Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1926 — Page 1

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KICK TONIC I NOW SOLD | AT STORES Shumaker Leads Fight on I Extract Containing 3.75 K Per Cent Alcohol. ■UYERS MAY STOCK UP PLe'gal \ Properly Com- ' pounraed, Says Harris. ' Although Anti-Saloon League officials sere opposing proposed sale in I ndia&na of malt tonic containing 3.75 per ! :ent of alcohol, which Federal authi >rlties have given two brewers permtfes to make, several dozen tonics owntaining an equal or larger percentage of alcohol are on sale in Jndianapojlis drug stores, a check today showfed. Superintendent E. S. Shumaker of the ; Anti-Saloon League, busy getting t.she State’s preachers, business and/ civic leaders to send protests to* Washington against the Cjfn Sale Friday }ht Unit fed Press MILWAUKEE, Wis„ April I. TlyA first of the tonic beer—new S.'s 5 per cent malt tonic allowed by the-. Government —will go on sale bVidiay, the Pabst Brewery announced today. The Ifirst supply of the tonic beer vrijll be held in Milwaukee aeoordingf to Fred Pabst, Sr. There will be’ no attempt to flood the country with the new product. perrmit issuance, paused long enough to declare emphatically that it sale la illegal even in drug stores. Shfeiaker said the Indiana law expressly prohibits sale of concoctiensj; whether patent or not, containing more than one-half of one per cent alcohol. Includes Tonics This includes, he said, such prepAiotivns as hair tonic, beef, iron and wine, bitters, canned heat, and malt and father tonics, containing, according to their labels, as high as 45 pen pent alcohol. ASk’^cf' If *lhe sale of These tonics was Mga!, Ansel It. Harris, deputy prohibition administrator, said: "It depends whether they are compounded! properly. They might be c.ompotimdied to permit their use for a beverawe, and that’s illegal. It also depends on the circumstances of the f (Turn to Pdge 7)

CONFIDENCE IS tfOTED BRIAND Chanpber Adopts Governj msnt Budget. lin United Press PAijKi.S, April I.—The Chamber of Deputies today voted confidence in Prenajter Briand and adopted the long? delayed government budget therefby providing the cabinet with inedny? with which to check France’s spectacular descent toward Insolvencyy Ajii all-night session which left theJ deputies groggy was necessary to feet the job done. Confidence was expressed, on the :Ii Aiover tax clause of Finance Minister Perot's program by a vote of 227 \io 103. Then the budget was adopted as a w'hole by a vote of 236 to 1.39 .j although the official bulletin of the | vote reads 236 to 159. FELLOWSHIP OF GHRIST SHOWN Last oj Christ Church Lent|fn Services Held. In L*ie last of the united Lenten services at Christ Church at noon todajfly. Bishop Joseph M. Francis dwefflt on the desire of Christ in the clondng hours of His earthly life for fellowship with those who had been His ‘Jlosest friends and companions. “TlieS JLonfs Supper,” he said, “is he .-Sicramtat of fellowship: fellowship Kwith God and man.” Ho# then proceeded to show that the#crown of the religious life con;'Wj * n ,llls sense of fellowship with a. WJrs '>nal God, drawing illustrations U'jgnl the lives not only of Biblical lPf modern characters. Good Frisr ~ . will be observed in each of the “waßtcnal’* churches with services .asfTTRg from two to three hours. . '’OR® GAS TAX PAID ’tf V/ \ \ $291,186 Over March, Last *W, Report Shows. ijasolinjp tax collections during • Inch i\ftt a j e( i $609,466.68, an in* t case 0ft5291,156.15 over receipts for •tie same month last year. Archie N. Bobbitt, jate collector, reported today. H Os this* amount $1,650.15 was in delinquent taxes. Part of tlie increase fnffarecaipts was flue to oneboosithe tax on each gallon of z>a£M ■ and the remainder 'Cameras dKgßit of a 4,399,516 gallon Increase ‘-yflßisiimnl ion during February, ir||JN ,

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Browning Finds Cinderella Again Aged Millionaire to Play Fairy Godfather to Bronx Child.

Bn Times Snecial NEW YORK, April I.—Foiled once in his efforts to play fairly godfather to a little Cinderella from Astoria, Edward W. Browning has found one in the Bronx. * The family of Frances Heenan, a beautiful 15-year-old school girl, admitted today that their daughter had become an object of interest to the wealthy and aged realtor, and that Browning had proposed to provide for the girl's schooling. Browning himself declared that he would not adopt the latest object of his paternal affections, but refused to affirm or deny that he contemplated marrying the girl when she reached the age of 16. Girl Attacked Meanwhile, Miss Heenan is under care of physicians, suffering from acid burns sustained in a mysterious manner last Saturday morning. Browning has eight detectives seeking her assailant, who is said to have chloroformed the girl in her sleep and to have attempted to mar her beauty. It will be recalled that the real estate man adopted Mary Spas of Astorfa last year, and that the adoption was annulled after it w-as discovered that she who was supposed to be a humble immigrant’s daughter of 16 or thereabouts was indeed a former movie actress of 21. Browning's interest in young girls apparently did not cease with this misadventure, however, for on Wednesday he summoned reporters to his office and talked enthusiastically about Frances Heenan. pauyaH Aia.\ ‘‘She is very refined,” he emphasized. ‘‘She weighs 145 pounds without her coat ajid is 5 feet 7% inches tall.” The realtor met his latest “Cinderella” at a dance given by the Phi Lambda Tau Soririty at the McAlpin Hotel early this month, according to' the girl’s mother, who is a trained nurse. ‘‘l understand the sorority was fouydetj by Air, Browning ” Mrs. Hilßhan added. “Since then, Mr. Browning and Frances have gone around together a lot. Dorothy Sunshine Browning, his adopted daughter, has beep here (to the Heenan home) and we love her a lot. Mr. Browning has been very kind to my daughter.” Thus far, according to her mother, Frances has not accepted ar.y presents from Browning “except candy, flowers and automobile rides.” The aged millionaire has been a figure in the news for some time. He was arrested for violating the penal code three years ago, and was accused of having admitted Negroes into his apartment houses rent free to force white tenants to pay higher rents or move. He obtained a divorce from Mrs. Browning; two years ago.

POVERTY SEPARATED MOTHER, CHILDREN

Indianapolis Woman Informed of Cruelties to Family, Says Grandmother o.f Boy Fatally Beaten.

Poverty prevented a daughter, Mrs. Catherine Hill from going to her children when she knew they were in danger, Mrs. Samuel Allen, 563 River Ave.. the grandmother of Bobby Hill, 7, who is alleged to have been beaten to death in Maynardviile, Tenn., by his uncle, Andy Faria, said today. The uncle is now on trial in Maynardville for the alleged crime, and a dispatch to the Times, said the case would likely go to the jury this afternoon. The dispatch said the .wife of the defendant testified late Wednesday that Forest Faria, her brother-in-law, was responsible for the fatal beating and not her husband. She declared the beating was the result of am argument over the harnessing- of lhules. “My daughter was warned before Christmas in a letter from Tennessee,” the grandmother asserted, “but we were so short of money we couldn’t do anything.” “After Catherine got the letter which said ‘Buddy’ (the baby) age 2, had been beaten black and blue, she wanted to go down there and

Rain and Snow ? for Easter 11 1/ United Press WASHINGTON, April I. Easter Sunday probably will be cold and perhaps accompanied, by snow or rain, in the eastern half of the United States, according to unofficial weather bureau observations today. Forecaster Mitchell said the second storm from the west this week would cause general rains or snows tonight and tomorrow in the midwest, extending into Saturday. Whether or not the Eastern parades are to be spoiled by rain depends "upon storm taking a quick couflte us trip to eastern Canada v New England. Temperatures will be normal or below.

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Telephone Popular With Practical Jokers Today, Say Operators. "April Fool.”’ This is April 1 the day the practical joker comes into his own. As usual, he worked the various stunt "telephone jokes.” One of the rime favorites is calling up Crown Hill cemetery. Last April 1 it. was necessary to put on an extra, telephone operator at the Crown Hill office, and over and over such questions as: “May I speak to M.'T. Graves? were asked. “We wish people would realize how much trouble they cause me," remarked Mrs. J. T. Moore, phone operator at the cemetery. "Os course, most of those who do the calling are innocent, as they have been told to call here.” An attendant at the Central Insane Hospital said they were besieged with calls today. • The county jail, too, suffered many April fool calls. And all the florists answered calls for “Pansy” or “Violet. ’* “Fevt’r 1 ' or "Rose." f. $ For some reason fire companies do not suffer from the April fool jokers as much as formerly. ‘‘Perhaps because there’s a serious fine attached to calling us out unnecessarily,” remarked John O’Brien, batallioti chief. O’Brien thinks peoples’ tastes in the joke line are improving. “The jokes don’t seem as crude as they used to. You don't hear so much of pocketbooks or the sidewalk, sending workmen for ‘left-hand wrenches’ and having them deliver sacks cf bricks,” he said. Mose Church, police phone operator, answered hundreds of calls for “R. IT. Law.” Dr. Elizabeth Conger, pondmaater, said she was unable to count the persons who called for Mr. or Miss Kerr.

bring- the children back to Indianapolis, but we just couldn’t get the money together. The letter came from a friend of the family. We worried over it, but couldn’t do anything at the time. Os course, if we had known how terrible that man waii we’d have walked but what we’d got tl ore.” One of Mrs. Hill’s children, Willis, 4, is with the grandmother. Neighbors of the family said Mrs. Hill was so afraid her children would be taken from her by Juvenile Court that she sent thepi to Tennessee. She feared that if she brought them to Indianapolis, she might be permanently party frcm them. Mrs. Hill and her husband are separated. The mother for a time worked in a Kentucky Ave. restaurant in an effort to support the children and keep them with her. fire” AT GAS CITY ’Flames Cause SBO,OOO Damage— Excluuige Threatened. Bn l ulled Press GAS CITY, Ind., April I.—Faulty wiring today was blamed for the fire wdiich caused $30,000 damage to the Gas City Mercantile Company. Whipped by a high wind the flames for a time threatened to destroy the telephone exchange adjoining the store and operators were forced to flee from their posts. CENTURY KILLsThOOSIER Mishawaka Salesman Drives Auto in Front of Train. Bu United Press MISHAWAKA, Ind., April I. U. J. Beaudry, 55, salesman, died today from injuries received when his automobile was struck by the Twentieth Century Limited at a crossing here. Bealdry drove on the tracks irninedi*?lv after a freight train had pafcsW and di.l not see or bear *.he

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ACCEPTANCE OF NEW TELEPHONE RATES FAVORED Indiana Bell President Makes Recommendation to Directors. BULLETIN Tle Bell accepted the rates this afternoon. Acceptance of rate increases granted by the publlo service commission, Monday, in forty-four Indiana cities, even though “the rates authorzied will not produce sufficient revenue to pay even a return of 6 per cent on the actual investment,” aa the commission held the company was entitled to. was reconi; mended 'to Inuiane Bed Telephone Cumpany directors today by C. H. Rottger, president. “Disappointed” Rottger s statement, said in part: “Asa matter of fact the commission in lta order admits that to give a return of 6 per cent on the actual investment in the property it would be necessary to flx rates which would produce $621,000 per annum over the revenue now being received under the present rates. The commission estimates that the new rates will increase our revenues by $350,000. It Is obvious that I could not be otherwise than disappointed by the results.” Directors likely will meet at once to act on Rottger’s recommendation, authorising payment of the $122,337.65 fee for executing the order. The order provided the increased rates go into effect today, but failure of the company to pay the fee prevented this. Rate increases authorized In the order provide a $1.50 a month boost for city business service and increases in both residence and business service rates in other State cities. Secretary Howell Ellis of the commission declared the Bell cannot deposit the fee Friday and make the increase retroactive, or effective today. The increases automatically will become effective when the fee Is paid. The Bell may ask a $900,000 slash in its valuation for taxation purposes before the State tax board April 9, on the basis of the commission rate order, which fixed the ratemaking valuation $500,000 below the valuation suggested by Federal Judge George Page in 1924. May Ask Slash The company spent $400,000 on expansions between the time of these valuations, also, it charges, and based on the latest commission valu ation, it therefore would he entitled to a $900,000 assessment reduction. The last valuation for a taxation basis was $29,000,000. The latest commission rate-making valuation was $35,500,000 and Page's tentative valuation was $36,000,000.

QUARANTINE ON DOGS PROPOSED State Moves to Prevent Hydrophobia Spread. In an effort to combat the spread of hydrophobia, Dr. William F. King. State board of health secretary, today announced county health officials may be asked to establish a sixty-day quarantine on dogs. Governor Jackson and State Veterinarian R. C. Julian, indorsed the plan. Dr. King 3aid county sheriffs would be asked to invoke the law requiring dogs be muzzled during rabies epidemics. All peace officers would be instructed to kill unmuzzled dogs running at large. Dr. King said county health officers would be asked to suggest to dog owners they have their dogs immunized against rabies. Twenty | being treated.

ELLIOTT TO FIGHT FOR KLAN POST Will Demand Trial Before Relinquishing Cyclops Office as Ordered. KEEP UP'COFFIN BATTLE Conference With State Leader Scheduled. George S. Elliott, Klan cyclops, will demand trial before officially relinquishing his office at the order of Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans, it was said today by Robert McNay, Indiana Klan great giant, a supporter of Elliott. The Elliott supporters were to enter a conference with W. Lee Smith, State grand dragon, at 2 p. m. and said they would refuse to cease their fight against George V. Coffin, Marion County Republican chairman. Defeat for Senator Janies E. Watson in Marion County and for Senator Arthur R. Robinson throughout the State is the object of the leaders in rebellion against Evans. Campaign Under M ay “We're going to knock the socks off that Coffin crowd,’’ McNay said, announcing the campaign is under way to defeat Coffin’s slate of senatorial candidates. "Watson and Robinson, .and his county favorites. McNay was elated that the conference with Smith was to be at Marion County Voters’ League headquarters, 1300 City Trust Bldg. “They’re coming to us; we're not coming to them,” McNay said. Sends for Furniture At noon McNay sent trucks to Klan State headquarters. Eleventh St. and College Ave„ to carry out the furniture there. He said it was his property and would be taken to the rooms In the City Trust Bidg. Elliott backers said his forces probably would line up behind the candidacy of Arch G. Graham for the short senatorial term, but would throw only Marion County votes to Claris Adams, long-term senatorial candidate. Charles J. Crbison, Klan national vice president, supporting Evans, today threatened summary action 9Kain.it local KJaa mouiliere. who participate in the Marion County Voters' League. Offenders will be “summarily and promptly dealt with,” Orblson announced.

ONE DEAD IN WRECK Two Passengers Hurt When Train Strikes Derailed Car. I*ANCASTER, Pa.. April 1. —When a Pennsylvania express train struck a derailed freight car on an adjoining track the fireman of the passenger was instantly killed near Gap. 10 miles east of here. Two passengers were injured. The fireman is believed to be T. Van Horn of Trenton. N. J. POSTAL RECEIPTS GAIN Total of 16.73 Per Cent More Than • for March, 1925. Postal receipts for last month increased 16.73 per cent over March, 1925, Postmaster Robert H. Bry-’ son announced today. Total receipts for March, 1926, were $434,006.09. as compared to $371.77b.76 for the same month last year, an increase of $62,229.33. SIX SUED BY REMUS Ex-Bootleg Baron Seeks to Recover $700,000. BuWnited I‘ress CLEVELAND, Ohio, April I.—Six persons were named in a suit filed in Federal Court her today by George Remus of Cincinnati, former bootleg baron, to regain more than $700,000, which he claims he was despoiled of during his nineteen months’ term in Atlanta prison. Remus’ petition charges six persons with conspiracy to confiscate his property. STOCK IS AUTHORIZED Insult Utility Granted Certificate by Commission. The public service commission today authorized the State Line Generating Company, an Insull utility, to issue $466,000 in common stock to apply to the purchase of land in Lake County, where the new 1,000,-000-watt generating station is to be located. The commission also granted the utility a certificate t< convenience and necessity. A fee of $1,165 will be collected. SERVICE PiINS GIVEN Presented to 1600 Bell Telephone Veteran Employes. Sixteen hundred Indiana Bell Telephone Company employes today were proud wearers of gold service pins, presented by officials and supervisors to employes of five and more years service. Three employes: President C. H. Rottger, Ft. Wayne; Manager E. L. Taylor, and Employment Supervisor Margaret' Cooper, received pins for forty years service. Seventy-six pins were given employes of twenty years service, 133 for fifteen years service, 280 for ten years service,, and 949 for five years service. Across the face of the pms is map of Indiana, a raised bell occupying the center,

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Fleet Mauretania Loses to Tanker in Reaching Sinking Steamer. Bn United Press NEW YORK, April I.—The interesting stjry of how a British tanker, the Shirvan. had rescued thirtyseven men of the steamer Lalehan while the fastest of all ocean-going vessels, the Mauretania, was speeding to the scene, was told today by Capt. Arthur Henry Rostron of the Mauretania in a radiogram to the United Press. Captain Rostron, who was master of the Carthathia when she picked up 705 passengers from the Titanic after that vessel had sunk in 1912, described the fruitless mid-Atlantic race of the fleet Mauretania and then commented: “The Shirvan won the trick. Bravo Shirvan. Over the necessary distance even the Mauretania was beaten." The Message The message of Captain Rostron to the United Press can best describe the latest heroic episode of the deep. It follows: “At 3:35 p. m., March 31, the Mauretania received an SOS from the British steamer Lalehan in latitude 39.06 north, longitude 56.36 west. All boats were washed away and the ship was on beam ends, its bunkers and stokehold flooded and the water gaining. “The Mauretania then was facing a northwest gale and a hgih sea. I immediately turned to the rescue and believed I was 180 miles off at that time. At full speed I estimated we would reach the Lalehan about 1 a. m„ G. M. T. “All preparations were made aboard the Mauretania to rescue the Lalehan’s crew. “At 5 p. m. we received a message from the British tanker Shirvan which was only twenty miles away (Turn to Page 14)

RILEY FUND GIVEN $30,000 BY LANDON

Large Donation by Memorial Association President Announced —Opener for State-Wide Campaign.

Gift of $30,000 to the James Whitcom!. Jtilev IjQspitjt) for Liu Wren building' fund by Hugh McK. Landon. Riley Memorial Association president and vice president of the Fletcher ' Savings and Trust Coni-

SENATE FARM BLOC AROUSED Rural Relief Not on Legislative Program. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, April I.—The legislative program of the Administration majority in the Senate has given no set place to farm relief legislation and the farm bloc is up in arms. Under agreement of the Senate Republican steering committee, the Italian debt settlement, the Brook-hart-Steck contest, the public buildings bill, the railway labor conciliatory measure, the McFaddon banking bill and the Morrow board Army Air Service proposal will be considered in consecutive order. The majority decided that inasmuch as the Agriculture Committee and farm representatives have failed to agree upon any definite proposals no consideration of farm troubles need be taken in arrartgements for big legislation. Adjournment is due now in six weeks or less.

SENATORS ASK FOR FORT AID Join Move to Replace Wartime ‘Shacks/ Senators Watson and Robinson to-' day joined the movement to replace Ft. Benjamin Harrison’s war-time “shacks” with permanent buildings, The Times Washington dispatches said. Both wrote War Department Adjutant General Davis, asking recommendations as to the best form of relief bills. Declaring present buildings “not fit for occupancy." Watson wrote, “I am very desirous of having the present Congress make necessary provision for replacement of the war structures and erection of permanent modern buildings.” Numerous requests from Hoosiers for such a measure have beon received, Watson said. The Senators learned an emergency relief bill, appropriating $6,800,000 for buildings at several Army posts, recommended to the House by ihe Military Affairs Committee, does not Include buildings for Ft. Harrison. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 1 6 a. m 26 10 a. rn 32 7 a. m 27 11 a. m 32 * 8 a. m 2* 12 (noon) .... 33 ' 9 a. m...... 31 1 p. m 35 DROWNING REPORTED K man was reported drowned this afternoon in Big Eagle Creek nt Olin Ave.. and the Crawfordsvllle traction line, west of Indianapolis. Motor Policemen Hague and Petit, investigated.

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Second Storm on Way to Middlewest, Chicago Bureau Says. Anew storm is blowing up over the Rocky Mountains and will invade the snow-boUnd midc'le western States by Friday night, the Chicago weather bureau office warned today. The local weather bureau predicted snow or rain Friday, but did not know yet whether a storm would strike here. The present storm, which buried the entire middle West under the heaviest snowfall oir record for March and took a toll of ten lives In the Chicago area alone, will pass over before night, the Chicago bureau said, but will be followed within twenty-four hours by the new storm. Extreme temperatures are not anticipated. “April Fool” was the first thought of many Indianapolis residents this morning when they awoke to find the ground covered with snow and the sun beaming brightly. It seemed as if the variable month of March, which had Just made its exit, was holding over. The snow which ushered out March totaled a half inch during the night. Temperature of 26 At 6 a. m, the mercury registered 26. Lower temperatures have been recorded here on the first of April, notably 20 in 1881 and 1923, bureau 9fficlals said. The 7 a. m. mark of 27 was 17 degrees below normal. Fair and warmer weather is on the bill for tonight, and low temperature is expected to be about 32 degrees. Sleet, snow and wind crippled Indianapolis’ wire connections with the outside world during the night, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Indiana Bell Telephone Company reported. Most of the damage was in northwestern Indiana. Four hundred poles (Turn to Page 15)

pany. was announced today by the general executive committee, in charge, of the campaign in Indianapolis to complete the hospital building fund. London's gift, the first to be formally announced in the Indianapolis campaign to open April 12, doubles his previous subscriptions to the hospital fund. This gift, which makes a total of $60,000 subscribed by Landon to the hospital fund, leads In the general State wide campaign for $1,000,000 now In progress to make good the Ball brothers’ gift of $500,000. The gift places the president of the Riley Memorial Association on a par with the largest single subscriber thus far to the hospital building fund. Arthur C. Newby, local capitalist, Is credited with a $60,000 gift t othe fund, used to construct some of the present buildings. "During the sixteen months since its opening the Riley Hospital has sq eminently justified the faith of those who made it possible that it is a privilege, as well as a Joy, to make this additional contribution to the fund needed for its completion,” Landon announced. "Those of us who have been In continuous touch*with its operation have a most vivid sense of the beneficent work which is going on there for the children of our State.” Statements of appreciation of the gift and expressions that the'campaign in Indiana and Indianapolis to complete the $1,000,000 fund will be a success were made .by L. C. Huesmann. chairman of the hospital finance committee, and Arthur V. Brown, Union Trust Company president, and member of the special finance committee which has charge of the general campaign soon to open In Itidlanaoplia.

TAX FIGURES GIVEN Returns for March Show $50,000,000 Gain. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April I.—lncome tax returns for March totaled $492,018,572.25 on March 30 as compared with $441,492,269.87 for the same month last year, acting Soorotary of the Treasury Winston announced today. With income tax receipts of March 31 the revenues fort he month will reach $500,000,000, despite the tax reduction, Winston said. SMALL CYCLONeTn OHIO Trees, Phone Poles and Buildings leveled at Village. Bu United Press TROY. Ohio, April I.—A miniature cyclone swept the village of Brandt, eight miles southeast of here today, levelling trees and telegraph poles and razing outbuildings. Citizens were driven to cellars. No Injuries were reported. LEAGUE BID RECEIVED Invitation to Geneva Meeting I teaches Washington. Hu United Press WASHINGTON. April i— The State Department today received the invitations from the I<eague of Nations secretariat to attend ths Geneva conference on Kept, l, to consider American reservations <fi the World Court.

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BUILDING ! - EMPLOYES i i WALK Dim .' kmp * 1 Contractors Declare DemsWj for Wage Increases Unjust. U —lf*- ■' THREE TRADES AFFtEOTEB Hope for Early Settlement of Dispute. " V Members of the General Conlrac. tor’s Association today decided that Increase In wages ho unlit by hoist •*, ing engineers, palntara*4U#fl decora tors and sheet metal workers "J% on Just and not for the public good," ; ov-l , took a vigorous stand against’grants lng any Increases. , > ' Workers in these trades failed to ro|H>rt for work this nmnltag after the expiration of the wag# llfrs* m*nt n.t midnight 'WerttieiMsv, About 1,600 men are reported par ticlpatlng In the walkout. Board of business agents ot the Building Trades Council also met, before noon and discussed ths situs Mon. It was learned that no. definite action was taken at this meeting, Belief that the situation will fc* settled soon was expressed by John Hauck, secretary of th Osnsrat Contractors' Association. ¥w Signs# Structural Iron agreements at $1.46 an hour, cement finishers at $1.05 an hour and plasters at $1.60 an hour, workers signed Wednesday for $1.85 an hour. "Indianapolis la now giving the ' trades’ workers 111 psr cant more than they were making In 1914,” the contractors’ statement said. "They are higher paid now .than in four tre-n other representatives cities Jti the country. “It is the opinion of members ot thU organisation that this is a bun ness agents’ strike and not one that Is wanted by the BSSII. “No increases or changes In work Ing conditions will be granted.” Boosts Asked Strikers aro asking for the followincreases an hour: sheet metal workers, $1.05 to $1.15; decorators, $1.06 to lng engineers, $1.15 to $1.26 tO sl.Bo. t| Lalstr leaders and coni motors both said the strike would not seriously delay the city's building program if .settled within a reasonable length ot time. Wage agreements of bricklayer*, plumbers, end stcomflttors do not expire until May 1. Carpenters in January renews* 1 their wage agreemrnt calling for sl.lO an hour. THREE CHILMEI DIE IN CRASHES Month's Auto Toll HighJ| Than Year Ago. I Three children were killed In aut<V mobile accidents in March, pOIK S accident prevention inirsau . tnßj odin -eil today. Eighty nine chi™ dren were Injured in auto acckfentiH the lost three months of ths ysa>l It was unnounced, thirty-on# these being hurt in March. frivfl children and thirteen aduKs wet® killed during ths first three sStttUnß or 1925. 1 Na adult death* during the month* were reported, compared to thr*l killed In March, 1936. Two children 1 died In March, 1926, automobile ae* chlents. TOO FRIENDLY. CHARGE Man Struck on Head *** * Husband. .... Pete Blackwell, Negro. 1020 R Edgcciont St., today nursed a head injury . aused by a blow with an iron btr because Oliver Wellington, i iv.geniont Bt.. believed Blackwell wan paying “too much attent ion’’ to htn wife, police said. Blackwell faced chargee of trespassing and vagrancy and Welling* ton anaault and battery charge.

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