Show news review of current events the world over refusal of postal employees to deliver mail to stricken plants stirs row labor flare ups continue britain blames franco for naval blast by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union A AS S A senate committee pondered the advisability of an invests gation into the attitude of the post office department with respect to deliveries of mail to strike crippled in du dustral plants new fa incidents among em 4 players loyal em aloyes and strikers flared up on half a dozen fronts when john L lewis gai gae e the or der throwing 70 men out of work in the plants of ii icv he lie S steel t e e I 1 inland barley farley steel and the youngstown sheet and tube company hard boiled tom girdler president of the american i steel and iron institute and chair iman man of the board of the republic steel corporation kept loyal work ers housed in the republic plants in ohio and illinois so that despite the strike republic was still turning out steel in warren and niles ohio postal authorities refused to deliver parcel post packages containing food and clothing to workers inside the plants this action brought from republic a protest to postmaster general parley farley requesting that he issue orders to postmasters to see that all legally presented and post paid mail be delivered regardless of picket lines unless you see fit to comply with this request which we believe to be entirely within our legal rights the message said we shall feel compelled to take such legal steps as may be available to us in the 0 premises capitalizing on the action of local postmasters ohio pickets issued a printed ultimatum to loyal steel em aloyes four departments of the united states government are fighting on our side it said and added extra precautions will be taken throughout the next 12 hours to guarantee your safety in leaving the plant after that time your safety will be your own responsibility the four departments of the gov believed to have been re berred to are the post office labor department labor relations board and interstate commerce commis sion it was sen H styles bridges rep N H who presented the case for an investigation to the senate committee on post offices he was reported to have enlisted the support of democratic sen josiah W bailey of north carolina R T S plants continued to lv be beehives of excitement at youngstown there was a pitched battle between pickets and police after a company truck carrying food for the employed emp loyes in the plant had successfully run through the picket lines accompanied by a cor don of police As shots were ex changed one man was wounded A dozen others received cracked skulls fifty strikers many of them suffering from tear gas were taken to jail ail in chicago state s attorney court ney continued investigations of the re cent not riot in which C 1 I 0 strikers attacked police at the republic steel plant in south chicago result ing in seven deaths here also the company was housing loyal em aloyes who remained at their work in its plant mayor kelly ordered them removed on the grounds that such housing violated the city sani sam tation code republic countered b by y having pullman cars moved into int 0 its plant yards and housing the em aloyes in them the mayor ad he couldn coulden t see anything wrong in that F POUR OUR hundred C 1 I 0 power company strikers taught t the he inhabitants of the saginaw valley in michigan what it is like to feel the power of organized labor when they sat down at their jobs abs for 15 hours electricity was shut off from communities hospi atals as well as factories were with out current before an agreement was reached and the strikers went back to work it was a day s pay lost for workers whose em players plants depended on juice for life general motors employed emp loyes alone lost mayor daniel A knaggs of mon roe mich called for war vet erans as volunteer police to aid his force of 20 in preserving the peace as strikers at the newton steel company returned to work the C 1 I 0 had threatened to send 8 to 10 members from detroit to enforce the employed emp loyes demands in detroit the ford brotherhood of america inc was organized with a reported 7 members signed in two days as an answer to attempts of C 1 I 0 s united auto mobile workers union to unionize ford byrd W scott a ford ma phinist for 20 years explained the F B A was started by iny self john B mcdowell benjamin love and a number of ford em who have worked for the company from ten to twenty years the organization was formed be cause we wanted an independent labor organization not one affiliated with any national union the election returns of R READING an overwhelming democratic landslide last november charles michelson publicity director of the democratic national committee said we will regret this the great party majorities in both houses now show signs of splitting into regional and economic blocs wh which I 1 ch is exactly what he was afraid of biggest wedge in forcing t the he split among the party ranks was of course the president presidents s bill for the reorganization of the supreme court this led a long list of bills many of tl em expected to evoke heated con trover sies in congress which threat ened to postpone adjournment to mid winter indeed it was believed by some that if part of the program were not postponed this session would run continuously into the next beginning in january besides the court bill there are to be acted upon measures for the establishment of wage and hour standards for interstate industries indu the curtailment of tax dodging re organization t of the executive br branch anch of the government helping farm tenants conservation of soil water power resources and housing TS THE democratic party going 1 fascist 9 asked samuel B Pett dem dern ind on the floor of the house in upbraiding gov frank B murphy of michigan for his sponsorship of a law in that state which would authorize him to take over industrial plants and operate them when they have been closed by labor troubles let the historian note that this is the way fascism made its start in italy he said if the state takes over the factories who will fix wages then who will fix hours then after the state takes over a factory will it permit its workers to strike the state then has the op port unity of operating the plant at a profit without running up a den cit for the taxpayers to absorb will the state then permit an interruption of operations 7 As S THE american federation of 1 labor began its purge to eliminate member locals suspected of dealings with the C 1 I 0 from its membership john L lewis and his committee f for 0 r industrial tion showed signs of 4 retaliation 0 other t h e r I 1 than snorts of dis gust and derisive laughter 11 the chicago fed ON aeration of labor be dd A gan it when acting on the suggestion of john L president william lewis green it ousted 27 local unions comprising 20 to 30 members charging that they had been active in behalf of C 1 I 0 A day or so later lewis admitted in washington that his organization may enter the field of civil service the move which had been dis cussed by lewis and his associates for several weeks would be in di opposition of two established A F of L unions I 1 TN N A scorching protest to gen 1 francisco franco great britain blamed the rebel regime for the death of eight and the wounds of 24 sailors when the destroyer hun ter ran into a mine off almena almeria southern spain may 13 the protest called the affair an accad accident ent but reserved the right to claim dam ages of meanwhile rains were bogging down the rebels northern offensive against bilbao but the fascists launched a violent new offensive in the Pozo bianco sector abo about ut mid way between toledo and seville in southern spain aiming for the rich mercury mines near almaden athe STRON astronomers OMERS were treated to the feast of a lifetime in the south seas as they were permitted by almost perfect weather condi eions to photograph the longest total eclipse of the sun in 1200 1 years on canton island the united states navy and the national geographic society with eleven tons of equip I 1 p ment merit took unusual pictures and radioed a description of the mag ent scene to millions of listen ers back in the states the scholars of the american museum of natural history viewed the eclipse from an airplane 25 feet above lima peru other scientists made lations from ships in the pacific the time of the total eclipse at the various aiace of observation ranged from three and one half minutes to seven minutes it was a short show for which to travel thousands of miles with costly cumbersome equipment but measured by standards it was worth the cost and the trouble 0 ON N december 15 1936 pilot S J samson operating a western air express liner from los angeles to salt lake city with four foar gers co pilot and stewardess aboard reported by his radio to the caretaker of the airport at milford utah and asked that his position be checked his voice was never again heard now after nearly six months the wreckage of the air plane has been found high in the wasatch mountains 25 miles south east of salt lake city and 35 miles off the regular airline course so shattered was the plane that the largest single piece of debris was a part of a propeller bodies of all aboard were buried 25 to 50 feet in the drifts of snow with a rich jewelry shipment re ported to have been aboard the ship a guard was placed around the wreckage and given orders to shoot on sight until the wreck should be recovered four souvenir hunters were shot at three times ronald dyche of the national for est service who aided in the long search revealed how close the air tra travelers elers came to escaping death it if they had jut just been flying 25 feet higher he said they might have made it over the peak and possibly reached safety ERTAIN british and french news C CERTAIN papers of late have seen fit to pooh pooh the naval strength of II 11 duce in the mediterranean it is not altogether im i m possible that this de may have made adolf hitler a little uneasy about his alliance with the italians so premier mussolini i n v it e d field marshal ner von bomberg down to the blue b I 1 u e southern ocean to cee for himself 11 II duce more than 70 sub marines were massed as the feature of a mock combat off naples the grand fleet of warships sum boned for the maneuvers went through their exercises at a mini mum speed of 30 miles an hour the german registered delight continually as II 11 duce pointed out to him every phase of the sham battle italian officers boasted on ly faciso italy can mobilize so many under wate craft at a moment s notice the day before galeazzo ciano italy s foreign minister had in formed the british ambassador sir eric drummond that italy accept ed in principle all points in the british proposals to assure the s safe af e ty of international naval patrols off spam spain it was understood that the nazis had tendered the same ap the three main points of the brit ish prop proposal ocal were that both span ish belligerents be required to give formal solemn assurances that they will respect international patrol ships that safety zones for patrol ships be established at certain apeci fied fled ports of the two belligerent parties and that the four naval powers engaged in patrol duties consult each other on measures to be taken if any of their patrol ships should be attacked the italians and nazis wanted the third point to per mit any ship attacked to retaliate at once but they t insistent tt ip H HE E reich s ministry of the in tenor e bior was reported considering plans to control the utterances of roman catholic priests of germany and to regulate catholic cloisters it is believed the declaration will be that any document not pertaining entirely to church matters will be regarded as outside the concordat with the vatican and will not be p permitted er a reading from the pulpit it was reported that five cloisters involved in immorality charges will be closed and that the nazi govern ment will take over the parochial schools ten roman catholic priests were arrested as the dissection dis sention between the government and the church was fanned toa white heat culminating in several fights in munich priests replied spiritedly to charges of im morality within their ranks charges made by minister of kropa ganda goebbels in reply to a verbal attack upon the nazis by cardinal mundelein Mun delem of chicago hitler in a speech at regensburg declared it is not god who di vides us but human beings the almighty has blessed our work therefore it cannot be destroyed priests read their congregations the answer they had drafted to the immorality charges it declared that of 25 priests in germany on only 1 y 58 53 are involved in immorality charges or I 1 less than 14 of 1 per cent or one priest in every pope pius plus XI personally declared that he would continue the bitter fight for german catholics no mat ter what becomes of us I 1 TEAN JEAN HARLOW one of the most 0 glamorous characters in life to millions of americans died of poisoning in hollywood T the he impetuous actress who started the platinum blonde craze was only on I 1 Y twenty six but she had known tragedy born harlean carpentier in kansas city sa s1 e came to the movie capital in 1927 she had been twice div divorced 0 reed and once widowed JOHN D rockefeller who 0 J died may 23 left his residuary estate estimated at 25 in trust for his granddaughter mrs margaret strong de cuevas her two young children elizabeth and john and the rockefeller institute for medical research the will wa wac filed in the westchester county sur rogate s court at white plains N Y |