Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1937 — Page 1

Indianapolis Times

je: FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorjow; not much change in temperature.

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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 81

EL FIRM

INDIANA QUIZ OPENS

Lewis Orders Out ‘Miners; ‘Armies’ Built Up.

OHIO PARLEY SET

NLRB Inquiry for Inland Steel Is Won by Union.

By United Press CLEVELAND, June 14.--Company and union leaders in steel strikes from Pennsylvania to| Illinois grimly prepared today for a new crisis in the GQ. I. C. campaign to win signed contracts: from four big independent companies. Of greatest immediate concern to strikers, employers and state officials wag the danger of renewed violence in| event of: 1. Resumption of large-scale C. I. O. picketing at the Newton Steel plant. at | Monroe, Mich., where pickets were dispersed last Thursday by a vigilanis tear gas attack. 2. Attempts by companies to reopen picket-besiezed plants of Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube or Inland Steel.

Warn o! Violence

Warnings of danger of “violence” came from Youn:stown, where Ray Thomas, attorner for the Youngstown Sheet & Tule Independent Society of Workers warned both steel officials and C. I. O. leaders fhat “thousands of men who have been illegally deprived of work here cannot be trusted forever to do nothing about it.” Thomas claimed that 9000 workers had signed a back-to-work petition and he said they were “near a stage of violence.” 7 “I don’t expec! anything to come -out of tomorrow’: peace conferences with Governor Nartin L. Davey at Columbus,” Thon:as said. Organization of citizens’ volunteer groups, threats of general strikes in Ohio cities, mobilization of special police and the placing of heavy guards around Republic plants operating at Warren and Niles, O., and Monroe indicatec the danger of violence in event ¢ a showdown between pickets and back-to-work groups. Two week- endi developments cut to the center of ‘he steel strike issue of whether tI = big independents will sign contrac s.

Labor Board Orders Hearing

The National Labor Relations Board ordered a iearing in Chicago on a union complaint that Inland Steel refused to sign a union contract. The union alleged the company had violated the labor relations act. C. I. O. Chairrian John L. Lewis ordered a strike by 9500 miners in so-called “captive” coal mines owned -by Republic, Youngstown Sheet & - Tube and Bethichem Steel Corp., which was drawn into the strike by an effort to close its Cambria plant. Lewis urged officials of seven states involved to close down steel plants still operating despite the strike.

reported on strike as the maneuver started in an effort to cut off the coal supply of the big independent compan =s refusing te sign contracts. The city of Monroe continued to be a focal poin! in the strike developments. Mayor Daniel Knaggs asserted that about 100) volunteers were ready to preven: strike vialence if necessary should the C. I. O. leaders carry out their threat ito resume (Turn to Page Three)

BOB BURNS

Says. June 14.—You

people in other ines of business are purty lucky. When you get through with your day’s work you can forget all about it till ihe net ony, bs ople in e newsp 5s Pox mob business have to keep on our toes all the time because Wwe never know when we're -goin’ to run into a big piece of news. I used to work on the Press Argus back home, and one Sunday

Hugh Park, the||

editor, went to church and he got in in the middle cf the sermon. He listened ©

out down to the

hat and dashed Press

—editorial chambers of the Argus. “77e called us all in, and when we were assembled he says “What's the matter with jou fellows? What have you been doin’? How about ‘the news from the seat of the Big War?” And we said “What news?” And he says “Why, all this about the Egyptian Army bein’ drowned in the Red Sez!” He says “The minister up at the church knows all about it—you Dooys haven't had a word of it in the Press Argus. Now get busy and zet out an extra edi-

tion!” (Cop. right, 1937)

‘Townsend Institutes Anderson Probe; 9 Shot.

CONCLAVE FADES

Governors Frown on

Conference Here On Problem.

Anderson's latest labor disturbance in which nine pergons were wounded yesterday, today was being investigated personally by Gov-

efor Townsend.

| As the Governor began his inquiry, he saw his hopes fading for a conference here of Governors of four states in which there are steel strikes.

i Mr. Townsend todayk according to State Labor Commissioner Thomas Hutson, invited executives of Ohio, ichigan, and Illinojs to confer with fim here tomorrow - to attempt to establish ia basis peace. !

Governor Davey of Ohio said at Columbus he could not attend hecause of a previously arranged labor conference.

for negotiating

Horner Unfavorable

Governor Horner, Illinois, said at Springfield that he probably would be unable to come here. A reply has not been received from Governor Murphy of Michigan. : Governor Townsend - indicated that the National Guard would not be sent into Anderson again because “I don’t feel there is any need for that yet.” All information gained in his investigation will be turned over to the Madison County Prosecutor, the Governor said. “I'm deeply shocked by this lack bf tolerance and I hope the bitterness will not be carried any further,” he added. “Order must be maintained in Indiana.”

Unionist Blamed For Anderson Firing

By United Press ANDERSON, June 14.—An attorney for the Delco-Remy Employees’ Association. said today he had obtained signed affidavits from “several” eye-witnesses charging a United Automobile Workers official fired a gun into the crowd yesterday in a battle in which nine were wounded. Attorney Phil O'Neil said charges of assault to kill would be filed tomorrow and he would turn the affidavits over to Prosecutor Cecil Whitehead. Meanwhile 13,000 union. and nonunion employees of the Delco- -Remy and Guide Lamp companies re(Turn to Page Three)

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4 UNIVERSITIES STATE GIVE

309 DEGREES

Butler, diane) DePauw Hold Graduation Exercises Today.

TOWNSEND AT PURDUE

Dr. Bryan Delivers Final Address This Evening At Bloomington.

XY total of 2309 seniors were awarded degrees today and yesterday by four Hoosier universities. At Butler University here, Presi-

dent James W. Putnam presented diplomas to 326, graduates, who heard Dr. Thomas V. Smith, University of Chicago, speak on “The Promise of American Politics.” Greencastle—Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, former president, returns to lead DePauw University’s centennial commencement exercises in Bowman Gymnasium. Lafayette—Six hundred sixty Purdue graduates, including 45 from Indianapolis, urged by Governor Townsend to be. “hopeful, truthful, tolerant, liberal, self-reliant, socially conscious and genuinely interested and active in government.” Bloomington — Faculty members and degree candidates await Indiana University commencement exercises this evening and the last offi-

cial | address of: ‘President William

Lowe Bryan.

326 at Butler

Receive Degrees

Degrees were awarded to 326 graduates in the 82d annual Butler University commencement in the Field House this morning. Diplomas were presented by President James W. Putnam following an address by Dr. Thomas V. Smith, University of Chicago. Speaking on “The Promise of American Politics,” Dr. Smith said: “The trouble with many good citizens is that they are good for. nothing.” The good citizen that is good for something is made so by a skill which at once integrates ‘his own character and engages him at the same time both a living and a life. “To conceive private goodness in this functional manner is to reveal the necessity for a public group of people skilled at knitting together individuals separated by specialized skill and groups made hostile through minute division of labor. Specialization makes imperative specialists at things in general to hold society together,” Dr. Smith said. . “Such specialists politicians are. They specialize at understanding diverse points of view and bringing them together through the high arts of compromise. “The good citizen looks askance at compromise, but without it his interest will either dominate or be dominated by other interests. “For the good citizen to recognize the indispensable service of the politician and for the politician to recognize the possibility of improving politics—these two would be to establish and further the promise of American politics,” Dr. Smith concluded.

$100,000 Gift Announced

At the annual meeting of the university’s board of trustees Saturday, a gift of $100,000 by the Christian Foundation toward erection of a College of Religion for Butler was announced. The university already had $150,000 earmarked for the new building. The fund was raised by John W. Atherton, secretary-treasurer of the institution, from among Disciples of Christ: Churches throughout the state. The College of Religion, founded on the old Butler College campus in’ Irvington, formerly was housed in the College of Missions building in Downey Ave. When the university was moved to Fairview, the College (Turn to Page Three)

| climb a few degrees higher.

MONDAY, JUNE 14,

Mercury Up After Year's ‘Worst Storm’

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6 a. 67 10 a. m... 7 a. 69 11 a. m... 8 a 71 = 12 (noon). 75 1pm

kid 8 79 81

m m... 3 m 9am...

lowed what the Weather Bureau termed the most: severe electrical and thunder storm of the year. Trees and shrubbery were felled in all parts of the city. Rain brought the precipitation here during the last 24 hours to nine-tenths of an inch. The mercury reached 78 at noon and the forecast was that it would Fair weather for tonight and tomorrow. Storms were general throughout the state, the bureau said. At the office of the Marion County Agricultural agent here, it was said there ‘had been little damage to crops. The Weather Bureau said that electrical storms preceded rains in every area. Heaviest precipitation was reported from the Lafayette district, a total of 1.81 inches.

20 HURT AS WIND RIPS INTO TOWN

‘Mellott, Ind., Counts Damage After Tornado Sweeps Mile-Wide Area.

Times Special | MELLOTT: Ind. June 14.—Na- | tional Guardsmen today patroled the roads’ to halt sightseeing here after & tornado had partially wrecked a schoolhouse and church and injured an estimated 20 persons, Thirty troopers from Attica were called out by Adjt. Gen. Elmer Straub. They will be ‘on duty until WPA workers arrived to clear the wreckage, he said. Early reports that the storm damaged a five square mile area were reported to be exaggerated by local authorities. The storm swept through this small rural community’ of 312 persons yesterday, causing unestimated damage. Four of the injured were rushed to a hospital at Danville, Ill. They were Mr. and Mrs. Will Parkerson and their two daughters, Wilma and Catherine, who were buried under the wreckage of their home. Physicians and nurses were called from surrounding towns to treat others less seriously injured. Roads were blockaded by fallen trees, utility poles and power lines.

By United Press NEWCASTLE, Ind. June 14.—A heavy windstorm struck the city early today causing an unestimated amount of property damage. The storm, which hit most heavily in the northern section, uprootea trees, shattered window panes, and caused considerable other small property damage. :

13 KILLED IN HOOSIER WEEK-END MISHAPS

Nine Are Traffic Victims; One Drowns.

(“Toward Simpler and Safer Driving,” Page Nine.)

Thirteen persons lost their lives in Indiana week-end accidents, ihcluding nine traffic victims, a drowning, a child killed by a traction car, a man struck by lightning and two killed by trains. Two men were held here today as the Coroner’s office investigated a crash early. yesterday on Mann Road near the Southport Road in which Gilbert Willoughby, 23, of 117 S. Pershing Ave. was killed. Local authorities sought to identify ‘a man killed in an auto acci-

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Climbing temperatures today fol-

1937

BASQUES FLEE AS REBEL FIRE DOOMS BILBAO

Battle Rages in Streets: Shelfs Crumbling Loyalist City.

FALL AWAITED HOURLY

Britons Radio Government Troops Lay Down Arms Before Attack.

By United Press BILBAO, June 14.—Bilbao and its environs crumbled today under a terrific blast from Rebel artillery, aerial bombs, machine guns and trench mortars. Machine guns and bombs raked the streets of the Basque capital it-

self, while a steady stream of refugees poured northward. All Loyalist positions were under fire. The Basques resisted desperately, while the city was in the midst of an inferno of noise, smoke, flames and the dust of explosions. The Rebel commandant at Irun said a part of the Rebel army was entering Bilbao as Basques retreated to set up a new provincial capital al Santander.

Rebels Claim Bilbao Taken

ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France, June | |

14.—The van of the victorious Rebel army entered the outskirts of Bilbao today under cover of a furious artillery bombardment and airplane attack .in which the planes rained machine gun fire and hand grenades into the city’s streets: Rebel radio reports said Bilbao “was taken.” Small patrols already were engaged in close fighting in the suburbs, but the main Rebel army was not expected to attempt entry before tomorrow. British warships off the city radioed that 11,000 Basques had laid down their arms and that the city was surrendering.

German Munitions

Clear Austria INNSBRUCK, Austria, June 14.—The last of four ammunition trains sent from Germany to Italy has passed through Austria, it was understood today. : The trains were sent sealed. German authorities advised Austria the trains contained ammunition. Reports were the ammunition was

not for the Spanish rebels but des- |

lined for Naples, Spezia or Genoa for German ships.

—— U. S. PLEA GRANTED PHILADELPHIA, June 14.—The Federal Government today was granted its plea to have a threejudge Federal Court decide on its right to prosecute the $222,000,000 Aluminum Co. of America under the Sherman antitrust law.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Relief Funds Bill Approved By Committee

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 14.—The Senate Appropriations Committee today voted unanimous approval for the $1,500,000,000 Relief Appropriation Bill, carrying the controversial “localities - must - contribute - 40 -

per cent” clause and continuing the

life of Public Works Administration

for two additional years. Continuance of PWA was voted when the committee, prior to final approval of the bill, decided to accept the amendment proposed by Senator Hayden (D. Ariz.) authorizing ‘use of the PWA-RFC “‘revolving fund” until June 30, 1939. The amendment would give PWA approximately $300, 000, 000 to continue its program. Senate leaders ila the bill probably will be called up for floor consideration tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, June 14.—The Senate today passed and sent to the House the Murray-Hatch resolution providing for a special national unemployment and relief commission to investigate causes and cures for unemployment.

SEARCH ESTATE FOR SOCIALITE

Federal Men Turn to Sammis Property in Hunt for Parsons Clues.

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By United Press STONY BROOK, N. Y., June 14.— Authorities seeking to solve the disappearance qf Mrs. Alice H. Parsons from her husband’s 1l-acre squab farm today searched an estate she was believed to have visited with two strangers on the theory that she might have been slain. Mrs. Parsons, scoordinz to one version of her disappearance last Wednesday. left her home with a middle-aged man and woman to show them through the Sammis estate at Huntington, in which she owns an interest. A few hours later a note démanding $25,000 ransom was found in the Parsons automobile. Police went through the 13-room residence and several outbuildings, searched two cisterns and examined the grounds without finding any clues. A similar search will be made of “the terrain surrounding the Parsons property” here, Inspector Earl J. Conelly of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced. Conelly said ‘that 100 persons would participate in the search, including State Police, deputy sheriffs, Boy Scouts and Federal police. William H. Parsons, husband of the missing woman, requested that newspaper men and photographers not participate in the search. For the first time since Mrs. Parsons’ disappearance became public, he performed his chores today unaccompanied by a. gallery of reporters.

Ft. Friendly’s Old Glory Flies Again on Flag Day

(Photo, Page Three)

. While silken flags atop buildings waved today—the 160th anniversary of Flag Day—a tattered banner, wind-beaten, flew at the 45-foot mast in front of Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois St. Each time before it is hoisted it receives a “goiffg-over” with needle and thread te make it hang together for new homage from the few surviving G. A. R. veterans. Mrs. Maude Schaefer, the Fort’s matron, said the Civil War veterans and auxiliaries are counting funds and figuring on a new fog before next Flag Day. First Flown in 1777 Just 160 years ago today Congress authorized this nation’s flag. It was first flown Aug. 3, 1777, from Ft.

Stanwix, Rome, N. Y. Three days after it was unfurled it was under fire in the Battle of Oriskany. Hanging a flag today? : Then this is Ft. Friendly’'s advice: The flag should be displayed from sunrise to sunset.

Displayed other than from a staff it should be flat with the union, or blue field, to the observer’s left.. The flag should never be used with festoons, rosettes or drapings. When displayed over the center of a street it should be suspended vertically with the union to the north in an east-west street, or to the east in a north-south street. If shown with another flag, on crossed staffs, the United States banner should be on the right, and its staff in front of the other uag.

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SENATE REPORT

URGES DEFEAT OF COURT BILL

Roosevelt's Judiciary

‘Utterly Dangerous’;

Revision Plan Called Majority Seeks to

Block Future Changes.

4-EVILS CITED IN REFORM PROGRAM

White House Measure Eranded as Threat to Constitution and Step Toward ‘Autocratic Dominance.’

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By United Press

"WASHINGTON, June 14 ~The Senate Judiciary Come mittee today called upon Congress to defeat President Roose-

velt’s “utterly dangerous”

Supreme Court reorganization

program “so emphatically that its parallel will never again be presented to a free American people.” The committee majority presented the most controver-

—®sial

EARHART LEAVES ON JAUNT TO INDIA

By United Press ASMARA, Eritrea, June 14.— Amelia Earhart, American woman round-the-world flier, left Massawa, on the Red Sea coast, for Asia today. With Fred Noonan, her navigator, Miss Earhart left Massawa at 6:15 a. m. (9:15 p. m. yesterday—Indianapolis Time). She made for Karachi, India, flying along the Arabian coast between the great desert pad the Arabian Sea.

TAX PROBE AIDS

T0 MAP COURSE

Joint Committee Leaders And President to Draft Procedure Today.

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 14 ~A joint House-Senate committee of eight Democrats, three Republicans and one Progressive made final plans today to begin, probably Wednesday, an inquiry into methods allegedly used by wealthy Americans to evade or avoid Federal taxes. Senator Harrison (D. Miss) and Rep. Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.), chairmen of the Senate and House groups on the committee, were to confer with President Roosevelt this afternoon to discuss final details of procedure. Six members of the House were named by Speaker Bankhead to serve on the committee. They were Doughton, and Reps. Thomas =H. Cullen (D. N. Y.), Fred M. Vinson (D. Ky.), Jere Cooper (D. Tenn.), Allen T. Treadwell (R. Mass.), and Frank Crowther (R. N. Y.). "The Senate members of the committee, named Saturday by Vice President Garner, are: Harrison, King (D. Utah), Walsh (D. Mass.), George (D. Ga.), Capper (R. Kas.), and La Follette (P. Wis.). Session Set Tomorrow The joint committee is expected to meet in executive session tomorrow to discuss final details of the hearing. Of particular importance will be the committee's aecision regarding publication of names of alleged tax evaders. The first open hearing of the committee is expected to be held Wednesday, with Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau as first witness. Morgenthau is expected to submit names of wealthy persons who allegedly used various devices to escape Federal levies.

VICTIM OF ANDERSON

son, was wounded slightly.

OUTBREAK . . . .

George Abel, one of the victims of yesterday's outbreak at Ander-

SCENE OF FRAY . .

A broken window in the union hall, Shots allegedly were fired from

~ this fire escape.

PELLETS PIERCE WINDOW |, . ,. . . .

* Shotgun pellets splattered against this, building.

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Times Photos. Two pierced the

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constitutional issue of many years to the Senate in a formal report that denounced the Administration judiciary bill as tending to: 1. Obscure the “real purposes” of the Administration. 2. Undermine the American cone stitutional system 3. Punish the Supreme Court by forcibly and unconstitutionally subjecting it to the will of the execu= tive department. 4. Break down constitutional safee guards - feamiss. “autocratic domie nance.” But the Yopors approved by 10

of the 18 members of the com<

mittee, was far more than an ade« verse | recommendation against the hill. Language Concise

Into its pages went the words and philosophy of some of the Senate's most famous legal authorities. In clear, concise language that only occasionally indicated the intensity of the Senate conflict or the drama of a high hour in consti tutional history, the majority report set up the argument advanced by the Administration in support of the bill and then sought to demolish it point by point. It ‘went, too, beyond that province gently to remind the Supreme Court that it must “take account of the advancing strides of civilization”; that if the time comes, the nation by constitutional amendment may fix definite terms for judges or set a compulsory retirement age. Buf most emphatically, the Committee majority insisted that the issue tossed into Congress last February by the President must be met and rejected in a manner that would protect an independent judiciary as long “as this Government stands.” : “This (bill) amounts to ndthing more than the declaration’ that when the Court stands in the way of a legislative enactment, Congress may reverse the ruling by enlarging the Court,” the majority report said. “It applies force to the judiciary. It is an attempt to impose upon the courts a course of action, a line of decision which, without that force, without that imposition, the judiciary might not adopt. .. . Con=stitutionally, the bill can have no sanction.

Not Above Constitution

“No amount of sophistry can cover up this fact. . . . This/is the first time in history of our country that (such) a proposal has been so boldly made. i “Let us meef it. Let us set a salutary precedent that will never be violated. - “Let us, the 75th Congress, in words that will never be disregarded by any succeeding Congress, declare that we would rather have an in dependent Court, a fearless Court, a Court that will dare to announce its honest opinions in what it be lieves to be the defense of the liberties of the people, than a, Court that, out of fear or sense of obligation to the appointing power, or factional passion, measure we may enact. _ “We are not judges of the judges, We are not above the Constitue tion.” The majority of the committee,

. approving the: report, was:

Wiliam H. King (D. Utah), Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind. ) Pat McCarran (D. Nev.), Edward R. Burke (D. Neb.), Tom Connally (D. Tex.), Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), William E._Borah (R,

Ida), Warren R. Austin, (R. Vt), #

Frederick Steiwer (R. Ore.) and Carl A. Hatch (D. N. M.), who re= served the right to vote for a come promise proposgl he originated.

Hatch Files Statement

" Hatch filed a separate statement in which he said: “It is not intended to depart in any degree from the recommendation of the majority report of the committee. In that recommenda tion, I join. cl “It has been my thought that the principal objectigns set forth in the majority report ‘can be met by proper amendments to the bill:

with sufficient safeguards, i can, :

he made a constructive piece of legislation, not designed ’ for the (Turn to Page Thise)

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