Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1939 — Page 8

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MINES SHUT BUT MARION COUNTY |Zckes Chosen by New Deal to Smear NTHENAEIM GROUP

MEN PATRONIZE U. S. Newspapers, Mrs. Patterson Says, WL HL) GYMFEST COMPANY STORE

Workers Buy Supplies on Credit; No ‘Pressure’ Reported So Far.

Editor's Note—Here is another dispatch from a correspondent whe is visiting some of the softcoal regions to learn how the miners are faring during the shutdown that resulted from a deadlock of negotiations between the union and the mine operators.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 18— The odd economics of the soft-coal industry are producing another contradiction in the current shutdown. It is the continued operation of the company stores that are found in every sizable mining town. These enterprises, which have been abundantly belabored by labor leaders and some governmental authorities, are still doing business at the old stand, and on credit to the same old customers—the miners

Homer Martin (left), leader of

who quit work April 1 because their big union, the United Mine Work-| ers, had not obtained the kind of] a contract it wants from the] bituminous operators. If the operators had any intention of “starving out” the miners, and thought they could get away with it, they could be expected to close the stores or cut off all credit business. But through this great coalproducing section apparently no thought has been given to such a maneuver. Store System Explained

Patrick T. Fagan, district president of the United-Mine Workers, said he thought there might be some cases where the stores are “bearing down,” but that “the most of them are still playing ball.” At Russelton, a two-mine “captive” operation of the Republic Steel Corp., the company store system was explained from the miner's standpoint by John Micklow Jr, local union president. All output of the Russelton mines is used by Republic steel mills, nonunion so far as the steel business goes, but unionized almost 100 per cent in production of their fuel. The Russelton mines were on strike from June to October, 1937, in sympathy with the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee effort to unionize Republic and the other independent companies of “little steel.” Last year there was a sixmonth shutdown blamed on slack business. The company store kept on selling food and other necessities to the miners, on credit during the strike and during the shutdown.

Still Owe Back Bills

The result, according to Mr. Micklow, is that the miners, who went through two long idle periods, are still paying a few dollars a month, in addition to current bills. for what they bought during the strike and shutdown. In the current “holiday” the miners are adding to the obligation which the company stores expect them eventually to pay off —through the checkoff system of deduction from pay. Although bills are piling up, Mr. Micklow declared the 545 members of his local union “are 100 per cent back of John L. Lewis, and we won't go back to work until we get a contract.” The company store, he said, is beginning to “clamp down” in some cases—cutting off the credit of a few men, and limiting others to a total expenditure of a dollar a day.

‘Business as Usual’

Investigations at the company store produced an explanation of these cases, and in general a statement that the concern’s business is

conducted like that of any enterprise operating largely on a credit basis. The store was displaying handbills of “Special Prices This Week Only,” which bore out the claims of its defenders that it gets its business through competition with other retail merchants. For instance, a 25-pound sack of sugar was offered for $1.19, which was said to be two or three cents under quotations of the chain stores in the cities. Up to now in the coal shutdown, it is “business as usual” at the company store.

Martin Faction of U. A. W. Asked to Join A. F. of L.

DETROIT, April 18 (U.P).Homer Martin recommended today that his faction of the United Automobile Workers of America accept an invitation to return to the American Federation of Labor. He said a referendum of the full membership would be taken on the question soon. Mr. Martin claims 200,000 of the 350,000 members of the original union, which was split when he “ousted” a majority of the executive board members for alleged communistic tendencies. The “ousted” members, under the leadership of R. J. Thomas, in turn “suspended” Mr. Martin and won recognition from the Congress of] Industrial Organizations. The invitation to Mr. Martin's group was extended yesterday by William Green, A. F. of L. president.

BISHOP O'HARA GOING TO KANSAS CITY AREA

WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P). —The Most Rev. Edwin V. O'Hara, Bishop of the diocese of Great Falls, Mont., has been named by His Holiness Pope Pius XII as Bishop of the diocese of Kansas City, His Excellancy The Most Rev. Amleto Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, announced today. Bishop O'Hara will succeed the Most Rev. Thomas F. Lillis, who died Dec. 29, 1938, and will be the third ordinary of the Kansas City diocese. He was named second Bishop of the Great Falls diocese in 1930 after a distinguished career in the archdiocese of Portland, Ore.

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Workers’ Union, gets a whispered bit of advice from William Green,

A. F. of L. president, during a Washington conference to discuss the possibility of Martin's union joining forces with the Federation.

The Gallup Poll

Votes Show Half of U. S. Expects War in 1939;

Majority Thinks Nation

Will Be Drawn Into It.

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

Director, American Institute of Public Opinion EW YORK, April 18.—Will Europe go to war? Have the events of the last few weeks been the prelude to another 1914? Or will the two great blocs of European powers find a way out? No one can answer these questions with certainty today, least of all probably the ordinary citizen, but repeated Institute of Public Opin-

jon surveys show that the events of the last few months in Europe have convinced half the people of the United States that a European war is coming before the end of 1939. Moreover, a majority of Americans believe that if a major war breaks out in Europe the United States eventually will be drawn into it. Both these feelings have increased since the German conquest of Czecho slovakia a month ago. Uncertain as the whole question of war may be, the psychological attitude of the American people at this time is immensely important in view of the discussion of U. S. neutrality and defense policy in Washington today.

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OLLOWING are the results of the Institute's nation - wide checkup: “Do you believe there will be a war between any of the big European countries this year?” Per Cent . 51 iis 9

“If there is such a war, do you think the United States will be drawn into it?” Per Cent 58

MERICAN concern has grown step by step with the moves of Chancellor Hitler in the last year and a half, the Institute's tests show. In August, 1937, before the German occupation of Austria, only 16 Americans in a hundred thought there would be a major war within a year. But a little more than a year later, after the Austrian Anschluss and the occupation of the Sudeten areas by Germany, this number had more than doubled and for the first time a majority thought the United States would be drawn in. The trend on the two questions has been: Per cent saying yes: War U.S. Within Drawn Year? In? Aug, 1937 ........ 16 4 Jan, 1939 ........ 57 58

HE growing apprehension of the American people does not mean that they want to go to war. On the contrary, recent Institute surveys show that in spite of their pessimism about America’s ability to stay out of a major war, the people strongly oppose any move to draw this nation into European battles or to conscript Americans for overseas fighting without a national referendum. Interviewing in the Institute's survey was completed just before President Roosevelt's remark to a Georgia audience that he would return in the fall “unless we have a war,” and does not measure the possible effect of his statement on public opinion.

CONVICTED OF $1400 THEFT FROM BANK

NEW ALBANY, April 18 (U. P)). —Herbert M. Bryant, 34, of New Albany, today was under a suspended sentence cf three years on a charge of embezzlement. He was found guilty of embezzling $1400 from the Second National

Bank here. The sentence was issued by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell.

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STATE SETS UP BANDIT TRAPS

Periodic Blockade System Results in 87 Arrests in Three Nights.

Periodic blockades on streets and highways leading out of Indianap-

olis have been started by State Police in an effort to trap fleeing bandits, Capt. Walter Eckert said today. During a blockade of two and onehalf hours Saturday night no bandits were caught but State Police officers arrested 38 persons for other violations that would have gone unnoticed otherwise. Officers stopped 3707 cars during the two and a half hours. Five of those arrested were drunken drivers. One driver of a stolen car drove into the net but upon seeing the officers, leaped from the car and escaped into a woods. The car was returned to its owner in Bloomington. Blockades were set up two other nights last week and a total of 9862 automobiles were stopped and checked. In all three blockades 87 drivers were arrested for various offenses, including 11 drunken drivers. One of those caught was an alleged alcohol runner whose car contained 210 gallons of unlicensed spirits.

POGUE’S RUN DITCH SUIT ATTACKS WPA

A suit seeking to enjoin the WPA and a ditch project sponsor from diverting the channel of Pogue's Run near 1800 N. Bosart Ave. was on file in Superior Court 2 today. Filed by Orval O. and Bertha Carter of 1852 Bosart, the suit charges that the WPA and the sponsor, George @. Bruce, caused Pogue’s Run to be diverted into a series of drainage ditches which caused flooded conditions on the plaintiff's property. The property owners also seek $5000 damages in the suit.

SIX GET 8-15 YEARS IN CONSUL SLAYING

BAGDAD, Iraq, April 18 (U. P) —A court martial sentenced six men

labor today for the murder of Britduring an attack by an anti-British month. death but the sentence was com-

muted to 15 years at hard labor because of their youth.

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Intangibles Tax Check From State $9000 Less Than Previous One.

The State Tax Board today sent to the Marion County Auditor's office a check for $90,048 as its share of the State intangibles tax distribution. This is about $9000 less than the preceding semiannual distribution to Marion County last October.

Total distributions to all counties in the State totaled $517,880 as compared to $572,907 last October. Other large distributions included Lake County, $46,022; Allen County, $29,293; St. Joseph County, $27,428. Vanderburgh County, $20,055. Intangibles taxes are collected through the sale of stamps at the rate of 25 cents for every $100 in securities or other negotiable paper.

WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P.). —Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, last night accused Interior Secretary Ickes of attempting to “discredit the press of the United States as a purveyor of truth of what goes on in Washington.” Replying to Mr. Ickes’ speech last week before the New York Newspaper Guild in which he discussed “Columnists and Calumnists,” Mrs. Patterson said the secretary had been chosen as the “Administration’s vial of wrath” in a campaign to “besmirch” the press. Mrs. Patterson spoke over the radio network of the Mutual Broadcastinf Company. Mrs. Patterson also charged that Mr. Ickes had attempted to “lay down an advance barrage of poison gas against the newspapers” in anticipation of their criticism of President Roosevelt's remark at Warm Springs, Ga., that he would return “if we don’t have a war” and his speech to the Pan-American Union Friday. Mrs. Patterson said Mr. Roosevelt in his Pan-American speech “for the first time in history addressed

the peoples of countries with which we are at peace, urging them to overthrow their present rulers.” Mrs. Patterson charged that Mr. Ickes “suppresses views and prejudices which are deterrent to his ambition, and only reveals those he thinks will aid him.” She charged he had concealed from the public alleged disagreements with Commerce Secretary Hopkins and former Federal Housing Administrator James A. Moffett.

“Attacking publishers, Mr. Ickes reveals himself possessed of an inlent to color and suppress the facts surpassing anything he imputes to any publisher,” Mrs. Patterson said. “Attacking ‘columnists,’ Mr. Ickes shows himself purveyor of more baseless gossip than any he so describes. “Attacking reporters, Mr. Ickes shows himself one who is too incompetent to hold a job on any paper with which I am familiar.”

BONTEMPS, HUGHES SPEAK SATURDAY

Langston Hughes, poet and dramatist, and Arna Bontemps, novelist and dramatist, will speak at a program of lectures and chamber music at 7:45 p. m. Saturday at the Y. W. C. A. auditorium. The program will be presented by the Progressive Arts League of Indiana. Mr. Hughes is the author of “The Weary Blues” and “Fine Clothes for the Jew.”

COUNCIL'S FUND PLEA COMES UP SATURDAY

A hearing on the City Council's request for special appropriations

totaling $32,000 will be held by the] |

State Tax Board at 10 a. m. Saturday. One item is for $3400 for the proposed purchase of 37 acres of land to enlarge the Sarah Shank golf course. The largest item is for $19,000 requested by the legal depart-

ment to pay court judgments.

An old-fashioned gymfest will be held for the first time in almost 10 years at the Athenaeum when a 14point drill exhibition will be presented at 8:15 p. m. Friday. It will be sponsored by the Athenaeum Turners, and will be given in two parts with Mrs. Julia Niebergall presenting an overture and an interlude. Pyramids, mass drills, dance routines, dumbell drills and polyrythmics will make up the pro-

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