Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1943 — Page 13

‘Hoosier Vagabond

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa (By Wireless).—The head man of the photographic section at ope of our flying fortress airdromes is Sgt. Robert Thompson of Lansing, Mich. Thompson has four men in the section with him. They are well : organized for future conquests, as one of them speaks Italian and one speaks German. I am mentioning these boys be= cause they have built themselves a photographic darkroom that is unique in Africa. It is an underground dugout 10 feet deep. Most of it was dug through solid rock, and without any blasting equipment whatever. It took the five boys 10 days to do it. Everything in the darkroom is home-made. Running water comes through some curved piping taken from the hydraulic system of a B-17. On the end of the pipe is a spigot from a wine barrel. .All their photographic chemicals are kept in old champagne bottles. "Their developing trays are gaso-

| _line tins cut in half the long way. Their film-print-

A ing box was made from fragmentation bomb cases.

Their red safety light is the refleétor off a jeep. An electric switch from a bombardier’s control-box lid is cushioned with rubber from the pilot’s seat of a fortress.

| An International Unit

BESIDES THOMPSON, the men in this section are Cpl. Bennett Tucker, St. Louis; Pvt. Harold Harrington, Carterest, N. J. (he’s Irish); Pfc. Otto Zinkgraff, Plymouth, Wis. (he’s the German), and Pfc. John Martini, New York (he’s the Italian). They all live in the same tent, and for such an international hodgepodge you never saw five men

| prouder of their joint accomplishments.

A man I've been intending to mention for a long time is Capt. A. D. Howell of Maryville, Tenn., a

suburb of Knoxville. Over here he is known as Dixie

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THERE'S AN OLD saying that “if it rains ii was seen ambling across Meridian st. just north of | Easter Sunday it will rain for seven Sundays.” And it

begins to appear that there’s something to the saying.

I . It rained Easter Sunday and hasn’t missed a Sunday 1 since—which makes six Sundays in a. row, counting

Easter. Next Sunday will be the acid test. Incidentally, the weather bureau tells us it has rained eight out of the last nine Sundays, starting with April 4. The only dry Sunday was April 18. It's rained occasionally on week days, too, we find. The bureau reports 18 days with at least a trace of rain in April and 20 days in May. Victory gardeners probably will be surprised .to learn that there have been any rainless days at all. And if you're interested in further statistics, the. precipitation in May totaled 9.84 inches.

| Norma] for the month happens to be 3.89 inches.

+ Around the Town

SEEN AT Washington and Pennsylvania sts. yes-

'‘terday afternoon: A girl of high school age, crossing

Washington barefooted, with a pair of playshoes | under her arm. . .. Seen in the big community garden area about 6200 E. Washington st.: A young | couple busy hoeing weeds while their tiny baby played in a playpen placed in the middle of the garden plot. « « . Pvt. Hamlin Welling, The Times photographer, has been transferred from Ft. Harrison to Keesler field, Biloxi, Miss. He’s in the signal section. . . . Pvh

Pat Cuddy of the State C. of C. now is at the army | administration school at Washington, Pa. . . . One

of our agents with an office in a tall building nearby reports noticing feminine sunbathing activities atop . the English hotel recently. . . . There's an elderly | gray cat that has a way with traffic. Twice yesterday

Sweden

. .. STOCKHOLM, June 3.—There has been no fightg on the Russian-Finnish front for. months. Out

(of that tacit armistice Finland could become the | | first nation to break away from the axis and resume

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dts former place in the hearts of united nations peoples, but unfortunately needless obstacles stand in the way. One obstacle is that Russia gives no indication of terms or even of an interest in ending war with Finland. Relatively small Russian forces are immobilized on the Finnish front, hence this inactive war is costing Russia practically nothing. At the same time, by leaving the Finnish question open, Moscow can use Finland as a pawn in trading for other settlements after the war.

1 {Some here think that is the main consideration on

the Russian side, and if this is so then nothing can Ibe done. On the Finnish side, the chief obstacle is a deep fear of Russia. ‘ True, the Finns lived under the Russians for a hundred years, up to the end of the fast war, though with considerable autonomy. But the Finns know that the present Russian, egime would be completely intolerant of Finnish Pe in any territory under Moscow rule, and

J [that deportations would soon break up the Finnish

. pi toward Russia, and the most anti-Nazi Finns, would

people who were inside Russian boundaries. | Therefore, even Finns who are the most tolerant rather take a chance on a German victory than on having Russia rule any of their people.

Finnish Regime Mistrusted

| THAT 1S the deepest reality in the Finnish trouble, I think, and although it may go on an irrational extreme it is a political fact which hitherto has frustrated such efforts as may have been made to find a way to bring about peace and reclaim Fin-

land to the allied fold.

That is not the whole story, for When ihe Vatien

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: ~—Most of us have Ne hearts about the coal strike these days. Per-

_ haps many of us have a share in the blame, Basi-

cally; however, one undeniable fact is plain. In ware Yme' a promice was given not to strike and, at that time, the war labor board was set up as the final court after conciliation had failed. Like it or not, i all sides, it seems to me, must ac- * cept: its decision. “One thing keeps coming up before me. Sons of the men who work in mines are flying planes, or shooting guns or driving tanks, in far off places. We may have hardships here, but: they do not equal what these boys face when there are no airplanes to protect them overhead as they make their ack} whén. they are short of guns and tanks. Coal

By Ernie Pyle

Howell, but he was never called that before he got in the army. We met way back in January, and every time I've run on to him since then something new has happened to him. One time he had been slightly wounded and got a Purple, Heart. Another time he'd invented a new way to clean up mine fields. Another time hel had been decorated for bravery. Another he had been promoted to captain. Capt. Howell worked for the Aluminum Co. of America before the war. His father-in-law is the regional manager at Alcoa. Young Howell didn’t have to live on grits and sowbelly by any means, but regardless of his nice status in life he volunteered "in the Canadian army long before Pearl Harbor, and went to England more than two years ago. He transferred to the American army last fall,

An Expert on Booby Traps

HE HAS been constantly at the front. He’s the mine and booby-trap expert with a regiment of fighting engineers. He probably knows as much about the more fiendish types of German explosives as anyone in North Africa. Howell has a truckful of defanged mines, booby traps, flares, rockets, grenades, scare whistles and other devices which he uses to teach others how to deal with them. Once I saw him demonstrating his sideshow to Gen. Eisenhower, on one of the general's visit to the front. Capt. Howell has a 5-year-old daughter, Madlyn, and a beautiful wife. He hasn’t seeth them in two and a half years. He says he'd give anything in the world tn see them, yet he doesn’t want to go home till after the next show is o whatever it is. He's had more than fis share of narrow escapes already. He won his silver star by working for an hour, under constant fire, setting his charge on a bridge and blowing up the bridge when the advancing Germans were only 400 yards away. He’s just one of the thousands over here who have done things you people at home can hardly conceive of, and who are now very tired but still willing to go on and on,

the circle, The first time, it forced a bus and five motorists to slam on their brakes. The next time, several hours later, it was returning, and a big truck and several cars nearly stood on end avoiding ‘the feline,

Safety at Home

MRS. FREDERICK G. BALZ, chairman of the home safety committee of the Chamber of Commerce safety council, enjoys a joke, even at her own expense. Over the last week-end, her husband put up the screens, she told members of her committee Tuesday. And in some manner a hammer he had been using fell from the top of a ladder and hit him on the head, causing it to bleed profusely. That evening, while reading the paper, he looked up and exclaimed: “Well, well; I see in the paper that you warned everyone else in town to be careful about accidents over Memorial day, but you didn’t bother to warn your own husband.” . , . Our spies report that Mrs. Chauncey H. Eno, vice chairman of the OCD home safety committee, was seen jaywalking across Meridian st. in front of the C. of C. building Tuesday noon. She had just left a meeting of the safety committee.

Tsk.

Whose Sailor Is This?

MRS. WILNA KORNBROKE, chief clerk in the fuel oil division of the rationing board at Fountain

- Square, received a photo of her brother, Petty Officer

1-c Robert Houk of Beech Grove the other day and was tickled to get it as she hadn't heard from him for some time. That evening she went shopping and later discovered she had lost the picture. Retracing her steps, she went to Seulean’s shoe shop, 1060 Virginia ave. The shop was closed but there was the picture in the window with a sign asking: “Whose sailor is this?” She appreciated the store’s théughtfulness.

By Raymond Clapper

States recently tried to find a basis for bringing both sides together the Finnish foreign ministeer, Henrik Ramsay, made an ill-advised flight to Berlin to consult with the Nazis about it. Obviously the allies find it difficult to have any confidence in a government of that kind, and little can be hoped for until there are changes in the Finnish government. Apparently we were on the point of breaking relations with - Finland four ‘weeks ago when the staff of the American legation was moved from Helsinki to Stockholm. Perhaps it is just as well that the thread was not broken at that time. Events may make a final step necessary, but several circumstances suggest that it may be worth playing it the other way for the time being.

Stalin Gains Good Will

IN THE first place, there has been some loosening up internally, and more freedom of discussion, so that the possible strength of axis collaborationists in Finland may decline, particularly as Marshal Mannerheim has no.love for the Nazis and as the war is clearly going against the axis now. In the second place, Finland has never signed the axis pact. One can imagine that the . Nazis brought heavy pressure in an effort to force such public’ adherence to their new order. Third, one can also assume that the Ndzis must have pressed the Finns to resume their offensive against Russia, because the inactivity of the Finns enabled the Russians to withdraw some of their forces from the north. There has been some housecleaning in Finland, but more is needed, especially in the political police force, which continues to be run by a little imitation Himmler. Stalin apparently gained a large increase in good will by his recent move abolishing the comintern. If he now made possible an ending of the Finnish war it would be a great psychological blow to the axis. The Finns in turn have an opportunity to do it now when it would mean something, instead of waiting until the axis sinks in defeat.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

themselves as they sit idly day by day—‘“are we making it harder for our boys?” They trust you, Mr. John L. Lewis, are you letting them down? Mr. Operators, how will your sons feel? I keep repeating the. fact, that we in this counfry are a nation of many racial origins bound together

by our common love of freedom and helief in a

democratic form of government. A good illustration of the truth of this was given at the Cleveland, O., airport, last Saturday. The Slovak League of America presented to the war department on ‘that, date, three trainer planes to be used in the training of army air corps cadets. ‘Letters that show what I mean by the idea which binds us together, came with the contributions. Here is one of them: “Such freedom as we immigrants have here in America, you will not find in the old country. Fellow Slovaks, let us all unite to help our president and our soldiers in this war, so that dictators’ tyranny will be abolished forever and democracy reign supreme.” a? 10 et Which 4 She Unite tes

SENATE GIVEN CRADLE-GRAVL SECURITY BILL

Wagner Proposal Would

Set Up ‘Beveridge Plan’ For U. S.

WASHINGTON, June 3 (U. Pr Senator Robert F. Wagner (D. Y.) today introduced a bill to hi up a cradle-to-the-grave post-war social security prograin comparable to the plan submitted in Great Britain by Sir William Beveridge. Wagner, one of the sponsors of the present social security act, proposed amendments to the act to create a "unified system of social insurance.” He would provide pro- | tection against loss of income through unemployment, illness, temporary or permanent disability and old age, and would provide medical care and hospital service for everybody.

The bill would extend social se- |

curity benefits to about 15,000,000 persons not now covered by law, including farm workers, demestic servants, employees of non-profit institutions, independent farmers and professional and small businessmen. Service men and women would

tbe included under the bill's provi-

sions on their discharge from the armed forces and would receive unemployment compensation immediately for a limited period during

which they might be seeking peace-

time jobs. Cost $5,000,000,000

Wagner estimated - that the proposed changes in the existing social security law would cost $5,000,000,-

000, which would come from the

wages of workers themselves.

The bill calls for a contribution | by an employee of six per cent of |}

his pay, with a matching six per cent by his employer, on all wages and salaries up to $3000 a year. These contributions would begin after next Dec. 31. Self-employed persons would contribute seven per cent of “the market value of their services” up to the first $3000 a year. Public employees, such as state and city workers, not covered by state pension systems, would contribute 312 per cent of their pay with a like contribution from the employing agency.

Would Boost Payment

The six per cent contribution of most employees represents an increase of four per cent over the social security contribution they would make beginning “next Jan. 1 under the present law. Wagner said that for this increase workers will “get their full money's worth in increased security.” : Under his bill, he added, employers will face only a one per cent increase in their contribution over the five per cent they will pay for old-age benefits and unemployment compensation beginning next Jan. 1. This is an increase, Wagner said, “which would more than pay for itself to employers in increased efficiency and morale, and reduce absenteeism on account of illness, not to speak of the benefits to our economy as & whole.” The bill contemplates no federal government contribution to the program’s fund until 10 or 15 years after the war ends. ‘Wagner said he favors “a substantial government contribution” but does not believe the treasury could carry the burden in addition to the. war and post-war needs,

Provides Job System

The proposed hospitalization and medical - care coverage would extend to every worker covered by old-age insurance and to their dependents. All such persons would be entitled to a doctor's care, and, on the physicians order, to specialists, consulting and laboratory services, medical appliances and eyeglasses. Hospital, care would be limited to 30 days a year with a possible maximum limit of 90 days if experience proves the fund can afford it. The bill provides for a new national system of public employment offices within the social security board to aid workers and war veterans in finding post-war civilian employment. It would repeal the Wagner-Peyser act under which the federal-state employment service now operates, 1t reduces from 65 to 60 the age at which women become eligible for old-age benefits, and provides for a lump sum death payment to the surviving spouse of an insured worker. Increases Benefits

Old-age maximum monthly benefits. would be increased from $85 to $120, The minimum would go up from $10 to $20. for single persons, and $30 for a worker with a dependent wife. Unemployment benefits would be payable for 26 weeks and -possibly, if the fund permits, for 52 weeks. Benefits would be increased for workers with dependent wives and children, the maximum benefit being $30 a week. Married woman workers would be given weekly benefits for 12 weeks for maternity purposes. Discharged armed service. veterans would be paid allowances varying from $12 to $30 a week for up to 26 weeks on their return to civilian life. The federal government would bear this expense out of general revenue. -

COEDS RULE COLLEGE

TRINIDAD, Colo. June 3 (U. P.). —Trinidad Junior college still hopes to remain co-educational. During the winter 33 male students left for military service, Two “others joined

1anapolis

Agriculture

Will Be Vital

In Peace Plan

This is the second of a series of timely dispatches from the nation’s Midwest “food bowl”—written by Phil Stong, novelist famed ‘for his portrayal of American farm. life. Himself a farmer, Stong talks — and writes — the farmer’s language in these articles. They reflect the situation in mid-May before the recent floods and excess rains in the Midwest.

CONSIDERABLE changes have taken place in the department of agriculture since it was known by the average citizen as an agency to produce radish seeds for free distribution

by congressmen. ‘The department of agriculture is now one of the greatest scientific bodies in the world, and in a war and peace which will be deme cided on the three fronts of food, fighting and industry, it is the obvious general staff for the great front which must support the other two. There is nothing political in this er opinion, since Phil Stong the department has been built under many administrations, and agronomy, economics and husbandry do not bother much about Republicans and Democrats.

Frequent expressions of alarm about deficits in our food supplies and about the current farm situation are not justified by last year’s .production or this year’s plans, Where many criticseincluding some farm-bred ones, who should know better—miss a point is their suggestions that agricultural production can be largely increased, presumably by a feverish use of typewriters.

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Stretch Dirt? How

“WHAT THE HELL?” my friend in the smoking compartment said, in Ohio, without regarding the postal system’s respect for the Underworld, “Do they think I'm farming a piece of Ohio or a toy balloon? If you know how to stretch dirt, I'll raise more.”

The “dirt” has been stretched nearly to the limits of present agricultural science. We don’t want another Dust Bowl till we know how long the war is going to last, and we don't want one then for two reasons. If the war lasts over a few years we must have a steady production and we don’t dare to exhaust the soil in a short fight; if the axis collapsed tomorrow, America’s pro-

“Go down and harness the gray mules to the disc... you may have to deliver the new lambs . . . then see to milking and feeding the cows” is a possible farmer's order for any spring day—and a hint as to why he wants no amateur soil tillers, :

ductivity would. make its seat at the peace table the large, comfortable chair at the end of the table—thank you. The best informed guesses are that the United States will haye to supply the agricultural deficiencies of Europe: for from three to six years after the war. This will not be in foodstuffs alome; it will be in producing materials, in seeds and breed animals, as well as consumer goods. It is a fair guess that they haven't produced

- many bearing heifers in Hungary

lately. Whole races of animals will have to be re-established, preferably not Fascists., ] ” 2 ”

Fascists Destroy Food

IF THE UKRAINE has an adequate supply of timothy seed for this spring, to be used by either Hitler or Stalin, my name is L. Gooch, If they are raising the heifers or sows anywhere in Europe tq satisfy the enormous hunger that will be left after this war,‘ the United States will be beaten in the peace. But they will not be. The Fascists have destroyed the source of food supply—for three to six years—and that is why it is exigent for America to maintain its great agriculture and its great agricultural sciences and “schemes, The schemes are not footless. My grandfather, a Methodist deacon and California miner, would ‘shoot me unobtrusively as a poor fictionist in the family, if I told him that his farm was averaging 80 bushels to the acre, rather than the 42 it did when he died in 1909. This was hybrid corn, rather than the 20-foot dent he raised, which was beautiful, but less! nourishing, considering the bulk. If such words as “lespidezia,” “contour ' plowing,” “soy beans,”

"and so on had been metioned to my grandfather, I would now be occupying a neglected, but comfértable pleasaunce in Mt. Pleasant or some other asylum in Iowa. Midwesterners are impatient about lunacy.

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Farming Now Science

GRANDFATHER WOULD now find a farm whose animals were standard-bred, at least; whose grains were resistant to disease; whose fields raised new and better forage crops; which keeps strict accounting on every field both for treatment and production. Farming in America is no longer a “By-guessand by God” business, as it was to some extent even in the earlier world war. They know what they're doing. .Ignorant critics who would never think of questionihg a lawyer or a doctor talk freely about farmers. The farmer’s profession, which cannot be specialized, or detained for periods of study, because of the seasons, is probably the most difficult and expert in the world. This can be made more specific by a simple direction, “Go down and harness the gray mules to the disc and leave it at the Southeast Forty. I'll be watching those ewes Up toward Miller Spring, but if I have to go over to see the fellow at the creamery, you'll have to deliver them. See the lambs are warm and then see to milking and feeding thé cows.”

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Day’s Program.

THIS IS A POSSIBLE direction for any spring day. The most casual study of those instructions should show why the farmers are not much interested in amateurs.

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They are not tremendously ine terested in raw labor, and they. don’t care to engage in the obe vious complications that attend “farmerettes,” if there are any, To put it quite frankly, in this war as in the last one, they are mildly alarmed about silly little dames who annoy the hired man and the young son and mess things up in general in critical times. .To "be still more brutal, any of the farmerettes who could run a tractor is already running a lathe, which is a much easier job. Mr. M, who runs. one of the biggest dairy farms in Connecti cut, tried out four farmerettes a few months ago. Their handling of the milking machines rendered 11 of his heifers useless for milk production for a year or so, till the cows are “fresh” again. They will have calves, of course, but the Japanese and Germans do not know about this, or the shortage of some thousands of gallons of milk that might have been produced in the interim which biol ogy has unfortunately enforced on the cow, 11 months gestation, And we do not sell calves for veal, these days, unless, again, there is a shortage of food, which there is not,

Farmer Needs Farmers

SUCH “FARMERETTES” as can be found will give no solution to the farm production program. They might help in the kitchens or with the chickens, but farm housewives are not being inducted by the army in any considerable

. numbers.

Farmerettes may be extremely valuable in picking tomatoes and peaches. The useful farmerettes are already on farms because they were born on them. But what the farmers want is farmers.

COUNCIL GOOL TO HALL PURCHASE

Three Members Opposed to Plan, Favor More Space For Police.

Little city council enthusiasm was aroused last night by a proposal that the city purchase Castle Hall, 230 E. Ohio st., for $100,000. After inspecting the structure, which adjoins city hall, the council referred the proposal back to the works board. Three council members, R.. C. Dauss, Ed R. Kealing and Ross Manly, said they would oppose a plan to buy the building for the purpose of providing additional space for overcrowded municipal departments and housing an expected expansion of county Juvenile! court facilities. Edward O. Snethen, attorney for the owners, has been trying to interest the city in the sale for the past week, but the works board, which he first approached, told him to “talk to the council because it holds the purse strings.” Mr. Dauss said he would prefer to invest any large appropriation in “a. new building which might also be used to house police headquarters.”

DAVIES DUE TODAY WITH STALIN’S NOTE

"WASHINGTON, June 3 (U. P.. —President Roosevelt hears today from Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and what the president hears may have an important effect on the progress of the war. Joseph E. Davies, former ambassador to Russia, is scheduled to return here late today, bearing a secret message from the Soviet leader to Mr. Roosevelt. The president last month sent Davies

Lloewow Wilh special. letter for

Local Boy to Be Merchant Marine to Avenge Hero Dad

The son of an Indianapolis hero is on his way to avenge his father’s fate and fulfill his life’s ambition. Philip Carter Shera Jr. will start his training this summer for the merchant marine, the service in which his father heroically died in May of 1942, and by the fall of 1944 he’ll be ready to enter the new merchant marine academy at Kings’ Point, Long’ Island. Young Philip Shera is now a junior at Technical high school. When school closes he'll go to the Admiral Farragut academy on Toms river in New Jersey. There he'll receive his preparatory training and when he’s 17 years and 10 months, hell be the first son of a hero and the only one from the Midwest to enter the merchant marine school as an honorary cadet, All his life young Shera has wanted to go to sea. His father went to’ sea five years ago, and

ALL-MUSIC SERVICE WILL HONOR TENOR

Farrell Scott, tenor and choir director, who is about to be inducted into the army, will be honored by a special all-music service tomorrow at 8 p. m. in the temple of the Indianapolis Hebrew congregation. Mr. Scott has been the tenor soloist at the temple for 16 years and for the past year has been director of the choir. This will be his last appearance for the duration. Mr. Scott. will sing “The Lord Is My Light,” by. Hamer, and. “My Arms!” “Sound an Alarm,” from Handel's “Judas ‘Maccabeus.” The quartet, with Mr. Scott directing, will sing “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place,” by Brahms; “Thine, O Lord,” by Macfarlane, and “Paraphrase on 23d Psalm,” by James L. Bain. Rabbis Morris M.

when his ship was attacked on May 5, 1942, he stayed at his post as third assistant engineer and enabled the 44 other crew members to reach the lifeboats and safety. Philip .Carter Shera Sr. was awarded the merchant marine distinguished service medal posthumously “for heroism and especially meritorious service under unusual demands or hazards.” According to the citation, when the first torpedo struck the ship Engineer Shera ordered the engine room crew on deck and remained alone to answer, the bridge signals. A second torpedo hit the engine room, killing him. Young Shera lives here with his grandmother, Mrs. Scott P. Mat-| thews, 603 E. 32d st. His mother is proprietor of the Sera Shera Fur shop - at Columbus, O. In grade school he won honors for his interest in radio, electric trains and model ‘airplanes; at Tech he’s taken many shop courses and R.O.T.C. training. But the merchant i marine has long been his goal, and it’s soon to be reached. =

HOLD EVERYTHING

ST, LOUIS UNION LEADER KILLED

Newel’s Bullet - Riddled Body Found in Home; Seek Three Men

PEVELY, Mo., June 3 (U. P.).~= State police searched this vicinity today for three men and the misse ing automobile of Joseph (Buck), Newell, notorious St. Louis labor racketeer whose bullet-riddled body was found last night in his country ' home near here. Newell’s body was found after his | wife returned from a shopping trip to St. Louis and found the doors and windows of the house locked, One window was broken. Mrs, Newell summoned Sheriff Amos " who climbed through the broken window and found Newell's body in the’ front bedroom. He had been shot in the back five times with a .38 caliber revolver, The body was clad only in shorts, hut was jwrapped . in blood-soaked bed clothing. Newell's own 45 caliber automatic was found on the dining room table, fully : loaded, Two bullet holes were found in he mattress of .the bed.

Had Many Enemies

| Police were investigating the pose sibility that Newell was shot to

. | death by one of the numerous enes

mies he made in a career of violence and racketeering in the Louis area. As business agent for the local A. F. of L. Hoisting Ens gineers’ union, he had engaged im bitter jurisdictional disputes rival unions and his activities ot several violent strikes. Only last month Gov. Forest Donnell called out the state : to suppress violence resulting from Newell's activities peline to transmit high-octane aircraft fuel to the east. vis