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gentle variable winds tonight, moderate
southerly tomorrow. Temperatures today
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JAPANESE ANNIHILATE
PAOTINGFU GARRISON;
FLEEING CHINESE SLAIN
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Province Held
Crushed by
Defeat.
100 KILLED
IN AIR RAID
Hankow Target as
Nanking Threat
Is Made Again.
ly the Associated Press.
PEIPING, September 24.—The Japa
nese Army announced tonight that
Paotingfu, Chinese stronghold 80 spiles
southwest of here, had been captured
and its Chinese garrison annihilated.
Mopping up operations at Paotingfu
Were completed at 1:30 p.m., the Japa
nese announced. All resistance in the
city, capital of Hopeh Province and
key poinC of the Chinese defense sys
tem in Central Hopeh, was declared
at an end.
Early today the Japanese had com
pletely enveloped the walled city, con
taining a population of 100.000. While
the attack was pushed from the north
and west, strong Japanese forces wait
ed at the south gate.
As the Chinese troops attempted to
flee southward they were slain, said
Japanese dispatches.
No figures of casualties were given,
but it was strongly indicated there
Were no survivors of the Chinese gar
frisnn
Climax of Japanese Drive.
The fall of Paotingfu was the climax
ef a Japanese offensive which had
rolled relentlessly southward since the
crossing of the Yhngting River, 30
miles from here, September 15. At
least 60,000 Japanese troops, including
cavalry and tanks, took part in the
drive.
Paotingfu was surrounded by the
victors early today, then assault units,
supported by heavy artillery and air
planes, advanced to seize the northern
and western gates in the city’s ancient
, 50-foot walls. A breach was also
smashed through the northwest corner
of the walls.
The infantry poured through these
avenues, driving the desperate Chinese
defenders to seek safety through the
south gate, where they were met by
Withering fire.
The Japanese community of Peiping
celebrated Paotingfu’s fall ecstatically,
hailing it as a great step forward in
the conquest of all North China.
JAPANESE BOMB HANKOW.
At Least 100 Killed and Twice as Many
Hurt in Attack.
8y the Associated Press.
Japanese bombers rained death today
on the middle Yangtze metropolis of
Hankow, killing at least 100 persons
wnd wounding twice as many, as
Japan's advancing land forces clinched
a death grip on Paotingfu, strategic
Chinese troop base.
Nine planes carried out the Hankow
raid that injured an additional 200
In the crowded city.
Hankow is 600 miles up the Yangtze
from Shanghai. Hanyang is separated
from the main city by the Han River.
These two cities, with Wuchang, across
the Yangtze, make up the Wuhan
cities, greatest commercial and indus
trial community of Central China.
Advices received in Shanghai said
the heaviest tolls from the Japanese
. bombs were inflicted in Wuchang,
where explosives landed amid women
and children.
The United States gunboat Tutuila
radioed that no Americans were be
lieved injured or killed in Hankow,
Hanyang or Wuchang. The naval re
, port said most of the Americans liv
ing in the three cities had left by rail
for Canton.
Americans Leave for Canton.
It was said the last group of de
parting Americans, numbering 20, left
for Canton this morning, many hours
before the raid.
Neither of the two British gunboats,
(See CHINA, 1PagtTAJL)
STOCK ISSUES OFF
$1 TO $4 OR MORE
Many Decline to Two-Year Lows.
Brokerage Explanations for
Drop Are Varied.
■s the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 24.—Heavy
eelling hit the stock market today and
toppled leading issues $1 to $4 or
more a share, many leading in new
low ground for nearly two years.
Activity was pronounced at the
opening with the ticker tape falling
two minutes behind actual dealings
on the floor of the exchange. Vol
ume dwindled later and prices came
back a bit in some instances.
Brokerage explanations for the fur
ther decline varied. Most, though
pointed to the deflationary aspects of
the parley between Secretary Mor
genthau and Undersecretary Phillips
of the British Exchequer on the “hot
money” problem—foreign funds in
the United States are now around $8,
000,000,000—as a possible depressing
influence.
While retail sales continued to ex- |
pand, according to Dun and Brad
street, thoughts of shrinking corpora
tion profits and dividends due to
higher costs were believed to have
been factors in the stock slide.
Bonds and commodities pointed
lower.
Prominent share losers included
United States Steel, Chrysler, West
inghouse, Loew’s, Deere, Eastman Ko
dak, Anaconda, Santa Pe, Du Pont,
• Allied Chemical, Coca-Cola. United
State Rubber, Sears-Roebuck, Con
solidated Edison and Union Carbide.
♦ A
U. S. Fleet Will Stay in China
Long as Needed9 Yarnell Says
Policy of All Possible Protection in Dan
ger Zone Is Announced After Meet
ing of State Department Officials.
BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN.
The Asiatic Fleet. will remain in
Chinese waters to protect and assist
Americans “as long as the present
controversy between China and Japan
exists,” under a policy laid down today
by Admiral Harry E. Yamell, com
mander in chief.
The Navy Department made public
Admiral Yarnell’s program after a
meeting of the General Board, the
highest policy making body of the de
partment. It presumably had the
sanction of the State Department.
The Navy statement said:
“The policy of the commander in
chief during the present emergency
is to employ the United States naval
forces under his command so as to ’
offer all possible protection and assist- 1
ance to our nationals in cases where I
needed. Naval vessels will be stationed (
in ports where American citizens are i
concentrated and will remain there '
until it is no longer possible or neces- ]
sary to protect them, or until they
have been evacuated. i
“This policy, based on our duties and i
obligations, will be continued as long j
as the present controversy between -
China and Japan exists and will con- 1
tinue in full force even after our 1
nationals have been warned to leave i
China and after an opportunity to <
eave has been given. Most American
•itizens now in China are engaged in
justness or professions which are their
inly means of livelihood. These per
sons are unwilling to leave until their
justnesses have been destroyed or they
ire forced, due to actual physical
Ianger.
"Until such time comes, our naval
'orces cannot be withdrawn without
'ailure in our duty and without bring
ng great discredit on the United
States Navy. In giving assistance and
jrotection, our naval forces may, at
;imes, be exposed to dangers, which
will, in most cases, be slight, but in
my case, these risks must be ac
:epted.”
Friends of Admiral Yarnell in
Washington are not surprised at the
irm position he has adopted. He is
mown as a keen student, not only of
)riental history, but of the whole
I’orld. He is an avid reader and is
veil posted on situations similar to the
iresent.
His friends here say that he is fully
ppreciative of the necessity of adopt
ng an adamant attitude in favor of
American interests in the Far East.
Accordingly, those who know the com
nander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet
lave been anticipating some such pol
cy as he has today promulgated for
,11 ships under his command.
JOBLESS CENSUS
PARLEYISCALLED
Biggers Asks Nine Leaders
to White House Con
clave on Monday.
BACKGROUND—
President Roosevelt agreed in
August to a jobless count if the
census were, made voluntarily. Con
gress at once passed an unemploy
ment census bill. Eighteen months
earlier the President vetoed a bill
for such a census on the ground
it offered too much chance for dis
tribution of political jobs.
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John D, Biggers, Toledo industrialist
and dollar-a-year supervisor of the
Federal unemployment census, today
invited nine leaders of agriculture,
business and labor to meet with him
and his Government Committee at the
White House Monday at 2 p.m. to give
their ideas on how the census should
be conducted and what it should
prove. He said the meeting had the
approval of President Roosevelt.
A few hours after he issued tele
graphic invitations, Biggers, in his
first Washington press conference,
told reporters he is determined to
have partial returns on the enumera
tion tabulated by December 1. As
soon as possible, he plans to have in
the mail questionnaires of not more
than 14 questions for each of 31,000,
000 homes in the United States, in
cluding Alaska and Hawaii.
In the end, Biggers said, he may
have to distribute 100,000,000 ques
tionnaires.
The White House meeting will bring
together John L. Lewis, chairman of
the Committee on Industrial Organi
zation, and William Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
if all those Invited accept. A. F.
Whitney, president of the Brother
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juvc mui any particular memoas. SO
long as he achieved the objectives of
his program.
Two more appearances were sched
uled for Wyoming later in the day—
one at Wendover for 15 minutes and
the other for an hour at Casper, home
of Senator Schwartz, Democratic ad
ocate of the defeated court plan.
Crowds ranging from a few hundred
to several thousand turned out to greet
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt in
Iowa with noisy demonstrations.
DR. HART DECLINES POST
3t. John's Rector Won’t Become
Bishop Coadjutor.
Rev. Dr. Oliver J. Hart, rector of St.
John’s Episcopal church, declined to
day to become bishop coadjutor of the
Episcopal Diocese of Central New
York.
Dr. Hart's secretary announced that
the rector sent a telegram this after
noon to Bishop Edward H. Coley of
Utica, N. Y., saying he had decided to
decline the post because he did not be
lieve “it is God’s will” that he accept.
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VESSEL IN DANGER
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Septem
ber 24 (A3).—The Coast Guard cutter
Nemesis was proceeding today to the
assistance of the banana boat My
Dwn, formerly known as the Semira,
nis, which was reported leaking badly
and in danger of sinking 160 miles
southwest of Tampa in the Gulf of
Mexico. The My Own usually run*
between Tampa and Central America.
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Was Not Invited.
Senator O'Mahoney was in the
welcoming committee with Gov. Les
lie Miller. Senator H. H. Schwartz,
a. court bill proponent, and Repre
sentative Paul Greever. all Wyoming
Democrats. O'Mahoney, although he
was not formally invited to board the
President’s special, boarded the Chief
Executive's private car as the train
pulled out. During the President's
talk he had stood at the rear of the
train in the crowd, as did Gov. Miller.
Senator Schwartz and Representative
Greever.
O’Mahoney told newsmen that
when he greeted the President inside
the car they said to each other,
"You’re looking fine.”
"There was no time to say anything
except hello,” O’Mahoney added.
O’Mahoney also chatted with Mrs.
Roosevelt and Marvin McIntyre, presi
dential secretary, while the special
train was being switched in the
Cheyenne yards.
5.000 Hear Him.
The President opened his speech
with the remark about a friend asking
why he didn't "coast” from now on.
Sheriff George Carroll estimated the
crowd gathered to hear the President
at from 4,000 to 5,000 persons.
“I had thought it was part of the
duty of the President to keep in per
sonal touch with the Nation,” said Mr.
Roosevelt, "and so this year, since
January, I have already made one
trip through some Southern States,
and now I’m going out to the Coast
for the third time since I have been
President, not counting campaign
trips; going out to get a ’look-see,’ to
try to tie together in my mind the
problems of the Nation.”
He said the greater part of the
emergency was over, but a lot of prob
lems remained.
Defends Reclamation Work.
Touching on P. W. A. projects, he
said;
"We have to come to an end of
that program some time, and just the
other day we allocated the last of the
money for public works projects.’*
Commenting on an editorial hold
ing the Government had wasted
money on a certain project, the Presi
dent said, engineers were human and
"could not make a home run every
time they came to bat.”
He denied reclamation projects were
a waste of money, saying many fami
lies have had to leave their farms iin
the drought area to escape starvation,
and it was the duty of governments to
provide them with good lands so they
can make a living.
All the (Government undertakings,
he said, had served a "very useful
purpose.”
The President made five unscheduled
talks to as many Iowa depot audiences
behind him, as he traveled toward
Wyoming, asserting he was "not i»
TO BE CONTINUED,
' PRESIDENT SAYS
Cheyenne Throng of 5,000
Told He Won’t “Coast
Through” to 1940.
D’MAHONEY WELCOMES
ROOSEVELT AT STATION
Administration Will Keep Trying
to Do “Most Good for the
Greatest Number.”
By the Associated Press.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., September 24.—
President Roosevelt told a crowd of
thousands here today he was going
to continue in his second term the
way he had in his'first, trying to do
the “most good for the greatest num
ber.”
After being welcomed by a group
including Senator O’Mahoney, Demo
cratic foe of the Roosevelt Supreme
Court proposal, the President declared
he had told a {fiend recently who
advised him to “coast” from now on
that he would not take such advice.
“I don’t want to coast and the
Nation doesn’t want me to coast with
my feet up on the front wheels,” he
said.
People are thinking in national
terms, he asserted, adding the ad
ministration projects up to date have
had the national point of view in
mind.
’ Don’t let anybody deceive you, the
Government of the United States is
COLLATERAL SUIT
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Justice Holds War Secretary
and U. S. Unit Liable to
Commercial Receiver.
BACKGROUND—
Investigation of Commercial Na
tional Bank after banking mora
torium disclosed that institution
posted collateral to insure the ac
counts of certain Government de
positors. Counsel for the unpro
tected depositors immediately filed
10 suits against the favored clients
to recover the money received by
tfuem from their protected ac
counts.
Justice Oscar R. Luhring of Dis
trict Court today signed decrees hold
ing the Secretary of War and the
United States Shipping Board Mer
chant Fleet Corp. liable to the receiver
of the Commercial National Bank for
$1,204,140.49, representing collateral
given by the insolvent bank to secure
Government deposits.
Since the Commercial has paid gen
eral depositors 60 per cent dividends,
the actual balance owed the receiver,
under the two decrees today, is $531.
619.66, plus interest.
Assistant United States Attorney
Harry L. Underwood, who represented
the Secretary of War and the Mer
chant Fleet Corp., said he would ap
peal the two cases. The receiver was
represented by Attorneys George P.
Barse, general counsel for the con
troller of the currency; Brice Clagett,
Charles E. Wainright, George B.
Springston and the law firm of Sher
ley, Faust & Wilson.
Signs Similar Decree.
At the same time. Justice Luhring
signed a similar decree in a suit
brought by the receiver of the Com
mercial National Bank of Philadel
phia. The bank’s proveable claim
against the Merchant Fleet Corp. was
fixed at $10,863.80. Since the closed
institution has paid a 30 per cent
dividend to depositors, that propor
tion of the claim must be deducted,
leaving a balance of $7,604.60.
The three claims were among 10
brought in District Court two years
ago by the Commercial and District
National Bank receivers and National
Bank receivers elsewhere to recover
approximately $6,356,000 in deposits
which were paid in full when the
bank failed to reopen after the 1933
crash.
General depositors, on the other
hand, received only a portion of their
deposits—60 per cent in the case of
the Commercial and 75 per cent for
the District.
The Government accounts Involved
(See SUIT, Page A-3.)
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EMPLOYES FIRED
Roads Cut Personnel Be
cause of Operating Costs
and Declining Business.
Bv ihe Assocltted Press.
Large railroads revealed today they
are curtailing personnel in an effort
to check what they said was a sharp
drop in net revenues caused by higher
costs and declining business.
The disclosure was made by rail
executives attending the regular
monthly meeting of directors of the
Association of American Railroads.
20,000 Are Dismissed.
While figures were withheld by of
ficials, who declined to be quoted
by name, it was indicated the three
largest Eastern carriers had dismissed
upwards of 20,000 employes since
September 1. These are the New
York Central, the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore & Ohio.
It was emphasized that a part of
these dismissals could be attributed
to the regular seasonal lay-off as
maintenance programs are curtailed,
or completed.
Other carrier heads also indicated
their lines had curtailed maintenance
work with a resultant drop in em
ployment.
In the face of these reports, how
ever, carloadings for the week ended
September 18 showed a gain of 115,
266. or 16.2 per cent, over the previous
week. The association of American
Railroads reported 826,565 cars loaded
for the week, 36,708 more than were
loaded the same week a year ago.
Rail officials declared an increase in
rates for both freight and passenger
traffic was the only solution to their
problems, noting their operating costs
have increased greatly because of wage
increases and higher costs of materials
and supplies.
Higher Rates Considered.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion is now considering a petition by
class 1 carriers asking higher freight
rates on the so-called heavy com
modity list. This increase, if granted,
would, in a large measure, railroad
officials said, recoup a major share of
the $120,000,000 of annual revenue
the carriers lost through termination
of surcharges last December 31.
The heavy commodity list includes
coal, iron and steel, ore, petroleum
and its products, lime, plaster and
cement.
The commisison's decision on the
petition is expected to be handed down
within the next two weeks.
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; officials expected that thousands would
be on the seawall along the 1%-mile'
course as the afternoon wore on.
The races started under perfect
weather conditions, but standing
; records were not disturbed.
Interest in the outboard races was
heightened by the arrival of Gar
Wood, jr., of Algonac, Mich., with a
fleet of the small boats. Officials
had expected class work to keep Wood
away.
Regatta officials announced this
morning that Gold Cup scoring will
be used in the President's Cup race
tomorrow and Sunday, the bonus sys
tem involved being designed to stiffen
competition. Heretofore, total points
based on the order of finish in the
three heats have decided the winner.
In addition to these points there will
be a 400-point bonus for the fastest
heat and 400 more for the fastest
total elapsed time for the three heats.
This will make certain that a boat
which otherwise could establish a
safe lead in the first two heats will
have to maintain maximum perform
ance in the third.
The outboards had the Hains Point
course to themselves for the first
day's card, with A. B and C amateur
(See OUTBOARDs7Page~A^4/)
<Pageant news and pictures appear on
Page B-l.)
BY J. A. FOX.
Doug Fonda of Orange, N. J.t swept
to an easy victory in the class A out
board amateur race that opened the
power boat section of the President’s
Cup Regatta off Hains Point today.
Fonda took both five-mile heats in
convincing fashion, being pressed only
by Tommy Tyson of the famous racing
Tysons of Chestnut Hill. Pa. The rest
of the field of five was far outdis
tanced.
The class A outboard race for profes
sionals saw two disqualifications in
the first heat. Bob Myers of Evanston,
III., and Paul Wearley of Muncie, Ind.,
beat the gun. and, although they
finished second and third, their per
formances went by the board. The
heat was taken by Thom Cooper of
Kansas City, A and F class champion.
Cooper also took the second heat
and, with it, the event. Wearley was
second this time, and Fred Jacoby of
North Bergen, N. J„ leading point
scorer for the professionals this year,
was third. The two disqualifications
in the first heat had mowed Jacoby up
to second there in the field of eight,
which answered the starting gun.
The early attendance was light, but
Class A Outboard Honors
Go to Doug Fonda of Orange
Captures Two Five-Mile Heats in Con
vincing Fashion—Professional Event
Is Won by Thom Cooper.
New giraffes for Zoo please Nicky’s
News editor. Page B-l
Palmisano proposes drastic change
In realty taxes. Page B-l
More than 50 persons reported ill after
eating pastry. Page B-l
King urges D. C. tax hearings for
civic groups. Page B-l
Living cost data in dispute in mini
mum pay negotiations. Page B-l
High school group starts traffic safety
drive. Page B-l
Regatta queen to watch street danc
ing tonight. Page B-l
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-10
This and That. Page A-10
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
Political Mill. Page A-10
Washington Observations. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
H. R. Burkhage. Page A-ll
Dorothy Thompson. Page A-ll
Constantine Brown. Page A-ll
Lemuel Parton. Page A-ll
FINANCIAL.
Corporate bonds down
(table). Page A-17
Trade improves. Page A-17
Freight loadings jump. Page A-17
Excess reserves rise. Page A-17
Stocks again slump (table-. Page A-18
Curb list drops (table). PageA-19
MISCELLANY.
Shipping News. Page B-2
City News in Brief. Page B-2
Traffic Convictions. Page B-2
Vital Statistics. Page B-2
Nature’s Children. PageB-14
Dorothy Dix. Page D-4
Betsy Caswell. Page D-4
Cross-word Puzzle. PageD-10
Bedtime Stories. Page D-10
Letter-Out. Page D-ll
Winning 'Contract. Page D-ll
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Page. Page.
Eomics ..D-10-11 Radio _C-4
Drama _C-6 Serial Story..D-5
Editorials ...A-10 Society _B-3
‘’inance _A-17 Sports_D-l-3
Lost*Found D-5 Woman's Pg. D-4
Dbituary ...A-12
WAR IN FAR EAST.
J. S. fleet to remain in Chinese waters
indefinitely. Page A-l
Fapanese forces annihilate Chinese
garrison at Paotingfu. Page A-l
Dhiang Kai-shek declares U. S. aid to
China "obligatory.” Page A-6
FOREIGN.
Mussolini, Hitler plan joint world ap
peal for peace. Page A-l
Lloyds probes report of sighting of
Endeavour. Page A-l
Mussolini leaves to confer with Reichs
fuehrer Hitler. Page A-6
British Ambassador in Tokio to pro
test bombings in China. Page A-6
NATIONAL.
War Secretary and U. S. unit held lia
ble to bank f-eceiver. Page A-l
Ftailroads cut personnel to recoup
revenue loses. Page A-l
Earley’s resignation to take auto job
is delayed. Page A-l
President says he will continue. first
term aims. Page A-l
C. I. O. and A. F. of L. in open warfare
before labor board. Page A-l
Mtorney General heads prosecution in
Denhardt case. Page A-4
rwo more Republican conferences to
be held next week. Page A-4
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Fonda and Cooper score in regatta
outboard events. Page A-l
Young flyer killed in crash as wife
and friend? watch. Page A-2
Firs fted Cross rally since war sched
uled tomorrcw. Page A-S
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Summary of Today's Star
MARKET DELAYS
FARLEY’S QUITTING
Postmaster General Awaits
Pick-up Before Taking
New Auto Job.
BACKGROU\D—
Rumors have been current sev
eral years that Postmaster General
James A. Farley would resign to be
come head of some business. Rea
son given is that Postmaster Gen
eral has devoted many years to
public life and now feels that he
should get out and get into private
business long enough to make some
money to take care of the future.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 24.—James
A. Farley’s resignation as Postmaster
General and his acceptance of the
presidency of the Pierce-Arrow Motor
Corp., it was understood in informed
circles today, has been delayed by the
current decline in securities and the
preparation of an S. E. C. registration
statement for a new issue of Pierce
Arrow stock.
After considering numerous other
offers of executive positions, Farley
agreed several weeks ago to become the
head of the reorganized Pierce-Arrow
Co. Following his acceptance of this
offer the company’s stockholders ap
proved plans for a new issue of stock,
aggregating $10,700,000, which will be
used principally to place a low-priced
automobile on the market in competi
tion with the cheaper-priced Packard
and Cadillac cars. Production of the
higheripriced Pierce-Arrow will con
tinue.
Salary May Be $50,000.
In addition to his salary, which has
not been disclosed, but which is be
lieved to be above $50,000 a year, the
Postmaster General will receive 5,000
shares of the new stock outright and
5,000 more during the first year.
The decline in stock market prices
set in at a time when attorneys for
the company were preparing the
S. E. C. registration statement, and,
consequently, there was no hurry to
file the statement when market con
ditions were unsettled.
To Be Announced by Roosevelt.
It was understood Farley’s resigna
tion, when it does come, will be an
nounced by President Roosevelt.
The contract between the Postmaster
General and the company has been
drawn up, but it is not known defi
nitely whether it has been signed.
While leaving the cabinet, Farley
will retain his chairmanships of the
Democratic National and State Com
mittees.
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-uwi-iyocu uiuav umi
Premier Mussdlini and Chancellor
Hitler have agreed to make a joint,
world appeal •for peace when they
speak Tuesday at the close of a huge
demonstration in Berlin.
Mussolini, en route to Munich today
by special train for what is regarded
in diplomatic circles as a highly-im
portant meeting with Germany’s
Fuehrer, was said to have already com
pleted his speech on the subject.
Italians in position to know said
n Duce’s speech and Hitler’s would
institute a mutual message for peace
which might form the basis for lasting
understanding it# Europe.
Pact With Britain, France.
They said II Duce first wrote his
speech in Italian; then rewrote it him
self in German. He speaks German
fluently, having learned it while a
bricklayer in the German section of
Switzerland and, later, while in the
Austrian jail at Trento, in the years
before his rise to supreme power in
Italy.
The speech, as it stands, probably
will be made in German, although
Mussolini may yet change back to
Italian, these informants said. A Nazi
official in Rome went over it to smooth
out grammatical stiffness.
Hitler, who already has arrived in
Munich to greet Mussolini at the rail
road station tomorrow morning, and
the Italian leader were represented as
having in mind the attainment of
paace through some arrangement with
&reat Britain and Prance, according
to information available in diplomatic
circles here.
However, their plans do not in
clude the participation of Soviet Rus
iia.
A Second Locarno.
The arrangement might be based
jn another Locarno accord, both Hit
tier and Mussolini reportedly being
(rilling; to enter into such a program.
(The Locarno pact banded to
gether Britain, Prance. Italy, Ger
many and Belgium to guarantee
peace between Germany and
France, under terms of the Ver
sailles Treaty. It became obsolete
when Hitler remilitarized the
Rhineland, the unarmed buffer
state created between the two old
enemies by the treaty.)
It was said that the new line-up of
jocamo accord members would have
;o be the same as that of the old Lo
-arno- pact. The only changes to
vhich they would agree being the
mission of Belgium, which country
las declared its neutral status, and
he omission of the Rhineland clause,
vhich is out of date now.
This version was taken to mean
Mussolini and Hitler intend to reject
he British idea of a northern Lo
;amo embracing Britain, France and
3ermany, and a southern Locarno
embracing France, Germany and
Italy.
Political observers believed, however,
hat any real peace understandings
vith Britain and France will be diffi
;ult to arrive at so long as the Span
ah civil war, danger point of the
vhole European situation, continues.
ICE AND HITLER
PLAN JOINT APPEAL
FOR WORLD PEACE
Mussolini’s Speech Held De
signed to Form Basis for
Lasting Accord.
YEW LOCARNO INCLUDING
BRITAIN, FRANCE SEEN
Spanish War Held a likely Snag.
Hitler Ready in Munich to
Greet Italian Guest.
BACKGROUND—
On the eve of Premier Musso
lini's meeting with Adolph Hitler,
the consensus of Rome diplomatic
circles was that Italy has ligically
improved her relations with Britain
and France, but that anything like
a triple alliance was unlikely. Mus
solini, diplomats declared, has re
peatedly said co-operation with
Great Britain and France would
not impair the Rome-Berlin axis.
By the Associated Press.
MUNICH. Germany, September 24.—
t*-.-> _
men, out wouia not constitute a ma
jority if nearly 30 tool and die workers
were added. The latter were organized
and affiliated with the I. A. M. before
the U. A. W. began a drive in the
plant last Winter.
It was brought out at today's hear
ing that the company had been
threatened with a U. A. W. sit-down
strike last February and had shut the (
plant down immediately. Then, over
the week end, they had polled their
employes through person-to-person 1
contact by 11 foremen, several of
whom admittedly favored the A. F. i
of L. On the strength of a verbal re
port of sentiment from these foremen,
the company decided to deal with
the A. F. of L. and in April awarded
the machinists a closed-shop con- •
tract.
Board Hears All Sides.
Aware of the “dynamite” contained
in labor's factional fighting, the board
decided to hear all sides after the trial
examiner had filed a report upholding
the C. I. O. protest against including
the tool and die workers in the bar
gaining unit. The examiner's report
already has drawn the lire of A. F. of
L. officials, John P. Frey, president of
the Metal Trades Department, citing
it as an instance of the board’s alleged
favoritism toward the C. I. O.
Today the board heard arguments ■
from Charlton Ogburn, general coun
sel for the A. F. of L.; David Kaplan,
counsel for the I. A. M., and J. Marcus
Hardin, counsel for the company, in ■
opposition to the examiner's report.
A. W. Smith appeared as counsel for
the C. I. O.
A decision is not expected for some
time, with the board anxious to avoid
repercussions such as greeted the Na
tional Electric Products case ruling.
Popcorn Man Leaves $1,00,917.
KANSAS CITY, September 24 <£>).—
For many years prior to his recent
death Irwin R. Neudeck operated a
popcorn stand here.
An inventory of his estate was filed
yesterday. It listed his property at
$100,011.
*
C. 1.0. FIGHTS A.F.L
Clash Over Representation
of Machinists Aired
Before Board.
Counsel for the Committee for In
dustrial Organization and the Amer
ican Federation of Labor were in
open warfare before the National
Labor Relations Board again today
as the full board membership heard
testimony in connection with a com
plaint lodged by the United Auto
mobile Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate,
against the National Motor Bearing
Co. of Oakland. Calif.
Circumstances in the case were
almost exactly parallel with those
in the celebrated National Electric
Products case, in which the board de
clared a closed shop A. F. of L. con
tract invalid and ordered an election
to settle doubts as to whether the A.
F. of L. union was the majority bar
gaining agent.
In the California situation, a closed
shop contract likewise has been
granted the International Association
of Machinists, an A. F. of L. affiliate,
but a trial examiner of the Labor
Board already has ruled that the
U. A. W. rather than the I. A, M.
had a majority of membership in the
proper bargaining unit for the pro
duction workers of the plant.
Admission of Workers.
The difference of opinion centers ;
upon whether the tool and die workers
should be included within the bar
gaining unit, the board’s trial exam
iner contending thftt they should not,
while counsel for the A. F. of L. and
the company contended they should.
The importance of this distinction (
lies in the fact that the U. A. W.
membership of 55 would give them a
majority of 97 production workers
without including the tool and die
hood ot Railroad Trainmen, is the
third of the labor representatives who
will meet with:
Officials to Be Present.
Edward A. O’Neal, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation:
M. W. Thatcher, president of the
Farmers’ National Co-operative Grain
Corp., and L. J. Tabor, master of the
National Grange agricultural repre
sentatives, and W. Averell Harriman,
chairman of the Business Advisory
Council; George H. Davis, president of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, and William B. Warner, presi
dent of the National Association of
Manufacturers, representing industry.
Biggers said he also had asked
Secretary Wallace, Alan Johnstone,
counsel for the special Senate Com
mittee on Unemployment and Relief;
C. B. Uttley of the Post Office Depart
ment, and Frank W. Persons, director
of the United States Unemployment
Service, to be on hand with his com
mittee, comprising Secretary Roper,
Secretary Perkins, W. P. A. Chief
Hopkins, Chairman Altmeyer of the
Social Security Board, Chairman Rice
of the Central Statistical Board and
Director Austin of the Census Bureau.
To Be in Postcard Form.
“We will have reached by tonight
or tomorrow tentative agreements
among members of the Committee on
essentials to be covered in the ques
tionnaire,” said Biggers, who has been
given office space on the sixth floor
of the Commerce Building.
“But we will not reach a final de
cision until we hear from the repre
sentatives at Monday’s meeting. We
have limited the number invited to
this conference so that it will be a
working session Instead ^)f a scenic
conference.”
Through his questionnaire Biggers
expects to find how many persons m
the United States are unemployed,
how many are partially unemployed,
how many are unable to work and
how many are unwilling to work.
The questionnaires, on blanks
shaped like post cards, but larger, will
be delivered by postmen.