Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1930, Page 30

TEXTILE STRIKERS | SEE INPROVEMENT Union Leader Addresses Mass Meeting When Plans Are Made for Evicted. Speeial Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., December 6.—The textile strike here and in the Schoolfield distriet is more effective now than it was 10 weeks ago, Francis J. Gorman, international vice president of the union workers; declared at a mass meeting of strikers tonight. Plans for providing shelter for union families ordered to vacate mill-owned houses were discussed. % was said full details will be an- nounced lati. Only 105 of the 4,000 members of the union have returned to work, Gorman saxi: ‘There was no_intimation today as to whether any definite action is planned by the Virginia Labor Federation Board, but it is expected resolutions will be and some statement given out s to any action taken A mass meeting of strikers will be held tomorrow after- noon at which members of the board will speak. Fifty More Evictions Listed. Forty-seven eviction notices having teen served while a list of 50 families to be proceeded against is being prepared for early next week. ‘The union, which has announced that those ejected will be cared for, is con- cerned because most of those being pro- ceeded against are leaders in the strike movement and if they are to leave it might disrupt the strike organization. It was stated private property will be secured for their occupancy. : A statement was issued by the union today taking issue with published re- rts that 1,664 persons are now work- in the mills and that there are 3,000 looms running with the report that the mills are working as many operatives as they can under market conditions. The union version is that less than 1,000 are employed and that fully jwo-thirds of these are unskilled. Picketing Is Continued. Military patrols and pickets today continued their tasks in a steady down- fall of rain. ‘Two Police Court cases reflected strike sangles. Leonard Rushworth, superin- tendent of the Riverside Mills, withdrew a warrant upon payment _of _costs, egainst M. T. Buntin, whom he charged Wwith trespass on mill property. W. B. Brown was sentenced to 30 days and fined $25 on a cha of throwipng rocks at the automobile of Walter Cox, a non- union mill worker. He appealed. ENGINEERS TO DISCUSS NAVY AIRSHIP PROGRAM Former Chief of Famous Zeppelin Works to Speak on Problem of Designing of Aireraft. The United States Navy's airship program, which has gained unusual prominence during the past week as a Tesult of the recommendation of the National Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics that an airship “merchant ma- rine” be established and the introduc- tion of bills in Congress providing for oceanic dirigible mail service, will be discussed at the December dinner of the Soclety of Automotive Engineers in the Hotel Washington at 6:30 p.m. Monday, December 15. Dr. Karl Amnstein, former chief en- gineer of meh‘r)-mm ‘Z‘epp‘elin wrour.k; in ()my, wi now Vice ent and chief engineer of the 8ooo.vur Corporation, building two giant Navy dirigibles, will be the speaker. Following his addfess, ‘which will be points in the gen- eral problem of design, Dr. Arnstein will give an {llustrated lecture _nfi I(tu‘m ’ l.hmvtup dt!; . Motion N‘ mum in airship operstion also will the 3 will . A. Preston Petre, former naval officer and now a Tesearch engineer, will discuss piston n%::nullctuu and progress. will be an entertainment pro- grem. FEDERAL BAR TO HEAR TWO TALKS DECEMBER 17 Assistant Attorney General Rugg to Discuss Justice Department in Court of Claims. A program of special interest to Gov- ernment lawyers has been arranged for the ove.m.n: of December 17 at 8 o'clock by the Pederal Bar Association at the University Club. Assistant Attorney General Charles B. Rugg will speak on “The Functions of the Department of Justice in the Court of Claims” and Green H. Hack- worth, solicitor of the Department of State, will speak on “The Law and Pro- cedure as Applied by the Department of State to International Clatms.” A report will be received from the committee, which has been endeavor- ing to obtain Saturday half holidays throughout the year for Government | employes. Replies from a questionnaire thus far received from 46 States show that 42 States grant State employes | g‘u‘"\:‘.ia half ‘holidays. Only four | ., Montana, Idaho, vi New Mexico, do not. e A meeting of the Executive Cou of the association has been calied s | the purpose of considering the rider | proposed to be attached to appropria- tion bvlgstwhxch would prevent use of | appropriations for increases in ! to Pederal employes. “‘a”“‘, | POSTAL MEN SEEK CURB Postal officials are working to sup- Press the cket,” throug Which men and women h frauded of money paid for be worked on at home in quick sales by an illicit com Hul‘local Donnelly, solicitor ce, said hundreds swindles had been prosecuted in rece years, some of them carrying sentxnces | ©f 10 years or more in the penitentia; austrial commisnone ok Bt ner, e o er, issued a | Subscribe Today It costs only about 1 cen E'.dly and 5 cents 4 % per delivered to 1y every evening and Sunday morn- lephone’ National 5000 ana the delivery vill start um'ne;h stely. The Route Agent will col- lect at the nd of each month. TRk BuNDAY DLArl, Waosiiubivs, U, Drifted In on the Tide Sailor Gets Religion When He Sees Value in Storm. Small Hawaiian Gives Big Man Surprise. Wife Wanted in Cairo. b e BY ANGUS MACGREGOR. NEW YORK, December 6 (N.AN.A). —David Blake is & rough-and-tumble ehap who has done his roughing and tum‘lln( in every port the world knows about, and some it doesn't. He is sub- Ject to attacks of what the boys on the water front call religion. He is in the throes of one now. A fine, raw, red s Blake sits in a rickety mission house on West street thumbi a Bible and spelling out the words with delibera- tion. His lower lip hangs pendulus, his tongue droops a bit, his bushy black brows are lnitted in a fierce effort to subdue the printed word. I got him to tell me the story of how religious fervor entered his soul for its thousandth brief stay. Last week a storm churned up quite a to-do on the Atlantic and Blake's ship, a freighter of uncertain vintage, was caught smack in the middle of it. The freighter, through some mysterious error in the design, belongs to the ac- cursed class known as rollers. On a flat sea she\shakes like a dancing girl in a Singapore tafe. When a storm breaks, it's mumderous. Tub Wallowed Five Days. For five days the tub wallowed, spun and quivered, and on the evenll}: of the fifth day she began leaking like a hat full of water. In the f'c’sle the starboard watch, off duty, huddled in fear-ridden silence. The monotonous kree-swish, kree- swish of the pumps, manned by the port watch: the crashing and groaning of the siticken ship and the deep- throated grumble of the ocean as it lashed and spit at the sinking tub made the f'c'sle a place of horror. But one among them was calm—a young Portu- guese whom Blake characterized as “a worm without a soul.” He has another name, but Blake refused to give it to me. The Portuguese fell to his knees before his bunk and quietly began praying. “Madre de Dios,” he said quietly, “I _am ready.” Then, peace- fully and happily, he climbed to his bunk and began reading the Bible. Blake watched with curiosity. A few minutes later a breaker alith- | ered down the hatchway and flooded | the f'c'sle. Amid shouts and sereams | from the more hysterical ones, the star- | board watch clattered pell-mell to the | geck‘ but the Portuguese never left his unk. The mate laughed away their fears. “A little water down your necks,” he said, “might take the smell off'n you.” Portuguese Was Cool. But it was some time before the men could be herded back to their quarters. The Portuguese never looked up when they dragged in, uneasy with fear. He was as cool a5 a child sleeping in a carriage in a sunlit garden. “So,” said Blake to me, “I figures if religion helps a guy like him what's got the mind and soul of a snake, it would help David Blake. And here I am, took proper, catching up on my Bible learn- ing. Let it be a lesson,” he concluded sternly, “to the young Jo.” On the way out I the mission attendant how long he thought Blake's new attack of religion would last. “Oh,” he replied, “until he gets a little thirsty, I k. Big Man Gets Surprise. Big Bill Oakes, six feet tall, built with the strength and rugged beauty of an oak tree, a man who can, and once did, kill an ox with his fist, is all hashed up these days. He looks like meat that's been through a grinder. “A truck?” I asked pathetically. “Sit down and I'll tell you,” sald Bill; “it’s a long story and a rotten one.” It all came of a botile of cognac. Bill hates nothing worse than a dry Wwhistle. Coming out of Hamburg on ‘the Tigris, he laid in a supply ealeu~ lated with the precision of rience to last him to New York. But dis- covered to his dismay ;-hn his ast. cimen of & man, was disappear: too . Somel was helping himself and Bill's nose, & large one, led him to the t, & thin, wiry Hawaiian, whose b had be- come as penetrating as Big Bill's own. Warning Bluntly Given. Big Bill is a man of more atrength than tact. He came directly to the boint. “One more nip,” he said, “and I'll tear your heart out with my hands.” The Hawailan smiled and said nothing, Never once did it enter Oakes’ mind that he ought to hide his brandy. A man as big and tough as he is not ac- customed to having things stolen from him. But the next day a copious quan- tity was removed surreptitiously from the bottle. With the roar of a maddened bull he rushed for the Hawaiian. “It seemed a shame,” Bill said mo- rooel;g, “for a guy like me to sock a runt like him. Why, I could pick my teeth | with his bones. But I was plenty sore.” | “Not as sore as you are now,” I asked. | ‘What was it, jju-jitsu?” “1 was sore then in a different way. 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