Show r K --H- i MondayIorning- - WJ&it £ak Crisis ptae X Series of War Scares Hits -- Union Support CPI-Eur- rope was less severe liquidation last March When Germany absorbed Austria (nd in Jtfie Au-- g tjnjhe the ed he T an nd in 11 f an in se rt )to Ini nd ns sn- lor til ru- ral Holland Currency Attracting much attention in er ing to So- - announcement Various explanations have been advanced to account for the outstanding weakness of the Netherlands currency Some suspect it may have been due to a transfer of capital out of Amsterdam to New York in fear the nazl drive eventually might touch the rich Dutch trading Interests At the same time brokers recognized that Amsterdam iri recent years has become increasingly important as a market for American securities and that much “refuges’’ capital fleeing European storm centers had sought haven In Holland tch ted tnd 6 ary & on - ted Ing er Ja in- - Cautious Move era ght yo m lch es Ma to uld ice rh re- - ned gu- old clal slso nd- - ral precaution It was suggested may have prompted a further trek of this “flight" capital to New York away from scenes of threatening conflict abroad Some brokers here noted their business last week showed a decisive excess Of selling from Europe A side product was an acceleration of the gold flow to the United States augmented by shipments from Holland’s holdings Whether the latest "war scare" and widespread belief England and France might be preparing for a showdown in event Germany and Italy put forth stubborn claims for territory would have Important reA sense of ne- - Sa- con- nection with events abroad has been the fall of Holland’s guilder in the The market foreign exchange guilder has dropped about a cent in terms of the dollar since the Schacht rn ln- labor movement’” despite factional The differences within the union CIO openly has supported tha QUANTICO Va—With pointer in hand General J T Buttrick center marine school commandant shows two of house naval group Representative Melvin J Maas Minnesota" left and Representative L W Schuetz Illinois right a relief map of the island of Guam It is proposed to make the island the site of extensive fortifications in the Pacific defense program It would be the closest naval base to Japan tnove At the week end traders were Waiting Hitler’s scheduled address Monday for a hint on what would be next kin V percussions on American business was a question pondered by observ- ers Growth Noted Congress Turns Critical Eye In Hospital On New Deal Foreign Policy Service Plan Plane Sales to France Arming of U S Will Features Debates During Week Total Subscribers Wear Mark Of Three Million WASHINGTON Jail turn a critical eye this week on the foreign policies which underlie the administration’s national defense program will? Congressional committees a delve further into CHICAGO Jan 29 an airplane sales to approval of congress to declarecounon products from a million and a half new subscribers countries examine the pres- ambargo foreign try that violates a treaty with us enrolled in the 83 nonprofit hos- ident's request for an Immediate pital service plans during 1938 Dr $50000000 appropriation to bulTd Only Japan Now C Rufus Rorem of the American more warplanes and speed defense This would Involve only Japan legislation generally time— and accumulating Hospital association said Sunday Meanwhile minor differences be- at this Total subscribers neared the tween the house and senate over stacks of congressional mail appear 3000000 mark on January 1 1939 the $725000000 relief bill approved to indicate that it would not be he said compared with almost last week at that figure despite a wholly unpopular move 1400000 the first of 1938 strenuous administration efforts to The plan was started in 16 addi- raise the total to $875000000 are Relations with Japan will be in tional places durlhg the past year’ to be ironed out A committee of the foreground when the house They were Atlanta Los Angeles senators and representatives prob- naval committee hears Charles EdiDecatur and Alton 111 Newark ably will be appointed to adjust son assistant secretary of the navy Canton Toledo and Youngstown these differences Ohio Harrisburg Pittsburgh and Tuesday oh administration plans for Guam tiny Island in the Pacific Philadelphia Pa Denver Louis- Call Air Expert ville and Covington Ky Danbury The senate military affairs com- only 1500 miles from Tokyo state-wide In Conn and a plan mittee has called G Grant Mason Edison is expected to reiterate Mississippi civil aeronautics chief as a witwhat administration spokesmen alness Monday Largest Gain Some committee members said the ready have told the committee— that The largest growth during the question of what is to be done a requested $5000000 appropriation year was in New York City he about foreign commercial markets is to be spent there only to dredge said where the plan doubled its looms as as the issue raised the harbor build plane landing enrollment to reach 1100000 em- last week large to the co- ramps and install a power plant and by objections ployed subscribers and dependents operation President Roosevelt said storage space Others having more than 100000 this government was giving to Borah Against It total enrollments were Minnesota a French mission which came here Cleveland 245000 (state-widThe Japanese have been worried warto the latest of type purchase 154000 Boston 118000: New Jerabout the possibility that this planes (state-wid112000 Rochester sey These senators said they hoped strategic point may be fortified N Y 109000 to obtain from Mason technical in- Senator Borah (R) Idaho among formation on the rapidity with others has warned against it callOver SOtfiOO which “commercial duplicates” of ing it a provocative step Among cities with more than planes could be turned into Along with its indicated determiarmy members were Chicago 85000 ships by foreign purchasers nation to look into all angles of fighting Syracuse N Y 67000 St Louis too they said there is the the defense program congress has Then 51000 Buffalo 50000 Washington whether production of the given some evidence also that it question D C 50000 administration pro- 3000 warplanes for the will examine projected The nonprofit plans approved by not occupy all the time posala for reorganization of governmay army the American Hospital association of major plane producer thus cut- ment departments very closely are a form of nongovernmental The house rules committee may them off from foreign comsocial insurance by which the hos ting mercial markets bring the reorganization question subto services pitals guarantee to the forefront this week by rePuts Question scribers establishing the special committee “The question Is” said one com- which drafted the unsuccessful legmittee member who preferred to islation last session 73 remain anonymous "are we going Pensions a big issue as yet unto keep our manufacturers so busy touched by this congress also may that German and Italian builders edge into the limelight The ways will be able to break into the South and means committee is to begin American market even more than hearings on administration-sponsore- d 29 UP)— MENTONE France Jan social security legislation Do we want German have? they 73 Irish poet William Butler Yeats Hearings also are to begin on railand playwright and winner of the planes and German pilots flying in road legislation Nobel prize for literature in 1923 South America or our own?” Committee discussion of projected died Saturday in the little French sales to the French of planes as town of Roque-brunHis death which followed a short good as any flown currently by AFL Organizes Cotton Illness occurred at a boarding house the army appeared to indicate mawhere he had been staying with his jority approval some members said Textile Unit in South On the other hand several senawife ATLANTA Jan 29 Iff)— American He will be buried Monday at tors notably Clark (D) Mlssoui Reynolds (D) North Carolina and Federation of Labor leaders of Roquebrune organIt was expected however that Nye (R) Indiana have raised six southern states completed objections asserting ization her Sunday of a Southern eventually the poet would he re- strenuous that plane sales to France would Cotton Textile federation moved to hla native Ireland George L Googe southern repreYeats arrived in Roquebrune early smack of a military alliance last month in ill health He suffered This whole controversy one sen- sentative of the AFL described in a repeated heart attacks and was able ator said has slowed down the ad- the move as the first step to take only short walks in the ministration’s quiet program to ob- proposed program of com gardens of the house where he tain congressional approval of pietely organizing southern textile changes in the neutrality law to workers under the banner of the stayed He had been confined to his bed give the president power with —the AFL— —— since Tuesday j 29 (AP) — Congress will (51-N- early e) Improvement Slow New year business Improvement has not been as pronounced as many optimists expected at the close of the old year before the European clouds began to thicken again The Associated Press weekly index of Industrial activity continued Its slow fall declining to 903 compared With 911 the week before But some have laid this to a "natural” after the sharp recovery gains last summer and autumn However Wall- Streeters recall the September crisis was aclet-do- - companied by an appreciable slowing of the recovery pace with a marked gain in forward momentum after the Munich pact brought a hurst of jubilation on tn assumption it assured peace indefinitely Similarly there was basis in that experience for hope of a more vigorous resumption of the recovery toward spring if the present threat of an imminent showdown in Eu rope blows over without large-scal- e war analysts reasoned e) 50-0- Irish Poet Dies in France ' Humboldt Star Publisher Dies on Coast Rollin C Stitser Served as NEA Director SAN FRANCISCO tUfllWEUNF i LOS ANGELES Jan 29 (UP)-- The executive board of the United Automobile and Aircraft Workers of Sails U S California Sunday night repudiated the national leadership of Horqer RIO DE JANEIRO Jan 29 UP) Martin and recognized as national Foreign Minister OBwaldo Aranha president R J Thomas sailed for Washington Sunday to discuss mutual interests of the United States and Brazil at the in vitatlon of President Roosevelt Accompanied by four aids he left aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam scheduled to reach New York Feb ruary 9 SANDERSON Tex Jan 29 (51-T- hree 11 men who flew from Sanderson late Saturday afternoon to watch fog clouds roll in from the east were found dead at their wrecked plane 8 miles from the interlocutor Mrs Marie K Brown Dryden airport Sunday ballroom to see end hear Grandma national Grandma president ahag strut a la Mae West do the They were Ed Hampton soldier “Has yo heard ’bout that preach- mechanic at the Dryden airport cake walk sing mammy songs er who wants to throw all the Dan Farley railroad pumper here crack jokes and play the accorlikker In de river?” dion and Johnny Dorr Sanderson blackDown to the show’s “oldest smith It was Grandma’s show and It Mrs 85 of greetThe bodies were found by Buster baby” began with a telegram Margaret Storey ings from the “first grandmother grandmother of H and great- Babbs ranchman a few miles from of the land” Mrs Franklin D grandmother of 8 the cast leaned his home forward and sang: “We’ll Gather Roosevelt read by Mrs John WesThe bodies of Hampton and Far'Round de River” ley Gray the Chicago club presiley were burned almost beyond Anothre of the older grandmas recognition while that of Dorr was dent Mm Emma Van Alstyne banfound 120 feet from the charred Snappy was the start as one “end of the eight black-face- d ning 82 read one of her original wreckage The plane apparently had men” (dressed In borrowed hotel poems such as She does on weekly struck the ground at an angle with to th the throttle open radio broadcasts as “Aunt Em” bellhop suits) At 1ST TOUR NEAREST J Trie Film Comeback— Betty Bronson who won fame as the star of the film “Peter Pan” 14 years ago is in Hollywood to try a comeback “Motion picture producers have short memories" she said “and I don't suppose I’ll be offered anything right away” Firm Ships Planes To England SAN PEDRO Cal Jan 29 51 Fourteen airplanes built in this area for the British air ministry were shipped Sunday by the motorliner Lochavon for Liverpool "It was the largest single consignment to leave this port The ships are part of orders for 200 bombers from the Lockheed Aircraft corpora tion AIL y ’ zJy' 4 'v i K ’Vo- IrwrA - See The FREE i - Photo Arts Show Today for — Centre Theatre Lobby ' 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Amateur Photography 1 striking prize winning snapshots have been selected from thousands submitted in the 1938 News-- " National Snapshot awards contest Plan now These Noted N Y Lawyer Dies gel” It NEW YORK Jan Jeremiah Millard whose eloquent plea for acquittal In the Snyder-Gray murder trial in 1927 was made in vain died Sunday of pneumonia (51-Wi- lliam was a black-fac- e minstrel show put on by the Chicago chapter of the recently organized national Grandmothers’ club The gay and spirited oldsters from 33 to 85 years young packed ’em in At the Morrison hotel's wise-crack- J j themselves in this matter”' The federation chief said the council also would devote considerable time to mapping strategy for pushing through the senate and house a series of Wagner act amendments introduced for the A F L last week by Senator Walsh (D) Massachusetts Brazil Minister Plane Crash Kills Three Texans j turing In discussing his report on C I O and “the likelihood of new peace conferences the federation leader said he thought the C I O was now “more receptive" to peace and unity Actions Taken Green said hli report also would make some mention “of the actions taken by some people who have endeavored to bring about peace conferences” The only person he Identified in this group was Secretary of Labor Perkins who talked Informally with both Green and Lewis late last year at a time when the administration was reported anxious to heal the rift In the labor movement before the 1940 campaign got under way Green denied reports that members of congress and others high in new deal councils had been pressing the federation to terminate tha war with ? I O — “No one In congress or In the administration except Secretary Perkins” he said “has4 interested Talegram and the Centre Theatre 29 66 tnd lhipenttn Opticians Salt take City South Mala Prove Price OtSca Lotao Idaho tall! Savage Breasts Soothed— Music to fit th psychological needs of the worker— even a lusty swearing stevedore — entertains pier employes of the Isbrandtsen-Molle- r company out in Brooklyn The company noted for its individuality— it refuses to give any of It executives a title— said a musical reproducing” system had been installed on the docks to give longshoremen that “needed lift” CHICAGO Jan 29 (51—A cast of 35 singing dancing and “cut- ups”— all grandmothers or greatgrandmothers— gave their first performance Sunday of "Grandma’s Scandals of 1939” to demonstrate that "Grandma is soms ment lit MIAMI Fla Jan 29 51— President William Green of the American Federation of Labor will tell his executive council next week the prospects of labor unity are more encouraging but that the mechanics of uniting A F L and C I O have become mope difficult On his arrival here Sunday for Can't Even Trust Truck — Tire the opening of the council’ winter prints and not fingerprints meeting Monday Green briefly disbrought a prisoner into custody on 'a charge of stealing cattle at cussed the report he will suhmit on Williamsport Pa State polrce said the C I O split He said It would the prints were made by the man's cover all developments In labor’s truck civil war since A F L’s Houston conWhat No Spats?— Canine sar- vention torial note from Park avenue— Peace Negotiation a brace of 'dachehuriUasmartly Green would not disclose whether overcoated with handkWehlef he would make any recommendaflourishing from patch pockets tions to the council and In response Cinched His Case—Dr Bytorr"' Lee Shlflet of Topeka Kan tired to questions said he had received of repeating and spelling his last no “definite direct- - overtures for name for people who never quite resuming the futile peace negotiagot it the firsttlme came to court tion of 1937 to have it changed He stepped to "The state of mind on th other the witness chair and his attorney asked his name “Byron Lee Shif-let- " side and the psychological condihe answered “I didn’t get tions are better for peace” he said that last name” interrupted the 'But the mechanics of ths situacourt reporter “How do you spell tion are growing more difficult" It please?” The court approved He explained he had in mind the the change— to Stewart problem of blending uniting- - and reaffiliating both old and new C I Make Monkeys of Selves—The O unions functioning In the Same chimpanzees moved into a new field and industries with similar house at the Philadelphia zoo and types of A F L unions immediately began acting like AFL and CIO unions are strong monkeys They’ve been living all rivals In several important Indus- in winter temporary quarters in trial fields such as maritime and the bird house electrical and machine manufac- “Perfect” Stork Helper-Patrol- man Maurice stiller of Philadelphia summoned by a frantic father delivered a baby girl to' Mrs James Beaty before a physician could reach the home Dr Charles Stakpole said it was a “perfect" job LAKELAND Fla Jan 29 UP)— Department of agriculture officials reported Sunday shippers handling approximately 11000000 boxes of Florida citrus fruits had signed a proposed federal marketing agree- (MINTING v For Meeting paper to attand this frea photo arts the coming week as g&ests Sign Citrus Pact LOWEST' PRICES ' Chicago Grandmothers Put on Peppy Show FPAI11E FEPAIPJ (AT anti-Mart- in forces Martin said he had been fighting for “strict observance of union contracts” and added that U A W members had engaged In “more than thousand unauthorized strikes since the settlement with General Motors" in the spring of 1937 Martin Airs Views “Some of the suspended officers have ordered men to close plants down" insolation of contract with the statement that we’ve got them on the run’” Martin said and emphasized that his fight with other “is officers and board members not a matter of personalities” but recognition that “no union yet that is not responsible has survived" Martin charged there had been “racketeering” in manipulation of various U A W locals’ funds and that his efforts to straighten out these affairs incurred enmity for Jan 29 (UP)-Ro- lln Charles Stitser 39 publisher him Thomas said the Issue is “C I O of the Humboldt Star of Winn against company unionism” He mucca Nev and a director of the said he too believed In responsibiliNational Editorial association died ty regarding union contracts and cited ona Instance in which he had Sunday in Stanford hospital here advised a representative of U A W after an illness of several weeks Chrysler locals In Newcastle and Born In Minnesota he came west Evansville Ind against an unas a youth and attended the Univer- authorized strike because “public sity of California from which he opinion would be against it" was graduated in 1920 “Martin came in and said he The next year he went to Winne-mucc- a agreed that it would not be advisas an accountant Two years able because of public: opinion but later he married Avery Davenport added 'but off the record It’s O K‘ " and the same year purchased the Humboldt Star which he was pub- Red' Charges Thomas also charged Martin was lishing at the time of his death Prominent in newspaper and po- an intimate of Jay Lovestone "the litical circles he was elected a direc- head of the C P O (communist partor of the National Editorial asso- ty opposition) who left the regular ciation in 1932 and was reelected In communist party because he was ' successive years too radical” and stated he had atHe was a past president of the tended one meeting between MarWinnemucca Lions club and the tin and Lovestone in a Washington chamber of commerce a director of hotel the Nevada Press association and Krzycki told the group “the time the Nevada Rodeo association and Is not far off when labor will have a member of the American Legion to set aside these questions over We’ll have the San Francisco Press club and which we quarrel the American Press association to take a stand and fight together Surviving are his widow a son for those things for which we have and daughter Phyllis and Robert D paid so dearly" He denied the Stitser of Winnemucca his father CIO had "imposed" on the U A W F C Stitser a banker of Orange About 2000 persons attended Cove Cal and a sister Fern JenA meeting of the large Dodge losen Davis Cal cal expected to produce factional It was announced the body would violence passed off quietly except be cremated here after private fu- for a false fire alarm which was neral services and the ashes taken turned in for the meeting hall to Winnemucca Martin Rally Martin forces meanwhile held a Senator Murray Flays rally of various “loyal" local officials Martin supporters said all the locals in the country had been Cut in WPA Fund invited to send delegates to the WASHINGTON Jan 29 UP)—Sen- meeting but the attendance was not ator Murray (D) Montana assert- immediately available Resolutions ed Sunday night the senate “threw supporting Martin were introduced a cold chill on the business and In- Those attending the meeting wore dustrial situation” when it passed a lapel buttons bearing Martin’s picture Martin addressed the group WPA appropriations bill lacking Martin’s attorneys continued to by $150000000 the sum which Presi-denRoosevelt asked prepare an answer to an injunction “In my judgment” Murray said suit seeking to bar the Martin "the senate action will prove to be forces from control of the union's poor economy It is wasteful and is property and funds The answer is scheduled to bs filed Monday certainly Inefficient” ar PEEDY SERVICE d” - the Franco forces put Wall Street on the alert for the next important th ly "middle-of-the-roa- As Midwife Tires Jail Thief jt The selling that poured into Wall Street much of It reported coming froth London and Amstrdam as Barcelona fell before the insurgent advance in Spain gave wings to a downswing which got notable impetus a fortnight ago from the dismissal of Or Hjalmar Schacht as bead of Germany's reichsbank Money capitals seemed to think the removal of Schacht portended ether stirring events along the course of change mapped out the last few years and the victory of In Ir a But the offerings were large enough to cause the sharpest setback of the new year Wall Street labeled It another of those “war scares" Which have become regular occurrences for the money district since the totalitarian states began to reach out for markets and new sources of raw materials From Abroad ler ild e DETROIT Jan 29 150— Two rival "presidents” of the United Automobile Workers (C I O) union appeared on the same speaking platform ‘Sunday and matched accusations and claims in an effort to win rank and file support for their respective factions Homer Martin who as president of the union wee Impeached by an executive board that he had suspended repeated charges of “Irresponsibility” and “racketeering” J Thomas named by the whjle executive board as acting president reiterated the board’ allegation of “union wrecking” and "company unionism” against Martin Chrysler Union The two spoke before Chrysler local No 7 a unit which has adopted a policy in the union’ civil war- Thome is a former president of the Chrysler local but applause appeared to be about equally divided between the two men No vote was taken In addition to Martin and Thomas the group heard Leo Krzycki vice president of the Amalgamated Clothing Worker (C I O) in a plea for support of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and “a united Jan 29 tremor for the third time in the paat year distinctly shook Wall Street security markets last week Selling accompanying the insur gent sweep into Barcelona and in tenaified war preparation in Eu Munich pact k ‘ Leader Lands At IVIiami Patrolman Acts Viefor Share Prices NEW YORK Martin Thomas 5 Green Voices Hopes for Labor Unity - Gathered Here There Attend Myet - January 30 1939 ® RivalLeadcrs Bnefltems Of UAW of Guam Defenses Keeps Stock Mart ‘Jittery’ 1 -- show 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