Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1937, Page 4

A—4 w3 AW, PREPAES TO DEMONSTRATE Property Lines Are Watched | Carefully in Vicinity of Ford Piant. A score of U. A. W. A. members was hurt in violence May 26 while distributing leaflets to workers changing shifts at a Ford Motor Co. factory in Dearborn, Mich. The U. A. W. A. charged that Ford had hired pug-uglies: Ford officials that the unionists trespassed on private ground. By the Assoziated Press. DETROIT, August 11.—Volunteer members of the United Automobile Workers of America, estimated by union officials to number between 800 and 1,000, were assembling at noon today for their second attempt to dis- | tribute literature at the gates of the Ford Motor Co. Rouge plant. The first attempt, on May 26, ended in the routing of the union members, a | score of whom were beaten by Ford | employes. Four union officials and | organizers, including Richard T. Frankensteen, organizational director, and Walter Reuther, president of the West Side local, were thrown down several flights of steps leading to an overpass crossing Miller Highway to the plant. Reuther will direct the distribution of literature by 500 men and women today at gate 4, the scene of his beat- | ing in May. The distributors will be! assigned to 29 locations in all. tected as long as' of a shootin’ iron. Roland G the White House, took fourth place in the individual revolver match sponsored by the Secretary of the Treasury at Camp Sims yesterday. out of a possible 300. elt, it would seem, is chap is on_the business end THE EVEN NG STAR, W;ASHL\‘GTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1937. Uncle Sam’s “T-Men” Demonstrate Skill as Marksmen s well pro- Ford, representing reau, Cust He scored 294 Building ¢ second annual revolver contest. g .ot oms Bureau, Mint, uards. Left to right are H. F. H. Craven and C. P. Horner. ] This firing squad from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving also took part in the Forty-eight picked men from the eight law enforce- ment agencies of the Treasury are in the matches, which continue through today. Units represented are the Secret Service, White House Police, Alcohol Tax Unit, Narcotics Bu- Burean of Engraving and Printing and the Treasury F. Stille, A. De La Rosa, P. A. Bass, T. R. Beck, answers If this fellow shoots first and then asks ques- tions, he must be very tired of not getting any The winner in the Secretary’s individual contest, Lee E. Echols of the United States Customs Patrol, made 298 out of the possible 300. merly served nine years on the Mexican border and a year at Puerto Rico. SACCARDI NAMED CORRECTION HEAD Backer of “Clinic to the Court” Appointed to Social Work Position. Vincent Saccardi, one of the first backers of the movement here fop a “clinic to the court,” has been ap- | pointed chairman of the Corrections Committee of the Council of Bocial Agencies, it was announced by the organization yesterday. As manager of the local office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Saccardi has served for a number of years as chairman of the agency's Insurance Committee and also has represented the Board of Trade on the Corrections Committee. He was one of the principal figures in drawing up the bill by which the agency asked of Congress that a psychiatrist, a doctor and a social worker form a clinic of three to act as an adjunct to the District courts Although the bill never came befors Congress. it was sald at the agency today that Saccardi’s appointment would mean a renewed drive for bringing about establishment of the | clinic. The first step was expected | to be the rewriting of the clinic bill for presentation at the next session of | Congress. Saccardi succeeds Ray I. Huff, who resigned recently to accept an ape pointment as superintendent of the District penal institutions. He for- 4 I i f Sugar. ZStar Staff Photos. Introdmction of Sugar FRANCOBOMBARDS To Carry Maps. Because of the Ford Co.'s conten- | tion that much of the fighting on May 26 occurred on Ford property, the vol- unteers will carry maps today defining the highway and property where pub- | lic or private nature is disputed. Union leaders have instructed them to avoid the disputed areas. | State police, Wayne County sher- iff’s deputies and representatives of the prosecutor’s office will be present today. No Ford Co. official would comment but a member of the service depart- ment, which polices the plant, said | he understood no attempt would be made to interfere with the distribu- tion, so long as the union members | “stayed off Ford property.” Gov. Frank Murphy said yesterday he had requested State police to “use their good offices in negotiations to see that the rights of persons who want to distribute literature in a peaceful and legal manner are safeguarded.” No Trouble Sought. Homer Martin, U. A. W. A, presi- dent, said “We desire at all costs to avoid trouble. Our men have been in- structed to distribute only on k and undisputed public property. Martin said he had been informed | that “Ford sluggers” had been or- | dered to prevent the taking of pictures and that metal weights had been piled | aon a building roof “ostensibly waiting to be hurled at union distributors on the street below.” The union head said that Mrs. Cor- nelia Bryce Pinchot, wife of Gifford Pinchot, former Governor of Penn- sylvania, would be an unofficial ob- server and that others would be pres- ent representing the Civil Liberaties Committee of Senator Robert M. La Follette. Progressive, Wisconsin and | the Conference for the Protection of Civil Rights. Congress (Continued From First Page.) committee predicted only 4 of its 14 members wou debate tomorrow on the mea Informed persons said a mBvement was under way in the committee to defer the entire matter until next year. The House Labor Committee recon- vened, meanwhile, in secret session to | consider additional amendments to | the bill. Legislators said the changes | were of a minor nature, including one | which would exempt railway express | clerks from the regulations. Opposition in the Rules Committee | was headed by Representatives Dies, Democrat, of Texas and Cox, Demo- crat, of Georgia. The former has} threatened to block both wage-hour and housing legislatlon unless Congress | enacts a farm program. The Senate already has passed the | wage-hour bill. It would permit a board to fix minimum wages no higher than 40 cents an hour and a maximum work week of not less than 40 hours. The uncertainty over the bill, as well as over farm and sugar control, | threw Congress today into a pr adjournment muddle. No administration chieftain on Capitol Hill would predict what might | happen to the three measures. Situation Complicated. Complicating the situation was comment from President Roosevelt | which some legislators interpreted to mean a special session to act on farm legislation might be necessary. A sizable bloc of Congressmen has been clamoring for crop loans, par- ticularly on cotton, to strengthen prices. Mr. Roosevelt has said he would not authorize such loans with- out assurance that Congress would pass a bill to control crop sufpluses. When a reporter remarked yester- | day that there would be no loans if there was no control legislation by January, the Chief Executive replied he guessed that was right. Chairman Johnson of the House Democratic Steering Committee said, however, it had been advised that if Congress adopted a resolution to give & farm bill priority at the start of the 1938 Congress, the President would go ahead with loans. Resolu- tions are pending in both Senate and House. Committee 0. K.’s Sugar Bill. ‘The sugar bill won the approval of the Senate Finance Committee yes- terday after Chairman Harrison call- ed at the White House. It modified a provision, adopted by the House, restricting imports of re- fined sugar from Hawali and Puerto Rico. The committee proposed “freezing” refined quotas. Whether the amendment went far enough to meet administration objec- tions and lift the threat of a veto was not yet discernible. In place of the usually well-defined program for handling major bills to- ward the close of the session, House leaders could not say definitely what would reach the floor next. They had hoped to take up today a wheat crop insurance bill and perhaps the low-cost housing bill, both of which have passed the Senate. Committees, however, delayed their recommenda- tions, REVOLTIG FORCES | BACKGROUND— | government | planes | south of Madrid, particularly at Car- |in the more than a year old Spanish | turned to the insurgents in an even Madrid Reports Rebellion Against Fascists Runs Through Provinces. Growing discontent among Gen Francisco Franco's legions against presence of Italian and German forces 1n Spain has been period- ically reported. Frequent cases of desertion from the rebel ranks to the Loyalist forces have been re- ported as Great Britain and France have striven vainly to obtain with- drawal of so-called “volunteers.” By the Associated Press. | MADRID, August 11.—Spanish sources reported today | Generalissimo Francisco Franco's ar- tillery had shelled his own city of Segovia to put down a revolt in the insurgent ranks. The rebellion was said to be spreading through Province | after Province. Government observation posts re- | ported a brisk cenflict was going on | in the city 43 miles northwest of | Madrid. The crackle of machine gun | and rifle fire within Segovia, the| observers reported, could be heard | plainly from the nearby government | lines. Own Stronghold Fired On. Insurgent artillery batteries were said to have opened fire on their own stronghold from Quita Pesares. Reports from far to the south said that revolt was widespread in the neighborhood of the city of Granada and that Franco's troops, rebelling against his regime, had used rifles machine guns in an attack on the these reports said, the re- | ents attacked the posi- tions held by their former comrades | in the vicinity The fighting was | said to have reached its height about | noon _yvesterday. Observers declared that a squadron of insurgent war- had hovered low over Gra- nada, but had not bombed the city. Foreigners Battle Spaniards. The Valencia defense ministry said that its information was that one group of insurgents had revolted against the Malaga authorities and seized their barracks. The uprising was suppressed, the government de- clared, only after a day and a night of fighting in which foreign troops were used against the Spaniards. Internal fighting among insurgents was also reported on the Toledo front, pio del Tajo. Insurgent authorities have consis- tently denied there was any tion in the territory gained by them civil war, Rebels Start New Drive. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- on the Teruel front east of Madrid to- | day opened a new drive toward the headwaters of the Tagus River, push- ing government defenders from the village of Frias de Albarracin under heavy fire. Government commanders acknowl- edged their troops had “evacuated” the village after a desperate battle on the Westemn edge of the salient thrust by Generalissimo Francisco PFranco to- ward communication lines connecting Madrid and Valencia. Prisoner Exchange Begun. VALENCIA, August 11 (P).—A pris- oner exchange was begun yesterday at the insurgent-held port of Palma, in the Balearics. Seventeen hundred government prisoners are to be re- exchange when the transfer is com- plete. The American aviator, Harold E. Dahl of Champaign, I, now & pris- oner at insurgent Salamanca, may be among those exchanged. . Travels 15,000 Miles to Wed. Twenty-year-old Jessie Reid of Abergele, North Wales, is traveling 15,214 miles to Melbourne, Australia, to marry. N >>' N /3. N I\ | claimed Young, | tier, August 11 (#)—Insurgent forces | 7 FREIGAT RATE CUT S HELD RUINOUS Railroads Would Be Forced Into Bankruptey, Young Tells Senate. BACKGROUND— One primary objective of Robert R. Young after acquiring control of 23.000-mile Van Sweringen rail empire was to reorganize the cor- porate structure of the member roads to prevent alleged “milking” of Chesapeake & Ohio, principal revenue producer. His reorganiza- tion plan involves merging Alle- ghany Corp., top holding company of the Van Sweringen pyramid, with Chesapeake Corp. another holding company. He hopes this will produce better “ownership,” described as the “only way out” for railroads. By the Associated Press. Robert R. Young, head of the Van Sweringen railroad system, predicted | today that “all the Nation's railway | will go into bankruptcy together” if | the freight rate on coal is reduced ma- terially. Such a rate cut, now being consil- | ered by the Interstate Commerce | Commission, would “injure many thousands of security holders in the coal roads,” he told the Senate Rail- way Investigating Committee Young denied, however, that a ra.e | reduction would “wreck” his pending | plan for reorganizing the 23,000-mile | system. On the contrary. he argued, | the merger of the network's two chief holding companies would “help us to withstand such shocks” as rate cuts, wage increases or adverse legislation, Cites C. & O. ances. Lawrence Brown, committee exam- | iner, contended that the reorganiza- tion was “capitalized on the basis of squeezing every penny of fair return” out of the system's chief income-pro- ducing line, the Chesapeake & Ohio ! Railway | He asserted that a fair return, as defined by the Supreme Court, would justify only a $2.50 annual dividend | by the C. & O., all of which would | have to be used by its parent holding | company to pay fixed charges. “Absolutely nothing” would be left, Brown said, for such contingencies as | wage increases or additionis and bet- | terments. Young retorted that the proposed capitalization would be “sounder” than the present one and would be “the best we have any legal or moral right to put through.” Says Line Was “Milked.” Senator Truman, Democrat, of Mis- souri, acting chairman, told the wit- ness that earlier hearings had shown the C. & O. “was milked many times without the knowledge of its stock- holders” for the benefit of other Van Sweringen roads. “That is going to be stopped,” ex- who only recently gained control of the system. 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Volunteers were still searck Wilson when a runner was s ng for under- safe. ing since Mon- | Wilson had been n | did not emerge CIGARETTE BLAMED i IN FATAL SHIP FIRE1 Investigation Board Member Says No Sabotage in City of Baltimore Blaze. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., August 11.—Capt Eugene H. Carlson, supervising in- spector of the Bureau of Marine In-| spection and Navigation, expressed be- lief yesterday a burning cigar or cigarette caused the fire that de-| stroyed the bay steamer City of Balti- more and claimed three lives The investigation developed no evi- dence of sabotage, Carlson said on his return here from Baltimore and Washington after sitting as a member of the Investigation Board “IUs my theor he said, “that | some stevedore dropped a lighted | cigarette or cigar while loading the cargo of sugar. “The bags were dry as tinder,” he continued, “and the fire, fanned by the stiff breeze through the open ports, smouldered unnoticed until it suddenly burst through to envelop that entire section of the ship.” |lamp went out | dered that morning At the Herrin Hospital, Wilson told attendants | “I'm not hurt. I'm hungry. me something to eat.” He had not eaten since lunch Mon- ay had accompanied him undergmund’ Get | Propped in a hospital bed, Wilson told a dramatic story of his wan- derings through the old mine after his | He had gone into | the old Peabody workings which con- | nect with his own mine, to examine a | | section®of coal | “I don't know how I hurt my head,” | he said. “It was either a fall of | coal. or T bumped into something “I haven't any idea how far I wan- | Finally, after what seemed to be days, I stumbled over a piece of track. I knew if I would follow the track long enough I would come to & switch. Then I knew I could find my way out.” He pointed out that mine switches always point to the mine bottom SHIP PROBLEM STUDY TO EMPHASIZE LABOR Survey Called First Step Toward Rehabilitating U. §. Mer- chant Marine. By the Associated Press. A study of America’s shipping prob- lems, which the Maritime Commissio announced today, will lay special | emphaisis on labor. | Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy de scribed the survey as a first ste toward rehabilitating the merchant marine. | Kennedy said unsettled labor condi- | tions have assumed ‘“really serious | proportions” as an obstacle to develop- ment of shipping. Questioned by re- porters, he said he had in mind the disputes between the American Fed- eration of Labor and John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion, | Charwoman Hurt. A fractured leg was suffered last night by Marion Barkley, 42, of 1205 1 street southeast, a charwoman at the | city post office, when she fell down! an elevator shaft from the first floor to the basement. She was taken to | Providence Hospital. f ‘Mine Owner Missin g 40 Hours |$1,000 REWARDS UP FOR TWO BANDITS | | from the slope with the five men who ' Cummings Offers Sum for Arrest of Gant and Hunt, Believed Bank Robber Chiefs. 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