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T A2 x% UNIONS INSIST U. . RECOGNIZE RIGHTS Maritime Workers Act as Government Plans to Lease Ships. B the Assoclate Press. Labor voiced its insistence today that the Federal Government recognize “rights of maritime unions” when it enters the Pacific Coast strike to use chartered ships to carry food to Alas- kans. The Seattle Labor Council request- ed the union recognition late last night after the Interior Department an- nounced it would advertise for bids for private ships to carry food and fuel to Alaskans, whose supplies have been depleted by the martime strike. Maritime unions withheld action un- til learning details of the Govern- ment's program. Hawaii, also virtually isolated by the strike blockade, found some relief in a steamship company announce- memt all the 700 tourists marooned there would be afforded passage on two liners sailing Friday and Monday. Truck Drivers Halted. The strike gripped the big linet President Coolidge at San Francisco and at San Pedro (Calif.) Harbor in- dustrial activity reached a virtual standstill as the teamsters’ union blockaded attempts of non-union truck drivers to move cargo from piers. In New York striking seamen tried to get crews to walk off the American Importer and the President Roosevelt after the International Seamen's Union recruited crews for the Wash- ington. The I. 8. U. is at odds with rank and file strikers on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the Sailor's Union of the Pacific, to which all ‘West Coast seamen belong. Stop in Mexico Arranged. The Grace Line delayed sailing of the Santa Paula from New York to California and ordered the Santa Elena to discharge and take on inter- coastal passengers at Ensenads, Mex. All American ships reaching West Coast ports have been tied up by the strike. The only violence was at Tampa, Fla, where Police Chief C. J. Wood- ruff predicted “there’ll be no further trouble,” after a riot between seamen and police resulted in the arrest of 10 strikers. Federal farm colonists in Matanuska Valley saw a bright side of the picture as they found a ready Alaskan market for their home-grown product in the territory, which usually imports most ©f its fresh vegetables. MYSTERY VESSEL REPORTED AFIRE Unidentified - Ship Declared in Distress—S 0 S Found in Bottle, BT the Associated Press, QUEBEC, November 19.—Reports of a flaming ship at sea, linked with a bottle-borne S O S message cast up on the beach of Anticosti Island, aroused the anxiety of mariners in the storm-whipped Gulf of St. Lawrence today. Word of the flaming wreck, 100 miles below Quebec City, came from the commander of the out-bound freighter ‘Trefisis. “Just off Ile Rouge” the wireless message from the freighter said. “Be- lieve we can see a ship in flames.” The freighter's wireless operator then told how the vessel changed its course to investigate the burning craft in the early morning darkness. Shallow | water, he said, prevented the Trefisis from getting close to the vessel, how- | ever, and she continued her journey downstream. | The bottled S O S message, scrawled in almost illegible characters, read: “Help. We have nothing to eat. We | are in the middle of the Gulf.—S. S. Chabot.” There was no means of telling hqw long the bottle had been tossed about on the sea, nor were signal service men able to identify any such craft as the “S. S. Chabot” in their registeries. Apparently it was from some small fishermen's barque. In such case, mariners held little hope for the crew's #afety, since a fierce storm has been raging in the Gulf for days and the chances of a small boat weathering it &ppeared to be negligible. | A message was sent out to all boats | in the Gulf to search for the distressed crew. i GERMANS MUST DEPOSIT BONDS Holders of Foreign Securities Are Ordered to Place Them in Government Banks. BY the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 19.—All German holders of foreign securities must de- posit them with banks acting for the government, it was decreed officially today. This action, it was explained, serves the two-fold purpose of discouraging the flight of German capital, and of mobilizing the nation's reserve of for- eign investments for purchase by the government if expedient. Buying and selling of foreign bonds and shares will continue, but they must remain on deposit regardless of the change in ownership. A list of the specific securities af- fected is expected to be publisbed to- morrow. It will include not only shares of foreign companies, but of some German companies preferred by investors because of their properties or affiliations abroad. (Recent hints of some such action as was taken today sent prices of foreign bonds and shares, which had been selling far above their outside value, tumbling in the Boerse. (The decree, it was said, resulted from the government's desire to force all funds into domestic employment.) COMMUNISTS HIT A resolution demanding arrest and deportation of alien Communists was introduced at the meeting Tuesday night of the Vincent B. Costello Post, American Legion, in Pythian Temple. Henry 8. Heine presided. ‘The resolution, referred to the Reso- lutions Committee, to be acted on at the post’s next meeting, explained that sufficient authority for prosecuting Communists for subversive activities in undertaking to overthrew the United States Government exists un- der present laws. & Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. RIDE. LMOST as complicated as & Public Utilities Commission hearing on traction evalua- tions was the scene witnessed by passengers on a Chevy Chase bus the other morning. As the carload of proper citizens came bowling down the street, the driver espied (standing on a corner where busses do not stop) two men, obviously of foreign appearance. One of them raised a hand in signal. The driver, out of the kindness of his heart, pulled over to the curb and took them on. “Busses,” he said by way of instruc- 'HE HULL FORECASTS PEACE MILESTONE Secretary Hopeful of COn-’ ference Results—Presi- dent Speeds South. Br the Assoclated Press, RIO DE JANEIRO, Novenber 19.— Achievements of the Inter-American Peace Conference at Buenos Aires will constitute “milestones in the progress of international relationships,” Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull predicted today. The statement of the chief of the United States delegation was made shortly after the arrival here of the steamship American Legion, carrying delegates to the conference. Hull declared that results of the Brazilian-American trade pact have demonstrated that the best assurances for maintenance of peace come from economic rehabilitation. tion, “stop at the next corner.” citizens thereupon turned around and got off. After a quick huddle on the sidewalk, the off-again, on-again, gone-again Finnegan pair leaped lightly to the step once more, even before the driver could close the door. Nearing downtown, one of the per- formers strolled down the alsle. “We wanna go Pennsylvania ave- nue,” he said. “I'll tell you when to get off,” replied the driver, who was just pulling up to a stop. Quick, like a splash, both men un- loaded. When last seen the pair was trudg- ing along manfully in the wake of the bus. * o ok x SPOTTED. It is probabdly the result of the long and rigorous training they have received, but at any rate, Washington drivers are in a class by themselves when it comes to spotting virgin parking territory, and forthwith taking it over. Recently, F street was cut through the General Accounting Office grounds on Sixth street east, and all parking banned. There was nothing to indicate the restrictions would be lifted, and logically it might have been thought that the prohibition would long since have discouraged space-hunters even from going through that street. But not so. Unexpectedly, late in the afternoon, the mo-parking signs were removed. The next morning, solid lines of cars decor= ated both sides of the highway. * x * x ANSWER. DELIVERY truck from a depart- ment store pulled up to the serv- ice entrance at a large hotel the other afternoon and a somewhat plump driver scrambled from beneath the wheel with a sigh. There were a lot of packages to distribute, and the driver said to his helper: “All right, Sam, I'll work ‘A’ wing and you work—" “B,C,D,EF, G HIJ K" inter- rupted Sam. “It's a good thing for me they don't run up to Z.” * % x *x COME WITH THE WIND. ENATOR RUSSELL of Georgla thinks awareness of the machine | age finally has penetrated the farthest corner of our American civilization. | His belief is based upon an experi- | ence during his recent ~ampaign, in which he toured Georgla in a car with trailer and loudspeaker. After one stretch of oratory in a theretofore un- penetrated area of the State, an elder- ly man detached himself from the crowd, drew close to the mobile ros- trum from which the Senator had spoken and observed: Foconoi “I'm hearing for a long time about these political machines, but blamed if this isn’t the first time I ever saw one. Loud, ain't they?" * x * X SPEECH. EPRESENTATIVE JENNINGS RANDOLPH, Democrat, of West Virginia admits that & lot of unusual things happened in the last election campaign, but he believes he estab- lished the record for the earliest po- litical speech. About 3 o'clock one morning shortly before the election Randolph arrived at Kingswood, the county seat of Pres- ton County, W. Va. Upon inyvestigation Randolph learned that the first group of men to go to work were those connected with the State Highway Department, who left the highway barn in Kingswood at 7 am. After a three-hour nap Ran- dolph rushed from the hotel to the | highway barn withqut breakfast and made his campaign speech as the men climbed in the trucks to go to work. * % * % DEMAND. The Department of Justice gets its full share of unusual requests and suggestions from John Public, but it seldom has received a mies-. sage more perplering than one re- cently demanding the “surrender” of President Roosevelt and decom- missioning of the Navy and Ma- rine Corps. Sent jrom a Pennsylvania town, the telegram read: “Article 1, section 2, shows 2,696 electoral votes, also violations of tazes which cause low wages. Sec- tion 6, Article 1, shows us salaries unconstitutional breach of peace. Demand President surrender to Constitution and decommission U. S. Navy and Marine Corps as criminal.” Justice Department officinls are uncertain what answer, if any, to send in reply, but one official sug- gests with a chuckle that “the statement that Article 1, Section 2, shows 2,696 electoral votes be transmitted to the Literary Digest.” —_—— Bank Law Violator Paroled. RALEIGH, N. C., November 19 (#). ~—Gov. Ehringhaus yesterday paroled Willlam J. Swan, 60, of Bayboro, had served five months of & four-yea! Urges Economic Understanding. “We go to the conference with an even greater conviction than ever be- fore that the road to peace is based upon economic understanding,” the Secretary of State said. 4 “The prize for which we are all striving is permanent peace, mutual understanding and the economic well- being of the peoples of all the Ameri- can republics.” Earlier, Mrs. Elsie F. Musser, only woman member of the American dele- gation, announced she would ask the conference to receive the “people’s mandate against war” petition of 2,- 000,000 signatures at & plenary ses- sion, Future Influence Seen. “Such a universal expression against war must influence world history and future international relations,” she declared. Louise Wier, an official of the man- date organization, was to leave the vessel at Rio de Janeiro to fly to Buenos Aires where she expected to make arrangements for the petition’s presentation. Doris Stevens, chairman of the Inter-American Commission of Wom- en, also planned to fly to the Argentine capital to begin a crusade seeking the adoption of a resolution for women's suffrage in Pan-American countries. PRESIDENT AT SEA. BY the Assoclatea Press. ABOARD THE U. 8. 8. CHESTER AT SEA, November 19.—President Roosevelt sped southward today aboard | the cruiser Indianapolis en route to the epoch-making _inter-American December. ‘The cruiser Chester, acting as escort, dent’s flag, continued to average about | 25 knots as they neared the tropic re- | glons. The Chester trailed the Presi- | dent’s craft by some 800 yards. The presidential party prepared to| don white dress as warmer tempera- | tures prevailed. peace conference at Buenos Aires in ' and the Indianapolis, flying the Presi- | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1936. Catholic University Ina'ugurates Rector Msgr. Corrigan . With impressive ceremonies thnt‘ brought together leaders of the Cath- olic hierarchy from throughout tm‘ United States, Right Rev. Joseph Mo- ran Corrigan, D. D., was inaugurated | sixth rector of Catholic University yesterday afternoon. Msgr. Corrigan, delivering his inau- gural address before approximately | 5,000 persons, including prelates, uni- versity professors, diplomats, Govern- ment officials and representatives of | 300 educational institutions, sounded a | note of progress when he said “our | theme must be the destined contribu- tion of this university to America’s to- | morrow. This is no hour for looking | backward.” | The decree issued by Pope Pius March 18 of this year, naming Msgr. Corrigan rector of the university for a term of five years, was read to the gathering in the university gymna- sium by Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, D. D., Archbishop of Baltimore and chancellor of the university. Corrigan succeeds Most Rev, James ‘The party expected to reach Trini- dad, where both ships will refuel, Sat- urday. The President will stop for a day at Rio de Janeiro November 27, | where he will be honored by Brazil. He may address a joint session of the Brazilian Parliament. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who | satled for South America several days | ago on the liner American Legion, may | await the President at Rio de Janeiro |and board the Indianapolis for the cruise to Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires about November 30, and the President will continue his journey by rail. Leaving the Argentine cap- ital December 2, he is expected to visit Uruguay before returning to the United States. ROPER FORECASTS RECORD YULE SALE Predicts 15 Per Cent Gain Over Last Year and Biggest Since 1929. BY the Associated Press. The greatest Christmas business since 1929 is forecast by Secretary Roper. Estimating holiday department store sales would be 15 per cent above last year's, the Commerce Department chief predicted yesterday they would total around $920.000,000. This would compare with $800,000,000 in 1935 and more than $1,000,000,000 in 1929. Roper said reports from all sec- tions indicated “marked advances” over last year and that business gen- erally would be “greater than for any like period since 1929.” CIVIL SERVICE UNIT SETS EXAMINATIONS Applications From States West of Colorado to Be Received Until December 7. A number of examinations for office workers and other classes of employ- ment were announced today by the Civil Service Commission. Applica- tions will be received until December 7 from States East of Colorado, and until December 10 from Colorado and States West. The places are supervisor of alpha- betic duplicating key.punch operators and of alphabetic accounting machine operators at $1,800 annually, and supervisor, horizontal sorting-machine operators, $1,620. Under card-punch operator, $1,260; alphabetic duplicating key-punch operator and horizontal sorting- machine operator, $1,440. Fleld assistant, entomology, $2,000; field aid, $1,440, and assistant fleld ald, $1,020; Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. Senior welding engineer, $4,600, and welding engineer, $3,800, Navy De- partment. The Indianapolis is expected to dock at some Argentine harbor other than | | he said. | Hugh Ryan, who was appointed Bish- | op of Omaha. The new rector comes | from St. Charles Borromeo Semi- | | nary, Overbrook, Pa., where he was | rector for 11 years. | The inaugural exercises in the | gymnasium followed a long procession of cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, faculty members and repre- | sentatives of other institutions of higher education that formed in front | of McMahon Hall. Two Cardinals Participate. Two cardinals participated in the program, Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York, who delivered the invoca- tion, and Dennis Cardinal Dougherty | of Boston, who addressed the gath- | ering on behalf of the Board of Trus- | tees. Most Rev. Amieto Cicognani, apostolic delegate to the United States, headed the visiting prelates. | Honorary degrees of doctor of laws were conferred by Right Rev. Patrick J. McCormick, Ph. D., vice rector of | the university, upon Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the United States Supreme Court, and the Right Rev. Michael J. Lavelle, vicar general of the archdiocese of New York. Msgr, Corrigan sounded a note of opposition to communism in his inau- gural address. “We are Witnesses of rapidly| changing conditions in our country,”| “Only one of those changes must we really fear; that is the new alignment under the two banners of society, On one is emblazoned the words, ‘Against God.' The most momentous decision for the individual, for the family, for the school, for the state | to make is, ‘Am I with God or against God?” Units are multiplying on an sides, fanatical in their enthusiasm to win recruits against belief in God. Reason alone can prove by its own native power that God exists. “Those who deny the existence of & personal God are logical in reject- ing all sanctions of our present civili- ation and in insisting that physical force alone can restrain. There is little wonder that communism is in- creasing its force. “This Catholic University,” declared Msgr. Corrigan, “bears aldft the ban- ner ‘With God,’ reasons proof of God’s existence, belief in God, the sclence of God and of man’s tending toward God who created him, and Christ, who is at once God and man —the very heart and soul of this uni- versity. “The Catholic University, of course, is concerned primarily with knowledge and scientific- truth. As a Catholic university, it cannot overlook the fact | that for various reasons, immigration, for example, a disproportionate num- ber of the working population and of the poor in the United States are Catholic, They have a right, there- fore, to have the Catholic doctrines of social justice applied to American society, and it would seem that the Catholic University has the corre- sponding obligation to make Catholic! doctrine a part of American life, to| the benefit of Catholics, indeed, but also to the entire people.” Bishop Ryan, rector emeritus, was greeted with wide applause when hi was recognized by Msgr, Col Anywhere it in The Night Final Sports THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS will start at once. Night Final Delivered by Carrier 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 find Edition. and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month, Call National 5000 and service Sixth Rector of Catholic U.| Delivers Inaugural Address Before 5,000 Prelates, Diplomats and Gov. ernment Officials. Msgr. | | the several schools and colleges Inaugurated during the latter’s review of the work of past rectors of the university. . Citations for conferring of the hon- orary degrees upon Justice Butler and Right Rev. Lavelle were read by Rev. Joseph P. Christopher, Ph. D., public orator of the university. Greetings were extended to Msgr. Corrigan on behalf of the clerical alumni by Most. Rev. John J. Mitty, D. D, Archbishop of San Francisco, and for the lay alumni by Francis P, | Garvan of New York. The benediction was delivered by Most Rev. Amlete Giovanni Cicignani, D. D, apostolic delegate to the United States. \ ‘The representatives of other insti- tutions, arranged in the procession in | the order of their date of foundation, | were headed by William R. Castle, jr., Fformer Undersecretary of State, mem- | | ber of the Board of Overseers of Har- | vard University, and Dr. Charles C.| Marbury, trustee of St. John's Col- | lege, Annapolis. Diplomats attending the inaugural | were headed by Ambassador Fulvio | Suvich of Italy and Andre de la-| boulaye of France, who were accom- panied by their wives. Honored by Reception, Following exercises in the gym- nasium, Msgr. Corrigan led the pro- cession to Mullen Library, where a reception was held in hig honor. He | was assisted in the receiving line by | Msgr. McCormick and the deans of of the university. The new rector is a native of Philadelphia. He was educated in | parochial schools there, La Salle Col- lege, St. Charles Seminary, where he was later to become rector, and at the North American College in Rome. | He was ordained in Rome in 1903 and was assigned to parish work in Phila- United States. In 1918 he was as-| signed to the staff of St. Charles Seminary and in 1925 was made | rector, o Refugees (Continued From Pirst Page.) a nearby structure. This bullding still was smoldering. With the window panes blasted out, | curtains of Gran Via store windows flapped in the crisp morning breeze. | On Conde de Penalver avenue the | automobiles parked before the building were wrecked. Many buildings on Carmen and | Preciados streets were destroyed. The early morning raid alarmed | the various embassies in the Castellana section. From the American Embassy, the roar of the bombers could be heard distinctly as the insurgent squadron passed and repassed over the building en route to the point | Where they dropped their bombs, less than a mile away. Seek Refuge in Cellars. Many Americans abandoned their beds and groaped their way through the darkness to the cellars of the embassy. Thete they listened to the crashing bombs and the roar of rifie and ma- chine gun fire from the University City section in the northwest part of the city, invaded early in the week by Fascist shock troops. The Associated Press correspondent was approaching the telephone build- ing to transmit this story when a burst of anti-aircraft and machine gun fire wsr_ned the city that insurgent planes again were overhead to view their ear- lier work of destruction, Pedestrians climbed through - the broken windows in Penalver street and sought the shelter of nearby houses. However, the planes circled idly, making no attempt to repeat the ear- lier bombardment. Smoke still drifted from the rooftops | of houses set afire two nights ago, while crackling rifies and machine guns from the Manzanares River and University City mingled with the ex- plosions of the government anti-air- craft guns. A fturther check of the wrecked dis- trict in the heart of Madrid showed one bomb fell on the El Globos drug store in Anton Martin Square, and that the San Sebastian Church, where the ashes of the Spanish playwright, Lopez Davega, supposedly were kept, was completely destroyed. Bodies Taken From Ruins. Firemen, scarcely rested from their work following the Tuesday bombard- :;nt. again were pulling bodies from One of them told the - ent three of his mwm were buried in the ruins of the Her- nando Publishing Co. Still another fireman was buried by the falling roof and walls of the Savoy Hotel Today's reconnoitering planes, five bombers and an escort of pursuit planes, which appeared at 10:30 a.m,, disappeared when a fleet of govern- Justice Pierce Butler of the Church dignitaries at the inauguration yesterday of Msgr. Joseph Corrigan as rector of Catholic University. Left to right: Right Rev. Michael J. Lavelle, Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, Cardinal Hu:g/cs and Msgr. C(’)rriaan. 4 g f = % Supreme Court, right, receiving an honorary degree of doctor of laws from Archbishop Curley as part of the ceremonies held in the university gymnasium. —Star Staff Photos. ment planes appeared from the east to patrol the city. Although the bombers did not go into action in their daylight appear- ance, the accompanying pursuit craft | was reported to have raked streets | in the Puente Vallegas sector with machine gun fire. Madrilenos who were unable to find their relatives and friends stood by anxiously during the day while rescuers probed the many smoking ruins for more bodies. Many wept silently, starting forward anxiously s each new victim was recovered. Death carts made frequent, macabre trips to the morgue, where the bodies were piled high. Explosions Delayed. | delphia when he returned to the | Many of the bodies were unrecog- nizable, torn by powerful bombs which, apparently equipped by delayed per- cussion caps, were carried by their own weight through several floors before exploding. Madrid’s defense junta refused to despair of the capital’s fate. “They may reduce the city to ruins, Stray bombs aimed at Madrid’s cen- tral district 1A the early morning shat- tered Segovia Bridge over the Man- | zanares River, one of the main spans leading into the capital from the Fascist-controlled outskirts. The bridge collapsed with a roar dur- | front of a store formerly owned by an | ing an early-morning air raid in which ‘With God’; on the other,| American company was torn out. Two & dozen bombs were loosed from planes over the heart of the city. The newest explosions created fresh fear in Madrid’s already terrorized population. Women and children rushed for subways. Masonry crashed into the streets from the force of the concussions. Socialist and Fascist batteries con- tinued their prolonged artillery duels. Neither side reported advances after desultory machine gun attacks in the Northwestern University City section. Charred structures in central Madrid | flamed anew after the aerial attack. | The famous Cafe de Madrid, on the edge of the Puerta del Sol, was burn- ing brightly. BLOCKADE MEASURES EXAMINED PARIS, November 19 (#).—The French foreign and naval ministries were understood today to be exam- ining measures which would be neces- sitated by a blockade of Barcelona | by the Spanish insurgents. The ministers-of national defense, however, did not hold a special coun- cil in regard to the Franco govern- ment's announcement of an immi- nent blockade, it was said. No changes have been effected in the French pre- cautionary measures taken with re- gard to ships circulating in afd out of Barcelona. Maritime authorities said there was no French ship at Barcelona at pres- ent. Taxes (Continued From First Page.) at the District Building making up the new accounts that are found. Results of the checking of District returns ‘against the records of the Internal Revenue Bureau indicated many residents are not familiar with the law and do not know just what holdings are subject to taxation. - Briefly stated, the law requires that all District residents must make re- turns and pay taxes on all such tangi- ble property as household furnishings, Jjewelry, boats, stock in trade, business fixtures and machinery. There is an exception on household furnishings up to $1,000, but none on the other items listed. On intangible holdings there is an exemption up to $500 on savings ac- counts not subject to check by the owner, Items taxable &s intangible property include moneys in personal mfio, checking accounts, savings accounts of more than $500, marginal accounts, mortgages, notes, accounts | receivable, stocks and bonds. | District corporations in which the major portion of the assets of the cor- | poration are taxed and the levy paid by the corporatioh. Utilities stocks are not taxed if the utilities are bona-fide local concerns, since the corporations | pay the tax, but stocks in utilities cor- | porations operating as interstate ac- | tivities, such as the American Tele- phone & Telegraph Co., are taxable. | State, county, municipal and United States bonds are exempt. 1,178 HERE GRANTED | Applications From 2,250 Others Awaiting Action, Street Reports. Director Elwood Street said yesterday in his October report. | He said 1,250 applications for old- | age pensions now were the subject of investigation and that 1,000 additional applications had been made on which investigation had not yet been started. His statistical report revealed that the | average monthly payment to old-age | relief cases amounted to $25.75 during | | October. Street reported that for October re- lie? expenditures amounted to $163,179 under various classes of relief. The average monthly payment for all kinds of aid was figured at $29.50. He said there were on the roster at the end of October 3,139 cases of di- rect relief, 1,054 cases involving de- | pendent children, 292 home care cases | to the old-age cases. | The report indicated there had been no appreciable diminution of | October. DEATH CHEATS WOMEN ON TRIBUTE BY CITY EY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 19.—Two | months ago Mrs. Ezelphia Indiana | Carpenter, 98, and her daughter, Mrs. Harriet C. Cullaton, 76, were invited to be honor guests at a centennial celebration in Cambridge City, Ind., founded a century ago by a member of their family. Plans for the trip were canceled when the mother became ill. Mrs. Carpeénter died at her home in Bellerose, Long Island, Tuesday. Mrs. Cullaton died yesterday. They will be buried in Cambridge City. Virgin Island Rum Soon to Be Placed on Sale Secretary Ickes An- nounces Plans Are Being Speeded. Secretary Ickes said at his press conference today the Interior Depart- ment was rushing plans to market Virgin Island rum. The rum has been manufactured by the Virgin Islands Co. organized about two and a half years ago to pro- mote agriculture and industry in the islands, The Secretary said first runs orm.m.;m“m-euuodm There is an exemption of stocks in | OLD-AGE PENSIONS Old-age pensions have been granted | but we shall defend those ruins to our | to 1,178 and applications from 2250 | Iast man,” a communique proclaimed. | others are awaiting action, Welfare | and included payments to 5539 cases | and 160 needy blind cases, in addition | relief cases generally between September and ITALY, REICH HELD NOT ALONE GULTY Others Are More to Blame in Intervention, Eden Informs House. BY the Associated Press. LONDON, November 19.—Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden threw the House of Commons into brief tumult today by declaring “some other gove ernments” were more to blame for Spanish intervention than Italy and Germany. Members said they presumed he re- ferred especially to Soviet Russia. Eden's statement came after au- thoritative sources had thrown out strong hints Great Britain would not tolerate any “foolishness” from Span- ish insurgents which might interfere with British Mediterranean shipping ‘The hints referred to Gen. Prancisco Pranco’s threat to blockade Barcelona, Mediterranean port held by Spanish government supporters. Look for Co-operation. The foreign secretary was asked if he would get specific assurances “from Germany and Italy” that “their rec- ognition of the insurgent regime did not mean they were going to hold themselves free to supply arms” to Franco. He replied: “Certainly. Our whole object is to see that non-intervention works. For that purpose we look for the co-opera- tion of all governments, irrespective of the particular ideologies they may pursue.” He had said, earlier: “As far as non-intervention is con- cerned, I can say categorically that I think there are other governments more to blame than those of Germany and Italy.” Distinction in Recognition. Asked by Clement R. Attlee, leader cf His Majesty's opposition, whether the British government intends to recog- nize Gen. Franco’s insurgent regime in Spain, Eden replied: “The House will appreciate that there is a distinction | between the recognition of a belligerent | and the recognition of any one side as the government of Spain.” At the same time the government | was informed the consuls of Germany and Italy, which yesterday recognized Franco, were leaving Barcclona im- mediately and that German and Italian nationals would leave that port as soon as a means of transportation is available. | MAN’S 137TH OPERATION PERFORMED BY HIMSELF 63-Year-Old Missourian Extracts Bone Sliver From Leg With Pocket Knife. BY the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, November 19.—Harry | B. Smythe, 63, was up and about yes- ! terday after undergoing what he said was his 137th operation—the last | one performed by himself. Smythe extracted a bone sliver from his left leg with a pocket knife and scissors sterilized by home methods. He had no medical assistance, but said he expected to have the wound examined and dressed at a hospital. All but one of the previous opera- | tions, Smythe said, was for a bone | disease that followed an attack of typhoid fever. He had his first operae tion when 10 years old. BUSINESS MAN AGED 10 SAN GABRIEL, Calif., November 19 (#) —Ten-year-old Warren Rapelje became a full-fledged member of the San Gabriel Chamber of Commerce today. The youngster recently opened & shop dealing in parts for miniature airplanes. He used his bed room for a show room. He bought merchandise with the money from doing odd jobs in the neighborhood. When the Chamber of Commerce heard about the enterprise an invita= tion was issued to the young business man. FARLEY RECEIVED Visits President De Valera of Irish Free State. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Novem- ber 19 (#)—President Eamonn de Valera today received Postmaster Gen- eral James A. Farley of the United States. Mr. Farley was accompanied by the United. States Minister, Alvin M. Owsley. Divi(iends (Continued From Pirst Page) pay of all empleyes receiving less than $2.600 a year. More than 70,000 textile workers in the Carolinas are in line for wage | increases next week, the total having been expanded today by announce- ments from seven South Carolina mills employing 6,000. The mills, op= | erated by Elliott White Springs, are in Fort Mill, Chester, Kershaw and Lancaster. Cash Bonuses to Flow. | 'The Eaton Manufacturing Co., De- troit, announced it would distribute | & cash bonus December 16 to 6,000 workers in its Michigan and Ohio plants. Officials said most would get about $30 each. The list was augmented by 2,000 employes of the Pet Milk Co., St. Louis, | due to get & week's extra pay before | Christmas, otaling about $50,000. ‘The American Rolling Mill Co., one | of the larger units of the industry, with plants mainly in Ohio, disclosed it had raised pay of its workers in the general steel wage boost, which went into effect last Monday. Roughly, half the huge dividend outflow came from extra, increased and initial payments, traceable to & combination of business improves ment, increased earnings and the Fed= eral profits levy. | The influence of the Federal surtax upon undivided profits, passed in the | last session of Congress &s a means | of increasing the flow of earnings to | shareholders, where they are subject | to individual income taxes, was evi | dent in comment of many companies. The Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., which declared an extra of $2 a share yesterday, explained it covered the extra of $1 which ordinarily would be paid March 1, 1937, but had been or- dered paid in December for tax pure poses. Among today’s addition to the divie dend list, Texas Gulf Sulphur an- nounced an exira of 50 cents a share besides the regular quarterly 50 cents immt, totaling $1,920,000. 3