Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1938 — Page 1

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CHURCH PLEA BRINGS BAN ON EASTER CIRCUS

City Refuses to Issue Permit After Ministerial Group . Protests.

‘MAYOR ACTS PROMPTLY

Hagenbeck - Wallace Company Had Scheduled Show Here for April 17-18.

A permit to allow the Hagenbeck- ' Wallace circus to exhibit. here on Easter Sunday will not be issued, ‘Mayor Boetcher said today after church groups had filed protests At the same time the Indianapolis Ministerial Association, in meeting at Roberts Park M. E. Church, adopted a resolution against circus showings here on Easter The Indianapolis Church Federation executive committee was to discuss the matter at a meeting scheduled for noon _ The circus had announced showings here on April 17 and 18 © Willi A Oren, member | of City Council, said that he would introduce an ordinance at tonight's Council meeting to ban circus performances here on Easter in the future The ministers’ resolution was drafted by a commitiee and signed by the Rev. Abram S. Woodard and the Rev. H. W. Turpin. If said: “The Indianapolis Ministers’ Association has observed billboards announcing an exhibition by the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus on Easter Sunday. : Many Register Protes

“In view of the fact, that all our . juvenile correctional institutions are crowded to capacity and since we ‘are facing an increase of juvenile . crime, we protest against such exhibition - and respectfully ask the City government to co-operate with the churches in making it possible for them to get their message be-

"fore the youth of our city.”

Dr Ernest N. Evans, Church Federation president, said all day yesterday persons phoned him to reg"ister their protests. . “I never have had as many requests as there have been asking that we protest against the holding of a circus here on Easter Sunday,” he said today. “They resent that the most important church day of the year is to be encroached upon in this way.” : : . Dr. Evans said the first major protest was made. last Thursday night when the Central Christian Church voted unanimously against the booking. . : Another petition against ‘the + Easter Sunday showing was signed by about 900 at the Englewood Christian Church yesterday. Addressed to Mayor Boetcher, it said: “We believe the established churcaes of our” city, whose mission is fo¥ the moral and spiritual up- © lift of the people of our no mean city, are entitled to fairer and more considerate treatment than thé allowing by official permit the Sunday operations of a circus which represents a foreign corporation. “We. therefore, take this means of protest as the only resource at our command, and pray that you will give immediate and favorable consideration of these petitions and resolutions from our city churches and take such steps as will prohibit the performances on Easter and other Lord’s days.”

COUNTY GETS PLAN TO PAVE 73D ST.

A proposal’ that the State pave 73d St. from Highway 29 to the Spring Mill Road and build a bridge over Crooked Creek was presented to the County Commissioners today by the State Highway Commission. "The road, two and one-half miles, now carries heavy traffic from U. S. Highway 52, going around the to the east, the Commission said. > Earl B. Lockridge, assistant ¢hief engineer of the Highway Commission, estimated the cost at $58,000 and said plans also included an additional $10,000 for the Crooked Creek bridge. He suggested that, if the commissioners built the bridge, the State might be able to pay additional mileage maintenance costs in the county. This suggestion was frowned upon by commissioners who said the time needed to issue the necessary bonds might forestall their co-operation. : Copies of a contract by which the commissioners would agree to maintain the road after it is built, were left with the board. John der, county attorney, voiced objections to the project on a county basis, saying that he believed the State should assume maintenance of the road after it is built. Commissioners promised an answer within a few days.

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Leahy Says Japan’s Navy Rivals America’s WASHINGTON, April 4 (U. P). —Admiral William D. Leahy, naval operations chief, today urged the Senate Naval Affairs Comittee to revise the. $1,121,000,000 fleet expansion bill to permit construction of three 45,000-ton super-dread-

naughts. Such revision would put teeth in United States invocation of the escalator clause of the London naval limitation agreement. Admiral Leahy presented testimony before a secret session of the committee which disclosed that the United States is’ considerably behind the 5-5-3 ratio with Great Britain and Japan. He appeared after the Department of State, in a declaration of policy, had placed its support behind maintenance of this ratio—for a Navy at least 60 er cent greater than Japan's. Admiral Leahy’s figures showed that in all except capital ships and heavy cruisers Japan actually has a higher ratio of modern, underage ships than does the United States. Chairman Walsh (D. Mass.) gave out comparisons which Admiral Leahy submitted to the Committee. The ratios Admiral Leahy submitted showed the following strength: Capital Ships—Great Britain 5, United States 3.8, Japan 2.8. Aircraft Carriers—Great Britain, 5, United States 2.7, Japan 4.5. Heavy Cruisers—Great Britain 3, United States 2.3, Japan 2.3. Destroyers — Great Britain United States 3, Japan 4.1. Submarines—Great Britain United States 3.2, Japan 39.

South Bend Railroad

Loses Appeal WASHINGTON, April 4 (U. P.).— The Supreme Court today presented another in a series of decisions in which it has affirmed extension of

state and Federal taxing powers. The new opinion, rendered by a seven-to-one division of the Court, upheld application of Louisiana's electrical energy tax to power generated by the Arkansas-Louisiana Pipeline Co., to be used in interstate pumping of natural gas. The decision was delivered by Associate Justice Stanley F. Reed. Associate Justice James C. McReynolds dissented and Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo did not participate. Mr. Justice Reed rejected a contention by the firm that the tax was an unconstitutional burden upon interstate commerce. Another tax case before the Court, the J. D. Adams Manufacturing Co. challenge of Indiana’s gross income tax, was not décided today. It was argued only last week. >a Only one other formal decision was presented by the Court in a brief session. This was an opinion read by Associate Justice Louis D.

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terstate n= Commerce Commission opinion that the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railway is subject to the provisions of the

.| Railway Labor Act.

The Court declined to review one of the most unusual cases brought to its attention in many months. This was the appeal of William Heller, Easton, Conn., individualist seeking the right to bathe in a stream that runs through his backyard. The Court declined the case for want’ of a substantial Federal question.

Pettengill Asks

Roosevelt Pledge

WASHINGTON, April 4 (U. P).— Rep. Samuel B. Pettengill (D. Ind.) today called upon President Roosevelt to reinforce his disavowal of dictatorship ambitions by approving amendments to the pending ByrnesCochran Government Reorganization Bill, which would. give Congress the power to veto any changes in Executive Department agencies. Rep. Pettengill, a. leader of a (Turn to Page Three)

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Mrs. Weston - From from their abandoned car. Both

Anti-New Deal Coalition Rises to Plague F. D. R,; Navy Asks Bigger Ships

NATIONAL AFFAIRS. PRESIDENT faces crisis over leadership. SUPER BATTLESHIPS demanded by Admiral. WAGE-HOUR BILL seen in two-fold danger. REORGANIZATION will pass, Bankhead says. RAILROAD executives confer with Roosevelt.

@® Congress Seen Ready

Brandeis declining fo review an In-:

To Fight President

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 4—Franklin D. Roosevelt hds come home to a Presidential seat which, for warmth, almost match€s that on which Herbert Hoover sat during the latter part of his White House

term. : He will need all the reserve strength he built up during his 10-day vacation if he is to combat the rising tide of discouraging circumstances and the rising tide of opposition which has revealed its strength in*the fight over the Byrnes Government Reorganization Bill. The business picture is gloomier, and while Mr. Roosevelt's forces at the Capitol are not in rout they have suffered a further disintegration in the Reorganization fight which does not augur well for his program the rest of this Congress.

Friendly to Business

On any friendly gesture toward business, however, Congress will act promptly and with little question. The Senate, for instance, passed in a flicker the bill to let the: RFC make long-term loans to business, and the House will dispose of it today almost as quickly under the extraordinary procedure of suspension of rules, allowing only an hour’s debate and requiring a two-thirds majority for passage. Leaders resort to this procedure only when they are, sure there is no substantial -opposition. Similarly, the Senate expects to pass speedily, probably this week, the bill repealing the undistributedprofits tax and modifying the capi-tal-gains tax. This measure is offered as a boon to complaining business and industry.

Railroads Cause Worry

The President’s immediate concern was with the business depression. Today he canvassed the economic and legislative situations with. Congressional lieutenants, including Speaker Bankhead and Vice President Garner. -Then he went into conference with rail leaders in a renewed effort to devise methods of meeting their crisis. Subsequent conferences will concern an enlarged spencing program to check the depression. This would require additional appropriations for WPA and other agencies, as well as other remedial measures upon which Administration experts have been working. ? Co-operation by ‘Congress on recovery measures, however, will not extend to anything involving New Deal reform objectives, it has become clear from the reorganization battle. ° : A coalition, in fact if not in actual organization and name, is in existence on Capitol Hill, consisting of Republicans and - conservative Democrats. The bulk of disaffected Democrats are from the South, but they are joined in this tacit coalition by Democrats from other sections, The outlines of the coalition are more distinct in the Senate, where there is much fraternizing between conservative Democrats and Minority Floor Leader McNary (R. Ore.) and Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.). Mr. Vandenberg is able to capitalize the prominence he thus achieves to promote his aspirations for the Presidency.

FEEDER BUS LINE ON 52D ST. PROPOSED

Abandonment of the 52d St. and Keystone Ave. bus line and substitution of a feeder system was proposed to the Works Board today by James Tretton,* Peoples Motor Coach Co. vice president. A petition seeking to discontinue the Keystone line and to extend the Millersville bus service to 52d St. was withdrawn by the company a week ago following protest by residents of the area affected. The proposed feeder bus, Mr. Tretton said, would operate from 46th St. north on Central Ave. to

e (right) and Cal, whose mutilated bodies were found in a Texas desert 50°miles

52d St., east to Keystone Ave., south to 46th St. and west to Central.

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women had been robbed and shot

through the head after their knuckles had been burned, apparently with a cigaret butt. Authorities believe a man and woman who had followed them in a coupe were involved in the crime. been on their way to visit relati (Story, Page 1

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FORECAST: Mostly cloudy and continued cool tonight and tomorrow; probably showers.

MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1938

HUSBAND DIES UNDER TRAIN AFTER SLAYING

Body Found on Tracks Following Fatal Shooting of Ex-Wife in Drug Store.

RECALL MANY THREATS

Woman Held in City Prison; Mate Wounded in Second Marital Quarrel.

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The mangled body of John Lake Harris, 29, of 3546 Balsam Ave. was found along the Monon Railroad tracks in the rear of 3933 Winthrop Ave. early today, after he allegedly shot and killed his divorced wife Dorothy, 27. - She was killed late yesterday at Hook’s Drug Store, 4202 College Ave., where she was employed, a few minutes before she was to have left work. Her father, fearing the alleged threats of her former husband, from whom she was divorced last Wednesday, was waiting for her in his car outside when the killing occured.

Police had kept an all-night vigil |

at the home of her father, N. Ray Antle, 3445 Guildford Ave. with whom she lived, fearing that Harris would make attempts on the lives of other members of her family.

‘Body Found at Dawn

Charles Thompson, 55, of 1028 E. St. Clair St. brother of a former police officer, found Harris’ body shortly before 6 a. m. Police advanced the theory that he had lain on the tracks, face downward, and was killed when the Monon’s Chicago sleeper was pulled out of the siding. A revolver was found near his body.

Mr. Antle was unaware of the shooting for some time, not suspecting the City ambulance that drew up to the drug store while he was parked outside was taking his daughter to City Hospital. Mrs. Harris, a cashier in the pharmacy, had gone into the basement to check a. tobacco. order a few moments before: the- shooting. Neither Leonard Schatz, 4536 College Ave. assistant store manager, nor two store employees saw Harris’ enter. Sleeve of Dress Afire

A few moments later, Mr Schatz, passing the head of the stairs, heard groans. He hurried downstairs and saw Mrs. Harris lying at the bottom of the stairs. The sleeve of her dress was burning, indicating, police said, that the shots had been fired at close range. As Mr. Schatz put out the blaze and called other employees, he saw Harris run from behind a stock pile, he told volice, and dash: through a rear exit. Mrs. Harris was carried to the prescription room, but: was dead before aid could be administered. She had been shot four times, once through the lungs and heart, once

in the breast, in the abdomen and |

left arm. Detectives found four exploded catrridges in the stock room near the foot of the stairs. Mr Antle told police his daughter had given up her apartment in the 2400 block N. Delaware St., several days ago after her ex-husband had

old daughter, Barbara Jean. Threatened Whole Family &

He said he accompanied her to and from work and when they went walking in the street. On at least two occasions, Mr. Antle said, they had been accosted by Harris, who had threatened to kill his wife and daughter and members of the Antle fam.ly. On one occasion, the father stated, Harris had drawn a gun. Store employees reported Harris had been a frequent visitor in the pharmacy and often had urged his wife to drop the divorce suit and return to him. They had been separated for several months before she filed suit for divorce. Harris had been charged with stealing pipes from the store in which his wife was employed. He had been fined $10 and costs and given a suspended sentence of 30 days in jail. Harris’ roommate, Howard Sinclair, told police he often had heard

More Rain Due Here Tonight; Crops Periled

TEMPERATURES

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The Weather Bureau here today predicted probable showers, cloudy and continued cool weather tonight and tomorrow as the White and Wa-

bash Rivers rose slowly in southern Indiana. :

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- Crop damage was feared in bot-|

tomland farms. Both rivers were falling in the north, but were rising in the vicinity from Vincennes down. - | At Mt, Carmel, Ill, where the two streams come together, the water was at 22 feet, about six feet above flood stage. : Evansville saw its flood danger pass as the Ohio River began to fall after reaching a stage of 34.6 feet, 4 of a foot below the flood stage.

FIGHT OPENS ON PARTY MACHINES

Teckemeyer and Anti-Coffin Committee Members Open Double Attack.

Registration Editorial, Page 10; Alphabetical List of Candidates, Pages 7 and 8.

A double-barreled attack on political machines by Republicans marked the official start of ‘the primary election campaign today. Although interparty warfare has been continuing in Democratic circles for several weeks, there had been no indication of a break in the Republican ranks. Earl B. Teckemeyer, Republican mayoralty candidate, issued a state-

ment in which he said support of

political machines is charged to the taxpayers in increasing budgets from year to year, At the same time, it was announced that a groyp of Repub{icans opposed to the rule of George V. Coffin, party leader and former County chairman, would open headquarters tomorrow to oppose “gang politicians” and party dictatorship. The announcement was made by William B. Miller, attorney and former deputy Prasecutor. He said the committee he represents will seek to break ‘the Coffin strangle-

hold and will fight to the last ditch |

without compromise, for the elimination of George V. Coffin and. his hirelings.” i] : = _- More than 300 candidates, including ‘State Representatives and Senators, but not precinct committeemen and party convention delegates, had filed declarations by the closing hour. y The last day brought out one new Republican candidate for Mayor, Earl B. Teckemeyer; two Democrats for Sheriff, Al G. Feeney, former State Police superintendent, and Claude Shover, anid nearly a score of other aspirants for major City and County posts. - The lists closed with 35 Democrats and 18 Reépublicans in the race for State Representative, with 11 to be nominated by each party. Seven in Mayor's Race

In the mayoralty race, four Re-

publicans and three Democrats will

fight it out for the nominations. One of the most: bitterly fought races for judgeships will be that for the Republican nomination for Superior Court 1, with seven seeking the nomination. Seven Democrats and three Republicans are in the race for Sheriff. ) The Court House corridor was packed today with persons seeking to register before the deadline at midnight. The registration office reported 2300 registrations were handled yesterday, bringing the total of new registrations and transfers to-more than 30,000. A night shift of 12 or 14 clerks will start work tomorrow night preparing lists of voters registered for the Primary, May 3. The lists must be submitted to political party organizations as least 10 days before the primary. : An overflow crowd of spectators

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Mr. and Mrs. Murray Levine, of New Rochelle, N, Y. leaving a friend's home after broadcasting one of their many appeals to the kidnapers of their son, Peter, 10. In the radio plea, the Rev. Francis J. H. Coffin of Larchmont, N. Y., now revealed as an intermediary in

Hie i She abiuctors to: “For God's sake act, and act y.” Two youths allegedly have confessed to sending 2 demanding $30, 3

prompt= g extortion notes.

MRS.D.0. BARR, G. 0.P. LEADER.

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Former Indianapolis Girl, 3, Also Dies in Collision At Jeffersonville.

COUNTY DEATHS HIT 31

Local Child Injured Saturday Succumbs; Another Struck by Truck.

Mrs. Daisy Douglas Barr, 1824 N. Pennsylvania St., former Republican state vice chairman, was killed

auto crash which also fatally injured a 3-year-old former Indianapolis child as local traffic accidents during the week-end claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy and injured 14 other persons.

Marion County’s traffic death toll for the year was increased to 31 with the death of Roland Ray Stark, 5, of 2354 Stewart St., at City Hospital Saturday. . Seventeen drivers were convicte in Municipal Court today after 59 were arrested over the week-end. Judge John McNelis ordered 16 to pay a total of $34, but suspended another $153. Judge Charles Karabell fined one driver $5 and suspended the $10 costs.

- Boy Struck by Truck

Roland Stark, playing with William Morton, 9, and Frank Morton, 6, in the rear of their home at 2358 Stewart St, ran into an alley and was struck by a truck, police said. He suffered a fractured skull. Loren Owings, 1603 Fruitdale Ave, drove the truck. Sheron Carroll, 3, was the other victim of the crash which killed Mrs. Barr. Mrs. Barr, who was 60, was the wife of Thomas Dean Barr, former Staté Bank examiner and now member of the State Board of Accounts. : The American War Mothers, of which Mrs. Barr was a member, ars are to conduct funeral services at 10 a. m. Thursday at Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Other services are to be held at 2 p. m. at Fairmount (Ind.) Friends Church, with burial at Fairmount. She was an ordained minster in the Friends Church and widelyknown as an evangelist. Active in State Politics Mrs. Barr was active in state politics many years and became state Republican vice chairman during the successful campaign of Warren T. McCray for Governor. She was the first woman to hold the post. Born at Jonesboro, Mrs. Barr began preaching when she was 16, being ordained at 18. Before coming to Indianapolis, 15 years ago, she had lived at Fairmount, Newcastle and Muncie. She was a member of Meridian W. C. T. U, American War Mothers, Women’s Department Club, First Friends Church and Indiana Women’s Republican Club. Survivors besides the husband are a son, Thomas R., Ft. Pierce, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. Edna Harrison and Mrs Mary McVicker, both of Paugh Quay, N. Y.; two brothers, Edwin Brushwiller, Boulder, Colo., and Artemas Brushwiller, Indianapolis, and a grandson, Thomas James Barr, Fit. Pierce.

Three Others Hurt in Crash

Fatal to Mrs. Barr

JEFFERSONVILLE; April 4 (U. P.)—Mrs. Daisy Douglas Barr, Indianapolis, first woman state Republican vice chairman, was killed late yesterday in a head-on automobile collision on Highway 31 north of here that also was fatal to Sheron Carroll, 3. -year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carroll, Louisvile, formerly of Indianapolis.

BOURBON, April 4 (U. P.).—Donald Webb, 20, Bourbon, was killed today when he drove his automobile into the path of a fast westbound Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at the main crossing here. Webb was en route to La Porte to seek employment.

TERRE HAUTE, April 4 (U. P.)— Roy McCarty, 50, was fatally injured today when he stepped into the path of an automobile driven by Robert Highsmith, 18, the latter was not held. d

SHOOTS GIRL . . .

Accused of . shooting Betty Douma, 12, when she looked in the window of the shack in which he lived with his father, Ralph Smith, 10, is shown leaving ‘court, smoking a pipe like his father, bogke! assault.

‘ag Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

near Jeffersonville in a head-on |

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RECORD CROWDS SEE HOME SHOW

12,000 Attend in Day; Garden Awards Made, First to Neophyte Club.

Encouraged by the largest single day’s attendance in the history of the Indianapolis Home Show, officials announced today that next Sunday is to be another All Indiana Day. ; More .than 12,000 persons visited the exhibit at the Fair Grounds for the first All Indiana Day yesterday, J. Frank Cantwell, managing director, said. : Today's Garden Club program was to be highlighted with an address by Margaret March-Mount, U. S. Forestry Service official. She was to speak at the annual garden club luncheon in the Manufacturers’ Building. The Neophyte Garden Club won first prize among the 13 clubs which have exhibits at the show. Its entry was a plot bordered by perennials and embellished with shrubs. The Indianapolis Garden Club with a Pitt-Dixon garden of boxwood and a flowered checkerboard design won second place. The Spade and Trowel Club’s cottage garden took third place, and the Dutch garden of the Arbutus Garden Club fourth. The Emerson Grove Junior Garden Club took fifth place with a vege-

table garden. Theme of the show is Colonial Williamsburg, with the model home built on a reproduction of part of the Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, Va., which has been restored by the Rockefeller Foundation. In addition, a smaller, budget plan home also is displayed. Surrounding the home and gardens are 112 exhibits of stores, manufacturers, heating afd other dealers. The model house stands at the west end of the building. In front of it are the tree-studded gardens planted by Fritz Loonstein, a native of Holland.

EVANSVILLE WOMAN'S BODY FOUND IN LAKE

CHICAGO, April 4 (U. P.)—Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Evansville, Ind.,, for Letitia M. Echert, 30, a librarian, whose body was found in Lgke Michigan near New Buffalo, Mich., Friday. Miss Echert was employed at the Logan Square branch of the Chicago Public Library. She disappeared Feb. 17 after she had left

home to go to work.

KILLER ENDS LIFE

‘After he allegedly shot and ed his divorced wi 27, the mangled o. 0! Lake Harris (above), 29, of 3546

Evacuation of Plants.

DETROIT, April 4 (U. P unions threatened today to balk Governor Murphy’s attempt to end a strike in which utility workers usurped’ control of rich Saginaw Valley of 500,000

The three unions—an independent, an ate and the C. I. 0.’s Utility Workers Organizing Committee | Consumers Power Co.'s 5000

UNIONS’ RIVALRY PERILS PEACE IN

STRIKE

Workers Stand Ready to Pull Switches in -

If Parley With i

Murphy Fails Today.

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Three Labor Groups Fight for Supremacy;

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A. F. of L. affili«

While Governor Murphy shuttled between hotel rooms"

and C. I. O. officials, leaders f the other unions announced they would fight any settle ment which ignored their claims of majority members ship. Meanwhile U, W. O. C. members maintained service from a halfe dozen strategic generating plants and substations, but stood ready to pull switches and paralyze industry in such cities as Saginaw, Bay City, Flint, Owosso and Pontiac if mediae tion fails. L. C. Jensen, president of: the independent union, termed the A. F. of L. electrical workers’ claims to a majority “grossly exaggerated,” and said he believed an election would be the best method of sete tling the dispute. His petition for

a National Labor Relations Board election has not been acted upon.

Peaceful Settlement Seen

The Governor predicted he would settle this strike as he did the auto mobile sitdowns of 1936-37—w

“promptly and in friendly confere ence.” He said no troops would be used. - The Federal Government was represented by James F. Dewey, Labor Department conciliator. Before entering the conference room, Governor Murphy commented sharply: “There should never be any take ing over of property.” Edward Stonkus, U. W. O. C. di« rector, refused to say whether he would call his followers out of the plants they have controlled and op= erated since Friday if the Governor requested him to do so.

Contract Is Issue

Before the meeting began, Govers nor Murphy, who had rushed homes from a Florida vacation, conferred privately with Dan E. Karn, vice president and general manager of, Consumers Power Co. : { Strikers demand a renewal of their one-year contract with Consumers Power Co., and a guarantee against

wage reductions during the year, The company has offered a guarane tee against wage cuts for the next three months. : Mr. Karn was prepared tc insist as the first point for consideration that the strikers be compelled to evacuate the plans which they are holding. ; . ~ Strikers at Bay City complained they were having trouble handling customers’ complaints because thecompany was intercepting calls at the main office. J. R. Thompson, assistant divie sion manager, said the telephone calls were being rerouted because the company “wanted to know what was going on.” He said, however, that all calls pertaining to service were being relayed to the plants, Leaders of the two rival unions, the A. F. of L. International Broth= erhood of Electrical Workers and the ‘Independent Power Employees Association, demanded they be ine cluded in the meeting. The Gove ernor’s secretary suggested to W. K. Beckwith, president of the A. F. of L. group, and Mr. Jensen, head of the independents, that they have representatives available in case Governor Murphy decided to invite them in. : Judge John Thompson in Circuit Court Saturday dismissed a temporary restraining order secured by the independents, forbidding the come pany from renewing its agreement with the U. W. O. C. The dismissal failed to clear the situation however, because Frank C. Painter, attorney for the independents, said he would appeal the decision and seek a stay, from the Supreme Court. ‘Mr. Karn, company spokesman, said the company had “offered to guarantee against wage cuts until July 1, and strikers rejected the of= fer although no wage cuts had been threatened, .

LIVERY STABLE BURNS ks NEW YORK, April 4 (U. P).— District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey and Fire Commissioners John J, ucted separate ine v tions ;

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