Dunkirk Evening Observer (Newspaper) - November 10, 1937, Dunkirk, New York ISSUE 14 PAGES Vol 34 DUNKIRK EVENING OBSERVER ESTABLISHED LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE UNITED Press fair and Thursday DUNKIRK N Y- WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10 ife Prr I HAITI MASSACRE TOLL RISES JO UNION HELD EXEMPT IN MONOPOLY LAW Six Who Refused to Join are Denied tion Against Dismissal EMPLOYER COMPELLED TO DISCHARGE EMPLOYES Plaintiffs Contended Right to Work Was Inherent of Pass Buck to Legislature New York Nov Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May upheld the validity of closed shop agreements between employes today in ing applications of six employes tor injunctions to restrain trans- port companies from discharging them for their failure to join the Transport Workers of America The court in one of the first rulings on this aspect of the closed shop question held that New York labor unions are exempt from laws forbidding monopolies The ruling said that such contracts ire in consonance with the public policy of the state as expressed by its legislature Charles Williams Elias Bless Joseph Cohen Thomas Carney John Toner and Joseph O'Neill the employes were named as de- fendants in the New York Rapid Transit Co the Williamsburg Plant corporation the Brooklyn and Queens Transit cor- and the Brooklyn Bus corporation These are corporate units of the transit system In their the con- Hendaye Franco-Spanish tier Nov Nationalist Generalissimo Francisco Franco has determined to start his final offensive in eastern Spain fore the end of the month reports to the frontier said today Hoping the offensive would cause the collapse of Loyalist op- position by Christmas Franco dered his ground troops and aerial strength ft be ready for action this week end All on leave must re- port at their by Sunday at the latest and the Navarre and other brigades which been on furlough since the fall of turias province were told to re- port before Monday The returning troops will bring the Nationalists strength to more than men on the Aragor front Stock at the Opening New York Nov Favorable overnight indications from Washington brought a rush of buying in to the stock market today that brought opening gains ranging to 3 points Utilities particularly benefited through indications that the ad- ministration might permit sion programs Improvement spread to all tions General Electric which would benefit by any utility gram opened shares at up U S Steel opened shares at up and Bethlehem shares at up sler selling ed at up zy and General Motors a share exT dividend opened shares al Auburn gamed more than a point can citizens which should not be contingent -on membership in they were entitled to continue ployment their refusal join transport workers a Committee for Industrial affiliate They charged that the disputed agreement signed last Oct 11 lated their constitutional rights by the consummation of a contract which called for the closed shop The case aroused considerable interest and industrial circles and is believed to be the beginning of test litigation for higher court rulings on the legal status oi closed shop Justice May directed a tacit criticism against the state laws in his decision it may be he said that the petitioners will be in effect coerced into joining a union against their or face the alternative of sacrificing their employment the criticism for such a situation if any lies with the legislature and not with the courts Under the state's existing labor statutes and laws he said the closed shop agreement is valid The union whose president Michael Quill also was named a defendant had filed an affida- vit vith the court opposing the injunctions Union counsel claimed that ed shop agreements were tial to the unity and preservation of organized labor and criticized the plaintiffs because they ad- no reasons for their re- to join the union By BY PAUL MALLON World Copyright 1937 by King Features Syndicate Inc All rights reserved Reproduction in full or in part strictly prohibited Washington 10 Chiang shocked the diplomats here and he bit the hand of the Brussels peacemakers He said the meddlers were merely increasing his difficulties and he wanted to fight it out Now when a losing Chinese general chews a ex- tended paw he is either bluffing or has a purpose This time the fear Chiang is not Their private advices in- he has a plan in his Chinese sleeve As they see it from here it to be the old Chinese pillow same more M The Jaos have practically seized tia 5 of Chiang's northern provinces would like to settle down to peaceful occupation But Chian Pate Two FRANCO LAYS PLANS FOR LAST OFFENSIVE be- Crossed the Line Into Holland Nineteen Years Ago With Small Party Stock Market Central advancing ijj to 20 on an block of shares Oils gained fractionally Prices continued to advance after the opening and trading was active Bonds advanced under lead of railroad issues while cotton tures firmed Stock Market At Noon New York Nov Utilities led the stock market higher today and prices held well despite a sharp drop in shipments of finished steel by the U S Steel corporation Early buying of utilities was based on an offer by President Roosevelt that the administration would cooperate with them to stimulate a building program on condition they revise methods of determining valuation for rate purposes Utilities gained 1 to 3 points steels and motors met support U S Steel reached tip Bethlehem up Chrysler up and General Motors up 2 Allied Chemical gamed 6 and Du Pont nearly 6 Rails were up fractions to 2 points Electrical ments and coppers gained on the utility news Sales to noon totaled shares against 420.000 yesterday Prices At Noon Am Can Am Tel 29 Beth Steel 59 Cons Edison 27 Gene Gen Motors 1 40 Nickel Intl T T Mont Ward N Y Radio 8 16 Stan Oil N J Tex Corp Uni Corp Un Gas Imp 11 U S West Elec Prices at 2 P M These quotations are furnished through the courtesy of Abbott Si Paine Buffalo N Y Alco Common A T T Anaconda Chrysler Consolidated Oil Electric Motors Ludlum Nash Kdv Packard Studebaker U S Steel 151 BABE KITH HAD GOOD LUCK Boston Nov Ruth here today aboard the S S Yarmouth after a two- weeks hunting trip in Nova Immediately after ing the former home run king left for New York by automobile with a bear over one fenaer and a deer over another DOTH YEAR IN EXILE TODAY NOW DIVIDES EACH DAY INTO ABOUT 3 PARTS Still Continues His ting and Sawing Eats Sparingly Drinks Less and Is Reported In Good Health By H C United Press Staff Doom Holland Kaiser Wilhelm started his 20th year in exile today The entire household of Doom House did its utmost to avoid re- minding the exile that 19 years ago today he step- JUDGE FOUND DEAD OX Carthage N Y Nov 10 Harold F Porter 55 for 19 years Jefferson county dren's court judge was found on a country road near tural Bridge today Police said he was shot through the head A pistol was found near the body Porter's term would have ex- Jan 1 Clarence F ot Watertown was elected last week to succeed him Both were Republicans IN BRAZIL ARE DISSOLVED Pres Vargas Promulgates a New Constitution and Becomes Dictator Rio de Janeiro Nov Getulio Vargas and his cabinet assumed what jed to be dictatorial control of Brazil with the tion of a new constitution The dissolution of all elective governing bodies including the federal senate and chamber and all state legislative and municipal councils ivas announced from the presidential palace Promulgation of the new con- was announced by cisco Campos who was ed only yesterday to succeed Jose Carlos de Macedo Soares as ister of justice President Vargas is scheduled to make a radio ad- dress tonight He has ruled zil under a state of war almost continuously since the ist revolution of November 1935 was y Rumors were circulated in the commodity''markets in New York Jr was forced to take refuge decks The duel started when a cnese gunboat opened up against Chinese machine gun placements at where a surrounded Chinese battalion ivas making a last stand against complete domination of Shanghai by the Japanese from art imperia throne and fled a country ruined y four years of war awakened a handled his correspondence after breakfast Then he entered an and went to the estate of his friend Count tinck for his daily exercise of tree chopping He returned to Doom house for a frugal luncheon and spent the remainder of the day quietly in the company of his wife Princess Hermine and a few members of his household Nineteen years ago today Continued on Page Eleven Power Commission Wants Tariffs Based on inal Not Replacement Costs Washington Nov 10 The supreme court it was an- today will hear ments on the Pacific pas Electric Co case in which the government seeks reversal by the court of a rate-making precedent It had not been expected that the case would come before the court for several weeks Significance was attached to the case when President velt yesterday characterized ent supreme court rate-making interpretations as tional and called for a reversal of the court's position The dispute revolves about two opposite rate-fixing theories government ings in Rio de A censorship was to be in operation Observers interpreted the ba- sis of to be coffee and consecutive the last referring to a clause in the old constitution which prohibits the president Crom succeeding himself in con- terms Meanwhile hundreds of arrests of alleged Communists have been carried but under suspension of Opposition leaders including Governor Flores da of Rio Grande do Sul lave fled the country and re- ports have persisted that the two major presidential would withdraw The possibility of the formation of a state was also a subject of speculation as a result of the Rome protocol against Communism and the apparent in- of Italy and Japan to seek the adherence ol South American countries New York Nor Press in New York telephone connection with its bureau in Rio de Janeiro at p m today but under strict orders from the censor we can give you no further aon on the Herbert Clark United Press dent said Rochester N Y Nov Eastman Kodak com- pany today declared the largest quarterly dividend in its history The dividend totaled and exceeded by ail the dividends declared by the com- pany in 1936 The new dividend Is payable Mar 1 1938 An extra dividend of 50 cents a share on common stock in ad- dition to the regular quarterly di- of was declared The regular quarterly dividend of one and one-half per cent was ed on the preferred stock blotters Printing Co Dunkirk Japanese bombardment of the quarter Many Chinese soldiers ately cut themselves on the wire they had show wounds to International Settlement In Line of Fire Japanese shells shrieked over the International settlement and the French concession from north and west into the quarter which nestles between the French and the Washington Nov 10 Admiral Claude CJ an sea fighter today was commander-in-chief of the U S fleet the highest sea command in the navy appointment was one oi several high flag commands announced by tary of the Navy Claude A Swanson He succeeds Arthur J Hepburn who nas the fleet for 19 months Swanson said the in command would be effective in June as is customary because Hepburn has been at sea for three and one-half years and has in supreme command oi the U S fleet for a year and seven months This is a longer sea tour than customary for flag officers Bloch is 59 He was born Woodbury Ky and was ed to naval academy from that state in 1895 in he Spanish-American war and participated in the China relie expedition and the Philippine in- During the World war ie was in command of a troop transport Anaximander a Greek made e first man of the world SETTLEMENT Threw Themselves on Barbed Wire Barricades So As to Show Wounds SHELLS FLY OVER THE INTERNATIONAL AREA Ramsay Labor Premier and Opponent of War Dies Aboard Liner Statesman Who Suffered Ostracism as Radical and Then Enjoyed Greater Triumphs Is Heart Attack Victim Japanese Coming from the South Making Steady Jap Transports Anchor With Men By JOHN K Shanghai Nov 10 Machine gun bullets rained on he decks of Italian cruiser tonight as Chinese and Japanese gunners engaged in a duel the Bund the river A commander of the Italian warship mounted a loud er and demanded that the firing cease but the protest went un- and the crew of the cio aboard which he London Nov ers of all political parties friend and enemy paid tribute today to James MacDonald ain's first Labor prime minister white the liner Reinn del died last night made its way to Bermuda Men who had denounced him as a pacifist and as a traitor to Labor party joined in jig MacDonald as a man who had ought hard for 50 years for tnc hings he thought were right Prime Minister Neville Conservative Sir sald Sinclair Liberal and Major Clement Attlee Labor leaders of he three great parties were ex- to speak in the house of this afternoon in praise of him It was expected that and Shanghai Nov Chinese refugees fleeing troops threw themselves at the barbed wire barricades ol the French concession today seeking to escape a merciless concession river Japanese airplanes circled high over the United States cruiser Augusta as they set themselves for power bombing dives The Japanese were shelling where up to Chinese police troops and remain as rear guards from the railroad station quarter in north Shanghai and the park area in the western suburbs Thus shells passed over the area from two directions A Japanese army said imperturbably spokesman that the shelling and airplane bombing would continue as long as Chinese troops remained in the quarter and that the artillery would con- to be fired over the Inter- national area He explained that at long range the artillery could place its shells more accurately Eight Continued Page THE Syracuse N Y Nov is out on a limb again for having taken the ative in the Brussels conference in the opinion of Prof Raymond one-time New Deal brain truster Speaking at Syracuse ty last night Prof Moley asserted lhat even a president as great as our present one must operate through human beings These men advisers of velt are not sufficiently acute to withstand the blandishments O foreign nations he said ifor man Davis reminds me of an old song he goes forth to battle and ie always falis England France played fast and loose us again and they were so open this time that even our diplomats seem to have caught on Prof Moley emphasized the timent contained in the final words of President Roosevelt's ast two major speeches The speeches ended erica hates war America hopes or peace Therefore America engages in the search for peace the professor pointed out With such sentiments no able person can quarrel But it is not quibbling to point out that here are many ways to seek for PI UPWARD AS FULL REPORT IS FILED Latest Dispatches Give De tails of Mass Slaughter 85 Dominican Republic By IL L PERCY United Jerusalem Nov 10 Military courts were established oday to become operative No- ember 18 to deal summarily vith disturbers of order Minneapolis B Javis president of General Wills Inc today announced of E P Mitchell ulo N Y as vice president of Washburn Crosby Co eastern division of General Mills peace that neither speech ests What of peace at home between employers and peace within labor peace be- vreen sections and peace between government and body after its arrival at Bermuda Monday would be re- to Britain for burial at Scotland his place There in the little fishing village Moray Firth which he which him for years as a will lie beside the wife whom he had mourned deeply for 26 years She died in 1911 Died While on Cruise MacDonald seeking rest In a cruise to South America died last night while in London politico leaders were attending the al lord mayor's banquet It was at this ago las night that MacDonald collapsed in his chair while his successor in the prime ministry the Earl Baldwin of was speaking Heart disease was ed for his death The few scant details that came from the liner said that ald's end was peaceful It was not expected but it came as no great surprise For many months MacDonald nad been deeply depressed After turning over his prime ministry to Baldwin in 1935 MacDonald liad served as lord president of the council Last May when win retired MacDonald left lic life His death was of no political importance and it was as an der statesman that he was ed He continued in a sort of ow leadership of the National bor handful of light wing Labor men who support the coalition government and arc re- as bitter enemies by oor party men generally It was even predicted that this party would not long survive him and hat his own son Malcolm who s minister for the dominions in the cabinet might soon turn Con- Always Overworked MacDonald's eyesight had been bad for sonic years He had over- worked all his life He was con- himself that he was going after several operations because he work too not entirely successful At the time he left home week ago for his cruise was regarded by many of friends as broken-hearted That he was depressed was ob- vious But many of his friends he regarded his life a failure They saw him as ng the Joss of political influence lis repudiation by his former in the Labor party and iis fear that was headed lor the new war which he had worked to prevent His medical advisers had strongly ed the South American cruise in hope that new scenes would re- on Page Nine ARMISTICE DAY MARKETS By United Security and commodity and banks in the United and Canada will be closed tomorrow in of 13th anniversary of the signing of the armistice Livestock produce markets in both nations however will remain open Markets in England will remain open as usual but those in Singa pore will close French markets and banks will be closed Buffalo N troopers of the barracks ced today that two children who disappeared while enroute to Monday morning were bund this morning not far from heir home in Darien Center MEWS WHOLE POPULATION OF PRISON ASSASSINATED Hull Yorkshire borite city council instructed committees and city officials day to cease buying Japanese as a protest against the bombing of Chinese civilians am open towns and cities sources day that France was sending ou cruisers including powerful new Georges to Indb China supposedly as a measure against compli cations in the Far East city of on the heavily populated island o the same name on the south cen tral coast of China was bombard ed for five hours today by sb Japanese warships the Centra Chinese News agency reported Washington John L Lewh convened a special caucus of his committee for industrial organiza ion peace committee today to dis- cuss possible means of ending the deadlock in negotiations for a with the American tion of labor Reno Mary Kirk girlhood chum of the of Windsor has left Re- no by train and is on her way to New York to son former husband of the ess her friends sairt today Scranton subterranean fire consuming veins of anthracite beneath the North Scranton area was feared to be spreading today TO COLLEGE IN TRAILER Ruston La col- lege in a trailer is the road to education taken this year by mer Johnson and Earl Hilton both of Logansport They live in a trailer which they built parked on the model farm project near the Louisiana Polytechnic tute here in ly women and 13 children were curried or assisted to safety today when fire broke out in the pal Church home here Lehman said day he was perfectly convinced that very little will come out of the 1938 constitutional convention unless the public knows what is going of the family revealed today that Bruno Mussolini who is in Majorca as a for the Spanish insurgents has written to Rome complaining about the orders of his immediate superiors which are keeping him inactive Baltimore Backers of a posed tit to the Mediterranean in- equipment at the Glenn L Martin airplane said today their plans for the oceanic service arc progressing Ottawa Ont Government legal experts today prepared to the supreme court of da whether lieutenant governors the provinces hoid the sary authority to withhold royal assent from statutes passed by provincial legislatures New Bedford Mass students were injured one haps fatally when an experiment resulted in an explosion which wrecked the laboratory at the Bedford school today Washington Presiding Graham C5 for the 13 years a member of the of customs and patent unexpectedly today of heart attack was t New Castle Pa Feb 7 boi 1872 In the ocean five miles off the coast of Florida a fresh water spring has been found Rated As One of Major Crimes of History State Department Studies Records of Incident By LOUIS JAY HEATH United Staff Washington Nov officials studied day the first detailed reports a massacre in which thousands of Haitian nationals living in the Dominican Republic are alleged to have been slaughtered The reports written by an American neutral observer living on the Haitian side of the border which divides the tiny Caribbean sland between Haiti and the minican Republic were made available to the United States on condition that the author's name was not to be divulged They thP number killed by minican police as high as 5.000 The first report dated Oct 6 the events which led to the massacre It told of serious trouble at Dajabon of the death of quite a number tians at the hands of Dominica a police Eight days later tht writer re- called this report accused of trying to hush up ters and said he had been told that the number of murders runs into the hundreds Method On the same revised his reports on the number of dead and fixed it at thousands He said that on Oct 2 fifty Haitians had been killed and thrown sea at Monti ti A visitor told the dent at Monti Cristi was packed with others men women and children and that when the order came they were assassinated and that not one escaped He reported that he was able to get away just in that another car ing him had every occupant killed Continued on Page Two SEVERAL PLANIS OF Witnesses Say Bergoff Em- ployes Worked During Various Strikes New Haven Conn Nov 25 of 57 men sent Remington Rand Middletown plant during the strike of June 1936 had been em- ployed previously by Pearl off head of a New York leaking agency at the da and Syracuse N Y plants he company during labor dis- lutes it testified today in federal court The witness was Louis Cohen of Bergoff who fied for the government in if prosecution of James H Rand Jr and Bergoff as alleged of the Byrnes breakins act Cohen said he was in charge o he millwrights who arrived af he plant June 26 936 His evidence however die not disclose the occupations of thi nen during the Tonawanda anc Syracuse strikes which before passage of the Byrnes act He said that at Tonawanda the alias Hartley and off was known as Cohen said he had no reason for changing his name except thai Bergoff himself preferred an alias Another witness Michael sey said he knew about 40 or Of the millwrights and that some of them had been hired by on other occasions of labor rouble Casey when first called the late yesterday said e heard refer to the millwrights as tough boys and gorillas FOREST ATTRACTS Petrified Forcit Ariz total of 101.396 persons visited he Petrified Forest national in the last II months ordine to figures released by rlei J Smith superintendent The visitors arrived in 36.676
