Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Cloudy and not quite so cold, with lowest about 24 degrees tonight; tomorrow cloudy, warmer. Temperatures today— Highest, 31, at 2 p.m. 7 am. ; lowest, 19, at From United States Weatns u report. o e el o Peme” Ay Closing New York Markets, Page 16. 88th YEAR. No. 34,999. WASHINGTON, D. Wel: Subcommittee Acts to Save Welies Confers D. C. From Triple Income Tax Moves to Amend New Disputed Law For Relief of Thousands of Employes For Hour With Mussolini Talk Follows Long Conversation With Count Ciano By the Associated Press. ROME, Feb. 26.—Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles spent an hour with Premier Mussolini to- day going over the European prob- lems which Mr. Welles came to in- vestigate for President Roosevelt. The length of their conversation, as well as the hour and a quarter which the American envoy spent this morning with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, heightened diplomatic interest in his European trip which is to include visits to Berlin, Paris and London. At 6 pm, just an hour and 10 minutes after the Undersecretary had entered the Palazzo Venezia, Mr. Welles emerged and stepped into his waiting car for the return trip to his hotel. Time for Deep Probe. In view of the fact that Count Ciano had given his father-in-law a preparatory report on his talk with Mr. Welles, it was generally felt that the hour gave Mussolini and the American envoy time to probe deeply into each other's interests and views concerning the war and its repercussions. The meeting between Il Duce and Mr. Welles, here on a fact-finding mission for President Roosevelt to study conditions in war-torn Europe’s principal capitals, was ar- ranged quickly, the American hav- ing arrived in Italy only yesterday. Mr. Welles is expected to proceed from here directly to Berlin, where he will be received by Fuehrer Hit- ler, in a day or two. There was a possibility he would visit Pope Pius XII tomorrow, although members of Mr. Welles’ staff considered such a meeting unlikely now in view of the short time available to the State Department’s No. 2 man. Accompanied by Phillips. Mr. Welles went to his confer- ence with Premier Mussolini ac- companied by William Phillips, the United States Ambassador, and by Count Ciano's secretary, Marchese Blasco d'Afeta. The meeting was in Mussolini’s office in the Palazzo | Venezia. Mr. Welles made it clear upon his arrival in Italy yesterday that he would have nothing to say about his conferences. After the Italian press yesterday virtually ignored Mr. Welles’ arrival, late afternoon papers ef the govern- ment-controlled press today gave prominent display to the story, stressing the “length and cordiality” of the Ciano-Welles meeting. L'Osservatore Romano, the Vati- can newspaper, devoted virtually its entire front page to an enthusiastic review of the relations between the Vatican and the United States, tim- ing this with arrival here yesterday of Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt’s new Vatican envoy. No Mere Courtesy Call. ‘The length of the conferences, sub- sequent newspaper comment and the tone -of a government com- munique all made it evident that the conversations had been of con- siderable more importance than ordinary “courtesy calls,” which some Italian sources had predicted would be the extent of the first meetings before Berlin, Paris and London ‘were visited. The talks with Count Ciano were conducted in English, which the Italian foreign minister speaks fluently. Late afternoon papers of the government-controlled press gave front-page prominence to the meet- ing and each stressed “the length and cordiality” of the meeting. Considered significant of inspired treatment was the fact that each editor placed his story under a two- column headline. Overshadowing Mr. Welles’ con- versations was a continuation of de- tails about little Princess -Maria Gabriella, born Saturday morning to Crown Prince Umberto and Crown Princess Marie Jose.' The Fascist press yesterday pub- lished nothing about the arrival of (8ee WELLES, Page A-4.) House Votes Exemption Of Carrier Boys From Act ‘Without debate, the House passed and sent to the Senate today a bill to exempt from provisions of the District Unemployment Compensa- tion Act newspaper carrier boys un- der 18 years of age. It was the only measure on the House District calendar called up by Chairman Randolph of the Dis- trict Committee. He explajned the legislation is desirable because it had been found difficult to keep Cnbloyment 1s srreguiar, T emp! ent is B ‘Today was the last so-called “Dis- trict day”'of the month in the House. ‘The next is -scheduled March 11. Death of One of Quads Brings Money Problems B the Associated Press. NAUVOO, Ala, Feb. 26—The death of 41-day-old Hope Short, one of the quadruplets born near here, muitiplied financial problems today for a committee chosen to aid in handling the infants’ affairs. A $35000 contract with a milk firm was canceled and plans for building & permanent home for the quads and their fl}le brothers and sisters, children of share pers, mhe]%l;;lbgunce. e Hope, of bronchial pneu- monia in 8 Jasper hospital Friday night, was buried yesterday, Hun- dreds crowded the Nauvoo First Church for the funeral. 3 's two sisters and brother, aith, Charity and Franklin, re- in incubators at ‘hospital—all in good health. - 45 BACKGROUND— District's Personal Income Tax Act of last July made persons liable to levy who were “domi- ciled” in the District as of De- cember 31, 1939 regardless of source of income. Corporation Counsel E. H. Seal ruled domicile to mean residence for indefinite period, thus making Federal em- dloyes living here with voting residence elsewhere subject to the tax. By JAMES E. CHINN. The House District Committee to- day turned over to its subcommittee on fiscal affairs the problem of working out an amendment to the local income tax law that will avold any possibility of triple taxation of the thousands of employes in Wash- ington who maintain a legal resi- dence in the States. Chairman Randolph announced that the subcommittee, headed by Representative Nichols, Democrat, of Oklahoma, would meet the latter part of the week to tackle the prob- lem, pointing out that “Congress is looking to us for immediate relief on this question.” The committee also ordered favor- able reports on four bills. They follow: 1. To invalidate special congres- sional automobile tags 60 days after expiration of the session of Congress for which they were issued. 2. To amend the child labor law to permit minors to engage in professional concerts or theat- . rical produetions. 3. To change the name of that portion of Twenty-fourth street N.W. beginning at Porter street and extending one block to Rock Creek Park to Williamsburg lane. 4. To amend the act regulating adoption proceedings to require the clerk of the District Court to furnish an adopter with a certified copy of the final decree of adop- tion of a child born outside the District. In preparation for consideration of an amendment to the income tax law, Chairman Randolph appointed Representative Ambrose J. Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland to a vacancy on the Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee created by the recent resignation from the full committee of Repre- sentative Schwert, Democrat, of New York. Representative Michaél J. Kennedy, Democrat, of New York, & new member of the committee, was named to succeed the Maryland Kennedy on the Insurance and Banking Subcommittee, The move to revise the income tax law to prevent possibility of triple taxation was initiated by Represen- tative Cooley, Democrat, of North Carolina. He appeared before the committee with several proposed amendments which, he said, would clarify the law and remove the pos- sibility of triple taxation. One of Mr. Cooley’s amendments would exempt from the local income tax any person domiciled in the Dis- (See INCOME TAX, Page A-4) Brifish Cite 128 Cases of Air Atfack On Unarmed Ships Charges Made in Answer To Query on Nazi Pledge to Roosevelt BS the Assoclated Press. £ LONDON, Feb. 26.—The govern: ment today charged 128 instances of attacks by German aircraft on “un- armed British merchant ships and fishing vessels” from the start of the war up to February 22. Richard Austen Butler, undersec- retary of foreign affairs, gave this figure in answer to a question in the House of Commons whether such attacks were “a bfeach of Herr Hitler's undertaking to President Roosevelt that the German air force would not bomb civilians.” Mr. Butler said that the facts were “too well known” to require a statement. All British merchant and fishing vessels in the North Sea now are being armed against aircraft. Echo of Altmark Case. There was an echo of the Altmark case in a query concerning the ex- tent of territorial waters along the peculiarly indented coast of Norway, to which Mr. Butler replied that they were the subject of much discussion and not finally determined. He said, however, that the Nor- wegian government while not de- parting from her claim for a 4-mile limit has informed the British government that for the purposes of this war it would not accept obliga- tions of neutrality beyond three miles from the coast. Mr. Butler also said that the limit of territorial waters swings inward at the mouth of the larger fords, depending on the distance between the headlands, but also swings out- ward elsewhere owing to the exist- ence of offshore islands. Gaps in Blockade Cause Worry. Fear that war supplief are flowing to Germany through gaps in the British blockade prompted a series of uneasy questions for the govern- ment in the House of Commons. One source of concern was fig- ures showing exports from the United States to Great Britain and France rose only 10 per cent in the last Your months of 1939 over the same period in 1938, while they (See LONDON, Page A-10.) Non-Residents Banned From North Scotland By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 26.—Non-resident civilians were banned today from all of Northern Scotland where many important British war indus- tries are concentrated. Easthound Clippers Cancel Bermuda Stops After Mail Seizure Officials Silent On Incident; Give Weather as Reason By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Delivery of uncensored mail to Europe solely through air channels appears likely |as a result of an announcement of Pan-American Airways that its Clil- per planes will omit the Bermuda stop on flights to Portugal, starting March 15, ~ The company made no mention of British seizure and p of mail at Bermuda, nor of publication last week of a news story that United States mail was seized there Jan- usry 18 “at bayonet point.” It gave as its reasons ‘better weatber conditions” and the fact that mid-Atlantic weather reports are being received from two Coast Guard vessels assigned to special duty. (The British Foreign Office in London said today it had “no great measure of concern” over Pan-American Airways’ decision to eliminate Bermuda on east- bound trans-Atlantic flights and thereby avoid British censorship of U. S. mail at the island, ac- cording to the ,Associated Press. (The decision concerned only the airways company itself, it was said, and “not the United States Government.” (A foreign office spokesman said “we understand that the decision has to do with the weather con- ditions and not with the search of United States mails. (“The air mails will now avoid search entirely, as there will be no effort to study their contents anywhere else.” (The spokesman added that he believed the relations between the Bermuda government and the air line were “most friendly.”) ‘The Clippers thus return to their original route—direct across the At- lantic to Horta, the Azores—inter- rupted last October, when they in- cluded Bermuda as a refueling stop. Five Hours Saved. Pan-American says the direct flight saves five hours. Official air circles attached sig- nificance to the new policy permit- ting American mails to reach Ger- many without allied interference. Pan-American connects at Lisbon with Italian and French airlines. As yet, the British have not begun a Lisbon-London shuttle service to connect. with the Clippers. The twice-a-week shuttle service of the company to Bermuda will not be affected. ‘The route on westbound flights, in (See CLIPPER, Page A-3) Jackson Declines to Tell Smith If N.L.R.B. Broke Lobbying Law By the Associated Press. Attorney General Jackson declined today to tell House investigators whether the National Labor. Rela- tions Board had violdted a law which forbids' the use of Federal appropriations for lobbying. He wrote Chairman Smith of the committee investigating the board that the Justice Department makes legal rulings only at the request of the President or the head of an executive department. The committee recently received evidence tending to show.Chairman J. Warren Madden of the board and some of his assistants actively sought to rally witnesses in opposi- tion to- Wagner Act amendments. Representative Smith then asked Mr. Jackson for a ruling on the possibility that the board was vio- lating the law by following that pro- the Jasper | scribing stantially changed since 1789. As early as 1818, Attorney General Wirt, and as late as October 4, 1039, At- torney Genéral Murphy each ruled that under the statutes Attorneys General are not authorized to give official opinions on quesiions of law except upon call of the President or the head of an executive depart- ment to enable him to decide a question pending in his own depart- ment for action. “It has been pointed out that the effort to advise both the executive and the legislatives branches of the Government would be inappropriate under our doctrine of separation of the powers of the two branches, and that, ike other efforts to serve two masters, such a practice would likely introduce conflict of duties. Con- in “aseribed | temperature was about - well WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Finns Give Up Fortified Isles - 0f Koivisto Lose Great Codstal Guns Anchoring ' End of Defense Line NAZIS TO TRY herolc former Mayor of Warsaw, Poles report; misappropriation of city’s funds charged to Starzinski. Page A-2 PATROL ACTIVITY INCREASES along western front; French re- port sharp Nazi raid repulsed near ‘Wissembourg gap. Page A-4 RUMANIA IS FACING crucial oil talks with Germany; Dr. Clodius is expected to make strong de- mands against restrictions. Page A-6 NEUTRALITY SUPPORT pledged each other by Scandinavians; for- eign ministers also hope for preservation of Finns’ independ- ence, Page A-7 By the Associated Press HELSINKI, Feb. 26—The Finnish high command today acknowledged that Finland had surrendered to invading Russians the strategic islands of Kolvisto, armed with great coastal batteries anchoring the western end of the Mannerheim Line. These islands, situated off the Town of Koivisto, are 20 miles south of Viipuri, lying in the Guif of Finland near the entrance to Viipuri Bay. Possession of the islands pre- sumably would give the Russians a new advantage in their drive on Viipuri, normally Finland's second largest city, by aiding an attack from the sea as well as from land. The Finns on Saturday admitted that the Russians had conquered the coastal regions about Koivisto. The Russians already had announced | capturing both the town and the island coastal batteries which had been a strong point of defense for the Finns. Russian land forces on the isthmus itself already have driven up a rail- way toward Viipuri as far as| Kaislahti, only 7% miles due south | of Viipuri, according to the Finns’ own admission. The Russians ap- parently are cleaning up the area between the railway and the coast. Heavy Damage Claimed. “On the isthmus our troops have given up the Koivisto Islands,” said today’s daily army communique. “On Pebruary 25 the enemy continued his attacks on the western part of the isthmus. The attacks were checked by fire fram .our artillery snd in- fantry, and the enemy suffered 10ss in men.” At one town in this region, Sal- menkaita, “enemy attacks were re- puised after fighting which lasted a whole day,” the communique stated. The Finns said the day “passed | quietly at the eastern end of the Mannerheim Line, where the Rus- sians last week launched great #t- tacks. At Kuhmo, northward near Fin- land’s “waist,” the Finns captured a “strong point,” and “destroyed” a company of Russians, said the com- munique. ‘The Finns said their air force had carried out bombing attacks behind the Russian lines “during which a number of successful air fights were engaged in by us” Five Russian planes were reported shot down. Withdrawals Strategic. In their withdrawals on the isthmus, where they have now taken a stand at their setond positions of defense, the Finns continued to point out that they have done so strateg- ically and only at great cost to the Russians. They point out that the second line positions are stronger “thnlen those of the abandoned first One foreign military observer esti- mates that it has cost the Red Army 100,000 men to reach their present position of threatening Viipuri, This observer says 4,000 Red sol- diers killed has been the average price exacted daily for the gains (See FINLAND, Page A-3.) 2 Children Burn fo Death As Mother Goes Next Door By the Associated Press. FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 26.—Two small children, left alone while their mother went next door to borrow a bucket of water, were burned to death today when flames swept their one-story frame home in the southern section of Frederick. Firemen and the hysterical moth- er were kept from entering the house by the flames. After the blaze subsided they found Roland Hanes, 3, lying by the door and his sister, 3-year-old Barbara Ann, huddled in & corner. bening Hull Calls Trade Pacts Necessaryfo Resfore Post-War Prosperity Senators Told Program Will Be ‘Decisive’ in Reconstruction Work BACKGROUND— In 1937 Congress eztended to June 12, 1940, administration’s au- thority to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements without con- gressional ratification. Opposi- tion to low-tariff aspects of the agreements began to grow last summer, chiefly in agricultural centers of the West. In his mes- sage to Congress, President Roosevelt emphasized need for program as fundamental part of any world peace. Text of Hull statement on Page B-8.| By the Associated Press. Secretary of State Hull described | continuance of the reciprocal trade progiam today as necessary to help establish sound world = conditions after the European war. Jubilant over House approval of the administration bill to extend the Trade Agreements Act for three years, Secretary Hull told the Senate Finance Committee: “The need for keeping alive the | principles which underlie the trade agreements program is crucial now, during the war emergency, and will be of even more decisive importance after the war. “Even a temporary abandonment of the program now would be con- strued everywhere as its permanent abandonment.” Is First Witness. The Secretary was the first witness before the committee, which will de- cide whether to recommend Senate passage of the measure. Opponents want to require Senate ratification of each trade agreement, but Mr. Hull declared: “The only result (of such a re- quirement) under existing condi- tions would be to make the program entirely unworkable. That would inevitably hurt our foreign trade, and, through trade, our Nation's economic well being. * * * “Unless we continue to maintain our position of leadership in the promotion of liberal trade policies, unless we continue to urge upon others the need of adopting such policies as the basis of post-war eco- nomic reconstruction, the future will be dack indeed. The Fate of Liberal Policies. “The triumph or defeat of liberal trade policies after the war will, in large measure, be determined by the commitments which the nations will assume between now and the peace conference. “At the termination of hostilities there will be an unprecedented need throughout the world for vastly increased production of use- ful goods of every kind. Only if this vital need is met can our coun- try and all countries hope for full employment and higher living standards.” Denying contentions that it hag injured domestic enterprises, Secre- tary ‘Hull argued that the trade agreements had raised American living standards. He said it had brought the Uniled States the greatest trade increase of any “commercially important” nation. e eni-| Nagi Liner Orizaba have exploded and started the blaze, Mercury Falls to 19; Warmer Tomorrow ‘Washington today shivered in a cold snap that sent the mercury down.to 10 at 7 am, the coldest since February h’l'l.m the temper- two. degrees the hormal of 35.3 degrees for Aground Off Norway Star FEBRUARY 26, 1940—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES, *#* - Mr. and Mrs. Hippo Parents of New Arrival at Zoo If hippopotamuses can be said to beam, Mr. and Mrs Hippo were beaming today. Head Keeper William H. Blackburne also was happy, for birth added another pigmy hippo to his charges yesterday. Decreeing privacy for a week or two, Mr. Blackburne screened off the family from the gaze of Zoo visitors and banned photog- raphers. Mr. and Mrs. Hippo were guarding the infant so closely that its sex had not been as- certained today. ‘The father was presented to the Zoo about 12 years ago by Harvey L. Firestone, rubber manufacturer, and the mother was obtained from a dealer. Their previous baby met death last Tuesday in a fire which swept through winter quarters of the Cole Bros. Circus in Rochester, Ind. High Court Refuses To Review Verdict Against Manfon Former Judge Loses Fight on Conviction In ‘Bribe’ Case Ey the Associated Press. Martin T. Manton, former senior Federal Circuit Court judge at New York, failed today to obtain a Su- preme Court review of his convic- tion on a charge of conspiracy to sell judicial favors. Manton’s conviction in Federal District Court at New York has been unanimously affirmed by a special circuit court. He was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000. He was alleged to have accepted “bribes” from litigants to influence his decisions. He resigned after serving on the bench for 22 years. In appealing to the Supreme Court, Manton’s lawyers asserted: “PFrom a broad viewpoint, it serves no public policy for a high judicial officer to be convicted of a judicial crime. It tends to destroy the confidence of the people in the courts.” The Justice Department opposed a review, contending there was no doubt as to the accuracy of the con- viction. Manton had been tharged with conspiring with George M. Spector, insurance agent; John L. Lotsch, disbarred lawyer; William J. Fal- lon, his business agent, and Forest W. Davis, accountant. Lotsch, Fal- lon and Davis pleaded guilty. Spector, who appealed to the Su- preme Court with Manton, also was denied a review today. He had been sentenced to imprisonment for & year and a day and fined $5,00C. Summary of Page. | Clerks may begin using new Census Page Comics . B-14-15 | Society - Editorials. .. A unarmed hipe. . ‘Pags A1 on . Page A TFinns surrender fortified islands of Koivisto. Page A-1 Nazis to try Warsaw’s heroic Mayor, Poles Page A-2 Patrol activity increases on western front. Page A-4 Rumania faces crucial oil talks with Germany. Page A-6 Scandinavians pledge mutual sup- port on ‘neutrality. Page A National Welles confers for hour with Mus- solini. Page A-1 Pan-American Airways omits east- Star delivered (P) Means 60-Million Farm Fund Added fo Supply Bill By House Committee Slashes of $4,020,704 Are Made, However, in $90,069,139 Measure By the Associated Press. ‘The House Appropriations Com- 000,000 for farm benefit payments today in approving a $90,069,139 deficiency supply bill. At the same time, however, the committee cut presidential estimates for the measure by $4,020,704, bring- ing the total congressional cuts from President Roosevelt’s requests to $274,000,000 for this legislative ses- ision. The bill contained funds to meet unexpected current require- ments of various Government agen- cies until July 1. In asking the $60,000,000 now, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace had proposed that next year’s fund for |farm benefits be reduced the same amount. $90,000 for Secret Service. ‘The total included $90,00Q for the ry of 45 Becret Service agents and {five clerks to guard the President and his family “In view of the con- | ditions in this country arising as a | result of the wars in Europe.” Frank J. Wilson, Secret Service | chief. in testimony before the com- mittee said most of the new agents would be stationed in Washington. Others would be scattered through- out the country. Principal cuts were $1,000,000 each from & proposed fund for insect contred, from $8,000,000 asked for Grand Coulee Dam, Washington and Oregon, and from $6,000,000 asked ;nrnmthe Ceniral Valley Project, Cali- a. The committee also whacked $500,000 off a War Department re- quest for “urgent” work at the San Diego, Calif., harbor. In the cases of both Grand Coulee and Central Valley, the committee said it believed the sums it allowed were sufficient to carry forward con- struction work until new appropria- tions become available after July 1. The committee also asserted that the $1,500,000 allowed for San Diego would take care of “the essential part of the work necessary to be ex- pedited.” As for the insect control cut, the committee declared that “the larg- est proportion of the sum “was for combatting grashoppers with “no pretense or claim on the part of the Department of Agriculture of feasi- bility of complete eradication.” Census Item Fares Well. Despite previous floor attacks by several Republicans on the 1940 cen- sus of housing, the committee al- lowed almost the full sum asked for that enumeration. . The amount ap- proved was $5,000,000, or $125,000 less than had been requested. Among the larger items in the bill were $1,017,000 to the Bureau of Rece lamation for the Rio Grande project, (8ee APPROPRIATIONS, Page A-3.) Today’s Star Building March 15. ] ‘One dead, three hurt in nearby traf- fic over week end. B-1 Rialto Theater to be torn Page Editorial and Comment This and That. A-8 1 m fast ball ‘gives Gehrman chance with Nats. Page A-12 7 | Three basket flags settled; two near near ‘decision. Page A-12 ‘Track spotlight now is taken over by colleges. Colonfals, Hoyas quints this .week. 1 mlhunmk'on!ubuem’:‘;mc PageA-14 s 2o New.Orleans lol.:‘?’ fleld in torrid mittes granted an additional $60,- | down for Established in 1852 = Most people in Washington have The to their homes every evening and Sunday morning. Acsociated Press. THREE CENTS. Supreme Court To Pass on Apex Damage Claims Also Denies Unions Right to Bring Contempt Action By J. A. FOX. The Supreme Court today agreed to pass on the right of an employer to collect triple damages from & union for injury growing out of strike disorders and in another case held that a union could not prose- cute a contempt action against an employer who was accused of violat- ing an order of the National Labor Relations Board which had peen affirmed by a court. The case in which review was granted was that involving the Apex Hosiery Co. of Pennsylvania, which had been awarded damages of $711,- 000 from the American Federation of Pull Fashioned Hosiery Workers as the result of plant damages grow- ing out of a strike in June, 1937. After a lower court had awarded the triple damages under the Sher- man Act. the decision was reversed by the Third Circuit Court of Ap- peals, which held that Apex’s reme edy, if any, lay in the State ccurts. The appeals court contended that the effect on interstate commerce of the stoppage of the company’s busi- ness was indirect and remote and holding that the restraint of trade must be an unreasonable amount of the national volume of commerce in the commodity in order to constitute a violation of the Serman Act. Florida Citrus Case. The case on which the court deci- sion was handed down concerned the attempt of the Amalgamated Utility ‘Workers to push contempt charges against the Consolidated Edison Co., which it contended had continued unfair labor practices in violation of the Labor Board order. In another decision today the court declined to pass on a Florida | law requiring that citrus growers be ! paid at least the cost of producing | their product. The court said that | an injunction against the law had | bee improperly issued by a three- | judge court and that the case should be heard on its merits. ‘This decision, read by Justice Rob- erts, brought dissents from Justices | Frankfurter, Black and Douglas. Justice Murphy did not participate. The Apex case has been watched with particular interest in labor cir- cles, particularly in view of the anti- | trust drive the Justice Department now has on against building trades unions of the American Federatjon of Labor. In both cases C. I. O. unions were involved. The Apex Case. The Apex Hodlery, the second | largest hosiery cancern in the United | States, operates a non-union shop | with 2500 employes. The Full- Fashioned Hosiery Workers sought a closed shop.agreement at a time when the company contended thay {had about only eight members | among its employes. | When no agreement was reached | a demonstration was organized with union members of other hosiery mills being called out with the re- sult that a mob gathered at the Apex | plant, forced its way inside, de- stroyed equipment and records and then when collective bargaining | still was denied, forcibly organized a | sit-down strike. The strikers eventually were evicted by court order on June 23,. 1937, but plant operations were not resumed until August and normal operations until November of that year. While the strike was in progress, the company contended, the strikers had refused to permit orders to be filled for 134,000 dozen pairs of finished hosiery. Apex then brought suit for damages to plant and busi- ness under the Sherman Act, and when the trial jury returned a ver- dict for $237,310.85, the court trebled it under the triple-penalty provisions of the Sherman Act. The Amalgamated case, in which the unanimous opinion of the court was read by Chief Justice Hughes, was the result of charges of unfair labor practices filed against the Edi- son company. The Labor Board en- (See COURT, Page A-4) Norman Thomas Prefers Third Term fo Bad President By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, said today that while he would not support either a Republican or a Democratic candidate for President, *“I would rather see a good President in office for a third term than a bad one for & first term.” “And,” he added, “I don't see any- body in the New Deal capable of succeeding President Roosevelt— and all the Republican candidates are so mediocre.” Mr. Thomas spoke at a symposium at the Town Hall. Foreign Policy Talk On Radio Forum ' Senator Brown, Democrat, of Michigan, leading figure in the recent Senate debate on increased loans to Finland, will be the guest speaker tonight on the National Radio Forum over WMAL st 10:30 o'clock. Discussing “Some Aspects of Our Foreign Policy,” Senator Brown- is expected to “touch on the question of sid to the Finnish people-and what form it should take, The National ‘Radio Forum is arranged by The Star and is heard over & coest-to-coast metwork of the Natiossl Broadcasting Co.