Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness, followed by show= ers tonight or tomorrow; cooler tomorrow afternoon or night; moderate winds. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 83, at 3:45 p.m, yesterday; lowest, 67, at 3:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A-19. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 85th YEAR. No. 33,993. Entered as second class matter = Ppost office, Washington, D. C. NEW LEVIES PLAN IND.C. STUDIED AS DIRKSEN PREDICTS - SALES TAX DEFEAT Increase in Real Estate Pay- ments Is Considered as Potential Revenue Source by House Subcommittee. FINAL ACTION DELAYED UNTIL TOMORROW Nichols Suggests Business Privi- lege Assessment—Assails Park- ing Lot Operators—Believes Congress Would Pass Proposal | Urged by City Heads. BACKGROUND— With the District facing deficit of nearly $8,000,000, Congress, having reduced lump-sum contribution, must provide new taxes to raise needed revenue. A great variety of proposals have been submitted, but main choice seems to lie between District of Columbia income tar and a local sales taz. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Warned by Representative Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, that the pro- | posed 2 per cent general sales tax | would not be approved by the House, he special tax subcommittee of the | House District Committee today sur- | Yeyed other potential sources of vevenue, including an increase in the Yeal estate tax, as a means of raising | bufficient funds to preclude the now pnticipated $8,000,000 budget deficit n the coming fiscal year. In addition to an increase in the Yeal estate tax, the subcommittee took under advisement proposals for a business privilege tax, an increase from 30 to 80 cents a gallon in the tax on liquor, and the use of parking gneters in the business section. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen told | the subcommittee real estate already s bearing its fair share of the tax burden, but he did not believe there would be serious objection to an in- crease from $1.50 to $1.60 in the tax rate. | Such a 10-cent raise. he pointed out, | would yield only $1.000,000, and still | Jeave the District with the problem | bf finding another $4.000,000 if the pales tax plan is scrapped. Defers Definite Action, Ford Surplus’ In 1936 Climbs To $602,666,000 Bay State Reports Assets 35 Millions Ahead of 1935. By the Assoctated Fress. BOSTON, May 26.—The Ford Motor Co. in 1936 increased its surplus ac- count by $19,689,000, bringing the total surplus to $602,666,000, accord- ing to the annual report filed at the Massachnsetts State House today. Assets of the company were listed at $717,359,000, an increase of ap- proximately $35,000,000 over the 1935 figure of $681,549,000. The statement was filed with the Massachusetts commissioner of cor- porations and taxation. Masachusetts is one of the few States to require an annual statement of condition from the company. The reserve account was increased from $10,961,000 in 1935 to $17,699, 000 in 1936. The capital stock of the company was carried both years at $17,264,500. ‘The company had an indicated net profit in 1936 of $26,426,698, equal to $7.65 a share on the company’s capital stock, the statement revealed. The profit was estimated on the basis of reported increase in profit and loss account and reserves. For 1935 indicated profit was $3,565,617, equal to $1.03 a share. The company, privately owned by Henry Ford and members of his fam- ily, files annually a balance sheet in Massachusetts in compliance with a State law, but these have never dis- closed earnings in detail. In 1934 indicated profit was $6,- 860,462, or $1.98 a share, while in 1933 there was an indicated loss of $3,- 480,331, Prior to 1934 the stock had a $100 par value! It now consists of 3,452,900 | shares of $5 par, having been read- justed by issuance of 20 shares for each $100 par share. LEGISLATORS ACT 0 AID JORDON Arrange for Interview With Pardon Attorney in Behalf of Convicted Man. A special House subcommittee ap- | pointed to investigate complaints of inadequate law enforcement in the District arranged today for an inter- view this afterngon with Pardon At-| torney Daniel M. Lyons in behalf of | Thomas Jordon, convicted slayer of The subcommittee again deferred | iefinite action on the tax program it | plans to write to keep the District out | of the red in the new fiscal year, but | mnnounced it would meet tomorrow at | am. for that purpose. Chairman | :(ennedy served notice on members | the program would have to be com- leted before Tuesday so the full Dis- Mrs. Lizzie 8. Jaynes. The House District Committee au- thorized this action at a brief session this morning when the report of the subcommittee, recommending against a general congressional investigation of crime in the District, was accepted. Daylight Saving Delayed. rict Committee could pass on it at the | Fegular meeting next Wednesday. { At the outset of the meeting, Dirk- sen declared he had “tried to appreci- ate the grave financial situation” fac- | ing the District, and is willing to sup- | port all the proposals of the Commis- #loners for raising additional revenue except the sales tax plan. “The sales tax hasn't a ghost of a show to get through the House,” he | said. “It would become a political headache. Sales taxes should be bolished in every State that has them. n my own State, which has a sales Bax, it is very unpopular.” Commissioner Dan I. Sultan ex- plained the sales tax was urged for pnly one year because it would tide he District over during the period of nancial stress. “Your emergency is a fiscal, not an #conomic one,” replied Dirksen. “‘But the sales tax would be in effect nly one year,” interrupted Commis- ioner Hazen. “If it goes on the books,"” replied | Pirksen, “it won't come off in one year or two years.” Hazen Supports Plan, Hazen, however, pleaded with the Subcommittee to approve the plan. “We've got only 30 days in which to | ftlean up this whole muddle,” he said. | MI don't know what we're going to do. (See TAXES, Page A-5.) FIVE DEAD, 2 DYING IN HEAD-ON CRASH Charred Bodies Identified After " Wreck Between Truck and Small Car. By the Assoctated Press. CATSKILL, N. Y., May 26.—At least five men were killed and two are dying consequence of a head-on crash tween a New Jersey truck and a wnll Massachusetts automobile near ‘est Coxsackie early today, Lieut. ervey A. Keator of the State police id. . Lieut. Keator said he had determined le number who died in the flaming reckage of the two vehicles after Euestloni.ng & survivor, Joshua Cohen, 1, Dorchester, Mass, at a hospital ere. Keator said Cohen, who suffered rns and & fractured arm, identified probable dead among his com- ns as Carl Bachofsky, 18, Boston; ack Pester, Lynn, Mass, and Israel Goldstein, 18, Revere, Mass. In critical condition in the hospital here are Robert Novak, 18, broken Jegs and burns on the body, and | Harold Bloom, 20, both of Dorchester, entire body burned. The truck driver was identified "as YLeonard Fleming, 40, colored, Engle- wood, N. J, driver for the Reisch Trucking Co. of Palisades Park, N. J. The identification was made by C. E. Moore, manager of the company’s Albany terminal, who said he believed Fleming was accompanied by a seeond man, whose name he did not know. The truck, laden with linseed ofl and paint, burst into flame imme- diately after the crash. P Scheduled action on a daylight-sav- | ing bill for Washington was put over until next week, when it developed that a subcommittee which conducted hearings on the measure had not com- pleted its report. It is expected the | report of the subcommittee will make no recommendation on the bill, leav- | ing the District Committee free to| make whatever recommendation it ! desires to the House. The Crime Subcommittee, headed by Representative Palmisano, Demo- crat, of Maryland, voted several days ago to intercede with the Justice De- partment for Jordon, who is scheduled to be electrocuted June 14. At the conference with Lyons this afternoon it is expected the subcommittee will turn over all the evidence bearing on Jordon's case that it assembled during its recent hearings. Bates Gets Statements. Representative Bates, Republican, of Massachusetts, said he had secured statements from three witnesses to the shooting of Mrs. Jaynes. This, it is expected, will be submitted to the de- partment with the other evidence. One of these statements was made by Mrs. Clark R. Long, 1348 Iris street. Mrs. Long said in her statement she had carefully “sized up” the slayer of Mrs. Jaynes, expecting that she would be called as a witness later. She added she could have testified definitely whether Jordon was the slayer, had she been called as & wit- ness during his trial. Newspaper photographs of Jordon, she said, bear no resemblance to the man she saw in the Garden T Shoppe the night Mrs. Jaynes was shot. Mrs. Long was one of four persons in the establishment at the time of the shooting. None of them has been asked to identify Jordon. The Crime Subcommittee was not discharged, action on its steps being deferred until the next meeting of the District Committee. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, | union. HUGE STEEL STRIKE LOOMS AS C. 1. 0 CALLS WAR PARLEY Two Ohio Points Aready Af- fected as Drive Begins on Holdout Firms. SHARON WORKERS VOTE FOR UNION, 1,773 T0 721 Major Bargaining Victory Gained in Election—Early Walkouts Held “Spontaneous.” BACKGROUND— Beginning of C. I. O.’s steady march to victory in the steel in- dustry was “big steel's” capitula- tion. Since independent companies have fallen in line by choice or by elections forced by terms of the national labor act. | By the Assoctated Press. PITTSBURGH, May 27.—A new and widespread strike in C. I. O.s steel unit, militantly counting vic- tories just won, was an imminent pos- sibility today. At two Ohio points “spontaneous” | walkouts already were under way, as Philip Murray called his counselors to Youngstown, Ohio, to discuss war | against two of the bloc of independ- ;em companies still holding out against his Steel Workers’ Organiz- ! ing Committee. | ThesS. W.O.C, an affiliate of John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization, only last night won its third successive fight within less than a week. By vote of 1,773 to 721 in a Gov- ernment-supervised employe election, the C. I. O. Steel Union gained the exclusive right to represent in col- lective bargaining the approximately 3,000 workers of the Sharon Steel Co. in plants at Sharon, Pa., and Lowells- ville, Ohio. Last Friday, it won similarly among the 27,000 workers of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co.; Monday it ob- tained a contract carrying recogni- tion and the right to represent its own members from Crucible Steel. “War Council” in Session. The Youngstown “war council” was assembled to deal mainly with two | companies, Republic Steel and Youngs- | | town Sheet & Tube, and for Republic strife already had begun. Workers affiliated with the C. I. O. struck last night at the company's plants in Canton and Massillon, Ohio, without instructions from the national leadership. A spokesman said it was a “spon- taneous rebellion against discrimina- tion agains; C. I. O. men,” and a com- mittee authority here confirmed that it was without Murray's prior knowl- edge. Meanwhile still another localized strike—at the Inland Steel Co. in the Chicago area—had been threatened by Van A. Bittner, S. W. O. C. regional | officer, because, like the others, Inland | had refused to come to terms with the | In advance of the Youngstown | meeting the S. W. O. C. would make | no public comment as to the probable outcome, but privately its headquar- ters was represented authoritatively as prepared for a strike affecting 76,000 | employes of Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube at plants in Ohio, In- diana, Illinois and New York State. Company Remains Firm. Only a softening of the companies’ attitude, it was made plain, would avert a walkout—and this seemed highly improbable, particularly in the case of Republic. Only last night that com- pany issued a statement making clear that its unwillingness to deal with C. I O. was deep and fundamental. The ‘“real issues,” it said, were the closed shop and the check-off system (by which & company helps in collec- tion of union dues). It would be the “easiest thing” to sign, said Republic, “but thet doesn’t make it the right thing.” Murray has called Republic and Youngstown members of an ‘“unholy alliance” and as he signed yesterday the exclusive contract gained by elec- tion with Jones & Laughlin he struck out again at them. They had “definitely determined,” he asserted, “to thwart the intent and purpose of the national labor relations act, regardless of the consequences which may result to their corpora- tions.” The Sharon steel election outcome passed without comment from Murray. Through it the 8. W. O. C. will get another exclusive bargaining contract similar to that with Jones & Laughlin. That contract pledged the company not to interfere with the union and the union not to strike over disagree- ments before carrying them to arbi- tration. British Officials To Attend Windsor’s Wedding By the Assoclated Press. MONTS, France, May 26—Six- tween wedding guests, several of them holding British official positions, were announced today for the June 3 mar- riage of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield by Herman L. Rogers, their American spokesman. ‘The guests include Hugh Lloyd Thomas, first secretary of the British Embassy in Paris; Sir Walter T. Monckton, attorney general of the duchy of Cornwall and Lady Walford Selby, wife of the British minister to Vienna. ' Maj. E. B. Metcalf, who will attend with Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, will be the Duke of Windsor’s best man, The major is the duke’s equerry. Rogers would not comment on the fact that of 30 invitations sent out, only 16 acceptances were received. Some persons close to the Chateau de Cande, where the wedding will take place, also attached significance to the fact that Lady Selby will attend Among Guests the acceptence of Thomas, another British diplomat. There have been reports that the British government held out to the last against the attendance of Sir Wal- ford Selby, despite the Duke of Wind- sor’s pleadings. Sir Walford was one of Edward’s confidantes during his self-exile last Winter in Austria. The other guests: Baron and Baroness Eugene de Rothschild, owners of the Ensesfeld Castle, where Windsor stayed during the first part of his Austrian wait. Mrs. DB. Buchanan Merryman, Mrs. Warfleld’s “Aunt Bessle,” from Wash- ington. Oharles E. Bedaux and Mrs. Bedaux of New York, owners of the Chateau de Cande. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Graham, He is British Consul at Nantes. A. G. Allen of London, the duke’s attorney. Dudley Forwood, an equerry of the duke. without her husband, he minister of Austria, However, others pointed to ? Mr. and Mrs, Horman L. Rogers of New York. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WEDNESDAY, THE TIME HAS ARRIVED FOR US To # EXTEND THE FRONTIERS, OF SocIAL PROGR EMBARGO ST [N COCHRANE FACING INFECTION CRISIS One Fracture Dangerously Near Sinus—Chances About Even. B; the Associated Press, WEW YORK, May 26.—His skull fractured in three places, one of the cracks dangerously near one of the sinuses, Mickey Cochrane, star catcher and manager of the Detroit Tigers, fought for his life today with chances of victory reported as even, His condition was pronounced satis- factory by specialists called in for consultation, but they were worried lest one of the sinuses become in- fected. Cochrane, beaned in the right temple by a ball pitched by Irving (Bump) Hadley in yesterday's game against the New York Yankees, was reported to have spent a fairly com- fortable night with the aid of opiates. He suffered one slight hemorrhage during the night. The latest bulletin issued by attend- ing Drs. Byron Stookey, Alexander Nicoll and Robert Emmet Walsh, Yankee staff physician, said there was no immediate concern. Under their orders, Cochrane will have to lie mo- tionless in bed for 10 days. The crisis, if any, is expected within five days. No immediate operation is planned. Mrs. Cochrane, who learned of her husband’s injury while watching her 12-year-old son, Mickey, jr., play base ball with a “kid nine” yesterday, flew to Cochrane’s bedside. She arrived at 2 am, talked to him briefly and then retired for the night in a room across the hall from his sick room in the 8t. Elizabeth's Hospital. Hadley also was an early caller, stay- ing only a few minutes. By request other ball players and visitors remained away. Mrs. Cochrane said her husband told her that he had lost sight of the ball about 3 feet from the plate and could recall nothing of what happened after that. The accident came in the fifth inning. Cochrane, in his thirteenth year in the major leagues, was knocked unconscious and carried on a stretcher to the Tiger dressing room and thence to the hospital. FRENCH FLYERS DOWN TOKIO, May 26 (#)—The Japanese (Domei) News Agency reported today that the French aviator Marcel Doret and Francois Micheletti made a forced landing along the Tobar coast in Kochi Prefecture at 7:30 p.m. tonight (6:30 a.m. Eastern standard time.) Both were slightly injured-and taken to a hospital at Kochi, Sjikoku Island seaport. They were attempting & Paris-Tokio flight. . Summary of Page. Amusements B-8 Comics _____B-11 Editorials ___A-10 Financial ___A-17 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary ___A-12 FOREIGN. French air liner is shot down by in- surgent planes. Page A-1 Two supply planes reach Soviet polar Page A-2 spurn Ger- Page A-2 Page. Short Story A-14 Society . B-3 Sports Woman's Pg. C-4 Vltiui: reported ready to many’s protest. NATIONAL. Cochrane’s injury carries infection danger, doctors say. Page A-1 U. A. W. opens war on Ford with strike. Page A-1 ‘Test of strength on relief fund ear- marking due tomorrow. Page A-2 Dr. Irvin Stewart to quit communi- cations post. Page A-3 President gives reasons for insisting on court bill. Page A-3 Simple funeral services are held for Rockefeller. Page A-4 W. H. Kendrick, 4-H Club founder, dies. Page A-12 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. House group to act in behalf of Jordon. Page A-1 Dirksen says House would not pass D. C. sales tax. Page A-1 Revised bill to ban slaughter houses asked by Mrs. Norton. Page A-1 | Mrs. Grace Kanode Vickers sues for divorce, Page A-2 A MAY 26, 1937—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. 1 COULDGE #9 [ THERE FASTER IE YoU WOOLD 77 TAKE THIS LOAD OFF MY BACK! '(lE,l 17 ESS. 7 i W\ O Ui e V) 7 ¢ Foening Star ) \\ | / Y 2 9 Asks Introduction To Woman He Wed For American Visa By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, May 26.—Adolph Renke, 28, asked to be intro- duced to his wife when they appeared in Federal Court to plead to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government by & spurious marriage. “Is that lady my wife?” he asked an attendant. He ex- plained he had not seen her since the wedding three years ago, and didn't remember what she looked like. Renke, a Lithuanian, obtained a preferential visa as the hus- band of an American citizen soon after marrying. SLAUGHTER HOUSE BANTOBEREVISED Mrs. Norton Asks That 16 Amendments Be Included by Commissioners. Chairman Norton of the House Dis- trict Committee today directed the Commissioners to prepare the draft of a revised bill to prohibit siaughter houses and other so-called nuisance industries in Washington. At the same time Mrs. Norton is- sued a statement in which she brand- ed slaughter houses as ‘“nuisance No. | 1,” and declared *something must be done” to keep such establishments out of the District. nuisance industries was recalled from the House to her committee Monday after development, during debate, of what she declared constituted “unfair opposition.” To Include 16 Amendments. ‘The new bill which the Commis- sioners will prepare, Mrs. Norton said, should include the 16 amendments which they proposed to the original measure. She gave assurance the re- vised bill would be subjected to hear- ings by the full committee, and ex- pressed the hope it would be consid- ered by June 2. “Because I know the enactment of legislation such as the bill to pro- hibit nuisance industries in the Dis- trict is the wish of the majority of the residents,” said Mrs. Norton's statement, “I have given very serious consideration to a further course of action on this bill. I have come to the conclusion that in order to facili- tate consideration, a revised bill, in- corporating the 16 amendments pro- posed by the Commissioners in their (See SLAUGHTER HOUSE, PageA-5.) Today’s Star Robbery victims seek to identify goods after arrest of suspect. Page A-4 ‘Trouble rolling up for wage-hour legislation. Page A-6 Hearings begun on bill to establish public defender here. Page B-1 Prosecution rests in Tomlinson rob- bery trial. Page B-1 Gould, alleged jewel thief, to be brought here. Page B-1 Commissioners ask elimination of per diem item. Page B-1 ‘Women's group asks more aid for D. C. idle. Page B-1 MISCELLANY, Shipping News. Vital Statistics. City News in Brief. ‘Traffic Convictions. Service Orders, ‘Young Washington, Bedtime Story. Nature’s Children. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Crossword Puzzle. ‘Winning Contract. Letter-Out. Men’s Fashions, A-8 A-8 A-8 A-8 A-8 Page Page Page Page Page Page B-6 C-5 Page Page C-12 Page C-4 Page C-4 Page B-11 Page C-12 Page C-7 Page C-5 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 ‘This and That. Page A-10 ‘Washington Observations, Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 David Lawrence, Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 Constantine Brown. Page A-11 Headline Folk. Page A-11 PRESIDENT URGES APPROVAL OF PACT Sends Message to Senate Recommending Ratification of Buenos Aires Accord. B) the Associated Press. President Roosevelt recommended to the Senate today approval of a pact pledging 21 American republics to work - together to maintain peace in the Western Hemisphere. The pact and seven other inter- American agreements which the Chief Executive sent to the Senate for rati- fication grew out of the Buenos Aires conference late last year. This coun- try initiated the conference and the President himself attended. Citing the initiative exercised by the United States in the meeting, the Pres- ident said that “it would, therefore, seem to me particularly fitting that the United States Government be among the first American governments in the ratification of the instruments that the conference adopted, thereby giving a further indication of the sincerity of the good neighbor policy.” Cites Personal Contact. Calling attention to his personal appearance at the conference, the President said in his message to the Senate that he could, therefore, testify personally “to the earnestness of pur- pose of the many outstanding states- men of the Americas gathered there and to their determination to give an example to the world of interna- tional co-operation in order that peace may prevail.” The eight instruments, he declared, | “evidence the desire and the will of the American peoples to live in peace e T T | one with another, and they provide rs. Norton's original bi n the long-awaited mechanisms for in- suring the co-operation between na- tions indispensable to the main- tenance of peace.” Accompanying the message to the Senate was a letter from Secretary Hull explaining the significance of the documents. The White House did not make this public, however, be- cause it was & matter reserved for executive consideration by the Sen- ate Foreign Relations Committee. The first of the conventions listed by the President in his message was described as one for ‘“the main- tenance, preservation and re-estab- lishment of peace.” Becoming effective when ratified by the signatory nations, it would pledge the 21 republics, in event of a threat to the peace of the Americas, to con- sult and seek “a method of mutual collaboration” to maintain peace. In event of a war outside the Americas, consultants, the pact sets out, would seek to determine “the proper time and place in which the signatory states, if they so desire, may eventually co-operate in some action tending to preserve the peace of the American Continent.” Another Pact, described as an “addi- (See MESSAGE, Page A-3.) POLICE HUNT GIRL, 14 West Virginian Disappears in Co- lumbus Train Depot. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 26 (#).— Police sought 14-year-old Zelma Nichols of Dundon, W. Va,, today at the request of the Travelers’ Aid, which said she disappeared while waiting to change trains at the Union Station here. She was in the Aid's charge while going from Cleveland to her home. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. eokk ok UP) Means Associate: Circulation, 141,011 Teturns not yet elved ) TWO CENTS. d Press. FRENCH AIRLINER 1S SHOT DOWN BY INSURGENT PLANES Pilot and One Passenger Wounded—Ship Makes “Pancake” Landing. THREE OTHERS ESCAPE FROM MACHINE GUN HAIL Rebel Fleet Reported German- Made—Franco Tried Long to Cut Bilbao Service. BACKGROUND— Envelopment of Spain in civil war during past 10 months has carried continual peril of involve- ment of all Europe in the embroglio through destruction of property or other interests of some neutral power. British commercial and war ves- sels have figured in several inci- dents with rebel and Loyalist forces, while a French commercial plane was shot down last December, re- sulting in the death of a news- Ppaper man. B) the Associated Press. BILBAO, Spain, May 26 —Machine | gun bullets from an insurgent fleet of warplanes downed a French “Air Pyrenees” transport plane near this | besieged Basque regional capital to-| day and wounded the French pilot | and a Spanish passenger. | ‘The plane was damaged badly both by the bullets and by the force of a “pancake” landing on sandy soil near Soelana, 13 miles north of here, be- hind Basque government war lines. The wounded pilot and the Spanish passenger—one of four—were brought by automobile to Bilbao and placed in a hospital. Both are expected to re- | cover. All the passengers were Spaniards. Attacked by Seven Planes. ‘The plane was approaching the: mouth of the Nervion River, toward the coast from Bilbao, when seven | as a German-built fleet, were re- | ported to have raked it with machine gun fire. The pilot, Jean Gally, a veteran | and war-wise former French Army fiyer, dived and made a pancake { landing on open ground near Soelana. The windows of the transport's | cabin were reported to have been | perforated by dozens of bullets. The plane was en route to this be- leaguered Basque capital when it was shot down in the insurgent attack. It belonged to the Air-Pyrenees French line and was in shuttle service be- tween Bayonne, France, and Bilbao. Attacked by Several Ships. Basque officials declared the air- liner had been attacked by several Heinkel chasers while flying over gov- ernment territory. Soelana is about 5 miles west of the point where the insurgent ring about Bilbao meets the coast of the Bay of Biscay. The passenger plane left the airport at Biarritz, on the French Coast, today, carrying passengers and mail. | (At Paris, the French foreign | office said it had no information concerning the plane.) The liner was clearly marked “Air Pyrenees” with huge, black letters on the silver fuselage. French registry numbers were equally conspicuous on the wings. Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco several times has declared publicly his forces intended to shoot down the Bayonne-Bilbao air ferry on grounds it is an “aerial blockade runner,” despite its French registry, ownership and crew. REBEL ADVANCE REPORTED. Mola’s Front Declared Within Eight Miles of Bilbao. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, May 26 (®).—A new insurgent | advance was reported today to have shoved Gen. Emilio Mola’s front lines within 8 miles of Bilbao. The advance, an insurgent com- munique from the Salamanca head- quarters reported, carried the north- ern insurgent offensive to Lemona, 8 miles southeast of the besieged pro- vincial capital, and halfway between Amorebieta and Galdacano, the next objective. ANARCHISTS IN REVOLT. PERPIGNAN, Franco-Spanish Bor- der, May 26 (P .—Revolting anar- chists in Northeastern Spain were re- ported today to have seized the town of Barbastro and shot 100 persons. ‘The reports reaching the frontier said a battalion of anarchists, serv- ing with the government army on the Huesca front, had mutinied and marched to the rear. Two units of infantry from Lerida were reported ordered to Barbastro by Gen. Sebastian Pozas, government commander in Catalonia, since the suppression of an anarchist uprising centering in Barcelona early this month. D. C. Woman Calls Fire Trucks As Stork Nears, Court Forgives B the Associpted Press, NEW YORK, May 26.—Mrs. Dor- othy Legault, 29, of Washington, D. C., who has two children of her own, doesn’t know much about New York's fire alarm system, but she knew some- thing had to be done and done quickly today when the stork swooped low over the home of her sister, Mrs. Sally Graham, 32.- No telephone was available, but a doctor simply must called. Down the street ran Mrs, Légault. She came to & red box on a post, twisted the handle and started back home, con- fident all would be well. Patrolman Edward Moran halted her. “Where's the fire?” he asked. Mrs. Legaylt Moran ar- tested her and calied an ambulance. 4 The baby was born two hours later in » hospital—s 7-pound 12-ounce girl. Mrs. Legault explained to the police that some one had told her when she needed a policeman in an emergency she could always get one by going to one of those little red boxes. She said she had come to New York only 10 days ago, that her husband, a French engineer whom she married when she was 15, was dead, and her own children were living in Paris with their grandparents. Later when Mrs. Legault was ar- raigned in Yorkville Gourt Magistrate Raphael Murphy said: “It seems to have been an innocent mistake. I hope your sister and little niece are getting along well, Case dis- charged.” Smiling, Mrs. Legault left the conrt. f U.AW. OPENS WAR AGAINST FORDWITH CALIFORNIA STRIKE Union Workers in Richmond Plant Walk Out After Vote. SPREAD TO OTHER UNITS SEEN BY HEAD OF LOCAL Mass Picket Line Surrounding Factory Bars Officials and Unorganized Employes. BULLETIN. DETROIT, May 26 (P).—A group of workmen beat two high officials of the United Automobile Work= ers and chased them away this afternoon as union members be- gan the distribution of literature at the gates of the Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant Richard T. Frenkensteen, direct- ing the union's campaign to or- ganize Ford workers, was knocked down a dozen times, his coat torn off and his face bruised. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Calif, May 26.—Union workers at the Ford assembly plant here went on strike today, and an offi;cial of the United Automobile ‘Workers of America declared it was “the first gun in the war against Henry Ford.” Production ceased immediately, and & mass picket line around the plant stopped admittance of company offie cails and non-union workers, “This js the first gun in the war against Henry Ford,” said Frank Slaby, president of the local unit of the Automobile Workers’ Union, afe filiated with the Committee for Ine dustrial Organization. Slaby declared the strike would spread to other Ford units, while at Detroit the Automobile Workers® Union prepared to distribute its “Unionism, not Fordism” leaflets at the plant gate. insurgent planes, described by Basques| _Ford Advised Against “'nions. Ford recently advised his thousands of workers not to join unions. Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of Am ica, replied that Ford would b2 *ine | vited to join the fold” as other leading | automobile manufacturers had Martin visited here recently and | authorized the strike vote among the | 1,800 workers in the assembly plant. Slaby said only two votes were cast | against the strike proposal after alle | night balloting. The day crew voted | 628 in favor of the strike and the night shift 268, he said. Many worke ers did not ballot, he explained, bee cause they lived some distance from the plant. One hundred and fifty pickets went | on duty at 4 a.m. and two hours later & mass line of hundreds of men was around the plant. A telephone girl inside the big plant | stated “there is no production to- day.” Favors Closing Plant. | At Detroit, Harry Bennett. persone | mel director of the Ford Motor Co., | said the Richmond plant was closed | and “would be closed permanently if I had my way about it.” ! He claimed the dispute arose when | two workers asked to be transferred to | other jobs, and then demanded their | old positions back. About 150 non-union workers ree ported for duty and were met at the | gate by picket lines. ‘The two groups glared at each other for about an hour, and then the non- union workers left. The plant's office force of about 200 persons did not enter, | Manager Is Barred. Admittance was refused to Clar= ence Bullwinkel, plant manager. Only one superintendent was admitted to supervise maintenance. “The Ford Co. discriminated against our members for union activity, and attempted to form a company union,” Slaby said. ‘The union official stated that efforts to settle the dispute with R. C. Harri= son, superintendent of the plant, had failed. The dispute arose, he said, after & recent sit-down strike was ended by a verbal agreement. He claimed the company also had failed to observe seniority rights. Slaby said the strike vote had been authorized by Martin, and possibly would spread to all other Ford units throughout the country. Ford Opened Counter-Attack. Ford recently launched a counter- attack against union organization and told his workers they would not benefit by joining such groups. The walkout in the plant here was described by union officials as an “old- fashioned strike” in contrast to the “sit-down” strikes which swept the | country. The day shift was scheduled to re- port at 8 a.m., but at that time several (See FORD, Page A-3) STEVENS TO GET POST AS COMMISSION HEAD Roosevelt to Send Name of Choice for Tariff Body Position to Senate for 0. K. By the Associated Press. Congressional sources disclosed to- day that Raymond B. Stevens, who re= cently resigned from the Tariff Come mission to support President Roose velt’s judiciary plan, will succeed Rob- ert Lincoln O'Brien as chairman of the commission next June 16. Mr. Roosevelt will send Stevens® name to the Senate, high adminis- tration sources said, “probably within & few days.” Stevens resigned last March 31 to stump throughout the East and South on behalf of the President's court re- form plan. Chairman O'Brien, 71, submitted an oral resignation to ths President several weeks ago, but at the President’s request agreed to re- L mmasear was praninted,