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8. 8. BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, 'JUNE 20, 1937 Chief Personalities in Steel Row as Martial Law Rules in Johnstown MAYOR DANIEL J. SHIELDS of Johnstown In his criticism of the Governor's request that Bethlehem shut down its mill, called it "anarchy" and asked President Roosevelt to "end reign of terror." Produce Trade Supplies Gain As Prices Sag Heavier Shipments Are Resulting in Lower Quotations Generally Fruit and vegetable shipments have been moving at the rate of 3,000 carloads per week day, showing an increase of 10 percent compared with the preceding week and 5 percent compared with the same week last year. Heavy gains the second week of June included cantaloupes 900 more, potatoes about 600, tomatoes 400, melons 300, peaches, plums, lemons, carrots, and corn about 100 more of each, according to reports of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

These gains were partly ofset by moderate decreases in apples, grapefruit, cherries, strawberries, cabbage, onions, celery and peas. The large wholesale market conditions were generally in buyers' favor. Demand is fair to good but supplies by train and truck are heavy and prices mostly lower. Even carrots and celery, the high -priced leaders the first part of June, were receding from top leveis on prospect larger supplies. Potato Supplies Heavy Shipments of potatoes have been coming at the rate of more than 7,000 cars per week and are likely to continue heavy with the California season at its height, the South Carolina movement very active, and shipments increasing from Oklahoma and Arkansas, while a large crop in Kansas and Missouri is coming to market soon.

Shipments of early potatoes so far have already exceeded last season's total. Trend of prices was still slightly Southeastern downward in midcountry shipping points quoted f. o. prices 10 cents lower after the middle of the month, ranging 90 cents to $1.10 per 100 pounds. Jobbing range in northern markets was $1.40 to $1.50.

Onions Slow Onions have been selling a little better at an eastern jobbing range of 75 cents to $1.10 per 50 pounds. with a few price recoveries on receipts from north Texas. Shipments from that section were lighter for a time and track holdings reduced, but owing to slow demand the advances were not well maintained. California White Wax onions still show decay in some lots. They are selling around $1 in central markets.

Government support appeared around the 60-cent level at Texas shipping points. The cabbage market has been weak and prices declined to low levels Increased movement of cabbage by truck made it hard to move carlot quantities. Letuce, including the Iceberg type, is being received in considerable quantities. Apple Season Begins Shipments of a few carloads of apples from Georgia opened the new season in mid- June. Movement of the old crop is nearly over, after one of the most recent favorable market seasons in recent years.

The longer varieties will be offered in the market for some time to come. The price is steadily at mostly $2 to $2.25 per bushel basket best lots, but extremes range $1.25 to $2.50. Japanese Petrol Sale Controlled Tokio, June 19-The Japanese Oll Federation has decided to control the distribution of petrol in Japan through an arrangement with the various oil companies. The oil federation recently succeded in standardizinz petrol in Japani EUGENE G. GRACE, president of the Bethlehem Steel: "To close plant involves admission that forces of law are powerless to protect men in right to work." March on Johnstown Is Canceled by Lewis Continued from Page 1 beleaguered city "if necessary" during tomorrow's meeting by the miners.

Governor Earle stood ready to rush National Guardsmen into the area--to maintain peace during the projected mass "invasion" of 40,000 miners. Governor Earle followed up his declaration of martial law "to preserve peace and avoid bloodshed" by ordering the immediate evacuation of non -striking workers at the Cambria plant. Grace notified Mayor Shields that he would not voluntarily close the Cambria works. Grace's Telegram He said he advised Governor Earle "that if the plant is it will be on his orders and responclosed, sibility." In a telegram replying to one sent by Mayor Shields, Grace said: to your telegram, I wish to assure you and your City Council that we will not voluntarily close the Cambria plant and have today advised Governor Earle that if the plant is closed it will be on his orders and upon his responsibility, "We cannot believe that the police power of this Commonwealth will be used by its Governor to prevent our employes in Johnstown from exercising their legal right to work." Won't Send Troops Washington, June 19 -A White House spokesman said President Roosevelt would refuse to send troops into Johnstown in response to an urgent request by Mayor Shields. unless the governor or State Legislature requests them.

Meet Labor Department Aide Cleveland. June 19 (P)-With Chairman Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati asserting that "we intend to work as rapidly as can." the Federal three-man mediation board moved today to settle the widespread Great Lakes steel strike. The meeting started shortly after the arrival by plane from Washington of Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor.

Taft and Lloyd K. Garrison of Madison, reached Cleveland by train earlier. Prior to the meeting. they conferred informally with James F. Dewey, Federal Labor Department conciliator, and Ralph A.

Lind, Regional Labor Board director. Policies to be followed in settlement efforts. Taft said. probably will be mapped today, the board will not meet formally Monday because both Taft and Garrison have engagements to make commencement addresses. To Call Steel Officials McGrady said, in response questions: "You know all labor differences are sometimes different and you GOVERNOR Pennsylvania: "To earnestly request you town plant pending GEORGE H.

of "To prevent bloodshed, I you to close your Johnsaction of mediators." JOHN L. LEWIS, cel a mass meeting of in the captive mines Cambria plant's picket COUP shown above (left) faded to complete black- as those seen at right in front of Johnstown plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in ordered the establishment of martial law when company, refused to shut down the mill. Today on the Right Bank More people live on the right bank of the East River than in any other area of the United States of similar size. Heads of the Withers Democratic Club of Williamsburgh, who have invited William Meagher, the new 13th A. D.

Democratic leader, to visit them tomorrow night, announced that plenty of fireworks would be used to greet him. Aerial salutes and other noise-makers will be touched off to make the leader's first risit to the club at 181 Withers St. impressive. Mr. Meagher, son of Matthew Meagher, warden of the City Prison, succeeded former Assemblyman William Breitenbach, who died May 13.

James Allen is the club's president. Philip Tirone heads the reception committee. His assistants include Deputy Sheriff Peter Corvo and Joseph Papavero. VA steel mill, such as State troopers, such evacuating the Cambria George H. Earle president of the steel Bilbao in Panic As Rebels Win Continued from Page 1 Night scene in a ness as Pennsylvania bank, went about Johnstown.

Governor Eugene G. Grace, feeble cheers and cries of "Arriva Espana!" For hours, they said, they had feared their release would mean only death at the hands of bands of Leftists still abroad in the streets. The prison gates had been opened at midnight. Then they formed their column, with the 200 armed men on the sides, in front and behind, and women and children herded in the middle. Halted by Guards At almost every corner they were halted by armed Asturians, who questioned their right to leave the city, but the 200 rifles proved sufficient safe conduct.

The Asturians made no real attempt to stop them. The insurgents loaded them on military trucks, gave them food, supplied them with Carlist red berets to identify them and sent them to a refugee camp near Vitoria. Dry Goods Sales Advance Shortens Consolidating the gains of 1936, which gave wholesalers the largest volume of business in terms of units for any year since 1929, expansion of both sales and production was unchecked in the dry goods trade during the first quarter of 1937. Mills then were refusing orders specifying delivery earlier than six months, while wholesale volume ranged from 20 to 40 percent over the 1936 comparative. Buyers were pressing to cover requirements ahead as far as next Fall and Winter, to gain price advantage on a rising market and to allow for possible delivery delays.

Situation Changes By the middle of April the situation started to shift. Unfavorable weather curtailed retail sales and consumer spending was frozen further by employment uncertainty, which the strike wave spread. Advance wholesale commitments came to a halt as quotations on both raw cotton and wool turned weaker, unsettling the price structure of many types of finished goods. In spite of this narrowing distribution, which persisted until early June, wholesale volume increased 15 to 30 percent from that for the first five months of 1936, while retail sales rose 10 to 25 percent. Wholesale Activity Hesitation on the part of buyers has been less in evidence since the beginning of June.

Retail distribution has widened steadily, imparting more activity to wholesale markets. As the dip in raw material quotations has been too short to force I major redajustments on finished whose United Mine Workers 40,000 men in Johnstown of the Bethlehem corporation lines as part of a sympathy L. I. Man Named Head of V. F.

Continued from Page 1 County chaplain and chaplain of the State during the past year, was indorsed with roaring acclamation by the convention for national chaplain. Reaney, past county commander of Kings, was elected a member of the State council of administration. Nassau Ladies Corps Wins The Nassau County Ladies Auxiliary Bugle and Drum Corps captured first prize in the State-wide competition. Kings County Auxillaries Corps won the second award. The campaign to bring the 1939 convention to Brooklyn headed by Herman R.

Latourette won the united support of the entire State. resolution by Comrade Post of demanding presented, pensions for World War veterans, which was expected to prove one of the controversial highlights of the encampment, failed to be voted upon by the convention when the Brooklyn delegation, after tabling of the motion to the final session, decided not to press the issue. Dr. Matthew Levitas of Archie Ketcham Post, Brooklyn, declined to make the race for re-election as department surgeon. Levitas was given an enthusiastic reception when he tendered his annual report reciting the accomplishments of his office including the reopening of Brooklyn Naval Hospital to veterans.

Benefits Are Greater Levitas submitted a detailed statement of conditions in hospitals throughout the State and cited many changes in Veterans Administration regulations liberalizing hospitalization benefits to disabled veterans. These changes, he declared, were brought about through the efforts of the State organization of the V. F. W. Comrade Post of Brooklyn waged the most exciting controversy of the convention when it pressed for indorsement of a resolution demanding pensions for World War veterans.

The campaign of Brooklyn Council to win the 1939 convention for Brooklyn won immediate favor. Letters from Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, Borough President Raymond V. Ingersoll and heads of several boards of trade were submitted urging the vets to be the guests of Brooklyn during "World Fair Year." Capt.

Dunne Boomed Capt. Edward Dunne senior vice county commander of Kings who served during the past year as partment patriotic instructor was boomed for higher appointive position in the State organization. Morris Goldman, Kings County commander, led his delegation home, congratulated on all sides upon the achievement of every goal for which the local delegation had aimed. Thomas P. Laver.

new State Comm mander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, resides in Cedarhurst. Nassau, although his V. F. W. activities have centered in Queens County.

He served as Commander of Far Union were told to cantoday, while 500 workers already were on the strike. sit sit French Senate Rejects Blum Power Grant Downfall of Cabinet Is Averted by Prompt Strategy of Premier hi. 8 A Mother Goose musical with child performers opened the 22d annual June Festival program of the Munson S.tool of Music in the parish house of the Bay Ridge Methodist -Episcopal Church, Ovington and 4th Aves. Commanded by Maj. Bernard S.

Barron, the Battalion Fleet, Marine Corps Brooklyn's Thirds own, left the Brooklyn' Navy Yard at 6:30 a.m. today for a 15-day tour of duty at Quantico, Va. There were 350 men and 12 officers in the battalion. The Nicers included Capts. Howard Hauck, John J.

Dolan, Milton O'Connell, John J. Carey and Angelo Cincotta. With Mayor LaGuardia presiding, 11 sergeants will be made lieutenants and 27 patrolmen will be elevated to the rank of sergeant at 2:30 p.m. today in outdoor exercises at Ebbets Field. Commissioner Lewis J.

Valentine and ranking officials of the department will take part in the ceremonies. Magistrate Vincent J. Sweeney in Felony Court yesterday held Sol Newkirfk, 20, of 1539 Eastern Parkway, malicious in $2,500 mischief bail and on violation charges of Section 726 of the penal law in throwing a stench bomb in the dress shop of Max Hartmann at 1415 Broadway. Hartman chased Newkirk to a trolley car. The fugitive hit him, Hartman said, and both goods, an upward price trend is indicated for Fall, due to the expense adde dto production by wage boosts, curtailed workweek and higher costs of supplies.

These were some of the major developments revealed by a survey of the dry goods trade, which has just been completed by Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. By the Associated Press Paris, June 19 Premier Leon Blum faced overthrow tonight in a parliament divided on the question of giving him full powers to rehabilitate French finances by decree. The Senate by a vote of 188 to 72 rejected the bil. embodying the emergency powers the Premier is demanding, but Blum returned to the attack by calling on the Chamber of Deputies to pass the bill for the secon dtime. That would compel the Seante v0 consider it once more.

Just before the Chamber met for a critical night session its finance committee readopted the Premier's bill by 26 votes to 16 and cleared the way for the deputies 'action. Immediate downfall of the cabinet because of the Senate attack was averted by the Premier's strategy in refraining from staking "confidence in the government" on his bill. The defeat therefore did not compel his resignation. Government supporters, however, viewed the situation of the people's front cabinet with pessimism. Many predicted Premier Blum would be beaten again tomorrow when his bill returns to the Senate from the Chamber and when, presumably, he will pose the questio nof confidence.

Others close to the Premier, said a compromise might yet be reached to save the cabinet. have to use your ingenuity." He said no special instructions were given him in a brief conference with Secretary of Labor Perkins yesterday. Indications were that both steel and labor officials would be called Tuesday. If either croup refuses to meet jointly they will be asked to convene separately. Then the board will talk to each party carrying the viewpoints of each disputant to the other.

Secretary Perkins' executive order creating the board gave it broad powers to investigate the causes and circumstances of the strike, including the power to subpoena witnesses, books and records. From sources close to the it was learned that rather than subpoenas, probably would be sent out over the weekend to steel corporations and union officials to attend a peace meeting. Companies Visited Informal word from steel corporations and union camps that no compromise would be acceptable faced the board as it started to work. The companies insisted they would sign no contract with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the steel unit of John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization.

Lewis was said to have sent the board just as strong a statement that he wanted corporation executives names on the dotted line. Greyhound Lines Seek Bus Order Washington, June 19 (A)-Six Greyhound affiliates asked the Interstate Commerce Commission today for authority to issue $1,212.000 of five-year serial equipment mortgage notes in connection with the purchase of 101 new buses. The purchases, the application said, would 'be made from the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company of Pontiac, Mich. The individual applications were: The Central Greyhound Lines, of Syracuse, N. $396,000, for 33 Southwestern Greyhound Lines, Fort Worth, $360,000, for 30 buses.

Dixie Greyhound Lines, Memphis, $180,000, for 15 buses. Illinois Greyhound Lines, Cleveland, Ohio, $120,000, for ten buses. Teche Lines. New Orleans, $96,000, for eight buses. Ohio Greyhound Lines, Cleveland, Ohio, $60,000 for five buses.

The notes will bear interest on a sliding scale from to 4 percent. left the vehicle and the foot race was resumed to Woodbine St. and Evergreen where Newkirk was arrested. Frederick J. Bruce, 50, of 136 Montgomery Place, was severely wounded in the stomach when his 22 caliber rifle went off accidently.

He is in Greenpoint Hospital. Bruce. president of the Frederick J. Bruce Lumber Company, 44 Whitehall Manhattan, had been hunting rats on the dock of the North 1st St. branch of his plant on the East River.

Five thousand persons visited the new branch of the Jamaica Savings Bank as it opened at 216-19 Jamaica Queens Village. George S. Downing, president, received the visitors. Theodore Temple is manager. Rabbi Menachem Risikoff of 691 Lafayette one of the senior rabbis in the World Rabbinate, has completed a religious entitled "Shaarai Shomayim." Rabbi Leon J.

Risikoff, chaplain of the Department of Sanitation, is a son. More than 1,000 friends are expected at the wedding of Miss Madeline Dileo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pasquale Dileo, of 322 Oakland to Charles Marino, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Michael Marino of 3311 Beverly Road this afternoon in the Church of St. Anthony, Manhattan Ave. The body of Harry Hanovic, 24, an orderly at Creedmoor State Hospital, who disappeared June 10 while swimming at Far (Rockaway, was found by Harold Opitz of 5018 39th Long Island City, Preparations Wildwood, for the official opening Summer of camp of the Brooklyn Council of Girl Scouts, at Wading River, will get under way tomorrow when Martha Prendergast, director, will leave for camp to lay plans for the season. Registrations for all encampments are still being accepted at Scout headquarters, 102 Prospect Park West. By order of the Appellate Diviison here Mrs.

Pauline Rogers Hoving must pay the upkeep costs of the Southampton estate of her former husband, the late Col. HiM. Rogers. Mrs. Hoving claimed expenses reach as high as $112,000 a year.

The ruling, from which Justice Adel dissented without an opinion, held there was nothing in the will which charged the expense to the estate or to Peter Salm, Colonel Rogers' grandson. Valley District Steel Rate Youngstown, June 19-Steel output in plants not affected by the strike in the Youngstown district will remain unchanged at about 30 percent of capacity next week. Of the 83 open hearth furnaces in the entire district, 29 will operate. In addition, Republic Steel Corporation is maintaining operation of four of its eight open hearths at its Warren plant. While large ore shipments protected by railroad police are being received at strike- plants, as yet there is no sign of reopening.

It is believed that all was set to reopen Youngstown Steel Tube Company and Republic Steel Company plants here. but plans suffered setback with the appointment of the Federal meditation board. This action made public officials who previously promised protection to the men returning to work hesitant, and the management of the companies is unwilling to expose loyal workers to disorders. PARADE PRECEDES POLO GAME At the Fort Hamilton Army Res- ervation this afternoon there will be a parade by the 1st Batalion of the famous 18th U. S.

Infantry, Brooklyn's regular army regiment. It will precede a polo match between the First Division and the Blind Brook Polo Club of Port Chester. Rockaway Post, held numerous positions in the county organizations and climbed the State ladder to the top position. His activities in behalf of veterans have won for him national recognition. Queens County members of the V.

F. W. have predicted that he will next step into the national organization of V. F. W.

Layer served during the war in the Navy as chief petty officer. Twyford Active Here Thomas F. Twyford, new junior vice department commander of the V. F. is a well known borough attorney.

He is a former county president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. A member of C. Hesterberg Post, he held the office of junior vice, then senior vice county commander and last year was the county commander of the Brooklyn organization..