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WEEKEND EDMON “73:0!” Com ‘Nov- and Vicinity, FREEPORT, N. Y. LEWIS AGGEPTG CALL TO TALK ON BARGAINING C10 Leader Is One Of 19 To Comply With Mrs. Perkins's Request GREEN, HEAD OF AFL, I8 SILENT Meeting Outgrowth Of The Wagner Act Decision; LRB Disturbed WASHINGTON, April 17 -- (/P) - Secretary Perkins counted 19 acceptances today from leaders of labor and in- dustry for a conference Tues- day on problems of collective bargaining between employ- ers and workers. The latest to accept were Danie! Williard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio; C. M. Chester, chairman of the Na- tional Association of Manu- facturers, and John L. Lewis, head of the Committee for In- dustrial organization. Still to be heard from was president Wiliam Green of the merican Federation of Labor. The meeting is an outgrowth of supreme court validation of the Wagner act, which guarantees to workers the right of collective barg. ining. One official of the national labor relations board, which administers the act, said the members \felt rather keenly\ the fact that Miss Perkins had called such a confer- ence without consulting tha board. The board, he said, always was willing to discuss with employers the methods of compliance with the Wagner act, and even had con- sidered arranging a conference to thresh out collective bargaining problems. Labor department officials said the conference was not called with any thought of infringing on the field of the labor board. They pointed out that the department's machinery Aor ponlci tion. re- iated closely to collective bargain- ing. No definite agenda has been drafted, The conferees are ex- pected to develop their own pro- gram as the session progresses, ' Miss Perkins said the confer- ence was called with the long range view of stabilizing industrial relations under the Wagner act by drawing on the experiences of la- bor leaders and industrialists who hy handled wage and hour bar- ining negotiations. MOUNTAIN WEATHER Colleges Plan To Put Up White- face Station TROY, April 17-(P)-Two New York engineering colleges made known today they are considering oint establishment of a weather ureau and Meteorological labora- tory on Whiteface mountain in the Adirondacks which they believe \will be of vast importance to scientific research.\ Tentative plans for the project were revealed by Dr. William s Hotchkiss, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic institute after confer- ences with representdtives of New York university and the White- face mountain commission, RAH! RAH1T JAIL Prisons Besting Schools, Educa- tion Expert Asserts ALBANY, April 17- (@) -The \fractious\ school child has found a sympathetic champion in Glenn M. Kandall, assistant educational director of the state department of correction. Kendall told a group of rural school 'superintendents here that \the better prisons and reforma- tories are doing a better job of analyzing individuals and fitting em to a socially acceptable pat- rm than is being done by the av= arage school,\ T'n® stars have a language all their own. Ore of the outstand- ing editorial features presented daily by your home newspaper is the column \The Stare say\ by the distin- guished astrologer =OGENEVIEVE KEMBLE Of litan Long Island METROPOLITAN LONG ISLAND, NASSAU COUNTY, N. Y.- SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1937. | Discuss Crossing Elimination Plans | C. 1. 0. FAVORS BID TD PEAGE PARLEY Representatives Of Union Will Meet Employees With Hepburn OSHAWA, Ont., April-17-4m -John L. Lewis's C. I. O. lieuten- ants stepped offstage today in the General Motors strike drama to make way for a peace parley called by Premier Mitchell Hep- burn, but remained as behind-the~ scenes prompters for the workers' emissaries. Ready To Talk Peace The somewhat qualified accept- ance of the premier's Invitation to talk peace in his presence with representatives of General Motors of Canada, Ltd., came from the Oshawa local of the United Auto- mobile Workers of America in a statement by Homer Martin, inter- mational president of the C. I. O. affiliate. Martin said: \We are accepting this invitation of the premier to meet General Motors in his office, and Mr, J. L. Cohen,, counsel for the international union, will at- tend with Mr, Millard (Charles H. Milliard, president of the Oshawa union) and the committee on be- half of the union.\ The young labor leader said the strike would continue, pending outcome of the premier's negotia- tions. Cohen and Millard, ~together with Harry J. Carmichael, vice- president and general manager of General Motors of Canada, and J. B. Highfield, manager of the Osh- awa automobile plant, were sum- moned by the premier yesterday but Hepburn emphasized neither Martin \nor any John L. Lewis hireling\ would be received. May Not Be Agreeable Whether the union's delayed mgreement to negotiate with the Premier and General Motors with- out the presence of Martin or the C. I. O. organizer, Thomp- son, would meet with the premier's favor remained to be seen. 'The union, guiding a 10-day-old strike affecting 3,700 workers, ig- noted the. invitation yesterday after Martin flew to Oshawa to dis- Continued on Page 3, Col. T STRICKEN AT WORK Joseph Lebbens, 52, A Carpenter, Dies From Sudden Heart Attack Stricken with a heart attack while at work yesterday afternoon, Joseph (Lebbens, 82, of Nassau Munson, died before could be sunimoned. Principals in the hearing held by the public service commission on elimination of Long Is- land railroad grade crossings in Hempstead are shown above discussing the salient points of the two plans that have been advocated. Left to right are C. H. Tunnicliffe Jones, Hempstead | Merger Results In Readjustment selves whether it was true what village counsel; public works. TWO KILLED AS CAR CRASHES STANCHION Inpact Telescopes Machine In Ac- cident On Woodhaven Boule- vard; Two In Hospital NEW YORK, April 17 - GP) - A speeding automobile carried two men to their deaths early to- day when it struck a traffic sig- nal at an intersection in Rego Park, Queens, and was telescoped by the impact. The dead: Peter B. Manuelsen, 35, of Astoria, the driver, killed instantly; Her D. New! 28, UF Srookipn, Paietly jared.\ Two other passengers in the | machine, Douglas Barry, 30, of Manhattan, and James Ryan, 28, of Roselle, N. J., were injured critically. Barry, in Queens Gen- eral hospital, had fractured legs and internal injuries; Ryan, in St. John's hospital in Long Island City, had a fractured skull. Police who investigated said the machine probably was traveling from 70\ milés~-an~ Nour, northbound, on Woodhaven boule- vard when it struck the concrete- base light. RELIEF BUREAU GETS COMMODITIES UNIT} Of White Collar Projects Of WPA In Nassau County Readjustments in the white col- lar projects of the WPA in Nassau county were effected last night as the result of the termination of the federal surplus commodities divi- sion under federal works auspices. The commodities project was officially taken over by the Nassau relief bureau yesterday and it was expected that a reduced number of stores would open for the usual distribution later in the week. About 30 of the original staff ~f 75 men in the division were taken over by the relief bureau Wm!) more were absorbed in the i - ment index project of the WPA at the courthouse, The remainder were transferred to other projects. LAWMAKERS IN TOWN Congressmen Visit New York, See The Sights NEW YORK, Apri 11-/®- Congressmen by the score were in town today to find out for them- - -$ Colonel H. S. Wilgus, grade separation engineer for the public service com- mission, and Frank W. Burleigh, senior grade separation engineer for the state department of Review-Star Photographer EX-GOP DROWNED IN FALL INTO BAY Victim's Son, Also Police- man, Suffers In Vain Rescue Attempt A retired New York city police- man was dead today, as the result of falling overboard from a fish- ing boat in Reynolds channel, Long Beach, yesterday. The vic- tim's son, a New York policeman, narrowly escaped a similar fate when he dove into the icy waters in a vain attempt at rescue. The dead man is Carl Morsch- hauser, 68, of 5939 Laurel Hill boulevard, Queens, who, doctors wald,\ §uccumbed from heart fail- ure almost as soon as he toppled into the water. Efforts to revive him by means of an inhalator proved fruitless. Both Morsch- hauser and his son were pulled from the water off Vermont street, by others in their party of six. Left With Party Morschhauser, with five others, left Sim's. beach in three small rowboats equipped with outboard motors. The party motored east- ward three miles through the channel and Morschhauser stopped to fish. According to his son, Harry, the older man started to untie the rope holding the an- chor when he lost his balance and plunged into the water. The son dove in after him and was experiencing considerable trouble in making the rescue when two others came to his aid, They were Ignatz Cuccia, of 229 East 70 street, and Peter Devola of 73 East 80 street, both of Manhattan. They pulled in both men and brought them to shore. Resuscitation Efforts In Vain Members of the fire department, summoned to the scene, worked for more than an hour on the eld~ er Morschhauser without success. Dr. Robert H. Alterman and Dr, Jack Blimblum declared that the victim had died of heart failure. The son was treated for exposure. Others in the fishing party were Charles Menninger, and his wife, Mary, of 8941 70th road, Forest they say about New York, Lampooned as a portion of the Union only by sufferance of the rest of it, the city was host to 135 new members of the 74th con- grees and their families for the week-end. They faced this schedule of \Tite o ts to the Stook Exchange, the Federal Reserve Bank and other places in the country's chief mart; luncheon with Mayor Fi LaGuardia, a ride around the harbor, a trip to the top of the 's tallest building and dinner broiled in eye and ear an- tertainment. CENTRE PRESBYTERIAN Sunday 'To Be Ob- served At Rockville Church Hills. | GLEKE CLUB GIVES CONCER A concert by the South Shore Glee club was given at the regu- lar monthly meeting of the Men's club of the Rockville Centre Con- tional church at the church auditorium last “rt. The club was directed Carl Pfost. Fletch~ ar Martin is of the en- tertainment committee, in charge of the Refreshments were served following the meeting. ACTION DELAYED O AlL PROJECT IT HEMPSTEAD Village Board Submits Two- Programs For Grade Crossings MAJORITY FAVORS ELEVATED TRESTLE But Minority Would Move Employed Hostesses To Induce Patrons To Buy Drinks, State Board Charges In Action Station Location To Columbia Street Differences among members of the Hempstead village board will delay final action on the Hemp- stead-Garden City railroad grade crossing elimination program for several months, according to in- dications revealed today. H. S. Wilgus, grade separation engineer for the public service commission, adjourned a public hearing yesterday until June 18 for consideration of additional plans. The hearing was held in the county courthouse for the specific purpose of determining whether the recent change in village ad- ministration would change the at- titude of the village fathers toward the program. Two Programs Presented H. Tunnicliffe Jones, new vil- lage counsel informed the commis- sion that the village board is di- vided and has a majority and minority program. The minority, said Mr. Jones, recommends that the existing sta- tion-terminal be moved from Ful- ton street to Columbia street and that the vacated right of way be improved for a public highway. He said that the majority is in favor of a viaduct or elevated structure, terminating at the pres- ent location, Fulton street, or, if impossible, at Centre street. He declared \that \the majority feels that removal of the station as far as Columbia street will be detri- mental to the village as a whole. Jones stated that the village pop- ulation is more than 22,000 and that more than 75 per cent. of the people live on the south side of the village, being compelled to walk further if the station i moved north of Columbia street. He submitted that the entire village board is in agreement that future growth of the village will require opening of some of the streets which now dead end at the railroad tracks. Jones declared that the majority recommendation of trustees J. Eu- gene Geer, John H. Mirschel and Mayor George M. Estabrook would require a cost of about $502,000, while the minority plan cost would Continued on Page 3, Col. 8 WPA HEADS TO MEET DISTRICT WORKERS Will Outline Policies Of Nassau- Suffolk Area At Gathering In Mineola Tonight District authorities of th> Nas- sau-Suffolk WPA will outline its policies and program to a mass meeting of workers in the Ameri- can Legion dugout, Mineola, to- night. Haroli P. C. Howe, district di- rector, reported that all depart- ment heads of the federal bureau will be introduced to explain briefly the operations of their par- ticular department, It was announced ''at the me-t- ing is for the purpose of acquaint- ing the men with their superiors and creating a better understand- ing of the works program in this county. ROOSEVELT CHURCH Presbyterian Parish Celebrates Holy Communion Tomorrow 'The springtime holy communion service will be observed at the Mémorial Presbyterian church, Roosevelt, of which the Rev. Cur- tiss M. Glick is ”no. at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. The sermon topic is: \What The Lord's Sup- per Means To Us\. Rev. Dr. Ira Wenderson, of will preach at the 8 o'clock evening service. The Week-End Edition One Section, 24 Pages Have you started \Murder on the Bluff,\ the new se- If you of by Esther Tyler that started in ven't, take a tip and pping serials you have evar read. ® Review- so. You will find one of the teachers of a local school is an THE WEATHER: Fair, Slightly Warmer Today Sunday, Probably Showers - PRICE THREE CENTS 2 SOUGHT IN BANK HOLDUP -_ CAUGHT BY COUNTRY COPS, - AFTER G-MAN GUN BATTLE Bridle Club, Night Spot, Liquor Permit Is Revoked The Bridle club, a dine and dance resort on Mill road, Hemp- stead, will close its bar and sell nothing stronger than ginger ale after April 29 unless attempts to reverse a revocation decision of the state liquor authorities prove successful. License Revoked Alfred E. Deutsch, proprietor of the Mill road night club, has been notified that his license to sell liquor has been revoked. The order becomes effective April 29. The cause given by state authorities for the revocation of the license was \employing hostesses to in- duce patrons to purchase liquor.\ Chief James H. Ricker of the Hempstead police department said today that he had not received official notification of the revoca- tion of the Bridle club's liquor license, but that he had heard about the state board's action. Mr. Deutsch could not be reached today, but his manager stated that the notice of revoca- tion had been received. Club May Be Sold Inquiries concerning an alleged sale of the club by Deutsch re- vealed that Joseph Beninger, part- ner in a Brooklyn tavern, has entered into negotiations with Deutach for the purchase of the club, However, Deutsch's manager stated that he believed the sale of the club depended entirely on whether. the new owners could get a license to sell liquor. Chief Ricker pointed out that action of this nature by state liquor authorities is always di- rected against an establishment and generally runs for two years. The sale of the premises does not L Continued mi FEARS NAZI COUP Of Ex-Prince Nicholas Rouses Nation |__BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 17 -() -The Rumanian govern- ment, fearing a pro-Nazi coup, was ready for any eventuality to- day as political repercussions of the banishment of ex-Prince Nich- olas created tension throughout the nation, \Strongest Measures\ Asked Officials were apprehensive that the banned rightist \Tron Guard\ angered because its representa- tives were not consulted before Nicholas was exiled for refusing to renounce. his commoner wife, might challenge the government. In a special session, the cabinet authorized the government to \re- press with the strongest measures\ any political disturbances fostered by the \Iron Guard\. Tension in the capital was par- tally relieved by the release of Prof. Alexander éeroh, who pub- licly opposed stripping Nicholas of his royal rank. © (In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, dis- patches from Rumania declared a wave of protest against King Carol's association with Magda Lupescu has swept the nation after Nicholas was read out of the royal family. Authoritative Bel- grade reports said Prof. Gerota was arrested because he asserted moner was & minor matter com- pared with the king's long asso- ciation with Mme. Lupescu.) Premier. George Tatrescu re- mained firm in his intention to keep the Fascist \fron guard\ under control, saying \We are pre- pared to make sacrifices.\ PLEA TO INDUSTRY Crisis Caused By Marriage} POLIGE BENEFIT UNIT ORGANIZED Whitehead Is President Of New Group Formed By Hempstead Cops Members of the Hempstead po- lice department have organized a benefit association to take the place of the Patrolmen's Benevo- lent association disbanded last month when it was expected that the village department would be merged with the eounty police sys- tem. The new organization will be known as the Police Benefit asso- ciation of Hempstead. Funds Divided Patrolman Eugene... Whitehead. president of the disbanded or- ganization, has been elected presi- dent of the new group. Other offi- cers are Patrolmen Robert Norton, first vice-president; Raymond Smith, second vice-president; Rene Pilon, treasurer and Wilbur Steinway, secretary. Directors are Patrolmen Claude Smith, George A. Smith and Daniel Marshall. When the former association. which was founded in 1933, was disbanded in anticipation of the merger with the county system, about $8,000 in the treasury was divided among the members. The estate of Former Chief Phineas A. Seaman who died the morning of the disbandment, was paid a $500 death benefit. A balance of sev- eral hundred dollars in the treas- ury will be used as a nucleus of a fund for the new group. The new group will be affiliated with the Police Conference of New York state. The amount of the death benefits and other rules and regulations will be determined at a later meeting. WOMAN'S CRIES ROUT HEMPSTEAD BURGLAR Police Search - For \Unknown Man\ Frightened From Home Of Charles Conklin Hempstead and county police to- | day were attempting to trace a| burglar who broke into the home of Charles L. Conklin, vice-presi- | dent of the Title Guarantee and Trust company, at 121 Stevens avenue, Hempstead early today. The burglar, who entered the home through an unlatched win- dow, was frightened away when Mrs. Conklin screamed as the in- truder entered a downstairs room where she was sleeping and flashed a light in her face. Mr. Conklin immediately notified the Hempstead police and in a short time two village police cars and two county police cars were on the scene. A search of the neighborhood, which is on the Hempstead-West Hempstead boundary line failed to result in a capture. A general alarm was broadcast by the coun» ty police for patrolmen to be on the watch for \an unknown man, who might be on foot and carrying a flashlight.\ Sergeant Louis R. 'Bretz re- ceived the call from Mr. Conklin and sent Ser Robert Mc- Cance and Patrolman Claude Smith and Lewis Petit to the scene. He also notified the coun- ty department. A search of the house revealed that the burglar had ransacked drawers in the Pair Wait-ed Here In Katonah Case Take|_||_nWest U. S. AGENT SHOT . Suspects Blast Way Out . Of Federal Trap Only To Run into Arrest OMAHA, Neb., April 17- (P)-Two New York bank robbery suspects captured by rural officers after a flight from Topeka, Kas., where they shot a federal agent in & gun battle, were spirited away from jail here today. The gangsters, taken by surprise in ~ bloodless coup, were placed in two automobiles by federal agents and driven south, ostensibly to Topeka. Last night they lost their way in the criss-cross streets of a small Nebraska town and surrendered without resistance, Ten hours after the men identified _| as Robert Suhary, 26, and Alfred Powers, 45, shot their way out of the trap set by federal agents in the Topeka postoffice they were captives of Sheriff Homes Sylves= ter. Kidnap A Doctor During their flights they kid- naped a county lit-glid- forced him to treat Suhay 0 was wounded. The sheriff and his brother, Deputy Cass Sylvester, arrested. them at Plattsmouth, Neb., a town of 3,700 population 25 miles south of here, without a shot 17:23 fired. H. B. Fletcher, federal a in charge here, identified the men as those charged with conspiri with ~ others to rob the Katonah, N. Y., bank and with the $18,000 robbery of the bank last March 18. McNeely was arrested in New York yesterday by federal agents. Seized without resistance, he was arraigned before a U. S. commis- sioner and held under $2,000 bond. Wounded In First Case Powers and Suhay seriously wounded Wayne W. Baker, 27, who was on his first major assign= ment as a federal officer, He was | struck by four bullets, Another hit O. D. Davis, a bystander, in the foot. The sheriff said the men had about $11,000 in their possessions Most of it, he said, was concealed in Powers's underwear. The Sylvesters said they trailed the automobile bearing the twa men eight miles. When it halted om the edge of Plattsmouth they called upon the two to surrender, The men stepped from the car, hands upraised. Sylvester fool from each a loaded .38-calibre pl« tol. The men were then taken #8 the federal bureau of investigation offices here. Admit Shooting, Police Say The sheriff said both admitted participation in the gun battle with federal agents yesterday, and having forced Dr. S. M. Hibbard to dress a gunshot wound in Su» hay's left wrist at Sabetha, Kam They took the car after theirs had been wrecked against a bridge. Warned by the F. B, I. office here to be on the lookout for the pair, the sheriff and his brother drove to a filling station. eight miles south of Plattsmouth early last night and waited. Shortly after 9 o'clock, the sher» iff related, the car bearing the two men Fund by.. 'The Sylvesters, a with pistols and a trailed it. 'The sheriff said he his brother decided not to risk gunfire by drawing alongside the. men's car but relied instead am the winding streets of Plattimouth to serve as a trap. said thit \We were hoping. sheriff, \the men would get m led up in the side streets and ( what they did do. 'They weaved around and fnally found themt« selves headed through a railrond underpass, Apparently rea they were were headec into the Missouri river, they rtopped. J \Then my brother and 1 jumped out and pointing my rifle at them, I hollered, 'come out with yoult hands up!\ They got out with thelr » hands in the air.\ The officers did not search the two men, they said, until they . marched the prisoners into a lighted stract. Check On Car Tags U 'The license plate of the #M, by which the officers identified fugitives, both ex-convicts, a BF Hiboards license nemo: j o Al . s license number. _ The shooting at Topeka ocurra in frost of the postofMice registry window, | where . three . federal agents had kept vigil for days in the belief the men would
