Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1946 — Page 3
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Miners Preparing fo Test
' Truman's New
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Telephone Workers (Ind.) set March 7 as the date for a nationwide telephone strike, TWO: The C. . O. Longshore: men’s union announced that nearly 22,000 Pacific coast dock workers
‘would strike: “on or before” April
1 to enforce wage demands. THREE: The Pittsburgh area faved another power strike—set for 12:01 a. m. Tuesday—after wage negotiations bogged down, FOUR: A walkout of 3000 C. I. O. dairy workers, now in its third day, cut off 75 per cent of Detroit's milk supply. FIVE: The C. 1. O. transport workers union announced that it would strike New York City's vast transportation system unless it is granted collective bargaining rights at a meeting Tuesday. SIX: More than 2500 C. I. O. steel workers quit work at the Columbia Steel Co. plant in Pittsburg, Cal, last night in a dispute over the reassignment of men to the open hearth department. The plant, closed during the nationwide steel strike, reopened only last Monday. SEVEN: Over the protests of Rep. Vito Marcantonio (ALP, N. Y.) the house of representatives yes-
terday approved legislation impos-
ing stiff federal curbs on James C. Petrillo, president of the Amerwcan| Federation of Musicians, in his relations with the radio industry.
Delay Plea Ignored In setting a strike date, the National Federation of Telephone Workers ignored a plea from Sec-
retary of Labor Lewis B.: Schwellenbach to “avoid strike action until further negotiations take place.” NFTW President Joseph Beirne said, however, the federation was willing to “confer with the companies if the government requests it.” ! Mr. Beirne said 160,000 federation members would walk out at é 8. m. March 7. He said 100,000 other workers under new contracts or still negotiating contracts would
honor the picket lines. The strike would tie up telephone service In|
43 states.
The C. 1. O. Longshoremen's and| a week to $8 on a sliding scale
Wage Formula
“night after three days of frustiess
negotiations over wages. Last week the Pittsburgh area was plunged into semi-darkness by a 19% hour strike which union President George L. Miller suspended because of public pressure, Government Mediator James FP. Dewey said after yesterday's negotiating session on the 94-day General Motors strike that the question of union security, a major issue, had been “pretty well cleaned up
Michael J. Quill, New York city councilman and president of the C. IL O. transport workers union, sald Mayor William O'Dwyer had invited him to a meeting’ Tuesday at which the union's bid for collective bargaining rights would be discussed. “If the city shows no willingness to grant collective bargaining at that time,” Mr. Quill said, “we are prepared to call a strike at a meeting Tuesday night.”
Phone Workers Seek $2 a Day Increase
By Scripps-Howard Newspapers Here's the union's version of the, wage issue in the threatened na-| tion-wide telephone strike:
for all workers.
000; possibly as many as 250,000. | Ready to strike: Fifteen unions {of the 50 in the National Federation
‘| of Telephone Workers; the 15 unions
have approximately 150,000 members. The other 35 unions, répresenting another 100,000 workers, have either made a wage settlement recently, or have not yet filed strike notices. Present wages: For the 125,000 operators pay ranges from $18 a week in small communities to $38 a week in large cities; for the 60,000 plant craftsmen (linemen, cable splicers, repairmen and installers) $22 a week to $68; for the 15,000] clerical workers from $18 a week! to $68. Workers covered by wage settle- | ments already reached: 70,000. Basis of settlement: Most brought ! pay raises of $3 a week to $8. Present offers of telephone com-
| panies: Generally range from $3
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except for a few technicalities.” -
Union demand—$2 a day increase’ :
Workers involved—at least 150;-
BATISH BATTLE "BOMBAY MOBS
Death Toll of 50 Reported + In Wild Rioting. (Continued From Page One)
eting of streetcar and bus services and their. subsequent suspension. Civil police patroled all likely trouble zones, . The intervention of Ghandi’s congress party was in keeping with his famous policy of passive resistance. It was announced by Vallabhai Patel, Ghandi's right-hand man. “The advice of the congress to ratings of the Royal Indian navy is to lay down arms,” Patel said. “The congress will do its level best to see that there is no victimization.”
~CAIRO, Feb. 22 (U. P.).—The | Egyptian interior ministry re- | ported today that 13 persons were killed and more than 100 injured - seriously in the Cairo rioting yesterday. British and Egyptian troops patrolled the main streetls and public and military buildings
oe Hearing To Be Held Soon -
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{from Ellis island was decreed in Chicago yesterday by Federal Judge
[Evan A, Evans of the circuit court
of appeals, ‘The judge said he would allow the government/three weeks in which to bring him back.
Internment Rights Cited U, 8. District Attorney B. Howard Caughran pointed out hat if brought here for the hearing, Bauer would have to be placed in the Marion county jail. ‘He said this might violate provisions of a Geneva treaty granting certain “informal” internment rights to foreign agents, Bauer's attorney said they would waive any international agreements
if only they could get their client|goods, crockery, woolens and linens
back to Indi.napolis. Former Ft. Harrison photographer, Bauer was held incommuni~ cado for two months while the army probed charges that he came
here from Germany. in 1941 as a
Nazi spy. Formerly in German Army
Later, the army failed to find any specific acts of espionage, but discovered Bauer joined the German army before returning to the;
as a precaution against renewal of the disturbances.
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| preciation” of the sailors’ “spirit land courage.”
British bomebrs havered
ing to the scene. The mutineers controlled 12 ships, 18 naval shores establishments and a naval dockyard in the Bombay area. Although they defied government orders to surrender, despite a shortage of food and water, certain peace talks of an undisclosed nature were being conducted with an Indian officer. Strike demonstrations spread to Calcutta. Streetcar and bus .services lin southern Calcutta were halted | when strikers picketed them. Indians lined the main thoroughfares, | occasionally shouting: India.” The Bombay mobs burned down two branches of the Bank of | India and set fire to the city post office,
Barricaded Barracks
Warehousemen's union said the| which would give high paid work-| Rioters attacked British civilians
Pacific coast dock strike was being called to force waterfront employers to pay wage increases already granted by the national war labor board. Union headquarters report-
ers greatest increases.
DROP CHARGE
OSLO, Feb. 22 (U. P.) —Author- |
| ities announced today the dropping |
{and British stores. They jumped upon Indians, and forced them to take off the neckties, collars and western world hats. Naval mutineers
ed the membership had voted 14|of collaboration charges against the Castle barracks in downtown
to 1 in favor of strike action. An independent union
| Knut Hamsun, Nobel prize author,
| Bombay still refused to surrender
repre- because “his mentality is weak. »| by midafternoon after preliminary
senting 3400 employees of the Du-|Hamsun is 86. He was accused of Negotiations failed last night. They
quesne Light Co. of Pittsburgh
called for a new power strike last]
STRAUSS SAYS - --
collaborating with the Nazis during the occupation.
HERE AND NEAR
AND THE
A BIT INTO FUTURE!
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THE BASKETBALL Tournament is on—And throughout the State the interest is at white heat
of intensity.
Indiana—is
the center of the Kingdom of "+ the great Ball and fringed Basket game.
* AND THIS SPORTS MINDED Man's Store—is pleased be on the air for the 4 succeeding Setuwdaysraftomesn. " " night—giving with t ay-by-pi * Pho ortho sidelights. on WIBC—1070 on your dial.
AND TOMORROW NIGHT—
Saturday night—the Indianapolis
Day Nursery Junior fustiaty will sponsor—~MARDI GRA BALL—at the Indianapolis
Athletic
Club. The proceeds
go to further the work-of the Auilisry at the Day Nursery on Lockerbie Street.
AND WE READ that a
year or so into the future—
there will be STEEL hose for the
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ladies—woven from strands as thin as hair—they will be . stainless—And if they're
splashed
or soiled—you wipe
. ‘em off—The article doesn't say whether they will bessold in Hosiery Departments— a or in Hardware Depariments—
A COUPLE OF FELLOWS were peeping in the "orifices" in the barricade that | Jivvainds the corner Ee next to Strauss ne fe I re, mess''— the other said—"' "Yes, but
Strauss is moving in, in March" to which the rejoinder, "Yes,
but they
don't say which March."
We cannot tell a lie— March of 1946!
it will be
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| were in communication with their | fellow mutineers aboard vessels in | the harbor. An official communique said the besieged mutineers in the barracks had surrendered a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition during the day. It said they were short of food and water. Troops guarded. exits from the barracks, The communique said, “The mutineers remain in control of royal Indian navy ships in the harbor and are in wireless communication with each other and with certain royal Indian establishments ashore. “During the night casual small arms fire from the ships was directed at -military guards ashore but no casualties were reported. Small parties of mutineers attempted to land from the ships but were turned back in most cases.”
Sidelights Of Tourney
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for noise volume, however, with a perspiring cheerleader who madly twisted the handle of a siren. ® 8 = Ever in the early morning hours hot dog and icecream salesmen did a brisk business. . » w
Officials said that this year's crowd was one of the most orderly that had ever assembled for the annual tournament. There were less paper streamers showered down on the crowd by enthusiastic rooters but the cheering volume was just as great as usual. » ” . Ex-servicemen made up a large part of the audience at Butler with discharge emblems sprinkled throughout the crowd. » » » s A few high school turned businessmen for the tournament, renting vacant lots near Butler to park cars. Hoosier fans, however, seemed more interested in hunting free space even if they had to walk a good distance. . " . Coach Tony Hinkle of Butler had an early breakfast-and was on hand for the first game warmup. His observations were a good commentary on today's basketball. Said Tony: “You remember when in pre-game practice each player would take a two-handed long and then a short. Now see how each man takes five or six one-handed flings béfore turning the ball to the next man.” ” M . The officials were a little late coming out for the second half of the Tech-Ben Davis tilt, and Coach Herman Hinshaw ‘of Tech sent this message to them: “Tell the referee we'd like to start the game if they'll come out.” » » ~ Broad Ripple’'s coach, Frank Baird, today wore the same corduroy shirt he had worn at last year’s tournament as a good luck token, but the shirt apparently had lost its magic.
» » » Two of the sectional's most faithful fans were Ruth and Martha Bunch, sisters, of 1640 Fletcher ave, Wearing a purple and white motif for Washington, they held a pair of seats next to the players’ bench throughout the first and second sessions. Self-admittedly, they were rooters: for the underdogs when the Continentals were idle.
“Victory for|
barricaded In
students |.
'u. 8. and joining the American
army. Bauef said he “double- | |crossed” the Nazis. During the legal maneuvering
He added an expression of “ap- here, his Hoosier wife, Wilma, dis» G Biddle,
lclosed her husband had taken | photographs of nude dancers at a
over | Ft, Harrison party, with high state jacob Fogle, Bombay, while army and navy re-|and army officials in the back- Mack E. Laner, Sidney Romer, Mrs, | inforcements were reported hurry- ground. Bauer was given a dis-|Hettd Platt and Milton PFineberg.|
charge without honor, seized and taken to Ellis island.
STRAUSS SAYS:
THE INDIANAPOLIS. TIMES
THEFTS CAUSE HUGE Spellman Top Cardinal
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The port of New York has acquired dinal ‘Spellman of the titular church S8. John nd Paul which ‘was the church given to the Pope verting their shipments to Canadian | on his elevation to cardinal, i |
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"LOSS AT. Y. PORT
NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (U. P.).
such a bad reputation for thievery | that some liquor rs are di-|
ports rather than risk handling in| the nation's No. 1 port, it was revealed today. So widespread has the thievery pope become that out of a shipment of 77,000 cases of Scotch whiskey on .ohe vessel, 2144 cases Aisappeared at the pier. City agencies, port suthbrities' {and hipping firms have ztarted a | concerted drive to stamp out an
Cardinal
thievery which causes losses “unning into "millions of dollars an-| nually. In addition to liquor, leather!
and business machines are the most |sought after objects by thieves, w- | thorities said.
$400 DONATED FOR PYLE SCHOLARSHIP,
+ Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb, 22.— | The Ernie Pyle scholarship fund oh |Indiana university today received al | $400 check from the B'nai B'rith of | Indianapolis. | The gift was presented by Charles { Kaufman, chairman of the group] raising the contribution, to ‘Ward university vice “presi- | {dent and chairman, at a luncheon | {in “honor of pr. Kaufman, Mrs, Sidney Mahalowitz, |
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years.
councils,
all members of the Indianaolis
group.
Spellman. disclosed last night still another token of his close friendship with the
He revealed that the pectoral cross worn with his house cassock had beéen given to nim by ‘the Pope in 1943. The Pope nad worn the cross as bishop, cardinal and Vatican secretary of state.
These evidences of dsteem pos= sibly could be explained on the. basis of the fact that Cardinal Spellman and the Pope worked as colleagues for 10 years in the | Vatican secretary of state office and have been friends for many
important role
Best informed observers, ever, did not interpret these evidences as meaning Cardinal Spellman was soon to be named to the now vacant post of Vatican secretary of state, They. reasoned that he would be more useful to the church as head of his own powerful archdiocese.
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. . [tered to extend the Soviet-British | THE NEW YORK prelate was the only one of the 29 cardinalsdesignate coming to Rome who .was received by the Pope, infor mally, on the At.day-of Dis a2.
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Attlee sald, and British warships| wu and army forces are converging on| Bombay for that purpose, : Harrassed by demonstrations | against her policy in widespread quarters of the world, Britain was hunting at thé same time for solu- |
Disclosures that Britain had of- | .-
friendship pact from 20 to 50 vears, |: and had proposed a fAve-year British loan of 30,000,000 pounds ($120,000,000) to Russia were evi~| dence of the government's desire HY i to ease the strain between the two , CITA great powers. BOND a ‘ Bevin Discounts War Talk Sir Stafford Cripps announced in commons that Russia had rejected:
» Hw “ BUT THEY have motivated the belief on the part of Catholic observers that New York's arch- | bishop will play an increasingly in all Vatican
how-
the British loan offer, which carried | ices eon a ainpui nam [2% per cent interest. Russia' program” was presented to the
{wanted 100,000,000 pounds ($400,- | dianiapolis Association of Tite Un
1000,000) for 15 years. | Paced with uprisings: in several J€rriters at a luncheon ye | parts of the empire, the government
emphasis in Russian broadcasts on|iary by Willis B. Conner |
the Soviet Union's self- -proclaimed anager role of champion of colonial peopies Hace, War Pihanos of t and small nations.
Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, In| honored Holgar J.
mons yesterday, rejected sugges-| ance, New York, who
undoubtedly - watched closely the! of Fred M. Vinson, treasury ; -
Johnson, press a conciliatory speech before com-| dent of the Institute of Life Insure
tions that the present diplomatic| ferred with members of the Assos disputes might lead to eventual war| ciation of Indiana Legal Reservé with Russia. {1 “I cannot ‘conceive. any circum-| guest at & dinner given by the In stances in which the Soviet and! dianapolis: Agents Great Britain would go to war,” ;
THE MANS STORE is i i
becoming transformed
(and transferred — see footnote). NE lt is being transformed into spring — but the signs of spring “are re-born each day — there is | i a constant ingo and outgo | * (all too little-yet of the e
3% “former — to supply the latter)
BUT SOON NOW — there will be ~~ ; more abundant selections — we have every reason to believe. :
YOU'LL SEE THEM all through the store — on every. floor — in the Men's Clothing Shop — on the Boy's Floor — in the Ladtes' Shop — on the Furnishings goods floor —
shoes and hats —
GS Foot Note
AND COME NEXT MONTH-——the Strauss store-keeping activities will be transferred to the corner building next door—from top to bottom—
And our good resources have that wa il in mind—they have worked toward ) :
that end for a
long, long time— and there should be ample stocks to greet you—That and the
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traditional. Strauss services raised
to a still broader scope and even greater
. helpfulness.
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