Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1933 — Page 13

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ISLAND PRISON TERMS FACE 5 AMERICANS, Mallorca Military Judge Says Quintet Will Be Given Sentences. HELD IN JAIL 43 DAYS Efforts of U. S. Authorities Fruitless: Clash With Civil Guard. BV lAN FRASER I nltrd Prr '•tiff < orrf.pnnd.nl PALMA. Mallorca. July 20—The five Americans including one woman, whose imprisonment here for forty-three days created a serious problem for Spanish and American diplomats, will be sentenced to short prison terms when they face trial on charges of assaulting a civil guard, according to a decision disclosed today In view of the fact that the Americans already have been in the municipal jail since June 4. it was believed possible that they already would have served their probable terms and therefore might be released. but this was not known definitely. j The prisoners are Clinton B I/ockwood of Springfield. Mass . Mrs lock wood, who has been confined in a cell near that of a demented woman; Rutherford Fullerton. Columbus. O Roderick E Mead. New York, and Edmund W. Blodgett, Stamford. Conn. Arrested After Quarrel They were arrested after an altercation with a civil guard and all efforts of American consular and diplomatic officials to speed action on thair case were unsuccessful until this week. Francisco Vidal, military judge and commandant of the Mallorcan infantry, has been seleeted to preside at their trial He told the United Press today that the prisoners will be sentenced to short terms The case comes under the milit- - ary. because a civil guard was involved. United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers at Madrid, had interceded again this week with Premier and War Minister Manuel Azana, w ho has jurisdiction, to speed action on the case Vidal said the trial of the five Americans would be m Palma He was unwilling to discuss details of t:ie case, because he himself would he liable to imprisonment if he did. Vidal said. "The prisoners probably will be released from Palma jail soon, pending completion of preparations for the trial.' he said Date of Trial Not Fixed Although the prisoners probably will be released from jail soon, the date for the trial has not yet been

fixed. ' No date has boon sot because the rase of the prisoners is not yet completed.'' Vidal said in explanation He discounted the importance of the case and. regarding advices that United States Consul General Claude Dawson had been ordered here from Barcelona, he said: ' The case is not sufficiently important for that." Theodor Pratt, a New York writer, also is expected to face trial in connection with articles he wrote regarding Mallorca, and which the natives considered insulting. Mrs. R B Lea man and Thomas B Leaman. publisher and editor of the Palma Post, an English language newspaper, also are under fire Tlte American Chamber of Commerce at Barcelona announced that statements published in the Fast reflected unw arrant erilv on the United States consular service. The Mallorca government expressed the opinion that the Teaman case should be brought before the Palma court If the court does not act. the governor is ready to take up the case The Teamans previously were ordered to leave the Post offices because of articles published in the paper.

AIR STUNTS PLANNED Flying Show Will Be Held Sunday At Capitol Tort. Stunt flying show will bo hold Sunday at the Capitol airport, featuring Pat Hathaway of Hollywood. Cal. who will make a straitjacket escape while suspended from a plane The show will open at 1 in the afternoon with a glider flight by R B McClain. Orin Welch will perform acrobatic stunts and spot landings will be made by Indianapolis Aero Club members. Another acrobatic flier will be Harry Boggs. A dead stick landing contest will be a part of the show. ROB TWO MOTORISTS Auto Bandits Get Total of S4O in Two Holdups. Two motorists were robbed Wednesday night by automobile bandits who obtained a total of S4O William HofTer. Brownsburg. told police he was forced to the side of State Road 34 near Clermont by two men in a’jgar who approached him from the rear. They forced him into their car, drove him about four miles away, and robbed him of $25 He walked back and found his car unmolested. Kennetii Sett. 1060 West Thirtysecond street, was robbed of sls bv the same men. police believe Sett said he was forced to the curb on West Tenth street in Speedway City Former Official's Wife Suicide Rv I mini I'r, • SHOALS. Ind.. July 20.—Mrs Ada Marshall. 62. wife of Seymour Marshall, former Martin county treasurer, committed suicide by drowning ui a cistern at their home near here. '

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Although she and Elliott Roosevelt profess to he -, just friends.” rumors persist that Miss Ruth Googms iabovei of Ft Worth. Tex . soon will marry the President s son. The rumors gained new credence when Roosevelt flew to Chicago to meet Miss Googins. after his divorce from Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt in Nevada. Both Miss Googins and Roosevelt have been annoyed by prying crowds.

PRIEST'S CAR IS USED IN HOLDUP Rockville Bank Bandits Flee, Abandon Auto Twelve Miles From Town. Two bandits who used the automobile of an Indianapolis priest in a gang holdup Wednesday are being hunted throughout Indiana today. Fleeing after obtaining $l4O in a robbery of the Rockville National bank at Rockville, Parke county seat, the bandits abandoned the automobile of the Rev. George E. Dunn of Catholic diocesan headquarters, 1347 North Meridian street. One shot was fired at the bandits while they were in the bank by D. L. Crays. son of A C. Cravs, bank president, but the buliet missed. Driving out of Rockville in the priest's car. the bandits scattered large roofing nails along the road in the hope of puncturing tires of pursuing automobilfs. William Moore, Parke county sheriff, and state police pursued the robbers to a point twelve miles north of Rockville, where the men left the Dunn automobile and continued their flight in another car w’hich had been hidden. Tools Worth $l5O Stolen Carpenter tools and garden implements valued at Sl5O were stolen from the garage at home of Edward H Tuck. 3515 North Capitol avenue, it was reported to police early todav.

Veteran Singer of Caruso Days Sees Opera Revival

Amato Leaves Retirement to Be Acclaimed by Masses. NEW YORK. July 20.—Favorite of the Met in Caruso days. Pasqunle Amato has emerged from retirement to a larger audience—the Hippodrome. And from the mantle in his suite at the Ansonia the death mask of Caruso looks down and smiles at the renaissance. "Ah. ves." laughs Amato, ‘‘he would have liked it. too. Singing to 25-ccnt houses? I tell you it is appreciation we sing to. It is in our contract, is it not. what we receive? The money, it is nothing. It is democratic house. It is people who love music. "It is more fun than in the old Metropolitan days. We get all kinds. I am amazed. How you call it? Stuffed shirts and overalls. I see many society people Yes. I recognize them. For the first time they see whole opera, the first and last acts. Must be record. They stay from curtain rise to fall." It has a sociological import of tremendous value and significance.! this success of the Hippodrome opera, according to Amato, who spoke his mind and heart in his studio today. "For years they say it could not be done —opera for the masses. I tell you what happen in Philadelphia I am engaged to sing Pagliacci and Carmen. Only today I have letter—'please. Amato, we have so demand for tickets it necessary to sing three, maybe four, opera Please adjust your plans according.' "That is success. Nein? It is like here. Tuesday night, fourth of July; they say no give opera. We give opera. Two thousand people

‘Pinch Us, Too, for Publicity,’ Plead Near-Nude Midway Dancers

BY SAM KNOTT t'rlled Prm Staff Corrri*oti<lMit CHICAGO. July 20—The rest of the girls who dance more or less nude at a Centur" of Progress Exposition pouted today because Sally Rand has been getting all the attention. "Why don't they arrest me. too ” queried Miss Jean, a dancer at the Folies Berger* "I think Sally’s got a pull.” exclaimed Rosita, who dances in Old Mexico." Even Miss America" joined in the potest.

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PRIVACY PLEA VOICED BY SON OF PRESIDENT Elliott Roosevelt Driven to Distraction by Prying Throng. GIRL ALSO IS ANNOYED Crowds Flock to Hotel and Embarrass Couple by Queries. BY PAUL H. KARNES l mtril Prrsa Staff lorreaoondent CHICAGO, July 20.—1n a plaintive pica, Elliott Roosevelt, tali, handsome second son of the President, begged for privacy today, that he might pursue his personal life without a horde of citizens at his heels.

Irritated and embarrassed by the persistent reports that he planned an early marriage to Miss Ruth Googins. Ft Worth society belle, Elliott reiterated his denials, but admitted a deep admiration for the slim southern girl. "Am I to be prevented from enjoying the company of worthy friends because of a gossiping public?” he asked. "Today I wanted Miss Googins to accompany me to the fair, but she left her hotel suite and couldn’t make her way back through the throng crowded about the entrances. I don't know where to reach her now. "At other times she remains indoors with her mother rather than risk embarrassment at the hands of amateur photographers, who ask her to pose." Pleads for Chance Roosevelt explained that he may find it necesssary to cut short his Chicago visit to obtain the privacy he desires and to prevent further embarrassm-nt to Miss Googins. "I'm called the fortunate son of a President,” he said, "but to have an illustrious father often is a hardship when one wants to pursue his private life without prying eyes and gossiping tongues. It even hurts in business life. "I'm out on my own. but many business prospects have been ruined because of the quick insinuations that those doing business with me hoped for presidential favors frem father. "I thought the public might remember that soon after father was elected I rejected an advertising job with a fat salary because I wanted to make my own way. But even now they seq something sinister in every move I make." Begs for Seclusion Young Roosevelt breathed sincerity as he shook his blond h’ad in denial of the rumored marriage. His blue eyes beseechingly asked for the seclusion that will permit pursuit of his own desires unhampered. "Please," he begged the crowd that obtrusively surged into his hotel suite, "leave me alone. Let me go to the fair and enjoy the freedom I'm entitled to. And if I want Miss Googins' company, please don't embarrass her by asking when she's going to marry me. Even if I wanted to. I haven't had a chance to ask her. But if that should ever com? about. I'll tell the world in plenty of time."

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Amato as Scarpia turn away. Now I am singing four times a week. I sing Boheme. Samson et Delilah. Gioconda, Pagliacci. Unheard of in the old days, four time week."

"I give a good show, even if T do say so myself, every five minutes." declared the girl who in real life is Monna Lvtton. Why doesnt somebody try to close up our show thp same as they did Sally Rand's?" she protested. The protests arose because of a court hearing Tuesday at which a woman attorney asked that several shows In the Streets of Paris concession be closed because she charged, they were indecent." The attorney asked especially that the beaut'ful and blond Miss

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1933

CHEMIST_ SOLVES SAPPHIRE SECRET Synthetic J excels Note Are Made in Laboratory

.. .. Natural sapphires. Above, variously cut synthetic jewels. S ,' ” t Wiiii.m who recent ir wrote a min ed stone, and since his time 1 * r toc Times a series of articles on t _ _ , i? La tie of medicine against the ' no one ever has learned how to > . t vstenotis forces of the world, begins d n t hp mb hotter I l I dav a series of similar stories in the _ ne Dellpr ' ■ J / tid of practical science This is the The diamond, excepting in / ■ om a°Lommo rr n a hHe°Do*de h r n * * we,s almost microscopic synthetic bits, B - Jftt * 7 t \ still defies the chemist. jjrc : k. wjp *aErg BY W ILLIAM ENGLE * at J , Time* special Writer l\/f' VERNEUIL, though, fared 3N the black velvet cloth there better. He knew the pro- j • ! trickled a stream of blue fessor of poisoning was meeting V --fT * • ( , *\ nd scarlet fire—synthetic sapph- unconquerable obstacles; he knew fX j . > j. - * 1 \ * •es and rubies—and the old ones. shat when the first man-made J jr / ' aithful to the ancient folly of n *by was produc’d by M. AA. • i j 4"* tie philosopher's stone, were vin- Gaudin in 1837 it was so little A j | , icated today in a New York s hat the naked eye could not see W f V , ij T I * ' w wel maker's office it- He knew the next best ones. . Ti l The laboratory stones that lav by E . Erpmy and C. Fell in . 1 here were identical in structure W, were mfimtesima l . too. But T % 1 1 nd chemistry with mined stones. hesioked his fires. Wh/C|| | W; : 'hev were distinguished from al- Eor tPn vpars he K stokpd ’ hpm \ iHH lost priceless bits of earth only ecause the man-made ones were T ANARUS„ . , ca f rP p u lore nearly perfect than any , In^ pad ' made lumps of > arth-madc ones have been. n f stpnpd no more * ** It was the incurably curious lh an < chunks of concre e. Q oxicologist, Henri Mo.ssan. pro- ,^ p S Vi i \ f pssor of poisoning in the Paris S h ' h , ? • W V CT* f ehool of Pharmacy, who lit. the ; tia lf a u . dpcldpd pnllst \ \ * iboratory fires that made this hp T "nHA a u,n r TH S Sn 1 ° n \\V_ ‘ linute possible—he and the re- J* A ' Hpller 'J hpn ■Mirceful Parisian dreamer, Aug- ha ! g f of . Ihp . ho .^ p s European

.. .. Natural sapphires. Above, variously rut synthetic jewels.

William Engle who recentlv wrote for Tne Times a series of articles on th? hatle of medicine against the mvstenou* forces of the world begins todav a series of similar stories in the field of practical science This is the storv of :he making of flashing Jewels from a common white oowder. BY WILLIAM ENGLE Time* Special Writer ON the black velvet cloth there trickled a stream of blue and scarlet fire—synthetic sapphires and rubies—and the old ones, faithful to the ancient folly of the philosopher's stone, were vindicated today in a New York jewel maker's office. The laboratory stones that lay there were identical in structure and chemistry with mined stones. They were distinguished from almost priceless bits of earth only because the man-made ones were more nearly perfect than any earth-made ones have been. It was the incurably curious toxicologist, Henri Moissan, prolessor of poisoning in the Paris School of Pharmacy, who lit the laboratory fires that made this minute possible—he and the resourceful Parisian dreamer, August Verneuil. "Never mind Kimberly and Golconda," said Professor Moissan. "I'll make your diamonds—out of graphite —out of the lead, for example. from your pencils." "Forget the mines of Ceylon." said M. Verneuil. I will make your sapphires and rubies—out of oxide of alumina —out of mud." They had. these perverse ones perceived, only to reduce to crystals two common substances and they then would have such precious stones as make legends; so they went, for the immemorial secret of how to transmute something base into something wondrous. n n WHILE the metallurgists of old had a fire no hotter than they could stoke by blowing charcoal with a bellows, these two in this generation, by putting two carbon rods together, as in the electric arc light, could get up to 7.000 degrees Fahrenheit. The electric furnace enabled them to break apart materials as a builder takes apart an old house. With the new means of disintegrating matter in their hands i but with the mystery of putting it together again in a different fashion ahead of themi the indefatigable Frenchmen turned to their laboratories.

The professor of poisoning knew that to get crystals one dissolves a substance and lets the solvent evaporate. He dissolved carbon by melting iron around it. But when he broke the iron away he found no diamonds. He found only the same coarse carbon. Enormous pressure, then, he thought, might work the sorcery. So his electric furnace roared. His experiments ran from hundreds to thousands. The years whitened his hair and bent his shoulders. He. trying to make diamonds, made no diamonds. Finally he took pure corbon. which he made by burning sugar, and mixing it with iron. H* put it into his electric furnace and pushed the heat to 4 000 degrees. The iron melted like butter in a gas flame. It steamed like boiling water. The lime furnace itself began to nvdt. The fiery crucible shot sparks. The professor stood by. nan ABRUPTLY, he lifted the molten mass and plunged it into cold water. The outer surface of the iron, of course, cooled first and made a tightening shell. The shell strangled the molten iron inside. It put upon the inside the pressure of encompassing mountains. The professor moved cautiously now treating it with intricate processes before trying to get at the carbon it encircled, and when finally he tore the crust away there, like a bit of the sun, lay a flake of crystallized carbon—a diamond—a real one. the counterpart in structure and chemistry of the kind a hundred Negroes might work for months to wrench from the blue ground of the Transvaal. But that stirring moment in 1894, so far as it concerned the production of synthetic diamonds for ornament, ied nowhere. For Professor Moissan's gem was exactly one-fiftieth of an inch across; it cost more to make than

Rai*d be ordered to stop giving fan dances. a a a JUDGE JOSEPH B. DAVID ** denied the petition, after declaring that the human body is a beautiful work of nature, that seeing the human body is "old stuff" and that anybody who pays real money to watch a nude dancer is a "boob." but that "the boob" must be catered to and that if they want to see nude dancers that is their business. Judge David also reiiarked that

, a mined stone, and since his time | no one ever has learned how to I do the job better. The diamond, excepting in almost microscopic synthetic bits j still defies the chemist. a u n M. VERNEUIL. though, fared better. He knew the professor of poisoning was meeting unconquerable obstacles; he knew that when the first man-made ruby was produced by M. A. A. Gaudin in 1837 it was so little that the naked eye could not see ! it. He knew the next best ones, made by E Fremy and C. Feil in 1877, were infinitesimal, too. But he stoked his fires. For ten years he stoked them. Trying to make sapphires and ru--1 bi?s, which chemically are the : rime. Instead, he made lumps of \ mineral that glistened no more than chunks of concrete. The gem house of Heller & Son heard of him. heard of his par- ; tial success, decided to enlist him. That was an odd conversation he and A. A. Heller, then in charge of the house's European I branches, had in 1909. They met at luncheon. The dealer said he wanted the chemist to try to make stones for commerce. "No," said Verneuil. "I am not interested. I could not do it." The dealer spoke of many francs. The chemist shrugged. ; For the commercial aspects of synthetic sapphires he cared nothing. But the lure of a perfectly equipped laboratory, many assistants. unlimited funds, freedom to ( work as he pleas’d, caught him. He would go to Heller, he conceded. on one occasion—there must b no patents on his findings. n n n THIS shall be for France," he orated, and the bargain was ! made that way. For twelve months after that ; the Heller laboratory was an in- ! fprno. Giant torches hissed. In- : tricate calculations piled up. Nearly a thousand experiments were made, checked, discarded. Mr. Heller, naturally, was cur- ! ious. He would inquire about prog- : ress. Little good it did him. "How's the sapphire?" Time and again Verneuil looked up from his work. "Nous esperons." They got noth- | ing more from him than that, j There was “hope." Then in the winter of 1910 he j came to the high place. Since then there have been changes only in the technique, improvements and modifications, in the making of sapphires and rubies out of one of the commonest of the earths substances—- ; oxide of alumina. It still remains a complex and delicate laboratory feat. But it

MEDICAL WHISKY PRICES ARE RAISED Bonded Product to Go Up $5 a Case Saturday. Inflation prices for prescription whisky were announced by some local druggists Wednesday following notice from a large distillery in Louisville. Ky.. that price of bonded whisky would rise from sl7 to 522 a case, effective Saturday. The distillery cited the victories of the repeal forces in Alabama and Arkansas today as one of the reasons for the advance. In the letter lit was stated that prescription whisky is being sold at the rate of 1.000.000 gallons a month. ! Druggists said that a pint of the cheaper brand of prescription whisky formerly retailed at $1.60 a pint will sell now for $2.75. RETAILERS FORM GROUP State Association to Study Costs, Fight Gross Income Tax Boost. Announcement was made today of the formation of the Associated Retailers of Indiana to study governmental costs and prevent any increase in the rates of the gross receipts tax. L. F. Shuttleworth. former president of the Indiana Coal Merchants Association, was made president. Headquarters will be opened here shortly It was announced.

• some people would want to put pants on a horse" and that he understood certain persons even were objecting to ancient figures on the county building Chicago newspapers today followed up the judge's philosophical remark with cleverly arranged pictures of horses wearing pants, of county building figures adorned with trousers, and of "September Mom" in a bathing suit. Throughout all these developments. the only name mentioned was that of Miss Rand, the beautiful blond who each night at

A handful of synthetic sapphires more nearly perfect than mined jewels

does turn out gems, it does produce precious stones that can be distinguished from the mined stones only by specialists, it does produce stones that are identifiable as synthetic only because they are more nearly perfect in structure than the stones that nature made. nun BECAUSE they lived in hope so long, waiting for Verneuil to get to his goal, they called the sapphires when they did emerge from his furnaces "hope stones." and now' it is the Heller Hope Cos. that makes them It puts jewels, which if nature made them would be almost invaluable, within the m’ans of average people. Charles M. Heller, chairman of the Heller Hope board, after the shimmering stream fell f-om his hands upon the black cloth today, told the secret of the sapphires' making, sapphires w'hich if they were mined would be almost priceless* sapphires that glimr.ier nowon Fifth avenue not beyond the command of the bus drivers. They make the humble (lenient, alumina, and by. an intricate process purify it. They mix into it a few grains of chromic oxide and they have a fine, white powder. They are ready to show the prilosopher’s stone found, ready to transmute a powder into a gem so indestructible that in the scale of hardness, as the scale measures the earth's materials, it is surpassed only by tfte diamond, the one being counted as 9. in hardness. the othqr as 10. A little at a time they blow the powder upon a tiny table and there it is caught in the intense heat of an oxyhvdrogen torch.

FOREIGN EXPERTS WILL INSPECT WATER PLANTS City's Sewage System Also to Be Studied by Roekefeller Group. Four expert engineers, representing Europe, the Far East and the ! United States, will inspect Indii anapolis sewage and water plants i today for the Rockefeller Foundation. The engineers. Dusan Zlokas of the school of public health. Zagreb. Yugoslavia: Ming Ting Young, assistant technical expert in sanitary engineering, national health administration, Nanking. China; Dr. Korokuro Hirose. assistant professor of sanitary engineering of the Tokio Imperial university, Tokio. Japan, and W. F Kittrell. assistant sanitary engineer of the Tennessee department of health, will have inspected twenty cities of twenty-two chasen when they finish here. Cincinnati and Louisville. Ky., only remam to be inspected for data to be used as a base of comparison of sanitary and water systems of various parts of the world. Congratulates Woman Official Mrs. Mary L. Garner, head of the women's and children's division of the state industrial board, today received from William Green, national president of the American Federation of Labor, a letter congratulati ing her on the appointment.

about 11 o'clock walks down a carpeted runway, then dances on a sunken floor with only two fa as as a costume. a a a *‘TTF unfair." complained Miss Lytton. whose show is just across the midway from the Streets of Paris, and . who says, gives "Just as a good a*Miqw” as Sally's. Dorothy Wahl, who appears in the Oriental Village show, a short way down the Midway, also joined in the protest.

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As it melts 1t must always be in the same part of the flame, so th’ support of the table must be moved down steadily as the fusing mass of burned pow dc —crustcoated sapphire—slowly r ses as a cone on the table's surface slowly rises as a marvelous stalagmite. a a a THROUGH special lenses that protect the eyes from the great heat, one may watch the Heller laboratory chemists make in a morning a sapphire whose counterpart nature would work on a thousand years. The rone grows and darkens It gets some times as big as one's little finger. No bigger. Part of it is a brown crust; the other part is a stone so clear that only a microscope can find the shadow of a blemish. It is by the imperfections that mined stones and made stones can be differentiated. In natural snpphires a strong microscope reveals tiny bubbles. They are always angular. In synthetic sapphires there are tiny bubbles, too. But they arc always round. Only the sapphires and rubies, among the precious stones, have been synthesized on a commercial scale, nnd these, the chemists hasten to point out, are by no means the same as the "reconstructed" sapphires of an older day. The "reconstructed" ones were first produced by a Genevan curate in 1885. He succeeded in fusing small bits of mined rubies into larger stones. But they were never clear. They always had an imperfect color. Sometimes they cracked up. —The Story of Cellophane.

SUICIDE ON GRAVE OF MOTHER FEARED Man on Way Here to End Life, Police Told. Deputy she-:fr were watching today for a man who announced he was on his wav to Indianapolis to commit suicide on his mother's grave. Morris Keelor, 22. Chicago, is thp would-be suicide, according to information sent here Tuesday by his sister. Telephoning a friend of the family in Indianapolis, the sister said Keelor had last a note in his room in Chicago, saying he was on his wav to Indianapolis to end his life. The Indianapolis friend informed officials of Washington Park cemetery. where Mrs Elizabeth Keelor. the mother, was buried in August 1928 Washington Park officials assigned a special guard to watch for Keelor. but he has not yet appeared

Banker Killed in Crash. /?/ f'nitrri prrun VINCENNES. Ind . July 20 James D. Toomey, 74. oil operator and banker of Robinson. 111., died 1 in a hospital here Wednesday of injuries suffered when his auto overturned on United States Road 50. near Big Bend. 111.

What *makes those reformers think I'm so respectable?" she asked "Is it because mv hair is so long it falls down around mv knees? If that's it. believe me. I ll get a bob tomorrow." Rosita, whose show is still farther down the Midway, also had an alibi. She contended that Jhe reason she hadn't been arrested was that by the time "the reformers" had visited Sally's and the other shows it was time to go home, so they never got (town to where she does her daneiitf.

BITTER BATTLE TO BE WAGED ON MINE CODE Dominating Operators Seek to Keep Policy of Open Shop. TWO PACTS ARE DRAWN Liberal Group of Coal Men Will Have Support of Union. BY LEO R. SACK Tim** Sprrtal Writer WASHINGTON. July 20 A bat-tle-royal over adoption of a code for the bituminous coal industry, with Hugh S Johnson, national recovery administrator, as referee is in prospect today. It will be. according to all indications. a continuation of the quarter century conflict within the coal industry over what shall constitute a policy of fair labor relationship. Fight on the side of the group of operators which has drafted a liberal code under the recovery law will be the United Mine Workers, which i visualizes the new statute as the ; vehicle on which coal miners will ride to civil and economic liberty. Opposing these operators and the miners union will be the dominating coal companies, most of the socalled big fellows," who arc preparing a code which for the most part will protect themselves against cut-throat competitive practices, but will continue many of the labor abuses which for years have prolonged strife between miners and employers. Retains Open Shop The code, which will represent an estimated 75 per cent of the total soft coal tonnage, is being completed today by committees representing not thorn and southern ojierators, and may be presented Friday. It contemplates a forty-hour week, company unions, and an open shop policy. For the most pari it will duplicate in spirit if not in actual text the labor sections proscribed in the code for the steel industry which has, heretofore, aroused the biiter opposition of Administrator Johnson's labor advisers and the American Federation of Labor. The rode submitted last week by the minority group Central Coal Associates representing 25 to 28 per cent of the industry, includes an enlightened labor policy which John L Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, said "heralds anew day in the coal industry." it provides for thirty-two and fortyhour work weeks, each for si* months Many Miners Enr died The code, which may reach Administrator Johnson Friday, will represent operators in Pennsylvania. Ohio. West Virginia. Virginia. Maryland. Tennessee, and eastern Kentucky. A supplemental rode will b presented each for Alabama and Kentucky. Adoption of the labor sections of Ihe steel code for the bituminous industry will be very offensive to organized miners andWill be fought bitterly." according to Philip Murray of Pittsburgh, vice-president of the mine workers. Murray said his union now has 137 000 members in Pennsylvania, which includes every eligible miner m the state." 30.000 in Ohio, and 115.000 in West Virginia. Fifteen hundred miner delegates representing 190.000 members of the mine workers in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. West Virginia, and Maryland will meet at Charleston, W Va , Sunday to protest against adoption of a code which does not include collective bargain.ng thiough a national organization and not company unions.

PROGRESS IN THRESHING Weather Past Week Generally Favorable to Crops in State. Threshing of winter wheat mads excellent progress for the week ending Tuesday, according to a report on crop conditions made publir today by the local United States weather bureau Weather conditions with only scattered rain and plenty of sunshine were favorable for farming throughout the state and wheat was generally good both as to yield and quality. Growth of corn varied considerably, being fair to very good in many northern and southern fields. East-central and west-central sections of thp stafp rpported slowest progress, with only .25 inches of rain in the past seven weeks. Oats in the north were reported poor, with many fields scarcely worth harvesting. Truck and minor crops were reported good in the moist areas and deteriorating in the dry sections.

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