Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1936 — Page 1
LEWIS' GROUP GAINS HELP AT LABOR PARLEY
Eight Resolutions Favoring Rescinding of Ouster Order Filed.
FREY ASSAILS C. I. 0.
Expulsion of Unions Is
Urged by Leader of Metal Trades.
By United Press CONVENTION HALL, TAMPA,
Fla., Nov. 17.—The American Federation of Labor battle over John L. Lewis’ rebellion began behind locked doors of the convention resolutions committee today when eight resolutions were submitted in favor of the insurgents, While Rep. James Mead of Buffalo addressed the fifty-sixth annual convention of the federation, the 17man resolutions committee became the first major battleground of the internal warfare shaking the foundations of united labor. Frey Leads Assault
John P. Frey, head of the metal trades, led the assault on the insurrectionist Committee for Industrial Organization, demanding expulsion of the member unions. One other resolution proposed punitive action against the Lewis group. On the other hand, eight resolutions favored .rescinding the council’'s suspension order or giving full support to the Lewis faction. With the C. I. O. dispute in the hands of a reputedly pro-suspension committee, the 103 resolutions introduced so far'concerned such subjects as- formation of a FarmerLabor Party, condemnation of the Supreme’ Court and opposition to fascism, particularly the “shameless and unspeakable” attempt by Italjan Premier Benito Mussolini to “lynch” Ethiopia. It was proposed that nations and working people of the world “refuse to recognize the bayonet reign of fascism in Ethiopia.” The resolutions favoring the C. 1 ©. movement were. introduced by J. J. Handley, Wisconsin State Federation; Kidwell, - California State Federation; A. P. Bower, Reading : (Pa) © Federated Trades Couneil; ‘ Ralph Lundy, ' Cleveland Independent Fholesale Grocers; FE. J. Preston, Mercer County (W. Va.). Central Labor Union, and Philip Randolph, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. They called either for rescinding’ the suspension order or for co-op-eration with the Lewis rebel leaders.
Green Trial Due to Open Tomorrow
By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Twen-ty-three chieftains of the. nation’s most powerful labor union assembled today to, consider disloyalty . charges against William Green, iabor’s titular leader and a fellowmember of the United Mine Workers of America. The U. M. W. leaders ordered i “Brother Green” ‘to. appear tomorrow for “trial,” but the red-faced American Federation of Labor president replied that his duties at the Tampa (Fla) federation convention ‘made it impossible for him to return tg Washington.
Denies He Revolted Green vigorously denied he had | revolted against his own union. , From Tampa, he made a conditional ~ peace ‘offering to his arch-enemy, - John L. Lewis, U. M. W. president, in a last-minute attempt to heal labor's family wounds. But the fiery } Lewis shook his head, renewed his { determination to fight for industrial ! unions as opposed to the A, F. of L.sponsored craft unions, and gathered ‘his colleagues today for a swift, tes, study of - Green's actiy-
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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 215
Stung Again!
Bees Revolt, So Keepers Are Seeking Reason at Parley.
BY JOE COLLIER OW that the bees have gone to sleep for the winter, Indiana State Beekeepers’ Association is meeting today at the Statehouse to pull a fast one on them and find ways and means to prevent further insurrection. It was reported by the association a month or so ago that the bees were mighty cross with one and all, and nobody at that time had much of an idea what it was all about. In order to understand what a mystery this ill temper of the bees was, it's necessary to know that the bee industry is so delicate that it is founded on 5-16 of an inch. -About 100 years ago an Ohio pastor found that when bees pick out a place to live and store up honey they would plug up with bee glue any aperture less than 5-16 of an inch and build a honeycomb in any aperture larger than that.
O bee keepers place the wooden comb boxes just 5-16 of an inch from the hive building and the bees build their combs in the boxes and not between boxes and hives—and they don’t glue the comb boxes in the hives. It must be known also, that bees work like mad when they work, which is all summer. They work so hard stocking up against the winter that hundreds of them die of exhaustion before the summer ends. The average honey time life of a bee is only 45 days. In the winter, those that have survived live six months. Thus a hive that has 100,000 bees in summer, will have only 25,000 in the winter to live on what the 100,000 put up. So there usually is 100 pounds of extra honey to each hive that can be withdrawn and sold. Bees are very near-sighted and probably never miss it, the bee men say. = = on BOUT their combs! To help > out the bees, keepers put thn strips of factory processed beeswax in the hives and out of these the young bees, who are especially adapted for that work, build the combs.r They add some new -beeswax of their own for good measure. If the adult bees, carrying their own weight in honey, come in and find no combs constructed them,” théy just cling to the and do nothing until the kids . a bin built. -- The bee people have tried to use bee glue for commercial purposes. They tried it as furniture polish and it worked fine in the cold weather. - When it got hot, though, it stuck to their pants. They tried using it as glue, but it softened in heat. - They gave it up, explaining there wasn't enough of it available to do anything with anyhow. \ # # » EES are so near-sighted that if you move cautiously toward a hive they won't see you. They may know something is going on,
.but they won't sting you. If you make rapid motions, however, they'll spot you and let you-have it
They choose human friends, people they crawl ‘all over and never sting, by the human odor. It: makes them mad if you don't smell right. All of these things were taken -up ‘by. speakers today at the association meeting. But at press time, the. best co-operative guess as to why bees in Indiana and Ohio in the the late summer of 1936 seemed to have gone out of their minds, flying around stinging everybody, was that the bees just didn’t like the way things were going.
EDISON'S SON NAMED TO NAVAL POSITION
By United Press,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 —President Roosevelt today announced the appointment of Charles Edison, son of the famous inventor, as assistant secretary of the Navy. Mr. Edison is expected in Washington in two or three weeks to take over his duties. At present he is New. Jersey state director for the National Emergency Council. °
PROBE OHIO ORIO SLAYING
By United Press. AKRON, O., Nov. 17.—Detectives of two counties today traced the PON] thd Susiness affais Of Al Albright, prominent Massil lon banker, for a motive in his mysterious murder in the back seat of
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NET INCOME TAX SUGGESTED BY GROCER GROUP
Proposal to Be Submitted to Parley Called by Townsend.
URGE GRADUATED SCALE
Official Believes $18,000,000 Could Be Raised by the Levy.
BULLETIN Gov.-Elect M. Clifford Townsend today announced selection of Anderson Ketchum, State Tax Commission secretary, as head of a public conference on gross income tax law revisions. Mr. Townsend announced he will open the
conference Dec. 10 with an address.
BY TRISTRAM COFFIN
The Indianapolis Grocer, publication of the Indianapolis: Meat and Retail Grocers Association in its issue Thursday, will propose a graduated net income tax as a substitute for the gross income tax. Mrs. Vivian M, Stevens, executive secretary, said the association would submit the proposal to Gov-ernor-elect M. Clifford Townsend's conference on gross income tax reyision. * The proposed tax calls for a 1 per cent levy on the. first $1000, with a $500 exemption; 2 per cent on the second $1000 and 3 per cent on all income above $2000. Mrs. Stevens estimated a total of $18,000,000 could be raised by the proposed tax. The proposal is merely a framework, and further details, such as exemptions, if any, for married men, would have to be worked out later, Mrs. Stevens said. “The suggested tax will suit our particular problem, but we are willto compromise for the benefit of all if a net tax would prove injurious to a large class of taxpayers,” Mrs. Stevens said. The association has obtained. figures as ta the effect of the gross income tax on the small merchant,
‘and will be glad to.submit' them to
ownsend. -or /his representae. 8. Stevens stated, y She said the organization was on. record as being bata opposed to 4 sales tax.” : The grocers and meat dealers, according to Mrs. Stevens, feel that} the ‘gross: income tax discriminates unfairly against them because of
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the rapid turnover in that ype;
business. “A successful grocer has a tirns over every day his store is open, and
he pays a 1 per cént gross tax
on each turnover,” Mrs. Stevens said. A man, whose annual wage is $1000, pays nothing under the gross income tax, but under the proposed (Turn to Page Three)
POWER FIRM HEARING IS REOPENED TODAY
Using a: 21-volume detailed inventory, ‘which he prepared, as a basis for his testimony, Harry V. Winger, commission engineer, was the chief witness today as the Indiana Public Service Commission reopened its hearing in the Ingignapolis, Power and Light Co. rate case. Value he placed on the. firm's physical property differed from utility figures it several cases, some from 35 to 50 per cent below the purchase price paid by the: utility in 1930. * These figures were for substation property and rights-of-way in Indianapolis, and did not include coal mines and other property. George Q. Bruce, Indianapolis Federation of Civic Clubs representative, said-a resolutien passed last week asking elimination of $10,000,000 intangibles “ from the utility values had been filed with the commission. P. S. C. members said no action had been taken. ——————— ecole
SCHUMANN-HEINK _ REPORTED ‘IMPROVED
By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 17 ~Madame
his automobile on a lonely road last night. :
LOYALISTS RESIST FIERCELY AS .
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 17, 1936
Pedestrian I : Injured in 3 Car Accident || y
Joseph Quinn, 2D, photo engraver, of 2426 N. Pennsylva-nia-st, was the only casualty in a triple automobile mishap at Meridian and 1l4th-sts today, according to the police report. It was this way, according to the short short story requiréd to enumerate detalis: Richard Cordell, 63, a painter, of 2048 N. Keystone-av, driving south in Meridian collided with an automobile driven by Emma C. Fornhold, 41, of 2040 N. Capitol-av. Mr. Cordell’'s car bounced off that one and info another driven by Charles H. Reser, 40, of 4625 Washington-blvd. The caper-cutting Cordell car swerved away from the. side of Mr. Reser’s automobile and struck Mr. Quinn, who was crossing the street to get into his parked car. He is in St. Vincent's Hospital, seriously, but not critically hurt.
TRAFFIC LIGHTS’ HOURS LONGER
15 Street Signals to Run All Night, Safety Board Decides.
The Safety Board today approved a recommendation of Police Chief Morrissey to operate traffic signals 24 hours daily at 15 street intersections as. a safety measure. The chief said the majority of these lights have been dark from midnight until 6 a. m.; increasing tanger of accidents. The intersections are 24th and Harding; 16th and Northwestern; 63d and College; Tacoma and Massachusetts; Delaware and Fall Creek-blvd; Delaware, Walnut and Fort Wayne; North and Northwestern; 10th and Northwestern; West and Michigan; West and Washington; West and New York; West and South; West and Morris; Meridian and McCarty; W. 16th and Lafayette-rd. City Clerk Daniel O’Neil reported
violations during October.
SOUTH BEND BENDIX PLANT CLOSES Down
By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 17— | Local plants of the Bendix Aviation Corp. employing approximately 4500 men in manufacture of automobile, airplane and motorboat accessories, was shut down today, apparently because of labor troubles: The shutdown was announced by John P. Mahoney, vice president and manager. Mr. Mahoney said the issue was complete unionization of the plant by the United Automobile. Workers of America. A unit of the American Federation of Labor. Workmen, halted by the message: coming through the public address system, continued to loiter beside idle machines. Mr. Mahoney suggested in his state-
return to work should meet outside the plant. and present a petition which the management would take under advisement.
HIJACKERS KIDNAP TWO, STEAL LIQUOR
By United Press BEDFORD, Ind. Nov. 17—Kidnaped and held captive all night by hijackers who stole a truck load of whisky, William Probst, 44, and Herman Barnett, 29, both of Kansas City, Kas., were released ‘hear here today.
naped on U. S. road 50, one mile west of Brownstown, early last evening and driven about all night in an automobile before being freed on 2 highway four miles west: of here.
ROOSEVELT ORDERS
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Appearance at Conference May Offset Hostile Influences.
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His Presence and That of Hull Needed to Save Parley, Is Claim.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS $ Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — Far from .being merely ‘a graceful gesture from one good neighbor to another, President Roosevelt's trip to. South America is of utmost diplomatic importance. Hostile forces from overseas have
peace project, due to get under way at Buenos Aires Dec. 1, that it may require the presence of both the President and Secretary of State Hull fo make repairs. When Mr. Roosevelt proposed the Pan-American: conference last January it was enthusiastically indorsed by the heads of all the governments between here and Cape Horn. For various reasons, some arising from election-year conditions in this country, others from. Latin American desires, it was not found practicable to hold the parley until next month. And that gave inimical influences time to get in their work. European and Asiatic powers have been cultivating the American market intensively, especially since the World War. Accustonted as most of them have been for centuries to seeing something sinister whenever the envoys of two or more nations put their heads together, they naturall became Suspicious about the ‘gathering ' of the 21 American republics. Where the governments themselves professed to see nothing un(Turn to Page Three)
JUDGE BAKER SCOLDS TAVERN OPE OPERATORS
Twenty tavern operators, both
© foi temperance—1or. minors.
| would recommend revocation of their licenses.if he ever gets proof: they sell to minors and the admonition that violation of their rules . might hasten. another prohi-
The tavern keepers were summoned into court as a résult of a statement by a minor arrested re-’ cently for larceny who said he was drunk and ‘didn’t know what he was doing.
FAY WEBB REPORTED TO BE NEAR DEATH
By United Press SANTA MONICA, Cal. Nov. 17.— Fay Webb, divorced wite of Rudy Vallee, was reported near death today after an emergency operation for appendicitis. Attending physicians said she was “yery, very ill,” and that she might not live through the day. She failed: to respond to‘ a blood transfusion
Miss Webb has been ill more than.
Webb, attributes it to worry brought about by her domestic battle with Vallee.
CHILD RELATES CRIME
‘By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. ' 17—Andrew Capoli cowered safely behind Jai bars today after an angry - balked his attempts to show ol lice: how he murdered 5-year-old.
IMPORTANCE IS STRESSED
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Seriously In in Florida
ay United Press MIAMI BEACH, Fila, Nov, 117.
{ AY. Mr. Ade, 3% eats. old. is suf- ° fering from a lung ailment. His illness was aggravated by the effects of injuries sustained when he fell three weeks ago at his home in Brook, Ind. An _ oxygen tent was being used in treatment. At noon he was reported slightly improved, but his condition remained serious. The author made his annual trip to Florida last week, ar‘riving here three days ago by auto. .
O'MAHONEY BILL GETS SPOTLIGHT
Senator Proposes Law to Make Big Corporations Incorporate Federally.
so damaged the Inter-American.
® BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—0f the many proposals for doing something about what ails us—the industrial anarchy which NRA went dizzy trying to cure—one which is attracting the most respectful attention is the national incorporation bill of Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney ‘of Wyoming.
Comparatively young in the Sen-
ate, but an old head in politics, Senator. O'Mahoney does not claim to have devised this idea himself. On the contrary, the plan which he suggests boasts of the most ancient and honorable lineage. President Taft, later Chief Justice, recommended it, so that the constitutional doubts about it can not be very serious. George Wickersham, Taft’s Attorney General, drafted a bill on the subject which was introduced 25 years ago by one of Senator O’Mahoney’s predecessors, Senator Clark of Wyoming. If such men thought 1t was a good plan, Senator O'Mahoney (Turn to Page Three)
receipts of $240 in fines for a St In Crimin a AARY
lecture by Judge Frank P. Baker | “They heard, too, a threat that he .
By United Prem; »~ or "HOLLYWOOD, Nov. .17. — While Mary Pickford bubbled with happiness today Hollywood recovered from surprise but not from astonishment. people, at one time or another, expected her to marry Charles (Buddy) Rogers, actor and orchestra leader, who is 11 years her Junior. “I'm happy, so: happy,” Miss Pickford, erstwhile sweetheart of America, repeated to the friends who telephoned their congratulations from all parts of the United States, many of whom wondered why the engagement had not been announced before. Some of Miss Pickford’s friends believed that she had held off from giving her assent to Rogers’ courting because of the difference in their ages. Miss Pickford is 43, Rogers is 32. At any rate, this question was discussed frankly by those concerned, “We have so much in common —that’s what brought us together,” Miss Pickford said. “These common interests should make the
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U. S. HOLIDAY BOOM SEEN FOR BUSINESS
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BELS HEAVY
College Building, Target of
Invaders; Artillery Shrapnel Used.
BOOKS FOR BARRICADE
Campus Presents Scene of ‘No Man’s Land’ as Battle Rages.
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent
ABOUT ONE MILE FROM UNIVERSITY CITY, MADRID, Nov. 17.—Rebel forces are carrying out their campaign to capture Madrid by the fiercest sort of fighting, from building to building and
from tree to tree. The rebels occupied a majority of the buildings in University City, in the northwestern part of the capital, after close-up fighting and handgrenading Monday afternoon.
I witnessed the capture of ihe ner, after which a column Moorish regulars and legionnaires pushed their way toward the model prison between Universal City and the Royal Palace. The wedge-like . drive in) this sector brought almost the entire left flank of the rebeis into action.
Watches College Bombed
From the roof -of an abandoned summer villa I could see the battle for the College of Philosophy, a five-story red brick building with a semi-cylindrical © column of - bay windows. : : * From the windows, barricaded with heavy piles of books instead of sandbags, loyalists « fired machine guns and d rifles down on the advancing ‘rebel columns. They were
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They must have been under heavy machine-gun fire as they flopped on their faces ‘every time they ad‘vanced 10 or 20 yards, and then wiggled slowly onward, dragging their guns on the ground. Suddenly they jumped up and sprinted towards the philosophy building. When they drew close powder and dust spouted upwards as they flung hand grenades. :
Use Mountain Artillery
At the same time loyalists used mountain artillery shrapnel in an effort to halt them. I could see huge pillars of smoke arise every time the rebels “grass-hoppered” across no-man’s land and frequently globes of smoke in mid-air like bursting balloons. “Throughout the day these strange waves of men rolled across the campus until late in the afternoon. I was convinced that there no longer was any fighting at the College of Philosophy or at most of the other | buildings near the Casa de Velazquez.
CLOUDY AND COOLER IS PREDICTED HERE
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
6am... 34 10am... 46 7a.m.... 34 1lla.m.. 52 Sa.m.. 38 12 (Noom). 53 9am... 43 1pm 56
Indianapolis weather is to have an attack of cloudiness tonight and tomorrow, complicated tomorrow with a drop in temepratures, the
be around 35, the bureau. stated.
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Loyalists With 100,000 Men ' Prepare for Attack as Climax Nears.
CITY STILL IS DEFIANT
Telephone Company Building -Bombed; Rumanian Embassy Wrecked.
By United Press ae Insurgent troops forced their way into Madrid prope today in the midst of a furie ous artillery and aerial bom
bardment. The rebels crossed the ange nares River on the west of 'thi capital into West Park and Uni: versity City, and fierce handhand fighting was in progress. The siege of the city seemed be nearing its climax. The government forces were resisting desperately and, according to vices to the British embassy in Lone don, planned a counter-offensive the south of the city, designed as a flanking movement to attack the enemy's rear on the west. The embassy was advised that government has about 100,000 men opposed to the enemy’s 45,000. The latter, however, are trained troops, while the government forces: mostly raw recruits. ; Madrid suffered heavily from the aerial bombardment and there ha been hundreds of casualties in the last few days. Buildings were des stroyed and many fires set ‘By in cendiary bombs. The aerial attack, designed to terrorize the capital in submission, failed of its effect in that regard. The citizens were mera= ly infuriated by the slaughter and destruction, and grimly determined to resist to the end.
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MORGAN BACK HOME; PARRIES QUESTIONS
By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 17—J. P. Mor« gan, apparently recovered from the illness that afflicted him this I chuckled today when a r po on the liner Queen Mary asked him whether he thought ¥ Edward would marry Mrs. W:
impson, “I don’t think,” the financier s: Mr. Morgan seemed to be in cellent health. He gave his non-committal answers to que on politics and finance. When 1 ar porter remarked “you've made tough for us to write a story,” financier said: “That’s what I intended to do.
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. PLYMOUTH, Ind., Nov, 17.-