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EIGHT MILLIONS PAY CUT PUT IN SAURY BILL Slashes Ranging From 5 to 25 Per Cent Arranged on Sliding Scale. WEEK OF SESSION LEFT 51.50 Tax Limit, Dry Law Repeal, and Truck Levy Measure Remain. More than $8,700,000 will be cut from the $50,000,000 public pay roll in Indiana if the revamped salary bill, to be presented today by a special state senate committee, proves acceptable. The bill introduces anew idea in Indiana law-making. Instead of setting out a straight' salary schedule for various offices, it presents a mathematical formula upon which all cuts are to be based. A 5 per cent reduction for all public officials and school teachers forms the base of the formula, which was worked out by Senator J. Clyde Hoffman (Rep.i, Indianapolis. Under its operation, salary reduction will range from 6 per cent on SBOO to a maximum of 25 per cent on SIO,OOO. Majority of teachers’ salaries average around $1,300, where an 8 per cent cut would apply, Senator Hoffman explained. A 10 per cent reduction becomes effective at $1,666. Under the formula, the SIO,OOO judges’ salaries would be cut 30 per cent, but the bill provides a 25 per cent limit. Both the upper and lower houses reconvened this afternoon, beginning the last lap of the forty-day meeting, which must end not later than midnight next Monday Paramount problems confronting the senators as they reconvened included possible recall of the $1.50 property tax limitation bill, repeal of the Wright bone dry law, enactment of a constitutional salary reduction measure for the state, accepting or rejecting the truck tax and lemulation bill and consideration of bills designed to tap new revenue sources. Tax Limit Bill First Up The latter include income and intangibles tax bills sent over from the house and the Hoffman sales tax, which can be voted on again before it might be defeated. First business of the senate is to consider the Chambers motion to recall the tax limitation measure from the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie. The motion was pending when the senate adjourned Saturday. Today is the last day on which the Governor may sign, veto, or let the bill become law without signature. Those moving adjournment Saturday were of the opinion that the bill must be acted upon by the chief executive this morning. An unofficial opniion from the office of the attorney-general holds Leslie has until midnight to act, it was said. Recall Is Urged Senator Walter S. Chambers (Dem.), Newcastle, urged the bill be recalled, to prevent governmental chaos from failure to provide sufficient revenue to meet budgets. Action was prevented by Senator Lee J. Hartzell (Rep.), Ft. Wayne, moving to adjourn and Lieutenant-Governor Edgar E. Bush gaveling through the motion. The Weiss bill for Wright law repeal is on second reading and senators backing the measure predicted action late today. A favorable committee report also Is expected on the house bill to legalize pari-mutuel betting machines. Senator Alonzo H. Lindley (Rep>, Kingman, chairman of the committee on agriculture, to which the bill was sent, has secured an opinion from the attorney-general holding the bill constitutional. Its passage will be favored because of its revenue-raising possibilities, it was said. HE GOEsTn~FOR CHEESE Brewer Pabst Says Beer Would Be Only Feeder for Bigger Industry. By United Prats NEW YORK. Aug. B.—A gentleman named Pabst, which is a name levered in the brewing industry, said Sunday that he wasn’t interested in beer—of all things—but that he was mightily interested in cheese. P’red Pabst Jr„ executive secretary of a big Milwaukee brewing Arm, started his conversation by saying, "now take limburger, for instance.” And he won his point by proving by facts and figures, that the beer industry is, after all, only a feeder for the cheese industry.

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GOAT FEUD HELPS TANGLE KILLING OF EX-SOCIETY BELLE Eccentric Nephew of Great Journalist, Charles Dana Gibson, Held After Bloody Fingerprints Are Identified. By U nited Press NATCHEZ, Miss., Aug. B.—Bloody fingerprints tentatively identified as those of Richard Dana, eccentric nephew of the great journalist, Charles A. Dana, may help authorities solve the strange killing of 72-year-old Jane Surget Merrill, once a belle of the old south. These prints—and the discovery of a feud over goats owned by Dana's housekeeper, a former society figure—gave authorities what they regarded as something tangible to work on.

The killing already has bared to the world twin romances in which the slain woman and Dana’s housekeeper played roles forty years ago in New Orleans, only to sink into oblivion as the women and the men of their choice retired from the social while and settled here. The fingerprints, according to J. E. Chancellor, an expert, were those of Richard Dana, ' gifted pianist, heavily bearded recluse who has been known as the “wild man” to this community. They were found in the room of Glenn Burnne, the Merrill estate, where the aged spinster was slain. Once Belle in Society The goats were the property of Octavia Dockery, 60. once pretty and popular daughter of General Dockery, a girl who spurned society to become the housekeeper of Dick Dana, the man she loved. She is Dana’s guardian now, named at her own request when the eccentric was declared incompetent. The body of Jane Merrill, once vivacious, charming daughter of the late Ayres Merrill—who, as friend of President Grant and ambassador to Belgium, saw her presented at the Belgian court and the court of St. James —was found by Duncan Minor. Minor, a dashing suitor in his youth, had courted Miss Merrill for twenty years, but never married, he said. Waged Feud Many Years An uncle had threatened to disinherit him if he married, according to neighborhood gossip. Minor also lived on an estate adjoining Glenn Burnne. Miss Dockery and Miss Merrill had been waging a feud for many years, neighbors said, because the later resented the fact that Miss Dockery’s goat herd strayed on to Glenn Burnne. Both Dana and Miss Dockery are held in connection with the death of Miss Merrill. A dozen others are held or have been held for questioning in the same crime. Minor was questioned and released. No tangible clews were reported during the early investigation. Later a blood-stained antique lamp was found near the clump of bushes in which the slain spinster's body was discovered Thursday. More fingerprints were found in one room of the house where there were signs of a terrific struggle. An Intriguing Mystery Late Sunday night some fingerprints were tentatively identified as those of Dana. Garbed in overalls, a heavy beard dropping from his chin, Dana sat in his cell, bewildered under questioning, while sheriff’s officers searched his dilapidated home, Glenwood, once a magnificent estate, now termed “goat castle” by the neighbors. The murder remained an intriguing mystery. An official check revealed no valuables missing from Glenn Burnne. Authorities were inclined to the theory that the murder was perpetrated for revenge. Sl* DIE IN FUMES Historic Old Waukegan (III.) Hotel Is Razed. Bn United Press WAUKEGAN, 111., Aug. 8. Six men perished Sunday m flames which razed the historic old Maywood hotel. Five suffocated in the smoke; one burned to death in his bed. The dead; John Dozol. Albert Zarnetsky, Alex Gzwkie, Caniel Glacir, Felix Cilinndri and Frank Marcunas. The rambling frame structure, which had been a landmark for more than a half century, burst into fire shortly before dawn, presumably because of defective wiring. THOMAS TO COME HERE Socialists' Presidential Candidate Will Speak in City, Sept. 6. Indiana will be one of the forty states of the nation visited by Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President of the United States, when he speaks in this city Sept. 6. Thomas, who headed the Socialist ticket in 1928. last visited the city in November. 1929, when he spoke at Kirshbaum center.

SOVIET LIFTS TABOO ON ROMANCE, RIGHT TO HAVE GOOD TIME

BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. B.—Soviet Russia has, at last, received oflcial permission to have a good time—an epochal* development in the realm of romance and entertainment, which probably will mean a profound change in the temper of life in the Communist state. The significance of the decision to broaden the official Soviet outlook on pleasures is that the “verboten” signs have been removed from such things as love, kisses, neckties, gay music, dancing, gramophones and so on, which

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Stamp Saver By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. B. John F. Costello, Democratic national committeeman for the District of Columbia, accuses Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills of misusing the franking privilege in distributing political speeches. Costello said a series of Mills’ speeches, “camouflaged to make them appear to be official documents of the treasury department,” were mailed without payment of postage.

LIBBY TO GIVE SELFUPTODAY Release on Bond Will Be Asked by Torch Singer. By United Press WINSTON SALEM, N. C„ Aug. 8. —Libby Horman will surrender to North Carolina officers at Wentworth, N. C., about 3 p. m. today, according to announcement of counsel. Habeas corpus proceedings will be instituted immediately before Judge E. M. Stack, designed to secure her release on bail pending trial on a charge of murdering her husband, Smith Reynolds. "Mrs. Reynolds,” her counsel said, "will be in Wentworth at 3 p. m. She will surrender to the sheriff or some North Carolina officer. “Immediately we propose to sue out a writ of habeas corpus before Judge E. M. Stack and ask her release on bail. That is all we can say.” They would not say where Libby was at the moment. It was believed, however, she was already within the state. CHILD'S PLEA WINS ‘Took My Buddy Away,’ Says Baby Girl in Court. "They took my buddy away from me.” This earnest plea of a blue-eyed baby sister for her 5-year-old brother was more powerful than lengthy arguments of attorneys in superior court two today, causing dismissal of a habeas corpus suit. Fred C. La Boyteaux of Columbus, claiming legal custody to his son, Fred Jr.,* sought a court order to get the boy from the divorced mother, living at 908 Bosart avenue. When it appeared attorneys would be unable to agree, the little sister made her plea to the mother's attorney : “I want to play with buddy . . . they took him away from me.” The attorney transmitted the child’s declaration to Judge Joseph R. Williams. After listening to the legal aspects of the case, Judge Joseph R. Williams advised attorneys to yeild to “desire and welfare” of the two playmates. The case was dimissed when the mother agreed to keep the boy until Aug. 20, then return him to the father at Columbus. NATALIE GETS DIVORCE Awarded Decree From Buster Keaton on Ground He Is "Rounder.” By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. B.—Natalie Talmadge-Keaton today was awarded an interlocutory decree of divorce from Buster Keaton, "frozen face” comedian, by Superior Judge Joseph P. Sproul, on her testimony that Buster was a "rounder.” PATRICK HENRY JAILED Arrested While Making Speech; Loses Liberty for a Day. By United Press NEW YORK. Aug. B.—Patrick Henry was arrested while making a speech in a Brooklyn park today. He was deprived of his liberty for one day. Henry was charged with intoxication.

previously had been held in disrepute. The beginning of this change was signaled at the conference of the Communist youth organization. but now it is being underlined by the official press, and in weighty pronouncements from the Kremlin, where Josef V. Stalin sits in his plain workman’s blouse and heavy boots. The dawn of the new era—the day of the necktie and the lipstick—actually was hailed by Alexander Kosariov, the ‘‘Stalin of Communist youth,” when he appeared before the conference wearing a “bourgeois" collar and tie. it

SLAIN LOVER ‘LIAR,’ SAYS WOMAN FLIER Lost Affection for Clarke, Mrs. Keith-Miller Admits at Trial. MEMORY NOT CHERISHED Denies That Lancaster Was Betrayed by Her in Affair With Writer. By United Press MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 8. —Mrs. Jessie M. Keith-Miller lost her love for Haden Clarke, writer, "because he was a liar,” and does not cherish his memory since his death, she revealed today as she resumed her testimony in the murder trial of Capt. William N. Lancaster in Clarke’s death, Clarke was shot fatally on the morning of April 21 in Mrs. KeithMiller's cottage, in which Clarke and Lancaster occupied the same sleeping room. She steadfastly has held to her contention and that of Lancaster, that Clarke committed suicide. After a barrage of embarrassing questions thundered at her by Vernon Hawthorne, state’s attorney, Mrs. Keith-Miller suddenly disclosed for the first time in the trial that her love for Clarke had undergone a change some time between their engagement and his death. Denies Betraying Lancaster She denied Hawthorne’s charge that she "had betrayed Captain Lancaster in your love for Clarke while Lancaster was in the west sending you all the money he could beg, borrow or steal.” "I lost my love for Haden Clarke because he was a liar,” she said. A few minutes later she elaborated this statement to say, "unfortunately, I don’t love the memory of Haden in his death.” Mrs. Keith-Miller paled and her eyes filled with tears as she answered the opening question by Hawthorne. She revealed that she became ill in Cuba, and later communicated the illness to Clarke. She charged Hawthorne had broken a confidence with her by introducing this phase of the case. “You gave your word of honor, Mr. Hawthorne, you would never say anything!” she accused the prosecutor. Beg, Borrow or Steal? "Did you love Clarke?” Hawthorne asked. "Yes.” "Did you love Lancaster?” "Yes, years ago.” "Do you love Lancaster now?” "No, but I’m very fond of him,” she replied. “Mrs. Miller, did you betray Captain Lancaster in your love for Clarke while Lancaster was in the west sending you all the money he could beg, borrow or steal?” "No.” James Cannon, defense attorney, was upheld in an objection to the world “steal.” Mrs. Keith-Miller said she admired Captain Lancaster because he had defended her at all costs. “Would you die for Captain Lancaster?” Hawthorne asked. "Yes.” "Would you lie for him?” Wouldn’t Lie for Home Mrs. Keith-Miller hesitated, then said: "No, because you would know I was lying.” "If Captain Lancaster has committed forgery on the two suicide notes, does it increase your fondness for him, and raise his code of honor in your eyes?” "No; it just was a foolish thing to do.” Hawthorne then asked if Haden Clarke was afraid of Captain Lancaster’s return from th west. She insisted he was not, though admitting that Lancaster was a polo player, "broncho buster” and welterweight champion boxer of the British Royal Air forces, and that Haden was aware of that. Haden Wasn’t Afraid "I am sure Haden was not afraid of him,” she said. The question returned to her love affairs. “Being in love and loving a person is quite different,” Mrs. KeithMiller explained. “I was not wildly infatuated by Captain Lancaster. We worked together and had mutual friends.” "Unfortunately, I don’t love the memory of Haden in his death.” Defense testimony will begin Tuesday, it is expected, when Clyde Pangborn, around-the-world flier; Clarence Chamberlin, Atlantic flier; Rex Gilmertin, noted New York airman, and Lieutenant Bing Boyer, United States air corps, appear in Lancaster’s behalf. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 66 10 a. m 78 7a. m 66 11 a. m 80 8 a. m 70 12 (noon).. 79 9 a. m 77 1 p. m 81

BUT even such a significant thing received comparatively small attention in the Soviet Union until it was, later, emphasized in the official press. ‘We are not against music,” said Kosariov in bearing out the promise of his tie by declaring that Soviet youth has a right to beauty and relaxation. “We are not against love, not against flowers, not against fashionable clothes. We are not against a hat, nor against a necktie. We are not ascetics, and we do not preach asceticism. We are for and many-sided life rich in experiences,”

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BONUS CAMP IN MEXICOjJRGED Proposed Colony Assailed by ‘Army’s’ Head. By United Press MEXICO CITY, Aug. B—The American bonus army’s cabled request that its members be permitted to enter Mexico may be granted, it appeared today, though President Ortiz Rubio has not commented on the subject. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. B.—Headquarters of the bonus expeditionary forces said today they were not participating in the proposed veterans’ colony in Mexico. "That proposal was made by Doak Carter, who resigned as chief of staff of the B. E. F.,” said Captain R. G. Ellison, national contact officer. “It is a one-man proposition. We will continue our plans of establishing a camp in each of the fortystates.” By United Press GETTYSBURG, Pa., Aug. B.—The “left wing” members of the bonus army were encamped today on the battlefield where north and south fought the crucial battle of the Civil war. This small group of 262 standpatters broke from the leadership of W. W. Waters, national commander of the B. E. F., and refused to disband. The Gettysburg colony will be the basis of anew bonus army to march on Washington next December when congress reconvenes, according to present plans. STEEL GAIN IS POSSIBLE Huge Replacement Demand by Auto Firms Seen Likely Move. By United Press CLEVELAND, Aug. B.—A huge replacement demand is overhanging the automobile industry, the magazine Steel declared today. With the consumption of gasoline increasing 15 per cent in the period 1929-31, while output of new automobiles has declined 51 per cent, a pentup demand for new equipmet is indicated, the publication said. TRAVELERS ARE HELD UP Bandits Impersonate Police; Take $2,000 in Jewelry and Auto. By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. B.—Bandits impersonating police officers held up Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schmitz, Chicago, near Highland today,. robbed them of diamond rings valued at $2,000 and took their auto. The couple walked to Griffith, where police were notified.

This declaration was in sharp contrast with Bolshevik practice in the past, when the leaders of Communism have made much of simple life and the costumes of the workers. After the moral laxness of the first revolutionary period, which was short lived, a sort of “Communist puritanism” set in, and the theater, films, literature and everyday life of Russians became monotonously serious. Such things as romance and dancing were, in official eyes, taboo. The emphasis was on industrial development, the five-year plan. Now the new period has begun.

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Above—Viola Gentry, the picture of her plane crash, and a photo of the girl flier as she appeared in her hospital room. At Left—Frances M. Harrell; right, Louise Thaden. By Times Special NEW YORK, Aug. B.—The indomitable spirit of a little woman who rises above all disaster will spur on two of America’s famous women fliers when they take to the sky here this week in an effort to set anew refueling endurance record. That woman is Viola Gentry, the girl flier who won’t give up, and back of the flight lies another soul-stirring chapter in her heroic tragedy. Louise Thaden and Frances Harrell, both of whom have won fame in the air, will alternate at the controls, but it’s really Viola Gentry's endurance test. x x x VIOLA GENTRY was hurt des-. perately three years ago in the disastrous end of refueling endurance flight with Jack Ashcraft. The latter was killed in that crash, and it was said that Miss Gentry, if she lived, never would fly again. Hut they reckoned with her broken body only, not her indomitable spirit. Even the plaster casts she was forced to wear could not weigh down her determination and pluck. Still crippled, but able to be about, she went back to her old trade of restaurant cashier last fall, but always with plans of flying again in her head. Last June she finally persuaded the department of commerce to grant a physical waiver covering her practically useless right arm and so regained her pilot’s license —after proving to an inspector’s satisfaction that she still could fly.

XXX Dozens of flight projects meanwhile had been revolving in her head and had been discussed with her friend, Frances Harrel. Out of them at last materialized the endurance attempt. Miss Gentry wanted desperately to make this flight herself. But in her heart she knew the doubts of other pilots, to whom she hinted her desire, were justified. She could try, but the flight was not for pilots with crippled bodies. A bitter realization—but Miss Gentry swallowed her disappointment and plunged with characteristic enthusiasm into arranging the details of the venture. She got an advertiser to pay for the right to put his name on the ship; she handled other “indorsements”; she dickered for this and that essential, and made many other plans for its success. And through it all Miss Gentry consistently has spoken of and considered the adventure only in one light—as “our” flight.

JAPANESE INVASION OF PEIPING AREA FEARED

BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent 1 (CoDvrieht. 1932. b\ United Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. B.—Threat of a Japanese advance into the Peiping area is causing fear and apprehesion in the legation quarter of the ancient Chinese capital, it reliably was reported today in advices reaching Washington. Foreign diplomats in Peiping are discussing the dangerous international situation that might be brought about should the Japanese legation guard there be ordered into service against the Chinese outside the city. They are alarmed too, lest Japanese forces, advancing from Peiping, should be driven back, fighting, into the city. The situation is considered par-

“X TULGARIZERS of socialism V think that being collectivists we are against personal wellbeing.” said Kosariov. “They think we oppose three or four rooms, comfortably furnished, that we oppose flowers, music, a modish suit. “They think we suppress yearnings of private individuality. “They imagine socialism as a gray barracks in which everything is done according to instructions, alike for all.” He ridiculed this version, although it is almost exactly true. But the denial was significant of the new trend.

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STOCKS DEALING AT FAST BATE 4,000,000 Shares Are Traded by 1:30. By United Press % NEW YORK, Aug. B.—Four million shares had been traded in on the New York stock exchange at 1:30 p. m. today. Up to that hour, the Dow Jones average for thirty industrial stocks had jumped 2.92 points, twenty rails were up 3 points and twenty utilities averaged up 1.58. _ I 10,000 GREET GARBO Hopes for Rest in Native Sweden, She Says. By United Press GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Aug. 8. —Greta Garbo returned to her native Sweden in triumph today, to be greeted by 10,000 people and a horde of newspaper men. "I am not returning to the United States in the near future,” she told the press. "I hope for rest and quiet somewhere in Sweden.” She denied a report that she was buying the late Ivar Kreuger’s residence and studio. Miss Garbo surprised newspaper men by receiving them in the smoking room of the liner Gripsholm. She avoided questions about her future plans, explaining: "I am on a holiday and I just wanted a few weeks’ complete rest and seclusion.” She said she did not even know if she would return to Hollywood, and denied authorship of various articles alleged to be her “memoirs.”

ticularly delicate from the American standpoint. Colonel R. O. Hooker, commandant of the American marine legation guard, is the senior foreign officer. * As such, custom might make him commander of the entire foreign forces in an emergency. Since the legation quarter of Peiping was besieged by the “Boxers” early in the century, nearly all foreign powers have stationed troops there to guard their diplomats. The United States has about 500 marines. High Officials Resign By United Prtts PEIPING, China, Aug. B.—Sudden Japanese troop movements to the north and sudden splits among China’s leaders today had thrown the Sino-Japanese problem into its most ominous aspect since the beginning of the Manchurian crisis. Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, powerful war lord of North China, and three leading members of the Nanking government, resigned their offices today in protest against China’s passive acceptance of the Manchurian occupation. Immediately the internal unity of the nation reached a crisis, with fears expressed that Japan would invade Jehol or this city with China divided. Japanese troops were reported preparing for a fresh invasion, even more vigorous than that of last fall. The Japanese, it was said, are concentrating their army near the Great Wall, with a view to pushing southward into China proper.

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MINE RIOT LIKE RED OUTBREAK, JUDGEJVERS Federal Court Not to Act While State Troops Rule in Zone. HITS ‘FORCE’ METHODS Commends Intervention by Militia in Controlling Strike Area. The Dixie Bee coal mine riots last week resulting in calling out the national guard, more nearly resembles an outbreak of Communism than a labor dispute, it was charged today by Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry. Fitzhenry, who came here to conduct a hearing on a motion for a temporary injunction restraining union miners from picketing the mine, after conference with attorneys and Governor Harry G. Leslie, announced that guard troops appear to have the situation in hand, and continued the hearing indefinitely. * “Since this hearing date was set,” Fitzhenry said, "the state of Indiana has intervened and is attempting to furnish protection to life and property in the mine district. No Reason for Stepping In “Under a recent act of congress, before the court can enter an order enjoining anybody, it is necessary that the court first should make a finding that state and local authorities are unable or unwilling to furnish adequate protection. "Before setting this hearing, it appeared government in Vigo county had broken down. Now that the Governor has sent in the militia, there is no reason for the federal government stepping in. Under our form of government, the people should rule themselves and local government should function. “Under Indiana law, if the sheriff and prosecutor of Vigo county do not function and take their oath of office seriously, I understand the Governor has (he power to remove them and name someone who will function.” Fitzhenry, in commending the use of militia to control the area, commented that it is regrettable the militia did not arrive at the mine until at least one human life had been sacrificed. Hits Use of "Force” If the state fails to function, however, he said, it may become necessary for the federal government to send its officers in to take charge. The court commented that he is certain the American Federation of Labor and the United Mine Workers of America both oppose use of force in settling labor disputes. Judge Fitzhenry set Sept. 19 as date for arraigning 159 picketers cited for contempt of court in connection with outbreaks at the Dixie Bee and Hoosier mines, after District Attorney George R. Jeffrey said he preferred to delay the arraignment to give him more time to go into the case. 2,000 Miners Parade By United Press PRINCETON, Ind., Aug. B.—Approximately 2,000 union coal miners from southern Indiana and Illinois marched in a parade here today. Several bands were in the parade. Placards and banners reading, "We demand no wage reduction,” and "We demand old age pension,” were carried by the miners. The miners proceeded to the fair ground, where their meeting was held. The parade was orderly. Close guard meanwhile was maintained at the co-operative Francisco mine near here, following a midnight attack Sunday. Numerous shots were exchanged between union men and non-union workers, but no one was reported injured. Mine authorities said an attempt was made to bum the fan house, which would have shut off the air supply for the shaft. The fan house was saved, but a frame building serving as a combination garage and storeroom was destroyed. Mine Blaze Probed By United Press DUGGER, Ind., Aug. B.—lnvestigation was under way today to determine cause of a fire which destroyed all surface buildings of the Oak Grove coal mine, near here, Sunday. The blaze, which caused damages estimated at $25,000, was believed to have been of incendiary origin. The mine, property of the Maumee Collieries Company, Terre Haute, was closed April 6, after union picketers had visited the shaft in protest to operation on a co-operative basis. Turn Down Wage Pact By United Press SPRINGFIELD, HI., Aug. B.—Defeat for the $5 a day basic wage proposal submitted to Illinois coal miners was indicated today as local unions in ti e state’s coal fields tabulated votes in Saturday’s referendum. With two-thirds of the total vote counted, a United Press tabulation by locals showed 19,050 votes against the proposed agreement, against 11,714 for It. Troops Held Ready By United Press CAMP KNOX, Ky.. Aug. B.—lndiana's national guardsmen, in regular summer encampment here, are prepared to leave on a moment’s notice for duty in the state’s turbulent coal fields, as the result of precautionary advice given all officers by Adjutant-General Paul Tombaugh.