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TRAFFIC. FINES OF $193 GIVEN 24 MOTORISTS

One! of Three Speeders Is Assessed ‘$1-a-Mile’ Driving Penalty.

TWO AUTOISTS HUNTED

Indianapolis Man Dies of Injuries in Accident Near Seymour.

Twenty-four traffic viola-

tors today were assessed $193

in fines and costs in Municipal Court as the campaign for safety was intensified after the death of another Indianapolis man injured in a state

motor accident. | One of three speeders was fined $1 a mile for every mile over the speed limit by Judge Pro Tem. Edwin Smith, sitting for Judge Charles Karabell, who yesterday originated that method of dealing with speeders. | Boyd Leavitt, 1205 Prospect St., convicted of going 46 miles an hour, was fined $16 and costs, a total of $26. A bus driver, who identified himself only as O. Hamm, 320 N. Senate Ave, was fined $5 and costs when he was convicted of driving a bus with faulty brakes.

Indianapolis | Man Dies

Grant Goodwin, 731 Bancroft St., who was injured Sunday in an automobile accident near Seymour, died yesterddy in a Seymour hespital. He was| 30. i Mr. Goodwin, a resident of Indianapolis for 20 years, was a graduate of Technical High School and attended Butler and Purdue Universities. His mother was Mrs. Eva Goodwin, a public school nurse, who died four years ago. | He is survived by his wife, Irene, and a brother, Robert Goodwin, both of Indianapolis. Police sought two hit-and-run

motorists who struck and injured |

two persons last night. | John Cox, 24, of 1525 N. Hamilton Ave. received a skull fracture when a truck struck his car at 14th St. and Holmes Ave. The truck driver did not stop, Mr. Cox said. He was taken to City Hospital where his condition was described as fair. Mrs. Juhn Dew, 27, of 27 N. Hamilton Ave., was injured slightly when a truck struck her! car at Ohio and

Oriental Sts. She told police the

truck was driven away from the scene of the accident.

Injured in Collision

Wiliam Lovett, 73, New Augusta, received a cut over the left eye and

a possible dislocation of the left |

(Turn to Page Three) BOB BURNS Says: OLLYWOOD, Sept. 15. — A

lotta people are satisfied to just string along (with the mob and make their mark| in the world, but I want ‘ta tell you, our | history is made by those people who did some- . thin’ | so outa ay that their names live on and their memory is honored when they're gone. I remember one time Aunt Kezzy Moomaw invited a lotta people to her house for dinner and she tole ’em to pay particular attention to the wonderful soup she was serving. There was no question about it —the soup was delicious and everybody started in-on it when Aunt Kezzy rose up at the table and says, “Just a minute, friends!” She says. “The lady who gave me the recipe for this soup has passed away and I think, out of respect for her, we should drink it in silence!” (Copyright. 1937)

"ONE OF THE ‘FRESHMEN’ BEFORE THE BENCH . . .

William J. Moroney was one of the 101 n>w lawyers admitted to the bar by the Indiana Supreme Court. He is shown here signing the register. prehensive examinations Shaun the Indiana Bar Association.

VOLUME 49—NUMBER 161

Contractors Seek A.F.ofL. Ruling to End Strike Here; State > Miners Ask Walkout

Lewis Is Requested to Take 13,000 From Indiana Pits.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 15 (U. P.).—The local scale committee of the United Mine Workers Union

today petitioned John L. Lewis and ! other international officers fer authority to call a strike of 13,000 miners in Indiana. . In a telegram to Mr. Lewis, local officials pointed out that the situation is “critical” and that ‘“something must be done immediately.” Decision to ask for authority to call a strike was voted unanimously at yesterday’s meeting of the full wage scale committee of 14 members.

The telegram sent to Mr. Lewis by Frank Barnhart and other officials of District 11 of the union, said: - ; “In line with the action of your national board July 22 giving the international officers authority to withdraw the men from Indiana mines if an agreement is not signed or well on its way to completion by Sept. 15, the full scale committee in session today, after failure to agree with the Coal Operators’ Association, hereby petitions international union officials to withdraw the men from Indiana mines.

Ask Immediate Action

“The situation here is very critical. Something should be done immediately. Please advise us of the action of the international officers on this matter.” Another telegram sent to more than 100 local unions throughout Indiana, advised them to “remain at work until officially notified by this office or by the infernational officers to stop work.” Action of the wage scale committee in petitioning for a strike climaxed a dong series of futile confer-

and the Operators’ Association. Chief issue in the negotiations 1s

the union’s demand for a $6 basic wage scale for a seven-hour day.

KILLS ONE LAWYER AND STABS ANOTHER

‘Attacks Own Attorney; Scratches Stenographers.

| CHICAGO, Sept. 15 (U. P.).—A | disgruntled law client today killed fone attorney, stabbed another, {scratched two stenographers and {surrendered to police—all within {half an hour. t The assailant was George L. Chii charvick. His victims were: | Frederick W. Elliott, 58, lawyer {and former Assistant Attorney Gen{eral of Illinois—shot four times and killed. : George Mason, lawyer—stabbed in i the abdomen, not seriously. Two stenographers in Mr. Mason’s office—scratched in the abdomen. Chicharvick told police he became enraged at the handling of claims against his $60,000 property. Mr. Elliott and Mr. Mason were his attorneys. He put two revolvers and a shoemaker’s awl in his pocket and went first to Mr. Mason’s office in the Loop. There he stabbed Mr. Mason and slashed at the two girls.

Killer Surrenders

Running next door to the building in which Mr. Elliott had his office he shot Mr. Elliott as the attorgey sat at his desk preparing a summons for Chicharvick to appear in Municipal Court in connection with the litigation. Chicharvick ran across the street to City Hall where he tossed one of his guns in the basement. He then walked briskly to the Des Plaines St. police station. He called for Capt. Patrick ‘Collins.

CONFESSES BOY KILLING

LACONIA, N. H, Sept. 15 (U. P.), —A Massachusetts prison parolee confessed today, police said, that he beat to death 10-year-old Neville Jensen in an attempted criminai assault. Three hours later, Howard Long, 32, pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1937

Representative of Parent Labor Body Sought In Dispute.

The Indianapolis Building Contractors’ Association today appealed to the American Federation of Labor to settle the jurisdictional strike which it said affected all building operations in Indianapolis. William Jungclaus, association

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president, said the inter-union dispute between members of the Building Trades Council and the United Brotherhood -of Carpenterd and Joiners, Local No. 60, had stopped construction work on all jobs employing union labor. He was unable to estimate the number of men now affected by the strike. In a telegram sent to J. W. Williams, president of the Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, Mr. Jungclaus said:

Representative Asked

“The Building Contractors’ Association has followed out the plan for the settlement of jurisdictional disputes as approved by the Executive- Council of the Building Trades Department on March 10. Because the Carpenters Local has refused to abide by the decisions of the local jurisdictional board, there is a general strike in Indianapolis of all building operations. e Building Contractors’ Association therefore requests that you send a representative to Indianapolis to help straighten out the strike situation.” Previously, the contractors had requested a representative of the United States Department of Labor be sent to mediate the strike. Mr. Jungclaus said he understood Robert Fox of Washington was to arrive in Indianapolis this afternoon. Labor Head Reported Here

William Rivers, Building Trades Department vice president, was in Indianapolis last night to “check up on the situation,” it was reported. Spurgeon Meadows, Carpenters’ union national vice president, said that last night a small number of carpenters were still at work but he had no report on the situation today. “I imagine most of them are off by this time,” he said. More than 500 men wolked off

three building ‘projects here yester-

day when the dispute reached a climax. The local council called workers off the jobs after the Carpenters’ Uunion refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the arbitra(Turn to Page Three)

FAST CELEBRATES YOM KIPPUR TODAY

Yom Kippur, or “The Day of Atonement,” was observed by Indianapolis Jews today with fasting and prayer. Special services were held in the Indianapolis Hebrew Temple, BethEl Zedek, the United Hebrew Synagog Shaare Tefillah anl Kraseth Israel throughout the day. The obseryance began last night and is to end with “Ne’ilah” or the

FRANK GATES OFFERED POST ON TAX BOARD

Real Estate Dealer Named By Judges; Consent Is Awaited.

FIRE BUDGET SCANNED

Chamber of Commerce and School Board Member Oppose Pay Raises.

The Marion County Tax Adjustment Board today awaited word from Frank A. Gates, Indianapolis real estate man, that he would accept an appointment to complete its personnel. Mr. Gates, appointed by Marion County Superior, and Circuit Court judges, lives at 4525 N. Meridian St. He is chairman of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board Tax Committee, a former Chamber of Commerce director, and a Fletcher Trust Co. director. He would take the position vacated by Louis Borinstein, resigned.. The Board today scrutinized the Fire Department’s budget request. William Book, Chamber of - Commerce executive vice president, objected to raising lower bracket salaries of 308 men from $2016, the minimum set by the 1937, Legislature, to $2026.25, the 1931 level. Opposes New Stations

Earl Buchannan, School Board member, also objected. Fire Chief Kennedy argued that restoration should be made. Mr. Book objected to an item of $30,000 requested for new fire stations. Mayor Boetcher said it would be good business to build them now with WPA labor, . Salary increase schedules in the Purchasing Agents’ Department were challenged by Mr. Book. Al Losche, Department head, defended the increases, stating that the increase was actually a restoration of 1932 pay levels for his Department. He said some of his workers were making only $900 a year. City Engineer Henry Steeg likewise was asked to explain proposed increased salary schedules. Mayor Defends Salaries

Mayor Boetcher, on several in-

stances;- defended salary appropria- |

tions. Mr. Steeg pointed out that one class of workers for the Engineers’ Department were receiving weekly wages amounting to $12.80. Mayor Boetcher said “We are going to have

a revolution if that keeps up.”

Board members dropped their work sheets to laugh when it was revealed one department was paying 50 cents per 100 pounds for ice while another was paying only 30 cents. The budget item concerned amounted to $100 in the Street'Commissioners Department. Mayor Boetcher said “We will have to look into that.”

LEFT TO REDUCE Relatives today reported to police that William Pritchard, 53, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 255 pounds, has been missing since he left home one week ago to get a

reducing bath.

“closing of the gates.”

F. D. R. Views on Black

And Klan

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—President Roosevelt’s postponment of a showdown in the controversy growing out of allegations that Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black is a life member of the Ku-Klux Klan was interpreted two ways today.

Some congressional groups thought that the Chief Executive, in announcing that he would make no statement on the alleged Klan affiliation of his appointee until Justice Black returns from a vacation in Europe, believed the memory of the charge itself and of the counter-charges growing from it,

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would fade into nothing within a comparatively short time. Probe Promise Seen Other groups read into the President’s statement a promise that the charges would be thrashed out when Justice Black ‘returns. Mr. Roosevelt warned reporters in his press conference yesterday that such a promise was not necessarily intended in his brief declaration. The President said he had not heard of the reported Klan connection at the time he was considering Justice Black for the appointment. He said he did not know whether the Department of Justice had inquired into such a possibility in its

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JUSTICES AGAIN WEAR THE

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Michael L. Fansler, Walter E. Treanor and Curtis

Farm Leaders Approve Crop Cut Next Year

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. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Ui P.). State farm leaders today expressed general satisfaction with the 1938 soil conservation program proposed by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and suggesting a 15 to 25-million-acre reduction in major crops next year. The The 118 leaders from all states today met in regional groups with AAA officials to analyze the tentative program to decrease planting next year and to offer suggested technical changes. AAA officials reported there ‘was “general agreement” as to the desired aims, although they believed that some minor changes to meet local conditions might be made before the final draft of the program is announced by Secretary Wallace. He urged the farmers to “form a united front” behind a farm pro-

gram. He said that the aims of the proposed 1938 program are not only to improve farmers’ purchasing power

but to assure better fertility and soil conservation.

STATE JUSTICES IN ROBES AGAIN

Scot Barrister, Amazed at Tweeds, Can Be Assured Of Court’s Attire.

By TOM OCHILTREE

Members of the Indiana Supreme Court today ended a legend and revived a precedent which has been gathering dust these many years when they decided henceforth to wear the traditional black jurists’ robes in hearing cases: . The story has something to do with opinions of a Scotch barrister and is mingled with a mild argument that has been going on for quite a few generations. + First the history and the legend: When Indiana was young in years, all members of the State’s highest tribunal wore these robes. Paintings, photographs and drawings of these jurists, which now adorn the walls of the chamber, testify to this Tact. Then when the State House was being remodeled sometime in the Seventies or Eighties, the Court moved across the street. and held its sessions in a second-floor store loft which was located directly under ‘a fat Toof. Sh Lofty Chamber Stuffy The justices found this very stuffy, and by consent, so the legend says, took off their robes one day and never donned them again. Their successors followed this practice. The date of this occurence was not recorded and there has been some argument about it. However, William A. Wood, who served from 1881 to 1883, was the last Justice who had | his picture taken in. robes, so it is assumed they were not used after that time. \ ‘ Now the story of the Scot: Several years ago a Highland barrister appeared in the Marion County -Courts to represent British subjects in the settlement of an estate. : i He was entertained by several prominent members of the Indiana legal profession. Upon his return to his home’ he told British reporters that he “was a bit amazed when the judge took the bench wearing a tweed jacket.” British judges wear not only robes but also powdered wigs. Procedure Was Liked: Except for this matter of dress, the Scot found American judicial procedure to his liking and told reporters so. He mailed back this newspaper interview to his American friends. This of course caused some discussion and probably served to keep the robe question in mind. Chief Justice Michael L. Fansler said the Court had considered readoption of the robes for some time. “It seems in keeping with the position of the Court that some ceremony be observed,” he said. “There have been no robes worn in this Court for many, many years. In 1915 when I was a prosecutor I came here to argue a case and they wore no robes then.” : The Court gave a sort of preview yesterday when it wore its new robes

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CHURCHES Wi U.S. ENTRY INTO WAR,

F.D.R. PARLEY ON WAR TO FIX FUTURE PLANS

Hull and Davis Conference May Govern Ruling on Trip West.

(Editorial, Page 12)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 U. P.). —President Roosevelt today called in Secretary of State Hull and American Ambassador-at-large to Europe, Norman H. Davis, for a conference on European and Far Eastern affairs this afternoon, : The discussion probably will be followed by a definite decision as to whether the President will make a western trip this month. Mr. Davis returned from Europe last May. He conferred at Hyde Park with Mr. Roosevelt last week and then said the European situation “doesn’t look very promising.” Before the afternoon discussion, White House officials said Mr. Roosevelt probably would decide “within the next day or two” whether he would go to the West coast later this month to visit his daughter, Anna, and her family.

‘May Have Bearing

Tt was expected that latest reports submitted to him by Secretary Hull on the international situation would have a bearing on this decision. The new conference was ordered after Mr. Roosevelt placed in effect today against Japan and China a modified form of the Neutrality Law. 5 It began enforcement of President Roosevelt’s order that no vessel

will be permitted to carry arms, ammunition or implements of war

“5-4 to either Japan .or China and. that

privately owned ships flying the American flag carry such cargoes af their own risk. The list of banned articles are the same as those in President Roosevelt’s proclamation of May 1, 1937, placing an -embargo on sale of exports of arms, ammunition or implements of war to either side in the Spanish civil war.

May Be Affected

It was believed the Governmentowned freighter Wichita, bound

from Baltimore, Md., to China with cargo of American war planes, would be the first American vessel affected by the order. The Wichita was reported due at San Pedro, Cal., today or tomorrow (Turn to Page Three)

WEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS ‘COOLER’

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a m... 59 10a m... "a m... 63 11 a m... 8 a. m... 64 12 (Noon) 9 a.m... 66 1p m....

Today's weather told of football and fur coats not far away—but it was not always thus. Last year, schools were closed because of the heat. The mercury reached 95. a year ago yesterday, and $2 a year ago today. And this year, the mercury hovered in the middle sixties, with the forecast for fair and cooler tomorrow. The mild topcoat weather probably will continue for another 36 hours, the Weather Bureau said.

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For the first time in several generations Indiana Supreme Court Justices , wore black

Left to right are Justices James P, Hughes, George L, Tremain,

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CLAIMS JAPAN GOVETS ASIA

China Tells Geneva Parley Nipponese Aim to Expel Western Powers.

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GENEVA—China appeals to League of Nations and United States for aid against Japanese aggression charging that Japan seeks to conquer China and expel United States and European countries from entire I'ar East. SHANGHAI—#f'oreign naval commancers, including American, ‘make strong protest to Chinese and Japanese against warplane activities over foreign area and + killing of innocent noncombatants. ROME —Italy iay boycott International Committee on Nonintervention in Spanish civil war unless Mediterranean patrol plan is alter:d to suit her, reports say.

GENEVA, Sept. 15 (U.P.).—China, appealing to the world assembly of the League of Nations for aid, charged today that Japan sought not orly to conquer China but to expel the United {States and European countries from the entire Far East. Wellington Koo, chief Chinese delegate, seeking to enlist League aid against Japanese A aggression, asserted the Assembly, at which nearly three score nations are representzd, that if Japan ever obtained control of China’s vast man power and natural resources, she would also challenge United States and European rights in the South Seas and the Pacific, as well as on the Asiatic mainland.

Paints Warlike Picture

The picture he painted was of a warlike Japan obiaining dominance over the 3,000,000 square miles and 423,000,000 people of sleepy China, to form the greatest army the world has ever seen and to challenge the

world to combat.

Koo demanded action by the

‘League under Articles X, XI and

XVII of its Covenant. These concern the preservation of territorial integrity and political independence of League members; the recognition. that the League should consider any threat of war a matter of concern and take prevenfive action, and the principle of inviting nonmember nations like Japan to participate in any discussions r:garding them. China hopes riot only to force Leaglie applications of these articles but eventually to apply the drastic Article XVI providing for penalties against an aggressor, and also to ¢nlist | United States co-operation through rejuvenation of an old advisory committee, formed after Japan seized Manchuria, on which the

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NEW ATTORNEYS PLEDGE SELVES TO PROFESSION

The young barristers, their right hands raised, are repeating the oath laws of their country and the ethics of the legal profession. The picture was taken &

the Supreme Court room whose walls ‘are filled with pictures of

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BISHOP MCONNELL SAYS

Europe Is Full ‘of ‘Scares,’ He Says On Arrival.

FAVORS MERGER

Re-Election of Lay Officers Expected . At Conference.

By SEXSON HUMPHREYS

United States entanglement in foreign conflicts would bring vigorous protests from the churches, Bishop Francis J. McConnell warned today upon his arrival here from Europe to preside at the Indiana Conference of Meth-

odist Episcopal Church.

Meanwhile, conference layman, in 8 resolution, asked the conference to allow them to have a larger share in church government administra=ion. The group asked that lay conference officers be permitted to meet with the bishop’s cabinet. This has not been done here in the past.

Europe Full of Scares

Bishop McConnell said that, although organized Christianity stands firmly for peace, church members wefe not as unanimous in their convictions as official proe nouncements. Europe, where he has been: trave eling this summer, is full of war scares, growing largely out of cone flicts that are not declared war. “Definite action on the part of Great Britain might do much to clarify the situation,” he said. Bishop McConnell, former presi dent of -the Interdenominational Federal Council of Churches . of . Christ in America, was pleased with the report last night by Dr. Forney Hutchinson, Tulsa, Okla. that the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, would soon complete the merger of three Methodist denominations. Dr. Hutchinson said the unifica= tion plan, already approved by the Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant Churches, is being rape idly accepted in the Southern branch despite opposition of Bishop James Cannon, Richmond, Va., and others. Criticizes Inactivity

Of the nine million Methodists af= fected in the merger, however, Dr. Hutchinson declared there were “more out of the church than in it.? He criticized inactivity of church members apd the lack of effective ness on the part of ministers. “If the test of waste were applied to most churches,” he declared,

“most preachers would be wards of the State.” Even the members of pastors’ families, Dr. Hutchinson charged, : (Turn to Page Three)

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