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Oakland and Vicinity-Fair Sunday and Monday; cooler.Sunday night i light iComplfle Weather Keport on Fart 10-T) VOL. CXXVI-THREE CENTS-SUNDAY TEN CENTS 90 PAGES PAGES A-l TO 1 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1937 NO. 122 S. F. Hotels Strikebound; Confusion STIRS Grip Patron as Sympathy Walkouts A F.

FORMS LABOR COUNCIL HERE eutrality Brill Signed By Roosevelt On Vacation i President's Boat Puts Into T1 Tl PICKETS TO Maroon Scores; New Guests Rejected nrp Mr mm fOUMLWU i on to neceive Measure After Race Against Time Skeleton Crews Stay on As Protection to Property 3500 Union Workers Halt Service; Flying Squads Pull Out Members at Rush Hour; 10,000 Other Craftsmen Quit ELEVATOR HALT ROILS TENANTS By HOBART C. MONTEE United Press Staff Corresnondent First Order Is for New Body To Ostracize Supporters of C. I. Officers Named Guild, However, Calls Meeting Today for Strike Policy in Craft Walkouts GUARDS AT DOORS I lip Jl! I I1 WASHINGTON. May President Roosevelt tonight signed the neutrality law, making permanent the temporary policy of aloofness Teamsters Set for Mass Meeting With Court Sanction; Dave Beck to Be Speaker Production Unharmed Thus Far; 150 Cameramen Join Hollywood Dispute, Claim Hotels Not Stricken, Join in Caring for Guests irom foreign wars which the United States has pursued for the last two years.

Word that Roosevelt had signed the bill was received at the State Department shortly before 9:30 p. m. Eastern standard time, just two and a half hours before the old law was (Picture on Wirephoto Page) Organization, of a hew Central Labor Council 'or Alameda County composed only qf unions of unques Labor Battles for Bargaining Rights; Rossi Condemns Both Sides for "Rule or Ruin' Fight; $90,000 Daily Loss Employeesof 16 leading San Francisco hotels went on strike at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, crippling the city's social and commercial life. Union leaders said 3500 members of six unions went on strike Over a collective bargaining dispute. They claimed 10,000 members of 16 other crafts walked out in sympathy due to expire.

tioned loyalty to the American Fed The President's signature was af eration of Labor was announced late 4f 1 'II i 1 mm A I Managers of San Francisco hotels late last night indicated they were limiting their service as much as possible because of strike conditions. A survey of several hotels revealed the following conditions: Mark Hopkins Hotel Manager George D. Smith reported a skeleton crewof 16 employees still on duty attempting to serve remaining guests. St. Francis Manager E.

G. Love said he was moving all guests who could leave to hotels pot strike By RONALD W. WAGONER United Press. Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, May 1.. Filmland's stars passed unmoleted through picket lines today but were forced to apply their own makeup as unionized cosmetic and scenie artists struck in a move that may tie up the billion dollar film industry.

Suci stars as Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo and Bins Crosby were forced to apply theii own grease paint and lip-stlcldbut production continued on schedule despite the walkout of draftsWn and hair They are demanding union rec'oa- fixed to the bill at Port Aransas, Texas, after a race against time by the use of airplanes, trains, motor car and speed launch. The vessel on which the President is making a fishing cruise put into Port Aransas this afternoon. An attempt to fly the bill from Galveston to the President's ship was abandoned earlier in the day due to storms and rough water. LAST STAGE Si TRIP MADE BY MOTOR 1 The last phase of the document'! journey was by automobile. Simultaneous with the signing the President issued two proclamations; One of these declared the new law: Doc Stork Gets Change Of Address with the strikers.

The strike was called by a joint board of culinary workers' unions after negotiations collapsed over the unions' demand that 'confidential office employees be included in a collective bargaining agreement. Hotel managers insisted upon having ex yesterday by Rowland Watson, of L. organizer. Watson, who suspended the council in connection with William Green's "purge" of assertedly dis-- loyal elements in a dispute resulting from a Jurisdictional dispute, said no unions affiliated with John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization would be admitted to the new council.

He said petition for a charter had been airmailed to Green and the A. F. of L. executive committee by a group of 16 Oakland unions who met and elected temporary officers for 60 pending receipt of the bound. All doors were locked but the front entrance, where guards were inspecting all who entered.

The lobby was almost blocked with luggage. Sir Francis Drake Manager Don E. London said the hotel was accepting no new guests. Only the front door was open and guards Strike leaders, Orchestra 'Leader immediately in effect and called at-; tention to the provisions of the new; charter, TEAMSTERS WILL were questiening all who entered. Fairmont Maneger, Janwis H.

Hal Kavelin and the stork, held a conference just before the San Francisco hotel strike was called late yesterday. The- stork was included because Mrs. Kavelin, in the Kavelin apartment high up in the Mark Hopkins, was expecting a visit from him. Strike leaders advised Kavelin to have his wife leave the hotel before 5 o'clock and the stork agreed to defer his law which include: 1 Prohibition of the export of arms, ammunition and implements of war from the United States and its clusive right to hire and fire these employees. More than '6000 guests were deprived of service by the strike and hundreds of them were reported leaving for private homes and Metropolitan Oakland hotels.

24-HOUR DUTY FOR PICKET LINES The strike was peaceful, although picket line were thrown around the hotels promptly at 5 O'clock with instructions to keep a 24-hour vigil. HEAR DAVE BECK This development was announced as the International Bootherhood of Teamsters successfully defended in I'Cif 111 ill i I 4 a ban Francisco court its right to hold a mass meeting i(. Oakland thi; morning. The mass meeting will be nitjon and a closed shop. The picketing was peaceful, ahdat.

some studios only B. handful of pickets appeared. PRODUCERS DENY SETBACK THUS FAR Pat Casey, chairman of the Labor Committee of Motion Pictura Producers and Distributors' late today disputed claims of the 'striking unions and declared that not more than 200 workers responded to the strike call of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts. All studios are at work with no curtailment of production, Casey said, as he predicted a and sensible" solution of the difficulty. Bert Of ford.

Cesium Union McCabe said all doors but one were locked "for the protection of our The hotel has more than 1000 rooms. Clift Manager B. B. Wilson said the hotel was not attempting to operate except to give limited service with a skeleton crew. Plaza The' manager was unavailable.

Union leaders said a skeleton force had been ordered there because of the large number of elderly guests. One elevator was ordered kept in operation last night, Gaylord Manager Douglas F. territories or possessions to belligerent countries. Prohibition of the transportation of arms, amunition and implements of war by vessels 'of the United States for the use of belligerent nations. Compulsory registration and li- censing of persons engaged in manufacturing, exporting or importing arms, ammunition or implements of war.

AMERICANS' TRAVEL IN These two victims of San Francisco's hotel; strike, Elizabeth Meiss of Portland, left, and Katherine Fisher, South Bend, tried their luck with the elevator after regular operators left them stranded in the lobby of the St. Francis. Tribune photo. Hotels affected were the Bellcvue Alexander Hamilton, Mark Hopkins, Cathedral Hotel Apartments, Clift Sir Francis Drake, El Cortez, Fairmont, Palace, Plaza, Whitcomb, St. Francis, William Taylor, Gaylord and Stewart.

Employees of the Kit Carson night club, operated by 'the same arriyal until after that hour. He was advised Mrs. Kavelin could be found later at a San Francisco hospital. Hotel tigakland "saved the night" for the Mills College As-, sociatcd Students, by converting its main ballroom from a dining-room back to a ballroom In one hour. The college girls had scheduled their Spring Formal for the SV! Hotel.

The strike forced the St. Francis management to cancel It. "We'll fix it," said Hotel Oakland's management, and had its ballroom ready, with all the trimmings, before dance-time. 3 hridat 10 clock at the Auditorium Theater, where nearly 2600 teamsters Are expected hear Dave Beck, Seattle labor leader nd A. F.

of stalwart, discuss the teamsters' jurisdictional dispute as well as broader aspects of the breach in the ranks of American organized labor. The court action followed adoption of a resolution by the San Francisco Labor placing the council on record against Green's "purge" nf the Alameda Labor Council of those elements he considers disloyal. The San Francisco groHp on Friday night voted over- WAR TIME RESTRICTED Harrison said he and his wife were attempting to maintain service, and several guests had offered to help. Mrs. Harrison was operating the.

telephone switchboard. Harrison A Registration of travel by Ameri- can citizens on belligerent ships during war. i II For week's developments in STRIKE situation, read LABOR in "The World This Week," page 7-B. was attempting to fill the rest of The proclamation also enumerated the articles and materials which, the positions. El' Cortes Manager Herbert B.

Blunck said no guests had checked under the law, are considered arms, ammunition apd implements of war. The list was approximately the same out but that most of the services had Oliver Hardy, 200-pound film comedian, found nothing to stimu company which owns three of the hotels involved, -also struck. A lffth hotel, the St. Charles, was wnciming support to deposed of-ficers of the Alameda-ouncll who repudiated Green in connection with the teamsters' dispute. stopped except an elevator.

as that of last February, when the temporary neutrality law was ex Bellevue Reported completely business agent, Crsrv his group wished to npV-i-! hide- penderSily on vagna rnd working conditions. Casey inf-rnTyi he would meet his union next week, i The Costumers nunb-' rf) and is one of the in the' Motion Picture Fcc'iTcn. Sunday niffht, such fItr as Joan Crawford, Robsrt Menemery, James Cagney aM March executives of the Screen Actors' Guild will meet to decide whether the actors will join the strike. TODAY'S CALMNESS 'IS ONLY A PREVIEW Charles Lessing of the strikers directing personnel, said today's picket demonst-aticn wan only a late his sense of humor. For the strike found Hardy in the lobby of without service except for a volun tended to May 1 of this year.

This II struck late last night on a complaint Kfy that it was serving a clearing fi' -4 house for other strike-bound hotels. teer switchboard operator. Only in mmmm i side calls were permitted. principal change is the inclusion of specific high explosives and poisonous gasses by their chemical names. Alexander Hamilton Hotel Apart Watson said that 16 unions had participated in the election of temporary officers and anpllcation for a charter.

He declined to name the unions or announce the temporary officers. PRESIDENT FEE AND SECRETARY RETAINED mentsPrincipal service was oper ation of freight elevator. Stewart Ten of 125 employees on the Sir Francis Drake Hotel and his luggage in a suite on the 20th floor. He captured a chair and announced he was starting a one-man sit-down strike in the lobby until someone started running an elevator or brought hisjuggage down. a Jean II e.rsholt, kindly, paunchy ,1 Cilll FALL xne stri King employees are members of-the clerks, cooks, waiters, bartenders and waitresses unions.

Strike leaders named as unions supporting them in sympathy strikes the musicians, elevator operators, butchers, bakers, laundry workers, electricians, engineers, garagemen," janitors, window cleaners, bakers, telephone operators, milk wagon drivers and upholsters. John Shelley, president of the duty. Manager Charles W. Green said 50 of 200 guests had left, most of them declaring they were leaving the city. No hot water available.

KILLS He admitted, however, that William Fee, president, and William Spoowr, secretary, of the Alameda council had been retained. Guy Sil-verthorn was reported renamed treasurer. "Most of the old officers of the council were retained," said Watson, screen- actor, did tome, intentional i. K. stf I climbing in San Francisco yesterday.

and some he. didnt bargain for. A Mi HKPUS 10 II TEST F. Apartment House Ten "but I don't remember their names." He said a chart was' expected San Francisco Central Labor Council, announced that the strike was sanctioned by the council. MANAGER SAYS STRIKE IS OFFi MUSICIANS QUIT "Pull-out" squadrons spread the strike (fill during the cocktail fimmmmmmm ant Loses Balance, Plunges Three Stories to Street (..

I If I 'I I Mffff IWtl Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Kutler of Beverly Hills.

When ihe. Irio got back to their hotel, the Palace, the strike was on, and another climb confronted them seven flights to their rooms. Elevator service was resumed In most lintels, on a slow basis, an hour or so after the strike A San Francisco woman bather was killed yesterday when phe fell from the roof of a three' "orcyicw" to re-" that will be present-1 S''Itwlll be a rc-1 t-ike," he said. Normally there WW a activity at the studios on Si-Urcy's. At in Culver City, only two pickets were at the entrance when Greta drove through the gate to continue work on "Madame Walewska." Jean Harlow, emplovecf at the same studio, had no difficulty get-ting to work on a film titled "Sara-toga," co-starring Clark Gable, who-was not working today.

Jack Oakie and Harriet Hilliard were given applause by pickets. Anr Sothern was another featured player "at work as usual." Twenty strikers picketed the main entrance to Paramount Studios in downtown Hollywood, when Marlene Dietrich. Bin? Crosby, Herbert Marshall, JacTt Benny and other stars came to hour while bars, lounges and dining salons were filled with dinner guests. So sudden was the call that musicians at one hotel packed their Instruments and quietly marched out In a sym within a few djjys, after which other unions wjuldf be invited to affiliate. "No unions affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization will be admitted to tne new council," said Watson, This announcement was reported to have made Alameda County the first A.

F. of L. jurisdiction in the Nation to definitely exclude the Lewis unions from membership. Nationally, the American Federation of Labor has declared the C. I.

EI Cerrito Plares Ordered To Close? Drew Hundreds To Enjoy Final Play ptory apartment house at 1346 Pine Street. She was Mrs. Lyla Fisher, began, but that didn't help Helen Mack, screen actress, who returned to the Palace shortly after the "zero hour" from a 37, wife of John W. Fisher, a State employee. EL CERRITO, May 1-Max Golpb, Mrs.

Fisher had been lying on the roof, taking a. sun bath during manager of the Jade Club, and operators of the Cerrito and Holly the late afternoon. She fell back lllfiIlM I iSllllIliil I wood Club, El Cerrito bingo parlors, unions suspended but not expelled." wards over a two-foot parapet after she lost her balance when attempting reported last night they planned to Watson action was taken as court Chinatown shopping tour. Her room was eight floors up. Informed she'd have to walk, Miss Mack expressed herself in pithy, graphic terms, with no soft-peddle.

Another "stranded" guest was Dr. John C. Best of 'Chicago, co-discoverer of insulin. 0 Mrs. Alfred Newman, who has pathy strike as the manager was announcing to patrons that the walkout had been one week.

Some of the hotels, anticipating the strike, nad placed warning signs at the elevators a few minutes before the zero hour warning guests that elevator service and electric lighting might be cut off. Within a few minutes after the strike' came, headquarters of the close shop" and wait results of the pending trial to test legality of the action was threatened to halt his plans. Unions protesting Watson's suspension of the labor council's to roll up a blanket she had been lying upon. Holding an alarm clock in her hand, she stumbled backwards for fully 15 feet, finally to be games. Before the zero hour of the court tripped the parapet, which charter announced they would seek an injunction Tuesday unless they ty's "close up" order approached, caused her 'fo plunge to dcath in the parlors played to capacity lived at the Fairmont Hotel for yearst PRODUCERS GOING AHEAD ON SCHEDULE were admitted to the council meet ing Monday night and unless Wat houses.

Throngs crowded the tables limped to the desk and said: "I have the allev below. FALL TO DEATH SEEN BY NEIGHBOR and watched the tossing qf the ball Paramount officials announced son rescinded the suspension and and listened to the calling of the permitted the council to continue its numbers in the three clubs. The spectacular fall was witnessed from an adjoining roof by Arthur they had 13 pictures In production and were- working "full blast" Five companies were working at M-G-M. Wacner across the Kitchen service was hailed by the hotel fleret the stroke of 5 p. Chef AlfredBohn is shown hanging up his potsat the Palace Hotel.

Tribune pholo. jU Thy paid their nickels and dimes normal function. RLABY BRANDS ELECTION HERE AS ILLEGAL MOVE been shopping all day. My feet are tired. I Mve on the fifth floor, you know.

Can't something be Nothing was." On the other hand, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mazeka of Chicago staggered to the lobby from the fifth floor with heavy bags and caught their train for home. a a for the privilege of putting markers Joint strike committee was issuing permits to minimize inconvenience the hotels and guests. Permits were issued tot.

baggage men to remove luggageV and to wholesale butchers to take meats from hotel refrigerators. At the same timelhe strike committee warned that any striker who refused to up for picket duty (Continued 'on Page 10, Col. 1) hills at Burbank; R-K-O, adjacent Frank Slaby, C. I. O.

leader here, on a card as the numbers were called and winning "points" if they got five: numbers in a row before to paramount and Columbia, next said the election of the new council door to and Paramount, continued activity asusual. was "an absolutely illegal action anyone else did. Hundreds of the Bay region's so Sheriff John A. Miller, who or Olson, 935 Hyde Street. "I was watching her roll un her blanket," Olscn "Suddenly she stumbled as her heel evidently caught perhaps In the blanket, and she staggered backward.

She held a clock In one hand and desperately waved the other trying to regain her balance. She kept stumbling backwards for about 15 feet and backed over the parapet. "When her legs struck the united Artists and Universal taken at a meeting packed with old guard labor leaders." Bay Yachtsman Swept to in FaU From Boat dered the three places to close permanently at the end of tonight's (Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) Studios reported no interruption in scheduled film shooting. "They won't get away with it, said Slaby.

Lessing, the strikers' spokesman. play, says the "points" are easily converted Into cash and this classi Slaby ts president of Local 78, said 150 camera -mechanics hacl Joined the walkout and that event United Automobile Workers of America, His "office named as lo fies blpgo as an illegal form of gambling. Today 's Sunday Tribune James 23-year-old yachts- The cutter immediately put about ually all the cameras in Hollywood would be tied up. Undersheriff Al Aljets, on Mil to his rescue, but the tides sucked obstruction, she hesitated for a momeht, then as she started to fall, man and employe of the General-Steamship Company of San Fran ler's orders, passed the close-up or- cal C. I.

O. affiliates the U. A. W. Textile Workers of America; Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union; The estimated 3000 members re she threw her arms in the air, sail the federated motion picture cr; i cisco, was drowned during the San Francisco-Valleio race of the Pacific ing the alarm clock over her Amalgamated Asociation of Iron, Steel arid Tin of North America; United Rubber Workers.

shoulders. She grasped desperately at the parapet and pawed at the air, then she screamed as her body fell." Involved who are on strike, we; said by Lessing 'to be associated with the American Federation of Labor. the young man down before the boat could reach him. Police and yachtmen were dragging for the body throughout the night. Gage, a member of de Fremery's six-man volunteer had sailed to the Bay area recently from Seattle Jn his sloop, the Valero, aboard which he lived until twoj der along to the management of the thaee places, which reopend two weeks ago after six months of inactivity.

Aljets' said" District Attorney Frances Healey advised him that if the places do not close they may be raided and their equipment seized. i Amalcamated Clothing Workers: Inter-Club Yachting Association last night. Vallcjo police were informed he fell from the bow of the 50-foot cutter Waterwitch, owned and sail and United Electrical and Radio In some quarters it was said frs NOISE OF FALLING NNN CLOCK IS HEARD When the clock struck the pave Workers. hairdressers and makeup art They declared that the Iron, ed by Leon de PVcmery of PiedmontJ were signing up with the Interna Steel and Tin Workers now in ment of the alley and shattered, the noise attracted Kenneth Arnold, of Eight men were arrested last week weeks ago. He was an orphan, police as me cran wasa nmaing into Mare tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage "Employees and would cludes the Eastbay Union of Ma in a raid at the Hollywood Club Island Chann el fr San Pablo Bay.

Were told chinists. This group Is composed but no equipment was seized. The men asked a jury trial after the same address, to his window. He called the Central Emergency Hospital ambulance and attendants pronounced Mrs. Fisher dead upon arrival.

Her body was taken to of elements whleh revolted last Sumnjcr against leadership of the 5 Die as Tornado pleading not guilty to lottery International Assomtion of MA1- charges. A group arrested in a raid at SCREEN AND RADIO WEEKLY 18 Pages In Color Serial COMIC SECTION 12 Pages In Color KNAVE SECTION The Knave Book Reviews Walter Lippmann Dorothy Thompson Institute of Public Opinion George E. Sokolsky Radio Schedules News of the Stage and Screen Art and Musicf The World This Week Editorials AUTOMOTIVE SECTION Automotive News Negro Activities Girl Reserves Girl-Scouts Development and Building Fraternal News Camp Fire Girls Uncle Ray's Corner AUNT ELSIE SECTION Aunt Elsie Funland MAIN NEWS SECTION Complete News Report' Townsend Notes Sport News, 12-A to 16-A. Playground Activities SOCIETY SECTION Society and Clubs I Cover the Shops Fashion Highlights Geraldine Patterns Crossword Puzzle Match points Interior Decorating Stamp Collector Boy Scouts Calendar' CLASSIFIED SECTION Classified Ads. 1-T to 10-T Complete Weather Report Shipping Ntws Commodity Markets A.

P. Wirephotos Lashes Louisiana i-chinists. They described the Elec the Club Jade last Summer was acquitted of similar charges by a trical and Radio Workers group as a new union composed of Westing Girl Oil Operator Gets $2000 Daily AKRON, May 1. (U.R The income of Julia Ellen Leathers, 21, who claims the title of the world's only girl gas and oil operator, rose today to $2000 daily. A roaring, rock-throwing 10.000,000 Central Emergency Hospital waiting claim.

Mrs. Fisher had been clad In a sun suit, but had dressed herself before she started to roll up the blanket. house and General Electric em jury. Husband Ends Life; back to work on Monday. GYPSY ROSE LEE GETS IN WITHOUT NOTICE One of co-worker however, Gypsy Rose Lee, muii-tered through the hand ft?) rf pickets at the Fox gate i being recofnincd.

and a gate attendant opined i' -ti famous strip teaser e-v; because her fare wji i -p portion of her frsMi view. Don i -eir'y I i t'v'j i arns Family First NEW. ORLEANS, La, May 1 (U.R) Five persons were killed and great property damage wrought by tornadid winds that lashed Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama last night and today. The Catholic church and the Louisiana and Nashville Railway station at Phillipston and 15 small houses in Phillipston and Torras were demolished. Hail damaged crops and damaged house ployees.

WELDERS REPORTEDLY SEEKING C. I. O. TIES Besides these, according to the Automobile Workers' leaders, the Union of Certified Welders 1 has applied for a C. I.

O. charted Officials of the Warehousemen's Union, principal affiliate of tha In cubic foot gas well in1 Huron County, Clifford Campbell, 42, of 1878 28th Avenue, San Francisco, walked into the bathroom of his home last night, fired a shot from his gun and then Pope Pius Goes to Summer Palace VATICAN CITY. May 1. (U.B-Pope Pius XI( Jcft by mofor car to was her second well broucht in. She holds contracts for 28-more.

informed his wife and two children, Miss Leathers' father, A. C. Leath day for his Summer palare st ers, also an operator, said a cire- Betty. 13, and James. 10, that "he intended to end it all." Re-entering the bathroom he fired shot into ternational Longshoremen's Associa- Ganrfolfo, outsit i it i ate fully from fc il last line to carry the gas to Cleveland and Detroit would be constructed.

roofs. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) his head, killing himself..