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10 PRESIDENT MUMMER'S GUILD TO PRESENT PLAY VERDICT GUILTY "Old" Planes Used liy Both Sides, View FIVE DIE, Heart Attack Fatal To Alva B. AdamSf 66, Colorado Senator BMiHMHMO jf MMTtt MH 1 1.1). U.lll yf v. it If ill 1 1 nati. The play, first of a series of ill.

Aggie and Seth Gale have asked three to be staged by the collegiate I Lincoln to say a few kind words, actors, will be given at 8:15 o'clock The characters are, left to right, Vir-Thursday, Friday, and Saturday ginia Gartner (Aggie Gale), Clifton nights. A prairie schooner bearing Butcher (Seth), who is holding Don This is a touching scene in the Mummers Guild adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood's play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," which the Guild will present this week in Wilson Auditorium, University of Cincin Rose (infant Gale), and Justin Isolationists Backed For '42 By America First Committee Chicago, December 1 (AP) The America First Committee reported tonight that it would take a hand in the 1942 congressional elections by supporting Senators and Representatives who "have kept faith with the people's mandate to avoid participation in the war." The committee said flatly, in announcing the program, that "it will not be used as an attempt to build third political party." The organization, opposed to American Intervention in conflicts a third political party. Whole-abroad and sponsor of a long series hearted support will be given to of rallies in all Darts of the na- those candidates, of any political tion, outlined its political policies in a statement issued by its national committee. "Today America is confronted with a condition which strikes at the basic principle of the American way of life government by consent of the governed," the manifesto set forth.

"We know from the experiences of other countries that Fascism re sults when the legislative branch of the government surrenders to one man its power to make de cisions for the people. In the fact of this same trend toward Fascism in America the immediate duty of the American people is to return to Congress only those Representatives who faithfully execute the people's trust. "Accordingly, the America First Of Company Is Dead. William J. Radrliffe Slarted As Salesman For Mill Supply Con cern 45 Years Ago.

William J. Radcliffe, President of the E. A. Kinsey Company, distributors of machine tool and mill supplies, died last night at his home, 4165 Rose Hill Avenue, Av-ondale, after a long illness. He was 69 years old.

Starting as a salesman, Mr. Radcliffe worked his way to the position of President during his 45 years with the company. He was a member of the Cincinnati Club F.nd the Cincinnati Country Club. His widow, Mrs. Alice L.

Radcliffe, and two sons, John S. Rad cliffe, Vice President, and William W. Radcliffe, Vice President and general manager of the Kinsey company, survive him. Funeral arrangements are being completed by the Gilllgan funeral home. MISS ROSA HANAWAY.

Services In Miamitown Tomorrow For Employee Of Bank. Services for Miss Rosa Hanaway, an office employee of the Fifth Third Union Trust Company, will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow at the Church of Christ, Miami-town. Rev. Owen Whitton will officiate. Burial will be in Miamitown Cemetery.

Miss Hanaway, who was 33 years old, died Saturday at her home, Hill Street, Miamitown, after a long illness. She had been an employee of the Trust Company for 12 years. A member of the Miamitown Church, Miss Hanaway was a for mer Sunday school teacher. She was a member of Marlon Chapter, O. E.

Miamitown, which will also conduct services at 8 o'clock to night at the residence. She leaves her father, George Hanaway; her mother, Mrs. Madge Hanaway, and a brother, George D. Hanaway, all of Miamitown, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary C.

Woods, Cleves, and Mrs. Alice Braune, Miamitown. OLIVER W. SMITH. Operator Of Wallpaper Store In Walnut Hills Passes.

Services for Oliver W. Smith, operator of a wallpaper store at 1201 East McMillan Street, Walnut Hills, for 30 years, will be held tomorrow morning at the Jacocks funeral home. Burial will be in Rest Haven Memorial Park. Mr. Smith, who was 65 years old, died Sunday night after an illnes3 of several months at his home, Millsbrae Avenue.

A native of Cincinnati, Mr. Smith succeeded his brother, Ellsworth Smith, who started the business 52 years ago. Mr. Smith was a member of Walnut Hills Business Men's Club and the Junior O. U.

A. M. Surviving him are his widow. Mrs. Bertha Smith; a son, Warren Smith; three daughters, Miss Bertha Smith, Mrs.

Al Goodpastor, and Mrs. Howard Dacey; two sis Mrs. Elizabeth Bonte and Mrs. Martha Kerr, and two broth ers, Robert Smith and Ellsworth Smith, Los Angeles. MRS.

LOUISA S. RABE. Widow Of Cincinnati Jeweler Dies -Rites Thursday. Requiem high mass for Mrs Louisa Santen Rabe, widow of Henry G. Rabe, Cincinnati jeweler, will be sung Thursday morning at St.

Cecilia Church, Oakley. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Mrs. Rabe, who was 81 years old, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Alma Moorman, 1606 Brandon Avenue, Mt. Washington, with whom she had lived since returning from Utica, N. where she resided for many years. She was a native of Sabina, Ohio. Also surviving her are a brother, John Santen, and a sister, Mrs.

Mary Nickol, both of Cincinnati. J. H. PIERSON. Former Railroad Freight Auditor Succumbs In Florida.

J. H. Pierson, former auditor of freight accounts for the Big Four Railroad here, died Sunday night in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 73 years old. Mr.

Pierson left Cincinnati l6 years ago, going to Detroit to become auditor for the Michigan Central Railroad. He moved to Fort Lauderdale six years ago. Services and burial will be In Wellington, Ohio. SERIOUS CRISIS FORECAST In Unemployment In Cincinnati Layoffs Are Reported. A serious unemployment crisis, caused by the exercise of priorities on defense materials, may plague Cincinnati, Harry J.

Patterson, manager of the local office of the Unemployment Compensation Bureau, said yesterday. Claims for unemployment compensation have shown a "steady and ominous increase" in recent months, Patterson declared. Spokesmen for the United Automobile Workers Union (C. I. said that approximately 375 workmen were laid off yesterday at the Chevrolet and Fisher Body plants in Norwood.

Another 150 may be laid off December 23, it was said. The layoffs were attributed to curtailment of automobile proauc tion, which has been ordered by the OPM to conserve materials, RED TICKET TRIUMPHS Candidates on the Red Ticket of the Northside Business Men's Club were elected unanimously last night in the club's hall. 4001 Hamilton Avenue. The officers are Presi- jsnt TnVir, w. Bullock: First vice President.

George G. Rehn; Second Vice President, Harold A. Spaeth; Thirrt Vie President. Ferd G. Diet- rich; Secretary, James A.Faulkner; Treasurer, Hermann E.

Gerboth. aetU CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. son, state organizer; Felix Mor row, New York, editor of New Mil itant, official organ of the S. W. Oscar Coover, Alfred Russell, Oscar Schoenfeld, Max Geldman, Farrell Dobbs, and Carl Kuehn.

Goldman, who participated in the trial as counsel for himself as well as others, issued a statement after the verdict terming the case a "frame-up" and assailing Daniel To- bin, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; Presi dent Roosevelt, and Acting 'Attor ney General Francis Biddle. "The government," he said, "has succeeded in winning a verdict of guilty against 18 of the members of the Socialist Workers party. That does not in the least prove that they are guilty of charges leveled against them by the government. It still remains a fact that the con spirators are Dan Tobin, President Roosevelt, and Attorney General Biddle, who have Initiated this frame-up for the purpose of violat ing the will of the truck drivers of Minneapolis and of stilling the voice of the revolutionary opposition to the Second World War. "We intend to exhaust every step and every resource for appeal purposes.

Above all we shall appeal to the American people in an attempt to convince them that the rights of free speech, free press, and free assembly are in real danger of suppression." The case was given to the jury of 11 men and one woman Saturday noon, and the group started ballot ing late this afternoon, 40 hours after beginning deliberations. The jury reported it was ready with its verdict shortly before 8 p. m. Original indictments in the sedi tious conspiracy case, returned last July, named 29 defendants. One, Grant Dunne, Minneapolis labor leader, killed himself three weeks before the trial opened October 27.

Indictments against five others were dismissed after the government completed three weeks of testimony. All the defendants, the government charged, were members of or associated with the Socialist Workers party. This party, the prosecu tion contended, was under the dom ination and direction of Leon Trot sky, late Communist leader who was assassinated in Mexico City where he was in exile from Russia. The indictments charged: "The defendants would seek to bring about whenever the time seemed to them propitious an armed revolution against the Government of the United States. Said armed revolution would be brought about and joined in' by the workers and laborers and farmers of the United States." The five against whom charges were dismissed on a defense motion were Walter Hagstrom, Rose Seiler, George Frosig, Dorothy Schultz, and Nick Wagner.

RAID JUNE 27. Indictments against the group were returned following a raid on the Socialist Workers party head quarters here June 27 when United States Marshals confiscated two bushels of papers, two red flags, and several pictures of Trotsky. Prior to the trial various groups and individuals protested that freedom of speech and other American rights were nullified by the accusations. Most of the defendants denied membership in the party, and others declared they had no thought of violent overthrow of the government. At the time of the raids Acting Attorney General Francis Biddle said the action was being taken against "persons who have been en- aged in criminal seditious activi ties and have gained control of a legitimate labor union to use it for legitimate purposes." Fifteen of the indicted persons were otticers ot memoers oi me General Drivers Union 544 which had bolted from A.

F. of L. affiliation shortly before the raids. The count on which the 18 de fendants were convicted alleged they conspired to commit certain acts prohibited by United States Statutes, "namely Sections 9 and lu of Title 18 of the United JfcStatcs Code," and charged that thy pre pared and distributed literature which advised, the "necessity, desir ability, and propriety of overthrow- inir and destroying the Government of the United States by force and violence." WILLK1E SEEKS END OF SPENDING LIMIT Washington, December 1 (API-Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican presidential candidate, asked the government today to relax its re- Ftrictions on tne personal iunas oi thousands of refugees now living in the Lnited States, Willkie presented the appeal as attorney for the refugees, who he said all came from European coun tries other than Germany and Italy since June 17, 1940. Foreigners who came to the United States since that date are allowed to use $500 a month for living expenses without formality, but must get special licenses from the Treasury to spend more.

Willkie asked removal of the $500 limit. COUNCIL DEFERS ACTION On Wage Increase For Norwood Police And Firemen. Norwood City Council last night referred a request of the city's fire and police departments for a 25 per cent wage increase and a $75 clothing allowance to R. Edwin Tepe, City Solicitor, and the Council's Finance and Law Committees. The three will hold a meeting before the next meeting, scheduled for December 15, to determine whether there are enough funds in the 1942 appropriations to provide i for the increase.

A report will be made at the next meeting. Police Chief Charles Filtz invited Roudebush and; Mavor Allen C. Councilmen to attend a meeting of Norwood's Junior Order Hall. Continued From Page 4. them with the latest Messer-schmitts, which have proved superior to the Hurricanes.

The British then would be obliged to divert their best Spitfires to meet such a challenge. Inferior types, especially the Stukas on the Nazi end and the P-40's on the British end, would then either be eliminated or assigned minor auxiliary roles. In sky fighting, more than on the surface of land or sea, the law or the survival of the fittest holds true. The mass production of backward and outmoded types of planes will be recognized sooner or later, even in the United States, not only as wasteful economically but as dangerous insofar as it creates a false illusion of strength. LIBYAN dispatches have referred to destruction of Stukas by American fighters.

This sounds like a notable accomplishment only to those who are not yet aware that the Stukas, although the best advertised of all aircraft in this war, are really very poor specimens. They became famous in campaigns where the Germans had no real aerial opposition. The surprise element In the early Stuka attacks, plus the fact that the Nazis had a tremendous mass of them and sacrificed them liberally, gave this plane a reputation for invincibility which it does not In fact deserve. From the aeronautical point of view, the Stuka is a mediocre machine, with a speed of only 240 miles an hour and a single machine gun for protection against rear attack. It is extremely vulnerable to any fighter, and made a brilliant showing in France and elsewhere largely because there was -no genuine overhead contest.

The Stukas were merely acting as a sort of flying artillery clearing the toad for the moving surface columns. In Africa these Stukas are meeting powerful opposition. Even the F-40 is about 100 miles faster and has about six times greater fire power. Unless the Germans have massed so many of these planes that they can safely sacrifice six or more to one of the enemy's, and are well protected overhead by Messerschmitt 109-F's, they will be eliminated. Hence reinforcements with more effective types on both sio.es is likely.

The Axis has a delicate problem in keeping a great aerial armada properly supplied with fuel and maintenance support across the Mediterranean. For that reason Hitler cannot exercise his usual strategy of preponderance of numbers, since a great mass of equipment in the air calls for a correspondingly great mass of supplies and support on the ground. This is a handicap which must incline the Germans against reliance on sheer quantity and will encourage them to throw more efficient 'air-craft into the battle. In respect to reinforcement with new planes, the Germans have a distinct geographical advantage over the British. They are able to fly their craft to the scene of action directly from the European continent, whereas the R.A.F.

can receive it3 reinforcements only across the long and dangerous routes from England and America. Reliable information on these matters, of course, is sketchy. To an aviation observer the only certainty is that while attention is concentrated on the surface operations, the real decision in the African campaign is shaping up in the skies. E. 0.

GROVE PRESIDENT Of Manufacturers' Representatives Other Officers Are Chosen. Officers were elected last night at a meeting of the Association of Manufacturers' Representatives in the Gateway Restaurant at the Union Terminal. E. O. Grover was named President; J.

H. Rengering, First Vice President; P. N. Jahnson, Second Vice President; W. R.

Thompson, Secretary; George H. Schultz, Assistant Secretary, and R. L. Ferguson, Sergeant at Arms. A.

H. Bientz, U. P. Fisher, J. H.

Klahm, H. J. McTammey and G. E. Storer were reelected to the Board of Governors.

Ralph D. Davis, retiring President, G. H. Moore, and Phil R. Cottrell were new member chosen for the board.

BANKER ACCEPTS POST On Y. M. C. A. Board To Succeed Rabbi December 17.

William A. Stark has accepted election to the Board of Directors of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Y. M. C. A.

for a three-year term, succeeding Dr. James G. Heller, it was announced yesterday. Dr. Heller, rabbi of Isaac M.

Wise Temple, has resigned, effective December 17, because of the press of other duties. Stark is trust officer of the Fifth Third Union Trust Company and Treasurer of the Ohio Bankers Association. The board's electoral council recently elected Stark and reelected six incumbents, Cecil H. Gamble, Troy W. Abbleby, Dr.

E. A. Henry, Dr. W. T.

Nelson, R. Cliff Smith, and John M. Stoner. MEDAL GIVEN TO KNUDSEN. Philedelphia, December 1 (AP) William S.

Knudsen, Director General of the Office of Production Management, was awarded the Vermilye Medal tonight by the Franklin Institute for his success as an administrator. The citation that accompanied the award read: in recognition of long years of outstanding managerial ability in American industry, characterized by brilliant initiative, farseeing vision and human understanding, culminating in invalubale service to his country in the administration of unprecedented production for national defense." PATROLMAN QUITS JOB. Police Chief Eugene T. Weath-erly announced the resignation of Patrolman Elmer A. Wagner, attached to District 7, and the transfer of two other patrolmen yesterday.

Wagner plans to enter the United States mall service. Patrolman Arthur E. Guard was transferred from District 4 to District 7, and Patrolman Thomas Tracy; from 7 to 1 Four In Attempt To Save Fifth In Blasts And Fire At Refinery. Pressure Reduced In Large Tank So It Blazes But Without Exploding. Okmulgee, December 1 (AF) Five men died four in a desperate attempt to rescue the fifth and 15 others were injured today as explosions rocked the Phillips Petroleum Company's re finery, setting off a raging fire.

The dead: Jim Hawk, 40 years old, an oiler. Hypo Decobert, 39, a special yard Jinan. C. J. Steighner, 39, a special yard inan.

Lewis Pope, 37, maintenance man. John Rogers, 46, welder. TRIED TO SAVE HAWK. Decobert, Steighner, Pope, and Rogers grabbed a stretcher from ambulance drivers and dashed into the fire in an effort to reach Hawk. "We worked with Jim and we're Koing after him," one of them houted.

But the four were trapped by another explosion and it was an hour later before they weie pulled from the flaming wreckage and taken to a hospital. R. D. Evans, refinery superintendent, said there were six explosions. Three 250-barrel tanks of natural gasoline detonated, he said, and then three 450-barrel tanks blew up.

Evans said cause of the explosions had not been deter mined. HEAT 10 BLOCKS AWAY. Intense heat from the flames, 'hich shot more than 100 feet into the air, was felt blocks away. At Wilson School, 10 blocks away, children playing before classes opened were taken into the building to escape the heat. St.

Johns parochial school, also about 10 blocks away, dismissed classes. For a time, plant officials feared a large accumulator tank would explode. Residents for six blocks outh and west of the refinery were asked to leave their homes and U. S. Highway 75 was detoured.

But workmen succeeded in reduc ing the 600-pound pressure in the tank to 75 pounds and after it Ignited the explosion danger was past. Tokyo Extends Time Of Washington Parley CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. Islands of the Pacific as well as 'countries on the pacific rim into her own garden." Special military examinations of current graduates to find officer material began this morning throughout Japan with the youths wearing their black student uniforms, streaming to their designat ed stations all day. The examinations of the students Who by imperial ordinance will be graduated this month Instead of next March, are expected to be Completed by December 18. Bangkok, Thailand, December 1 (AP) Bangkok radio confidently declared today that "Thailand will never be attacked by Japanese troops" a sequel to its statement that Thailand would welcome the assistance of friendly powers if she were forced to fight for her independence.

Qualified observers attached particular significance to the sequence of statements. Well-informed quarters said that this little country, sandwiched between Japanese -guarded French Indo-China and British Burma, Would not be taken by surprise. United States consular authorities have advised Americans here to be prepared for quick departure. PHILIPPINE ARMY AI.KKT. Manila, December 1 (AP) United States Army and naval forces in the Philippines were held on the alert today amid reports that Japan was pouring new troops Into French Indo-China for a thrust either at Southwestern China oi Thailand.

A belief was growing that if Japan moved at all it would be in the direction of Thailand. It was reported that Japan had concentrated 70,000 picked soldiers on the French colony's Chinese and Thailand borders. Batavia, N. E. December 1 (AP) The air arm of the Dutch Colonial Army was ordered mobilized today "to render completely ready the military air force which must be able to fight in the front lines.

The Dutch Java-China-Japan hipping line announced suspension of its services to Shanghai and Japan, thus cutting off direct sea communication. The liner Fuji Maru, which had been called by the Japanese Consul "the last opportunity for large scale Japanese evacuation," sailed for the homeland with more than 1,000 of Japan's subjects. JAPS LEAVE HONG KONG. Honk Kong, December 1 (AP) With the garrison of this British Crown Colony on the South China coast in "an advanced state of virtually all remaining Japanese were reported today to be packing for departure to Canton by Steamer tomorrow. The Colonial Government has Urged all persons to leave who are not required" for duty in the event of hostilities.

Singapore, December 1 (AP) The British Government in Malaya today called up volunteers for military service under the current state of emergency. Chungking, December 1 (AP) A government spokesman said today that failure of Japanese-United States talks would more a Committee which has not sought tosteps to involve us in Associated Press Wlrephoto. SENATOR ALVA B. ADAMS. Washington, December 1 (AP) The body of Senator Alva B.

Adams, Democrat, Colorado, who died in Washington early today, five days after a heart attack, will be taken home to Pueblo, tomorrow night in the company of 25 members of Congress. It will be one of the largest congressional delegations ever to accompany the body of a dead member. Adams, 66 years old, was Chairman of the Public Lands Committee and of the Deficiency Appropriations Committee. In private life he was a banker and an attorney. The funeral train will leave Washington at 6.30 p.

m. and arrive in Pueblo at 11:45 a. m. Thursday. There the body will lie in state from noon to 1:30 p.

and Masonic services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. at the family residence. Adams was a thirty-third degree Mason. J.

M. SCHOONMAKER, JR. Pittsburgh, December 1 (AP James M. Schoonmaker, 53, President of General Aviation Cor poration of Baltimore from 1630 until 1934 and former Vice Presi dent of the Standard Steel Spring Company of Coraopolis, died today at hi3 home in Sewickley Heights. Since his retirement from the aviation firm, Schoonmaker had served as a Director of the Standard Steel Spring Company, the Union Spring and Manufacturing Company and the Union Storage Company here.

GRANVILLE VERNON. New York, December 1 (AP) Granville Vernon, 56, critic for the Commonweal and formerly a music critic for the Herald Tribune and editor of the Dial Press, is dead of a heart attack. A native of Newport, R. hp was graduated from Harvard in 1903. I WILLIAM C.

REID. Albiiquprque, December 1 (AP) William Clifford Reid, 73, former Territorial Attorney General and solicitor for the Santa Fe Railway in New Mexico since 1915. died today. He was a native of Etna Green, Ind. BISHOP H0BS0N TALKS TO F.

F. F. LAW UNIT New York, December 1 (AP) Formation of a Lawyers' Division of the Fight for Freedom Committee with Pierce Butler, St. Paul, as National Chairman, was an nounced today at a luncheon meeting attended by more than 100 attorneys. Butler is the son of the late Supreme Court Justice.

The meeting was addressed by Right Rev. Henry Hobson, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio and National Chairmn of Fight for Freedom, who said "no battle was ever fought that was needed more than the one against Hitler." MILLION JEWS Have Migrated Or Are Homeless Refugees In Own Country, Is Report Of Committee. New York, December 1 (AP) A million of the 8,500,000 Jews who reportedly lived in '933 in countries now dominated by the Axis have migrated or are homeless refugees in their own country, the Institute of Jewish Affairs said today. The institute's report, covering 16 countries, said only 225,000 of 765,000 Jews remained in Greater Germany. Included in the study were Rumania, Hungary, Italy, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxemberg, Holland, France, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Finland.

"About 600.000 have migrated, another 400,000 are homeless refugees interned in concentration camps, building railways in deserts, waiting vainly in harbors for a ship, rotting on floating prisons," the report declared. "The Jewish birth rate has been decreasing steadily during this period while the death rate has been in creasing at an accelerated speed or nve 10 ten iuu. "The population has been fur- ther decimated by the death of thousands in concentration camps. at the hands of oestapo ana in tne 'lives in hopeless despair." iFriedman (Abe Lincoln). AGREEMENT CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

the nonoperating members. Today's recommendations were said to provide vacations of 6, 9, and 12 days a year for clerks and telegraphers, based on years of service, with all other of the 14 brotherhood members receiving six days a year. In announcing the settlement, Morse said that all of the representatives of the railroads and their employees who had been author ized to do so had accepted the recommendations. Those required to refer the proposals to their con stituents, he added, had said they would proceed without delay to recommend their approval. "To all practical effects, the position taken by the representatives of the various parties," he said, "was itself an assurance that there would not be a railroad strike." HOUSE IS CAUTIONED.

On Capitol Hill today the House gingeily took up the problem of curbing strikes in defense industries and promptly was cautioned against enacting legislation that might cause additional "friction" among organized workers. Robert Ramspeck, Democrat, Georgia, Acting Chairman of the Labor Committee, gave it this ad vice after Carl A. Vinson, Democrat, Georgia, made an impassioned appeal for swift action to end strikes which, he said, were endangering national safety. Vinson has introduced a bill that would authorize compulsory arbitration of defense strikes. The temper of the American peo ple is clear," Vinson declared.

"They are not going to tolerate any further appeasement." But Ramspeck told the legisla tors that "to keep the wheels of industry turning, we need the simplest legislation possible-legis lation creating as little friction as Ramspeck asserted, nevertheless, that he did not think it was "good sense" on the part of labor to permit defense strikes. 'They are destroying the very public sentiment that gave labor their benefits," he added. As the House began debate, the Senate Labor Committee approved 10 to 3 a bill by Senator Joseph H. Ball, Republican, Minnesota, requir ing a thirty-day "cooling off period between a call for a strike and its effective date. 'Ihe meas ure also would set up mediation machinery and would prohibit a closed shop agreement if there had been a strike to obtain It.

CONN ALLY BILL ON TOP. The Senate already has on its calendar a bill by Senator rom Connally, Democrat, Texas, provid ing for government seizure ana op eration of defense plants when pro duction is Impeded by a labor dispute. Because of the death of Senator Alva B. Adams, Democrat, Colorado, Senate leaders agreed informally, however, to postpone consideration of labor legislation until next, week. Representative Howard W.

Smith, Democrat. Virginia, long an ad- vocate of legislation to deal witn strikes, brought the subject to the floor under prearranged procedure; that would give the House its1 choice of a variety of bills and; probably less than three days to discuss them. New York, December 1 (INS) Efforts to arbitrate the union shop dispute between the United Mine Workers of America and Steel Corporations operating coal mines continued today but no announcement of progress was forthcoming tonight after another five-hour meeting of President Roofevelfs special abitration board. Neither Dr. John R.

Steelman, Board Chairman, John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers head, or Ben-j iomln TTa1rlpft President of the United States Steel would comment at conclusion of the meeting. Massena, N. December 1 (INS) Defense production at the huge Massena plant of the Aluminum Company of America again was geared to defense needs tonight with settlement of a strike of 400 A. F.

of L. workers At a conference of company and union representatives arranged by Charles Ward, Federal Labor Con- oiliator, the company agreed to re- moval of Charles Begore at a fore man in the electrical department the Gale family west stops outside New Salem, 111. The child is deathly influence the election of any candidate for public office, now believes that in due time and in proper compliance with the law this policy must be changed. Efforts must be directed toward the renomination and reelection in 1942 of those Senators and Representatives in Congress who have kept faith with the people's mandate to avoid participation in war. "This program will be undertaken in a spirit free from partisanship and without regard to the political affiliations of the candidates.

It will not be used as an attempt to party conforming to American principles, whose records truly reflect the will of the people and the spirit and letter of the constitution." The statement contended that Congressmen who opposed steps toward war had been subjected to "drastic pressure by the administration," and added: "Mr. Wendell WiHkle, too, has Indicated his intention to attempt to nurce KenuDllcan senators ana Representatives who dare to sup port the pledge in their own party platform against entering the war The America First Committee, therefore, now feels it to be its duty to enable its members in any state or district to counteract these pressures and themselves to mobilize their supporters behind those public officials who oppose further even fishing boats are denied supplies, the researches found. "In spite of these heroic measures," the board reported, "lack of material has spelled death to many industries. Even in the all important cotton textile industry, the number of factories in operation has been reduced by almost 50 per cent." MARINES REACH MANILA. Manila, December 2 (Tuesday) (AP) The steamship President Madison, carrying the first con tingent of United States Marines from Shanghai, arrived in the har bor early today.

The ship left Shanghai last Thursday. A second contingent sailed the next day on the President Harrison for an unannounced destination. LIGHTS OFF CONTINUED FH0M PAGE ONE. ing it difficult for firemen to check the flames' spread. Leslie May, manager of the oil company, estimated damage to his company's property at $15,000 to $20,000.

He said M. M. Carter, driver of the truck that exploded, and other men working near by escaped injury. Damage to the electric company's property here was estimated immediately. SI'IVUl.

PISIUTVH TO THB KNglilRRII. Chillicothe, Ohio, December 2 This city was thrown into darkness tonight by a fire that burned through the Columbus and South ern Ohio Electric Company's main power line at Circleville. Lights in streets, residences. stores, and factories were out and manufacturing plants, most gasoline stations, and other business depending upon electric power shut down. The staff of the Chillicothe Advertiser, a morning newspaper, worked by candle light and flash lights, but the typesetting machines and presses were shut down.

It was reported here that restora tion of light and power was not expected for 8 or 10 hours. SPKrlAI. DISPATCH TO TUN llQmitM. Hillsboro, Ohio, December 2 Shutdown of power and light serv ice here because of the fire that put out of commisslion tonight the Columbus and Southern Ohio Elec trie Company main power line in! Circleville extended also to Seaman in Adams County and Sardinia in Brown County. Other communities in Highland County apparently were unaffected as all except Greenfield, which has a municipal plant, are served by the Dayton Company.

Power and Light likely be followed by Intensified action against China than in invasion of Thailand. "Japan is not ready nor has she the resources to invade Thailand, he said. Shanghai, December l-(AP) Captain Fritz Wiedemann, once one of Adolf Hitlers intimates, former Consul General at San Francisco and Consul General at Tientsin, arrived at Nanking today for an unexplained conference with leaders of the Japanese-dominated Chinese Government there. At the same time it was learned that Ernest Wender, German Minister to Thailand, had come to Shanghai by plane from Bangkok, on a mission likewise obscure al though he was expected to confer with Wiedemann and Christian Zinsser, Acting German Consul Gen eral here. Shipping circles heard that the British and Dutch had canceled schedules between Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Japan Losing 75 Per Cent Of Imports, Board Says New York, December 1 (APy-The National Industrial Conference Board reported today the "eocnomic blockade" of Japan by the United States, the Brtish Empire, and the Netherlands Indies has cut off 75 per cent of her normal imports. In an analysis of the effects of Japan's present situation, the research organization found that in peacetime Japan was barely self- sustaining In foodstuffs, while her Industries were heavily dependent on sources now under control of the "blockade" group. "Japan proper has a population of 73,000,000 packed in an area less than that of California and inferior to it in material resources," the report said. The analysis showed the cutting off of Japanese imports to the United States had been detrimental to American economy because it severed an important market and source of supply, but that it had not seriously damaged the defense effort. Financially, the report said, war costs weighed heavily upon Japan.

Her military expenditures for the fiscal year 1941 took 70 per cent of the national budget, compared with about 50 per cent in the United States. Inflation was evident in Japan, it added, estimating that by the end of 1940 wholesale prices were 58 per cent higher than in 1936, while retail prices were up 66 per cent. Scanty imports have resulted in salvaging of every available scrap: of material, the report said, inelud- ing iron fences, sunken ships, wire, name plates, manhole covers, and kitchen utensils. Gasoline ia severely rationed; over whose appointment union tne Hamilton uouniy roiice am v.u..u -members walked out Saturday in elation Thursday, December 11, In Warner Koops, and William Ben- thousands more took their on protest..