Cumberland Evening Times from Cumberland, Maryland • Page 1

The Weather Fair tonight and Sunday, except probably iocal thundcr- shotoers late Sunday afternoon in the interior; not much change in temperature. VOL. 183 City Edition 10 Pages CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 3,1937 DIRECT ABSKXUATZO CHESS UNITED PRESS 8CBVICK PRICE TWO CENTS CIO 6 Purge'Begins; Axei swoc LEADER FORD ANSWERS HURLS CHARGEjNLRB CLAIMS OF Amelia Earhart Fall Falls On Gus Hall; Held AT STEEL HEADSJUNFAIR TACTICS With Plane Into Ocean! As Leader Of Bomb Plot Believed STRIP OTHERS OF AUTHORITY! IN YOUHGSTOWN Surrendering in Strike Bombing Action Taken as Communists Admit Participation In Steel Strike In Ohio ISSUES CIRCULARS OUTLINING AIMS Secretary of Political! Organization Says Communism is 20th Century Americanism iBy The Youngsfown, July CIO; "purse" began today, as the union's! a.ve fell on GILS and two other! strike captains in the Mahonlng- valley steel sector. i John Owens, general OIO strike director in Ohio, announced comment the removal of Hall, now! in jail under charges of heading: a "dynamite ring." as strike captain' Claim Professional Strikebreakers Being Shipped To Bethlehem Plants At Johnstown ASK PROBE OF CLAIM Motor Manufacturing Company Cites Eleven Reasons For Dismissal Of Complaint HEARING TUESDAY Information Burns Detec- Cited National Labor Relative Agency is Recruiting tibns Act Does Not Workers For Company Prohibit Freedom of Given Federal Agencies I Speech and Press Johnstown, July 3 (U.P.I—The Detroit, July 3 "J.P>—The Ford Steel Workers Organizing Commit- Motor Company today sought dls- tce charged today that professional missal of a national labor relations were shipped complaint when ius attorney Johnstown, where "back-to-werk" filed a formal amwer and denial to has restored the NLRB charges of imfiiic labor' Famous Woman Flier Believed Afloat in Shark-Infested Sea After surrendering in Warren. Ohio, on a charge of "illeRnl possession iri the Warren area.

A joint lead-'of explosives." smiling Gus Halt, left nbove. C. I. O. organizer, was held ership of Harry Wines and Jouiiji" S50.000 bond.

Hall laughed and joked, called the charge a "frame-up." Grajcier replaced him. jThree previously arrested men told police HaJl had given them money to in struck Bethlehem Steel Corp- loration plant to a virtually normal basis, according to company claims. I Clinton S. Golden, northeastern regional director for SWOC, which called the strike June 11 when Bethlehem refused to sign a union contract, said at Pittsburgh he had "authentic information indicating the recruiting and shipment of pro- regional Johm- Uown by the Burns detective agency of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh." Asks Federal Probe Golden announced that his in- formation is beini; turned over to "appropriate" governmental agencies 1 for investigation. "I have evidence, too," Golden I "that other agencies are re-; and strikebreakers; i from 'points in southern Ohio and Wc.st Virginia in violation of thrj Byrnes act prohibiting interetate'.

shipment of strikebreakers." practices. Filed by Attorney Louis in behalf of Harry H. Ford personnel director, the answer: cites 11 for dismissal ofi the complaint for which hearing' Ls scheduled to begin on July The two principal reasons ad- 1 vanced by the company in its plea for dismissal were: 1. That there is in the National Labor Relations Act which prohiblls freedom of speech or freedom of the press. 2.

Because sound constitutional law docs not warrant the conclusion that the powers of the federal government pennit the regulation of dealings between employer and employe when engaged in the purely local business of -manufacture, i The company's reference to thn freedom of speech and the press Officials of Bethlehem's Cambria around the NLRB's charge' Owens plant, In announcing that operu- also stripped two of 'his; buy explosives before two bombing incidents. With above. Is Police tion are beill(r restored to a normal Youngstown lieutenants of their; Sergeant Wagers. Hull has been dropped by C. I.

O. since his surrender. basis m-ilsed" "the fine snirit and frt ni-i I authority, removing Bub Burke. chief organizer at thc Republic steel plant, and John Steven-; son, organizer at the main plant ol the Youngstown Sheet Tube Communists Admit rariicipation Communist participation in the! strike was claimed in circulars dis- i tributed through the valley today, In the circulars Phil Bart, "Mn-r honing; valley secretary of thc Com-' munist party," said: "Of course the Communist party: its members in the steci mills itf-tha steel and all other unorganized dtistries. The Communist parly; joia? with all democratic forces in: thc struggle acainst open shop violence, and 1 Owen's "housccleaning'' order was! issued a few hours after an- other chieftain nf the loyalty" of the thousands of its SENATORS SIFT iTHREE CONFLICTING iSTAND ALLIES IN RIOTEYIDENCEiSPAINIARFAREs who Have returned to organize." that the distribution of a pamphlet entitled "Ford Gives Viewpoint on Labor." represented "coercion and restraint of employes in their right cooperation with us i shows that every, rorrmmnilv mid thc'i person ha nn undoubted right to la 0, S.

BEARING Distress Pleas Flash Ovcij Pacific in Midst of Fcvcr- jsh Sea and Sky Hunt For Aviatrix it OVERSHOOTS GOAL OF TINY ISLAND! Gas Supply Believed Bc-j came Exhausted Before She Could Sight Land, Forcing Her In to Sea suppo: i company in the face of disorders what sentiments he be- iand lawlessness." orc thc PuWic. and to forbid this AMELIA EARHART Golden-s statement was issued ati is destroy freedom of speech and' fllGt" AllCl main headquarters of the steel! frecdom ol the the answer union in Pittsburgh, where final i sald plans were being made for a July) Flhn charges by the NLRB .4 mass meeting in Johnstown ln! grew oll( the near-riot at the isupport of the striking Ktcelworkers.i plnnt of the Foi rt Motor Company I when orcanizcrr, Inr Miners Expected organizers for Automobile Workers of America at- Committee Will Publish Full Report of Chicago Steel Strike Disorder and Russia beek r-urther Support Among Powers Represented in System BRUTALITY CITED (members of the United Mine 'ers of America, strongest unit of CIO, are expected to attend the turc. Fifteen union members were beaten in an attack by Ford work- In its reply today, the company denied the labor board's allegation meeting, according to union lead- SHOWDOWN upon union members. Philip Murray, chairman of the unlawful con- Into Fleeing Crowd troit organizer from hLs post. The action, he explained, was "Ql.sciplin- ary' and followed Martin's hives- a not thc and did unii unlawful acts llad at Althou Senator Thomas (D-DO neutrality system capital "had the characteristics of: said the evidence indicated "ex-j Firm in their rejection of Italn- ol brutality." neither he German counter proposals to The Cambria plant is the only i chairman LnFollettn fPro-Wisl naval patrol scheme Rep.

cox (D-Ga), and others have; indicatcd what fm ncr Kcllon tncir cm oys of th chared that CIO leadership ci LIbcrtle committee might: to Hue up oilier come under "communistic CIO chieftain, will not be able to. atlend the meeting, Mark said. Bethlcbum unit affected by acted in self- defense and within their and constitutional rights, thc! Tlle lal)or board filed the motor rd strike, called in an to win! IA. I CCk Ford had Committee employes wild ence." Barfs Issues Statement would publish full report statement said that "today.of the which 10 strike they nations behind Item'a union contract. preparation for a showdown I Holiday Shutdown In Effect next week.

Want" Patrol Abandoned In cold rebuff to a plan that communism in 20th century Amer-j sympathizers were killed and French and British extend icanism." I "leave the rest to the people of their zones to fill thc partol gap on "The American people." he jtiio Spanish government coast left ''heard Girdler shout 'com-; A dozen witnesses, some of them by withdrawal of Italian and Ger- The regular July 4 shutdown be in effect when the miners como to Johnstown, according to S. D. muiiist' against President Roosevelt still convalescent, told the commit- in the last election, but (he i'our platoons of club-swinging of the American people was clear; patrolmen unexpectedly had charged and decisive. Today the same nn-la "peaceful demonstration" near American gang shouts the Republic steel plant, against thc CIO and SWOC." i Pictures Support Testimony (Continued On Page 2) DEATH Arrangements for three strike; A ncwsreel. publicly shown rallies in Ohio nnd for the-first time, supported tomorrow were completed by re-1 their testimony that iwlice fired Riona! director Owc-ns.

At into the fleeing crowd and clubbed ninny of the demon- (Continued On Page 2) AT SCOUTS' JAMBOREE Investigators Satisfied Tear! Gas Gun Projectile Ac- Boys, However, Will Be Honor I -XT 1 man warships last week, the Rome and Berlin representatives demanded (he whole naval patrol be abandoned and belligerent rights prsntcd to both government and insurgent forces in Spain. Thus, five hours of deliberation the foreign office yesterday ended (Continued On Page MRS. THOMAS RYAN DIES AT VA. ESTATE i until today to file a formal answer to the charges. The national labor relations bon'ri announced it would call approximately 70 witnesses and that its case would require about Evans, Bethlehem industrial rela-; 10 day for Presentation, tions director, who announced thiit; operations will be on a norm: basis as soon as repairs are completed to pipelines damaged by two dynamite explosions on Tuesday.

STRIKE RIOT PHOTO BE EXHIBITED Amateur Radio Youths Pick Up Voice of Flier Los Auynles, July 3 (A'i Faint distress signals in voice from Amelia Earhart. were pickrd up by two rsriio oporators at 0.4" snd 7 a. today and 10 a. m. ESTi.

"KHAQQ-SOS," pnch repeated three times, wore heard nt 6:42 by Walter McMcnamy and Carl Pierson over tlieir receiver. Tlic rail letters were repented three more times at 7 a. m. "I recognized Miss Earhart's voice from conversations I have had wi'h her, nlthoueli I iicvfi Iwivc her 0:1 the air before." said Pierson. "WnHer rccopniwd her CAII.V; he rurtintained wireless conti.ct with her ptnno on lier from Oakland to Sleepy-c'jcd.

thc have heard Earharl's signals through the night, said they would remain by their set a.s long as ihc signals continue. i ark in charB i Chicago Claims Xows Reels Do ot Show "Attack of Mob On Police" Tht As-'t'ClsC'd Trrsr) Honolulu. July signed with the call letters oil Amelia monoplane flashes! over the Pacific today In thc midsil of a feverish and sky btsnt foil tlic faiiK-u HVlMrix missing hi equatorial waters aurioundlng tlnjl Howland Island. Amateur radio operators in Augclcs heard repeated calls of ihoitly bcftK-e 3 n. Pacific Time.

nil EnMern Standard This wntl morn lhaii hours after Hie trcpiii filer said her pnsoline BUJ; would iast but 30 minutes on fliKht from distant New Guinea. Thc amateurs. Walter McMenawjl nnd Cnrl Pierson, said tlie signalff were so weak they could hardly them through dense static, and thill once when they caught thc kttnnl "L-A-T" for latitude. Ihe 6ig! were blotted out by interference. Last Heard Yesterday "KHAQQ" Is the call of Miss 'hart's plane, lajt heard from in thil in 11- yesterday at 2:12 p.

'Carried Qllicklv Inflatable' wncn sl1e reported she and hernav ligator. the tTtci-nn Fred Noonsn could not 5-lRht hind and wcr? nKsir ly OUt Of £A5. Another me.ssngc sipned with plane's call letters and radio conlncL was picked up In the South Seas earlier by thc New Innrt warship Achilles, the San Francisco guard reported. The many niile, 1 j-ouilil TV. i i-i antl sl of Hcvvland.

messaged: 1 "lentil Ul Supply Ol Water I "Unknown station heard to 'Pisase give us a few flashes i( youl us; signal on 310,1 Before Takeoff i 7111 station made KHAC5Q twice nnd disappeared. Nothing Foresaw Such A Situation Two-Man Rubber Lifeboat and Life Belts For Final Emergency ALSO HAD FLARES Emergency Radios and Stored Aboard Plane San Francisco. July 3. A i lrc Earhart and Fred said radio was heard on 3105 i lic nurnc unsigned possibility iif txr-in? adrift the ocean, but likclv thcv ciid not expect to rondilions tryins n.s beinp afloat in an nir plane or rubber lifeboat on an fca. Tiieir lamiliarity with rescues al' llovrtl la nnd rccoKnition of thc Infested waters within a iof the 2.570 mile night from British' 100 mi northwest of i New- Oiilnea tiny Howland Wnnd' laJld lied them be prepared for llnv cc' 2.570 mile hop fromj 'an fnicrpenry.

i 1 0 Gsiiuca. A kC rom Ifie 1 clamin whitr, ltlrr Ilii Vlslblc for Iline i Plane for night ln Shark -Inrcst erf Miss Eiirluut was generally radius ofl Howlantil af haviiiu overshot Their plane itself, with roiil ilow wing, einpiv gasoline land light aluminum frame madr. 'itself a noating raft. i'" llcs from 1U 'Chorngc, ns it ploughed forward! a quickly inflntablc on £moolh in of tne tuo-nian rubber lifeboat nnci life SBO.OOO Enrhari "flyin? of 200 slate police-here, announced that "between eight nnd 12 persons" were questioned in connection wllh the pipeline dynamitings. All were! Chicago, Chicago released questioning.

i Counsel Barnet. Hodes The SWOC yesterday asked the today that a photocraph national labor relations board to of the South Chicago steel strike' order a company-wide election In snapped by an Associated Press i DV Bethlehem steel lo determine be by thealens I HI £, 1 01 JJAP DEMANDS 'AMUR REGION llle nion Widow of One of Nation's Leading. Financiers Suffered Heart Attack majority of -workers in Bethlehem i Day battle, plants. Thc union also requested Hode.s. a showing new- reel.s- of the'Memonal belts for A final rmcrpeacv.

They) hlle the cutter hunted by seal equipped with flares and n. tilp (vomfm wno startcrt a wot ld Very pistol to attract rescue ships flJRlu jusl ln; a Navy fl I or phuies at night, and lar sc )loat sprd ovrr ho 500 ena nrui from Honolulu. Navy minesweeper he hunt from a position! Ix-twren here it hnd bcrn stationed to glvel in the of I cncc election in the Wclrlon Steel Mayor Edward Kelly, telegraphed MOSCOW AgPCCS tO 1 nn 11V rv rif i. 1 cidentally Discluirgcd Beftver. July 3 (U.R)Deputy Sheriff J.

Oscsr Jackson of Fallston, was cleared of blame today in Guests At Huge Municipal I Lynclibtirg, July 3 000 Fireworks Display 'Tliomas Fortune Ryan, widow of one of the nation's lend- Wnshington. July 3 Tlie financiers, dlod nt "Onk Ridge, Boy Scout-s nt the Virginia estate, lost last night the death of George Mike, a union Jamboree will try to set tin rx-i after being stricken with a heart picket who struck in lite head mnplc for the entire XJntteti Slates 'attack. with a tear gns projectile from in kwplng Tildcpondencu Day safe Mrs. Ryan, who inherited a. Jacfcson's gtm during a riot last land sane.

tenure In approximately one-sixth Monday in front of the Mnl'trupi They were Steel Products Company. Headers today instructed by their not to shoot fire- After a three-day Investigation, crackers or any fireworks contain- District Attorney Robert E. MC' ing powder, in accordance with Creary said he was "satisfied that Capital ordinance. of her husband's fortune when he died In established her Ippal residence in Virginia in 19M and Deputy Sheriff Jackson was ser- 1 Scouts, however, will be then spent much of her time on the beautiful old. Nelson county plantation.

Hally To Be Unpollrcd Capt. William Clark, commanding (Continued On PHRC 2) lotisly Jo.stlad in the performance of. honor guests at an elaborate muni- his duty." And that the ffun was, clpnl display near the discharged accidentally. White House Monday night Mike was the 1311: person killed' Trie celebration will bo one of, in disorders in the seven-stale steel ''he Inrpest in the nation, although iof Mr. and Mrs.

Solomon Town- Company, subsidiary of Nationalise demand lo a Paramount news Steel Corporation. The plant, atjfiim company nfler it hnd ordered Wclrton, employs 10,000 release of iha film tor general, exhibition. Thc corporation counsel said the i news reel lails to show "the attack of the mob on the police" which tlie iHttcr contended ciiused them to fire on the demonstrators, 10 of whom were killed. "Tlie nature of this attack on the police, however, is graphically shown by a still photograph made by an Associated Press photogvuphcr," JKodes -vild. He declared the pic- jturc should be exhibited "in simple 'Justice to the city of Chicago." COL.

SCHICK, RAZOR INVENTOR SUCCUMBS Discoverer of Electric Device Dies Foljowing 1 Kidney Operation New York, July 3 Col. Lieut. Harry CostellorhcHd of "the Mrs. Ryan, who was twice mar- Schlck, 59, inventor of an electric crime prevention bureau and police ried before becoming thc wife of the financier, was born January 1, at L. the daughter strike.

WOMAN "INVESTS" ithousnnds of Rovernment offlclnls I send Nlcholi. fdrcn sm-vivc. jnnd emijloycs left thc city for aj Tier first husband was the lute! Schlck dkd at a. m. He I three-day holiday.

President Roose- James Brown Lord, noted New operated on Here last February shavlnp device, died in Presbyterian department censor, said the fllm.s Hospital today of complications not be exhibited In Chicago on JowlnR tin operation for a kldnc; ailment. His widow and two rhil draw Patrols From Disputed Island Between Siberia, Manchoukuo JAPS STILL ALERT limo. Special radio rQiilpmrm for communication'from thr Wits Hlso In the plane. Emergency rations nnd a plonli- ful of water were reported: stored aboard thn plnnc takoofT from Lar. Dut they could do nothing about hot rquntorlal Mm.

Ill' nift they would no protection from thc rlirrci! ray. 1 Even the water remainf at "a roiutHiit temperature of about 82: 'ricRrcrs. I i Tliis is nearly 30 rirgrres alwvr iho normal temperature of UK 'ocean at Snn The joiiicri On Page 2i BATTLESHIP TO AID SEARCH FOR EARHARH Carryinjr Throo Woiijri He Able To Cover Wide Area W.i sii me ton. July 3 licpnitmcnl ordered the battleship! I The of shark.s clrctliiK Colorado lodav pai tlcipatp in thej evacuation would add only to thr-lriwarch for Amclin Earhart. Before liey Relax Vigil- imrninl as IOHR a.s thcyi Tin' Colornrio.

Ilir Ksvy nlloat in the plane or al Honolulu, yesler-1 'boitl. 'rlny. llic vrssol CRrrlrs three i Noonan, a master ninnnrr wholwliifh would be available for wide I first went to nearly 30 years; area in llir vicinity of where Mlsa Toyko JtOy 3 a as participated in ft number 1 Earhart plane btlirved to ancc; Tension In Nation Eased of ajrrced to withdraw sclf WM tlcvcr Rdrlft bftfcll esc war tension eased today after Soviet nu naval patrols from the disputed! Amur river islands between Siberia i cuin nve Frfnch soldinrs an tind Msnchoukuo; but powerful Jap-i nt although he dorvn on the oooan. Thfi Colo- is commanded by Captain Rltlcd tn TW-. Frledpll.

Thr has nhosrd navol iinlts from oJ u-Nvrinin jinree-ony nouaay. President Brown Lord noted New 36,000 WITH STpANTiERSivelt is ob-sprvlns the week-end JYoik architect. Her second inar- at Hyde ParK, N. Y. Pittsburgh, July 3 M.K— Two gjlbj The WashlHRton exodus be- strBngers naked MI-R.

Mnry HanackljinK tltiplieated throughout the conn- to 1 Sfi.OOO in package try. The Amerlcnn Automobile As- whlch they said wna worth foreseeing honvy trnffic. Mrs. Hnnnckl withdrew thc S6.000-in.skcd motorists to observe nil the hr.r Ufa bunk nnti "ritlM of the in order to mnkcJKocs, (tn dtwo grandchildren, James rlRge wa.i to Cornelius C. Cuyler, of New york.

She WBS wed thD third time in Chnrlottcsville, October 29, 1317. Surviving arc a son, J.imeji Cou- pcr Lord: a sister, Mrs. handed It lo the slrangcr.i, who oppcaied. WEATHER for thc removal of a kidney. After- women and children." wards he went to Montreal.

Complications later set in and he was taken to Hoynl Victoria Hospital In Montreal for trcstment. anrt then returned here whore he Another limn hr jolnrrf in saving Cnlifnriiia constant communication twcrn Rtussian and Japnncsc-Man- chovikuoan forces June 30. sol-i explaining tlw Soviet, govern-j New York. 3 W-The New, wlth Pacific stations of Local UiunderAhower.i Mondayjmcnt. had projnlsrd retail stock fxchftnge nnd most f' and Wednesday or TliurMliiy.

Otherwise sfr.nernlly fiilr. again cntcrcrt Hospltnl Tempera I urp above normal Monday, on May 23. roolrr ihto week-end one of (he safest Lord. and Mary Louise Lord.j Tlie body will bt. to MontrcRl; middle of Way periods on record.

(all ol Now York City. burial next Wednesday. night, and forces from fhft tfotible zone. j'lic other important Await Actual Kvaruallon jcotnmodlly m.irkMx in thc Unllrd, Tltiwlnn cvnrunlion, how- wrrc closrtl today ns pnrl oT wnrnicr-ever, apparently vrss 1 lm- cooler by Japanof nnny loadriR bcfoi-R ninrVirt.s will be closed Mon-j i' On Page 2J I'uiy 6. NO TAPER MONDAY Thr KvcnJnK TimrA will 1 publit.hrri Monday In nhserv- inro nf Jndeprndpncr Day,.