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Evening star., 1937-02-03
PLEA FOR PARLEY
MADE BY M'GRADY
Assistant Labor Secretary
Sees Danger of Jeopar.
dizing Strike Peace.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

Stalking great hopes for eventual
ence between John L. Lewis. chairman
of the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization; William S. Knudson, vice
president of General Motors Corp, and
Gov. Frank Murphy Of Michigan, the
Labor Department today appealed to
union officials and municipal authori-
ties to do nothing to jeopardize sue
cess of negotiations.
The appeal was made by Assistant
Secretary of Labor McGrady, after
consultation with Secretary Perkins,
and grew out Of reported disturb
partment Attorney John Porter. who
has been in the strike zone, McGrady
ordered him Immediately to Anderson
to confer with union leaders and city
officials.
According to reports. union Official
named Luther was attacked while on
the picket line this morning by a
member of the Anderson police force.
Later Luther was placed under arrest,
but was not detained. McGrady i'm
mediately contacted the mayor of An
derson by telephone and was assured
that picketing could be continued If
the strikers would keep the peace.
Hopeful Of Progress.
Commenting on the LeWis-Knud-
sen-Murphy conference, McGrady ex-
pressed hope that some progress will
be made.
"I think that John Lewis and Bill
Knudsen will get along"
Their meeting is the first face-to-
face contact between union leaders
and representatives of the manage
ment.
Meanwhile, the Senate Committee
on Education and Labor prepared
to consider resolution calling for
sweeping investigation of the set
up and activities of General Motors
and officials of the Federal Govern
ment continued the process of trial
and error in seeking a formula for
adjustment of the strike deadlock.
From the Labor Department was
reported a new proposal whereby the
Fisher Body plants at Flint, Mich,
would be evacuated but kept closed
by General Motors while the company
negotiated wage and hour agreements
with the United Automobile Workers.
In this matter the U. A. w. would be
exclusive bargaining agent for en-
ployeS, but the corporation would deal
with other employe groups If re-
quested in other matters.
Proposal Submitted.
The proposal, it was reported, has
been submitted to Gov. Frank Muir
ply, union leaders and to G. M.
Secretive about his exact plans as
he left here yesterday for Detroit, Lewis
dictated brief statement en- route in
which he called again for a round
table meeting of leaders on both sides.
Every moral and logical considera-
ton indicates a conference between
the contesting parties" he said. After
all, that is the only way to settle a
controversy unless it is desirable to
await the exhaustion of one of the
contestants or until one adversary
beats the other down"
The proposed Senate investigation
of G. M. was suggested by Senator
Nicely, Democrat, of West Virginia,
an ally of Lewis on several occasions.
Nicely suggested the inquiry be placed
in the hands of the special committee
which investigated lobbying activities.
Senator Black, Democrat, of Alabama,
(See PROPOSAL, page All
Evening star., 1937-02-03
SUSPECT TRAPPED
BY BLANK PAPER
Bears Faint Impression of
Ransom Message in
Kidnap.S Staying.
BY REX COLLIER.
BY REX COLLIER.

Faint Handwriting impressions on
blank sheet Of paper found on a
casual suspect were credited here to-
day with causing Robert Kenyon to
confess to G-men that he was the
kidnaper of Dr.. j. c. B. Davis, Willow
Springs, Mo. physician.
Using a special light beam device,
laboratory expert from the Fed
eral Bureau Of Investigation head
quarters here discovered that the
writing indented on the paper taken
from Kenyon was a facsimile of the
ransom note received yesterday by
Mrs. Davis.
According to J. Edgar Hoover, di-
rector Of the F. B. l., the paper with
the phantom" writing originally was
under the sheet of stationery on which
the kidnaper scribbled final instruc-
tions for payment Of the $4,000 ran
som. He had torn of the top sheet
and mailed it to the wife, retaining
the undersheet, with its tell-tale i'm
pressions.
Makes Complete Statement.
Confronted with this revelation, sup
plemented by an Identification by a
person who saw DR.. Davis leave his
Office with a stranger on the night
of his disappearance, Kenyon broke
down and made complete statement
regarding the crime, Hoover said.
He thereupon directed G-men to the
place where he had secreted the body
Of his elderly victim.
Kenyon's automobile also was found
to correspond with the description Of
the one used by the kidnaper.
Hoover said his agents began a rou-
tine check on Kenyon when it was
learned he had been reported missing
on the night that DR. Davis failed to
return home. Police were enlisted in
the search for Kenyon and he was
picked up for questioning yesterday
afternoon.
In the note, signed "The Kidnaper,"
received yesterday morning by Mrs.
Davis, instructions were given for a
second attempt to pay the ransom, fol-
lowing failure Of ransom negotiations
last Saturday night.
The next attempt was to be made to-
(See SUSPECT, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1937-02-03
Hitler Wires Gen. Franco.

SALAMANCA, Spain, February 3
R.-Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler today
telegraphed the Spanish insurgents
his hope for their victory in the civil
war. His wishes were contained in an
acknowledgment of insurgent Gen.
Francisco frances message of con-
gratulations Saturday on the fourth
anniversary of Nazi rule in Germany.
Evening star., 1937-02-03
Bank Bandits Get So, 700.

FENTON, Mich, February R.-
Two young gunner robbed the State
Savings Bank of Fenton yesterday
and fed with approximately s2.7oo.
E. G. Reid, cashier, said the $2,700
was taken from the teller's cage and
that none Of the money in the vault
vas touched.
Evening star., 1937-02-03
Summary of Today's Star

FOREIGN.
Spanish loyalist flyers bomb British
warship. Page AS
NATIONAL.
Body Of kidnapped doctor found In
Missouri thicket. Page Al
Cairo watchful as Ohio begins new
rise. Page Al
Congress gets Resources Committee
construction program. Page Al
G. I. o. and General Motors executives
meet in peace parley. Page Al
T. v. A. awaits company statement on
power agreement Page As
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Deposition offered as Cannon suit is
resumed. Page Az
Connery offers legislation to reduce
Federal overtime work. Page Az
School enrolment shows second Sc
mester increase. Page B-1
Bond confasses as trigger man" in
OBrien shooting. Page b.
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
This and That. Page A-10
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
Washington Observations. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page ALL
Evening star., 1937-02-03

6y the Associated Press.
DETROIT, February 3.-Gov Frank
Murphy brought opposing leaders in
the General Motors automotive strikes
together in a peace conference today
q few hours before the deadline set for
evacuation of sit-down strikers holding
two of the corporations plants at
Flint, Mich.
For an hour and a half, in the pri-
vate chambers of a Recorders Court
Judge, William S. Knudsen, executive
vice president of General Motors, and
John L. Lewis, director general of the
strikes and chairman of the Commit
tee for Industrial Organization, talked
with the Michigan Governor.
When they left, Murphy said: There
has been very interesting conference
and another will be held here late
today"
At Flint delay in voluntary or forci-
BILE evacuation Of striker-held plants
beyond the deadline set by court in
junction appeared assured following
statement by Circuit Court Judge Paul
v. Gadola that the order need not be
enforced promptly at pm. eastern
standard time).
Contempt Citation Necessary.
At expiration of the 24-hour period
given for the strikers to leave, Judge
Gadola, who granted General Motors
the Injunction, said, representatives of
the big automobile concern must pre-
sent evidence that the strikers have
failed to comply with the order before
o contempt citation is issued.
Less than three hours before the
deadline set by the injunction sew
eral hundred "stay-in" strikers who
have held the two Fisher Body Co.
plants since December 80 showed no
indication of retreating from their
announced intention to resist ejec-
ton.
Murphy's request to Knudsen and
Lewis for the conference asked them
to meet 'in view of the conditions of
serious unrest and public disorder ex-
listing in the city of Flint and threat
ened in other places with view
to formulating a basis of agreement
and settlement that will be fair and
Just to all parties concerned and con-
sistent with the public interest, thereby
avoiding the necessity of employing
remedies or measures of an extreme
character"
The Governor did not explain what
such measures might be. In Flint
more than 5000 National GuardSmen,
concentrated to preserve order, have
established military lines about the
embattled Chevrolet Motor Co. area.
Lewis, leaving the conference in the
chambers Of Recorders Judge George
Murphy, brother of the Governor, con-
ferred with the U. A. w. A. strike
'board of strategy" at his hotel.
Gov. Murphys letter Of invitation
was delivered to Lewis while the G. I.
o. head was en- route here from WASH
ington. The Governor personally read
the letter by telephone to Knudsen,
and said he received an answer within
an hour.
Murphy's letter concluded with this
line: This request is made in ac-
Evening star., 1937-02-03
ELIHU ROOT, 90, is ILL
Statesman and Jurist Suffers
UVery Bad Cold"

every Bad Cold"
NEW YORK, February 3 (R.-Elihu
Root, 90, famous statesman and inter-
national jurist, today was "ill with a
very bad cold" at his Fifth avenue
home.
For more than a half century Root
served the United States as a diplo-
mat, cabinet officer, legislator, law en-
forcement official and as an organizer
of the League of Nations.
Evening star., 1937-02-03

CAIRO, ILL.,, February 3 (P)-This
beleaguered seawall city, held in sus-
pense for more than a week while the
Ohio River climbed to its greatest food
peak, became doubly alert on crest
watch" today.
After holding a stationary level for
more than Is hours within inches Of
the top of the 60-foot concrete wall,
the fretful river began rising again
averaging less than a hundredth of Q
foot an hour.
The gauge showed slightly more than
5912 feet-still more than feet under
the rim of the temporary barrier Of
earth and wood.
When the new movement became ap-
parent, the Coast Guard ordered its
first all-night patrol along the levee
front and the civilian watch was in
creased, that no weak spot In the line
Of defense might go long unpatched.
Flood Committee Due.
President Roosevelt's Flood Relief
Committee, moving up the swollen
Mississippi River in boat, had an ap-
pointment here today with Gov. Henry
Horner of Illinois.
One veteran flood fighter, noting the
pause in the rivers rise yesterday, con-
cluded "for all practical purposes this
is the crest" but Mayor August Bode
cautioned that it was no time for pre-
mature rejoicing" The danger remains
as long as the river is so heavily over
loaded.
Forty-one railroad fat cars, loaded
with dirt-filled sacks, were stationed
around the inside of the seven-mile
levee system that surrounds Cairo-at
the fork of the Ohio and the Mis-
sippi.
The railroads established a central
Office at the City Hall, in telephone
communication with points along the
dikes, and there a dispatcher was
ready to order emergency maneuvers
with a switch engine.
The Office reported carload OF the
dirt sacks could be moved to any point
within five minutes. Michael Eagan,
Cairo's street commissioner and
member of the co-ordinated Flood
Committee, said 1000 men could be
mustered at any point within Is
minutes.
Thus was the city prepared to with
stand the threat of disaster.
A large timber became caught in
an eddy last night and began pound
ing against the emergency bulkhead
Sac FLOOD Page A-5)
Evening star., 1937-02-03

President Roosevelt nominated
Sheridan p. German today to be
public works director for Virginia.
Evening star., 1937-02-03
Mayor Warns 1t Is No Time
for "Premature Rejoicing"
as Flood Fighters See
Crest at Hand.
COAST GUARD ORDERS
FIRST 24-HOUR PATROL
II Railroad Flat Cars, Loaded
With Dirt.Filled Sacks, Sta
toned Around Seven-Mile Levee
System in Preparation for Meet.
ing ANY Emergency.

Ev the Associated Press.
CAIRO, nl.-With "the crest in sight,"
5000 emergency workers manned the
levee and watched the Ohio River
torrent roll past, its waves above the
roofs of the city: authorities pre-.
dicted levees would hold.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Mississippi River
rose slowly but steadily as Ohio
River food poured into it; Army
engineers, commanding 10000 levee
workers, predicted Government levee
system would hold swollen stream
within bounds on course to Gulf Of
Mexico; death list in Mississippi.
Arkansas and Tennessee passed 60.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Flood continued
to subside, but authorities increased
sanitation measures in effort to pre-.
vent epidemics; water, telephone and
power restoration expected within
few days.
WASHINGTON-C heard sug-
gestions for most gigantic plan Of
national food control; Red Cross re-
lief fund reached Sl1 100000.
Evening star., 1937-02-03

(See ZONING, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-02-03
Virginia Official Nominated.

(See PROPOSAL, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-02-03
Deadline Seen
Extended by
New Rule.
TROOPS HOLD
DANGER ZONE
Governors Appeal
Based on Wish of
Roosevelt.
BACKGROUND

BACK ChGROUNU-
Motors strike began last Decem-
Der 1Uhen United Automobile Work.
erS OF America and General Motors
failed to agree on negotiations,
company refusing to recognize
union as sole collective bargaining
agency. More than 100000 hare
been reported out OF ,pork as dead
lock continued. Government Of
fcials hate tried to intervene, but
hdpe been rebufed. Michigan court
yesterday ordered strikers from
G. M. plants. Union said it ,uould
refuse to obey order.
fTerts OF strike decision and injunc.
fion on nn0p A.4
Evening star., 1937-02-03

(See STRIKE, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-02-03

(See DOCTOR, Page AS
Evening star., 1937-02-03
WEATHER.

(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair, continued cold tonight; minimum
temperature about "a degrees; tomorrow
fair, slowly rising temperature; gentle
north winds. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, 81,
at $3.50 pm. yesterday; lowest, %, at 8
am today. Full report on page AS.
Evening star., 1937-02-03

(See FLOOD, Page A-5D
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
FAILS TO SAVE
infant IN FIRE

An 11-months-old baby, Barbara
Frances Herring. was burned to
death today when the. one.room
house occupied by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin B. Herring,
in the 57OO block Eighth St., Bon
Air, Arlington county. was de-
stroyed by fire.
The baby was alone in the
house. The mother, accompanied
by another daughter, two years
old, was working in the neighbor-
hood. The father, a carpenter, was
badly burned when he returned
and found the structure in flames
and attempted to rescue the in
fant.
Herring cut his hand badly
when he smashed his way into the
house. Overcome by the heat and
smoke he barely escaped with his
life, neighbors said. He collapsed
just outside the door gasping:
It can't get to her"
Fire is believed to have been
caused by a stove The small
dwelling was mass Of flames
when fire companies from
Ballston and Clarendon reached
the scene.
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
Carves Initials
On Thigh of Girl

NEW YORK, Oct. % dN.S0
Dorothy Heintjes, 21-year-old
dancer, and William K. Sealey, 80,
her married admirer, were COM
mitted to a hospital for obServa-
ton today after the girl testified
she let him carve his initials on
her thigh with a razor blade so
that people would know I be.
longed to him"
The girl also testified that last
week she attempted to jump off a
roof and also swallowed poison
because Sealey's wife was return.
ing from a vacation.
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
Chrysler Net Put
At s. Per Share

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 G.N.Sl.
Chrysler Corporation directors
meet after the close Of the stock
market today to report earnings
for the third quarter and the nine
months and to act on dividends.
Reversing the decline of the first
half, informed quarters predict a
gain in the September quarter over
a year ago. Net is placed around
So a common share against $2.87
shown in the 1886 period. This
will reflect the large increase in
sales in the period which offset
somewhat the rising trend in costs
and taxes this year.
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
WINS "MUM" PRIZE

Out Of 80 entries, Mrs. Mary s.
Porter, of 3118 Eighteenth st. N
E., last night was awarded the
Fulton Bradley horticultural
sweepstakes prize at the Wood.
ridge Garden Clubs annual
chrysanthemum show. George s.
Marshall, of Brentwood. Nd. won
second place. G. U. Graf, 242
Peabody st. N. W.. had the best
large chrysanthemum in the
exhibition.
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
"ALOne to Blame" for
Ills, Says Senator

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Oct. 20
QNS0.-President Roosevelt,
"himself. alone" is leaving Ameri-
can business with vertigo on a
merry-go-round that never stops, :"
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg as
serted today.
Speaking to his neighborS, mem
bers of the Grand Rapids COM
munity and luncheon clubs, yester-
day, Vandenberg said the PreSi-
dents policies deprived business Of
the chance it needs to succeed, and
bring America once again to pros
perity.
He blamed the plight of business
on the "unpredictable" policy of
the President, saying:
"It is a fine ideal to share
the wealth. Wealth ought to
be as widely shared as possible
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
TWO TAXICABS,
CASH STOLEN IN
3 HOLDUPS HERE
Pharmacy Clerk Robbed,
Purse SnatChed

More than $50 in cash and two
taxicabs were stolen in the Dis
trict last night in three holdups
and a purse snatching case.
Ruth Shackleford, IS, Of 1864
Avon Pl. N. w., reported while
she was walking in the 200 block
Of D st. N. W., young white
man snatched her purse contain
ing $25, leaped into a coup occu.
pied by two other men and es-
capped.
ROBS PHARMACY
A man described as having a
"Charlie Chaplin mouStache"
walked into the Campbell Phar-
macy at Fourteenth and Decatur
Streets Northwest, last night just
as the clerk was preparing to close
and, brandiShing a revolver,
forced Irving w. Saperstein in a
corner while he robbed the cash
register of $25. He escaped on
foot.
Two taxicab drivers reported
they were robbed and their cabs
stolen by colored fares. Both cabs
were found abandoned. The men
are Thomas s. Mangun, Of 1908
Seventeenth st. N. W., who was
struck over the head and robbed
of 50 after he had taken a colored
man to the 2100 block Of Flagler
Pl. N. W., and William c. Bowes,
of 514 Fourteenth st. N. E., who
was strongarmed and robbed Of
$3.50 after carrying two colored
men to the 1900 block of Caroline
st. N. w.
MAN ARRESTED
Summoned to the scene by a
burglar alarm, police arrested a
colored man found in an alley near
William Rosendorf's fur store in
the 1900 block of G st. N. w.
last night. The man gave his
name as Allen Rouse and said he
was from South Carolina. Two
rear windows of the establishment
had been opened, police reported,
but the building had not been
entered.
A few minutes previous to the
sounding of this alarm police had
been called to Erlebacher's at 1910
F st. N. W., where an alarm also
had been sounded. This alarm
was thought to have been set off
by a transom falling open.
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
Vandenberg Scores
Roosevelt Policies

in Democracy. But before it
can be, wealth has to be created.
Business has to succeed before
it can make jobs. Money must
go to work before men can go
to work and profits have to be
made before they can be either
divided or taxed
Punctuating each point by lay
ing the blame on the President
himself, alone" Van denburg
flayed the Administration for:
An unstable dollar.
Assuming power to initiate
money.
Governmental competition with
business in its relief projects fol-
"socialistic purposes"
An unreliable protective tariff
that may be wiped out withou!
notice.
An unpredictabIe foreign policy
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
is OUT OF HOSPITAL

Robert (Red) Rolfe, third base
man of the world champion
Yankees, was discharged yesterday
from st. Elizabeth'S Hospital,
where he was convalescing from
an operation to remove a muscle
growth from his right thigh.
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
DAUGHTER OF PASTOR

The daughter of a pioneer
Methodist minister, she was born
in Rush county, Indiana, in 1887.
Among the more than 5000
Daughters of Mt. Vernon"-the
name given students and the
alumnae by Mrs. Somers are Mrs.
Evalyn Walsh Mclean, Mrs. Gil
bert Grosvenor, Mrs. Fleming New
bold, Mrs. Edwin M. Watson. Miss
Alice Clapp, Mrs. John K. Mckee,
Mrs. Boyd Taylor, Miss Harriet
Belle Walker, Mrs. Herbert L. Viii
let, jr., Mrs. Beverly c. Dunn, Mrs.
Robert C. Dove, Mrs. David Fair
child and Mrs. Henry P. Erwin in
Washington.
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
PASS SIX FEET

Oregon States future prospects
are soaring, In the freshman
squad of so boys are 26 who stand
6 feet or taller. Three tower 6
feet 4 inches.
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
Homer to Be Paid
Memory of
Educator

Hundreds Of Mt. Vernon Semi
nary alumnae will gather here
next Friday to honor the memory
of Washington's pioneer woman
educator, Mrs. Elizabeth Somers,
in a celebration marking the cen.
tennial of her birth.
They will gather to rekindle in
the flames of 100 candles on q
huge birthday cake, the warmth
of traditional culture, with which
its founder endowed the Districts
oldest resident school for girls.
SERVED 40 YEARS
This custom of cutting a birth
day cake, carried on before Mrs.
Somers' death in 1924, will be a
part of an all-day celebration, in
tribute to the woman who served
for 40 years as head mistress of
the school.
In authentic costume represent
ing each of the 100 years since
Mrs. Somers' birth, students of
Mt. Vernon Seminary will stage
"The Parade of the Hundred
Years at a banquet in the May
flower Hotel Friday night as a eli
max to the celebration.
Mrs. Somers founded Mount
Vernon Seminary in 1875, when
her earlier career as a brilliant
young teacher in the midwest be-
came known to her socially promi
nent friends in washington. They
insisted that she teach their
children.
With several boarding pupils
and a group of day students, she
opened the original Mount Vernon
Seminary in her home on F Street.
It was named for a Baltimore
church, which her brother served
as pastor, and not after the home
of George washington.
The school and her reputation
grew so rapidly she was soon
forced to purchase two residences
at Eleventh and M Sts., where the
Districts first resident school for
young ladies flourished until it
expanded in 1917 to occupy its
present 31-acre site at Nebraska
and Massachusetts, Avenues.
The Washington times., 1937-10-29
GONE TO LUMBER CAMP
Washington Times Staff Photos.

Mickey Owen, Cardinal catcher,
has gone to an oregon lumber
camp to work and, if possible, put
on about Is pounds of weight for
the 1888 season.