Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1946 — Page 2
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FOUR: Democrats in the new. said they would introduce an amendment to repeal the convention system law. Report Follows History The statistical study of Indiana under the direct primary follows the history of the state from 1901 when the first primary law was, enacted by the legislature to 1929 when the nomination of candidates for U. 8. senator, governor and state offices were returned to the state convention. “Six primaries during those years,” said the report, “failed to select any ‘candidates and the nominations had to Be ‘taken to the state convention. direct primary law failed _ because it broke down party responsibility. It resulted in a lack of ~ popular interest in the primary and did hot bring about the nomination of men of large caliber. Only 50 per cent of the voters of ‘a general election were interested enough to vote in a primary. H. Clark Springer, Republican State chalrman, admitted the present ~ convention system “has its faults.” er” he said, “it still has proved itself to be better than the primary. I believe we should correct law instead . of!
12 recommendations were | by the state G. O. P. com“to maintain the state contion as a. political institution.” ncluded were, suggestiofis to the' order ‘of ' nominating so the governor ns senhtor be named last; to require, aj proxies be certified and ap-/ ¥ in person and to prevent any! n from voting more than ore
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£4 te Auditor Burch said ‘he will py the fight to return the direct |}, jary “to preserve the simple
right to rule.”
dea Indiana has had a direct intrue. nary designed to ‘refdin and} perpetuate the convention system.” | Challenges Opposition n why 44 states in the na-| ic ogr. Indiana included, revhined the
vention system. , Burch said his feelings un the
3 direct primary and mage
accusation tossed at him by Mr.
ritbries. Pleas E. Greenlee, Democratic state chairman, who is recovering!
~ split on the direct primary.”
tor, governor and state offices.”
LOCAL BRIEFS
l 20% 8. Delaware st.
sing in the Yuletide program A today on Monument Cirgle appearing are Mrs, Georg Mrs, Joseph Zoller. | B. Willets, Mrs. Donald Mc- ! , Mrs. Hart Ward, Mrs. Ethel ner, Mrs. George Nickel, Mrs. pice Kerr, Mrs. E. L. Smith, | Mrs, ; Kenneth Myers, | e McCar and Mrs, Reginald
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g Wo Thirichoie auxiliary of Foreign Wars, will | at 8 p.m. tonight n and!
at
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had direct primaries and only | prother,
Mothers’ chorus of school 78 Ny
"VICTIM OF ABDUCTION— Mrs.
Della Stackhéuse, Dixon,
IH, housewife who was abducted yesterday from her home in an attempted burglary and reeased later at a farmhouse.
+ Acme Telephoto ALLEGED KIDNAPER—Frank L. Sickles, army veteran, who has confessed, according to police, to the kidnaping yesterday of Mrs, Della Stackhouse, wife of a Dixon, lll, physician.
Disperse Mob After Kidnaping
Woman Over Fields
(U. P).—A personal appeal from Police Chief | A Harry. Pischer prevented possible mob action early today against Frank L. Sickles, 27-year-old re-
cently discharged army veteran. | Officials actused him of kidnap-
DIXON, Ill, Dec, 21
Della
ome failed.
Atomic Control
Stackhouse after (is attempts to burglarize her
‘Battle Goes On In UN Group
Commission Vote “t Yesterday Not Clear
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec. 21 (U. P).—Members of the United Nations atomic energy commission appeared today to be headed for a fresh dispute over “the principles” uhderlying the American plan for world atomic control. The argument, based on differ|ence between the United States and | Canada, was expected to break out | two days after Christmas when the |12- -nation. commission meets as a working “committee of the whole.” It must, on ‘orders it wrote for itself at a dramatic open meeting yesterday: ONE: Consider how to write into a forthcoming atomic report the principles on which the American plan is based. TWO: Tell the United Nations security council that its forthcoming negotiations on atomic control machinery must be ruled by those principles. Dispute Over Wording
United States spokesmen, reportedly supported by a majority of the 12 delegates, made clear that they interpret this to mean that the commission has accepted the entire American plan for atomic control as such, although not necessarily its exact wording.
with Russia refusing to vote and
| decision. American plan is based, Canadian
not mean the same thing as the “principles of the American plan.” Baruch Claims "Victory It was not what the Americans [had originally asked. However, | Bernard M. Baruch, 76-year-old chief American delegate to the atomic commission, and his aids accepted the Canadian resolution as a complete victory. The Americans’ goal was: ONE: To get the American plan out of the discussion stage and
have it approved by the atomic commission as the only basis for
Captor Drags, Carries * » Horkable world atomic control
Ps: Then to begin actual os) gotiations in the security council |, 1909. over a treaty which, under the | American plan, would set up a world atomic development authority. It would be bolstered by a strong {system of international inspection |
would wield |" to oust public officials and to quell |
in which no country a veto.
Protests Tacoma
Sickles, of Wyoming, Ill, was said
[dg that we, the people, have the hy police to have bound and gagged nate : | Mrs. Stackhouse, 40, and her two jome men in our state commit- | qaughters with adhesive tape and .sdid Mr. Burch, “try to sell|sashcord yesterday afternoon.
Then he walked, carried
Mob. Gathers
| The children, Linda, 9, and Dichallenged his opposition to ana, 8, were dumped into a bedroom their Stirling Stackhouse Jr, ‘who called police. The mob, estimated at several]
loset and found later by
were 50 strong that “I ask|hundred, gathered around the com- |
Mr, Fischer calmed the
wife of Dr, Stirl
Pleads With Captor Police seid Sickles told them
ne ighboring fields.
and and that it failed. This, \dragged the mother across five Indiana never had 8 miles of stubble fields before he primary. It had a make-shift'pecame “scared” and Teleased her,
mob | Springer that the auditor lined up|when he appeared on the city hall rig) 50 fleld representatives on his | |steps and announced that
Mrs. | staff and suggested they campaign Stackhouse;
intending to burglarize of about $4000.
Housing Figure
(Continued From Page One)
rooms and $4250 for one. The increase in cost on a three-
southern Indiana farmer, too.
Impure Seed Corn Blamed On Neighbors
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Farmer Bernard M. Weldon’s plea that it was an ill wind that blew non-pedigreed pollen into his hybrid seed corn failed to prevent him from paying a $150 fine today. | Weldon, 27, Aurora, Ind, told Federal Judge Robert Baltzell that the wind from neighboring farms blew pollen into his hybrid corn and contaminated it. He said that explained why bags of corn he sold as hybrid seed corn might have been mislabeled. Judge Baltzell said he was once a
“We didn't have hybrid corn In
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
oe. Heal
As Tidal Wave
the earthquake's fury, loosed a wall of water on the shoreline where most of the populace slept.
Canada, whose delegate wrote the compromise resolution passed by | the commssion yesterday 10 to 0— Poland abstaining—served notice that it will fight the United States’ | interpretation of the commission's The principles upon which the
officials contended privately, does
room prefab; $4850 for two bed- |
my day,” he said, “but I can understand that you can't plant the corn just anywhere and expect it to be hybrid.” “I would be better off,” said Mr. Weldon, “if there were no such thing as 33 hyorid ¢ corn,”
‘Gallus: Gene Talmadge Dies
Won 4th Georgia Term as Governor {Continued From Page One)
these featured Mr, Talmadge's Ie “galluses.” Mr. Talmadge's passing pHOF to his inauguration loosed a storm of | political speculation as to who {would govern the state. There were these three principal conjectures. ONE: That the legislature convening Jan. 13 would elect a governor to succeed Ellis Gibbs Arnall, whose liberal administration the conservative Mr. Talmadge was to inherit. TWO: Governor Arnall would hold over for another four-year term. THREE: M.E. Thompson, schedto take office as lieutenant governor, Jan. 14, would file suit claiming succession to the governorship. Governor Arnall sent a message of condolence to, the Talmadge family and ordered the closing of the state capitol where the flery political leader had won some of his greatest triumphs. Mr. Talmadge's body will lie In state under the dome at the state capitol tomorrow afternoon. Monday the body will be taken to his home at McRae, Ga, for funeral {services in the First Baptist church. Mr. Talmadge was born Sept. 23,! 1884, in Forsyth, Ga. He married |
Called Troops 17 Times His political career was as stormy las it was successful. He ruled by {bayonets as well as by law, Sevteen times he called out troops |
strike riots. The country-reared lawyer-farm-'er told his rural constituents he | scorned the vote and influence of | the wealthy. It was his boast that | he never, in any election, carried | a county with a street car in it. But | political students knew Mr. Talmadge often had. the support of | railroads, banks and some corpora- | | tions, Mr. Talmadge's last campaign | {was his hardest-fought, and when tvietory was his the old campaigner |
bedroom home was $1116 on the admitted that “it took years off my
basis of the new price of $5400 com-
profit corporation. How Many Bedrooms?
For more | three-bedroom house and that all
home was prepared, he said. “We have had increased’ costs,” {he said,
Ing
pared with an estimated price of | $4284 six weeks ago. This estimate | was made on the basis of figures | supplied by members of the npon-
life.” His opponent, with Goverror Arnall’s support, won a popular majority, but Mr. Talmadge was elected by Georgia's county unit | voting rule. | Pledged ‘Private’ Primary He felt his election in 1946 on the |
Mec Mr. Grinslade asserted that the |“white supremacy” issue was a vin- | blicans and Democrats to unite bination eity hall and jail shortly|$4284 price did not apply to a |dication of the “race” stand which | p enactment of a law 1n the after 9 p. m. last night. cofiging legislature which would re-|than four hours, while Sickles was being questioned, the crowd milled | {around the building and peered in|
cost him the governorship four vears! | ago.
His action brought disaccredita-| [tion to the state university system | land Mr. Aynall, backed by thou-
“but not that.much. We sands of college students, rode into brother. {were reluctant to make public esti- Mr, Talmadge's office with a prom- | for a direct primary in their ter-/giackhouse, had not béeh harmed, Males anyway because we couldn't ise to restore college standings. He |in an automobile driven by Albert
se Sure what the final cost would | did.
he originally, the houses
Airport Yramler Naot Stout field ‘will be
| predicted today.
the army's lease on the field.
GAR Veteran, Once Indians’ Ward, Is 104 Tomorrow
MARION, Ind. Dec | White- haired John
21 “u. P. F. Smith, mother gave him to ¢
104th birthday morrow,
anniversary
Mr. Smith is one of four surviv-!
).— by his widowed mother and lived New Deal. ‘among the wild animals and In. on John | Civil war veteran who claimed his dians”
A
for five years. An India
an Indian trite, chief adopted him, he said, and | tney, Mrs. Etolia(whén he was a lad, observes his|ealled him “Little White Indian tional condemnation upon himself |
to- Chief.”
, This time it was Mr. Talmadge
were | who 8 _ from minor injuries suffered in an|enterec the Stackhouse home by a | planned to sell at announced prices | the Ba mr no] Seah Jas Uven We Jus Save, automobile accident, said “we're not [Tear door, "interested in the Republican party {the house. He said he was surprised by Mrs. bility for the $4000 figure, asserting | “We will introduce an amendment Stackhouse and grappled with her that it never was official, to Pepeal a clause in the election law! as she attempted to telephone police, | that excludes the nomination by He ‘gagged her with adhesive tape | was given to veterans asking how primary candidates for U. 8. sena- and bound her with sashcord. Her much tHe houses would ODA. two daughters arrived home from | school and entering their mother’s bedroom were grabbed ana tied by |Sickles, according to the story,
“the |
The non-profit | white folks” by changing the party Indiana State Teachers college. corporation has disclaimed responsi- t
jo a private club and thus exclude |
| sonally ask the 1947 legislature for!
It was the figure, however, which his “white primary” laws.
Red Suspenders Brought Cheers | Mr, Talmadge's stump-speaking ability brought even his bitter ene- | mies to his meetings. He would begin in a low, earnest voice. As he
returned to the Sickles said the telephone hein A Tl ne Co warmed up, someone would shout {Haute- bound car polic Grove United AN: ringing somewhere in the house if order of Druids will have'a and he became frightened. He oristmas party for members and! gered Mrs. Stack lies Monday night in Druids front of him. at
“Tak off your coat, Gene.” He'd]
| the Indiana adjutant general's office peel off and at the sight of his | It sald that the political label—bright red suspenhouse to march in|U, 8. army corps of engineers had! ders—the faithful would shout. gun point, across approved plans for cancellation of |
Despite his “aint a-gonna” stump Istyle, he was well educated, hold-
{ing a law degree from the Univer- | mu
" | sity of Georgia.
which rolled five miles and more inland.
virtually cleaned out by six successive blasts of huge waves.
the “shrine city of Kyoto and other localities. damage were reported from 14 pre-
steel bridges were destroyed and
| parts of 14 perfectures which listed
He had fired two state uni- poth legs broken and head lacerafigures released by the corporation | versity officidls because, he said, |tions.
na state government a true were for two-bedroom homes. No | they wanted Negro-white mixing in| Mrs. Evinger died in the Putnam of and by the people.” | windows, voicing threats againsticost estimate on a three-bedroom schools. . Burch would not discuss an|gickles' life. ¥
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plit Over
1500 Killed Hits Japan
‘20,000 Homeless, 50 Cities Smashed
(Continued From Page One)
City after city was flood: . Kochi, on the south coast of | Shikoku island, and its neighboring villages on the lowlands were swept by waves seven to 10 feet high
Kainan, a city of 26,000, was
The tidal disturbance penetrated
the Tokushima strait and exiterea the inland sea.
Inland, the quake was damaging |
Deaths, injuries and fectures, { A photographer for Mainichi said | 481 ships were washed away in the] Wakayama area. He described the tidal wave’s approach as a tornado of water which drove fishing junks through houses as straws are driven through a tree by high winds. Mainichi published some of his pictures which showed houses pierced by boats. No Fresh Damage For more than 18 hours lesser after-quakes continued to be felt, once every half hour, no fresh damage was recorded. (The Boston college seismological station recorded a new, strong temblor at 3:31:43 a. m. (Indianapolis time) today with indications that it occurred off the coast of Wakayama, Japan. That would be 6:31:43 p. m. tonight in Tokyo. Subsequent: dispatches failed to note any fresh disastrous quakes.) Those slight shocks were felt at St. Maurice, Switzerland, but they caused no damage. Experts believed Japan missed a duplication of the 1923 death toll only because today's shock was offshore. The Kochi area in Shikoku includes the village of Usa, famous for its pre-war exports to the United States of toys and novelties stamped “made in Usa.” Worst Ever Recorded Earthquake damage was felt immediately from Osaka on the east {to Hiroshima, destroved by the first atomic bomb and now being rebuilt. At least 21 were killed at Osaka | City, headquarters of the U. 8, 25th | division. For more than 14 hours after the {major shock, minor quakes were felt every half hour. Many residents saved their lives by taking no housetops or higher) ground to spend a dawn of terror. | Military government officials said {Osaka, a port city of three million { population, had rations for five days {for only 50,000 persons. Army authorities said because of disrupted {Fail lines emergency supplies might have to be moved in by ships. Unconfirmed reports said nine various
nine others damaged in
| disaster. SAAR.
Icy Hishways Take 0 Lives
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pital in serious condition,
County hospital at Greencastle last {night after the Stilesville accident. She was en route to Terre Haute {to spend Christmas with her
She was ridding as a passenger
| Fleschner, 21, of Terre Haute. The {other car involved in the head-on
{25, of Terre Haute, a student at the Both Mr. Savant and a passenger,
Haute were hurled through the | windshield by the impact, They are in critical condition. State police reported that Mr, Savant’s car spun out of control as he approached a bridge and skidded into the path of the Terre
| The state highway department warned that highways were slick
| Recent
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SATURDAY, DEC. 21, 1048.
Direct Primary Hal
SANTA TAKES SOME ORDERS—Four Indianapolis youngsters look at- Sorte Claus with awe as he spins a tale of the North Pole after taking their Ch at the Wm. Block Co. toyland. ing oir Christmas orders
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington
Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
(Continued From Page One)
nomic advisers indicate this time government won't back down for large increases. Union members don’t want strikes. Many lost more pay in last strike round than they would have ‘gained through raises finally won, even if living costs hadn't upped. Also they haven't forgotten that soft-coal miners lost 17 days’ pay—about $150 per miner— in recent Lewis strike, won nothing. Union treasuries are low. C. I. O. auto workers’ funds shrank
disappointed over limit fixed for size of homes which can be built
| under revamped program. Maxi-
from $1,500,000 to $700,000 in the |
General Motors strike, is down to $400,000 now. Some cost-of-living prices have declined recently and many economists predict a sharper drop soon after Christmas. Finally, a wave of strik in next few months would spur congress to drastic labor legislation. SIGNIFICANT: While Reuther’s anto workers rushed out on heels of the Nathan report with definite wage demands—23% cents an hour plus concessions amounting to another 6% cents— electrical workers and Philip Murray's steel workers decided not to name specific figures in asking raises. = ” »
Not Adamant
ALL THIS doesn't mean that ployers stand against any .instrikes can be avoided if emcreases. But strikes are costly to employers also. Many realize cost of living is pinching workers; will yield something rather than see plants closed again. Ace in the hole for leaders, creases than members expect, is possibility of -collecting portal-to-portal pay running back for years. supreme court decision apparently authorizes it. Amount involved, unless congress sets limit, is estimated at $5 billion or more,
union
rv » n ONE OF NEXT big union drives for higher wages will be in southern textile industry. C. IL. O.s | textile + workers recently got a negotiated rise in New England, will now try to bring southern scales to this level. » ~
Democrats in Dark
PRESIDENT TRUMAN is preparing his message to eongréss without consulting Democratic leaders in that body, according to all signs. He's seen some congressmen individually but no general pow-wow has been held. This puzzles some observe
Negro voters. He planned to per- | 'Miss Joan Greenlee, 18, of Terre | who think the Truman messages
to new congress will be among his most important, may fix the course of party affairs until the next convention. House Democrats have a caucus scheduled for Jan. 2, and Senator Alben Barkléy, Democratic leader, is arranging to call a party conference before then. But it looks as if both groups
in spots. throughout the state. Crews were spreading sand
portions of the roadways. In the northern La Porte and | southern Vincennes districts, roads |
and; salt at Intersections and dangerous
will caucus in a vacuum so far as their leader is concerned.
Wyatt Offered Job
BEFORE HIS ROW with White
Mr. Talmadge loudly champloned were clear ‘except in cities and| HOuse Adviser George Allen and
states’ rights, looked on most peo-!
ple from outside Georgia as “fur- |
towns. In the La Porte-Ft. Wayne area,
his resignation as housing expediter, Wilson Wyatt was offered
riners,” and fiercely resented fed- two to threes inches of snow cov-| post of solicitor general. He deeral bureaus and agencies of the| |ered roads. One to two inches were| Clined because he wanted to see
the WPA, called n| |doggling.”
Mr. Talmadge once brought na-
it, “boon-|
(by referring to President Roose-
{ Later, Mr Sunith said, he left the Ivelt's physieal infirmity. From that
tribe and. searched for his mother |Point—in 1935—on he was violently |
ing members and a past com- until he found her. He traveled with | &nti-Roosevelt.
mande¥ of the Indiana department a circus, then enlisted in the Union! (Of the Grand Army of the Repub- army in 1863 and served for three | Norris | (lie. He is believed to -be the oldest | years in Co. L, 8th Illinois cavalry. He helped organize the Salvation will | dian. He also asserts he is the Army unit in Marion, Lafayette and | the Salvation | Pt. Wayne, He has two other chil-| |dren, Miss Goldie Smith of Ft. The aged man was bedfast, too! | Wayne and, Henry JL. Bmith of St. eeble to sit in a chair in his home, | Louis, Mo.. Bix ‘grandchildren and, prepared to start his 105th six great-grandchildren. His daughter, Mrs. Viola Me-
'rematning Civil war veteran in
{oldest member of’ Army in the United States.
if es he
on.
was ‘at his. bedside,
a
Mr. Smith was born in Plymouth, a Dec. 22, 1842. He often told all ki Smith t ‘that he was abandoned said.
In-
the eve of his 104th birthday. “I'd rather call it my fourth,
A friend asked how he felt on
Resigns Post
| pointment of Harry Stitle to replace him. | “press. for Submitting. his resignation.
INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING MOUSE / For the Day i BLL fete en . AAR RRA Fak a wa
Chsenenaaenan
Mr. Norris gave the { business” as thé reason EB: Hudson M
Bi, 403,000 Cenaenans 195,081, 0
cennes; three to flve inches were ‘reported at Greenfield and three to {four inches at t Seymout.
- Ship Pianos by Air CHICAGO, Dec. 21 (U. P.) —Offi- | cials of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co, | DeKalb, II,
| Los Angeles on one plane. They
Mayor Tyndall today announced said it would be the largest air {the resignation of Virgil Norris as 4th shipment of pianos ever made, assistant city attorney and the ap-|
NEW LICENSE "AGENT ANDERSON, Ind,, Dec. 21 —Harry
lean’ chairman assumed manage{ment of ‘the Anderson auto license bureau today, succeeding Clyde L. House, also a Republican. Mrs. Tom
. S400 Johnson has been named as super-
vising clerk of the branch by Mr. Hiden. IS
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sald they would ship! 50 pianos today from Chicago to
ison county Repub~ |
He waged constant war reported at Crawfordsville and Vin-| the housing job through.
He's still a possibility for the Job. That explains why he left housing without blasting those esponsible fo for scuttling his policles
NOMA 8-LIGHT
TREE LIGHT SETS RADIOS! RADIOS! Westinghouse — Philco | CROSLEY — ZENITH || RADIO-PHONO COMBINATIONS AMES OFF
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» HOME-BUILDING industry is ea Ba——————————
mum size (1500 square feet) compares with 1800 feet asked by builders, 2500 feet recommended by American Legion committee,
» »
Rent Freezes Veterans RENT CEILINGS on homes will be
varied in both
" directions from $80 “project av-
erage” decreed by Mr. Truman. Housing officials say the average
reduced in lower-cost communities, while it may be allowed to exceed $80 in New York and few other metropolitan areas. Discarded regulation fixed $80 top rent. : Most veterans will be frozen out if average remains $80. Census bureau survey showed saverage veteran able to pay only $45 for rent. ” ” » LOOK FOR CONGRESS to repeal premium payment subsidies on building materials. Manufacturers will tell investigating com-
mittees they don’t want subsidies. | Housing officials plan to continue payments anyway, although at reduced rates.
Senators Get New Aids
NINETY-SIX [lush new jobs, paying up to $10,000 a year each, wait filling.by senators in the new congress. ~ Provision in one deficiency appropriation bill gave each senator an administrative assistant. Base pay is $8000, overtime may increase it. Same deficiency bill created majority and minority policy committees of senate with seven members each. Neither committee has been appointed, yet Leslie
”
Biffle, Mr. Truman's closest pal in |
congress, is slated for chief of staff of the minority committee. House declined to create similar groups. ” n s SIGN OF TIMES: | Hamilton McCauley,
Mrs. Jane newly
sion of the Republican national committee, is a cousin of John D. M. Hamilton, former Republican national chairman, Alf M. Landon’'s 1836 campaign -manager. Incidentally, presidential politics was not involved in discharge of Mrs. McCauley’s predececsor, Miss Marion Martin of Maine, despite charges that the Tafts were against her.
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130 East Market Street
CIO to Sue Ford For $270 Million
Seek to Recover Portal-to-Portal Pay
DETROIT, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—The C. I. O. United Auto Workers union said today it will file suis next week seeking recovery of $270 {million in retroactive portal-toe portal pay for employees of the Ford Motor Co. It said it would sue the Briggs Manufacturing Co., world’s largest maker of auto bodies, for additional “millions” for that firm's 23,000 employees.
new |
Richard T. Leonard, national U. A. W. Ford director, |Ford total would include $260,000,« {000 the union claims is due 60,000 |River Rouge plant workers for five |years’ portal-to-portal activity. More Suits to Come
| U. A. W. local 551 at Chicago has | already sued to recover $8 million for 2000 workers in a Ford plant |there. | The U. A. W. indicated still larger |suits are to come, covering hundreds ‘cf thousends of employees of (General Motors and Chrysler core
porations and smaller automobile and parts manufacturers. Union {Attorney Maurice Sugar sald
preparations for the suits were mov'ing ahead at “top speed.” e
| The suits are based upon a préc- 4 |edent recently set by’ the U. a No
|supreme court, which decided the | Mount Clemens Pottery Co. Mount
{ Clemens, Mich, must pay its em-
| pioyees for all time spent on come pany property in travel to work or nreparation for the job.
MIDLAND, Mich, Dee. 21 (U, P.),—The Dow Chemical Co. became one of the nation’s first firms to settle the portal-to-portal pay issue outside the courts today when lit disclosed it had agreed to give
|its employees $4,056,000 in retroace
tive pay. | Under an agreement with local 10275, A. F. of L. United Mine Workers, the company also. agreed to pay veterans about $600,000 in benefits.
30 Hogs Suffocate
Thirty hogs suffocated and a | quantity of corn burned when an oil stove set fire to a hoghouse last night on the farm of Don Seerley, R. R. 1, Box 23, Bridgeport, the | sheriff's office reported. Total loss
in-| Was $3000. stalled head of the women's divi- |
Christmas Seal Sale
The 1946 tuberculosis Christmas seal sale reached $70,000 today, $30,» [000 short of the $100,000 goal.
Organizations
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Dewey Raises On '48
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By LYLE United Press § WASHINGTO} Charles A. Halle given the edge t« for Republican house as the batt a long-expected House Republ Jan, 2 to select settle their dif leadership, Rep. Jr. of Massachus speakership, Rep. Thomas / sent the leaders into the open | blast at Mr. Ha. candidacy was p for-President bo Other ( Gov. Thomas York previously Mr. Halleck for leader, Mr, Jen leadership. The other ca and undeclared J. Brown of ( Dirksen of IlMnc The presence the race sharp prospects bf ei against Mr. Halle of a stalemate, Mr, Jenkins’ st what some perso privately—that tion as G. O. P. he viewed in som for Mr. Dewey, Battle to “Why is Mr. I terested in havin very important Jenkins asked. it will help him Does it mean th bave a voice and the actions of cc nothing else. “It would be a | for any person portant position he is obligated special benefit group.” It would be a: pretend that pres: play less than i the deliberations gress which wil J With the Republi (J sressional power ill years, the battle dential nominati one with no hold
Mother of Commission
Times St MUNCIE, Ind A. J. Thompson, B. Thompson, m highway commi today in her ho Services will | Monday . in Nev with burial in Ne:
Kokomo Pla
Proposed const: 000 manufacturin was. approved tod temporary contro Application of | Co. at Kokomo construct a rollin; irg plant was pas a8 a plant m essential product listed at $622,00 project was th projects approve ending Dec. 19.
Pedestrian
A youth about an old model cs robbed a pedes Shaver, 46, of 70 $175 in the 500 b! police were tolc waited at the wv running.
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