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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16
BY WILLIAM BIRD.

ARTS, May 15.-Despite the ap-
- peal Of Premier Blum and his
principal ministers, including
a the secretary Of the Socialist
party. Paul Faure, for a pause" or
breathing space in the march OF social
reforms, unrest continues in the ranks
of labor. The latest threat is a strike
in the hotel and restaurant industry,
tentatively fixed for May rs. the very
day scheduled for the public opening
Of the Paris International Exposition.
The labor ministry is confident it
can arrange compromise between
the hotel workers and their employers
before that date, but the example OF
the London bus strike on the very
eve Of the coronation Is causing much
uneasiness. And even if the hotel
strike does not materialize, the fact
that the threat has been uttered has
undoubtedly caused many foreigners
to hesitate about visiting Paris.
That the hotel workers have serious
grievances is generally admitted. Al
though workers in almost all other
industries have obtained, during the
past year, greatly improved working
conditions, shorter hours and increased
pay, little, II anything, has been done
Tor the hotel and restaurant employees,
during the lean years of the depres-
SION, the workers had to bear the great
brunt OF the loss, as their fixed wages
are small, most of their income COM
ing from percentages on turnover or
from tips
Strike Seen Inopportune.
Nevertheless, from the point OF
view OF the labor movement in general
the strike threat at this time is most
lnopportune. The public has svm-
pathlzed with many of the industrial
strikes that have taken place during
the past year, even when they were OF
the Shutdown" variety, but there is
absolutely no sympathy for any strike
that threatens to compromise the sue
cess OF the Paris exposition.
This loss of public sympathy NAV
nave lar more serious consequences
than the workers concerned realize
The threat Of hotel strike may prove
10 be the last straw, which will strain
public patience to the breaking point
The friendly attitude of middle
class opinion toward the labor move
ment has rendered possible the voting
OF the Blum governments immense
! reform program. This attitude was
determined not only by feeling that
labOr'S claims were lust but also nv
the desire to preserve the unity OF
the Peoples Front as a bulwark
! against fascism.
But If labor attempts to gain fur
Their ground by menacing the success
OF the exposition, middle class opinion
will veer about and may even come
to the point of wondering whether
fasclsm itself is not preferable to
submitting to pressure Of this sort.
l do not mean to assert that the
French middle classes, which are pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16

gas. The navigator trains his drift In.
olcator on the slowly receding fame
lar below, and in a few moments he
mas ascertalned the direction and
force OF quartering tail wind which
TENDS TO push the Clipper of her
course to the right. BY day the
drift bomb" he uses is a cheap lonp.
necked laboratory flask filled with
me aluminium powder; the powder
spreads IN great metallic spot, ideal
lor sighting purposes, when impact
WIN the waves skaters the thin glass
cohtalner. A marker is imperative.
DAY or night, in order to take a drift
sight. The waves all look alike and
pesloes' they are travelling in some
direction. This motion makes them
Valueless as reference points,
New Day Appears.
AT last new day creeps I'D thu
eastern horizon behind the Clinner
ana the stars begin to pale over our
neaos The navigator gets a final
Tx from the vanishing chart of the
heavens and a little later, as day-
iisht grows, the two men sitting at
the Clippers controls pick IN their
nrst landfall-a mountain peak iuttino
up through the clouds far ahead on
The starboard bow.
HaWall-journeys end for the dav
or, rather, it is the Island of Mo]okai
Vi tne Hawaiian group; Oahu and its
capital city OF Honolulu are dead
ahead. Soon the Clipper will be swing
ing by Makapuu Point and Diamond
Head, dropping low over Waikiki
Beach and the Honolulu water front
as she heads for her landing at Pearl
Harbor.
AS soon as the plane touches water
the steward produces an insect pun
Surcharglng the whole hull with a
slcklsh sweet spray, lest some one
should smuggle communicating mos
quito across the Pacific to Hawaii.
There is also gauntlet of hula dane.
ers 10 be run before the passengers
and crew are free to disperse for a
DAY and night of rest in preparation
lor tomorroW's takeoff; but there are
no complaints about this particular
Hawaiian formality with visitors.
AT dawn the Clipper scars on her
way again, this time for Midway
Island, 1880 miles to the west and
north OF Honolulu. Another over
night halt at this tiny mid-ocean
cable relay station and air base and
she flies on to Wake Island, a solitary
coral atoll 1882 miles from Midway
which the Clipper hits ION the nose"
with uncanny precision after nearly
nine hours flying over the Pacific.
Another day takes the big craft
1850 miles to Guam, and the follow
ing one another 1000 miles to Manila.
beginning of the recently opened
shuttle service to Macao and Hong
Kong. After two days Of overhaul
for the plane and her motors and Of
recuperation for her crew, the Clipper
is ready to leave the Philippines for
her 8,200-mile, five-day return trip to
San Francisco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16
After Stanley Baldwin

He will encourage home agriculture
by heavy tariffs on foreign foodstuffs,
and he will help the heavy industries
to truStify themselves and fix prices
behind the double shield of tariffs and
quotas.
And, above all, he will work CLOSELY
with the financial magnates of the
City of London, as powerful an in
f!uence as even Wall Street in its
heyday. His quarrel over this years
budget is with the manufacturers, not
with the bankers.
Neville Chamberlain will not 20 out
OF his way to cooperate with the
United States in problems of mutual
interest; but he has no anti-American
bias, and he will try to avoid upset
ting American feeling.
In the Far East he will let the Jana
nese understand that they can 20
ahead in China so long as they do not
interfere too much with British trade
In the Yangtse Valley. And he will
rely on a strong British fleet, now to be
rebuilt, and the power OF British
finance to keep the japanese from
overstepping the mark.
The other nations of the world will
know that Britain, under the leader
ship OF Neville Chamberlain, will
expect them to solve their own diff
ncultles. If the Germans and the
Russians, for example, come to blows,
he will attempt by all means to in
sulate and isolate the conflict.
Whether he will succeed or not
remains to be seen, but his intention
Will be that Britain in the future shall
! play the part which she played prior
to 1904 in the Entente with France.
There will be a halt to social legis-
lation at home; for such a policy OF
isolation in the present state of the
world is held by Conservative opinion
TO necessitate strong ornaments tt
sustain it.
II Anthony Eden falls in with these
Ideas he can remain as foreign secre.
tary as useful f1gurehead. If not
he can 60, and Sir Thomas Inskip
present minister OF coordination OF
defense, will probably take his place
There will be no attempt to renew
debt payments to America, no lad.
ventures" Neville Chamberlain anc
his party will hope to pursue a steady
humdrum, unimaginative policy Of
avoiding risks everywhere, and keep.
ing out of any trouble that may bt
going.
This policy will suit only a section
OF the British people, and at the mex,
general election the British electorate
may well decide to put the Labo,
party into office.
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the war, there We're no signs of any
unorthodox ideas. He very soon made
q reputation for himself in the House
of Commons as ! rigid, high-protec-
zionist Tory, with no nonsense about
him with regard to social legislation
AS Chancellor of the EXchequer, he
has been rigid, avoiding all innova-
tons and carrying through conscien-
tiously the great task of making
Britain into highly protected country
so far as her industries were con-
cerned. He believes in strong arma-
ments. has a grave distrust of the
League of Nations, would like to avoid
war, but will do little to prevent it;
yet il the peace were threatened he
would like to have strong allies. There
Is an independent majority of Con-
servat ives in the House of Commons,
and Neville Chamberlain does not
believe that there is any particular
value to be obtained from the support
of the Liberal section led by Sir John
Simon, nor the remnant of the
National Labor Party led by Ramsay
Macdonald.
Yet his last budget, introduced on
April co. caused more cutlery among
the business community than did any
other budget for the last 20 years
The trouble was caused by the new
tax on extra profits earned by industry
in the present boom arising out of the
rearmament program. 1t will produce
only $10,000,000 this year, but next
year it will produce s100,O00,O00 at
l. least, and it aroused most bitter
resentment.
But for the general desire to avoid
q political upheaval just before the
royal coronation there would have
been a serious revolt among the tory
old guard; and Mr.. Baldwin would
have had either to continue in Office
or to find some successor other than
Neville Chamberlain
No longer chancellor OF the ex-
chequer, Mr.. Chamberlain will no
longer be responsible for finding the
necessary money-,so he will do all
he can to speed up the rearmament of
Britain.
He will have to work as one of a
team, as every prime minister does,
with his cabinet; but his very great
influence will be used to limit British
commitments on the continent, to
emasculate the League of Nations and
reduce it to a mere clearing house for
international ideas. He will try to
buy off Germany at a price-that
price being the cheapest which he can
get away with. For example, the
Germans are demanding colonies, and
Neville Chamberlain will try to avoid
giving up any Of the mandates held by
Britain over the former German pos
sessions. But there i, movement on
foot to placate Nazi Germany by
lending them money to buy some
OF the Portuguese possessions. This is
Just the sort OF bargain that would
appeal to Neville Chamberlain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16
BY HARDEN COLFAX.
AIR trade acts are being written
- on State statute books in in

creasing numbers. Thirty-five
out of the 48 States now per-
init the fixing of minimum price
at which goods Of q trade-marked
brand may be sold to the public. An
other State, Oklahoma, is consider
ing such law which has reached the
conference stage between the two
Houses Of the Legislature.
These laws, modelled on the act
passed by California in 1881, are very
much alike. They provide that a
producer and jobber, producer and
retailer, or a jobber and retailer may
make contracts, agreeing upon the low
est sale price Of the de-marked arti-
Gle they are handling. While they
differ in certain details, they all agree
on one provision: The dealer who
refuses to enter into such q contract
is, nevertheless, compelled to abide
by the price set by those who make
such agreements.
The Supreme Court has already up
held two Of these laws, those of Cali
fornia and Illinois, and decisions
under the laws Of other States are
expected shortly.
~ States Act This Year.
Since the first of the present year,
70 States have written these fair
trade acts on their statute books.
These States are Arkansas, Colorado,
Georgia, Idaho, Indiana. Kansas, Ken
lucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Oregon, South Caro-
lima, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah,
Washington (the 1885 act expires in
JULY, Wyoming and West Virginia.
In 1886 such laws were enacted in
Arizona, Louisiana, Ohio, Rhode Island
and Virginia.
Six States, Illinois, Maryland, New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and
Wisoonsin, enacted their fair trade
laws In 1888. Ths drst oct following
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-16
Merit Order Formed
To Promote Culture

BY imperial ordinance Japan has
established = cultural order to be
awarded those making outstanding
contributions to science, art or other
departments Of national culture,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27

Fletcher.
 Two hundred centimeters of blood were taken from Rickerd, and Du- rocher said that Schaeffer would be given 50 centimeters @ day. The youth entered the hospital two weeks ago with what appeared to be a slight throat infection.
 Simpkins directed the task of checking hospital records on the persons who offered to aid Fletcher. The doctor said most of them prob- ably were mistaken in the belief that they had recovered from the same disease that now threatens Fletcher's life. There are many va- rieties of streptococcus infection.
 Even though 8 former victim of the disease is found, Simpkins said, the chances are that his blood will! not mix with Fletcher's.
 Fletcher's young wife and his par ents, who said they would pay the costs of transporting a donor to Windsor, visited him frequently. His mother, Mrs. Edward H. Fletcher, broadcast a special appeal for volunteers from a Detroit ra- dio station last night.
 American airlines officials an nounced that they would provide free transportation for donor from any point on their system.
 The streptococcus viridans irlfec- ton, physicians said, centers in the valves of the heart and eventually clogs the circulatory system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27
BUS STRIKE HAS
 BEGUN TO SPREAD

Cleveland Nov. 27-(UP)-Fed- eral Labor Conciliator John Connor, seeking to settle a strike of bus drivers on eight Greyhound lines in l6 states, hoped to bring union and company representatives together for the first time today.
 The strike, called by the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen to en- force demands for higher wages and a closed shop. forced suspension of service in some areas and cur- tailment in others. There were scat- tered reports of violence, particu- larly in Maryland and Massachu- sets.
 S. P. Harvey, assistant president of the union, said that reports from principal cities in the northeast, east and the middle west indicated that drivers were participating in the strike nearly 100 per cent" Company spokesmen disputed that claim.
 Passengers booked on disrupted schedules received railroad tickets or were transported by other com panies. Police rode Greyhound busses to and from terminals in sev- eral cities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27
Blood Donors By Thousand Besiege Ontario Hospital

Windsor, Ont, Nov. 27-(UP)-- Blood donors, responding to appeals broadcast throughout America and abroad pesieged Grace hospital to- day with offers to help save the life of Weston w. Fletcher, victim of the rare streptococcus viridans in- lection from which few recover.
 More than 2,000 persons--one in London sent word that their blood was available. Dr. H. A. Simpkins explained that only the blood of a person who had recovered from the disease could help the 28 year old father of a baby boy, who became i'll six weeks ago.
 Simpkins received a trans-Atlan- tic telephone call last night from Edgar Stanford, who recovered from the infection six years ago. Stan ford volunteered to leave his work in London and rush to Windsor so that Fletcher could be given blood transfusion.
 q told him to wait day or two" Simpkins said. If W can't find any, body in this country whose blood will do, we'll see what can be done about getting Stanford or a sample of his blood"
 Robert Schaeffer, IS year old school boy, victim of e similar ir1- lection, was given transmission last night by Dr. U. J. Durocher. The donor was A. A. Rickerd, 70 yea' old Detroit salesman. Tests showed that Rickerd's blood would not help
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27
Ne1v England Industra
 Firms Favor ':Job Morale '

Washington, Nov. 27-(UP)-New England industrial firms and en1- ployers of labor rank "job morale and general training higher than specialized training and technical knowledge in new workers qualifi- cations, a study by the civilian con- servation corps showed today. The survey of New England firms was made under direction of Joe E. Nys- trom, civilian adviser for education in the first corps area of the CCC. Questionnaires were mailed to 1862 employers. or 13.3 per cent of all New England manufacturers, CCC Director Robert Fechner said.
 More than half the questionnaires sent out were answered. covering l63 industries. Most of the replies came from the larger factory units.
 In the answers 54.4 per cent rank ed lob morale first, and 23.6 per cent put 1t in second place.
 Regarding broad general train- ing, 25.9 per cent of the answers ranked 1t as the first qualification, from the standpoint of desirability. and 34 per cent put 1t second.
 Technical knowledge ranked very low in the employers opinion, only 4.3 per cent of them placing 1t first in importance in hiring new work CTS. and IA per cent put 1t in sec.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27

ond place.
 Of narrow specialized training 154. per cent found 1t to be prim- ary consideration. and 1l.2 as sec. ondary.
 Nystrom's report pointed out that the survey confirmed studies show ing that personality difficulties iil employees cause much greater pro- portion of failure than all other causes, including a lack of skill technical knowledge, etc."
 As an overall average, Nystrom found that 77 per cent of the en1- ployers ranked job morale first.
 Employers invariably report that they want young men who know how to work, who have learned tc respect an honest days work, and who have had work experience of some kind." Nystrom reported.
 Only slightly more than one-hali of one per cent of the employers re- plying said they wanted men with more than f2 years school ing and according to the r1anu- lecturers the men with less than eight years schooling have only two chances In Q hundred ot qualifying for their jobs. Tn some cases. high school training raises the chances of qualifying for jobs to ono chance in two. ''
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27

 OF CUBA GUARDED

New York, Nov. 27 = (UP) - General Gerardo Machado, deposed president of Cuba, was under 24- hour guard in Murray Hill Hospital today, pending his appearance be- fore U. s. Commissioner Garrett w. Cotter in extraditton proceedings instituted by the Cuban government.
 Machado, who came to the United States from Canada for an opera ton, is wanted in Cuba on charges of murder and embezzlement.
 Although his attorney, Francis A, ONeill, former U. s. commissioner said that he would surrender next week, deputy U. s. marshals went to the hospital yesterday and served @ warrant ordering his appearance at the Federal building Monday.
 O'Neill said that he would move to dismiss the extradition proceed ings. He said the alleged mass mur- ders laid to Machado in 1883 were deaths due to the exercise of the police power of the then existing government"
 Machado had eluded arrest for more than three years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27
Dexter Fellolvs, Dean :OfC CircuslNe Zs Dead
One of Best Known Advance Agents of Big Top; Over Forty Years Leading "BalyhoO" Man;
 Burial Will Be in New Britain

Hattiesburg, Miss, Nov. 27-(UP) Dexter Fellows, 66, dean of circus ballyhoo men, who followed the "big top" around the country for more than 40 years, died in an oXy- gen tent last night after long Ill., ness. Dr. Grady Cook announced that death was due to bronchial pneumonia following an attack of typhoid fever six weeks ago. Mrs. Fellows was at the bedside in South Mississippi infirmary when the. end came at 9:30 p. m. (10:30 D. m. EST). The master press agents fight to live had amazed physicians. He was given adrenalin injections early last night, and Dr. Cook said: :: T don't see how he is holding on. He has practically no blood pres- sure and for five days 1t seemed he could not last any longer"
 Taken III In Oklahoma
 Fellows, who made the United States Circus Conscious" as the advance agent of Ringing Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, became i'll in Oklahoma while en route to the cir- GUS winter quarters at Sarasota, Fla. He and Mrs. Fellows continued on to New Orleans, then to Hattiesburg where 1t became necessary for him to enter the hospital.
 Although arrangements have not been completed, interment probably will be at New Britain, Conn, the family home. The Fellows had no
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27
HILL GOES DOWN IN LOS ANGELES Collapsed Today Without Injury; Thousands Saw
 Spectacle
BY ALAN McELWAIN UJnitAd PrQsS Staff COrraennnda


 Los Angeles, Nov. 27.-(UP).- The "movlng hill" of Elysian park collapsed today with the force and noise of an earthquake, to the de- light of hundreds of spectators who stayed up all night to watch it.. Despite all the perils of the avail anche and the nights bedlam that 1t created throughout the city, no- body apparently was hurt and the damage was confined to buckled and buried stretch of highway and the approach to a bridge.
 Two Blocks Long
 The hill was two blocks long and 400 feet high before it began to sway and sink a month ago from some mysterious subterranean dis turbance. Last night, in prelude to its big upheaval, the hill began shedding great boulders large as automobiles, which crashed down across Riverside drive and threat ened to destroy a dozen small houses and slopes between the hill and the Los Angeles river valley down which the debris fell. Then, at 9:15 D. m, one huge section of the hill came tumbling down. Workers and resi- dents scurried for their lives, sirens shrieked, police and ambulances came from all directions, a power line snapped and the whole area was made dark, spectators tugged at the police lines 8 block away, runors were afioat of crews of men buried alive.
 Crack Widened Today.
 Early today a crack began widea- ing around another huge section of the bluff and 1t was believed that the remnas1tewould collapse momerl- tarily. Engineers estimated that about 1,500,000 tons of dirt, boulders and uprooted trees came down in the big slide, and about that much was left standing. A sheer cliff l50 feet high marked the spot where the main section fell away. Debris reached nearly to the door, steps of the row of buildings but they escaped every boulder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27
HARVARD GAINS
 CHURCH COERS

Boston. Nov. 27 U.P0 = Church-going at Harvard shows a continuous gain, in contrast tc many other colleges with voluntary church attendance policies, Dr. Will lard L. Sperry, University Preach ers' Board chairman, reported to- day.
 Total attendance at college serv- ices for the year ended in Septem- Der was 55,000, an increase of 4,00C over 1886. Attendance at Sunday services increased by more than 50 with a decrease from 6l to 58 in average attendance. at daily pray CTS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27
MOSLEM LEADER
 HANGED TODAY
Sheik Farhan Fl Sadi, 70, Years of Age, Leader
 of Terrorism
BY JACOB SIMON

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Jerusalem, Nov. 27-(UP)-SheiE Farhan Fl Sadi. 70-year-old Moslem leader, one of those responsible for recent Arab terrorism, was hanged today. He was the first man con- demned by the new British military courts established on Nov. IS after the worst outbreak Of Jewish Arab acts of terrorism since the rioting of 1929 when 200 persons were killed.
 Second Court Starts
 The military court here began its second case-the trials of two of three other Arbas arrested with the Sheik in a raid by British military forces in MaZar, North Palestine. last Sunday. The military courts are functioning under 8 decree pro- viding the death penalty for possess sion of firearms, sabotage, intimida- ton and terrorism. The decree es- tablished virtual martial law in Pal estine which has witnessed a wave of violence since publication of the British commissions report recom- mending partitioning of the Holy Land into separate Arab and Jew
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