The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 1

Volume 68 No. 36 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Monday, Juue 13, 1939. 23 Pagea-Five Cents 17 Tf Tl nteiii TOM RaiHJnions Now Solid For Boosts CLEVELAND, Ohio (UPH-The Geneva akof Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Enginemen served notice today it would seek 14 per cent pay boost for. its 90.000 members employed by the nation's rail A roads. H.

E. Gilbert, president of BLF IE. said notices already have been served on individual rail roads. BLFftE was the last of five 1 ADies Set To Postpone Recess Move GENEVA (UPI) The United States and France were reported to haveyielded today to British nrMcilpft nrtt in Krwatr Aff Vi unions representing railroad em ESSg, 3 giree To Study GENEVA (AP) The United StatesBnlam and the Soviet Union agreed today to a three-power scientific study of the problem of detecting- high-altitudeuuclear explosions. ployes to serve its wage demands.

Earlier, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen said it would seek a 14 per cent nav boost and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen; Order of A communique issued after a 50-minute meeting ofv lEast-west neeotiations while a Railway Conductors and Switchmen's Union, announced they the nuclear-test "suspension conference said ultimatum stiiLnerils West would request. 12 per cent in creases. Contracts covering work rules and wles for more than 800.000 Tbe'xWestern powers had been reportecTady to ask for a recess in theNJeadlocked" talks but Britain pressedvjhe West to give the East-West meeting "another chance at making venough progress to warrant a summit meeting. X. railroad employes represented by the five unions expire Nov.

Escalator Boa us Tee The official said the union also British and Soviet scientists would meet in Geneva June 22 to go into this problem and report back to the conference by June 29. High-altitude blasts represent one of the major unresolved problems in establishing an effective control system to police a ban on atomic and hydrogen weapon explosions. The other major problem has to do with underground blasts. The high-altitude study was proposed a week ago JxjrAmbassador James JWadsworth, head of the American delegation. ATLAS TRACKER i tested in the opened berth at right, one of three test berths in this GE ordnance department plant in Hancock The walls and roofs of the berths are removed Kith cranes to permit testing.

Removal takes 12 men 48 hours. wanted cost-of-living bonuses ad- aea vo iiie oase raies: revision oi CaUnet Instructs Lloyd the cost-of-living escalator clause and, increases in daily guaran British Foreign Secretary Sel- HouseHears wyn- Lloyd receivedinstructions tees." Gilbert -said the -union wanted GE Hancocli PlaiijiAssemhles, Tests Atlas Missile Tracker $26 daily guarantee for engineers) in road service and $23 for fire-j from the British cabinet to make a final effort to save the conference but without yielding on Berlin. Lloyd, in an airport statement in admitted the talks "cannot be indefinitely protract- Democrat Urge men in road service. Educational Freedom "The productivity of rail work Full Aid Sum ers, coupled with technological w-k 1 "Tk T7" 1 improvements in the industry Arl Mralla "111 011 1 0 have entitled the workers to a JLACtl 1 U11LC 111 IvCl did fair share of mounting and sig-! nificant profit figures in the in-; Gilbert said. i Kill 2 School Pickets By THOMAS O- MOBTOX fof three huge test berths in the plant.

The berths are constructed jnurfcun of secrecy that has lt and covered operations at the General or the tests. -conditioned radome and ready today when the company disclosed tect-berth roof weieh-that the facility is used to ui- ing 8.000 pounds, and the walls. Chairman Morgan Warns of Loss set another first in its Atlas tracker program. As the project reached the prototype design stage, the department organized what it bills as "the most intensive value analysis program ever conducted within the company on a complete product." THarry Martin, manager of Value analysis for the department, headed this program, known as "Operation Checkrein." Its aim was to Haaceck GE Coatianrd oa 15th Page AP from 1'PI and Of Cold War From AP aad UPI WASHINGTON'- The House was Secretary of State Christian A. Herter paid a surprise call today on French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville at the Frenchman's villa while waiting the arrival of Lloyd.

Until today's developments the Allies were reported ready to re- cess the talks for four weeks or. more should Russia refuse yto back down on its new ultimatum to the Allies to get out of West Berlin within a year. Gromyke Put OH y' At the same time the Western NtRB Permits Union Contract 3dn. dar foV 'thf Afr Fi- atu. miJln sections measuring about 20 by NEW DELHI, India Religious educators began a massive boycott 16 feet.

It takes a 12-man Tane sile system. jand picketing action against the cautioned today against cutting foreign aid spending too sharply de crew 48 hours to remove the roof and walls from a test berth. The ordnance department also This tracker, designed, developed and produced by the ord spite instances of waste and some French Labor Voids General Strike Call PARIS (UPI) French labor unions avoided a showdown clash with President Charles de Gaulle's government on his wage freezing austerity program today. They called off a threatened general strike set for Tuesday. corruption in the program.

Communist government of Kerala state today. Red-directed police met it with gunfire and death. Police fired on a picket line at By Individual nance department, is a vital component of the Atlas radar guidance system produced for the Air 'T am sure that much more u- v-'a primary scnooi 12 mues irom WASHINGTON UPI) New Rliode Island Firm Runs Lower Elnivale Mill needs to be done to eliminate waste and improve the effectiveness of the program. Rep. Thomas E.

Morgan (D-Pa said in a speech prepared for the opening foreign ministers postponed their secret meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko tonal Labor Relations Boa 'triyandrum, Kerala's capital. killing two persons. ruled today that an individual le Force by the GE defense systems department. The tracker functions like a well-behaved back-seat driver giving advice only when that advice is needed. Week-end battles between police of debate.

4 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. today to, give them time to consult on the latest developments. and anti-Communists in other But he added at another areas had left five dead and The Atlas is designed to deliver) Vale Spinning a newly nuclear warheads to targets up to; formed Rhode Island corporation, 5.500 mijes distant. Like any others has Jeased the tower mill of the ballistic missile.

Atlas is powered, former Elm vale Worsted Co. here only during- the" first few minutes; and started operations today with a "I am absolutely convinced that if we eliminate or drastically curtail the mutual security program, the loss of the cold war will be New MIT Head Will Stress Social Values gally chosen to represent workers i could negotiate a contract forcing! them to pay dues to him to keep their jobs. The board split three ways in its decision that such an individual representative is a "labor organization" under terms of the Taft-Hartley Act. -t It laid down a new requirement that such "one-man unions' now must file financial statements and non-Communist affidavits to obtain NLRB services. The board said that a "cer skeleton force scores wounded.

7.9M Schools lavolved Religious educators mostly Roman Catholics and Nair Hindus-refused to reopen 7,000 privately run schools at the end of the summer vacation today jn protest against the Communist state government's attempts to seize con of flight. Where it lands depends! Morgan is chairman of the House Forqjgn Affairs which recommended authorizing J3.642.600.000 of new money for The East-West conference entered its sixth-week: today with Western delegates convinced that only a major concession by, the Russians on Berlin could prevent collapse of the talks. Acting" Secretary of. State Douglas Dillon said, in Washing-ton Sunday the United States and the other Western powers were "ready and willing" to continue the talks as long as there is some chance of -But he said there was no point in talking indefinitely. Vale has leased the plant from Textile Properties Trust, a Massachusetts business trust headed by Howard N.

Feist Jr. of Wellesley. Textile Properties 10 days ago pur upon bow it guided or steered; during those minutes. What Um Tracker The Pittsfield-made Atlas tracker follows the missile during the CAMBRIDGE. Mass.

(UPI) Julius" A. Stratum, new presi- the aid program next year. ident ef Massachusetts of trol of education. To many House members, this. chased the Elmvale Tirket lines were thrown ail today the school is far too much for a program they contend is producing more tified individual may enter into i i i imust acceDt new rnles antrnnm.

Worsted Co. dye works and leased the Elmvale lower and upper mills. Raymond J. Stenson. 64.

of vice president of Vale Spinning said the new firm plans to operate the 6,000 spindles in the lower mill. Vale purchased the machinery in the plant. Mr. Stenson said employment at the lower mill under the Vale management could peak at about J00. Dye House Operating Vale Spinning Co.

will have at least "part of its dye operation done at the former Elmvale dye house. Walter N. Cooper, manager of the dye works for Textile Properties, said a small crew of about 12 men are currently operating the dye house. He said the dye house employment could go up to about 50. Mr.

Stenson said Vale will oper ate the local mill as a fine spinning commission house for the weaving inrAt ll. KIWUIS IUM UBTl bvK SUi iKiiiiiiiiRs ia ananr itcait rm enemies than friends and is get ting no results. To others, it is employers This type of agreement requires workers to become ing iiolence wre expected; of a changing epoch. Mor than 400 anti-ConHnunists I Strton. invested by his prede- too little for an undertaking they cessor Dr.

James R. Killian Jr. insist has effectively curbed tbeSmmbere organizanon ith- spread of communism and has period after they Ike May Take His Program Before Nation Typical Babj-Sitter already were, in jafl, including 137 Roman Catholic students seized shored up the defenses of the free a if I. t. t- 1: t.

Picked To Show Reds at ceremonies today, said the school would, direct its efforts toward three areas to improve the overall education of its students. Stratton said MIT must first. WORCESTER, Mass. (VPl)y world iconiraci is in cneci. joy ponce ax ai.

ossepii President Eisenhower asked fori Although it is, rarely done, em-(High ScfcW in Trivandrum more than the can rchoof mittee recommended. but the f(f under iril I.terveatioa Aim A Worcester girl win represent strive to develop more effectively i ifv jn i The board's ruling came in a The 'opposition strategy to the creative, imaginative and con-case involving the Grand Union 'paralyze the state government so strucjive powers of the student; the typical American baby sitter in Moscow for three months. Louise Walker Jennison, 19, who will be a junior at Vassar College and its warehouse employes! Prime Minister Nehru's regime senajy. enng aoout a more pro- powered phase of its flight, reporting its exact position to the; guidance system computers and transmitting guidance signals to the missile flight controls to set it on a trajectory that will carry it during its free ballistic flight to the target. As might be imagined, accuracy is a must in aJI phases of the Atlas manufacturing program.

For instance, an error of only one de-tree in launching the missile would cause the warhead to miss the target by about 100 miles. In making the 11-ton tracker, mechanical tolerances ranging to 50-millionths of an inch 60 times finer than the average human hair are adhered to. Ordnance department manufacturing engineers broke virgin ground in their efforts to provide, these delicate tolerances usually associated with fine watches or instruments. Power Drive a Geariess They developed a unique gear-less power drive which assures smooth tracking at the extremely low rates of rotation required to trade. "I am extremely pleased with the existing facilities in the plant." said Mr.

Stenson. "and Xew Delhi would be forced to take ductive integration of the humani-i in waterford, w.Y. next fall, was. picked by Mr, and over the state administration. That scierrces wim me Mrs.

John Jacobs of Arlington. physical sciences and engineering even more impressed with the at House is in no mood to increase! the committee figures and might even cut them further. Advice Be Hardbolled The Pennsylvania Democrat urged economy minded House members to be "hard-bailed ami realistic" about the danger of Communism in considering -the legislation. "This bill provides the means could be done legally under Va, the couple themselves chosen Jet Beats Angels and thirdly, endeavor to impart stituttonal provision applying when WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower is considering going directly to the people in a personal campaign to ge action by Congress on some of his major legislative This was revealed today by Republican National Chairman Thruston B. Morton after a White House conference with the President.

Morton, a Republican senator from Kentucky, said he also believes the President will play an titude of Pittsfield workers. There is a great demand at the present to the students a better under -there is a breakdown of law and standing of the professional estate time for fine yarns and I look for ward to many years of pleasant by the state department to occupy an American home in an exhibit in Moscow. Miss Jennison said she was "very thrilled" at the prospect of spending the summer in So and of thhe values that it implies. Dr. Killian.

who recently re CHICAGO (UPI) MrsN Ipttie Kinchner, 71. said she'd made a reservation for a jet plane-flight to the West Coast because: "I thought I'd like to use man-made working conditions and production in this charming community. signed his post as science adviser; with which we carry on the cold wings once before I get my own." viet capital. war. be reminded them.

A new election wouia men be ordered. The Communists won control of the Kerala State government with 33 per cent of votes in the general elections of March. 1337. E. M.

S. Nambudiripad -becametne state's chief minister with the aid of five independents. His term is not up until to President Eisenhower, is now chairman of the MIT fcorpora- tion.j Other officers of Vale Spinning Co. are Lydon Murray of Be Bingham, president; James aggressive role in the 1960 presi Murray of BeOingham. treasurer.

Jacobs, given the opportunity of choosing a typical babysitter, wrote to the deans of lead- ing women's colleges, asking them to nominate, an under graduate with suitable qualifications. dential campaign to the limit that his duties as Chief Executive will permit Fljing Ph)icians and Miss Jeanne Webber of Woon-socket, R.I., secretary. Judge Irving I. Zimmerman of Woon- 44 Furlouglied ior a Day After Walking OH GE Jobs follow the Atlas missile- at long GREAT FALLS. Mont (AP) Morton volunteered after bis range.

This power drive enables ajfr with Eisenhower that th represented the new Rhode trarkrr In orvrate smonthiv t- firm in th. ntinnc Island firm in the negotiations. Forty small planes carrying about President is thinking of going di lfflhvMciansa "SteasoaT From the college selections. Ja-cobs and fcis'ifepicked Miss Jen-, nison. Jacobs is an editor for the United States Information Service, I U.

"The dispute Involves a'linion re quest for a time study on a specific left here today for Alaska in a Imperceptible to the eye. To determine whether certain Mr. Stenson, a native of Ireland maj-f flight demonstrating the mo core job. The union maintains that rectly to the people making one or two major speeches outside of Washington on behalf of his legislative program. "We may be in trouble on the and a veteran of almost a half natural phenomena would have to FamUy Plotted Confinement century in the textile manufactur bility of the flying doctor.

They are members of the Flying Physicians Assn. JUAB tfCtUURUII CI (lie: VIWI'9 will leave for Moscow by plane tomorrow from 'New York. the incentive rates established for the job are low. "The company." said Mr. Meli- ing field, will serve as manager of mutual security --(foreign aid) billtthe Vale operation here.

He will. be taken into consideration in the tracker's design, GE- engineers had to conduct many unusual investigations, including, for example, the varying gravitational influences of rGeneral Electric Co. today ordered one-day disciplinary fur-toughs for 44 employes who left their jobs this morning as the result of an unresolved grievance over establishment of incentive rates for core builders in the power transformer department. Arthur G. Melikan.

manager of union relations for GE in Pittsfield, said eight day-shift core builders were sent home this morning after they refused to do assigned 'work however, continue to live in Cov sifirjbreqted in a written grievance. The tu bnw now has demanded verbally irat a ay Hghting to- re- A.ti- i ikMsed from the mental hospital Fire on Atlantic Cable Ship Forces 98 to Abandon II er the moon on leveling bubbles. The tracker is designed for a fixed installation where it can be or" the House may get stuck on the labor Morton said. "He may have to exert some pressure in these areas." The chairman said the President was not considering an extensive series of speeches this "It is our position." continued his family conspired to put him in. mounted on a vibration-free founda Mr.

Melikan. "that we bave ade- The court on Long's petition for a writ of habeas IHTUUUl! IU1 1 VI II I There was no word that anxme LONDON (AP) Fire raced "within their classification." After year, but possibly one major i mmn itd riewton into a bit-through a British ship laying cable quate time study data to establish equitable incentive prices on the core now in Averaging aa Hear had injured. The sea was calm. miles our in uie nuanuc cany speech on each subject He said they would be made in some city ter family wrangle. the company sent the eight men home.

36 additional employes in the core units walked off the job. today, forcing 98 persons to take Hours after the rescue the Mrs. Blanche Long, the cover- such as Detroit or, "somewhere to the lifeboats. Ocean Layer; still burning. Mr.

Melikan said this is "an il The survivors 86 crew and 12 Mr. Stenson started in the textile business in 1911 and took time out only for service in the Army during the Mexican border skirmishes and World War He started with the former Bridgeton mill in Pascoag, R.I., later went ith the Blenark plant in Woonsocket, RX. and for 19 years, was with the Uxbridge Worsted Co. in Woonsocket, where he rose from overseer to superintendent of the yarn department. He later went to the Cleveland Worsted Mills in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was assistant to the president; to the former Wyandotte Worsted Co.

mill in Fitchburg, where he was agent, and later to the Walter Marshall Spinning Corp. in Thornton, R.I., where he was superintendent. The Ofc labor relations olticiai nor's wife, late Sunday retained said the employes asking for the two Galveston attorneys to help time study currently are earning her hold the governor in John A spokesman for the Ocean owners said -radio messages legal walkout in violation of the supervisors of the cable-laying job in Pennsylvania." The 'Big Cum' I've always hoped that he might make three or four tion and housed in a radome that ran be temperature-controlled to ithin one-half degree while external temperatures range from minus 30 degrees to plus 135 degrees. Site Selected for Stability The ordnance department Atlas plant is located atop Apple Tree in Hancock, across the valley from Brodie Mountain. The site was selected because of the stability of the rock formation- on which it is based and because of fts freedom from external vibrations which might be caused bv grievance procedure" in the GE- from Capt Ross had given no an everage of $2.75 an hour, Mr.

kealy Hospital for mental Elness. -were 'tZZ Melikan called the emotove action German freighter Flavia, bound IUE contract. He said that ap-i I Drarred aad Tied I for Hambure. ntKtsntii Hamnrniinr ffer-t no! Th. h.inr i.

a Ten were American) Telephone speeches of this type; Morton said. "We like to use the big gun when we can. He's the best sales our efforts to satisfy the needs! District Judse L. D. Goddard engieers'and offi- man th Republican Party of our customers at a time when court.

It is supposed to have atSs' Ogden D. uense-our work situation was beginning! iiothine to Tdowith whether Long mfT- mayor of Summit. NJ. tn xhnur imnmvement nni hm -m cable ship, the I ne senator added that the President might make more than "With a maim nwnb tallrinpI.tK. K.

k. n. Ocean La VOTy WBS bound for trucks or trains. The 1'r-miEion-j clue to the cause of the fire. Xewfowdlaarf France Project The Ocean La-er, the second' largest cable ship, was helping to lay new Atlantic cable from Newfoundland to France.

The British Post Office vessel Monarch also is working on the project TKe Ocean Layer is a former German cargo ship taken as a prize by the British at tlv end of World War. n. It was converted into a cable ship at a cost of two out-of-town As for I960. Morton said be Since early in 1358. Mr.

Stenson about local business climate and drugged, tied hand and foot and France, stringing cable ateng the with local union officials on record brought to the hospital in Galves- when a fierce blaze as desiring improvement in our ton against his will. brokt out in the engine room. busi1f Mj elik; Theiesring also challenges Twe OterkNke4. Reced in "if ia to understand thought Eisenhower would be has been a textile consultant At several times durinz hi career he QOiiar plant went into operation in April, 1337. A radio frequency transmitter located on top of Brodie Mountain is used for electrical alignment and test of the trsckers.

For these tests, the trackers are placed in one just as aggressive as the duties of his office work nermlts. proximately 31 of the employes taking part in the walkout "are not directly involved and left without giving a reason." Third Iacldeat Today's action followed similar incidents last Thursday and Friday when both first and second-shift core builders refused work assignments. GE took no disciplinary action Thursday night when second shift workers refused the assignment, nor on Friday momingrwhen ome day-shift employes took similar action and others reported ill and went home. However, when the six-man second shift repeated the refusal Friday evening they were given a day off. They were told today1 to report 'back to work tomorrow.

The first shift crew will not be allowed back until Wednesday morning. taugnt worsted yarn manufacturing wouldn't think you woulif the Rhode Island School of De- how they can justify this kind nZ Within 15 minutes of an SOS re- 7 committed to the Lmversity of! tK- mnA bir), illegal action. i twniii iPortong the hre and asking tor r- xr nospltai. Cunt- A MarPhercnn Rrtts uie rresiaenr. on the campaign lE" rroviaence.

inin in but you could cer tainly fly him In to various plac- e. Morton said I SCAntUFFE. England. (UPI) steward of IUE Local 255. said; wl rrwase in wr radioed that he had neen torcea this morning' he was making b8' to order abandon ship, The Ocean Layer, ou-ned by tempts to contact Mrv Mel.kan Mnitv bearing scheduled forj the scramble, to get a ay; Submarine Cables Ltd.

of London, discuss the dispute. follows jTuedv ln Probate Court. jfron, the flamewrpt two, left the Irih port of Cobh to wk its usual procedure, it ill not' The fiery1. 63-year-old gmernorimen were left aboard aid for the laying of a second Atlantic meet, with the union on this griev-jhas been held in the hospiulwfcile were believed to be kist jcahlf between the United Ststet ance unUI Wednesday, heu all since he was flon here in by tookouts aboard Ute.and France. The vesel was for Morton said he does hot expect' the GOP to win control of Congress in 1960.

But he said it The sheriff of this Nottingham Jvivc-IJaj Foreraftf Temperatures through Saturday will average 2 to 6 degrees below the seasonal normal of 64 decrees. Slowly moderating tern-filatures during the week with title cr no precipitation. shire village is looking for an un- should re-elect a resident perhaps take over the House andi known merry man who has been by shattering street lights with a llvua inunlual in tka Vmit hit hnchiih flirht in a thev were taken off in almerrv. a tarSO launched 11 a thin margin." bow and a rrow. returned to work.

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