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From the United states We«titer Bureau report.
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—-1_ _____ THREE CENTS.
Snips Transfer
Report Drafted
For Roosevelt
No Acceptance of
Responsibility Seen
Under Panama Flag
BULLETIN.
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (/Pi.—
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey
offieials said today at least six
of its tankers had been trans
ferred from the United States
to the Panama flag in the past
six weeks and that 15 ships in all
eventually will make the ehange.
In the face of outspoken opposi
tion from Secretary of State Hull
and others, the Maritime Commis
sion prepared for President Roose
velt today a report which was said
to hold that transfer of United
States ships to registry in Pan
ama would not involve accept
ance of any responsibility by this
Government.
Earlier this week the commission
decided to approve transfer of eight
vessels of the United States Lines
in order that the1, might continue
operating to belligeient ports closed
to them by the Neutrality Act. At
the request of the President, who
sought time to investigate the situa
tion himself, final action was de
layed.
Meanwhiie, Secretary Hull ex
pressed his opposition to the uian as
negativing the shipping restrictions
of the Neutrality Act. Senator
Borah. Republican, of Idaho, and
other Senators likewise voiced op
position and National Maritime
Union officials came out against th<
transfer.
The United States Lines con
tended. however, that unless the
transfer was made it would simply
have to tie up its vessels which
were in European service before the
Neutrality Act became effective.
Points Likely to Be Stressed.
Th Maritime Commission's report
Was expected to be handed to Mr.
Roosevelt when he returns from
Hyde Park. N. Y.. tomorrow7. It
will make these points, informed
persons said:
1. That the eight ships which
would be transferred are wholly
owned by the United States Lines.
2. That the proposed tarnsfer
canno' involve any claims against
the United States Government, nor
involve the Government in any re
sponsibility.
3. That the commission has au
thority under the 1916 Shipping Act
to pass on the lines' application for
transfer of registry.
If the ships do sail under the
Panama flag, it is expected to be
with foreign officers and crews, since
the Neutrality Act forbids American
citizens to travel in belligerent
waters.
Advertise in London.
In London, according to the Asso
ciated Press, the United States Lines
advertised today for "deck officers,
engineers, electricians, machinists
and chief stewards. " and officials
there looked on the dislocation of
service due to the Neutrality Act as
temporary.
Mr. Roosevelt said at Hyde Park
yesterday that he had asked the
commission to hold up action until
he could investigate personally the
relation of the proposed transaction
to national defense and maritime
competition.
Not Informed on Hull View.
Mr. Roosevelt said he did not believe
neutrality questions w'ere involved,
pointing out that the United States
could not be involved in an inter
national incident if one of the
transferred vessels was sunk while
flying the Panamanian flag.
The President said he had not
been informed then of Secretary
Hull’s objections to the proposal.
Mr. Hull had voiced his opposition
at a press conference here, saying
he wanted to preserve absolute in
tegrity of the Neutrality Act so there
could not be even the appearance of
the Government taking any course
that might negative its policies.
Senator Borah, calling the proposal
"manifestly a subterfuge” to evade
Neutrality Act bans against American
ships entering belligerent ports and
danger zones, promptly took issue
with Mr. Roosevelt's comment that
neutrality questions are not in
volved.
"Suppose Panama, in spite of her
great navy, fails to protect these
ships and they are sunk?” Senator
(See SHIPPING? Page~A-12.)
Heavier Artillery Action
In West, Nazis Report '
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 8.—Slight increase
in military action on the western
front was noted today by the Ger
man high command in a commu
nique which said there had been
“somewhat livelier artillery and
patrol action at several points in the
west."
The same communique, summing
Up aerial warfare during the first
week in November, said nine enemy
planes had been shot down and
listed German losses at five planes.
The press paid scanty and scorn
ful attention to yesterday's discus
sion of war aims by Lord Halifax, the
British foreign secretary.
The news service DNB observed,
“The threadbare charges about Ger
man brute force and failure to keep
our word" induced listeners to sleep.
Much space was given to Soviet
Russia's celebration of the revolu
tions 22d anniversary.
Meanwhile. Hans Frank, minister
without portfolio, arrived in Kra
kow and assumed his new duties as
governor general of conquered Polish
territory.
German Freighter Captured
LONDON, Nov. 8 The 7,603
ton German freighter Uhenfels has
been captured and taken to Free
town. Sierra Leone, British colony
on the west coast of Africa, it was
disclosed today.
m a.
Scant Hope Held for Success
Of Belgian-Dutch Peace Offer
British Promise 'Careful Consideration'
As French Predict Emphatic 'No'
BULLETIN.
MUNICH, Nov. 8 {&).—Adolf
Hitler tonight addressed his “old
guard," the Nazi veterans who
marched against the guns of the
German Republican Army in 1923
in the ill-fated "beer hall” putsch
in which the first attempt was
made to establish a Nazi regime.
By the Associated Press.
Proferred mediation by King Leo
! poid of the Belgians and Queen Wil
helmina of the Netherlands raised
only scant hopes today for European
peace.
British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain told the House of Com
mons that the peace appeal “is re
ceiving the careful consideration of
his majesty’s government, but I am
not prepared to make any statement
upon it today."
Before the Prime Minister spoke
authoritative sources said Britain
would consider the mediation offer
of the Belgian and Netherlands I
rulers in consultation with the
French and Polish governments be
fore replying.
An emphatic “no” to the peace
overtures was predicted in unofficial
Paris quarters and by the French
press.
Authoritative German circles said
a German reply had been rendered
practically unnecessary by British
Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax's
"accursedly prompt" speech last
night The Germans evidently took
the Halifax broadcast as a reply to
and rejection of the offer of king
Leopold and Queen Wllhelmina, at
thouph copies of the speech were
furnished the press hours before the
offer was announced.
Nazi ouarters likened Lord Hali
fax's speech to a “spontaneously dis
charged torpedo.”
The British foreign secretary re
peated a broad outline of war aims
that heretofore have awakened no
sign of welcome in Germany.
He said the allies were fighting
'See PEACE, Page A-5.)
California and Ohio
Reject Pension Plans
By Big Majorities
Pari-Mutuel System
Approved in New York;
Tammany Scores
By the Associated Press.
Pension plans combining increased
grants to the aged with unorthodo>
methods of raising the money were
rejected yesterday by topheavy ma
jorities in California and Ohio
In other off-year elections New
York voters sanctioned pari-mutue
race betting and gave Tammany
control of county jobs, while Ken
tucky chose a Democratic Governor
None of the contests for office helc
Nation-wide political significance.
Ohio ballots snowed under the
pension proposal advocated by Her
bert S. Bigelow. Cincinnati clergy
man. to assure income of $50 a
month to those past 60. The plan
which called for a State income tas
and a levy on iluable real estate
was defeated by a margin of more
than 3 to 1
Returns from all of 8.589 precincts
gave 460.537 for the pension plan
1 and 1.527.577 against it.
I New Proposal Announced.
Opponents contended that the vote
I showed Ohio "would not be deluded
by suggestions of this kind," but Mr
Bigelow announced a new proposal
i even before all the ballots killing the
i old one were counted.
"I will continue the fight until we
win," the 69-year-old preacher-poli
| iician said, adding that he would
! trv to put a variant of the rejectee
plan before the voters next year.
The California returns buried the
"ham and eggs" pension program by
a tremendous margin, but there, too
sponsors said a further fight was
planned. The proposition would
have paid the unemployed past 5C
up to $30 a week, and would have
been financed by a system of State
script.
The proposal trailed in every
county, even Los Angeles County—
its birthplace—turning in almost a
2-to-l total against it.
Reports from 10.443 of 11.165 pre
cincts showed 940.123 votes for the
plan and 1.826.661 against.
m'l.m inovcmrm riannea.
Pension leaders declar'd they
would start a recall movement
against Gov. Culbert L. Olson, who
fought the plan. They contended
that he had been elected by "h: m
and eggers" last year.
Gov. Olson said (he plan's defeat
would help his administration plan
the employment of "all persons will
ing and able to work at useful and
productive employment.”
Voters’ interest centered on contests
for public office in other States
where elections were held.
In Kentucky, Gov. Keen Johnson.
Democrat, was elected to the office
he reached through the recent resig
nation of Gov. A. B. Chandler, who
entered the Senate. His Republican
opponent was Circuit Judge King
Swope.
A Tammany triumph in count\
races in New York City marked
a change of sentiment in th(
metropolis, where the organizatior
had been losing in recent years.
Hall Win« House Rare.
New York Republicans were vic
torious, however, in an Upstate con
gressional race. Edwin Arthur Hall
Republican, defeated John V. John
son, Democrat and American Laboi
Party, in a contest to succeed the
late Representative Lord. Republi
can.
Alfred E. Smith, jr„ son of the
former New York Governor and
1928 Democratic candidate for the
presidency, will not know ine out
come of his first bid for public office
for perhaps 10 days.
Young Smith, strongly supporlec
• See ELECTIONS, Page ~A-3J
Harvard Cancels
Browder Speech
j Bj the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 8.—A.
I spokesman for Harvard Universitj
announced today the university hac
i canceled a speech to be made bj
Earl Browder, American Communisi
leader, before a student society be
j cause he had been indicted by Fed
J eral authorities.
The spokesman said Jerome D
Greene, secretary of the Harvarc
Corp., gave the John Reed Societj
authorty last October to have Brow
der speak November 15. but th(
authority was withdrawn aftei
Browder was indicted for using t
pseudonym on a passport.
The society, describing itself as i
non-political organization composec
of students interested in "the stud>
of scientific socialism.” last nighl
protested the university's action
A
Court Backs N.L.R.B.,
Orders Republic Steel
To Re-employ 5,000
Only 40 Strikers Exempt
Corporation Blamed
For 1937 Trouble
BACKGROUND—
Out of costly and bloody strikes
at Republic Steels plants at
Youngstown. Massilon. Canton,
Warren and Cleveland. Ohio,
drew a National Labor Relations
Board order directing the cor
poration to rehire the striking
employes within five days after
they applied for reinstatement—
or pay them wages from that
time. Some were returned to
work. Others were not. The
corporation contended that on
"acts of lawlessness" during the
strike they forfeited the right
to reemployment.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 8—In a
unanimous decision, the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals up
held today a National Labor Rela
| tions Board order placing on Repub
i lie Steel Corp. the blame for the
bloody •'little steel" strikes of 1937
and directing the corporation to re
hire 5.000 Ohio workers who were
, involved.
The 16-page decision, written by
Judge Albert B Maris, held:
1— That 40 of those ordered rein
stated in the board's original order
need not be re-emploved because
they participated in what the court
considered extreme violence. This
was the one exception to the board's
ruling.
2— That the little steel strike at
five Ohio plants was not a sit-down,
but resulted from moves of the cor
poration to thwart efforts of the
Steel Workers' Organizing Commit
tee to organize its employes.
Back Wages Appeal Planned.
Corporation attorneys already
have indicated they would appeal to
the United States Supreme Court
from a ruling which would require
payment of back wages—estimated
by company counsel to total $7,500,
000—to strikers not re-employed five
days after application for reinstate
ment. That payment was directed
in the board's original order made
October 18. 1938.
The Court of Appeals refused to
sustain the corporation's contention
that many of the employes forfeited
the right to re-employment by par
ticipating in disorders in which
many were injured, property was
damaged, employes were kept bar
<See REPUBLIC, Page A-4J
Bulletin
| Mrs. Agnes Krieger, about 60,
and her daughter, Agnes Krieger,
in her early 30s, either jumped or
fell from the mother's third-floor
home at the De Soto Apartment,
1300 Massachusetts avenue N.W.,
shortly after 2 p.m. this after
noon.
The mother was killed outright
and the daughter was rushed td
Emergency Hospital in serious
condition.
One Is Killed
As 250 Raid
And Seize Mine
Coal Head Shot When
Armed Men Take Over
Kentucky Workings
By the Associated Press.
GREENVILLE, Ky„ Nov. 8.—One
man was killed and the president of
a coal corporation wounded today in
a clash at a coal mine 15 miles west
of Greenville in which 250 to 300
armed men were reported to have
taken possession of the mine prop
erty.
Several hours later the group still
held the property, company officials
said. Greenville is the county seat
of Muhlenberg County in Western
Kentucky.
Robert Brown, 54. of White City,
Ky., construction superintendent for
the Hart Coal Corp., was killed.
Brent Hart, president of the com
pany. which operates other mines in
adjacent Hopkins Countv. was
wounded in the left thigh, and there
were five bullet holes in his coat.
Mine Not Yet a Producer.
The mine, a new operation, is not
yet producing coal. Company offi
cials said there were men inside the
shaft and about 25 outside, preparing
for the beginning of operations soon.
The company planned to run the 1
coal from Muhlenberg County to
the corporation tipple at White City,
2*2 miles away in Hopkins County.
Muhlenberg County mines operate
under labor agreements with the
| United Mine Workers of America
I 'C. I. O.i, while most of those in
Hopkins County have contracts with
the Progressive Miners’ Union
(A. F. L.i.
Boarding House Riddled.
U. W. Powell, sales manager of the
: company, said he was informed the
armed group came from nearby
woods and was met by W A Vinson,
general superintendent. Mir Vinson
was searched and Haydn Webster,
a guard, was disarmed. Mr. Powell
said.
Company officers said the shots
that wounded Mr. Hart were fired
as he stood near an employes' board
ing house that was under construc
tion. The men then riddled the
house with bullets.
Several men were reported beaten
with pistol butts.
Sheriff Peck O'Neill and his
deputies were en route to the scene.
Roosevelt Gives Talk
Tt) Victory Paraders
By ihp Associated Press
HYDE PARK. N. Y.. Nov. 8 —
President Roosevelt spoke from the
front porch of his home la«t night
to a torchlight parade of 300 Demo
crats celebrating local party election
victories.
Accompanied by a drug and bugle
cprps. they drove to the Roosevelt
estate after learning they had suc
ceeded in re-electing Elmer Van
Wagner yesterday to a third term as
town supervisor. They also put Cecil
Marshall in as superintendent of
: highways.
The President congratulated Mr.
Van Wagner and Mr. Marshall and
said he hoped “we are going to have
more of these parties in the days to
come.”
t In jovial mood while voting yes
terday, the President joshed with
members of the Election Board and
! suggested that it “be sure not to
vote the gravestones.”
! In the rest of Dutchess County,
Democrats found little in the elec
tion results to cheer about. In all
races for county offices, including
that of sheriff, Republican candi
dates w'on.
■
U. S. Lines Swamped
By British Seamen
Seeking Jobs
Bv the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 8—British
seamen swamped the United
States Lines office today in re
sponse to an advertisement for
officers and men to serve on ves
sels between the United States,
France and Great Britain.
‘So quick was the response
that we had to ask the mari
time organizations not to send
any more men,” an official of
the lines said.
Summary of Today's Star
•Page. Page.
Amuse- Obituary A-12
merits B-12-13 Radio ... A-16
Comics B-18-19 Sports . A-14-16
Editorials . A-10 Society _B-3
Finance A-17 Woman's
Lost, Found B-13 Page _A-13
Foreign.
Hope is scant for success of peace
move. Page A-l
Unidentified planes drop leaflets in
Paris region. Page A-2
British cabinet changes loom in new
Parliament session. Page A-5
Basis being laid in Shanghai for
U. S.-Japanese talks. Page A-5
National
Tammany stages comeback in New
York election. Page A-3
Quiet end to House W. P. A. inquiry
now held likely. Page A-2
Pennsylvania G. O. P. sweeps all
State-wide races. Page A-4
Pari-mutuel betting wins in New
York, 2 to 1. Page A-4
Hull defends trade program in 5,000
word letter to Capper. Page A-8
Washington and Vicinity.
Green ousts Jesse in Arlington;
power bonds beaten. Page A-l
Traffic officials declare war on "un
safe" automobiles. Page B-l
Changes in location of D. C. fire sta
tions recommended. Page B-l
•
j Seal reorganization plan would pay !
city heads $12,000. Page B-l
Three children are hurt in traffic
accidents here. Page B-l
Editorial and Comment
This and That. PageA-10
Answers to Questions. PageA-10
Letters to The Star. PageA-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Alsop and Kintner. Page A-ll
Frederic William Wile. Page A-ll
Charles G. Ross. Page A-ll
Jay Franklin. Page A-ll
Sports
Irish leaders promise keen duel in
Terp-Hoya game. Page A-14
Texas Aggies may spurn Cotton
Bowl for rival game. Page A-14
Gonzaga, St. John's for renewal of
gridiron feud. Page A-15
Shaughnessy plan for majors won't
work, says Mack. Page A-15
Redskins, Injury-ridden, fearful of
Brooklyn Dodgers. Page A-16
Miscellany
City News in Brief. Page A-9
Service Orders. Page B-fi
Vital Statistics. Page B-13
Nature's Children. Page B-13
Bedtime Story. Page B-18
Cross-Word Puzzle. Page B-18
Letter-Out. Page B-l$
Winning Contract. PageB-19
Uncle Ray's Comer. PageB-19
*
Accidental Blast Sank
British Submarine,
Churchill Reveals
Navy's Losses Heavier
Than All Other Allied
Forces Combined
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Nov. 8.—The loss of the
British submarine Oxley by acci
dental explosion was disclosed to the
House of Commons today by Win
ston Churchill, first lord of the ad
miralty.
Mr. Churchill also reported that
the British Navy alone had suffered
greater loss of life in this war than
all French and British services com
bined
However, he added in his weekly
statement on progress of the war at
sea. "a fairly sound, conservative
estimate” of German submarine
losses was between two and four a
week.
Germany, he asserted, was ca
pable of producing two new sub
marines a week, and he expecieA
Britain ‘must face 100 U-boats m
January less whatever sinkings have
occurred.”
Mr. Churchill did not disclose
where or when the Oxley was s unk
or what, if any loss of life was suf
fered The Oxley's normal comple
ment was 54.
Britain's known dead in sea war
fare total at least 1.340. including 515
aboard the sunken aircraft carrier
Courageous 810 on the battleship
Royal Oak and 15 killed in German
air raids on the Firth of Forth. In
dications are that even the French
Army has suffered much smaller
losses.
'Since the outbreak of the war.”
Mr. Churchill said, "one of our ub
marines. H. M. S. Oxley, has been de
stroyed by an accidental explosion
in circumstances which made its
publication inadvisable at the time.”
The Oxley was the first subma
rine loss announced By the British
since the war began. Built in 192G-7
for the Australian Navy, she was
presented to the British Navy in
1931 by Australia as an economy
measure.
Mr. Churchill declared three times
as many British hunting craft were
at work now as at the outbreak of
the war.
"What I told the House under
much reserve six weeks ago I can
now repeat with more assurance—
namely that we are gaining a definite
mastery over the U-boat attack."
Mr. Churchill attributed the loss
of the battleship Royal Oak at
Scapa Flow to the fact the naval
base's defenses were incomplete.
Dealing with the additional men
ace of the surface raider, Mr.
Churchill said "it is certain that
one, and possibly two, of the so
called pocket battleships has been
out upon the Atlantic trade routes
during the last six weeks.”
Raiders ’“Success Minimized.
Minimizing the successes of sur
face raiders to date, Mr. Churchill
said “only two ships, aggregating
10,000 tons, have been sunk so far
by surface action compared to 212,
000 tons by U-boats."
"When we remember how seri
ously the outbreak of these raiders
was viewed before the war began
it is a matter of some reassurance
that they have been at large for
some considerable time without
any appreciable damage or incon
venience to our trade."
He warned, however, that the
“element of risk is never absent
from us or indeed from the enemy"
and summed up by saying “Up to
the present not only has the U-boat
campaign been controlled, but also
the attack by surface raiders, both
by warships or armed merchant
men, has not developed in any
serious way.”
“It seems to me a wonderful thing
that when France is making so
great an effort upon land she should
at the same time offer to the al
lied cause so powerful a reinforce
ment upon the sea.
"We shall suffer, and we shall suf
fer continually, but by perseverance
and by taking measures on the larg
est scale I feel no doubt that in the
end we shall break their hearts.”
He declared one of the most valu
able war prizes captured recently
was taken by the aircraft carrier
Ark Royal which German radio re
ports have “sunk so many times.”
Mr. Churchill's report on naval
activities was his weekly statement
to Parliament on the progress of the
war at sea.
Resident Society to Be Omitted
From White House Social List
Washington resident society
will be cut off the social list for
White House receptions this year
unless its members have some
official connection with the in
vited guests, Mrs. Roosevelt told
her press conference today.
She explained that because the
President's work had curtailed
social activities, only official
guests, their relatives and friends
from out of town would be in
vited to the receptions.
The large White House dinners
are also to be cut off the sched
ule. Instead, before the recep
tions, small dinners will be
given for ranking officials for
whom special parties are usually
planned.
In an effort to keep the recep
tion list under 1.000, she explained,
many traditional White House
guests, drawn from the ranks of
Washington resident society, will
be cut off in order to include all
who should be present for official
reasons.
Official evening functions will
be held only once a week, and even
that, she admitted, is a strain.
The first event will be the diplo
matic reception, December 14.
She said she had planned to
have extra musicales in the after
noon to take in those who have
been cut off the reception list and
otherwise would not be invited to
the White House. Both men and
women are invited to the musi
cales Only women are luncheon
guests.
Mrs. Roosevelt had no idea
what percentage of former guests
would not be included in this
year's list. She explained that in
the past a great many guests have
been a.-kea from tradition and
don't often accept.
Army Is Likely to Ask
Record-Breaking Sum
Of $1,650,000,000
Expansion Program
Doubles Amount Usually
Used for Maintenance
The next Congress probably will
be asked to authorize record-break
ing peacetime Army expenditures
totaling $1.650.000 000. informed
War Department sources revealed
today.
Between $750,000,000 and $800 -
000.000 will be required for Regular
Army maintenance. The expansion
program, designed to bring the
Army up to its peacetime limit of
280.000 regular soldiers and 320.000
National Guard troops, and to pro
| vide the necessary critical equip
ment. is estimated to require an
■ additional $850,000,000.
| These sums, it was pointed out.
are exclusive of the amount the
Army will receive from the $275.
000,000 which Congress will be asked
| to provide in a deficiency appropria
tion to meet the expansion in the
Army ordered by President Roose
velt in September, when a limited
national emergency was proclaimed.
New equipment to be asked will
include at least 18 of the four-mo
tored superbotnbers which are re
garded as essential for defense of the
| Western Hemisphere, it was said.
The country's defense needs in the
way of additional men and equip
ment for the Army will be placed
before a group of 18 Senators and
Representatives, who will leave Boll
ing Field at 8 a.m. tomorrow on a 34.
day tour of Army posts and air bases
in the United States and Panama,
The Consuming
Public
What interests the consum
er is that he gets better mer
| chandise at a lower cost.
' Consider present prices of
; Automobiles, Radio Sets, Re
frigerators, Washing Machines
and innumerable other things
in daily use in millions of
homes, compared with past
years. Mass production, with
advertising creating the de
mand, is responsible.
Reading advertising in The
Star is a profitable daily habit
in thousands of Washington
homes where careful buying is
considered.
Yesterday’s Advertising
(Local Display)
Linen.
The Evening Star_ 37,703
2nd Newspaper_15,506
3rd Newspaper_12,983
4th Newspaper_12,624
Yesterday’s Circulation
The Evening Star
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1939, 159,719*
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 1938, 146,773*
Increase_ 12,946
‘Returns from newsstands not de
ducted and no samples included.
A
1,685 Contribute
$291,009 to Chest,
14.55 Pet. of Goal
First Report Luncheon
Receives Figures
From Four Units
Raising 14.55 per cent of its goal
of $2,000,000. the 12th annual Com
munity Chest campaign at its first
report luncheon at the Willard Ho
tel today disclosed total collections
of $291,009.39 from 1.685 contributors.
The figures reported by four of
the units were:
Governmental Unit. 13.438 pledges.
$123,920.59; 16.20 per cent of quota.
Group Solicitation Unit. 728
pledges, $41,539.05: 9.17 per cent.
Metropolitan Unit. 1.195 pledges.
$29,581; 14.7 per cent.
Suburban Unit, 187. $5,321; 10.23
per cent.
Hundreds of volunteer solicitors,
many of them veterans of many
campaigns, reported early returns
from their units at the luncheon
meeting, first of nine report meet
ings before the close of the drive
November 22.
In the lapels of their coats, the
volunteers for the duration of the
campaign will wear Chest buttons
| with their names written across
i them. Contributors will be awarded
! tiny red feathers to wear in their
; hats, symbolizing that those who
have answered the appeal of the
Chest have a "feather in their cap.”
Headquarters at Willard.
Chest headquarters have been set
j up on the second floor of the Willard
Hotel with offices of soliciting units
lining the corridor for the conven
ience of workers seeking informa
j tion or advice.
K?port meetings alter today will
be held tomorrow and Friday; Mon
day, Tuesday, Thursday and Jridav
of next week and November 20 and
22. Audited figures revealing the
result of the Chest's arpeal to the
neighborliness of Washington will
be made public December 2.
Workers and prospective contribu
tors will have an opportunity to view
the varied welfare services of Chest
agencies during a three-day exhibit
of 38 Chest agencies lining the Wil
lard's ‘Peacock Alley.” The exhibit
opened shbrtly before the report
meeting today.
Before the Advance Gifts Unit
was merged with the other units for
the report meetings, the unit held a
last meeting in the Willard Hotel
yesterday, reporting a total of 712
gifts for $410,418, representing in
creases in individual gifts amount
ing to $25,492.
Chauncey G. Parker, jr., general
campaign chairman, announced that
the Mellon Charitable and Educa
iSee CHEST, Page A-3.)
Dawes' Son-in-Law,
M. B. Ericson, Dies
By the Associated Press.
WAUKEGAN, 111., Nov. 8.—Melvin
B. Ericson. 49, retired bank receiver
and son-in-law of Gen. Charles G
Dawes, former Vice President of the
United States, died today of heart
disease.
Mr. Ericson. a native of Chicago,
served as receiver for the Waukegan
National and other banks, including
one in Kenosha, Wis.
His widow, Mrs. Carolyn Dawes
Ericson; a son and a daughter sur
vive.
A
C. T. C. Workers
Get Raise, Back
Pay of $80,000
Arbitrators Award
3,000 Two to Six Cent
An Hour Increase
Pay raises ranging from 2 to 0
cents an hour and retroactive pay
totaiing $80,000 was awarded to
Capital Transit Co. employes today
by the Board of Arbitrators set up
to pass on wages, hours and work
ing conditions.
Under the award, bus operators,
motormen and conductors are raised
2 cents an«hour, shop and barn em
ployes on an hourly basis 6 cents an
hout and track and roadway depart
ment workers on an hourly basis 5
cents an hour. The wage increase
was made retroactive to July 1 and
affects approximately 3,000 employes.
The board ordered the working
day shortened on all runs and pro
vided time and a half for overtime
after 8:!4 hours' service, in lieu of
the old 10-hour basis. A minimum
of $25 lor each 6-day week is guar
anted all extra bus and street car
operators.
Provision for Old Men.
The company will be required un
der the award to take care of men
in the service as of June 30 in the
extension of the operation of one
man street cars. Men unable to
qualify for operating the one-man
cars because of age or other reasons
would not lose their jobs, it was said.
The award also provides for a
monthly ‘'check-off'’ of dues, fines
and assessments of Capital Transit
Co., Local Division 689. Amalga
mated Association of Street. Elec
tric Railway & Motor Coach Em
ployes. an A. P. of L. affiliate.
The board of arbitration is com
posed of Attorney Walter C Cle
phane. chairman: Edmund L. Jonr=
and Charlton Ogburn. and was
chosen jointly by the company and
union.
Tug Sinks in Storm;
One Dies, Two Rescued
By the Associated Pres*.
CHARLEVOIX. Mich , Nov. r
Capt. John Oling lost his life f
two others were rescued early tor'
i when the tug Badger State founds -
ed in Lake Michigan during a storm.
The freighter Carl D. Bradle
picked up the survivors and the body
of Capt. Oling. who apparently w?.r
j swept overboard by heavy seas when
the men took to a small boat. The
rescued men were Jerry Neville,
engineer, and Chris Nelson, deck
hand.
Information received by the Coast
Guard here indicated that the
Bradley was continuing on through
the Straits of Mackinac to Rogers
City. Mich., before docking with the
men.
The Coast Guard said the tug
sounded a distress signal shortly
after 9 o'clock last night, at the
height of the storm which drove
snow and rain before a 40-mile-an
hour wind. The freighter responded
and took the tug in tow near Grand
Traverse Light.
Towed into the lee of South Fox
Island, the tug began to sink, forcir
the men into a small boat.
British Hint New Weapon
May Surprise Germans
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 8.—The British
director of scientific research re
vealed today the existence of a sur
prise for the enemy in new weapons.
The director, whose name was
withheld from publication although
his interview was approved, said
that any dictator who thought that
j scientists had given him the most
devastating weapons possible would
be making a silly mistake.
‘'If the dictator were to get a
gang of scientists together and ask
them to produce something more
lethal than at present, they would
| give it at once, and possibly they
have done so.” he said.
“I do not imagine that there is go
ing to be no surprise from the enemy
in this war because we have cer
tainly got one for him.”
Turk-British Pact Ratified
ANKARA. Turkey. Nov. 8 ./PV—
The National Assembly today unani
mously ratified the Turkish-British
French mutual assistance pact,
: which was acclaimed at length by
! speakers. It was learned authori
tatively that instruments of ratifica
tion would be exchanged immedi
■ atelv.
'Wine, Women'
Charge Linked
To Grand Jury
B» the As.sociated Press.
LAKE CHARLES. La., Nov. 8 —
The Calcasieu Parish police jury
has asked District Judge John T.
Hood to examine charges that
Parish grand jury investigators had
squandered funds on "wine and
women” Instead of probing law vio
lations.
The police jury submitted to the
court yesterday a report by District
Attorney C. V. Pattison asking dis
missal of the grand jury and de
claring it had done nothing while
in session here the last six weeks.
The police jury refused a request
of the other body for additional
money to hire special investigators.
Mr. Pattison charged the investi
gators had wasted $1,000 previously
made available on “wine and wom
en” and had produced no evidence.
P. T. Sartwelle, grand jury fore
i man, refused to comment, as did
Alva P. Frith, who is at liberty
under $250 bond on charges of
assaulting Mr. Pattison in the grand
.jury room Friday afternoon.
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y^VHO SAID
Britannia rules,
l the waves?
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