Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - June 8, 1937, Oakland, California 9 Weather OAKLAND VICINITY Cloudy tonight Wednesday fair mild temperature moderate erly wind Mia SS it at 7 le date 55.17 United Associations VOL TEN CENTS EDITION NEW'S PAP E OAKLAND CALIFORNIA TUESDAY JUNE 8 1937 41 PAGES NO 159 Rare Eclipse Watchers at Pacific Isle FLK JT Holiday of Labor Flares Again STRIKE MEN IN Steel Union Battles Injunction film Lawyer Ask? High Court To Issue Writ in Try To Blork Cell Sentence I Mid-Ocean Group Gets Data on Sun's i Longest S li a d o June S American astronomers isolated on lonely itle recorded for i science today an epochal total Harry Rice Keeps Silent eclipse of the sun As Ask Him of What reported as perfect weather favored the joint expedition of the United States Navy and the National Geographic Society ss the sky gazers recorded the the longest 1200 Workers Attacked Truck Is 1 Upset Pickets Arrested in Oakland Plant Attacks Telephone Dialogues Peter P San bail bind broker hns Labor Council of County Outlaws Listing of Firms Ended i Scientists in heard made sr fortune releases people barren canton Island from on bail went to The 5000 miles out in the ocean This Supreme Court today in an attempt was one of the few points of to effect his own release from be- hind bars His attorney John J Taaffe filed two petitions with the high court quarters here and were enthusiastic one asking a writ of habeas when they learned excellent of the sun's corona had been and the other asking a writ of re- I caught bv the equipment Cannery workers were stoned n truck overturned and seven pickets were arrested as unions day continued a mass tion at the East Oakland plant of California Packing Corporation after picketing there and at other local canneries had been outlawed i Cental CounciL view of the lower courts action :n imprisoning McDonough for con- tempt of court at Canton A few minutes before totality which was reached at 11.06 p m Judge Emmet Seawell I the flecked sky over j L Lewis faction j S sr a The rioting occurred after the labor council last night removed from the we won't patronize list canneries previously ruled un- fair when the conncil included C I O unions and other labor croups in sympathy with the John said the petitions will be considered 33 seconds during totality the la j women strikers to in the regular course of business scientists artists and naval i charge police lines during a melee This will mean apparently that ed i at Avenue and East Twelfth j This will mean apparently that i McDonough will remain in i j Street after a pie truck had been j JH i j xi i t M without the bail he has provided i overturned there for the next to and the sun shot Five others all Havward men ular conference of the Supreme of were arrested on suspicion of lions of miles outward crowding another machine to the Five minutes after the eclipse the j curb with their automobile hurling radio report said clouds swept into j stones through the windows and the line of vision Had they sailed injuring two occupants in ront of the sun a few moments The arrests brought to nine the Court justices Thursday As McDonough ate corn beef and cabbage for luncheon his third meal in aspects of the graft went forward on two fronts Superior Judge J J Trabucco heard final arguments in an tion petition by which McDonough seeks to halt the use of all tapping evidence in the inquiry The court indicated a decision will given tomorrow morning W EVIDENCE TO JURY Republic Steel Corporation Files Formal Protest on P 0 Ban on Packages Republicans and In Congress Press Battle For Inquiry in Situation By C L United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON June i The Republic Steel Corporation a formal protest to eral James A Farley today j ened legal action if the Department continued to refuse to accept food and other parcels tot delivery to plants in the Ohio strike zone The formal protest made In letter to Farley signed by John S Brookes Jr counsel for the The other development was a new Grand Jury hearing which left before the jurors new evidence porting to show McDonough's in- fluence on San Francisco affairs McDonough who was jailed be- cause he wouldn't talk to the earlier the astronomers or traveling and effort on the baked island would have been ruined Clouds May Bar Sight From Peru Mountain LIMA Peru June ness and rain threatened today to frustrate well-laid plans of to photograph a total eclipse of the sun late this afternoon Astronomers from the United States have spent days setting up their instruments and rehearsing for the precise work of the 205 seconds of total his influence or anything j precious else wouldn't talk about the new ness evidence or his jail life to Charles H Smiley Brown at the jail I've been in jail before was I sity astronomer who has what he believes to be the fastest only comment on the en- that him behind bars camped for two days between reversals that put him behind bars in the San Francisco County Jail Ian Peak and the village of Pira JIl me A nnn A kHe spent eight months in the about up in the coastal pickets apprehended since inter- union strife broke out at the nery yesterday i The pickets were strung along Avenue from East Tenth to East Twelfth Street PICKETS REMOVED FROM OTHER PLANTS Union truck drivers who were instructed to picket lines as a result of the council's decision reported pickets were re- moved from all but the East land plant Between 200 and 300 were massed at that plant early this morning as workers continued cherry canning which began Stones and bricks were hurled at j women employees as they walked i LANSING Mich June Auto Workers who closed up downtown Lansing yesterday in a labor holiday met an reception when they sought to extend the demonstration into East Lansing home of Michigan State College Students overturned their automobiles and dipped eight of them in the Red Cedar traditional punishment of freshmen who offend upper Here is part of the P Jean Harlow's Funeral Tomorrow to Be Private Pictures and more details Page 20 By RONALD WAGONER United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD June 8 her death frequently has CLEVELAND O June Michael of Cleveland announced today that he has instructed his not to accept parcel post ments of food and in Republic Steel plants O'Donnell said be acted orders from Washington masters at Warren and Niles have been refusing snch shipments for some time to work along Avenue Police patrolled the street and kept pickets away from the women Fearing injuries as rocks continued Officials Order Disarming Of Pickets j Detectives from Sheriff Tells where Jean Harlow I made most of her pictures today the bojy of the star as it More on Page 12 By thr Associated Press W Stevens flying for Additional details on Page 2 County Jail in 1925 after con- on a Federal bootlegging h 3 i the American Museum is expected to climb feet into the sub- Harry Rice McDonough s nephew to h the business associate and companion shadow as it is cast in jail on the bootlegging charge meanwhile followed his uncle's I steps toward a possible contempt 1 jail sentence He refused to testily before the Grand Jury last citing the same grounds that i Donough did before he was of contempt of court TAPPED WIRES GAVE NEW DISCLOSURES The new disclosures of j I Donough's influence was given the Grand Jury in testimony and in I records of conversations tapped on i McDonough Brothers telephone by I Flier Expected to Stay at Edwin N Atherton chief graft in- i T p j rnor Melvin Belli San Francisco at- j To Resuming Globe Jaunt torney told the jurors a young at- i torney trying to build up a tice at the Hall of Justice would j starve to death unless he did j ness with lay in the Pierce Brothers Mortuary It was disclosed that the plain assigned to the mortuary through the night With the exception of two forced them from Avenue be- tee attacked a front for I not even attendants at to fly into ranks of the women j YOUNGSTOWN O June lice advanced upon the pickets and Steel Workers Organizing tween 10th and 12th Streets ANGER VENTED UPON PIE TRUCK i lie Steel Corporation an injunction i suit of three railroads to restrain i interference with their shipments j The who were forced along by pickets in Federal over the East Twelfth Street Court today as peace plans in thela Dimple white dress intersection vented their anger upon the funeral parlor were allowed to enter the Tennyson the door of which was bolted Miss Harlow's body was clad A book of a pie truck which took food to the and Republic planned to reopen a her disapproval of state funerals it was said I death of the star j rated as the first 10 in film j box office value spread gloom over the entire picture colony BODY WILL LIE NEAR THAT OF None of the glamor that rounded the life of the fallen star nor the dazzle of Hollywood will be allowed to enter the last rites at the AVec Kirk After the service there Miss Harlow's body will be placed in a crypt at Forest Lawn Memorial workers yesterday picketed plant They overturned the machine on Edward Lamb general counsel for the sidewalk after the driver fled j the Committee for Industrial HOP TO INDIA when pickets threatened him Pickets massed at the intersection of Avenue and East Street Their leaders exhorted women strikers to lead a march Amelia's own story on Page 18 DAKAR Senegal June Amelia Earhart American in Ohio obtained n outside the Tennyson Ronm They remained the j 1 I JL III V tut of suit in Federal by others of Court at Judge Samuel H West set Friday for n hearing on against ranks of the police But the the union's motion to dismiss the i officers forced their way into the j melee and arrested two strike i PICKET CLUBBED ers they alleged were inciting the I HE CHARGES pickets to violence The pickets were arrested by trolman Lee Newell who said they were throwing rocks as well as ing women to go through the lice lines They gave their names as Joe Camilo 50 of 927 nue and Walter Perry 22 of 360 S TV O C leaders said Joseph mous poet looked down from Park where Rudolph Valentino lies of the Jean's mother and her latest suitor dapper William Powell appeared day to have suffered the severest shock over her death Both were at her bedside in Good Samaritan EXPLANATION LACKING urging her to fight border for FOR UNUSUAL ACTION when she sank into her last Attendants at the mortuary coma yesterday morning during the morning Jean's mother held up fairly well for the secrecy attending the prep v v f i Morton president of the local at i aration of the body for funeral I told tne Massillon O was clubbed by Re- i scheduled for 11 a m physician is with her constantly She public guards today when he went j Wednesday at the Wee Kirk o the an with two other pickets to inspect Heather U steel freight cars on a Pennsylvania Railroad spur at the Republic plant there The two pickets said com- j as very beautiful but not i A wire tapping transcript showed j flew here today from St that Sam Beckett deputy Slate in- Louis and studied weather forecasts surance commissioner called mapping out her route across Donough Brothers when on ner TOund the worid ough first was attacked in fo Oakland Calif ton's report and told an aid of officials here believed she would j the arrests Linden Street They said they guards also released tear gas when they came upon union men i Dr J A Barnes who dressed th i union leader's wounds said he had Others scattered as police made face and scalp wounds not cannery employees THREAT MADE TO CALL ATTORNEY ars on a Pennsylvania The was placed in a bronze I lr D on r at the Republic plant by mortuary Continued on Page 20 Col ot Guild Leaves A F of L for C I O Hundreds of movie fans gath Pierce establishment but were turned away without being lowed to view the body a day or two before she de- I just wanted to tell him whether to continue direct Donough that I'm stronger for him Africa Khartoum in the than ever I've known him for Sudan or follow the safer coastal years and I think he's a fine man j the Mediterranean using BECKETT EXPLAINS French landing fields as far as HIS TELEPHONE CALL Investigators said this was Miss Earhart landed at St Louis significant because a m- yesterday parsed by the recent Legislature a flight across the and now awaiting the Governor's i South Atlantic from Natal Brazil signature puts bail bond brokers Though she is the third woman to under thp jurisdiction of the State tilc Atlantic she is the insurance commissioner i first io the more difficult Beckett called before the jury course explained he had telephoned Donough to tell him of bills ing before the Legislature and ing with bail bond brokers He he did not recall the wording fcf the conversation Another witness before the jury Well get onr attorney and show yon cops yon can't chase us off the one picket threatened He was delegated by the pickets to an attorney to the scene Earlier today five i arrested on an automobile i He ordered him to bed at union Later friends and relatives were ers plumbers and electricians away from buildings under construction here Yesterday the United Automobile Workers of America C I O iate called its members from work in a city-wide demonstration that neared the proportions of a general in protest against arrest of eight pickets Spokesmen for the building men declared today's holiday had tied up every city and State project as well as private building in the city PROSECUTOR TO PRESS CHARGES Prosecutor Thomas J Bailey who prepared misdemeanor charges against five pickets whose arrest precipitated yesterday's holiday said today he was pre- pared to press the charges in tice Court in Mason tomorrow Judge Leland W Carr of Ingham Circuit Court has not announced i ST LOUIS June i what action will be taken against American Newspaper Guild now a three pickets accused of contempt member of the American of for picketing in violation the procedure was most un- wen usual They were unable to account when her fnr lhP the daughter died a family spokesman Press When she arrived home from the hospital she tion and member of the executive committee of Republic's board of directors The protest declared that Farley ordered postmasters mt Niles and Warren O to accept mail parcels for delivery to the Republic plants we shall feel compelled to take snch legal steps as may be available to us in the premises The corporation offered to have itself deputized to function for the Postoffice Department in making mail deliveries at the struck plants TAKES ISSUE WITH DEPARTMENT STAND 0 mi Ci The corporation took issue with Building on Strike j Postoffice Department statements As Demonstration Spreads and other shipments for T i the struck plants had been refused In Capital Ot Michigan j m accord with long standing j regulations The postal laws and the lations of your said the corporation are silent on the distinction which yon appear to be We do not believe that any snch practice if It exists is proper nor do we believe that mny regulation embodying the same principle would he valid Jf adopted The Republic protest coincided LANSING Mich June I Another one-day labor holiday in I Michigan's State Capital City halted building operations today The new holiday called by unions with the American Federation of Labor to signal the start of an organizing campaign pulled bricklayers plasterers with a drive by a group of Re- publican Democratic senators to force a congressional inquiry into the refusal by the postoffice to cept the strike shipments FOLLOWS DEMAND FOR The issue was raised by H Styles Bridges R N He a resolution providing for pointment of a com- to investigate alleged inter- ference with tJ S mail by strikers at an Ohio mill The Labor Department while sought to determine whether there was any possibility of settling the strike by compromise James V Dewey department conciliator planned to confer with John Lewis chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization which Is the Bridges he had been assured sufficient of Senate support to order an inquiry to de- termine the full acts of the headquarters Meanwhile with about 73.000 workers idle in plants of Republic Sheet Tube Co and permitted to enter the chapel MiiS Harlow is as beautiful in tion Labor voted today at its of an I H Vandenberg Mich and Josiah W Bailey D N C joined fourth annual convention to the to affiliate the j Inland Steel Corporation Marino of the T r M C A tee for Industrial Organization Continued on Page 2 Cc Continued on 20 Col 61 M PJ oday rye Carl at the person to dubs to the Tennyson ule to the curb late yes other i and throwing stones through j up chief the windows injuring two Jn admitted the barred door of which remained under pants Sheriff Ralph E Elser who disclosed he had sworn I Bello who previously had paced TODAY IN THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE i GOV FRANK MURPHY of the head of the bed and opened liveries Well the The men gave names as Fred ot the mortuary re- John Limpo I mamed in the room la ence Rose 21 Harley Carothers 26 m barracks Unidentified Man Found Dead on Road An unidentified man about 50 years of age was found dead today and Henry Tite 29 all of Hayward j They were by Sergeant for Louis Kirsch He said they were riding in an automobile bearing a Miss Harlow's nurse Ada was Joe Cohen described as near tile State at Daly manager of a service that provides i apparently the victim of a race track information to clients i hearl A card in his pocket j bore the name of Mrs Johanson Continued on Page 3 Col I Church Street San Franciso who was called by deputy coroners fo attempt to identify the man Mrs Johanson before viewing the body said that the man might be an unemployed woodcarver a friend Noblewoman Fined In Custom said was used yesterday to carry pickets AUTOMOBILES CARRYING WORKERS STONED The violence reached its climax SHERIFF CHARGES WOMEN THREATENED men sct up have trying to in- outside the mortuary in my Sheriff Uon of Jhc of celebrities j Elser said Three houses have Mrs Jean the been stoned At the same time j who after her daughter's dozens of women have received described by friends as gan in addressing labor who Lansing traffic and I am sorry you have been ing trouble We will all come out of our differences all right if we keep our heads clear and if we guarantee every man his civil rights I ask you not to take ex- action No injustice will be I Hampshire is trying to in- done you in Michigan as long as the Governor can prevent j Page 1 his lips to speak Bni he choked and couldn't say a 1 JESSE M DONALDSON deputy assistant postmaster-general re- garding charges of mail in Ohio strike dis- ti I Senator Bridges of that we ought to arm our trucks and drivers and force de- when 25 automobile loads of calls ike get to her determination that men were taken through lines of 500 pickets at California Packing Cor- plant No 37 on LONDON June A woman of her husband named Rodrigues strikers 1 identified herself as Lady abeth was fined 1500 about today for an alleged attempted evasion of customs ties Lady Prescott is the former Mrs They were met with i barrage of stones and several persons were were escorted by 20 police band ont of the mill or he won't jast come back j as One man Mike Spanos of was arrested under Chief Olson's order to disarm the pickets and charged with ing the peace bc as The body will be taken from I Pierce Brothers parlors to the of the At the injunction hearing in chapel of the Wee Kirk ins cars and 40 other police Cleveland Clan Crawford railroad Heather at Forest Lawn Cemetery j cers were in the neighborhood attorney arguing against shortly the funeral SENATOR STYLES New Hampshire mail stoppages in the Ohio steel strike i There has been a lot of ing in regard to whether the government has interested itself on one side or the other in strikes To my mind there is a direct issue involved I want to see how the administration meets I WHERE TO FIND IT Page 21 Subject Amusements and Plays FERNANDO DE NORONHA C Windshields and side windows of ment the action said that the row Only 200 of the star's nearest FIRE CAPTAIN W A RR E N H i the machines were shattered railroads have been by friends will ad mitt ed to he ny BLAKE in o Hughes Melcer of Brazil June crew of inia She married Sir George tne burning Greek steamer Maria rescott sportsman and big game was transferred safely hunter in 1932 day to the German The fine was levied on charges I Westphalen the catapult ship for woman failed to declare a pair J the Reich's transatlantic transport of diamond ruby and platinum clips and several articles of when she landed at planes The Maria Stathatos aflame from stem to stern arrived off this island near the northeast coast of Brazil late last night the occupants with glass i force from movement of their trains chapel A guard of honor selected Joseph Mendonza 2560 East in interstate commerce from fellow workers at M G tanks in the last desperate to save Jean Harlow's We did everything that years of training had taught us bnt it Street driver of one of the While the hearing was in will form a around the machines facial cuts when ress 500 pickets delayed 350 chapel to keep back sightseers j windshield glass sprayed his face land Republic office workers from They will by members of j was a He said pickets T machine from the Street and Fruitvale Avenue Edward and Joseph j to turn over a list of office employees to Al Balint C I O Continued on Page 2 Col 5 Classified Advertising 40 Comics rnd Strips 30 Crossword Puzzle 28 Daily Knave Column 27 Editorials and Columns 44 Editorial Features 27 Financial and Stocks 37 Marine News Shipping 39 Martha Lee's Cooking 29 A and Clubs 36 Radio Sched KLX News 34 Society Women's 36 hurled rocks at his reaching their offices for nearly the Los Angeles Police Department the corner of 10th an hour The picket line was dis- Miss wilt not lie banded after Republic officials of- in state as has been the practice when other Hollywood stars died The young actress who was only 26 years old at the time v sct up four oxygen tanks and connected i Sports and Sportsmen them with a mask over hrr face I News Miss Harlow was talking I asked William Powell to say something in an effort to ronse her Powell stepped up to Wood Soanes Statistics Wirephoto Picture Page 31 35 21 43 10 is not a 1 CHARLES W REAL business ager of the Teamsters So far as organized labor concerned there is no strike at the canneries now Four taken cff the Hst by a vote of the Alameda Labor Conncil The only tion is to organize the cannery workers into a Dona fide A F of L 1 SHERIFF RALPH E Youngstown They apparently Jo steel strike pickets have trying to intimidate my Three houses have been at the same time dozens of have received calls like TM get husband ont of the or he won't come back Page 1 WALTER Though the the Mt hate each other violently ttt? deal with human affairs la same way there JW aeration to the crMi wv MMt the moderate are being k rise and astert the ai of common of the i
