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Migrants Increasing, Says Miss Perkins, Urging Help for Them ‘Okies’ Now an Eastern Problem; Wage-hour, Security Benefits Asked By BLAIR BOLLES. Migration from one area of the country to another by families in search of jobs and livings in greener pastures than their own is on the increase, Secretary of Labor Perkins told the Senate Civil Liberties Com- mittee today, and is likely to be on the increase for some time, Migra- tion, she said, is now an Eastern seaboard as well as a Western phenomenon, and involves a great move from the country to the city. From the point of view of one accepting this observation as a fact, Secretary Perkins offered to the com- mittee a program for improving the social and economic position of the migrants as migrants—known best to the public as “okies.” She pro- 1. “Our social services should be made available to those in the migrant state of life” The Secre- tary suggested Federal and State co-operation in this work. She pro- posed that money be made available to make the maternal and child wel- fare aspects of the social security laws available to migrants. 2. “Wage and hour legislation of Federal or State governments should be extended to workers on indus- trialized farms—many of whom are migrant laborers. Extend Security Act. 3. “The time has come to think of extending all the benefits of the Soclal Security Act to agriculture workers, at least those on indus- trial farms. 4. “Produce a definition of the industrial farm, as differentiated | from the home farm, where the ! hired man has a ‘moral claim’ to | participate in his employer’s ups and downs. | 5. “Extend the provisions of State | workmen's compensation and gen- eral accident laws to include agri- cultural laborers.” While admitting that many of the | migrants apparently could be ex-| pected to stay on the move, in| response to a sort of human tide- pull, at the same time Secretary‘ Perkins said: “I, myself, see no reason why some of these people shouldn't settle. But | they need leadership and they need good land. They should be assisted, | prebably, toward a co-operative | method of life.” | She held out the Farm Security | Administration as the creator of | migrant-settlement projects which, | although ‘“not perfect,” have con- ! tributed toward a solution of the problem. | Accepts It as Inevitable. The principal offering Secretary | Perkins made to the committee members — Chairmar. La Follette, | Progressive, of Wisconsin, and Sen- | ator Elbert Thomas, Democrat, of | Utah—was her acceptance of mi- gration as natural, normal and in- evitable. “We ought not to fool ourselves,” | she said, “into thinking we can | keep people from moving on when they want to 1 search of a living.” She opened her testimony by read- | ing from a report made by her de- | partment on the question of migra- | tory labor in 1936-7, in response to | a congressional resolution. She said that her findings were meager because Congress had not provided special funds for the study. On the strength of that report, however, and on later information ¥rought to her through her experts, the Secretary made some general | observations on the incidence and ! broad nature of migration: From 1920 to 1930, about 6,000,000 persons moved from the country to the city to seek industrial oppor- tunity. When the depression came, | the tide was reversed, and also many European immigrants returned to Europe. Now the . movement is | changed again, and the migrants | are going from the country to the| city at about three-fifths the rate | they went in 1920-30. “Another aspect of migrant labor which has attained prominence in the last few years,” the retary said,” is the acute problem on the Eastern Seaboard. This was first brought to our attention in 1937 by the labor commissioners of the States who met here. “Now it appears there is a regu- lar migrant group, picking potatoes from Florida all the way up the Atlantic coast, most dropping off in ew Jersey, but some going all the y to Maine. + “There is the same story for straw- rries and for peaches. + “The movement is intense, but not large as in the West,” Mme. rkins said. + The Secretary was in favor of me migration, because, she said, the past many city dwellers had peen settled in the country on ound so unproductive that it uld not possibly care for the needs those tilling it. « 8he thought that much of the ublicity given to the social and iving problems of the 1840 migrants arose from the fact that they speak the same language as the rest of the people of the .United States and so find a reception for their ptories, . But she said that they are ex- ‘periencing the ‘“same distressing. conditions” suffered by the European limmigrants of ' the past, whose misery did not become gernerally known because they spoke lan- ‘guages known only to a few in the United States. ‘The Secretary said that while ~our studies indicate that migrants tend to receive less money in their new areas than those already there, they receive more money than they JTeceived in the areas they left.” ‘ The hearings resume tomorrow at 10 a.m. in room 357 Senate Office Building. Knights of Round Table Head to Be Honored Hugo Metzler of Tacoma, Wash., international president of Knights of the Round Table, and Mrs. Metz- Jer will be tendered a reception to- night at the home of James E. Smith, president of the National Radio Institute. Guests will in- clude Mrs. George Harris, president pf Ladies of the Round Table; Mrs. ymond Rapp, wife of the presi- dent of the local unit, and Mrs: Horace Stevenson, wife of the in- ternational vice president for this gistrict. THE EVENING NEW YORK.—STREET CLEANER BECOMES BISHOP—Eustachio Paolicelli, consecrated a bishop of the Church of God here yesterday, is shown playing the plano at home as Mrs. Paolicelli and their children join in song. —A. P. Wirephoto. Chain Reaction Is Missing Key |Women's Safety Unit To U-235’s Atomic Power But the Pioneer Who Starts It Probably Will Live Only Long Enough to Describe Process By THOMAS R. HENRY. Within the last six months Ameri- can physicists, using an apparatus known as the mass spectograph, have produced almost a millionth of an ounce of actino-uranium, also | known as U-235. These microscopically minute amounts, however, conceivably may be the corner stones of a new civili- zation. Actino-uranium is, potentially, the greatest source of energy known to man, if present well-founded theo- ries concerning it prove to be true. Last week the Physical Review, organ of the American Physical Society, reported that about a mil- lionth of an ounce had been pro- duced by Dr. Alfred O. C. Nier of the University of Minnesota. The week before physicists of the Gen- eral Electric Co., reported the same accomplishment to the American Physical Society meeting at the Bu- reau of Standards. The potentiali- ties immediately became a matter of world-wide concern. Germans Reported Hot on Trail. For months past there has been a persistent rumor—probable, but naturally impossible to verify—that Adolf Hitler has ordered all the re- sources of the Kaiser Wilhelm In- stitute in Berlin turned over to solv- ing the problem of large-scale sepa- ration of the substance. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute is one of the largest and best equipped scientific institutions in the world. On its'staff ‘aré some of the keenest minds in the world. Out of it in the last 30 years have come some of the foremost scientific achievements of all time. thing there which the rest of the world does not know, including the physicists of America. If they succeed in separating this substance to the extent of a few pounds Germany may have in her hands potentially the most terrible weapon ever dreamed of—so much more powerful than anything exist- | ent today that comparisons are fan- stic, Also it is practically certain that | the man who does the job will live only long enough to tell how he did it, and the whole staff of the Kaiser ‘Wilhelm Institute and a lot of other people living in the neighborhood might die in a few days. Super- powerful X-Rays, bombarding them, would be impossible to escape. Physicists Here Skeptical. But meanwhile American physi- cists are highly skeptical. Actino- uranium is an isotope of the heaviest of the 92 elements which is the parent of radium. Physically the nucleus of its atom is a trifie lighter. Chemically it is identical. During the past year it has been found that when actino-uranium is bombarded with slow neutrons from a cyclotron the nucleus of an atom which hap- pens to be hit breaks approximately in halves. The neutrons and protons in the nucleus of an atom are held together by incomparably the vast- est forces in nature—something like 24,000,000,000,000,000 times the force of gravity acting between the same masses. When an actino-uranium nucleus splits it releases some of this force—a trifling 200,000,000 volts of it. But this is vastly more than anything ever yet known on earth. It is, presumably, the energy re- sponsible for the heat of the stars. One of the first demonstrations of this fact was made at the terrestrial magnetism labortary of the Carnegie Institution of Washington a year ago last January. Now, of course, “200,000,000 volts” has litile-meaning per se. So far as the king of a single atom is concerned it is the force behind nothing. To hit a single nucleus billions of neutrons must be fired. As Albert Einstein once expressed it: It is like hunting ducks with a shotgun on a very dark night in a country where there are very few ducks. Chain Reaction the Key. Not only does the actino-uranium atom split in two, however, but it also shoots off some neutrons of its own in all directions. There- fore, once the process was started it is reasonable to suppose that a chain reaction might be set up, one atom exploding its neighbors. In that case the power obtained would be fantastically great. It is calcu- lated that a pound of actino- uranium—it has the appearance of a black powder—would be equivalent to approximately 50,000 tons of. coal or 30,000 tons of gasoline. But to date, it was explained today at the terrestrial magnetism labora- tory, nobody has ever actually dem- onstrated such a chain reaction. ‘There are various ways in which the neutrons produced by an exploding atom might be dissipated without exploding neighboring atoms. The ‘Washington physicists, under the di- rection of Dr. Merle A. Tuve of the Carnegie staff, are not at all con- vlncodmtlehnnmw_lrlq Maybe they know some- | will be possible—or, for that matter, that it is not. During the last two or three months there have been produced in the United States a few samples of reasonably pure actino-uranium, which occurs in ordinary uranium in a ratio of one part to 139. Each of these samples, the result of weeks of hard, constant work, amounts to about one ten-millionth of an ounce. The cost is calculated as close to $100,000,000 an ounce and years would be required to obtain that much by the processes now used. Doom for Discoverer. Suppose Hitler gets as much as a pound of the material. The means of utilizing it are far from clear. It might be placed in water to pro- duce steam, or it might be used in some sort of ion motor. It would be necessary to immerse it in water or paraffin anyway because the neu- trons ejected in the nuclear explo- sion are fast neutrons. The process requires that they be slowed down. This would be accomplished by the | water. Once the process was start- ed it could be continued indefinitely without wasting any more neutrons from the outside. It would be the first man to start a little sample of actino-uraniim on its way who wauld die. The substance would emit such an abundance of super- powerful X-rays that every bit of his body would be bombarded with them. He might live a day or two to report his experiments. Ways of using the vast power, once it is obtained, are entirely hy- pothetical at present. Certainly it would not be wasted in.bombe. Bombs costing $100,000,000 a ounce are hardly feasible. At best the substance would be limited. Ger- many, it is calculated, has available about 2,000 tons of uranium. That means less than 15 tons, at the ut- most, of the rare isotope. It would unquestionably be of extreme value as a source of power for airplanes, battleships or sub- marines. Once free these instru- ments of destruction of the neces- sity of carrying coal or oil, and the possibilities are almost beyond Hmit. % Use More Likely in Next War. But, say Carnegie Institution physicists, even if an efficient method of separating the actino- uranium is achieved and if the chain reaction proves feasible, there is a 10-year engineering job ahead before its production and utilization can be made practical. It is more likely, they believe, to be a factor in the next war than in this one. And there is no certainty, for the present, that the Germans know anything which is not common to the physicists of the - United States and of Prance, where some of the most significant work has been done. It is another story, the most dramatic of all and thoroughly veri- fied, that Hitler let the original dis- covery slip through his hands be- cause, in his violent anti-Semetism, he forced the woman who hit upon the phenomenon to leave Germany penniless. As a result the laboratories of the United States got at least a six months’ start. They have published their findings freely in scientific journals available to the Germans. They still believe they are leading the field and that Hitler, unfamiliar with the field of theoretical physics, has suddenly got excited over an old story. Arline Judge Married To New York Hotel Man By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 6.—Arline Judge, film actress who recently won & purported $100,000 settlement in divorcing Daniel R. Topping, New York socialite-sportsman, has em- barked upon her:third marital ven- ture, ! Her new husband is' James Mc- Kinley Bryant, an execiitive for a swank Fifth avenue hotel in New York City, who in 1936 figured with a Navy lleutenant in a much-pub- licized fistic performance at a party given by Johnny Weismueller in & Manhattan night club. Mr. Bryant declined to be spe- cific about the marriage. All he would say was that it took pilace “somewhere” in Kentucky “between 6 p.m. Saturday and 3 a.m. Sunday.” He patted his bride’s arm and added:* She is the best pick I made at the Derby.” Miss Judge revealed the wedding culminated “a long romance.”. Both she and Mr. Bryant’'came here to attend the Kentucky Derby. Asks Three Additions To District Bill Wants Funds to Solve Parking Problem and Extend Driving School In an effort to secure addition of three amendments to the 1941 Dis- trict Appropriation Bill, members of the Women's Safety Committee of the American Automobile Associa- tion today expressed their deter- | mination “to keep after” the Senate Subcommittee on District Appropri- ations, until they have achieved success. The group met in the Sen- ate minority room in the Capitol. ‘The recommendations, which were acted upon favorably by the District Division of the American Automo- bile Association at a recent meeting, are: 1. Inauguration by the District parking problem through establish- ment of municipally-owned off- street-parking facilities. 2. Extension of the driver's train- ing course at Abbot Vocational School to a white high school, a colored high school, and a colored vocational school. 3. An increase of the bonus given members of the motorcycle corps of the Metropolitan Police from $10 to $20 a month. Parking Is Chief Headache. Describing the parking problem as the “No. 1 headache of motorists in the District,” Mrs. George Thorpe, chairman of this committee, said that although 150.000 cars cir- ulate daily throughout the down- town area of the city there are parking facilities for only 13,500. This latter figure, she said, includes parking in garages, pagking in park- ing lots and parking at the curb. “The obvious solution,” Mrs. Thorpe continued is municipally controlled parking areas.” Thirty-three cities in 17 States have introduced this form of parking and only three of the cities charge fees, Mrs. Thorpe declared. Wherever possible the cities took Government property. In Detroit, where no Government property was available, the city officials are con- sidering the establishment of under- ground parking areas. To illustrate the expense to a city of curb parking, Mrs. Thorpe cited the case of Pittsburgh. There, she pointed out, the city spent $1,200,000 to widen a street, but this addi- tional space could accommodate only 144 automobiles so that the average cost for parking space to the city amounted to $13,000 a car) she added. In asking for an additional ap- cover expenses for teachers and of the drivers’ training course, the speaker said that graduates of the course have demonstrated the value of it by not being involved in an accident or convicted for a traffic violation. She asked that the course be placed in the Phelps Vocational School and Armstrong High School for colored, and in the McKinley High School for white. The extra hazards encountered by motorcycle police was advanced by Washington I. Cleveland, manager of the local American Automobile Association Club, as a reason for the addition of $10 a month to the present bonus of $10 monthly re- ceived by motorcycle policemen. Last year, Mr. Cleveland recalled, although funds for 21 additional motorcycle policemen were provided by Congress, none of these officers became & motorcycleman. Mr. Cleve- land explained this by saying that they did not volunteer for this duty and s0 were not assigned to it. There would be no increase in the police budget if this extra bonus were given, Mr. Cleveland said, since there is also an unextended balance in the budget which would cover the addition, Among those who attended the gathering were Mrs. David Mec- Coach, jr., wife of the District En- gineer Commissioner; Mrs. Morris &Sheppard, wife of the Democratic Senator from Texas, and Miss Vera Bloom, daughter of Representative Bloom, Democrat, of New York. Bishop Freeman, On Crutches, Improves Bishop James E. Freeman, who broke a bone in his foot several days ago, was reported today as im- proved. He is getting about with crutches. ’ Although Bishop Freeman was forced to cancel several activities, They left for New York City last night by train. It was the 31-year-old Bryant's second marriage. The 327-year-old Miss Judge's :: husband was Wes-' he is arranging plans for the open- 1 jomas’ Church at 10 a.nf, Wednesday, when he will preside. The session will [ Commissioners of a survey looking | |to the solution of the Washington | propriation in the bill of $6,400 to other incidentals in the extension Owner of Vehicle Held Blameless in Chase Accident Star Wins Ruling In Case Involving Commandeered Truck When a commercial vehicle is commandeered by police in the in- terests of law enforcement, the owner of the vehicle cannot be blamed for resultant mishaps, the United States Court of Appeals held today. The ruling came when the appel- late court held The Evening Star Newspaper Co. was not responsible for an accident which occurred while one of its delivery trucks was pur- suing a traffic violator at the com- mand of an officer. ‘The case involved Peter Balinovic, who sued for damages on the the- ory that the delivery truck was neg- ligently driven at the time it in- jured him in a collision. District Court had ruled in favor of The Star because the driver had left his route, and his work of delivering papers, and was following instructions of a| Ppoliceman who jumped on the run- | ning board and stayed there. | The appellate court, in afirming the lower tribunal’s finding, pointed out that the accident occurred on June 23, 1933—before passage of the statute which imposes liability on the owner of a car for the acts of any person who drives it with his consent. “The mere fact that The Star had entrusted its car to its driver,” the opinion said, “did not make it liable.” Edgerton Writes Opinion. Justice Henry W. Edgerton, who wrote the opinion, said it was pos- sible that “sympathy with law en- forcement may be imputed to a newspaper. Perhaps this extends to a willingness to interrupt de- livery of papers and risk damage to truck, driver and public in erder to chase a criminal. But the fact remains that The Star’s business is not chasing criminals but pro- ducing and selling papers. When its driver set out to catch a crimi- i nal he was doing, the work of the District of Columbia. * * * The Star did not regularly participate in any direct way in the enforce- ment of the criminal law, was not paid to do so and did not direct its driver to do so.” Justice Edgerton added that “We need not decide whether The Star was obligated to furnish to the Dis- trict a car and a man for use in catching criminals. Even if it was, it was not responsible to other per- sons for the man’'s negligence in doing the work. * * * The Star, by putting the driver on the road and keeping him there, did not create the risk that the criminal- | catching activities of the District would injure a bystander. Whether it created the risk that those ac- tivities of the District would injure the driver, with the result that an injury to him in the course of those activities might be regarded as aris- ing out of and in the course of his employment by The Star, is a ques- tion which we need not decide.” Ruthledge Dissents. | - Justice Harold M. Stephens con- |curred in the opinion, but Justice Wiley Rutledge dissented, holding “there is no solid foundation in rea- son or authority for exempting cor- porations from the citizens’ general obligation in this respect, or for making their duty less broad than that imposed on individual citizens.” In Justice Rutledge’s judgment, “the driver did not depart from the proper sphere of corporate activity or from his own employment when he entered upon and took part in the chase. In doing so, he dis- charged his employer’s duty to the public and his own duty to the em- ployer, as well as his own personal obligation of citizenship.” As for fixing the responsibility elsewhere, the majority opinion cited the case of Phelps vs. Boone. “Whether the Government should be responsible, as a private employer would be, in such cases as this,” the co‘;xrt said, “is for Congress to de- cide.” Embargo on Aggressors - Is Asked by Methodists By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J,, May 6.— The first general conference of the new Methodist Church ended today with a plea for a “moral embargo” on shipments of war materials to aggressor nations from the United States. Scrap iron, cotton, crude oil and coffee were among the items listed as “war materials” in the confer- ence declaration. The delegates re- Wected a move to make the resolu- tion stronger by asking the United States Government to prohibit shipment of such goods to “aggres- sors.” The conference also asked its Committee on International Rela- tions to confer with leaders of other Protestant churches on the feasi- bility of making Easter a fixed holiday. Bishop Edwin Holt of Washington delivered the closing address. Evangeline Booth, former com- mander in chief’ of the Salvation Army, told the conference yesterday the war would not last and added: “It is a passing hurricane. * * * No matter what the creed, where the land or what the era, the best in the world is not defeated by the STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1940. "Valuable Evidence’ Reporied Uncovered In Girl's Slaying Pennsylvania Coroner " Confident Killer Will Be Found By the Associated Press. BELLEFONTE, Pa., May 6. —Con- vinced the same man killed pretty Fay Gates and co-ed Rachel Taylor, Coroner Charles Sheckler disclosed today police had uncovered “valuable evidence” in the Gates slaying and expressed belief “we’ll get the killer this time.” District Attorney Musser W. Gettig also reported police were “working on a hot tip” which he described as the “best yet.” He said the tip “involves a person.” . The body of the Gates girl, 25- year-old match factory employe, was found yesterday on a muddy lane about 12 miles from the spot where the slaying of Miss Taylor, 17-year~ old freshman at the Pennsylvania State College, occurred five weeks ago. Identical Circumstances. . Mr. Sheckler said he thought the ‘Taylor girl knew the slayer, but that he was a stranger to Miss Gates because signs of a struggle showed she tried to get away from him. | State Police Commissioner Lynn G. Adams said the circumstances in the slaying of the two girls were “identical,” but declined to disclose what evidence poliee had. “There is no doubt in my mind that the same man killed both,” he said. “A maniac killer is at large among us, & man who is probably insane in every respect. No one can tell where he will strike next.” Mr. Adams indicated the tan auto- mobile was the most promising clue police have. Two girl companions of Miss Gates said a car of that color had been following them a short time before her body was found along a lonely road in “Spook Hollow” at 2 am. yesterday. Was Returning Home. After attending a movie in Belle- fonte Saturday night, Miss Gates drove the two girl acquaintances to their homes in her car and was returning to her own home in the neighboring village of Mount Eagle when overtaken by her assailant. A young man who had been visit- ing Fay's sister, Lois, at the Gates home found the body on his way home. Miss Gates’ clothing was torn and blood-stained and she had been beaten on the head. An au- and her skull fractured in five places before fleeing in his own auto. In Miss Gates’ car they found a bar such as is used by house-wrecking crews. death weapon, they said. case. Miss Taylor, daughter of a Wildwood, N. J., fish dealer, was slain March 28 on returning to col- lege from an Easter vacation at her home. s Simularities in Crimes. Investigators pointed out the fol- lowing main aimilarities in the crimes: Both girls were attacked and killed in the same manner—their skulls fractured with a blunt in- strument. The slayer in each case had an, automobile. The legs of both girls were run over with a car. Penn State College students, who ture of the Taylor girl's slayer, were shocked by the Gates case. Many came here from State College to follow progress of the investigation. Bellefonte is the scene of Rockview Prison, which houses the State's execution chamber. father, William, a mechanic; her mother and four sisters. Friends said she had a “wonderful person- ality” and was popular among the young folk of her community. to Crack Burglars F Coal Firm'’s Safe An attempt to crack the safe in the William King & Son Coal Co.’s offices at 1151 Sixteenth street N.-W., was reported to police today. Leroy O. King, an official of the |company, summoned detectives when the office was opened this morning. Police found that the combination had been knocked off | the safe, but that efforts to open it had failed. The burglars had gained entrance by jimmying a back door, sometime since the office was closed on Sat- urday ‘night. Mr. King told police that there was a “small amount” of money in the safe. Geologists to Speak J. H. Swartz and F. W. Lee, both of the Geological Survey, will speak at a meeting of the Philosophical Society, Saturday at 8:15 pm., at the Cosmos Club. Mr. Swartz will discuss “Restive Studies of Some Geological Problems” and Mr. Lee wall talk on “Some Problems in Geophysics.” Congress in Brief Senate: Continues debate on bill to end Treasury’s silver purchases. Noon. Secretary Perkins testifies on worst.” Allied Sub Reported Sunk LARVIK, Norway, May 6 (#).— Reports from Nevlunghavn. today said residents of the coastal village saw a German airplane bomb and sink a submarine, either British or French, in the Skagerrak last Sat- urday. Racing Results Jamaica By the Associated Press. FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,200: claiming: 4-year-olds and up: 6 105 . Lilith (C. Rollins) ' ~ 30.00 13.80 5.70 Miss Doliy Kay (Allgaier) 7.00 480 Ritorno (Webber) 3.10 me, 1:13%. s0 ran—Brave Heart, Mill River, Happily. Pharo Warrior. Col. gr:goek? Boy Plunger, Duntrese and Gold uckle, Narragansett By the Associated Press. 1?, °s‘l',‘oot): elaiming: ki migrant problem before Civil Liber- ties Committee. House: Considers minor bills. Noon. Smith Committee continues hear- mgs on Labor Board inquiry. 10 am. Dies Committee resumes hearing on alleged Communist control of maritime union. 11 am. ‘TOMORROW. Senate: Program uncertain. Banking and Currency subcom- mittee hearing at 10:30 a.m. on the question of excess- savings, Na Affairs to hear Secretary Edison at 10:30 on the naval expan- sion program, Appropriations subcommittee, ex- ecutive, 2t 10:30, on War Depart- ment supply bill. Subcommittee on District Ap- propriations may meet to act on changes in the local supply bill. House: Considers resolutions providing for Federal participation in the New topsy disclosed she was assaulted | Police said the slayer apparently | stopped her car, attacked her in it | and threw her out on the ground | helped post a $2,500 reward for cap- | Miss Gates is survived by her| BELLEFONTE, PA. — KILL- ER’S VICTIM—Fay Gates, 25- year-old match factory work- er who was found slain.near here yesterday. Her death re- called the slaying of Rachel Taylor, college student, five weeks ago, at a spot 12 miles away. —A. P. Wirephoto. Dies Witness Says Bridges, E. S. Smith Held Midnight Parley Private Meeting Held On ‘Atlantic Elections’; N. M. U. Head Called Red | By the Associated Press. Another Dies commi | pinned the ‘“Communist” Harry Bridges today, and testified further that the C. I. O. labor leader and Edwin S. Smith of the National | in 1936 on East Coast labor matters. The witness was Peter J. Innes, jr., | of Bridgeport, Conn., who said he | had once been national purchasing agent for the C. I. O.s National Maritime Union. Mr. Innes testified that Mr. Smith and Mr. Bridges were together in a conference in Baltimore at “1 or |2 o'clock in the morning on Decem- ber 18, 1936” and that when Mr. Bridges left the meeting after 30 or 45 minutes, he said: “I think we have arranged for the elections on the Atlantic Coast.” | Mr. Innes said by way of explapa- That might have been the tion that efforts had been under way | | previously to conduct elections No weapon and few worthwhile | within the framework of A. F. L.; clues came to light in:the Teaylor ‘ maritime organizations, using the | | machinery of the Labor Board. | He said Mr. Bridges had met Mr. | Smith at a maritime strike rally i Baltimore, arranged by Patricl Whalen of the Firemen'’s Division of | the N. M. U. | “Did it appear to you that Mr. | Smith and Harry Bridges were on | Intimate or friendly terms?” asked Representative Thomas, Republican, | of New Jersey. “They acted like they were | friends,” replied Mr. Innes. “They | shook hands.” | “Did they call each other by their | first names?” Mr. Thomas pressed. “I don't know how about that,” Mr. Innes answered. |, “But they did seem to be on in- timate terms,” Thomas. | “Yes, they shook hands right off | duce them.” | Bridges doesn't mean anything,” broke in Chairman Dies. “Mr. Smith, as a member of the National Labor Relations Board, naturally knows all labor leaders.” “It’s a little odd,” said Mr. Thomas, “that a member of the National La- bor Relations Board should meet a labor leader around 1 o'clock in the morning in a back alley.” “That’s a different thing,” said Mr. Dies. Labor Board had conferred privately | commented Mr. | and there was no one there to intro- | “Just because Mr. Smith knew Mr. | F.B. 1. Investigated N.L.R.B. Examiner, Smith Probers Told Voght's Activities Cited In Hoover's Letter Submitted at Hearing BACKGROUND— Since early last fall g special House committee headed by Rep= resentative Smith, Democrat, of Virginia has been investigating National Labor Relations Board. Public hearings have been held at intervals since December. Majority of committee filed pre- liminary report recommending sweeping changes in Wagner Act creating board. Bill to carry out these changes is pending in the House. Minority of committee made dissenting report, declaring iSmlth amendments would scrop aw. By CARTER BROOKE JONES. Evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation inquired into the activities of Herbert J. Voght, a field examiner for the National Labor. Relations Board, was submitted to- day to the Smith Investigating Com- mittee of the House. Edmund M. Toland, committee | counsel, presented a letter in which J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the F. B. I, wrote Board Chairman J. War- ren Madden: “Voght is alleged to have been traveling over the State of Iowa, making speeches in behalf of par- don for one Archie Carter, former newspaper publisher of Dubuque, Iowa, who is presently serving a five-year sentence in the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, Towa.” The letter added: “It is further stated that Voght made a talk at Keokuk, Iowa, about six weeks ago before a trades and labor assembly for the specific purpose of soliciting | funds for the defense of Carter. gional director at Des Moines, in- | troduced in evidence. | He did admit in the letter that | he had made a speech, as a private | citizen, in behalf of Mr. Carter. . When Mr. Voght described a trip he made to various European coun- tries, a committee member, Repre- sentative Routzohn, Republican, of Ohio, said: | “It is my observation that too | many employes of the board have a Russian comple: | | Derby Headliners Arrive {To Seek Preakness Laurels | (Earlier story on Page A-14.) | Special Dispatch to The Star. PIMLICO, Md. May 6.—Seven’ | horses, including the defeated Ken- tucky Derby favorite, Bimelech, ar= rived here today to fulfill their en- gagement in the $50,000 golden jubilee Preakness;, Saturday's mile nd three-sixteenths closing feature |of the Maryland Jockey Club's. spring meeting. George-D. Widener’s Your Chance | got in early. this morning from Er- denheim, Pa. From New York came the Millsdale Stable's Andy K. 1n tne first car arriving from Ken- | tucky were E. R. Bradley’s Bimelech {and Arnold Hanger's Dit. On an- other train came William L. Brann's | Pictor, Tower Stables’ Royal Man | and the W. L. Ranch's Sky Dog. Early tomorrow Mrs. Ethel V. Mars’ Kentucky Derby winner, Gal- lahadion, will get in from Kentucky. In the same car will come Charles S. Howard's Preakness candidate, Mioland. and his Dixie candidate, Kayak II. George Woolf, who rode Pictor; Johnny®Gilbert, who handled Royal Man, and Buddy Haas, who was up on Dit in their Kentucky Derby ef« forts, all got in this morning, Surratsville School Fete SURRATSVILLE, Md., May 6 (Special) —Parents’ night will be held in the high school here tomor- row at 7:30 pm. The program will include numbers by the orchestra, glee club and gym classes, and plays by clubs and classrooms. Weather Repo ture about 60 degrees tonight; portion tonight; tomorrow partly c! West Virginia—Partly cloudy, The disturbance that develcped off the middle Atlantic coast Sunday _morning has moved northeastward and was tered this morning about 500_miles east- northeast of Boston, Mass. It continues of only moderate intensity. Another dis- to_the southern Rocky Mountain El_Paso, Tex.. a 5 Pressure continues high over the Soi 8. C. 10274 millibars (30.34 inches), North Head, 7 inches). millibars 24 hours over the northern Plains, Wash.. 10251 millibags _( Pierre, ak., 10 .18 inches). During the . Tempe risen cosiderably in' the Central Valleys, while cooler weather hae overspread the northern Plains. Revort for Last 48 Hours, ‘Temperature, Barometer, egrees, Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 76, at noon todsy. Year ago. 89, Lowest, 47, at 5:45 a.m. today. Year ago, 51. Recerd Temperatures This Year. Highest, 82, April 30. Lowest. 7, onm;ln:lrl 320. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon Ml!wd ) Highest, 94 t, at 5 a.m. today. ml‘.:;utf' 24 Der cent, at 5:30 p.m. yes- Tide Tables. iad States t (Purnished Ifi the United 5 Coas! York and San Franc'sco World |Hu Fairs. Subcommittee of Foreign Com- merce considers resolution providing for transfer of the marketing laws survey to the Department ef Com- merce, 10 am. - : ¢ cen- | 1007.5 millibars | M; heastern States. Charleston. | M while a tongue of high pressure extends | eastward from the North Pacific States | Aus rt (Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau.) District of Columbia—Cloudy and somewhat warmer, lowest tempera- tomorrow partly cloudy and cooler; moderate to fresh southwest winds shifting to northwest tomorrow. Maryland—Mostly cloudy, warmer in east, cooler in extreme west loudy and cooler. Virginia—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, slightly warmer to- night; cooler in central and north portions tomorrow. warmer in central and northeast portion tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy nnd‘vcooler. yoml Em | River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear | at Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy | at Great Falls today. Precipitation. | . 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