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WEATHER. *1 _
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ture, probably occasional light showers ^h Washington With the
tonight and tomorrow; colder by Wed- Associated PreSS NeWS
and Wirephoto Services.
Full report on page *-5.
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CALL TO “GET OUT VOTE”
FINISHES CAMPAIGN WITH
45,000,000 TOTAL LIKELY
Party Leaders
Confident
at End.
SWEEP IS SEEN
FOR NEW DEAL
Roosevelt Margin
Will Exceed ’32
Farley Says.
Bt the Associated Press.
Across the vast expanse of America
the tumult over gigantic issues died
away today as the Nation’s only sov
ereign—the voter—prepared to wield
the scepter and decide tomorrow who
shall head his Government.
From both major parties, as almost
always, came strong expressions of
confidence, while all hands, from
presidential candidates down to lowli
est ward worker, concentrated on one
eleventh-hour task:
"Get out the vote,” was the injunc
tion heard on all sides. The Hercu
lean efforts of party workers, com
bined with the more - than - usual
natural interest in the issues, still
Indicated a record-smashing vote,
possibly 45,000,000, despite ominous
word from the Weather Bureau that
a cold rain or snow might blanket
much of the United States on election
day.
Farley Predicts Sweep.
James A. Farley, national chairman,
headed the Democratic victory-prog
nosticators. with a declaration that
It would be a “sweep” giving President
(Roosevelt a bigger electoral margin
than 1932, when he captured 472 of
the 531 votes in the electoral college.
Farley said Republicans could not
rightfully “feel hopeful” in any States
except Maine and Vermont.
National Chairman John D. M.
Hamilton of the Republicans came
back with a declaration that without
hesitation he could predict an "ab
solute minimum” of 320 electoral votes
for Gov. Alf M. Landon. Only 266 are
necessary to elect. Other Republican
campaigners also said there was a
"victory tide” for Landon.
Though his more formal campaign
ing was over, President Roosevelt per
mitted himself little rest today. He
planned to make a tour of his own
Dutchess County and two other New
York counties, then speak tonight to
neighbors from a Poughkeepsie bal
cony and to the Nation from Hyde
Park.
Welcomes Hatred.
On Saturday night, at Madison
Bquare Garden, he had proclaimed
that the issue was the preservation
of the 1932 victory for “restoration of
American democracy.” He said forces
favoring government by “organized
money” were “unanimous in their hate
of me—and I welcome their hatred.”
His 20,000-mile trek through the
Nation finished, Gov. Landon rested
at Topeka, Kans., before beginning
the final campaign activities. He will
make a 15-minute address to the Na
tion tonight, then entrain for his home
town of Independence, where he will
vote. By tomorrow night he will be
back in Topeka to receive the returns.
The Governor wound up his formal
campaigning Saturday night with a
speech at St. Louis, declaring the tra
ditional American form of govern
ment is at stake in the balloting and
that the New Deal has “tried to run
from its record instead of on its rec
ord.” Recovery is retarded, he said,
because “enterprise and initiative are
afraid of the present administration.”
The vice presidential nominees also
were on home grounds to await elec
tion returns. Col. Frank Knox, flnish
(See CAMPAIGN, Page A-4.)
SPANISH INSURGENTS
CLASH SECOND TIME
8everal Fascists Wounded by Carl
ists in San Sebastian Street
Fighting.
By the Associated Press.
BAYONNE, France, November 2.—
Street fighting in San Sebastian,
6pain, between two insurgent factions
Was reported here today.
The advices said several Fascists
were wounded in quarrels with Carl
ists over posters favoring the candi
dacy of the Bourbon pretender, Prince
Zavier, for the Spanish throne.
Police quelled the rioting after
members of the two groups, allied
under the leadership of the Fascist
dictator-designate, den. Francisco
Franco, had wielded knives when the
Fascists objected to the Carlist
posters.
It was the second reported clash
between the two groups in two weeks.
[ APPEAL IS LOST
*'Vice Queen's” Sentence la Af
firmed by Court.
NEW YORK, November 3 (IP).—
Mae Schelble, one-time queen of the
Pittsburgh underworld and keeper of
fashionable Park avenue apartments,
lost again today in her appeal from
conviction of transporting women
across State lines for Immoral pur
poses.
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals affirmed her conviction and a
sentence of four years in a Federal
penitentiary and fine of $5,000.
A co-defendant, Joseph P. Ryan of
Pittsburgh, also lost in the appeal
and will be resentenced to 15 months’
imprisonment. p
r
Rain, With Freezing and Snow,
In Prospect for Election Day
Voters Will Face Generally Inclement
Weather in East and Middle West,
According to Forecasters.
Meteorologically speaking, the East
will have a wet day at the polls.
Umbrellas and raincoats will be the
style for voters from the populous
region of New England down to as
far as Virginia and westward as far
as Tennessee and the Ohio Valley.
The Midwestern voter will shiver
and slosh through snow to the polls
tomorrow, according to forecasts.
Associated Press reports Indicate
that overcoats and mittens would be
needed by voters in the Northwest.
Yellowstone Park reported a tempera
ture of 2 degrees below zero this
morning and many points in the
Northwest listed temperature down to
10 degrees above zero.
For the Capital, where the citizens
will be innocent bystanders, uncertain
weather conditions are predicted.
Today is expected to be overcast
and mild, while tonight and tomorrow
will bring “probable occasional light
showers.” Late in the afternoon the
temperature will begin to fall and by
night it will be fairly cold.
In warning the East to be prepared
for wet weather. Forecaster Charles
L. Mitchell said mo6t of the rain prob
ably would fall in the Ohio Valley,
with scattered showers along the sea
board.
"The temperature will be warm and
mild in most of the Eastern area,” he
said. Late tomorrow, cold weather
will hit Columbus, Memphis, Cincln
(SeeTWEATHER, Page A-37)
Two Speeches Tonight Will
Close Continuous 6*Week
Campaign.
Bt the Associated Press.
HYDE PARK, N. Y„ November 2 —
President Roosevelt called for his
campaign hat today for the last time
before an estimated 40,000,000 or more
American citizens check their choice
tomorrow in the quadrennial national
elections.
He had mapped a 60-mile motor
trip up and down both sides of the
Hudson River in a final bid for neigh
borhood votes which he hoped would
help to keep New York State In the
New Deal colump.
Tonight he will close nearly six
weeks of almost continuous campaign
ing with two speeches, one at 9 p.m.
to an outdoor crowd in front of the
Nelson House In nearby Poughkeepsie,
and the other at 11:45 p.m. to the
Nation via a microphone from his
study in the home of his birth here.
Cast Ballots Tomorrow.
He and other members of the fam
ily will cast their ballots tomorrow
morning in the little town hall in
Hyde Park village.
His informal talk In Poughkeepsie,
the first In that town since the Sum
mer of 1933, when he addressed a
homecoming celebration in his honor
at Vassar College and detailed his
“good neighbor’’ policy, will be from
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3.)
SHIP ABANDONED;
BREAKS UP ON ROCKS
U. S. Freighter Aground in Eng
land—All Members of Crew
Are Removed Safely.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 2.—With her
back broken, rammed hard on the
rocks at Pendennis Point, the 5,686
ton American freighter Bessemer City,
of New York, was abandoned to
pounding seas today.
A lifeboat from St. Ives, three miles
west of Pendennis Point, rescued the
last 23 members of the crew early
today after 10 others had been taken
ashore earlier, including the ship’s
mascot, a cat.
The ship was reported breaking up.
"She’s broken in two,” said Capt.
A. Herman, the last to leave the
stricken vessel. "She’s lost.
"Visibility was wretched. We didn’t
even get a peep at the shore lights.
We were on the rocks before we knew
what had happened.”
A farmer who heard the ship crash
onto the rocks phoned the St. Ives
lifeboat station to effect the rescue.
I
Roosevelt Madison Square
Garden Speech Cited
by Nominee.
BT the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, K&ns., November 2.—Gov.
Alf M. Landon said today “the plain
inference” of President Roosevelt’s
Madison Square Garden speech was
that "You’re going to have the N. R.
A., the A. A. A. and everything else
all over again.”
The Republican presidential nom
inee made the statement in a press
conference. Reporters asked whether
he though his Democratic opponent’s
Saturday night address answered the
question he put to him in the same
hall last Thursday.
“The speech speaks for Itself,” Lan
don replied. “It doesn't specifically
answer my questions. The plain in
ference is that you’re going to have
the N. R. A., the A. A. A. and every
thing else all over again.”
“What about the President’s desire
to be master of business?” a reporter
asked.
“That's what I meant,” Landon re
plied.
The Kansan stood behind his desk
as he talked.
The Kansas Governor, reunited with
his family after 20,000 miles of what
he termed “a fighting campaign to
give the American Government back
to the people," worked in the quiet
of his study on a last-minute talk to
voters.
After voting at Independence, with
Mrs. Landon and his father, John M.
Landon. the Republican nominee
planned a return to the executive
mansion here to receive election re
turns tomorrow night with his fam
ilv
No Appointments Today.
He listed no appointments during
the pre-election lull, reserving most
of the day for preparation of his
final speech and relaxation with his
children, Nancy Jo, 4, and John
Cobb, 2>/2.
His short concluding talk will be
broadcast during an hour’s Repub
lican rally starting at 9 p.m. (C. S. T.)
in which Col. Prank Knox, his run
ning mate, and National Chairman
John D. M. Hamilton also will speak.
Aides set the approximate time for
the Governor’s talk at 9:45.
London in his last major campaign
address in St. Louis Saturday night
asserted that New Deal “broken prom
ises” retarded business recovery by
creating fear in “initiative and en
terprise.”
Mrs. Landon and his 19-year-old
daughter, Peggy Anne, who joined
the Governor in St. Louis, sat nearby
as he declared:
“Next Tuesday the American peo
ple make a fundamental choice. We
must choose the system and ideals
of government under which we will
live for many years to come.
"The present administration has
(See LANDON, Page A-2.)
ELECTION NEWS!
€iiemng &>tar
Will flash it to you tomorrow night over the radio, In special
bulletins on its own screen, on the screens of 20 theaters,
by telephone, dirigible and searchlight.
By Radio: Over Station WMAL, beginning at 6 p.m. and
continuing to 1 a.m., a special staff of experts will keep you
abreast of every phase of the election.
Bulletins: An election night show on Pennsylvania j
avenue in front of The Star Building will intersperse bulle
tins with entertainment features.
Telephone: A battery of telephones manned by Star
reporters will be completely at your service for any query
connected with the election.
Theaters: Twenty theaters, 13 in Washington and 7
in the suburbs, will bring The Star’s special election service
to their patrons from 8 o’clock until midnight.
In the Skies: The dirigible Enterprise, connected by
short-wave radio to The Star, will flash the news against
the sky in huge neon-light bulletins. And, from the base
of the Washington Monument, a powerful Army searchlight,
visible for 40 miles, will point the trend of the voting in
different beams of light
Turn to Page A-14 for amplification of the etory
of your election service as provided by
tEljc Cbenrng &tar
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Capital Defense Lines Re
treat as Fascist Planes
Make 18th Trip.
ETRUNETE IS CAPTURED
IN HEAVY FIGHTING
Insurgents Report New Gains as
Battles Rage in Sections
Near Capital.
BACKGROUND—
Not since World War has Euro
pean capital been bombed from air
so extensively as Madrid in last
tew days. Rebel planes have rained
death and destruction on city
which has refused to surrender
although the rebel Fascist forces
are generally recognized as victors
in all other vital parts of Spain.
The Socialist-Communist loyalists
have doggedly refused to give up
the capital city.
The rebellion broke out last July
as a protest against the Communist
regime of President Azana and has
gained momentum steadily. Deaths
have been in the thousands in the
itense fighting in many sections of
the coutry and damage done the
country by the civil strife tpill be
figured in the millions.
Bt (be Associated Press.
MADRID, November ?.—Insurgent
war planes, making their eighteenth
visit to the environs of besieged
Madrid, killed three children and in
jured eight adults with bombs today
in the suburban village of Vallecas.
Eight bombs were dropped.
Alarm sirens immediately were
sounded throughout the capital, as it
was feared the Fascist planes would
continue on to bomb Madrid Itself.
The warning sirens walled througn
the streets of Madrid at 8:30 a.m„
but the Fascist planes apparently
turned back. They did not bomb the
capital.
Thrown back toward the beleagured
city on the south and on the west,
government commanders rushed fresh
reinforcements to strengthen the cap
ital’s retreating defense line.
Militiamen were trucked hastily to
Brunete and the El Escorlal sector
to the west of Madrid. (Reports from
Fascist headquarters at Navelcarnero
(See SPAIN. Page A-3.)
WEEKLY WAGE RAISED
New Zealanders Assured $19 for
Men, $9 for Women.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, No
vember 2 (jP).—New Zealanders were
assured today of a basic weekly wage
of 76 shillings (about $19) for men
and 36 shillings (about $9) for women.
This rate was fixed by an arbitra
tion court after several months’ con
sideration. The government had de
cided that basic wages for men must
be sufficient to provide a reasonable
standard of living for a man, wife
and three children.
FIRE TOLL REACHES NINE
Charred Body of Victim of Month
Old Blaze Discovered.
BAN DON. Ore., November 2 04").—
The charred body of J. C. Ashton, 62,
missing since fire destroyed this city
more than a month ago, was found
yesterday near his ruined home.
The discovery brought the death toll
from direct causes of the Bandon fire
to nine. Four other persons died of
exposure.
CHARGETORTURE
Alleged to Have Been Brutal
ly Treated in Arrest
in Japan.
Bt the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, November 2 —Details
of the alleged “fingernail torture” of
three British sailors by Japanese po
lice were disclosed today by officials
of the British Asiatic naval head
quarters here.
The officials said a fountain pen
was Jammed under the fingernails of
one sailor and then ink forced Into
the wounds to make him sign a “con
fession" sought by the Japanese.
Occurred in October.
The incident, which caused Vice
Admiral Sir Charles Little, command
ing the British Far East naval forces,
to postpone a visit to Japan, occur
red at Keelung, Formosa, October T.
According to British naval officers,
three seamen from British naval
craft then stationed at Keelung were
arrested by Japanese police for al
leged non-payment of taxicab fare.
Upon protesting, British officers
here said, the three sailors were pin
ned down by four Japanese police and
beaten in the face by additional Jap
anese plain clothesmen to "persuade”
them to sign a confession of their
(See TORTURE, Page A-2.)
WAREHOUSE FEE LAW
IS UPHELD IN GEORGIA
Br the Associated Press.
AUGUSTA, Oa„ November 2—A
three-judge Federal Court, in a 2-to-l
decision, upheld Georgia’s tobacco
warehouse law today.
The law fixes fees warehousemen
may charge for handling the State's
leaf crop which brought in more than
$18,000,000 this year.
Judge W. H. Barrett of the south
ern district of Gergia and Judge E.
R. Holmes of New Orleans concurred
in the opinion declaring the act was
not confiscatory and that it did not
infringe on either the constitutional
rights of the warehousemen or their
status as persons engaged in inter
state commerce.
Judge Bascom S. Deaver of the
middle district of Georgia dissented.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page. , Page.
Amusements B-16 Puzzles ....B-12
Comics _B-12 Radio _A-15
Editorial _A-10 Short Story..A-9
Finance ....A-49 Society_B-3-4
Lost-Found ..A-S Sports ...A-14-18
Obituary ...A-12 Woman's Pg. B-l 1
POLITICAL.
Rain, with freezing and snow, in pros
pect for voters. Page A-l
"Get out vote” last call as campaign
comes to end. Page A-I
Landon prepares final radio speech for
tonight. Page A-l
Roosevelt plans motor trip today
through New York. Page A-l
Six Democratic House members likely
to win In Maryland. Page A-2
International finance favors New Deal,
Ford declares. Page A-2
Security Board reports increased de
mand for material. Page A-S
NATIONAL.
Jailed drivers admit the court 'was
right. Page A-l
Federal intervention hastened to end
maritime strike. Page A-l
U. S. emergency agencies loan $194,
000,000 in Baltimore. Page A-S
Navy to reach full strength of officer
personnel in 1941. Page B-7
FOREIGN.
Madrid suburb bombed; children are
killed. Page A-l
"Fingernail torture” of British sailors
by Japanese charged. Page A-l
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Two killed, nearly score hurt in week
end accidents. 1 Page B-l
Woman Slashed by Halloween revelers
reported recovering. Page A-4
Msgr. Corrigan to be Inaugurated C. U.
rector November IS. Page A-S
Absentee voter bureaus center of ac
tivities here. Page B-l
Public liability insurance rates in
District raised. Page B-l
Gen. De Laney, White House physician
under Taft, diet here. Page A-12
Validity of Somerset County ballots
questioned. £ Page A-S
D. C. salesman held in death of Balti
more policeman. Page B-l
Former Judge Robert B. Peter dies at
Rockville. Page A-9
Citizens may demand police probe by
County Board. Page B-l
EDITOKIAL AND COMMENT.
This and That. Page A-19
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
Washington Observations. Page A-lt
The Political Mill. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Paul Mallon. Page A-ll
On the Record. Page A-ll
Jay Franklin. Page A-ll
Headline Folk. Page A-ll
SFOBTS
O. W„ undaunted by Rice loss, poised
for games ahead. Page A-16
Central choice over Tech High in grid
tilt tomorrow. Page A-16
Rocky road looms for Nation's un
beaten elevens. Page A-16
Big base ball deal between Cubs and
Reds reported brewing. Page A-16
Parade of all-Americas forming with
grid season half gone. Page A-17
List of teams with unmarred records
cut 50 per cent. Page A-17
Pro foot ball seen as menace to game
in colleges. Page A-17
Everett and Olin fight tonight for
D. C. fistic favor. Page A-18
FINANCIAL
Corporate bonds ease. Page A-19
Tire prices boosted. Page A-19
Earnings improve. Page A-19
Stocks depressed (table). Page A-tt
Curb list down (table). Page A-Zl
Foreign copper higher. Page A-Sl
MISCELLANY.
Auto Puols. Page A-9
Bedtime Story. Page B-1S
Betsy Caswell. . Page B-ll
City News in Brief. Page A-g
Dorothy Dix. Page B-ll
In the Hunt Country. Page B-Z
Nature’s Children. Page B-13
Winning Contract Page B-S
Vital Statistics. Page B-S
Young Washington. Page A-g
WAITING FOR THE VERDICT
Vandals Damage
School in Which
G. O. P. Was Born
Br the Associated Press.
RIPON, Wis., November 2.—
Vandals early today ripped the
front steps from the small school
house on the Ripon College cam
pus that is claimed locally as
the birthplace of the Republican
party.
Windows of the building were
broken and lime was thrown on
the walls.
INS MILK RISE
11 Cents a Quart Instead of
10 to Be Rate Due to
Farm Increase.
Highland Farms Dairy, which sells
Its milk on a cash-and-carry basis in
its own stores, decided today to join
the city’s other dairies in increasing
the retail price of Its milk, effective
tomorrow.
Hereafter a quart of Highland
Farms milk will cost 11 cents Instead
of 10 because of an increase of four
cents a gallon in the money it pays
farmers. The dairy requires a 5-cent
bottle depceit.
Other dairies raised their quart
price from 13 cents to 14 cents coin
cident with an increase by the dealers
in the amount of money paid the
producers. Pint prices were raised
from 7 to 8 cents, an increase of 8
cents a gallon for milk sold by the
pint. The increase to the farmer
amounts to about 4.3 cents a gallon.
Philip Rosenfeld. Highland Farms
attorney, announced the dairy's move.
“We have increased the price of
milk to our producers 4 cents per
gallon, which includes the 1-cent
increase granted last week,” he said.
“This is in keeping with the High
land Farms Dairy policy of always
paying our producers as much or
more than the prevailing market price
for milk."
BLEAKLEY THREATENED
FOR ATTACKS ON REDS
G. O. V. Candidate for Governor
ship Heavily Guarded After
Letters Are Beceived.
BT the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 2.—Anon
ymous letters threatening harm to
William P. Bleakley for continued at
tacks on Communism prompted man
agers of the Republican candidate
for governor to enlist the services to
day of 20 peace officers in the closing
hours of his bid for votes.
Despite the letters, numbering near
ly a score and all poorly written, the
Republican nominee announced he
would renew in Harlem tonight his
attacks on Communism and reiterate
the charge that the New Deal has
encouraged it.
Throughout the four weeks’ cam
paign Bleakley expressed the view that
"our two bulwarks against Commu
nism are the Constitution and re
ligion.”
GALLAGHER DENIES
Declares He Has No Intent
to Interfere With Ra
dio Activity.
Ev the Associated Press.
DETROIT. November 2 —Most Rev.
Michael J. Gallagher. Catholic Bishop
of Detroit, told the Rev. Charles E.
Coughlin in a telegram today that "I
have no intention of interfering with
your radio activities.”
Bishop Gallagher's telegram, which
followed Father Coughlin’s New York
broadcast of a public apology for call
ing President Roosevelt a “scab Presi
dent," was made public by Louis B.
Ward, an associate of the priest.
OMicmcm iciuicu toivuoara,
It' follows:
“The statement attributed to me by
the press that after the election I
would forbid you from discussing
political questions is unfounded.
“Asked if I would allow all the
priests of the diocese to enter politics,
I replied ’no,’ meaning that in the
first place, it is not necessary and,
moreover, that they are not all well
enough informed to hold their own
against antagonists.
"Asked how it was that I would vote
for President Roosevelt when Father
Coughlin was ao strong against him, I
replied that was merely a difference of
opinion and that I did not dictate to
any of my clergy.
Considers Him Invaluable.
“I did not say. and I have no inten
tion of interfering with your radio
activities in proclaiming the social
teachings of Leo and Pius and inform
ing on the function of government
and the dangers that threaten us,
both from within and from abroad.
“In other words, I consider you a
national Institution, Invaluable for
the safeguarding of genuine Amer
icanism and true Christianity and I
hope you will live long to carry out
this sublime vocation.”
ROOSEVELT TERMED "UPSTART.”
Coughlin Denounces President as Cre
ator of Slave Wages.
NEWARK, N. J„ November 2 (TP).—
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin denounced
President Roosevelt last night as “the
creator of slave wages” and "pledged”
(See COUGHLIN, Page A-2‘)
» _._
PAPERS WIN TAX TEST
Florida Court Exempts Adver
tisement Agreements.
TALLAHASSEE. Fla., November 2
(IP).—Florida newspapers won a Su
preme Court decision today exempting
their advertising agreements from a
State documentary excise tax.
The court said the agreements were
“mere commercial conveniences” and
did not fall within the limits of the
1931 act, which imposes a tax of 10
cents for each $100 Involved In
promissory notes, mortgages and other
Instruments.
* A group of papers, representing the
Associated Dallies of Florida, appealed
from a Circuit Court judgment dis
missing their suit for an injunction
against Controller J. M. Lee.
Jailed Drivers Admit Court
Right, Promise to Do Better
By the Auocieted Freei.
CHICAGO. November 2.—Joseph A.
Graber. “Jailing Judge” of the Chicago
Safety Court, treasured a unique tes
timonial today.
He got it from a score of motorists
he sent to Jail for drunken, reckless
or hit-and-run driving and the gist
of it was: “The court was right."
They gave the Judge their view
when he visited them yesterday at
the county Jail, where 300 drivers have
been sentenced in the last six months
as the Safety Court pushed its effort
to force dangerous drivers off the
streets.
“You are not criminals,’* Judge
Graber told the men in the lock-up,
"but you broke motoring laws that
were intended to make the streets
safe and you must pay the penalty.
I want to know if you think Jail sen
tences will help keep the streets safe?”
They seemed to agree Jail sen
tences would.
"I’ve learned my lesson and I’m
with you,** said one man. “I don't
like being here, Judge. Ten days is
a kmg time anAit's the first time I
was ever in Jail. But I'm the father
of two kids. And I don’t want them
run over Just because some driver’s
drunk or reckless."
Chimed in another:
"This makes a fellow think. When
I get out of here I won’t take any
chances on being sent back.”
“What about you?” asked the Judge
of a prisoner he sentenced for driving
while intoxicated. “You shook from
the effects of liquor when you came
into court. Do you think you were
fairly treated?"
* “Judge,” was the answer, “I feel
100 per cent better Just because I’ve
been kept away from liquor. I was
in no condition to drive before. When
I get out of here I’ll do no more
drinking.”
Judge Oraber's conclusions at the
end of his jail house interview:
1. The prisoners felt their sentences
were stern, but Just.
2. They were in accord that nothing
more effective than Jail had yet ap
peared to comhat the menace of dan
gerous driving A
U. S. ACTS TO END
MARITIME STRIKE
AS TIE-UP SPREADS
“Sympathy” Blockade De
clared Extended to Gulf
and Eastern Ports.
EMPLOYERS CONSIDER
NAVY “SAFETY CREWS"
Paralysis Moves Inland With
Railroads Rejecting freight Des
tined for Reshipment.
Bj the Associated Preaa.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 2 —
Federal Intervention in the Pacific
Coast maritime strike appeared in
prospect from three sources today as
seamen spread a “sympathy” blockade
to Eastern and Gulf ports.
Officials of the United States Labor
Department and Maritime Commission
indicated prompt action. Employer*
were reported considering a request
for Navy "safety crews” on tied-up
merchant ships.
Hearing Called.
Admiral H. O. Hamlet, representing
the Maritime Commission, summoned
both sides to a hearing which twice
previously was postponed.
Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward
F. McGrady declared the ‘ Government
must challenge” what he said was
the position taken by those involved
in the dispute.
Every Coast port remained “frozen
tight by the walkout called Thursday
midnight by leaders of 37,000 ship and
dock workers. Vessels arriving sine*
the strike started fell under the block
ade. The Marine Exchange here re
ported more than 140 vessels idle at
West Coast ports and Honolulu.
The Seamen's Defense Committee
in New York, acting in defiance of no
| strike orders from officials of the In
i temational Seamen’s Union, claimed
[ 57 vessels tied up at East and Gulf
ports in the sympathy “sit downs
The committee claimed 2,300 men af
fected.
Strategy mapped out by the com
mittee for New York and the other
ports was to keep men aboard vessel!,
j but refuse any but watch duty.
Ports Reported Tied Up.
At Philadelphia, John J. Egan, sec
retary of the Maritime Exchange, re
ported "everything tied up.” Other
ports in which the Seamen’s Com
mittee claimed one or more ships tied
up were: Baltimore, Newark, Pough
keepsie, Charleston, Norfolk, Albany,
New Orleans, Providence. Port Arthur,
Texas City, Mobile and Galveston.
The strike paralysis continued to
move inland, with railroads rejecting
freight destined for reshlpment through
Pacific ports, lumber and other in
dustries shutting down and ware- j
houses closed in San Francisco Bay !
cities.
All Western ports remained omi
nously quiet. Police and union picket* j
patrolled waterfronts. Four officers
went aboard the freighter Mapele at
San Pedro to protect the captain and
Chief engineer from asserted intimi
dation.
The Maritime Unions’ Joint Strike
Committee debated with Assistant
Secretary of Labor McGrady here the
question of leaving skeleton crews on
vessels to maintain refrigeration and
other necessary equipment.
Safety Crews Considered.
In this connection, informed sources
said the owners were considering the
request for navy “safety crews." Ad
miral William H. Standley, chief of
naval operations, answered in re
sponse to reporters’ queries at Wash
ington such crews could be provided
“if President Roosevelt authorized it’'
There was no indication any re
quest for aid had been made to the
President, though he was reported
keeping in close touch with the situa
tion.
McGrady continued efforts toward
negotiation of disputed issues, chief
of which is the demand of the Sailors'
Union of the Pacific for control of
hiring and overtime pay instead of
extra time off at sea.
British naval authorities announced
they possessed indisputable proof
that the sailors paid their taxi fr.re.
Other unions, refusing to break tha
“united front” of their federation,
are backing the sailors,’ whose charter
was revoked earlier this year by the
International Seamen's Union Execu
tive Committee in the East.
In this respect the West Coast sail
ors, like the Seamen’s Defense Com
mittee in New York, are insurgents
from the International’s control.
Mayor Angelo J. Rossi's declaration
of a “state of emergency” here drew
sharp criticism from the District
Council of the Maritime Unions.
STRIKE SPREADS IN BALTIMORE.
Employes Refuse to Work on West
Coast Ships.
BALTIMORE. November 2 WP).—
Striking sailors and longshoremen re
fused to work on six West Coast
freighters in Baltimore Harbor. The
International Seamen’s Union claimed
crews had struck on 16 other vessels.
Seamen picketing the water front
strove to make the strike effective on
all ships in port. The longshoremen
continued to work, however, on East
Coast vessels.
Officials of the stevedores union said
they were co-operating In the strike
against vessels from Pacific ports, but
asserted the strike against Western
vessels was illegal and led by In
surgents without official standing.
BANK JANITOR SLAIN
SAN FRANCISCO, November 2 (#).
—A hooded robber shot and killed Jo
seph Marento, a janitor, In a hold-up
of a Bank of American branch at Fill
more and Haigh streets here today.
Marento apparently was slain after
he had discovered the robber hiding in
the bank.
The hold-up man escaped with an
undetermined amount of cash after
binding and gagging the manager, W.
B. Martino.»