Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1937 — Page 3

THURSDAY, FEB. 11,

PACT IS SIGNED ENDING STRIKE ING. M. PLANTS

Union Is Given Preferred Status; Pay Raised as Gesture of Good Will.

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500 of them—jammed the chamber. Floodlights for pictures were | trained on the judge's dais where | Governor Murphy had been Sores tomed to stand when he delivered his reports of progress—or lack of it.

broadcasters and ‘officials—at wer, |

union leaders were in the crowd. Murphy Is Happy Soon Governor Murphy and Mr, | Dewey pushed through the throng to the dais. “Well, the situation is ended, | thanks to these good men,” the | Governor said, with a wave to the | corporation and union representa- | tives, “Let us have peace and make | motor cars,” was Mr. Knudsen's | comment. Mr. Mortimer said for the | union that the agreement would | mean better conditions for the working men. { “I guess everybody is happy,” | Governor Murphy beamed. | The signatures were affixed at 10:46 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) on the 44th day of the strike and the | 10th day of negotiations to end it. Governor Murphy and Mr. Dewey hurried over to the Statler Hotel to obtain the sighature of Mr. Lewis. Governor Murphy handed the pale and exhausted union chieftain a fat fountain pen and Mr. Lewis scrawled his name. The General Motors strike officially was ended.

Newcastle Auto Workers Get Letter to Governor Sent by

$1,000,000 Increase By United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind, Feb. 11.— | Newcastle employees of the Chrysler Corp. will receive approximately | $1,000,000 a year more under the 10 per cent wage increase an-

1937

Mayor Suggests Parking Meters and

[Leaves Worries Up

This is E. Washington St. would stop this, some officials say.

KNUDSEN OUTLINES 6. M. LABOR POLICY

Officials.

(Continued from Page One)

sumption of work in our plants

|e land to promote peace, we hereby |!

agree with you that within .a period

| of six months from the resumption |

to Safety Board

Some of the cars have been parked at the same spot all day. Parking meters

It’s One of Those Problems So Close to Unconstition- | ality That Courts May Decide Either Way.

By WILLIAM CRABB

There was a twinkle in the Mayor's eyes when he suggested parking

meters to the Safety Board. He

is a lawyer and knows what thin

legal ice the system has trod in other states.

He knows it's one of those problems that borders unconstitutionality

so closely the courts may conscienti

| | He made the suggestion and left the matter up to th Municipal Judge Charles Karabell®

| stroked his chin when he learned | lof the Mayor's proposal. He real- | zed the question may be brought to his attention officially if it ever | is tested in court. “It's all a question of how far the |

nounced by the company, plant of- | or work we will not bargain with | municipal police power can be ex-

ficials said today. Pay checks will be issued every |

week rather than fortnightly, in |

accordance with an employee vote (employees of plants on strike in|shown that the system promotes | on methods of payment, according | respect to such matters of general | public safety and welfare. to officials. The wage increase and | corporate policy as referred to in |

change in payment is effective | Feb. 15. |

SETTLEMENT HURTS LABOR, GREEN HOLDS

By United Press

WASHINGTON, dent

Feb. 11—Presi- | William Green of the American Federation of IL.abor declared today that “the whole of labor” was injured by the General Motors strike settlement. | “Reports indicate that the orig- | inal demands that the Automobile Workers Union be recognized as the sole bargaining agency for all of those employed in the General Motors manufacturing industry were | abandoned,” Mr. Green declared.

| other union or

| mitting to you

|or enter into agreements with any

representative of

letter of Jan. 4, without first subthe facts of the situation and gaining from you the

sanction of any such contemplated |

procedure as being justified by law, equity or justice towards the group of employees so represented.” The letter was signed by William S. Knudsen, executive

finance chairman.

LEGION TO SPONSOR PARTY Service Post 128, American Legion,

| is to sponsor a benefit euchre and | bridge party at 8 p. m. tomorrow in | the Oaklandon hall. | includes Dr. Harold M. Jones, Brad-

The committee

ford B. Evans, Iris Linder and Mildred Reynolds.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY |

Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. | Advertising Cluh of Indianapolis, lunch- | eon, Columhia Club, noon ! Sigma Chi, luncheon, Boara of Trade, | noon | American Business Club, lumbia Club, noon. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat Temple, |

toon Indiana Motor Traffic Juncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon. Real Estate Board. annual night,

dianapolis Athletic Club,

MARRIAGE LICENSES (Incorrect addresses frequently =&re given to the Marriage License Burean deliberately. The Times in printing the official list assumes no responsibility for such addresses.)

fllis Radcliffe, 22, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Mary Ruth Webb, 18, of 2867 N Denny St. Edward C. Horst, 23, of 2940 N. Delaware | St.; Josette Yelch, 24, Riley Hotel. | Coy Martin, 22, Lawrence, Cora David21, Lawrence. Breier, 32 . R. 1; Mary XK. of 1139 Churchman Ave. Jayne Fiscus, 30, Lincoln Hotel: Faye Verne McComiskey, 20, of 232¢ N. Harding St, Francis .. Tracey. 41, Hotel; Doloris Lingham, Pennsylvania St.

luncheon, Co-

Association,

| dinner, In- |

Fair Ground 42, of 1503 N.

BIRTHS Girls Harry, Edith Bauer, John, Julia Cochran, at 715%; S. Elvis, Edith Neely Herman, Gertrude Staten,

at 2544 Brookside. East, at 660 S. Illinois. at 2834 Bur-

ton Walter, Mahalie Wilson, at 414 Cleveland Turner, Alice Silcox, at 419 W, Norwood. Eli, Minnie Ballard, at 1202 Beecher. Edward, Marcella Weeks, at St. Vi cent’s. Fdd, Frances Lomax, at St. Vincent's. Mary Porterfield, at St. Vin-

Leanore Davidson, at St. Vin-

Ralph, Ferne Rossetter, at St. Vincent's. Meredith, Nettie Osborne, at St. Vin-

nt's william, Ellen Forsyth, at St. Vincent's. Rov. Nora Niehus, at St. Vincent's. Noble, Marea Below, . Vincent's, Lucian, Connie Hunt, at 532 N. West. Thomas, Almeda Williams, at 2858 Boulevard Place. Major, Helen Hughley, at 2738 N. Oxord.

Bo Paul, Dorothy Row Edward, Margaret

cent’s Blaine, Helen Harris, at St. Vincent's. Clarence, Ida Kidwell, at St. Vincent's, Burrel, Ruth Shrake, at St. Vincent's William, Frances Bradway, at St. Vincent’s Ravmond, Oleta West, at St, David. Mary Miller. at St. Francis, Dorothy Huffman, cent's

Paul, Amelia Hedge, at 1% Karcher, George, Velva Watts, at 4411 Caroline. Carl, Mary Gearld, at 2508 Woods. Edward, Jean Linne at 2188 N. Gale. Alvines, Lucille Kinnebrew, at 346 (ora. Jesse, Freda Hendricks, at 422 Leeds. DEATHS Nancy Lee Hayworth, 5 months, at City, marasmus, Wilbur George, 15, at Riley, bronchopneumonia,

vs . Vincent's. at St. Vin-

at St Fisher,

Vincent's. Vincent's. at St, Vin-

John Metzger, 79, at City, carcinoma.

Stella O'Daniel, 50, t y WM at City, broncho-

R. Frank Reynolds, 67, at 2033 Broad.

Vay, angina pectoris. Charles Newott, mitral regurgitation Mattie Whitney, 59, at 1048 N. carcinoma

Henry Hillsman, 75, .at 43 Frank. chronte

57. 5750

Belmont,

| myocarditis,

Isaac Hinton, 70. at acute cardiac dilatation. George Hafford Byrum, 30 Walcott, acute mvocarditis. Winifred Naney, 60, at setts, crushing of skull. Charles Milner, 171, pneumonia. Neal Bell, 48, plexy, Mervin Kenneth Thompson. 19. Blaine, pulmonary tuberculosis.

3130 N. Arsenal,

at 17 N.

at City,

at 1425 Lafayette, apo-

at 1317

OFFICIAL WEATHER

bee United States Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow: rising temperatures; lowest tonight about 28.

.. 6:48 |

Sunset vise TEMPERATURE —Feb. 11, 1936— 2 1D Ha

BAROMETER . 30.33 1D. Mm.....

Sunrise .... 5:16

Thm... Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 2. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1.......,...\

MIDWEST FORECAST Indiana--Partly cloudy tonight and Friday: rising temperature. . INlinois—Partly cloudy day; rising temperature, Lower Michigan—Partly cloudy to cloudy tonignt ana Friday, rising temperature. Ohio—Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; slowly rising temperature. Kentucky—Partly cloudy tonight Friaay, slowly rising temperature. WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT Station, Weather. Bar, Clear 26

tonight and Fri-

and

TAM Amarillo, Tex. Bismarck, N. D. Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland LCenver “a Dodge City, Helena, Mont, Vii Jacksonville, Fla. ... Kansas City, Mo. ... Little Rock, Ark. Los Angeles . Miami, Fla, Minneapolis Clear Mobile, Ala. ......... New Orleans ..... New York . Okla, City, Omaha, Neb. Pittsburgh Portland, Ore. San Antonio, Tex. ... San _Prancisco St. Louis ea mpa, a. uay ashing¥on, D. C.....Clear

vice | | president, and Donaldson Brown,

Carrollton, |

759 Massachu- |

broncho- |

| tended,” he said unofficially. “A city | { cannot license for purposes of rais- |

ing revenue, It will have to be

Judge Karabell is an advocate | of traffic reform. He has been firm with speeders and drunken | | arivers whe faced him in court. | Verdict Held Doubtful

{and

ously favor or reject it. e Board.

right, under State law, to purchase install such meters, but that may not be purchased with license or gasoline tax

they vehicle money. The Los Angeles City ruled meters illegal on established principle

“wel the

the that

| streets are public thoroughfares to |

be used for travel and are open to

{all citizens alike.”

Banned in Wichita The Wichita (Kan.) City Attorney

held that Kansas cities were without | | authority to enact a parking meter lordinance | revenue would be clearly

because the estimated 4 out of proportion to enforcement costs.

Indianapolis may be the first city

| in this state to try the mechanized

parking system. The attitude of the Indiana courts cannot be predicted. The Mayor realizes he's started something. PASTOR TO BROADCAST The Rev. George S. Southworth.

| Advent Protestant Episcopal Church | rector, is to speak on “National De-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Attorney

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CHANGE MADE IN 6-DAY BIKE

‘Length of Daily Grind Is Cut To Conform With Marathon Law.

(Sports Story, Page 20)

A six-day bicycle race scheduled

next week will be instead six days of bicycle racings, to conform with a 1930 antimarathon ordinance, it

was announced today. President James W. Putnam and the race promoters, Joseph A. Tobin, Charles A. Wolfe and George Har- | vey, said racing would be held 11 | hours and 45 minutes each day in-

| stead of around the clock.

nam said, would permit gymnasium

schedule. Racing will start each afternoon at 2:45 o'clock and continue until 2:15 a. m. the next day. The opening gun will be fired at 12:01 a. m. Monday.

TEXT ANNOUNCED ON 6. M.-UNION ACCORD

Discrimination Barred by Agreement.

(Continued from Page One)

collective bargaining agreement contemplated pursuant graph 2, all opportunities to achieve a satisfactory settlement of grievance or the enforcement

any strikes or other interruption to lor interference with production by the union or its members. There shall be no attempts to intimidate or coerce any employees by the union and there shall not | be any solicitation or signing up |of members by the union on the | premises of the company. This is [not to preclude individual | cussion. 8. After

the evacuation of its plants and the termination of the strike the corporation agrees to | consent to the entry of orders dis- { missing the injunction proceedings | which have been started hy ihe corporation against the union or any of its members, or

any of its locals, including those

pending in Flint, Mich., and Cleve- |

land, O., and subject to the approval of the court to discontinue all contempt proceedings which it has instituted, thereunder.

GUARD IS TRIPLED AT FLINT PLANTS

1300 Sit-down Strikers Await Word to Leave.

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news. The men inside the plants will vote upon acceptance of the | terms as a prelude to any evacua- | tion.

Cheers Great News

Apathy and | greeted first

which trace

skepticism word of the

| changed during the morning to ju- |

| bilation. Strikers sang and cheered | the news hours before it was to be- | come official with the signature of

| General Motors officials and U. A. |

W. A. leaders,

In the military zone, two Na-

Institute of Municipal Law Offi- | fense” over WIRE at 4:30 p. m. to- | tional Guard trucks, a machine gun

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| mounted atop each, patrolled hilly

| first in a series over that station | Chevrolet Ave. between the Fisher

and Chavrolet plants.

RAGE PROGRAM

| at the Butler University Fieldhouse |

This arrangement, President Put- !

classes to be held for students on

to Para- |

any | of | any demands by negotiation shall | be exhausted, before there shall be |

dis- |

officers or |

Budget Requests Today;

Senate Labor Committee In Favor of Exams for Police and Firemen.

(Continued from Page One)

| passed. The measure is pending in the House. | Other developments today: Introduction in the House of the 1 $63,612,910 appropriation bill for 1937-39. Merit Bill Pushed

2. Approval by the Senate Labor Committee of a bill to establish a merit system for all Indiana City Police and Fire Departments, 3. Approval by the House Roads

seven auto tax distribution bills. 4. Introduction in the Senate of | Administration amendments to the 1936 Public Welfare Act. 5. Favorable report by the House Organizations of Courts Committee on bills to change criminal and civil | court procedure and prohibit “am- | bulance chasing.”

House Supports President

6. Passage by the House, 74 to 19, of a Senate resolution urging the Indiana Congressional delegation to support President Roosevelt's judiciary reorganization program. The resolution was sent to the Governor. 7. Introduction in the Senate of bills to free municipally owned utilities from all taxes and al cities to acquire utilities without the consent of the Public Service Commission. 8. Passage in the Senate of a House bill prohibiting sale of prison- | made goods on the open market in competition with private manufacturers. The vote was 39 to 0. | 9. Introduction in the House of a | bill eliminating the emergency [clause in the $1-$1.50 tax limita- | tion law.

Amendments Outlined

Under the present Unemployment Compensation Law the workers’ rate is nine-tenths of 1 per cent of total | wages. This would be eliminated ‘under the proposed labor-supported amendment.

Indiana is one of 10 states which |

requires workers’ contributions for job insurance, Proposed amendments to the Public Welfare Act, introduced by Senator Claude B. McBridge (D. Jeffersonville) would:

(a) Establish minimum qualifica- |

tions based on education or experi[ence for county public welfare department employees. The state would pay 50 per cent of county departments administrative costs.

Child Aid Planned

B. Clarify procedure for placement of crippled children in hos+pitals, and provide for reporting of congenital deformities within 30 | days after the birth of a handicapped child.

C. Give temporary assistance to |

Propose Personnel List

County boards would be required to select personnel from an eligible list of county residents approved by the State Department. | The Hause indefinitely postponed la bill to permit bar admissions | through Circuit Court orders. Committees representing than 100 colleges, churches and hos-

Legislature Will Receive

Merit System Approved

more |

| |

Appropriations Increased In Bill Prepared by | Committee.

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tion of which is provided in acts|

creating the funds or accounts.” An example is the State Highway Commission, which is maintained out of gasoline taxes, Building Program Involved The proposed equipment and structures increase of $1,653,340 is to

| provide a building program for state | | institutions,

which the committee | said constituted “one of the most perplexing problems confronting the

| > » Committee of the Administration's | State.

The Governor's safety progra.n, a “must” for this session, would require, the committee said, the addi-

force in each of the next two years. The $151,575 increase in the Adiu-

tant General appropriation would replace withdrawn Federal funds.

schools will be granted an increase of $2,250,000.

for the State Health Board. This is to match Federal Public Health Service funds for general public

ties, Dr. Verne K. Health Director, said.

Increase of $229,700 in the Gross Income Tax Division would provide for 50 new field workers to tighten enforcement,

Estimated receipts from gross income taxes are $20,000,000 yearly, State teachers would share in approximately one-half of the revenues, With 20,200 teaching units in the | State, each teacher now receives $500 yearly from State-aid. Proposed switching of $2,100,000 in auto license funds to the State Highway Commission's road funds is held responsible for the decrease.

The Governor favors raising the State's share to $800 vearly. A bill

Harvey,

| Commission to raise teacher aid to $700 per unit, Decline of the State's estimated budget balance from June 30, 1937. to 1939, is listed in the appropriations bill at $15,470,089.98. as | June; $12,952,748.98, June, 1938, and | $9.880,330.98, June, 1939.

| Bill, at yesterday's committee hear- | ing. | Members of both houses are to meet Monday night in the IndianIo Athletic Club to discuss the ills.

| The associations claimed the bill | would discriminate unfairly between | commercial trucks and those Dpri- | vately owned.

ministration's proposed changes the Gross Income Tax Law, offering retailers a $3000 exemption, failed to materialize at the first public hearing on the measure last night. Rep. Hardin S. Linke (D. Columbus), House Ways and Means Committee chairman, said he hoped to hold another public hearing soon.

tion of 50 men to the State Police |

If the budget is approved, State |

An increase of $69.400 is provided |

health programs in local communi- | State |

may be introduced by the Tax Study |

of |

Anticipated objections to the Ad- | in |

COURT REFORM BILL CHANGES T0 BE OPPOSED

Compromise Unacceptable to President, Say Close Sources.

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to remain ready to perform services which the Chief Justice might ree | quire, The House debate broke out when { Rep. Byron Harlan (D. O.) took the floor to urge a two-year trial of the President's plan. His remarks drew quick fire from | dissenting Democrats and Repube lican critics of the plan.

‘Common Man’ in Favor of Court Change, Minton Says

By Ncvipps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-—Senator | Minton (D. Ind), a pioneer sup= porter of the Roosevelt court proposal, said today that, judging from | his mail, opposition to the plan comes largely from the “embossed stationery group.” “Those who write on common note paper, with either pen or pen | cil, and represent the economically | dispossessed whom the President is seeking to restore to their birthright, are for him 100 per cent.” Senator Minton said.

RALLY PROTEST ON COURT CHANGE SET

‘Mass Meeting to Be Held

Here Sunday.

| | A mass meeting protesting any | change in the United States Sue preme Court is to be held in the Murat Theater at 3 p. m. Sunday, it

was announced today. George A. Barnard, Newcastle, is to be one of the speakers. An at=tempt is being made to have James | A. Reed, former U, S. Senator from | Missouri, address the meeting by lelephone amplification. The Society for the Preservation of American Ideals and Form of Government, a new organization, is [sponsoring the meeting, according |to C. K. Gregg, who is to be acting chairman.

COUNTY ROAD REPAIR WORK BEGUN TODAY

| Repair work on crumbling county | roads was started today by county | commissioners and highway workers, A load limit of two and one-half | tons, truck and load, was placed on | all county roads other than con= | crete. All available trucks and men | were put in service, including some | WPA trucks. Wet weather, freezing and thaw= ing have caused surfacing of the roads to break.

| pitals today protested the bill to tax |

| their property in a meeting with Governor Townsend. Over two trucking associations’ protests the House Roads Committee today reported favorably seven auto tax distribution bills to | give the State Highway Commission | $3,000,000 in added revenue. | The Indiana Regulated Highway Carriers’ Association and the In- | diana Motor Traffic Association pro- | tested one of them, the Weight Tax

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