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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 58

~ WINDSOR WILL WED “ON JUNE 3 WITHOUT ROYALTY PRESENT

Ignoring of Services by Duke's Relatives Is Seen as Cabinet Victory Over Family In Marital Issue

FEW FRIENDS WILL ATTEND RITES

Civil Ceremony by Monts Mayor Expected; Church of England May Withhold Blessing on Wallis Union. -

Sy United Press py MONTS, France, May 18.—The Duke of Windsor, who gave up his throne for Mrs. Wallis-Warfield, will marry her here on June 3 with no member of the British Yoyal family present, Herman L. Rogers announced at the Chateau de

Cande today on behalf of the former King: . The announcement was published in an official bulletin

from the Duke himself; and delivered to 180 reporters who

waited outside the chateau. : "It settled the dispute over whether the Duke's brothers

and sisters, or any member of #

the roval family, would " ELDER DENIES present, thus lending official : : sanction to the marriage. | a The bulletin said: | FIGHTING UNION “His Royal Highness the Duke |

‘of Windsor - announces that his |

i to Mrs. Wallis Warfield, . : ’ : - SL of the late Mr. and Mrs. Indiana Railroad Receiver ' Says He Never Dismissed

Teakle Wallis Warfield of Mary- | land. will take place at the chateau | ; Active Members.

at Monts on June 3.” Few Friends to Attend

The bulletin revealed that only | Rosian. Elder. Thdiaps Halicosd those who have been with the

: : iver, today testified at a Na- ~ Warfield since last TECEIVEL, : 5. Dis ee nn attend. | tional Labor Relations Board hear“Invitations to the wedding of ing that he never had reduced an the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. | employee's wage and never had disWarfield will be confined to those n,ic..q an employee for union who have been With them in He | activity » rmunique sald. | oe po ion 5 Tn family | He testified in his own defense Bi be present.” : {against charges of Wagner Labor

The bulletin referred to the bride. Act violations brought against him . one | as Mrs. Wallis Warfield through and the company by the Amalga-

that | mated Association of Electric Street

out. | cement no | ! announcerper family would | Railway and Motor Coach Em-

attend meant that the family’s of-|ployees. : ficial’ blessing on the wedding, de-| Union workers are on strike in spite their affection for. the DUKE, |», 40.0 cocking an additional 71; is being withheld. victory | Per cent wage increase, the closed

interpreted as a’ 3 a a Tn Government over ! shop and the checkofl system.

the family. Edward's brothers and | Before Mr. Elder took the stand, his mother wanted the Duke of Kent | S. Dorfmann, NLRB attorney, and perhaps Mary, the DrinCess| i514 Examiner William Seagle that royal, to attend and show the | attorneys for the Indiana Railroad world the family has not cast 0 | yesterday moved for an adjournthe ahdicated monarch. | ment of the hearing on the ground 5d | . : sinbolds Approval | that a conference was being held Cabinet W ithholds Pp » The | Which might result in a strike setThe Government said no. pr | tlement. Cabinet “advised” the Ry Mr. Dorfmann said he was then it does nt care to show TO SE informed, by Robert Armstrong. proval wof the former monarch | Amalgamated organizer, that no the “twice - divorced American woman.

| conference was being held. Mr. The limited wedding party may |

! Dorfmann asked an explanation. Frank McHale, Mr. Elder's attor- . ul 3 ; inal? nly Mr, and Mrs. Herman | ney, include only Tvs war dor

indicated that moves were Rowers way for settlement of the

field's hosts at Cannes; Mr. and | strike. He said that a meeting had |

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The State today prepared to carry the four-year-old Indianapolis | Water Co. rate case to the U, S. | Supreme Court. Briefs are being

completed for filing before the high i

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FORECAST: Showers

More Showers Predicted by Weather Man

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TEMPERATURES 54 10 a. m... a. 54 11 a. m... a. 54 12 a. m... a 54 1pm... More showers this afternoon and tonight were predicted by the United foe Weather Bureau with tem-

peratures forecast to remain in the 50s the next 24 hours.

Temperatures soared to a maximum of 73 degrees yesterday after several days of cool weather.

MOTHER TELLS OF KILLING GIRL

Blames Marriage Plot for Attempt to Get Rid of Two Children.

(Photcs, Page Three)

By United Press : : NEW YORK, May 18.—Mrs. Helen Tiernan, 25. was charged with homicide and her sweetheart, George Christodulus, 30, was charged with “acting in concert” today on the strength of a statement in which, police said, the mother described how they killed one of her two children and tried to kill the other while the youngsters were picking flowers in the woods near Brookhaven, N. J. | Mrs. Tiernan said she had made the statement tb officers, and in response to questions said Christodulus struck the children. Christo- ; dulus, a Greek cafeteria worker, denied he had anything to do with the attacks, and asserted he was working on Saturday when they occurred. : : The victims were Helen, 7, who ‘died from burns inflicted by her killers in an attempt to destroy her cut and bruised body, and Jimmie, 5, who survived a slashed throat and battered head. They were found by strollers Sunday.

Mrs. Tiernan said Christodulus demanded she “get rid of the children” before he would marry her. Her two-room apartment in Manhattan was too small for children and a husband, too, she told police. They talked it over last Thursday night, the statement said, decided what wegpons to use and picked a wooded section of Brookhaven Township because ‘the children had been there before on picnics.” Police quoted Mrs. Tiernan as saying she and George placed a hatchet, a pair of scissors, a bread knife and a bottle of gasoline in a

They told the children, the statement said, that the suitcase "contained a picnic lunch. i In the woods, the statement con- : (Turn to Page Three)

AUTO LOGALS ASKED 70 UNIDNIZE FORD

Labor Studies Wagner Case Against Manufacturer.

Bi United Press DETROIT, May 18.—Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of America, today enlisted the aid of union members of every local in the country in the campaign to unionize the plants of Henry Ford.

In a letter to union locals, Martin explained that “the organization of Ford workers is the most important work that can be done at the moment.”

The letter urged all U. A. W. locals to “take in” Ford workers by number only. Their names and numbers will be locked up in a bank vault.

The Ford Organizing Committee considered filing. formal charges against Ford as the result of his “Fordisms.” Officials said they believed this distribution was a violation of the National Labor Rclations Act.

Aluminum Union To Strike Tonight

By United Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn... May 18.— Fred Wetmore, president of the Alcoa Aluminum Workers Union, Alcoa, Tenn, announced today that 3000 employees of the company’s fabricating plant would strike at 10 o'clock tonight.

's. Charles E. Bedaux, the Duke's | a here: Baron Eugene de Roth- me re i schild and his American wife, the | Duke's hosts at Enzesfeld, Austria. PLANS NEW APPEAL The British minister to Austria, | sir Walford Selby and Lady Selby. en Vo Sb m0 SR IN WATER DISPUTE Duke in Austria, will attend if the | British foreign office allows. | ll 7 ing falls on the birth- | LR Duke's late father, | State to Take Old Case to George V. . | The wedding probably will be | Uu. S. Supreme Court. without the blessing of the Church mre of England, whose head. the Archbishop of Canterbury, so bitterly opposed the marriage. nt is expected a civil ceremony will be performed by Dr. Charles Mercier. physician.to the castle and mayor of Monts. court adjourns in June. Immediately afterward. the roval| yrban Stover, deputy attorney couple—present indications are MIS. | general, said the State case would Warfield will be her Royal Highness | rest chiefly on the theory that rethe Duchess of Windsor—will leave |quced valuations were not confor a secluded honeymoon at Was- | fiscatory and that more than sufserleonburg Castle in Lower Austria. | ficient additional valuation had : been allowed by the Federal Court ! for fluctuating price trends. The U. 8. District Court of ApBO H R U R N S | peals last week denied the petition | for rehearing in the Water Co. case. S 5 | Evidence of changing price trends ays. OLLY WOOD, was entered in the case three years May 18.—I1 be- | after the hearing and four years lieve opportunity knocks once on after the Public Service Commisevery door, but the younger you are, sion order for rate revision in 1€32, - the more apt you are to get excited | according to the State brief seeking and scare him away. If he'll jest | the rehearing. wait to knock after you've had a few | - years to mellow | * your life and i Fi M. give you a little our én in experience, you'll | be able to an- \ swer.- the door

uncle who been workin’ for years as watchman dewn in the railroad yards and had given up all hopes of ever betterin’ himself.

One day a lawyer called on him and said “I just received word that one of your relatives died and left vou $10.” ; My uncle says “Are ya sure:” and the lawyer says “Yes and you'll get the $10 just as soon as the estate is settled.” My uncle says “Well, that's fine, but I ain't gonna take no chances— I'm gonna hold on to my job until I get the 'money.” 5 (Copyright, 1937)

By United Press EL PASO, Tex. May 18.—Four men were camped today in the middle of Santa Helena Canyon, where the Rio Grande swirls down a 2000foot defile in a seemingly solid sheet,

waters. It is one of the most inaccessible reaches of the continent. Only one man, Dr. Robert T. Hill, Dallas geologist, has made the desent by boat. That was in 1899. Dr. Hill described the canyon as dark, weird and silent. { Heading the party today, which rode in two steel boats and was already past the dangerous upper rapids, was- Dr. Walter Prescott Webb of Austin, Tex. consulting

rapidly but without a ripple in the |

Boat Brave

Dark and Perilous Canyon

ice. With him were James W. Metcalfe, acting chief of the U. S. Immigration Service ‘border patrol of Alpine, and Thomas V. Skaggs and Joe Lane of McCamey. From above, Lieut. Comm. N. M. Nelson observed the explorers and reported théir progress by radio from a coast guard plane. : The canyon separates Presidio County from Mexico and is so narrow in places that the’ explorers could ride the center of the stream and touch either bank with an oar.

of the area, which is included in the proposed Big Bend National Park. Two men are in each of the

suitcase wrapped in brown paper.]|.

historian of the National Park Serv- |,

Dr. Webb is seeking information |

this afternoon and tonight, becoming fair and cooler tomotrow.s

TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1937

MRS. JAMESON DIES INFAMOUS MANSION HERE

Booth Tarkington’s Sister to Be Buried on Thursday; Author to Attend.

3 SONS AT DEATHBED

Writer and Entertainer of Notables Was Brother’s First Severe Critic.

(Photo, Page Two; Editorial, Page 14)

Booth Tarkington was on his way to Indianapolis from the East today to attend funeral services for his sister, Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson. She died last’ night at her home, 1035 N. Pennsylvania St., where

she had lived almost as an Indianapolis tradition since 1902.

The services are to be held at 2 p. m. Thursday in her home. Mrs. Jameson had been ill for two weeks. When she died she was attended by her three sons, John, Donald and Booth Jameson. Widely diversified interests brought Mrs. Jameson an extensive acquaintance in this city and in the nation She had entertained in her home such notables as Woodrow Wilson, William Dean Howells, Arnold Bennett, Alexander Woollcott, ‘Alfred Lunt, Helen Hayes, Ethel Barrymore, Henry James, Margot Asquith, Otis Skinner and Richard Mansfield. Mrs. Jameson was horn in Indi-

anapolis; the daughter of Judge].

John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington. Her ancestry traced back to the English Warwicks.

She attended the Conyent of the Visitation in Washington. On Oct. 10, 1886, she was married to Ovid Butler Jameson, attorney and grandson of Ovid Butler, founder of Butler College, now Butler University. Mr. Jameson died in 1915.

Mrs. Jameson's affection for her brother Booth, and her part in th2 beginnings of his career as a writer now are a part of Indianapolis literary history.

When Booth was only 6, h> d'ctated stories to Mrs. Jameson, according to her own words ‘set down not many Years ago.

Was Booth’s Critie

When Booth wrote Monsieur Beaucaire he took the manuscript to his sister, who was his only serious critic in those days, with this note appended: . “To Haute Tarkington Jameson: “You will not, I trust, consider me too ingenuous when I tell you that, while I have ever observed your courtesy toward a person in poor raiment to be of an ever finer quality than your treatment of a gentleman in a fine coat, yet. no one conversant with your character could fail to be aware of the mighty liking you have for a pretty fellow in, brocades and satin, with brilliants from every buckle. “Nor can it be said of you that, in spite of your strong advocacy of all the arts of gentleness, you shun the wildest fighting—in a book—

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FIXES MILK PRICES FOR MAY 1-15 PERIOD

Leon C. Coller, milk administrator for the Marion County area today announced milk prices per hundredweight for the delivery period from May 1 to 15, inclusive.

They were: Class I, $2.54; Class II-A, $1.71; Class II-B, $1.59, and Class III, $1.41, These prices are to be paid by the distributors for milk of 4 per cent butterfat content, purchased by them the first half of May, Mr. Coller®said.

BUILDING PERMITS GAIN - The value of building permits issued during the week ending May | 15 showed a gain of $117,459 over the value of permits issued during the same week last year, according to George R. Popp Jr. building commissioner. ’

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From Marion Home in '84

Associate Justice Van Devanter,

who is to retire from the Supreme

Court June 2. was born in Marion, Ind. April 17, 1859. and practiced

law there from 1881 to 1884.

He was the son of Isaac and Violetta Maria Van Devanter.

His

mother died there just a few years ago.

Justice. Van Devanter had little ambition to make a name

as a boy

& time on, his life became one of rapid

for himself either in political or | political and legal advancement. legal life. He preferred farm life | He was made City Attorney of

to the legal profession. His parents. however, had other plans. When he had completed his public schooling he was sent to Indiana Asbury, now DePauw University, after which he studied law at Cincinnati University where he received his degree in-1881 at the age

of 22. . "Married in 1884

He returned to Marion and participated in his father's profitable law practice. In 1884 he married Miss Dollie Burhans of Ionia, Iowa. Soon the rapidly growing west beckoned the young attorney, and he moved with his wife to Cheyenne, Wyo. There were comparatively few members of the legal profession in Wyoming, and in 1836 the Van Devanter name became so well known that he was appointed a member of ‘a commission to revise the territorial

statutes of Wyoming. From thatTaft.

Cheyenne, and a year later was elected to the territorial legislature, where he served as chairman of the judiciary committee. : In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison appointed him, at the age of 30, to be Chief [Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court. A year later the territory was admitted to statehood and Mr. Van Devanter was elected the first Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court. ?

He was appointed to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Judicial Circuit, in| 1903, after serving as Assistant Attorney General under Theodore Roosevelt from 1897 to 1903.

He also served on the law faculty

of Columbian (now George Wash- |

ington) University from 1898 to 1903. and was named Associate Justice on Dec. 16, 1910, by President

Indiana Justice Announces Retirement, : oe . . Effective June 2, as Senate Committee

‘Rejects F. D. R. Expansion Plan, 10-8. ‘LIBERALS MAY GAIN'VOTING BALANCE

Dean of Conservative Bloc Removes Self as New Deal Foe as Accession to President; Born at Marion, Educated at DePauw.

By United Press WASHINGTON, May 18.—Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of Indiana, dean of the Supreme Court conserva tives who have voted almost invariably against President Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, today announced his retirement from the Supreme bench. ; Justice Van Devanter’s notice of his retirement brought immediate repercussions in President Roosevelt's judiciary fight when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an adverse report to the Senate on the Court enlargement ptogram. The Senate Committee vote was 10 to 8. : The Judiciary Committee vote and Justice Van Devanter’s retirement hightened strong Congressional indications that Mr. Roosevelt's program is headed for compromise revie sion or outright defeat. The announcement of Justice Van Devanter’s intention was made known in a brief note to President Roosevelt. Justice Van Devanter, who celebrated his 78th birthday April 17, will quit the High Court post he has occupied since Jan. 3, 1911 on June 2—the day following the Supreme Court’s final session of this term. ; Following is the text of the letter of resignation from e Justice Van Devanter to

| President Roosevelt: . f. D. R. EXTENDS My dear Mr. Roosevelt: BEST WISHES! st riesc ie + re.

sion as an Associate Justice of the Invites Retiring Justice to

| Supreme Court of the United States and served in that Court for 26 Call on Him; Hughes Say Loss Serious.

| years and having come to 78 | years of age, I desire to avail myself of the rights, privileges and judi- | cial service specified in the Act S| of March 1, 1937, entitled “An Act {to Provide. for Retirement of Juss tices of the Supreme Court,” and to that end I hereby retire from regue lar active service on the bench— this retirement to be effective on and after the second day of June, 1937, that being the day next fol= lowing the adjournment of the present term of the Court. I have the honor to remain very respectfully yours, WILLIS VAN DEVANTER. Only yesterday the Supreme Court announced that it would quit for the year on June 1. Justice Van Devanter apparently had been waiting only for the final decision on a Court adjournment date in order to announce that he was quitting.

Senior in Service

By United Press ? WASHINGTON, May 18.—President Roosevelt. feels the resignation of Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter leaves the Administration’s. program to enlarge the Supreme Court ‘standing with a score of “one up and five to go,” a source close to the White House revealed today. The political. interpretation of Justice Van Devanter's retirement means that Mr. Roosevelt counted the action as a one-sixth victory in his plan to add six justices to the U. S. Supreme Court. An informed source said: “If three justices should resign, the score would be dormie—all even if the. opponents should win the last three holes.” Meanwhile, the White House revealed that Mr. Roosevelt received Justice Van Devanter’s letter of resignation by special messenger at 9:45 o'clock this morning.

President Writes Letter

The President wrote the following letter accepting Justice Van De- Only Justice James Clark McR ; ) i ion: cReyvanter's resignagion: [| nolds has voted against the consti= “My Dear Mr. Justice Van Devan- | tutiorality of more New. Deal meas- | ter: ures than Justice Van Devanter, Of | “I have received your letter of this | 22\vital New Deal tests, Van Devane | morning telling me that you are re- | ter has joined his conservative col« | tiring from regular active service | leagues, Justices George Sutherland, on the bench on June 2, 1837. Pierce Butler and McReynolds: in - “May I, as one who has had the |condemning 13 Roosevelt enact= privilege of knowing you for many ments. years, extend to you every good wish. “Before you leave Washington for the summer, it would give me great | personal pleasure if you would come lin to see me. ( “Very sincerely yours, “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.” The President's letter came after ! (Turn to Page Three)

Justice Van Devanter, senior in years of service to all other members of the Supreme Court and older than any other justice except the veteran liberal, Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, has long been expected to retire. It was believed he had continued in his Supreme Court ost for some time longer than he had personally desired because of the constant series of important is= sues placed before the Court for decision by constitutional tests of New Deal enactments.

His Voting Record

Justice Van Devanter’s voting rece ord on New Deal legislation placed before the Supreme Court follows: AGAINST—NIRA “Hot Oil,” Gold Clause, Railroad Pensions, first Fra-zier-Lemke act, NRA, removal bof Trade Commissioner- Humphrey, AAA, Processing Tax, Guffey act, Municipal Bankruptcy, New York Unemployment Insurance, Wagner act freedom of the press test, Wag1 ner act application to steel and manufacturing industries. FOR—TVA, Neutrality act, Prison.

Ranks of Famous Nine Are Broken by Hoosier

Labor, Silver Tax, Railroad Labor act, second Frazier-Lemke act, general principle of Wagner act, Cocd= nut Oil Tax, Litvinoff Agreement, The date of retirement will permit Van Devanter to vote on the validity of old-age pensions. But there was some speculation whether he would do so, inasmuch as his vote might control the validity or invalidity of the law. It was admittedly too early to de termine the sweeping implications (Turn to Page Three)

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Merry-Go-R’d 14 Movies ....... 4 Mrs. Ferguson 13 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Music Obituaries Pegler Pyle Radio Scherrer ..... 13 Serial Story. .23 Short Story. .22 Society 9

Books Bridge . ...,... Broun .. Clapper Comics Crossword ...22 Curious World 23 Editorials ....14 Fashions Financial Fishbein Forum Grin, Bear It 22

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The Supreme Court of the United States. Left to right, standing: Associate Justice Roberts, Butler, Stone and Cardozo. Seated;

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Justices Brandeis and Van Devanter, Chief Justice Hughes, Associate ~ Justices McRe, gnolds and Sutherland. : ie ip

In Indpls .... 3 Jane Jordan.. 8 Johnson .....14

Sports, 16 State Deaths 24 Wiggam ,....2% ted ye