Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1941 — Page 3

| |Break-Through in | Sector Revealed by Red Communique.’ - MOSCOW, Oct. 16 (U. P.).—Russia

‘Snags in Production of Tanks and. Ships Romovet 1 a : : Output of Steel and Aircraft Parts || | \

~~ Hampered in New Disputes. |admitted today that tts forces were

o +H yr 4 [being driven back “steadily by a

y UNITED PRESS A 5 d i G Termi tion of the two principal defense strikes re-| {cow ute that 0 Stick on Mos

moved obsta les to the production of ships and tanks today] but new dis tes of a minor nature hampered output of steel 4

: On the: on-defense front, 250,000 automotive workmen were threatened with displacement by curtailment of pro-| duction and 100,000 more faced layoffs unless a Cleveland| strike is settled; a 16-day strike at eight Pittsburgh hotels ;

was settled, and a ‘musicians in an edict ordering sustain-

’ ing orchestras. off the Colurm-

bia network.

The three<day A. ‘P. of L. welders, halting

sh at the Ingalls Ce oy ; ' Hillsdale Strike Ends

‘The company, th

conciliator revealed that a returntoswork agreement reached. Union leaders said, they would recommend that 'the stoppage be enfled pending negotiation of grievances by the National Defense Madiation Board, and. said membets were expected to vote to pera tu to work on the late Shift trike 1 the Lakesid 8 e closed e e Steel : Improvement Co., Oléveland, 0.! where parts for gun mounts, india and planes are Yesterday, the C. I. O. United Au-

tothobile ‘Workers ended a week-old fri

e at the Hillsdale (Mich,) Steel

* mifsio on parts for all tanks and comvehicles ‘at. the parent concern, Spicer Manufacturing Co., ' Toledo, O.! The C. I O. at Toledo had refused to handle A. PF. of L.-made from: e. :

: Iron Age Tasues warning ‘Production of high tensile steel

other ‘defense products was cured for the fourth time in four

‘mints at the Great Lakes Steel

, Ecorse, Mich., by a strike of “steel workers last night. The H

schedule approved by the com-

y and the union's international

utes: at the company have ouftailed steel. production 60,000 r aScorging ta. a Federal con-

Bs directly on on disputes of Hh nature oy the Ecorse walkout as fwarning Iron . Age magazine that a “union Siiqnee program is colnpeting with 1 defense in the steel industry, subordinating re-

ment to union demands for, ictional rights or a that pay. .

orp. last 0f395,000 tons of steel products. scale production was resumed the day shift at the Gary plant

after five of 12 blast furnaces |.»

shut: down overnight because oft Work: stoppage. Fifty membeérs pfs the Steel Workers

4s Cdmmittee had quit work in protest

st appearance within the works pfs.a non-union employee. Aircraft Parts Threatened oduction of aircraft parts was

eatened on two fronts. Officials

the Aluminum Company of Afnerica plant at. Cleveland, Ba ciprged ‘that. a showdown by 300

C11. O. die casters resulted in a 25 pd cent curtailment of ‘work on 00.000 worth of aircraft parts

Associates, Inc, C. 1. O. airworkers, on strike since Sept.

jy announced a picket line of “a sand men” would be thrown the factory unless union rection and wage gains were grants

hreatened displacement or layfis for automotive workers result- # from a government order reduc- % non-defense automobile output 4 per cent next January and by ged strike at the Midland

“Products Co. at Cleveland, sof automobile frames.

-old strike of 400 produc- . tion of $150,000,000 worth of orders for Navy and Maritime Commission

Shipbuilding Miss., ended last employing 3000 er A. F. of L. workers with whom welders :were in disagreement, ced that operations would be]; requmed today after a Federal labor |

had: been

"| presidents. Toronto was chosen for

: failing to renominate him, but dele-

ers .set up picket lines around the plant, which employs 8000 men, ay peolast against a proposed wage

| Berlin within a week.

dispute in Pittsburgh resulted

A, F. L. TO VOTE | ON AID-TO REDS A

Convention Nears Close “After ‘Browne Ouster; Green Re-elected.

SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. 16 w. P). —The’ American Federation of Labor prepared today to wind up its 61st annual convertion after ousting George E. Browne, alleged extortionist, from the executive council and urging removal of all racketeering officials. Only major resolution remaining for. discussion ‘was the' executive council’s recommendation that .the federation approve aid to the Soviet union as urgent and expedient but without any pretense that the United States and Russia are or can be

ends. : The “federation elected . without opposition President William ‘Green for his 18th term and 12 other vice

the next convention. Only 421 for Browne .

The convention reduced the number of vice presidents from 15 to 13, intending to remove Browne ‘by:

gates of the International Alliance of Theatrical ‘Stage Employees, of which he is president, offered him as a candidate against another vice. president, Edward Flore of Buffalo. Only at I. A. T. 8, E. delegates and George W. Brayfield, a member of the I. A. T. 8. E. and a delegate from the Colorado State Federation of Labor, voted for Browne The count was 37,944 for Flore; 421 for Browne. ; Browne is on trial in New York, charged with extorting $550,000 from motion picture producers on ‘threat of business- - Uestroying: strikes. Immediately preceding the election, the convention approved an executive council report « which, although reiterating the parent organization’s inability = to dictate policy to member unions, urged them to amend their constitutions it necessary to oust “criminals and racketeers.”

Want Defense Representatives

‘It ordered all central labor councils "directly under its control to get rid of any delegates convicted “serious wrongdoing which reel dishonor on the trade union movement.” Also approved by the convention was a council report that “labor’s fullest contribution” could not be given national defense until labor is given’ further skilled union leirders - on defense agencies. Other offiecers re-elected unanimously with Mr.” Green were: Vice Presidents William L. Hutcheson, Daniel J. Tobin and W. C. Birthright, all of Indianapolis: Matthew Woll, New York; Joseph N. Re Los Angeles; G. M. Bugs

Washington; Ww D. Mahon, Detroit; Felix H. Knight, Kansas City; Harvey -'W. Brown, ‘Washington, and Secretary-Treasurer George Meany, Washington.

CORRESPONDENTS FACE BAN LONDON, Oct. 16 (U..P.).—The Daily Sketch’s gossip columnist, C. T. Lumn, said today that all foreign newspapermen, including Americans, would: be barred from

representation larly

Uncle Sam-—-in his role as

turer on the defense

and poured out their troubles to officials of the Army Ordnance Department, the Navy, the Air Corps and the OPM. A ‘typical plea was this: “We're a big metal stamping plant making parts for refrigerators and automobiles and you know what kind of shape we'll be in shortly. We need defense business.”

Co-Ordination Sought

The Army : Ordnance answer - {0 this was “we umderstand, but we regret to say that metal - stamping ty is one fhing we have. an abundance of. . What we need is someone who will make forging dies for shells.” The conference—designed to co-

lordinate the metal working plants

in national defense production—was called by the Industrial Commission of the Charaber of Commerce. ‘Manufacturers were alloted 20 minutes in which to discuss their problems with the officers of the armed services. Conferences will continue through tomorrow. The manufacturers —in - almost every case — reported they had been in contact with the purchasing departments of the Army and Navy previously but showed their eagerness to meet “at any time” with the Army and Navy in attempts to solve the defense production problem. ‘Hope for Results

The Army and Navy men received and: placed on file briefs submitted by the manufacturers describing plant capacities, capabilities, etc. and the Government officials said they hoped to find a sub-contract or-even a prime contract for the Hoosier manufacfurer that could handle one. It was too early to tell whetirer |. the conferences would actually result: in benefit to the manufacturer —but it was easy to tell that both conferees—Uncle Sam and Mr. Hoosier manufacturer-—-and their sponsor the Chamber of Commerce all joined in hoping for real results.

PRODUCTS TO SWISS SHIPPED VIA GENOA resen

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U. P.). —American products .consigned to Switzerland are being shipped regufrom New York to. Genoa, zal. in Swiss ships, it was learned

Shipments. consist of food 'products and raw materials: that have no - potential war use. Until recently Great . Britain and the United ‘States ‘permitted shipments via Genoa of a wide range of articles. But now the British refuse

M.|to pass wool and cotton through -| their blockade.

British officials here said cotton and wool: shipments were stopped because there was reason to believe that - ultimately some found their way into” Axis hands

HEADS MEAT COMMITTEE VICHY, Oct. 16 (U. P.).—Lucien Leon Gigot was appointed director mittee today. In French,

merly was deputy secretary of state,

for food (Supplies.

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purchasing agent —met over the conference table here today with Mr. Hoosier production problem: and before they were through |. ‘both were crying on each other’s shoulders. Representatives of Indiana metal working plants filed irito a specially arranged conference room on’ the ninth floor of the Athletic Club

general of the National Meat Com-| Gigot means a. leg-of mutton. Gigot for- | official

Fraing to, unile: dfonso. eoduction Muskis-.cHieat. B F. B. Riechmann, and A. A. Blomfeldt, center, civilian ordnance engineer, confer . kamp, oe. of the Langsenkamp- Wheeler Brass Works,

Metal Plant Owners Sirive “For Place in Defense Setup

By SAM TYNDALL

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BIOFF KIN TELLS OF TAX RETURNS =

Designed Payments to ‘Cover Up’ Sums Collected As ‘Commissions.’

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (U. P.).— William Bioff’s brother-in-law testifiled in Federal Court today that the West Coast labor leader told him how to: make out income tax returns which would cohceal the alfact that Bioff was extorting uge , sums from the movie industry. The returns, according to the witness, were designed to cover up sums collected ostensibly as commissions on. raw film but which eventually found their way into Bioc’s pockets. Bioff and George E. Browne, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees: (A. PF. L), are accused of extorting $550,000 from motion picture concerns by threatening them with destructive strikes. Norman Thor Nelson earlier said that he helped Bioff and Browne collect payments from the film companies in the form of seven per cent camlissions on large raw film purchases.

Nelson said he had hié wite Betty | A. Nelson, make out separate returns which provided one avenue for concealing payments from the|g film com Her returns and his were introduced in evidence. He said he collected some $77,000 from Loew's, Inc., from the end of 1937 to early 1939 as “agent” for +Smith and Aller, Los Angeles representatives of the’ Du Pont Film Manufacturing ‘Corp. He turned over all but $125 a. week from his collections fo Bioff, he said. Nelson was an unemployed stone mason in 10.7 when he got his job

film and deposit them in a savings account, from which he drew his salary and payments for Bioft, “$1500 to $7500 at time.”

Checks Identified Nelson said he had collected $77,-

to have collected $236,474.48.

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1641 EXECUTED IN NAZI AREAS

Czechs and Serbs Give Most| Trouble to Conquerors, Survey Shows.

BERLIN, Oct. 16 (U. P). — At least 1641 persons have been shot or hanged: in Germany, occupied territory—not including Russia~—and in Hungary and Rumania since the beginning of the Russian-German war, a compilation of official and &uthorled Yealts showed today. . Of these, 280 have been exécuted in the Protectorate of Bohemia-Mo-ravia, and 224 have been put to death in the last two weeks. Nevertheless, the Serbs continue what the Germans describe as a Communist-inspired revolt begun immediately after the downfall of Jugoslavia. Thirteen new executions. were an-|B nounced yesterday: Eight af Praha and Brno for sabotage and ‘“preparation for high treason,” and five at Budapest for spying for Russia. Many others have been condemned in Bohemia-Moravia and are awaiting execution. They include the former Premier, Gen. Alois Elias. Other recent executions include 32 “Communists” executed in Serbia on Oct. 8, a total of 13 executed at Zagreb, Croatia on Oct. 11, and 25 hostages killed at Tournai, ‘Belgium, when the murderers of two police~

The total of known executions also included 500 “Communists” who were executed by order. of the Rumanian Government on July 1, for} shooting at German and Rumanian troops. and contracting ‘Russian parachutists.

FACE FACTS, PLEADS

Americans must face facts, Des “editor

the Columbia Club. “Americans must forget their silly schemes, fears and fancies of ‘less work and shorter hours,’ and ‘overproduction’ and ‘lying idle’ and ‘plowing under,’ ” Mr. Walker said. “Entire defense must .mean defense ' against all enemies,” he stated. “There can be no security in eating one foe while losing to a o mains one. We are prone’ ‘to fear the danger which makes the most noise—but which

CAMERA TROPHY WON | BY NEW YORK CLUB

The Miniature Camera Club Fo

for first place in the seventh annual Indianapolis Camera Club Invitational Exhibit of Pictorial Photogra, : nn camera clubs from over the

delphia.- Second honorable menera Club.

men were not caught within 10 days.

LIBERTY EXECUTIVE)

at rs annual a a last night in|.

tion was awarded the Boston Cam- Le

xi “Wednesday the position in the | ‘I western direction front) suffered a change for the worse,” the morning war communi-| que said. “The enemy, throwing

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in a large number of tanks and mobile (motorized) infantry, succeeded through one section of our defense. :

“Our troops offered heroic resistance and infl heavy losses on the enemy but were come pelled to retreat.” : Threat Growing The afternoon war communique

Sa Our troops continued to fight the enemy all along the front. Fighting was especially tense

forces continue to throw into the battle many new uni It added that on the Leningrad front the Russians had taken prisoner a large group of the 58th German Infantry Division, “who tell

{of the decline in the fighting spirit

of German soldiers.” But the threat to Moscow increased steadily. Fight For “Every Yard” Newspapers and the radio, in exhortations ‘to men, women and children, warned of the now desperate and asked them to back the army in fighting “to the last drop of blood for every yard of our ‘holy soil.” It was admitted that the Germans were advancing steadily, that the present drive, now in its 15th day, was the greatest of the war, that the position of the central army had ¢ deteriorated during the last 24

But it was asserted that great as were the ‘German gains they were but temporary and had béen paid for by enormous sacrifices of German blood. Russia, it was said, had many more industrial Senters and was now assured of the ald of Great Britain and the = United States-in a long war which would bring victory. GOERING’S NEPHEW KILLED BERLIN, Oct. 16 (U. P.)~—The death. of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering’s nephew, Lieut. Peter Goering, 19, in an air battle against was announced today in

kischer Beobachter.

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Russion Atfaches will See Army Maneuvers | inU.S.

Prince Fumimaro Konoye, three times Premier of Japan, resigned today and was expected to be succeeded by an Army-Navy cabinet.

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Lend-Lease Bill Provides 150 Millions for Ships, Planes, Ordnance.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U. PJ). ~The new $5,985,000,000 Lend Lease bill carries $150,000,000 intended for allocation to South American republics, it was learned today. The money, ‘it was revealed, will be. used for ships, planes and ordnance. Army and Navy officials, it was understood, believe distribution

of the equipment will help in.negotiation of future air and naval bases in South America for hemisphere defense.

FRANKLIN PROFESSOR STILL CRITICALLY ILL

Despite two transfusions of blood donated by his students, Dr. Norman Harrar, Franklin College chemistry professor, today remained in a critical ‘condition in Methodist

Hospital. He.has pneumonia.

When Dr, Harrar's condition beng came known about 20 students reSix were sean obituary notice in the Voel-|lected as donors and two have given

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it quite clear "that the question of! évacuation of ' diplomats: or the Soviet Government no longer

oa e reported the seizure several days ago of Kalinin, 100 miles og io Mogoow, and Kaluga, es uth—both points in the a keg against the Russian’ Septal. Defenses

not be surprised if like Warsaw—surrendered when: and if the German pincers close around

time it was reported that all Muscovites were joining in defense prepas rations, throwing up fortifications on the outskirts and drilling for street

Asis attacks on Odessa and Lenine I Odessa has been .under siege for two months, but dispatches by way of Bucharest! ‘today reported that the Russians. were starting to evacuate that important Black Sea port. The official news agency said also that German heavy artillery had effectively bombarded “military and war important objectives” at Len-. ingrad. The drive | for the capital had reached the stage where the news=' papers were denouncing determination to defend it as they had denounced the defense of Lens ingrad and Odessa. “Stalin reveals his Seterminations to play the same criminal gam

Leningrad and Odessa with the pepulation of the Soviet capital, driving it with ice-cold ‘irrespon~ sibility into inevitable ruin,” Paid the Nazi Pdrty newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter. “Wherever | a civilian is found with a weapon in his hand he will not escape the justified penalty.” Up to Oct, 14, German sources’ said, the Axis armies have cons, quered as much territory in Russia as in ‘all other campaigns of this

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