Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1941 — Page 3

ISOLATION

FOR REFERENDUM

Taft Calls Meeting to Anal Congressional Leaders T

STS AIM

ze Fireside Address; Some

rm Talk as ‘Magnificent’;

Others See War Threat.

WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P.).—Congressional noninterventionists, differing sharply over interpretation of President Roosevelt’s fireside chat, meet this afternoon to

“consider the questions” it 4

Reaction ranged from “it means war” to the statement, :

ised.

of Senator Carter Glass (D. Va. ), who “agreed with every

word of it and more beside.”

Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O.), acting in the absence of

‘Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), issued the call for ;

"HIS FACE STERN,

the non-interventionist meeting. In addition to gauging the effects of the address, the group will discuss ways of] holding a national referendum

"to “back up their assertion that more than 80 per cent of the country is opposed to involvement in war, Supporters of New Deal foreign

policy praised the mesasge as a ‘magnificent analysis of the world situation. Senator Glass said he favored convoys and “shooting the creation out of any foreign boat that interferes with convoys.”

Maas Fears War

Rep. Melvin J. Maas (R. Minn.),

‘a member of the House Naval Affairs Committee said “this means war . .. it may take full fleet action to deliver the goods. This means shooting just as the escort system would mean shooting.” Divergent viewpoints among the ‘Isolationists were illustrated .by the ‘reaction of Senator Taft and Senator Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D.). Mr. Taft said Mr. Roosevelt's ‘proclamation of freedom of the seas had “no relation to the question of

convoys because that doctrine never allowed the shipment of contraband of war such as our lend-lease materials.” Senator Nye held that the President “gives notice that we already are convoying, probably in war zones.” He deplored the fact that Mr. Roosevelt omitted “the usual word of assurance of determination to stay out of war.” Congressional ' non-interventionists had sent -the President a letter before his speech urging him to reassure the people that ‘they would not be led to war.

Taft Doubts Authority

“The declaration of an unlimited national emergency has no legal effect whatever,” Senator Taff said. “The President has no statutory or

constitutional authority to declare such an emergency. His proclama‘tion gives him no powers which he did not have a month ago.” Senator Guy M. Gillette (D. Jowa), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the declaration of an “all out” “emergency or of reassertion of freedom of the seas should call for action by Congress. Senator Theodore F. Green (D. R. 1), also a member of the committee but a strong supporter of Administration foreign policy, thought the speech implied that Mr. Roosevelt would ask for repeal of the Neutrality Act. Other comment: Senate Republican Leader Charles I. McNary of Oregon: “It was a timely review of the war situation, but indefinite as it touches some of the major issues.” Chairman Walter F. George (D. Ga.). of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “It was a very strong statement of the basic philosophy of the Administration.” Chairman Sol Bloom (D. N. Y.) of the House Foreign Affairs Com- . mittee: “The President's powers under his unlimited emergency proclamation are very sweeping but of course they do not include the power to make war.”

Fish Charges Hysteria

Rep. Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y), ranking Republican, membker of the House Foreign Affairs Conimittee: “Just a sop handed out to the interventionists. It was a typical . Rooseveltian speech to provoke further war hysteria in an attempt to break down the will of over 80 per cent of the people who oppose involvement. in war.” Speaker'Sam Rayburn (D. Tex.): #1t will be very interesting and encouraging not only to the people in the Western Hemisphere but to democratic peoples throughout the earth.” Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum (D. Va.) : “A ringing call to America to . meet the challenge of Hitler.” "Rep. George Holden Tinkham (R. Mass): “The propaganda in the speech which suggests the occupation of the Azores, Cape Verde Islands and Dakar is very disturb-

Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex): “The President's demand for maintenance of America’s traditional policy of freedom of the seas is unanswerable.” Senator Allen J. Ellender (D.La.): &It means war should the Axis powers attempt to seize any territory which, in the opinion of the President or our military experts, could be used as bases for an attack on the Western Hemisphere.”

INTEREST IN POLITICS ADVISED BY DAWSON

Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson today urged members of the Junior Chamber to take an interest in politics because “politics is govern-

ment and the best government is|. =

. the best politics.” The . Lieutenant Governor spoke |’ before the Chamber at its weekly luncheon at the Canary Cottage. In referring to the current G. O. P.Democratic fight over -the laws passed by the 1941 Legislature, Mr. Dawson said that a far greater is“sue than patronage was at stake. He said that what was at stake was the question whether the will . of the people, speaking through the . authority of the Legislature, can be . thwarted by one of the other branches of government. He re- . ferred to the Governor’s action in the courts to seek to retain most of the appointive powers which would ~~ be stripped from him by the new .G. O. P. laws. 3

HIS VOICE HARD’

That Was Roosevelt as Breath of War Fanned Through East Room.

WASHINGTON, May 28 (U.P. — The breath of the war in the Old World fanned through the gilt and crystal East Room of the White House. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was at the microphones warning the Americas of deadly peril and proclaiming that the New World will resist with all its powers the aggression of Adolf Hitler and his Axis. The President’s face was stern and set. His voice was hard: “The war is approaching the brink of the Western Hemisphere itself. It is coming very close to home.” Busts of four great "Americans— Washington, Franklin, Jefferson and Lincoln—stared down of, the President. 16th Fireside Chat

,

side chat” with the 130,000,000 Americans whose government he manages. But it was the most serious of all. And for it he chose a new setting—the East Room instead of the usual little improvised radio studio in the White House basement. The room, glittering and bright with the massed colors of the 21 American republics, was hot. Crowded into it in a semi-circle of ornate chairs were nearly 200 men and women—the diplomats of the 21 republics of the New World and the Dominion of Canada, and their families. Adding to the heat were kleig lights used by newsreel cameramen. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, his chin cupped in his ‘left hand, listened intently. His undersecretary, Sumner Welles, sat erect in a white summer dinner jacket; he also was poker-faced. The President was stating the case of the Americas:' “We will not accept a Hitler dominated world.”

Hopkins Absent . When, with tired eyes and ‘a heavily lined face, Mr. Roosevelt looked up at intervals from his text, his eyes fell naturally on a huge oil painting directly opposite him on the east wall of the room. It was the priceless Gilbert Stuart study of Washington—the portrait saved by Dolly Madison in one of this country’s hours of greatest peril. She cut it out of its frame and carried it away when the invading British marched into the capital in 1814. Harry L. Hopkins, ‘co-ordinator extraordinary on whom Mr. Roosevelt leans most heavily in dispatching aid to the democracies, was not in the room. He was upstairs in the Lincoln bedroom, with a radio turned on, gauging the radio eflect of this portentuous speech.

QUAKE SHAKES FRISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 (U. P.).—A light earthquake lasting six to eight seconds shook the San Francisco peninsula area last night but no serious damage was reported. The temblor was felt at 12:24 a m. (Indianapolis Time) in San Francisco and 80 miles south in Santa Cruz.*

Here Is the Traffic Record

County City Total Gvessnnssen 13 700 45 IRAE ees 32 25

—May 27— Accidents .. 16 | Injured Arrests 47 | Dead ...

TUESDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid 10 $ 9 5 21

14 Ri 4 3 1 20

33 34 61 $196

MEETINGS TODAY

Senator Burto K. Wheeler, America First Committee, 8 p. m., Tabernacle. a : i lis Apartment Owners’ Association 1208p. 0 ig Hotel Washington. Alpha Zeta Beta, Gamma Kappa Chapte ions Chub Hokel On otek Lions ub, noon, Co operative a ub Indianapolis, v umbia BO ir Motor i Association, noon,

tel Antlers. Hole Mm. C A. Camera Club, 7:30 p. m.,

MC. A. . Ye Men’s Discussion Club, 6 p. m.,

‘Purdue Alumni Association, noon, Hotel Sa District American Legion, Board of Trade. Si ma Alpha Epsilon, noon, Board of

Delta Theta Tau, noon, Seville Restau-

nt. Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, noon, gapary Cottage. Forty-Plus Olub, 7:30 p. m., Chamber of

Commerce. Chamber of Commerce, 12:15 p. m., Indianapolis Athletic Club. iwanis Club. noon, Columbia Club. ‘Producers’ Council, 12:15 p. m,, Indianapolis Athletic Club. Electric League, noon, Claypool Hotel. paisa Ru road Company, 6:30 Dp > e po arantha Indiana No. 1, 8 p. m,, Clay0! America First Committee, 6 p. m., Claypool Hotel.

1940

1941 . 91

seers 8

Violations Speeding Reckless driving.. Failure to stop at through street .. Disobeying traffic nals 2

15

sig Drunken driving. 4 All others 41

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noon,

Claypool District. American Legion, noon,

Board of Trade. Junior Chamber of Com-

Indianapolis e, noon. Canary Cottage.

r————— MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indianapolis Real Estate board, noon, Hotel Wa. gton Adve

It was Mr. Roosevelt's 16th “fire-

Juternations] Travel Study Club, 8 p. m., otis

London Clears Debris as

Spectacular picture illustrates one of the tough jobs left for Londoners after the boinbers have gone. A demolition worker goes way up there on a giant crane to fix steel cables to he wall of what was an office building before the remains are pulled down, :

Raiders Leave

NOTHING NEW.

Radio Says Facts Missing; Hitler Silent Pending Study of Text.

BERLIN, May 28 (U. P.).—Authorized German quarters, in their first comment on President Roosevelt’s speech, dismissed it today as “neither sensational nor new.”

comment.

The official radio gave brief excerpts from the speech and said that there was but one statement of fact—that regarding British shipping losses. “Roosevelt knows as well as we do that a German attack against America is impossible and laughable,” it said. “He maintains that Germany is seeking world domination. But whenever has Hitler said he was striving for world control and power? On the contrary, Mr. Roosevelt, Hitler is seeking not to control the European continent but to establish order and peace.”

NAZIS ASSERT

Afternoon newspapers failed to|:

Hitler Studies Text

Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop, his foreign minister, studied | the President's speech and the morning newspapers, awaiting orders as to the particular line they should take in denouncing it, published editorials calling the President a

‘| gambler whose closest advisers were

Jews.

Because of the importance of this speech it was believed that Hitler might wait as long as 36 to 48 hours before deciding on, the official reaction, but unofficial comment was expected at any time,

Calls F. D. R. ‘Gambler’ Admiral Erich Raeder, command-

& er in chief of the navy, had said

LONLON, May 28 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt's speech was seen by responsible British sources today as a pledge to use the armed forces of the United States to check expahsion of ‘Adolf Hitler's power anywhere in the Atlantic oceans and as implying important concrete aid to Britain. The man in the street was somewhat disappointed by the apparent failure of the speech to develop concrete measures to aid Britain, but well-informed sources appeared satisfied and said that the speech implied that the President might use the American Army and Navy to meet what. they called ‘a - German threat to Dakar, the Azores Islands, the Cape Verde Islands or Greenland. Furthermore, they were encouraged by Mr. Roosevelt's promise to get supplies to Britain by any method necessaly and his statement that- additional safeguards on supply lines are being worked out.

It was also noted here that Mr. Roosevelt committed tHe United States to participate in a post-war settlement when he said that America could not accept a world in which the seeds of Hitlerism would be permitted to grow again. Newspapers said the speech was a final warning to Hitler that America is ready to fight for the freedom of |the seas and he ‘must choose be- | tween stopping unrestricted sea warfare or bringing the United States into the war. The President’s speech, they said, made it plain that his determination to preserve the freedom of the seas in accordance with historic American policy was the issue which might bring the United States into the war if the Germans accepted the i i

Garavan Club, noon, Murat Temple. 0il Club, noon, Hotel Severin Construction League of Indianapolis, noon, 231 N. Pennsylvania S Indianapoiis Camera Chub, ‘8 p. m, 110

Beta Theta Pi, noon, Canary Cottage. Lambda Chi Aipha Alumni Association, noon, Russet Cafeteria. rap dianapolis Motor Transportation Club, noon, Fox's Steak House. Sigma Nu, noon, mie Club,

MARRIAGE LICENSES .

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

gan; Catherine L. Parrish, 21, 1740 Daw-

John PF. Gauchat, 21, of 1728 E. 73d, Ravenswood; Rosemary Elliott; 20, R. R.

14, Box 344. Sar v. Rosenbaum, 24, 841 5. o Noble; Do Colwell, 20. of 1413 Terr Peter W. keri i of 125 Standard: Gertrude Hawking, of 309 E. Walnut Harley Stokes, =) oi 950 al Vermont; Adeline Sanders, 26, 1138 War Dale Holt, ‘23, "of Ladin Guilford Betty J. Ratt 23, of New Au ugusta, Ind. er . h, 3s. of 3330 Bre sie S. Smith, 799, ark: La

le ASH 26, Na Edith §. Peacock, ny of ‘521 e leh, Chevions FE. Hardin, S. Jolmes: arth L. Thomas, 2%. a 8nss

William Plummer Jr., 21, of 1302 E. Jou; Christine J. Cravens. 21, of 5052 E. Andrew Traylor, 44, Richmond | ih Ruby y Hancock, 35, Richmond, Ind. Lloyd, 22, of 866 Marie Shine, 18, of 105 W. Arizona

BIRTHS

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Girls Robert, Yaveia Wyatt, at City. Edward, Sadie White, at Cit, William, Mary Hargraves, at oity. Jack, Helen DeMarco, at Colem George, Mary Cannon, at St. Vincent's. Carl, la H at St. Vincent's. George, Lucille Ball. at St. Vincent's. John, Virginia Hubbard, at St. Vincent's Robert, Evelyn Hileman, at St. Vincent’ . Nellie Albrecht, at St, ° /incen

James, Helen Craig, at Me hod Guy, Eva Stewart, at 2017 i

Boys Dr. Ernest, Jeanette Beaver, at City. Howard, Esther Thompson, at Coleman, James, Virgie Clark, at Coleman. Thomas, Della Kinnevey, at 8t. cent’s

Russell, Lillian Murrain, at St. Vincent's.

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Harold, Margaret “Coons, at Methodist. Robert, Bernice Wickersham, at

Layton, Frances Gooldy, at 362 E.

Morris.

: DEATHS Hn Howard, 49, at Central, tuberculo-

LL Plafl, aff at 2007 N. Capitol, Cc Car! Alice Clark, ark, 76

rusia Cub > of iRianapelis, noon,

Thomas A. Johnson, son, 21, of 514 8. Meri-|

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Use of American Army andNavy Implied, British Say

" Newspapers smashed the President’s speech. “Is this, then, a declaration of war?” asked The Evening Standard editorially. “Berlin can answer that question better than America. Raeder (the German naval chieftain) said that participation of American patrols in the Battle of the Atlantic could not be distinguished from an -act 'of war. He must retract mow. His colleagues will soon have to retract still further unless they are prepared to make the final challenge, for the Presi-

dent has made clear America’s re-

solve to defend her frontiers before the avalanche reaches and overpowers them.” “The gauntlet has -been thrown down,” said The Evening News. “President Roosevelt has served notice on Hitler of the things America will not permit and the things America demands.” “By inference the President pledged that America would fight any attempt by Germany to get hold even on Dakar,” said The Star. “He specifically. named Iceland, Greenland, the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands as territories which must never be permitied to pass into Hitler's hands.”

BLOND KILLER ADMITS GUILT, GETS 15 YEARS

BOSTON, May 28 (U. P.).—Mrs. Ruth E. Steadman terminated her trial for murder abruptly today by pleading guilty to manslaughter in the strangling of her married lover, Robert Emery. The 27-year-old blond smiled as Superior Judge Vincent Brogna sentenced her to 15 years in the Women’s Reformatory at Framingham.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

r L. Johnson, 79, at 3602 N. Capitol, ny myocar itis Ernest Harris, 39, at 611 W. Vermont, aortic insufficiency. ward E. Miller, 59, at Long, acute leukemia. Kate Boyd, 61, at Long, intestinal obstruction. Oda Giddens, 45, at 3233 N. Meridian, acute cardiac dilatation Lawrence Blackwell, "51, at 2450 Paris, pulmonary tuberculosis. Ida Moore, 35, at City, Hodgkins disease. Karl Witt, 86, at 914 E. Beecher, arteriosclerosis.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8S. Weather Bureau_______|

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair tonight; partly cloudy tomorrow and Friday; continued warm with temperatures this afternoon about 90 and moderate southwesterly winds.

Sunrise ...... 4:20 | Sunset .

TEMPERATURE May 28, 1940—

6 a.

PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT SOUGHT

President to Use Powers * With Discretion; Ship: Control Is First.

WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. Pl). —Preparation for a new mobilization of industry and manpower under powers of unlimited national emergency was accompanied today by Authoritative explanation: that President Roosevelt's extraordinary proclamation was largely psychologi-

cal. But the “unlimit

“limited” national emergency.

used with discretion.

proclamation probably does not give Mr. Roosevelt any additional powers, although it does clarify the legality of their use. Use of some emergency powers previously had been in an uncertain status be-

gal authority for proclamation of a l“imited” emergency. Hits Work Stoppages'

Last night’s proclamation of unlimited emergency ‘is expected to have tremendous psychological impact on the people at home. t is understood that the Administration wants to get away from the complacent “business as usual” ideas and to impress on labor that this is no ‘time for work stoppages. Special orders have been drafted that would direct certain Federal agencies to take action. Informed officials indicated that

|among the first of these “special

directives” might be an order to the Maritime Commission to requisition American merchant ships ds needed. Many American-owned foreign flag ships, especialy tankers, might fall within the scope of such action. Among other of the more far-

the President could invoke are: 1. Give industrial plants “obliga-

if they ordinarily produce the materials or equipment sought. The Government could commandeer facilities of the plant if compliance is refused. 2. Suspend regulations applicable to radio stations; close down or take over for Government control any such statien; employ the armed forces to prevent any interruption of communications. The proclamation, experts said, would have no direct legal effects upon the average individual citizen.

6:30 a. m,..30.1%

Precipitation 24 hrs. endin ‘Total precipitation since Deficiency since Jan. 1

‘ MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Fair tonight; partly cloudy tomorrow and Friday; scattered showers tomorrow afternoon; continued warm. Nlinois—Partly cloudy : tonight and tomorrow; scattered thundershowers Thursday afternoon in west and north-central

7 a m...

‘| portions; Friday partly cloudy with scat-

tered showers; ‘continued warm. Ohio—Generally fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow except for local thundershowers near Lake Erie Thursday afternoon. Kentu fucks Generally fair and continued ght and tomorrow. .

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Statiol Amarillo, Tex, Bismarck. N.

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ROME SAYS AMERICA

NEARING. WAR ENTRY

ROME, May 28, (U.P.).—President Roosevelt's speech last night was “bombastic, alarmist, aggressive andsat the same time extremely -ambiguous and confused,” Virginio Gayda wrote in the newspaper Giornale D’Italia today. : Other : Italian quarters said that Mr. Roosevelt's speech constituted a tacit declaration that the United States would .enter the war some ‘| time in the future. Some declared that the speech automatically annulled the neutral position ot the United States in favor of an attitude of non--belligerency such as’ Italy maintained before it entered the. war. The President’s references to the Cape Verde Islands were generally taken as preparing the way for a possible American occupation. . Many _obesrvers . said .the speech| revealed that a definite American war already had heen worked out in conjunction with Great Britain,

. and that acceleration of American|

? proclamation also clarified the situation under which the nation has been operating since September, 1939, when the President proclaimed a state of

Cautioning word came fro mhigh places that the emergency powess of the President must and will be

It was explained that: the new

in an interview with the Japanese Domei News Agency that United States convoys to Europe would be regarded an open war-like action. The mood of inspired Nazi opinion at the time the President spoke was shown by an editorjal in this morning’s Lokai Anzeiger: “Only England, which is perhaps ksupposed to receive new salve for its many wounds, can primarily be interested in President Roosevelt's fireside chat. Whether this salve will comprise more than words re|mains uncertain. The war mongers at Washington are naturally busy with all their forces to create a mood among the public for some kind of step by the President which can not be retraced . . . Roosevelt the gambler! Thus a well informed person has described him. And this man at the head of the U. S. A. arrogates to himself the role of. world moral judge.”

NEW YORK, May 28 (U. P.).— “Roosevelt is cramming war down the throats of the American people,” the official German news agency said today in a broadcast picked up here. “We have no quarrel with America,” it added, “but if they start we are ready to meet all new comers.” Asserting that the President was indulging in a “campaign of panic,” the agency said that it was incomprehensible to Germans that he should seek to speak for all nations.

Up, Please? It's a City Hall Gamble

REPORTING to the - Works Board today on the state of the south elevator in City Hall,

Building . Commissioner George R. Popp said dolefully: “The controls are worn. The cables are worn. The doors stick. The motor is not worth repairing.” Moreover, he said, it ‘has lately developed the bad habit of sticking between floors with passengers. He said it is 32 years. old. Its sister elevator on the north side also ’is 32 years old but carries its age better. He recommended that a new passenger elevator be installed in 1942 at a cost of about $15,000.

VICHY RECEIVES |

CHAT CALMLY

‘Defensive,’ Intended Latin-America, Says Spokesman.

VICHY, May 28 (U. P.).—A French Government spokesman said today |that President Roosevelt's speech of last night was a “defensive speech intended for Pan-American consumption” and that France saw in it no menace to the integrity of the French empire despite the President’s reference to Dakar as an Atlantic fortress. ° The spokesman said that the Government had studied the text of the Roosevelt speech and had noted that the President differentiated between the European war and what he termed Nazi intent to at-

for

hemisphere. “The speech was received calmly

States will Dakar or any other part of the French Empire,” the said. “Roosevelt,

against Pan-America. But this is not a menace because +. Mr. Roosevelt knows that France has no intention of giving and Germany never asked for bases or any French territory in North or West Africa. “France’s position has been made clear and Roosevelt’s speech makes clear to us that the United States intends no aggressive action against our empire which, we repeat, will be defended against challenge from any quarter.”

MAYME C. MARKEY

DEAD, RITES FRIDAY

Miss Mayme C. Markey, a lifetime ‘resident -of Indianapolis, died

yesterday in St. Vincent's Hospital. L. Reed, 4231 Central Ave. A member of St. the church women’s club. ter, Mrs. Theodore Kruse; ry Markey, nephews.

by Mortuary and at 9 a. m. in St.

buried in Holy Cross.

tempt domination of the American

here because there seems to be no reason to believe that the United take action against

spokesman

in an allusion to Dakar, said that the United States would take action if Germany tried to make Dakar a base of operations

She was 58, and had lived for several years wilh her sister, Mrs. Ray

Joan of Arc Catholic Church, she was active in

She is survived by another sisthree brothers, Thomas, Albert and Harand 17 nieces and

Funeral services “will be: at. 8:30 a. m. Friday in the temporary Kir-

Joan of Arc Church. She ‘will be

POWERS TESTE IN COAL DISPUT

Mediation' Board to Submit Peace Proposal; Airplane Plant Delays Strike.

By UNITED RRESS

President Roosevelt's demand that labor and industry accept media=

‘| tion without stoppage of defense

production faced its first test today as the Defense Mediation Board prepared to issue recommendations for settlement of the soft coal dispute. The Board is ready to submit a proposal that Southern coal opera= tors accept demands of the United Mine Workers tor an industry-wide wage scale of $7 a day. Northern operators already are paying that scale. » The principal labor leaders— President William Green of the A, F. of L., and President Philip Mur= ray of the C. 1. O.—did not ~com= ment immediately on Mr. Roose= velt’s “no strike” demand, but previously had indicated they would co-operate. ‘Urges Strikers Return ~Chairman Harry S. Truman (D, Mo.) of the Senate Committee Investigating National Defense called on striking . San Francisco ma= chinists, who have tied up $500,000,= 000 worth of shipbuilding contracts, to accept President Roosevelt's “no strike” edict and return to work. Harry S. Hook, business agent of Lodge 68, International Association of Machinists (A. F. of L.) which called the walkout, said the mas chinists were willing to “do any= thing they could” for the Govern= ment, but that the dispute was “with Bethlehem Steel Co. and not with the Government.” Meanwhile, President R. J. Thome as of the United Automobile Worke ers of America (C. I. O.) told & Senate labor subcommittee that his union does not expect to obe« tain a “fair agreement” at the Ford Molor Co. “without another bat= e.” . 3 - Plane Plant Remains Open: The President did not specify what powers would be used if labor did not voluntarily give up the right to strike. Labor leaders be= lieved he had in mind only that of public opinion, 3 Meanwhile a six-day truce avert- ; ed a work stoppage today in the North American = Aircraft Corp. plant at Ingleside, Cal.

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dum Co. plant resumed full produe= tion of abrasive materials for national - defense today. as C. I. O. union workers ended a two-day : strike for recognition. ; Army officials indicated they. may take over electrical construction at two Government airperts near. Salt Lake unless a dispute involving 50 members of the A. F. of L. electri= cians union is settled today. The strike halted work on $50,000 work of electrical contracts at the two projects. The South Carolina Federation Labor called off a “labor holiday” of 6000 union members in the Charleston area, scheduled for today. 2

DEATH RULED SUICIDE © . KENDALLVILLE, Ind., May 28 (U, P.).—Coroner John D. Hall today returned a verdict of suicide in the death of Joseph Weingettl, 86, a native of Austria-Hungary, . who hanged himself in a closet at the Sacred Heart home near Avilla yesterday.

In Niagara Falls, the Carborun-

cause technically there was no le-

reaching emergency powers which |.

tory” orders which they must fill}

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