Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy today; tomorrow, show- ers; not much change in gentle, variable winds. temperature; Temperatures— Highest, 83, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 65. at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on Page B-4. (P) Means Associated Press. o. 1,683—No. 34,018. e Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. €., SUNDAY MORNIN( WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION G, JUNE 20, y Sunay Star 1937—116 PAGES. o FIVE CE Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. NTS | TEN CENTS A TR PICKET KILLED, 12 HURT IN RIOTS AT STEEL PLANT IN YOUNGSTOWN; " JOHNSTOWN UNIT ORDERED SHUT Five ;(Ti?icers* Among Hurt | FROM DAVEY Police Use of Gas Against Women Starts Fight. BACKGROUND— Steel strike called May 25 by John W. Lewis' C. I. O. to force big independents to sign collective bargaining agreements have been marked with bloodshed and riot ing, with nine killed in South Chi- cago. Efiort first was directed at Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland. and later against Bethlehem. Chief interest now cen- ters in Johnstown, Pa., where Gov. Earle yesterday proclaimed martial law. B\ the Associated Press YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. June 19 —At least, one man was killed and 12 in- | Jjured tonight in a fiercely fought bat- tle between police and striking work- ers of the Republic Steel Corp. plant. ‘The dead man was John Bogovich, who carried a picket card of the Steel | Workers' Organizing Committee. The identified injured were: Mary Heaton Vorse of New York, | & magazine writer, temple grazed by bullet. | Deputy Clifford Faust, cheek wound Deputy Mike Menning, shot in| chest. Deputy O. Lawler, shot in chest. Deputy Jack Barrett, shot in hip. Deputy Ted Wilson, shot in leg. Nick Velicko, C. 1. O. organizer, shot in arm by flving object | Thomas Osrabv, shot in hand. | Edward Salt, Youngstown Vindica-' tor photographer, shot in leg. i Katherine Wright, shot in leg. | Rocco Luscri, shot in arm. Joe Malik, second-degree burns. | ‘The two deputies shot in the chest apparently were the most seriously ‘wounded. Police Use Gas Against Women. The riot occurred when women C. T.| 0. sympathizers, police said, were or- | dered off company property. They re- | fused to leave and C. I. O. officials said | police fired tear gas into their ranks. Screaming, they gave way, and acores of strikers rushed the police, forcing them into a railroad underpass. Bullets spattered down from sur- rounding hills i C. 1. O. leaders put in a frantic call for Gov, Martin L. Davey for State troops. | The Governor, reported at his home | in Kent, Ohio, could not be im-! mediately reached, | The Republic plant, shut down since | the strike started on May 26, is located 1 mile east of the city and until tonight only a small picket force was maintained there. Highway Blocked by Pickets. | Pickets not actually engaged in | the fighting formed lines across the roads east and west of the plant, blocking the highway, police said, in An apparent attempt to prevent the running in of reinforcements, | A second police line beyond the | picket defense line detoured all traffic away from the riot zone. Adit. Gen. Marx, commanding officer of the State Militia, said, how- ever, he had received no orders from | Gov. Davey requesting troops and | that his own observers in the riot area advised there was no immediate need for troops. The rioting tame a few hours after | Federal mediators announced that | Jobn L. Lewis, C. I O. chief, and! officials of Republic and the other three independent steel companies in- | volved, would meet in Cleveland Mon- | day in an attempt to find means for | & peaceful settlement. | Previously 10 persons had been | killed—all in a Memorial day riot | near the Republic plant in Chicago. More Deputies Sent. Shortly before midnight, Elser | rushed a third carload of special depu- | ties to the battleground and mobilized | 75 more. He said about 75 deputies | were on the scene. Nearly thre hours after the start| of the fighting Police Chief Carl Olson reported “‘everything is under control.” He announced the arrest of eight men, including Joe Gallagher, a C. I. O. organizer. All eight were held on | open charges. Vern Thomas, city law director, an- nounced he would place charges Mon- day “after a full investigation.” At the time Olson made his report the firing near the plant had virtually dwindled away. All Roads Closed. Sheriff Elser announced all roads leading into Youngstown were being closed. He telephoned police chiefs | in surrounding towns, asking them to summon the necessary men to block- ade 1l entries to the city. Mrs. Vores, gray-haired writer for liberal magazines, was wounded after the fighting had dwindled. “‘Scotty O'Hara (C. I. O. organizer) and I were walking up a street near the plant,” she related as blood coursed down her face. “All was quiet. The street was perfectly empty. “We passed & group of pickets without trouble. I said to Scotty, ‘Am 1 cramping your style?” He said ‘No, come on, everything is all right.’ “A truck of 20 deputies came by. Before them was a sparse group of strikers. We turned around and I thought they wouldn't shoot, but at| that moment two strikers ran and; Lpped at my feet. ean't say exactly what hnm:wnnA | terference by C. I. O. strikers with | food and clothing, as irregular mail. | Thomas J. Mooney, Chicago police In his shirt sleeves, Gov. - | | | By the Associated Press. Earle of Pennsylvania ordered more State police sent to Johnstown last night after he declared martial law in the town, to prevent “death and bloodshed.” He said Johnstown was “sitting on FARLEY MAY FACE STRIKE-MAIL QUIZ Would Be Asked to Explain Refusal to Deliver Food to Plants. BACKGROUND— Senate Post Office Committee is investigating mail deliveries in strike areas as a resuit of strikers stopping muil trucks seeking to de- liver packages of jood to workers inside plants. President Cleveland once gave Federal aid to breaking a railroad strike, contending “the mails must go through.” Post Office Department recently an- nounced the mails would not be used to make “unusual” deliveries inside strike-bound plants. BY JOHN H. CLINE. Postmaster General Farley may be called before the Senate Post Office Committee to explain the refusal by his department to deliver food and clothing sent through the mails to workers who have refused to leave their jobs in several strike-torn Ohio | cities. This developed last night when Sen- ator Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire, said he is “preserving his right” to summon Farley before the | committee, which investigation of strikers have blocked mail deliveries. The committee prepared to resume its hearings tomorrow in an_ atmos- phere made tense by the flat refusal of the White House to order troops into the Johnstown, Pa., steel strike area, is conducting an Refuses Troops to Mayor This refusal yesterday was in re- sponse to a telegram from Mayor Daniel J. Shields, who asked Presi- dent Roosevelt: “Are you going to fail me by allow- ing this reign of terror to continue?” Stephen Early, secretary to the President, said no troops could be sent unless the Governor or State Legislature asked for them. He added that Gov. Earle, who has placed the | city under marital law, has given no sign he is “incapable” of taking care of his own troubles.” The intimation by Senator Bridges that he may seek testimony from Farley came after postal officials from Ohio had told the committee they | have refused to accept deliveries of | food, clothing and similar “irregular” | mail, on orders from Washington. | Bridges, sponsor of the investiga- tion, has been trying to ascertain the reasons for this classification of the mails. Packages Turned Down. In addition to testifying about in- mail deliveries, postal officlals have told the committee they had turned down “thousands” of packages, mostly There were also indications yes- terday that the Post Office Committee may run afoul of Senator La Fol- lette’s Civil Liberties Committee if it tries to probe the Memorial day fight at the Chicago plant of the Republic Steel Corp., which resulted in nine deaths. La Follette reminded the post office committeemen yester- day that his group also is investi- gating the Chicago riot and was de- laying public showing of a suppressed newsreel of the fight, pending the ap- pearance of eye-witnesses on both sides to avoid “an inadequate and ex- parte revelation.” Nevertheless, Chairman McKellar of the Post Office Committee, an- nounced that Thomas Kilroy and captains, had signified their willing- ness to testify Tuesday. Senator Bai- ley, Democrat, of North Carolina, ar- guing that the Post Office Committee “had gone too far to transfer this matter to anether tribunal,” sald Philip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, had preferred a charge of “murder” against Chicago officials. “These men,” he said, “have a right to reply to that charge before this committee.” Harry J. Dixon, acting postmaster at_ Warren, Ohio, told the committee | charges that steel | i on to the “fort of the little mountain” See YOUNGSTOWN, Page A-7.) (See MAILS, Page A-3.) a powder keg.” —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto. BILBAD OCCUPIED * BYREBEL TROOPS Siege Ends as Victors Stalk | Into City Without One | Shot Being Fired. BACKGROUND— In the twelfth month of Spain's | civil war and after three months of resistance, Bilbao's fall was er- | pected for several days. A terrific | 9-day final offenswe shattered the Basque capital's “iron ring” de- fense. Days before, the autono- | mous government fled the city, leaving the dejense committee of four to direct the last stand. By (he Assoclated Press. WITH THE INSURGENTS ON THE | | EDGE OF BILBAO, June 19.—The | insurgent legions marched into Bilbao unresisted today and the long, desper- ately-fought siege of the hitherto in- vincible capital of the Basques mdm'i As the victors moved cautiously into ; | the city chief obstacles to their prog- | ress were swarms of prisoners and | refugees moving out. Not a shot was heard as the victors marched in to | take formal ‘possession for Generalis- | :.llmo Francisco Franco shortly after | noon. | The last defenders, said to have been | Asturians, fled over the western hills toward Santander. Refugees told tales of complete dix-‘ organization and panic. They said Bilbao had been terrorized at the end by roving bands of Asturians and San- | tander militiamen. The refdgees car- | ried what few possessions they could. | Most of them were simply wandering | out of the captured city with no desti- | nation until they met the insurgents. Most were convinced they had nar- rowly escaped death by execution or at the hands of lawless bands. f 1,000 Freed From Prison. One insurgent force moving from Begona, northwestern suburb, into Bil- bao, encountered a straggling column | of 1,000 Insurgent sympathizers just | freed from prison. Two hundred of them carried rifles given them by members of the Itzaldi | battalion, a Basque organization sup- porting the insurgents, who had opened the doors of Larrinaga prison in the heart of Bilbao and told the prisoners they would have to get out of the city as best they could. Most of these ex-prisoners were weak and half-starved, without strength to carry rifles. As they met the incoming victors they raised feeble cheers and cries of “Arriva Espana!” For hours, they said, they had feared their release would mean only death at the hands of bands of Left- ists still abroad in the streets. The prison gates had been Oopened at midnight. Then they formed their column, with the 200 armed men on the sides, in front and behind, and women and children herded in the middle. At almost every corner they were halted by armed Asturians who ques- tioned their right to leave the city, but the 200 rifles proved sufficient safe conduct. The Asturians made no real attempt to stop them. Insurgents Provide Food. The insurgents loaded them on military trucks, gave them food, sup- plied them with Carlist red berets to identify them and sent them to a refugee camp near Vitoria. Before Gen. Franco's men moved in, insurgent officers declared their encirclement of Bilbao was accom- plished with the cutting of two roads leading west to Santander. All routes for further escape or for ald from outside were closed, they said, and the city, “invincible” for centuries, surrendered. The investment was declared com- pleted when an insurgent column drove across the two Santander roads, captured Mount Arraiz and pushed | | on the west bank of the Nervion River, northwest of Bilbao. Radio Progn.nu. Pagh F- Compiete Index, Page A. | Deadline | cating that operations were continu- Earle Decrees Evacuation of Works. READY FOR USE| Passes With Men Still at Work. BULLETIN. JOHNSTOWN, Pa, June 20 (Sunday) (®).—State police forces proceeded today to take control of the strike-sieged Bethlehem Steel Corp.’s vast Cambria works after the management gave no response to an ultimatum by Gov. George H. Earle to vacate voluntarily within two hours. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 20 (Sun- day) —“Drastic action” was ordered | by Gov. George Earle early today at | Bethlehem's strike-vexed Carmbria | plant. “If Bethlehem Steel Corp. does not | close the Johnstown works voluntarily, close them by militia.” was the gist of the Pennsylvania Governor's order, | after Bethiehem's president, Eugene | Grace, had said he did not intend to close the plants. At Harrisburg Gov. Earle said last night two Infantry regiments were‘ ready to step into the Johnstown | strike area if Bethlehem S'cel does not evacute its workers by 12:30a.m., | Eastern standard time. Gen. Edward Shannon has instructed all officers and men to be in readiness for duty. Deadline Passed. The deadline set for evacuation of | the Cambria works passed early today | without indication that workers were | leaving at the gates of the big Gautier | mill, one of the seven main entrances | to the works. | Engines continued to shift back and | forth behind the plant fences, indi- | ing. | Gov. Earle at 10:30 pm. warned that unless the mill was evacuted within two hours he would take “dras- tic action” under Ris martial law Proclamation, | Not a single man was seen by news- men to leave the Gautier gate. Pickets gathered across the street and jeered as & locomotive within the mill passed by. | Col. A. S. Janeway, directing martial law in the Johnstown strike area, said last night he had handed Bethlehem Steel Co. officials an order | directing them to close down their Cambria plant forthwith, Col. Janeway said the order was| based on powers given him in Gov. Earle’s proclamation of martial law, | issued earlier yesterday. Gov. Earle asserted the company | had had all yesterday within which to comply with his demand for a ! shut-down. Drastic Action Threatened, It the corporation refused to act,' the Governor said, he would use “drastic action.” | The course to be pursued, in event | of non-compliance, remained in doubt, It was pointed out the Governor might order a cordon of police around | <© the mills and prevent all but mainte- | nance men from entering. Gov. Earle said the most effective | method and the one with the least | chance of bloodshed would be adopted it the company failed to comply. | The executive received reports of the Johnstown situation at his execu- | tive Mansion late into last night. The announcement by Janeway came after an hour's conference yes- terday between him, Attorney Gen- | eral Charles J. Margiotti, Mayor Lynn | Adams, superintendent of the State Police, and representatives of the Bethlehem Co., headed by C. R. El- licott, general manager. Col. Janeyay did not amplify his announcement. The city remained quiet. There were no pickets last night at the mill gates of the Camb works, " (See JOHNSTOWN, Page ) | ground ot Union | LOTS OF THE BOYS SAY [ CANT GET STUNG ANY WORSE ! GROSS RECEIPTS LEVYFORD.C.HIT King Assures Senate Hear- ings Will Be Held on Revenue Measure. BACKGROUND— With District facing deficit up= wards of $6,000.000, Congress has decided to impose new taxr burden on capital residents. House Subcommittee prepared schedule of levies, suggesting major provision should be individual in- | come tax. On floor, however, mem= bers rejused to accept plan to tar themselves, substituted increased realty levy and stiff chain store tar, BY J. A. O'LEARY. Criticism of the gross receipts busi- ness levy in its present form on the inequity was one of tue chief developments in the local ‘ax situation yesterday, as Chairman King of the Senate District Committee gave definite assurance hearings will be held on the seven-point revenue meas- ure passed by the House. AL the same time sentimen’ con- tinued to grow among Senz'e (om- mittee members for restoration of the clause enabling the city io obtain Treasury advances pending collection of local taxes fo avoid a possible deficit in monthly operating expensas in the early months of toe fiscal year. Advances would be returned | as the collections are made. Voicing a desire to work out a bill that would conform as nearly us pos- sible to the preferences of the com- munity and its municipal officials as to how the needed revenue should be raised, Senator King said he would start hearings as soon as the Com- missioners have had time to analyze | the Dbill as amended on the House floor and to formulate recon'menda- tions. Hearings May Start Wednesday. The hearings probably will not start before Wednesday, with indications they will last about three days. The mmittee will fix the date as soon as the Commissioners are ready to proceed. Commissioner Hazen yesterday or- dered Corporation Counsel Ellwood Seal and Auditor Daniel J. Dono- van to study the bill as passed by the House and make an estimate of the revenue which would be derived from the measure. “We want to know how much this bill would bring in before we go be- fore the Senate,” Hazen explained. Hazen said he wished also to study the proposed chain store tax before making any public comment on it. Meanwhile, conferences between House and Senate managers on the $46,000,000 District appropriation bill for the year beginning July 1, also will get under way about Wednesday | or Thursday. The outcome of the appropriation conferences will have some bearing T (See TAXES, Page A-4) C.1.O. Drive for U.S. Workers Due to Open Here This Week Lewis Statement Will Launch Campaign of “Lib- erals” Who Have Broken With A. F. L. Officials on Policy Issues. BACKGROUND— For some time a movement has been afoot among Government em- ployes looking to afliation with the Committee for Industrial Or- ganization, Principal support has come out of New Deal agencies. . The proposal took on definite form earlier this month, when seven “liberal lodges” suspended by the American Federation of Govern- ment Employes opened negotia- tions with C. I. O. leaders. BY J. A. FOX, The drive of the Committee for Industrial Organisation to line up Government employes starts this week. Under plans disclosed yesterday, an annduncement will be forthcoming tomorrow or Tuesday from the head- quarters of John L. Lewis in the Tower Building, in which the organ- izing . set-up will be decided upon and the nature of the campaign to be undertaken, will be outlined. Those to be in charge also will be named, it was said. ‘That the C. 1. O. definitely intended to invade the field of Government employment, hitherto reserved to the rival American Federation of Labor and some independent groups, was made known several days ago. The actual opening of the drive, how- ever, follows a series of conferences with “liberals” who haye broken with the leadership of the American Fed- eration of Government Employes and who presumably will form the back- bone of the new move, at least so far a8 it affects “white collar” workers. Groups Represented. ‘This group, which was making over- tures to the C. I. O. even in advance of the suspension invoked against its members by the A. F. G. E. for promoting an independent anti-Gov- ernment-economy campaign, is rep- resented in Agriculture, Labor, Gen- eral Accounting, Interstate Commerce, Works Progress, Resettlement and Beltsville. It is being backed by the Inter-Union Council, composed of five units expelled by the ASF. G. E at A Pr In the confusion House of the omnibus tar bill for of the bills in last Sunday's Star the floor of the House. which follows. O among all the sales taxes of posed District tax is the principle receipts, apparently to be just the opposite, Tax Proposed Levy on Volume Rather Than on Profit. ice-Raising Bill Effect of Proposed Business Privilege Tax May Be Chiefly Shown in Increased Costs of Food and Clothing. attending introduction and passage by the been givan for careful study of the separate tax proposals. An analysis inequities, some of which were hurriedly corrected by amendment on Since then The Star has consuited persons familiar with tax legislation in the States in an eflort to erplain, as simply and as clearly as posible, the principles and possible eflects of the proposed business privilege tar. HOULD Congress enact. unchanged, the business privilege tax, passed hurriedly by the House on Thursday, Washington will undertake its first experiment with a sales tax, which is unique The same tax has been adopted in principle and is apparently working successfully in & number of the States, But the only similarity between the State taxes and the pro- The District tax differs radically from those in the States because it has only one rate—three-fifths of one per cent—applying 10 all gross receipts taxable under the bill, And whereas a sales tax is usually designed to place the main burden on luxuries or non-essentials, sparing or exempting entirely food, ciothing and other necessities, the effect of the District tax is This is because the tax is a tax on volume, rather than on profit, and the rate of tax is applied without discrimination to all forms of business. The tax would apparently be paid chiefly by the purchasers of food, clothing and other commodities sold in volume. As the volume sales of luxuries—jewelry, for instance—is relatively small, the tax would apparently fall lightest on luxuries and non-essentials. The general effect of the bill would be, in the opinion of those who " (Continued on Page 4. Column 2.) the District, little opportunity has revealed a number of threatened This is attempted in the article the States. of placing the sales tax on gross GERMANY DECREES NEW FARM POLICY Pooling of Small Tracts Into | Collective Enterprises Ordered. By the Associated Press. | BERLIN, June 19.—The German | Government tonight ordered a sweep- | ing redistribution of agricultural lands | | by pooling large numbers of small | | farms into collective enterprises. A 20-page decree, effective next | January 1, provides that each parti | pant shall hold rights correspending to the amout of land contributed. ‘The basic idea of the new ruling is to increase efficiency in agricultural production. Unlike the Communist collective farming system, the new Nazi develop- ment will not simply transform many peasant holdings into one big farm. To Re-distribute Land. It will redistribute land within a community so as to heighten efficiency of each individually operated plot as| well as promoting community owner- ship and operation of such land as can efficiently be worked in common. Under the existing system, some peasants are compelled to divide their time between several small tracts situated miles apart. The first effect of collective re- distribution would be to give each farmer all his land in one piece. Possibility of extensive litigation arising out of the redistribution was ruled out by the government by mak- | ing the minister of agriculture the final arbiter in all disputes. Roland Freisler, state secretary of | the German ministry of justice, de- scribed new laws affecting the status of the farmer as not merely ‘‘a re- vision of laws affecting agricultural property rights, or a modifjcation of inheritance rights to agricultural land,” but the establishment of an entirely new status for the farmer as | member of the national community. Relationship te Soil. Every German farmer now knows that his relationship to the soil he tills is & functional relationship, not simply & matter of title. His function is to make the land produce what the nation needs, and if constituted authorities find he is inexcusably delinquent in fulfilling this function, no legal title can save him from being t! n off the land to the Detroit convention 1 September, CAMPAIGN, Page make room for one who will COURT BILL HELD ADJOURNMENT KEY Judiciary Measure Threat- ens to Keep Congress Here Until October. BACKGROUND— Principal stumbling block to nor- mal congressoinal functioning, President's Supreme Court bill would add marimum of six new justices to high tribunal unless in- cumbents over 70 retire. Rejected by Senate Judiciary Committee, measure has virtually no chance of being passed and move is under way to dispose of it speedily so | standard | announced word from !since 4:40 pm. RUSSIAN AVIATORS SOAROVER CANADA GAINING SPEED ON NEARING U. S. GOAL Non-Stop Plane From Mos- cow Passes Canadian Coast, 500 Miles From Seattle, at Midnight. RADIO SIGNALS HEARD AFTER 12-HOUR LAPSE San Francisco Expects Trio This Morning After Radio Messages Indicate Flyers Change Route, Turning Southwestward to Pass Over Rockies. BACKGROUND— Thursday three owcial heroes of Soviet Russia took off on erplora- tion trip across the North Pole to America. Ultimate purpose of flight is proof of feasibility of U. S.- Moscow airline over 6.000 miles of Northern territory. Flight follows move of Moscow to establish per- manent base at pole and complete exploration of area. Success of latter venture is still uncertain, | Bv the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 —Drona ing near th goal, Soviet Russia's pole-crossing fivers reported tonight | they were skirting the Canadian Coast about 500 miles north of Seattle on their hazardous flight of 6.000 miles from Moscow to San Francisco Bay. Estimates of possible arrival around 8 am. Eastern standard time Sune | day were advanced by observers. At 12:08 am. Sunday (Eastern time) the plane’s position was reported over Queen Charlotie Islands on the British Columbia Coast; by the Anchorage and Ketchikan sta- tions and the Seattle Boeing Airfield station. At 11:45 pm. (Eastern standard time) the ship, which left Moseow Thursday night, reported it was going over the islands and “everything was going well,” the Signal Corps said The route over which the fivers must pass is a shore line heavily studded with bavs on both islands and mainland. Dense tiftiber covers the terrain. Follow Seattle-Alaska Route. The route roughly follows the “in- side” passage shipe travel from Seattle to Alaska, ‘The 11:40 message received by the Signal Corps was the first publicly the airmen (Eastern standard time) today. However, it was revealed in Seattle over five hours later that the radio station at Digby Island near Prince Rupert heard at 3 p.m. the fivers then were over Great Slave Lake, Albesta, roughly 500 miles north of Edmonton., Definite word of the flvers' progress alleviated growing fear for the safety of the intrepid trio. The Russian Embassy reported here shortly after 9 pm. it had received word from Seattle the plane was flying down the British Columbia | coastline, and the fiyers were ex- pected to pass over Seattle within “four or five” hours Route Believed Changed. The route indicated by the airmen | differs from that originally expected. | Veteran fyers had expressed the | opinion the Soviet airmen would fly | via Edmonton, Alberta, and Spokane, Wash. The decision to cut southwest- | ward from the Great Slave Lake, over | the Rockies and Coastward, meant tha | plane probably would follow estab- lished airlines from Seattle to Oakland, The 11:40 p.m. message broke the second period of silence that enveloped the fiyers today. Unreported earlier today for more than 12 hours, their wireless signaly | finally were picked up by the Royal | Canadian Signal Corps, which reported | them about 100 miles south of Fort | Norman, Northwest Territory, at 4:25 p.m. (Eastern standard time). They said all was well. At 4:40 P.M. the Canadian agency said they were believed to be over the other business can be taken up. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Roosevelt's court reorgan- ization bill—with its proposal to in- crease the membership of the Supreme | Court—continues to be the key to the log jam on Capitol Hill. Not only that, it threatens to keep Congress in session until October unless it can be disposed of effectually within the next few weeks. The administration is tryving to get as much as it can in the way of a compromise on the President’s pro- | gram for the Supreme Court. The bill's opponents, on the other hand, are endeavoring to put the measure in cold storage—very cold. They are confident they can defeat the bill in its original form if it comes to a vote in the Senate. They are not so | sure they would have votes enough | to defeat & compromise—perhaps | something similar to the Hatch pro- posal for the appointment of one additional justice of the Supreme | Court each year, unless those over | 70 retire or resign. They do believe, however, that | “legitimate debate”—not a filibuster— on the court bill would run quite prop- erly into months, and that the coun- try would become educated to what they consider to be iniquities in the President’s proposal. Reports of Pressure Discounted. | President Roosevelt is to devote three days of his time—which is| pretty valuable time—to meeting with | all the Democratic members of the Senate and House at the Democratic club on Jefferson Island, starting Pridsy. Woman members will not be present, as it is a stag party. While some of the administration Democrats are discounting reports that the Pres! t is going to put on pressure to up votes for his produce. | confluence of the McKenzie and | Liard rivers, 980 miles northeast of | Edmonton. | The second report indicated they had picked up speed greatly. At the last previous official report, |3:20 AM. (Eastern standard time) they were only 320 miles south of the pole. The Canadian report showed " (See FLYERS, Page A-7.) MONROE’S CITIZENS THANKED BY MAYOR Volunteer Police. Asked to Dis- band—‘‘Crisis Is Over,” Knaggs Says. Bs the Assoclatea Press, MONROE, Mich, June 19.—De- claring that the “crisis is over,” Mayor Danlel A. Knaggs thanked civilian po- lice today for their services during disorders at the reopening of the New ton Steel Co.’s plant here and asked them to disband. The Mayor appealed to citizens & week ago to volunteer for police duty under officers with military training, in advance of a mass demonstration of the Committee for Industrial Ore ganization protesting the dispersal of striking pickets when the Newton plant resumed operations. “There is no longer need of civil assistance in maintaining law and order in Monroe,” he said today in demobil.”ing the group. “There is no legal authorization for such a force except during an emer~ gency,” Knaggs explained. “Should there be further need of such emergency help, the work pers formed by this committee will be in- valuable and & will sgain ask its co- [{