Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1937, Page 3

INDIANA TORNADO LEAVES 16INJURED Town of Mellott and Vicinity Heavily Hit by Night Storm. B the Assoclated Press. MELLOTT, Ind, June 14—Dawn sketched today a path of destruction and suffering left by a roaring tornado which struck this little Fountain County town with dramatic sudden- ness, leaving at least 16 persons in- Jured. Augmented by hundreds of volunteer rescue workers, a group of State police patrolled the town throughout the fight after it was plunged into dark- ness by a break in electric current caused by the windstorm. Because of the darkness, officers were handi- capped in their efforts to make a complete survey of the damage. Troops Are Asked. Sheriff Frank M. Black telephoned a request to Gov. M. Clifford Town- send early today for National Guard troops to blockade roads leading to Mellott and prevent hundreds of cur- fous from entering the stricken area. | State police said apparently only | four persons required hospital! treat- | ment. They were Mr. and Mrs. Will Parkerson and their two daughters, | Wilma and Catherine, who were rushed to a hospital at Danville, Ill. Dozen Homes Destroyed. The tornado caused heavy damage in an area of 5 or 6 square miles, Sheri¥ Black said. It entered Mellott, & town of 312 inhabitants, from the southwest and then moved eastward after leveling nearly a dozen homes, unroofing and damaging many others and flattening trees, utility poles and power lines. Strike (Continued From First Page.) “give the answer to the steel strike and the South Chicago police mas- sacre.” Bittner said it would be the largest labor meeting ever held in| Chicago. MINERS ALREADY OUT. State Troopers Guard Johnstown | After Bethlehem Outbreaks. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 14 (#)— Thousands of miners in diggings owned by two big independent steel corporations walked out today in a new move of the Committée for In- dustrial Organization to try to force’ the steel companies to sign labor con- tracts. As the grimy workers came out of the ground to stay, tension remained taut on the wide front of the Nation’s labor troubles. Steel-helmeted State troopers trod a 7-mile beat of the strike-beset Cam- Business Goes This smiling young woman is emerging from a Madrid pharmacy in front of which the owner has piled sand bags as a safety measure during the jrequent azr raids. ‘Druqs and perfumes are for sale here.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MOXNDAY, JUNE 14, 1937. on in Madrid The sign reads —Wide World Photo. Dakota pit of the same concern near- | by 200 stood peacefully by. Three of the mines are located in West Virginia; the others in Penn- sylvania. Johnstown seemed the focal point of unrest today. The huge Cambria works employs 15,000 men. A strike was called there in sympathy with a walkout of workers on the Black Lick & Conemaugh Railroad, Bethlehem- owned, who asked and were refused a | signed labor contract. Many of the released miners eddied around the Franklin mill, where yes- terday’. violence occurred, but State troopers and city police maintained a | ceaseless armed vigil. Johnstown’s hillside mill didn't cleep last night. Until dawn lights burned in long rows of dust-covered houses overlook- ing the Franklin plant. A rose-red glare from the furnaces and tall plumes of black smoke wav- ing from stacks told pickets and the | crowds outside the gates that men still were at work. However, at dawn, the smoke began clearing above the eastern end of the | Barrackville mine of Bethlehem Steel in Northern West Virginia 500 diggers gathered at the entrance: at the | Franklin works and the crowd began to cheer. “They're banking the furnaces! district bria Works of Bethlehem Steel Corp. in Johnstown. It was quiet here, after | a vicious flurry yesterday when five men were slightly injured, but there | were fears it would not remain calm The Canton, Ohio, Federation of Labor, representing 15,000 varied | craftsmen in the city, threatened to | call them all away from their jobs if | picket lines at Republic Steel Corp.'s plants there were broken. The troubled Newton Steel Co. plant | of the Republic Steel Corp. resumed | unmolested operations today at Mon- | roe, Mich,, after a huge mass meeting yesterday protesting picket line break- ing. | Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs assured “responsible members” of the striking steel workers' union that ‘‘peaceful picketing under proper and reasonable | rules and regultions™ will be permitted. | Monroe was quiet but tensely troubled and elaborate barricades pre- | vented any ‘“unauthorized” person from approaching the plant. There was ominous quiet elsewhere In the Great Lakes region of steel un- rest, ‘The National Labor Relations Board, with broad powers under the Wagner | act, called upon the Inland Steel Co. to answer charges that it (1) refused to bargain with S. W. O. C.—the steel workers’ Organizing Committee of C.I. O, and (2) promoted a “company union” of its own. John L. Lewis, chairman of C. I. O, | ordered 10,000 workers in 17 “captive” | mines owned by Bethlehem Steel | Corp. and the Youngstown Sheet & | Tube Co. to stay out of the mines | today. | Officials of United Mine Workers of America sald virtually every one of | the mines, located in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, was shut down. A | few operated, they said, but that was because the w had not been re- ceived. The union said they would be closed by nightfall | There was no d)sorder At the Lost and Found and Special Notices Advertisements under the above classifications, hereto- fore on page 3, will be found on page B-14, preceding other classified ads. All such advertisements should be sent in prompt- ly as possible and cannot be accepted after 11 p.m. Saturday_closing for the Sunday Star, 5:30 p.m. AUDIPHONE Bone or Alr Conduction DEMONSTRATION OPTICAL DEPARTMENT Jéwelers, Platinumsmiths, Stationers A. KAHN INC. Arthur J, Sundlun, President 45 Years at 935 F St. | shouted. | gate between 7 and 9 a.m. The picket | 50 State police were scattered through- | delegation of troopers here since the | 11936. | They're banking the furnaces!” men Sheriff Michael J. Boyle, whose brother is the Bishop of the Catholic | Diocese of Pittsburgh, said that was true. He was out early with others, looking over the ‘scene. Because of this the pickets did not | molest workers entering the eastern | line, which had stood throughout the night, most of the time in a drizzle, broke. Crowd Good-Natured. The crowd was good-natured as it left—in contrast to its restlessness | during the night, when it had broken | into disorder several times. Several automobiles had been overturned and | stones were thrown at other machines | and street cars. As the picket line broke, the crowd moved in small bands to the mills | toward the western end of the city, which were operating. The men, ac- companied by many women and chil- dren, congregated outside other gates, hooting workers, or leaned over rails | high in the street, jeering and booing | at men working below. Approximately | out the crowd. It was the biggest | disastrous St. Patrick’s day flood of | Pennsylv: When you plan your sum- mer vacation don’t forget to take along an extra pair of glosses. -Many a vaca- tion has been spoiled for the want of them. 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Earle, flying back to Harrisburg after conferring with corporation, strike and city officials here, ordered extra | details of State police to the Johns- town area Today the troopers, their steel riot helmets on and their arms ready, were on duty. During the night they broke | up one crowd that was stoning a street | Mayor Daniel J. Shields conferred | more than an hour early today with | Maj. Lynn Adams, superintendent of | the State police Afterward in a statement to the people of Johnstown he said: “A number of men not residents of our community have seen fit to call & cessation of our principal steel manu- facturing plants. Because of this dis- taken place, which so far has been of minor character.” The mayor said he regarded it as| “the right of every American citizen to walk about the streets without being | molested, to work as he sees fit, and to join any organization, labor or fra- | ternal, of his or her choice: “And that | he would protect those rights.” i Mayor Shields’ statement followed | that of another head of a strike-wor- ried city, Mayor Knaggs of Monroe, | National ~Guardsmen with | mounted machine guns and vigilantes | with business-like firearms and knives protruding from their belts stood by while C. I. O. members and sympa- thizers held their mass meeting yes- terday. Troops Leave Monroe. Mayor Knaggs saw the Guardsmen | take down their tents and roll away in their trucks last night, and make unsuccessful efforts to reach Gov. | Frank Murphy and have the troops remain, but today he said: “I have more than 500 special police officers available, and as many more members of the American Legion subject to call.” 8 ARE EXECUTED INSOVIET FAREAST Wrecking of Amur Railroad Charged in New peath Sentences. BACKGROUND— Amur Railroad is a vitally stra- tegic spur line which strikes north from Trans-Siberian Railroad to new and rapidly-growing town of Komsomolsm, on the mighty Amur. Some day this town will be a great seaport, under Soviet plans. It was announced at Moscow last November that laying of steel had been completed on the spur, which is to be an integral link to a great northern railroad, paralleling the Trans-Siberian. B the Assoclated. Press MOSCOW, June 14.—Twenty-eight persons have been convicted and exe- cuted at Svobodny, in the Soviet Far East, for wrecking the Amur Railroad, it became known today. (These executions increased to 151 the known total of persons condemned and shot during the last year in the Soviet government's drive to stamp out all its internal foes.) The charges against these alleged “wreckers” were simialr to those made in three previous trials in the Far East, at Svobodny and at Khabarovsk. These already had resulted in 66 exe- cutions All the condemned were accused of being participants in a Trotzkyist, Japanese spy and terror organization which allegedly acted along the Amur Railroad. News of the newest Far Eastern executions came on the heels of the conviction and shooting of eight Red Army generals, once the flower of the mightiest rmed fcrce in the world. They were executed Saturday for treason, accused of selling out their comrades to Nazi Germany. This case apparently had no direct | connection with the Far Eastern trials, | except that all reflected the Soviet's grim determination to wipe out op- position on every front The latest Far Eastern executions were carried out on June 4, according to a terse communique reaching Mos- cow today through the medium of the | Khabarovsk newspaper, Pacific Star. Cows' Population to Gam Milk cows in reached a five-year low of 25,040,000 at the beginning of this year ‘tut an | increase is expected in the next three years, LAWYERS’ BRIEFS COMMERCIAL PRINTING ADVERTISING SERVICE BYRON S. ADAMS ® DIsT. 8203 o / Dy n'oE:lemnorPsonm-s For quick and prolonged relief from the tor- ment of itching and burning, upply RESINOL MANY DOCTORS RECOMMEND 1T Facing a Rising Market In the face of a rising market you are going to be glad or sorry by what you do NOW. 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Yesterday the vigilantes—not 5,000, | but enough—rested coolly about the ! City Hall. Some wore knives strapped | to their sides. Others had holstered[ sidearms. Several merely crammed | their weapons through their belts or | hip pockets. ‘Three miles away, outside the city, | many thousands of C. I. O. sympa- thizers gathered at the call of Homer Martin, a C. I. O. spokesman, to pro- test the smashing of picket lines by | Monroe authorities last week. The Monroe Quiet but Will Call 5,000 Vigilantes If Needed pickets had sought to prevent opera- tion of the Newton Steel Co. plant— a Republic Steel Corp. subsidiary. Republic Steel, Mayor Knaggs and all the forces which have resisted C. 1. O.'s efforts to get a contract with the steel corporation were scored at the meeting which was aftended by a crowd variously estimated to have numbered anywhere from 8,000 to 25,000. Such slavery,” cent organization of workers” poured from the loudspeaker system, and speakers were loudly cheered. At the close, the throng dispersed quietly. Be- fore nightfall all were gone. With the night went the National | Guardsmen with their machine guns | and rifles, their tents and their knap- sacks. “There is no longer need of troops | here,” Gov. Frank Murphy decided, | But Mayor Knaggs wasn't so sure. | There was that statement at the mass meeting when Van A. Bittner, C. L. O. | organizer, warned: “In two days we | will be back. The picket lines at New- ton Steel will be restored.” expressions as “industrial INMEDIATE PROBE OF STRIKE URGED Senator Bridges Asks Hear- ings at Once on Steel Industry Disorders. By the Assoctated Press, Senator Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire asked Chairman Mec- Kellar of the Senate Post Office Com- | mittee today to start hearings as soon | as possible on alleged flouting of Fed- | eral laws in the steel strikes, McKellar indicated the inquiry would follow completion of the relief bill by the Appropriations Commit- broken and the driver slightly injured by flying glass. A long time elapsed during which the mail truck was held up by the pickets and it was not al- | lowed to proceed until the organizers | gave the men authority to allow n\ to proceed.” McCreary was asked to send further details and statements of witnesses. 100 Miles With Two Eyes. From a point on the Trail Ridge | road in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado more than 100 miles of the mountain range can be seen. Demate Washed, $2.1 | tee, of which he is acting chairman. | Bridges also is on that committee. | Bridges made public a letter to him | i{mm R. E. 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