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The Washington times., 1937-01-19

ferences and talk to people who
really know about them"
And when we asked what she
was going to wear to the inaugura-
tion, she answered:
'NOthing to get excited about
the black fur coat I've worn
for three years"
Lively discussion followed about
the nature of the fur, and the
brown collar and cuffs, with
which it was trimmed. Neither
she nor Mrs. Schneider, her per-
sonal secretary, could vouch for
the kind of fur.
The decision as to the social
standing of the pelC seemed up
to Mrs. Helm, the social Secre-
tary of the White House, who
knows to a gnat's heel the who's
who of all White House callers.
Mrs. Helm modelled in the coat
and the decision was that the
three-year-old garment is broad
tail, trimmed with martin.
Indifferent to food and clothes,
as she is personally, Mrs. RooSe-
velt realizes that multitudeS of
home fires are kept burning be-
cause she submits to the flash of
cameras, the click of typewriters,
and endless croSs-questioning
about food and raiment."
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TO GIVE
SPAIN DATA

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 GN.sO.
Anxious to give Government Of
ficialS all the first-hand informa-
ton at their command, Berta
Acosta, Eddie Schneider and Cor
don Berry, American pilots who
served the Spanish 1oyalist army,
were to fly to Washington today.
Their first conference was slated
TO be with Major Gen. Oscar West
over, chief of the Army Air Corps.
They were to tell him of the type
of equipment used in the civil
war, and give all other data of
military value.
They also expected to meet Sec
retary of Commerce Daniel Roper.
Another conference was Sched-
uled with Senator Ashurst, chair
man of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee, in charge Of neutrality
legislation.
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BAY ISLAND HIT
BY EPIDEMIC

MumpS and measles in epidemic
proportions have broken out on iso-
lated Smiths Island, off the East
ern Shore (MdJ area of CheSa.
peake Bay, according to the Amer
lean Red Cross today.
Smiths Island, an historic but
almost forgotten tiny island in the
bay, became the center of national
sympathy last winter when, with
neighboring Tangier Island, it was
ice-locked and 2,4O0 persons on
both isles were marooned and
faced starvation.
Plight of the islands led to de-
cisions to guard their health this
winter and, as a result, Mrs.
Emma Fox Clinton, of the Red
Cross, arrived on Smiths Island
last week and found herself facing
the outbreak of mumps and
measles.
Six patients on Smiths Island
are stricken with influenza or
pneumonia, two islanders are suf-
fering apoplexy, one has broken
arm, another a smashed hand, ac-
cording to Mrs. Clinton's report.
Between visits to her patients,
Mrs. Clinton plans to open q
course in home hygiene and care
of the sick for island mothers.
The nurse will be on the island
for duration of the winter.
The Washington times., 1937-01-19

campaign to bring strikers and
General Motors together.
This effort, seemingly success
full last week, collapsed COM
pletely yesterday when actual
peace negotiations were to have
been started.
In the meantime, on other Sec
tors of the strike front, quiet pre-
vailed today. In Flint there was
a furry last night when a union
meeting was broken up by reports
of trouble at Fisher Body Plant
No. 2, held by "sitdowners."
Two Youths COught
The strikers rushed to the plant
to find two youths had been
caught by strikers patrols on the
roof of one building. Both were
students in the General Motors
technical school in Flint. Anna
teur photography was the hobby
that had led them to penetrate
the plant. Strikers, after question
ing both, released them.
Strikers in Detroit maintained
heavy pickets at the Cadillac and
Fleetwood plants, evacuated by
"sitdowners" last Saturday. No
trouble was reported from this
source.
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BARRIERS GE7 |
TRIAL DELAY

Judge Isaac R. Hit, sitting in
Police Court, today granted a pest
ponement of trial until February
8 for two officials of the local bar
ber's union charged with con-
spiracy to violate the law prohibit
ing destruction of private prop
erty.
The two, Phillip Cello, 35, of the
700 block of Quackenbos St. N. W.,
and Sam G.. Hambrick, 27, of the
100 block of Euclid st. N. W., are
claimed by police to have been
responsible for smashing windows
in non-union shops.
William j. Wise, 46, a barber of
the 1900 block of H st. N. W., was
also granted a continuance. The
three were placed under $1,000
bond each.
Two others, Charles Crossley, "a,
OF the 100 block of Longfellow st.
N. w. and Edwin Lowe, So, of
the $500 block of Second st. N.
W., were to be arraigned today in
United States District Court.
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
EVILS HEAR kAURPt4Y 4YS STRIKE PEACE PROPOSAL
.OUie Quits
Civilization for
Tibet Cult

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 19 Q.N.SO .
The mysterious disappearance
from the screen capital Of Garrett
Fort, noted scenarist, was cleared
up today by the Los Angeles Ex-
aminer.
In an exclusive story that news
paper revealed the famous scenario
writer is now in Tibet, and that
he intends to remain there for the
rest of his life.
The writer is now living, the
Examiner revealed, in a colony Of
followers of Shri Maher Baba,
Hindu mystic.
Baba, known as "The Goldman, "
and who assertedly thrust the
spirit of leadership into the veins
of Mahatma Ghandi, visited Hol-
lywood four years ago. 1t was at
that time Fort first met him and
became interested in his philoso-
ply, the Examiner stated.
After accepting the Hindu mys-
tics teachings, Fort became com.
pletely exiled from his former
associates and familiar haunts of
the screen colony. He sold his
home and his yacht and vanished
several months ago.
He explained to a friend:
"The Messiah (Baba) has
given me peace so / am going to
the Tibetan colony where he
rules"
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Mother of Three
Jailed in Theft
of Truck

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 G.N.S0.
Julia Kopsick, 26, mother of three
small children was in Kings
County Hospital under obServa-
ton today after being arrested
on a charge of stealing a truck.
Police said she first turned in
a false fire alarm and then
drove away in the truck parked
nearby. Arraigned in felony court,
she was asked:
"Why did you pull the fire
bOx?"
Because I am a maniac"
"WhO told you that?"
"My husband"
do you believe him."
mo"
Police quoted her as saying
when she was arrested:
II did it have some fun"
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IS HELD
HERE WITH
GOVERNOR
Details Of His Program
To End Auto Row
Are Kept Secret
BY Edward B. LOCKETT,
International News Service

Negotiations between Gov. Frank
Murphy, of Michigan, and Fed
eral officials looking toward a
peaceable settlement of the Gen
eral Motors automobile strike got
under way here today in con-
ference at the office of Secretary
Of Labor Perkins.
John L. Lewis, chairman Of
the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization, which is backing the
strike, was called in for the meet
ing. Also attending, besides Miss
Perkins, Murphy and Lewis, was
James F. Dewey, Labor Depart
nent conciliator, who has been an
observer" in the strike zone.
Make No Statement
None of the participants would
make any statement at the outset
of the meeting. Murphy went di-
rectly to Secretary Perkins office
about an hour after he arrived
here by train from Detroit and
after he had chatted informally
with Dewey at his hotel.
At the White House secretaries
continued to maintain that Muir
ply would not formally take up
The question of the strike with
President Roosevelt, and Michi-
gan's governor himself confirmed
this after his arrival here.
Murphy announced when he ar
rived that he had a specific pro
poSal for peace to lay before Fed
eral officials, but refused to reveal
Its details or discuss it. This pro-
poSal he laid before Lewis and
Secretary Perkins at the confer
ence which got under way shortly
before 11:30 a. m.
Thinks 1t Will Work
Murphy refused to discuss or
reveal details of the plan, but
seemed confident that his trip
here would be productive of pro-
gress in the impasse now tying
up negotiations. He said, simply:
81 believe it will work out all
right"
Apparently, his program for a
strike settlement constituted the
only visible avenue out of the
deadlock which brought collapse
of negotiations between workers
and General Motors officials in a
conference yesterday.
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Continued from Page II

4AVD1 0SO L
take the oath of the Presidency.
She is the first woman since
Julia Dent Grant to be so for
tunate as to see her husband
twice inaugurated.
What thoughts will pass through
her mind on this occasion, of
course, she alone will know. But
those who know her best believe
that she will be far happier four
years from tomorrow, when, as
she terms it, she returns to pri-
vate life.
Quizzed by Reporters
In her sitting room at the White
House the other day feminine re-
porters were plying her with queS-
tions that concerned her personal
plans.
They all wanted to know what
she was going to wear, when she
went to the Capitol for the in
auguration.
Her gay, characteristic laugh
rang out:
"When I return to private
life I'll give thanks with the
lOudest hOSSanaS that 1 don't
have to be photographed again
or to remember what clothes /
wore or expect to wear"
And this from the woman who
has been rated among the six
best-dreSSed women in the United
States!
Clothes, if you happen to know
Mrs. Roosevelt, are no fetish with
her. When she first came to the
White House, she confided she
had never spent more than a
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
n. Y. Police Victims
OF Tailoring Racket

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-Police
last night we're trying to find
a way to smash a racket of which
they are the victims. They said
the making of police uniforms
from cloth obtained through the
department is handled by a
"closed corporation Of tailors
which has raised prices 25 per
cent since January /. Tailors out
side the corporation refuse to
make uniforms.
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BOMBS HURLED
AT STRIKERS
CONTINUED from Page u

(CONClnucu IEOm rage ~
Mackey was treated by a ply
sician, retained by the union to
treat any unionists injured.
Just before the bombing police
closed all saloons and restaurants
within three blocks Of the plant as
a precautionary measure. '
Trouble FOreseen
Police here sensed trouble at
dawn as more than 1000 Dodge
Company night shift workers,
members of the U. A. w., Dodge
Local No. 3, started motorcade
at 5 a. m. to the Briggs Body
plant in Meldrum Avenue to
picket strike breakers.
The Briggs plant was the scene
of a short-lived "sit-in" strike
several weeks ago. The "sit-
downerS" were ouSted and re-
placed by nonunion men.
Last night dodgers were circu-
lated through the Dodge plant
calling workers to meetings in a
union hall where they were ad-
dressed by Richard T. Franken-
steen, U. A. w. organizer, and
Forest Fields, Dodge local or
ganizer. So numerous were the
unionists that three meetings were
held.
At 5 a. m. they left the union
hall in 251 cars, holding from
three to seven men apiece. In
10 minutes they had reached the
Briggs plant, where IS armed
police had been rushed a short
time before.
Picket Line 4 Deep
The newcomers established a
picket line more than a block long
and in places four deep. Addi-
tional pickets continued to arrive
steadily for an hour.
The picketing was peaceful un-
til shortly after Z a. m. when
police attempted to rush a plant
executive through the line. There
was some disorder, followed al
most Immediately by a short bar
rage of gas bombs.
PicketS and spectators Scurried
for cover. The executive sprinted
inside the gates.
Later police insisted they had
not hurled the tear gas into the
picketS' ranks. This brought the
report from Frankensteen, in
charge of the line:
"Of course the police threw
them. Where else would they
have come from? We have no
tear gas. That was the most
vicious piece of police work /
have ever seem"
Early today the general situa-
tion in the strike was unchanged
following the collapse of peace
negotiations yesterday.
Homer S. Martin, national
U. A. w. president. could not be
reached as the Dodge workers
marched on the Briggs plant.
Murphy Seeks Help
Advocating the rule of reason"
and declaring the public author
ity would remain supreme in
Michigan, Governor Murphy left
yesterday to seek help in his
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
By THOMAS A. LOAYZA

MADRID, Jan. 19. QN.S0.
Loyalist troops today captured
the hill of Los Angeles, just south
of Madrid, after sharp fighting.
Loyalist leaders claimed this
victory cut the inSurgent left
flank. Two inSurgent officers and
200 men we're taken prisoners.
An official communique asserted
$50 insurgents surrendered south
of Ebro on the Aragon front.
Near Malaga
Seven miles from Malaga, chief
de Llano halted his insurgent
army and reorganized it for the
final attack on the city.
Sweeping past Marbella, the last
fortified obstacle in his march
towards Malaga, General de
Llano captured Los Boliches and
Fuengirola, 20 miles from the city,
and drew up his array of 10000
at TorremolinoS.
City Shelled
A destructive aerial lombard
ment preceded capture of Fuen-
girola, and artillery and airplanes
were due to shell Malaga before
insurgents attempt to storm the
city-where the loyalists are eX'
pected to put up resistance almost
equal to that which frustrated
efforts to take Madrid.
Marbella was practically sur.
rounded by fierce Moors before it
fell, and few loyalistS escaped, &C
cording to insurgent sources
where it was asserted the loyalists
have lost nearly TOO men in the
Malaga campaign.
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n. J. All Woman Jury
ConViCts Man of Theft

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 10 G.NS.)
Peter Guarino, 38, awaited SEN
tence today after being convicted
by New Jerseys first all-woman
jury, sitting in Federal Court here.
on three robbery counts carrying
a maximum penalty of 80 years
Imprisonment. The jury found
him guilty after celebrating only
20 minutes. Guarino burst out
weeping.
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
TAKE
HILL NEAR
MADRID
Two Insureent Officers
And 200 Men Made
Prisoners

PARIS, Jan. 19 QN.SO.
France today instructed officers
of all her warships in Spanish
waters to fire upon any planes
or ships which mOlest them. The
government acted after six
bombs, dropped from an un-
identified airplane, exploded
near the French destroyer Maille-
Brege off Gibraltar yesterday.
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
MEMS SHOES

21 PAIRS RALEIGH "6"
SHOES: broken sizes. Were
$3.50 to So. Now. .... $3.6B
SO PAIRS RALEIGH "S''
SHOES; Scotch Grains and Calf
skins; broken sizes. We're
9o. 80 ........ S4.ob
RALEIGH "s" SHOES: Scotch
Grains. Calfskins. SUICIDES.
Were Sc and $6.s5. &5.15
2a PAIRS sTA-sMOOTH SHOES,
Cardovans. Scotch Grains. Calf
skins: small and large sizes.
Were $40. Now. w......$ $6.66
sTA-SMOOTH SHOES: with
patented innersoles. We're $3.50
and $40. ..... ........... 1888
HANAN SHOES; entire stock
included: only patent leather
dress oxfords excepted. Were
$10.75 and $3.50.
1885 and S1O.S5
The Washington times., 1937-01-19

&59.75 AND $69.75 COATS;
trimmed with Persian Lamb,
Skunk. Canadian Wolf or
Blue-dyed Fox; black: sizes
IL to 40. ......... $40
$60.75 AND $79.75 FUR
TRIMMED COATS; trimmed
with Lynx on fleece fabrics:
Fox, Persian. ..... $50
&79.75 AND $s9.75 COATS,
with Blue-dyed Fox. Cross
Fox. Black Fox. and Persian:
sizes IL to AZ, 331a to
~ n SOb
500 SILVER FOX-TRIMMED
COATS: tailored of rough
woods and rich Hair Cloths:
sizes - to 20. ..... $79.75
$I29.5O TO &I39. so SILVER
FOX-TRIMMED COATS with
MainbOcher collar; sizes ~
10 ~ ............. S9D
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
W0MEN'S COATS

/ MELs HAIR COATI
brown. belted model. Size 1s.
Was $29.75. Now.....$1S.S8
& COATS: natural camels hair:
sizes 10 to IS. Were S39.75 to
500. Now. .S32.76
The Washington times., 1937-01-19
MEMS CLOTHING

10 BROOKSTREET SUITS for
young men; light colors, sport
back models; regular L 1857, Q
(39), 2 (4O), l t42). 1 40:
short l (35), 1 (3O, l (39).
We're $25 and $3.50.
Now .................$17.75
20 RALEIGH AND HART
SCHAFFNER & MARX SUITS;
regular (34, l (36), l (3S),
/ (4O), (42); short 1 1857, 1
(37). 1 1857, 1 (39), 2 (40),
! (42l; long (4OO, l (42);
stout l (39). 1 (40). (42), 1
(44D, / (46); short stout l
(4O). Were $50 and S35.
Now .SIV.7O
s RALEIGH TOPCOATs; regu-
lar 1 (4O). (44); short l
(3O. l (39); long l (39O.
We're $50. Now. .$I7.75
The Washington times., 1937-01-19

Advocating the rule of reason"
and declaring the public author
ity would remain supreme in
Michigan, Governor Murphy left
yesterday to seek help in his
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-03-12
VAN SWEARINGEN
Bonds Net Morgan Nine
Millions

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)-Coming
back this week to his investigation of
railroad holding companies after an
interval of nearly month, Senator
Wheeler, of Montana, charged that
the Van Swearingen brothers had set
up the Allegheny Corporation to evade
ruling of the interstate commerce
commission. The commission declared
that the Van Swearingen plans for
merger of railroads were not in the
public interest,"; and the Vans set
up the Allegheny.
"The Allegheny Corporation was an
accentuated case of what the ICC had
previously condemned" said Cenator
Wheeler.
Wheeler quizzed sharply Charles R.
Gay, president of the New York
Stock Exchange, for listing the Allie
gheny Corporation bonds. Gay tried
to defend the action; but had to admit
that issue was admitted to the lists
with a minimum Of delay, and that
the exchange normally should take
account of any formal ruling by such
AN agency as the ICC.
Wheeler showed that the House of
Morgan cleared a net profit of $685.
933, and individual members of the
firm had cleared $1,368,972 more out
of unloading the Van Swearingen is
sues on the public Thomas w. La
mont, member of the House of Nor
gan, admitted that this was true;
but said that on Van Swearingen
business in general, the house had lost
more than $9,ooo,0o0 Wheeler brought
out the fact that these losses were
largely in the Cleveland Terminals
Co, the Vans favorite real estate
speculation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-03-12

monopolies and near monoplies, and
calls for sharp revision and vigorous
enforcement of the antitrust laws.
"The problem created by combina-
tions and mergers" it says, sis not
merely the lessening of competition
in a particular industry. The pro-
gressive enlargement of few pre-
dominant enterprises has already gone
so far that in financial strength and
in numbers of persons under their
control, the largest concerns exceed
some state governments The COM
mission recommends the enactment of
Legislation to forbid the acquisition
of the assets Of another enterprise
by any concern whose total assets
thereafter would exceed a specified
amount"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-03-12
Appeal Denied

Columbus, Ohio (OLNs) The Ohio
supreme court Wednesday denied the
appeal of the Cincinnati Joint Board
Of the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers Of America for re- hearing Of its
suit to dissolve an injunction granted
the Hamilton Tailoring Company of
Cincinnati.
The injunction was granted as an
outgrowth Of a strike called by the
board against the tailoring company
in October, 1885 -Four justices OF
the Ohio supreme court on February
II ruled that no constitutional ques-
ton was involved, and refused to ad-
NIT the appeal Of the workers for con-
sideration.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-03-12
Drive to Organize Textile
Industry

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-John 1.
Lewis has returned to Washington to
take personal charge of the CLOS ac-
celerated drive to organize all mass
producing industries. 1t is believed
that the committees most immediate
pending business will be to put IN
motion drive to unionize the South
fern textile workers.
The immediate schedule of the ClO
was outlined 70 the Press Association
as follows:
/. Contracts with other U. S. Steel
subsidiaries besides Carnegie, Illi-
nois, and similar agreements with in
dependent operators.
?. The automotive unioIiAaIian
campaign will be pressed. An effort
will be made to begin collective bar
gaining with Henry FORD before
Christmas.
3. On April /, the committee will
begin drive to unionize the workers
Of the Southwest oil field. A meeting
of the committees oil union is to be
held in Houston, Tex, to plan the
campaign which is aimed particularly
at Standard Oil subsidiaries,
4. Campaigns to unionize the shoe
industry completely will be pressed
in the principal shoe centers Of New
England, and in St. Louis.
5. The drive to unionize the South
ern textile mills will start as soon as
the coal negotiations are completed,
though preliminary maneuverings
may be expected shortly.
The textile drive is the key of the
committees plans,
6. The discussions with the coal
operators will be pushed to conclu-
sion, with a strike probable If ar
agreement is not reached.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-03-12
Forty Hour Week With Minimum Wage of SIS Per
Day Adds Millions of Spending Power to Steel
Workers; New Labor Policy Being Adopted By
Chrysler and General Electric.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
breath-taking pace at which labor
news of the first Importance poured
out over the country through the
early part Of this week has slackened
only a little; but that little is enough
to allow fairly general survey of the
ground which labor has gained
First, of course, comes the agree
ment between Carnegie, Illinois, and
the CIO. 1t seems wise at this point
to put in the first article of that
agreement, as follows:
/. The corporation recognizes the
steel workers organizing committee
or its successors as the collective bar
gaining agent for those employees of
the corporation who are members of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers of North
America, hereinafter referred to as
the union. The corporation recognizes
and will not interfere with the right
of its employees to become members
of the union or its successors. There
shall be no discrimination, interfer-
ence, restraint or coercion by the cor
poration or any of its agents against
any member because of membership
in the union or its successors. The
steel workers organizing committee
or it's successors agree not to intimi-
date or coerce employees into member
ship or to solicit membership on cor
poration time or plant property.
A New Magma Charta
"No discrimination, interferences,
restraint or coercion, by the corpora
ton or any of its agents, against
any member because of membership in
the union or its successors" That is
the heart, the Magma Charta of this
agreement. With that granted, any
development of the union becomes pos
sible; indeed, is put squarely up to
the union itself.
Second only TO the Carnegie, Illinois,
agreement is the way in which lesser
steel companies, both independents
and subsidiaries, have tumbled over
themselves in falling in with the $5
day and the 40-hour week. Five in
| dependents led off the first day; Beth
lehem, Republic, National, and In.
land Steel Corporations; and Youngs-
town Sheet & Tube Company. These
concerns employe at least 173, 900 men
Since that day, Jones & Laughlin, CO.
lumbia Steel, Pittsburgh Steel, Sha,
ron Steel, I. G. & l., Otis Steel, Wheel
| ing Steel and National Tube have
taken the plunge. Figures for employ
ment are not available for all of them
but the ones for which data can be
had employ around $4,000 men, and
Jones & Laughlin would raise this at