heart. Of 307 physicians’ records 10.7 per cent revealed incidence of coronary sclerosis; of 300 bankers, 5.3 per cent; of 304 lawyers, 4.6 per cent; of 306 clergymen, 4.6 per cent; 308 laborers, 2.6 per cent, and of 308 farmers, 2.5 per cent, He concluded that occupation in- fluences the incidence of the disease. “The incidence is lowest among those who do manual labor and high- est among those who do mental work,” Dr. Smith stated. The average age of subjects of the clinical records was 52 years. REICH PUBLIGIZES LYNCHINGS INU.S. Press Spreads Details of Mississippi Mob Killings. BACKGROUND— Religious attacks of Nazi regime now directed against the Catholic Church and the Jews, the former because it stands in the way of complete Naxi conquest of Ger- many and the latter because of the essential anti-Semitic aspect of Naziism, Objective of Nazis was estab- lishment of a national church, but efforts of German Christians failed before insistence of Evangelical Church that it retain its identity and ecclesiastical authority. BY the Associated Pres BERLIN, April 15.—The entire Ger- man press appeared today with ban- ner lines atop “Horrible Details of the | tention that whatever was done was Negro Lynchings” in Mississippi. The concerted publicity for the tor- ture and killing of two Negroes last Tuesdsy by a Duck Hill, Miss, mob, which was enraged by the slaying of a country merchant, coincided with charges that American churches were permitting “vicious” anti-German “machinations.” ©Officially sponsored comment on the lynchings contrasted them with “hu- mane German racial laws,” but re- frained from direct attacks on the United States in connection therewith. Outcry of Disgust Reported. There were complete details, how- ever, of how the Negroes suffered, and German readers were informed that “an outcry of disgust has swept the American public, certain circles of which usually try to incite feeling against Nazi Germany and its racial laws, which are enforced in a humane manner.” (Germany's so-called Nurnberg racial laws, passed in 1935, dis- tinguish between German “citi- zens” and Jewish “subjects” and proscribe certain intercourse be- tween the two.) At the same time the inspired Nazi press loosed furious tirades against the showing in the Riverside Memorial Church in New York of an anti-Nasi film seeking to raise $400,000 for the relief of Christian German refugees. The outbursts, in phrasing that showed their common origin, carried such headings as “anti-German lying film!” and “Jewish emigrants stirring up hatred before the altar!” Dr. Fosdick Chief Figure. The official German news agency, Deutsches Nachrichtenburo, said, in discussing the film which has Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Riverside Church, for its chief figure: “This film reveals with terrible clear- ness the un-Christian methods with which a new anti-German drive is to be launched in the American churches by & small un-American clique whose aim is to misuse American religious sentiments for nefarious ends.” At the same time the press played up the lynching of two Negroes at Duck Hill, Miss,, sparing their readers none of the details of the torture. The press in its anti-American cam- paign also has stressed disastrous eco- nomic consequences of the strike wave in the United States. The attacks on American churches and economic and living conditions, however, was just one phase of the widespread onslaught on all ant{-Nazi activities. In addition to renewed attacks on Catholics and Jews, the drive spread into all phases of German official life. Heightened by what was described officially as “a very sharp protest” to the Vatican over Pope Pius’ Easter encyclical accusing the Reich of vio- lating the 1933 concordat, wide pub- licity has been given to revived prose- cutions of Catholic priests and nuns for violation of foreign exchange regu- lations and charges of high treason and immorality. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: May take up Harrison-Black edu- cation bill. La Follette Committee econtinues investigation of Harlan Oounty, Ky., labor conditions. Judiciary Committee hears oppo- nents of Roosevelt court bill. Labor Committee continues hear- ings on Wagner housing bill. House: Resumes debate on Gavagan anti- lynching bill. Labor Committee considers per- manent extension of Civilian Con- servation Corps. TOMORROW. Senate: Program uncertain. Indian Affairs Committee meets, 10:30 a.m. Finance Subcommittee holds hearing on veterans' legislation, 10 am. Territories Committee takes lawrence Cramer nominstiom, 10:30 am. Judiciary Committee eontinues hear- ings on President’s court bill. WASHINGTON | claring this irrelevant. D. C. THURSDAY, JURY COMPLETED AT RHODES TRIAL Second Hearing of Forgery Count Against Fidelity Loan Ex-President. BACKGROUND— The Fidelity Building and Loan Association, organized in 1929 to make loans on property in mearby Maryland and Virginia, closed its doors last July after expanding into .a $5,000,000 organization. Fred B. Rhodes, who had resigned from the presidency a short time previously, was indicted, and went to trial last month. The jury dead- locked. A jury of nine men and three women today began hearing the sec- ond forgery trial to Fred B. Rhodes, former president of the now closed Fidelity Building & Loan Association. Selection of the jurors proceeded slowly, the defense particularly exer- cising challenges, and nearly an hour and a half was consumed before the 12 finally were chosen and sworn. Rhodes, 61, is charged with forging 8 $1,500 withdrawal slip against the account of Desire A. Irr, elderly Gov- ernment Printing Office employe of 65 K street, who was a large depositor at Fidelity. This is one of eight counts alleging forgery on which Rhodes was in- dicted. He also faces 20 counts al- leging larceny. New, Witnesses Named, In opening the case before Justice Peyton QGordon in Criminal Di- vision No. 1 of District Court, Assist- ant United States Attorney John J. Wilson announced the names of a number of possible witnesses who did not appear at the first trial a month ago, when the jury dealocked. Among | these is 8. F. Pickering of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After selection of the jury, Assistant United States Attorney Howard Boyd, who is aiding Wilson in the prosecu- tion, began outlining the case to the jury. After Boyd had gone into the in- volved series of transactions in which the withdrawal slip figured, William E Leahy, chief defense counsel, making his opening statement, told the jury: “‘Mr. Rhodes never got a 5-cent piece out of that transaction.” Necessity of Action. Wilson objected as Leahy placed the foundation of Fidelity in 1929 and told of Rhodes’ connection with it, de- Justice Gor don, however, allowed him to proceed. Leahy then set up the defense con necessary to keep the association go- ing in the face of opposition by the controller of the currency. Mrs. Ruth 8. Horner, urer of Fidelity, who is now employed in Rhodes’ law office, was called as the first Government witness, and repeat- ed her previous testimony that the withdrawal slip was prepared by Rhodes to cover an overdraft on the | company's books. Rhodes was indicted Pidelity closed last July 18. In the first trial Rhodes testified that the Irr withdrawal slip figured in a series of involved transactions neces- sary to keep Fidelity going in the face of a fight by Treasury. He felt thta Irr's resources were at his command, he said, because of the latter’s offer to aid in the dis- after the pute with the controller's office, which | was pictured as trying building association. Repudiated on Stand. Irr, on the stand, repudiated any understanding of the sort. Leahy and William J. Hughes, jr., who conducted the defense at the first trial, have been joined by William E. Richardson for the second. The Fi- delity now is being reorganized by the Government. D. C. MAN FOUND DEAD IN BURNED CAR Identity Is Traced Through Tags on Vehicle in Accident at Ashland, Va. Killed when his automobile crashed into an abutment and caught fire on United States Highway No. 1, about 2 miles south of Ashland, Va. the charred body of a man believed to be William H. Britt, 38, of 1012 E street southwest, was found early today in the smouldering wreckage of the car. Mrs. Britt was prostrated when po- lice told her of the accident. She said her husband left home last night to drive to Charlotte, N. C., in the automobile he purchased only a week ago. Tag numbers on the automobile were the only clue to the motorist's identity, police said. The body was carried to Crew and Perkins funeral establishment in Ashland to await positive identification. Virginia State police said they are satisfied that the death of the motor- ist was accidental. State Trooper J. A. Houchens said Britt was driving alone when the car hit a bridge abutment, overturned and burned. Besides his wife, Britt is survived by four children—James, 9; Donald, 7; Shirley, 5, and Jerry, 3. Britt, a paperhanger, was driving to Charlotte to attempt to collect a debt for a friend of the family, it was said at his home. to close the Fire (Continued From First Page.) children aside in their fight to get out of the car. Fischer was trying to help & woman through a window when the crowd knocked him down and bruised and skinned his knee. Miss Kirkmeyer said it was “every man and woman for his or her self.” She broke a window in the back of the car, climbed through, and clung to the bars for a moment until the car was halted. She cut her hands in break- ing the window. In the confusion, Mrs. Smith be- came separated from her children, Audrey, 5, and Alvin G. She was still searching frantically for them after the blaze had been extinguished and order restored. They were found un- hurt, wandering about in the crowd. Mrs. Quinn, after being treated for injuries to her ankle, legs and back, said she was attempting to prevent up | the younger Smith boy from being trampled when she was suddenly thrown to the sireet. former as- | sistant secretary and assistant treas- | the controller of the | compulsion for arbitration” and APRIL 15, 1937. Death Discloses Gift The Chapel of St. Blessed Virgin Mary are shown. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. | ARZ ANDERSON, diplomat and | traveler, who died at White | I Sulphur Springs, W. Va, Tuesday, was the “anonymous donor” who gave the Chapel of St. Mary to the Washington Cathedral. His gift became known when it was | announced that his ashes will be en- shrined there. Right Rev. James E. | Freeman, Bishop of Washington, con- | firmed the story this morning. The chapel is considered one of the most beautiful portions of the Cathe- dral. It occupies five bays of the | north choir aisie, adjacent to the Great Choir, and is 115 feet long, 25 | feet wide, and the height from the floor to the ceiling is 43 feet. Seats are provided for a congregation of 400 persons. ticularly, the chapel shelters an altar inscribed, “The Way—The Truth— | The Life,” with an exquisitely carved reredos portraying scenes from the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Larz Anderson Revealed as Donor of Chapel of St. Mary. Mary at designed by Frohman, Robb and Little, architects. In this view | the magnificent altar and reredos depicting the life of the @ | son, I know, was profoundly moved at Planned for services connected with | the work and worship of women par- | (1 o s R Washington Cathedral, Star Staff Photo. | | The cost of the entire unit, with its decorations, was $500,000. | Bishop Freeman explained that the gift resulted from a visit paid 1o the | Cathedral by Mr. Anderson about ten years ago. “I was leaving the grounds one day,” the bishop said, “when I met Mr. Anderson coming toward the building. We turned back and I con- ducted the visitor through such por- tions of the structure as then were finished. Mr. Anderson was deeply im- pressed and told me that he was in- spired to take an interest in the work. Within a week he asked me to visit him at his home in Brookline, Mass., to discuss the contribution he pro- posed to make. “I believe he found spiritual satis- faction in his generosity. Mr. Ander- the beauty of the services when the chapel was dedicated.” | No publicity attended the gift at | the time when it was given, Bishop Freeman added, “because Mr. Ander- son preferred to remain an anonymous | benefactor of the Cathedral.” Firm Head Quits Job on Demand Of Sit-Downers = the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, April 15—Fred E. Yahr, for 18 years head of Yahr Lange, Inc., wholesale drug compan; wag in retirement today—at the d mand of 115 empioyes who staged an eight-hour sit-down strike to gain their end. Yahr, who is 65 and has been as- sociated with the concern for 37 years, relinquished active manage- ment of the business under the set- tlement, but retained the title of president, a seat on the board of di- rectors and his stock in the firm. The strike began when the em- ployes came to work yesterday morn- ing. Yahr denied strikers’ charges he had followed a policy of hiring young men at low salaries and firing them after they had advanced to bet- ter jobs. He termed the strike “redic- ulous.” with the terms of the deal” Yahr said last night. “I feel I have been | here long enough, and the employes | are satisfied with terms of the agree- ment.” “Tonight I go home to stay. Strikes (Continued From First Page.) tary, and Wyndham Mortimer, a vice president, accompanied by an attor- ney, conferred with Circiut Judge Arthur Webster, who issued the in- junction, at his home last night and then gave Sheriff Thomas C. Wilcox a check for $8,050 for the release of 79 women and 41 men. Five of the 15 who were not freed were U. A. W. A, organizers and included Victor and Walter Reuther, brothers. A union sound car taken to the plant, which manufactures automobile locks for the Chrysler Corp., was im- pounded by police. HEPBURN DECLARED ‘DICTATOR.’ Union Demands Premier Withdraw Strike Negotiations. OSHAWA, Ontario, April 15 (#)— Oshawa’s embattled C. I. O. Union of General Motors workers demanded today the Ontario’s premier withdraw from strike negotiations, accusing him of a ‘“dictatorship” that would rob workers of their right to strike. By formal resolution, the local of the United Automobile Workers of America, an affiliate of John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion, sought to shove Premier Mitchell Hepburn out of the foreground to make way for Dominion intervention. The workers went on record “as re- fusing to conduct any negotiations as long as Premier Hepburn is a party to them.” The union's cry of “dictatorship” was reminiscent of Hepburn's own charge that Lewis, through the Os- hawa and other C. I. O. units, was trying to establish himself as & “po- litical and economic dictator” in Can- ada and the United States. ‘The General Motors employes’ reso- lution said “the dictatorship of Premier Hepburn would deprive all workers of their last resory in an industrisl dispute, namely the right to strike.” ‘The declaration accused the provin- cia] executive of having * nrged him to step out “and allow the Do- f | minion Department of Labor to act as | | burn. The premier, leader of the Lib- | onion farm. “I am perfectly happy and satified | mediators.” The resolution was adopted at a mass meeting of 2,000 men and women last nmight after Hepburn forced resig- nation of two disaffected members of | his cabinet, Labor Minister David Croll and Attorney General Arthur W. Roebuck. Both Croll and Roebuck were con- | sidered extremely liberal members of the Ontario government. They were labor lawyers before joining with Hep- eral party, is proprietor of a large After the resignations the premier took over the labor portfolio himself and one of his first acts was to ask the Dominion government not to in- tervene. The outcove of the union’s request for intervention from Ottawa to end the week-old tie-up affecting 3.700 workers was doubtful, in view of that fact. Labor Minister Norman Rogers and Prime Minister MacKensie King indi- cated there would be no federal inter- vention, however, in the absence of requests from Hepburn or General Motors of Canada. Hepburn, meanwhile, declared he | had “no immediate intention” of call- ing a general election to seek a man- date from Ontario’s voters on his attitude toward the Lewis labor move- ment. He said, however, that cir- cumstances might arise at any time | to make such a course necessary. | Roebuck, relieved of the attorney | generalship, wrote to the premier his | argument “‘the unions of this country | have an undoubted legal right to | organize in such form as in their wisdom they saw fit and should have an equal freedom with employers in choosing their afliations and rep- resentatives.” The Dominion government and sev- eral provinces were confronted with a rising tide of labor disputes. Widely separated strikes held more than 4,400 workers idle, including those in Osh- awa, while 5000 Montreal garment workers were under call to quit work today. | C. I. O.-affiliated miners, 1,000 | strong, threatened to strike at Pernie, | British Columbia, unless demands for | wage increases and union recognition j were met. 1 PITTSBURGH WORKERS RETURN. | Disputes Settled in Various Industries in District. | PITTSBURGH, April 15 (#)—Set- tlement of disputes sent 2,500 men back to work today in the Pittsburgh district. - | H Eight hundred employes of Hub- bard & Co., hardware manufacturers, ended a four-week strike when the company agreed to recognize the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee. Five hundred men at the Coshocton Iron Works at Monongahela won recognition of the committee and a $5-a-day basic wage in a week-long strike. Approximately 1,000 painters settled differences with the Master Painters and Decorators’ Association and re- turned to work at an $11-a-day wage. ‘They had received $9.60 a day. TEXTILE AGREEMENT SIGNED. " | NEW YORK. April 15 (#).—An agreement providing for a wage in- crease and recognition of the Textile ‘Workers’ Organizing Committee as the sole collective bargaining agency for employes has been signed by the Vis- cose Corp., largest producer of rayon in America, and the union. Sidney Hillman, chairman of the sfiliate of John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organimation, an- nounced last night s contract carrying essentially these provisions: | Montgomery, consumers’ ! year-olds and up; claiming; 14 miles. MILK PRICE SLASH BAN CHALLENGED Consumers’ Counsel Holds Drop in Charge Is Indicated. Decision of the Maryland-Virginia Milk Producers Association not to grant a seasonal reduction in Wash- ington’s 14-cent milk price on May ! was challenged today by Donald E counsel of | the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- tration, Montgomery pointed out that the 1- | cent price boost agreed to by the A | A. A. last Fall was purely an emer- gency measure because of poor pas- turage and the expense of feed, and | that the conditions which necessitated the increase no longer exist. “Pastures are in excellent condition now,” Montgomery declared, “because of favorable weather. There should be & seasonal reduction in the milk price in view of the fact that the cost of production has fallen.” | Fall Statement Recalled. Director B. B. Derrick of the asso- clation announced yesterday that the 14-cent price established November 1 for a six-month period would be continued after the expiration date of the agreement May 1 Montgomery said Derrick, in askir 4 for the higher price last Novemt argued that the “Washington pro- ducer must depend heavily on pur- chased feed-stuffs until at least in the Spring, when pastures may bring some relief.” Montgomery said he could not un- derstand how, at this time of year, the producers can state that in. creased production during the next few months will not Jjustify a lower price The consumers’ counsel called at- tention to the fact that consumption of flud milk in the District fell off 12 per cent following the price ine crease last Fall. He stressed the point that local prices are higher than in comparable cities on the Eastern sea. board. Spread Greater Here, Too. “The spread between consumer and producer prices of milk also is greater in Washington than in other cities" Montgomery declared. “The present delivered price of milk here is only 5 per cent below the 1925-1929 average, while average local retail prices of all foods are almost 20 per cent below the figure for those years.” Montgomery said the present de- livery price of milk is 13 cents in Bal- timore and a cent cheaper in Boston, Philadelphia and New York, and that a seasonal reduction in the price of butter is in progress, CONGRESS SEEKS BILL SENT TO WHITE HOUSE Congress today will ask the White House to send back to the Capitol for correction a bill which inadvertently listed James Roosevelt as a “lieuten- ant” instead of a “lieutenant colonel.” The purpose of the bill was to au= thorize certain officers, enlisted men and civilians of the Army. Navy and Marine Corps to accept decorations tendered them by foreign govern- ments. Young Roosevelt was commissioned a Reserve officer in the Marine Corps before accompanying the President to the South American Peace Confer= ence and had the Order of the Southe ern Cross conferred on him by Brazil, Graw Entries for Tomorrow $1.000; FIRST RACE—P: -yeare olds: 41 kel Fzen furlongs. Yomer v’)imu& ) evries Lin (De Camillas) Do It (Wagmer) a Grim Reaper (Fallon) National (8 R . M. Jeffords entry SECOND RACE—Purse. $1.000; 3-year- old maidens: 6 furlong: Bareback (8. Renick) Gray Heels (Austin Balkonian (O'Malle Diplomacy (Le Blanc) Dugnamany (M. Peters). Fran (Richards) White Hot (Falion) THIRD RACE }l{-’!lr-%lfls(h 6 furlongs. 1se AN e (De Camillas) Melicent (Grigg) Swift Fiash (M. Peters) xStory Time (Sarno Trauwina (Pailon) Gold Spray (Kurtsinger)_ Grand An (Wagner Working rl (Merritt) xJinx (Le Blanc) xBounding Morris) Catomar (O Maliey) Purse. $1.000; elaim FIPTH RACE—Purse. $1.000: elaiming vear-olds: 6 furlongs. e Whisk (Peters) xDashing Doe (Eccard) XEarly Broom (Sarno) XHarry's Dream ILa Blanc) Opoca’ (O'Mallev) Brief (De Camillas) Sadony, (Jackson) True Tune (Rosengarten) Toothpick (Wagner) xTouche (Le Blanc) 55 xAlahad (Le Blanc) FOURTH RACE—Purse, $1.000; 4-year- olds and up: 8 furlongs. a Chief Yeoman (Wagner) War Emblem (De Camillas) Turkey Run_(Richards) 2 Sir Quest (Kurtsinger) Green Melon (Le Blanc) = Black Highbrow (Morris) . . = Billy Bee (Saunders) e 11 % & Sunned iE (Haritos) 1 1 i A Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Christam's entry. XTH RACE—Purse olds: mile and 70 yards. Tonianna (Le Blanc) Jackie D (E_ 8mith) = Muscatine (De Camillas) Merry Maker (Saunders) Frisco Kid (Saunders) Trina (Peters) SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $1.000; 38-year- $1.000 x aSir Windsor (8arno) a Dutch Uncle (O Pe xXandra S Chance King (Schmidl) xScatterbrain (Le Blanc) it and Run (De Camillas) A G. Christos and D. P. Veneziano e: XApprentice allowance claimed. Raining and slow. Scratches for Today— Cloudy and fast. First race—Hard Chase. Seventh race—Monroe and Sallan- dry. IHovre de Grace Workouts| % MILE :37% Amaui i 38, HArd Chase , Bray. Dancer :%7’\ Belshazzar 13 MILE. i35 Ladogan 42 Micro " ©0 b ney Boy _ 5413 Jim Corn 80 " Tuleyries Lad % MILE 03 Dartle ] 32368 Lucky Run Fini 8moke Signal Grim Reaper Toothpick Aunt Flor ack Boo Tadfield