Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1937 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JUNE 19,

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der way before it was announced by Gen. William E. Gilmore of the National Aeronautical |Association, and confirmed by the Soviet ambassador to the United States, Alexander Troyanovsky, who came by plane to San Francisco| to await the plane’s arrival. Early today the

They were expected here early Sunday morning. Their route lay across a wilderness of ancient ice from the Pole to Point Barrow, Alaska, a distance of 1200 miles, thence over the peninsula to Seattle. Today they were In uncharted region where fierce arctic storms swirl continually and no meteorological information is available to them. Forced down on water, the wings would keep the plane afloat for a short time. But a landing short of Point Barrow easily might mean death from cold and starvation. Valerie Chkalov, 33, was at the controls of the plane. With him were Georgi Baidukov, 30, copilot, 1and Alex Beliakov, navigator. They left Moscow unannounced at 9:05 p. m. Thursday (Indianapolis Time), land were nearly up the Eastern Hemisphere to the Pole when their flight was revealed to the world. As they crossed the Pole, the fliers passed close to a Soviet weath- | er station that was established there a few weeks ago. Purpose of the flight was to explore the top of the world far regular air service possibilities. Would Cut Distance ; , A polar route would reduce the distance of air travel from Mosco ‘to North America by half. The weather station was set up at the Pole in preparation for. the new commercial “service that Russia plans, and apparently it was decided that an actual flight was the most practical means of testing the route. The| flight was following the 123d | meridian closely. It was the longest nonstop flight ever attempted. Eleven years ago Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth made the flight from the Pole to Point Barrow, but the route is virtually unexplored. : If the Russians find commercial service is feasible, they plan to establish a refueling and pilot relief station at the Pole, which would be manned constantly. At San Francisco Soviet officials prepared a reception for the fliers.

Moscow Waits 24 Hours To Announce Flight

By United Press MOSCOW, June 19..—After 24 hours of adamant silence, Russian authorities announced today that three “Heroes of |the Soviet Union” were on a flight from Moscow to San Francisco via the North Pole. The announcement was made at 4:10/ a. m., 24 hours 5 minutes—to _ be exact—after the three aviators took off at dawn yesterday at Schelkovsky Airdrome outside the city in their ANT-25 plane. “The Government, satisfied with the request of Heroes of the Soviet Union Comrades V. P. Chkalov, G.

P. Baidukov and A. V. Beliakov,

permitted them to make a flight over the North Pole to North America,’! said the announcement. It| was added that preparations for the [flight were made by a specially appointed committee, and that the course was over the White Sea, the Kolsky Peninsula, Franz Josef Land, the North Pole and thence across the North Atlantic to North America. The title “Heroes of the Soviet Union” means that all the aviators have been accorded this distinction for: extraordinary services in the past.

fliers were past

1937

Morgenthau Explains Tax Loopholes

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ington yesterday.

G-MEN SNAGGED IN KIDNAP HUNT

Search of Woods Along L. I. North Shore Fails To Reveal Clues.

Ly United Press | . ’ STONY] BROOK; N. Y., June 19.— G-Men |today abandoned their search of| the woods along Long Island's north shore for some trace of Mrs. Alice McDonell Parsons, 38-year-old society matron, who disappeared from her Long Meadow farm estate nine days ago. Inspector Earl J. Connelly of the FBI announced that Federal agents, State and local police and CCC workers had covered between 12 and 14 square miles apparently without finding a tangible clue. . Meanwhile, William H. Parsons, the missing woman's husband, and other . members of the family, awaited an opportunity to contact the sender of .a ransom note demanding $25,000 for Mrs. Parsons’ return. Reports that the money had been withdrawn from a New York City bank yesterday were denied.

Murder Still Considered

Some’ investigators believed that Mrs. Parsons had been murdered, and that the ransom note had been “planted.” It was stated that in the event murder was discovered,

the announcement would be made by the Suffolk County District Attorney, but that if kidnaping was involved, the announcement would be made by Mr. Connelly. Mr. Connelly said his agents would continue their investigation “until the case is brought to a satisfactory conclusion.” Asked if he planned to intensify the inquiry, he said: “We are working consistent with the wishes of the family.” Assistant District Attorney Lindsay Henry appealed to all persons owning untenanted houses or other buildings in the vicinity of the Parsons’ farm “to search their premises in the hope that information of value to the investigators might be uncovered.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY Indiana Academy of Podiatry, meeting,

“Hotel Severin, all day. Alliance Francaise, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records st the County Courthouse. The Times is not responsible for any errors of aames or addresses.)

Darrell Overpeck, 28, of 702 Wilson St.;

Mary Stierwalt, 24, of 1122 Reisner St.

E. Cline, 20, of 2701 W. 16th St.: Ds, = CBamunds. 17, of 2802 N. Adams St. \

illiam R. Joiner, 21, of 5006 W. Washas Ruby A. Moore, 21, of 2316 W. Washington St. ' ¢.X Oakland . Adam, 37, of 115 . Oaklan a nN Belser, 44, of 510 N. Meridian . liam H. Carvin, 20, of 2705 E. North st Marseiliaise M. Hinson, 18, of 1410

Lee St George A. . McNaught 46, Bridgeport;

Anne "Be Thrasher, 33, of 1120 N. Pennsyl-

vania St. ter M. Delks, 30, of 1124 S. Richland SU Alois .E. Trenor, 29, of 1248 Blaine St. neth Allen Shull, 23, of 1310 ConFIL ae Mary Long, 17, of 944 Eugene

St. . Moseman, 21, of 5612 Central ariel W. L. McCleary. 21, of 3015 N

Pennsylvania St . 125, of 1622 E. 10th Edgar F. Ashcraft, Jer Bi

.: Doris Emily Craig, 22, o . Ta-

eR. e. 44, of 1333 W. 31st St.; owens, 2.0 joss W. Sth gt Te ons, 58. © . Ba 3 ronal Barnard, 51, of 710 N. Bancroft St. , over. 29. of 2128 E. Michigan Ca Ci, 25, of 428 E. Michigan St. Yack Gildersleeve, 21. of 219 Hendricks . Dorothy May Meyers, 21, of 2615 E. 11th St.

imi BIRTHS

Boys

3 B vis, at 412 Harris. Qtha. Edng Dela Harris, at 910 S. Cap-

: onard, Thelma Thorp, at 1441 N, Pershing. Clark, at 929 W. 28th. David. Jona Boiler, at 527 N. David-

Son. thur. Margery Pettitt, at 1525 Leer-

la Harris, at 1470 S. Lee. Charles, Lula ne McMann, at 2812 W. Wilcox.

. Carrie Gray. at 704 W. 54th. Donalds Henrietta Hoffman, at St.

Fran. Pauline Chadwick, at St. FranJ St. Francis,

cis. thryn Payne. at HO ‘Mildred McIntire, at St. Fran-

Cl8; cep. Elizabeth Wolsifer, at St. Fran-

cis. of va Bollinger, at St. Francis. ET Bars Patterson, at st. Francis. Philip, Florence Sheridan. at St. Francis. iaVein, Maedel Taylor, at St. 2 GIRLS

_ Bertha Hoffner, at 1113 Olin, Tan Rose McCarty. at 835 S. RYbolt. Samuel, Virginia Lanier, at 942 Fayette. Nelson, Marcie Sedam. sat St. 8 Joseph, Mary Gottee. at St. Franeis. . Loren. Mabel Dixon, at St. Francis. Charles, Margaret Eskew. at St. Francis. Harold, . Jeanette Schoettle, at Francis J: rd, Rebecca Ott, at St. Francis. Eavaond, ‘Opal Petro, at St. Francis.

camp. Richard,

James, Eva Hughey, at St. Francis. Robert, at St

Mildred Xicholas, Francis. Austin, Dorothy Parker, at St. Francis.

DEATHS

. Otto Schopp, 54. at City, carcinoma. R. Florence Miller, 84, at St. Vincent's, myocarditis. Fred Henry, 55, at 29 Virginia, coronary

occlusion. 50, st Methodist, en-

Sarah M. Biller, cephalitis. Ellen Curtis, 74, at 620 Fayette, chronic myocarditis.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau____

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Mostly cloudy and somewhat warmer tonight and tomorrow, probably with occasional thunder showers. :

Sunrise ........ 4:16 Sunset ........ 7

TEMPERATURE —June 19, 1936—

BAROMETER . 30.12 mM viii

* | Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 a. m.

Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably local thundershowers central and north portions; somewhat warmer.

Illinois—Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and tomorrow, thundershowers this -afternoon or tonight central and north portions; slightly warmer tonight, warmer tomorrow in central and north portions. Lower Michigan—Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably showers and thunderstorms west portion and tomorrow or tomorrow night east; somewhat warmer southeast tonight and south tomorrow. : hio—Partly cloudy with showers tomorrow and in extreme west portion tonight; slightly warmer tomorrow. Kentucky—Probably local showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.

Station. Amarillo, Tex. Bismarck, Boston Chicago ..... Cincinnati .. Cleveland, O. Denv Dodg Helena, Mont. Jacksonville,

' a. Minneapolis Mobile, Ala. New Orleans . New York ....J.ceens. Okla. Citv, Neb.

. | Omaha, en.

Pittsburgh Portland. Ore. San Antonio, Tex.

St. | San . Francisco

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A general view of the joint House and Senate tax evasion hearing, which got under way in WashSecretary of Treasury Morgen=thau can be seen testifying (standing, left). He ex-

situation.

Strike

Mass Reaction May Be New Technique, Expert Says.

Faint

By Science Service ASHINGTON, June 19.—A fainting strike as an advance in technique over sit-down strikes may be the explanation of the reported mass faintings of girl workers in a Lille, France, sugar refinery where 400 workers fainted while at work one day last week and another 70 collapsed within a few hours after resuming work Tuesday. The faint strike explanation is the suggestion of a national authority on industrial hygiene. He refused to be quoted directly but pointed out that a combination of high temperature and high humidity, labor unrest and a little hysteria might lead to such mass collapses. Dissatisfaction with working conditigns generally plus uncomfortable working conditions during hot weather might lead the girls to think all their troubles due to something in the plant and they would then faint on going to work. : A possible chemical explanation is that during the refining process there might be some fermentation which would increase the carbon dioxide content of the air and reduce its oxygen content. This could easily cause fainting. The ‘temperature has been reported as being hot in Lille. A temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit with a relative humidity of 100 per cent is the border line between conditions tolerable and intolerable for continued work. If the air movement is good this temperature can' be borne while working, but if the air is still or the temperature reaches 9) degrees Fahrenheit with a humidity of 100 per cent, it is impossible

- to continue working,

WITNESS REPORTED JAILED AT HARLAN

10-Year Sentence Threat in Capital Recalled.

By HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer } WASHINGTON, June 19.—The Justice Department has been advised that R. C. Tackett, a witness before the La Follette Committee in its investigation of Harlan County, Kentucky, is back in jail in Harlan County. Tackett was shoved: across the Virginia-Kentucky line into the hands of Harlan deputies, according to the report received here through unofficial sources and transmitted to the Department. He is reported to be in fear of nis life, because of his testimony to the Committee that he was employed to dynamite the homes of mine-union leaders. Tackett is the witness who told the Committee that Ted Creech, Harlan coal operator, threatened him in a Capitol corridor with a 10-year sentence ‘when we get you back in Harlan County.” Creech denied he said it, but a Deputy U. S. Marshal who had Tackett in custody confirmed the story. Creech has since been arrested on a perjury charge. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who have been in Harlan County for several weeks investigating charges that local officials conspired to deprive citizens of their civil rights, have been acquainted with Tackett’s latest jail transfer, it is said. . Tackett was in a Harlan County jail when the La Follette “"Committee first subpoenaed him to tell his story. Here he was kept in jail for safekeeping. After the hearing, it is understood, he was returned to Norton, Va. near the Kentucky line. It was from there that local authorities forcibly escorted him to the Kentucky line, according to the report. ; | “ Most of the other miner witnesses against the operators have not returned to Harlan County. The miners’ union is reported to have found jobs for several of them in safer regions.

PODIATRISTS MEET HERE

Foot health is to feature discussions tonight at the opening of the two-day Indiana Academy of Podiatry convention in the Hotel Severin. Dr. Earl J. Compton, Ft. Wayne, is meeting chairman. Dr. Philip Brac n, Chicago, Illinois

College of ghiiropody, is to speak.

Times-Acme Phato.

plained the problem created by what he termed “unethical and unwarranted avoidance of taxes,” and asked for “practical legislation” to remedy the

INDIANA STRIKE FRONT IS CALM

Two Cases Settled; Vote on Third May Bring It To End.

By United Press Comparative calm reigned .on the Indiana labor front today as two strikes were settled. A vote was planned which may end another, and union activity continued in several

sections of the state. Joseph D. Persily, Committee for Industrial Organization regional director, promised striking employees of the Republic Creosoting Co. in

Indianapolis the aid and advice of.

the C. I. O. in an address before a mass meeting of the workers today. The assemblage followed a strike

1 demonstration yesterday in which

A. J. Beers, 46, was attacked by pickets who broke through the fence surrounding the plant. The walk-

| out was ordered June 7 by Local

20483, Creosote Workers Union. Lewis Phillips, local vice president, said negotiations are scheduled for today with P. C. Reilly, firm president. Dress Firm Signs Louis Sopkin, Roberta-Jill Dress Plant president at New Albany,

signed an agreement recognizing the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union as the sole collective bargaining agency for the workers. A .2w wage scale was agreed upon starting with $6 a week for apprentices, $9 a ‘week for a second appren-

tice period and $13 a week minimum

wage for experienced workers. New Scale Promised

One hundred and fifty employees of the New Albany Box and Basket Co. planned to return to work when company officials promised that a

new wage scale would be submitted within a month. ; At Goshen, it was announced that the National Labor Relations Board has called an election of employees Wednesday to determine if they want the United Rubber ‘Workers Union, a C. I. O. affiliate, to represent them in collective bargaining with the Western: Rubber Co. No strike is contemplated at present. At Terre Haute, 400 members of a New York Central Railroad construction crew continued on strike, demanding shorter hours and higher

‘wages.

Also at Terre Haute, 50 WPA workers continued a sit-down strike in. protest against their dismissal from the relief rolls when the district WPA office was moved from Terre Haute to Lafayette.

Evansville Plant to Close

At Evansville, the Sunbeam Electric Manufacturing Co. was to close today, throwing about 275 employees out of work. Plant’ officials said a shortage of materials, caused by strikes in other parts of the country, was to blame. Employees of the Perfect Circle Piston Ring Co. voted today on whether their sole collective bargaining agency will be an affiliate of the Committee for Indusfrial Organization or a local employees’ union. At Portland, C. I. O. representatives continued attempts to organize workmen in the Shellers Manufacturing Co. and Drop Forge Co. Foundry, with conflicting claims being made on the extent of their success. Contract Is Discussed Three hundred employees of three Indianapolis packing plants, members of the United Meat Packers’ Union, were reported discussing terms of a contract which may be submitted to the officials of Armour & Co., the Wadley Co. and Kingan & Co. . Provisions for wage increases and for arbitration of mutual problems are included in an agreement signed vesterday by the Coony Bayer Cigar Co. with the Ft. Wayne unit of the Cigarmakers’ International Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. Thomas Watson, representative of the Indianapolis regional office, National Labor Relations . Board, has ordered an employees’ election to be held at the Wayne Pump Co. Ft. Wayne, to determine their collective bargaining agency. He deferred action on petitions asking similar balloting at the General Electric plant and the Horton Manufacturing Co. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union officials today announced signing of a contract with the Atlas Underwear Manufacturing Co. of Richmond. They said the agreement, affecting about 325 employees, mostly ‘women, recognizes the C. I. O. affiliate as sole bargaining agent and grants a five-day, 40hour week and Wage; 'ncreases,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

STRIFE FEARED AS MEDIATION BOARD MEETS

Republic Defies Perkins’ Plea of ‘Status Quo’ in Peacemaking.

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were tentatively scheduled for tomorrow and Monday. The Pennsylvania Governor ordered that all vigilantes be disarmed at Johnstown. : He ected that the State Police contingent “preserve law and order and. act instantly against anyone who attempts violence.” Earle said that “if the Johnstown Mayor (Daniel H. Shields) refused to co-operate with the State Police, the Johnstown City police will cease to function.” Although National Guardsmen were not dispatched to the scene of the labor disturbance, the huge Bethlehem mill, the Governor said he was placing the city of Johnstown under martial law. At Canton new outbreaks of violence were reported and angry wives of non-strikers met at a rally to demand reopening of the mills in defiance of the pickets.

Shootings Charged

Strike pickets at Canton reported to county officials that for the second successive night they had been fired on by railroad guards. They said 50 or 60 shots had been fired. The Sheriff's office also- reported it was investigating charges that snipers fired on the railroad police. The charges and counter-charges followed a series of clashes between nonstrikers and strikers in which seven back-to-work leaders were “abducted” and then released by union groups, and several were hurt in fist fights. The proposed attempt to break the Canton picket lines was scheduled tentatively for tomorrow by John G. Stewart, spokesman for a back-to-work committee. At Youngstown, meanwhile, National Guard observers. reported to their Columbus headquarters that a march on the picket lines was scheduled to begin at 2 a. m. Monday. ~ Open Probe in Ohio The National Board sent investigators into Ohio to inquire into union charges that the Republic Corp. had violated the Wagner Labor Act “by intimidating and discharging union employees.” “A veritable reign of anarchy exists,” the Republic Corp. declared in a formal statement. “The first duty of the Federal board is to in-

vestigate this breakdown of law en-

forcement. Men desiring to work should be given protection to return to their jobs now and not after additional weeks of involuntary idleness while the investigation is in progress.” The corporation rejected Secretary Perkins’ appeal to maintain “the status quo” pending new peace efforts. Meanwhile, union officials told the Labor Board that they desired a Government-supervised election among Republic Corp. employees “in order definitely to determine whether the S. W. O. C. represents an overwhelming majority of such employees for the purpose of collective bargaining.” McGrady Joins Board

Edward McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor and third member of the board, joined Taft and Lloyd K. Garrison in their conference rooms—two $25-a-day hotel suites reserved for them by local officials. The board members declined comment on last-minute developments in the labor conflict, which! included: . A C. I. O. request for Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau to investigate ‘charges that Republic Steel Corp. and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., had violated the National Firearms Act. Announcement at Washington that President Roosevelt had no

legal authority to act on request{

of Johnstown, Pa., officials that he end a “reign of terror” sponsored by “a Red Russian organization.” Charges before the Senate Postoffice Committee investigating refusal of postal authorities to deliver mailed food through picket lines at Warren, O., that James E. Musgrove, a Republic steel worker, was threatened with death, beaten with clubs and paraded through town in his underwear by pickets.

U. S. Position Outlined

. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early, emphasizing that he was not speaking for the President, unofficially outlined the Government’s position on Shields’ telegram as follows: “The Government ‘cannot use force to prevent disturbance until requested by a Governor of a state, or if the Legislature is in session, by the Legislature also. “The Governor of Pennsylvania has not made any request. Johnstown is a city in Pennsylvania. The Governor of Ohio asked the President for action and got it. “The Governor of Pennsylvania has not done so, nor has he indicated that he is incapable of tak-

"ing care of his own troubles.”

“What can we do?” Early asked, “if troops were moved into Johnstown or other strike centers, there would be one result—more death.” The chairman studied reports from the strike centers in advance of the board meeting, but declined to comment on developments. :

WORLD TELEGRAM’S UNIT SCORES GUILD

By United Press NEW YORK, June 19.—The New York World Telegram unit of ‘the American Newspaper Guild was on record today as criticizing delegates to the recent Guild convention in St. Louis for failing to call a national referendum on the constitutional amendments adopted there. The resolution, which was adopted by a vote of 27 to 20, follows: “Resolved, That the best interests of the New York World Telegram unit of the . American Newspaper Guild would best be served if the constitutional amendments adopted by the delegates at St. Louis had been submitted to a referendum.”

Labor Relations.

which nine were killed.

Scanning Strike Riot Films

limes-Acliltc £O0LL:

John J. Abt, general counsel for the La Follette subcommittee (left) and Robert Wohlforth, committee secretary (right), are shown above as they examined movie films made by the Rev. Chester Fisk during the Memorial Day riot between strikers and Chicago policemen at the Republic Steel Corp. plant in South Chicago, in

(Editorial next week. . More than 5000 delegates from

Jack Rhoades, Indianapolis Kiwa

SIR JAMES BARRIE, NOTED AUTHOR, DEAD

Creator of Peter Pan Dies Of Pneumonia in London.

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picturesque spot which he always referred to as “Thrums” in his writings. The date was May 9, 1860.

Worked as Reporter

After attending Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh University he went to work in 1883 as a reporter and writer on the Nottingham Journal, : In 1885 he went to London and wrote: assiduously - his stories of “Thrums,” all carrying the love of his quaint ° birthplace. His first long novel, “The Little Minister,” appeared in 1891 and the next year he produced “The Little White Bird,” which revealed his whimsical tenderness toward children and their world. His story '‘The Little White Bird” contained the germ of “Peter Pan” and the latter appeared as a play in 1904, ‘Peter Pan,” Mr. Barrie once said, evolved from his playing of pirate games with the five sons of Sylbia and Arthur Daires, the daughter and son-in-law of George du Maurier, author of “Trilby.” Thereafter Mr. Barrie plunged into playwriting with furious vigor. In 1903 there was an occasion when three of his plays—“Quality Street,” the “Admirable Crichton” and “Little Mary”’—were running in London theaters. : i In rapid succession followed such widely-known plays as “A Kiss for Cinderella.” “Dear Brutus,” and others, all of which have gone into theatrical history in London and New York. A Barrie play became a trade term. It was the Sevres porcelain, the Dresden china, the Harris tweed of show business.

Compared to Andersen

In some ways it was much like Hans Christian Andersen of chil-

dren’s fame, who also wanted to stick to novels but was driven off

his course by chance. The Dane ‘also was made much by the royalty,

just as Mr, Barrie was. Mr. Barrie was made a baronet in 1913 and received the Order of Merit on New Year's: Day, 1922, from the late King George V. . Mr. Barrie admitted in his latter years that he never really smoked until he wrote “My Lady Nicotine.” “I guess I just became so imbued with my work,” he explained. Then, after becoming an inveterate smoker, he wrote his recipe for fiction: “Bight pipes, one ounce of tobacco; seven ounces, one week; two weeks, one chapter; 20 chapters, one nib; two nibs, one novel.” For journalism the recipe was slightly different: “Two pipes, one hour; two hours, one idea: one idea, three paragraphs; three ideas, one article.”

Resembled Peter Pan As Mr. Barrie entered his 70s he became more and more like his-own Peter Pan, which probably is the most delightful fantasy: for children

that was ever written. Recently this shy, strange hermit, who preferred the company of children to that of his contemporaries, was forced to abandon the London home that is almost as wellknown as his name and works. Adelphi Terrace House, just around the corner from the traf-fic-jammed Strand, was torn down and with it “No. 3” where Mr. Barrie lived for 30 years. Most of his work was done there. He called it “the best in London.” Through one window he could see Big Ben, from another he could look down the Thames’ as far as Blackfriars Bridge. There was a huge open fireplace where he sat hour on hour smoking his pipe. Jt was an ideal home in the heart of the city yet hidden from curiosity seekers. There was a time ‘when G. B. Shaw and Mr. Barrie were neighbors on this top floor and Mr. Glasworthy lived on the floor below. ~ The people’s appreciation of The Boy Who Never Grew Up came long before his death, for by the Round Pond of Kensington Gardens is the Peter Pan statue, and every

Siterncon there are children around

Kiwanis Vanguard Arrives for

Parley Opening Next Week

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As Indianapolis festooned its store windows with signs of welcome, the vanguard of Kiwanis Club members began arriving here this afternoon for the organization’s 21st international convention to be held

all parts of the United States and

Canada are expected, and to honor the visitors from Canada the- Union Jack was flown here today with the Stars and Stripes.

nis Club member and chairman for Indiana district attendance, said 75 Indiana clubs are expected to be represented 100 per cent. : Registration opened at noon today in the Murat Temple and is to continue throughout the week. Executive officers met earlier in the Hotel Lincoln and completed final convention arrangements.

Musicale Scheduled

First event scheduled is a religious musicale at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in the World Memorial Plaza. The Rev. C. Oscar Johnson, St. Louis Baptist pastor, is to deliver the main address. A half hour program on the Scottish Rite Cathedral carillon also is to be a feature, and Governor Townsend, Marshall D. Abrams, Indiana district governor, and Roy R. Blair, Indianapolis club president, are to give short addresses of welcome. Problems concerning assistance to underprivileged children, urbanrural relations, citizenship, vocational guidance, boys and girls’ work, public safety, law enforcement and public .affairs will make up the major part of the business program. Delegates also are to take sightseeing tours of the city and attend a special automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 3 p. m. Wednesday. The convention is to continue through Thursday.

LINER DOCKS WITH IRON LUNG’ YOUTH

Ship-to-Train Transfer May - Bring Death.

By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.—The S. S. President Coolidge hove to the dock today bringing Frederick Snite Jr., and his artificial respirator back from China for a ship-to-train

transfer that will be a race against |

death: Young Snite was stricken with infantile paralysis while on a world

"| tour and cannot live outside his iron

lung. He is en route to his home in Chicago, in charge of 20 doctors and nurses. Every detail of the transfer was

carefully rehearsed. Longshoremen

in surgical gowns and masks waited to handle the former Notre Dame athlete and his respirator, which must be carried from the ship and set up on a specially-prepared Pullman car. During. the transfer, Snite will have to be kept outside his breathgiving machine. The doctors believe he cannot live outside it more than five minutes. During that time, Snite will be kept alive by a hand respirator that is unsatisfactory for more than a few minutes. He will be lifted from the “iron lung” and rushed down the gangplank on a stretcher, behind the machine that the husky longshoremen will bear. f

GREENSBURG BUYS PLANT GREENSBURG, June 19.—Transfer of the Indiana Water Works Co. plant here to the City was effected today. Bonds were sold and the water works company received $336,00 for the properties.

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STATE WAGES

STRAIGHT GAIN

|Factory Employment and

Payrolls Reach High For Seven Years.

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cent in employment and 5.6 per cent

{in payrolls were shown from April

to May. : “Of the eight major groups of nonmanufacturing industries studied all recorded gains in payrolls and only one decreased employment from April to May,” Mr. Carpenter Pointed out. .

Mines Busier

Coal mining activity increased too, as bituminous work led in the May expansion movement with upturns of 25.2 per cent in employment and 51.5 per cent in payrolls from April levels. Retail trade employment jumped 9 per cent and payrolls 2.8 per cent during the period studied. The upturn was contra-seasonal, Mr, Carepenter stated. Whaealesale trade continued an exe pansion movement begun in Februe ary by increasing employment and payrolls 1.3 per|/ cent and 2.3 per cent, respectively, from April to May. Indices showed May wholesale trade employment 9.1 per cent and payrolls 13.9 per cent ahead of a year ago. Public utiities raised employment 14 per cent and payrolls 1.9 per cent during the period studied. Hotel employment went up 5.1 per cent and payrolls 49 per cent. Laundries reduced employment 1.8 per cent, but increased payrolls .8 per cant.

DENIES GUILT IN SWINDLE CASE

W. J. Stevenson Released On Bond; Will Face Trial Monday.

William J. Stevenson, Houston, Tex. today pleaded not guilty before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell and waived hearing on an indicte men; charging him with using the mails to defraud. Stevenson, C. J. Morley, former Colorado Governor, and three others are charged with operating an alleged “bucketshop” brokerage office here. Stevenson was released on $5000 bond and will face trial Monday with the other defendants. Morley pleaded not guilty yesterday and was released on $5000 bond. The defendants are charged with using the mails to defraud, devising schemes to defraud and using the mails in execution of the alleged schemes to defraud. Indictments were returned in Oce tober, 1936, against the five men after a raid on the C. J. Morley & Co. offices in the Merchants Bank Building. Other defendants, besides Stevene son and Morley, are Olaf T. Anderson, Chicago, Indianapolis branch office manager; Benson N. Chase, Evansville office manager, and Ede ward Ward, Evansville salesman.

SLEEPER IS RESCUED WHEN COUCH BURNS

Officers See Smoke, Discov< er Flaming Davenport.

Charles Sherlock, 23 S. Harris St., today needs a new davenport and a good night's | sleep. And he owes two patrolmen thanks for saving him from serious burns. Policemen Charles Felton and Earl McClain saw smoke coming out of Mr. Sherlock's front door early today. They opened the screen door and found him asleep on the davenport in the front room. The davenport was in flames. Awakening him, they carried the ruined couch to the front yard.

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