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Any U. S. Embargo
Held Futile in Face
Of Propaganda
Writer Says America Is
As Near Being Drawn
In as in 1916
By COL. FREDERICK PALMER.
The United States may embargo
ships, supplies and travel, but one
Inescapable fact, to one whose World
War experience was not altogether
limited to four years on the western
front, is that you cannot embargo
human emotion.
Those who remember back to
President Wilson's castigation of the
“willful men" before our entry into
the World War know that a war
embargo is no new subject for us.
Then debates raged to white heat
about arming our merchant ships
for passage through the submarine
danger zone or keeping them and
all our citizens at home.
There is only one embargo which
can be a sure safeguard. Keep all
American ships and travel off all
the seas, build a Chinese wall
around us. Then we would be in
no danger of entering a combat
Eone.
c*»“va nit nt w uttuic a turn”
bat zone? Isn’t it where any sub
marine may appear, limited only
by its long steaming radius and
hidden fuel supply station? Sub*
ject to one torpedo shot at an
American passenger or cargo ship
on the way to South America in
the Atlantic or Pacific?
A sure embargo to keep us out
of war ought to isolate us like the
Esquimos. It might exclude any
knowledge of how the war was go
ing—until we had official word that
one side or the other had lost. It
should exclude all news from the
warring nations which might influ
ence our thought and emotions.
As Near War as in 1916.
In this respect, we are already as
near being drawn into this European
war, not yet four weeks old, as we
were in 1916 to the one that began
in 1914. The only difference is our
war munition boom is not yet in full
swing. The psychological trend is
no less evident, and the more insid
iously powerful when we are uncon
scious of it as we keep on repeating
we must keep out.
"Oho. I've heard that before,’’ I
thought as I listened to a talk over
the radio. The speaker, no more
anti-Hitler than I am. assured us
that we had only to supply the Allies
with munitions. Implying, of course,
that we should have to do no fight
ing.
I did not forget that I had the
following out of my researches in
our War College archives: The
French general staff was not inter
ested in our sending an American
army to France before the entry
in 1917. Col. Johannet, French pur
chasing agent in the United States,
agreed with M. Bloch, expert of the
French finance ministry in the
United States, that our financial and
economic aid was quite sufficient to
turn the scales for victory. Col.
Fabry of the Joffre mission said
the Allies wanted only money, no
military aid.
And this out of the papers of Sec
retary of War Newton D. Baker and
others of our World War leaders to
which I had access: At first. Marshal
Joffre and Gen. Bridges of the Brit
ish mission agreed we should not at
tempt to train, equip and transport
an army to France, since they be
lieved it would arrive after the Al
lies had won. Before Joffre asked
for a few American soldiers to show
the flag "over there,” Bridges saw
American troops as a positive em
barrassment in France.
j HiAscs rue i/upmaieu,
My recollection of a historian’s
aching eyes in reading more than
100,000 official documents about the
causes of our entry and our part
after our entry singles out many
other phrases being uttered today
which duplicate those of the winter
cf 1916-17.
When I was home from the west
ern front during that winter, the
voice of German propaganda, now
speaking in small, pleading voice,
dwelt on the starvation of German
babies for milk by the cruel and
ruthless British blockade. French
and British officers, who had been In
the trenches, scattered over the
country, were lions at any dinner
party or reception when we had no
trfcops of our own at the front. They
h|d been carefully chosen in Lon
don and Paris and kept in indoctrl
nAting touch with their Washington
Embassies. They did not press.
Tieirs was the art that conceals art
i nj their appeal to our susceptibili
ties.
JWithout apparently advocating it,
tt^eir object was to bring us into
the war. Why not? Who in their
pl^ce would have done otherwise?
Wouldn't we "latter, cajole and be
agreeably shifty in all things to all
mfn under such moral pressure as
their nations and all they held dear
wire in their extremity?
Occasionally they would observe
at«a pat moment in conversation, "If
th£ Germans get us, it may be your
turn next.”
SVe have no such delightful guests
ay yet. But, if and when they do
come, they need not speak that piece.
WJ are already speaking it for them
In* our “If Hitler gets the Allies It
will be our turn next.”
, Propaganda Excellent.
!rhe allies' propaganda in Amer
icf has been excellent in this war so
far. They had their World War
training to start with, and democra
cies know how to speak ttie lan
guage of democracies. They have
been exceedingly modest, apparently
willing to let us conclude they were
not making any brilliant progress in
this war so far, not to mention Mr.
Chamberlains warning against
over-optimism.
No editorials in British or French
papers, no hint of any kind that
the£ have any interest in the repeal
of the Embargo Act as they leave
us to do our own thinking!
All this leads us to the conclu
sion, "It looks as though the allies
are in a tough spot, and we’ll have
to lend a hand before they can
win,” which would not displease
them in their own warrantable hu
man and national self-interest.
Wise embargoes, wisely adminis
tered, may help to keep us out of
war, but an America strong and
prepared is the best argument to
keep us out as a warning of what
an enemy will have to meet if we
go in.
(Helmed be North American Newipapor
Alliance, lee.)
More homes are being built In
Sweden than ever before.
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Justices Ponder
Ways to Get Into
A Corset
By the Auoclated Pres*.
ALBANY, N. Y.. Sept. 27.—Do you
step into your corset, milady, or do
you pull it over your head?
Learned judges of the appellate
division of the New York State Su
preme Court face consideration of
the subject in an action involving
the appeal of Miss Anna P. Enright,
Binghamton shop owner, from a
lower court award of $5,000 dam
ages to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P.
Welch, also of Binghamton.
Mrs. Welch claims a clerk in the
Enright shop pulled a corset over her
head and. though she protested of
pain, continued to "pull, yank and
tug.” She contends she dislocated a
vertebra, for which a lower court
granted her $4,500. Her husband re
ceived $1,000 for loss of her services.
Lower court testimony featured
a discussion of the way to get into
a corset.
Un-American
(Continued From First Page.)
presented it tp Boris Skirvsky, then
Counselor of the Russian Embassy
in Washington. Dr. Dubrowsky pro
tested. he said, that Russian secret
acrtivities here were contrary to
the recognition agreement made be
tween President Roosevlt and Rus
sian Foreign Commissar Litvinofl.
“Understandings be damned,” he
quoted Skvirsky as replying. “I can
not do anything. The G. P. U. is
everything.”
When Chairman Dies, Democrat,
of Texas inquired whether such
activities still were being practiced
in this country, Dr. Dubrowsky re
plied: “This is the nature of the
beast. You can't help it. That man
was removed. Another has come, or
will come, to take his place.”
Dr. Dubrowsky was asked whether
Russia has any secret agents in the
American postal service. He replied
he did not personally know of any.
Mailboxes Pilfered.
He pointed out, however, he had
complained to a Russian Consul
I General in New York of the pilfer
! ing of mail boxes by Soviet secret
j agents, but was told nothing could
! be done about it, that the O. G. P. U.
is “all-powerful.”
Later Chairman Dies asked Dr.
Dubrowsky if the United States
should be “dragged” into the war
i what would the situation be with
respect to Communists and bund
members in "key” positions.
"You'd have 100,000 active agents
of the enemy in the Communist
party alone,” he answered.
“Wouldn't it be more accurate to
say that you would have that many
agents or there wouid be wholesale
resignations from those organiza
tions?” inquired Representative
Voorhis, Democrat, of California.
"That’s right,” the witness re
sponded.
Dr. Dubrowsky subsequently de
clared “the greatest service to real
! democracy in the United States”
j was Stalin’s "unity with Hitler.”
Shakedowns Described.
He then gave the committee a
description of several "shakedown
methods" used by Communists to
procure funds to finance propag
anda.. One, he said, was through
Inrekiama, an organization which
followed up transactions between
Amtorg, Russian trading corpora
tion, and American concerns with a
suggestion that the companies
“cough up” a “thousand dollars or
so” for an advertisement in some
Russian publication. Since there is
no private enterprise in Russia, he
explained, the advertisements were
“useless.”
Dr. Dubrowsky at the outsel of his
testimony, amplified some of the
charges he made last week that the
U. S. S. R. confiscated claims against
American insurance companies by
beneficiaries of Russian-born Amer
ican citizens, who live in that coun
try.
He also told the committee that
i>uiuies necm, a new xom lawyer
who handled such claims for the
Iniurcollegia, a Russian credit bu
reau, was in error when he testified
last week the only time he served as
an official representative of the
Soviet government in this country
was in 1920 and 1921. when he was
retained to "wind up” the affair! of
Ludwig Martens, unrecognized So
viet Ambassador to the United
States in 1920.
"For the last 10 years he (Recht)
has been an active agent of the
Soviet in the United States,” Dr.
Dubrowsky declared.
Dr. Dubrowsky's observations led
Chairman Dies to remark:
"According to Earl Browder there
are 5,000 branches of the Communist
party in the United States, and 100
German-American Bund posts ac
cording to Fritz Kuhn. The Ogpu
agents operating in the United
States have at their command the
most elaborate espionage system In
the world.”
The witness agreed this observa
tion was correct, and added:
"The information gathered by
these agents over a period of years
is now in the hands of Hitler and
Stalin.”
The Roosevelt administration has
instructed the Justice Department
to eliminate about 2.850 "known
Communists” from Government
service, according to Chairman Dies
service, according to Chairman Dies,
who said yesterday the information
came to him from "a very authori
tative administration source.”
Mr. Dies said the Justice Depart
ment has been checking for many
months a list of persons in key Gov
ernment positions and predicted ac
tion would be taken very soon.
"The action,” Mr. Dies remarked,
“will come to a head now that Ger
many and Russia have gotten to
gether and the Communists are con
sidered as known enemies.” He re
forrftH tn flarmon.Pnceian mnn.
aggression pact and the partition of
Poland by those two countries.
Mr. Dies said he also had been in
formed that one of the country’s
leading labor leaders was going to
“purge” his organization’s “high
command” of Communists. He did
not name the labor leader.
The chairman indicated that the
committee will probably ask Con
gress to outlaw the Communist
party of the United States and the
German-American Bund. Such ac
tion. he explained, would be taken
on the grounds that “the political
activities of these organizations are
merely a masquerade for a spy
system and possible sabotage.”
Fritz Kuhn, German-American
Bund leader, summoned for a check
on earlier testimony before the com
mittee, is “afraid to reappear be
cause he knows we’ve got him,”
Mr. Dies declared. In an Interview
in New York, Mr. Kuhn said he
would no longer "co-operate” with
the committee because he had bees
"treated so unfairly."
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Summary of
Today's Star
Page. Page.
Amuse- Obituary... A-l*
ments_C-12 Radio.B-10
Comics C-10-11 Society .B-3
Editorials ...A-8 Sports _C-l-3
Finance_A-15 Woman’s
Lost, Found C-4 Page.B-8
Foreign.
Warsaw razed, 3,000 killed in last
day, says radio. Page A-l
Von Ribbentrop in Moscow; military
pact rumored. Page A-l
Simon announces drastically raised
British tax. Page A-l
Reich planes fail in sea attack,
Churchill announces. Page A-l
Germany announces Warsaw offers
to surrender. Page A-l
Soviet soldiers late at border as Ger
mans retreat. Page A-3
Europe ponders meaning of Moscow
conversations. Page A-5
Portion of Siegfried Line reported
wiped out by French. Page A-5
National
Arms embargo repeal supporters
claim 56 votes. Page A-l
Vast spy net here, Dies witness
says. Page A-l
F. B. I. aids in arranging special
Capitol protection. Page B-l
Sports
Walters is hope of Cincinanti for
flag-clincher today. Page C-l
Wondrack, new Tech coach, looks to
title grid fight. Page C-2
Duckpin boom grows as D. C. stars
swell Norfolk event. Page C-3
Editorial and Comment
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
Frederick William Wile. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Charles G. Ross. Page A-9
Miscellany
Nature's Children. Page C-4
Bedtime Story. Page C-10
Cross-Word Puzzle. Page C-10
Winning Contract. Page C-ll ,
j Uncle Ray’s Corner. Page C-ll j
! Vital Statistics. Page C-4
Service Orders. Page C-4
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'Chute Jumps Programmed
In Beacon Air Show
Parachute jumpers from Washing
| ton and nearby areas will have a
| field day at the second annual Bea
; con Air Show to be staged by pilots
j from the local and nearby flying
: fields Sunday at Beacon Field, 3
miles south of Alexandria.
, The day s program will start at
1 p.m. with a mass plane flight, to
be followed by the coronation of
Marie Morrow, queen of the air
show and a student aviatrix.
Following a “novel" parachute
jump, the spot landing contest will
be held at 2:15 p.m. At 3 p.m. Ike
"Crash" Garth will perform in an
exhibition of stunt flying. This will
be followed by another spot landing
contest.
At 5 p.m. Ray Morders of Wash- :
ington will perform a 10,000-foot
delayed parachute jump, leaving a !
trail of smoke to mark his fall. A
"bombing" contest will follow. At
6 pm. members of the Ramblers
Motorcycle Club of Washington will
demonstrate trick riding.
A pilots ball will be held the night
of the air show at one of the nearby
night clubs.
Demonstration of the refueling of;
a plane will be another feature of |
the show.
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Western Maryland Mines
; Operate at Boom Pace
, By th® Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND. Md., Sept. 27.—
Western Maryland’s coal mining1
industry, one of the largest in this!
section, has hit a boom tempo with I
increased employment and steady1
production on a flve-day week basis.
The increased activity has been
reflected in railroads serving the
fields, for more trainmen and shop
men have been put to work.
Practically all mines of the
Georges Creek and Upper Potomac
field producing higher grades of coal
are in operation, with miners work
ing seven hours a day.
The Jenkins & McCall Coal Co.
which operates two mines in the
Frostburg territory has doubled
production in recent weeks.
Increased employment was re
ported by the Cumberland and
Pennsylvania Railroad which carries
a large part of the output of the
Consolidation Coal Co., the largest
operator in this area.
The customary autumn orders are
credited with helping the upswing,
but operators say much of it is due
to the general business upturn which
has been attributed to hte European
war.
Marine Gets 5 Years
For Annapolis Holdup
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 27.—Wilbur
Russell Davis, 20, United States
marine, was sentenced today to live
years in the Federal Penitentiary at
Lewisburg, Pa., for the $2,500 holdup
of the Annapolis Bank & Trust Co.
August 9.
Sentenced was Imposed in Federal
Court by Judge W. Calvin Chesnut.
Davis previously had pleaded guilty
to the holdup.
Man Fatally Injured
In Fall on Lawn
While watering the lawn at his
home yesterday, George Pagan, 71,
of 2122 O street NW., slipped and
fell.
Treated at Emergency Hospital for
lacerations to his head and elbow
and a possible fractured skull, he
was transferred to Georgetown Hos
pital, where he died a few hours
later.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
issued a certificate of death from
natural causes. The fall contributed
to a heart condition and high blood
pressure, he said.
Appeal Stays Execution
PHOENIX, Aris., Sept. 27 OP).—
C. T. McKinney, counsel for Robert
Burgunder, has filed notice of ap
peal to the Arizona Supreme Court,
automatically staying execution of
the 22-year-old former college stu
dent. Burgunder was to have been
executed October 6 for killing Jack
Peterson, Phoenix automobile sales
man.
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Radio Orders to Ships
At Sea Described by
Witness for F. C. C.
Member of Newspaper's
Receiving Staff Tells
Of Copying Messages
Bv WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.
Radio orders from the British
and German governments to their
ships at sea on August 28 and 30,
which are alleged to have been
broadcast by Station WMCA of the
Knickerbocker Broadcasting Co. in
New York City, came to the New
York Herald-Tribune between inter
rupted press messages that were
being copied by that paper’s radio
receiving staff, it was testified today
before the Federal Communications
Commission.
The first witness in proceedings to
determine whether the license of
the New York station should be re
voked on the charge of broadcast
ing an addressed message was Stan
ley Wolf, who said he was the chief
radio operator of the New York
Herald-Tribune, which furnishes
press material to WMCA. He ex
plained that the Herald-Tribune
had a number of receiving sets, but
no transmitting station.
Mr. Wolf told the commission that
he picked up the messages after Wil
liam J. Dempsey, general counsel ol
the commission, had warned him
that he could stand on his constitu
tional rights and refuse to answer.
Mr. Wolf declined to answer, but was
directed by Chairman James Law
rence Fly to respond to the ques
tions, which gave him immunity
from possible prosecution.
oiaipraeni is nuiea uui.
When Donald Flamm, owner of
the station, took the stand, he
sought to read a prepared statement.
Chairman Fly said the time for
filing statements had expired Sep
tember 15 and he ruled it out. When
counsel sought to question Mr,
Flamm on the facilities at WMAC
Chairman Fly said that they were
not involved in this inquiry.
In opening the inquiry Chairman
Fly said that it should be under
stood that no party was entitled to
a hearing in a matter of this nature
In this case, however, he said, the
commission thought it would be
helpful to make a thorough investi
gation and conduct a hearing prior
to action in the case. A revocation
is subject to hearing.
Mr. Wolf told the commission that
the messages to both German and
British ships were in the dot-and
dash code. He added also that the
message to the German ships was
in the German language and had
to be translated before used He
explained that at the time the
messages were received free press
messages were being copied from the
British and German shore stations.
In the case of the British sending
station, he said that the official
press messages were interrupted for
the purpose of sending the orders
to the ships. In the case of the
German orders, he did not recall
whether a press dispatch was inter
rupted, but he did say that it came
in the course of a press schedule.
Not Sure as to Address.
Chairman Fly questioned the wit
ness at some length in an effort to
determine whether he had copied
actual orders to the British and
German ships or whether it was a
press notice teling that such or
ders had been issued. Mr. Wolf said
that he believed that they were
orders being broadcast to the ships.
However, he wasn't sure as to the
address on either message. He said
that when the press dispatch was
interrupted, that there were no call
letters sent out by the station, and
he Just considered that they were
addressed to all ships, in the case of
the German dispatch. He said that
the British message on August 30
came from an official government
station which sends free press mat
ter regularly for any one to copy.
He said that the Herald-Tribune op
erator was copying such matter from
the British station when interrupted
for the message to ships.
While he said the message was
addressed from the British admiral
ty to all British merchant. vessels,
he did not consider that It was an
addressed message, the contents’ of
which the law prohibits the use of
except by the addressee.
The Communications Commission
rested Its case with the presenta
tion of Mr. Wolf. Counsel for
WMCA said that it would have
four or five witnesses to put on
during the afternoon.
Naval Training Force
To Be Sent to Hawaii
Decision to send a naval detach
ment of considerable force from
West Coast stations to Hawaii “for
training" was made known at the
Navy Department today, after con
sultations among high officials.
Admiral H. R. Stark, chief of
naval operations, conferred yester
day afternoon with President Roose
velt. Afterward the commanding
officer of the Navy said he went
over general defense problems.
At the Navy Department it was
explained that the temporary trans
fer of a number of ships to Pearl
Harbor. Hawaii, had been planned
for some time before the European
war broke out and had no bearing
on the world situation. It was de
scribed as a training measure and
a further move in the partial de
centralization of the Navy, which is
a general policy at present.
The number or designation of the
vessels to be transferred were not
made known. The detachment will
be "a pretty fair-sized force,” a
department official said.
The neutrality patrol will take
other ships, both from Pacific and
Atlantic bases and a number of
laid-up destroyers, which are being
recommissioned, it was pointed out.
Berwyn Man Dies;
Colored Man Sought
Andrew Perakasky, 56, of Berwyn,
Md., died today at University Hos
pital in Baltimore of head injuries
inflicted, police said, by a colored
man employed on the same road
construction Job in Howard County
near Laurel.
Mr. Perakasky was taken to the
hospital yesterday by his son
Charles. Meanwhile, the sheriff
of Howard Conty and State police
were searching for Mr. Perakasky*s
assailant, said to have fled.
Authorities were told Mr. $era
kasky was attacked unexpectedly,
following a brief argument with the
colored man, and struck with a
length of pipe.
MILLSAP, TEX.—FOOTBALL SPECIAL WRECKED^Here is the twisted wreckage of the engine
of a Texas & Pacific special train bearing Texas Christian University football fans to California
which was demolished by an explosion. Two trainmen were killed.
Traffic Light Is Urged
As Check on Speeding
Placing a traffic light at New
Hampshire avenue and Farragut
strpet N.W. was urged by the Hamp
shire Heights Citizens’ Association
last night in an effort to check
speeding automobiles between Ken
nedy and Decatur streets. The reso
lution was presented by J. Leon
Bord, chairman of the Police and
Firemen Committee.
A plan looking to District telf
government was submitted by Don
R. Lamborne of the Taxation and
Suffrage Committee, who suggested
that a District reorganization plan
be drawn up which would meet with
the approval of the majority of the
citizens’ associations. This would
be put to a straw vote of Districi
residents so that the city could pre
sent to Congress an idea of govern
ment desired by a majority of Wash
ingtonians.
Suggested revisions of the asso
ciation's constitution and by-laws
were read and are to be voted on at
the October meeting.
The Membership Committee re
ported that 34 new applications for
membership had been accepted.
A motion that the Hampshire
! Heights Citizens’ Association go on
record as approving revision of the
: neutrality bill and advocating the
cash-and-carry clause was defeated.
Fire Chief Stephen T. Porter spoke
on the need for fire prevention in
the home to keep the fire engine*
"off your street” and that with the
week of October 8 being Fire Pre
vention Week it would be well to
check electrical wiring, heating sys
tems and clean out the cellars and
attics. He gave an actual demon
stration with fire alarm apparatu*
on how to send in an alarm and
what happens when the alarm is
pulled.
The Association met in Barnard
| School.
Senator Glass, Bronchitis
Victim, Improving
Senator Carter Glass, Democrat,
of Virginia, confined to his apart
ment with an attack of bronchitis,
was ‘somewhat improved” this
morning, his physician said.
Dr. Walter A. Bloedorn said the
81-year-old Senator passed a com
fortable night and that his tempera
ture. which had hovered around 100
degrees, had dropped slightly.
The physician said Senator Glass
was showing the same fight that had
enabled him to throw off serious ill
nesses in the past.
President Roosevelt today asked
his personal physician. Dr. Ross T.
Mclntire, to inquire about Senator
Glass’ condition and report back to
him.
Senator Glass was not feeling well
Saturday, but insisted on going to
the Capitol. He was ordered to bed
yesterday when the bronchial trou
ble was discovered.
Passengers Uninjured
As Bus Catches Afire
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LURAY, Va„ Sept. 27.—Thirty
five passengers on a southbound
Pan-American Line bus, many of
whom were en route from New York
to Miami, lost their baggage but
escaped injury early today when
the bus caught fire near Panorama
on Skyline Drive.
The passengers were sheltered in
a tearoom at Panorama for about
three hours until another bus could
be dispatched to the scene. It was
thought the fire started from a
motor overheated from climbing the
mountain roads.
Teachers Cautioned
To Guard Neutrality
By the Associated Press.
A committee of the National Edu
cation Association acted to guard
the neutrality of teachers in Ameri
can schools.
It announced that 100 teachers in
all parts of the country would be
asked to serve as special advisors on
the problem.
"There is no place in the American
classroom for propaganda,’’ declared
Dr. W. P. King of the Kentucky Edu
cation Association, chairman of the
committee. "In the present emer
gency it should be the practice of
every teacher to protect young peo
ple from emotional response to the
claims and counter-claims of bel
ligerents.”
Quizzes to Pit U. S.
Workers and Newsmen
Government employes and news
men will battle in two “quiz contests”
to be held as part of the Play
house radio programs on October
25 and 26. it was announced today by
Lee H. Shugar. the director. The
questioning will be directed by Lee
Everett and Gordon Hlttenmark,
announcers for WMAL and WRC.
The Playhouse is sponsored by the
Agricultural Department local of the
National Federation of Federal Em
ployes.
Applications for places on the
“quiz” teams may be made to Mr.
Shugar at T10 Fourteenth street N.W.
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J. B. Hammer of Dallas, fireman. Is shown near the tangled
mass of steel that was the engine. Hammer was slightly hurt.
—A. P. Wirephotos.
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Texas Christian Fans'
Train is Wrecked
By the Associated Press.
MILLSAP, Tex., Sept. 27—A
Texas and Pacific train bearing
Texas Christian University football
fans to Los Angeles was wrecked
near here last night, killing the
engineer and conductor, and injur
ing the fireman. None of the pas
sengers was reported injured seri
ously.
The dead: Leonard J. Perry, en
gineer. and N. McNeely, conductor,
both of Port Worth.
J. B. Hammer, 55. of Dallas, fire
man. and four other members of
: the train crew were injured.
More than 100 persons, including
the Texas Christian University
Band, were aboard the special,
which was to have picked up the
Texas Christian University football
team at Sweetwater, Tex. The en
gine and baggage cars were almost
demolished. The diner, several
fhillmans and a lounge car turned
on their sides.
Charles Blakney, a farmer, whose
home was a few yards from the
right of way where the wreck oc
curred, said. "The engine seemed to
leap into the air and explode.”
--
Compensation Boards
Join Forces on Reports
The Maryland and District of Co
lumbia Unemployment Compensa
tion oBards have concluded an agree
ment wrereby the work records of
employes will be consolidated with
one board, regardless of place of
residence, it was announced today.
Under the new plan all employers,
contractors and other industrialists
having a base of operations in Mary
land and working in the District will
report all continuous employes to the
Maryland Compensation Board, and
all temporary employes to the Dis
trict agency.
The plan will work both ways.
District employers reporting their
continuous or permanent employes
to the local board and their tempo
rary employes to the Maryland
agency when the work is done in
Maryland.
The agreement was reached to
obviate misuderstandings and to ex
pedite the payment of unemploy
ment compensation claims.
Claims for benefits received by the
Maryland Unemployment Compen
sation board totaled 14,303 for the
week ending September 16.
This was the smallest number for
any week since unemployment com
pensation began in 1938. Of the
claims filed during that period, only
416 were new claims, a small de
crease from the preceding week.
Dr. McCartney to Spegk
Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney, pas
tor of the Covenant-First Presbyte
rian Church, who with his family re
cently returned to the United States
after a 5,000-mlle trip through Eu
rope, will discuss his experiences at
8 o’clock tonight at the church
chapel.
rc Driving la a reap—ajbfllty. Treat
4
Film Industry Costs
Too High, Says Mannix
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 27— E. J.
Mannix, who said he spoke for all
motion picture producers, declared
today that reduction in costs "is the
only road by which the industry can
be saved."
In a statement referring to the
! 10 per cent wage increase given 12
000 members of the International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Em
ployes, Mr. Mannix said:
"The action taken was not volun
tary; it was forced.
"Knowing that a strike in the mo
tion picture industry at this critical
time would bring economic disaster
to upward of 200.000 workers, and
might spell ruin to the lndustrv it
self. the producers felt they had no
choice but to yield.”
Rescue Ships Seek
30 Boats Missing
| After Coast Storm
Death Toll of More
Than 100 Feared in
California
By th* Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27.—Pair
weather and calmer seas came to the
aid today of a fleet of rescue ships,
seeking 30 or more pleasure boats
missing after an unprecedented
storm. Fears grew, however, that
the death toll would exceed 100.
Known or believed dead were 38
persons, 24 of them missing after
the fishing boat Spray capsized near
Oxnard at the storm’s height Sun
day night. At least 13 other vessels
! were wrrecked.
Two occupants of the Spray were
rescued. Sheriff's deputies said one
i ot three bodies recovered in the
! vicinity was known to be that of a
i passenger. Mrs. Charlotte King of
i Los Angeles. The others, bodies of
j men, were unidentified.
< uiae luriuinea.
A woman's purse, one of three
which floated ashore, was identified
as that of Mrs. Mildred Curie of
Arlington, Kans. She and her hus
band, Lester, were passengers on the
craft.
Eleven Coast Guard cutters and
patrol boats searched coves and in
lets for possible survivors. Maneu
vers took 101 vessels of the United
States fleet to sea, but all were in
structed to watch closely for vic
tims or survivors. Four destroyers
remained behind to aid the Coast
Guard.
A gambling ship brought good
luck to seven persons, including a
70-year-old woman. Their disabled
ketch was blown alongside the float
ing Casino Texas, closed several
weeks ago by law-enforcement offi
cers. A caretaker took the occupants
aboard and put them ashore after
them own craft drifted away.
100 Marooned at Resort.
United States forest rangers re
, ported 100 persons marooned but in
i n° danger at. the mountain resort
| Camp Baldy. where heavy rains
washed out the only highway to
the valley.
The storm, coming on the heels
of a week of record hot weather,
brought 5 82 inches of rain to Los
Angeles in 24 hours. Thousands
seeking week end relief from heat
which reached 107 degrees, were
caught at sea or In the mountains
when the tropical downpour and
high winds struck.
Damage estimates, exclusive of
agriculture, ran to $1,000,000, largely
along the seacoast. Truck crops
suffered moderately, but ranchers
said benefits to the multi-million
dollar citrus industry from early
rains would offset the losses.
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Steel Mill Equipment
Boom Is Reported
By the Aisoeitted Pres*.
PITTSBURGH. Sept. 27. —The
steel mill equipment industry is ex
periencing a “boom" in orders
similar to that in steel, K. C
Gardner, vice president of the
United Engineering and Foundry
Co., has reported.
“The steel industry is tackling a
problem which remained unfinished
during the period of wide strip mill
construction. ’ Mr. Gardner ex
plained. “Many steel company
budgets at that time did not include
i ^he.,.fH11 complement of finishing
i facilities at the 'other end’ of these
big strip mills. This gave rise to
reports the Nation's capacity for
production of wide strip was ex
cessive.
“These companies now are engaged
in programs to expand their facilities
to produce a wide variety of high
grade flat steel products after the
strip leaves the hot mills. A con
siderable volume of processing and
auxiliary mill equipment seems like
ly to be bought.”
Mr. Gardner said many foreign
: interests are seeking to reserve
production space for mill equipment,
but that all foreign business is being
: taken subject to regulations which
may be laid down by the United
' States Government.
Weather Report
(Furnished by the United Btttes Westher Bureau.)
District of Columbia—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, slightly
warmer tomorrow; gentle northerly winds, becoming variable.
Maryland—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, except showers on
the coast early tonight; cooler in extreme southeast portion tonight
warmer tomorrow.
Virginia—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, except showers on
the coast early tonight; somewhat cooler in south portion tonight; slightly
warmer in the interior tomorrow.
West Virginia—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler
tonight; warmer tomorrow in northwest portion.
e .V uis.um.iira iiiau m"vpn innino tirpr '
southeastern Louisiana Tuesday dissipated
?v*r Mississippi and Alabama, but pressure
is still relatively low this morning over
Georgia, and another center has developed
°Y£rJndian" Fort Wayne 1 00* x millibars
inches), and Atlanta. Ga . 1.010.6
millibars (20.84 inches) A disturbance oi
considerable Intensity is moving ranldly
southeastward over the Northern Rocky
Mountain region. Havre. Mont., hut .3 milli
bars (28.45 Inches). An area ol high pres
sure is moving rapidly eastward over New
England. Greenville. Me.. 1.023.1 millibars
L, inches), and pressure is relatively
blib along the Pacific Coast and over
Missouri and portions of the adlacent
?lates. Roseburg. Ores. 1017.fi millibars
nioS5 1P,?1^e5,• and Concordia. Kans.. 1.
013 2 millibars (28.82 inchest. Ram has
JS'len in the Atlantic and East Gulf States,
tne Lake region. Minnesota and North Da
kota, and showers have occurred at seat
ed!*®?!. points in the Southern Plateau and
southern Rock* Mountain regions. The
S^'ber has become pooler from Maine to
Northern Virginia, while the temperature
haa risen in the South Atlantic States, the
Plain* States, the Northern Rocky Moun
'aib region, the upper Mississippi Valley
and the Lake region.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers elear
M teW7odaPy0t0m‘C 8li*htlT muddy
Revert ter Last 84 Hoars.
v_„, ._ Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
i S m' —. Si 2«88
P p.m.____ 72 20 04.
Midm*ht «« IsgJ
Today—
&4 a.m. - fin ' 28 04
am.- 59 28.83
oon - 62 29.80
Heeerd ter Last 94 Heart.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 86, i:30 p.m. yesterday, year
MO. 8ft.
Lowest. 58. 8 a.m. today. Year age. 80.
Record Temperature* This Year.
Humidity for Last 94 Heart.
(From noon yoitorday to noon today.)
Highest. 88 per cent, at 3 a.m. today.
Lowest. 40 per cent, at 1:46 p.m. yes
terday.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Oeedetio Survey.)
_ Today. Tomorrow.
High- 8:58 a.m. 7\37 a.m.
few . 1:36 a.m. 2:20 a.m.
High - 7:22 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
Low.. 1:59 p.m. 2:80 p.m.
The Bun and Moan.
„ , Rise*. Seta.
dm. today __ 6:69
Bub. tomorrow_ 6:00
Moon, today_ 6:88 p.m.
«£««& sSfi^suSeT *
1
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Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in lnche* In tha
Capital (current month to date):
Month 19.19. Aver. Record
January- 3 41 3.55 7.*3 37
February- 5 71 3 27 0.04 '84
March - 2.89 3.75 8.84 '91
April -3 76 3.27 9.13 '89
May - 41 3.70 10 89 '89
June - 4 45 4.13 10 94 ’00
July -2.01 4.71 10.63 '88
August - 3 22 4 01 14.41 '28
September _ 6 62 3.24 17.45 '34
October _ _ 2,84 8 81 '37
November _. ... 2.37 8 69 '89
December _ _ 3.32 7.69 '01
Weather in Varlona Cities.
Temp. Rain
Barom. H'ch. Low. (all. Weather.
Abllene._ '.’9 77 90 69 .. Cloudy
Albany ... 30 09 55 41 0 07 Rain
Atlanta — 29.01 71 69 1.50 Rain
Atlan City 29 94 76 81 0.03 Cloudy
Baltimore. 29.94 84 58 0.01 Ralr.
Birm'gham 29 08 78 79 1 04 cloudy
Bismarck _ 29.94 68 34 Cloudy
Boston . . 30.10 72 45 0.30 Rain
Buffalo _ 29 86 49 39 0.08 Cloudy
Charleston 29.91 78 72 0.48 Cloudy
Chicago .. 20.88 52 48 0.12 Cloudy
Cincinnati 29 80 75 54 Wear
Cleveland. 29.83 52 49 0 72 Ram
Columbia. 29 88 78 71 3.00 Rain
Denver... 29.77 77 45 Clear
Detroit- 29.SO 51 43 Raln
El Paso .. 29.77 86 67 ... clear
Galveston. 29 80 92 73 Cloudy
Helena... 29.82 flp 69 Clear
Huron . 29.77 47 88 Clear
Ind'napolls 29.80 04 60 Foggy
Jacks'nvtlla 29.97 83 74 9.1# Cloudy
Kans City 29.88 83 48 ... Clear
L. Angelea 29.97 73 61 Clear
Louisville. 29.83 84 00 Clear
2000 8s 78 --- Cloudy
Mpls-at. P. 29 74 59 44 0 01 Clear
N. Orleani 29.91 84 74 0.01 Cloudy
New York. 30.06 73 60 0 01 Ram
Norfolk 3000 87 71 0.04 Cloudy
Okla City 29.86 74 58 ... Cloudy
Omaha... 29.88 67 44 ... Cloudy
Phlla- 30.00 79 54 Rain
Phoenix 29.88 88 82 ... Clear
Pittsburgh 29 83 80 82 ... Cloudy
PauthMe. 30 24 64 37 0.25 Cloudy
PlndOrg. 30.03 84 54 ... Cloudy
Raleigh ._ 20.88 79 K9 0.73 Rain
St. Louis. 29.86 76 52 ... Cloudy
8 Lake C. 29.83 76 65 ... Cloudy
S. Antonio 29.00 91 81 _ . Clear
f«n Diego 29.97 74 60 Cloudy
f. Fr cisco 39.03 69 59 ... Cloudy
Seattle... 29.94 78 63 ... Cloudy
Spokana.. 29.65 79 58 ... Cloudy
Tamp. ... 30.00 87 78 ... cloudy
WASH..D.C. 29.94 86 58 0.0& Rain
Foreign Station!.
(Noon. Greenwich time, today 1
Stations. Temperature, weather
Horta (Fayal). Aaores.. 89 Cloudy
(Current observations.)
San Juan. Puerto Rico 81 Cloudy
Havana. Cuba -- Tv fiowdy
Colon. Canal Zona__78 Cloudy