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AfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. EDFORD. OREO OX. FRIDAY. .TTTLY 2. 1337. PAGE FIVE E Scat Cover Factory On Wheels Visits Firestone C. I. 0. Leaders Send Out . Call to Resist Opening of Indiana Harbor Mills Massillon Is Peaceful klA&SILLON, O., July 2. (AP) Under bayonet protection, more mice-locked teel mills opened here today while rival camp& of Youngs town Sheet and Tube employes were stirred by reports of new plans to re open plants at Indiana Harbor. Ind. Del Elllnwood. secretary of the As sociation of steel Employes, an in dependent union opposed to the C I O. strike, said he expected "some definite word about reopening" the Indiana harbor mills within a few hours, C.I.O. strike leaders Immediately sent out a general call for pickets to resist the move. Spotters were sta tioned along the Lake Michigan shore to "spread the alarm" at the first Indication of non-strikers moving back into the mills. The Indiana harbor plant normally employs about 7,000 men. Spur Contract Efforts Philip Murray, chairman of the steel workers organizing committee, spurred legal steps to wring signed contracts from Independent steel producers the chief point In dis pute In the whole 7 -state strike area. On behalf of the S.W.O.C.. Mur ray filed petitions with the national labor relations board at Pittsburgh requesting collective bargaining elec tions among employes at all plants of the Bethlehem Steel corporation and the Weirton Steel company. "An overwhelming majority of the employes of these companies have already authorized the S.W.O.C. to represent them for collective bargain ing purposes," Murray said. The back-to-work movement In Massillon was carried out without violence. In a statement at Youngstown, Frank Purnell, president of Sheet and Tube, said he was preparing a let ter to Chicago district employes; to be released later in the day. "We are preparing a letter to our Chicago district employes again ex plaining our situation. , Signed N'n Contract The letter will state that Inland Steel did not sign any agreement, (the East Chicago plant of Inland opened yesterday under a truce ar ranged by Gov. M. Clifford Town send of Indiana) contract or pact and that we are not going to sign anything. "Any statement we make will plainly state on the top that It Is not to be construed as a contract or an agreement or any other sub terfuge." Both Purnell and W. B. Gillies, vie president In charge of opera tions. Indicated they will not re-open the Indiana harbor plant until "ade quate protection" for workers Is pro Tided. Gates of Republic Steel's central steel division swung open under pro tection of steel -hel meted national guardsmen, for the first time since the strike started May 27. Non-Strikers Jeered Non-strikers, in about 115 auto mobiles, quietly drove Inside. About 300 pickets booed and Jeered but were kept away from the plant by the troops. Some foremen and office workers also were sent Into Republic's union drawn steel division. Harvey Elliott. ft CIO picket captain, estimated their number at about 100. The reopening left Cleveland the only city where Republic's sprawling mills are closed completely. Reopen- Free Installation of Auto Seat Covers Offered by Factory Experts at Local Store A complete miniature seat cover factory will be on display at Fire stone auto supply and service stores at Ninth and Riverside on Saturday, July 3, as one of the attractions of the seat cover Installation sale now In progress. Factory experts will be on hand to help customers select the proper seat covers for their cars. "Trailers have been put to many different uses." Grant Farrls. man ager of the Firestone auto supply and ervice stores, stated, "but never be fore, to our knowledge, has a trailer been equipped to produce on the spot a set of seat covers completely tailored to fit a car. "It is amazing to see the rapidity with which the manufacturing equip ment operates." said Mr. Farrls. "The electric cutting machine cuts 50 to 100 thickness of heavy cloth In one operation, and the sewing machine takes 3200 stitches per minute." "Wo are very fortunate to have this novel factory in our own place of business, because most people know very little about the proper Installation of seat covers, and here we have factory experts on hand to help customers select the proper cover, or to make covers that will solve, any customer's Individual cov ering problem." Mr. Farrls mentioned that seat cov ers are always In heaviest demand in the spring of the year. "Car win dows are opened to the dusty roads," he said, "and. then too, many peo ple drive In wet bathing suits which is hard on the upholstery unless properly covered. . Well-kept upholstery in a car act ually enhances Its trade-In value. "This year, we have an exceptional tropical cover," Mr. Farris continued, "the Kool-Kar cover. It is a practical, all-year-around cover made of a new type of material which can be spong ed or washed. Owing to Its flexibility its fits more snugly and wears much longer than tropical covers made of paper or straw. OP STRIKERSJY COPS (Continued trom tag One.) have any idea of getting into the gate: It never was discussed." Police witnesses previously had told the committee they fired on strike demonstrators to prevent them from marching into the plant. The police said they were afraid two or three hundred people would have been kill ed if the strikers reacned the Instde of the building, where a number of non-strikers were at work. In response to questions by Sena tor Thomas (D., Utah). Rlffe, a steel workers' organizing committee offi cial, asserted estcibiisnment of a picket line was the only purpose of the march. trader In Hear He said he was behind the march ers when the clash with police re sulting In ten fatalities took place. "I didn't think we were doing any thing wrong, though," he added. He assertfd he was unable to see what took place in the clash but that he heard 40 or so shots and saw the crowd retreat. The size of the crowd was from 1200 to 1500, he estimated, whereas police fixed it at from 2000 to 2500. Riffs Bald about 25 per cent were women and children. No communistic literature was dis tributed before the march and no communistic speeches were made, he asserted. He added that all the union lead ers were American citizens. He "did not see anyone" armed with clubs or stones, he said. Qua Yuratovtc, union official, tes tified police had repeatedly broken up picket lines between the calling of the strike May 26 and the shoot ing May 30. Some Carried Chiba They Ignored published statements by Mayor Kelly that peaceful picket ing should be permitted, he said. Yuratovic conceded that 10 or 15 of the marchers carried clubs, but insisted they picked them up on the field because they feared they would be attacked by police. One woman Identified as Lupe Marshall was put Into the wagon with her face smeared with blood. A man. paralyaed from the waist down, lay writhing almost under the rear wheels of the police csr until officers picked nim up and placed him Inside. Another striker, apparently dead, was laid by the side of the road with a scrap of newspaper under his head. Crackle of revolver fire and screams of the wounded were plainly audible in the sound recording, but few words could be distinguished. The lwt view before the fight. ns began showed strikers talking with police. Witnesses had said earlier that they were begging to be per mitted to establish peaceful picket lines In front of the Republic Steel company plant. Chihhlng Pictured The next scene disclosed demon strators falling on the ground and police charging forward, winging their batons on the backs and heads of the fleeing crowd. Upper t said a seven-second Inter val elapsed between these scenes white he changed lenses. After the first showing of the film, committee officials ran off a slow motion version of M "still" photo grsphs Inserted at crucial points. One of these stills showed a gun glng off in a policeman's hands, Oth ers showed police clubs striking peo ple prostrate In the grass. Committee attaches Identified one man, struck down while running, ss Sam Poportch, who died of bullet wounds and multiple skull fractures. The darkened, velvet-draped hear ing room was packed with about 500 spectators as the newsreel wns shown. They viewed the film quietly, al though gasps and murmurs were audible at several of the most excit ing points In the exhibition. Senator Thomas (D.. Utah) told newsmen he considered the film a proof of the "extreme brutality" by the police, and that It showed "no provocation whatsoever" for the attack. CROWDED STORE INFERNO SCENE (Continued rrum Psgs One.) "Women and children were scream ing and crying. "Some of them ran rrom the scene; one leaped from a window. " 'I don't know how I got out.' she told me." Second Klre Immediately after the explosion, Mayor p. Lewis Ord Issued a, procla mation banning sale or use pf fire works, but a few hours later he re scinded It. The explosion and fire occureed almost 38 years to a day after a. 1350.. 000 blaze, also caused by fireworks, destroyed 35 buildings In Nampa July 3. 1000. The drugstore was operated by E. l. Drake. He estimated his loss at between 1 5.000 and S20.000. Mrs. Dora Bmtth. who escaped with minor Injuries, was at the soda foun tain when the blast rocked the store. There was a huge explosion, and the whole front of the building was blown out Into the street," she said. "The store was packed with women and children there were at least 30 In the place. Flames and flying ex plosives shot everywhere, and every one started screaming and crying. "The whole front of the building was a mass of colored flames and loud explosions. Everyone rushed to the back door. It was stuck, but fi nally they got It open and everyone got out, somehow." Mrs. T. C. Daniels, one of the vle tlma of the Nampa fireworks explo sion, is a sister of V. R. Hallcroft, proprietor of a barber shop In Phoe nix. Mrs. Daniels visited Mr. and Mrs. Hallcroft In July, 1035. and will be remembered by mapy In this vi cinity who met her at that time. She waa a prominent member of the Eagles' lodge auxiliary and the Royal Neighbors. Mr. Hallcroft waa attempting today to arrange his bulsness affairs to en able his departure for Nampa. I UN-SOL yfl I SOAP is lti I LINOLEUM'S fits J LIN-SOL, the guaranteed 100 pure It mud tti jell soap, works miracles on linoleum because it is double-act inp (1) removes stubborn dirt sod grease in an instant, and (2) applies a surface prtstrvsttvt trtstmtnt. (Linoleum ii made of linseed oil, coo.) Promotes a lovely, new, rich appearance. Econom ical, easy on the hinds, quick to use, free from acids and harsh abrasives, Al Faint, Hardware, Department Stores On Hale at Lamport Hardware Co. sleeps In Open. BELLEVILLE. III. (UP) If plenty of fresh air will develop a track star. Jack Rodenmayer, Belleville high school' crack middle -distance run ner, some day ahould be a champion. He sleeps outdoors In winter and aummcr, no matter what the weather. Ing of the four Cleveland unlta la expected next week. Only a few houra before the con cern's newest "back -to-work" move, the home of a non -striking employe was dynamited at nearby canton. The blast ripped the rear porch off the home of Matt Perlsch, but In jured none. Republic ignored a CIO picket cap taln'a bristling defl: "If they try to open this plant, they are in for a damned bloody fight." Five hundred troops moved In to i forestall auch an eventuality. They came '-from the Youngstown area where plants were reopened last week under similar circumstances without disorder. But the strike, with Its record of ' 13 dead. 230 Injured and $30,000,000 j cost, still was on. I PHILATELISTS UTILIZE S TO HARRY FRENCH GUILTY FIRST DEGREE MURDER (Continued from Pege One.) French's plea of "not guilty by rea son of Insanity." McConnaughy asked If the Jurors could not convene earlier because crop harvests awaited them, but the court declined. District Attorney A. K. Wylle con gratulated the Jury. Defense Attor ney Walter Brown Immediately pro tested, declaring "this case Is not fln l.d yet." The Oregon ten-city aerial tour Is being ultllzed by stamp collectors throughout the world to add to their special collections. A batch of 44 airmail letters from all parts of the United States and Canada and Hawalla was delivered here today by Walt Bohrer of Port land to Fred Heath, Jr., chairman of the aviation committee of the Jack son County Chamber of Commerce. The letters were posted by Mr. Heath through regular airmail channels. Similar batches of airmail letters are to be mailed In each of the other eight cities of the aerial tour, with a much larger number ready for post ing In Portland, where the tour will end on July 11. Each envelope la stamped with a special cliche saying: "This letter carried by pilots on the Oregon state air tour July 3 to 11. 1937, and mailed at each city en route." Most of the envelopes were unseal ed and so In each Mr. Heath en closed a chamber of commerce folder describing the attractions of Jackson county and southern Oregon. Fortune Told. Lifted SAINT HELENA, Cal. ( UP) Lou Caramella hod the Interesting expe rience of having his fortune told and lifted at the same time. Gypsies performed the two operations simul taneously, relieving Carmella of 240. Odd Facts of OLD BOSTON BEACON HILL WAS KHOWNIN nO& Al THE LANE THAT LEADS TO THE POOR HOUSE BUT SOON BECAME AND HAS REMAINED THE RESIDENTIAL APE A to THE WEALTHIEST FAMILIES IN BOTTOM TNI PPESENT MASSACHUSETTS LE6IS1ATURI ORIGINATED IN A LAWSUIT OVER A I TRAY MG. A MRS. SHERMAN LOST THE RIB IN 164. BY THE TIME SHE COLLECTED DAMAGES FOR THE PIG. All BOSTON WAt DIVIDED INTO TWO CAMPS. JUDGIS DENOUNCED JUDGES AND THE PURITAN FATHERS FINALLY HADTO CREATE A TWO-HOUSE LEGISLATURE TO PREVENT FURTHER RUPTURES. IN ITT4 JOHN LOVELL. 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