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MEYER’S BOND ONLY SI,OOO, SUIT CLAIMS Surety Company Is Sued for $9,000 in Defunct Bank Case. OVERT ACTS CHARGED Delinquencies of Nearly SBOO,OOO Are Charged in Complaint. BY DICK MILLER Times Staff Writer Although Sol Meyer, president of the defunct Meyer-Kiser bank, headed a bank capitalized at $300,000 and which once did as murh as 57.000.000 worth of business annually, he never was bonded for more than SI.OOO, it was charged today in a suit filed in circuit court. Defendant in the suit is the London and Lancashire Indemnity Company of Chicago, surety for Mr. Meyer. Complaint is for collection of $0 000 of alleged bond liability. Suit was filed by Walter Myers, attorney for Thomas L. Garvin, receiver for the bank, and sets out that thd only protection of stockholders and depositors against delinquencies by the president was the 51.000 surety bond provided ahnuallv by the defendant company since 1916. Setting out * numerous alleged overt acts between 1923 and the time the bank closed and a receiver was appointed, Mary 4. 1933. the complaint, lists delinquencies totaling nearly $600,000. including alleged misappropriation of bank funds through unsecured loans to other officers of the bank, transfer of huge sums to subsidiaries, and others.

Second Suit Filed This is the second suit against bonding companies covering the bank, the first having been filed in circuit court several days-ago, asking 51,250.000, the amount alleged to have been taken fraudulently from the bank by Meyer and other officers, Ferd S. Meyer. Julian J. Kiser and Melville S. Cohn. Organized in April, 1906, with a capitalization of $25,000, the complaint states, the bank declared a stock dividend of $25,000 in Oct., 1907. Subsequent, dividends and recapitalization increased the capital stock to $300,000, with 3.000 shares at SIOO each. In August, 1930. it is stated in the suit, these 3.000 shares were changed to 15.000 shares at S2O each. Interests in control decided .m May. 1931. to liquidate the bank and. without court appointment, named the four officers liquidating agents with salaries of SSOO a month, the suit sets out. Delinquencies Concealed Is f harge T is charged that during this time, the bank did millions in business. concealed delinquencies and breaches from the surety and state banking department. While Meyer's bond still was in effect, it is alleged that Meyer caused to be loaned to Sol S. Kiser. $1,750; to Julian J. Kiser. $8,750; to Melville S. Cohn. $8,750. and to himself. $19,250. These notes, it is added, all are part one and unpaid, representing a $38,500 loss to the bank, exclusive of interest, from the dae of the action. Jan. 1. 1923. Mever caused to be organized. July 8. 1923. the Meyer-Kiser Realty Company which, the complaint charges, was for the purpose of cheating and defrauding. It is added that he caused a resolution to be passed by the bank providing for a "contribution of $200,000 to the surplus of the realty company.” and that without legal right, this amount later was transferred in cash.

Other Charge Made Further unwarranted loss was taken when $19,275 was paid to the Guardian State bank which later closed, it is charged. Mr. Meyer was interested in this; also the United Securities Company, a Florida realty company, which erected apartment houses. One of them, the Fernado. failed to have earning power and required that $9,000 of Meyer-Kiser money be spent upon it for dividend requirements and interest retirement. it is charged. Further, on Nov. 30, 1926. Mr. Meyer, it is charged, caused to be transferred to the Meyer-Kiser bank of Florida. $119,357.90 in cash, which now constitutes of loss of $128,357.90 and which transfer, the complaint alleges, was with the full knowledge of Mr. Meyer that the money never would be repaid to the Meyer-Kiser bank of Indianapolis. Transfers Are Claimed In an effort to retire bonds, pay interest and dividend requirements and keep the stock market value up. it is charged. $21,698.45 was expended on the Hollywood Homes venture of the United Securities Corporation. $33,000 to the Floridian hotel, $18,750 to the Robert Clay hotel, and several thousands of dollars to several Indiana realty companies known as the Aron. Freelich, Milnag, Baran Broadway. Central Gary. Fiftyler. Joseph Broadway. Ma-Co. Mary Stewart. Resnick and Ridge Adams, despite the fact that when much of this money was paid out some of these companies were in receivership. The Blue Bay Corporation received $37,411.65. and on Aug. 8 twelve pieces of repossessed property owned by the bank, it is alleged, were transferred to the Mever-Kiser Corporation with value Os $61,414.76. A further alleged transfer was sll9 357.90 from the Meyer-Kiser bank of Indianapolis to the bank of F’orida for buying furniture fixtures snd exploitation of anew bank of which Mr. Meyer was in full control.

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Daring Steeplejack, WithJron Brace Supporting Back Broken in 100-Foot Fall, Conquers Nerves —Climbs Again

BY TRISTRAM COFFIN Staff Writer STEEFLEJACK BILL HOYT, dare-devil of perilous high places, has won a tes‘ of courage! Braving the whirling winds that swept, the roof of the Merchants Bank building. Bill crawled up the steel flagstaff to repair a pulley yesterday. Last Sepr. 5, Bill Hoyt plunged 100 feet from the top of a brick chimney at the stockyards and miraculously escaped death. His back was broken in the fail. Bill told of the long mental struggle he waged wnile flat on his back in the hospital, as he was waiting to go aloft yesterday. This man who has laughed in the face of danger is mild-mannered, has a rugged weather-beaten appearance and piercing blue eyes. He walked nervously up and down with a limping gait and admitted that the problem which has faced him every moment since the fall is— Would he ever go up in the air again? His son. Leo. stared quietly out the window at the city's smoky panorama while his father spoke. Building employes clustered around with excited questions. B B B B It B ' I'HE reporter asked Bill if he felt any fear of going aloft. “No,” Bill A answered. "I've never felt it before. I don't know about now.” He hastily checked himself and said gruffly, "No, no, it doesn't bother me any now.” The steeplejack is wearing iron braces on his back. He can walk only a short, distance at a time. But he had to make the test in order once, and for all to banish any uncertainty his fall may have given him. Bill Hoyt is applying the same psychology as the aviators, who after crashing, are sent up again as spon as possible. In answer to the question as to what thoughts flashed through his mind during the fall. Bill Hoyt said simply, "I thought of my son who was underneath me. I thought I was gone myself and I didn't want to have him hurt. I shouted, “Look out. I'm falling.’” Painfuly climbing the staff. Bill gaily waved his hand to signify the victory. When he came down, he said, with well-earned pride: “I don't see where the fall had any effect on my nerves. I guess this is an unusual thing for a man to climb a flagpole with a steel brace supporting a broken back.” He has been twenty-five years in the profession and expects to last many more. Leo is following in his father’s perilous footsteps and will continue the nickname. “Dare devil.” in the family.

FEDERAL RELIEF PLAN OUTLINED

State Commission Prepares to Replace CWA After March 31. Plans for operation of the new work division of the Governor's commission on unemployment relief. which is to supplant the civil works administration in cities of more than 5.000 population and in certain industrial areas after March 31, were announced today at a meeting of the executive committee of the commission. The plans are based on a suggested outline of the general policy to be followed, received from the federal .emergency relief commission, which provides the funds for the division. This work program, the announcement said, is intended to offer employment for needy unemployed. persons who are able to work in the urban and industrial sections of the state. Under the instructions from the FERA. the projects on which these people work "shall be of the highest, social value, planned to be of greatest efficiency and the greatest benefit to the community or state, and co-ordinated with larger plans for local or state improvement. "All projects shall he undertaken independently of work under a contract or for which an annual appropriation has hern made, and must be, in general, apart from normal government enterprises.” Workers to bp employed are to be selected on the basis of need, which is to be determined by investigation by the staff of the social welfare department of the commission. At the beginning of the program the work projects will be classified in six general fields of activity, according to the FERA outline. These fields are planning, public property, housing, production and distribution of goods needed by the unemployed. public welfare, health and recreation, and public education, arts and research.

WOMAN WINS $153,000 ON GRAND NATIONAL New Yorker Learns of Good Luck From Broadcast. 1/ Unitre! Press NEW YORK March 23. Mrs. Margaret Meringer disclosed today she held a ticket for approximately $153,000 on Golden Miller, winner of the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree. England. She was doing her housework when news of her good fortune came tq her over the radio. Responsible for Wreek: Get Death By Unitre! Press MOSCOW. March 23.—An engineer and a station master w-ere sentenced to death today as responsible for a railway wreck at Sverdlovsk March 12 in which thirtythree persons were killed and sixtyeight injured.

A New Era Is Here — The ‘Prophet’ Explains It 'The Sermon on the Mount” 1900 years ago has been termed economic nonsense. Today that attitude has changed—" The Sermon on the Mount” may be the teaching that will carry us out of economic despair. Monday The Indianapolis Times w-ill print the first of a series of stories by Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, entitled "Statesmanship and Religion.” The series comes as a sequel to "The Life of Our Lord,” by Charles Dickens, which created a demand that never before has been equalled in the publication history of this newspaper. Mr. Wallace recently wrote a series for The Times entitled “America Must Choose.” His work in this series revealed him as one of the most outstanding authors on affairs of modern times. Mr. Wallace is in position to know whereof he speaks. And he tells it in a manner that every man. woman and child can understand.” In his series "Statesmanship and Religion.” Mr. Wallace penetrates the religious past to show that those religious upheavals have altered our modern industrial systems. Mr. Wallace visualizes the new deal as an effort to create new social machinery, but belie'ves the move will fail unless the people are willing to opeiate the machinery for the good cf every one. pon’t fail to start with the first of the Wallace series. It will be carried on Page 1 of The Times Monday.

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MARY KINDER BACK: HAS NOTHING TO SAY ON MYSTERIOUS TRIP

Back in Indianapolis after a mysterious trip, Mary Kinder smiled today when asked questions concerning her absence. “Nothing to say about it,” she said. She declined to say where she had been. In response to an expression of surprise that she was back in Indianapolis, Mary said, “Why, they had so many people watching me, I thought they'd know when I left and where I went, and when I returned. Mary left, Indianapolis during the night following action of the jury in Lima, which found Harry Pierpont guilty of first degree murder in the death of Sheriff Jess Sarber. Pierpont, who had been described as Mary’s sweetheart, testified in his trial that he and Mary Kinder were married in a Kentucky town shortly after the prison break from Michigan City.

Milk Distributors Here to Be Licensed April 1 Plan Is Given Complete Approval of Townsend; Producer Prices Are Fixed. B’l Times Sprrinl WASmNGTON. March 23.—Distribution of milk in the Indianapolis area will Lie placed under a license system April 1. A license for the Indianapolis milk sales area, signed today by Acting Agiiculfure Secretary W. R. Gregg, on behalf of the agricultural adjustment administration, and containing no provision for retail price, was given the complete approval today of Lieutenant-Governor M Clifford Townsend, commissioner of agriculture for Indiana.

Producer prices fixed by the license are subject to a market standard of 4 per cent butterfat, with differentials of 3 cents a pint in the fat test per 100 pounds above or below the standard. These prices are; Class 1, milk for consumption as whole milk, $1.85 per 100 pounds f. o. b. the distributor plants in the city. Class 2, milk to be consumed as cream, four times the average 92 score Chicago butter quotation for the month, plus 30 per cent plus 20 cents per 100 pounds. '-Qlass 3, milk for uses other than direbt consumption, such as in the manufacture of butter, cheese and ice creaHa, four times the 92 score Chicago matter price for the month, plus 10 per cent. "It is the intention of the state to put all its available powers behind the milk license for Indianapolis." said Lieutenant-Governor Townsend. "We are in full accord with it and we have consistently supported it because it is designed to protect the farm price for milk and stabilize the market.” N,.. opposition to the provisions of the license was voiced at the AAA healing on the Indianapolis milk situation held Feb. 28. The license will affect about 422,000 milk consumers residing in the

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934

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OCLE CHOSEN BY VIGILANTES _ ** Named General Chairman of Group Formed Here to Combat Crime. Appointment, of Kenneth L. Oele as general chairman of the group formed yesterday with the object of suppressing violent crime was announced today. The group formally adopted the name, “Indianapolis Committee.” Subcommittee chairmen named at the meeting include .Joseph J. Daniels, law committee; Thomas D. Stevenson, police committee, and Mark Hamer, publicity committee. The committee proposes to make a thorough study, of criminal laws and procedure, police and piosecutor selections and similar subjects. after which recommendations for corrective legislation and methods will be made.

Indianapolis areas, and thirty-one miltc distributors who purchase from 5-500 milk producers approximately 11.311.000 pounds of milk monthly. Approximately 60 per cent of the milk marketed in the Indianapolis area is consumed directly, and will be purchased from the producers on me basis of prices established for Class l and Class 2 milk. Milk dealers are to be forbidden to sell milk to or buy milk from distributors known tc be violating teims of the license. A market administrator will be appointed. Four cents a pound will be deducted from all milk supplied bv producers, l cent of which will go to pay expenses of the office of market administrator, and 3 cents of which will be retained bv the Co-operative Producers' Association doing business in the area. Producers who also are distributors will be assessed 1 cent per 106 pounds for the operation of the market administrators office. Prices May Go Up Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford Townsend, who returned from Washington today after getting the Indianapolis milk agreement signed, stated that it "may raise the price in Indianapolis, but not more than 1 cent a quart.” "The agreement will mean increased revenues of SBOO a dav to farmer dairymen in the Indianapolis area.' 1 he declared. STOCK BILL FAVORED BY FEDERAL RESERVE Board's Attitude Revealed by Governor Black. By Unitre! Pres* WASHINGTON'. March 23.—The federal reserve board's approval of the revised stock market regulation bill was revealed by Governor Eugene R. Black in testifying before the senate banking committee. Mr. Black's indorsement was the first hint of the reserve board's attitude and it was understood to be in line with the administration's viewpoint. The board. Mr. Black said, was in full accord with the idea that the stock exchanges should be regulated for fair practices, that speculation should be curbed, that exchange credit should be regulated and that necessary penalties should be provided for violations of these re- j strictions. > *

LOTZ TO QUIZ MOBSTERS ON JAIL DELIVERY

Attorney-General Is Seeking Evidence About ‘Men Behind Scenes.’ PATRICK ALSO IN LIMA Clark's Relatives Fighting to Prove Alibi, Save Him From Chair. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Times Staff Writer LIMA. 0., March 23.—Seeking evidence to confirm belief that persons "behind the scenes” in the Lima jail delivery aided in the Crown Point Dillinger break. Philip Lutz Jr.. Indiana attorney-genera/, arrived here today. The attorney-general was accompanied by his chief deputy. Herbert J. Patrick, and Roy M. Hullett. investigator. He said that after court adjourns today he will question Harry Pierpont, Russell Clark and Charles Makley, terror mobsters, and others, including former prisoners who were in the Lima jail when Dillinger was freed and the sheriff slain. He said he was particularly interested in activities of several attorneys, mentioning, in particular, Louis Piquett, Chicago, who was arrested here over the week-end when he said he was attorney for Dillinger before his Crown Point break, and Joseph Ryan. Indianapolis attorney, under arrest at Indianapolis on a check charge. Dillinger in Chicago? Lutz revealed that he believes Dillinger now is in Chicago, and said two Indiana state police investigators are in Chicago now seeking to pick up his trail. Members of Clark's family today were waging a desperate, but bitterly contested alibi battle to save the Dillinger mobster from the electric chair. First defense witnesses today, after the state rested its case, were Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Strachen, Detroit. brother-in-law and sister of Clark, who sought to establish an alibi with testimony that Clark stayed continuously in their house from Oct. 7 to 15, 1933, during which time Sheriff Sarber was slain. Prosecutor Is Confident Prosecutor Ernest S. Botkin today said he was confident he would be able to shatter the alibi with rebuttal testimony of two Detroit policemen. Lieutenant Fred Drechsler and Detective Andrew Santell, that they raided the Strachen home during the period and Clark was not there. Mr. and Mrs. Strachen testified that on the day the sheriff was slain, when the gang released Dillinger from the jail, Clark was at their home attending a birthday party for Clark's brother, Edward, who failed to show up for the party. Spectators recalled that Harry Pierpont. according to testimony in his own trial, was attending a birthday party for himself at the same time in Leipsic. O. Strachen, on the witness stand, denied that Clark was “kill-crazy.” adding he did not even think Clark was a criminal.

In Sympathy With ‘‘Boy’’ "I'm in sympathy with the boy,” he said. "He got twenty years on his first offense, and the family w’as not notified so they could get an attorney. I don't think he got a fair break.” The witness denied knowing that Mrs. May Clark, the defendant's mother, had employed Louis Piquett. Chicago, as attorney for Clark, adding that he “always thought Joseph Ryan, an Indianapolis attorney, was Dillinger's attorney.” Clarence Miller, a defense attorney, hinted Clark would take the witness stand in his own defense. Other defense witnesses w r ere expected to include Clark’s mother and his sister and brother-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Norton, Detroit. The trial was expected to be concluded late today or tomorrow-. Last state witness was Mrs. Lucy Sarber. widow of the slain sheriff, who broke down and w-ept when she related the story of the jail release and shooting of her husband. Alleged spying activities around the heavily guarded jail w-ere revealed by Prosecutor Botkin, as the shadow- of the electric chair loomed larger for Clark. “Spying” Is Charged With the shadow of the electric j chair looming larger today for Clark, as the state rested its case, so-called “spying” activities around the heavily guarded jail were revealed by Ernest Botkin. Allen county prosecutor. Mr. Botkin disclosed that the heavy military guard which keeps a twenty-four-hour vigil on the jail ■ in which Harry Pierpont, Clark and Charles Maklev are confined, was not an empty gesture. He charged specifically that members of the Dillinger gang have flitted in and out of Lima in the past month. The mysterious "Opal Long." j Clark's girl friend and so-called "gun moll,” was identified by Mr. Botkin as one of the spectators in j the court recently. The prosecutor also believes that; Homer Van Meter, called the "finger man." or spy, of the mob. and still at large, has been active recently in Dillinger's behalf. Tells of Peru Holdup In connection with the first mention recently of Van Meter in the case. Mr. Botkin for the first time disclosed the “inside” story- of the holdup of the Peru police station last fall by Dillinger mobsters when eleven bullet-proof vests, fovjr sub- j (Torn to Page Fouf)

NATIONAL BANK CALL , ISSUED: REPORTS OF MARCH 5 ARE ASKED

f nitrd Pr< ss WASHINGTON. March 23. The controller of the currency today called upon all national banks to report their condition as of March 5. This is the first time since 1921 that a call for reports on banking conditions has gone out in the March quarter of the year. The law requires at least three calls a year, but the controller may make as many as he sees fit. Resumption of the March call was believed to mark an effort to publicize the improvement jn banking conditions over the last year. The reports as of March 5 this year will show a comparison with conditions exactly a year and a day previous, when President Roosevelt took office in the midst of a nation-wide banking crisis and found it necessary immediately to close all banks. Following the national bank call, Richard McKinley, state banking commissioner, called for statements from all state banks as to conditions at the close of business March 5.

TRUCK WARFARE RENEWED HERE Windows of Two Stores Broken in Outbreak: One Man Hurt. Windows of two Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company stores were broken by bricks today, one truck driver was beaten, two trucks damaged and a third truck believed commandeered in a fresh outbreak of trouble in the warfare of striking truckers against carrier firms. The A. and P. groceries, suffering alleged sabotage, were at 5397 College avenue and Forty-sixth street and Baltimore avenue. Henry Reed. 5114 College avenue, manager of the College avenue store, reported that when he arrived to open the store today he found two plate glass windows broken. ’ Lester Hardin. 5141 North Arsenal avenue, manager of the Baltimore avenue store, reported that one window was broken. Truck trouble occurred early today when Leonard McDaniels, owner of the McDaniels Freight Lines. Crawfordsville. reported that three of his trucks were halted by a sedan with five men in it, a mile west of the city limits. He said one truck was damaged and wiring torn off. Another truck was ordered back to town. The driver obeyed. The third truck was ordered to drive toward Brownsburg. None of the trucks involved in today's trouble was owned, by the W. D. Kibler Trucking Company. The strike of truckers began with alleged sabotage against the Kibler company. The Kibler company, it is said, also hauls merchandise for the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Yesterday afternoon Dennis Hostetler. 615 East Twentieth street, driver for Kibler company, drove up to a store at Eleventh street and College avenue. Harry Korbowitz. 38. of 1418 Bridge street, and Charles Storey. 1820 College avenue, were helping Hostetler unload merchandise. Korbowitz was standing alongside the truck cab. He saw five men standing near an auto across the street. One of the men hurled a brick. The brick struck the cab's glass and hit Korbowitz. knocking him down. Korbowitz suffered a gash on the head. He refused to go to a hospital. A company doctor treated him.

THREE ARE ELECTED TO REAL SILK BOARD Brown, Mayer and Irwin Are Firm’s New- Directors. Three new directors. Arthur V. Brown, of the Indiana National bank; A. Kiefer Mayer, drug wholesaler, and William G. Irwin, capitalist of Columbus. Ind., w-ere elected to the directorate of the Real Silk hosiery mills at a meeting yesterday in Chicago. Six directors were re-elected. They were G. A. J. A. Goodman. L. L. Goodman. P. C. Reilly, J. L. Mueller, and Elmer W. Stout. FEDERAL RAIL WAGE SOLUTION IS OFFERED Eastman Gives Executives Only Few Hours to Make Decision. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 23. Transportation Co-Ordinator Joseph B. Eastman today presented to railroad executives the administration’s! solution to the rail wage problem and gave them only a few- hours to make up their minds concerning it. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 21 1 oa. m 24 7 a. m 21 11 a. m 25 Ba. m 21 12 moon).. 26 9 a. m 22

EASTER MUSIC The Indianapolis Times. Saturday, March 31, will publish the musical programs of the churches of Indianapolis for Easter Sunday. Pastors and choir directors are requested to send their programs at once to the church editor of The Times. Prompt response on part of the pastors and choir directors will be appreciated.

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CONFUSION MARKS AUTO DISPUTE AS SHOWDOWN NEARS Labor Leaders and Manufacturers Await Next Move by Administration; Roosevelt Reported ‘Standing- By.’ EXTENSION OF TRUCE IS EXPECTED Government-Supervised Workers* Elections Claimed by Union Chiefs to Be Only Key to Temporary Solution. By L nited Press WASHINGTON. March 23.—Union leaders will meet with Recovery Administrator Hnsrh S. Johnson on the auto strike situation at 2:30 p. m. today. Ri / l nilrd Pints WASHINGTON. March 23. Government-supervised workers’ elections were claimed by union leaders today to be the key to temporary solution of the automobile strike crisis. Confusion and tenseness marked the approach of a showdown in the strike issue. Some union leaders expressed belief that President Roosevelt was preparing to order elections to give motor workers anew choice between American Federation of Labor unions and company unions. There was no confirmation of this from other quarters.

The White House expressed confidence that the present truce would be extended until negotiations are completed. Mr Roosevelt's secretaries said he w-as ".standing by” awaiting requests from both sides for further meetings. Trie union leaders waited at A. F. of L. headquarters and insisted the next move w-as up to the White House or Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson. “It's up to the general now-. - ’ said William Collins. A. F. of L. Michigan leader. “We are standing by until he sends for us.” Some of the local union leaders who talked with the President more than four hours yesterday asserted, however, that their followers w-ould not wait much longer for administration action. Manufacturers Stand By A spokesman for the manufacturers declared that they. too. w-ere aw-aiting anew move from the administration. It w-as believed likely, however, that. General Johnson may have been conferring with them in secret. The administrator had not visited his own offices up to noon. In Detroit, w-orkers aw-aited only w-ord from leaders conferring with the President here to lay dow-n their tools and precipitate a strike which probably w-ould spread to the entire automobile industry. They were to have struck today, but last-minute orders sent them to the factories. President Roosevelt, entered into his third day of conferences with representatives of management and labor of one of the country’s most powerful industries, w-ith his prestige and the possible fate of his whole recovery program at stake. Outwardly, both management and labor were as far apart as ever in the. effort to avert the gigantic tieup which threatens to take 100.000 men from their w-ork. Leaders Confer With Johnson Several labor leaders were known to be. restive, feeling they should strike now and confer later. Manufacturers are anxious to return to their plants w-here the problems of turning out cars at peak production schedules aw-ait them. The manufacturers had a long

Police Ordered to ‘Get Rough’ With Rioting Cab Drivers

By I nitre! Press NEW YORK. March 23.—Police today me- f.he challenge of striking taxicab drivers, who had defied all authority in a scries of sanguinary riots that kept the nation’s largest, city in a state of constant tmtnoil. The "handle with care" policy i

which had been in force under orders of Mayor F. H. La Guardia was discarded and police were instructed, in substance, “to get rough.” The regular police force in embattled mid-town Manhattan., scene of greatest violence since early yesterday morning, was augmented by 200 patrolman. 150 detectives, motorcycle and mounted policemen, radio patrol cars, emergency trucks, patrol wagons and detective cars recruited from all sections of the city. Not until early today was quiet restored. The strikers, who seek union recognition, climaxed the most disorderly day the city has witnessed in a decadee by parading from a meeting in a downtown hall to the theatrical district as theaters began discharging their patrons. They forced every cab within sight off Broadway and side streets. Ermine-wrapped women and their top-hatted escorts sheepishly ducked into subway kiosks, preferring to risk the stares of the subway riders to the perils of a ride in a taxicab, if they could find one. Throughout the day, organized and unorganized bands of strikers marauded through the downtown and midtown sections, demolishing nonunion taxicabs and injuring scores o f working drivers, passengers and pedestrians. They fought pitched battles whth police. In most cases routing the officers who were restrained by orders from using their nightsticks. In morning papers today the Terminal Transportation System,

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session late last night, with General Hugh S. Johnson in an attempt to pave the way for peace while at Federation of Labor headquarters, President William Grpen and his aids met to review the proposals laid before employes in a four and one-half hour discussion with the President. In connection with his earlier discussions with the manufacturers, it was reported today that Mr. Roosevelt spoke of his powers under the licensing provision of the NRA as a potential "persuader” to peace. He was reminded, howpver. according to the reports, that the motor executives could delay application of that authority for sixty days through rourt procedure. The conference w-ith the labor leaders was one of the longest in nearly a year at the White House. From 2:30 in the afternoon until nearly 7 p. m. the President canvassed the situation. The American Federation cf Labor sees in the situation the culmination of a life-time of effort to unionize the automobile industry. Success in this fight, President Green apd other leaders feel, will mear; success in similar pending battles in the steel and other large oloeks of industry which have long maintained the open shop. They insist upon clear-cut recognition of their rights under Section 7-A of the recovery act. To the auto industry the matter is equally serious. Lpadprs feel its prosperity is founded upon the open shoo n-inciple. Thpy are willing to go to a 1 mast, any end. possibly even the tremendous pending strike, to resist the A. F. of L. invasion. But a strong factor in influencing them to seek a quick settlement of the present difficulty is their heavy production schedule and the potential profits awaiting them after four lean years. A strike that w-ould close down plants now might ruin this year’s automobile market. The loss surely would run to millions. President Roosevelt's prestige is at stake as well, if is believed, as the poss'b’e fate of his whole recovery program. Failure to resolve the present crisis might easily lead to a terrific wave of industrial conflicts w-ith the steel industry. t.he next, likely spot for the lightning to strike.

; which operates a fleet of about i 1.200 cars, published as an adver- : tisement an open letter to Mayor La Guardia. calling on him to do ; "his duty and cease trying to force i upon the taxicab industry the recognition of any union or its leaders.” "If you and the police department find that the riot situation is b*- ! vond your control, you should call upon the Governor of the state for military aid,” the letter said. Police Commissioner John F. ORvan insisted he had the situation under control. More than fifty strikers had been arrested, thirtyfour at one clip on charges of malicious mischief. Decision to deal firmly with the strikers was made at a conference between Aldermanic President Bernard S. Deutsch and Police Commissioner O'Ryan last night. Immediately all ranking officials in the police department were summoned to headquarters w-here they received "absolute orders to suppress disorder.”

BLOCK’S SALE The Indianapolis Times today sets another mark in the city with three sections, the third of which consists of sixteen pages for the William H. Block Company. William H. Block Company is staging another of its annual DARING sales. Read the third section of The Times today for additional details.