Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1930, Page 6

A—6 == TEXTILE MILTA 70 BE CUT T0 40 Schoolfield Strike District in Virginia to Be Partly Un- der Picket Guard. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va, December 4—The ngth of militiamen on duty at 'Stcr;oglflmd in connection with the textile strike will be reduced to 400 officers and ¢ men immediately, it was announced to- day by Col. H. L. Opie, in command. Sheriff C. R. Murphy, under whom the troops are operating, has given written approval as required by Gov. Pollard. This strength, Col. Opie said, will be maintained unless subsequent developments warrant a change. Approximat:ly 900 men were orig- fnally sent here. The local union today ratified a proposal of the Management Committee to replace militiamen and county officers with police-cmpowered pickets. Laber Meeting Sunday. With the textile strike situation quiet interest turned today on the called meeting of the Executive Committee of the Virginia Federation of Labor, ‘which is to be held in Danville Sunday eve- ning. The committee wants a close- range view of the strike, and is intent cn making further representations for removal of the soldiers. Ways and means of further supporting the strike are to be discyssed. This gives rise to 1eports that the state of the union is not so financially secure as has been represented. There is a clash of opin- jon also on the question of strike sub- sistence. The Executive Committee of ‘ the Virginia federation in a statement issued last night stated that the strikers have recently complained of a cut in the ration, and one of- them, who de- clined to be quoted, said yesterday that unless there is some improvement many of the men will go back to work. Sympathy Strike Question. ‘Whether the Executive Committee will seek to play a trump card Sunday and call for a sympathetic strike in the hope that this will bring the cotton mill man- agement to terms by stimulating outside ressure for a settlement was specu- ated on today. If the railway unions were to refuse to move box cars containing mill products an embarrassing blow would be struck those forces which are fighting recog- nition of collective bargaining.’ A proposal made by the union last night to replace militia and extra po- lice with strike pickets empowered to enforce the law as a saving to tax- payers had drawn no replies early to- day. The offer by the Management Committee represents itself as being made in good faith and guarantees the same order and law observance at Schoolfield, without cost to the county. TWO ARRESTED TRAPPERS SAVE GUARD FROM DEATH U. S. Deputy Marshal Rescued From Water After Falling From Rowboat. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, December 4—Two risked their lives to y , 27, end John Guate, 25, both trappers, weie being brought here by Emile Kinicr, United States deputy mershal, to enswer to a charge of violating an anti-trapping decree. In entering a rowboat with the men, Kinler fell into the icy water. Patorno and Guate dived until they found him, by 8 heavy coat, at the ‘the stream. He was uncon- sclous, but they revived him. OLD DURHAM PARISH ‘ VISITS SET FOR SUNDAY Rector Asks All Members to Stay | at Home Until They Have Been Called Upon. By a Btaft Correspondent of The Star. IRONSIDES, Md. December 4.—In keeping with the custcm of years, 12 young men in teams of 2 each will visit every home in the parish of Old Dur- ham Episcopal Church Sunday “to look how their brethren fare and take their ‘This rite will take the place of the regular services in the church on the first Sunday in December. Rev. Regi- nald B. Stevenson, rector, asks all mem- bers of the parish to remain at home from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or until they have been visited. e Union Army Veteran Dies. CUMBERLAND, Md., December 4 (Special).—Henry Rosenmerkle, 82, who served in the Union Army in the Civil ‘War and was active in the Grand Army of the Republic here for many yea:s, died yesterday at the-home of his son, C. Ward Rcsenmerkle, He Was a-retired printer and had been foreman of the Cumberland Daily News and cf the old Independent. He later was bailiff at the ~Allegany County Court House, | Milton L. Rosenmerkie, this city, is his other son and Mrs. Hemy Neilson, Nor- folk, Va., his daughter. Marshall Fields Sail for U. S. CAIRO, Egypt, December 4 (#) Marshall Field IIT and his wife left to- | day by steamer for America after a| hunting trip and honeymoon in Western Afrlca. They flew from Nairobi to Cairo. | Repair Parts For Furnaces and Hot Water Boilers Fries, Beall & Sharp 734 15th St. NW. NA. 1964 Every s-firday and Sunday to Baltimore Excursion tickets good in coaches and honored on all trains from Washington each Saturday and Sunday ;; and including February cluding’ 11:35 P. M. train Sunday night. Baltimore € Ohio Fishing vessels are getting their they sport at this sease a trip to the fishing bank: NING familiar coat of snow and ficicles which Here is the Edith L. Doudreau at Boston, Mass., after —A. P. Photo. OIL FIRE MENACES BROCKLYN SECTOR 18 Tanks and Contents Burn- ed on Water Front—Loss May Reach $1,000,000. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 4.—Streams of flaming oil pouring from the Pratt | works of the Standard Oil Co. illumi- nated the Brooklyn water front early today. 4 The fire, which threatened for a time to wipe out the entire plant, was stemmed by forces working by land and by water after a fight of three hours. Loss May Be Million. More than 200,000 gallons of gasoline, | crude oil and turpentine and 18 tanks in which it was stored were destroyed. Piers, barges, # fireboat and a tanker ‘were damaged as the fiery mass poured into the East River between th: Wil- liamsburg and Fifty-ninth Street Bridges. Fire department officials said the loss might reach a million dollars. Precau- tions were taken to protect the plant of the Brooklyn Union Gas Co. and nearby tenements. The fire started in a terrific explo- sion of a 10,000-gallon crude oil tank. ‘Through underground pipes the flames and burning fuel spread quickly to & 50,000-gallon petroleum tank, eight more crude ol receptacles and eight turpentine tanks. Flowed Into River. As the petroleum tank blew up it tore away an 18-foot brick wall, hurling debris on the firefighters. The remain- ing tanks produced blasts as caught fire and rocked the area. liberated oil flowed into the river through sewers and over the ground. ‘The blaze narrowly missed igniting a three-story brick warehouse filled with 5,000 cases of naphtha and 500 drums of pale oil. The fire boat New Yorker and the oil tanker Vermont flamed up but were saved. Several barges were caught in the inferno, but a number were taken out in the river for safety. R il X HOUSE MAY PROBE they ‘The KELLEY OIL CHARGES! BY the Associated Press. If no Senate investigation is made, a House committee may study charges by | Ralph §. Kelley that the Interior De- partment maladministered Colorado oil shale lands. Chairman Colton of the Public Lands Committce sald today he would call for such action if that proposed for the Senate were dropped. He plans to con- fer with Secretary Wilbur tomorrow on the charges by Kelley, former chief of the Denver office of the Interior Depart- ment, that the Federal Government had lost “billions of dollars” in the admin- istraticn of Colorado oil shale lands, The Justice Department has reported there was no foundation for Kelley's charges. He was dismissed from the ‘Government service. G R O S 1325-F- @ Reduced Prices Ties Reduced! GIROSNER'S F 1325 Gun in House Falls, Shot Pierces Wall, Kills Owner Outside By the Associated Press. MONROE, N. C., December 4. —C. A. Baker, 55, came home from hunting, stood his gun in a corner of his house and walked out into the yard, ‘The gun loaded with buck- shot, slipped to the floor and dis- charged. ‘The load tore through the wall of the house and siruck Baker in the head. He died in- stantly. |JAHNCKE GETS NEW AIDE IN LIEUT COMDR. CARR Former White House Officer Takes Over Duties Relinquished by Skelton. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke today secured a new aide in the person of Lieut. Comdr. T. De Witt Carr, U. S. N. Lieut. Comdr, Carr, who had been on duty in the Bu 1 of Nuvigation here since 1929, takes over the dutles of Lieut. Comdr. Robert H. Skelton, who left Washington in October and is now aide and flag secretary on the staff of the commander in chief of the United States fleet aboard the U. S. 8. ‘Texas. Mr. Jahncke has been without an aide since Skelton left Washington. Lieut. Comdr. Carr, who assumed his new duties today, was born in Hunting- ton, W. Va., on December 8, 1893, and was graduated from the Naval Acad- emy in 1916. He is a former White House aide. Comdr, and Mrs. Carr make their home. at 3612 Davis street. Secretary Adams secured 8 new aide a few days ago when Capt. Harold R. Stark, who was ordered to the post early in the Summer, relleved Capt. John W. Greenslade. BRIDGE ART EXAMINED ‘The Fine Arts Commission, at its meeting today in New York, is exam- ining the models of groups that will be placed on the Washington terminus of the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, explained today that the questions to be considered at the New York meeting, at the cffices of McKim, Mead & White, architects of the Bridge Commission, are artistic rather than engimeering. “BURCHELL'S FAMOUS BOUQUET COFFEE 25¢ 1b. You are missing a treat if you don’t try it. N. W. BURCHELL 817-19 Fourteenth Street N E R'S STREET A most unusual oppor- tunity is afforded men wha_appreciate the fine quality of Grosner mer- chandise. The itéms of timely interest listed below represent em- phatic savings. Store-Wide Reductions SHIRTS $1.65 $2.45 Any $250 Shirt ... .. Any $350 Shirt ....... Any '$5 Shirt Store-Wide Reductions NECKTIES $1.50 $2.'oo Tie Any 5250 eyt ST REET STAR, WASHINGTG IASK HOOVER T0 AID I 44HOUR P. 0. WEEK Clerks Declare Work Sched- ule Has Not Been Liberal- ized in 17 Years. President Hoover was requested today by the Executive Committee of the Na- | tional Federation of Post Office Clerks to support legislation providing for a reduction in postal working schedules from 48 to 44 hours weekly. Mr. Hoover was advised by this dele- gation that the present postal eight- hour law was passed 17 years ago and that there has been no liberalization by legislation of working schedules since then. During this period, he was told, the productivily of postal clerks, meas- ured in dollars and cents, has increased more than 100 per cent and that much of their work is performed at nignt and on Sundays and holidays and un- der unfavorable conditions. Those members of the Executive Committee in this delegation were Leo president; Thomas 8. retary-treasurer; William , assistant secretary-treasurer, all of this city, and Vice Presidents Harry C. Welnstock, Philadelphia; John M. Torka, New York: John H. Mitcham, Spokane, Wash.; Karl L. Stimpson, In- dianapolis, Ind.; Carl T. Frisvold, San fFrancisco; William Brown, Birming- ham, Ala.; Charles U. Sentilles, New Orleans; William H. Jackson, Kansas City, Mo., and George E. Quimby of Manchester, N. H. ‘The delegation before leaving the White House posed with the President in the rear grounds for a group pliptograph. e Two Die in Fire in Mexico. MEXICO CITY, December 4 ()— Fire swept the town of Apizaco, in the state of Tlaxcala, today, causing the death of two persons and injury to others. The railroad station was de- stroyed and only a long battle saved the railway shops. “Fanshawe” Brings $2,300. NEW YORK, December 4 (F)—A copy of the rare first edition of “Fan- shawe,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’ first book, brought $2,300 at a sale yesterday of the library of Frederick W. Lehman «f St. Louls. Because of the deficient grape crop this year wine prices in France are | mountnig. will be sold for the 1 unpaid balance rebuilt Stieff Grand at the Mahogany case. Terms STIH tunities ‘Wonderful tene. for HURSDAY, D. Escaped Prisoner Convicted of Charge Of Stealing Stripes By the Associated Press, SPARTANBURG, S. C, De- cember 4.—Sentenced for steal- ing his striped convict suit, John Davis, colored, drew 30 days or $100 fine, Davis, toiling on the chain gang, hid himself away one bright day, stripes and all. That was several months ago. Two days ago he’ was rearrested. Recorder Bobo Burnett held the charge that John stole his stripes was technically correct. He was S0 convicted and sentenced. BIDS FOR QUANTICO POST WORKS STUDIED Thirteen Submitted to Make Ma- rine Corps Facilities Among Best in Service. Officials of the Navy Department to- day were studying 13 bids submitted for improvement of the Marine Corps post at_Quantico, Va. This work will consist of clearing and removing existing structures at the fly- ing fleld, excavating and dredging a new. creek channel, excavating, dredg- ing and filling a flying fleld, filling the present creek channel and adjacent low areas, furnishing and installing a bridge, bridge approaches and a water line, the Navy Department explained. Work is also called for on the parade grounds and the industrial area, and is part of the general program of Maj. CGen. Smedley Butler, the commanding general at Quantico, to have that post one of the most up-to-date in the service, The three low bids were received from the Trimount Dredging Co. of Boston, M: the Standard Dredging Co. of New York City and the Central Dredging Co. of Chicago, Iil. The bids submitted were divided into various items with reference to im- provement of the various parts of the reservation and ranged from $147,290 for one section to $874,540 for improving another section of the post. 162 Cigar Factories Closed. LAHR, Germany, December 4 (#).— One hundred and sixty-two Badenese cigar factorfes, employing 13,500 work- ers, snnounced yesterday they would clese down because of the increased to- 0 _tax included in the government's financial program. This $1800 Stieff Crand Reliable party can buy this factory un- believably low figure of just the unpaid balance, and this on terms. An opportunity of oppor- any one contemplating the purchase of a piano. EFF CHAS. M. STIEFF, INC. Piano Manufacturers for Almost 100 Years 1340 G STREET N.W. A important part should be chosen Here Comes the Bride WEDDING—simple or elab- orale—is a major affair, and the flowers and floral deco- rations which are invariably an of the picture with due regard for their beauty and quali We are happy to state that the thousands of weddings at which Gude’s Flowers have played no small part have yet to record a complaiht. Telegraph Delivery Association MAIN STORE: 1212 F STREET N.W. Phone National 4278 Other Flower Shops at 3103 14th ST. N.W. * Col. 3103 5016 CONN. AVE. Cleveland 1226 1102 CONN. AVE. Decatur 3146 ECEMBER 4, 1930. POLICE OF LISBON FOIL BOMB PLOT 2= Effort at Coup d’Etat Be- lieved Thwarted Through Arrest of Taxi Driver. By the Assoctated Press. LISBON, December 4.—Police an- nounced today that a large quantity of bombs and explosives had been seized in Various parts of the city and a rev- olutionary movement, in which it was planned to blow up public bulldings, thwarted. = A mysterious taxicab gave the police their first hint of the plot. The cab was stopped and found to contain a cargo of bombs, destined for one of the depots of the revolutionaries, Chauffeur Confesses. The driver confessed participation in the conspiracy and implicated Sergt. Joaquin_Feliciano Freire. When ar- rested, Freire implicated others, all of whom were arrested except two lieu- tenants, Manuel Correia and Plo, both of whom escaped. The police searched the homes of the conspirators and seized over 600 bombs. Among those arrested were a captain of infantry, his name undivulged; two sergeants and 20 civilians. One of those arrested. Maia Monteiro, who de- nounced his friend, Lieut. Plo, eluded the attention of his.guards and jumped | from a wipdow. He landed hard and ]:\lflsred grave contusions about the | head. ‘The bombs were said by police to have been manufactured in" Lisbon from dynamite and other _explosives sup- plied by the foreman of the pyrotechnic works, Augusto Souza, who was ar- rested. The plotters already were dis- tributing their bombs to extremist par- ties in taxicabs and motor trucks, three of which, fully loaded, fell into the hands of police. Party Chief Escapes. Further investigation of the plot, it was disclosed, revealed that the Re- | publican Demcoratic party opened sub- scriptions ostensibly to aid the families | of political deportees, but in reality to obtain funds to finance a coup detat | against the dictatorship, The appeal for funds was signed by the party directorate, of the chiefs of which former Senator Silva Barreto, managed to escape when told that the conspiracy had been discovered. MATTRESSES RENOVATFD Best Service and Prices COLUMBIA BEDDING CO., INC. 219 G St. N.W. 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