Evening star. [volume], November 15, 1936, Page A-7, Image 7

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GET WAGE BOOSTS
Dividends Affect Thousands
More in Prosperity
Tidal Wave.
Bj the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. November 14— Sev
eral hundred million dollars wlR be
*wep. into the pockets of workers and
ahareholders in American industry be
fore the end of the year by a golden
tide of wage boosts, extra dividends
and Christmas bonuses.
A survey today showed wage in
crease* totaling upward of $100.000v000
annually for more than 1,000,000
workers in steel, motor, textile, meat
packing and rubber industries.
Thousands of shareholders in seven
« big corporations will get about $162,
000,000 from the year-end shower of
extra dividends and workers nearly
$25,000,000 in bonuses.
These figures will be augmented by
pay and dividend Increases from the
treasuries of scores of smaller cor
porations.
The Autumn pay and dividend tide,
gathering headway the last two weeks,
* has attained the widest sweep Wall
Street has seen in years.
Increase* Contagious.
It is expected to contAiue. It was
pointed out in business quarters that
wage increases tend to become infec
tious, as indicated by the spread the
last few days from steel to other In
dustries.
Many additional corporations are
expected to dip into substantial 1936
profit gains to get under the wire by
December 31 for tax credits on divi
dends paid out to avoid any Federal
surtax upon undistributed earnings.
This levy, passed in the last session
* of Congress, appears to be playing an
Important role In corporation dis
bursements.
Considering business improvement
and the example set by leading corpo
rations, more workers are believed in
line for Christmas bonuses and wage
hikes.
Starting next week, most of the
steel industry's 475,000 wage earners
are due for pay increases averaging
10 per cent, estimated to amount to
more than *60,000.000 yearly on basis
of present pay rolls.
General Motors' *20,000.000 annual
pay boost for more than 200.000 work*
** era has been followed by the Packard
Motor Car Co., raising the yearly pay
roll *1.250,000 for nearly 10,600 work
ers. Chrysler's 67,000 workers are In
line for a *4.000.000 bonus, the third
this year, and more of the automotive
Industry's 450,000 workers are ex
pected to share the year-end windfall.
Textile Mills Affected.
Leading mills showed the way last
week with a 10 per cent rise for the
, woolen and worsted industry's 145,000
workers, with a yearly pay roll placed
at more than *100.000,000. A series
of announcements from mills in New
England and elsewhere indicated the
move had become general, embracing
a majority of the industry's wage
earners.
Some cotton and rayon mills have
joined the procession. Whether it would
become general in those sectors of
the textile Industry remains to be
seen. It would mean much in cotton
textiles, with 434*000 workers and a
yearly pay roll estimated to be running
close to $300,000,000.
The meat packing Industry, an
early recruit to the Autumn move
ment, raised pay scales about $6,000.
000 annually for around 100,000
workers.
Other pay increases embraced a
wide variety of concerns in the ma
chinery, office equipment, building
supply and miscellaneous manufac
; turing Industries.
Heading the line-up of Impending
dividend disbursements are $65,250,
000 for General Motors' 330,000 share
holders, nearly $24,000,000 for Chrys
ler's 30.000, $32,320,000 for Standard
Oil of New Jersey's 125.000 and $19.
019.000 for Standard Oil of Indiana's
[ 94.000 stockholders.
| The dividend list has grown Into a
long one. with prospects year-end pay
; ments in the aggregate will be the
heaviest since 1930 or 1929. Estimates
indicated the 1936 payments would be
well under 1929. The total has been
swelled by plans for clearing away
i unpaid dividends on preferred stocks
and resumption of payments made
! possible by expansion in business and
profits.
Chief Beneficiaries.
Workers in the lower income brack
ets have been the chief beneflci^ies
i of pay increases. But leading steel
units, General Motors and other con
j cerns also have moved to make adjust
ments for white collar workers. Many
1 employes in the office as well as in
| the mills also will get in on Christmas
bonuses.
Bonus anouncements include $2,200.
000 for Eastman Kodak employes,
$10,000,000 by General Motors, $300,
000 by the Simmons Co. and $1,500,
000 by Sears Roebuck,
i
RULING SUPPORTED
IN ESTATE BATTLE
Husband Cut Off by Atlanta
Womans Will Loses
Second Round.
Bt the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. November 14— The
Georgia Supreme Court allowed a rul
ing that the late Julia M. Hunger
ford, owner of a large block of Coca
Cola stock, was an Atlanta resident
to stand today.
J. Richard Bowden, an attorney for
her husband, Robert Hungerford. said,
however, a fight would be continued in
the Wilmington, Del., courts to estab
lish a New York residence for Mrs.
Hungerford when she died Novem
ber 28, 1935.
| Under the New York law, 'Bowden
! said, Hungerford would be entitled to
| half her estate. Her will, probated
here, left him only some Jewelry and
! $5,000. The Coca-Cola stock alone 1s
! estimated to be worth $1,000,000.
Hungerford, in a court pleading here
I January 6, denied her Atlanta resi
dence after she became his wife, but
admitted her ownership of Atlanta
real estate and the right of the Ful
ton (Atlanta) County ordinary to
probate the will here on that ground.
The Supreme Court today said Hun
gerford was "not harmed" by a special
finding of Ordinary Thomas H. Jeffries
that Mrs. Hungerford was domiciled
in Atlanta.
■ ■ • —
Overcoat Holds Fugitive.
GAUSSVILLE, Wis. </P).—His over
coat turned traitor to John Zipov, 30.
Charged with theft, Zipov tried to
escape arrest by leaping through a
hotel window. His coat caught and
he was left dangling 20 feet above the
ground until officers arrested him.
MISSIONARY DIES;
U.S. ORDERS PROBE
Death of American in China
Blamed on ill Treatment
by Japanese.
£y the Associated Press.
PEIPING. November 14.—The United
States Embassy ordered an investi
gation today of the death of an
American missionary in North China
and a survey of reported fighting in
the area allegedly invaded by Jap
anese troops.
Advices to the embassy stated Karl
Bernhardt Olsen, a missionary from
Gully, Minn., died at Kalgan early
today after eviction by Japanese troops
from his home, where he had been ill
of smallpox.
Japanese military authorities, the
embassy was informed, had taken over
Olsen's mission chapel and refused to
permit him to conduct services there.
A short time later Olsen became ill
and was forced to vacate his residence
with his wife and three children, an
embassy spokesman stated on the basis
of reports here.
Japanese Deny Responsibility.
Hardship and lack of medical atten
tion during the trip from his home to
Kalgan. 80 miles southwest, hastened
death, it was believed.
Japanese military circles branded
the report of Olsen's eviction "patently
absurd” and disclaimed knowledge of
the incident.
Representatives of the embassy were
empowered to determine at first hand
all circumstances of the incident and
to determine the whereabouts of two
other American missionaries in the
area—Rev. and Mrs. Abraham Wiens
of Dinuba, Calif.
They were Instructed also to study
the situation on the Suiyuan-Chahar
border and if necessary to penetrate
farther into the northwest to deter
mine the extent of Japanese invasions.
Japaneae Invasion Reported.
Kalgan dispatches reported 1.000
Japanese soldiers had arrived at Pal
lingmiao, Northern Suiyuan Province.
Chinese sources cited this report as
evidence of Japanese participation in
a Mongolian invasion.
Japanese sources have denied unoffi
cially the reports of invasion.
Invasion of the northern province
has been reported for several weeks.
One declaration was that Suiyuan
provincial forces repulsed 30,000 at
tackers in a battle November 11.
-R .
Eugene O'Neill Ii 48.
Eugene O'Neill, American drama
tist who was awarded the Nobel prize
for literature, is 48 years old.
NORTH CAROLINIANS
TO DANCE THURSDAY
The North Carolina 8ociety oi
Washington will open Its 1936-7 sea
son with the annual "Governor’i
night” reception and dance Thursday
at 8:30 p.m. in the west ball room
of the Shoreham Hotel.
Gov. and Mrs. John C. B. Ehrlng
haus will be guests of honor and the
Governor will address the society fol
lowing the reception. Officers of th<
Board of Governors of the society
will act as the reception committee
headed by President Giles Yeoman:
Newton.
Other events planned by the so
ciety for the season include a Christ
mas party on December IS, Congres
sional night, January 23; Valentine
party, February 13; Spring dance
March 13, and annual meeting and
D. A. R. party, April 21.
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