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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1941
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JUGOSLAV REVOLT OUSTS PRO-NAZIS
RESTRAINS ORCEMENT GOP LAWS
Issues Temporary Injunction.
Against State Officials in | ‘Big Ripper’ Fight. By VERN BOXELL A temporary injunction, restrain from enforcing | provisions of the G. 0. P, “de- | centralization™ program was issued todav by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox. | A hearing to determine whether | the order, blocking the Republicans’ | new State government setup. will be | made permanent pending further | litigation was set for 10 a. m. Mon-
Pickets and Police Clash a
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Arch N. Bobbitt, State G. O. P.| chairman, said that “in the interest] of time. it seems ta me that all} these questions could he disposed In one action. We are all interested in getting a final decision | in this matter.”
Arthur Galliom, former Attorney General, and Fred Gause, former! Supreme Court judge. wha head the legal staff which drew up the Re | publican program. are expected te file appearances in Circuit court | Saturaay te represent the four G. O. P. State officials whe are |
policeman fells a picket with his club during a clash as the Inter defendants in the suits filed by Democratic Governor Henry F,
strikebound more oN | Schricker. { An answer to the first constitu-| Bs ' itonal test, involving the Attorney t General acts, will be filed Monday. | RECORDS TAKEN -— |
These acts, removing the present!
day by Judge Cox Meanwhile, Republican
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Attorney General and providing for! the appointment of an interim at-| torney for the State by a G. O. P.-| dominated board, become effective!
Toestan. ermine Fight Comes as 500 WorkToday's temporary restraining . . order was issued on an injunction 1 suit filed by the Attorney General's! ers Enter Plant With office on behalf of the State, naming | i as defendants Governor Schricker,! Escort of Deputies. Secretary of State James Tucker, | By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM Lieutenant Governor Charles M.| " n
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Max W. tomorrow
Babb, company in an effort
| | report terials. Officers of the United Automobile | Workers (C. I. O.) local said the ( | 65-day strike would go on until the HN nes sii RICHMOND, Ind. March 27.-- union determined its attitude at a The International Harvester plant meeting Saturday. here, strikebound since Feb. 17, was| They were backed by C. I. O ‘reopened today after a clash be- President Phillip Murray, who istween C. I. O. pickets and police, Sued a statement at Pittsburgh both armed with heavy clubs. More challenging the action of Secretary | than 30 persons were injured. of the Navy Frank Knox and Di- | Swinging their clubs, the police, rector William S. Knudsen of the aided by nearly 100 special deputy Office of Production Management | sheriffs, drove back an estimated 125 in ordering reopening of the plant pickets and permitted between 500, Mr. Knox and Mr. Knudsen de-| and 600 independent plant and office clared materials manufactured at employees to go through the factory the Milwaukee plant are essential scheduled to become effective on | Sates. : to national defense. They told com- | Mav 1 | One tear gas shell was fired, pany and union to negotiate dif- | Under Judge Cox ruling. an dozens of ammonia-filled bottles ferences while production got un- | present’ appointees of Governor | Were hurled and nine pickets were der way. | Sr rick dis: ves arrested during the 10-minute clash.! Negotiators of the Steel Workers Schricker, named since mid-Jan- ; | uary, will remain on their jobs and| One of those arrested was a 19- Organizing. Committee (C. 1. O.)| receive their salaries as usual until] year-old girl, dressed in slacks, who and the Bethlehem Steel Co. met | pending litigation is disposed of, gave four policemen a stiff battle
for the first time since Monday | before they could place her into a when the union called a strike at Salavies to Be Honored police car.
|the Bethlehem, Pa. plant. About| Union Records Seized
to sta
Delaying Naming Attorney
Judge Cox's order will prevent the Republican-dominated board. composed of Mr. Dawson. Mr. Tucker and the Governor, from attempting to appoint the interim State attormey, The order also will prevent other O. FP -dominated boards from naming the State commissions included in the “big ripper” act,
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(14,000 workers walked out. The] company has defense orders of! more than a billion dollars. Backed by Draft Power These were the principal defense |
The injunction specifically pre-| vents Auditor James and Treasurer Givens from refusing to honor| An hour and a half later, after salary warrants and vouchers] most of the pickets had gone to] signed by the present State officers.| I. O. headquarters, a squad of | The injunction suit, filed by At-|160 State Police arrived and ar-| ike fronts, but the shadow of] torney General George Beamer and | rested everybody there, including oivernment authority fell with | his deputy, James K. Northam | the union officials. The number equal force over the 13 major de-| stated that unless the officials were| hauled to jail in State Police €ars| ance strikes which the Office of | restrained, “thousands of citizens| Was estimated at between 75 and proquetion Management listed for | and taxpavers will be unwilling tay 100. - ’ the new defense mediation board. abide by any determination made, As soon as the union members [n all they involved 40,000 workers by the officials and will be fright-|had been taken away, police loaded In some less than 100 were in- | ened to deal with any State agency. records of the union in an ambu- volved, but they had been manu- | (Continued on Page Six) lance and hauled them away. | facturing key materials of great im- |
~ The heavy detail of State Po- portance. | licemen, which had b held just| The Gover t d, isCOWDRILL SHIFTED icemen, which ha een held jus he vernment comman Ss TO CINCINNATI JOB
outside the city until after the clash, sued in the names of Secretary of was headed by Capt. Walter Eckert. Navy Frank Knox and O. P. M | E. Cowdrill, director
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The police arrived at the union Director General William S. Knudheadquarters just as Robert Foley, Sen, was backed by the power of C. 1. O. field representative, and| (Continued on Page Six)
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Clifford Kerr, local president, con-| : MINE PARLEY HELD
cluded a statement to newspaper-| (Continued on Page 10) TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. March 27 es en (U. P.).—Representatives of the
4 Indiana Coal producers, mine operaHOME GUARD PUSHED tors and the United Mine Workers
Union of District 11, met today to discuss negotiations for the conave 2219 Butcher, Baker, Men, 230 Officers. | |
[tinuance of work after the expiration of present contracts March 31. " Formation of an Indiana State director here Guard of 230 officers and 2279 en- | | listed men ‘to be ready for any eventuality” was announced today [by "Lieut. Col. John D. Friday, | Acting Adjutant General. | The action was taken on orders {of Governor Henry F. Schricker
Robert Indianapolis | regional of National Labor Relations Board, todav was ordered transferred to Cincinnati to work with the regional director there At the
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fame time, It was announced that James C. Clark, field exanuner in Chicago, has been named regional director in Indian-| apolis to succeed Mr. Cowdrill, Mr. | Clark formerly was a field examiner | here and at Los Angeles before 5 ot t ing te Chicago. Mr. Cowdrill said he had no com- | ate Unit to H ment to make at this time on the | change. He has been connected with the. NLRB since August, 1933, | serving as regional
since September, 1934. By RICHARD LEWIS
The folks who want Daylight! Saving Time aad the folks who don't came down to City Hall to argue about it last night amid the]
. a5e) / applause and boos of a regular, old- | |and is not connected with present fashioned town meeting. |
(labor difficulties, although it was | ; Yes 13 pointed out that the men may have | There were 200 citizens there, 18/to be used soon to assist State More or less, and the more they 13 Police in handling labor contio- Argued, the less they agreed.. But 3 versies. out of the whirlpool of differences, . 18 The Guard is heing recruited un- there came one unanimous voice 17 der a law passed by the last Legis- Vote which had everything and | 18 lature and will include the com- Nothing to do with issue at hand. 5 panies already set up under the The vote was a spontaneous roar 17 executive order issued by former of approval when Council President 27 Governor Clifford M. Townsend. Joseph G. Wood closed the public 18 Lieut. Col. Friday said that most hearing with the comment that it 19 of the 51 companies which are be- is nice to live in a country where 23 ing set up over the state are vou can argue in public until you! 6, (Continued on Page 10) lare blue in thy face. | oe
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Strikes at Allis - Chalmers
By UNITED PRESS Officials of the Allis-Chalmers Co. today pledged “full compliance’ with a Federal order to open its strikebound Milwaukee plant, but union leaders balked at a proposal to start work immediately, president,
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SRE national Harvester Co, plant at Richmond opened today after being than a month,
SMOKE FELLS 10 IN'E. SIDE FIRE
Another Hurt in Fall as Fire Damages Stores at Rural And Michigan.
{ Ten firemen were overcome and another injured slightly as they fought a blaze at Rural and E. Michigan Sts. this morning. The four-hour fire started in tit basement. of a grocery operated by O. C. Campbell at 2723 E. Michigan St. Smoke filled the Frank J. Lyons Drug Store, 2725 E. Michigan St.; the Mary James Dry Goods Store, 2721 E. Michigan St.; the offices of Dr. W. 1. Seal, dentist, and Dr. J. A. Davis, physician, 2719 E. Michigan St., and the Fred Hazel Shoe Repair { Shop, 454 N. Rural St. | Firemen were unable to estimate the loss to the one-story building. but it was expected to reach several (thousand dollars because of the damage caused by the heavy smoke and the water, Mr. Campbell estimated to his grocery at $2600,
One Injured
Heavy clouds of smoke, saturated {with gas from’ broken refrigerator [lines, hampered the firemen. Sore | who were overcome had to be Jed {from the building by fellow fire- | men and were given first aid. Four companies answered
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notified 7800 idle workers to rt production on vital defense ma-
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THE sitnation: 1. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. calls employees hack to work beginning tomorrow after U., NS. orders production resumed at once. Union leaders balk until union policy is decided. 2. Thirty hurt, 100 arrested International Harvester Richmond, Ind. is
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as plant at reopened. 3. C. 1. O. President Philip Murray challenges right of Defense Director Knudsen and Navy Secretary Knox to order reopening of Allis Chalmers plant. 4. Government intervention to prevent soft coal shutdown possible as negotiators seem deadlocked on wages, 5. Bethlehem Steel Corp. and S. W. O. C. begin negotia- | tions to settle a three-day (alarm. strike. Those overcome were Battalion
—- : | Chief Charles D. Milender and Fire‘WAR BABIES’ LEAD man Joseph Todd, from Engine N. Y STOCK RALLY Fireman Rebert Gray and James
House 8; Capt. Daniel O'Donnell, Kennington from Engine House 20, NEW YORK. March 27 (U. P.).— and Lieut. Myron Sears, Fireman “War babies’ led a rally that ex- Edward Pace, Fred Fate, Raymond tended to two points in the New Walton and Harry Branson from York Stock Market today, generated Engine House 12. by news of the overthrow of the| Harold Price, a fireman at EnJugoslav Government by anti-Axis gine House 20, was bruised when Pacesetters were Savage he toppled down a basement stairBethlehem and way. Fireman Pace was {(reated at the City Hospital.
the loss | in Fall ) |
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Arms, U. S. Steel,
LONDON, March 27 (U. PD. Prime Minister Winston Chuy:hill's optimistic interpretation of the!
NAZI AIR RAIDS WANE LONDON, March 27 (U. P).
Jugoslavian coup d'etat brought a Bad weather over northern France |
spectacular rally into most sections was believed today to be responof
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Farmer and Fisherman
German airplane raiding.
Argue Daylight Saving Before Council
That brought the house down. and I don't belong to any ChamOne by one they came forward ber of Commerce. to talk — farmer, butcher, labor| “I just fish. leader, filling-station attendant, the-{ “I don't work much. I just sleep ater representative, baker, tool-|all day and fish all night, And, hoy, maker, postman, textile worker, pat-|I catch 'em, too. tern maker, attorney, businessman,! “But I want to tell vou I'm executive, salesman. | against this daylight saving. It Somewhere at the rear of the Wouldn't do me any good, because, room, a lanky man pushed his way to the] fore. 5 . “My name,” said he, “is George | ne time, make it 0 so folks Baker, I live in Rocky Ripple, Put] Phere was a deafening roar of apI was born right down here on Mas- 1.6 From the crowd a voice sachusetts Ave. 61 years ago. rang out: “Are you catching any “Now, I've heard all this taik. 1 fish?” want to tell you that I don't repre- “Lately, T must say the fishing has sent anybody. [been poor,” Mr. Baker admitted. “But
the throng began to part as in the daytime, I'm not working.
I'm sleeping. “If you want to have daylight sav-
“I'm not a labor man. I'm not a a year ago last summer, I caught an,
businessman, I'm not gn attorney| (Continued on Page Three)
the London Stock Exchange sible for the continued absence of |
ARMY MEN, PRO-BRITISH, SEIZE POWER IN COUP; BOY KING PUT ONTHRONE
VERY PLEASING | T0 AMERICANS, SAYS WELLES
Churchill Pledges Support If Balkan Nation
Enters War: Rome Charges Putsch Was Plotted in London.
v HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Staff Correspondent Pro-British elements seized power in Jugoslavia today and blasted litler's Balkan from carefully chosen right-of-way, The startling coup d'etat put 17-year-old King Peter II Who Fight Aggression, on the Jugoslav throne and ousted from office the men : ‘who only 48 hours ago signed the Axis pact in Vienna. Diplomat Told. Into power swept friends of Great Britain, anti-Nazi WASHINGTON, March 27 (U. py. Army leaders and Cabinet ministers who a few days ago quit their posts in bitter resentment at the deal with Hitler, Winston Churchill expressed belief that the new Cabinet would repudiate the alliance with Berlin, Rome and Tokyo and would defend its frontiers against aggression. Overnight Germany's nicely calculated plans to “organs ize” the Balkans and restrict the possible sphere of wap operations to a narrow Greek front were overturned like an apple cart smashed by a speeding roadster,
Berlin Is Shocked There was no direct word from Belgrade regarding the
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Law Permits Help to All
—The United States today promised (to help the new Jugoslav [ment under the Lend-Lease Act in |any fight it chooses to make against agaression, Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles announced he had sent word to that effect to the newly consti- | tuted Belgrade Government under {voung King Peter II. He requested the American Minister to Jugoslavia, Arthur Bliss] Lane, to convey the United States’ |assurances to the Government, and he informed Jugoslav Minister Con[stantin Fotitch of his action when the minister ,called during the
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7-Billion Bill Signed
ABOARD U. S. DESTROYER BENSON. March (U. P) —Prest= dent Roosevelt today signed the $£7,000.000,000 war-aid appropriation bill and transmitted to Congress an agreement signed in London today for the use of sea and air base sites leased from Britain His signature on the aid bill automatically starts a stream of all-out to Britain and her Allies—warplanes, ships, tanks, guns and food, Well -informed Administration a— - = [sources said that administration of mitted [the law has been entrusted to Harry tion. | L. Hopkins and the President's lia-| Construction had already been [ison committee of War, Navy and started at most of the bases, which [Treasury Department representa- the United States received free of tives. rent in return for the transfer of The President signed the bill 50 50 over-age destroyers. minutes after it was delivered The Roosevelt message was brief, . 4 : declaring “These bases are for him on the Presidential vacht Poto- American defense against attack and 20,000 mac off the Florida coast by a Navy their construction is consistent with bombing piane. He presented the such attack.” Accompanying the {pen with which he signed} the bill message were the leases for each of |to Mr. Hopkins, who was present. [the eight bases except that on the | CHUNGKING, March 27 (U. P).| Equal speed characterized his ac-. Bahamas, the exact site of which — Japanese military drive in tion on the 99-year-lease of the has not vet been determined. [northern Kiangsi Province has col- bases in the Atlantic and Caribbean The treaty provides that official lapsed after Japanese troops suf-| Hardly had the treaty been signed mail to the bases shall not be subject | fered 20.000 casualties in 10 days og in London by Winston Churchill to censorship and that no British fighting Chinese forces, a Chinese and American Ambassador John G.'taxes or duties will be levied in cone military spokesman said today. { Winant when Mr, Roosevelt trans- nection with them
War Moves Today
tire Tkeda Brigade of 9000 men had been wiped out. By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
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coup and no indirect word as to the plans of Jugoslavia's new rulers. Thus, it could not be said flatly that thev would /morning to discuss the situation. throw the Axis pact into the discard, But the character of Mr. Lane also was instructed to the men who assumed power—representing the elements i {tell the new Belgrade Government | ; a Gk, | i 2 . 51 that its formation had been wel- Jugoslavia which had protested alrgnment- with Germany |comed in the United States by mogs{ bitterly—the shocked, reticent attitude in Berlin, the {every liberty-loving man and, . ‘“. Y» . Pe “ > f woman. ‘bitterness in Rome and the gleeful words of Churchill, left Mr. Welles said at a press con- small doubt as to the outcome. ference that Ambassador Lane was vs : . . % [told to advise the Jugoslav Govern- | I'here has been a revolution in Jugoslavia, Churchill told iment that in accordance with the the National Union of Conservatives in London, terms of the Lend-Lease Bill, Presi- EN ‘ ' : . - dent Roosevelt is enabled, in the in- | Early this morning the Jugoslav nation found its soul, terest of our own national defense, ho aid, pledging Britain's all-out aid to the new regime. {to render effective material assist- | SRY & ance to nations which are seeking | Mr, Churchill's expressed confidence that the new Gove to preserve their independence and arpment would receive “from the United States all possible | integrity against aggression. 8 . : Mr. Welles’ revelation was (Continued on Page 10) first open admission that the United States had promised aid to Jugoslavia, although Axis papers had previously printed and bitterly commented on reports that such promises were made 1n an effort to keep the former Jugoslav Government from signing the Axis pact. Minister Fotitch pledged his) lovalty to his new Government, and said that its establishment was symbolic of Jugoslavia's national dignity and independence.
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CHINESE CLAIM BIG VICTORY OVER JAPS
Report Foe Suffers Casualties in Kiangsi.
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Chinese military quarters said that Chinese victories in northern | | Kiangsi Province had resulted in! complete failure of the Japanese spring offensive, for which careful preparations were said to have been made.
SUN TRIES HARD BUT CLOUDS DIM EFFORT
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
10 a. m, 11a. m. . 12 (Noon)
Today's anti-Axis coup d'etat in Jugoslavia cone tains implications of grave concern for Germany. Hitler now is placed in a quandary more serious than any other he has faced since he took the decision. to try to expand his power inte the ever potentially inflammable Balkan states. il If the Belgrade revolution upheid by the Mr. Jugosiav people, as seems probable according to early reports, the Fuehrer will have to decide [whether to try to restore the old regime to power by quickly sending an army into Jugoslavia or whether to evade the ensuing risks by awaiting future developments. If Hitler holds to his new dictum that he would
- - rather negotiate than fight, it can be expected that he will not engage PATROL WAGON CASE The sun, making a valient try for | BRINGS TRAFFIC TEST
in precipitate action The German viewpoint if neces higher temperatures caused the mer- sary can be that Jugoslavia alreaay : Dr ares Lau ite - % has signed the Triple Alliance jeury to leap seven degrees this | A motion was filed in Municipal agreement and it is not necessary morning before clouds complicated ~qu rt today to suppress evidence for Germany to intervene in Jugo= (the situation. ls traffic case because the de- Slavia's domestic affairs. If the new The weatherman, casting a quick nN a Ua i : 7 Jugoslav Government formally ree glimpse at some half a dozen of his fendant hauled Police pyudiates its Triplice membership, | Instruments, consulting a map and Headquarters in a patrol wagon even then the Fuehrer might hast, |sneaking a look out the window, | was fingerprinted before a tate to strike a blow that wou {opined that the clouds will ON i Ct be P |bring the Jugoslav Army into the today and tomorrow, and would keep | nearing in ccurt. the thermometer down to 50. Attorney William Miller filed the motion in the case of Howard | Landgrave, 3432 N. Sherman Drive,
picture The Jugoslav Parliament has not | vom Fla. MO yg [ohmrgen with speeding and disEH on ” obeying a traffic signal. Judge Pro
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DIG, MR. JULIAN
'passed on the measure, as did the United States, whose signature ap-|
Bulgarian Parliament, and a legal way out for Jugoslav might cone | pears on each note of currency in circulation, today had just 24 hours
ceivably be found by withholding legislative indorsement. As far as to dig up $3—to pay a traffic fine. Mr. Julian ignored a stop sign afl
an intersection here, according Patrolman John F. Thomas, who handed the Treasurer a traffic sum-
mons. Julian is vacationing in Coral
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from City, State and defense attorneys by April 10. He said he will rule April 17, In his motion. Mr. Miller charged thah his client's constitutional rights had been violated when he [was placed in the patrol wagon 'and brought to jail.
the published text of the agreement with Jugoslavia discloses, the Jugo= slavs are not pledged. under the Triple Alliance, to any immediats activity that would give Hitler the right to insist on fulfillment, If the FPuehrer were to try to take command of the Jugoslav situation (Continued on Page 10)
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