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P.C.REILLY GIVES MILLION TO N. D.

Local Executives Gift To Help Chemistry. (Continued From Page Ohne)

of is to play an ever more dominent role in the progress of our civilization. “The university’s scientific accomments in chemical research under men like Father Nieuwland have already been internationally acclaimed and I think that, through this newly-organized, progressive effort, Notre Dame's work in chemistry may well move ahead of that produced in the leading institutions of Europe.” In. accepting the gift in the name of the university, Father O'Donnell said: “The benefaction of Mr. Reilly, for 11 years an esteemed member of our associated board of lay trustees, is the largest single gift that the University of Notre Dame ever has announced. Because of its wise and far-reaching terms, it is also one of the most pleasing and acceptable gifts. “True Scientist’

“The new Peter C. Reilly Science foundation affords marvelous opportunities for gifted young stu~ dents of chemistry here at Notre Dame and in other American universities who want to go for advanced work. “Atcending De LaSalle Academy of Providence, R. I., Mr. Reilly is a product of Catholic education and of the American system of free enterprise and exemplifies in his life certain important characteristics of the true scientist. “Through Initiative, unswerving honesty of purpose, and intelligent hard work, he himself rose to success, and with true vision he has provided important aid and incentive to young chemists of merit in this day and for years to come. “The perpetual memorial he has established at Notre Dame is intended to produce great chemists who will advance the science itself and contribute wisely and richly to the society in which they must play a leading part.” % Opened Business in 1900 Mr. Reilly became associated in 1886 with the Mica Roofing Oo. New York. This firm which was one of the original coal-tar distillers in the U. 8, was succeeded by the Western Chemical Co. in Indian-

apolis. He was sent to Indian-|'

apnlis to manage the business. He opened his own business in Indianapolis in 1800 under the name of the Western Chemical Co., which was subsequently known as the Republic Creosoting Co. of which Mr. Reilly is president. In 1932 he purchased the International Combustion Tar and Chemical: Co. which maintained plants in five different states and which now are a part of the Reilly Tdr and Chemical Corp. This corporation is one of the two leading producers of coal-tar products in America with 15 plants from coast fo coast.

Developed Tar Process

Among the inventions developed | . by Mr, Reilly is a process for the

complete “distillation of tar. This method is of especial economic value since in the first part of distillation known products are produced and in the second part of the distillation new and valuable materials are made available. .Mr., Reilly was awarded an honorary LL.D degree at the University of Notre Dame on June 4, 1939. He serves as director of the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, the Indiana Nationdl bank, the Union Trust Co. od Indianapolis, th e Indianapolis Power and Light Co., the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Chil~ dren, Butler university and the Hoosier Salon Patrons association, He is a member of the state advisory council of the Indiana university medical center, the Indiana advisory public health council and is serving his eleventh term as president and a director of the Christamore society. Mr. Reilly is married

MONDAY, OCT. 15, 1948

WLB Believed

one or more important wage cases

ment that he had make a mistake

Ready to Set | Wage Policy

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leading to a wage-price policy. The war labor board spent much of Sunday in a closed session discussing Mr. Truman's anticipated request, Today six of the members, headed by Acting Chairman | Lloyd K. Garrison, will go to the White House for a conference, Cgmpulsory Arbitration Board members said they had not been informed fully of what Mr. Truman has in mind. Although some = management members and the American Pederation of Labor spokesmen have favored early dissolution of the board, it has become recognized that there is. no other machinery so fully empowered to settle wage questions, During the war this power amounted to compulsory arbitration. Whether the same formula can be used successfully now is one of the questions that bothers the board. Secretary Schwellenbach has no power to decide wage “cases. His first important effort—in the oil dispute which ended in seizure of properties belonging to 26 companies —brought criticism from manage-

in proposing a 15 per cent pay increase, with an additional 15 per cent to be arbitrated. Some of the companies had offered 15 per cent, but all of them took the position that arbitration should start from scratch. They said that acceptance of the secretary's proposal would cut their bargaining power in half, WLB Snarls Seen Frank Rising, general manager of the Automotive & Aviation Parts Manufacturers, Inc., of Detroit, asserted that “when the secretary issued his abrupt and abortive proposals, the shudder which ran through fair-minded management throughout the country was almost pallable. “It was at once obvious,” he said, “that if a company made any offer to a union in attempting to settle a wage issue, that offer might be used as the starting point in an arbitration proceeding dictated by a biased governmental group.” War labor board handling of the wage question will be hampered in two ways: (1) Under stabilization policy its findings will have to go through OPA and the agencies headed by Mr. Collett and Mr. Snyder, to determine whether price increases that might lead to inflation are involved. (2) Many leading spokesmen for organized labor are tied up elsewhere—the A. F. of L. men at their executive council meeting in Cincinnati and a large group of C.I1.0. men on a visit to Russia. Selection Difficult Moreover it will not be easy to select a wage case from which a standard could be set up for all of American industry. The oil case may be discarded because of a management argument that labor costs in oil production and -refining are a less part of the total cost than in manufacturing industries. The steel wage question, which would not be subject to this objec tion, is in a preliminary stage. The same applies to the automobile dispute 30 per cent more hourly pay have been registered and notices of strike votes have been filed with the national labor relations board against General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. The coal dispute, : which has halved bituminous production, and is threatening widespread stoppages in steel and other industries, does not involve the wags question, The argument is over unionization of mine foremen and

and 1s the father of five children.

IDENTIFY MAN DEAD OF GUNSHOT WOUND

Relatives today had identified the) body of a man found yesterday, in| the woods near the Stop 8 rd, onefourth mile east of state road 431.

The man was recognized as Jo-|

seph Ottinger, 64, who had been missig from his home, 1439 8. Talbott st. since July 30. He apparently had died from a gunshot wound which ranged upward from the roof of his mou The body was found by a 12-year= old farm boy and reported to police by his father. It was lying face down by a stump dnd nearby a bad-

ly rusted 38 caliber pistol was!

found. A small canvas bag containing clothing and a wallet, with several dollars and Mr. Ottinger’s identification cards, also was nearby. A notation on an Identification card requested that his son-in-law, Chester Lagle, 2229 N. Keystone ave.; be notified in case of accident.

An employee of the Indianapolis Drop Forging Co.. Mr. Ottinger dis-

appeared from his home July 30 and was reported missing the following day. He 1s survived, by his wife, Elma, end a daughter, Mr. Have) Lagle.

FIGHTS EXTRADITION

IN INDIANA SLAYING

CHICAGO, Oct. 15 (U. P.) —8am appeared

other supervisory employees.

SOCIALITE IS VICTIM IN TORTURE DEATH

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{of an automobile sales agency In | Highland Park. Police said they | Were married in. Constantinople, Turkey, in 1922 and separated informally a year ago, They have i no children. Bhe was a well-known hostess, her neighbors said, and her lavish entertainments in both her country and town houses were the toast of her social group-—-which police sald included many prominent Detroit names from the “ranks of industry and society.

VINSON ASKS NEW TAX BILL FRAMED

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duction and cuts income surtax rates. Vinson told the senate committee that the house bill granted reductions “reasonably close” to the $5,000,000,000 he requested,

ul action,” he said, “the provisions of the house bill would operate to grant reductions of more than $1000.000.990 for the calendar year 1 » “It would write into law about

SPLIT DELAYS TRIAL OF NAZIS|

Russ and French Object

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To ‘Lenient’ Rules. (Continued From Page One)

defendants was flown to Moscow Saturday for translation into Russian, Sources at Nuernberg, where the actual trial will be held, said, however, that failure of the participating nations to get together on mats ters of court procedure were a major and perhaps the principal reason why the opening session had to be postponed. Nuernberg said the Soviet prosecutor, I. K. Nikitochenko, was insisting:that the tribunal in the main follow procedure based largely on Soviet legal methods. It was understood Nikitchenko objected particularly to the AngloAmerican practice of withholding prosecution evidence from the de-~ fense until the trial. to have argued that this was unfair to the defense. Prench delegates were said to nave joined the Soviet representatives in opposing an Anglo-Ameri-can plan to permit the defendants to call upon American or British counsel for the defense,

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They argued that continental juists regard certain elements of Anglo-American judicial procedure as excessively lenient. As a result, it was reported reliably that the

defendants will be defended only by German civilian counsel. The Russians hold two of the 24 war criminals scheduled for trial and they apparently were determined not to relinquish custody until they are satisfled with the trial plans. The two defendants (in Soviet aands are Grand Adm. Eric H. Raeder. chief of the German navy, Hans Fritsche, propaganda minister, The lengthy indictment against the Nazis will be served on the defendants at Nuernberg immediately after formal opening of the trial tribunal in Berlin Thursday. It was understood the defense will have 30 days thereafter in which to prepare the trial,

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officials and attorneys entered his death cell at Fresnes to take him to the firing squad. Laval was in bed. When the cell door swung open, he hastily pulled the covers over his head. And in one convulsive movement--so fast no one could stop’ him—he emptied a vial of poison mto his mouth. He lapsed into a coma. Doctors were summoned from the prison hospitdl and immediately administered strong emetics, then spent several hours giving strong stimulants to enable Laval to go before the firing squad. Weak Dose of Cyanide -

It was learned later that Laval had swallowed a weak dose of cyanide. By 11 a. m, Laval was pronounced recovered. Originally, it had been planned to take him to Ft. Chatillot a mile away to be executed. But authorities decided to take no further chances with their wily prisoner.

The firing squad, official witnesses and the hearse were summoned to Fresnes. Prison officials transferred Laval from the cell block to the inner courtyard in a car belonging to the ‘{.prefect of police. A guard took either arm and supported him the few feet remaining to the execution stake. Laval Fully Conscious He obviously was weak, but fully conscious, as he was strapped to the post. Albert Naud chief defense lawyer, stepped up to the post and gave him a farewell kiss on either cheek, Laval was sagging at the knees. As Naud stepped away, a salvo of shots rang out from the squad of 12 soldiers standing 30 feet away. Six aimed for his head and six for his heart. One rifle—none in the squad knew which one—contained blanks, Then the commanding officer administered the coup de grace—a point-blank shot through the temple—with his revolver, and Laval was pronounced dead by the official physician. Laval was buried shortly after 1 p. m. in the *“cendemned man's corner” of Thials cemeétery near

— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Firing Squad Executes Laval; Poison Suicide Attempt Fails

Jacques Barradue, called on grayhaired Mrs. Laval and notified her that her husband had “died courageously,” She was staying at the home of her daughter, Jose de Chambrun, wife of Count Rene de Chambrun, in the Place de PalalsBourbon. : Andre Morney, the prosecutor with whom Laval battled for his life at his treason trial and lost, led the official procession into the death cell that touched off Laval's suicide attempt. Also in the procession were Justice Pierre Bouchardon, who headed the preliminary investgiation commission at Laval's trial, Police Prefect Charles Luizet, Laval's two attorneys and other justice ministry and police officials.

Delay Brings Wild Rumors Laval originally had been scheduled to be executed at 10 a, rm. When the execution was delayed, wild rumors swept through Paris in quick succession. One was that he had succeeded in committting suicide, another that he had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. A third rumor was that the execution had been postponed because of Laval's offer to make a last-minute declaration, An official inquiry was ordered to determine when and how Laval had obtained the poison and how it had escaped detection. It was recalled that former Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler and other Nazi war criminals had escaped justice by swallowing similar vials of poison, The swarthy, 62-year-old Laval had givén no previous sign that he was contemplating suicide, although he had told his attorney, halfjokingly, on Saturday: “Give me a revolver, be much simpler.” Laval “Composed” Naud, said he found Laval completely composed when he went to see the former premier in his death cell last night. Laval's only comment, Naud said, was: “I expected (it. b | courageous until the end.” “Naud said he found Laval seated quietly in his cell, his ankles chained to the floor, He wore a brown sackcloth suit. Laval gave Naud farewell letters to his wife, his daughters and the defense attorneys them-

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selves.

DOCK WORKERS RETURN T0 JOBS

15-Day Waterfront Strike Reported Broken. (Continued From Page One)

dent Joseph P, Ryan from his leadership previously had agreed to the mayor's plan, Sampson said that shipper representatives also had rejected the plan, Even in Brooklyn, stronghold of the rebels, their strength appeared crumbling. : There were reports of 300 longshoremen returning to their jobs along the Brooklyn waterfront. As the stevedores trooped back to the piers, striking employees of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co. met at Boston, Mass, to decide whether to go back to work. The company was seized by the state last night in an effort to end the transportation tieup affecting 660,000 persons. Meanwhile, additional Pittsburgh steel mills were closed by a shortage of fuel, caused by a strike in eastern soft coal flelds. Steel production at Pittsburgh dipped to 47 per cent of capacity, the lowest operating rate since the depression of more than a decade ago. Before the strike started in the coal fields, production was at 74 per cent of capacity. More than

ished when President Gen. Charles de Gaulle refused to act on de~ fense counsel's plea for a new trial.

Convicted of Treason

The former Vichy premier was convicted of treason, collaboration with the enemy and several lesser charges last week after a fantastic trial. He twice was barred from the courtroom for his outbursts, then - rejected an invitation to return.

Neither Laval nor his counsel were in the courtroom during the final testimony. The court's verdict of death was brought him by a minor court official. Laval denounced the trial as = travesty on justice. He said both the judge and the jury had condemned him even before the trial began. It was for such repeated statements in the courtroom that presiding Justice Pierre Mongibeaux

Laval's last hope of reprieve van-

ordered him -banished temporarily.

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3 SHIPS LISTED AS | SUNK AT OKINAWA

WASHINGTON, Oct, 15 (U, P.).— The navy reported today that 36 light naval vessels were ay damaged or sunk in the typhoon which swept Okinawa last Monday and Tuesday. Three small ships were listed as

more as damaged, on total casualties but that next of

kin of dead and missing personnel were being notified by telegram.

10,000 8teel workers were idled by the shutdowns. Britain Strike Breaking At London labor quarters were confident that a back-to-work movement would start tomorrow at Britain's strike-boynd docks in advanee of negotiations scheduled Thursday between union officials and port authorities. By order of Governor Maurice J. Tobin, Massachusetts seized the sprawling Boston-area bus and interurban streetcar system at 12:01 a. m. today after day-long wage conciliation efforts failed and 1675 A. FP. of L, strikers ignored a back-to-work ultimatum. The transit strike, stranding commuters in 64 cities and towns from the New Hampshire border to Rhode Island, followed demands of the workers for a 40 per cent wage boost for mechanics and 30 per cent more hourly for drivers and motormen. Meanwhile, in Hollywood, the 23,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild were told by the board of directors to observe film studio picket lines if any danger were imminent. The resolution cited “development of a condition” threatening bodily harm to guildsmen and women. Johnston Studies Dispute Meantime, Movie Czar Eric Johnston was in the movie capital to look into the bitter jurisdictional dispute of two A. F. of L. unions, now in fits 31st week, as pickets reportedly surrounded Columbia Pictures, Technicolor Studios,

Universal film plants. New York City was threatened by a milk famine as two unions—local 30 of the International Union of Operating Engineers and local 56, International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers—planned to

sunk, #0 others grounded and three! *®

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RKO-Pathe, Warner Brothers and

t also | lifting the state of siege date.” It was under powers of the state of

cific war.

‘Peron, who resigned Inst week vice president, war minister Iie labor secretary, was under a Martin Garcia island in the river, but his influence still being felt, ; Labor leaders who su Peron threatened to call a that would paralyze transport, 8 public utilities as a protest a his ouster and arrest. =

BRICKER HEADS LI OF TOP REPUBLI

CHICAGO, Oct. 15 (U.P. John W. Bricker, former govel of Ohio and vice presidential didate in 1944, heads a list of party leaders in prestige, it wi disclosed today in a “grass roo survey of Republican leaders. Close behind Bricker was Sen Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michi who gained more prestigate in. last two years than any leader, the survey said. The survey was made by C. Oehler, public opinion analyst the Republican, national p magazine, who made similar veys in December, 1043, and Ap 1944. Questionnaires were sent | Oehler to 4249 Republican count: chairmen, state committee mem) and other local leaders. by percentage as follows: John W, Bricker, 73.4; Se Arthur H. Vandenberg, 64.6; C ernor Thomas E. Dewey of } York, 1944 presidential cad 63.4. former President Herbert ver, 62.3; Cmdr, Harold B. 8

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