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A.F.OFL. MODIFIES RIGID CRAFT LINES Drop Strlct r{ulmg for Mern- bership Battle With Lewis Group. “ By the Assoctated Press. CINCINNATI, May 28.—The Amer- ican Federation of Labor dropped strict craft union lines today in its fight against John L. Lewis’ Commit- tee for Industrial Organization. Federation leaders still believe ‘workers generally should be organized into the unions of their craft, as op- posed to the organization industry that Lewis advocates. They decided informally, however, "in their current conference here not to let craft lines stand in the way of increasing membership. The machin- ists, for instance, are trying to organ- ize all the workers in a number of plants. A good share of the federa- tion’s Summer membership campaign will consist of attempts to organize Federal unions. Organization Program. ‘These Federal unions, affiliated di- Tectly with the A. F. of L. and not linked with any member union, may take in all the workers in a plant or industry. The United Automobile Workers was organized by consolida- ton of a number of Federal unions. Eventually the federation expects to divide the newly organized workers smong their proper craft unions. Col- lective bargaining then would be car- ried on by joint councils of craft union Tepresentatives in those plants or in- dustries that employed more than one eraft. A long list of unfinished business still faced the federation's executive * council after yesterday’s session. Heading the list was a decision on whether to support the administra- tion wage and hour bill. Most coun- cil members privately expressed dis- spproval of legislation to fix mini- mum wages for men. They contend- ed a $16 a week minimum wage would tend to peg the general wage level at that figure. C. L. 0. Locals Face Ouster. The council also was generally ex- pected to issue a formal order ex pelling C. I. O. locals from city cen- tral bodies and State federations of | labor. A conference of loyal union ) Tepresentatives approved such action earlier this week. Whether to charter the Progres- sive Miners of America, rival to Lewis' United Mine Workers in Illi- nois, was & third problern. Wil- liam Green, A. F. of L. warned the Progressives last night that, if chartered, they could not raid | territory, since the Lewis | of L.| ¥ union still charter. The council also still had before it & plea for support from the Federated Motion Picture Crafts in their Holly- wood strike. A dispute between the Crafts and the International Alli- ance of Theatrical and Stage Em- ployes, another A. F. of L. union, is at the rool of the trouble. had an A. F. SBILLFOLD_ smal money _and one & about 5 pm. bet snd 14th and Euclid Wil meturn same to_owner. at Roo; Denrike Building, phone National liberal reward_will be_paid CHESAPEAKE DOG. business section of ay 26, Reward. 1 i Yo Shen) FOUNTAIN PEN on Kaloramp rd near Conn Kalorama rd.. Aot. 5. 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COLOR GIRL FINDS LIFE 15 COMPLEX Smith College Professors Reluctant to Release Her From Exams. Romance and dry Latin conjunc- tions complicated the life of Miss ! Janet Cunneen, 19, of 3901 Connec- ticut avenue today as she struggled to complete examinations at Smith College in time to become “color girl” at the June week exercises at the United States Naval Academy. When news of her selection as “color girl” by Midshipman Harry B. Hahn of Brooklyn, N. Y.—a privilege he won by commanding the winning 4th Company in competitive drill— | reached Miss Cunneen she immedi- ately planned a flying trip home. i But scholarly professors made it j clear to Miss Cunneen that present- | ing the regimental colors to a hand- | some midshipman while thousands of _ | beautiful girls looked on green-eyed with jealousy had never won an honor grade in a Latin class. What about | her examinations? they asked. Telephone wires between the Cun- | neen home and Smith College buzzed " |as the distracted Latin student’s ‘fal‘*m‘ Frank J. Cunneen, who grad- uated from Annapolis in 1914 and xresllzes the importance of a ‘*‘color gi'l" at June week ceremonies, sought a solution of the dilemma. “Janet is completing some examina- tions today and we expect her home tonight or tomorrow,” Cunneen, who resigned from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant in 1920, explained. “I expect I'll get a bigger kick out of this June week than any I've at- since my graduatios chuckled. Miss Cunneen is a sophomore at Smith College, where she is majoring in Latin. She graduated from West- ern High School in 1935. Midship- man Hahn met his daughter at a dance at Annapolis “a few years ago,” Cunneen said. READY FOR JUNE WEEK. New York Midshipman Adjudged Academy’s Honor Student. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 28—With the honor man and the “color girl” selected, Midshipmen at the Naval Academy were ready for the annual June week ceremonies, which begin Saturday and reach a climax on Thursday, when 325 graduates will receive their diplomas. Jack Arthur Obermeyer of New York City was named honor man by the academic board. He had the high- est rating, 921.16, for the four-year course. Russed Homer Wallace of West Bridgewater, Pa., with 91031, stood secSnd, and Emery Arden Grantham of Albany, Tex, with 901.92, was third. Obermeyer will be the first mid- shipman to receive his diploma at the graduation exercises. He is the win- ner of several prizes awarded an- nually at the academy. These will be presented at a regimental dress pa- rade to be held Wednesday. Obermeyer will receive the following prizes for his accomplishments at the Academy. Military Order of Foreign Wars prize, pair of marine binoculars, for standing highest for the course in the repartment of mathematics. United States Senator David I. Walsh Prize, a pair of marine binoculars, for ftandlng first in the course in military aw. United States Daughters of 1812 Prize, pair of marine binoculars, for standing highest in electrical engi- neering. Colonial Daughters of the Seven- teenth Century prize, wrist watch, for excelling in history. National Woman's Relief Corps prize, wrist watch, for standing first in the course in economics. Gardner L. Caskey Memorial prize, gold watch, presented annually to the Midshipman who graduates at the head of his class. . MISSION HEADS EAST Japanese Tradesmen Will Stop Next at Detroit. CHICAGO, May 28 (#).—Members of the Japanese economic mission to the United States left Chicago at 11:30 p.m. (Central standard time) last night over the Michigan Central Railroad for Detroit. The trade am- bassadors spent two days here, dis- cussing international business condi- tions with Chicago financiers and mitlnl industrigl plants. search for loveliness as the & he | 1y HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, FRIDAY, Beauties and Honor Middies Eagerly Await Annapolis June Week With the selection of honor men in its graduating class, the Naval Academy at Annapolis today has completed final plans for its colorful June week exercises. Jack A. Obermeyer of New York City (left) was top man with his four-year record, Russell H. Wallace of West Bridgewater, Pa. (right), was second and Emery A. Grantham, Albany, Ter. (center), was third. —A. P. Photo. UNION AND PRESS AGCUSED BY FORD Riot “Staged” to Hide U. A. W. “Failure” and Provide Story, Company Says. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, May 28—The Ford Motor Co. said today that a riot at | the gates of its River Rouge plant was “staged” to “cover up failure” | of the United Automobile Workers of America to crganize Ford workers. In a formal statement the company | attributed the disorder, in which 18 unionists were hurt Wednesday, to | the U. A. W. A, and unidentified | newspapers, the company said, have | demanded a “Ford strike story” for six months. Charges of “fascism” and employing “thugs and mobsters” were hurled at Henry Ford by the union’s interna- tional president, Homer Martin, who laughingly withheld comment until later, when he learned of the Ford statement. “The demonstration Wednesday against Ford workmen on Ford prop- erty,” the company said, “was staged by newspapers which for the last six months have demanded the produc- tion of a ‘Ford strike story,’ and by the U. A. W, which required some dramatic occurrence to cover up its conspicuous failure to influence Ford employes. Charges Attack on Workmen. “The raiders were accompanied by Government men from Washington, whose utmost efforts for several | months have failed to involve the | Ford Motor Co. in irregularities af- | fecting labor or otherwise. “An attempt was made to attack a peaceable body of Ford workmen, and | it was repelled. “We make this statement reluc- tantly, because in the present state of widely organized misinformation we have little confidence that the facts can be fully understood until events are further unrolled.” Company spokesmen had nothing additional to say in issuing the state- ment last night. The union members injured in the fighting with fists and feet—includ- ing Richard T. Frankenstein, organ- izational director, and Walter Reu- ther, president of the West Side lo- cal—have said that company police, not workmen, pummeled and hurled them down a stairway. Martin Hits “Blackshirts.™ Martin said, “The ‘Blackshirts’ of Dearborn are not going to stop the organization of Ford workers.” The committee directing the campaign, he said, would meet this afternoon. “The attacks upon union repre- sentatives by henchmen of the Ford | Motor Co. is a public admission that the Ford workers want their own unions and that Ford's one last hope of preventing the workers from build- ing their own unions is the use of brute force through paid thugs and mobsters. “The Ford workers have long suffered from many evils,” Martin said, “and it is our opinion that these workers are not going to permit this opportu- nity for freeing themselves from com- pany oppression and autocracy to slip by, nor their rights crushed by the “Blackshirts” of Dearborn, Terms Ford “Dictator.” “Few people will have reason to question who the billionaire is that Ambassador Dodd says wants to force Fascism upon the American people. However, Mr. Ford will find that his embryonic ‘Hitler, Harry Bennett (head of the Ford Co. guards), is a poor substitute for democracy and reason. “We will not stop until every Ford worker in America has been given the right, free of coerclon and intimida- tion, to join the United Automobile Workers of America.” 100 Protest Loss of Jobs. BOSTON, May 28 (#).—Approxi- mately 100 union men, who said they were discharged from the Ford Motor Co.’s Somerville plant last night, marched to the Federal Building here today to protest to A. Howard Meyers, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, against loss of their jobs. PILES! Dies Suddenly DR. ALFRED ADLER. Adler (Continued from First Page.) then was promulgating at the Long Island College of Medicine. His system, he explained, - holds that America’s vast number of neu- rotics and growing numbers of crim- inals all arise from & common cause— lack of soclal interest with or with- out activity. MADE OWN DISCOVERIES. Adler’s Theories Drew Attention in U. S.—Founded Magazine. VIENNA, May 28 (#).—Prof. Alfred Adler, who died today in Scotland, was known to his native Vienna as a pupil of Freud, who broke away from his master to do independent pio- | neering in psychology and psycho- analysis. The so-called Adler “school speculation research” attracted a wide following, so much so in the Tnited States that in recent years Prof. Adler spent half of his time there, holding a professorship at Long Island Medical College. During his annual half year in Vienna, he lectured at the city's edu- cational institute and directed clinics dealing with child education problems. He founded an Austrian psycho- logical magazine in 1935 and gave it an English-language companion by establishing tre International Journal of Individual Psychology in Chicago. He was the author of a dozen vol- umes in which he attempted a psy- chological explanation of all human behavior ranging from abnormality to religion. He was born February 7, 1870, and | is survived by two sons and two daughters. Intellectual sparks have been flying in a Freud-Adler feud since 1905, amusing and often puzzling Vienna. It started when Adler advanced a contention that a physical defect, such as & diseased organ, has a bear- ing on the mind and explains pecu- liarities of conduct. Debate became sharper when Adler placed great stress on the “Inferority complex” as controlling behavior. The Freudian school conceded there was some merit in both contentions, but dismissed them as relatively unim- portant. AUDIPHONE Bone or Alr Sondustion DEMONSTRATION OPTICAL DEPARTMENT Jewelers, Platinememiths, Stationers A. KANN INC. Arthur . Suadlun, President 45 Years at 935 F S, of | VAST OIL STRIKE BEGUN IN MEXICO Walkout May Paralyze Gas- oline Transportation " Over Nation. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 28.—Cheering workers nailed red and black strike flags to doors of offices, refineries and storage depots of Mexico's $400,000,000 oil industry today, launching a walk- out that may paralyze gasoline and oil powered transportation throughout the Nation. Seventeen companies, many of them foreign controlled, and 18,000 workers were affected by the strike to enforce demands for a shorter work- ing week, higher wages and a blanket labor contract for the industry. The companies planned an appeal | to President Lazaro Cardenas to in- tervene—a plea they delaved until the | movement actually started—at the | same time asking the Federal Con- ciliation and Arbitration Board to out- | law the strike and order the men back | | to work, Police Held Ready. Police and federal troops deployed | | throughout the far-flung petroleum kingdom to prevent violence while negotiators, tired after days of dead- | locked argument, despaired over pros- pects of settlement. All observers agreed that the strike, if long extended, perhaps would dis- astrously disturb the national economy. They listed these likely results: Paralysis in five days to two weeks of most of Mexico's 100,000 gasoline- powered machines. Probable curtailment in the next few days of freight traffic over the Mexican national railwa; which use 18,000 barrels of petroleum products | daily, and final stoppage of all traf- | fic after their supply of fuel gives out It was said the supply now would last from two weeks to one month. Restriction of Shipping. Restriction of coastwise oil-burning shipping. Possible curtailment of electrical power, since most power companies use oil, and halting of operations of countless oil-consuming factories. Loss to the government of oil-tax Trevenue estimated at 200,000 to 300,000 pesos ($55,000 to $83,000) daily. Sharp reduction of tourist travel, in- conveniencing, if not stranding, an es- timated 1,000 United States visitors here in 300 automobiles, PERUVIAN ENVOY DIES Dr. Victor M. Maurtua Was on Law Commission Here. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 28 (P).— The death of Dr..Victor M. Maurtua, Peruvian Ambassador to Brazil and || veteran diplomat, aboard the liner | Northern Prince en route here from | |/ New York, was announced yesterday by the Peruvian Embassy. He was 71 years old. He had been in the United States as a member of the Pan-American Inter- national Law Commission, which be- gan its work of codifying international MAY 28, 1937. WEATHER PROPHET, 68, Envy of all the beauties who will attend the June week ex- ercises is Miss Janet Cunneen, 19, of 3901 Connecticut avenue, who has been selected as color girl of the midshipmen regi. ment. —Harris-Ewing Photo. BAKER REPORTED OUT OF DANGER NOW 1 EAT HOT DOGS Upset Stomach Goes n Jiffy with Bell-ans DEAD AT RILEYVILLE Srecial Dispatch to The Star. RILEYVILLE, Va, May 27.—Fu- neral services will be held at Riley- ville tomorrow for Willlam J. Wood, 68, Shenandoah Valley weather prog- nosticator for more than 40 years, who died on Thursday at Rockingham Memorial Hospital after a short 1liness. Mr. Wood wrote regular weather notes for the local newspaper, they appeared under his picture. His weather forecasts rarely failed, Mr. Wood was a veteran of the Spanish-American War. He was the son of George Wood, descendant of an early valley settler. He is survived by one brother, James Wood of Rileyville. + LAWYERS’ BRIEFS COMMERCIAL PRINTING ADVERTISING SERVICE BYRON S. ADAMS I Newwr Duggoene QERILES Here’s Your Chance to save real money—to cut coal costs. Today’s low Summer Prices on Marlow’s Famous Reading Anthracite means more money in your pocket next Winter. Clean, dustless coal with careful, efficient delivery service. Call NA. 0311 NOW. 79 Years of Good Coal Service Marlow Coal Co. 811 E St. N.W. National 0311 Cutter With Medical Aid Reaches Banker’s Yacht 270 Miles at Sea. B the Assoclated Press, ABOARD CUTTER TANEY IN MID-PACIFIC, May 28.—George F. Baker, one of the world's wealthiest men, was reported out of immediate danger today after a virtual floating hospital reached the New York bank- er's yacht in mid-Pacific. Dr. D. J. Zaugg of the United States Public Health Service boarded the | vacht Viking at 3:52 am. (9:22 a.m.‘ Eastern standard time) after a race to bring emergency aid to Baker, dur- | ing which the cutter Taney was out- fitted with hospital equipment. Dr. Zaugg reported no immediate lood transfusion was necessary to | save the 59-year-old banker from peritonitis. No Transfer Attempted. He said no attempt would be made | to transfer the chairman of the First- National Bank of New York from his yacht to the cutter. Dr. Zaugg will remain aboard the yacht during a 270-mile dash to Hono- lulu. The cutter will convoy the )achtl into port. Flashing searchlights of the Viking | led the Taney to the yacht's side early | | this morning, ending the speedy mercy | dash. Dr. Zaugg and available medi- cal supplies were lowered to a small boat and five minutes later he was at Baker's bedside aboard the yacht. Calm seas and bright moonlight | | facilitated the transfer. The Viking appealed for aid yester- day after Baker had undergone an emergency operation performed by Dr. W. B. Clarke of the Canadian Pacific liner Niagara, which hove to in an- swer to the Viking's plea for aid. Plane Overtakes Cutter. 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