Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1937, Page 7

SMALLER DEFICIT SEENINNEW YEAR Fiscal Period Starts for Treasury With Prospect of Less Red Ink. B the Associated Press. The Government started today a new fiscal year which holds the pros- pect of the smallest deficit since the budget lost its balance in 1931. President Roosevelt has estimated outgo will top income by $418.000,000 this year. Fiscal authorities said there has bsen no change in this fore- cast, 3 The Chief Executive expressed hope last January that the 1937 budget could be balanced, exclusive of outlays for paying off debt, This chance van- ished, however, when March income tax collections fell below estimates, necessitating revision of the 1938 forecasts. Fiscal authorities said that if pres- ent spending and revenue trends con- tinue, the Nation will have a balanced budget in 1939 and can begin paring down its $36,000,000,000 debt. For this vear, the President has es- timated receipts of $6.906,000,000 and expenditures of $7,324.000,000, ex- elusive of debt retirement For the year which ended last mid- night, revenues totaled $5,264,599.000, with the last two days unreported. Expenditures through June 28 totaled $7.951,279,000, excluding retirements. The revenue figure exceeded Mr Roosevelt's revised estimate by $40,000,- 000, and spending was $170,000,000 over the forecast. The deficit of $2.686.- 680,000 was $130,000,000 above the estimate. Spending for several items this year will surpass that during the 1937 period. This will be offset by a pro- jected decline in expenditures for ‘recovery and relief” and the Civilian Conservation Corps and elimination of bonus outlays from the 1938 budget A total of $1,820.000.000 is budgeted this year for recovery and relief, com- . pared with $23831.562,000 spent through June 28. The budget line lists $953.000.000 for national defense, against $850.915.000 last year, Strike (Continued From First Page.) which has plants in this steel-making | area, stated early today “We will sign no agreement with C > (o]l Neither, for that matter, did Inland Bteel. The Inland 'settlement was on the basis of agreements between the steel company and the Governor and the union and the Governor. Gov. Townsend, after long confer- ences that lasted well past midnight, said that Youngstown Sheet & Tube had declined to accept similar terms. Guard Protection Refused. Sheet & Tube, the Governor added asked him to remobilize the National Guard as protection for its workers here. He refused to do so, whereupon the company canceled its plans to re- open today. Purnell, Sheet & Tube gent the following telegram to the company’s district manager, A. E Daily, at Indiana Harbor, Ind., and to Gov. Townsend of Indiana: “At your request we are confirming our telephone conversation with yvou last night. This is only for your mformation and shall not be used or construed as the making of any contract of agreement with anybody. “This company already has stated to its employes and to the C. I O. that it will meet and negotiate with representatives of the C. I. O. for bargaining purposes on behalf of #uch of the company's emploves as are members of that organization in accordance with the national labor relations act. This was stated in a letter sent to everv employe of the company on May 31. No Discrimination, Is Pledge. “The company also has established and announced the policy of making no discrimination in its employes because of membership or non-mem- bership in any labor organization This means, of course, the company will not discriminate between strikers and non-strikers.” “We won the strike,” said Nicholas Pontecchio. director of S. W. 0. C.— the Steel Workers' Organizing Com- mittee—in the Calumet (Indiana- Illinois) steel section. “It is the best settlement yet made with any steel company.” On the other hand, the basis of settlement was Inland Sisel's own “labor policy” as enunciated by the company in an open letter to its men Jast May 29—three days after the strike was called. The settlement was on these terms: 1. No discrimination 2. Inland Steel's labor policy of May 29 date “and the statement at- tached thereto” will be carried out. 3. All grievances “within the scope of the labor policy of May 29" to be settled in the manner provided in that policy, with the Indiana com- missioner of labor as “final” authority if other settlement proves unsatisfac- tory. The basic eight-hour day, 40-hour- week, with payment of time and onée half overtime, paid vacations for em- ployes of five years continuous service and seniority rights were other provi- sions of the declaration of policy. Mahoning Valley Still in G The strike still grips Ohio’s Mahon- ing Valley, with its smoke-grimed mills at Youngstown, Warren and Niles, at Canton, Massillon and Cleve- land, and in Johnstown, Pa. where the dynamiting of Bethlehem Steel Corp. pipe lines earlier this week forced a temporary shutdown after the mills had reopened. At Johnstown the C. I. O, leader, James Mark, ignored a “suggestion” of the mayor that he leave town, and called a huge union rally for July 4 “‘to show that we can get 40,000 union men to Johnstown.” The sheriff there, Michael Boyle, conferred with Mark and other strike leaders early today and then said there was “no reason” to ask for a return of martial law in Johnstown as requested by Mark. Leaders of the local Johnstown brotherhoods appealed to their na- tional organizations to declare Beth- lehem Steel's subsidiary, the Conea- maugh & Blacklick Railroad, an “‘unsafe area.” The short line links the Cambria Works with the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroads. Union men on the two main line roads would refuse to handle the ineoming and outbound freight from the plant if the national officers granted fhe brotherhoods' request. 35 Cars Daily Are Claim. ©. W. Jones, brotherhood official, claimed there were crews for only 7 of the 23 locomotives and that the president, THE EVENING Celebrate End of Strike Steel strikers, eager to return to work after a month’s idle- ness at the Inland Steel plant the agreement which returned in East Chicago, Ind., celebrate 12,500 men to the nlants —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. company was shipping only 35 cars of steel daily. Otfdinarily, he said the shipments averaged 180 to 200 cars a day. Smoke rolled again from the 8- mile-long works, crippled by the dyna- mying of two water mains Monday. Temporary supplies of water were turned into the plants from city lines and Sidney D. Evans, mana ment representative, said operations were “rapidly picking up.” Six open-hearth furnuces were pro- | ducing steel ingots, Evans said. Fif- teen were in operation Monday before the blast ripped up the water lines | from the Quemahoning and North- | fork Dams, | Workers were entering and leaving | public's closed plants, and of non- | the plants unmolested by the few STAR, WASHINGTON, pickets that gathered at one of the seven gates. Canton strike leaders are still debat- ing the advisability of calling a gen- eral strike there in protest against the reopening of steel mills yesterday. Re- public and Youngstown Sheet & Tube report such a back-to-work movement in the Mahoning Valley as to bring production virtually up to its pre- strike basis. John L. Lewis, the leader and “strong man” of C. I. O. who only yesterday was sharply excoriated Ly Representative Cox, Georgia Demo- crat, in Washington, was not avail- able for comment on the Inland set- tlement. About 10,000 members of the United Mine Workers' of America, which he also heads, are still on strike, having been called out in sympathy with the steel strikes. They are the workers in the mines owned by the four steel companies involved Speaking in the House yesterday Representative Cox said “I warn John L. Lewis and his communistic cohorts that no second ‘carpetbag expedition’ into the south- land, under the red banner of Russia and concealed under the slogans of the C. I. O, will be tolerated.” Ohio’s Representative Bigelow, also a Democrat, took another view, scor- ing the steel company's “dictatorial attitude.” The Inland Steel settlement was along lines said to have been proposed in Cleveland last week by President Roosevelt's three-man Mediation Board. When the board’s chairman, Charles P. Taft, 2d, suggested that separate agreements be made with Gov. Martin Davey of Ohio by strikers and steel companies, the proposal was dismissed by the companies’ spokes- men as unacceptable, The acreements Townsend were | Sykes assistant to the president of Inland, and by Van Bittner for S.W.0.C. The signers said that they did not consider the agreement involved any | pact between Inland and C. I. O. It was separale pacts with the Governor. Insofar as meeting the union's only | demand—the demand on which the strike is based—all four companies | have remained firm. The demand was for a signed bargaining contract. Today’s reopening of the Inland plant, steel men pointed out, was accom- plished without that. At Cleveiana last night there were separate meetings of strikers of Re- signed by strikers. made with Gov. | Wilfred | D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 1, Girl Who Brought Hospital Flowers For Mother Dies By the Associated Press. CLAREMORE, Okla., July 1.— Two weeks ago 7-year-old Dor- othy Lou Gravitt walked into a hospital here and said: “I just brought flowers for a lady—just any lady.” Attendants learned her mother was in a distant sanitarium “That is too far away for me to take flowers,” said Dorothy Lou, brought some for a lady here.” Sunday the little girl returned to the hospital--this time ecriti- cally {1l with typhoid meningitis. She died yesterday in a room townspeople had filled with flowers. La Follette (Continued From First Page.) and both Senators La Follette and Thomas of Utah centered about whether policemen were drawing guns or handkerchiefs, were firing at the fleeing marchers or in the air, and were swinging regulation police | clubs or bludgeons of greater size and |. weight. Questioned about his efforts eon | behalf of the wounded, Lyons prefaced | his answer by saying, “We were still in pursuit,” but corrected this to mean | “advancing.” He said he saw no | stretchers being used to move the wounded, although, he admitted, each | of the several patrol wagons on the scene was equipped with titem In his testimony, Lyons, young and 'athletic looking, said he once served in the Navy and at another time was a “union man.” | e by Marchers Described Insisting that no extra equipment | had been issued by the steel company, | ! Lyons became aroused as he sought fo | | tell how the marchers had abused | the officers verbally before the hos- | tilities began. | | “They spit in our faces, Senator, | |and I wish you'd let me whisper in | your ears what they called us,” he pleaded Later he apologized for his excit- | | ability 1937. A moment later, Senator La Fol- lette flatly contradicted him as he insisted what appeared to be & heavy club was only & “crease in the officer's pants.” “That most certainly is not a crease in that man's pants” La Follette shouted. It was the first time during the months of open hearings that the committee chairman had become su ficiently impatient with a witness ‘o contradict him. The witness stood firmly, however, on his contention that any extra clubs seen in police hamds had beon picked up off the field. Lyons, who had charge of a detail of about 40 officers on the day of the riot, then described the position of his men as they awaited arrival of the march- ers. Producing an affidavit sworn to by the witness in which he described movements of the marchers in military terminology, La Follette asked Lyons if he meant the statement that “All movements were carried out with mili- tary precision.” On his affirmation, the Senator produced another of the news pictures which have figured 5o prominently in the whole inquiry, this one showing a straggling column of marchers, “Did you ever see an army march- ing like that?” La Folletie asked *“Yes, sir, the Mexican army,” Lyons answered as the crowd laughed. Laughs Turn to Hisses. A moment later, the laughs turned to hisses as the sergeant spoke of the “foreigners” amoeng the marchers and remarked, hey don't have the re- spect for the American flag that I do.” La Follette here rapped for order and reminded the crowd that they were guests of the committee. Becoming aroused anew, Lyons jumped out of the witnes: chair to describe how he was hit in the stom- ach with & stone and to repeat his excited description of the taunts flung at the police by the marchers. “The radical movement brought these people to their destruction,” the officer said. The first outbreak of belligerency, | — COUNSEL CIRCLE “CARLETTA" 25 YRS. ON 14th ST.. WASHINGTON Personal interviews and guidance may visit 1o the Counsel Carletra. reader. Da LW. 922 14th St. N $1.00, MEt. 4993 428,000 PAIRS OF NEW SUMMER SHOES Sale-priced in our 99 stores—every pair guaranteed to be A. S. Beck's regular $4.45 quality. (We never buy cheaper shoes to sell at so-called “Sale” prices. Every seasonable leather, fabric and c\o!or included! | Sale ale! White end 3 length, full-fashioned, pure silk H OSE Hollywood Rounder SANDALS 47¢ $'|89 colored losthors and fabrics 1315 F STREET N.W. Air-Cooled Lyons continued, was the shower of rocks during which he was hit. A few seconds later, he said, he heard two shots from the strikers. Declaring he gave no order for use of police revolvers and did not draw his own, the witness then said he heard a fusillade of shots from the rear, where other police were sta- tioned. followed Lyons to the stand to be questioned on his recollection of evenis leading into the shooting Like Lyons, he differed in his testi- mony from statements he had made in & sworn affidavit about a week ago and liminary report soon after the riot. Weapons Are romised. Contending that their men shot only i seli-defense, four officials ol the duce today a trunkful of rocks, pieces of Jead and clubs which were aban- the field of battle. The police James P. Allman and Capts. John C Prendergast, James L. Mooney Thomas Kilroy—insisted through the early part of their testimony yes- terday that the police had done all their firing into the air. During the afternoon, however, Mooney said it was his “opinion” that the killings were accomplished by the officers rather than the strikers them- selves, as contended esrlier While Kiiroy. who was in joint command with Mooney of the detail on the field, was testifying a picture was shown in which Kilroy ‘was watching an officer beating a prone marcher about the head with & club Standing by was another officer with a club in each hand, also w the proceedings, while fol formed men were clus another fallen man, marcher within sight “Isn't that pr r other uni- red around the only other utal?” La Fol- LIGHTNING RODS Protect Xour Home GICHNER ~NA. 4370 | HERZ0G'S, INC. . . . the store for men fora G a Smart, Dress’ for the o “away.” requirements, at a complet Patrolman Jacob C. Woods, colored, | from other statements made in a pre- | Chicago department promised to pro- | doned by the strikers as they fled from | officials—Commissioner | and | tching | % A7 lette asked heatedly as he waved the picture in front of Kilroy. “Yes, it is,” the officer answered if a low voice. PLANT TAKES VACATION Factory Shuts Down, Too, as Workers Begin Paid Leave. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 1 (#).— More than 2500 workers left theip benches at the Richman Brothers fac- tory today for a semi-annual vacation with pay. The 17-acre clothes-making plant will remain closed during the 10-day vacation period. Two vacations a year with pay have been given to Richman Brothers work- ers since 191S. Store employes also will receive paid vacations, VANDERLIP CREMATED | Financier's Rites Held at His Westchester Estate. SCARBOROUGH. N. Y, July 1 (), —Frank A. Vanderlhp, sr, financier, who died Tuesday, was paid a last tribe ute at funeral services today at his Westchester County estate, Beechwood. 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