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END AT STEEL MILL
Five-Hour Pitched Battle
at Cleveland Brings Out
400 Police.
■r 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. workers 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
aeveral weeks, swelled over other sec
tions of the city. Newly-painted
houses, finished without benefit of
union approval, were sprayed with
eta in.
Windows were smashed in homes
of steel workers and operatives of
knit mills where C I. O. and A. F. L.
unions are engaged in a jurisdictional
fight.
Sporadic fighting between worker j
and striker groups through the day,
punctuated by more serious rioting
with the changing of shifts, reached
a climax last night with a five-hour
pitched battle in the valley fronting
the main entrance of the plant.
.'iioiaar unn ihcii,
Starting shortly after dark, the
fighting raged until after 1 a m., 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
p.m. At 10:30 strikers began evading
police who had been keeping back
crowds of sympathizers, and made
their way into the valley, where they
•ould 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
▼alley toward the spot where police
held back sympathizers, but turned
back.
Hundreds of women, children and
curiosity 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
S 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
John Oreeny, 45. a S W. O. C.
picket and a Republic crane operator
for 18 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 i
control when the driver ducked to
avoid a barrage of bricks. Police gave
the driver's name as William John
son. Police Sergt. Cornelius Sullivan. |
in charge of the area, said no charges
Would be filed against Johnson.
Two score persons were reported
injured yesterday afternoon and 20
more yesterday morning in clashes
between workers and pickets at changes
ef shifts.
Police said that immediately after
Oreeny was struck the steel mill
Talley wTas cleared of all but a hand
ful of pickets and the crowd was
ordered back to the top of the hill.
Six 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 in the death of Oreeny, the driver
ef the car deliberately swerved into
Oreeny while traveling at 55 miles an
hour. No stones were thrown at the
cwr, they declared. Civil action will
be brought by the union if the driver
Is cleared by police, they said.
Radio Flash Brings
Quick Capture of
Tivo 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 W'as 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
a 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 kocp your
■croont from ruiting-75c a qt.
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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
Tobacco Festival, to be held at South Boston, Va., September 2 and 3.
These girls shoto how large tobacco leaves grow in their native
State. Only two leaves are required to clothe them attractively,
and. to quote their press agent, "modestly.” They are. left to
i-right, Harriette Crews, Virginia Williams, Martha Haymes, all of
South Boston; Marian Thompson of Danville and Jean Hill of
Norfolk.
N. L. R. B. EXAMINER
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 a 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 crass examination.
The clash interrupted Dennis E.
McKinney, Ford plant foreman, who
was giving additional testimony in
tended to 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 spare?”
Colombo objected but was overruled
by Lindsay
mac a iiui sc ■ uici.
"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 bei^g 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 j
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. L. R. B. com
plaint as dismissed for union activity.
Colombo Shakes Hands.
When McKinney left the witness
stand. Knapp walked up to him and
they shook hands. Knapp then went
to Colombo and smilingly preferred
his hand, which Colombo shook.
McKinney testified Bailey and two
others employed in the Ford paint and
varnish plant at Highland Park were
discharged "because they were part of
a group who did not have the beat 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
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 unaware
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 Gulllksen that Ziek had
resigned, the latter had testified.
McKinney said that Ziek, after he
quit, was replaced by a man of only
10 or 15 per cent of Zlek’s experience
and that production then doubled.
Court
(Continued Prom First Page >
August 14. But Democratic Leader
Barkley said he still was not ready to
talk definitely of the legislative pro
gram for closing weeks or of adjourn
ment plans.
Some Senators appeared hopeful
that enactment of the court bill would
bring the session to a close.
Quirk 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 j
measure was out of the way nothing i
could hold Congress long in session. ,
Barkley would not discuss the situa- j
tion beyond the wage-hour bill, which !
he called up for debate immediately. i
Democratic chieftains in the House j
said they wanted to talk to President j
Roosevelt before fixing their program, i
They persuaded Representative Me- |
Farlane, Democrat, of Texas to delay j
filing a petition for a party caucus 1
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 year.
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.
i uc f/i wiv i^ai nuiuiuj j
Congress in session to vote on those j
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 Congress eould 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 Satuaday after an acci
dent which occurred during a trip he
was taking to Roanoke, Va., to see his
parents.
Homes and Buildings in Two
States Leveled—Maltrata
Church Among Ruins.
By thf Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, July 27.—Workmen
today picked through piles of debris
that *once were homes and public
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
Cruz, was hardest hit, with 16 dead
and more than 70 injured counted up
to last night. Many were still miss
ing.
Half the buildings of that town of
8.000 were reported leveled, including
an ancient Colonial church. Scores—
perhaps hundreds—of residents in the
area most severely affected by the
tremor were in hospitals or hastily
improvised first-aid stations.
State and federal governments mobi
lized relief forces to aid hundreds of
homeless persons. A special train,
carrying physicians and nurses,
reached Maltrata from Orizaba. 13
miles away in the mountainous coun
try around the long dormant volcano
named Orizaba.
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AVIATION CADET KILLED,
MAN IS HURT IN CRASH
Training Plane Goes Into Spin at
Low Altitude in Landing
Drill.
Br the Associated Press.
PENSACOLA. Fla, July 27—The
crash of a Navy training plane killed
an aviation cadet and badly injured an
enlisted man at the Naval Air Station
yesterday.
Cadet Arthur R. Rigler of Plainview.
Tex., died instantly when the aircraft
in which he was practicing landings
spun to the ground from low elii
tude.
Aviation Machinist Mate Ward W
Thomas of Fond du Lac. Wis., was
critically hurt. He is at the Navy
Hospital.
Rigler had been at the air station
about six months. He ia survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mr*, j. S. Rigler
of Plainview. Thomas’ wife lives
at Fond du Lae.
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VISIT INTERRUPTED
WILMINGTON, Del., July 27 i/PV—
Clarence Lindhart, 18, came all the
way from Copenhagen, Denmark, tc
see his aunt for the first time in 18
years—only to have immigration offi
cials 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 h«
was born in the State of Washington
and is an American citizen. Officials
questioned his papers.
Lindhart planned to visit his aunt
in Wilkinsburg, Pa., and other rela
tives near Pittsburgh.
II. $. STEEL BOARD
Estimates Put Earnings for
First Half of 1937
at $6 Share.
' BACKGROUND—
| “Big Steel” has paid no dividends
; on tts common stock since 1932.
Proverbially a guide to business
conditions. U. S. Steel has been
busy, made peace uith labor, built
up considerably its reserves, ac
cording to news reports.
--
Bj the A.ssocia;ed Press.
NEW YORK. July 27.—Sensing the
possibility of news which might shake
j the stock market out of its Midsummer
j quiet, Wall Street attention today was
! focused on the United States Steel
i Corp. directors' meeting which was
j due to convene after the stock mar
ket's close.
With unofficial estimates placing
j “big steel” earnings for the first 1937
j half around *6 a common share. Wall
Street was wondering whether steel
directors will clear the *1.25 arrears
i on the preferred stock and pay an ad
; ditional *1.75 preferred disbursement,
putting the senior shares back on a
regular *7 yearly basis.
Enthusiastic steel followers pre
dicted the company might also “vote
something on the common,'' and in ad
dition recommend offering of around
8.000.000 additional common shares to
; common holders at par, to finance
plant expansion.
| Conservative obserers, however, hold
the steel directorate is “too smart” tc
attempt clearing of dividend arrears
resumption of common dividends, and
expansion of capital all at one sitting.
Usually well informed quarter!
guessed the steel board at its session
Tuesday will be satisfied to clear pre
ferred arrears and put the issue on
the *7 annual basis again.
The next regular dividend meeting
will not come until the last Tuesda)
; in October, but financial circles point
out that nothing prohibits the steel
board from considering dividends at
any one of the regular monthly busi
ness meetings. Nor for that matter, at
a special meeting called for the pur
pose.
3,000,000 Free Rides.
Three million children are to b«
I given free rides on their annual visil
I to the Ise Grand Shrine In Japan.
TOWNSEND CLUB QUITS
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla , July 27
UP\.—One of the first of Florida*
Townsend clubs—the Tarpon Springs
Club No. 1—is going to return it*
charter to the Chicago headquarter*.
The approximately 500 members
voted unanimously last night to take
the action because they felt Dr. F. E
Townsend, founder of the movement,
"had abandoned general welfare work
in the interest of other matters."
Louis J. Richards, 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.
MOVE TO AD10URN
FOUGHT IN SENATE
“Young Turks” Meet To
night to Urge Passage of
Roosevelt Program.
By the Auociatea Preu.
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 Iowa, Brown of Michigan,
Johnson of Colorado and Lee of Okla
homa.
Six voted against recommitment: El
lender of Louisiana, Green of Rhode
Island, Hitchcock of South Dakota,
Hughes of Delaware. Schwartz of Wy
oming and Smathers of New Jersey.
Berry of Tennessee was recorded as
not voting.
The freshmen have acted as a unit
on several other issues
Their vote was largely behind Sen
ator La Follette. Progressive, of Wis
consin, in his recent effort to increase
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.
The term "Young Turks” was ap
plied first to a similar organization of
Republicans during the Hoover admin
1 istration. That group was led by Sen
! ators Vandenberg of Michigan and
1 Austin of Vermont to push President
Hoover's legislative program, which
1 they contended party leaders had not
backed energetically enough.
American wines may be imported
into Japan shortly.
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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 th«
Federal Reserve Board, and Mrs. Mil
ler have made an indefinite loan of the
rare paintings, according 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 the
realm of Charles I and his servicej
were much sought by the nobility.
The Corcoran Gallery's Clark collec
tion contains two fine examples of hn
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,
j "Portrait of a Young Woman." bv
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
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.
I "Portrait of a Woman,” by an un
known early master.
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