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THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE THURSDAY, 'APRIL 3. 1911 12 Strike Imminent At the State House Four Die in Fire Near Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, April 3 (AP)-Four members of a family of seven perished early today in a fire that destroyed their four-room, two story frame home in suburban West Manayunk, The victims were Charles Mer nuuuuiium jl uiilu at Birth Control Hearing js 5 it 1 t. '4ff i tJr If. ty' StyP'ft: ur 7 '-s fAV 7 4 I ryx nI man 63; his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Esie Merman, 28, and her two children, Betty Merman, 4.

and 4-montha-old Charles Merman 3d. The crackle of flames awakened the children's father. Charles Merman who rescued his elderly mother, wife of Charles and another son. Jack, 3, before the roaring flames drove him from Jhe dwelling. All were asleep when the blaze started.

Cause of the fire was not immediately determined. GLOBE DISPLAY ADVTS GLOBE WANTS READ THEM TODAY Complications First Little Girl-I have two brothers and one sister. becond Little Girl I have two sisters and one brother. Third Little Girl I have no brothers and no sisters but I have two papas by my first mama and three mamas by my second papa. Stray Stories.

i FISTS FLY OUTSIDE FORD PLANT- An early morninsr outbreak of violence outside the Ford River Rouge plant at Detroit saw this man shield himself with his coat from the blows of United Auto Workers strikers. The fight, confined to a few men, was of short duration. this forenoon to hear earnest de-batt before the Public Health committee on the initiative petition for legislation to authorize physicians to prescribe birth control processes to married persons for the protection of the wife's health. Opening for the proponents, at. torney Samuel Hoar for the Mothers Health Council of Massachusetts told the committee 44,000 state voters signed the petition.

If the Legislature approves it the question will eo on the 1942 state ballot li 1 Ua iioar named as euyyuneis oi uc bill pres. Karl T. uompton oi M. I. its sponsor: Dr.

Nathaniel Faxon, Massachusetts General Hospital's director: Dr. Curtis Tripp of St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, and Robert G. Dodge. Representative Theodore A.

Glynn Jr. of Roxbury early in the proceedings labeled the petition Insisting that Sarah. T. Cur-wood of Cambridge, one of the required 10 original petioners, is not a dulv Qualified voter in that city, Glynn proposed that the committee call off the meeting until it could be determined whether his claim, if it is true, does not invalidate the whole petition. Senator Joseph F.

Montminy of Lowell, committee chairman, replied: "That question is not in the province of the committee to decide it is up to the Attorney General." Glynn retorted that the Constitution gives the committee tne rigni decide in such a case. Montminy told him: "Atty. Gen. Dever, in his time, ruled that the petition is legal." Chairman Montminy assured Glynn the opposition will have time to put in its case equal 1o that given proponents, but he did stop the proponents long enough to permit 20 legislators to record themselves as opposed. The understanding was that Cardinal O'Connell will be recorded as strongly opposed, and when recording himself in the opposing group Representative Paul McCarthy of Somcrville said that if the petition becomes law "it would be a blow to Christianity." Mr.

Hoar, leading for the proponents, said: "This petition in no way seeks to open wide the sale of contraceptives. Its scope would Solvit at East Boston Shipbuilding Plant A strike by 1000 employees of the Bethlehem Steel Company'! ship. building and repair plant at East Boston was termed "imminent" today by Federal Labor Conciliator r. Frank Ward who said the company and the Industrial Union of Marin Shipbuilding Workers of America (C. I.

had failed to come to ac agreement. No action toward a strike, Vara said, would be likely until the com-pany and union officials met in cotv ference the first of next wwi Ward, who had been attempting mediation, said the company had refused tqgive ground in the discus sions. The union presented a 10-point program. Increased vacations with pay, reinstatement cf workers drafted for military erv. ice.

union recognition, and time-and-a-half pay for certain workers were included in the union demands. Mfalseheth NEWS Are you nnrouT Self SfiYin! sprinkle HOPE DENTURE POWDSR on your plate. Thla tastelett powder boldi falM teeth very much lighter. Try it. Amaxins security for nervous people.

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Rabbi Levi A. Olan of Temple Emanuel, Worcester, said the Central Conference of Rabbis is recorded as favoring such legislation. since it makes for the health of the state. Rev. C.

P. Browbridge, rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Brook-line, strongly favored the petition on that same ground. Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of the Boston Area of the Methodist Church was recorded by letter as strongly supporting the petition. Mrs.

Mary Pratt Potter of Greenfield, former president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, advocated a favorable report by the committee on the petition. Dr. William H. Robey, former president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, cited many a medical group in favor of the petition and said he reckons a substantial majority of the medical profession are for it. Rev.

Dana McL. Greeley recorded the Massachusetts Council of Churches in favor. Argument on Labor Bill On his bill to oblige workers in plants handling defense contracts to take a 60-day "cooling off" wait, Fitchburg's Democratic Senator George W. Stanton got into feverish altercation with labor's lobbyist, Kenneth I. Taylor before Joint Rules committee, and for half an hour they went to it hammer and tongs.

Stanton cried: "Only labor fakers and Reds oppose this bill! Answering him later. Taylor said "I'm the labor faker and Red that Senator Stanton talked about" and added, more sarcastically, "Call (Labor Commissioner) Jim Moriarty and ask him what he thinks of this Fascist legislation!" To Taylor's challenge that Stanton will "have to take the responsibility" if this measure is written on the statute books, Stanton kicked back: "Threats have been sent to me, but I fear not the thrust that comes. I am a veteran (of World War I), and I remember when we declared war in 1917. We had a real bunch of Americans than, and wooden guns. I don't want that to happen again, and my bill seeks to prevent it.

Let's forget the labor stuff and get defense production going to we won't have a lot of white crosses like those now in Flanders." Said Taylor: "There is no one in the labor movement who is reddish about this matter. No one wants to retard defense production there are plenty of labor men still who will have to use guns later. If you want trouble," he told the committee, "follow this poorly laid plan. If you don't, let's continue the arbi-trative methods that have proved so successful through the years here." 34 Old Age Bills "Old folks can't live on bricks, stone, mortar or wood!" Senator Joseph B. Harrington of Essex told Pensions committee this forenoon, as it tackled hopefully a grist of 34 bills aiming to liberalize the Old Age Assistance act as they relate to elderly folk with self-supporting children or who possess real estate or insurance policies.

Harrington was speaking for a bill that would raise the level cf exemption of realty in such cases to $5000, in place of the present $3000 ceiling. "Yes. sirs," said Harrington, "an old-timer holding equity in real estate at the $5000 figure can be just as hungry for food as one who holds only the lesser total." Representative John E. Powers of South Boston, employed in Boston's Municipal Old Age Assistance Bureau, argued for his bill that would make eligible to aid persons who have in recent years taken out "$500 personal insurance policies." Now, these have to be lapsed by the applicant, before aid can be given. Camp Edwards Police State and military police will jointly use the new state police barracks at Camp Edwards, which opens on Wednesday, Public Safety Commissioner Eugene McSweeney told Ways and Means committee this forenoon, explaining this item in his budget.

"A new two-way radio has been installed, and upon call a state trooper and a military policeman will both proceed to the scene, ready to handle either the case of a soldier or a civilian," he said. Ten troopers are assigned there. Incidental Intelligence: One of the elevator doors on the second floor of the Equitable Building, 120 Broadway, is marked "Express to Ground Floor." Stray Stories. By EDWIN T. COLLINS Gardner Auditorium' 800 seats were occupied and scorei more of men and women stood in the titles OFFICIAL PIANO METROPOLITAN OPERA A fci -A I wrfcs: "There is a richness and limpid beauty of tone ia the Knabe that compels admiration." KNABE Baby Grands are priced from '595 SPINETS from $395 EASY TERMS JA.Steinertbni JEAOMS F.

MUnPHY. rfeltr.t 1 112 EOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON AIM WORCESTER 4 SPRINGFIELD JfBL r.nfl Ol Sketch enlnroH (IT Tl 1 jy 1 i i "Some Progress" Reported in Coal Negotiations NEW YORK, April 3 (AP) "Some progress" toward a peaceful settlement of the work stoppage in the nation's soft coal industry, was reported today by a Federal conciliator. As union-operator negotiations recessed last midnight until II a. m. today, chief United States conciliator John R.

Steelman still clung to his belief that some sort of compromise, even if temporary, would send 400,000 miners back to their jobs. Steelman's declaration followed an eventful day in the chaotic bituminous situation: The death toll in 1940 WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR WAS NOW ONLY Ask Nonstrikers Not to Reopen Allis-Chalmers MILWAUKEE, April 3 (AP) Officials of the strike-bound Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, and Sheriff J. J. Shinners. saying they were prompted by a desire to prevent disorder, today requested a group of nonstrikers to call off plans to attempt reopening of the factory by force.

The request followed notice served by 200 employees that they would use force, if necessary, to return to their jobs in the factory tomorrow morning. They had asked the sheriff for deputization so that they could bear arms. Countering this, a spokesman for the C. I. O.

county council reported C. I. O. men throughout the county would declare a holiday in the community's numerous industrial concerns and demonstrate at the Allis-Chalmers gates. The 72-day-old strike marked by rioting in which 49 persons were injured, was turned over to the National Defense Mediation Board earlier in the day.

Mediation Board Sets Date for Allis-Chalmers Hearing, WASHINGTON, April 3 (UP) Chairman Clarence A. Dykstra of the Defense Mediation Board today asked officials of the Allis-Chalmers Company and representatives of strikers at the company's Milwaukee plant to meet with the board here at 10 a. m. Saturday. In a telegram to Max W.

Babs, president of the company, Dykstra said that he was eager to expedite settlement of the violent strike which has closed down the Milwaukee plant for 71 days and affected $45,000,000 in defense orders. It's Pay Day or Ford Strikers DEARBORN, April 3 (UPf It was pay day today for strikers at the Ford Motor Company. The company announced that payroll clerks were attempting to ar-range payment of all employees including those on strike at the River Rouge works. They said a pay booth would be set up outside the gates or checks mailed to homes. Approximately $3,000,000 in pay to non-salaried workers came due umouni elected or i simp Aeeou Jji 1876 ARCH Street.

SUMMER McCormack Continued from the First Page Chairman May of Kentucky told newsmen the committee would call as its first witness Clarence A. Dykstra, chairman of the new National Defense Mediation Board; William S. Knudsen, defense pro duction chief and his associate, Sidney Hillman and Secretary Perkins. A few minutes later, Kepresenta- tive Faddis of Pennsylvania, a member of the committee, told the House the question of defense strikes would be given prompt attention. May promised "the best damn investigation the House has ever had." Representative Vinson said after a White House call that he had discussed with Mr.

Roosevelt the House-approved investigations of the general defense situation. He said the House Naval commit tee, of which he is chairman, would meet April 15, upon completion of the House 10-day recess, to start its end of the inquiry. In response to questions, May said the Military committee would look into "everything where we've dug up anything that seems to merit further study." He said the Army's acquisition of land for a new TNT plant near Weldon Springs, and its subsequent action of starting con demnation suits for some of the land already optioned would be one of the topics. May's and Vinson's committees were given broad powers by the House yesterday, by a vote of 324 to 1, to investigate the defense pro gram. They are empowered to subpeona witnesses.

Taber started the House floor dis cursion on strikes by saying there naa Deen neiter-sKeiter Adminis tration of the defense "program by me president. "It's time for the President to be gin cooperating with the defense program," he shouted. "He's laid down on the job long enough." McCormack declared that the statement that the President had not cooperated was "inconsistent with the facts or the record. If there was ever a man who was leader of the defense program it is ranKiin D. Roosevelt," he cried.

jvicuormacK remarKea at one point that the House Judiciary committee was studying the possi bility of recommending strike legis lation, whereupon Cox interrupted: Yes. out Kome Burns while we fiddle." The majority leader retorted that sharp reaction is not going to meet tne proDiem. "We've got to legislate. If neces sary, to meet those forces in labor that are disorganizing the nation," McCormack said. But he warned that attacks should not be directed against all of labor, asserting that the Government should concern itself with countering the "subversive aims" of a small group.

McCormack said later off the floor that he was expressing only his per-sonal opinion when he predicts that the President would "speak out" McCormack added that he had no knowledge of any action the President might be contemplating. Senator Byrd read to the Senate a telegram from Secretary Perkins saying that she had held un rertifl- cation of the protracted Allis-Chalm- ers strike to the Defense Mediation Board because another branch of the Government was making efforts to settle the dispute. She was prepared, her message said, to certify the Milwaukee strike to the board March 26 but then was advised that Knudsen, O. P. M.

director, and Secretary Knox had advised employers to reopen the plant. The labor secretary certified the dispute to the Mediation Board last night Byrd had contended she had been "exceedingly derelict in the performance of her duty" in failing to act sooner. WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) Gus Kaknis, Winchester restaurateur, and his wife have 14 relatives in the Army and Navy of Greece. DUMBBELLS Registered U.

S. Patent Office, I UAMTTO BUY TEM THOU 6 AMP COCKRCAQkE.4 AT ONCE 1M MOVfMG OUT AM MV 6AY6 I MU6T L6AVE THa Tne WAE CONPiTlOU IN UJHICH fOUhiV thm: r-i mmm mm mmi) ot HarlanJ County, clashes rose to five; John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America (C. I. declared the union would not permit the dispute's being taken before the National Defense Mediation Board, and the Government itself acted to "freeze" bituminous prices at the March 28 levels.

Ford Strike Continued from the First Page Coincident with the Governor's announcement James F. Dewey, ace mediator for the automobile industry, left his downtown hotel headquarters for a personal inspection of the situation at the factory. He said he hoped to meet with Ford officials and get a start on the conference which was postponed this morning after renewed fighting, in which a time keeper seeking to enter the plant gates was severely beaten, one man reported a knife wound in the abdomen and other clashes occurred. Dewey prior to his departure for the Rouge plant said he hoped to have the company representatives back at the downtown hotel he has made his headquarters at 2:30 p. m.

in order to start the mediation conference. Oscar G. Olander, Commissioner of State Police, some 300 of whose men have been dispatched to the factory, said that when the union's picket pass system is placed in effect the company would designate what employees it required within the plant and that he would find the passes. The outbeaks of violence at the factory came after a quiet night. Four Negroes in an automobile were beaten severely by union pickets who chased them nearly a mile from the main plant gate, and three of the pickets were struck down as a car following the Negroes' machine ploughed through the fighting group at a speed which witnesses estimated as 40 miles an hour.

The clash occurred in heavy traf fic on Dix road, a block east of Miller road, along which the world's largest industrial plant stretches for a mile. Three of the Negroes, whose car was overturned, fled; the other was picked up by unionists and taken to a hospital. The car that struck the group of fighters sped away without slackening speed. A heavy-set picket about 50 years old reported he was stabbed in the stomach during the fracas. Further conferences on a Federal mediator's "plan of settlement" had been scheduled this forenoon, but shortly before that hour Van Wagoner announced it would be postponed until State Police and union leaders ironed out details of passing nonproduction workers through the picket lines.

United Automobile Workers (C. I. pickets were in evidence at all gates of the company, but there was no barricading of streets in the area, a means by which strikers kept employees from approaching the plant yesterday. state police said todav the union had agreed to permit construction workers employed by sub-contrac- tors on an aircraft encin faetnrv being constructed within the Rouge plant to reach their jobs. In this engine plant initial production on a defense order for Pratt and Whitney airDlane entrines is KrhArinlol for sometime in June.

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