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The Washington times., 1939-01-26
Free Speech War
TOBe Taken TO
Supreme Court

PHILADELPH HIA, Jan. 26
1.N.SD In a 2 to / decision, the
United States circuit court of
appeals today upheld an injunc-
tion by the United States district
court in Newark restraining Mayor
Frank Hague Of Jersey City and
his police department from inter
fering with the civil liberties of
the CIO and other groups.
The court sustained an injunc-
ton. issued last November 7 by
Federal Judge William Clark in
Newark which specifically ordered
the mayor and Jersey City Off
cials from interfering with CIO
meetings and other gatherings.
LAW IGNORED
The circuit courts decision Or
dered Mayor Hague to grant equal
rights of free speech and assembly
to the union and to other organ
izations in the case and added:
IAN examination Of the rec
ord leads us to the conclusion
that the police of Jersey City
pursued a course Of conduct
toward the appellees, the CIO,
steel workers organizing COM
mittee and several more unions
and the American Civil Lib !,
critics Union, which possessed =
no sanction whatsoever in stat
ute or ordinance"
ONE JUDGE SILENT
The majority decision was
signed by Judges John Biggs, jr.,
and Albert B. Maris, with Judge
j. Warren Davis dissenting. Al
though Judge Clark was elevated
to the circuit court since his in
junction in Newark in November,
he took no part in the appeal,
brought by Mayor Hague.
In his dissenting opinion, Judge
Davis states:
Eve do not have In this case
the naked question Of right of
free speech or free assembly
within the meaning Of the Con-
stitution of the United States.
The issue here is not primarily
free speech at all, but the plain
tiffs are seeking to make it such.
The Washington times., 1939-01-26
B. go. Receiver
Plea Dismissed

NEW YORK, Jan. Is G.N.S.)
An application for receivership of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and for an injunction restraining
the Central Hanover Bank and
Trust Company, as trustees, from
disposing Of $194 100000 worth Of
bonds pledged under a trust in
denture was dismissed today in
Federal Court here.
The Washington times., 1939-01-26
Ballot May Decide
Wives Jobs Fate

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Jan. 26
(CT.PS0 milwaukee may vote
in April on whether wives may
hold city jobs. Alderman August
B. Priegel said he would seek a
referendum to decide whether
women whose husbands have jobs
may be employed by the city.
Charles w. Babcock, assistant
city attorney, Las ruled the city
has no authority to discharge such
employees.
The Washington times., 1939-01-26
Don't Neglect Slipping
FALSE Teeth

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such handicaps. FASTEETH, an aka
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The Washington times., 1939-01-26
Class in Bridge

A beginners class in bridge
starts Monday at 7:30 p. m. at
the Langley Community Center,
First and T SITS. N. W., Mrs. Eliza
beth K. Peoples, director, an
nounced today. Mrs. r. P. NC
Kinley, who teaches the Culbert-
son system, will be in charge.
The Washington times., 1939-01-26
TAX POLICIES UP

Lie c11CCG Oh dULG1u41SLIdI1OI1 LAX
policies on the current recovery
Enovement is foremost on the con-
Z ference agenda. Council mem
@bers will have considerable to say
about prevailing corporation levies
sSince the existing tax schedule ex-
pires at the close of the year. this
includes the controversial undis-
tributed profits tax.
3 Attorney General Murphy is ex.
4 apected to canvass labor problems
sand the Governments antitrust
policies. 1t is expected he will in
form the business leaders that the
Administrators attitude toward
monopolieS will follow the course
laid down by Assistant Attorney
General Thurman Arnold.
Hull's appearance before the
council is particularly significant
at this time. It is presumed he
will discuss the encroachment ot
foreign governments on American
markets. particularly in Latir
America. Hull also may discus!
the reciprocal trade agreement a.
a device to counterbalance theSl
foreign trade inroadS.
Three prominent figures in thl
business and financial world sched
uled engagements with PreSiden
Roosevelt today-Clarence Dillon
New York banker, a luncheon
guest; Thomas j. Watson, heat
of International Business Ma
chimes. and Sidney Weinberg. IN
Vestment banker.
The Washington times., 1939-01-26
CKILEAES FEAR
QUAKE PLAGUE
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page II
reach around 1000, with perhaps
another 1000 seriously injured.
Most of the information reach.
ing Santiago came from amateur
radio operators near the affected
zones and was conflicting in charr
acter. For this reason all official
estimates Of the final total were
being held up pending a further
check.
All advices received here indi.
Gated the quakes had caused a
major panic.
The Washington times., 1939-01-26
Censor Broddc0stS

In order to check exaggerated
reports of the death toll, the gov
ernment forbade radio stations tc
broadcast anything regarding the
quake except official bulletins
based only on news from official
sources.
The first bulletin this morning
gave the casualties as 1000 dead
and 1000 injured e Conception
and a total of 35 dead and 400 In
jured in Talca, Talcahuano, Lota
Angel, Curica, and San Carlos.
The bulletin said reliable figures
for Chillan were not yet available
but that apparently not less than
900 were killed there, with three
or four times that number ser
ously injured.
Mass Burials Begun
At daybreak relief workers at
Chillan and Conception applied
themselves to the task Of burylne
the Quake's victims. =.
Fearing epidemics as a result
Of the disruption of sanitary ar
rangements, officials in both cities
ordered that the dead be buried IN
huge common graves.
Army officers attempted to have
the bodies identified as they were
buried, but this was not possible in
most cases.
It was expected all the burials
would be completed by midday
excepting those bodies imprisoned
beneath piles of debris.
A National Airline pilot who re
turned from Chillan reported that
city totally destroyed. He 'esti
mated 5000 were killed and 10,
900 injured there alone.
The airman said he also OBJ
served huge cracks in the city'E
main streets.
The Washington times., 1939-01-26
Quqke's Toll 10000,
Armour Advises j. S.

0NS Americas ambassador to Chile Norman Armour, to
day reported to Washington that the loss of life the earth
quake which rocked Chile yesterday have bee
Gar creater' than first estimates indicated.
The Washington times., 1939-01-26
HANES URGES
TAX ON STATE,
U. S. employees
Hearings Speeded by
House Committee
BY WILLIAM s. NEAL

Sweeping extension of reciprocal
Federal and State income taxation
to cover 100000 employees on the
public payrolls, was proposed to
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee today by high New Dael
officials.
Despite past decisions, the Of
ficials confidently expressed the
opinion that the Supreme Court
would uphold constitutionality OF
the proposal.
HANES TESTIFTES
Undersecretary Of the Treasury
John w. Hanes and Assistant At
torney General James Morris were
called before the committee as it
began consideration Of the long
debated tax exemptions enjoyed
by Federal and State employees.
The committee at first planned
to delay considering the tax plan
until Social Security legislation
had been disposed of, but now
may try to rush the bill to the
House floor within two weeks.
Fear that many State agency
employees will suffer retroactive in
come taxation, as a result OF the
Supreme Court decision holding
employees of the New York Port
Authority subject to Federal taxa
ton, prompted immediate conSld-
Grafton by the committee.
S16,OOO,OOO A YEAR
The Federal Government, Under
secretary Hanes estimated, will
reap $16.0O0,000 in new income
taxes each year by taxation OF
State, county, city and other local
employees.
While there are 100000 State
and local workers, the relatively
low average of the level of salaries
will result in exemption of a large
number, he added.
If States also levy income taxes
on Federal employees, Hanes teSti-
fled, 100000 may be affected.
He estimated, however, that 81
per cent receive less than $4,000
a year.
THEIR RESPONSIBILITY
Government employees have
responsibilities not only to the
particular public unit that en-
ploys them but to other units as
WE'LL" the UnderSecretary ex-
planned.
"The Federal employe is a
resident of a State and a mem
ber of a community; and con-
versely, the local and State en-
ployes have obligations to the
Federal government.
"TheSe mutual responsible
ties are deadened by tax ex-
emption but are quickened by
sharing the common tax bur
den"
Answering a question by Repre-
sentative Mccormack CD OF Mas
Sachusetts, Hanes said that the
Treasury would not object if 1888
incomes of public employees were
exempted from taxation.
Assistant Attorney General Nor
ris, in a discussion of Supreme
Court decisions, said that Congress
would be justified in seeking toI
tax salaries of State employees by
law rather than by constitutional
amendment.
81 He said that the court had ap-
Z proved the action of Congress in
3 passing law so that a decision
i on its constitutionality could be
{ obtained. Only by passing tax
s ing law-and permitting a test
4 case to be carried to the court
sAcan the issue finally be settled,
q he said
The Washington times., 1939-01-26
Trade Leaders
. SeeHOpkins
CONTINUED from Page u

years, adopting countless resolu.
tons of protest and suggestion,
for the most part. these resolutions
have been pigeonholed.
Hopkins said he will give
sympathetic ear to everything the
council members say. Later he
sexpects to issue statement sum
marizing his attitude on govern
Ilnent. business relations
The Washington times., 1939-01-26

ADVERTI9EMENT
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Customers. Customers.

BY adding the Potomac Electric
Power and Virginia Public Service
figures on electric power customers
and the nearby telephone gains for
September to the current District
increases, it is apparent that COM
pared with year ago in the entire
metropolitan area, there are 22,993
more telephones 9,63l more gas
meters and 1881 more electric GUS
toners. Compared with the same
date in 1887 there are 4l,422 more
telephones, 1902 more gas meters
and 20.089 more electric customers.
Demand Up Sharply.
Turning to use of utility facilities,
telephone calls. gas sales and elec-
trio power sales also climbed to
new records for October.
Daily average telephone calls in
the District of Columbia for that
month of various wears follow:
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Shares Of Aviation
& Transportation
Change Hands
Block Of 100000 Sold
To General American
transportation Group
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Nov. ia block
of 100000 shares of the Aviation &
Transportation Corp. has been sold
by the J. Henry Schroeder Banking
Interests of London to an American
group, including the General
American Transportation Corp. it
was learned today.
Also in the deal, it was said,
were Victor Emanuel. New York
capitalist who is chairman and
president of Aviation & Transporta-
ton Corp, and the Lehman Corp,
an investment company.
In some quarters the transaction
was accepted as indication of
plans by General American Trans
portation, tank car operator and
rail equipment manufacturer, to
broaden its participation in the ex-
panding aviation industry.
Early this year General American
entered the aviation field by pur-
chasing controlling stock inter-
est in the Barkley- Grow Aircraft
Corp. Detroit, manufacturer of
bomber transport planes.
Reports in financial circles said
General American may turn over
its holdings in Barkley- Grow Air
craft to Aviation & Transportation
in exchange for stock.
Aviation a. Transportation. for
merly known as the Cord Corp,
has substantial interest in Avia-
ton Corp. as well as holdings in
New York Shipbuilding. Checker
Cab and Lycoming Manufacturing
Co., maker of motors. with a plant
at Williamsport, Pa.
Aviation Corp has been expand
ing producing facilities in the Los
Angeles and Detroit areas and a
subsidiary, Aviation Manufacturing
Corp has projected a new factory
at Nashville.
The deal was described as part
of wartime liquidation of secur-
tiles from London. The price paid
was not disclosed. The stock sold
today around 81 a share on the New
York Curb Exchange.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
EAST MONTGOMERY
(Silver Sprins).
PRINCE GEORGES.
T
D. c. Loon Firm Opens
Office in Salisbury

Establishment of it's 14th affiliated
industrial loan company, at Sails
bury, Md, was announced yesterday
by the Southeastern Industrial
Bankers, Inc, of this city.
The new company, known as the
Southeastern Industrial Loan co. OF
Salisbury, is incorporated under the
laws of Delaware, and will engage
in general loan and discount busi-
ness.
Officers are Clifton NJ Eisele, presi-
dent; M w Bohrer, vice president,
and Lewis Eisele, secretary treasurer.
Directors include the officers and
Harry j. Donoghue, Selden M. Ely
and Walter L. Green.
capitalization of the company con-
sists of 10000 shares Of 7 per cent
cumulative preferred stock of the
par value $40 each, and 81 900 shares
of common stock of no par value.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
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passengers totaled 399, ,502 against
332,939 in the 1888 month. while the
10-month figure reached 3,43l 1863
compared with 2,998,l9 in the 1888
period.
Annual totals for previous years
illustrate the t. . medous growth.
From ST. ,5s6 passengers carried in
1888. the total jumped to 1891 ,236
in 1884, 2,436,236 in 1885, 2,924,S85
in 1886, 3,3O9,09 in 1887 and 3,672.-
062 in 1888. The l0-month figure
for this year is almost equal to the
total for all of last year.
d. c. Building Jumps.
Private building permits in the
District and nearby sections also
furnish evidence of growth. The
District total in October was the
highest for that month on record
while the l0-month total was the
highest since the same period in
1928.
Among leading cities of the Ma
ton. Washington ranked fourth in
private building.
In adjoining sections of the met
ropolitan area, Virginia seemed to
have a decided edge with new high
marks all along the line in con-
trast with irregularity and some
declines in the Maryland sections
Private building totals for the
District of Columbia in October and
10 months of various years follow:
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Wheat Prices Raised
Cent or More in
Buying Spurt
Purchases Credited
To Milling Interests
After LuII
BY FRANKLIN MULLIN,
Associs led Press Financial Writer.


CHICAGO, Nov. ia squirt of
buying soon after the start of trad
ing today gave the wheat market
its best action of the week and
lifted prices a cent a bushel or
more.
Purchasing was credited to mil
ling interests presumably in con-
nection with flour business which
has been dragging since the heavy
inventory accumulation immediate
ly following declaration of war.
Buyers were particularly active in
December wheat, which advanced
as much as IL cent at one stage
to 881a. Shifting of hedges into
deferred contracts also strengthened
the December delivery.
Only light. scattered rains were
reported in the hard winter wheat
belt and this precipitation was
confined mostly to Eastern sec
tions which received some relief
last week. Unprecedented fall
drought persisted in the West and
the forecast promised no immediate
relief although continuation of
unsettled weather was in prospect
in the East.
Wheat closed Isl cent higher
than yesterday. December 88h-A
may 85&-T; corn a lower to Is
up, December 5OA "a. may 52la -as !;
oats 1s-1a higher; soy beans 2-21a
higher; rye unchanged to IS up
and lard 1915 lower.
Grain range at principal markets
today:
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Cotton Futures Up
4 10 9 Points al
New York
Continued Strength
In Foreign Centers
Is Major Factor
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Nov 18.-The cotton
futures market took it's cue from
continued strength in foreign trade
centers today and prices advanced
to 9 points.
Forward pressure was applied by
straddle buying for Bombay and
Liverpool accounts. The differences
between New York and Bombay
contracted sharply.
The list faltered a little in its
swing upward when liquidation in
the December contract, plus trans
ferring from this month onward
and a sprinkling of hedge sales,
appeared. Fresh momentum was
given the market, however, on COW
ering for the week end and price
fixing by the trade. Closing prices
were just about the best for the
day.
Worth street sales for the week
were estimated at well below cur.
rent output. Most demand was for
Osnaburgs and heavy sheetings,
bought for use as burlap substitutes.
Exports Friday. 30,947 bales; sea-
son so far. 2,134,846 Port receipts,
22,734: port stocks, 1882 ,497.
Range follows:
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Boston Wool Trudinq
Very Slow in Week
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Nov. 18.-CU. S. Dept.
of Agr) Domestic wools were
mostly very slow in Boston during
the past week. Interest, however,
was inclined to broaden.
Prices continued on an irregu-
larly lower trend which they have
followed for the past several weeks,
but there was increasing resistance
to the decline as inquiries broad
ened.
Graded combing, bright fleece
woods were quoted steady at 80 to
AZ cents, in the grease. for fine
DeLaine, at AZ to A cents for half
bloods, and from As to 48 for three
eights and quarter bloods.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Utility Records Indicate Steady Growth
Is Continuing in Metropolitan Area
Sharp Increases Focus
Attention on Nearby
Virginia Section
BY DONALD b. HADLEY.

Population growth is continuing
at steady pace in the Washington
Metropolitan Area, public utility
records indicate.
The number of new telephones
connected, along with increases in
gas meters and electric power Gus
toners, all indicate a further de-
velopment of the big capital mar
ket, with particular emphasis oil
the gton-Alexandria section
where year-to-year figures are be-
ing doubled at a breath taking rate.
Utility connections recorded new
all-time peaks for the entire Metro
politan Area at the end of October.
Telephones in the District itself,
active gas meters in service il the
Metropolitan Area and electric pow
er customers in the District and
Maryland sections of the Metropoli-
tan Area at the end of October in
recent years follow:
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Clark Equipment Co.
Increases Dividends
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-The
Clark Equipment Co. announced to-
day a special dividend of IS cents
and another distribution Of Is cents
on the common stock, payable De-
cember Is to holders of record No
vember 20. With these payments
total distributions for the year are
$225 a share compared with Is
cents in 1898. Company makes
truck and tractor accessories.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Transit Passengers Up.

Revenue passengers of the Capital
Transit Co. in the District of Co
lumbia for October and the first 10
months of this year were well ahead
OF. the same periods in both 1898
and 1887 and stood close to records
set in 1885,
Except for May, the October total
was the highest for any month this
year. Every 1899 month except Au-
gust has recorded a substantial gain
over year ago. Revenue passengers
by months in 1899 and 1888 follow:
Evening star., 1939-11-19

agency, Mr.. Montgomery presented
to Mr.. Rogers a diamond 25-year
service pin on behalf of Acacia, and
he was the recipient of other gifts
from agency members.
Mr.. Rogers assisted, during the
period from 1915 to 1919, in the
establishment of several out-of-
town branch Offices of the company.
In May of 1910 he helped start
the District of Columbia Life Un-
derwriters' Association. A native of
King George County, Virginia, he
has lived in Washington So years.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Jewel Tea Co. Sales
Ahead Of Year Ago
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-Jewel Tea
Co. sales for the four weeks ended
November totaled 81 ,991 oil against
$1,851,749 for the corresponding
period last year, it was announced
today.
The increase amounted to 757 per
cent.
The company operates a chain Of
food stores in the Chicago area and
In addition distributes packayed
groceries In many States.
Evening star., 1939-11-19

P. L. Rogers has
just marked his
25th anniversary
as a member Of
the District of
Columbia agen-
cy of the COM
pany. Mr.. Rog-
ers joined Aca-
cia in November,
1914.
At a testimon-
ldl luncheon at
the Continental
Hotel, attended
by officers of the
company a n q
members of the
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Borg Warner DiscIoses
Profit Of $1,066,98
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18-Borg War
ner Corp. reported net profit for the
September quarter of $1,066, ,986,
equal to As cents a share on COM
mon stock. This compared with net
profit of $1,261 ,345, or SO cents a
common share, in the preceding
quarter and net loss of SAT 1853 in
the comparable 1888 quarter. Com
pany Is chiefly engaged in manu.
featuring automobile parts at plants
In the Middle West and East.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Arlington Is Leader.

The fact that the Arlington tele-
phones have more than doubled in
the last four years is in line with
postal receipts. building and other
barometers which give that section
strong lead in metropolitan
growth.
Electric power customers in the
Arlington Alexandra section also
showed large Increases at the end of
October, the Virginia Public Service
Corp. reports. Totals for that date
in different years follow:
Evening star., 1939-11-19
More Than Doubled.

Commercial and residential elec-
trio power sales in the District and
Maryland sections of the metropol-
itan area have extended their spec
tacular rise, the Potomac Electric
Power Co. reports.
In both October and the first 10
months of this year they were more
than double totals for the same pc
riods in 1881. Kilowatt hour sales
in October and 10 months follow:
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Dividend Is Declared

DANVILLE, Va, Nov. 18 tP.-Di-
rectorS of the Riverside and Dan
River Cotton Mills today authorized
payment of the current year-end
dividend of 3 per cent on the pre-
ferred stock amounting to $225, 900.
It viii be paid December Al.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Sales Of CopperweId
Treble 1929 Marks
snec;al Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GLASSPORT, Pa, Nov. 18.-Cop-
perweld Steel Co. tonnage sales for
the nine months ended September
80, 1899, were at an annual rate ap-
proximately three times that of 1929.
This fact is disclosed in mem
orandum to stockholders accom-
panying a pamphlet, prepared for
information of stockholders, setting
forth graphically the company's pat
ented process in welding copper to
steel which is accomplished through
what is known as molten weld.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Melville Shoe Calls
For Merger Action
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the ASSoclated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-Melville
Shoe Corp. has called a special
meeting of shareholders for Decem-
ber Is to approve steps in connec-
ton with proposed consolidation
with the j. F.. McElwain Co., 1t
was announced today.
Melville operates retail stores. Me-
Elwain is a manufacturer. Stock
holders Of the former will vote on a
capital reorganization plan to pro-
vide for a merger.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Glen Alden Coal Co.
Declares Dividend
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-Glen Alden
Coal Co. directors today declared a
dividend of Is cents on common
stock, payable December % to
holders of record December IL. Pre-
vious disbursement was 1872 cents
a share in October, 1898.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
October and 10-month passenger
totals in different years:

Transit passengers in Virginia
sections of the metropolitan area,
in the meantime have swept on
ward to new records.
The Washington, Virginia, Mary
land Coach Co. reports October
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Virginia Gains Spectacular.

Virginia Gains Spectacular.
Kilowatt hour sales in the Arling-
ton Alexandria district of the Vir-
ginia Public Service Corp. for
October were nearly double sales for
the same month just four years ago.
October and 10-month sales in re-
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Nearby Trends Differ.

Nearby Trends Diner.
Private building in adjoining Sec
tions of the metropolitan area for
October and the 10 months is re-
ported below: