Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              ANTHRACITE READY FOR 35-HOUR WORK WEEK
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1937
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PRICE TEN CENTS
HENRY FORD REPEATS DEFIANCE; SOUND GENERAL MOTORS THREAT
King Carers Order May Claim Own Sweetheart
Problems Worked Out Fori Five 7-Hour Days; Hourly j Wages Up, Earnings Same
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'STAGGER' SYSTEM      j
Alternate Mines And Coilierifes To Make Up For Day Off Of Workers
EMERGENCY PERIODS
Regional coal companies last nigiit appeared to have worked out Individual problems in connection with the industry's new 35-hour I work week, starting May I and I bringing with il an automatic hourly wage Increase for thousands of employes averaging 14.28 per cent.
From May 1 until the current agreement between anthracite op¬ erators and United Mine 'Workers of America expires on April 30. ]!)38, the industry is committed to a flve-day work week during the year, when an "emergency" per¬ mits a six-day week.
The "emergency" clause waa gen¬ erally defined here last night as meaning any period during the contract year when coal produc¬ tion under the five-day work week is not sufficient to meet market demand.
Karnings I'nrhanged
Earnings of contract miners and laborers will not undergo any | fhange under the five-day week provisions as their wages are de¬ termined through rate sheets cov¬ ering all conditions under which they work. The wage increases, ranging from about eight to fifteen cnts per hour depending upon the prevailing hourly wage rate of vari¬ ous classifications, will automatic¬ ally go to all employees who are paid now on  an  hourly ba.sls.
Viewed from a dollar and cents standpoint, the wage increases to thousands of workers will not bring any increase in weekly earnings of the men involved. Their weekly or semi-monthly pay envelopes will remain the same as at the present time, but they will have worked nne day less a week than before to nave earned the same amount.
Turn over to the five-day work week will not entail any radical rlianges in the accounting systems nf regional coal companies, a Sun- Oay Independent survey indicated '*st night, as the employers will "'"iply pay their employees the same wages as before with work¬ ing time being one day less than previously.
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caf.H 1 .''°'"''*"'^^' '' ''"' indi-1 annulment later, fated last night, will be the work- '"£ out of. a stagger system to permit employees the additional ^y of Idleness. In mining circles tie opinion prevailed that operat¬ ing companies might suspend work entirely on Saturdays, thus mak¬ ing possible a two-day week-end, nut It was pointed out that the 'contractual change does not make •Continued on  Page A-f,'))
Saving Useless Lives Deplored
Coronado, Cal,, April 10, (UP) —Dr. Hugh Cabot of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., de¬ plored prolonging of "useless lives" as the mistake of sur¬ geons in an address today be¬ fore the Southern California Medical  Association,
"The medical profession has never erred, however," said Dr, Cabot, "in fighting lo save the lives of children who have a chance to become useful citi¬ zens."
Commenting on a difficult operation performed by a famous Vienna surgeon, which left the patient "nothing but a vegetable,"  Dr.  Cabot  said:
"Such practice is merely tak¬ ing scrap-heap common to make scrap-heap preferred."
HK LOYALISTS TERHZE REBELS
MID WEST
EXPLODES
Many Missing After Blast Wrecks Milwaukee Plant; Search Ruins For Bodies
Trouble In Canada May Close Michigan Plants
Martin Terms Refusal To Sijfn Agreement Violation
Of Contract; Assails Premier Hepburn; Troops
Stand Ready For Industrial Disorders
CONCRETE SCATTERED
Hardy Iron Miners Blast Trenches To Free Madrid; Claim End Of War Sighted
STOP BRITISH SHIPS
KING CAROL
The   Roumanian   king  is  shown   in   uniform  with   President   F/dward Benes of Czechoslovakia while on a recent visit to Prague.
Hears Demand To Renounce Magda Lupescu After Stripping Brother of Title For Marrying Com¬ moner; Exile May Come To Cnited States
Vienna, April 10 (UP)—King i haired Mme. Lupescu, whose af- Carol II, tempestuous ruler of Rou- ' fair with Carol over a 15-ycar mania, may be forced to renounce   period  has been the cause of scv-
his red-haired sweetheart, Mme. Magda Lupescu, because he strip¬ ped "his broiher. Prince Nicholas, of his title and reduced him to plain Mr, Nicholas Snagov, reports from Bucharest said tonight, ' The 33-year-old Nicholas, who was "read out" of the royal fam¬ ily and deprived of his rights to the throne because he insisted on royal titles for his morganatic wife and their son. was reported under arrest at his Bucharest home.    It
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It wa.s disclosed lhat Nicholas's beautiful wife, the daughter of a saloon-keeper and divorced wife of a Roumanian politician, has not been on speaking terms with Mme. Lupescu   for  months.
Nicholas, who once blackened Carol's eye in an argument over the former's morganatic wife and their four-year-old son, Peter, pro¬ tested that both he and Carol fell in love with commoners women bul
was expected that Carol would hold   that    he    "had    the    chivalry"    to
Nicholas prisoner until he leaves the country to go into exile, prob¬ ably  in Austria or France.
Carol, who once left his royal wife and temporarily renounced all claims to the throne in order that he might retain Mme, Lupescu as his mistress, forced Nichola.s to renounce his title under circum¬ stances nol unlike Carols own. Lupescu In Danger
The King entered into a morgan
marry   his   sweetheart   and   stand by  her.
Windsor Also Infornied Former King Edward of Eng¬ land was informed today of the ".sacrifice m.idc for love" by Nicho¬ las, his second cousin-a sacrifice similar to that of Edward. The Duke was notified through his equerry as he was leaving his villa al Saint Wolfgang, Austria, for a motor    ride.   The    equerry,    after
alic  marriage with  a peasant girl , telling    the    Duke,    thanked    the 20  years  ago  bul  he -in   contrast i United Press correspondent for his consented  lo an   "thoughlfulness"  in  conveying the I news.
Responsible Bucharest sources said tonight that lyime. Lupescu's position was "exlremcly shaky" and that Carol's angry action against his younger brother may become  a' boomerang.
High church dignitaries and statesmen within the cabinet of Premier George Tatarescu were said to have begun a movement for   the   banishment   of   the   red-
^ British Officers Among 25 Dead When Convoy Is Ambushed In India
As in the case of Edward, it was understood that Nicholas's finances are tangled and he is concerned with the problem of providing a livelihood for his wife, Mme. Jana Lucia Delclj, with whom he eloped in  1931,  and their son.
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along the Manzaih-Wana road on Friday morning, it was reported here.
The convoy consisted of 45 lorries protected by two armored cars. The lorries carried British infantry while native soldiers tramped along tho road, keeping a sharp lookout for snipers in the mountain crags.
Part of the convoy reached Wana and the remainder of the lorries returned to Manzaih after putting the tribesmen lo flight.
Tho convoy was a punitive expe¬ dition sent Into the desolate Wazlri counlry following the killing of 60 soldiers, including two British officers,  in previous ambushes.
IMay  Come  To  Aiiiorica
Bucharest, Sunday, April 11. (UP)--Nicholas Broschteanii, who was Prince Nicholas of Roumania until 24 hours ago, when King j Carol stripped him of hi.s titles and placed him under arrest, said early today that he intends to be-1 come an e>:ile in the United Stales.!
Nicholas, second son of the' Dowager Queen Marie, visited the United States with his mother and sister, Ileana, in 1926, and frequent¬ ly has expressed admiration for the methods of the American auto¬ mobile industry,
The ousted prince, known throughout the Balkans and South¬ ern Europe as a dare-devil auto¬ mobile driver, has a good technical knowledge of automobiles and air¬ planes. He has invented several automobile  engine  mechanisms.
Nicholas, it was revealed today, will be liberated from arrest in a few days and will leave Roumania immediately and permanently, driv¬ ing with his beautiful brunette wife 1 and their f jur-ycar-old ion Peter.
Madrid, Sunday, April 11 (UP) — Fierce "dynamiteros" from the Asturias iron mines, whose crude bombs lifted Rebels out of their i trenches a. dozen at a time and tore them limb from limb, led Ma¬ drid's Loyalist defenders up the side of Aguila Hill in Case de Campo Park early today.
Government commanders, con¬ tinuing their offensive on 11 sectors throughout the nighl in a supreme effort lo raise the nine-monlhs- seige of the capital, predicted that the capture of the hill before night¬ fall would "send the Fascist dogs flying from Madrid with their tails between their legs." They saw vic¬ tory and the end of war.
Aguila Hill, a rutted mound on the fringe of the Casa de Campo that lies across the Manzanares River west of metropolitan Madrid, will open the way for a concerted Loyalist attack on Mount Gara- j bitas.
I Unless Garabitas and the 5,000 I Rebels holding out there fall to the ¦ government troops. General Fran- I Cisco Franco still will be a con¬ stant menace to Madrid—a scant ! two miles away.
! The Asturians charged up Aguila hill amid the din of crashing eight- inch sliclls from Loyalist batteries back along the Manzanares. Four and five shells seemed to be ex¬ ploding at once against the sum¬ mit.
Light Bombs With Cigars The hand-made bombs of the "dymaiteros," lighted from big cigars, filled the air with hurtling pieces of earth, tree limbs, muni¬ tions and men.
Li.ght Loyalist tanks armed with light cannon and machine guns lumbered up the hill with the As¬ turians.
The Rebels, terrified by the miners who marched up to their i trenches with arms swinging like a baseball pitcher winding up, clambered from their trenches ifear the base of the hills and ran zig¬ zagging toward the peak.
Meanwhile another division of Loyalist forces, attacking amid the ruins of University City on the right flank, tightened their ring around 10.000 Rebels facing en- trapm'ml there.
Success On Three Fronts On the Carahanchel salient, south of the Sasa dc Campo, Loyalists attacked the military hcspital held by the Rebels and set up their ad¬ vance lines only 20 yards from the building.
In the El Escorial zone to the north. Loyalist troops drove against a wedge of Rebels entrenched be¬ tween Santa Maria de la Alameda and Kl Escorial on a high hill known  as  Mount  Trubio.
It was reported that the govern¬ ment troops had captured Cuesta dc las Pcrdices, a hill across the Manzanares river dominating the northern portion of University Cty, virtually freeing the main highway to Coruna of Rebel interference.
Sheet Of Flame Pours Out Of Wreckage Hampering Efforts Of Rescue Squad
CAUSE UNKNOWN
British Ships Repulsed
Umdon,   April   10.    (UP)—Great Britain struggled tonight with one (Continued on Page A-24;
Milwaukee, Wis., April 10. (UP) —Forty persons were injured and 8 to 12 were reported missing in a blast which wrecked the Charles A. Krause Milling Company's corn mill lale today.
Reports that two persons were killed could not be immediately confirmed.
The blast, which occurred at 4:15 p. m., trapped 28 workers in the plant and flying debris struck others on streets surrounding the plant.
The company manufactures brew¬ ers' malt and artificial snow used in motion pictures.
Authorities said that the blast could have occurred in one of three places, the seed plant, the trans¬ former room or specialty room.
Sixty men on afternoon duty in the plant checked out for the day at 3:30 p. ni. and the night crew of 28 had reported for work shortly before the blast.
Digging For Bodieii A loading platform outside the building was demolished. Several of the injured were taken from the wreckage there. Diggers worked quickiy lo discover whether or not others  had  been buried.
Several automobiles parked on streets around the plant were damaged by flying bricks, mortar and chunks of concrete.
A sheet of flame billowed from the wreckage. Then dense smoke, rolling from the ruins, handicapped efforts of firemen and volunteers who rushed to the scene.
Attendants at Johnslown Emerg¬ ency Hospital said they believed between 15 or 20 of the injured may die.
All available ambulances in the Milwaukee area were pressed inlo service as rescue workers began digging in the ruins.
The mill, which was totally de¬ stroyed, was about 50 feet high and 150 feet long. II Is situated at Greenfield. Wis., on the southern limits of Milwaukee.
Windows in an area of several blocks were shattered and many workers in the industrial area ran from their offices believing an earthquake had occurred. Concrete Blasted First to give an eye-witness ac¬ count of the blast was George Weschlcr of the Daniel D. Wesch- Icr and Son Company across the street.
"I saw a big block of concrete that must have weighed all of three tons sail through the air and land on our property," he said. "Glass desk tops in our office were shattered and the smoke was so thick that after the first sheet of flame it was all but impossible to see  into  the  ruins.
"I don'l see how any come out alive."
Weschler said lhat three con¬ crete elevators near the Krause Company apparently were damaged by the blast and that one was leaning precariously.
i Oshawa, Ont., April 10. (UP) — i Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of America, threatened lo close Gen¬ eral Motors plants throughout the United Slates if union recognition is not extended lo employees of the corporation in Canada and told more than 2,000 cheering strikers al a mass meeting here tonight that the day of industrial "peon¬ age and slavery is pasl."
Martin, who came here to take charge of the strike which has closed the Oshawa plant of the corporation and thrown 3,700 em¬ ployees out of work, said, however, that he expected an agreement here   "right   soon."
"If General Motors will not make cars in Canada under union condi- j tions,"    Martin    continued,    "they can't   make   them   al   all ,in   the United States,"
Answers  Hepburn
Martin replied to Premier Mitchell Hepburn who said in Toronto that if necessary he would organize an army to help the corporation open its   Oshawa   plant.
"Let the Premier make no mis¬ take about it," he said. "The time has come, is even here, when in¬ dustries of America are no longer able to keep the people In poverty and misery.
"The day is past when workers of America can be kept in a state of  peonage  and  slavery."
He referred to Hepburn as the "puppet of General Motor.s" and said that "if he really has the best
interests and welfare of the Do¬ minion and province at heart, he would keep his mouth shut."
He alluded to the premier's sud¬ den breaking off pf strike negotia¬ tions today because of "foreign agitators" among union represent¬ atives.
Tactics Won't Work "Hcrr Hepburn may have an army to start planls over here," he said, "hut that won't work in the United States, and that Is where General Motors wants to t make cars, j
"They   will   sign   an   agreement! with  us,  I expect it will  be right ! soon.  Or,  perhaps  I should  say it had better be right soon. 1
"I'm not only telling you we will win this fight. I also told Knudsen (William S. Knudsen, executive vice-president of General Motors), who said, 'Let it ride a few days.' I said, 'Don't let it ride too long'." Meeting  Enthusiastic
The meeting, held in the auditor¬ ium of the Oshawa collegiate school, was orderly but enthusias¬ tic. Strikers unanimously approved Hugh Thompson, the object of Hepburn's "foreign agitators" re¬ mark, as their representative In negotiations.
Thompson, in a brief speech, of¬ fered to withdraw from the com¬ mittee if the strikers so wished.
"Do you want me to act as your representative?" he asked. Deafen¬ ing cheers and a forest or raised arms greeted the question.
While   the   meeting   was   being (Continued on Page A-24)
ES EPAY AND JOBS
Sees Real Prosperity When 'Strike Mess Is Over' And 'Industry   Is   Liberated'
DISLIKES BARGAINING
Martin Says Ford's Old Strategy Will Not Work And Workers Need UAWA
START ON A.T. AND T.
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Local Minister Will Ask Relief From Two Posts; Sessions   Open  Tuesday
AT BINGHAMTON
STILL GOES ON; DELAY MEET
THIRTEEN CHICKENS
UNLUCKY TO THIS MAN
Thirteen chickens yesterday proved unlucky to John Marbry, colored, of 339 Franklin avenue, Scranton, when he pleaded guilty to larceny charges before Judge William R. Lewis in Lackawanna county court.
Theft of the chickens, plus the fact that Marbry had a previous criminal record dating back to 1918, brought him a penitentiary sentence of one to two years. He pleaded guilty.
Retirement of Rev. W. S. York as pastor of two churches in Wilkes-Barre was indicated last nighl on the eve of the opening of the annual Wyoming conference. The conference will begin Tuesday at Binghamton. Scores of Metho¬ dist ministers and laymen will leave here tomorrow for the ses¬ sions.
Rev. York is said to have asked to be placed on the "retired rela¬ tions" list after thirty-five years devoted to the ministry. Since 1935 he has been pastor of Bennett Memorial church and St. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal church. It is understood after retirement he may move to Kingston from his present residence at 374 New Grant street, city.
Entering the Methodist ministry in 1902, Rev, York spent his early years in the West. He was first assigned lo the West Wisconsin Conference and later transferred to the Northern Nebraska dislrict. He came lo the Wyoming Conference in 1920 and before appointment to the Wilkes-Barre church, ho served charges at Noxen and Alderson,
Comparatively few transfers are expected al the Conference although church people last night admitted that a number of last-minute sur¬ prises may result. Various matters concerning the participation ot lay¬ men in church government are ex¬ pected to come before the Bing¬ hamton sessions.
Bashore Present As Medi¬ ator In Dispute; Peace¬ ful Picketing To Continue
THREE ARRESTS MADE
Hershey, Pa.. April 10. (UP)- Negotiators attempting to settle the strike at Hershey Chocolate Corporation plant adjourned today until Monday after Stale Secretary of Labor and Industry Ralph M. Bashore, acting as mediator, re¬ ported "a tentative agreement has been reached."
Peaceful picketing was continued at the plant, however, and Gilbert Kraus, Philadelphia, attorney for the strikers, said "the strike still Is in effect and will be until a definite agreement is reached."
Unlil adjournment was an¬ nounced there appeared to be a complete disagreement as to what progress was being made. Bashore had said that "a settlement may be reached momentarily" but a spokes¬ man for the United Chocolate Workers Union reported "we are (Continued on  Page A-24)
Ways, Ga., April 10. (UP)-Con- trol "manifested by finance and organizations of one sort or an¬ other" is retarding industrial ad- VMHcement and once this control is removed the nation will see "real prosperity," Henry Ford said to¬ day in an interview at his winter home here.
The automobile manufacturer also hinted that the Ford com¬ pany might soon increase wages ot its 150,000,000 workers, said he had no fear of unionization threats of C.I.O. leaders, and denounced Pres¬ ident Roosevelt's judicial reorga- lion  program.
The control "manifested by or¬ ganizations of one sort or another," Ford said, prohibits manufacture of thousands of cheap articles for the common man.
"W4Een these organizations are removed and industry is liberated, everything will improve and we will see a real prosperity:
Asked to comment on slalcmenta in which C.I.O. leaders said Ford plants would be unionized whether Ford liked it or nol, he answered: "I have no fear of them because they are wrong."
"Every worker ought to ask him¬ self," he continued, " 'What have I got out of the union in return for what I have lost?' One of the most dangerous things about unions is that they take away man's free* dom, which is the foundation tl America."
No Need For Bargaining
He said he .^aw no need for col¬ lective bargaining in his plants be¬ cause "we're all workers together."
The manufacturer said he was "unalterably opposed" lo the pro¬ posal to increase tho size of the Supreme Courl and predicted pub¬ lic opinion would defeat the Presi¬ dent's plan.
"The court has never been pack¬ ed before because a President comes and goes before he can pack the court," Ford said. "The court now is created out of life itself. If was designed by men inspired by the Almighty 150 years ago and it is time-tested."
Ford, after describing the NRA as "an attempt to control and throttle industry" said that "an¬ other NRA probably would result if the court is packed."
rromises Advances
The    Ford    Company,    he    an¬ nounced,  would  establish  'as  lOOQ (Continued on Page A-15)
DR. T. V. Mclaughlin
TO RESUME PRACTICE
Dr. T. V. McLaughlin, completely recovered from a recent illness will resume his office practice to¬ morrow at 73 South Washington street.
For more than threa months, Dr, McLaughlin has been recuperating after being Incapacitated early In tbe winter.
Avoca Women's Expulsion Lacks Official Italian  Confirmation/
Washington, April 10, (UP)—| Stale Department's efforts to ob¬ tain official information concern¬ ing reported expulsion of three American missionaries from Ethio-
French, all of Avoca, Pa., were ordered to leave Ethiopia on tht ground lhat Italian authorities sus¬ pected them of espionage on behalf of the British. The State Department was with*
pia were still unsuccessful tonight j om any means of making an im- although American Ambassador mediate, formal checkup at the William Phillips, in Rome, awaited | source   of   the    reported   incident
formal advices to the Italian for eign office
Phillips informed the State De¬ partment he had made inquiries at tho Italian foreign office but learn¬ ed that the only information avail¬ able was that contained in the Ital¬ ian newspaper Giornalt d'ltalia.
Tho ambassador indicated he would make further inquiries. Ac¬ cording to a dispatch to the Gior- nale d'ltalia, three American mis¬ sionary women. Miss Ruth Shippey, .Bertha    Donermutb,    and    Elena
because the American legation at Addis Ababa was closed earlier thie week. The 67 Americans now la Ethiopia have no direct diplomatia or consular representation in EthiO" pia.
Records of the State DepartmenH show that Americans still remain* ing there are 53 adults and 14 chlU dren. A number of these were to have left Ethiopia on March 26, but the department was without official word that any of ttaeai actually left. — «
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