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ROOSEVELT DRAFTS MOVE TO PREVENT STEEL MILL STRIKE President Anxious to Avert Threatened Walkout of 100,000 on June 16; Recovery Program Threatened. INDIANA PLANTS ARE INCLUDED One-Fourth of Nation’s Employes Ordered to Walk Out Unless Owners Recognize Amalgamated Association. By United Press President Roosevelt was expected today to intervene to " avert the threatened walkout cn June 16 of 100,000 steel workers, approximately one-fourth of all employes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois mills. The strike would be a paralyzing blow to American industry and the recovery program. Members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers are under orders to strike unless their leaders’ demands for union recognition are accepted by mill owners. Steel company executives representing 99 per cent of the industry resumed their meeting in New York after announcing “unalterable” opposition to the closed shop and determination to continue negotiations with their employes through so-called company unions. Amalgamated Association leaders denied they ever demanded the closed shop and threatened “all hell will break loose’’ unless their union is recognized, ana permitted to negotiate on the question of hours of work and wage scales on behalf of all members. Steel company executives are understood to have looked coolly on NRA Administrator Hugh S. Johnson’s suggested solution through creation of a special labor relations board for steel. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 7.—The Iron and Steel Institute has taken under consideration Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson’s plan for averting the steel strike and will announce its decision in a few days, General Johnson said today on his return from New York.

He and Donald Richberg, | NRA chief counsel, met with the Institute in New York yesterday. Mr. Johnson proposed creation of a steel labor board which would arbitrate differences of the Institute and the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. He denied the Institute rejected the plan. “I expect an answer in a day or two,” he said. Meantime, it was learned that President Roosevelt was pressing for enactment of the Wagner labor bill presumbaly so its provisions can be applied to the dispute. He brought pressure for passage when the strike first was proposed. President on Watch The measure grants organized labor majority representation in collective bargaining negotiations. In other words, if a majority of any one group proposed to deal with employers, the minority would have no voice. It also provides boards of mediation to bring the workers and management together. The bill would provide powerful machinery for arbitration, it was pointed out, and give Mr. Roosevelt a more direct approach to the steel controversy if he were callea upon as final arbiter. The President is known to be watching developments closely and it was expected General Johnson would call at the White House and lay before him a complete resume of his discussions with the institute. It was emphasized that the White House has no negotiations proceeding with either side. Johnson Is Silent The relations board proposed by General Johnson would be modeled after the one that settled the Detroit automobile strike. Each group of workers, regardless of labor affiliations, would elect spokesmen. The spokesmen then would deal direct with the operators. If he has any ideas, General Johnson gave no indication of what the institute’s decision will be. The institute bluntly told him the strike threat was a move to enforce the closed shop. This would oust socalled company unions which are not affiliated with amalgamated. Union leaders retorted they want recognition to negotiate collective bargaining agreements for all steel workers as guaranteed by labor provisions of the NRA steel code. The institute said it was “definitely committed” to the existing employe representation plan and would be “unalterably opposed” to a change. Gary Mills Included By United Press GARY, Ind., June 7.—A strike of steel workers in nine Indiana and Illinois mills, affecting approximately 40,000 men, was declared

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“inevitable” today by leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Steel, Tin and Iron Workers, unless operators grant recognition to the union. A statement by representatives of 99 per cent of the industry management in New York last night that a closed shop was the only issue was described as “a deliberate misrepresentation of plain facts” by D. E. McAllister, Gary union executive. Although reluctant to make definite claims of their strength, union men said that seven of nine mills in the Gary-Chicago district would be closed by a walkout. The plants included, now employing 48.000 men, were those of the Illinois Steel Corporation, Inland Steel Corporation, Youngstown Sheet Metal and Tube Cos., American Sheet and Tin Plate Cos., Republic Iron and Steel Cos., Acme Steel Corporation, Continental Can Corporation, and the Clayton Mark Steel Cos. Employes’ bulletin boards of the Inland Steel Corporation carried a notice to its 9,100 workers yesterday that the company would not recognize the union. Inland is a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation. LINER, CARGO BLAZING, CONVOYED INTO PORT Ship’s Band Plays “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” By United Press HONOLULU, June 7.—With the ship’s band playing “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” the Dollar liner President Lincoln was convoyed into port here today, after the ship’s crew had fought flames in the cargo hold all night. Although passengers had been kept on deck wearing life preservers for many hours and some were tired, perfect order prevailed and at no time was the danger serious. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 62 10 a. m 74 7a. m 63 11 a. m 79 Ba. m 67 12 (noon),. 82 9 a. m 71 1 p. m 83

Dionne Quintuplets Are Thriving in Incubators Mother to Be Permitted to Sit Up for Short Time Tomorrow, Doctor Reports. By United Press NORTH BAY, Ont., June 7.—The Dionne quintuplets, apparently thriving in their new incubators, continued to improve today and Dr. A. R. Dafoe, attending physician, appeared encouraged by the infants’

increasing strength. Dr. Dafoe’s professional cautin, however, led him to warn observers that “anything might happen” in twenty-four hours. With the aid of three nurses, the doctor has been in almost constant attendance upon the babies. Mrs. Oliva Dionne, the mother, became restless today and wds anxious for a sight of the five children, as well as her older offspring. They have been sent out to neighbors and frieipds to be cared for until normal life has been restored to the Dionne household. The mother will be permitted to sit up for a short time tomorrow, and probably will be allowed to see the quintuplets in their incubators. Marie, weakest of the babies, is being kept in the special incubator sent here from Chicago. The other four occupy an incubator sent by the Red Cross Society of Toronto. SAN FRANCISCO, June 7.—The family into which five daughters

Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; probably unsettled at times; slightly warmer tomorrow.

Abolition of Patronage System at Statehouse Urged by Women Voters Installation of Public Personnel Management to Be Recommended to Democratic Resolutions Committee by League Heads. Abolition of the present political patronage system at the statehouse will be advocated by the Indiana League of Women Voters in a plank to be submitted to the Democratic state convention resolutions com-

mittee. The league plank will call for the installation of a system of public personnel management at the statehouse similar to sound personnel administration methods employed in business. The purpose of such a system, according to the league, would be to insure employment of qualified persons on a basis of proved merit; to classify the civil service so that equal pay for equal work - will be assured and unnecessary positions eliminated; and to provide for control of personnel so that promotions and discharges will be made on the basis of performance on the job and not on the basis of partisan political activity or personal bias. Mrs. Joseph J. Daniels, Indianapolis; Mrs. Charles E. Cory, Lafayette, and Mrs. S. N. Campbell, Indianapolis, league president, will speak before the resolutions committee. Explaining that the league has made no pretense of covering all questions of public importance, Mrs. Campbell said three have been selected as outstanding. In Addition to the patronage stand, the league also will present planks calling for reorganization of rural government and elimination of overlapping taxing and administrative units and improvement of nominating methods designed to limit the number of candidates in the direct primary.

NAZI INQUIRY FUNDSSOUGHT Committee Will Ask Congress for $40,000 More for Investigation. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 7—Alarmed by disclosures of highly organized distribution systems for subversive propaganda in the United States, the house Nazi investigation committee today voted to ask congress for an additional $40,000 to carry on its inquiry this summer. The decision came after it was revealed that the silver shirts, an anti-Semitic, anti-Communistic organization, had attempted to join hands with the United German societies to further the Hitler cause in America. Representative John W. McCormack (Dem., Mass.), said even a larger sum might be necessary for a complete investigation, but that the committee had decided to ask congress for only $40,000 now. “Disclosures this far have firmly convinced us that the additional appropriation is justified.’ CLEVELAND GIRL AND NEW HUSBAND RETURN Former Jane Grasselli Weds Italian Count in Europe. By United Press NEW YORK, June 7.—Countess Gradenigo, who went abroad five months ago as Jane Grasselli of Cleveland, came back today on the Conte di Savoia with her new husband, whom she married in Rome. Count Gradenigo is Italian consul in Cleveland, where he met Miss Grasselli, member of a wealthy Cleveland chemical family. Early this year she went abroad with her family and their engagement was announced while she was in Egypt. The count joined his fiancee abroad and they were married May 9 by Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi in the church of Santa Maria Degli Angeli in Rome. After a honeymoon spent in Italy, they now are en route to Cleveland, where they will make their home.

were born at one time in Canada runs to plural births. Here in San Francisco Mrs. Aldo Beltrami is the mother of twin boys, born yesterday. Mrs. Beltrami is a first cousin of Oliva Dionne, father of the Ontario quintuplets.

Judges’ Contempt Threats Flailed by U. S. Jurist

A N attack on judges who resort contempt of court statutes to keep the dignity of their courts unmarred, and the beginning of a drive to get city banks out of the law business, last night marked the season’s final meeting of the Indianapolis Bar Association at the Columbia Club. Too-ready use of th^^ntempt

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SEEKS MILLIONS FORJARM AID Message From President to Congress Is Expected Sometime Today. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 7.—President Roosevelt’s message asking congress to appropriate $525,000,000 for sufferers from the nation’s worst drought was expected today, or at latest tomorrow. Approval of the request was considered a matter of course, the only question in the minds of senators and representatives from parched areas being whether the huge appropriation was large enough. Smooth-working federal relief machinery was already starting to alleviate the distress in the windswept, sun-baked area extending from the Rockies to the Alleghanies. Congress also was paying heed to the menace of insects in the wake of the unrpecedented dry spell Grave danger to the rich midwest corn fields from cinch bugs was seen and the house passed a bill for use of $1,000,000 in fighting the new peril. Chairman James Buchanan of the house apppropriations committee said the cinch bug situation was the worst since 1885 with eleven states from Ohio to Oklahoma affected. Heat Wave Broken Here Cooler temperatures at sundown yesterday broke the heat Wave that has tortured Indiana a week. At noon today the mercury stood at 82 degrees, in contrast to 89 degrees at noon yesterday. A decidedly more optimistic note was struck today in comment of the crop situation by E. C. Faust, official of the Indiana Farm Bureau and editor of the Hoosier Farmer. While he repeated that the oats crop virtually had been destroyed in its entirety and that the hay crop would be decidedly short, he said that rains all over the state in the last two or three days had eased the situation for other crops. “Corn is doing well and wheat doesn’t seem to have been hurt much,” he declared. “We’re a lot more optimistic than we were a week ago.” Aided by the sun, temperatures rose to 93 degrees at 3 p. m. yesterday. A high pressure field and a northeastern wind brought the cool weather to the city. A mark of 59 degrees at 3 a. m. officially was recorded today. However, temperatures tomorrow are expected to rise again. Some portions of the state have reported temperatures today below normal, J. H. Armington, local meteorologist, said. Twc persons were overcome by the blazing afternoon heat yesterday. They were Mrs. Theresa La Porte, living on Villa avenue, who collapsed at Pennsylvania and Washington streets, and Iron Farrell, 13, who was prostrated while playing near his home at 901 North New Jersey street. Both were sent to city hospital. FALL INJURIES ARE FATAL TO CITY MAN Aged G. 0. P. Leader Dies After Plunge. William O. KcKinney, 85, of 245 North Oxford street, veteran attache of the criminal courts, died today in city hospital from injuries suffered Tuesday when he fell down a flight of stairs at Cadle tabernacle. McKinney, a member of the Marion county delegation to the Republican state convention at the tabernacle, walked through the wrong door in a rear passage of the tabernacle and fell to the basement. He suffered head injuries, a broken left arm and a broken right hip. He was treated at the scene by a visiting physician, Dr. J. W. Shafer, Lafayette, and then rushed to the hospital. TWO CUBANS FIGHT~DUEL Politicians Battle With Pistols; Neither Is Hurt. By United Press HAVANA, Cuba, June 7.—Two prominent Cuban politicians—Secretary of Treasury Joaquin Martinez Saenz and Oscar De La Torrefought a duel with pistols in the presence of government officials today, but neither was wounded.

statutes was denounced by Judge Will M. Sparks of the federal circuit court of appeals, Chicago, whose speech came only a few hours after Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker had inferred he might jail Deputy Prosecutor John J. Kelly in a clash over delay in a case Mr. Kelly is prosecuting. “Judges should stay as far away from contempt statutes as they

FEAR OF MOB VIOLENCE GROWS WITH DEATH OF SECOND OFFICER IN SOUTHERN INDIANA; THREE HELD

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With a posse of 600 men, aided by bloodhounds, on their trail, three bandit suspects were captured in southern Indiana after Deputy Sheriff Harold Amick was slain.in Underwood and patrolman John Pfaffenberger was wounaed fatally, in Seymour. The shooting occurred as the bandits fled from a filling

‘FIRST LADY’ ON INSPECTION TRIP Mrs. Roosevelt Makes Four Speeches on Tour of West Virginia. By United Press ELKINS, W. Va., June 7. Greetings from thousands, three speeches, a forty-six-mile drive and breakfast with Governor and Mrs. H. G. Kemp were Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s prelude today to her inspection tour of the new deal subsistence homesteads. Members of her entourage were hard-pressed to match her energy as she drove from here to the Tygart Valley homestead to visit ninety-five pioneers of the “new frontier.” This afternoon she planned to return here to make her fourth address of the day before the graduating class of Davis-Elkins college, and then drive on to Reedsville to see the homes into which fifty families of jobless miners have moved. Mrs. Roosevelt began her speech at fr:4s a. m. in Grafton, where she said: “I was here fourteen years ago at the beginning of a campaign. But today I am here for no political reason. I am here to see as much as I can of two ventures in which I am particularly interested, the homesteads at Tygart Valley and at Reedsville.” TESTIMONY IN AUTO DEATH CONTRADICTED Car Went Four Blocks After Killing Miss Hawkins, Says Cabman. The automobile which struck and killed Miss Helen Hawkins near Delaware and St. Clair streets on May 24 stopped only momentarily after the crash, Theodore Bullard, 2855 MacPherson street, testified today at the coroner’s inquest. Mr. Bullard is the taxi driver mentioned in previous testimony as having chased the death car and forced it to stop. Today Mr. Bullard said that he pursued the car four blocks and drove in front of it. This testimony contradicted that of Russell Langsenkamp, 3060 North Meridian street, who said the death car went only one-half block after the accident. Miss Julia Freyn was the driver of the car. Mr. Bullard was the eleventh witness to testify in the probe. BELGIAN CABINET FALLS Government Suffers Two Defeats in Chamber of Deputies. By United Press BRUSSELS. June 7.—Popular interest was divided today between the birth of a royal prince and a cabinet crisis. Queen Astricf gave birth to her third child and second son a few hours after the cabinet, under Count Charles De Broqueville resigned because of two defeats in the chamber of deputies. The prince was baptized privately today and named Albert for his grandfather, the king, who was killed in a mountain fall in January.

can get,” Judge Sparks declared. “These statutes never should be used.” % The motion approving a proposed agreement under which banks and trust companies will be asked to refrain from the practice of law was passed unanimously. It was read by Taylor Groninger, chairman of a special

station holdup. At left is shown Trainer McKenzie with his bloodhounds. At right are Sheriff Wilbur Amick, Scottsburg, who battled the bandits after his brother was slain; the sheriff’s daughter, Helen, and his son, Kenneth.

300 STRiKERS RETURN TO WORK IN TOLEDO Auto-Lite Company Agrees to Relieve Workers At Once. By United Press TOLEDO, June 7.—Three hundred Electric Auto-Lite Company workers who formed the nucleus of recent strikers, were at work today apparently satisfied with working terms agrees upon by the company and union leaders. They replaced workers employed since the strike started, who were laid off yesterday when the company agreed to rehire union workmen at once, instead of under a stagger system. Rioting at the plant a fortnight ago killed two men and injured 200 during skirmishes of strikers and national guardsmen, called to police the area. TRAIN PLUNGES INTO RIVER; THREE KILLED Two Trainmen, Only Passenger Die in Crash. By United Press BALTIMORE, June 7.—The bodies of two Pennsylvania railroad trainmen were removed today from four feet of water in the little Gunpowder river, seven hours after a train plunged from a bridge at Parktor., Md., twenty miles north of here, and crashed into the stream bed twenty-five feet below. Miss Margare 1 , Frederick, 22, of Parkton, was scivlded fatally in the wreck. She was the only passenger on the train, which was en route to Harrisburg, Pa. The dead trainmen were engineer T. F. Bossum and fireman J. O. Boulser, both of Baltimore. They were thrown from the locomotive as it plunged off the bridge, and were pinned under the water when the engine and tender fell upon them. U. S. Professor Dies in Germany BERLIN, June 7.—Dr. William Robert Shepherd, 62, Seth Low professor of history at Columbia university, died today of angina pectoris. He was in Germany on a lecture tour.

Television Inventor Dies Martyr to Science at 67 Dr. Charles Francis Jenkins Succumbs Before Results of Perfected Work Are Made Known. By United Press WASHINGTON. June 7.—More honors may go posthumously to the late Dr. Charles Francis Jenkins who raced death to perfect his invention of television. Dr. Jenkins died yesterday, but the world will not know whether he won the race until scientists examine his laboratory and the formulae he wrote during the last months..

Dr. Jenkins was a martyr to science, one of the great inventors of modem times, and a man who became rich in spite of himself. After working for decades on such inventions as the motion picture, the talkies, high speed cameras and television, he was stricken with heart disease, but refused to quit work until his condition became serious several .months ago.

committee dealing with the problem. It deals principally with financial institutions appearing at attorneys in matters involving wills, trusts and estates. George E. Palmer, 1412 Merchants Bank building, and Edwin McClure, 704 Fletcher Trust building, were introduced as new members.

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COUP CHECKED INUTHUANIA Ex-Fascist Premier’s Putsch Frustrated, Defense Ministry Says. By United Press BERLIN, June 7. Augustinas Valdemaras, former Fascist premier, attempted a coup today in Lithuania, the United Press was advised by telephone from Kovno. The ministry of defense admitted a Valdemaras putsch plan had been discovered but that he had insufficient strength to carry it through.” The ministry said Valdemaras himself was not in Kovno, although he was in Lithuania, and the government might order his arrest. The government is in full control of the situation and of all military, and conditions are quiet, the ministry said. No arrests had been made, it was declared. HAVANA TERRORISTS ACTIVE IN BOMBINGS Two Wounded by Blast Near Correspondent’s Home. By United Press HAVANA, June 7.—Terrorists were busy bombing during the early hours today. One large bomb exploded in front of a drug store across the street from the United Press correspondent’s heme and, after penetrating an iron sautter, wounded two sleeping men. A passerby was killed late yesterday by a bomb that exploded sixty feet away in front of a hardware store. PLAYGROUNDS OPENING POSTPONED 3 DAYS Municipal Projects Will Be Ready June 18, Board Says. Municipal playgrounds will not open until Monday. June 18, the park board ruled today. The opening date previously has been set as June 15.

Then he closed his laboratory, but continued to work in his sick room. His best-known invention, perhaps, was the motion picture projector. Never a good business man, Dr. Jenkins received only a few dollars for it. Frequently he was pressed for cash. As he continued to patent inventions concerning near'y all phases of motion picture and radio development, however, he became a wealthy man. In 1922 he first demonstrated the transmisison of pictures by wire. In 1923 he succeeded in sending pictures by wire. He labored ceaselessly developing his television process, which he believed would revolutionize entertainment and communication. Dr. Jenkins was 67. He is survived by his widow, his 90-year-oid father, and two brothers.

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State Police Are Rushed to New Albany to Avert Possible Outbreak. REPORT FEELING ‘UGLY Patrolman’s Injuries Fatal; Suspects Arraigned Before Court. Increasing fears of mob violence with announcement of death today of a seconjJ police officer, caused Captain Matt Leach of the state police to dispatch extra guards to New Albany to protect three bandits held as the slayers. The second victim of the gunmen’s bullets was patrolmen John Pfaffenberger, 38, Seymour, who died in Memorial hospital here. Captain Leach said that he was dispatching extra state policemen to the southern Indiana jail following a telephone call from one of his men who said that the feeling in the communities where patrolman Pfaffenberger and Deputy Sheriff Harold Amick, the slain peace officers, were popular, had become “ugly.” Sergeant John Weir of the state police is in charge of the special squad sent to New Albany by Captain Leach today. Swift Justice Expected Patrolman Pfaffenberger was wounded when he attempted to arrest the three young men on a charge of failing to pay for gasoline which they had obtained at a Seymour filling station. Deputy Sheriff Amick was killed at Underwood a short time after Patrolman Pfaffenberger was wounded. Swift justice is expected in the trials of the desperadoes for whom grand jury indictments now are being sought. A hearing on the indictments has been set for tomorrow morning in Jeffersonville. The youths, Edward Coffin, 23, Greenfield; Robert Neal, 20, Bloomington, and Lacell Long, 22, Helmsburg, are accused of slaying the peace officers Monday night. Under a suspension of regular court procedure they were arraigned before Circuit Judge George C. Kopp shortly before midnight on murder charges filed by Prosecutor Clyde F. Crooks. After the hearing they were taken to the Floyd county jail at New Albany. The Clark county jail here is being remodeled. Jury to Be Impaneled Preparations were started immediately for impaneling a special grand jury session to return ments against the prisoners. TheJ April term of Clark circuit court, scheduled to be ended this week, probably will be held over to try the murder case. Roundup of the suspects was completed late yesterday, within forty-eight hours after the slaying, with the arrest of Coffin, a paroled convict from the state reformatory at Pendleton. Coffin, alleged “trigger man,” was captured at Neal’s apartment in Bloomington just as he was changing clothes in preparation to leave southern Indiana. Admits Killing, Is Claim He corroborated statements of Neal and Long that he did the shooting but refused to sign a confession, police said. He admitted kidnaping Ralph Shields, 18, Underwood, Tuesday morning and forcing the youth to drive him to Bloomington while approximately 600 possemen searched a woods near where the deputy sheriff was killed, according to police. Capture of the three youths and arrest of Noah Hamblen, 30, formerly of Helmsburg, at Indianapolis, was heralded by southern Indiana peace officers as the breaking up of a bandit gang that has victimized filling stations and small stores in the area for several months. Although Hamblen was not with and Mr. Pfaffenberger was wounded, he was implicated in a number of minor robberies by Long, police said. Hamblen w r as taken to Bloomington. Arrest of Coffin frustrated a plan to wed Miss Pauline Meadows, 18, Bloomington, who is held as a material witness. BANKRUPTCY, BILL LAW Debt-Burdened Corporations Will Benefit by New Me-.sure. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 7. —The corporate bankruptcy bill, designed to relieve debt-burdened corporations, was made law today by President Roosevelt. Times Index Page Bridge 17 Broun 13 Classified 22 Comics 23 Crossword Puzzle 19 Curious World 23 Editorial .. 14 Financial 18 Five Years Behind 13 Lippmann 13 Pegler 13 Radio 15 Serial Story 23 Sports 20,21 State News 10 Woman's Pages ........16, 17