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Evening star., 1937-04-10
90 Employees
Enter Plant
UnnlOlested.
PICKET LINE
ONLY .JEERS
Delicate Situation
Passes Without
Police Call.

OSHAWA, Ontario. April 10 (Ca-
madam Press) Sixty men and women
workers of the strike-closed General
Motors of Canada plant walked with
out molestation through picket line
today and went back 10 work in the
parts department.
Thus 4 situation which the C. I. o.
affiliated Automobile Workers Union,
the company and government officials
all had feared might break into open
trouble passed peacefully-with no
more incident than the prolonged jeers
OF the 100 pickets.
The main plant, from which 3,70O
union workers have struck, remained
closed. The parts department was re-
opened for motor car and truck repair
purposes and not for actual produc-
ton.
A dozen girl workers were among the
80 who filed through the pickets today.
At the time, provincial authorities
massed police reserves in nearby
Toronto, ready for instant action, but
they were not needed. Premier Mitchell
Hepburn OF Ontario, outspoken oppo-
nent of the c. I. O., had promised gov
ernment protection for the returning
parts department workers.
Mayor Is Pleased.
Il am highly pleased there has
been no trouble" said Mayor Alex
Hall.
i am glad the strike has continued
| orderly. There is no reason why it
should not"
Provincial Constable Tom Mitchell
| and Police Chief Owen D. Friend,
accompanied by IA deputies, watched
the workers file through the picket
lines.
The Oshawa mayor had waited half
an hour at the headquarters Of C. 10.
Organizer Hugh Thompson, who said
upon his arrival that he wanted to
"retract" a previous suggestion that
an accident" might happen to re-
turning workers. Thompson ex-
planned he meant no threat"
stewards of the union promised to
give safe conduct to strike breakers
through the picket lines" said the
organizer. But they had thought
there might be individuals hanging
around who might start something.
But that is all out and the union alb
Solutely will protect strike breakers
and see that they get safely out of
the plant"
Interpreted as Threat"
Mayor Hall earlier had interpreted
the Thompson accident" statement
as sounding very much like a
threat"
With the reopening of the parts
department, the course of the strike
appeared to depend on two factors:
l. Whether the plant would at
tempt to ship out passenger car parts,
which the strikers oppose, or merely
emergency" parts for ambulances
and such necessary vehicles, to which
the strikers have no objection.
2. Whether separate conferences
which Premier Hepburn has called
with General Motors and union rep
(See STRIKE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-04-10
Newspaper Tax Voided.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 10 up
Attorney General Jack Holt ruled
yesterday the sale of a newspaper is
the sale of a servise and not subject
TO Arkansas 2 per cent sales tax.
The levy has been collected for
nearly two years under Arkansas
original sales tax act.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
Ev the Associated Press.

b The Associated Press.
WAYS, Ga, April 10-Henry Ford
said today the Ford Motor Co. will
demonstrate wages, production and
competition such as never seen be-
fore" when current strike disturbances
subside.
The 73-year-old Detroit manufac-
turer in an interview at his Winter
home here reiterated charges that war
seeking lnancierS are backing labor
unions. He asserted also his company
has been holding down production SO
as not to take advantage" of strike
beset competitors.
Ford said Wednesday he never
would recognize the United Automobile
Workers Association or any other
union for collective bargaining He de-
clned comment today on announced
plans OF the U. A. w A. to unionize
his plants despite this statement.
Promises Real Competition"
When this strike mess is over" Ford
said, we'll demonstrate some real
competition in quantity production
"leAl bt~ hlCGllodo LIldl WILL Edu IOI
more skill, higher wages and a larger
number of employees"
Ford would not say whether he has
. definite plan at this time to boost
his minimum wage, now at S6 per
day. He recalled that his minimum
wage was 81 per day at one time, prior
10 the depression.
Labor union organizations are the
worst thing that ever struck the earth
because they take away mans inde-
pendence," Ford said "Financiers
are behind the unions and their OBJ
Ject is to kill competition so as to
reduce the income of workers, and
eventually bring on war"
"We Are Workers Together"
Discussing the relationship between
smployer and employees, Ford said:
We're all workers together, the
men and I.
There shouldn't be any bargaining
Or dealing necessary. Our company
pays the best wages it can. and al
ways has. We keep surplus on hand
so as to be independent of financiers,
but our surplus has not increased.
We can pay more when we increase
the quantity Of our production"
We have been holding down our
production lately so as not to take ad-
vantage of others during the so-called
sit-doWn strikes. When these are
over, there will be wages, production
and competition such as never seen
before.
My son, Edsel Ford, president of
the Ford Motor Co., and I, had a con-
ference in Dearborn last week. We
discussed the strike situation first
and then talked about our men. He's
very keen on revising present methods
In production, salaries and efficiency.
I'm in accord"
Evening star., 1937-04-10
ACTRESS ON HONEYMOON

VIRGINIA CITY, New, April 10
P,.-Arline Judge, brunette screen
actress, honeymooned today with her
wealthy new husband, Daniel Reed
Topping, New York, whom she mar
ried yesterday few hours after her
divorce in Reno from Film Director
Wesley Ruggles.
The ceremony uniting Topping,
owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, pro-
fessional foot ball team, and Miss
Judge was performed by Judge Thomas
F. Moran, who had granted her the
divorce.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
Charity Rackefeers
In Washinpfon.

Over quarter of a million dol
lars found its way into the pockets
of hundreds of organized charity
chiselers" during the past year in
one of the most vicious rackets
practiced in Washington. How
these racketeers, operating in the
name of charity, ply their crooked
trade, the methods they use to
mulct and defraud their victims
and to rob the poor, will be ex-
planned in an article in the Fea-
ture Section.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
in a n cIers S
Back Unions.
Says Magnate.
NEW METHODS
ARE PROMISED
'Rcal Competition
to Begin When
Strikes End.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Settlement OF General Motors,
ChrySler, Hudson and REQ sit-doUn
strikes ledUes the United States
,Cithout a tie-up in outomottre
plants tor the first time since last
November.
United Automobile Workers OF
America, an AFFILIATE OF John W.
Let0is' C. /. o., ho,Ueuer. has
launched driDe to organize 10000
rorkerS in Ford plants and has
met NTH defiance.
Strike spread to Canada on
Thursday, 10hen 1900 workers in
OshaWa plant Of General Motors
mere called out bV U. A. w. A. in
fight for collective bargaining
recognition.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
FINDS OLD PENNY

Farmer Plows Up Coin Minted in
England in 1906.
PLUM HILL, ILL.,, April 10 lP.-
Henry Schlecte, Plum Hill Township
farmer, plowed up An English penny
minted in 1906 in field here.
The 13lyear-old coin was found in
a field that was once the site of a
Baptist church, established by the
first settlers of Washington County,
in what was known as the Kinyon
Settlement. Many Of these early resi-
dents were of English descent.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
TOMORROW IN
THE SUNDAY STAR
X X
The Patronage Raid
Goes On.

Civil service reform pledged by
the Democratic platform and
urged in the Presidents reorgan-
ization message remains a pious
hope. But undermining of the
merit system continues as a
practical reality. The generally
unnoticed but effective attacks on
the merit system by the Seventy
fifth Congress are described In an
article in the Editorial Section.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
SECURITY BOARD
CHANGES SEEN IN
LAT|MER NAMING
Two Democrats Are Already
MEMBERSHIPS Shift
Plan Reported.
POLITICAL AFFILIATION
QUESTIONED IN SENATE
Nomination of Winant Successor
Has Remained in Committee
Without Action.
BACKGROUND

BHCh hGROUND-
Among those prominently men
t'oned jor q neW cabinet post of
welfare Administrator, Chairman
W1ndnt OF Social Security Board
voluntarily bo1Oed out of the picture
IN connection NTH his present office
1ohtte his name Uas pending before
Senate committee a te1C weeks ago.
During political campaign of last
Fall he had resigned post in order
to take stump tor President Roose-
Uet.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
5000 of Gen. FRANCOIS Men
Reported Isolated in Ma.
chine Gun Trap.
MANZANARES BRIDGE
TAKEN FROM REBEL S
End May Be in Sight" Within
Next Few Weeks, Minister
of Air Believes.

1auor OF loyalsts, Uho hare held
out tor fpe months against per-
s'stent siege OF Madrid BY Gen.
francisco Francois troops
Insurgent Advances reported
Heanwhhe from Northern Spain,
Where they are attempting to cap
ture the Basque capital of Bilbao,
Boy OF Biscay port.
Italian troop reperses in Spain
may lead Premier Mussolint TO
plunge into the Spanish wdr NTH
5uH strength in order to assure
ultimate Dictory.
BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, April l0.-The second
DAY OF the governments major coun-
ter-oftensive 10 break the insurgent
grip In Madrid Province brought ter
rlflc combat today at the very doors
of the city.
While 5000 OF Gen. Francisco
FRANCES men were reported isolated
ny a machine gun trap in University
City, the northwestern suburb, the
government opened a deafening srtil-
lery and aerial strafing of the whole
array of siege lines.
An Associated Press correspondent
saw Gen. Jose Miaja's government
artillery plant five out of six 6-inch
smells squarely on the roof of one
strategically located building on a
hillside overlooking the Casa de Campo
sector to the west.
so long as Gen. Jose Miaia's Mill
cianos" hold the gains made in a con-
tinuing, full force counter-oensiye tn
snake Frances army from Madrid's 8
skirts, the 5000 troops will remain iso-
lated. menaced by the shattering fire
OF massed infantry, artillery and
planes.
Insurgents Lose Bridge.
A bridge over the Manzanares River,
which the insurgent besiegers had
used to connect forces in University
City with the adjoining Casa de Campo
sector, was wreSted from them in yes
terday'S launching of what may be a
decisive campaign to break the semi
circle Of siege lines now five months
old.
1t appeared to be an "at all costs"
offensive.
Official reports gave no estimate of
government casualties, but told of
widespread insurgent losses. The re-
ports admitted, however, that Cen
eralissimo Miaja's losses We're heaviest
In that area, due west of the city.
GA communique from Frances Sala-
manca insurgent capital asserted Miaja
last $500 men in the broad attack at
the citys western front. Many were
killed. according to the statement. and
numerous prisoners, mostly Russians,
Czechoslovakians and Spanish Aus
turians, were captured. The commu-
nique added that two entire govern
ment battalions were annihilated in an
action on the outskirts of Oviedo on
the northwestern Biscay front.)
1ndalecio Prieto, minister of air and
navy in the Madrid-V Valencia govern
ment, declared fighting in Spain would
be intense and probably decisive in
the next few weeks. After that. he
added, the end may be in sight"
The war, he asserted, now will be car
ried to the enemy on a decisive scale.
Miaja advised newspaper men to be
(see SPAIN, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-04-10
Oklahoma Plane Kills Two,

OKLAHOMA CITY, April 10 (P.-
Pilot Perry Mullins, %, and Ralph
Kelley, %, died instantly when their
airplane crashed from 500 feet near
here today.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
Summary of Today's Star

Page Page
Amusements- C-20 Music ---B-4
Art ---------b-2 Obituary ----A-10
BOOKS -----b-3 Radio ------C-14
Church News, Real Estate.
5-6-7 Clto11
comics ----A-l3 Society ---A-7
Editorials ----A-s Short Story A-1o
financial ALI Sports &C 1918
Lost & Found-A-3 ! Woman's Pg- BIS
STRIKE SITUATION.
Henry Ford promises increased wages
and production. Page Al
McAdoo suggests profit sharing for
mula for labor. Page A-3
FOREIGN.
Hot fight RACES in loyahst drive to
break siege. Page Al
Balbo made commander of Italy's
forces in Africa. Page A-I0
NATIONAL.
Wagner act decision may decide fate
of court bill. Page Al
Eight persons feared drowned in tug
boat sinking. Page Al
Court plan issue in Texas election to
Congress Page Az
U. s. spending cut needed to balance
budget. Page AS
Supreme Court hears arguments in
social security case. Page A-3
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Social Security Board changes in
prospect. Page Al
Nice asks ruling on power to veto
bookie levy. Page Al
Festival scheduled tonight despite A.
degree forecast. Page Al
D. c. building program seen outgrowth
Of committee study. Page Al
w. P. A. headquarters picketed by $50
N. Y. workers. Page Al
Chief Justice Hughes to be IS to-
morrow. Page AS
Status of Virginia workers hinges on
parleys next week. Page AS
Superimposed highways urged by
trafic authority. Page Ala
Kennedy and Collins confer on D. c.
tax bills. Page ALA
Health tag day" is announced at
hospital meeting. Page ALA
Evening star., 1937-04-10
BY j. A. FOX.

A change in the membership of
the Social Security Board is in pros
pect, it developed today as result Of
nomination Of Murray w. Latimer. a
Democrat, to a vacancy on the board,
which already has two Democratic
memoers-all that the law allows.
ConcuTently, there was a report
that Vincent M Miles of Arkansas.
whose tWo-year term on the board
ends in August, was slated for
transfer to another Government post.
However, Miles said he had not been
informed that any change was con-
templated.
Iatimer the public's representative
on the Railroad Retirement Board, of
which he is chairman, recently was
named by President Roosevelt to fill
out the uneXpired siX-year term of
John G. Winant, chairman of the
Social Security Board. Winant, a
New Deal Republican, had resigned,
and his term does not expire until
August, 1941. Arthur j. Altmeyer,
the four-year member Of the board,
then was designated chairman Alt
meyer. a Wisconsin Democrat. for
merly was Assistant Secretary Of
Labor.
Expert on Social Security.
From all indications, the question
of Latimer'S political affiliation die
not arise when he was named to the
Social Security Board, which, unde,
the law, can not be made up of mort
than two members Of party. H.
is considered an expert on social se-
curity legislation and aided in estab-
fishing the present set-up.
When the nomination went TO the
Senate Finance Committee, however,
the fact that he is a Democrat was
raised and the nomination has re-
mained in committee without action.
Miles said today that any report of
his transfer was news to him. He
said he had wanted TO leave the board
several months ago because financial
sacrifice was entailed by his remain
ing. However, he added, there was
much organization work to be done
and that he felt it his duty to stay on
the Job.
Action on l. c. c. Awaited.
In the meantime. interest also has
been stirred in transportation circles
over the continued failure of the
President to act in the case of two
members Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, whose terms expired De-
cember 3l-Joseph B. Eastman and
Hugh M. Tate.
Both continued in Office by virtue
of law enacted last year which pro-
vides that incumbents on this COM
mission hold on until their successors
have been appointed and qualified: /:
before that a commissioner auto
matically stepped out at the end Of
his seven-year term, unless renomi-
mated.
Eastman is an Independent and
Tate Republican, and in case either
or both were not reappointed, success
sors would have to come from a mi
nority party, as the commission now
has all the majority members allowed
by law, with six Democrats sitting.
There has been no word from the
White House to account for the delay,
and observers have come to the con-
clusion that the President feels there
is no particular reason to hurry.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
COURT FATE SEEN
IN WAGNER RULING
Lineup Close in Senate.
Plan Defeat Seen if
Law Is Upheld.
BACKGROUND


Frustrated in his legislative an
bitionS by adverse Supreme Court
decisions, President Roosevelt on
February 5 asked Congress tor au-
thority to appoint sir nelo members
to the court unless present justices
oUer 20 retire. The proposal met
1Uith an immediate untauorable re-
SponSe in Congress and through
out the country.
As Senate Judiciary Committee
began hearings on the bill, more
than 20 constitutional amendments
1Uere submitted By Senators Who
believe governmental changes
should be achieUed By amendment
instead Of packing" court. The
President. ho1UeUer, is reported de-
tcrmined that bill shall pass, re-
gdrdleSS of amendments.
Evening star., 1937-04-10
BY the Associated Press.

oS tIlt aSSOCidteO H1eSS.
The Senate lineup on the Roosevelt
court bill appeared so close today
that some members said the balance
might be tipped either way by the
Supreme Court decision on the Wagner
labor law.
Opponents of the court reorganiza-
ton program counted 43 sure votes
on their side.
They claimed several additional
probable" votes and forecast that a
decision upholding the Wagner law
would win their battle for them. 1t
would demonstrate, they said, that a
revised court was not needed for
approval of social and economic legis-
lation
Administration leaders insisted they
had more than a majority of the
96 Senators pledged to vote for the BILL
Evening star., 1937-04-10
WEATHER.

FU 8. weather Bureau ForecastD
Generally fair, lowest temperature
about "a degrees tonight; tomorrow fair
and slightly warmer; moderate winds,
mostly northwest Temperatures-High-
est SO, at l pm. yesterday; lowest, 36,
at 6 am. today. Full report on page A-l0.
Evening star., 1937-04-10

(See COURT, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-04-10

(See BLOSSOMS, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-11-07

The passenger fare increase pro-
posed stirs anew an old fight. In
June, 1886, the commission forced the
Eastern lines to cut coach fares from
312 to cents a mile; put Pullman
transportation on 3-cent level and
did away with the Pullman surcharge.
Now the Eastern lines ask a 2ia a-cent
coach fare, and the Western and
Southern roads, which pioneered in
cheap passenger service are going to
the 2-cent maximum permitted, their
charges having been consistently
below this. Significantly, the Balti-
more & Ohio, which alone of the
Eastern roads, backed the lower fare
plan, now has joined in the petition
for increase.
Any change in fare that might fol-
low the roads application would
settle effectively one argument. With
passenger traffic consistently heavy,
the low fare advocates have insisted
this policy was responsible. The
opposition has contended that mod
ernized equipment, improved sched-
ules and more prosperity were filling
the trains.
In their efforts to get more reve-
nue., the railroads are Offering as the
principal exhibit an increase in ex-
penses since May, 1888, of more than
1868 100000. For the year ended June
80, net railway operating income was
$726, 6,583, 900, which was barely suffi-
cient to meet fixed charges of $64l,-
100000.
Increases During 1886.
The increases were divided as fol-
lows: Restoration Gin 1880 of 10
per cent wage reduction agreed upon
in 1882, $174,961 600; unemployment
compensation tax, $54,435, 900; Rail-
road Retirement Act tax. S48,901 900;
tax on wage increases, $7,701, 900; pay
raise just granted to incorporating
employees, SOS, 5,6970 900; to operating
employees, s38,221 900; materials and
supplies other than fuel, $l96, TOT 600;
coal, $51, ,657 900; fuel oil, SOS, ,474, 900.
This totaled s693,754, from which is
substracted s3O,45l, 900 representing
the saving due to transfer of volun-
tary pension systems under the Rail-
road Retirement Act, leaving net of
Evening star., 1937-11-07

increase to which each was party
would leave their relative positions
unchanged, but would improve the
financial standing of ALL 1t is evi-
dent that thought has been given this
angle by the industries involved, for
there have been reports for some time
that independent water carriers, ex-
elusive Of those serving citrus terri
tory, are planning to seek rate in
creases and the American Trucking
Association, which meets in Louisville
the middle of this month, also is to
take up this subject.
Important at this stage is the fact
that the commission finally is getting
into the motor rate field and is CIV
ing some attention to the hit-or-miss
policies that have prevailed there.
Applying regulatory processes in such
a vast industry of necessity has been
slow, and the commission has exer-
ciSed no rate-making powers since as
suming control of the motor carriers
more than two years ago. Action now
is pending.
The commission recently insti-
tuted an investigation of the reason
ableness of rates in the Middle At
lantic area where high and low rate
advocates are warning, but before this
inquiry reaches conclusive stage it
may have disposed of Pacific Coast
case that would stand as q guide for
future determination of what consti-
tutes economic competition between
highway and railroad.
Competition With Trucks.
The Southern Pacific has been los
ing to trucks about all the gasoline
traffic between the Port of San Fran
cisco and Salt Lake City, and the
I. c. C. is faced with the question of
deciding whether the railroad may
lower its rates, or whether the truck
ers. because the haul is not econom-
ically sound under the charges they
are making, will be forced to scale
them upward. A decision conforming
to the latter theory not only would be
precedent, but would brighten the
outlook for the railroads whose COM
plant for years has been that they
could not meet the truckers on basis
of equality.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Germany to Celebrate
125th Wagner Birthday

BERL1N.-The 125th anniversary
OF the birth of Richard Wagner, the
well-loved German composer, is to be
celebrated elaborately during 1898.
with painstaking preparations already
under way for a special festival season
to be held In Bayrouth, home Of the
theater which Wagner ordered built
and in which many innovations in
construction were made. The festival
will open July "a and continue until
August 10, during which time the
complete "Nibelungen Ring" will be
presented twice. There will also be
four performances Of "Parsifal" and
six Of Tristan and Isolde"