Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1936 — Page 3
. ALARMS BRITAN MERCY NEUTRALITY MAY GET TEST
Japan’s Unrestricted and “Unknown Policy Is ~ Major Factor.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—|
Washington and London are increasingly apprehensive over the naval race, which, from being merely an unwelcome prospect, has now be-
come an unpleasant actuality. Japan is the chief bugaboo and unknown quantity. Having cut loose from any and all restrictions, either to keep the peace or limit arma-
ments, she is not only free to build |;
any kind of warships she pleases and: as many as she pleases, but seems determined to exercise that privilege. Hardly had it become known in Tokyo that Great Britain planned to lay down two capital ships, probably in January, and that the United States might follow suit, thafi> the Japanese announced that they contemplated building not two battleships, but four. Japan Blocks Limitation Except for Japan, naval limitation would be perfectly possible. In fact it had already been achieved. Britain, America and Nippon agreed in 1922 to a ratio of 5-5-3. Japan, however, insisting on equality with the others, denounced the agreement at the end of 1934. Japan's pretext was that naval “inferiority” was “humiliating.” France, Italy and even Nazi Germany felt no such “inferiority” despite small ratios, and limitation with them is feasible. Japan, however, insisted on parity or a free hand. Now she has a free hand. The alarming thing is that nobody apparently has the faintest notion of how she intends to use it. Britain, France and the United States agreed this year in London to limit the tonnage of individual ships and the caliber of their guns. Also to keep each other posted with regard to building plans. But Japan is free from even these commitments. For her only the sky is the limit. Accordingly, rumors are going the rounds of London and Washington that the four new ships Japan proposes to build will be larger than anything afloat and will mount 18inch guns. The designers plan to turn out vessels which can outsteam and outshoot anything on the high seas.
Nippon Fears Air Attack Insiders here discredit these rumors. Indications are rather that Japan intends to create a fleet based entirely upon Japanese policy in Asia. That policy is one of expansion at the expense of China and perhaps elsewhere in the Orient. What she needs in the way of a navy, therefore, is something that can hold at bay any who might try to oppose while she works her will in the Far Bast. While Nippon has Britain and America worried: over her plans, it is the Soviet Union that is causing
Developments in Spain Are “Seen as Spark Which May Start War.
BY ROBERT W. HORTON Times Special Writer °
America’s new neutrality policy may get its first major workout sooner than has been expected.
. The crash of Italian military planes on French soil en route apparently to aid Spanish Fascists t spark, some officials fear, to set off a general European conflagration. If it is proved that Italy is arming the rebels, France is likely to go to the assistance of the Spanish government, many believed. War would then be in the cards. That is why the State Department and diplomats here are uneasy. Our neutrality policy provides that the President shall proclaim the existence of war when he finds two or more nations at each other’s throats. + The prohibitions and warnings
included in the new plan then be-|
come effective automatically. ! It is possible for American munitions makers, before the proclama-
tion is issued, to export arms and’
ammunition and other implements of war to the beéligerents. But the exporter must be licensed by the State Department, and must apply for a shipping permit. The purpose of the system is merely to keep the government advised about who is exporting, and to whom.. No Arms Shipped Thus far in. the Spanish civil war no permits have been requested of the State Department for shipments to Spain, wit hthe excepution of two last month for airplane motors consigned to comemrcial airlines. After the President proclaims the existence of a war, exportation of arms, ammunition and implements of war to belligerents is banned. The embargo is extended to additional nations as they enter the war. A prohibition is also laid upon the purchase; sale or exchange of bonds, securities or other obligations of belligerents issued after the proclamation. Loans and credits are also prohibited, except that the President may permit ordinary commercial transactions.
the Japanese army and navy leaders to lie awake nights. Russia is known to be building submarines for use in the Sea of Japan, how many no outsider seems to know. which bothers the Japanese. But what they really fear is the Soviet air force—the still unanswered question of plane versus battleship. Unfortunately for Japan, most of her industries—without which she would almost certainly be quickly defeated—are concentrated on the main island of Honshu. * Osaka, Kobe, Tokyo, Yokohama and vicinity form almost a continuous community. Houses are mostly. of flimsy wood. A fleet of hostile planes, dropping incendiary bombs, would. play havoc. -
IN INDIANAPOLIS
MEETINGS TODAY ‘picnic, Riverside aneaise, luncheon, Hotel Wan i Pirederation of Syrian and Lebanese Clubs, brotherhood headquarters, E. Riverside-dr, all day. MEETINGS TOMORROW Boagiey Reunion, Picnic and outing, R.
R. Box 290, afternoo Mapleton "Reunion, "picnic, Brookside Garfield Park,
Andy Jackson Club,
Park, afternoon, Shake Reunion, picnic, afternoon. Midwestern Federation of Syrian and Labanese Clubs, feteration headquarters, E. Riverside-dr, all day
MARRIAGE LICENSES (Incorrect addresses frequently are given te the Marriage License Burean deliberately, The Times in printing the official list assumes no responsibility for such addresses.)
Winston K. Hill, 23, of 245 8. ol sott 8 rinter, and Lucilie M. Mase 2, O 9 3. Gladstone-st, machine operator. 3 charies A. Dawson, 217, cit 5 t truck driver. and Dorothy I. Dorsett, 28, city, wait
R. Parsons, 33, of 36 W, Versongs 8 steel worker, and Mary Jc Kiel, EE » Boyer. ee Pe nders-st, er, 55, o = steel ork nd M. gaylord, 43,
= work oe Sanders. i THE i 18 ‘Schiller. It selene cler. A% = Charles D. 'H ‘Hoyt i Jr. 26. of BIST N. New Jersey-st; machine compan Joan “Elizabeth Boyd, 21, of Bolles -av,
retary Se Colema an C. Cohee, 81, of ne N. Stay. 2 tile setter, and Dorothy M. Trager, a», of of oh Na Balle-st, stan apher. nce rner av, machini § 2a nd Th - v. Clerk, a L. Sadler, s. of eal mas J r. 35 of 201 Biue | Ridge-rd, clerk, and Lonetta Dumn, 1233 8. Richlan ?
d-st, clerk. Walter W. 0 te, 19, of 1431 oS derk, And Albe ert Farwell, 11, 3330 . Central-av, wa Bayard C. Marsh, 41, 37 25 Layman-av, . "Isabelle Milbourn, 30,
er, an of 912 Elm-st, Merk, Charles Arnold Pullman, 21, of 1527 Massachusetts-av, 1aBorer, and Pauline Louise Cishingberry, 20, of 1702 Sheldon-st,
FRINGE Roy L. Ca albeft ins"! 1639 Holliday,
house! “ 1203 Boulévard- Ara-pl Jn 38, ae a3 W. Washington: st, riya, and M t He
erman, of 439 Wi -st, housekeeper. oo B. Pumphrey. ci » daborer, and E. Logan, 17, of os Washington-
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BIRTHS Girls Donald, Jean Eider, det. Sty Th pnols.
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William, Lucile Cl Ee
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Frank W. Robertson, 50, Pennsylvania and North, cardiac decompensation ary E. bral apo man, 76, at 2933 "N. New
cerebra leay, 1522 Lewis, cerebral
' Brown, 52. a hemorrhage. ewls, 20, City. lobar Peon Vawter, 38, Methodist, ruptured
Am han Weaver, 63. at 910 N. Beville, arteriosclerosis Ose rCGrifith, 60. Methodist, tuberculosis,
Earl R. Shepard, 48, St. Vincent's, pyelonephritis.
Jersey,
BUILDING PERMITS
ont A Memorial Church, 840 Cottage-av, re Paul ortr 2008 Broad garage. $100. t T. Moorm 1229 N. Colorado-st. garage, sti dwelling. $3200 Wel 220 Bright-st, repairs, $100. James Balies. 1320 Bradbury-st, garage,
LI Baking Co., 2216 S8helby-st, repairs, $700. Marion Materials Co.. 961 8. New Jersevst. oY aanking $25: 141 Arlington-av. wreck$20: 2218 Sherman-dr, wracking, $20;
$20 . A. Phelan, 952 Lesiie-st, dwelling, $3500: zarage, $350. Chestnutt "Ss Holly, 1525 N. Meridian-st,
sign. 875, Market ‘Parking Lot, 140 .N. Alabama-st, S, . D. R. Miller, 1318 N. Capitol-av, signs.
50. > F. Hoffe, 217 BE. 62nd-st, addition, w H. Mitchell, 11th-st and Sheffield-av.
garage. $100. $40 Brewer, 2315 W. Walnut-st, garage.
f is Wheeler-av, wrecking.
ELECTRICAL PERMITS
foaln Co., 246 Massachusetis-sv, $25. B. G. Nvsewander. 25 N. Colorada_ct, $385. George Shir. 1613 Talbot-av, 845. (HAE Dr Drug Co.. Senate-av and Washing-
Klee & & Rchrieber. 102% N. Drexel-av, £50, Howard Hyhoe Peis d i mn $s. nig | Hvme-Mansur Building, 323 Ohio-st
M. Rone. 1338 Lexington. Anns Mullin. ales West at. $s.
Dillehuv, erson-av, . H RH ; Ba Ne Oakland av. $35.
Ads iss Anois Hobart, 2417 Adams-st. $35. $35,
Morris Wolfanger, 1420 $35. Charles Dameyer. 907 8. Pennsylvaniesst. x Construction Co., 801 N. BolA. & P. Grocery Co., 3532 College-av, Service Electric Co. 916 N. TYyinols-st. [ Cieorge Pappas, 2917 N. New Jersey-st,
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Struck by Car, Dies at Hospital.
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dent on charges of , drunkenness and operating a tar vehicle while under the influence of liquor. Bond was fixed at $10,000.
;| dent, and Mears attempted to drive /| away after the accident, but was
REX | | forced to return by two bystanders.
Marilyn with her mother, Mary Astor
Judge to Ask Child Whether She Likes Screen Star Mother or Physician Father Best as Court Battle for Custody Adjourns Until Monday.
By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 1.—A child’s simple statement of whether she likes better her father or her mother may decide the custody battle raging between Dr. Franklyn Thorpe and film actress Mary Astor as tiny Marilyn Thorpe, their 4-year-old daughter, meets ‘Superior Judge Good-
win J. Knight today.
The judge journeyed to Miss Astor’s Toluca Lake home, exclusive motion picture residential area, to have “a heart-to-heart talk with
Marilyn.”
The little, blue-eyed girl and the:
judge will sit down together in a room with no one else present. Judge Knight was said to feel that the child’s statement in her own words should be a deciding factor in any verdict. . While Judge Knight was going to the Astor home, attorneys for the physician took advantage of the week-end adjournment to perfect their side of the case. Mother Gains Point Miss Astor was believed to have gained an important victory when her attorney introduced testimony charging ‘Dr. Thorpe with having four women stay overnight at his home. Attorney Joseph Anderson, representing the physician, will press the charge that Miss Astor was not a. proper woman te have custody of Marilyn. | Prior to adjournment, Mr. Anderson started building his case along that line when he tried to prove with excerpts from an alleged diary that she was in “love with a man identified | only as “George Kaufman.” The diary may be introduced into the court record when the hearing
|| resumes Monday morning.
Refuses Comment on Diary
The diaty has been referred to in affidavits filed by Dr. Thorpe as a basis for charges that she was carrying on an affair with another man at the time of their divorce 15 months ago. Among ‘excerpts on which Miss Astor refused to comment were: “I love George, and the least I can do is save him from a messy scandal. Maybe I am being foolishly ‘gallant,’ but maybe also 1 can do one nice thing in my
“I ood wait a few months, let Franklyn think he had won, by telling him that George and I were through—and, in six months, a year maybe—bring it up again when he would have no grounds for crosscomplaint.” The “George Kaufman” introduced into the testimony was not identified. "
G-MEN BARE THREAT T0 ABDUGT SHIRLEY
Farm Youth Cha Charged With Demanding $25,000.
By United Press NORTH PLATTE, Neb, Aug. 1. —
. Sterling Walrod Powell, 16, was to
threatening Shirley Reraple. ‘child movie star. Culminating an investigation, G-men yesterday took Powell into custody at Grant, Neb., . where his
'| father is a farmer.
YOUTH WOUNDED IN FAMILY ROW
Stepfather Jailed After ‘Shotgun ‘Attack; Victim Critically Hurt.
Russell Fortune, Dayton, O., was in critical condition in City Hospital today from a shotgun wound in his left shoulder. His stepfather, John W. Gadd, 62, R. R. 12, a farmer, was in city jail charged with assault and battery with intent to. kill.
Deputy sheriffs who arrested Gadd said the shooting occurred at the Gadd home at 38th-st and Mitt-
-hoefer-rd last night when Fortune,
who was 27, and his mother, Mrs. Mollie Gadd, 53, returned from a neighborhood meeting. Ordered Out, Neighbors Say Officers said neighbors - quoted Gadd as threatening his stepson’s life “to make him stop drinking.” When Fortune and his mother entered the home, according to deputy sheriffs, Gadd is said to have ordered the stepson to stay out. Ignoring the order; Fortune said he «entered the home, and that a few minutes ‘later Gadd fired the shotgun. Deputy sheriffs said they found him lying in the rear yard and that Gadd was standing on the porch with a gun in his hands. Fortune came to live with his
mother several weeks ago after he lost a job in Dayton.
Held at Attack Suspect
Jesse Miller, 123 S. Liberty-st, was slated last night on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, His neighbor, George Russell, 127 S. Liberty-st, identified Miller as the man who struck him on the head with a brick. The injured man. was treated at City Hospital.
Also on the danger list at City
\| Hospital was Eddie Waller, Negro,
\39, of 1317 Columbia-av, one of three persons injured in a: truck collision at James and 25th-sts last night.
. Truck Driver Arrested Others injured in the crash were
st, face lacerations, and Mrs. Ora Herndon, Negro, 40, of 2818 E. 25thst, hand and leg lacerations. They were treated at City Hospital and returned home. . John Andrews, Negro; 34, of 2385 Hillside-av, driver of one truck, was held on a charge of failure to have a driver’s license. .Gorsey was driver of the- other vehicle, Jack Guire, 5, of 1836 N. Dela-ware-st, injured when he rode his bicycle into 19th-st from an alley | of near .Talbot-st, was reported in a fair condition at City Hospital. The automobile was driven by Robert Vandiver, 28, of 429 N. Lansing-st, who was not held.
.11 Hurt in One Accident
Eleven persons were injured, two seriously in an automobile collision at Pleasant Run-pkwy ‘and Minne-sota-st early ‘last night. Cleburn Hopkins, 26, of 608 Lexington-av, driver of one car ‘involved, was in City Hospital with serious head injuries, lacerations and fracture of the left arm. Mrs. Frances Hartman, 43, of 264 Iowa-st, suffered ‘severe lacerations of the left side of the head. ‘Others suffering minor injuries include George Kunkle, 44, of 1614 S. Talbot-st; Mrs. Kunkle, 42; John Kunkle, 8; Frank Kunkle, 3; Joyce Ann Kunkle, 3 months; Miss Margaret McBride, 20 of 1529 Lawtonav; Miss Mary Wahl, 18, same address, and Miss Lucille: Knight, 19, of 1623 Brier-pl. John Hartman was driver of the other car. He also was injured. It took flve police squads to reroute traffic around the intersection, and keep a huge crowd back so that an investigation could be made.
MARION COUNTY FAIR WILL CLOSE TONIGHT
Heavyweight Horse Pulling Contest to Be Staged.
The ‘five-day Marion Courity fair, which -has“attracted record crowds at New: Bethel, is to close: tonight. lightweight : horse-pulling contest yesterday was won by Harold Valentine, who entered a 2990pound team. Mr, Valentine’s team pulled a sled, ‘weighing 4800 pounds, 27%; feet. . The heavyweight horse-pulling contest was to be staged today. The program tonight includes entertainment by the Sahara. Grotto Drum Corps and the award of the annual prize in the girl’s popularity conest. .
LOCATION, TRUSTEES FOR SCHOOL CHOSEN
The Rev. Hurd Allyn Drake Is President of Kokomo Junior College, Times Special ’ KOKOMO, Ind. Aug. 1— A new | board of trustees and a new location for Kok Junior College has been selected £ nounced eva Fin New offivers and trustees are the Rev. Hurd Allyn Drake, president; C. V. Haworth, Dr. H. M. NHoper C. E. Hinshaw, Lloyd McClure, Dr J. C. Stone, H. C. Davis Jr., Mrs. Bernice Haynes Hillis and Fred H.
Jessup, trustees.
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arms and she began swinging the hatchet which she had been using to tack down a carpet.
Husband Finds Body ‘MacKnight’s husband, Ed-
gar Me McNight, an. executive. of the General Cable Co. of New Jer-
sey, discovered the murder when.
he went home last night. He had to pry open a window of the MacEpighi apartment on the first floor 2, Jplex building. ound his wife, who was 40, on Be kitchen floor, a hatchet beside her. She had been almost decapitated.’ Blood had run entirely across the kitchen and info the adjoining living room. Mr. . MacKnight’s 7-year -old daughter, Glenna Jane, skipped in through the back door from" play as he stood horrified in‘ a pool of blood that wetted his shoes a quarter of an inch above the soles. The
child: screamed, slipped ‘to her knees
on the wet floer, and fell into hysterics that summoned neighbors. Gladys, ‘only other child of the family, was missiig. Another occupant of the duplex, Mrs. Elizabeth’ Feury, said she had seen
Gladys and Wightman drive away
from the house in the MacKnight sedan a few hours earlier. Jersey City police captured them on a + highway near the city at 10 p.m _Accuse One Another
- Both admitted that Mrs. Mac Knight. was slain because she opposed their friendship, and particularly a date they had arranged yesterday. Gladys at first accused Donald of
-| wielding the ax.
“I couldn’t stop him, ” she said. Wightman -insisted that Gladys used the hatchet. He admitted that he held Mrs. Mac Knight's arms. /
After both had adhered to. their contradictory stories through nearly
five hours of cross-examination, police confronted them with each other. With trembling lips, but gazing fixedly at his sweetheart, Wightman | BO repeated his own story as he ‘had first told it. “Now, I've told the truth,” he said to Gladys. “Why don’t you tell the truth, too?” ~ “Let me think a While,” Gladys said to Chief O’Neill. . She .sat silent for perhaps five minutes, while ' policemen and the boy she had been kissing a few
hours before sat Mationless around er,
Face Murder Charges
“All right,” she said. “He's telling the truth. I'll write it out. Anybody got a cigaret?” Chief O'Neill gave her a cigaret. “What did you do while Donald held your mother’s arms?” he asked. “I struck my mother several times with the hatchet while Donald held her arms and mouth,” she said. After she had signed a statement police booked both her and Wightman on first degree murder args. They will be arraigned tod Gladys and Wightman had ‘gone together since they entered Bayonne High School. Several times, the girl said, Wightman had remarked after arguments with her mother, that “we ought to kill her.” She admitted that she had planned to live with Wightman “in
.| Canada or some other place,” but
said they never had been engaged. “I didn’t like him that way, ” she
Public Officials Laud Efforts to Improve Housing Conditions
Mayor Kern Cites Need for Long-Time -Planning in Indianapolis.
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existed. It was these studies that formed the basis of the request to
{| PWA: which eventually led to the
: better.”
of society unable to provide ade.quate housing .without assistance and this fact should be looked upon as a community problem; the sooner -assistance is provided the
George Popp, City Building comJueioner: “The great number of dw which have been left without repairs for a number of yesars have Srsaled a problem for this de-
“Any project seeking to better this
of good health. The sewage
disposal problem coupled with fly nuisance creates bad health,. especially in children. Poor water supply from open or dug wells in close proximity. to cesspools creates a definite health hazard. “Many of these ‘houses have been occupied by tubercular persons. Unless a house is disinfected thoroughly, it is & perfect: place. for’ contraction of the disease.’ “Reasonably safe housing at low cost should be for those who can aff a month if only as a protection to the surrounding community. “Such houses are occupied by
servants and people Who work in.
proben 3ost, eitics have 3 housing pk. but conditions - inimical to public health should be remedied so far as
City | possible. Mere statements that farni-
lies must have low-cost houses do not remedy conditions.
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and Steel Institute.
These six key men came up through the ranks of labor. They are self-educated, and able to hold their own with even the professors. They are: PHILIP MURRAY, vice president of the United Mine Workers, chairman of SWOC; JOHN BROPHY, United Mine Worker, director of C. 1.-O.; CLINTON S. GOLDEN, SWOC regional director for the Pittsburgh and ‘Eastern area, where the drive has already passed from the educational stage - to -organization and chartering of new industrial steel unions; VAN A. BITTNER, Chicago regional director; WILLIAM MITCH, Southern director, and DAVID J. M'DONALD, secretarytreasurer of the committee. Murray started to work. in a Scotch coal mine at the age of 10; Brophy in a Pennsylvania mine at 12; Golden in an ore mine at 12;
plant at 15, and Van Bittner and Mitch similarly have risen to: high
the coal pits. On War Labor Board Murray is a hard-headed, mild-
‘| spoken, cheerful, approachable man
of ‘50, -with sparse white hair. A burr in his speech betrays his origin. He was born in Lanarkshire, near Glasgow, and on his first job in the pits there he worked nine hours a day. His father was president of a miners’. local union. His family
he worked in*the Pennsylvania coal mines for eight years. In 1912 he was made a member of the United Mine Workers’ national executive board, and*in 1920 he became an international vice president. He was in charge of the Pennsylvania-Ohio area in the 192728 coal strike. He served on the War Labor Board, the wartime coal production committee, the National Recovery Board which ran NRA for a while, and has been a member of the Pittsburgh board of education since 1918. His own formal education ended at the sixth grade in Scotland, but he has read extensively and he took A SOrtdspondencd course hen he was ¥ Murray represented the U.-M. Ww. in many Senate inquiries: and in the preparation of . coal legislation. In 1921, at President. Harding's instigation, he led the union’s attempt to stop a bloody revolt of Mingo County (W.Va. coal miners against martial law, private detectives and state troopers. He quieted the situation. Now he lives in Pittsburgh and divides his time between there and Washington. He is married and has one son. He is a devout Catholic. ” » #2 Brophy Studious, Talkative Brophy, a studious and talkative liberal, was born in Lancashire, England, of a family engaged in mining for generations, which moved to Pennsylvania. when he was 9. He, too, entered the- mines, and at 15 he became secretary of the local union. He was elected to various union posts, educated himself by reading, and in 1917 became president of the Clearfield (Pa.) district of the U. M. W. He served until 1927, when he ran against. John L. Lewis for U. M. W. president, challenging Lewis’ policies. He lost, and engaged for several years in outside activities, including the management of the Hapgood co-operative canning plant at Indianapolis. Then he came back to the miners’ union as an organizer. Brophy is 53, blue-eyed, pinkcheeked, philosophical, and looks his Irish ancestry rather than his birth. More Jn any Dies man in the movement perhaps, has been active ‘in Eastern liberal circles. ;
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William Mitch, One of Group, Piloted Indiana Miners Through 1927-1928 Strike; All Able to Hold Own With Professors.
Editor’s Nete—Introducing the SWOO! of_the six men whe, under John L. Lewis’ leadership, are challenging the Irem
.Here is a story giving the. backgrounds
BY HERBERT LITTLE WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The “SWOC” is the newest alphabetical agency, but it isn’t in the government and it hasn’t any college professors. It is the Steel Workers Organs ization Committee, set up by John L. Lewis’ Committee for industrial Organization, and it is headed by six aggrese sive executives who supply their own brains.
man. He held various union poste and teok part in the ‘struggle thas culminated in the pioneer Adamsbn eight-hour day law of 1916.
Then he went back to the mae chinists, and" was a leader in twe major strikes. In 1923 he he became a general organizer for the mated Clothing Workers, and at the same time was business manager and field man for Brookwood .Gole lege. He also served on the hoard of directors of a big New York publishing house. When the depression Golden turned to operating a. dairy and poultry farm in Bucks County, Pa, and to promoting farm cos operatives, just to keep his organe izing touch. When NRA came along, after a few months of ore ganizing for the clothing workers, he became senior mediator for the State of Pennsylvania.
Here he conducted investigations of the coal and iron police and of alleged suppression of unions by the Jones & Laughlin Steel at its company town, Aliquippa. On . recommendation, Gov. Pinchot sent police into Aliquippa to see that union organizers were not mo lested. He was with the National Labor Relations Board in its Pitts burgh office from March 1935 until the Lewis steel drive started.
» » » Bittner Boasts Sense of Humor Bittner, head ‘of the drive in the
-Chicago area, is short and slight—
about 5 feet 6 inches. He has die rected U. M. W. destinies in Wesg Virginia for years. After years of work in western Pennsylvania mines, he rose to union’ offices which took him into many ‘states on organizing -trips, In 1924 he became president of the northern. West. Virginia . area, and in 1933 he transferred to the southe ern West Virginia area, where hs led the drive which completely or= ganized one of the union’s biggest units—more than 100,000 miners, Bittner is about 50, has a pros nounced sense of humor, and 4s fond of the theater and sports. His West Virginia miners—he is. stilt president of that. district—are deemed the most powerful single political force in the state, and hes have gone further dnto Politics most unions. » Headed Hoosiers in Strike
Mitch is a tall, quiet. Hoosier whe. after many years in the mines of Indiana became president .of that district of the U. M, W., and pi loted the Indiana union through the 1927-28 strike. In 1933 he was appointed presie dent of the Alabama district, ine’ cluding some of the lowest-wage districts in the country, and’ after some preliminary strikes against’ mine-owning steel companies ‘he’ succeeded in having the fields ine Slusien, in the national wage agrees : men 7 The Alabama fields are now 100 per cent organized, and Mitch's new job is to extend this condis tion to the steel workers. : 8 = si McDonald Like Movie Hero *
McDonald, the baby of the crew,. is a tall young Pittsburgher who might qualify for a movie. hero. But he is strictly business-like, and his record shows that his rise dated from years in which he worked days and spent Jong. ‘nights at school. He studied at t Carnegie’ of Technology and - took -one
‘of accounting at Duquesne Univers
sity. Then. after becoming tary to Phil
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