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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-26
PLANTS
CLOSED BY
WALK0UT
Car Windows Broken
And 2 Slightly Hurt
InCanton Row

CANTON, Ohio, May 26 O.N.S0.
Violence today accompanied the
Spontaneous walkout" of 1900
employees of the four Canton and
one Massillon, Ohio, plants of the
Republic Steel Corporation as the
struggle between John L. Lewis
Steel Workers Organizing Com
mittee and the leading independ.
ent steel corporations neared a
climax.
\ Numbers Of automobile windows
were smashed by stones. There
were reports q shotgun was fired
at one of the Republic plants
here. Pickets waved baseball bats,
billiard cues and clubs as they
milled about the plants. Police
escorted company officials from
the mills. Two men were injured
by stones.
Gates Barricaded
Steel workers barricaded gates
with wooden "sawhorseS." Picket
lines surrounded the sprawling,
zig-zagging Republic plants here.
T. w. Liber, a Massillon, Ohio,
employe, told police he was at
tackled on leaving the plant.
"AlI Republic plants in the
nation will be shut down to-
day."
Homer Downer, of Canton,
president of "All Nations" Lodge
of the C. I. O., so predicted. Re
public employs $4,000 workers and
Youngstown Sheet and Tube, 3d.
900.
Men injured by stones when
they attempted to brave a picket
line in their automobile were
James Mesares, Al, and Paul
Townsend, 81. Glass particles
were imbedded in MeSare'S eyes.
Townsend was cut above one ear.
Mayor Asks Order
Five squadrons OF police we're
rushed to the factories by Mayor
James Seccombe. The mayor de.
creed picketing must be orderly.
C. I. o. leaders here said the
strike was Spontaneous" and re-
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NO CHANCE
TO PASS IN
HOUSE, HE
DECLARES
Commissioners Urqe
Speed in Settling
Whole MIDDLE

A vigorous attack against q
sales tax for the District as pro-
posed by the District Commission
ers in their five-point tax increase
program was launched today by
Representative Everett Dirksen
(RD of Illinois.
Dirksen's opposition was ex-
pressed as the Commissioners and
other city officials met with the
House District subcommittee con.
sidering the taX-increase pro-
gram.
Defeat Predicted
Dirksen made the prediction
that the sales-tax proposal for the
District will not have "a ghost of
show of going through the
House" He added:
"The sales tax should be
abolished in all the States
where it is now being used. We
have it in Illinois, but it Ger.
tainly is not popular there"
When Commissioners Daniel I.
Sultan and Melvin C. Hazen
pointed out that they proposed
the tax because of the financial
urgency that faces the District,
and that they believe the tax will
be needed only for a year, Dirk.
sen retorted:
Il venture to say that If a
sales tax goes on the books here
it won't come off for a year or
even in two years."
QUICK ACTION URGED
Commissioner Hazen declared
that I'VE only have 80 days to
close up this whole muddle" and
pointed out that unless the tax in
crease program is enacted the
real estate tax will have to be
raised.
Representative Jack Nichols,
Cd of Oklahoma, refuted Dirk
sens assertion that the sales tax
would meet strong opposition on
the floor.
Nichols also brought up the
question opposing a business priv
ilege tax on local concerns and in
this connection bitterly con-
demned owners of parking lots.
He added:
81 never saw city where the
business men were so cold.
blOOded. and unreSpOnSive to
the trade as those in Washing
ton"
Dirksen disagreed with this
statement. declaring that he be-
lieved the local merchants to be
pretty good to deal with"
In discussing various other pos
sible means of raising the addi.
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Rockefeller Services
Held At TarrytOWn

of the home the Millionaire oil king
built many years ago in the midst
Of his broad acres in Pocantico
Hills.
And as a tonal background, the
organ slowly wove its soft tapestry
of music. such hymns as "Abide
With Me" which Rockefeller in the
last of his 81 years had loved.
Only his family, close friends,
and a few loyal servants were
there, in rows Of chairs facing
the casket, which itself looked out
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TARRYTOWN, N. Y. May 26
Q.N.SO.
81 am the resurrection and the
Iife."
Thus, over the mortal clay Of the
man who had been wealth incar.
nate, the last rites were read today,
bringing to the funeral of John D.
Rockefeller the simplicity, hand
maiden of greatness.
Reading only from the Scrip
lures and the Book of Prayer, the
Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick be-
gan the services in the great hall
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VIRGINIA MAN
F0UNDDEAD

With piece of rubber tubing
running from the exhaust pipe of
his automobile to the inside of
it, Paul M. Stilman, 80, of 1915
Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, was
found dead in his car today.
Discovery of the body in the ma
chine, which was parked OH back
road near Falls Church, was
made by James j. Schifflett, of
Fairfax, and L. v. Jacobs, of Alex
andria, who noticed the mans
slumped body as they drove past.
DR.. w. c. Welburn, Arlington
county coroner, said he would ls-
sue a certificate of suicide. Still
man was unemployed and single.
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ElectrOcutiOn of Bugs
New Aid to Farmer

DETROIT, May 26 Q.N.S0-
New scientific wonders designed
to help the American farmer, in
GLIDING plans for control of the
weather and for a cigarette paper
manufacturing plant in the South,
were unfolded today at Henry
Ford's third annual agriculture
industry science conference here.
Launched amid a strong under
current of opposition to Govern
ment restriction of farming and
industry, the farm chemurgic con-
ference took up methods through
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duct manifested itself when he in
Vited his former wife, Mrs. Nell
Vickers, to visit them at a hotel
in Detroit. In this connection she
complained that his actions con-
tributed both to her own emotional
torture and that of the first Mrs.
VickerS.
Numerous other occasions arose
when the husbands conduct
caused her mental and physical
torture. Mrs. Vickers says, as she
specifies instances when he
slammed the door of their apart
ment in Detroit so hard that it
damned and the door had to be
removed from its frame before
she could leave the room, and in
the Longchamp Restaurant in New
York and at the fashionable
Sleepy Hollow Country Club where
he made scenes before their
friends.
Row Over Vacation
They finally separated Deem
UeF q, laSC, Sne says, Wnen ne
twisted her wrists, forced her to
the floor of their Shoreham Hotel
apartment and. crushing her,
threatened to break every bone
in her body" His excuse for the
incident, she said, was because
she had told him she would not
take a holiday trip with him to
Bermuda if he continued in a
Surly mood.
Vickers left in an angry state
Of mind. the plaintiff complained,
and she called a physician for
treatment for shock and injuries.
She asks alimony sufficient to
maintain her in the standard of
living to which VickerS, allegedly
wealthy, has accustomed her.
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Too Warm for Golf,
Duke Swings Scythe
For Daily Exercise

LONDON, May 26 U.N.S).
Warm weather at Monts in France
has thrown a crimp into the Duke
of Windsor'S golf on the Chateau
de Cande course, but it hasn't
prevented him from cutting the
grass.
The London Daily Mirror re-
ported today in a Paris dispatch
that the Duke gave up the idea
of golfing because of the heat.
When he saw workmen grooming
the chateau grounds. however he
got a Scythe and helped them out.
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which science could aid farming
as it entered its second day today
New developments reported by
scientists and induStrialists in
cluded:
Making of cigarette paper
from hemp and flax which was
expected to bring a $20,000.000
industry to the Midwest, South
and West.
Making of artificial BLANKETS"
for fields and "blouses and
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Montgomery Ward
Retail Plant PiCketed

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 26
UN.S0.-Pickets paraded today
before the Montgomery Ward &
Co. retail and mail order plant,
closed by a strike affecting 1000
workers. The strike was called due
to the refusal of the management
to negotiate with a c. I. o. union
committee, Emil Talley, workers
chairman, said.
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i. ). Invaders Stock
Rising in British Golf
Ti|tAs Valentine Wins

SANDWICH. England, May 26
GN.SO .-America'S stock in the
British Amateur golf champion
ship rose higher today when P. A,
Valentine, of Southampton, N. Y,
went into the third round by beat.
ing j. Foster, of Sudbury, England,
2 and /.
John o. Levinson, Of Chicago,
already in the third round, led
the way for half a dozen other
Americans with one of the most
brilliant displays of golf seen in
the present tourney.
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STRIKE IN FORD
SHOP VOTED

RICHMOND, CAL, May 26
G.N.S0-Eighteen hundred en-
ployeS Of the Ford Motor Com
pany. here today voted to strike.
Strikers declared this was the
first move in a nation-w wide plan
to force Henry Ford to recognize
the c. I. O..
Police reserves were sent to the
plant to prevent possible violence.
Chief complaint of the employees
union, the United Automobile
Workers Association, is that an
Continued on Page 2, Col. p
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Just Plain Lucky

CHICAGO, May rs G.N.SD.-A
cut above the eye and a bruised
shoulder were all the marks Yer.
non B. James, 40, had to show
today for his encounter with a
Pere Marquette passenger train
which demolished his truck.
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BY DAVIS J. WALSH

NEW YORK, May 26 Q.N.S.)
The life of Gordon Stanley Coch'
rane hung in the balance today
as three surgeons watched over
the 34.year-old manager of the
Detroit Tigers, whose skull was
fractured yesterday by a ball
thrown by Irving Bump" Hadley,
New York Yankee hurler.
At St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
where Cochrane was rushed from
the ball field, it was said that
there was a possibility of infec-
ton, but that no immediate opera
ton was contemplated.
A formal bulletin issued by DR..
Robert E. Walsh, Yankee club ply
sician, DR.. Byron Stookey and DR..
Alexander Nicoll, brain specialists
reads:
"Mr. COchrane has a fracture
Of the skull and a mild cerebral
conclusion. At present he is
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cold CONFINES
PRESIDENT
International News Service

Still suffering from a head cold,
President Roosevelt rema in e d
away from the Executive offices
today and transacted business in
his study in the White House
proper.
DR.. Ross McIntire, White House
physician, said he advised the
President to lick" the cold by
staying in.
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comfortable and there is no
indication of need for operation.
INFECTION THREAT
'The fracture, unfortunately,
connects with one of the sinuseS
and the possibility Of infection
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lee OPPOSES
WEAVER TODAY
WASHINGTON
REgnu
By FRANK "BUCK" O'NEILL

ton Lee, lefthanded
pitcher of the Chicago White Sox,
will face the GriffS this afternoon
at Griffith Stadium. Prof. Monte
Weaver probably will oppose the
big southpaw. The last time Lee
pitched against Washington he
was beaten in commanding style,
the GriffS stopping him by a score
Of 10 to 2.
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TIGER PILOT
HAS TRIPLE
FRACTURE
Brain Conclusion and
Infection May Add
To Complications

NEW YORK, May rs U.N.SD.
The serious condition of Mickey
COchrane was unchanged" at
11:15 (E. S. IT, today, accord
ing to an attache at st. Eliza
beth's Hospital here. There is
no change in Mr.. COchrane's
condition." International News
Service was informed. "He is
resting comfortably"
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WASHINGTON FORECAST

Increasing cloudiness, followed by showers
beginning late tonight or Thursday: cooler
Thursday afternoon or night; moderate
southwest winds.
(Weather Details on Page 20)
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NO 17122 Entered Second Class Matter ct
Post Office at Washington, D. g.
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SCHOOL VISITED
BY FIRST LADY

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt late
yesterday inspected the National
Training School for Girls, and ex-
pressed herself as highly pleased
with the changes effected with
WPA funds.
She was delighted, she said, with
the removal of bars from the win
dows and with the light and air
provided to make the quarters
more cheerful.
Accompanied by DR.. Carrie
Smith. head OF the institution.
and Miss Nancy Cook, a friend,
Mrs. Roosevelt went over the en-
tire place. and was then a guest
at a luncheon attended by social
workers and WPA officials.
After visiting the House Of De
tention with Capt. Rhoda Mill
ken, bureau chief, Mrs. Roosevelt
praised "the good job being done
here in view of the inadequate
facilities"
The First Lady said it was OBJ
vious that the building was in
adequate and that a larger per
sonnel was necessary She also
mentioned the fact that the iso-
lation rooms have no lavatory
facilities and there is no physi-
clan attached to the building.
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in
Congress
Senate
In recess until Friday.
House

Meets at noon.
Considers Hoffman automobile
strike resolution.
Begins consideration Of resolu.
ton extending Presidents power
to make reciprocal trade agree
ments. Appropriations sub-com-
mittee considers Navy and State
JEstice-C Commentator supply
bills.
Interstate Commerce Commit
tee considers long and short haul
bill.
Military Affairs Committee con-
siderS war profits bill.
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HEAVY GUARD
FOR KIDNAP
SUSPECT
Boy Accused in Davis
Crime Secreted In
Kansas City Jail

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Feb. 4
I.N.SO -Emotionless and indif.
ferent, a paStyfaced 20-year-old
farm boy charged with kidnap-
ing and murder was lodged in Jail
here today.
The boy, Robert Kenyon, was
spirited here to avoid mob violence
after he confessed the abduction
and murder of DR.. j. C. B. Davis,
prominent Willow Springs physi-
clan. Superintendent B. M. Cas-
tell of the highway patrol said:
"If we had taken him back to
Willow Springs there would
have been a lynching sure"
A first-degree murder warrant
was served on Kenyon last night.
To Be Grilled Further
Earlier in the day the boy had
led Federal agents and State
policemen to the thicket, near
Grinnett, where the bullet-ridden
body Of the 67.year old physician
lay. A check book was clutched
in his hand, indicating officers
said. that he had tried to the last
to buy his freedom from his kid
naper.
Today. 1t was learned, Kenyon
was to be questioned by Federal
agents seeking to trace his move
ments since last November when
he stole an automobile and ran
uE 5000 miles on the speedometer.
I: was believed they we're seeking
to learn If he had been in Ia
coma. Wash, at the time lO-year-
old Charles MattSon was kid
naped and murdered.
Mass of Evidence
Officers said DR.. Davis Staying
apparently was wanton, as the
position of his body indicated he
had not struggled with his cap
tor. The physician had been shot
five times.
DR.. Davis was already dead,
State police said. when Kenyon
mailed a ransom note to his fam
lily demanding $1,000 for the ply
sician's safe return. This was re-
ceived last Thursday. DR.. Davis
was abducted January 26.
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6. NJ. DEMANDS
UNION ARRESTS
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page ~
by the court. He told Sheriff
Thomas Wolcott not to attempt
eviction while the peace confer
ences between G. M. C. and the
U. A. w. we're in progress. Brow
nell said:
THE sheriff told us he had
a limited force, but that he
would ask Governor Murphy to
lend him the State Militia to
carry out the order of arrest"
Brownell expressed the opinion
there would be no violence if the
sheriff used the troopers to clear
two Fisher body plants. He
added:
II believe the union officials
will ask the men TO 90 out
peacefully. Surely they will
observe the order of the court,
wont they?"
Brownell said the legal pro
cedure was to ask for a writ of
attachment, to show the injunc-
tion order was not complied with.
It calls for the arrest of Homer
Martin. head the U. A. W., and
other union officials, on charges
of contempt of court, he said.
After his talk with Governor
Murphy yesterday, Sheriff Wolcott
said he would obey Murphy'S or
der to mark time" and not at
tempt eviction of the Sit-downers.
Brownell said he did not know
anything about an agreement to
hold off attempted eviction while
the peace conference was on in
Detroit. He added:
81 don't expect any trouble.
General Motors throughout this
controversy has avoided violence.
We expect the union to ask the
men to go out peacefully.
ITS up to Homer Martin and
other union leaders to ask the
men to go out quietly. The or.
der of the court has been viO-
lated, and we are calling on the
sheriff to arrest the vioIatorS.
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QUIZ TINKHAM
IN LIBEL SUIT
Continued from Page ~

AAOAA DDS ~
Bishop Cannon as a shameless
violator of the Federal Corrupt
Practices Act" but was questioned
at length regarding other state
ments he was thought to have
made.
Although he held a large sheaf
of newspaper clippings and cor
respondence regarding the con-
troversy he had with Bishop Can
non as a result of the latter's
activities in the 1928 Presidential
campaign. Mr.. Tinkham had none
that referred to statements issued
to the press.
Questioned closely as to whether
he had made public a letter to
the Attorney General complain
ing against Bishop Cannon, Mr..
Tinkham maintained that he had
no such recollection.
The plaintiffs case was rested
at the conclusion of Representa-
ttve's testimony and Attorney
Roger j. Whiteford. counsel for
Mr.. 11nKham, Immediately moved
for a directed verdict.
After the jury was excused Mr..
Whiteford began a lengthy argu-
ment in support Of his motion,
claiming that Bishop Cannon
himself had invited Mr.. Tinkham
to make the alleged ibelous
statement and further insisted
that the clergyman had actually
violated the Federal Corrupt Prac.
tices Act as charged by the de-
fendant.
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ICKES OPPOSES
i. ). HELIUM
MONOPOLY
Urges Congress to
Provide For Sale
Of Rare Gas

In a step toward stimulating
commercial development of lighter.
than-atr craft, Secretary of In.
terror Ickes today asked Congress
to enact legislation easing the
Governments virtual monopoly
on helium by permitting its sale
to private citizens and American
corporations.
Pointing out that "the CONNER
cial market Is too small to enable
private plants to supply this gas
at price consumers car afford to
pay" Ickes, in a letter to Vice
President Garner and Speaker
Bankhead of the House, said:
ut Is believed to be in the in.
terest Of the national defense to
encourage development of light.
er.than-air craft so that ir times
of emergency privately-Owned
ships and trained crews will be
available to supplement defense
agencies"
He submitted drafted bill
which he said carried the ap-
proval Of the Secretary of War,
the Secretary of lIavy and the
budget director. Retaining for the
Government the right to repur-
chase. in emergency, heluim it had
sold, the bill would amend the ex-
isting law which confines the
Government to leasing out the gas
for commercial purposes.
The leasing feature was assailed
Monday on the House floor by
Representatives Marvin Jones and
Fritz Lanham, Texas Democrats,
who asserted that the control of
helium by the Government is so
complete that one has to get spe-
cial permission to use it for COM
mercial purposes and, therefore,
can have no assurance under the
present enactment"
AS under the existing leasing
system. the President would con-
troll the price and regulate the sale
Of the gas.
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calling out of the reserves, he ex-
plains:
"The purpose is to protect the
people in the streets who are
being continually menaced."
Tension Seen
All about them an air Of tense
ness prevails. On the roof of the
plant, and from dozens of windows
watchful strikers wait behind the
nozzle of high pressure fire hoses.
A few blocks away the sun glitters
on steel as soldiers pass.
A woman in gray asks for her
husband. He appears at a window,
grimy, overalled figure, with a
weeks beard. They throw kisses
and eager questions back and
forth
Each conversation tells it's own
story. At one window a middle
aged man is reassuring his wife.
He says:
Don't worry, Honey, we won't
have any trouble"
At another window, a boy of six
stands on a box and with eyes
turned on his mother. Asks:
"IS that my dad?"
His mother laughs.
Sure, that's your dad. He
made a bet he wouldn't shave
until he got out of the plant.
Maybe I won't let him in when
he comes home"
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WIVES SHOW
ANXIETY FOR
STRIKERS
Continuous Parad e
Brings Food to Sit
lns at Plants

FLINT. Mich, Feb. 4 G.N.SO.
Up to window marked "informa
ton" at Fisher Body Plant No. /,
these strike-torn days, winds an
almost continuous procession Of
women. Some lead little children.
Others carry baskets of food. Oc-
casionally one passes by with a
baby in her arms,
They are the women of the sit
down strikers.
They are the wives. mothers and
SweetheartS of the men who sent
that message to Governor Murphy
announcing:
1--WE have decided to stay in
the plant. We fully expect that
if a violent effort is made to put
us out, many of US will be
killed"
CALL ON STRIKERS
Anxiously, all day, the women
seek information about a loved one
within.
AS each visitor reaches the fac
tory wall a sentry inside the plant
asks the identity of the striker she
wishes to see. The word is passed
back through the plant. In few
moment, the striker appears at one
of the hundreds of windows 0n
the first floor on the street side
OF the building. Some times con
versation lasts only a few minutes.
On other occasions, the women
stand in the street for hours talk
ing to their men.
More than a thousand start run
ming after it. but the car gets away.
Then, it Is learned the rumors were
false.
Uptown at police headquarters,
there is a different scene. City
Manager John M. Barringer is
swearing in 500 reserve police,
which the strikers call vigilantes.
Barringer gives the men court
orders, and they leave to return
with deer rifles, shotguns and
revolVers.
Reports circulate Barringer is
going to try to clear the crcO'ds
from the streets. Finally, he is
persuaded not to send the re-
serves into action. Regarding