Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1937, Page 4

VIRGINIANIS HELD INFATHER SDEATH Man, 77, Found Beside Tracks, Suffering From In- juries and Exposure. BY the Associated Press. “ABINGDON, Va, January 18.— Washington County authorities held Henry Flannagan, 35, in jail today as they probed the circumstances under which his 77-year-old father, Abraham Lincoln Flannagan, was fatally injured beside a Norfolk & ‘Western Railroad track. Bheriff J. P. Woodward, who de- { tained Henry Flannagan for investi- gation, said his father was last seen alive with his son about 6:30 p.m. Saturday. An autopsy was performed at a hos- | pital here after the elderly man died two hours after being found at 8 a.m. Sunday. Dr. G. Hunter Wolfe, county caroner, said death resulted from “Shock from bodily injuries,” ag- gravated by 14 hours of exposure. ~The father's face was badly bruised and lacerated, the back of the head bare deep wounds, and the toes of beth feet were mashed almost off. Commonwealth’s Attorney J. A. Blakemore, who visited the scene with tHe sheriff and the coroner, said they cencluded Flannagan had not been | struck by a train, though one had | passed about 8 p.m. Saturday. The sheriff said Henry Flannagan | said scratches on his face were re- ceived in a fall “while I was drunk.” Woodward said the son told him hp came here and spent the night, leaving his father to return to his home, about a mile from the place where they separated. On returning, he told the sheriff, he found his father ak almost the same spot and called neighbors to help carry him to the home of a sister, Mrs. Harold McCall. LAt that time, he said, his father Was alive and “mumbling.” Strike <€ (Continued From First Page.) lated 15 days if necessary, had been uncertain since the union suddenly canceled plans for the men to leave the Fisher Body plants No. 1 and 2 at Flint, Mich., yesterday, accusing the large automobile manufacturing cor- paration of “acts of bad faith which wauld destroy the purpose of the ne- gotiations.” Negotiation Promise Cited. As one of these “acts” the union cited General Motors’ promise to bar- gain collectively with a committee from the “Flint Alliance,” which said it" represented a majority of the cor- poration’s employes in that city. The Alliance was formed to crystallize anti-strike sentiment and is headed by George E. Boysen, former Flint mayor. The board of strategy directing the | strike decided that “violation of the agreement by the corporation makes ivimperative that the sit-down strikers remain in the plants until the whole controversy is settled.” The corporation had demanded— and received in exchange for promises it made—that the union men would be of the plants 2 hours before the negotiations opened. .This accord was reached last week in a joint session called by Gov. Murphy in his office at Lansing. At that time strikers held five General Motors plants. Saturday afternoon they vacated three—the Cadillac and Fleetwood factories in Detroit and the Tacoma, Wash., boy. Joseph Mitchell, left, 35-year-old vagrant, is shown being booked at Culver City, Calif., last night by Police Sergt. W. A. MacDonald. He is being held for Federal officers for questioning in connection with the kidnap-slaying of Charles Mattson, —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. tion to notify the “Flint Alliance” that it would negotiate with it also until this point had been settled. He said that the union “has proceeded in good | faith to carry out the agreement” and | called the “Flint Adliance” a ‘“com- | pany-inspired vigilante outfit.” “The reaction of the automobile workers to what can only be termed { & double-cross by the corporation after they had proceeded to carry out | the union’s side of the agreement,” | | Martin said, “is such that they would | | not now evacuate the Flint plants | under any circumstances until a | settlement is reached. | “We are ready to enter negotiations ‘[ Monday morning without further evacuation of plants, to negotiate to a conclusion all the matters in contro- versy.” Cadillac Plant Not Opening. The Cadillac plant here did not reopen this morning. General Motors officials said the men summoned to re- port were called to get out parts for service stations and not to resume au- tomobile production. A dozen men picketed the main Cadillac plant office. Boysen. the “Flint Alliance” or- | ganizer, had requested Knudsen to meet a committee of 12 from his or- | ganization as the collective bargain- ing agency of a “majority” of the General Motors employes in Flint to- MOITOW mOrning. Over the week end the union presi- dent claimed for the first time that | the U. A. W. A. included a majority | of General Motors employes. Martin | asserted that enrollments had in- ! creased perceptibly since the union | 1and General Motors signed a com- pact to bargain collectively. Leaders 1 in the “Flint Alliance” have alleged | that the U. A, W. A. represented only & minority of the workers. In Flint, where a strike riot broke lout a week ago tonight, 2,300 Na- | tional Guardsmen remained on duty. Orders for the troops’ gradual demo- | bilization were revoked without ex- planation just as the first units were preparing to depart for their homes. Appeals to La Follette. The union, charging that the “Flint 1 Alliance” is “not a workers' organiza- tion,” sent a message to the LaFol- lette Senate Committee investigating civil liberties violations alleging that | the alliance was “either directly in- | spired by General Motors or has been | handled through strike-breaking de- tective agencies which would profit | by outbreaks of violence.” | the strike here of the United Automo- Guide Lamp Co. at Anedrson, Ind.; Martin's telegram to Senator Robert Gov. Murphy was perturbed by the ! M. La Follette, Progressive, of Wiscon- turn in events, and was in telephonic | sin, asked that his committee “imme- communication with various persons | diately subpoena Boysen, with records close to the situation throughout the of his organization,” to learn the night. | “background and finance of Flint Al- ~ G. M. C. Won't Comment. {liance and similar alleged law and “A spokesman for General Motors order leagues and of their connection said after the union made its an- With General Motors.” nguncement that the corporation| At Flint Boysen said he had sent a would not comment before the time | telegram to Senator La Follette, say- expired for the evacuation of the | ing he would “welcome” an investiga- plants. tion of himself and the alliance. =It was made known that Gov. Mur- | The telegram also suggested that phy would do “all within his powe: Senator La Follette's special com- tg see that the accord to negotiate the | mittee to investigate violations of civil uniore’s eight demands be adhered to. | liberties “make just as full and com- JOne of these demands was that the | plete an investigation of the United U; A. W. A. be recognized as the sole | Automobile Workers' activities.” callective bargalning agency for Gen- \ A U. A W. A strike in an auto- eral Motors employes. motive plant at Port Huron, Mich., artin charged that it wasa “breach | not a part of General Motors, was of faith” on the part of the corpora- | settled over the week end and em- ployes were to return to work today. Seventy-five men started the strike, at the United Brass & Aluminum Co., last Wednesday. COMMITTEE WATCHING STRIKES The Senate committee investigating alleged violations of civil liverties said today it was “closely observing” the General Motors Co. strikes. It added, however, that it did not expect to hold | any “immediate hearings” on the sit- uation. ‘Two Senate agenis are “working constantly” in the Michigan strike areas, committee officials said. They said they had not received a telegram from Homer Martin, president of United Automobile Workers, request- ing an inquiry into the Flint Alli- ance, an organization he has asserted was “inspired by General Motors.” Officials said an investigation of “certain incidents” in connection with the building of part of the Pulasky Skyway by the American Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh has been indefinitely post- poned because of the illness of Curtis 8. Garner, construction superin- tendent. ST. LOUIS PLANTS CLOSED. ST. LOUIS, January 18 (#).—Gen- eral Motors shut down assembly lines in its Chevrolet-Fisher Body plant to- day in accordance with an announce- ment Saturday that lack of materials for “two full days of production™ necessitated cessation of operations. The statement mentioned neither bile Workers of America nor the union's tie-up elsewhere of General Motors' units which supply the St.| Louis plant with materials. | About 175 strikers gathered at the| plant entrances this morning to force | the corporation also to close its Chev- rolet parts department. Several hun- dred men reported for work, but most of them were sent home. There were signs of activity indicating the parts department was open. ENGRAVERS END DISPUTE| Contract Concluded at Cincinnati to Continue Two Years. CINCINNATI, January 18 (P).—A contract described by Virgil Pickens, business agent of Photo-Engravers’ Union No. 13, as “satisfactory to both sides,” ended today a dispute of the union with proprietors of a dozen | engraving plants. The two-year contract provides for a 37%-hour week, but Pickens with- held details of the wage scale. The old contract provided for a 40-hour week. ADVERTISEMENT. SURPRISED THIEF CHASEDHALF MILE Caught in Act, He Escapes, However, as Legs Prove Fleeter. Walking in on a colored man who was robbing his home last night, Walter Isaksen, 1357 South Carolina avenue southeast, chased the thief for nearly half a mile before losing him in an alley. Isaksen later discovered the man had taken jewelry valued at $100, an insurance policy, and miscellaneous articles. Surprised in the act of ran- sacking the house, the robber jumped from a first-floor window. Isaksen pursued him to Fifteenth and C streets southeast. Breaking into a parked car belong- ing to Amon J. Mufarry of New York City, thieves last night stole $2,000 worth of linens and lace, police re- ported. Mufarry’s car was parked in the 800 block of H street. Several hours after the show window of the Ross Jewelry Co., 1331 F street, was smashed early today, police ar- rested a colored man and were said to have recovered “at least a part” of the loot. A check was to be made to determine the amount of jewelry missing. Threatening him” with pistols, two bandits yesterday robbed Lance Reed, manager of a gas station at 811 Bla- densburg road northeast, of $38, ac- cording to police. Reed lives at 110 Fourth street southeast. Twelve-year-old Orville Jackson, colored, 629 Fairmont street, was | robbed of $1 yesterday afternoon by five colored boys who “jumped” him | at Sixth street and Howard place, Kidnaping (Continued From First Page.) felt certain the kidnaping and slay- ing was the work of a bungling fiend. “It is possible that little Charles was sacrificed to further stimulate a previously enraged public to the en- actment of more drastic laws both in the prevention ana the punishment | of this awful crime,” Dr Mattson as- serted in a statement Saturday. “If this is true, we feel that Charles shall not have died in vain.” For several days, Federal agents have received reports here that men answering descriptions of the Matt- son kidnaper have been seen in South- ern California. One of the first was a report from San Bernardino of a man who ran| away from a news stand when the op- 1 erator spoke to him. 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