Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1947 — Page 2

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PAGE 1 Li Present Labor Peace | And High Employment Rate Upsets Theory

Government Officials Puzzled, Discount Part Toft-Hartley Bill May Be Playing By FRED W. PERKINS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—~Government statisticians are seeing an old and wusted theory upset, and they don't know just how to explain it. The sheory was that in times of industrial activity and high employment ‘labor unions were ‘most likely to strike for ‘higher wages Periods of depression worked the other way-—unions were less disposed to risk the jobs of their members when prices and production were falling and unemployment was on mand for goods as it s and with the rise. anufacturers able to raise prices

Industrial. production is high; to meet increased labor costs, agreeindustrial employment and Wages as... potween employers and well as prices are at all-time peaks. unions are probable until there is And strikes are at ‘heir lowest point a hig change in the economic since the first few weeks of 1048, almost at a record low for peace- In the background is a warning

time ‘years of the last 15. {just voiced by the “C, 1. O. News," Has Theory

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Human Slaughter § Continues in India

New Dominions Are In an Awful Mess |

By ROBERT G. MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent | NEW DELHI, Sept. 24 The “considerable improvement” -in India and Pakistan as reported by their] governments meant merely a dwin-| dling of casualties from thousands] to hundreds a day, it became clear! today. 3 { In short, this carnage-wracked | sub-continent in the infancy of its| & independence still is in an awful! mess. The savage lust for blood | still is unslaked, RY The equivalent of martial law throughout. the land was the only thing which prevented the con- | tinuance of wholesale slaughter. { Sickening Sights ¢ Five thousand troops equipped for

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- : __ WEDNESDAY, SEPT..24, 1940 ! ‘ < Aviation f 0 & | Overnight Berth Hoodlums Overrun California, Blood To London $125 alirornia, biooay Verano aie. |G War Feared ' Churges in Addition | ang ; 1 To Regular Fare | Governor Warren Lays Plans to Tear State By MAX B. COOK | From Clutches of Mobsters and Racketeers | Scripps-Howard Aviation Editor : ry : | NEW YORK, Sept, 24—For $125 By CHARLES T. LUCEY, Seripps- Howard Stat Welter a may sleep all night while flying SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24.—Mobsters and racketeers you in on California’s lush, green, easy-money pastures. over the Atlantic ocean. The only question for the wise boys with the slicked hair, open- | ‘That, of course, is in addition to necked sports shirts and dirty fingernails is how to “turn a quick grand” |your regular fare of $325 in your | on each bright day. 13-hour flight from New York to| Si London : footie with the mobsters. Nobody [ote insist that the conditions | : 4 has nailed down anything though. |, remedied.” | The passenger can cut that exis, Bus Governor Esrl Warren 15| There is much in Governor Warprice im half, however, if his wife moving in on the rackets show. The| en's own record to show that he i ip. For there's { gots Aung on the lp €5| odds are good for big headlines in| can check crime. {plenty of room in the lower bertis|iphe next few months on what's Wher, he was district attorney is jon the new Constellations for tWO| heen happening in the vicious pat-| Alameda courtty (Oakland) He tock persons, and the charge is for the (orn: behind organized crime in| over crime suppression froin the best, y berths hold only one) ny)ifornia, |sheriff and his deputies and sent person. Senator Sheridan Downey (D.|these officials to jail.

There is much talk-of protection being paid and of officials playing

Ewan Clague, U. 8 commissioner of labor statistics, says the upsetting of the old theory may be due lo abnormal conditions—that the present period, so far as strikes are concerned, probably is a calm after Lhe storm. Howard T. Colvin, associate ditector of the federal mediation and concijlation service, says the labo! peace: may be due to uncertiiply ‘over the Workings of the nw Tatts Hartley Tabor law. » ‘Federal officials In general are more disposed to credit the’ uncertainty over the new law rather than actual benefits {rom the Jaw 1sel! for the industrial calm. They say the law is too new to have proved itself in this partictdar Not Conclusive None of the officials wants to risk a guess as Lo how long the pedceful conditions will last. They point out,

however, that & large number of labor contracts expire in.the fall, and that recently the number of t30.day notices,” required by the

L- Hau tley act, has begun to rise. ONS NOW THE RIVER EH 0e WHER they plan to demand better conditioins—and perhaps strike for them -at the expiration of contracts. But this rise in 30-day notices is not regarded. as conclusive evidence * that increasing labor disturbances

that -if prices of living necessities continue to rise the inevitable re-

sult will be union demands for higher wages. Mr. Clague declined to predict

how long the booming employment conditions are likely to last. But he could see no immediate drastic change coming up He pointed out that unemployment is declining in virtually every

pany ofc the ocusSey. wit, the great.

est. reductions along rhe’ ealftPrn seaboard In apparel and textile centers and in California where the canning Industry has reached a sea sonal high Part. of the ment was credited to disappearance from the labor market of school and college youngsters who had not found vacation jobs, but much of it, the bureau of statistics sald “was due lo increaged hiring fon the fall Some officials who were predict ing bad times-about now or soonei now admit that “at the depression has been postponed.”

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battle were required in Delhi alone to maintain a semblance of order.| Their removal would start the carnage all over again, Both governments were deeply involved in the greatest mass. migration of modern history, involving an estimated four million. persons Most had huge refugee camps bulging with thousands of half-starved, filthy, hy sterieal ONE es sli 00 FR ona Oke, of ‘the generrlly ‘broken down Lranssystem . “oe

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Already disease and epidemics had °

killed hundreds

Even military escorts could not guarantee the safety. of the refuees, ‘Trains were being derailed,

caravans attacked, villages burned Agriculture at Standstill Mob anger against the troops for depriving them of victims was so intense that more and more attacks were being made against the army I'wmo ‘British officers were killed in the last days in battles between Indian troops and gangs in the Punjab ‘ Astichdlire.copdie bh. emplovs. nie; tenths of the population, was at a standstill, Crops were unharvested and lands were untilled. The farmers had been killed or forced to flee The food shortage already was acute in many areas and thousands were doomed. to. starvation As an

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Two to Attend Methodist Parley

Bishop Titus Lowe of the Indianapolis Methodist area and the Rev Amos Boren will-attend the seventh Ecumenical Methodist conference beginning today in. Springfield, Mass. F The Rev. Mr. Boren 1s the new pastor. of TNE KODEILS Fain miei odist church, He and Bishop Lowe will share in a nine-day conference with ministerial and lay leaders of 16 independent Methodist bodies on

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UNGING CHIEF Chief Bi EN eh Be a Re el Ry

New nonstop service in the first cal) warned

ican World Airways Clippers sleep days, 18 persons and seat 10 others in reclining chairs. Six additional re-

to sit up part of the night. Berths are 6'; feet long and 7

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Chapter, 553, O. E. S., in Maanied by Prifcess White Beaver.

policy. The group has met at intervals of 10 years since 1881 except I when war made it impossible to 0 [ess roup do so. This year's gathering was to have, Norman Damon of Washington, heen in Oxford, England, but was pC, vice president of the Auto- otteries have faced \o Spee en because of motive Safety Foundation,

Safety Official

for the racketeers,

‘second annual Governor's highway 0Pbles.

New Hearing Aid FoR ane Tops Mgt . - salety conierence a e a Weighs Only 6 Ounces ,,., hii

A new hearing ald development, t by the Bell Telephone laboratories, ernor Gates; Thomas E. Bath,

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| recently that the! of the postwar sleeping planes be- state was due for a period of gang knocked off the : 3 g plush gambling gan Sept. 15. The big Pan-Amer- warfare outdoing Chicago's Capone

New Crime Commission Attorney General Frederick Naclining chairs are held for use of poleon Howser challenged this, but the berth holders in case they wish Governor Warren agreed with the

investigation ‘by a

‘new crime commission to be anyuptinced soon, the governor is in

Weep Arena; rad Been

As state attorney-general he ships doing a fabulous business in the harbors of Santa Monica ahd Long Beach, near Los Angeles. When they opened up again after he became governor, he appealed to President Truman for federal aid in going after them—and he got it. There are some quaint touches to crime out ‘here. Some of the

applied for—and are getting-—job-less pay. .

Hoosier Woman Doctor Wins Lasker. Award

A 78-year-old Hoosier woman doctor today became the first woman to receive a Lasker award of the American Public Health association for contribution in the field of med~ ical science. ~ She is Dr. Alice Hamilton, formerly of Ft. Wayne and now of Hadlyme, Conn. Her award was for “a life of public service in the pre-

hearing satisfaction to those handi- perintendent of public instruction; signal that the state is a new prom- problems, Dr. Hamilton carried out

capped, according to Mrs. L. R. Col. Robert Rossow, superintendent ised land for the hoodlums.

Rogers, of the Audiphone company of of Indiana,

{investigations which resulted in

state police; John H. Lauer, There have been at least a half- vastly improved health conditions chairman of the state highway dozen’ other deaths of gunplay or for workers of the nation and pas-

five continents. Approximately 500| The new model Is the smallest commission; Cleon H. Foust, attor-|garroting. And these. have helped Sa8¢ of workmen's compensatiun

delegates and specially appointed

set ever made by Western Electric. ney general, and Prof. J. L. Lingo, awaken the state.

| laws.

ear, said to be the oni Inc.ar Ince ; _in gamblers who _ have been thrown: SE PTI eT aA” Brine” Aine: AS VE OY oh Yes THON To’ develop and diseloss tHe out-of “work By recent as facts on organized crime as never has been done here before. The movie and oil industries have been cited as particular attractions and gambling itself is on industry status. | Gambling joints have operated in many areas and dice games and run freely. Slot mawill chines have been set up just about! i speak Tuesday, Sept. 30, before the everywhere but in the postoffice Racing wire services and bookie joints likewise are involved. Promised Land | The killing of Benjamin (Bugsy) Other speakers will include Gov- Siegel, notorious underworld figure, | the Los Angeles home of his rich vention of occupational diseases.” Sake as YT Spectalizitig “fi ifausvAal medical

are in the offirig. These notices : . CARBON MONOXIDE VARIES

indirect result of the rioting, guests make up the ‘official roster

It weighs only six ounces complete director of the public safety insti-|- Governor Warren, preparing to! Another Hoosier was one of five

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frequently have been used to clea: . but 1000 guests and listeners are with batteries and is designed to tute at Purdue university. name his crime commission, said Persons honored with a 1947 Lasker the decks for strikes, if they become, WASHINGTON Automobile en- FIRES LAID TO SMOKERS expected : operate at a cost of less than a cent James D. Harrison, director of the today he believed “organized ’ crime award. He was Dr. Thomas Francis necessary, and to inform émployers gines produce from 1 per cent to WASHINGTON. Careless smok- The conference does not have an hour. It has a special pange Indiana Traffic Safety commission, cannot operate in the full light of Jr. Gas City, now of the University. that the unions are prepared to go 13 per cent carbon monoxide in ers are the greatest cause of forest legislative power but is said to and tone control for excluding Which is sponsoring the meeting ‘day. If the facts are determined and of Michigan school of public health to bat in a vigorous mannec their exhaust gases, recent tests fires which cover over 20 million wield strong “influence. in shaping noise and for bringing out the high said more than 300 persons are ex- made known, there is sufficient He was cited for his contribution te Mr. Clague thinks that with de- show, Acres in America annually © worldwide Methodist opinion and and low tones of music. pected to attend the conference. ‘decency in the citizenry of our total knowledge of influenza —-— a —- - - - - - . - mr —— = —~ SL = ee —_—_ A —a— . 4 CT LS AY STAT I py Santee LE IR Mite ANN oer IARI A HAs NEE Rn : : en eT. ~ : 2K . mind : : : : To : 2 g ’ ‘ . v.

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NANKING, Si Russian aid to nists is in the ha Nationalist govt learned today.

This proof, in sian weapons a equipment captu Communists, wa: king from variot Aug. 1. Until t ment officials we: amine it.

The governm that Russia has of Outer Mong supplied it wi weapons - identics Russian army. In addition it bombs dropped o troops in China ince of Sinkiang manufacture,

Bear Russ The governme and heavy mack captured from C in Manchuria. ‘I markings and a sian manufactur Other materi: Chinese’ Commu sian first did field radios, Russ [en JOUSSIOE. THeSan tion. One or more ferent types of £ tured from Chin from Outer Mo been sent to Nan ‘This correspor mission from tl ment to examin was arranged or room about 10 ‘feet long. There are Ru of both 1943 and

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“walkie talkie.” There are sec tion bombs bea ing. These bom] ° Chinese national tified” airplanes Sinkiang ‘provin Claim 200( There are un Outer Mongolia: practically: ident uniforms even sickle insignia. There are Rus grenades. The Soviets Communists de any Russian aid in the Chinese

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