L.T. SUNOCO. VSEDNESDAY r MAY £6^ 1537. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: for weeks we've been^vaiting what many phrophesied would be the bitterest of labor conflicts. ^For weeks John L. Lewis1 C.1,0. has been promising war on Henry Ford, the most determined of all anti-union employers. Now itfs here, Strike hostilities began today - and in California, of all places! The workers at the Ford plant in Richmond, Calif­ ornia, walked out, thirteen hundred of them, "Recognize our union," they say, "and stop discrim­ inating against our union men!" "Close down the plant," is Henry Ford’s retort. But Richmond, California, wasn’t the only scene of strife, ^iojence broke out at the Ford River Rouge plant near Detroit. Leaders of the Automobile Workers Union were passing out hand-bills to fifty thousand Ford workers as they were leaving the factory. The workers not merely refused to take the hand-bills. Ihey pushed them aside violently and also handing them out. Two of the Union leaders were badly beaten. One was knocked down more than a dozen times and the clothes torn off the other. fljlM ml | F' I jH At the same time, a financial item shows that the Ford Company is well fortified to withstand a walkout. Its surplus funds at the end of Nineteen Thirty-Six amounted to more than six hundred and two million dollars. Also steel trouble — Blows were struck and stones flew at Canton and Massilon, Ohio. There a sudden and dramatic strike had closed six out of seven of the Republic Steel Corpor­ ation^ plants. Fifty-two thousand men worked for Republic, third largest in the country, the company that turns out more alloy and special steel, particularly for automobiles, than any other concern, tty/g have complied with all the Union*s demands so far as wages, hours, and vacations are concerned," says the Republic spokesman. "Also, we are practicing collective bargaining. But we won * t sign a Union contract." Ke adds:-"That would inevitably result in the closed shop. And we don’t consider the closed shop consistent with a square deal. We won’t be a party to forcing any man to join a union." \vhile all this v/as going on, William Green and the American Federation of Labor were pursuing their feud with the C.X.O. One result of that may be a new outbreak of Longshoremen1 strikes on the Atlantic Coast. Joseph P. Ryan, President of the Longshoremen asked the Federation to help him out in his fight with the C.I.O., which he declared, is thd Communist wing of union labor. At Cincinnati today Mr. Ryan threatened to call another shipping strike, a strike of all vessels employing radio operators of the Radio Telegraphists Association which is admit­ tedly a C. I. 0. union, and which Ryan claims is a solidly Com­ munis t out f 11. So today we have a varied picture of labor. ROOSEVELT President Roosevelt sent an unexpected message to Congress today. Ordinarily, it might be routine neiA’s, but at present it has unusual significance. While the Little World War rages in Spain, while Europe bristles with armaments, the Pres- ident asks the Senate to ratify a treaty, an agreement by which thenations of all the America*s hope to establish and preserve peace in the Western Hemisphere. He want s the Senators to okay the terms that Uncle Sam’s delegates signed at Buenos Aires. These will make legal and effective Mr. Roosevelt’s good neigh­ bor policy throughout the Americas. It aims not only to keep us from fighting. It also proposes to bring the Western Vtorld closer together in every wray - culturally > socially, economically There’s one particularly vital clause: Ho interven— tion by any country in the affairs of other countries, either external or internal. rockefeller V ioday they solemnized a funeral »hioh seems like the Inevitable long delayW. During the lives of most of us the c Luring the lives of most of us the continued existence of John D. Rockefeller was a prodigy. His days in seemingly endless succession were events in the news. Not that it,s so as sc ^i.ghing for a man to live to an age approach1 ing ninety-eight, but^it was x dramatic that this nonagenarian, whose years were marching on to a hundred, should at the same time be the richest man in the world, and a looming figure in the industrial history of the United States. So now, ijjith the funeral at the Pocantico estate — it has come to pass what it seemed would never come to pass. John D. Rockefeller ha* passe^l into the grave. / He created an economic era in the great transition period of this nation — the decades following the X Civil ^ar, when American industry was expanding as if in one gigantic boom. Rockefeller set a pattern of American business, a pattern that has stamped itself on the lives of all of us. In the Industrial turmoil of the time when he was making his millions 1 ‘ RnGKBFSLLEB -a ™if he vas exceedingly hated, one of the most savagely attacked of all men. But with the^many, many years that feeling died down, and (his stupendous philanthropies earned him the esteem of the nation- until, at the end he was like a national monument lingering A from times gone by#—■ ^"e?i£w COCHRANE You don't have to be a baseball fan to be glad that Mr. Gordon Stanley Cochrane - "Mickey" to you - is getting bet- ter. Whei over he has gonej the catcher and. manager of the De­ troit Tigers has made friends, and is celebrated for being the mainspring of any party. Baseball experts differ about most things, but all of them, whether from Detroit or anywhere else, are agreed on one fact: Mickey Cochrane is a great fellow. Nov/ he isnTt in any too comfortable a sport. Lying in a hospital with a fractured skull and having wild dreams about what those rampant Detroit Tigers will do without him. The accident at the Yankee Stadium has everybody talk ing again about the famous Tiger jinx. Fans and experts alike v/ere v/ondering today how a hitter with such a keey eye as Coch­ rane could let himself be beaned as he was. Players of both the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees agree he made no ef­ fort to duck the sailer Bump Hadley pitched. Hadley was in no wise to blame they say, and that Mickey evidently lost the ball in the glare of the sun. So now there are two ball players lying inhospitals injured by bean balls. Cochrane in one outfielder at another. He was hit by a Feller, the precocious Cleveland star. , Hank Leiber, the giant ball pitched by Bob HOR^E v’e all knovv the story of the HEADLESS HORSEMAN. At Be Ink,'nt Park^ Ne^* York^ there seeni to he observers whose ims-g i— nation almost outdoes that of Washington Irving. They tell the tale,, and they swear to it, of a phantom horse which took the jumps at Belmont Park yesterday. Horse race fans were much distressed to hear of the death of the thorobred - Bushranger, owned by J, E, Widener of Philadelphia. The general belief was that he died as the result of a spill. He was being trained on the steeplechase course, fell and was killed. Experts had told us Bushranger was the greatest jumper in the United States. Ana now the watchers who frequent that track vow that the general account of his death was not correct. He died, they say, before he fell He was such a grand jumper, they declare, that his courage and his prowess took him over the last jump after he was already dead, SCHOOLMASTER It*s a curious and somewhat baffling story that comes fL from boys school near Greenfield, Massachusetts. A warrant has been issued for the schoolmaster who used to be Dean of that Mt. Hermon School for Boys. He was charged with 11 Assault with intent to murder, being armed with a dangerous weapon.” Dean Elder was so accused by the mm who used to be cashier of the school. He swears that the Ex-Dean pointed a shotgun at him at his garage. Asxxxssxxxsxkwxbwxyw As soon as he learned that the warrant had been issued, Dean Elder informed the Massachusetts State Police that he was at his country home at Alton, Mew Hampshire. He offered to waive extradition if necessary. He also explained that, though he had been away from Alton for twenty-four hours, he had been nowhere near Greenfield, Massachusetts, where he was accused of committing that assault. He had spent tnose twenty-four hours, said Dean Elder, with his wife at a hotel in Keene, New Hampshire. Ordinarily, such a story would he trivial and a purely local affair. But of course it's distinctly unusual for a schoolmaster to be charged with such an offense. SCHOOLMASTER - £ here's a fact that makes it sensational. Three years ago. Dr. Speer, the headmaster of that same Mt. Sermon school for Boys, was murderecj with a shotgun. And that case has never been broken. The gun was never found though the police dragged the Connecticut River and searched the country for miles and miles around. The school trustees offered a five thousand dollar reward,but in vain. The police never pinned the crime on anybody. the crime, the murdered headmaster had lent a certain person a mystery novel. It was called, "The Public School Murder," One nigh-Lta# was reading before his fireplace. There was a tap S' A. on the window of his library $ he put down his book, strolled over to the window, and peered out into the fog. Then a loud bang, and Headmaster Speer fell to the ground, with a heavy charge of Safe, they did suspect somebody. Some weeks before Massachusetts, today. The man twelve gage buckshot in his chest. He died twenty minutes later There's the background of the story from Greenville = + « The man who was Dean of that school when There's the headmaster was murdered, is charged with pointing a shotgun .qnHOOLMASTER . 3 at the former cashier of the school. An unus-aal plight for man of exemplary record and uneheilenged character. a complete alibi. bAGEN Have you ever wondered what happened to the "woman in red," the woman who spelled the doom of Public Enemy Number One^illinger? For a brief space, you remember, she flashed into the news - when she signalled the G-men outside a Chicago movie and tney brought John ^illinger down at last^on July twenty-third, Nineteen hundred and thirty-four. Anna bagen, the "woman in red", then collected the reward and opened a night club. It was promptly wrecked by mobsters in New York. After that she was sent back to her native Rumania. That was two years ago. Since then, with her son, she has moved from place to place, leading a weary, hunted existence. Once an attempt was made to kidnap her little boy. ! ! ! |- I And now, Anna Sagen is no more - at least so far as name and face go. Gray-haired, though she isn't yet thirty-five, and completely changed, Anna Sagen could no longer possibly be recognized as the handsome brunette love of the criminal Dilllnger. She has been granted a new civil identity in Rumania, and her name isn't Anna Sagen any more. So perhaps. ajtGtiN this will be the last hear of the woman in red whose dropped handbag gave the signal that ended one of the most notorious careers in American history. SPAIN The Spanish Rebels are now potting French eommercial airplanes. A transport liner, on its way from Bayormfe to Bilbao, was riddled with bullets and brought down. And, they say, it was a fleet of thirteen of General Franco^ warplanes,- supposed accident and no misunderstanding. Franco had issued warnings. He had declared that the air ferry as it is called, running from Bayonne to Bilbao, is nothing but a blockade runner. And he proposed to put an end to its flights. This air ferry actually is owned and manned entirely by Frenchmen. The pilot was wounded, also one passenger, a Spaniard, plane, another squadron was bombing a British cargo carrier of German According to what the Basque government says, it was no The wounded pilot is one of the aces of the French While Franco1s air fleet was shooting down this commercial forces. mm GENEVA Geneva. It has been quite a while since we heard anything from aadjfere's an ironlc^^fAf -Italy, still is out of the League of Nations. But,Ethiopia is still in. Actually, of course, there Is no such thing as Ethiopia today. Nevertheless, Haile Selassie^ delegates^took the steps to guarantee their membership in the League until the next session which will be in September. That will make it a matter of course for the f i S if' ll H! Italian delegates to stay away. Until the Ethiopians are •-&L e-iwh refused seats at the assembly table, Mussolini’s men will^rt^^ from Geneva CRASH The first of the summer's crop of long distance stunt air flights comes to grief. Marcel Doret and Francois Miehelleti of France were on their way from Paris to Tokyo. The idea was a speedi-record between the two capitals. Everything went fairly well until they reached Shanghai. After that, fog, storms, headwinds* Flying blind, the wiftather finally was too much for them. Their plane pancaked and broke to pieces on the sandy beach in the Tosa Gulf In southwestern Japan. But the pilots survived. They were painfully but not dangerously injured. KiilNILl.Ohm One of the world’s most romantic castles is to be restored. Everybody has heard of Kenilworth In .Warwickshire, the subject of one of the longest novels that .Sir Walter bCott wrote. For almost four centuries, it was one of the favorite retreats of English royalty. From Twelve Bixty-five to Sixteen forty—rour, there were twenty—two royal visitors at Kenilworth Castle, but people who visit the ruins nowadays hear more about Amy Hobsart, t>ir Walter Scott’s melancholy heroine. However ery ■ of Amyub s »LT iib * 1 Sir John Siddeley, the British motor car tycoon, is buying the castle and will present it to the English people. In addition. Sir John is going to restore the estate to some of III ff I4 H I. II III its pristine grandeur and provide for its upkeep. Sir John arranged the purchase from the trustees of the estate of the late Lord Clarendon. : iji [ Sill i: E i The earliest buildings at Kenilworth^fts^the keep known as Caesar's Tower, three walls of which still s .. 11 n v i rr~i fi ii^ ^ [ niirniT KFNILY OPT!! - 2 ni Kenilworth became royal property v/ith the ascension of Henry the Fourth. But it was during the reign of Elizabeth that the notable extensions to the building were made. Then Elizabeth granted the site to her favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester whom the Virgin Queen visited there. Kenilworth, Caesar* s Tower, Queen Elizabeth — and SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.