Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1936, Page 2

HAWAII TO NEWARK IN 33 HOURS PLUS Kieran, Globe-Girdling Re- porter, Briefly Sketches Links of Journey. BY LEO KIERAN. NEW YORK, October 26 (N.A.N.A.). ~I ended the first all-scheduled dem- onstration of ’round-the-world high- speed transport Sunday morning at Times Square after a record-breaking frip from Honolulu to Newark Airport over scheduled airlines in 39 hours 20 minutes and 15 seconds for the,5,281- mile journey. The total elapsed time of the trip around the world from Times Square to Times Square, starting eastward and coming back from the west was 24 days 14 hours and 20 minutes, according to the stopwatches of the official timer of the National Aero- nautic Association. ‘This time includes a delay at Manila of four days when typhoons raged in the Pacific and delayed the departure Irom there of the China Clipper on 1ts first scheduled passenger flight to the United States. The original sched- ule called for a return to New York in 20 days and 15 hours, approxi- mately, and the delay in Manila was the only departure from it. Barker First Greeter. ‘The first reception I got as I de- barked from a United Air Lines bus dressed in trousers bought in Hong- kong, a shirt from India and a jacket from Manila, was from a barker in the Times Square district. Lack of trade on the quiet Sunday morning must have made him think me a stranger in town. “Ticket for a sight-seeing tour of the eity?” he cried, “all the principal | spots——" I brushed him aside and | headed for the office. “Maybe you need a guide to the hotels, buddy,” he continued. By that time, the timer, Willlam Zint, caught up with me and we trun- dled off through the door of the New York Times, leaving the man to look for slower customers. Upstairs in the city room, however, I was compelled to give a more de- tailed account of the trip. The city editor came to my rescue and told my interrogators to read the paper. No Money for Luxuries. Starting from Times Square at 7:43 p.m. on September 30, I had nothing in my pockets but tickets to Hong- kong, a ticket awaiting me there on “the China Clipper to leave on Octo- ber 16 at 2 a.m. and a ticket on United | ‘Air Lines from California to New York, plus a reasonable amount of money for incidental expenses such as any traveler might carry. With that I set forth in a bus of ‘American Air Lines for Newark Air- port to take the ferry plane to Lake- hurst, N. J., where I was scheduled to #ail on the airship Hindenburg at 10 pm. The weather was bad and planes | were grounded, so the bus took me | straight to Lakehurst. The Hindenburg arrived late at Frankfort and I was forced to alter the original plan when my Lufthansa plant could not get in at Milan, Italy, because the airport there is unlighted. ‘The plane was forced to land me at Basle, Switzerland, the nearest port with lights, and then commenced a dash for Brindisi, during which I took a taxicab from Bologna to Brindist. A subsequent delay of a day on the Brindisi-Hongkong schedule of Im- perial Airways of England kept me on edge for the next few days, but I ar- rived in Hongkong in time to catch my steamer for Manila, where I ar- rived at 8 am. October 15, fully 18 hours before my scheduled boarding ©f the China Clipper. Planned to Take Same Clipper. During the Hindenburg trip I was accompanied by H. R. Ekins of the Bcripps-Howard newspapers and Miss Dorothy Kilgallen of Universal Serv- ice and the New York Evening Jour- nal. Both had round-the-world trips in mind, each intending to catch the same clipper as I So kaleidoscopic was the trip that it will be several days, perhaps longer, before the moving curtain of the earth’s surface, as seen from the air, will resolve itself into definite and lasting impressions. That there were many which will stand out after a short rest I know, but, at the present writing, I can only set down those which took place in the last hours of the flight. The trip was in no sense a stunt, and can be duplicated by any traveler who cares to avail himself of modern scheduled transportation and, if the trip has proved anything of lasting value to the world of travel, it has been well worth the effort, expense and time allotted me on the assign- ment. {Copyrizht. 1 New. FARES 6. by the North American per Alliance. Inc.) TOTAL $2,368.26 World Girdling Trip Can Be Dupli- cated at Small Expense. Here is Leo Kieran's expense ac- count on his trip around the world by established commercial transporta- tion facilities, open to any traveler: Bus fare, New York-Lake- $6.00 Passport and visa fees. $6.00 Fare on Hindenburg, Lake- hurst-Frankfort Federal tax on Hindenburg fare _ .................. - 5.00 Airplane fare, Frankfort- Basle P (] Railroad fare, Basle-Bologna... 22.68 Motor car fare, Bologna- Brindisi .- e Airplane fare, Brindisi-Hong- 116.68 794.70 41.00 Airplane fare, San Francisco- Newark, and bus fare, New- ark-New YOrK..ceeoeceoae Total ccecuciaeesn —eceen---$2,368.26 The fares on the Hindenburg, on the airplane trips and on the steam- ship voyage include meals and lodging. 160.00 NATURE’S SIGNS POINT TO “OLD-TIME” WINTER St. Marys Residents Say Trees - Belie Predictions of Mildness. @pecial Dispetch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., October 26. —Despite the predictions of a mild Winter by many, nature’s signs point in the opposite direction here. ? With holly berries thick on the the ground covered with acorns, one of the best yields of corn in years, and the tree bark thicker on the north side, it looks like a hard Winter, ac- cording to the old-timers here. L] | the very top of her list was a baby Washington Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things, GIRL who works in Smithso- nian Institution has come to believe that there are some school teachers who, on tour, Wolff’s story, “One of the Girls of Our Party.” She knows because she met one the other day in the form of a breathless the question: “Can you get me some literature describing this place? You see, there is so much else to see that I don't want to waste time here. How- will want to know all about it. If I can get some literature I can read it on the train and tell them I spent a day at Smithsonian. They'll never | Wayside HURRY. are like those described in Thomas young woman who burst upon her with ever, the other teachers back home know the difference.” The Smithsonian girl suggested the teacher buy one of the 10-cent guide books from the guard on the door. The subsequent dime transaction took care of the wonders of science, history, | etc, which some of the Nation's best minds have been collecting for the in- stitution for many decades. * x x % BUSINESS. If you get off a street car at Union Station with a suit case in hand you're pretty sure to be ap- proached by ome or more small boys, asking “Mister, have you got a street car pass you don’t want?” Residents leaving town provide an income lucrative to the young- sters, who dispose of such passes as they acquire at a rate commen- surate with the duration of their validity. * x ¥ % OUT OF SEASON. F YOU see handsome, mature-look- ing woman walking through the Department of Commerce Building | with a baffled expression on her face, | one of our operatives thinks he can | tell you why. | The woman, it seems, became a | grandmother not so long ago, and like | most women achieving that distinc- tion she set immediately about the job of deluging the baby with gifts. At | carriage. With a grandmotherly gleam in her eye she skipped into the baby department of a large store. | “I would like to see baby carriages,” | she told the clerk. “Sorry,” said the latter, “but we have none. No one is carrying them.” | “But why?” expostulated the grand- | mother. “Because, madam, this is simply not the season for them,” the clerk ex- plained. L EVENSONG. 'D FOLEY, the automobile clubman, | sang for his newspaper the other night but finally had to cough up the 2 cents in payment. Mr. Foley and a companion were wandering up the street when the for- | mer was seized by an obsession to| get the latest word on what was hap- | pening in the world. iend sing for his paper instead of paying for it?” Foley's companion asked the newsboy. “Sing," sald the newsboy, a lad of sporting instincts. Foley sang a few bars of a popular | number before the newsboy, losing | interest, turned to the crooner’s friend with the remark: “Sorry, but you'll have to pay the 2 cents.” * x k% EXPERT. When Joseph E. Murphy of the Secret Service couldn’t find the keys to a pair of the service’s best handcufs, he took them to a New York avenue locksmith, prepared for some delay in the manufacture of a special key. The proprietor took one glance at the shackles, referred to a little blue book and produced the proper key at once. * ok kX SHOES. QHOES, not clothes, are the bane of “? a Washington mother, whose young daughter frequents the Annap- olis hops. This young lady fairly builds her- self to suit the midshipman whose favor as a dancing partner she hap- pens to hold at the moment. Last year her “special” happened to be very tall, so she selected dancing shoes which ran to the extreme in the matter of heels. Her “latest,” how- ever, would barely miss tipping noses with her if she hadn't taken the proper steps in choice of shoes. Her mother declares that a row of high- heel bootery on her closet shelf has gone into the discard, while a second shelf is filled with this year’s shoes of vari-colored shades and with just a suggestion of heel. Paper Business Valuable. Paper manufacturing in Pennsyl< vania today is estimated as a $250,~ 000,000 business. Night Final Deli it in The Night Final Sports Anywhere in the City Full Sports Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. Whatever it is, you'll ind THE EVENING DE BONO REVEALS ORDER FOR WAR Marshal, in Book, Quotes Mussolini on Instructions to Fight Ethiopia. By the Assoctated Press. ROME, October 26.—Mussolini de- cided upon the Italo-Abyssinian war in 1933 and began his preparations then, Marshal Emilio de Bono, who commanded the Italian troops at the start of the war, reveals in his book on “the preparation and the first o] ations.” In 1933, he writes, “the head of the government fixed his thoughts on the possibility of military operations in East Africa.” ‘The first point to decide was whether the operations should be initiated with a defensive or offensive operation. De Bono made an extensive survey and submitted his findings to Il Duce. Decision Delayed. “His excellency the head of the government,” he writes, “to whom I reported the results of my survey, was | not rismayed at the entity of the thing, but he did not decide then and there for the offensive. He, it must be understood, had to take into ac- count above all the international situ- ation and the fact that all our armed forces, although making great progress, | had not yet reached the state of ef- ficiency that Il Duce, minister of the armed forces, had preordained.” In 1933, De Bono reveals, he asked Mussolini for the honor of leading the Italian troops, and Mussolini replied “certainly.” De Bono inquired: “Then you don’t think I'm too old?” (He is past 70.) Mussolini replied: “No, be- cause we must not lose any time.” “From that time on,” De Bono writes, “Il Duce had the clear idea that the question must be resolved not later than 1936, and told me so.” Verbal Orders Required. At the beginning of 1934, he relates, the commander of the troops then in Eritrea and the Italian military at-| tache at Addis Ababa came to Italy for talks with Mussolini and himself. “It being now necessary,” he con- | tinues, “to pass to the carrying out of | the pre-established plans, it was our | duty to communicate to the ministry | of war, to the chief of general staff and to the command of the general staff what was the will of the chief. | “In order to avoid too much on paper, I Duce ordered that all the decisions taken with regard to the un- | dertaking should be verbalized. “He knew that at the opportune moment he would have had all Italy | with him. But it was not necessary to conceal the fact that there were not lacking uncertain persons, nor persons as usual desirous of quiet, nor the timid.” In 1934, he says, began the first meetings, presided over by Mussolini, with the military chiefs. Native Troops Enlisted. De Bono then describes the initial preparation in the colony. More na- tive troops were enlisted. Road work | was begun. Building of barracks and | warehouses started. At the same time & political office was started with the task of undermining the allegiance of the Ethiopians to Emperor Haile Selassie. 1 ““The result of our political dis- | uniting action,” he says, “was seen in symptoms from the very beginning of the operations. It subtracted from our enemy not fewer than 200,000 men who either did not take up arms or | who, although mobilized and armed, showed themselves inactive.” De Bono left for Africa again Jan- | uary 7, 1935, with the following in- structions from Mussolini: “You leave with the olive branch | in your pocket. Let us see how and | if the incident of Ual-Ual will be | solved. If it is convenient to accept | | the conditions which will be given us, | Yyou will announce to the Emperor | your assumption of the new position, telling him that you have been sent there to clear up misunderstandings and to collaborate toward good neigh- bor relations in the moral and ma- terial interests of the two states. In the meantime, carry on actively your | preparations as if the case were most difficult and adverse to us. Negus Declines to Attack. “If the solution of the incident does not come about or is not to our sat- isfaction, we will follow the events according to our own particular point of view.” Soon after reaching Eritrea, De Bono reported to Mussolini that the Negus did not intend to attack, Mus- solini then wrote him: “In case the Negus does not intend to attack us, it must be we ourselves who will take the initiative.” In May when difficulties with Eng- land began, Mussolini wrote him that, “You must have foodstuffs and muni- tions for at least three years.” At the end of June, De Bono re- ceived a letter from II Duce with re- gard to foreign secretary Anthony Eden’s trip to Rome. “In a very secret note,” De Bono says, “he (Mussolini) told me that if we got into trouble with the English we would naturally be obliged to re- nounce our offensive action and con- tent ourselves in the beginning with keeping to a defensive which weculd have insured the integrity of the colony. “This was indispensable also to re- duce consumption to & minimum be- cause our supplies, with the closing of the Suez Canal and the probable superiority of the British fleet over our naval division would have become more than problematical. “But even in this to-be-deprecated 3l.se I1 Duce had decided to take the are.” —_— Released From Hospital. LURAY, Va., October 26 (Special). —Mrs. Carroll Penn and her infant son, who were seriously burned in a gasoline fire in which an older child lost its life, have been removed from the hospital to their home in Luray. Mrs. Penn’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Myers of Washington, are with er, vered by Carrier | found in Dameron's pocket, together ! ing station operators or other persons STAR, WASHINGTO DAMERON DEATH ANGLES PUZZLING Senator Byrd’s Ex-Secre- tary Possible Victim of Foul Play on Highway. The death of Hervey E. Dameron, 49, former secretary to Senator Byrd of Virginia, who was found injured yesterday beside the Washington high- way, three miles north of Richmond, was still under investigation today. Although Coroner J. H. Scherer of Richmond termed Dameron the victim of a hit-and-run driver, after view- ing the body at the hospital in which he died without regain- ing consciousness, Larkin W. Glaze. brook, ir., special investigator for the Virginia State Motor Vehicle Di- vision, stated he was not satisfied that the man was killed in an auto- mobile accident.” Glazebrook cited several circumstances surround- ing the case as evidence that further investigation was necessary. “One of the peculiar angles of the case,” he explained, “is that long, deep gash across the stomach. It could have been made by a knife. Another is the man'’s belt, still buckled, but cut in two in the back, found 15 feet farther from the road behind a tree.” Brain Hemorrhage Fatal. Dameron was found in Chicka- hominy Swamp, about 10 feet off the highway, Death was caused by hem- orrhage of the brain, the coroner said. He suffered a fractured skull, face and abdominal cuts and a broken nose. He died shortly before noon | vesterday, about three hours after he | was found. His wife, Mrs. Ida Dameron, 444 New Jersey avenue southeast, left | here yesterday for Richmond, but| failed to reach his bedside before his | death. | Another unexplained phase of the case was the fact that all Dameron’s injuries, except a few minor brush burns, seemed to be on the upper | portion of his body, and some par- ticles of glass were found embedded | in his skull. | Glazebrook said that if Damerson had been struck by an automobile, he believed the lower part of the body would have been injured as well as| the upper part. Dameron was last heard from Fri- day night, when he told his son, | Paige E. Dameron, he thought he| would go to Washington. Young Damerson was at a loss to explain why his father should be walking | beside the highway at night. < Hitchhiking Possibility. State Officer H. C. Gatewood, who also was investigating the case, ad- vanced the theory Dameron might have been hitchhiking. “When he saw an automobile com- | ing,” Gatewood said, “he might have leaned forward to thumb a ride. This might have caused the gash across his stomach.” He said he could not | explain why the belt was found so far from the body. Moreover, an unused airplane ticket, good from Richmond to Washington, which hospital authorities said they H. E. Dameron, with about $1 in change, tended to disprove the hitchhiking theory. Officers said they could locate no fill- alonz the highway who had seen Dameron. A cane he always used was beside his body. Dameron, who resigned as Senator Byrd's secretary September 1, was well known in political circles here. A native of Northumberland County, Va. he first came to Washington 20 years ago as a member of the staff of the late Representative W. A. Jones of the first congressional district of | Virginia. Later he served in the Treasury Department and in 1931 was appointed assistant disbursing clerk in the office of South Trimble, House | clerk. When Senator Byrd came to | ‘Washington three years ago, he select- ed Dameron as his secretary. “Racket” (Continued From First Page.) that the jurymen will recommend a recall within a month to continue the investigation. Keystone attorneys did not reveal the names of the other two witnesses who had been approached, pending submission of affidavits by them, Iannucci’s suit, introduced through Attorney B. E. Sager of Mount Rainier, Md., asks $140 from Bondsman Elmer Pumphrey of Suitland. The com- plainant avers that he paid Pumphrey a $50 bonding fee and a $100 “fine” after his arrest on a charge of ex= ceeding 60 miles per hour in Hyatts- ville recently. Iannucci declares that he never went to Police Court. Suit Asks $140. Meanwhile attorneys of the Key- stone Automobile Club, who have collected a mass of data purporting to show wholesale mulcting of Washing- ton drivers by police-bonding collusion, reported an immediate reaction to a suit filed in Circuit Court here Satur- day afternoon. Introduced by Iannucci through B. E. Sager of Mount Rainier, the suit asks $140 from Bondsman Elmer Pumphrey of Suitland. Iannucci avers that he paid Pumphrey a $50 bonding fee and a $100 “fine” after his arrest on a charge of exceeding 60 miles per hour in Hyattsville recently. The complainant declares that he never went to Police Court, Affidavits Taken, Attached to the declaration is a certified copy of the court record showing a charge of exceeding 45 miles per hour and a $10 collateral forfeiture. The case will be docketed for trial in April. Numerous motorists, in addition to the more than 150 who have already made complaints to Keystone, com- municated with the club yesterday after notice of the suit was publicized. Keystone attorneys expect to send about 50 Washington drivers before the jury if it reconvenes, as is ex- pected, within a month. Afdavits nave been taken from the complain- ants by Attorneys Harvey Cobb, Wal- ter Newrath, both of Washington, and Edition, THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month, Call National 5000 and service Louis Lebowitz of Mount Rainfer. Weed Causing Damage. Puncture vine, a wéed which troubled Mediterranean countries in the earli- est historic times, is now causing heavy damage in the American South- A The American Shipper, United States Line merchant liner, which was reported drifting Two tugs were sent to its aid after the liner sent helpless today in heavy seas off the Irish Coast. (Story on Page A-1.) out a call for assistance. Hitch-Hiking Campaigner, 15 clHiking Campiger 15, GREN KSRV Oklahoma Boy Plays Hookey to Stump Country. Fifteen-year-old Lee Edgar Nagle of Muskogee, Okla., who said he has| hitch-hiked more than 2.000 miles | speaking in high schools and on street corners “for Roosevelt,” called at the White House today and reported on his trip to Secretary Marvin McIntyre The boy carried a small handbag | bearing a glittering sien which, he | said, has been the source of free auto- | mobile rides wherever he has wanted | to go. The sign. which reflects auto- mobile headlights at night and the sunshine by day, read: | “Traveling the Country, Speaking for Roosevelt.” Lee sells neckties carrying a picture of President Roosevelt for 25 cents each, but, he said, this has scarcely | served to support him. He usually | gets aid from local Democratic head- quarters, he added. A fish peddler on the radio aroused Lee to play hooky from school and stump the country for Mr. Roosevelt, he said. He heard the peddler making | such an attack on Mr. Roosevelt that he resolved to take to the roads in | defense of the President. Lee writes to his mother twice a day so she won't be worried, he con- | tinued, but he travels so fast he never hears from her. He is a sophomore | in high school at Muskogee, where nis | mother and sister live. “Did you ask the teacher to let you out of school for this trip?” he was asked. “Nope,” he answered. “I figured | she wouldn't let me off, anyway, so I didn't tell her. I'll try to catch up in my school work later.” Lee, who said his father is a P. W. LEE EDGAR NAGLE. A. civil engineer in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., left._home October 3 and expects to get back about election time. SMALLTOWNSEEN FIELD FOR STUDY William Seabrook, Here for Lecture, Observes Complexities. Nof even the isolated primitive peoples of the world offer “more fantastic or more complicated” charac- ter studies than those found in typical American com- munities, in the opinion of Wil- liam Seabrook, author and traveler. Best known as | the author of “Asylum,” Sea- | brook is in Wash- | ington for a lec- | ture tonight at | Roosevelt High School, under the auspices of Sigma Tau Deita, honorary English fraternity at Wil- son Teachers' College. During his visit here he is staying at the home of his sister in Chevy Chase. His confession of wonder at the com- plexity of America’s small town life results from a study he is now making of foreign language groups in this country with a view to including them in a new book. To this end, he has settled on a small farm in Dutchess County, N. Y., with & “typical” small town nearby. Like many literary expatriates, Sea- brook finds himself extremely curious about the United States. After living in Southern France for a number of years, in a colony of writers which, at times, included Thomas Mann and | Aldous Huxley, he is turning to Amer- ica for material for this next book. He notices that this tendency is grow- ing among his contemporaries—Vin- cent Shean, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis being among others who have come back to this country after years in Europe. He points to it as normal reaction among a thoughtful group that is growing slightly older. Seabrook’s story, as he gave 1t to the interviewer, is one of a young re- porter who suddenly found himself famous as an author and richer than he had ever dared to dream of being. “It was after my Haiti book came out,” he said, “that I made so much money and really began to think of myself as a successful author. Well, I have an aphorism for that. It covers the case, I guess. It is, ‘Nothing fails like success.” Anyway, that is how I found it.” He told how he entered on a career William Seabrook. for the insane, to see if psychiatrists culd cure his alcohclism. For two years now he has drunk nothing alcoholic, he said, although fhixes drinks for his friends, and not care to have his abstinence a matter of undue attention. ave made it appear & faflure, he said, thinks - it that this g0 _uncorrected, deeply versed as an WEIRTON ‘TERROR CHARGES PROBED La Follette Committee Agent to Investigate Com- plaints of Unions. BS the Assoclated Press. The La Follette senatorial com- mittee investigating civil liberties violations announced today that Ernest C. Dunbar of Pittsburgh would leave at once for Weirton, W. Va, to study charges that steel union organizers there were being subjected to “a campaign of terror.” | Dunbar is a special agent for the committee and acting regional di- rector of the National Labor Rela- tions Board. Complaints that the National Steel Co. had hired “a gang of armed thugs” to attack union organizers in Weirton and Steubenville, Ohio, were made by Phillip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers’ Organizing Com- mittee. Court Domination Charged. Asserting that law-enforcement of- ficers had taken no action to halt the disorders, Murray charged that Weirton courts were “dominated” by Ergest T. Weir, chalrman of the steel company's board. He gave details of six assaulis on union officials, adding the assertion that Weir was “personally responsi- ble” for “these brutal attacks and the flagrant disregard” of law en- forcement in the steel town. Murray added the company officials also had “recruited from the mill, under threat of discharge, a large force of workers” to oppose organizers of his committee. Although complaints had been made to law-enforcement officers, he said, “no relief was secured.” Charges Lack of Protection. Murray's letter contended that “the local administration in Weirton, W. Va, has clearly proved to be unable or unwilling to protect the citizens of that town in their enjoy- ment of elementary rights guaranteed to them under the Constitution of the United States.” Murray asked the Governors of both Ohio and West Virginia to “in- stitute a thorough-going investigation of this entire situation.” His letter was sent to the La Fol- lette committee by Lee Pressman, general counsel of the Organizing Committee, who said he believed “this situation certainly merits a complete Investigation by Senate agents.” —e Charity Ball Planned. PURCELLVILLE, Va., October 26. —A charity ball for the benefit of the Loudoun County Tuberculosis Asso- clation will be held in the Purcellville ‘Town Hall, November 6. authority on the practice of magic among primitive peoples. While he admits to having seen strange things, he deniles belief in any superhuman power beyond the use of “psychic forces.” When the interviewer asked if he thought these forces could ever be harnessed, he observed that they Were. being harnessed now in treate ment of various nervous disorders and for some forms of insanity. —M.C.R. A & FOR OFFIGE UNION Over MiIIion' Workers Held Eligible for Membership. Federal Group Cited. A recommendation for a campaign to bring office workers into the ranks | of organized labor will be included by William Green, president of the APAN Y DUEE ANDHTLER Triple Alliance Against Com- munism Hinted by Ital- ian Commentator. By the Associated Press. ROME, October 26.—A tripartite alignment against communism—in. cluding Italy, Germany and Japan— was hinted today in the newspaper Giornale D'Italia by the authoritative commentator, Virginio Gayda. “Against Communism Fascist Italy and National Socialist Germany have decisively reared up in the name of European and world collaboration,” Gayda wrote. “We are glad to note faraway Japan also adheres to these positions owing to a similarity of views and purposes.” Gayda, often described as the “un- official spokesman of the Fascist gov- ernment’" said this about Japan: “Japan is the advanced sentinel of a living, constructive civilization in the Pacific which sustains an open fight for the defense of the entire Asiatic continent against the corro- sions of communism. Why Japan Left League. “Japan also left Geneva (the League of Nations) owing to the in- comprehension of the League in her vital problem in Manchukuo, which was equal to the incomprehension demonstrated in the Italian problem in Ethiopia.” Italy and Germany, Gayda asserted, will not be influenced by “Soviet provocations in the so-called non- Intervention Committee in London.” Rather, the writer declared, the two totalitarian powers will “repel them by every means if they go be- yond the limits of gratuitious denun- ciations and paper propaganda.” An Italo-German agreement by which the two countries will collabo- rate on major problems was disclosed in a communique announcing the con- American Federation of Labor, in his report to the annual convention next | month in Tampa, Fla. | Citing organization efforts among Government employes as proof of | | what could be accomplished among | workers in this category, Green yes- terday described them as “probably the least organized group of workers { | in the country.” | ‘The census of 1930, he explained, iisted 811,000 persons as stenograph- ers and typists and 739,000 as book- membership of which has probably 1.550,000. Probably three-fourths of | that number would be eligible for | membership in the A. F. of L. affiliate, | the Stenographers, Typwriters, Book- | keepers and Assistants Union, the | membershpi of which has probably | never exceeded 5.000 in its more than 30 years of existence. The greater portion of the present union membership is still among em- | ployes of unions affiliated with the | | federation. The Washington local, | No. 11,773, with about 400 members, is one of the largest of the 39 Fed- eral unions established to date in the larger cities of the country. | { The success of campaigns to organ- ize Federal workers into the American Federation of Government Employes | is sufficient proof that men and wom- | en in that group can be brought into | association with other labor groups, | wherever fear of losing their jobs is not a factor, Green said. “Office workers usually come in| closer personal contact with their em- ployers than others, but with the growth of corporations and companies employing large numbers of men and women, the only method of securing | | better wages and working conditions | and adequate security of their jobs is to organize with other federation | groups,” he asserted. Most of the workers in the federa- tion's office here have been employed for many years and feel secure in their jobs, he added, but, nevertheless, the federation has a signed contract with the local office workers’ union, providing for maximum hours, over- | | time pay, minimum pay, collective bargaining and an arbitration clause for settling disputes between the fed- | | eration and the local. 'FIGHT ON CAPITAL VOTERS DROPPED Proceedings Started by Jefferson County, W. Va., Republicans End by Agreement. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., October 26.—Proceedings instituted by the Re- publican Executive Committee of Jef- | ferson County to have the names of | several hundred absentee voters, re- siding principally in Washington, stricken from the registration lists on the ground that they are not bona fide residents, has been dropped by agree- ment of counsel, it was disclosed to- day. Registrars had been summoned to | appear tomorrow before the County Court; which proposed to conduct a hearing. The summonses have been | recalled, it was said today, following the agreement. Dismissal was made after a hearing |in Berkeley County last Thursday, | during which counsel for about 50 | such absentee voters, resisting the | erasure of their names or the order | to compel them to appear and satisfy | the court as to their right to vote in | | Berkeley County, raised the question | | as to the sufficiency of the registered | | letter method of notifying the voters | | in question and the amount of time | given to make reply. Counsel for the sponsors of the move for erasure finally concurred in this position and joined in a motion for dismissal. There were more than 600 names on the Berkeley County list. Roosevelt (Continued From First Page.) will speak Thursday at the Pennsyl- vania State Capitol in Harrisburg. Also on Thursday’s page of the date book are informal talks, probably extemporaneous, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Camden, N. J., and Wilmington, Del. Brooklyn Speech Scheduled. Jumping back to the Capital for less than a day of White House labor between talks, he will leave again Fri- day afternoon for an evening address at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn. The academy is a familiar Roosevelt | rostrum, where the President has talked in several campaigns of his career. The Democratic women leaders of the Bronx will hear the President Saturday noon, and he will make a clusion of conversation with Hitler and Konstantin von Neurath, Ger- man foreign minister, by an Italian mission headed by Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. The communique gave plain warn- ing the two totalitarian nations had submerged their differences and would unify their policies to confront what they regard as common threats to their security and ambitions. Drafted after Hitler received Ciann at his Bavarian estate yesterday, the announcement enumerated six points on which agreement had been reached. They were: The Locarno pact, the League of Nations, the Spanish civil war, the Danubian Basin including Austria, bilateral economic co-opera- tion and a united front against com- munism. Details were withheld but the state- ment did not imply any formal alliance or treaty. The text of the communique: “During the visit by the minister of foreign affairs for Italy, Count Ciano, made to the fuehrer-chancellor of the Reich and during the conversations which he had with the director of German policy, they examined the most important questions of present= day political, economic and social na= ture, particularly those more directly concerning the two countries. “The conversations were carried on in an atmosphere of friendly cordiality. | There was evidence—to their mutual satisfaction—of a concordance of views and a determination by the two gove ernments to conduct in common action to their advantage a general work fof peace and reconstruction To Maintain Contact. “The two governments are to main- tain contact with each other for the accomplishment of these purposes.” At the same time, II Duce in & speech at Imola indicated he has no hope for lasting peace and depends, therefore, on force for the preservas tion of Italian security. Chgered by 70,000 listeners, Tl Duce reiterated the admonition he delivered Saturday at nearby Bologna that Italy's “olive branch grows out of an immense forest of 8,000,000 bayonets.” “Our security is in our force,” he shouted. “Above all, it is in our iron will.” 11 Duce returned to Rome this noon, piloting his tri-motor plane. Couzens (Continued From First Page) ~ your ideals and ability must not, be- cause of a political system, be lost to the country. As you are aware, one | of the most difficult problems before us is that of American shipping. Ever since the mail subsidies of the 1840s, when the merchant marine legislation was first passed, shipping has gone through ups and downs, but always more or less the victim of party poli= tics or of shipping lobbies. “‘Today I am confronted with con= stituting a Maritime Commission une der the new bill, which, although not perfect, is very definitely a step in the right direction, giving powers to this independent commission Which are far greater than any previously granted. In fact, this new commis- slon can put our sea-borne trade back on its feet in an honest way. * * * “‘What I need and what the coun- try needs is a fearless chairman of | this Maritime Commission who will | take the responsibility in setting up and putting through a new and pere manent mercantile marine Dolicy. Experts on engineering, ship design, ship management, etc., can be hired, but a chairman with the capacity and the courage I seek cannot be hired— he must be drafted. ““That is why I want you on the 1st of January to undertake the task of heading the Maritime Comumise sion. I would ask you to serve at once, but I cannot do this under the Constitution until your term cf office as a Senator has expired.” “Senator Couzens told the ,Presi= dent he would talk the matter over with him after the election.” Iglesias (Continued From First Page) stantly guarded his home and his per- son. The governor's residence has been more heavily policed since the Riggs killing than at any time since the American occupation. IGLESIAS ELECTED IN 1932, ntiago Iglesias, running as & Coalitionist, was elected resident com- missioner from Puerto Rico to the United States Congress in November, 1932. His term, starting March 4, 1933, is for four years. Polling 208,226 votes, his closest opposition was furnished by major speech that night to an audi- ence in New York’s Madison Square Garden.* ~A the Liberal candidate, Benigno Fer- nandez with the Nationalist nominee running far behind the leaders.