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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 298

The Indianapolis Times

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1937

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UNION RECOGNITION THREEDEADIN

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CHRYSLER CORP.

Tear Gas Interrupts Meeting at Detroit. WORKER BEATEN U. A. W. Chiefs Plan To Send Request to Walter Chrysler.

By United Press DETROIT, Feb. 22 -—Recognition of the United Automobile Workers was demanded of the Chrysler Corp.

today after a mysterious tear gas|

demonstration disrupted a union meeting called to celebrate the latest move to unionize completely the automobile industry. Chrysler officials, awaiting formal word from the union, reserved all comment upon the announced union objective,

Their plants at the present time |

operate on a company union basis. U. A. W. A. members, however, oc-

cupy a majority of the union posts. |

Richard T. Frankensteen, local U. A. W. organizer, announced that

Chrysler, head of the corporation, “and he can turn it over to any one he wants to.”

Police began an intensive investi- |

gation of the tear gas episode, which came as workers and their families were marching into the Fair Ground Coliseum after a “victory” parade which started in front of the Ford Motor Co.'s big Highland Park plant Light bulbs containing a powder which, according to investigators, generated tear gas when exposed tn heat, apparently were thrown into ventilators. In the ensuing confusion, George Vargo, a worker in the Dodge division of Chrysler, was seized and beaten by believed him guilty of the attack. Vargo Rescued Riot calls brought 25 policemen to the auditorium. Mr. Vargo was rescued and taken to a hospital where he was treated for cuts and bruises. He was released later. Paul W. Fuller, Ohio steel organizer for the C. I. O. declared that Mr. Lewis’ organization planned next to tackle steel, then the textile industry. Meanwhile, he predicted, the United Mine Workers would win a 30-hour week and increased wages in negotiations now under way with soft coal operators. Homer Martin, youthful U, A. W. president, who led the strike against General Motors, claimed that the union had a membership of 75,000 in Detroit alone and soon would be one of the largest labor organizations in the country. Mr. Frankensteen announced that only one demand would be made

upon Chrysler—that the U., A. W./|

be recognized as sole collective bargaining agency.

Perkins and Horner

May Call Conference WAUKEGAN, Ill, Feb. jeint invitation from Secretary Labor Frances Perkins and

22. of

ties in the Fansteel sit-down strike may be the move to break the deadlock in con-

ciliation efforts, parties close to the!

negotiations said today.

Police Guard Cleveland Fisher Plant

CLEVELAND, Feb. 22 —Extra police today guarded the Fisher Rody Co. plant in fear of a clash between Committee for Industrial Organization members and unorganized workers, Police sped to the manufactory after a report that C. I. O. unionists would block entry of workers not wearing United Automobile Workers’ union buttons.

BOB BURNS

Says: H .& Peb. 2N.-1

think one of the biggest mistakes a person can make is tryin’ to judge the guilt or innocence of a person by the expression on their face when theyre suddenly accused of somethin’. Nine times out of ten, the innocent party will look a lot more guilty than the one actually guilty of it. That's because the guilty person is on his guard. He's had a chance to build up an innocent lookin’ front. I had an uncle down home who prided himself on his ability to read facial expressions. He's a member of the school board and not long ago, the school board was makin’ an inspection of the school and the teacher wanted to show the men how much the children knew. The teacher called the children in, one at a time, and would ask a question and as soon as the child would answer, he would leave the room and another one Was called in. Well, everything went along fine until they called one boy in and the teacher says “Who blew up the Maine?” The little boy says. “I didn't,” and he left the room. My uncle jumps to h's feel and says, "Call that boy back in here —1 don't like the look on his face.

I pelieve he done it!” (Copyright, 1637)

OLLYWOOD,

telegram containing the demand | would be sent directly to Walter P.|

INDIANAPOLIS IS MADE AFTER WRECKS

Nine Killed Over State as County Death Toll Rises | To 28. |

Labor Heads Seek to Arrange Parley At Anderson.

TROOPS REDU

Hearing for 19 Out] On Bond Set March 10.

SIX ARE INJURED HERE

CED 18 Accidents Recorded in City During WeekEnd.

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MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE | Times Special | 1937 ii Ris TTC Cadeting BR { ANDERSON, Ind, Feb. 22.— [1936 . Union leaders today were arranging | |a meeting with officials of General | z..idents . Motors Corp. subsidiaries to bring | pead an end to the long-standing labor | 14 sured | dispute here. y | Victor Reuther, United Automo- | | bile Workers organizer from Flint, | February 21 and 22 announced plans for the parley as| Preferential street 19 union men, arrested after a |Speeding .... shooting more than a week ago, | Reckless driving .. ; ‘is | were released from jail under bond. | Running red light ..... ........ Meanwhile, military forces have | Drunken drivin | been reduced. Col. Albert H. Whit- | Others

| comb, National Guard commander, | ER said more than 100 troops were re- | With the death of three persons | lieved of duty yesterday and that | Over the week-end, Marion County's | only 180 remain in Madison County. | traffic toll for 1937 was brought io] | He said the situation is such that | 28 today, 13 more than at the same martial law may not be needed | time last year. | much longer, He said he would con-| Nine other persons were killed in | fer with Governor Townsend on the | the state and nearly a score injured. | | telephone again today. { Six more were injured in 18 .cciLifting of martial law here by to- cents here. Police arrested 56 for | morrow night was indicated after | troops loosed a general offensive

workers who |

| the Governor and Adjt. Gen. Elmer F. Straub conferred at Indianapolis. The Governor gave the latter a proclamation lifting martial law,” to be issued formally as soon as we | deem it wise.” serted by the Adjutant his discretion. It was indicaied that may be withdrawn tomorrow if a union mass meeting tonight is not {marked by any disorder. Martin to Speak Mr. Reuther said Homer Martin, | U. A. W. president, would speak at the meeting at 8 p. m. In the new union headquarters at Ninth and Central Sts. He said a permit for the meeting would be asked of Col. Whitcomb. Mr. Reuther said Edward Hall, U. A. W. vice president, and George Addes, national secretary and treasurer, were here yesterday. Circuit Judge Charles BE. Smith set March 10 as the date for the

General at

Sixteen face charges of riot, rout and malicious trespass and three are charged with riot and rout. | Freed Saturday | They were freed from jail Sat- { urday night on bonds totaling $8800. | Union leaders greeted the men on their release, and they were guests

Dates are to be in- |

guardsmen |

19 union men released from jail to | appear or be represented in court. |

| today on the front south of Madrid |

and official dispatches them advancing all along the line. t+ It was asserted that storm troops captured La Maranosa, alleged traffic code violations and continued their warnings to pedestrians. Early today Miss Sara Law Warder, 19, empioved bv E. P. HartIman, 5153 Sangster Ave. was struck |as she stepped around a bus at 52d | St. and Sangster Ave. | Howell Brooks, 28, 1508 N. La- | Salle St., driver of the car, carried | her into the home of Robert Lewis, 1747 E. 52d St. She was dead when Dr. Norman R. Booher, deputy cor-

oner, arrived. |

Held for Questionnig Mr. Brooks, who said the girl ran in front of his sedan, was ordered held for questioning by Dr. Booher. | Miss Warder came to Indianapo[lis last spring after graduation from | Mount Auburn High School near her home at Edinburg, Ind.

She is survived by her parents,

| Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Warder, Ed-

inburg; two sisters, Mrs. Ray Mil- | ler, Indianapolis, and Lena, Edin(Turn to Page Three)

reported |

Loyalist |

AUST ADVANGE ~~

TH REPORTED.

‘Madrid Claims Gains Along

| i L0Y (at a dinner at union headquarters. | Mr. Reuther said 13 of the men re- | 10 SOU

leased were from Flint and have returned to the Michigan city to | 20 back to work. About 250 persons attended a | mass meeting yesterday when Col. Whitcomb warned that if martial |

Gov- | ernor Horner of Illinois to rival par- | Metallurgical | next |

law is returned, after once lifted. | regulations necessarily will be more rigid. He said onlv mild martial law now is in force ang thanked citizens generally and civil author-

dling the labor situation.

‘Anderson Witnesses ‘Reach Washington

Times Special

WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 —Wit- | nesses from Anderson were here (o-

day prepared to offer evidence be-!

fore the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee. But it was considered unlikely the General Motors Co. case | before the committee would reach |the Indiana witnesses before late | this afternoon or tomorrow, it was said.

{| By United Press

MADRID, Feb. 22 Loyalist

Cif [15 miles south of the capital, at | ities for their co-operation in han- [4 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), and |

|that troops were advancing all along a battle line that ran from | the capital to the Arganda sector, | 16 miles southeast of Madrid, along { the vitally important Valencia road. The Loyalist attack was started |at dawn, on a beautiful spring- | like day. upon personal orders of | Gen. Jose Miaja. Mi: ja ordered general staff mem[bers into the field to take direct | charge of operations. | The Loyalist battle line extended over a twisted 37':-mile front, | Heavy machine gun fire from new | weapons taken into the Rebel (Turn to Page Three)

January, March and

April

Visit City / Over | Week-End

OCAL TEMPERATURES . ‘ R6 10 a. m.. AB Ham. 29 12 (Noon) 31 1pm.

| Since Saturday, the weather has run the gamut from winter to May, not forgetting April showers Saturday, and March winds yesterday. Today the sun sat in the sky and smiled over the city, or maybe it was just grinning at the leveled trees, and utility poles, and the huddled coat collars. | This winter, without a single zero temperature recorded, has carved Just as imposing a career for itself as last winter. And Look at the Rain For instance: Last year fooled around all summer with the water fall problem, dallying through 80 days without getting around to raining. So far this year, the winter has accumulated an excess precipitation over normal of 4.72 inches, and comes close to wiping out the deficiency of 6.53 inches last vear ended with. And if you could gather together all the degrees of temperature this year has provided above normal, you would burn biscuits in an outside brick oven. January accounted for 153 degrees, and so far February has been 40 hotter than was expected. Yesterday, several trees were

| blown down in the city and police and utility repair crews spent busy hours guarding and repairing fallen power lines.

Motorists who ventured out on the roads found the wind was a capricious back seat driver who threatened every once in a while to shove them off the highway. Police were called to guard several large plate glass show windows in the downtown area that were cracked by the push of the wind.

The official temperature was not unreasonably low yesterday afternoon, but the wind pointed it up and drove it into your face and through yowr coat and made it seem deep winter.

Just a Bit of Snow

There was a touch of snow for a while, but it was driven almost horizontally and looked as though

it never would get to the ground. Today the wind was gone with yesterday, and there only a light breeze. It was cold and likely will remain cold all day, the Weather Bureau said. Tomorrow it will get warmer, All of which proves there are several ways for weather to get into the headlines and that last winter's whimsy of simply getting much too cold and staying that way is only one of them. That was just a sitdown strike,

Road to Valencia. |

Rescued From Flame-Swept Home

—Times Photos by Colterman.

fire today.

i 43 N REE2

Interior of fire-wrecked home.

F.D.R. Leads FAIR TRADE MEASURE U.S.inHonor IS PASSED BY HOUSE

To W ashington Bill Banning ‘Loss Leaders’ = Sent to Townsend.

(Editorial, Page 12: “Washing-

ton’s Supreme Court,” Page 11; .- Other Stories, Page 3.) s | The House today passed and sent

{to Governor Townsend the Senate By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb, ~President Roosevelt leads the nation to-! day in commemorating the 205th

Jarlier, the House killed the anniversary of the birth of George | Barliet s

, first Presi | “Square Foot” Tax Bill, which IndiOl escent of oc Pp merchants claimed would place

Mr. Roosevelt will make his an- | ® $4,000,000 annual burden on busi-

nual pilgrimage to Mount Vernon | Ness and also raise living costs $10,Scios ihe Potomac River for a O0GION, ect flood relief brit was e i 3 { 1e [II's s jive 5 "Washiigion's. tomb Rt| troduced by Senators Claude B. Maj. H. B. Smith, a White House | McBride (D. Jeffersonville) and Wilmilitary aid, placed a wreath, bear- liam B Janes (D. New Albany). It ing the President's card, at the base would appropriate $500,000 from the of Washington Monument earlier State General Fund for rehabilitain the day. | tion of Jeffersonville. hd Local chapters of Revolutionary It also provides that city funds War societies will hold a joint cele- | could bration in Memorial Continental | gard! Hall. Assistant Secretary of State | the State R. Walton Moore will speak. {ilar measures ar The House and Senate meet at troduced for other noon to hear Washington's Fare- | Cities. well Address read in the House by | Rep. Edward L. O'Neill (D, N. J.), | Later today a joint committee was and in the Senate by Senator |to determine what portion of the Lodge Jr. tR. Mass.) social security costs the All Government offices and |gtates is (0 assume. This issue schools were closed. Store declared | prought threat of an Administraa half holiday. tion-Farm Bloc split. FEE The House advanced to third

i reading Administration-spon-Hoosiers Tus Par} Feadine eae hn tax property

deeded to religious, educational or Hoosiers paused today to pay

| fraternal institutions on which : ! ities ar id to the original tribute to George Washington gn [ snnuiues Ble pa 2 the 205th anniversary of the first | Ot her measures dealing with tax President's birth. F : acted to Teliive q exemptions are expecie > Business went on as usual, but | final legislative approval soon. for school children, bankers, city (Turn to Page Three) and county employees and many : State and Federal employees it was

a holiday or half holiday, ‘WILLARD E. JACKSON, Banks were closed. City Hal COAL DEALER, DEAD

29 aa

use of “loss leaders.”

ess of the budget and without Tax Board's consent. Sime expected to be inflood -stricken

Split Is Threatened

counties’

offices were closed all day. Some offices in the State House were A closed, but the Legislature wag in sessicn as usual. Offices in the Federal Building were to close at noon. Special delivery and parcel post departments at the PostofTice were to remain. open all day, There was to be only one mail delivery Washington's birthday was oh. served in many churches yesterday Luncheon clubs meeting today wee to pay honor to him while a nym. ber of clubs and organizations planned functions for tonight,

Willard E. Jackson, proprietor of the J. & I. Coal Co. 2012 N. Rural St. died today. He lived ai 37 E. agth St. He had lived in Indianapop » last 25 years. [Pe Son is survived by his wife, Hazel C.; his father, Willard E. Sr. Waco, Tex.; two brothers, Bertram and Basil; two sisters, Mrs. Ennis Hazlewood, Memphis, Tenn., and Mrs. B. F. Agger, Waco. Services are to be at 3 p. m. Wednesday in the Flanner & BuDebicon Steaks! Balanced Meals, |chanan Funeral Home, 25 W. Fall Charley's Restaurant, 144 E. Ohio (Creek Blvd. Burial is to be In

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BLAZE CAUSES

| threatened filibuster tactics. | | In line with the move to speed up|

Cut Off by Flames, Flees Through Window With Wife and Daughter.

2-WAY PLAN ON COURT REFORM BE PUSHED

Senate Committee Sets Dates for Open Hearings.

President May Ask For Constitutional Amendment.

FEAR FILIBUSTER SUPPORT LIKELY,

Given Move May Win Aid Of Progressives In Congress.

‘Approval Is | To Retirement Measure.

(Editorial, Page 12) (Another Story, Page 18) By HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.— ‘The Administration today was | reported to be considering a ‘plan to couple a constitutional ‘amendment with its Supreme | Court rejuvenation bill. Such a double-barrelled program, some of the President’s advisers believe, would | draw much more support from the Progressives in Congress than the | present Supreme Court plan has, | particularly from such influential | men as Senator Norris (Ind. Neb.)

By l nilted Press WASHINGTON, Feb | The Senate Judiciary Commit(tee decided today to start pub- | lic hearings on President | Roosevelt's Judiciary Reor- | ganization Bill March 9 in an ‘apparent effort to speed its

consideration in the face of

de | | | |

Senate action, Speaker Bankhead of the House said that should the Senate act first on President Roosevelt's judicial reorganization program, it | would meet with approval of the | House leadership.

taking first for-

The committee,

Fire believed to have started from | jo enlargement of the Supreme ‘an overheated furnace early today | Court to possibly 15 members, also | destroyed the home of Dr. Lyle | voted 13 to 5 to report favorably to tr . [the Senate the House-approved bill | Gant, 4627 Carvel Ave. He esti- for voluntary retirement of Supreme mated damages at $7000. Court justices at 70 on full pay. He discovered the fire about :

land Edward A. O'Neal, American Farm Bureau Federation president,

0 Retirements Hoped For

There were some Congressional

justices might

Arm Cut by Glass

They ran to the home of Dr. Gant's parents, 1214 E. 46th St, |

, is | Southern farm from where the Fire Department | White House for | was called.

| the rear door and received a deep |

cut on his arm. his week. | By this time the flames had burst | taken up generally believed that through the roof. | hearings would not be prolonged Dr. Gant went to the basement, | ,.4 that the measure might reach where he rescued his pet bulldog, | the Senate by late March or early {| Pooch. The dog earlier had been April—depending on whether oppowhining, Dr. Gant said. but he | nents of the plan employed delaying

spokesmen to the a conference on

{mal action on the measure provid- |

leaders who indicated hope that re- |

led a delegation of Midwestern and |

immediately so that it might be

It would also meet onz of the major arguments against the

| “trickiness™ of the Supreme Court | Bill, by putting the issue up to the | voters via the method of state elec | tions of delegates to ratifying cone | ventions—the method used in prohie | bition repeal. The wording of such an amendment is a perplexing problem. One group, the “National Commite | tee for Clarifying the Constitution by Amendment,” headed by Grace Abbott, former chief of the U. 3. Children’s Bureau, is meeting here today to discuss the form of amendment necessary.

National Conference Scheduled

A larger group, headed by New York and Washington liberals and laborites, has scheduled a national conference here March 18-20, under | chairmanship of Senator Norris, to discuss the same problem. The proposed new Administration strategy of a double program would be designed to force the hand of those who have recently demanded a constitutional amendment as the “honest” way tc make possible such social and economic legislation as the Supreme Court now forbids. Miss Abbott put this sentiment into words today in commenting

{ failed to heed the apparent warnling. | Little Susan did not awaken until | she reached the home of her grand-

suffered severely from exposure.

| Dr. Gant's home was built a year | 14a). Burke It was a one-story, brick ve-| nn nev)

| ago. neer structure with six rooms,

| cotir | parents. With her parents she had | ate report on the House retirement

Senators Borah (R. (D. Neb.), Pittman Steiwer (R. Ore.), and

| measure were:

May Force Decision

| Fair Trade Bill which defines honest | competition and would prohibit the |

: | King (D. Utah). | He said the loss was covered par-| Tho committee voted down

ally by insurance. | amendment by Senator Borah

{ which would have stricken out a

| section of the bill making retired BOY 11 HELD AS | justices subject to recall for duty ) J : |in lower courts. KILLER OF FATHER It also voted down an amendment

v Senator Pittman which would | ‘Only Meant to Wound Him,’

by a two-thirds vote, to recall retired justices to duty. A proposal by Senator King to delay action for a

an |

have permitted the Supreme Court,

Lad Is Quoted.

By Uilited Piess \ ELWOOD, Ind, Feb. 22-—Ray Small, 39, a tin plate worker, lay dead today—victim of a bullet alleged to have been fired by an 11-year-old son he had scolded. The boy, Claude, was held Sheriff Harry Gosset at Anderson.

| “I only meant to wound him in | : be spent for rehabilitation re- | the shoulder, but he turned just as| Committee today.

[I shot,” Claude is alleged to have | told authorities who found him at the home of relatives, 15 miles away. Three smaller children—Robert, 3; Mary, 2, and Lois Ann, 8 months —were asleep when, police claim, Claude crept from his bed shortly after midnight Saturday intent upon running away from home. He had hidden a 22-caliber rifle and some clothing on the back porch before retiring, officials reported.

week wag rejected.

VanNuys to Suggest Court Bill Division Times Special | WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. —Senator | VanNuys said he would offer his | motion to divide the Administration | | Court Reform Bill into two parts at a meeting of the Senate Judiciary

This would separate the plan to increase the size of the Supreme | Court from that part of the kill calling for more speedy actior on | constitutional cases. | Senator VanNuys is opposed {to | the former and supporting the latter. He will not press for an immediate vote in the committee, he said, and predicted that it would he some | time before any court bill is actually |

reported out of the committee.

{ (Tarkington Text, Page Two) | A majority of Indiana lawyers are opposed to President Roosevelt's judiciary reform proposals, according to results of a referendum conducted by the Indiana State Bar Association. Approximately. 4500 attorneys and judges in the state were asked to vote. The results were announced today by Thomas C. Batchelor, association secretary. Lawyers opposed any increase in the number of Supreme Court judges by a vote of 2149 to 590. They opposed changes in lower Federal courts by a vote of 1797 to 859. Results of the poll, believed by Mr. Batchelor to be the iirst of its kind conducted in the country, were announced without comment by any officer of the Bar Association.

Indiana Lawyers Oppose Court Reform Proposal

| said there was no comment because | the organization had not assembled in convention since the proposals were made and will have no opportunity to act upon the question until the annual meeting in July. In its letter to lawyers and judges, asking that they return their ballot by mail, the association explained that it had not taken and would not take any stand upon the question. Results of the poll also were mailed to Indiana Senators and Representatives. President Roosevelt, in his proposal to revise the Supreme Court, is following the dictatorial tactics | of Huey Long. according to Rep. | Samuel B. Pettengill, Third Dis- | trict Democrat. He spoke at a meeting in Murat Temple yesterday when protests |

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Support by Mr. Roosevelt of a constitutional amendment in addie | tion—if one could be agreed upon | —would force these Republican and | right-wing groups to oppose or supe | port such an amendment, which | might be a difficult decision to make and to justify. | Meanwhile 1t is confidently ex- | pected that the bill permitting retirement of Supreme | Court justices, already passed by (the House, will be taken up and | passed by the Senate this week. But no one expects any of the over-age justices to retire under it, at least not until the curreng session ends late in May. One reason is that it would look like surrender. Another is that a. quick retirement might upset the work of the current term. The Court's rulings in the Wage ner Labor Act cases, now under advisement, are counted upon to determine what form of constitue tional amendment will be necese sary—particularly if the amendment redefines Congress powers.

{ voluntary

TWO FACE COURT FOR MURDER SENTENCE

By United Press BROOKVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 22.— Joseph Poholsky, 35, former Penne sylvania coal miner, and Frank Gore Williams, ex-convict, alleged slayers of Capt. Harry Miller, ree tired Cincinnati fireman, faced sen= tencing today in Franklin County Circuit Court. Both pleaded guilty to the crime in a hearing before Judge Roscoe C. O'Byrne Feb. 3.

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