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WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Porecast.) tomorrow cloudiness, Thursday showers; not much Tair tonight, change in temperature. Highest, 79, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 58, at 5 am. today. page A-3. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 22 85th YEAR. No. 33,992. STRIKE FORECAST AS INLAND STEEL REIECTS CONTRAGT " C. . 0. Leader Makes Dec- laration After Bargaining Pact Is Refused. WORKERS EMPOWERED TO0 CALL FOR WALKOUT Company Ready to Recognize Union as Agent for Members. BACKGROUND— John L. Lewis heads union forces pushing vertical organization of in- dustrial workers as opposed to A, F. of L. ideal of craft or horizontal organization. By coincidence, it was Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. that challenged legality of the Wagner act and lost before the Supreme Court. The act sets up ‘machinery to force collective bar- gaining upon firms through recog- nition elections. By the Assoclated Press. INDIANA HARBOR, Ind, May 25. =—Van A. Bittner, Chicago regional director for the Steel Workers’ Or- ganizing Committee, said today “a strike is inevitable” at the Inland Steel Co., which denied the S. W. 0. C. & collective bargaining contract. Bittner made the announcement after a hasty conference with presi- dents of lo.als of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin ‘Workers at Inland plants. “We can't say when the strike might start”” Bittner added. “Local officers have been empowered to call the walkout themselves.” The union leaders met after a conference with representatives of the company, largest independent em- ployer ia the industry in the Chicago area. In a statement the company said it was willing to recognize the union as collective bargaining agent for mem- bers among its employes, but did not wish to sign a contract. Bittner said the company repre- sentatives had taken the position of refusing to recognize the union, even though a National Labor Relations Board election might show it to rep- resent the majority of employes. Bittner and Harry E. Roulfs, com- pany superintendent of industrial re- lations, who announced the outcome | of the conference jointly, said they | understood Republic Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. had adopted a policy similar to Inland's ‘with regard to union contracts. ‘The three employ between 20,000 snd 32,000 persons in the Chicago dis- trict. Bittner claimed his union had on its rolls between 8,000 and 9,000 of the 12,000 Inland employes. A strike would be the first major dispute in this district. The Inland company issued a for- mal statement accompanied by a printed letter bearing the signature of James H. Walsh, superintendent of the Indiana Harbor works. Walsh’s letter said union represen- tatives advised him there were no| material complaints as to wages. | hours or working conditions and that | the principal issue is the signing of a contract. “We do not feel it is for the best interest either of the company or its employes for us to sign a contract,” the letter said. The statement said the company was willing to recognize the union as collective bargaining agent for its members among Inland employes. VOTING IS RENEWED., Steel Workers Vote at Sharon, Pa., and Lowellville, Ohio, Mills. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, May 25.—Steel la- borers went to the mill ballot box ! again today, while the John L. Lewis’ Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee rejoiced in its third victory within four days. ‘The committee won formal recog- nition from the American Steel Foundries of Chicago and the Crucible Bteel Co., erstwhile member of a group of hold-out independent companies Chairman Philip Murray had termed “an unholy alliance.” Today, at The mills of the Sharon Bteel Co., in Sharon, Pa., and Lowell- ville, Ohio, approximately 3,000 work- ers voted on whether the committee was to be their exclusive agent in bargaining conferences with em- ployers. Murray said he expected to sign to- day a formal exclusive contract with the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.—a contract won by the committee through a better than 2-to-1 victory in an election of 27,000 employes last Friday. With the successful termination of negotiations with Crucible, the union planned for the Pittsburgh area a “breathing spell” in the long contro- versy with management. MAN LEAVES GIRL, 16, AT HOSPITAL, FLEES Young Woman’s Condition Se- rious—Husband Summoned by Anonymous Call. Dropped on the operating table at Georgetown Hospital by a young man who fled before nurses could get his name, Mrs. Theresa Decatur, 16, of 3042 R street, was fighting for her life at the institution today. Hospital physicians, after a hasty examination, said they believed the young woman was suffering from poi- sonjng. Her condition was reported “very serious.” Shortly after she was brought to increasing ‘Temperatures— Full report on Entered as second class matier post office, Washinston, D. C. ch _ WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1937—FORTY PAGES. Coronation Traffic Hampered Lindberghs’ Dash to Hospital Flyer’s Wife Barely Arrived at London " Hospital Before Son’s Arrival. Parade Forced Detour. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, May 25.—Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, trapped in the tangle of coronation day traffic, barely ar- rived at a London hospital before her third son was born, May 12, it was disclosed today. The Lindberghs, hurrying from their Kent home to the fashionable Mater- nity Hospital, were forced to make a wide detour because most of Central London was closed for the royal pro- cession. The birth of a son to the flyer and the former Anne Morrow was made known only yesterday to United States Embassy officials. After announcing the birth, Col. Lindbergh retreated into silence, determined to insure the privacy of his wife and 13-day-old son, Mother and Baby Convalescing. The mother and baby now are con- valescing, apparently incognito, in a large and airy suite on the seventh floor of “the clinic” in Harley street. The hospital is under a special po- lice guard. So is the Lindbergh home, the rambling, walled-in “Long Barn,” near Weald, Kent. The flying colonel is understood to have taken up a temporary residence in London with his new baby's only living brother, 4-year-old Jon. The Lindberghs’ first born, Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., was kidnaped in 1932 from their Hopewell, N. J., home and slain. Since the birth of the third son, Col. Lindbergh frequently has visited the hospital to see his wife and son. The baby may be named Dwight Morrow Lindbergh. Sources close to the family said it was likely the child would be the namesake of his maternal grand- father, the late Dwight W. Morrow, the American statesman. Mrs. Robert W. Bingham, wife of the United States Ambassador, this afternoon called at the clinic where Mrs. Lindbergh is staying. Members of the staff indicated Mrs. Lindbergh was almost ready to take her son home now. It was generally understood that she had entered the hospital as “Mrs. Charles.” Private Nursing Home. “The Clinic” is one of London's most exclusive private nursing homes. It is a large red brick building with gray Portland stone facings and a delicate Corinthian colonnade around the seventh—Mrs. Lindbergh's—floor. It is in the heart of the city's fash- ionable Mayfair district, with one side (See LINDBERGH, Page A-12.) UNION WAR ENTERS CLOTHING FIELD A.F. of L. Group Lays Down Gauntlet, Maps Plans for Real Battle. BACKGROUND— Since John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. unions were suspended by the A. F. of L. last September for insur- rection, a campaign, first on one front and then on another, has been going on for control of various in- dustrial union memberships. By the Associated Pres: CINCINNATI, May 25.—The battle between John L. Lewis and William Green reached into the huge men's clothing industry today when the United Garment Workers declared war on the Amalgamated Clothing Workrs. Thomas Rickert, president of the United, a loyal American Federation of Labor union, asserted his organiza- tion no longer recognized an agree- ment dividing the territory with the Amalgamated, headed by Sicney Hill- man, Lewis’ first lieutenant in the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion. Hillman destroyed the agreement, Rickert said, when he said it was “only a make-shift” and when the Amalgamated started using its own union labels, instead of the United's, in clothes its members made. For many years the Amalgamated was outside the A. F. of L. It was admitted in 1933 when it agreed to divide the men’s clothing territory with the United, but along with nine other unions which helped organize the C. I. O, the Amalgamated was suspended for “insurrection” last September. Battle Plan Drawn. Meanwhile, a conference of loyal A. F. of L. union representatives went into its second day of discussing the C. I. O. and how to fight it after charges, promptly denied, that Com- munists had obtained a firm griup on the C. I O. Leaders expected & vote before nightfall on the Executive Council's fourfold plan: (1) To increase the assessment on member unfons from 1 to 2 cents a month for each member, to build up the war chest. (2) Start a co-ordinated organiza- tion drive. (3) Expel all C. I. O. locals from city central bodies and State federations of labor. (4) Compel all loyal A. F. of L. locals to join these central bodies and State federations. Has No Power to Assess. These leaders expressed confidence the program would be adopted by an overwhelming vote. Whether all the unions would—or could—meet the double assessment was another matter, they said. The conference has no power to make the assessment binding. Any binding increase would have to be levied by a regular annual conven- tion. John P. Frey, veteran president of the federation’s metal trades depart- ment, climaxed yesterday's meeting by accusing the C. I. O. and the Commu- nist party of “sleeping in the same bed and under the same tent.” PREMIER BALDWIN 10 RESIGN FRIDAY Chamberlain Will Succeed, but Without Much Popu- lar Support. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, England, May 25.—Stan- ley Baldwin will submit his resigna- tion to the King Friday morning, and within a few hours Great Britain will have a new prime minister in the person of Neville Chamberlain, the only prime minister of the great Chamberlain family triumvirate. Baldwin will retire amid applause from his own Conservative party and with the full sympathy of the British people, most of whom have forgotten that as late as last November they were calling him “Old Sealed Lips” and predicting that he could not last in office until the coronation. Chamberlain, an unromantic figure with a good business head but without the charm of his father and brother, the great Joseph and the flery Austen, will take over without much enthu- siastic support from any particular section of the population and with a great deal of criticism still raining down about his head because of his proposal to tax increased profits dur- ing the rearmament period. The modifications which Chamber- lain made in his original “national defense contribution” plan and which he explained in the House of Com- mons last night have failed to soothe business men and industrialists who object to any tax on prosperity and would have preferred to pay for re- armament by a heavier increase in the tax on all incomes. Under the modified plan small con- cerns, new organizations and com- panies engaged in highly uncertain businesses will be given special privi- leges and the relatively prosperous year of 1936 may be taken as one of the “normal years” used in calcu- lating “normal profits.” (Copyright, 1937.) STRATO BAG BURNS IN BEING INFLATED Piccard Balloon Is Destroyed at Zellick, Belgium—350 Flee From Flames. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, May 25.—The balloon in which Prof. Auguste Piccard planned to explore the substratosphere was reported today to have caught fire while being filled with heated air and was completely destroyed. The reports from the take-off fleld at Zellick said no one was injured. The balloon was to have carried Piccard and his young associate, Max Cosyns. The balloon had been inflated to about nine-tenths of capacity when the lower part of the envelope caught fire. In a few seconds the flames licked upward over the whole fabric. Fifty soldiers hanging on to ropes to hold down the bag had to flee for their lives. Mrs. Warfield May Have Hair Tinted Blue to Match Her Gown By the Assoctated Press. MONTS, France, May 25.—Wallis Warfleld may be a bride in blue from tip to toe. Pierre, one of Paris’ better known coiffeurs, asserted today he had been asked to come to the Chateau Cande on May 31 to tint the dark hair of the future Duchess of Windsor a dark blue—to go with her eyes and the wedding gown of blue she will wear on June 3. That was one tidbit of the day’s news about the Chateau de Cende, where the whir of the lawnmower rose and died in Springtime cadence for an hour this afternoon. At the handle was the Duke of ‘Windsor, the man who once was King. Herman L. Rogers, the chateau's American spokesman, gave out some- thing else. He let it be known there would be no entertainment for the wedding guests on the night before the nuptials. the hospital a man, identified as her husband, arrived. He said he had re- teived an anonymous phone call that his wife was at the institution. < 1 That, was in keeping with the quiet tone of the ceremony. The ocouple will be married with & double-ring oceremony in the music 3 room of the Chateau de Cande, a source close to the household disclosed today. The rings to bind the troth of the abdicated monarch and the womsan for whom he gave up his throne will be exchanged during the French civil ceremony, to be performed by Dr. Charles Mercier, the Mayor of Monts, on June 3. The wedding party, the source de- clared, will assemble to the music of a wedding march played by the famous French organist, Marcel Dupre, on the organ in the library. Some 30 guests, whose names were expected to be announced today, will witness the ceremony in the music room, while others may find places in the library, where they would be able to look through the open door direct- ly at the altar where Edward and Mrs. Warfleld will stand. The duke and his bride-to-be were rehearsed in the details of the French service yesterday by Mercier and all that now remains to be settled are plans for the flowers, music and the wedding breakfast, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D.C. HEADS TOGIVE SALES TAX DETAILS 10 SUBCOMMITTEE Commissioners Are Ordered Before House Group Tomorrow. ESTIMATES REVISED ON REVENUE DEFICIT $8,000,000 Figure Is Substituted for $6,000,000 Forecast Earlier. Five Points in Plan. BACKGROUND— Increasing costs of government plus decreasing Federal aid have left District facing deficit of nearly $8,000,000 for coming fiscal year, To meet this, new tazes seem in- evitable with program being con- structed out of dozens of proposals by members: of Congress, District officials and others. BY JAMES E. CHINN. The Commissioners were directed today by the Special Tax Subcommit- tee of the House District Committee to appear before it tomorrow at 10 a.m. to explain in detail their latest pro- posal for a 2 per cent sales tax, Appearing before the subcommittee today with the final draft of their tax-increase program, the Commis- sioners did not have time before ad- journment to go into details of the sales tax plan, which is estimated to yield $5,300,000, with food exempted. The subcommittee said it warited the sales tax plan explained, as well as a proposal for a “use tax.” In submitting the completed pro- gram, the Commissioners predicted the revenue deficit in the coming fiscal year would amount to $8,000,000, in- stead of the previously estimated $6,000,000. Their five-point plan, however, would raise an estimated $8,900,000, of which $1,110,000 from a 1-cent in- crease in the gas tax would not be applied to the shortage. Follows Tentative Proposals. The new program follows closely tentative recommendations submitted several weeks ago, except that the sales tax was substituted for & pro- posed income tax. In final form the program and amount of revenue estimated to be produced by each proposal follows: 1—Weight tax on motor vehicles, $1,500,000. 2—Estate and inheritance tax, $800,000. 3—Increase from 1! per cent to 2 per cent the present tax on in- surance premiums, $200.000. 4—An increase from 2 to 3 cents a gallon in the present local tax on gasoline, $1,100,000. 5—A 2 per cent sales tax, ex- empting food, $5.300,000. Although the subcommittee has in- dicated its disapproval of an increase in the gasoline tax, the Commission- ers insisted on its approval. The $1.- 100,000 additional revenue that would be derived from a 3-cent gas tax, the (See TAXI Page A-16.) CLIPPER HOPS OFF NEW YORK, May 25 (#).—The Pan- American Airways flying boat Ber- muda Clipper left Port Washington, Long Island, at 8:37 am., Eastern | standard time, today for Bermuda on the first of a series of survey flights before establishment of a regular pas- senger service. About the same time a British Im- perial Airways boat, the Cavalier, took off from Hamilton Harbor, Bermuda, for Port Washington on a similar sur- vey flight. The air distance is 783 miles, and the ships, which have cruising speed of 160 miles an hour, are expected to reach their destina- tions in something over five hours. Passenger service probably will start next month. Summary of Page. Amusements A-14 Comics -...B-11 Editorfals . Financial __A-2f Lost & Found A-3 Obituary ...A-12 8hort Story--B-6 Soclety - B-3 Sports__ Woman’s Pg. B-10 FOREIGN. Lindberghs’ dash to hospital hampered by coronation. Page A-1 French to discuss war debt, Bonnet declares. A-1 Becrecy shrouds third son of Lind- berghs. A-1 Premier Baldwin quits Friday; Cham- berlain successor. Page A-1 Fog keeps supply planes away from North Pole party. Page A-4 NATIONAL. Strike is forecast as Inland Steel re- Jects contract. Page A-1 President reported planning no com- promise on court plan. Page A-1 Southern Methodists rally behind uni- fication plan. Page A-3 Body of John D. Rockefeller on way North for rites. Page A-8 8ix-hour, $8 day to be demanded of Ford. Page A-8 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Commissioners to explain sales tax P! 1 tomorrow. Page A-1 Almas Temple inducts 75 new mem- bers. Page A-3 D. C. and nearby police seek hit-run driver. Page A-7 Duke loses Supreme Court fight on prosecution of case. Page A-9 Admiral Chase, former fleet command- er in chief, dies. Page A-12 Education officials jubilant over “red rider” repeal. Page B-1 Robbery victim testifies in Tomlinson trial. Page B-1 Benny Bortnick, wrestling referee, named in indictment. Page B-1 . House subcommittee sidesteps on day- light saving, bill Page B-1 ¢ Foening Star LA L SOMEBODY'S BEEN TAMPERIN'> WITH q \§ W A7 FRENCHTODISCUSS DEBT, BONNET SAYS Each Country Must Under- stand Position of Other, He Holds. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, May 25.—Georges Bonnet, French Ambassador to the United States, asserted here today France is ready to discuss terms of settlement of her defaulted World \ War debt with the United States. “France,” he said in an interview, “is ready to open the discussions of methods of settlement. There are only two points that must be passed for such a settlement. Each country must understand the other's situation clearly and each country must be convinced of the basic integrity of the other.” The Ambassador and Mme. Bonnet are en route to Los Angeles. Today they were formally received at City Hall. Tomorrow the Bonnets will go to Baton Rouge to visit Gov. Richard W. Leche and view the Louisiana State Capitol. Ambassador Bonnet expressed ad- miration for President Roosevelt and said he believed in foreign trade “as does your Secretary Hull.” He said “such armament that oth- ers fear the result if they attack you is the only guarantee of peace in this world today.” Bonnet added he did not fear the “imminence of war in Europe today.” BANKS ARE HEALTHY, 0’CONNOR DECLARES E5 the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 25.—J. F. T. O'Con- nor, controller of the currency, re- ported today that “the banking struc- ture of the Nation is in a healthy con- dition.” Speaking before the Illinois Bank- ers’ Association, O'Connor said: “Re- markable improvement has been shown since the banking holiday in March, 1933.” He said National Bank deposits last March 31 totaled $26,515,110,000, com- pared with $16,774,115,000 on June 30, 1933. On March 31, he said, the first drop in bank deposits since 1933 was re- corded, with the total $1,093.287,000, or 3.96 per cent, under December 31, Today’s Star EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Political Mill. Page A-10 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 David Lawrence, - Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Mark Sullivan, Page A-11 Jay Franklin. Page A-11 Delia Pynchon. Page A-11 FINANCIAL. U. 8. bonds advance (table). Page A-21 Phelps-Dodge plan approved. Page A-21 D. C. trust laws modernized. Page A-22 Stocks sell off (table). Page A-22 Curb list narrow (table)., Page A-23 Oil output at new peak. Page A-23 SPORTS. Nationals purchase Catcher Gray from Baltimore. Page A-18 Yankees resume 1936 form and regain league lead. Page A-18 Budge seen as Moses for U. S. Davis Cup hopes. Page A-18 Mary Greason distinct threat in Star net tourney. Page A-18 Boys-juniors’ tennis tourney post- poned till June 19. Page A-18 Komonen returning to redeem defeat in Star marathon. Page A-19 Capital golfers trail at start of P. G. A tourney. Page A-20 Star women’s golf tournament draws 138 entrants. Page A-20 MISCELLANY. Shipping News. Vital Statistics. City News in Brief. Page A-17 Page A-17 Page A-17 ‘Traffic Convictions, ‘Young Washington. Bedtime Story. Nature’s Children. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Francesca McKenney. Crossword Puzzle. Page A-17 Page B-2 Page B-7 Page B-8 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-11 PagoB-11 Page B-13 THESE TR NN New Irish Title Is Proposed for Duke of Kent By the Assoctated Press. DUBLIN, May 25.—The suggestion was advanced today that the Duke of Kent, youngest brother of King George VI of England, be made ‘“prinfe- president” of the Irish Free State when ¢ new “independence” constitu- tion takes effect. The suggestion was made by Alis- tair McCabe, former member of the Free State Parliament. ROOSEVELT ASKS INVESTORS' BILL Increased Protection in Re- organization Cases Urged by President. By the Associated Press. Presisdent Roosevelt recommended today increased protection for invest- ors in corporations reorganized under the bankruptcy act. He wrote to Chairman Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee and Chairman Lea of the House Inter- state Commerce Committee that in- vestigations by the Securities Com- mission and by congressional groups “have demonstrated that further re- medial legislation in the interest of investors is now required.” In his letter to Lea, the Chief Ex- ecutive said that “for many years abuse and exploitation have marked certain aspects of corporate reor- ganization practice and procedure to the great detriment of the unin- formed and helpless investor.” “Conditions Unabated.” The investigations, he said, have shown that “these conditions remain unabated.” He recalled that Lea has introduced a bill designed to alleviate some of the conditions to which he referred and wrote: “I understand that the bill you in- troduced is addressed to these ob- Jjectives. Certainly, they are objectives which deservedly require leigslative attention.” To Chairman Wagner of the Senate Banking Committee the President wrote that “further strengthening” of the securities act “is necessary in con- nection with the form and content of trust indentures and the duties to be assumed by the trustees acting under them.” The need has been shown by studies made by the Securities Commission, he said. “I believe the consideration of such supplementary legislation altogether appropriate at this time,” the Presi- dent wrote. s 18 Die'in Floods. BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 25 (#).—Flood waters on the Doftana and Trofuss Rivers, sweeping over a 60-mile strip in Moldovo district, yes- terday caused the death of at least 18 persons and damaged farm houses, fields and cattle. W N \\ The only in Washington wit Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. evening paper the Yesterday’s Circulation, 142,574 (Bome returns not yet received.) © UP) Meane Associated Press. \.‘\\ PRESIDENT CLINGS 10 COURT PLAN No Hint He Will Compromise Despite Judicial Victo- ries This Term, BACKGROUND— Initiated by Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, years ago, the movement for unemployment and old-age insurance was trans- lated into the social security act in the early days of the New Deal. At- tacked in the courts, this keystone of the Roosevelt program of social legislation was of doubtful legal status until validated by the Su- preme Court. BY JOHN H. CLINE. Despite the fact the Government has won 12 important cases and lost none before the high tribunal this year, there is no indication President | Roosevelt will permit his Supreme Court bill to be withdrawn or changed. Coming on the heels of the court’s validation of social security legislation, this reaffirmation of the President's “no compromise” stand was made to- day by a high administration official. It tended to spike. to some extent, widespread speculation as to whe!her: the administration’s attitude toward | its demand for new justices would | change, but many in the Capital still forecast an eventual compromise. See Problems Still Unsettled. The administration spokesman said the court problem, as the administra- tion views it, is not shown entirely in recent opinions. The labor standards legislation proposed to Congress yes- terday, he said, some day will present' | from the proposed law except where & completely new issue to the court. Meanwhile, a broad vista of social legislation opened before the New Deal | in the wake of the three epochal rulings yesterday upholding in its en- tirety the far-reaching social security act. The sentiment of liberal leaders was reflected in a statement by Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, sponsor of the security legislation. “Now that the way is cleared,” he said, “we must push forward calmly but firmly toward even greater secur- ity. * * * The fight for social security in America has only just begun.” Of first importance, aside from the validation of the law itself, was the broadly liberal view of the *general welfare clause” of the Constitution adopted by a mrjority of the court. New Dealers have long insisted the Federal Government has broad powers under the welfare clause, and this view was borne out by the security rulings. Affect on Court Bill Seen. On the political side of the picture, the decisions were welcomed by oppo- nents of the President’s plan to en- large the court. The social security opinions, coupled with the liberal rulings in the Wagner act cases and on minimum wage legislation, knocks the last prop from under the President’s program, they contend. Others were quick to assert that these rulings offer Mr. Roosevelt a graceful (See COURT, Page A-5.) Drafted Maritime Experts Must Work at “Cut-Rate” Pay Three legal and financial experts pressed into service by Chairman Jos- eph B. Kennedy of the Maritime Com- mission to straighten out the tangled affairs of the American merchant ma- rine, in “grave emergency,” will have to work at a ‘“cut” rate of $25 a day under a ruling by Acting Controller General Elliott, made public today. The ruling went to the commission a week ago in response to a question of the legality of contemplated pay- ments of $50 a day in two cases and $35 in another. It was said at the commission today that it was being accepted and that Congress will not be asked to grant relief in the situation-t an alternative that Elliott suggested. The experts are Judge John J. Burns, former general counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Archibald R. Graustein, New England lawyer and former president and chairman of International Paper & Power Co., and Jay Dunne, a New York lawyer, who also formerly was with the S. E. C. when Kennedy was its head. ‘The permanent commission, suc- ceeding a temporary body which Presi- dent Roosevelt at frst set up, only started to function in April, and 10 t consequence, as Kennedy explained to Elliott, it is necessary to do practically a year’s work in two months. Old con- tracts under the ocean mail pay act of 1928 must be disposed of by June 30 to pave the way for the new system of outright subsidies for shipbuilding and operation. Financial difficulties of some of the companies now operating ship lines are adding to the problem, Kennedy explained. He pointed out that com- panies holding ocean mail contracts have filed claims against the Govern- ment for damages in excess of $450,- 000,000 in consequence of cancelation of these contracts. The Government also, Kennedy ex- plained, will have large claims against the contractors. Because of the situ- ation, he said, fleld experts in corpo- rate reorganization and recapitaliza- tion are necessary for the functioning of the commission, and he outlined the -pay deemed proper—$50 a day for Burns and Graustein and $35 per Dunne. Elliott said, however, that they would have to be kept within the limits of classification act scales, which 1s at the rate of $0,000 & year. TWO CENTS. EARLY WAGE-HOUR BILL PASSAGE SEEN N BOTH HOUSES Labor Committees Side- track Other Legislation to Weigh Proposal. BLACK PLANS SENATE HEARINGS THIS WEEK Chairman Connery Predicts Re- port by June 15—Fight Looms on Pay Differentials. BACKGROUND— Elimination of sweat-shop wages and hours has been objective of ad- ministratfon in behalf of industry, eflort first being made in N. I. R. A. Since invalidation of parts of that law, other means have been sought. Recent Supreme Court decisions paved way for bill introduced yes- terday. Disappointed by slow progress of child-labor amendment, this indus- trial practice also is dealt with in bill, Speedy consideration and approval of its general provisions loomed for the administration wage and hour bill today as both House and Senate Committees on Labor prepared to sidetrack other legislative proposals and have the important measure on the floors within a few weeks. Apparently destined to be the major piece of social legislation of the prese ent session, the bill introduced yestere day in both House and Senate admite tedly was facing some storms, but was not expected to precipitate any such stalemate as has blocked settlement of the court reform issue. Plan to Hold Hearings. On the Senate side, Chairman Black of the Committee on Education and Labor, co-sponsor of the measure, announced today that he would ate tempt to begin public hearings late this week. Chairman Connery of the House committee predicted his group would report the bill by June 18, planning to begin hearings next Tuege y. . With the issue of length of work week not specified in revised drafts of the bill as introduced, support was heard for figures ranging from 30 to 40. Authors of a 30-hour bill, both Black and Connery are known to favor the shorter week if deemed practical, but also are believed ready to accept the 40-hour limit. Major Provisions. Some of the other major provisions of the bill follow in brief: 1. It would bar from interstate com merce products of children under and workers subjected to “oppressive® wage and hour conditions. 2. Labor standards board of five $10,000-a-year members would have broad powers to adjust regulations for individual industries. 3. Use of professional strikebreakers and so-called industrial spies would be prohibited in interstate industries. 4. For overtime work employers would be required to pay 50 per cent more than the regular wage rate. 5. Purely local pursuits or intrae state service trades would be exempt in competition. 6. It would prohibit the board from fixing a minimum wage of more than 80 cents an hour—or one that would produce in excess of $1,200 a year. 7. The board would have power to leave determination of wages and hour conditions to collective bargaine ing in any industry where it felt facile ities for such bargaining were adee quate. 8. The board also could require labeling of any product covered by the proposed act in order to promote its enforcement. Wage to Be Battleground. While controversy both in com= mittees and on the floor is expected to revolve around several of these provisions, one of the stiffest fights is expected to develop over the issue of wage differentials on geographical grounds. Opposed by all organized labor and by industry in all sections except the benefited South, the wage differential was a source of continuing trouble dure ing days of the N. R. A. Although the pending bill does not arbitrarily ese tablish any such wage distinctions, it vests power to do so in the adminis- trative board. Futhermore, implied approval of the idea is contained in the President’s message of yesterday and in the statement of explanation which Senator Black submitted at the time of introducing the bill. ‘The new preposal avoids one of the sore spots of the N. R. A. by making no effort to deal with trade practices or price fixing. The pending bill also makes no provision for such adminis- (See WAGE-HOUR, Page A-3) RETIRED CARPENTER IS FOUND SHOT DEAD Body of Elry Sidney Ball, 71, Is Discovered With Rope Knotted Around Neck. 8hot through the head and partially suspended from a noose, Elry Sidney Ball, 71, retired carpenter and painter, was found dead early today in the base« ment of his home, 412 Hamilton street. His wife, Mrs. Lillian Ball, heard a shot about 2 o'clock. She found the basement door locked and summoned police. A rope had been knotted about Ball's neck and attached to a water pipe. A 45-caliber revolver was found on the floor at Ball's feet and he had been ‘shot through the forehead, Police were told Ball had been in il health. The coroner’s office was investigate ing today. Ball came to Washington last August from his home in Chare lottsville, Va. 1 %