Evening star. [volume], June 09, 1940, Page A-9, Image 9

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Youth United Against
War, Civil Liberties
Conference Is Told
Motives of Some U. S.
Leaders Are Questioned,
Frances Williams Says
"Young Americans are united on
one note—they do not want to go
to war,” Frances Williams, admin
istrative secretary of the American
Youth Congress, told delegates to
the National Conference on Civi'
Liberties yesterday during a session
in the National Press Club Audi
torium.
Miss Williams said American
youth was harboring a feeling of
“restlessness and apprehension,"
born of the thought that some of
the Nation's leaders who speak pub
licly for peace might be working
“in private to get us into war.”
"This does not mean that young
people in America are afraid to
fight,” she emphasized, but that
they want to be certain they are
hot being asked to defend "the
Illusion or the ghost of democracy."
Works for Rights of Labor,
The Youth Congress official said
organized youth was determined at
this time to work actively in be
half of the rights of labor and
minorities and for civil liberties,
“even at the risk of being called a
fifth columnist; even at the risk
of spending a-lot of time knitting
and reading in some jail some
place.”
In a statement read by Fredric
Myers, an organizer, Joseph Curran,
president of the National Maritime
Union, asserted:
"Labor in this country is loyal.
American workers are patriotic.
They are against war and against
exploitation. They will defend their
country and its institutions against
attack from any source, foreign or
domestic. They will also defend
their organizations from attack,
■whether those attacks come cloaked
in the mantle of patriotism or in
6ome more honest guise.”
Caribbean Union Official Speaks.
The inhabitants of West Indian
Islands demand to be consulted if
plans for transfer of control over
British and French possessions in
the Caribbean to the United States
are given serious consideration. Hope
Stevens, secretary of the Caribbean
Union, told the meeting.
Representative Flies, Democrat,
of Illinois said domestic economic
problems demand at this time con
sideration equal to that being given
military expansion in the United
Btates.
A “Southern Bourbon” bloc of na
tional legislators is seizing upon cur
rent critical times as their oppor
tunity to attack the Bill of Rights
and progressive, economic and social
legislation, Alfred K. Stern, chair
man of the National Emergency
Conference for Democratic Rights,
declared
Guild Official Presides.
Morris Watson, a vice president
of the American Newspaper Guild,
presided at the afternoon session
yesterday.
Edwin S. Smith, member of the
National Labor Relations Board, will
discuss “Civil Rights and National
Defense” today at a luncheon at
12:45 o'clock in the auditorium.
Committees on rights of citizen
ship. rights of labor, rights of mi
nority groups and rights of the alien
and foreign born will meet this I
morning and formulate recommen
dations to be received at a general
6ession to begin at 2:30 p.m.
The three-day conference will
close with adoption of resolutions
and formation of a “program of
action.”
U. S. Freight Car Plant
To Make Shells for Allies
By the Associated Press.
BUTLER, Pa., June 8.—Wallace
Barker, vice president for operations
of the Pullman Standard Car Corp.
plant here, announced today the
company had accepted a $3,000,000
order for shells from the Allied Pur
chasing Commission.
Retooling of the Butler plant,
Which produced munitions during
the World War. will begin imme
diately and probably will be com
pleted by October. Production of
shells, finished except for powder;
and caps, will begin then on a 24
hour-a-day basis, Mr. Barker said.
The plant normally is engaged
mainly in construction of freight
cars.
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Doctor Recalls Ford Theater
Disaster 47 Years Ago Today
Eyewitness Account of Death of 22
Sent to Cousin Here by California Man
Forty-seven years ago today the
old Ford's Theater Building, 511-15
Tehth street N.W., in which Abra
ham Lincoln was shot, collapsed,
killing 22 Government clerks and
injuring 68. At the time the struc
ture was being used for offices, fol
lowing a period during which it
served as an Army medical museum.
The walls remained standing in1
the disaster and the interior was
restored.
The historic building now houses a
collection of Lincolniana.
Dr. Jesse B. Schafhlrt, now of
Pacific, Calif., recently set down his
eyewitness account of the 1893
tragedy and sent it to his cousin,
Mrs. Charles E. Morgenston of 4417
Illinois avenue N.W., who brought
it to the attention of The Star.
17 Yean Old at the Time.
Dr. Schafhlrt’s recollections fol
low:
"I was 17 years old and had been
sent to the third floor of the old
Pord Theater to collect a bill from
one of Uncle Sam's clerks. After
contacting him I walked down the
stairs arid crossed the street to the
front of the house in which presi
dent Lincoln died. Suddenly I heard
a terrific noise and screams. I turned,
and through the windows of the
building I had just left I saw men
falling with the collapse of the third
floor through the second and the
first floors into the basement of* the
building, where men were exca
vating, which proved later to have
been the cause of the disaster. Three
floors had collapsed with about 40
men on each. The outside walls were
still standing.
"I ran across the street to look
through one of the large windows
and It was not long before a whole
city block of people were behind me.
All of a sudden a man with a sten
torian voice yelled, ‘Look out! The
walls are falling!’
“The crowd stampeded. For the
lack of air I was losing my breath,
so I Jumped as high as I could to
get above the heads of the wild
crowd. I was wedged in so tightly
by this milling crowd that my feet
did not touch the ground until the
cross street was reached. Many were
hurt In this mob. To this day
crowds frighten me.
"After this I ran to the back of the
old Ford’s Theater, going through
the same alley Booth used to escape
after assassinating President Lin
coln. I helped in removing the dead
and Injured. There was so much
dust from the falling plaster it was
hard to see or breathe. At this time
the Fire Department arrived and
started to throw water into the
building. A Government official told
the fire chief to stop saying that
many valuable Government papers
were in that building The chief
said, ‘To h--l with those papers.’
Men were suffocating in there. It
was all too horrible to relate.
“One man jumped out of the win
dow and fell on his head. There were
22 dead, 68 injured.
Helped Doctor Sew Wound.
“I was assisting a doctor attending
a man with a face wound The doc
tor said, ‘Kid, you finish sewing this
wound. Here's how you do it. Other
men need me more than this man.'
“I saw this man years after, and he
said I had made a good Job of it
for a kid.
"The hero of this disaster was a
colored man who went up a tele
graph pole which was close to the
building and made a human bridge
of himself from the pole to a win
dow. Men who were clinging to a
small portion of the floor which re
mained passed over him. They went
over him so fast his back was in
jured I understood the Govern
ment pensioned this brave man.
“You may ask, ‘Doctor, did you
ever collect the bill from the clerk
you went into the building to see?’
"No, that poor fellow’s bill was no
longer a debt. He was killed.
“There Is always a humorous side
to all disasters. I have heard that
a Chinaman has no curiosity. Well,
it was demonstrated at Ford's The
ater. A Chinaman had a small laun
dry next door. He ran out of his
laundry to see what all the noise was
about when the building fell. In a
few minutes, after calmly viewing
the situation, he decided it would be
safe for him to go back and start
working, which he did, leaving every
thing to the wild mob ”
Marital State 'Unknown'
ROANOKE, Va„ June 8 (/P).—Ap
parently some persons here are not
sure about their “marital state."
Two persons answering a question -
aire said “normal,” and others
wrote “Virginia.”
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