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Evening star., 1938-12-12
Picket Lines CircIe
New York Meat
SuppIyH Houses
Product Goes to Stores
In Some Cases Under
Police Guard
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. l2.-Picket
lines were thrown around markets
where packing companies handle the
bulk of New York City's meat and
poultry, and deliveries, in some in
stances, moved under police guard
today in a strike called by the
United Meat Workers, a C. I. o.
union.
Meyer Stern, representative of the
Packers Organizing Committee, said
the strike was SO per cent effective.
Spokesman for the packers said
strikers jobs had been taken by
statesmen and other employees. Some
reported no delay in shipments,
while others said they were having
difficulty in moving their supplies.
Mr.. Stern said about 1000 mem
bers of Local 635 had answered the
strike call. Men handling Kosher
products were not affected.
Things are running as though
there wasn't strike" said Lloyd
E. Cornell, manager of Armours
Harlem plant The statesmen have
replaced the luggers and meat cut
tiers and they are doing a swell job"
Samuel Sisskin, manager of Wilson
& Co.'S Harlem plant, said. I'VE
were held up considerably this
morning
He said four cars had been un-
loaded Saturday. so there was stock
on hand, but there are still three
cars of beef and lamb on the land
ing and we don't knew when that
can be unloaded-the statesmen who
are filling in can't break their backs"
Some of the retail butchers who
visited plants to obtain supplies
helped carry their own meat to their
trucks.
The strike order affected ap-
proximately 1000 employees in plants
of the so-called big four" of the
meat packing industry-Wilson,
Swift, Armour and the Cudahy CO.
panies-the John Morrell and Rath
Packing companies and several
smaller concerns.
Evening star., 1938-12-12
las not issued a new license since

has not issued a new license since
1914?"
Il don't know it, but it may be a
fact" the witness conceded.
IF person wanted to 60 into the
business of manufacturing con-
tainers he would have to come to
you for a license, wouldn't hep Mr..
Cox pressed.
IF he wanted to go into the glass
container business and to use the
gob-feeding process he would have
to come to u.s." Mr.. Smith said.
For 1887, slightly more than 81
per cent of production was under
license of the job-feeder process of
Hartford Empire and % per cent
under the Suction Feeder Machinery
of Owens-Illinois.
Only three concerns have main
tanned independence of the two con-
Germs, a committee chart of the in
dustry showed, these being Alexander
H. Kerr & Co.. Obernester Glass Co.,
and F. E. Reed Glass Co.
Despite an increase of almost 500
per cent in production and use of
glass containers in the past 40
years, machine methods of manu-
facture in the industry have brought
slowly decreasing employment
total, the committee was informed
in a preliminary statement sub
mitted by the Department of Justice.
The industry also shows drop
in the number of companies holding
and using the patent rights to pro-
duce glass containers.
In 1904, for instance, there were
155 companies in the field, but in
1887 there were only 40. Further
more, 5 of these 40 concerns were
turning out more than two thirds of
the total industry production.
Comparison Submitted.
The Justice Departments COM
parison of production and employ
ment totals follows:
I'm 1899 there were produced l.
100000, 900 containers valued at $2l,-
100000. BY 1885 this production had
increased to slightly less than 6,OOO,-
ooo,ooo SOl1oaAllClo fdluC0 dU 3lLU,-
100000, Preliminary figures for 1887
indicate there we're produced more
than 7,750,0OO,000 glass containers
having a value of over $160 900 900
Despite this increase in produc-
ton the number employed in the
industry was greater 80 years ago
than in 1885. In 1899 there were
28,370 wage earners as compared
with 24044 in 1885. Consequently
there has been corresponding in
crease in the average production per
man employed.
"'At the turn of the century the
average production per man was
about 10000 containers per year. BY
1885 this figure had increased to
245 ,OOO."
The container branch of the glass
industry accounts for about one
half of the value of the industry's
production with its principal wares
divided as follows: Containers for
commercial packers of food, % per
cent; medicines and toilet prepara-
tlons, "a per cent; liquor containers
18 per cent; milk bottles, 9 per cent:
fruit jars and jelly glasses, 8 per
cent; beer bottles, 3 per cent.
Evening star., 1938-12-12
Jacob Omonsky, Official
Of New York Post, Dies

NEW YORK, Dec. 12-Jacob
Omansky, "A, business manager of
the New York Post, died of heart
attack yesterday while horseback
riding in Central Park.
Mr.. Omansky. with companion,
was riding on the east bride path
near Eighty seventh street when he
suddenly slumped over his mount.
He was lifted off the horse to the
side of the bride path and was dead
when ambulance surgeons arrived.
Evening star., 1938-12-12
Leaders Protest Religious
And Racial Persecution
Cardinal MundeIein, Hogan, Ackermon,
Roper and McNinch Voice Views

The protest of Americans against
religious and racial persecution was
sounded from pulpit and lay forum
over the country yesterday.
Outstanding developments in
cluded:
Formal statement by George Car
dinal Mundelein of Chicago that
the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of De-
troit, whose utterances have aroused
Jewry in the United States, does not
speak for the Catholic Church.
Implied criticism of Father
Coughlin by Frank j. Hogan Of
Washington, president of the Amer
ican Bar Association.
An address by Dean Carl w. Ack-
erman of the Graduate School of
Journalism of Columbia University
at the evensong service at Washing
ton Cathedral in which he declared
that people of the United States
must enlarge and expand the USE
fulness of liberty in the church to
preserve the freedom OF religion.
Two Plead for Tolerance.
Pleas for religious tolerance by
Secretary Of Commerce Roper and
Frank r. McNinch, chairman of the
Federal Communications Commits
sion, in brOadcasts in observance of
universal Bible Sunday sponsored by
the Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America.
The pronouncement of Cardinal
Mundelein, who has just returned
from Rome, was broadcast twice
by Bishop Bernard J. She'll. vicar
general Of the Chicago archdiocese.
1t said:
His eminence, George Cardinal
Mundelein of Chicago having been
importuned by news commentators
and correspondents from every Sec
tion OF the country in reference to
broadcasts of Father Coughlin of
Detroit makes the following state
ment:
Gas an American citizen, Father
Coughlin has the right to express
his personal views on current
events, but he is not authorized to
speak for the Catholic Church, nor
does he represent the doctrines or
sentiment of the church,"
Priest Precedes Hogan on Air.
Father Coughlin took cognizance
of Mr.. Hogan's speech. He pre-
ceded the Washingtonian. PROM
inent Catholic, on the air, and in
vited his audience to listen to the
Bar Association head whom he
termed the engaged spokesman
Of the National Jewish Council"
The Detroit priest urged Jews
and gentiles ito stand shoulder to
shoulder against Nazi-ism, against
Communism, from which it sprang,
and against godlessness"
Mr.. Hogan said he spoke ito refute
any idea that any one who breaches
racial or religious intolerance speaks
for the Catholic laymen or the
Catholic priesthood"
I'VE are justly proud of calling
our country the land of the free" he
said. But. my friends, the United
States of America will not remain
free for any of us unless it remains
free for all of us. Let us, you and I
hand it on to posterity as it was
handed down to us-the freest OF
the nations of the earth"
Warns Hates Are Epidemic"
Mr.. Hogan told his listeners they
need only to look upon Germany to
see the truth of his warning that
hates were epidemic" and that for
this practical reason" as we'll as
Evening star., 1938-12-12
Monopoly
Continued From First Page.)

memorandum of a company official
taken from Hartford-Empire files.
Prepared by Herbert Knox Smith,
at one time United States COM
missioner of corporations, and later
with Hartford Empire, the memo
randum follows, in part:
I'm taking out patents we have
three main purposes.
"(a) To cover the actual ma
chimes which we are putting out
and prevent duplication of them.
The great bulk of our income
results from patents. Between a
feeder protected by patents and
one not so protected there is the
cash difference between one ordi-
nary manufacturing profit of say
$500 and royalty return of at least
$4,000 over eight years. This
theory also applies to other equip
ment.
"(B) To block the development of
machines which might be con-
structed by others for the same pur-
pose as our machines, using alterna-
tive means.
1--WE have in mind such machines
as the Hillman machines, the
Roirant type of machine, the Knox
ONeill machine, improved steam
feeders, vacuum and pressure feed
ers, ribbon feeders, forced feeding
or down suction feeding and auto
blow methods of feeding, as well as
various types of pure forming ma
chimes.
ITO ignore this form of protection
may result in a competitors having
an estoppel or hold on our own de-
velopments.
"(C) To secure patents on pos
sible improvements of competing
machines, so as to fence in those
and prevent their reaching an i'm
proved stage.
There is also another, rather
minor, purpose in securing patents
1t corresponds with research in ma
chine developments. Occasionally
patentable ideas will appear which
deal more with general principles
They may have no immediate and
apparent application. But they NAV
so relate to the possible future as to
merit some time and expense"
F. G.. Smith partially repudiated
the memorandum as a full and de-
liberate policy of the company.
II don't like the term fence in.''
Mr.. Smith remarked.
Its not my term" Mr.. Cox re-
marked.
Would you consider such a policy
Improper" Jerome Frank, commit
tee member, inquired
Not exactly" was the reply.
Isn't it true, Mr.. Smith, that
your company has virtually a
monopoly on that type of machine?'
Mr.. Cox asked, referring to the
automatic gob-feeder.
"As far as that particular type
is concerned we do hold virtual
monopoly as given us by the patent. ~
Mr.. Smith agreed, explaining fur
ther that there are one or two other
types of feeders, principally the
Owens suction method held by other
concerns. The stream-feed process
is not economically justified for most
production, it was brought out.
You know, do you not, that Owen
Evening star., 1938-12-12

! basic principles, they should not set
such forces in motion.
I'm Germany the Jew was the first
and foremost victim Of hate and
persecution" he said. HE is still
the chief victim, but now the Cath
olic and the Protestant, too, share in
part of his fate. 1t is no accident
that the government which has ded-
icated itself to destroying the Jews
in Germany root and branch is also
committed to the destruction of
Christian religion"
Mr.. Hogan said many calumnies
had been uttered about the Jews,
and he undertook to nail what he
said was one lie, that the Jews
financed the Russian revolution. In
the present clique ruling Soviet Rus
sia, he added, there are only two
Jews.
Mr.. Hogan said Pope Plus had
denounced anti-Semitism as incom-
patible with Christianity, and added !:
He knows, and we know, too, that
one hate breeds another. - Wherever
Jews are prosecuted, there, too, other
creeds and races will sooner or later
be prosecuted. This was true of the
Ku Klux Klan in our own country
the Klan whose hatred was not
limited to Catholics, but included
Jews and Negroes as we'll"
Emphasizing that freedom of re-
ligion will exist only so long as
other liberties exist, Dean Acker-
man told worshippers at Washington
Cathedral that the power to decide
the fate of liberty in the United
States today is in the hands of the
people" Mass opinion, he asserted
rather than the opinion of intellec-
tual and religious groups, is deter
mining the course of current his
tory, and for that reason the fate
of liberty is being determined ir
the market place in thousands OF
communities.
Prepare for Emergency.
I'm view of the widespread social
unrest in the United States today
the speaker said, "in view of the
aggressive propaganda seeking te
undermine public confidence ir
democratic institutions; in view OF
events abroad and their impact upon
| our country; in view of the increas-
ing restrictions upon individual and
corporate enterprise and because OF
the continuing threat of another
world war, I think it is time for the
great religions of today to look upon
freedom of religion realistically and
prepare for any emergency at home
or abroad"
He said people should search for
"a new perspective of liberty, for a
perspective based on faith rather
than on fear The task of increas-
ing public faith in liberty, he as
serted, depends upon how the church
relates its work to the new market
places Of the Nation created by the
radio, the press and the motion pic
lures"
The church, Dean Ackerman said
must recognize that the scientific
and chronological developments in
the fields of communication have
enlarged our opportunities and our
obligations"
Need More Faith.
He suggested the church focus its
new perspective of liberty on the
services of the press, the radio and
motion pictures to religion.
The fate of Christianity for ou,
generation in the United States de-
pends upon what we do, not upon
] " b 1t the dictatorS are doing
Evening star., 1938-12-12
Alarm Clock Hits
Man Standing
In Doorway

James F. Curtis, 26, colored,
was nursing a cut and bruised
chin today after he was struck
by an alarm clock yesterday as
he stood in the doorway of his
home, in the 900 block OF I
street Sc.
The victim said he thought
the clock was hurled by an un-
known person. He was treated
at Providence Hospital.
Evening star., 1938-12-12
2MtKesson & Robbins
Warehouses Called
Absolutely Phony'
Official in Montreal
To Check on Five
Listed in Records
By the Associated Press.

bS the Associated FIeSS.
MONTREAL, Dec. 12-Joseph F.
Ruggieri, an assistant attorney gen.
eral of New York State, said today
at least two of the warehouses sup
posed to contain large crude drug
supplies of McKesson & Bobbins,
Inc, are absolutely phoney."
Mr.. Ruggieri came here yesterday
on order of Attorney General John
j. Bennett, jr., of New York to check
on existence of five Canadian ware
houses listed in records of McKesson
& Robbins, the 105-year- firm
whose financial affairs are the sub
ject of several investigations in the
United States.
There's been some huge scandal
going on" Mr.. Ruggieri said, land
from what I could learn today my
suspicious have been justified"
The warehouse of A. H. Raymond
& Co., Mr.. Ruggieri said, turned out
to be a mailing address in the Office
of a public stenographer in down.
town office building. The other
Montreal warehouse" was B. Pier
son & Co.
100000 Account Tied Up.
II haven't gone to Persons yet"
Mr.. Ruggieri said, "but I understand
that they are just mailing address,
too"
In New York last Saturday Attor-
ney General Bennett procured a Su-
preme Court order tying up cash
and securities in the 100000 .brok-
erage account of Mrs. Carol E. Co.'S
ter of Fairfield, Conn. wife of F..
Donald Coster, president of McKes-
son & Robbins. The crude drugs
department was under his super
vision.
Albert R. Ritts, chief accountant
for the auditing firm of Price, Wat
erhouse & Co., testified at hearing
called by Mr.. Bennett that the COM
pany's estimates of crude drugs
stock might be overstated by S1S,-
100000.
1t was brought out that not only
might the drug supplies not exist but
that five warehouses, listed in COM
pany records, might also prove to
be -eyistant.
S. E. c. Investigating.
A year ago the firm showed assets
of S07, ,l82,765, Mr.. Ritts testified, but
added that "of that figure at least
sl8,O0O,O00 is subject to question:
The company filed a petition for
reorganization under the Federal
Chandler Bankruptcy Act last
Thursday in New York. The Sc
curities and Exchange Commission.
a party under the law TO such a
reorganization, is conducting an in
quiry of its own into the company's
affairs. A Federal grand jury in
New York. as well as District At
torney Thomas E. Dewey's Office in
that city, will investigate the fnan-
cial affairs of McKesson & Robbins,
which were described last week by a
director as $50 darned fantastic we
still can't believe them"
Dividend Cancelled.
NEW YORK, Dec. IL (P,.-George
Roberts, counsel for trustees of Nc
kesson & Robbins, Inc, drug firm
whose financial affairs are under
investigation, said today the pre-
ferred dividend already declared
payable December Is would not be
paid.
Holders of the 59l,695 shares of
So preference stock outstanding will
not, therefore, receive the rs cents
a share expected prior to last weeks
discovery that assets were many
millions short of stated figures. The
dividend would have totaled s443,771.
Evening star., 1938-12-12
U. S. Vice Consul Dies

NAPLES, Dec. II P).-Robert
Chester McCloud, SO, American Vice
Consul. died of a cerebral hemor-
rhage today. Born at Roselle Park,
N. j., he was appointed to the consul
lar service from Florida.
Evening star., 1938-12-26
Manners
of the
Moment

One of my friends has an inven-
tive turn of mind. And he thinks
that along with storm windows, peo-
pie should install front steps that
with the press of button in the
hall would flatten out suddenly. The
idea is that it would help to speed
the parting guest. She'd just take a
nice tailspin down to the sidewalk
and you'd be left free to close the
front door. He thinks it would save
heating expense in the winter.
You see, in the summertime it
doesn't really matter, he says. If
you have friends who like to stand
in an open doorway saying good-by
to you it gives you chance to get a
nice breath of fresh air.
But In the winter these same
friends can make life pretty uncom-
Portable. AS you stand in the open
doorway shivering and catching
cold they cheerfully say prolonged
good-by in a nice snug overcoat.
You freeze and the house freezes,
while your friends warm up.
OF course, hostess can still say,
''Come on inside again. don't want
to cool off the house." 1t works
almost as well as the collapsible
steps. But not quite. JEAN.
(Copyright, 1889
Evening star., 1938-12-26

the general consensus of their opin-
ion was that the carbonate of po-
tassium should not be used-that it
would assuredly spoil the cakes
and. If taken in large enough guam
titles, might cause illness. So we
put another, bigger paragraph in
the paper warning against its use
just to be on the safe side.
However, wanted, naturally, to
get at the bottom of the thing as
quickly as possible. I was con-
vinced, as had been right along,
that there was nothing harmful
about the carbonate of potassium
after it had undergone the chemi-
cal changes brought about through
being dissolved in cherry cordial,
the mixing with other ingredients,
the chilling and baking. Chemists
even assured me that the substance
would not dissolve in alcoholics
found in the cherry cordial, for in
stance. I knew 1T did, because 1t
had done so before when the cookies
were first made-but by this time,
as you can we'll realize, was rapidly
becoming sure of nothing!
I asked foreign cooks and friends
about the stuff-they all told me
they used it abroad and here for
certain things that required more
than our usual baking powders.
found German recipes, Swedish
recipes-all sorts that included 1t
as an essential ingredient. I bought
special set Of ingredients myself,
and a friend and I baked two
patches of cookies from the recipe
printed in the paper. We compared
results-and found that the car
Donate of potassium did dissolve in
stantly in the cherry cordial, that
the cookies came out exactly as the
original ones had had abroad, were
delicious and apparently had all
the qualities desired. I ate them,
my friend ate them. We felt fine
and fed them to our families and
other friends next day. They
couldn't be more healthy! And
the cookies couldn't have been bet
ter!
Then we sent some of the cookies
to chemist, who broke them down
to see what had happened to that
carbonate Of potassium after the
mixing and cooking. Here is his
report-it came Christmas eve and
was probably the best Christmas
present I ever had in my life:
go The object of the inquiry
was to ascertain the state in which
the potassium salt existed in the
finished composition.
"The chemical analysis showed
that no trace of potassium in the
alkaline form, that is, as potassium
carbonate. existed in the cakes, and
that as far as any caustic or irritant
actions were concerned the mixture
was inactive.
'No other salts or unusual sub
stances were found"
Evening star., 1938-12-26
Wear Becoming
White Collar.

Among the old-fashioned styles
enjoying a successful comeback none
is more captivating than the new
high-throated white bibs made of
delicate laces, crisp organdie or
spanking pique. Worn tucked inside
low-cut necklines, they are ideal for
the simple basic type of daytime
dress that relies on accessories for
pointing up.
Nothing less than immaculate and
snowy whiteness will convey the
impression of fragile femininity
these pieces are designed to provoke.
A slightly grimy, bedraggled look
will do as much to Offset their fiat
terry as would a dirty face. Allur-
ing cleanliness is as necessary to
the charm of this style as 1t is to the
wearer herself.
Using this lovely neckwear soiled
or putting it aside unwashed is also
poor economy, because soil is q no.
torious destroyer of fine fabrics. A
good whisking through billowing
soapsuds, a thorough rinsing and
careful pressing after the pieces
have been partially dried by rolling
in a bath towel is the simple panacea
that will keep the new neckwear
intact for q career long and COM
pl1meutary to the wearer's charm.
Evening star., 1938-12-26

but reads in equally as ridiculous
manner:
Take the flowers of Rosemary
and seethe them in white wine, with
which wash your face, and if you
drink thereof, it will make you have
a sweet breath"
Imagine the plight of our Colonial
danes! How they ever managed
to keep skin on their faces after
applications like these is something
that we goth century ladies cannot
imagine However. they do seem
to have survived without disfigura-
tion-but what hardy souls they
must have been!
The Victorian
Beauty Aids.
From book for young ladies, pub
lished somewhere around the early
eighteen-hundreds. are listed these
gems of beauty under the heading
Useful Receipts" One, then
recommended as an excellent hair
wash, gives the following weird
| formula:
"A SoOA lldllNl VI III - ~ 1So VI bOh
and somewhat less quantity of
sprigs of southernwood or old man
as it is called by the country peo-
pie. Put these into stew pan with
| about three pints of water and let
them boil gently until the water is
reduced to quart. Strain it through
a fine muslin and put it in a wine
bottle. Add two tablespoonful of
brandy to preserve it. Well wash
the hair with it three times week
1t is not for beautifying the hair,
but for thickening and restoring it
when from illness or any other cause
it has become weak and thin"
Such recipes as that and many
others were advocated in all seri-
BUSINESS as beneficial. One of the
most reasonable is this one recon-
mended for chapped hands and
called "camphor BALI:
Take three drachms of sperma-
ceti, four drachms of white wax,
one ounce of almond oil; melt it all
together and stir into the mixture
three drachms of camphor, powdered
and moistened with spirits of wine.
When well mixed pour it into egg
cups, so that when hardened it may
turn out in balls, with the fiat sur
face ready for use"
Another choice item concerns the
making of cold cream:
PUT lump of lard in a wash
hand basin and add rose water to
it gradually, beating it we'll with
the hand until it is quite we'll mixed
and Of the consistency required.
Place it in pots; cover them WITH
lead-paper to keep in the scent, and
put on the lid"
And those are few of the formulas
by which our ancestors hoped to
achieve lovely skin. How fortu-
nate it is that today beauty is
science, offering us all the advan-
tages of research.