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5-YEAR TARIFF PLAN TO HELP TRADE STUDIED U. S. Delegation Considering Program for Gradual Reductions. FRENCH IDEAS FOUGHT Continuation of Quotas on Imports Is Opposed by Americans. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD Lnitrri Pres* Staff Correapondml fConvrleht. 1933. bv United Preasi LONDON, June 24 A 'five-year plan” for the gradual reduction of tariffs to invigoraie world trade is being studied carefully by the United States delegation to the economic conference, the United Press learned authoritatively today. This plan, in line with the threepoint program laid down by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, chairman of the American delegation, will be presented to the economic conference in detail if the trend of debate on Hull’s tariff resolution indicates a chance of acceptance of more specific measures. Secretary Hull and the other members of the United States group, j united behind a program of concrete | action, are fighting against moves of “economic nationalism” and the continuation of import quotas, as suggested by France. French to Continue Quota The French, as reported by the United Press Paris bureau several days ago, plan to continue their import quotas after July 1, when the current second quarter of 1933 expires. The chamber of deputies also is planning to increase tariffs on 100 or more specific articles as of that date, these dispatches said. Secretary Hull's tariff plans were made known immediately, and a specific program to show in detail how tariff cuts can be worked out now is under minute study by his delegation members and experts, it was revealed. The American stand for tariff cuts gained support today, when Prime j Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain asserted the major j powers at the conference had turned their backs, at least momentarily, j on any program of temporary cur- i rency stabilization. He indicated they had reached an informal understanding tantamount j to a currency truce, as desired by President Roosevelt, without de facto (temporary stabilization. Seeks to Allay Alarm MacDonald’s chief purpose in this statement seemed to oe to allay apprehensions throughout the world that a breakdown of the currency stabilization efforts heralded a currency war. The Americans also succeeded in winning general support to thenpolicy of “price raising before stabilization.” The smaller countries, however, now are hopeful that de facto stabilization yet will come as a climax to the achievements at the economic parley. A direct move to co-ordinate the United States and British ideas on concrete measures to achieve a general price rise was made during a conference between Hull and MacDonald. •DON JUAN’ ROBS GIRL Affectionate Thief Smiles, Walks Off With $1.55. A neatly dressed, courteous and somewhat affectionate thief strolled j into the Butler university library! office Friday afternoon. Miss Fanny Bennett. 16 North Fulton street, reported to police .she j was out of the office a few minutes I and returned to find the thief rifl- j ing her purse. “What are you doing?” she de- i manded as the thief removed $1.55 | to his pocket. “I'm taking the money, he replied smilingly. He patted her affection- \ ately on the arm. walked out and drove away in a coupe with a New York license plate BiSHOP RAILS AT WETS Church Must be Indignant on MoraJ Issues, Asserts Blake. By I nil id l’ri ss LAFAYETTE. Ind., June 24. Church workers must be indignant, not neutral, on moral questions. Bishop Edgar Blake of Detroit told attendants at the Northwestern Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference at Battle Ground. In a denunciation of the Democratic party for its wet stand, Bishop Blake said that tax reductions resulting from repeal would benefit less than 2 per cent of the people. Today’s session will be given over to business of 'the conference and new ministers will be ordained Sunday. Times Index Page, i Book-A-Day 9 Broun Column 4 Church Notes 3 Classified 7,8 Comics 9 Conservation 10 Crossword Puzzle 7 Dietz on Science 3 Editorial 4 Financial 7 Hickman Theater Review 2 Industrial Page 10 Obituaries 3 Serial Story 9 Oports fi Talburt Cartoon 4 Woman's Page 5,

The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 38

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It was a dramatic moment in the kidnaping trial at Barnstable, Mass., Thursday, when 10-year-old Peggy McMath, from the witness stand as pictured here, pointed to Cyril Buck as one of the men in the automobile in which she was reunited with her father after having been held prisoner for three days. Cyril and his brother Kenneth are charged with the kidnaping.

44 Chlorine Gas Victims Must Wait 48 Hours to Learn Extent of Injury Men, Women and Children Stricken by Fumes Are Given Treatment; Warehouse Employes Most Seriously Affected When Tank Blows Open. Stricken by a haze of chlorine gas that spread over a wide east side area Thursday, forty-four persons were recovering today from various stages of lung congestion. Forty-eight hours will be required to tell how seriously they have been affected. The gas spewed forth from a 150-pound tank that was being removed from the Tripp warehouse No. 2 at 1000 East, New York street, when heat caused the gas to expand and blew off the cap.

CHARITY FAKES TO BE PROBED City Group Takes Steps to Halt Harvest by Fraud. First step in halting the city’s annual loss of more than SIOO,OOO through contributions to questionable charitable groups has been taken by a. committee working with the Better Business bureau. The committee of prominent business men, announced several weeks ago by T. M. Overley, bureau manager. is mailing to 136 charitable organizations in the city questionnaires, asking information on the organizations’ setup, solicitation campaigns, and percentage of funds actually given to charity. This information, when received by the committee, will be placed in the bureau files, where it will be available to persons desiring to assure themselves their contributions will not lodge in some promoter's pocket. The committee is composed of John Burke, Sears. Roebuck & Cos., committee chairmans. H. C. Atkins of E. C. Atkins & Cos.; Ralph L, Colby, Franklin Life Insurance Company; H. L. Ditnmer. Polar Ice and Fuel Company; Samuel R. Marrell, Acme-Evans Company; Clifford L, Harrod. Indianapolis Power and Light Companv president; Henry Holt, Thomson & McKinnon; Police Chief Mike Morrissey, George S. Olive, accountant; Paul Q. Richey, Russel M. Seeds Company; E. C. Ropke.v, city council president: Evans Woollen Jr., city controller; Edward Kahn, Colonial Furniture Company, and Overley. DRY SLEUTH IS SLAIN Agent Is Mowed Down by Broadside in Gun Battle. &U t nitvii Pres# OKSALOOSA. la., June 24. A state-wide search was instituted today for Claude Rideout, Creston. la.. in connection with the slaying of Harry H. Elliott, federal prohibition agent, in a gun battle here Thursday night. Elliott was shot down when he and A. A. Murphy, Spencer. la., agent, attempted to stop a car registered in Mrs. Rideout's name. Murphy received five bullet wounds, but probably will recover. The agents were pursuing the car, when it stopped suddenly. The prohibition men were mowed down by a fusillade of revolver shots. PROBE HOOSIER’S DEATH Drowning of Anderson Man at World’s Fair Leads to Quiz. By I nited Press CHICAGO, June 24.—An explanation of the drowning of James J. Fisher, £B. Anderson, was sought by authorities here today. Fisher, who came here to visit his brother-in-law, R. A. Wilcox, was found in the lagoon at the World's fair. A few minutes before, witnesses said. Fisher had been visiting the streets of Paris. Medical assistance, failed to revive him.

Showers ,and thunderstorms probable tonight or Sunday; little change in temperature.

, Most seriously gassed were George i Wendell, 131 West McCarty street, warehouse employe, who was transI ferring the tank to a truck, and j Lawrence Downing, 564 Highland avenue, warehouse foreman. 1 The tank had developed a slight I leak the previous day and its rej moval to the gravel pit at Tenth street and Indiana avenue had been ; ordered by city health board offi--1 cials. Breeze Spreads Gas Asa light breeze spread the gas over an area of several blocks, men, ' women, and children were felled on | the streets and in their homes. All available police squads were mobilized by Captain Otto Pettit I and concentrated in the stricken I neighborhood. All available am- ! bulances were pressed into service and Pettit called on state police ana ; National Guard troops for aid. Several of the latter and Sergeant ; Frank Owen, of the police accident : prevention bureau, equipped with | gas masks, finished the interrupted I task of removing the half emptied I tank to the gravel pit. Owen was ! stricken on the way when his mask i slipped and was treated at city hos- ! pital. Ambulances Are Busy 1 Meanwhile, ambulances and police cars kept up a steady stream to and frem city hospital, taking the injured in lor treatment. Police ! threw a cordon about the area, blockading streets, but crowds of curious jammed the danger zone and handicapped rescue work. The gas cloud, dissipated by the breeze, moved west toward the populous downtown center, with an advance guard of police ahead of it, evacuating houses in its path. So blighting was the gas that flowers and shrubbery in the stricken area were turned black Police ordered all food destroyed in several lunchrooms in the neighborhood, fearing it may have bej come impregnated with the fumes. • When the tank finally was dumped in the water-filled gravel pit. a number of fish were killed immediately. 48 Hours to Tell Story Hans Aamot. Indianapolis Varnish Company chemist, said some of the i injured may be gassed seriously. One part chlorine to 100 parts of air is deadly, according to Aamot, and one part chlorine to 10.000 parts of air causes impairment of the lungs. Doctors say forty-eight hours will be required to determine how seriously several of the victims are injured. Chlorine, one of the first i weapon gasses used in the World ; war, requires that long to make it- ' self fully felt, they say. ; The gas was the property of the Mathieson Alkali Company and was used for purification of swimming ■pool water. DRYS TO OWN FUNERAL 150 Seek Tickets for Indiana Repeal Convention Monday. Members of dry organizations are anxious to be in at the death of the eighteenth amendment at the Indiana repeal convention to be held next Monday. Dick Heller, secretary to Lieutenant Governor M. Clifford Townsend, who will open the convention, said Friday he has received requests from 150 members of dry groups for tickets of adrpission to the conven- ; tion.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1933

HITLER PUSHES NATION-WIDE DRIVEON FOES Socialist Leader Arrested, Dissolution of Catholic Groups Ordered. NEW LAWS ADOPTED Nazis Force Newspapers to Tell of Mysterious 'Air Raid’ on Berlin. BY ERIC KEYSER United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN. June 24.—Launching the final drive to make Germany a oneparty state, Adolf Hitler armed his government today with new and drastic powers. Eight new laws were adopted at a midnight cabinet session. One amended the constitution so that a member of the reichstag may be prosecuted without the reichstag’s consent. A few hours before the decrees were ordered, Paul Loebe, Socialist leader and former president of the reichstag, was taken into custody. Other Orders Issued The other decrees provided: Merger of scout organizations with the Hitler youth movement. Dissolution of the Wurttemberg Catholic Swabian guard. Dissolution of Catholic evangelical workers’ clubs as enemies of the state. Another law envisaged a network of motor roads on a scale more extensive than anywhere else in the world. The government displayed excitement over an airplane “invasion.” An official report of a mysterious squadron of “foreign” airplanes which appeared over Berlin and dropped leaflets attacking the government was given newspapermen. The planes were said to be of a type unknown in Germany. As Germany officially has no airplanes, several privately owned sports planes, the official report said, ascended from Templehof airdrome in pursuit, but the “foreign” planes, of superior speed, outdistanced them. Shows Nation’s Weakness Official quarters declared that the “air raid” emphasized Germany’s helplessness against attack. One official said: “This time it was leafflets. Next time it will be gas bombs. Newspapers were ordered to publish stories of the “attack” on thur first pages. (London newspapers hinted today that the story of the arplanes was fabricated to call attention to Gciman's lack of aerial defense. It was said to be significant that nobody except the authorities saw the planes, that no copies of the leaflets were obtainable, and that police refused to answer questions). From Prague, Czechos Lovakia, where they have taken refuge. Socialist leaders, headed by Otto Weis, in a statement to newspapers, said they would press their fight against the Nazi government on a new basus as the result of dissolution of their party. A propaganda campaign along the frontier would be one feature, it was said. Fight Against Bolshevism “We are determined to prevent Bolshevism after the collapse of the Hitler regime,” said the statement, “because Bolshevism would be fatal to Europe.” To thks statement, Alfred Rosenberg, head of the Nazi foreign affairs bureau, responded: “Only a combination of several powers would be strong enough to overthrow the Hitler regime. However. an overthrow would mean chaos and Bolshevism in central Europe. Germany does not intend to interfere in the internal affairs of any state.” He mentioned explicitly the Baltic states and Russia. OUSTED STATE COP HIRED BY GOVERNOR Fired by Feeney, Sergeant Is Given Forestry Post. Pleas Greenlee, Governor Paul V. McNutt's secretary in charge of personnel, “went to bat” for Dean Manuel, Jasonville, who was fired from a state police sergeancy last week, and now Manuel has another administration job. Manuel was discharged from the force by A1 Feeney, safety department chief, on charges of disorderlyconduct brought by a patrolman. In announcing the dismissal. Feeney said it was “for the good of the service.” Later the Governor said he believed that Manuel had been "framed.” Greenlee then sent Manuel a letter appointing him in charge of reforestation Camp 1. at Spring Mill state park. In explaining the appointment. Greenlee said that “he will be paid by the federal government.” Two Hurt in Crash William oberting, 30. of 3540 North Meridian street, and his wife Louise, were hurt slightly Friday when their car collided with a taxi driven by Thomas Keeler. 923 English avenue, near Pine and Bates streets. Beer Explodes: Sight Pierced A bottle of home brew, shifted Friday by Samuel Toliver, Negro. 38, of 1721 Alvorri street, exploded and at city hosiptal doctors say Toliver will probably the sight of one eye pierced by flying glass.

WOMAN SAVED AFTER 33 HOURS OF HORROR IN LAKE; 3 OTHERS SLIP OFF PLANE WRECKAGE, DIE

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Agreement between railroads and railway labor suspending their wage reduction controversy until June 30, 1934, was the first major accomplishment announced by Joseph B. Eastman (aTjove) federal railroad co-ordinator, after industrial recovery machinery was set in motion. Eastman is pictured after the conference that produced the truce.

HEAT TO REIGN OVERWEEK-END Showers Are Forecast, but Little Relief Is Seen for City. Although showers and thunderstorms are predicted today or Sunday, Indianapolis faces the prospect of a torrid week-end. as there probably will be little change in temperature, according to J. H. Armington, United States -weather bureau meteorologist. The mercury started out early today with the apparent intention of eclipsing Friday’s marks, as it stood at 72 at 6 a. m. in contrast to a 66mark Friday. It was two points ahead of Friday with a mark of 84 at 9 a. m. Maximum temperature Friday was attained at 3:40 p. m., when the mercury reached a mark of 92.4. The lowest was at 6 a. m. Mean temperature Friday was 79 degrees, six above normal. Hits Police Car; Nabbed Charles Linn, 55, of 858 Nortn Gladstone avenue, was arrested on a drunken driver charge Friday after the automobile he was driving grazed a fender of a police car driven by patrolman Robert J. Beals at Sixteenth street and Senate avenue.

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LATONIA RACE TRACK, COVINGTON, Ky., June 24.—Dropped from the Kentucky Derby to a S6OO allowance race—that's Fair Rochester and a pip for the sure shot hoys. He couldn’t be much price, but a winnah is a winnah and he certainly looks like as near a sure shot as I have seen in some time. The second race looks mighty tough with Masked Prince holding a slight edge over the Crouse and Combs entry who will be in there trying.

The big race of the day, the Clipsetta stakes for 2-year-old fillies, will go to Clyde Van Dusen's Dixianna stable pair. Constant Wife and Far Star. Wise Daughter and Miss Patience will be the public choice, but I can't figure that Clyde will send these two babies short of a set of the wellknown brackets. The C. V. Whitney staoles figure to cop a pair of races, the sixth with Contraband and the seventh with Skirl. Kentucky is where this outfit truly operates and I know both of these hides are in good condition. The nightcap figures to be for Prince Farthing with Locust Moss and Pangloss furnishing most of the contention. Fanfern and Walter D will have to fight it out for the first heat and Our Fancy looks like the winner of the fourth. Mr. Khayyam in the big event at Aqueduct looks like the winner at a mile and a half. The young fellow never was better and should carry the top weight to victory. Today’s Selections At Laionia—1. Fanfern, Walter D„ Easter Parade. 2. Masked Prince. Crouse and Combs entry, King Cicero.

SUSPECT HELD IN ‘BENEFACTOR SLAYING’ CASE Young Man Confesses, Say Police: Caught as He Works in Hay Field. Arrested in a hayfield near Royalton, Ind., Friday, by Indianapolis detectives, Lloyd R. Harmon, 22, is in Marion county jail today, charged with the murder of George Hughes of Lafayette. In an alleged confession to police, Harmon is said to have admitted that he is the hitchhiker who attempted to hold up Hughes on state Road 52, after Hughes had offered him a lift to Lebanon. Hughes resisted and was injured fatally when the car crashed into a utility pole. Harmon was identified by Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes, the widow, as the man who assaulted her husband. He was bound over to the Marion county grand jury on a charge of murder. Served Prison Term In his purported confession, Harmon is said to have told detectives that he hid in Indianapolis after the crash and only recently went to the farm of a relative, Walter Sanders, at Royalton, where he had been working. Harmon, captured by Detectives John White and Charles Bauer, admitted to an officer from the Indiana state reformatory that he had served a sentence at the institution. He was convicted of a robbery in Lebanon and served part of a sentence. He also served part of a sentence at the federal reformatory at Chillicothe, O. Says He Is Sorry In his alleged confession, Harmon said he obtained a gun from a man he met in University park here. He joined Hughes and his family as they left a downtown theater, Saturday night. Near the edge of the city, he is alleged to have told police, he attempted the stickup. Hughes resisted and in the struggle the car crashed against the pole. Hughes died in a hospital a few hours after the crash. The other passengers were unhurt. When identified by Mrs. Hughes as her husband’s assailant, Harmon is reported to have said: “I’m sorry I did this.” RATE REDUCTION CASE TO BE HEARD JULY 17 Public Service Cos. Electric Fee Slice Is Pending. After listening to Sherman Minton, public counselor, explain his case, public service commissioners set July 17 for the Indiana Public Service Company to show cause why its rates should not be reduced. Minton petitioned the commission for reduced rates on electric service to all consumers of the company in the entire “south system.” In addition to securing possible reduction, the case is the first which gives the commission an opportunity to abrogate the Martinsville decision upholding the local unit for rate-making. HOURLY’ TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 72 8 a. m 82 7 a. m 75 9 a. m 84

3. Contraband, Ammihian. Flag Flying. 4. Our Fancy, Chimney Sw'eep, Billy Jones. 5. Fair Rochester, Sweep Rush, Navanod. 6. Dixianna Entry, Miss Patience. Wise Daughter. 7. Skirl, Black Nose. Oh Dave. 8. Prince Farthing, High Diver. Locust Moss. Best—Fair Rochester. Track—Fast. At Aqueduct—1. Herowin, National Anthem, R. Pinchot. 2. No selections. 3. Sation. Microphone, Flagstone. 4. Mr. Khayyam, War Glory, Jovius 5. Apprentice. De Valera Evening. 6. Ward In Chancery, Integrity, Kneehigh. Best—Mr. Khayyam. Track—Fast. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a.m.: South-southeast wind, 10 miles an hour; temperature, 82; barometric pressure, 29.91 at sea level; general conditions, scattered cloudus: ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 8 miles.

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Raft Improvised After Aircraft Plunges Into Choppy Michigan Waters; Men Slide One by One to Doom. HUSBAND AND UNCLE ARE VICTIMS Mechanic First to Succumb; Ferry Boat Sights Wife Clinging to Frail Support and Rescues Her. By United Press FRANKFORT, Mich., June 24.—Thirty-three hours of harrowing terror ended this morning for Mrs. Margaret Rennie, 27, when she was brought to shore out of Lake Michigan, sole survivor of an air tragedy that cost the lives of her three companions, one of whom was her husband. In less than forty-eight hours’ time, Mrs. Rennie had started on a trip by plane to Milwaukee, crashed in the ship, clambered aboard an improvised raft, and witnessed the drowning of her companions, one by one, as they sank exhausted after clinging for hours to the gasoline tank of the wrecked craft.

BEER LAW HELD VOID; 26 FREED More Than Score Released on Charge of Selling Without License. By l nitrd Pre** INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., June 24. —On motion of the Lake county prosecutor's office, twenty-six defendants were free today from charges of selling 3.2 per cent beer without a state license. The affidavits were dismisssed by August Benedict, justice of the | peace. His decision was interpreted in effect as holding the beer •control law unconstitutional. Benedict’s action followed the hearing for Miss Helen Wegrzyn, one of the twenty-six defendants. She was represented by James A. Patterson, Gary attorney, who assisted his partner, Oscar B. Theil, in overthrowing the state beer control law in the Rosen case. Patterson said that twenty of the arrests were made at the direction of Ignatius Turon, justice of the peace, and president of the Indiana Licensed Beer Dealers, Chauffeurs, Helpers and Handlers Protective Association, Inc. 200 TO GET JOBS AT NEW CITY PLANT Utility Products Corporation Leases Building. Employment for about 200 persons within the next week or ten days and possibly 500 within ninety days was promised today by anew manufacturing Arm, the Utility Products Corporation, just incorporated. A lease has been obtained by the firm on the two-story brick build- I ing at 26 to 28 South Senate avenue, through W. A. Brennan, Inc., j realtors. Remodeling of the building is being started at once, it was said. The firm is to manufacture a line of general utility products, such as cleansers, automobile, floor and furniture polishes, insecticides, j germicides and washing com- j pounds. Plants already are operated in Raleigh, N. C.,‘ and New York, and a plant is to be established in Omaha, Neb., it is re- J ported. Incorporators are William H. Smith, Raleigh, N. C., president; j Afton L. Herbst, Indianapolis at- j torney, vice-president and general sales counsel, and Robert W. Sutherland, Indianapolis, secretary and treasurer. REALTORS TO FORM ! PROPERTY DIVISION Protection of Small Home Owners, Goal. Formal organization of the new property owners’ division of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board is to be perfected at a meeting Tuesday at the Columbia Club, it was announced today by Lawrence G. Holmes, board secretary. Holmes was instructed last Tuesday, at a meeting attended by committees from the realty board and Indianapolis Home Builders’ Asso- i ciation, to draw plans for the organization. Aik effort will be made to obtain more than 5.000 individual property owners as members of the organization, which is intended to act to protect interests of the small property owners. The organization will strive to retain the $1.50 tax limitation law, work for equal assessments and against unwarranted tai- exemptions. i

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

Then, with all hope of rescue gone, she was sighted by; the lookout of Ann Arbor car ferry No. 7 and brought aboard the vessel. First word of the tragedy, which cost the lives of her husband, Charles Jr., 29; James Gillette, 28. his uncle, owner and pilot of the plane, and Peter Keller, 38. mechanic, was radioed here Friday night. The vessel proceeded to Kewaunee. Wis. A small group of relatives who rushed here from Traverse City, | awaited further news in the office , of Wabash radio corporation. Others stood on the dock awaiting the return of the ship from the Wisconsin port. Plane Crashes in Lake ! They were heartened when I Elliott Jacobson, operator, told them j that the ship’s physician radioed I that Mrs. Rennie had slept several ; hours. Gillette's plane, bound for Milwaukee on a business trip Thursday morning, ran into dense clouds as it flew over this village. A few minutes later, it crashed into Lake Michigan, about ten miles off shore. The four survivors swam to a piece of floating wreckage, the gasoline tank of the plane. Placing a section of the broken wings on top, they pushed Mrs. Rennie to the too of it. The three men clung to the edges of the improvised raft, as it tossed about in the choppy waters of the lake. The wreckage would support only Mrs. Rennie. Further details were radioed from the vessel after Mrs. Rennie, mother of three children, had received medical aid. Mechanic Gives Up The three men held tenaciously to the raft all day, she reported. Toward night, Keller showed signs of weakening. At midnight he relaxed his hold upon the raft and sank. The others, their strength spent* were unable to aid him. Words of encouragement from his wife gave Rennie new strength. But finally, Friday morning, while his wife looked on, Rennie's hands dropped from their slender support and he sank. Hysterical, and near complete exhaustion, Mrs. Rennie was taken to Kewaunee for further treatment. She decided to return to her Traverse City home and stayed aboard the ferry on its return trip. Coast guard vessels searching this vicinity all night reported today no trace of the wrecked plane or its victims. JIM TULLY WILL WED Author Files Notice of Intention to Marry Myrtle Zwetow. By United Press VENTURA, Cal., June 24.—A notice of intention to wed was filed here Friday by Jim Tully, famed hobo author, and Myrtle Zwetow. Tully gave his full name as James Alexander Tully, his age as 42 and his birthplace as Ohio. The bride-to-be said the was 35 and her home as Culver City.

How the Market Opened

BY ELMER C. WALZER, InitwJ Press Financial Editor NEW YORK, June 24. Stocks, bonds and cotton were steady at the opening on their respective markets today, while the American dollar also moved in a narrow range around the previous close. Trading in the share market was moderately active although there was an absence of large blocks. Price changes were under a point with about as many gains as losses. Leading issues made small gains for the most part. United States Steel firmed up to 56 T s . up %; Du Pont 77, up %; Consolidated Gas 58%, up %; Pennsylvania Railroad 26%. up %; Johns-Manville 52%, u# %; Case 85%, upp %; Standard Oil of California 52> 2 , up and United Aircraft 32*•*, up %. Among the losers were Allied Chemical. Westinghouse Electric, Auburn Auto, Union Pacific, Western Union, Montgomery Ward. Cel. anese. Union Carbide. Standard Brands and Western Union.