Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1943 — Page 4

\ COAL STRIKE

xt Step Up to Ickes In 3d Mine Walkout In 2 Months.

{Continued from Page One) his scheduled departure for Columbus to address the national conference of governors today. But no arrangements were made for him to come in on the hot Sunday night from his country home in Montgomery county, Maryland, nor for Mr. Lewis to journey in from the Alexandria, Va., home to which he had retired. One reason for the lack of Sunday night action was believed to be offical cogitation over how far the interior secretary can go in ameliorating last Friday's arbitrary award of the war labor board, which quaranteed the miners only about 25 cents worth of concessions instead of the $2-a-day wage boost originally demanded {4 months ago) by their chieftain. . The third renewal of the mine e in two months was fore- : wed soon after noon yester- * day when the reconevened bargaining rence of bituminous coal operators adjourned sine die and notified William H. Davis, war labor board chairman, that “we have been unable to reach any conclu- - sion due to the fact that the United ~ Mine Workers of America are unwilling to make a contract until their claim for portal-to-portal travel time is satisfied. The (WLB) directive specifically’ denies claim and no possibility of agreement exists . . . we will continue to keep our mines open and are prepared to operate under the’ terms of the directive.” ~~ Several hours later the U M, W's ‘policy committee blast at the war ~ labor, board in particular and coal ~ operators in general was made publie. | The agreement which WLB ~ directed should be signed to settle ~ this long controversy was denounced as “an infamous yellow-dog contract,” which “no member and no officer of the United Mine Workers of America would be so destitute of principle and so devoid of honor as to sign.”

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Shaw testified.

in love with Shaw. Robert Federle, 17, of 161 Harlan st, a nephew of Mrs, White, testified Saturday that he heard White

White two hours before her death.

about 2 p. m. Oct. 2 and saw White sithing in a chair with a rifle standing nearby,” the youth testified. “I

me to put it down because it was loaded. Then he said: ‘I'm going to use it on that , , , sitting in the other<room.” . Federle said Mrs. White was sitting in the next room sewing. “White asked me if I wanted his leather jacket and fishing tackle.

. «+ ‘You can have them because I|.

won't need them where I'm going’, White told me,” the youth testified.

“Intoxicated”

“Mrs. White came in the room, picked up the gun and started out the front door, but White grabbed her and the gun and told me to get out. When I went out the door both of them had hold of the gun.” Police officers testified that White had told them he shot Mrs. White through the stomach and that while she lay on the floor pleading for her life, he shot her the second time fatally. Defense attorneys have indicated they intend to prove that White was suffering from a form of insanity at the time of the shooting. Edward Brennan, defense attorney; questioned police officers at length about’ White's mental condition on the night of the shooting, “He was intoxicated but otherwise he appeared perfectly nermal mentally on the night of the murder,” declared Thomas Auls, retired detective sergeant. Deputy Prosecutor Samuel Huffman, who took a statement from

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He then struck me on the jaw with! his fist and left in his car. Then I| ‘|drove Mrs. White to her home,”

en oii was. arrested about 1 10 p. m. that night, police testified]

he told them he had shot his wife| because she had told him she was|

say he was going to shoot Mrs, “I stopped at the White home|

picked. up the gun and he warned|

Bernard L. White

White, testified that the only thing about White that didn't seem normal was the fact that he showed no emotion whatever about the

death of his wife.

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reportedly hopeful that lightning will strike them. Some of the. governors were irritated because ‘a group of Washing-

‘ton big-wigs cancelled their ap- | pearances at the last minute and | sent underlings.

This group included Paul V. McNutt, Prentiss Brown and Harold Ickes.

High light of the program was

'Not-a-Candidate’ Dewey

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to be the speeches at the state dinner tonight of Gen. George C. Marshall and Joseph E. Davies, former ambassador to Russia. There was considerable laughing about Gov. Dewey’s topic, “Solving the Farm Labor Problem.” Gov. Schricker and Lt. Gov. Dawson and their wives drove to Columbus together yesterday and were guests with other governors and their wives at a buffet dinner last night. Adjutant General and Mrs. William P. Weimar of Indiana, also are here to attend a special meeting -of the state adjutant generals, Governor Schricker’s only appearance on the program will be as chairman of 4 luncheon meeting tomorrow at which he will introduce Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska who is to speak.

SGT. F. E. DONAHUE WOUNDED IN RAID

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ag the plane limped back to the North African coast, Sgt. Dona-' hue, severely wounded, cranked up the damaged bomb bay doors, only to find that the catch would not hold. He then took off his belt and strapped , the handles securely. The plane’s hydratlie system was out of commission, smoke, blacked out the instrument panel, incendiary bullets had set fire to the right engine, the right elevator was shot off and the right aileron resembled a sieve—but the crew prepared themselves for a crash landing and the battered ship came down safely on the North African beach. There a friendly Arab led the fliers to an olive grove, littered with wrecked German planes, where they were given medical aid and a jeep. Sgt. Donahue is one of five sons of Robert Donahue who are in service. He has been in the army since Jan. 2, 1942, » " 8 THREE INDIANA men have been wounded in action in the North American area. They are Pfc. Edwin C. Bair, Huntington: Pvt. Leonard Gillis, Gary,- and

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Killed CPL. WILLIS L. ROGERS, brother of Mrs. M. E. Cooper, 3011 N. Gladstone ave, is reported killed in action in the Philippines. He had been listed as missing in action in May, 1942, and on New Year's day, 1943, the war department reported him a prisoner of the Japanese. He entered the army on March 10, 1941. He is the son of Mrs. Uda Z. Rogers of Chicago. » 2 =» HOOSIER SOLDIERS who have been ‘killed in .action in North Africa are Pfc. Francis English, son of Mrs. Dora English, 543 N. Pine st, snd Pvt. Dale Ses, South Bend.

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PRICE 1S DOWN|

And Congress Fight .. Subsidies Plan.

(Continued from Page One) there were closing down in early May when the administration, attempting to meet organized labor's demands for a reduction of the cost of living, announced that subsidies would be paid to “roll back” meat, butter and coffee prices. These subsidies, estimated in the case of meat’ to cost about a third of a billion dollars a year, are what are supposed to make possible today’s lowered retail ceilings. The theory is that the government, through an. RFC agency, will pay the money to the slaughterers, who will thus be able to pay the present live-rental. prices to the farmers, and at the same time sell dressed meat for less than its present prices.

‘ Announces ‘Roll Back’

But the “roll back” was announced before plans were made to put it into effect, it has taken many weeks to complete the plans, and meantime there has been hell to pay in the meat industry. And in congress. Stock-raising interests are bitterly opposed to the subsidy scheme. The meat packers are almost as strongly against it, although some of them apparently have almost concluded that nothing else can keep them in business. Even the labor organizations aren't satisfied with it; they want much larger “roll backs,” with subsidies running into billions instead of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The stockgrowers’ contention, as presented by spokesmen here, is that labor is getting greatly increased wages and should pay retail food prices that would make possible fair prices to farmers, processors and retailers. That overlooks the fact that the incomes:of millions of families have not increased much, if at all. And the further fact that, if food prices continue to rise, organized labor will demand—and get, still higher wages.

Packers Object

The meat packers’ objections are many, among them these: 1. That subsidies are themselves inflationary, requiring more government spending of borrowed money. 2. That, with meat rationed on a basis of about 80 pounds per person per year, a “rollback” of '3 cents a pound means only $2.40 a year to the average American—a saving too small to do any real good now, but which the average American and his children will have to pay for later, with interest, through higher taxes. 3. That the subsidies proposed are too small to rescue the packers from their present squeeze; offer no assurance that live animal prices won't continue to rise; involve vast additional bookkeeping and red tape; will require packers to tie up large amounts of capital—which many of them contend they don’t have—for a month or more between the time when they buy live animals and the time when the

part of the costs. 4. And that the whole subject of subsidies Is involved in such uncertainty that no business concern can! afford to make plans or spend: money under the assumption that the subsidies will be paid.

Congress Opposed

That last can hardly be denied.’ Congress threatens to forbid pay- | ment of any food subsidies. The! house, on a rampage last week against OPA and other “bureaucracies,” took action which, if it becomes law, will on July 1.cut off the meat subsidies that are the basis of today’s retail “rollback.” Under these circumstances, dozens of independent slaughter houses in many states have closed down in the last week or so, or have curtailed operations in their feeb departments, where the squeeze is the greatest, and scores ‘of others have threatened to close. And receipts of live animals at the big packing houses in Chicago and other cities are reported the smallest for this season in many years, One explanation given here is that the farmers are withholding shipments in the expectation of getting higher prices later.

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farm—is extending its power over the people's lives. I recently received the regula-

tions by which the office of price

administration proposes to govern the housewives of the nation ”

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club where he is staying ontle ef The dinner is being sponsored by ° of this war and another seriously wounded, Lord Halifax was deadly

the Indianapoliy Executives club. serious about the war and its

organization, will be in charge of the event. Civic leaders, represents tives of military units, state and city officials and local business exec utives will attend.

NATURAL GAS WASTED A half billion cubic feet of natural gas is wasted every day, it fis estimated, from exposed coal seams the university Lord Halifax will re-|in Eastern coal mines.

when, this summer, they begin to can the products of their farms, orchards and victory gardens. These instructions fill six closely printed newspaper columns—and run. to 12,000 well-chosen, highly legal words.

Somberly he said of current affairs, “The more weight each and every one of us puts into our jobs, the sooner we will get it all over with.” After his address and a tour of,

5 Volumes, 11,000,000 Words .

AT THE LATEST count, the OPA’s regulations fill five fat volumes

and take 11,000,000 words.

It was recently pointed out that at the office of price administrataxpayers have been supporting 2700 lawyers—500 of them in Washington to devise the regulations, 2200 of them throughout the country to see that they regulate.

tion alone, the country's

The British also have a rationing and price administration. It has worked for several

years with astonishing success.

Its legal staff totals ten. When Thomas Jefferson was president there was one federal employee for every 5308 persons, . eral employee for every 45 persons—men, women and children —and this does not include in uniform in the army and navy.

ical ‘organism that such great and rapid increases in size bring, in their wake, a change of character. What we now have in the United States is not our former government grown bigger, What we have is a different kind of gov- » " ”

Never Write—If You Can Spend More

' THERE IS a current saying in Washington's government offices: “Never write if you can send a telegram; never telegraph if you can

make a long-distance call.”

For the six months ending last Dec. 31, the communications bill of the executive branch of the government—chiefly for telephone, telegraph, cable—amounted to $15,573,000. The figure excludes army

and navy bills. How much of this expensive communicating could have been conducted by letter or postcard, no one knows. It was revealed at hearings held before the joint committee on retion of nonessential federal expenses that from November, 1940, through October, 1941, the national youth administratipn, an organization paralleling in part or in whole the actions of at least six other government - offices, spent $20,000 a month for long-

distance telephone calls.

How necessary much of that telephoning must have been can be judged from the subject ter of a few of the hundreds of NYA telegrams which I have seen. Here are some samples,

“Please advise if Labor Day is to he considered a national holiday. ” “Requesting travel to come to Washington to discuss annual leave with you.” “No record of marriage of fo March 4, 1942.” “The use of typewriter for Dr. cannot be authorized.” hired as watchman today at $60 monthly effective today replacing , resigned.”

Congress has given abundant proof - of its determination to furnish the all-out support necessary to win this war. That is a life-or-death matter for all of us. The joint committee on reduc

tion. of nonessential federal ex-

penditures, of which I am chairman, has repeatedly recommend-

Today we have one fed-.

If is of the nature of a polit-

| drastically reduced, that waste

ernment. It is ceasing to be government of three co-equal parts: Legislative, executive, judicial,

Because the executive branch has grown so vast and exercises 50 many powers, real and assumed, we are coming more and more to be ruled by executive and bureaucratic directives. As a result, the way in which we are governed is increasingly characterized by waste, ponderous red tape, ineflicieney and irresponsibility. The combined total cost to the nation this year of the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government is $38,000,000. The executive branch spent, even before the war, almost that much for publicity and promotion alone. » ”»

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and inefficiency be eliminated and that the consequent savings in manpower and money be utilized in the war effort.

Our progress has been encouraging. Savings brought about as a result of these recommendations have totaled $1,314,000,000 in federal expenditure during 1942. The committee intends to surpass. .this record of economy in the present year. It is a matter of no less importance to see to it that, while the war is being won, America— the America we have known and our fighting men believe in—is not lost. That America can be lost. Even now, I believe that only a great upsurge of national indignation against this Frankenstein monster and of national demand for return to representative, responsible government, can save it.

CURTIN FACES VOTE TEST IN PARLIAMENT

CANBERRA, June 21 (U. P.).— Parliament opposition advised Prime Minister John Curtin today that it would seek a vote of no confidence in ‘his labor government. The development followed political arguments raised by Curtin’s recent statement that Australia was now safe from invasion by the Japanese.

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