Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1933 — Page 9

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GERMAN PRESS IS MUZZLED BY AUSTRIA CHIEF

Chancellor Dollfuss Exiles Alleged Nazi Agency From Vienna. IRATE AT RADIO ATTACK Over-Border Broadcasts Brand Disfranchise Decree Illegal. BY ROBERT BEST I mint Hrn> Mass Corrnpnnil.nl tC 'pvr ght 1933. hv Unlt.d l'r.sst VIENNA, Austria, Aug. 24. Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. embattled leader of the administrations struggle against the Nazis, j hurried back from his summer resi- ' dence near Gmundin today to take charge of the renewed fight against the menaces to his control of Austria. One of his first moves was to banish the German news agency. Telegrafen Union, from Austria. This move to muzzle the German press followed similar action against individual German correspondents recently, on charges they were proNazi and writing propaganda against the Dollfuss government. Brands Decree Illegal Dollfuss was irate at the renewed propaganda attacks by radio over the German border into Austria. continued Wednesday night in a bitter denunciation of his regime by Austrian Nazi speakers, now in exile in Bavaria. Ernst Habicht, leader of the outlawed Nazi party in Austria, the speaker branded as “absolutely ielegal” the recent Dollfuss decree depriving Austrian Nazis who fled abroad of their citizenship and confiscating the property of Austrians who aided Nazis outside Austria. Habicht boldly declared that the majority of the people in Austria opposed the Dollfuss government and announced that despite all the alleged coercive measures in Austria. The Nazis would continue their fight for “a free Germany and Austria- ’ indicating if the Nazis gained power, a union of Berlin and Vienna would follow Army Is Strengthened The tiny chancellor, boyish ill appearance and demeanor, has found the necessary added strength in the Austrian army, which has remained loyal, even partisan, to his cause, and in the police, who have obeyed orders of the authorities bv force of habit, if not pure loyalty. Supplementing these forces, the Chancellor abo has his auxiliary force, recruited from the crack Heimwehr (home guards) organization. brought into existence by Prince Ernest Rudiger Von Starhem oerg. a firm supporter of the little dictator Nation Shows Improvement Furthermore, the nation has shown improvement economically in recent months, causing public misery to wane and the people are hence less inclined to oppose the regime regarded as leading them back to jjrosperitv. The national budget more nearly is balanced than it has been in years, official statistics tend to show. Unemployment has not shown as decided a seasonal improvement as is usual In summer months, but this is attributed chiefly to the bad tourist season. However, government expenditures on unemployment relief have decreased, lightening the tax burden.

WINNERS CHOSEN IN FUNNY FACE CONTEST Cash and Theater Tickets Are Awarded by Apollo. Young and old in Indianapolis are I interested in amateur cartooning. | This was shown by the tremendous: interest in the Indianapolis TimesA polio theater Zasu Pitts-Slim Summerville contest. Laughing. smiling. frowning, neering. facial expressions were mployed by the artists, in their tempts to get new and unusual kcups for the two screen comedos, who are appearing at the Apollo this week in their latest picture. “Her First Mate." From the maze of entries, the fol- i lowing have been selected by the judges as the winners: First prize of $5 goes to Bob Wilson. 10® 1 East Washington street; second. $3. to Robert White. 240 Hendricks place; third. $2. to Mar- j garet Bundrend. 3936 Winthrop ave- j nue Besides the cash prizes, a pair of tickets to the Apollo theater have been awarded to each of the follow- i ing ten people: Mr- Marion Trabandt I*lß East Vermont street. Mias Bettv Ba\field. Lorraine hotel. Indianapolis. Marv Ellen Duncan, j 1216 North Temple avenue Miss Porothv Johnson. 612 North Pine street; Doro’hv j Shirlev. 626 North Rilev avenue. Walter Mvers Jr 9165 North Pennsylvania stree* Thomas Holder 1926 North New Jersey atreet. Caroline Bans. 26 North DeQuinov street Oeorge W Pointer. 59 South Mount street, and Helen Pennak. 1309 North Jefferson avenue The prizes and the tickets will be mailed at once. SET PULLING CONTESTS Horse and Mule Teams to Stage Show at State Fair. The horse and mule pulling contest of the state fair, which attract thousands annually, will be staged Sept. 5 and 8 in front of the grand stand Teams of horses and mules weighing more than 3.000 pounds will stage a pulling contest at 9 the first day and teams under 3.000 pounds wiil pull at 9 on Sept. 8. ASK RATE REDUCTIONS Danville City Council Charges Utility Scale Excessive. Reduction in current rates at Danville ia sought by members of the Danville council, who petitioned the public service commission Wednesday, declaring present rates of the Public Service Company of Indiana are excessive.

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I).maid Braffnrd One of the chief contestants in the annual meet of the Indianapolis Casting Club at the club pool. Fall creek and College avenue. will be Donald BrafTord. Bra fiord, who lives here, is 16 and recently won top honors in the s,-ounce bait casting event at the international bait and fly casting meet at Chicago.

$500,000 CUT IN SCHOOL BUDGET Reduction Is Made Possible Largely by Slashes in Teacher Salaries. The Indianapolis school budget to be presented to the board Tuesday night by A. B. Good, business director. wiU. b? slashed about $500,000, it was learned today. This reduction has been made possible largely through the 11 per cent reduction in salaries of teachers and administrative officials. The ground and maintenance department will be hit by the budget slash, although this will not affect the school structures, since madework men have been laboring during the summer on the buildings. More than fifty men have been at work this summer cleaning the buildings and beautifying the grounds. ’With the school city in its best physical condition for many years, the budget for repair work will be at a minimum, officers said. There will be no more reduction of teachers' salaries, it was learned, and those who signed contracts in the spring will be retained. However, in event any teachers resign, it is doubtful whether others will be employed. Teachers will double on assignments to take over the work of 100 teachers discharged this spring. Bonded indebtedness, of course, can not be reduced in the budget and the utilities anti insurance will remain practically the same, it was said.

CLUB HOST AT DINNER Girls of St. Paul’s Church Are Program Sponsors

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A group of readings was given by Jeanette Rader and Lois Noffke following a dinner by the Girls’ Club of St. Paul's Evengelical Church Wednesday night at the Food Craft shop. Th° girls are pupils of Aileen Klaiber. BUS DEAL PROTESTED Proposed Sale of Drexel Gardens Line Fought by Former Owners. Proposed sale of the Drexel Gardens - Indianapolis bus line by Charles Copes to Logan J. Smith has resulted in filing of a protest with the public service commission by Willie ar.d Emily Schenk, former owners, who ask to have the line’s operating certificate returned to them. They charge they gave the line to Copes without charge, on condition that Schenk should be retained as driver, which has not been fulfilled, and with an option for return of the line.

Whose Brown Derby? J What Indianapolis man will be crowned with the BROWN DERBY at the Indiana State Fair on Sept. 7? What man will win the plaque that goes with the derby? Clip this coupon and mail or bring to The Indianapolis Times. Just write your choice on the dotted line. Vote early and often. OFFICIAL BROWN DERBY BALLOT To the Editor of The Times: Please crown the Brown Derby as Indianapolis’ most distinguished citizen.

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INDICT 13 FOR KIDNAPING OF OIL MAGNATE

Federal Grand Jury Under Heavy Guard as It Sifts Evidence. DEATH MAY BE ASKED Abductors of C. F. Urschel May Suffer Extreme Penalty. By Unilrtl Prr OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 24 Thirte'm persons were indicted Wednesday in the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel. oil millionaire, by a federal grand jury guarded by forty officers armed with machine guns and automatics. Names of six defendants were withheld, pending capture. Seven others, including Harvey J. Dailey, were in jail under heavy guard. The grand jury, working under direction of two assistant United States attorneys general and the federal district attorney, was in session but six hours. Its speed set a record in a major criminal case. Kelly Also Indicted R. G. (Boss) Shannon and his wife, in whose farm home, near Paradise, Tex., the wealthy trustee of the T. B Slick oil estate was kept prisoner; their son. Armon Shannon, and his wife, and Albert L. Bates, in jail at Denver, were others in custody indicted with Bailey. The seventh person indicted and named was George (Machine Gun) Kelly, object of a nation-wide hunt. Grand jurors heard first hand accounts of how Urschel and Walter Jarrett were kidnaped by two men from the sun porch of the Urschel mansion the night of July 22. Jarrett was released unharmed an hour later. Friends paid $200,000 for Urschels release. He spent nine days, blindfolded and chained at night, in a farmhouse where he left evidence intended to identify the hideout later. Bates and Kelly are suspected of being the actual kidnapers. Federal investigators located Urschel's prison cabin by airplane and fingerprints the oil man purposely left on door facings. May Ask Death Both Urschel and Jarrett were in the jury room. After Jarrett’s appearance. U. S. District Attorney Herbert K. Hyde said he would confer with County Attorney Lewis R. Morris relative to state charges carrying the death penalty which may be filed against the desperadoes who invaded the Urschel home. Jarrett was robbed of $52 before he was released. Armed robbery is punishable by electrocution in Oklahoma. United States Assistant AttorneyGeneral Josepn Keenan. Washington. said the suspects would be tried in Oklahoma City in September. Under the so-called Lindbergh federal kidnaping law. life imprisonment may be imposed upon conviction. Keenan intimated that Bailey then might be taken to Kansas City, where he is under indictment in the machine gun slaying of five men on union station plaza. Meantime, officers at Dallas and Denver redoubled vigilance over Bates and the Shannons, for fear of possible gang reprisals or attempts at liberation. CITY" PASTOR "RENAMED The Rev. J. B. Parsons is Superintendent of United Brethren Group. Delegates to the White River Conference of the United Brethren church Wednesday re-elected the Rev. J. B. Parsons, pastor of the University Heights U. B. church, as conference superintendent for the thirteenth year. Bishop H. H. Fout. Indianapolis, was re-elected bishop of the Northwest district. Wednesday's meeting was the first of the conference, which will close Sunday night. Ail meetings will be held in University Heights church. Today is Laymen's day. WEEKLIESJTO PLAN CODE Indiana Press Association to Meet at 10 Friday at Claypool. AN NRA code for weekly newspapers is to be formulated at a special session of the Indiana Weekly Press Association at 10 Friday at the Claypool. it was announced today by Secretary G. E. Van Valer. Gas City. All printers, publishers and newspaper men have been invited to attend by President Curtis Hostetter. Rockville.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933

SLEUTH ENDS CAREER OF FIREBUG

Arson Specialist Makes ‘Big Money,’ but Trips at Last

Arson destroys *100.000.000 worth ot property ar.nuallv m the United States and costs many lives. It is the Job ot the fire detective not only to catch and punish the arsonist, but to prevent his worn The Are detective is aKent for the insurance companies, the Are department, the police department or the government. The stories in this series are from records in the possession of Fire Marshal Thomas P Brophy. A. Bruce Bielakl. *4nvestiitation head of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, and other ofl’clal sources. BY LOU WEDEMAR Times Special Writer T TNDERCOVER agent No. 48 U was summoned one spring afternoon to the office of W. E. Mallalieu, general manager of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. He found Mallalieu and A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of investigators, earnestly conversing. They explained at once what they wanted. "One of our special agents in St. Louis had a peculiar experience the other evening." Mr. Mallalieu began. “He was driving home in his car when he passed a park. His headlights happened to fall on a bench just inside the entrance." “Yes?" "On the bench he saw Joe Ritter talking with a public adjuster." “Ritter is a professional arsonist. isn't he?" “He is on our records as one. Now. here's the situation: Our St. Louis agent can not do anything in this case, because he is known to Ritter. We want you to go out there and see what Ritter is up to." “O. K.. sir.” Within three hours No. 48 was on a fast train bound west. He had been picked carefully for the job. and seemed to other passengers what he intended to seem—a not very prosperous storekeeper. In St. Louis he took a room it a cheap hotel and let it be known that he was going to open a shop. When inquiries were made about whose products he would handle he became mysterious. ‘I know where to get some good stuff cheap,” he said. a a a ON a side street in the business section he rented for one month a small store, and put big posters in the widows announcing that the Elite Raincoat Company, "factory seconds,” would open in a few days. He was far from aloof; in other stores he dropped hints that his "factory seconds" were stolen merchandise. Then he visited several fixture salesrooms, at one of which Joe Ritter spent considerable time. That afternoon Ritter called on No. 48. “Nice place you have here." he said. “Going to take out insurance?” No. 48 nodded. “Maybe I can help you get it cheap," he said. “And I know how you can get a discount on. your fixtures." The two—the sleuth and his quarry—became quite intimate the next few days. The agent had arranged with the New- York office to ship him a stock of raincoats w’hich the board had on hand as a result of a fire in which the owner had been paid for total loss. These were to be put in his new’ store to give it a legitimate appearance. Very soon Ritter became too greatly attached to his new-found friend to let him be a mere raincoat merchant. “Why don't you drop this project and come in with me?" he asked. “You’re full of good ideas. I could use you as my secretary. As you know. I don’t write English very good." After due consideration. No. 48 agreed. He notified the New York office not to bother sending his raincoats, gave up the store and took a vacation with Ritter at Hot Springs.

Thousands of Pigs Driven to Doom; Sacrificed in Price Drive

BY HARMAN W. NICHOLS I'nited Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—Thousands of pigs were at seven middlewestem markets today to give their lives to the promotion of farm interests and in support of Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace's hog j program. When it developed that the government was not as well informed as it wanted to be on birth control for pigs, the porkers in the main STATE STEPS IN TO STOP BABIES SUE Oklahoma to Penalize Any Offending Hospital. By Cnitrd Prnt OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 24Babes of unwed mothers must be placed iy proper bureaus, and their sale to pay hospital and physicians' fees stopped, state authorities said today. No Oklahoma law forbids the practice. Charities Commissioner Mabel Bassett said, but a means has been found to penalize those participating. until suitable legislation is passed. Mrs. Bassett said ratings of hospitals engaged in any form of placing babies will be lowered by her department. At least five cases were uncovered in Tulsa by the official, babies of unmarried mothers were “sold" to pay obstetrical and hospital fees, it was said. She told of one case where a hospital agTeed to take $lO down and $5 a month until SIOO was paid. She compelled the hospital to return S4O already paid by a man toward the baby's “installment purchase."

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RITTER, apparently wealthy, had a fine car and a chauffeur. They drove around a great deal during the two weeks. Ritter boasted now and then—“ln my business money comes easy. The man who lives over there paid me ss.ooo—the fellow who runs that store paid me s3.ooo—for a few hours’ work.” No. 48 bided his time, asking no questions. But he noted the addresses of the places Ritter mentioned and notified Mr. Bielaski in New York. At each place, records disclosed, there had been a disastrous fire some time previously. A lot had been accomplished already in following up the incident of the park bench, but there was insufficient evidence. No. 48 was instructed to stay with Ritter. On their return to St. Louis Ritter received a letter. He was quite excited. "I must go to California." he explained, “on a big business deal. Will you come with me?" They went together to Long Beach, Cal. Ritter absented himself mysteriously several times, and then came to 48 s room. “I am going to take you in my confidence,” he said. “I want you should write a letter for me." So the undercover man wrote—- “ Dear Frank: Enclosed are two bank drafts for SSOO. Go to my good friend. Morris Shapiro, 211 Pine street. Long Beach. He wants a job done about May 19. Be sure to collect from him, too. JOE.” X U U tt AGENT 48 had gained valuable knowledge, but had taken an irrevocable step. If Ritter or someone else in the arson gang should learn he was a spy, his life wouldn't be worth much. From the moment he mailed that letter, addressed to Frank Altman, in St. Louis. Agent 48 moved with the utmost circumspection. He had to notify New

market were given a one-aay stay of execution. Asa result, the slaughter, which Secretary Wallace hopes will eliminate more than two million animals and thus boost the price of hogs, began early today. The pigs, it was said, were given no alternative in their last meal before going to the slaughtering block. It consisted mainly of corn, with a side dish of corn for dessert. ; By the trainloads, in trucks, and ’ a few on hoof, the squealing pigs were guided into the maze of pens at the Union stockyards in Chicago Wednesday to make the receipts for a single day greater than at any other time during the year More than eight thousand pigs and far- i rowing sows were herded into the I pens Other markets receiving pigs in this emergency plan included Kan-

Civic Club Makes Plans for Impressive Carnival

A street carnival in celebration of modernization of South Meridian street, sponsored by the South Meridian Civic Club, will be held Wednesday night. Sept. 13. on the grounds of School 22, at 1230 South Illinois street. The program will sltart at 6 p. m. with forming of a parade at Garfield park. The parade will move at 7. and march on Meridian street to South street, then march one block west to Illinois, and return south on Illinois street to the school grounds. A forty-piece band will lead the parade. Prizes of $lO. $5 and $2.50 will be given for the three best floats in the parade. Several prominent city officials will speak at the school grounds at 8:30. Many forms of entertainment, and contests, of which the feature wifi be the selection of the fairest maid

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York what was under way. but he must not arouse suspicions. He managed to make a telephone call at night from a coin booth in the hotel. “Fine work,” said Bielaski, enthusiastically. “Stay with it, boy. I’ll notify the authorities." When he got up next morning Ritter had vanished. The agent suffered several minutes of panic before he found a note at the desk. In Ritter's scrawl were the words: “See me in St. Louis." Ritter was taking no chances. If anything went wrong, his friend. Agent 48, was holding the bag. The Marine Millinery Shop, at 211 Pine street, Long Beach, was a fireproof structure on which Shapiro had $12,500 insurance. On the night of Saturday, May 16. Agent 48 saw the proprietor pasting large posters on the windows : “Gala 6th Anniversary Sale! Beginning Monday. . The posters did more than advertise. They completely hid from view the interior of the store, so a bltze would not be seen at once. On Monday evening, after the clerks had gone. Shapiro stood at the door watching anxiously for someone who did not appear. The next evening an undersized man came along with a green bundle. Agent 48 recognized him from Bielaski's description as Frank Altman, the “torch." • am SHAPIRO and Altman conversed a moment, then went into the store together. Agent

sas City. Milwaukee, Omaha, St. Joseph. Sioux City and St. Paul. Reports from Kansas City were that 7.000 pigs were ushered into the yards and that they were continuing to arrive by the carloads and trainioads. Here. aLso. as in the other markets co-operating in the program, execution will be started today. Under the birth control plan of Secretary Wallace, farmers are to receive a $4 bonus on sows of 275 pounds and up. while pigs weighing less than eighty pounds will go on tankage. Pigs between 80 and 100 pounds are being sold at from 5 to 94 cents a pound. The above prices are quoted on the Chicago market, and other markets included in the "control" program will be governed and scaled as the Chicago quotations fluctuate.

and the homeliest man, to be chosen from among street dancers, have been scheduled by the program committee. Information regarding the celebration and parade may be obtained from W. V. Terry, business representative of the celebration committee for the civic club, at Drexel 4690. WAITERS TO ORGANIZE Session Called in City to Unite Under NRA Provisions. Meeting of local cooks, waiters, waitresses and bartenders to organize under provisions of the NRA will will be held at 2:30 Friday afternoon in room 208, Holliday building. The meeting is called by Adolph Fritz, secretary of the Indiana State Federation of Labor.

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48 was joined, in secret places near the scene, by Fire Marshal Hugh Etzell, Detective Chief O. M. Murphy, and several policemen. It was half an hour before anything happened. Then Altman came out of the store carrying a large suitcase. He looked to left and right, and then hurried away. Shapiro came out immediately after him. He w r as pale, but selfpossessed. He locked the door of the store and went away in the direction opposite to that taken by Altman. Both were followed by detectives. Altman was followed to the Pacific Electric railway depot, where he tried to buy a ticket to Los Angeles. A detective questioned him. “I'm a hat salesman," he said. “All right. How many hats have you in your case?" Altman hesitated. He didn't know. He was taken to headquarters. Meanwhile. Agent 48 and the fire marshal waited outside the store. They dared not break in until they were sure a crime had been committed. And yet at any moment, an explosion might occur, or fire might gain headway. a a a A MOTORCYCLE man roared up Pine street to Lieutenant Murphy. "Altman confessed w’hen they found a wax container in his suitcase." he reported. “That's enough." said Agent 48. “Let's get in there." They forced the door. One glance was enough. In a corner, beside a pile of paper and Inflammable hats, an arsonist's candle was burning. In another few moments there would have been an explosion and fire. “Don't touch it yet," begged Agent 48. He pulled a camera and flashlight from a bag he carried. It was his job to get evidence. Flash! He had his picture The candle was extinguished, and the party went to headquarters. Shapiro had been brought in on Altman's confession. "I admit it.” he said. “I had been in business and couldn't make a success. My wife was sick. I was afraid to go broke, so I fell a victim to temptation Joe Ritter is so smart. I thought he could do it right and not get caught.” Altmans confession solved a large number of mysterious fires in the middlewest and Pacific states. He. too, blamed Ritter. a a a AGENT 48 rushed to St. Louis. where Ritter had been arrested and released on bail. He went to Ritter's home The arsonist greeted him smilingly, but there was terror in his eyes. “I don't know how they caught on,” he said. “They never did until you came along." Agent 48 nodded. “I told them." he said. Ritter stared, open-mouthed. His head moved slowly from side to side. I “I don't believe It,” he said. “I have come to take you to Long Beach.” Ritter stared. “All right. Wait till I get my clothes.” He went upstairs. Some time elapsed before Agent 48 became alarmed. Then he went up after him. Ritter had taken poison. He was dead. His confederates. Altman and Shapiro, were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment at hard labor. And the report came back to New York: “Case closed." Next—Panic in a hotel.

COAL BARONS DEFY NRA ON UNION CLAUSE

Crisis Impends in Trouble Spots ot Pennsylvania and West Virginia. SHOWDOWN IS FACED Frick Company Asserts It Never Will Recognize Labor Organization. BY 11. O. THOMPSON Vnited Prm Staff Correspondent <Cop>right. 1933. bv United Pre*si WASHINGTON, Aue 24—A decisive test of organized labor's status under the National Recovery Act impended today, after an “official interoretation'' of the collective bargaining provisions of the act was made by Administrator Hugh S. Johnson. Johnson's statement “erased the words open shop' and closed shop* from the dictionary of the NRA " Smoldering discords in the bituminous coal fields were expected to flare into situations demanding an immediate showdown on issues which have come down through the decades without adequate solution. Two trouble spots stand out in the coal industry. They are in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and both involve the United States Steel Corporation. Defiance Is Hurled The Pennsylvania strike situation has been mediated, but not settled definitely. It was reported here today that representatives of the H. C. Frick Coke Company had informed an agent of the national labor board that the company, a United States Ste -1 ! subsidiary, never would consent to recognition of the United Mint l Workers of America and never would operate under an NRA cod?. While the Pennsylvania dispute held this potential dynamite, new signs of trouble appeared from Logan. Wingo and McDowell counties in West Virginia. Those districts have been "closed counties," so far as the United Mine Workers are concerned, and many heated battles over unionization have been fought through their rugg-’d mountains. The national labor board has been asked to investigate reports that employes of the United States Coal and Coke Company, also a subsidiary of the United Stat-s Steel, has discharged workers because of activities in behalf of the United Mine Workers. The reports said scores of workers had been evicted from company-owned houses. Deny Union Involved The labor board asked the company for a report on the situation and was informed that ito workers had been evicted, but that notices of dismissal had been given in some cases. The company declared the dismissals had no connection with union activities. The labor board must decide whether to send investigators ipto the West Virginia coal districts, traditionally hostile to outside interference. The board's decision will be an indication of how far it is prepared to go in preserving industrial peace during the period of economic reconstruction. In his official statement.. Johnson said: “The law can mean only one thing, which is that employes can choose any one they desire to represent them, or they can choose to represent themselves. Employers likewise can make collective bargains with organized employes, or individual agreements with those who choose to act individually; provided. of course, that no such collective or individual agreement is in violation of any state or federal law. But neither employers nor employes are required by law to agree to any particular contract, whether proposed as an individual or collective agreement. Freedom for Employes “The law provides that employes shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers in the exercise of their rights established by the law. “Employers are forbidden to require as a condition of employment* that an employe eithe* shall join a company union' or ltfrain 'rom joining, ol’ganizing. or assisting a labor organization ol his own choosing.’ “The law does not prohibit the existence of a local labor organization. which may be called a company union and is composed only of employes of one company. But it does prohibit an employer from requiring, as a condition of employment, that any employe Join a company union, or any other organization, by the interference, restraint or coercion of an employer.’* Ultimatum Sounded BY RUTH FINNEY Time* Sprtlil Writer WASHINGTON. Aug 24—Business men who want to combine outside the anti-trust laws may do so only if they give their employes the right to combine. * This blunt alternative today faced coal operators, automobile men and all others who have sought to write qualifying words into their NRA codes in regard to labor organizatioas. Administrator Hugh S Johnson and General Counsel Donald R. Richberg. in a jyf , statement on Wednesday night, declared that “it is the function of the administrator and the courts to apply and to interpret the law in its administration, and no one else can assume this function and no official interpretation can be circumscribed, affected or foreclosed by any one w’riting his own interpretation into any code or agreement. Such interpretation has no place there and can not be permitted. A few hours earlier the automobile industry had made public a revised draft of its code, still insisting on the open shop.