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VOLUME 19— NUMBER 15

COURT UPHOLDS MINIMUM WAGE LAW

TRIPLE SLAYING © nian taal DISSOLUTION OF

LEWIS BRANDS GREEN'S STAND AS COWARDLY

A. F. of L. Head's Attitude On Sit-Downers Betrayal, C. I. 0. Chief Says.

DENUNCIATION IS BITTER

Miners’ President Back in New York for Coal Parley.

NEW YOR K. March Lewis today bitterly denounced Wil- | liam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, for his disWashington of sit-down

00 John L.

avowal in strikes. The United Mine Workers’ dent. whose Committee for trial Organization sponsored the General Motors and Ohrysler sitdowns in Detroit, said Mr. Green's «statement was “characteristically cowardly and contemptible.” ‘He again sells his own down the river.” Mr. Lewis said, “and receives the thanks of the National Association of ManufacturHe calls to mind the quotation: He bends the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning.’ ”’ The quotation is from “Hamlet.” Act III, Scene 2, and correctly reads: “ . and crooks the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.”

Back for Coal Parley

presiIndus-

breed

ors

Lewis returned to New York

sume negotiations for a

Mr foday to re contract with soft, coal operators of Appalachian = districts Deacifor agreement on a new conaffecting 450,000 union miners Appalachian and outlying districts, is midnight Wednesday. Mr. Green's statement said: Both personally and officially I disavow the sit-down strike as a part of the economic and organization policy of the American Federation of Labor. The National Association of Manufacturers joined Mr. Green in denouncing the sit-down and listed four possibilities for recourse by emplovers: 1, Self

t he line tract,

in the

help by ejectment, using no more force than is necessary. 9. Criminal actions for trespass, conspiracy, extortion, forcible disseisin and malicious injury to prop- | erty, 3. Civil actions for damages. 4. Injunctions to restrain conduct

Chrysler Strike Parley Recessed at Noon

Bi United ™ L ANSING Mich. March Chrysler strike conference recessed at noon today to permit Governor Murphy to confer with Mayor Max Templeton, mediator in the Reo Motor Co. strike. It was to resume at 1:30 p (Indianapolis Time.) Walter P. Chrysler this morning resumed strike negotiation conferences with union leaders empowered in the absence of John L. Lewis to [ormulate a three-point settlement for the return of 60.000 workers to shops and assembly lines of Chrysler plants. With conferees apparently in optimistie mood, authoritative sources reported that any agreement to be reached to settle the three weeks’ strike probably would embrace no more than 200 words,

illegal

29.-—-The

the

$100,000 Suit Against | Sit-Downers to Open |

Jimrs

ANDERSON, Ind. March 29. Suit for $100.000 against sit-down strikers who closed the Aladdin Industries, Inc., plants at Alexandria March 2 was to go on trial in Circuit Court here this afternoon.

BOB BURNS

Speeinl

| dents,

| police,

| | burg,

900 Absent as Texas School

Roll Is Called

dy United Press NEW LONDON, Tex.. March 99 —The roll was called toda) at the New London Consolidated School which 11 days ago was ripped apart by a terrific gas explosion, Only 287 children answered. There were

more than 1200 bovs and girls to answer rolicall March 18. Today 413 were buried among the pines and oil derricks, others were in hospitals. and many remained at home. still terrified by the thoughts of the blast Frequently as names were called there was a silence Then a voice from the group: “He's dead.” The tenseness of the call, with the living answering for themselves as well as for their dead friends, was varied occasionally when a name was called and someone called back: “He's okeh, but he ain't comn' back this year.”

SIX KILLED IN STATE TRAFFIC

Kokomo Couple in Serious Condition at City Hospital.

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE 193% 1936 .“i ‘te March 26 and 27 Accidents |, Injured TRAF FIC

Speeding Reckless driving Preferential street Running red light .... Drunken driving .. Improper parking Improper lights Illegal left turns Others

ARRESTS

Four dead and scores injured was the Easter Sundav highway toll in Indiana as the holiday and bright sunshine beckoned thousands to the open road. Two more were Killed today. The county was without any traffic fatality, but among six injured accidents here, were reported critical condition in City Hospital.

Easter was not a holiday for City | campaign | | against traffic law violators, and 72

continuing their drivers were arrested. Forty-four persons were convicted | in Municipal Court today of traffic violations Russell H. Page, 35, and Clarence J. Keene, 45, Mishawaka, were killed instantly todav when their automobile crashed into the trailer of a truck on U. 8 Highway 20, seven miles west of South Bend. Mrs. Keene, 43, riding in the car with her husband and Mr. Page, was taken to Epworth Hospital at South Bend here, suffering a possible hip fracture, driven by George Ward who escaped injury. Frederick Dale Cody, 8 son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cody of near Logansport, was Killed yesterday when his bicycle was struck by an automobile. Police said the driver was Frances R. Walters, EdwardsMich.

Ohio Man Dies

Wombold, the Preble County

South Bend,

Edward fireman at firmaryv Memorial Hospital at after a crash. Police said he was (Turn to Page Three)

| was strangled,

| Byrnes, 35,

two Kokomo resi- | in auto | in |

The truck was |

71-year-old | In- | in Eaton, O., died in Reid | Richmond |

SUSPECT HELD BYN.Y. POLICE

Pretty Madel. Mother and Boarder Are Victims Of Crime.

HUSBAND IS RELEASED

Unemployed Chauffeur Faces Grilling: Had Access To Weapon, Claim,

(Photos, Bottom of Page)

By United Press NEW YORK. March 29 The feverish search by the City's best detectives for a clue to the triple slaving of a beautiful model, her mother, and a boarder at their home led today to the detention of an unemployed chauffeur who was looking for the dead women shortly before the murder. Police said the man, known only as “Frenchy,” had access to the type of weapon used in the crime and formerly lived in a lodging house owned by Mrs. Mary Gedeon, 54, one of the victims. Unusually attractive for her years, Mrs. Gedeon was strangled and attacked in her apartment Saturday night. Her daughter, Veronica, stripped and thrown Easter morning. An

on a bed early

| autopsy will determine whether she

was attacked. The other victim was Frank a bartender at the exclusive Racquet and Tennis Club. He was stabbed with an instrument resembling an ice pick. The man was found at a shoe repair shop a few doors from the Gedeon home. He had been at work painting the shop. Husband Gives Alibi

A blank wall confronted all other |

avenues of police endeavor. Joseph Gedeon, estranged husband and father of the women victims, offered as an alibi the fact that he had won high score in a bowling | contest at the time of the siavings. Gedeon found the bodies when he called at the apartment with his other daughter Ethel and her husband, Joseph Kudner. He was at work as usual upholstery shop today. “Mv wife and I were just friendly | enemies.” he said. “I was just about | to go back to her, In about six | weeks I would have gone back.” Gedeon is below average height and slightly built. Police, | structing the short, fierce struggle | that brought death to three persons, | decided that the slayer was evidently a man of great physical strength. Miss Gedeon had been handled with brutal force, and her mother was | equally bruised. Had Planned Trip Byrnes, a quiet man, who had {planned to leave for his home in | England within a month, was found with one arm slightly raised as ‘though in an ineffectual effort to ward off relentless blows. More than a score of persons were questioned during the night, but all were released with the exception of the unemployed chauffeur. These included friends from the Broadway land Greenwich Village sets whom | Miss Gedeon had met as a model for many famous illustrators and photographers. Among the artists had posed was Dean Cornwell. He voiced * the general opinion today when he described her as “decent and honest—a very delightful little person, very pleasant to work with.’

BANGS’ HEARING

HUNTINGTON, Ind.. March 29.— Judge Otto H. Krieg of Huntington

in his

hearing Mayor Clare W. Bang's ap- | peal from impeachment by the City ! Council.

BEAUTY ONE OF THREE FOUND SLAIN ee

20, |

| the defendants,

recon- |

for whom she |

Circuit Court today set April 2 for |

MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1937

Fntered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

Brings "hreat

From : Robber

Crime was practically rampant in the 1400 block of Somerset Ave. last week, but there was so little fuss about it that police just got around to it: today. It seems that the home of S. week ago vesteraay

some one entered Donald Stroud a and stole $3000

| worth of non-negotiable A. T. & T.

stock. By Fridav the thief had discovered the non-negotiable feature of the stock and visited the Stroud residence again, calling himself in a note “one of the four heads of 15 members of the Black Legion of Terror.” The note said the author would become extremely anti-social if the owner of the non-negotiable stock did not buv it back for S10

KILLING IS LAID

TO MARSHALL

i charged in grand Prosecutor Tell Jury Two | and battery | Wayne Coy, | director.

Mapped Slaying of Druggist.

Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind.. March 29.— Virgil Cramer, Shelby County Prosecutor, today charged before a Circuit Court judge and jury that Virgil Marshall, 19, planned and directed the killing of William H. Bright, Indianapolis pharmacist. He made his charge in the prosecution’'s opening statement in the trial of Marshall and Vurtis Neal, 22, before a jury of 11 farmers and a retired railroader, Prosecutor Cramer claimed the State would prove that Marshall mapped plans for the slaying. with Neal. at the home of the former's father the day before the alleged holdup killing last January. Attorney Emerson Brunner, pleading for the defendants, claimed insanity, The trial probably will last most of the week. The State has summoned 35 witnesses. If the defense calls alienists that have examined and the State must

call rebuttal alienists, the trial may

| not end until Saturday.

It took all of last week to get a jury. Nearly 150 persons were examined and excused. The jury has been sequestered by Special Judge Roscoe O'Bryne. Judge O'Byrne’s jurisdiction has

| been challenged by counsel for Neal

and the objection was written into the trial record Saturday after Neal refused to accept the jury.

TWO CHARGED WITH

MURDER OF POTTS

Jury Returns Indictments Against Fugitives. The Marion County Grand Jury today

two fugitives charging

& G.

| holdup last Tuesday.

One of the men named in the indictments is a State Reformatory

parolee. His alleged accomplice, ac- |

cording to authorities, has no police |

| record except one arrest in Muncie.

If found guilty on the dindictments, the mandatory penalty is death in the electric chair. Mr. Potts,

a raid on the company office at 816 He died Vincent's Hospital Thursday.

The two men indicted were said | by State Police Captain Matt Leach |

| to have been identified as the bandit ! | pair. Capiases for _bave been issued.

| answer | that he show cause why the tempo- |

| County | Carl Scet.

their arrests | left leg of each garment

WRIT ASKED BY FRANK P. BAKER

Indiana High Court Has No Right to Restrain Him, He Declares.

PLANS TOUR OF SOUTH

Petition Filed in Reply to Spencer ‘Action In Cancilla Case. Court. Judge Frank P. asked the Indiana Su-

“dissolve and diswrit of pro-

Criminal Baker today preme Court miss” temporary hibition barring him

proceedings’ in the cases of Joel A. Baker and Peter A. Cancilla. Joel Baker and his associate are jury

the

with intent to former State Welfare

Judge Baker's

to the high Court's demand

rary writ granted Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer last Monday should not be made permanent.

Spencer Brief Next Step

Chief Justice George L. Tremain said no oral arguments on the ¢ase had been scheduled. The next step, according to court attaches, will be the filing of a brief by Prosecutor Spencer. Judge Baker, meanwhile, announced he planned to leave soon for a three-week motor trip through the South with his wife. He said he had been suffering from a mild heart trouble recently and wanted to take a rest. He originally planned to go last month but had delayed his departure “because of the Cancilla incident.” Municipal Court Judge Dan V. White and David M. Lewis are to serve as judges pro tem. during his absence. Makes Statement

When asked about Judge Baker said: “I have no personal activity the Supreme Court case. stand an answer my behalf, but

today's action,

in I underhas been filed in I have no personal

| interest in the Supreme Court pro- | | cedings."

Judge Baker was represented by

Attorney John Linder and |

Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer (Turn to Page Three)

NEWCASTLE TORCH

DEATH CLUES FAIL

Times Speeinl

NEWCASTLE, Ind. March 29, —

Henry County authorities today said all clues in the death of Miss Mabel | | Sutton,

28-year-old former Cadiz school teacher, had proved futile. Miss Sutton's charred body was found on a farm near here last Tuesday. Two theories, murder and suicide, are being investigated. Coroner Elmer Bentley said his

days. Funeral services were held yesterday in Cadiz, her home. in Westport, Ind.

HUNT FOR TWO BASED ON BOX OF CLOTHING

Police today sought two men who left a box of bloodstained clothing railroad track at Parker and Massachusetts Aves. yesterday.

They said it consisted of a pair of | The

trousers and suit of underwear. had been

severed, they sald.

“from further |

indictments | with malicious mayhem and assault, | kill |

action today was in!

said he |

» | Burial was

Vandenberg Otters Child

Labor Change

Bou United Press WASHINGTON, March 29.— Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.), announced today that he was introducing a new child labor amendment to the Constitution which would “limit and prohibit” child labor under 16 years of age. Senator Vandenberg said that this amendment was designed to eliminate several objections which he believed had prevented ratification of the pending Child Labor Amencdment. His purpose would eliminate the phraseology of the present amendment which would give Congress the power to “regulate” child activities and would provide that Congress shall have the power “to limit and prohibit child labor for hire.”

WEATHER IS CHILLY DESPITE HOT SUN

TEMPERATURES 8 Mm... a. m... (Noon) Pp. m...

28 41 40 44

JOCAL m.. m m m

Sunshine today drenched Indian- |

RAILWAY LABOR AND FARM ACTS ALSO APPROVED

Roberts Alters Stand

in Washington State

Case to Give 5-to-4 Reversal of 1923

High Beneh Precedent.

TWO DECIS SION

New Deal Wins ator Victor! 1€8

ARE UNANIMOUS

: Way Opened

For Legislation by States on Hours And Pay of Workers.

| | By United Presa

WASHINGTON, March 29.—The Supreme Court,

an historic opinion written by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, today reversed previous decisions which had stood | since 1923 as a bar to State regulation of minimum wages

land working conditions. The latest of today’s

decisions,

rendered with a 5-to-4

apolis and furnished one accessory | division of the Court, upheld the validity of the Washington

of spring although were about 11 degrees below normal for this time of the year. The Weather Bureau that there would be increasing cloudiness tomorrow and an unsettled condition by night. It will continue cool, the Bureau vredicted.

ROOSEVELT- DU PONT WEDDING JUNE 30

Bil nited Press WILMINGTON, Del., Ethel du Pont and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of the President, will be married at Wilmington June 30, the prospective bride's mother announced today. Mrs. Eugene du Pont said the ceremony would be in the afternoon at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church near Wilmington. Following the ceremony, a reception will be held at the Owl's Nest. the Eugene du Pont estate. It was | understood that the President and other members of the Roosevelt | family would attend.

March 29.—

MNUTT AND PARTY START TRIP TODAY,

Group to Sail Saturday for | Philippines.

Former Governor McNutt | leave with his official family this | afternoon for his new post as High Commissioner to the Philippines. { The party is to arrive in Chicago

| tonight and is scheduled to sail Sat- |

urday from San Francisco. High Commissioner is to stop at

I nia Legislature. Accompanying Commissioner McNutt will be Mrs. McNutt and their | | daughter, Louise; Wayne Coy, administrative assistant and former WPA director; Mrs. Coy and their son, Stephen, 6; Leo M. Gardner, his | legal adviser, and Mrs. Gardner and their son, Leo Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Headdy, Mrs. Edith Keyes, P. W.

| Reeves and Miss Mary Joe Keene. | Mr. |

| Mrs. Headdy, Mrs. Keyes, Reeves and Miss Keene have named to secretarial positions.

been

| Delicious Steaks! Balanced Meals. Charley's

| —Adv.

temperat berate? | State Minimum Wage Law for women,

predicted |

was to |

The |

Sacramento to address the Califor- |

Restaurant, 144 E. Ohio St. |

Justice Sutherland, presenting the dissent of the Court's

conservative minority, tional functioning of

offered a strong defense of the tradi« the High listeners regarded as a virtual answer

a statement which to the proposals of

Court

President Roosevelt that the Court he reorganized.

Justice Hughes, the decision reversed that District of Columbia case.

author of the opinion, of the Court in 1923 in the Adkins The

said flatly that

Adkins decision led to the

still-pending drive for addition of the Child Labor Amend-

ment to the Constitution.

Justice Hughes’ opinion appeared to open the way for

the states to re-enter the field of

rand working conditions from

G.0.P. SILENT ON COURT QUESTION

‘Strategy on Judiciary Fight Is Declared Strange By Observer.

Times Special | WASHINGTON, March | way Republicans are hiding their

| beacons under a bushel while the

| torchlight procession over President |

| Roosevelt's Supreme Court proposal | moves in a noisy snake dance is be- | coming quite conspicuous. | almost reach the conclusion | that some jumped to—probably too | hastily—after the last election. For { 17,000,000 persons cast their | for the Republican candidate. a cat and dog encounter among | Democrats.

| of Republicans in Congress years, except for the fact that | Supreme Court battle embodies per- | haps the most fundamental and far- | reaching issue raised for a long long time, and Republicans

| been searching for an issue upon

| revive the party. The truth is {hat Republican leaders have agreed privately that | the best strategy is to create the | impression, as they call it, of a | “nonpartisan” issue and therefore { they are keeping their heads down while Democrats shoot at | other.

PEKINGESE COWERS IN CORNER .

SCENE OF BRUTAL TRIPLE SLAYING

| Frazier-Lemke

29.—The |

[2 p.m (p- m, | opinions. Listening to the debate one would | I

that | there is only one party, a conclusion |

votes | SiPle "| J. Roberts from the so-called conThus far the court fight has been ha Court group to vote with | the

| Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo in up=-

This would not be so strange, con- | { sidering the smallest representation | for | the |

have |

| decision in the | reached” each |

reculation of hours, wages which they had been barred by the Adkins decision. The minimum wage decision crowned a day in which ‘the Supreme Court handed down a whole series of widely important decisions. It upheld in a broad decision the constitutionality of the Railway La« Act and ruled that the revised act was constitu= tional. It held the National Firearms Act constitutional and upheld the conviction of Grocer George Norris on perjury charges growing out of his 1930 primary venture

bor

{ against the veteran Nebraska Sen-

ator, George W. Norris. The Supreme Court recessed until . (Indianapolis Time) at 1:25

m. It will then continue reading

Roberts Shifts in Decision

The Court's reversal on the mini mum wage question was made pPos= by the shift of Justice Owen

Chief Justice and Justices

holding the rights of the State. The decision was received with an awed silence in the sumptuous court chamber, where the historic sig-

regulatory

| nificance of the Court's reversal of | its own previous views was quickly

noted. “We are of Justice Hughes,

the opinion,” said “that this ruling of demands on our a re-examination of the Ade He swept ahead quickly to point to the “close division by which the Adkins case was and to the “economic con= ditions which have supervened.” The factors, he declared, “make

| it not only appropriate, but we think

imperative, that in deciding the present, case the subject should re-

| ceive fresh consideration.” |

“Social Conditions Changed”

said the

conditions, require that,

Changed social Justice Hughes,

| Court note the right of the state to

| invoke “the protection of law against

- Says: March 29.—I'm

gonna ask the women not to read this article today. This is for meh only. Now Brothers, yesterday your wife blossomed out proudly in her new Faster hat. By this time you should have recovered from the shock enough to be able to talk. But for Goodness Sakes, don't laugh at it! You might as well be nice about it and tell her how nice she looked vyesterday and how proud you were of her. like my Uncle Unie. Aunt Bon come home with a new Faster hat on and all of a sudden, she savs “What do you think of it?” Uncle Unie looked “Well, my dear, to truth ..."” Aunt Boo eut in on him suddenly | and says “Never mind, if you're | gonna talk that way about it—I | don’t want-ta hear it!” ’ (Copyright, 1937)

| the evils which menace the health, | safety, morals and welfare of peo- | ple.” The implications of the Court’s | action, it was felt by those who heard the decision, could not fail to { be sweeping. It was thought likely | that the minimum wage action, to(Turn to Page Three)

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Don’t do

up and says tell you the

cme Photos It was in this apartment that Veronica's father found the Ciies

Police found this Pekingese cowering in a corner of the living room of his daughter, his estranged wife and Frank Byrnes, a boarder,

when they entered the apartment.

Veronica Gedeon, 20-year-old professional model, was one of three persons found slain in her New: York home yesterday.

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