Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - October 19, 1938, Reno, Nevada RECORDER BOX and Vicinity FAIR AND WARMER TONIGHT AND THURSDAY TEMPERATURE AT 2 P M TODAT M METALS London u g Bar fij To X t E St Louli E St Louis i1 V Y 1 Chinese SIXTY-SECOND YEAR SIXTEEN PAGES RENO NEVADA WEDNESDAY OCTOBER SIXTEEN PAGES NO 249 Republic Steel Told to Rehire 5000 Men Who Struck Last Year LABOR ADVOCATE i EVILS OF WORLD ARE BLAMED ON PLANT WAS Walkout in Little Steel of 18 Months Ago Blamed On Company Appeal to Circuit Court To Be Made Is Belief of Ohio WASHINGTON Oct 19 national labor ordered the Re- public Steel Corporation today to offer reinstatement to about five thousand employes who went on strike In six Ohio in May 1937 j NO INTERFERENCE The board ordered the company to interfering with thp formation of any labor organization ing membership in the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers or the Steel Workers Committee and in any way interfering with the rights of self of employes The board in a de- held that unfair labor by the corporation caused Its employes to Join the Little Steel walkout eighteen months ago If the corporation does not state all the striking employes it was ordered It pay remedial wages The thousands who went out on will not get back pay for the time elapsed since the strike board spokesmen explained The men may apply for reinstatement and Republic Is given five days of grace after such application to put them to work Be- ginning with the sixth day the ers would be entitled to pay for as many days the company refused to back The board did not order ment offers to eleven persons who were convicted of crimes or pleaded guilty to crimes in connection with the strike RECALL EARLIER ORDER The board said the corporation may deduct ordinary earnings of employes during the waiting period in com- puting remedial payments However the company was told to deduct any wages earned on federal state or local governmental work relief projects and pay It over to the agency ing the funds Last April 9 thp board issued a similar order providing for the re- instatement of five thousand strikers but order Involved in questions of legal procedure was withdrawn The decision to withdraw followed a supreme court decision ing procedure followed by the culture department In a Kansas City stockyards case In the light of this decision officials explained they de- cided it might be better to start the procedure over again The third circuit court of appeals refused to permit withdrawal and the board Appealed Its decision The supreme court held eventually that the order could be withdrawn I Following the April decision Tom Turn to 3 Col 1 PEACE ADVOCATE STARTLES CROWD IN CHICAGO PIT CHICAGO Oct 19 W Hockaday the peace advocate from Wichita Kan who specialties In throwing white feathers broke on to the trading floor of the Chicago board of trade today and 11.50 wheat or bust The board of trade was thrown Into an uproar when Hockaday broke past the en- trance guards and sprinted to the wheat pit at the far side of the large room Two guards followed the in- truder and required the help of a third to get Hockaday Into an adjoining conference room Hockaday who on several casions has Interrupted formal meetings to throw white ers and shout for peace became Involved with President secret service guards when the president was at Oklahoma City several months ago Hockaday attempted to break through police lines during a parade and shine the dent's shoes In temporary custody he ter explained that he wanted to shine the shoes of ten inent men collect a dollar for the labor use It to buy a bushel of wheat bake the wheat into bread and continue with a variation of his program for International pence Once Hockaday scattered white feathers at a national meeting of the American gion TO GEI COPY OF NEW YORK Oct 19 German agents opened a mall bag on the liner Europa to obtain a copy of a contract between the hem Steel Corporation and the torg Trading Corporation of New York the government's principal testified at the espionage trial of two men and a woman day PLANNED FORGERY Members of the same group he swore engaged his younger brother as a spy In Prague In anticipation of Germany's march on vakia The testimony was given of San Antonio Tex don his vestments for the mass which was specially arranged for Syrians and Palestinians of the city In his sermon to the youths op Shell said the world has tried one promising expedient after an- other only to be disillusioned We behold nations whose dis- tressed and harassed peoples no longer have any strong faith in the present order of things and no rene in the creation of a better order of things The ering skies of human life are ened by ever growing clouds of tional and International suspicion hatred WAR CONDEMNED We look with dismay upon the bloody Juggernaut of war rolling steadily forward in its triumphant course crushing into red pulp lions of human lives destroying in a single hour of mad fury what whole generations cannot rebuild or replace leaving in its wake ghastly famine hopeless misery and black despair We see every day the appalling sums which governments are Just before court adjoined for the I from sorely impoverished peo- Chicago Bishop Youth of New Orleans at Eucharistic Congress Dictatorships Are Lashed By Speakers at Several Meetings During Day NEW ORLEANS Oct 19 was blamed for the evils of the world by Bishop Bernard J Shell of Chicago in a sermon today at the eighth national Eucharistic congress SPECIAL MASS The said the bishop ad- dressing a special mass for youth In the city park stadium is largely Impotent Intellectually bankrupt economically and ly Catholic schools of the city high and elementary sent students Into the stadium where yesterday George Cardinal Mundelein also of go opened the congress with a emn high pontifical mass Arch- Edward D Howard of land Ore was the celebrant A mass strange in this city and strange even to many priests was said in Aramaic the language ken by Jesus Christ In a downtown church Visiting priests crowded the risty to watch the Rev Ellas Magem will have to reconcile the Professionals E x e And Outside Salesmen Are Defined Employers Have Four More Days To Complete Plans To Comply With Law WASHINGTON Oct 19 Elmer P Andrews ad- ministrator issued today definitions of professionals executives outside salesmen and persons engaged In a retail capacity all of whom will be exempt from the fair labor ards act which becomes effective on Monday HEARINGS PROMISED At the same time he announced that a person could apply for a re- vision of the definitions and sibly would be granted a hearing If the administrator believes that reasonable cause for amendment of the regulations is set An- drews said he will either schedule a hearing with due notice to the In- parties or will make other provision for affording them an op- to present their views In determining such future lations separate treatment for ferent industries and for different classes of employes may be given consideration Andrews issued no interpretation on how the definitions would be plied to specific industries His aides said that such interpretations would have to be made by employers and workers themselves Where there is divergence of views the courts ul day the thirty-two year old former U S army sergeant who deserted and be- came a spy made the disclosures after calmly telling Federal Judge John C Knox of a scheme to forge President Roosevelt's signature to faked White House stationery in to procure Information about States navy airplane WASHINGTON Oct 19 ator King said would ask the 1939 congress to place administration of relief funds in the hands of state boards He predicted that ft new in spirit In the senate would provide more support for his proposal than similar measures have had in the past The Utah senator declared he would oppose vigorously any further appropriations for the Works ress Administration Instead he said he would propose that federal funds be to the states on the basis of need after each nor certified his state's inability to carry Us own relief load TONASKET Wash Oct 19 Accidentally by his bride of three days while on a deer hunting trip James Jordan jr twenty-three of died today without re- gaining consciousness heartbroken the for- mer Dorothy McMurray said the two were a short distance apart and he ran Into the line of M she shot at a deer He was through Uu abdomen two United carriers Staring at Asst U S Atty Lester C and avoiding the gaze of the three ser former Mitchell Field soldier Johanna Hofmann hairdresser on the German liner Europa and Otto Herman Voss airplane factory said he was In- credulous when he heard of the opening of the mall bag The Information was relayed to him he said by Karl Schlueter messenger and pay off man for the sp in the presence of Miss Hofmann and that when he skeptical Miss Hofmann self showed him a photographic copy of the contract Speaking in a low dispirited voice as those he were tired of the whole fantastic espionage business rich said he expected to get a lot of money for the navy Information on the airplane carriers Rumrich was indicted with the other defendants and thirteen ers but pleaded guilty at the start of the trial This was his third day on the stand M Planted CANTON Oct 19 began planting high explosives In major factories today making ready to apply the scorched tile policy to Canton If the Japanese reach the city to provide new engines of war bigger more destructive battleships aeroplanes to rain death from the skies upon defenseless peoples less miles of menacing fortresses stored with every kind of dealing device the mind of man can Invent The bishop said it seemed clear to him this whole hideous brood was the natural and necessary offspring j differences The definitions PROFESSIONALS A professional is any ai Who is customarily and employed in work 1 Predominantly tual and varied In character as opposed to routine mental ual mechanical or physical work and 2 Requiring the consistent exercise of discretion of ment both as to the manner and time of performance as op- posed to work subject to active direction and supervision and 3 Of such character that the output produced or result accomplished can not be in relation to a given period of time and 4 Based upon educational training in a specially organized body of knowledge as from a general academic education and from an and from training in the performance of routine mental manual mechanical or physical processes in ance with a previously indicated or standardized formula plan or procedure and Who does no substantial amount of work of the same nature as that performed by employes of the employer EXECUTIVE AND The term employe employed in a bona fide executive and tive capacity in section 13 a 1 any employe of the stark blatant materialism tne act which has dominated our whose primary duty is the tion for the past one hundred agement of the establishment or a and more customarily recognized department Rain drenched the thousands that hereof in which he is employed heard the opening mass who customarily and regularly and because of the threatening con- dition of the weather last night the congress general assembly was moved indoors from the huge directs the work of other employes therein and who has the authority to hire and fire other employes or whose suggestions and tions as to the hiring and firing and Priests and laymen addressing the I to the advancement and mass meetings condemned religious tlon or other change of status and racial persecution and many of i employes will be given them in blunt language lashed at and wno customarily dictatorships which they s a i d and regularly exercises discretionary crushed freedom economic political and who does no substantial and religious amount of work of the same nature as that performed by employes of the employer and who Is compensated for his services at not less than exclusive of board Turn to page 5 Col 4 NEW YORK Oct 19 T Keller president of Chrysler Corp announced here today the company has Increased its production ules twenty per cent and since gust 1 has recalled employes We now have approximately men at work in our plants and expect employment will Increase right along Into he said Empty Mineral Water Bottles Used in Africa As Currency LONDON Oct 10 gers and crew of an Imperial ways flying boat started a new form of currency in central India when they discarded empty mineral OD Late i and deign promptly salvaged the floating tles and by the time the next Ing boat called at the lake they were trading with them The bottles ies in value according to size color HONK KONG Oct 19 nese columns gathered new tum today and appeared to have slashed their Chinese defenses to threaten Canton from both the northeast and the east Terrific air bombardments aided troops of the Invaders at the outset of the second week of the Japanese South China offensive which started October 12 It was stated authoritatively that one column had reached one one of four islands in the East river crossed by the loon railway about miles east at Canton GREEN ASSAILED OF California Labor Leaders Say AFL Chief Has Been Poorly Advised Campaign Reaches New High Pitch as Union Chiefs Become Involved LOS ANGELES Oct 19 IP A scorching demand by two high labor officials that William Green AFL Flaming Airplane Landed Safely by Pilot in Georgia With Unhurt STAGE DRIVE 10 president withdraw his ment of Frank F Merriam Republican governor fired state politics to a new high pitch today as Raymond L Haight gubernatorial candidate I Jerusalem's abandoned his own campaign CALL GREEN MISINFORMED C J Haggerty president of the California State Federation of Labor announced that lie and J W Buzzell secretary of the AFL Los Angeles central labor council had written Green declaring that he Nine Arabs Reported Dead In Conflict Today With Two Britons Wounded Grand Mufti Reveals His Demands to Insure Peace JERUSALEM Oct 19 Arabs were reported killed and a had been misinformed and to say British soldier and British the least poorly advised concerning man the election in this state A letter by Green they declared has been construed as a carte blanche endorsement of Gov Frank F Merriam who they continued is supported by the backers of in- proposition No 1 which is for the purpose of outlawing the trade union movement in the state They added that Culbert L Olson the Democratic candidate has lent his voice and prestige and the chinery of his organization on our side of the fight to prevent tion of the amendment OLSON ALSO HEARD Their letter declared also Practically every American Fed wounded today as the stream Guards sought to oust lious Arabs from the Moslem section of Jerusalem's old city SHOTS HEARD A steady fusillade of shots in the old city could be heard by newspaper correspondents on the roof of a hotel outside the walls While the crack guardsmen at- tempted to clean up resistance in Jerusalem other troops cordoned off half the coastal town of Acre and began a rigorous search in an effort to find members of the band which raided the city's postoffice day Several hundred persons were of Labor local in Questioned at Acre and a number nla has not forgotten that our j were detained to repair roads aged by saboteurs Troops patrolled the main roads between Haifa and Nazareth rias and Acre The Coldstream Guards marched into the old city shortly after a form of martial law was proclaimed throughout Palestine to aid British soldiers in their attempt to crush the uprising of an estimated 10.000 tribesmen In preparation for the clean-up drive platoons of troops had mounted scarred walls of the an- HUSBAND BORROWS CAR FOR BLOWOUT AND HE GETS IT NEW YORK Oct 19 Mrs Mary Cusick bought self a little seven year old sedan It wasn't much but she liked it So did her husband John In fact John got to liking It ra much he wouldn't let his wife drive It That irked Mrs Cusick She was even more irked last night when John told I'm taking the car to a big out You stay home So off he drove Mrs sick trailed him found the car parked outside a bar room dropped a match in the line ducked just in time she shouted at her husband when he arrived on the run is your Police arrested her on a charge of arson VIENNA 111 Oct 19 M Landon of Kansas told a southern Illinois audience here today the Roosevelt farm program proved a failure and led to the same end as all other administration attempts to help of more authority In Washington POWER CONCENTRATED Then Landon who was the Re- publican presidential nominee in 1936 A president who thinks there Is ent governor has twice called out the state militia during labor disputes under circumstances which really presented no logical or sane reason for having done so Green's letter was released in San Francisco Monday by J M Casey official of the AFL teamsters union It brought a reply yesterday in a telegram from Olson to Green that Your letter brands you as the chief labor faker in the United States Haight in a radio address last night said he had no chance to be elected governor next month be- cause he lacked campaign funds He not only refrained from endorsing either Merriam or Olson however but criticized both and offered his supporters a program which he said should form the basis of their vote for either of his opponents HAIGHT DROPS FIGHT Haight pointed out that his name will be on the ballot and that he is bound by oath not to formally j grand mufti of Jerusalem set dea for farm Landon con- draw His action he indicated forth meanwhile the minimum He brings out a new simply will be one of not making an j mands which he said must be -met model almost every year dent city while others guarded no constitutional limit to his power against any possible attacks in j ern sections of Jerusalem DEMANDS SET Jewish and Armenian quarters of the old city were understood to be under complete British control but from the Arab quarter rebel men kept up Intermittent sniping at- tacks i In exile home at is thinking in terms of the absolute ruler The former Kansas governor said the ever-changing farm policy may have started out with noble but each time it Is changed it concentrates more power in Washington Secretary of Agriculture Wallace Syria Effendi al is talking his new active campaign DUANESBURG N Y Oct 19 immediately all Jewish immigration into Palestine grant complete and a national government to the Arabs in Palestine and don the idea of a Jewish national home in the Holy Land as embodied in the Balfour declaration of No- Cherry Valley N Y j 2 1917 wives returning from a shopping j He also imposed as peace trip in Albany were injured fatally tions in the revolt which has claimed nearly 2000 casualties in the past before he would order his Arab I witn that the speaker coupled lowers to stop fighting the suggestion that the policies of The brains and guiding tne federal government should be of the Arab holy the mufti pointed toward one declared that before peace came to Ing at the north and south poles at the Holy Land England the same time PURCHASES REDUCED If the president's program of spending to save was don declared we should now be doing a booming business If a gram to absolutely control every farm from Washington is sound we should be enjoying something twelve weeks demands that the Brit- near here last night in a collision of two automobiles Mrs Daisy Heatherington died ish mandate over Palestine be ended day The others were killed further sale of land to Jews be stantly prohibited and that an Turn to page S Col 2 S J Sems said a tire blowout on the car operated by Mrs Florence M Pearson caused it to treaty similar to the Anglo-Egyptian treaty be concluded Under such a treaty England would set up an Arab strike the automobile of Harmon state in Palestine and Jews would Matties of Schenectady Mattice I have only rights and three companions were Injured Besides Mrs Heatherington and i Mrs Pearson the dead are Mrs hanna H Willsley Mrs Mary B Sherman and Mrs Martha enstock HYDE PARK N Y Oct 19 CHICAGO Oct 19 wave of cooler temperatures crept France Park today for a second talk President Roosevelt on the pean situation United States Ambassador Joseph P j declared tonight that cratic and dictatorial countries should bury their differences and seek to re-establish good relations in a world threatened with disaster from a mad armament race Speaking at the annual Trafalgar Day dinner of the Navy League Kennedy praised Prime Minister Chamberlain's all but of peace He said er that only history will show whether or not he made the right decision the light of that crisis it is hard to quarrel LIVES OF Aviator Dave Hissong Has His Hands Badly Burned By Fire in Cabin Engine Drops Out And One Wing Is Sheared Off u Craft Comes Down MONTGOMERY Ala Oct 19 new hero of the airways was acclaimed today as a mass of burned wreckage marked where Pi- lot Dave Hissong with ping about him brought eleven sengers and two crewmen safely to earth in his burning Eastern lines plane FIRE DESTROYS SHIP With one voice of gratitude passengers testified he saved us The fourteen passenger tored Houston to New York ship burst into flames near midnight a few miles from Montgomery and though his hands were seared the fuselage burned and one motor dropped out Hissong stuck to the controls and put the craft down la a dark and strange field A moment after passengers ed the names destroyed the ship No one aboard was hurt badly Among the passengers were J V Connolly general manager of Hearst newspapers New York and E D Rivers jr son of governor Eastern Airlines listed the others aboard as J H Sotham New York J H Bonck New Orleans Z New York J T Nix New D Drucker New York R B Kahle New York George art Atlanta Co-Pilot C R Russell Steward Frank Glbbs W O Foote Montgomery Eastern Airlines ager and F T New leans Eastern Airlines city traffic manager TELL DRAMATIC STORY Connolly said the heroism and fine work of the pilot were beyond description Young Rivers said If it hadn't been for that pi- lot I wouldn't be here Foote told a dramatic story of heroism and effective as a pilot We left Montgomery he said about three minutes before the right engine got rough and In another minute it broke Into flames We were at an elevation of about 1400 feet Captain Hissong cut the gas off from the motor The captain at- tempted to turn and had mads about a half turn toward the airport when the right motor apparently eaten loose by the flames fell out Hissong jerked his left wing up to flying position He headed for clearing He could hardly see with his landing lights He mushed the ship The right wing was sheared off by a tree Hissong he stated was a real hero STEWARD AIDS Steward Frank Glbbs walked through the aisle telling the sengers to see that their safety belts were tight All were in their seats properly strapped when the plane touched earth Then they rushed out Pilot Hissong and his co-pilot i the recent Euro- ward from the Middle West today far into the night with the end the unseasonable warmth lnt Washington last week the decision of any nation to the last week was an- build up its military forces in fact Thermometer readings were lower other visitor to the Roosevelt can commend such action through the upper Mississippi en route to Washington on the part of those sincerely lower Missouri valleys and ward into Oklahoma Frost was re- ported from the central and ern Rocky Mountain region and from the northern plates into ern Wisconsin Forecaster J R Lloyd said cooler weather would today in the Ohio valley and lower Great Lakes and along the Atlantic coast row Record warmth for so late in the year was reported at numerous from the north flitted to a policy of peace College Boys Lose Their Pet And Fear It Won't Come Back CEDAR PALLS la Oct 19 The boys at the Lambda Gamma and odds on its being returned are and odd son its being returned are tuc wnc HI numerous i ana oaa son as returned are la the East yesterday virtually prohibitive Irka the fraternity men Is that persons com- ing to contact with their pet a skunk will not investigate to learn the it It helped from the control ment Passengers and crew fled quickly beyond the heat of the ing ship Pilot Hissong said that a aged propeller probably caused of a motor in a way to start the fire He refused to take credit for any heroic act stating that he had merely done what any other pilot would have done under the circum- stances And I want it he said that without the aid of Pilot Russell and Steward Gibbs we could not landed safely Shortly after the landing the sengers were taken to Montgomery by automobile and several left for Atlanta by train Others planned to take off an another plane today Hissong thirty-four has been flying ten years with air lines about eight His aerial experience started in Denver where he was a member of the national guard Be was a Western Air Express pilot later and for the last four yean baa been with E A L The pilot formerly lived in field la For the last three yean he has made hU borne in Atlanta He is married has two David r
