Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1937 — Page 1

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1937

Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind,

Entered as at Postoffice,

NATIONS FEAR WAR IS CLOSE SINNS STATES

‘Great Britain and France Dicker for Supplies From U. S.

CLEANS HOUSE

TRAFFIC DRIVE 1S ORDERED BY CITY OFFICIALS

Woman Killed by Trolley Car, Raising the County Toll to 24.

KERN ASKS METER STUDY

Wite Doubts F.D. R. Best Dressed Man

By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.— President Roosevelt may be America’s best dressed man to the tailors of the nation, but to Mrs. Roosevelt he's just another husband who refuses to worry about the hang of his coat and the crease of his trousers, The First Lady said today that she feared the Merchant Tailors Designers Association made a big mistake when it listed her husband at the head || . of the country’s snappy dress- || Bearing on War Plans,

ers. The tailors probably will . Writer Says.

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"RUSSIA

Safety Expert to Make Sur- | vey of Needs, Morrissey Tells Mayor.

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

| lose money thereby. i With that title already || awarded him, Mrs. Roosevelt {| sighed, she probably never will be able to persuade her husband to buy another new suit. The task of getting the President to order clothes was bad enough in the first place, without the tailors making it worse, she added.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.— It is no

| exaggeration to state that at this moment the domestic and foreign policies of every major power in Europe, Asia and the Americas are | dominated by the conviction that war may break out this spring or | summer.

1937 1936

February 8

Accidents aN Injured BAGELS TRAFFIC ARRESTS

Running red light ..... No driver's license .. Great Britain is

Drunken driving Mg tt land hence is not only strengthenOther except parking ' BILLS RECEIVED ling her fighting machine 2 a bate “ Coot Ghia 4 1 [unequalled since the outbreak o One of the most stringent traffic the World War, but is anxiously

campaigns in the city’s history” was | th ; ) DE by Capt. Lewis John- dickering with the te : Restes son of the Police Traffic Depart- ‘for supplies after hostilities ment. Measures | ou. SH Bite Mayor Kern today suggested to | _ Next week France's envos eXtpaor Safety Board members that they | dinary, Georges Bonne ND : make a study of the parking meter | | Minister of Finance, will arri & n systems used in other cities as a | this country On 3 Similar solution to the local problem. mission. Both Britain an ge Meanwhile, Marion County | fear that the American source counted its traffic deaths at 24 in the last 40 days, 14 more than for the corresponding period last year. City officials, all down the line, shocked by the appalling toll, swung into action. Capt. Johnson recalled eight motorcycle officers from flood duty to push the campaign. The Legislature prepared to ok on the first of several highway safety | _. "hl s bills sponsored by Governor Town- | mines entirely on the iste boss Was | rope preparatory to a send. |passed by the House, 85 0 2, and | oqinst her, via Czechoslovakia, PoPolice Chief Morrissey, returning | sent to the Senate. land, the Baltic States, any or all. to his office for the first time after | hare were 29 bills introduced in | So she is cleaning house. A dragan illness of several weeks, conferred |4ne ‘House and none in the Senate. net is out to catch all potential with Mayor Kern on the trafic sit- | y,04uction of the $98.000000 | enemies of ‘the Stalin regime—eneuation as one of his first official yyqgoet bill, originally scheduled for | mies who, in time of crisis, might acts. today, was held up because the |Sabotage mines, railways and facSees Additional Revenue | State Budget Committee has not | tories or otherwise cripple the fightcompleted its study of the Public | ing strength of the Union. Mayor Kern said a study of the Welfare Department's requests and parking meter system has led him a proposal to establish a pension |going through a political to believe that it would relieve the | system for Indiana and Purdue Uni- | Which ‘will have considerable bear-

congestion in downtown areas and | versity faculty members. ling on her war plans. Ever since traffic officers. | WINDSTORM HITS shortage of officers, especially in the | The Indiana League of Women Senator Jacob Weiss (D. Indian- / y i eacl : needed only a short time ch Tuvenile \Gourt 2nd octablio & < i ATURES Both Mayor Kern and Chief Mor- | «3000 000 annually oy oh very | HOURLY TEMPERAT 22 23 3a. Mm... 1p. Mm...

ow Wy A provide the city with $200,000 addi Continue Merit Plan Drive Br i I i Mol {tion thanking the New York State motorcycle division. | Voters continued its campaign for | DISTRESSED AREAS i T ; tomati raffic signal de- . _— able au ic t CN | apolis) announced he would introday. Children’s Court. : Sh... 22 10%... 22 rissey approved the light. road tax bills introduced today by | 22 23

afraid of it,

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Aininistration Pushed by Majority Lawmakers.

motor tax distribution bills were in- | pending neutrality law Shell war in t S v as _ | starts. If that is going to happen. RE ithe it is highly important that they

Ro leaders sought to place all of | know it as soon as possible. {Governor Townsend's ¥ - brogtam ve Russia Cleaning House

| fore the Legislature this week. A ‘labor ‘measure ‘which ‘would, Russia, sandwiched between Ger- | A ‘ ao | jeves ‘Hi is | place the responsibility of timbering | Many and Japan, believes Hitler laiready maneuvering in eastern drive

tional revenue which would be used | seized Manchuria, the politicians in to employ 50 additional The Senate passed a joint resolu- | (Turn te Page Three) Traffic Captain Lewis Johnson | Assembly for contributing $100,000 said his work is hampered by a [to the Indiana flood relief fund. The Safety Board today wit- |2 state merit system, and may innessed a demonstration of a port- | troduce its bill tomorrow. signed for use at intersections near ‘a ! ; " : : ildings where the light is | 0uce a bill tomorrow which would tion school buildings w g abolish the present Marion County Evansville Business Sec Is Lashed by Gale. The Board ordered one set up for State Highway abhi re? : <a ti State Highway Commission funds a few days’ practical demonstration. | one be increased approximately | Mrs. Winifred Brown Naney, 804 : "3m... 22 Ham. 2 a Fai a ‘Rep. Henry A. Emig (D. Evansville). Sa.'m... 12 (Noon)

College Ave. was killed last night I Tax Diversion Prohibited

at Noble St. and Massachusetts Ave. when she stepped into th: | ‘Revenue of cities and towns would path of a trackless trolley car, ‘be reduced approximately $500,000 Operator Not Held |and counties would receive about She ‘was crossing Massachusetts | $500,000 more under terms of the Ave. and stepped between two cars bills. The Commission would take stopped at a traffic signal into the Nr miles of city and town Be rack 32. 0f 112 Belle- | Diversion of gasoline and weight fontaine St., trackless trolley opera- | ‘2X6S Hi other than highway purtor, is said to have swerved the [POSES also would be prohibited. Unvehicle sharply to avoid hitting her. Net the present system, one-fourth He was hot held. 0 the automobile license fees and ane vu, te 8, btn He i is for ny vears. and SY . i Se Son Reagan, South | Eight new safety bills, introduced | men labored today to remove maBend, public school athletic director. La Von ph Thompson (D. | OY a i plant topples into She was returning from work at 1. Provide com AISOMY FepOts % e receding stream. the BE. E. Wright Co. when the ac- . Tr pulsory reports { cident occurred. ( "in to Page Three)

The body was renoved t

ture’s latest blow, a windstorm which attained a speed of 45 miles an hour as it ripped through Evansville late yesterday.

through six counties but Evansville was damaged the most. Vevay, too, suffered indirectly from the storm as wind-lashed

| the foundation of the municipal

| 'a velocity of 24.25 miles an hour, not | great enough to cause any damage. An all-day rain of 69 of an inch

o the oe — Hisev & Titus Funeral Home, 951 | Nn Delavare St. Funeral airarige. PENSION PLAN HEAD | DE es M1 Sheth | surrounde es in av PLEADS . NOT GUILTY ['City by 15 inches of water, residents

ments are incomplete. | said.

Chief Morrissey told Mavor Kern By United Press | The mercury took a dip here fol-

that he expects Lieut. PF. (Turn to Page Three) ! n A WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — Dr. |lowing the rain, and this morning Francis E. Townsend,

ELIHU ROOT BURIED AFTER SIMPLE RITES

By United Press CLINTON, N. Y., Feb. 9.—Simple funeral services were held here today for Elihu Root, eminent lawyer |

plan, pleaded not guilty today when | cast. The weatherman said today, he was arraigned in District of Co- | tonight and tomorrow would be fair. | lumbia Federal Court on charges of | | contempt of the House of Representatives resulting from his refusal | horth of Evansville’s business dis- | to testify before an investigating trict. Homes were unroofed, porches committee. (Turn to Page Two)

Japanese Crisis May Have|

Administration traffic safety and |gypplies may be dried up by the]

Japan, ally of Germany, is now | crisis |

Flood-swept southern Indiana recounted its losses today after na- |

Kidnap Suspect Ident Is Sent to Tacoma

ification

By United Press NOYES, Minn., Feb. 9.—An airmail plane sped across the continent to Tacoma, Wash. this morning with the fingerprints and | photographs of Stanislaus Poracki,

| 34, suspect in the Charles Mattson |

kKidnap-murder.

Federal agents in Noyes sent the |

letter in time to catch a mail plane which left Fargo, N. D., at 1:20 a. m. {today. By that plane, the letter [would reach Tacoma at 1:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). In Tacoma, the photographs will [be shown to William Mattson Jr., 16, ‘and Muriel, 14, brother and sister of Charles. Fingerprints will be

| matched with those unearthed by |

| Department of Justice agents and

COURT TOHEAR

WAGNER LABOR

ACT ARGUMENT

Decision Delay Might Permit New Justices to Cast Deciding Votes.

"REED DEFENDS R. R. ACT

W. Davis Scheduled To Appear for A. P, This Afternoon.

John

| police at the scene of the kidnaping. |

Federal officers expect to know by | tonight, or tomorrow at the latest, whether the illy-dressed, bearded alien should be jailed as a kidnapmurder suspect. He was arrested on suspicion of iliegally entering this border city in | the northwest corner of Minnesota from Canada. To accommodate I shifts of guards, he has been held lin the detention jail here during the day, and transferred across the Red River to the Pembina, N. D., jail at night.

LENTEN SEASD

Ash Wednesday Services Are |

Outlined by Religious Groups Here.

Indianapolis church members of practically all denominations

morrow will begin the observance of |

Lent. A series of special services is to be held, starting on Ash Wednesl day and ending on Easter Sunday, March 28. Distribution of ashes will take place at various hours tomorrow in every Catholic Church of the In- | dianapolis Diocese. Morning serv- | ices will be held each morning in | all these churches, with special de- | votions on various evenings of the | week. Flood Exemption Made Catholics, excepting those exempt | because of health, age or type of | work, are required to fast and ab- | stain during the 40-day period, but | this year the Most Rev. Joseph E. | Ritter, bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis, has granted special ex- { emption to persons in the flooded | areas and those engaged in rescue | and rehabilitation work. | Individual Protestant churches have arranged for special services throughout the season and many of them have obtained Lenten prayer and service booklets from

servance Friday of the 10th annual World Day of Prayer. The service here, sponsored by the Indianapolis Council of Churches, is to be held from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m, in First Baptist Church, Vermont and Me- | ridian Sts. Professors to Speak | Speakers are to include Prof. E. Rev. E. G. Homrighausen, Carroll- | ton Avenue Reformed Church; Mrs. | Henry E. Ostrom; Mrs. W. F. Roth-

The miniature hurricane swept enburger, and Mrs. W. F. Piepen-

{brok. Mrs. J. H. Smiley, spiritual | life department chairman, is to pre- | side. | A ‘Church Federation committee

| Week and Good Friday services,

| trict. | A committee of church women, | headed by Mrs, James M. Ogden, is

| cle Easter morning at 6:30 a. m.

LOUISVILLE REPORTS HEAVY FLOOD LOOT

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 9.—Flood | pirates have looted Louisville stores

| was estimated today. | Police declined to estimate the

The windstorm of late yesterday | total theft, but reported that every | Government-financed slum tore through a 30-block section |small business establishment in the [ance and low-rent housing program shares softened early this afternoon

[west and southern sections of the | city was stripped of its wares as the flood receded.

and statesman, who died in his New |” ee York City apartment Sunday of broncho-pneumonia. 15 HOMES WERE SURROUNDED Few except old and close. friends | hm of his boyhood days in this region | i RRR I attended the services, which were | held in the chapel of Hamilton Col- | lege, Mr. Root's alma mater. Mr. | Root, who was 91, was the second | oldest living alumnus of the College | and the last living graduate of the | Class of 1864. He also was senior | member of the Board of Trustees. The Right Rev. Edward H. Coley, | of Utica, bishop of the Protestant | Episcopal Diocese of Central New | York, officiated at the services.

PRESIDENT SIGNS RELIEF FUNDS BILL

By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. dent Roosevelt today signed the | £049 000.000 deficiency relief bill, providing $790,000,000 to continue | the Government's work relief and | flood rehabilitation program unti]! June 30. The President signed the measure | within 24 hours after it was received from ‘Congress. Completion of action on the measure eliminated the ibility that the Works Progress Administration might be forced to

‘curtail employment ‘projects,

9 _Presi- |

to- |

the | Church Federation of Indianapolis. | One of the special events of the | carly Lenten season is to be the ob-

R. Bartlett, DePauw University; the |

| (“The Biggest Story of 1957” by HerIbert Little, and Clapper, Page 13; Merry-Go-Round, Page 14.)

By I'nited Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—The 3u- | preme Court convened today to hear | argument on constitutionality of the | Wagner Labor Relations Act amid | persistent speculation on the pos- | sibility of a long delay in deciding i the bitterly challenged law. | A prolonged postponement of the ( decision might permit President Roosevelt's proposed enlarged Court | to make the ultimate decision in the cases. Before the Wagner arguments | started, Solicitor General Stanley | Reed appeared in Court to defend | the Railway Labor Act, companion | la tested before the tribunal.

| of Supreme Court pleading and New | Deal political foe, was scheduled to [open the Wagner argument at 2 ip. m. (Indianapolis Time). He is appearing in behalf of the Asso- | eiated Press in one of the five Wag(ner test cases.

Watson Case

| Mr. Davis represents the news agency in its legal fight with the

| National Labor Relations Board

{over the discharge of Morris Watson, a New York editorial worker, who, the Board ruled, was discharged because of his activities in the American Newspaper Guild.

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present as court convened. court room was crowded. Frank L. Mulholland, union counsel, presented his defense against the Vir{ginian Railway Co.'s attack on the Railway Labor Act. Mr. Mulholland argued that the Railway act, which now is similar to the Wagner act, but restricted to { carriers, placed a definite legal responsibility on both employer and employees to negotiate differences.

Plan May Take Months

It may take weeks and perhaps months for the President's plan for reorganization of the Court to go through but few doubt that the apparently certain doom of the Wagner act played a part in the timing of the President's judicial recommendations.

cision in the Wagner act | weeks. | If this happens and the law is | invalidated before the proposed [Court change becomes effective, the

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(CENTRAL LABOR BODY BACKS COURT PLAN

| a ee | ‘The Central Labor Union at a meeting last night passed a motion | indorsing the President's Supreme

President

waves of the Ohio River weakenad | is to meet later to arrange Holy Court reform.

| “The motion indorsed

| light and water plant. One hundred | held annually in the downtown dis- Roosevelt's plan for changing the

| Court,” a spokesman for the union | said.

Courtney Hammond, president,

The wind in Indianapolis, accord- | to arrange for the 15th annual sun- | presided at last night's meeting of ing to the Weather Bureau, attained | rise service on the Monument Cir- the organization, which comprises

| approximately 50 unions with a | membership of approximately 30,000 lin Marion County. iii ‘BILLION DOLLAR SLUM BILL GAINS SUPPORT

founder of | had declined to 22 with a further [and homes of more than $750,000 the $200-a-month old-age pension | drop to as low as 15 tonight fore- | in goods and personal belongings, it | 71) I'nited Press

| WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 —Presi- | dent Roosevelt plans to support a

clear-

covering expenditure of $1,000,000,- | 000 in the next four years, informed I'sources revealed today.

PRICE THREE CENTS Judiciary Bill

pear 51. PRESIDENT GIVES rotons STRIKE VIEWS T0 LEWIS, KNUDSEN

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WASHINGTON. Feb, 9.-—Senate | | Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson | | forecast, today that Congress would | enact President Roosevelt's judiciary | | program—inciuding Supreme Court | | features—but admitted modifications |

w to the Wagner act, also being |

John W. Davis, polished veteran

All members of the bench were | The |

In the meantime, with the rapid- | fire procedure the Court had fol- | lowed under Justice Hughes, a de- | cases | { should come within a month or six |

{ probably would be made.

| Senator Robinson's statement was |

| accompanied hy a personal sugges[tion that the retirement age for Su- | preme Court justices be set at 75 in[stead of T0 as Mr. Roosevelt sug- | gested. | This would reduce the number of | appointments which the President | could make to the Supreme Court to | three as of the present date. How- | ever, two more justices reach the

| age of 75 within the next few weeks.

The President's proposal, as sub- | mitted, called for appointment of a new justice for each jurist who reached the age of 70 and failed to | retire. This would give Mr. Roose- | velt six Supreme [ ments,

BAN TRUCKS ON COUNTY ROADS

Commissioners’ Order Is Effective Until Repairs Are Made.

Declaring a highway emergency, County Commissioners today issued a formal order prohibiting trucks with a combined vehicle and load weight of more than a ton from using any County road until weather permits repairs. { Nearly every road in the County, | they said, is collapsing because of | heavy rains, continuous freezing and | thawing. “Some roads have become nearly | impassable,” Commissioners John Newhouse said. ‘‘Surfaces on many highways have been cut through to the clay and a general breakdown [all over the county is likely unless | trucks are kept off.”

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Handicapped by Law

Commissioners explained, after a conference this morning, that the

because of the Road Bond Issue Moratorium Taw. The statute was

bonds for highway construction. County highway officials predicted more money would be available for highway construction this year through readjustment of gasoline tax fund distributions. Until repairs to dilapidated roads can be made, Commissioners warned truck drivers that arrest and prosecution would follow any attempt to drive over County roads.

[ NAMES SON TO STATE JoB

‘Livestock Position $250 a Month.

Max A. Townsend, son of Governor Townsend, today was appointed by his father to a State position paying $250 a month. The Governor's son, how an assistant buyer for the Producers Commission Association at the Indianapolis Stockyards, was named Administrator of the Livestock I4censing Division. “He has had numerous offers from private Indiana business concerns,” the Governor said in announcing the appointment. “I feel that both he and T would be criticized severe-

Pays

| tion and election should not make | him ineligible to serve the State. He

(will have to prove his ability to hold |

the job.”

The appointee is a Purdue gradu- | He succeeds George H. New- | | bauer, recently named State Insur-

ate.

| ance Commissioner. |

‘STOCK PRICES DECLINE

By United Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 9 —Railroad

jon the stock exchange and leading | stocks in all groups showed signs of reaction.

Co. . . INA BABY FLOOD YESTERDAY WHICH WADE GEORGETOWN ROAD LOOK LIKE THIS .

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Court appoint- |

County has been handicapped for | four years in highway maintenance |

an economy move prohibiting new |

ly if he had accepted any of these. | 1 do feel, however, that my nomina- |

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‘Mayor Prepares for | Emergency in Auto |

| Metropolis. ————————— REPORTER JAILED

| | |

‘Commission Votes to

| Give Executive | More Power.

By United Press FLINT, Mich, Feb. Mayor Harold Bradshaw, 38-year-old official of the Buick Motor Car Co., a General | Motors subsidiary, co-ordinat-ed all departments of the City | Government today in preparation for an emergency in this strike area. The City Commission, by a vote of 7 to 2, conferred extraordinary po[lice powers last night upon | young official who has been active in attempts to recruit a reserve police force of 600 citizens to combat any trouble arising from the United Automobile Workers’ strike in General Motors plants,

The vote came after five days of quiet in the Flint strike area,

Becomes Police Head Under this order, Mayor Bradshaw becomes the superior of Police Chief James V. Mills and City Manager John M. Barringer, who also func- { tions as Director nf Public Safety. i His first task, Mayor Bradshaw | said today, would be to canvass each [Government department of this city [of 165,000 persons. Mr. Bradshaw was elected Mayor of Flint py the commission on Nov, [9, 1936. He had served as a comI missioner since 1931. He moved to Flint from a nearby | village in 1916. In 1919 he became associated with the Buick Motor Car Co, and in the same year was married. Now he is connected with the sales distribution division of the General Motors subsidiary. He has

dent. While Mayor Bradshaw acted to bolster city defenses against possible strike violence, Circuit Judge Paul V, Gadola, sitting as a oneman grand jury, sent Johnson A. Kirkhoff, New York Evening Journal reporter, to jail on a court contempt charge for refusing to explain allegations of terrorism in the strike-bound city.

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[BOB BURNS

Says; about bein’

natural is that you don’t have to keep watchin’ yourself all the time in order to keep up your standard, You ¢an pretend to be somethin’ you ain’t and you might fool a lot of people for a while, but sooner or later somebody’s gonna come along and knock the pins out from under you and down you go. I had an uncle back home, Uncle Pud, that had always been poor, but finally one day, he come into some money and his wife insisted that they move into Van Buren and build a big home. She was a social climber at heart and she was determined to crash the upper crust of Van Buren. The first thing she did was to invite all the society ladies of the town to her home so she could im- | press them. Everything went just as she had planned it and she | knew she'd made a great impression on all the ladies when all of a sudden, my uncle came to the head of the stairs and he hollered down “Maw, there ain't nothin’ but clean towels in the bathroom.

Is it all right to start one?” (Copyright, 1937)

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a son, Hora E., a high school stu- |

‘Makes Position Clear In Direct Contact With Leaders.

MURPHY HOPEFUL

Statements Are Made | By Both Sides in G. M. Dispute.

| By United Press | WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—« | The White House revealed to- | day that President Roosevelt | has been in direct communie (cation with both William S, | Knudsen, General Motors vice | president, and John L. Lewis, union chief, “making his position clear” on the G. M. C. ‘labor controversy. At the same time, the White (House said it saw ‘some optimism” [in possibility for settling the strike in the fact that Mr. Knudsen and | Mr. Lewis agreed to continue their | arbitration conferences.

Mr. Roosevelt's telephone conver (sation with both the General | Motors and labor heads took place Sunday night. The President also {conferred with Governor Frank oe Puy, who is promoting the | peace discussions. { “The President,” the White House | said, “made his position clear to | all parties.” Mr, Roosevelt's “position” on the | strike was not revealed,

- Conference at Detroit

‘Resumes Tonight

| By United Press | DETROIT, Feb, 9 — Governor | Frank Murphy insisted doggedly to« [day that General Motors Corp. and the United Automobile Workers | were “closer together than at any | time” during a week's search for a | strike settlement, though both had {issued statements to the contrary. Governor Murphy exercised au | thority granted him by President | Roosevelt to bring the negotiators {back to a conference table on which {lay their respective statements an[nouncing a complete irreconcilabil« [ity on the paramount issue of the [42-day-old industrial dispute—the union’s demand for sole right to | bargain collectively for workers in [20 General Motors plants now closed | by its strike. | Their statements in brief: | United Automobile Workers—We | will stand in the same position next | week as we stand now , ,. for the {right of the U. A. W, A. to represent | the workers of the 20 plants closed [by strikes. General Motors—General Motors . +. cannot deliver its workers into such bondage,

Conference Resumes Tonight

The conference will resume at | 7:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) in an | atmosphere cleared by the first | formal, detailed expositions of both I'sides. The statements climaxed a day and night of strenuous conciliation [and unexpected developments. | The parties had come together | vesterday still deadlocked—as they | were today—on the question of ex[elusive bargaining rights. Nothing [but a “break” was expected to keep | the conference from collapse, al- | though none of the parties wished [to take the onus for failure. In this | was Governor Murphy's chief hope [of maintaining the c¢ontinuity of negotiations, Time and again during the long day it was rumored that a statement was near, that collapse was at hand, (Turn to Page Three)

GOVERNOR APPOINTS PURDUE U. TRUSTEE

Governor Townsend has ans | nounced appointment of John Ward | Wheeler, Crown Point, to the Purs due University Board of Trustees, He is to succeed James L. Kimbrough, Muncie, resigned. Mr. Wheeler, a member of the State Planning Board, recently ree signed from the State Highway Commission to accept an engineers ing post with a railroad.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Books ........ 13 | Merry-Go-R'd 14 Bridge .......10 | Movies i | Broun -......w..14 | ‘Mrs. Ferguson 13 Clapper ......13 | Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Comics 20 | Music Orossword ....20 | Obituaries ... Curious World 21 | Pegler ....... Editorials ....14 | Pyle ... Fashions .. 10 | Questions Financial ..... 16 | Radio Fishbein -.....13 | Scherrer .....138 Flynn ........16 | Serial Story ..20 Forum 14 | Short Story..20 ‘Grin, Bear Tt. .20 | Society v1 Th Thd'pls .... 3 | Sports ........17

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Jute Jordan. 10 | State Deaths. 12 He svn 14 iggain £2

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