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Evening star., 1941-04-05
Settlement Ends Threat
OF Sfoekyards Tie.up
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April A labor dis
pute which threatened a strike Of
livestock handlers at the Chicago
Stock Yards was ended last night
in an agreement between the c. I.
o. Pacinkhouse Workers Organizing
Committee and the Union Stock
Yards and Transit Co.
Terms of the agreement, reached
late in the afternoon by commit
tees of the union and the manage
ment, were ratified last night by
the local union members. totaling
more than 500.
John L. Conner, Federal labor
conciliator, said Che agreement in
cluded the following points:
The agreement now in effect will
be renewed, except as modified, until
March Is, 1912; negotiations for a
general wage increase will begin
within Is days, and if they fail the
matter will be submitted to an ar
bitration board including one rep
resentative of each group and Fed
eral Judge Michael L. Igoe; offers
of the company for time and a half
for Sunday work and certain wage
equalizations will be effective when
the supplemental agreement is
reached, and men called to selective
service will be returned to their
former positions.
Union demands for closed shop,
an eight-hour day and 40-hour
week were dropped, Mr.. Conner
said.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Janitor 10 Be Executed
For Murder OF Girl
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 5.-Thomas
Conroy must pay with his life for
the death of 10-year-old Genevieve
Connolly.
Convicted by a Bronx County
court jury yesterday, the 39-year-
old ianitor will be electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison on a date to be set
Monday.
The jury of II men and one
woman deliberated little more than
an hour to find Conroy guilty OF
first-degree murder, basing its ver-
dict on a signed confession and a
charred piece Of jawbone holding
three teeth.
The jawbone was all that was left
of the little red-haired girl whom
Conroy admitted garroting and
cremating in furnace last Novem-
ber 6 after she threatened to tell her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Con-
nolly-his longtime friends and ma
tives of his own West Meath, Ire
land-that he had tried to kiss her
Investigators who had sought the
missing girl for two days before
Conroy confessed "to get this of my
conscience" shoveled tons of Goa
and sifted barrels of ashes before
finding the jawbone and teeth thai
provided the necessary corpus delicti
Conroy testified the confession
was forced from him under police
threats.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Commissioners Demand
Report on Jail crowdina

Welfare and penal officials of the
District were called on today by the
Commissioners to make a full report
Immediately on alleged delays in
making full use of the enlarged and
reconditioned units of the District
Jail, while some sections were being
overcrowded.
Commissioner John Russell Young,
acting president of the Board of
Commissioners, this morning sent
a formal note to acting Welfare
Director Conrad Van Hyning, ask
ing that he report on when the
two large new wings were COM
pleted, when work was started and
finished on reconditioning the old
section Of the Jail, and whether
there has been any delay, and if
so, why, in making full use Of the
new and reconditioned structures.
1t was reported there have been
in the past few days as many as
400 prisoners housed in the two
new wings, the rated capacity Of
which Is given as 5l4 prisoners.
1t was said the new wings were
completed March /, 1910, and re-
conditioning Of old sections was
finished last December II.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
No Place for U. s. in War,
J. Reuben Clark, Jr., SAYS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY. April 81.
Reuben Clark, jr., former United
States Ambassador to Mexico, said
yesterday that the present war be
gan as a war for empire, which Is an
unrighteous cause"
America has no place as a bel
igerent In such conflict" he told
the 1l1th annual conference of the
Latter Day Saints Church. Mr..
Clark is first counselor to the
church's first presidency.
I'VE have heard that our help in
the conflict was always to be short
of war;" he said, 'but we have for
many months been, in fact, actual
participants in the war. -
1T does look as if only Divine in
tervention Of some kind can keep
our sons on our own soil, fighting
for our own cause, in defense Of our
freedom and liberties"
President Heber J. Grant, in his
first formal address since his serious
illness OF year ago, said:
1T grieves me greatly to see our
boys 60 into the Army. I hope and
pray that we can keep out of this
terrible war"
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Coal
Continued From First page.)

NSOllOlll0So Jill L ~ oO o5N"b
designation, he said this attitude
was expressed "in spite of the fact
they had every assurance Of CO.
operation from the Government to
the end that they would not be
unjustly penalized by their Coop
Grafton.
They say it would be impossible
to pay the amount that would be
involved and must keep the mines
closed until negotiations are COM
pleted."
Wont Stay Shut Long"
DR.. Steelman almost shouted as
he said, These mines aren't going
to stay (shuD down long"
-Four hundred thousand bitumi-
nous diggers have been idle since
midnight Monday on the order of
Union President John L. Lewis not
to work without a new contract or
an agreement that any benefits
would be retroactive to the April l
expiration of the old pact,
Steelman Raps Operators.
Eighty-five per cent of the Ma
: tons soft coal output has been af-
fected by the shutdown of Appa-
lachian fields and those in four out
lying States where the miners local
contracts are governed by the APP
palachian agreement.
Although more than three weeks
Of negotiations have brought no final
results, Mr.. Steelman reported "the
miners have come down in their de-
mands, and the operators have come
up. Don't let either side tell you
neither side has made concessions.
The miners original demand was
for a boost to a daily 81 wage stand
ard for the country instead of the
old rate of Sc in the North and $3.50
in the South. They also sought paid
vacations and a guarantee of 200
working days annually.
Miners Refuse One Offer.
One development last night prior
to DR.. Steelman's statement was an
announcement by Southern Appa-
lachian operators that union nego-
tiators had refused an offer Of an
approximate II per cent pay in
crease.
"We must leave it to the public to
determine on whose shoulders rests
the responsibility for large portion
of the mines remaining closed while
negotiations go on. That is, unless
an agreement is very soon COM
pleted."
Three hundred delegates repre-
Senting three Pennsylvania districts
yesterday adopted at the U. M. w.
Tri-District Convention the report
of its Scale Committee, which will
negotiate next week for a new an
thracite contract to replace the one
expiring April 80.
The hard coal miners will ask two
weeks paid vacations, a pay in
crease of 81 daily for miners and
outside men paid by the day, a 20
per cent increase for miners working
on tonnage basis, time and half
for overtime and double time for
Sundays and holidays.
In the interest of defense, the
miners voted to refrain from asking
a decrease in the present seven-hour
day and flve-day week.
Evening star., 1941-04-05

Italian people but only for his own
throne. He has never interviewed
for the nation against Mussolini.
He said to me once, I go with
Mussolini because, whether he is
right or not, he is lucky What
way for a monarch to serve his
people. All he wanted was to spare
himself trouble. BY such a notion
of his duties Victor Emmanuel has
destroyed his nation and his house
in the third generation Of united
Italy" This conversation could be
multiplied a hundredfold.
The Prince OF Piedmont has lost
his popularity, too. Servants as
well as nobility speak for the first
time of his being effeminate. Off,
GERS who have revered him suddenly
described him as dupe. The people
are unfair, no doubt, to him, as
they are to his father and to Musso-
lini, but this is measure of their
bitter establishment.
Military personalities like Marshal
Pietro Badoglio and Marshal Rodolfo
Graziani are equally tarnished.
Italians point out the palatial
modern show place which the regime
has built for Marshal Badoglio.
There is the marshal who once
offered the King to clean out the
Fascists with a regiment of troops" 3"
they say. He has sold out. Would
he stand against the invasion of
Greece? No. He approved it and
then resigned after it failed"
Lies Deliberately Spread.
The Fascists have deliberately
spread lies about the corruption of
Marshal Badoglio.. He isn't corrupt.
He is merely a very old man. Of
Marshal GraZiani the people speak
no more. He was a great general,
but he failed. once beaten gen.
erals fell on their swords" say the
modern Romans with more heat
than fairmindedness, now they 60
like Graziani to rest amid the beauty
Of Capri" That. too, is unfair, be-
cause Marshal Graziani is a sick
man, suffering, perhaps, from can
Ger of the throat.
In their bitterness the Italians
even rail out against the church.
They say that the present Pope
has condoned Fascism and accepted
a German victory as inevitable. This
is palpably false and unfair, but it
is significant of the present mood
of the people. When the Pope's en-
cyclicals have inveighed against to-
talitarianism Italians have objected
that the church ought to stay out
Of politics. Now they say that it
should have enlightened them on the
true nature Of Fascism.
All of this bitter disillusionment
might have been brought to head
in the last weeks before the Ger
man entry if the British had bombed
the country effectively. This they
did not do, probably foY lack Of
long-range bombers. Their raids
have been numerous and exceed
ingly accurate, but the bomb loads
have been light, the objectives
purely military and the effect upon
Italian morale almost negligible
British necessity may prove the
most effective propaganda in the
end, however. Once the Germans
are being defeated, the italians will
be ready to rise and against the
British there will be little rancor.
tCoryright. 1e41. Chicago Daily News. InS.)
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Senator'S Mapping
Procedure Plans
For Strike Inquiry
Connolly Insists Both
Sides Be Called In So
Committee Con Mediate
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Members of special Senate In
vestigating Committee today pro-
jected an inquiry into the cause of
defense strikes in an effort to get
production resumed while manage
ment and labor iron out their Diff
ferences.
Senator Connally, Democrat, of
Texas, member of the committee,
told reporters the immediate re-
sumption of work in strike bound
plants holding Army and Navy
contracts would be the chief OBJ
jective of the committees broad in
quiry into the operation of the de-
fense program, beginning April Is.
Chairman Truman, busy organiz-
ing force of investigators, de-
clined to comment, other than to
say that anything that is inter-
fering with national defense produc-
ton will be investigated"
Connally Wants Hearing.
Senator Connally, however, said
he would insist that the committee
call plant owners and union officials
before it, obtain from each side an
outline of grievances, and then seek
to win an agreement for resumption
of operations while differences were
being adjusted.
Chairman May said yesterday the
House Military Affairs Committee
might call John L. Lewis, United
Mine Workers president, to testify
In connection with strikes which
have been interfering with the de-
tense program.
Representative May disclosed also
that the committee, which plans to
open a bread investigation of the
defense program Monday. had TO
postpone hearing testimony from
William S. Knudsen, defense pro-
duction chief, on that date because
he had a previous engagement.
Sidney Hillman, Mr.. Knudsens
associate also was excused because
he is out of the CITY," Representative
May said.
The chairman said Secretary of
Labor Perkins would be the first
witness.
Summers Replies to Lewis.
Meanwhile, Representative Sum-
ners, Democrat, of Texas. labeled by
Mr.. Lewis small time, small-town
lawyer" told the labor leader that
I'VE 'small-town' people are not run
ming things yet-if we were
you wouldn't be-"
Representative Summers wrote Mr..
Lewis he had read newspaper re-
ports of the latter's recent New York
speech in which Mr.. Lewis told
u. M w. meeting the Texan had
suggested to Congress that strikers
in defense industries should be elec-
trocuted.
What is wrong with sending en-
emies of this country to the electric
chair if that is necessary to preserve
the liberty of this country?" Repre-
sentative Summers demanded. That
is what I said. /. ="
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Bridges Hearing
In Recess; Ex.Red
Links Him 10 Party
c. |. o. Leader to Preside
At Convention; Witness
Called Labor Spy
BY .ht Associated Press.

BY tbs Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April s.
Harry Bridges deportation hearing
has been recessed un April ID
to permit the Austraiian-born labor
leader to preside over the annual
convention of Pacific Coast long
shoremen at Los Angeles.
The Government seeks TO deport
Mr.. Bridges On the ground he has
been a member of the Communist
party. He denies that he is or ever
has been a Communist.
Yesterday Ezra Chase, termite
exterminator and an ex-Communist
from Los Angeles, asserted:
There is no Communist in the
movement that don't believe Harry
is member-that's common knowl-
edge"
He said Elmer Hanoff, once Los
Angeles County organizer for the
party, and other prominent party
members had told him Mr.. Bridges
held membership.
Chase Called Labor Spy.
Mr.. Bridges defense attorneys
repeatedly referred to Mr.. Chase
as labor spy and won an ad-
mission from him that he had in
formed Capt. William Hines. once
head Of so-called Red squad" in
the Los Angeles police department,
about strike the night before it
was called
Mr.. Chase also testified that some
Communists from the Douglas air.
craft factory attended a meeting in
Los Angeles at which Mr. Bridges
laid down the Communist party
line"
The witness described the line as
being plans for bringing A. F. L. un-
ions bodily into the C. I. o. rather
than in small groups
He said Lou Baron, a party organ
izer, often referred to Mr.. Bridges
as comrade in conversations, but he
did not know whether Mr. Baron
said "Comrade Bridges" or Harry
Bridges" in introducing the C. I. O..
leader to the meeting.
Attorneys Wrangle.
Reference to Mr.. Chase as a labor
spy led to bitter wrangling and
caused Albert Del Guercic Of Gov
ernment counsel to call Defense At
torney Richard Gladstein a Com
muniSt.
Mr.. Gladstein had handed Mr.. Del
Guercio copy of the La Toilette
committee report, from which he had
been reading.
you don't have to hold it, you're
shaking" Mr.. Gladstein remarked.
I'm not a Communist like you
are, so don't have to shake" Mr..
Del Guercio retorted.
Mr.. Gladstein asked Trial EXAM
iner Charles B. Sears If he had
heard the remark.
No, I'm deaf today" Judge Sears
replied
Mr.. Chase was the first witness
to link Bridges with the Communist
Party.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Court Holds Dr.. Joss
As Other Woman
Tells Of Love Note
June Grond Jury to Act
In FutoI Beotine Of
Physicians Wife
E. tLt Associated Press.

E tLt associated Press.
BATH. ME-, April 5.-Dr. Mer-
rill E. joss was held without bail
on a wife-murder charge yester-
day after a Municipal Court hear
ing heightened by testimony by
Mrs. Elizabeth Chapman Mayo 81,
that she received love note" from
him a few hours before the Staying
Judge Gardiner Deering found
probable cause for referring to a
June grand jury the charge that
the 31-year-old physician, bald and
stout, had fatally beaten 38-year-
old Dr.. Luverne Harris Joss March
~ in their Colonial ice-residence
at Richmond, Me.
Mrs. Mayo, a brunette. is co-pro-
prietor of a Richmond restaurant
and store.
State and defense agreed that
the auburn haired wife, a tuber-
culosis specialist. had been slain;
that the 81 wounds In her battered
skull neither could have been acci-
dental nor self inflicted.
Attorney General Frank I. Cowan
asserted:
There was a love motive here.
DR.. joss wanted to get rid
Of his wife"
Conceding that according to the
testimony" there was another
woman" as charged by the State,
Ernest L. Goodspeed. defense coun-
sci, replied that there had been no
evidence of how Mrs. joss was
struck or that she was with her
husband when she was killed.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Pennsylvania Prohibits
HIRING Miners Under 18
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, April S.
Pennsylvania State labor authorities
yesterday announced adoption of a
rule against employment of boys
under l8 in coal mines.
The regulation was promulgated
by the Industrial Board of the
Pennsylvania Department Of Labor
and Industry, and comedies with
Federal regulation applying to in
terstate commerce.
An official said boys working at
a picking table or chute in . tipple
or breaker or in maintenance shops
were excluded from the provisions
of the regulation.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
New Transport Council
Is Formed in Britain
5y ne Associated Press.

By tft AkSoCIateu PreSs.
LONDON, April 5.-The Transport
Ministry announced today forma-
ton of a new transport council
which the ministry said it hoped
would make the British transport
system "a lively machine that will
be equal TO the heaviest tasks that
may be laid upon it in the months
to come"
Transport Minister 1t. Col. j. T.
c. Moore -BrabaZon was named
chairman.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Long Statue in Copitol
To Be Unveiled April rs

The statue of the late Senator
Long of Louisiana, which has been
In Statuary Hall at the Capitol for
several months waiting to be un-
yelled, will be dedicated April 25.
This date will coincide with the
annual Senate memorial services for
deceased members. A detailed pro-
gram for the Long exercises will be
announced later.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Whitaker
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whole burden of the war on our
shoulders through the fall and win
ter, our troops fighting from the
French Alps to the African deserts,
our ships from the Atlantic to the
Indian Oceans, our planes from
England to Persia. The Germans
have rested meanwhile. Now it is
only fair that they should come
to our help"
"Co-operation between the two
allies all-embracing. Just as we
sent planes to the Channel to help
the Germans. so they send them
now to Sicily and Libya to help
us. Just as We send workers to
Germany. so they send soldiers
here"
These arguments have a certain
effect simply because Italy is so
Evening star., 1941-04-05

sick in the humiliation of her own
defeat. The calling in of the Ger
mans gives them a flicker of hope
like the calling in Of a new doc
tor when the patient has despaired
of recovering.
Italian peasant parents know"
that their own Tony or Pepe was
no coward. He was the finest,
bravest boy that any parents ever
had.
He died in Albania Of frost
bite and gangrene or he was cap
tured in Libya because of the un-
preparedness of Mussolini and the
inefiiciency Of the general stan. II
the Germans take over, they say,
maybe his brother will prove that
the italians can fight. italians Of
ficers know that they are not
to blame for defeat. If there is
German staff work, perhaps they
can redeem the honor of Italian
arms. Italian generals know" that
their equipment was outmoded. Per-
haps with German tanks and ar
tillery and planes they can show
those Anglo-Saxons. These are the
feelings to which the propaganda
machine plays not altogether sue
cessly, but with some results.
Whole Nation in Coma.
In the third place, the Italian
collapse and defeat have been so
crushing that the whole nation lies
in a coma of disillusionment, hu-
initiation and distrust. There is no
leader, no man and no ideal to
turn toward.
The nation has been debauched
by 10 years Of Fascisrn. Few Italians
accepted that system without COM
promising their intelligence and
their conscience. The strength OF
the italian lay in his healthy Gym
icism and his common sense. He
had to give up both to be Fascist
Nineteen years of daily compro-
mise has done something to his soul
He is less man than he was. The
sudden realization that FaSciSm was
a lie, not new national movement
but merely q technique for keeping
small clique in power, has crushed
his spirit.
A military doctor told me about
peasant boy whose feet and hands
had been amputated after frostbite
because no winter equipment was
provided the army that invaded
Greece. This boy raised the manned
stump Of his right arm and screamed
I'VE are going to kill Mussolini,
the murderer" I heard the same
thing myself from a wounded uni
versity student who said there were
no bandages in the field hospitals
in Libya. An Italian woman told
me how another wounded man rose
from his hospital cot and spat in
the face OF Countess Ciano, who
served as q nurse.
But these are isolated and per-
sonally desperate cases. Mussolin
has the personal loyalty today Of
scarcely more than a few hundred
Italians. The millions who applaud
ed him yesterday are through with
him today. But they are not ready
to throw him out, first, because
they have nowhere else to turn and
second, because the last 10 year.
have not conditioned italians tc
the tradition of Garibaldi.
Royal Family Bankrupt.
The royal family is as bankrupt
politically as Mussolini. Until thre'
months ago I never heard any Ital
ian speak of the house Of Savo.
except with reverence and affection
In recent months have heard bite
1. hatred on every side.
} A prince who has been a membe
; of the royal household said, 9TH
King Is worse than ga-ga. He
q cynical, selfish, dirty old mar
He cares nothing for italy or tn
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Vatican Radio Accuses
Nuzis Of Oppression

BY tie Associated Press.
ROME, April 5.-The Vatican
radio last night accused Germany
of imposing on religious institutions
Of occupied France conditions which
made it difncult for them to exist.
The speaker said the Catholic
press had been suppressed except
for briet. diocesan bulletins.
Evening star., 1941-04-05

Lewis, launched it's Nationwide or
ganization campaign. and represent
ed one of the C. I. O.'s greatest VIC
tories.
Big Steel's" subsidiaries have a
capacity of $50 per cent of the Ma
tons steel production. Their out
put of % 100000 tons of steel ingots
last year ranged well ahead of Eng
lands entire output and approached
that of Germany-29,00 100000 tons
Soviet Russia made 21,S00,000 tons
and Japan 100000, according tc
Iron Age reports.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Mexican Senate O. KS
Air Transit Agreement
By ths Associated Press

By tkt Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, April 5.-The
Mexican Senate yesterday approved
an agreement between Mexico and
the United States providing recipro-
cal transit of the military planes
of both countries.
The agreement permits United
States Army and Navy planes to
fly the length of Mexico, utilizing
Mexican air fields en- route for re-
fueling and repair. Mexican planes
now may use United States air fields.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
"Where there's a will
there's a way"

How true are the old proverbs. In
our 81 years we have had so many folks
come to us in a quandary-wanting to
renovize or modernize their homes-but
frankly saying-"We want something
done to bring our home up.to-date. Just
what, we don't exactly know"
Here's where The Eberly Plan goes
to work. First, one of our consultants
will talk with you-surveying existing
conditions-and be quickly ready with
practical suggestions.
So many things are possible-a
modern kitchen; smart recreation
room; an obsolete porch that you never
use can be converted into a cozy room.
Then there's insulating which can be
done, regulating temperatures summer
and winter.
And with the difficult housing situation
in Washington, maybe there are idle
rooms we can combine into an apartment
that you can easily rent.
"Where there's will there's a way
and Eberly Plan workmen will do ALL
the work-with only ONE modest
overhead and only ONE responsibility
OURS.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
Industrial Revolution
OF Peru Threatens
Hit|er's Program
CusuoI Meeting in 1918
Beers Fruit in Exploiting
Country's Resources

This is one of a series of
articles copering the ertraordt-
nary expedition OF American in
dustrial scientists to South Amer
icd to mobilize Immediately the
best minds, methods, ruW ma
tertals and products for defense.
Evening star., 1941-04-05
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