Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1934 — Page 3

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LABOR CHEERED BY VICTORIES IN 30-HOUR DRIVE Elevator Concerns Accept Shorter Week: Capitalist Supports It. By Vmi frit pm* SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 4. A labor leader and a manufacturer, traditionally on opposite sides of the American industrial picture, gave new and forceful strength today to labor's fighting campaign for a thirty-hour-week as the keystone of the American Federation of Labor recovery program. Frank Feeney, president of the Elevator* Constructors’ Union, announced the signing of the ‘greatest labor document ever written.” a five-year agreement with employers providing for a six-hour-day and flve-day-week for the 19,000 members of the Elevator Constructors’ union on a pay basis of the eighthour day. The contract will become effective immediately, Mr. Feeney said, in any locality in which any other four of the buildings trade* unions negotiate similar agreements. Closed Shop Provided For The document also provides for an absolute closed shop and gives the elevator constructors the right to strike at any time to support any movement for the thirty-hour week which President William Green has made the all-important cog of his program for re-employment of 10.000,000 jobless. Although the contract Mr. Feeney announced was qualified heavily, it was the first victory for the shorter working week and the delegates received it with triumphant enthusiasm. With no less enthusiasm they heard Colonel W. F. Axton. tobacco manufacturer of Louisville. Ky\. support the thirty-hour week as the means of getting “everybody back to work.” “If we want to get business back, we have to give employment to labor,” Mr. Axton said. “Industry at the same time must be protected from unfair competition by such means as codes.” Other Problems Pending With President Green’s program thus translated *lnto actual performance by the elevator constructors contract and supported by oratory such as Mr. Axton’s indorsement, the labor leader and his aids centered their attention on the other problems before the convention—the dispute in the building trades department. the question of industrial unions vs. craft unions, and the enlargement of the executive council. Mr. Green has referred the building trades controversy to the executive council, which will meet this afternoon to consider the plea of the carpenters, bricklayers and electricians unions for reinstatement. They were refused representation when the building trades held its separate convention last week. The arrival of John L. Lewis, powerful president of the United Mine Workers of America, gave im-

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RE-ELECTED DIRECTORS OF HOOSIER MOTOR CLUB

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Walter Pritchard

As the result of elections held by the Hoosier Motor Club, Robert H. Losey and Frank D. Hatfield, automobile sales company executives, and Walter Pritchard, Republican candidate for mayor, have been reelected as motor club directors for a three-year period, it was announced today.

POLLUTION OF CREEK DELAYS PARK ACTION Tax Arrearage Also Factor in Slowing Up Land Deal. Pollution of Little Eagle creek through dumping of untreated sewage into its waters is one of the factors delaying acceptance by the city of a tract of land which it is planned to acquire for park purposes on the creek near Tibbs avenue, the park board explained today. The uand is an eighteen-acre tract, now owned by Henry L. Harding, to whom the city plans to trade a 27-acre tract, less favorably situated for park purposes. Park board members said that discovery of unpaid back taxes against the property also was delaying consummation of the deal. The park board explanation came when a delegation, headed by Edward Workman, 3649 West Michigan street, appeared before the board on behalf of the Tibbs Avenue and Little Eagle Creek Civic Club to ask what was causing delay in acquiring the Harding property. Gambler Found Slain By United Prrs* DETROIT. Oct. 4.—James Hayes, known to police as a Toledo <O.) gambler, was found shot to death in an alley here early today. petus to the fight for extension of the A. F. of L. into the industrial union field and to the plan to increase the executive council from eleven to twenty-five. Although Lewis, controlling 3,000 convention votes, is opposed by Green on the council plan, the miners’ leader promptly removed the last doubt concerning Green’s reelection by announcing that he wnuld not only back Green but would place him in nomination. Delegates eagerly awaited the appearance of Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, scheduled to speak Friday. The convention listened without applause yesterday to United States Senator James J. Davis (Rep., Pa.), and former iron “puddler,” when he claimed that too much governmental red tape is hampering the return to prosperity.

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MEMBER OF LEGION POST WHICH FOUGHT BONUS VISITS CITY

Charles M. Kinsolving, New York City, an officer and field representative of the American Veterans’ Association, yesterday visited national headquarters of the American Legion, 777 North Meridian street, to pay his respects to National Commander Edward A. Hayes. Mr. Hayes, however, was not in his office. Mr. Kmsolving was active in the legion’s Willard Straight post, New York, when that group was in open conflict with the national headquarters over immediate payment of the adjusted compensation certificate, or “bonus,” the New York unit strenuously opposing such payment. The American Veterans’ Association, for which Mr. Kinsolving is touring the country, now is pushing a compensation program which would restrict benefit payments to veterans wounded in combat, to veterans suffering from injury or disease incurred in the line of duty and to the dependents of veterans who were killed in' action or died as a result of injury or disease incurred in the line of duty. BUTLER PUBLICATION CLASS EDITORS NAMED Chief Selects Aids for Literary Book at University. Additional editors have been named to the staff of MSS, literary publication at Butler university, by Louise Dauner, editor-in-chief for the 1934-35 school year. Martha Rose Scott and Barbara Oakes have been appointed senior editors. Junior editors will be Kenneth Harlan and Rebecca Blackley; sophomore editors, Grace Ferguson and Arleen Wilson, and editorial assistants, Fletcher Humphrey, Gene Smith, Jane Beuret and Jean McWorkman. Faculty sponsors of the publication will be Don Sparks and Dr. Allegra Stewart of the English department.

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CITY MILK PRICES ARE LOWEST IN COUNTRY Evansville Only Other District With Same Retail Rate. By Time* Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—lndianapolis and Evansville have the lowest retail milk prices of any cities in the United States, according to a survey reported today by the agricultural adjustment administration. Retail price of milk for the two Hoosier cities was given as 9 cents a quart. The survey covered fifty cities. In Ft. Wayse the 10 cents a quart price is the same as in Chicago. In Louisville, Ky., the price is 11 cents and in Cincinnati it is 12 cents. The Washington and New York price is 13 cents, while 14 cents is charged at Hartford, Conn.; Birmingham, Ala., and Raleigh, N. C. Top price of 15 cents a quart is charged at Miami, Fla. CLEMENCY ASKED FOR CONDEMNED MURDERER Greencastle Delegation Enters Plea for Slayer. A plea for executive clemency for Edward Coffin, 21, w'ho is scheduled to be electrocuted Tuesday for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Harold Amick, Scott county, was made today by several prominent Greenfield (Ind.) citizens. The delegation, which included Mrs. Lillian Baker, a social worker, pointed out that Coffin's intelligence quotient was 100, a comparatively high figure. Coffin killed Mr. Amick in a running gun battle with authorities. He was tried and sentenced within seventy-two hours. Governor Paul V. McNutt will announce his decision in the near future. MAP DRIVE~ ON GANGS Elimination of Chicago Racketeers Goal of Cummings. WASHINGTON Oct. 4.—AttorneyGeneral Homer Cummings announced today that plans were being effected for closer co-operation between federal and local authorities “to bring about the elimination of the gangsters and racketeers who have been preying upon labor and industry” in Chicago.

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CLAY WILLIAMS URGED LOW PAY 1 IN COOEJjEARING Labor’s Demand for Probe Recalls Testimony of NRA Nominee. By Bcripps-Hourard yetespaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—“ You are asking for a code that in my judgment would permit a minimum wage that is not justified under any j of the facts that we know about in j connection with the industry ” Sidney Hillman wass peaking to S. Clay Williams. Mr. Hillman and Mr. Williams ! both are members of the national I industrial recovery board that has j just replaced General Hugh S. Johnson. Mr. Williams is chairman. Their conversation took place, however, before the NIRA was created—six weeks ago, in fact, at a hearing on a code proposed by the cigaret, snuff, chewing and smoking tobacco industry. Williams testified as chairman of the industry’s code committee. He is vice-chairman of the board of the huge R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Mr. Millman, as a member of NRA’s labor advisory board, questioned him. This Hillman-Williams exchange of Aug. 21 was recalled today in connection with a resolution introduced at the San Francisco convention of the American Federation of Labor proposing that President Roosevelt be asked to investigate the “alleged hostile attitude” of Mr. Williams toward NRA codes. Mr. Williams, at the tobacco hearing, defended a proposal for a 40-cents-an-hour minimum wage with certain exemptions permitting wages as low as 30 cents. Mr. Hillman suggested the industry might afford as much as $1 an hour. “Isn’t it a fact, Mr. Williams, that this industry is proposing a longer working day, but that the industry could afford a shorter working day?” demanded Mr. Hillman. “I am not prepared to say that industry as a whole could stand it,” the cigaret millionaire replied. “Do you think this industry on the record of its profits would have to increase the cost to the consumer in order to pay a decent wage?” “I have not so thought. . . . The only difference between you and me is what is a decent wage,” said Mr. Williams. BIGGEST U. S. ITALIAN FAMILY HAS AODITION Mike Latorra Becomes Father for Twenty-second Time. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—A twenty-sec-ond member was added today to the Mike Latorra family, which won a World’s fair competition to determine the largest and healthiest Italian family in the United States. Mrs. Rose Latorra and the 9%pound baby were both reported doing well at the westside hospital. The father is 49, the mother, 44, and the eldest child, 26. Civic Club Will Meet The South Meridian Civic Club will meet at 8 tomorrow night in Druid's hall, 1317 South Meridian street.

Lusitania Ultimate Goal, Inventor Lake Declares Marine Engineer Says Plans to Salvage British Frigate Merely Beginning of Real Task.

'Copyright, 1934. by United Fressi STRATFORD, Conn.. Oct. 4—Simon Lake, inventor of the even kiel submarine, today revealed plans for salvaging the steamship Lusitania. torpedoed by the Germans in 1915 off the coast of Ireland with a loss of 1,198 lives and carrying to the bottom of the sea a fabulous fortune in gold and jewels. Firet step in the tremendous undertaking, for which Lake already has entered negotiations, will be taken Saturday when the Lillian, a

250-ton salvage boat to which is attached a 157-foot “vacuum cleaner" arm for dredging the sea floor, will be launched at the Lake Submarine Corporation yards. If the Lillian is successful Lake intends to build a 43,000-ton boat of similar design with a salvaging arm 500 feet long for further experiments before beginning work on the largest salvaging ship in the world, capable of untold possibilities. a a a LAKE referred to the Lillian as his “midget model.” He had intended launching the strange craft Friday, but was obliged to set the date ahead one day to accommodate friends. The Lillian is a regular schooner to which is attached a huge blunt-end arms resembling a potato-masher. The arm is 157 feet long and weighs seventy tons. It is attached to the mother, or hauling, boat by a swivel and can be lowered at will into the water. Inside the arm is a catwalk, permitting salvagers to lower themselves the entire length of the arm. Another catwalk extends along the outside of the arm. The arm sucks the mud and sand from the sea bottom into barges. A set of grapplers at the end of the sucker carries any large objects, unable to go through the arm, to the surface. nun npHE “vacuum cleaner” is capable of sucking at the rate of 300 tons per hour. Barges will pass by the mother boat, taking on loads, while salvaging operations are under way. Three coast guard patrol boats are under contract to "police” the salvaging area. The Lillian is known as an inland salvager. The next stage, construction of the 500-foot ‘arm, will be the ocean salvager which will be replaced by a third boat, which will seek the Lusitania treasures. “Our work with the present salvager,” Lake said, “will consist of salvaging many of the wrecks which I have succeeded in locating along our coast, especially off New Jersey and Virginia. I have charted many of the latter, the total value of which would run high into the millions, conservatively.” “All this work, and the work which will be done with the 3,000ton boat is m the nature of preparation. I want to build a really large one and go after the Lusitania. In fact I have already started negotiations along these lines.”

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50 LOANS MADE IN CITY HOUSING DRIVE 686 Inquiries Received and 90 Cases Pending. Figures indicating rapidly increasing interest in the repair and modernization program of the Chamber of Commerce were released today by Walter B. Harding, chairman of the executive committee of the program. The figures, based on bank participation in the housing program, show that 686 inquiries concerning housing loans have been received within the last three weeks; that ninety applications for loans now are pending in the qualified banks; that approximately fifty loans have been completed, and that the average number of building permits issued within the last ten days has increased nearly 50 per cent over the number granted in the previous thirty days. "We just now are beginning to get results,” Mr. Harding said in releasing the figures. “Men are being put to work and are being taken off the relief rolls. This is an vnimportant advancement.” FUSION NOMINEE FOR MAYOR OPENS DRIVE Emrick Links Both Major Parties to Utilities at Rally. Edwin H. Emrick, People’s Fusion party nominee for mayor, opened his campaign last night in a rally at 4400 East Tenth street with a demand for public ownership of utilities and reduced taxes. Speaking from a motor truck m a commons, Mr. Emrick told an audience of approximately sixty that both the Democratic and Republican parties are paying a large portion of their campaign expenses with utility money and that practically all candidates on both tickets are subjected to utility influence. Albert N. Neuerberg, Fusionist candidate for county treasurer, presided. Kidnaping Thwarted, U. S. Claims By United Press WHEELING, W. Va., Oct. 4.—Federal agents here today claimed confessions from two men that they planned to kidnap Betty Bloch, 24, daughter of the Mail Pouch Tobacco Company head, on the eve of her wedding.

3 NEGRO BOYS ARE HUNTED IN DILLON PROBE Trio May Have Found Rifle Missing Since Murder, Police Believe. Police today were seeking three Negro jx>ys. each about 14. who are believed to have found the .22-cali-ber rifle with which Donald Edward Dillon, 13, was murdered a month ago. These boys, whose names are not known to police, have been seen on recent occasions shooting a .22-cali-i ber rifle on the dump back of the Columbia Conserve Company, Churchman avenue and the Belt railroad. A driver for the company l has told police that the boys have not had the rifle very long and that they apparently found it. The driver said he would be able to identify the boys if he saw them. Meanwhile, counsel for Mrs. Dimmie Dillon. 35, prepared to push her appeal from a sixty-day sentence imposed last week by Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler after Mrs. Dillon’s conviction on charges of child neglect. The charges were preferred by police when they were attempting to make a case against Mrs. Dillon and Gilbert Jacobs, 37, with whom she had lived for more than a year prior to the time of the murder. Jacobs now is serving a ninetyday sentence on similar charges. The Dillon boy's body was found in Pleasant run creek a month ago today after heavy rains had flushed it out of a sewer mouth into which it had been stuffed. Police apparently made no headway in the case, OFFICERS ARE NAMED BY INDIANA BANKERS Elmer Lucas, Hartford City, Heads Region Three. By United Prrs* HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Oct. 4. Elmer Lucas, Hartford City, headed Region 3 of the Indiana Bankers Association today following his election at the annual meeting here. Thomas R. Wilson, Marion, was elected vice-president; Paul Jaqua, Portland, secretary-treasurer, and Tony Payne of Fairmount. E. B. Seward of Kokomo. D. P. Wilson of Pendleton, Joseph Kennedy of Peru and G. A. Rang of Logansport, members of the executive committee. KOREAN COLLEGE HEAD TO SPEAK AT RALLY Dr. I). B. Avison to Talk ai Missionary Session. Dr. Douglas B. Avison, vice-presi-dent of Severance Union medical college and hospital, in Seoul, Korea, will be the guest speaker at the annual fall missionary rally at the First Presbyterian church tomorrow flight. Dr. Avison is the son of Dr. O. R. Avison, founder of modern medical work in Korea. The elder Mr. Avison is retiring from active work in the organization and his son is taking over the vice-presidency, after serving six years as superintendent of the hospital.

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