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Evening star., 1938-10-13
PLAN ARGUMENTS
IN EDISON CASE
L. R. B. and A. F. of L.
Prepare Cases as Board
Files Brief.

By the Associated Press.
With briefs filed by both sides to
the suit, the National Labor Rela-
tions Board and the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor today prepared the
oral arguments which they will pre-
sent to the Supreme Court in the case
OF the boards invalidation of m A.
F. Of L. contract with the Console
dated Edison Co. OF New York.
The board filed its brief yesterday
supporting its order abrogating the
contract Of the International Broth
erhood of Electrical Workers, an A.
F. Of L. affiliate. with the utility. The
contract Is clearly illegal" the brief
| stated.
The A. F. of L., which Is asking
the Supreme Court to invalidate the
boards order, filed brief on Tuesday
attacking the order and stating that
the board has "brazenly and by Of
fetal act declared itself as a pro-
ponent OF the c. I. o."
In answer to Consolidated Edison's
contention that all of its business was
within the State of New York and
therefore not in Interstate Commerce,
the boards brief said:
The petitioners operations are such
that their cessation by reason OF in
dustrial strife would block interstate
transportation to and from New York
City on several main interstate rail-
roads. and communications by tele-
graph. telephone and radio would be
seriously affected"
AS to the validity OF the contracts
between the brotherhood and the util-
ity the brief said three contracts were
consummated subsequent to the OPEN
ing OF the boards hearings June 5,
1887, and that all were consummated
after service Of the board complaint.
On these findings" said the brief,
the contracts are clearly illegal. Not
only are they part of a scheme by
which the petitioners employees were
to be denied the right freely to chose
their own representatives. but they are
also the eliminating objective OF the
whole unlawful campaign.
The record Is clear that the CON-
tracts were part and parcel of the Pc
titioner's illegal purpose to select a
representative for its employees, place
that organization in q favored position
in the plants, and perpetuate their
| interference with their employees free
dom of choice by maintaining it in
| that position
Replying to the brotherhood's con-
| tention that it should have been a
party to the proceedings before the
board, the brief asserted:
1t is nowhere denied that the COM
plant and notice of hearing actually
reached the petitioners. Prior to the
hearing a copy Of the notice was served
upon the brotherhood. Having had
actual knowledge of the proceedings,
the petitioners (brotherhoods) could
have availed themselves of the oppor-
tunity to intervene and participate.
They chose not to do So"
Evening star., 1938-10-13
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tional field artillery. machine guns
and supplies closer to the Hungarian
frontier along the Danube. They were
prepared for any emergency.
Tension increased in this town,
which straddles the Danube River. On
| the Czechoslovak side the Hungarian
minority for days has been awaiting
entry of Hungarian troops.
Steel-helmeted Czechoslovak SOL
diers with bayonets guarded every en-
trance to Hungarian soil
The Komarom Bridge over the Dam
ube was mined. ready for destruction
should Hungarian troops attempt to
cross if negotiations had failed to
bring peaceful settlement.
\ Czechoslovakia apparently was
faced with the most serious situation
since the general mobilization of the
army was ordered September %, in
the midst of the crisis with Germany
CzechoSlovak officers were having
difficulty in restraining their soldiers.
There was talk in the ranks that the
soldiers-at the last minute before
giving away territory to Hungary
might disobey their officers and start
shooting.
Won Kanya Serves Notice.
The Hungarian foreign minister.
Konya, served the notice at the con
ference table on the minorities dispute
at 1920 am, giving the Czechoslovaks
seven and one-half hours.
Present concessions offered by
Czechoslovakia were held unacceptable.
According to proposals attributed
to the Czechoslovak negotiators today,
Hungary would not get number of
purely Hungarian-p populated towns
that Hungarians demanded.
DR.. Tiso departed hastily for Bratis-
lava before Won Kanya rejected pres
emily offered concessions.
Count Jenos Esterhazy, leader of the
Hungarian minority party in the
Czechoslovak Parliament, declared
| that I'VE Hungarans wish to get, as
quickly as possible. all Hungarian ter
ritory for Hungary. and are generally
in agreement with the demands of the
government"
Informed sources said the Hum
garian delegation generally was hold
ing to demands that all Hungarian
territory with 81 per cent or more
Hungarian population be ceded and
occupied by troops as soon as possible
The Hungarians were said to be
agreeable to plebiscites in districts
where the Hungarian population was
so per cent or less of the whole.
Final Offer Includes $4,000.
| A Czech delegate said that the
final offer to Hungary included seven
districts with population of 100000
Hungarians, $4,000 Slovaks, 10000
Ruthenians, $4,000 Jews and 10000
Germans. Plebiscites, he said, would
be conducted in eight other districts.
Hungarian delegates and experts,
while checking the Czechoslovak pro-
posal, said offhand these Slovak pop
ulation figures were Exaggerated"
Evening star., 1938-10-13
Publisher-Candiddte Offers
Riual Free S pace in Newspaper

North Countryman (Ryan's news
paper to discuss the issues of the
campaign. Because the space is avail
able to me without charge, feel that
you may be placed at q disad-
vantage.
Il am, therefore, glad to offer you,
without any charge, as much adver-
Using space as use myself"
Mr.. Roach did not indicate. i'm
mediately whether he would accept
the offer.
Evening star., 1938-10-13
OIL FIRE QUELLED;;
LOSS IS MILLION
Eight Acres of Tank Farm
Left Field of Charred.
Twisted Girders.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LINDEN, N. j.. October ia rag
Ing fire, which destroyed millions of
. gallons Of oil, kerosene and gasoline
and injured a score of men, was
smothered under control today, leaving
eight acres of a refining company s
tank farm" field of charred, twisted
girders.
Linden Fire Chief Frank T. Miller,
who estimated damage at more than
100000, said the fire had finally
been localized to one 1854, ,0OO-gallon
tank Of fuel oil. Approximately 20
other tanks were destroyed by ex-
plosives and flames.
Fifty OF the 1,500 firemen and VOL
unteers who fought the spectacular
blaze through the night remained to-
day to cool the melted tank skeletons
80 company officials could investigate
the cause and estimate the damage.
Elliot McEldowney, advertising man.
aeer of the Cities Service Refining Co.,
estimated in New York that the loss
was approximately half million"
dollars.
The weary army of firemen and
volunteers battled the vast tongues of
flame and clouds of greasy, black
smoke until dawn this morning as the
fire ragged through the heart of one
OF the worlds greatest refinery
centers.
Crowd Of $4,000 Watches.
Powerful searchlights pointed the
way for rivers of water and fire.
smothering foam poured by fire-fght-
ers into eight acres Of bursting tanks
and blazing oil during the early morn
ing hours in the inferno that was the
Cities Service Co. tank village" near
here.
A crowd of $4,000 had watched in
awe for hours as an estimated 10000
900 gallons of oil went up in flames
500 feet high. causing damage unoffi-
cially estimated at Sl000,000.
The spectacular fire, accompanied
at the start by explosions as one after
another Of nearly all of % tanks in the
oil field were ignited, could be seen
for more than 10 miles.
Threatened continually were the
Cities Services adjacent distillery field
OF 80 other and larger fuel tanks as
veil as plants Of the Sinclair Oil Co.
and the American Cyanamid Co.
TwoscOre Injured.
A short distance away is located the
huge refinery of the Standard Oil Co.
with its 300 tanks-said to be the
largest field in the world
Two score fire fighters were injured,
none seriously, and company officials
said it was miracle" that no one
was killed when the fire started.
Suddenly about l pm yesterday
1,6s0,000-g gallon tank exploded In
deafening succession half-dozen 9TH
er blasts occurred, shaking buildings
for many miles around Then the
fire began its steady spread to the
remainder of the tanks in the field
and early today all but three were
reported consumed by the blaze. the
cause of which has not been deter
mined.
For a time the Sinclair field was
endangered when sudden but brief
shift in the wind at the peak of the
fire sent tongues of fame into the Sim
clair tank farm" igniting and con-
sumlne q pipe and an oil storage
house.
Evening star., 1938-10-13
BRITISH SHIP DAMAGED
BY BOMB AT BARCELONA
Steamer Hit as Five 1nsurgent
Planes Attack Capital of
Loyalist Regime.


By the Associated Press.
BARCELONA, Oct. 13.-The British
steamer Stancroft was damaged by
a bomb today when five insurgent
planes raided Barcelona. No casual
ties on board we're reported.
The Stancroft, l,407 tons. left
Montreal for Barcelona September 81
> 1t was understood she carried Cana
dian wheat.
The raiders bombed the city from
a great height. The famous statue
OF Columbus. with a hand pointing
across the sea, narrowly escaped dam
age when bomb fell six yards from
its base.
Estimates of casualties in the city
we're not Immediately available
Evening star., 1938-10-13
by the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ROUSES POINT, N. Y, Oct. 13.-
Leslie G. Ryan, local newspaper
publisher and Republican candidate
for the State Assembly, today offered
his opponent free advertising space in
his paper.
Mr.. Ryan. in a letter to Emmett ].
Roach, the Democratic nominee, said :
Il plan on using considerable
amount of advertising space in the
Evening star., 1938-10-13
Manchukuo to Aid Japan.

At a conference of agriculturists in
Toxic. Japan. it was decided that
Manchukuo is to supply Japan's lum-
Der, while Japan concentrates on cattle
and chicken raising.
Evening star., 1938-10-22

Belgium Is seeking ways to reduce
government expenditures.
Evening star., 1938-10-22

who is the trustee for the public and
the salesman and all subconstractors in
connection with the building of homes,
could stabilize this branch Of the con-
struction industry and act as modera-
Evening star., 1938-10-22
tor among all groups involved in resi-
Dental building.
Low-Rent Projects Hit.

Wa oAlOAlk oAA lOuko &AAfo1FSN AAA ASoA-
Dental building.
Low-Rent Projects Hit.
John McC. Mowbray Of Baltimore.
chairman of the Housing Committee
of the National Association of Real
Estate Boards, yesterday condemned
as futile the New Deals low-cost and
iow-rent housing program which Is
aimed at providing good homes for
those Of the lowest incomes. He said
that it is indicated that the cost Of
land acquisition and slum clearance,
even with Government subsidy, will
not permit a rental schedule which
will rehouse the people who have
been dispossessed by the demolition
of their former homes.
On the first day of the conference.
William S. Parker, general chairman
of the Construction League Of the
United States, declared that a per-
manent program of Federal public
works should be established as q
preventive, not cure, Of depression.
He said that such a program offers
new hope to the construction in
dustry.
Thomas S. Holden, president Of the
New York Building Congress, told the
conference that the construction in
Evening star., 1938-10-22
F. H. A. 'ENR0LLS'
OVER 100000
Home Construction Work
Under New Program Is
Increasing.

More than 100000 persons are liv-
Ing in homes financed under the F.. H.
A. plan, according to figures made pub
lie today by Administrator Stewart
Mcdonald
This number is now being increased
at the rate of approximately 12,5O0
week as consequence OF. the accele-
rated home construction activities
under the liberalized F. H. A. program
put into effect last February.
In addition, it is estimated that
between five and six million persons
have been enabled to improve their
living conditions through the F. H. A.
property improvement program. More
than 10000 of these loans are being
insured each week.
Premium paying mortgages recorded
by the F. H. A. covering small homes
reached a total of 279,599 valued at
S1,l59,523.341 on October l5 Each
Of these mortgages represent at least
one dwelling unit and some of them
as many as four units.
Large Scale Projects.
Large scale projects financed under
the F. H. A. plan have provided an
additional 4,40O family units and pro-
jects nearing completion will add over
$500 more units.
On the basis of four persons to the
family it is estimated that the number
of persons housed under the F. H. A.
plan is now in excess of 100000.
Under the property improvement
program a total Of l.706,364 loans
valued at $697, ,545 have been made
by private lending institutions in
sured by the F. H. A. OF these loans,
approximately 100000 have been
made for modernizing or repairing
dwellings and 100000 for improvement
of small business or other types of
properties.
Foreclosures Record.
The Federal Housing Administra-
tons foreclosure experience continues
highly satisfactory. according to Mr..
Mcdonald AS of September 80, only
S31 homes had been turned over to
the F. H. A. following foreclosure.
Net losses chargeable against the F.
H. A. as result of sale at that
date Of 1875 properties totaled slightly
under $4,000 To meet such losses
the F. H. A. has available a mutual
mortgage insurance fund now amount
ing to $22, 1868, 1922 accumulated in the
Treasury from insurance premiums
and appraisal fees.
This low loss ratio. Administrator
Mcdonald explained, is due in large
measure to the F. H. A. appraisal
and risk-rating system. important fea-
lures of which are protection of the
home seeker from overbuying and
careful consideration Of his ability to
meet his payments.
The latest available statistics show
that 81 per cent of home buyers under
the F. H. A. plan use less than Is
aer cent of their incomes to meet
their monthly payments, exclusive of
taxes and hazard insurance, and that
90 per cent of them use less than 20
per cent.
Evening star., 1938-10-22

Nd, by the Cafritz Co. in co-opera-
ton with Lansburgh's.
The home models. all designed by
nationally known architects, are built
on scale Of a quarter-inch to q foot.
The smallest Is II inches and the
largest nearly 3 feet in length. The
houses are for families having annual
incomes ranging from $4,000 to $4,000
year. There Is home Of modern
and traditional architecture for each
Of the four salary groups.
Evening star., 1938-10-22
Fireproof Paint in Demand.

The increase in fireproof paint con-
sumption in Germany has increased
considerably Of late. One type Of this
paint Is q lacquer solution which does
not penetrate into the wood and other
materials to which It u applied, but
remains on the surface. Another type
penetrates beneath the surface and
impreznates the body Of the wood.
Evening star., 1938-10-22

Devdop Co contan nnero msandt three bahs

dustry is In a new recovery cycle that
may bring a return to the "healthv"
business levels of the postwar re-
covery period within the nexl tve
years. He foresaw opportunities for
increased construction programs in
the public utility, residential building
and community improvement fields,
Evening star., 1938-10-22
DRIVE SEEKS TO SPUR
MODERNIZATION WORK
Ready for Winter Campaign
to Continue Through October.
r. H. A. Co-operatinr.

In order to preclude a possible
seasonal recession Of modernization
activities, campaign has been
by material dealers, builders,
financial institutions and others de-
signed to stimulate modernization
work Of all types. The "ready for win
ter" campaign will continue through
October. The Federal Housing Ad-
ministration Is cooperating in the
effort, which has already become Ma
tion-wide in scope.
Financial institutions numbering
1900 are representing every section
OF the country have been qualified by
the Federal Housing Administration
under its property improvement credit
plan. Full information as to the op-
GRAFTON Of the F. H. A. plan for prop
erty improvement may be obtained
from any of these qualified lenders.
Evening star., 1938-10-22
HOME MODELS EXHIBITED
Originals Of Those Pictured In
Magazine Shown in Window.

Original models Of the eight homes
featured IN q recent issue Of Life
Magazine are now on display in the
window ofsthe A. p. Woodson Co. at
1918 H street NV. One Of the houses
Is being built in Greenwich Forest.
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little experience with the financing Of
installment sales, whereas the auto
finance companies have discovered
that payments both in periods of de-
preston and prosperity are main
tanned with remarkable punctuality.
The excellence of installment finance
paper-that is. notes which are resold
by the auto dealers to finance COM
panies-is such that the banks buy
these notes and charge a relatively
low rate of interest because of the
record of prompt payment.
Gusts Old Principle.
To tell prospective purchasers that
they must all be treated alike and
given only specific time in which to
buy an automobile comes near being
a reorganization of the Nation, and it
will, Of course, accumulate good deal
more cash before buying Q car, thus
depriving themselves of the opportu-
nifty to use and pay for an article At
the same time-a principle as old As
credit itself.
When Government, and particularly
the President of the United States,
feels privileged to mix into such mat
tiers as installment sales Of automo-
biles, 1t is only a short step toward
telling people how much out Of their
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Heroes, Bible and Secrets
Echoes From Germany, Roosevelts Quotations anc
Europe's Diplomacy
Diplomacy.

me that everything we are doing Is in
the interests Of our race and nation"
Nevertheless. the Nazis are breed.
ing. II not q race, at least dis
tinguished company of heroes, whose
number Pastor Niemoeller has now
Joined. They are in the concentra-
ton camps and prisons Of Germany.
The Devil Can Quote.
The Presidents advice to news
papermen on Friday to use the Fiji
teenth Psalm as lead for their
stories, whatever they might be, was
dangerous. The correspondents took
1t either as sly reminder Of their
own shortcomings or as an answer to
some Of the Presidents critics, the
upright man In the Psalm quoted by
the President being he that back
biteth not with his tongue, nor doeth
evil to his neighbour. nor taketh up q
reproach against his neighbour"
But 1t Is extremely dangerous to
quote the Bible in support of ones
prejudices because the other side can
always find just As appropriate .
quotation.
The critics Of the administration
might choose to reply with q quota
ton from the Fifteenth Chapter of
Job:
Should a wise man utter vain
knowledge, and I'LL his belly with east
wind?
Should he reason with improbable
talk? or with speeches wherewith he
can do no good?
"Own Mouth Condemneth."
Thine own mouth condemneth
thee. and not /: yea, thine own lips
testify against thee.
Art thou the first man that was
born? Or vast thou made before the
hills?
Hast thou heard the secret of
God? and dost thou restrain wisdom
to thyself?
What knoweth thou that We know
not? What understandeth thou that
Is not in us?
With us are both the gray headed
and very aged men, much older than
thy father.
Are the consultations of God small
with thee? Is there any secret thing
with thee?
why dost thine heart carry thee
away? and what do thine eyes wink
at.
That thou turneth thy spirit
against God, and lettest such words
60 out of thy mouth?"
- y
Secretly Arrived Al.
1t Is announced that Lord Perth. on
behalf Of Great Britain, Is undertake
ing negotiations with Count Ciano, on
behalf Of Italy. The conversations will
take place in complete secrecy. No
news is to leak out ~ to what is being
discussed or what issues are being
raised, for at least three or four
weeks"
We thus return to the pre-war sys-
tenn Of secret diplomacy.
Maybe the postwar system of open
discussion at Geneva has not been all
that the optimists hoped for, but what
little progress toward Cancellation and
Sterilization was made in the last IS
years was accomplished this way.
Lord Perth and Count Ciano are dis
cussing matters that are of profound
concern to everybody in Europe, but
nobody is to know anything about what
is going on. The method being pur-
sued was recommended by Mr.. Hitler
in his speech of February 20.
It's not new method but an old one
and We know where 1t got the world in
1914.
Copyright, 1881
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Friend" Arnold be his relations
mings, but the fact
are sharp disagreement And the time
must choose beween lettino
he UiA certainly do the bidding Of the lett-urnoers
During the court fight relations between them
bad that Cummings regularly
when and
the assistant attorney
geration that
the hands his
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The court found him guilty and SEN
fenced him to seven months In prison,
but since he had already spent eight
months in Jail awaiting trial, the
court ruled that his sentence had been
served.
So the next day he was arrested
by the secret police and sent to con-
centration camp at Sachsenhauten-
Oranienburg without any indictment
and without any suggestion Of fur
ther trial. German justice is con-
Quoted according to the heads-1'
win-and- tails you-lose formula, which
has the advantage Of making 1t just
as dangerous to be acquitted Is to
be condemned.
Since justice already has been de-
fined In Germany, and since Germany
has become, by the decree Of Its
rulers. the Nazi party. and justice
therefore becomes anything that aids
the Nazi party, there Is . certain
logic in this procedure.
Example in HEROES.
But the case Of Martin Niemoeller
raises speculation in ones mind about
the heroic principle" which the
Nazis believe should animate the Ger
manic race, who alone are supposed
really to understand it. To our poor,
confused. anachronistic, western
minds man who risks his career,
his freedom. the economic security
OF his wife and children, and life it.
self. for principles in which he be-
lieves, appears heroic. and Martin
Niemoeller. who risked his life for
his country on the most dangerous Of
the naval services-the submarine
warfare-and who. during the last
three years, has risked 1t again in
the service Of the religion which he
processes, seems to us to be all Of q
piece, the 'integer vitae" praised by
Horace, and adored through 1000
years Of western history.
In fact he awakens our admiration
for Germany, and the German spirit,
and suggests that that country and
that spirit may really be heroic.
But We find that we have bestowed
our admiration in the wrong place.
The heroic German, according to the
Na1s. first makes himself deaf, dumb
and blind, then disconnects any in
telligence he may have. gives his
conscience . strong injection of NOR
phine, and begins to march, the
while his voice loudly repeats the
national slogans which. in his coma
tose condition, he has been care
fully rehearsed.
All this may be useful to the Ger
man nation, although I doubt it, but
why is it called "heroism," or the
incarnation of the heroic principle?
Or Is every so-called heroic age"
merely a barbaric age?
Another Viewpoint.
Martin Luther said: Here stand,
I cannot do otherwise" meaning il
you draw and quarter me. this is my
belief. Nazi Lutheranism changes the
meaning to be: Here I stand, cannot
do otherwise-because there is a pistol
at my back and my leader has told