Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1941 — Page 24
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
DEFENSE STRIKE
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4 Army Projects Affected: Not Alarming, Say U. S. Officials.
By UNITED PRESS
Thirty-two strikes affecting de-
fense production were in progres:
today, four of them at U. S. Armv
projects. Government officials insisted the number was not alarming. Two strikes were in progress at Pittsburgh. One called by the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee (C. I. 0) made idle 900 workers af the La Belle works of the Crucible + Steel Co., where small arms are manufactured. The union declined to comment on the strike
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A. F. of L. electrical workers were |; on strike at the Edwin L. Wiegand |§ Co. plant. Protesting the discharge |
of one employee and disciplinary layoffs of 18 others
Thirty-five A. F. of L. carpenters]
refused to continue work on new baracks and hangars at the Sno homish County airport at Everett, Wash., where a $5,000,000 air corps base Is under construction. They refused to work with lumber from a mill where a strike is in progress Work on an estimated $240,000 worth of defense orders was disrupted by a strike of crane and hoist men at the Springfield, O plant of Robbins & Mevers, Inc A company official said the dis bute was between an A. F. of L. Union with which the strikers were affiliated and the Mevers Employees’ Association, which now represents workers in bargaining Negotiations were scheduled to resume between the S, W. O. C. and executives of the Lackawanna, N Y., plant of the Bethlehem S Corp., apparently end y thr of renewing the strike ich down the plant 38 hours two ¥ |’g0. The union had threatened resume the strike charging the firm declined to receive a union committee. New Possibility of Truce
Director John R. Steelman of the U. 8S. Conciliation Service announced at Milwaukee that new possibilities for settlement had been discovered in conferences with th United Automobile Workers (C. I ©.) union and Aflis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. executives. The ! Chalmers plant has been closed 52 days by a strike of the U. A. W 7800 members who demand 11 “security” and wage increases firm has defense orders worth 000.000. Mr. Steelman said he expected to Tfeave today for Washington to report to Secretary Perkins on the Allis-Chalmers situation
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NICE ROOMS—FACING ENEMY’ TORONTO, Ontario (U. P.). — Gunner Leo Leach, now manning a British long-range gun somewhere along the English coast, writes home that Dover landladies are advertising, “Nice Rooms, Every (Convenience. Facing the Enemy)
lischenck, chairman of the 20th Cen : tury-Fox Films Corp, never listed tached to it a note explaining some | Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and Don
Grace Poggi, professional dancer, shown with Joseph M. Schenck aboard his yacht, testified at his $412,000 income tax trial in New York, that she had used his home and boat for parties.
Schenck Lent Willie Bioff
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TO ARMY GAMES
LOS ANGELES, March 14 (U, P.).—Death Valley Scotty hasn't a
State and Military Chiefs fabulous gold mine in the desert
to which he repairs when’ his
Work Out Program for [money runs low. The yellow-backed bills he has Troop Movement. scattered like the dead leaves of autumn since 1905 have come from America’s fast-expanding Army, his partner, A, M. Johnson a which has been “limbering up” at Wealthy, retired Chicago insurance camps during the winter, is ex- | broker. Mr. Johnson has loaned
: S We “him $500,000, and “he’s paid it back pected to “take to the roads” this |, laughs.”
summer for vast maneuvers, Scotty — Walter Scott—exploded Then you will see long columns |[{he legend of the desert gold mine lof trucks, tanks, motorcycles and | yesterday, testifying in a suit in ‘mobile guns rumbling down State | Federal court brought against him shighways. As they mapped plans, [by Julian S. Gerard, a New York the Army and State officials saw a |financier, and brother of the late | big traffic problem, [Ambassador to Germany. Mr. GerWar Department officials got to- ard charges that he “grubstaked” gether with State officials and out- [Scotty $10,000 in 1902, and is enlined a system between Army and [titled to 22': per cent of his
civilian authorities to co-ordinate | ‘wealth.”
the military vehicle movement with | Scotty said there wasn't any
civilian traffic. wealth, except Mr. Johnson's. He, The size of the military move= said the $3,000,000 castle in Death |
ments may be as many as 3000 to | Valley, one of the showplaces of | 4000 vehicles at a time-—whole divi- | the west, was built by Mr. Johnsions (18,000 men) or even corps of son. He doesn’t even live in it; he several divisions may just “up and (beds down in a shack near it. take off” across Indiana during the | “Have you ever owned any rich
the making. torney, Leonard Wilson, asked.
Will Get Fast Passage “Have you a mine now?”
$ 100 000 S F S { If such a contingency occurs, the “No.” I I ecre ary ays State Police, State Highway De- “Did you ever sell any gold?”
NEW YORK, March 14 (U. P).— Although he gave her no bookA tall, smartly-dressed blond, his Keeping instructions about the $100 - 000, Miss Nolander said, Mr. Schenck Schenck lent $100.000 to Willie Bi- made her keep minute records of
secretary for 18 vears, testified In Federal Court today that Joseph M
off, former West Coast labor leader, his housekeeping expenses,
H ont tha 3 & in cash in \ w and got the money back In cash IN| phe grocery bill for one month
late June, 1937 np . i ; was $572.50, apparently a relatively
The government contends that \
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1 the $100,000 for income tax purposes. of the items Mr. Schenck and |
eastern represen
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high figure, for Miss Nolander at-
“Dear Boss,” the note said. “This stiver is the liason officer of the is what you had to pay for groceries last month. It comes to a little| with the Army commander in makmore than $20 a day and includes : coca cola, cigarets, and caviar, And remember, sir, you changed cooks, three times during the month, and|petween the committee and War each new cook when she comes Department officials:
partment and local authorities, will | «Ng.»
be set to give the troops quick pas-{ “How much money has Johnson! | | vealed that he and Scotty had been
| sage over the state's highways. | given you?” nh In Indiana, as in the other states. | 1 don't keep any books,” he ana, In the SS $ “ ’ he Re ¥ The t : ol STAYS. fdrawled, “and I don't know how Bar Fn Vi Ips 3 THred PY much, but it was a lot.” yr M8 ™ - » 11 N | y 3 : oy! Ni A RD oa 1a le i 1e Mr Wilson asked him if he had 1 alr f > 3 { “lV : Le J ides ! | “large caches of gold” in the hills are James D. Adams, chairman of |
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Death Valley Scotty
“I may have told them any- [so he could collect if Scotty ever plane were killed instantly ; Scotty said, grinning. “I struck it rich, but Scotty was get- third died en route to a hospital, don’t remember, and it isn’t true, ting old and he didn't expect he The fourth member of the
{would ever get his money,
| io Mr. Johnson testified that he had| Scott is 65. . » . : ; I Scotty $500,000 in the last big-scale war games which are in |mining property?” Mr. Gerard's at-|30 years, and that he had
“Nope,” Scotty answered, casually. Scotty's assistance, and then built |
appetite for Triomes {probably more than $2000. 2 NK By
like to give it to him.”
[it to be an anti-climax.
ms. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1041
TRAFFIC GEARED Death Valley Scotty's Fobulous Gold Mine [BOMBERS CRASH Just a Myth, He Explains at Federal Trial |N AIR. 7 DEAD
explained, “and he's paid me back iim in laughs, I've been paying his
bills for years and liking it.” Believe Planes Practicing
He said the castle was owned by i : ; the Death Valley Mercantile Co., Formation Flying Over Canadian Base.
and he was the company, “I met Scotty in 1904 in my office in Chicago,” he said. “Al BRANTPORD, Ontario, March 14 friend of mine, who was one of the | vv p). Seven members of the Pubes I ay rar | Roval Canadian Air Force were ¥ al I seriously yess low from out West who wanted | killed and one injured seriously
somebody to grubstake him. |terday when two training bombers “That was Scotty. I gave itv HOHE in the air and crashed near between $1000 and $5000. At that CIC . wag time, I was making between half| One of the twin-engined Avroa million and a million dollars a | Ansons, which were bglieved to have year, and $100 or $1000 meant Deen practicing formation flying, nothing to me. exploded when it struck the earth, “Prom the time I met Scotty, |All four occupants were killed inhave heen in the habit of handing | Stantly and the plane wreckage him anything from $100 to $1000 A Was strewn over several hundred every time I see him, which is fre- | yards. : quently.” | The other plane crashed less than Mr. Johnson said he had obh-|a quarter of a mile from the first,
tained a judgment for the $500,000, Two crew members of the second ' OVAT and a
crew, John Flowers, was in a serious con. dition. Names of the dead men have He snorted when he was pressed not been announced officially
built | for details of his expenditures of Officials at Port Albert Naviga«
Yerard's loan. ‘ tion Schoo] said that eight airmen “If I want to rob anybody, I'll get were English and that they had a gun and do it right,” he said. larrived from Britain less than a “I got some money from Gerard, week ago for advanced training uns {der the Empire training scheme, “I don't remember the exact
famount—but T sent it back to him| GETS 520,000 BALM of court, Mr. Johnson re-'and I thought that was the end! BOSTON, March 14 (U. P.)—A of ib.” | Superior Court jury's sealed verdict
Gerald tells his story today, but| opened today awarded Mrs. Cecil
prospector persuaded him to come |Judge Benjamin Harrison expected | R. Patterson, 46, Cleveland, O, di(to Death Valley, when he was peril-
| vorcee, $20,000 in er $200,000 “It looks like the man from the| breach of promise suit against Ver=
“I've lent him a great deal of desert took the man from the city | nal E. Clem, 63, wealthy Jamaica money over a 30 year period,” he|down the line,” he said.
| Plain milk dealer.
the State Highway Commission; Edward M. Stein, Commissioner,
F. Stiver, State Police head. Mr
committee who will deal directly
L.S. AYRES 40 Veo JL Aa Ing the plans. " . wv Here is the system as it already & «COMP AN Y 9» has been worked out at meetings ~ » A TR A - -
left it for his 1 { 1 1937 Bioff was a Ire it visito Mr. Schenck’ and on
n .} h a \ nN « SNe Saw
one occasion, late
__'him there. Mr. Schenck. she said. . was counting money “When he got to $100000, he!
stopped,” Miss Nolander testified The money, she said, was placed in a Manila envelope, given to her for sealing and subsequently turned over to John B. Codd, Mr. Schneck's controller Later, in July, Mr. Schneck called for the envelope and took some money out of it, and that, Miss Nolander said, was the last she ever saw or heard of it again. She said
Mr. Schneck gave her no instruc- | tions about entering the $100,000 on {the records.
said, “$12 for turkeys for Thanks-
has certain staples, such as condi- Suppose the commanding officer ments hich she thinks she can of the Fifth Division. now encook better with, and so there is camped at Ft. Custer, Mich. should some duplication on those things. desire to use Indiana highways to Ang remember, you had Mr. and move his unit to Kentucky as part Mrs, Harpo Marx there living with/ of a “war game.” you that time -, . ." In November, 1936, the bill was $564.04, or about $18.80 a day, “but; The commander would com-
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this includes,” an attached note mynicate with Mr. Stivel Mr
He (Contacts Stiver
Stiver would radio or telephone
giving and caviar, which you or- y . tol : [immediately the following informa-
dered twice.” y On another occasion Miss No- tion to the commander: Most praclander explained a high laundry | ticable routes, alternate routes. bill by pointing out that included a French tutor's laundry, Mr. and Mrs. Marx's “and also Sandra '0 divide a column, best time to Rambeau's laundry.” Miss Ram- pass through certain areas, vehicle beau was not further identified. |spacing and speeds most desirable One hill entered in evidence was for $280, the cost of sending a Mrs. Duffy, Mr. Schenck's masseuse, to New York by airplane on an occasion when he visited the metropolis.
points where it would be advisable
for co-ordination with other traffic: location and nature of unusual road conditions, emergency repair work required, location of facilities for service and supplies, availability of | _| State Police communication system
: - ~ . nn" y up to date and read off from a | "ve a J A, AMA form prepared for the purpose.
Joan Miller's
Gay Junior Ginghams
The gayest, giddiest, perkiest little dresses that
ever walked out to meet Spring! Smartly took one Army commander two
checked to point up
Crisp, white pique accents to make you look ‘a few hours,
neat as a little angel! Wand waists; waltz-me-
around-again skirts. Red, blue, green, brown,
black and white. 9-17 included in the group.
AYRES DAYTIME DRESSES, FOURTH FLOOR
| for emergency messages including
possibility of tuning troop column | radios into police networks, and | location of hospitals. All this information will be kept |
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After receipt of this information | the Army commander makes his | plans in line with highway condi- | tions and then forwards to Mr. | Stiver the following information: Selected routing in detail from origin to destination. source of procurement of required service and supplies along the way, source of procurement of hivouac areas, route markings and directional signs: desirable average speeds in rural and | urban areas,
| Stiver Arranges for Police
Mr. Stiver will then arrange for police escorts to meet the columns of moving Army vehicles at various points to guide them through wvari-
ous congested spots. ) Although plans have heen worked out in great detail, Mr. Stiver and other members of the eommittee & expect to meet again with War De-
partment officials and corps area officers to work out similar plans for “regions” composed of several states. During maneuvers in the TexasSabine River area last summer it |
days to work out plans for transporting troops across a state during a sham battle. Under the new system plans can be carried out in
your piquant personality!
It is designed not only because of the maneuvers, but because national and State civilian and Army | officials want to be prepared should vast numbers of troops have to move in a real emergency,
BROAD RIPPLE POST
TO NOTE 22D YEAR
{ | | Broad Ripple Post 312 will observe the 22d birthday of the American | | Legion at 8 p. m. tomorrow at Post | | headquarters at 61st St. and College i {Ave. There wlil be dancing and |
| cards for members and their wives. | { A pitech-in dinner will be held at the post Sunday at 6 p. m. V. M. | | Armstrong, past department com |
mander, will speak. New members| will be initiated afterward by the degree team which is composed of post commander George Pennington, first vice commander Herman [Champer, second vice commander C. [*C. Chambers, sergeant-at-arms Andy Anderson, chaplain Cecil Hartman and past commander Paul Miller. . Features of the regular meeting Friday, March 21, will be a musical program and movies shown by J. E, Kleinhenz of the Indianapolis Water Co.
W. BERNER DIES: RETIRED HOTEL MAN
| | William Berner died yesterday at’ (his home, 302 N, Tacoma Ave, Mr, | Berner, a retired hotel manager, was 174. | Mr. Berner came to Indianapolis in 1923 from Friendship, in Ripley | county, He was a member of the Lutheran Church. | Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Minnie Berner; a daughter, Mrs, Dorothea Stamm; a son, William Ber- | ner, all of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Mamie Westrater of Ander- | | son, and a brother, Edward Berner, | Richmond. | Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. | | Sunday in Milan, with burial in the | [Milan cemetery. The body will be | ‘at home until Sunday morning.
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