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MINERS’ CHIEF DEMANDS FOOD FOR JOBLESS Hoover’s ’Dole’ to Nation’s Big Business Assailed by State Labor Head. RELIEF PLEA UNHEEDED Green Attacks Wage Cuts as Blow at Return of Prosperity. ‘ We want food! "The sooner America realizes that H'c want food, whether it comes from taxing of millionaires and billionaires, or through work, the .'■ooner this nation will get around i hat corner we have been looking for the last two years.” This call from Thomas N. Taylor, president of the state federation of labor, was cheered by 1,000 delegates to the biennial convention of i t he United Mine Workers of Ameri- ! ca, opening at Tomlinson hall today. Taylor characterized the newly created $2,000,000,000 government aid credit corporation as a “dole for big business." Denied, Because It’s "Dole” Our government contributes millions to the relief of stocks and bonds, but when we ask for relief i for the unemployed, we can’t have ! it. because that is a dole. "We most wanv jobs, but when we look about and see millions starving, while our granaries are full; millions freezing, with cars loaded with I coal; and millions unclothed, with the shelves full of clothing, we realize that there is something fundamentally wrong. ‘ I don’t care what you call it, whether we get it by appropriation or by work, it, makes not difference. “We want food." Difference Is Clited Discussing lack of state and federal aid for the needy, Taylor said- < "When a bank in Indianapolis fails, that is a national question, yet when it is a matter of unemployment relief, statesmen say that it is a local question.” Just before noon adjournment William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, was introduced, and delivered a short address, in which he pointed out the fallacy ol the theory that economic relief will come through wage reduction. "The mine workers have felt the severe hand of unemployment more than any other working class," he said. “Indignation swells within me I when I see millions starving while Uierc is suflicient food for everyone, and I realize that there is something fundamentally wrong with our economic, political and industrial program. Assails Wage Cuts We today feel the efTect of the application of unsound remedies. “On every side you hear that the proper remedy for our economic ills is the reduction of wages. "If wage reductions constitute the remedy and the cure, then the mining industry should be the most prosperous in the world. "This industry is an object lesson to the contrary,” Green said. He characterized the stupidity exhibited by the managers of this industry as "unequated.” “The period when the miners’ organization was strong and wages were maintained on a fair basis was when the operators made money, because there was a stabilized wage scale, but when the slashing occurred then came the period of loss." Clash Over Rules But one outbreak featured the morning session, and that cann when members of the Illinois delegation, long insurgent, attempted tc set aside a report of the rules committee in which discussion periods were limited to five minutes. Led by Peter Markunous and George Craggs of the Illinois fields, the fight was intensified when President John L. Lewis declared that the rules could not be amended after adoption, but would have to be voted down first and then changed. Markunous then asked that they be .voted upon, section by section. Lewis was unable to decide on the voice vote and called for a showing of hands. This also proved difficult to judge and a division was asked. The revolt failed by a vote of 536 for the rules to 222 against. The Illinois delegation stayed away from the 1930 convention and appeared this year as a result of a court order enjoining the national organization from interfering with management of the state group. Mayor Voices Welcome Two hundred delegates from the anthracite district near Scranton, Pa., have arranged for separate conferences with Lewis, ViceFresident Philip Murray, Secretary Thomas Kennedy and presidents of three anthracite district organizations, because their problems are peculiar to their own region. This committee will meet with six operators, should agreement be reached on an equalization plan to provide part-time employment for a larger number of miners than now are working. The first session today opened with a benediction invoked by Monsignor Francis H. Gavisk. Adolph Fritz, secretary of the State Federation of Labor, presided as temporary chairman, while the miners were welcomed by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan on behalf of the city; William Holmes on behalf of the Central Labor union, and Taylor on behalf of the State Federation of Labor.

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Air Crash Ends Life of Stinson

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Eddie Stinson Dean of American Aviators Killed When Craft Hits Flagpole. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—Edward A. (Eddie) Stinson, dean of American aviators, who had flown 1,750,000 miles without serious mishap, died today after a plane crash in which three companions were injured. His death at 1 a. m. brought an end to an unequaled record of nearly two years’ actual flying time. He died without regaining consciousness a few hours after his plane struck a 150-foot flagpole and crashed during an emergency landing in Jackson park, Monday night. Stinson failed to see the high steel pole in the dark and it ripped a wing off the plane, causing the ship to nose dive as the 38-year-old aviator was gliding to a safe landing. Others hurt in the crash were: Clark Fields, 30, Kalamazoo,' Mich., chief salesman of the Stinson Aircraft corporation; Fred M Gillies, 36, Chicago; and John Tompkins, 36, Chicago, a mechanic Fatal Landing in Dark Stinson, officially credited with 16,000 flying hours, more than any other human being, never had suffered a serious plane accident since he entered aviation as a 17-year-old pupil of the famed Orville and Wilbur Wright at Dayton, O. He was flying anew Stinson Junior de luxe plane of his own design when the fatal crash occurred. He took off from the field at his factory at Wayne, Mich., Monday morning, stopping at South Bend and continuing here, where he demonstrated his new ship at the municipal flying field. Just before dark he again took off to demonstrate the plane to Gillies, a friend and former war ace. As the plane flew out over Lake Michigan, it was believed motor trouble or a scanty gasoline supply caused Stinson to head his ship back toward the city. Stinson chose the golf course in Jackson park along the lake shore as a likely landing field. Witnesses reported the plane was gliding smoothly toward the ground when the right wing struck a tall flag pole. The plane shuddered and dropped to the earth, nose first. Chest Is Crushed Motorists and hospital attendants from the nearby Illinois Central hospital, who had seen the crash reached the plane almost instantly with aid. Stinson’s chest was crushed. Physicians administered oxygen vainly He died just after X-rays had been taken of his injuries. A native of Alabama. Stinson had been in aviation since boyhood. He virtually was instructor to the American air corps during the war time training days. No American pilot was allowed to go overseas without Stinson's recommendation He is credited with teaching the United States fliers maneuvers now ' classed as standard in the army ! training schools. RAIN TO CONTINUE Snow Flurries Also Are Likely, Is Forecast. Another siege of rain faced In- ' dianapolis during the next twentyfour hours with possibility of occasional snow flurries as an added attraction. Early today snow and sleet fell several minutes, but was succeeded by rain. Temperatures are scheduled to range in the low 30s tonight. J. H. Armington, weather bureau head, said rivers, with the exception of streams in the southern part of the Wabash river valley, are falling today. He said no flood danger is in prospect unless rains today and Wednesday develop into heavy downpours.

LACK OF MILK FOR CHILDREN PERILS FUTURE GENERATION, DOCTOR DECLARES

IVE milk to the children, or vTgenerations of the future will sutfer." This statement was made today by Dr. Thurman Rice, associate professor of bacteriology and public health at the Indiana university medical center, and an authority on child health. The statement follows revelations of a survey conducted by

TRUSTEES TO SUPPLY MILK IN CIT Y CRISIS Conferees Decide Township Officials Shall Take Over Distribution. 10,000 ARE IN NEED Speedy Action Is Ordered to Relieve Health and Life Menace. Trustees of Center and Wayne : townships should make every effort : to supply 10,000 needy children under school age with the milk they are now lacking, it w r as decided at a meeting of city and county offii cials and social egency representai tives Monday. The 10.000 total, arrived at in a j survey made by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, and heads of social agencies has been disputed, but Morgan indicated today that the figure might run higher by closer check. Decision to allow the trustees, who now are supplying food baskets to thousands of unemployed, to endeavor to supply the milk was reached by a committee of city and county officials and social agency representatives in Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan’s office late Monday. Ask Increased Allowance The conferees unanimously approved a motion calling on Mrs. Hannah Noone, trustee of Center township, and Malcolm Dunn, Wayne township trustee, to increase the milk allowance. The trustees agreed to investigate all requests for milk and make every effort to meet the demand. Parents who desire that milk be supplied their children should make that request to the trustees. The motion was presented by Louis Borinstein, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and seconded by W. A. Hacker, social service director of the public school system. Sullivan Takes Action Mayor Sullivan, when advised of the need of the children last week by Dr. Morgan and Dr. Charles Myers, superintendent of the city hosiptal, took immediate steps to meet a crisis that already had increased the malnutrition cases treated at the city hospital in 1931 by 1,100 over 1930, and sent an increasing number of children suffering from disease, laid directly to lack of proper nourishment, into the wards this year. Dr. Morgan has stated that lack of milk for the growing child constitutes a serious health menace in the future, tuberculosis and other ailments following undernourishmetn in child life. CRASH VICTIM DIES J. E. Taylor County’s Tenth Auto Fatality of 1932. Marion county’s 1932 accidem toll stood at ten today, following the death oi J. E. Taylor, 30, R. R. 3,

Box 472, at the Methodist hospital Monday. Taylor was injured last week when the auto he was driving collided with another

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at Holt road and West Washington street. J. R. Owens, Negro, Detroit, driver of the other car, is held on a technical manslaughter charge by police. Coroner Fred W. Vehling is investigating the fatal accident. TROOPS QUIT RIOT PEN Military Detachments Withdrawn From Dartmoor. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 26.—Military detachments have been withdrawn from Dartmoor prison, scene of an tempted freedom break, it was announced officially today.

Baker Views Time Unripe for U, S. to Join League

By United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 26.—'The League of Nations questions should be eliminated from the list of troublesome Democratic presidential campaign issues, in the opinion of Newton D. Baker. This expression, the first big surprise of the budding preconvention campaign, came in the form of a statement by the former secretary of war as he boarded the S. S. Sibony at noon to sail with Mrs. Baker for a short vacation in Mexico. ✓ “I would not take the United States into the league if I had the power to do so, until there is an informed and convinced majority sentiment in the United States in favor of that action,” Baker said. “I am not in favor of a plank in the Democratic national platform

I the Council of Social Agencies and the city health department, that approximately 10.000 Indianapolis children under the age of 6 years being denied the amount of milk necessary to their health. “A crisis exists at this time for children in many homes from the standpoint of nutrition and subsequent disease,” Dr. Rice de- > dared.

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RUTH JEALOUS. STATEJIARGES Witness Asserts Mrs. Judd Resented Rivalry. By United Press PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 26.—Jealousy over J. J. (Jack) Halloran, rich Arizona sportsman, led Winnie Ruth Judd to slay her former friend, Agnes Anne Leroi, the state contended today as it prepared to close its murder case against Mrs. Judd. Through Lucille Moore, attractive young nurse, the prosecution brought out that only the night before the killing of Mrs. Leroi and her roommate, Miss Hedvig Samuelson, the defendant had mentioned she resented the attention these girls paid to Halloran. Miss Moore said this was revealed in a conversation she had with Mrs. Judd on Oct. 15. Ths state claims Mrs. Leroi and Miss Samuelson were killed the night of Oct. 16. “Mrs. Judd said she thought Jack was nice and that Mrs. Leroi and Miss Samuelson did, too, and that was the reason she had separated from them. “Mrs. Judd, Mrs. Leroi and Miss Samuelson roomed together until a short time before the double slaying.” AIR OFFICIAL INJURED Assistant Secretary of Commerce Hurt in Plane Crash. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Clarence M. Young, assistant secretary of commerce for aeronautics, was injured slightly in an airplane crash today, at Berwyne, Md. Young and pilot Marshall Boggs were conducting radio tests from the commerce department field at College park when the motor died and their plane fell 500 feet.

urging our joining the league. I think it would be a great mistake to make a partisan issue of the matter.” Baker, one of the Democratic “dark horses” most prominently mentioned for the presidential nomination, reiterated his belief that America one day should join the league, but declared that this step never should be taken until “an informed and convinced majority” of the electorate favor the action. “Republican membership or Democratic membership in the league, based upon a sharp division of partisan sentiment in this country, would be a feeble thing and would not give the United States the opportunity to exercise whatever power for good our membership there might be hoped to produce.”

‘‘l do not doubt in any respect the statement by Dr. Charles Myers, city hospital superintendent, that the lack of milk in the diet of 10,000 children here constitutes a grave problem." a a a “'T'HESE children won’t starve now, but in five or twentyfive years they may become vic-

HERE is Shanghai—“the New York City of China”—now under the guns of Japanese warships in a situation which has become a veritable powder keg, threatening peace in the far east. Japan warned it would occupy the city unless Chinese halted their anti-Japanese boycotts. Shanghai has a population of nearly 3.000.000, is China’s most important outlet to the Pacific from the vast hinterland drained by several big rivers, is a great manufacturing center and also has an international settlement where the United States and several other large nations are represented.

WILLIAM WRIGLEY CALLED BY DEATH

Gum Manufacturer, Owner of Chicago Cubs, Passes in Arizona, Details ot Baseball Connections on Sport Page. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—William Wrigley Jr., millionaire chewing

gum manufacturer and owner of the Chicago National League baseball team, died early today at Phoenix, Ariz., after a lingering illness. The death was announced by J. C. Cox, treasurer of the William Wrigley Jr. Company. He said that death occurred at about 3 a. m.

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Mountain time. All members of the family were in Phoenix at Mr. Wrigley’s bedside. The oldest of nine children, Wrigley grew up to hate manufacturing, his father owned a soap factory in Philadelphia, where Wrigley was born, and the latter never took kindly to the business. Regularly he was sent home from school, suspended. At 11, he ran away to New York City, became a newsboy. As he became accustomed to the city, he branched out into other little enterprises, running errands, carrying bundles. He once tried working on a schooner tied up in harbor, but lasted only a day. He’s Fired Again He tried another sailing vessel* working in the galley peeling potatoes, but was discharged in a day, the cook complaining that he cut off more potato than peeling. Young Wrigley went back to the hated soap factory at the age of 12, but rebelled, and went on the road at 13 as a salesman. At 19 he heard the call of the west. At Kansas City a puff of wind swept his train ticket out of his hat, so he got off there. From a waiter in a restaurant, Wrigley progressed to cashier. Then he became a salesman again. Starts Road to Fortune In 1891, he went to Chicago with $32 capital and began selling scouring powder. He got into the chewing gum business by a roundabout way. He was a baking powder salesman, when he bargained with the Zeno Manufacturing Company to use its gum as a premium. The gum became more popular than his baking powder. In 1911 he bought out the Zeno Company, changed his own firm’s name to William Wrigley Jr. Company, and started on his skyrocket to fortune. Today the company has a turnover of millions annually, many times its capitalization of $2,000,000; manufactures upward of thirty billion sticks of chewing gum a year, and has factories in Chicago, Sidney, Frankfort-on-Main, in England and in Toronto. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 36 10 a. m 36 7 a. m 35 11 a. m 37 Ba. m 36 12 (noon).. 38 9 a. m 36 1 p. m 40

tims of tuberculosis or kindred maladies from lack of milk. “Milk is the ideal food for immature human beings. In homes where it is lacking, other foods of sufficient vitamin and mineral content usually also are lacking. “This is not only bad for the children now, but perils future generations,” he stated. He pointed out that the drop in milk consumption accompanying

Vallee Denies Marriage Was ‘Publicity Act’

By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Rudy Vallee today defended himself on a charge that he had married. Fay Webb as “a publicity stunt.” The charge was made by Jerry Wald, radio editor of the New York Evening Graphic. Vallee’s defense was offered in a letter published by that newspaper.

In a detailed description of his emotions leading up to his marriage, Va 11 e e * wrote, “I had found the girl whom I loved and wanted to make my wife. I needed her comp anionship and her affecti o n and if, through marriage to her I was destined to lose my popularity, I was quite prepared

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to see it go, even though it left me penniless.” He denied there had been a rift in the domestic affairs. He ascribed separate preparations as necessary because of Mrs. Vallee’s poor health. “My love for my wife has grown stronger every day, until she has come to mean more to me than my own life,” Vallee wrote. “And I say this unashamedly.” QUIZ TARIFF NOMINEES Senate Finance Group Questions Hoover’s Appointees. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—President Hoover’s two nominees to the tariff commission were subjected to a thorough examination by the senate finance committee today. For more than two hours, Ira M. Ornburn of Connecticut, and Robert Lincoln O’Brien of Massachusetts were questioned as to their qualifications. The committee adjourned until Friday, when a vote will be taken.

Perfect Radio Wave to Communicate With Mars

By United Press PITTSBURGH, Jan. 26.—Man’s wildest and fondest dream—communication with the planet Mars—was revived today by radio engineers who perfected anew method of radio transmission which can be directed from point to point like a beam of light. The new method uses a wave that is between the shortest radio wave now in use and light waves. It is a quasi-optical wave, and, like a light wave, it can be reflected by a mirror or deflected by an obstacle. It was developed by Westinghouse electrical experts and has been successfully demonstrated.

the business slump has endangered the milk Industry In Indiana, particularly from the health standpoint. a a a “ \ GREAT many people, trying to be economical, have ceased to consume milk, which creates the dual hazard of facing child health and the milk industry. “I think that if the family can

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CHINESE FORCES MASSED FOR SHANGHAI’S DEFENSE; JAPAN READY FOR ATTACK Tokio’s Consul-General Urges Immediate ‘Drastic Action,’ Charging Foes Are Stalling to Strengthen Forts. FLEET AWAITS ORDERS FOR SMASH Nipponese Face Clash With America, Britain and France if Armies Invade Foreign Quarter. By United Press BY H. R. EKINS WAKHTNGTGN Jan 26.— Feeline United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.—Feeling is growing in certain quarters here that Japan in threatening to move on Shanghai, has "bitten off more than she can chew ” The move is radically different from the bold stroke in Manchuria during the fall and early winter, which placed that wealthy section of China under Japanese domination. In the first place, American lives and property in Shanghai stand in danger if violence is precipitated there; second, it is felt Japan has no reason to go into Shanghai, because her nationals are protected adequately by foreign police and military forces. Furthermore, Shanghai is a treaty port—one of those peculiar places that dot the coast of China, where foreign powers have been given special privileges, so they might reside on Chinese soil and be on the spot to handle trading. Foreigners Have Right Under the treaties, American citizens have specific rights in these treaty ports, as do the nationals of other foreign countries. Hence if Japan moves into the foreign areas of Shanghai, the action is far different from marching an army into Manchuria, where, aside from the Japanese in the south, no other foreigners have preferred rights. But Great Britain, Japan, the United States and France have interests in Shanghai, the first three in what is known as the international settlement, and the last in the French concession. If the United States is again not prone to act, it may be expected Britain will take the lead in defending foreign privileges against aggression. British TtK)k Action The British sent 20,000 men to Shanghai for just Such a purpose in the spring of 1027 ( and 5,000 of these troops remain there. The British spent millions of dollars on that expeditionary force, and one primary motive Was the protection not only of British lives and property there, but also of British prestige throughput the Orient. Britain fears a letdown in prestige in China would mean even more serious complications and “loss of face” in India. To prevent that, she may be expected to go to strong lengths in protecting her interests any where in the Far East. And she might be expected, in the case of Shanghai, to have American support. LABOR REPLY READY Unions Likely to Say ‘Yes’ to Rail Pay Cut. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—Representatives of the nation’s railway workers virtually were agreed at noon today on their answer to the railroad’s 10 per cent wage reduction proposal. That answer, mast observers were agreed, will be “Yes.” The twenty-one union chairmen, representing the major divisions of rail labor, were scheduled to meet with subcommitteemen at 1 p. m. or soon after to frame their answer. Their decision will be read to the nine railroa j. presidents comprising the committee speaking for the rail lines of the country.

L. W. Chubb, director of Westinghouse research, said tha 1 if communication with Mars ever is established it will have to be ~ith ultra-short radio waves. He thinks that the power concentrated in the new radio beam will be strong enough to pierce the atmospheric layer about one hundred miles from the earth surface, and travel the 32,000,000 miles to Mars. Chubb believes that any experiment to penetrate to Mars with the radio beam will have to be accompanied with close observation of the planet through telescopes to watch for any reaction to the beam by the Martians.

not furnish milk for the children, means must be found to provide it through some other source,” he said. “If these means are provided, it will help not only the milk industry, but the children who are being denied this most valuable protective food. The child whose health otherwise is in danger, should have It every day,” he declared.

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SHANGHAI. Jan. 26.—Chinese, acting under martial law, strengthened barbed wire entanglements and sandbag barricades, and one division of troops set up anti-aircraft guns here today as Japanese naval forces awaited orders to begin at once the "drastic action" threatened in an ultimatum. Japanese Consul-General Mural said that the increased Chinese military activity prompted him to ask the Japanese foreign office for the authorization to send a final ultimatum to the Chinese, under which Japan might take "immediate action.” Murai made the request after a conference in which General Wu Tehchen, mayor of Greater Shanghai. asked for another week in which to consider the Japanese demands. He accused the Chinese of insincerity. He said they were stalling for time in which to complete their military preparations to resist Japanese forces here, which include ten warships off the waterfront and 1,400 marines ashore. The Chinese political situation remained uncertain. Minister of Finance Huang Han-Liang resigned in support of j Foreign Minister Eugene Chen arid Premier Sun Fo, who accused the Nanking leaders of having “medieval minds,” unable to cope with modern problems. Discuss Warning to Japan By United Press GENEVA, Jan. 26.—Possibility of warning Japan against a further advance in Shanghai, should the facts make such a step appear advisable, was discussed in private session today by the council of the League of Nations. RECONSTRUCTION BILL HITS A SLIGHT SNAG House Balks at Amendmeni to Aid Needy Farmers. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.—A temprorary delay developed today in gaining final congressional approval of the bill appropriating $500,. 000,000 for the Reconstruction Finance Corporance. Preparations for putting the corporation to its work of relieving the credit situation went forward, however, with undiminished speed. Already many applications have been made to federal reserve banks to obtain credit from the $2,000,000,000 fund which will be available. The congressional dela came when the house rejected a senate amendment providing that some of the fund be used for clerical assistance in loaning $50,000,000 to needy farmers. Conference machinery was set up to put the bill in a form accepttabel to both houses. BUSS TAX AND IMPORT LEVY ON OIL DEBATED Plans for Additional Income Heard by House Committee. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—A tariff on oil imports and federal taxation of motor busses were advocated before the house ways and mean* committee today as sources of additional government income. The proposed motor bus tax was opposed vigorously by Ivan Owen of Minneapolis, representing the National Association of Motor Bus Operators. The oil tariff was urged by repersen* itives of the domestic independence oil industry, headed by Wirt Franklin of Oklahoma City. “This is a proposal to tax the trucks and busses off the road,” Bowen said of the suggestion of tax of 3 cents a mile on interstate motor busses and trucks. HUNT - CRAZED TRAPPER Mounties Fight Snow in 38 Degrees Below in Yukon Search. By United Press AKLAIRK, Northwest Territory, Jan. 26.—Four weary Royal Canadian mounted police fought through snow in 38 degrees below zero cold today toward Yukon Territory, "graveyard of the far north,” on the trail of Albert Johnson, “bush crazy” trapper who fought off fifteen royal’ Canadian mounted police in three battles and finally escaped. “It's suicide for a man to go into the north alone this time of year,** experienced trappers said, as news came here that Johnson had fled. “Johnson is done for.” “Get your man anyway,” was the order to the mounted police. Gas Station Robbed of S3O A youthful bandit robbed Fred Kattau, 22, 959 Harrison street, attendant at a Standard Oil filling station at Sherman driv-' and English avenue of S3O and escaped shortly before noon today.

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