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Evening star., 1937-11-22
CHEST DR|VENEAR
PERCENT MARK
Workers, However, Are
Short of Goal Set for Final
Report Luncheon.

Falling short of the goal they had
set for themselves, Community Chest
volunteers, at the final report lunch
con meeting at the Willard Hotel
today, turned in total of S220,865.
This increased the campaign total to
l,624,906, or 1891 per cent of the
quota.
The Special Assignment Unit in
creased its leadership, turning in
S65,371 to boost its total to s508,412,
or nearly 80 per cent Of its quota.
The largest amount turned in today
was ST. 400 from the Governmental
Unit, completing 1913 per cent of it's
quota.
The campaign will close officially
with a mass report meeting at $3.50
pm. tomorrow in the Willard ball
room, at which time the success OF
failure of the drive for $2,059, 900 with
which to finance the work of 50 Chest
agencies during 1888 will become
known.
Members Of the Tenth Anniversary
Campaign Committee and of the
Executive Committee were called to-
gether today at the Willard Hotel
headquarters as Board of Strategy
to outline plans for completion of a
final intensive drive today and to-
morrow.
The Campaign Committee is COM
posed Of 80 leading Washington busi-
ness and professional men who have
held the highest positions in the
Chest campaign organizations of past
years and who were called back to
duty this year.
Arthur HELEN, counsel for the Chest
and member of the Campaign Com
mittee, was designated presiding officer
at today's closing report luncheon.
He has given many years of service
to the Chest since 1928, when he aided
in establishing the organization here.
The report luncheons this year have
been uniformly the most enthusiastic
in the history of the local Chest move
ment. All of them have been broad
cast. Famous speakers and special
stunts" have added color, and today's
final meeting was to be no exception.
Although these report luncheons
appear to the casual observer at first
glance to be bedlam of crowds and
voices, the smooth machinery under
Evening star., 1937-11-22
Birth on Plane
Held Cause of
II Air Deaths
BY the Associa ted Press.

=
BRUSSELS, Nov. 22.-The newspa-
per Midi-Journal said today Bel
gian inquiry into last weeks airplane
disaster at Ostend indicated the pilot
attempted to land because the Grand
Duchess HeSse bel Rhein, one of the
passengers, was giving birth to a
baby.
The plane, carrying Grand Duke
George Donatus Won Hesse and men,
bers of his family to the London
wedding of the grand dukes brother,
crashed in fog, killing all II of its
occupants. Five members of the for
mer German royal family were killed.
The body Of the newborn infant
was found in the wreckage.
Evening star., 1937-11-22
CONGRESS ALMOST
READY FOR WORK
ON FARM MEASURE
ssnate:to g b& To-:
morrow@S'Vdse Step
Also Is Near.
PRESIDENT C6NFERS
WITH PARTY LEADERS
Regional Planning Appears to
Have Chance of Receiving At.
tention at Special Session.

BACKGROUND
Called back to consider in special
session four point emergency pro-
gram including legislation for farm,
d1d, reorganization. regional plan
ming and mage hour regulation,
Congress spent most OF last ueek
IN fhbuSter against the anti
lynching bill. Two resolutions were
passed. one asking the Department
OF Agriculture for information
about sultanilamide elirir and the
other granting use of Capitol pic
lures in an art exhibit.
BY the Associated Press
Congress was ready-almost-to pe
down to work today on crop contro
legislation.
Both Senate and House continued
the same sort of wordy debate tina
produced no action during the frs
week of the special congressional ses
sion. but the Senate had a farm bill
to start on tomorrow.
A weary House subcommittee alst
wound up its discussions over an agri
culture bill to establish an ever
normal granary" and stabilize fam
prices.
Majority Leader Rayburn said wore
from the committee was that tn,
legislation would be ready for tn,
House by tonight, certainly tomor.
row" He predicted debate would be-
gin by the end of the week.
Complies With Command.
The measure drafted by the Senate
Agriculture Committee had no rev.
enue-raising provisions, but committee
members said it complied with Presi.
dent Roosevelt's command not to in.
crease spending without compensatins
taxes.
Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho
said the final draft could hold costs
within $5o0,000,00O already budgetec
to the farm program. Some othe,
committee members disputed this, pre-.
dieting it would increase the Fedora
outlay for agriculture by $3.50 900, ,o0C
to 10000, 900.
Senator Pope explained the bill pro.
vldes payments equal to or create,
than those being made under the
present soil conservation act. "If only
certain amount of money is avail.
aole,' he said, Then payments tc
farmers will be scaled down."
Action by the farm committees wa.
not the only sign that the Democrat,
leadership planned to get Congress
TO buckle down to the President,
1our-point special program of legisla.
ton on agriculture. wages and hours
executive reorganization and reeiona
planning.
Confer With President
Vice President Garner, Speake,
Bankhead and Majority Leader.
Barkley and Rayburn of the Senate
and House, respectively, conferred
with the President on speeding u1
legislative action.
Regional planning, an item that ap.
peared lost in congressional confusion
last week, appeared to have some
chance of getting before the House
before the short special meeting Of
Congress ends.
Mr.. Bankhead said House commit
tee. revising the Presidents planning
proposal, might complete its work
earlier than anticipated He pre-.
dicted the bill would provide chiefly
Evening star., 1937-11-22
Pictures on page A-3.)

Fearful of courtroom gun plav q
reinforced squad of United State.
deputy marshals searched all wit.
nesses and spectators appearing to.
day In District Court for the tria,
OF Ted Creech, husky mine superin.
tendent from Harlan County, Ky.
charged with perjury before the Sen.
ate Civil Liberties Committee.
AS several relatives and friends OF
Creech. two former deputies from
bloody Harlan" and two organizers
for the United Mine Workers in Ken
lucky appeared for the trial, all were
searched carefully by marshal sta
toned outside the courtroom. AL.
though no guns were found, several
men appearing evidently as specta-
tors left the courthouse on perceiv-
ing the search.
Inside the courtroom, at least six
deputy marshals were on duty at all
times as both prosecution and de-
fense attorneys wrangled over the
makeup of the jury. With both
sides exercising numerous challenges,
the panel was still incomplete as the
court recessed at 1890 pm, after
two and one-half hours of examina-
tion of prospective jurors.
Battery of Legal Talent.
Creech produced battery ot
Washington and Kentucky legal tai.
ent for his defense, including Will
liam E. Leahy and William j. Hughes
of Washington and Walter B. Smith
and Cleon K. Calvert of Kentucky.
The prosecution was being handled
by Assistant United States District
Attorney David Pine.
Appearing as principal witness
against the defendant was Richard
c. Tackett. slight gray-haired Ken
tucklan who admitted before the
committee last spring that he had
known about efforts OF the Harlan
coal operators to intimidate organ
izers of the United Mine Workers BY
shootings and dynamitings.
Arrested Last April.
Son of one Of the Harlan mine
owners, Mr.. Creech was arrested last
April 20 as he left the Senate Office
Building on a warrant sworn to by
MIR. Tackett and United States Deputy
Marshal Robert L. Bonham. Released
under $4,000 bond after hearing be-
lore Police Court Judge John P. Nc
Mahon, he was later indicted.
The alleged perjury by the mine
Official, who had testified def1antlv in
the early days of the inquiry into
terrorism and violence in Harlan. CEN
tered around conversation which he
mad with Mr.. Tackett during a lunch
con recess in the hallway outside the
Senate committee room.
Tells of Threats.
AS the afternoon session opened
Mr.. Tackett took the stand to tell OF
being threatened by Mr.. Creech
Marshal Bonham, who had Mr.
Tackett in custody at the time. sup-
ported his prisoners testimony on the
witness stand and the committee
called upon the mine superintendent
for his version. He denied the threat
and told a story conflicting directly
with that of the other two.
The committee then referred the
case to the United States district
attorneys Office.
Evening star., 1937-11-22

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt, informed off,
cials said today, may send to Congress
this week some suggestions for stimu.
lating private building.
He is understood to have considered
several proposals for handling this
phase of his program to check the
business recession.
One was reported to be authorize
ton for loans from the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. to mortgage companies
organized to furnish capital for large
scale housing projects. The r. F. c.
would match dollar-for- dollar funds
put up by private capital.
Another was an increase in the per-
centage of the cost of a small home
which may be financed through a
mortgage insured by the Federal Hous-
ing Administration.
F. H. A. Financing Plan.
Advocates of this program contend
many prospective home builders are
deferred by lack of funds from making
the 20 per cent down payment now re-
quired for F. H. A. financing. They
would increase to 80 per cent the
amount which could be insured by the
F. H. A.
A high government official said the
President had indicated favor for the
r. F. c. proposal. There has been no
report of his attitude toward F. H. A,
financing.
Along with this effort to stimulate
industry, the President is expected to
call in heads of leading utilities CON-
panles to discuss possible vast con.
structlon program in this field.
Some economists have estimated
that more than $4,000 OO0,0 900 in pri-
vate utility construction has been held
up because of uncertainty created BY
the Governments power policy.
Ihls construction would be under
taken, utility spokesmen have said. il
there were assurances the administra-
tlon would erect no competing"
plants, ease the Public Utilities Hold
ing Company Act and make other con.
cesSions.
New Power Plants Needed.
Both sides acknowledge that hun.
dreds of new power plants, count.
less transmission lines and other equip.
ment are needed.
But each has been sparring for
concessions from the other. The
President recently offered the utili-
ties his co-operation-on condition
that they change their methods of
fixing rates to the consumer. Instead
OF valuing their property on a basis
OF what they paid for it and what it
would cost if built now, he said, they
should follow common law principles.
This, 1t was indicated, meant "pru-
dent investment" that is, what was
reasonably and honestly" invested in
properties used and useful" in the
business.
Some utilities spokesmen replied
that the industry would not need
Government aid if restrictions" were
removed. The trouble, they declared.
was that investors lacked confidence
in the future of utilities because of
the fixed punitive policy" of the
Government.
Speculation Over Taxes.
Reports that Mr. Roosevelt would
send Congress message outlining
possible means of stimulating resi-
Dental building aroused speculation
over the question of whether he would
mention taxes.
The United States Chamber of
Commences housing conference last
week asserted the undivided profits tax
was retarding building Wide senti-
(See BUSINESS, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1937-11-22

FOREIGN.
Japanese planes drop advice" to
Chang to yield. Page Al
Windsor settles libel suit for "substan-
tial sum-" Page Az
French pretender opens campaign to
recognize throne. Page Al
NATIONAL.
Officers search courtroom crowd at
Creech trial. Page Al
Roosevelt suggestions to help business
are indicated. Page Al
Senate gets farm bill; Roosevelt man.
date disregarded. Page Al
Martin induces strikers to quit G. M.
G. M. c. plant. Page Al
coroner's jury fails to fix cause of
Coffin death. Page Az
Death OF boy, 16, laid to white lie"
of girl. Page Az
More oratory awaited in anti-lynching
bill f1libuster. Page AS
Coughlin asks friends" to halt broad
cast agitation. Page AS
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Allen orders inquiry into Ruhland's
Glenn Dale policies. Page Al
Court action balks Christmas Fidelity
dividend. Page Al
Supreme Court rejects another attack
on Justice Black. Page Al
President postpones departure for
Warm Springs. Page Al
Court attaches search spectators at
Creech trial. Pae Al
Chest drive brings in 1891 Der cent
OF quota. Page Al
Evening star., 1937-11-22
PRINCESS BAr'.. WE'D
Daughter of Sarawak Rajah Mar.
ried to Wrestler in London.

LONDON, Nov. % P.-Princess
Bahia, youngest daughter of the Brit
ish Rajah of Sarawak, was married
today to her wrestler boy friend, Bob
Gregory. despite her fathers threat
to disinherit her..
The marriage, previously postponed
several times when the 21-year-old
princess failed to show up, was per-
formed in the Marylebone registry
Office.
Evening star., 1937-11-22
CROWD SEARCHED
At CREECH'S TRIAL
U. S. MarshaIs Are FeafuI OF
Violence Outbreak in
Perjury Case.
BACKGROUND

DHC hIhOUWD- n
Senate CiUH Liberties Commit
tee has been engaged for more than
year in probing instances of labor
espionage, intimidation and other
1nterterences ,Uith rights of Uork-
erS to organize. Harlan County,
one OF blacklist spots in country as
Jar as uiolation OF individual rights
IS concerned, uas subject of ueeks
OF Investigation and hearings last
spring.
Evening star., 1937-11-22

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, No.
vember % (R.-Paul Codos, French
transatlantic flyer, piloted his big
four-motored plane to a landing at
Alrfrance Airdrome today to estab-
lsh record for the flight from Paris
to Buenos Aires.
Evening star., 1937-11-22

BY the Associated Press
PONTIAC. Mich, Nov. 22-Strikers
VINO had held the General Motors
FISHER body plant here since Wednes-
Gay evening marched out at 1l:30
am. today. led by Homer Martin, in
ternational president of the United
. Automobile Workers of America.
Martin, who entered the plant at
10 am, said when he emerged that
the strikers had voted unanimously
TO evacuate the plant.
He said the company would be notj-
fed at once that the men had left
ana mat he would attempt to open
negotiations on grievances which
caused the strike.
Ending Is Unexpected.
The strike. which began without
warning when few hundred mem
oers OF tAa night shift refused to
work because the company insisted
upon the suspension of four men
~hom 1t blamed for a previous un-
authorized strike, ended lust as I'M
expectedly.
The men had refused to heed an
peals OF the international officers and
OF the International Executive Board.
"hlch was summoned into emergency
session yesterday by Martin. The
board recessed at $50 am. until D M
aiter issuing a statement describing
the strike as unauthorized and un-
sanctioned" That statement came
after % hours of nearly continuous
conferences.
Although one striker, guarding an
entrance to the plant. said the men
would turn fire hose" on Martin if
he should appear, Martin and his
secretary, Miss Vivian Fox, went
directly to the plant in taxicab from
the board meeting Leonard Netzorg,
Detroit U. A. w. A. attorney who ac-
companied them into the plant, said
he understood the strikers had invited
Martin to appear before them.
Admitted Immediately.
Martin and his secretary were ad-
mitted Immediately they reached the
plant.
The international president was re-
ported to have told the men that their
strike "jeopardized the very life" of
the union.
Netzorg said the men gave Martin a
respectful audience, but asked numer-
Gus questions when he completed his
speech.
When he emerged, Martin said that
"the men are ready to go back to
work at any time; it is up to the
corporation when they want to start
operations.
He declined to say whether he had
promised the strikers that the union
would fight for the retention of their
Jobs and for the reinstatement of four
men whose suspension the company
demanded for alleged leadership in a
previous unauthorized strike.
Meeting Is Called.
He said all members of the Pontiac
local would attend a mass meeting
late today.
Shortly before Martin reached the
plant, the strikers permitted a dozen
company officials who had been in
the plant overnight, to depart.
H. j. Klingler, president of the
Pontiac Motor Co., whose plant closed
Thursday because automobile bodies
were not available from the struck
Fisher plant, said that several days
might be required to resume oper-
ations. He said that 1--WE may be
able TO open by the latter part of
the week"
The Fisher and Pontiac plants to-
gether currently are employing 14,721
men.
Netzorg disclosed after the evacu-
alton that he had acted unofficially as
(See I,ARnR pnno D
Evening star., 1937-11-22
BACK IN HOSPITAL
Basil Ryan Observation-Disclosures
ties Silent on Illness.

BY the Associated Press.
HICKORY, N. c., Nov. 22-Basil
(Pat) Ryan, wealthy young New
Yorker, who married Miss Martha
Barkley, 81, Of Morganton, N. c., the
night Of November 4, was readmitted
to a hospital last night after having
been out of the institution week.
Hospital authorities declined to dis
cuss his condition.
When he left the hospital a week
ago Ryan said he had no recollection
of having married Miss Barkley.
Evening star., 1937-11-22
Summary Of Today's Star

Nine injured, several seriously, in week
end traffic. Page Al
Fires rout families, damage two build
lngS. Page AS
Evening star., 1937-11-22
STRIKERS PARADE
FROM c. NJ. PLANT
ON MARTINS PLEA
"WiIdCat" Sit-In Ended Aft.
er Union Leader Speaks
to Men.
VOTE TO EVACUATE
HELD UNANIMOUS
Labor Chief Disregards Threat of
Violence to Enter Struck
Fisher Factory.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
approximately 500 men began
Dttdcdt" sit-dolUn strike at Gem
eTat motors Fisher body plant at
pontiac, Mich, last Wednesday.
1he strike, not authorized by
united Automobile Workers. c., I.
q. aHl'ate, is in protest OF lay-ofs
and allegedly ercessiue speed de-
manded OF 1oorkers on conueyor
lines.
Evening star., 1937-11-22

(See CHEST, Page A-10.)
Evening star., 1937-11-22
Codos Establishes Record,

(See CONGRESS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-11-22
STUDIES
NEW R. F, c, LOANS
TO AID BUSINESS
May Send Suggestions to
Congress to Push Hous-
J. 'na5roisct. g., .
sA1h. ~
PEACE WITH UHL.TIES
SUBJECT OF PARCE
F. H. A. Requirements May Be
Liberalized to Encourage
Builders of Homes.

BACKGROUND
Turning to priuate capital and
leadership for help as the current
business recession threatened seri-
ouSly to impede the program of his
administration. President Roose-
Uelt recently has sought to stimu-
late boom in priuate residential
construction.
Evening star., 1937-11-22

(See LABOR, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-11-22

w " WeuVIIer burtHu FOreCaSt1
Fair and continued cold tonight and
tomorrow; lowest temperature about 26
degrees; gentle to moderate northwest
winds. Temperatures today-Highest, 36
at l pm; lowest, 27, at 6 am.
Full report on page Az.
Evening star., 1937-01-29
Crime of Extortion
Ordeal of Alfred E. Smith, Jr., Brings Justice and
Airing of Major Evil.

ing to the victim. Since publicity Is
their weapon, obviously the only way
to stop them and end this crime Is to
stop the publicity. Blackmail suits
should be held in camera, or the name
Of the plaintiff should be suppressed.
It would not be so exciting for the
public to read about a Mr.. A or q Mr.. x
as 1t is to read about q popular poll
tician's son, but it would serve justice
and protect the public o great deal
more effectively.
Practice Akin to Blackmail.
And blackmail suits are not the only
ones in which publicity contributes to
defeat justice. Breach Of promise
suits, I am convinced, are usually
brought in the expectation Of settle.
ment out Of court. and are also in al
most all cases forms Of blackmail.
Fortunately, they are gradually being
outlawed, as we begin to assume that
women are responsible human beings
capable Of Judgment and liable to suf-
fering from their own mistakes. The
final establishment Of the response.
bility Of women for their own actions
will help the cause Of justice consider
ably. Mr.. Krone and Mr.. Ross would
never have dared to threaten Mr..
Smith with suit at all If they had
not counted on the possibility Of Q
jury finding that an adult young
woman, who earned her own living
and certainly knew q few of the more
obvious facts Of life, was q victim Of
assault" when she went, in her cups,
to hotel room with a man.
I do not see how publicity in divorce
cases can contribute to anything ex-
cept private suffering and public un-
truthfulneS. The well.to-do who
can afford to travel afar and estab-
lish residences for several months In
such States as grant divorces on the
more elegant and painless grounds Of
"desertion" or mental cruelty" are
fairly Indifferent to publicity, which
anyhow cannot find much to feed on.
A woman does not particularly mind
having it recorded that her husband
treated her cruelty by not sharing her
intellectual and cultural interests.
But men and women will put up with
a great deal rather than see the father
or mother Of their child dragged
through the courts and through the
press as an adulterer, with Juicy de-
tails, If any.
(Copyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-01-29

friends
by bringing outsider hn the position
OF Undersecretary Of State
pressure egaion"-that to the
decided to abandon
ordering number Germany the barter
Greece needed warhips but has to The
British might modest order from Athens
offered destroyrs In
Of
government put
annoyed other under their the
has
Evening star., 1937-01-29
Mission flushed.

South Africa Is intrigued by q mill
tary question to which it is impossible
to get q comprehensive reply. 1t con-
Germs the recent visit overseas Of Col.
p. deWaal, director Of military opera.
tions and training, who is at his post
again in Pretoria, and reticent. It Is
known that he was attached for some
time to the war Office in London and
that he was occupied with other mill
tary duties. There was much specula-
ton about his mission, and 1t was
thought that he would explain when
he returned. Instead, he has wrapped
his entire mission in q veil Of secrecy.