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POLITICS BLAMED IN HARTFORD CITY POLLUTION LAXITY Government’s Offer of $116,800 Loan to Build Sewage Disposal Plant Refused by Republican Council. WASTE MENACES HEALTH, FISH LIFE Lick Creek Carries Poison to Mississinewa, Killing Fish, Threatening Residents of Marion; Factory Cleans Up. BY ARCH STEINEL - Time* Staff Writer Politics plays its part in the story of the pollution of Indiana’s streams and lakes. At Hartford City, in Blackford county, some of the citizens will tell you that the desire of four Republican counciimen to be re-elected in this fall’s election caused the city to refuse a federal offer to loan the city $1 18,800 for a sew-

age disposal plant. Hartford City is interested in the jxdlution problem. Its sewage pollutes lack creek, and this pollution of Lick creek is alleged to be the cause of the death of livestock of neighboring farmers and gams fish in the Mississinewa nver. Several months ago the council voted to prepare the ordinances and documents necessary to obtain the government loan. Primary day approached. The council, perhaps with an eve to the possible ire of voters, tired of paying taxes to repay either municipal loans, rescinded its action. Thus, thp councilmen refused the loan despite the facts that — Kills Cattle, Is Charge / survey by The Indianapolis Tim?s shows that Lick creek, below all sewers, carries a load of 1.000.000 colon baccili per 100 centimeters. Farmers on the outskirts of the city complain that the creek's sewage content has eaused illness and death to their livestock. They know that a typhoid epidemic of last summer is blamed on overflow from the creek into lowland gardens with resultant illness for those eating vegetables from these gardens. They know that Mayor Elmer Lucas of Hartford City, a Democrat, favors the building of the plant. Mayor Knows Trouble The mayor is one official who goo.', places and does things. Kis father. Jim Lucas, was one of Hartford City's straight-from-the-shoul-drr mayors. The present Mayor Lucas is cashier of a bank. He sits in the middle of the town's main street. He ••gets it" from all sides, but, regardless of the critcism. he knows what Hartford City is doing in the way of stream pollution, and he ialks about it. • We re a breeder of disease and a menace to good health. We cause the death of fish life in the Miss-i.-smeaa river by emptying into Lick creek. The Mississinewa was one of the prettiest rivers in the state of Indiana,” declared the mayor. ‘ I've got a farm near our own sewer ditches. I know why the farmers object to our pollution. They're right.” Factory “Cleaning L'p” Orville Hoehamer. Republican councilman, describes the situation as being entirely the fault of Hartford citzens. "The people are against a sewpee disposal plant. Anyway, it would exceed the $1.50 tax levy,” adds the councilman But the biggest surprise one gets In Hartford City is to find that the city’s chief industrial polluter adiTum to Face Thrre*

BANDIT LOCKS CLERKS IN ICE BOX. ROBS TILL |75 I* Loot of Holdup Man in Central Avenue Robbery. An armed bandit today locked Ralph Ross. 3869 Byrum avenue, and Arthur Amos. 1438 Pruett street, both employes, in the icebox of the Kroger grocery at 2304 Central avenue today, and then leisurely rifled the cash box of $75. The thief posed as a customer wanting cigarets. and when Ross started to wait on him he produced a revolver and locked up the two men. The holdup was witnessed by Miss Eva Saunder. 520 East Twentysecond street, who escaped through the rear door. She notified police and returned to release the imprisoned men. Times Index Page Bridge 16 Broun 13 Classified 19. 20 Comics 21 Crossword Puzzle 10 Curious World 21 Editorial 14 Financial 15 Hickman—Theaters 17 Let 's Go Fishing 19 Lippmann 13 Pegler 13 Radio 8 Serial Story 21 Sports 18. 19 State News 4 Vital Statistics 15 Woman's Pages 16, 17

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STREAM ABUSE BRINGS PROTEST Blue River Farmers Demand Sewage Plants for Nearby Cities. Fifty farmers and other property owners along Blue river in Henry county met last night in Knightstown to protest pollution of the stream and to initiate efforts to have sewage disposal plants constructed at Knightstown, Newcastle and the State Epileptic village. Dr. Charles R. napolis physician, who owns a 500acre farm near Newcastle, presided. The support of the Newcastle Conservation Club was assured the protestants by Walter Jolly, its representative at the meeting. Blue river now is said to be in such condition that it is good neither for watering cattle nor for fishing. It once was one of the best fishing streams near Indianapolis. The sewage disposal plant proposition at Newcastle is being fought by a group which insist that the plant is not needed and would be too expensive. The land owners have a suggestion that public works administration funds and federal emergency relief administration labor well might be available. JOHNSON TO KEEP NRA POST. SAYS ROOSEVELT President Denies Resignation Humor at Conferenee. By t nilrd Prrxn ‘ PANAMA CITY. July 12—General Hugh S. Johnson is remaining head of the NRA. President Roosevelt declared today at a press conference. President Roosevelt, stopping here briefly on his vacation trip to Hawaii. denied that General Johnson is resigning in favor of an NRA commission which would take over the New Deal program.

City Studies Action to Take Over Gas Company

BY FREDERICK MATSON Times Staff Writer Definite action by the city to take over the plant and property of the Citizens Gas Company will be made soon. The Times learned today. Failure to obtain a grant of 59.000.000 from the public works administration for this purpose before congress adjourned last month delayed action, but it will not be long in coming, since it is the desire of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan that this be accomplished before his administraton expires. Method by which the city intends to acquire the gas company's property has not been announced. There are three ways by which it may be accomplished. First, the city may exercise th? option contained in the original franchise granted in 1905. authorizing it to lequire the gas company to mortgage its property, paying off with the proceeds the stockholders and the company's indebtedness. Second, the city may furnish funds to the company, upon which the property will be transferred Finally, the city may acquire it by condemnation und**r the 1933 amendment to the public utility law. paying the appraised value of that part of the gas company's property that actually is "used or useful’’ in furnishing gas. However, since the city applied for PWA money to pay off stockholders and indebtedness of the gas" company, it is reported that the city will proceed by the method of furnishing funds for this purpose. To do so. the city must sell revenue bonds of which the principal and interest will be payable solely out of the revenues of the gas property after it is taken over and is being operated by the city. < Total amount necessary to be raised by these revenue bonds would be approximately $6,000,000. half of which would be used to cover existing mortgage indebtedness on the plant, and the remaining half for common and preferred stock. Some additional amount also prob-

The Indianapolis Times Unsettled tonight and tomorrow; probably occasional showers or thunderstorms; not much change in temperature.

Bar to Scan McNutt Jail Term Plans

Central Sentencing Court Idea to Be Discussed at Outing. The advisability of a central sentencing court, to determine the punishment of criminals convicted anywhere in the state, will be considered tonight by the Indiana State Bar Association at its annual outing at Lake Wawasee. The round table discussion will be attended by George Dix, Terre Haute, member of the state liquor advisory board and former president of the state bar group, in the capacity of an ‘'unofficial observer” for Governor Paul V. McNutt. The Governor is described as most anxious to learn the reaction of attorneys and judges to the plan, which already bears the approval of the governmental economy commission and which, it is understood, is to be recommended by the committee of penal experts called to Indiana last week by the Governor. At the same time it was learned that the penal experts consider Indiana’s judiciary to be at least partly responsible for the overcrowding of the state's institutions for the insane. A great many circuit court judges, asserted the Governor, are too ready to commit to insane hospitals persons who realfy are subjects for the county infirmary. “The state institutions for the insane,” the Governor said, “are institutions for treatment and rehabilitation, not for the care of the aged and infirm. Their problem should be handled elsewhere. “One of the reasons for this institutional crowding is the readiness of judges to commit aged persons who are not insane and merely have reached senility. Children and other relatives frequently tire of supporting persons who have claims on them and decide that commitment is a way out of their financial dilemma. The Governor revealed that Dr. Max Bahr. superintendent of the Central State hospital here, one of the most crowded, has compiled case histories on approximately thirty persons more than 70, who really should be lodged in infirmaries. “If we had those thirty beds for treatment of persons reallv needing rehabilitation and upon who rehabilitation would be effective, our problem there would not be so acute,” the Governor said.

-50 ARE INJURED IN HOTEL PORCH CRASH Crowded Balcony Collapses at Bethesda, 0. By United Press BETHESDA. 0., July 12.— Fifty persons were injured today, some seriously, when a porch balcony at the Epworth Park hotel collapsed. Every doctor and ambulance for ten miles around was called. It could not be immediatelyjletermined whether any were fatally hurt. A convention was in session at the hotel. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 72 10 a. m 73 7 a. m 73 11 a. m 76 Ba. m 75 12 (noon).. 75 9a. m 73 Ip. m 73

ably would be necessary for improvements and extensions to the gas system, particularly if the city intends to furnish natural gas either to domestic or industrial users, or both. Substitution of natural gas for artificial gas long has been urged by the Manufacturers' Natural Gas Association, a group of approximately forty Indianapolis industrial firms, as a means for cutting down notoriously high operating expenses, due chiefly to the use of more expensive fuels. Should Mayor Sullivan and the utility district board sanction installation of natural gas, whether it will be brought to the city in connection with acquiring the gas plant may be determined by the salability of the revenue bonds.

Nazi Germany , Isolated by Circle of Steel, Must Join Security Pact or Be Placed in Strait-Jacket

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON. July 12.—Nazi Germany today faces the alternatives of joining in a general European security pact or being put in a strait-jacket. Anew entente cordiale between Great Britain and France welds the last and possibly strongest link in the circle of steel about the Third Reich, isolating her as never before in her history. Fearing another world explosion. Britain. France and Russia again have joined hands in self-protec-tion. Behind them stand Poland and the Triple Entente—Rumania. Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Such, in part, is the situation today upon the return' to Paris of Louis Barthou. FYench foreign minister, after a three-dav visit to England. But that is only one side of the picture. According to reports, the French,

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AUSTRIA SPLIT WITH GERMANY IS IMMINENT Severing of Diplomatic Ties Looms With Newest Dollfuss Moves. CATHOLIC STAND ISSUE Minister to Berlin to Be Withdrawn, Vienna Reports Say. By United Press VIENNA, July 12.—A new crisis in relations between Austria and Germany which may end in an open diplomatic breach was threatened today. Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, it was said on reliable authority, hastened a cabinet reorganization that he might recall his minister to Germany without formally breaking relations. A source equally well informed said the German minister had been ordered by Berlin to be prepared to leave Austria at any moment. Even government officials were puzzled at the full implications of the little chancellor's sudden reorganization of his cabinet. Relations Are Strained It was known he planned a drive against Nazis and it was reported that attention would be paid to Socialists and Communists also. There was doubt at first whether the apopintment of Stephen Tauschnitz, minister to Germany, as undersecretary of foreign affairs, was done in order to withdraw him—leaving only a charge d’ affairs to run the legation—or whether Dollfuss wanted him, an expert in Austrian-German relations, at hand so as to seek a rapprochment with Germany. Today it w r as said relations were increasingly strained because of the bloody suppression of the storm troop revolt in Germany. In withdrawing Tauschnitz, it was said, Dollfuss wanted to register his disapproval of Nazi methods, pecially as they affected Catholics. Dollfuss himself is an unusually devout Catholic. Many of his political acts are bound up with his devotion to his church. German Legation Silent These reports would indicate that in killing Heinrich Klausener, head of the German Catholic Action party the Nazis opened up a source of potential trouble. It already had been reported from Rome that the Vatican planned to take official interest in Klausener s fate, and—if no spontaneous explanation was forthcoming—to inquire as to the manner of his death and whether his body wa? cremated. The German legation refused to discuss the report that its minister had received orders to be ready to leave Austria. In its campaign against Nazi terrorism. the government planned to prescribe the death penalty for possessors of explosives, to speed up trials of terrorists, and as a minor means of reprisal to exclude them from the benefits of the tenants’ law, under which landlords may collect only specified rents.

CITY MAN DIES OF CAR CRASH INJURY George Douglas, 56, Hurt on July 3, Is Victim. George Douglas, 56, of 1345 Eugene street, injured the night of July 3 when an auto in which he was riding crashed into a safety island guard at Sixteenth and Illinois streets, died today in city hospital. Mr. Douglas was riding with James Bertherm, 47, of 3339 Grace-

land avenue, who w’as injured slightly In the crash. Arthur Shields, 63. of 1642 Broadw r ay, a witness, told police at the time that the

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warning light was burning on the guard post and that no street car or automobile was near Mr. Bertherm's car. Mr. Douglas’ death brings the traffic toll in Marion county this year to sixty-six. Five persons, two of them children, w’ere injured yesterday afternoon and last night in a series of traffic accidents.

British and Russians have left the door wide open for Germany to join them and other nations in a sweeping understanding safeguarding Europe's peace. The corollary, of course, is crystal clear. If Germany flouts the invitation and continues to rearm ad lib, then, if she starts trouble, the ring of iron already about her will function to the limit. Germany’s western frontiers already are safeguarded by the Locarno pacts. France and Russia plan an •'eastern Locarno," supplementing treaties now in force, to protect the eastern frontiers. This would be signed by Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania. If Germany consents thus to work with the other powers, and reenters the League of Nations from which she last year withdrew’ in a huff, her right to additional rearmaments may be accorded.

WARS ON NAZIS

Englebert Dollfuss

Moves leading to a diplomatic split betwen Germany and Austria were attribued today to Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria.

BY-DRINK TEST ARREST WAITED Lutz Rules Office Lacks Authority to Initiate Prosecution. The attorney-general of Indiana has no power to initiate presecutions under the liquor law, even where local prosecutors will not act. This statement, corftained in an address which Attorney-General Philip Lutz Jr. will deliver to the Indiana State Bar Association in its outing at Lake Wawasee tonight, was the high spot of today's developments in the by-the-drink sale situation, precipitated last week by a ruling ftom Mr. Lutz's office that such sales were illegal. Meanwhile, almost forty-eight hours after the city administration here decided to force an immediate test of the new interpretation by arresting a by-the-drink dealer, the entire police force apparently had been unable to find such a dealer. While by-the-drink places, including those in downtown hotels, waited expectantly and the public at large wondered who would be chosen as test defendant. Fred' Simon, acting chief of police, seemed unconcerned by the situation. “How many men are working on this business?” he was asked. “Five hundred and thirty-five, he answered. That, he explained, was the entire police force. This seemed a little confusing in view of the fact that apparently no orders had been issued to squad car or beat men at the regular roll calls. Meanwhile, a Times reporter saw long, cold drinks mixed and sold in at least two downtown bars yesterday, despite the fact that Chief Simon announced in the early editions of yesterday afternoon’s papers his belief an arrest would be made during the day. On another front in the troubled liquor situation, the Indiana Pharmaceutical Association executive committee urged on association members strictest adherence to liquor sale regulations even in the face of “widespread illegal traffic.”

GIRL SLAYER KILLED IN ESCAPE ATTEMPT Murderer of Two Men Shot by Prison Guard. By United Press JACKSONVILLE. Ark., July 12. The body of pretty Helen Spence Eaton, 22, Arkansas’ bad girl, was dressed in feminine frills today for burial. She wore blue overalls and a blue shirt when she was killed by a prison guard yesterday twelve hours after she had escaped for the fourth time from the prison farm. She had killed two men, the first when she was 18, a man who was accused of killing her father, and the second when she was 20. a restaurant man whose advances she resented.

The French foreign minister already has visited Warsaw, Prague, Bucharest. Belgrade, Geneva and London. He is expected to call on Premier Mussolini, in Rome, to see where Italy stands. Italy now is the only one of the larger powers still on the sidelines. Her opposition to the Nazi efforts to force Austria into the German orbit, however, has served to chill relations between Hitler and Mussolini. The new European line-up is only partly to Britain's liking. She would have preferred the rise of conservative Germany which would have counterbalanced France. Such a situation would have permitted her to play her time-honored role of balance of power. The war-like gestures of the Nazis, however, interfered. As long as Germany merely talked about increasing her army, Britain rather favored the project. The German

FOOD SHORTAGE LOOMS AS TEAMSTERS JOIN IN COAST MARITIME STRIKE

cornea STiu. FENCMG OVER CONN JURORS State Exhausts All but Four of Its Allotted Challenges. Three and one-half days of attempting to find a jury to try Melville S. Cohn, a vice-president and director of the defunct Meyer-Kiser bank, had proved futile at noon today and court adjourned for lunchen recess with the lawyers still fencing over prospective jurors. The state used three peremptory challenges this morning, which, with the three used yesterday, leave it only four of its ten. The defense used only one this morning, challenging Charles Krause, 1317 Eugene street, a newspaper distributor. The three challenged peremptorily by the state were Irvin P. McFeeter. 2623 Jackson street, plastering contractor; Carl R. Schultz, 1519 Gale street, sheet metal worker, and Bruce Shields, 3758 Park avenue, retired mail clerk. William H. Shirley, 1428 Holliday street; turbine operator for the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, was called to the jury box to take Mr. Shields’ place, but w r as excused at once when he explained that he had a very definite opinion in the case because he had talked to “people who knew all about it.” Clashes between atorneys on the technical question whether the state must prove that Mr. Cohn embezzled money from the bank with felonious intent marked yesterday's session in criminal court. The state must prove that Mr. Cohn, in general, intended to commit the alleged embezzlement, but it will not be forced to prove the defendant had planned any specific embezzlement of bank funds, it was indicated by Special Judge Alexander G. Cavins after an hour's discussion in chambers yesterday with Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prosecutor, and Frank C. Dailey and Paul Y. Davis, defense attorneys. This question up the first day of the trial, but Judge Cavins postponed ruling. Three peremptory challenge;; were exercised by the defense and two by the state yesterday. GALE DAMAGES CROPS Miniature Cyclone Lashes Area Near Mt. Vernon. By United Press MT. VERNON, Ind., July 12.—A small area west of Mt. Vernon was swept with a miniature cyclone yes‘terday. Crops were leveled, highways blockde and farm buildings destroyed. No loss of life was reported.

Father Begs Son to Face Music ’ in Beauty's Death

By United Press NORMAN, Okla., July 12.—A heart-broken father’s plea to his son to “return and face the music” was expected by police today to result in early solution of the mysterious death of 19-year-old Marion Mills, University of Oklahoma graduate student and campus beauty queen. Neal Myers, 22-year-old fraternity man, whom police sought for questioning as the last person believed to have seen Miss Mills alive, was requested to give himself ftp and aid in the investigation. The elder Myers’ plea to his son topped a day of sensational disclosures as police sought to untangle conflicting evidence surrounding the case. Most startling was a signed statement by Mrs. Hazel Browrf, cook for Delta Upsilon fraternity chapter here, of which Myers was a

‘‘pocket-battleship’’ program failed to w’orry her much. But the Nazi air menace is a horse of another color. It has upset Britain far more than the general public has any idea. Today Britain knows the English Channel has ceased to be a major national defense. New bombing planes can cross it in terr minutes. London could be destroyed, naval bases could be put out of commission, mobilization *x>ints could be paralyzed and industry wrecked in a night by a powerful air force from the continent. That is Britain's new nightmare—not attack from the sea. Britain is understood to be prepared to guarantee security not only to France and Belgium, but to Holland as well, in certain contingencies, in return for the use of air bases in those countries in event of trouble. Britain plans an air force second to none.

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Armed Guards Patrol Waterfront as 4,000 Truck Drivers Walk Out, Paralyzing Traffic; Violence Feared. GENERAL SHUTDOWN APPEARS NEAR Twin Cities Also Menaced as Drivers of Minneapolis Prepare to Quit on Monday; St. Paul May Follow. Violence was feared in the acute strike troubles embroiling the Pacific coast and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. raid today. * At San Francisco, four thousand teamsters walked out in sympathy with the 23,000 maritime workers, who have been on strike since May 9. Armed guards patrolled the water front to prevent violence and famine loomed for the area. Another bloody outbreak was predicted in the Twin Cities when six thousand truck drivers voted to strike Monday at Minneapolis. Food shortage also was feared here. Meanwhile, federal mediators were busy attempting to iron out the difficulties but were making little headway. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.—Bay city traffic was paralyzed today as 4,000 teamsters struck in sympathy with maritime workers. The strike, involving 2,500 union drivers in San Francisco and 1,200 in Oakland, increased tension in the shipping crisis here and created a chaotic situation among wholesale food dispensers.

NORTHSIDERS ASK PLAYLOT Perils Cited to Park Board by Delegation From Civic Group. Plea for establishment of a north side playground for children was made to the park board today by a delegation representing the North Side Federation of Clubs. The entire territory north of Thirty-eighth street is without a playground and numerous requests in the past that the situation be remedied have been answered by the board with the statement no funds are available this year. The delegation, headed by Mrs. B. B. McDonald and George S. Bruce, asked the board to consider acquisition of property between Illinois and Meridian streets, extending from Thirty-eighth to Fortieth street; to provide a place for north side children to play and to take them off the streets where they are in danger of injury or death. The board was told the property is occupied by only three houses, j and that the remainder is vacant; land owned by Miss Mathilda Topp and George J, Marott.

member, that the boy had asked her aid in preventing maternity for Miss Mills. Myers has not been seen s.nce Tuesday morning, when his telephone call to a physician resulted in discovery of Miss Mills’ body in a room of Mrs. Brown's residence. Officials ordered Mrs. Brown held as a material witness. Paul TJpdegraff, Cleveland county prosecuting attorney, said there was “no evidence administration of medicines found in Mrs. Brown's apartment had caused Miss Mills’ death.”

COOLING SHOWERS TO CONTINUE HERE Mercury in 70s as Rain Brings Relief. Cooling showers, which began early in the day and were scheduled to appear intermittently through tonight and tomorrow, kept the thermometer down in the 70s today, while Indianapolis breathed benedictions for such summer relief. It was 73 at 9 a. m. and the sun was hidden behind grayish clouds which only a minute before had stopped drenching those rushing to w’ork with a downpour of rain. J. H. Armington, federal meteorologist. said there would be little temperature change until tomorrow night, at least. Last night various rural portions of the state were hit by thunder storms and hail. St. Joseph county farmers, who grow 95 per cent of the world's peppermint, were thankful for .77 inches of rain during the night. This downpour restored farming conditions to normal in their muckland fields.

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i With land and maritime shipping in the bay district both at a virtual standstill, armed guards along the San Francisco water front increased vigilance to prevent further outbreaks in the marine strife that has gripped the Pacific coast for more than two months. Fears of a famine should the latest walkout endure for a lengthy period were allayed in part by storekeepers who said they had prepared themselves for the strike with a thirty-day supply. Deliveries of meat, fruit, vegetables, liquor, flour, furniture and gasoline from warehouse to stores were impaired. Retail delivery trucks, however still rolled along the streets. With a fuel shortage even retail delivery trucks, now operating on the present supply, were expected to come to a standstill. Although a three-day supply was reported by many filling stations, a stampede of motorists to “fill up” was expected to drain the tanks. Violence, although isolated, flared j early. Two trucks were attacked ; and overturned in the warehouse district. Directors of the industrial association, which has led the effort to break the marine strike, went into conference at 8 a. m. “This is a very serious situation,” said A. E. Boynton, managing director. “We are attempting to find some solution.” George Kidwell, member of the San Francisco central labor council's committee on strategy said: “A general strike is inevitable after the teamsters walkout. I expect it will be in effect Monday or Tuesday.” Evidence supporting Kidwell’s prophecy continued to pile up as union after union voted either directly in favor of a general strike or agreed to follow any recommendations made by the Central Labor Council. The President’s mediation board, attempting to settle the maritime strike, went into closed session, its proceedings confused and its course unclear. Bloody Outbreak Feared By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, July 12—Fearful another outbreak of bloody riotthat raged around the city market in May, city officials today moved to meet an impending strike of 6,000 truck drivers with martial law. The truck drivers and their helpers, battling the bosses over grievances festering from a settlement of the May strike, were prepared to leave their jobs at midnight Monday. Authorities, discussing the need for martial law, planned to ask Governor Floyd B. OLson to mobilize state troops to maintain order and prevent a blockade of food supplies. The truck drivers, who participated in wild disorders when two policemen were killed and 300 persons injured in May, have appealed to unions in St. Paul, Duluth and Moorhead to join the walkout. The prospects of an immediate general strike appeared to have vanished, however, when the Central Labor Union adopted a resolution pledging "moral support” to the drivers' strike. At St. Paul, the Drivers and Helpers’ union, with 1.300 members, meets at 8 p. m. to answer the plea for united action, and President Robert Fleming predicted his members would vote to walk out simultaneously with the Minneapolis local, extending the transportation paralysis to affect 750,000 persons.