DIES PROBE TOLD
OF NEW RED PLOT
New York Subway Work
ers, Witness Says, Arm
ed In ‘Gun Clubs’
WASHINGTON, April 23—HP)—
Thomas Murphrey O’Shea, former
New York City subway worker, told
the Dies committee today that Com
munists had power at the present
time to paralyze the city's trans
port system. He added that mem
bers of the transport union, "dom
inated” by Communists, had organ
ized "gun clubs" for target prac
tice.
O’Shea, now a WPA worker, was
asked whether the Communists
could paralyze the city’s trans
port system under present condi
tions.
He replied, ‘Yes.”
"The Communist leadership with
its control in the union,” he added,
1 "could stampede the men into a
strike.”
"They have the absolute power,
if they see fit to exercise it.”
In replying to questions by J. B.
Matthews, committee aide, concern
ing "revolutionary activities In the
Transport Workers Union” O'Shea
asserted that gun clubs had been
organized by union members for
regular target practice.
“They have these guns for the
same reason that these 17 Chris
tion Front people had them?” In
quired Representative Thomas (R
NJ), and O'Shea assented.
They apparently referred to a
group of young men now being
t :ed in New York on charges of
plotting the overthrow of the gov
ernment.
In a thick brogue, O'Shea related
that Communists had carried on a
campaign to place members in un
ions of men employed by the Inter
borough Rapid Transit company of
New York.
Asked by Chairman Dies (D-Tex)
what the purpose of this penetra
tion was, the witness said :
“Naturally it was to get control
of the industry.”
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“I’m going to skip lunch—it took me a half an hour to
get this veil on right.”
GREATER SPREAD
OF WAR IS SEEN
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was evidence of increasing German
pressure on Sweden in German
press and radio campaigns.
While the situation in Yugoslavia
was declared to be less tense at the
moment, the foreign office source
said the Balkan country contnues
to lie within the danger zone. He
said, however, that slackening of
Italian press criticism has dispelled
part of the anxiety for the time
being.
The general “tendency” is to
watch the two danger spots careful
ly and be ready to act in the event
of aggression in either quarter, it
was explained.
The prompt Allied action in Nor
way was cited as a precedent.
NORWEGIANS FACE
NEW NAZI THREAT
(Continued From Page One)
east from Lillehammer and driv
ing north from their portions east
of Mjosa Lake would threaten it
both from north and south.
East of the lake the Germans
held fertile lowlands, but faced
mountains, endless forest and but
a few poor roads, further north.
By reaching Gjovilc, opposite
Hamar on Lake Mjosa, the Ger
mans control the valuable Toten
counties, and Raufoss, five miles
south, important because of its am
munition factory.
Lillehammer and Rena are import
ant strategically because they domi
nate southern entrances to the par
allel Gudbrandsdal and Osierdal val
leys, which run north and south.
By their activities at Andalsnes
and around Trondheim it appears the
English and French Allies intend to
move down these two valleys toward
Oslo. The Germans apparently are
bent upon gaining and holding the
southern valley gat-es.
Andalsnes, where the British have
landed, is a little international tour
ist center of 1,000 inhabitants living
in white-painted houses, surrounded
by mighty mountains. It opens the
way to Dombas, on Dovre Mounaain,
by a railway winding through a can
yon over many bridges, 300 feet
above the river bottom.
Home
Okies At
By NEA Service
SALINAS, Calif., April 23.—This
is a story of the Oakies who made
good.
Not all the dispossessed Okies
and Arkies and Joads who have
made the trek to California have
slumped into hopeless despair and
near-starvation. Some have man
aged to make a place for them
selves.
You can see it at East Salinas.
Migrants came here and quietly
went to work, earning their liv
ing and paying their bills. Be
tween 6500 and 8000 of them live
here. Once East Salinas was known
as “Oklahoma Flats’’ or "Little
Oklahoma City.” But no more.
These Okies do not consider them
selves migrants. They are Califor
nians now'. Nowhere in the settle
ment can you find any desire to
resume contact with old and bit
ter memories.
FARMER PARCELS
OUR LAND
Migrants first settled in East
Salinas in 1929 when the Dust
Bowl first began to spew' forth its
children. A farmer divided a 100
acre hay-field into tracts of one
sixth of an acre, and sold them
for from $200 to $300 each. There
were no building restrictions. The
new owners set up shacks, tin
shanties, piano-box shelters. But
those first crude homes have been
almost entirely replaced by sub
stantial buildings.
The community w'as unincor
porated, governed by county au
thorities and such local councils
as were set up to meet needs. Most
important is the East Salinas Civic
Improvement association, which
has built sidewalks, set up a few
street lights, and is now installing
a sanitary system. More than 1000
children are enrolled in two
schools.
Some of the migrants have been
able to start their own businesses
in the community. J. H. McPher
son -and- Rex Powell set up a con
tracting firm and have built 150
houses through FHA loans. Two
thirds of them are owned by for
mer . Oklahomans like themselves.
-L-'O.H 0.1101 i)(xy ruicnidU came IU
Salinas flat broke. Now they are
partners in a trucking business.
C. E. Johns, another Oklahoman,
had a little money, started a gro
cery. Now he’s enlarging it. An
other migrant started a hole-in
the-wall restaurant. Now it’s a
prosperous business.
Nearly all have managed to carve
out some sort of a permanent place
for themselves. Some leave their
Salinas homes in the winter to
work in the vegetable season in
the Imperial Valley, returning in
April for the lettuce season.
There are three men for every
job in the county, however, and
thus the former migrants have
filled every possible labor opening
in the community. They have made
good for themselves, but they have
closed one more community to any
further migration.
That condition is general. J. C.
Henderson, ESA's regional migrant
supervisor, believes there are at
this moment 4500 workers above
the 250,000 California will need at
peak season. The question is, what
awaits the 60,000 to 90,000 others
who will come into the state again
this summer seeking work?
“All we can do right now is to
stick our fingers in the dyke like
the little Dutch boy,” says Hen
derson, “hoping that everything
holds together until a real solution
i. found. We have the upper hand
over the worst of the situation.
There is nowhere near the misery
and chaos that existed among the
migrants in 1935 and 1936.
“I don’t think anybody is going
to go hungry any more. The health
situation is under control and
rapidly improving. We have man
aged to provide clothing of sorts.
“The most pressing problem is
housing. our government camps
Book Highlights
Somebody should have written it
a long time ago, but the story’s
decidedly worth waiting for as
Foster Rhea Dulles tells it in
“America Learns to Play" (Ap
pleton-Century: $-0. This is a
history of popular recreation and
public fun in America (1607 to
1940), from the tavern to the
theater, the city to the cowtown,
with a lot of other sidelights
thrown in. You haven t learned
half of your American history till
you’ve read it. It’s gay, lusty
and scholarly by turns, but al
ways entertaining. Told here are
two incidents which vividly re
flect the changing American
One of the earliest records of
horse-racing, which was to become
Virginia’s most popular sport, has
this undemocratic note. A tailor
was fined in 1674 for “liaveing made
a race for his mare to run with
a horse belonging to Mr. Matthew
Slader for two thousand pounds
of tobacco and cash, it being con
trary to law for a Labourer to
make a race, being a sport for
Gentlemen.”
(But by 1800 the country was
more democratic; democracy at
least had come to the theater,
maybe too much democracy.)
There were really no comforta
eare for about 3000 families, but
that’s only a small fraction.”
The Okie situa.ion is still . bad,
still critical, but there are signs
of hope, signs that something is
being done about it, signs that
perhaps the rvorst is over.
ble seats anywhere in the house.
The boxes were “like pens o£
beasts,” reads a contemporary de
scription of the Park. . . . The
pit was far worse than the boxes.
Women were not generally al
lowed in this section. What is
now considered the choicest part
of the theater would be crowded
with a conglomerate mass of men
who left on their hats, took on
their coats, and made themselves
at home with complete disregard
of the more polite amenities.
The habit of standing on the
benches and spitting Into the boxes
or on the stage was deprecated, a
writer in the New York Herald
satirically approving the custom at
Niblo's, where a gentleman could
place his hat on the floor and have
it serve ‘‘as a spittoon for three
men behind him, who ingeniously
spit over each other's shoulders.”
"The place was pervaded by
twil smells,” the description of the
Park states, “and not uncommon
ly in the midst of a performance,
rats ran out of the holes in the
floor and across into the orches
tra.”
SIGNS DECREE
BRUSSELS, April 23— UP)—King
Leopold today signed a decree mak
ing Monday a meatless day for Bel
gium beginning April 29. Authori
tative informants said Tuesday
would be a second meatless day if
necessary.
MASONS MEET
CHARLOTTE, April 23. — UP) —
Scottish Rite Masons of western
North Carolina began their three
day spring reunion here today. De
grees will be conferred extending
through Thursday.
Royal Coach, Wartime Style
Italy’s King Victor Emmanuel (left, rear seat) patriotically foregoes
(lie royal equipage lie might command to ride in one of the tiny cars
that gasoline rationing has made popular in Italy. The King is pic
tured at the t'aproni aircraft plant in Milan, where he recently in
spected the new warplanes seen in background.
REQUEST TO MOVE
COTTEN REFUSE!)
Bickett And Turner Believe
Murderer Would Be I n.
safe In Wake Jail
RALEIGH, April 23. — (.Ti ... ^
sociate Justice Michael Se’mek
the state supreme court today ^
nied a request that Woodrow q0t,
ten, 27-year-old farmer, uno.r s?n
tence to die for the murder ,-.j ^
mother-in-law, be moved t:n-r. ^
Central prison death row 0 ,j,e
Wake county jail.
Both Solicitor William V ;■
and Sheriff Nuraa F. Tiro-. .
the justice that in the; .'
Cotten would be unsafe in
The law provides that ” »*
ficials make that statem r. •, J.
demned prisoners must be : • a
Central prison.
Cotten’s attorneys sou2 - -e,
moval on a writ of ha!n.-■
They said they wante i , „
moved because it would ; . ej. .r
to confer with him at the c y
jail.
Cotten was convicted tree tart
Saturday of slaying Mr . Mir. i,,.e
Herndon, 50, at her heme in Car
penter. His counsel gave notice of
appeal. Margaret Cotten, :,i
Hearndon’s daughter and Coirens
wife, was acquitted.
A movie theater in Bethel Alaska
charges Eskimo patrons one sm keij
salmon as an admission fee.
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g Commissioner Public Safety
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