Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1937, Page 4

A—4 xx FORD PRESIDENT AGREES TO TESTIFY Will Appear Before One-Man Grand Jury Investigating Plant Riot. BACKGROUND— Union organizers in automobile industry after successful efforts at General Motors and Chrysler fac- tories, have encountered rough going at Ford plant. Several labor leaders were badly beaten recently at vast River Rouge factory. Attack has been attributed variously to company police and to workers, B the Assoctated Press DETROIT, June 7 —Attorneys for Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Co., said today he would ap- pear voluntarily, upon his return to the city, before a one-man grand Jury investigating a recent fight be- tween Ford employes and United Au- tomobile Workers at the Ford gates. | Ford is in the East on a business | trip, the attorneys said. A subpoena was issued for him last week by Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy, who is conducting the investigation. Harry H. Bennett, Ford company ‘personnel director, testified briefly be- fore Judge Liddy this morning. As he left the grand jury room he said Saint Bernards he had promised to return later with | records that had been requested | He appeared voluntarily after sub- | poena servers had reported they were | unable to find him ! Draft Revised Contract. ! As the Ford grand jury inquiry pro- ceeded, a committee representing U. A. | W. A locals in all General Motors | plants met again to draft demands for | revision of the union’s existing con- | tract A reliable source said the demands to be filed with the corporation Friday would include a blanket wage increase of “at least” 10 cents an hour. Other demands were reported to include sole collective bargaining rights and a 35- | hour working week. ! New Blast at Fora. | U A W. A leaders directed a new | blast at Ford labor policies in a mass meeting of 3,500 persons at Flint,| Mich., even as strikers were voting | to accept a proposal ending the strike | tie-up of Ford Richmond, Calif., as-| sembly plant | Walter Reuther, one of a group of | union officials who were beaten and | ejected from the main Ford plant May | 26, voiced a threat to “go back there | in two weeks with enough fighters to | make it hot for Henry Ford.” Bennett denied today that recogni- tion of the U. A. W. as sole collective | bargaining agency for all employes | of the Richmond plant was a pro-| vision of the 12-day strike's settle- | ment “No, sir." the Ford personnel chief | declared, “nobody had any authority | to do that.” Union Claim Denied. Officials of the California - union | had asserted that the truce agreement contained a sole bargaining provision | which constituted *‘recognition in fact” | of the U. A. W. Representatives of the Richmond plant management said | they knew of no such clause. | Union representatives from plants in | the United States and Canada agreed last night upon a revised contract they would seek from the General | Motors Corp. Details were not an- nounced ks &5 placed further negotia- tions in the hands of a permanent 18-man bargaining committee headed by Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. presi- dent. Under terms of the present | contract, new negotiations can begin June 11 Reuther's threat to return to the River Rouge plant and “make it hot" for Henry Ford was the highlight of & program of vitrolic oratory at Flint. Reports Political Plans. “We are going to organize Ford's | blants no matter how many beatings we have to take,” asserted Reuther. | He also announced that the union had political plans, centering upon Detroit’s City Hall “We will take it away from bankers, Fascists and politicians,” he said, “and give it back to the people. We'll make the best picket in the union the De- | troit chief of police.” Martin, another speaker, devlarpd! war on “landlords and other robbers | who try to sneak up prices.” “They won't get away with it,” he asserted. “We'll not only refuse to pay rent, but we will build our own homes, run our own stores and do all | our own business if they keep up this | funny stuff.” The U. A. W. A. already has spon- | sored a “rent strike” in Pontiac, Tells of Organizing Gains. Martin reported that the “Ford or- | ganizing campaign” was proceeding “steadily,” and that in some of the | company's plants all employes had | signed membership cards. | He did not name any plants or cities, but said, “I want Mr. Ford to know that there are Ford plants in the United States already organized 100 per cent and that this is just a start.” “We won't stop until Henry Ford signs an agreement with the U. A. W. A.,” he asserted, “—and that ought to be around next Christmas.” Ford Employes End Strike. RICHMOND, Calif,, June 7 (#).— Employes of the Ford Motor Co.’s as- sembly plant here ended a 12-day strike today by reporting for work tinder a settlement which brought con- flicting claims concerning recognition »f the United Automobile Workers of America. Only about 200 of the 1,800 employes, ‘who voted 5 to 1 last night to accept the settlement, were called into the plant for work. The union in a pre- vious vote Friday had rejected the settlement offer. Clarence Bulwinkle, plant manager, said it would be a week or 10 days before operations could be resumed for the full working force. 12.@ ESTABLISHED 1865 @ DISPLAY BOARDS With New Features Both Primetex (1/10”) and Paramount (3/16") are solid wood pulp boards; they have a smooth surface to take finest designs in paint or process; their sized surfaces dry quickly and they are easy on all types of machine or hand-cutting blades. Delivered free in any quantity, GEO. M. BARKER ® COMPANY o / UMBER and MILLWORK NN MMM 7SI, A\ 1523 7th St. N.W; | against | at & get-together banquet in the May- Nty 5% Deane o’ Waldeck, his St. Bern recent Meadowbrook dog show. Jor its gentleness and fidelity toward man. —Underwood Photo. ECAUSE one of their number | cruelly betrayed its trust as a | protector of human life, rhe} world-famous dogs of Mount St. Bernard Monastery, high in the snow-bound Alps, today were con- demned to death as murderers. The drastic sentence was passed on the pack, the Associated Press re- ported, because one recently attacked | and killed a 10-year-old French girl, Marie-Anne Bremond, who was skiiing with her father near Grenoble. Dean Jean Bremond, the father, agreed to withhold legal action | the monastery when the monks promised to stop breeding the once-admired canine heroes. | Several of the huge animals, de-| scended from generations of stalwar dogs whose rescue exploits have in- | spired poets and painters, already have been killed, dispatches said. | Artists have helped to spread fame of the breed by depicting the tradition- | ally friendly Bernard dogs with | tiny kegs slung around their necks as they carried liquid refreshment to ma- rooned travelers in St. Bernard Pass. Ancestors of the present pack are credited with many daring rescues, | especially of Italian workmen who Alpine Heroes, Doomed to Die Policeman A. D. Mansfield of the Metropolitan Police and | or great Dane, and the rough-coated | Pallas | tall and weigh from 150 to 200 pounds. | | and docile of dogs. | THE EVENING of Monastery 5 o nard, that won first prize at a The breed long has been famed labored centuries ago in clearing the pass. The St. Bernard is the largest of domestic dogs. excepting the Tibetan | mastiff, a strain of which was intro- | duced to the breed generations ago. | The monks of the hospice on the sum- mit of the mountain developed the breed sometime prior to the twelfth century, it is said, for the purpose of using them as guides. They are a cross between & German boar hound, sheep dog of Switzerland, with some | other strains introduced. ‘The original breed was destroved by an epidemic or lost in an avalanche | many centuries ago, with only three dogs remaining—Barry, Pluto and The present breed comes from ! his trio. Because of their cross-breed, St Bernard dogs may be smooth or rough | coated. The monks generally have preferred the smooth variety, selling | the rough-coats to Swiss breeders. The dogs' heads are large, necks mus- cular, tails long and heavy and their eyes brown. They are about 40 inches The breed has been regarded as | among the bravest, most affectionate NILE DAUGHTERS OPENCONVENTION Approximately 1,000 Wom- | en Gather for Annual Ses- | sion of Temple. Approximately 1,000 women from all | parts of the country gathered at the | Mayflower Hotel today for opening | of the twenty-third annual session of the Supreme Temple of the Daughters of the Nile. The formal opening was scheduled | for 1:30 p.m., under direction of Junior | Past Queen Bertha M. Bromwell of | Washington. The program included introduction of past supreme queens and founders, addresses of welcome by Supreme Queen Maud E. Luxford of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Arlene Hines, queen of the local Samla Temple, and appointment of committees. | Mrs. J. Edwin Reid, a member of Samla Temple and general chairman of the supreme session, will preside flower grand ball | senger decks for almost two hours | to Mount Vernon has been arranged | for the edelegates remalning through | Friday. - Keene (Continued From First Page) for the person with whom he is sup- posed to have had an appointment. It has been established that Keene was comrnissioned to sell a collection of rare paintings for a Baltimore at- torney and expected to earn a rich | fee. Yet on a slip of note paper in his | vest pocket was found the cryptic penciled message: “All you receive over $30 is yours— »BeS The identity of “F. B. C.” and the deal he arranged with Keene are mys- | teries to police. Possibility that Keene held a con- ference in his stateroom a few hours before he vanished developed when James H. Starkey, 53, a Resettlement Administration engineer and an old friend of Keene's, told police the real estate man was missing from the pas- | | | after the District of Columbia left Alexandria. When he asked Keene where he had been, Starkey said, the real estate man answered: “I've been in my cabin talking over # room tonight. W.| . Freeland Ken-| drick, past im- | perial potentate | of the 8hrine | and founders of | the Shriners’| hospitals for crippled chil- dren,, will make the principal ad- dress. Ars Mar- cus Daniels, il- lustrious poten- tate of the local Almas Temple; Leonard P. Stuart, junior past imperiol potentate, and Mrs. Luxford also are on the pro- gram. Mrs. Helen F. Cramer will act as toastmistress. Mrs. Florence K. Lee, supreme prin- cess royal, entertained the delegates yesterday evening at a garden party at her home, 2809 Chesterfield.place. Mrs. Lee will be installed as supreme queen Thursday night, when the con- Mrs. J. Edwin Reid. my deal.” Starkey said he did not ask Keene | to whom he had been talking. | Interest of a first precinct police- man in the Keene case led to the rrest last night of an elderly man who was celebrating his birthday in the 900 block of I street. The man was arrested while discussing the Keene case with friends. He was re- leased shortly after he was booked at the first precinct “for investigation.” In addition to seeking the source of the automobile tools, detectives are attempting to identify the leather brief case which contained them. Keene left his own brief case in his office. WALL PAPER 100 Baautifu pasterns to) select from. or room §1,50 Paints and Hardware 421 10th St. N.W. NA, vention proper will end. A boat trip Overstuffe 1235 10th St. N.W. Est. 1910 7 % 649-651 N. Y. 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It is about 150,000,000,- 000,000,000,000 miles from the earth, from which it is moving away into depths of outer space at the rate of approximately 4,000 miles a second. This is not a single object, but a cluster of between 300 and 400 spiral nebulae, each an enormous aggrega- tion of stars possibly as large as the 30,000,000,000-star aggregation of the Milky Way galaxy, which includes all | the stars in the visible heavens. Thl‘ point is, as explained in the journal of the National Academy by Dr. F.| Zwicky of the California Institute of Technology, the hundreds of star galaxies in this super-titian of the | heavens seem to constitute a system | which, from its shape, appears to be | revolving around a common center. | For purposes of study it may be con- sidered as a single object. Families of galaxies have been | known to exist almost since the na- ture of spiral nebulae as island uni- aggregations—was correctly inter- | preted first by astronomers of the | Carnegie Institution of Washington. | The Milky Way galaxy itself is sup- | posed to form one unit of such a sys- tem, other units being the great clouds of Magellan which are visible in the southern heavens, probably the grem.‘ nebula in Andromeda which was the | first of the island, universes discoy- ered, and three or four others. Mass Photograph Needed. But only from an enormous dis- tance away, where the movements of individual units no longer could con- fuse the picture, could the existence | of such a system as that described by | Dr. Zwicky be discerned. It was pos- | sible also only with the use of a spe cial telescope which covered an un- | usually wide angle of the sky so that the various nebulae would be photo- graphed all together. Only such a mass photograph would reveal their relationship to each other, Within this system are at least to be clustered very closely together. | This may represent the existence of | system within systems, the smaller perhaps corresponding to the Milky | Way—Magellanic clouds system. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. MONDAY, GUARDS ENCIRCLE PLANE WRECKAGE Crews Scrape Glaciated Utah Snow for Bodies of 7 Lost Last December. BACKGROUND— Western Air Ezxpress transport, north bound from Los Angeles with stven aboard, disappeared last December 14 between Las Vegas, Nev, and Salt Lake City, Utah, Extensive search by air and land for plane conducted for many weeks, proved futile. By the Associated Press. ALPINE, Utah, June 7.—Encircled by guards with orders to ‘“shoot on sight,” crews scraped together today pitifully strewn wreckage of a huge sky liner and then dug into glaciated snow for the bodies of its seven occu- pants. Four men who attempted to carry away “souvenirs” said they were shot at three times. “A large shipment of jewelry lay exposed to the gaze of the first search- ers,” M. G. Wenger, postal inspector, told a reporter, adding, “I could give you a real story about that shipment— but I won't.” Wenger said the half-mile area over which the wreckage is scattered was closed to “unapproved visitors.” He said guards have orders to shoot on sight for souvenir hunters. Wreckage Near Salt Lake. Four men almost simultaneously came upon the shattered airplane Sunday as they scrambled over a ridge on bleak, cliff-cluttered Lone Peak—only 25 miles from Salt Lake City, goal of the transport when it crashed December 15. No trace of bodies was visible, said the plane finders, who hope to claim A $1,000 reward offered by the alrline, Western Air Express. “We four started to look for bodies and more things,” said Emery An- drews, young farmer. “But we saw two guys slip away with & piece of the plane and we thought they were going to beat us to the reward. So we hustled right in to camp.” The discovery was made about 2 | miles above & camp set up five days ago after two Alpine natives picked up letters from the planes cargo. “‘One shoe lay near the crest of the ridge where the ship crashed,” An- | drews continued. “Airmail lay scat- tered everywhere, with tiny broken bits of wood, metal and cloth.” Seven sacks were taken up to the camp two days ago. There was no way of telling, however, when the | bodies could be recovered. Some sort of a massive derrick, Western Air authorities said, may be A closer study of the monster of | | the heavens is planned by Dr. Zwicky | and his colleagues at the California | “Clusters of | nebulae.” he says in his report to the National Academy, “represent the largest aggregations of matter known It may be expected that an investi gation of their distribution in space and of their composition and physical properties will throw new light on such problems as the determination of nebular masses, on the red shift of light from nebulae, and or. the evolution " of stars from nebulae as well as the evolution of the universe as a whole” The great cluster of nebulae \u" found by Dr. Zwicky in the con- stellation of Pisces, or the Fish, close to the Andromeda constellation, where | the nature of island universes was first determined. Ome of the vital the return of good observing conditions, Dr. Zwicky polnts out, is the ‘“red shift” of the cluster as a whole. It has hitherto been determined that these island universes seem to be moving outward at a speed which increases with their distance away from the observer. Whether this is an actual outward movement, or some sort of inexplicable illusion, has not yet been satisfactorily determined. New light will be shed on the problem if the *“red shift,” evidence of this outward movement, is found to apply to an aggregation of hundreds of nebulae. can be conjectured from the bright- ness of the nebular bodies and from this the should obtain can be calculated. There are evidences, Dr. Zwicky says, that other clusters of nebulae, pre- viously described, may be members of systems of much the same magni- tude. A recent discovery from the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz,, is of a considerable number of clus- ters with from 20 to 90 members. The real nature of these, he says, only can be determined with the use of the wide-angle telescope, POSSE HUNTS MANIAC Two Troopers Say He Fired Pistol Shots at Them. SUTTON, Mass, June 7 ().—A maniac, who two State troopers said fired pistol shots at them at close range, was hunted early today by 25 policemen, who believed they had him surrounded in the Burbank Hill sec- tion of the town. The approximate distance ! speed of regression which | required to haul the bodies and fusel- age up the sheer cliff, which is per- pendicular for from 50 to 100 feet and almost sheer for 200 feet more Largest single segment of debris | found yesterday was part of a pro- | pellor. One mail bag remained in one | piece, but it was ripped down its side |and wind had whisked its contents | away. There was small hope enough of the | plane’s instruments could be as- | sembled to reconstruct the accident or | | determine its cause. Department of | Commerce authorities and the Utah | Aeronautics Commission discussed an | immediate investigation. Most bitterly ironic note of the tragedy was the location of the wreck- age itself, only 20 feet from the ridge top over which the plane would have | had clear sailing down to its goal {Lost in fog and rain, the transport was 35 miles east of the regular Los Angeles-Salt Lake course. So close to the ridge top was the | wreckage that its tail was hurled over | the precipice, searchers said, while the | forepart skidded far back down the slope. Plunge Over CIliff. | Indications are, search leaders add- | ed, that the torn bodies were tossed | over the cliff with the plane’s tail. The 10-passenger, twin-motored | $70,000 Boeing transport when it left Los Angeles carried: Pilot S. J. Samson, Co-pilot William Bogen and Stewardess Gladys Witt, all of Glendale, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. John F. Wolfe, Chicago newlyweds: Henry W. Edwards, Minneapolis; Carl Christopher, Dwight, Ill.; Mrs. F, Johnson and B. G. Mitchell of Los | Angeles. An hour and a half out of Los Angeles the plane, due in Salt Lake at 4:10 am, stopped at Las Vegas, Nev., to discharge Mrs. Johnson and Mitchell. at 3:27 am., mountain time, Pilot Samson, over Milford, Utah, 180 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, radioed “everything O. K.” A struggle over the $1,000 reward loomed as a sequel to the discovery of the transport. JUNE 7, 1937. Good Evening! DUR MRGRALED SHOPPING RESOR recommends, for Elegance and Comfort Koat- A -Kool 12 alsn made for women and is on sale in our Women's Shop, Third Floor. MEATIN CONTRACTORS & ENGINEERS E. J. FE[BREY & CO. PLAN D AND REMODELED Your best interests are our first e consideration ive you what's modern and right. 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