Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1932 — Page 1

LIFE LOST BY SCIENTIST IN JUNGLE TREK Ecuador’s ‘Green Hell’ Fells Young American; Comrade Reaches Safety. WEEKS OF SUFFERING Wreck of Boat Far Back in Interior Left Pair Lost and Hepless. By T nitrd Press CHICAGO. April 22. The tragic fate of a young American scientist seeking data for his Ph. D. thesis in the “Green Hell" of steaming Ecuadorian jungles, never before penetrated by white men, was revealed today in a letter from his comrade on the expedition. The letter, written from Monzou, Peru, by Harold Foard of West Virginia, brought news of the death of Thomas Walsh Jr., 26. to Walsh’s parents here. It was dated March 16, when Foard reached civilization. The story Foard told was a nightmare of struggle against tropical fever, impenetrable jungle forests, scanty food supply and terrific heat. Dies in Friend's Arms Walsh died in the arms of his friend after fighting vainly to continue, despite fever and starvation. A brief note scrawled before his death, Jan. 29, pictured graphically Ihe half-delirious last moments of the young explorer. He wrote: “Mother—l am making Foard go on for aid . . . can’t move . . . God .save us . . . please help Foard marry Clarissa (a girl in Lima, Peru) . . . lie is your son, now . . . dad, I am dead . . . save mother.” Walsh, a graduate of the University of Illinois with a master of science degree, had been stationed at Oroya, Peru, for two years as a chemist for the Cerro De Pasco Copper Corporation. To obtain data for use in securing a Ph. D. degree he and Foard set out last November from Huanuco, Peru. Lost In Dense Jungle Their destination was the wild and almost inaccessible headwaters of the Paule river in southern Ecuador, where in a territory inhabited only by a few fierce Indian tribes they hoped to find new deposits of valuable ores. After sending a cable to his mother Nov. 26 that he was leaving civilization. Walsh started with Foard up the Maranon river. For six days they traveled with a crew of Indian porters to carry their equipment. After a week’s push up the river, the porters were dismissed, and the pair continued on alone in a specially built boat which had been shipped from New York. Two weeks later the boat hurtled out of control in the swift current and smashed against jagged rocks. ->AII supplies were lost. With countless miles of dense forest surrounding them, „hc youths had only one rifle and a few- cartridges. Hoping Against Hope Tor five weeks they fought on, hoping against hope. One by one they used their precious cartridges to shoot game. Then, the supply exhausted, they lived only on fruits and the strange herbs and roots of the country where heat sapped strength with every move. Their clothing was torn to rags by bramble thickets, their bodies a welter or insect bites. Finally, Walsh collapsed. Each felt, the end was near. Sitting in a little clearing in the endless forest. each wrote a note to his mother, and solemnly promised the other to deliever it if but one succeeded in reaching safety. Walsh was too weak to walk farther and begged his friend to go on alone for aid. Foard refused to leave his comrade’s side. The next day the 26-year-old scientist died. Foard dug a crude grave in the steaming jungle and buried his friend. Five days later Foard was found by ft friendly native. FARM BOARD LIKELY TO LIQUIDATE COTTON Limited Sales Planned Aug. 1 When Agreement Ends. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 22 —Gradual liquidation of the federal farm board's stabilization cotton may be undertaken at the expiration of the board’s present agreement to keep its 1,310,000 bales off the market until Aug. 1. With a steadily mounting cotton carryover, opinion in favor of limited sales of the governmentowned cotton is gaining weight. The cotton would be marketed in a manner intended to have a minimum effect upon the market price. The government’s 1,310,000 bales of stabilization cotton were purchased in September, 1930, in an effort to stop price declines. Since the expected carryover into the next crop year, beginning Aug. 1, is 11,500,000 bales, the farm board holdings are only a small part of the nation’s cotton supply. REVERSE PAY CUT MOVE House Intends to Restore 8290,000 for Aviation Officers. WASHINGTON. April 22. The house appropriations committee today reversed its action in reducing special pay for naw.l aviation officers. Tt anrcirccd that an amendn en wcuki h i rrorosed to the pending app o\r nc till restoring mo c than C'-'W for this purpose.

The Indianapolis Times Generally fair tonight; Saturday increasing cloudiness, probably becoming unsettled; not much change in temperature.

VOLUME 43—NUMBER 298

TACKLED BY DEATH Tech’s Tommy Is Game to End

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Tommy Taylor as he cheered Tech in his hospital room at the last state basketball tourney—the room that proved to be his gridiron of life. Miss Wilma Shaull, his day nurse, by his side. Inset: Tommy in football togs. TOMMY TAYLOR heard his signal called Thursday and Tommy smashed the line and carried the ball of life to the goal-post of eternity. Tommy died at Methodist hospital at 11:07 p. m. He died as he lived on football gridirons for Technical high school, as he’d lived in a hospital bed since his injury on Oct. 23—game! There was no seared football sod for Tommy to crash down on his last play. And orfly the Great Linesman was on the field to mark his play. l

But in the “grandstand” were his father, Henry Taylor; his sister, Mrs. Henry C. L. Mueller, and his nurses, Mrs. Marie Reeves and Miss Wilma Shaull. It was a grandstand weighed down with grief. They could not help him carry the ball. The spirit grandstand In the hospital room, Tech boys and girls who had rooted for Tommy’s return to health, was silent. But today they say “Yea! Tommy” because they know he carried that ball with shoulders erect, fighting, down to the dark goal, marked death. Tommy, star tackle of the school, suffered a fracture of two vertebrae when he made a flying tackle in a Tech-Manual game. Followed Games by Radio A Manual back charged through the Tech line. Tommy tackled him. He w r ent down. A pile of players fell on him. When the pile untangled itself, Tommy lay still on the field. They carried him to a hospital where he has lain for six months. But his spirit didn’t stop in the hospital bed. His faith in Tech surcharged the school’s athletic teams to superenergy. They fought for Tommy and Tommy fought for them. He was selected as one of the two outstanding tackles for the year, despite his injuries. Tommy kept on playing the game in bed. Each football game of Tech saw twelve men go on to the field —eleven pigskin warriors and Tommy in his hospital bed with a radio by his side. Fought Hard, but Lost With hospital bills mounting, football games were played as benefits for Tommy. His classmates wanted him to know he was still with them, on the field. Then the basketball season opened and Tommy knew Tech would “go places and do things.” He rooted the Green and White through the sectionals, regionals, and into the state tourney. Unable to raise his head from his pillow he heard Tech forge to the quarter-finals of the state meet. The backboard boys of Tech fought hard for Tommy—but they lost. Tommy fought hard too, for life, but he lost. Survivors besides the father and sister, are his mother, Mrs. Estella Taylor, and a brother, Von D. Taylor. The family lives at 946 North Drexel avenue. PREYED ON JOBLESS MAN: FOUR MONTHS Short Shrift Given Racketeer Who Promised Work. John Petero, who took $5 from an unemployed man and promised in return a job, today went to jail for lour months. Petero, 54, pleaded guilty in criminal court to taking $5 from Louis Harris, R. R. 12, Box 47, aqd promising to get Harris a job. “Four months on the state farm and $1 and costs,” said Judge Frank P. Baker. “That’s bad business. Taking money from jobless men, who have to bon-ow it. I ought to give you five years.”

Ten Children Reported Born —All at One Time

By United Preaa 13ORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, April 22.— An almost incredible case of childbirth was reported today from the town of Bacacay, where a woman was said to have given birth to ten children at one time. The woman. Mrs. Espinosa Nunez De Antunes. was delivered of eight girls and two boys, the reports said, all the children dying at birth, but the mother being in perfect health. Doctors, incredulous of the story, went by automobile from various parts of the province to verify the account*.

School Mourns Tech’s flag was at half staff today. In a bulletin to the school, Principal De Witt Morgan recounted the career of Tommy Taylor, young athlete who died Thursday night, and expressed sorrow at his death. Funeral services will be held at 10 Monday at Wallace Street Presbyterian church. Morgan will assist in the services and the boys’ concert club of the school will sing. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. During the funeral, two minutes of silence will be observed at the school.

LINDY TRACES CLEW Norfolk Go-Between Seen at Hopewell, Report. By United Press HOPEWELL, N.. J., April 22. Renewed efforts to negotiate with the kidnapers of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s son were indicated today following a mysterious trip by the flier and the arrival of a man believed to be Dean Dobson-Pea-cock of Norfolk. The flier’s journey, which may have taken him as far as Milford, Conn., ended shortly before midnight. Glimpses of the fast-moving car indicated the colonel was alone. BUTLER? HARDLY! HE’S REALLY HER HUSBAND Wealthy W’idow Admits Marriage to Chinese, Harvard Grad. By T nited Press MILFORD. Conn., April 22.—Milford folks still talked today about their amazing discovery that the polite, bespectacled little Chinese who has been doing errands for wealthy Mrs. Aimee Greele Abbott all winter was not her butler, but her husband. The bride, widow of the late Charles G. Abbott, New York business man and Rotary Official, admitted the marriage Thursday. She said she and her husband, Chan M. Jett, Harvard graduate and owner of a New York restaurant chain, had hoped to keep the ceremony a secret. TUNNEY BABY ‘MENACED’ Former Heavy Champ Advised to “Watch Your Child.” By United Press NEW YORK. April 22.—An anonymous note, addressed to Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney advising him to “tell Gene Tunney to watch his baby,” resulted in unusual vigilance today on the part of detectives detailed to guard prominent Park avenue babies. The retired heavyweight champion, in his apartment at 893 Park avenue, branded the letter as that of a “crank,” and police concurred.

' By United Press NEW YORK, April 22.—The birth of ten children by a , woman at one time, reported from Brazil, is theoretically possible'but highly improbable, 1 Dr. Linsley R. Williams of New York Academy of Medicine, said today. “The German medical authority, Barfurth,” he said, “states that a tolerabl well-authen-ticated record exists of the birth of seven children at Hemeln, on the Weser. in the year 1600. Only five credible instances of six being born exist, and several are subject to considerable * skepticism.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1932

NEW FIGHT TO FREE MOONEY IS LAUNCHED Another Trial May Be Asked to Clear Prisoner, With Pardon Denied. MOTHER IS UNDAUNTED 84-Year Woman Takes Place in Front Line of Battle for Liberty. BY HOMER L. ROBERTS United Press Staff Correspondent SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 22. I Denied a pardon for the fourth time |by a California Governor, Tom I Mooney began anew today his fight ; for freedom that, in sixteen years behind bars, has brought only disappointment and defeat. Governor Rolph’s refusal to grant the pardon because “no new facts" were offered to support Mooney’s plea led supporters of the convicted labor leader to seek his liberation along entirely new lines, possibly through anew trial. In the front lines of the reorganized forces was his 84-year-old mother, Mrs. Mary A. (Mother) Mooney. She listened in dry-eyed unbelief Thursday as Governor Rolph read the decision, which doomed her son to stay* in San Quentin prison. Mother to Continue Fight Recovered from the first shock of the decree—shte had hoped for at least a commuted sentence—Mrs. Mooney announced an attempt will | be made at once to have District I Attorney Matthew Brady try I Mooney on a single murder indict - j ment in San Francisco superior ’ court. This indictment has not been pressed since 1917, when Mooney | was convicted on related indictments as one of the preparedness parade bombers. The Mooney defense, it was learned, will stipulate to all evidence produced at the original trial, provided witnesses may testify to subsequent develop--1 ments. New Trial to Be Sought Convinced a jury would acquit ; Mooney on a retrial, Mrs. Mooney i said thereafter the pardon application would be renewed with Gov- | ernor Rolph. This program was outlined by Attorney Aaron Sapiro of New York when he and Mayor James Walker pleaded a pardon last December before Rolph—the hearing on which the latest decision was based. Refusing to discuss the decision which held Mooney was guilty of the bomb outrage and, with Warren K. Billings, was justly convicted, Governor Rolph prepared to leave Sacramento by plane early today for the east. With Governor Fred B. Balzer of Nevada he will attend a national governors’ conference in Richmond, Va. It was learned that Rolph was greatly concerned over the reception he will receive on the Atlantic seaboard as a result of his decision. Mooney hasn’t had his last chance for clemency, Governor Rolph said, just before leaving. “If new evidence is uncovered or (Turn to Page 28)

$40,000 MELON WILL BE SHARED BY I. H. S. A. A.; SIOO,OOO IN SINKING FUND

Profits to Be Split Among 800 Member Schools on Oct. 1. BY DICK MILLER Approximately $40,000 of the $140,000 profits of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, accumulated in twenty-eight years, will be divided among member schools C’t. 1, A. L. Trestor, commissioner, announced today. With the total treasury balance at $140,000, the sum of SIOO,OOO will be retained as a sinking fund to insure future promotion of athletic contests, meet all the association's current obligations and provide for expansion of activities. Half of the $40,000 will be divided pro rata among the 800 schools in the association on the basis of membership in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932. The other half will be divided among schools whose teams participated in the sectional basketball tourneys of the same years. In the future, any amount not needed to preserve the SIOO,OOO sinking fund will be divided each fall by the schools. The board of control and council took into consideration when establishing the distribution plan, that sectional tournament gross receipts have decreased approximately 33 per cent and regional tournament receipts 25 per cent during the last three years. Final tournament gross receipts have remained materially unchanged during the same three years, it was said. Check of the source of revenue that has brought the I. H. S. A. A, treasury to the $140,000 total has revealed that basketball tourneys have made the money. They have made possible the high school sports of football, track, (indoor and outdoor), swimming, baseball, wrestling and golf. None of these latter sports have contributed anything to the surplus and several of them have been entirely supported and almost entirely financed by the I. H. S. A. A.

‘Pardon Denied , ’Mooney Learns

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—Copyrifht, 1932, by NEA Service. Inc. Transmitted by Telephoto. Toom Mooney, in white prison garb, is pictured ash was informed Thursday by James B. Holohan (right) that for the fourth time a Governor of California has refused his pardon plea. Mooney was called from the prison commissary -when word of the denial was flashed to San Quentin from the state capitoi in Sacramento.

REMOVE GOITER OF 5-DAY RADY Surgeons Assert Operation First in Midwest. There's only seven and one-quar-ter pounds of Vivian Joan Farrow', but she is the most prominent patient in the Methodist hospital today. Thursday, at the age of five days, she submitted to an operation for removal of a goiter. Surgeons say this is the first case of the kind reported in this section of the United States. The baby and her twin sister, Marion Janet, weight 5 pounds, 4 ounces, arrived at the hospital at midnight Saturday. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Tilman W. Farrow, 21 South Holmes avenue. Twelve surgeons witnessed the unusual operation. Vivian Joan's condition is reported today as good. The mother and the other baby also are in a satisfactory state. MERCURY HITS HIGH Shade at Premium as Mark of 73 Is Reached. Under a blazing sun, the mercury at noon today soared to 73 as office workers and pedestrians doffed heavier garments and sought the shady side of the street. Climbing to the highest point of the year, the temperature reached 18 degrees above the mean normal of 55, according to J. H. Armington, weather forecaster. On April 22, 1925, the mercury touched 83 degrees, highest in the history of the weather bureau. Near-summer temperatures wall give way to cloudy skies and showers Saturday, according to Armington.

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AVERAGE DENTAL COST IN U. S. $lB A PERSON $446,000,000 Is Annual Bill, 20 States Survey Shows. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 22.—The American citizen who goes to the dentist pays him an average of $lB annually. Dr. Maurice Leven of the committee on eosts of medical care, writing on dentist s bill in “dental practice and income,” finds that: Only 20 per cent of the individuals in the twenty states surveyed are dentist-goers. About 24,000,000 Americans are paying 56,800 dentists $446,000,000 annually. Dentists practicing among wealthy folks have a harder time collecting bills than those who treat a poorer class. i Fire Leaves 7,500 Homeless By United Press OMIYDA. Japan, April 22. —More than 110 were injured and 7.500 left homeless today when fire aided by high winds destroyed the city’s business district. Damage was estimated at $3,500,000.

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Lost in Jail Prisoner Legally Free for 63 Days, Discovered by Judge.

ONE hardly would imagine that a person could get “lost” in county jail two months, but that’s what happened to William Dowkins, Negro, it was learned today in criminal court by Judge Frank P. Baker. Sixty-three days ago. the county grand jury failed to return an indictment against Dowkins and he “legally” was free. An employe of the prosecutor’s office, criminal court attaches say, marked “on bond” beside Dowkins’ name. Criminal court aids sent Dowkins a letter, ordering him to report. The letter came back. Dowkins was lost. But they found him today. He was sitting in county jail—and he didn’t know' why. So Baker halted a murder trial long enough to find out what had happened. On Nov. 30, Dowkins was jailed on the charge of entering a filling station. He was bound over to the jury and, on Feb. 19, the jury discharged him. “Judge,” said Dowkins, “all I did was ask if I could go in the rest room of the filling station. I guess I overstayed my time, so the attendant come hammering on the door and had me pinched. That’s all I did.” “Well, you’re free now,” said the judge. MARINES ARE SLAIN Three Die in Battle With Nicaraguan Rebels. By United Press BANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 22. A patrol of the Nicaraguan national guard, led by United States marines, w'as annihilated in a terrific fight with rebels near Apali, official advices said today. Three marines were killed, while the losses of the Guardia were 11 dead, 4 wounded and 1 missing. The marine dead were Lieutenant Lawrence C. Brunton, Corporal Covington and Pharmasist’s Mate Whitehead. VENUE CHANGE DENIED IN MANN OUSTER SUIT Supreme Court Refuses Mandate of Judge Chamberlin. County commissioners today lost the last round in their preliminary battle to oust Charles Mann, Republican county highway superintendent, when the supreme court denied their petition to mandate Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin to grant a change of venue in the case. Commissioner appealed to the high court after Chamberlin denied a petition for a change of venue several weeks ago. The ouster petition was filed by Gilbert Wilhelm, a taxpayer, who charged Mann with inefficiency. The case now is scheduled to go to trial before Chamberlin. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 51 10 a. m.,... 68 7a. m 53 11 a. m 71 Ba. m 59 12 (noon).. 73 9a. m 64 Ip. m 75

Divorce, and Car Death Strike Blows at Home Tragedy stretched its hand into an Indianapolis home today and extinguished the life of one of three children whose domestic life recently was wrecked by divorce. The home is that of Mrs. Bertha Adeff, 1802 Howard street, figure in a recent divorce proceeding in Franklin, Ind., whose daughter Florence, 5, was killed late Thursday afternoon by a truck w’hile running an errand. Today in the Adeff home, two sisters of the dead girl mourn the tragedy with their mother, while the father, David, apparently has not learned o fthe child's death. The two sisters, Aylvia and Evelyn, lived with their mother, despite the fact that Circuit Judge Charles *B. Staff of Franklin gave the mother custody only of Florence, who was killed almost instantly as she ran across Howard street in the 1700 block into the path of a truck driven by Robert Barnett, 49, Negro, of 1841 Miller street. Funeral services were held today.

BISHOP CHARGES HILL MASSACRE Asserts Italians Slain in U. S. Rural Area. By Unit ed Press ALBANY, N. Y„ April 22.—A claim that a group of Italian workmen were slain by natives of an Apala chian country—an incident that aroused protest from Italy—has been made by an Episcopalian bishop. The Rt. Rev. Frank W. Creighton, bishop of Mexico, and director of domestic missions of the Protestant Episcopal church, revealed this during an address in which he stressed need of continuing missionary work in the southern mountains. “Upon learning of the slayings,” Bishop Creighton asserted, “the 1 Italian government complained to the United States. •‘The whole matter was hushed up,” he added. He declined to elaborate on the incident, explaining that: “If the identity of the place where the deaths occurred came out, all my missionary work in the mountains would collapse.” The workmen were imported from Italy by a railroad to construct a spur. Bishop Creighton said. Natives, angered because of the invasion, ordered them to leave. When they refused, they were slain, he asserted.

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CITES SURE PEACE ROAD Education Is Way, Kellogg Says in Yale Interview. By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 22. Education of the people rather than military alliances is the “surest road to peace,” Frank B. Kellogg, former secretary of state and coauthor of the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war, said in an interview in the Yale News today.

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WOMAN FLIER’S LOVE FOR GUN VICTIM BARED Mother of Slain Man Refuses to Believe Suicide Theory. MURDER HINT PROBED Mrs. Keith-Miller and Other Point of Possible ‘Triangle’ Held. By United Presa MIAMI, Fla.. April 22.—Ths mother of Haden Clarke does not believe he killed himself although his death is under investigation as a "love triangle murder or suicide,” in which Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller and her flying partner manager. Captain W. N. Lancaster, were held for questioning. The young writer, who was helping the woman aviator to prepare a story of her flying adventures, was found dead in bed Thursday in the home occupied here by Mrs. KeithMiller and Lancaster. He and Lancaster slept on the porch. Lancaster’s gun was found under the body. “I will believe he committed suicide if the authorities so decide, but I find such a theory incomprehensible,” Mrs. Ida Clarke, women’s magazine editor and journalism instructor here said. Aversion to Suicides “Haden always had an aversion to suicides. Even as a small boy he would not play with toy pistols.” There was some evidence to support her belief. Notes were found which indicated suicide. Stories told by Lancaster and Mrs. Keith-Miller, which were in practical agreement, also indicated suicide. A doctor and a funeral director declared, however, that there were no powder burns or marks on young Clarke’s head or body, indicating he was shot from a short distance, they said. A blood-stained pencil was found on the sleeping porch. It was admitted by all that Mrs. Keith-Miller and Clarke were in love, a love that developed within recent months. It was denied that she and Lancaster were anything but ‘ pals’’ during an association in many years of flying adventures. Trio Lived Together Mrs Clarke, who comforted Mrs. Keith-Miller during funeral services for her own son and the second woman’s lover, said afterward that “If Haden loved Mrs. Keith-Miller, I never knew anything about it. I knew they were good friends.” The story told States Attorney Hawthorne by Mrs. Keith-Miller, was as follows: She and Lancaster had been living in her bungalow here some time. The depression hit them; they found difficulty even in finding money to pay light and water bills. A Latin-American airline venture was suggested. Lancaster went west in midwinter to investigate. During Lancaster’s absence, Mrs. Keith-Miller and young Clarke started work on her biography. Found Selves in Love “Suddenly we found ourselves in love,” Mrs. Keith-Miller explained. “We were sort of consciencestricken and surprised, so we wrote Captain Lancaster a letter, telling him we intended to marry.” Lancaster sent a wire, wishing luck, and offering to be best man if they would defer the wedding until he arrived, she said. He didn’t “want to be a dog in the manger,” she quoted him as saying. That was Sunday. Lancaster arrived here Wednesday. About midnight Mrs. KeithMiller retired. Lancaster and Clarke talked, the captain said, of their home troufbles, and economic difficulties, quite jovially. Comforted by Mother About 3 a. m, he said, he was awakened by a shot. Clarke was lying on the floor, a gun under his leg. Clarke s mother was among those who comforted the woman flier after Clarke's funeral. Mrs. KeithMiller had cried out: “I'm alone in the world, and have nothing to eat, and there’s no place for me to go.’’ Miami citizens offered to help her, but she and Lancaster were held all night incommunicado pending completion of the investigation before they parted. Mrs. Clarke, former associate editor of Pictorial Review, and a writer for other magazines, now' is instructor in journalism in Miami university. FAMOUS DRY ‘WEAKENS’ Ex-Senator Butler Favors G. O. P. Referendum Plank, By United Prcaa BOSTON, April 22. Former United States Senator William M. Butler, chairman of the Republican national committee at one time, and a dry candidate for the senate two years ago, favors a referendum plank in the party’s platform, he announced. “Prohibition is not sacred," he said. “If the people want to get rid of national prohibition, they will have an opportunity to do so by constitutional means.” KEEP MINERS OFF JOBS 300 Men, Armed With Clubs, Balk Operations at Richmond, Mo. By United Preaa RICHMOND. Mo., April 22.— A crow'd of 300 men armed with clubs today drove off miners who sought to begin work at the Bates coal mine No. 21 here. The miners retreated without injury, and no arrests were made.