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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
France Is Warned
To Strengthen
Maginot Defenses
Independent Radicals Are
Told Army Needs
10000 More
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Nov. 5.-Lucien Besset,
one of the leaders of the Independ-
ent Radical party, told party
|. congress today that the Maginot
line must be reinforced and 10000
men added to the French Army to
face "a new and more powerful
Germany"
He said second and third defense
lines must be laid behind the Mag
mot line. super Highways must be
built and the Paris region should
be encircled by an independent
chain of fortresses.
I'VE must show no more weak
ness he told the Independent Rad
icals. in order not to tempt the
strong"
NJ Besset. former vice president
of the Chamber of Deputies Army
Committee, led his report with a
fat statement that the two-year
military period, scheduled to be re-
duced to one year at the end of
1899, must be continued.
Standing Army Now 100000.
The two-year period was decreed
in the spring of 1884 to cover the
war baby years" in which the low
birth rate cut conscript classes in
half. NJ Besset said If it were con-
tinued it would put $50, 900 more
men into the standing army, which
now has a normal strength of
100000.
M. Besset's party has 81 Deputies
In the 6l8-man lower house and is
strategically situated between the
governing Radical-Socialists and the
Center Right.
| Senator Pierre Cathala, who was a
minister in Laval cabinets, reported
on French foreign policy, saying:
To-day without war, Germany
executes its program of 'mein kampf'
(Reichsfuehrer Hitler's prophetic
book-"My Struggle and is re-
building a compact empire in the
center of Europe along the Danubian
Plains whose dynamic force carries
in itself an ambition for European
hegemony'
M. Cathala declared that the only
way out for France after Munich
was to build up internal economy
and production and military
strength and to regain prestige by
"rearming 10 foreign policy
Communists Accuse Daladier.
Premier Edouard Daladier, now
definitely at odds with the Com
munist party after collapse of
peoples front of Communists, radi-
cal-Socialists and Socialists. was ac-
cused today by Communists of
"complicity with the sworn enemies
of democracy"
The party accusation followed an
attack by Nationalist last night on
Communist headquarters, in which
windows were smashed. 1t was fol-
lowed by isolated Nationalist dem
onstrations in various sections OF
Paris. Demonstrators shouted for
dissolution of the Communist party
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Insurgents Assault
LoyaIist Defense
Remnants on Ebro
Government Army Fights
Desperately on Right
Bank of Stream

BACKGROUND
Connter-o6ensipe launched By
Spanish government forces in
July 1Ool back territory on right
bank of the Ebro Riper, in
Catalonia. Which they haze held
1D1th little change until neD rebel
offensive began last 1Ueek. Pres
sure of Gen. Francois troops has
forced loyalists to abandon por-
tions OF Ebro detenses held since
July.
By the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, France, Nov. 5.-Tn-
surgent Generalissimo Francisco
Frances field commanders hurled
the full force of their powerful fight
ing machine today against remain
ing Spanish government defenders
on the right bank of the Ebro River.
1nsurgent dispatches, reporting
Gen. Frances forces already had
conquered half of the government
territory on the right bank, said the
government troops were fighting
desperately to retain the hold on
that side of the river which they
won July Is from their foe.
Fierce fighting ragged in 15-mile
semi-circle around Mora de Ebro, a
major objective in the heart of the
Ebro battle front in Northeastern
Spain. Insurgent radio stations last
night reported capture of this town,
but today's official insurgent dis
patches failed to confirm it..
Flag on Smile Front.
Advices from the insurgent front
near Caspe said the red and gold
lnSurgent flag now was flying along
an 8-mile stretch of the Ebro right
bank which had been held by the
government since July.
Large groups of government
militiamen, with field artillery and
complete equipment, were reported
encircled in the Caballos and Pecha
Mountains, and near Moravet and
Pinell. This section is on the right
bank about 10 miles east of Gandesa
and about l8 miles north Of Tortosa.
lnSurgent dispatches said the only
connection the government forces
had maintained with the left bank
were few light pontoon bridges,
some half demolished, north of
Miravet.
Artillery Pounds Bridges.
Some of these bridges. the dis
patches declared, were under the
fire of insurgent artillery, while 9TH
ers were targets for fleets of insur-
gent bombers which made flight
after fight over the river despite
heavy aircraft fire.
Both insurgent and government
dispatches indicated. however, that
in spite Of steady insurgent gains
during this weeks steady insurgent
offensive, the operation was far
from being a walkover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Defense
Continued From Page ~

$546 900 900 for the fiscal 12-month
which began last July l.
Increases of S150,0OO,O00 each in
direct appropriations, not consider
ing contract authorizations and
other budgetary complications, would
swell defense appropriations beyond
$1,000 100000.
Mr.. Roosevelt's recent press con-
ference comment that the Army's
goal of 1920 planes was out of date
limited at the big increase to come.
The goal, expected to be realized by
mid-l940, was fixed by a board head
ed by the late Newton D. Baker,
World War Secretary of War.
Toward it, the Air Corps already
has put in service more than l,5C0
f1rst-line aircraft, expecting to reach
a total of 1900 by the years end.
The Navy has maintained approx
mately the same pace.
Germany, considered by many a
yardstick Of aerial might since the
Munich Conference, has upward of
10000 modern fighting planes al
ready, according to some advices to
the administration.
Regardless of whether the Ger
man output is continuing at a great
rate, some military experts here are
convinced the Nazis are equipped to
turn out 1000 planes a month.
There has been no indication,
however, that the administration
intends to engage in direct aerial
race with Germany or any other
power, nor even to increase ma
terially the size of the Army. In
men under arms, this country ranks
only 18th, but far higher than this
in striking power and potentialities.
In administration circles, it is
understood that President Roosevelt
proposes to take the Army's esti-
mates of the needs of its troops and
ask Congress to meet the most
urgent without delay.
Gen. Craig told Congress $1,000,
00000 would be required to equip
an army of 100000 with STANDARD
essential items of material. BY
using substitutes and employing
commercial production to the ut
most, this figure could be reduced
to 100000, he said.
More immediate and urgent he
said, were the needs of the initial
protective force which could be met
with $160,000,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

MEET IN TOWN HALL DEBATEScheduled debate on The
Betrayal OF Democracy in the first of the
fifth next Sunday Wllmo Lewis Washington
correspondent for the London Times since Harold
Lask, eminent British political economist and
debate will be held at November 49, Shoreham
Hotel Succeeding will feature Bliven and
Lewis Mumford in another debate November TO- van
Iceland former Belgian Prime Minister John Hamilton
of the Republican National Others Tick
cts be obtained at the agency Of Arthur Smith, 9O
street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Michigan Visitor Hurt
In Downtown Fall

Arthur Henke, %, of Caloma,
Mich, while sitting on the iron
railing on the F. street side of the
Willard Hotel last night toppled
over and fell backward 20 feet to
the basement entryway below.
His companion, Christine Cook of
Alexandria, whom Mr. Henke is
visiting, called the fire rescue squad.
He was taken to Emergency Hospital,
where he was admitted for possible
fractured skull, cuts and bruises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Insane Killer Escapes
From Texas Train
By the Associated Press.

JEFFERSON, Tex, Nov. 5.-Don-
aid Gown, insane killer once SEN
fenced to the electric chair, but
saved by sanity hearing, escaped
from a train here last night.
Fugitive from the Rusk Asylum,
Gown, traced to ST. Louis by rela-
tives and being brought back to
Longview, Tex, jumped from the
train as it departed after stop.
The 27-year-old killer of two
women was described by officers as
dangerous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Bankers Bill BOGUS

BOSTON, Mass. Nov. 5 P).-One
of 400 bank official attending the
Ninth Bank Management Confer
ence will, no doubt, be surprised to
learn he paid his registration fee
with a counterfeit $40 bill. The
bogus bill was discovered when reg
istration receipts were taken to a
bank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
British Ship Reported
Bombed Off Spain

LONDON, Nov. 5 [P.-Lloyd's re-
ceived reports tonight from Aguilas,
Spain, that the 996-ton British
steamer Eleni had been bombed and
set afire, leaving the vessel a total
wreck. The ships crew was said to
be safe.
Aguilas is in Southeast Spain, 81
miles from Cartagena.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
IA Towns Occupied
By Hungary, Taking
Coded Czech Areas
Troops Move 121-2 Miles
Across Danube IN
First Days March

BACKGROUND
Hungary ,Don her share In dis
memberment of Czechoslopakia
one month after Germany and
Poland had occupied theirs. Un-
able to settle their ne1D frontier,
Czechoslopdkidn and Hungarian
governments submitted dispute
to arbitration by Germany and
Italy. ADard made in Vienna
earlier this week gaze Hungary
1875 square miles of desired
territory.
By the Associated Press,
BUDAPEST, Nov. 5.-Hungariar
troops crossed the Danube today TO,
the first time in 20 years in be-
ginning the reoccupation Of 487s
square miles Of their former home
land awarded Hungary from Czecho-
slovakia through Italo- ar
bitration.
The soldiers advanced with flowers
bobb1ng on their shiny helmets OF
falling underfoot and by nightfal
they had moved approximately 1917
miles into the Slovak regions Of
Medve and Doborgaz, north of the
Hungarian towns of Gyor and Mag
var Ovar.
Fourteen communities bedeckec
with red, white and green Hungarian
colors fell to Hungarian control
Military administration was applied
at once.
Passage between the old and new
hungary was permitted only or
military passes. Assemblies were
forbidden. Inns and cafes were or.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Is Junks Carrying
Chinese Troops
Sunk, Say japanese
Invaders Report Capture
Of Tsuoshih Also, so
Miles From Hunkow

pectdtions that they Mould slo,D
dopn their dripe against army of
Gen. Chang Kai-Shek after cap
ture of HankoW. Inuaders haze
struck quickly to prevent Chi
nese from establishing ne,D
strong defense lines 1UeSt and
south OF former provisional capt.
tai. In South China, too. ofen-
size has been carried westward
into K,Uangtung province in
terror.
BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 6 Sunday
The Japanese command reported
today that airmen had bombed and
sunk IS junks carrying Chinese
troops up the Slang River in re-
treat from the Japanese offensive
tanning out from fallen Hankow.
The Slang empties into the
Yangtze through Tungting Lake at
Yochow, gateway to unconquered
Human Province, 122 miles upstream
from Kankow. Yochow is in the
middle of semi-circular front rang
ing from Hankow'S northwest to
southeast.
The Japanese also reported cap
ture of TSaoshih, 80 miles from Han
kow. near the northwestern extreme
of the curving line of hostilities
This announcement followed reports
last night that the offensive south
west of HankoW was within go miles
of Yochow-a point on the Yangtze
-Tungting Lake and the Canton
Hankow Railway.
Missionaries Imperilled.
A number of American mission
aries stationed in the path of the
japanese advance westward and
south from Hankow were imperiled
by the approaching combat and the
daily bombardments along the rail-
way and the Slang River.
An army spokesman said the col
umn which occupied Tungshan on
Friday had pressed westward, taking
Nanmuchiao, and was threatening
Tsungyang, SIS miles east northeast
of Yochow.
Inc UdpdlleSe Sdlu Illc ldSI lc-
naming Chinese warships were cor
nered in Tungting Lake, southwest
of Yochow Capture of Yochow
would carry land warfare into
Human Province and, if this report
we're true, would bottle up the rem
nants of the Chinese Yangtze fleet.
Samshui Recapture Reported.
Of the war in South China, Kuo-
min, a Chinese news agency, re-
ported the counter offensive toward
Canton had brought Chinese back
into control of Samshui, within Is
miles of the Kwangtung Province
metropolis which the Japanese took
October 81, five days before the fall
of Hankow.
This report said the Chinese took
Samshui by storm and engaged in
vicious hand-to hand fighting to de-
feat the Japanese.
The same agency reported from
South China that since the begin
ming of the war, just 16 months ago,
Japanese warships had sunk or
burned 628 Chinese junks in South
China waters, causing loss of 1902
lives.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
Earlier Union 0rgani-
zaiion Would Have
Prevented The Slump

WASHINGTON - (FP) - In an
hour-long press conference believed
designed to reassure business as to
the monetary policies of his admin
istration, President Roosevelt de-
clared that his program seeks a bal
anced system of prices such as will
promote a balanced expansion in
production"
Inferentially the President said
that had trade unions pressed for
wage increases in 1885 and the first
half of 1886 industry would have
been more stable and the slump
might not have been as sharp. AS
it was, he said, wages took a sudden
squirt between October 1886 and
July 1887 and industry was COM
PEELED to absorb increased costs all
at once.
The Presidents statement, pre-
pared by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace, Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau, Secretary of Labor
Perkins and Federal Reserve Board
Chairman Eccles, was read to news
men shortly after the Treasury an
nounced that some of the gold which
had been "sterilized" by the govern
ment was to be released to provide
credit facilities.
It was generally believed that the
President then felt it necessary to
reassure jumpy business men as to
his policies regarding prices and in
flation. In his office the President
had erected charts and graphs and
during the course of his lecture on
the subject he welded a long, rub
ber-tipped pointer such as is used
in class rooms.
Reiterated was the Presidents
stand against wage cuts. He de-
clared that increased production
rather than wage reductions is the
way to lower costs. Supporting his
Continued on Page 81
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
.O'COnneII Asks Pardon
For DR.. F. {. Townsend

WASHINGTON, D. Congress
man Jerry J. O'Connell, progressive
representative from the First Mon
tana District, requested President
Roosevelt this week to grant i'm
mediate executive clemency to DR..
Francis E. Townsend, founder Of the
Townsend pension plan movement.
In his request to the President,
Congressman O'Connell pointed out
that he considered the hearings be-
fore which DR.. Townsend refused to
continue testifying zone of the
blacklist spots on the legislative his
tory of the Congress of the United
States.
ITO prosecute a man who with
sincerity and honesty attempted to
give security to old age in this coun-
try was" Congressman O'Connell
told the President, "un-D Democratic
and un-American."
Mr.. O'Connell has been a leader in
the movement to pass the General
Welfare Act now pending before the
Ways and Means Committee of the
House of Representatives.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
SECRETARY OF LOCAL union ARRESTED
ISSUE
TO APPEAR SOON

Sometime within the next few
weeks, the Montana Labor News
is going to publish a special legis-
lative edition which will carry the
box score of all members of the
state legislature and their vote on
farm-labOr legislation. Accom-
panying this score will be a few
pertinent remarks relative TO the
progressive or reactiOnary tend
encies of each senator or repre-
sentative. In addition there will
be some pictures of the most out
standing progressive senators and
representatives accompanied by
articles on necessary legislation to
make the lot of the people easier.
Look for this issue. Send orders
for extra copies at once.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
Stale Federation Asks
Union Opinion About
AboIishing Plan Two

James Graham, president Of the
Montana Federation of Labor, is in
curing of all unions and especially
central labor bodies concerning their
ideas about starting initiative petit
tons to repeal Plan 2 of Montana's
compensation act. Mr.. Graham
stated before the Council last Tues
day evening, in a communication,
that $4,000 signatures would be re-
quired to get the petition on the
ballot. Should the unions look ia
vorably upon this proposition, it
would be put upon the ballot at the
next general election. This seems
the only way that the unions can
get rid of Plan 2 of the compensa-
ton act. The Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council has put it into
the hands of the legislative COM
mittee to examine and analyze. It
will probably be reported out next
Tuesday evening. The labor unions
have tried to get Plan z OF the COM
pensation act repealed by the legis-
lature for a number of years but
without success. It is the plan which
permits an employer to insure with
an insurance company, that is to
have an insurance company take
care of all the accidents in his bust
ness. It has been the experience of
the labor unions that the insurance
companies try to chisel and cheat
the working people in these cases in
order to make as much profit out of
blood and suffering as they car 1t
would seem that the initiative
scheme is the only way that the
unions will ever get rid of this
obnoxious provision.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
Graham (~OInpIimenied
For Splendid Address
Before Student B dy

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA,
Missoula James Graham
of the Montana Federation of Labor
gave a splendid talk to the student
c%onvocation of the University, Feb
ruary 10th. It is not often that the
head of the labor organizations is
asked to address the students.
Mr.. Graham stressed the origin
and growth of industrial unionism
in the United States and in Great
Britain. He showed clearly how the
British unions had Systematically
and dispassionately made disposition
of the problem of industrial union
ism. The Federation head explained
that the British labor movement
had taken a very realistic attitude
toward this problem, in holding
allof, especially at the present time,
from accepting unreservedly the in
dustrial principle. He traced the
structure of the Knights Of Labor,
which preceded the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, as the national
labor body, and have carried an in
dustrial form and how many of the
other international unions now affil-
lated with the American Federation
of Labor are industrial in form and
purpose.
His address however was not with
out criticism concerning some of the
methods employed by the leaders
of the Committee for Industrial Or
.ganization. He promised the sup
port of organized labor in all mea-
sures affecting the general welfare
of the educational system and in
this regard pointed to the attitude
of union members toward the bond
issues in 1880 and at other times.
Mr.. Graham was extended many
compliments after the close of his
address.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
lOLATOR OF 8-HOUR DAY
ENALIZED; NO RECOVERY

PHOENIX, Ariz.-(FP)-"It is far
more important to labor from a
standpoint of health and the divi-
sion of work that the 8-hour law be
preserved than it is that an occa-
sional violator of it be permitted to
recover for the time he spends in
trangressing it."
So read a unanimous opinion of
the Arizona supreme court in a re-
hearing of a suit brought by ]. S.
Dixon against the city of Glendale.
Dixon claimed several hundred dol
lars for overtime.
The court held that it is the duty
of the worker as well as the en-
ployer to see that the law is OBJ
served. To uphold Dixon's claim,
the court said, would give other
state and local employees the same
right land it does not take the wis
dom of a Solomon to realize that
the result of this would be that the
state would no longer have an effec-
tive 8-hour law
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
CONGRESS PASSES
FARM BILL


sional action on the farm bill, the
most comprehensive and far reach
ing piece Of legislation passed by
Congress since the 1886 election, was
completed here as the Senate, by a
vote of 56-31, adopted the report of
the conference committee and sent
the measure to the White House for
presidential approval.
Regarded as a sister measure to
the wages and hours bill, the farm
bill seeks to bring to the farmer
prices that will enable him to pur-
chase the industrial products he
needs and thus bring about bal
anced abundance" It embodies fea-
lures Of the outlawed AAA, the
present soil conservation program
and marketing quotas, not hereto
fore used on a national scale.
In the main the farm bill calls for
casL benefit payments by the gov
eminent to those farmers who re-
tire some of their land from produc-
ton and practice soil conserving
methods. If this method fails to
keep the supply of certain crops be-
low a specified level the farmers
producing the crop vote as to wheth-
er marketing quotas shall be applied.
Upon the vote of two-thirds of
the farmers participating in the cleo
ton marketing quotas are applied
and every farmer marketing more
than his quota is required to pay a
penalty tax. The bill applies to
wheat, cotton, corn, rice and to-
bacco.
Voting against the measure in the
Senate were II Democrats, II Re-
publicans, two Farmer-Laborites
and one Progressive Voting for the
bill were SO Democrats, two Repub-
licans and one Independent.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
Requests Permanent
immigration Visa
For Union President

NEW YORK.-Stating that 1--WE
feel this able and popular leader of
the woodworkers would be highly
desirable as a resident of the United
States and that whatever opposition
there may be to his entry comes
from a small minority of lumber
barons," Dwight C. Morgan, secre-
tary of the American Committee for
Protection of Foreign Born, in a
telegram to Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull, protested the delay of the
State Department in granting a
permanent immigration visa to Har-
old Pritchett, president of Inter
national Woodworkers of America,
C. l. o.
Efforts have been made time and
again to secure Pritchett's deporta-
ton from this country and disrupt,
thereby, the organization of the
woodworkers. A native of Canada,
Pritchett is DESTROYS of securing a
permanent immigration visa in or
der to be able to enter the country
and become an American citizen.
Progressive and labor forces
throughout the country have come
forward to defend Pritchett against
the discrimination instigated by the
lumber barons, who hope to cripple
the I. w. A. with Pritchett's de-
portation. The Committee for In
dustrial Organization, through its
director, John Brophy, has protested
Pritchett's exclusion.