Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1928 — Page 2

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ILLINOIS COAL OPERATORS BAN OLD PAT PACT Miners Can Go Back at $6 Daily, Edict Following Conference. B.u United Press CHICAGO. March 29.—The Jacksonville wage scale agreement now in effect in the central bituminous coal field is doomed to pass out of existence, at least in Illinois, coal operators in this State decided on Wednesday. W. J. Jenkins, St. Louis, newly elected president of the operators’ association, announced that the operators in session here had decided “to cease any further joint bargaining for a wage scale as between any organized group of operators and the miners’ organization.” The Jacksonville agreement, signed in 194, and calling for $7.50 a day, has been in effect temporarily, pending settlement of differences between miners and operators. The agreement expires April 1. Insist on Modification Previous to Jenkins’ announcement, the operators issued a statement that they would “not sign any contract with miners that does not provide for modification of the Jacksonville wage agreement.” Rice Miller, retiring president of the Illinois Operators’ Association, announced that independent pacts between mine owners and miners calling for the Jacksonville agreement would not be approved officially. “Independent agreements will be made at a basis of $6 a day, if there are enough miners who want to work at that figure to warrant Us operating the mines,” Miller said. Lewis Is Blamed Jenkins placed the blame for failure to settle the wage dispute upon John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. “Contrary to the repeated admissions of John L. Lewis that Illinois must have relief from the Jacksonville wage scale and conditions, and nothwithstanding his definite promise that he would personally take it upon himself to guarantee that Illinois would get the needed relief by April 1, 1928, he wilfully has misled the operators of the State of Illinois as to his real intentions,” Jenkins charged. APPEALS FOR WIDENING OF E. WASHINGTON ST. - Board of Works Urges Improvement; Property Owners Protest. The board of works will ask city council to declare the widening of E. Washington St., between Wallace St .and Audubon Rd., a public necessity, following filing of a remonstrance by majority of property owners. Oren S. Hack, board president, said the board felt the widening of the street in accordance with plans to widen and resurface from Audubon Rd. to city limits was badly needed to relieve motor traffic on the main thoroughfare. Property owners objected to the improvement principally because of the cost. A delegation at the public hearing was headed by Warren L. Stamper, Joseph E. Kernel and Dr. Samuel McGaughey. Delegation members said they were willing for tourists from other States to drive on “mud roads’’ around Indianapolis. PRAISES G. 0. P. WORK B;i Tbr.es Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., March 29.—“1n S‘ate and Nation the Republican party has carried on well the work of the people and the people of Indiana are intelligent and fair enough to realize it and vote accordingly,” Frederick E. Schortemeier, Secretary of State, candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, told the Allen Cv-w Republican Club Wednesday night. Reviewing accomplisnmems of the Jackson administration, Schortemeier concluded: • “They have been accomplished by Republicans . who have been efficient in carrying on the people’s work.”

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START WORK ON BRIDGE IN JULY ! AT EVANSVILLE State Orders Bond Issue for Bids on Ohio River Project. Actual work on the construction of the Ohio River bridge from Dade Fark, near Evansville, to the Ken- : tucky shore is expected to be started j some time in July. | Definite action leading to award- ! ing the contract for the construction | has been taken by the State highway commission at the instance ot ; a delegation from the Evansville i Chamber of Commerce, which confered with the commission Wednesday. Order Bonds for Sale The commission passed a resolution mandating the county commissioners to issue sufficient bonds to warrant the calling for bids. Certification of the share of the bridge that must be paid by Vanderburgh County will be sent the auditor, Sam Bell, next week. Under the provision of the bill passed by the 1927 Legislature, the State highway commission is to pay for one-half of the cost of the ! structure, the county one-fourth and the remaining one-fourth is to be paid from the State general fund.

Repay Cost by Tolls' The county and the general fund however will be refunded for their share through tolls to be collected. More than a dozen methods of financing the bridge by private enterprise have been advanced by construction companies and several bills were introduced in Congress providing for the financing to be done by private holding companies. All of these measures have been cast aside in favor of the bill past by the legislature. Members of the delegation which conferred with the commission was composed of C. B. Enlaw, Evansville. banker; A. V. Burch, manufacturer and former vice chairman of the State highway commission, and Edward Wemyss. manufacturer. FAMILY OF THREE SLAIN Charred Bodies of Parents, Boy Found in Ruins of Home. fiV/ United Press NEWARK. N. Y.. March 29. No reason could be assigned today for the triple murder of Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Warren and their 13-year-old son. Jackson, whose bodies were found cremated in the family home. All three had been shot. A bullet wound appeared in the heads of both Mr. and Mrs. Warren, while the boy had been shot below the heart. The wounds were from a .22caliber pistol. Parts of a ,22-caliber pistol were found in the boy’s bed. All the bullets were gone and the pistol had been taken apart.

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