Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1937, Page 2

A—2 ¥x THE EVENING FORD UNONFGHT HOLDS SPOTLIHT Speculation Rife as to Amount of New Minimum Wage Scale. BY the Assoctated Press. DETROIT, May 20.—The battle be- twee Henry Ford and the United Au- tomobile Workers of America over the question of unionizing the great Ford Motor Co. plants throughout the United States has overshadowed, tem- porarily at least, speculation in auto- motive circles concerning Ford's plans for increasing his minimum wage scale. Ford confirmed recently his inten- tion of increasing the present $6 a day minimum, but refused to be led into any discussion as to what the new scale would be or when it would be an- nounced. In his first announcement several weeks ago concerning wages, he said the increase would be made “after the strike mess has been settled.” More recently he intimated plainly that this point has not yet been reached. Plans Kept Secret. So far as can be learned Ford has taken nobody into his confidence about his wage plans. Regardless of the unionization drive begun by the U. A. ‘W. A, which the Ford company met with the distribution of cards among its workers challenging the value of union membership to plant workers, there is a growing belief in informed sources here that a wage announce- ment may be expected this Summer or not later than the introduction of new models in the early Autumn. This conjecture is based on the as- sumption Ford may want to determine definitely the production cost of the new models. Various opinions have been ventured regarding the wage scale. In one authoritative source the prediction was advanced that Ford will announce a 30-hour week at $7 a day. Ford's past pronouncements on the economic value of leisure support this conjecture. One early report concerning Ford's plans had it that he was considering a $10 a day minimum. This has been! termed in sources close to Ford to be | *out of line.” May Increase Output. Ford originally planned production ©f 1,000,000 units this year. To date his plants throughout the country have turned out more than 700,000 cars and trucks, and there is some discussion of the advisability of set- ting up two more production lines at | the parent plant. This is coupled with | the probability that 1938 output may be increased to 2,000,000 units. The potentialities of the labor situ- ation at the Ford plants prompt a wide range of speculation. So far as| known the American Federation of | Labor is not actively seeking members among the Ford workers, but not a few | ©of Ford's associates are known to be | gnore friendly toward the A. F. of L. | {than they are toward the U. A. W. A. The A. F. of L. made apparently Mruitless overtures to the Ford man- fagement coincident with the beginning | ‘of the U. A. W. A. campaign. NEW PRESS AIDE FOR NAVY NAMED Lient. Comdr. Lovette, Author of Book, Heads. Section. ‘The Navy Department today had a | new officer in charge of the press sec- tion of the office of naval intelligence in Lieut. Comdr. Leland P. Lovette, son of the late Representative Oscar | B. Lovette, Republican of Tennessee. Lieut. Comdr. Lovette was recently intelligence officer of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet. He is author of a book en-| titled “Naval Customs, Traditions and | Usage,” and has had experience as Al newspaper man in “covering” the fleet | war game in the Pacific in 1928 for a press association. He formerly was on | duty in the office of naval communica- | tions at the Navy Department. He| has written numerous articles for the proceedings of the Naval Institute, which is published at the Naval Acad- emy, Annapolis, and he won a gold medal for his essay “Naval Policy at the Crossroads.” Lieut. Comdr. Lovette was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1917 and has completed the junior course at the Naval War College, Newport, R. I He | is a native of Tennessee. o Pleads to Killing Child. ROSEBURG, Oreg., May 20 (#).— Cordella Hopkins, 22, pleaded guilty yesterday to beating her 4-year-old stepdaughter to' death. Judge Carl ‘Wimberly postponed sentencing her on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Police Identify Three-Name Girl As Hospital Case Boston Officers Were Baffled Quizzing “Psychologist.”’ Py the Associated Press. BOSTON, May 20.—Detective Wil- liam Slack announced that a blond mystery girl, who baffled police yes- terday by identifying herself as three different persons, including a missing Ohio Wesleyan student, today was definitely identified as Mary V. Dav- enport of Troy, N. Y, The identification was made by of- ficials at the Hudson River State Hospital in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Slack said, sfter Boston police had provided them with a description of the girl. Officials of the New York hospital told him, Slack said, that the girl had been released from the hospital short- ly before Easter Sunday. Slack said that pending arrival of her parents she would be committed to the Boston Psychopathic Hospital for examination. Despite the identification made by officials of the Hudson River Hocpital, the girl continued to parry all ques- tions concerning her real identity. “Melancholia” Victim. ‘TROY, N. Y., May 20 (#).—Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Davenport of Water- viiet, parents of Mary V. Davenport, Boston's blond mystery girl, said today Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. CIRCUS. HE season for circus stories is upon us. Although our own yen to run away and join a troupe of trick riders ended on a cold dank morning many years ago, we admit thé fascination of the big top. The day we quit thinking about circus tents in terms of a career came when a chef cooking for the perform- ers plucked & potato from a vat of boiling water, threw it on the ground, broke it open with the muddy heel of his shoe, then, deciding the potatoes were'nt done, tossed the broken spud back into the vat. We resolved then that it would never, never do to turn flip-flops on & horse's back when one's tummy was full of muddy potatoes. That aversion has little to do with circuses as an institution, a Roman- esque flourish amidst the spotty aus- terity of our lives, but it does bring us to a little story about Mr. and Mrs. Newman Sudduth and the trick riders in the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Show. The Sudduths were watching a lady rider cavort about the ring the other night on a tremendous white steed, built along the lines of a brewery horse. The lady also was a trifle large, and Mrs. Sudduth remarked ad- miringly, “I don't see how that horse can carry such a big woman, what with all those leaps and somersaults and all.” “Why not?” said Mr. Sudduth. “His shoulders are broad enough.” There was a brief silence. Then: “What did you say?” said Mrs. Sud- duth. “Nothing, dear, nothing,” said Mr. Sudduth, who didn't get a chance to laugh until he told us the tale. When working on a murder case, Sergt. Marlin Burbaker of the Maryland State police is about as talkative as a sleeping dummy. Newspaper men who questioned him as he was departing to begin work on the Keene mystery this week tried every known rusé to get some information from him. He stuck by his guns, wouldn’t say anything one way or the other. Finally a reporter said: “I'll put one to you that'll make you say ‘yes.” How about a glass of beer?” “No,” said the sergeant, gloomily. * ok x X TOKEN. TO RETURN to the subject of the circus, an elephant nurse in town with the show this week (whatcha- cellema “mahout” in some countries) said that people in the United States have heard of an ancient Hindu super- ‘stition which says the hair of an ele phant’s tail has great potency in ward ing off evil Americans are forever sneaking up behind the circus elephants and snatching a hair or two, the mahout told us, and some of them are sold for as much as $5. Quite a few of the Ringling Bros. elephants are now al- | most bald abaft, and not very happy about it, either. * Kk ok % WILES. AYBE one reason the abuse isn't stopped is because the circuses carry around mostly female elephants, | which belie the saying that the female | of the species is always more deadly than the male. In pachyderms the reverse is true. A bull elephant has to g0 nuts about one week a year or else lead a life of great repression and despondency. The annual jag is all right in a zoo, where the cages are strong and solid, but on a circus picket line a bull elephant on the rampage is not a cheerful thing to see. X o A 7 wigs | & TOUPEES Only advantage of having the bulls in the circus herds would be to put a stop to this foolishness about hairs from elephant tails. Any one who ever tried to snatch a souvenir from a bull would probably get a large paw in the puss, socko. That's the best known cure for superstitions. * ook % TYPE. SOME day a great psychiatrist will compile a massive study of the phenomena known as the printer, the newspaper man, the proof reader. me day we will know what strange things happen to the human mind that is daily entangled in & maze of typewriter keys, linotype machines, unrelated facts and columns like this. Light will be shed upon the peculiar state of mind that makes a police re- porter wonder what his wife will say if he’s late to dinner because he had to-work overtime on the greatest raur- der mystery of the year ... the mental twist that causes printers to put the headline of a suicide story on the lead of a wedding . . . the quirk that inspires a reporter to substitute the name of his great aunt Mamie for the name of the defendant in a notorious larceny trial. Some day we will know these things, but blessed if we'll §ver know why a compositor ticking off the title of the film “A Star is Born” yesterday blandly changed it to read “A State Fair is Born.” * % ok x MAXIM. Presumably at. the instance of Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, there was hung recently on the walls of the Interior De- partment’s executive dining room the motto, neatly lettered in Gothic bols: “It is Dbetter to die of hunger their daughter was suffering from “melancholia.” They said she had disappeared three times since suffering a nervous break- down while training to become a nurse in a Troy hospital in May, 1936. A than to season our victuals with the worries of office.” The government ‘of Brazil is en- oouraging the establishment of new industries. STAR, - WASHINGTO Col. Harrison H. Directed Mt. V. Was Stricken With Cere- bral Hemorrhage in Office May 1. Col. Harrison Howell Dodge, dis- tinguished superintendent of Mount Vernon, the home of George Wash- ington, died late yesterday in Garfield Hospital, where he had been under treatment since being stricken with a | cerebral hemorrhage May 1 in his office. He was 85 years old and had been in charge of Mount Vernon since 1885, Dr. G. C. Birdsall, his family physi= ciar, ‘who has been in charge of the case since Col. Dodge arrived at the hospital, said the aged superintendent had shown such marked improvement during the past few days that he had been allowed to sit up in bed and had recovered the use of his arms and legs and had been-able to talk a litile yesterday. Col. Dodge’s death came suddenly, following a second cerebral hemorrhage shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday. Dr. Birdsall was summoned hurriedly to the hospital, but was unable to save his patient. Tentative funeral arrangements have been made for services in St. John's Church in Washington at 2 p.m. to- morrow, after which the body will be carried in state through the Mount Vernon grounds and on a few miles to Pohick Church where the interment will be in the church cemetery. Po- hick, one of Virginia's historic churches, numbered George Washing- ton among its parishners. The Mount Vernon Ladies Associa- tion, regents, holding their annual ineeting at Mount Vernon, will attend the services at the church and the grave in a body in tribute to the be- loved superintendent of the historic shrine for more than 50 years Col. Dodge was born March 31, 1852, in Georgetowi, the son of the late Alexander Hamilton Dodge, president of the old Gas Light Co. He was educated in a private school in Georgetown and later graduated from Columbian College, now George Washington University. He was married in 1875 to Miss Elizabeth Knowlton, who came to the District of Columbia from Connecticut as a girl. Six children were born to them, two daughters surviving. One, Mrs. Elvin R. Heiberg, lives at the family home, 1620 R street, while an- other daughter, Mrs. William Strong Cushing, lives at Groton, Mass., where her husband is head of the Groton School. He also is surv.ed by 11 grandchildren and nine "great-grand- children. Mrs. Dodge, who was not tcld of her husband’s last illness, has been an in- valid for several years. Appointed in 1885. Col. Dodge was first appointed resi- dent superintendent by the Grand Council of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union at a special meeting in Philadelphia, June 26, 1885, ! and assumed his duties June 30 of the same year. He has been reappointed by unanimous vote of the governing body every year since that time. He succeeded Col. J. McH. Hollings- worth, the second superintendent of Mount Vernon, who resigned. The first superintendent was Col. Upton H. Herbert, who served from 1859 to 1873, | when Col. Hollingsworth took charge. The venerable head of America's most famous shrine has lived to see his charge doubled in acreage and the ad- dition of many valued relics and im- provements. It was Col. Dodge who brought about the restoration of the amous bust of Gen. Washington by the noted sculptor, Jean Houdon, in | 1785, executed at Mount Vernon. Bust Was Restored. The bust, considered the most pre- cious possession at the Washington es- tate, was found by Col. Dodge to have been cracked on one shoulder and | across the chest. The queue had part- ed and the lobe of the left ear was broken. A slight chip at the tip of the | nose added to its disfigurement. The | | arranged | phone to C. C. Wall, assistant superin- Dodge Dies; ernon 52 Years L] COL. HARRISON H. DODGE. bust was carefully packed and put away until 1908, when a Mr. Paladini undertook the repairs. The estate, under the administra- tion of Col. Dodge, has grown from 200 acres to slightly more than 476 acres of the original 8,000-acre tract. Several restoration projects have been put into effect under his charge. Principal among these were the filling in of what was known as Hell Hole, & mosquito-infested swamp on the estate, and rebuilding the screen and Ha-Ha walls, the sea wall and boat landing. Insisted on Fire Protection. As soon as Col. Dodge took charge of the estate, in 1885, minutes of the assoclation show, he insisted upon improvement in fire protegtion. He has gradually added modern fire- fighting equipment until an efficient department now is functioning. Be- fore his administration kerosene lamps were used for lighting and open fires were utilized for warmth. These have been replaced by electric- ity and a heating plant. Several years ago it was discovered that the hill on which the mansion is situated was sliding toward. the Potomac. Col. Dodge supervised the construction of tunnels under the hill to drain the ground and the erosion was stopped. Col. Dodge never seemed to recover from an attack of influenza suffered early last Fall. He made two trips to Florida to regain his strength after relapses. As soon as he returned to Washington he always managed to be at his desk in Mount Vernon at least a part of each day. All of his trips to Florida and other points were by air. Mrs. Heiberg said he was an ardent air enthusiast and would | accept no other mode of transporta- tion when a trip by plane could be Collapsed in Office. Col. Dodge was talking on the tele- tendent at Mount Vernon, when he was stricken. Suddenly, Wall said, Col. Dodge became strangely silent. The assistant hurried to the office to | discover his chief had collapsed in a | chair. Drs. William B. Wilkins of | Alexandria and William P. Caton of | Woodlawn were called and worked with the stricken man until the arrival of | an ambulance from Washington to re- | move him to the hospital | During Col. Dodge’s tenure of office | at Mount Vernon it is estimated nearly 25,000,000 persons have passed through | the gates. Among these have been | some of the world's most famous | people | | | | I Col. Dodge was a favorite raconteur in the circles in which he moved, most of his anecdotes being closely related to Mount Vernon, its history and its | famous owner. His favorite stories | dealt with the frequent visits of Presi- | dent Theodore Roosevelt. In 1932 Col. Dodge published a book, “Mount Vernon, Its Owner and Its Story,” said by many to be the most complete history of the estate ever written. Lindbergh’sFli By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, May 20.—Charles Al Lindbergh, his only possession an extra | suit of clothes, flew to St. Louis in an “‘old crate” in ihe Spring of 1925. Two | years later he had spanned the At- lantic to win the adulation of the world. Maj. Albert Bond Lambert, wealthy pioneer airman and vice president of the Board of Police Commissioners, who knew Lindbergh from the day he first reached St. Louis, recalled the young pilot today on the tenth anni- | versary of the epic flight from New York to Paris. Lambert and Phil Love, now lieu- | tentnt colonel and air officer of the | 35th Division of the National Guard, | were seated on a bench at Lambert's “‘cow pasture,” which later became the present Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, when Lindbergh landed. Asks Place to Stay. The boyish-appearing flyer, his hair tousled, walked from the plane and said, “How do you do? Where can I get a hot dog sandwich?” When he got it and returned, he asked, “Any place around here a fellow can stay?” “Love, who had no more resources than Lindbergh, looked him over,” Lambert recalled. “Then he said, ‘You can join me in my hut, if you want. I live out here.” Lindy stayed at Love's hut for two years. He became an instructor for the Robertson Aircraft Coro. and later one of its air mail pilots when the company was awarded & contract for the St. Louis-Chicago route. $25,000 Prize Offered. Lambert said the idea of crossing the Atlantic came to Lindbergh on his solitary night flights witih the mail. Six years earlier, 1919, Ray- mond Orteig had offered $25,000 to the first man to fly non-stop from New York to Paris. On December 23, 1926, an afternoon when a hard snow was falling, Lind- bergh walked into Lambert’s office. “I've got a proposition I'd like to ask you about,” he said. “It's some- thing I'm going to do. I want %o make the trans-Atlantic flight for that prize.” “If any one in the United States can do it, you can,” Lambert said he replied. Lindbergh cold Lambert the cost of the flight would be $14,000 and that he already had saved $2,000. Lambert immediately replied, “All right, you can count on me for $1,000 snd on my brother Wooster (J. D. ‘Wooster Lambert, wealthy sportsman ght Preparations Recalled on 10th Anniversary | Lindbergh saw other St. Louisans and two days later had raised $15,000. On February 15, 1927, the first check, Lambert’s for $1,000, was hand- ed Lindbergh, and two weeks later he went to San Diego to supervise construction of the Spirit of St. Louis. Every possible way of decreasing the weight of the plane to assure greater gasoline capacity received the fiyer's attention. That care in eliminating all un- necessary weight, which included leaving all small change behind, en- abled Lindbergh to carry 121; extra gallons of gasoline, which was exactly* the reserve amount of fuel in his tank when he landed at Le Bourget in Paris on May 21, 1927, just 33 hours and 29 minutes after he left New York. Lindbergh Shuns Celebration. ‘WEALD, England, May 20 (#).— Col. Charles A. Lindbergh studiously avoided any of the fuss of celebration today on the tenth anniversary of his now historic solo flight from New York to Paris. He pottered about the garden of his country home, Long Barn, in the manner of a man who has never achieved fame and never wants to. “I did it. Why should I celebrate it?” Lindbergh was quoted by a friend as having answered When questioned about his plans for the anniversary of the flight he made a decade ago. A steady stream of congratulatory telegrams poured in on the flying colonel, but there were no telephone calls. Air Race Worries France, PARIS, May 20 (#).—Just 10 years after Charles A. Lindbergh took off on the first solo flight across the At- lantic, France today cast about for a substitute for the New York-Paris race that had been planned in commemora- tion of his achievement. The National Aeronautic Association of America protested against the con- test as & useless risk of lives. The French air ministry said its head, Pierre Cot, was conferring with the Aero Club of France, co-sponsor of the race, in consideration of a new race course. Canada, however, had been barred as a possible starting point. A decision was expected within & week. To show there was no ill feeling over the hitch in plans for the race that was to have started today, the Aero Club invited members of the National Aeronautic Association and representa- tives of the United States Embassy to a reception tomorrow night to lift glasses in & toast at the anniversary of the moment when Linbergh's Spirit of 8t. Louils and New York) for an-|of St. Louis came to & halt on Le other thousand.” lnummn. A A | the $70,000,000 Green will dispute. | fabulous estate created a stir in the D. C, THURSDAY, PARLEY OPPOSED BY MURGENIHAU Boys and Girls Eligible to Compete for Star Weekly Cash Awards. Secretary Sees No Benefit in General Monetary Con- ferences of Nations. BACKGROUND— Recently there have been sugges- tions that the United States join with Latin American nations to work out some general monetary understanding in this hemisphere. On Capitol Hill, a proposal has been advanced to hold a general monetary conference designed to eflect a redistribution of the world’s gold supply. By the Associated Press. Treasury authorities disclosed to- day that Secretary Morgenthau is opposed to any general monetary con- ference with other nations. The Treasury chief, informed offi- cials said, believes any monetary agreements looking toward stabiliza- tion or other ends should be worked out in talks with individual nations. These persons said Morgenthau feels that big conferences involving many nations customarily bog down in widespread differences. ‘They pointed out that the tri-power mone- tary agreement by Great Britain, France and the United States was effected last September after talks be- tween representatives of the United States and spokesmen for each of the other countries. Close associates of Morgenthau said he felt much the same as the late Will Rogers about international con- ferences. They cited Rogers' remark that America “loses its shirt” every time it goes into a conference. Morgenthau had a luncheon en- gagement today with Cesar Charlone, finance minister of Uruguay. At his press conference, Morgenthau declined to say what topics might be discussed. S AeRe GREEN ‘DAUGHTERS’ NAMED IN COURT Mentioned in Fight Over Will of Multi-Millionaire Sup- posedly Childless. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 20 —A mysterious reference to “my two daughters” by the supposedly childless multi- millionaire, Col. Edward H. R. Green, was described today by a witness in The alleged revelation that Green left other possible heirs to the court room, heralding further com- plications in the long-fought court battle. Wilbur K. Potter, former business agent for Col. Green, said: “I never heard of Col. Green having any daughters, or any children. The testimony of Green having “two daughters” came from Henry Wood- house, president of the Aerial League of America, who said that the June, 1918, issue of a magazine called Flying contained a brief sketch of Col. Green. The article, he said, was handed to him personally by Col Green, who, he said. apparently had either written it himself or approved | 1t. “Col. Green was a life member of the Aerial League of America, having | Jjoined in 1918, Woodhouse said, “and in handing me the article for publica- tion, he told me, ‘I am going to get life memberships for my two daugh- ters, too."" WAGNER LABOR ACT VIOLATION CHARGED Industrial Rayon Corp. Declared | to Be Dominaitng Employes’ Association. By the Assocfated Press. CLEVELAND, May 20.—Ralph A. Lind, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, issued a com- plaint charging the Industrial Rayon Corp. today with violating the Wagner labor relations act by financially sup- porting and otherwise dominating an employes association, The complaint alleges employes’ freedom of expression has been des- troyed by the company through the assoclation, and that employes have been allowed no other form of repre- sentation for collective bargaining. Strikes are in progress at the com- pany's plants here and in Covington, Va. The strike of textile workers organizing committee members started here Monday after friction with an “inside” organization, and the Vir- ginia strike has been in effect since March 29. Stork in Back Seat. PEORIA, Il. (#/)—E. L. Brown “picked up” two motor cycle policemen and a police squad car as he raced through downtown streets at 60 miles an hour. “Why the hurry?” one officer asked after Brown was finally stopped. “The stork is riding in the back seat with my wife,” answered the nervous driver. ‘The police escorted him to the hos- pital, where Mrs. Brown gave birth to & son two minutes after her arrival. Congress in Brief TODAY: Senate: Continues debate on permanent C. C. C. bill. Interstate Commerce Committee oonsiders railroad pension bill, Elections Committee considers Nye bill to strengthen corrupt practices act. House: Resumes consideration of Interior Department appropriation bill. Ways and Means Committee studies proposed revision of 1930 tariff act’s administrative provisions. Labor Subcommittee continues hear- ings on Ellenbogen textile bill. Agriculture Committee continues hearings on new farm program. Interstate Commerce Committee studies railroad retirement bill. TOMORROW. Senate: Probably will not be in session. District Appropriations S8ubcommit- tee continues executive hearings on District appropriation bill. Military Affaics Committee, regular HAUPTHMANN PAID VST BY PAKER MAY 20, 1937 Diorama Prizes Offered Holling C. Holling, the artist and creator of The Star’s World Museum Dioramas, shown in his study with Mrs. Holling, paration of new cut-out models. who is assisting him in the pre; DIORAMA contest offering cash prizes totalling $25 weekly is announced by The Star today The “world museum” dio- rame published in color in The Sun- day Star each week form the basis for the contest. Contestants must submit essays of not more than 150 words stating: The time required for con- struction; “Why I like the diorama”; “How I made it"; “Who helped me make it”; “What it added to my edu- cation.” These diorama essays must be sent to the Sunday Department of The Star. Any boy or girl under 16 is | eligible to compete. ‘The first weekly prize is $5; second,‘ $4; third, $3, and fourth, $2. In addi- | tion there will be 11 honorable men- | tions of $1 each | Those winning awards for their essays of the diorama must submit a sample of their work. Holling Is Creator. The creator of the dioramas is Holl- ing C. Holling, author of numerous children’s books illustrated by himself and his wife. The cut-outs, when assembled, give | an illusion of third dimension and | distance. They are usually composed of three or more pieces. There is the | case front, or frame, which represents the front of a museum case and on | which is the title and a description of the subject matter. On the wings or ends of the frame are often drawn supplementary material explaining more details of the story. Sometimes | ‘on which the figures in the foreground the center part of the frame folds down to represent ground or water stand. There may be another section behind these figures which makes a middle distance carrying the interest on into the background, The background is a large piece showing farther distance and often pierced with cut-out openings which allow for lighting effects from behind. If a child had a shelf of dioramas and placed a light or lights behind them it would produce many different effects on the diorama scenery. Form Museum Departments, Most, of the dioramas follow the de- partments of a modern museum: Geology, or the story of rocks; botany, the story of pla zoology, the stor of animals, and anthropology, story of man. There are also depart- | ments of exploration and current | events. Assembly of the cut-outs from a newspaper page is a relatively easy matter and requires only scissors, past? | and brown wrapping paper. In preparation for the world museum | series, Holling and his wife have been | making notes and sketches for years. | He made ove! 500 pages of sketches in as many days in India alone. Ex- | perts on the subjects with which the dioramas deal check each of them for authenticity before publication. | Additional details of the contest | may be found in an advertisement on page C-3 of this issue. | Col. Kimberling Testifies Detective Came to Death Cell Twice. BACKGROUND— Because of a ‘“confession” by Paul Wendel, disbarred attorney, ezxecution of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann was delayed by Gov. Hoff- man Wendel later repudiated his statement, charging it followed kid- naping and torture by Detectives Ellis Parker and his son, Ellis, jr. B the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, May 20—Col. Mark O. Kimberling, who was princi- pal keeper of State Prison while Bruno Richard Hauptmann was in the death house awaiting electrocution, testified today that Ellis H. Parker, chief of Burlington County detectives, twice visited the condemned Lindbergh kid- naper in his cell. Until Kimberling took the witness stand in the trial of Parker and his son, Ellis, jr, on charges of con- spiracy in the Paul H. Wendel kid- naping, a sequel to the Lindbergh crime, the only State official publicly known to have visited Hauptmann was Gov. Harold G. Hoffman. Hoffman, a friend of Detective Parker and an expressed doubter that Hauptmann's conviction solved the celebrated kidnaping, paid his ddath- house visit to Hauptmann in Novem- ber, 1935. Kimberling, called as a Government witness, placed the Parker death- house visits several months prior to the Governors' dramatic nocturnal call at the prison. Parker was connected with the Gov- ernor's private investigations in the Lindbergh-Hauptmann case. The Gov- ernment in its present trial charges Parker conspired to have Wendel, a former Trenton lawyer, kidnaped and tortured until he gave the false Lind- bergh kidnaping confession which de- layed Hauptmann's execution three days. Kimberling also disclosed that a woman, Parker's secretary, Mrs. Anna Bading, accompanied the detective on his last visit in July, 1935. Grabbing Girl of 3, Boy, 4, Rescues Her From Death in Lake By the Associated Press. DENVER, May 20.—Barry Tharp, 4, saved Joyce Thompson, 3, from drowning in Washing- ton Park Lake yesterday. John C. Price, park officer, said the girl, trying to retrieve a ball, fell off a pier. Barry threw himself down on the pier, grabbed Joyce’s arm, and held on until a fisherman pulled her out. Barry told his mother. “Joyce fell in. I held her. I held her hard. She got her dress all wet.” Jovos told her mother, PHILIPPINE BLAZE ROUTS THOUSANDS ‘Whole Town’ of 10,000 Re- ported in Flames in Sec- tion’s ‘Worst Disaster.’ By the Assoctated Press MANILA, P. I, May 20 —Fire swept uncontrolled through the gold mining town of Paracale today, leaving thou- sands homeless an. an undetermined number dead. Ruffians were reported looting homes as terror-stricken residents fled be- ! fore the wind-driven flames. Newspaper reports varied from two known deaths to “many.” The Manila Bulletin correspondent estimated 200 houses were destroyed in the town of 10,000 people. He placed the loss at close to $500,000. La Vanguardia's correspondent reported “the whole town in flames.” Several persons were reported trama pled to death as the populace fled in mad panic before the fire. It sup- posedly started after an explosion in a house under construction. Among the first buildings leveled was the North Camarines Hotel, sur- rounded by many highly inflammable | native nipa houses. Reports were fragmentary because of limited telegraph service and lack of telephone service. Authorities blamed the riffraff, usually attracted by a mining boom | such as pervades the Paracale dis- trict, for the reported looting. Red Cross workers were rushed by airplane to survey the situation. The town is 125 miles southwest of Manila by airline on the coast of Camarines Norte Province, Luzon Island. ‘The fire spread rapidly, fanned by a brisk wind. Lack of water hampered firefighters. The correspondent described the | conflagration as the “worst disaster in that section of the Philippines, with horrible fights as frantic people searched for their loved ones.” Origin of the fire was undetermined. Yesterday fire razed the business district of the town of Maasin, in Leyte Province, causing damage estimated at $250,000 and leaving many home- less, but resuiting in no casualties. EX-CONVICT SLAIN IN FAMILY FIGHT By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, May 20.—Courtland Burton, 38, describea by & police official as a former inmate of the | Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, was shot and killed early today in the home of Robert O. Laws, a brother-in-law, in what officers des- cribed as the climax of recent domestic strife. Lieut. Sergt. Marsh said Laws ad- mitted the shooting, contending he shot in self defense after Burton had threatened him with a hammer. Marsh said Burton was released in February after serving a term for forgery involving Works Progress Administration checks, Laws surrendered to police and was the | GREEN MAY COPY TACTIGS OF LEWIS Held Ready to Include In- dustrial Unionization in Fight Plan. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, May 20 —Representa= tives of 106 American Federation of Labor unions go into a huddle here Monday with their president, William Green, to map the federation's plar of battle against John L. Lewis' Co mittee for Industrial Organization. Jack Hurst, president of the Cin- cinnati Central Labor Council, de- clared today he had received no direct information from federation he: quarters on the meeting, hut patches from Washington ind Green would propose a cam; industrial unionization of mass pro- duction industries. should that plan be adopted. the A, F. of L. would be following the C. I. O, program. The A. F. of L., however, would divide workers organized on an industrial basis among craft union after an indefinite period and perm collective bargaining by shop counc of craft union representatives in keep- ing with its polic; Moves by Craft Unions. The craft unions already have made several moves in the direction of in- dustrial unionization, in some in- stances invading fields claimed by th C. I O. Lewis’ associates have been repre- sented as asserting the federation started fts fight too late, although con- ceding that an industrial union drive under federation sponsorship would prove troublesome. They contende i such a campaign by A. F. of L. mig: lead to lengthy vroceedings before tk. National Labor Board and result i strikes for recognition growing out of quarrels between unions. Labor leaders said interunion figh's were likely to multiply as the result of increased activities by both groups since the United States Supreme Court upheld the Wagner labor act Green said the “urge to organize” had increased ‘‘tremendously” sinca the Wagner decision. The increasca activity of organizers has been paralleled by more work for Regions Labor Board directors as complai have been filed in increasing numbs charging employers with unfair labor practices. A. F. of L. leaders w considering doubling tion union, with Federal unions federation 1 o The Federal unions pay 35 cents a mo r, with 12.5 cents to go defense fund for Federal un bers. The federatigqg claims members. Acts in Maritime Clash. SEATTLE, May 20 (#).— Green, presid of the American F eration of Labor, has telegraphed labor council of Seattle and to support the Internatior sters’ Union in its dispute v International shoremen ciation for warehousemer Both the I L. A. and the teamst union are affiliated with the A. of L, The I. L. A. affiliated warehot men’s union involved is the Weighers, Warehousemen and General W Union. In his telegrams Green ordere: Seattle and Portland council to seat warehouse local unions membership in your c refuse to recognize the ju of the Teamsters' International Un over all those employed in warehot located inland. 2,950,00 am RN FILM CRAFT STRIKE SPREAD THREATENED Officials of Union Make Demands on 27 Independent Producers in Hollywood. Br the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD. May 20.—Extension of the studio crafts strike to 27 inde- pendent film producers was set for midnight tonight unless 100 per cent union shop is granted. About 3,000 employes would be affected While the 2l1-day-old walkout plants of major movie companies mained at a stalemate, officials of Federated Motion Picture Crafts served an ultimatum upon such studios as Selanick Internationa!, Grand National, B. P. Schulberg, Monogram, Major, General Servic Republic, Invincible, Pioneer and Vic- tory. A number of these agreed last wees end, in concert with major film c: cerns, to grant a “guild shop™” to the powerful Screen Actors’ Guild. Lead ers of 6,000 striking studio worke: termed the agreement a “betrayal” o their cause and accused the g of “strike-breaking connivance with a company union,” the International Al- liance of Theatrical Stage Employes. The F. M. P. C.s Executive Com- mittee, however, yesterday voted to repudiate an appeal by the F. M. P. C. Publicity Committee which asked a national boycott of five stars who negotiated the guild pact. 3 LABOR GROUPS WIN RECOGNITION Seven of 19 Lewiston-Auburn Shoe Manufacturers Recog- nize Warring Unions. By the Assoctated Press. LEWISTON, Me., May 20.—Three warring labor groups have won recogni« tion from 7 of the 19 Lewiston-Auburn shoe manufacturers, beleaguered al- most two months by a general strike among their 6400 workers. John L. Lewis’ Committee for In- dustrial Organization earned, by victory in Wagner act “consent” elections, the right to bargain for nearly 700 em- ployes in three shops. Three other shops, employing nearly 1,000 persons, had recognized the Lewiston-Auburn Shoe Workers' Pro- tective Association, a local union which the C. I. O. charged was dominated by manufacturers and thus constituted a “company union” barred by the labor relations law. An independent union was given recognition in the Holmes-Bohr Co., employing 160. The B. A. Corbin, Mascot and Ault- Williamson firms admitted the pro- tective association’s right to bargain. More pay and fewer hours comprised at re- the beld pending an investigation. the chief demands of all threee labor factions. A, el