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FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1937
DIVORCE WHEELS SPIN HERE .
Judge Herbert E. Wilson, Superior Court 5, grants a divorce to one of the 375 divorce
plaintiffs being heard this week.
RIOT WITNESS DENIES POLICE DEFENSE PLEA
Chicago Pickets Clubbed by Officers, Reporter Tells Senators.
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looked particularly for them, among about 1000 marchers. He estimated that 10 per cent of the demonstrators were women. Instead of marching with “military precision” police witnesses, the demonstrators walked “like picketers,” Beck said. He did not hear them singing the “Internationale,” Communist anthem, as alleged by the police. He heard only a chant, “C. I. O, C. IL. 0.” One policeman had said the
the
strikers were so loud and hysterical |
that he believed some were Marihauana cigaret addicts, and that others had been drinking.
Beck said he stood close to Capt.
Thomas Kilroy as the latter urged the column to turn back. He identified himself in a picture taken at this point, just prior to the outbreak. The marchers crowded up to hear Kilroy, who spoke in a conversational tone which was difficult to hear in the rear ranks, Beck added.
Heard No Threats
He said he heard no epithets or threats applied to Kilroy, but that the marchers told the captain that Mayor Kelley had told them they could have as many pickets as they wanted.
La Follette questioned him closely about how the strikers and police were armed. The marchers in the front line facing the police, he said, had no arms, and were too closely packed to throw things. The police, in addition to revolvers and batons
described by |
—carried white hatchet handles, similar to those carried by Republic Steel's hired guards. Kilroy “apparently convinced” the crowd's leaders, he said. Then “some one back among the strikers threw a tree branch into the
police. About eight police said, ‘Watch out!’ “I heard a shot fired behind me,” Beck said. “I saw a policeman with his revolver aimed in the air. Then I heard three more shots, and there came a rain of rocks and clubs. The strikers ran. The police around me drew guns and fired— those in the back ranks into the air, those in the front directly into the | crowd. | “The mob broke and ran. The [police put their revolvers back into | their holsters and started to work | with clubs.” | “Did you see police using their [clubs on marchers?” La Follette
| asked, Denies Clubs Used | “Yes. I did.”
“Were the marchers using clubs?” | weakening ranks of hopper warriors. get |
“Did the police continue to club |the insects, which threatened crops were on the and homes.
to them-
trying
| “No, they were protect
|away—trying to | selves.”
| marchers after they | ground?” (Newsphotos have showed such incidents).
run.” “Did you see any police on the ground?” “I saw one or two dropped by rocks.” Patrolman Walter Oaks was named by Patrolman George Higgins as the man who shot Rothman. Higgins testified that Rothman had a revolver and was trying to get his knee on the throat [of the fallen Oaks when Oaks shot Rothman through the stomach. Rothman staggered back clutching his stomach, Higgins said. La Follette at once put into the record a coroner's report that the | single bullet which struck Rothman was fired from behind. Then he put on the stand two committee investigators who swore that Higgins, in an interview with them a few days ago in Chicago—taken down by one of them in shorthand—described
in many cases—about 40 he thought |
GRASSHOPPER FIGHT
[laid bare nearly 20,000 square miles
|
| state of emergency and sent Na-
“Yes, and a few who tried to|tjonal Guard troops
PRO TEM. JUDGE CALLED IN .
WPA WORKERS JOIN
Insects Devastate Eastern Colorado Plains.
By United Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, July 2—Grimy bewiskered and weary men fought a “last stand” today against the disastrous march of the greatest grasshopper invasion which has struck Colorado in 40 years. Approximately 2000 WPA workmen joined the legions of farmers, National Guardsmen, soil conservation service, state highway employees and CCC boys in the fields. The heaving mass of insects has
of eastern Colorado plains land. In response to an emergency plea, Federal authorities at Washington released $200,000 to bolster the
Federal project workmen were ordered to abandon present activities and join in the eradication of
Governor Ammons announced a
to aid the farmers. Sam C. McCampbell, Colorado State College entomologist, said it was only a matter of hours until the young grasshoppers will have developed wings and will begin to leave the country by air—to ravage srops in other vicinities and reproduce in even greater numbers. Eggs laid by the hoppers last fall hatched nearly a hundred per cent, producing young at the astounding figure of an average 257 insects tc the square foot.
Rothman “that lousy Communist.” | Higgins denied he spoke so of Rothman and stuck to his story of the shooting, asserting in reply to La Follette’s outspoken doubts, “that's my statement, and I will
not tell a lie.”
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IN INDIANAPOLIS
MEETINGS TODAY
Citizens Military Training Camp, ng Ft. Benjamin Harrison. | xchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash- | ington, noon | Indiana Stamp Club, meeting, Indiana | World War Memoria: Shrine, m ! Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club | noon. Reserve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon | Printseraft Club, dinner, Hotel Wash- | ingtea, 6:30 I | hi Delta Trade. noon. Delta Tau Delta, Club, noon. Indianapolis Brokers’ Association, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Kappa Sigma, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon.
open- |
p.m. | Theta, luncheon, Board of |
luncheon, Columbia
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are from official records at the County Court House. The Times is not responsible for any errors of names or addresses.)
f 928 English Ave.: of 605 E. McCarty St. : t of 122 N. State St.; Hilda Iris Sy State St. John W. Trotter, of 2257 N. Illinois St.. Dorothy L. Bray, 19, of 2256 N. Dela-
ware St, Earl Wilkerson, 27, of 821 S. West St.: Helen L,_ Burns, 26, of 821 S. West St. Howard Sellers, 42, Grand Haven, Mich.; Mary Leisure. 45, of 521 Alton Ave. Earl Dresbach, 28, of 301 N. Drexel Ave.; Louise H. Rudbeck, 21, of 3833 Graceland Ave William R. Shimer, 39. of 230 E. Emerson 3%: Gladys Martin, 35, of 5225 English ve Leo Timothy White, 34 of 2934 Boulevard Place. Martha Landis, 33, of 3619 N. Illinois St.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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attempt Cleveland next their main drive against the C. I. 0.
Pennsylvania Miners Plan |
Protest Rally at Johnstown.
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patrel duty in the Johnstown strike area. Murray said the mass meeting | Sunday should not be regarded | either as a march or invasion of! Johnstown.
Ohio Plant Reopens In Massillon, O.,, Republic Steel Corp., reopened the gates of three mills today and planned to complete resumption of operations on the Ohio strike front within a week. Almost 400 workers returned through lines of booing pickets to the central steel and union drawn steel plants to start furnaces and prepare for a mass back-to-work march at the two Massillon plants
probably within 48 hours. Militia guarded the mill gates and
county officials enforced strict regulation of picketing, but strike leaders renewed their threats of trouble if the main body of steel makers attempts to return. mally are employed.
About 4000 nor-
Republic officials were expected to to reopen four mills in week, completing
strike front in Ohio. At Youngstown, Warren and Niles,
the Mahoning Valley mills of Republic Tube Co, operations.
and Youngstown Sheet & reported almost normal
The strike front continued tense
in Canton, O., where crowds shouted frequent insults at militiamen escorting nonstrikers to their homes
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
statements from officials concerned
Harold J. White, 21, of 1506 E. Southern Ave.: Frances M. Fletcher, 17. R. R. 1. Indianapolis Percy E. McGhee. 59, of 3421 Orchard Ave.; Ethel G. Gray, 61, of 227': N. Delaware St. _ Arthur V. Brown, 20. of 2334!; E., Washington St.: Frances M. Ray, 19. of 1601'2 S. Meridian St. Harry Albert Maple Jr. 22 of 645 E. 49th St.: Josephine A. LoPreste, 23, Indi-
anapolis. Paul Long. 24. of 4008 Ave.: Marianna Collins, 18. of Beyille Ave Walter Gillespie, 24, of 421 S
Claire Elizabeth Rehrman, 19, Butler Ave,
Arthur College N.
1020
Noble St.: of 444 S.
BIRTHS Boys Gertrude VanBenthuysen,
xford. , Marie Stewart, at 230 N.
S, Harold. Ruth Dove, at 1119 S. Ewing. Ceeaney Minnie Blackburn, at 926
‘offey. Gilbert, Mary Smock, at 616 Lexington. Jake, Elva Wittington, at 2720 School. Clifford, 24 Dakota. William, Anna Oliver, at 1353 Edgemont. Edmund, Lillian Gaddy. at St. Vincent's. Robert, Jane Waller, at St. Vincent's, John, Katharyn Heid. at St. Vincent's. William, Florence Siegel, at Vincent's. John, Jeannette Riley, at St.
Edward, at
Irene Goodman, at
St.
Vincent's.
Alfred, Helen Prestel, at St. Vincent's. Seymour, Genevieve Gedge, at St. Vin-
cent’s. William, Helen Pettijohn, at St. Vincent’s. Russell, Viola Hoefling. at Coleman Frank, Margaret Keiser, at Coleman. Girls
Wayne. Helen Crouch. 34132 WwW. Washington. Norman, Lula Scott, at 1528 N. Sher- | |
man. Robert, Bessie Coleman, at 2249 Yandes James, Leila Hobbs, at 19 N. Blecoming-
ton Herbert, Helen Cloyd, at 1609 Centennial
Edward, Margaret Dowd, at St. Vincent’s St.
Joseph, Lillian Hamaker, Marion, Marguerete Harland, at Cole-
at
at Vin-
cent's
"Morris, Jean McDonald. at Coleman,
DEATHS
Matilda Lindstaedt, 70, at 5728 Pleasant Run, arteriosclerosis. Anna, Louise Kissel, 75, at 2245 N. Illinois, cerebral hemorrhage. Edward Bartholomew, 6. at City, streptococcic meningitis. 58. St.
Thomas T. Haefling. cent's, coronary thrombosis. Theresa Hill. 47, at St. Vincent's, neoplasm of colon
Emil Ebner. 65, at 1057 W. 32d. acute
at Vin-
and guarding the plant gates. Republic mills were reported speeding up operations there although picket
lines continued active.
At Warren, O., police arrested Carl Byers, one of six men charged in warrants with participating in a terrorist bombing plot intended to cripple Repuklic’'s Trumbull plants. Threats of violence followed a new dynamite blast at Canton which tore the porch from a nonstriker's
| home and damaged three other
houses.
In Johnstown Pa. three nonIn Washington, Secretary of Labor Perkins said today she was working on certain “indefinite” steps to arrange a man-to-man conference of steel operators and strikers in an attempt to settle the five-weeks-old labor controversy. In Detreit the office of the Naional Labor Relations Board announced that John L. Lindsay of the trial examiners’ office, Washington, had been appointed to hear the Government's case against the Ford Motor Co. The company was cited last Sat-
Photo Reveals Stolen
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair and | somewhat warmer tonight and tomorrow; | §
Sunday fair.
Sunrise : 4:20 | Sunset TEMPERATURE —July 2, 1936— 1 9 MAL Lilet
BAROMETER 3008 1p mo.
83
a m. 29.98%
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1 A
MIDWEST WEATHER |
Indiana—Generally row and Sunday; night and east row.
IMinois—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow, somewhat warmer central and south portions; partly cloudy Sunday, continued warm. Lower Michigan—Mostly cloudy tonight: tomorrow generally fair and warmer; partly cloudy Sunday.
fair tonight, somewhat warmer toand south portions tomor-
cardiac dilatation. Bike
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tomor- |
somewhat
Ohio—Generally fair and slightly warm- |
er tonight and tomorrow. except showers in northeast portion early tonight. Kentucky—Generally fair and warmer tonight and tomorrow.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M
Station Weather Amarillo, Tex, .........PtCldy Bismarck, N. D ston tess sasnsiil Chicago Cincinnati .. Cleveland. O. Denver : Dodge City. Kas, ..... Helena, Mont Jacksonville. Fla. ..... Kansas City. Mo. Little Rock. Ark. .... Los Angeles .. Miami, Fla. Minneapolis Mobile, Ala New Orleans ... New York fsb Okla, City. Okla Omaha, Neb Pittsburgh Portland, Ore. 58 San Antonio, Tex. ..... 7% San Francisco 56 t. Loui 3 D.C iii
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Robert Fahrbach, 18, of 1500 S. Lyndhurst Drive, recovered the bicycle he’s shown with above because of a Times photo in Wednesday's
editions.
A picture of stolen bicycles in the police station showed one with the letters “C. E.” painted on the seat. identification as that on his bike, stolen June 16, 1936. He went to the station, gave detectives his serial number, and they gave him his
bike.
il had not the theft to : he he hi reported the Bolles, bul, Ohi to. the gheritts
urday for unfair labor practices in violation of the Wagner act in its dealings with the United Automobile Workers of America. Hearings on the charges begin in Detroit'# Federal building July 6.
Huntington Strikers Plan Mass Meeting
By United Press HUNTINGTON, July 2—Nearly 400 striking workers of the CaswellRunyan Co. made plans today for a mass meeting tonight “to lay their
case before the public and enlist moral support.”
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At the same time, Laurens L. Henderson, judge pro tem., hears another divorce case in Judge Wilson's private office, to speed up t he trials.
Townsend Waits Reply to Sheet & Tube Proposal; Eastern Mills
Guarded
Fate of Indiana Steel Strike Hinging on Ohio Parley.
(Continued from Page One)
in the Irland settlement negotiations: Clarence V. Randall, Inland vice president: “The C. I. O. merely accepted provisions of our labor policy which was announced before the strike started. There was no written agreement with anybody.” Governor Townsend: “The idea simply was to get the men back to work.” A. E. Daily, Sheet & Tube district manager: “Sheet & Tube will make no agreement with the S. W. 0. C. or the C. 1. O. either directly or indirectly, and will not make any such agreement through the Governor's office.” John Rusak, 8S. W. O. C. organizer: “We expect a settlement with Youngstown shortly.” Pact Called “Truce”
Townsend described the Inland agreement as a “truce to last until | there is a final adjudication of the | labor board proceedings.” He referred to the NLRB hearing in Chicago of S. W. O. C. charges that Inland showed “bad faith” and thus violated the Wagner Labor Relations Act in refusing to put its signature to a written agreement. At yesterday's session, Trial Examiner Charles A. Wood denied Inland permission to present testimony designed to show that “a signed contract with the S. W. O. C. would be used to coerce employees to join that organzation.” Wood declared that whether agreements be reduced writing was a matter of law, and not of facts, and that the board was conducting a fact-findinng hearing. Ernest S. Ballard, Inland’s attorney, had argued it was necessary to show the “state of mind of the corporation” in order to prove that Inland acted in, “good faith” by reflusing its sitgnature. Fear that an S. W. O. C. contract would be used to coerce employees was a part of this “state of mind,” he said.
NLRB Hears Testimony on Local Labor Dispute
Testimony concerning an alleged Committee for Industrial Organiza-tion-American Federation of Labor dispute which involved employees and management of the Zenite Metal Corp. 201 N. West St.. was given at a regional National Labor Relations Board hearing in the State House today. United Automobile Workers of America, Local 442, has charged the company with “influencing, coercing and intimidating” employees to join the International Association of Machinists, an A. F. of L. group. Joseph D. Persily, Indiana C. I. O. director and former auto workers organizer, told the board the C. I. O. union had a majority of the workers in the plant in May when it asked for sole bargaining rights. In a statement made before the hearing, John J. Garrett, company secretary-treasurer, said the company had a clesed shop agreement with the A. F. of L. union, and was obliged to live up to that contract. He said the C. I. O. men were discharged, but later were rehired so that the firm could keep operating at full speed and fill its contracts. The C. I. O. union also struck for a while but returned to work.
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Funeral to Be Held at 1:30 P. M. Tomorrow; Throat Ailment Fatal.
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Charles Remster former Circuit Court judge and well-known Indianapolis attorney who died yesterday in Methodist Hospital, is to be buried in Crown Hill following funeral services at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow in the home at 4256 Boulevard Place. He was T4.
Mr. Remster, who died of complications from a throat ailment, had been in ill health in recent years, but continued his law practice until a few months ago. He was senior member of the law firm of Smith, Remster, Hornbrook & Smith. He was for many years prominent in the Democratic party and Masonic circles. Throughout his career, he was donor to many charities. The Indianapolis Bar Association is to hold a memorial meeting for Mr. Remster in the Marion County Circuit Court at 11 a. m. Tuesday. Active in Masonry Mr. Remster, born in Fountain County, attended Purdue University. He left the university to start the practicing of law at Covington. where he remained seven years before coming to Indianapolis in 1895. After practicing law here 13 years, Mr. Remster was elected Marion Circuit judge. He returned to private practice in 1914. Previously, he had served as deputy Marion County prosecutor. On his retirement he became a
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38th St. Bridge Detour
Solves City’s
Dilemma on
College Ave. Truck Ban
Truck drivers, North Side residents and City officials today gave sighs of relief as Theo. H. Dammeyer, Safety Board president, claimed a solution to the knotty problem of what to do with the trucks now that
they are barred from College Ave. Harrassed by phone calls from
trucking companies and property
owners all day yesterday, Mr. Dammeyer, Ernest Frick, Works Board sec= retary; City Engineer Henry Steeg and Chief Morrissey decided to drive out and inspect the one obstacle to the problem's solution—the Keystone
Ave. bridge over Fall Creek. @
Today, Mr. Dammeyer said he | had the answer. To avoid this | bridge, which cannot carry heavy tonnage, trucks will be routed off Keystone Ave. on their way south at the intersection of Keystone Ave. and Allisonville Road. Then they will go suoth on Parkway Drive past
member of the law firm with which he was associated until his death. During his six-year term as judge, only 13 of his decisions were reversed by higher courts. Mr. Remster was a Scottish Rite member. and served in 1919 as worshipful master of Oriental Lodge 500. He was for several years attorney for the Scottish Rite Realty Co. Director of the Indiana Democratic Club for 28 years, Mr. Remster also was a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Marion County, Indiana State and American Bar Association, and of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Purdue chapter. Mr. Remster was married Oct. 30, 1894, to Miss Isabel McDaniel, Veedersburg, who died several years ago. Survivors are a sister, Mrs. Sarah Redden, Danville, Ill.; a brother, William Remster, Lizton; six nephews, Forrest, Danville; James Redden, Morocco; Everett Remster, Villard, Minn.; Homer Remster, Camby; Challen Remster, Valparaiso, and Harold Remster, Lizton, and two nieces, Miss Mabel Redden, Danville, and Mrs. Mary
Frazier, Indianapolis.
the State Fair Grounds and across the old 38th St. bridge opposite the east entrance to the Fair Grounds. From there they go by Orchard Ave. to 38th St. and from 38th to Sutherland Ave., which runs into Martindale Ave. This will be fole lowed to Roosevelt Ave. and into 10th St. Thus, the ordinance prohibiting trucks on College Ave. can be enforced, Mr. Dammeyer said. College Ave. residents appeared before the Works Board Monday and demandeé that this omdinance passed last Dec. 18 be enforced, The Works Board disavowed any responsibility for enforcing this ordinance, and said it was a Safety Board job. Then the Safety Board announced that Chief Morrissey would post signs prohibiting truck traffic on the avenue. But complaints continued to bombard the City Hall. The Police Department transe ferred the calls to the City Engineer, the City Engineer back to the police. The Safety Board said it was up to the City Council, and Mr. Dammeyer suggested that “one” solution was repeal of the ordinance. All seemed hopeless until some one got the idea of detouring them around the bridge.
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