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The Shipyard That Never Built a Ship

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ , stocks in the first attempt to flpat| The end of the war did not = Times Staff Writer : [the corporation. mean the end of ‘Empire. WASHINGTON; Feb. 6—| The only other cash Mr. Cohen Early «in {its expansion, it had The shoestring wartime mu-| himself said Empire had was the acquired the 100-year-old Vulcan shi “ 1K {$5 million advanced by the Brit- Iron Works at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., nitions Empire that In-| jon government for the produc- a locomotive factory. In 1046

diana Natjonal .Committee-| tion of guns. Somehow, though, Vulcan proposed to build some

Pi TaN ‘A Mistake'— i Hedy to Seek Divorce WwW | Courwaon. cu Tee fl ai] Arre marr announced last night that Terre After

she plans to divorce her fourth husband, Acapulco, Mexico, night club operator Ernest (Ted) Stauffer and sald they made a mistake ; Indianapol Terre Haute youths for q holdup-slayir

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man Frank MeHale helped New|lt acquired Savannah Shipyards. locomotives for the government (within the next four or five days. pie Tel y Frank Cohen Never Bullt a Shi .|of Turkey. It needed money, It bi In disclosing that her marriage BS York promoter P applied to the U. 8. Export-Import had gone on the rocks, the dark- 0 start actually did make ome, Savannah Shipyards Corp. Bank for a loan. haired film star indicated she in- a car stolen prupitions. But: . {never bullt a ship, not even a myo pank agreed to make the . tended to pick up her life and at 69 N. We Its-shipyard built no ships; |row-boat, under Cohen manage- , = © "GO C0 at My, Coben career “where I left it eight Lynch vis Tts airplane parts division de- ment, In 1942 the Maritime Com- get out of the management. It months ago.” a“ ; yesterday. livered no’ airplane parts; mission stepped in, cancelled the suggested he place his stock in a At the time of her marriage Car W Its tractor manufacture failed; SONirach and took over the SBiD-iirusteeship. Instead Mr. Cohen last June Miss Lamarr sala she Officers fir food rocessing effort was | . i, g p : sold his stock to John Roberts. was retiring from pictures and the chase . Its food p ot | started. his long-time and close associate. -- would devote herself to being a H described by a high U. 8. officer! pg 0 claimed it had AP Wo re er in Le Aasoniate good wife, aute busine a Ho tts gorge to fhe 32:5 million building ‘the ship-|1it® Insurance deals, who was | Sells Possessions bo he 8 i yard facilities, although the head o o : re iid . Br tigh army was called “slow and {;niteq States attorney in charge pea oor Be Canadian ce Byew: Shortly after the marriage, Police chas unsatistactory” of the case said they were not ver Crime reBtig Miss Lamarr sold all her pos- into the W: pe 5 me Investigating Com- sessions at | f ti It Rutceedéd in meeting U. 8. worth more than $75,000, A prom- mittee as a “Capone brewery,” session a series of auction lands and ca army production schedules only|inent Savannah law ‘firm filed and controlled by a former Ca- sales, declaring she did not want They had after the Army itself took over| suit, which the Maritime Commis- pone associate. s (any memories of her past mar- But Terre H

riages since she had“marfied Mr. Stauffer. Hedy Lamarr

| But it was all “a mistake,” she lindicated last night as she an- had been friends for years but

its plant and ran it; sion did not very vigorously de- ; The U. 8. government is still fend. A federal court jury award- Bxjiort 1mpon Bank officials trying to collect $1.5 million back ed Empire $1,387,000 in: August, 2Pparently made no inquiries

bout Mr. Roberts, but advanced laims Empire 1942 st) federal taxes it c¢ aim p 1942, and this sum, plus interest a loan of $7.9 million to Vulcan.

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. Wi g Both yout . $ 7 AS Pi 045. nounced the end of her m their ftiendship blossomed into yi Empire got from at a, cent, x 3s pau A lors Under close bank supervision, the. “Yes, it SO rk that marriage: romance when she visited his from Colora the U. 8." government $1,387,000] gon5 00" algo an avald ft locomotive contract was carried riage in which T had placed such Acapulco night club last April and Arkansas. out of its ship venture, and a never produced, and which were ly Iepors Were that J high hopes must come to an end,” they decided to marry on the spur Hitch! $035,000 award for the airplane!never ordered. H Were patistactory ed to Turkey she said, “actually it really never ©f the moment. Two 32-c: struts'it didn’t make. It got from| my, dompany had undéitaken $ . was a marriage. : Miss Lamarr’'s marriages have taken last n the British government $12... aie struts for B-17 bombers Still another postwar Empire “My plans are to get an im- been headline stuff since she bee and body of millions or more for its guns. It put aster some months of trial venture was Empire Tractor Corp. mediate divorce and to resume came the ‘’téen-aged bride of old "ou Ww produced fat profits for two of pad never succeeded in making! This concern, not a part of the. my life where I left it eight Austrian munitions magnate winner and f: the nation’s top Democratic poli-| any that would pass Army in- original Empire structure, under- months ago.” Fritz Mandl. They were divorced The wreck

ticlans out of its collapsing trac- gpectors. About to give up the ef- 100K to make farm tractors out| Miss Lamarr and Mr. Stauffer in 1937 when she was signed for

; : . : Ernest L. 1 tor company. And it paid lush| fort, Empire claimed it was en- Of War-surplus jeeps. It made a NEW ROYAL FAMILY—Here is Britain's new royal family—Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of | her first American movie con- Ave. had be fees to Washington “insiders” couraged to try further by War contract, dated Sept. 25, 1046, to i ' : . ‘ : . | tract. 4 with close government Zconnec-| Department personnel, in the ex- furnish 5000 tractors for export Edinburgh, the queen's consort, and their children, Prince Charles and Princess re: Who'd Steal | Two years later she married Delors the tions” for what they said were pectation of being given a large Io Argentina by March, 1947, with . y . producer-writer Gene Markey and three blocks “services” and what U. 8. Sena- war contract if it succeeded in Luis Fernandes da Silva, a citizen Shoots Self After Hoosier Woman Turns To Prayer to Save Baby Baby S$ Diapers? divorced him in 1940. Her third Meanwhil tors called “Influence peddling.” |producing the struts. It finally ©f Portugal residing in Buenos, | MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Feb. 6 that readers pray for her son, : husband was actor John ‘Loder, lent a 1 Production problems always| tid produce five sample sets, of a Aires. The price was ‘to be Court Ar ument (UP)—Mrs. Margie Poole, 28, Roger Somebod Did whom she married in 1947 and ticked i plagued Empire. | total value of some $10,250, out $1062.50 each, f.o.b. Philadelphia. d turned to prayer today after | The child was x-rayed after y divorced three years later. She id db Bh

| y i It als . : : e tioning abou of parts from previously rejected It also promised Mr. Da Silva ex-| MUNCIE, Feb. 6 (UP)—Noble physicians said her 5-month-oldia bilious condition failed to re-| A baby could be the clue to is the mother of three children, 2

British Gun Contract ; lus |efforts. The War Department Clusive distribution of the trac-/Leon Buis, 28, shot himse.. .. son will die within two months spond to treatment and doctors the looting of Harry Poling’s car, One by Mr. Markey, one by Mr.

Four months after it got then offered it a contract to make tors for Argentina and Uruguay.|the face today after an argument for . y Lod | for lack of a- gall bladder and found Roger was borg without! Police figure a diaper-rich in-/ Loder and the third an adopted together $130,000 capital and struts, but Empire refused it on Suit Not Tried. {in the Delaware County court-|, 0 duct. 8 gall bla and oy, Wo He fant might lead them to the un. SOB.

bought a 50-year-old steel mill on the grounds that the price was {house with his wife, who sued for prayer is the only thing left failed to respond to Surgery 10 feeling culprit who lifted:

a $30,000 down payment, it landed too low. | qin September, 1047, Mr. Da divorce: a few hours earlier. | n at Taw Ma. j a $20 million order for guns from! Empire presented a bill to the Siva fled suit in New York ~pHospital doctors said he was OA ER a re. Say wi lgig Big a i ey Yair ie a OFFICE Of Ci the British Army and got $5/ Army, but the Army refused to Southern District Federal Court, jt expected to live. * |the Michigan City N Dispatcnist p th 8 ds. four bab Ba Spey milion cash in advance, -on clear- pay It. (charging Empire had not deliv-| The shooting occurred in Buis'| e Michigan y News-Dispatch|six months. 5 pags, four baby SHES. 4 Sweater, SUPPLIES Aoi ance from the U. 8. War Depart-| Mr, McHale, acting as attor- Srey FA Jeagions; and that he had home, shortly after police were, |toddlet Rs SMe ois) die ment. : ; ‘ney for Empire, then took the n... = preft he expected to cajled to the courthouse on a re- School Walkout Blamed On Cage Fever Ends bo Mr Poling, 2836 Harlan St SOCIAL : the sixth fata It made guns the British used claim before the Board of AP dama n each tractor. He asked, port that Buis struck Harry K.| Times State Service uniforms because “they were al- bought them yesterday for his * ash n at Bengazi and through the North peals of the U. 8. Treasury De-|, oJ 8000 ¢ Lg ort hatiBaker, county veterans affairs CHANDLER, Feb. 6—All 90 ways causing Inns on the daughter I oa Yr week STATIONERY Friday » African campaign. There was partment, and there won am, .')..n". ae ors. The sult has director. Buis’ wife, Phyllis, Is students were back in class today court and in the Jocker room.” old / GREETING CARDS potald Cu criticism of high prices, quality, award of $935,000 as “fair com-| Tiec, Mr, Baker's secretary. lat Chandler High School after a : So all Mr Poling.. a bookkeeper for - * died th 0 and slow deliveries. Mr. Cohen pensation for . . . efforts.” | Empire did make some tractors,| Police said Mr. Baker told them! "| Principal Eugene _ Boyle said| \ 2 p ) DECORATIONS & e Ss m (partial walkout which school offi . the AFL teamsters, discovered Hospital. explained the slow deliveries to a (though, and did ship some te he heard Mrs. Buis scream in a rer, j1i27€ WOUId De no investigation of FAVORS op Senate committee, late in 1941, as Money Stil Impounfed |Argentina. This contract was|courthouse corridof, and he ran|C1a18 blamed on basketball fever. ;,,yicqtion charges made by the the break-in late yesterday when He was one being due to “520-0dd revisions The money was promptly im- with the Argentine Institute of outside his office and saw Buis! About -20 students picketed the striking students. {he left the union's office, 28 W. LEATHER GOODS driving back in design” and said that “as far| pounded by the government Trade Promotion, a government brandishing a knife, He said he School yesterday with signs pro-| —————————————————————— [Sora 8. Viasat 1 : DRAFTING when. they c as he knew” delfveries were then| 282inst its own claims for un-|agency, and called for 7000 trac-| jumped at Buis and Buis it him testing “Intoxicated teachers. Ex-Congressman Dies e also purchased four pair o MATERIALS car on Ind. “satisfactory,” But declined to Paid Empire taxes, and has notitors. = -- v - then ran out of the courthouse. But Coach Kenneth Reed said, . {pajamas, three print dresses, a ! ! dents are no state whether they were then | Yet been turned oVer {6 Empire.| . p. sone “féason it was termi.| A COPY of an order restraining it was “a false charge trumped up| NEENAH, Wis, Feb. 8 (UP)— pair of hose and a box of candy Campbell, 18, currently ‘meeting contract re. IN December, 1850," Mr. McHale/, .10q 3 reap 5000 had been|BUuls from molesting his wife, and against me,” and that the real Former Republican Congressman for mother. vi Yi D N F RS in that-car. quirements,- {filed suit in the U. 8. Court of | shipped. ena suicide note to his mother, lay reason was that he fired two boys Frank B. Keefe, 64, collapsed and’ All were stolen, as was an old LY A i NE EX tion at St. Vi After the beginning of 1942, the| C1aim8, for $63,500 of the award, Also, on Mar. 25, 1947, Empire O70 ® table in a room of the Buis/from the basketball team. died of a heart attack yesterday pair of his own pants, Mr. Poling | INSERT EH om Two others British placed no further orders ®° 2 legal fee. landed & bt ~~ WPIT€ nome near a shotgun with two He sald he ordered brothers Ed after making a speech before a ruefully reported to police. were Mr. and with Empire, but the U. 8. Army|, His petition states that he was Ande Lon Fac or 1050 trac-|ampty shells. and Bob Willis to turn in their women's group here, | He figured he was out $51.35. i | both 53, Mar gave it contracts to make 68-inch chief counsel in charge” of io yom e United Nations: Re- | sms 4 . Mrs. Joan G guns. It still had production Pressing the claim and that he ° Po Rehaviation Adminis. \ : Is In goog ¢o troubles, and difficulty in passing|t00K “an active and personal ‘ration. This contract, too, was Army inspections. part” in all phases of it. Attached, cfnceled three months later, ; Policemar Ultimately the U. 8. Army Ord-|t0 it is a copy of a resolution| a'r only 700 had been delivered. nance Corps took charge of the adopted mw Empire's i en Sin en Angereon (D.| Py & For Heav lant to insure efficient produc- directors. of which Frank CohenNew Mex.), former Secretary of : i Ro The War Doper tuto: then Was chairman, authorizing .pay- Agrieulture, says the tractors ’ greed #. FRanklin 441 : an ELIng named Elisha Walker—the Wall ment jo him of J93.500 for Risj ware not yaoble for farm par 4 : eth a bt Street operator who had loaned “valuable services.” e same . K. N. Holmgreen, director] : v : Mr. on his original $25,000 résolution authorizes payment of for ECA of food and agricultural AT HOME IN INDIANA FOR 80 YEARS one he with postdated checks as secur. $25000 to one lawyer, and $10,- ald, was responsible for checking 1872-1952 Ey ity, an Empire stockholder — as 000 to another for helping him, them in Greece. He told this - Utah “trustee” to represent the U. 8.!in addition to his own $93,500 fee, newspaper: 2 . o se Colion Cha

government in Empire manage-| In 1943 the U. 8. Commodity | “There were about 160 Empire ment. - % Credit Corp. placed a contract for|tractors lying on the docks in' As “trustee” Mr. Walker ap- 40 million pounds of dehydrated Greece. The Greek farmers did proved the excluding of two Em- foods per year with Empire’s not want them because they were pire subsidiary corporations from subsidiary, American Dehydrat- inferior to other makes.”

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| the government paid the company Corp. The tractors, which cost address the from the War Department, 14 4 bib a e mpany the government $1225 each had American As Gets Ship Contract’ I" i to be sold at $500 to $600 each sity Professo Spruille Braden, then U. 8. AmBy the beginning of 1941, Em- bassador to Cuba, however re. '* Set rid of them. in Jordan H: pire had expanded into its ship- calls the whole enterprise as “a| This production failure did not -— bullding project, and later that complete mess.” Mr. Braden, in Prevent some fancy profits. Mr.| IND year landed a contract from the New York, said: McHale, and his political protege, TRAFFI U.S. Maritime Commission to! “Fhe whole project was a flop Frank McKinney, today Demo- (8 build 12 ships at a cost of some and an outrage. Cuban farmers cratic National chajeman, each $18 million, for which it was toiand laborers were not paid. I/put $1000 into Empire Tractor Accidents . get a cost-plus fee of $1,320,000. remember telling Cohen in my|/common stock. Less than a year Tejurey vs Where the capital for Savannah! oefice on one occasion that the/afterward Mr. Cohen bought Killed ....

Shipyards Corp, came from is not! whole operation was a dis ce back the stock from them for , In the record: Mr, Cohen testified) to oe Thera States. ge {$60,000 each. Empira Tractor tinder oath all Empire stock-| «1 raised merry hell in Wash-|Corp. soon afterward went into, the sams pooontio ubsidiaries in ington to try to stop it after the bankruptcy. A federal court of Fo Sropont ons they. OWned yontract was let to Cohen. with- referee. is still trying to discover committe: Bin ized y a Senateigy. consulting the embassy. I/whether Mr. Cohen used $600,000 funds for Savannah Mr. Gcher Managed to stop two of the bigithe corporation borrowed to buy, under oath, testified: . | dehydrating plants Cohen wanted/the McHale-McKinney stock, and “Savannah Shipyards finaly © Pulld in Cuba, but he seemed whether this had anything to do, was worked out from ” thr Yi to have too much influence for with the bankruptcy. | sources. We borrowed money ree me to stop the other.” Production still -plagues Em-! we hada throwoff from deliveries { Operating head of that com-| pire. As of today it has not yet that as we manufactured and. de. PANY was Michael Dewar, who succeeded in getting into produccapiat OT © SUF OT ae ee hasing Come The Trimmer: and another 5 0 =| In that same committee session Mission that gave Empire its first be calHed “The Clipper” in two however, Mr. Cohen testified that contract, advanced it $5 million airplane plants bought—but not the only capital Empire had was in cash and who signed the letter paid for—from the U. 8. govern- | $130,000 originally invested by praising its production. ment. . himself, Mr. McHale, the Indiana ~—— pri e—— political leader; John “Roberts operator of the Capone gang brewery, and two of his lawvers An Empire balance sheet of early

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