Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1941 — Page 3

SATURDAY, MARCH 1941

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Hoosiers in Washington—

WILSON INSISTS ON HIS RIGHT TO TALK

Hoosier Congressman One of Most Exuberant House Freshman Class; Threatens to Hold Up British Aid Bill Unless Allowed to Attack It.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY WASHINGTON, March 22.—Rep. Earl Wilson, Indiana’s Ninth District Congressman, is turning out to be one of the most exuberant members of the Freshman Class in the House. After taking a four-day flying junket to Florida, he hurried back to Washington this week to contribute his oratorical two cents to the de- ®t 8 a bate on the seven billion-

dollar aic-to-Britain Bill.

He was against it. Then he dis- § covered that there was a sort of|§ “gentleman's agreement” between 8 Rep. Ciifton A. Woodrum (D. Va.),!$ who was in charge of the bill for the Appropriations Committee, and Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R. Mass.), minority leader, to speed the measure through. This only could be accomplished by curtailing speeches and with] unanimous consent. So Rep. Wil-| son was discouraged by the G. O.| P. leaders from taking the floor. But he refused to be squelched. |

Martin Surrendered

“I Just told Joe Martin that if he didn’t let me have five minutes io] make my speech, I was going to hold up everything with objec-| tions,” Rep. Wilson said. Jovial Mr. Martin surrendered. And here are some of the things| Rep. Wilson said from the House] Floor: “A man in a feeble-minded in- Flag” which was made by Ignatius stitution was seen hitting himself 'K Werwinski, South Bend, in payon the head with a hammer. When ing tribute to Brig. Gen. Carmir asked why he was doing that, he|pulaski, Polish hero of the Amerireplied, ‘It feels so good when I can Revolution. quit.’ “I suppose since the President] hates war so much, he is going into McNutt Offers Advice it because it will feei so good when it is over. I suppose you are going! In a St. Patrick’s Day speech at to vote the $202.02 tax on every Providence, R. I., Federal Security

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cause they will feel so good when it fered this advice: is paid. 2 A k {have a Federal official point it out, $1875.90 Average in District no single problem of community “But when that is paid, they life will ever be solved solely by will not feel so good when they are admitting the Federal Government told that there is $997.98 yet to pay to partnership with the States and which has been heaped upon their localities. heads by this Administration. “The only place to solve a proh“If this bill passes, it will cost lem is at its source. And the place the people in my district $55.000.000, Where things happen to people, the not counting interest. Their total point at which they need protecdebt will be $50.000.000. or $1.875.00 tion, is in their own home towns.” per family. “With this tremendous debt heaped upon our heads, how are we Department to Get Seal going to maintain free institutions . in an insolvent countrv? I main-! Administrator McNutt will have tain that hy following this very his own official seal soon. A hill war philosophy. we are automatical- has been presented by Rep. Hatton lv destroying free institutions and _ Sumners (D. Tex.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman,

the democratic way.” t {authorizing the adoption of an official seal for the Federal Security Agency. Under terms of the bill it is to be used “as directed by the Administrator on appropriate occasions in connection with the functions of the Agency.’

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Born Near Huron

In his biography in the Congressional Directory. Rep. Wilson describes himself thus: “Earl Wilson, Republican, of Huron, was born near Huron, Lawrence County, Indiana, April 18, 1906; reared on a farm; educated in the Huron Public School: received A.B. and M.S. degrees from Indiana University; diploma from | Coyne Electrical School, Chicago, | Il1i.; attended Purdue University; | taught high school in Dubois, White! and Decatur Counties, Indiana; high school principal in Jackson County, ! Indiana; member of Vallonia Lions | Club; vice president of DuCrafts, | Ind.. of Huntingburg, Ind.; married | Elsie Bex; affiliated with the Bap-| tist Church: elected to the Seventy-| seventh Congress on Nov. 5, 1940.” Shortly after his arrival here, Rep. | Wilson made some of his G. O. P. colleagues hair stand on end when] he went on the radio and declared that he considered President Roosevelt and the New Deal a worse] threat to American democracy than | Hitler. A bouncing sort 6f boyish man| with baby blue eves, Rep. Wilson| is determined to have his say here without bothering much about the] seniority rules,

Diplomatic Fray Just a Mistake

WASHINGTON, March 21 (U. P)—The Police Department sighed with relief today—because what they feared might become an international diplomatic incident ended with a smile.

It began when Patrolman William E. Props saw a woman jaywalking against a red light at a busy downtown intersection. He tried to stop her and tell her it was wrong to walk against the lights. She said she was in hurry to meet a diplomatic car. Officer Props started to explain again. The woman screamed, then hit him on the chest. An automobile &with diplomatic license tags pulled up and the woman jumped in. The car drove away. Officers traced the license to Leander McCormick - Goodhart, British embassy attache whose chauffer had been driving the car. He explained the woman was a Norwegian maid he had hired about a week ago. It was her first “night out” and when a policeman stopped her she became excited.

Speech Offered Twice

Both Senator Raymond E. Willis and Rep. Robert A. Grant, Hoosier Republicans. made identical contributions to the Congressional Record on March 17. Each in-| serted in the Appendix of the Rec- | ord an address entitled “Under Our

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WASHINGTON, March 22 (U. P.).—Ruth Egoscue, 22-year-old War Department clerk, lay on a

hospital cot today—either refusing to tell or not knowing where she was from the time she disappeared early Wednesday until she was found unconscious and suffering from exposure in a park last night. Hospital authorities said the pretty brunet talked to the extent of identifying herself and telling of buying a meal last night, but became hysterical when they sought to determine where she had been the past two days. They said there was ne evidence that she had been harmed. She is being treated, they added, for extreme nervousness and exposure. Miss Egoscue arrived last Saturday from her home in Forest Grove, Ore, to accept a job in the Air Corps division of the War Department as a typist. On reporting Monday, she was assigned to work on War Department maps and spent two days at that task before she disappeared.

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NORRIS WARNS 0.1.0. AND A.F.L.

Opposes High Initiation Fees as Crisis Looms At Milwaukee.

WASHINGTON, March 22 (U.P), —Senator George W. Norris (Ind. Neb.) called upon the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations today to condemn publicly “the practice” of charging exorbitant initiation fees of workers seeking jobs on defense projects. In letters to William Green and Philip Murray, presidents of the rival groups, he said that this practice was forming a hostile public opinion which, he said, might lead to severe repressive laws that would injure all organized labor. Senator Norris made the letters public today. They were written yesterday. ’ He made his appeal amid indications that the Government planned drastic action to end the strike tying up the giant Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee which has large defense orders and which has been

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| Martin Silent on Possible | Rejection of Resignation

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the prolonged dispute. suggestions that

the plant, but it was understood that officials would be reluctant to

Here for a political pow-wow today are Republican leaders of 18 states, getting things lined up for | the National Committee meeting Monday in Washington. sylvania State. Chairman; Bud Duncanson, of the Minnesota State Central Committee; Joseph Wishart, of the Nebraska Finance Committee, and Harry W. Colmery, Topeka, Kas,

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G. O. P. Continues Unity Sessions Here [J, S$, DISCOUNTS

FORD REVERSAL

Strike Still Feared Despite Dewey Story About ‘Compromise.’

By LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, March 22. —Federal officials are much worried about the C. I. O.’s threatened Ford strike, despite Detroit stories of a reversal in the Ford anti-union policy and a compromise settle ment. | The peace stories | are described by informed officials here as ‘“premature,” if not out- | right “wishful { thinking.” The strike no-

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State Office. Indiana deputy attorney generals ere was some hope for a settletoday were ordered to appear before| The Allis-Chalmers plant was the U. S. Supreme Court March 31 working on $45,000,000 worth of ‘for oral arguments in two important | qefense rae USL he C. 1,04 : A utomobile Workers ordered tax cases, thus adding another com-| , “walkout and abrogated its con(plication to the already complex tract with the management on [Attorney General situation. | grounds the company was discrimi- | The new G. O. P.-sponsored At- nating against the union. The stop'torney General laws, against which |Pa8€¢ Was said to have thrown Governor Schricker has filed Suit off the construction schedule on

: . $ 1 destroyers by as much ‘here, abolishes the present Attorney Some hava y y e | General's office on April 1. as three months. The plant was

According to Supreme Court cus- Bie CR for an Army tom, attorneys are ordered to appear | : : : lon the iy day of the A in| __ Yesterday the A. F. of L. Council |which cases are to be heard and). Jbavion called off a jurisdicthen they are called in turn | ional strike that had held up ) . urgently needed construction at

Late Hearing Seen

the Army Air Corps field there a : three weeks. This left the AllisIt 5 highly probable, according Yo/ Chalmers strike the one remaining officials here, that the Indiana cases | dispute seriously embarrassing the will not come up before the middle defense program. of the week, or after the deputy | attorney generals are officially “* JURY CONVI of office. | 3 Democrats contend that even if| Secretary of State James Tucker | iN POWER BLA and Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson named the interim attorney, provided for by the new law, and it GOSHEN, Ind, March 22 (U. P.. were possible for him to get to | —A Circuit Court jury of 12 farm- | Washington in time, he would have ers today returned a verdict of no power under the law to go before [guilty against three men charged the Supreme Court. | with illegual 1 , Governor Schricker asks in all: Teg t i580 dynamite and suit, which probably will not be de-| | S respass In connection cided by April 1, that Mr. Tucker with the bombing of an Indiana and Mr. Dawson be enjoined from|and Michigan Electric Co. tower in naming an interim attorney and November, 1939. that the new laws be declared un-| The def t constitutional. | e defendants were John R. Marks, 37, Michigan City, business | Question Expense Account | agent for Local B-9 of the Interna- | Attorney General George Beamer tional Brotherhood of Electrical pointed out, too, that the two depu- | Workers; Earl Freeman, 41, South |ties, Joseph Hutchinson and Joseph |Bend, and Frank Lung, 26, State | McNamara, may not be entitled to|Reformatory inmate. The charge [their expenses back from Washing- carries a sentence of from 2 to 14 [ton since under the new law they |Yyears, but Special Judge C. TC. Car{will not be deputy attorney gener-|lin deferred passing of sentence unals. | March 29. He said, however, that he would! The dynamiting of the power line probably send them to Washington | tower, near Millersburg, was one of

regardless of the legal problems in-|a series which occurred on I. and volved because failure of the Attor-|M. properties late in 1939. Lung ney General's office to appear would | currently is serving a 2-to-14-year |result in a default of the case. They |sentence imposed in St. Joseph involve the question of collection of | County Circuit Court last May |gross income taxes on revenue re- | when he pleaded guilty to a charge {ceived by out-of-state firms on of illegal use of dynamite. Marks | business done in Indiana. was acquitted at Plymouth May 18] Mr. Tucker today said he had not when he was charged with condiscussed the appointment of an spiracy in connection with one of interim attorney with Mr. Dawson. the blasts.

RECITAL TOMORROW BUS STRIKE IS ENDED SUBWAY TIEUP LOOMS

| The Decatur Township Schools’ music departments will present a

(recital at the West Newton Com-| NEw YORK, March 22 (U. P.).— {munity House tomorrow at 2 p. m.

Among those who will take part are | BUS drivers went back to work to-

| Joe Horton, Virginia Moore, Helen | day after a 12-day strike which had Munday, Patricia Murphy, Dale|suspended 95 per cent of Manhat(Sheheer, esl oY. Suma Paul | tan Borough's surface transporta- | Waggoner, Joan Peck, Betty Allison tion, but the city was faced with and David Reilich. | { tm (of its vast subway system, which carries millions daily. Michael J. Quill, international | president of the Transport Workers | Union, addressing the 3500 bus company employees who ratified the strike settlement yesterday, said

Marion County Sheriff Al Feeney will speak on “Youth at the Crossroads,” tomorrow at 11 a. m. at the {Scott Methodist Church, 2131 Mar- | tindale Ave. The Rev. John W. be in

| Crook, church pastor, will

| charge of services Hall” June 30 when union contracts le : S. |

| with two of the city's three subway | systems expire.

OFFICIAL WEATHER 41 FACE CHARGES U. 8. Weather Bureanl eee IN FEDERAL COURT

Forty-one persons indicted here

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Increasing cloudiness tonight: tomorrow mostly cloudy with occasional light rain in the after-! noon or night; not much change in tem- by the Federal Grand Jury will be perature: lowest tonight about 30. ~~ larraigned before Federal Judge _Sunrise.....5:45 | Sunset 5:59 Robert Baltzell Friday.

TEMPERATURE . —March 22, 1940— | Among them are seven persons

Waa Lp. 2; [from the Indianapolis district ~ BAROMETER READING |charged with the violation of the 6:30 a. m...30.33 !motor vehicle theft act and a 19- | 00 year-old bank messenger charged

| Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... | Total precipitation since Jan. 1 2.88 with theft of $586 at the Peoples ————— | State Bank.

| Deficiency since Jan. 5.28 MIDWEST WEATHER ictri " ; Indiana—Increasing cloudiness tonight District Attorney B. Howard

the threat of a 100 per cent tie-up |

Monday.

Republican leaders of 18 states continued their discussion of organization problems here today with one eye on Washington, where the National Commitee is to meet Mon- | day. A stronger, united party for the 1942 Congressional elections was the theme of the executive sessions. Rep. Joseph W, Martin Jr., national chairman, spent several hours bhehind closed doors with the state leaders yesterday and then returned to Washington last night. He said he discussed “organization problems.” During his stay, Rep. Martin declined to discuss the possibility that the National Committee would refuse his resignation Monday. He said he would withhold comment until the committee had acted.

Discuss Bobbitt for Post

Meanwhile, possible appointment of Arch N. Bobbitt, Indiana's state chairman, to the post of National Executive Director, was discussed unofficially by the party leaders (here. Rep. Martin again praised [ Mr. Bobbitt yesterday for the record of the recent G. O. P.-controlled Legislature. But the national chairman refused to say whether an executive director would be named or who the leading candidates would be if such a post were decided on. Kenneth Wherry, Nebraska chairman who also has been mentioned or the post, is attending the conference. Other State chairmen attending are: J. B. Griffith, Wyoming; Tom Whalen, North Dakota; R. C. Radabaugh, Minnesota; Dr. F. L. Gullickson, Wisconsin; Ed D. Schorr, Ohio; Glenn W. Martens, South Dakota; Thomas S. Yates, Kentucky; Ben = Berve, Illinois; James Torrance, Pennsylvania; Leslie B. Butler, Michigan, and Major Henry Leonard, Colorado. Several others were expected today.

Three Ohioans Attend

Others from out-state are: W. F. Nicholson and Gordon Allott, Colorado; James M. Murphy, Wisconsin; Robert Rennick and Richard Nowensen, Illinois; Gerald L. Stanley, Larry C. Green and Hugh Huntington, Ohio; John M. Henry, Iowa,

and Harry Colmery of Kansas City, former American Legion national | commander. Representing Indiana, in addition | to Mr. Bobbitt, are Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson, State Auditor Richard James, Rep. Frank Millis, Senator Albert Ferris, National Committeeman Ernest Morris of South Bend, John Bookwalter, State | | Committee treasurer; Neal McCallum, State Committee secretary, Noland D. Wright, Indiana Young Republicans president; Charles Jewett, former Indianapolis mayor, and Bruce Hardy, Scottsburg, na'tional committee agricultural division assistant director.

2 Nazi Prisoners

Escape to U.S.

OGDENSBURG, N. Y. March 22 (U. P.).—Two German naval officers were held by United States authorities today after a spectacular flight across the frozen St. Lawrence River from their Canadian prison camp. The men were identified as

Bernardt Gohlke and Heinz Rottman, One was identified as a submarine officer. Immigration officials said the Germans narrowly escaped capture on the ice by the pursuing Canadians. The men are expected to be arraigned before U. S. Commissioner John Barr later today. Immigration Inspector Herman Kull said he was awaiting instructions from immigration headquarters at St. Albans, Vt.

The prisoners escaped from Ft. Henry, Kingston, Ont., by crawling through a gunhole. Then they

g i : and tomorrow, following by qSCcasional Caughran said that this Grand Jury ight rain in north portion Sunday an n i 5 south portion tomorrow afternoon or report, finished yesterday, ends the night; not much change in temperature. | present session. Minois—Increasing cloudiness, followed | by occasional light rain tomorrow, and in northwest and extreme north portions late | tonight: slightly warmer tonight; somewhat colder in northwest portion tomorrow,

Michigan—Increasing cloudiness occasional light snow in north in south nortion

Lower | tonight; land light snow or rain | central portions tonight.

| Ohio—Fair and continued cold wonight. | | tomorrow increasing cloudiness with slowly |

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Kentucky—Fair tonight, tomorrow in-, WASHINGTON, March 22.—Inerative: ‘Monday light rain °c '® '®™" dianapolis will have an eligible WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. bachelor in the new head of the VetARNE amer Ras Toque lerans Administration Facility, WilBismarck, N. 26 |liam Hardaway, who is preparing | Boston |today for his Indiana assignment. {Cincinnati Mr. Hardaway will arrive in In(Gleveland 'dianapolis Monday and spend until | Dodge City. {April 1 with John Ale, present adES ye B..'hE |ministrator, who will take over the Little, Rock. Ark | Dayton, 0O., Facility managership on | Nami. Fla. .... oo. .Fogov 29. |that date. ; 3 | Minneapolis-St. Paul. RiCldy 30.3 Bn | The new Indianapolis Administra- | New Orleans ........ Er ; tor is a native of North Carolina but N was reared in Atlanta, Ga. He joined the Veterans Administration after serving as a First Lieutenant in the World War, i His service with the Administration included the facilities at Phoe-

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Hardaway Arrives Monday To Head Veterans’ Hospital

nix, Ariz.,, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and headquarters here for |the last four and one-half years. | Throughout this latter period, Mr. Hardaway has been in the investigation division and contacted various | facilities throughout the United | States. | He is highly pleased with the In{dianapolis assignment, he said: “They have a fine facility there {and I am sure that I will enjoy the feity which I have visited many | times,” Mr. Hardaway added. | As a member of the American Legion, he expects to have close cooperation with the national headquarters in Indianapolis. A strapping fellow and immaculately’ groomed, he can be added to the list of eligible bachelors of about 45. ;

1942 ELECTIONS

THE LEGISLATORS have been out of town less than two weeks,

| will open Detroit hearings on the C. I. O. election application for the

| Lincoln and River Rouge plants. Dewey Hints at Peace

The Labor Board last jcepted a new C. I. O, |against Ford, charging continued | unfair labor practices at the River | Rouge, Lincoln and Highland Park

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but there's already talk of bringing them back. There are some who | Plants, and ordered a Detroit hears

say a special session may be called in 60 to 90 days. If he can avoid it, Governor Henry Schricker probably will not He had enough trouble with the Republicans during the But some problems have arisen that

issue a call. 61 days they were in session. may require the Legislature iron out. One of them involves the State Board of Education and millions of dollars. A G. O. P. law abolishing the present Board and setting up a new one was declared null and void by the Attorney General's office the other day on the grounds that it attempted to amend a 1913 law which was repealed in 1933. At the same time, the Attorney General said the present Board named by Mr. Schricker in midJanuary was legal now despite the emergency clause carried in the G. O. P. act.

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Board May Be Wiped Out

SEVERAL HIGH - RANKING Democrats believe, however, that after May 1, Indiana may find itself without a State Board of Education. On that date, the McNutt Reorganization Act, under which the present board was named, will be repealed. At first it was believed that only the Governor's appointive power would be lost. But the opinion is growing that the hoard will be wiped out. There's a legal time for the present board to carry out textbook adoptions due this year and some officials say a meeting may be called early in April to do this. But after May 1, there are millions of dollars in State-aid funds to be passed out to the schools and there may be no board to do it. There also will be teacher certificates to be approved for scores of college graduates. So, some State House sources say, Governor Schricker may have to call the Legislature back to straighten out the mess and permit Indiana to carry on its edu: cation program. ”

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' Truck Fees Problem

ANOTHER TANGLE which may require Assembly straightening out involves the license fees substituted for the truck weight tax. A faulty title makes this bill illegal, and the State stands to lose more than $1,500,000 unless something is done before Jan. 1, 1942, when the tax law is repealed and the license rate scheduled to go into effect. There are reports, too, that other defects have been found in various laws, some minor and some major, which need correction. Much also depends on the Supreme Court's decision in Mr. Schricker’s suit for a declaratory judgment on the two Attorney General laws and other aspects of the G. O. P. “decentralization” program. If the Legislature is called back after some G. O. P. jobseekers fail (for legal reasons and others) to land the jobs they want, it will be interesting to watch how well they stay in line. n n

Wyoming Has Boards, Too

Midwestern G. O. P. leaders did most of their conferring behind closed doors yesterday, discussing organization problems. But during one of the lulls, J. B. Griffith, Wyoming chairman, explained that his state also has a governmental setup dominated by boards. But out there, the Governor is chairman of each of the hoards. In Indiana, under the “decentralization” program each department head is chief officer of the committee controlling his division,

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May Wait on Suit

No move has been made yet to name the interim State attorney to succeed the Attorney General April 1. A majority of the threeman board, according to the new law, is to call the meeting. That puts it up to Lieutenant Governor Charles M. Dawson and Sec=retary of State James M. Tucker. It's reported the appointment may be delayed until after the Governor's suit is decided. . Friends of Governor Schricker are urging him to take a vacation. In addition to his official duties, the chief executive has had a busy speaking schedule. . . . Among those not at the Midwest G. O. P. conference yesterday were Mr. Tucker, State Treasurer James Givens and State Senator William E. Jenner, majority leader in the recent session. Mr, Tucker and Mr. Givens attended the Evansville bridge ceremonies Thursday and could not return in time for the sessions. Mr. Jenner, after his Florida vacation, went back to Shoals to catch up on his law practice.

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ing April 14 Of nine earlier Labor Board cases against Ford, only one {order is being obeyed by Ford at | present; the rest will await court - | action. In connection with the strike notice, the C. I. O. says Ford fore=men are “soliciting” members for the A. F. of L., in violation of the Wagner law, to prevent a C. I. O, majority. This is denied by the Tiles: Sporiat SORRY Any His > P.of 1. 4 a e story that Ford has reverse WASHINGTON, March his anti-union policy grew out of Charging that farmers in the Tenth |a statement attributed to Federal Congressional District are being co- Labor Conciliator Dewey after a erced into signing AAA crop-control Conference with Harry Bennett,

i : : Ford personnel director. contracts, Rep. Raymond S. Spring- Mr. Dewey was said to have listed

er (R. Ind) announced today that|four Ford concessions: Reinstate= he wil] take the matter up with the ment of most of 1000 workers alDepartment of Agriculture, legstiy discharged for union acHe attributed the difficulties to] ...v: & Bennett promise to dis. : cuss with Mr. Dewey “any problem local AAA boards. | that warrants attention;” assure “I have received a number of let-|ances that Mr. Ford contemplates ters from farmers in my district no more layoffs, and the schedul-

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advising me that in some counties|ing of an election hearing.

the AAA Board, which is now endeavoring to secure signers for 1941 contracts, is resorting to threats and unreliable propaganda in an effort to secure the farmers’ signatures to such contracts,” Rep. Springer said. “It has been my very definite un-

Peace With A, F. of L.

But it understood here that (the layoffs at the Lincoln and Highland Park plants are still in | dispute, and that the River Rouge derstanding that the matter of sign- employees were re-employed by the ing such contracts for allotments company with the denial of dise was to be left to the discretion of | crimination. The Labor Board each farmer. | hearing was scheduled before the “The Board has no power or au-|Dewey-Bennett conference. thority to attempt to force our| Repeated reports that Ford may farmers to sign contracts against|make peace with the A. F. of L. their own free will and accord.” [are considered more likely here Rep. Springer placed in the Con-|than stories of a deal with the gressional Record a letter from a St.|C. I. O. though officials point out Paul, Ind., farmer which charges | that hitherto all such reports have

the Decatur County AAA County been followed hy bitter anti-union Board is “getting signers through statements by Henry Ford or his duction of wheat and corn.” But even if Ford decided to make contracts with the A. F. of L. in BATTLE LOOMS ON policy would not be effective if the [C. I. O. demonstrated majority rep= WASHINGTON, March 22 (vu. 'oMit: P.) —Congressional foes of Presi-Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway de-| velopment challenged its defense

threats of penalties on over-pro-| associates. preference to the C. I. O., such a resentation in a Labor Board elecST LAWRENCE PLAN con So far Ford has denied that 1 {either of the Unions has a mae dent Roosevelt's proposed Great value today and organized for a

BABY FATALLY HURT AS AUTO OVERTURNS

Times Special ; NASHVILLE, Ind., March 22.— Opposition crystallized in the One-year-old Phyllis Thompson, House and Senate yesterday—initial- |. ohter of Keith Thompson, cuse

ly under Democratic leadership— : : shortly after Mr. Roosevelt sent up todian of the Brown County Court was killed yesterday

the terms of the U. S.-Canadian House here. agreement projecting immediate when the family car overturned on development of power and naviga- the Pikes Peak Road near Nashe tion facilities in the International ville. Rapids section of the St. Lawrence| The child was lying in her River and eventual completion of mother's arms when Mr. Thompson the entire seaway. | lost control of the car and it Rep. Alfred M. Beiter (D. N. Y.) (plunged into a ditch. Phyllis re- . a : mia | ceived a fractured skull and died and Chairman Schuyler Otis Bland, | ®ve & se (D. Va), of the House Merchant An hou Mr. a bin Marine Committee, said they would | L .0mPpson Wninjured, Sigte es { Police said. fight any appropriations or authori- - zations requested. Rep. Beiter pre-

: $10,000 ) S dicted the House would defeat the r MEASLE y program, saying that not more than | HOLLYWOOD, March 22.—Laird

175 votes would be cast for | Creager, 24, a 300-pouna movie

Administration the | actor, was in bed today with a Democratic Senators were among | $10,000 case of measles. Ye Was the first to express opposition.

stricken on the set of “Blood and These included Senators Clyde Sand,” at 20th Oenury-Fox Studil, Herring, Iowa; Tom Connally,

(which suspended filming of the pice ‘e, 351 f onth. Texas; Alva B. Adams, Colorado, | 2r® possibly fer a month and Bennett C. Clark, Missouri, | ss — Starting tomorrow two Indian-| ANY PLAIN routes, will be merged to reduce] Cleaners GALE Dyers

| = Cleaned & Pressed apolis Railway bus lines, the 21st| GARMENT transferring downtown. The pres-| DR. 0142 2301 Churchman Ave.

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MERGE BUS ROUTES | DELIVERED and Arlington and the Riverside and this AD h 0 ent routes will not be affected, but

there will be slight changes in the schedule, officials said. |

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