Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1935, Page 2

ROVALTY GATHERS AT BIER OF QUEEN Body in Brussels Palace Viewed by Thousands of Populace. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, August 31.—Members of foyalty from all parts of Europe, turn- ing from gay Summer holidays, made somber journeys to Brussels today to attend the funeral of Queen Astrid. ‘Thousands, braving a cold, incessant drizzle under umbrellas which stretched more than a mile about the palace, waited their turn for a part- ing glance at their beloved young queen. Body Viewed by Groups. They stood 10 abreast, moving for- ward slowly until they reached the palace gates. There they were per- mitted to enter in groups of 50. The body of Astrid rested on & white silk bed, with burning tapers at her head and feet. Her chin and neck were bandaged heavily, but otherwise her features were unmarTed by the automobile ac- cident, which catapulted her through & windshield against a tree on the shore of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. Among the members of royalty ar- riving today were Queen Elizabeth, dowager Queen of Belgium, and her daughter, Marie Jose, Princess of Pied- mont and heiress to the throne of Italy. Scandinavian Gathering. Full attendance by Scandinavian royalty, to which Astrid was related both by birth and by marriage, was expected. From Balmoral it was reported King George had named the Duke of York to represent Great Britain st the funeral. Two of the 29-year-old Queen’s chil- dren were informed of their mother’s death while laughing at play in the palace park. The Countess Du Roy de Blicquy, lady-in-waiting to the Queen, gently broke the news. Little Princess Jose- phine Charlotte, 7 years old, burst into tears. Prince Baudouin, who will be 5 years old next week—too young to comprehend the tragedy—at- tempted tenderly to comfort his weep- ing sister for a few moments, and then returned to his playthings. DICKINSON DECLARES ROOSEVELT IS ISSUE Jowa Senator Lists Numerous Charges Against President as 1936 Candidate. By the Associated Press. KOKOMO, Ind., August 31.—United Btates Senator L. J. Dickinson, Re- publican, of Towa, speaking at a party rally here last night, declared Frank- 1lin Delano Roosevelt will be the only tssue in the next national campaign. | Dickinson asserted the President should be subjected to several charges, | including: “He has repudiated platform pledges made by his party and upon which he was elected to office. “He has committed the country to unsound monetary experiments, con- demned by nearly all recognized economists, and in consequence has disrupted American foreign trade, with serious and permanent injury to agriculture and industry. “He has delayed economic recovery by forcing upon the country dubious measures of reform which, by penal- izing thrift, strike at the national economy, and by political subsidy under the guise of ‘relief’ break down the morale and self-reliance of great numbers of our citizens. “He has remained indifferent to his promises of balancing the budget, or reducing national expenditures, and has encouraged extravagances and the . wasting of public funds which have i-placed the American people under burden of debt that now threatens ““the solvency of the Government itself. “He has, in public utterances, been disrespectful to the Supreme Court ~of the United States and has sought ‘by deliberate attempt to ‘alibi’ the #faflure of the New Deal by placing <the blame falsely on the courts.” FEAR FOR FREEDOM SEEN BY CHURCHMEN piscopal Leader Says Individual No Longer Trusts Himself to Be Good. 4By the Assoclated Press. 2 SEWANEE, Tenn, August 31.— »Bpeaking to the Convention of the s, herhood of St. Andrew of the otestant Episcopal Church, Dr. T. ‘Wedell said yesterday, “We are v to be r aid of freedom (dince the individual can no longer #'trust himself to be good without fear- ¥ing the law.” ¢ Dr. Wedell, national secretary of "the brotherhood, said: “We are see- ing in the modern world a great in- rerease in outer controls—the State u:.\l.ng over where religious restraint Sails. He said history shows that it takes more morality .n the part of the peo- = - 2 : “ i»y O. “It is 30 much easier to hire a dic- tator to rule over us. We are ap- parently facing an age which may try the dangerous ent of ex- isting without religious restraint. Take ,the ‘fear of God’ out of people’s lives .and society does not immediately go to pleces. For a time we may even 'be quite safe, but we are ‘free wheel- ‘ing,’ living on our ethi:al capital.” ' NORBECK IS EXAMINED 'Senator Stops at Mayo Hospital . for Annual Check-up. What’s What Behind News In Capital U. S. Is Not Rushing Italian Trade Pact—-A. F. of L. Facing Fight. BY PAUL MALLON. USSOLINI can never prove it, but there is good reason to believe that President Roosevelt has started out to invoke some very, very subtle eco- nomic sanctions sgainst the Duce. In fact, word has been passed down the official inside line here that the American experts can take their own good time about negotiating that new trade treaty with Italy. Of course, the State Department denies with great feeling that the treaty is being held up deliberately. Our diplomats cross their hearts and swear that they would never think of offending Mussolini that way. They are especially vehement ahout that since Mussolini has been quoted in the papers as saying that, if any one tries anything like that, it “would lead to most serious complications.” Italy Not Good Risk. But the facts are that about a week ago Italy asked this government pointedly that negotiations be speeded up. The Italian premier is apparently in & hurry to buy materials which may not be barred by the neutrality resolution. Also his suspicions must have been aroused. Informal talks about the treaty were started months ago, but nothing ever happens about it. Furthermore, Italy has been hav- ing considerable difficulty arranging credits and the Government here has decided Italy is not a veyy good risk Just now. Unfortunately for Mussolini, the trade treaty situation is in charge of Assistant State Secretary Sayre. He happens to be on bis vacation. When | he returns he will undoubtedly have to give his first attention to more pressing matters. There are so many things one must attend to when one is Assistant Secretary of State, espe- cially when one wants to attend to other things. Meanwhile, he official ezplana- tion of the treaty situation is that “we are working on it.” That is an impregnable explanation. It is true, but for complete accuracy it should be added that “we are mot working very hard.” Officials do not ordinarily et ex- cited about a little red tape. They ac- cept it as an inevitable part of gov- ernment. But even the most hard- ened among them blanched in the soil erosion service the other day when a letier was received from a fleld manager, reading something like this: “Why is it that we cannot get the scraper we ordered last Spring? When I was there in April, I was told you were studying specifications. 1 was again given the same story in June. I suppose if I came there now it would still be the same.” It would. Note—the soil erosion crowd will deny it, but several thousand men in the feld are working at less than half efficiency because they have been unable to get proper tools. Supplies for the b u are bought through its own ing agency and not through the people’s procurement system, which buys for most of the emergency works activities. Lucky for Wharton, The A. F. of L. is involved in an- other warm inside scrap about craft unionism. There will be trouble about it at the coming convention. When the executive council met recently, United Mine Worker John Lewis and Machinist Arthur Whar- ton shook fingers at each other’s noses about the issue. Wharton, who is a bantam, went to the extent of inviting heavyweight Lewis outside. Lewis did not go, which was lucky for Mr. Wharton. Lewis lost out in the executive council by s large vote, but it may Lo be different at the conventon. Note—William Green will undoubt- | Lo, edly be re-elected A. F. of L. presi- dent without difficulty. There is no particular sentiment for him, also | gy, A memo urging revival of the ily cifically, it urges the convening of a N. R. A. has been put into private | Dece: congress of leaders of thought in in- /mnnu" THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.,” SATURDAY, COAL BOARD SOON 10 BE APPOINTED Roosevelt to Take Action Before September 15. Bill Is Signed. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt plans to appoint before September 15 a board to ad- ministration of the law were con- tained in the third deficiency bill, ed elsewhere. Coal men meanwhile discussed at length the probable source of thes much-predicted court test of the measure. . One prominent producer, who de- clined to be quoted by name, said that among operators who sell coal in the commercial market, sentiment for testing the bill's disputed constitu- tionality was rapidly waning. The tesc, if any, he added, likely would come from “captive” coal companies owned by steel and utility corporations. ‘The entire output of these “captive” companies is used by their owners. Counsel for these companies con- tended at hearings on the bill that a tax on their production, such as the Guffey act provides, would be con- fiscatory. The labor provisions of the act also are understood to be held unconsti- tutional by some of the “captive” companies. BANQUET ADJOURNS TYPEWRITER SESSION Theodore Schafer of New York Elected President and Kansas City Meeting Place. ‘The National Typewriter and Office Machine Dealers’ Association con- cluded its tenth annual convention last night with a banquet at the Mayflower Hotel. About 150 attended. - At final business sessions preceding the banquet, the association elected ‘Theodore Schafer of New York presi- dent and designated Kansas City, Mo,, as the 1936 convention site. 1934-35 association president, became vice president in accordance with the organization’s custom. Elmer Young, Chicago, was elected treasurer and the following were made directors: W. H. Wolowitz, Washington; James Ward, Chicago; R. H. Preston, Knox- ville, Tenn.; Harry Russell, Des Moines; G. 8. Cambias, New Orleans; W. T. Corney, Toronto; Jack Mitchell, Pontiac, Mich.; W. P. Clausing, Chi- cago; James Ehrbach, Newark, N. J.; Mrs. Jessie Taylor, New York, and Jack Dean, Detroit. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—FPair, con- tinued cool tonight; tomorrow fair, not quite 5o cool; gentle north winds, becoming variable. Maryland and Virginia—Fair, con- tinued cool tonight; tomorrow fair. :lt'l::lumh—h.ruy cloudy tonight an orrow; not much change temperature. h i River Report. Potomac River clear and Shenan- doah a little muddy today. Report for Last 24 Yes'day. Temp. Baro. Toda: Des. Ins. = 2 422 2 30.00 Noon Record for Last 34 Hours. (From noon yesterdsy to noon todsy.) lll’_hb.lt. 75, at 3:45 p.m. yesterday. Year ag0. 75, ” 4 (LOFsst B7. b 5:30 am. todsy. Year Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 98. on July 20. Lowest, —2. on January 28, Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon i-day.) terjighest, 90 per cent. at 11:45 p.m. yes- rday. Lowest, 37 per cent, at noon todsy. Tide Tables, (Purnished by United Geodutic pusveysy Oosst and 0 1am. :31 p.m. Automeb one-haif hour afier sumset. © e % Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): 1935. Aver: 527 3. 5 7. 2 [P SeeiRSSSoxns S 2ReEaREIEREIRER ::’eh s s ) go¥ss R E ST T SR ] ®; 3 P M SO IS T PP PR S D P RN PR L R T Sg8EausBess 238832 | Jore- | warrant sworn out by Crime Breeds in Slums Their Cost too Great for any City, Says Housing Chairman. Editors note: This is the sixth in @ series of seven articles on crime and its control, written dy the foremost authorities on the cause and combating of crime, in co-operation with the National Committee on Public Education for Crime Control. BY LANGDON W. POST, Chairman, New Ycrk Oity Housing Authority. (Coprright, 1935, can be no doubt that the e attest to this lamentable fact. by NANA) slum is the most fertile soil in which e flourishes. Welfare workers, probation officers and judges If there ever was & doubt in my mind as to the relationship between poverty, slums and crime, my duties as tenement house commissioner of New York have now confirmed me those who doubt, let me conduct you on a little slumming party. Let us wander through the narrow teeming streets of a great city’s slums on a hot Summer night. The air is oppressive. The tenement houses tow- er cliff-like sbove the crowded side- walks, shutting out nearly every last breath of air, nearly obliterating sight of the starry heavens. Let us enter one of these so-called homes, forgetting for the. moment that this word originally meant a place of peace, comfort and security. Inside, there are airless rooms, some of them without windows, nearly all of them small, insanitary, foul. Is it any wonder that environment such as this should drive youngsters out into the comparative freedom of the streets? There are hundreds of thousands of boys and girls in our big cities— future citizens—living under condi- tions similar to these. If one stands on the threshold of a typical big city slum dwelling, one is not in the least surprised that so many of our young- sters who might otherwise live lives of usefulness are driven to the false glamour of c-ime. Standing in this unlovely slum home, one realizes more forcefully than ever that it iz not twisted personalities or diseased men- talities which drive our slum young- sters to crime—it is the gray bar- renness of their lives, it is the cramped ugliness of the slums. It is youth's answer to filth, squalor, blight, overcrowding. It is an answer that leads to the prison or the re- formatory, and sometimes to the gal- lows or the electric chair. Cest of Slums Tremendous. It has often been said that no city can afford the luxury of siums. And this is quite true, for the cost of maintaining the slums, directly or indirectly, is positively appalling. Out of the slum: comes most of our s0- cial derelicts. The slums fill our pris- ons, our lunatic asylums, they over- crowd our hospitals. They require in- tensive policing and now that society in this opinion. For the benefit of LANGDON W. POST. is going through s severe economic crisis, the slums have proved them- gelves to be unprofitable. But even if they were profitable, they would have to go, if for no other reason than that they are foul, tester- ing spots of our society. New York City realizes this and 1s launching an intensive slum-ciearance project. all of the city’s 17 square miles of slums will be replaced by moadern, airy, sunny, garden apartments which will be available at rentals within the purse of our lower-income groups. I do not contend that the aboltion of the slums will abolish crime, for too much of criminality has & psycno- Jogical base, but certainly most of the crimes against private property in its smaller aspects will disappear when New York City has seen fit to aliow our adolescents to grow up in decent, clean American homes. TENANT ARRESTED AS BRUSH SLAYER Man Who Reported Finding | Recluse’s Body Is Linked by Laborer’s Story. By a 8taff Correspondent of The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Vs., August 31— Hugh Hummer, 50, a friend and ten- ant of the slain Truman Brush, is un- der arrest todsy charged with the murder of the 76-year-old farmer re- cluse, whose brutally beaten body Hummer reported finding on the wooded pathway leading to his house, eight days ago. He was taken into custody at 2 a.m. by Sergt. Alton Shumate of the Falls Church police and Carl MacIntosh of the Pairfax County police on & murder Sheriff E. P. Kirby. Story Did Net Fit. Police revealed Hummer had been under surveillance for aseveral days. His story in connection with the find- ing of the body, police said, did not coincide with the physical facts of the crime. The arrest was made following the questioning of Henry Edwards, 50, col- ored, who, police say, signed a written statement purporting to link Hummer with the slaying. The statement al- leges that Hummer told Edwards, with whom he had been working, that he hit Brush on the head with a stick as he walked through the woods, and .| then picked up s heavy stone and . | crushed his head. Edwards is being held in jail as a " | material witness. ‘Hummer, a steamfitter by trade, has been living on the Brush place for & number of years. He occupies the house in which the recluse's brother lived prior to his death about 25 years -.;a Has been out of work for some time, according to police, and doing odd j bs. He was employed last week to install a septic tank in Falls Church and engsged Edwards to help him with the excavation. It was while the two were engaged on this job that Hummer is alleged to have told Edwards about the siay- ing. The two have been friends for years, Sergt. Shumat: stated. Edwards’ statement further alleges that Hummer confessed to having been disappointed in not finding the money which he expected. Brush's pockets contained 12 cents, according to Edwards’ narration. Hummer reported finding the body to John Vandermark, a farmer whose property is separated frc... the Brush farm by s road. He told Vandermark he discovered the body about 6:30 p.m. ‘When the oft:ers and Coroner C. A. Ransom arrived, some 30 minutes later, Brush’s body was still DIANA WYNYARD DECIDES FILM CAREER IS AT END Star of “Cavalcade” Says Bhe Will Confine Her Acting to Legitimate Stage. Murder Suspect 'HUGH HUMMER. —Star Staff Photo. HERMAN BERNSTEIN, FORMER ENVOY, DIES Ex-Minister to Albania Won Journalistic Laurels in Europe. By the Associated Press. SHEFFIELD, Mass, August 31. —Herman Bernstein of New York, author, editor and former United States Minister to Albania, died of heart disease in his Summer home here today. He was 59 years old and is survived by his wife, the former Sophie Friedman of Moscow; & son, David, editor of the magazine the New Talent, and three daughters. Bernstein, former editor of the Jewish Tribune, was apointed Minister to Albania in 1930. He also was a ‘World War correspondent. In 1923 he brought suit agalnst Henry Ford in the New York Supreme Court for libel on an article in Ford's Dearborn Independent concerning the Jewish question. Ford sent a letter of apology to Bernstein in 1927 and retracted the published articles. Bernstein was born in Neustadt- Scherwindt, Russia, in 1876, and came to this country in 1893. As European correspondent for the New York Times he interviewed the most prominent persons in Europe from 1908 to 1912, He was founder and editor of the Day, Kaiser, which attracted universal at- tention. BONUS FIGHT CONTINUES Belgrano Says Legion Will Not Permit Interference. ST. LOUIS, August 31 (P).—The _AUGUST 3%, It is planned that ultimately | 1935. U..S. BOND SURPLUS 1S HELD GO SIGN Lack of Buyers of Notes Shows Treasury Need . for Boosted Rates. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Paradoxical as it may seem, the failure of the Treasury to sell its $100,000,000 issue of four-year notes at 114 per cent was a favorable rather than an unfavorable omen. ‘This indident is in no way a sign that the Government's credit has been impaired, but merely that interest rates are tending to reach a properly stabllized level and that better busi- ness conditions are in the offing. ‘The Treasury may perhaps be criti- cized somewhat for having failed to sense the recent trend toward higher interest rates, but a $100,000,000 issue is relatively small nowadays and is, after all, a testing device to determine what interest rates the investor mar- ket really should be paid for the much larger and more important issue of $1,250,000,000 of Government securi- ties that are to be floated October 15 next, when the remainder of the Fourth Liberty Loan issue, bearing 4%, per cent, is to be refunded. What the experiment with the $100,000,000 issue proved was that, for a four-year note, the interest rate of 1, per cent was much too low. Indeed, it confirms what has been said by competent observers for many months—that when business began to improve there would be a period of hesitation to lend out funds until in- terest rates assumed a more favor- able trend to the investor. Rates Interdependent, ‘The average man may think all this is of no concern to him because sc much of these Government securities are held by banks and life insurance companies and other institutions. But the truth is interest rates are inter- dependent on one another and when | Writer Dies | MISS NATALIE S. LINCOLN. —Harris-Ewing Photo. NATALIE LINCOLN, WRITER,DIESAT3 Novelist and Editor of D. A. R. Magazine Workéd Almost to Last. Miss Natalie Sumner Lincoln, well | known writer of mystery and de- tective stories and editor of the | Daughters of the American Revolution | Magazine for 20 years, died today at her home, 3104 Hawthorne street, after a long illness. For four years Miss Lincoln had been & sufferer from arthritis, which recently brought about a physical Government bonds fluctuate and do not find a natural level, the cost of money for first mortgages or for com- mercial use at the banks is likewise held in an uncertain range. This is not good for expanding or reviving business. One of the important factors in a recovery movement is, of course, a reasonable interest rate so that re- funding and credit operations can be carried on with confidence. And the ‘whole series of interest charges for Government loans of short-term and long-term maturity must be worked out so carefully that the interest structure for private finance is not impaired or retarded in its delicate machinery of satisfying the investor. For in America, the investor, whether in public securities or in private se- curities, is king. If he does not think an investment is safe or if it does not give him a proper return, he either withholds his investment for better rates or enters the area of equities or stocks. There have been no forced loans by the Government in America s in some other lands. U. S. Responsibility Great. The Treasury Department has a | stupendous responsibility in adjust- ing its interest rates to the appetite of the investor and gauging his be- havior on future issues. With the exception of the $100,000,000 issue of last week, which, apart from the low interest rate, went wrong probably for technical reasons, Secretary “ior- genthau and his able assistant, Undersecretary Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, have a splendid record. They have done a marvelous job of handling the Government's re- financing in the face of New Deal policy, legislatively speaking, which | has been everything adverse hat pos- | sibly could have been imagined to the principles of sound finance. It is, to be sure, because of a funda- mental belief that the Roosevelt ad- | ministration must balance the Fed- eral budget in the next two or three years that the investors are buying any Goverriment bonds or holding on to what they have bought. Within the last couple of days, the intima- tions are that Secretary Morgenthau and the President have been discuss- ing this very aspect of public finance. It is, of course, not wholly outside the realm of possibility that Lhe Treasury itself has been trying to let the facts speak for themselves ia the discussion with the White House as to what can and cannot be done with Government bonds when there is no firm policy projected about budget balancing. Deficits Hamper Credit. ‘While the failure of the Treasury's 1%z per cent venture in itself has no implications of long-range effect, it is obvious that if the spending policy and deficits of the New Deal are to be continued indefinitely, then the Gov- ernment may some day be faced with the contingency of investor reluctance to buy any more Government bonds. This is what Mr. Roosevelt himself must have had in mind when he told Congress early in his administration that “too often Iiberal governments are wrecked on the loose rocks of un- sound fiscal policy.” ‘The most serious problem of finance confronting any government is the presence of a large short-term floating debt. It is usually characteristic of governments with unbalanced budgets, because the investor is willing to take a chance for short periods of time, but is hesitant to invest in longer-term issues. The short-term debt of the Treasury is very large, but by no means unwieldly as yet. It may prove s £ i ] ] H collapse. She was born here on Oc- | tober 4, 1881. | With characteristic determination, | Miss Lincoln kept up her work almost |to the end, until her condition be- | came much Worse about two weeks | ago. The September issue of the| | D. A. R. Magazine, published by the | National Soclety, was mailed to sub- | scribers last week but a new mysters | | book which Miss Lincoln started du:- | ing the Summer remains half finished. ‘Wrote Book a Year. | A prolific fiction writer, Miss Lin- coln easily finished & book each year, | some times two. Her last volume, | “13 Thirteenth Street,” was written {in 1932, when she was suffering acutely from arthritis. She dictated | a chapter each day, revising and com- | pleting the entire book in 18 days to | send at once to her [ ablishers. Practically all of Miss Lincoln’s | stories were laid in the Washington | | she knew so well Her first book, “The | | Trevor Case” was published in 1912 | |and was an immediate success In| time she became & pular writer of | detective fiction and a contributor to various magazines, including McCall’s, | All Story, Smith’s, Detective Stories | and the MacFadden publications. 8he followed up her first book the same year with “The Lost Dispatch” and then launched into annual pro- duction. Miss Lincoln, in late years, | never worked out & plot in advance of writing. She would start with an idea |and weave the intricate pattern of her stories as she wrote. Drove Self Hard. She once said “a smattering of law and medicine and an active imagina- tion” constituted probably the best| recipe for detective story writing. Shei | might have added hard work, for Miss | Lincoln drove herself hard always in | research for plot ideas and attending | | to a long list of varied interests while | keeping up a fast pace of writing. | The scene of only one of her 22 volumes, “The Mystery of Mohawk | | Farm,” was laid outside her native Washington. The local color of her works, drawn largely from her inti- | mate knowledge of Washington condi-4 tions, likewise necessitated much re- | search into historical events. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Nathan 8. Lincoln and Jeannie Gould Lincoln. Her father was a leading | physician here for many years and at | one time was White House physician to President Garfield. From her mother, Miss Lincoln undoubtedly de- | rived her literary telents. During the days following the Civil War, Mrs. Lin- | coln was one of the most popular of the American novelists and her poetry, as a young woman, brought a congrat- ulatory note from Lord Tennyson. Edited D A. E. Magazine. Miss Lincoln from 1912 to 1914 sexved as soclety editor of the Wash- ington Herald, but soon gave up active | newspaper work to devote full time to fiction writing. Always active in D. A. R. affairs, she was elected editor of the official magazine of the National Society in 1915. Some years previous- ly she held the same position for a short while until she resigned. From 1915 on she never missed a single copy of the )..gazine, building up its circulation, ahd in recent years making i a financial asset instead of & liability. She enccuraged the pub- lication of historical articles and steadily improved the editorial tone. 8She was a member of the Litchfield, Conn, chapter and prominent in the national affairs of the society. Few persons connected with the D. A. R. hed a wider a juaintance in its huge 1 “mbership or more loyal friends. Among Miss Lincoln's numerous in- terests was her collection of postage stamps. Member of Mayflower Society. Miss Lincoln was a member of the Authors League of America, the May- flower Soclety, being & direct descend- ant of Gov. William Bradford; the Society of Founders and Patriots of America, the Colonial Dames of Amer- ica as well as the D. A. R. She also belonged to the Women's National ub, the Colonial Dames’ Club ‘Women's City Club. Dairy Output Climbs. Dairy production is steadily in- creasing in Austris. LIBOR DAY BRIGS LLL N STRHES Omaha Has Threat of Bak- ery Walkout in Addition to Car Trouble. By the Associuted Press. ‘The Monday hallowed for the no- bility of toil, called Labor day and recognized as a holiday in most every State of the Union, will be only a lull in industrial strife in many places. The strike of street car men in Omaha, Nebr, and Council Bluffs, Towa, started on April 20 and in- volving 268 men, still was on. Omaha also had a threat of a bakery strike. Union officials claimed 600 men were on strike at a stove manufacur- ing plant in Milwaukee. The Iows Manufacturing Co. at Cedar Rapids, Towa, was working with a skeleton force while negotiating with 250 work- ers demanding union recognition and higher wages. ‘The Strutwear Knitting Co. plant at Minneapolis, employing 1,100, was shut down indefinitely a week ago after pickets demanded reinstatement of eight discharged employes, union rec- ognition and increased pay. A broom- corn strike at Charleston, Ill, in- volving about 100 workers, was in- active with the crop harvested. Walkout at Lynchburg. Approximately 150 workers of the 8. & K. Knee Pants Co., Lynchburg, Va.,, walked out yesterday, claiming the company had slashed wages down to as low as $4 weekly for 45 hours of work since the demise of the N. R. A. The management planned to re- sume operations Tuesday with re- placements, Between 6,000 and 7,000 miners, who demand equalization of working hours. ‘were still on strike after 25 days at 10 collieries of the Philadelphia & Read- ing Coal & Iron Co. in the Pennsyl- vania anthracite field. Forty union drivers for two Tulsa Oklo., dairies voted to strike at mid- night tonight. unless the companies met demands for a minimum wage of $70 a month. Strikes in force in California in- cluded those of the bargemen on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers which started July 2, and the Jackson union miners, which began last Oc- tober. Four maritime unions at San Fran- cisco presented “requests” to steam- ship companies yesterday for shorter hours and more pay. The deadline for automatic renewal of agreements was midnight last night. Officials of the unions said the action would not im- pair water front peace. A strike of shipping clerks in garment-making firms of New York was thrown back to its beginning of a few days sgo when the union canceled some 400 agreements with individual manufacturers last night. The union claimed the manufacturers were boot- legging working cards to firms which had not signed with the union. Trouble at Seattle. Merchants at Seattle feared 8 gen- eral strike of produce workers was starting when 13 men walked out at one firm demanding a minimum of $27.50 a week. Dave Beck, interna- tional organizer for the teamsters. with whom the produce workers are affiliated, minimized the probability of the strike becoming general. The Forest City Manufacturing Go. at St. Louis had a strike on its hands because of alleged discrimination against union workers, the union claiming that 150, mostly women, were not rehired after a previous strike was settled. A threatened strike of 4,500 work- ers of the Wabash Railroad and its subsidiary, the Ann Arbor Railroad was averted through efforts of the National Mediation Board. A 13- day strike of street car and bus work- ers at South Bend, Ind, was ended Conferences were being held at the same place in an effort to avert a threatened strike of milk drivers. Some 600 union workers of the Co- lumbian Enemeling and Stamping Mill at Terre Haute have been idle since they struck last Spring and the mill has been operating with non- union help. Six score pressmen were on strike at Coshocton, Ohio, in protest against wage reductions and increased hours. The Hercules Clothing Co. of Columbus, Ohio, suspended oper- ations when 700 union workers walked out because of wage reductions. MONGREL DOG FAITHFUL AS BLIND OWNER DIES Whines Call Help and He Follows Master to Hospital, Then to Morgue. CHICAGO (#).—Burt Barnes, 65, & street musician, and his black-and- white mongrel dog were inseparable Barnes, almost blind, was found dying of a fractured skull. His dog was be- side him, whining pitifully. When the ambulance took Barmes six blocks to the hospital the dog ran behind it. The next day Barnes’ body went to the morgue, and still the dez followed. It has been admitted to the morgue and fed by attendants, ap- parently still grieving for its master. \ WILLYS WILL FILED Caveat, However, Made Against Estate of Auto Pioneer. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., August 31 (#).—The will of John North Willys. automobile executive, was flled here yesterday, but caveat proceedings fol- lowed to prevent its admission to pro- bate. Charles B. Mertz of Pelham, N. Y., sald to have been Willys' secretary, claimed in a suit against the document that he was named in a will of the . | automobile magnate dated June, 1934. Under the terms of the will filed for probate, dated May 13, of this year, the estate goes to Mrs. Florence E. Willys, the widow, and a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Clayton Willys Delanda. DIVORCE THWARTED ' Actress’ Protest Sets Aside De- cree—Kusel “Fears for Life.” LOS ANGELES, August 31 (#.—On petition of Jayne Manners, screen