Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER, . (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy with local thundershow- ers tonight and tomorrow; change in temperature. winds. Temperatures today—Highest, 83, at noon; lowest, 69, at 5 Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 12 85th YEAR. No. 34,003. not much ; gentle south :30 am, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, SATURDAY, 5, JUNE 1937—FORTY-TWO PAGES. ¢ Foening Star ¥ % The only evening in Washington wit aper the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 138,933 (8ome returns not vet received.) (P Means Associated Pri TWO CENTS. KEENE MYSTERY SHIFTS 10 QUL OF BUSINESS Latest “Witness” in Slaying Case Declared to Have Offered Information. STRANGE “CONFERENCE” IN STATE ROOM BARED | James H. Starkey, Fellow-Pas- senger, Relates Conversation He Had on Deck of Boat. BACKGROUND— Vanishing May 14 jrom his cabin on the steamer District of Columbia, Norfolk-bound, Charles F. Keene, sr., 63-year-old Wash- ington real estate man, was found dead in Chesapeake Bay off Smith’s Island Moaday. He had been shot in the throat and a weighted brief case was tied to his body. Coro- ner's jury returned a verdict of murder, but police still are investi- pating possibility of suicide. Desperately seeking information which may throw light on a mysterious conference held in his state room by Pharles F. Keene, sr, only a few hours before his body plunged into Chesapeake Bay with a bullett through the brain and a weighted brief case sround his neck. detectives today planned to question a “prominent business man.” Investigators learned of the state room conference yesterday from James H. Starkey, 53, a civil engineer with | the Resettlement Administration, after he was identified as the mysterious “red-faced man” who treated Keene fo a bottle of beer shortly before he died. ‘The “prominent business man” en- tered the baffling case, Inspector B. F. Thompson, chief of detectives, re- | vealed, when he wrote a letter to police | headquarters yesterday offering to di- | vulge information which he thought | might be helpful in solving the mys- | tery. Thompson said the business man | would be questioned about Keene's | financial activities. News Vendor Seught. Detectives also are continuing their search for a news vendor at Union | Btation who is supposed to have be- | come suspicious over the nervous ac- | tions of & mém who ordered 12 coples of a newspaper containing a story of the finding of Keene's body. Meanwhile, Detective Sergt. Marlin | Brubaker of the Maryland State police | was in Baltimore compiling & report on the mystery for submission to | SBtate'’s Attorney Kirke Maddrix at | Crisfield, Md. “All I can say is that nothing in- dictable has been found,” Brubaker told reporters in Baltimore. Starkey's revelation that Keene held & conference with some unknown per- son in his state room stood out today as the most puzzling clue in the | mystery. After he had been missing on the boat for a few hours, Starkey | told police, Keene told him “I've been | in my state room talking over a deal.” | Insurance Policy Void. Another angle, confusing to pro- ponents of both the suicide and murder theories in the mystery, was uncovered ‘when it was learned that Keene's only dnsurance policy would have been void if he met with foul play or ended his own life. | The $1,500 travelers’ accident insur- | ance policy covered only accidental death on a boat, train or other public transportation conveyance, it was said. Starkey told police*he was surprised to find Keene, a friend of 26 years' standing, on the District of Columbia They chatted until the boat reached | Alexandria, Starkey said, and then he | went to dinner. Keene declined an in- | vitation to be his guest. After dinner | Btarkey said he wandered around the | boat for hours, but did not see Keene. | Finally they met in the salon, and | XKeene explained he had been in his state room Who could have been in the state- | room with Keene puzzled investigators | almost as much as the nature of the deal he intended to transact in Norfolk Fail to Locate Client, 1 Keene told his family and Starkey | that he intended to see a client in Norfolk to arrange for the sale of | some waterfront property belwecn‘v Ocean View and Virgigia Beach. But investigators have been unable to find one in Norfolk who had an (See KEENE, Page A-3.) | FIRE ON TNT SHIP HELD ONLY SMOKE Smoke Coming From Hold of Army Transport Came From Chemical Bomb. B the Associated Press COLON, Panama, June 5-—Smoke pouring from a hold crammed with 690 tons of explosives aboard the United States Army transport Luding- | ton was smothered today, shortly after the ship reached port with an uneasy crew of 63 men. The smok~ first was noticed Thurs- day, coming from No. 5 hatch A platoon of firemen, a board of in- | #pectors, canal chemists and Army investigating comimttee followed the Ludington today to an isolated ex- plosion anchorage in Limon Bay. When they returned Col. Sherburne ‘Whipple said the smoke probably came ¢rom a chemical bomb and that there ‘was no fire at all. Cristobal firemen danced the can- can on the pier to celebrate the news there was no danger. The Ludington will come alongside the Navy pier at Coco-Solo, unload | her cargo of hand grenades and TNT and proceed to California. | strike probably would end by night- | | fall. | County Court House and of a renewal | Newberry | strikers were returning. Nine hundred | “singing Congressman,” OLLOWING is the statement of James H. Starkey, made to the Metropolitan Police relative to the death of Charles F. Keene, who disappeared Jrom the steamboat District of Columbia while en route Washington to Norfolk, Va.: “I have known Charles F. Keene | for a matter of years and on the evening of May 13, 1937, I boarded the Norfolk-Washington Steamboat | Co.'s steamer District of Columbia to | make a trip to Old Point Comfort, | Va, traveling on official Government | business. I arrived at the boat only a few minutes before departure and proceeded at once to the purser’s office to arrange transportation and a | state room, inasmuch as I had not had an opportunity or time to arrange | the same earlier in the day. Told Choice of State Rooms Was Limited. “Upon request of the purser for a state room I was told that, much to | his regret, the only thing he had available was a $2.25 room on the gallery deck. I reminded him that | my Government travel allowance only permitted me to pay $1.75, and if I was obliged to pay $2.25, the extra 50 | cents would come out of my own pocket. “He suggested that I take the room available and If after the boat left | Alexandria, Va., there were any | i | from | | [ ’ Starkey Police Statement @ | which, as I recall, was No. 122, which JAMES H. STARKEY. 3UL.S. MADE PLANES REPORTED DOWNED IN SPANISH BATTLE Rebels Claim Air Victory in “Dog Fight” With Gov- ernment Flyers. MOLA KILLED BY BOMB, LATEST RUMORS SAY Speculate Over Death of General. Heavy Artillery Offensive Is Launched by Insurgents. reservations canceled and he could move me to & room costing $1.75 on the main deck he would do so. He thereupon issued me a ticket and gave me a key to the state room, was located on the right-hand side of the boat on the upper gallery, just (See STARKEY, Page A-3.) LUMBER STRIKE END IS FORECAST Michigan Deputy Labor Commissioner Sees Settle- ment by Night. BACKGROUND— Demanding minimum wage of 55 cents an hour and single beds and shower baths in camps, Timber Workers and Sawmill Workers’ Union, affiliate of A. F. of L., called | strike in Northern Michigan on | May 24. First violence broke out vesterday in Newberry, in which one man died and police repulsed march of strikers on relief offices. By the Associated Press. MUNISING, Mich., June 5—Two hours after the chairman of a lum- berjacks’ strike committee was ar- rested on a charge of inciting to riot, | Deputy State Labor Commissioner Joseph Ashmore announced today the | Ashmore said representatives of the sawmill and lumber workers' union had agreed on his proposal that the | | estate, in equal shares to the Laura 6,000 strikers return to their Upper Peninsula timber camps pending ne- | gotiations with operators on wage and hour demands. | The deputy commissioner said union leaders promised they would call a general meeting of the strikers at 2 p.m. for a vote on the recommenda- | tion that they return to work. Allays Fears of Rioting. The announcement allayed fears of a march by the strikers on the Alger of rioting at the Newberry Lumber | & Chemical Co. plant, where one | striker fell dead of exhaustion during a fight yesterday. | A dozen State police, with riot equipment, were on guard here. | Two State policemen arrested Joe | Liss, chairman of the Strike Commit- | tee, on a Munising street at 9 a.m. to- | day. A warrant issued by a justice of the peace charges him with conspiracy to incite a riot. Also in custody was | Liss' lieutenant, David Le Clair, who | caliled himself “Double Breasted Joe" as he led groups of strikers in raids to close lumber camps throughout the upper peninsula. There was no formal charge against Le Clair, Advised to Leave Town. While Liss was being taken to jail in & State police automobile, Henry Paull of Duluth, attorney for the union, appeared at the office of the Jjustice who issued the warrant. Sher- iff Louis Pelletier and Prosecutor Richard E. O'Brien refused him ad- mittance and advised him to leave | town. | The same advice was given to Luke Raik, president of the Ironwood local | to which the strikers belong. Paull and Raik, with little argument, en- | tered Paull’s automobile and drove out of town. They were escorted to the town limits by deputies. The strikers threatening an attack on the court house here demanded | assurance from State authorities that their families would be cared for while their strike was in progress. Other State police were on guard at against any attempt by strikers to carry out a threat to “take the town apart.” in retaliation for the | defeat they suffered in yesterday's clash with non-union men ‘Townspeople at Newberry waited alertly for the shrilling of the fire siren, the pre-arranged signal that the | said local thundershowers may be ex- ROCKEFELLER WILL FILED FOR PROBATE Estate Is Estimated to Be Worth $25,000,000—Codi- cil Changes Original. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 5— John D. Rockefeller's will, disposing of an estate estimated to be worth $25.000,000, was filed today in Surro- gate's Court, Westchester County. The will was dated June 2, 1925, and ap- | pended to it were three codicils. These were dated May 14, 1930; | November 4, 1932, and October 3. 1934, and the last made a radical | change in the disposition of the | estate. Under the original will, the capi- talist and philanthropist, who died May 23 at his Ormond, Fla, home, | after disposing of his personal and | household effects, left ihe residuary | Spelman Rockefeller Memorial his son, John D. Rockefeller, jr. Third Cedicil Makes Change. The first two codicils made no spe- | clal changes in the will, By the final codicil, however, the entire residuary estate is left to trus- tees during the life of Rockefeller's granddaughter, Mrs. Margaret Strong de Cuevas of Lakewood, N. J. The trustees, under the codicil, are empowered to pay the income to Mrs. De Cuevas or to one or more of her | descendants or to the Rockefeller In- stitute for Medical Research. Mrs. De Cuevas is the daughter of Rockefeller's daughter, Bessie Rocke- feller Strong, and Prof. Charles Au- gustus S8trong, former professor of psychology at the University of Chi- cago. Mrs. Strong died November | 14, 1906. Dr. Strong lives in Fiesole, Italy. Mrs. De Cuevas has two children, | Elizabeth De Cuevas and John De | Cuevas. She was married August 3, 1927, and | Trust to Be Divided. Under the codicil the trust fund, upon the death of Mrs. De Cuevas, | to be divided among her children and the decendants of any deceased | children, each beneficiary to receive | his or her share outright, except that the share of any child of Mrs. De Cuevas, born during the elder Rocke- feller’s life, is to be continued in trust for the life of the child. Rockefeller, in writing the codicil, set forth his reasons as follows: “I am setting up this trust for the benefit of my granddaughter Mar- garet, and her decendants to the ex- clusion of my other grandchildren and their decendants because when the time came that I felt it wise to place upon my children the responsibility of owning and administering sub- stantial sums and for that purpose made large gifts to or for them, my oldest daughter, Bessie, the mother | (See ROCKEFELLER, Page A-10.) o SIS RAIN IS FORECAST Thundershowers Predicted for To- day and Tomorrow. A rainy week end was forecast today for the District. The Weather Bureau pected tonight and tomorrow. The temperature during the next 24 hours will be about the same &s yes- responded to that alarm morning and drove away 100 strikers. vesterday | 83 degrees. terday, when the mercury climbed to The “low" mark—69— was recorded at 5 a.m. today. “Singing Congressman” Leads Move to Unionize Iron Miners B the Associated Press. | VIRGINIA, Minn,, June 5—The call | sociation, to unionization echoed today over the iron ranges of Northern Minnesota, chief source of raw material for the Nation's steel mills. John T. Bernard, Minnesota's took charge of the Steel Workers' Organizing Com- mittee's campaign to enlist the fron miners of the traditionally rigid “open shop” territory. ‘The Farmer-Labor Congressman, himself a product of the iron ore region, predicted formation of a strong miners’ union among the 12,000 men employed on the Missabe, Cuyuna and | Vermillion ranges. He charged “steel trust baron: have “imported thugs and gunmen” to intimidate workers who want to organize. She previously was refused transit t¥rough the canal and all harbor 't were moved well out of her way. The 8. W, O. C. formally will lJaunch its campaign at a mass meeting here formed Virginia-Eveleth Employes’ As- an “independent” union which scheduled a meeting for the same time. The latter claims the al- legiance from a big majority of em- ployes of the Oliver Iron Mining Co., a United States Steel Corp. subsidiary. Although Unitea States Steel is the dominant corporate figure in the Min- nesota iron fields, the big independent firms involved in the S. W. O. C. steel strike get most of their high-grade hematite ore from the region's open pit and underground mines. Beveral ineffectual attempts to union ize Minnesota’s miners have been made on a small, disorganized scale since the rich bluish-red ore first came out of a mine near Tower, on the Ver- million Range in 1884. The 8. W. O. C. drive comes at a time when mines are operating at normal cap- B) the Associated Press. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, June 5—Five American-made planes (Curtiss) were reported by an insurgent communique today to have been shot down in a “dog fight” with insurgent airmen on the Biscayan front, The headquarters statement gave no further information. ‘The insurgent army of the Spanish North began a heavy artillery offen- sive against Bilbao's “El Gallo” forti- ficatiops, coincident with unconfirmed border reports that the plane crash which killed insurgent Gen. Emilio Mola was caused by & time bomb. Intensive insurgent bombardment of sereval points on the “iron ring” of forts that encircles the regional Basque capital broke a lull that followed the death of Mola and four of his stafl officers in Thursday's plane crash be- tween Burgos and Vitoria. Rumors Without Backing. The “time-bomb"” rumors, which were without any substantial backing, were nevertheless persistent along th; frontier. Apparently they were on reports that Mola's body, #hen found, was badly mangled. T #fs> was said that while the plane was reported to have hit a fog-veiled mountain near the village of Alcocero, there were no high peaks in that vicinity. Other border advices had it that Mola, at the time of his death, had been authorized to preside over a new Basque government as soon as | Bilbao should be taken and thak “1e | left a 500-page account of the origin and early development of the Spanish rebellion. “Terror Against Terror’ Threatened. The Valencia-Madrid government threatened to pit “terror against ter- ror” by launching air raids on in-| surgent-held cities in retaliation for aerial attacks on government strong- holds. - Minister of Defense Indalecio Prieto announced that “in the face of the terrible arm of aviation there is but one recourse—aviation employing the same methods as the adversary, in greater proportion if necessary. “That is to say—terror against ter- ror.” Prieto said the government pre- (See SPANISH, Page A-3) SOVIET SEEKS TO CLOSE REICH-JAPANESE BASES | Consulate Eliminations Fought by Both Nations—Move Linked to Spy Hunt. Bs ihe Associated Press, MOSCOW, June 5. — Diplomatic sources said today the Russian foreign offige has taken steps to close several German and Japanese consulates in the Soviet Union, but has met resist- ance from both governments. Informed persons said they believed the move was linked with the steady hunt for spies and plotters and the frequent press denunciations of the Japanese and German intelligence services for alleged spying and sabo- tage in Russia. Both Japan and Germany were cited at the two “Trotskyist” treason trials, which resulted in the convic- tion and execution of 29 men. At the January trial specific testimony ac- cused German and Japanese attaches in Russia. Summary of Page Page Amusements C-20 | Music ____ B-4 _B-3 | Obituary ___A-10 “B-2 | Radio A9 Ohurch News, | Real Estate, B-5-6-7 | C-1 to 10 Comics C-18-19 | Short Story .B-7 Editorials A-8 | Society A-7 Financial .__A-12 | Sports C-11-12 Lost & Found A-3 ! Woman's Pg. B-8 FOREIGN. 5 U. S.-made planes reported shot down by Spanish rebels. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Rockefeller will disposing of $25,000,- 000 estate is filed. Page A-1 Armed deputies repulse steel pickets at Youngstown. Page A-1 Michigan lumber strike end seen by nightfall. Page A-1 Tariff fight may accompany wage- hour bill. Page A-1 Senate leaders negotiating court bill compromise. Page A-1 House to vote next week on tax- dodging inquiry. Page A-1 Lindbergh says rocket flying may oonquer space. Page A-2 “Ford Brotherhood” opposes C. 1. O. in Ford plant at Detroit. Page A-2 Windsor wedding may be topic at con- ference, bishop says. Page A-4 Twelve Townsend' organization offi- cials resign. Page A-11 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Business man to be quizzed in Keene mystery. Page A-1 Indictment against Prince Georges police vanishes. Page A-2 acity after several years of curtailed tomorrow. Opposing it was the ne!y activitys 8 Drug found effective in pneumonia, meningitis. £ Page A-2 MoST ANY Jo8 wouLp BE A RELIEF To WEARY UNCLE JoE! TAX-DODGER PROBE DISPUTE CLEARED House Likely to Vote Next| Week—Publicity €urb Y Policy Is Adopted. | Bs the Associated Press. Settlernent of a dispute over pub- licizing individuale’ finencial secrets lLias cleared‘-({i way for a House vote next week on tR¢ proposed congres- | slonal inquiry into dodging. | Two House ittees agreed, it | was learned, information obtained | at secret ings should be made | »pub_h_c 2anly a vete of the investigat- | ing commiittee on each case. ‘The information is expected to deal particularly with the financial affairs of wealthy individuals. | Chairman Doughton of the Ways | and Means Committee said he had no doubt that any subcommittee which | might handle part of the investigation | also might determine what should be made public. Originally, the Rules Committee ha | amended the resolution to remove | clause giving the investigating com- | mittee the right to make public infor- | mation to any extent it chose. The committee will have the right | (to name whomever it desires as in- vestigating agents, under the com- | promise, but the agents can conduct only secret hearings and cannot di- vulge any information they received. Instead they must turn their facts over to the committee itself. In the form it passed the Senate, the measure would have let the joint committee use any employe of the ‘Treasury for its inquiry, and the em- ploye could have held public hearings, Bureau of Internal Revenue officials, said, meanwhile, collection of back income taxes this fiscal year will amount to $250,000,000. They said more rigid checking of returns had increased delinquent col- lections yearly since 1933, when the | total was $132,000,000. RANGER FACES YANKEE IN SECOND RACE TRIAL | Ey the Assoctat d Press. NEWPORT, R. I, June 5—Unde- feated Ranger, Harold S. Vanderbilt's newly-constructed candidate for the defense of the America's Cup, faced Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee today in their second engagement of trials to nominate a defender to meet the chal- lenge of T. O. M. Sopwith, English sportsman. Today’s Star , G. U. commencement activities an- nounced. Page A-¢4 Middies leave on 13,520-mile cruise to Europe Page A-11 D. C. officials seek amount of Gobel purchase price. Page A-14 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials Page A-8 This and That Page A-8 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-8 Answers to Questions. Page A-8 David Lawrence, Page A-9 | H. R. Baukhage. Page A-9 Mark Sullivan, Page A-9 Jay Franklin. Page A-9 Delia Pynchon, Page A-9 SPORTS. Fans to judge whether Dean or Frick won in row. Page C-11 Cohen given job as slab starter for Nationals. Page C-11 Welsh, Mitchell, old feudists, in tennis final. Page C-11 Petra main hope of new net team French are building. Page C-12 Pastor making serious bid for boxing championship. Page C-12 Schmeling to meet Braddock-Louis winner in Fall. Page C-12 National champions enter Evening Star marathon. Page C-12 MISCELLANY, City News in Brief. Page A-6 Vital Statistics. Page A-6 Traffic Convictions. Page A-6 Shipping News. Page C-13 Young Washington. Page B-6 Nature’s Children. Page C-18 Cross-word Puzzle. Page C-18 Bedtime Story. Page C-19 Letter-Out. Page CN3 Dorothy Dix. Page B-3 Betsy Caswell. Page B-S . 7,000-Mile Trip In Taxi Planned By Six Women By the Associated Press. NORWOOD, Mass, June 5—A 7,000-mile taxi ride to Mexico City and return will begin Monday for Miss Emily Curtis Fisher, 76-year-old retired normal school instructor. Miss Fisher prefers automobiles to trains, although she neither owns nor drives a car, So she engaged Fred Schaier, Norwood taxi chauffeur, to drive her and five woman companions to the Dallas, Tex., Exposition to “See America First,” then South to the Mexican capital along a newly opened motor road. A year ago she hired a taxi com- pany's car for a vacation trip to Chi- cago and return. COURT BILL UNITY SOUGHT FOR VOTE Leaders Negotiate Compro- mise in Effort to Clear Controversy. BACKGROUND— Proposed four months ago, Pres- ident’s court bill was designed to revamp Federal judiciary and au- thorize appointment of 3izr new justices to Supreme Court unless members over 70 retire. Bill is due to reach Senate floor next week, carrying adverse recommendation Jrom Judiciary Committee and with its prospects of passage dimmed by liberal high court decisions and retirement 0f conservative Jud- tice Van Devanter, By the Associated Press. Senate leaders undertook negotia- tions today for a compromise on the Roosevelt court bill in an effort to clear the way for a final vote this Summer, Despite threats of opponents to fili- buster against any modification, ad- ministration supporters said they hoped to find some way to settle the long controversy. . ‘There still was no public word from the President that a compromise would be acceptable. After Senator Robinson, Democrat, of Arkansas said amendments would be offered, Mr. Roosevelt commented merely that the majority leader had given & correct account of a White House conference. He added there was no question that court reorganization would be approved at this session. Compromise talk centered on two proposals: Addition of two Supreme Court justices or limiting additional appointments under the President's bill to one a year. The latter was the proposal that came closest to success in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Opponents Are Active. Leaders of the opponents talked of beating any compromise, but some said privately a proposal for one or two new justices might win. One opponent of the bill said his poll showed the President's program for five new justices would lose by only a vote or two, and that a compromise on two justices would win by several votes. Several non-committal Senators, in- cluding Senator Brown, Democrat, of Michigan have said they would vote for two new justices, ‘The President submitted his pro- gram four months ago today. Two months ago, administration chieftains said, they easily could have worked out & compromise on two justices. Since then the Supreme Court has rendered several vital decisions favorable to the administration. There was Some speculation whether they might have to abandon the entire Supreme Court section of the bill and substitute a constitutional amendment to compel retirement at 70 or 75 years of age. Opposition has been less heated against provisions to speed up the lower Federal courts. Summer Recess Criticized. Critics of the Supreme Court quickly took up the President's statement that it had begun a Summer recess with cases undecided. N Senator Nofris, independent, of Ne- braska said the court should have stayed in session to decide the Gov- ernment’s right to finance public power projects. “These injunction cases are holding up investments of $51,000,000 involving 95,000,000 man hours of labor,” Nor- ris said. ‘ WAGE-HOUR BILL STIRS TARIFF FIGHT Co-Sponsors’ Break Over Cheap Imports Ban May Tangle Session. BACKGROUND— Elimination of sweatshop hours and wages and child labor in in- dustry has been objective of Roose- velt administration. Original eflort, through N. R. A. was invalidated by Supreme Court. Black-Connery bill seeks same objectives in some= what different approach and in- cludes specific prohibition of use of labor spies and professional strikebreakers. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Precipitated by a difference of opin- ion between the co-sponsors of the wage and hour bill, the threat of a/ free-for-all -fight over tariffs ap- peared on the Congressional horizon today. Unless checked decisively by the administration leadership, such an eventuality would throw the already congested legislative schedule into a hopeless scramble and might possibly result in blocking passage of the wage and hour legislation. Calculated to raise the wages or shorten the working hours of ap- proximately 6,000,000 persons, the wage and hour bill admittedly will add to the costs of production of cer- tain, if not all, articles. Unless pro- vision is made in the bill to protect such articles from low-cost imported merchandise, there exists danger of driving them off the American mar- kets. Meanwhile, the pending bill received the: indorsement of another indus- trialist, R. C. Kuldell, president of an oil and gas well tool company owned by Howard Hughes, aviator and moving picture producer, in Houston, Tex. Kuldell's only qualification to his approval of the legislation was that the administrative board should serve “as doctor, not as policemen.” 8uch policy, he declared, would result in co-operation by a majority of in- dustry. Deals With Several Groups. Kuldell said his own concern pays higher than average wages and that he deals with A. F. of L. craft groups, two employe unions and with C. I. O. representatives. All speak for their own membership only, he said. Government regulation and business competition should have a like effect for improving industrial management, Kuidell testified. Fearful of this, Representative Con- nery, Democrat, of Massachusetts in- cluded in his draft of the wage and hour bill provision for declaring low- cost imported goods ‘unfair” and prohibiting their shipment in inter- state commerce. Such a provision, however, is missing from the Black draft of the bill, and the Alabama Senator declared flatly yesterday aft- ernoon he would fight passage of the whole legisiation, rather than have it made applicable to foreign industry. Far from affecting the determina- |tion of the House sponsor of the measure, Black's declaration brought a later statement from Connery to the effect that he would fight for im- mediate passage of an equalizing tax, & tariff, on foreign merchandise whenever it is found that imports may profitably be sold below a fair value of domestic products. A bill providing for such levies already is before the House Ways and Means Committee, Connery said, adding that he will rally support for a movement to have it reported if he is defeated in his efforts to keep the protective feature in his wage and hour bill. Protection Held Inadequate. Many goods, he pointed out, are insufficiently protected by the present tariff rates, with this protection due for further shrinkage if the wage and hour bill is approved. As an example, he cited shoe pro- duction of his own district, which is now suffering from importation of cheaper made shoes in Czechoslo- vakia. This, he said, is despite the fact that the highest tariff authorized by the present law is now being im- posed on shoe imports. It is because of the limitations of the present tariff law, Connery (See WAGE-HQUR, Page A-10,) Forest Fires Unchecked. PORTLAND, ., June 5.—Drying winds fanned in Oregon and ‘Washington forests today, closing some logsing q-*"r‘ CGURB OF PICKETING AT STEEL PLANTS QRDERED BY COURT County Judge’s Sweeping Decision Affects Warren and Niles, Ohio, Mills, ARMED GUARDS ROUT GROUP AT YOUNGSTOWN Surprised C. I. 0. Men Disperse After Car of Food Is Rushed Into Grounds. BACKGROUND— Steel Workers' Organizing Com= mittee, backed by John L. Lewis' C. I. 0, continues drive on inde= pendent steel industry, with blood- shed in several riots. Seven were killed and scores wounded in South Chicago last Sunday. Chief fight Jor recognition centers in Mahon= ing Valley of Ohio, although 76,000 workers in seven States are tn= volved in strike which began @& little over a week ago. BULLETIN, CHICAGO, June 5 (#).—Mayor Edward J. Ke.y notified Republic Steel Corp. officials today housing of workers in the strikebound plant Wwas a violation of city building codes and city health regulations. He gave them 48 hours to remove the men and avold action by the police. BULI . WARREN, Ohid,QJune 5 (#).—A sweeping court order to curb strike picketing tactics at the Republic Steel Corp's Warren and Niles plants was issued today by Lynn B. Griffith, Trumbull County common pleas judge. The order directed the strikers, among other things, to refrain “from interfering with the free access of the employes to the plant,” and with their “free return to their homes." It also directed the striking Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and all union officials to stop the pickets from carrying “clubs, pipes, base ball bats, blackjacks or other ‘weapons.” Judge Griffith directed the pickets and their leaders to comply with the order immediately or to show cause in court next Thursday why an injunction should not be issued. The Republic Steel Corp., through 1ts counsel, Lewis L. Guarnieri, had asked the judge for a temporary injunction immediately. The judge explained to reporters that this ore der was an “alternative writ" and that violation did not constitute contempt of court. By the Assoctated Press. deputies, armed with rifles and tear gas, drove a crowd of several hun- dred pickets from a bridge adjoining the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. after a box car of food was hurriedly run into the strike-closed grounds today. Pickets in the C. I. O. Steel Work= ers’ Organizing Committee’s strike against Sheet & Tube and two other leading producers, apparently taken by surprise, gathered around the bridge. Sheriff Ralph E. Elser and sub- urban Struthers police quickly massed at the railroad spur and forced the pickets to retreat without firing & shot. A short time later men using acety- lene torches cut the rails leading into the %sprawling, 2-mile-long mills of the Nation's fourth largest steel pro- ducer independent of the United States Steel Corp. “I shall use every means available to protect lives and property,” the sheriff declared as tension increased in this Mahoning Valley section in the seven-State strike called to wrest signed contracts from Sheet & Tube, Republic Steel Corp. and Inland Steel Corp. ¢ Pickets Forced Back. The sheriff and his deputies arrived about the time the single box car was run into the closed mills where main- tenance men have been since the strike which made more than 70,000 workers idle started 10 days ago. Sheet & Tube has constantly stated it would not attempt to operate in face of the picket blockade, He and one force of deputies and police were stationed at the bridge over which the food passed, and another group blockaded with four automobiles a' highway leading into the grounds. The pickets gathered quickly and were forced back by the show of arms. Sheriff Elser said he was called by Struthers police and took the action “to prevent violence.” He and part of the deputies drove to the scene in a heavily-armored motor truck. Addressed by Leader. After the food car incident, strikers assembled in front of the Struthers police station, dispersing after John Stevenson, a C. I. O. organizer, told them the Mayor of Struthers “has agreed to send these special deputies (of Sheriff Elser), out of town.” Standing on the Struthers police station steps, a city policeman erect behind him, Stevenson called Elser & “scab sheriff” and said a petition would be circulated demanding his recall, “We lost this morning,” he said, referring to the successful entrance into the plant of the food car, “but we can take it and we can give it." “I don’t know what kind of = check Strike-breaking Sheriff Elser is getting, but we are not going to pro- voke a fight” He added Senate Civil Liberties Committee investi- gators already in Youngstown would pe asked to inquire into the running of the Sheet & Tube blockade. venson charged the sheriff die with running the food car h the picket line and added: there had been 1000 pickets S EF", Page A10) %