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The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-02-27
Gadsden Thugs Attack
Brings CIO Protest

WASHINGTON, Feb pa outbreak Of anti.union
violence Gadsden, Alathe terror town. of the South
today brought forth vigorous demand from Allan S. Hay
wood CLIO director of organization for federal investigation
HAYWOOD asked Atty.Gen Robert H. jackson for Dept
of Justice probe to determine whether vicious attack John
oue organizer for the United Rubber Workers. viola
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-02-27
Celanese Union Officers Installed
Last Night At Membership Meeting

The newly elected officers of Celanese Local 1874 Textile
Workers Union of America installed last night general
membership meeting in union headquarters 81 North Meehan-
Street, with George A. Meyers J taking Office president,
W. Boyd Coleman vce-president Clyde D. Lucas business
manager, and William E. Meagher, recording secretary.
All except Clyde D. Lucas who started his fifth term,
occupying their posts for the first me but all have previously
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-02-27

The question Of posting unfair
notices about this establishment
in all local union halls will be
taken up at tonight's meeting Of
the Western Maryland CLIO.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-02-27
The Rubber Neck

Recently issued figures from Social Security Board records
reveal that about 5000 of the rubber workers 1889 moi
paid enough American Standard of Living Here
again proof that the rubber industry falls short OF
providing workers chance adequate annual
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-02-27
To Discuss Housing
Problem on WTBO

Does Cumberland Have Adequate Housingp will be the
subject of Round Table discussion the Town Meeting of
the Air program this Sunday. March from p NJ 5:45
P. NJ on Station WTBO.
Discussion leaders will include Il r. fletcher Of the Peoples
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-02-27
Western Maryland {
Elections Tonight

The annual elections of officers of the West maryland
Industrial Union Council of the Clio will be held tonight,
Tbursday al p M al the Rubber Workers Hall, IL South
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-02-27

AT left. George A.
Meyers, Jr.. newly elect
ed president of Celanese
Local 1874.
AT right, Clyde ID.
Lucas. named for fifth
term as business man
ager.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Frank H. Babb Dies;
Father Of Mrs. Randolph

Frank Hennen Babb, 81, of Key
ser, w. Va, father of Mrs. Jennings
Randolph, wife of the chairman OF
the House District Committee, died
yesterday at University Hospital.
Baltimore, after an illness of one
week.
Mr.. Babb, who was we'll known
here, had visited only last week with
his daughter and son-in-law. Mrs.
Randolph left here yesterday to at
tend funeral services, which will
be held at 2 pm. tomorrow in
Keyser.
Engaged in real estate, insurance
and bonding business in Keyser at
the time Of his death, Mr.. Babb had
served as vice president of the
Board of Governors of the University
of West Virginia for several terms
and also as Mayor of Keyser for
several years.
Born in Cherry Lane. Grant
County, w. Va. descendant of a
family prominent in the State. he
was graduated from the University
of West Virginia and moved to Key
ser as young man.
A charter member and former
president of the Keyser Rotary Club
he also was member of the First
Methodist Church and the Masonic
lodge.
In addition to his daughter he Is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Ger
trude Babb; son, Arnold Babb
engineer with the Tennessee Valley
Authority; sister, Mrs. Walter
Scheer of Cincinnati, and four
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

Fishermen swinging their legs of
Georgetown piers got the shock of
their lives yesterday when a man
and a girl in collapsible rubber
boat came shooting out of Rock
Greek and headed for the Water
Gate barge up the Potomac River.
They didn't know they were the
last of hundreds of Sunday mo-
torists and mixers to gaze entranced
at Elihu Root. Sd, grandson of the
former Secretary of State and Of
War, and Miss Mary A. Bidwell as
they sailed the swollen stream from
Military road in Rock Creek down
to the barge in three hours
TRAFFIC piled up along Beach
drive in the park as the couple
got out of their car and inflated
the boat with air from their engine
motor.
Equipped with two short paddles
and hand pump in a canvas bag,
they pushed off into the muddy
water. Grounded at first every few
yards, they sailed with less difficulty
after they made portage around
Pierce Mill.
Among the motorists. amateur
photographers and ducks who
viewed the performance along the
six-mile route, explanations for it
ranged from delayed election bet
to suicide pact
Mr.. Root said he thought of it
about an hour before they started.
A research assistant at the Navy
Yard, he has also shot Little Falls
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Bookniga Officials
Given Prison Terms
As Foreign Agents
Three Also Fined for
Failure to Register
And for Conspiracy

Raphael Rush, former vice presi-
dent In Bookniga Corp, reputed
Communist propaganda agency in
the United States. today was SEN
fenced in District Court by Justice
F. Dickinson Let's to serve one to
three years and a day and pay a
$1,000 fine on his conviction by
Jury of failure to register legally
with the State Department as agent
of a foreign principal.
Justice Let's sentenced Rush from
eight months to two years and $500
fine on the first count of the indict-
ment. charging failure to register,
and four months to one year and
day and $500 on the second count,
charging conspiracy. These SEN
tences are to run consecutively.
Justice Let's sentenced Morris
Liskin, president of the concern, who
previously had pleaded guilty to a
charge Of failing to register. to eight
to "a months and $500 fine on the
charge Of conspiracy. Previously.
Liskin had paid $500 fine and
former Justice Peyton Gordon SEN
fenced him to Imprisonment to four
to l8 months, but he was placed on
probation.
Norman Weinberg, former secre-
tary-treasurer of the concern, was
sentenced today to six to 18 months
and $500 fine for failure to register
A District Court jury had acquitted
him on the conspiracy accusation.
Benjamin Parker, special assistant
to the Attorney General, represented
the Government in the case, charg-
ing that the three comprised a
Communist propaganda nest in the
United States.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Mediation Board Asks
Auto Paris Strikers
To Return 10 Jobs
Shipyord Employees
At Keorny, N. j., Agree
To cet@r WuIkout

By the Associated Press.
The National Defense Mediation
Board sought today to have strikers
resume production at the Sealed
Power Corp. in Muskegon, Mich.
which makes parts for automobile
and engine companies working on
defense orders.
The United Automobile Workers
of the American Federation of La
Dor walked out after failing to OBJ
tain demanded wage increases and
a union shop. The Mediation Board
began an inquiry into the dispute
and asked the workers to get back
on the job in the meanwhile.
The board persuaded members of
a Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions shipyard union at the Federal
Shipbuilding Corp, in Kearny, N.
j., to defer a strike which had been
called to support demands for a
union shop and paid vacations.
Naval Project Pact Sought.
A Labor Department conciliator
undertook to settle strike of go
A. F l.. building workers at a 81
500 900 naval ammunition dump
project in San Diego Calf. Union
members walked out after asserting
the contracting company had
preached an agreement on working
conditions.
At St. Louis the week end Thought
settlement Of an A. F. L. juris-
dictional dispute between the
Carpenters District Council anc the
International Association of Ma
chinists. The conflict had caused
delays and work stoppages in defense
industries.
The agreement provided that an
equal number of machlnists and car
penters shall be employed on each
job of installing and maintaining
machinery and that there shall be
no strikes.
In Detroit the International Exec
utlve Board Of the United Automo-
bile Workers &C. I. o. investigated
charges that local union election
at the Allis-Chalmers Co. plant in
Milwaukee was held illegally.
10000 Return to Jobs.
Evidence from both the winning
and losing states of officers was pre-
sented to the board Incumbent
officers, charged by the opposition
with being Communist controlled
won the election by fewer than 100
votes
Approximately 10000 automobile
and body plant workers returned TO
their jobs following settlement of a
strike in Detroit at the National
Automotive Fibres. Inc, which sup
plies upholstery to the Chrysler
Corp, and Briggs Manufacturing Co.
Members of the U. A. w. who went
on strike last week during con-
tract dispute, voted approval of a
settlement plan yesterday. Union
officials said the new contract grants
wage increases from to le cents
an hour.
In the wake Of strike against
the Gulf States Utilities Co. bv A.
F. LIS international Brotherhood
Of Electrical Workers, electric DOW
er failed several times in 10 Louisi-
ana communities. The company as
serted its lines had been sabotaeed,
but union officials said their mem
bers were not responsible.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Centenuriun Honored
AtChurch Service

Albert Minton Lathrop, who be-
came 100 years old Friday, went to
Sunday School yesterday at the
Fourth Presbyterian Church Thir-
teenth and Fairmont streets NV.
Representative Curtis, Republican,
of Nebraska, spoke in his honor.
Teacher Of the class is Mr.. Lath-
rops old friend and former Repre-
sentative from Mr.. Curtis district.
w. E. Andrews. Mr.. Lathrop served
In the civil war and made the pio-
neer trek to Nebraska. He came to
Washington several years ago and
lives with his two daughters, Miss
Lathrop and Mrs. Susan Myer, at
1921 Euclid street NV,
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Nippon Liner Refuses
To Turn Back 10
Pick Up Nazi Consu|s
Wiedemonn, Borehers
Miss San Francisco
Boot; Captain Sorry
Dy the Associated Press.

0y che Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14.-A
japanese liner with a polite but
determined captain ploughed west
ward today without Fritz Wiede-
mann and DR.. Hans Borchers, ex-
PEELED German consuls general who
missed the boat on purpose, then
spent II hectic hours trying to
catch it.
The two top-ranking Nazis re-
fused to board the N. Y. K. liner
Yawata Maru with their STATS and
families yesterday, fearing that
without a British guarantee of safe
conduct across the Pacific they
would be risking seizure at sea.
Two hours or so after the
Yawata Maru sailed. word came
from the British Embassy in Wash
ington that the Nazis would not be
nolested en- route.
Japanese Skipper Sorry.
Wiedemann then tried frantically
TO have the ship stopped. He radioed
the captain asking that the Yawata
turn about and come back for them
at the German governments ex-
pense.
But the Japanese master replied
he was sorry. in these words:
Please express our greatest re-
grets We are unable to accept re-
quest to return"
This didn't stop Wiedemann, the
San Francisco consul-general who
once was Adolph Hitlers command
ing officer. He telephoned the jap
anese Embassy In Toxic and the
N. Y. K lines main Office there, and
the Yawata was flashed to halt
some 80 miles at sea, awaiting de-
velopments.
Weidemann then sought transpor-
tation to the YaWata. Without sue
cess he attempted to hire seaplane
or boat. He asked the Coast Guard
for a cutter and the Navy for a
destroyer. But he was told that
neither branch could give him an
answer until it was decided whether
the Yawata would turn about.
Seats on Clipper Filled.
Then. near midnight. the German
Embassy in Washington informed
the consulate here that the YaWata
Maru lis too far out and there is no
possibility of her turning back
DR.. Otto Denzer. the ousted vice.
consul here, said he could not book
seats aboard a clipper plane for
tomorrow, which would enable the
Germans to catch the Yawata at
Honolulu. so the Germans decided
to sail July 81 aboard the japanese
liner Tatuta Maru.
In Washington, State Department
officials said Weidemann and Borch-
ers would be permitted to remain in
the country until the next japanese
sailing at the end of the month.
There remained a possibility that
the Nazis could fly east and join
other German and Italian consular
officials and agents leaving via the
Atlantic on the liner West Point.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

dilemma in the last few months
His move on Iceland shows that he
has settled it in favor of war. He
has had to decide whether he would
keep a promise made to the British
government or promise made to
the American people. Evidently he
has chosen to keep his promise to
the British government and to re.
pudiate his promise to he Ameri-
can people.
His promise to the British gov
ernment, made before the present
European war started, was that the
American fleet would be pooled
with the British fleet for joint ac-
ton in the event of war in Europe.
His promise to the American people.
reiterated again and again before
the last election. was that he would
keep the United States out of war
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Congress
Continued From First PaseD

for an additional year or two with
out being required by law to do SO.
Underlying consideration of these
specific issues, argument continued
both on and off the floor on foreign
policy. Senator Pepper, Democrat,
of Florida told reporters that if foes
of the administration course would
desist from their attack and would
come out and say they would sup
port full aid to Britain. there is no
telling how many thousands or tens
Of thousands of American lives
might be saved"
Such declaration doubtless
would prevent our involvement in
the future" he said.
Senator Pepper was commenting
on a challenge issued recently by
Senator Wheeler. Democrat. of Mon
tana that President Roosevelt ask
Congress to declare war instead Of
trying to get us in through the back
door" and Senator Wheeler's pre-
diction that not more than Is Sena-
tors would vote for war now.
Insists Public Opposes War.
Senator Pepper said there would
be no question of war if Senator
Wheeler and those sharing his
views would support the administra-
ton policy because IF they would
give support, think we could keep
the japanese from advancing to the
southwark and we could deliver our
goods to the British"
Senator Wheeler, on the other
hand, asserted that in all his studies
Of the situation he had never found
the people so Overwhelmingly as now
against involvement In war.
Despite all the things that have
been done and despite the obvious
desire of many persons close to the
President to involve u.s." he said,
Eve are not going to war until and
unless there is a real threat to this
Nation"
Representative Tinkham, Republi-
can, of Massachusetts,, joined ir
the debate on the administration s
foreign policy by declaring that
President Roosevelt has repudiated
his promise to the American people
to keep this country out of war.
president Roosevelt" Mr.. Tink-
ham said, has faced a most serious
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Mrs. Mary Miller, Officer
OF Unitarian Home, Dead

Mrs. Mary w. Miller, chairman of
the Admissions Committee and
member of the board at the Uni
tartan Home, 1902 Park road NV,
died yesterday at her residence,
1885 Eighteenth street NV.
Mrs. Miller came to Washington
AZ years ago with her husband. Caleb
Stabler Miller, who was employed
by the Civil Service Commission un-
til his death three years ago.
She was an active member OF the
All Souls Unitarian Church at Six
teenth and Harvard streets NV,
serving term as president of the
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Woman's Alliance and as member Of,

Woman's Alliance and as member Of
the Board of Trustees. She joined
the Twentieth Century Club soon
after its organization and also WaA
pioneer of the Home Interest Club,
Mrs. Miller is survived by a daugh-
ter, Miss Helen Miller. and sister.
Mrs. Clara Wilson. Funeral serv-
ices will be held at the home at
S pm. tomorrow, followed by pri-
yatP burial.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Man and Girl Sail Rubber Boot
Six Miles to Water Gate

with Miss Bidvell, a resident OF
Scarsdale N. Y. who works with
the Office of Production Manage
ment.
Mr.. Root said he was proud that
he had to pump his boat only once
during the Journey.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

GAIN OF 1880: More than five times many in
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Evening star., 1941-07-14

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Evening star., 1941-02-16
Capt. Dengler Back
From Wedding of
Miss Helen Deneler

Capt. Harry Morgan Dengler and
his daughter, Miss Kathryn Jean
Dengler, have returned from Cali
fornia where they went for the
wedding of Capt. Dengler's other
daughter, Miss Helen Marjorie Den
gler, and Mr.. Russell Henry Davis,
son of Mrs David Davis of San
Fancisco. The wedding took place
in st. Johns Presbyterian Church
December 10, Capt. Dengler giving
his daughter in marriage, and Miss
Kathryn Dengler being maid OF
honor for her sister. The brides
other attendents were Miss Dorothy
Davis, sister of the bridegroom, and
Miss Marjorie Minnis, Miss Ruth
Oehler O'Connor sang, accompanied
by Mr.. Robert Burness, who played
the wedding marches. The Rev
Lloyd Carrick offlciated.
A reception was held in the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry A, Minnis and
later Mr.. Davis and his bride LETT
for their wedding trip and now are
at home in San Francisco. Mrs.
Davis was graduated from George
Washington University. She is a
member of Delta zeta Sorority. She
is descended from prominent fami-
lies of Pennsylvania, where they
settled more than 200 years ago, one
ancestor, Thomas Morgan, found
ing Morgantown, in Berks County,
Pa.
Mrs. Dengler, mother of the bride,
was unable to attend the wedding
owing to illness in the family.
Evening star., 1941-02-16

in various Washington organiza-
tions-the Friday Morning Music
Club, the Twentieth Century Club,
of which Mrs. Laurence Martin is
president and Mrs. John Van
Schaick, chairman; the Women's
City Club, Mrs Martha A. Swift
chairman; the Music Teachers As
sociation, Mrs Gene Crist chair
man, the the Arts Club, Mrs. Felian
GarZia chairman.
The Education Committee. which
necessarily must depend upon small
contributions to reach its quota,
is headed by Mrs. Cloyd Heck Mar
vim, and is divided into four sub
committees. Catholic and parochial
schools are being solicited by a
committee head by Miss Eleanor
Connolly and Miss Mary L. Nc
Quade; colleges and universities,
Mrs. Strong; private schools, Mrs.
John T. ORourke; public schools,
Mrs. Miriam B. Hilton.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Miss Richardson
To Be Married

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy S. Richard
son announce the engagement Of
their daughter, Miss Nancy Lee
Richardson, to Ensign Kenneth
L. Jeffery, jr., U. s. N. R., son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeffery of White
Plains, N. Y.
Miss Richardson is a graduate
of Mount Vernon Junior College
and was presented at the Cotton
Ball in Chattanooga, Tenn. She
is an active member of the Vol
unteer Motor Corps of the Amer
ican Red Cross.
Ensign Jeffery was graduated
from the Wharton School of
Commerce and Finance of the
University of Pennsylvania. He
formerly was associated with his
father in the real estate business
in New York City and now is On
active duty in Washington.
The wedding will take place
next month.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Strongs Delay Trip
To South to Aid
Symphony Drive

The president of the National
Symphony Orchestra's Board of
Directors, Mr.. L. Corrin Strong,
and Mrs. Strong, who is chairman
of the committee soliciting main
tenance funds from the schools
and colleges, have postponed their
trip South. They are too busy
working on the symphony campaign
for funds. which will close Thurs
day, and which is under the direc-
ton of Mr. Walter Bruce Howe,
campaign chairman. The goal of
SLOT, 800 is still far away, and the
workers are attempting to reach
the thousands of small contributors
who have not yet given aid to the
symphony.
One committee that is making
particularly active efforts in this
direction is the Navy-Marine Corps
Committee, which under the CO.
Craftsmanship of Mrs. Emory Scott
Land and Mrs. Alfred johnson is
doing its utmost to encourage the
small contributors. Assisting Mrs.
Land and Mrs. johnson is an active
committee composed of Mrs. J. B.
w. Waller, secretary; Mrs Hamil-
ton Bryan, secretary; Mrs. Chester
Nimitz, vice chairman; Mrs. S. M.
Robinson, vice chairman: Mrs.
Harold Stark, vice chairman: Mrs.
Oscar Badgre, Mrs. Charles Baker,
Mrs. Wilder Baker. Mrs. David
Barry Mrs. Arthur Carpender. Mrs
Edward Cochrane, Mrs. Robert Dun
lap. Mrs. William Galbraith, Mrs.
James GaWne, Mrs. Thomas Hol-
comb, Mrs Ralston Holmes, Mrs
Stanford Hooper, Mrs. Royal Inger-
soil, Mrs. Jules James, Mrs. Alan
Kirk, Mrs. Leslie Kiskern, Mrs. Fair
fax Leary, Mrs. Atherton Macon
dray, Mrs Ridley Mclean, Mrs.
Randolph Miner, Mrs. Albert Nj
black, Mrs. Leigh Noyes, Mrs.
George Pettengill, Mrs. David Sell
lerS, Mrs. Luther Sheldon, Mrs.
Frank Slingluff, Mrs. Ray Spear
Mrs. John Shafroth, Mrs. Edward
Sturdevant, Mrs. John Thomason,
Mrs William Thomlinson. Mrs.
John Towers, Mrs. Henry Williams
Honorary chairmen are Mrs. Frank
Knox, Mrs. James Forrestal, Mrs,
Lewis Compton.
Another group which is concen-
trating on the smaller contribu-
tor during the final week of the
drive is the associations committee
which functions under the joint
leadership of Mrs. Eugene Byrnes
and Mrs. Reeve Lewis. To cover
more efficiently its wide territory
this committee has subcommittee
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Miss Reese to Wed
Mr.. p. H. Grafton

Maj. and Mrs. James r. LuSby
announce the engagement Of
their niece, Miss Marguerite
Reese. to Mr.. Patrick Henry Graf
ton of Schenectady, N. Y, son of
Col. and Mrs. D. B. Grafton of the
Preside at San Francisco.
Miss Reese attended GunSton
Hall and Mr.. Grafton was gradu-
ated from the Georgetown School
Of Foreign Service and is men,
ber of Phi Delta Epsilon Fra
ternity
The wedding will take place in
March.
Evening star., 1941-02-16

rived Wednesday from Boyerstown.
Pa, to spend several days with Capt.
and Mrs Lewis Hudson.
1t. and Mrs R. L. Houser left to-
day to visit Mrs. Houses parents,
1t. T. H. Murphy U. S. NJ, retired.
and Mrs. Murphy, at Great Lakes,
and 1t. Houser's parents, DR.. and
Mrs. Gilbert L. Houser, at Iowa City,
Iowa.
Evening star., 1941-02-16
Miss Hiett to Wed
Ensign Cooke

Mr.. Henry L. Hiett Of East
Falls Church, Va, announces
the engagement Of his daughter,
Miss Barbara Baker Hiett, TO
Ensign Lemuel Doty Cooke, U.
S. N.
The wedding will take place in
the early summer. Ensign Cooke
was graduated from fernando,
Miss. in the class of 1899.