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THREE CENTS. I
Franco-German
Friendship
Pact Signed
Ribbentrop to Drive
Bargain for Points
Outside Treaty
BACKGROUND—
Carrying out agreement be
tween Chancellor Hitler and
Premier Daladier at Munich.
France and Germany today
signed a pact of friendship agree
ing to submit future disputes to
arbitration. The pact carries in
writing Hitler’s often-repeated
oral renunciation of a claim on
Alsace-Lorraine and that France
recognizes that Austria has van
ished and that Czecho-Slovakia
Sudetenland is now German.
B» the Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec. 6.—France and Ger
many today signed an accord,
widely termed a "war renunciation
pact,” which pledged them to
amicable discussion of difficulties
instead of resorting to armed force.
The agreement declared the two
governments recognised as definite
the present boundaries between
them and that no French-German
territorial question exists.
It said the governments were con
vinced "pacific relations and good
neighborliness" between them con
stitute an essential element of "con
solidation of the European situa
tion" and the maintenance of gen
eral peace.
Foreign Ministers Georges Bonnet
of France and Joachim von Ribben
trop of Germany signed the agree
ment on cream-colored sheets of
vellum containing French and Ger
man texts.
On his arrival from Berlin unusual
guard precautions were taken on be
half of Von Ribbentrop, who after
signing the accord, began diplo
matic conversations with French
Statesmen.
New Era of Relations.
The French government has main
tained that the signing of the ac
cord, which occurred this afternoon
in the famous clock room of the
foreign office, would open a new era
of European relations favorable to
the solution of acute existing prob
lems.
At the same time France appro
priated about $686,000,000 for 1939
military and naval needs, increasing
such expenditures $280,000,000 over
1938.
The pact provided that France
and Germany were resolved "under
the reserve of their particular rela
tions with third powers to remain
in contact on all questions inter
esting their two countries and to
consult mutually in case future de
velopments of these questions should
risk leading to international diffi
culties.”
The three-minute ceremony began
at 3:42 p.m. (10:42 am. E. S. T.)
end was enacted in the presence of
the two foreign ministers. German
and French delegations and German
and French newspapermen.
Arms Not Ruled Out.
Circles in close contact with the
government warned that the sig
nature of the accord should not be
taken as an instant and complete
modification of the European situa
tion.
They explained that the agree
ment does not rule out a resort to
armed force but simply means that
when a dispute arises the two par
ties will try to settle it through con
sultation.
These circles held that the great
est benefit to be derived from the
accord is a general improvement of
the atmosphere for dealings between
Berlin and Paris.
The newspaper Le Temps, which
frequently reflects government
views, said Italian hopes that the
accord would open the door at once
to a discussion of the colonial ques
tion or a quick solution of the Span
ish problem were in vain.
To Drive Hard Bargain.
The ceremony took place in the
same room where, 10 years ago, the
Kellog-Briand pact for outlawing
war was signed, the famous Clock
Room of the foreign office.
German informants said Von
Ribbentrop expected to drive a hard
bargain, however, for specific points
outside the treaty.
The official French text of the
accord read:
“Bonnet, minister of foreign af
fairs of the French Republic, and
Von Ribbentrop, minister of for
eign affairs of the German Reich,
acting in the name and under the
order of their governments, are
agreed to what follows, during their
meeting in Paris, the 6th of Decem
ber, 1938:
“The French government and the
German government share fully the
conviction that pacific relations and
good neighborliness between France
and Germany constitute one'of the
essential elements of the consolida
tion of the European situation and
of the maintenance of general peace.
"The two governments will use in
consequence all their strength to as
sure the developments in this direc
tion of relations between their
countries. The two governments
state that between their countries
no question of a territorial order
rests in suspense and they recognize
solemnly as the definitive border
between their countries such as it
is actually established.
“The two governments are re
solved under the reserve of their
particular relations with third pow
ers to remain in contact on all
questions interesting their two
countries and to consult mutually
in case the future developments ol
tSee PACT, Page A-3.)
Paris Editor Dies
PARIS, Dec. 6 Paul Morize,
64, editor of the newspaper Le
Matin, died yesterday of heart dis
ease. He had been connected with
the newspaper for 30 years and in
addition was the author of nu
merous plays and operettas.
4 »
President Summons Advisers
To Confer on World Situation
Ambassadors Wilson, Phillips and Bullitt
Among Those Called for Talks
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt today called a midafternoon conference with
State Department officials and American diplomats for what was de
scribed as a general discussion and exchange of views on the international
situation.
Those invited to attend were Acting Secretary of State Sumner
Welles and Hugh R. Wilson, William Phillips and William C. Bullitt,
| Ambassadors, respectively, to Ger
many, Italy and France.
The conference was arranged
shortly after the President arrived
from Chapel Hill. N. C. In an ad
dress there late yesterday he de
clared the United States was "not
only the largest and most powerful
democracy in the whole world, out
many other democracies look to us
for leadership that world democracy
may survive."
Mr. Roosevelt conferred with Am
bassadors Wilson and Phillips dur
ing his two weeks’ vacation at Warm
Springs, Ga„ on the persecution of
Jews and other racial and religious
minorities in Germany and other
totalitarian states.
Mr. Bullitt, who interrupted a
Bahamas vacation to join the Presi
dent during the last few days of his
Warm Springs stay, rode back to
Washington with Mr. Roosevelt's
party.
The President also arranged to
McKesson & Robbins
Security Trading
Halted by Suit
Stockholder Alleges Waste
And Mismanagement,
Asking Receiver
Bj the Associated Press.
HARTFORD. Conn.. Dec. 6.—
Trading of all issues of McKesson
<fc Robbins securities was held up on
the stock exchange today following
Federal court action by Vincent W.
Dennis of Hartford, a common-stock
holder, who alleges waste and mis
management.
Mr. Dennis, an attorney, yester
day filed an equity receivership
action against the company. Judge
Edwin S. Thomas of the United
States District Court here named
Attorneys Thomas J. Spellacy, who
is also Mayor of Hartford, and
Abraham S. Weissman of New
Haven as temporary receivers after
Mr. Dennis submitted affidavits
purporting to substantiate his alle
gations concerning the $87,000,000
Maryland Holding Co.
The litigation. Mr. Dennis ex
plained, in no way reflects upon the
solvency of the corporation.
Frederick Wingersky. head of the
McKesson & Robbins. Inc., legal
department, said he believed there
was “a grave question” as to the
legality of the appointment of two
temporary receivers for the cor
poration in an equity receivership
action.
He asserted that McKesson &
Robbins had received no advance
notice of the action and had had no
opportunity to be represented by
counsel.
The company manufactures and
distributes drugs and cosmetics and
distills spirits.
Wingersky said immediate plans
by the company called for a confer
ence to determine "on what basis
the receivers were appointed.”
In the action, Dennis asserted
that he holds some 2,000 shares of
common stock. He added he was
bringing the action in his own be
half and that of other stockholders
who may join him.
The action will require establish
ment as fact the allegation that the
corporation in its last statement
included a non-existent asset.
Welch Resigns Post
As American U. Coach
Gus Welch, athletic director and
head football coach at American
University for the last two years,
today announced that he has re
signed his post. Although he said A.
U. officials had been informed of his
intentions, no public notice had been
made until Welch announced his
resignation at the weekly luncheon
meeting of the Football Writers’ As
sociation today.
Although he declared that his as
sociation with the university had
been a pleasant one, Welch inti
mated that the school was not ready
to support a major football program
in the manner which he had been
given to understand it would when
he accepted the position two years
ago.
Welch said he hoped he would
continue to be in Washington next
year, but whether connected with
either high school or college he de
clined to say.
The coach, who was one of the
famed Carlisle Indians in the first
decade of the century, now operates
a boys’ camp near Natural Bridge,
Va„ and it is because of his desire
to keep his residence here that he
would accept another post in the
vicinity, he said.
Although Welch’s coaching at
American University has resulted in
no outstanding success on a victory
basis, the Indian brought A. U.
national publicity when he attempt
ed to use a kicking co-ed in one
of his games during the 1937 season.
After the story circulated all over
the country, A. V. officials vetoed
the plan.
No announcement of Welch's sue
cessor has been made.
Train Kills Pour
COLO. Iowa, Dec. 6 W»).—Four
Newton, Iowa, Mexicans were killed
last night when the Northwestern
Railroad's streamliner City of Den
ver plowed into their automobile at
a grade crossing here. The train
was traveling 92 miles an hour, offi
cials said.
:•-—
day to confer with Secretary of
Labor Perkins and Chairman War
ren J. Madden of the National Re
lations Board.
Members of the board have stated
they were opposed to any attempt
to amend the labor law. Secretary
Perkins recently said she saw no
reason at this time for changing
the act. but this was up to Congress,
which created the board.
The only other engagements the
President set for his first day in
Washington in more than two weeks
were with Secretary of the Interior
Ickes and Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau. A press conference
was scheduled for late this after
noon.
Rested from two weeks of rough
ing it at his "other home” in
Georgia, the President paused briefly
j in Chapel Hill to reaffirm his belief
in a liberal government, alert to
I (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-6 >
Spending Reduction
is Believed Aim
Of Treasury
Conservative Policy
Opposes Views
Of Eccles
By the Associated Press.
A usually well-informed person
indicated today that the Treasury
was urging a conservative spending
policy on President Roosevelt for
next year in opposition to the spend
i ing views of Chairman Marriner S.
! Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board
Secretary Morgenthau hinted at
; this disagreement yesterday when
asked about a speech in which Mr
: Eccles advised against premature
i reduction of Federal expenditures,
j "Gov. Eccles is chairman of the
j Federal Reserve and I am Secretary
I of the Treasury, ’ said the tail
; "gentleman farmer" from New York.
Would Cut Deficit.
A person close to Mr. Morgenthau,
| however, disclosed that the Secre
| tary, while not expecting a balanced
| budget next year in view of the
projected national defense program.
I wants to reduce the deficit which is
scheduled to reach $4,000,000,000 this
fiscal year.
The Treasury head and his new
tax adviser. Undersecretary John
W Hanes, a recent recruit from a
j Wall Street brokerage house, are
: known to believe that steps to wipe
out the deficit would help business
i by heightening "confidence.”
Say Time Not Ripe.
Mr. Eccles, a one-time missionary
who became one of the leading
bankers of Utah, argued in New
York Friday that it was too soon
to cut down the extra public pur
chasing power created by deficit
spending and that a premature ex
penditure reduction might cause
another business relapse.
He said one of the causes of the
recession, which started late in 1937,
was the sharp decline in the Fed
eral deficit after 1936. when the
soldiers’ bonus was paid. When
national income rises from the 1938
estimate of $65,000,000,000 to about
$80,000,000,000, he asserted, the budg
et would balance itself through in
creased revenue.
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Australia to Increase
Defense Program
B>- the Associated Press.
CANBERRA. Australia, Dec. 6.—
The government of Premier Joseph
Lyons today announced further in
crease of Australia’s three-year
defense program, spurred by Japa
nese imperial expansion and Italy's
possible threat to Mediterranean
communications with Great Britain.
Defense Minister Street said de
fense expenditures, already fixed at
£63,000,000 i $315,000.000), would be
increased by £19,00,000.
Last month Australia ordered 50
planes from the United States as
part of her program calling for
198 first-line planes, including long
range bombers.
14 Known Dead
In Nova Scotia
Mine Accident
Coal Cars Break Away
And Crash in Pit;
Many Injured
BULLETIN.
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia. Dec. 6
W’i.—Five of the 45 injured who
were brought to the surface in
the colliery disaster here today
died later in hospitals, bringing
the death toll to 19.
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Dec. 6
(Canadian Press.).—Fourteen men
were known to have been killed and
many others seriously injured today
in Nova Scotia’s worst coal mine
disaster in 20 years.
Fourteen bodies had been brought
to the surface two hours after a
string of 26 mine cars carrying 250
workers broke loose and plunged out
of control down a mile-long incline
into the wall of the main deep.
Mine officials said they believed
only the 14 were killed, although
rescue workers feared more bodies
remained in the wreckage at the
bottom of the pit.
Forty-five seriously injured were
brought to the pithead, where doc
tors and nurses had gathered.
The tragedy occurred in the Prin
cess Colliery of the Nova Scotia
Steel & Coal Co . as a shift was
riding down to work.
A haulage cable snapped as the
string of cars, known as a riding
rake, was going down a 10 pier cent
grade. The cars gathered momen
tum rapidly, but some men were
able to jump in the first few sec
onds. Most of these escaped serious
injury.
Rescue workers brought out the 14
bodies and returned to the pit. They
said it was impossible yet to say
how many more bodies might still
be in the wreckage.
Shaft 11 Feet in Diameter.
Survivors and miners from other
1 shafts took the lead in rescue work.
The roar of the crash echoed
through the shafts and slopes that
level off at a depth of 1.480 feet, far
below the waters of Sydney Harbor.
The shaft through which the cars
plunged is only 11 feet in diameter
and many men who 'were thrown
from the cars were seriously nurt.
The crowd at the pithead grew
rapidly as news of the tragedy
I spread. Each time a rescue squad
appeared at the mine mouth there
was deep silence among the crowd
as they waited for the tragic ldenti
| flcation of bodies.
Rescue Crews Sent Below.
All available doctors and nurses
i were sent to the pithead. Rescue
crews descended as soon as news of
the accident reached the surface.
The accident, one of the worst in
Nova Scoiia s long coal mining his
tory, came just a year after three
miners had been killed and two in
jured in a similar accident in the
same colliery. In that case, a run
away string of 14 cars struck the
group as they were walking back to
the surface after their shift was
over.
Tunisia Demonstration
Is Staged by Students
Bj the Associated Press.
ROME, Dec. 6.—Several hundred
Fascist students, after an unsuc
cessful attempt to reach the French
Embassy, demonstrated in the
streets of Rome today in support
of Italian claims to French-con
trolled Tunisia.
The students deserted classrooms
of several Rome schools and
trooped through the streets shout
ing. “Tunisia is ours.”
Their path to the French Em
bassy was blocked by strong police
guards, established on the surround
ing streets.
Turned back, the students
marched to the Palazzo Venezia,
where they called for Premier
Mussolini and sang Fascist songs.
II Duce did not appear.
The crowd then made a second
attempt to approach the French
Embassy and again ran against the
adamant police line.
The Italian cruiser Raimondo
Montecuccoli, which had been in
Adriatic waters for the past 15
months, was called back to the
Mediterranean today as the Fascist
press intensified its demands for
French-controlled territory.
Summary of Today's Star
Page. Page.
Amusements, C-4 Obituary ...A-10
Club News, Radio_B-12
B-10-15 Sports _C-l-3
Comics_C-8-9 Society _B-3
Editorials ...A-8 Santa Story C-5
Financial _ A-13 Woman's Page,
Lost & Found,C-5 B-14
Foreign.
Von Ribbentrop in Paris ready to
sign pact. Page A-l
France and Germany sign friend
ship pact in Paris. Page A-l
German good-will plane sinks in
Manila. Page A-l
Japanese occupy another port, tight
ening grip on Canton. Page A-5
National. *
Production is resumed at Fisher
Body plant. Page A-l
Roosevelt Is home pledged to liberal
domestic program. Page A-l
Morgenthau and Eccles seen differ
ing on spending. Page A-l
Patent law provision hit by Senator
I Borah. Page A-2
I Dies group calls for suggestions on
I “Americanism.” Page A-l
Friends of Garner to launch presi
dential boom. Page A-2
T. V. A. “overlooked'’ Congress edict,
Walverton charges. Page A-6
Washington and Vicinity.
Retrial of Warring tax case Is or
dered. Page B-l
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Editoriol ond Comment.
Editorials. Page A-8
This and That. Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
Letters to The Star. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Alsop and Kintner. Page A-9
G. Gould Lincoln. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Della Pynchon. Page A-9
Sports.
Eastern sector paces U. S. in in
creased grid attendance Page C-l
T. C. U. leader, "Irish” fifth in final
grid vote. Page C-l
Griffs sell Pitcher Hogsett as new
deal is begun. Page C-l
No sweeping Redskin revisions due,
says Coach Flaherty. Page C-l
Pairings assure brilliant football in
big bowl battles. Page C-2
Boyd’s win in fine scrap with Everett
marred by referee. Page C-3
Armstrong to enjoy rest after T. K.
©. win over Manfreda. Page C-3
United States vote to back Finland
for 1944 Olympics. Page C-3
Miscellany.
Vital Statistics. PageB-2
Nature’s Children. Page B-2
City News in Brief. Page B-«
Bedtime Story. PageB-8
Cross-Word Puzzle. Page C-8
Letter-Out. Page c-s
Winning Contract. Page C-9
Uncle Ray’s Corner. . Page C-9
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Production Resumed
As Fisher Strike
Is Settled
Workers Ratify Proposal
To End Walkout
On Conditional Basis
BACKGROUND—
Homer Martin and General
Motors officials announced early
Monday morning, after a 12
hour conference, that the strike
at Fisher Body Plant No. 1 had
been settled. Members of the
local, however, only redoubled
their pickets until the action was
ratified by the local union.
Keeping the plant closed Mon
day threw additional workers
out, for Buick was forced to
close because of a body shortage.
By the Associated Press.
FLINT, Mich., Dec. 6—Production
was resumed today at Fisher Body
| Co Plant No. 1, which had been
1 shut down since last Friday by a
strike involving a wage dispute.
Directly or indirectly more than
25.000 workers were affected by the
strike as result of the closely geared
production machinery of various
General Motors Corp. units.
The Fisher plant force here, di
rectly involved, numbers approxi
mately 6 400 men. Buick operations
were soon curtailed, however, and
14.000 of their workers became idle.
The interruption finally extended
yesterday to 600 Fisher Body Co.
plant workers in Pontiac. Mich.,
and today to approximately 5.000
Pontiac Motor Co. men in Pontiac.
All except the Pontiac Motor Co.
workers were expected back on the
job today as Fisher Body No. 1
swung into near normal operation.
At the Fisher plant superintend
ent's office it was estimated it would
require about 15 hours of production
here to put Pontiac back in opera
tion.
Pontiac to Resume.
“We expect to be operating at
normal by the time our night force
goes on this afternoon,” said a
: spokesman for Fisher No. 1 man
| agement. “By tomorrow Pontiac
Motor Co. should be able to resume.”
At 9:30 a m. it was announced
| that the Fisher No. 1 plant was
operating at 90 per cent of normal
and that Buick was operating
normally.
A settlement of the strike was
ratified on a conditional basis at a
meeting of Local No. 581, United
Auto Workers of America (C. I. O ),
which continued for a lengthy
period last night. The local de
: cided to call a new strike if the
present wage dispute is not settled
by Friday.
Three Hours of Argument.
A settlement was announced Sun
day night, subject to ratification by
the membership of the Flint local
Monday night. The ratification
came in conditional form after three
hours of argument within the local.
Some complaint was voiced be
cause officers of the local had not
been permitted to 4ake part in the
negotiations with General Motors
Corp. officials. International U. A.
W officers, including President
Homer Martin, spoke for the union.
Mr. Martin said the dispute in
volved the question of changing
from piece-rate scale to day-wage
rates in certain departments. He
added:
“The union recognizes that any
change from piece work to day work
must be made on a sound and equi
table basis and that it is necessary
to negotiate an understanding as to
the method and process of making
these changes.”
Will Appeal at Once.
Mr. Martin said the union’s agree
ment with the corporation provided
for appeal from decisions by plant
managers to higher officials of Gen
eral Motors and that a “misunder
standing” on this point caused the
strike. “This particular case wiU
be appealed immediately,” he said.
Negotiations were to start Wed
nesday.
It was understood pickets would
be withdrawn at once at the Fisher
pladt here.
Fire Hits Resort Town
OAK BLUFFS, Mass.. Dec. «
UP).—Fire whipped by a strong east
wind consumed three business sec
tion buildings here today. Firemen
reared the loss might run as nigh
as $250,000.
The four-story Island House, one
Of the oldest hostelries on the
Island, off Cape Cod, was slightly
damaged by fire and water.
1
Nazi Good-V/ill
Plane Sinks in
Manila Harbor
By the Associated Press.
MANILA, Dec. 6.—Unable to hold
altitude after three of its four motors
stalled, the big oerman Condor
monoplane made a forced landing
and sank in Manila Harbor today
as it neared the end of a non-stop
flight from Tokio. Its crew of five
and one passenger were uninjured
As the plane began settling in
shallow water about 200 feet off
shore the six men clambered out
on the wing and were rescued by
natives in small boats.
Heinz Junge. director of the Focke
Wulff airplane plant and passenger
aboard the ship which recently
completed a good-will flight from
Berlin to Tokio, was brought to
Manila in a commercial amphibian
plane sent to the scene. He refused
to discuss the mishap except to
say the plane encountered fuel line
trouble.
The plane had flown from Tokio
. in 10 hours and 53 minutes.
The German Condor monoplane
which sank in Manila Harbor today
was of the same four-motored type
as the Brandenburg, which flew from
Berlin to New York and return last
August. Pour of the Condor crew
were aboard the Brandenburg on the
United States trip.
They are Alfred Henke. Rudolf
von Moreau, Paul Dierberg and Wal
ter Kober. The name of the fifth,
a mechanic, was not announced
when the plane left Berlin for the
Tokio hop—an 8.375-mile good-will
journey which started November 28
and ended November 30 with an
elapsed time of 46 hours and 41
minutes.
The journey, returning a visit of
the Japanese plane Divine Wind to
Germany in April, 1937, was called
a manifestation of the cultural bond
between Japan and Germany.
—--«.
London Detectives Guard
Prince on Way Home
P? the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 6 —A strong squad
of Scotland Yard detectives saw
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia off for
home today.
At the same time, a spokesman
at the yard denied flatly that the
regent had cut short his visit in
London because of a reported warn
ing that Croatian terrorists wqre
en route from New York to “get'’
him.
A London newspaper said last
night Scotland Yard had been
warned by “Washington police”
that a band of Croatian terrorists
were on their way to London un
der oath to assassinate Prince Paul.
The yard's spokesman said the
regent s plans to depart today had
been made some time ago.
More than a half dozen spe
cial Scotland Yard inspectors and
numerous railway police and detec
tives were at Victoria Station when
the prince departed on a boat train.
It was said at the offices of
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
that G-men have no knowledge of
reported warnings to Sootland Yard
about a plot on the life of Prince
Paul of Yugoslavia. There has been
no communication between the F.
B. I. and the London police agency
regarding such a matter, it was
stated. The Metropolitan Police
Department also denied any know
ledge of the case.
Paul Y. Anderson,
Writer, Dies After
Collapse in Home
'I'm Going to End It All/
He Had Told Her,
Maid Asserts
Paul Y. Anderson. 45. widely
known Washington newspaper cor
respondent and magazine writer,
died early today in Emergency Hos
pital shortly after he was taken
there by Sam A. O'Neal, an associ
ate in the St. Louis Star-Times
bureau here, who was called to the
Anderson home at 4980 Quebec
street N.W. by an alarmed maid.
Mr. O'Neal said Mr. Anderson evi
dently had taken a fatal dose of
sleeping tablets after telling a maid,
Ollie Fields, "I'm going to end it
all. my usefulness is at an end."
Mr. O'Neal said the maid told him
she was awakened at 2 a m. by Mr.
Anderson knocking on the door of
her room and saying. "I just wanted
to tell you good-by.”
The maid told Mr. O'Neal that
Mr. Anderson then went to the
garage and when she reached there
he was sitting in the car with the
motor running and a hose extend
ing from the exhaust pipe through
the window.
She persuaded him to return to
the house, where he went to the
library. From an adjoining lavatory,
she told Mr. O'Neal, Mr. Anderson
took some tablets and then rushed
upstairs to another room and took
some more from another bottle.
The maid then called Mr. O'Neal,
who rushed Mr. Anderson to the
hospital, where he died at 3:50
o'clock.
The maid said Mr. Anderson ar
rived home at 9 o'clock and went to
his room. Mrs. Anderson was away,
visiting in Chicago, and at the time
there was no one else in the house
but the maid.
End of Brilliant Career.
Mr. Anderson's death ended a long
and brilliant career in newspaper
work here and in St. Louis.
He represented the St. Louis Post
Dispatch here for 23 years until
last year. Since February 28. 1937,
he has been with the St. Louis Star
Times.
He was the 1928 winner of the
Pulitzer prize for reportorial work
in connection with his coverage of
the oil scandals. In 1924, he had
been publicly praised by the late
Senator Walsh of Montana for public
services in connection with the
Teapot Dome exposures.
Mr. Anderson covered many im
portant stories, including the Loeb
Leopold case in Chicago in 1924.
the La Follette campaign in that
same year, the Scopes trial at Day
ton, Tenn., in 1925, and more re
cently the La Follette committee's
civil liberties investigation.
At early as 1917 he was commend
ed by a congressional committee in
connection with his work in the race
riots in St. Louis. In 1926 evidence
(See”ANDERSON, Page”A~1oT)
Berengaria Makes Last
Voyage—to Scrapyard
Bj the Associated Press.
SOUTHAMPTON, England. Dec.
6.—The liner Berengaria, once one
of the finest and largest ships afloat,
today sailed on her last voyage—to
the scrapyard at Jarrow.
All shipping in Southampton
docks joined in a mournful salute
as the 52,101-ton liner'put out to
sea.
Lavish Program to Be on Air
Tonight as Part of Yule Drive
A lavish program or radio enter
tainment will be put on the air to
night over Station WMAL as part
of the Christmas campaign being
conducted by The Star, Warner
Bros, and the National Broadcast
ing Co. The broadcast begins at
8 o’clock and closes at 8:30.
The program will come from both
the WMAL studios in the Trans
Lux Building and from the Shore
ham Hotel. Songs, orchestra music
and specialty musical numbers will
feature the show, and during it
Mrs. Walter B. Fry, president of
the District Congress of Parents
and Teachers, will explain the pur
pose of the Christmas campaign.
Mrs. Fry’s organization and the
Metropolitan Police Department
are the chief distributing agencies
for the gifts collected during the
campaign, whi is designed to in
sure toys, food and clothing for all
the city's needy families on Christ
mas Day.
Tonight’s program opens with t£e
music of Maxim Lowe’s Shoreham
Hotel Orchestra, Bamee directing.
Then from the studio will come the
voice of Dick Foran, the singing
cowboy, now on the Earle Theater
stage, who will sing the number he
made famous, "My Little Buckaroo.”
Johnny Broderick, Earle Theater
[Pianist, will play “Trinklets” and
I “The World Is Waiting for the Sun
rise.” Earl Lawrence, a Rudy Val
lee protege, will sing from the
Shoreham. The "Noteblenders,” a
quartet in the "Secret Ambitions”
act at the Earle, will present three
numbers.
Bill Crago. announcer on the
Washington N. B. G. staff and, this
(See CAMPAIGN, Page A-5.)
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Incentive Tax
Is Opposed
By Edsel Ford
“Favors High Wages
As Best Profit
Sharing Plan
By the Associated Press.
Edsel Ford told the Senate Profit
Sharing Committee today that a
reduction in Federal taxation would
be “as good an incentive" to busi
ness as anything the Government
could do.
The slender son of Henry Ford
testified he believed incentive tax
ation to encourage plant expansion,
purchase of equipment and regular
ization of employment “might lead
to consequences difficult to handle."
“You feel, then.” said Senator
Vandenberg, Republican, of Michi
gan. “that incentive taxation might
create more problems than we could
solve by it?"
“I feel that is right,” Mr. Ford
replied quietly.
High Wages Favored.
He said the Ford Motor Co. be
lieved in profit-sharing through
high wages. He added that he be
lieved the high wage scale had pre
vented any "serious" labor troubles
in Ford plants.
“We try to be more than fair to
our employes," Mr. Ford said. "We
try to pay just as high wages as we
can and produce at as low a cost as
possible, thus creating volume pro
duction."
Mr. Ford said his company had
paid $77,565,000 in profit sharing, in
excess of the established wage scale
for the motor industry, from 1914 to
1919. inclusive. In 1920. he ex
plained. the company changed to a
system of cash bonuses, paying out
$6,750,000 in bonuses for 1919 and
1920.
The company instituted a $6-a
day wage scale in 1920.
The Ford Co. now maintains. Mr.
Ford said, an investment plan by
which all employes may deposit a
percentage of their wages. They re
ceive a guaranteed interest of 4'2
per cent, plus special returns paid
semi-annually. These special re
turns. the witness said, have reached
as high as 10 per cent.
Since 1920 employes have received
from this source a total of $2T.800 -
000. of which $15,500,000 was in
guaranteed interest and $12,300,000
in special returns. Mr. Ford re
lated.
Believed Less Paternalistic.
He said he believed the company's
, system of sharing profits through
| high wages was more simplified.
i more workable and less paternalistic
: than other profit-sharing plans.
“We have paid our men as well
as we could and have felt that
they were more able fo take care
of their own needs than we were
under some sort of. a paternalistic
system,” Mr. Ford said in explain
ing why the company had estab
lished no hospitalization plan such
as put into effect in other industries.
He said the company began pay- '
ing its employes wages in excess
of the going rate in the motor In
dustry when it instituted a $5-a
day minimum in 1914. He said the
going rate of 34 cents an hour was
raised an additional 284 cents an
hour to make the scale $5 for an
eight-hour day.
In 1920. he said, the Ford com
pany advanced its minimum wage
to $6 a day, where it has remained
most of the time since, except that
it was reduced to $4 in the depths
of the business depression.
Williard H. Dow, president of the
Dow Chemical Co.. Midland. Mich.,
also opposed incentive taxation to
encourage profit-sharing.
“We would hate to see that become
the beginning of a Government
trend of telling business how to de
velop a bonus or profit-sharing sys
tem.” Mr. Dow said. “Each of these
profit-sharing plans mast fit the in
dustry itr serves. I don't know that
I understand how Government could
: put in a broad form of incentive
taxation without dictating the form
ula to be conformed to.”
j Declared “Psychological Handicap.”
L. M. Giannini. San Francisco
banker, testified yesterday that he
I believed present Government tax
| policies were offering a "psycholog
| ical handicap" to business expan
j sion. The president of the Bank of
i America National Trust & Savings
! Association urged their revision.
Mr. Giannini and other members
of the powerful San Francisco
banking family have supported most
New Deal policies.
Talking to reporters after his tes
timony, Mr. Giannini said he saw
little chance of any reduction in
taxes in the near future.
“We’ve got to have enough taxes
to balance the budget,” he declared.
“I believe that it can be done under
present rates when the national in
come reaches $85,000,000,000 or $90,
000,000,000 a year. There is no use
talking about reducing taxes with
the present problems of Govern
ment financing confronting us.”
Mr. Giannini said he believed
some tax credit should be given to
business firms which share their
profits with employes or set aside a
portion of them for plant expan
sion. This might be done by giving
a credit on the amount set aside, he
said.
Declaring he did not want to ap
pear to be unduly critical of ad
ministration policies, the banker said
he felt present high tax rates killed
individual initiative in business, par
ticularly in the high income brackets.
Chinese Ambassador
Suffers From Fatigue
the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6-Dr. Hu
Shih. Chinese Ambassador to the
United States, was resting today at
the Harkness Pavilion of the Pres
byterian Medical Center, where he
was taken last night from the Hotel
Ambassador.
A spokesman for Dr. Shih said
he was suffering from fatigue. Ha
was expected to return to Wash
ington after a few days’ rest.
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