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EL SALVADOR IS DEVASTATED BY HURRICANE Eight Dead, 500 Homeless, Say Unofficial Reports From Area. MARTIAL LAW IN FORCE Power Lines, Communications Damaged; Landslides Block Roads. By United Prexs , SAN SALVADOR. El Salvador. June B.—Martial law was declared today in the wake of a devastating hurricane which caused great damage and possibly considerable loss of life. Unofficial estimates w'ere eight dead and 500 homeless in the vicinity of San Salvador. The storm tore down power lines, disrupted communications ar.d badly damaged many principal buildings. Railroads and highways were impassable because of landslides. Property damage was estimated at $1,500,000. No urgent need for supplies w r as evident, although PanAmerican Airways announced it was ready to bring in relief from Nicaragua or Guatemala if necessary. United Press advices from Mexico on Wednesday reported heavy tropical rains drenching the coast, with a hurricane moving northwest from British Honduras. Yesterday storm warnings were issued for the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Heavy winds and rain lashed the coastal states of Chiapas, Tabasco and Campeche. San Salvador, capital of the state of El Salvador, is one of the most modern of central American cities. It is thirty miles inland from the Pacific ocean at an altitude of 2.115 feet. Its population is approximately 90.000. A modern university, cathedral, academy of science and a famous botanical garden are among the city’s outstanding cultural buildings. It abounds in parks and is particularly well policed. San Salvador is the center of manufacturing for the state, producing soap, candles, flour, cigars and spirits. It wa* founded in the sixteenth century and destroyed by earthquake in 1854 and again in 1873. CAFE MAN ARRAIGNED ON MURDER CHARGES Gardner Pleads Not Guilty; Trial to Be Set Later. Frank C. Gardner, alleged slayer of Thomas Sargent, local amateur stage star, pleaded not guilty to charges of first and second degree murder, through his attorney, Clyde Karrer. v<*lay before Criminal Judge Frank P. pinker. The trial date will be set later. Lee Walker. Negro, accused of the ax-killing of Horace Webb. Negro, also pleaded not guilty to charges of first and second degree murder before Judge Baker. Sixteen other arraignments were heard during the morning’s proceedings. IMPROVEMENTS ARE PLANNED BY BREWERY 1100,000 Work Will Bo Dono on Local Plant. Improvements at a cost of SIOO,900 have been planned for the plant of the Indiana Breweries, Inc., 946 West New York street, it was announced today. The funds for expansion and remodeling were provided by a group of Indianapolis business ijien, it was learned. Improvements at the plant will not interfere with brewing operations. Sales, however, will be suspended until a later date to permit proper aging of the rit>w brew. Several weeks will be required to complete the work. Run Papers’ Official Dies By United Pres* BALTIMORE, June B.—Joseph A. Blondell, 45, secretary-treasurer of the A. S. Abell Company, publishers of the Baltimore Sun papers, died last night after a four months’ illness. He had been connected with the Sun twenty years. Times Index Page Bridge , 18 Broun 21 Classified 30, 31 Comics 33 Crossword* Puzzle 17 Curious World 33 Editorial 22 Financial 32 Food Pages 25, 27 Five Years Behind 21 Hickman—Theaters 26 Lippmann 21 Pegler 21 Radio .. 30 Serial Story 33 Sports 28, 29 St&tP Ne** 34 Vital Statistics 32 9taaan S Pages 18* 19

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DOROTHY DELL, FILM BEAUTY, ANO DENTIST KILLED IN CAR CRASH

By United Prexx PASADENA. Cal., June B. Dorothy Dell, 20, blond motion picture actress, was killed and her companion. Dr. Carl Wagner, Pasadena dentist, was injured fatally in an automobile accident early today. Dr. Wagner died several hours later in the Pasadena hospital. Pretty Miss Dell, former Follies star, was killed instantly and her body mangled when the sedan in which the pair was returning from a party failed to round a curve, swerved off the road and struck a telephone pole, snapping the sixty-foot shaft like a match.

FLOODS PERIL DROUGHT AREA lowa Rivers Rush Out of Banks; Four States Are Hit. By United Prrxs SIOUX CITY, la.. June B.—Flood warnings replaced drought reports in portions of four states today as rivers ar.d creeks roarer over their banks after two days of heavy rain. The fall averaged nearly an inch in depth over Wyoming, Montana. Minnesota, the Dakotas, western lowa, northeastern and northern Nebraska and parts of Missouri. Southern and eastern sections of the region burned to the brown of a desert by five months of drought were unrelieved, but were encouraged by weather bureau predictions of possible general showers. At several lowa points where less than a week ago farmers and even town dwellers were hauling drinking water the rain yesterday reached almost the proportions of a cloudburst. While Sioux City received 1.56 inches, Merrill, Akron and Hinton, la., were flooded by four inches. Perry creek, f flowing through Sioux City, inundated an area three-fourths of-a mile wide. Scores of families fled to high ground on the eastern,edge of the city while police and firemen moved household goods in city trucks. The Big Sioux river rose six feet in two hours to the highest stage in twenty-five years. Telephone and telegraph service was crippled by collapse of poles washed away in flooded roadside ditches. Precipitation in Sioux City since Monday has been 4.04 inches, half an inch more than fell in the preceding five months. END OF CONGRESS NEAR Adjournment Could Be Taken Next Week, Says Robinson. By United Prrxs / WASHINGTON, June B.—Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic majority leader, informed President Roosevelt today that congress could adjourn next week, although he explained it was not yet practicable to fix a date. ARMS CONFERENCE SAVED BY DAVIS American's Compromise Will Prevent Dissolution. By United Press GENEVA, July B.—Norman Davis. American representative at the world arms conference, forced a compromise upon the parley today, saving it from dissolution and providing for a continuance of the international search for a peace formula. Meeting the threat of complete abandonment of the conference and the beginning of a world armament race, Mr. Davis presented a resolution which was adopted by the steering committee, and the general committee, to which it was referred for final approval. The Davis resolution met the desires of the French delegates, and Arthur Henderson, president of the conference. Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France was apparently satisfied, but made no comment.

This is the flrst rt three articles by Harry Elmer Barnes, Ph. D„ /in industrial warfares in American history as a background for interpreting the disorder accompanying the application of Clause 7A of the national industrial recovery act. . BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES Times Special Writer The fat is now in the fire. Industrialists who were led possibly by loss of nerve, a year ago, to render lip service to the principles of the new deal are now facing the responsibility of squaring with its realities. They are being compelled to reveal whether or not they really mean to concede that elementary principle of social justice and enlightened self-interest, collective bargaining. The results to date are not reassuring to those who hope for some degree of social decency and economic security short oi revolution

STEEL RANKS UNITE IN NEW STRIKETHREAT Rival Factions Pick Unified Board to Confer With U. S. Officials. PEACE PACT IS SIGNED Union Group in Parley With Johnson After Operators Complete Session. By United Press WASHINGTON, June B.—Quarreling factions of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers signed a peace pact today and agreed upon a unified committee of five to confer with government officials on the threatened steel strike, the United Press learned. The committee was formed after peace overtures by Big Mike Tighe, union president, who has been at odds with the union’s so-called rank and file committee over “methods of approach.” The rank and file has been for “direct action” through President Roosevelt as opposed to Mr. Tighe’s conciliatory methods. The committee, the United Press was informed, will be composed by Mr. Tighe, Edward W. Miller, union vice-president; William Long, Weirton. W. Va.; Clarence Irwin, Youngstown. 0., and Earl J. Forbeck, McKeesport, Pa„ representing the rank and file. Mr. Tighe and the rank and filers got together for a “showdown” after Labor Secretary Frances Perkins demanded to know which group possessed authority to negotiate. Shortly after the meeting broke up. Assistant Labor Secretary Edward F. McGrady said he and Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson would meet with a “union committee” in General Johnson’s office at 1:30 p. m. The new' unified committee w'as believed the one in question. This conference was called after j Eugene G. Grace, ranking figvue in the steel operators' group—the Iron and Steel Institute—and two unidentified operators, conferred with Mr. Johnson behind closed doors.

TORRID WAVE IS BAMAGAIN Mercury Hits 87 at Noon; Warmer Weather Near, Armington Says. Today's temperatures, mounting in anew h eat wave, climbed to 90 degrees at 1 p. m. today. Even warmer weather is expected in the next twenty-four hourse. J. H. Armington, local meterologist, predicted. At 9 today the temperature had stretched up to 79 degrees. 8 degrees higher than yesterday’s mark at the same time. Mr. Armington said that temperatures will rise from 8 to 10 degrees higher today than yesterday. A scorching heat wave is sweeping territory to the northwest of Indiana and is expected to hit here tomorrow. There is a possibility of sporadic showers tonight and tomorrow. but they will afford little relief. MRS. SANDSTROM FACES MURDER TRIAL JULY 16 City Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Slaying Casket Salesman. By Timex Special CHARLESTON, 111., June B. Mrs. Anne Sandstrom, Indianapolis. pleaded not guilty today on a charge of murdering her lover, Carl V. Thompson, Indianapolis, in a Danville, 111., hotel. Circuit Judge Craig Van Meter, in whose court the preliminary hearing was held, set the trial date for July 16. Mrs. Sandstrom has been in Coles county jail since Jay 9.

Labor Unrest Not New—First Outbreak Came in 1877

or violence. Numerous employers have defied both labor unions and the United States government. There is, perhaps, more widespread industrial disorder than at any time since 1886, and the battle has only just begun. All of this suggests the lessons which may be gleaned from past periods in our national history which were characterized by bitter struggles between labor and capital, usually involving the intervention of the federal government in behalf of the employers. The story is told •with a great deal of zest and vigor by Louis Adamic in his "Dynamite,” a record of class violence in America. The first important example of bitter -strife between labor and capital broke out in 1877. The powerful national organization of labor at this time wgs known by the Jfcujh soundigg jaame .oi “33bc

Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1934

SCHOOL’S OUT! PUPILS DISCARD BOOKS

• inink they’ll stay here till next September?” asks Nick Ricos, 462 1 2 West Washington street (left) as he and Victor De Felice, 201 Bright street, hide their school books behind a board fence. If they don’t—oh, well, who cares? School’s out, and it’s time to forget books and play, anyway.

61,546 Public School Children Dismissed for Summer Vacation; Enrollment Gain Is 1,500. School bells tolled for the last time, at least until fall, .for 61.546 public school pupils today. All over the city children trooped out, some of them for the last time, the others until the September term.

Gathering together statistics for the school year, Superintendent Paul C. Stetson said that enrollment had increased approximately 1,500 over last year. He expects a gain in high school matriculation in the fall due to scarcity of jobs for young people. Summer schools will begin Monday morning in Shortridge, Technical, Manual and Crispus Attucks high schools and in elementary Schools 6 and 17. William A. Hacker, assistant superintendent of

Peru Lawyer Wins Favor of McNutt in Senate Race

Harvey Cole Held Second Choice With Minton Still Favored. BY JAMES DOSS Times Staff Writer With the Democratic senatorial race cluttered up with a field of ten entrants, there were persistent reports today that Harvey Cole, Peru attorney, would be the second choice of the state administration, if he is not the first. The huge field of senate aspirants has political observers baffled completely, but the Cole report came from authoritative sources. The administration plans at present, it was reported, call for an attempt to win with Sherman Minton, public service commission counselor, and if he proves to be a broken reed, to switch to Mr. Cole what delegates the administration lieutenants can control. Tagged with the administration label when he first was reported a candidate, Mr. Cole has taken a new lease on political life as the convention nears. His advisors have made no effort to build a state-wide organization for him, but have concentrated on a campaign completely shorn of ballyhoo. His cause has been pushed among the bankers, attorneys and business men of the state with his advisors stressing Mr. Cole’s high type of character, general ability, lifelong party devotion and freedom from factional or group alliance. The administration problem boils down to one thing: “How to beat R. Earl Peters.” With the Governor, it appears that the old slang phrase of “Let George do it” has been altered to “Let Fred do it,” the “Fred” being United States Senator Frederick Van Nuys. The Indiana junior senator is scheduled to arrive from Washington tonight or tomorrow and it is

Noble and Holy Order of Knights of Labor.” It had been organized by Uriah S. Stephens and Terrence V. Powderly in 1889. By 1877 it had gained in strength and was willing to pick up the gage of battle thrown down by reactionary employers. The occasion for the 1877 warfare was a slashing reduction of wages on the eastern railroads, in which the lead was taken by the Pennsylvania . Railroad. The first clash took place in Martinsburg, W. Va., on July 16 and before August 1, the conflict had spread over seventeen states. The first important battle was fought out in Maryland where employes of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad had staged a strike. The state militia was called out. Insulted by the strikers and their sympathizers, the soldiers fired upon t,he crowd, killing ten men grid wounding many others. -A riot

schools, will have charge of the summer session. Four veteran teachers have resigned voluntarily and are eligible for, pension. They are Miss Addie Saltmarsh. 905 East Eleventh street, a sewing instructor; Miss Caroline McAdams, 21 South Arlington avenue, orphan’s home teacher: Miss May Pasho, 26 East Fourteenth street. School 66, and C. L. Stubbs. 30 North Bolton avenue. Shortridge.

agreed generally that his attitude will clear up a very muddled situation. Thus far, it is reported, the senator has not been for any one, although he may be against one or several of the ten entrants. SIX PASSENGERS SAFE IN CRASH OF AIRLINER Rescue Party Close to Plane; All Occupants Alive. By United Prexx SELLECK. Wash., June 8. —All passengers of the United Air Lines Seattle bound transport which crashed in a wooded wilderness of the Cedar river watershed are alive, and a rescue party is close to the plane. P. C. Beezley. Seattle, one of the six passengers aboard the transport, was found in woods about a mile from the plane by United States Forest Ranger Allard Shipmand, a logging foreman. SENATE IS ASTONISHED BY WOULD-BE GANDHI Lightly Clad Visitor Ejected From Gallery. By United Presx WASHINGTON. June B.—A ma dressed like Mahatma Gandhi strolled .into the senate gallery today. In sandals, loin cloth and white cape—and nothing else—the man almost paralyzed with astonishment the staid Capitol police and Ser-geant-at-arms Chesley Jurney before he was ejected. The man said his name was W. H. Goodell but he wouldn’t give his address. In. one hand he carried a staff and in the other several books entitled “Nature.” “Life Under the Sun,” and others which indicated he might be a member of a nudist colony. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 65 to a. m 83 7a. m 68 11 a. m 86 8 a. m 75 12 (noon).. 87 9 a. m 79 1 p. m 90

ensued in which the militia was disbursed and much damage done to railroad property. An even more deadly and colorful riot took place in Pittsburgh, where the strikers were employes Os the Pennsylvania Railroad. Here the local militia refused to move against the strikers and a troop was imported from Philadelphia. Open warfare quickly broke out and the militia killed twentysix strikers. This stirred the mob to fury and by the next morning they had the militia on the run. The latter did not stop until they reached Claremont, some twelve miles from Pittsburgh. The mob. wild with resentment, turned with frantic vigor to the ransacking and looting of railroad property. In less than a day 1,600 cars and 120 engines had been destroyed. In -Reading, Pa„ the -militia -fra-

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HUBER IS HEAD, SUM (MR MTS Tommy Carroll, Desperado’s Pal, Shot Down in Waterloo, la. By United Press WATERLOO, la., June B.—“ Hick Town” policemen chalked up another victory today over the hardboiled John Dillinger gang, with Dilinger’s ace machine gunner in a morgue and rumors that the Hoosier desperado is dead substantiated by a death-bed statement. The gang's most feared killer, Tomy Carroll, died with frothing lips last night, a few' hours after two city detectives cuffed a gun from his hand and shot him as he fled from arrest. Leaning over a hospital cot, Federal Agent O. H. Dew'ey asked him; “Where did you bury' John?” Carroll rolled his head to look the agent defiantly in the eye. “I hid him,” he mumbled. Then he died. Pretty Wife Is Quizzed Dewey was not certain whether the little killer meant that Dillinger was alive and in hiding or buried, dead. Questioning of pretty Jean Crompton, 22. who said she married Carroll a little more than a W'eek ago, revealed no further clew to Dillinger’s fate since he, Carroll, the girl and others of the gang shot their way out of an ambush March 22 near Spider Lake, Wis. The mistake of leaving several license plates and two gims on the rear seat of his 'automobile caused Carroll’s death. A garage mechanic working on the car became suspicious and called police. A few minutes later Detectives P. W. Walker and Emil Steffen saw him and his girl companion emerge from a beer tavern. Officer Walker stepped to Carroll’s side. “I’m an officer,” he said. Killed Federal Agent “The hell you are,” answered Carroll. He grabbed at a gun holstered under his armpit. Walker knocked him flat with his fist. Carroll leaped to his feet, firing a second behind the two detectives. As the outlaw fled three more bullets struck him and he fell. Carroll was wanted for the slaying of W. Carter Baum, federal agent, in the Spider Lake ambush; killing of H. C. Perron, San Anv.onio detective, and bank robberies in Minnesota. low'a and South Dakota in which loot totaled more than SIIO,OOO. MOTHER POSTPONES SEEING QUINTUPLETS Mrs. Dionne Cautioned by Doctor: Babies Progress. By United Press NORTH BAY, Ontario, June B. Almost freezing weather and a country doctor’s caution prevailed upon Mrs. Ovila Dionne today to postpone the longed-for reunion with her tiny quintuplet daughters, born less than two weeks ago. Dr. A. R. Dafoe, who brought the babies into the world, persuaded Mrs. Dionne she was not yet strong enough to venture from her room, and that to do so might endanger the lives of her little ones. Mrs. Dionne, mother of six other children, ruefully agreed Her disappointment was tempered, however, by optimistic reports of the babies’ progress brought to the bedside.

ternized with the strikers and distributed ammunition to them. One troop recruited from the employer class, however, recklessly opened fire on the. crowd, killing thirteen persons and wounding twenty-two. The crowd, hitherto peaceful, derailed trains, demolished cars and engines and burned bridges. The militia men escaped with their lives only by shedding their uniforms. In St. Louis, the strikers gained control of the bridge across the Mississippi and temporarily shut off east and west traffic. In 1884, industrial warfare was renewed, the first important .strikes taking place on tha Union Pacific Railroad at Denver. During 1884 and 1885 the strikers were pretty generally successful, but the tide turned in 1886 when Jay Gould hired Pinkerton detectives and planted them on his trains. This period of industrial disorder

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President Answers Republican Critics With’ Sweeping Plan for Social Order Pledging Safety to All in Country. WHOLE PROGRAM IS BROADENED Lid on ‘Pork Barrel’ Legislation Nailed Down to Stay, Chief Executive Bluntly Tells Congress. i Si'-* By United Press WASHINGTON, June B.—The pattern of a greater new deal—a social order promising security for all through insurance against unemployment and old-age and planned use of natural resources—was presented to congress today by President Roosevelt. Regarded by the White House as one of the most important documents ever transmitted to Capitol Hill by this administration, the message encompassed the whole national economic picture and charter for the next congress the new reforms Mr. Roosevelt seeks. To observers the message was the “follow through” to the San Francisco commonwealth address made by the chief executive when he was the 1932 Democratic candidate. In that speech he erected the framework for undertakings already accomplished and for a return to true social values.

Security for the individual, the family, the home, was the tenor of today’s communication through which the President skillfully wove the pattern of his greater new deal. He suggested guarantees for the aged and jobless after reviewing legislation since 1933. calling attention to 'necessity for additional emergency measures at this session and finally, bluntly warning that the lid on the “pork barrel” had been nailed down to stay. “Next winter we may well undertake the great task of furthering the security of the citizen and his family through social insurance,” the President said. “This is not an untried experiment. Lessons of experience are available from states, from industries and from many nations of the civilized world. The various types of social insurance are interrelated, and I think it is difficult to attempt to solve them piecemeal. Not Untried Experiment “Hence. I am looking for a sound means which I can recommend to. provide at once security against several of the great disturbing factors of life—especially those which re'ate to unemployment and old age. “I believe there should be a maximum of co-operation between the states and the federal government. I believe that the funds necessary to provide this insurance should be raised by contribution rather than by an increase in general taxation. “Above all, I am convinced that social insurance should be national in scope, although the several states should meet at least a portion of the cost of management, leaving t-c the federal government the responsibility of investing, maintaining and safeguarding the funds constituting the necessary insurance reserves.” M Study Is Started Mr. Roosevelt explained that he has commenced to make, with the greatest of care, tne necessary actuarial and other studies necessary for the formulation of • plans for consideration of the seventy-fourth congress. “These three great objectives,” he pointed out—“the security of the home, the security of livelihood and the security of social insurance are, it seems to me, a minimum of the promise that we can offer to the American people. “They constitute a right which belongs to every individual and every family willing to work. They are the essential fulfillment of measures already taken toward relief, recovery and reconstruction.”

culminated in the famous Haymarket riot of May 4, 1886, at Chicago. Bad feeling had been engendered as the result of strikes at the McCormick Reaper Work*. The police attempted to break up a meeting of strikers and their sympathizers. A bomb was thrown killing one policeman and wounding others. A pitched fight ensued and seven policemen were killed and about sixty wounded. After one of the most monstrous trials in American history, four of the labor leaders were executed and others sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. No convincing evidence was introduced connecting them with the bomb throwing or the battle which followed. The conviction of the Chicago anarchists at this time was the forerunner of the labor frame-up of Bill Haywood. Tom Mooney and Sacco and Vanzetti.

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To private industry that would necessarily have to share in the cost of such a step Mr. Roosevelt explained that ample scope “is left for the exercise of private initiative.” No Undue Restrictions “We have not imposed undue restrictions upon business.” he said, “We have not opposed the incentive of reasonable and legitimate private profit. We have sought rather to enable certain aspects of business to regain the confidence of the public. We have sought to put forward the rule of fair play in finance and industry.” Observing that “there are a. few among us who would still go back.” Mr. Roosevelt added that these few offered no substitute for the gains already made, nor making future gains for human happiness. “They loudly assert.” he warned, “that, individual liberty is being restricted by government, but when they are asked what individual liberties they have lost, they are put to it to answer.” Praises Work Done The President told congress it was completing a work begun in 1933 and which would stand as justification of “the vitality of representative government.” He asked that the few remaining items on the legislative agenda be approved, but added that other measures for lack of time or of adequate information might be shelved until next session. Urging that there be no return to the past, he assured the congress that the American people could be trusted to decide wisely upon the measures taken by the government ti eliminate the abuses of other years and to proceed in the direction of the greater good for the greater number. Mr. Roosevelt's message stressed the necessity for a housing program. He observed there was plenty of private money for sound projects and that the congress could stimulate lending for modernization and building. Pays Attention to Drought '* The searing drought now cover-, ing fifteen states of the middle west also came in for attention m connection with a plea for the planned utilization of the nation’s water resources and the assurance that a program for this phase of the situation would be ready for the next session. Speaking of the land now burned he said that "many millions of such land must be restored to grass or' trees if we are to prevent anew and man-made Sahara.” “Human knowledge,” he declared, “is great enough today to give us assurance of success in carrying through the abandonment of many millions of acres for agricultural use and the replacing of these acres with others on which at least a living can be earned. “In considering the cost of such a program it must be clear to all of us that for many years to come we shall be engaged in the task of rehabilitating our American families. In so doing we are decreasing future costs for direct relief of destitution. “Pork Barrel Days Over” “I hope that it will be possible . for the government to adopt as a clear policy to be carried over a long period, the appropriation of a large, definite annual sum so that work may proceed year after year not under the urge of temporary expediency. but in pursuance of the well-considered round objective.” With this attack in mind, Mr,. Roosevelt called the attention of congress to the fact that the gov-, eminent could not undertake projects in even’ one of the 435 congressional districts or in each of the forty-eight states.