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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-16
All For a Button 1.

a 4
 As the automobile workers union increased in numbers it's members lost some of their timorousness and insignia of membership began to make their appearance. On November IS, 1936 an employe of the Fisher Body Company, a sub- sidiary of General Motors, walked into the plant in Atlanta wearing a union button in his coat lapel. Whether the display was a gesture of defiance or an act of inde- pendence or a symptom of the martyr complex in the button wearer, does not matter. The important fact is that he was fired from his job and as 8 result the first sit-down strike in the history of labor relations In this country was called. Its spread, develop merit and repercussions in 20 Gen. eral Motors factories is too fresh in memory to be recalled here. A revolver shot in Serejeyo precip- itated the Great War. A union button in an Atlanta mechanics coat lapel precipitated the General Motors strike. Both acts raise the question in thoughtful minds. Was it worth it?" The answer de- pends on the attitude you take on the basic issues involved.
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 IF the Great War was fought to preserve democracy, IF democracy Is worth preservation, and IF as a result of the horrors of that war
Evening star., 1937-12-16
Text of British Note
Eden Demands Assurances of "Actual' Measures
toPut Stop to Attucks on English Lives
and PROPERTY.
and Property.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associate ted Press.
LONDON, Dec. i6.-The tert
OF the note sent yesterday BY For
eion Secretary Anthony Eden to
japanese Foreign Minister Koki
HirOtd:
Evening star., 1937-12-16

note of December II Offering the pro-
found apology Of the imperial Japa-
nese government for attacks on his
majesty's ships, stating that measures
were Immediately taken to prevent re-
currence Of such incidents and adding
that they will deal suitably with those
responsible and pay necessary COM
pensation.
Merchant Ship Protectio Asked.
His majesty's government observes
that your excellencys note makes no
mention Of attacks on British mer-
chant vessels and I am instructed to
request that assurance may be given
that all that was said in that note
applies equally to these attacks.
His majesty's government takes par
ticular note of the statement that those
responsible will be suitably dealt with.
The adequate punishment of those re-
sponsible for the particular attacks
under discussion seems indeed to his
majesty's government the only method
by which further outrages can be pre-
vented.
His majesty's government cannot
but recall previous incidents wherein
the japanese government expressed
regret for attacks made on British
vessels and property and have given
assurances that adequate steps had
been taken to prevent any repetition
They call to mind the attack made on
His majesty's Ambassador in China
while travelling by road from Marking
toward Shanghai, the subsequent at
tack on motor cars carrying British Of
ficials on similar journey, and at
tacks on British civilians and military
posts in the defense perimeter at
Shanghai, as well as other incidents,
and repeated assurances of the Japa-
nese Government Of their intentions
fully to respect the interests Of third
powers in the present conflict with
China.
It is clear that steps hitherto taken
by the Japanese government to pre-
vent such attacks have so far failed
Evening star., 1937-12-16

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 16.-The tert
OF the note sent yesterday BY For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden to
japanese Foreign Minister Koki
Hirotd.:
have the honor of instructions from
his majestys government OF the
United Kingdom to address your ex-
cellency on the subject Of attacks
made by japanese aircraft and land
forces ON British warships and mer-
chant shipping at Wuhu and near
Nanking December 12. These Incl
dents clearly raise grave issues.
At Wuhu a British tug, which had
conveyed from Marking his majesty's
consul, the British military attache
and flag captain to the British rear
admiral. the Yangtze, was attacked by
japanese machine-gun fire after trans
ferring these officers to H. M. S. Lady,
bird.
The latter proceeded to join the tug
in order to protect her when she OBJ
served Japanese field gun battery fir
ing on merchant ships concentrated
above the Asiatic Petroleum Co. s
installation. The firing continued
and was directed at H. M. S. Lady,
bird herself. There were four di-
rect hits on this vessel: one naval rat
ing (seaman) was killed, another seri-
ouSly wounded and three minor cas-
ualties, including the flag captain.
Other Ships Fired On.
A direct hit also was seen to be
sustained by the British merchant ship
Suivo. H. M. S. Bee then arrived on
the scene and was also fired on by q
shore battery.
The commander of H. M. s. Bee
landed to protest and was informed by
Col. Hashimoto, senior Japanese mill
tary officer then at Wuhu, that the
firing on the warships was due to a
mistake, but that he had orders to fire
on every ship on the river.
At later interview the same officer
stated categorically that if any ships
moved on the river they would be
fired on and, despite protests, H. M. S.
Bee and Ladybird, after berthing, re-
manned covered by guns at point blank
range. Near Hsia-Sanshan, above
Nanking, where British merchant ships
were concentrating in part Of the
river previously designated by the
japanese commander in chief as
safety zone, three separate bombing
attacks were made by japanese air
craft on them and H. M. S. Cricket
and Scarab, which were with them.
His majesty's government now have
been glad to receive your excellency's
Evening star., 1937-12-16

Every desirable type is here at
this popular price Walking
chiffons in 3-proportion lengths
BY Archer; 4-threod business
chiffons, sheer 3-threods and
exquisite 2-threods by Raleigh.
In all the newest shades.
Evening star., 1937-12-16
PANAY FIRST SHIP
OF FSQUADR0NSUNK.
U. S. Force in China Fired
on Most Frequently,
Officials Say.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
That little section of the American
Navy operating in Chinese waters,
aAval officials said today, probably has
Seen under nre more frequently in the
last 81 years than any other squadron.
Ever since 1870. they said, the story
a. the Yangtze River patrol and the
South China patrol hes been studded
with deeds Of heroism, struggles with
hoods. and gun battles with bandits
pirates and rioters.
The Panay, bombed Sunday by
Japanese aviators, was the first of the
1orce to be sunk by foreign power.
Rioting and Banditry.
Activities of the last decade, how
ever, were highlighted by riots in
1927 and bandit attacks in 1930-31.
In the earlier year, the patrol spent
two months evacuating Americans and
other foreigners from Hankow and
other up-river cities. It had to call
Tor relnforcements from the Asiatic
Fleet for battle with rioting Ma
tionalist troops at Marking.
During the eight-month period be-
ginning in July, 1880, there were 81
bandit attacks on the patrol and 81
additional attacks on American guards
stationed on commercial vessels.
The patrol was established by treaty
to protect American lives and property.
and to keep the stream of commerce
open.
Replaced in 1928.
Old vessels which comprised the
squadron, some of them gunboats
seized from Spain in 1898, were re-
placed by six new gunboats in 1929
They are small ships, with four or
dve officers and fewer than go men
on each. The shippers operate under
the general order to do what the
sttuation demands"
Fellow officers here said Rear Ad-
miral Edward j. Marquart, present
Yangtze patrol commander, had an
outstanding service record, a level
head, a sociable disposition, and was
generally "the man for the Job"
The Americans always operated
under orders never to fire unless fired
on.
Evening star., 1937-12-16
DR.. ALEXANDER SPRUNT,
ONCE MODERATOR, DIES
Veteran Presbyterian Minister.
65, Fails to Recover From
Injuries in Fall.

- the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG, Va, Dec. 16.-Dr.
Alexander Sprunt, IS, former mod
orator OF the general assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian Church, died
IN hospital yesterday after conflne-
ment since November IL, when he
suffered fractured hip in a fall.
Funeral services will be held Friday
at the First Presbyterian Church of
Charleston, S. c., of which he was
pastor emeritus, since his resignation
on his 84th birthday last year ter
minated pastorate of So years.
DR.. Sprunt was elected moderator.
highest office of the church, in 1923.
A native of Glasgow, Scotland, DR..
Sprunt came to the United States as
boy and was reared in Wilmington,
N. c., where he was a boyhood friend
OF the late President Woodrow Wilson.
Evening star., 1937-12-16

in that purpose and his majesty's
government must now ask that they
be informed that measures have ac-
tually been taken OF a character which
will put definite stop to the incidents
Of which they complain.
Evening star., 1937-12-16
.W0MAN'S BODY BURNS
AFTER DEATH STRIKES
Blind Son Drags Corpse of Mother,
30, Heart Victim, From
Hot Stove.
By the Associated Press

By tNe ASSoclattd Press.
CRISFIELD, Md, Dec. 16.-The
body of Mrs. Nancy Sterling was
badly burned yesterday after the 90
year-old woman died of a heart at
tack and feel across hot coal stove.
The woman's blind son Arthur
melled smoke and dragged his
mothers body from the kitchen.
DR.. Sarah Peyton said Mrs. Sterling
apparently had been working over
the stove when the attack felled her.
Firemen were called by a passerby,
who saw Arthur and his mothers
body after the son had dragged it to
the front porch.
Evening star., 1937-12-16

The famous Iron Mountain of Gall
hvare, in North Sweden, the ore of
which Is magnetic with chromite, is
500 feet high, 3 miles long and IL
miles wide.
Evening star., 1937-12-16
Chronic cases Of
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Salesman, Held in $40, 900 Bail
On Mrs. Reilly's Fraud Charge
Strahl Pleads Not Guilt,
of $4,000
Stumble.

Max Strahl, dapper 34-year-old New
York stock salesman, whose activities
once led Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
to call for police investigation, was
arraigned in Police Court today, &C
cused of obtaining $4,000 from Mrs.
Helen ]. G. Reilly, widow of Gen.
James Reilly, under false pretenses.
Pleading not guilty, Strahl was
ordered held for the grand jury in
$4,000 bond. Milford Schartz pleaded
in vain for a reduction of the high
bail.
Strahl, alias Lewis Decker, was ar
rested yesterday in Mrs. Reilly's home
at 1747 @ street northwest while he
attempted to persuade her to accept
a check for $4,000 and drop all
charges against him.
According to Detective Sergt. Ches-
ter Stepp and William M. Malone, SUI
pervisor of the Washington field Of
fee of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, who arrested Strahl, he
was at liberty under $4,000 bond in
connection with a New York stock
fraud case when he met Mrs Reilly.
Suave and handsome, Strahl met
Mrs. Reilly last June, she told po-
lice, and painted to her rosy pic
ture of large returns to be obtained
from investments in Oklahoma oil
wells. Mrs. Reilly said she gave
Strahl $4,000 in cash to invest for
her.
Last November, according to Mrs
Reilly, Strahl returned and persuaded
her to put up SIS, 900 in stocks to pro
tect" her original investment. She
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at 11:2o pm, April IA, 1912, when
the 6O,000-ton floating hotel"-the
largest ship afloat-slid with a grind
ing wrench along the jagged top OF
an iceberg, of the Grand Banks, 1000
miles from New York.
The passengers, including Million
aires, diplomats and many Of the best
known personages of America and
Europe, felt only q slight shock.
The sea was calm, the sky bright
with stars. There was no immediate
alarm. In the ball room the band
played on. The passengers danced
Wine flowed. Any slow-mounting
fears were quelled with the laughing
assurance:
why. the Titanic can't sink! There
are is tight steel compartments
We'd have to be wrecked Is times to
90 down."
But slowly the great ship settled
In the wireless cabin, First Operator
j. g. Phillips tapped with quickenine
fingers at the wireless "bug"-first q
series Of &C. @. D. -. C. Q. D." Come
quick! Distress!
Then the urgent, despairine
IS o s S o S :" AS the
water flooded deeper and deeper, as
imminent death suddenly stared be-
Wildered men and women in the
faces, as the minutes crept closer to
the Zero hour" OF 2:20 a.m.-then the
last tiny figures plunged overheard
into the ice-laden waters and the
S. S. Titanic slid to the bottom of the
North Atlantic.
True to the tradition Of the sea,
Capt. E. j. Smith, commodore of the
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LAWYERS OPPOSE
COURT PLAN II
American Bar Reveals Vote
of 1900 Members and
Non.Members.
Ey the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, April 1.-THE Amer
lean Bar Association announced last
night its final tabulation Of more than
II 900 lawyers votes disclosed about a
four-to-one disapproval Of what it
described as proposed increase in
the number Of members Of the Su-
preme Court of the United States"
Justice Edward T. Fairchild, Of the
Wisconsin Supreme Court and chair
man of the associations Board Of Elec-
tons, said a count Of 52,671 ballots
sent in by lawyers who were not men,
bers OF the association showed that in
every State and in the District of Co.
lumbia the non-members as well as
members voted against the proposal.
The vote Of the lawyers who were
not members of the association, Justice
Fairchild said, was 11,70O for and
40,021 against the plan. The total vote
OF members and non-members, he
said, was 1883 for and 56,133 against
the proposal
Members of the National Junior Bar
Conference, comprised of lawyers I'M
der 36 years old, also voted, four to
one, against the proposed increase,
Justice Fairchild said.
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court sustained the validity of several
New Deal measures furnishes no Sc
curity of permanent liberalism on the
high bench"
Declaring "our side has the votes, +"
Farley accused opponents of the court
bill Of filibustering by prolonging the
hearings.
Despite opposition by Senators
Ashurst and Burke to compromise by
adding less than the proposed six JUS
tices to the court unless members over
10 retire, talk of such a proposal per-
sisted.
Senator Pittman, Democrat. of Ne
vada, a member of the Judiciary Com
mittee pledged to the bill, said he
thought two more justices would be
sufficient in view of the liberal trend
taken by the court.
Packing" Charge Seen Offset.
Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico, one of the uncommitted SEN
ators on the committee, agreed with
supporters Of the bill that the decisions
offset the charge it would pack the
court" to obtain liberal opinions
The Supreme Court has already
definitely changed the trend" he said,
adding it now would be easier for him
to support the bill.
Testifying in opposition today, Rev.
Linus Lilly of st. Louis, a Jesuit priest,
asserted the legislation would threaten
judicial independence.
The Constitution" his prepared
statement said "contemplates courts
that are entirely, absolutely and per-
petually independent of executive in
fluence in the exercise Of judicial func-
tons, and therefore a plan that would
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Labor
Continued From First Page J

industry, labor and Government. who
are to meet with her at next Tuesdays
conference to discuss problems in
volved in collective bargaining between
employers and workers.
She said her decision to summon the
conference, first Of a series, followed
the action of the Supreme Court Mon
day in upholding the constitutionality
of the Wagner labor relations act.
Among representatives of industry
invited to the conference were Myron
Taylor, board chairman of the United
States Steel Corp; Walter c. Teagle
Standard Oil Co.; Gerard Swope,
General Electric Co.; Harper Sibley
president of the Chamber of Com
merce OF the United States; Carl R
Gray, president of the Union Pacific
Railway, and Averill Hartman, Union
Pacific board chairman
The Government will be represented
at the conference by John G. Winant
former chairman of the Social Sc
curity Board; j. Warren Madden,
chairman of the National Labor Re-
lations Board, and Jesse Jones, chair
man of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp.
Seeks Exchange Of Ideas.
Miss Perkins said her purpose in
calling the conference was to permit
leaders OF industry, labor and Gov
eminent to exchange their ideas on
the methods of approaching collec-
tive bargaining and what ethical at
titude should be taken" toward this
new relationship between worker and
employer.
The Wagner decisions, she said,
will have a great effect on reducing
the number and intensity Of strikes"
Other representatives of industry
invited include Robert Amory, Boston,
president Nashua Manufacturing Co.;
c. M. Chester, president National
Association of Manufacturers; George
A. Fuller, Fuller Construction Co.; O.
Max Gardner, former Governor of
North Carolina, representing the tex
tile industry; George Mead, New York,
G. H. Mead Co.; Charles O'Neill, pres
dent of the Central PENNSYLVANIA
Coal Producers Association; Harold
Winchester, Albany, N. Y, and
Clarence Wooley of the American Ra-
diator Co.
Others Invited.
Invitations to representatives of
labor also went to Elizabeth Christ
man, National Women's Trade Union
League; Sidney Hillman, president of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America; Charles P. Howard,
president Of the International Typo
graphical Union; M. j. McDonough,
secretary of the buildings trade de-
partment, American Federation of
Labor; D. B. Robertson, president of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen; Daniel J. Tobin,
president of the International Broth
erhood of Transfers; D. w. Tracy,
president of the International Broth
erhood Of Electrical Workers; A. F..
Whitney, president of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen; j. w. Williams,
president of the building trades de-
partment, American Federation Of
Labor.
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subject them TO annoyance and
harassing pressure for resignation pre-
cisely because their opinions do not
please the Executive, is directly con-
trary to what the Constitution is.
1.-THE court packing plan was foisted
upon the country with meaningless
stimulation, offered as an ineffective
remedy for non-existent evil"
Former President Herbert Hoover in
New York expressed approval yester-
day Of the Wagner act decisions. He
said:
1.-The whole country should be CRATE
full for these decisions. Every one who
has dealt with these problems has long
recognized that we had developed
business activities beyond the reach of
the States, over which regulatory
power must be lodged somewhere.
whether we wholly agree or not
with the merits Of the specific regula-
tions, we have had great step in
Qualification Of this twilight zone
which now opens the way for con-
structive solution of many problems. "
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White Star fleet, died at his post,
standing calm, erect, shoulders squar-
ed, on the bridge. And as the lifeboats
struggled desperately to pull away
from the sucking whirlpool of the
vanishing ship the survivors heard
the ghostly echo Of the ships orchestra
playing Nearer, My God, to Thee
above the shrieks Of the dying in the
eddying whirl Of tangled wreckage.
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Europe
Continued From First Page ,

coming visit to Rome by Hitler's chief
aide, Col. Gen. Hermann Wilhelm
Goering, led to a growing belief among
informed circles Germany and Italy
planned to remove any possibility of
Communist inf1ltration through ELL
ropes back door," before turning
again to the indecisive military situa-
ton in Spain.
Germany and Italy are known to
plan formidable wedge from the
Baltic Seas through Central Europe to
the Turkish Peninsula in the SOUTH
with Italy standing as q barrier reef
to impede any flow Of communism in
the Mediterranean
Germany's share in the campaign
has been to bring Poland into the anti
Soviet lineup, while Italy has turned
her attention to tie Balkans with
notable successes In bringing about a
new understanding with Turkey and
an alliance with Yugoslavia.
GARNET nENNrINCEn
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FAVOR PARKS PLAN

Endorsement Of the present plan Of
management of the District play
grounds and disapproval Of Repre-
sentative Collins proposal TO place
many of the Fairgrounds under SUPER
vision Of the Community Center De-
partment and the Board Of Education
was voted last night by the Barry
Farm Citizens Association.
The civic group also voiced opposi-
ton to any increase in the Districts
real estate and gasoline taxes.
The program included talk by H.
K. Kugel, who explained Washington .
smoke regulations, and musical enter
tainment directed by Mrs. Anna M.
Garrett.
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CABINET DENOUNCED

LONDON, April IA tP).-The British
governments aroused labor opposition
today denounced the cabinets de-
cision to withhold protection from
English merchant vessels entering be-
sieged Bilbao as "a surrender of the
rights of this country"
Clement R. Attlee, leader of his
majestys opposition, launched a full
dress debate on the government S
Spanish policy in the House of Com
mons, while conservative ship owners,
likewise angered, joined laborites in
condemnation Of the Bilbao decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-14

notified police after she received a let
ter from the American Telephone g.
Telegraph Co., informing her that her
stock in the company had been sold.
Police said Justice Department rec
ords revealed that Strahl had been
arrested 10 times since 1888 in connec-
ton with stock frauds totaling almost
100000.
In 1885, Strahl was indicted on
charges OF swindling Mrs. Blance L.
Mackey Of Kinderbrook, N. Y, a close
friend OF Mrs. Roosevelt, Of $25, 900.
Mrs Roosevelt is said to have per-
suaded Mrs. Mackey 10 call police.
Bond of $4,000 was demanded fol-
lowing Strahl's arrest here.
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Supreme Court rulings left leeway for
ban on child labor.
Intimates described him as uncer-
tain that it did. He reserved comment
on the Wagner decisions, saying he
had read them only in a cursory way
so far.
1t was learned, however, that the
way the court applied the extension OF
Federal power over interstate COM
merce only to the industries involved
in Mondays cases left doubc in official
minds about how far the Government
could 90.
One high official summed up the
administration reaction to the fve-to-
four opinions OF the court as SO
what?" He laughingly quoted one OF
the Presidents helpers as observing
that mo mans land Is now Roberts
land"
Bill Held Unnecessary Now.
This referred to the widespread
comment in the Capital that Justice
Roberts has held the balance of power
in important decisions on the scope of
Federal powers Since he recently has
been voting to uphold administration
measures, some Senators contended
the court bill should be abandoned as
unnecessary.
Postmaster General Farley, however
said last night in a speech at Phila-
delphia:
That is an absurd idea. The cir
cumstance that by a single vote the
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CONTINUED From First Page.)
over the "unsinkable" queen of the
seas.
Only Til Of the 2,224 passengers
and crew who sailed on the vessels
ill-fater maiden voyage survived.
Listed as the greatest maritime dis
aster in history, the tragedy struck
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Fireworks Blast Toll 20.

MANGO CITY, Japan, April IA P.
twenty workers, most Of them wom-
en-, were burned to death, seriously IN
jured or missing in an explosion at a
fireworks factory here today.