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JOB INSURANCE DEMANDED AT MINER mill Recognition of Russia Wins Approval, With Strong Reservations. Resolutions, urging federal unemployment insurance, freedom of the Philippine islands, federal operation of public utilities “in principle’” and recognition of Soviet Russia, if in return that nation recognizes the right of self-determination for the United States and American labor, were among those adopted today by the convention of the United Mine Workers of America. The unemployment insurance and Soviet recognition resolutions took the center of debate interest. Among other resolutions adopted were those which would guarantee to farmers a 10 per cent return rfbove production costs; legislation to restrict convict labor; blanket support of all child labor laws; support of the West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee mine strikes; state and federal legislation guaranteeing deposits in closed banks; and, although federal control of coal mines was opposed, the miners voted to support the Davis bill, which would provide for federal commission regulation of the coal industry. A. F. of L, Aid Asked Immediate campaign to win support of the American Federation of Labor for the unemployment insurance program was urged. Assurance that this would be done was given by Thomas Kennedy, international oecretary-treasurer Suppjort !>f the A. F. of L. executive board first will be sought. The question then will be taken to the floor of that convention next October. Pointing ou taht the “dole has been extended to practically every industry in the country, under one guise or another with the exception of labor," Kennedy declared “if not lor the dole in Great Britain, that nation today would be in a chaos of industrial and economic revolution. “Unemployment insurance would be one of the greatest stabilizing influences in this country if cn* acted, yet the capitalists can not recognize this." Russian Resolution Rewritten Two resolutions providing for immediate recognition of Soviet Russia were rewritten by the resolutions committee to conform to the idea that before this should come about Russia should recognize that it has no right to attempt to dictate to this nation the type of government which it should have. The report denied that Russia today is socialistic. “The theory of socialism is not comparable to the present government of Russia. “The present government of Russia is a dictatorship and those brave souls there in favor of a real socialistic government are in jail, and no person is permitted to speak against the present form of government,” it was said. Raps at Communists The committee report charged that the Communists have joined forces with American capitalists in seeking to destroy the American labor movement. Co-operation with the A. F. of L. In establishing an international memorial to “Mother" Jones, famed labor leader, who died a year ago, was pledged. The wage scale committee will meet today, it was learned and probably will recommend to the convention that there be no change in the present policy under which districts make individual agreements with operators. Previous to 1928, the unions in the four central states operated under an interstate agreement which established ' similar wages in each field. The problem of equalizing work in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields in order to allow wider employment will be discussed tonight at a cauSus of international officials with elegates from Districts one, seveh and nine in Pennsylvania. PROBE GROUP TO MEET City Market Investigators Will Hold First Session Wednesday. Initial meeting of the city committee to investigate market house conditions will be held at 2:30 on Wednesday in the safety board office, John F. White, secretary, announced today. The committee will be organized at the session. Other committee members are: Ernest Ropkey, council president, and Leo Welch. Fred C. Gardner and James Houck, councilmen: William Hurd, city building commissioner; Mrs. C. A. James of the Woman's Department Club; Mrs. May Kynett of Indianapolis Council of Women, and Mrs. E. E. Eshbach of Indianapolis Federation of Women’s Clubs. WORLD ALMANAC READY 1932 Edition of Storehouse of Information On Sale. Forty-seventh issue of the World Almanac, now published by ScrippsHoward is one sale today at Indianapolis book stores. Famed for the vast amount of facts and figures contained in its pages, the book this year was edited by a staff under Robert Hunt Lyman, who published the book prior to the purchase of the New York World by, Scripps-Howard.

Mad Trapper Routs Mounties, Killing One

By United Brest AKLAVIK, Northwest Territory, Feb. I.—Three men stood guard today in the bitter cold of Arctic twilight over the body of a slain comrade, awatching meanwhile the parapet behind which a mad killer has concealed himself. A wild gale whipped across the barren tundras as the mep huddled in their fur parkas. They were sent into the desolate Rat river region eighty miles from this outpost tr. capture Albert Johnson, trapper, dr'ven cmzy by the isolation of the northern winter. Here eight vc’ur.teers hurriedly outfitted to g>> to the aid of the little party. The slain man Is Constable E.

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PHOTOS TO AID JUDD JJEFENSE Pictures Showing Bruises May Be Introduced. By United Press PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. I.—Photographs said to show Winine Ruth Judd was suffering from numerous bruises as late as a week after she assertedly killed two former friends last October may be introduced at her trial this week on the charge she murdered Agnes Anne Leroi. The pictures, twenty-eight in all, were taken in Los Angeles when Mrs. Judd surrendered to authorities, after trunks she sent there were discovered to contain the bodies of Mrs. Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson, shot to death together in the Phoenix apartment they shared. The defense probably will attempt to introduce these pictures in support of a self defense plea, it was learned through the defendant’s husband. Dr. William C. Judd. The bruises are intended to illustrate that, if Mrs. Judd killed the two girls, she shot only in self defense and after they attacked her. Mrs. Judd’s trial has been in recess since last Wednesday because of the illness of jurors. Physicians expected the jurors to be able to continue today. Bandits Slay Man By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Feb. I. William Newboles, 23, was shot and killed when he resisted robbery of his resaurant by three Negroes Sunday night. A second shot fired bv the bandits narrowly missed Miss Rosalie Case, 19, Newboles’ cousin. The bandits escaped.

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BY BEN STERN DID you ever hear about the man who gave a peanut for an orange? Well, R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, who once in a while pulls a bright one, did that down at French Lick Saturday. When the district chairman assembled there to pick a date for the state convention and arrange the preliminaries, the anti-Peters men, cognizant of the old political adage, “the hand that wields the gavel dictates the nominations," decided that they wanted to have something to do with the selection of the permanent chairman. They won, but what? The rules permit the state chairman to arrange for the convention, pick the keynoter, chairman and make the program in the absence of a committee. But with a gesture of disinterestedness, Peters permitted adoption of a motion to name a special convention committee and then named the personnel himself. And is there anyone who would think that he would select his own executioners? m M * The motion was made by his loyal supporter, Tom McConnell of Fowler, old Tenth district chairman, and passed without dissent, the anti-Peters group, of course, cheerfully chiming into the chorus of “ayes." Grover Garrott, old Ninth district chairman, chief of the state police and one of the ax-wielders in the campaign against the state chairman, seconded McConnell’s motion, thinking that his faction was winning something.

] Millen of the Royal Canadian I mounted police, killed by a rifle I shot from the maniac. U tt tt MILLEN led the party sent out under the long-familiar orders of the mounted-- I ‘Get your man." The trapper already had withstood two attempts at capture. He shot and wounded Con j stable A. W. King. Dec. 31. Ten \ days later he fought off eight police in a fifteen-hour battle. The third party found Johnson fled from his fortified cabin on the Rat river. With Indian guides, Millen and his comrades began a painstaking hunt through the icy wilderness. The temperature n\ was above 30 below. Bliz-

Top Photo—While fighting between the Japanese and Chinese forces rages in Shanghai, soldiers, sailors and marines of the United States and European nations are protecting the international settlement. This picture shows Soochow creek, dividing line between the international territory and the Asiatic section of the city. The Markham bridge, shown here, is the base of the United States marines’ operations. Below —It was from deck of the aircraft carrier Kaga, shown, that Japanese fighting planes took off to roar over Shanghai during the air and land bombardment of the Chapei district of the city. Now anchored in the Whangpoo river, the vessel has a capacity for sixty planes.

PROMINENT CHURCH WORKER IS DEAD

Mrs. Madge Woods Buried at Martinsville; Rites Held Here. Last rtyes for Mrs. Madge Donnohue, Woods, for many years a prominent worker in Roberts Park Methodist church, were conducted today by the Rev. George H. Murphy of Martinsville at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary 25 West Fall Creek boulevard. Burial was at Martinsville. Mrs. Woods died Saturday afternoon at her home, 3714 Salem street, following illness of more than two years. She was the wife of Frank W. Woods. She was a member of the Women’s Research Club of Indianapolis, Woman’s Department Club, Greencastle Women’s Club, Literary Club of Terre Haute and the Woman’s Club of Martinsville. Heart Dilation Fatal Burial and services for Mrs. Eliza Risk, 82, a resident of Jefferson county most of her life, will be held in Madison Tuesday. Mrs. Risk died Sunday of acute dilation of the heart at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Henry Roberson, 3418 Nowland avenue, after being ill for one hour. Mrs. Risk came to Indianapolis

It did. Garrott was appointed to the committee, the only “anti" on it. The remainder of the personnel includes Phil Lutz, First district chairman; Mrs. Henrietta Gable, Fourth district chairman; Meredith Nicholson, Seventh district chairman; Virgil Simmons, Eighth district; A. N. Pursley, Eleventh district; Mrs. A. P. Flynn, state vicechairman, and, of course, Peters himself. u n n Now try to get a permanent chairman appointed who is not pledged to the candidacy of Paul V. McNutt, outstanding contender of the nomination for Governor. The “antis" were also determined that the state chairman should not name the cities in which the new district organization meetings are to be held. Garrott who will have to battle Pursley for chairmanship of the , new Fifth; and Joseph Verbarg, old Fourth chairman, who will contest Harry Ferguson, old Third chairman; for the new ninth, did not want Peters in charge of the arj rangements, which might result in j stacking of the cards. So the state ! committtee fixed the meeting places. Pursley and Garrott agreed to ; toss a coin, the former won and named Marion. May 7 was set as the date for the county reorganiza- ! tions, May 11 for the districts, and May 14 for the state committee. Studying the results of the meeti ing, indications are all to the effect that again the anti-Peters faction obtained no score. May 11 is the date which will decide whether the Peters-McNutt alliance is to dominate state Democratic affairs for the next two years.

zards raged. High winds piled mountainous drifts. But slowly the hunt went on. Thirty miles from the mouth of ’ the Rat river, Millen’s party found 1 Johnson Saturday. He had built a parapet of ice and stone, know- ! ing the mounted police never would give up until he was found. The party of four deployed about the circular fort. Johnson incautiously showed himself at the -entrance of his fortification. Carl Garlund, a volunteer member of the posse, quick on the trigger, fired. Garlund was certain he had killed or wounded the trapper. a 1 OR two hdffs the posse waited patiently while with cun-

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nine years ago. She was born at Madison. Her husband, Samuel Risk, died in 1913. Mr. Norval Conner, 44, long-time resident of this city who died Sunday at his home, 5034 Manker street, after being an invalid for more than a year, will be buried in Crown Hill cemetery following services at the home at 2 Wednesday. Rites in Virginia Services for Richard R. Purviance, 57, a resident of Indianapolis for thirty-five years, were held in Norfolk, Va., Sunday. Mr. Purviance, born in Marion, 0., came to this city as a boy. The body will be brought to Indianapolis for burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Funeral services for Fred Sirp, 84, a carpenter in this city for sixty-five years, were held today at the Roy J. Tolin undertaking establishment, 1214 Prospect street, with burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Sirp was employed as fore- ! man in construction of the first L. S. Ayres & Cos. building, the Charles Mayer & Cos. and the H, P. Wasson Cos. buildings. He died in the Indiana Christian hospital after a long illness. Born in Ripley County Mr. Sirp was born in Ripley county, the son of William and Caroline Sirp, and was a member of the Lutheran church. Funeral services for John L. Bower, 55. of Medora, widely known Jackson county farmer, will be conducted by the Rev. F. C. Wicks at Medora Christian church at 2 Tuesday with burial in Seymour. Mr. Bower was born on July 8, 1876, and lived in Jackson county all of his life. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Baptist church. Mr. Bower died in Methodist hospital Sunday after an illness of two months. He was father of Dr. Daniel L. Bower of this city. ‘GOVERNOR’ CYR ASKED TO GET OUT OF HOTEL Claimant to Louisiana Office to File Ouster Suit. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, Feb. I.—“ Governor” Paul Cyr has moved his executive offices from a hotel room equipped with twin beds and a bathroom door bottle opener to another hotel—by request. He had made the Heidelberg hotel his “executive mansion" two days before the management requested him to pack his tooth brush and clean shirt and depart. So Cyr went to the Louisiana hotel. Cyr, leader of the “out” forces in Louisiana’s war of the Governors, today intends to file suit in district court at Lake Charles. The suit is directed as an ouster at his gubernatorial rival, Alvin O. King. If Cyr is successful, King and his armed guards will have to move from the official statehouse and executive mansion. National Party Chief to Speak John Zahnd, national chairman of the National party, will launch the Indiana state campaign with an address at 7:30 Tuesday night in the Grand hotel, it was announced today. His subject will be “Why Starve in a Land of Plenty?"

ning bom of madness, Johnson remained hidden behind his bulwark. Certain the jpan had been shot, the four approached within rifle range. Millen led. At twenty-five yards Johnson opened fire with a rifle. The attackers rushed forward, but retreated when their leader was struck down. Millen was killed instantly. A portable radio carried by Quartermaster Sergeant Riddle crackled out the news to the police headquarters here. The party would wait, Riddle reported, for reinforcements. Meanwhile they stood guard, certln this time the trapper could not escape.

U.S. STANDS TO LOSE BID FIELD FOR HER TRADE Chinese Open Door Policy Threatened by War in Orient. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—One of America's greatest potential trade areas is involved in the Japanese conflict in China. But that statement, standing alone, would lead to entirely unjustified inferences regarding the present situation because there are other important elements in the picture. • Humanitarian motives would lead the United States in any case to do i everything it legitimately could to prevent bloodshed in China or anywhere else. This government now is paying more than $1,000,000,000 a year in war costs, in current military expenses and expenditures for past wars. In Europe there exists a vivid object lesson in the painful price which nations must pay for war on the modern scale. The United States has been active in trying to set up peace machinery since the World war, and does not wish to see this decade of effort crumble in face of gunfire. War Gains Temporary Although America’s long-range economic interest generally is regarded as being on the side of peace and a free China, there is much discussion as to whether America would not profit temporarily from an oriental war. Japan rapidly has been increasing her purchase of American cotton, a commodity in which southern farmers are overstocked heavily. “A war in the orient undoubtedly would stimulate business," one N.*vv York banker told this WTiter recently. But he added a statement putting an entirely different face on the situation. “In the long run," he said, “war j does not pay. You can not blow up millions of dollars in explosives without ultimately paying the price." China a Vast Market Thus many considerations enter along with the fundamental fact that China long has been regarded as a huge potential market in which America has hoped to develop a share of the trade. This is one of the basic reasons ! for the open-door policy, the corner- ! stone of America’s policy in the Orient for a third of a century. This policy, in essence, is that China shall be kept open to all nations alike and that no one power shall usurp a position to the exclusion of others. This principal, existing as a general policy, was incorporated definitely into the nine-power Pacific treaty in 1921. There are some 400,000,000 persons in China, living on a low standard. The long-range opportunity of developirig a country which contains more than three times the popula- | tion of America is obvious in the i light of the leap which Japan has ; made within the memory of many I now living. ORR CORRECTS STORIES State Official Did Not Recommend Teachers’ Minimum Wage Cut. Lawrence F. Orr, state accounts board chief examiner, today asked correction of newspaper accounts of his address Friday night before the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs, in which he was qouted as favoring reduction of the minimum teachers’ wage. In his address, Orr said the minimum wage now provided by statute for teachers should not be reduced, ; but that the minimum wage be paid to teachers direct from the state I treasury, eventually providing that I the revenue therefor be obtained otherwise than from property tax. BALLOTS COME IN LATE i ■ New Suggestions for Governor Are Made in Times Poll. | Many ballots in The Times secret poll of 1930 delegates to both party conventions arrived too late to be | tabulated. Among the new names suggested for the Republican nomination for Governor were those of William H. Remy, former Marion county prosecutor; State Senator Robert L. Moorhead of Marion county and I George B. Lockwood, Muncie pub- , lisher. GAS TAX ON INCREASE First Month of 1932 Shows Gain Over January of 1931. The new year has opened with an | increase in the gasoline tax harvest, according to the January reI port Floyd Williamson, state audi--1 tor, made public today. Collections increased $129,246.34 j for the month over those of the . corresponding period in 1931. The ; total collections were $1,407,596.77. Increase in gallonage was 2,246,197, Williamson stated. Yorktown Asks Rates Cut Petition for reduction of water, light and gas rates was filed before [ the public service commission today by Yorktown citizens. The petition : affects the Yorktown Water Comj pany, the Central Indiana Gas : Company and the Traction Light and Power Company.

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\ Injured Fox Terrier Keeps Vigil for Master

Goblins Got Teddy When He Ran Away From Rumble Seat. In dog lore there is a supersti- J *s*** ■■ .. tion that the “goblins will get" the dog that runs awav from his mas- PKilaSfl&JfeMsL ter - iiIfIMBRK t V m Perhaps it was due to curiosity j * that Teddy, a 3-year-old fox ter- ' ~ rier, wanted to test his theory when ; ak he hopped out of his master's auto- J3L mobile dewntown nine days ago for a slumming tour of the canine I , ,v i quarters. . ’ 5r -- 'injrv a • ••

Goblins Got Teddy When He Ran Away From Rumble Seat. In dog lore there is a superstition that the “goblins will get" the dog that runs away from his master. Perhaps it was due to curiosity \ that Teddy, a 3-year-old fox terrier, wanted to test his theory when he hopped out of his master’s auto- j mobile dewntown nine days ago for a slumming tour of the canine | quarters. The goblins got Teddy, all right.

W. D. Wilson and dog, Teddy

and today he’s nursing a broken leg at the home of W. D. Wilson, Ravens wood. When Teddy found his master last June he was one of many inmates of the dog pound. He was placed on the auction block and sold to a man who sported a car with a rumble seat, a dog's idea of perfection in motoring. Two weesk ago Teddy rode to town in the rumble seat with Wilson, who parked at St. Clair and Illinois streets. An hour later, when

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Spangles and Fanfare Over for Sawdust Queen of 30 Years Ago. The show was over today for another old-time trouper, and veterans of the big-top mourned the death of Mrs. Julia Fredricksdorf, one-time Mile. Julia Brachard, who died Sunday at her home here, 1515 West New York street, at the age of 60. Beginning her stage career when only 10, Mrs. Fredricksdorf was a circus queen for thirty-four years before retiring in 1915 to marry Andrew Fredrichsdorf, an Indianapolis molder. She was stricken a week ago Sunday with apoplexy. Mrs. Fredricksdorf was born on a small farm in Monroe county, the daughter of Napoleon and Harriet Platt, and while a child became an expert horseback rider on her father’s farm. Her father lost his life in a sawmill and the little girl came to Indianapolis with her mother, a sister and a brother. She practiced 'and became adept at juggling and wire walking, and, when only 10, was given parts in stock company plays in the English and old Park theaters. Several years later she perfected a juggling act and joined the bigtop, appearing with Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey, and SellsFloto with her juggling act and novelty revolving globe act, which became a feature. Early in her circus career she married a famous contortionist, Brachard, and she gained fame under that name. They were divorced after several years. She continued as a performer, traveling all over the United States, Canada. Mexico, Cuba and Europe, and at one time owning her own show in Cuba. Early in 1915 she returned to Indiana, and while she was a Wabash, Fredricksdorf, who had known her several years, wrote her a letter. “I told her to quit the show business,” recalled Fredricksdorf today, “and to come back home and get [Jgly Pimples Nature's miming—help nature clear your complexion and paint red roses in your pate, sallow cheeks. Truly wonderful result* follow thorough coion cleansing. Take tft —NATURE’S REMEDY—to regulate and Strengthen your eliminative organs. Then watch the transformation. Try M of mere laxatives. Only 2Sc. The All-Vegetable Laxative i

Ihe ret urned, Teddy was gone. For ; three days Wilson searched for his | lost pet. But errant Teddy fared badly, and suffered a broken front leg | when struck by an automobile. Lost and crippled, he returned then to the automobile. But it was not there. For two days Teddy waited grimly for his master's car to return, and finally saw it. When Wilson returned to the car one day last week he found Teddy in the rumble seat.

married. She did and we settled down." Mrs. Fredricksdorf couldn’t shake off the fascination of the “big top,” and to her death kept in close touch with her old circus friends, and never failed to appear when the shows reached Indianapolis. Surviving are the widower, a brother, Ensign Platt of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Boyce of Warren, O.

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PRISON IS HELD OVERCROWDED Pendleton Chief Appeals to Leslie for Aid. Confronted with the “worst overcrowding" in the history of the Indiana state reformatory at Pendleton, Captain Ralph Howard, superintendent, today appealed to Governor Harry G. Leslie for additional buildings at the institution. Howard said the penal institution, erected for a maximum capacity of 1,400 prisoners, now has a daily average of 2,522 prisoners. Howard told Leslie that, in previous years, the number of prisoners never totaled more than 400 in excess of capacity. He said use of an outside dormitory for 200 trusties has relieved the situation slightly, but more structures are necessary. The condition is so acute each cell is occupied by two prisoners, which, Howard said, “is bad for morale.” In the last few years, the reformatory building program has resulted in erection of factory buildings, but no cell blocks. AUTO STRIPPERS BUSY Gasoline, Accessories Are Taken From Three Cars. Thieves who preyed on three automobiles Sunday night gathered loot of gasoline and accessories, valued at S7O. LeMont Miley, 1430 South Belmont avenue, told police his car was stripped of three tires, battery, water pump, a wheel and tools, valued at S4O. The car was parked near his home, he said. Theft of a bumper, headlights and horn, valued at $25, from his car, was reported to officers by Fred J. Kuester, 2735 Barth avenue. Twelve gallons of gasoline were stolen from the car of R. P. Wolf, 1833 Arrow avenue, he informed police. LIST ‘SUCCESS TALKS’ Milo Stuart to Be First Speaker in I. U. Lecture Series. First of a series of weekly lectures by ten men who have succeeded in their professions will be given Feb. 15 by Milo H. Stuart, assistant superintendent of city schools, at Indiana university extension center. 122 East Michigan street. Other speakers for the series include A. A. Potter, dean of engineering at Purdue; Dr. W. D. Gatch, acting dean of the I. U. medical school; John W. Bolte, extension lecturer in commerce, and Harry Boggs, president of Indiana Society of Public Accountants. Cops Quiz Coal Thief Suspect One member of an alleged gang of coal thieves was being questioned today by detectives who said they nabbed him Sunday as he threw coal from a moving freight car on the Illinois Central railroad south of the city. He is William Temple of 2458 Dakota street. Police slated him for petit larceny and vagrancy.