Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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Thi   Onl7   Sunday   Newspspei CoTerlng  the   Wyoming   Valley
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1937
Entered   at   Wilkri-Bnrre,   Pa,, As   Second   Class   Mail   Matter
PRICE TEN CENTS
PROMISE 200,000 AT UNION MEETING -  PRESIDENT IS ASKED TO MEDIATE
'will ASK 40% FROM SPONSORS
Approved By Senate Com¬ mittee; Doubles Cost To Local Governments
MAY BE FELT IN CITY
Predict Over 400,000 Will
Leave Relief Rolls In
Three Months
Washington, June 12. (UP)—The Senate Appropriations Committee, overriding spirited administration objections, today approved the pro¬ posal of Sen. James F. Byrnes, D„ 8. C, that local sponsors of relief projects be required lo provide up to 40 percent of the cost of thc projects.
The fight against Byrnes' pro¬ posal, adopted by the committee as an amendment to the pending $1,500,0(X),000 worlt relief appropria¬ tion bill, waa expected to be tal<en to thc Senate floor. Adminislralion leaders were believed already pre¬ paring strategy to eliminate the clause from the measure.
Final committee action on_ tha bill was delayed until early next week, probably Monday. The com¬ mittee will meet then wilh one important amendment still to be acted   upon.
To Reach Senate Tuesday
Senate leaders indicated floor con.sideration of the bill probably would begin Tuesday, Because of the fight over the 40 percent clause, observers expected several days of debate.
The committee action on Byrnes' proposal was talicn after WPA Administrator Harry L, Hopl<ins spent more than two hours urging that the administration be given a tree hand with the fund,
Hopkins, it was learned, said he already had plans lo require local contributions of 20 or 22 percent. He said that during the past year local sponsors have been required to put up from 13 to 17 percent of  the  cost.
Hopkins emerged from the com¬ mittee room after his two-hour session  grim  and  silent.
The eommittee first defeated a series of amendments to the Byrnes amendment offered by Sens. John H. Overton, D., Im., and Acting Committee Chairman Kenneth Mc¬ Kellar, D., Tenn. Overton's pro¬ posal would have cut the local con¬ tribution lo 18 per cent. Mc¬ Kellar rropoaed that the local con¬ tribution bc 20, 25 and 28 per rent. All amenriments were defeated by a vole  of  13  to  9.
Only  For New  Projects
Only modiflcation.s of the Byrnes amendment accepted by the com¬ mittee were those making the effec¬ tive dale of the amendment Sep¬ temher 30 and the provision that it shall apply only to new projecta not yet approved by WP.\.
The September ^0 provision was in.icrtcd, it was said, lo give local governments a chance to adjust their relief programs.
The committee approved the sec-
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Embattled Women Ready To Reinforce Picket Lines
Here are some defiant women pickets who aided their menfolk in Monroe, Mich., by gathering stones.
j baseball   bats   and   other   weapons.
The weapons hardly were used, for
I police and special deputies dispersed
the pickets with tear ga.s. When the pickets fled, more than 500 loyal employees entered the factory.
THREE M MONROE tensely waits
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ACCIDENTS
Roosevelt Believed Summoned; Government Moves Behind Scenes
George Bryant, Plymouth. Is
Mine Crash Victim; Two
Die   On   Highway
TRUCK HITS AUTO
Cleveland, June 12 (UP)—Union sources reported tonight that Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio had de¬ cided lo ask President Roosevelt to intervene in the steel strike and call a peace conference for next Wednesday.
Governor Davey declined either to confirm or deny the report.
There were numerous indications that the steel companies affected flnrirPW   Manv     DlinOnt    And   ^y ^^'^ 17-day strike soon would at-
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following   the   resumption   ot  oper¬ ations at Monroe, Ohio,
Fear of new clashes and possible bloodshed when thc show-down comes spurred mediators to seek some new settlement formula and prompted consideration of moves such as Davey was said to have in mind.
Paul Merson, Tunk¬ hannock, Killed
LEARNS FUTILITY
A tiittle Hard On The Car
Nabbed Month After Start
Of Burglary Escapades;
Confesses   Crimes
FIVE CHARGES
Just one month to the day after he decided on a career of crime, Edward Pershalski 21, of Grove street, Edwardsville, admitted that he was wrong. However, fl was loo lale. Police of Kingston yesterday preferred five charged of burglary against him. Pershalski, according to the officers, admilted the crimes and said he would appear before one of the county judges tomorrow to plead guilty.
Pershalski was taken before Justice of the Peace Roberts at Kingston yesterday after police arrested him on his return from a trip lo Philadelphia. Expense.s of the trip, authorities said, were paid by money stolen during the burg¬ laries. The youth was held wilhout bail until he ran be taken to court. Robbed  Coslett  Home
On June 12 the Edwardsville prisoner is accu.sed of having en¬ tered the Co.slrtt home on Zerbey avenue, Edwardsville, where he stole about J5 in rash from rlolh- ing. The burglary was accom¬ plished without waking any of the family.
Several days later he is alleged to have made an early morning raid on the Checker Club on Pringle street, Kingston, where he stole some vending machines. The next nig'it he waited until Whitcy''i (Continued On Page A-10)
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After CIO pickets were dispersed in Monroe, Michigan, special police
battered  and  overturned  many of the  automobiles  in  which  strikers
had  arrived  in  Monroe  from  neighboring  communities.   Here  is  one
of the police hard at it.   More than 10,000 townsfolk cheered,
Basque Losses Staggering As Franco Reaches Bilbao
Merciless Assault From Land And Sky Takes Insur¬ gents Close Enough To Hear Screaming In Doomed City; Nazis Rush Munitions
Ship Rats Outwit By Going Past
Naval Experts Hawser Stoppers
Washington, June 12, (UP)—Dr. O. E. Denney, chicf quarantine officer at the Panama Canal, re¬ ported wilh grudging admiration tonight that a leering black r»t has outsmarted some of thc best minds of thc  p'ederal government,
Theso experts have been engaged ip invention of barriers to keep rats on ships from crawling off via the hawser route—and vice versa. After years of experimenta¬ tion they evolved the ultimate in rat stoppers, a tin disc, three feet In diameter, with a hole in the middle.
This w»s fitted over the ship's ropes, one disc for each rope when the boat was in dock, and the ex¬ perts agreed that no rat could walk past. The thing was so sim¬ ple that everybody wondered why It hadn't been invented centuries before.
Belter late than never, though, Tha rigid, three-foot rat guard waa made standard and its use was en- Xorcsd on ihipi all over tbe world.
The only difficulty was that rat.s continued walking on and off rat- gu.irdcd boats, spreading disca,se, destroying properly  and  what-not.
This phenomenon was particular¬ ly apparent at thc Panama Canal, whore the rodent supercargoes on liners from everywhere strolled aboard, and off again, at tlicir own pleasure. They did all this strol¬ ling at night, though, so nobody could tell how they got past the tin   guards.
The problem worried Dr, Denney, He stretched a ship's hawser be¬ tween two trees on his lawn. He put in the middle of the rope a standard rat guard. Then he picked out a rat, an adult, male, black one—Rattus Alexandrinua—the best of all  rodent  climbers.
Dr. Denney placed the rat on the hawser and it proceeded to make monkeys of all experls. It walked down the rope to the guard. It climbed up one side of il, poised on thc upper edge, and jumped down on to the cable on the other side.
By JOHN 1>E GANDT
l'nited   Press   Staff  Correspondent Copyright,  1937,   By   L'nited  P*ess
Wilh the Spanish Rebels, Along Bilbao's El Gallo Line, June 12 (UP)—General Francisco Franco's northern army, buckling Bilbao's last line of defenses in a smashing assault from land and sky, was close enough to the besieged city tonight lo hear the screams of panicky people in the streets. Part ot the capital was in flames.
After a day-long offensive through the Viscargi Hills north¬ east of Bilbao, shorn of foliage, burned black by incessant fire and littered with hundreds of dead, the Nationalist columns pulled up only four miles from Bilbao's gates.
Behind them, in the wake of a furious eight mile advance in which no qunrter was asked or given, Ihcy left blazing pine forests and villages and a ragged gaping hole in the Basque Loyalists' famed  "Iron  Ring"  of  defenses,
Wilh the Iron Ring smashed along a three-mile break at San Martin de Fica, six miles from Bil¬ bao on the northeast. Gen. Jose Fidel Davila believed that nothing rould halt his battalirns in their victory march.
Screams From Doomed City
From  one  of the  captured  hills, Gaslellumcndi,   1   looked   down   on what appears lo be a doomed cily. { I  heard shouts and screams from i thc  streets,  buried  beneath a  pall of   dense   black   smoke   from   the burning  forests around Derio and ] Zamudio, I   understand   that   an   advance
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column of Davila's shock troops, driving through flaming woodlands that burned the beards from their faces, occupied Bilbao's cemetery beyond Dcrio,
The big offensive on this north¬ eastern front, where the insurgents high command, apparently has de¬ cided to strike its supreme blow upon the Basque city, began at 3 a, m. in the first streaks of a foggy dawn.
Columns of Nationalists began a flaking movement from east of Gastelumendi Hill, two miles south of Fruniz en the highway that runs from Guernica to the Sea, while scores of big guns and fleets of bombing planes rained death on the famous "El Gallo" line.
The line gave way with the first full force assault, and the Nation¬ alists drove on, seizing Gastelum¬ endi hill and driving the Basque defenders in headlong retreat down the other side.
Retreat Into Trap
The retreating Loyalists caught unawares by the flanking move*- ment, were trapped by a column which had encircles the hill. They were virtually wiped out a few minutes later when Insurgent bat¬ teries around Lemona, southward along the Durango-Bilboa highway, found  their range.
The Basque retreat swept along an eight-mile front, as far soulh as Larrabezua, enabling Davila's troops to move up for an attack on the lasl range of hills lying between them  and Bilbao. i
Tonight  the  Basque  enemy was |
entrenched   in   hurriedly   prepared j
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Three deaths due to accidents and injury to a dozen other per¬ sons were reported here laat night. A mine foreman died after being run down by a runaway mine car. Another man was killed and four persons injured in a collision cn the Moosic-Dalevillc highway. A ten-year-old boy died after a futile dash of thirty miles to hospital in a vain effort to check hemorr¬ hages.
The  day's  death  toll:
George Bryant, 58, of 86 Acad¬ emy street, Plymouth, victim ot a mine accident.
Andrew Nagy, 25, ot Church street, Dupont, killed and four others injured in a crash djr th* Daleville   highw«>V   •  '
Paul Merson, ten, of Tunkhan¬ nock, died from hemorrhages caused when a truck ran over him.
In addition to the day's fatalities, hospitals here were called upon to treat more than a dozen persons for injuries, Ampng them was the season's first victim of exploding firecrackers. Another victim was taken to a hospital when he was burned while fumigating a chicken coop at his home,
George Bryant Dies
George Bryant, .58, mine foreman and prominent resident of 86 Arcademy sleet, Plymouth, died last night in Wilkes-Barre General hospital, due lo injuries suffered in a mine accident. On Friday he was struck by a runaway mine car at Chauncey colliery of the George F, Lee Coal Company. He was in¬ jured internally and an operation was performed yesterday afternoon when his ¦ondition grew suddenly worse. His death occurred at 8:15 oclock,
Mr, Bryant was a lifelong resi¬ dent of Plymouth and had held the position of mine foreman at the Chauncey for a number of years. He was a member of numerous organizations, including Lodge 332, F. & A, M., Keystone Consistory of Scranton, Ircm Temple, Knights of Pythias, P, O. S. of A. and tho Good Will Hose Company, No, 2, of Plymouth.
Surviving are thc following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Nettie Reed, with whom Mr. Bryant re¬ sided; MrF. Lydia Hower of New Jersey, Mrs, Lucy Naugel of Askam, Harry Bryant of Hanover township Fred Bryant of Hunting- (Continued On Page A-14)
Government Active
Washinglon, June 12. (UP)—Gov¬ ernment agencies moved behind the scenes tonight seeking to estab¬ lish some basis for peace negotia¬ tions in the critical seven-State steel strike.
Two agencies sought to devise some satisfactory means of media¬
tion in closely-guarded maneuvers. Four other branches of the govern¬ ment watched strike developments and prepared private inquiries inlo certain phases of the bitler dispute.
Officers of the Committee for Indu.strial Organization here esti¬ mated that 85,000 workers in the steel industry were affected by the strike in its present phase. They declined to slate how many were actually on the  picket  lines.
CIO leaders made public a list of steel companies which have signed contracts with the Steel Workers Org.inizing Committee, CIO sub¬ sidiary. They enumerated 143 con¬ tracts which they claimed em¬ braced 70 per cent of the indus¬ try's workers.
The present strike—with the ex¬ ception of the walkout called at the Johnslown, Pa., plant of Beth¬ lehem Steel Corporation—resulted from union demands for contracts with Republic Steel Corporation, Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company,
Active federal mediation efforts have taken two forms. The Labor (Continued On Page A-10)
'Workers Council For Social
Justice' Bids For Henry
Ford's Employees
RADIO PRIEST SILENT
T' 'VIGILANTES'
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Claim All Law And Order
Has Broken Down; Akron
To Send Pickets Help
WANT FREIGHT SERVICE
Garlic Becomes A Labor Weapon
New York, June 12, (UP) — Garlic tonight became for the first time in the memory of man a major weapon of labor war¬ fare.
At noon 200 members of the Musicians Union, who object to "canned music" in motion pic¬ ture houses, marched into the famed Palace Theatre and took seats in the audience.
They also took sandwiches— garlic sandwiches. They began to munch contentedly and non- garlic-ealing members of the audience   began   to  move   over.
By nightfall the audience had thinned appreciably and it be¬ came a question of which could hold out the longest—the ven¬ tilating system  or  the garlic,
"We are working our ventila¬ tors full blast," announced Ray Connors, manager of the theatre, "but it's a tough job. Unless they leave when our midnight show is over, we will have to consult tho authorities."
The sit-downers said they would stay there until the theatre, formerly the goal of all vaudeville players, agreed to hire an orchestra. They said the show was good nnd the food was good, and the only thing they had to complain about was the lack of musicians like them¬ selves  in  the  orchestra pit-
Detroit, June 12, (UP)—A new labor union, organized with the knowledge if not the support of Father Charles E, Coughlin, an¬ nounced its formation tonight in full page advertisements appearing in Detroit Sunday newspapers. Of¬ ficers of the union—the Workers Council for Social Justice—said their first objective would be the Ford Motor Company and its 90,000 workers at thc River Rouge plant,
Thn advertisement listed Arthur E, Nelson, a Ford Motor Company employee living in Royal Oak, as president and called attention to nine "responsibilities of labor" as compared with 10 "responsibilities of capital."
George F. Addes, secretary of the United Automobile Warkcrs Union, greeted announcement of the new organization with the charge that it "smacked of 'Coughlinism'."
The radio priest, found as he was entering his home near his famous "Shrine of thc Little Flower" in Royal Oak, admilted that he was acquainted wilh the new union but refused to elaborate on his con¬ nection with it,
"You'll have to see the paper," he remarked.
"What paper?" he was asked.
"Social Justice." This is a week¬ ly publication of Father Coughlin's and the medium he has used to supplement the radio broadcasts through which he became world famous.
"The next issue," he said, "won't be out until next Thursday. There's an article already written about the union in 'Social Justice'."
Father Coughlin's own league for social justice has been dormant since he withdrew from the field of political broadcasting after the union's overwhelming defeat in thc November presidential election.
The council's first announced ob¬ jectives was organization of Ford Motor Company workers.
Expect Ford Men To .Join ¦
"Frankly," they said, "we expect 50,000 Ford workers to join our ranks."
Ford officials could not be reach¬ ed for comment.
A line at the bottom of the ad¬ vertisements explained lhat the cost had been defrayed with money "borrowed on an unsecured promis¬ sory note from a person having no connection directly or indirectly with any industry." It said that receipts of the council would be used to repay this loan.
Nelson was not at home.   Robert
Monteith,   listed   as   virc-presldcnt
of the new union, said hc was not
authorized  to  comment  on  its  or-
]>ganizatlon or support. [
Canton, O, June 12. (UP)— Strikers from Republic Steel Cor¬ poration's four • big mills here gathered in mass meeting at the city auditorium tonight to consider plans lo resist what they regarded as threats by "vigilantes" to break their picket lines,
S, H, Dalrymple, president of the United Rubber Workers, came from nearby Akron, a strongly unionized city, to promise the strikers moral and financial .iupport. The rub¬ ber workers union is a powerful member of the Committee for In¬ dustrial Organization, sponsor of the steel strike.
Mobilization of citizens to aid Police Chief Ira M, Vandcrbaugh and Sheriff Joseph Nist was spon¬ sored by a newly-formed "Citizens Law and Order Leegue," It was headed by T. K. Harris, one of Canton's leading citizens, who con¬ tended lhat law and order had broken down in the blockade of the four Republic mills. One of the mills is open, with company assert¬ ing that 2,000 men are at work. The other three are closed.
The league announced that its purpose was to "restore orderly picketing at thc Republic gales and permit the men to go to their jobs and return in safety."
More '.han 100 volunteers regis¬ tered today at the league's newly- opened headquarters in a bank building. They will be assigned to help the sheriff.
It was expected that their first efforts would bc devoted to at¬ tempting to re-establish normal freight service in and out of the plants.
Harris said he expected about 400 (Continued On Page A-10>
Governor   Sending   Militia
And   Police;   Hoping  To
Keep Crowd From City
RESIDENTS ANGRY
Monroe, Mich., June 12. (UP)— Monroe anxiously watched tonight for the vanguard of thousands of out-of-town unionists summoned to a mammoth mass meeting to¬ morrow in protest against the smashing of steel strike picket lines by the city.
Automobile union headquarter* in Detroit claimed lhat "if th«« weather is good, there ought to t>« 200,000 persons at the mass meet¬ ing,"
Governor Frank Murphy decided to send 200 or 300 National Guards¬ men and 100 Slate policemen hera to "safeguard the peace" and to "guarantee the right of free speech and free assembly" to the union¬ ists. He said martial law would not be declared.
But the promise of troops and an agreement to hold the meeting three miles outside of the city did not erase thc worry of city officials that the influx of union¬ ists might lead to some clash with the city's aroused anti-union ele¬ ments.
Many Thousands Coming
President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers Union inaiw^ioned the demonstration. He and Van A. Bittner of Chicago, director of tho Steel Workers' Or¬ ganizing Committee, will be the principal speakers. Murphy will be there,  but does not plan to speak
Automobile union ofTicials de¬ clared Pontiac, Mich., alone would send 19,000 demonstrators. Other CIO bodies in surrounding indus¬ trial communities promised addi¬ tional thousands as a mark of support to strikers routed Thurs¬ day when they tried to prevent reopening of thc Newton Steel Co. plant,
Martin had called for delegations from Ohio and Indiana as well as Michigan, Today he promised Gov¬ ernor Murphy, in a conference in Detroit, lhat he would "discourage" any influx from the two bordering States. But automobile union head¬ quarters said delegates there al¬ ready had arranged to converge in Toledo and move in a motor¬ cade to the mass meeting.
Vigilantes May Not Operate
Murphy said that Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs promised that the city's special "vigilante" police, who have been patrolling Monroe by the hun¬ dreds since the Newton clash, "will not be operating tomorrow,"
It was agreed that the militia¬ men and state police would try to block outsiders from entering Mon¬ roe  itself.
Mayor Knaggs warned that if the unionists came inside the limits, the cily could not be responsible for "what our people might do."
The guardsmen, from a Detroit regiment, "will be here by morn¬ ing," officials said. Col. John S. Bersey, slate adjutant-general, and Oscar G. Olandcr, slate police com¬ missioner,  will   be  in  charge,
"We will make certain there will be no invasion of Monroe," Murphy said. "I hope all citizens will co¬ operate with us by keeping away from the town. Thc state park where the meeting will be held is located so il will not be neces¬ sary to pass through Monroe to reach   it."
Although all concerned expressed hope that these arrangements would forestall any possibility of trouble. Police Chicf Jesse Fisher and Sheriff Joe Bairley indicated they would be ready to mobilize the "vigilantes" on quick notice. Police Lines Held
At   the  old  red   brick   city  hall, a steady trickle of volunteers wer* (Continued On Page A-10)
Investigation Spurred On Finding Of 6 Bodies In A handoned Hospital
Philadelphia, June 12. (UP)—Six decomposed bodies, found packed in a rough pine box in an old hos¬ pital whose license had oeen re¬ voked, spurred a mayoral investiga¬ tion today.
The iKjdics were said by Thomas J, Goldberg, former superintendent of thc Naturopathic hospital, closed seven weeks ago, to have been five years in the hospital dissection room, but Coroner Charles Hersch declared they were less than five yp!>r"i  old.
Goldberg   aaid   the   corpass,   dis¬
covered by two small boys explor* ing the vacant building, were ob¬ tained from the State Anatomical Association for dissection purposes. Hersch, however, said one of tha bodies had not been embalmed, whereas corpses sold by tbs Anatomical Association are.
Mayor S. Davis Wilson ordered the former superintendent, already under $4,000 bail on charges of par¬ ticipating in a hospital charity l>all fraud, held pending further iavMtt* gation. '        „