Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1937 — Page 3

RIOTS FLARE IN BUILDING TRADE STRIKE IN EAST

Early Agreement in Wilmington, Del., Trouble Forecast by Governor.

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general strike called by the Central Labor Union and the Bu lding Trades Council, is called off eff:ctive at 2 p. m. (1 p. m. Indianipolis Time) this afternoon and it ‘is agreed to meet in conference at 2:30 p. m. (1:30 p. m. Indianapolis Time) in the Mayor's office with the policy committee for the employers for discussion of an attempted settlement.” It was announced, however. that the truce does not affect striking truck drivers who walked: out 19 days ago and in whose behalf the" general strike was called. James. T. Houghton, secretarytreasurer of the Central Lakor Union, said the strike would be resumed at once if the 1:30 parley failed to produce an agreement.

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‘Frank Discussion’ Held at Detroit

By United Press LANSING, Mich. April 3.—Walter P. Chrysler and representatives of the United Automobile Workers recessed their conference after “one hour's frank discussion” today to await the arrival of John L. Lewis, leader of the Committee for Industrial Organization, from New York. The conference over the stalemate in negotiations on the collective bargaining proposal will be resumed at 2 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) when Mr. Lewis is expected to arrive in the executive offices of Governor Murphy. 3 Mr. Chrysler, who returned to Lansing today to be greeted by the cheers of approximately 150 nonunion employees, was the first to leave the meeting. » : “I'll be back at 2 p. m.,” he announced tersely, shortly after noon. The recess was taken at the request of Richard T. Frankensteen, organizational director, and other union conierees who desired to drive to Jackson, Mich., where Mr. Lewis will leave his train.

Workers Begin Siege In Kansas City

By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 3.— Workers in the [Ford Motor Co. assembly plant here settled down to a siege pending a meeting between strike leaders and plant offi-. cials which was to be held teday. The strikers, members of the United Automobile Workers, continued in possession of the assembly plant. The strike, the first to affect ‘the vast Ford organization, was called late yesterday just before closing time. Approximately 1000 workers remained in the plant all night. : Executives who were to confer with strikers at the plant were H. C. Doss, plant manager; Joseph Rush, superintendent, and Aubrey Davis, Martin Momans and Ralph Settles. Ed Hall, second international vice president of the U. A.W. arrived in Kansas City and was expected to attend the conference. Strikers in possession of the plant agreed to permit the five company officials to enter the plant to attend the conference. There were no disturbances. -

Coast Guild Charges U. P. Discrimnation

Ey United Press : ! ° SAN FRANCISCO, April 3-—The Northern California Newspaper Guild in a press release late vesterday quoted President David: R. Young as saying that charges of intimidation, discrimination, coercion and antiunion activities hac been filed against the United Press Association with the National Labor Relations Board in San Francisco. Frank H. Bartholomew, division manager of the United Press, said he had not seen the complaint and that no papers had been served on him as yet.

GIRL BITTEN BY DOG Twelve-year-old | Patricia Scalf was treated by a private physician today after a dog bit her on the left hip while she was playing near

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Foreign Policy Now Is to J Avoid All Future : Conflict.

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with such war breeding factors as secret maneuverings and predilec-

her home, 5016. E. 21st St.

(tions of highest officials, reckless

jingoism of prominent public men, tendency of the profit urge to make itself synonymous with patriotism, and tendencies of the people to become hysterical and unneutral. Also noticeable now, are .the lengths to which belligerent powers would go, either in attempts to drag this country into conflict or in violations of international law. The last war taught that there are no such things as international law or neutral rights which any belligerent nation may be expected to observe. This fact doesn’t make neutrality any easier.

Blockade Recalled

The Allies in 1914 promptly adopted a policy aimed at starving the Central Powers, and effectively blocked American exports to Germany, previously one of our best markets. Although protests came from the South, which demanded free entry for its cotton, the Administration—despite occasional - protests—gradually gave up all preconceived -rights as to trade with Germany. This eventually aroused the hatred of Germans and Austrians. England soon began going so far as to seize American goods bound to neutral countries near Germany. Embargo measures, similar to some © of those in 1937 neutrality legislation, frequently were urged n the 1914-17 period. But war trade began to boom. Munitions poured across the sea. :

War Loan Warning

In August, 1914, Secretary of State Bryan had told J. P. Morgan that war loans would be ineonsistent With the true spirit of neutrals ity.” But as the need for financing our export trade became greater, Assistant Secretary Robert Lansing was persuaded-—and secretly agreed —that “commercial credits” were something else again. Germany, striving to offset England's restrictions on shipping in violation of international law, began her submarine warfare. Yet even after the sinking of the Lusitania in May, 1915, Bryan declared that Germany had the right to stop belligerent-owned ships carrying contraband and that such shippers shouldn't depend on American passengers for protection. America’s note to Germany de-

tlared the “indisputable right” of

American citizens to travel on the high seas wherever they liked, as well as the “sacred duty” of maintaining such rights, and demanded disavowal and discontinuance of submarine warfare. Germany stalled. -Col. House noted in his diary about that time his personal belief that war with Germany was inevitable.

The First’ War Loan

Refusing to sign the second Lusitania note, Bryan accused his colleagues in the Cabinet of being proAlly and resigned, with the explanation that he believed it would surely lead to war. . Lansing stepped into Bryan's shqes. He refused to listen to suggestions of Ambassador Gerard at Berlin of a compromise guaranteeing safe conduct for American ships or specific belligerent - passenger vessels. Within a few weeks Lansing and Wilson had agreed to flotation of the first big war loan, a $500,000,000 Anglo-French issue, in this country. Our statesmen had bowed to the fact that if we couldn't lend the Allies money to pay for the American goods they were buying, there would be bankruptcy in Xngland and France and economic collapse here. Historians seem to agree, however, that the bulk of the American people were very much against American entry into the war at that time.

Germany Makes Concession

Germany agreed to stop torpedoing passenger vessels except after warning and provision for saving lives. The British then began disguising submarine destroyers as merchantment, flying the American flag. German submarine commanders, rising to give

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official vecords at the County Courthouse. The Times ts not responsible for any errors of names or sddresses.)

rnest H. Murry, 44. 1918 Park Ave.; Vio Murphy. 43, 2402 Park Ave. James Ferguson, 28; R. R. 4. Indianapo-

; LaVerne Schuster, 23, 2156 S. Merid-

i tewart. 34, 9 be Vi ene Spiering, vw C 3 | Olive Marge Rautsaw. 24, of Indianapolis. : John Owen, 25, of 2424 N. Illinois St.;

Ave. * McLaughlin, 28, 1853 N. Dela- : ER Birdwell, 23, 245 Park-

Ave. . : Riddle. 53. 322 N. East St.; F ghes, 44, 855 N. East St. . Taylor, 23, 32 Eastern Ave:

22, 1626 NHN. acoma Ave

3. Higgins. 23. 528 Lockerbie St. oN ETD, 19, 616 E. New York

‘i 2 ut St; Branch, 22, 527 E. Walnui ! Morn Stretsberry. 18, 05 Jioei) St. Clifford Maddox. 26. 1363 Blaine Ave.;

Genevieve Bielic, 26, of 1363 S. Blaine Ave. —

BIRTHS

e Girls : Charles, Mildred Bertrand, at St. Vincent’s. So : , illi vivian Rodgers, at St. Vincent Ss. Yin Ida Settles, at St. Vincent's. Roy, Thelma Edge, at 1414 S. St. Peter. John, Hezel Bright, at 2724 N. Olney.

Boys ; Kathryn Lee, at St. Vincent's. Blored 5 Pflum, at St. Vincent's. Edward. Florence Wortman, at 3361

Sutherland.

DEATHS

Della VanLergen, 72, at 2913 E. Riverside Drive, coronary occlusion. Charles Winesburg, 52, ai Central Iadiana, cerebral hemorrhage. Estel Lambert, 28, at City, lobar pneu-

mo inde Joseph, 49, at St. Vincent's, coroy. occlusion. Pe faurice Morjority. 62, I, arteriosclerosis. i Se Elizabeth Schliens, 75, at 522. N. New Jersey, cirrhosis of liver James gitis. . Ella Jensen, 79, at 1730 College, bron- | eho pneumonia. : John Matheson, 56, at City, lobar pneumonia. Ellen Eldridge, 83, at Methodist. frac-

tured hip. . Charles Edward Gray, 45, at 1326 8S. | Bradley, angina pectoris, Joseph Pratt, 74. at Central Indiana, | pulmonary tuberculosis. :

at 306 N. Ar-|;

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of actual treason.

warning to supposed merchantment, rose simply to death and destruction. : Lansing early in 1916 suggested that German subs be bound by rules of warning and search and that belligerent merchantmen should be disarmed and should stop at a submarine’s order. The Allies scoffed at that, presumably recalling \Wilson’s promise to hold Germany to “strict accountability.” Sir Edward Grey's memoirs show that England would have dropped its blockade of Germany if Wilson and Lansing had been sufficiently stern, but the Wilson Administration felt a break with England would be the worst thing possible, and never pressed its points hard when dealing with the Allies.

Threatened Break

Germany then resumed her unrestricted sub warfare, refusing to accept; armed merchantmen d% peaceful commercial vessels. In Congress, (the Gore-McLemore resolution warning Americans not to travel | on belligerent ships was beaten by Administration pressure. Wilson threatened to break off relations with Germany. ° Germany promised to call off the subs if Wilson would make England observe interndtional "law. Wilson warned Grey that it would be difficult to start peace discussions if this Government didn't assert its undeniable rights to the Allfes as well as to the Central Powers. But nothing happened. : Later Britain went so far as to blacklist certain American. firms as ‘suspected of trading with the enemy.” At that late date Wilson began to think of asking for embargoes of American loans and exports, With innumerable forces operating to pull us into war on the side of the Allies, it seems he began to cool toward England at this point. Germany was trying to get Wilson to make a peace offer and he went so far as to ask both sides to state peace terms—only to meet with scorn from the Allies. Wilson urged before Congress 2 “peace without victory,” with certain idealistic principles governing settlement. Next day, as Walter Mills notes in his “The Road to War,” Bethlehem Steel declared a 200 per cent stock dividend.

Navigation ‘Prohibited’

In February, as a last desperate stroke to counter the British starvation blockade, Germany ‘‘prohibited” all navigation in British, Italian and French waters and promised to sink everything that came in sight. America severed diplomatic relations, Republicans demanded the arming of American merchantmen. Wilson opposed this at a Cabinet meeting and is said to have believed munitions makers were behind the plan. But ships were refusing to leave these shores and there was great congestion of war exports at all ports. The elder Senator La Follette filibustered the armed ship bill to death, but made certain an extra session after Wilson's second inauguration in March, 1917. Page (cabled that the submarines were playing havoc with France and England, that if we went to war the best way we could help would be to give England and France a huge government loan and perhaps this was “the only way in which our present pre-eminent trade position can be maintained and a panic averted.” The Cabinet became unanimous for war, taking the position that Germany had in effect declared it. Congress was under tremendous pressure from the war fever, although it has been suggested that a secret House vote would have been in favor of peace. Only six Senators and 50 Congressmen voted against | the declaration on April

NEXT—The United States Army and Navy strength of 1917, and how it compares with the military machines of today. °

HUNT NEW SUSPECT IN TRIPLE SLAYING

By United Press ; NEW | YORK, April 3..—While detectives watched every move of Joseph Gedeon, investigators went off at a new tangent in their search for the Easter Sunday slayer of ‘his wife, his artists’ model daughter and their lodger. | Detective Lieutenant Walter Harding disclosed that police were searching for a man said to have been friendly with Mrs. Mary

12 ARRESTED IN CRIME ROUNDUP

One Held as Bandit Suspect, Others for Vagrancy in High Bond.

> An alleged bandit, 10 burglary suspects and a 17-year-old youth whom police said had been identified as an East Side prowler were held for questioning by detectives today. One was arrested on robbery and auto banditry charges while the rest were slated on vagrancy counts under high bonds. Frank Clark, 27, of 721 W. Vermont St., was arrested last night by two radio patrolmen who said they saw him attempting to hold » a taxi driver at Ninth and Camp ts. According to the officers, they were cruising in the vicinity when they saw the taxi stop suddenly. Pulling alongside it, they said they saw the driver with his hands raised. They said the passenger then leaped from the cab and ran down Camp St. Each officer reported firing two shots. They said they caught him in the 800 block on Camp St. hiding under a porch.

Trapped in Raid

They brought the man back to the scene of the holdup where the cab driver, Herbert Sears, 31, of 430 E. Michigan St., identified him, police said. Eight men and two women were held under $5000 bonds while detectives sought the owners of $2000 worth of clothing believed to have been stolen from Danville, Ill, cleaning establishments.

raid on a house at 623 E. Wabash St., where police said they found suits, dresses and coats bearing Danville labels. The raid was made on a “tip” received by Detective Lieutenant George Hubbard. Faces Vagrancy Charge

A youth was charged with vagrancy after three persons identified him as the prowler who had fled from the front porch of their home a féw minutes earlier, according to police. Mrs. Elva Wagner, 65, of 718 N. Denny St., and her sons, Leadell, 23, and Hugh, 22, reported that a prowler had been acting suspiciously. Police said Mrs. Wagner gave them a description and they arrested the youth a few blocks away. Officers said he answers the- description of the prowler reported by several East’ Side residents during the last week. A well-dressed bandit last night held up a drug store at 801 S. Delaware St. and escaped with $40. Flees With Companion

Frank Roesener -58, of 701 Terrace Ave., told police the man entered the store and asked for cigarets. As he turned to fill the order, Mr. Roesener said the bandit drew a revolver and demanded his money. He then forced Mr. Roesener to open the cash register and scooped up the cash. "The bandit fled to an automobile where a companion had been waiting. State Policeman Ernest Pierce fired a shot at a Negro whom he surprised breaking into a truck parked in the 400 block W. 30th St., he reported last night. The man escaped with clothing valued at $8, he said. Raising an unlocked window, a burglar last night reached into the front room of a house at 39 E. 33d St., and escaped with a purse containing $22, Miss Dorothy Forman, the owner, told police.

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SAFETY BOARD CAUTIOUS! ON POLICE CHANGE

Careful Study to Precede Decentralization, Says Dammeyey.

Theo H. Dammeyer, Safety Board president, today said that “caution” should be exercised in the consideration of Chief Morrissey’s police department administrative reorganization plan. | ah Chief Morrissey several weeks ago presented a plan calling for the establishment of four district substations. The reorganization plan was offered for consideration on the grounds that a decentralized system would increase the efficiency of the department and result in a closer co-operation between the police and the public. Mr. Dammeyer said that even after surveys of the proposed system, the Board might not authorize such a change until every angle was investigated. Construction of the additional stations would necessitate an appropriation by the City Council, he added.

Delay Likely

“Complete reorganization of the Police Department, which has functioned efficiently under a centralized system, should be considered with the utmost caution,” he said. He indicated there probably would be no action on the matter by the Board for some time. Chief Morrissey’s plan calls for the remodeling of Fire Engine House No. 18, at Traub Ave. and W, Washington St., as West Side substation, and the building of new station houses near Fountain Square, 38th St. and 21st St. and Sherman Drive, : : Each substation would be in charge of a police captain and would be equipped with a radio and teletype machine in contact with the central headquarters, The present headquarters would continue to serve as jail, first aid headquarters, office and drill headquarters.

Respect Desired

Mr. Dammeyer said the system would have the advantage of placing policemen in closer contact with the communities and the public. “Efficiency would be increased through any plan in which the public learned to regard the policeman as protector and friend,” Mr. Dammeyer declared. He added that such mutual respect was possible only where‘courtesy rather than a “hard boiled attitude” was exercised by the police. Mr. Dammeyer cited the record of parking violations at. the new City Market parking space as the best example to the public's co-opera-tion with the law enforcement authorities. He said that out of 30,000 cars parked there, only 17 cvertime parking stickers have been used. :

LOYALISTS ON TOP AS REBELS ARE CUT OFF

Italians Defeated for Third Time in Fortnight.

By United Press Loyalists and Rebels jockeyed for position on widely scattered fronts today with the current advantage slightly on the side of the Government forces in Spain's civil war. Italian troops seemed unable to withstand thle attacks of the onrushing Loyalists |in south-central Spain and suffered their third defeat in less than a fortnight. Dispatches from the Loyalists at Madrid claimed that 10,000 Italians and Germans had heen cut off from the Spanish Rebel base at Cordoba. The Loyalists captured three strategic towns and bombed Cordoba in the southern offensive. On the northern front, further Loyalist victories were claimed. Basque troops apparently had halted the Rebel drive on the port of Bilbao. Rebel forces were in retreat from Ochandiano, while the Basques were reported to| have inflicted heavy casualties on the fleeing insurgents. The Rebel general, Emilio Mola, in command in the north, was driving down the Durango River valley to its junction with the Nervion River. The latter leads directly into Bilbao. :

$10,000 ASKED FOR DEATH OF HUSBAND

Mrs. Ruth Nichols asked $10,000 damages for the death of her -husband, the late Walter Nichols, in a suit on file in Superior Court today against the Traction Terminal Corp., Klein & Kulin, Inc. and the Indianapois Railway. Mrs. Nichols’ husband was injured fatally last Jan. 4 when he fell down an elevator shaft in the Traction Terminal Building. The suit charged that the defendants’ agents were negligent in allowing the door to the shaft to be open when the elevator was not on the ficor.

years in-prison.

began serving the sentence. eral agents said he was an expert at slinging a rope ladder over a moving freight car, climbing it, and breaking the door seal to accomplish the robberies. + Dayton Howard, Muncie, received a 90-day suspended sentence in the same case. Harry M. Beach, Lewis-

since she parted from her husband.

FIREMAN’S MOTHER WINS COURT RULING

The Indiana Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Mrs. Anna Donahue, mother of a deceased Indianapolis fireman, is entitled to benefits from the firemen’s pension fund.

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ville, Ind., received a $100 fine, suspended, wien he pleaded guilty to making a misrepresentation to obtain a Federal loan. On liquor law violations, Bert Fowler, Joe Whitehead and Hubert Adams received suspended sixmonth jail sentences. Lex Bricker received a four-month suspended sentence; Lucy. Patterson 90 days’ suspended. is Keith Maynard Costello received 3 . he

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Boxcar Robber Pleads Guilty; Given 2-Year Prison Sentence

William Earl Catey, Danville, Ill, described in Federal Court today as a consulting experi in boxcar robbing, pleaded guilty to interstate shipment theft and was sentenced by Judge Robert C. Baltzell to two

Judge Baltzell denied his request for five days’ probation before he

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a three-year sentence to the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, O., for forging a stolen postal money orders. Morris Epstein, Indianapolis, received a suspended year and a day sentence for sending obscene pictures through the mails. The court will hear four civil cases in Terre Haute next week, and then will spend a week each at Evansville and New Albany.

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tonight in tne Fair Grounds Coliseum, she’s also a magazine author. She’s shown here batting out a story while her pet, “Yo-Yo,” looks on. The Rodeo, sponsored by the’ Indianapolis Press Club, is to give 11

performances here. children was given this afternoon.

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MARSHALL JR. SHIFTS BLAME

Tells Jury That Murder of Indianapolis Druggist Was| Needless.

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to Old Mexico on the South, California on the West, New York on the East and {into Canada on the North. i He said that he had been arrested for riding freight trains in Los Angeles and Amarillo, Tex. Marshall said that he met Neal Jan. 3 when he came to the Marshalls’ home with another man who had quarters in the same building. Regarding the robbery he testified: “I asked Neal,” he said, “if he would like to be in on a robbery. He said he guessed he would if we had something to do it with. I said I had and got the revolver.”

Stole Gun, Marshall Says

He gazed at the exhibited goldplated weapon and said he had “lifted” it from the pocket of a man with whom he rode in an automobile from Terre Haute. “Neal said he didn’t think the gun- was big enough to bluff anyone,” Marshall continued. “Dad told him it was big enough to scare anyone. ; “I told him about a loan company on Ohio St. where I thought they had about $1000 and I asked him if he’d mind standing outside while I went in and he said he never had done anything like that, but guessed he could.” i -He testified ‘his fdther sanctioned their plans and agreed to bring out a change of clothing to them when they blinked the lights of the “hot” car they were going to use on the job. : Marshall said that about 5:30 p. m. the next day they went to the loan office, but it was closed and “Neal said maybe he knew a place in Madison where they'd have some money that we could rob.” Visited Parking Lots But they needed a car, the accused testified, and they visited several parking lots, but could find none with keys in them. He related their plan to go to Noble and Washington Sts. and wait for a car to stop at the traffic light. “I stood onthe curb on one side of the street.” he said, “and Neal on the other. “When this car drove up, I opened, the door, stuck the gun in his (Brights) ribs, told him to hold it and called Neal. “Neal got in the back seat and I got in the front, held the gun on Bright and told him to drive south.” He told of their forcing him from the K wheel a few blocks south, of Neal's taking the wheel and of their Sele to the Shelby County corneld.

FLEES FROM CHAIN GANG FOR SIXTH TIME

By United Press, | CANTON, Ga. April 3.—S. J. (Slim) Scarborough, Georgia lifetermer, made his sixth escape from a chain gang today as he led eight others in a wholesale break from the Cherokee County convict camp near here. Scarborough, | sentenced to life in a sensational murder for which two others were electrocuted, had been recaptured only three days ago at Hobart, Ind, and returned here Thursday. . The nine prisoners, including two other life-termers besides Scarborough, escaped by sawing bars to a back window of the camp.

Ball May Face Legal Tangle in Railway Sale

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encounter legal entanglements in the event of an attempted sale, authorities asserted. '

No I. C. C. Approval Sought

I. C. C. officials said Mr. Ball has made no attempt to determine the commission’s attitude on such a transaction. He would be unlikely to do so, they added, because no application for approval of the original deal was ever made, organizers of the corporation proceeding on the theory that they were outside I. C. C. jurisdiction. Chairman Wheeler (D. Mont.) of the Senate Committeq, has promised to “investigate every angle” if a sale is made without I. C. C. consent. The committee has had the Van Sweringen structure under scrutiny for nearly two years. Last December the committee attempted to learn from Mr. Ball what he proposed to do with his control over the scores of operating units comprising the empire. It got only his statement that he intended to “hold, operate and conserve” the properties to insure service to the public and proper returns to investors. The glass magnate owns about 90 per cent of Midamerica securities, ‘minority interests being held by George - A. Tomlinson, Cleveland shipping operator, who helped form the company, and the Midland Bank of Cleveland. :

Value Up $10,000,000

The value of Midamerica holdings has increased more than $10,000,000 above their purchase price of $3,121,000 in 1935, according to Wheeler committee estimates. The firm already has realized $1,200,000 through the sale of a block of Cleveland Railway Co. stock. Friends of Mr. Ball have been quoted as saying he intends to devote his profits for philanthropic uses if he decided to dispose of his holdings. Although 75 years old, he retains active. management of the enterprises he operated before acquiring the Van Sweringen properties. The latter are still largely under the management of Herbert Fitzpatrick, whom Mr. Ball made president of Midamerigv after the death of O. P. Van Sweringen.

CONDEMNATION OF OLD HOMES SOUGHT

Constitute Fire Hazard, Civic Group Decides.

Condemnation of houses at S. Illinois and Kansas Sts. was to be sought today ‘in a petition to be filed with the State Fire Marshal

-nation was adopted last night.

by the South Side Civic Club. ; The properties constitute a fire hazard as well as a night loafing place for vagrants, civic leaders said. A resolution urging the condemIt was backed by the Parent-Teacher organization of School 22. Action on a a similar situation,

near School 31, Madison and Lin-

coln Sts, is planned ‘by the civic club,

BLAST FATAL TO ONE HUNTINGBURG, Ind. April 3.— Buma Robertson, 34, Boonville, was killed and Oddie Underwood, Hun4y tingburg, injured critically late yesterday in lan explosion of dynamite at a gravel pit near here.

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By United Press : ] ALEXANDRIA, Ind, April 3.— Picketing at the Aladdin Industries, Inc, plant virtually ceased this morning after Circuit Judge Charles E. Smith's order assessing damages of $9825 against striking members of the United Automobile Workers Union.

pany officials would reopen the plant Monday morning. If so, all union members are expected to re= turn to work with those ‘who have not gone on strike. It was indicated no effort will be made to collect the damages ase sessed- by Judge Smith against ale most 100 of the strikers and their leaders for interfering with the op= eration of the plant during a twos’ weeks “sit-down” in violation of a temporary injunction.

Sheriff Has Papers

Execution papers were turned over to the Sheriff by Judge Smith. The Sheriff is holding them and will serve them ‘only if there is a renewal of picketing or “illegal” oce cupation of the Aladdin factory in a recurrence of the sit-down strike, it was said. Robert Pugh, president of the U. A. W, A. local, said that strikers plan to attempt to reoccupy the plant. Victor Reuther, union organizer from Detroit, was reported to have left town. to be Elmer Davis, another union organizer. Both were assessed damages of $1000 under Judge Smith's finding yesterday. Mr. Pugh was the only other leader to receive a $1000 assessment, Meanwhile, six additional policee men authorized by the City Council patroled the streets today. They were employed upon petition of the Citizens League for Industrial Security, an organization formed to attempt to arbitrate the strike and keep the Aladdin firm from moving its factory out of Anderson,

State Miners Await Officials’ Return

By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. April 3.— Approximately 9000 Indiana coal miners, idle during negotiations for a wage agreement in the Appalachian fields, today were awaiting return of local U. M. W. A. officials from New York to determine whether they will resume work Monday. Officials of local District No. 11 of the U. M. W. A. were expected tonight from the New York con-ference-af/which an agreement for the Appalachian fields was reached between union officials and operators. The Indiana agreement will be based upon terms reached at the New York conference yesterday.

CONSERVATION SEEN CHIEF RELIEF PROJECT

New Policy Calls for More Wage Expenditure.

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forestation and other types of cone servation. They point out that the amount of material purchases in the construction of earthen , and brush dams, the planting of -trees and the terracing of eroded land is negligible, and that such equipment as would be necessary would aid the

keep pace with advances of steel, cement and copper. , But more important, in line with the President’s avowed plan, is the fact that a much greater percente age of the Government's relief dole lar would go into wages—which in turn would add support to come modity markets. This type of program, its backers

bickering betweeen Federal and local governments over financing, for they say Washington would foot the entire® bill.

ALLEN TO TALKIN CADLE TABERNACLE

The Rev. Verdi Allen, foe of evoe lution teaching, is to continue his campagin against that theory in a talk at a mass meeting in Cadle Tabernacle tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. He spoke last night at Pilgrim Holiness: Church, assailing those “who attempt to make us believe we were once jelly fishes and lizards.”

calls evolution ‘devilution and the devil's solution.” :

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