Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1941 — Page 7
1941
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
. LONDON (by wireless) ~Now the days are getting longer, and the people of London count the few precious minutes of added gaylight each day as though
they were pearls. For truly the blackout is a heavy
light a cigaret. in the street.
oh insidious thing. It gradually gets on your nerves until you feel as if you have got to throw it aside and let the light out into the night. Every day the papers publish the exact minute for klacking out. When 1 first came to London the nights were at their very longest. The blackout went on| as early as 5:19 p. m. and didn’t end until 8:35 in the morning. That’s more than 15hours of blackness. It is a finable offense to show a light from a window during the blackout. You don't even dare to One morning a friend
of mine, who is stopping in the samg/ hotel, opened his curtains at 8:25. His watch was fast and he didn’t
know it.
In just one minute a plane spotter on a
nearby roof had sent a man to knock on his door and suggest that he be more careful in the future.
A Joke on the Warden
Some friends of mine live in an apariment. Just before I came here London had a hot and heavy night. with incendiary and high-explosive bombs falling over the entire city. Apparently my friends were showing a little light, for a warden came and
warned them. And not a minute after
he had left,
two or three bombs dropped within a block or so.. The warden came back and said:
“Now you see?
The Germans s&w your light.
That's why we're getting these bombs here now.” Of course he really didn’t think that, but it made
a good joke.
The best joke, however. was that when
the warden contiRued his rounds he discovered a few minutes later that those two bombs he was talk- ( ing about had blown his own house to smithereens. A few nights ago a warden knocked on my door
and said a plane spotter in a building| across the
street had reported he could see a light in my window.
The warden inspected the curtains and said they were perfectly all right.
But about two hours later
he was back again, saying the spotter still reported a light from my window.
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)
PROFILE OF THE WEEK—Henry F Schricker, who ‘has -his grips packed ready to niove from the Marott Hotel across the street into the | Governor’s
mansion.
day) still has his youthful figure.
formal attire.
also was a fire chief. department at Knox when he was still for years he’s been its. chief. He still is.
At 57, the new Governor (starting Mon-
About 5 feet 9 inches tall, he weighs only 135 pounds. His proad, thigh forehead surmounts a pair of wideset, friendly blue eyes. | His. sandy hair is graying, ancl thinning at the temples. It’s pretty hard to|catch him
when he’s not smoking or chewing on a nickel cigar, or chewing Beech Nut scrap tobacco. He got a couple of cartong of scrap for Christmas and keept them on the mantle in his office, where they're handy. He always "has a package in his pocket, even when he’s in
He’s probably the first Governor who
He joined the | volunteer fire boy, and The family
recalls that back home in Knox he used to sleep with his fireman's ‘boots, helmet and rubber coat beside his bed, ready and hoping for an alarm. Fire fighting gets in your blood and now, rio matter how important a conference he’s in, he'll jump up and dash for the window every time a fire truck roars
past the State House.
That Youthful Figure
Pp
THE NEW GOVERNOR probably keeps his figure
so youthful because he’s such a light eater.
He sits
down to a meal only when he's hungry, the result being that he often dines at some preity odd hours.
He's particularly fond of vegetable sausage, pork chops and sauerkraut.
soup, country He may eat a
piece of pie between meals, when he’s hungry, but he dodges dessert after a meal. He finds working around the yard a pleasure, and
back in Knox used to mow the lawn hirnself.
He's
pretty -handy with a saw and hammer, but not so handy with such things as electrical garigets. It’s his custom .to wander through the State House corridors, shaking hands and chatting with acquaintances, but when he gets home, he’s not, much inclined
Washington
WASHINGTON,
Jan. 11. —Wendell Willkie ought
to step into this situation and make his personal
leadership felt.
As he demonstrated taroughout the
compaign, he, as much as President Rposevelt, is aware of the threat to the United States and our way
of life that lies in & Nazi victory. Mr. Willkie has a special opportunity to help reduce the confusion of counsel among us. Many who would never be [swayed by Mr. Rposevelt’s judgment as to what is to our best hational interest will believe Mr. Willkie. The trouble is coining to a considerable extent from Mr. Willkie’s - own followers. * Doubt and confusion are -being thrown into this situation by the pronouncements of | the heads of such influential organizations as
the National Association of Manufacturers and the United States Chamber of Commerece.
The utterances of these
industrial leaders ems-
phasize the dangers to personal freedorn through economic controls hy the Roosevelt Administration but skip silently over the dangers to American ‘freedom ‘that would exist if the rest of the wo Fla were taken
over by the Axis combination. Some Startling Statements
They ask questions which can only have the « effect of raising a cloud of doubt “in| the minds of those who are either uninformed of who do not think through to some of the realities. It is astonishjng to hear the Presitent of the
United States Chamber of Commerce (say:
“I'll con=-
fess that I am not certain how far we shculd go outside of the North American continent and that portion of South America ffom which attack might be made: an the Panama Canal.” | n
How ca
anyope suggest surrencering part of
WASHINGTON, Friday.—Yesterday I gave the luncheon which is given every year in honor of the
wives of the members of the" Supreme Court.
Mrs.
‘William Howard Taft, as usual, was my co-hostess :across the table, and Mrs. Stone and Mrs. Roberts sat
o
on either side of mig. Mrs, Roberts and I discovered that we had an equal enthusiasm for farming and country life. It is curious what a bond a farm can be. Though I have nothing to do with the management of my inother-in-lawes ‘farm at Hyde Park, I have learned much from her. Cows, particularlyeif you have the same brand, ‘seem to provide an! endless subject of conversaiton. : Dogs and horses draw people together in exactly the same way. I have always felt that anyone
who was really liked by dogs could be counted on to have certain decent qualities in human relationships. The President’s little dog notices that the bags are
out and we are planning to go somewhere
today. He
is just as excited as a child. 'Someong remarked this
morning that he was the *waggingest”
puppy they
hag ever seen, which describes him’ quite well because
.- tons.
- afternoon, filled up so re
We finally figured out that a desk light on my
writing table was shining up toward the
top of the
curtains, end that a little light was seeping tlirough. So I moved the table to tiie back of the rooin, and the next day the hotel put a heavy auxiliar’ hood across the top of the window, around the regular
blackout curtains. There have been no
plaints.
more com-
Everybody has read thot sands of words about the blackout, hut you Simply cannot know what i's like
unless you 've been in it.
There is a slight reflected glow on the street 's from the lights of automobiles and buses, when any of
these happen to be passing.| But if no suc near, you simply have to feel your way feet.
see no more than if I were standing in th
the Sahara Desert on the darkest night of th
blindfolded and with my ejes shut. Taxis Defy Darkness
The curbs in London
makes walking a little easier. All light
When I pull my curtains and open the before going to bed, and lock out upon London,
are painted white,
h vehicle is with your window I can Adle of e year,
e mi
which es and
pol
safety-zone posts are _paint 2d black with whit} rings.
white. mere pinpoints.
* The fenders of cars ‘used at night are tipped with All moving vehicles carry lights, but taey are
Pedestrians are permit: :d to use flashligh's, provided these are small, or shaded, and aren’t pointed
upward.
cross right in the middle oF it.
a full green or red light.
People no longer motion for a taxi at nigh. just stand on the curb and yell into the dark It’s miraculous they wai taxis get about a}
When you get into one the driver clips off
Flashlights are called “torches” here Traffic lights are hooded from above, glass itself is painted a solid black except for! This is the ti slits, yet from two or thre: blocks away it lo
and the a little niest of ks like
They ess. night.
at 45 miles
an hour and just keeps oil going, ramming forward
into nothingness.
I have achieved a new Ligh in something , for myself.
The other nigiit I found the in the dark, rode three miles into ‘the nig
. way across a street into a| strange apartmen;
ir other ect bus felt my 5 house
cor} ht,
and got Clear) up to the apartment of a friend of
‘mine.
‘It nade me feel so won derful I took a
toward idle chatter. relax and read.
tax i home.
He'd rather get into his slippers,
He shaves himself every morning, usually with a
safety razor. [Lately he’s lieen trying out which he’s still not sure he! likes.
A Stamp Collector, Too
. MR. SCHRICKER has been dubbed
an |electric,
the “trav-
elingest Lieuténant-Governor the State ever had.” In the last four years he has spoken at banquets and meetings in almost every city and hamlet in the
State.
Incidentally, the contacts he made ¢n those
occasions didfi’t hurt him any in the November election. He really enjoys speaking, and almost irivariably talks exterporaneously. He's ill at ease with i manu-
script in his hand.
When he has to provide 4 manu-
script, he sits down at hig typewriter and cashes it
off himsell.
He has al keen, whimsical sense of humor and he
is an effective story teller. |
Among his hobbies is stamp collecting. once wrote a story about | it and ever si
Someone ncg people
meeting hint have been handing him stamp for his
collection. of his two [song or his-da lighter take an stamps.
A Great Hand Sharer
He is just a little unhappy tha; neither
in| serest in
HE USED TO PLAY the organ in the Kncx church and sing in a quartet and he still is as fond [of music
as ever. He plays the piano at home
“usually popular or church music.
In equently,
He weals double-breaste suits, many of them with pin stripes, ‘and, although he usnally looks | ‘immacu-
lately dressed (except for the end of the day), he pays little atten apparel.
cigar ashes on vest by
tion to his
In mild weathei| he wears a lighi-coloréd,
wide-brimtned hat along the Western style. | The new Governor is one of the shrewdlest poli-
ticians in the State. in his [father’s store, becaine a lawyer, an
He [started as a grocery clerk
editor and
publisher, a banker and (went from State Senator
to Lieutenant-Governor iri one gulp.
He's a great hand shaker, but the trick is that he remembers the names and ‘faces that g0 | with the
hands. He's invariably late to
meetings, mostly because
he’s been! delayed by hand shakers en route, |
By Raymond Clapper
the Monroe Doctrine, suggest voluntarily inviting the Axis t0 come into South America south of the hump of Brazil and take it ovel? . How could anjone com-
placently suggest that it will be all right
with us if
the Nazis and the Japaripse want to estal slish their domination over Argentind, Paraguay, Urugiay, Chile,
Bolivia and Peru?
Hovi can anyone believe that
once the Axis was intrerched in those cojintries we would have no worry abput further encrpachment? Who can believe that the Axis powers, holding the rest of South America urider their control, would not
put the bee on Brazil té fall in line?
What kind
of business could Americ fans do in South Amercia
under such conditions
Paging Mr. Willkie
It is difficult to understand how anyone can blandly contemplate t States being reduced to the rank of a se This country rates number one position in and if will be number cone if businessme
businessirien,
head of the United States Chamber of don’t lose their nerve ju st because they of Roosevelt. This country has a ste 51 capacity of 83, a year. | strength.
tions put together. that capacity on a self-sustaining basis Yet businessmen suggest policies that wouls to second-rate status.
Steel capacity i¢ a good index o; Germany has| probably about 40,000,000 England has about 15,000,000 ton. - has sufficient ore, in fact must import mos! have more steel capacity iow than all the ¥ We have ore supplies
especially ne United sond-rater. the world n like the Commerce ‘are afraid
(100,000 tons industrial
Neither of it. Wa jarring nato expand indefinitely.
i reduce us] “A merica first” peolle advocate
policies that would in re ality make America second.
Mr. Willkie has the [vision of what
the United
States can do as a greaj industrial power. + He has the understanding of. the issue that the European war
presents and of the imp irtance to us ®f it is decided in our favor. | He ought to oy his own Srows to see it, too.
By Eleanor Roo:
he seemsg when he is excited. ‘The ‘Quiz-Kids” of radio fame, cal yesterday afternoon. Th jugh I always su
to wag his wh ble body as well |
seeing that to persuade
}
sevelt
as his tail
ed on me hposed they
must he very learned children, they really looked
quite normal and naturg]l. I told them things - which I thought ' might add to of their tour around the White House that I could have spent inore time with t I had planned yesterday afternoon to ¢ hibition df paintings by Miss. Elisabeth painted lwo water color: of the back of House last summer for me to give to tk as a Christmas gift. I wanted to see h I had lent her for the exhibition look pidly that I nev e that a great r 3s. ntments from 4 s came in for t
to get there. I only hop were not as busy as I wi I had 15-minute appo! Then two or three frien: not really free a single m Last night ‘Miss Thorapson and I hac
oment during thi
one or two
the interest
and wished hem. 0 to an ex-
Searcy. She
the White e President pw the one ad, but my sr managed 1any people
o'clock to 5. a, so I was
dinner to-
gether and I think it was the first time w an opportunity for conversation in wee)
“sound ridiculous, but the usual day is su communications are Jimifed strictly to business,
ie really had :s. It may ich that our
1
afternoon.
GOP CONSIDERS p
By Ernie Pyle
GROSS LEVY AS A ‘HOT POTATO
Writing 2 Measures For Legislature.
By WILLIAM CRABB The Republicans controlling the State Legislature have served notice they still consider the Gross Income tax question a “hot potato.” Both parties promised relief to the retailer in their party platforms. Their legislative caucuses reaffirmed
this intention. On the face of the matter, the reduction of the retailers’ tax burden should be an easy matter. Actually, however, the problem is one of furnishing relief to both tle large merchant and the small merchant without slighting either.
Offer Alternative Plans
The Republicans, who have substantial majorities in both houses, so far have straddled this issue by deciding to introduce two bills: They are: 1. Provide a $20,000 exemption for retailers instead of the present $3000 exemption and keep the rate at the present 1 per cent level. 2. Keep the present exemption at $3000 but reduce the rate from 1 per cent to one-half of 1 per cent. The first plan obviously would benefit the "small retailer and provide a lesser of relief for the largeincome merchant.
Merchants Want Rate Cut On the basis of the last available
Tax Division, only one merchant in five has a gross income of more than $20,000. Hence, under the first plan, 80 per cent of the retail merchants in the state would be exempted from paying gross income tax altogether. The second plan would cut in half the tax paid by all group but would keep the merchants having incomes between $3000 and $20,000 on the list of taxpayers. This proposal has been indorsed by the Indianapolis Meat and Grocers’ Association. Generally, retail merchants associations favor the reducing of the rate rather than the raising of the exemption. . The Indiana State Trade Association Executives have announced they will sponsor a bill reducing the ex-
one-half of 1 per cent. This. would place some of the smaller merchants whose gross -incomes are between $1000 and $3000 on the tax lists. A merchant" who grosses $5000 would pay $20 tax under this setup, the same as he pays under the present system.
Farm Bureau Accedes
.. The Associated Retailers of Indi~ ana,” who led“thesfight for gross income tax relief in the 1939 session of the Legislature, in the past have favored the reduction of rate rather than the raising of the exemption. The Indiana Farm Bureau, whose members paraded to the State House two years ago in opposition to the gross tax reduction proposal, have agreed to a rate cut by this session provided the reduction in revenue does not have to be rePlaced by an increase in property tax rates. It has been estimated that there will be a 10 per cent increase in State revenue from 1940 collections over 1939 because of higher wages and reduced unemployment. Therefore, whether or not adoption of the various plans means actual reduction in the State's income depends on how their respective reduction in revenue compares with the 10 per cent and business conditions in future years. Here is the way the Gross Income Tax Division estimates the various plans will affect gross income tax revenue, which was $23,179,704 in 1939: Amount Per Cent reduc- reducPlan © tion tion Reduce rate to % . of 1 per cent, present exemption. $4,300,000 17
Reduce rate to of 1 per cent and reduce exemption 3,750,000 16
Same rate but raise exemption to $10,000 (proposed by Senate minor- 5 ity members) .... 2,500,000 10+plus Same rate but raise exemption to $20,000 3,500,000 15 The Gross Income Tax Division based its figures on an estimated total of 50,000 retailers. This figure includes about 5000 retailers who do not pay taxes because their incomes are below the exemption level and about 3000 who pay their taxes as delinquents. =
Disagree on Losses
Retailer groups, do not figure in these latter classifications in computing losses in revenue. Hence, they make their calculations on a total of about 41,000 merchants, which would bring the loss of revenue to a lower level than the State division estimates it. For example, instead of a loss of $3,500,000 by raising the exemption to $20,000, their calculations place the reduction at $2,500,000. This latter figure is the one arrived at by the Gross Tax.Division for an exemption increase of only $10,000.
AUSTRALIA FIGHTS SHIP NEWS ‘LEAKS’
CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 11 (U. P).—Navy Minister W. M.
radiers have been “well served” with information about ships in this part of the world and that “there is good reason to suppose it was by some person or organization on the Australian coast.” In a move to clamp down on “leaks” in. shipping information, Hughes ordered four commercial radio. stations closed. He said’ one or more of them had Yroadeast ship
: information,
Party Straddles Issue by
figures of the State Gross Income,
emption to $1000 and the rate to|
Hughes said today that German sea |
By FREMONT POWER
Someone seems to have given Hollywood: script writers a lot of bum’ arfswers on the question of diving an airplane. And their reputations for accuracy would be greatly enhancéd if they could persuade Anrew C. McDonough to become incommunicado on the subject. Last Wednesday Mr. McDonough took an Allison-powered Bell Airacobra up at the Buffalo, N. Y., airport and dived it 21,000 feet, reaching a speed of 620 m. p. h. It’s the fastest speed -on record that any human has ever endured. But Mr. McDonough’s attitude toward his feat apparently is, “shucks. Mv ‘A Short Interview He ‘is a regular pilot on the Eastern Air Lines’ Atlanta-Chicago flight. On the way to Chicago yes~ terday he set his plane down here and reporters were able to nab him
three minutes and one second while he was standing still for the photographers. ! “That stuff you hear about test
pilots is just built up for Hollywood,”
Mr. McDonough cracked as he looked over the right motor of his huge passenger liner. “Falling at that speed isn’t as bad as going down fast 400 or 500 feet in a regular flight. “That stuff about dive pilots wearing straps around themselves.is a lot of Hollywood hokum, too,” Mr. McDonough added. “It’s a Sweet Engine” The Allison motor? “That’s a sweet engine you've got here. All you need to do now is make niore of them,” he said. After Mr. McDenough was through with the test at Buffalo, he telegraphed his wife at Atlanta: “Buy baby some shoes. I'm coming home.” Here’s how it feels to go 620 .p-Bh.; “You don’t feel any different than you did’ on a level keel. It’s a better ride than you can get in a jaloppy on the ground at 50 miles. “It’s smooth and easy and you don’t know you're going so fast until you pull out of the dive. Even then, it’s not as bad as some pilots would lead you to helieve. “When the pull-out takes place, you sit down a little hard in the seat. It’s as if you suddenly sat
for an interview which lasted about’
ulling Out of 620 M. P. H. Dive Is Like Being Kicked by Mule Pilot Says Here
Andrew C. McDonough , ; . he didn’t tell his wife or boss,
down hard on the floor. Or maybe it’s like ‘heing kicked by a mule, but not so sudden—it’s more gradual That's all.” Mr. McDonough is a small, thin fellow, little given to talking. He's 29, married and a father, and he didn’t tell his wife he was going to make the test dive. He confessed he_didn’t tell his employer, either. \ “I took: a busman’s holiday and I just didn’t tell them, that’s all.”
Mr. McDonough seems to be quite susceptible to the miseries of a cold wind and while walking about his plane here, he kept his hands in his pockets as much as possible. Asked if his 620 m. p. h. dive wasn't a record, he said, “Well, that's going pretty fast, anyway.” Then he climbed on in his ship and roared off to Chicago. There was another delegation of reporters waiting for hime there,
201ST INFANTRY REACHES FORT
Second Oldest Regiment in U. S. to Be Welcomed At Hockey Game.
THe 201st Infantry, once included in the British colonial troops in the colony of Virginia, arrived at Ft. Harrison last night an hour late but ‘glad to reach their new station. The outfit’s 1000 men and 70 offi-
cers will receive a civic welcome to Indianapolis next Wednesday, when they will be guests of the Coliseum at the hockey game between the Capitols. and the Hershey Bears. The program was arranged by the national defense committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The 201st Infantry soon will be increased to war strength of approximately 3000 men and 150 officers, according .to Col. Theron G. Methven, officer of the regular establishment. He has been in West Virginia as senior instructor with the National Guard. The. entire regiment was welcomed this morning by Col. Walter S. Drysdale, Ft. Harrison commandant. i This gecond oldest regiment in the Uniled States replaces the 11th Infantry which left for Ft. Custer, Mich., last week. The 11th Infantry was organized under General George Washington during the Revolutionary War, At the Wednesday hockey game the 201st Infantry band, reputed to be one of the best military bands in the country, will play. The city’s welcome will be voiced by W. I. Longsworth, Chamber of Commerce president.
|SOUTH BEND WOMAN
IS KILLED BY AUTO
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Jan. 11 (U. P.).—Mrs. Laura McErlain, 79, was injured . fatally today when she stepped into the path of an automobile driven by Paul Bultinck, 21. The accident was St. Joseph County’s third auto fatality within a week. Mr. Bultinck was not held.
Windsor Plans Air Meet Visit
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 11 (U. P.) — The Duke of Windsor pays a flying visit to the All-American Air Maneuvers today. He and a “party of four” were scheduled to land at Cat Cay in the Bahamas about noon. : He accepted an invitation from Governor Spessard L. Holland to fly here for the meet, following the precedent of previous governors of the Banamas, who made the trip annually. Ted Thompson of Ft. Lauderdale, flew his tiny Culver Cadet 1145 miles an hour to win the qualifying event for C-licensed planes of 200 cubic. inches displacement yesterday at the meet. His wife, the former Katherine Rawls, Olympic swimming star who at one time represented the Indianapolis Atneitic Club, took second in the 25-mile women's race for the Alcazar trophy.
RCA TO EXPAND CITY,
PLANT, MAYOR TOLD
Details of additional expansion of the RCA Manufacturing Co, plant here were disclosed today by
"Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan.
The - War Department several weeks ago announced additional orders for the Indianapolis and Camden divisions of RCA. The new addition will employ 1000 workmen, bringing the local personnel to ' 3500, and will cost $450,000, Mayor Sullivan was informed by John H. Smith, local vice president in charge of operations. Another new unit to the plant at E. Michigan and LaSalle Sts. is nearing completion and work on the latest unit will start immediately. The brick building will be one story high. The local plant manufactures sound equipment for the Government as part of the national defense program, in addition to equipment for the motion picture industry and radio broadcasting, phonograph records and 10-cent movie machines.
STATEHOOD FOR HAWAII BACKED
Poll of Those With Definite Opinion Finds 2 to 1 » Favor Plan.
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP
American Institute of Public Opinion Copyright, 1941
PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 11.—Will Hawaii become the 49th state? Without much attention being given the news in continental United States, the voters of Hawaii on Nov. 5, decided by a plebiscite vote of 2 to 1 to ask for statehood. From now on, Hawaiian citizens interested in statehood will place their case before Congress in bills and reso- | lutions. While the question of statehood for Hawaii has not been widely discussed outside of she islands themselves, a survey just completed by the American Institute of Public Opinion provides interesting evidence that—at the present time—a majority of voters with opinions on the question think Hawaii should be admitted to the Union.
Not since 1912, when Arizona and New Mexico were admitted, has a new star been added to the American flags The Institute’s question, put to men and women in a cross-section of the electorate in every state, was as follows: “Would you favor admitting Hawaii into the Union as a state?”
The replies were:
AMERICAN INSTITUTE
PUBLIC/OPINION] |
. 48% «3 Undecided or No ! . 29
It is interesting to note that— among those with definite opinions —statehood was approved by slight-
ly more than 2 to 1, or almost the same majority found in the island’s
plebiscite last November.
‘Aces’ Quit Models for Army Planes.
Robert Neidhamer, Robert Zweisler, Roy Raia and Paul Sercer (left to right) . . . with them to
The “Four Aces” are off for Panama, where they’ll transfer their love for airplanes from carefully constructed scale models to fighting planes. The “Aces,” who enlisted at the Army Air Corps here Monday, will leave today by train. All 18 years old, the “Aces” are Manual Training High School pupils. They are Robert Neidhamer, 41
Park View; Robert Zwiesler, 1117 S.
Meridian St.; Paul Sercer, 815 Fletcher Ave., and Roy Raia, 952 S. New Jersey St. They've been busy this week distributing 175 model planes they have built during the two years they have had club headquarters at the Niedhamer home. But they'll take with them their club membership cards, the four aces from a deck of cards.
In Panama, the youths will be en-
Panama will go the four aces from a deck of cards.
rolled in the Ground School. They expect to become aviation mechanics and hope later to be allowed to fly over the vital strip of Central American land bordering the Canal. They hope, too, to remain close together as the Four Aces. Besides a love for airplanes, the Four Aces share another hobby. It is photography. But restrictions being what they are in Panama, they don’t expect to take many pictures.
|emergency.
'| Republic “Steel
BILL PROVIDES
FOR ‘COOL OFF
IN LABOR ROWS
Ball Proposal Would Hold Off Strikes Until ‘Tempers Ease.
By FRED W. PERKINS ‘Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1l1—Symps. toms of Administration support for the “count ten” labor disputes bill of a young Republican, Senator Joseph H. Ball, of Minnesota, have been discerned here in the concern over whether strikes shall be ale lowed to impede national defense production. One reason is the concern over the strikes, and another is the threat from a strong group in the House, centering around tne Judie ciary Committee, which has made motions indicating that drastic ane ti-strike legislation may be proe posed if the situation becomes more menacing. The Ball bill is regarded in some quarters as a compromise that would head off proposals for denye ing the right to strike during the It is based on a legis= lative experiment that has been in operation in Minnesota less than a year, but is hailed as successful,
Similar to Rail Act
In principle, it is the same ag the kailroad Labor Act procedure, whose long success in preserving peace between railway employees and managements contrasts with disturbances in other sectors of ine dustry. But Philip Murray, president of the C. I. O., declared himself this week against any proposal that would interfere with the right of a labor union to strike at times it deems most advantageous. He pointe ed out that most strikes are pree ceded by negotiations which theme selves, he said, provide the “cooling off” period of the Minnesota law. The Ball bill proposes that either party to a labor dispute must serve written notice and negotiate 10 days before taking any further action. Once a strike is voted, notice must be given to an official conciliator and 10- more days must be allowed to pass before the strike goes into effect. President could invoke an additional waiting period of 30 days,
Ranger Strike Ends
Meanwhile, settlement of one dispute and early. end to another threatening delay to national dee fense production was reported toe ay. An all-night John R. Owens, new Federal Office of Production Management, résulted in an agree= ment ending threat of a strike at the Ranger Engineering Division of the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp., East Farmingdale, N, Y,, which holds fontracts for $7,500,000 worth of Army and Navy airplane motors, The aviation division of the United Automobile workers of America (C. I. O.) had threatened to pull out 240 workers in a demand for “higher wages and other cone cessions. Early settlement. was predicted for a strike of 1600 miners at two Corp., mines at Clarksville and Fredericktown, Pa., whose production is used in steel manufacture.
conference with
pany safety rules. Michigan Strike Threatened
Officials of the, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. and the C. I. O's United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Local
tiations soon for a signed labor cone tract, A strike was threatened, but not yet ordered, for the Flint, Mich., Chevrolet plant which is making _ Army trucks. Strikes were in effect at the Fead & Sons Knitting Mills, Port Huron, Mich., which has an $80,000 Army contract, and at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., Jackson, Mich., which was preparing to make shells. Tension continued in a C. I. O.« A. F. of L. dispute at, the Allise Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Mile
dollars worth of defense orders.
NEWSBOY IS SHOT
Shot in the left hip while delivers ing papers yesterday near his home, Edward Bogg, 13, R. R. 9, Box 426, was described as in a “fair” condi tion at the St. Francis Hospital to= day. Hospital officials believed the boy was wounded accidentally by a 22-caliber rifle Which two other boys were using.”
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Cairo is the capital of what country? 2-What is the birthstone for Jane uary 3—Did the United States pay France rent for. trenches used by our soldiers in World War I? 4—What is the popular name for a man’s dinner coat? 5—Who were Marquette and Joliet? . S-Whess is Woodrow Wilson bure ie T—An. adjective expressing some quality is called an epitaph or an epithet?
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1- ‘Egypt. 2—Garnet. 3—No. 4—Tuxedo. 5—French explorers. 8-National Cathedral, Washington,
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