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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
FILM CRAFT STRIKE
SPREAD THREATENED
Officials of Union Make Demands
on q Independent Producers
in Hollywood.
b. the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD. May 20-Extension
Of the studio crafts strike to ~ indie
pendent film producers was set for
midnight tonight unless 100 per cent
union shop is granted. About 5000
employees would be affected
While the 2l-day-old walkout at
plants Of major movie companies re-
NAMED at stalemate. officials of the
Federated Motion Picture Crafts
served an ultimatum upon such
studios as Selznick International,
Grand National. 5. P. Schulbers,
Monogram. Major. General Service.
Republic, Invincible, Pioneer and VIC
tory.
A number of these agreed last weeS
end. in concert with major film con-
Germs, to grant guild shop to the
powerful Screen Actors Guild Lead
ers OF 5000 striking studio workers
termed the agreement betrayal" Of
their cause and accused the guild Of
strike breaking connivance with
company union the International Al
lance Of Theatrical Stage Employees.
The F. M. P. C.'s Executive Com
mittee, however, yesterday voted to
repudiate an appeal by the F. M. P. C.
Publicity Committee which asked a
national boycott of five stars who
negotiated the guild pact.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Congress in Brief
TODAY:

AoOAx
Senate:
Continues debate on permanent G,
c. c. bill.
Interstate Commerce Committee
considers railroad pension bill.
Elections Committee considers Nye
bill to strengthen corrupt practices
act.
House:
Resumes consideration OF Interior
Department appropriation bill.
Ways and Means Committee studies
proposed revision of 1880 tariff acts
administrative provisions.
Labor Subcommittee continues hear
ings on Ellenbogen textile bill.
Agriculture Committee continues
hearings on new farm program.
Interstate Commerce Committee
studies railroad retirement bill.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will not be in session.
District Appropriations Subcommit-
tee continues executive hearings on
District appropriation bill. -
Military Affairs Committee, regular
weekly meeting. e.
. Hou1e: .
Considers emergency relief Up
rroprtation bill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Lindbergh'sFlig ht Preparations
Recalled on 10Th Anniversary
BY the Associated Press.


ST. LOUIS, May 20.-Charles A..
Lindbergh, his only possession an extra
suit of clothes, flew to st. Louis in an
"old crate" in Che Spring of 1925. Two
years later he had spanned the At
lant1c to win the adulation OF the
world.
Maj. Albert Bond Lambert, wealthy
pioneer airman and vice president of
the Board of Police Commissioners,
who knew Lindbergh from the day he
first reached st. Louis, recalled the
young pilot today OH the tenth ami
versary of the epic flight from New
York to Paris.
Lambert and Phil Love, now lieu
tentnt colonel and air officer of the
35th Division of the National Guard,
were seated on bench at Iambert's
Cow pasture" which later became the
present Lambert-St. Louis Municipal
Airport, when Lindbergh landed.
Asks Place to Stay.
The boyish-appearing flyer, his hair
tousled, walked from the plane and
said, How do you do? Where can
I get a hot dog sandwich" When he
got it and returned, he asked, ANY
place around here a fellow can stay?"
'Love, who had no more resources
than Lindbergh, looked him over"
Lambert recalled. Then he said,
sVNlJ iNiy iyo I,,yf
want. I live out here"
Indy stayed at Loves hut for two
years. He became an instructor for
the Robertson Aircraft Corp. and
later one of its air mail pilots when
the company was awarded contract
for the st. uis-Chicago route.
$4,000 Prize Offered.
Lambert said the idea Of crossing
the Atlantic came to Lindbergh on
his solitary night flights with the
mail. Six years earlier, 1919, Ray
mond Orteig had offered $25, 900 to the
first man to fly nonstop from New
York to Paris.
On December %, 1925, an afternoon
when a hard snow was falling. Lind
bergh walked into Lambert's Office.
"Ive got a proposition I'd like to
ask you about" he said. cts some
thing I'm going to do. I want to
make the transatlantic flight for
that prize"
If any one in the United States
can do it, you can" Lambert said he
replied.
Lindbergh cold Lambert the cost of
the flight would be $4,000 and that
he already had saved $4,000.
Lambert Immediately replied, AL
right, you can count on me for 81 900
snd on my brother Wooster q. D.
Wooster Lambert, wealthy sportsman
Of st. Louis and New York; for an
other thousand"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
GREEN DAUGHTERS
NAMED IN COURT
Mentioned in Fight Over Will Of
Multi-Millionaire Sup.
posedly Childless.
BY the Associated Press,

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 20.-A mysterious
reference to my two daughters" by
the supposedly childless multi
millionaire, Col. Edward H. R. Green
was described today by a witness in
the s70,000000 Green will dispute.
The alleged revelation that Green
left other possible heirs to the
fabulous estate created a stir in the
court room, heralding further COM
pllcations in the long-fought court
battle
Wilbur K. Potter, former business
agent for Col. Green, said:
I never heard of Col. Green having
any daughters, or any children"
The testimony of Green having 1.-TWO
daughters came from Henry Wood
house, president Of the Aerial League
OF America, who said that the June
1918, issue Of magazine called
Flying contained brief sketch of Col
Green. The article, he said, was
handed to him personally by Col
Green, who, he said. apparently had
either written it himself or approved
1t.
Col. Green was life member of
the Aerial League of America, having
joined in 1913" Woodhouse said. and
in handing me the article for publica-
ton, he told me, I am going to get
life memberships for my two daugh-
tiers, too
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
BLAZE
ROUTS THOUSANDS
Whole Town of 10000 Re.
ported in Flames in Sec
tons Worst Disaster
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, P. L. May 20.-Fire swept
uncontrolled through the gold mining
town of Paracale today, leaving thou
sands homeless ALL an undetermined
number dead.
Ruffians were reported looting homes
as stricken residents fed be-
fore the wind-driven flames.
Newspaper reports varied from two
known deaths to many" The Manila
Bulletin correspondent estimated 200
houses were destroyed in the town
Of 10000 people. He placed the loss
at close to 100000. La Vanguardia' s
correspondent reported the whole
town in flames"
Several persons were reported tram
pied to death as the populace fed in
mad panic before the fire. It sup
posedly started after an explosion in
a house under construction.
Among the first buildings leveled
was the North Camarines Hotel. sur
rounded by many highly inf1ammable
native nipa houses.
Reports were fragmentary because
of limited telegraph service and lack
of telephone service.
Authorities blamed the riffratf
usually attracted by a mining boom
such as pervades the Paracale dis
trict, for the reported looting.
Red Cross workers were rushed by
airplane to survey the situation. The
town is l25 miles southwest of Manila
by airline on the coast of Camarines
Norte Province, Lu1on Island.
The fire spread rapidly, famed by
brisk wind. Lack of water hampered
firefghters.
The correspondent described the
confa grafton as the worst disaster
in that section of the Philippines. with
horrible fights as frantic people
searched for their loved ones"
Origin of the fire was undetermined
Yesterday fire RACED the business
district of the town of Maasin, in Leyte
Province, causing damage estimated
at s250,O00 and leaving many home
less, but resulting in no casualties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20

Lindbergh saw other St. louisans
and two days later had raised $4,000,
On February IS, 1927, the first
check, Lambert's for 81 900, was hand
ed Lindbergh, and two weeks later
he went to San Diego to supervise
construction Of the Spirit of st. Louis.
Every possible way of decreasing
the weight of the plane to assure
greater gasoline capacity received the
flyers attention.
That care in eliminating all I'M
necessary weight, which included
leaving all small change behind. en-
abled Lindbergh to carry 1917 extra
gallons of gasoline, which was exactly
| the reserve amount of fuel in his
tank when he landed at LIE Bourget in
Paris on May 81, 1927, just 80 hours
and 20 minutes after he left New
York
Lindbergh Shuns Celebration.
WEALD, England, May 20 (P.-
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh studiously
| avoided any of the fuss of celebration
today on the tenth anniversary of his
now historic solo fight from New
York to Paris.
He pottered about the garden of his
country home, Long Barn, in the
manner of a man who has never
achieved fame and never wants to.
Il did it. Why should I celebrate
it?" Lindbergh was quoted by friend
,, as having answered when questioned
about his plans for the anniversary
of the flight he made a decade ago.
A steady stream of congratulatory
kilograms poured in on the flying
colonel, but there were no telephone
calls.
Air Race Worries France.
PARIS, May 20 (P.-Just 10 years
after Charles A. Iindbergh took of
on the first solo flight across the At
lantic, France today cast about for q
substitute for the New York-Paris race
that had been Manned in commemora-
ton Of his achievement.
The National Aeronautic Association
of America protested against the con-
test as a useless risk of lives.
The French air ministry said its
head, Pierre Cot, was comforting with
the Aero Club of France. co-sponsor
of the race, in consideration Of a new
race course. Canada, however, had
been barred as possible starting
point. A decision was expected within
q week.
To show there was no i'll feeling over
the hitch in plans for the race that
was to have started today, the Aero
Club invited members Of the National
Aeronautic Association and representa-
tives Of the United States Embassy to
q reception tomorrow night to lift
glasses tn toast at the anniversary
Of the moment when Nnbergh's Spirit
OF st. Louis came to . halt on LIE
Bourget Field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
FORD UNION FIGHT
HOLDS SPOTLIGHT
Speculation Rife as to
Amount of New Minimum
Wage Scale.
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, May 20.-The battle be-
twee Henry Ford and the United Au-
tomobile Workers of America over the
question Of unionizing the great Ford
Motor co. plants throughout the
United States has overshadowed, tenn
porarily at least, speculation in auto
motive circles concerning Fords plans
for increasing his minimum wage
scale.
Ford confirmed recently his inten-
ton of increasing the present Sc day
minimum, but refused to be led into
any discussion as to what the new
scale would be or when it would be an
nounced. In his first announcement
several weeks ago concerning wages, he
said the increase would be made after
the strike mess has been settled" More
recently he intimated plainly that this
point has not yet been reached.
Plans Kept Secret.
So far as can be learned Ford has
taken nobody into his confidence about
his wage plans. Regardless Of the
unionigation drive begun by the u A.
w. A., which the Ford company met
with the distribution Of cards among
its workers challenging the value of
union membership to plant workers,
there is a growing belief in informed
sources here that wage announce
ment may be expected this Summer
or not later than the introduction Of
oil iy,t no owl, A,,t,
This conjecture is based on the as
sumption Ford may want to determine
definitely the production cost Of the
new models. Various opinions have
been ventured regarding the wage
scale. In one authoritative source the
prediction was advanced that Ford will
announce 30-hour week at 81 day.
Ford's past announcements on the
economic value of leisure support
this conjecture.
One early report concerning Ford's
plans had it that he was considering a
$40 day minimum. This has been
termed in sources close to Ford to be
''out Of line"
May Increase Output
Ford originally planned production
Of 100000 units this year. To date
his plants throughout the country
have turned out more than 100000
cars and trucks, and there is some
discussion of the advisability of set
ting up two more production lines at
the parent plant. This is coupled with
the probability that 1888 output may
be increased to 100000 units.
The potentialities of the labor STU
alton at the Ford plants prompt a
wide range of speculation. So far as
known the American Federation of
Labor is not actively seeking members
among the Ford workers, but not few
of Ford's associates are known to be
more friendly toward the A. F. of L..
than they are toward the U. A. w. A.
The A. F. of L. made apparently
fruitless overtures to the Ford man.
Agement coincident with the beginning
of the U. A. w. A. campaign
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
3 LABOR GROUPS
WIN RECOGNITION
Seven of 10 Lewiston-Auburn
Shoe Manufacturers Reccg-
nize Warning Unions.

BY the Associated Press.
LEWISTON, Me. May 2o.-Three
warning labor groups have won recogni-
ton from of the 10 lewiston Auburn
shoe manufacturers, beleaguered al.
most two months by a general strike
among their $500 workers.
John l.. Lewis Committee for In
dustrial Organization earned, by victory
in Wagner act consent" elections. the
right to bargain for nearly TOO en-
ployes in three shops.
Three other shops. employing nearly
1000 persons, had recognized the
Lewiston-Auburn Shoe Workers Pro-
tective Association. local union which
the C. I. o. charged was dominated by
manufacturers and thus constituted a
company union" barred by the labor
relations law.
An independent union was given
recognition in the Holmes Bohr Co..
employing 160.
The B. A. Corbin, Mascot and Anti.
Williamson firms admitted the pro-
tective associations right to bargain.
More pay and fewer hours comprised
the chief demands OF all threee labor
factions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
WAGNER LABOR ACT
VIOLATION CHARGED
Industrial Rayon Corp. Declared
to Be Dominating Employees
Association.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, May 20.-Ralph A.
Lind, regional director Of the National
Labor Relations Board, issued COM
plant charging the Industrial Rayon
Corp. today with violating the Wagner
labor relations act by financially sup
porting and otherwise dominating an
employees association.
The complaint alleges employees
freedom Of expression has been des-
troyed by the company through the
association, and that employees have
been allowed no other form of repre-
sentation for collective bargaining.
Strikes are in progress at the COM
pany's plants here and in Covington,
Va. The strike of textile workers
organizing committee members started
here Monday after friction with an
Inside" organization. and the Viz
ginia strike has been in effect since
March 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20

bust was carefully packed and put
away until 1908, when Mr.. Paladini
undertook the repairs.
The estate, under the administra-
ton of Col. Dodge, has grown from
eco acres to slightly more than ats
acres Of the original 8,000-acre tract
Several restoration projects have
been put into effect under his charge
Principal among these were the filling
in of what was known as He'll Hole,
a mosquito-infested swamp on the
estate, and rebuilding the screen and
Ha-Ha walls. the sea wall and boat
landing.
Insisted on Fire Protection.
AS soon as Col. Dodge took charge
OF the estate, In 1885, minutes of the
association show, he insisted upon
Improvement in fire protection. He
has gradually added modern fire.
fighting equipment until an efficient
department now is functioning. Be-
fore his administration kerosene
lamps were used for lighting and
open fires were utilized for warmth,
These have been replaced by electric
1ty and a heating plant.
Several years ago it was discovered
that the hill on which the mansion
is situated was sliding toward, the
Potomac. Col. Dodge supervised the
construction of tunnels under the hill
to drain the ground and the erosion
was stopped.
COL Dodge never seemed to recover
from an attack of influenza suffered
early last Fall He made two trips
to Florida to regain his strength after
re!apses. AS soon as he returned to
Washington he always managed to
be at his desk in Mount Vernon at
least a part of each day. All of his
trips to Florida and other points were
by air. Mrs. Heiberg said he was an
ardent air enthusiast and would
accept no other mode of transporta-
ton when a trip by plane could be
arranged
Collapsed in Office.
Col. Dodge was talking on the tele-
phone to c. c. Wall, assistant superin-
tendent at Mount Vernon, when he
was stricken. Suddenly, Wall said,
Col. Dodge became strangely silent.
The assistant hurried to the Office to
discover his chief had collapsed in a
chair. Drs. William B. wilkins of
Alexandria and William P. Cation of
Woodlawn were called and worked with
the stricken man until the arrival of
an ambulance from Washington to re-
move him to the hospital.
During Col. Dodge's tenure of office
at Mount Vernon it is estimated nearly
25,O0o,o0o persons have passed through
the gates. Among these have been
some of the worlds most famous
people.
Col. Dodge was a favorite raconteur
IN the circles in which he moved, most
OF his anecdotes being closely related
to Mount Vernon. its history and its
famous owner His favorite stories
dealt with the frequent visits of Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt.
In 1882 Col. Dodge published a book,
Mount Vernon, Its Owner and Its
Story said by many to be the most
complete history of the estate ever
written.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
FARLEY OPPOSED
BY M0RGENTHAU
Secretary Sees No Benefit
in General Monetary Con-
terenCes of Nations.

BACKGROUND
Recently there have been suooes-
tions that the United States Join
Nth Latin American nations to
work out some general monetary
understanding in this hemisphere.
On Capitol Hill, proposal has
been advanced to hold a general
monetary conference designed to
effect redistribution OF the worlds
gold supply.
By the Associated Press
Treasury authorities disclosed to-
day that Secretary Morgenthau Is
opposed to any general monetary con-
ference with other nations.
The Treasury chief, informed Off
Gals said, believes any monetary
agreements looking toward stabiliza-
ton or other ends should be worked
out in talks with individual nations.
These persons said Morgenthau
feels that big conferences involving
many nations customarily bog down
in widespread differences. They
pointed out That the trl-pOWer none
tary agreement by Great Britain,
France and the United States was
effected last September after talks be-
tween representatives of the United
States and spokesman for each OF the
other countries.
Close associates of Morgenthau said
he felt much the same as the late
Will Rogers about international con-
ferences. They cited Rogers remark
that America loses its shirt" every
time it goes into a conference.
Morgenthau had luncheon en-
gagement today with Cesar Charlone
finance minister Of Uruguay.
At his press conference, Morgenthau
declined to say what topics might
be discussed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
.HAUPTMANN PAID
VISITS BY PARKER
Col. Kimber|ing Testifies
Detective Came to Death
Cell Twice.
BACKGROUND

BACK GROUND-
Because OF confession" By
Paul Wendell, dsbdrred attorney.
execution of Bruno Richard Yaupt-
mann uas delayed by Got. Hof-
man
Wendell later repndiated his
statement, charging it tolloOed kid
mapping and torture BY Detectives
Ellis Parker and his son, Ellis, jr.
Bv the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j, May 20.-Col.
Mark o. Kimberling, who was princl-
pal keeper OF State Prison while Bruno
Richard Hauptmann was in the death
house awaiting electrocution, testified
today that Ellis H. Parker, chief Of
Burlington County detectives, twice
visited the condemned Lindbergh kid
naper in his cell.
Until Kimberling took the witness
stand in the trial of Parker and his
son, Ellis, jr., on charges of con-
spiracy in the Paul H. Wendell kid
naping, a sequel to the Lindbergh
crime, the only State official publicly
known to have visited Hauptmann
was Gov. Harold c. Hoffman.
Hoffman, a friend Of Detective
Parker and an expressed doubter that
Hauptmann's conviction solved the
celebrated kidnapping, paid his death
house visit to Hauptmann in Novem-
Der, 1885.
Kimberling called as a Government
witness, placed the Parker DEATH
house visits several months prior 10
the Governors dramatic nocturnal
call at the prison.
Parker was connected with the Gov
ernors private Investigations in the
Lindbergh- Hauptmann case. The Gov
eminent in its present trial charges
Parker conspired to have Wendell, a
former Trenton lawyer, kidnapped and
tortured until he gave the false Lind
bergh kidnapping confession which de-
layed Hauptmann's execution three
days.
Kimberling also disclosed that a
woman. Parker's secretary, Mrs. Anna
Bading, accompanied the detective on
his last visit in July, 1885.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Ex.CONVICT SLAIN
IN FAMILY FIGHT
1y tho Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, May 20-Courtland
Burton, SO, described by a police
official as q former inmate OF the
Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe,
Ohio, was shot and killed early today
in the home Of Robert O. Laws, a
brother-in-l in what officers des-
cribed as the climax of recent domestic
strife.
Lieut.. Sergt Marsh said Laws adj
mitted the shooting, contending he
shot in self defense after Burton had
threatened him with hammer.
Marsh said Burton was released in
February after serving q term for
forgery involving Works Progress
Administration checks.
Iaws surrendered to police and was
held pending IN investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Stork in Back Seat.

PEORIA, Ill. P).-E. L. Brown
picked up" two motor cycle policemen
and police squad car as he raced
through downtown streets at so miles
an hour.
why the hurry?' one officer asked
after Brown was finally stopped.
THE stork is riding in the back seat
with my wife, answered the nervous
driver.
The police escorted him to the hos
pital. where Mrs. Brown gave birth
to a son two minutes after her arrival
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Grabbing Girl of 3,
Boy, 4, Rescues Her
From Death in Lake
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, May 20.-Barry
Tharp, 4, saved Joyce Thompson,
3. from drowning in Washing
ton Park Lake yesterday.
John c. Price, park officer, said
the girl, trying to retrieve a ball,
fell of a pier. Barry threw
himself down on the pier,
grabbed Joyce's arm, and held on
until fisherman pulled her out.
Barry told his mother.
Joyce fell In. held her. I
held her hard. She got her dress
all wet"
joyce told her mother.
Barry hurt my arm"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Pleads to Killing Child.

ROSEBURG, Greg, May 20 (P.-
Cordella Hopkins, %, pleaded guilty
yesterday to beating her 4-year-old
stepdaughter to death. Judge Carl
Wimberly postponed sentencing her
on an involuntary manslaughter
charge.