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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

U.S. Asks Italian Naval Attache to Leave As Relations with Axis Grow More Tense

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of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps participated. Other developments worsening of relations powers:

1. Berlin

indicating with AXis

dispatches suggested

that American property in Germany |

might be confiscated in retaliation for the seizure of 28 Ttalian and two German ships in U

retaliation by this country, perhaps

the promulgation of a long-prepared |

Treasury order “freezing” Axis as-

sets in the United States. 2. At least eight zens were arrested and detained for several hours in Berlin last night German authorities conceded that

the arrests might have “some con-| {war cabinet,” composed of Secre-|raised on seized ships. tary of State Cordell Hull, Treasury |present, the order said, no flags | Jr..| were to be flown on the Italian and |

nestion with German reprisals” for the ship seizures. They ostensibly concerned passport regulations. The State Department ment pending an official report. 3. German and Ttalian anger over the ship seizures was emphasizeq by the filing of new notes of protest before State Department replies had been issued to the first * ones, and by the German Embassy's action in releasing the text of its original protest. 4. Sir Arthur Salter ping expert, was due today. He seeks to hasten the transfer of American merchant ships to Britain under the Lend-Lease Law. Officials forecast early transfer of American tonnage

5. No details were known here.

S. ports. | This would almost certainly cause

American citi-!

|but considerable significance was |attached to conversations in MaInila between Air Chief Marshal Sir | Robert Brooke - Popham, com{mander - in - chief of all British \forces in the Far East, and high {U. S. Army and Navy officials. Observers believed a general discussion of British-American co-operation in defense of joint intrests in the Far East was In progress. 6. Further efforts to weld strong Western Hemisphere defenses were seen in the Navy Department's invitation to naval chiefs of 11 Latin- | American countries to inspect U. S. naval activities. No announcement was made after the three-hour White House con- | ference yesterday. But the roster of those attending emphasized its significance. Besides the so-called

Secretary Henry Morgenthau

| |

{American flag where it

Prison Plotter

“In the name of my government,” | the note said, “I protest most ur-| gently against the aforesaid measures of the United States Government for which there is no legal basis in international law and which repre-|

sents in particular a clear violation! of the treaty of friendship, com- | merce and consular rights of Dec. 8, | 1923, between Germany and the United States.” | Sa It demanded that the ships, the, Pauline Friedrich at Boston and the! Arauca at Port Everglades, Fla., be returned to their masters, the crews restored to them and the American flag, which was hoisted on the Arauca, removed. The Treasury had already ordered the coast guard to haul down the had been | For the|

| a

Paul Pierce . . . killer of Indianapolis detective.

THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1941

Ford Officials Charge Union Broke Truce; 4000 DEMAND Mediation to Return 85,000 to Jobs Halted }||IS OPENING /

the way for the efforts of Mr. Dewey | had taken beatings yesterday to get . . ; and a three-man board—Thomas J.|to work; one had paddled down the amount of picketing to be permitted | Donahue, chairman of the Michi- | River Rouge on an improvised raft under the truce today. _, |gan Labor Mediation Board; John |and another had stripped and swum The company spokesman said: |D. Lynch, regent of the University to his job. “Our understanding is that the of Michigan; the Rev. Albert J.| Mr. Ford had advised his workPoetker, dean of the University of ers to “keep away from unions” and |

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Non-Strikers File Request After C. I. 0. Orders

union has agreed to have only a | ‘Power Show.’

small ‘token’ picket line today.” | The union spokesman said: “The | union has set no limit on pickets | and heavy picketing is expected during negotiations.” He added that the union would | not again blockade streets leading ! to the plant with hundreds of auto- | mobiles set bumper-to-bumper and hub-to-hub, as it did yesterday. Suffering from arthritis, leaning | cn a cane, Mr. Dewey early today | received newsmen in a Detroit] hotel room, seven miles from the embattled plant, and announced the outcome of last night's nego- | tiations. |

No Conclusions Reached

Detroit.

Governor Van Wagoner had obtained these pledges:

From the Union: massed pickets and refrain from | automobile barricades around the! Rouge plant. The Company Promises: To make no attempt to reopen the plant ‘during the mediation period.” Both Promised: “To co-operate with the Michigan State Police in| maintaining law and order during the period of mediation.” Henry Ford took no evident part in negotiations, remaining at home. By telephone he sent word that

had boasted that his workmen were | “not interested” in the Wagner Act. the union to enforce demands for collective bargaining recognition and wage increases, was touched | off Tuesday night by an eight-hour sit-down in protest against dis-|

Imissal of eight departmental union |

committeemen. Ford officials contend the union | drive is a Communist-itispired effort to obtain control of the Ford | company as a vital defense industry. | The National Labor Relations Board is scheduled to conduct oral

[the 5000 workers inside the plant arguments at Washington Saturday

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William 8. Knudsen to return to

To call off | The strike, long threatened by |Work, were not enthusiastic

Harold Christoffel. president of the U. A. W. local, said 100 members of the council executive hoard had voted unanimously for the “show of strength.” Since employers were not; asked to give their C. I. O. workers a holiday, the order amounted to a one-day general strike of all C. 1. O. workers. He said participation in the “holiday” would be voluntarv and wa sintended only as a demonstrae« tion of solidarity and not as a general work stoppage in the Milwaue kee area. Some C. I. O. unions have

withheld com- |

War Secretary Henry L. Stimson|German ships. The Danish standard land Navy Secretary Frank Knox, | Will fly on Danish vessels while their

the conferees included Lend-Lease officers are aboard.

lwere to be fed and lodged there and on whether there should be col-| paid on a 24-hour-day basis as long |lective bargaining elections at the|contracts {as they remained. Some of the men River Rouge and Lincoln plants

“We had a very friendly conference for several hours,” he said. “But we have reached no conclu-

with

SCAPE BALKED.

their ‘which permit such holidays.

employers

er v—

Co-ordinator Harry L. Hopkins, At-|

British ship- |

torney General Robert H. Jackson; Gen. George C. Marshall, Army

Chief of Staff; Admiral Harold R.|/Mayor of Navy Operations. nearest rival by almost 3 to 1 yesThomas Holcomb, (terday, but apparently failed of re-

Stark, Chief and Maj. Gen. | Marine Corps Commandant.

of the German Embassy made public the original German protest. (It. sharply criticized the seizures ‘and said the German seamen were being detained

cannot be expected to submit.”

{it

“under condaitions|tion between Bowron and Council{to which the members of the crewman Stephen W. Cunningham, hi}

BOWRON IN LEAD

1.OS ANGELES, April 3 (U. P) - Fletcher Bowron led his|

5 IN SOLITARY

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election on the first ballot by a nar- Sixth, Hurt in Fall, Is

Charge d’Affaires Hans Thomsen row margin. |

Bowron’s failure to win a majory. over the field of seven other candidates, on the basis of incom- | plete returns, forced a runoff elec-|

Confined to Hospital | At Michigan City.

Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. April 3.—

closest opponent i . ; : {Five convicts were in solitary con-

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'finement in the Indiana State | Prison today and a sixth was in the [prison hospital after an unsuccessful fattempt to escape last night. | Four of the convicts have records | {of previous escapes. Two were serv{ing life terms for the slaying of Indianapolis policemen and two others {for kidnaping Mrs. Ruth Joiner, a | {social worker, in an unsuccessful

| mediators

sions on any matters in dispute as | vet because a considerable part of | the time was consumed mm discussing some confusion that arose over the agreement made with Governor Van Wagoner that the plant would be closed during mediation and that maintenance and office people would be called back | to work. These matters definitely were straightened out.” He said that about 1500 office workers and maintenance men would be admited to the plant during the mediation period by agreement, with the union. Mr. Dewey said he and the State “got into” the fundamental questions of the cause of the strike and what agreements are | necessary to get 85,000 workers back to production lines. While the mediators talked to the disputants, 200 State policemen patroled the two-square-mile River Rouge plant area here. Company spokesmen said nearly 5000 em-

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