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Evening star., 1937-03-18
EMPLOYEES ARMED,
PROBERSAR TOLD
Goodyear Workers Trained
With Rifles, Union Leader
Tells Senators.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
A former Goodyear Tire Co. en-
ploye informed a Senate committee
today that rubber workers in the
Akron Goodyear plant were trained
with rifles and tear gas in 1885 as a
measure of protecting company prop
erty in case trouble arose"
Testifying before the La Toilette
Civil Liberties Committee, Charles B
Lesley of Toronto. Canada, organizer
for the United Rubber Workers. said
about 400 employees received the train
| ing, which, he said, was military in
nature.
Most of the 400 were from Goodyear
flying squadrons, the groups Of men
being prepared for management duty,
or from supervisory ofnces, ne testi-
fed
Lesley said he assisted in the train
ing because he had had National
Guard experience. The men we're told.
he declared, that they were being
trained TO protect Goodyear property
In case trouble arose"
Practieed Flying Wedges"
Training IN the Goodyear gym
nasium included practice in such tao
tics as flying wedge" formation
which the men were told might be used
TO break up denonstra tons outside
the plant. Lesley said,
When the training ended, he added
about 300 men were deputized by the
/ local sheriff and told they would be
used in case Of trouble.
S. H. Dalrymple, president Of the
rubber workers, testified that when
he was IN Gadsden, Ala. to negotiate
! with Goodyear plant officials over the
| dismissal Of several union members, a
union official was Jailed for distrio-
uting the United Rubber Worker,
union publication.
Objected to Publication.
He said the concern objected to dis
tribution Of the publication.
Attacking such agitators as you
people, the chief of police told him,
Dalrymple said, that his vacation had
been spoiled the previous year by labor
trouble and he didn't propose to have
1t spoiled again
Dalymple said he believed he was
under surveillance by the Goodyear
management in Gadsden.
A group of squad men" and super
ing at which he made an address he
said. One Of the group. he testified
| interrupted the speech and the inter-
ruption was followed by boos and a
shower of eggs
He said the police broke in and
began searching union men.
Sheriff Intervened.
In the disturbance, Da!rymple said,
he was knocked down. The sheriff
ne added, intervened and asked him
to leave the hall.
When Dalrymple left the hall with
the sheriff, crowd, which had
! gathered outside, manhandled him
while the officer made only oral pro-
/ test, the witness asserted
/ He reached the hotel, he declared
after suffering numerous injuries, in
| cludlns conclusion
| A. the hotel, members of the crowd
warned him to get out of town" he
! related He told the sheriff he wanted
! TO obtain medical attention. Dal-
rymple added, but the officer said he
wouldn't be responsible" If Dalrymple
stayed
Dalrymple said he then left the
city with his wife, obtaining first aid
after drive OF 20 miles
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Miss Earhart and Three Companions
Radio Trips Progress.

Miss Earhart and Three Companions
Radio Trips Progress.
OAKLAND, Calf, March 10 (P1.-
Racing smoothly toward the first stop
on a 27000-mile round-the-world
flight, Amelia Earhart's flying labora-
tory passed the three-quarter mark
early today on the 2,400-mile trans
Pacific hop to Hawaii.
Overtaken and left behind by Miss
Earhart and her three male COM
panions were two great trans-Pacific
flying boats. One is destined for
route to the Antipodes the other
bound for Manila. already linked to
the United States by an American
commercial airline.
In clear weather, 5000 feet above
the quiet ocean. the tWin-moto 4
flying laboratory" sped along sppar-
emily without effort under Miss Ear
hart's plotting.
Everything okeh," she would radio
headquarters.
Once her voice informed PAN
American Always radio headquarters
here, We cannot hear you" when
the airways sought to contact her
Then, as If reassuring her listeners,
she quickly added;
"All is we'll"
At Wheeler Field, Army air base
near Honolulu, workmen rushed ar
rangements to greet the aviatrix, who
few from Hawaii to Oakland in
1885. A hundred soldiers were de-
tailed to handle crowds greeting the
Nations first ranking aviatrix.
Outdistances Clippers.
AS the hours rolled by Miss Ear
hearts speedy craft widened the gap
between 1t and the huge clipper
planes which preceded her into the
air from here yesterday afternoon
The Pan-American clipper, COM
manded by the veteran trans-Pacific
flyer, Capt. Edwin C. Musick, was
overtaken about an hour after Miss
Earhart left Oakland at %:371a pm.
Musick is bound for Australasia to
pioneer new route.
LIE hawaii clipper, neaoed 1Or
Honolulu on regular night to Manila
was overtaken at 8:15 pm. by the
aviatrix. She then was many miles
north of the seaplane using a sep
arate airlines' radio beam.
Her speed last night caused some
concern to her husband, who left his
motion picture distribution business
In New York to help arrange for the
flight.
II my figures are right, she better
slow down" Putnam said here, "or
she'll be in Honolulu before dawn"
Accompanying the aviatrix were
Paul MantZ, her technical adviser,
who will leave the plane at Honolulu;
Fred J. Noonan, former Pan-American
pilot, who will go as far as Rowland
Island, first stop after Honolulu. and
Capt. Harry Manning, who will act
as navigator to Port Darwin, Aus
tralia, From there Miss Earhart will
continue alone.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
NAMING Of CASE
WORKER OPPOSED
Volunteer Group Believes
Position Should Go to
Local Blind Person.

Controversy broke out between two
groups of social workers today over the
appointment Of Miss Stella Plant of
Pittsburgh as case worker among
Wsshingtons blind
The appointment of Miss Plant. who
went to work Monday was protested
by the Friends of the Moment, Inc, an
organization Of volunteer social work.
ers Of which Mrs. Ross T. McIntire,
wife Of the White House physician, is
chairman.
In letter TO Mrs. Louisa S. Roberts,
director Of the council, Mrs McIntire
declared the Friends of the Moment
regarded it as "a shock to learn that
the money contributed to the Com
munlty Chest should be used for en-
ployment Of an outsider.
Replying by letter. Mrs. Roberts
denied that Miss Plant is "on the
staff Of the Community Chest" The
Chest. she wrote, is underwriting
this service but the appointment was
approved by the board of directors
of the Council Of Social Agencies and
by the Advisory Committee on Service
to the Blind
Mrs. McIntire's Letter.
Mrs. McIntires letter declared:
I'VE believe tnar local appoint
ment would be more fairly and hon.
estly in line with the wishes and
expectations of the donors, especially
since We have enough intelligent and
efficient applicants in our home
ranks
We know several blind men and
women IN our own city who have
one or more degrees from colleges
of recognized standing, who are thor
oughly capable of filling this posi-
ton
We wish, furthermore, to state
shat We regret that an arbitrary bar
rier has been raised against our local
applicants in the form of a require
nent almost too steep for any blind
Individual to comply with, namely, the
possession of certificate from a
school of social work Since there are
very few blind graduates from schools
Of social work, your requirement prac-
tlcally eliminates all but q favored
minority and hopelessly blocks the
path Of opportunity and achievement
10 the large majority. A number Of
our local blind college graduates have
pursued courses in sociology. psy-
chiatry and clinic psychology which,
together with their natural aptitude,
sound Judgment and pleasing person.
slity, should well equip them for a
position of case worker.
Mrs. Roberts Replies.
To all this, Mrs. Roberts retorted
In part:
This committee Cthe Advisory
Committee on Service to the Blind
vas chosen to supervise I ; plan
which haG been recommended by the
American Foundation for the Blind
after g study made at our request by
this national organization. On this
committee are representatives of l3
organizations interested in work for
the blind, and in addition to these
there are several individuals whose in
terest in this type of work is well
known.
We do not consider our demand
tor technical training for technical
Job an arbitrary barrier against any
one. If such qualified worker de-
sir1ns the position could have been
found in Washington. he or she would
certainly have been appointed. A
subcommittee canvassed the field for
two months and finally reached the
conclusion that the present employe
more nearly met our requirements
than any other applicant. ."
Evening star., 1937-03-18

same distance in four days. She was
$40 miles from Honolulu
ASS a.m.-Reported she expected
to arrive about am, Pacific stand
ard time, and was warned, Clouds
obScuring mountains. Ceiling, l,7O0
feet. Visibility, 10 miles. Occasional
light showers"
$40 am.-Plane was within 400
miles of Honolulu, and later radioed
Army station she would arrive about
8l5 am.
8:29 am.-Landed at Honolulu,
completing 2,400-mile hop from OAK
land. Calf, In Is hours 81 "a minutes.
or an average speed Of $50 miles an
hour.
Evening star., 1937-03-18

Continental assets in his hands and IN
the possession Of the controller OF the
currency to an extent needed TO meet
this balance. Surplus assets then must
he returned to the Continental, ne
ordered. The Commercial is not en-
titled TO interest on the $4,000, 900 or
the existing balance, the jurist de-
clared
Another item Of the indebtedness
vas set at sli8,650, representing divi-
cendS, and subsequent interest there
on, paid 70 Continental stockholders
between March 81, 1880, and October
!, 1881, from the running account be-
tween the two banks.
A contention by the Commercial
receiver that the Commercial was
entitled TO 100 per cent assessment
oal 4,0ol shares of Commercial Bank
stock owned by the Continental was
agreed 10 by Justice ODonoghue. who
held the Continental indebted TO the
Commercial for s4O0,Io0 on this ac-
count
Unsecured General Claim.
The stock, he said, was purchased
by the Continental on the open mar
ket and not directly from the Com
mercial.
The Sllss50 item is an unsecured
general claim, Justice ODonoghue de-
clared,
The Continental took exception TO
che sll8,650 and s400,l00 items while
the Commercial appealed from the
limitation 10 s367.03641 as the bal
snce due on Continental liabilities.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
YACHT is RESCUED
Coast Guard Cutter Goes to Ships

Coast Guard Cutter Goes to Ships
Aid.
NEW YORK, March ls (P).-The
two-masted schooner yacht violet
was brought safely into port yesterday
by the Coast Guard cutter George w.
Campbell which answered the crafts
signal OF distress of the New Jersey
Coast yesterday.
On board the Avolet ere John l..
Dick, Santa Monica, Calf. yacht de-
signer, his wife, and Peter Stein, also
OF Santa Monica.
They started out yesterday for
Miami, Fla. but gale ripped away
several sails and Dick hoisted y dis
tress signal
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
VISION.

A N INVESTIGATOR down in
" Louisiana on Government
~ business recently had with
him a friend who is An in
durable photographer. His speciality
is pictures of old houses, old doorways,
venerable gardens and the like.
One night the sleuth was invited out
to dinner alone, with a new and ma
tive acquaintance. The chap had a
charming old house, cellar stocked
with charming old liquids.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
SOFT COAL CONFERENCE
STARTS SECOND MONTH
Miners Proposal TO Shift Farley
to Washington Reported OPP
posed by Operators.

By the Associs ted Press
NEW YORK, March l8.-Repre-
sentatives of miners and operators
negotiating new wage and hour con-
tract for soft coal workers of the Ap-
palachian area began their second
month Of bargaining yesterday.
Observers from outlying districts,
where wages and hours are to be ar
ranged on the basis of the new Ap-
palachian agreement, expressed be-
lief no final conclusion had been
reached among the negotiators, who
are working in secret
The miners, headed by John L.
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, we're understood
to favor transferring the conference
to Washington. The operators were re-
ported opposed and it was understood
there was no prospect now of shifting
the scene.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
ROOSEVELT LETTER
MARKS ANNIVERSARY
President Sends Golden Wedding
Congratulations to Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry F. Sauter,

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry F. Sauter's ex-
pectations of celebrating their golden
wedding day next week were given
added spice today by the arrival of
Evening star., 1937-03-18
DESCRIBES
CLIPPERS FLIGHT
Crew of Huge Ship Sights
Earhart Plane Winglng
Over Pacific.

Editors note: A description of
the tight OF the puH-Amertcnn
clipper. surveying a ncW aerial trade
route betWfen the United States
and NeiD Zealand. is gtUcn here by
the pilot in charge. His dispatches
OF the fight to aud from NeW zed-
land UtH appear exclusively in The
Evening STAR
Evening star., 1937-03-18

letter from President Roosevelt. To
their home at 1912 Quesada street he
wrote:
1T has Just come to my attention
that on March % you will celebrate
your 50th wedding anniversary. 1t
gives me real pleasure to send you
very best wishes. Very sincerely yours,
"FRANKLIN d. ROOSEVELT"
Sauter worked for The Star in the
composing room from 1887 until June,
1929, when he retired His wife is
Catherine Sauter. and they have one
son, Elmer, a stock broker.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Flight

Continued From First Page)
save them for the more difficult leg
ahead, the 1,532-mile jump to How
land Island, tiny island to the south.
PASSES CLIPPER PLANES.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
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Evening star., 1937-03-18
japanese Wage Low.

Average wages in Japan for 4
working week of 50 hours are 1870 for
men and 81 - for women.
Evening star., 1937-12-13

Gates and the Agriculture Department
who also the the
the Job OF making the certificates
cotton in the pool Mr. johnson
the
that he got excellent prices for the pool
AS the cteper Mr. johnson farmers
become the actual
Teceped tnst0Ament
and on until the uu amount (Which
originally guen for the cotton had
certificates The certificates
farmers
NOT
tnougn the South the
were successful and the spectators
clnce in
g that mad been paid clever Mr. johnson
ront OF $8OO000 The spectators
thankful
onunatey the Agriculture Department
department experts knew perfectly
legation pay the s1SO0o00 profit
set OF cotton Spectators For
lators, but Senator Smith o he
alexander Woolcott little about the title of Emil
dW1gs biography of President
that the productive
patra and the River Nile in
might get tde tangled
book The Serpent of Old Potomac"
boodess civil between in
1nconspcuous but
OF Southern Governors
Northern industry.
New England where the aboionss
The Southern Governors made New point
Evening star., 1937-12-13
putting up of barriers to employe self

putting up Of barriers to employe self
organization when, as a matter Of
fact, the workmen themselves will
some day make short shrift of racket
GERS and union officers who fail to
achieve satisfactory working relation
ships for them.
The railroad brotherhoods-a for
ward-looking and responsible union
has accepted in the National Media
ton Act what amounts actually to a
limitation on their right to strike.
Likewise the laws of the land have
tended to deal with the right of unions
to spread their boycotts or to conduct
mass picketing. Unquestionably if
the recognition of unions hurdle is
overcome and there is a stimulus to-
ward the development of responsible
leadership among workers by the demo-
cratic process, slow though it may be,
America may in time develop defini-
tions by statute of legal and illegal
strikes which will not hurt the cause
OF mionization or diminish its bar
gaining power when legitimately exer-
cised, but will remove many Of the
fears which employers now have that
acceptance Of unionization Is but q
step toward economic chaos.
(Copyright, 1877
Evening star., 1937-12-13

eoelors IN the Manchukuoan troops
Japanese officers
een hy suppressed by
been machine -gunned. 49, 0
OsWaldo Aranha the Brazilian
leaving washington shortly, to return country.
He
stton
surprised he order to give all his
time to the promotion of his political ideas.
There are some 10000 Asyans 1raq today
Inese men have been faithful friends
The ak government does them
nroug all kinds OF
The British government feels
thinking of taking them all
or centuries Where to settle
the donons wants them
expected situation has
Guiana The climate there not what these
that the only available colony where they
Evening star., 1937-12-13

Gus proof of the way the action of
Congress on collective bargaining has
prodded otherwise laggard employers
into action. Under such circum-
stances to remove the stimulus of
the collective bargaining guarantee in
the law is to turn the clock back in
labor relations in America. The Wag-
ner Act will be amended some day
but it never will be repealed.
Unhappily the employers have for
many years made tactical error in
fighting the right to organize" when,
had this been conceded, their point
of view could logically and with more
public sympathy, have been directed
against the right to strike" when 1t
is an improper and unsocial exercise
of economic power by workers groups
that have been fully recognized and
fully unionized.
Why should the employers seek to
influence an employees election of its
own directors or managers? When the
owners who are the stockholders of a
business meet annually to elect direc-
tors and select managers, the workmen
do not intervene or seek to control the
election.
Where most of the trouble in the
labor world Of today arises is In the
Evening star., 1937-12-13
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Retired New York JUS
tice Fights to Keep
20 Dogs.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

JUST about two years ago judge
Townsend Scudder, who pre.
|, sided In the Snyder-0ray sash.
weight murder trial Of 1927, re-
tired as justice Of the NV York su-
preme Court. at the age OF 10. He
said "the world Is getting better all
the time He was happy to get back
| TO his Connecticut estate on Round
Hill, to his dogs, his gardening, books
and music. There were 70 dogs. His
80 years in the shadow Of human
tragedy and contention understand
ably had increased his love Of his
| friendly and honest cocker spaniels.
He began breeding them 54 years ago
and has won 5000 first prizes with
them.
Now ths law says he can't have
them. A controversy OF several
months issues in a ruling of the
Greenwich, Conn.,, selectmen that all
but 10 Of them must go. Powerful
and important residents Of the neigh
borhood indict them for Excessive
barking"
Judge Scudder fought with all DOS
sible legal resources to prove that the
barking was not excessive" He pro-
posed that he be allowed to introduce
strange dog at night, which would
provoke his spaniels to the utmost:
that watchman be stationed near
the kennels to count the barks, esti-
mate their volume and report to the
selectmen. But the selectmen did not
accept the proposal and the battle
continued. Judge Scudder's lawyers
dug up nice point of law in the
contention that each dog must be
identified and his offense established.
But even that didn't avail. Tho Sc
lectmen and the neighbors are un-
yielding.
Horace didn't get any peace on his
Sabine farm because he couldn't get
clear Of politics. Judge Scudder shook
of all that without any trouble. He
has been happy, digging In his garden.
in an old khaki shirt, tan flannels
and crumpled old leghorn hat. until
this dog trouble started. The Scud-
ders came to this country in 1928 and
the judge was born in the old family
manor house, still standing at South
port, Long Island. He was elected to
Congress in 1898, serving two terms,
and to the supreme bench in 1906.
Retiring, he said this was Q grand
country and the only trouble with it
was that the people want too much
protection from their Government.
We are hot-housed." But he probably
would add now that somebody ought
to make America safe for cocker
| spaniels.
(Copyright. 1872
Evening star., 1937-12-13

answer to this question-and 1t is
one Of the greatest questions that
one can ask. Any American citizen
certainly has the right to believe in
socialism. And he has the right to
believe in any mystic blood-and- soil
theory he chooses. But the issue has
really. nothing to do. any longer, with
socialism or racism. 1t has become
conspiracy of foreign powers, fought
out on American soil. So what?
Copyright. 1872
Evening star., 1937-12-13

OF all the mperst which have fought
the China
So far something like
bfy the cam
paign.
Unless Chang ample supplies
nion he be able
fare henceforh
In the meantime, the Japanese
into another Manchukuo.
Pucheh the brother
is mentioned the the
inexperienced 1t for this brother
the job in Pepng other
an experienced ruler The general
the country which the
best interest Of empire
Manchukuo the situation
kWanung army headquarters There they dictate taxation negotiate
loans
Japans aLies-Germany
advantage economic foothd
the country But they very
The in
tai urgently sought
and Korea limited exchanges the
The Italians have been trying
utings
ing the hammer
Evening star., 1937-12-13
Fishermen Get Reward.

When the British air minister estab-
lished bombing range on Chesil
Beach, near Weymouth, England, q
year ago, the fishermen complained
that their industry would be bombed
out Of existence. The ministry moved
the range from the fishing ground,
but the fish refused to return Fisher
men are now making roads, building
bombproof shelters and revealing to
the Royal Air Force the current and
channels,