Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1938 — Page 5

AUG. 8, 1988 .

AF. OFL. FIGHT

NLRE'S SMITHS, DERIDES BOARD

LABOR SITUATION

WASHINGTON —A. F. of L. - pushes fight on NLRB members. S. W. O. C. seeks contract with Sheet and Tube. Republic police deny attack ‘on workers,

LOS ANGELES—Rebelling unions denounce Bridges’ leadership.

NEW YORK-—Harlem workers are assured white-collar jobs.

By HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The A. F. of L. has chosen the White House and the Senate for the battlegrounds on its war on the NLRB’s Smiths. . Donald Wakefield Smith, blackhaired, youthful lawyer, the quietest member of the Board, has been selected as the main target for the craft union fusillades. Sheer luck picked Donald Smith for this role, through the fact that his term of office expires Aug. 27. A, F. of L. President William Green sounded a keynote here when he denounced the Board and defended the act, indicating that little in the way of amendment was necessary. The whole fault, from his viewpoint, was in the Board's atti-

tude. Resolution Asks Ouster

This was carried further before the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor by Mr. Green, in a speech asserting that the Board ‘set up by the Federation” was now being used “to destroy us” by anti-craft union decisions. The - Massachusetts Federation thereupon adopted a resolution calling upon President Roosevelt to remove Donald Smith and Edwin S. Smith. Edwin Smith is a Massachusetts man, whose appointed term does not expire until 1941. Chairman J. Warren Madden’s term expires in 1940. Incidentally, Mr. Madden has taken part, on the maJority side, in every craft-industrial row decision of the Board. Edwin S. Smith immediately issued a statement denouncing as “reckless and untrue” President Green's attack on him.

President on Spot

“No intelligent student of the American labor movement would refer to the craft unions of the A. F. of L. as company unions,” he said, answering Mr. Green’s charge that he held such an attitude. It has been understood hitherto that President Roosevelt was ready to reappoint Donald Smith, but the A. FP. of L, position now definitely puts him on the spot. The A. F. of L. executive council meets in two weeks at Atlantic City—a week before the Donald Smith term expires —and will take definite action against the Board, according to present plans. If the President niakes the Donald Smith appointment, i will be a recess appointment -which will come before the Senaté for confirmation in January, i the AF, of L. carries out its plans to 6ppose him, this vote wil provi e first test vote on the NLRB.

: S. W. 0. C. Asks Contract With Sheet and Tube

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P)— The Steel Workers Organizing Committee claimed a - majority of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. workers today and asked the NLRB to order the company to sign a contract. if agreement is reached in collective bargaining. Wagner Act violation charges

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will be filed at the Board's regional office in Cleveland today, the steel union announced. The union waged an unsuccessful strike against that company and other “little steel” companies last year. The S. W. O. C,, an affiliate of the C. 1. O, charged that the company was “conspiring with public officials and vigilantes to break the S. W. O. C.” and that it had “blacklisted” approximately 225 workers after the strike.

Republic Police Deny Attack on Workers

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P.).— Republic Steel Corp. police today denied before ihe Senate Civil Lib-

erties Committee charges that they |

attacked union members in evacuating Republic’s plant of workers on the even of last year’s strike in Little steel. Testimony of the company policemen opened the final climatic week of the investigation of Senator La Follette (P. Wis.) of the background of the 1937 struggle between Little Steel companies and the Committee for Industrial -Organization. Completing the extensive hearings, Tom Girdler, Republic board chairman, will come before the committee Thursday to present his version of the struggle.

Five Unions Denounce

Bridges’ Leadership

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 (U. P).— Leaders of five West Coast labor unions, affiliated with the Commi.tee for Industrial Organization, today denounced the leadership of Harry Bridges, regional C. I. O. director, and announced they had formed their own. trade council union. The seceding group, which said it represented 20,000 workers, charged Bridges had disrupted unions when they refused to hand “themeslves ever to Communist minorities” and had set himself up as a dictator. The leaders of the movement said their followers would not break away from the C. I. O. nationally,

Harlem Negroes Assured White-Collar Jobs

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (U. P)— Merchants in Harlem agreed today to guarantee to Negroes one-third of the white-collar jobs in several hundred retail stores. The Uptown Chamber of Cond merce negotiated the agreement with the Co-ordinating Committee for Employment, representing 200 Negro organizations, and removed. a source of Taclal discord that had prevailed for years. ‘Mayor F, H. La Guardia described

Franklin D. III, in his first public

Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. beams a broad smile as he presents

appearance. President Roosevelt's

newest grandson is pictured as he got his first glimpse of the big world outside his birthplace, the Philadelphia Lying in Hospital. 3rd’s proud father, and his mother, the former Ethel du Pont, took the baby to the home of her parents at Owl’s Nest, near Wilmington, Del.

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NOMINEES URGE BETTER RELIEF

Jewett and Nelson Plead for More Fairness in Government.

An attitude of fairness in government toward all classes, more adequate relief for those who need it, and ‘a pay-as-you-go tax plan for

vocated by the 11th and 12th District Republican Congressinoal nominees. ” : Charles W. Jewett, Indianapolis, 12th District nominee, spoke on relief Saturday night over WIRE, William O. Nelson, Anderson, 11th District nominee, discussed G. O. P. viewpoints on labor and unemployment at the Irvington Women’s Republican Club picnic Saturday night at the home of Mrs. John T. Askren, 21st St. and Shadeland Drive.

Assails New Deal

Mr. Nelson described the New Deal as a form of government under which “the peeple are subordinated to the will of peliticians and are used to satisfy their pleasures and their lust for power.” He said the party recognizes the right of the business and industry to a fair profit, the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively, the right of the farmer to work his land and to make a living comparable to residents of cities. “We recognize,” he added, “our obligation to the aged and the unemployed and promise them assistance through a system of pensions and insurance drafted along, sound business lines. “Let us bend our efforts toward recovery along permanent American lines rather than toward aimless reform.” : Party Backs Relief

Mr. Jewett said the Republican Party believes in more and better relief for all who need it, “administered by nonpolitical local boards and not by a nationally-centralized political machine which takes 39 cents out of every relief.dollar before it reaches the worker and which spends '$32 to get $50 a month to the man who earns it.” He said the party is opposed to the “New Deal method of collecting from the employer and wage earner hundreds of millions of dollars each year more than is necessary for social security payment and spending it for other purposes.”

THREE DROWNED IN STATE AGGIDENTS

One Dies While on Church ‘Outing at Lake.

MONTICELLO, Aug. 8 (U.P).— Lewis Kingery, 17, drowned in Lake Shafer yesterday. He had gone on an outing with a Beard church society. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kingery of Beard.

12-Year-0ld Boy Drowned

At Eagle Lake

MISHAWAKA, Aug. 8 (U.P).— Carl LaBree, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cl.¥k LaBree, Mishawaka, drowned yesterday in Eaglg Lake near Edwardsburg, Mich. The body was found in a 25-foot hole.

Slips Into Deep Water And Drowns

Times Special KOKOMO, Aug. 8.-—Ten-year-old Billy Joe Walker, son of Mr. ahd Mrs. Ancel J. Walker, slipped into deep water and drowned last night as 1300 swimmers sought relief from the heat in the new municipal swimming pool here.

REPORT MORGAN iI RECOVERING RAPIDLY

John Pierpont Morgan III, grandson of : the international banker, was today reported recovering rapidly from an appendectomy at St. Vincent’s Hospital and was able to sit in a chair in his room. It was reported he will stay at the hospital until he has gained enough strength to accompany his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Junius Morgan, to their home at Glen Cove, N. ¥. Mr. Morgan probably will not return to the farm of Om

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YOUTH DIES FROM 5 BULLET WOUNDS

Harold Van Arsdall, 24, of 2128 Clay St., died today at City Hospital of five bullet wounds, which Coroner Norman Booher said were self inflicted. > While visiting in the 4300 block of Sangster Ave., yesterday, Mr. Van Arsdall shot himself with a .22-cali-ber rifle, reloading and firing the weapon four times after he lay wounded after the first shot, Dr. Booher said.

LIGHTNING KILLS 3M, Y, BATHERS

Bolt Strikes Park Packed With 80,000 Persons; . Search for Bodies.

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (U. P.).—Life guards kept a watch on the beach at Jacob Riis Park today for bodies of swimmers who might have been killed by the bolt of lightning known to have killed three and injured 15 on the shore. The bolt felled. everyone within a 200-foot radius on the beach crowded with 80,000 persons Sunday afternoon. It struck with terrifying suddenness. Blue flames played along the sand, between bright umbrellas, beach chairs and loungers in varicolored bathing suits. Scores who escaped injury were stunned or momentarily paralyzed. Even before they screamed, others on the beach had started to run. The dead were Cesgre Cito, 36; Peter Cava, 27, and Mrs. Cava, 34. Five of the injured were still in a critical condition today.

there were more than 50 persons unconscious or helpless. Most were able to rise without help later. If the bolt struck the water, it would have killed any swimmers nearby and their bodies probably would have been washed out to sea, to return with the tide. :

HUNT DESPERADOES AFTER OFFICER SHOT

In Hoosier Paper.

MINEOLA, Mo., Aug. 8 (U. P.).— Every peace officer in southeastern Missouri today joined the State Highway Patrol in a manhunt for two desperate criminals who shot and wounded Sergt. Frank Hagan of the patrol yesterday in a running gun battle near New Florence, Mo. It was the most intensive search ever conducted in this section of the State. The men were believed to be in hiding in a 25-mile square of wooded country west of the Mississippi River, and officers combed the territory ‘in squad cars, in an airplane, and on foot. One of the hunted men was identified as Dan O. Davis, wanted in

connection with a bank holdup in Minden, La., a crime in which Floyd Hamilton and Ted Walters, escaped Texas desperadoes, also may have been involved. Sergt. “Hagan identified a picture of Davis in a Terre Haute newspaper, found in the car which the men abandoned after the affray.

ATTORNEY IN HARLAN

' PINEVILLE, Ky., Aug. 8 (U. PJ). N. R. Patterson, 60, former Mayor of Pineville and memebr of the defense staff at the recent Harlan mine conspiracy trial, was'in a critical condition at the Memorial Hospital today from a bullet wound

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He was found in his home last night, A pistol was found nearby. Folice were investigating. Dr, Charles Stacy, attending physician, said Mr. Patterson had told him he had been despondent.

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HULL CAN FORC ARBITRATION ON MEXICO. IS VIEW

Support of Latin America Cited; Cardenas Still ~ Ignoring Britain.

" By GARDNER HARDING { Times Special Writer

Britain and the United States have

problem by widely different methods of approach, but both aimed at the same point, and both have now met the same response from Mexico. The terms in each case are those of irreconcilable rejection. Realizing the inability of Mexico to compensate, the British rested their demand on immediate return of British expropriated oil properties. The Mexican reply was to break off diplomatic relations with London, and they are still broken

put his case on the recognition of a principle. property expropriated should be adequately paid for in cash at the time of expropriation. He based his claim on the'cases of needy small American land owners, suggesting international arbitration as a way out for President Cardenas.

Mexican note are available in faithful State Department officials find no important proposition in it on which to base evidence of a desire of the present Mexican government either to restore or to compensate for expropriated American property.

Cardenas Continues Course

Our sole important difference from the British is, therefore, that we are still in communication with Mexico and they are not. Additional evidence has come in the last day or two that President Cardenas believes he must continue his left-wing ‘course. The Mexican Senate has confirmed the 12 per cent tax on exports, a measi ure which places the foreign mining companies in direct line for early expropriation. Additional tracts of American-owned land also. have been expropriated in the State of Jalisco, legalized since the Hull note was sent. : This is Mexico’s central state, of which Guadalajara is the capital, and through which runs the still-American-owned Southern Pacific Railway of Mexico. Both of these developments are disquieting to Secretary Hull, who said flatly, just before he sent his note of July 21 to Mexico: “There will be no more expropriations of American property in’ Mexico.” Yet with all the strings Americans hold on Mexico, no one here seriously believes Mexico will cling to her irreconcilable position beyond a certain point.

Fascist Bloc Backs Mexico

Secretary Hull will, it seems most probable here, lay down a clean-cut definition of intermational law which Mexico cannot resist. Already he has received assurance from practically every other Latin American country—carefully sounded out before he sent his note--~ that all the other good neighbors Siang behind him in isolating Mexco. Internationally, the Fascist bloc in Europe backs Mexico. The German press has carried the official utterance that Mexican communism is really not of the Russian variety but is a form of “highly laudable nationalism.” The Germans have struck a bargain by which Mexico will supply one-third of Germany's annual oil imports— also at a bargain price.

Britain Libels Oil

Japan and Italy are the only other important buyers of Mexican oil in this restricted market. Mexican oil is produced now at an annual rate of less than 34,000,000 barrels a year, whereas the normal production was estimated for this year at 50,000,000 barrels. Even this oil may be libeled abroad—as in Amsterdam the other day—whenever -it touches a neutral port. { Libeling of “stolen” oil is still a serious and ever present British threat.

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to Vera Cruz in 1917 is now, by an odd chance, our Ambassador in Mexico. He is the same Josephus Daniels who once before let things drift to a mutually irreconcilable position. But this time there will be no marines. We are now dealing with a Mexican regime which needs the good countenance of the United States for its continued existence. And Mr. Hull knows how far and by what means he can withdraw that support to obtain, in due course, a wholly different answer from Mexico. \

TWO APPOINTED TO INDIANA U. FACULTY

BLOOMINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P.}. —Two appointments tq the Indiana University physics department were announced today by President Herman B. Wells. : They are Dr. Emil J. Konopinski, native of Michigan City, and for the past two years National Research Council Fellow at Cornell University, and Dr. Lawrence M. Langer of New York University,

and winner in 1934 of the Morse Medal, awarded annually for excel lence in mathematics or physics.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8—Great sought a solution of the Mexican |

today. Mr. Hull didn’t mention oil. He |, It was that foreign

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fusion brought immediate improvement in the girl, suffering after-effects of an operation. Ruth was as the hospital only a brief time, then departed, grinning, “It didn’t hurt a bit!” :

GRAND JURY LAW SEEN IRONCLAD

New Pennsylvania Statutes Challenged by Earle Opponents.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-—Legal

vania’s new laws weakening powers

of grand juries ca nbe challenged in the Federal courts or that they could be knocked out by such a test. It is recognized that the Pennsylvania laws may establish precedents which other states might attempt to follow. But the present controversy is regarded as Pennsylvania's own affair, subject to settlement by appeal to the State rather than th Federal Constitution. ;

Opponents Challenge Law

A challenge under the State Constitution already has been initiated by opponents of Governor Earle,

who induced the heavy Democratic majorities in the State Legislature to rush through a series of bills with the object of taking an investigation of his administration out of the hands of the courts and transferring it to a friendly legislative committee. Critics of the Governor charge that these bills not only disturb the traditional balance Letween the three branches of government but strike a body blow at the grand jury system, which came to American courts from English common law and had its roots in the concessions wrung from British kings, beginning with Magna Charta. Despite the ancient history of grand juries, however, the Federal Constitution contains no specific mention or guarantee of the system. Whether and how grand juries shall operate is believed by lawers here to’be a “procedural” matter to be decided by each state.

SWING VICTIM IN SERIOUS CONDITION

Injured While Playing With Daughter; Boy Better. |

John C. Jelf, 28, of 5006 Riverview Drive, remained in a serious condition in Methodist Hospital today, with several fractured vertebrae received in a fall from a rope swing Saturday. Mr. Jelf, visiting at the home of W. J. Humphreys, 5141 Riverview Drive, with his daughter, Mildred, 4, was swinging over the bank of White River when the child cried she was about to fall. : The father let go of the rope, grabbed his daughter, and fell several feet to rocks below. Mr. Jelf is an Indianapolis Times printer.

Potts Boy in ‘Good’ Condition

Meanwhile, Robert Potts Jr., 11-year-old Indianapolis Times carrier, whose foot was nearly severed Saturday when it was caught in an elevator at 3060 N. Meridian St, was reported in “good” condition at Methodist Hospital today. He is

Potts, 418 E. 33d St. Robert Walker, 9, of 833 N. Alabama 8t., was treated at City Hospital for fractured bones in both heels after he fell from a secondstory window at his home.

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Dwyer’s Counsel Says Threats

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SOUTH PARIS, Me., Aug. 8 (U.

Confess Murder

P.) ~—Paul (Buddy) Dwyer pleaded

guilty to a murder he allegedly did not commit because his life and his mother’s life were threatened, his former counsel testified today at the murder trial of former Deputy Sheriff Francis M. Carroll. The guilty plea was entered in the midst of his trial for the murder of Dr. James G. Littlefield last December and he was sentenced to life

imprisonment. Subsequently, however, he repudiated his confession and only last week reiterated from the witness box that the former Deputy Sheriff was the “real slayer.” E. Walker Abbott, Dwyer’s former counsel, was called as a witness today to bolster the state's contention that the 19-year-old youth was intimidated into pleading guilty. On the morning of Dec. 2, Mr. Abhott said, Dwyer told him: “I've got to plead guilty to this murder. I can’t go through with it. My life has been threatened and my mother’s life has been threatened. I'm going to get out of here where I can be by myself.” “Did you hold any conversation with Sheriff Fernando M. Francis?” asked Special Assistant Attorney General Ralph M. Ingalls. “Yes,” replied Mr. Abbott. “What did you say?” “1 told him he'd better investigate Francis Carroll.” Abbott was not asked his reasons for suspecting Carroll.

Sheriff Testifies

Sheriff Francis had testified earlier that he was informed that his trusted subordinate, Carroll, was the “real slayer” of. a country doc-

‘tor on the day that Dwyer was sentenced. ~

Under cross-examination as th trial entered its second week, Sherifl/ Francis was asked when his suspicions as to Carroll's part in the murder were first aroused. “The last day of Paul Dwyer’s trial,” he replied. “Why?” Clyde R. Chapman. “The fact was that I was told the story very nearly like the story that was told to this jury?” “Did Paul Dwyer tell you?” “No.” “Where did you hear it?” “From Deputy Sheriff Sidney Ver1ell.” “Had you heard of this before Dwyer had made his plea of guilty?” “No,” Sheriff Francis said. “I detailed Verrell to start the investigation.” ; * “How long has he worked?” “Up to the present time.” “You continued to retain Mr. Carroll as a deputy?” “I assigned _him to work that would take up his mind and keep him where we could watch him.” Carroll was ousted as a deputy and arrested on the morals charge

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involving his daughter, Barbara, on

May 27. The next month he was indicted for the Littlefield murder. Barbara, her mother and four brothers and sisters have been sub-

penaed by both prosecution and defense. Prosecutor Ralph M. Ingalls said that the State would call Barbara

and ask her about the affidavit

which was believed the basis of Carroll's indictment last May for

“incest before he was charged with

murder. Dwyer’s story was that Barbara wrote him letters accusing her father, and that Carroll’s desperate attempts to get the letters led to the murders. He said Carroll accused him of making the girl preg-

nant, hoping he would be fright-]

ened into surrendering the letters. He said he took Dr. Littlefield to examine Barbara at his home, and told the doctor the full story. Carroll came to the house, the doctor threatened to file charges against him, and Carroll, he said, clubbed and strangled the doctor. Dwyer said that when he told Mrs. Littlefield what had happened, Carroll killed her too.

PROBE KNIFING DEATH SOUTH BEND, Aug. 8 (U. P.).— Police questioned a 51-year-old Niles, Mich., farm hand today concerning the death of George Riggle,

"30, factory worker found lying on

a downtown sidewalk dying of a knife wound in the abdomen.

|Woman Helps Two Men

Assault and Rob Pedestrian; Taxi Stolen.

Marion County citizens lost $500 in cash and property to thieves during the week-end, it was report= ed .to police and the sheriff today. - Thieves who broke into the filling station-lunch’ room of W. J. Thiele on Highway 52, one mile east of Whispering Winds, took cigarets and tobacco valued at $150, gasoline worth $25 and a radio valued at $11, deputy sheriffs were told, Two youths were held in connece

tion with the burglary. i Two men were held on vagrancy

‘| charges following the holdup of

David. Jeeter, 20, of 2523 Highland Place, as he delivered a case of beer in N. Senate Ave. 700 block. Two men pressed a knife against his back and took $35, Mr. Jeeter told police.

Taxi Driver Robbed

Two passengers in a taxicab driven by Charles Roberts, 29, of

739 N. Davidson St. displayed &

gun and a knife, robbing him of $4 and forcing him from the car at Bright and Vermont Sts. The abandoned cab was found later. As he entered his truck near Milie tary Park, Fred Noller, 3421 E. 20th St., was struck on the head and while he was dazed the assailant took a billfold containing $14, police were told. Two men who jumped from a car at Delaware and St. Joseph Sts. held up and robbed Leroy Hale, 63, of 952 N. Delaware St., of $6, he told police. ! Woman Aids Assault

While walking at 10th St. and Capitol Ave., Thomas J. May, 65, of 1743 Hall Place, was assaulted by two men and a woman who forced him into an alley and took $13, he told police. “vi The following burglaries - and thefts were reported: Albert Hoff» man, 830 N. Emerson Ave. fishing tackle valued at $75, taken from rear yard at his home; Alec Gumfory, 42, of 972 Layman Ave, house ran.sacked and papers, jewelry, watch and camera valued at $57, stolen; Standard Grocery at 6115 E. Washington St., 30 cartons of cigarets valued at $40. Joseph C. Weygold, 3761 N. Me= ridian St., movie camera and acces= sories valued at $50, taken from parked car; Mrs. Garnet McCuls lough, 29,\of 2202 E. New York St., $42 stolen from auto in downtown parking lot, $37 later recovered from suspect; H. F, Goff, 1802 Vinewood St., $11 taken from dresser drawer at his home; Vestal Phillips, 3910 Cossell Road, $23.stolen from home.

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