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Pickets and non-union miners engaged in free-for-all skirmishes today at four mines in Gary, West Virginia, as the U. S. Coal and Coke Company operated six mines on a restricted basis in defiance of a United Mine Workers order withdrawing union workers from captive coal pits. A company superintendent stated that 650 men of a usual first shift of 1200 workers were working in the mines this morning, as fistfights between pickets and non-union workers broke out at four of the six mines. One union man was arrested on a charge of firing a pistol.
Meanwhile, sympathy strikes are developing as union workers at commercial mines declare "a holiday" in Western Pennsylvania and northwestern West Virginia, where an estimated 10,000 men are reported to have supported the captive-mine strike by walking off the job. Those commercial mines, producing the bulk of the nation's soft coal, are covered under CIO closed-shop contracts, such as UMW President John L. Lewis wants the capitve coal-mine operators to sign.
Mr. Lewis charged today that steel mill operators are "depending on the Army" to break the strike after negotiations collapsed yesterday afternoon. Steel company officials were to meet with President Roosevelt at 11:30 this morning, and a measure is already pending in the Senate that would grant the President authority to Federalize the mines under the same protocols that now govern the Federal seizure of manufacturing plants. That measure, introduced this morning by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Tom Connally (D-Texas) would also authorize a Defense Wage Board to determine wages paid workers in seized facilities.
The fourth annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations gave its full and unqualified approval to the United Mine Workers' quest for a closed-shop contract with captive coal mine operators. The vote today lined up 5,000,000 CIO workers nationwide behind UMW President John L. Lewis. Transport Workers Union president Michael Quill declared to the convention that the mine standoff was not caused by the union or the workers, but by "the billion-dollar steel corporations who own the mines."
Japanese envoy Saburo Kurusu met with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull for more than an hour this morning in a visit that was expected to be a mere courtesy call. But the length of the closed-door meeting suggested to Washington observers that the real conversations had already begun to resolve the question of peace or war in the Pacific. Asked by reporters what was discussed in the session, as he emerged from the White House in the company of Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, Kurusu merely smiled and stated "very many things were said."
German reports claim that Nazi forces have taken the city of Kerch, straddling the border of the Crimea and the Caucasus on the Kerenchki Straits, and assert that the capture of that city gives Germany "complete control of the Sea of Azov," cutting off Soviet supply routes to Rostov, and opening the way to a full invasion of the Crimea. Red Army troops, however, are reported as still holding strong positions at Yerukle, six miles from Kerch.
Irving "Waxey Gordon" Wexler, one time Prohibition beer baron, was before a police lineup in Canarsie today on a vagrancy charge, after patrolmen recognized the 53-year-old racketeer entering an apartment house. Wexler told police he was working as a salesman for a Canadian cleaning-fluid concern, and declared that "the old Waxey is dead," but the patrolmen brought him into the East 104th Street precinct anyway for questioning. Despite the vagrancy charge, Wexler had $350 in cash on his person at the time of his arrest, and was in the company of "a well-dressed woman" believed to be his wife.
The Brooklyn Commissioners of Elections expect to certify the reelection of James V. Magnano as Kings County Sheriff and Peter J. McGuinness as county register -- despite a decision by voters in this month's election to abolish both of those offices. The commissioners stated today they do not believe they have the authority to refuse to certify Magnano and McGuinness. Meanwhile, operating under the assumption that the vote to abolish the positions takes precedence, the Municipal Civil Service Commission is moving ahead with plans to conduct competitive examinations for candidates to hold the new city-wide offices of Sheriff and Register at lesser salaries than were paid to the county office holders. It is expected that whatever action is taken, litigation will result.
(Yeah, but what about Major Bowes' jewel-encrusted cigarette case? Any luck finding that?)
A Brooklyn girl with a heavy handbag helped her fiance, a policeman from Queens, to break up a holdup last night at a bar in Harlem, but a bandit and a bystander were killed in the incident, leading to possible homicide charges for two other thugs. The young couple, Louise McCabe of 744 Halsey Street and Patrolman Joseph Halliday of Sunnyside, were in Romano's Tavern, 2363 2nd Avenue, when three bandits appeared, brandishing guns, and scooped $4.40 in cash off the bar. Patrolman Halliday, who had just come off duty, ordered Miss McCabe under the table and whipped out his service revolver to exchange fire with the holdup men. Halliday hit 23-year-old Russell Marsala of 244 E. 71st Street in Manhattan twice, and winged one of his companions. As the two other bandits attempted to flee, Miss McCabe emerged from her hiding place and slugged them with her handbag, rendering sufficient damage to hold the two until two passing radio patrolmen noticed the commotion and offered reinforcement. Marsala died at Harlem Hospital, as did the tavern's cook, 52-year-old Eduardo Corchia, who was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired during the exchange. That slug will be examined in an effort to determine who fired it. Police noted that Corchia had been carrying $600 in cash, and the surviving bandits will be questioned in an effort to determine if that money was the real target of the attack.
The trial of prominent Queens bookmaker Frank Erickson on charges that he assaulted elderly millionaire Louis Untermyer at a party at Untermyer's home last May, will get underway today in Morristown, New Jersey. The incident is said to have been preciptated by a visit to Mr. Untermyer by Mrs. Mary Lucas "Bobby" Crawford, ex-showgirl, and Miss LaJunta White, prominent woman golfer, but precise details of the alleged assault remain a mystery. Prosecution of Erickson by New Jersey Attorney General David Wilentz is said to have been encouraged by a letter from Mayor LaGuardia, who has crusaded against Erickson for years, denouncing him as "a cheap tinhorn" and "public nuisance number one."
(Actually, history tells us that Massasoit was not a "king," as the Wampanoag had no concept of "royalty," but rather a "sachem," elected by democratic vote. History also tells us that Pocahontas [c. 1596-1617] was not, in fact, "a bag of gumdrops.")
(I'm all in favor of arming turkeys. Let's make it a fair fight!!)
(Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick....)
(Kids Today.)
("The Football Dodgers? Are they still in the league?")
Plans are reported to be in the works for a motion picture about Our Dodgers, to be made by 20th Century Fox. Tentatively titled wither "Our Beloved Bums" or "Dem Lovely Bums," the film will star Pat O'Brien, and will feature the actual Dodgers themselves, to be filmed at Spring Training next year. The story outline "describes the rise of the team to the National League title," and will take full advantage of "the tremendous appeal, both commercial and emotional that the Dodgers pack."
Two local youngsters star together on the same Sunday afternoon radio program over NBC's Blue network. Thirteen-year-old boy yodeler Olivio Santoro of Inwood, Long Island and eleven-year-old contralto Marion Loveridge of Bay Ridge are both veteran performers, in spite of their youth, and both hope for show-business careers in adulthood -- Olivio as either an opera singer or a star of Western pictures, and Marion as a leading lady on either the motion-picture screen or the musical comedy stage.
(Slappy really needs to work on this whole self-loathing thing.)
(You won't find clues sitting behind a desk. How about dragging the river? Oh, wait, George will probably fall in.)
(Better take a shower first, kid. That onion smell is bru-tal!)
(AW COME ON, LET US! YOU NEVER LET US DO ANYTHING FUN!)
Meanwhile, sympathy strikes are developing as union workers at commercial mines declare "a holiday" in Western Pennsylvania and northwestern West Virginia, where an estimated 10,000 men are reported to have supported the captive-mine strike by walking off the job. Those commercial mines, producing the bulk of the nation's soft coal, are covered under CIO closed-shop contracts, such as UMW President John L. Lewis wants the capitve coal-mine operators to sign.
Mr. Lewis charged today that steel mill operators are "depending on the Army" to break the strike after negotiations collapsed yesterday afternoon. Steel company officials were to meet with President Roosevelt at 11:30 this morning, and a measure is already pending in the Senate that would grant the President authority to Federalize the mines under the same protocols that now govern the Federal seizure of manufacturing plants. That measure, introduced this morning by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Tom Connally (D-Texas) would also authorize a Defense Wage Board to determine wages paid workers in seized facilities.
The fourth annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations gave its full and unqualified approval to the United Mine Workers' quest for a closed-shop contract with captive coal mine operators. The vote today lined up 5,000,000 CIO workers nationwide behind UMW President John L. Lewis. Transport Workers Union president Michael Quill declared to the convention that the mine standoff was not caused by the union or the workers, but by "the billion-dollar steel corporations who own the mines."
Japanese envoy Saburo Kurusu met with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull for more than an hour this morning in a visit that was expected to be a mere courtesy call. But the length of the closed-door meeting suggested to Washington observers that the real conversations had already begun to resolve the question of peace or war in the Pacific. Asked by reporters what was discussed in the session, as he emerged from the White House in the company of Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, Kurusu merely smiled and stated "very many things were said."
German reports claim that Nazi forces have taken the city of Kerch, straddling the border of the Crimea and the Caucasus on the Kerenchki Straits, and assert that the capture of that city gives Germany "complete control of the Sea of Azov," cutting off Soviet supply routes to Rostov, and opening the way to a full invasion of the Crimea. Red Army troops, however, are reported as still holding strong positions at Yerukle, six miles from Kerch.
Irving "Waxey Gordon" Wexler, one time Prohibition beer baron, was before a police lineup in Canarsie today on a vagrancy charge, after patrolmen recognized the 53-year-old racketeer entering an apartment house. Wexler told police he was working as a salesman for a Canadian cleaning-fluid concern, and declared that "the old Waxey is dead," but the patrolmen brought him into the East 104th Street precinct anyway for questioning. Despite the vagrancy charge, Wexler had $350 in cash on his person at the time of his arrest, and was in the company of "a well-dressed woman" believed to be his wife.
The Brooklyn Commissioners of Elections expect to certify the reelection of James V. Magnano as Kings County Sheriff and Peter J. McGuinness as county register -- despite a decision by voters in this month's election to abolish both of those offices. The commissioners stated today they do not believe they have the authority to refuse to certify Magnano and McGuinness. Meanwhile, operating under the assumption that the vote to abolish the positions takes precedence, the Municipal Civil Service Commission is moving ahead with plans to conduct competitive examinations for candidates to hold the new city-wide offices of Sheriff and Register at lesser salaries than were paid to the county office holders. It is expected that whatever action is taken, litigation will result.
A Brooklyn girl with a heavy handbag helped her fiance, a policeman from Queens, to break up a holdup last night at a bar in Harlem, but a bandit and a bystander were killed in the incident, leading to possible homicide charges for two other thugs. The young couple, Louise McCabe of 744 Halsey Street and Patrolman Joseph Halliday of Sunnyside, were in Romano's Tavern, 2363 2nd Avenue, when three bandits appeared, brandishing guns, and scooped $4.40 in cash off the bar. Patrolman Halliday, who had just come off duty, ordered Miss McCabe under the table and whipped out his service revolver to exchange fire with the holdup men. Halliday hit 23-year-old Russell Marsala of 244 E. 71st Street in Manhattan twice, and winged one of his companions. As the two other bandits attempted to flee, Miss McCabe emerged from her hiding place and slugged them with her handbag, rendering sufficient damage to hold the two until two passing radio patrolmen noticed the commotion and offered reinforcement. Marsala died at Harlem Hospital, as did the tavern's cook, 52-year-old Eduardo Corchia, who was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired during the exchange. That slug will be examined in an effort to determine who fired it. Police noted that Corchia had been carrying $600 in cash, and the surviving bandits will be questioned in an effort to determine if that money was the real target of the attack.
The trial of prominent Queens bookmaker Frank Erickson on charges that he assaulted elderly millionaire Louis Untermyer at a party at Untermyer's home last May, will get underway today in Morristown, New Jersey. The incident is said to have been preciptated by a visit to Mr. Untermyer by Mrs. Mary Lucas "Bobby" Crawford, ex-showgirl, and Miss LaJunta White, prominent woman golfer, but precise details of the alleged assault remain a mystery. Prosecution of Erickson by New Jersey Attorney General David Wilentz is said to have been encouraged by a letter from Mayor LaGuardia, who has crusaded against Erickson for years, denouncing him as "a cheap tinhorn" and "public nuisance number one."
(Actually, history tells us that Massasoit was not a "king," as the Wampanoag had no concept of "royalty," but rather a "sachem," elected by democratic vote. History also tells us that Pocahontas [c. 1596-1617] was not, in fact, "a bag of gumdrops.")
(Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick....)
(Kids Today.)
Plans are reported to be in the works for a motion picture about Our Dodgers, to be made by 20th Century Fox. Tentatively titled wither "Our Beloved Bums" or "Dem Lovely Bums," the film will star Pat O'Brien, and will feature the actual Dodgers themselves, to be filmed at Spring Training next year. The story outline "describes the rise of the team to the National League title," and will take full advantage of "the tremendous appeal, both commercial and emotional that the Dodgers pack."
Two local youngsters star together on the same Sunday afternoon radio program over NBC's Blue network. Thirteen-year-old boy yodeler Olivio Santoro of Inwood, Long Island and eleven-year-old contralto Marion Loveridge of Bay Ridge are both veteran performers, in spite of their youth, and both hope for show-business careers in adulthood -- Olivio as either an opera singer or a star of Western pictures, and Marion as a leading lady on either the motion-picture screen or the musical comedy stage.
