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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 12

AUTO STRIKERS RATIFY TRUCE, LEAVE PLANTS

Move Clears Way for New |

Talks Between Lewis And Chrysler.

AGREEMENT iS REACHED

No Attempt to Resume Work Will Be Made, Firm Head Says.

DETROIT—Chrysler plants evacnated; cab owners defy striking drivers. ALEXANDRIA—Businessmen offer to mediate in Aladdin dispute. NEWCASTLE—-U. A. W. membership campaign. CHICAGO—Taxi strike negotiations in stalemate. LEBANON, Pa.—Bethlehem Steel Co. opens plant under guard. LEWISTON, Me.—Less than 100 of 6000 shoe workers heed strike call,

opens

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(Editorial, Page Photos,

tom of Page). By United Press DETROIT, March 25.—Six thousand sit-down strikers began to march out of Chrysler Corp. plants in Detroit today to clear a path for strike settlement negotiations befween John L. Lewis and Walter P. Chrysler at Lansing, the State capital. The nine plants represented $50,000,000 worth of Chrysler property which had been occupied 16 days in a strike affecting 60,000 employees. A truce agreement between Mr. Chrysler and the United Automobile Workers of America required abandonment of the plants. Reached in Governor Murphy's office at Lansing last night, its terms were ratified by the sit-downers in a plant-to-plant cruise of U. A. W, leaders early today and through the morning.

Plants Vote Acceptance

One by one the plant locals voted acceptance of the truce, although in some plants there was long and bitter argument before the balloting. The result, however, was almost unanimously in favor of ratification. In return for ending their ‘sitdown siege the strikers obtained

agreement from Mr. Chrysler that | he ‘would not resume plan{ opera- | tions during negotiations, nor trans-

fer machinery. The negotiations would proceed on the union's demand that it be sole collective bargaining agency for Chrysler employees. First to leave was a small detachment from the main Dodge plant who, through error, marched out behind a 50-piece band & little before the truce was ratified. After a few hundred had left. strike leaders realized their mistake and closed the gates, leaving most of the Dodge strikers inside.

Will Clean Plant

The band returned, after the ratification, and began to march through the four-block plant, picking up sit-downers as thousands lined the streets in the vicinity to watch the parade. State and city police tried to confrol traffic. The last plant to ratify agreement was Chrysler Kercheval. Strikers there said they probably would be unable to abandon the plant until late afternoon, since (Turn to Page Three)

BOB BURNS

Says: March 25.—

As long as we are contented, we should turn a deaf ear to all wild

stories that make wus dissatisfied |

with our lot. Nine times out of 10, if you git to the bottom of these wild tales, you'll find out that there's a catch in ‘em. We had a married men's club down home that used to meet every Thursday night. You couldn't find a more happily married bunch of men anywhere. They never kicked about breakin’ up early because they jest took it for granted that they had to be home with their wives by 10 o'clock. Finally & new family moved to town and the man joined this club. Right away, he started braggin’ about bein’ boss in his home. He pragged that he could stay out as late as he wanted to and go home whenever he pleased and he showed ‘em a latch key to prove it. Pretty soon, all the other husbands started complainin’ to their wives about .not havin’ any freedom, and they told their wives about this new man carryin’ the latch key. A committee of wives called on this new lady and told her that her husband was settin’ a bad example for their husbands. They said, “We even hear that you let your Qusband carry a latch key.” The man’s wife said, “Well, yes 1 do let him carry a key, jest to humor him-—he likes to show it to the boys to show how independent he is, but the key don't fit the

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‘Evolution’ Book Author Offers to Debate Issue

The following telegram was received by The Times today from Hendrik Willem Van Loon at South Norwalk, Conn.:

THURSDAY, MARCH

OBSERVE HOLY THURSDAY RITE

Verdi Allen versus Dr. Rigoletto Van Loon may I remind you that ever since the days of Magna Charta it has been a tree citizen’s privilege to be judged by a jury of peers Stop If therefore the Reverend to whom I extend my cordial Easter greetings is willing to provide me with the credentials showing him to be a competent student of anthropology and that oratorically speaking he is not a disciple of the Rev. Father Coughlin I am willing to come to Indiana and discuss the matter of man’s simian ancestry in public before any board of competent scientists Stop We shall charge admission and use the proceeds of the debate to provide the Indianapolis zoo with a couple of chimpanzees so that your bright young high school students may draw their own conclusions Regards and hapny Easter “Hendrik Willem Van Loon”

County’s Welfare Board Must Pay Neal ’s Salary

“In the matter of the Rev. | EA EEE

Hendrik Van Loon

Attorney General Gives Ruling After Members Fail To Act in Fixing Compensation.

The Marion County Welfare Board must pay the salary of Thomas L. Neal, new director, under provisions of the Emergency Welfare Act, according to a ruling by Attorney General Omer S. Jackson. Although the Board approveq salary and special claims at a meeting last Thursday, it has failed to fix Mr. Neal's salary, he said today. The Board was scheduled to hold another special claims meeting late this afternoon. The Rev. Linn Tripp, board member, said the question of Mr. Neal's salary would not be considered. He said it would not be taken up until the return of Judge L. Ert Slack, chairman. Joel A. Baker, deposed divector, received $4000 a year. Baker was ousted after his close associate, Peter A. Cancilla, slugged Wayne -————&Coy, State Welfare Director, in the | State House March 1. The State Welfare Board has

| fixed Mr. Neal's salary range at

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Board has not acted on the State’s | schedule. | A mandamus suit to force the | County Board to fix Mr. Neal's | salary may be brought by the State | Welfare Board and Mr. Neal, Mr. | Jackson said in his opinion. l. Some welfare officials indicated {that if a deadlock continues in the | dispute, the State department may 'pay Mr. Neal's monthly salary until [an agreement is reached.

| Efforts to Block Undercover | Intervention Opposed.

(Editorial, Page 22) By United Press The rearmed nations oi Europe, equi for conflict if somebody : i oy divided into two hostile | Ruling Is Rescinded camps today over the Spanish civil | 1¢ also was learned today that war. i. the C6unty Board, which voted Democratic Britain and France| joe] Baker the right of hiring and allied. with communist Russia, ap- firing welfare employees shortly peared determined to prevent Mus- | after the Board's organization, had sclini from winning the war for rescinded that ruling. This decision the Spanish rebels and creating a was made at a meeting when the Fascist state in Spain. Iialy and | State Board took over appointment Germany resisted efforts to block | of the Marion County Director on their undercover intervention. | March 3, according to Mr. Neal. The crux ot the matter lay in| State welfare officials said Mr. Mussolini's prestige. He was not Neal could not hire or fire employees openly committed himself to in-| without approval of the County suring victory for the Rebel Fran- | Board. This has been a Welfare Act cisco Franco, but no nation in| provision since the law was passed Europe believes anything to the |in 1936, members pointed out. contrary. “Action on fixing my salary may It may be necessary for Mussolini, be taken up again when the Board to save his face, to send more troops | meets April 5,” Mr. Neal said today. to bolster the Rebels, in violation of | “Decision on fixing my sslary, as [the existing nonintervention agree- | Well as that of my secretary, was | ment. Prance and Britain are try- | postponed, I believe, because ‘some ing desperately to avert the crisis members were studying constituwhich such action by Italy would | tionality of the law, I have not apprecipitate. | pointed a secretary.” The French Foreign Minister | F- O. Belzer, County Board memmade an implied threat that France | Per, said no decision was reached might do a little intervening hersclf | 0 Mr, Neal's salary because of il Italy persists. Any physical Brit- | {Turn to Page Three) ish intervention is an incredible y possibility, but Britain nevertheless | is concerned deeply.

SLIGHT EARTHQUAKE ROCKS L:0S ANGELES |, Wiliam Cuthbertson, 1305 Cal-

“THIEF HAS GOOD START ‘ON FURNISHING HOUSE

| houn St., today reported to police that during his absence from horne | yesterday someone stole a daybed, | a rug, an overstuffed davenport and | chair, a dining room suite, a blanket a. m. (Indianapolis |and a pair of shoes. He valued the loot at $185.

By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 25—A slight earthquake shook I.os Angeles at 10:50 | time) today.

Al Christian Congregations To Join in Marking | Good Friday.

ALTARS WILL BE BARE

Way of Cross to Be Said Outdoors; Federation Sets Services.

Holy Thursday was being observed today. Tomorrow members

of all Christian denominations in the city are to join in the observance of Good Friday, commemorat-

ing Christ's death on Calvary. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral this morning was the center of activity for Catholics. The Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter,

number—were in the sanctuary for the celebration of Mass and ceremonies commemorating the institution of the Holy Eucharist.

Flowers Profuse

As the bishop pontificated at an altar laden with flowers and illuminated with glowing tapers, there was in robes and ceremony all the ancient splendor that has marked this service since the Last Supper. Throughout the day the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed at the Cathedral and other Catholic churches in the city, but tomorrow altars will be bare and dark. It will be the only day of the year that a Catholic priest cannot say Mass. Only a Black Mass can be celebrated. “Insistence upon rights by men is the opposite of humility, and an increase of this spirit will spell the disintegration of society,” the Rev. E. G. Homrighausen said today in services at the English Theater. “Self-sufficiency, pride and the spirit of autonomy today are robbing men of the sense of humility toward God and brotherliness toward man,” Dr. Homrighausen said. Music was furnished by the Washington High School Colonial Chorus. The Rev. E. Arnold Clegg, Capiiol (Turn to Page Three)

JOHN DRINKWATER,

Noted Writer Dies in Sleep at Age of 55.

By United Press LONDON, March 25. —~ John Drinkwater, 55, poet, dramatist and essayist, died in his sleep today at his home in Maida Vale in North London. Heart disease was believed to be the cause of death. Only yesterday, Mr. Drinkwater watched the Oxford-Cambridge hoat race and the excitement may have affected a heart never strong. But Mrs, Drinkwater Daisy Kennedy, violinist — said today: “He was very happy all dav. The last words he wrote in an article he was preparing on the Coronation were: “Happy and glorious.’ ” The one-time insurance man, whom the theater fascinated—and lured to riches and fame from his prosaic, if successful business life, suffered a severe shock only two weeks ago, March 10. Miss Kennedy had given a recital. She and Mr. Drinkwater were driving home when their motor collided with an omnibus.

Mr. Drinkwater

| LEWIS’ ARRIVES FOR PARLEY .

CHRYSLER MEETS UNION LEADERS . . .

CHURCHES HERE

25, 1937

Bandit Victim

purple-robed monsignori and white- | surpliced priests—more than 150 in | cathedral |

DRAMATIST, IS DEAD!

CLAYTON POTTS DIES OF WOUNDS

Police Intensify Search for Slayers of Local Foundry Official.

Clayton Potts, C. & G. Potts & Co. treasurer, died in St. Vincent's Hospital today, the victim of a gunman’s bullets. He was T4. His death followed by less than two weeks the murder of John

Charles Goldstein, local grocer, during an attempted holdup.

right lung and arm Tuesday morning by a bandit who entered his office at 816 Washington Ave. and escaped with a $2300 payroll. Meanwhile, police pressed their search for two former convicts. They raided two South Side houses today, but failed to find the men, they said. A 24-year-old factory worker, held on a vagrancy charge under $5000 bond, was released late yesterday when investigation revealed he had been working at the time of the holdup. According to police, one of the men sought in connection with the holdup is a State Reformatory pa-

made their getaway. Came Here as Boy

Mr. Potts was born in Harrisburg, Pa., and came here with his parents when he was 6. His father was superintendent of the Chandler & Taylor Co. | He learned the machinist trade las a youth, went to Purdue University and established his own firin {in 1883. It is the second oldest foundry in the city. Survivors are a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ruth Potts; a granddaughter, Mary Joan Potts, and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Anderson and Mrs. Edward Hisey, all of Indianapolis. Mr. Potts’ wife, Mrs. Mary Potts, | died in 1926, and his son, George | Potts, died in 1931, | He was a member of SS. Peter {and Paul Cathedral and the Knights lof Columbus.

PAGO PAGO REGION EXPLORED BY CLIPPER

By United Press PAGO PAGO, American Samoa, March 25.—Pan-American’s survey Clipper, pioneering an air route to New Zealand, paused today for short survey flights. Capt. E. C. Musick and his crew of six landed here at 5:14 p. m. today (Pago Pago Time) after a 1600mile flight from Kingman Reef. Musick received orders to delay his

vey of this area. NEW LONDON SCHOOL TO REOPEN MONDAY

By United Press NEW LONDON, Tex. March 25. —Classes will resume Monday at the tragic New London School. First there will be a roll call to

survived and how many died in the explosion that wrecked the main building last Thursday. The best estimates were about 450 | dead.

Mr. Potts was shot through the

rolee in whose car the bandit pair |

departure and make a detailed sur- |

establish definitely how many pupils |

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Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

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TORCH DEATH - STORMS

OF CADIZ GIRL OVER M MURDER, HINT A DIE

Father Identifies Body Dis-

covered in Woods Near Newcastle. | : 5 in ‘Telephone Service Is MISSING SINCE MARCH 12 Crippled

Indiana.

in Former Teacher Had Lived

Exemplary Life, Say | . ee County Officials. MERCURY DROPS

| Times Special

NEWCASTLE, March 25. — A Temperatures to Stay

off from a job in the Delco-Remy plant at Anderson a few days before | 10 northeastern Indiana cities | There was a sharp drop in tem-

March 12. | peratures all over the Middle West,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES » Mm... 33 10 a. m... «cB... #2 11 a. m... «Mm... 31 12 (Noon)

20 28 21 20

In Anderson March 15

lice, she said she was going to seek | —. - another job in Anderson. She Jett | 8Xpected 10 reach a minimum W

by a Cadiz bus, as was her custom, night of 20 to 25. J : they said. {| Temperatures fell steadily, beginHenry County Sheriff Charles E.|ning at midnight and were expected Zornes said she was seen in Ander-| to be in the 20s most of YH WHY. son on the following Monday, March a yesterday was e15, but that there is no record of Sy : her whereabouts since then. | The Weather Bureau predicted The body was found Tuesday | tomorrow will be fair but continued

afternoon, March 23, near New- | cold. Last night and today there

castle, 50 yards off a country road | was a precipitation of .19 inch. and a quarter of a mile from the | Dust that hung in ‘the iy Cate nearest residence. Identification | [Yom a Midwest dust storm, gen- | was extremely difficult, the Sherif | erated by high winds that skirted

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bearing the storm east. Body in Woods Two Days Ee —"— Coroner Elmer Bentley said the | body had been in the woods wo BRIGHT CASE JURORS days. Investigations of Miss Sutton's TED YE life, Sheriff Zornes said, has given | no clew to ‘a murder motive. Miss Sutton, he said, apparently | - lived an exemplary life. She lived with her parents, who said she occasionally stayed in Anderson for | two or three days at a time. They | said they were not worried when ! they did not hear from her during the early part of the week in which she disappeared.

Taught School 3 Years

Miss Sutton was graduated from the Cadiz High School, attended Ball State Teachers College, taught |in grade schools three vears ago, {and taught a Sunday School class. | She lost her teacher's job during a | change of township administration. Meanwhile, police continued a search today for two men seen in the woods last Sunday where the body was found. According to the coroner’s calculation this would have been about the time the body was burned. / John Sweet, living north of the | | woods, said he noticed the men | walking in the vicinity about 3 p. m. Sunday. |

"UNIFORM LISTING OF ACCOUNTS ORDERED

Sobs at Sight of Hat.

| Times Special

SHELBYVILLE, Ind., March 25.--As the afternoon session began today, no jury had been picked to try Vurtis Neal, 22, and Hugh Marshall, 19, for the alleged murder of William H. Bright, Indianapolis druggist. During the morning session Mrs. Bright, widow of the victim, was

neys placed in her view on counsel table the bullet-torn and blood-stained hat of her husband. The second special venire of 35 nearly was exhausted as attorneys (Turn to Page Three)

WADING POOL ASKED ON SHERMAN DRIVE

The Park Board today received | petitions from the Fast Twentyfirst Street Civic League and School 58 P.-T. A. for a playground and wading pool on Park Board property at 21st St. and Sherman Drive. ¥he Board received bids on $6000 worth of equipment and considered construction of a community house at Greer St. and Norwood Ave. at | a cost of $2000.

| The Public Service Commission | today ordered all! telephone and | electric utility companies in the {State to adopt a Tmiform classifica[tion of accounts, effective next Jan, 1. | MELLON RESOLUTION SIGNED | WASHINGTON, March 25.—The | White House announced today that | President Roosevelt has signed the joint Congressional resolution authorizing acceptance of Andrew W. Mellon's offer to erect a na- | tional gallery of art in Washing- | ton to house his collection of paint- | ings, *

DEMANDS RELIEF PROBE By United Press

WASHINGTON, March 25.-—Sen-ator James J, Davis (R., Pa.) today

| istration of relief.

«Acme Photo.

These officials of Chrysler Motors attempted to solve the labor

situation company's plant.

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Left to right: B. E. Hutchinson, T. Keller, president of Chrysler “of the board.

CALL FOR CONFERENCE EASES TENSION . .

President Roosevelt may be worried over attempts to end the strikes, it from this picture. He has called Congressional

On that date, her family told po- | ang jn Indianapolis the mercury is |

| the edge of the high pressure area |

Widow of Slain Pharmacist

shaken with sobs as State's attor- | the |

introduced a resolution calling for | a Senatorial investigation of unem- | | ployment conditions and the admin- |

RAGE IDWENT; 27 HURT

Blizzard Howls Over b States; Damage At $700,000.

STRICKEN

TOWN

Homes Are Razed by Cyclone Which Hits Kentucky.

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By United Press Violent storms swept the Central States today, envelop ling the North in blinding | snow, the Southwest in clouds of dust and silt, and trailing cyclone wreckage across Kentucky. Their toll: Four dead. ; Twenty-seven injured. Four persons missing. | Property damage of $700,000. The dust storms gnawed at farme lands in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado, moved into Iowa, Montana and Nebraska. Blizzards screeched across the Dakotas into Towa and Minnesota, reached out toward Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. The weather prediction was for snow in northern and central Illi= nois and Indiana, southern Michigan and southern Wisconsin today, and continued cold weather in Minne= sota, Iowa, the Dakotas and | Nebraska. The blizzard which caused an es= | timated $500,000 damage in South | Dakota alone was expected to move | eastward with lessened fury. More |rain was predicted for Kentucky. Cyclone Hits Kentucky | Cyclonic winds accompanied by [bail and lightning swept central Kentucky, demolished 13 houses at | the edge of Winchester, and injured | 27 persons, six of them seriously. { The cyclone, which blew down trees and signboards throughout | central Kentucky, struck Winches ter, in Clark County, just at sunset. | Bricks and boards showered over | the occupants of the homes. Hail large as marbles shattered windows in Athens, in Fayette County. Property damage through= out the state was estimated at $50,000. Most destructive was the combie nation blizzard and sleet storm which swept the North Central States. Telephone lines and poles [snapped off under weight of ice in the Dakotas and parts of Towa. Communication systems were blown down. Only a few main highways were open for traffic in the upper half of South Dakota, lower half of North Dakota, southeastern Minnes sota and northwestern Iowa.

| “Black Snow” Falls { Two feet of snow lashed by power= | ful winds lay over Deadwood, S. D. | Aberdeen reported 13 inches, Oakes, [N. D, 15 inches. Orange City, | Etherville and Emmetsburg, Iowa, | reported great damage to communi= | cation lines from heavy snows and blizzards. In parts of Towa the snow mixed with dust and splotched | streets, automobiles and windows with mud. Weather Bureau officials said a $150,000 estimate of damage in Iowa, North Dakota, Minnesota and Nee | braska was “very conservative.” | Roy Lorre, 52, was blinded by the | Snow near Ainsworth, Iowa, drove his car into a freight train, and was | killed. | John Buell, 65, died in Racine, | Wis., from exertion of snow shovel= | ing, and Herbert Pomeroy, 47, died | in Milwaukee while pushing an aus tomobile out of the snow.

Searching Party Formed Snow fell in *parts of Wisconsin. | First rain, then sleet, then snow | swept over Chicago, crippling traffic. Mrs. Ella Schostag, 61, died in Milwaukee from the exertion of shoveling snow. Near Bismarck, N. D, 24 Boy Scout leaders and State Supreme Court Justice A, M. Christianson were snowbound overnight in a schoolhouse. A few hours after they were rescued, Dr. Roy Sinclair and Jim Ross were reported lost between Scottsbluff and Kimball, Mr, Sinclair and Mr. Ross found their way into Kimball after spend« ing and night at a farmhouse. Then police learned Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Hine, Kimball: Rube Pettijohn, Scottsbluff, and Joseph Fitzpatrick, Omaha, were missing somewhere outside Kimball. Posses were ore ganized to search for them.

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