Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1932 — Page 3

NOV. 5, 1932

FEUD SEETHES IN OKLAHOMA MINE REGION Large Coal Operators Will Remain ‘Open Shop’ If Grass Grows in Stacks. three months the eastern Oklanoma cost mining region h seethed with unrest. What started as a private oisturbance over recognition of a union nas become an open feud. Violence T®****. to determine the true situation and the background, the United Press assigned a reporter. who traveled hundreds of miles, investigating rival cambs. The first o fa series of these objective articles follows. BY LEE HILLS United Press Staff Correspondent M ALEBTER, Okla.. Nov. s—Discontent seethes along a 100-mile front in the eastern Oklahoma bituminous coal fields, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. Sinister rumblings of open warfare between rival factions, union and nonunion miners and operators, grow louder daily. Hatred is fomented. Dynamite bombs have wrecked the home of nonunion miners, injuring women. Shotguns have blazed from smbush. Night riders and innumerable brawls have been reported. The cause, a United Press correspondent determined after a week's survey of the area, is desperate last stand of labor and capital over unprofitable bituminous mining in the southwest. The miner wants a living wage and fair working conditions. The operator wants a profit. Admit Outlook Is Dark Boih look out dejectedly over dilapidated tipples, unpainted shacks and desolate waste, and frankly admit the outlook is dark. The immediate crisis is a protracted coal strike, disrupting the tenor of the lagging industry. Today, most operations were at a standstill, and some 10.000 miners were idle, whether they were on a strike or not. Leaders of the United Mine Workers of America reasoned that conditions would improve if a united labor front was presented. So they banded together in a rebellion against the apparently inevitable ills of the demoralized industry—lo fight for better wages and working standards in the face of economic depression, ruinous competition and disorganization. Impasse Has Come Working quietly and intently, union leaders started Aug. 3 and won over to their side one after another of the smaller operators. The impasse has conic. Owners of five large mines—the largest in Pittsburgh county where the strike Is centered still remain open shop. “We don’t intend to give in and we’ll sit here until the grass grow’s out, of the smokestacks before w’e will,’’ one operator declared. So the strike has resolved into a relentless fight to reorganize the shattered ranks of the union and an equally stubborn resistance. Both sides, discouraged by the deadlock, are ready to take their troubles to the court of public opinion. The “law” has stepped in State operatives and special deputies- patrol the area, revolvers strapped to their belts and tear gas grenades in their cars. Governor W. H. Murray went to aileyville and Hawthorne, and laid down an ultimatum against violence to thousands of sullen miners. The Governor's own oeratives say the only solution is martial law. Scores Are Arrested Operators want tropos, believing they would break the strike. Strikers resent even presence of state operatives, whom they call gunmen. Scores of strikers have been arrested and arraigned before local officials who have found themselves in a quandry. Jails overflowed with some of the more than 200 arrested men during the period. The state opeiyd the gates of the state penitentiary here to house overnight 107 picketers, who had been accused of violating an injunction against madded picketing obtained by five shops operating on an open basis. On the surface all is quiet except for sudden outbreaks, but Chief Charles A. Burns of the state criminal bureau, in charge of state operatives, described the situation as “like sitting on a keg of gunpow'der.”

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Six wives of President* still are living In America Where are the present home* ot the*e first Ladle* ot the Land? What are their activities? What i* their life? Who are their friend* and neighbors? How do they view the contemporary world, and what are their recollection* of the White House? In a series of alx articles, the second of which follow*. William Engle. a Time* staff writer, will answer these questions. Today he Interviews, in her New York fifth avenue home. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. BY WILLIAM ENGLE Times Staff Writer (Copyright. 1833, by the New York WorldTelegram Corporation! Tk4rßß. BENJAMIN HARRISON, brisk and merry, spoke approvingly today of orchestral music, James Branch Cabell, the radio, Hendrik Willem Van Loon and the chances of good beer coming back, darkly of futuristic art, Sinclair Lewis, the war, the peace and the Democrats. In her Fifth avenue apartment the diminutive and gracious 74-year-old widow of the twentythird President made herself as manifestly a figure concerned with contemporary affafirs as her husband used to be in the fall of 1888, when he bagged Grover Cleveland and the mugwumps. But she made it certain, too, that she avoids public notice. She lives alone in a suit opposite the park, near the Metropolitan Museum. Prefers to rent her Indianapolis house to someone else. She no longer is the globe trotter that for years she was, though she bustles all over town, even disbelieving traffic lights. Focuses her political interest upon the Republican committee of one hundred, of which she is treasurer. Ponders no more upon the Chilean quarrel that fretted the nation in the 90s nor updh the Canadian imbroglio over the capture of seals in the Bering sea. But once Chile and the seals were her immediate concern. Once, she recalled today, these made the small talk for the family circle sitting of an evening in the White House. She was the girl widow then of Walter Erskine Dimmick, who had died on their honeymoon. She was living at the White House with her aunt, the first Mrs. Harrison. She gradually was finding that the President, who was an icicle in public, was warmly human at home. n tt THREE years she Jived there, shared honors with her aunt, received with her, and—the records tell—“glimmered prettily in black silk trimmed with jet” at the New Year’s reception in 1891, when for the first time electric bulbs illuminated the White House. Her aunt died on Oct. 24, 1892, in the same room where Garfield had suffered in 1881. She and the President and only a few others were in the funeral cortege that moved back to Indianapolis. When the Clevelands came on in 1893. it was she who with the President and only five others welcomed them as the new occupants of the White House. It was not until three years later, though, that her name flashed up and down the country. The newspapers announced that on April 6, 1896, Mary Lord Dimmick was to be married to the former President in St. Thomas’ church, New York. Columns told of her quick humor, common sense, lack of pretense. Other columns recalled that her father, Russell F. Lord, was general manager and chief engineer of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Cos., that she had had two years at Elmira college, that her first husband had been the son of a former attorney general of Pennsylvania. Headlines called her "Home-Body.” Music, embroidery and reading were her pastimes. She was not a club woman, but she was genial. a tt tt GENERAL HARRISON'S visits to her fashionable boarding house in East Thirty-eighth street, New York, it then was revealed, had grown increasingly informal in that spring of 1896. The guests had lost their feeling of awe. They had even fallen into the irreverent custom of speaking of the former President as “Uncle Ben.” It was, the prognosticators agreed, a good match, and they were right. Today, thirty-one years after the President's death, his genial and nimble-witted widow spoke of him with affection, stood with pride beside his portrait in her dining room. This year, she said, her paramount interest has been Mr. Hoover. She has had time to read Van Loon's Geography, Vicki Baum's “And Life Goes On,” the Shaw-Terry Letters and “The Outline of Human Knowledge.” She had to get in some concerts and visits to the Metropolitan Museum, but. it is Mr. Hoover who has been heavy on her mind. “Why certainly I've been active. I think it's a duty. Our Republican committee of one hundred has held meetings, sent out literature, really worked. “That was a tremendous meeting when we had Ruth Pratt and Colonel Donovan.”

SHE will vote, of course, straight Republican. ■''But I voted for a Democrat once. I voted for A1 Smith for governor. I think he made a splendid one. “But the Democrats now—if Garner gets in there, there won’t be anybody that won’t be able to borrow money from the government.” The intense loyalty to the Republican party seemed a little alien to her other fidelities—music and art and books. She gets around to the concerts. “About all of them.” she said. Haydn and Bach and Beethoven are high priests. “I don’t object to a little jazz. I like the new things in music better than in art. They’re interesting, the futurists and the rest, and I go to see them. But I don’t care for them.” Radio music she likes, too, but

fers to get around to the con- ! M • { " so' * % I’m more careful than I used Mrs. Mary Lord RR J h ie, though. I used lo go half Dimmick to F\- Ht J|Hk SF, f across the avenue, even if President Harri- ■ K . .JMB^ light wasn't with me. and wait son April 6. 1896, ‘|pr the traffic line on the other in St. Thomas’, J||||||gg ;to go by. Once a policeman from painting by R|R| f si# ght me and talked to me. I A. 1. Keller in fllillllK ? good and Comted to Europe a while. Picked ._m— ■ .....

prefers to get around to the concert halls. “I’m more careful than I used to be, though. I used to go half way across the avenue, even if the light wasn't with me, and wait for the traffic line on the other side to go by. Once a policeman caught me and talked to me. I promised him I'd be good and not do it again.” tt tt tt GOING away from a place has always pleased her. She went around the world. Commuted to Europe a while. Picked up in the orient the intricately carved cabinet that stands now Above her stack of Art Digests. Got onto so many ins and outs of Munich, her favorite city, that she said today, “They say I know it better than New York, and I've lived here—had a home here—twenty years.” No, no, she said, she did not go to Munich for beer. But she is in favor of it, and wine, too. “The only time I ever regretted coming out for beer and wine was once when I was in Paris. I don’t drink myself. Mr. Harrison didn’t, either. But I think prohibition law enforcement is a failure. I told a newspaper man in Paris that. But, goodness. I didn't know they were taking my picture. “They snapped it, and the next day you should have seen the photograph in the paper.” Her eyes twinkled arfd she laughed. “It was awful. It made me look—dissipated. And over the top it said: “ Mrs. Harrison for Beer and Wine'.” “But I’m not afraid to say what I think of the law. I wrote to Mr. Hoover about it after his nomination.” tt HER views on literature are as lively as on alcohol. The talk ran on to the new American Spectator and its editors. “No, no. Cabell isn’t more ob-

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Marriage of Mrs. Mary Lord Dimmick to ExPresident Harrison April 6, 1896, in St. Thomas’, from painting by A. I. Keller in Harper’s Weekly. Right, Mrs. Harrison as a young woman. Above, Mrs. Harrison today.

scure than Nathan. Well, perhaps less widely read. But he is a remarkable artist.” Shades of Corelli and Du Maurier, who were white House talk when she was there—she liked “Jurgen"! “It was amusing. I think we’re not as prudish as we used to be.” Sinclair Lewis, though, she has blacklisted. “I think his getting the Nobel prize will make that award a good deal less coveted than it used to be.” She was patriotic during the World war. “That was a matter of course, wasn’t it?” she asked today. But she believes now all the nations were mad then. “They were all crazy. I guess you can call me a pacifist.” The peace, too, saddens her. “Where is all the idealism now?” Again she spoke of her party loyalty. She is afraid now that if Mr. Hoover loses the country will face times almost as troubles as those when men are bearing arms. She feels the security of every one will be shaken. a tt WANTS, “like every one else,” her own security unimperiled, for in the pleasant home, brightened by bric-a-brac, tapestries and sculpture, “picked up all around the world,” she is finding the latter years zestful, discover-

ing compensations in seclusion. Small Benjamin Harrison Walker jogged in to bid her goodby. He is her grandson, staying with her for the winter. Elsewhere in the same apartment house his parents and baby sister, Mary Jane, coming in from their home on Long Island, have taken quarters for the winter. It is quite a reunion. The portrait of the beautiful child that hangs in the dining room is not of Mary Jane, Mrs. Harrison said. It is of the child’s mother, wheri she was Mary Jane’s age. “Mary Jane looks now exactly as Elizabeth did then. Sometimes it seems as if Elizabeth were little again.” But those long gone days are not any more the concern of this alert, winning woman with the quick, bright smile. New York is too interesting. The campaign is too hot. Van Loon’s Geography keeps calling her to dip in again. Spalding, Heifetz and the Philharmonic have come to town. The times, in short, are far too lively for one to dwell upon the mauve decade. Give Mrs. Benjamin Harrison the pleasant, parlous present. In the next article, Mr. Engle interviews Mrs. William Howard Taft.)

HOME STATE IS SWINGING AWAY FROM HOOVER President’s Former Backers Fighting Vigorously for Roosevelt. By Scripps-Hotcard .Vet espaper Alliance [ SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. s—When; President Hoover arrives in his adopted state after four years’ ab-! sence In the White House, he will find California Republicanism laden with dissension as at no time since j the Bull Moose rebellion. When Hoover made his accept-1 ance speech four years ago to the cheering throngs that packed Stanford university stadium, the G. O, P. was united. Senator Hiram Johnson had concluded the famous • peace of 1928,” had shaken hands with his old enemy before cameramen at Palo Alto, had told his following to accept the Hoover leadership for the good of the state. The state administration was headed by Governor C. C. Young, loyal to both Johnson and Hoover. The party chiefs were seasoned politicians. out to win for both of “California's famous sons. H The party and the state were dry. Hoover won by 548,000 votes over Smith. Today the party is as badly off as Humpty Dumpty after the fall. Johnson is in open revolt and is making speeches for Governor Roosevelt. Assisting him is Senator Norris. Young, defeated in 1930, largely because the Hooverites deserted him, is sore and silent and so are many of his friends who form the backbone of the party organization. Hoover's Senator Shortridge is defeated for nomination, and in his place is wringing wet Tallant Tubbs, who plays Hoover as a second string to his wet fiddle. Tubbs is a tyro in politics and has done the “chief” little good in the campaign. Governor Rolph, never a staunch Hooverite, in spite of his flag-waving at Chicago last June, has his hands full defending his administration. Southern California, once the

VOTERS KEEP THIS OFFICE IN MIND TUESDAY HARRY O. CHAMBERLIN should be drafted for public service as judge of the Circuit Court if he could not be obtained in any other way. Fortunately Judge Chamberlin’s name appears on the Republican ticket presented for action by the voters at Tuesday’s election. Considering the importance of this judicial office to all the people, the re-election of Judge Chamberlin should be on a non-partisan basis. The functions of this court touch the interests of every man, woman and child in Marion County. Judge Chamberlin has been fearless and fair in the administration of justice. There has never been a suggestion of political influence on his decisions. He knows the law and he dispenses it with justice to all. • Judge Chamberlin has measured up in every particular to the high standard of qualifications for this important judicial office. His personal character is unquestioned; his legal ability outstanding. In addition to being an able judge in every sense of the word, Harry Chamberlin has efficiently, conscientiously and to the satisfaction of the community discharged the important administrative functions of his court in the appointment of members of various * charitable, civic and other boards, required by statute. • Before assuming the bench, Judge Chamberlin was an energetic and successful lawyer. Now, with the ripe experience gained by twelve years as judge of the Circuit Court, it is most fortunate that his services may be obtained for another term of six years. • Regardless of party affiliation, all voters may know that they are acting in the best interest of the entire community when they vote for Harry O. Chamberlin, candidate on the Republican ticket for judge of the Marion Circuit Court. Lawyers’ Ghamberlin-for-Jndge Clab Howard S. Young, President John A. Royse, Secretary Kurt F. Pantzer, Treasurer JUDGE CHAMBERLIN'S NUMBER OQ D ON THE VOTING MACHINE IS O

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(Answers on Comic Page) Hoover citadel, is an enigma. It is wetter than ever in its history. It is shot with discontent and economic worries. The Los Angeles Times is battling for Hoover. William Gibbs McAdoo is piling up such strength that he has become a betting favorite of 2V4 to 1 to win the senatorship. Finally, there has come about an alliance created by the ultra-drys between Hoover and the Rev. Bob Shuler, the extreme dry running for the senate as a prohibitionist. The California Anti-Saloon league has adopted as its candidates Hoover and Shuler, a combination that has driven many liberals to the Roosevelt banner. Finally, the party’s command is weak and untried in politics. Today, betting is 3 to 1 that California goes for Roosevelt. SPLIT ‘STRONtFIIIXTURE Towns of ‘Onion’ and ‘Garlic’ Made Separate Municipalities. MADRID, Nov. s—Too many strong odors were concentrated in one place so the Spanish federal government decreed that onion and garlic must split. The towns Ao (garlic) and Oebolla (onion) have had a joint common council for centuries. Henceforth they must have separate councils.

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ITHIUHS ‘FOSGIVEW Amnesty Given Thousands of Exiles. By United Pretl ROME. Nov. s.—The cabinet approved today a decree of general amnesty for Italian political offenders. The decree, promulgated in celebration of the tenth Fascist anniversary, will affect thousands of Italian exiles living a broad, who now will be permitted to return to their homeland, provided they abide by the dictates of Fascism after their returns. BANDIT’S ‘SO FUNNY' By United Prett SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 5.—A bandit equipped with comic false teeth robbed merchant H. Shepard.

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