Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1941 — Page 3

MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1941

‘LITTLE STEEL’ HIT IN SENATE REPORT

Firms Conducting Labor Relations Along ana Concepts’ May Imperil Defense Effort, Committee Which Probed '37 Strike Claims.

(Other Labor News, Page Six)

ENVOYS EXPECT CURB ON LABOR

Roosevelt ‘Crackdown’ to Save U. S. From France’s Fate Anticipated.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, March 31.—Foreign envoys here have reported back to their capitals that President Roosevelt is about to crack down on the strike situation to prevent what happened to France happening to this country, and for much the same reason. When the President went fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, these same diplomats told their governments that it was less to catch fish than to give the labor troubles a little more time to incubate and himself a little more time to determine on a

remedy. That the whole thing has now jelled — so far as the President is concerned—and that he is returning to Washington this week prepared to act, they believe, was definitely indicated in his speech to Jackson Day diners Saturday night. “If we sit down now,” the President warned, “we may get run over later , . . that is why, in the comparative quiet of this week, I have become more than ever clear that the time calls for courage and more courage—action and more action. , .”

Calls Communists by Name

Foreign observers here see special significance in that part of his speech dealing with the efforts of certain forces to split the country and undermine confidence in its institutions. His reference to Communists by name, placing them in

champions, is particularly commented upon. That is so because more and more,

By NED BROOKS Times Special Writer duct their labor relations according to “antiquated concepts” are jeopardizing national security, the Senate Civil liberties Committee charged today. tion of the “Little Steel” strike of 1937, the committee applied the companies’ resistance to collective bargaining tol present-day capital-labor strife and asserted. . .. stands up and flatly refuses to enter into a signed bargaining contract under all ployer association which sup-| ports and assists it in such al ee position are endangering the Harvester Workers Return; | “The conduct of labor relations by managements in key industries according to antiquated concepts of | Is Reopened. ; wn By UNITED PRESS recognized as a threat to national + kw it defense.” | Workmen were returning to jobs “Realism” Demanded | rapidly than new strikes were be-| report. sig bv Chairman ing called today as the Federal The yspors, signed by Government's super-Mediation | end Senator Elbert D. Thomas (D. nents and settlements. Utah), added that the findings Only 14 strikes were in progress “cannot be ignored in any realistic, in plants and projects ; . i ‘ rials needed to produce armaments, | preblems of industrial production the smallest number in almost two! and the common defense.” months. Five major strikes were setThe report rea hed the t : r taki 1 : amid growing concern in CONgress (nem throuch the efforts of the (eer Yoh poy BH a3 puace In over defense industry strikes and pfogiation Board on disputes SUb- |peanoe. fic before cred AppPERec rising sentiment for Federal leg-|...itaq py (France just before and rignt after ) (the war began, is receiving more labor has borne the brunt of most ifteen thousand C. I. O. Farm 2nd more attention on Capitol Hiil of the debate but the La Follette Equipment Workers’ Organizing {219 elsewhere in Government circles. findings warned against any en-| aon mittee members voted to return |wiuam C. Bullitt, Ambassador to Sy t ork at four strike-bound Inter-!. ; as the “enlightened labor policy” of 0 dork y four su Co Do in ing, has passed his observances along the period since the Wagner Act the Midwest. F E WwW. O. C. offi- as have many others. was adopted. a ay Foodie The attitude of French labor assured the union the issues in-|

WASHINGTON, March 31.—Industrialists who con. Reporting to the Senate on its three-year-old investiga“Any company which today! . 00 rcumstances and any emnation’s security. . Johnstown Steel Plant | industrial absolutism must now be] | in national defense industries more Robert M. La Follette (Prog. Wis.) Board arranged production agree-| pubiic treatment of immediate CONLracts for armaments and mate- | Senate (leq over the week-end, four of | Of late, the starting parallel pe- ' the Labor Department | islation to curb them. Organized last Thursday. p croachments on what was described |France while the storm was brew- | » 5 i} : : i" Y No. Changer Pour Yenss cials said the Mediation Board had toward the war is also coming in

In nearly four vears which have volved in the strike would be the Hl i the “Little Steel”|0asis for discussion of full settle- \ : ) J x { ter aa < ety bw strike. ne adequate collective bar- ment after workers return to their |

: | jobs. gaining arrangements have been ‘°° : brought about in the affected com-| Eight thousand C. I. O. steel panies and management-labor re. | Workers ratified a settlement agree- |

lations “continue strained,” the ment that ended a two-day strike Committee said. |

lat the Johnstown, Pa, Cambria “Certain it is that the nation can- Works of the Bethlehem Steel not permit these companies today COP. They return to work on large to take the same attitude they took Orders of steel armor plating for fn 1037 with the same inevitable U.S. warships. consequences of interrupted produc- Detroit Strike Ends tion,” the report continued. C. I. O. Automobile Workers re- | : . Such conduct (refusal to}, ned to work at the Federal Mo- | ign bargaining contracts) not only tor Truck Co. plant at Detroit, | threatens the vital continuity of afjch., after a 22-day strike that | production but it challenges the na-| jelayed production of Army trucks tion's domestic authority, weakens| orth $5,000,000. y respect of labor for the national] qiher strikes settled by the Mediaims and destroys the sense of unity ation Board since it began its work and common effort.” | late last week were those at the As an immediate remedy for the| Bridgeville, Pa., plant of Universal strike situation, the committee pro- | Cyclops Steel Corp., posed that procedure be devised| Cc, I. O. workers, and at the Plain- | within the National Labor Relations| field, N. J., Condenser Corp. plant, | Board for “prompt and expeditious” ad udication of facts involving a

On the other side of the ledger,

for study. Lesson for America

On June 11, 1940, just three days before the battle-scarred tanks of) Hitler's victorious invaders clanked into Paris, IT stood with Leon Jouhaux, French labor leader, in his office overlooking Rue Lafayette, one

Ellis Island.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Italian Seaman in Custody

A member of the crew of the Italian freighter San Leonardo is seen in the custody of an armed U. S. Coast Guardsman en route to

movement slowly taking form as Benito Mussolini, supporters of the

: €SS the role of “betrayers” of French Nazi among Fascismo's inner circle, have thrown light upon the involving |, 1, while pretending to be its| - ;

1250 AIRPLANES A MONTH SEEN

‘Aeronautical C. of C. Makes Estimate of Industry's Floor Space.

WASHINGTON, March 31 (U, P.). —The United States now has facilities for producing between 1250 and 1300 military and big commercial planes a month, aircraft production experts estimated today.

The estimate was based on a survey of productive floor space in the aircraft manufacturing industry just

of the capital's main thoroughfares. From curb to curb the street was| jammed with refugees—on foot, in| farm wagons drawn by oxen, on bicycles, some pitiful old women | with grandchildren too young to! walk were being pulled along in| handcarts. Even wheelbarrows had | been pressed into service. “I wonder,” the head of the C. G. T. (Conferedation general du Travail) said sadly, “if you, in America, will ever see anything like that. “That,” he went on, “is one of the

to avoid. It is the result of combination of things—many things—

umnists, of enemies, secret and]

completed = by the Chamber of Commerce of America. According to Col. John H. Jouett,

(president of the Chamber, the sur-| vey showed that the industry, stim-|

ulated by national defense and British requirements, increased its productive facilities 28 per cent in the 59 days between Jan. 1 and March 1 of this year. In December, 799 military aircraft were produced. In January, aircraft production, including both military and a small number of commercial craft, jumped to 1036. Production in

involving 1400 | things democracies must learn how | pebruary was 972 planes.

While facilities exist for producing as many as 1300 planes, there

| involving 2500 A. F. of L. employees. | of Trojan horsemen and fifth col-lis a lag in output due to necessity

for training men and getting oper-

refusal to bargain collectively in a however, were strikes at the Mil- avowed, within as well as from ations working smoothly on new

defense industry plant. | waukee, Wis, plant of the Allis“When all production resources Chalmers Manufacturing Co. and! are required for defense materials,” | the Bridgeville, Pa., works of the! the committee continued, “it may| Vanadium Corporation of America. not be feasible in all cases to with-|{ The Allis-Chalmers strike has been hold Government contracts for such|in progress 68 days and the materials even from firms which| Vanadium Corp. strike 48 days. are known malefactors, Claim 3169 at Work

“Nor for the same reason is it] practical to withdraw Government | Members of the U, A. W.-C. I. O. |

antracts on which work has heen Yoied Salvioey ee ol segun from companies whose labor y attempts io res er S| policies om their scheduled | on the $45.000.000 worth of orgers completion and reallot them else- at the Allis Chalmers plant as rewhere,” the report added. (quested by Navy Secretary Frank Knox and Director General William Blames “Little Steel” Firms S. Knudsen of the Office of Pro-| The serious strikes of the first | duction Management. The strikers! World War were rooted in “the demanded that the company accept refusal of certain employers to bar-| an earlier O. P. M. settlement plan gain collectively,” the committee Which was rejected by the firm. contended. Allis-Chalmers officials announced “With an enlightened labor policy | that 3169 workers, representing. 60 written into Federal statute, we| per cent of the normal morning should not permit this to happen | shift, reported for work today notagain,” the report asserted. | withstanding the union decision to The report reviewed at length the continue the strike. The number history of the 1937 steel strikes compared with 1962 reported when concluding that they resulted from the plant was reopened March 28 | the refusal of Republic Steel Corp., and 2048 on Saturday. Youngstown Shect & Tube Co.,! The Mediation Board meeting at Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Inland Washington reported that officials Steel Co. to follow the example of of the Vanadium Corp. and of the the United States Steel Corp. in Steel Workers Organizing Commitentering into signed agreements tee agreed to a proposal to resume with the Steel Workers Organizing operations immediately at the corCommittee (C. 1. O.). ( poration’s Bridgeville, Pa., plant.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Universal Club, imchecn, Columbia ub. noon

University of Michigan Clob,

Here Is the Traffic Record],

County City Total| 5.04 of Trade, noon 16 22 | Knights of Columbus, lunchecn, K. of C, 19 42 (Clubhouse, noon. y { Lutheran Service Club, Ca- -— — { nary Cottage, noon. ; March 29 and 30 ! Fine Paper Credit Group, luncheon, Wm, ccidents... 49 Injured . 2% 8, Block Co. noon. u vine 2 ndiana Motor Truck Association, lunch trrests. .... 128 3leon, Hotel Antlers, noon.

SATURDAY TRAFFIC COURT le Sigwa Delta Chi, dinner, Athenaeum,

. y rice F | Elie Lily & Co., University of Florida, Cases Convic Fines | liege of Pharmacy, breakfast and dintried tions paid ner. Hotel Severin, 8:15 a. m. and 6 p. m. 3 S$ 11! Eli Lilly & Co., Southwestern State Col2 7

luncheon,

Violations Kpeeding Reckless driving. . Failure to stop at through street . Disobeying traffic signals : Drunken driving All others. ...

lege, College of Pharmacy, breakfast and dinner, 8:15 a. m. and 6§ p m

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court Heuse. The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

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10 0 14

$ 42|

' Enos J Ind.; Mart son, Ind. James Clarence Barrett, 26, of Davidson: Silvey Peona Phelps, 32, of N. Davidson.

Kimball, 27, of New A

ugusta, ha Cook, 29, of R. R. 4 An

AnderTotals 16

MEETINGS TODAY

Eli Lilly & Co.. University of Florida, See of Pharmacy, dinner, Hotel Severin,

li Lilly & Ceo., Southwestern State College, College of Pharmacy, dinner, Hotel Severin, 6 p. m. . Excelsior Laundry, dinner, Hotel Severin, 6:15 p. m

429 N. 441;

John Robert Baker. 26, of 128 W. 22d. Dorothy Isabella Sanders, 21, of 2931 Highland Place. James Stovall, 27, of 1009 E. 21st: Ella Strong. 30, of 2440 Shriver. Franklin Martin, 21, of 1329 N. Pennsvylivania; Virginia Esken, 19, of 1339 N. Pennsylvania. John Eppert Hardman, 22, of 2320 Sloan; icile Viola Weaver, 20, of 949'2 Cedar. Homer Clarence Bange, 23, of 209 N. Pershing: Thena Marie Thompson, 23, of 506 Middle Drive Woodruff Place.

abi Alfred Ernest Robertson, 23, of 2418 Valgh Tf ley; Dorothy Louise Bohannon, 18, of 2306 * | Station. Frank Hubert Bowker, 23, of 2103: E. 11th, Davenport, Iowa; Lillian Rosalie Robinson, 20, of 1102 Eugene. Flovd Edwards, 21, of 2048 Linden; Evalyn Abrams. 18, of 1524 Olive. Richard Wavne Corey, 22 of 4814 E.

Rose

Salesmen’s Club. luncheon, Hotel Washington, 12:15 p. m, . ailroadmen’s "Own a Home’ Savings Culb, meeting. Hotel Washington, 8 p. m. Scientech Club, luncheon, Board of rade, noon. Serviee Club, lunch:on. Claypool Hotel, noon, Indianapolis Kappa Delta Rho, meeting, Riley 730 p.m. Irvington Republican Club, 84467. E Washington St. 8 Rm North Side Realtors, luncheon, Canary Board of

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Alamni

meeting,

Cottage. noon. Notre Dame Club, Trade. nos Indiana University Club, lumbia Club noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Rotary Club, luncheon. Clavpool Hotel, noon Y’t Men's Club, luncheon, Y. M. C. A.

luncheon,

luncheon, CoR. R. 11, Box 490. Harold Jack Ent, 29, of 4814 E. Washington: Ehelma E. Scott, 20, of R. R. 11, Box

| Cleo David Lester, 25. of West Point, R. R. 1; Dorothy Irene Ricks, 20, of R. R. 1. Box 88, Bridgeport, Ind. Busch, 64. of 118 8 Gladstone; . Winsell, 64, of 25 N. Wal . George T. Dixon Jr., 30. of 1037 N. West; Zella Hortense Batties, 26, of 1628 Boule-

YA sw 22. of 521 N. Senate; Id ober > x O . nate, a P. Belt, 10, Bf 350 Blake.

oon Alpha Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of Trade noon. Gyre Club, luncheon, Spink Arms Hotel, noon : Mercatos Club, luncheon, Hotel Line , noon. ¥

(ers behind the lines provide weap-

Washington: Doris Desmonda Scott, 18, of | mon

without the country. What a les-| son all this ought to be for America.” Prepared by Propaganda

I asked M. Jouhaux to be more explicit. Said he: “I mean that agents of Hitler and Stalin, paid and unpaid, have been given free rein in France— and in America, And there they invoke the very freedoms they would destroy if they got into power, By their acts and by their propaganda they prepared France for the invader.” | What M. Jouhaux said next was to prove a tragic thing. He observed that the labor situation in France had been remedied and at that moment every worker, whether a member of the C. G. T. or not, was working day and night, Sunday and holidays, to make up for lost time. “They regard themselves,” he said, “as soldiers—no less than their comrades ia the front lines. They are aware that unless work-

ons and munitions, the fighters will be helpless.” Three days later Paris fell. The! rally, as the President's advisers who were then in France are now pointing out, came too late.

BIRTHS Girls

Roland, Hutehinson

Francis, Harlev A.. Ruth White, at

Robert. Dorothy Voorhies, Arthur, Mary Showengert,

Robert, Hermine McClain, cent's,

Mabel at Bt. City. at City. at Coleman,

at St. Vin.

Dr. H. 1.. Louise Gill, at St. Vincent's. Martin, Ellen Ginther, at 8t. Vincent's, Robert. Eleanor Bretthauer, at St. Vincent's, Joseph. Jovee Smith, at Arthur. Pave Steinbarger, at Methodist. Jay. Maxine Hendrixson. at Methodist, Earl, Eileen Blackwell. at Methodist. Rov A., Vertha Geider, at Methodist Hubert, Gladys Bursett, i James. Josephine Allio. Hanlev, Margaret Stratton. at St. is.

Methodist,

Boys

Forest. Mabel Freeman, at St. Francis. John, Hilda Woodford, at St. Francis. John. Josephine Gillespie, at St. Francis. Alfred. Louise Jones, at City, John. Arleen Hude. at City. John H., Marv Groves. at Coleman Arthur, Virginia Guedel, at St, Vine cent’s. James. Mary Leeper. at St. Vincent's, Thyrle, Marion Henderson, at St. Vine cent’s. ank., Wilma Kagel. at St. Vincent's, ovd. Evelyn Gaines, at St. Vincent's, Charles, Bernice Kurtz, at Methodist. a . Charleen McGarvey, Methodsit

Franklin, Bernice Krause. at Methodist. Anthony and Ruth Harris. at 6019 E.

St. Clair. Pearl, Daisy Arndt, at 1226 Bellefontaine,

DEATHS Getties GG. Heath, 12, Riley, acute osteomyelitis. Lillian WM. Fritsch, 66, 2518 E, 10th. coronarv occlusion, Joseph Novak, 64, City, bronchopneuLong, uremia. Guy Jeffries. 74, 19 . Audubon Rd., coronary occlusion. Harold Jaffe, 26, 4535 Marcy Lane, endothelioma. J. Louis Fichman, 35. Methodist, coma. Beatrice Bowman, 56, Methodist, lobar

pneumonia. Grace Hendrickson, 64, at 1219 Madison,

Young, 52.

sar-

production lines. Mr. Jouett said the survey showed 24,122,230 square feet of productive floor space available for planes, engines and propeller companies on March 1, an increase of 5,339,351 square feet over Jan, 1.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Occasional showers tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy, not much change in temperature. : Sunrise. .... 5:31 TEMPERATURE 1940—

Sunset

«March 31, Aa Muuvne, 50

——

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m...29.85

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1 Indiana — Mostly cloudy, occasional showers in east and central portions tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy to cloudy, light si1owers in extreme east portion in forenoon: not much change in temperature. WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex. . Clear 2992 42 Bismarck, N. D Clear 29.96 Boston ...PtCldy 29.84 Chicagy . «.Cloudy 29.79 Cincinnati «+ .Cloudy 29.94 Cleveland . ..PtCldy Denver .... Clear Dodge City, ..Clear Jacksonville, .. Cloudy Kansas City, PiCldy Little Rock, Ark Rain Los Angeles ........ Miami, Fla . . Minneapolis-St. Paul Mobile, Ala. .........

Cloudy PtCldy

New Orleans New York Oklahoma Omaha, N Pittsburgh sh hatnun Portland. Ore San Antonio, Tex..... San Francisco St. Louis Tampa, Fl

a. Washington, D. C.... Clear

Balbo Slain, Friends Say

By GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. ATHENS, March 31.—With Roman fascism already reportedly riddled with a German fifth column of executives, and with an anti-German

Aeronautical |

| Perkins

a pattern of insurrection against late Marshal Italo Balbo, first anti-

| mysterious circumstances of what is now described as his martyrdom. | Balbo, air field marshal and Gov- | | ernor of Libya, died in a plane crash ast June 28. It had been originally | reported that Marshal Balbo was | shot down while piloting a plane over Iibyan territory, despite the Fascist story of an accident. It is now revealed that the ace | pilot was actually the victim of sabotage which caused his plane to explode in midair and plunge to the ground in flames. The method used, it is ascertained, was a spark plug attached to a magneto placed inside the gasoline tank and submerged. When the plane consumed sufficient gas to expose the head of the spark plub, the air mixture was ignited. It is understood that this device originally was invented by the Gestapo (German political police) who used it against Gen. Francisco Franco's Gen. Emilio Mola, also an anti-Nazi, whose plane met a similar fate.

U. S. TRIES 20 TIME

T0 DEPORT BRIDGES,

SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 (U, P.)—The Government today opens its second deportation trial against Harry R. Bridges, Australian-born labor leader charged with being, or having been, affiliated with an organization which seeks to overthrow the Government of the United States by force. In 1939, Dean James M. Landis of the Harvard Law School conducted a 10-week hearing. Mr. Landis reported to Labor Secretary Frances that Bridges’ views were “energetically radical,” but the Government had failed to prove he was a Communist, Since then, the Department of Justice has taken the case from the Department of Labor, and the Government is armed with the 1940

{alien registration law, which makes | him deportable

~ |to be 25 unidentified witnesses, and

a 2500-page, typed, single-spaced, report on his activities, compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Bridges has denied that he ever was a Communist, and charged the hearing amounted to “persecution.”

Matsuoka Visit Is [ll Omen

By UNITED PRESS

The day after Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka arrived in Berlin to cement ties with the Axis, the Jugoslav Government which had signed its country into the German-Japanese - Italian alliance was overthrown. Today, as he arrived in Italy, Rome admitted the loss of three cruisers and two destroyers in a battle in which || the British said their fleet suffered no losses. | |

| edly

WILL U. S. USE |

SEIZED SHIPS?

70 Taken Into Custody Upon Personal Order By Roosevelt.

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had no comment to make on the ship seizures or their possible consequences. Both the Italian and German | Embassies also were awaiting offi-! cial notification of the action by this Government. The German embassy indicated that there would be no comment from it until such notification is received.

Under F. D. R.’s Orders

A spokesman for the Danish Le-| gation said that the United States has the “beginning of the solution" of what is to be done with Danish ships tied up in this country, He declined to elaborate. At Ft. Jackson, S. C. President Roosevelt teday intimated that Coast Guardsmen were under his personal orders yesterday when they seized the ships. He told reporters he felt they could safely make certain assump-

| tions when he was asked whether

the seizures took place at his personal order, Rep. Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y), leader of House opposition to the Administration's foreign policy, told reporters: “If they (the Germans and Italian ships) were put into the service of the United States or a friendly nation, it would be a violation of every principle of international law and the fundamental concepts of relations between nations.”

Favored by VanNuys

Sen. Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) thought the action “is in keeping with our general policy. It certainly is as important to impound ships as to impound gold.” Secretary of State Cordell Hull, at a press conference, was asked whether this Government would protest to Germany and Italy the sabotaging of their vessels in American harbors. He said that no one had yet questioned the absolute legality of this country’s action.

Legal Aspects Studied

Government officials have been studying the legal aspects of the United States requisitioning foreign vessels in American ports to relieve this country’s ship shortage. The Italian, German and Danish ships were seized under Section One of Title Two of the Espionage Act of 1917, which reads in part: “The Secretary of the Treasury may make, subject to the approval of the President, rules and regulations governing the anchorage and movement of any vessel, foreign or domestic, in the territorial waters of the United States, may . . . place guards thereon and if necessary in his opinion, in order to secure such vessels from damage or injury or to prevent damage or injury to any harbor or waters of the United States or to secure the observance of the rights and obligations of the United States, may take by and with the consent of the President for such purposes, full possession and control of such vessels. . Some lawyers said this wording would permit the United States to press the ships into its own service. There are no plans to seize the huge $80,000,000 French luxury liner Normandie, of 83,425 tons and one of the three largest ships afloat, or other French ships in American ports, Government officials said, There are also some Dutch, Belgian and Norwegian ships in American ports, but these are mostly responsive to the orders of the British Admiralty. The seizures, effected by the Coast Guard, assisted by the Navy in some cases, were officially described as a means of putting the vessels into protective custody. The seizures were ordered one day after the Italian crews reportreceived orders to wreck the interiors of their ships and came before this wrecking could be completed. Acting under secret instructions from Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, who had received the approval of President Roosevelt, Coast Guardsmen boarded two German, 28 Italian and 35 Danish vessels in American harbors and turned the Italian and German crews over to immigration authorities. The Denish crews were permitted to remain aboard their ships. The number of crew members was estimated at between 2500 and 3090, about 1600 of them from the German and Italian ships. About 20 of the Italian ships had been sabotaged by their crews and five apparently had been prepared for scuttling or burning at their piers. The seizures were carried out without resistance except in the case of two Italian freighters at Jacksonville, Fla.,, where the Coast Guard commander reported there had been “some little trouble.” ~The ships were in many ports— from Maine to the Canal Zone and from New York to the Pacific Coast.

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rocketing of prices—was largely to blame for economic disasters from which the whole country still suffers. Three times in less than 130 years it has happened. Prices rose about 60 per cent during the War of 1812, then slumped sharply to a lower level than before and stayed down for nearly 50 years. Prices more than doubled during the Civil War, then fell a little more gradually to the lowest point in United States history in the hard times of the 1890s, before turning slowly upward. Again, during and just after the World War, prices more than doubled. And again they fell sharply, paused for a few years near the level that had prevailed before the War of 1812, and then dropped into the depression of the 1930s. There is plentiful evidence as

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to what happened during the last war boom in the statistics of the Labor Department and of other Government and business

agencies. It proves that, though such a boom may seem fine for a | few, it is hell for the many. The American cost of living— the composite price of such items as food, clothing, rent, house furnishings, heat and light and other necessities—remained almost unchanged for about a year and a half after the World War began in August, 1914. It began to rise, slowly at first, in early 1916. In the spring of 1917, when we entered the war, it was up about 20 per cent. By Armistice Day, in 1918, it was up 60 per cent and rising fast. Not until the summer of 1920, nearly two years after the war, did it reach its peak— 108 per cent above the pre-war level.

Wages Went Up, Too

Meanwhile the wages of some workers—for instance, of coal miners, and employees in many manufacturing industries, and railroaders -—— rose more rapidly than the cost of living. Their “real” incomes, their buying power, increased. Some of them bought $15 silk shirts and other luxurious. Few

If the Consumer Remains Level-Headed There Should Be No Post-War Price Rise

| of them. probably, saved any great

amount of their increased “real” incomes. And a few years after the war millions of them were out ‘of jobs.

The wages of building-trades workers rose very slowly until about a year after the Armistice, and did not overtake the cost of living until 1921. Through most of the period their “real” incomes were lower than before the war, , Wages of millions of white-col-lar and unorganized workers, of teachers, of Government employees, rose even more slowly. They spent at least five years behind the cost-of-living eight ball. Few workers profited tremendously, few profited permanently, while a vast number had to reduce their living standards or go into debt. And an avalanche of future trouble for all was being piled up. No sane American should want to repeat that experience. But danger signs that it may be repeated, unless Americans act sanely, are bezinning to appear.

NEXT: The cost of living and the present war period.

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Bridwell Dies

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FOR PUTS U. S. AID IN EFFECT

‘Believed to Have Ordered

Help for Greece, More Backing for British.

ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPE-

Judge William H. Bridwell

WAS APPELLATE

JUDGE 10 YEARS

Succumbs at 69 After Two Weeks’ lliness, in Third Term.

Judge William H. Bridwell, for the past 10 years a member of the Indiana Appellate Court, died yesterday in the Methodist Hospital after a two-weeks’ illness. A former resident of Sullivan, Judge Bridwell was 69 and had lived at 3419 N. Pennsylvania St. He represented the southern division of the Appellate Court and was in the midst of his third successive term as a member of the court at the time of his death. Judge Bridwell, who lived in Sullivan more than 43 years, first entered politics in 1896 when he was selected as deputy prosecuting attorney of Sullivan County. In 1898,

he was graduated from the Indiana |

CIAL TRAIN, March 31 (U. P.).— | President Roosevelt, hurrying back | to Washington to speed up his plans for strengthening aid to Britain, Greece and Jugoslavia, halted at Ft. | Jackson, S, C., briefly today for an inspection of the 35,000 regulars and National Guardsmen. Making good his promise of “action and more action” to head off the march of dictatorships, Mr. Roosevelt was reported reliably to have authorized the extension of further material aid to Greece. The | orders, it was learned, were issued the last week from the Potomac while Mr. Roosevelt was cruising off the Florida coast. His authorization, it was understood, also made available further material assistance to Great Britain. The nature of the assistance was not disclosed. White House officials had no comment, but it appeared that the new moves were integrated with the Government's seizure of Axis vessels tied up in American ports.

| during pk

Significance Grows

With German-Jugoslavian relationg critical and with Britain landing expeditionary forces in Greece, Mr. Roosevelt's decision to give further material aid to the Greeks took on increased significance. These moves followed the President's Jackson Day radio address, in which he warned America of peril from Communists, Nazis, de= |featists and their dupes but pro|claimed that Americans are tran{scending partisanship to defend de{mocracy and to assist nations re|sisting the march of dictatorships [toward world domination. Mr. Roosevelt summoned all

University law school and again | Americans, whether Democrats, Rewas chosen as deputy prosecutor in |publicans or independents, to rally 1900. (to the defense of their way of life, When a new judicial district was|/But he warned that the task en created, he was called as judge by (tails sacrifices—“you have to work Gov. Thomas R. Marshall in 1911, [overtime and work harder than He was elected as judge of the Sul-|ever before in your life.” livan Circuit Court during the| He set this as the alternative: Presidential election of 1912 and| “If our kind of civilization gets served two terms. run over, the kind of peace we seek His party's nominee for judge of will become an unattainable hope.” the Appellate Court in 1922, Judge | Mr. Roosevelt spent about two Bridwell likewise ran in 1930 and | hours at Ft. Jackson. This afterwas renominated by acclamation in| noon he was to pay a similar visit

1934 and 1938. Born at Owensburg, Oct. 14, 1871, | Judge Bridwell received his com- | mon school education in Greene | County, He later attended the normal school at Bloomfield and taught school for five years. Judge Bridwell served in various capacities on the Sullivan County Democratic Commitee. He was a member of the Methodist Church | there, the Indiana Democratic | Club, Odd Fellows, Elks, Indians apolis Exchange Club and the Ma- | sons. A Knight Templar, Shriner | and member of the Scottish Rite,

at Ft. Bragg, N. C. He will return to Washington tomorrow.

STATE BEAUTICIANS ASK ‘HOUSECLEANING’

The Indiana Hair Dressers’ and Cosmetologists’ Association will pe= tition Governor Henry F. Schricker for "a housecleaning” of the State Beauty Culture Board. The Association decided to take this action at a meeting yesterday when beauty shop operators

throughout the state charged that the Board has attempted to bring the group under the domination of

he also was a member of the American and Indiana State Bar Associations and the association in Sullivan County. the Barbers’ Union. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Elsie| It was charged also that Beauty Bridwell, and three brothers, Curtis | Board inspectors have been active

"| Bridwell of Terre Haute, Frank |in promoting the barbers’ union

Bridwell of Pasadena, Cal, and among beauticians and cosmetolSamuel Bridwell of Sullivan. (ogists who are unorganized. Funeral services will be held at| While not opposed to labor unions, 2:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Bill- | the beauticians “find no common man Funeral Home at Sullivan and | ground with the barbers’ union,” burial will be in the Center Ridge | according to Miss Irma Zook, asso-

Cemetery there. ciation president.

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