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TRUCK RACKET FLOURISHES IN

GURFEY BLAMES “FIRMS FOR STRIKE:

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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937

U.S. READY FOR ARMS PARLEY. BUT CAUTIOUS

High Winds And Waters Follow Dust

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INQUIRY WIDENED

Senate Extends Probe

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Driven Out of Monroe As Murphy Seeks To Halt Strife.

DAVEY SATISFIED

Of Mail Blockade; NLRB Acts.

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By United Press

WASHINGTON, June 10.— Senator J8seph F. Guffey (D. Pa.) charged in the Senate today that “the sole responsibility” for the current steel strike “lies| at the doors of Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland Steel.

“All these companies have fo do to end this strike immediately is to sign the same kind of a contract that the U. S.| Steel and 140 other companies have signed,” Guffey said in proposing an amendment to the Bridges resolution for investi§¢ation of alleged striker interference with | mail delivery of food to strike-bound steel factories. Guffey sought a broader inquiry which | he said would show ‘‘where the So lies.” The Bridges proposal, strongly supported by both Republicans arid Democrats, will be considered by | the Postoffice and Post Roads Coinmittee tomorrow,

Labor Board to Open Probe in Chicago

By United Press | © CHICAGO, June .10.—The National Labor Relations Board will begin an investigation today or tomorrow into charges that Inland Steel Corp. refused to bargain with the Steel Workers Organizing Uo mittee for a signed contract, Acting Director L. C. Bajork announced. The investigation was requested in a complaint filed by Van A. Bittner, regional director of the S. W. O. C. which is conducting a strike in plants of Inland and twec other independent steel companies. Bittner charged that Inland “professed to be willing to meet for the purpose of collective bargaining, but stated specifically that it did not propose to make a signed contract with the S. Wi. O. C.” Bittner also charged the corporation “intimidated” its workers.

VANNUYS’ ANTILYNCH BILL 1S SUBSTITUTE

By United Press i WASHINGTON, June 10.—A Senate judiciary subcommittee today. approved substitution of the Wag-ner-VanNuys antilynching bill for the Gavagan bill passed by the House. Senator VanNuys (D. Ind) announced that he would report favorably the revised measure fo the judiciary committee Monday and that he believed House supporters of antilynching legislation would agree to the changes. : The Senate bill would redefine mob violence land would not: cover deaths arising from gang wars or labor violence,

VAL NOLAN’S NAME IS SENT TO SENATE

Times Special 2 bo . WASHINGTON, June 10.—Reap- | peintments of Val Nolan as U. S. District, Attorney for Southern In- | diana and District Attorney James |= Fleming, Northern Indiana. were | sent to the U. S. Senate today by President Roosevelt. | | Reappointment of U. S. Marshal Al W. Hosinski for Northern Indiana also was armong the nominations made by the President.

BOB BURNS Ci

‘Every once in a while you read in the big city papers where some wealthy person is suin’ somebody else for slander. Sometimes they spend as high as a half a million ; . dollars to protect {IF is

their name. It ain’t that their names is worth . more than anybody else’s, but you just hear about it because they get so much publicity. Down home we think just as much about our honor, but you don’t hear about ® b:cause we have to keep our prices clown. One time [Uncle Hod’s family heard thz! | their neighbors had

Hopes of Peace at Parley.

WASHINGTON—Guffey lays blame for steel strike on three steel firms. CHICAGO—NLRB moves to investigate S. W. 0. C. charges of intimidation of workers by. Inland Steel Co. MONROE, Mich.—S. W. 0. C. organizer is beaten and run out of town. City is tense over planned reopening of Republic subsidiary. LANSING—Governor Murphy seeks to avoid bloodshed as he opens parley over Monroe strike. CLEVELAND—Governor Davey expresses satistaction over C. I. O. and steel leaders’ agreement to joint peace conference tomorrow.

(Photos, Bottom of Page) By United Press MONROE, Mich., June 10. —Leondies McDonald, Chicago organizer for the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee, was beaten and driven out of town today by workers of Newton Steel Co., a Republic Steel Corp. subsidiary, who were preparing to return to work.

Members of a crowd of 150 dragged McDonald from his automobile in front of the Postoffice in the center of town. They kicked and punched him. Blood streaming from his. face, he

was followed. on foot to the city

limits, where he . took refuge with sympathetic steel workers. The incident occurred as Governor Frank Murphy held a conference in Lansing in an attempt to maintain peace at the proposed re(Turn to Page Three)

KIN ARE CONSIDERING

Death of Star Mother and Father.

Third in series on Jean Harlow, Page 10; Photo, Page Three.

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, June : 10.—The mother, father and former stepfather of Jean Harlow conferred today on whether to have the actress’ body cremated. Death of the lovely blond star had reunited these three into a family council, although the mother, Mrs.

men. «Dr. M. C. Carpenter, Kansas City dentist, who was Miss Harlow’s father, came here by airplane for the funeral. Marino Bello was Miss Harlow’s stepfather until he, too, was divorced by the mother a year ago. Mrs. Bello was to be -given her preference in the matter of cremation, and she had not decided. The body lay today in a crypt at Forest Lawn Park, where it was escorted in a five-mile procession after the funeral. The crypt was banked high with flowers that came by truck loads even after last rites had started, and which were still well preserved today in the damp air.

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HARLOW CREMATION

4 CITIES, CLAIM

Nonunion Produce Haulers Penalized, Justice Department Told.

MONOPOLY IS CHARGED

Collusion With Dealers Is Alleged in Report by Trade Commission.

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 10.—The Federal Trade Commission disclosed today that it had presented to the Justice Department charges of racketeering and other Federal law violations in connection with the trucking of agricultural products in four of the nation’s biggest cities. The charges were made in a report to Congress on the commission inquiry into the fruit, vegetable and grape industries.

“In New York and Chicago, the t.ackers, with the assistance of the Teamsters’ Union,” the report charged, “have obtained a monopoly of the commercial hauling of fruit and vegetables from the principal terminals by excluding all trucks not members of the truckers’ associations or whose drivers do not, belong to the local union. “Measures in| this direction also have been taken recently by the truckers’ association and the union local in Philadelphia.”

Intimidation Is Charged

In Cleveland and Chicago, the report, said, union agents “have by threats and intimidation” forced outside trucks bringing produce into the market to pay for the privilege of unloading. : : The commission concluded that the practices discovered in New York, Chicago -and Philadelphia “amount to illegal agreements in restraint of trade and in violation of the antitrust acts,” and that the activities of the Teamsters’ Union agents in| Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia “are in violation of the Federal Antiracketeering Act.” “As to these practices,” the report said, {‘the commission has made its evidence available to the Department of Justice.” :

Dealer-Control Claimed

“The marketing of a large part of the fruit and vegetable crop,” the report continued, “is controlled by dealers and others who have financed the production of the products and such financing is often unfair in its results and unduly costly to the producer. “In some of the principal. terminal markets, the facilities were found to be ‘inadequate, improperly situated and. poorly regulated, adding to the cost of distribution and making easier the growth of objec-

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Jean Bello, was divorced from both

tionable rackets. “Practices of certain large buyers,

| particularly chain-store buying com-

panies, tend to depress prices received by the producer and are often discriminatory in their effect.”

3 DEANS HINTED IN LINE FOR I U. POST

Wells Reported to Be Most ~ Likely Choice.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, June 10.— Three Indiana University deans were listed today as leading contenders for the post of acting president of the .university, to succeed Dr, William Lowe Bryan. Dr. Bryan has asked to be retired June 30. The I. U. trustees met today in Indianapolis, and will convene here again tomorrow and Saturday. Herman Wells, School of Business Administration dean, is repdrted by some to be the most likely choice. Bernard Gavit, Law School dean, and Herbert Smith, School of Education dean, also are reported to have several supporters. A permanent president to succeed Dr. Bryan probably will be

‘|named later, it was reported.

"PLANES CARRY FQOD TO STEEL WORKERS

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‘em and the hext day the neighbor come to n'y [Uncle Hod and said, “Your boy rnell threw a lump of

Corp. plant at Warren, O., went food to the 2300 workers besieged

While a battle over the delivery of mail into the Republic Steel *

on, airplanes continued to deliver within the company fences. This

photo shows one of the planes landing within the plant. Often the plang; were shot at, and one crashed while landing.

By United Press ° KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 10.—Destructive floods, cloudbursts and tornadoes brought death, injury and large property loss today to the Southwest where less than a month ago dust storms raged. Experiencing the sudden reversal of nature were Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Missouri. The principal flood danger spots were in Oklahoma, where a series of . tornadoés killed two persons, injured 24 and left 200 homeless. Rains may prevent Kansas from harvesting much of its wheat crop estimated at 150,000,000 bushels. In Oklahoma the Canadian River rolled over its banks along a 150-mile area near Union City. A few hours earlier a tornado struck the area, kill-. ing one woman. . At Topeka, Kas. today the mercury dipped to 51 degrees at 5 a. m., the coldest June 10 on record here. -

HOOSIER FLOOD GRANT STUDIED

House Hears Plan Would Protect 88 Million in Property Value.

Times Special WASHINGTON, June 10.—Plans and specifications for construction of flood walls and levees along the Ohio River in Indiana amounting to $10,436,000 are before the Flood Control Committee of the House today. They were introduced by Capt. Charles Reber, head of the Army Engineers in the Louisville district. Maps were presented to show that with such an expenditure Indiana property estimated at $88,859,200 would be protected. Esimated costs of the levees and flood walls, as prepared by the Army Engineers are as follows: Evansville, $2,270,000: Jeffersonville and Clarksville, $4,210,000: New Albany, $2,820,000; Mauckport, $°97.000; Leavenworth, $490,000: Alton, $110,000; Cannelton, $1,135,000; Tell City, $1,290,000; Grandview, $246,000, and Rockport, $188,000. Levees for cities included in the Cincinnati district, such as Lawrenceburg, also have been planned by the Army Engineers. Rep. Griswold, only Indiana member of the committee, expressed little hope they will be built soon, President Roosevelt has promised Chairman Whittington (D. Miss.) that 25 million dollars can be expended for projects upon which the hearings are held. Up and down the Ohio, where the January flood eaused losses estimated from 500 million dollars to a billion dollars. a 25-million-dollar expenditure was termed “hopeless” by. Mr. Griswold. However the President also has promised 45 million dollars in Works Progress :- Administration labor for the levees. This agreement was made when the House dropped earmarking of the billion-and-one-half dollar relief bill.

TRUCKER SHOT AT BY MOTORISTS, HE SAYS

Roscoe Vance, 42, of 1611 Pleasant St., told police today he was shot at by men in a passing auto while he was loading lumber onto his truck at the Mitchel Construction & Wrecking Co., 1211 'W. New York St., today. - Mr. Vance said he heard a bullet whine over his head and looked up to find a hole in the truck windshield. He said a car was driving past and a silencer must have been used on the weapon because he heard no shot. Mr. Vance could give no reason for the shooting.

NUT TAKEN FROM LUNG

Physicians at Riley Hospital today removed a portion of a peanut from the lung of Patricia Foreland, 15-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Foreland, 40 N. Belmont St. The baby swallowed the morsel Tuesday and was taken/to the hospital yesterday.

PILOTS PAID $20 A MIN

Hull Is Unconvinced That Washington Should Take Initiative.

TRADE PACTS GIVE HOPE

Administration Waits Proof Of Duce’s and Blum’s Peace Proffers.

(Editorial, Page 16)

By ROBERT W. HORTON Times Special Writer '

WASHINGTON, June 10. — The United States is ready to take part at any time in an international conference to unravel the world economic tangle and reduce the crushing load of armaments. This can be said to be the attitude of the State Department. But it also can be said the Administration is not convinced that the United States should take the initiative. International affairs are in such delicate condition it. is believed a conference might do more harm than good. It is Secretary Hull's fervent hope that such a conference, when held, will have practical results. For that reason the statements of Premiers Mussolini and Blum to William Philip Simms of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers greatly interested the State Department. With these and other European leaders moving toward a realization that the arms race cannot go on indefinitely, Secretary Hull is encouraged in his belief there is a. way out. ] But there is the example of Germany’s withdrawal from the disarmament conference in 1933. The Nazis quit when France rejected their demand for arms equality. Instead of disarmament, that meeting resulted in a German military and naval program twice the size of that demanded at Geneva. Secretary Hull does not want to sponsor any meeting which might have equally unfortunate results. " The State Department is not pessimistic. Such statements as Mussolini and Blum have made indicate

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PRIETO MAPS DRIVE TO LIFT REBEL SIEGE

Spain Building Up Army of 500,000, He Says.

(Copyright, 1937, by United Press) PERPIGNAN, Fretch - Spanish Frontier, June 10.—Indalecio Prieto, strong man of the Loyalist Government, promised' today he would save Bilbao by organizing a general offensive of Loyalist forces. Prieto, in a statement to the United Press today, said the Loyalists soon will command an army of 500,000 men, every one of whom will have had military training. Prieto, a moderate Socialist leader, took office May 18 in a reorganized Loyalist cabinet as Minister of National Defense, merging the ministries of War, Navy, Air and Munitions. “We are rapidly making our force disciplined and irresistible. “We are preparing a great number of specialists—aviators, artillery experts, engineers, dynamiters, radio telegraphers, bridge builders —with capable officers to lead them. “We must save Bilbao and free Madrid. That means a big offensive is needed.”

Report Italy, Reich Accept Patrol Pact

By United Press LONDON, June 10.—The United Press was informed reliably today that Britain, France, Germany and Italy have reached an agreement assuring the return of Italy and Germany to participation in the work of the international committee for nonintervention in the Spanish civil war. . The agreement provides extended security zones, nonaggression guarantees, and consultation in cases of emergency.

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Meat, bread and potatoes .transported by plane for the 2300 hungry loyal workers were being transferred to a truck which. was mess hall-bound shortly after this picture was taken. Trucks, trains and

even some mail were blocked out Pilots braved bullets,

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of the plant by striking pickets. -& minute,

WILL CONTINUE COOL

"| good friend.”

Clifford Harrod, former Indianapolis Power & Light Co. president, has accepted a position as vice president and general manager of the LaClede Power & Light Co. in St. Louis, it was reported today. Mr. Harrod's term as president of the local company ended’ in 1934. He had served four years. Both the Indianapolis and the St. Louis companies are subsidiaries of the Utility Power & Light Co. of Chicago, a holding company. Mr. Harrod has been president. of the Columbia Club here for the last two years.

EX-PREMIER OF CANADA IS DEAD

Sir Robert Borden, World War Figure, Is Heart Disease Victim.

B+ United Press OTTAWA. June 10.—Sir Robert Borden, former Premier of Canada, died today of heart disease. He was 83. ‘ Sir Robett, who became Prime Minister in October, 1911, and headed the war-time Union Government formed in 1917, first became ill last May 31. At-the war's conclusion Sir Robert was the chief plenipotentiary delegate of Canada at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. In October, two years before, he had formed the Canadian Union Government which he headed until his resignation in July, 1920. He represented Canada at the Washington Disarmament Conference in 1921-1922, was the Canadian representative on the League of Nations Council and was chairman of the League's Sixth Committee of Assembly in September, 1930.

THERMOMETER AT 55;

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

«+. M... 55 10a, m... «Mm... 55 11 aim... . Mm... 55 12 (noom). .m.., 55 1pm...

35 - 53 55 35

Indianapolis temperatures were 10 degrees below normal today, and the Weather Bureau predicted continued cool for tonight. From 6 a. m. until 1 p. m. the thermometer stood at 55 degrees. The sky was overcast and there were light showers. Cold air coming here from the far Northwest is causing the cool temperatures here, the Bureau said.

SENATE APPROVES TAX LEAK INQUIRY

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 10.— The Senate today agreed to House amendments and sent to the White House a resolution for an investigation “to shed the sunlight of publicity” on income tax avoidance. Senator Harrison (D. Miss.) asked concurrence in the House amendment which restricted the power of the proposed joint investigating committee to delegate inquiry power to Treasury officials. The joint committee must approve publication of any names or other data revealed by the inquiry. :

By United Press WASHINGTON. June 10.—Administration leaders today looked forward -to starting mext week a joint Congressional investigation of income tax dodging which President Roosevelt charged to a few wealthy persons. |

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TENTS SERVE AS MESS HALL

DNAPERS

Husband of Long Island Heiress Prepares to Pay $25,000 Demanded in Ransom Note Tucked Under Seat of Victim's Car.

FEDERAL MEN STUDY HATCHET CLUE

Wealthy Woman Disappears After Conversation With Strangers at Rear of Home; Highways Bottled Up in Search.

By United Press

STONY BROOK, N. Y., June 10.—With a ransom note and a blood-stained hatchet as clues, Federal agents and ° state and local police bottled up all roads leading from Long Island today in the search for the kidnapers of Mrs, Alice McDonnell Parsons, socially prominent heiress and kin of

several wealthy families.

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The scores of investigators assigned to the case worked on the theory that the kidnapers who took Mrs. Parsons from her 11-acre estate in this exclusive section before noon

‘I Made It Up, Nurse Says of

Kidnaping Plot,

By United Press CHICAGO, June 10.—A pretty, lovesick nurse put police in a dither today with a fantastic story of a plot to kidnap John Rockefeller Prentice, grandson of the late John D. Rockefeller Sr., but admitted under questioning that she “made it all up.” “Yes. I made it all up—it’s all untrue,” said Miss Margaret Montgomery, 27, a nurse at Presbyterian Hospital. “I did it to try to get him to come back to me.” Miss Montgomery earlier had told of being kidnaped by two men and released with a message which was intended to bring Prentice to a rendezvous where police believed he would have heen held for ransom, Prentice notified police. He said he had met Miss Montgomery while a patient two years ago. He described her as “a very

EARHART FLIES OVER AFRICAN JUNGLES

Woman Pilot Heading for French Post.

Bj) United Press DAKAR, Senegal, June 10.— Amelia Earhart, American woman round-the-world flier, took off today for the African interior. Her plane refueled and overhauled after her flight across the Atlantic from Brazil, Miss Earhart took off at 6:55 a. m. Greenwich Mean Time

(2:55 a.\m. Indianapolis Time) with

Fred Noonan, her navigator.

The plane headed eastward for the Niger River Valley via Bamako, Timbuciu, Gao and Niamey. From the Niger, Miss Earhart was expected to continue across the continent by way of Ft. Lamy, the French Army station south of Lake Chad, and thence on to Khartoum in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. A message from Air Minister Pierre Cot, at Paris, had ordered all French desert aviation posts to be on the lookout for Miss Farhart and to give her every assistance. Miss Earhart selected the route directly across Africa despite bad weather conditions which caused her for a time to consider skirting the northern coast of Africa.

: = en who.remained in the Republic

plant at Warren, O., had to be fed and kept happy, and here you

see some of them gathered in the

tent which did double duty as a

mess hall and a recreation center, while pickets outside fences- barred

them from getting even a clean shirt—exoept by airplane,

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yesterday still were somewhere on the Island. Never« theless an eight-state alarm was flashed out as a precautionary measure. : The ransom note, printed with pencil on ruled paper, was found last night tucked into the upholstery of Mrs.

Parsons’ car in the graveled yard behind the white colonial-type house. If read: “Bill Parsons—I have your wife, Bring $25,000 to the Jamaica bus terminal within 24 hours. My man will meet you and call you by name, Do not bring any cops. If you do, Alice will never speak to you again.”

Hatchet Is Found

The blood-stained hatchet was found in the basement of the pretentious: home in which: Mrs, Parsons lived with her husband, William H. Parsons; heir to a paper fortune. { Although it was believed the stains might have been made by Parsons in killing squabs, which he raised on his estate, the hatchet was turned over to chemists for analysis. A Stony Brook policeman close to the case said Parsons was prepared to follow instructions in the ransom rote and pay $25,000 tonight.

Rhea Whitley, agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation office at New York, went to the Parsons estate.

Assisting police was Richardson Pratt, assistant treasurer of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, an uncle of Parsons. : Time of Mrs. Parsons’ disappearance was fixed by statements take from laborers working on a highway near the estate who knew Mrs. Parsons by sight and from Anna Kupryanova, described as “a refugee Russian countess,” who, with her 11-year-old son, Roy, has lived with the Parsons for about eight years, 2 Strangers Drive Up The Russian woman said she was in the kitchen when an automobile occupied by a woman and a middle« aged man drove up behind the treeshrouded, rambling frame house, They asked for Mrs. Parsons and talked with her, she said. Mrs. Parsons called to her that she was driving with the callers to Huntington, where Mrs. Parsons has an interest in some property which, presumably, the man and woman wished to inspect, Mme. Kupryanova said. The highway workmen, however, told police of an automobile which, they insisted, was occupied by two women. They said the car, large and old-fashioned, drove into the estate and later emerged with Mrs, Parsons in the seat where one of the women had been. There was no man in the car, they said. Mrs. Parsons was said to have been left $150,000 by the late William Sammies, a member of one of the wealthy families whose elaborate estates make this section of Long Island famous for its wealth and fashion. It was said that she was related to the wealthy Pratt family of- which the former Congresswoman, Ruth Pratt, is the best known member.

CHICAGO MAN KILLED By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 10.— Fred Linders, 55, Chicago, was killed here yesterday when he lost control - of his automobile which crashed into a tree,

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