Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1941 — Page 2

FIVE STRIKE BILLS "BEFORE CONGRESS

Three Ready for Debate Monday in House and Two in | Senate; Final Action Forecast By End of Week.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (U. P.).—Three powerful House factions and two Senate blocs today jockeyed for parliamentary advantage for the start of floor consideration - of defense labor legislation next week in both houses.

to Boy Scout Post REDS LIST GAINS FP (ON FOUR FRONTS Claim Advances North and ‘South of Moscow, in

‘Grimea and Ukraine.

‘LONDON, Nov. 29 (U. P.).—The Red Army today was reported pushing” Axis forces back in four fierce counter-attacks on ey Syisersy Out an Eg Roan Ld soudi ‘ |wings of the endangered - Moscow sector. | :

The lower chamber is scheduled to take up the proposal on Monday. Each of three House committees is in a strong position to push its own program and it is probable that all three may be voted on before a final decision is reached. Senate action on either of two proposals—put for-

LABOR PICTURE BRIGHTER TODAY

. Chances Improving for Rail, Mine and Welding Settlements.

By UNITED PRESS Favorable developments in disputes involving railway brotherhoods, captive coal mines and an independent welders’ union brightened the defense labor outlook today. : . one] for the nation’s railroad

today told the President's special fact fAinding board considering rail-

way union wage demands that the|by Rep

carriers stand by the board’s proposal for temporary pay raises. This statement, made during argument before the board at a special proceeding called at the request of President Roosevelt, was taken as an implied rejection of informal compromise proposals made by union representatives yesterday. Strike Impends Dec. 7 A nation-wide strike impends Dec. 7 unless the wage dispute is settled. The board will make a new report to the President Monday. An eventual compromise’ still was . generally expected. Charles M. Hay, counsel for railway labor, told the board yesterday he believed the unions had shown just cause for pay raises amotinting to at least $1 per day or ~12% cents an hour which he estima would increase the railroad’s payrolls by $400,000,000 a year. The union’s original’ demands were es ted to cost around - $900,000,000 and the board Nov. 7 recommended increases estimated to amount to around $270,000,000. The operating brotherhoods had asked for an increase of 30 cents an hour and the non-operating brotherhoods a 35 per cent pay

Not Revealed

Captive coal mine operators, as . well as the| United Mine Workers (C. I. 0.), will concur in whatever decision the three-man mediation board meeting in New York reaches about the union shop issue, it was indicated ay. Dr. John R. Steelman, chairman of the board, said answers had been received from “substantially all” of ~ the mine operators to which queries - had sent. He would not reveal what the operators said, but informed sources said practically all the companies heard from had agreed to abide by the decision. Steel Workers Organizing Committee (C, I. 0.) members at Clairton, Pa., voted unanimously last night to accept a wage increase proposal by the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. averting a threatened strike at the company’s defenseimportant by-products coke plant.

> Welders Defer Strike

Government representatives will ~~ meet next week with welders at . Los Angeles, San Francisco and in the Puget Sound area in an effort to settle the jurisdictional dispute - which threatened to cause a walkout this week-end. in shipyards and aircraft plants. VL The OPM announced the strike had been deferred pending the negotiations. The welders, demanding Yecognition of their autonomous union, called off a previous strike and since have rejected one OPM settlement proposal. A one-day strike of 200 A. F. of LL. tugmen employed in Great Lakes ports ended today.

THREE WILL ATTEND 4-H CLUB CONGRESS

‘Three Indianapolis young people are among the 52 Indiana 4-H Club boys and girls who wil] atend the National 4-H Club Congress in Chinext week. :

ey are: 4 inna Rosemeyer, R. R. 19, Box | 608; Miss Shirley Vansickle, R- R. 12, Box 528, and Ernest Karsr, R. R. 16. A ey will take part in the educational and entertainment program at the congress which will draw

fosemeyer specialized in canning: Bhi ausickle | in Se £ girl’s record an , er in livestock loss prevention contest.

ANNQUNCING tation’ In Sout pelhhorheod to lished cleaner.

ward by two Senate committees—appeared certain before

the week is out. .

Only one of the five bills, and that an Administration measure, calls for compulsory arbitration, favored in a “general understanding” reached at a White House meeting between President Roosevelt and House labor leaders last Monday night. Labor and industry both oppose such a move, .

The House Program

The three House factions and their programs are: 1. Labor—Wants no legislation if Hit can help it, but prefers the mild voluntary mediation-Government seizure measure reported by the Hcuse Labor Committee yeste: . To back up its demands labor will have its leaders from throughout the United States in Washington Monday to bring every ounce of pressure it can command. 2. The Anti-Labor Bloc—Headed . Howard W. Smith (D. Va.), it is unwilling to settle for less than the terms of the bill Rep. Smith introduced to ban mass picketing, jurisdictional and organization strikes and require a Government supervised strike vote in all defense labor disputes.

The Vinson Measure

‘3. Foreign - Policy Bloc—Headed in this case by Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.), ‘of the Naval Affairs Committee, it holds that no defense plant strikes should be tolerated during the emergency and is willing to deal as heavily with labor as management through the medium of compulsory arbitration. Rep. Vinson plans to follow labor legislation with a measure to limit profits on Government contracts to 7 or 8 per cent. .The two Senate bills moving toward a vote are: Judiciary Committee—Reported a measure by Senator Tom Connally (D. Tax), which would authorize the President to seize plants where labor disputes threatening defense production cannot be settled. It would freeze union conditions, such as the open and closed shops, after Federal seizure, * Labor Committee — Acts Monday on a mild voluntary mediation bill offered by Senator Joseph H. Ball (R., Minn) it was approved by a subcommittee yesterday. Vote Due Wednesday The | jockeying for positions in both the House and Senate has developed rare parliamentary snarls, e House on Monday and Tuesday will do nothing but dispose of the two days of debate provided in a rule by which the Vinson bill was brought up last June. After that is accomplished it will get down to voting Wednesday on which program to adopt, Mr. Vinson’s bill‘ is expected to serve merely as a vehicle to carry whatever legislation is decided on. The labor committee will offer its substitute providing for mediation during a 60-day “cooling off” period. Rep. Smith will offer his measure and Rep. Vinson will ask the House to adopt the compulsory arbitration program. Vinson Bill Vital

In the Senate, Senator Connally’s Plant Seizure Bill will be formally reported on Monday and Senator Connally predicts it will be debated on Tuesday. The full labor committee will have taken action on Senator Ball’s measure by the time the Senate meets, . House leaders said the Vinson bill would play a vital role in the development of whatever labor program is finally adopted. Conferees to adJust differences with the Senate on House legislation are named from the committee which handled the original bill. Thus, Rep. Vinson, as Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, would head the House delegation no matter which labor program was adopted.

PARIS ISLAND TO GET MOS TNEW MARINES

The Marine Corps district of Indianapolis has been instructed to send 72 per cent of its monthly quota of enlistments to the recruiting depot at Paris Island, 8S, C. and 28 per cent to the Marine Corps base at San Diego, Cal. Recruiting officers said both bases were equipped for modern .training work in moderate climates. -

missioners have served in various appointment.

(BRITISH EXTEND

LIBYAN WEDGE

Air and Armored Forces

Battle Trapped Axis Tanks, ‘Toe to Toe.’

CAIRO, Nov. 29 (U. P.).—Great Britain’s air and mechanized forces were reported fighting it out “toe to toe” in a great battle with trapped Axis armored units in the Libyan desert today while British spearheads in the Tobruk sector pushed westward against strong enemy opposition. The main battle of tanks, in which the Royal Air Force was participating, was southeast of the battleground at Sidi Rezegh, according to a General Headquarters communique, which said that the outcome was in the balance. The GGerman and Italian ar-

mored units in the battle had reassembled after being cut off from

their main forces west of Tobruk and were attempting to break

through the British trap.

British Hopes High If they succeed, they will have salvaged some of their badly needed armored striking power, but every minute that the British held them back lessened their chances because New Zealand troops were steadily extending the steel wedge that they drove through the Axis lines from Sidi Rezegh to Tobruk. British hopes of success continued high as the German and Italian tank units were believed to have been badly battered and to be facing exhaustion of their fuel and supplies. - In London, it was estimated in some sources that the Germans now had less than 100 useable tanks in all of Libya, but the battered Italian Ariete or battering ram armored division was said to have joined up with the Nazi panzer

Some heavy British tanks, landed at Tobruk by the British Navy, were reported going into action for the first time. Capture Strong Point

A strong point north of Bir El Hamed and south of Tobruk was captured in furious fighting. Several hundred Italian prisoners were taken. West of Tobruk the British captured 79 field guns and medium guns and many light anti-aircraft

arms. : The British intensified their effort to knock the remainder of Gen. Erwin Rommel’s tanks out of battle and start the westward march. toward Benghazi, Tripoli and the border of French Tunisia. Once the Axis tanks are out of the battle it was believed the worst of the fighting would be over, although the Italian infantry which forms the bulk of the Axis infantry in North Africa is fighting better under German leadership than it did last winter under its own.

British Superior in Air

The British continue to maintain air superiority. Despite heavy tank casualties in battering the Axis tanks out of the battle, the British have large reserves and, by retaining control of the battleground have been able to make speedy repairs of many Wimaged machines. There was no new word of the British column driving across the waist of Libya which has taken Aguila ‘and Gailo, only 200 miles from. the Gulf of Sidra where it could cut off Rommel’s communi-

cations with ‘Tripoli.

'\Halleck Scolds Democrats ~ For 'Politics' on Price Bill

say this in dll sincerity, because

fled before the country.” Rep. Halleck then that when Chairman

came before the House Rules Com-

and anti-tank guns as well as small!

it is a matter that should be clarited out Pn Banking and Currency Committee mittee of which he (Halleck) is a

John McWethy is the newly appointed assistant district commissioner for the Boy Scouts on the far West Side of Marion County. He was appointed yesterday by Wallace O. Lee, council commissioner, along with three neighborhood commissioners, Basil Adams, Claude Risley and Thomas Crosley. Mr. McWethy and the three neighborhood com-

Sceuting capacities prior to their

Navy Issues Call For Musicians

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29-(U. P.). —The Navy needs sailors. It also needs musicians. The Navy School of Music announced today . that “vacancies exist for players of all instruments who have had experience in band or orchestra playing.” It held out the inducement of up to a year's training and weekly lessons, as well as—maybe—the opportunity to play before Presi-. | dent Roosevelt. Single men between the ages of 18 and 31 who can pass required mental and physical examinations are eligiblejand they should write: to the bfficer-in-charge, Navy School of Music, Navy Yard, Washington, for information.

BERLIN GIVES UP CITY OF ROSTOV

Plans to Punish Civilians; Advance Is Reported West of Moscow.

BERLIN, Nov. 29 (U. P.).— The High Command acknowledged today that Axis forces had abandoned the city of Rostov, gateway to the Caucasus oil fields, but claimed the capture of the battle-scarred town of Volokolamsk, on the Central Front west of Moscow. Volokolamsk, 60 miles northwest of Moscow and the center of fierce fighting for weeks, was described in an official statement as “a center of resistance” in the Moscow area and as an important cross roads on the Moscow-Riga railroad. On the southern front, however, it was admitted that the Red Army counter-offensive in - the ' Donets basin and in defense of Rostov was proceeding “on a large scale” with concentration of all available Soviet armies in this sector.

Claim Russians Checked

The German withdrawal from Rostov, the High Command said, was to carry out “ruthless” punitive operations against the civilian population. Whatever the reason, it marked the first time the German Army has abandoned an important objective after announcing its capture, The High Command said Soviet counter-attacks are being hurled by Marshal Semyon Timoshenko against their lines in the Rostov and Donets Basin sectors “with ruthless” disregard of casualties. The Nazis insisted, however, that

exceedingly heavy Russian attacks are being checked.

Claimed Capture Week Ago The High Command announced

| the capture of Rostov just a week

ago today. Moscow has never admitted the fall. Instead it has reported sweeping advances of 50, 60 and up to 80 miles by Timoshenko’s counter-attacking southern armies. The High Command did not dis close the nature of . its punitive measures but insisted that orders to take this action had been given because of the alleged “violation of international law” by Rostov’s civil populace in participating in military defense of the city. The civilians, - the contention was, brought down the Nazi punishment by their own acts. RE The High Command said that in front of Leningrad strong enemy breakout attempts were repulsed. Concerning - the African war, a i Speman, ied tas e J ca out a ConA a Sanying British battle forces advancing on he Libyan front from a southeast-

er ‘The spokesman denied that the besieged Tobruk garrison had been relieved.

BORDER VETERANS ~~ TO MEET MONDAY The Gen. Edwin M. Lewis patrol of the Mexican Border Veterans will ‘the Florentine Room Pool Hotel at 7:30 p. m.

the: patrol convention in ‘Hart-

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east from Klin about 40 miles north-

|ments stemmed a Nazi advance on

Although official Russian dispatches. said the offensive by 735,-

{000 Axis troops still gravely threat-|

ened Moscow, the Russian counterblows appeared to have set the Ger-|

|mans back on these important sec-| a

KALININ—A Russian counterattack northwest of Moscow crossed | the ice-bound Volga River at “many places,” gained possession of the south bank and captured several| villages, -apparently in an attempt to trap enemy columns that had pushed ‘forward to the Klin ares. TULA—A Russian drive near| Stalinogorsk, southeast of Moscow, recaptured seven villages and drove the Germans back to the west bank of the River Oka. VE HE SOUTHERN—-The Russian coun-ter-offensive in defense of Rostov was continuing, according to Radio Moscow. CRIMEA —A Russian attack drove the Germans from an important height near Sebastopol. Volokolamsk is 60 miles northwest of Moscow and has been an important battleground for several

Paris Reports Nazi Gains

Ahe official Russian news agency Tass said that the important highway from Tula to Serpukhov, south of Moscow, was “in our hands” after severe fighting in that sector. Meanwhile a report of the Nazicontrolled Paris radio claimed the Germans were only 21 miles from the. Kremlin. The radio report was not confirmed. «- Another Paris report said that a German column, apparently driving

west of Moscow has won a bridgehead across the Moscow-Volga Ca-

e Moscow-Volga Canal runs almost due north from Moscow and an advance to that point from Klin would represent an advance of about 30 miles.

‘Weather on Germans’ Side

The Germans were said to be aided by dry weather and temperatures| not too cold, enabling tanks, artillery and even motorcycles to move \quickly through forests and over fields. A large tank force was said to have approached Klin but a Soviet tank brigade stemmed the attack, destroying 70 German tanks and killing 2000 men, Radio Moscow said. In the Volokolamsk sector a heavy German infantry force and 40 tanks were thrown back across 8 river while Russian guards regi-

the Moscow-Leningrad railroad. A report to the Army newspaper, Red Star, from the southwest front, said the Germans massacred 52,000 men, women and children within a few days in Kiev, the Ukraine capital. It said the Germans were systematically wiping out all Ukrainians and Russians who have demonstrated loyalty to the Soviet (overnment in any manner. -

ILL AND DESPONDENT; TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

William C. Land ended his own life late yesterday at his home, 4010 Southeastern Ave., according to police. He was 51. | His body, with a bullet hole through his head, was found by his son, William Jr, an employee of the International Harvester Co. The son told police | that his father had been in ill health for several months and had been despondent. . ; He had been employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad until retiring several months ago because of i health. Surviving besides the son is his wife, Helen.

OXFORD GROUP LOSES N. Y. HEADQUARTERS

Dr. Samuel M. Shoemaker, rector of Calvary Episcopal Church, New York City, has announced that his parish house no longer will be the American headquarters for: the Oxford Group, according to the Lutheran. - \ Dr, Shoemakar is quoted as saying that he has developed misgivings concerning the Moral Rearmament movement of the group. | He seems also to believe there is a tendency to drift away from the original Oxford Group principle of working within the churches. There is a small number of Ox-

ford Groupers in Indianapolis. VINCENNES TRUSTEE WINS OUSTER CASE

The Indiana Supreme Court yesterday reversed a Knox Superior

that stestimony did not

prove that Mr. Beesley sived ille-

Vincennes y did not participate in the ruling. .

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