Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1937 — Page 16

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G.-M. AND AUTO UNION MEET ON

NEW CONTRACT

Negotiations Opened After “Wildcat” Strikes Are Outlawed.

DETROIT, Sept. 17 (U. P.).— Representatives of the United Automobile Workers Union and General Motors Corp. today opened negotiations for a revised agreement after the union “outlawed” unauthorized strikes and promised to discipline members who participated in them. The meeting was the first of a Series to discuss new union demands. Up to the present General Motors officials have refused to negotiate further unless assured the union would takes formal action against “wildcat” strikes and stoppage of work. The meeting’s purpose was to outj line procedure for later discussions on the union’s 11 demands. Homer Martin, | union president, recognized the corporation’s right to discharge employees responsible for strikes called without approval of the union’s international officers, and promised “effective disciplinary action.” e——

Calls Conference on Rail Wage Dispute

CHICAGO, Sept. 17 (U. P.).—Another wage-negotiation conference between railroad representatives and delegates of 300,000 operating employees was called today by Dr. William Leiserson of the National Mediation Board. Brotherhoods have asked a 20 per cent wage increase and threatened to strike. The first face-to-face conference was called yesterday after Dr. Leiserson’s separate conferences with railroad and brotherhood representatives failed to produce desired results. Dr. Leiserson said he was hopeful- of settlement, but denied published reports that the railroads had offered a compromise.

Furniture Strike Voted in Michigan

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 17 (U. P).—A general strike in all Grand Rapids furniture plants, the Globe Knitting Mills and the Jarvis Manufacturing Co. was voted at a mass meeting of Committee for Industrial Organization members, organizer Harry Spencer announced today. The walkout, Spencer said, will be called “either at the end of this week or early next week” unless the management in plants where the C. I. O. has a majority signs agreements to be presented this week. The union demands an agreement assuring a closed shop, wage increases of 15 cents an hour and negotiations to establish uniform wages and hours throughout the furniture industry in Grand Rapids,

MANVILLE’S FOURTH SAYS SHE'S THROUGH

RENO, Nev. Sept. 17 (U. P.) — Marcelle Edwards Manville, the fourth and hardest to lose of Tommy Manville’s wives, was back in the divorce colony today for the third time since they were married. She will not be swayed again by any of his “come home to papa” appeals. a divorce now, I mean |1t, no fooling.” She would not say whether she accepted his offer of $200,000 “reward” for getting a divorce and leaving the rest of his $30,000,000 asbestos fortune alone. | Her complaint will be the “mild- : st pons of mental cruelty,” she - sai

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Commission. for Federal Building Job Is Surprise To Indianapolis Sculptor

‘It’s a Swell Opportunity,’ Institute Teacher Declares.

David Rubins said today he thinks executing sculpture on the new addition to the Federal Building now under construction here is “a swell opportunity.” He was informed that the Federal Treasury Department had commissioned him to prepare and submit a design for stone carving above the new Federal Building entrance arches here. Mr. Rubins, a genial average-ap-pearing man with penetrating eyes, teaches sculpture at John Herron Art Institute. For most of his 35 years, he-has been engaged ir. drawing and sculpture. He said the job came to him .as “a complete surprise.” He had not applied for it. The reason the Government picked on him to do the work, he said, appears to be his entrance into competition a year ago—a competition which he didn’t win. “They must have liked my, stuff then, though,” Mr. Rubins said. “I'm glad they did. This is a swell opportunity.” It isn’t exactly his biggest opportunity, however. He did a 12-foot Hpuse on the new Archives Building

CLAIMS TRUCK SALE PROFITED GOUNTY

Wheatley Says He Tried to Save Money.

County Commissioner Clarence I. Wheatley today said he was trying to save the County money when he sold a truck to an automobile parts

company for a “$200 due bill.” Mr. Wheatley is alleged to have sold a Highway Department truck without approval of the other two County Commissioners and without taking proper legal steps. “The truck was only a chassis,” Mr. Wheatley said. “It had no tires and had not been used for two months. It was stored away in a garage.” “I knew we are supposed to advertise before selling County property, but I had a chance to get a $200 due bill for the truck and thought that would be a better bargain than selling it outright,” he continued. “We could only get $15 or $20 for it that way.” The due bill to the county was to have been good for $200 worth of parts. The truck has been repossessed from the parts company and will be resold by advertising for bids, Mr. Wheatley said.

ED M’CONNELL’S CONDITION SERIOUS

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 17 (U. P.).—Smilin’ Ed McConnell, jovial radio singer, formerly of Indianapolis, was in a critical. condition at Blodgett Hospital today, suffering from injuries received in an automobile accident Tuesday. Physicians feared McConnell had developed pneumonia as a result of chest injuries and several rib fractures. He was transferred here from Munson Hospital, Traverse City, late yesterday when his condition became worse. The radio singer was injured when his automobile collided with another

while driving to Chicago from his summer home near Elk Rapids. «=

David Rubins

= in Washington that he regards as his most important job. Before that, he won the Paris Prize in sculpture in 1924 and studied a year in Paris; won the Prix de Rome in 1928, the Avery Prize in 1932, and worked as assistant to J. E. Frazier seven years before coming to John Herron three years ago. Mr. Frazier is best known because he designed the Buffalo-head nickel. He has a lot of better but lesser known things, Mr. Rubins said, smiling. So the Federal Building commission will not be an entirely new experience to Mr. Rubins. Here is the way he will go abgut it: First, he will constrict a smallscale model about 2 or J feet high, of the entrance arch andi{surrounding architecture, and model his dehe will

sign into it in clay. Then, mathematically, project that to a half-size model of the entrance.

15-Months’ Job

Final projection of the model to the actual stone entrance is a job for professional stone cutters—the artist will only touch up the finished product. The whole job will probably take about 15 months. “The work must be primarily decorative,” Mr. Rubins said. “But it also must be mote than merely decorative. It must be an integral part of the building’s architecture.” Mr. Rubins smiled and settled back in his chair in the living room of his home at 3210 Ruckle St. The room is covered with pictures and lithographs he has done. : He was on familiar ground now, and he began a discussion of sculpture on public buildings. “There lies the future of sculpture,” he declared. “On public buildings. And the present Administration is the first to recognize the real value of extensive decoration of public buildings.” America is constructing new public buildings. The trend toward modernism in. architecture, with plain, unadorned structures, has cuc down the places for sculptural adornment, he admitted. But sculpture must, and will, adapt itself to the medern architecture, he said.

WHITNEYS APPEAL TAX

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (U. PJ). —Richard Whitney, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, and his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Whitney, today asked the Board of Tax Appeals for redetermination of an alleged income tax deficiency of $21,494 in 1933.

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STEEL WORKERS T0 MAP POLICY OF NEGOTIATING

Union Officials to Seek Advice in Drive for New Contracts.

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 17 (U.P.).— An international convention® of union steel workers to draft a policy to guide officers and plan for negotiating renewal of contracts with steel companies will be held in Pittsburgh in November or early in December, it was announced today.

Philip Murray, John L. Lewis’ Steel Workers Organizing Committee chairman, announced that the convention will bring delegates from 1000 lodges that have been established since a campaign to unionize the steel industry was started in July, 1936. The official call for the convention, is being prepared and probably will be announced next week. The exact date also will be announced later.

First S. W. O. C. Parley

This will be the first convention called by the S. W. O. C. Drafting of a policy for guidance of both international officers and local lodges and plans for negotiating new con-

tracts with the 415 steel and pro-

cessing firms, which now have contracts, will come before the convention. These contracts expire Feb. 28, 1938. The S. W. O. C. first signed contracts early this year with the U. S. Steel Corp. and several hundred smaller companies followed suit. Major steel independents howéver refused to sign union agreements and a steel strike was called against some of these companies last summer,

VIEWS VAST STATE ACREAGE UNFERTILE

Approximely 1,500,000 acres of submarginal land are being farmed in vain by Indiana farmers, accordland utilization division of the Farm ing to Gladwin E. Young of the Security Administration. Mr. Young, who spoke yesterday at a meeting of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, explained that submarginal land is land so unfertile it can not show a profit. “Problems of proper utilization of our land resources,” he explained, “have now become problems of national concern.”

N.A.A.C.P. DRIVE TO OPEN

Mrs. Daisy Lampkins, field director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, arrived in Indianapolis today to conduct the organization’s annual membership drive,

CLARENCE WILKING IS DEAD Clarence Wilking, 51, of 512 N. East St. Apt. 3, was found dead in bed today, apparently of a heart attack, Dr. Norman H. Booher, deputy coroner, reported.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Elliott’ s Ex- Wife Engaged :

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Times-Acme Photo.

The engagement ot Mrs. Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, former wife of Elliott Roosevelt, to Curtin Winsor of Ardmore, Pa., has recently been announced by Mrs. Roosevelt's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Donner. Mr. Winsor and his flancee are shown as they were pictured

recently in Philadelphia.

Father IF ears Coed Kidnaped

But Friends

Say ‘Elopement’

SANTA MONICA, Cal, Sept. 17 (U.P.).—A modern young Lochinvar, a handsome carpenter, and the girl he is supposed to have seized from the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles, were missing today and sought by police. There was a confusing conflict of stories about the affair of the handsome Herman Jappe, 27, and petite Carmon Cook, blue-eyed sophomore student of languages. Some of their friends said they were secretly married; the girl's parents denied it; one girl said Carmon was kidnaped and carried away screaming for help. .

It was established that Miss Cook (or Mrs. Jappe) vanished yesterday from the college campus. Another coed, Daphne Smart, who was with her, said a man rode up in an automobile, jumped out, dragged Carmon into the car while she screamed, and dashed away with her. “Carmon told me to scream for help,” Miss Smart said. She complied. Next, Miss Cook’s father reported to police that she was kidnaped. An officer sent out ‘a state-wide teletype message asking for the arrest of Mr. Jappe. He had been traced, police said, as the owner of the car that Miss Smart saw. First fruit of the search was a telephone call from Mrs. Enoch Berg of Burbank. She said Mr. Jappe and the girl drove to her home late yesterday afternoon, carrying groceries. They cooked a meal, ate it, and rode away again, Mrs. Berg said.

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She said the couple was married last March and she was surprised that the girl's parents did not know about it. “They were laughing and talking just as they always have done before and nothing seemed wrong,”. Mrs. Berg said. “Some other friends were here. I asked Carmon how I should introduce her. She said, ‘Why as Mrs. Jappe, of course. “I thought everyone knew that they went to Ventura and were married last March.”

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