Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight, colder tomorrow afternoon and night; lowest temperature tonight about 45 degrees, Temperatures—Highest, 55, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 33, at 6 a.m. to- day. Full report on page A-13. Closing New York Markets, Page 14 84th YEAR. No. W 10 QUTLAW COERCION IS ASKED BY STEEL WORKERS Roosevelt Also Asked to Recommend Act to Ban Company Unions. REPRESENTATIVES TALK WITH LABOR SECRETARY Letter to White House Charges Threat to Force Employes to Accept Pay Increase. B the Associated Press. Elmer J. Maloy and George A. Pat- terson, employe representatives of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co., today asked President Roosevelt to recommend to the next Congress adoption of legisla- tion outlawing coercion of workers by employers and forbidding company- financed unions. In presenting their appeal to the President, Maloy and Patterson com- pleted their campaign for Federal sup- port in resisting the Carnegie-Illinois employe representation plan and the | proposed wage agreement which the | company has asked employe repre- | sentatives to sign. Yesterday they were successful in obtaining from Secretary Perkins an opinion that the company's employe representatives do not have authority to sign a binding wage agreement. The company has offered a 10 per cent increase in wages contingent on Signing a year's agreement—starting Monday—which provides that wages shall be adjusted upward and down- ward with fluctuations in the cost of living, as computed by the Labor De- | partment. 3 Threat Is Charged. Maloy and Patterson said in a let- | ter delivered at the White House that “The United States Steel Corp. (of which Carnegie-Illinois is the largest subsidiary) has gone to such desperate lengths in trying to force employe representatives to sign this agreement, | namely, using a threat that the plants not signed may not participate in an | increase, keeping these representatives | in almost continuous session for three | or four days to force them in line, | telling them most of the other plants bave already signed when the truth was, they had not, calling in indi- vidual representatives so that greater pressure could be exerted, and even going so far as to place on bulletin boards all over these plants circulars erroneously crediting the President of the United States with approving such | a yellow dog contract, we feel that | you should recommend to the next Congress appropriate legislation to eliminate such coercive tactics and | provide adequate punishment for vio- | lations.” Ask Law With Teeth. In addition, they asked that pro-| vision he made to provide expenses for | inform me that the character of the | workers who are a party to litigation | against employer coercion or dis- | crimination. The letter added: “We also request a law with teeth, | absolutely forbidding the financing of | company unions by the management, | in any way, and providing that all meetings by employe representatives be held outside the plants and be | Iree from all interference from the managements, and that the men of | each plant be permitted to choose whatever collective bargaining agency | they wish without fear or favor.” | Maloy and Patterson expressed “heartfelt gratitude” to the President for his statement yesterday at a press conference in which he said the cost of living should not be a de- termining factor in wage rates if it acted to curb improvement of ‘wages. They said they were grateful for “the splendid manner in which vou clarified your stand on living cost Index base, such base being the es- sence of the so-called agreement on wages being offered by the United States Steel Corporation.” Lewis Followers Gain. Followers of John L. Lewis also re- Joiced today in the result of another preliminary skirmish against an em- ployes’ representation plan in the ag- ricultural implement industry. On complaint of the United Auto- mobile Workers, a member of the Lewis camp of industrial unionists, the National Labor Relations Board moved to demolish the “Harvester In- dustrial Council Plan” in operation at (See LABOR, Page A-2) DOCTOR KIDNAPED, $5,000 DEMANDED Brother's Report Enlists G-Men and Postal Inspectors’ Help. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, November 14.—Depart- of & $5,000 extortion note. ged the com- with the Oak Park By o 5z H £ N SEEE 33,800. Entered as second class matter post office, Washingion, D. C. Harrison Made Filipino After Ruling Isles Ex-Governor General First American Naturalized. BY the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, November 14— Francis Burton Harrison, former American governor general of the Philippines, became a naturalized Filipino today. He took the oath of citizenship at a special ceremony before President Manuel Quezon of the cgp wealth. The ceremony was held at historic Malacanan Palace, Harrison's home from 1913 to 1921, when he was gov- ernor general of the islands, and now Quezon's official residence. Harrison is the first American to become a citizen of the Philippives. A special act of the Assembly made it possible for him to change his citizen- ship without the usual formalities. After taking the oath, the former Governor General said: “I am glad to have been associated with Mr. Quezon and the Filipino people for the last 25 years in their struggle for independence. I am grati- fied to be able to see the successful conclusion of that struggle as a Fili- pine citizen.” Harrison, a former Representative from New York, has been frequently praised by Filipinos as one of the leading Americans in their fight for freedom. Now 62 years old he is en- tering the business life of the Philip- pines. WALLACE IS TOLD ABATTOIR VIEWS Passes On to Commissioner Hazen Opinion It Would Detract From Area. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace entered the Benning abattoir con- troversy today with a letter to Com- missioner Melvin C. Hazen pointing out that officials of the District Arboretum had informed him “the character of the area in that vicinity is likely to be adversely affected by the presence there of a slaughter house.” On the outcome of the fight to pre- vent Adolf Gobel, Inc, from rs- engaging in slaughter house operations in Benning, it was learned a short time before Wallace's letter was made public, depends the fate of a privately- planndd housing project in the area. Explaining that the Agriculture Department’s attention . had been drawn to the proposal to erect the abattoir, the BSecretary pointed out that the location is “in the general vicinity of the Arboretum adminis- tered by this department.” The letter added: “Those in charge of the Arboretum ares in that vicinity is likely to be adversely affected by the presence there of a slaughter house, and I am calling this back to your attention, feeling that the general indirect re- sults of this kind .will be an important consideration in your handling of the | application for a permit.” Legal Aides Plan Policy. Meanwhile legal aides of the Dis- | trictc and several Federal agencies continued preparations to uphold the | Commissioners, who plan Monday to | make a formal denial of a building permit in the face of pending man- damus proceedings. Argument of the Gobel suit was set by the United States District Court for the follow- ing day. Arthur -B. Grover of White Plains, N. Y, and Charles A. Layman of Scarsdale, N. Y., are partners in the proposed housing development and own a large tract of land just off Benning road, across the railroad tracks from the existing Gobel. site. Grover, in a hone conversation with The Star y, gave ine formation about the housing plans. Sees Project Handicapped. “If the abattoir is constructed on the Gobel site,” he said, “it will make it impossible for us to obtain insur- ance from the Federal Housing Ad- ministration or to rent any houses if we built them.” In'a map prepared for The Star by officials of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission ‘and reproduced in last Sunday’s Star to show the location of the proposed abbatoir, in relation to other points in Northeast Washington, an area near the abbatoir was labeled “F. H. A. (See ABBATOIR, Page A-2) JOHN F. WHELAN DIES Retired Cigar Stores Vice Presi- dent Was 75 Years Old. in 1929 85 & vice president of United Oigar Btores Co., died today after a he WASHINGTON, D. C, WEEK END DRIVE URGED FOR CHEST ASPLEDGES GROW More Than 30 Per Cent of Goal Attained—Renewed Effort Planned. BIG REPORT MONDAY IS WORKERS’ DESIRE Chairman Jennings Reports Group Solicitation and Government TUnits “a Little Behind.” ‘With more than 30 per cent of its goal attained, the ninth annual cam- paign of the Community Chest planned to move forward over the week end 'with intensified efforts looking toward a big report meeting Monday. No luncheon report meeting was scheduled for today, a departure from previous custom, as Chest officials made the experiment of leaving out the Saturday meeting to determine whether solicitation results would be improved. While no public gatherings are scheduled for tomorrow, the workers planned Saturday and Sunday activi- ties following the urg ig of Cam- paign Chairman Coleman Jennings to prepare for a “grand” report Monday. Pointing to the big showing of Special Assignments Unit which al- ready has reachéd 73.8 per cent of its quota, Chairman Jennings at lunch- eon yesterday said that both Group Solicitation Unit and Governmental Unit were “a little behind” in their schedule of progress, as compafed with last year, while the Metropolitan Unit was a “little bit ahead.” Wages Week End Effort. Explaining that generally “we are not moving ahead as fast as we should,” Chairman Jennings chal- lenged his workers to go into the week end as a “grand time for solicitation.” The figures at yesterday's meeting showed 9,547 gifts amounting to $147,780.13; which brought the total to date up to 16,281 gifts, amounting to $598,142.19. This is 30.38 per cent of the total goal of $1,969,000 which the campaign plans to reach Novem- ber 24. Dramatizing the character “Crime,” which is one of the designated public enemies, in the Chest campaign. a skit was presented at the luncheon, in which Crime impersonated by Maurice Jarvis, attempted to defend himself, and was bittérly indicted by Mrs. Harper Sibley, chairman of the Women's Division Mobilization for Human Needs. Chairman Jennings called on Crime | cities, the commission called on the amount of per diem allowed l.he! to make his defense, while awaiting sentence. “Crime” Dragged Into Hall. Struggling as he was roughly dragged into the hall by two “C men,” the character “Crime,” masked and in cap, snarled out his words: “Stare at me and shudder, you people of Washington,” he said. “you sit here and think yourselves safe, secure, protected. Do you know the tem| | | bemptations I put betore young men U Oy N enged m ~vasn- o | ROGERS ESTATE TAXES guard boys and girls from me? “Oh, yes, I see through your fool- | ish idea that if you guard your chil- dren it doesn’t make so much differ- ence about the others. But I know better. No home is safe from me. I can reach the sons of the rich as well as the sons of the poor. I con- sort with lads in tenements and man- sions and teach them to do my will. I train my puppets and you pay the (See CHEST, Page A-2.) SCHOONER BURNS Vessel Believed to Have Exploded in Lower St. Lawrence—Fate King and Mrs. Simpso Not to Marry, ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Staf FIRM DENIES ‘DEAL 10 RAISE STOCKS S. E. C. Accuses New York Exchange Member of “Manipulation.” BY the Associated Press. The head of a firm on the New York Stock Exchange today met Se- curities Commission charges of man- ipulating shares on the “big board"” with an observation that “it seems the commission thinks there is a man- ipulation whenever a stock goes up or down.” In its first accusation against op- erators on the metropolitan exchange, the commission charged W. E. Hutton & Co. and H. H. Michels, Oakland, Calif., broker, with creating a “false and misleading appearance of active trading” in the common stock of Atlas Tack Corp. Joined in his denial by statements from the frm and from Michels. | James M. Hutton, sr., president of the declared in Cineinnati: “We never manipulated the stock. We never had any reason to manip- ulate it. There was no motive on our pert for anything like that.” | Exchange memberships in various {New York firm and the Oakland | broker to explain activities which it said pyramided the stock’s market price from $9.50 in November, 1935, to $30.25 in February, 1936. Atias Tack, described by Streeters as a stormy petrel known | for wide fluctuation of price in recent | years, was traded yesterday at around 167 on the “Big Board.” & | The commission, in its order, said |the brokers had entered matched fictitious sales. | entering purchase orders with the knowledge that selling orders of “sub- stantially the same size, at sub- stantially the same time and at sub- stantially the same price” would be entered by the same or other parties, and with entering selling orders with the knowledge that similar purchase orders would be made. They were charged also with using “divers means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce” in “creating ) Page. Obituary ...A-13 C-11 Sports ... A-16-17 ‘Woman's Pg. B-8 NAT{ONAL. . Clark Howell, editor of Atlanta Con. stitution, dies. Page A-1 Fomer U. 8. Gov. Gen. Harrison be- comes Filipino. Page A-1 8. E. C. accuses N. Y. Exchange mem- ber of “manipulation.” Page A-1 “Suicide bet” revealed in death of writer’s guest. Page A-3 Court denies petition for removal of ‘Hoeppels. Page A-3 Marine workers threaten “new action” | _ Threatening expulsion from their | Wall | They were charged specifically with | . Trailer Comforts For Park Service Snagged on Ruling Acting Controller Gen- eral Says Plan Would End Per Diem. It looks like the plan of the | Natfonal Park Service to permit field | employes to embark on a sort of light-housekeeping program in auto trailers has been snagged. Some of those workers who pass | much of their time in the wilds had | thought of procuring trailers for the Government cars they use, and just | carry all the comforts of home right | along with them. Secretary of the Interior Ickes, | favorably inclined, took up the matter | | with Acting Controller General Elliott. | “This department,” heé wrote, “feels that the attaching of a modern trailer to a Government car is justified in | | cases where suitable accommodations | |are not available without a large| expenditure of time in going to and | f work over roads frequently ren- | dered impassable by inclement | weather, The increased cost of operas tion and maintenance of the Govern- ment car, if any, due to the elimina- tion of that travel necessitated by | seeking accommodations, would be | inconsequential and would be offset | administratively by reduction in the | eémployes.” Elliott, in a decision yesterday, said it would probably be all right for the employes to use the traflers, but—“the payments of any per diem while an employe occupies his own trailer would apparently have to be nega- tived.” So. unless Elliott can be out-argued, | there will be no gypsying. et SAN FRANCISCO, 'November 14/ { (/).—The estate of Will Rogers owes | California $28,000 in personal income taxes which the State probably never will collect, Attorney General U. 8. Webb said yesterday in an opinion. Federal taxes of $115,000 due on the estate have priority, Webb said. | Rogers’ California estate has been appraised at $106,900. The humor- ist's large insurance policies are not a part of the estate and are exempt from taxation. His income from syn- dicate writing was paid directly to his wife, under the terms of his contract. | “Pin ball trial” will be resumed Mon- day. Page A-18 | 8. E. C. continues study of cemetery project. Page A-18 1,000 P. W. A. workers assigned to D. C. parks. Page A-18 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. ~ Page C-1 Large office building planned. Page C-1 Real Estate Convention. Page C-1 Building Permits. Page C-1 Financing sets record in October. Page C-1 Page C-2 Page C-8 Home Modernization. Designed for Living. The Homeé Gardener. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1936—FORTY-TWO PAGES. #% PROCLAMATION NoveMBER 26 ——— . AW NS g il e U. . MISSIONARY'S DEATH IS PROBED Japanese Troops Reported to Have Driven Him Il From Home. Bv the Associated Press. PEIPING, November 14.—Investi- gation of the death at Kalgan of Karl Bernhardt Olsen, American missionary of Gully, Minn., was ordered by the United States Embassy today on the basis of reports he had been driven from his home by Japanese troops while il with smallpox. Representatives of the embassy were dispatched into North China to inquire into Olsen’s death, to deter mine the whereabouts of two other American missionaries and to gather first-hand information on reports of fighting in Suiyuan Province. Olsen died at Kalgan early today. Reports at the embassy here declared his death followed eviction by Japanese troops from his home 80 miles north- west of Kalgan. Japanese military circles here de- nied knowledge of the report and at the same time called it “patently absurd.” The embassy said it was informed Japanese military authorities north- west of Kalgan had desired for sev- eral weeks the property of Olsen’s in- dependent mission for their use. Re- cently they took over his tiny chapel, refusing to permit the missionary to conduct. services for his Mongol con- verts, an embassy spokesman declared. Shortly afterward, Olsen was taken ill with smallpox. While he was lying ill within his home, next door to| the confiscated chapel, Japanese of- ficlals demanded the house for mili- tary purposes, the embassy report as- serted. | They forced him, despite his illness, | his wife and three children to vacate | the residence, the spokesman said he | was informed. Evicted, the refugee family managed to reach Kalgan where Olsen.was reported to have died as a result of hardship and lack of medical atten- tion. 40 Americans in Area. The diplomatic officials were in- structed to investigate the situation | on the Suiyuan-Chahar border and if | necessary to go further into the north- west. Approximately 40 Americans, prin- cipally missionaries, were scattered throughout the northwestern area | where communication systems are very poor. Embassy envoys were instructed to investigate the whereabouts of two Dinuba, Calif., missionaries, Rev. and | Mrs. Abraham Wiens, attached to the Mennonite Brethren Mission Wwith ‘headquarters in Chicago. Rev. and Mrs. Wiens were reported to have been captured by bandits and carried off to the mountains. SUIYUAN INVASION REPORTED KALGAN, Hopeh Province, China, November 14 (#)—One thousand regular Japanese soldiers were re- ported to have arrived today at Pail- ingmiso, Northern Suiyuan Province. Chinese sources declared the pres- ence of Japanese regulars was indica~ tive of Japan's participation in Mon- The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. golian invasion of the northern area and projected extension of Manchu- kuoan influence westward. Invasion of Suiyuan has been re- ported only from Chinese sources, however, while such & meovement has been denied unofficially by the Jap- anese. Smoke Covers Madrid in Heavy Aerial Battle 30 Planes in Combat as Rebels Try to Open Path to City. (The following dispatch, delayed in transmission, gives an eye- by an Associated Press correspondent, with the Fascist forces outside Madrid, of the aerial battle and bombardment ©of the capital yesterday.) BY ELMER W. PETERSON. CAMPAMENTO, Spain, November 13.—The biggest air battle since 1918 —with more than 30 planés in the clouds at one time—raged over Madrid yesterday. Fascist commanders claimed their pilots shot down eight government planes including one Martin bomber. (Associated Press correspondents in Madrid reported government officials claimed four planes, three of them fascist, fell during the sky fight.) Two planes landed inside Madrid after insurgents turned loose the full strength of their aviation in an effort to clear a path into the capital. The result was the most intent, direct and furious warfare since the civil war began. Drop 220-Pound Bombs. ‘Tri-motored insurgent ships dropped 100-kilogram (220 pounds) bombs in such quantities on Socialist positions around Segovia Bridge that the capital at times was almost totally obscured by clouds of smoke, dust and debris. Fascist artillery at the same’ iime poured a constant stream of shells into the same area. The large Mon- tana Barracks, near the northern rail- road station—one of the targets of the bombing—apparently was almost completely destroyed. Moors and Legionnaires blasted at the government defenders in a day- long attack from houses around Segovia Bridge—houses from almost (See RAID, Page A-3) CLARK HOWELL, 73, DIES AT ATLANTA Two Months’ lliness Fatal( to Editor and Georgia Na- tional Committeeman. £ the Associated Press. ATLANTA, November 14.—Clark Howell, editor and president of the Atlanta Constitution and a director of the Associated Press, died at his home here early today after a two months’ iliness. Desth came to the 73-year-old Georgia Democratic national commit- teeman at 6:15 am. (Central standard | time). His wife and other members of his family were at the bedside. Howell had been active in opera- tion. of his paper and in State and national political affairs until about eight weeks ago, when he was forced to bed with an intestinal disorder. He underwent two operations, the latest one last week, but failed to rally. He sank into a coma early last night and did not regain full con- | sciousness. Pioneered for Roosevelt. A pioneer in the formation of “Roosevelt-for-President” clubs, How- | ell maintained an active interest in | national and State politics until the end. He was chosen last June to succced Yesterday’s Circulation, 140,708, (Some returns not yet received.) (P Msans Associated Press. TWO CENTS, (ROWDED MADRID PLAZA 15 BOMBED BY REBEL PLANES; B3 KILLED, T30 HURT U. S. Embassy Shaken in Renewed Aerial Attack on Terrified Capital—Water Mains Shattered. DEFENDERS ORDERED TO WIPE OUT FOES Relentless Drive on Foes of City to Be Undertaken—Bodies of Victims Lie in Littered Streets. Many Buildings Are Wrecked. Truck Smashed to Bits. BACKGROUND— The immediate causes of the devastating Spenish civil war spring from the establishment of the republic in 1931 after Alfonso XIII was driven into ezile. The revolt flared last Summer when Gen, Francisco Franco placed him= self at the head of native Moors and Spanish foreign legionnaires in Morocco. The fighting spread to the mainland with the rebels against the Communist regime in Madrid gaining ground steadily. About a month ago the attackers moved into position for battle for last government stronghold: Ma- drid. Then began air raids over capital, climazed by heavy aerial battle yesterday. Bs the Associated Press. MADRID, November 14.—Insurgent bombers, unloading high explosives into a thronged Madrid plaza, killed an estimated 53 persons and wounded 150 others today. This estimate of the dead was an- ounced at 4 p.m. by relief workers. The aerial attackers dropped eight explosive missiles, five of which fell into a throng in the Glorieta Atocha Plaza, where a defense mass meeting was being held. Stung to fury by the raid, Madrid's defense commander ordered his a: to “wipe out 50,000 of the enem: “Before you are rebel armies, about 50,000 strong,” proclaimed Gen. Jose Miaja. “Smash through them! Wipe them out!™ He ordered a relentless drive on the besiegers of Madrid a few hours after the air raid, one of the most dise astrous of the slege of the city. ‘The force of the explosions was felt in the United States Embassy, where more than 50 American nationals have taken refuge from the assaults on Madrid. The crowded plaza was turned into a scene of horrors by the blast, which shook the capital to the foundations. The assembly had heen called to hear plans for the defense of Madrid. ‘The power of the bombs was demon- strated by the fact one blew a large hole through the roof of a subway which had been considered a bomb- proof shelter. Two huge stone columns in front of the ministry of public works were toppled. Water mains, shattered by the ex- plosions, sent streams high into the air. Bombs Fall Near Hotel. Two other bombs fell near the Hotel Gov. Eugene Talmadge as the State's | o ional and one near the governs Democratic committeeman, a position he had held from 1896 to 1924. A one-time supporter of Talmadge, Howell broke with the Governor when the latter launched an attack on farm and relief policies of the New Deal. Although the editor opposed Sena- tor Richard B. Russell, jr., for the Senate in 1932, he lined up with him for re-election against Gov. Talmadge in the September 9 primary, throwing the columns of the Constitution into the fight. Russell was renominated | by a vote of landslide proportions. Aided Aviation Study. Hewell served as chairman of a Roosevelt appointed commission for the study of aviation in foreign countries. Howell, known nationally for his Press. He was elected to the position in 1900 and held it at the time of his death. A “scoop” of his cub reporter days on the New York Times was the sub- ject of a story he sometimes told. He obtainéd an interview with Gov. Samuel- J. Tilden of New York that definitely ended the talk of nomina- tion by the Democrats of the “old ticket” and paved the way for the nomination and election of Grover Cleveland to the presidency. The Constitution’s winning of the Pulitzer prize for “meritorious service” (See HOWELL, Page A-13.) Pacelli Back in Italy. . NAPLES, November 14 (#).—Eugenio to| Cardinal Pacelli, papal secretary of bers of Japanese army trucks hauling supplies into the ares. stats, returned to Italy today and told “Dead” Man Returns to Farm Satisfied to Remain “Dead” ment barracks on Maria Cristina street. Several more exploded near the Segovia bridge. Bodies of men, women and chile dren, many of them maimed beyond recognition, lay in the streets beside the carcases of horses and mules. Dozens, suffering from shrapnel wounds, were unable to move, moan= ing for help. Those unhit scattered pell-mell through the side streets opening on the plaza, which is located in the southeastern part of Madrid. Apartments Wrecked. Every window in the vicinity was shattered; several apartments were wrecked, and the ornate facade of the ministry of public works was damaged badly. Two large stone col= umns of a building nearby were top= pled into the street. Ironically, the meeting in the plaza had been called off at the last minute by its organizers. However, hundreds of persons, unaware of the change in (See SPAIN, Page A-3) EARLY-MORNING FOG CAUSES 10 CRASHES More Than Score Injured in Series of Accidents Near Mary- land U. By the Associated Press. COLLEGE PARK, Md, November 14—Dense early.morning fog caused a series of about 10 minor acciden's near the University of Maryland today, involving more than a dozen cars and causing injuries to & score of persons. Most of the automobiles carried uni-