Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1937, Page 4

A—4 x» 125 HURT AS RIOTS END AT TEEL ML Five-Hour Pitched Battle at Cleveland Brings Out 400 Police. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 27.—Four hun- dred policemen stood guard today in Cleveland's steel strike riot area to bring peace—temporarily, at least— after one of the worst nights of vio- lence in this city's history. Republic Steel Corp. workefs clashed with strikers and sympathizers near Republic’s Corrigan-McKinney plant, where one man was Killed yesterday and between 80 and 125 injured. Clubs, pickaxes, iron pipes and other weapons came crashing down upon the heads of workers and pickets alike. A union headquarters was wrecked. Glass crashed in dozens of motor ears. A wave of vandalism, spasmodic for several weeks, swelled over other sec- tions of the city. Newly-painted houses, finished without benefit of union approval, were sprayed with stain, i Windows were smashed in homes of steel workers and operatives of | knit mills where C. 1. O. and A. F. L. unions are engaged in a jurisdictional | fight |8 Sporadic fighting between worker and striker groups through the day, | punctuated by more serious rioting with the changing of shifts, reached 8 climax last night with a five-hour pitched battle in the valley fronting the main entrance of the plant. Mistake Own Men. Starting shortly after dark, the | fighting raged until after 1 am., with| more than 60 persons injured, 100 or | more automobiles damaged, shots | fired, tear gas bombs thrown and clubs wielded so indiscriminately that often police said, members of the two groups | were fighting their own men | Headquarters of the Steel Workers' | Organizing Committee near the plant | was wrecked by a band of workers. A | newspaper reporter who saw the fight | inside the S. W. O. C. building, said | he saw Miss Rosina Artino, 19, who | had been preparing food for pickets, | struck on the arm with a club and thrown through a window. Furniture was broken, windows smashed, and glass and debris were thrown into the food intended for the | pickets, the reporter said. Rioting reached its peak about 11| pm. At 10:30 strikers began evading | police who had been keeping back | crowds of sympathizers, and made | their way into the valley, where they | eould stop cars at will. | At 11 about 500 workers identifying themselves with white arm bands, | rushed out of the Independence road | gate of the plant, attacking a group of about 100 pickets, witnesses said. Every available policeman was or- dered to the scene as reports spread that all the workers in the plant were | to come out and attack the crowd of‘ sympathizers. | Nearly 200 workers did start up the valley toward the spot where police held back sympathizers, but turned back. Hundreds of women, children and | euriosity seekers were included among | a crowd of nearly 5,000 who watched | the riots from the top of the valley, where 150 policemen were on duty. Eventually came the attack on the | §. W. O. C. headquarters, and fighting | became general in the steel plant val- | ley. Picket Is Killed. Nearly 100 pickets who had slipped through the police lines and ap- proached the Independence road gate were dispersed by tear gas bombs. | Witnesses were unable to say who had thrown the bombs. Shots also | were fired, but police said they had| no reports of any one being wounded | and that in the darkness it was im- possible to tell who had fired the shots. John Orecny, 45, & S. W. O. C. picket and a Republic crane operator for 16 years, was killed yesterday aft- ernoon when he was struck by a car driven by a Republic worker and which, police said, careened out of control when the driver ducked to avoid a barrage of bricks. Police gave | the driver’s name as William John- | #on. Police Sergt. Cornelius Sullivan, in charge of the area, said no charges | would be filed against Johnson. Two score persons were reportsdi injured yesterday afternoon and 20 more yesterday morning in clashes between workers and pickets at changes of shifts, Police said that immediately after Orecny was struck the steel mill valley was cleared of all but a hand- ful of pickets and the crowd was| ordered back to the top of the hill. 8ix S. W. O. C. members arrested during last night's rioting, were held without charge. Seven others ar- rested in earlier fighting faced defi- nite charges. Republic Steel Corp. last night is- sued a statement asking for protec- tion for employes who desire to work, and placing responsibility for yester- day's disorders on the C. I. O Strike leaders last night charged that ir the death of Orecny, the driver of the car deliberately swerved into Orecny while traveling at 55 miles an hour. No stones were thrown at the car, they declared. Civil action will be brought by the union if the driver is cleared by police, they said. Radio FlashBrin gs Quick Capture of Two Auto Robbers Sitting in their scout car in the 600 block of H street northeast last night, Officers D. A. Higgins and J. L. Sadtler *listened to the police radio announcer’s voice. “Be on the watch for a stolen au- tomobile—D. C. tag number 69-844.” Higgins jotted down the number, Then he got out, shut his door and approached the car parked directly ahead of the police auto. It was the stolen automobile—still bearing the li- cense numbers he had taken down. The policeman arrested two colored youths, one 24 and the other 16 years old, who were in the process of selling s radio they had removed from the machine. The youths told police they had taken the car from in rear of the White House, previously having stolen another, sold its radio and re- parked it at the Ellipse. A coat of paint now will keep your screens from rusting. 922 N. Y. Ave. Nvionnl 8610 Beauty and Beast Make Ready for National Tobacco Festival Miss Marian Thompson, pretty Virginian, is shown here with the most handsome yoke of oxen in the Old Dominion tobacco country. Both will be seen at the third annual National September 2 and 3. Tobacco Festival. to be held at THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, South Boston, Va D. O, TUESDAY, and, to quote their press agent, FORD LAWYER IS LR B ECAVINER Colombo Accuses Labor| Board Judge of “Treating Me Like a Horse Thief.” By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 27—Louis J.| Colombo, sr, attorney for the Ford | Motor Co., today accused Trial Ex- aminer John T Lindsay of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board of “treating me like & horse thief" at a hearing on a complaint charging the company with unfair labor practices. Colombo, shouting loudly, asserted Lindsay was “permitting Ford com- pany witnesses to be bull-dozed and | entrapped” on cross examination. The clash interrupted Dennis E. McKinney, Ford plant foreman, who was giving additional testimony in- tended t> support the company’s con- tention that several employes belong- ing to the United Automobile Workers were discharged because of “de- liberately planned inefficiency”—not | because of union activity Laurence A. Knapp, N. L. R. B. | attorney, asked McKinney: “Isn't it a fact that the pretext for firing was gazing off into space?” Colombo objected but was overruled by Lindsay “Like a Horse Thief." “I am going to talk about this here | and now,” Colombo declared. “The | N. L. R. B. counsel has no right to | abuse this witness.” Lindsay, flushed and tense, rose | from his chair and moved toward the right of the court room dais “Strike that last remark from the record,” he ordered Rejecting Colombo’s protest to the remark beigg stricken, Lindsay told the attorney: “You have been given every courtesy, Mr. Colombo, and there is no reason for your attitude.” “Courtesy!” Colombo exclaimed. “I have been treated like a horse thief rather than an officer of the court. My objections have been made for the | purpose of obtaining justice.” McKinney was being questioned | about the company's reason for dis- charging Joseph V. Bailey, a union | member named in the N. B. com- | plaint as dismissed for union activity. Colombo Shakes Hands. ‘When McKinney left the witness stand, Knapp walked up to him and | hey shook hands. Knapp then went to Colombo and smilingly proferred his hand, which Colombo shook. McKinney testified Bailey and two | others employed in the Ford paint and f discharged “because they were part of | a group who did not have the best in- | terests of the Ford Motor Co. at | heart.” Knapp spoke of the General Motors {and Chrysler strikes and told Mc- Kinney: “What you really thought was the group was in a conspiracy to assist the unions in their strike activities.” “That thought was not in my mind,” McKinney replied. Suspected the Group. He said he knew there was “gen- eral labor unrest in Detroit” and thought the group “might have some- thing to do with it.” Now about to enter its fourth week, the board's hearing on accusations that Ford violated the Wagner act con- tinued without immediate indication when it would be ended, while Trial Examiner John T. Lindsay sought to hasten procedure. Dennis McKinney, general foreman of the company's plant and varnish division, testified yesterday that a “definite conspiracy to hold down production” might have arisen from an idea on the men's part that a surplus was being built against any sit-down strike. Resultant dismissals of John Cwik- iel, Fred Gulliksen and Joseph V. Bailey—all members of the United Automobile Workers' Union—were ef- fected, McKinney said, to increase efficiency. He said there was “defi- nitely organized trouble” in the di- vision. Bad Work Claimed. ‘The board charges the company With firing men for union activity. Other defense witnesses besides McKinney, including foremen and departmental heads, have testified that the ques- tioned discharges were due to unsat- isfactory work. “I couldn't help but have the im- We Can Remodel Your Watch 1€ the movement % good— keep i, but why met put it :hl.? mew case with & meders Use Your Credit CASTELBERG'S 04 F $1. 0. W, | varnish plant at Highland Park were| Court __ (Continued From First Page.) August 14. But Democratic Leader Barkley said he still was not ready to talk definitely of the legisiative pro- gram for closing weeks or of adjourn- ment plans. Some Senators appeared that enactment of the court bill would bring the session to a close. Quick Passage Forecast. Judiciary Committee members fore- cast quick passage of the measure which would step up the machinery in lower Federal courts. The bill was drafted by a subcommittee to replace the Roosevelt court reorganization plan, and all controversial features have been eliminated. Some adjourn- ment-bent Senators said that once that measure was out of the way nothing could hold Congress long in session Barkley would not discuss the situa- tion beyond the wage-hour bill, which he called up for debate immediately. Democratic chieftains in the House | said they wanted to talk to President Roosevelt before fixing their program. They persuaded Representative Mc- Farlane, Democrat, of Texas to delay filing a petition for a party caucus to decide on the calendar. The House was ready to debate the first phase of Mr. Roosevelt’s Govern- ment reorganization program—a bill | to grant the President six administra- tive assistants. It may be the only reorganization measure brought up this vear. Other bills on which action still is uncertain are the low-cost housing bill, tax loophole legislation and a general farm program, including the sugar quota bill. The principal support for holding Congress in session to vote on those | proposals came from younger members of the Senate and House. First-term Senators will meet with Barkley to- night to urge that Congress consider the full administrative program. Some Senators were talking of a| Fall session to enact farm and other legislation if Ccngress could not be | held here now. House Democratic leaders opposed this scheme. The adjournment spirit was dis- played last night when the Senate stayed in session past the dinner hour to approve the McCarran bill to limit freight trains to 70 cars. Except when it is nearing adjournment, the | Senate usually balks at such a late session. VICTIM OF AUTO CRASH NEAR LAUREL IDENTIFIED Colored Woman Whose Skull Was Fractured Is Nettie Palmer of New York City. Police today identified as Nettie Palmer, 50, of New York City, the colored woman who died yesterday in Casualty Hospital after being brought from the scene of a traffic accident 4 miles beyond Laurel, Md. She had suffered a fractured skull. Joseph D. Yeager, 33, of 2000 Six- teenth street, another traffic victim, will be buried today in Staunton, Va. Yeager, a clerk in a Washington men'’s store, died in a Charlottesville, Va., hospital Satusday after an acci- dent which occurred during & trip he was taking to Roanoke, Va, to see his parents, pression,” McKinney said, “that there were men in the varnish room who were not working in the interest of the Ford Motor Co. We would get whole tank cars of frame paint that would not dry.” McKinney, who said he was yunaware at the time that the three discharged men were union members, testified his general superintendent had threat- ened to close the department unless conditions improved and reorganize the staff. The foreman also testified that Stanley Ziek, who last week said on the stand that he had resigned be- cause two veteran employes had been fired for union activity, himself had first suggested dismissal of Cwikiel. It was over the discharge of Cwikiel and Gulliksen that Ziek had resigned, the latter had testified. McKinney said that Ziek, after he quit, was replaced by & man of only 10 or 15 per cent of Ziek’s experience and that production then doubled. Jewelry, ins, Came oras, Musieal Inmstre: ments, ote, Lewest Rates Possible Unredeemed Pledsos tor Bale Take Any Bus Leaving 11th and Pa. Ave. Estadlished 18! HORNING’S Opp. Washingten Alrpert hopetul | | | Homes and Buildings in Two | | that ~once were homes and public | 24 { and more than 70 injured counted up | improvised first-aid stations | Clarence Lindhart, 18, came all the Norfolk. These girls shoaw how large tobacco leaves grow in their native State. Only two leaves are required to clothe them attractively, «right, Harriette Crews, Virginia Williams, Martha Haymes, all of South Boston, Marian Thompson of Danville and Jean Hill of JULY 27, 1937. “modestly.” They are, left to 3) REPORTED DEAD INMEXIGD QuakE U. . STEEL BOARD MY LGENELON States Leveled—Maltrata Church Among Ruins. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, July 27.—Workmen today picked through piles of debris Estimates Put Earnings for First Half of 1937 at $6 Share. CKGROUND— “Big Steel” has paid no dividends on its common stock since 1932. Proverbially a guide to business conditions, U. S. Steel has been busy, made peace with labor, built up considerably its reserves, ac- cording to news reports. buildings in Vera Cruz and Puebla | states to reckon the cost of Sunday | night's earthquake. At least 30 bodies | had been recovered. Stricken telephone and telegraph lines still rendered a complete survey impossible. Piecemeal reports indi- | cated, however, that Maltrata, Vera | B7 !l Associaied Press. Cruz, was hardest hit, with 16 dead | NEW YORK, July 27.—Sensing the possibility of news which might shake to last night. | the stock market out of its Midsummer | ing | quiet, Wall Street attention today was Half the buildings of that town of | focused on the United States Steel 8.000 were reported leveled, including | COrp. directors’ meeting which was | an ancient Colonial church. Scores— |due to convene after the stock mar- | perhaps hundreds—of residents in the | ket's close. area most severely affected by the| With unofficial estimates placing tremor were in hospitals or hastily | “Dig steel” earnings for the first 1937 | | half around $6 a common share, Wall | State and federal governments mobi- | Street was wondering whether steel lized relief forces to aid hundreds of | directors will clear the $1.25 arrears | homeless persons. A special train, [on the preferred stock and pay an ad- carrying physicians and nurses, | ditional $1.75 preferred disbursement, | reached Maltrata from Orizaba, 13 | pulting the senior shares back on & miles away in the mountainous coun- | regular $7 yearly basis. try around the long dormant volcano Enthusiastic steel followers pre- named Orizaba. dicted the company might also “vote . = something on the common,” and in ad- AVIATION CADET KILLED, | dition recommend offering of around | MAN IS HURT IN CRASH | Many were still miss- common holders at par, to finance plant expansion. | Conservative obserers, however, hold the steel directorate is “too smart” to attempt clearing of dividend arrears, | resumption of common dividends, and | Drill. expansion of capital all at one sitting. By the Associated Press, Usually well informed Qquarters PENSACOLA, Fla, July 27—The | uessed the steel board at its session | crash of a Navy training plane killed | Tuesday wiil be satisfied to clear pre- | an aviation cadet and badly injured an | férTed arrears and put the issue on | enlisted man at the Naval Air Station | the $7 annual basis again. | yesterday. The next regular dividend meeting | Cadet Arthur R. Rigler of Plainview. | Will not come until the last Tuesday Tex., died instantly when the aircraft | in October, but financial circles point | in which he was practicing landings | out that nothing prohibits the steel Bia s maRond e Rowiali yiboard Jromy coh deringjdlvidends aty tude. | any one of the regular monthly busi- Aviation Machinist Mate Ward W. | ness meetings. Nor for that matter, at Thomas of Fond du Lac, Wis, was|# special meeting called for the pur- | critically hurt. He is at the Navy | pose. | Hospital. Rigler had been at the air station about six months. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Rigler of Plainview. Thomas' wife lives at Fond du Lae. 8,000,000 additional common shares to Training Plane Goes Into Spin at Low Altitude in Landing 3,000,000 Free Rides. ‘Three million children are to be given free rides on their annusl visit | to the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan. VISIT INTERRU;I'ED ‘WILMINGTON, Del., July 27 (#).— way from Copenhagen, Denmark, to see his aunt for the first time in 16 years—only to have immigration offi- clals interrupt his plans. The boy, arriving on the Scanmail, will appear before a special immigra- tion board of inquiry in Gloucester, N. J, to present his claim that he ‘was born in the State of ‘Washington and is an American citizen. Officials questioned his papers. Lindhart planned to visit his aun in Wilkinsburg, Pa., and other rela- tives near Pittsburgh. PSYCHOMETRY DELINEATIONS Grace Gray Delong Life Reader Adviser 11 AM te 9 P.M. PSYCHIC MESSAGE COUNCIL 1100 Tweifth St. N.W. 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E. | TOWNSEND CLUB QUITS TARPON SPRINGS, Fla, July 27 (#)—One of the first of Florida's Townsend clubs—the Tarpon Springs Club No. 1—is going to return its charter to the Chicago headquarters. ‘The approximately 500 members MOVETO ADIURN FOUGHT I SENKTE “Young Turks” Meet To- night to Urge Passage of Roosevelt Program. By the Associatea Press. An aggressive group of freshman Democratic Senators, shunning the tradition that newcomers should keep silent, is urging that Congress enact the entire administration program be- fore adjourning. ‘They will express their views to- night at a dinner for Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky, whom most of them supported for majority leader. Senator Smathers, Democrat, of New Jersey, one of the new mem- bers, will be host. ‘The group of 14 is one of the largest freshman classes in recent years. The members, meeting informally, decided to resist early adjournment. Most of them advocated passage of wage-hour, housing, farm and other bills desired by the White House, They were not in complete accord, however, on the court issue. Seven voted last Thursday to send it back to the Judiciary Committee: Andrews and Pepper of Florida, Herring and Gillette of Towa, Brown of Michigan, Johnson of Colorado and Lee of Okla- homa. Island, Hitchcock of South Dakota, Hughes of Delaware, Schwartz of Wy- Berry of Tennessee was recorded as not voting on several other issues Their vote was largely behind Sen- ator La Follette, Progressive, of Wis- consin, in his recent effort to increase Six voted against recommitment: El- | lender of Louisiana, Green of Rhode | oming and Smathers of New Jersey. | ‘The freshmen have acted as a unit | MASTERPIECES PUT ON EXHIBIT Corcoran Gallery of Art Shows Sixteenth Cen- tury Portraits. The Corcoran Gallery of Art has placed on public exhibition a group of sixteenth century portraits by Dutch, Italian and other masters lent by Mr. and Mrs. Adolph C. Miller Miller, a former member of the Federal Reserve Board, and Mrs. Mil- ler have made an indefinite loan of the rare paintings, aceording to C. Powell Minnigerode, director of the gallery. ‘The pictures have been in the Miller residence, 2230 S street. ‘The works are: “Portrait of a Young Man," by An- ton Van Dyck, pupil of Rubens, who was born in Antwerp in 1599 and who died near London in 1641. Van Dyck was noted as a court painter in tha realm of Charles I and his services were much sought by the nobility. The Corcoran Gallery's Clark collec~ tion contains two fine examples of his work. “Madonna and Child,” by Lucas Cranach, who was born at Cranach, Germany, in 1472, and who died at Weimar in 1553. Cranach was asso- ciated with Luther in the reformation, and his paintings reflect the religious influence of the period. “Portrait of a oYung Woman" by Angelo Bronzino, born in Florence, Italy, in 1535 and died there in 1607. He studied with Michelangelo. “Portrait of a Young Woman," by der Vierzigen Johre, early painter of whom little is known “Portrait of a Man,” by Jan Eworth, another little known painter of the | sixteenth century. | “Portrait of a Woman" and ‘Portrait | income taxes. Most of them opposed attempts to curtail relief expenditures by requiring fixed contributions from State and local governments. Although the “Young Turks” were defeated on the tax issue, they were on the winning side in the relief battle. Townsend, founder of the movement, “had abandoned general welfare work in the interest of other matters.” Louis J. Richajds, president, said: “We feel Dr. Townsend has gone off on too many tangents and involved the organization in too many things.” The club will continue to function as the Tarpon Springs General Wel- fare Club. "WHEN WEST H The term “Young Turks” was ap- plied first to a similar organization of | Republicans during the Hoover admin- istration. That group was led by Sen- | ators Vandenberg of Michigan and ! Austin of Vermont to push President Hoover's legislative progrem. which | they contended party leaders had not backed energetically enongh. l American wines may be imported into Japan shortly. AS A SALE—ITS SIDNEY WESTmc 14th and G Sts. of a Man,” by Ambrosius Benson, na- | tive of Belgium, who died in 1550. He | was a portrait painter of the Flemish school. | “Portrait of a Man' by Barthel Bruyn, born at Cologne in 1493 and died there in 1557. Noted for his re- | ligious paintings. | “Portrait of a Woman,” by an un- known early master. 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