Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1930 — Page 13

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STONE PLANTS REOPENED AS BUSINESS GAIN Bloomington-Bedford Area Profits by Revival of Industry. ORDER FROM LOUISVILLE Shawnee Company Material for New Telephone Building. BY CHARLES C. STONE Side Editor. The Tlmei Improvement In the Indiana stone Industry, centered in Bedford and Bloomington, was encouraging factors noted In a business survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The Indiana Limestone Company is opening mills and quarries which have been idle for varying periods, and other operators are taking like action. Other units which have been on part time schedules will resume full operations. Among those placed in operation are the Dugan and A. W. mills and the Old Blue Hole quarry and mill is expected to be in production soon. Announcing that a contract has been obtained to provide material for anew office and exchange building of the Southeastern Bell Telephone Company at Louisville, Xy., officials of the Shawmee Stone Company, Bloomington, state there has been a marked improvement in the industry. Wabash Outlook Better Manufacturers ut Wabash declare business depression in that city is near an enr. and that booking of orders has reached a volume not equalled since the fall of 1929. The Bastian-Morley Company, La Porte, has l>een awarded a United States government contract for 600 automatic gas water heaters. Delivery is to be made before July 30. Conditions in various Indiana cities are shown in the following summary: Bloomington—A site is being cleared for anew $30,000 Lutheran church. Stone will be the material. (raw fords ville—All departments of the Mid-States Steel and Wire Company are again in operation after several days’ idleness for inventory. It is expected the plant will be at capacity production by fall. Brazil—lnterests of W. J. McCloud in Brazil Minerals, Inc., have been sold to other stockholders. The company is engaged in strip mining with three products—-shale, coal and clay. $50,000 Building Planned Terre Haute—The Good Will Industry has purchased a site on which a $50,000 building will be erected. Gas City—The Owens-Illinois Gliss Compnay, which has a plant here, has purchased the BemeyBond Glass Company of Clarion, Pa., second largest manufacturer of milk bottles in the United States. Elkhart—The Williams Brothers brass foundry of this city has purchased the Stanley Foundry Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. Officials of the Williams concern announce the purchase will permit production of a wider variety of articles. Greenfield—lnstallation of machinery has been started in anew garment factory. Muncie—A plant ready for use hs been placed in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce industrial committee for lease or sale. The factory was formerly occupied by the Bell Piano Company. Mine Operating Riley—Operations have been resumed in part at the McClelland coal mine near here. Rushville—The plant of the defunct Innis-Pearce & Cos., furniture manufacturers, will be offered for sale at public auction at 10 a. m., Julv 28. Newcastle A receiver s sale of property of the Charde Lathe Company will be held at 2 p. m.. July 21. East Chicago—The local plant of ihe American Tank Car Company is operating near capacity, with 1.200 men employed five days a week. The General American Company has about 500 more men on its pay roll than at any time since June, 1929. Evansville The Family Welfare Society announces a slight increase in employment is evidenced here through fewer calls for aid. Washington— A contract for dredging Prairie creek from the Big Four railroad north of here to the stream scource in northeastern Daviess county, has been given to Morgan 6 Willis on a bid of SBI,OOO. . .Decatur.—. The Decatur Casting Company plant will resume operations Monday after the annual vacation shutdown of a week. OPEN PLAYGROUND QUIZ Start Probe Into Accident at Finch: Swing Injures Boy. Investigation of the accident at the Finch playground Thursday night when Emmett Fink, 16. of 1620 Hoyt avenue, was hurt when a swing he was using broke, was opened today by city officials. A link in the steel swing chain became disconnected when Fink was swinging too high, Mrs. Anna Theile, 1225 North New Jersey street, matron, said. Fink suffered head injuries and was treated by Dr. R. W. Reed. 745 South State avenue. CHILDREN IN MUTINY Punished. Pack and Leave Home; Found Downtown. Mutiny broke out in the home of Mr. and Mrs E* S. Smith, 4668 Hinesley avenue, today. Three girls, ranging in ages from 7 to 10. oacked their clothes and departed after their mother punished them. They were found shortly afterward at Meridian and Washington street by xriice and returned to their home.

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Ralph Fleagle, Colorado Outlaw, Walks Calmly to His Doom. Bu United Press CANON CITY, Colo., July 11— Ralph Fleagle, the west’s most notorious bandit and slayer, met death without a qualm on the gallows at Colorado state penitentiary here Thursday. Forty-five minutes before the trap was sprung at 9:03 p. m., he embraced the Catholic faith. His last words were: “God bless you, father.” At 9:16, Dr. R. E. Holmes, prison physician, pronounced him dead. His body will be sent to Garden City, Kan., where it will be cremated and the ashes given to relatives. Fleagle, who spent his last day in prayer that he would not falter in the hour of death, walked to the gallows without a quivver. Shortly before the death march was begun. Father Regis Barrett went to the condemned man’s cell. “Are you ready?” he asked. Walks Calmly to Doom “You bet,” spoke Fleagle calmly. He walked unaided to the death chamber and just before the noose was tightened he turned to the witnesses. “Jesus have mercy on my soul,” he said simply. And then: “God bless you, father.” The first jerk upward broke his neck. It was one of the speediest hangings in the history of the penitentiary. Fleagle was the first of the band of desperadoes to pay with his life for the $200,000 Lamar bank robbery of May 23, 1928, which resulted in four murders. Two Others to Die Howard L. Royston and George J. Abshier, erstwhile confederates of Fleagle. their leader, will be hanged on the same gallows next week. Royston and Abshier were taken from their death cells adjoining Fleagle’s shortly before the death march was started. Whatever grim satisfaction they may have had in knowing that “the man who peached on them" had died first, they did not reveal. Deputy Warden Patrick J. Hamrock, a colonel in the army, said he never had seen a soldier under fire face death more calmly than did Fleagle. HANDS UP? NOT ME! Poultry Dealer Raises Rumpus; Holdup Man Is Nabbed. Bu United Press NEW YORK. July 11—When a gunman told him to put up his hands. Isidor Kirschy. Bronx poultry dealer, refused, he told police, “because there was SBOO in the cash register.” Kischy said he screamed instead and 1.000 chickens and two assistants in the back room joined in the alarm which attracted Patrolman Clarence Meehan. The patrolman arrested Stephen Szorc, 28, who was carrying a pistol.

SIGHT-SEEING BUS TO TRAVERSE CITY

Semi-Weekly Tours to Be Conducted by Street Railway Company. Sight-seeing tours to points of interest in Indianapolis will be inaugurated Sunday by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Busses will be operated on Sundays and Wednesdays of each week, twice daily, to historic and beautiful spots in the city. The busses leave the Monument Circle at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. The Sunday rides will be thirty miles in length and the Wednesday tours twenty-two miles.

Roy of 7Forces 3- Year-Old Child Into Creek and Drowns Him

Bu Time* Sorrial LONG BEACH, Cal. July 11.— While the mother of his 3-year-old victim lay in a state of collapse and juvenile authorities debated what could be done with a 7-year-old slayer. La Verne McDonald sat, emotionless, today and wondered what all the fuss was about “I can hold my head under water inkthe bathtub with my eyes closed arc it hadn’t ought to have huxt

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Ralph Fleagle, (upper right), the west’s most notorious bandit, and “brains” of a gang of outlaws, hanged Thursday night. Howard Royston (lower right) and George Abshier (left), his confederates, are to hang during the week ending July 19.

POOL CHECKING WILLBE FREE Children Under 14 Benefit by Ruling. Co-operation in carrying out the park boards order for free checking for childien under 14 was promised Park Superintendent Charles Sallee tod.iy by James Angelo, concessionaire at McClure beach, and W. H Marsh, who holds concessions at Ellenberger and Garfield pools. Sallee said the city will pay checkers to handle clothing for bathers next year, offering the services free, but that the board does not want to change the system in mid-season if it is not necessary. “If we have any more trouble, the city will take it over. We want to give the public every possible service, but folks must be reasonable. Naturally, we have to have rules to handle the enromous crowds this year,” Sallee said. Marsh charged before the board that complaints that he had charged children in violation of the park order were “untrue.” Angelo contended that beach conditions are different from those at the pools. He said he would be willing to check all clothes for children free if furnished lockers. Angelo said he allowed four and five to use the same basket. HUSBAND CUT ON CHIN Negro Injured After Accusing Wife With ‘Running Around.’ Accusation by Herbert Dulin, Negro, 1121 North Senate avenue, that his wife, Mrs. Ollie Dulin, was "running around with other men,” ended disastrously for Dulin Thursday night. Mrs. Dulin grabbed a knife and sliced her husband’s chin, according to police reports. He is in city hospital and she faces an assault and battery charge. Alleged Beer Confiscated One hundred quarts of alleged beer w’ere taken, police said, in a raid Thursday night on the home of Anthony Delatore, 2017 Shelby street. He was arrested on a charge of operating a blind tiger.

“In making the tours w'e will visit the city's business district, .historic homes along Meridian and Delaware streets, Butler university, Riverside park, the Emrichsville bridge, Speedway and other spots,” declared Colonel George H. Healey, director of public relations of the railway company. The Sunday trips include a visit to the James Whitcomb Riley ho ie on Lockerbie street. Fares for sight-seers on Wednesdays will be 75 cents and $1 on Sundays. Motor coaches similar to those used on the North Meridian street line will be used in the tours, Healey said.

him any,” declared La Verne, in explaining how he ducked 3-year-old James Roland Ellis in a shallow flood control channel until the boy died. Questioned after the nude body of his little playmate was found floating in the channel. La Verne, police said, admitted, without a trace of emotion, that he made James undress arU wade into the pool, held his bead tnder water, let him go.

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INFIDEL TURK, KURD WAR ON BIBLE SCENE God’s Prophecy to Noah Is Fulfilled by Battle on Mt. Ararat. PERSIA GETS ULTIMATUM f Kemal Pasha Charges Bands of Robbers Backed by Government. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrlpos-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, July 11.—On the plateau of Ararat, where the ark landed after the flood, Turks and Kurds are killing each other in battle, just as God told Noah they would. Because of this rumpus, a war between Turkey and Persia may be merely a question of days. Kemal Pasha claims the Kurds have invaded Turkish territory with the backing of the Persian government,, and has sent fir. ultimatum to Teheran demanding that Persia restore order or the Turks will do it themselves. The Ararat region is where modem Turkey, Russia and Persia meet, half way between the Caspian and Black seas and south of Aiflis. No spot anywhere on the globe has witnessed such dramatic and fateful happenings, according to Biblical j history. | Across this plateau flows the | rivers Aras and Araxes. where traIdition places the Garden of Eden and where Adam and Eve started humanity going in the shade of the original apple tree. Noah Story Center Here centers the story of the deluge of which “all that was in the dry land died,” and from which only Noah and his family and the birds and beasts which he took into the ark, “two by two,” survived. Here Mr. and Mrs. Noah landed after the dove had come back to the ark with an olive leaf in its beak, and along with them their three sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet. “These are the three sons of Noah,” Genesis tells us, "and of them was the whole earth overspread.” Thus, says the Bible, it is from this very spot—where Turks and Kurds now are fighting—that all of us hail, every man, woman and child on earth. Just as it was here that the “begats” of Genesis 10 had their start, here, too, where Noah planted his first vineyard after the great inundation, and made the wine or; which he got drunk. Beheld Noah Nude Here was pitched the tent in which Ham beheld Noah nude and went off to tattle to his brothers of what he had seen. For which escapade he and his descendants were made forever slaves to the children of Japhet and Shcm who, respectfully walking in backward so they could not witness their father’s nakedness, covered him up. It was here, right after the flood, that God promised Noah that never again would there be such another flood and planted a rainbow in the heavens in token of his covenant. Here Noah lived for 350 years afterward. Here Mrs. Noah died and here was she buried at Marand, in the shelter of Ararat’s peaks. The region always has been fertile with discord, since Adam and Eve and the angel first fell out over the forbidden fruit. The Assyrians sent a number of expeditions to annex it as far back as 900 years before Christ. Tens of thousands of Armenians have been massacred in the vicinity. Called Noah’s Mount The Turks called the plateau Aghri Dagh. or “steel mountain.” Persians call it Koh-I-Nuh, meaning “Noah's Mountain.” There are two peaks, Great Ararat, more than 17,000 feet high, which today is covered with perpetual snow, and Little Ararat, 14,840 feet high. There used to be a little summer resort at the base, and a monastery on the site of Noah’s Vineyard, but a terrible earthquake in 1840 caused both to be buried forever under a landslide. God told Noah that while there would be no more world-wide inundations. man would, nevertheless, have plenty of trouble. “At the hand of every man's brother,” God said, “will I require the blood of man.” And again, “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” Today, on Ararat’s slopes, with no little verve and vigor, infidel Turk and fanatical Kurd are carrying out Jehovah's injunction. JARDINE WILL BE ENVOY Former Secretary of Agriculture to Get Diplomatic Post. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. July 11.—Former Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine of Kansas has been selected by President Hoover for a diplomatic post abroad, it was announced at the White House today. He was to have been sent to Egypt, which already has notified the state department he is acceptable. but owing to a contemplated shift in the diplomatic corps he may be sent elsewhere.

and then stood and watched for him to come up. But James didn’t come up, he explained, so he tossed the child’s clothes into the water and w’ent home. A neighbor of the McDonald family furnished the clew that led to La Verne’s detention after Mrs. Ellis had reported that her child was missing 5 “I saw La Verna playing along

Mothers of Doomed Trio Plead in Vain With Widow of Victim

Gunmen Will Hang July 25 Unless Woman Heeds Mercy Pleas. Bu SEA Errrice KANSAS CITY, Mo.. July 11.— Three men will go to their deaths on the gallows in a triple hanging here July 25 because the woman who was made a widow and whose four children were orphaned by their bullets refuses to say the word that might save them. With the wholesale execution, Kansas City will have settled its account with the bandits who committed a particularly sensational bank robbery and cold-blooded murder while the Republican national convention was in session here in 1928. And the death of Policeman J. H. (Happy) Smith, one of Kansas City's most popular traffic officers, will have been avenged. Widow Is Adamant The woman whose silence, despite tearful pleas of relatives, has sealed their doom is “Happy” Smith's widow. If she should ask that their lives be spared they might have a chance. If she does not, they have no chance. She insists that she will not move to save them. , As the day of execution nears, police have placed a guard at Mrs. Smith’s home, for friends and relatives of the bandits have put severe pressure on her in a futile effort to win commutation of the death sentences. Meanwhile, the three condemned men—Carl Nasello, Tony Mangiaracina and John Messino—are under heavy guard at the county jail where machine guns have been mounted to thwart any possible attempt to rescue them. Mothers Plead for Lives Several times the mothers of the condemned men have gone to Mrs. Smith's home with other women who identified themselves as mission workers. On each occasion, after pleading with Mrs. Smith, the visitors would fall on their knees. One of the mission workers would say, “Let us pray,” and the visitors would offer a prayer asking that God move the widow’s heart so that she would intercede for the murderers. Mrs. Smith and her orphaned children would stand with bowed heads while the visitors prayed; and each time, when the prayer was finished, Mrs. Smith would say: “I am sorry for you. It is terrible for any mother to know her son is to be hanged. But I could not interfere even though I wished to.” Home Is Guarded Now, the city is guarding the widow’s home and the bandits’ relatives and friends are not permitted to enter. Another object of attention on the part of the slayers’ relatives has been the home of Smith’s father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Roney Smith, who live on a farm 100 miles from Kansas City. Several times the mothers and friends have made trips there. Guards are protecting the policeman’s parents, like his widow, from further visits. The murder of Patrolman Smith stirred Kansas City as few other crimes have. A motor car full of gunmen drove up to the Home Trust Company, near Convention hall. Two gunmen, with shotguns, stationed themselves at the entrance; three others went inside with drawn revolvers and forced clerks to give them $50,000 in cash. Officer Shot Down The gang then jumped into a car and sped away, exchanging shots with policemen and severely wounding a 13-year-old girl. Half a block away stood Patrolman Smith, on traffic duty. Hearing the shots, he waited for the bandit car and ordered it to stop. They shot him dead and sped on, their car knocking his semaphore over. ELDER SULLIVAN ON ANNUAL FISHING TRIP Goes for 18th Year to Lake in Northwest Minnesota. Thomas L. Sullivan Sr., 83, and father of Mayor Reginald S. Sullivan, has gone to Big Sand lake, 245 miles northwest of St. Paul, Minn., for his eighteenth annual fishing trip. For seventeen years Sullivan has had the same Indian guide, “Charlie Thomas,” who has looked after the comforts of the former circuit judge and ex-mayor. “My father has made a Democrat out of Charlie and I guess he’s t ie only Democrat in Minnesota.” Mayor Sullivan declared. The veteran jurist is as enthusiastic a sportsman, prize fighting and baseball fan as he is a devout churchgoer. Byron Hollett, 15, his grandson, and Miss Mary Sullivan, his daughter, accompanied him to the Minnesota camp. Home Agent Chosen B-u Times Eoecial WINCHESTER, Ind., July 11.— Miss Starley Hunter of Kokomo has been appointee home demonstration agent for Randolph county’to succeed Miss Mildred Treager, resigned. Miss Hunter is a graduate of Indiana university, class of 1928, and has since been teaching vocational training in the schools at Kokomo. She also taught at Columbia City.

the channel with a smaller boy,” Orie Dale the neighbor, told police. "He w’as pushing this little fellow into the water, but I didn’t think anything oi it at the time as water was shallow at this point.” Mrs. Elaine Matthews, juvenile officer, in whose custody La Veme was placed pending further investigation of the case, said he would be held for observation. ‘lt is a horrible thing, but j;ou

Mrs. James H. Smith, widowed by bandits’ bullets, is pictured above as she reads a newspaper announcing their doom, her children beside her. They are Jean, 2; Junior, 8; Dorothy. 11. and Hortense, 15. Inset is her late husband. Policeman (Happy) Smith. Below are the three men facing the gallows: Carl Nasello, Tony Mangiaracina and John Messino.

What Would YOU Do?

SUPPOSE your husband, a policeman, had been murdered by bank robbers while performing his duty— Suppose that the bandits had been sentenced to hang and that their mothers, tearful and pleading, had come to your home and begged you to say the word that might save their lives. Suppose that they had fallen on their knees before you and prayed aloud that God would move your heart to mercy— What would YOU do? And why? The Times would like to ascertain its readers’ views by publishing their letters on this subject. Write your views, in 150 words or less, and mail your letter to The Times. All letters must be signed with the writer’s name and address.

BYRD VISITS CHICAGO City Will Pay Honor to Antarctic Leader. Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 11.—Chicago r*3 prepared to welcome Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and seven members of his south polar expedition today and whirl them through a round of receptions and banquets. The city’s official greeting was scheduled to begin at noon with the firing of a thirteen-gun salute from a cannon in Grant park, followed by a parade, down Michigan boulevard. Admiral Byrd will tell of his experiences in the Antarctic at a civic dinner, which will be attended tonight by representatives of the city, state, army, and navy. Members of the party and their commander will leave by airplane Saturday for St. Louis.

TWO CONVICTED IN VOTE FRAUD CASE

New Trial to Be Asked for Gary Politicians Who Face Prison Terms. CROWN POINT, Ind., July 11.—A motion for anew trial in expected to be filed for Owen O’Malia and Joseph Carlson, Gary politicians, who Thursday wefe found guilty of election conspiracy by a Lake county criminal court jury here. The jury reached its verdict after little more than two hours’ deliberation, but immediate announcement was not made of the result because of the absence of Judge Martin Smith.

can’t file murder charges against a 7-year-old boy,” said Mrs. Matthews. “It is a plain case of psychosis.” James’ death was not due to drowning, physicians who performed an autopsy revealed today. His death, they said, resulted from an enlarged throat gland which choked him as he struggled to reach the surface. Them was little water in his lungs and£tone in his stomach.

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WIFE ASSAILANT DIES OF WOUND Alexandria Man Said to Have Been Jealous. Bu Times fioerial ANDERSON, Ind., July 11. Arthur F. Stephenson, 50, died at St. John's hospital here today while his wife, Edith, 33, was in a nearby room believed to be fatally wounded. Stephenson shot his wife twice through the head as she lay in bed late Thursday night and then turned the revolver on himself, firing twice. The first shot went wild, lodging in a wall. The second shot pierced his right temple. Mrs. Stephenson was conscious several hours after the shooting. One bullet pierced her upper lip and came out at the back of her head. | The second shot struck her in the back of the head at the base of the brain. The shooting was the result of a quarrel started by Stephenson, alleged to have been jealous. He was intoxicated, Iris wife said before she lapsed into unconsciousness. The couple was married fifteen years ago and have two children. The marriage was the second for both. Mrs. Stephenson has children by her first marriage. Stephenson owned and operated an automobile tire and accessories store at Alexandria. FEARS FOR U. S. LIVES Consul-General Asks Americans to Leave China Provinces. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 11.—ConsulGeneral Frank P. Lockhart at Hankow, China, advised the state department today he was asking all Americans in the provinces of Hunan, Hupeh, Kiangsi and Honan to evacuate because of extended bandit activities.

Judge Smith set Aug. 1 for sentencing of the two defendants and Milton H. Marquardt and Charles Parker Jr., who had entered pleas of guilty. The defense counsel said the new trial motion would be filed on the day of sentencing. No date for sentencing Marquardt and Parker have been set. The defendants made no comment when the verdict was read, and both declined to poll the jury at the suggestion of Judge Smith. The case was given to the jury at 3 Thursday afternoon and Judge Smith received the verdict at 7:30. Carlson and O'Malia face a sentence of from two to fourteen years in prison and a fine of $25 to SI,OOO.

Mrs. Katherine Ellis, the little victim’s mother, collapsed when she learned of the tragedy—the latest in a series of mishaps that have befallen the family in the last few months. Another son was killed recently by a hit and run auto driver, and a few months before that another son, almost grown, died of accidental gunshot woundj. Her husband is ill in a sanitfriuna.

MOD SELLS HUGE BUSINESS TO EMPLOYES " 150 Workers Get Control of Columbia Conserve Plant Here. ‘BOSS’ CAN BE FIRED Amazing Dream of City Industrial Head True After 13 Years. The president of an Indianapolis firm doing an annual business of more than $1,500,000, voluntarily placed himself today in the hands of his 150 employes, who are privileged to discharge him if they see fit. William P. Hapgood and his coworkers in the Columbia Conserve Company, today celebrated the thirteenth anniversary of one of the most unusual experiments in American industrial history, when the 150 employes assumed 51 per cent of the company's stock and Hapgood announced he would remain at the 1 ead of the firm only so long as his co-workers wanted him. Tomorrow seventy-six employes might vote to discharge Hapgood—and he would step out of office without complaint. Dream of But Hapgood expects no such development, for he long has been known as the most democratic member of this first complete unit of industrial democracy. For thirteen years he and his two brothers—i Hutchins and Norman (the editor)— I have planned for this day when ! they would consummate America’s ! first million-dollar "business without i a boss.” ! Columbia employes have acquired 1 their shares in the business without paying for it. Profits of the company simply have been '■'’cumulated ; and used to purchase the common stock, which was given outright to the workers as a group. “My brothers and I have taken this step to satisfy our own desires for real happiness,” Hapgood said. “Real happiness is not to be bought with wealth, but only by a right relationship with our fellows. We have the hope that our experiment may hint at possible new solutions for America’s grave industrial problems, especially that of unemployment.” Wages Based on Needs It was in 1917 that the three brothers inherited the soup plant and started their socio-industrial experiment. They made a contract with their employes as a group for purchase of the business by a re- | tirement of the common stock from profits. Features of the transaction included: 1. Wages are based on actual need of the worker, not his efficiency or “earning power.” Thus a janitor who happens to be the father of five children may be paid more than the super-salesman who is unmarried; or the stenographer who is a widowed mother may be paid more than the unmarried executive who dictates to her. 2. The wage rate is fixed for each employe by his fellow workers. There are “leaders,” but no bosses. 3. A married man automatically receives 50 per cent higher wages than a single man—and he gets $2 a week more for each child up to the limit of three children, a limit set in the belief that more than three children proves a menace to any worker’s happiness. Weekly Council Held 4. The employes hold a weekly council, at which every detail, every important policy, is discussed and settled. The girl who pastes labels on the soup cans 'is at liberty to criticise the president’s new sales program—and often does. If a majority agree with her, the president’s program is rejected. 5. Every employe holds his job until discharged by the council of his co-workers. 6. A sinking fund for old-age pensions is provided. 7. Workers or their dependents who are ill may be voted financial relief from company funds by the workers’ council. 8. All workers’ stock is held by the employes as a group; no employe holds stock as an individual, nor can he hand it down to his heirs. On these principles the company has operated for thirteen years, and last year did a $1,000,000 business, with net profits of $163,000 after dividends were paid on preferred stock. More than SIB,OOO was spent for health and welfare work among the employes during the last twelve months. The workers today assumed 51 per cent of the stock and full control. Eventually the Hapgood brothers expect 100 per cent of the stock to be held by the workers. And the slogan of the organization, Hapgood said today, is: “From every man according to his ability; to every man according to his : needs.” SHIP BUILDING HALTED Italy Shelves Plans in Accordance With French Note. Bu United Press PARIS, July 11.—In accordance with Foreigin Minister Aristide Briand’s memorandum to Italy, promising the laying down of warships until December, the ministry of marine has shelved plans for building 48,000 tons The deferred tonnage includes one 10,000-ton cruiser, seven submarines and six destroyers which would have been laid down in 1930. Woman Beaten by Negro Mrs. Nellie Bliss, operator of a restaurant at Twenty-first street and Northwestern avenue, today ! was beaten and kicked by a Negro | who knocked her down after he I ordered a sandwich. The Negro ! did not steal anything and no moi tive could be assigned for tha at- ' uek. : . *