Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 1

Em Western to Vote OnConstitution Election Next Wednesday On Setup for Independent Union 2400 of 2900Favor Body 2000 Paid-Up Mass Meeting Decides On Vote Employes of Western Cartridge Co will vote next Wedneid.y on a constitution for an independent union, In'which 2000 workers already have paid-up memberships. Four hundred others have applied for membership. OTtlwtmpioywi of the plant, 2900 are eligible. The election date was in a adopted at a mass meeting of employes, Friday night, at Lincoln school in East Alton. The organization is named in the constitution "Western Cartridge Employees Independent Union of East The polling place for the election will be at the East Alton Fire Department building, and the polls will be open from 6 a.

July 7, to 1 a. July 8. Voting will be by secret ballot, with "yes" for adoption of the constitution, and "no" against. Temporary officers today asked that Alton employes, of the company who go to work by train, cast their ballots during the noon hour, Wednesday. Automobiles will be at the plant gates to take them to the polls.

Employes who drive their own automobiles to work are urged to vote In th'e morning or afternoon. The proposed association of ployes already has 2000 paid-up members, it was said today, and 400 more have applied for membership. Of the employes at the plant, it was said, 2900 are membership. eligible for 'Tentative organization of the independent union was carried out under provisions of the Wagner Act, which provides that 51 percent of the employes of a company may decide on the bargaining agency for that, plant. When the membership in the proposed inde- Western had nt' mark, the pendent union at, pjused the 51 roriipany pendent tmlojy upon permanent organization ratification of a constitution, would be the bargaining i Proceeding under the provisions of the Wagner group of 15 or 20 employes launched the movement for the Howard Tueth of Alton was named temporary chairman, G.

Ladd of East Alton temporary vice-president, and Otis D. Sullivan of East Alton temporary secretary. Will Submit to Vote Meetings of employes were 'called and plans for an organization were outlined. Applications for membership then were received, with a great majority of those eligible seeking membership. After the constitution had been drawn up, last night's mass meeting was called, when a resolution was adopted to submit the constitution to a vote of employes.

The next step, under the law, after adoption of a constitution, would be the election of representatives by divisions'; of the plant, these representatives to constitute an executive board which will elect its own officers. This board would represent the employes In any conferences with company officials and in negotiation of many contracts. In addition to the executive Aboard, each division will name an Advisory representative, who will be a member of the board but will act as a "contact man" between the division and its representative on the board. Six voting divisions of the plant are set up in the proposed constitution. The employes, in forming their organization and proceeding to the submission of a constitution for ratification, have been advised by jneir attorney, Francis Manning, tormer city counsellor of Wood River.

(BitabUthtdL JMmaty IS, St Pit Copy SATUftPAY, JULY 3. -Member of The Associated Press Fireworks Spectacle to Climax Legion Picnic At Rock Spring Park Monday Isolates Cause Of Infantile Paralysis GLENDALE, 3 Dr. Edward Carl Roienow, professor of experimental bacteriology at the Mayo Foundation, Rochester, announced last night he had isolated the germ which causes infantile paralysis. Addressing 100 physicians, geoni, and medical reiearch workers, Dr. Rosenow said isolation of the micro-organism, which he termed "Gram Positive Dltlococ- cus," had resulted from work With spinal fluid taken from persons who had recovered from the disease.

Dr. Rosenow said a serum test would now be developed, similar to serums used in combating other contagious disaeses. Already, he said, he has made a composite vaccine which has proved favorable In preliminary Say Pendergast Paid for Vote Fraud Defenses Grand Jfory Reports He And Nephew Furnished Bonds KANSAS CITY, July 3. A federal judge's question Who furnished the surety for bonds and paid the trial expenses for the steadily growing list of vote fraud had an answer today: T. H.

(Boss) Pendergast and his political heir apparent. The federal grand jury, widening its probe of last November's election activities and their aftermath, supplied the answer. Bendergast, one of the most powerful organization leaders, wwtag -'iiii otta long-planned Colorado vacation, Pendergast said he and his nephew, James Pendergast, were actuated by sympathy; that there was nothing wrong about such bail- ablfe action, and that their costly moves in no wise condoned any misdoings of the 46 persons so far convicted. In an open letter to Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis, who said testimony proved the 46 aimed to "steal" the election for the Democrats, the grand jury said lames Pendergast put up 560,000 as surety and paid $9,000 in cash for trial expenses with his uncle T.

assuring any other amounts need' ed. Chamberlain Tells of U.S. Trade Conversations BIRMINGHAM. Eng, July 3, WP) premier 'Neville Chamberlain asserted today the government "Is engaged in conversations with the United States, which we hope eventually may develop a mutually advantageous trade agreement." The Premier, who left a fishing vacation to address 10,000 of his constituents in. speehch since his first assuming major office, credited the retired Prime Minister, Earl Baldwin, with effective improvement in British trade.

'Caution', Fire Chief Warns Caution against hazards of fire was urged of Fourth (and Fifth) of July celebrants today by Fire Chief Krepel. He spoke particularly of'brush and grass fires, pointing out there are now many dry spots which will easily take fire unless showers should fall over the week' end. Clipper Begins Flight to Pioneer Commercial Trans-Atlantic Flying British Plane to Span Ocean from Opposite Directions at Same Time PORT WASHINGTON, N. Wel1 on lta comm airline, the 9:52 land it will 1 (jnpper III, flying boat, coasted to a on Shediac Bay, at (Alton time) today, a stay of only an hour and plane lifted off the Botwood, Newfound- miles away. On Monday the 1900 61 to her.

amf Amerlc Airways base re enounced receipt of a radio- Captain Harold B. inrtsr of the boat iross the ocean Monday, to the eastward survey flight of the American boat. The seven men aboard, delighted to be off on the new transoceanic venture, apparently were more interested in the fate of their mutual friend, Captain Fred J. Noonan, Amelia Karhart's companion on her world flight than in their own hop. Today's flight by the Americans Is to be matched by a British crew leaving Southampton, England, in an Imperial Airways flying boat, H.

M. A. Caledonia, Monday evening. The American route for the day was 1072 miles to Botwood, Newfoundland, with a stop enroute at Shediae Bay, B. At.the completion of this double crossing, the observations ol both crews will be combined in preparation for the establishment of a trans-AUanUc passenger service, Post Members Complete Plans for Annual Event Final details of the seventeenth annual picnic of the American Legion post, next Monday, were polished Into shape at a meeting Friday evening at Rock Spring park- scene of 'the forthcoming community celebration.

Chairmen of the various picnic events conferred with their committee members, stand locations were appointed, and the whole picnic set-up gone over just to make sure no details and' been overlooked nor any In the arrangements "It looks like we were alt set," General Chairman Bockstruck declared today. "Stands are going up and reports last night showed all preparations well In hand." A big fireworks spectacle will as usual climax the annual picnic and the display is announced for approximately 9:30 Monday evening. The pyrotechnics will be staged from the hill to the north of the park valley as in the past, and will feature some elaborate set pieces. A representative of the fireworks manufacturer was here today getting the framework for the special pieces into place. Starting at 2 p.

m. in the afternoon will be races and contests for boys and girls from 6 through 15 years of age. The Legion post is providing prizes and the city recreation department is cooperating in plans and supervision. For the late afternoon there will be a band concert, and for the supper hour another concert. Alton Municipal Band has arranged a program of music especially suited to a picnic occasion and its "German Band" will be on hand to provide a special, bit of novelty entertainment.

Dancing will be an evening feature, and the pavilion on the west hilltop of the park has been made ready. Stands will form a midway in the park valley. An abundance of lunch offerings, has been arranged for as well as cooling refreshments, and all will be ready by 11 a. chairmen have announuced, so that those who come early to the park may served. The menu uHl at noon and evening for the picnic patrons.

Sand was spread yesterday and today on the new parking field to take up any excess oil, Chairman Bostruck announces, and the parking ground immediately adjacent to the park valley is expected to accomodate a thousand cars. The parking field, created through a WPA project, will have its christening Monday. Special bus service to the park has been assured by the Citizens Coach Bockstruck also states. Police cooperation on handling traffic will be given as usual, and the Legion has a committee which will direct parking and assist in facilitating movement of cars in and out of the park area. The high school oval will afford a parking place close to the park.

Bevenue Post Picnic The Allen Bevenue Post American Legion will stage its celebration at the Johnson Street Playground, Monday, July 5. Many activities at the grounds will. be be conducted by the Alton recreation department. Contest will be held for both children and adults. A softball game will be played between the Legion Post and the International Shoe Co.

A band concert will be given by the Boy Scouts of Troops 21 and Fireworks will be set off at night. In the evening it is planned to dance. General Closing Because the Fourth falls on Sunday, Monday will be generally observed over Alton area as a noli day. City offices will bo closed, Mayor Struif having inforally proclaimed Monday for the Independence day observance. Banks and building and loan association offices will be closed, and.the post office will observe a complete holiday with no deliveries of mail.

There will be no Monday issue of the Telegraph. Rival Trucker Unions End Strike; Will Vote PHILADELPHIA, Junly 3, ttfi- Representatives of rival trucking unions signed an agreement early today providing for elections Monday in the Freihofer and Ward Making Companies and ending "general holiday" that stopped truck deliveries and newspaper publication in Philadelphia and Camden, N. J. The "holiday" was called yesterday by the Teamsters' Joint Council No, 53, an American Federation of Labor affiliate, to protest what it called invasion of "the teamsters' movement" by the Committee for Industrial Organization. Lindbergh Begins TKIAXT Mystery Journey DINAN, Brittany, France, July State Armory To Be Located In Upper Alton Unit of Illinois National Guard Will Be Stationed Here Streeper Building Site Building to BeTorn frown And Modern Structure Erected I State Representative H.

Streeper was Informed by Adjutant-General Carlos E. Black of Illinois that the state had accepted a lease on the Streeper build- Ing at 1628-30 Washington, avenue as an armory for a unlfr ot the 123rd field Artillery of ttle Illinois National Guard. Announcing receipt of ttie letter from the Representative Streeper said aiat he and his brother, Robert er, owner of the building, Bad decided to replace It by a. nety' brick structure. The new building will by 165 feet, with an architectujrel design similar to that of the Uptown Theater, which it will adjoin.

It will be of one story, fire-proof brick construction, with one great room on the ground floor, and a basement for storing equipment. Offices may be provided at the front of the ground floor. 62 Men In Knit Tentative plans for organization of a battery of the 123rcf Field Artillery provide for a unit of 62 men, to be recruited Streeper said he had been Informed. TWO other units of the 123rd are in East St Louis. The Alton unit will be motorized.

R. R. Lord, who holds a commission of lieutenant in the guard, will be commanding officer of the Alton unit. The building to be torn down to make way for the armory formerly was used by the Streeper tinder- taking frlm. A half-century ago it served as the barn for horse- cars.

More recently, it has been used as a laundry. Efforts to establish a National Guard unit here have been under way for a few years, with Lojfd active' Movoatent. "Under the policy of the Federal and state governments in providing armories and equipment for National Guard units, the Federal government provides $3 for each 51 of the state's. Gen. Black's Letter Adjutant-General Black's letter to Representative Streeper dated July 2 follows: H.

Streeper, "Alton, 111. "My Dear Mr. Streeper: "Confirming my telephone conversation with you yesterday afternoon and your proposal of April 1, 1937, this is to inf6rm you that the state has accepted your proposition to lease the property at 1628-30 Washington avenue, Alton, 111., effective July 1, 1937, to be used as an armory to house one battery of the 123rd Field Artillery. It is understood that you will make the improvements to the building as outlined in general terms in your proposal, with the arrangement of the interior as will be indicated by Mr. R.

R. Lord, who will command the unit, and that the lease will be for a period of two years with a renewal clase for an additional two years. Until a formal lease can be presented to you for execution this letter will serve in lieu. I am sure you will be satisfied with the State of Illinois as a tenant and both your city and the state will be proud of the unit of the National Guard which will result from our transaction. With personal regards, I am "Yours very truly, "Carlos E.

Black, "The Adjutant-General. Weather Forecast ALTON: Occasional thundershowers tonight, tomorrbw; little temperature change; Monday probably ihpwers. Amelia, 'Lab', Plunge to Pacific Amelia Earhart and her $80,000 "Flying Laboratory" were sought in the Pacific Ocean today, after she apparently missed Howland i Island, two mile spit of land in mid-Pacific, and ran out of gasoline on the 'worst section 1 of her "just for fun' flight around the equator. Above is shown her plane at beginning of her world girdling trip. Below she is shown framed in the plane's nose as she visited the Burhank, factory where it was being completed Radio Amateurs Hear Amelia's Distress Calls Search Goes on in Pacific For Woman World Girdler LOS ANGELES, July 3 UPt Faint distress signals in voice front Amelia Earhart were nicked up by two amateur radio operators at 8:42 a.

m. central standards time today. each repeated times, were heard at 6:42 by aJ ter McMenaroy and. Gart- Pierson over their powerful receiver. The call letters were repeated three more times at 7 a.

m. "I recognized Miss Earhart's voice from conversations I have had with her, although I never have heard her on the air before," said Pierson. "Walter rerognfzed ker because he maintained wireless contact with her plane on her flight from Oakland to Hawaii this spring." Sleepy-eyed, the amateurs, who Have heard Miss Earhart's signals throughout the night, said they would remain by their set as long as the signals continue. By THE ASSOCIATED PBESS HONOLULU, July 3 signals signed with the call letters of Amelia Earhart's monoplane flashed over the Pacific today in the midst of a feverish sea and sky hunt for the famed avia- tjrix missing in equatorial waters surrounding tiny Howland Island. Amateur radio operators in Los Angeles hoard repeated calls of shortly before a.

Pacific lime, 3:30 a. central standard time. This was more than 14 hours after the in- tiepid flyer said her gasoline supply would last but 30- minutes on her flight from distant New Guinea. The amateurs, Walter Momc- namy and Carl Pierson, said the signals were so weak (hoy could hardly hear them through dense static, and thai, once when they caught the letters "L-A-T" for lati- ture, the signals were blotted out by interference. The operators said they also picked up a faint Continued on page 2.

BasqueOffieials End Last Stand In Home Land Britain, France, Russia Seek Support for Spanish Patrol Plan Tells Nazi Plot to Kill JfC 9ff Jp Soviet Press Renews Anti-Church Campaign Communist Leader 3. Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh landed here at 7 p. m. In.si night after a flight from England.

He wan met by ft private automobile and left for an unspecified destination MOSCOW, July 3, Secret Police Chief Leonid Zakov- sky recounted today an elaborate plan to kill Georgi Dimiiroff. secretary general of the Communist International, alleging that the plan svas plotted in 1936 at the orders oi secret police. Dimitroff was to have been killed Leningrad, Zakovsky sai'd in a rther elaboration of asserted spy tivity in the Soviet Union. YM- kovsky disclosed yesterday thai more than 120 accused spies had boon arrested and move than TO (liquidation usuallj meaning execution). Writing In the Communist youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya 1'ra- Zukovsky charged also tlml (lit clergy in White Russia out an important e.spioii- role on behalf of Poland and s.id a restaurateur recently had liocn executed after he confessed to poison air force officers allegedly at the instruction of Polish intelligence agents.

Russia's official press began a new clrivo against religion, disclosing the arrest of a number of priests and ministers in Siberia and charging that churches are in league with Fascism and capitalism In preparing for wars. The Khabarovsk, newspaper, Pacific Star, which recently disclosed the execution ol 131 alleged plotters, said that arrested priests and ministers at Vladivostok already had been "condemned." Among those arrested, the pupei siiid, were a LuUionin minister nunied Keichvnld and two priests of St. Tikhons Church named Orloft and Cheronny. The paper charged I bill the clue- ics were spies who "actively pared plots against SiM'k'l officials "lid party ropre.si.'iilfilivi'.s." A number of members of con- Sregatlons also were reported under Arrest BAYONNE, France, July 3 iff Basque government officials here announced today that President Jose Antonio De Aguirre and the remnants of his army had abandoned their last stand in Basque territory of northern Spain, The president, fleeing with his forces, made a protest to the world against what he termed "plundering of which we, the Basques, have been made victims in the twentieth century." Aguirre's statement, given out by a spokesman here, said "Our territory has been conquered," but that "The Basque government, wherever it is, remains the legitimate government of the Basques, interpreting the feelings of a race which has not been conquered." Aguirre's statement said he had reached the boundary of the Bascue provinces. The president expressed "indignation" Hint, he and his men were forced to give up their fatherland, and said that feeling was "still greater because in order to take the fatherland from us, tho Spanish Fascists were forced to call In mercenary and Italians." JJrjrct (irrtmin IVoposc.s LONDON, July 3 France, and Russia virtually standing as allies against Italy and Germany in the Spanish war crisis further support today among the 27 nations represented in (lie neutrality system.

Firm in their rejection of Italo- Germiui counter proposals to the Anglo-French naval patrol scheme, envoys of the three powers hoped to line up other nations behind tlxem in preparation for a showdown next week. In cold rebuff to a plan that French and British 'warships extend their zones to fill tho patrol gap on the Spanish government coast loft hy withdrawal of Italian and Gorman warships last tho Homo ami Berlin representatives demanded the whole rmvul (minil he abandoned and belligerent rights granted to both government, and insurgent forces in Spain. Thus, fivo hours of deliberation at I ho Foreign office yesterday umk'd in complete deadlock, and (he communique then issued by the directing sub-commiUeo bring considered today by the 27 members of the full committee, licnding a "full dress" session next Kdcii Wiirns Italy, Germany COUUHTON, Warwickshire, England, Sooro- inry Anthony Eden warned today thai Hnfain is determined "to nmmiiiin the territorial integrity nl Spain, "in an address apparently (minted toward Germany and Ituly. Wife of Lost Plane's Guide Collapses OAKLAND, July 3, Mrs. Fred Noonan, wHe of the navigator of- Amelia Earhart's missing became hysterical today and was placed under care of a physician at her home.

Mrs. Noonan was in an automo bile going to the Oakland Airport with a friend to confer with George Palmer Putnam, Miss Earhart's husband, when she collapsed. "Almost Insurmountable" WASHINGTON, July 3, Charles Horner, president of the National Aeronautical Association, said today the association felt Amelia Earhart faced almost insurmountable difficulties on the latter stages of her round-the- world flgihl. Asked if he felt the flight was "foolhardy," Horner said it would be "awfully painful to say a thing like that in face of such tremendously courageous attempt "I have only praise for Miss Earhart's attempt to make this flight," he said. "In speaking for I fee) that the last part of her flight was extremely difficult, even more difficult in some ways than the recent nonstop flight of the Russian aviators." He described Howland Island, where Miss Earhart expected to Janci yesterday, as an "almost impossible spot to find from the air." Rain Postpones Vandy Cup Race WESTBURY, July 3, The second animal Vanderbllt Cup race, scheduled at Roosevelt raceway here today, was postponed because of rain.

Ford Denies Charges; CIO Ousts Hall Lewis Leader for Ohio Begins 'Purge' of Ranks Reds Admit They Aided Gov. Murphy 'Deplores' Communist Acts in Strikes DETROIT, July 3, The Ford Motor in a formal answer to charges of the National Labor Relations Board that It had violated the Wagner Act, challenged the board's authority today. The complaint, the company said, should be dismissed "because the NLRB has not authority to regulate relations between employer and employees engaged in local production." The answer, signed by Harry Bennett, personnel director ot the Ford Company, denied all allegations contained In the complaint issued by the board last Saturday following charges by the United Automobile Workers Union. A hearing before a trial examiner is scheduled for next Tuesday, BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YOUNGSTOWN, July CIO "purge" began today as the union's axe fell on Gus Hall and two other strike captains in the Mahoning Valley steel sector. John Owens, general CIO strike director In Ohio, announced without comment the removal of Hall, now in jail under charges of "heading a "dynamite as strike captain in the Warren area.

A joint leadership of Harry Wines and John Grajcier replaced him. Owens also stripped two of his Youngstown strike lieutenants of their authority, removing Bob Burke, chief organizer at the Republic Steel plant, and John Stevenson, organizer at the main plant of the Youngstown Sheel Tube Co. Communist participation in the' strike was claimed in distributed through the valley, today. In the circulars' Paul-Bart, "Mahoning Valley secretary'of the Communist party," said: "Of course the Communist party and its members in the steel mill! participated in the drive to organize steel and all other unorganized industries. The Communist party joins with forces in the struggle against reactionaries, open shop violence and Fascism." Philip Murray, chairman ol SWOC (the CIO steel affiliate which called the strike May 27) said at Pittsburgh he "knew nothing about" the removal of UM Ohio strike leaders.

Owens' "housecleaning" order was issued only a few hours after another chieftain of the CIO Martin, head of the Automobile Workers removed three union organizers at Flint and transferred a Detroit organizer from his post, The action, he explained, was "disciplinary" and followed Martin's investigation ol several unauthorized strikes at General Motors plants. Governor Grank Murphy deplored Communist activities when, at Lansing yesterday, he said that a recent "labor holiday" in the Michigan capital "had the characteristics of Communistic technique." Arrangements for three strike rallies in Ohio and Pennsylvania tomorrow wore completed by Regional Director Owens. At Johnstown, where Bethlehem Steel's Cambria works arc, a rally of strikers and miners from the Continued on page 2. Senate May Strip Wage-Hour Board Of Much Discretionary Power Object to Allowing Body to Decide Where Collective Bargaining Is Effective WASHINGTON. July 3, Mcmhers ol the Senate labor committee reported today a tentative agreement to strip Irom the wage mid hour bill much of the dis- CTotioimry power given a proposed labor standards board.

Definite limits would be fixed, members said, beyond which the bonrd could not go in establishing minimum wages and maximum hours. Another amendment would eliminate power of the bonrd to establish "fair" labor standards above the basic "non-oppressive" Cliinrmiui Hlack Alu- Imnui, mid no final action li-ul boon lakrn. Tin 1 aiiK'iulmentu would revise sections 4 and 5 of the iill, doM-ribeti by committee members us i lie only ones over which orc luis boon serious controversy. Must ol the representatives ot nilu.itry who testified during hour- inv.s i-itid these sections too Hindi (lower to administrative lioiinl. labor groups joined with them in crticizing section 5 because it would permit the board to determine where collective Raining was elfective and it would give the board power to fix wages higher than those determined to be "non-oppressive," Committee members said their discussion centered on placing the lowest minimum wage at from $10 to $12 a week and tho highest minimum at some point above 40 cents an hour.

The maximum work week, they said, might range between 30 and -18 hours. Meanwhile Senate investigators begun to sift a mass of conflicting testimony about the bloody Memorial Day battle at Chicago between police and stool strike demonstrators. No Issue of the. Telegraph Monday. Kollmving a long established custom, the Tojogruph will not public mrxi Monday, July 5, the iltiy on which the Fourth ol July will be observed..