Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1936, Page 7

yearly pay roll estimated to be running close to $300,000,000. The meat packing industry, an early recruit to the Autumn move- | ment, raised pay scales about $6,000.- 000 annually for around 100,000 workers. Other pay increases embraced a wide variety of concerns in the ma- — chinery, %meeueq;lpment. bulll;tnl | e supply and miscellaneous manufac- | Dividends Affect Thousands | turing indusries, P 5 Heading the line-up of impending More in Prosperity dividend_disbursements. are $65,250, = 000 for General Motors’ 330,000 share- Tidal Wave. holders, nearly $24,000,000 for Chrys- ler's 30,000, $32,320,000 for Standard By thestinclated FEase Oil of New Jersey's 125.000 and $19.- NEW YORK, November 14.—Bev-|019,000 for Standard Oil of Indiana's eral bundred million dollars will be | g4 000 stockholders. swep. into the pockets of workers and | he gividend list has grown into & ! shareholders in American industry be- ' jong one, with prospects year-end pay- fore the end of the year by a golden | ments in the aggregate will be the | tide of wage boosts, extra dividends | heaviest since 1930 or 1929. Estimates | and Christmas bonuses. | indicated the 1936 payments would be A survey today showed wage in- | well under 1929. The total has been creases totaling upward of $100,000,000 | swelled by plans for clearing away | ennually for more than 1,000,000 unpaid dividends on preferred stocks | workers in steel, motor, textile, meat and resumption of payments made packing and rubber industries, | possible by expansion in business and | Thousands of shareholders in seven Profits. : big corporations will get about $162,- Chief Beneficiaries. 000,000 from the year-end shower of | Workers in the lower income brack- | extra dividends and workers nearly |ets have been the chief beneficigyies | $25,000,000 in bonuses. |of pay increases. But leading steel | These figures will be augmented by | UDits, General Motors and other con- | Pay and dividend increases from the | C€TS a1s0 have moved to make adjust- | treasuries of scores of smaller cor- | ments for white collar workers. Many porations. employes in the office as well as in | : the mills also will get in on Christmas | The Autumn pay and dividend tide, | ponyses, gathering headway the last two weeks, |~ Bonys anouncements include $2,200,- has attained the widest sweep Wall | go0 for Eastman Kodak employes, Street has seen in years. $10,000,000 by General Motors, $300,~ Increases Contagious. 000 by the Simmons Co. and $1,500,~ It is expected to contfhue. It was | 000 by Sears Roebuck. ‘ pointed out in business chuarurs txh-t] = Vi i tend to 1 - tious, s éeated by tne spread tne RULING SUPPORTED last few days from steel to other in- IN ESTATE BATTLE dustries, Many additional corporations are! | expected to dip into substantial 1936 | = i profit gains to get under the wire by Hysband Cut Off by Atlanta! December 31 for tax credits on divi- | % R | dends paid out to avoid any Federal | Woman's Will Loses surtax upon undistributed earnings. | Second Round. | BY the Associated Press. This levy, passed in the last session | of Congress, appears to be playing an | ! important role in corporation dis-| ATLANTA, November ~14.—The Georgia Supreme Court allowed a rul- bursements. | & ing that the late Julia M. Hunger- Considering business improvement | ford, owner of a large block of Coca- and the example set by leading €orpo- | c,); stock, was an Atlanta resident rations, more workers are believed in) to stand today. line for Christmas bonuses and wage | j Richard Bowden, an attorney for | hikes. | her husband, Robert Hungerford, said, | Starting next week. most of the | hoyever, s fight would be continued in | steel industry’s 475,000 wage earners | ihe wilmington, Del., courts to estab- are due for pay increases averaging )isn a New York residence for Mrs. 10 per cent, estimated to amount "’} Hungerford when she died Novem- | more than $60.000,000 yearly on basis | per 28, 1935. of present pay rolls. | Under the New York law, Bowden General Motors™ $20,000,000 annual | 5314, Hungerford would be entitled to pay boost for more than 200,000 Work~ | naif her estate. Her will, probated ers has been followed by the Packard | here left him only some jewelry and Motor Car Co, raising the yearly pay | $5000. The Coca-Cola stock alone is roll $1,250,000 for nearly 10,600 work- | estimated to be worth $1,000,000. ers. Chrysler's 67,000 workers are in | Hungerford, in a court pleading here line for a $4,000.000 bonus, the third | january 6, denied her Atlanta resi- this year, and more of the automotive | dence after she became his wife, but industry’s 450,000 workers are ex-|admitted her ownership of Atlanta pected to share the year-end windfall. | real estate and the right of the Ful- | Textile Mills Affected. ton (Atlanta) County ordinary to Leading mills showed the way last | Probate the will here on that ground. | week with a 10 per cent rise for the | The Supreme Court today said Hun- woolen and worsted industry’s 145,000 | Berford was “not harmed" by a special workers, with a yearly pay roll placed | finding of Ordinary Thom‘u H. Jeflries at more than $100,000,000. A series| that Mrs. Hungerford was domiciled of announcements from mills in New | ID Atlanta. England and elsewhere indicated the —_ move had become general, embracing Overcoat Holds Fugitive. a majority of the industry’'s wage earners. GALESVILLE, Wis. (#).—His over- | Some cotton and rayon mills have | coat turned traitor to John Zipoy, 30. Joined the procession. Whether it would | Charged with theft, Zipoy tried to become general in those sectors of | escape arrest by leaping through a the textile industry remains to be | hotel window. His coat caught and | seen. textiles, with 434.000 workers and a | ground until officers arrested him. PAINT HEADQUARTERS SINCE 1888 - THE ROVAL FAMILY |0k Qualitiy Fo Hugh Reilly offers the finest line of Quality Paints & Finishes for your home—inside and out L CHIVO HOUSE PAINT A pure linseed oil paint with these three advantages—gleaming beauty . . . durability Use it and save future re- \ \ | \ | [ ! 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PEIPING, November 14 —The United States Embassy ordered an, investi- gation today of the death of an American missionary in North China and a survey of reported fighting in the area allegedly invaded by Jap- anese troops. ’ Advices to the embassy stated Karl, Bernhardt Olsen, a missionary from Gully, Minn,, died at Kalgan early today after eviction by Japanese troops from his home, where he had been ill of smallpox. Japanese military authorities, the embassy was informed, had taken over | Olsen’s mission chapel and refused to permit him to conduct services there. A short time later Olsen became ill and was forced to vacate his residence with his wife and three children, an embassy spokesman stated on the basis of reports heye. Japanese Deny Responsibility. Hardship and lack of medical atten- tion during the trip from his home to Kalgan, 80 miles southwest, hastened | death, it was believed. 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