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The Washington times., 1937-11-25
us, STEEL SELLS
OLD PROPERTIES

CHICAGO, Nov. Is G.N.SO
Properties in more than 40 indus
trial centers throughout the
United States and worth many
millions of dollars" were offered
for sale yesterday by subsidiaries
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton.
A spokesman for the Carnegie
Illinois Steel Corporation, in an
nouncing invitations for bids,
said:
1T is a case of selling old
properties no longer used or
needed
The most valuable parcel was
said to be the mammoth Old
Union works of the Carnegie-Il-
linois company here.
The properties for sale are in
or near the following points:
Eastern Area - Boston, Jersey
City, Kearny, N. j; Newark, Essex
county, N. Y; Duncansville, Pa;
Johnstown, Pa.
Central Area-Allegheny Com.
pany, Pa; Erie county, Pa: Fay.
cite county, Pa; Greenville, Pa;
Leechburg, Pa; McKeesport, Pa;
New Castle, Pa; Oil City, Pa;
Pittsburgh, Pa; Sharon, Pa;
Westmoreland county, Pa; Bel
laire, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Con.
neaut, Ohio; Dayton, Ohio; Steu.
benville, Ohio; Wellesville, Ohio;
Youngstown, Ohio, and Detroit,
Mich.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
URGE REVISION
OF SHIPPING ACT

Q.N.S). Pacific Coast members
of Congress, headed by Repre-
sentative Lea CD, of California,
yesterday called on Chairman
Kennedy of the Maritime Com
mission, demanding revision of the
merchant marine act.
"The object of the confer
ence," Lea said, was to discuss
the pending withdrawal of GER
tain firSt-claSs merchant vessels
from the Pacific Coast trade.
Facts brought out in the con-
ference showed that the ships
proposed to be withdrawn even
when running with full capacity
passenger and cargo loads, were
being operated at substantial
losses.
The facts strongly indicated
the inadequacy of the present
Merchant Marine Act and the
necessity OF its revision"
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Expensive
Parking Lot LeUu
Costly to City

PHILAD ELPHIA, Nov. 25.
There's money in those parking
lots, the bureau of highways an
nounced, but it's the kind of
money that shows more of a loss
fer the city with every increase
in revenue.
The new tax of l per cent of
the gross receipts from the lots
will net the city almost 500, 900
for the first year, the bureau es-
tlmated. On the other hand,
there is a loss in general taxation
amounting to about $500,000 a
year because of the reduced value
OF sites from which buildings have
been razed to create parking
space.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Plane
Crash UnsOlved

Cause of the airplane crash in
which two Marine pilots were
killed near QuanticO last week
was listed as unknown" by a
Marine Corps board Of inquiry
yesterday. The board said the
demolished plane hid all traces
of the cause. Staff sergeant Her
man L. Williams and Sergt. Cleo
Bowers were killed when t h e ! r
plane power-dived into woods at
Whitewater, Va.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Jail Sofe?
This Chaps Likely
To Garry 1t Off

CHICAGO. Nov. 25.-Edward
lockwood. wrecking compan
owner. was sentenced to prison
for from one to 10 years for col
lecting (the law called it larceny
two steel derricks, an electric
travelling crane with steel track,
three-car garage, brick mill,
two sheds and a building half a
block square.
lockwood asked for his freedom
on bond until after Thanksgiving.
Replied Judge c. j. Harrington:
I'D like to find the court
building here when I return
after Thanksgiving. Stay where
you are"
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Odd Skull Joint
Is Exhibited Here

One Of the oldest skull joints
known to science was exhibited by
DR.. Charles w. Gilmore, vertebrae
paleontologiSt, at the Smithsonian
Institution yesterday.
The "ball-and-socket" structure
in the back of a dinosaurs skull
was found on the Blackfeet Indian
Reservation by DR.. Gilmore in
Montana in 1928. The skull is
more than two feet long but has
room for brain of not more than
two ounces. The odd joint fits
into the back of the skull at a
point where the spinal cord enters
the brain.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

/ n G conditions
in the Manger
hotels h e r e,
we're begun yes
terday.
On one side
sits the manage
m e n t of t h e
Annapolis, Hay
A d a m S House
a n d Hamilton,
W h lie on the
other side 81 t
the officers and
the b u S i n e S S
agent of Hotel
and Restaurant
Employees Local
Alliance No. 80
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Denmark, Germany
Sign Trade Treaty

COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Nov.
25.-Foreign Minister P. R. Munich
has officially announced that a
commercial treaty has been signed
between Denmark and Germany.
The treaty provides for an in.
crease in the exchange of goods
amounting to 10 per cent above
the 1887 volume.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Suing Wife Asks
S1-a-Year AlinOny

SAN JOSE, Cal, Nov. 25 UN.SO
Asking one dollar a year alimony,
Mrs. Erma Sweetland. wife Of a
Hollywood movie electrician, to-
day had on file suit for divorce
she hoped would result in plenty
of publicity" Reason: To con-
vince her new hoy friend" that
she would be free.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
$4,000 Drive
Pastors Today Open
Church Campaign

A $4,000 campaign will be
launched by colored Baptist pas
tors at meeting in the Mckinley
Memorial Baptist Church, Fourth
and L SITS. N. W., today at p. m.
The funds will aid Baptist
churches of Washington, and the
financing of home mission and
educational work. The City Mis-
sion and the Church Extension
Board of the District of Columbia
are sponsoring the meeting.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Milk Trust Probe
Conducted by u. S.

Investigation of the milk indus
try is being conducted by the anti
trust division of the Justice De
partment, Attorney General Cum
mings announce yesterday.
Agents have been at work through
out the country but are hampered
in the industry because OF lack
of funds. he said.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
June Trade Up
To Level of 1929

GENEVA, Nov. 25.-The volume
OF world trade was almost back
to its 1929 level in June, for the
first time, according to figures
published by the League of Ma
tion's monthly statistical bulletin.
With 100 representing the 1929
figure, the index in June reached
20
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
FIELDS FORCED
TO MISS TURKEY

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. Is GNS). +.
There will be no turkey dinner to-
day for w. F. Fields, the come
dian.
He was reported i'll at his home,
suffering from a congestion and
severe sore throat, by his physi-
clan.
Fields recently recovered from
an attack of pneumonia which
kept him in poor health for several
months.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

M d 5 OILS AOCd1
U n on No. 2,
was reno m l.
mated for the
latter post, with
out contest, at
the ! a S t meet
ing of his body
Ye L a b o r
N e W S Editor
was a m o n g
those who spoke
briefly at the
lun c h on of
AFL b u S inesS
a. g e n t S last
Thursday u.
Thorlos a Mo
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

tractors or builders employing
non-union men.
Among organizations which
have promised to deliberate upon
the matter, with an eye to join
ing the fight. are Building Labor
ers' No. IA and Truck Drivers No.
639 Holcombe said.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Leader in Bengal
Plans u. S. Visit

LONDON, Nov. 25.-Subhas
Chandra Bose, a leader of the
Indian National congress in Ben.
gal and an extreme socialist. is
en- route from Bombay to London
on a political mission. Bose, it is
said, plans to visit the United
States.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

Layers Local
No. IS, of which
Stuart KaySer
is bu in e S S
agent; Firemen
and Oilers No.
SO; the Carpen-
ters' District
Council; and
the local of the
Building Serv-
ice Employees.
all affiliated
with the Amer
lean Federation
of Labor.
Principal tar
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

Closky, business agent of Bakers
Union No. 118, spoke over WJSV
on the Labor News Review" last
Saturday night Bookbinders'
Local No. 4 staged its annual
oyster roast at the Elks Club last
Saturday night The Minimum
Wage Board is getting down to
business, now that it has settled
the scale for retail women workers.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

unionized. The other Manger no,
tells have strong representation
throughout.
Cooperating with the new ne,
gotiations is Hotel and Restaurant
Employees Local Alliance No. 781,
of which Garland P. Webb is busi.
ness agent.
Shoe Workers Charge
Discrimination:
Charges of unfair labor practice
and discrimination against active
union members have been filed
with the National Labor Relations
Board by Local No. 1856 of the
United Shoe Workers of America,
affiliate of the Committee for In.
duStrial Organization.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

Cooperative Campaign Against Nonunion
Contractors Will be Started by Labor Groups
Devoted to the interests of labor in the District of
Columbia this column appears eUery Thursday NeWs
items intended for publication here should be mailed
time to reach the Labor NeOS Editor by of the
preceding Wednesday.
By THE LABOR NEWS EDITOR
Beginning of concerted drive by several local unions to
rane building tradesmen nOnunon construction
nounced today by Bryce P HOOmbe business agent of Painters
and Decorators Local. No. 36S
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Negotiations Started
With Hotels Here:

Meetings between employer and
employe representatives, relative to
an agreement on wages and work.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
FORD STRIKERS.
AND firm AWAIT
RULE OF COURT.
Injunction Asked ID
Halt Clio Campaign

ST. LOUIS, Nov. Is O.N.S0.
A holiday quiet prevailed at the
Ford Motor Company plant here
today as both union and manage
ment awaited the outcome of an
injunction suit intended to halt
the CIO organization drive.
Picket lines were flung about
the plant yesterday in what was
regarded as the first step in a
nationwide campaign to bring
Ford workers in the United Auto
mobiles workers fold.
REFUSE TOs TALK
Union leaders refused to discuss
their strategy Of why they had
launched their attack against this
outlying branch instead Of at
Detroit, if, indeed, the long threat
ened "war on Ford" was starting.
RiotouS outbursts marked the
initial day of hostilities, with nine
pickets taken in custody following
fist fights with non7Strikers at
tempting to break through the
lines.
A petition for an Injunction
was rushed into court and an
early hearing was expected.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Here and There Among
Local Labor Groups

Arthur L. Schoenthal, member
of the Minimum Wage Board and
business agent of Stone and Marble
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
SCOUTS AFFECT

Milton w. Johnson, plant mana
ger. asserted the strike had taken
slight effect. He said that 900
men were at work Tuesday and
584 appeared at their tasks yester-
day.
Union officials, on the other
hand, announced the plant had
been forced to keep going with
only a skeleton staff. They said
the strike had been called as the
result of company discrimination
against union members when work
was resumed after the seasonal
layoff.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
By THE LABOR NEWS EDITOR

Holcombe declared the cooperat-
ing bodies include at present
CARPET, Linoleum and Soft Tile
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

The Hamilton is 100 per cent
Evening star., 1937-07-29

IN at the
"
Evening star., 1937-07-29

l pr-ll.95 DRAPERIES; fig
ured peach chlntz; lined with
sateen; wide; lo'2 IT. : OK
800 DOUBLE CORNICE:
to match above dra- 2 OF
perleS
ney shape; burgundy and wine
voile, ball fringe trim @ IN
ming
pr.-1I.50 "WILLIAM MS
BURG" LINEN DRAPERIES;
lined with sateen: 50 in. wide
and 6 It. 10 in. long; e o.
800 COR NICES; o
match draperies above: . IN
l pr.-11.50 CHINTZ DRAPER
IES; "Uncrowned King: glazed
chintz with black background;
lined with sateen; 6 IT. AOS
10 in. long: pr.-
1-l4.00 DOUBLE CORNICE:
mattel hes draperies Il OK
uroh'"Air-Cooled
Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1937-07-29
LAMPS AND
SHADES

$3.50 PAR MEN
SHADES; several attractive
decorations; styles for table.
bridge or floor lamps; COo
4 for ST 90, each-
2-l.95 PIN ON WALL
LAMPS; nursery room
styles; juvenile deco 10
ratlOnS -
l-8.95 T A B l. E
LAMPS; moderne, as Oc
10
2-8.95 LAMPS; Sway reflec-
tor; complete with z o.
fabric-covered shade
Lansburgh'"S,rth Floor
Evening star., 1937-07-29
CHINA,
GLASSWARE

47-15c ENGRAVED STEM
MED GLASS SES; attractive
atterns; discontinued In
styles; each -
LILLE CIGARETTE BOXES;
3 = compartment style;
sterling silver deposit C7c
3-l.95 SALAD BOWLS; Eng
lish porcelain; matt gold EOo
decoration -
3-1.00 BONBON DISHE IS;
suitable for candy; dou- COc
bic section -
7-65c ROSEVILLE MILK
JUGS; l-pint size; at C1o
tractive decorations ---
800 L E N o X
CHINA VASE; for q o.
Lansburgh'"Sirth Floor
Evening star., 1937-03-02
COURT SUMMONS STRIKERS.

LOS ANGELES, March (P-
Nearly $50 sit-down strikers were
summoned to Superior Court today on
charges they trespassed when they
held the worlds largest aircraft plant
for three days last week.
To speed the procedure of taking
their pleas, Judge William Tell Aggeler
arranged to have the men assembled
in lines outside the court room and
called in by alphabetical groups.
Specifically. the sit-downers are ac-
cused of conspiracy to forcibly ENTER
and detain" the Douglas Aircraft
plant at Santa Monica.
The Central Labor Council sent a
committee to protest to District At
torney Buron Fits the manner in
which the strikers we're indicted by
the county grand jury and arrested
by more than 800 heavily armed peace
officers.
Work was resumed yesterday at the
Douglas plant in Santa Monica and
its subsidiary, Northrop Corp, in
Inglewood.
Pickets in fiuctuating numbers
moved about the plant, limited by
orders of Charles Dice, Santa Monica
police chief, to dirty looks" but no
dirty words" The banned words
included "scab" and fink"
Officers nearby carried guns and
tear gas bombs.
Evening star., 1937-03-02

Continued From First Page)
plant improvements and providing
electrical distribution system to water
front and drydock. $4,000; repair
ing sud undermining electric lighting
in power shops, $4,000; repairing
and extending fire alarm system,
10000.
Mare Island, Calf, Navy Yard, con-
tinuing construction of craving dry
dock, S500,000.
Pearl Harbor. Hawaii. Navy Yard,
harbor and channel improvement,
$1,000,000; mooring facilities and ac-
cessories, s2750O0; improvement of
area water supply. $4,000.
st. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Naval
Station, aviation facilities, s125,OO0.
San Diego. Calf, Naval Station,
mooring quay wall and dredging,
s105,000.
Naval Air Station. Alameda, Calf.
acquisition of site and initial develop
ment, $1,000,000.
Model testing plant. near Washing
ton, D. c., buildings and facilities,
$1,500,000.
Naval War College, Newport, r. l.,
addition to library building and ac-
cessories, $l55,000.
The committee turned down a Navy
request for $631,273 to recommission
the ammunition ship Pyro. and baked
at setting aside S451, $3.50 for joint
Army, Navy and Marine Corps land
ing exercises in the Culebra, Puerto
Rico, area.
Evening star., 1937-03-02

hour week to fill Navy requirements.
and in the East, Calumet and Hecla
and American Metal are said to be
doing likewise.
The petroleum industry baked a
bit at the outset, it is added. but after
ward Sinclair and then several men,
bers of the Standard Oil family an
nounced willingness to come In under
the act
The packing industry was another
that came around after questioning
the applicability of the act to their
business.
On but one occasion has the Secre-
tary of Labor invoked the power Of
that office to exempt any industry
where such action is in the public
interest. The textile industry was
allowed a six-ponth period of grace
from the prohibition against using
female labor under 18, on contract,
because of the number of girls OF 16
and II already employed. The Secre-
tary had declined to give the steel in
dustry any leeway, on the ground 1t
would establish bad precedent.
Labor Department officials say that
the 40-hour week issue Is the one that
has caused the principal trouble In the
heavy industries. There has been no
question of wages anywhere except in
some of the so-called "sweated in
dustries," where the Public Contracts
Board has stepped in to see that Ger
tain standards were applied.
Nor has the act been followed by
any boost in purchase prices, it is said,
unless in copper and steel, and In
these two the rise is laid to marketing
conditions.
An unbelievably wide variety Of
Government purchases fall under the
law, a typical group in one week IN
February including airplane parts.
carbon paper, green coffee. gasoline,
broadcloth, lumber, spark plugs, elec-
trio ranges, vitrified clay pipe, cannon
powder and dozens Of others.
According to Senator Walsh, it is
intended to make it still more incln-
sive, an amendment to cut the applica-
BILE limit from $4,000 to $4,000 being
under consideration.
In his Senate speech, which was a
defense of the act, Walsh detailed
abuses that had been uncovered by
Investigators going into industries
turning out Government contracts,
and asked:
IF conditions like the above exist
where Government contracts specify
definite labor conditions, what must be
conditions in so-called sweatshops?"
Evening star., 1937-03-02
WILLIAM bEAMAN
EXPIRES AT HOME
Was inspection Chief of
Topographic Branch of
Geological Survey.

William Major Beaman, chief of
inspection and editing of the Topo-
graphic Branch. United States Geolog-
ical Survey, died last night at his
home in the Wyoming Apartments.
He had been i'll about two weeks.
Mr.. Beaman, a widely known topo-
graphic engineer, was the inventor of
the Beaman arc, used on the tele-
scopic alidadeS. He also was author
of the chapter on topographic map
ping in the book, Topographic In
structions" Of the survey, a publica-
ton used widely in the Government
and in colleges.
A native of Annapolis, Md, Mr.
Beaman was the son of the late Rear
Admiral George Beaman. He was
graduated from the Massachusetts, In
stitute Of Technology.
Appointed to the survey in 1889
Mr.. Beaman, as topographic engi-
neer, made surveys in many States.
From 1907 to 1917 he was an in
spector of field topography. In 1918
AAC "oo oPPOAAbcO W tIle pOSlIlOIl he
held at the time of his death.
He had made a trip to South Amer
ican in connection with a Govern
ment map exhibit. During the World
War Mr.. Beaman served as major
in the Army Engineer Corps and was
engaged in mapping the country for
war purposes. Prior to the war he
had served in the Reserve Corps.
Maj. Beaman was a member of the
Board of Surveys and Maps of the
Federal Government, an organization
set up tc Coordinate Government mar
making. He belonged to the Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers and
the Washington Academy of Sciences
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Kath-
arine Beaman; sister. Mrs. Frances
Burke. Cambridge, Mass, and a
brother, Middleton Beaman, Chevy
Chase. Md.
Funeral services and burial will be
in Rutland, vt, the time to be an
nounced later.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
Huge Sums Will Be Involved Under
Agreements.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, March 2.-Heavy
labor clouds over steel's upsurging
recovery activities appeared much
lighter today with the granting of
pay raises to more than 10000 en-
ployes and the start of unheralded
wage conferences between the indus
try's largest producer and John L.
Lewis Committee for Industrial Or
ganization.
The wage parleys between Philip
Murray, director of an intensive
eight-month organization drive for
Lewis, and Benjamin F. Fairless, presi-
dent of Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp,
began yesterday.
Murray, tlanked by four other union
executives, submitted during an hours
closed session his proposals for an
agreement covering the union men,
bers among the corporations 10000
employees.
The union and company leaders were
to meet again late today and continue
u10CuOolOlko, WA1lSlA 4N4dlAdy odAO Ia =
brief statement had been amiable.
Not since the historic Homestead
strike of 1892 has big Steel" sat
down with organized labor to discuss
a contract, and apparently no hint of
such q development leaked out to the
industry until after the sessions began.
Before the conference broke up,
however, news began breaking of a
general wage increase by independent
producers which would amount to ap-
proximately $110,000,000 a year If
adopted by the industry for its $780,
600 workers.
On last November Is operators had
brought their annual payroll to 1885,
100000 by granting an increase Of
approximately 10 per cent.
Steel orders and operations have
staged an almost continuous advance
for the past year. The mills are
working virtually at capacity for the
workable machinery and are nearing
the all-time peak production mark OF
$4,000 tons day set during 1929.
Employment has increased from
454, 900 last June to 550,000. Since
December Carnegie Illinois has added
almost 10000 men.
The industry spent $4,000, 900 on
additions, improvements ana repairs
during the past two years and Is plan
ming to spend 1925 ,O00, 900 more in
1897. It made $50, ,000, 900 net profit
last year, about 8 per cent On IT.
s., ,000, ,000. 900 invested.
With Ernest 3. Weiy, bad & the
Evening star., 1937-03-02
WHEELER ACCUSES
VAN SWER|NGENS
Says Late Brothers Used
Holding Companies Ito
Circumvent Laws"
BIZ the Associated Press.

BIZ the Associated Press.
Chairman Wheeler Of the Senate
Railroad Finance Committee said to-
day that the late Van Sweringen
brothers had used railway holding
companies as "a device to circum-
vent the laws Of the United States"
The Cleveland railroad magnates
went to the house of Morgan for
help in getting around the 1920
transportation act, Wheeler asserted.
The act requires Interstate Commerce
Commission approval for all rail con-
solidations.
Wheeler said two Of the brothers
consolidation schemes were vetoed by
the commission in 1926. One plan,
he said, was rejected as ''inimical to
the public interest"
Shortly thereafter, he continued, the
Van Sweringens "hit upon the hold
ing company as device for avoid
ing Interstate Commerce Commission
supervision"
Tells of Holding Company.
Allegheny Corp. was formed in 1929,
Wheeler declared, as a holding COM
pany to dominate and control the
23,000-mile web Of Van Sweringen
lines.
The corporation was financed by
the house Of Morgan" the Montanan
asserted.
The Senator contended that by list
ing Allegheny stocks for trading the
New York Stock Exchange Joined the
house of Morgan in nullifying an act
of Congress.
Calling J. NJ 3. Hoxsey, exchange
stock expert. to the witness stand,
Wheeler inquired:
DO you think the exchange has a
right to do by indirection what it is
forbidden by law to do directly?"
Il think there is at least a presump-
ton that Congress failed Intentionally
to close that door" Hoxsey replied.
Rejection of Consolidation.
Wheeler explained the Interstate
Commerce Commission had rejected
the Van Sweringens' proposals for con-
Solidating the Nickel Plate, Pere Mar
quette and Erie Railroads, on grounds
that the brothers would control the
entire system through a minority
share of the stock"
He put in evidence a memorandum
written by Hoxsey in 1929, which said
there was mo fundamental objection
to listing the securities" of Allegheny
Corp. which later gave the Van Swer-
ingens unified control of the three
lines.
Wheeler said committee surveys
showed 100000, 900 Of Allegheny
Corps s175,00O. 900 capital was used to
buy control of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad. although mo consolidation
ever approved by the Interstate Com
merce Commission ever contemplated
the linking of Eastern and Western
lines"
Alleghanys holdings now are worth
only about S. 5000, 900, he continued.