nriL; Advocate WEATHER Rain tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature. (Table on Page THE forgotten man is he who earns his livincr and 71 supports his family. Silas H. Strawn.
AMERICAN TRIBUNE VOL. 153, No. 7 ADVOCATE ESTABLISHED 1820 TRIBUNE, 1827 NEWARK, OHIO, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1937 COAL STRIKE END Here's Proof Italians Are Aiding Rebels Police Attempt To "Crack" His Story And Solve Mystery WAGES ARE INCREA Newark AS mm Mother Approves Marriage of Her Daughter, Age 13 Mines Only Closed for 15,000 Rebels Facing Mass Death As Government Army Traps Troops Near Cordoba Madrid, April 3. (AP) Fifteen thousand insurgent soldiers, described in government reports as mostly Italian, were reported facing today possibly the greatest mass slaughter of the Spanish Civil war in a military camp on the in AX the only main road connecting Looking for proof that Italian troops are aiding General Francisco Franco's Spanish rebel forces in the fight against the Madrid government. Then study this group of prisoners of war taken by Loyalist defenders on the Guadalajara front.
All hail from sunny Italy and are commanded by Italian officers. The husky chap in. center, with muffler about neck and Welded Gates At Ford Plant Stop Car Production Kansas City Factory Shut Down As Workers Charge Discrimination Is First Sit-Down in Ford Company. Joseph Gedeon Is pictured above as police booked him on a charge of illegally possessing firearms in his New York unholstery shop. He was wearied by persistent questioning by detectives who sought to "crack" his story and possibly solve the triple murder of his artists' model daughter Veronica, his wife and a boarder.
CARDS TAKEN TO Single Day New Contract Means $85, 000,000 Boost in Mine Pay Rolls. WILL HIKE COAL PRICE Operators Estimate Price Jump of 25 Cents; Union Says 15 Cents. New York, April 3. (AP) The nation's soft coal industry, after a one-day shutdown, was free of a strike threat today, with a new compact in effect grant ing miners wrage increases aggregating $85,000,000 an nually. The shortest shutdown in the bituminous mining of a dozen states was climaxed late yesterday with a two-year agreement between the operators and the United Mine Workers of America providing increased pay for more than 300,000 employes.
The operators' spokesmen estimated the boost probably would occasion an increase in the price of coal at the mine of 25 cents a ton. The union said it would add only 15 cents to the cost of mining a ton. No strike occurred, said the unon. The men just refused to work without a contract. The old agreement expired at midnight Wednesday.
Edward F. McGrady, assistant secretary of labor, called the culmination of the weeks-long nego tiations industrial statesman ship. becretary Perkins, in Washington, said it proved settle ments could be reached without "recourse to costly strikes and lockouts." John L. Lewis, union president, said "both sides yielded on cer tain points, and there was a spirit of mutual compromise and an ef- (Continued on Page 2. Column 6) AGED MAN HIT BY AUTOMOBILE Columbus, April 3.
(AP) A 91-year-old Civil war veteran who said a few days ago his one ambi tion was to live to be 100, was se verely cut and bruised here last night when struck by an automobile driven by James W. Brad- field of Galion. The victim, Maish "Frosty" Houseworth of Waldo, was walk ing to a motion picture- show when hit. Taken to a hospital, his condition was reported as "good." Relatives said he was the only surviving Civil war veteran in Marion county. He has been vis iting at the home here of a daugh ter, rMs.
William Strine. Kansas City, April 3. (AP) Welded switch gates shut in freight carloads of automobiles today as the first sit-down strike directed at a Henry Ford unit moved into the second day. A card-playing, gayly shouting band of men, claiming to number 1,400 and to be in a union backed by the committee for industrial organization, held possession of the Ford assembly plant behind striker-guarded doors. TASK BY FRISCH Dizzy Dean, Newspapermen in Fight.
Tampa, April 3. (AP) Frankie Frisch, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, laid down the law to his belligerent "Gas House Gang" today after most of the baseball club joined in a fist fight between Dizzy Dean and two sports writers. Xl- One of the writers, Irving Kup- cinet of the Chicago Daily Times, received a black eye. He left for Chicago after telling Dean "111 fight you any any time you CANCER RESEARCH Uordoba iront.
The insurgent force, already having retreated more than 15 miles after an unsuccessful siege of Pozoblanco, a mineral stronghold of the Madrid-Valencia government, was said to have been caught more than 20 miles northwest of Cordoba City, its principal base of supplies. Government capture of the town of Villaharta yesterday placed Madrid's jubilant "Mili-cianos" in a position to dominate FOURYOUTHS HELD IN THEFT OF JUNK Admit Charge and Are Given Heavy Fines. Howard Pickerell, 23, his broth er, Robert Pickerell, 18, both of 103 Valley street, Clarence Ervin, 21, of 28 Spencer street, and Clar ence Miller, 27, of East Shields street were arrested Friday aft ernoon by Detective Henry Hall for investigation in connection with the theft of auto parts from Harry Horowitz, used metal deal er in South Fifth street. Detective Hall learned that the boys have been stealing metal at various places in this city and because the junk dealers are required to keep a close record of all transactions, and report them to the police if occasion requires, the boys have been hauling the metal to Mans field where they sold it. The Pickerell boys and Ervin were found in their homes.
Miller was apprehended at Granville. They were taken to headquarters where they were closely questioned by Police Chief Berry, Detective Chief Clyde Hupp and Detective Hall. The boys finally confessed their guilt, police said. They were arraigned in munici pal court this morning. Howard Pickerell, charged with receiving stolen goods valued at $34.99, was fined $200 and costs and sentenced to the county jail for 30 days, Robert Pickerell, Clarence Ervin and Clarence Miller were found guilty of petty larceny.
They were fined $200 and costs each 30-day jail sentence was also im posed. The sentences of Robert Pickerell and Clarence Ervin were suspended, but Miller, who was recently released from the Mans field reformatory, where he served a commitment for auto theft, was sent to the county jail to serve out the mine and sen tence. Fremont Woman Has 100 Candles On Cake Fremont, April 3. (AP) Mrs Sarah Lattig said today as she placed the 100th candle in her birthday cake that her clearest memory of youth was that of driving ox carts over thickly timbered black swamp trails near here. Mrs.
Lattig, who lives with a son, Isadore, was in fairly good health except for being unable to walk as she reached the century mark. A fall four years ago crippled her. Another centenarian in Sandusky county, Capt. Hanson R. Bowlus, is 101.
He served in the Civil war. Wedding Rumor Denied. Monts, France, April 3. (AP) Mrs. Herman L.
Rogers, close friend of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, today denied Rouen newspaper reports Mrs. Simpson would marry the Duke of Windsor at the Chateau De Saint Saens 1 he plant, employing approxi mctely 2,000 of Ford's 150,000 workers, was shut down yesterday. Strikers claimed that seniority rights were ignored and union men discriminated against in the seasonal laying off of workers. Ford officials here and at Detroit did not comment.
There was no violence. The strikers let down a sign from the top floor of the three-story building in Kansas City's northeast dustrial sector reading: "Lincoln freed the slaves. Ford brought them back." Switchyard gates through which railroad track sours are coat on arm, is their commander. 12-Year-01d Girl Weds Man, Age 27; Court To Get Case MANKATO, April 3. (AP) County Attorney C.
A. Johnson asked for a court hearing today on the child marriage of Virginia Deremer, 12, to Ernest B. Johnson, 27, divorced father of five children. Sheriff Frank W. Woods took the girl into custody as a delinquent and a neglected mi-nar on complaint of Anna Wrecking, secretary of the county welfare board.
Virginia, who married Johnson in Estherville, March 25, said: "I married Ernie because I love him and not because I had to. What his past life was doesn't concern me." Irvin Nichols, Emmet county, clerk of court, who issued the license, said the mother, who is estranged from her husband, signed a statement that the girl was 15 years old. SOLONS FAVOR FLOOD CONTROL Secrest Says Committee Is Unanimously for Plan. Washington, April 3. (AP) Rep.
Robert T. Secrest of Caldwell, said the house flood control committee unanimously favored a vast, nation-wide 'flood control program which would be established under his bill and predicted today the committee would take formal action upon receipt of any army engineer report on it The committee this week in spected the Muskingum valley flood control project. The Ohio Democrat suggested that such a program would ab sorb every male worker on works progress administration projects and would be completed in five years provided funds were made available. He estimated the cost between $2,000,000,000 and $3, 000,000,000. Approximately 2,000,000 persons now are on WPA jobs.
"Flood control is a national problem a national responsibility which can not be handled by individual states," Secrest said. "A federally-financed program would be an investment because it would more than pay for itself by preventing losses in flood times." Secrest and other members of the house committee visited Ohio last week for a survey of the Muskingum valley conservancy district. His measure, similar to one introduced into the senate by Senator Bulkley Ohio) and Senator Barkley would replace the Copeland flood control act requiring states to share the cost. KNOXVILLE, April 3. (AP) Mrs.
Iva Hill gave reluctant approval today to the marriage of her 13-year-old daughter Mildred. Mildred evaded the recently enacted Tennessee law forbidding marriages of persons under 16 vears of aee by eloping to Marshall, N. last Monday with Robert Pack, 19. "I never had anything that bothered me so much, but I've decided to just let them alone," the mother of the child bride said. Mildred was elated.
"It means I won't have to go back to school now," she said. Mildred had been aseventh grade pupil. Strikes Beset Big Three In Car Industry Ford, Chrysler and GMC All Battling With Labor Disputes. WORKERS LEAVE PLANT Sit-Down Strikers Evacuate Flint Factory of Chevrolet Company. (By The Associated Press) All of the "Big Three" automobile producers today were beset by labor trouble, the Ford Motor company joining the list when a sit-down stopped assembly lines at its Kansas City plant.
The others afflicted by strikes were the General Motors and Chrysler corporations. The United Automobile Workers of America was the union in volved in those strikes and others in the country. It claimed 1,400 of the approximately 130,000 idle automotive workers were strikers occupying the Ford Kansas City plant. The union charged the com pany ignored seniority rights and discriminated against union workers. Sit-down strikers evacuated the Chevrolet Motor assembly plant at Flint, last night after General Motors officials agreed to confer with union leaders on strikers' grievances.
Thirty thou sand G. M. workers, including those in the Fisher Body plant and the Yellow Truck plant at Pontiac, were scheduled to return to work Sunday and Monday. Resumption of work by 60,000 employes of the Chrysler corpora' tion hinged on the outcome of conferences between John L. Lewis, head of the committee for industrial organization, and Wal ter P.
Chrysler, corporation chair man. Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan arranged for a week end conference in an effort to set tie the four weeks'" old dispute. No progress was made toward settlement of the Hudson Motor Car company strike involving 10, 000 workers but prospects for re sumption of operations by the Reo Motor Car company's truck fac tory in Lansing brightened. Another automotive firm, Graham Paige corporation, announced last night it had signed an agreement with the U. A.
W. A. after several weeks of "friendly negotiations." A provisional agreement ended a strike at the American Gas Machine company in Albert Lea, after a day of rioting in which four persons were injured. Clashes between sheriffs deputies and pickets were termed unwarranted by Governor Elmer Benson. He assailed the officers for wThat he termed a "brutal assault" on pickets.
The controversy in congress over the sit-down strike method marked time over the week-end but administration leaders said a vote would be taken on the issue in both houses next week. Cyclist Is Killed. Columbus, April 3. (AP) Injured when the bicycle he was riding collided with an automobile, Lee Thomas, 16, of suburban Clintonville, died late yesterday. V-ks Insurance Probe.
Bowling Green, April 3. (AP) Prosecutor Floyd A. Coller asked Wood county school boards today to investigate accident insurance policies carried on school buses after a recent crash in which several students were injured revealed that the policy carried by Harold Bahnsen, driver of the bus, covered injuries only when the driver was at fault. Bahnsert was absolved of blame for the accident. I Spta into the rear of the plant -yfere welded shut last night.
At fr mass meeting to organize for Cordoba with the mass of Gen. Gonzalo Queipo De LLano's men. Occupation of the road would isolate and subject them to concerted thrusts of government cavalry, tanks, infantry and planes. Already one of the four gov ernment arms was stabbing at the extreme northwest position of the insurgents, Penarroya, center of the coal fields about 15 miles from Villaharta. nignt tne attacking mi litiamen were within sight of Penarroya.
Reports from Bilboa, in the north, said government Basques! fought their way to the top of a mountain peak in what their commander asserted was a successful attempt to halt an in surgent drive from the south. They occupied the summit of "La Cruz" (the Cross), highest of the Cantabrian peaks which surround Bilbao and which the insurgents must surmount before starting a downhill advance on the northern autonomous capital. Rebel detachments were cleared out," said a terse government report from the rocky frontier. Government trooos captured a large quantity of war materials. "Heavy losses were inflicted on the insurgents." DRIVER GETS 60 DAYS IN PRISON Has Two Accidents Steals Gasoline.
and Charles McKnight, 468 Sher man avenue, was arrested by Captain Karl Koblens, Sergeant Harry Bragg, Officers Eyler Burris and Rex Rittenhouse Friday night on a charge of stealing gasoline and leaving the scene of an acci dent. Police investigation revealed that McKnight's car collided with another car belonging to Harold Burch. They charge McKnight continued on his way without stopping to render assistance. McKnight drove westward in Wilson and Union streets and collided with a freight train standing on the Union street crossing. He escaped injury, but his car was ruined.
Police charge that he syphoned gasoline from the tank of a truck belonging to the Davis Creamery company. McKnight was found guilty on both charges in municipal court this morning. He pleaded guilty to stealing gasoline. For this he was fined $200 and costs and sentenced to the county jail for 30 days. For his part in the automobile accident he was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in the coun ty jail.
CITY OFFICIALS TO JOIN IN PARADE Ceremony Will Mark Dedica-- tion of Police Radio. Mayor Jesse A. Grove -has sent written invitations to city officials and councilmen to take part Wed nesday night in the parade as part of the program arranged by the community jubilee committee to dedicate the police department's new short wave radio system re cently installed. Mandel Brashear, safety di rector, will present the radio system to Mayor Grove. It was pur chased with proceeds of last sum mer's jubilee and donations of Newark business men.
KIDNAP SUSPECT TAKES OWN LIFE Utica, N. April 3 (AP) Self-inflicted death erased from the books of department of jus tice agents today the second of six suspects in the 1933 kidnaping of John J. Connell. Francis Leo Oley, 29, was found strangled to death last night in his cell in the Oneida county jail. a rope improvised from a bed sheet bound tightly about his neck.
Christopher Miller, Hoboken, N. held a-i a material witness in the case anged himself with his bed cl Feb. 13. Ohio Nan Named. Montclair, N.
April 3. (AP) Stuart M. Waver of Mansfield will become superintendent April 15 of the water bureau at a $7,500 salary. MAKING PROGRESS Surgeon General Believes Control May Be Near. Washington, April 3.
(AP) Research work is bringing more complete understanding of the cause of cancer and development of more effective methods of treatment, Surgeon General 1 nomas Parran of the public health service said today. "I think we may be on the eve of important developments in getting at the factors which cause cancer and thereby eliminating mem, ne said. That belief, he added, is in spired not by the discovery of methods of preventing cancer but 3 1 1 1 yai duoxicany a many chemical substances have been found which produce cancer. Some of these substances, Dr. Parran explained, have been derived from coal tar, which long has been known to cause cancer, and are closely related chemically to normal constituents of the body.
This suggests, he said, that it may be possible to develop other substances which will retard the production and growth of cancer, just as the coal tar derivatives promote growth. Senator Bone, and Representative Magnuson, asked congress yesterday to spend $1,000,000 for a government cancer research program. Pope Blesses Newlyweds. Vatican City, April 3. (AP) Pope Pius XI gave his blessing today to 500 newlywed couples in the first audience he has held since he fell ill early last December.
Borne in a chair to the ducal chamber of the Vatican, he walked a few paces to mount the dais. Then he blessed the assembled throng. me supplying 01 Deciding ana food, speakers said all. efforts would be made to prevent moving out any assembled cars. Homer A.
Kelly, who identified himself as a committeeman for a newly-organized Ford plant chap. ter of the United Automobile Workers of America, said: "If the company will put the old men back to work and lay the new men off, we'll call off the strike. At Detroit, Homer Martin, president of the Automobile Workers of America, said "Henry Ford has been quoted as paying the highest wages in the motor car industry. That is an absolute untruth. "Ford's admonition to working- men to stay out of the union evi dently fell on deaf ears.
ine ford Motor company makes motor cars. Ford workers are motor car workers, and there fore are eligible to belong to the U. A. W. A.
Ford, oldest of the "big three" the others are the also strike affected General Motors and Chrysler always has insisted on I the open shop and opposed union- Use Of Public Works Money As Price Control Device Is Proposed By Administration Washington, April 3. (AP) The administration proposed today the use of public works money in controlling prices as its latest answer to possible dangers in business recovery. Fiscal experts explained the government might cut the hazard of too-rapid upswing of prices in the durable goods industries by reducing its purchase of such goods as steel want to. Jack Miley, New York Daily News columnist, had a scalp wound bystanders said was inflicted by a spiked baseball shoe. Calling his players togetner, Frisch said "There's not going to be anything more like this." He indicated the "gang" had best change its behavior if it expected to win the National league pennant.
Dean was the manager's principal target. Fremont Debaters Win. Columbus, April 3. (AP) Fremont held the state high school debate championship today by defeating Wooster's negative team on the subject of: "Resolved That All Electric Utilities Should Be Governmentally Owned and Operated." The Fremont debaters were Miss Marie Church and James Robias. The Wooster team was composed of Henry Hofacker and Dominic Iannerelli.
Eighty eight teams entered the elimination contest. Instead of spending for permanent projects requiring large amounts of steel and other durable goods, he said, the govern-' ment should dredge rivers and build earthen dams, spreading purchasing power for foodstuffs, clothing and similar consumer articles. Administration economists said withdrawal of the government from any particular market might make little difference in aggregate demand, but still might exert some influence on prices. Mr. Roosevelt's statement sent stock prices tumbling $1 to $5, with durable goods shares plunging downward.
PEDESTRIAN IS DEFINED Oklahoma City. Who is a pedestrian? In a debate before the Oklahoma state legislature Sen. Bower Broaddus defined a pedestrian as a "man who ha3 three grown children and one car." ization of workers. "We do not propose to turn in I dustry over to labor unions," he I once said. SJHREE YOUTHS KILLED IN CAR I Hamilton, April 3.
(AP) Three youths were killed last Bride Of 5 Days Takes Cameraman And Reporter With Her On Wild 400-Mile Trip and copper. Instead, the money would be spent on projects intended to increase the demand for consumers' goods. President Roosevelt's declaration of this new policy followed a series of actions by high of ficials against the potential perils of a business boom. Treasury officials previously had been studying the inflow of foreign money into the United States, which Secretary Morgen-thau called "a source of worry." -The federal reserve board laid the groundwork for closer control of credit by requiring member banks to keep more capital on hand. Chairman Eccles of the reserve board recently declared "infla tionary price levels" would have disastrous effects, and called for budget-balancing.
Secretary Roper asked business to take independent action to prevent unwarranted price rises. President Roosevelt explained to a press conference how public works expenditures might be channeled into projects which would boost consumer goods i night when a 71 -car B. O. freight train struck their automo bile at a crossing at the western edge of the city and pushed the wreckage more than a half-mile before coming to a halt. The bodies of William T- Chapman, 18, and George Wolstfer, 17, were in the car when' a switch engine wrestled it free from the first of two locomotives hauling the train.
Ray Crawford, who was thrown clear, was able to mumble his name to police when picked up 100 yards from the accident-scene, but died within a few min-utes of admittance to a hospital. Injuries Prove Fatal. SAN FRANCISCO, April 3. (AP)-A beautiful runaway bride with neither money nor luggage, Mrs. Nan Pierson Brooks Macy Brill, New York heiress, made a wild, 400-mile flight from Hollywood to San Francisco today.
She ran away from her husband of five days, William H. Brill, millionaire sportsman, who had been hiding from her. Yesterday there had been a stormy scene with her husband and mother-in-law. She was informed of plans for annulment of the marriage. "They will have to catch me first," she said, explaining her intention of avoiding service of the papers.
Then the heiress jumped into the biggest and fastest of his four cars and roared away. An Associated Press reporter and photographer were in the automobile with her. They expected her to stop at her hotel in Hollywood. She stopped 100 miles later. "We'll get gas here, and then go on to San Francisco," she gasped.
"You'll have to come, too. I'm going to have hysterics now." She said Brill's mother had told her that if she took the car officers would arrest her for having stolen it. It was a wild day and a strange night. Monday the eastern social figure eloped to Yuma, with Brill, her second husband. After a one-day honeymoon they returned to Hollywood.
He left her, she said, to go to his mother's apartment house and get his clothes, Tuesday. Until yesterday, that was the last time she saw him. "He didn't give me any explanation. He just left. So I reported him to the police as missing.
They found him, all right." Yesterday, her patience ended, she stormed the gates of the $60,000 penthouse where her (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) I Columbus' APril 3. (AP) Tlnjured when her automobile I uvcj lumtu near ner nome, iviiss fc.amenne Murray, 23, of near juvc iij, uicu xii a nuspuai nere nignt..
