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Alabama Steel Mills Reopen as Troops Are Called From Plants

Mediation Board Begins Hearings Tomorrow On Seamen's Dispute

By the Associated Press. Birmingham steel mills of the

Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. resumed production today after C. I. O. steel workers ended a short- lived strike, but labor controversies kept mediators busy in other sectors of the defense production front.

Settlement of the Birmingham strike followed soon after removal of 500 Alabama State Guardsmen from company plants. Grievances at the Ensley plant of the company, where the strike began Friday night, will be negotiated, with any wage adjustments retroactive to Septem- ber l.

The National Defense Mediation Board arranged to devote much of its attention during the next 10 days to three disputes involving 80,000 workers in the coal, shipping and aircraft industries.

“Blitz Buggies" Strike. A C. I. O. strike for wage increases

today halted work on frames for Army "blitz buggies" and automo- biles at Midland Steel Products Co. at Cleveland. It involved 1,400 Workers.

R. H. Wallace, plant manager, said he did not "know very much” about the strike, called by Local 486, C. I. O-United Auto Workers.

Paul E. Miley, union executive j board member, said the company re- i fused demands for wage adjustments to bring Cleveland rates on a par with those paid at the company’s Detroit plant.

In addition to frames for “blitz buggies” produced by Willys-Over- land at Toledo. Midland also is a source of supply for auto frames on Buick. Hudson and Studebaker cars and for Ford trucks.

One hundred and five employes I of the Greenport Basin & Construe- tion Co Inc.. Greenport, N.Y., mak- ning minesweepers for the Navy, j went out on strike today in a dispute over union recognition and re-

instatement of several workers re- cently dismissed.

The strikers were members of the !

Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America (C. I. O.). The company employs about 360. The Greenport Employes’ Association claims about 200 of them as members. The C. I. O. union is seeking recognition by the com-

pany. Officials of the Defense Mediation

Board said that of the 81 cases it has handled since its creation last March, workers are back on the Job in all but one. The sole exception 1

was the Lincoln mills at Huntsville, | Ala., where 1.800 workers were af- fected by what officials called a lockout.

Seamen’s Hearing Started. The board began hearings today ]

on a seamen’s strike for war bonuses on ships sailing into dangerous waters, but after a brief session re- cessed until Wednesday to await the arrival of Harry Lundeberg, secre-

tary of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific.

Tlie A. F. L. Seafarers Interna- tional Union struck to enforce its demands, but ordered the men back to work on September 25 at the board's request.

The case involves 20,000 A. F. L. maritime workers, directly or indi- rectly, and the walkout tied up a number of vessels loaded with defense materials for insular bases. Charles Wyzanski heads the board panel hearing the case. On the panel with him are George Mead, representing employers, and Robert Watt, A F. L. leader, representing labor.

Attending the hearing were repre- sentatives of the S. I. U. and its affiliate on the West Coast, the Sailors Union of the Pacific, and the American Merchant Marine Insti- tute, the Pacific American Shipown- ers Association and the Watermen Steamship Co.

The S. I. U. is asking bonuses of $60 a month for crews shipping to the West Indies, which it considers a war zone.

The Sailors Union has demanded an investigation of actions of the Maritime Commission in establish- ing its own hiring hall in New York and manning the picketed vessels. Several ships of the Alcoa Line have sailed with Maritime Commission crews.

The board has set Thursday for hearings on a threatened strike of about 22.000 employes of the Con- solidated Aircraft Corp., San Diego, in a dispute over wages. At one time scheduled for tomorrow, the strike was postponed at the board's rpniipet

Mine Dispute Pending. pending before the board is

the dispute between operators of captive mines, owned principally by steel companies, and the United Mine Workers, which called a strike to enforce its demands for a union shop. The miners have gone back to work pending mediation efforts, with board hearings scheduled for resumption October 7.

A mass meeting of hard coal miners was called at Coaldale, Pa„ for this afternoon to reconsider an agreement designed to end a strike of 22,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America who are protesting increased dues and as- sessments. The miners declined to ratify the agreement at a meeting yesterday.

A labor contract, said to be the- first negotiated between the West- ern Union and the American Com- munications Association <C. I. O.), was indorsed by 400 association members in Detroit yesterday, Wil- liam Burke, union international rep-- resentative, announced,

mv v/. r*. Hu mr ^riMaerea. At the same time, the American

Communications Association at New York notified President Roosevelt that employes of R. C. A. Communi- cations, Inc., were voting on whether to empower their Negotiating Com- mittee “to prepare for and institute any action up to and including strike” to enforce demands for a closed shop and wrage boosts.

Joseph P. Selly, president of the union, also advised the National Defense Mediation Board and the Department of Labor of the move.

Miners, smeltermen and mill workers of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. today rejected a pro- posed new contract which called for a wage increase of 75 cents per dan vacations with pay and in- auguration of the check-off system. A. P. L. unions said a referendum of the membership taken at Butte, Great Falls and Anaconda, Mont.,

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HOLMFIRTH, ENGLAND.—AN OLD ENGLISH CUSTOM? — Curiosity seemingly overcame what fear these English school children might have felt for this Bengal tiger, Fenella, as it was taken for a stroll by Miss Catherine Overend. Fenella is owned by Miss Overend’s father, a vaudeville performer. Bally good publicity, what? _A. P. Photo.

1941 Soldiers Called Best in U. S. History As War Games End

2 Armies in Louisiana Win Top Officers' Praise; Errors to Be Reviewed

By the Associated Press. WITH SECOND ARMY. Sept. 29.

—The 400,000 troops of the Second and Third Armies headed for their home stations today with praise from the Army's top-ranking active generals ringing in their ears and assurance that "deficiencies in material will be made good.”

Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, in a congratulatory message to the troops for “a grand job,” said. "The zeal and energy, the endurance and the spirit of the troops have been a model of excellence.”

Mistakes to Be Corrected. He added, “There is much more

to learn,” but promised that "the mistakes of the past two weeks will be corrected."

Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, maneuver director and chief of the Gen- eral Army Headquarters, expressed equal satisfaction in calling the war

games to a halt late yesterday. The principal material deficiencies

to which Gen. Marshall referred are weapons — principally anti-tank guns, radio sets for combat vehicles, tanks, trucks and ammunition.

Although Gen. Marshall did not detail the “mistakes of the past two weeks,” his views undoubtedly will be incorporated in the critique Gen. McNair has scheduled for tomorrow at Leesville. La. After the first week's problem he told officers the most glaring weakness was the state of small-unit training, the fault of officer leadership.

Present Army Best. Gen. McNair said, "We can never

be entirely satisfied with the per- formance of our troops, but the soldier of 1941 will give a bettar account of himself than the soldier of any other period in our history.”

Lt. Gens. Walter Krueger and Ben Lear, commanders of the 3d and 2d Armies, respectively, com- mended their men highly.

Today the soldiers rode to bivouacs, singing and cheering, and will go into concentration areas to spend a few days repairing trucks and clean- ing their clothes before departing for their home stations over the country. The 40th Coast Artillery from Fort Sheridan, 111., will lead the way tomorrow, passing through Memphis to cross the Mississippi River.

Troops to Get Furloughs; World Series Big Topic

LAKE CHARLES. La., Sept. 29 OP). —Louisiana began returning to nor- mality today after enjoying two weeks of simulated war in the Army's greatest field exercises, and the 400.000 troops on maneuvers turned from tactics to the scheduled strife between the Yankees and the Dodgers.

From Shreveport in the northwest corner of the State, where the last four-day battle between the Second and Third Armies ended yesterday, to Lake Charles in the southwest, the field soldiers took it compara- tively easy today.

Jn Field Six Weeks. They were under orders to stay

in tents in woods and fields until detailed march orders were issued returning them to home stations

showed: For approval, 3,905; against, 4,065.

A union spokesman Who declined to be quoted directly said new conferences probably would be called soon. The present contract expires Wednesday.

The Defense Mediation Board announced a settlement yesterday of a dispute between the C. I. O. United Auto Workers' Union and the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant at South Bend, Ind., makers of air- plane carburetors. The union had called a strike September 16 of 8.400 workers, which was postponed at the board's request.

At Akron, Ohio, members of the Goodyear local of the C. I. O.’s United Rubber Workers of America approved today a contract with the Goodyear* Tire «k Rubber Co., only major rubber manufacturer still without a signed union agreement.

In Jefferson City, Mo., yesterday R. J. Thomas, national president of the United Automobile Workers, said: "If Federal agencies continue their reactionary trend the auto workers will be forced to revert to their former policies of sit-down strikes and other methods of com-

bating reactionery employers.” Speaking at the annual conven-

tion of the Missouri State Industrial Union Council, Mr. Thomas shouted:

"We’re not going to be crucified by the National Labor Board.”

Delmond Garst of St. Louis, re- tiring president of the council, charged the N. L. R. B. “is becoming an employers’ board, and not a labor board.”

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across the Southern States from the Atlantic Coast to Texas. For six weeks the 400,000 men have been constantly In the field.

Furloughs were to be Issued many of the men. Special War Depart- ment regulations provide that as

many as 50 per cent of a command might be granted leave. Soldiers can get 15 days off after six months of service.

In the last battle problem, the 3d Army, commanded by Lt. Gen. Wal- ter Krueger, crashed through 2d; Army defenses at Shreveport, cul- \ minating a 36-hour, 160-mile drive by the 2d Armored and 2d Infantry Divisions.

Virtually all of the 400 combat planes of the supporting air tp.sk j force kept bombing opposing 2d j Army divisions to prevent an ef- fective counterattack.

After two weeks of strenuous day and night tasks, including every- thing but the danger and strain im- posed by shot and shell, the com- paratively easy routine and com- forts of camp life were enticing

1 prospects for the soldiers. How- ever, the 1st Armored Division of Fort Knox, Ky„ will remain here !

to maneuver pgainst the 3d Armored Division in training at Camp Polk. La.

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Axfell J. Byles Dies, Petroleum Institute Head By the A.«soci«tert Press.

ARDSLEY-ON-THE-HUDSON, N Y., Sept. 29.—Axtell Julius Byles. 60, president of the American Petrole- um Institute and former president of the Tide Water Oil Co. of New York, died at his home yesterday.'

I He had been ill several months. A native of Titusville, Pa., Mr. i

Byles also was former board chair- ; man of the Associated Oil Co. of

: San Francisco, a Tide Water affili-

I ate. He wras a graduate of Prince- ton University and after studying 1

j law for two years he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar.

He became general counsel to the Tide Water Co. in 1917, and held numerous high posts until he was elected to the board in 1919. Three years later he was vice president and in 1924 became president. In 1926 he was chosen president and director of Tide Water Associated Oil in New York and held the same

posts in the San Francisco affiliate. He resigned those posts in 1933 to

head the Petroleum Institute and had been re-elected yearly since.

P.-T. A. Arranges Party ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 29 (Spe-

cial).—A get-together party sponsored by the Rockville Parent- Teacher Association will be held tomorrow evening in the Richard

Montgomery High School here to enable patrons of the high and elementary schools to meet the new teachers.

Pension Law to Benefit 6.500 in Maryland By the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 29—Gov. O’Conor, calling attention to the State employes’ retirement and pension system which goes Into effect Wednesday, said yesterday that 6.500 State employes would benefit by its provisions.

The new system, created by an

administration-sponsored law by the last Legislature, covers both classi- fied and unclassified State employes and is the first general retirement

system for employes in the history of the State, Gov. O'Conor said.

“This improvement in the ef- ficient and economical functioning j of the State government has long been needed,’’ Gov. O'Conor said.

The Governor said a number of State employes who would have resigned during recent months to accept higher-paying positions have I elected to remain In the State service because of the new law.

Membership in the retirement svs- !

t?m is optional with all present! employes In service October 1, 1941. j After the plan goes Into effect all State employes must join the system i with the the exception of elected or appointed officials.

British Eliminate Pocket Of Italians in Ethiopia By the Ajsodited Press.

LONDON, Sept. 29— One of the last pockets of Italian resistance in East Africa has been eliminated by surrender of the 4.000-man Fascist force at Uolchefit, in the mountain- ous Gondar region of Ethiopa.

The Italians acknowledged yesterday that this force, under siege for 164 days, had laid down its arms after running out of food and supplies.

This surrender, the War Office here said, left only 9.000 to 10.000 j Italian-born and native troops still resisting in the Gondar region.

Correction A headline over an account of

an American First rally in Cin- cinnati, appearing in the two early editions of The Star on September 19. incorrectly stated "Head of Notre Dame and Nye Criticize Roosevelt. Churchill.” The critic was the Rev. John A. O'Brien, a member of the fac- ulty of Notre Dame, and not the Rev. Hugh O'Donnell, the president. The error was detected at the time and eliminated after the second edition.

Father O'Donnell, who was in no way involved in the meeting or the criticism, has asked that this correction be made, and The Star, regretting the inci- dent. is glad to offer this‘expla- nation.

Weather Report (Furnished by the United State* Weether Bureau.)

District of Columbia—Cloudy and rather cool tonight and tomorrow with occasional rain; lowest temperature tonight about 54 degrees; moderate winds, mostly northeast.

Maryland—Mostly cloudy with occasional rain tomorrow and In the west portion tonight: cooler tonight.

Virginia—Mostly cloudy with occasional rain tomorrow and in extreme west portion tonight; cooler.

West Virginia—Mostly cloudy and continued cool with occasional rain tonight and tomorrow.

Weather rendition* I.ait *4 Hoar*. <

An extensive area of quite cool air of polar origin now covers the Central State*, the Lake region, and is overspreading the Middle and North Atlantic States, while the wsrm tropicsl air Is now confined to the Oulf and South Atlantic States. A rather extensive rain area la spreading eastward from the Southern Plains Into the Central Valleys. Frost was reported this morning from portions of the Upper lake region and the Upper Mississippi Valley.

Report for Last 24 Honrs. Tempenturt. Barometer.

Saturday— Degrees. Inches. 4 p.m._ 78 30.18 8 p.m. _ 72 30.1 R Midnight _ 66 30.19

Sunday—- * a m._ 67 SO 19 R a.m._ 66 30.20 Noon _ 85 30.15 2 P.m. _ 87 30.05 4 p.m._ 00 30.07 8 p.m. _ 88 30.05 12 midnight_ 73 30.03

Today— 4 a m._ 74 30.10 8 a m. _ 65 30.22 Noon _ 69 30.24

iteecrn ror l.sn nour*

(From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. BO, at * p.m. yesterday. Tear

ago. 73. Lowest, 64, at 7:45 a.m. today. Tear

ago. 46.

Record Temperatures This Tear. Highest, ino. on July 28. Lowest, 15, on March 18.

Humidity for Last X4 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 76 per cent, at 4 a.m. today. Lowest. 20 per cent, at 3:45 p.m. yes-

terday. Riser Report.

Potomar and Shenandoah Rivers clear at Great Falls today.

Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and

Geodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow.

Hiah _2:37 a.m. 3:41a.m. Low _9:31 am. 10:32 a.m. High_ 3:10 p.m. 4:14 p.m. Low _ 9:54 p m. 10:57 p.m.

The San and Moon. ftiaes. Seta.

Sun, today_ 6:02 6:55 Bun, tomorrow_ 6:03 .5:90 Moon, today _ 3 38 p.m. 12:16 a.m.

Automobile UstiU mutt be turned et> one-halt hour after sunaet.

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Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in Inchei In tha

Capital (current month to date);

Month. 1941. Aver. Record. January _ 3.04 3.58 7.83 '87 February_0.P2 3.27 8.84 '84 March_ 8.58 3.75 8 84 '91 April_2.73 3.27 9.13 ’89 May_ 1.58 3.70 10.89 ’89 June _4.38 4.13 10.94 ’00 July _ 5.87 4.71 10.83 '86 August 1.92 4.01 14.41 28 September_ 0.53 3.24 17.45 '34 October _ ... 2.84 8 81 '37 November__ 2.37 8.89 '89 December__ 3.32 7.56 '01

Weather In Tariona Cltiaa. Temp. lUln-

•tttlong Bar. High. Low. fall. Weather. Abilene. 30.20 84 52 — Fog Albany 30.20 83 40 — CToudy Atlanta 30.24 88 07 ___ Clear Atlantic c. 3o.is 75 04 _ Cloudy Baltimore 30.22 88 05 _ CToudy Birmaham 30 20 92 8* _ CTaar Bismarck 30 14 54 32 _ Clear Boston _ 30.13 77 51 Cloudy Buffalo 30.42 30 007 CToudy Butte 30.03 58 29 Ctoudy Charleston 30.24 8<l 71 Fog Chicago 30.47 03 40 0.02 Cloudy Cincinnati 30.42 80 SO _ Cloudy Cleveland. 30.40 84 52 _ Rain Columbia 30.22 02 08 _ Clear Davenport 30.48 53 39 _ CToudy Denver 30.04 59 43 _ Cloudy Deg Moines 30.43 51 39 Cloudy Detroit 30.48 77 41 Cloudy El Paso _ 29.93 70 67 O.flO CToudy Galveston. 30.15 87 79 Clear Huron 30.28 53 30 _ Clear Indian'polis 30.48 70 45 _ CToudy Jacks'nvllle 30.23 90 08 Clear Kansas C. 30.42 50 40 0.09 Rain, L. Angeles 29.87 70 58 Cloudy Louisville 3040 8« 51 0.02 Cloudy Miami 30.09 88 80 0.02 Rain Mpls.-St. P. 30.30 54 37 _ Clear N. Orleans 30.10 sx 75 _ CToudy New York 30.18 77 59 Cloudy Norfolk 30.18 SO 07 Cloudy Okie. City 30.27 5W 40 0.19 Rain Omaha 30.41 51 40 _ Cloudy Phlla. __ 30.22 85 «1 Cloudy Phoenl* 29.88 81 on 0.33 CTear Pittsburgh 30.35 82 49 0.02 Cloudy PTd, Oreg 30.18 07 50 Cloudy Raleigh 30.20 85 04 Cloudy 8*. Louis 30.43 72 45 0.08 Cloudy S. Lake C. 29.95 60 30 ___

6 Antonio 30 13 92 7f ~

n_ Diego 29.96 7

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Plan to Give Entire ,

U. S. Arms Output to Axis Foes Reported

Hull and Others, However, Deny Any Knowledge Of Proposal

A plan whereby Britain and Rus- sia would receive virtually 100 per cent of all war supplies rolling from American production lines was re-

ported under consideration in Gov- ernment circles today, although it apparently had not materialized mfBciently to be placed before Presi- dent Roosevelt.

While it was made clear that such a drastic program of increased aid to the Axis foes was merely in "the study stage.” Chairman Mav of the House Military Affairs Committee voiced his unqualified support of the move.

‘‘We are without question in an industrial war with Mr. Hitler,” Mr. May said. "An industrial victory would preclude the necessity of an attempted manpower victory on the part of the United States. We can reach a showdown only by giving all aossible industrial aid to Britain and her allies.”

Early Hasn't Heard of Plan. Stephen Early, secretary to the

President, said he knows of no such plan nor has he heard of Its being suggested to the White House. Sec- retary of State Hull also said he had no knowledge of the proposal.

Lease-lend spokesmen, on the other band, while declining to deny that the program is under consideration. Insist that any announcement con- cerning It twill have to come from the President.

It was pointed out that before the adoption of such a plan, Gen. George C. Marshall, Armv chief of staff, and Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, would "have to have their say’’ on immedi- ate needs of American armed forces.

The plp.n reportedly would “freeze” the expanding United States Army at its present numerical level or pos- sibly cause a reduction in manpower. War Department and National Se- lective Service officials, while deny- ing knowledge of the plan, pointed out that temporary stoppage of the Army's expansion would not cause any great decrease In selectee in- ductions.

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For several weeks a large per- centage of Inductees has been used to replace soldiers being discharged from the service. This turnover of men called up for military training will continue regardless—whether the Army remains at Its present level, continues to expand, or is re-

duced. it was said. Representative May declared that

if Industrial expansion continued at an ever-increasing rate and all products are sent to armies im- mediately able to use them In opposing Axis forces, the United States would gain in preparedness.

Under such a program, he continued. production in this country would be so geared that if the time came when United States armed forces needed the equipment for actual combat, war supplies could be turned out at a very rapid and adequate rate.

Mr. May said he considered it logical to determine deflnitelv whether the diversion of America's entire production of war supplies to the enemies of the Axis would result In its defeat before consideration is given to supplying manpower.

Record Food Output The United States will manufac-

ture more food products this year than any nation has produced in history, according to a report from grocery manufacturers.

Congress in Brief TODAY.

Senate: Routine business.

House: Considers miscellaneous bills. Banking Committee hears Mar-

riner Eccles, Federal Reserve Board chairman, on price fixing.

AFTER COLLISION WITH STREETCAR—This smashed motorcycle, which Robert R Bolet, a soldier, rode, is shown on the sidewalk just after it crashed into a streetcar at Fourteenth street and Park road N.W. during the rush hour this morning. (Story on Page B-lj —Star Staff Photo.

Second Officer of Torpedoed Pink Star Gave His Life to Avoid Overcrowding Lifeboat

By DREW MIDDLETON, Associated Prrsa War Correspondent.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. 24 (Delayed). — The wooden legged master of the torpedoed freighter Pink Star told today a story of self- effacing heroism by the Canadian second officer, J. L. (Jim) Cassidy, who gave up his life so as not to overcrowd a lifeboat.

"Cassidy swam up to our only lifeboat. He saw that it was full, waved good-by and swam away. We never saw him again*" said J. C. MarKenzie.

He looked around at the grim faces of some of his 23 fellow-survivors of the crew of 36. No one

said a word. You could hear the j wind beating against the side of the

j Icelandic hut where this tense inter- view was granted.

(The State Department an-

nounced September 23 that the survivors, none Americans, had been landed in good shape at Reykjavik.

CDae Pink Star, under the flag of ranama, after the United States took her in protective cus-

tody—she formerly was the 4,150-ton Danish motor ship Lundby—was the first ship under American control to be sunk after

i President Roosevelt's shoot-on- sight speech of September 11.

< me Pink star was en rouie in Iceland in a Canadian convoy when she was destroyed Septem- ber 39, 275 miles northeast of

Cape Farewell, at the southern tip of Greenland. She was armed. 1

Cassidy, the hero of the Pink Star, came from New Brunswick. The master himself, the 53-year-old MacKenzie. was in the water for five

{ hours. But his tribute was for ■ Cassidy.

"It was the finest thing I ever saw." he said.

Of himself. MacKenzie said, “With two life belts to keep me up and a bit of wood from a lard box to paddle with.” he had managed to keep moving for three hours. Two hours before he was picked up, however. he had lost the use of his good leg and the stump of the other from the numbing cold of the water.

He chuckled when he said that the chill had no effect on his artificial leg. i

“I wasn't feeling a thing in it,” MacKenzie said.

Of the tense moments before the Pink Star went down, MarKenzie said:

“X could see the torpedoes coming for just minutes. I shoved the ship hard aport and then they hit. Glory be, it was like the judgment

of God. She seemed to be tearing to pieces ...” I

The Arctic gale now was whistling around the corners of the hut. Of j the faces of the survivors, only the master's was not set in grim hard lines. He was telling a story.

"A bit of life raft was blown up on the bridge and the water thrown up by the explosion came up to my waist as I stood there,” MacKenzie said. “The explosion smashed all the lifeboats but one. Night was

closing in. It was t.ien 5:25 p.m., e. s. T.

“When we got the one boat down we found she was half full of water from this tidal wave the explosion threw up.

"The Pink Star went down fast. Eight minutes it was. Some got in the life boat and the others jumped overboard in their belts. I had plenty of time, I got the secret j papers and weighted them and threw them overboard. Then I took a life- belt. found another and got off just as she was going down.”

MacKenzie, paused, striking a

match for his pipe. “She reached lor me, she did.

I felt the suction tugging at me as though she wanted me with her, but I kept swimming. Alf Mildren, the third officer, wras swimming near me

I could see the boat and the others In the water. It was very black.”

MacKenzie said he swam about a bit to see if any of the others were

injured. “The steward w’as badly hurt

about the head, a fellow the name

of Seymour. He was pretty cheer- ful, but then ail of a sudden he was gone. Another messman was

hollering and crying. He went. too. It's no place for crying—the North Atlantic.”

It was then that MacKenzie saw

Cassidy. owain up as cuui as juu picasr,

saw the situation and swam away,” J MacKenzie said. “Had a widowed mother in New Brunswick, too.”

Pretty soon MacKenzie no longer could see the lifeboat.

"I was pretty alone and it was

damned cold. Funny. I kept think- ing of my ship. Lovely little thing she was and these damned Jerries had opened up her side like a tin can.”

Fortunately the sea was fairly1 calm.

The captain showed me a callous on his hand from his makeshift pad- I die.

"Well, I had to have something to do. As long as you think you are doing something you're all right.

“It was heaven when the British 1

nan-’o-war picked us up. I wa done in when they got me aboar but three hours later I was hopplr around the commander’s cabin.”

Most of the Pink Star survivo: showed little signs of the ordes Three were hospitalized for iniurie MacKenzie said, 'There were r Americans in the crew, to my know edge.”

D. C. Hotel Sirike Vole Results Expected Today

Members of the Hotel and Rc- taurant Employes Alliance th morning were completing their vo on whether to strike against mo of Washington's leading hotels whe their contract expires tomorrow.

Most of the votes were cast ye terday, but the ballot boxes of oi or two of the A. F. L. unions affll aied with the alliance were opt this morning to allow persons wl worked yesterday to vote.

The results of the vote, whit would affect approximately 3,01 workers in 15 hotels, will be know some time after noon, a unic spokesman said.

me r.anor Department conclllf tion service was moving fast, meat

while, to avert the threat of a strik which would hit the crowded he tels. Conciliator Frank Sheehai who has been assignee? to the negc tiations, had made appointments fc conferences with both sides.

He said he hoped to bring thei together when the results of th strike vote were known. Meanwhill Mr. Sheehan planned to talk to th management and union represents tives separately.

The workers are demanding wag increases, based on the hotels' ir creased business in the past yea and a union shop. A flat 10 per cer wage raise offered to all employe was turned down by the union.

Landis Names Umpires For World Series Games By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Sept. 29—Baseba Commissioner Kensaw Mountai Landis announced today the folio? ing staff of umpires for the Won Series:

American League—William A. Mi Gowan and William T. Grieve, an

John A. Quinn as alternate. National League —Ralph Pine:

and Larry Goetz, and William Ste? art alternate.

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