Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1938, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle, variable winds, Temperatures today—Highest, 75, “When the Day is Over in Europe — It's Press at 1 p.m.; lowest, 52, at Full report on page A. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 16 86th YEAR. No. HITLER PROMISES ~ HUNGARY A SHARE IN CZECH SPOILS Assurances Chief Result of Munich Talk, Say Nazi Sources. BUDAPEST SAYS PEACE IS MOBILIZATION AIM Addition of 200,000 in 5 Classes Nearly Doubles Army Ready for Striking Czechs. BACKGROUND— Germany and Poland get slices of Czechoslovakia under threats of Jorce, but Hungary has had more difficulty enforcing demands against Slovak negotiators. Hungary wants about 8,000 square miles; Slovaks willing to give up 2,000. Conference at Komarom broke down and Hun- pary yesterday appealed directly to Hitler, By the Associated Press. MUNICH, Oct. 15.—Koloman Da- ranyi, former Hungarian premier, de- parted for Budapest today with Chan- cellor Adolf Hitler's assurances that Hungary would get her legitimate share of diminishing Czechoslovakia. That, Nazi sources said, was the principal result of the Chancellor's talks yesterday with Daranyi and Prantisek Chvalkovsky, Czechoslovak foreign minister. Details Not Touched On. These sources said Hitler dealt only with the broad principles of racial self-determination and their applica- tion to the Czechoslovak situation and did not go into details of & possible settlement. The German Ministers in Prague and Budapest, however, have been instructed to lend all their energies toward bringing about a speedy so-| lution. Wilhelmstrasse circles regard Hitler |, major elements of the emblem | | features of the family shield of the | first President. CANTON HIGHWAY CUT BY JAPANESE as having taken on the role of me- diator and say the necessity of in- voking the aid of Great Britain, France and Italy—the other partici- pants in the Munich four-power con- ference—is non-existent. “Hitler Can Settle It Alone.” “Hitler can settle this alone,” one prominent Nazi editor asserted. Disappointment was openly ex- pressed in responsible Nazi quarters that Hungary did not mobilize imme- | diately after the Munich conference. Hungary Doubling Army. | BUDAPEST, Oct. 15 (#).—Hungary started doubling her army to an esti- mated 420,000 men today for what officials said was peace, not war. The mobilization of five classes to- * taling approximately 200,000 youths | was called a measure necessary for Hungarian security, “endangered by the continued mobilization of the Czechoslovak army,” and the collapse | of negotiations on Hungarian demands 34,500. 6:30 am. -3. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch District’s Flag, Adopted Today, Pays Honor to Gen. Washington Miss Margaret Hazen Davis and her uncle, Commissioner Hazen, display the new District of Columbia flag. ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION q Star ) Means WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 1938—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. #» —Star Staff Photo. A flag of its own for the District of { Columbia was adopted today after 14 | years of active campaigning by patri- otic groups and a longer period of | general discussion. | Final decision on the design of the | District emblem was reached shortly | before noon at a conference between | members of the District Flag Commis- |sion and members of tne Fine Arts | Commission. Paying honors to George Washing- | ton, the Flag Commission selected as ‘The emblem consists of the field of white with three large red stars in the | upper portion of the flag and two | broad red stripes running horizontally across the fleld of white. The arms and crest to be found in the Wash- ington shield and details alluding to | royalty were eliminated. Members of the Flag Commission | were District Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, who was chairman; Secretary | of War Woodring and Secretary of | the Navy Swanson. The design for the | emblem was selected from the 50 sug- | gestions which had been presented | ‘(See FLAG, Page A-3.) Water Route Sole Remaining Link of Metropolis to Coast. BACKGROUND— Japan earlier this week landed new expeditionary force of nearly 50,000 men on South China coast and began drive to cut Canton- Kouwloon Railway, over which China for parts of Czechoslovakia. Surprise was occasioned by the dis- | closure that the Hungarian army num- | bered about 220,000 because the post- war Trianon treaty, declared abro- gated just two months ago, limited the force to 35,000. Hungary Doubling Army. | Mobilization of agricultural produc- | tlon workers to assure an adequate food supply also was ordered. | Authorities were directed to muster | all unemployed farm workers for | transfer from farm to farm to safe- | guard continuance of Hungary's agri- | cultural harvest. Another decree held | employers of agricultural labor re-| sponsible for paying adequate sums to | guarantee the interests of families of those men called to arms. Powerful Friends Cited. The official press declared Hungary | was not alone in demanding Magyar- inhabited slices of her already-dis- membered neighbor. “We have pow- erful friends, who fully support us,” said the Pester Lloyd. The reference was perhaps to Ger- many and Italy, with whose heads two Hungarian envoys conferred yester- day. Mobilization was reported to have been postponed once previously at the request of “‘great foreign powers,” especially Germany. The call to the colors was decided upon in a cabinet meeting last night and was formally decreed by the war ministry today. | Men of the classes of 1908 and 1911 | (men 30 and 27 years old) were or- dered to report for duty by 8 p.m. . Monday. Other classes included in the order were not immediately speci- fled. Some Employes Exempted. ‘The order exempts employes of railways, shipping and transportation companies, ambulance drivers, post office and telegraph employes, police and other civil service employes re- quired in the normal state and munici- pal functions. Simultaneously it was said Hungary (See HUNGARY, Page A-4.) *Hopper Damage $6,380,730. ‘BOZEMAN, Mont., Oct. 15 (#).—The clouds of grasshoppers that descended on 17 Montana counties last summer Just as farmers were expecting their largest crops in years cost the farmers $6,380,730, Dr. Harlow B. Mills, State entomologist, estimated today. A Page of Fashions News of what is being worn in Paris, New York and Wash- ington in a full page of wom- an’s fashions with original sketches drawn especially for The Star from modes appear- ing in the streets and social centers of the Capital—a new feature tomorrow in The Sunday Star has been receiving war supplies for her armies defending Hankow. Canton and other Kwangtung cities targets of repeated Japanese aerial attacks. | By the Associated Press. HONG KONG, Oct. 15.—Canton was cut off from the coast today except for devious water travel. Chinese military officials in the South China metropolis, goal of a swift-driving Japanese campaign in- land from Bias Bay, acknowledged the highway between Macao and Shekki, in the Chungshan district, had been cut by & Japanese landing party. Japanese were reported to have made a sudden landing under cover of an intense air bombardment before local defenders could be mobilized. Reports circulated here of a mys- terious Chinese air attack on Japan's fleet in Bias Bay. The extent of dam- age was not known. Waichow Is Captured. Japanese troops were reported to have captured Waichow, only 70 miles east of Canton, after smashing through more than 80 villages in their new South China drive from Bias Bay. Unofficial Japanese sources said the Japanese had occupied Waichow after a fierce struggle to the southwest of the city, in flames since yesterday as a result of heavy aerial bombardments. The 30-mile drive from Bias Bay was preceded by the heaviest and most destructive air attack ever seen by the Kwangtung Chinese. It left scores of villages and hamlets in ruins. Air raid casualties in Waichow alone were estimated at 1,000. Operate From Bias Bay. Japanese forces taking part in the drive so far have operated from Bias Bay, east of Hong Kong. There were reports, however, that additional troops were landing west of Hong Kong. (Tokio reports said Japanese ma- rines still were landing in large numbers in South China, but did not specify at what point.) Advices from Canton said Chinese troops were concentrated in large numbers for the defense of the South China metropolis and were well- (See CHINA, Page A-3.) BOATS COLLIDE IN BAY Coast Guard Vessel Goes to Aid of One Beached on Island. BALTIMORE, Oct. 15 (#).—Two boats collided in a dense fog on Chesapeake Bay early today and one of them, a 40-foot bay freighter, was beached on Gibson Island, her cap- tain reported to Comdr. William Ken- ner of the Fort McHenry Coast Guard base. A Coast Guard patrol boat was sent to Gibson Island to pump the water out of the vessel. Comdr. Kenner said he was not informed as to the identity of the other craft figuring in the collision or \where it went atterward. | NAZIS ASK BRAZIL 7O RECALL EAVOY Demand Is Sequel to Rio’s Objections to Reich Emissary’s Return. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Oct. 15.—The German gov- ernment today requested Brazil to | recall its Ambassador, Jose Moniz de | Aragoa, from Berlin. | The action was a sequel to Brazil's | objections to the return to Rio de | Janeiro of the German Ambassador, | Karl Ritter. | The German government's first di- | rect communique on the situation | states that “the Brazilian government | has deemed fit to inform the German | government that the return of the | German Ambassador to Brazil to | his post is not desired. “The German government has thereupon expressed to the Brazilian government its great surprise at this | unmotivated step and has demanded that the Brazilian Ambassador to Ber- lin shall leave his post.” ‘The communique adds that Ritter has been intrusted with special tasks at the Berlin foreign office. He re- turned to Germany for the Nazi party congress at Nuremberg last month. A foreign office spokesman in Rio de Janeiro said Tuesday that the Brazilian Ambassador to Berlin had been transferred to the foreign min- istry and would return from Berlin soon. The spokesman emphasized then, however, that there were no diplomatic difficulties between the two countries. Earlier Brazilian sources had indicated the government had re- quested Germany not to return Am- bassador Ritter to his post in Rio de Janeiro. Page. Amusements B-20 Auto Puzzle B-12 Garden Page B-9 Church News, A-11-13 Comics _.B-18-19 Editorials _.._A-8 Finance A-16 Lost - & Found B-12 Obituary Radio .- Short Story--A-15 Society -..__A-14 Sports __B-10-11 ‘Women's Features ___B-9 FOREIGN. Hitler promises Hungary share in Czech spotls. Page A-1 Canton highway cut by Japanese troops. Page A-1 Nazis demand that Brazil recall Am- bassador. Page A-1 Czech troops reported set on fighting occupation. Page A-4 NATIONAL. Tugs idle in New York Harbor strike. Page A-1 Revised defense program linked closely . with recovery drive. Page A-1 Secretary Perkins urges commission to settle labor war. Page A-1 U. 8. anti-aircraft searchlights spot bomber at 24,000 feet. Page A-1 Newspapers strive for clarity in news, editor declares. Page A-2 Rail board hopes to conclude testi- mony today. Page A-2 A. F. of L. moves to organize seamen, hitting C. I. O. Page A-3 Justice Brandeis confers with Presi- dent on Palestine, Page A-3 Roesevelt asks Nation to give to pri- vate charity, Page A-18 3 | ing his budget estimates for the next Summary of Today's Star REVISED DEFENGE PLANS LINKED T0 RECOVERY DRIVE Program Seeks to Boom Construction Work of Private Utilities. HEAVY INDUSTRIES SEEN KEY TO BUSINESS CLIMB U. S. Can Turn Out as Many Planes as Germany on Mass Scale, Observers Assert. By the Assoctated Press. The administration’s revised defense program, informed officials said today, it expected to tie in closely with its business recovery efforts, The double-barrelled program al- ready is taking shape around plans to stimulate a billion dollars worth of construction work by private utilities. This will have the two-fold objective of assuring an uninterrupted flow of power to vital defensg centers in time of emergency and of pumping new | life into the heavy industries, ‘The power program is one of several | phases of national defense which are | been restudied in the light of world | developments. President Roosevelt indicated clearly at his press conrer-f ence yesterday that proposals for a | stronger Army, Navy and air force were being prepared for consideration | by Congress. Delays Budget Estimates. Meanwhile, the President is delay- | fiscal year until he can determine the | probable cost of the program. | The President said the re-survey of the Nation's defense needs had been in progress for a year, but was brought to a head by events of recent weeks and by the receipt of technical information. | Officials said the prower program contemplated early construction of generating plants and power lines in- volving expenditure of several hun- | dred millions of dollars. Much of this money would be spent in the heavy industries, which some econo- mists regard as the_ keystone of any recovery movement. These industries have lagged behind recovery of other economic groups. | A detailed survey of power needs of the chief manufacturing centers is | nearing completion. The proposed new construction would be designed pri- marily to link power lines in such a | way that if a power failure, or power shortage, occurred in one of these cen- ters, electricity could be brought in from another to keep vital industries | going. [q Conference Held. Chiefs of several large utility and | equipment concerns have conferred | with the power survey group, which in- | cludes Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Chairman William O. Douglas of the Securities Commission. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison told reporters the ad- ministration expects the utilities to make the necessary expenditures, with possible aid from Reconstruction Finance Corp. loans. The Tennessee Valley Authority ex- periment in public power development | plays a minor role in the immediate power program, informed persons said The President’s disclosure that re-! examination of defense needs included | studies of possible mass produciton of war equipment was in line with War (See DEFENSE, Page A-3.) STORM IS STATIONARY Disturbance in Gulf | Shows No Forward Motion. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 15 (#).— The Weather Bureau reported early today a moderate tropical disturbance hovering over the Gulf of Mexico had shown no indications of resuming its forward motion. A 2:30 am. advisory placed the storm’s center at approximately 175 miles west-southwest of Fort Myers, Fla. There apparently had been no in- crease in intensity, the advisory said, and “30 to 48 mile squalls continue near and north of center.” Storm warnings remained displayed from Cedar Key, Fla, southward over the Florida keys. Tropical WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Flag is adopted for District of Co- lumbia. Page A-1 Catholic hierarchy pleads for labor peace. Page A-2 Officials slate farther parleys on in- former issue. Page A-4 Decision due Monday on home educa- tion for cripples. Page A-18 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Answers to Questions. Page Letters to The Star. Page Of Stars, Men and Atoms. Page David Lawrence. Page ‘Thé Capital Parade. Page G. Gould Lincoln. Page Constantine Brown. Page Lemuel Parton. Page SPORTS. Big grid games today have bearing on national title picture. Page B-10 ‘Thebaud primed. to resume races to- day with Bluenose. Page B-10 Clark Griffith finally admits - Yanks really have class. Page B-10 George Case of Nats earns all-star rookie berth. Page B-11 MISCELLANY. Vital Statistics. Nature’s Children. City News in Brief. Cross-Word Puszle. Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. -8 -8 A-8 A-8 A-8 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 A A Page A-9 Page A-15 Page B-12 Page B-18 Page B-18 Page B-18 Page B-19 Puge B-19 NEW YORK TUGS | organization, SPEAKING OF CONCENTRATION! I'LLQUIT IF You WiLL! DLE N STRKE Walkout of Workers Ordered After Wage Parley Collapses. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 15—Capt. Wil- liam V. Bradley of the United Marine Division, Local 333, part of the In- | ternational Longshoremen’s Associa- | tion (A. F. L), claimed today the | tugboat strike in New York Harbor | was 100 per cent effective, less than | 12 hours after it was called. i The prospect of a speedy settlement, however, was held out by James G. Conway, president of the New York Tugboat Exchange, Inc, employers’ when he announced | that union representatives had agreed to meet with the operators about noon. | Despite the strike, twe of three ar- | riving trans-Atlantic passenger ships | managed to dock in slack water. A third lay outside the harbor awaiting favorable tides to dock without aid of tugs. Capt. Bradley said 2,000 men of the | union’s total membership of 3,500 were | on strike, tying up 225 tugs. The other | 1,500 union men were not called out. The only tugboats moving in the harbor, Mr. Bradley said, were rail- road tugs and those serving coastwise vessels, self-propelling oil tankers | whose 700 union members were not called out and Erie canal boats, whose 800 workers were likewise not on strike. The New York Towboat Exchange, Inc., declined comment on the union's claim of the effectiveness of the strike. | Seasonal Contract. Capt. Bradley said the Erie Canal | boatmen have a seasonal contract for | summer and fall, Their boats were | allowed to come down the Hudson | only as far as Newburgh, N. Y, to- day, but those in the harbor and out- bound were being permitted to move. The men on the self-propelling oil | tankers have a contract with the In- land Water Petroleum Carriers’ Asso- ciation which exvires next July 1, Capt. Bradley said. ‘The strike call, 1ssued by President Joseph P. Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association (A. F. of L.), affected 2,000 workers and followed the collapse of negotiations among the union, operators and Nathan Frankel, labor advisor to Mayor La Guardia. Of the 75 tugs tied up, 15 are used regularly to haul garbage scows for the Department of Sanitation and eight are engaged in towing coal barges for a power company. Union officials said others were engaged in servicing trans-Atlantic liners and freight boats. The Hamburg-American liner New York and the Excambion of the Amer- jcan-Export line reached port and docked after considerable maneuver- ing, without use of tugs. Awaits Slack Water. A third trans-Atlantic liner, the Nieuw Amsterdam of the Holland- America line, anchored outside the bay to await slack water—the interval between flood and ebb tides—due late this afternoon before attempting to tie up, at her Hoboken pier. Five liners were due to sail today. The tugboatmen are members of the United Marine Division, Local 33, a part of the longshoremen's union. Mr. Frankel, balked last night in an effort to stave off the strike for 48 hours pending new conferences, asked the lebor and operators’ committees to meet again today. He also asked Mr, Ryan to exempt trans-Atlantic ships from the tie-up. Coastwise ships were not affected by the strike order, and if trans-Atlantic ships were excluded the brunt would be borne by oil, coal and other freight barges. Mr. Ryan declared utilities serving the metropolitan area would face a shortage of fuel, but Mr. Prankel said they could be served by the railroads. age Increases Sought. Prior to the final conference last night, nesotiations had been under way for several weeks, with the union demanding a $10-a-month increase for captains and engineers, now receiving $200 & month, and an increase of $15 for firemen, deckhands and cooks, now receiving $95 to $100 a month. Mr. Ryan said the increases asked had been scaled down from an orig- inal demand of $1 more s day, and charged the operators with using the union as s “cat’s paw” to obtain lighter rate increases from the Inter- state Commerce Commission. Operators said they had offered to submit their records to s fact-finding commission in an effort to show the industry could not increass wages. Approximately 300 tugs operate in New York harbor. . Is Wary Civilian Air Net Tracks Airliner That Blunders Into Area By a Star Staff Correspondent. FORT BRAGG, N.C, Oct. 15— An unwary Eastern Air Lines pilot today learned something at first hand of the efficiency of the civilian air warning net now working in co-operation with the Army here. During the course of today's exercises warnings began to come in at defense headquarters of a strange aircraft entering the de- fense net from the north and heading toward Fort Bragg. The leader of a pursuit squadron op- erating on day patrol was ordered to intercept the stranger in the belief that the invading “Blacks” were attempting to sneak a bomber through the net. About 30 miles north of Bragg the big airliner suddenly found itself surrounded by a howling horde of 250-mile-per-hour pur- suits. The airline pilot made a sharp 90-degree turn to the west and hiked on out of the defense area, his every move dogged by the civilian observers below, who tracked him all the way out of the defense net, NEW BIG CAMPAIGN LOOMING IN SPAIN Fighting Occurs on Three Major | Fronts—Battle Is Most Intense on Ebro. By the Assoclated Press. HENDAYE, France, Oct. 15.—Dis- | patches from Spain reported fighting today on three major fronts in what | may be a preliminary to another large- scale campaign. The Ebro River front in Eastern Spain was the only one where anything approaching intense battle was under way. But on the Tagus River front in Central Spain and on the Estrema- dura front in the southwest the oppos- ing armies were searching for enemy weak spots. Continuing reports of troop move- ments behind both government and insurgent lines led to the belief that either one side or the other was pre- paring for & new offensive to gain | strong positions where it could rest throughout the winter. In the center south of Madrid, in- surgents reported they had rectified front lines slightly by local attacks in the Borox sector. Government ad- vices retorted, however, that “an enemy attack was repulsed.” Despite the intensity of the fighting at the Ebro, neither side registered appreciable gains. Insurgent authorities redoubled their campaign against mediation to end the civil war. Newspapers declared against any but an insurgent victory as an end. RUBBISH COLLECTORS END STRIKE OF WEEK 2,000 Philadelphia Workers Go Back to Jobs After Truce. Streets Piled High. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 15.—Two thousand ash and garbage collectors, their week-long strike ended, returned to work today removing rubbish that had piled high along many streets dur- ing the walkout. The strikers, members of the Amer- ican Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers’ Union, voted last night to accept an agreement providing there would be no future strikes against’ the city, reinstatement of dismissed workers and guarantee of full wages. Mayor 8. Davis Wilson had fired the workers when they ignored his demand to return to work and replaced them with unemployed men. Settlement of the strike came soon after Mayor Wilson had requested City Council to appropriate $54,613 to pay ‘wages of 264 men. LABOR PARTY WINS Savage’s Government Is Backed in New Zealand Election. ‘WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Oct. 15 (#).—Prime Minister Michael Sav- age’s Labor party, which has been in power for the past three years, was returned today with 55 seats against | Anti-Aircraft lin preliminary runs, 35 for the National party in s general BOMBER SPOTTED AT 24000 FEET Searchlights | Set All-Time Record at Fort Bragg. By JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, Btar Staff Correspondent. FORT BRAGG, N. C, Oct. 15— An all-time record for high altitude illumination of aircraft by anti-air- craft artillery searchlights was record- | |ed unexpectedly last night when a| B-17 flying fortress bomber was illumi- | nated at an altitude of 24,000 feet, it was announced today. A week ago, | airplanes were | illuminated up to 22,000 feet. Last night's test was solely to deter- | mine the maximum altitude at which | an airplane could be illuminated under ideal conditions. The test came after the scheduled exercises for the evening | had been completed. These consisted | of the illumination of bombers at | various altitudes to determine the effectiveriess of such lighting for pur- | suit airplanes interception. Defense headquarters await from pursuit squadron commanders reports on the results. Observations made here, how- ever, indicated that the pursuit had little difficulty in getting the illumi- | nated bombers in attacking position | but whether the glare of the light | was too great to permit accurate | gunnery has not yet been reported. The bombers had completed their missions and were on the way back home to Langley Field, Va., when Brig. Gen. Fulton Q. C. Gardner, defense commander, from his post on Gaddy's | Mountain, in the center of the defense zone, called unexpectedly for the 24,- 000-foot test. Efforts to communicate with the | bombers by field radio failed. Gen. Gardner sent a request to Langley | Field, which was in radio communica- tion with the bombers, to send one of them back. Half way back to Langley l one of the big, four-engined bombers received orders to return to Fort Bragg, passing through the searchlight beams at 24,000 feet. Flying with its running lights on, the big bomber passed over the search- lights and was clearly illuminated and visible from Gen. Gardner’s position, | although an airplane at that altitude | ordinarily would have been invisible | to the naked eye. Five major weapons of the field artil- | lery, including the 75-millimeter pack | howitzer and a 240-millimeter how- iter, were exhibited here yesterday to s party headed by Maj. Gen.| Stanley D. Embick, new commander of the 3d Army and the 4th Corps Area, in connecting with the joint Army Air Corps-coast artillery air- craft warning net exercises. The howitzer, designed for carriage | by pack animals, has a range of 9,200 | yards and can go into action in less | than one minute.. It handles the same | size shells as the famous French 75-millimeter guns of World War days. There also was displayed the mod- ernized version of the World War 77-mm. gun, & much heavier, more accurate weapon. The 240-millimeter gun, firing a shell approximately 10 inches in diameter and weighing 345 pounds, to a distance of 17,000 yards, weighs 48,000 pounds ready to fire. 8-Inch Trees Sheared. For moving, it is broken into four tractor-hauled logds, the tools neces- sary for its assembly being carried in a fifth tractor. It was described as the most accurate, powerful gun yet given the field artillery. Its shells burst over a wide area and 8-inch trees have been sheared off cleanly at distances of 400 yards from point of impact. A 155-millimeter howitzer, & mod- ification of the famous World War type, also was shown. It is a high- speed type and has a maximum rate of fire of three rounds per minute, throwing 95-pound projectiles a dis- tance of 12,400 yards. A regiment can fire 72 tons of shells per hour. The fifth gun was an American model of the 155-millimeter gun, a 1515-ton weapon, with a range of 26,000 yards, capable of being hauled on rubber tires as a single unit by a 20-ton half-tractor’ truck. There now are only single oatteries of the 155-millimeter guns and the 240-millimeter howitzers in the United States, both in the 36th Field Artil- lery. Woman Judge Bags Deer. COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct. 15 (#). —Colorado’s only woman district Jjudge, Irena Ingham, is also a Nimrod. She came home from a hunting trip today with & five-point buck deer she bagged. i Time on The Star.” Associated Press. THREE CENTS. MISSPERKINSASKS MEDIATION BOARD TOENDLABOR WAR Commission of 13 Proposed to Halt Feud of A. F. L. and C. I. 0. FIVE FROM EACH SIDE WOULD CHOOSE THREE Secretary's Suggestion Is First Direct Administration Step to Quiet Controversy. BACKGROUND— In last 10 days, administration has put pressure on A. F. of L. and C. 1. O. to bury the hatchet. In- ternal friction in organized labor's Jamily circle began three years ago with John L. Lewis, chairman for A. F. of L’s Committee on Indus- trial Organization, leading a move- ment for perpendicular as opposed to horizontal or craft unionizing Resulting schism split ranks of labor but added many workers to unions. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 15.—Secre- tary of Labor Perkins proposed today creation of a 13-member commission to mediate the dispute between the C. I O. and the A. F. of L. She suggested that each organiza- tion choose five of its “trusted and ex- perienced representatives” who fn turn would select three disinterested per- sons. The representatives of the labor groups, she said, should have authority to bind their organizations to adhere to any agreement the commisison reached. Miss Perkins advanced her sug- gestion in an addreés prepared for a joint celebration of the 70th anniver- sary of the Order of Railway Conduc- tors and the 50th anniversary of its ladies’ auxiliary. It was the first public proposal from the administration of a concrete method for settling labor’s factional rivalry. Roosevelt Urged Harmony. President Roosevelt recently sent a message to the Houston, Tex., con- vention of the A. F. of L. asking it not to close the door to peace with the C.1.O. Subsequently, Secretary of Com- merce Roper said the dispute was retarding economic recovery. Then Elmer Andrews, wage-hour admin- istrator, told the A. F. of L. convention Thursday that he, “like millions of other Americans,” hoped labor would settle its internal differences. Miss Perkins said the three disin- terested persons to be on the com- mission should be “informed about labor matters and sympathetic to labor organization.” “Let them be persons of concilia- tory, dispassionate disposition, if pos- sible, with some experience in the art of mediation.” she said. “If the 10 can’t agree on the public members, then some outside trusted person can be asked to select and appoint them. “I have great faith in the capacity of the people on both sides of this controversy to make a fair and worka- ble adjustment and the desire for it from the membership and from the public is intense. “Labor accord is much to be desired 30 that organized groups will become more effective in the interest of wage earners, management and the general public.” Rank and File Seek Peace. Along with expressions from high Government officials of the desira- bility of an end to labor warfare, there have been indications of grow- ing sentiment for peace in the rank and file of two organizations. Daniel Tobin, head of the powerful A. F. of L. Teamsters' Union, demand- ed peace in an address at Houston. There have been hints, too, that the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers, led by David Dubinsky, would withdraw from the C. I. O. if the war- fare continued. Mr. Lewis then proposed that both he and William Green, Federation president, retire. They have long been bitter personal enemies. Green called Lewis’ offer a “fraud” and the con- vention re-elected Green unanimously. Secretary Perkins, witbout mention- ing the current wage dispute in the railroad industry, urged the railroad brotherhoods not to lose sight of their “group interest.” The carriers, she said, have been “backward” in devel- opment of their service. She spoke opyimisticaHy of the busi- ness picture. A “definite turn for the better” occured in the last three months, she said, and the number of factory jobs increased 200.000 in Sep- tember, while residential building has | been well maintained and public con- struction is beginning to increase. President Going To See Huston InShow Tonight President Roosevelt will make one of his rare appearances at the National Theater tonight to see Walter Huston in & new musical comedy, “Knicker- bocker Holiday,” and incidentally will see his daughter-in-law appear in & Red Cross roll call presentation. The President long has been an ad- mirer of Mr. Huston, star of the musi- cal show, which includes & portrayal of & New York Councilman named “Roosevelt.” White House attaches could recall only one previous visit by the President to a theater since he entered the presidency. They said that he saw “Dodsworth” at the Na- tional on that occasion several years ago. Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Freder- ick Warren, Miss Mabel Boardman and other Washington society women will appear on the stage between the acts of the regular performance to partici- pate in a fashion show depicting types of Red Cross uniforms in use from 1918 to the present time. A