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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08
Bruce Cations
In Washington
star-News' Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON. - Nobody ever prayed for
anything much harder than this administration
has been praying for a permanent settlement
to the threatened strike of airplane workers in
Boeing's Seattle factory.
This row got settled nearly a fortnight ago,
after frantic work by the Labor Department,
the Defense Commission, Boeing officials and
union leaders-and then the settlement prompt
1y came unstuck. Weary days of negotiation
have followed and the end is not yet. Mean
while, the whole thing is a fine example of
the headaches which a labor dispute can in
ect into the defense program.
Boeing's Seattle plant employs some 1000
men. Its minimum pay scale-the hiring
in" rate at which green hands are taken on
has been 81 IL cents per hour, fixed a couple
of years ago when the force was much smaller,
and substantially above the 50-cent minimum
set by Labor Secretary Perkins under the
Walsh-Healey act.
This summer the company sought to set a
lower minimum. Its officials pointed out that
the force at this factory would presently be
greatly increased, and that many unskined
men would be taken on; so it was proposed to
put the new hiring in rate at SIS cents, with
the proviso that no man working under the OLD
rate would have his wage reduced.
This struck the union as being too much like
a wage cut for comfort, and the row was on.
A strike was imminent. Harvey Brown, presl-
dent of the International Association of Ma
chinists, parent union, flew to Seattle and OBJ
tanned a Today postponement> and then re-
turned to- Washington to see what the govern
ment could do to bring about a settlement
SETTLEMENT
BLEW UP
Various things were tried. Boeing agreed
to accept all the unions wage demands If the
total increased cost didn't come to more thar
ST, 900, OOO-only to find, on an auditors check
up, that it would come to 81, zoo, 1000. The La
Dor Departments conciliators did what they
could. Sidney Hillman, labor,s man on the
Defense Commission, did what he could.
In the end. a settlement was reached-via q
misunderstanding. Hillman induced ooh sizes
to arbitrate the dispute. After the setuemen'
was announced, it developed that the union
thought the arbitration was to include every
thing but the 81 1-2-cent which was
to be accepted; the company thougnt mat tne
minimum was to be among the things arbl-
trated. The settlement Immediately blew up,
with the whole lob to be done over. AT this
writing the row is still on.
HILLMAN'S
RECORD AT STAKE
1t is nearly vital to the administrator that a
strike be prevented. For one tnng' d SCrlKe
which stonned work in a major alrplane fac
torv at This particular moment would land in
the middle of the presidential campaign with
q reso,1ndino crash. For another, a good part
If Hil1nan's future usefulness in his present
post depends on his ability to get the row un-
scrambled without leaving 1aoor ieeinis VOC
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08
HEAVO VICTIMS
PLEASE COPY

\ GREENVILLE. Miss. R-Clar-
ence Pickrell, husky pitcher for
Greenville of the Cotton S e S
league, has a sure formula for
avoiding trouble with umpires.
He and Manager Andy Reese
were elected from the game for
talking back to Umpire Thomas
son.
The next day Pickerell ap-
peared in the third base coaching
nox with his mouth tightly sealed
by adhesive tape. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08
HITCH-HIKER

FAYETTEVILLE, Sept. =
GA three-foot snake hitch
liked several miles into town
yesterday under the hood of
Gilbert Boards automobile.
When Roy Walker, a me-
chanic, lifted the hood of
Boards car the snake dissent
angled itself from the motor
and crawled up Walkers arm.
Walker said he did not stop
to check the oil before shaking
the snake off.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08
TOP o. H

The greatest and most universal of all needs
Is that OF the knowledge of God and the way
OF de1iUerdnce from sin-the need of pardon for
the past, and po1Uer and peace for the present
and the future.
REV. RoBT. MURPHY WILLIAMS
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-08
I TIME

| HIGH TIME .oran.
DENVER R-Phyllis bucd
a slender, attractive blond reuse eonse,
this year after winning 1lVe oolf
cutive Colorado women > orote
championships in order 10 in
all her time to an ar /;
which she is a partner.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
In Washington
BY BRUCE CATION
The News Washington
CorreSnondan<

!. WASHINGTON-Despite the re.
employment expected to come be.
cause of the defense program,
there seems to be little chance
WPA rolls will go down much at
any time in the very near future.
There are now about 1890. 600
people on WPA, with a mid-winter
peak Of something like 1900, 600
anticipated. Employment in pri.
Vate industry is increasing, and
close to 100, 900 people leave WPA
for outside jobs every month; \ but
the catch is that WPA's back
log'-its list of registered relief
clients awaiting WPA jobs-hasn
been shrinking a bit.
On the contrary, it has actually
oeen rising. 1t stands now at about
l,OOO, 0OO-second highest total in
WPA history, exceeded only py
the 1887 crash. What that means
is simply that every time one man
quits WPA there are 10 more wait
ing to take his place..
DEFENSE HASN'T
HELPED SOUTH
= Various explanations are offered.
immediate reason for the
rise in the waiting list is a recent
increase in reliefers in the south.
which so far has received few ben.
eflts from defense spending, which
has virtually lost it's cotton mar
kets overseas, and which has late
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Roosevelt To Inspect
Philadelphia Projects

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-R-
President Roosevelt will leave the
capital tonight for Philadelphia,
where tomorrow he will inspect
army and navy defense projects
and make an address in Conven-
ton hall.
White House officials said they
did not know whether the speech
would be political or non-political
nor what the subject would be.
The chief executive will devote
the morning to looking over some
OF Philadelphia's share of the $15,-
coo, 000, 900 preparedness program,
including the navy yard where one
IS, 000-ton battleship is nearing
completion and the keel of a huge
As. 000-ton warship has just been
laid.
Also on the inspection schedule
were army and navy supply ware
houses and the naval hospital, but
it was said that Mr.. Roosevelt
would be unable on this trip to look
over the yard of the New York
Shipbuilding corporation, at Cam
den, N. j., which also is rushing
work On fighting vessels. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Green Warns OF DANGER
Found In Easy Credit

CHAPEL HILL, Sept. 19.-R-
President Emory Green of the Pilot
Life Insurance company reminded
a state conference on home owner
ship yesterday of easy credit and
over-extensions that led tc the frog
en- paper and foreclosure days of
1882"
1--WE must constantly remember
the responsibility of investing other
peoples Money" he said, land while
home ownership is a fine thing, over
building may lead to foreclosures
and plunge the country into tenancy,
defeating our very purpose"
The final sessions were presided
over by R. H. Gregory, Jr., of Rocky
Mount and B. R. Roberts of Dur
ham, who head the State Building
and Loan and Banking association.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

ly been hit by a number of floods
and tornadoes.
Beyond that is the fact that de.
fense-industry unemployment is
both spotty. and slow. It is no.
ticeable in industrialized areas, al
most invisible in other places. Such
important defense industries as
shipbuilding, aircraft, machine
tools. aluminium manufacturing,
explosives ano the manufacture Of
engines currently employ fewer
than $4,000 men all told; they
could double their labor require
ments without making a real dent
IN the total of jobless.
Lastly, Congress last spring
forced WPA to make a drastic cut
in its rolls, the labor market
wasn't able to absorb all of those
cut off, and many of them are
back waiting for reassignment to
WPA jobs.
SUPER-SHIPS
FOR NAVY? f.
Uncle Sans projected two-ocean
navy will boast tn. most for
midable battleships ever designed,
if current stories about the
navy's plans are correct.
According to these reports
(Which have every evidence of
being reliable) the navy is con-
sidering building b~attleships of
enormous size-58, 900 tons with
out stores. or approximately g..
600 tons fully equipped and ready
to go. Protective armor heavier
than anything yet seen is said
to be contemplated, including deck
armor that would make the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
CHURCH WOMEN OF
STATE TO MEET
n Dissolve Missionary So.
ciety And Form New
Organization

cpEENVILLE, Sept. 10. -LR-
,,etbodist women of the North Caro-
d.. conference will meet here Sep
.,,ber % and "a to dissolve their
u~onan's Missionary society and or
-,,ize the conference Woman's So
,;o+,, of Christian Service of the
United Methodist church.
sessions will be held at East Caro-
,;,o Teachers college, with Bishop
r1ore Purcell calling the meeting
>. order Monday afternoon. New Of
s.ors for the new society will be
.,octed Immediately. The new plans
~ vornen's work then will be out
vred and a forum will be held Tues
day morning.
Mrs. E. L. Hillman Of Rocky
uo,nt is president Of the Woman,s
Missionary society of the North Car
,,ina conference now. The society
. organized sunday afternoon,
member /, 1878, at Charlotte.
Among the organizers were Mrs.
" H. D. Wilson, now of Chapel
Oil, Mrs. Jesse Cunningham, wife
- the president of Scarritt college;
md the late Mrs. F. y. Swindell
- wilson, the late Mrs. r. F. Bum
noes of Greensboro, and others. Mrs.
Wilson vas the first president.
Women in local churches have
been dissolving their missionary So
cieties and organizing Christian Ser
vice societies for some time as a
result of the plans of the United
Methodist church.
A similar meeting of women of the
Western North Carolina conference
will be held at ~Statesville October 1.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Public Health Board
Is Named By Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.@Re
President Roosevelt named today a
committee to, cooperate with the de.
Tense commission IN all phases of
public health as an additional means
of strengtheningsth the nation for any
emergency.
Under the authority of an act of
1916, he named five men "to ad-
wise the council of national defense
regarding the health and medical as
poets of national defense and to CO.
ordinate health and medical activi.
ties affecting national Defense"
Named as chairman was DR.. Ir-
vim Abel Of Louisville, KY, chair
man of the board of regents of the
American College of Surgeons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
sc. Draft Boards To
Handle Registration

COLUMBIA. S. c. Sept. 19-R-
Governor Burnet r.. Maybank an
pounced today that he would ap-
point draft boards to handle the
REGISTRATION and draft of South
Carolina conscripts instead of NAM
ing boards for each phase of this
National Defense program.
His office reported that the
boards personnel might be an
ncunced late today. Their work
will begin October Is when all
men between 81 and IS years old
must register.
Each county will have at least
one draft board, and. Charleston
and Spartanburg will have five.
Population and area will determine
the number. In all, there will be
50 boards. An appeal agent, or
attorney, and a medical examiner
must be named for each board. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Contracts Are Okehed
For Defense Housing

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-R-
The U. S. Housing Authority ap
proved today construction contract
awards for defense housing projects
IN Charleston, S. c., and Newport
News, Va. They were:
Charleston-s1,124,96 Long Con-
sructlon company, Charleston.
Newport News-s1, OS4, 600, V. P.
LOFTS, Charlotte, N. C.
Inc Charleston project, ben Till
man Homes will consist Of 400
'Eelllngs primarily for the families
VI enlisted and civilian personnel at
me Charleston Navy yard. It will
" on U. S. highway So about 6
l4es north of the center of the city
aa VIII consist of one-story two.
snlly and one and two-story row
muses. with brick walls.
ine Newport News project, Mar
.4all courts will provide 352 homes
~ families of shipyard workers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Sen. Reynolds Leaves
On South American Tour

MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 19.-R-Se-
nator Robert R. Reynolds D-N.
c. left by s-ra:oc11pper today for
an official inspection tour of South
America.
He boarded Pan Americans Fly
ing Cloud for Cristobal, on the
way down the west coast of the
continent. He will proceed by
clipper to Buenos Aires, thence to
Rio de Janeiro and will return to
Miami by plane early in October.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

ships invulnerable to air attacks;
batteries might include tremen-
dous rifles of 18-inch or even 20
inch caliber, able to outsmash and
cutrange anything else in exist
ence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

Horse and buggy days may bs
gone, but $500, 600 worth of buggy
whips annually are sold in t e
United States even today. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

tlgulng it sounds less Germanic.
He laughs a great deal and
grumbles not at all about the things
that happened to him. They have
happened to lots of people. And
besides, look what happened to
Austria: while Hitler was grab
blng Esmond's native land, the ac-
tor was taking out his first U. S.
citizenship papers. He hopes that
some day he can meet Louis B.
Mayer again and thank him for
that. !
HERE'S ANOTHER BOBBY
WHO MOWS EN- DOWN
HOUSTON, Tex. -R-Bobby
Wallace, 16-year-old high school
student, struck out 16 batters and
allowed three hits in pitching his
junior league team to an 11-2 vic.
tory here.
Baseball is in Bobby's blood.
He's a nephew of Gus Mancuso,
veteran major league catcher now
with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and
Frank Mancuso, catching in the
Western league. q
Rub a cotton fabric between the
if you wish to determine
whether it has been sized. Made to
look solid by sizing, the flimsy ia.
brio will crumple under this treat
a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
Three Meet Death
In aciory Blast!

NEW CASTLE. Ps.-Three mrn
were killed Tuesday when an ex-
plosion ripped through the Burton
Powder Co. plant at Edinburg.
eight miles from here.
The blast originated In the gsls.
tin tank house where dynamite IL
packed. officials reported.
Force Of the explosion was felt
as far away as New Castle
The dead were:
lie. wsdden. IS. Of New Castle.
Elmer Kilduff. ~. Of Edinburg.
and Harold Duncan. ~. Of X. ID. 2.
New Castle.
Cause Of the blast could not b<
asesrtsined Immediately
Damage In the immediate area
Of the plant wss believed 70 be
considerable The town Of Edin-
burg mas a population $50.
Sheriff NJ NJ Ingham burned 70
the scene with a force Of deputies
State police from the New Castle
barracks also went 70 the plant.
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3 Die in Powder
Plant Explosion

ALIE>TONN. Pa.-Three men
we're reported killed Tuesday IN an
explosion at the cap plant Of the
Trojan Powder company al near
by siples station.
Details Of the blast were not
svailsbie Immediately but police
said that a number Of persons
were believed 10 have been injured.
The plant Ia about three niis
from Allentown
Il Sas the first explozion in
the munitions industry In the I'm
mediate Allentown area
Company officials we're not
sysilsbls for immediate comment
Ambulsncss and police were
summoned 10 the scene
The victims were william
schoeinfeloer Of Brelnigsyiile. Fred
Weller Of Scherersville and Hugh
Fisher Of Allentown. company off
Gals announced.
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Hitler and Soviet Premier Meet
In Berlin for Lonq Conversation

BERIIs-Adon
Vlacheslsy N AooOs ma Isebhanesi
Tuesday Official N
reported
The
~ Hbh<strsy
addsd that nooi0s HtIsrs hs.dasrtsr.
Dskansooy. soviet DEPUTY
of stts arrival
and departure Of me Waiting HDaslsn.
Runway b. Rlhb<nthrop. Fs
Marshal Wilhelm Ksits Chief u thu German sgpss
Heinrich mmer head q the police. Robert
front.
Eibhentrop al . kzaan for ssf
Only invite To funets
ths first Of ts kind sinns outbreak Of
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Missing Boy. z.
Is Found Dead

ATLANTA. 6a. - INA Cesfsis
highway patrol reported Tuesday
that Murray upshaS. D.. .. miss.
ING since last Friday. had bsen
found dad IN tbs woods back u
his parents farm home near
Csftsrsyliis. Ca
STATE Pubic safety cemmis-
sionss Lon sullivan. brad ~ ths
highway patrol said tbe fladinx
~ ths body N.s reported ~ q
state trooper on duty Al ihs Up
sha4 hofns. csntsr Of . f0af-day
search for the lost hoy.
Sullivan said !, gsa n9t been
dsfsrfniBsd anat caused Mnrrsys
Death. me condition 81 shs body
an other 0staiis ~srs aos I'M
nlsdlaisiy asaiiabis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
McChord Bombers
Fly 10 California

Seven BIT Bosing type bOmbers
left Mcchord field Tuesday morn
Ing for Sacramento. Cal. where
they are 10 undergo engine repairs
Each Of the 800 900 planes were
manned BY two officers and each
carried Il enlisted men a. pass
engers. Lieut. Col u. ~ DrFord
was in command Of the flight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
Strike Hits Oregon
Wholesale Crocers

PORTLAND - Neither side Of
fered 10 negotiate a settlement and
the strike of $50 ALL warehouse
men against seven Portland whole
sale grocery firms continued Tues
day. The workers sought blanket
salary increases and the employers
offered 10 renew an old contract
which expired Nov. /.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
Launch Third
Ship Nov. 29

Third Of the quintet Of 4i5-foot
merchant motorships. presently
under construction at the Seattle
Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. yards
here. will be launched Nov. 20
Walter L. Green. general man
sger Of the sTsC. announced
Tuesday the vessel will be christ
ened Cape Cleare. paying honor
TO a prominent headland in Alaska
Cape Cleare IL a landmark
welI-knOwn 20 mariners, being
a part Of Montague island.
which lies atbwart the en-
trance TO Prince William
Sound.
The vessel Of the same name ~
a sistership 20 the Cape Alsys.
named for headiand on the
northern Washington coast. and
the Cape Flsttery. named for the
famous promontory marking the
entrance Of the Straits II Juan DO
Fucs and Puget SOUND
Mrs. William y. Boeing has
been named a. sponsor Of the
Cape CIeare.
Those three ships. and two more
still In the early stages Of con-
struction. are all identical cargo
vessels carrying only eight pass
engers, which are being built BY
sTsc at s2.1z5.o0O apiece. The
Cape Alaya Is expected 70 be ready
for her trial runs IN January. hsy-
ing been launched Aug. ].
The vessels STsc has under
contract. which include four larger
merchant vessels and two navy
transports Of the same design. are
being built for the o. S Maritime
commission.
Only the Cape Alava and Cape
I Flsttery have been assigned q
private buyers or operating com
{ psnies: they will be turned over
u the American Mall line for the
J NortnWest-Orient service.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
Percy J..Cox Named
County School Heed

Deputy County School bupt
Percy J. Coz xas slssatsd 10 sss'
perintsndent Tuesday BY unani-
nous yots Of the board Of county
Appointment Of Coz 10 the POSI-
ton vacated BY supt. Louise D
Taylor had been approved infor-
mally soFns time ago but delayed
until after the election as . pro
lection sgsins, any legal eompA-
cations which II might cause.
Mrs. Taylor resigned Oct IA to
take a new position a. state d.
rector Of the WPA professional
and service division in Seattle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
Tacoma' S Low
Is II Degrees
terests of Ex-senator c. c. Dill

Seeing the sun rise out Of the
crest of Mount Rainier Tuesday
morning was cold comfort to tent
dwelling soldiers of McChord Field,
Fort Lewis and Camp Murray
|McChord Field weather station re-
ported a minimum temperature
OF PA degrees, comparing with
! a 81 degree minimum at the Ia
coma u. s. weather bureau station.
over most Of the Northwest a
high pressure area persisted to
maintain low temperatures while a
storm swept eastward across the
patton from the Rockies to the
Atlantic ocean.
i he warmest temperature
Monday in Tacoma was a IL
maximum. During the night a
shifting fog spread IT. blanket
over parts of the Tacoma dis
frict. hut was dispelled with
! the suns asoendency Tuesday.
Clear weather generally through
| DC cay was the outlook Tuesday
ut forecasters looked for some
e1ouoiness Tuesday night
There Is no indication of
snow. yet.
! Al the military reservations. II
vas understood the low tempers-
6res are not popular with TIE
hpys from the south. The south
LAY be solid. but II isn't cold. they
pointed out AZ AcChord field
nruculzrly. there are a gooc
neny men from the south and
Sprne admitted Tuesday this wal
the coolest temperature they nsc
ever experienced
: But neither had they ever seer
= sunrise sprouting out Of ths
0ezk Of a 4.4Os-foot mountain
IS. the sun blazed as ball Of
smack in the old VOLCANOES
ef6ter.
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I'D. 10 Comment
On Willkie Talk

WARRINGTON --- Wendell L.
~ilikiess program foe HAtionai
unity Tuesday, awaited Republican
congressional ratification ga
President iino~~ssirs reaction BE-
fore W ultimate seops could 10
determined
~iiIkls outlined his program
Monday night In q radio address
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Happily Married, But
Unemployed, He Will
Be First F rom Tacoma

26. happily married. but un-
Pierce county 10 be certified
rviee act.
~ II. Hes Looked everywhere
for a job" Miller said Hes tried
harder 10 find a job than anybody
ever saw Hut jobs are hard Ia
find without pull
Carpenter vas born In Taroma.
graduated from whitman grade
school and Lincoln high
she ~ Seeking Work
lie and Dorothy Ann. that's my
daughter. celebrated their first
wedding anniversary on Oct 20
Albert has done ali sorts ~ odd
joba The tao 81 them even went
10 work on . farm for = while The
work was too hard on Dorothy
CONTINUED on Page 4. Column ~
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Albert William Carpenter.
employed. was the first man
for duty under the Selectiye s
Carpenter. who lives with bis
wife at the home Of her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs John u. Miller. Ti5
SO. 55th st. was one of the first 10
volunteer ON draft registration day.
Oct. 10.
lie passed the physical examina-
tion. given by Or Edwin c. Muir.
and his draft board. Tacoma No 4.
chose him to be the first man for
induction into the u y army.
Into Service Monday
Carpenter will be officially In
duoed into the army Monday.
His fsther-in-law. interviewed
Tuesday. said Carpenter was glad
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
Quesiionnaires Placed in Mails
By Three Draft Boards in County

Ques,ionnsires. eight pages 81
necessary governmental inquisi-
tiyeness. had been mailed out 10
i25 men Of Pierce county Tuss-
day and IN the days 10 follow
more and more 81 the documents
viii be mailed until every regis
trsnt receives one.
Fifty qusstlonnAlrss have been