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CLIMAX NEARS IN HUGE STEEL MERGER WAR "aton Wages Battle on Two Fronts to Block Consolidation. rOES ARE CONFIDENT Ohio Magnate Struggles to Halt Sheet and Tube. Bethlehem Move. BY HARRY WILSON’ SHARPE United Press surr Corrr.pond^n* YOUNGSTOWN, O, April 7. N’ew and tensely dramatic chapters in the' colorful saga of steel were written today as Cyrus S. Eaton, powerful Cleveland financier, pitted resources and ingenuity against rival steel magnates in a fight to block consolidation of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company and Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Eaton, dominant Sheet and Tube stockholder and controlling owner of Republic Steel, waged his fight on two fronts—here, where the major battle centers Tuesday, and in Cleveland, where his representatives sought a federal court injunction forbidding the consolidation. The injunction proceeding was augmented by two more filed here today by Arthur B. Taylor, Elyra 1 0.1 banker, who was believed representing Eaton, and by another filed in Cleveland by the International Shares Corporation, an investment. trust con f railed by Otis A", Cos. and Eaton, which owns 3,000 shares of Sheet a id Tube. Eaton Confident of Victory The suits were expected to be determined by nightfall and, meantime, preparations went forward here for a meeting of Sheet and Tube stockholders to ratify or reject the merger. The actions filed by Taylor supplemented a mandamus suit filed last week to compel Sheet, and Tube officials to reveal figures on Bethlehem's consolidation offer. I ike R. B. Shover of Pittsburgh, who filed the first Cleveland injunction suit, he asserts the negotiations were kept secret and demands the stockholders’ meeting be prevented. Outcome of the suits was problematical. but, Eaton was confident of victory. "We absolutely are confident of preventing approval of the merger." he said. Proxy Battle Is Likely In a contrasting statement. James A. Campbell, veteran chairman of the Sheet and Tube board and leading proponent of the consolidation, declared: "I definitely can assure vou that the merger will be ratified Tuesday." The stockholders’ meeting, if carried out as scheduled, will bring Eaton face-to-face with Campbell and the giants of the Bethehem, Charles M. Schwab and Eugene G. Grace, in a proxy battle reminiscent of the saturine Jay Gould's railroad fight several decades ago. Eaton reiterated toda\ that he and his associates will vote direct or by proxy, more than enough Sheet and Tube stock to block the consolidation. but Campbell equally was sanguine though Eaton needs only 400.000 of the outstanding 1.185,600 shares to win. Rivals Meet in Court Bu Unitr,l Pres * CLEVELAND, April 7.—The two central figures in the Youngstown Sheet and Tube-Bethlehem Steel Corporation merger fight. Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland financier, and James A. Campbell, veteran builder of Sheet and Tube, faced each other in federal court here today as injunction suits, instituted by Eaton in an effort to bloek the consolidation. were heard. The suits sought injunctions to block the amalgamation and to prevent a meeting of Sheet and Tube stock holders, scheduled in Youngstown Tuesday to ratify or reject Bethlehem's offer. •Y’ HEADS COMING HERE • - Two Members of National Council to Hold Conferences. Two members of the national ouncil of Y. M. C. A. will come to Indianapolis Tuesday for a series of conferences with secretaries and directors at the central Y. M. C. A. Luncheon will be held in honor of the national officers. Dr. Fletcher, New York City, rational council member and secretary of the organization in China for thirty years, and Francis S. Harmon, Hattiesburg. Miss., president of the council. TOE HURT IN LONG FALL Man Walks Away After Drop From Third Floor of Hotel. Si/ T'nifrd Press BROOKLYN. N. Y.. April 7 —John Edmonds walked into a hotel today clad only in his underwear and disked for the key to room 313. "The room is occupied." the clerk ~a!d “It was but isn't now I just fell cut ihe window." Edmonds replied. Investigation showed he had fallen three flights. One toe was cut.

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Sweet News Nonfattening Sugar Gift of U. S. Chemists to Fair Candy Lovers.

BY FOSTER EATON Colt-d Prros Staff rorrroond-nt Atlanta, April 7.—Appiicacation of the science of chemistry to the problems of the human race. In scores of fascinating ways and with definite promise of a better world, made the seventy-ninth annual convention of the American Chemical Society here today something distinctly out of the ordinary. More than one thousand practicing and research chemists were here. Definite meaning, buttressed with hope for a struggling world, was given to such otherwise meaningless terms as "xylose” and "fluorochloric-m eth an e,” and scores of other chemical tags that sound high, and really mean much. The girl with a persistent sweettooth and the cotton-seed grower of the south found real news in the announcement of Dr. W. T. Sehreiber of the bureau of standards. Washington, that "xylose," a nonfattening sugar, has been made from the waste of cotton seed hull bran, of which it is estimated there is something like 1.500.000 tons annually. Instead of throwing that stuff away, it has been shown in a plant built and equipped by Theodore Swann at Anniston, Ala., that it can be converted into "xylose,” on a thus far semi-commercial basis. u a a “ |7HJRO-chloro- methane” holds Jt 1 / out a lot of hope to sweltering mortals on hot summer nights. It is a newly discovered refrigerant, perfected in the laboratories of the Frigidaire Corporation, Dayton, which possesses the alarming property of boiling at 18 degrees below zero, FahrenheitThrough its ultimate application to domestic use. scientists expect to conquer the heat problem. A touch of a button may make a sub-tropical or tropical abode livable for the first time in the history of the w-orld. It furthermore is said to be nontoxic and noninflammable.

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"Now we can tune in on Amos ’n’ Andy!” That's the most cheering remark of the evening in hundreds of thousands of American homes, as the family sit* around the radio. No of o radio stars ever held the grip on the nation that this pair of entertainers maintains. They just stop traffic on the air when they step up to the mike and they keep it clogged until their fifteenminute skit winds up. So you’re going to find out all about Amos n' Andy, in a big way. You're going to read one of the best series ever written, starting in The Times next Friday, a series that holds absorbing interest for every Amos n‘ Andy fan. It will tell you everything you want to know about this famous pair, and it’s written in such a fascinating way that you'll be watching eagerly every afternoon for The Times carrier boy to bring it to your door. And that won't be all. either. A pair of rollickin': entertainers, good understudies for Amos n' Andy, will give Incl anapolis a touch of real comedy, ns they traverse the downtown and residence districts in their junker car.

ILLINOIS FOES CLOSE BITTER VOTE BATTLE Mrs. McCormick, Deneen; Fire Last Shots as Campaign Ends. RIVALS FLING CHARGES Fierce Senatorial Primary Fight Will End at Polls Tuesday. BY MERTON T. AKERS t'nited Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, April 7.—Much of the j campaign psychology Mark Hanna used in the '9os was brought forth today in modern trappings by his daughter, Ruth Hanna McCormick, as she made her la-st bid in Chicago for the Republican senatorila nomination. From the stage of the Apollo theater, where at night Queenie Smith acts "The Street Singer," Mrs. McCormick at noon launched her final denunciation of her opponent, Senator Charles S. Deneen, as the strains of band and quartet , music died away in the wings. Tuesday the Illinois voters settle the fate of both in the primary. The first woman to make a really serious effort to sit in the senate, Mrs. McCormick, in tailored suit and close-fitting hat, recapitulated her arguments of the three months' I campaign, questioning Senator Deneen s record as a statesman and j as a politician. Hardly a half-block away in the : ; Grand Opera house, where beauties j 1 of George White's "Scandals" hold i | forth nightly, Senator Deneen made j i one of his several “clean up” speeches. Like Mrs. McCormick, he confined his remarks to the cami paign. and at the same time made | caustic references to the "city hall” angle of Mrs. McCormick's drive for votes. Marked ballots with an "X" before the McCormick name have been : ; broadcast several days by William j Hale Thompson administration workers.

Climaxing the introduction of Amos ’n’ Andy to Indianapolis in this intimate way will be the parade of motored horrible examples Thursday. in which a prize of $lO will be offered for the best takeoff on the Amos 'n' Andy Fresh Air Taxi stunt. Watch for this. You'll enjoy all of it. And get your order in now for The Times to be delivered at your home, so you won't miss a word of this great series. Call Riley 5551 and you'll get immediate attention. Remember, this series starts Friday in The Times.

DEAN OF SCIENTISTS TO BE PAID WORLD TRIBUTE ON 80TH BIRTHDAY

RY H. O. THOMPSON fnited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. April 7. World-wide tribute will be tendered Tuesday to a man who never led an army into battle, made a trans-Atlantic flight. or did anything except toil in his laboratories on tediou* work which has saved the lives of uncounted millions—Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins. Baltimore. He is ap unassuming hero of

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1930

‘Kill Reds!’ Alleged Communists Face Death Under Ancient Georgia Statute.

Bu united Pres Atlanta, April 7.—a musty, never-used death penalty statute of the "carpet bag" legislature days of Georgia, enacted in 1866 to prevent any recurrence ot the rebellion which closed the year before, has been dusted off by Fulton county authorities here to punish two alleged communists. Death, or imprisonment from 5 to 20 years on recommendation of the trial jury, is the possible penalty in event of conviction of Joe Carr and M. H. Powers, charged m an indictment with attempting to incite to insurrection, and with circulating literature to the same end. Carr and Powers were arrested here at the time oi the recent world-wide communist demonstrations, admitted to bond of $1,500 each, and now are at liberty. Their bond will be declared forfeited unless they surrender within two weeks, authorities said today. B M B JOHN H. HUDSON, assistant so-licitor-general of Fulton county, characterized the activities of the accused men as “a mild form of treason, to overthrow government by peaceful means, if possible, but to smash it by force if that Is impossible." “Georgia will not tolerate them, as they not only threaten established order, refuse productive labor and live by tribute from the poor, ignorant worker.” "Any attempt, by persuasion or otherwise, to induce others to join in any combined resistance to the iawfui authority of the state, shall constitute an attempt to incite insurrection,” the statute says. Cary and Powers are alleged to have exhorted sympathizers to join in resisting Atlanta police officers who had arrested them.

MARATHON BAN IS CONSIDERED Predict City Councilmen Will Pass Measure. Immediate passing of an ordinance banning endurance contests similar to the "mad marathon” being staged in Cadle tabernacle is favored by a majority of city councilmen, it appeared today, "I believe the measure will be passed tonight.” Council President E. C. Ropkev declared. Inquiry’ among councilmen disclosed some sentiment for continuance of the measure until the next meeting, presumably to allow the present contest to finish without interference, but it appeared a majority of councilmen will take a definite stand for the ban. The ordinance was drafted by City Attorney James E. Deery on request of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and was introduced two weeks ago. James A. Houck, finance chairman, said the committee will recommend passage of the $200,000 bond Issue ordinance asked by Mayor Sullivan for resurfacing nineteen main streets. TAME WILD GUSHED Oil Well Under Control After Eleven Days. BU T'nited Press OKLAHOMA CITY. April 7.—The wild gusher which "ran wild" for eleven days was tamed today, and workers believed the big geyser had been checked for good. The Mary Sudik No. 1 well, untamed for more than a w’eek. finally was brought under control when a huge steel cap was clamped on. Company officials announced they would seal the well and abandon it it necessary. The well, drilled at a cost of $150,000. had* cost more than that every three days it ran wild, they said. JAILS ‘MEANEST THIEF’ Judges Gives Man Ten-Year Term for Taking Fees From Jobless. B'i Uin ted Press NEW YORK, April 7.—The "meanest thief in the world" was sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing prison today by a judge who regretted that he could not impose life imprisonment. George Schwartz, alias Reise. was so characterized by General Sessions Judge Nott after a jury had convicted him of accepting fees from unemployed on the assurance of providing jobs.

the great silent battle between man and germs, the age-long peace-time war whose casualty list every year is greater than those of the whole World war. Scarcely a man. woman or child anywhere has not been benefited by Welch's work. asm THOUGH in his own profession his achievement has made him dean of his colleagues, he has labored fifty-five years without as

FILM, THEATER CHAIN CONTROL : SOLD BY FOX Stock Goes to Syndicate, 1 Ending Legal Fight of Several Months. HARLEY CLARKE IS HEAD | New Chief of Enterprises Also Guides City's Power Firm, 1 Bu United Press NEW YORK. April 7—Wall Street ! today mirrored its approval of the settlement of the $190,000,000 Fox Film Corporation interests’ financial difficulties, a settlement that brought to a prominent position in the movie industry, a man hitherto unknown to the theatergoer, Harley ; L. Clark of Chicago. The settlement dethroned William j Fox, who rose from ownership of a ! j nickelodeon to director of the vast i | Fox enterprises. Fox has sold his controlling inI terest in the companies to a I j syndicate headed by Clarke, ending j the legal controversy which has : been going on for several months. | Fox Film A stock spurted to 50 ; at the opening of Stock Exchange j trading today, and, although it ; ! later held around 46 it still was iup 5 % from the closing price of j ! Saturday. Genera] Theaters Equipment stock | J today jumped to a. new high at ; i 49%, up 2 points. This company is headed by i Clarke. j Clarke. It was believed, probably j j will become president of the Fox | companies. j Fox will serve as chairman of | an advisory beard at a sizeable sal- | | ary for five years. The exact ratio of refinancing be- ; i tween Bancamerica, Blair. Lehman j | Brothers and Dillon-Read on the : j one hand and Halsey. Stuart <fc Cos., ! has not been determined, but Hal- | sey-Stuart are expected to take over ! at least 25 per cent of the detail. Winfield Sheehan, who quareled with Fox over the question of refinancing, would retain his title of vice-president and genera 1-man-I ager, but would be sent, back to California to make pictures.

Formed Merger Here Harley L. Clarke, head of the j syndicate which acquired controlj ling interest in the Fox Films CorI poration, owns the controlling in- ! terest in the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. It was Clarke ! who put through the merger of In- ! dianapolis electric companies into I the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. BLOGK CANAL BRIDGE Abutment Found Weakened at Tenth Street Span. Street Commissioner Wilbur Winship permanently barricaded ithe Tenth street canal bridge today after the south abutment was found ; undermined. Winship and Harvey Cassiday, j flood prevention engineer, inspected ! the span and decided it dangerous to permit traffic to use it. It is l probable that anew bridge will be ; required. j Traffic will be diverted over the Pratt and Eleventh street bridges. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 40 10 a. m 42 7a. m 40 11 a. m 43 8 a. m 41 12 tnoon).. 44 9 a. m 41 1 p. m 47

HOAD FOND BOOSTED Indiana's Share to Reach $1.273.003. Indiana's share In nearly $50,000,000 additional federal aid for highway construction in the fiscal : year, beginning July 1 this year, will be $1,273,003. according to the apportionment announced today by : Secretary of Agriculture Hyde in Washington. The supplemental appropriation authorized in a bill signed by President Hoover last week, brings the aggregate federal road aid fund to $125,000,000 available this year. Allotments already have been made for the other $75,000,000. The bill authorized $125,000,000 for each of the next three years.

much world acclaim as has come within a few months to a pair of funny-men on the radio. But Tuesday he will be 80 years old and at the end of one of the most .useful lives of his time, the debt which humanity owes to him will be fit ingly acknowledged. President Hoover will speak at the key exercises here. Radio will be used to link simultaneous ceremonies throughout America, Europe and the Orient.

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Flowers burst into blossoms and trees grow to maturity with surprising suddenness at the Realtors’ Home Complete exposition in the Manufacturers’ building at the state fairground. And just as if Aladdin's lamp had been invoked to work miracles, a fountain sprang up before the model nome to the delight of Ann Lucie. 6. and Martha Jo Cantwell, 8. daughters of Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Cantwell. In the upper photo the girls are pictured with their mother. Their "daddy” is director of the exposition. In the lower photo the little misses peer at you across the flower garden that graces one of the many exhibits.

Attendance of More Than 12,000 Expected Today at Exhibition, Indiana lumbermen today joined the throngs inspecting exhibits at the ninth annual Realtors' Home Complete exposition which opened Saturday in the manufacturers’ building, state fairground. Attendance today was expected to exceed the mark of 12,000 set on the opening day. Doors opened at 11 a. m., and will close at 10:30 p. m. daily through Saturday. Marmon Motor Car Company employes will visit the show tonight, and Tuesday has been designated Electric League day. Featured on today’s program was judging of the miniature model homes entered in a contest conducted by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, sponsoring the exposition. The miniature home were made by Indianapolis high and grade school pupils. Indianapolis realtors and wives lunched in the manufacturers’ building today. Following the luncheon, prizes were distributed in a poster contest held as one of the early features of the exposition. A treasure hunt also followed the luncheon.

AIMEE REACHES BRITAIN Evangelist. Followers, En Route on ; Holy Land Pilgrimage. PLYMOUTH, England, April 7. j Aimee Semple McPherson, Los An- j geles evangelist, leading a "modern i day crusade to the Holy Land." arrived from New York on the steam- , ship George Washington Sunday : with some three-score followers. STRAY SHOT HITS GIRL. 7 Police Fire at Brawling Negroes; Wound Child on Corner. CHICAGO, April 7,—A stray bullet from a volley policemen fired at brawling Negroes struck Caroline j Condes. 7, in the head and she lay near death today in a hospital. The j little girl and her mother wait- : ing for a street car when Caroline : fell.

For fifty-five years, Welch has been the principal inspiration of medical science in the United States. He has seen the origin of disease traced scientifically. His span of years is such that he can remember when disease was asscribed to sin. too much blood or to evil influences. HUB DURING his career there has been collected knowledge which made possible the control

INJURIES ARE FATAL Aged City Woman Dies of Skull Fracture. Skull fracture received when she was struck by an automobile at Twenty-ninth and Annette streets, March 23, proved fatal to Mrs. Betty Shackleford, 75, of 3938 Northwestern avenue, in city hospital early today. Arthur Wuieser, 23, of 320 West Twenty-ninth street, was driver of the car. Coroner C. H. Keever said he would begin an investigation. AIR ACE TO TESTIFY i Williams to Tei! Senators of Resignation. ! Bu United Press | WASHINGTON, April 7.—Lieut. Alford J. Williams, the navy’s former crack speed pilot, will be the ! first witness Tuesday at the opening ' of the senate naval affairs commit- ! tee’s investigation of circumstances surrounding his resignation from | the navy, Senator Tydings (Dem., 1 Md.) announced today.

FIND KIDNAPED GIRL Detroit Police Guard Child Against New Attempt. Bu United Press DETROIT, April 7.—Fear that another attempt to kidnap Mary Suboch might be made, police today sent her to the juvenile home, where she could be guarded. Mary, kidnaped last Tuesday, was found late Saturday night, walking along a Detroit street, in company with John Reno, 17, who said he was taking the child to "Joe." the man who actually kidnaped her. Police efforts thus far to learn the identity or whereabouts of “Joe” have been unavailing.

of such diseases as diphtheria, malaria, cholera, yellow fever and typhus. It was Welch who spread through America the theory of scientific bacteriology. At the time lie was gradual ed from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia university, fifty-five years ago, the idea that disease could be caused by invisible plants and animals was ridiculed.

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MORE PRISONS ,DRY PROBLEM, SENATE TOLD Enforcement So Good, Jails Are Needed. Declares Attorney-General. POINTS TO CONVICTIONS Norris. Impressed. Drops Demand for Probe of Prohibition Unit. /?„ United pn-rs WASHINGTON, April 7.-Prohi- | bition is being enforced so well the department of justice is confronted 1 with a grave problem as to what to do with all the violators who are ! being convicted, Attorney-General Mitchell told the senate judiciary committee today in an executive session. Prosecutions are increasing, convictions are increa'tog and congesj t.ion of the courts is diminishing, 1 Mitchell asserted. He cited statistics which were not made public, showing how great, had been the stimulus of prosecutions during the first, year of the Hoover administration as compared with the last year of the Coolidge admin- ! istration, although he did not mention the administrations His argument was so convincing I that Chairman Norris of the com- ! mit.tee, announced he would withdraw his resolution calling for a ; senatorial inquiry of enforcement j conditions if friends of enforcement | generally continued to oppose it. Mitchell did not oppose the resoI lution. but. said he did not think iit would do any good. He saw no ; necessity for it since enforcement j is progressing so rapidly, he said. Urges More Jails The attorney-general urged, however, that congress enact immediate legislation to create more jails and jailing facilities for prohibition prisoners. He said twice as many men were in Atlanta penitentiary as the place ordinarily could hold. A barracks was bought at Leavenworth penitentiary in Kansas to care for the enormous increase in the prison population there, he said. Norris questioned Mitchell about I the use of political influence to | prevent and to interfere with pro- ! hibition prosecutions. He cited j the charges made by Mabel Walker j Wiilebrandt, former assistant at-Itorney-general. Mitchell replied that these charges referred to a time before he became attorney-general and, i therefore, he would not like to disj cuss them. Mitchell endorsed the WickerI sham reform bills, especially the measure transferring enforcement : to his department from the treas- ; ury. He advocated leaving the Industrial alcohol permit division in the treasury’. Insists on Sincerity “I thought my resolution would be an aid to honest and fair enforcement,” Norris said later. *T think it would help to relieve political pressure in enforcement. "But if the people, who are Just as ardently in favor of the law as I am, believe it would injure the new administration w’hich seems to be doing a little better, I don’t want to spill the beans. “Personally if there lias been better enforcement, I have not observed it, but the figures they produce indicate conditions are somewhat better." The committee probably will invite Senator Wheeler (Dem., Mont.) # to appear next week to speak on hi* similar resolution proposing a senatorial inquiry, Norris said. He added that there is no disposition in the committee now to vote upon the resolution, which has been pending several months. Ogden Gives Opinion Governor Harry’ G. Leslie’s crime commission is not concerned with the wet and dry question, and if it takes a stand on prohibition it is dealing with a question outside of its scope. Attorney-General James M. Ogden, member of the commission, said today. Ogden's opinion was expressed in a discussion of a challenge Saturday by Leo M. Rappaport, subcommittee chairman, that the commisI sion should state definitely its opinion of the prohibition question. Rappaport contended prohibition was "one of the basic causes of 1 crime." and should be treated as '• such by the commission. He suggested a secret poll of commission members be taken to ascertain their i views. Ogden admitted that prohibition might, be considered a cause crime and that the commission might logically study it as such, but contended that whether the commission favored modification or strict enforcement was outside its jurisdiction. State Senator C, Oliver Holme* Gary’, also a - commission member, said today he .ouid take no stand on whether the crime commission should take a definite stand on tha . wet and dry question. His interest* he said, lay in a movement to elim- | inate the $25 fee paid prosecutor* for trying liquor law violations. f r