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TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1

Atlantic Sa Proposed

Suggests Plan to Protect British Supply Vessels;

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fety Belt by Pepper

Step Toward Convoying, Foes Claim.

WASHINGTON. April 1 (U. P. today advocated that the United

Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) States establish an

Atlantic Ocean

“safety zone —possibly extending to the limits of the Western Hem-| isphere—within which it would seek to protect British supply ships.

Senator Pepper, ardent British ministration's advance spokesman boundary for such a zone. It was recalled, however, that President Roosevelt considered Greenland to be part of this Hemisphere. The 423 Parallel—to which point in ister Winston said German raiders their attacks on Brit splits Greenland. This longitude is about 1500 miles east of New York City. Senator Pepper, asserting that “we have a perfect right to set up safety zones around our shores,” said in an interview that his proposal technically would prevent belligerent ships from entering such a zone “to do a belligerent act.”

Considers Further Aid

He does not favor American con-

Churchill recently

voying of British ships at present, Hopkins and Maj. Gen. James H.!

but said he “would be willing to

consider further steps in aid 10 de-ipegan allocating American military |

mocracy if our present program of helping Britain becomes stalemated by shipping difficulties.” Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) said Senator Pepper's suggestion was another way of proposIng that “the American Navy convoy British ships halfway across the Atlantic Ocean.” “If Senator those views,”

Pepper he said,

EXPIresses

the Administration. His proposal, of course, is the same as those which would have the American Navy convoy British ships halfway across the Atlantic Ocean.” | Senator Wheeler argued that such a proposal would “only satisfy the warmongers for a brief period; then they will demaad convoys all the way across the ocean and then we will be in the war.” |

Roosevelt Spurs Action

Mr. Pepper made his proposal as! Mr. Roosevelt returned from a vasation and was expected to move quickly to step up assistance to democracies in keeping with his pledge of “action and more action.” The convoy question was brought to the forefront last week when| Col. William Donovan implied in a| radio broadcast that it would be futile to undertake the $7,000,000,000 lend-lease program if the supplies could not get to Britain. Col. Donova whe recently completed a European tour as unofficial observer for the Administration, asked: “Are we going to deliver the goods?” Congressional discussion of convovs was touched off vesterday by Senator Charles W. Tobey (R. N.| H.). who introduced a resolution | that specifically would forbid such a He said the resolution was designed to “force a showdown” on the convoy question Senate Democratic Leader Alben] W. Barkley of Kentucky challenged Senator Tobey's statement that con-| vovs mean war. He said if Germany “wanted to declare war on us she would already have done so.” Senator Pepper's “safety zone” proposal recalled the action by foreign ministers of the 21 American republics who proclaimed a hemispheric “safety belt” at a conference in Panama in October, 1939—a month after the war started. One of the expressed aims of the “safety belt” was to keep the war away from this Hemisphere. The “safety belt” has been violated | bv both Great Britain and Germany, | hoth having refused to recognize it on ground that they had certain | rights as belligerents. {

U. S. BEGINS BUYING FOOD FOR BRITAIN

WASHINGTON, April 1 (U, P.) ~The Agriculture Department announced today that it has begun | purchases of food for Britain eX = pected to total about $500.000,000 in the next 15 months Purchase of more than 310.000.000 worth of surplus foods in the last half of March represented a 100 per cent increase over the average of the past year, officials said. None of the foods purchased have been consigned definitely to Britain, but officials said they were part of large stores to be accumulated in making the United States the larder as well as the arsenal for the democracies.

move

the Atlantic British Prime Min-|

have extended | h shipping—|

aid advocate and considered the Adin the Senate, did not suggest a

F. D. R. IS BACK:

75s From World War to Go To Balkans; Other Action Studied.

WASHINGTON, April 1 (U. P.).—

| President Roosevelt returned to the | White House today after a 10-day fishing trip in Southern waters. With data supplied by Harry IL.

| | { Burns, the President immediately

supplies among American armed forces, Great Britain, Greece and other democracies resisting the Axis | powers. Mr. Roosevelt had already ordered a large quantity of Army 75-milli-meter guns left over from the World | War, and stored at Ft. Bragg, N. C,, | shipped to Greece. { Ald has already been pledged to {Jugoslavia in addition to Britain,

“I have no Greece and China, and it was re-| doubt that thev will be followed by Ported in Istanbul that the Turkish |

| Ambassador to Washington was asking what aid she would get if she resists aggression.

Sees Wickard Today

Mr. Roosevelt arrives in Washington this morning and confers at once with the Congressional “Big Four,” then with Secretary of Agri-| culture Claude Wickard and Leon! Henderson, price control chief of the Defense Advisory Council, on “priorities and price ceilings.” Before leaving Ft. Bragg last night, Mr. Roosevelt talked at length by long distance telephone with Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles in Washington. He got | the latest Balkan news again from Mr. Welles as soon as he arrived in the capital. The President is believed to have aid flowing in a steady stream to Britain — planes, guns, munitions. On basis of the Burns-Hopkins data, he expects to make specific alloca-| tions of existing stocks and new) production to establish a definite basis for canalization of American weapons to Britain and Greece and any other country which chooses to oppose Germany, Italy and Japan.

Burns Boards Train

Mr. Hopkins is informal secretary | of the top war-aid committee comprising the President, War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, Navy Secre-! tary Frank Knox, Secretary of State! Cordell Hull, and the ranking offi-| cials of the Army and Navy. Maj.| Gen. Burns, a member of the War-| Navy Munitions Board, is adviser on/! ordnance and munitions for the Cabinet policy making committee. With a brief case bulging with! data on production, reserve stocks and Greek-British needs, Gen. Burns boarded Mr. Roosevelt's spe-| cial train at Ft. Bragg last night.! Mr. Hopkins, who had been Mr. Roosevelt's guest for the past eight! days on a sea cruise, has been talking steadily with the President on problems entailed in allocating American military resources. he President's disclosure of the nature of his aid to Greece appeared to be timed to encourage them when German power is being massed on their Bulagrian border. | It was his first specific disclosure | of the nature of material and being! rushed abroad under the new $7,000,000,000 lend-lease appropria-! tion,

CONTRACTORS TO MEET

R. C. Smith of the Unemplovment Compensation Board will speak at the monthly meeting of the Building Contractors Association of Marion County tomorrow at 6:30 p. m. at 231 N. Pennsylvania St. | Mr. Smith will discuss “Deficits lin Unemployment Reserves as an Industrial Problem.” Presiding will | be the association’s president, Wil- | liam E. Mohler of the J. C. Simmons | Co., local contractor who is building | the Madison proving ground for the! | Army,

GREECE AIDED

The British cruiser Orion . . . decoy for the British in the Battle of the Tonian Sea.

Folly, Not Fate, Can Cause Rise in Our Living Costs

This is the second of a series

of articles on the cost of living |

and its relationship to the wan By E. A. EVANS

Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, April 1.—There have heen speculative flurries and brief spasms of panicky buying, but there has been no dangerous rise in the American cost of live ing since the present European war began. Right now, however, those who watch price trends are begining to see signs of trouble ahead-— trouble that may be averted by wise action. They are calling on the two groups that will suffer most if prices soar again as in the World War period—the retail merchants and the millions of customers whose incomes are in the low and middle brackets—to be shock troops in the battle against unJustified price increases, Since Germany invaded Poland, the Labor Department's big index, based on the wholesale prices of nearly 900 commodities, has risen something more than 8 per cent. The cost of living—the com= | posite retail price of food, cloth- | ing, rent, house furnishings, heat and light and other necessities— has risen less than 3 per cent. When wholesale prices rise they pull retail prices up, usually as in this case more slowly, But determined efforts to keep retail prices down, by such measures as retail merchants and their customers can employ, can do much to prevent unnecessary wholesale price increases Here are some reasons why the price-trend watchers say the time has come to use those measures: 1. Recently the Labor Department index of daily prices of 28 basic commodities has rather sharply increased its rate of climb, due largely to the influence of a few commodities which are imported or in which there are temporary production bottlenecks. 2. Some of the nearly 900 wholesale prices represented in the big index are beginning to react to basic-commodity increases. 3. This, if it continues, affect some retail prices. The danger is that the public, if it sees some retail prices going up, will conclude that all are about to go up. Enough buyers, getting that impression and acting on it, could force prices up. 4. And many people may believe that now is the time when general price boosts become inevitable. The first World War was in progress about a year and a half before the American cost of living began to jump. The present war has been on for a little more than a vear and a half. So some observers fear that events are shaping for another price boom-—f{or speculation in commodities, for a competitive rush by merchants to stock up their stores and warehouses, for similar rush buying by consumers and another cost-of-living sky rocket,

will

Rise Not Inevitable

But it doesn't need to happen. It 13 not inevitable, Most conditions are favorable for prevent ing it. Conditions are profoundly different from those at this stage in the other war,

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IN INDIANAPOLIS

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. ing County City Total |and

6 16 22 23 19 42

1940 1941

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SESE E LE REE ERS

—March 31— Accidents ... 25 Injured Arrests 59 | Dead MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid Speeding ........ 22 22 $140 Reckless driving. 14 12 96 Failure to stop at through street Disobeying traffic signals = Drunken driving. All others

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Violations

12 12 50

45 60 69

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101

$460

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Totals MEETINGS TODAY

Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

Boo Men's Club, luncheon, Y. M. C. A,

no ipha Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of Spink Arms HoHotel Lin-

Columbia

luncheon, noon. Mercator Club, colin noon. Club,

Universal lub, on ie ’ 3 NIVaeSieY of Michigan Clob, Board of Trade, noo Knights of Columb Clubhouse, noon. Lutheran Service Club, y Cottage, noon, : Rae Baner Credit Group, luncheon, Wm, ¢ Co., noon. ki : Bik Motor Truck Association, luncheon. Hotel Antlers, noon Sigma Delta Chi,

. Fite Lily & Co., University of Florida, College of Pharmacy, breakfast and dinner Hotel Severin, 8:15 a. m. and 6 p.m. Fli Lilly & Co., Southwestern State ColCollege of Pharmacy breakfast and 15 a. m. and 6 n Alpha Dalta Omega, meeLing, Washington, 7 9 Omega Nu Tan, ton. 7 p. m. American Chemical * Hotel Severin, 12:30 p Ethan Club Boa meeting, Ho

luncheon, iunchecn, luncheon,

luncheon, Ca-

dinner, Athenaeum,

lege Ap Hotel m dinner, Hotel Washing-

Sociely, luncheon,

. JA. rd, Juncheon and

n us, luncheon, K, of C. |p

tel Severin, noon and 1 ». m.Bileen

Whist Club, Hotel Severin, 1:30 p. Louisville Bank for Co-operatives, meetand luncheon, Hotel Severin, 10 a. m 12:15 p. m.

Indianapolis | Hotel Severin,

MEETINGS TOMORROW Feonomie Forum, meeting, Jdotel Washington, 6 m, Indianapolis Casting Club meeting, Hotel Washington, 7 Indianapolis Casting Hotel Washington, 8 p. m. 4 A. C. A, Camera Club,

Cage 7:30 p.

Auxiliary, 1 b m., Cinb, ineeting,

y meeting, entral ¥. M., | Lions Club, | noon, ! Young Men's Discussion Club, dinner, Y. C..A., Pp. m Purdue Alumni | Hotel Severin, noon. Twelfth District, American luncheon, Bnard of Trade, noon Sigma Alpha Epsilon, uncheon, {of Trade. noon Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Property Managers’ Division, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon. Indiana Society, Revalution, luncheon, | noon | Delta Theta | Tavern, noon. . | Co-operative Club of Indianapolis, lunch- { eon, Columbia Club, noon. | Junior Chamber of Commerce, luncheon, Canary Cottage, noon. Purdue Alumni, luncheon, 12:13 p. m ls EN Lilly & Co., breakfast, Sig 8

J 7:30 p. : Gulf Refining Co., dinner, 6:30 Pp. m, Modern Severin, 8 p Sigma Beta m

| € CG. 3, 7:30 p. ™ luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

Association, runcheon,

Board

Sons of the American Spink-Arms Hotel,

Tau, luncheon, Seville

Hotel Severin, Hotel Severin Hotel Hotel Hotel

ma. Delta Tau, meeting, Severin, Tri "Ohi Sorority, meeting, Severin, Hotel

m. , meeting, Hotel Severin, 7:30

.Woodmen,. meeting,

"University of Nebraska Pharmacy, dinner, Hotel Severin, 6 p. m,

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

Harry { Lauretta I. Phil William H

Brown, 26. Cicero, lips, 27, of 940 Locke. Kruger, 38, of 323 N. Delaware; Rachel L. Eskridge, 25, of 323 N. | Delaware,

John L. Orr. 28, of 3645 N. Illinois; Fay Hunt. 30, of 4927 Rockville Road Benjamin H. Brown II, 19, 1710 N. Penn1 Viola C. Burleson, 19, of 501 E,

E. Denker, 26, of 423 S. Parker; er, 30, of 1537 Lexington.

Ind.;

ath, Vern

m, |

Bird Club, meeting, | m.

Legion, |

Severin, | E

Clifford W. Corbett, New York City; Margaret of 431 Park, New York C Kenneth E. Ernst, 24, Juanita M. Smith, 21, of 3304 College. Victor F. Albright, 26, 812 Chamber of [Commerce Bldg. Dorothy D. Barlow, 23, | Fairland, Ind. {Charles A. Adams Jr, 30, Ann Arbor, {Mich.: Helen E. Rowell, 30, of 3540 N. Pennsvivania. | _John N. Shedaker. 30. of 340 Lockburn: Renee E. Werblo, 25 4806 E. Washington,

112 |. William M. Miller. 31, 730 Dav Wayne, Eleanor V. Richwine, 7, | Holmes

29, of 141 E. 56th.

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BIRTHS Girls

Roland, Hutchinson, | Francis, Benjamin, Fern Miner, at St. Francis. Frank, Alma Luzar, at Coleman Paul, Ruth Nieman, at St. Vincent's, Glenn, Edna Ferrell. at St. Vincent's. John, Marguerite Kuhn, at St. Vincent's David, Edith Bogue, at Methodist Earl, Betty Lou Gahan, at Methodist. | Everett, Alberta Stewart, at | Marlowe. Russell, Vivian Miles, at 1168 N. Traub. Boys

Rov, Alice Bruner, at St. Francis. Charles, Virginia Allison, at City. Harold, Norma Talbott, at Methodist. Joseph, Winifred Cress, at Methodist, Yetieve, Leon Tinder, at Methodist. Thomas, Beatrice Hughes, at Methodist Henry. Jean Slater, at Methodist. Wiliiam, Marjorie McPeak, at 1239'2 S.

Mable at St

1158

Past. Willis, Helen Wright, at 2435 Indianap- { olis.

DEATHS

Nell Conover, 46, at 225 N. State, cerebral apoplexy. Anna Jorman, arteriosclerosis

75, at Central Indiana,

hroncho-pneumonia. Louise P. Asperger, 57, at St. Vincent's, hroncho-pneumonia v 832 Park,

Henry Shotts, 83, acute 832 Church,

at myocarditis. Michael J. Scanlon, cerebral hemorrhage George Neal, 58, af hemorrhage, J. Louis | sarcoma. | Prederick Bockstahler, | son, coronary occlusion, Agnes Thomson, 76, at cardio vascular renal Minnie V, Swift, 71,

‘ ston William Reimer, 68, at 1626 Prospect, carcinoma, .

65, at

11 Eastern, cerebral 35, Methodist,

Fichman, at

40, at 5525 University, hyperten-

at City,

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5 Deficiency since Jan.

Hubbard L. Miller, 88, at 373 N. Holmes, |

| Miami, Fla | Mpls. -St

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When this war began we had huge surpluses of most necessary materials. We still have them— 11 million bales of cotton. 700 million bushels of corn, 400 million bushels of wheat, and so on through a long list, Our rawmaterial resources are vastly greater, we are far more selfsufficient and far less dependent on imported goods. When this war began we had enormously expanded manufactur mg facilities, only partly used We still have them, and as we move toward full use of those facilities we are rapidly adding enormous new ones When this war began we had a great surplus of manpower-— eight million or more unemployed workers. Many have found jobs, and others will get jobs soon. But we still have surplus manpower, with shortages only in certain skilled trades. We have enough of most things to build our own defenses, to give the promised aid to Britain and Greece and China, and still to provide good living standards for more people than have enjoyed them in recent years. u un "

No Serious Shortages

There will be shortages of some imporied goods. There may be temporary shortages of a few domestic goods, while manufacturing and distribution machinery is being adjusted to the double task of defense production plus normal production. A few prices may rise sharply, and many may rise gradually. Some prices should rise. Farm products, for instance, ought to move up toward more profitable levels. But if they can move in orderly fashion, with a minimum of artificial stimulation, that will be best for the country and best, in the long run, for the farmer. Some localities—especially those surrounding the new Army camps and booming defense industries— will have special cost-of-living problems. But the general cost can be kept within bounds. Replacements can be provided for most scarce imported goods. If temporary shortages develop in certain domestic goods, they can be overcome. Local prices which get out of line can be attacked by special methods. Not fate, bui only our own folly, can compel us to do again what the people of this country did in the War of 1812, the Civil War and the first World War. We don't have to climb painfully up another cost-of-living peak-—and then plunge disastrously down another precipice of deflation.

NEXT: Wages and the cost of living.

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of living reasonable

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U.S. TO STUDY MOTOR OF MESSERSCHMITT

SAN PEDRO, Cal, April 1 (U. P)), —A bullet-riddled German Messerschmitt warplane, brought down in England, arrives today for a minute inspection by American aircraft engineers, The plane was consigned to Vultee Aircraft, Inc., whose engineers will “go over every part of it with a fine-tooth comb.” R. W. Palmer, Vultee vice president in charge of engineering, said “the Germans have quite a reputa tion for mass production design. By studying how the parts are fabricated and assembled we can pretty well deduce some of the mass production methods they are using and

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J. Gabriel, 29, see how they stack up with latest !S 706 N. DeQuincy: techniques in our own country.”

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST-—Fair and slightly colder tonight with lowest tem. perature ahout 385: tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer,

Sunrise 5:29 | Sunset ....... 6.00

TEMPERATURE —April 1— 43 1

BAROMETER 6:30 a, m..... 20.71 Precipitation 24 hrs, endimg 7 a. m, 53 Total precipitation Sipe Jan, 1..... 3.59

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Fair, slightly colder in east and south portions tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer, Illinois—Fair tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer, followed by showers and thunderstorms in west-central and extreme north portions tomorrow aft-

| ernoon or night.

Lower Michigan—Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly colder in south and east portions tonight.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M,

Station Amarillo, Tex. Bismarck, N. D. Boston Chicago .. Cincinnati Cleveland ... BRAVET ...%..vv vu Dodge City, Kas. «.,. Jacksonville, Fla. ... Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock, Ark. Los Angeles

PtCldy. ..Cloudy Gi

Paul 5

| Mobile, Ala

ew Orleans

| | New York | Okla.

3143 Car-|

Omaha,

Pittsburgh

Portland, Ore, San Antonio, Tex. San Francisco .. St. Louis Tampa, Fla. ......

«vo. Clear Washington, D, C. ...Cloudy

"THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Lured ltalian Fleet to Doom

(and keep them occupied until Ad- [| miral

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[they hurled tear gas bombs.

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LOOKS TO FOR

Crack-Down Expected but Which Side Is to Get It Is Big Question.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, April 1.—-On which | |side will President Roosevelt crack | [down to end the work stoppage of | | 400,000 bituminous coal miners which | | began last midnight? That is the question in the soft | coal wage parleys here, following the | failure of negotiators for the United Mine Workers and for operators of {the Appalachian region to beat the

{deadline for a new two-year agree- |

ment. The opinion is general that Pres{idential pressure will be required to fend the deadlock—as it was two {years ago after a six-weeks shut [down of this industry which furinishes power for the manufacture ‘of defense materials. In 1939, the Presidential pressure was on the side of the mine workers, and forced the operators to agree to the “union shop” prescrip= (tion of John L. Lewis, the union's leader. Today, Mr. Lewis is not so [friendly as he was with Mr, Roose= velt,

BRITISH SHIPS OUTNUMBERED

Meet Again Today

COAL PARLEY | Still Inseparable

Damon and Pythias . alias Harold Marshall (left) and Jerry Adams.

Even the might of Uncle Sam's Army service wasn't enough to break up a Damon and Pythias relationship between a couple of Indianapolis buddies. The pair, Harold Marshall and Jerry Adams, local representatives of Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer, met several vears ago and became inseparable. Harold is M-G-M's studio field representative, another name for a press agent, while Jerry is a film salesman. Last week, Uncle Sam's draft board called Jerry up for service. For a time, it looked like the inseparables were about to be separated. And then Harold, whose press agent job calls for thinking up

Victory for Co-ordination of | Warships and Planes, London Says. April 1 (U.P) said today

battleships, four carrier For-

| The President, returning to | Washington from his Southern trip, | will find an unwelcome greecing mn | (the largest industrial shutdown | since defense production was made | the No. 1 national activity. It! affects not only the 330.000 miners | of the Appalachian region, but | about 70,000 others in “outlying” districts where the operaors have | refused to sign with Mr. Lewis until the main agreement is settled. The President is represented here by Dr. John R. Steelman, Director lof the U. S. Conciliation Service, who has emphasized to the gotiators that even a short shut-| down now might be more serious to national interests than the six- | weeks stoppage of 1939. He has stressed the importance of “bottlenecks” in the defense program. While for consumers in general there is more than a month's supply of fuel in their storage yards, some small industries will feel the pinch within [two weeks, according to Govern- | ment figures. It is feared that even | a (wo-weeks interruption in

A that

LONDON, naval spokesman three British crisers, the aireraft midable and destroyers comprised [the fleet which won the historic victory of the Tonian Sea over three Ttalian battleships, 11 cruisers and | destroyers. | “The engagement was historic because for the first time skillful coordination of naval operations with attacks launched hy aircraft resulted in the enemy's speed being reduced land our main units being able to {force action upon a reluctant enemy,” the spokesman said. It was revealed today that the cruiser Ajax, one of the three which drove the German pocket battleship Graf Spee into the River Platte | where it was scuttled, was one of the cruisers in the action. Orion “Flirted” The Ajax was in the same squadron with the cruiser Orion, which was the real hero of the battle. The Orion, commanded by Vice Admiral Henry D. Pridham-Wippell, was sent to “flirt” with the Italian ships

to defense production the same evils that are involved in strikes closing down small industries tha. make vital parts for airplanes and | warships.

. . Scale Committee Backs Lewis Sir Andrew Cunningham

{ could bring up his capital ships, the battleships Warspite, Barham and | Valiant and the carrier Formidable. | {It was necessary that the Orion {should keep always on the horizon | {where the Italian ships could see| and shoot at her, but out of the [effective range of her guns. | How effective was the British fire

According to reports from within

reached the deadline with no substantial progress toward resolving the issues, Ezra Van Horn of Cleveland, the operators’ chairman, announced “no agreement on any item.” Dr. Steelman based his optimism about an early agreement was indicated in Athens today where On the fact that the negotiators, the captured chief gunnery officer |after adjourning late yesterday in a of the Italian criuser Pola, said. “We |stalemate, had not broken off comhad no time to fire a shot at the pletely but had agreed to meet again

our | period which the miners call | “lockout,” the operators call strike,” and both agree is a “shut(down” or ‘“stoppage.” The miners’ spokesmen were still

broadside sank two of [cruisers and the second sank my ship.” Italians Lose 4000 In Alexandria yesterday, Admiral | | Pridham-Whippell said that Italian {fire from the Italian battleships had 8 : : been very effective, but that the de- | Vacations with pay. They were re|stroyers’ fire had been less well Ported to have shown willingness to laimed. Neither the Orion nor any Yield on their third major demand lof the other British ships suffered [2 8uarantee of at least 200 working la scratch in the battle, which cost days a year for every member of the

| Ttaly 4000 men and five to dy

Police and strikers scuffled again this morning when the day shift reported. Police broke up two minor disorders without using their clubs. Later at a mass meeting the strikers asked President Roosevelt to close the plant or compel the {management to accept an Office of | Production Management settlement | formula. | The armored “Big Bertha” was {employed against the C.I.O. United

| Friday strike when (requested production on 45 million dollars worth of Gov-

| ships. | Mr. Lewis was backed bv a vote The other British cruisers in the |0f indorsement from a meeting yesbattle were the Australian ship terday of the Appalachian union Perth and the British vessel | Scale committee. It also authorized | Gloucester. |mining of coal for certain hospitals - — {and utilities, all described as of iso(lated and minor character and not affecting the main stoppage, which | IS PICKETS FLEE today stretches south from Pennsylvania through the Appalachian mountains to Alabama, and west ‘ward to include the important pro[ducing states of Illinois and AlaMILWAUKEE, Wis., April 1 (U.!pama. P.).—Union officials charged today | ——— police “deliberately assaulted” 3000 strikers massed at the Allis-Chal- I H I IAL ATE mers Manufacturing Co. plant by twice charging them yesterday with a 6800-pound riot ear from which DECISION AWAITED Special Judge Omar O'Harrow of | Martinsville will sit in Criminal Court tomorrow to rule on a motion asking an immediate trial date for William Ray Butsch, charged with the hammer slaying of Mrs. Carrie Lelah Romig here two years ago. The motion was filed yesterday by Attorney T. Ernest Maholm. Butsch won his release from an in[sanity commitment in a habegs | Automobile Workers when they at-| corpus proceedings last week. | tempted to interfere with workmen| He has been confined to the State [leaving the plant last night, police | Prison Hospital for the Criminal aid. The plant was reopened last | Insane since May, 1939, but last in defiance of the 69-day week was declared legally sane and Government officials | ready to stand trial by Special Judge immediately | Joseph Williams. His release was opposed by Deputy | ernment orders. | Prosecutor Edwin Hearle who said At least 30 rounds of tear gas|he may file a new petition to modify [bombs were thrown from the lum- | Judge Williams’ order before Judge | bering tank car before the strikers|O'Harrow tomorrow, Judge Wil- | were dispersed, their eyes smarting.|liams sat as special judge in the [ Capt. William Hannon estimated 150 |case only for the habeas corpus

proceedings,

Swallowed Quarier Removed, But Kathleen Doesn't Want It

Kathleen Fleming decided today that it would be quite all right if the doctors at St. Vincent's | Hospital kept her quarter. And her daddy, Capt. Thomas G. Fleming, with Indiana troops at Camp Shelby, Miss., was glad to learn Kathleen was feeling fine again. She swallowed the quarter Sunday, a gift from her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Mahrt who was returning to Dayton, O. after a visit. Mrs. Fleming said Kathleen put the quarter in her mouth and danced. up and down. Then the silver piece disappeared. X-rayqs were taken at the hospital last night and the quarter was removed today. Kathleen was to return to her home, 6302 N. Delaware St., this afternoon.

LOS ANGELES ELECTS LOS ANGELES, April 1 (U. P), —Los Angeles voters went to the polls today in a municipal primary | election to choose a mayor from | eight candidates, including the incumbent, Fletcher Bowron, wno went into office three years ago on

Kathleen Fleming . , . hospital

ne- |

: the | union steady flow of fuel might bring awaiting the outcome of the joint |

the unusual, hatched up a bright idea. “What's good enough for you is good enough for me, Jerry,” he said, and left without explaining. Later, he returned and announced he had volunteered for a year's service in the Army so they could remain together. The boys will be inducted officially April 17,

7000 HOOSIERS "MARK ‘HOLIDAY’

Workers in 11th and 8th Districts Cease Work Pending Agreement, TERRE HAUTE, Ind. April 1 (U. P.).—Indiana coal miners,

than 7000 strong, holiday in

idleness

| Appalachian conference in York which may or may not them back to work tonight,

Charles Funcannon, 11th Dis-

trict president, said operators training purposes,”

[throughout the State's and southwestern soft coal and shaft mines had not

ment. and ordered his men to cease | work as scheduled. { At the same time, 2300 miners in | the block coal fields of the Brazil area were ordered to cease work | for the same agreement difficulties [by the Eighth District president, | Lloyd Lambert | Mr. Puncannon, who retires day at the start of the 1

year in favor of Louis

land the Indiana Coal Association had refused to accept interim agreements

| the Eastern made retroactive today. He said only one independent operator with a negligible number | of employees had accepted the

the retroactive clause.

favor of Thomas Rea, Clay City,

{the Eighth District

Strauss

of March).

flat, fair .

can keep that quarter, a recall by

SAY CITY LAGS

{o-| ew fiscal | Austin. | | British capital ships. The Warspite's | this morning—the first day of the | Terre Haute, said organized mem- wiht a bers of the Indiana Coal Producers a | Association (strip mine operators) | Operators’

which would | standing fast for a wage increase of | have kept the prevailing wage scale goles

1 a day in the basic rate, and for |in effect, while the new scale set at | conference would be]

temporary working agreement and | Mr. Lambert, who retires today in|

reported that “a number” of inde-|yahor ur (pendent, operators had signed up in nied there w

IN SKILLED MEN

‘Tool Engineer Spokesmen

See Defense Danger; Book Voices Optimism.

Indianapolis was listed by the | American Society of Tool Engineers [today as one of the nation's

“danger spots” from a national de- | fense standpoint because of a | threatened serious shortage of skilled workers. The society cited Indianapolis as one of a group of key defense industry points which “are not yet |adequately organized from a worker-training standpoint to take care of local necessary require= ments.” Otto W. Winter, Detroit, chaire man of the society's emergency defense training committee, issued a statement in which he said the growth of the U. S. defense pro gram and the extra production burden imposed by the Lend-Lease Law had created an employment (shortage here and elsewhere several times greater than was originally estimated. He said the society's unemploy« ‘ment survey last summer disclosed (a shortage of 1,250,000 skilled craftsmen in the nation and estie mated the number at nearer four millions now,

Local Secretary Agrees

In commenting on Mr. Winter's (report, R. D. Harris, secretary of |the local society chapter, agreed [that a step-up in worker training is vitally needed in view of the seve eral large new industries soon to [open up here. He estimated that [15,000 more skilled workers will be needed by such new plants as the | Bridgeport, Brass, Naval Ordnance (and Curtiss-Wright, Propellor face |tories, and by expansion at Allison’s, RCA and others ’ i A more encouraging view of the [situation was taken by William H. {Book, Indianapolis Chamber of {Commerce executive vice president. Admitting that the situation presents a serious problem to industry here, Mr. Book said he feels “we are |managing to keep on top of it.”

Schools and NYA Active

Most of the local defense indus tries already are operating their own programs, training men to do some

| | | |

more [particular phase of a machine oper= today observed a ation. while |

In addition, he said, the Indianapolis high schools and the NYA are

New | providing preliminary training for send | hundreds of prospective workers.

“Our biggest problem right now getting enough machinery for he said. “The

southern {machines they have in the schools SIrip lare being operated 22 hours a day.” accepted | the conference room, the negotiators union offers of a temporary agree-

Indianapolis’ problem, Mr, Book said, is slightly more difficult than that of some other defense industry cities, such as Los Angeles and Hartford, Conn. Those cities, he said, are practically one-industry (aviation) cities. whereas Indianapolis’ plants are more diversified, requiring a wider range of preparatory training,

Other Cities Also Listed

his statement at Detroit, Mr, er listed San Francisco, Erie, | Houston, Minneapolis and St. Paul (along with Indianapolis as not “ade~ [quately organized.” | Training facilities are adequate, he added, in such cities as Los AnHartford, Elmira, N. Y.; York and Philadelphia, Pa.; Milwaukee, | Buffalo, Schenectady, Rochester, Elmira, Toledo, Cleveland and Day- | ton. | He blamed much of the present and impending shortage of trained workers for defense industries upon {the “unwillingness” of government officials to “accept the fact that such a shortage actually existed.” rions, he said, formerly deas a shortage of skilled

| labor,

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