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Evening star., 1937-03-19
Reporters Find No Apparatus.

News cameramen and reporters, who
hurried to the plant, could find no
flre-flghting apparatus in the vicin-
ity at the very moment that the
Hamtramck department said it still
had one company there and the blaze
was under control.
They were denied access to the
grounds. Union passes permit out
siders to enter only during the day.
time
John Griffin, Hamtramck fire chief,
was reported to have been overcome
by smoke. At St. Francis Hospital
it was learned he had been taken
there, but attendants said they could
give no report on his injury or con-
dition
Gov. Frank Murphy conferred last
night with K. T. Keller, president
of Chrysler and Hutchinson. Earlier
he had spent two hours with Martin
and Richard T. FTankensteen, U. A.
w. A. organizational director. He de-
clined to discuss his conversation with
either group
The Governor signified his Wiling
ness to participate in a conference il
Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of the
board, and John L. Lewis, head of
the Committee for Industrial Organi-
zation, which is supporting the U. A.
w. A. strike, are brought together.
At least 10000 employees of the
Briggs Manufacturing Co., the Hud-
son Motor Car Co. and the REQ Motor
Car Co. were idle. The Briggs body
employees were thrown out of work be-
cause of a shutdown following the
Chrysler strike. That company also is
negotiating with the union. Hudson
and REQ conferences to end strikes
have been broken off.
Settlement of a strike of 200 women
and so men at the Fisher Body Plant
No. l of General Motors at Flint,
Mich, came in time for the night
shift to resume operations yesterday.
The plant had been closed during the
afternoon.
The U. A. w. A. said it did not au-
thorize the strike. Wage differences
will be negotiated under the provisions
Evening star., 1937-03-19
Leaders Coming Here,


SYRACUSE, N. Y, March 10 R).-
Syracuse leaders of striking workers
of the Rand, Inc, left last
night for Washington after being
summoned for conference on terms
ending a 10-month strike in Rand
company plants.
Vernon M. Crofoot, president of
the Remington-Rand Joint Protective
Board, and Clair B. Bellows, board
member, left by train for New York
City Immediately on receiving word
from Arthur L. Giles of lion, secre-
tary of the board, who received the
summons from Washington.
Crofoot said he believed the sum-
mons came from John P Frey, presi-
dent of the metal trades department
of the American Federation of Labor
Neither Crofoot nor Bellows would
comment on the proposed agreement
and said they had not been notified of
its terms. They said the terms would
have to be submitted at a union meet
ing and approved by the members.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
100 STUDENTS TO JOIN
SYMPHONY IN CONCERT
Outstanding Players in High
Schools to Take Part in
Event Tomorrow.

One hundred of the outstanding
players in Washingtons high schools
will join the National Symphony
Orchestra for a part of its final
students concert at II am. tomorrow
in Constitution Hall.
The student musicians have been
rehearsing under Capt Don Paul NC
Adoo and the teachers in their schools.
With the orchestra, they will play
Grieg's Heart Wounds" and Mem
delssohn's War March of the Priests. +"
The program will be made up entirely
OF music from the Anglo-Saxon coun-
tries. Other numbers are: Battle
Hymn Of the Republic" by Valerius;
'Passacaglia," by Purcell; "Trysting
Place" by Mcdowell; Molly on the
Shore" by Granger, and Indian War
Dance" by Skilton.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
ACCORD FORECAST
IN RAND DISPUTE
Ratification of Settlement
Seen Extremely Probable.
Terms Withheld.
By the Associated Press.


Associates said today Secretary
Perkins believed ratification of set
tlement of the prolonged Remington
Rand strike was extremely probable.
Terms of the agreement were with
held, but James H. Rand, jr., president
of the Office Equipment Co., said it
would involve the Unemployment of
1900 strikers.
Union leaders and directors OF
Remington Rand met separately today
to consider the settlement reached in
conferences yesterday between Miss
Perkins, Rand and William Green,
president Of the American Federation
of Labor.
Rand said he would submit the
agreement to the Executive Commit
tee Of his directors in New York.
Men Must Approve Terms.
Arthur o. Wharton, president of the
International Association of Machin-
lists, principal union involved in the
strike, said his committee would dis
cuSs the agreement here. Strike lead
ers summoned from Syracuse, N. Y,
and other plant centers said the terms
would have to be approved by the men
at union meetings.
Secretary Perkins said there was no
connection between the settlement and
recent decision of the Labor Rela-
tions Board that the company should
re-employ 1000 workers and recognize
the Office Equipment Workers Council
for collective bargaining.
The board asked the Circuit Court
OF Appeals in New York for an en-
forcement order
The strike began last May 26 in New
York, Ohio and Connecticut plants of
the company. Although the strike
was never settled, the company re-
sumed operations later.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
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Evening star., 1937-03-19

the authority therein vested, and in
case made and provided, doth hereby
order and adjudge that the clerk of
this court issue forthwith a writ of
attachment against the defendants
herein who have occupied the plain
tlff'S Dodge main plant at any time
since 9 am. Wednesday, March IT,
1887, and against their agents and
representatives and all other persons
who have occupied plaintiffs Dodge
main plant at any time since 9 am
Wednesday, March II, 1887. directing
the sheriff of Wayne County to arrest
said persons, and each of them, and
to bring them and each of them be-
fore this court for such misconduct" :"
Similar Writs were issued against
the strikers in seven other plants.
B. E. Hutchinson, chairman of the
| corporations Finance Committee, said
that ''the writ speaks for itself" He
declined to comment further.
ChaWke said that, since the orig
inal complaint charged conspiracy,
any person who was party to the oc-
cupatlon of the plant, including those
who prepared or delivered food for the
strikers, could be arrested on the
WritS.
Asked if he meant that Homer
Martin, president of the U. A. w A.,
and other high officials of the union
and of the Committee for Industrial
Organization were liable to arrest on
the WrltS, ChaWke replied:
That could be done, but our pri-
mary object now is to get the men out
of the plants"
Submitted Yesterday.
Except for question over the form
of the sheriff's return of service on
the injunction order, eviction WritS
would have been issued late yesterday.
The returns, in affidavit form, we're
submitted by the sheriff's Office to the
court and to Chrysler attorneys yes
terday afternoon. Because of the un-
usual circumstances, they were not in
the customary form and before the
court and the attorneys had decided
on their legality, the county clerks
office was closed and they could not
be filed
Mystery shrouded fire reported to
have burned for several hours early
today in tunnel at the main
Dodge plant of the corporation, in
Hamtramck, where 1000 sit-doWners
have remained since March 8.
Members of the United Automobile
Workers of America, who guarded the
factory gates throughout the night,
and the office of the Dodge local of
the union, denied there had been a
fire, as did patrolman on the beat.
But the Hamtramck and Highland
Park Fire Departments said there had
been fire, confined to the tunnel
and invisible from outside the Dodge
grounds. Highland Park fire head
quarters said it sent one company to
assist Hamtramck's three.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
Strike

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1937-03-27
CUMMINGS DENIES
F. B. |. PARTICIPATION
G-Men Not Involved in Court Bill
Hearings, Attorney Gen.
eral Asserts.

Attorney General Cummings today
denied published reports that Justice
Department agents have been investi-
eating witnesses called before the
Senate Judiciary Committee during
the current Supreme Court bill hear
Ings
The agents Of the Federal Bureau
OF Investigation have not had a thing
IN the world to do with the matter"
Cummings announced.
Earlier j. Edgar Hoover, director of
the bureau, had declared: There is
not a scinttlla Of truth in it,"
Joseph B. Keenan,, Assistant to the
Attorney General, who was named as
the man In charge" OF the inquiry,
also denied the accuracy Of the re-
ports. which were quoted In Paul NAL
Ions column In yesterdays Star.
keenan,, part Of whose assignment
at the Justice Department Is to handle
administration legislation, said the err
roneous reports may have arisen be-
cause OF assistance he has given the
committee in arranging the order of
witnesses. He said he has rendered
this cooperation at the request of the
chairman Of the committee and by di-
rection Of the Attorney General, and
that such aid Is customary" and has
been rendered frequently in the past
in connection with legislation In which
the department was interested
Senator Burke, opponent of the
Presidents court plan and member
of the committee, to whom reference
was made In the article, said he had
no criticism to make of Keenan's &C
tivities, which he described as above
board and proper"
Evening star., 1937-03-27
OPERATORS OFLIFTS
WILL BE ARRESTED
Warrants for Three Sought in
Drive Against Those With.
out Licenses.

Beginning a drive against unli-
censed elevator operators and the
owners of the buildings in which they
are employed, Assistant Corporation
Counsel George D. Nelson, in Police
Court today, applied for warrants
against three owners and three opera
tors. He refused to reveal their names,
however, until the warrants are served.
There were actually eight warrants
applied for. These charged one vio-
lation each against the owner and
elevator operator in two apartment
houses and two cases against the
owner and elevator operator in hotel.
The two charges resulted from calls
at the hotel on two consecutive days
by members of the building inspectors
Office.
The fine assessable in such cases
runs from $40 to sl00.
There have been many complaints
throughout the city recently regard
ing unlicensed and incompetent ele-
vator operators, it was stated in the
corporation counsels Office.
Consequently, drive has been in
augurated for the inspection of all
buildings having elevators, with orders
that where an unlicensed operator Is
found both he and the building owner
shall be charged, the operator for run
ming an elevator without . license and
the building owner for permitting him
to do so.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
TREASURY PLANS
S|LVERDEPOS|TORY'
100000 Strong Box of
Steel to Be Constructed
Near Academy.
BY the associated Press.

The Treasury, seeking greater pro-
lection for it's silver hoard, disclosed
yesterday that it intends to construct
squat steel and concrete depository
near the West Point Military Acad-
emy
With more than $1,000, 100000 Of
gold already transferred to the new
gold depository near the Fort Knox,
KY, military reservation, offcials
said bids on the 100000 strongbox
for silver probably will be asked in
the next few weeks.
Although specific site at West
Point has not been finally selected,
ofncials said this probably vii be done
shortly. Under present plans, the
f1at-roofed depository will be situated
in the center of a four-acre tract
surrounded by high steel fence.
1t will hold 1000, 900, 900 ounces Of
silver. This is about 100000, 900
worth at current rates and is approxi-
mately double the Treasurys present
holdings.
The building, made OF steel REIN
forced concrete will have space for
office workers, regular guards and a
force Of machine gunners. The latter
will be stationed in concealed inches
in the wall.
Assayers' and other Offices will be
in the front OF the one-story building,
which will measure $50 by $50 feet.
The Fort Knox depository is only
los by 12l feet
Steel Vaults Planned.
In the silver depository, between
Is and 20 steel vaults will be situated
in the rear. The only entry to these
Will be through q heavy steel door.
Plans for the depository, authorized
under the 1895 construction program,
were drafted by Walton Clark Of the
Treasury Procurement Division. OH
cials estimated the building can be
completed about year after the con-
tract is let.
They said West Point was selected
Is the site because OF the protection
provided by the Military Academy and
accessibility to transportation facil-
tiles.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
.D.A. R. UNIT BACKS
TEACHER FREEDOM
Letter Of Support Received
by President of D. c.
Education Group.

The position taken by the Education
Association of the District with rela-
ton to freedom of teaching in Wash
ington's public schools has been in
dorsed by Mrs. Adelaide H. Sisson.
chairman of the National Defense
Through Patriotic Education Commit
tee Of the Daughters Of the American
Revolution, 1t was learned yesterday
In letter to Miss Grace Lind. presi-
dent of the Education Association Mr.
Sisson said:
4 wish to express to you my sincere
appreciation OF this clear-cut state
ment and to commend you upon this
stand. 1t gives exactly the point of
view that I have so often expressed.
and as national chairman of this COM
mittee l have contended that such
an attitude should receive the support
of both educators and the public 1t
is one Of cooperation and not an
tagonism."
In its statement, drawn up recent
ly, the association contended the oath
of allegiance to the Constitution
makes unnecessary such special re-
strictions as the red rider" The
statement reads, in part:
Eve believe that the American form
OF government gains in the respect
and admiration Of people in propor-
tion as 1t is brought into open con-
trast with other world forms.
I'VE believe that the teacher must
be left free to consider all existing
forms Of government in order properly
to give to the American child an un-
derstanding Of and love for our own.
We feel, therefore, that certain re-
strictions now being advocated dam
gerously encroach upon the rights of
free men and women guaranteed
under our Constitution.
I'VE believe that the present oath
OF allegiance to the Constitution of
the United States Is sufficient to insure
the above and provide an adequate
basis for prosecution in case Of viola
ton"
Mrs. Sisson asked permission to
print the statement in the April issue
Of the National Defense News.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
W. H. JOHNSTON, 81,
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Former International Head of
Machinists' Union Was
Long Ill.

William Hugh Johnston. 81, former
international president of the Inter
national Association of Machinists,
died last night after long illness at
his home, 3515 New Hampshire ave-
nue..
In 1924, Mr.. Johnston was chair
man of the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action, the group which
nominated the Progressive party's La
Wheeler ticket in the pres-
Dental campaign.
Mr.. Johnston was president of the
International Association of Ma
chinSts from 1912 to 1926, with head
quarters in the Machinist Building
He retired in 1926 after suffering a
stroke OF apoplexy
During the World War Mr.. Johnston
went abroad with the late Samuel
Gompers and the Labor Mission and
lectured on labor matters in England.
Ireland, Scotland and Wales Widely
known both in this country and
abroad. he had made Washington his
home since 1909.
A native of Canada, MI. Johnston
learned the machinist trade at Provi-
dence, r. l., when a young man.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs
Harriet L. Johnston, and a sister,
Mrs. Fred Warburton, the latter Of
Providence, r. I.
Funeral services will be held at II
am Monday in Hines funeral home,
2901 Fourteenth street. Burial will be
in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
JURY HOLDS DRIVER
IN TRAFFIC FATALITY
Coroner's Group Deliberates Less
Than Minute in Berger
Case.

Jack Berger, 21, of 1915 Park road.
driver Of the car which fatally in
Jured Lawrence Jackson, colored, at
Georgia avenue and Barry place last
Wednesday, was held for the grand
jury yesterday by coroner's jury,
which deliberated less than a minute.
Testimony Of witnesses showed
Bergers car knocked jackson about 40
feet onto the hood of another auto
mobile.
Sergt. William j. Liverman testified
Berger told him his drivers permit
was under process of revocation and
for that reason he did not stop after
the accident. Berger was arrested at
his home following the accident, after
Richard Powell. colored, 780 Irving
street, told him he had better give
himself up to police" Powell testi-
fed he was employed by Berger and
was driving abreast of Berger's car
when the accident happened. Powell
also testified both he and Berger had
been drinking before the accident
occurred
Jackson, who lived at TIC Rock
Creek Church road, died in Freed
mems Hospital Thursday.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said Berger was the first motorist held
for the grand jury in a. traffic accident
since February 4.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
CORCORAN OFFERS
PRE:v|EW TONIGHT
Prizes to Be Conferred for
Winning Oils Part Of Bi.
enniaI Exhibition.

Artists and art lovers from many
parts of the country will be guests OF
the Corcoran Galley Of Art tonight
at . private pre-view OF the Fifteenth
Biennial Exhibition Of Contemporary
American OH Paintings, which opens
70 the public tomorrow.
Foreign diplomats, Government Of
rcisls. private citizens and other
friends Of the gallery have been In
y1ted BY the Board of Trustees of the
gallery to Join with representatives
Of the art world in viewing the no
table exhibition--heralded as the
largest in the history of Corcoran
"biennisls
Among those invited to attend are
trustees and other oficials OF most OF
the great art galleries and similar In
stitutions in America. The exhibl-
tion is regarded as an outstanding
American art event.
The guests will have an opportunity
10 see for the first time four prize
winning pictures. selected recently by
distinguished jury of artists for
the W. A. Clark and Corcoran awards.
officials Will Present Awards.
Cash prizes totalins $4,000 and three
Corcoran medals and an honorable
mention certificate will be presented
to the quartet of artists during the
evening by officials Of the gallery.
The winning artists are Edward
Hooper of New York, who will re-
ceive the Clark first prize of $4,000
and the Corcoran gold medal for his
-,'Cape Cod Afternoon; Guy Pene du
Bois. New York, who will be given
the second Clark prize Of $500 and
the Corcoran silver medal for his
Meditation" figure painting; Fran
els Speight. New HOPE Pa, who will
be presented with the Clark third prize
of $1,000 and the CorcorAn bronze
medal, and Bernard Keyes, Boston,
whose "Snakey." portrait Of bar
tender, won fourth Clark prize of
$500 and the Corcoran certificate of
honorable mention.
Several members of the jury are
expected to be present. The Jury was
headed by william j. Glackens of
New York, and included John Steuart
Curry of Madison. Wis; Daniel Gar
Der Of Lumberville, Pa; Richard
Lahey Of this city, and William M.
Paxton Of Boston. It Is known that
Lahey and Paxton plan to attend, and
CARRIER has indicased he will try to be
present. Chairman Glackens and
Curry will be unable to come here
for the event
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is ex-
pected to visit the show and meet the
winning artists this afternoon.
4o5 Artists Contribute.
According to c. Powell Minnigerode,
director Of the Corcoran Gallery,
there are In the show 46l paintings
by 405 artists in 2e States, the Dis
trict Of Columbia and the Virgin Is
lands. This is an increase Of 50
over the exhibition two years ago.
The paintings were chosen from more
than 1000 submitted for considera-
tion Of the jury.
The pictures have been installed In
IA galleries on the second door OF the
institution. The building has been
decorated with palms and other green
cry for the occasion, and IN orchestra
viii play during the evening from 4
part Of the lobby near the foot OF
the grand staircase.
The exhibition will Be open to the
public beginning tomorrow and con-
sinuine through May 8.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
j. U.S.PROBERSV VISIT
AIR CRASH SCENE.
Gather Data on Pittsburgh
Accident for Formal
Inquiry Soon.
By the Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, March 27.-Depart-
ment of Commerce officials massed
grim evidence today for a formal in
Quiry in the crash of the Transconti-
mental g. Western Airlines' luxury
liner that killed 13 persons.
They declined to say when the hear
ing would begin and withheld any
opinions they had formed about the
planes sudden plunge Thursday eve
ming a few miles from an airport.
Coroner w. J. McGregor, who had
been investigating the crash, said he
would hold an inquest "as soon as DOS
sible."
The Federal investigators spent
hours at the scene of the crash on a
gently sloping hill AS they ended
their work, T. w. A. employees removed
the motors and instruments and
burned the wreckage.
Ice Formation Blamed.
Ohlcials of the airlines and DR.. John
j. Mclean, director of the Allegheny
County Airport, where the plane was
headed, announced they believed an
unusual formation of ice on the
wings had caused the crash
company statement said
The crash was due to the plane
passing through localized but very
severe icing formations. r -" " A heavy
deposit OF ice formed on the leading
edge OF the ailerons, which control
lateral balance, and caused the plane
TO go completely out of control /"
within very few minutes"
The statement added that the i'm
pact had failed to dislodge the ice.
which gave the first clue to the cause
of the plunge.
To Seek improvements.
L. q. Fritz, Eastern region SUPER
intended Of the airline, said the COM
pany would Immediately attempt to
develop equipment to prevent a recur-
renee Of the tragedy He added:
Never before in tests or in sched-
uled flying has ice formed on the
ailerons to an extent that interfered
with normal flight.
However, the unusual ice forma-
ton causing this accident indicates
that protection must be extended to
include ailerons."
The liner dived to the ground in
view Of another T. w. A. incoming
plane, the Flight g." piloted by Capt.
A. M. Wilkins. He said Pilot Larry
Bohnet apparently had started to make
a left turn, but the ship spiralled and
then nosed straight down.
Vice President j. B. Walker Of the
airlines said Bohnet had told the
ground operator few minutes before
the wreck that his plane, coming in
from Newark. WAS ready to land He
said there were few minutes of
silence. then the report OF the crash
from Wilkins.