The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 March 1937 — Page 1

STEEL WORKERS MAKE NEW DEMANDS

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VOLUME XXIX

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64 TEAMS TO COMPETE IN FAST GAMES Warsaw Represents Kosciusko County In Semi-Finals By DICK MILLER, r I. N. S. Staff Correspondent. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Mar. 11 (INS)—Members, coaches and supporters of 64 sectionvl champion high school basketball teams, looked forward today to lb regional tournaments to be held next Sat urday, and held high hopes cf annexing additional glory. Survivors of the first elimination tests in the 26'h nnual Indiana High School Athletic Association classic, held last weekend, each of the remaining quintets had visions of being the team to sue- I ceed Frankfort on the throne of championship. Frankfort, defending champion of 1936, was one of the 717 teams eliminated in district play. Ross ville, conquerer of the vaunted Hot Dog five on Friday night, proved its victory was no “fluke” by defeating Scirclevi'le in the semi-finals Saturday afternoon and Michigantown in the final Saturday night game. It was Rossville’s third victory over Scircieville this season. It was the first time in all the years Everett Case has been coach at Frankfort, that his team failed to win the sectional title. It came as a terrific shock in view of the fact, Frankfort lost only two games all season and easily cap- I tured the North Central Confer- j ence title. Many dopesters selected Frankfort to again win the state title. The regionals will be_held in 16■ (Continued on Page Eight) i

News Flashes

PAYS FOR CAR WITH TUBFUL OF PENNIES MARKLE, Mar. 11. (INS) —Dale Gusman, rural mail Carrier, had to carry his $233 down payment on a new automobile to the agency in a small tub and a basket. It —the payment—weighed 152 pounds. It was all in pennies. TWO CONFESS PART IN FARM THEFT RING LOGANSPORT, Mar. 11. (INS)—Gilbert and Lester Fansler, 32 and 26, respectively, were arrested today as membefs of an alleged farm theft ring that has operated in Fulton and Cass Counties. Officers said the two have signed confessions. Gilbert Fansler recently served a term for larceny at the state reformatory, police revealed. Other members of the alleged ring who are in custody include Charles Thompson, his wife, Irene, his father, William, and Robert Reed, a neighbor. JAILED 90 DAYS FOR STEALING A DRESS HAMMOND, Mar. 11. (INS)—Donald Melwin, 17, of 4530 Hickory avenue, arrested on a charge of petty larceny Feb. 11 for theft of a dress, was fined S2O and sentenced to ninety days in jail by City Judge Joseph Stodola. LOSES LEGS UNDER TRAIN, THEN DIES INDIANA HARBOR, Mar. 11. (INS)—Louis Metrikas, 47, of 3936 Drummond street, a foundry worker, died in St. Catherine’s Hospital today about nine hours after his legs were cut off by an Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad train at the Michigan avenue crossing. FORMER GOVERNOR McNUTT TO SAIL APRIL 3 WASHINGTON, Mar. 11. (INS)—Paul V. McNutt, new high commissioner to the Philippines, today set April 3 as a tentative date for sailing from San Francisco to his insular assignment. McNutt said he would stop off in Indianapolis, enroute to the west coast.

Boost Northern Indiana Lake Region As The Resort Center Os The Nation

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: in connection with the mysterious .ywood scenarist, Katherine Hendershe had accompanied the Pearsons » night of his death. Pearson was : wound, his wife by his side crying He had threatened to kill himself

Lone Farm Tenant Stages ‘Sit-Down’ j PERU, Mar. 10 (INS)—The j “sit-down” strike has spread to jj the country, according to aI i complaint filed here today ’ | charging that Custer Swing, i farm employe of Bern Tate, j Kokomo, is staging a strike on 1 Tfve's Miami County farm. The suit, seeking possession ; of the property and a restrain- ; ing order against Swing, al- ! Swing not only refuses to work on the farm, but continues to live in the resience and declines to vacate ' the property, despite legal notices to move.

Two Get 15 Years For ‘Thrill’ Robbery BLOOMFIELD, Mar. 10 (INS)— Fifteen year sentences in the Indiana reformatory were given to John Vandeventer, 28, and Harold Houser, 25, of Jasonville, by Judge J. Raymond in Greene Circuit Court here when the youths pleaded guilty to the “thrill” robbery of a service station attendant at Worthington, which netted $25. They were brought here from the reformatory, where they had served two weeks of a two to-five years sentence, imposed in Sullivan ’Circuit Court for scond degree burglary at Hymera. GETS 41 DAYS LOGANSPORT, Mar. 10 (INS)— William Sprigg, 56, and Jack Collins, 27, entered pleas of guilay*to charges of shoplifting today'Sin City Court and were sentenced to forty-one days each on the penal farm.

PROPOSITIONS ARE MADE TO STEEL CHIEF IJnion Says ‘New Era In Collective Bargaining’ Reached GARY, March 10. (INS)—inaugurating what is claimed as a new era in collective bargain ing,” the general council of the „lt‘el Employes’ Independent Laoor Union today presented to the ..resident of the Carnegie-liliiwit Steel Corporation, D. F. Fai.leSs, en “propositions,” including proposals for higher wages and bet-■ er working conditions. The proposals, handed Fairless by President Jack Elwood of the mon, ask a generit 20 per cent <age ineieuse, a foity-hour week and assurance of overtime wo k. the corporation is asked to subcitute this setup for new wage u;d hour schedules granted folowing recognition of the Commitee for Industrial Organization, elective March 16. Promises Early Reply The union-management conference, held in union headquarters at 604 Jefferson street, lasied but an hour. At its conclusion Fairess put the list in his pocket without reading it and promised to give the propositions early consideration on his return to Pittsburgh.’ This was agreeable to the union, according to Attorney C. Pendleton of Gary, who, with Attorney benjamin Wham of Chica-, go, represented the independents jin their Bfd for recognition. Pendleton said the substitution iof “propositions” for “demands” in collective bargaining is a de- ! parture from the usual formula ; that will “result in the estt’blishI ment of friendly relations between j the union and the corporation." What Men Are Asking The propositions include a de- i I rnand for: ! At least forty-eight hours’ pay ; weekly and the right to work at i least sixteen hours per month I overtime at time and one half if they so desire. Establishment of plant and deI pa.'tment seniority rights. Paid vacations. Time and one-half for overtime work and work on Sundays and holidays. Improved banking conditions. Improved transportation f cili- ! ties. Co-operation in the passage of favorable labor legislation and, more paiticularly, in the adoption of a. more just workmen’s compensation law. Improved sanitary conditions. > Establishment oi a uniform 1 “work week.” » Adjustment of the wage scale I at the Elwood plant so that it is | he seme as the wage scale operative in the plants at South Chicago and Gary. Sweetheart Killer Faces Trial Monday LOGANSPORT, Mar. 10 (INS) —Roy Stansbery, 42, an automobile salesman, will go on trial before a jury Monday morning on a» ‘charge of first degree murder for shooting to death his sweetheart, Mrs. Ruth Kloos. Stansbery, who ' shot her Labor Day in a jealous i rage at her home, rushed her to 1 a hospital and then fled in his auto- ■ mobile. He ’'shot himself when| overtaken by pursuing officers.

Showdown on Union Issue Near in Steel Industry ? _2_ [steel production now near peak |" e x IMBi • ft; M l I / 44 Hip Murray]? . i ASW x j^pj ßen, * aiuin ■ -TRHSwiak industry employs 550,000 men |

Sweeping wage increases for steel workers were announced by major units of the industry almost simultaneous with the meeting of Benjamin Fairless, president of Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation, and Philip Murray, representing the John L. Lewis Committee for Lndustrial Organization Their conference, held in Pittsburgh, came as a surprise to the steel industry and was taken as

Poison Sandwich Maker Is Sought

PORTLAND, Mar. 11. (INS)—i Thomas Stanley, alleged by police to have placed, enough poison in an egg sandwich to kill twenty persons, was the object of a widespread police search today. Grover Farber, who is Stanley’s father in-law, said the sand- • wich was intended for Mrs. Stan-

Your Car? My Car? Whose Car? Your Car

INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 11. (INS), —lt took 72 miles and his wife’s perception for Dr. Wilfred Massie, Boston veterinarian, to discover he was driving the wrong car. Not until his wife noticed a strange key case dangling from ; the ignition lock did the couple begin to suspect they were in an

N.Y.C. Train Wreck Blocks Four Lines

’ ELKHART, Mar. 10. (INS)— Wreck of a New York Central freight train here lawt night tied up four lines of the New York Cent’-s) Railroad througn northern Indiana. i The crew escaped injury when a locomotive and seven freight cars were derailed about fifty

virtual recognition of the C. I. O. by the United States Steel corporation’s chief operating subsidiary, employing 120,000 men. In addition to wage increases granted, many of the steel companies established a 40-hour week. It is expected that the C. 10., now clayning 150,000 members in the steel industry, will hbld a convention in April and demand a general conference vyith steel heads.

i ley, who carries a $2,000 insurance policy payable to her husband. Farber signed the warrant for Stanley’s arrest after it was discovered the son-in law had purchased the poison at a local store with the explanation he intended to kill stray dogs.

i automobile identical to their own, including radio and fan accessories. Dr. Massie telephoned from Richmond, Ind., to tnis city, which he had just left, and had the license plates checked —and then started his trek back to Indianapolis aCter calling police and explaining the situation.

■ yards east of the Main street crossing in downtown Elkhart. A score of persons saw the locomotive leap off the track and plow deep into the ground. Seven cars piled atop it. I The crew consisted of Engineer Charles Potter, Fireman W. E. Bush and Conductor W. T. Schlachter, all of Toledo.

Assembly Ends Dull Session On Monday

INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 10. (INS) —ln compliance with the will of Governor M. Clifford Townsend, the eighteenth Indiana General Assembly passed into history Tuesday morning with a minimum of new legislation. The Legislature adjourned quietly at 1:27 a. m. Up until the last minute of the biennial session, the lawmakers continued to obey the governor’s request for a breathing spell in respect to fundamental changes in

Lives Three Years On Borrowed Blood

INDIANAPOLIS, March 11.— 1 (INS) —Roscoe Hardin of Shelby-1 ville, who has lived three years on borrowed blood, had his sev-enty-fifth blood transfusion yesterday at the Robert W. Long Hospital here. I

Spots On Sun Bring Late Fall Os Snow

That snowstorm this week all happened because the sun had spots before its eyes. Such is the opinion of H. H. Swaim, government weather observer at South Bend, who attributed a sharp drop in temperature and the snowfall to the appear-

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TOWNSEND IS CONSIDERING KILLEffSPLEA Asked To Commute Sentence Os Chester Arkuszewski MICHIGAN CITY, Mali 11 Townsend today will face for the firpt timd thai crucial decision which, sooner or ater, fa’ees eve.y state : —whether a condemned [killer must die, or if the ends of justice will not be served as well by a commutation to life imprisonment. In this particu’r.T case, Town- r send may be influenced by the fact that not only people of the man’s own nationality, the Poles, but even the judge before whom he was sentenced, and the prosei cutor who dbtains his conviction; have joined to ask that his sen- ! tece be commuted ‘His 1 ast Hope.’ The killer is Chester Arkuszewski, 24, scheduled to- go to his death in the electric chair in stable prison here short’y after midnight ' tonight. His last hope, friends have agieed, lies jn executive ' clemency. He was convicted of the murder, last July 27, of Ignatz Pa'zu- ; choski, elderly recluse, in Fox * Park at La Porte. This afternoon, a few hours before the dreaded march along “the last mile” is to start, the appeal will be presented Governor Townsend by Kenneth Osborn, a Lai Porte attorney. It will be the first time since his inauguration last January that Townsend faces such l an appeal.

statfe government. The outstanding measure passed was the bill for the budget. A number of local measures, affecting individual counties and several minor changes in other laws were also passed by the legislature. No radical changes were brought about, and political observers believe the session was helpful and constructive to the best interests of the majority of Hoosiers.

■I Since the infection of an inIjury to his hand in April, 1934, he had been a regular visitor to the hospital to receive transfusions. His system physicians say, I is unable to create new blood.

1 ance of sun spots. i Snow blanketed north central Indiana, laying a sheeting of ice on highways and streets that made driving hazardous. The ■ mercury dropped to 14 degrees above zero. i The storm area extended throughout the tri county area.