Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1936, Page 4

MARITIME STRIKE BREAK' PREDIGTED Federal Mediators See Hope for Progress in Effect- ing Settlement. By.the Assoctated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 8.— Tederal mediators looked hopefully for a break in the six-week-long maritime strike today as shipowners and unions carried their campaigns for public support to a civic auditorium debate here. Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward ¥, McGrady predicted a break soon after spokesmen for operators of coastwise vessels reported progress in renewed settlement negotiations. Accepting an invitation from the unions, Roger D. Lapham, represent- ing offshore operators, agreed to de- bate the issues at the civic auditorium mass meeting tonight. Lapham, president of the American- Hawaiian Steamship Co., will share speaking time with Mayor John F. Dore of Seattle, supgorting the unions. Bridges Also to Speak. Other speakers will include Harry Bridges, coast president of the Inter- national Longshorethen'’s Association, and Harry Tundeberg, head of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific. ‘The unions have charged “the big three” — American-Hawallan, Dollar and Matson lines—blocked peace nego- tiations. While the strike blockade of coast ports remained unbroken, warehouse men here rejected by a vote of 428 to 63 & settlement offer from operators of general warehouses, cold storage plants and feed and grain mills. The warehouse men, affiliated with the International Longshoremen’s As- sociation, walked out October 30. ‘Their rejection was reported based on opposttion to a proposed wage differ- ential between regular and casual work. Prior to the vote operators of cold storage plants announced produce would be released under a truce agree- ment. Agreement Reported. Negotiations brought announcement that the coastwise shipowners, organ- ized separately from offshore opera- tors, had reached agreement on five of eight points with the radio teleg- raphists. The coastwise group, which had reached tentative agreements with all but two of seven unions prior to the strike, also resumed negotiations with the masters, mates and pilots. Settlement with the coastal opera- tors would release 70 of the nearly 230 ships now tied up by the strike of 37,000 West Coast maritime work- ers. McGrady and other mediators have expressed hope such a break would serve as a wedge to general At Galveston, Tex., striking mates and engineers of Texas ports decided to continue support of the striking unlicensed seamen until noon Thurs- day, thus rejecting both the terms of- fered them by Lykes steamship in- terests and the decision of their na- tional unions officers who met in ‘Washington Sunday. OFFICERS ASSAILED. Removal of Association Leaders Urged By Committee. NEW YORK, December 8 (#).— The Strategy Committee of the sea- men’s strike along the Atlantic Sea- board disclosed proceedings aimed to- day at the removal of officers of the Eastern and Gulf Sailors’ Association. The committee said simultaneous meetings in 14 cities last night adopted resolutions declaring the executive offices vacant. Delegates were named to take charge of affairs of each local and attend a coastwide conference in New York, December 14. The rank and file members of the association charged the officers had refused to call an election, although their terms expired last Spring. The announcement said 8,000 sailors at- tended the 14 meetings. It was understood the members dis- agreed with the non-strike policy of the officers, named in the resolutions a8 George Cummings, Boston, presi- dent; Percy Pryor, secretary, and Gus- tave H. Brown, acting trustee and New York agent. A controversy broke out, meanwhile, over statements by leaders of two ships officers’ unions that their strike had no connection with the walkout of insurgent seamen. A spokesman for the Marine Engi- neers Beneficial Association announced after a meeting last night that the union had voted full support for the strike. Officials in Washington had said this union and the Masters, Mates and Pilots Association had withdrawn support. New York o;cials held, however, that the withdrawal action had been taken only by Boston, Philadelphia and Norfolk, Va. locals, with other units either not voting or not being Trepresented. STRIKE AVERTED. No Action Due Against Hampton Roads Colliers, Official Says. NORFOLK, Va., December 8 (#).— There will be no strike against colliers operated in and out of Hampton Roads, 50 far as the licensed personnel is concerned, it was announced yes- terday by William M. Kirby, secretary of Norfolk Local, No. 11, American Marine Engineers’ Association. Kirby returned from Washington, where Sunday he attended a conference of national officers and representatives of the Engineers and Masters, Mates and Pilots’ Association from all along the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. FOOD ON HAND. Shortage Not Threatened, Honolulu Newspaper Says. HONOLULU, December 8 (#).—The Star-Bulletin said yesterday there was no immediate danger of shortage of eanned milk, with consequent hardship to infants, as a result of curtailment of supplies since the maritime strike was begun October 30. JOINS SANITARIUM Towa Seventh Day Adventist Aide Is New Business Manager. J. H. Nies, formerly secretary-treas- urer ¢f the TIowa Confererice of Sev- enth Day Adventists in Nevada, Iowa, has arrived here to take up his new duties ‘as business manager of the ‘Washington Sanitarium and Hospital in Takoma Park, it was announced today. He will succeed C. C. Pulver, who after 14 years' service to take with 8 heslth food campany Mass. Nies brought with ‘wife and daughter, Vir- . as the plane nosed over. BARRON IS ELECTED VARIETY CLUB HEAD New Chief Barker and Other Officers Will Be Installed January 4. Carter Barron, Eastern division manager for the Loew Theaters, was elected chief barker of the local Va- riety Club yesterday at a luncheon meeting at the Willard Hotel. Barron, who has served as first assistant chief barker of the showmen's organization for the past year, succeeds the 1936 chief, Lou Rome. Along with the other new officials Barron will take office at a special election celebra- tion on January 4 at 8:30 o'clock. A. Julian Brylawski, head of the realty department for the Warner Brothers Theaters in this district, was named first assistant chief barker for 1937. The other officers are A. E. Lichtman of the Lichtman Theater Circuit, chosen as second assistant chief barker, and Sam Galanty of Co- lumbia Pictures and Harry Hunter of Paramount, re-elected secretary and treasurer, respectively. The new members added to the Board of Governors for the next two years are Sidney Lust, A. E. Lichtman, Harry Hunter, Lou Rome and Charles Kranz. Carter Barren. Conference (Continued From First Page.) pledged to co-ordinate them into prac- tical peace machinery. ‘The agreements are: The 1923 treaty to avoid or prevent conflicts; the supplementary conciliation and ar- bitration convention of 1929; the inter- American arbitration treaty of 1929; the Kellogg-Briand treaty and the Ar- gentina anti-war treaty. The ratification drive, to which Bo- livia and El Salvador reacted favorably, coinciding with the disclosure Mexico planned shortly to propose a revised version of the Mexican peace code of- fered in 1933 at the Montevideo con- ference. Francisco Caslillo Najero and Al- forso Reyes, Mexican delegates, were drafting the new proposal which, au- thoritative sources said, again would condemn wars of aggression and pro- pose a permanent conciliation com- mission binding all signatories to ar- bitrate their differences. Informed sources said the new code was an embodiment of the best of re- cent suggestions offered the Organiza- tion Subcommittee of the conference, of which Castillo Najera is chairman. The survey showed Argentina rati- fied only its own anti-war pact, letting dust gather on the other four and that its approval of the 1923 treaty would give that agreement complete ratification. Enrique Finot of Bolivia pledged his government to join the conciliation, arbitration and Kellogg-Briand agree- ments, but observers pointed out Bolivia would be governed by decree, with no session of its Congress at least until next August. ‘The conciliation treaty also was un- ratified by Argentina, Costa Rica and Paraguay. Honduras and Venezuela still were not bound by it because, although they had approved, they had not completed the ratification process. Manuel Castro Ramirez of El W.P. A. THEATER Locked wheel brakes were blamed for this accident which damaged the Army’s new Boeing bomber during a landing in Seattle yesterday, after a test flight. Two men were injured slightly —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. conference hereafter at the gates of the villa. It was at these gates that he said today: “Mrs. Simpson is in excellent health and it has not been necessary for her to see & physician.” ‘Thus he denied repeated rumors that the American divorcee’s health had broken under the strain. Lord Brownlow, puffing a long cigar, asserted Mrs. Simpson “likes Cannes so much she may remain for five or six weeks.” As he finished talking to reporters, Mrs. Simpson appeared at a window of the villa, but retired quickly when she saw the crowd below. Lord Brownlow nodded his head in her direction and said she had taken a short stroll in the garden during the morning—the first time she had left the villa, “You can easily realize Mrs. Simp- son’s position,” said her spokesman. “We realize there is a tremendous interest and we want to appease the appetite of the press, but there isn't anything more I can tell you now.” He said he had not heard reports that a plane, with three passengers, had left London for Cannes. “Nobody is expected here from Lon- don,” he said. Statement Came as Climax. Yesterday’s announcement of Mrs. Simpson’s willingness to forego her iove for Edward came as a startling climax to her fight from the storm center of the empire’s constitutional crisis. Priends said her decision was taken only after two telephone calls to the young monarch at his Belvedere es- tate, where she was his guest until she decided her absence might ease the situation. Salvador pledged that Central Ameri- can republic to adherence to the Kellogg-Briand pact by February, leaving only Argentins, Uruguay and Bolivia to join. All of them have signified their intention to ratify it. Antonio Pons, Ecuador’s delegate, cast doubt on unanimous approval of the arbitration convention. He de- clared Ecuador disapproved of com- pulsory arbitration before all other means had failed and took the view other pacts containing the arbitration principle were sufficient. 0! Ecuador's stand, authoritative sources said, was the result of boundary controversies with Peru and Colombia. Columbia, understood reliably ‘to hold similar views, was not a signatory to the arbitration convéntion in com- pany with Argentina, Bolivia, Urugusy, Paraguay and Costa Rica. Views were not disclosed by dele- gates of Paraguay, only non-ratifier of the Argentina anti-war treaty; of Costa Rica, which had ratified neither the conciliation nor arbitration agree- ments, and Uruguay, which had not ratified the arbitration convention. Simpson (Continued From Pirst Page) son will remain at Villa Lou Viei until after the Christmas holidays.” i & He added that “she has no presen} intention of going any other place.” With Mrs. Simpeon's permission, The formal statement was an- nounced through Lord Brownlow, his gentleman in waiting. The outstanding impression here was the statement had been well received in all British quarters, en- hancing Mrs. Simpson’s popularity and clarifying the tense situation. “Good Sportsmanship.” Hailed in international circles as “good sportsmanship,” the statement was believed by many to be only a public expression of the free hand Mrs. Simpson gave the King long ago. Lord Brownlow, repeatedly em- phasizing that the statement was signed by Mrs. Simpson, made known her decision in a Cannes hotel room | to a group of reporters. “Mrs. Simpson,” Brownlow read from the document, “throughout the last few weeks has invariably wished to avoid any action or proposal which might hurt or damage his majesty or the throne. “Today her attitude is unchanged, and she is willing, if such action will solve the problem, to withdraw forthwith from a situation that has become both unhappy and untenable.” ‘Thus Mrs. Simpson offered her solu- tion to the crisis. Flood (Continued From First Page.) Seventy-five persons are missing from Pinappagan.” The Government Typhoon Relief Board met in emergency session in Manila. Maj. Gen. Basilio J. Valdes and Dr. Eugenio Hernando, chief of the Bureau of Health, were dispatched to make an aerial survey of the ficoded region. Customs officials prepared to rush a cutter northward with relief workers, food and clothing. Relief planes were ordered to carry light supplies, including vaccines. Authorities said a coastwise ship would be chartered, if necessary, to take relief workers and supplies. ‘The Philippine Red Cross also pre- pared to rush relief, Maj. Gen. Valdes and Dr. Hernando were suthorized to purchase whatever rice and building materials were needed to solve immediate problems of food and shelter. Officials were unable to call for help from the stricken area until today be- cause all communications were cut off by the typhoon, a combination of & gale and torrential rains. 28,063 Live in Valley. Approximately 28,063 inhabitants live in the fertile Cagayan Valley, which is about 50 miles wide and les between two mountain ranges east of Palawan. The narrow Malayas, which rise in places to over 5,000 feet, bound the valley on the west; the Sierra Madre Range, between 3,500 and 5000 feet high, fringes the northeast coast, and the Cordillera Central of Luzon, the most prominent chain on the islands, runs north of the plain to the Pacific | Ocean. The Cayagan River, 200 miles long, | which flows northward through North- ern Luzon and drains one-fourth of the island, is the largest river. | ‘The plains lying amid the moun- tains have the densest populations of | the islands except in Cebu, where the people live mostly on the coastal plain, | a8 the interior is high and rugged. Swollen waters in streams in central provinces of Luzon Islands, in the wake of a typhoon which swept five provinces of the Philippine Archi- pelago, claimed at least 310 lives and | left hundreds unaccounted for about seven weeks ago. Damage then was worst in Neuva Ecija Province, north of Manila. In the provincial capital of Cabanatuan, | which has a population of 15,000, | 82 bodies were recovered. The largest single disaster was re- ported at nearby Bongabon, where the | Pampanga River rose and 300 mill workers were missing. ‘The Luzon floods left at least 20,000 homeless. All towns and villages in the Pampanga River Valley were in- undated. In August, 1934, 225 were unac- counted for after a tidal wave struck Maubsn. Damage to Luzon was esti- mated at more than $500,000 and thou- sands were left homeless in the city of Naga. RED CROSS MAY ACT. P Relief Funids Expected to Be Dis- patched to Flood Areas. American Red Cross officials, scan- ning reports of a major flood disaster in the Philippines, indicated today re- lief funds might be dispatched to the | islands. The Philippines has a Red Cross chapter to which the national head- quarters several times has made con- tributions, the latest being $10,000 fol- lowing a typhoon in October. 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Nearly 200 who picketed the sidewalks in support dispersed in the chill of early morn- ing, after tenants of a nearby hotel protested the noise was keeping them awake. A similar protest brought an agree- ment from the inside “sit-downers” to stop singing. Guards Are Alert, Eight Federal guards were on the alert for any damage to Government property. First reports said agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had been assigned to the scene, but Charles G. Smith of the W. P. A. staff denied this. In corroboration, he had one of the Arthur Jordan’s $6) Christm 2 Piano C:ub Immediate Delivery The Easy Way These attractive case little pianos are all the rage for small apartments and homes. You must see these models to ap- preciate their beauty. Trade in Your Old Piane Né STAR WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2T AT 8, 1936. men display to reporters a card bear- ing the words “Federal guard.” The guards were assigned after Lewis J. 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