Evening star. [volume], September 21, 1939, Page A-10, Image 10

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9 Ships Free fo Sail
As Agreement Ends
Tieup in New Yok
Seamen to Get War Risk
Bonuses and Insurance
Linder Accepted Plan
Br the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—Nine ves
sels held in the port of New York
by a seamen’s strike for war-risk
bonuses and insurance were free
to sail today as a result of an agree
ment for settlement of the dispute.
Tlie United States Lines, the
American Export Lines, the Ameri
can Scantic Line and Lykes Bros.,
whose ships had been tied up, agreed
to the plan of settlement, Joseph
Curran, president of the National
Maritime Union (C. I. O.) an
nounced.
The ships are the Washington,
scheduled to leave tomorrow with
800 passengers; American Trader,
American Traveler, Acadia, St. John,
Iroquois. Scanstates. Excambion and
Black Gull. Some had been de
layed as much as six days.
Provisions of Agreement.
Under the plan, approved by union
members at a mass meeting last
night, seamen on ships entering
European and Mediterranean ports
would receive a 25 per cent wage
increase, transportation back to the
United States in case their ships
were lost, wages in the event of
internment in a foreign port, loss
(French republic. He was killed as
he led a French patrol near the
Siegfried Line.
The Germans recorded the play
ing of “The Marseillaise,” France’s
national anthem, by a German band
at the funeral. At frequent Intervals
It has been broadcast to radio listen
ers In France.
Army Takes Precaution.
But while German propaganda
worked to convince the United States
and the world at large that further
fighting was purposeless, the Ger
man Army was taking every precau
tion.
Before going to the west front,
Gen von Brauchitsch Issued an or
der in which he observed that mili
tary action in the east was complete.
The western defenses steadily were
being strengthened and Rudolf Hess,
Hitler’s party deputy, was on the
scene as personal observer for the
Fuehrer.
Nazi troops were known to be
moving westward from Poland, leav
ing behind only enough strength to
finish the cleaning-up processes and
man garrisons.
oi personal enects guaranteed up
to $150 and assurance that charges
would be withdrawn against seamen
on trial for alleged failure to obey
orders to sail.
It also was agreed, Mr. Curran
said, negotiations would continue on
establishment of a bonus for sailors
on vessels plying between American
ports and the war zones. The ne
gotiations, he explained, are not
to consume more than 10 days and
any agreement will be retroactive
to Include ships which have left
this port in the last few days.
Originally the union had demand
ed $250 bonuses, $25,000 insurance,
continuance of pay in case of in
ternment and a 40 per cent in
crease in the personnel of ships
When sailing in war zones.
U. S. Plans Wage Increase.
The United States Maritime Com
mission announced in Washington
yesterday that personnel on vessels
in the North Atlantic would re
ceive an emergency increase of 25
per cent in their base pay. Each
man, the commission said, will be
allowed $150 to cover loss of per
sonal effects and get base pay, plus
the emergency compensation, in the
event of internment.
P. V. G. Mitchell, vice president
of the United States Line, said the
American Trader and the American
Traveler probably would sail some
time today.
Mr. Mitchell defended his com
pany against the charge it had
brought back too many aliens while
Americans were stranded abroad.
He said only 204 of the 2,352 pas
sengers brought back this week by
the Washington and the President
Harding were aliens.
The new British liner Maure
tania arrived from England late yes
terday with 695 passengers, includ
ing Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., son of
the Ambassador.
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Budapest
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Warsaw's Praga district, the officer
said, and engaged the Polish de
fenders in bayonet warfare. '
"But the Poles are better in hand
to-hand fighting," he declared,
"and proved stronger, capturing
three heavy and two light machine
guns."
The radio-said German aircraft
made several raids over the center
of Warsaw, especially in the neigh
borhood of Pilsudski Square and the
city’s largest hotels.
Between 5 and 6 o'clock last night,
it said, 30 German planes made a
terrific, concentrated attack while
heavy artillery dumped shells into
the center of the city, inflicting
heavy’ casualties among women and
children. Seven German warplanes
were said to have been shot down.
Palace and Museum Damaged.
Mayor Starzinski said further
damage had been inflicted on the
royal palace and the National Mu- j
seum, the Fine Arte Gallery, two |
grammar schools, the Academy of j
Physical Culture, a theological;
seminary, a girls’ college and many
other schools had been destroyed
by bombs. A broadcast last night
had reported a Red Cross hospital
set afire by incendiary bombs.
I “When German shells fall we feel
the power of German cultural su
periority,” the mayor exclaimed.
“Germans can destroy our his
torical treasures but cannot impair
our Polish souls.”
The mayor promised to do all in
his power to facilitate the departure
of foreign diplomatic officers still in
Warsaw. Following the request of
the corps three days ago, he said,
Germans sent over a plenipotentiary
yesterday but it was too late to ne
gotiate and a conference was de
ferred until today.
Mayor Tells of Hardships.
The mayor's instructions, warnings
and reports to his populace indicated
the hardships Warsaw was under
going. He said soldiers were receiv
ing rations and were prohibited from
buying clothing or food in stores.
Special patrols are watching for
soldiers who try to get double ra
tions, he warned, and those caught
wiH be “severely punished.”
The Mayor declared the populace
constantly was fighting fires, repair
ing damage and clearing away de
bris. He said the whole city was
contributing self-sacrificing service
and priests were ever present to
give the last sacrament.
Warsaw butchers were notified to
go to military headquarters to re
ceive allotments of horse meat.
The announcer said wounded horses
would be butchered for the “near
starving million inhabitants” of the
city.
British Government !
Declines to Deny
Capture of Bremen i
i
German Ship Now
Believed to Be
Held in English Port
By the Associated Pres*.
LONDON, Sept. 21.—Reports the
liner Bremen, pride of Germany’s
merchant fleet, had been captured 1
by the royal navy and escorted into
a British port gained prevalence to- i
day in the absence of government '
denials.
The British Press Association, ;
commenting on the reports, said i
stories that the Bremen was on the
way to England had been current
for several days.
“Though no official confirmation
was forthcoming in London this
morning,” the Press Association said,
“the story of the liner’s capture was
not denied.”
The Bremen sailed from New York
August 30, two days before the Ger
man Army entered Poland, and her
whereabouts since that time has
been a mystery.
In New Orleans, Baron Edgar von
Spiegel, German Consul General,
was quoted as saying the Bremen
was “safe and sound" in the Soviet
Russian port of Murmansk. Baron
Spiegel, who did not give the source
of his information, said the liner
“required 12 days to outmaneuver
enemy warships in a brilliant dash”
to safety.
Arrival of the Bremen at Mur
mansk was reported September 14
by informants close to the German
Navy, but the report was not con
firmed by Soviet authorities.
Berlin
(Continued From First Page.)
Gulf of Danzig. Its extremity ia
19 miles northeast of Danzig.
German officers indicated that no
lightning strokes against these cen
ters were planned, but rather, since
they are surrounded, that the feel
ing is time will work for Germany
and the Poles will surrender. Some
3,000 Poles were believed to be iso
lated on the Hela Peninsula.
Policy of Waiting Seen.
In other quarters Germany’s fail
ure to strike a crushing blow at
Warsaw so far was attributed to a
policy of waiting on Congress’ action
in Washington.
Interest in influencing the United
States’ decision on neutrality re- 1
vision at the special session of Con- :
gress brought the propagandists’ j
batteries to the fore while front
line activities slackened.
As a result of the reported Ger
man policy toward Poland’s capital,
Germans believed there would be
no violent attack there which might
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n Washington.
Friendly German gestures toward
France and Hitler’s strategically
imed assurance to the world
it Danzig Tuesday that the Reich
ias no war aims against either
''ranee or Great Britain were
iounted on here to be a big in
luence in keeping United States
leutrality airtight.
Biddle Accused in Press.
Diplomatisch-Polittsche Korre
ipondenz brought into the open a
German complaint, previously whis
)ered in government circles, that
\nthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr.,
Jnited States Ambassador to Po
and, was "serving British propa
ganda.”
The United States State Depart
nent made public September 13 two
:ablegrams from Mr. Biddle in
vhich the Ambassador reported
vltnessing German aerial bombard
nent of defenseless towns in Poland
is well as military objectives.
Korrespondenz asserted the object
>f anti-German propaganda was to
jersuade Warsaw by radio to con
,inue what it called useless resist
ince in the hope that Germans
vould bombard the city and thus
irouse world, especially American,
ndignation.
The German military command,
t was said, hoped to bring about
:apitulation of the city through
pressure that fell short of injuring
-he civilian population.
Warned of Propaganda.
The German press, meanwhile,
varned the world to be prepared for
vhat the Hamburger Fremdenblatt
:alled “another British propaganda
torpedo.” It said some such "tor
aedoes” already had been fired, one
aeing the report that German Army
ictivity about Aachen had betrayed
i plan to violate Belgian neutrality
ay attacking France through Bel
?ium as Germany did in the World
War.
Officials and the press denied
ihere was any German menace to
Belgium.
“Germany has reached her war
abjective,”, declared the Deutsche
Mlgemelne Zeitung. “The west does
not interest us. Of course, should
someone attack us there we would
lefend ourselves as effectively as
possible.”
Another gesture of German friend- 1
ship toward France was a military
funeral accorded Tuesday to French
Lt. Louis Paul Deschanel, 30-year
ald son of a former President of the
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nedy, jr., 24-year-old son of the United States Ambassador to
Great Britain, is shown as he returned from London yesterday
on the new British liner Mauretania. Young Kennedy, who
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of the guns with which the vessel was armed as protection
against enemy sea raiders. —A. P. Wirephoto.
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_ An Appeal to Our Representatives
STOP THE WAR NOW! i
Do You Know That in the World War TEN MILLION Men Were Killed?
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rvnuiner len iviuuon men, w omen ana ^nuaren Lnea trom
the Effects of the War. DO YOU KNOW THAT THE
NEXT WAR WILL BE EVEN MORE DESTRUCTIVE?
Men, women and children may be the victims of attacks from
the air of which Colonel Charles Lindbergh declared "We can
no longer protect our families with an army ..Every one of
the Institutions we value are laid bare to bombardments. ...
When I see that within a day or two damage can be done
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KEEP AMERICA OUT OF THE WAR IN EUROPE AND THUS
RESTORE AN EARLY WORLD PEACE.
If our country should take sides in other people’s war, we would be in the war.
Reprisals and attacks might follow, and possibly another World War, costing
the lives of thousands. Although under our Constitution Congress has the ex
clusive right to declare war, the President (should the existing neutrality law
be abrogated) can so conduct our foreign policy and usurp that war-making
power. This occurred during the terms of both Presidents McKinley and Wilson. I
Do not repeat that tragic mistake. Henry Ford blamed the munition makers
and profiteering financiers for the existence of war, and we are informed (Con
gressional Record, March, 1934) that during the last war both the French and
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look for a new type of security.. ’.. A SECURITY WHICH
RESTS IN INTELLIGENCE NOT IN FORTS.”
Some time ago, William A. Julian, U. S. Treasurer, remarked "I’D LIKE TO
REMIND YOU... THAT 90 PER CENT OF THE TAXES COLLECTED
TODAY IN THE WORLD ARE COLLECTED TO PAY OFF WARS
OF THE PAST, IN THE PRESENT AND FOR THE FUTURE.” A
prominent college president said "If the democratic state insists upon mak
ing it a permanent policy to engage in war... then it is paving the way for its
own destruction, since IN WAR DICTATORSHIP INSTANTLY
• ASSERTS ITSELF either in a political form or under the guise of mili
tary necessity.” President Roosevelt stated "Recourse to war, whatever may
be its outcome, is no guaranty of a just settlement.” A celebrated statesman
declared (when war was narrowly averted last year), "THE STRONGEST
FORCE OF ALL (FOR PEACE) WAS THE SENSE OF THE UNMIS
TAKABLE UNANIMITY AMONG THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
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WAR IS THE REAL ENEMY WE SHOULD CONQUER. DO YOUR
BIT TODAY FOR PEACE—CIVILIZATION DEPENDS ON YOU.
SAVE THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD FROM FURTHER AGONY.
KEEP THE UNITED STATES OUT OF WAR.
RESIST ANY AND ALL ATTEMPTS TO WEAKEN OUR neutrality
by allowing the sale of arms to warring nations.
Join with other neutral nations in continuous and unceasing efforts
to achieve a speedy, just and lasting peace.
War does not create democracy, but destroys it — witness Europe
groaning under its several dictators today as a result of the last
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war. iour decision aT mis session is possiDiy me mosr imponanT
event of all time—by stopping the spread of, war you can save
s humanity from an unknown and incalculable abyss. The fate of
the world lays in your hands. Save it from darkness and despair.
Stop War now and forever.
MRS. J. SERGEANT CRAM
the PEACE HOUSE Fifth^venue, New York.
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THAT WAR SOMEHOW MUST BE.AVERTED.”
Do you know that wars do not happen; they are made; and that you can prevent
future wars? Destroy war before it destroys mankind.
Decide now that human life should always be held sacred and that the first
human right is the right to life itself. Organized killing is just as wrong as the
murder of one man by another.