Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1937 — Page 1
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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 85
STEEL BOARD ASKS ~ CURB ON VIOLENCE;
MEETS
U. S. Promises Relief To Men Made Idle By Walkout.
WORK MARCH SET
Senator Holt Demands S. W. 0. C. Report Expenses. |
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(Editorial, Page 16) | By United Press | The newly appointed Federal Steel Mediation Board joined with local officials in strike centers today to ward off increasing danger of picket line violence before
peace negotiations can begin.
Charles P. Taft, board chairman, expressed hope that proposed back-to-work: marches in Pennsylvania and Ohio steel cities, carrying the threat of violent contact with strengthened picket brigades, could be delayed until the three-man board his an opportunity to act. The board will start work in Cleveiand tomorrow. Secretary of Labor Perkins telegraphed Governor Davey asking him to maintain peace in strike areas during the work of the mediation board. She said she expected “that you and other Governors will act with wisdom and fairness to this end.” . Miss Perkins dispatched two department conciliators to Cleveland to assist the steel board.: They were James F. Dewey, who goes back to Ohio from Washington, and Robert F. Pilkington, transferred from Chicago. - ‘Biss Perkins’ telegram to Davey was in answer to his request to
President Roosevelt yesterday ask-
ing Federal intervention in the seven-state strike. In Washington, the Federal Government decided to provide: relief" for an estimated 85,000 steel work. ers, strikers and nonstrikers alike, who have been made idle in seven states. Strikers Eligible for Relief David Niles, Assistant Works Progress Administrator, said | the WPA did not recognize the difference between strikers and nonstrikers. He said relief would be made -available to the idle on the basis of need. Mr. Niles’ announcement followed a Washington conference with Philip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, and Lee Pressman, counsel for the C. I. O., with which the S. W. O. C. is affiliated. These men heard Senator Holt (D. W. Va.) demand that the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee submit to the Senate Postoffice Committee a full financial statement, disclosing all receipts and expenditures. Holt made his demand during testimony of Murray who appeared to support the demand of Senator Guffey (D. Pa.) for a full inquiry into the current steel strike. Guffey’s proposal is an amendmeht to the suggestion placed before the committee by Senator Bridges (R. N. H.) for an inquiry into interference with “the U. S. mails by strikers. Senator Bridges presented to the ostoifice committee a | telegram from Sheriff Ralph E. Elser of Mahoning. County, Ohio, denving charges that Republic Steel Corp. paid salaries of his deputies. Leaders of nonstrikers demanding a| return to the Ohio mills expressed doubt that “the men will stand | for delay.” Ray, Thomas, counsel for a Youngstown nonstriker ovement, said that “our program isi going through. The back-to-work pressure is increasing. Something must be done soon.” IMr.| Taft said the question of advancing formal proposals, of offers
_ to arbitrate and of other procedure
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'M'GRADY LANDS | Trio Expected to Find | Middle Ground ‘If It Exists.’
. (Photos, Page Three) By HERBERT LITTLE
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 18.— Three of the most experienced labor-capital mediators in the country went to work for President Roosevelt today in the steel strike crisis. The fundamental question involved “is whether or not the companies will sign a contract embodying wages and other conditions upon which both sides are agreed —a question which appears to be impossible of compromise. . But if any middle ground can be found, Charles P. Taft II, Lloyd K. Garrison and Edward F. McGrady will find it. ; McGrady, summoned home from a labor conference in Geneva to participate in Federal mediation efforts, arrived in New York today on the. Berenzaria confident that the strike will be settled and hopaful that the settlement will come soon. “Of course the strike will be settled,” he said. “And the sooner the better for American industry.” McGrady said he would go at once to Washington and confer with Secretary Perkins before {lying to Cleveland tomorrow. Chairman Taft is 39 and a Republican. He has served as Cincinnati lawyer for Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers (Turn to Pagé Three)
POSTOFFICE BODY
Suppressed Reels Subpenaed for Riot Probe.
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Times Special WASHINGTON, June 18.—Congress has become movie-conscious. A newsreel showing the shooting and clubbing of Chicago steal strikers by police, which Paramount has suppressed lest its public showing incite violent reprisals. has already been viewed by the Senate Civil Liberties Committee, and another copy of the film has now been subpenaed by ‘the Senate Postoffice Committee. Nine | persons were fatally wounded in| this incident. A second film of the Chicago shooting, taken by a clergyman and seized by police, is also being studied by the La Follette committee. Another film, depicting violence by strikers, is to ke shown to the Postoffice Committee by Senator Bridges (R. N. H.). Two projection machines have been set up in. the committee's hearing room. The Paramount film of the Chicago shooting was shown here June 10 to the Civil Liberties Committee and some. 15 committee employees and Labor Board officials in the Paramount projection rcom. It was run three times. One man who saw it explained its effect—and Paramount’s reason for the suppression —by saying: “It made me: want to go out and bite a policeman.’
SEEKS STRIKE FILM,
REBELS’ SIEGE BARS RETREAT FOR LOYALISTS
Curtain of Shellfire Cuts off Basque Defenders In Bilbao Area.
PLANES DROP BOMBS
Italian Ship Reports Attack From Air Off Coast Of Algiers.
By United Press REBEL FIELD HEADQUARTERS, OUTSIDE BILBAO, June 18. —Thousands of Basquz Loyalist soldiers still in the Bilbao area virtually were cut off from retreat today by a shattering bombardment along the Nervion River.
There was a curtain of fire all the way from Bilbao to the sea. Great shells dropped down on the river and could be seen exploding in the country far behind along the Loyalist line of retreat, including the Santander highway. Airplane bombs and mortar shells alternated with the shells of big. guns. Italian “Black Arrow” units reached the ‘east bank of the river. Reynolds Packard of the United Press war staff,’ who .was in this sector, reports the Italians at once threw up barricades along the bank | and began exchanging a hot fire with Loyalists along the west bank. Artillery fire against the Loyalists was so fierce that the concussion of the firing shattered windows in houses all around the batteries. John De Gandt, of the United Press staff. accompanying another force of Rebels, watched the capture of the important Arcanda hill just north of Bilbao—one mile from the nearest houses.
‘Inquiry Ordered
In Mystery Blast By United Press VALENCIA, Spain, June 18.— Loyalist authorities ordered an investigation today of a mysterious explosion which crippled the Jaime Primero, only bdttleship in the Spanish Navy, -and caused more than 120 casualties. The battleship was in harbor: at Cartagena yesterday afternoon when a terrific explosion occurred. Fire raged thrcugh the ship and was put out only after a fight of many hours. ] Rescue workers took off more than 100 wounded and found 18 bodies. Loyalists authorities believed there must be more in the ship's interior. Most of the wounded suffered
| burns.
It was announced the explosion was an internal one. Evidence of its nature may be obtained from a film which was being taken at the moment of the explosion by an official aboard a ship of the International Neutrality Committee.
Santander Is Next, Rebel Broadcast Hints
By United Press " HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, June 18.—Rebels swung a strong force southwest of Bilbao today and reports rose. they might move rapidly westward, pursuing the Loyalists and leaving Bilbao for deliberate reduction by starvation. The Rebel broadcast: by radio from Vitoria, northern headquarters, asserted today that Bilbao’s fall depended entirely on the order of the high commard—that it could be taken in a matter of hours or in a month. It was explained that Bilbao was no longer considered an important military objective and the Rebels considered it more important to strike at Santan-~-.
GIBRALTAR, ie 18. — The Italian steamship Madda reported today an attack on the ship by two airplanes off the Algerian coast in which a bomb did slight damage.
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1937
Germans Make Drastic Shifts In Naval Posts
Ry United Press . BERLIN, June 18. — A drastic Navy shake-up was announced by the Government today, involving the commands of three battleships, four cruisers and the post of naval attache at three world capitals. Admiral Hans ‘Langer, commandant of the battleship Deutschland when it was bombed by Spanish
QUIZ ORDERED ON CHARGE OF “INTIMIDATION
Karabell Demands Inquiry In Case of Accused Woman Autoist.
Loyalist planes in the Balearic. Islands, was relieved of his command and made commander of fortifica- | | tions in the North Friesland district | —a shore post. New commanders were named for the Deutschland, the battleships Admiral Graf Spee and Schlesien, and the cruisers Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Koeln and Nuernberg. The naval .attaches at London, Paris and Tokyo were transferred. There was no explanation of the changes.
FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT DEAD
Doumergue Became Premier at 70 . After Stavisky Scandal.
By United Press PARIS, June 18.—Gaston Doumergue, who at 70 years of age took charge of the Government when the Stavisky financial scandal rocked the nation in 1934, died today of heart disease at his birthplace, Aiguesvives, near the Mediterranean coast. He had just returned from a short walk ‘in his garden when he collapsed. He was France's first Protestant President. “Gastounnet,” as he was called, teached what seemed the climax of a long political career when in 1924 he went from the presidency of the Senate to the Elysee Palace as President of the Republic. He smiled his way through 15 Cabinet crises during his seven years as President. Two weeks before his term ended, M. Doumergue; an apparently firm bachelor, married at the Elysee Palace Mme. Jeanne Graves, his childhood sweetheart. Stavisky Scandal Breaks He went to his Provence to live, near his birth house, at his bride's chateau. : Three years later Sacha Alexandre Stavisky, a mysterious financier, committed suicide. A scandal whose repercussions are not yet.over was precipitated. Stavisky had defrauded hundreds of thousands of pecple of many mils lions of dollars by fake bond. issues and other devices. Soon mobs were raging through the streets of Paris, threatening the Government and Parliament. Police shot into them and many were wounded or killed. The Government fell. M. Doumergue consented to form a national “salvation” government. He lasted 16 months until there was a fight over the budget that led to his fall,
HAPGOOD AIDS SEEK STRIKE LAW CHANGE
By United Press
AUBURN, Me., June 18.—Leaders of the 85-day Auburn-Lewiston shoe strike today considered” & proposal to seek an amendment to liberalize the state injunction law against labor disputes. The proposal was advanced at a strikers’ mass meeting yesterday by Norman Thomas, national chairman of the Socialist Party, after visiting Powers Hapgood, New England €C. I. O. secretary sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of an anti-strike injunction.
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BOUND TO GRAND JURY
Taxi Driver's Story of
Threat Is Basis for Action.
Municipal Court Judge Charles Karabell today demanded a complete investigation into alleged attempts to intimidate witnssses in the case of Mrs. Florence Davis, 36, charged with the hit-run death of a 14-month-old baby.
Mrs. Davis was bound over to the Marion County Grand Jury on manslaughter and hit-run charges, while charges of drunkenness,
drunken driving and driving in a |’
safety zone were continued against her in the lower court until July 15. Total bond was $6200. s In refusing to reduce this bond Judge Karabell said: “If I had my way I would bind her over to the Grand Jury and not fix any bond, but that is not the law.” Stories Are Similar
A taxi driver, motorist and police*
officer told substantially the same story of the accident, and the taxi driver, Edwin Walker, 459 Highland Ave. Nadded that attempts had been made to intimidate him. At 9 p. m. on June 3, the Condit family, father, mother, three - children and a nurse, was standing in a safely zone on Virignia Ave. near Stevens St. A speeding car lurched into the zone, knocking all of them down, the men testified. Walker and Nobel Harlos, who was driving home from work at the time, pursued the car. Walker finally forced it to stop. All three identified Mrs. Davis as the driver and said she appeafed to be intoxicated. Later Walker said two men approached him and said ‘they didn't want to hurt him, but that he had better not testify.” Inquiry Is Ordered Harlos also was approached, he said, but no threats were made. Judge Karabell instructed detectives to investigate these charge and
. make arrests if they were true.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Condit, 1204 Finley Ave. the parents, Betty Lue and Ralph Wayne Conduit, sister and brother, and Miss Ruby Mennic, a nurse employed by the family, were injured in the crash which killed the infant.
C. J. MORLEY DENIES SWINDLING CHARGE
State to Use 85 Witnesses; Venire of 25 Called.
C. J. Morley, former Colorado Governor, today plead not guilty when arraigned before Federal Judge Robert Baltzell on charges of operation of a “bucket shop” brokerage office. % Morley was one of five defendants in the case. He said he would be ready for trial Monday, and was released on $5000 bond. Eighty-five witnesses, some from Denver, are to testify in the case. Morley was president of C. J. Morley & - Co. alleged “bucket (Turn to Page Three,
INJURIES ARE FATAL "By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind, June 18.— Arthur Groves; 46, a farmer of near Columbia City, died in Methodist Hospital last night of injuries received when a horse kicked him.
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BRING LIE MACHINE INTO KIDNAP CASE
Federal Men Say Detector Is ‘Routine Equipment.
By United Press STONY BROOK, N. Y., June 18. —Federal agents pressing the | search for Mrs. Alice McDonnell! Parsons brought a lie detector into the case today, but disavowed any intention of using it on witnesses already questioned. The agents described the lie detector as routine equipment in kidnapings. They frequently have expressed dissatisfaction, however, with the stories told by those close to the missing society woman. A conference of leading investi- | gators with Frank McDonnell, brother of Mrs. Parsons, was scheduled for today. One official said the entire search “might take on a diffcrent aspect if McDonnell furnishes us with the story we believe he has.”
G-Men Join “Parsons
Search on Island CHILMARK, Mass, June 18.— Two G-Men arrived in this village on Martha’s Vineyard Island today to join in the investigation of the latest clue in the disappearance of Mrs. Alice McDonnell Parsons, Long Island heiress. The Department of Justice agents came from the mainland by coast guard boat as state troopers and coast guards completed a fruitless house-to-house search for the mysterious tipster who telephoned police that Mrs. Parsons was on island. Meanwhile, it was learned that the description of the tipster tallied with that of a man said by State Police to bz “involved” in the disappzarance of the woman.
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A determined band of 250 men, including a detail from the CCC camp at South Huntington, L. I, made a thorough search oyer the Parsons estates at Stony Brook, L. I, in an effort to locate the missing
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Jennings Puts Nonrelief WPA Posts in New Group
Former Bookkeeping System Abandoned in Favor of
Cost Accounting.
director, declared today that Wayne
Coy, former administrator, had lumped salaries of local nonrelief “white costs rather than under the head of
Starting July 1, Mr. Jennings said, all these salaries, which now aggregate approximately $500,000 annually, are to be charged to a new classification called ‘general project supervisory expense.” » Washington officials
said| Mr. Coy had made a national record for low administrative costs. in | 1936, apparently because of this bookkeeping system. : WPA administrative expenses for the entire country ranged from 3.4 per cent to 4.6 per cent, while Mr. Coy had a showing of 2.4 per cent for administration, it was said. During the last political camSenator VanNuys publicly charged that many of these nonrelief local project bosses were political appointees using their influence to give the State Administration control of the State convention: : :
Thinks System Will Spread
Mr. Jennings predicted he may be able to effect a 15 per cent reduc-
tion in the personnel of this class of employees as a result of his new classification system.
Most of the 250 bosses whose salaries Mr. Jennings charged were placed in “project costs,” were receiving an average wage of $140 a month, he said. The group includes local project supervising timekeepers, head timekeepers, area engineers and certain. project engineers and superintendents:
“By making this change in supervisory personnel our administration of the state-wide WPA program will be more centralized in the State Headquarters than heretofore,” Mr. Jennings said. “By so doing- we will know exactly what we are doing and what this part of the work is costing. We may be able to bring about a greater saving later on.”
INDIANS OPPOSE MILLERS TONIGHT
Logan to Pitch in Opening Tilt of Home Stand.
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Bob Logan, who has won ‘six games and lost two, will carry the mound burden for Indianapolis baseball team tonight when it opens a four-game series with the leagueleading Minneapolis Millers. . The Tribe is a game and a half back of the Bushmen and one-half game behind the second-place ‘Toledo Hens, = | yk The game under the Perry Stadium lights is scheduled to start at 8:15. It ‘will be ladies’ night. A single tilt is to be staged tomorrow night and two Sunday afternoon. Minneapolis has displaced | Louisville as the Indians’ traditional rival and there usually is plenty of fireworks when the clubs get together. Ie The Millers hold a 6-to-4 edge over the Tribe on the early season clashes and the Redskins hope to gain the upper hand in the current
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The Federal Theater opening, “Biil of Divorcement,” scheduled
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noon was postponed until July 2 by Dr. Lee R. Norvelle, State project director. The action followed receipt of a telegram from William P. Farnsworth, National project officer, or-
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WEALTH TRACED
Committee Is Told of Foreign Setups by Financiers.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, June 18.— Seven wealthy United States residents were named today by Treasury officials who told the joint House-Senate committee on tax leak probes ways in which numerous citizens were dodging tax obliga tions. Many of the means were legal, Treasury officials emphasized, calling for new legislation to block such pos-
sible leaks in the law.
Those named at the hearing today were: :
Charles Laughton, film star. Phillip’ de Ronde, Paraguayan counsl in New York City.
Jules S. Bache, New York banker, Col. Jacob Schick, razor manuface turer. i oy Minne Groves, New York finane cier, Perry K. Hudson, former member of the New York Stock Exchange. George Westinghouse Jr. ‘Elmer Irey, chief of the intelli= gence unit of the Internal Revenue Bureau, said Mr. Laughton's action “may be perfectly legal,” but cited the case to support’ the Treasury's request that Congress pass "“prace tical legislation” to close income tax loopholes. Other Names Asked
Senator La Follette (P. Wis.) asked whether any other names were available. “We are still working on our ine vestigation but have not full dee tails,” Undersecretary of Treasury R. Powell Magill said. {For example, there is the case of George Westinghouse Jr., who former a three-million-dollar core poration in the Bahamas. He res ports one year from British Colum= bia, another from the Bahamas, another from Jamaica so there is no catching up with him.” Mr. Westinghouse was not immediately identified and no further details were given.
Senator La Follette moved the Treasury be required to file 1 names with the investigating bod! y as it developed further data. The motion was carried without a dissenting vote. “I see no reason why certain ine dividuals should have their names brought out and not others,” he said. “otherwise we can be charg with discrimination.”
Methods Not Illegal
It was emphasized to the Co mittee that the methods used by the taxpayers named were not n essarily illegal. Only in the case of de Ronde, a former president of the Hiberni Trust Co. of New York, did Irey impute illegality to the meth ; employed. He said de’ Ronde “owed the Government $33,000 in Income taxes” and offered to settle the amount with a Payment of $1700, stating he could not affo d to pay more. "This happened a day after had received a $250,000 commissi which he deposited in a personal hoiding corporation which he had formed in the Bahamas months before,” - Mr. “That was illegal. to us under oath.” De Ronde got his commission in a $109,000 check and $150,000 in culrency. Mr. Irey said, alr Mr. de Ronde may still think it wise to file an income tax return to| cover this situation,” Mr, Irey said. Undersecretary Magill said the case is now in the hands of the legal division.” Senator Harrison (D., Miss.) said de Ronde should be invited to come before the Committee to disclose the names of the stockholders of the corporation he formed. “If he doesn’t come by invitation, (Turn to Page Four)
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