Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1939 — Page 2

[erre Haute Firm 3 Named as Example Of Strike-Breaking

Jovernment Erred In Labor Peace Push, Johnston Declares

| Engineers’ Chief, Here For Meeting, Urges © U.S. to Stand Aside.

The Federal Government’s leadership in the A. F. of L. and C. I. O.. ‘Peace negotiations was a “mistake,” Alvanley Johnston, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, stated in an interyiew here today. Mr. Johnston, whose home is Cleveland, is in Indianapolis for the' sessions of the Eastern Association of the B. of L. E. which opened yesterday at the Hotel Lincoln. : “The peace efforts of the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. will not turn . out so well as if the two organizations were conducting them voluntarily,” Mr, Johnston said.

Believes in Green, Lewis

He said the present breach is a “house divided against itself,” and .as such the Government should “leave them alone.” : “The two organizations would work it out much more quickly by themselves than they will with the help of outsiders, and they would do a better job, too,” Mr. Johnston said. “I know William Green and John Lewis personally and I have’ a great faith in both of them.” He sdid the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is not a member of either the A. F. of L. or the C. 1. O, but the organization is - built along craft lines’ comparable to/A. F, of L. unions. = Speaking of the future of railroads, Mr. Johnston described gen- | eral business improvement as the| “only salvation for the railroad companies.” = : go “There should be enough business for all of us—the railroads, busses, water. transportation companies and |syre will produce a compromise the airlines,” he stated. “In some|goreement.: cases, Government subsidy may bel ‘mpis js the second time recently necessary, but the Governmentip,, A. F. L. has used the Red attack. 2 : Immediately after the Roosevelt ap-

. Johnston, leader of 60,000 rail--engineers, responded. to Mayor |peal launching his latest peace effort, Mr, Green, as head of the A.

Sullivan’s address of -welcome at|fq = t morning’s session. . Business |F. L., tried to smear the C. I. O. with red.

meetings were to precede a banquet |r :-Now, on the eve of the second

at. the- Hotel Lincoln-tonight at phase of the negotiations, his aid,

which Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker is to be the principal speaker.|john P. Frey, president of the A. F. L. Metal Trades - Department,

| special table will be set aside for | the 40 Indianapolis members, charges that the Lewis C. I. O. peace terms were originated by the Com-

who have been active in the as- ~ sociation more than 40 years. Theyimunist Party Central Committee in June, 1937.

are | wearers of the 40-year honor The thing that has damned the

Lewis proposal for a three-way union of A. F. L. and the Independent Railway Brotherhoods, is not that Com-

A.F.L.ANDC 1.0. INCRIMINATIONS DO LITTLE HARM

Pressure to Force Rivals Into Agreement.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

' WASHINGTON, March 20.—President Roosevelt will not let the recurring labor squalls wreck his fragile peace canoe if he can help it. Synthetic lightning of the “you're a Red” variety was let loose by the A. F. L. yesterday against the C. I. O. The C. I. O. shouted above the din something about the A. F. L. “breaking faith” and ‘rocking the peace boat. But, despite the excite-

ment, there did not seem to be any actual wreckage piled up’ today. All hands, apparently, continued to prepare for Friday's session here of the armistice negotiations. Meanwhile on Wednesday the A. PF. L. council will hear the report of its negotiators and have a chance to clear away the rocks which stopped the conference last week.

Hopes for Public Pressure

Secretary of Labor Perkins is operating on the theory that if the warring negotiators can only be kept together long enough, public pres-

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badge. |. Johnston Will Atfend

e Eastern Association includes members from all states north of ‘the | Mason-Dixon ine ‘and east of the Mississippi” River. - Xi r is the first time since 1931 ciation has met in Indian-

‘MIRACLE BOY,’ 4, ~ STILL IMPROVING

Four-year-old Jimmy Grimes, accidentally shot through the bra 10 days ago, continued to show improvement today at St. Francis Hospital. Dr. H. S. Rabb said the boy, who is expected to recover, frequently speaks to his parents, or to his nurses and physicians, but cannot remember the name of his brother or of his dog. It had been planned originally to remove the boy’s right eye, but physicians decided that since the bullet passed through the optical nerve center, thus affecting his other eye, it would be best not to remove the injured eye.

UNITED BRETHREN TO HOLD MEETING

TWELVE MILE, March 20.—United Brethren churches of the Peru district will hold an all-day conference Thursday in Twelve Mile U. B. Church. Dr. D. T. Gregory of Dayton, O., will speak. Delegations are expected from Logansport, Young America, Galveston, Twelve Mile, New Waverly, Erie, Peru, Rich Valley, Hillsdale Chapel, Greentown and Kokomo.

Se ——————————— a LAFAYETTE INVITES PERSHING LAFAYETTE, March 20 (U. P.).— Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the American Army in France during the World War, today had been invited fo speak at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Lafayette Y. M. C. A. during the

munists, as well as many others, |

Spinning out of the clouds and crashing near Alder, Wash., the

OPEN PROBE IN AIRLINER CRASH

Wreckage Near Seattle Gives No Clue to Cause; Air Mission Aboard.

SEATTLE, March 20 (U. P).— The Civil Aeronautics Authority directed an investigation today into the midair demolition of a $500,000 Boeing substratosphere transport which killed 10 persons. Frank Caldwell, chief of the Authority’s investigating board, took several instruments from the plane’s control cabin but said no clue ahd been found pointing to a cause. Ths prevailing belief was that the planc lost a wing while in a power dive Saturday afternoon for the benefit ot a Netherlands air mission, two of whose members were aboard. Eyewitnesses said that once disabled, whether from the sheering of the wing or sorae other structural disability, the air liner plunged like a dead weight, scattering parts over a wide area. Those aboard were crushed when the cabin demolished itself on the slopes of Mount Rainier near Adler.

Motor Wrenched Loose

The left wing was found 150 feet from the main bedy. The outer port side motor, one of four powering the craft, was wrenched loose 1500 feet in the air. The left tail section was 50 yeards from the fuselage. R. J. Minshall, Boeing vice president and general manager, said he was convinced neither the plane nor the crew was responsible. Strapped in the two pilot seats were the bodies of Julius A. Barr, Boeing test pilot, and former pilot for Madame Chiang Kai-shek in China, and A. C. von Baumhauer, of Amsterdam, Holland, aeronautics engineer for the Netherland Government. The eight others had beer standing in the cabin.

Foreigners Aboard

Weighing 20 tons and built to carry 33 passengers and a crew of five, the plane was being tested prior to the installation of seats for passengers. Besides Mr. Barr and Mr. von Baumhauer the dead were Peter Guilonard, of the Royal Dutch Airlines; Earl Ferguson, Boeing test pilot; Harlan Hull, chief pilot for Transcontinental & Western Air; Harry West, William Doyle, Ralph Cram and Jack Kylstra, Boeing engineers and mechanics, and Benjamin Pearson, Boeing salesman.

Aero Experts Puzzled by Boeing Plane Crash

By Science Service WASHINGTON, March 20.—Apparent failure of the wing of the giant Boeing 307, which crashed and killed 10 persons near Alder, Wash., Saturday, is puzzling to informed aeronautical men, because the wing of the plane is believed to be identical with the wing of the Army air corps worldfamous “flying fortress” bombers, which have been proved by years of strenuous service.

3 Killed and 1 Hurt in

Other Plane Crashes

LOS ANGELES, March 20 (U. P.).—=Two men identified as Bob Grett, 30, a veteran pilot, and Samuel D. Hogan, 36, were killed when their airplane crashed and burned yesterday in view of a score of motorists on the south side of the city. The bodies were seared beyond recognition.

BETHEL, Okla., March 20 (U. P.). —A barnstorming air pilot was

today in the crash of their plane when it failed to come out of a loop. The instructor was Don McDonald, 28. His passenger was John Barker, a, Bethel woodcutter.

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have discussed it theoretically for a apo not interested now. SI, arrived here Ssumis takes the form at the moment of A dance will be held at the TravC. C. Livingstone, Indianapolis, is | Friday: ‘Indianapolis. Mrs. J. A. Fulmer, |which such large C. I. O. unions as tion with the convention. have taken in since leaving the of competing old A. F. L. unions . be handled separately with indiWelfare Department field staff will by the general negotiators to pretion date has not been fixed. effort? : pose of the examination is to estabAny Indiana resident for one year OF KING SOLOMON KIN today that excavators had uncovKing Solomon. . "dynasty, contained a silver and gold Further excavation was held up TENNESSEE RECTOR the Church of the Advent of NashFriday at the Christ Church on the churchman, the Rev, Mr. Pugh has evening at the Church of the AdFRENCH LICK HOME morrow: fonflA. W. Bruner, a State| oa. of May 7 to 15 He was 82. ~ and the following 12 years edited

long while, but the practical fact that most of the brotherhoods are Mrs. Ella Sumnen By Tous pe. ~~ Control Issue in Two Parts n nter Sent of Hs oo The issue of control, or power, d will speak at the banquet Ie re P the two questions which will be put to the A. F. L. Council Wednesday ertine Room of the Hotel Lineoln|and which ‘will be before the next tomorrow night. : session of the peace conference on in charge of arrangements and is| 1. Will the A. PF. L. accept, in assisted by H. W. Pfenning, also of [whole or part, the wider jurisdictions Indianapolis, is director of the|the United Mine Workers anc auxiliary meeting held in conjunc-|Amalgamated Clothing Workers A. F. L JOB EXAMS BLAN KS : 2. In trying to reconcile the claims | A CEPTED T0 APRIL 1 versus new C. I. O. unions—socalled dualism—will each dispute Application blanks for examina-|viduals having final veto power, or tions to fill vacancies in the State|can there be overall give-and-take be accepted by the State Personnel vent some dog-in-the-manger union Bureau until April 1. The examina-| official wrecking the entire peace The number of vacancies was net [ announced and the . primary pur0 “lish ols from which to make selections when needed. before the date of applying may dile.| REPORT FINDING TOMB | CAIRO, March 20 (U. P.).—The Egyptian Government announced ered a tomb believed to be that of King Psusenness, father-in-law of The announcement said the tomb, apparently belonging to .the 22d double sarcaphagus representing the ancient King with a hawk’s head. pending arrival of a strong police guard from Cairo. The Rev. Prentice Pugh, rector of ville, Tenn., will speak at noonday Lenten services tomorrow through Monument Circle. A nationally-known Episcopalian held the pastorate in Nashville 23 years. He will speak Wednesday vent, 3261 N. Meridian St. A. W.BRUNER DIES AT FRENCH LICK, March 20 (U.P). —Funeral services will be held toFood and Drug inspector from 1907 to 1933, who died here yesterday. Mr. Bruner served as superintendent of schools at Paoli in 1896-97 the Paoli Republican, a weekly newspaper. . a.

. BOY LEADS HONOR ROLL . George Mellinger led the high! honor roll for the first grading period of the second semester at Washington High School, with 15% points, it was announced today. Ninety-seven pupils were listed on/|

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Boeing Aircraft Co.'s new $500,000 experimental stratoliner is shown here surrounded by the curious. Ten men died in the wreckage in a

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wooded swampland, Witnesses said the 33-passenger commercial counterpart of the Army’s B-17 Flying Fortresses, lost its tail, one wing and one of its engines when it pulled out: of a test power dive.

Douglas Enjoys Rearing |GAIN PREDICTED

to the Supreme Court by President

excellent game of poker, and practically never starts home from his office before 7:30 or 8 p. m. He is a Westerner by birth and upbringing and an Easterner by adoption. Hed be a liberal justice, but by no means a radical one. In his work as head of SEC he makes preservation of the capitalistic system his guiding star.

Grew Up in West

Born in Minnesota, the son of a Presbyterian home missionary, he was taken to the West Coast by his parents when still a baby, and grew up there. Morley was scarce, and when he went to Whitman College, at Walla Walla, Wash.,, he got there on a second-hand bike, paid his expenses

by doing odd jobs, and for a time lived in a tent to save rooming house bills. Upon graduation in 1920, he taught school in Yakima, Wash., for two years, and then headed East for a legal education. He paid his

‘way as far as Chicago by riding

herd on some stockyards-bound sheep, and rode the rods from Chicago to Albany. The rest of the trip to New York he made by day coach. Reaching New York, he went to the clubhouse of his national fraternity; but the staff there looked at his travel-stained person, took him for a bum, and refused to let

him register, ? Befriended Opportunely

He never would have got in if a fraternity brother who knew him hadn’t showed up ‘opportunely. This

1brother, by the way, sold him on

New York as a city of opportunity and persuaded him to enroll at Columbiga instead of at Harvard as he had planned. After getting his law degree and spending a few years in private practice, he got on the Columbia law faculty. - He quit his job in 1928 after a faculty row and—by sheer chance—immediately stumbled into a better one. He lived in a suburb at the time, and one evening a suburban men’s club to which he belonged had Robert M. Hutchins, then dean of the Yale law school, down as a guest speaker. Mr. Douglas and Mr. Hutchins got acquainted that night, took to each other, and sat up late talking. Mr. Hutchins today is probably Mr. Douglas’s closest friend. Mr. Hutchins offered him a job on the Yale law school faculty.

Thought Hutchins Kidding

Mr. Douglas thought his newly made friend was kidding, and was immensely surprised when Mr. Hutchins called him next morning and repeated the offer. He took it, and within a few years had become Sterling professor of law—reputedly the most highly paid law teacher in America. While at Yale he got interested in bankruptcy studies—and in 1934 the SEC chose him to direct a study of corporate reorganizations in bankruptcy. The Chandler Bankruptcy Act was passed as a result of his work. At that time he urged a clause which would have permitted labor unions to be heard on ‘the economic soundness of any reorganization plan which affected their interests. Congress failed to adopt this clause.

Feet on Desk

WASHINGTON, March 20 (NEA).—William O. Douglas, nominated

Roosevelt today, is a lean, rather

rangy chap whose favorite working pose is to lean far back in his chair and put his feet on his desk. He is a confirmed ear-puller (his own) and he speaks informally with plenty of slang. - He lets his suits get a trifly baggy, plays a bad game of golf and an

member of the SEC, and in the fall of 1937 he was named chairman of the commission. He lives quietly with his wife and their two children in a house in Silver Springs, Md. just over the District of Columbia line. He takes a brief case full of work

./home with him every night, sel-

dom gets a chance to read anything except official reports and the newspapers, and Is able to play far less golf than he would like. A combination cook-chauffeur-handyman drives him to and from work each day. He could drive himself, but figures the relaxation he gets this way is good for him. His staff worries about his health, believing that he is working too hard.. It never, gets on his nerves or spoils his disposition, but it does show on him phyically at times. He recuperates by spending a month each year in ‘a cottage at East Harwich on Cape Cod. Aside from his golf, he gets little in the way of exercise.

BOBBITT ANSWERS STATE JOB CHARGE

Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State Committee chairman, today admitted that he once applied to Governor Townsend for a ‘position as Republican’ member of the State Tax Board but branded as “an absolute lie” a charge that he voted for Governor Townsend in the last election. “At the time the letter was written, I was a private citizen,” Mr. Bobbitt said. “I held no position in the Republican Party. There was a Republican vacancy on the State Tax Board. I felt that it was my privilege to apply for it, just as it would be the privilege of any man to apply for a position. At any rate, I didn’t get the job. I guess I was too good a Republican to suit them. What they wanted was a Republican who had supported Governor Townsend. I hadn't done that. They knew it.” : Mr. Bobbift’s statement was prompted by a charge recently voiced in a radio address by Walter Shead, Democratic publicity man, that “we wonder just how deep his (Bobbitt’s) Republicanism runs. Will Mr. Bobbitt deny that he wrote a letter to the Governor's office applying for a job as a member of the State Tax Board in which he declared that he was a ‘ball player’ and that he voted for Governor Townsend?”

LOCAL MAN ORDAINED PRIEST IN ROME RITE

The Rev. Fr. Joseph Brokhage of Indianapolis was among 10 students ordained to the priesthood yesterday by Bishop Ralph Hayes, North American College rector, in Rome. The ceremonies took place in the private chapel at the college.

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damental and will not be solved by recent developments.” An informal banquet at which Charles C.Moorman of Jacksonville, Fla., head of the Retail Merchants Bureau there and national president of the A. C. B. of A. will be guest of honor, will be held tonight. Mr. Moorman addressed the convention today, discussing the problems of credit’ men. Miss Aline E. Hower, St. Louis, discussed “The Magic Ingredient in Letter Writing,” At the afternoon meeting of the N. R. C. A. there were seven group conferences to discuss differing credit problems in various industries, Local chairmen were to include Harry E. Watson, L. Strauss & Co.,, and P. K. Lawall, Morrison’s Washington Street Corp., ready-to-wear; Henry Harm, Polk Sanitary Milk Co., dairy; E. B. Vahle, Guarantee Tire & Rubber Co., and M. A. Neise, Indian Refining Co., tires, accessories .and petroleum, and ‘Evans Rust, Peoples State Bank, and G. S. Blue, Security Trust Co., personal loan group.

Managers to Speak The A. C. B. of A will hear managers from the local district on various phases of the bureau organization and bureau problems. Jay

L. Barrett of Ann Arbor, Mich., dis-|

trict president, will preside. : Officers of the local chapter in charge of the convention are R. O. Bonner, L. S. Ayres & Co., president; R. B. Stokes, Banner-White-hill, Inc., vice president; J. PF. Raney, the William H. Block Co., secretary; Mr. Watson, treasurer, and A. P. Koelling, Merchants Association, manager. Mr. Koelling is general chairman of the convention committee.

WOMEN PAY LESS T0 FISH APRIL 1

New reduced price fishing licenses for women and vacation anglers, provided in a new law passed by the recent Legislature, will go on sale April 1, Virgil M. Simmons, Conservation Department director, said today. Women anglers who are residents of Indiana will pay a 50-cent fee, instead of the regular $1.50 license which covers hunting and trapping as well as fishing, Nonresidents of the state will pay $1 for a fishing license good for 14 days. Previously the nonresident license was good only for 10 days.

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Senate’s Civil Liberties - Group Reports on . Antinnionism.

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 20.—Although the Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co., Terre Haute, reently’ won a Supreme Court deciion against the National Labor Relations Board, it was cited today as an outstanding example of strikebreaking and industrial warfare in a report by the Senate Civil Liberties Committee. Labor has charged that the company imported strike breakers from Chicago, causing the 1935 Terre Haute general strike which brought the Indiana National Guard to the city and a declaration of martial law by former Governor McNutt. Meantime the Civil Liberties Committee recommended that the National Firearms Act be revised to prevent the use of machine guns and gas bombs in industrial disputes. . Its report to the Senate completed the series of findings of the Committee on what it termed the four chief instrumentalities of anti-unionism—strike-breaking, industrial espionage, private police systems and industrial munitions. The report was based on evidence compiled during a two and one-half year study. Dealing specifically with industrial munitions, the report lists the Columbian Enameling and Stamping Co. among the largest purchasers of gas munitions with an expenditure of $5842.02. It reads: “An example of the purchasing of gas munitions through a detective agency is provided by the Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. in Terre Haute, Ind., July, 1935. “E. E. MacGuffin, who had command of the strike-breakers for the Railway Audit & Inspection Co. in the New Orealns Street Railway Co. strike in 1529, supplied operatives to Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. through his own ngency, the National Corp. Service of Youngstown, O. “The Lake Erie Chemical Co. shipped about $1800 worth of gas for the Columbian Enameling and

Stamping Co. to J. P. South in Terre Haute. J. P. South was one of MacGuffin’s leading operatives and strike-breakers. i “On this order of gas MacGuffin split the commission with the Lake Erie salesman and received $373.60. MacGuffin testified that he received ' this commission personally for introducing the Lake Erie salesman to th eman in charge for the CoSunbian Enameling and Stamping

It was announced that bills to revise the Firearms Act will be ine troduced soon. ; The report listed 80 corporations and employers’ associations which purchased in excess of $1000 worth of tear gas and sickening gas between 1933 and 1937. Republic Steel Corp. was the largest purchaser, with $79,712 worth. ; Others included United States Steel Corp., Bethlehem Steel Corp., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Gene eral- Motors Corp., Anthracite Instie tute, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., San Francisco Employers, National Steel. Corp., Pennsylvania Railroad and Chrysler Corp. ”

PRODUCTION OF COAL IN STATE“INCREASES

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 20.—Indie ana coal production reached 443,000 - tons for the week ending March 4, an. increase of 28,000. tons over the previous week and 119,000 tons greater than the corresponding week in 1938, a National Bituminous Coal Commission report dise closed today. ;

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