Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1931, Page 5

DESCRIBE 7 DAYS ON PLANE AT SEA Lisbon - Fiyers Salvaged| Water From -Motor—Food | Supply Swept Overboard. (Continued From First Page.) everything was in gdod orier. find, however, that a minor part of the | ignition apparatus was defective. Scme time was required to remedy this. We ! find to send to the airgrome at Al-| verga, where our plane had been' kept dul;‘: our stay in Lisbon, for the part ‘we_needed. | Finally, about 9 am., Sunday, the| 13th, everything wes really ready at last. We measured off the runway once_more in an automobile. placing | small. flags at intervals. Then we | warmed up the motor while Costa Viega's friends made him their final| farewelt and pressed good luck charms upon him. We took aboard a few remainin trifies, We were carrying sufficient fuel for 48 hours and provisions for two days. We throttled down our motor. ‘The moment had come! Mechanics re- Jeased the blocks from our lmdlnll wheels. After a run of 2460 feet we, were up. It was then 9:30 am. Re-| membér the day—Sunday, September 13. Encountered Bad Weather. We circled the starting point once, then took up our course for the Azores. our farewell o slight, breese, _ecast. northeast, vgu:er was good. We sped along at a fraction over 111 miles an hour, and were over the Azores at 5:30 that Sun- ’ By the Assoclated Press. we ‘aid || Smoking by Co-Eds In Northwestern U. Buildings Is Barred CHICAGO, _ September 24.— Northwestern University co-eds may smoke ecigarettes all they please—but not in the campus buildings. 5 “They may sit or stand on sorority house steps and.smoke,” sald Mrs. Edson Fowler, president of the Quadrangle Association, which maintaing the sorority houses, yesterday, “but they wiil not be permitted to smoke in- side.” Miss Jean Van Evera, woman's editor of the Daily Northwestern, announced that the fight would continue for “equal smoking rights with man students.” one hand on the stick and the otter on the hatch, Teady to throw it open the in-tant we touched water, We scrambled swiftly up on the fuce- lage and held tight. Immediately the seas attacked our plane. In a few min- utes the wings were full of water and .parts of them broke off. Each instent we expected to go down, The sea grew rougher. We had in- creased difficulty in hanging on. We lay on our stomachs, clinging despe- rately to anything reasonably stable that offered itself. ‘Then a great wave stove in the cabin door. Our belongings were washed away. There went our maps, our pro- visions, everything, Before we came down no one had thought to take care of the food and fresh water. We were to regret this later. Seas broke over us and soaked us. When night fell that Monday the 14th, it brought cold with it. At dark we managed to make our way through the pllot roam into the cabin, This was half under water. There was no longer THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1931 : IWAGE CUT DECRIED | BY LABOR EDITORS Leaders “Morally and Intel-! l<ctually Bankrupt,” Paper Declares. (Continued From First Page) . : to bleed those wh already are half sterved " Washington was waiting today to learn more definitely the results of the i wage cutting. i One of the questions which Wash- | Ington is anxious to have answered is | whether the advance in prices on the! stock market yesterday, following the| wage cut announcements, are indicative | of a real confidence In business and & | return of greater business or whether | they are a mere flash in the pan. Stock prices were up 1 to 14 points yesterday, | but there was selling off tod: Administration Is Silent. In administration circles the silence | regarding wege cutting continued. At | |the White House it was said again | Ithat the President had nothing to say i regarding ‘the action of the steel and | | other corporations. Other officials of | |the Government. while williny to talk confidentially, declined to allow them- | | selves to be quoted. A division of opin- | fon existed in these quarters. Some of | the officias took the stand that the cor- porations had been unwise to announce | wage cuts at this time and criticized | them harshly. On the other hand, here and there an opinion was expressed hat the cuts in wages may be the| ignal for a general readjustment which |in the end will benefit business and | poration averaged $826,000 snnually. that it proposed to force a reduction in wages of 10 per cent beginning Octo- ber 1, one is remind:d cf the fact that in June, 1927, not so very long ago, this corporation declered a 40 per cent stock dividend. It flso paid cash dividends emounting to 160}4 per cent during the period between April 1, 1901, and December 31, 1930. While paying these | stock dividends and these M uge cash dividends it created a hugh reserve fund cut of which dividends have heen paid chiel executives during periods of Tiod of unemploym<nt which now exists. It sesms to be the policy of this great corporation, as it is of many others, to distribute eernings mcst generously among_its stockholders and its ‘hign paid chelf executives during periods ot prosperity, and reduce th2 wages of s employes 'during periods of adversity. Why did it not share with its employes in the distribution of /the sum repro- sented in this large stck dividend and cash dividends in the shaps of in creased wrges when conditions were prosperous? . Bonuses Are Cited. “The Bethlehem Steel Corporation followed the announcement of the United States Steel Corporation by de- claring that a reduction in wages equal to the amount imposed by the United States Steel Corporation will be forced upon the employes of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. This fs the cor- | poration which, according tof the court | records made public during the hear- | ing of the merger proposal of the | Youngstown Sheet & Tube C3. with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, paid to its corporation officers bonuses amounting to $25.150,000 during the period betweerr the years 1918 and 930. The salary and bonus of the president of the Bethléhem Steel Cor- Besides, the records show that this corporation declared a stock dividend | amounting to 200 per cent upon class B common stock in February, 1917, and dividends to the _stockholders | amounting to $133,000.000 in the period | batween 1918 and 1930, “Again, these steel-corporations which are arbitrarily reducing the wages of their employes are the beneficiaries of | WAGECUTS CLAM HAOR ATENTION Stir Fears of Similar Action Elsewh:re. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Wage and salary reductions by lead- ing steel companies are as significant a development in America’s economic situation as the British gold suspension abroad. The Hoover administration has en- deavored to postpone the evil day by urging industry to maintian wage scales. No law; of course, can compel the main tenance of wages, but moral suasion has been used thus far. The labor groups have warned against the step and the Government here has con curred in expressions of hope that the move might not have to be made. Politics and Economics Mix. Here is a case in which it might be said that politics and economics mix. For it has been assumed that the ad- ministration was currying favor with labor by taking its side of the question. The truth is officials feel it Is bad economics to reduce the nurchui‘n{ power of labor and add to the curtail- ment of buying power. Industry replies that unless budgets are balanced and dividends resumed to stockholders, there will be such a destruction of capital values to force suspension of work on a large scale, which in itself would be more serfous | ¥e than a horizontal cut in pay rolls, The biggest fear has been that if the large industrial companies cut wages, others would follow sult all along the ‘While there has not been much sald about it, there is a feeling here ! businesses. The deflation of labor is viewed here as a regretable step,’ but ) 4s one usually a sign of the ending of a depression. 4 l (Copyright 1931, By Consolidated Press.) iWAGE CUTAND GOLD | | ACTION CHEER TRADE ! e |Trade Review Holds Developments Have “Helped to Clear | slon of the gold standard in England |and a reduction in steel wage rafes here have “helped to clear the atmos- said the trade review of Iron Age vesterday. Pointing out that the steel producers had “bowed to the Inevitable after weathering two years of slack opera- tions,” the periodical said they hml “set a precedent which, it is now be- lieved, the railroads must follow, wheth- er they obtain partial relief through rate advances or not.” | “Railroad buying programs are ex- | tremely slow in developing, and it seems | unlikely that they’ can really get un- | der way until the rate and wage ques- | tions are settled.” Meanwhile, production of steel ingats | has slipped off slightly, according to | the Iron Age average, which this week | fell a point to 29 per cent. Prospective business in some lines, notably, public constructicn work, is still regarded as fairly promising, but in other directions, particularly the automoblle industry. “the outlook has become increasingly obscure.” | Steel and structual orders for 89,050 tons, putting awards for the | r ahead of the same period of 193 relieved a market “otherwise coloxle: This review's production estimated was virtually unchanged at approximately 32 per cent. | WARNS RAILROADS OF LAW REVISION Ex-Kansas Governor Threat- ens Effort for Change if Rate Increase Is Granted. By the Associated Press. A forecast that revision might be sought of any laws used as a basis for | increasing freight rates was hurled at the Nation's railroads today by former G';:..'gi’fl! M. Reed of Kansas. t against the proposed 15 per cent rafe increase. He followed Senator Brook- hart of Iowa and spoke for an hour and & half. “If it be conceivable,” the Kansan said, “that, under the circumstances, the outcome of this shoul be the laying of an additional and an unjustified burden upon business . in general and agriculture in particular, the repeal or modification of any legis. lation vsed as a pretext to this end would be clearly forecast.” Hold Jncrease Justified. ‘The railroads have contended the in- crease was justified under the tra tation law's provision that the commis- sion shall fix rates to permit the car- 1d | tion system is not threatened.” but said “business ic policy. Reed held “the national tra - it is the es) agriculture, that is In Asserting the farmer in no condi- tion to stand any additional expense, “It would be an intolerable burden cast upon Industry that is | prostrate, and there is no n rail credit or rallway 3 burden.” DOLLAR BOUQUET " SALE! that justifies the imposition of such & day evening. | any place to sit. the wage earners, making for greater ;,:,a&:}'",:;‘f:;‘;m:o‘,:;’{im’n“";,;: | that wage cutting has been going on Enjoy Fine, Long-Lived Flowers Hardly had we passed the Azores when the weather changed. It grew bad. The barometer fell and a strong head wind arose. It grew colder, and at nightfall heavy cloud banks piled up before us. Rain began and we decided | to climb. | We had been flying at an altitude of about 160 feet. but we pulled up to | 6.500 feet. Our machine, so heavily Joaded, rose only slowly. The weather worse and worse. And now we| mnd ourselves in the center of a ter-' rible storm. ‘Whirlwinds rocked us back and forth. They tossed us and battered us so that | we could not keep a straight course. | Again and- again we were hammered | about in a circle. It was with great | difficulty that we kept any altitude. Now it had become completely dark. ‘The night was black. The violence of | the storm ine . In some way we had to gain greater altitude. We knew | that we must rise to nearly 10,000 feet it we were to hold our course. | Had to Thaw Instrument. | It was a marvel to us that the ma- chine continued to float.. We decided that it must be due to the buoyancy of the gasoline tanks, which consequently could not have been much damaged. We hoped and prayed throughout that | night that the plane would stay on the | surface until dawn. 7 Situation Was Perilous. Never shall we forget this night or the nights that followed before our res- cue. The first night we spent standing in rising water in the little cabin. The waves battered the plane, carrying on their work of destruction. Tte upper fin was torn off and the skin of the wings was ripped like paper from the pars. At daybreak Tuesday, the 15th, we sought & dry place to sit. So we dis- mounted the motor covering and fas- tened it above the pilots’ seats. At last we could rest a bit and review the ex- periences of recent hours. Such a position to be in! Far at sea in a land plane which might sink any production and employment. | While efforts were made today to ob- |tain statements from the Departments {of Labor and Commerce regarding the wage cuts, Secretary Doak and Secre- tary Lamont were In conference, and it was sald later by Secretary Lamont that the general situation had been dis- cussed by them, but what conclusion, if any was reached, was not made pub-I lic. Not long afterward Secretary Doak | left Washington to go to West Warwick, | R. 1, where he is to make a speech tomorrow at the Pawtuxet Valley Falr, The statement’ issued by William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of. Labor, denouncing the Steel | | corporations for the wage cuts and | calling the policy of wage cutting a | mistake morally, and economically, was followed by the blast from ¢'Labos Members of Congress in Washington generally speaking were critical of the wage slashes. An excoption was Reo- resentative Will Wood of Indiana, chairman of the House Appropriations | Committee, who has taken the position that wages and salavies must come ! abroad. The American market for the sale of their .products is their own. They are the beneficiaries of these special privileges granted by the Gov- | ernment upon the pretense that it must be given them as a protection to wages and wage earners. The protective tariff is based upon the theory that it is necessary in order to protect the Amer- fcan wage standard, American wages | nd the American standard of living If these corporations became the bene. ficiaries of a high protective tariff in order to protect wsages, then it seems | reasonable that, since they accepted is_favor and reduced wages, the | tariff schedule should be reduced and | the special favors accorded them by the Government withdrawn, Tt is un- | fair to expect that the American peo- ple will throw around these specially favored industries a wall of tariff pro- tection when they behold these grea corporations engaged in a policy of | reducing wages, forcing down the American standard of living, compell- | ing working people to sacrifice still | for several months in various ways and | that only the companies that are con: spicuous py their size have been avoid- ing_such cuts. The “stagger” system of employment has been in effect in many industries. Two or three days' work has been given 50 that all employes might have some income instead of pothing. In these readjustments, wage levels have been readjusted so that ultimately if a five- day week is ever obtained, tte per day rate will in many instances be lower. New Move Is Climax. ‘The nove by the steel companies is the climax of a wage discussicn that has been going on ever since the depres- sion started and there have been some economists who have predicted that not until labor was deflated would there be a return to normalcy. They have argued that with the lower:cost of food and ccmmodities and the admitted drop in the ccst of living labor would not suffer any real distress because of the drop in income. ads have been trying to CIVIC GROUP TVOv!AdEET Mid-City to Plan Year's Program Next Monday. ; The Mid-City Citizens’ Association, | | resuming its regular monthly meetings next Monday, will complete final ar- | rangements for its participation in the | Hallcween parade and csrnival under | the suspices of the Washington Board ' of Trade's Committee on George Wash- ington Celebration. President A. J. Driscoll announced that the association is preparing its 1933 budget on needed fmprovements in its territcry for submission to the Dis- | trict Commissioners and desires the | tendance of all members. Reports also { will be submitted by the committzes on ‘hools, Association This Week End Nuti.;ll 4908 1407 H Street 3 Doors West of 14th St. | rom NEW YORK AVENUE. of FIFTFENTH . further the necessaries of life. Heolds Action Indefensible. minute; no drinking water, save what we might salvage from that used for {down in order to bring about a read- | justment leading to more prosperous times. ' We gave our engine full throttle and | finally we struggled above the clouds. | Interstate Commerce Commission for a raise in freight rates. Many of the ‘There was so much electricity in the atmosphere we fought our way up through these tumbling cloud masses | that the propeller and the tips of the | wings were flashing with it. it was s wonder of nature such as we never had seen before. It awed us. As soon as we got above the heavy cloud banks the air became calm. Stars cooling the motor: no food except seven chocol ounces of found ite which in our Objections to wage cuts were voiced through and th ward noon t! sea became calmer. The lieved by this time | today by Representatives Dies of Texas {and Swank of gk{:‘ehomn.blnoth‘ Demo- proved. crats. Both sal problem in their . it ain.“",f | respective sections was one of surpiuses ®'We be- | and that if the wage-cut policy became general purchasing power would be so diminished as to aggravate that situa- tion. h1 N Now to wait until help’ came. To- our little land ship abai that the plane ooull: { “The United States Steel Corpora- tion and these other corporations which have announced reductions in wages have subjected themselves to the charge that through the imposition oi a reduc- tion in wages upon their employes they | have broken a solemn pledge which they | 1 to be relatively lower even in normal made the President of the United States | to maintain wages and by their action | | railroad executives hope the increase | will not be granted, as they would rather cut wages. They think railroad income is going times due to bus competition and they insist that the tims has come to cut operating costs. While Mr. Hoover may again have to @ Keeping Washington Men Well Dressed ® Sale Has Store Hours: 8 AM. Just Started to 6 P.M. r;mlln above water a day more. SR e The two urged President Hoover to September 16, the |call a special session of Congress for weather was about ghe same. Ou:]l’eue, They said they had laid before drinking water from the motor was | the President a program to prevent “a getting less. We crouched in the pilots’ | recurrence of the ridiculous spectacle room throughout that day, maintaining | of widespread unemployment, want and & feverish Jookout, wg;rlng in a land t;olt e’nlyv" PR e program cal or a) Expected o Tura:Over. construction appropriations, a one-year But the seas were empty. We saw | moratorfum on mortgage foreclosures nothing—only countless miles of tossing | on homesteads, increased use by the shone through flying wisps of cloud. But the temperature had gone swiftly | down. We feared our benzol would freeze. However, we knew that in emergency we had an unfreezable mix- ture in a reserve tank, something to fall back upon at & crucial moment. For two hours now everything had gone well, aside from that drop in tem- | ture. Then suddenly our air speed indicator fell back. What could have had become have contributed to the development of | ¢ social unrest and industrial discontent. | issue & plea to industty to maintain “As one American citizen having at | Wa8€3. the process of readjustment has heart the interests of the Nation, con- | 811eAdy begun and the action of the cerned over the preservation of our free | indusiry, alwiys &.leader fn. the institutions and as a spokesman of the | £¥eS Of the business world, -is bound organized workers of the United States | !0 Dave a profound effect on other nd Canads, I protest most vigorously | = = eVERFRESH OUR apologies to those whom we could not wait on. We are now engaging extra salespeople to serve you better on Friday and Saturday. fensible action of these steel corpora tions in their determination to enforoc | ocear a 10 per cent reduction in wages upon | happened? The windows had glased. with a thin skin of ice, and we knew that the speed indicator must be in like condition. ‘We couldn’t get along at night with- | out this important instrument, so we | immediately. went down into warmer | air where the ice would melt. But wi had no ease of mind now. @ About 3 o'clock in' the mor: Mon- strument which indicates the number | ;’l’ motor revolutions per minute, sank | fast. A spark plug was not functioning and | this the engine was stuttering along on only five of its six cylinders. ‘The situation | was . Jt was the most danger- | ous moment that dangerous night. | But the motor kept and we auded toward where we knew land | 5 Only Hope for Best. Attentively, fearfully, we listened to the tune of that hesitant motor. Would | 85 it continued Thursday, the 17th, and Priday. We did our best to conserie the drinking water. We barely nibbled our chocolate.- Priday night there was a strong wis 1t blew nearly 40 miles an hour. There as a heavy sea. It seemed that we could not trust much longer to our bird, our plane. Apparently our doom was sealed. Momentarily we looked for a wing to break completely off and the machine to turn over on its side. We were ready to jump for a new position the instant happened. onto the last part of the plane to re- main above water and there to await our last hour. The plane was trembling and groan- ing in every joint. ‘waves broke white over the pllots’ seats. The wind forced the ship lower and lower into the water. We hadn't a moment of rest until dawn on Saturday, the 19th. ‘We would not have éelle'ed that a e survived .| of the Nation's banking system, We planned to elimb | Continually the | | Government of ‘cotton, paper and cloth, ! a -prohibition for five years of all im- migration, laws to prevent speculation on. the Stock Exchange and regulation Green Denounces Culs. The wage cuts ordered by the United ! States Steel and the Bethichem Steel | corporations were declared by William | Green, preisdent of the American Fed eration of Labor, to be “morally wr and economically unsound,” in a state- ment lssued to the press last night.| | Mr. Green made no threat of a strike, | i but called attention to a statement | attributed to Julius Klein, Assistant | Secretary of Commerce, to the effect that “there will be hell to pay through- {out the United States in the event of argeneral wage reduction.” Mr. ! Green added that whether this predic tion comes true or not. “dt ought to be | s logical outcome of the wage-cutting dolicies pursued by the highly protected employing corporations of the Nation." their employes. | “The press reports Assistant Secre- | tary Julius Klein of the Department of | Commerce as having said that “there | will be hell to pay throughout the United States in the event of a general | wage reduction.” 1 am not sure that | Assistant Secretary Klein has been cor- | rectly quoted, but it is my honest, sin- | cere opinion, arrived at after deliberate | and calm consideration, that whether | this predicition of Assistant Secretary | Klein may or may not come true, the fact Is that it ought to be & logical out- | come of the wage-cutting policies pur- | sued by the highly protected employing | corporatitns 8f the Natlon.” i CITRATE or MAGNESIA BETTER TASTE BETTER EFFECT 25 IN CLEAN NEW BOTTLES DLEY Closing Out OUR ENTIRE STOCK (Except a Few Nationally Advertised Items). . PriortoReorganization VERYBODY in Washington and vicinity knows the quality merchandise always carried by the Parkers it last? Would there be enough fuel? | land plane coul We knew that we must fiy constantly | the fopce of e oeamiis. B Mr. Green's statement follows: with full throttle if we were to hold | Pricay night had been a hard one. | ‘“The reduction in wages imposed and the plane up and dampen the vibration | Qur skin started to peel from the salt ' literally forced upon the employes of of the engine a little. | water: our eyes burned from constant | the United States Steel Corporation and Daybreak was still four long hours away. The night continued strenuous and wearing. We were now flying about 300 feet above the sea. We used smoke bombs to gauge the force of the head | wind we were butting. Time and again we wondered and speculated and.calculated how we could reach land and its safety with this enormous demand on our fuel. But we | could only shrug our shoulders and hope for the best. Our fate now, it seemed. depended upon the caprice of the wind. i Straight ahead! We determined pre- eligely our drift d the force of the wind. It was a matter of life and death. A hackneyed, weary phrase, that. But | We_knew its truth then only too well. Now and then we ventured to throttl the motor somewbat, but that wouldn't do. The vibration of the engine had become to severe that we couldn’t read the compass any more. There was im- | minent danger of our magnet needles | breakin, | l.onf 's passed, but still our motor | struggled pluckily on. Only occasion- ' ally when we sought to rl altitude did | it stagger and miss. Still we could fly only with full throttle. We knew what | watching. We were freezing cold now, both cay and night. Our companion, Da Costa Viega, had 'been injured and had developed fever. | Struck against the forces which have We could not help him. We bandages. Passed by Freighter. rrpparea a distress signal. At the fail of the plane we mounted a steering post and to this we fastened a smoke b and a flag. By now every bit of work tired us tremendously. We felt very weak, Sunday broke with the ocean still empty. "Ahd then at noon that day, September 20, we sighted a freight steamer, Rescue had come! We waved our flag till all strength had left us. But that ship never saw It was unbelievable. She was so near we could ‘make out her rigging, but our signal was never seen. Slowly the ship steamed off over the horizon. We were desperate. We knew now that this part of the ocean was little traveled. Our strength was nearly to- tally gone. If another ship should come we might not be able to signal. AlL the rest of that day our thoughts no We that meant—it cut our radius by one- ' were somber. No ore raid a word. The third. disappointment had been too bitter. But we flew straight ahead, with con- | The next day, Monday, September 21, fidence that we would yet make land. , we were about to get our scanty ration At last we saw a distant speck on the of drinking water from the motor sea. It grew larger. It was a passen-!cooler when again we saw a ship-—far. ger streamship, the Pennland. off—where sky and ocean joined. | \ Wanted to Reach America. Instantly we began to signal. | The vessel saw us. Instantly we ascertained from our It turned out way. map the distance to land from that| We were saved! ship’s course. Quickly we circled above | H')f an hour later the boat came' the Pennland. Little did those on beside us. It was a motorship, the board know of our desperate situation.|freighter Belmoira, bound from Albany.| They thought probabiy that:we were !N Y. to Russia, with a load of loco- saying a gay good-morning. | motives. We had no time. After ‘our circle over the ship we struck off again. The #Pennland continued on #s course.' Ropes came swirling down. We were Swiftly distance separated us. We |taken aboard. We were greefed heartily | knew a hazardous play was beginning. by the skipper, Captain Kristian Hald,! Everything was at stake. We had had 'and his men. i our chance of immediate safety with| Now our strength was really done.! that liner 8o tlose. Bpt no one of us| We waved farewsli to our 1t had | thought of our lives. We wanted to|done its duty. And we couldn't take it | reach America in our plane and to land | with us. For the deck space was taken | | up with Jocomotives. | there. 5. We three agreed that we would stick | The next day, Tuesday of this week, | it out as long as one single drop of fuel | we were transferred to the passenger remained. But the gods had sworn an | liner Stavangerfjord. On that ship we oath against us. Those head winds blew | are now nearing New York. The cap- stronger and stronger. We pumped the | tain and the passengers are being most residue of our fuel from every tank and | kind to us and Viega is receiving the strained our eyes anxiously for a glimpse | medical attention he needs. i of land. { 1t is disheartening that our flight Two hours sfter we had sighted the |should have had to end when we were Pennland the only fuel left was that in {50 near America. But that will not! the reserve tank. Our supply mouldiprevenz us from trying it again next Will Try Once More. have lasted 48 hours, but it had burned | Spring, over this same course, whicn to out in 36. our minds comes first as & transoce: Twenty minutes more and the motor ; route. stopped. Our flight had ended. th We had intended, on this first a must drop into that ocean, 80 sea miles, | tempt, to urr{ a radio, and had chosen ! or 92 land miles, from shore. jan especially light equipment. But de-! Our feeling was indeseribable. Sus- ' livery was delayed. And finally, though pense tightened and twisted our nerves, reluctantly, we had to start without it.| We looked at each other. We looked at ‘Soon the season would have been too ! that ocean. A forced landing far at late for us to get off this year. ‘ #ca in a land machine? What a tre-| We have only praise for our plane mendous hazard! ‘n;zd for Iuhmu:wr. "T:e'fl.llnbllng of | the motor, on ailure of t Serambled (o Fuselage. Sparkplug, was one of the rarest of nyi: But the plané came bravely and haps. But for that we we have gone sieadily to rest.on a big billow, I had through to New York tyi hant; ! less goods. *| be twenty-five million ‘dollars less. This ' reduce the volume of sales for| g {by other steel corporations is morally | wrong and economically unsound. No | greater blow than this has yet been | i{been and now are serving to bring about a return of prosperity. | “The United States Steel Corpora- | tion violated a solemn promise which it made to the people of the Natiom | when it assured the President of the | | United states, along with & number | | of other large employing interests, that | during this distressing period of vnem- | | ployment_wages would be maintained | | This great corporation has now broken | |its promise. In sharp contrast to tbis | | action, labor has discharged its obll gation and maintained the pledgs which it made to the President. | ‘Will Cut Buying Power. “It is stated that this 10 per cent re- duction forced upon the employes of ithe United Stats Steel Corporation | will mean a saving to this great finan- I ci2] concern of $25,000,000. That means {that the emrloyes of the United States | Steel Corporation will have twenty-five | millions of dollars less to spend. TEey | will buy twenty-five millions of dollars | Their purchasing power will ! will manufactured goods in an amount cor- responding to the reduction in wage: which the employes of the United Bl«lte!l Steel Corporation are forced to accept. | Can reasonable-minded people believe | b that a return to prosperity will be ac- | ceierated through a reduction of the ! buying ®power of one section of the ' masses of the people amounting to ' twenty-five millions of dollars? | “This action of the United States Steel Corporation seems to be a repe- | tition of tkte old story, employers of | labor know <n: thing and that is to| reduce wa sions come upon us. That seems to cir solution for unemployment snd they seem to regard it as their-remedy | for eccnomic distress. | hile reading the announcement of | the United Stetes Steel Corporation | ——— CLAFLIN Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. Established 1889 - POOL FOR . SWIMS 9 A. M. to 11:30 P.M. UNTI SUN. E Overlooking Klingle Valley ' Washington’s Outstanding Apartment Hotel 2737 Devonshire Place N.W. A few very desirable one and two hed room apartments with one and two baths—some with screened porches— Secretarial service—Garage facili- ties with attendant to deliver and park your car. available October 1. Furnished Apts.—Hotel Service Apply Resident Manager or THOS. J. FISHER & CO., Inc. 738 15th St.—Dist. 6830 Rental Agents | l department. To Our Friends and Patrons: In connection with the above announcement we twant to express our appreciation for past favors and to assuze you that our values for this event are the best we have ever offered. There will be rare bar- Bridget Co., therefore we do not have to go inte detail regarding the high type of men’s and boys’ cloth- ing, haberdashery and shoes offered in this sale. HIS entire stock must now be turned into cash in the shortest possible time, hence this store-wide sale. Radical reductions have been made in every New Fall merchandise just received or on order and arriving daily will be included. - ges when economic depres- | b be YOUR CHANCE FRIDAY Chinese Arborvitaes 3 to 3!/ Feet High Regular Prices 89c Each o OTHER HARDY EVER- GREEN BARGAINS 18 te 24 18 to 24 18 to 24 to 24 Arborvitae, 18 to 24 inches Globe Arborvitae, 10 to 12 inches All 89¢c Each Large Peony Clumps 2 Clumps for 49¢ These will bloom ‘miext Spring. “-All with 5 or more eyes. All named varieties plainly tagged. Regular price, 50c and $1.00 each. Now is the Time to Seed Your Lawn With BOLGIANO'S CAPITOL PARK LAWN GRASS SEED, 1 Ib., 40¢; § Ibs., $1.75 LOMA—The best lawn fertilizer.....10 Ibs., 8S¢; 25 Ibs., $1.75 BULBS—Comp sortment for Fall pl. g mow om d F.W.Bolgiano & Co. 607 ESt.N.W. I, 0091 Spruce, 18 gains for everybody—and today it’s “smart to be thrifty.” PARKER-BRIDGET CO. OOK for the big sale announcements in our windows. No merchandise will bs displayed in the windows, We earnestly suggest that you come early for best selection. The usual courteous Parker-Bridget Co. serv- ice will prevail in every respect. i All sales are final; all transactions for cash only. Park Your Car at the Capital Garage at Our Expense While Shopping Here b5