Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 274, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1925 — Page 11

MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1925

NEW CRISIS LOOMS FOR STATE COAL INDUSTRY

(Question of Cooperative Operation of Mines Comes to Head April 10 Production Falls Off Sharply With Lower Demand. The coal mining industry of Indiana, already i ni serious condition because of over-production and competition of nonunion mines in West Virginia and Kentucky, is facing a crisis on the question of co-operative mining between operators and miners.

Indiana union miners who have been working - on a cooperative basis, splitting profits with owners, have been ordered to drop the practice April 10, by the union, on the ground it is a violation of the wage scale agreement. “Whether the miners who have been working under such a system, will quit their work or the union is an open question, according to the best information I can get,” said R. C. Wagener, of the Jackson Hill Coal Company, which owns five mines in the Terre Haute field. Expenses Too High? “The owners of the mines and the miners union made the cooperative because the owners Itould not pay the scale and run 'their mines,” said Wagener. Competition of non-union coal is steadily hurting coal mining ire mui more each year. Ind* .polis is now using much of the Eastern codl.” Wagener, said at headqq jarters of the offices of the United Mine Workers of America to he thoroughly conversam with the Indiana coal eltua/tion, said he would not be surprised to see the locals engaged In co-operative mining refuse to drop the work, and consequently be expelled from the union. “We will either have more of the mines joining the co-operative ranks, the miners dropping out of the union, or there may he a return to the wage scale of 1916-17, which 1* approximately one-third lower than the present.” Operators Bedween Fires “If the miners refuse to obey the order I look for picketing of the mines In question, with consequent turmoil. Burliness is “rotten” in the Indiana coal field, local operators are unanimous in saying. Production in the third week in March showed a 4 per cent dlcrease under the previous week. Although this is the time of year for railroads and 'ndustries to sign their annual con-

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tracts for furl, practically none have been made, occording to Wagener. “Members of the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators' Association are also prohibited from entering any such cooperative agreement,” said Wagener. "If this movement be--comes widespread it may result in a split in our organization, also. Part of the operators cannot stand idle and see the co-ops grab off what business there is." Indiana coal is selling at $2 a ton at the mine, according to Wagjener. but some non-unior coal in West Virginia is hs low as $1.26, "The coal operators are in a death struggle with an economic situation,” he said. “It is a question of who has the biggest Imnk roil. The country is overminde and the mines are overmanned. “Not so long ago non union coal from West Virginia was not used west of the Indiana-Ohio line," he said. “Now it is much used in Indianapolis. The Chicago field is using Kentucky non-union coal, also." The order to quit cooperative mining or he expelled from the union was issued by officials of District No. 11, which is Indiana, after a conference with John L. Letvls, president of the United Mine Workers. On March 20 only seven mines of forty in thg flrazil-Clinton worked. Tn the Princeton field nine of twentyfive worked, and sixteen of sixty one in the Knox County-Linton field. Former Hayor Dies Bu limes Special SOUTH BEND. Ind.. March 30Word has been received here of the death of Schuyler Colfax, former mayor here, and Republican politician, at Rochester, N. Y. Miner Shocked to Death Bu Times Special CLINTON. Ind.. March 30. Touching a high voltage wire while working on a mine motor, Steve Cutish, 22, was electrocuted in the Sunnyside mine.

Young Women Active in Mayoralty Campaign

Aobve (Left to Right): Mrs. Barrett Moxley Woodsmali and Misses lone Bingham, Barbara Peffer, Helen Henry. Below: Mrs. Harry C. Woodsmali l , Miss Helen Hildebrand, Mrs. R. W. Johnson, Miss Margaret Hem.

Women are taking an active part in the republican mayoralty campaign. These young women are leaders in the Young Women's Club. Miss Helen Hildebrand, 1824 N. Ala-

MANY DRIVERS IN LAW’S MESHES Liquor and Autos Bring Arrests Over Week-End, Many motorists were arrested by police over the week-end. Rolwrt Oard, 32, of 410 S. New Jersey St.; E. R. Camie, 23, of Beech Grove, Ind., are charged kvlth speeding. Oard is also charged with assault and battery. Harry Parrish, 26. of 814 N. Meridian St., is charged with speeding, transporting liquor and driving on the left side of the street. Those charged with driving while intoxicated are: Otto Rice, 31. of 338 Blake St.; O. Flagler. 36. of 2011 Roosevelt Ave.: Joe Gardner, 22, of 1322 I>ee St.; Harry Nye, 22, of 3902 English Ave.; Carl Unger, 49, of 2444 Madison Ave.; James Keedy,, 43. of 2307 N. Talbott Ave.; James Rooper, 35, of 651 Jones St.; Steve Pagnaoh, 35, of Pittshoro, Ind., and R. D. Hippie, 39, of 3426 College Ave. WILL HONOR PERSHING Legion Commander Drain to Attend New York Ceremony James A. Drain - , national commander of the American Legion, will be among notables at a meeting to be held in honor of General John J. Pershing, April 25, at the Hippodrome in New York City. The Legion is sponsoring the tribute. The National Vaudeville Artists post of the New York Legion will present Pershing with a bronze bust relief of himself. ELEVATOR KILLS LAD Details Concerning Hotel Tragedy at Munrie Unexplained. Bu United Tress MUNCIE, Ind., March 30.—The county coroner today was investigating the death of Denzel Lewis. 11, who was found crushed beneath a freight elevator at the Delaware Hotel Sunday. The youth’s mother left him in an auto while she went into the hotel Saturday night. He disappeared from the auto and his body was found beneath the elevator by hotel employes Sunday morning. CIGARETS TO BOYS? Governor Jackson today began an Investigation of charges that cigarets are being distributed illegally to minors at the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton. Mary E. Woodard, corresponding secretary of the W. C. T. U., in a letter charged distribution of cigarets to minors.

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bama St., is organization committee chairman She says club will soon have 100 enrolled to boost the candidacy of Ralph A. lemcke for the Republican nomination for mayor.

DEATH IS INVESTIGATED Aged Woman Said to Have Fractured Hip. Coroner Paul F. Robinson was today investigating death of Miss Cutherine Morris, 72, of 2521 S. Delaware St., at city hospital Sunday. Attaches of Hartwig-Kelley Assembly for Aged People, where Miss Morris was living, said she fell and fractured her hip and shoulder while working in the yard March 9. Miss Morris tripped over a vine and was thrown to the board walk. ARMY EMPLOYES WEATHER SEERS Brother of Indianapolis Woman Is Named. Bu Times Special CAMP VAIL, N. J., Marhc 30.—A weather prophet is Arthur K. RudJick, brother of Mrs. Hazel Kelso, 916 Laurel St.. Indianapolis, Ind. Not the bewhiskered, mystic kind that live, hermlt-like. on a mountain top. but a real up-to-the-minute scieneifle prognosticator operating along the most advanced lines of meteorological technique. Offcial award of this distinction was made at graduating exercises of the Army School of Meterorology here when Commandant Paul W. Evans presented him and twenty other Army students with diplomas as full-fledged weather observers. Ruddick, who is serving as an enlisted member of the Signal Corps, was selected for the course at the school after a series of preliminary tests for suitability, and will now be placed on duty along one of the War Department’s numerous airways where aviators must be supplied’ with weather forecasts before starting upon extended flights.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

If you any auto* bciirinir thus*license numbed, call police or The Indianapolis Time*. Main 3500. The owner may be able to do the same for you sometime. Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: W. H. llasselberg, 431 S. Harding St., Ford, license 637-860, from same address. Lawrence M. Cannaughton, 1402 K. New York St.. Ford, 439-370, from Riverside Park. Leon Shepherd, 1803 Ludlow Ave., Ford, 504-708, from Ohio and Pennsylvania Sts. Dr. William Yergen, Linden Hotel, Nash, no license given, from 29 S. Delaware St. % George Moore, 1022 Linden St., Cleveland, 640-763, from Fest and Washington Sts. Logan White, Kentucky Ave. and White River, Ford. 16936, from Ohio St. and Capitol Ave. Henry F. Kaiser, 418 N. Noble St., Overland, 11-866, frcm Sixteenth and Bellefontalne Sts.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Automobiles reported found by police belong to: James Miller. 119 N. East St., Overland, found at- 1123 W. New York St. Paul A. Marlowe, 1034 Congress Ave., Hudson, found in wreck at 6600 E. Washington St. Plan for Teachers’ Meeting JSxecutivb commmittee of the Indiana State Teachers' Association has voted to Increase the number of sectional meetings at tne annual teachers' convention next October. Meetings will be held on Thursday morning and afternoon and Friday afternoon of the convention. Meetings have only been held on Thursday heretofore. Callouses ■fll Get rid of them this safe, I way. Stops the pain at fl At drug and shoe stores | ~) I DlScholTs UCI Zino-pads Get Rid of Piles —Now A box of Pyramid Pile Suppositories is your best friend to stop maddening pain, put out the Are of burning soreness. relax protrusions and give you grateful ease and comfort. Thousands testify. Many say Pyrauajd jmM operations. Step Into any drtff afire for a 00c box.—Advertiaomeoi

Others active in the >ji ganization are: Mesdame Barrett Moxley Woodsmali, R. W. Johnson and Mrs. R. W. Johnson, and Misses lone Bingham. Barbara Peffer and Helen Henry.

EARTHQUAKE FELT ATPANAMACANAL Seismologist Predicts Another Disturbance. Bu I nitrd Press BALBOA, Canal Zone. March 30. The waters in the Panama Canal were disturbed by a slight earthquake late Sunday. There was no damage reported. The quake was the heaviest registered here since 1913. The epicenter of the disturbance was believed to he about 150 miles north of the canal. Bu United Press NEW YORK, March'3o.—The seis mograph at Fordham university recorded an earthquake Sunday afternoon. The Instillment showed the earth movements started at 4:15 and reached the highest point at 4:33 o'clock. The earthquake was predicted Sat-' urday by Professor Bendanl. the Italian seismologist. Bendani's forecast of an earthquake in North America was borne out a month ago by q jakes which shook the United States east of Chicago. He announced Saturday that an earthquake also would occur in the Far East, probably Monday night. Bendani predicted the disastrous earthquake in Japan two yean? ago. GISLER BUYSOLD PLANT "Charles J. Gisler, president and general manager of the C. and G. Foundry and Pattern Works, 1026 Kentucky Ave., today announced purchase of the old two-story plant of the Indiana Manufacturing Company, Richwlne and E. Maryland Sts. Consideration was not given. Gisler said he bought the property as a personal investment, and will remodel and lease the bpilding.

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GERMANS FAIL TO ELECT PRESIDENT; TO VOTE APRIL 26 Jarres Leads Field of Six Candidates —None Receives Majority. Bu United Press BERLIN, March 30. —Germany's first march to the polls to selM hy popular ballot its president yesterday found no candidate receiving a.xj actual majority- Another election, to be held April 26, will be necessary. Official figures as compiled to 11 o’clock this morning follow: Jarres, nationalist, 10,380,000; Braun, socialist, 7,780,000; Marx, centrists, 3.880,000; Thaelmann, communist, 1,860,000; Hellpach, democrat, 1,560,000: Held, Bavarian peoples party, 1,000,000; Ludendorff, fascist!, 380,000. Socialists Make Inroads The Socialists have been making revere inroads into Communists’ ranks, the result shows. In the Reichstag December elections the Communists polled 2,700.000 votes. Despite active campaigning, Thaelmann, Communist candidate, mustered but 1,860,000. In several supposed strongholds the Communist vote dropped by more than 50 per cent. General Ludendorff, candidate of the extreme right Secessionists, made a pitiful showing. He ranked last. The election proved beyOnd doubt that the Socialists remain the strongest individual party in Germany. Popular antagonism toward Com munists and others who jeered during the recent funeral of President Ebert helped to swell the Socialist total. Republicans Victorious The result constitutes a victory for the three Republican parties— Socialists. Democrats and Centrists —although Dr. Carl Jarres had a lead of 2,600.000 over his nearest opponent. The so-called Wiemar coalition polled a total of 13,220,000, w - hlch compared to the Jarres vote of 10,380,000, Indicates more than sufficient strength to gain a victory in April if the Republicans can unite (upon one .candidate. Yesterday found the reactionaries grouped solidly behind Dr. Jarres and the Right's vote showed virtually its full strength. Dr. Marx may prove to be the coalition candidate. CONSIDER HOSPITAL PLAN Christian Association Takes Over Deaconess Wednesday A meeting of the board of trustees of the Indiana Christian Hospital Association, lnc„ was called for noon today at the Board of Trade, to discuss plans for operating the Deaconess Hospital, which is to be taken over by the association Wednesday. Members of the executive committee were to be named. The Rev. C. A. Trinkle, pastor of Englewood Christian Church, is chairman of the board.

Southwest Corner Alabama and Washington Tomorrow, Tuesday

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374 Killed by Auto in 74 Cities Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 30— Automobile accidents killed 374 persons in seventy-four cities comprising a population of more than 30,000,000, in the month of February, the National Safety Council announced today. Seventy-seven per cent of all motor vehicle fatalities were pedestrians, the council pointed out.

THREE WINNERS NAMED Thirty-Nine Schools in State .Music Memory Contest. Teams of Stilesvilie High School; White School, in Eel River Township, Hendricks County, and Whittier School of Muucie today stand a:' winners in the fourth public sclxool State music memory contest. T'\e contest was conducted Saturday at Shortridge High School with thirteen high, thirtten grammar and thirteen rural schools entered. Indianapolis schools did not participate. Stilesvilie won in the high school class, W’hite School in the rural school class. {And Whittier, in th.e grammar school class. Bank President Buiicd Bu Times Special GREENFIELD. Irtd-, March 30. Funeral services sor 1 George H. Cooper, bank president, were held today.

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BOY SCOUTS HIKE TO RESERVATION Lads Face Busy Program During Vacation, Boy Scouts of Indianapolis hiked to scout reservations today, the second day of Boy Scout Week. Games and contests were on the program. , District courts of review will ba held this evening. The annual father and son banquet will be held at 6:30 p. m. on Tue.wlay at Central Avenue Christian Church. The remainder of the week's program includes a. downtown camp in St. Clair Park on Wednesday: court of honor and round-up at Tomlinson Hall on Thursday night; civic, traffic and firemen’s reserve duty Thursday; theater party on Friday and stunt night Saturday at Tomlinson Hall, The week opened Sunday afternoon with a mass meeting at Roberts Park Church. George D. Morse, collector and direeteor of the Chicago Zoological Gardens, spoke. Tipton Factory Burns Bu Times Special TIPTON, Ind., March 30.—Loss from the fire which damaged the Mclntosh & Son broom factory hero Sunday was estimated today at $15,000

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