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A—2 #» NING STAR, WASHINGTON, WAGE BARGAINING URGED BY A F. L Amendment to Bill Would Take Minimums Out of Board Control. BACKGROUND— Declaring foes mistook at- tempts at conciliation and nego- tiation for weakness, William Green, president of A. F. of L, summoned the federation’s leaders to Cincinnati to chart a vigorous campaign against C. I. O. and John L. Lewis. Aides to Green hinted a amall levy on members would pro- vide a huge war chest. By the Assoctated Press. CINCINNATI, May 29.~Amend- ment of the administration wage and hour bill to set minimum wages and maximum hours by collective bar- gaining was urged today by the Amer- ican Federation of Labor's Executive Council. The bill, as it stands, would set up a Federal board to fix minimum wages and maximum hours for interstate industries where wage and hours were sub-standard. The federation would require the board to accept wage and hour sched- ules fixed by collective bargaining in any of these industries as the stand- ard for the entire industry. Saying that the federation opposed the bill as it was introduced, William Green predicted Congress would ac- cept this amendment. Fear Setting of Maximum. Traditionally, the federation has | opposed minimum wage legislation for men. In the past, federation leaders maintained that the right to fix minimum wages would imply the | right to fix maximums. Federal mini- mum wage standards, they also said, would tend to peg the entire wage structure of the country. The federation amendment, Green | said, would tend to spread collective bargaining. The bill, he pointed out, contains a provision giving the Fed- eral board power to summon employ- ers to testify and to subpocna books and records. Rather than submit to this scrutiny, Green said, many em- ployers would sign union contracts. Some council members, Green added, were doubtful of the wisdom of child labor legislation. They felt, Green gaid, that legislation might block adoption of the child labor amend- ment. Action on this labor legislation fol- lowed the council's admission of the Progressive Miners of America to A. F. of L. membership. Council mem- bers regarded this as their first heavy blast at John L. Lewis in their war egainst his Committee for Industrial Organization. The Progressives are rivals of Lewis' own United Mine Workers in Illinois. Will Accept Outside Members. Both Green and Joe Ozanic, Pro- gressive president, emphasized that the Progressives did not intend to fight Lewis just now except in Illinois, but that they would be willing to ac- cept miners dissatisfied with the U. M. W. in any soft coal fields. Green, an officer in the United Mine ‘Workers for more than 30 years and still a member of the 17-member Morgan-run local at Coshocton, Ohio, refused to say whether he would leave the U. M. W. and join the Progressives. He said the Illinois Federation of Labor would be required to accept the Progressives as & member, despite the State federation officers’ protest | against their admission. | Lewis, in Washington, refused to eomment immediately on the coun- | cil's action. DR. SARGA’S DUEL BRINGS JAIL TERM Rival Fined $19.70 for Share in Honor Battle—Fight Went Seven Rounds. By the Assoclated Press. BUDAPEST, Hungary, May 20.—| Dr. Franz Sarga, who frequently fights duels because he feels his wife's honor has been besmirched, got himself into Jail yesterday because of one of his encounters. He was sent to prison for two months for a duel in February with George De Vasony, a 25-year-old civil servant. De Vasony was fined 100 pongoes (about $19.70). The two met on a bus one day and | De Vasony said “‘Hello.” Dr. Sarga thundered back: “I a cept greetings only from gentlemen. Then they sent seconds to arrange things. For five hours of their battle nothing much happened. In the sixth round De Vasony slipped just as Sarga | rushed him, and the doctor's blade | &cratched his head. They would not quit, despite the Insistence of watchers. In the rext round De Vasony received a 3-inch forehead wound. Seven rounds later seconds stopped the affair because De Vasony was exhausted. When he heard the sentence today he appealed; but so did the prosecu- tion, declaring his conviction for duel- ing should bring a stiffer penalty. MAN WITH LONG RECORD SAWS WAY TO FREEDOM Johnny Sowell, Wanted in Four States, Escapes From Ala- bama Jail. E5 the Associated Press. DOTHAN, Ala, May 29—A man listed as Johnny Sowell and described by Sheriff Alex May as “wanted all over the country,” sawed his way to freedom from Houston County Jail here yesterday. Sowell was held here on four charges of burglary, some of them allegedly committed in occupied resi- dendes at night—an offense punish- able death under Alabama law. His lo§t, officers said. usually was silverwiire and jewelry. Shefiff May said Sowell was wanted for vurglary in Montgomery County, Ala., and had records of jail breaks in Norfolk, Va.; Marianna, Fla., and Lufkin, Tex. — Favor Labor Law. BOSTON, May 29 (#).—By a vote of 29 to 8 the Massachusetts Senate last night favored enactment of a “baby” Wagner labor relations law. The measure was passed by the House of Representatives earlier. Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. LARGESSE. NTO one of those small, musty drinking places on the shabby side of town came an old lady, well past a dubious prime, carry- ing a Dbasket of faded flowers on one arm. With the other hand she clutched her coat about her throat as if rehearsing for the role of a dreg in a Hollywood drama about the sordid side of life. She looked about the place, spotted booths where the customers were lap- ping their beer and skittles, and started to canvass the line. She had not made it to the first cubby hole be- fore the proprietor of the place, who is also his own bartender and waiter, slipped from behind the bar and took her gently by the arm, started to steer her toward the door. As he passed the cash register he leaned over to ask her a question, halted, punched a lever and rang up “No Sale.” Then he took out a dime and a nickle and started to hand them to her. On second thought, he put the dime back, scraped out 10 pennies in- stead, counted them carefully into the vendor’s outstretched hand, capped the little column of coppers with a crown of silver. The old lady in turn laid her flowers on the bar, while the fellow beamed at her, and she smiled back a wispy smile. Then she turned, walked briskly to 8 booth and sat down. The proprietor frowned at her, speechless. “I'm a customer now,” she said, firmly. “I think I'd like a beer.” The bartender went dazedly about his business, set the brimming glass in front of her. She reached in her coat pocket, pulled out the 10 pennies, carefully counted them out into his hand, and settled down to sipping. The man with the pennies sidled back to his post behind the bar, drew one off the tap for himself, stood lean- ing on his elbows, glaring and shaking his head from side to side. * % % X% CORRECTION. One of our correspondents, who spends his spare time racing around musty old libraries from one dictionary to another, pens a cutting little note to advise us that if we insist upon making fun of a fellow for writing “dipththeria” we'd better learn it ourselves. He says we offered the corrected version as “diptheria” (we don't believe a word of this, but what time have we to go around hiring lawyers and building up a defense against a bookworm?), whereas the dictionaries agree the proper spell- ing is “diphtheria.” O. k. Next chapter will be about mizzles. * ok % X DECORATIONS. ON ‘THE theory that every cloud should have a silver lining, no doubt, the cell block in No. 2 police precinct has been coated with alum- inum paint. * Kk ¥ % PROGRESS NOTE. Because checkers and chess men were forever falling all over the place in rough weather, some of the airplane companies have had their checker and chess boards magnetized, the tokens flzed up with a little metal inside. Haven't heard what, if anything, has been done about games requir- ing the use of dice. * %k x MISFIRES. ONE of the chief hazards of writing this column every day (we out- lined a lot of the phobias and sprains in an essay the other day, but didn't cover them all, never you fear), is that those helpful fellows, the contributors, will have sudden or prolonged re- lapses. Spring fever, hot and cold Tunning temperatures, hangovers, fin- gers mangled in trying to work a typewriter—all these are threats to our peace of mind, all are quite without our control. We can only observe the major trends. Stories about robins run by the dozen. Hangovers, or something very much akin, seem to show up in the Department of Ideas in the week after paydays. Nervous, jerky little items arrive in droves when people are waiting for the pay cheque, or Summer vacation, or in the dentist's office. After such affairs as that Texas school tragedy or the Hinden- berg, everybody just shuts up. Deathly silence. Then comes a week like the last one. - Heavy mail every morning, not much in it. Fellow wants to tell us that he knew a considerats husband out in Chevy Chase who has sent back & lawn mower because it was too heavy for his wife to push. Another is perturbed because he has noted a bus without & sign racing around the Treasury Department. Is it going somewhere and forgot to say, or is it headed for Erewhon? An investigator into the private lives of semi-public figures says the night watchman at Lincoln Memorial saw his two best, most beautiful views of Washington at dawn and on a moonlight night. (Anybody disagree?) Also, there is a large flaming torch hammered out of copper perching atop the Library of Congress. - (Goody, goody.) A lady who hates to hear radios while riding in a taxicab started to get into s cab downtown the other day and said to the driver, “Would you Congress in Brief Pplease turn off that radio?” He said, “No,” and he didn't, either. Neither did she ride in the cab. One of our roving reporters heard & little girl ask her mother in the Su- preme Court Bullding if s alightly L] For days Gen. Francisco Franco’s insurgent artillery has poured a stream of death into Madrid. This picture shows a shell bursting in the Gran Via, rocking buildings and tearing a great hole in the pavement as a cloud of smoke D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1937. ireet | FORD ANNDUNCES rolls up, a pall of death for two boys who scurried across the street just as the shell hit. Note man and woman running for cover in the lower lefthand corner. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. INSURGENTS'PLOT REPORTED BALKED Attempt to Seize Island of | Minorca Frustrated, Loyalists Say. BACKGROUND— Efforts to prevent Spanish civil conflict from embroiling all Europe are considered to face one of most Serious obstacles in air raids, which have been featured mode of attack in recent weeks. On several occasions during bombing raids ships and citizens of non-combatant nations have been struck and sharp protests to Spanish faction involved have followed. B2 the Associated Press. BARCELONA, May 29.—Govern- ment authorities said today they had | frustrated an insurgent plot to seize | the Island of Minorca with the aid of | 3,000 troops from neighboring Mal- lorca, allegedly the base for insurgent aerial attacks on Spain's eastern coast. The coastal City of Valencia, tem- porary capital of the Spanish govern- ment, meanwhile counted 200 dead | after yesterday's dawn air raid that | laid waste to sections of the crowed | city and spread terror among the in- | habitants. The plot to add Minorca to the in- surgent territory was aided by a band | of 13 Minorean Fascists, government authorities said. The leader was re- ported to have committed suicide | when the others were arrested. | They were said to have prepared to aid the landing of Italian troops from Mallorca. Ninety Bombs Released. In the Valencia raid more than 90 bombs were rained from the attacking planes, which observers said were of Italian manufacture. ‘The merchant ship Cabin, flying the British flag, was struck in Valencia Harbor and six members of the crew were killed and eight injured. The British freighter Pinzon also was struck, but the projectile failed to ex- plode. The British Embassy declared the Pinzon was “the only British ship” damaged, lending mystery to the reg- istry of the Cabin. More than 50 buildings were dam- aged in the raid, including a plainly marked Red Cross Hospital. . Raid Called “Diabolical.” Among the American witnesses of the Valencia attack was Socialist Norman Thomas, who described the raid as “diabolical.” He said he would make a first-hand report to President Roosevelt and urge him to take a firmer stand against the Italo-German “war against Spanish women and children.” Thomas, with his wife and other Americans, was visiting in the tem- porary Spanish capital. STUDENT HURT IN BLAST Retreat Before Fumes Prevent More Seriows Injury. Miss Goldie Goldbery, 37, special student at Howard University, was burned yesterday when a solution con- taining sulphuric acid exploded in the university chemical laboratory. Fumes from the solution first drove her away, saving her from more serious injury. She was treated at Garfield Hos- pital for burns, which were not: con- sidered serious. She lives at 5823 Potomac avenue. From Bonds to Butler. ST. LOUIS, May 29 (#).—The fol- lowing advertisement appeared on the financial page of a St. Louis paper (Globe-Democrat) : “Former market analyst and invest- ment counsel would like job in pri- vate family as chauffeur and butler. Will also do laundry and look after children.” rocky looking old colored attendant ‘were “one of the nine old men.” Ah, me. Our fast and clever friends could do no better than that assort- ment for a couple of days. But what the heck. In the same time we wrote three pieces for the column and then flatly refused to read them, much less Use ’'em, on the grounds they were not worth the time of any self-respect- ing editos, , Beer Duke Brewed To Be Sold to Aid British Air Force Br the Associated Press. LONDON, May 29.—A bottle of beer brewed by the Duke of Windsor when he was Prince of Wales in 1922 was dropped by parachute today from a royal air force plane in an observance of empire air day. The beer, as “provender for troops,” figured in a public dis- play of army co-operation at Hortholt airdrome. The bottle, tied with red, white and blue ribbon, was to be sold later at auction to benefit royal air force benevolence funds. POLICEMEN FACING GUN-PLAY CHARGE Two Are Suspended After| School Officials Report Pupils Endangered. Suspended from duty after school | officials complained that a police bullet | crashed through a school window into | 8 class room filled with children, | Traffic Policemen Robert E. Lee and Horace E. Caranfha will be arraigned next week before the Police Trial Board on three charges, Inspector L. I. H. Edwards announced today. | According to Inspector B. A. Lamb, ! the policemen overtook a stolen car occupied by a man, a woman and a| boy, and escorted it to a patrol box | at Second and D streets southwest, near the Bell School. | While the officers were telephoning | for a patrol van, Inspector Lamb said, | the driver of the car started away | suddenly. According to Lamb, both officers said they opened fire at the tires on the car. One of the bullets crashed through the school window and burrowed into a wall above the | heads of the children. After a chase of several blocks the driver of the stolen car drove into | an alley and fled on foot, leaving the | man and the woman behind. The policemen were suspended yes- terday, Inspector Edwards said, fol- lowing an investigation of the shoot- | ing, which allegedly occurred on the afternoon of May 4. Departmental charges of failure to make a report of the shooting, endangering the lives of citizens and making false state- ments to a superior officer have been lodged against the officers, Inspector Edwards said. Inspector Edwards said the first he knew of the shooting was when Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou com- plained. He pointed out that po- licemen are required to make a com- plete report whenever they fire their guns. R THREE KILLED, FOUR HURT IN EXPLOSION | Pressure Drill Strikes Dynamite in Lincoln Tunnel at Wee- hawken, N. J. By the Associated Press. WEEHAWKEN, N. J, May 20— Three men were killed and four in- Jured, one critically, yesterday by a dynamite explosion while at work cop~ structing the second bore of the Lin- coln Tunnel. The blast occurred 40 feet below the surface of the ground. The men were drilling rock preparatory to tun- neling under the Hudson River. With the first bore, recently completed, each section of the tunnel was to provide one-way auto traffic under the river between North Jersey and midtown New York. Fellow workmen said the group of seven men caught the full force of the explosion when a pressure drill struck a stick of dynamite. The dead were identified as: Salvatore Ratti, 55, Jersey City; Clarence Hall, colored, New York City, and Joseph Lacey, 34, New York. Elliott Sellus, 58, Brooklyn, who was handling the drill, was removed to North Hudson Hospital in critical i Subcommittee to Give Se ! lief during the coming year. condition. Richard Bruno, 39, New York, was also taken to the Weehaw- ken Hospital. Lester Curtis of Wee- hawken, a job superintendeni, and James Russo, 32, New York, were taken to St. Mary’s Hospital, Hoboken. . AID FUND VIEWS CLASHAT HEARING V- | eral Days to Other Ques- tions Before Action. After hearing conflicting viewpoints on the advisability of raising the un- | employment relief fund for the com- ing fiscal year. the Senate subcom- mittee handling the 1938 District | appropriation bill has taken this and | © all other proposed changes in the measure under advisement until next week. For three hours yesterday after- | noon the subcommittee, presided over ! by Chairman Thomas of Oklahoma, | heard one group of witnesses plead for an additional $1,000,000 to pro- | vide for the familles of employable | persons out of work, while another group opposed increasing the relief | figure above the House bill. The House measure allows $1,411,500. The subcommittee will devote sev- | eral days next week to hearing testi-, mony on other questions before act- Ing on any changes in the bill. Taking the lead in support of a| more adequate relief fund were Rev. | Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, presenting the views of a mass meeting of citi- zens held on April 4; William R. Rob- erts, incoming.president of the Mon- day Evening Club, and the Society of Friends, represented by Mrs. Helen M. P. Betts On the other side of the question | | were the Washington Board of Trade | and the Washington Taxpayers’ Asso- ciation, contending that the relief fund be kept at the House figure.| The trade body was represented by | its secretary, Robert J. Cottrell, and | the taxpayers’ group by Rufus 8. Lusk. Lusk also opposed increasing any other items in the House meas- | ure. Criticizing both the amount of the present relief fund and the standard of work rellef pay, the District Work- ers' Alliance asked for a program | that would call for $5,191,000 for re- | Socialists Ask $3,520,000. The local Socialist party filled a statement recommending $3,520,000 as the minimum amount needed to take care of the unemployment problem. There is some disposition in the | subcommittee to let the rellef item remain substantially at the House figure on the theory that the fiscal year wfll be only half over when Con- gress returns in January, at which time the subject could be reopened. Chairman Thomas emphasized, how- ever, that no decision has been reached. In presenting the report of the citi- zens’ mass meeting, Dr. Stokes was accompanied by William J. Flather, William H. Savin and Maj. Campbell Johnson. The Committee on Unem- ployment was appointed by Coleman Jennings as & result of the mass meeting. Dr. Stokes called atten- tion to the fact the committee in- cluded business and professional men as well as social workers, and that they were united in four objectives, namely: 1. To insist that care of the worthy and needy poor who cannot secure employment is a public responsi- bility. 2. To secure modification in the provisions of the House appropriation bill for the District, which makes no provision whatever for relief for local employables, this situation contrasting with other representative American cities of approximately the same size where there are from 10,000 to 20,000 employable families on relief. 3. To relieve the plight of approxi- mately 3,000 cases of unemployed em- ployables duly certified by the Board of Public Welfare as worthy of aid and representing about 12,000 peo- ple. This will require about one million dollars additional for the coming year. 4. To remove the restriction in the present bill that only 10 per cent of relief money can be used for per- sonnel, which means that there can- not be adequate investigation to pro- tect the applicant and the taxpayer. He showed that relief expenditures in Washington were lower per capita than in most other cities and called attention to Mr. Hopkins’ recent statement that the condition of local unemployed “employables” is “‘shock- ing.” Mr. Stokes said that the suf- fering of the needy unemployed was even greater than the committes thought at the time of the mass meet- ing. He showed the figures, avallable | ened with eviction. | governmental today for the first time, of the study made by the Co-operating Commit- tee of the Council of Social Agencies and the Federation of Churches of the first 1,104 cases thus far analyzed from among 3.100 unduplicated cases applying to public and private agen- cles in the first three months of this vear and rejected because of lack of funds. This study brought out some striking facts regarding the average | families of four persons each: Seventy-eight per cent of them had lived for three years or more in the District. Eighty-eight per cent had insuffi- cient income to meet the minimum needs of life decently. | Fifty-five per cent had one or more in the family unemployed. Sixty per cent had pressing debts | the grocer, the landlord and others. Eight per cent had, in six months, | either been evicted or were threat- Thirty-seven per cent were suffering | from serious illness and a goodly num- ber could not send their children to school because of a lack of decent clothing. Family Service Figures. These figures, he said, were fully substantiated by those of the Famnly; Service Association, which also showed | in a recent survey that 31 per cent of the families applying for relief had no income at all, and that 18 per cent had never applied for pub- lic or private relief to any agency | in Washington before, having reached the end of their rope. Answering objections that have been raised against a larger relief fund, Dr. Stokes spoke in high terms of those in charge of the various relief agencies. Re- garding the contention that an ad- ditional million dollars for relief would add to the tax levy, he said that was probably true, but added this would be economically far sounder than to create human wastage through inattention and to make necessary & large increase in future taxation for institutional care. He suggested that some of the W. P. A. regulations be modified so that men’ would not feel that if they gave | up relief for private jobs they could never return to it. Answering the claim that the costs of relief have been steadily mounting, he said they reached their peak a couple of years ago and that this year they would be about 15 per cent lower. He ap- pealed to the Senate to provide re- lief for employables when they are needy, emphasizing at the same time that everything possible should be done through case workers and em- ployment agencies andebusiness, to| get these men and women into pri- vate industry as soon as possible. Roberts recalled that when Federal | assistance for direct relief was with- drawn in April, 1936, local relief of- ficials withdrew aid from four to five thousand families or individuals who | had been on relief before that time. “In the language of the Citizens’ Committee, of which Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes is chairman,” said Roberts, “these ‘were cases whose need had been verified when funds were avail- able * * * upon them the pressure to reduce relief rolls fell with ter- rific and disastrous results.’ This sit- uation has continued since that time— & period of more than a year.” In presenting the Board of Trade's position, Cottrell cited gains in private and public employment, and also the extent to which expenditures for pub- lic aid of all kinds, including hospital and other institutional care, have mounted in the past decade. From 1934 to 1935, he said, there was a 25 per cent increase in private employ- ment and a 58 per cent gain in the Government, but only a 9 per cent in- crease in population in that period. In the past 10 years, he said, public sid of all kinds has gone up from $2,000,000 to $20,000,000. Lusk made a comparison between Washington and Baltimore. He gave figures showing 4,430 cases on general relief in Baltimore, and 3,808 on gen- eral relief in Washington. In Balti- more, he said, 1.56 per cent of the pop- ulation was on relief, and in Wash- ington 1.83 per cent. He contended that from March to April of this year there was a drop of 1,093 in the num- ber of cases in Baltimore, and that there was an increase of 446 in the number here in that time. The Society of Friends, on the other hand, filed a statement to the effect that relief in Washintgon is below that given in other cities of similar size. This statement set forth, in part: “Baltimore, with smaller number of unemployed in need, gives 86 per cent more relief than Washington; Newark, with twice as many unemployed in need, gives four times as much relief 83 Washington; Buffalo, with four | HONEYMOON TRIP PLANNED BY DUKE Couple Seek Retreat After Rites Thursday—Visit to U. S. Possible. By the Associated Press. MONTS, France, May 29.—The Duke of Windsor completed his honey- moon plans today for a trip “by train and by automobile” to an idyllic re- treat with Wallis Warfleld, who can- | not share his title of “Royal Highness.” This trip will be about 24 hours | from Tours, a spokesman said, but no other details were disclosed. Presum- ably the couple eventualy will proceed to Wasserleonburg Castle in Austria and, even later, may make a world cruise that will take them to the United States The wedding is next Thursday. Efforts to minimize the effect of King George's latters patent, granting “H. R. H" to Edward, but not to his wife or issue, were apparent about the Chateau de Cande todsy. A SLHOUR VEEK Luil-Time Action Leads to Speculation Schedule May Be Continued. BACKGROUND— Successful in organizing eflorts at General Motors and Chrysler factories, union leaders already have encountered many obstacles in campaign at vast Ford plant. Most recent incident was battle of union organizers and groups described variously as Ford worke- ers and as company police. E3 the Associated Press. DETROIT, May 29.—Announce- ment that the Ford Motor Co. will operate on a 32-hour week to com- pensate for a sgeasonal decline in automobile sales caused speculation today whether the schedule might be continued indefinitely. The announcement was made last night by Harry Bennett, personnel director of the company, wnc is in charge of the service department which polices Ford property. He said the new schedule would be followed during June. There have been recurrent unveri- fled reports that the companv con- templated adopting at 30-hour week to spread out employment during the slack season. No Violation of Law. Bennett, in answer to the request of Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea for co-operation in identifying the per- sons who beat and kicked 18 mema- bers of the United Automobile Work- ers of America outside the Rouge plant Wednesday, said “so far as the Ford Motor Co. is concerred there have been no violations of the law and will not be.” “If McCrea wants to conduct his office seriously and in full accord with the law,” Bennett said, “he will direct his efforts to determining the extent the U. A. W. A. violated the law in trespassing on private property and in stirring up trouble among Ford workers. “We did not stop the U. A. W. A. men. They stopped themselves by going on Ford property and taunting Ford employes. They had a permit to distribute the leaflets and we have no concern with what they do with them, providing they do not trespass.” Bennett said approximately 60,000 of the 89,300 workers at the Rouge plant in suburban Dearborn have handed in “pledges of loyalty” to Ford. He added that they were unsolicited. Offer. to Identify Rioters, Martin Paulsmo. an assistant prose- cutor, said several company employes have offered to identify persons in pictures of the riot if their own names would be kept secret. Machinery at the huge plant stood | idle for a Memorial day holiday that will last through Monday. Union officials engaged in & drive to organize the plants 90,000 workers took advan= tage of the shutdown to sign up new members and plan a mass meeting and handbill campaign for next week. Homer Martin, union president, said | this week's violence outside the Ford \pllnb was speeding up the member- | ship campaign, adding “hundreds” were signing up daily. “Nearly all” the Ford employes shown in news pictures of the fight with union organizers, Martin asserted, have been identified as company pa- | trolmen. | A.F. OF L. JOINS STRIKE. Duke “Sleeping Well.” The spokesman insisted the duke was not displaying anger and was “sleeping well,” although other sources had reported he was in a rage and “ready to fight” his brother’s decree. Mrs. Warfleld completed the fitting of her large trousseau and had a manicure and a pedicure. How the dark-haired Mrs. Warfleld took the decision was not disclosed, but it was reliably said that “H. R. H.” and coronets had been embroid- ered on some articles of her elabo- rate trousseau. Under the decree of George VI, who December, Mrs. Warfleld's marriage would make her simply the Duchess | of Windsor—not “her royal highness, the Duchess of Windsor"—and would | move her many steps down from the | soeial position she had expected. Desires Brother’s Presence. The duke's associates said he still desired that a semblance of official recognition be accorded his marriage | by the presence of his youngest, | favorite brother, the Duke of Kent, at the wedding. They explained that hope for this lay in Neville Chamberlain's rise Saturday to the British premiership, succeeding Staney Baldwin, with a possible modification of Baldwin's isolation” policy toward the erstwhile ruler. If Chamberlain would not agree to this, it was thought he might approve such a trip by Edward's sister, Mary, the princess royal. Meanwhile, Monts police, assisted by Mayor Charles Mercier, who will perform the marriage ceremony, be- gan final plans for protecting the duke and duchess-to-be from what they expected to be a throng of “several thousand tourists” on the wedding day. ‘The authorities had one report that an excursion train was being organ- ized at Biarritz. times the need, gives seven times the relief. “Washington gives no relief for em- ployables. Other cities give relief for both employables and unemployables in need. Examples: Employable fam- ilies receiving relief in December, Boston, 10,848; Cincinnati, 8,124; Cleveland, 17,867. “Less relief given per family in ‘Washington than in other large cities. In Washington relief averages about $27 per month per family. In eight other large cities relief averages from $30 to $39.” Mrs. Betts also gave detailed fig- ures on the extent of illness, indebt- edness and shortage of clothing among needy families, as well as over- crowded housing conditions. Her statement likewise included descrip- tions of conditions in a number of typical cases of needy families. Leifur Magnusson, chairman of the Advisory Committee to the public as- sistance division on old-age pensions, requested the Senate subcommittee to add $180,000 to the appropriation for the District’s share of old-age assist- ance payments, because of indica- tions that at least 1,000 more recip- jents will be added to the old-age roster during the coming fiscal year. He said there are 2,373 now on the old-age roll and 1,179 applications awaiting actiop. | succeeded Edward to the throne last | Seeks to Take Leadership From C. 1. 0. in Ford Walkout. | RICHMOND, calif., May 29 (P)— | The American Federation of Labor | fought today to take from the C. I. O. | the leadership of striking workers of | the Ford Motor Co. assembly plant | at Richmond, promising to put strikers | “back to work” at $8 for an eight- | hour day. | Four days ago the walkout, affect- ing 1.800 men, was called by the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica, a C. I. O. union. Among the | U. A. W. demands was one of $8 for a six-hour day. | _Two maritime federations of the Pacific unions gave their support to | the strikers. Longshoremen refused to load 42 Ford cars onto a Seattle- bound ship. Seamen threatened to cut off the steam if efforts were made to load the automobile cargo in de- flance of the longshoremen. Two A. F. of L. spokesmen tried at |8 mass meeting of about 300 Ford | plant workers last night to capture | the leadership of the strikers. A.F.L.IS VICTORIOUS IN MARINE SKIRMISH C. I 0. Telegraphists’ Group Fails to Force Dismissal of Ship Radioman. Bs the Associated Press. NEW YORK. May 29 —The fight tween the American Federation of Labor and the Committee on Indus- | trial Organization for control of New York's vast waterfront cropped up anew yesterday with a minor victory for the A. F. of L. The trouble, which was quickly settled, started when the American Radio Telegraphists’ Association tried to force the dismissal of a radio oper- ator on the Munson liner Munargo, scheduled to sail today for Nassau. ‘The operator is & member of the Com- mercial Telegraphers’ Union of the A F.of L. Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen's Asso- ciation, notified the line immediately that he would refuse to permit long- shoremen to load the Munargo if the operator were dismissed. The operator stayed and Ryan called the settlement the first victory of the newly created Maritime Transportation Department of the A. F. of L. Even while the dispute was going on, Joseph Curran, organizer of the National Maritime Union, a C. L. O. affiliate, was accusing officials of the International Seamen's Union of hav- ing “sold out” to the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Steamship Lines. CELEBRATION PLANNED The Deanwood Citizens’ Association tomorrow will celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of its founding and the tenth anniversary of the presidency of Patrick Tolliver. 4909 Sheriff road northeast. The function wil take place at Zion Baptist Church, Forty-third street and Sheriff road nertheast, at 3:30 p.m. Charles M. Thomas of Armstrong High 8chool will speak on problems of city life, and & special musical program will be presented., 4 y