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STATE’S CARE FOR JUVENILE CASES FLAYED Indiana Methods Are Low Compared With Others, Charges Experts. •PITIFUL,’ HE ASSERTS Great Criticism Hurled at Facilities of Dependent Children Here. Charges that facilities and methods for handling juvenile court cases in Indiana are the lowest of any of the states were made today by C. C. Carstens of New York, executive director of the National Child Welfare League, at conclusion of a visit in the Marion county court. The "pitiful” way in which cases are tried in juvenile courts was described by Kartsen to Judge John F. Gecklcr, of the Marion juvenile court and court employes at a closed meeting Wednesday afternoon. Greatest criticism was directed at the method of caring for dependent children in the state and especially in Marion county. Far Under Other States In commenting upon the charges today. Judge Gecklcr admitted that "as far as offering aid for mothers with dependent children is concerned. Indiana is far below other states.” Gecklcr stated that need for a new detention home to house properly delinquent and dependent children whiie awaiting disposal by the court, is the most serious problem in Marion county. Report from the state board of charities today revealed that group has refused to license the Marion county home since 1929 because of its unsatisfactory condition. Gecklcr Defends Work Charge that Indiana is not placing enough distinction between neglected and delinquent children in its courts was made by Karsten. Geckler defended the way juvenile rases are handled, after Kartsen flayed the method as executed in this county. “Homes should be found for de- | pendent children instead of bringing j them into court,” Kartsen stated. "We are handling juvenile cases j as well here as any place and are ! trying to keep broken families to- j gether,” Geckler said in defending his court. ■— PUBLISHER’S WILL PERPETUATES PAPER Chicago Daily News’ Late Owner Outlines Preserving Program. Bjl United Press CHICAGO. May 14.—The will of Walter A. Strong, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, who died last Sunday, was filed today, outlining a program of preserving "The Daily News or its successor as a semipublic institution with substantially the character it may have at my death.” Although no inventory of the assets was filed with the will, the executors said the value of Strong’s estate w'ould "not exceed $2,500,000.” Provisions were made for the sale of the publisher's controlling interest in the paper to employes or others who, in the opinion of the three executors, would preserve Its established character. YOUNG HOOVER TO GO WEST WITH CHILDREN President s Son Will Spend Summer at His Father's Residenee. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. May 14.—Herbert Hooter Jr., son of the President, wall leave here in a few days for j Palo Alto. Cal., where he will spend the summer at his father’s residence on the campus of Stanford university. Young Hoover has recovered sufficiently from his illness to make the trip west immediately. He will take with him his two children. Peggy Ann, 6, and Herbert 111. 4, who have been residing at the White House since last November. HATE FOR JAZZ MUSIC COSTS GAMBLER LIFE Brooklyn Figure Slain: Alleged Rtabbcr Said to Have Confessed. By United Press BROOKLYN. N. Y„ May 14.—A distaste for jazz music was believed today to have cost Morris (Monk) Reich. Brooklyn gamoler. his life. He walked the Lorimer athletic club in Brooklyn, and remonstrated with Benjamin Brownstein, 32. an electrician, because jazz strains were coming in over the radio, and demanded that it be turned off. When Brownstein refused. Re.ch was said to have punched him in the jaw. Later, his body was found outside the club with stab wounds in the left side and back. Brownstein, arrested, admitted stabbing Reich to death, police said. i RENO DIVORCE SOUGHT Grantland Rice's Daughter Asks Decree; Charges Cruelty. By U nited Press RENO. Nev., May 14.—Florence Rice Smith, daughter of Gratland Rice, sports writer, filed suit today for divorce here from Sydney A. Smith. She charged cruelty.

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FIRE ‘HERO’ GIVEN 2-TO-14 YEAR TERM ON ARSON CHARGE

Wins Decision! Fighter Hahn Tells Judge Alleged Booze Just Tough Syrup.’

RAY HAHN, 29, ex-prize fighter. known as "the butcher boy,” had been taking “strong cherry cough syrup and aspirin” May 3 when he crashed head-on with another automobile at Thir-ty-third streej, and Capitol avenue, he told Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer today. He was charged with drunkenness, operating a vehicle while drunk and reckless driving, but judgment was withheld by Sheaffer after he decided to "give Hahn benefit of the doubt.” In the collision Hahn struck an auto driven by Isidore Secttor, 404 East Twenty-fourth street, damaging the auto to the extent of $452 and injuring Mrs. Secttor. Hahn said that in addition to the syrup and aspirin he had been suffering from an eye infection that "made bad my judge of distance.” He also stated that when the accident occurred he was lowering the window for his dog "so the dog could put his head out the way he likes to do.” Secttor said he had stopped his car when he saw Hahn's auto coining toward him, but this failed to avert the collision.

STATE BUILDS CASE AGAINST KIRKLAND

Detailed Account Leading to Draves Girl’s Death Is Given Jury. By United Press VALPARAISO. Ind., May 14. Continuing its detailed account of events following the gin party death of Arlene Draves, 18, in Gary last autumn, the state planned, today to summon expert medical witnesses to substantiate charges that the girl died from attacks by Virgil Kirkland, 20. * Dr. James C. Burcham. Gary coroner's physician who conducted the autopsy upon Miss Draves’ body and announced that she died of "the shock of repeated attacks and two hemorrhages,” was called to repeat the testimony given at a previous trial which resulted in a life sentence for Kirkland. Wednesday, prosecutors began the parade of witnesses whose testimony they hoped would convince the jury that the smartly dressed former high school athlete was guilty. Two Gary policemen. George Regal and Edwin Minner. who had not testified at the first trial, said they heard Kirkland confess, after his arrest, to attacking Miss Draves at the home of David Thompson, where the party was held, and again in an automobile. Three or four other new witnesses will be summoned by the state, ac-

HIGHWAY CHIEFS RENEW SECRET LAKE MEETfNGS

The "Murden Cottage” at Lake Manitou is open for another season of closed sessions of the Indiana highway commission, it became known today as the veil of secrecy was lifted from the locale of commission's mysterious meeting of Wednesday. "We were out inspecting roads and making plans and held an executive meeting of the commission at the Murden cottage,” divulged Director John J. Brown today. "No action was taken of public interest.” Department heads, left behind in highway offices Wednesday, and professing not to know where the commission was meeting, were under injunction to make that reply to newspaper men, it was learned. A report similar to that made by Brown today was made when the commission met secretly at the cottage of Commissioner Jess Murden at Lake Manitou last spring. A senate investigation disclosed that the meeting was of great public interest in that highway funds were switched around so that the state failed to collect thousands of dollars in federal aid. The money piled up at Washington while drought stricken farmers and unemployed of the state were crying for relief through jobs. Complete secrecy surrounded the Wednesday meeting. Brown and every department head was gone and employes left in charge denied knowing where they went. Brown today defended this conduct of public affairs.

TM FROM KENTUCKY,’ SAYS IRVIN COBB, ‘AND IT’S A DERBY NOT A DARBY!’

By United Press NEW YORK, May 14.—The glories of Kentucky Derby, one of America's great traditions, will be sung in thousands of words the next three days—but for sheer prose poetry Irvin S. Cobb has set the pace with a single paragraph. The famous humorist and storyteller of Paducah, born and raised in the blue grass country, stepped to the microphone Wednesday night and, in some 180 words, produced a description of the Churchill Downs classic than is likfHy to survive for many derbies & come.

One “Loose End’ Left Dangling by Grover Bledsoe Solves 'Perfect Crime.’ Another of those persons who slip outside the law and safely back in with the "perfect-crime” was sent away to a cell today because he left one loose end hanging out of the case and someone picked it up. Early in the morning of March 20 Grover Bledsoe, alias Morgan, braved flames that destroyed the house in which he lived at 1747 West New York street, and achieved a hero's laurels by rescue of his wife and two small daughters. His heroism looked a little artificial to investigators from the state fire marshal’s office when they found that thirty minutes before the rescue he had engaged rooms for himself and family at 125 North Miley avenue, his present abode. ■ That's how, for one thing, Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker today found Bledsoe guilty of arson, and sentenced him to from two to fourteen years in the state reformatory. Jonas Willis, 125 North Miley avenue, on trial with him, was discharged. Steal Draperies From Parked Car Draperies and curtains, valued at several hundred dollars, were stolen this afternoon from a truck of the J. D. Eastman Company, 808 Dorman street, while it was parked in front of 3537 North Pennsylvania street, police were informed.

cording to Prosecutor John Underwood. Dr. Russell C. Wharton, to wiiose home Miss Draves’ body was taken by Kirkland and other youths early last Nov. 30, testified that she was dead when they laid her on a davenport in his home. He told of firing several shots at the youths when they fled after he told them she was dead. Carolyn Draves. a sister, identified garments she said Arlene wore to the party. Murrell Clemens, a brother-in-lawr, told of Kirkland rushing from Dr. Wharton’s home to his and explaining upon arrival: “Arlene's dead. She fell.” The defense interjected anew angle into the testimony when it insisted that garments of Kirkland's companions be introduced as evidence. Attorney Oscar Thiel said these would show that the others were more to blame for Miss Draves’ death than Kirkland. Three other youths were indicted with Kirkland and are awaiting trial. Theater Bandit Convicted By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., May 14. Jack Davis, 30, w’ho, with" Darrell Kirby, 24, was charged with robbing the Logan theater here March 29 of $77, was found guilty by a jury here. He faces a prison term of ten to twenty-five years.

"If we want to go out here and have an executive session and not be bothered we have a perfect right to do so,” he said. ' The department spends some 522,000,000 annually collected from Hoosier motorists through license i and gasoline taxes. Expenditures of' the highway department are greater ] than all the rest of the state government combined.

TWO EVADE PRISON IN DRUNK DRIVING TRIALS

Two persons, charged with operating motor vehicles while drunk, escaped jail sentences today in municipal court and were given the opportunity to pay fines on the installment plan while on probation. His third appearance in city courts in the last few weeks brought fines of $lO on drunkenness and SIOO on operating an auto while drunk to Charles (Big Shiner) Middaugh, 513 Parker avenue, professional bondsman. Middaugh denied he was drunk the night of May 3 when he is alleged to have chased persons from his house and driven his car while police searched for him. Thirty-day sentence was suspended. Ralph Spaan, special judge,

Grantland Rice first interviewed Cobb on the general subject of horse racing, and promptly was taken to task for referring to the Kentucky event as a "darby.” "What business has a country boy from Tennessee got calling the Derby a "darby"? inquired Cobb. "You might possibly get away with that ’darby’ stuff if you had spats and a monocle and an Oxford accent and a set of those large, limpid British adenoids such as only true Britons have. But you—why, you are as southern as chicken gravy on & presiding elder's vest,”

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BROOKS WILL 1 FRAUD CHARGE IS BOLSTERED; Evidence Is Introduced by Authority on Disputed Documents. $250,000 IS AT STAKE 1930 Bequest List Written] on Two Typewriters, Professor Testifies. Evidence seeking to show the will of Bartholomew D. Brooks is a! fraud, was introduced in probate j court today by one of the nation’s] leading experts on legal documents who appeared as witness for two Indianapolis charity organizations seeking $200,000 from the Brooks estate. Jay F. Wood, Northwestern university professor and authority on i disputed documents, testified this morning that a 1930 will, signed shortly before Brook’s death, June 1, 1930, was drawn fraudulently. Charity organizations, the Indianapolis Home for Aged Women and the Indianapolis chapter, Amer. ican Red Cross, are seeknig to set aside the 1930 will in favor of another, signed by Brookns June 22, 1920, which left the charity groups 200,000 from the estate valued at approximately $250,000. Written at Different Times Attorneys ior the plaintiffs introduced as evidence in the case today photostatic copies of wills, sixteen times their original size. Wood testified the 1930 will was written on two typewriters at different times, while the defense contends only one was used. By use of chemicals, Wood stated, he could prove that the will was written at two different times. Wood’s testimony is expected to be the charity group's ace. His authority on documents was re- j quested in the trial of Loeb and Leopold, kidnap slayers a few years ago. 100 Witnesses to Testify More than a hundred witnesses j are to testify in the trial, it is said, i An attempt also is being made by] the plaintiffs to prove that Brooks was of unsound mind when he signed the 1930 will, leaving practically all the estate to a former employe. Robert A. Hackney, 3750 j North Capitol avenue. Several cousins and a half sister, who received bequests in both wills, are siding with the charity groups in the attempt to defeat the 1930 will. Two former probate judges, Frank Ross and Mahion E. Bash, are pitted against each other in the jury trial, which is expected to last two more weeks in probate court. Judge Smiley N. Chambers is hearing the case. TELL OF WATER ILLS IN VINCENNES HEARING Commission Told Hydrants Leaked, Difficult to Use. j By Times Special VINCENNES. Ind., May 14.—Although this city pays $99 a year for each of its Are hydrants, the j highest rate in the state, according j to city officials, scores of the hydrants leak and can be used only with difficulty, Leroy Tade, city fire captain, told the public service commission hearings here today. Mayor Joseph W. Kimmell rushed through a large number of citizens this morning to tell why they had discontinued use of city water. Geor|e Fuller, one witness, said! even his cows wouldn't drink the water. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 50 10 a. m 65 7a. m 52 11 a. m 68 ] 8 a. m.-... 60 12 (noon).. 68 n c.o i rrn

placed Middaugh on probation for six months, and said he will not be able to obtain a driver's license for a year. Mrs. Thelma Dilcon, 28, of 3434 North Keystone avenue, swooned when Judge William H. Sheaffer said she was sentenced thirty days in jail and fined $lO each on charges of drunkenness and operating an automobile w r hile drunk. However, when she was revived, she learned Sheaffer had added ’’suspended” to the jail sentence and then placed her on probation for sixty days. Officers testified they found Mrs. Dilcon in her automobile that had crashed in a ditch May 1 on Keystone avenue at Twenty-ninth street.

"TITHAT do you think of the * * Whitneys and other northerners coming to Kentucky with so many derby winners?" Cobb was asked. "Pardon me—these foreigners never come to Kentucky with derby winners," he replied. "They come to Kentucky to get the stork to win the derbies with. And remember this—when these worshipful giants of the turf, such as Man-o’-War and Morvich, quit running races, do they settle dow-n on Park avenue for the winter or spend their summers at Newport? t)

RIDES WITH DEATH

Goes 75 Miles an Hour Blind

BY NORMAN E. ISAAC'S , |||| sg: mm SURE, I’m a fatalist,” says Joe J ||H Russo. "I’m a confirmed one. ! | I’m not superstitious and five and j thirteen are all the same to me.” I v Russo, an entrant in the 500- v 5 d' I Sand B|y May 30, amazed railbirds and himself and dropping a hood over , wlL* l a his .head—and their circling the ' giant Speedway oval at a speed of / "There’s no trick to it," says Joe, ||||Sjj|fe^ "just sense and feel. In other ' equilibrium.” - Up came Steve Hannagan, j Speedway publicity director, and a■“ Pathe sound movie truck. Leon < Duray, holder of the Indianapolis track record, strolled up to help. * , Leon deftly tied a black pad over Russo’s eyes and then knot- 0* ' ted a white doth blindfold over > *=• * that. Over those went the black hooded mask. '•

SURE, I’m a fatalist,” says Joe Russo. "I’m a confirmed one. I’m not superstitious and five and thirteen are all the same to me.” Russo, an entrant in the 500mile Indianapolis Speedway race May 30, amazed railbirds and racing men at the Speedway Wednesday by calmly blindfolding himself and dropping a hood over his head—and then circling the giant Speedway oval at a speed of seventy-five miles an hour. "There’s no trick to it,” says Joe, "just sense and feel. In other words, just perfectly developed equilibrium.” Up came Steve Hannagan, Speedway publicity director, and a Pathe sound movie truck. Leon Duray, holder of the Indianapolis track record, strolled up to help. Leon deftly tied a black pad over Russo's eyes and then knotted a white cloth blindfold over that. Over those went the black hooded mask. a a tt "I TM,” said Leon, “I'm sure glad I didn’t get this get-up on when I broke the track records.” "How fast was that?” asked Joe. "Oh, pretty nearly 125 miles an hour,” answered Leon. "Well, I’ll be seeing you—maybe.” "Well, that's not bad,” said Steve to the camera men. “Not bad? Where do you get that stuff. We’re good!” hallowed Duray as the masked Russo moved down the track, the motor of his trim race car roaring. Back in the pits once more, Russo leaned up against his car. a u "T'VE been barnstorming around -*■ the country for twelve years,” he says. "I used to run a flying circus and I suppose I learned part of that equilibrium when I was wing walking. "YeSf I’ve been in air crashes. Three of ’em, in fact. I never was hurt very badly, but I have been hurt in auto smackups. "Two years ago they left me in Atlanta, Ga., to die. I was racing on a mile track and was running second. We only had about one more lap to go when the left rear wheel of my car came off as the hub cap split. The tire stood still momentarily and then hurtled down the track and crashed into me. crushing my back. "Say, I’ve still the tire marks on my back.”

SIGHTLESS MAN GRANTED MERCY BY BLIND JUSTICE’

Beneath the likeness of the blind goddess of justice in federal court today, stood another who could not see, pleading for her protection against alleged persecution by police, Charged with liquor violations, Elmer Gentry, a blind farmer living near Muncie, w'aived a trial by jury and acted as his own attorney to win freedom from Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Gentry was dismissed by George R, Jeffrey, United States attorney, after the judge condemned police tactics that led to Gentry’s arrest last summer. Herschei Rhodes, who said he was a special policeman working out of the Delaware county prosecutor’s office last summer, related that he bought a gallon of alcohol from Gentry June 6. and returned at night and purchased a pint of whisky. Later. Muncie police confiscated 240 galolns of sugar alcohol on Gentry's farm, and he served sixty days for the violation. Still later they found 119 gallons of alcohol there, and he appealed his conviction and SIOO fine to Delaware circuit court, from which it was brought to federal court. Gentry cross-examined Rhodes. "When you canle back that night, didn’t you have women, and liquor in your car?” Rhodes admitted that. "And going back to town, didn't you turn your car over?" Gentry asked the witness

"They do not. They come back home to the blue grass, to the folks who really love them and appreciate ’em, and we make holy shrines of their stables while they live and pious pilgrimages to their graves af>sr they’re dead. Why, we've got more tombstones erected to horsemen than we have to statesmen. But then, Henry Clays have been running very few these last few years?” * * FINALLY Rice asked his subject for a word-picture of the Kentucky Derby, and Cobb replied;

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Here’s the man who calmly flirts with death. Joe Russo, blindfolded and hooded, sitting in his race car just before he toured the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at seventy-five miles an hour—without eyes. At the left is George Henry, owner of the car and a city councilman. At his side is Delbert O. Wilmeth, former judge. Others are members of Russo’s pit crew. Lower photo**shows Joe, without his blindfold "get up.”

BANK'S FAILURE HITS TAXPAYERS Meyer-Kiser Checks Held by Treasurer in Muddle. Hundreds of persons who thought they had paid their taxes are discovering that, they still owe them, C. O. Harris, deputy county treasurer revealed today. They are depositors in the MeyerKiser bank, which was closed by order of directors Tuesday. Final check up Wednesday night showed $48,000 in checks on that bank had been returned, Harris said. Answering charges of many whose checks were returned that the treasurer's office was slow in putting the checks through, Harris said that with sixty thousand pieces of mail in that office it was impossible to handle it swiftly.

"Yes,” Rhodes said. "I am not going to sit here and hear that kind of evidence from a police officer of that type,” Judge Baltzell broke in. “You can't send officers out with liquor in their cars, drinking. That's no way to enforce a law.” Jeffrey moved to dismiss the case and was upheld.

Traffic Rules Summary of the new traffic ordinance amendment which will become effective Friday, will be found on Page 4 of The Times today. Strict enforcement of the ordinance probably will be started June 1, allowing two weeks for the public to become familiar with its provisions.

CO-ED WINS INJUNCTION Miami University Officials Enjoined From Expelling Girl. By United Press HAMILTON, 0., May 14.—Common Pleas Judge J. D. Barnes today granted an injunction to Miss Jean West, 19, daughter of William West, Portsmouth, 0., city plumbing inenjoining officials of Miami university, Oxford, from expelling her from the Teachers college because of poor scholastic standing.

‘ Granny, if I could do that, Id have to have a larynx of spun silver and the tongue of an anointed angel. But If you can imagine a track that's like a bracelet of molten gold encircling a greensward that’s like a patch of emerald velvet—all the pretty girls in the state turning the grand stand into a brocaded terrace of beauty and color such as the hanging gardens of Babylon never equaled —all the assembled sportsmen of the nation going crazy at once in the paddock—the entire colored population of Louisville and environs with one "“voice begging h

WAGE CUTTING TO FORCE LABOR TO OPEN UP LID ON STRIKES, FEDERATION SAYS Demands Drastic Action at Once to Halt Pay Slicing-; Walkouts Already Have Started Over Country. CITY BUILDING WAR IS SETTLED No Slash in Scale, Contractors Agree; Tied Up Since May 1; Employers’ Letter Puts Responsibility on Craftsmen.

Two weeks’ interruption of construction work on several million dollars’ worth of building projects in Marion county ended today, with the patching up of wage disagreements between employers and craftsmen. Finding the various building crafts adamant in their refusal to accept a 20 per cent wage cut. or submit the proposition to arbitration, the Associated Construction Employers, through their secretary, J. Emmett Hall, today officially notified all the crafts that work would be resumed at a wage scale fixed by the unions. This is assumed by the crafts to mean the 1930 scale, it was indicated by C. E. Hammond, president of the executive committee of the Marion County Building Trades Counsel. Construction work here became tied up on May 1. when the employers’ association issued a statement that, effective that day, it would insist upon a 20 per cent reduction in the wages of all construction craftsmen. , Unions Balk at Cut Local unions of carpenters, painters, plumbers, cement finishers, and allied cralts refused to accede to the wage cut demand. Last week the association ‘ proposed that the controversy be submitted to arbitration. The unions again refused to participate. They pointed out that in the past all wage agreements were entered into at conferences between the employers or master craftsmen and the workers, and that the Associated Construction Employers were usurping a power denied them. Employers’ Stand Given Tlie employers’ position was recounted by Hall today in the following statement, addressed to Harry B. Dynes, Indianapolis representative of the United States department of labor: “1. That the wages should be reduced 20 per cent or more for reasons previously stated. "2. That we will not agree to or be parties to negotiations that must result in a reduction of less than 20 per cent. We already have stated our unwillingness to assume the responsibility for wages that are excessive. "3. That since the unions will not reduce the wages and will not arbitrate, we prefer that the labor unions fix their own scales of wages and assume the full responsibility for the same or get the full credit of the wages if reduced. Resume Work at Once "4. That because of the unemployment situation existing and the hardships being worked on so many men not a party to this wage question, we shall resume work at once. “We believe that any negotiations had with the unions would result in no benefit, but only in further delay. "We recognize in you a representative of the public, and we trust that you will use your best judgment and influence with the various labor unions to induce them to take a course that will benefit the industry in which they are as much interested as we, and to deal fairly with the public, since the full responsibility is theirs.” FIND GLASS CHIEF DEAD Police Declare Lehman Is Suicide, but Motive Remains Mystery. Bu United Press BETHLEHEM. Pa., May 14.—A maid found the body of J. George Lehman, 55, owner of the Bethlehem Glass Works, in the library of his palatial home here today with a bullet wound in his head. Police said Lehman had fired the bullet, but friends and relatives could give no motive for suicide. GRAB ROLLING SALOON Young St. Louisan Held for Conducting Horse-Drawn Bar. By Vnitcd Press ST. LOUIS, May 14.—Morris Wolf. 23, was at liberty under bond today after he was arrested in his horsedrawn saloon in a downtown alley. Wolf admitted, police said, that he served ice cold beer from his wagon to customers along a regular route.

some entry to come on and win—and just yonder in the yellow dust the gallant kings and noble queens of the equine kingdom, the princesses royal and the heirs apparent fighting it out—each a symphony of satin coat and slim legs and panting nostrils—each a vision of courage and heart and speed—each topped as though with some bobby gay blossom by a silken-clad May-time jockey—but what’s the use" "Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby ‘you ain't never been nowhere and you ain’t never seen nothing.'* v.

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The American Fedration of Labor today started a definite move against reduction of wages, threatening strikes if reductions are not abandoned. Meanwhile, several companies announced cuts were necessary. The Goodrich Tire and Rubber Company has effected a 10 per cent wage reduction in the past two months and the Goodyear Rubber Company has had reductions over a similar period ranging from 5 to 10 per cent. These companies were pointed to by the A. F. of L. which argued that reduced wages only would curtail buying power and delay prosperity. Strikes Are Started At Mansfield. 0., 1.6C0 employes of the Empire Steel Corporation are on strike after a 5 per cent wage reduction. The company operates on “open shop” and the workers are now demanding a unionized plant and asking affiliation with the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Sheet and Tin Workers of America. They refused to accept a suspension of the 5 per cent reduction. Street railway employes in St. Louis have voted to strike Tuesday if the company maintaine its policy of a 10 per cent wage reduction. The company proposed to pay the employes 90 per cent of their salary and add the 10 per cent later, if profits warrant. Demand Drastic Action Meanwhile, the Montreal (Canada) Star, in a front page editorial today, announced it would dismiss no employe without cause and added flne employe would be added to each department. The newspaper suggested other prosperous business concerns adopt a like policy to foster greater buying power. A demand for “drastic consideration and drastic action’’ to halt “the wage-cutting policy urged by. certain banking interests and certain employers” was made Wednesday night by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. It intimated that unless such action is taken, labor will not feel bound to use its influence further against strikes. Violating Agreement This appeal, with pointed advice to workers to "resist to the fullest extent any and all attempts to reduce wages and lower American living standards,” was inspired by reported announcement of "substantial reductions in wages” by the Goodyear and Goodrich automobile tire companies. Such reductions, the council charged, are in direct violation of the explicit pledge made following the market crash by industrialists to President Herbert Hoover. At that time, representatives of the employer class promised not to cut wage scales during the depression. Since then there have been numerous reductions, particularly in recent months. Expert Warns of Dole By United Press ST. LOUIS. May 14.—America faces the dole system unless the federal government, between now next winter, "starts work on a large scale,” Dean Wallace B. Donham of the Harvard graduate school of business administration predicted today before the associated Harvard clubs here. He and Professor Frank M. Taussig, economist and former member of the tariff commission, scrutinized the business depression in addresses before the annual convention, while United States Senator Robert J. Bulkley <Dem., O.) pleaded for a revival of party responsibility as a means of better government, and urged individual state control of prohibition. "Capitalism is on trial and on the issue of this trial may depend the whole future of western civilization,” Dean Donham said. "The justification of capitalism is efficiency. Our present situation both here and in all the great industrial nations of the world is a major breakdown of capitalism." Extortion Charged By Times Special ~

MARION, Ind.. May 14.—Edith Woods, 35, Negro, is awaiting arraignment on a charge of attempting to extort $4,500 from Milton Matter, wealthy Marion man.

Golf Sunday Tournament for young women who were members of The Indianapolis Times free golf lesson classes at the SmithNelson golf academy in the winter will be held at Sarah Shank course Sunday. Arthur Lockwood, munic’.pai golf director set 11 a. m, as the starting time for the tournament. The forty players are urged to be there at that time. The event will be nine holes, with several prizes for low scores and for scores that place In certain positions. f

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