Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1949 — Page 2
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Nota Jendix Strike
idl oma Sol 1 sh {robbed of $200 by a phantom Company, UAW Cite yundit who left behind almost
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i. Times State Service ~ BOUTH BEND; May 10-Two additional = federal negotiators were expécted here today to try to break the strike deadlock which ‘+ has kept some 5500 Bendix workers off their jobs since Apr. 20. The U, 8., negotiators, Clyde ' Mills of Washington and Arthur Viatt, Detroit, regional director of the Federal Mediation Service, were to join Paul Holbrook of Cleveland and Marvin Scknynaird of Detroit, who have been wrestling with the issue since it began. A company spokesman said there is but one issue, namely, that the UAW-CIO violated its contract, which runs to June 27, 1950, with a slowdown about a week before the strike was called.
TUAW Oltes Issues
The UAW cites three issues,
none of which is wages, ONE: A speedup which reduced wages, asking more production for less money, especially in brake shoes in Dept. 5-C. TWO: The firing of 47 people
contract with a slowdown, i THREE: The “unfairness” of a| $1.5 million lawsuit filed during the first week when the UAW says the strike was in a “wildcat” stage, The union also charges a plant
= Robber Who's 'Only a Voice . Gets $200 at Gas Station
‘Don’t Turn Around,’ He Tells Attendant
A 26-year-old filling station attendant was questioned by police itoday after he told of being
$500, Kenneth Hicks, Mooresville at.tendant at the Spur Distributing {Co 1017- E. -Michigan Bt., told ‘officers he never saw the bandit 7 {who came up from behind and irobbed him and said he could recognize him only by his voice, ‘Don’t Turn Around’ | Hicks told police he was bent ‘over in the warehouse at the station shortly after 8 a. m. when he suddenly heard a movement behind him and a voice said: “Don’t turn around.” The voice then ordered Hicks to throw his money to the floor. Hicks said he tossed over a roll of $200 which was in his shirt pocket. He added later, however, that the bandit failed to get another $500 which was in his possession. The attendant said the bandit ordered him to remain in the warehouse 10 minutes. He said {he remained about five minutes, then called police, Meanwhile, other police today were Investigating an equally § bafMing burglary at a West Side haberdashery, puzzied at the;
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Ford Agrees
Peace Talks
Company to Meet With UAW Chiefs
At 2 p.m. Tomorrow DETROIT, May 10 (UP)-—The {Ford Motor Co. agreed today to [resume peace talks tomorrow iwith’ the CIO United Auto Workiers’ Union in an attempt to end ithe B-day-old strike against Ford's River Rouge and LincoinMercury plants here. i Henry Ford 1I, replying to an offer by UAW President Walter Reuthet, for resumption of nego-! tiations, sald the company would! be “very happy” to meet with the UAW tomorrow afternoon, | The stalemate in negotiations |was broken when Mr. Reuther {sent a letter to Mr. Ford asking {the youthful company president to take personal charge of the Ford peace talks. Mr. Ford declined Mr. Reuther’s invitation to head the company negotiating team. He said John 8. Bugas, vice president in charge of industrial relations, “will conduct the negotiations on behalf of the Ford Motor Co.” Negotiations to end the strike
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at 2863 Clifton 8t.,
amount of merchandise which Filling Station Attendant Ken-
robbers carried away In the ap-| neth Hicks . , . He told police on the charge of violating the| parently leisurely looting.
| Take 700 Items { Alfred Paul, owner of the store
and that a male office worker Alued at almost $3000.
kicked a gir! picket. 3 Get Strike Pay UAW strikers are drawing
They also took women's
jewelry valued at $25.
The break-in was not discov-
told police ered until about 2 a, burglars took more than 700/When policemen driving byland backing of the management {items—200 sport shirts, 400 pairs noticed the front door glass was of this company and has the re‘of trousers, 36 T-shirts, 16 neck- broken. police car struck down a striker, te 8ix belts and five tie clasps) Investigating, they found the on all matters involving relation-
were rescheduled as the strike of 62,200 UAW employees at the he could recognize the phan- [two plants spread its paralyzing tom burglar's "voice." jeffects on Ford's far-flung inimeem resmmeee | USUPIR] @mpiTe, m. today «Mr Bugas has the full support
{sponsibility for speaking for it
door had been unlocked through ships with your union,” Mr, Ford the broken glass and that racks sald. and merchandise drawers were| When negotiations were broken practically stripped. . |off with the start of the strike
strike relief from the
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Mrs. Tillie P. Turner, mother of
wage. Stanley Ladd, president of the South Bend local of UAW, said the relief pay “runs about $5 a week.” *Plant officials contend there are 7500 on strike but the union deducts 2000 office and supervisory workers not involved. The strike in the Bendix Productd Division of the Bendix Aviation Corp. has caused six automobile companies to withdraw dies for brakes. The auto companies ‘were Willys-Overland, Nash, Lin- . ~~ obln, Cadillac, Hudson and Kal- : ser-Frazer. A company spokesman asid the
strike is costing workers $81,713
a day. Martin Gerber, regional direc-
tor of the UAW-CIO, is heading
negotiations for the strikers. About 50 hours have been spent 1g. conferences, Grotto Auxiliary Plans Memorial Rites, May 18
will Hold a stated meeting and
The Sahara Grotto ting and] memorial service at 8 p. m. May
18 in the Grotto Auditorium. Mrs Leatha Prather will preside. _
Sahara Grotto committees have !sh-American War Mothers Aux-
scheduled the following meetings: Visiting, May*®17, noon luncheon with Mrs, Margaret Trobaugh, 2820 Moore Ave.; Dining Room,
pany officials’ agreed to meet again on request of either party. In an interview with the United Press, Mr. Reuther stated that
last Thursday, union and com-|
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1940 i
held Sunday at Flanner House.
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Grocer’'s New Car Stolen in Garage
| William Barnes’ new sedan, {which he had driven less than 400 miles, was stolen last night from the garage of a filling stas tion at 1231 8. State Ave. just across from Mr. Barnes’ home.
Here Many Years
Services for Edgar B, Oscars,
a leading Indianapolis autorfo- That was the second time in ‘bile tire merchant since 'the commercial sale ‘of balloon p.. pag to report a theft to the itires here, will be held at 10a. m.! 5 {Thursday in Flanner & Buchanan ‘mortuary. Entombment will fol{low in Crown Hill Mausoleum.
before three months that Mr. Barnes
| police. : . On the night of Feb. 19, a cigare {smoking bandit with a pistols Mr. Oscars died yesterday in grip shotgun held up Mr. Barnes’
{Methodist Hospital ze Bad Se grocery at State Ave. and Please . fered a a wo | age ard had been in the hospital 20% Run Pkwy. and took $986. since last Tuesday. He was 60. |
“I guess I'm not living right™
Store manager of the B. yp Mr. Barnes told police today.
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Eric Rogers, chosen to represent Flanner House Nursery dur- |aistrict manager for the Good-| ing the organization's sixth annual Charity Tea, pins a button |year Tire & Rubber Co. and at which bears his picture to the shirt pocket of Ma them is Mrs. Mabel Augusta, general chairman.
Feeney. With ione time, had worked in the event will be firm's home office in Cincinnati.
{Goodrich Co. store at 350 N.| {Delaware St. since 1833, Mr. {Oscars had been in the tire business most of his life. He owned jand operated his own store from 11923, a year after the balloon tire {was offered on the market here, until becoming associated with
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Previously he had been Indiana
Born in Greenfield, he was an
tempts of management to meet stiffer competition with “speedups.” : Mr. Ford, however, insists there has been no speedup in his plants. Speedups, he stated, are foolish.
600 More Hoosier
Miners Join Walkout
TERRE HAUTE, May 10 (UP) Sympathetic mine strikes were gathering momentum over this coal-producing corner of the state today. Six hundred additional miners in Greene, Sullivan and Knox Counties were reported to have joined the walkout now estimated at 6000. The miners are supporting a dispute between the UMW and the Baxton Mine near Terre Haute where a walkout idled 300, The dispute at the Saxton Mine
the current unrest among auto
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the only Indiana victim of the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1808, will be buried in Crown Hill following services at 3 p. m, Thursday in the Fletcher Avenue Methodist Church. An Indianapolis resident 65 years, she died Suhday after an {lineas of six months, She was 90. Blinded in the final weeks of her illness, she remained cheerful and retained clearly the memory of her only son, Harry J. Keys, and the tragic part he played in the Spanish-American | War, ©
She was the first woman to walk up the steps of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument after its | completion in 1801 and visited the monument frequently, considering it a personal monument to her son. Mrs, Turner was a charter member of the Fletcher Avenue Methodist Church and an active religious worker until her iliness, She was a member of the Span-
Mrs. Tillie P. Turner... mother of the sole Indiana victim of the sinking of the battleship Maine, is dead here at the age of 90. p=
fliary and fermerly lived in 701 . New Jersey 8t. Russell,
Indianapolis, and sev-
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May 19, noon luncheon with Mrs, eral nieces including Mrs. Maud Prastly ACS 826 Weghorst Minton and Mrs. Emma Ferrell, St, and the Harmonettes, 7:30|Indianapolis. p. m, May 19, in Grottto Clubhouse, 4107 E. Washington St.
INSECTS HARM COTTON One out of every seven bales of cotton produced in this country is lost because of insect damage.
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Beef on Hoof Sale : . ; Slated in Hotel Beef on the hoof instead of on the plate will be sold in the ballroom of the Antlers Hotel tomorrow night. The occasion will be the annual three-day meeting of the Ayrshire Breeders’ Association which will bring some of the na- % |tion's leading cattle breeders to town, 3 The auction will be carried on the Mutual network at ® p. m. (CDT) with Herb Shriner as master of ceremonies in an easy-to-say “Ayrshire Airshow.” Among leading dairy breeders who will attend are Charles E. Wilson, president of the General Motors Corp.,, and his son, Edward, who supervises the Wilson farm in Oxford, Mich.
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Services for Clement W. Noll, former Indianapolis businessman, will be conducted by his brother, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond R. Noll, rector of 88. Peter and Paul Cathedral, at 10 a. m. to-| morrow in the Cathedral. Burial | will follow in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mr, Noll died Sunday night in| Cincinnati, where he had been employed in the office of the Hamilton County, O., sheriff's office since 1941, He was 73. Born In Ft. Wayne { A native of F't. Wayne, Mr. Noll came to Indianapolis in 1895 and became an associate of his father, the late Frank J. Noll, and| Charles A. Bookwalter, former Indianapolis mayor, in the op-| eration of the Gem Garment Co.! Mr. Noll moved to Cincinnati in| 1917. Novid Surviving are his wife, May Bradley Noll, two daughters; Miss | Ruth Noll and Miss Virginia Noll, ! Cincinnati; four brothers, Msgr. | Noll, Frank J. Noll, Alfred Noll|
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Mr, Noll was a cousin of the] Most Rev. John Noll, bishop of the Diocese of Ft. Wayne,
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