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Evening star., 1936-10-17
CEEANESE PLANT
LAY-0FFS LOOM.
Raw Material Shipments to
Cumberland Plant Cut
by Strike Threat.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
CUMBERLAND, Md, October H.
Reduced shipments Of raw materials
to the celanese plant here raised the
question of lay-offs and seniority
rights today.
The company said that. ''under
threat Of sudden strike on the closed
shop check-off," it was forced to re-
duce the amount Of raw materials
shipped to the plant. This, in turn,
the company said. will cause lay-offs
Of workmen, which will raise the
question of which employees shall be
dropped first.
The company said that It would
resume full operations when the strike
threat is removed and also invited the
employees to present proposals for
new seniority plan. Representatives
of the workmen and of the manage
ment have been meeting in New York
in an attempt to reach an agreement
on wages, hours and working con-
ditions.
In formal statement, the COM
pany said:
Being under threat Of sudden
strike on the closed shop check-off, i,
this company Is compelled to take
precautionary measures.
with so carloads Of raw materials
coming in to the plant every day the
company must make arrangements for
reduced supplies Of chemicals and
other materials which cannot be
stored.
when threat of strike is removed
we will operate to the fullest produc-
ton permitted by our customers de-
mands.
Incoming shipments are being re-
duced by so per cent. AS work in
progress moves through the plant this
reduction will cause lay-offs.
"As lay-offs occur the question of
seniority rights arises. Our employees
have asked for a form of seniority
rights, but have submitted no definite
ideas. We must, therefore, reduce en-
ployment according to the rules on
years past.
I'VE again invite employees to pre-
sent their proposals without further
delay. We promise prompt and serious
consideration and we will meet to dis
cuss seniority rights if employees will
meet with US"
Charles D. Walton, manager of the
celanese plant, said the company
would pay the eight workmen who par
ticipated in the New York meeting just
as though they were at work at the
plant. Their expenses are borne by
the United Textile Workers Union,
| which they represent.
The parley will be resumed here
next week, it was announced.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
CHINA CLIPPER IN MANILA.
First Preliminary Passenger Flight
Over Pacific Completed.

MANILA, P. T., October II P).-
Completing the first preliminary pas
senger flight across the Pacific Ocean,
the China Clipper landed at Manila
at 1886 pm. today (2:36 am, Eastern
standard time).
The last leg Of over 1900 miles from
Guam through periodics rafnstorms
was completed in IL hours and 38
minutes.
The huge flying boat carried a party
of newspapermen here from California
in one of three current Pan-American
,trans-Pacific flights preparatory to
Opening regular passenger service next
"Wednesday.
Others of the American armada
remained in sheltered coral coves on
,mid-Pacif1c islands overnight before
syesuming preliminary passenger flights.
: Juan Trippe, president of the air
slime, and a party of newspaper pub
Fishers, capitalists, Senator and their
wives we're at Midway overnight after
a 1,3o4-mile flight from Honolulu on
the Philippine Clipper.
The eastbound Hawaiian Clipper was
sset down In Pearl Hsrbor at Honolulu
yesterday after the short jump from
midway. On board was H. r. Ekins
. New York World Telegram reporter,
8 : who hopes to be back home from a
? pround-the-world race after about 1914
days elapsed time.
Ekins, who began his trip September
! 30 on the dirigible Hindenburg, in
company with two other reporters
from rival newspapers and news
) agencies, expected to be 1900 miles
ahead Of his co-workers before mid
. night.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
CONTRACTSLAW
MAY Be MODIFIED
Backfire Brings Certain Ex.
emptions for Textile
Industry.

With the Walsh -Healey contracts
act beginning to backfire against Gov
ernment purchases. carrying not only
threat of increased costs, but also
deterring concerns from bidding for
this business, steps are being taken
for some notifications Of its stringent
provisions.
Acting on a recommendation from
the Public Contracts Board. which
originated in the Procurement Divi-
sion of the Treasury, Acting Secre-
tary of Labor Charles o. Gregory late
yesterday approved a 9o.day exemp-
tion for the textile industry from one
labor section of the law. 1t was re-
ported also that the Procurement
Division was forwarding additional
proposals covering other lines to the
Labor Department.
The law was passed at the wind-up
of Congress and went into effect on
October /. 1t applies to all contracts
in excess Of $4,000, and sets up GER
tain working standards. including one
for an eight-hour day and 40-hour
week in establishments doing busi-
ness with the Government. Where
the law will seriously impair the con-
duct of Government business" the
head of the contracting agency is
entitled to seek relief, and it was
under this proviso that the appeal
was made in the textile case.
Early Indication.
An early indication Of the way the
wind is blowing came several days
ago when the Interior Department
opened automobile bids and found
that two manufacturers each had
sought only that amount of the total
offering that would keep the con-
tract below $4,000, and thereby
exempt them from the law. In one
quarter, it was said today, this policy
will be followed generally.
The representative of one manu-
facturer said that under program
Of the sort the Government would
be able only to get a certain pro-
portion of its needs through wholesale
channels, and would have to go to
retailers for the rest, with correspond
ing increase in costs.
It was pointed out that Government
work is only a fraction of the total
business of large concerns, but that
it would be necessary to allow the
standards set for it to govern op-
erations entirely.
Barrier to Some Seen.
This, it was thought, would keep
some concerns entirely out of the
field of Government bidding, even up
to the $4,000 mark.
The textile exemption allowed mills
to employ girls between 16 and 18
on Government work, provided they
were in employ on October IS. The
law requires that girls on such work
be at least 18.
In granting this measure Of relief,
however, Gregory imposed the condi-
ton that the industry shall not en-
ploy any girl under 18 at night or in
occupations of hazardous nature.
The Contracts Board declined to
meet the request of the textile in
dustry for 90 days grace on work
day and week provisions, and would
not pass on the matter Of exempting
custodial, supervisory, maintenance
and clerical employees on the ground
they were not within the act.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
STRIKE IS LAID
T0PAR|S REGIME
InduStrialists' Accusations
Follow Order to Resume
Work on Cruisers.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, October l7-French indus
trialists. alarmed over threats Of
prospective government confiscation Of
their factories, charged officials today
with siding with striking workers.
The accusations by plant owners
came on the heels of a navy ministry
order to an armament company to re-
sumo work on equipment for two new
French cruisers. The ministry threat
ened to invoke a military requisition
law of 1877, take over the plant and
supervise operations.
The Industrialist Federation de-
clared the government was abusing
powers granted in the interests of ma
tional defense for arbitrary settlement
of labor conflicts"
The strike at Paris factory halted
work on armaments for the cruisers
Dunkerque and Strasbourg. now being
outfitted at Brest and st. Nazaire, re-
spectively.
Naturalization Ordered.
In another government department,
Pierre Cot, air minister, ordered I'M
mediate naturalization of all factories
engaged in the manufacture of air
planes and aviation accessories.
Cot invoked the armament nation
alization law passed by Parliament
last August and said the program
would be put into effect Immediately,
in such a manner as TO not slow up
production.
Officers of the huge Renault auto
mobile factory outside Paris reported
Communist workers "raided a Right
ist union election, forcibly taking pos
session of the factory hall, smashing
the ballot boxes and ousting the vot-
ers."
The Rightist union. the officials de-
clared, was composed largely of FORE
men, technicians and higher-paid em-
ployes.
Two persons injured in a sugar
beet factory fight at Chartres were IN
a critical condition at a hospital.
Employees of the L'Orient arsenal
threatened to strike, charging officers
of the torpedo boat Indomitable put
up Fascist poster aboard the vessel.
Fascist Leader Summoned.
Col. Francois de la ROGUE, leader
of the Fascist social party, was sum-
moned for questioning in connection
with native disorders in Algeria,
where leftists charged de la Rocque's
supporters with starting disturbances.
The harassed government of Pre-
mier Leon Blum also faced threats Of
Radical-SocialistS to desert the Peo-
pies Front political coalition unless
the administration takes strong steps
to make Communists behave"
A partisan manifesto, signed by
party President Edouard Daladier, de-
clared the Radical-Socialists were
firmly resolved to defend individual
property Just as much against viola
ton Of legality as against pressure
from great concentrations Of in
terests."
Three hundred Rightist newspapers
throughout the country published a
joint editorial assailing the govern
ment bitterly and urging an organ
lied campaign against communism.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
JAMES J. BURKE DEAD;
LIFELONG D. C. RESIDENT
Former Machinist at Navy Yard.
Funeral Services at $50
M. Tuesday.

James ]. Burke, SO, retired ma
chinist, died yesterday at his home,
AIT Seventeenth street. He had been
i'll for some time.
Mr.. Burke, lifelong resident here,
at one time was machinist at the Navy
Yard and later was machinist for
]. E. Hurley. He retired about five
years ago.
He was member of the knights Of
st. John, knights Of Columbus and
the Holy Name Society of Sacred Heart
Catholic Church. He was educated at
the Immaculate Conception School
and st. Johns College.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary
c. Burke, to whom he was married As
years ago; four sons, James c., An
thony F., Joseph w. and Francis J.
Burke; five daughters, Mrs. J. C.
Stoner, Miss Catherine M. Burke, Miss
Anna D. Burke, Miss Margaret M.
Burke and Mrs Loretta D. Beale, and
three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
$3.50 am. Tuesday in Sacred Heart
Catholic Church, following brief serv-
ices at the residence. Burial will be
in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1936-10-17

lures. They cite. In particular, the
front steps up which all Presidents
have mounted to Inauguration. and
the stone smoke-stained window frames
that recall the burning of the Capitol
by the British in 1914.
Gently enough, David Lynn, archi-
tect of the Capitol, skaters all this
tradition by pointing out that it's too
late to lament landmarks, inaugural
steps and smoke-stained stones having
gone, anyway.
Stones framing Capitol windows out
of which flames darted that fateful
day in 1914 have been completely re-
placed by fresh unstained ones, and
the blue and black slate steps were
taken up and carted away four years
ago, to be superseded by others less
offensive in coloring and designed to
eliminate q certain zebra effect"
which some legislative eyes had found
not to their liking.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
COOP Commission.
OPINIONS CONFLICT.
Report "Some Time" Based
on VoIuminous Data, to
Be After Election.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Fress.
Special commissioners who studied
consumers co-operatives in Europe
for President Roosevelt faced sharp
disagreement" today over the conclu-
sions to be drawn from five trunks
full Of data they assembled.
Robin Hood, secretary-treasurer Of
the National COOPERATIVE Council,
who is a member of the commission,
said:
There will be some kind of re-
port some time. even if it is no more
than a letter to the President. But
a sharp disagreement between men,
bers of the commission makes unani-
nous action almost impossible"
The contents of the trunks. which
Hood said are "very revealing" are
being indexed and digested at w. P. A.
Offices now. No report is expected
until "long after election" the COM
missioner indicated.
Arguments Arise Quickly.
Arguments developed among the
commissioners, it was said. almost as
soon as they sailed for their inquiry
on cooperative enterprises in Europe.
Some of the six commissioners refused
to recognize Jacob Baker, assistant
w. p A. administrator, as chairman.
it was explained; and communications
from the commission during the trip
were handled individually. Baker re-
fused to talk about this report.
Consumers co-ops are the chain
stores of Europe" Hood said. and are
distinctly different from America S
farm co-operatives. which are "capi-
talistic in principle"
Swedish cooperative leaders told
them, he said, that "monopolies and
trusts are fast being routed and that
opposition to consumer co-operatives
"comes chiefly from small private
traders"
Hood said he was named to the COM
mission. apparently at the instigation
of Secretary Wallace. after official an
nouncement Of a three-man group
composed Of Baker, Leland Olds, sec
retary of the New York State Power
Association, and Charles E. Stuart,
an official Of the Export-Import Bank.
Two Others Assist Study.
Two additional members. Clifford
Gregory. farm magazine editor. and
Emily Bates, identified with cooper
ative interests, assisted the commits
sion's studies in Sweden, Finland, Nor
way, Denmark, Switzerland. Czecho-
slovakia, France, Great Britain and
Ireland.
The commission finished its work in
September, but no official announce
ment has been made on the progress
OF its report. Baker, the disputed
chairman, has declined comment and
referred news men to the w. P. A.
Publicity Bureau, which said the re-
port was mot ready"
Mr.. Roosevelt. in announcing ap-
pointment Of the commission at a
press conference on June %, said he
was immensely interested in the de-
velopment of cooperative organi-
cations in Europe, especially in Sweden,
and added that he thought 1t would
be we'll for this country to see what
was going on there.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
FLYING REPORTER
E.:FETED AT MANILA
Reception for Kieran and
Dorothy KiIgallen
Is EffusiVe.
BY LEO KIERAN.

BY Radio to The Star.
MANILA, October 1.-THE recep-
tion have been receiving here has
been we'll worth travelling half way
around the world All Manila Is
turning the city over to my fellow
world traveller, Dorothy Kilgallen,
New York Journal reporter, and me.
It makes one understand what celebri-
ties must undergo daily. but 1t Is all
60 novel at this time that both Of us
are enjoying it.
MY round Of activities started early
yesterday when I attended motion
picture preview; then followed a
luncheon as guest Of Dave Boguslav,
editor of the Manila Tribune, follow
ing which I attended the regular
weekly press conference of President
Manuel Quezon. and thence to dinner
at the home of Robert Aura Smith,
newspaper editor and correspondent
for the New York Times, at which
j. Weldon Jones, United States High
Commissioner, was guest Of honor.
Mrs. Smith, an accomplished violinist,
gave a concert Today's full schedule
includes a luncheon with President
Quezon.
Meanwhile, I have learned that be-
cause of the delay in the arrival of
the China Clipper I will not be able
to take off from here for San Fran
cisco until Tuesday morning. which
should bring me to New York Satur-
day. All delays in carrying out my
schedule are placed at the doorstep
of Pan-American Airways by the local
press, which insists 7 have demon
strated the feasibility of travelling
around the world in fast time by de-
pending solely upon established forms
of transportation available to any
traveller.
ACcpyright 1885. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IneJ
CHINA CLIPPER IN MANILA.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Soldiers Home Band in the
bandstand at $50 pm. today. John
S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner, assistant bandmaster.
Program.
March, 1.-THE American
Legion" -----------Van Vandersloot
Overture. "The Amazon" --Kiessler
Entr 'Acte,
(a) "a la Guiana" ----Granados
(b) ''Marche Militaire" e"----Granados
Excerpts from musical comedy,
"a Connecticut Yankee" Rodgers
Egyptian serenade,
''Amina" -Lincke
Waltz suite, 1.-THE Aero
Travellers" -----.---....-.--W Weiss
Finale, 1.-THE
Ambassador" -Bagley
The Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1936-10-17
CHANG SUMMONS
PAR[EY ON JAPAN
Shansi, Hopei and Shantung
Governors in Talks
at Marking.
By the Associated Press


NANKING, October II. Gen.
Chang Kai-shek. dictator Of China,
summoned provincial representatives
to conferences on the critical Sino-
japanese question today.
The generalissimo. at temporary
headquarters in Hangchow, south
west of Shanghai, discussed the sit
uation with Governors of Shansi,
Hopei and Shantung provinces.
Observers interpreted the discus
sion as indicating Chiang's attention
was turned toward North China.
where the Japanese were reported
seeking increased influence in five
provinces.
Discussions of the Sino-Japanese
problem will be reopened Monday
between Chang Chun, Chinese foreign
minister. and Shigeru Kawagoe, jap
anese Ambassa dor to China.
A national constitutional conven-
tion scheduled to convene at Marking
November II was postponed until
January 3 after authorities decided
the session should await Qualification
of tangled international questions.
Many American sailors were in the
capital as a result Of the movement
of the United States Asiatic Fleet
from the Shantung coast, its Summer
station. to the Philippine Islands.
Seventeen American vessels, in
cluding destroyers, submarines and
various supply ships. arrived during
the last few days and more were re-
ported en- route.
Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell. for.
merly of Honolulu, was expected tc
arrive Sunday to assume command o.
the feet, relieving Rear Admiral o. G
Murfin, who will go to Honolulu.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
MRS. EMMA M00RMAN
DIES HERE AT AGE OF 64
.H-
Resident of Washington Many
Years-Funeral Services at
y, 2P.M. Monday.

80 Mrs. Emma Conrad Norman, ga,
, for many years resident Of this city,
, died yesterday in the Woodley Apart
. ments. where she had been visiting.
. She had been i'll several days.
v, Mrs. Moorman was the widow OF
. Robert Bruce Moorman, at one time
. in the drayage business here. She
, was the daughter of the late Capt.
: Thomas Nelson Conrad Of Blacksburg,
IVA, once president of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute.
= Surviving her are two sons, Heath
! o. Norman and Robert Bruce Moor
!. man, jr.; o daughter, Mrs. Dean Gal
!. lagher, and q brother. John Fairfax
!. Conrad. all Of this city. and sister.
Miss M. A. Hudson Of Gloucester
q County. Va.
~ Funeral services will be held at 2
! pm. Monday In Hines funeral home,
290l Fourteenth street. Burial will
be IN Glenwood Cemetery.
,
Evening star., 1936-10-17
MRS. A. L. THOMPSON, JR.,
is BURIED IN CAPITAL
Daughter of Rear Admiral Scales
Was Well Known Here and
in Annapolis.

Mrs. Effie Irving Thompson, daugh-
ter of Rear Admiral A. H. Scales,
U. S. NJ, retired, and wife of Albert
Lee Thompson, jr., of Greensboro,
N. c., was buried today in Congress
sional Cemetery, following funeral
services in the cemetery chapel. Serv-
ice were conducted by Capt. Sydney
Key Evans, Navy Corps of Chaplains.
Mrs. Thompson, who was well-known
here. died Thursday at her home in
Greensboro. She had lived in WASH
ington and at Annapolis, Md, during
the period when her father was super
inteudent of the United States Naval
Academy.
Mrs. Thompson was the grand
daughter of the late Gen. William
Montrose Graham, U. S. A., and q
niece of Mrs. Carroll Storrs Alden,
wife of the present head Of the De-
partment Of English at the Naval
Academy.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
Chicken Dinners Urged.

LINCOLN, Nebr. (P).-Eat more
chickens. said w. B. Banning. direc-
tor of the State Agriculture Depart
ment, to Nebraskans.
Because of warm. dry weather this
year baby chick survival was SO high
the poultry market is glutted, he said.
"A few chicken dinners will take
care Of this supply and stabilize the
market" said Banning.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
ANNAPOLIS WOMAN, "a,
SUCCUMBS TO WOUND
Miss Katherine Roberts Was
Found Shot in Her Home
on October 5.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, October 17.-Miss
Katherine Roberts, "a, who was found
in the dining room Of her home ell
October S with a bullet wound in the
abdomen, died shortly before midnight
in the Emergency Hospital.
Miss Roberts was found by a brother.
who investigated after hearing shot.
A pistol, belonging to another brother,
q patrolman, was found near her.
Police Magistrate Joseph M. Arm
strong, acting coroner, released the
body for burial. States Attorney Roscoe
c. Rowe of Anne Arundel County said
no further action would be taken in
the case. There was no inquest.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
'STRATTON.,

. If6A koN.-
TIME lot of q Government tele-
phone operator is far from an
easy one. Take, for example.
L lust the matter Of what they
are supposed to say every time they
plug in."
pleted the operator has to identify
her switchboard, Of course, by saying
Tariff Commission" Home Owners
Loan" or the name of whatever de-
partment or agency for which she
works. Some Of the operators, answer
ing thousands of calls daily, have
devised shortcuts. 1t saves both,
breath and time.
If you should dial National 2520,
for instance, instead Of saying 'the
War Department and the Navy De-
partment," your operator will always
say brightly and to the point. "War.
Navy" The neatest trick of the week,
however, apparently is that Of oper-
ators at the Veterans Administra-
ton.
There they are supposed to say
Administration" but even that takes
too long for most of them. They get
around 1t by chopping of the first
three syllables.. The result is when
your call Is plugged in all you hear is
a brisk, business-like voice chirping
"-Stration."
The girls are pretty well pleased
with the idea because it sounds as
though they had plugged in right in
the middle of the word. We asked
a pleasant-voiced girl about it over
the phone the other day. eyes, We do
that" she giggled, "but we're not
supposed to-"
WAITING.
Pete, the restaurant man, may
get a rddio-but not Dhile cam
pdign oratory is cloogino the air.
Hear Landon last ni0ht?" q
patron inquired.
"No hear; no radio"
why don't you get yourself
radio, and keep up ,Dith the times?"
pds the merit query.
"Fraid;: too much talk" re-
sponded Pete tpith fnality.
USEFUL.
THE wife Of a frugal Prince Georges
County farmer suggested the Other
day that he get new suit OF clothes
and throw his old suit away.
Evening star., 1936-10-17

Germany. Italy and Portugal with sending aid
to the Fascists in Spain. now demands block
ade Of Portuguese ports to prevent shipment of
arms to the Communists. There is more than
q strong intimation that failure to heed this
demand will bring active Russian Intervention.
In all fairness, the Fascist powers cannot blame
the Russians for helping the reds so long as
the whites help the whites. But there is graver
danger today than ever before during the Spanish
revolution that Spain may become a testing
ground for the Soviet Air Fleet, as opposed to
planes Of the more conservative European
nations.
Evening star., 1936-10-17
PLANE BIDS OPENED
Concern Makes Low
Offer for Navy Bombers.

Bids for new scout bombing planes
were opened yesterday by the Navy
Department, with the Chance -Vought
Corp. of East Hartford. Conn, a di-
vision of the United Aircraft Corp,
submitting the lone offer. The firm
asked $500, ,484 for Is planes, adding
that If the Government exercised an
option to purchase 40 planes altogether,
1t would do the Job for $906,760.
Naval authorities said the new ships
win be utilized to train reserves and
also to do work In the feet.