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TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1939.

struggles had ceased, his body swayed with the wind, and apparently he was dead. ' Block could not pull him up. $

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

in 1939 CITY FUND SHORT AT NEW ALBANY;

PAGE 12

LABOR'S PEACE A PARLEY LINKED

Mountain Climbers Note Leads to Autopsy Order

COLD SPRING, N. Y., April 4 (U.

..in This City...

Hitching Post

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the body was brought down. Police

TO MINE TALKS

Conference to Be Resumed Tonight; Closed Shop Issue Appears.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, April 4—Tonight’s 1abor peace meeting here between four spokesmen for the A. F. of L. and three for the C. I. O. is directly linked with the single major point of controvery that this week has tied up all bituminous coal mines

of the great Appalachian region and |

made 340.000 coal diggers idle. The labor peace meeting—which, incidentally, few here expect will produce results of the kind President Roosevelt wants—will deal

largely, if it deals with anything,

with the jurisdictional claims built up by the Lewis mass unions, as op-

posed to the craft claims of the A.

F. of L. units, The coal wage conference between the United Mine Workers (base of the Lewis structure of industrial unions) and bituminous operators is in a technical deadlock because Mr. Lewis demands a specific “closed shop” guarantee. It would prevent sniping at his organization of more than half a million men by the rival but comparatively small Progressive Miners of America and by craft unions under the A. F. of L.

New Threat Appears

Up to now the powerful Mine Workers have included in their mine units every class of workers. Skilled and unskilled, —except white-collar men—employed around the mine. “But now, for instance,” a mine worker leader pointed out today, “a few electricians or mechanics, now members of our union, could form their own craft union and under the National Labor Relations Act could appeal to the National Labor Relations Board for recognition. They might get it.” ? As this is written, some 150 coal operators are trying to work cut a formula by which they can give Mr. Lewis what he wants but not call it a closed shop.

The operators do not want to

erant Mr. Lewis a closed shop. miiiority say this concession would give Mr. Lewis a strangle-hold that could never be broken. In the background, however, is reported a more potent reason. Coal

is inter-related financially with the |

other big industries — steel, railroads, electric utilities and others. “Big steel,” for instance, is working under contracts with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the head of which is burry-voiced Philip Murray, also vice president of

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| Reinecke to Address Lions—Herold Reinecke, director of the Indiana] ‘Department of the FBI. is to tell of | ‘operations of the G-Men at the |

Lions Club luncheon meeting at the | Hotel Washington tomorrow noon. Bible Club to Hear Mosby—The Rev. R. S. Mosby, Simpson Method-

stalled in front of his home at 3510 Washington

day and age, it’s Harris has in-

be O. K. Henry

THE CITY

ist Church pastor, will speak before |}§

the Y. M. C. A. Bible Investigation {Club at the Y. M. C. A. at 6 p. m. to- |

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St. Louis-to-New York in 20

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| Hours—The first 20-hour train serv- jg

lice between St. Louis and New York |

| will be established Sunday when the |}

| Pennsylvania's Spirit of St. Louis steps up its schedule, G. S. West, the | road's general superintendent here said. The time from Indianapolis to New York will be cut to 15 hours and 39 minutes; to Philadelphia, 14 hours and eight minutes; to Baltimore, 15 hours and 12 minutes, and 'to Washington, 16 hours and four minutes,

Butler Yearbook Heads Named— William Ostlund of Webster City, Towa, has been named editor of the Butler University junior class year-

the United Mine Workers. But the steel contract is not “closed shop.” | Steel and other big industries that] have been unionized still do not have the checkoff system of dues collection, which has operated as the strong right arm of the mine workers in supporting themselves and furnishing the financial sinews for the C. 1. O.

FARMER'S MURDER TRIAL SET APRIL 24

missioner of the Boy Scouts, also

BEDFORD, April &¢ (U. P)—| Samuel Pierce, 69-year-old Law-| rence County farmer, will go on| trial April 24 in Circuit Court here |

on charges of first degree murder

connection with the death Feb. of Earl R. Roach, his neighbor,

in 12 in their property.

Pierce pleaded not guilty when |will speak to the arrainged before Judge John c.| Branaman as the ofur-week court Chateau, 119 E. Ohio St, at 8 p. m.

term opened.

Sheriff Lincoln Dunbar an-

nounced that Pierce signed a con-|

fession to the killing of Roach the dav after the body was found. The purported admission occurred in the Indiana State Police Headquarters at Indianapolis where Pierce had been taken for a lie detector test.

The two families have been engaged |

in a feud for 40 years, Sheriff Dunbar said.

LONDON EDUCATOR TO LECTUREAT I. U.

Times Spec ial

BLOOMINGTON, April

|280 S. Ritter Ave., will act as busi-

| today. Imade by the students publications

| Mr.

| yearbook.

| | Sheriff Feeney will speak on com{munity problems affecting youth at

a dispute over the boundaries of |

book for 1940, and Forrest Dukes,

it was announced were

ness manager, The appointments committee, Prof. C. Mervin Palmer is head of the committee. Both Ostlund and Mr. Dukes were members of the staff of the 1939

Feeney to Speak Tomorrow —

Glen O. Stewart, Michigan State 1 College alumni secretary, is to speak to the alumni of Indianapolis and Central Indiana during a dinner meeting at the Hotel Marott Saturday, April 15. He will illustrate his lecture on student life at Michigan State. Joe Ryan, Indianapolis, Indiana Club of Michigan State College president, is to preside.

the Riverside Civic Association meeting at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Syrian Brotherhood Building. J. F. Small, Riverside District Com-

will speak at the meeting which is to be known as Boy Scout night. Mrs. H. P. Willwerth, president, is in charge of the program.

Manion on Legion Program—Prof. [Clarence E. Manion of Notre Dame | University and Indiana director of] the National Emergency Council, | 12th pret] American Legion at the 40 and 8 | Thursday. Lincoln Impersonation Due — {George O. Hill, Indianapolis at- | torney. will give an impersonation | of Abraham Lincoln and recite ‘the Gettysburg address at the In-| (dianapolis Bar Associations gridiron dinner at the Columbia Club tomorrow night. Edward O. Sneth- | len is in charge of program features.

Heads Wittenberg Fraternity— {John E. Fisher of 28 E. 55th St. has {been elected president of the Sigma | Chapter, Phi Gamma, at Wittenberg

business manager of the Witten-

Adjusters Name Sellers—Harold |

ty film, “We Drivers,” will be shown at 8 p. m. tomorrow by the Christian Men Builders’ Club of the Third Christian Church.

Acacias Meet Here April 15—Four hundred members of Acacia Fraternity have been invited to attend the 18th annual Indiana alumni banquet and state dance at the Marott Hotel April 15.

Junior C. of C. Elects Townsend— J. Russell Townsend Jr. was elected president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting last night in the Athenaeum. He succeeds Edward J. Green. Other officers elected were Ralph Swingley, executive vice president; W. S. Hartman, secretary, and John E. Oberlies, treasurer. C. Irwin Sutton,

Daniel Young,

Robert Smock and George J. Smith, § all for two-year terms, and John | T. Rocap and Edward I. Humston |

for one-year terms.

GRINNELL PICKS HOPKINS

GRINNELL;, Towa, April 4 (U.P). —Secretary of Commerce Hopkins today had been elected to a sixyear term as member of the Board of Trustees of Grinnell College, from

—— Ladies’ Special Lot Leather Purses. Reg.

Safety Film to Be Shown—A safe- |

Times Photo.

IL. Dithmer (left), of 3634 Watson Road, is watching Mr. Harris tie the mule to it. Children on the mule are Joan (left) and Betsy Foltz, of 3246 N. Pennsylvania St., Mr. Harris’ grandchildren.

GASOLINE TAX

COLLECTIONS UP

City and County Shares Drop, However; State Takes More.

Although State gasoline tax collections increased $147,719 during the last three months over the same period a year ago, total distributions to cities and counties dropped $107,865, State Auditor Frank G. Thompson reported today. Increased administration costs and more distribution to State departments was reported by Mr. Thompson as the reason for the cut in the shares of local communities. Collecticns in the first quarter of 1939 totaled $12.883,167 as compared with $12735448 taken in during the first quarter of 1938, the report stated. Distributions made to cities and counties yesterday totaled $12,005,658 as compared with $12,113,523 a year

ago. The City of Indianapolis received $174,520 as compared with $177,829 for the first quarter a year ago. Marion County Commissioners, who have protested for two years that they have not been receiving a fair share of the gasoline taxes, received $58,540.47 as compared with $60,748 the first quarter a year ago.

WED 50 YEARS LOGANSPORT, April 4 —Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Murden of near here observed their golden wedding anniversary this week. Four generations

PROBE IS SOUGHT

Brennan Says Discrepancy Due to Operation of Barrett Law.

NEW ALBANY, April 4 (U, P)— A request for an investigation of Floyd County Barrett Law fund here was before the State Board of Accounts today. The request was made by City officials after a discrepancy of between $60,000 and $75,000 was dis-

i | covered in the fund. Payment on all

Barrett Law bonds was ordered stopped until the probe is made. Plans for the inquiry were announced by Chester V, Lorch, City attorney, and Joseph T. Raaba, agent for a number of bondholders of the fund, said he soon would file

: suit for payment of bonds totalimg

$30,000. Mr. Raaba said that the fund has bonds totaling about $135,000 outstanding, and that approximately $60,000 is all that can now be collected to pay them. Although the fund is administered

by law is exofficio City Treasurer,

link between this shortage and the shortage of $128,417 discovered in the County Treasurer's office last ear. Mr. Lorch said part of the deficit was caused by court orders reducing sewer assessments. He said loss from that was approximately $18,500. Officials were unable to explain any further loss in the fund. The Barrett Law tund was created by the Legislature to cover expenses of street paving and grading, sewer construction and similar public works.

Exist in Nearly Every City, Official Says

Shortages in Barrett Law a counts, such as reported in New Albany, exist in nearly every city in the state “merely as a natural discrepancy due to operation of the law itself,” Edward P. Brennan, State Accounts Board chief, said today.

resulting from litigation and pre-

payments on account,” he explained. Mr. Brennan said that although his department has not yet investigated the New Albany situation, these accounts probably are the same as those in most other communities. “After assessment rolls are approved and bonds issued on them,” he said,” a court either may set aside a part of the assessment roll or reduce certain assessments, making wide discrepancies on paper. “Also, property owners who signed up for a 10-year payment plan may pay their assessments ahead of time to save the interest. The interest continues for a definite period, however, and this leaves a deficit on the books, although the account is closed.”

of the Murden family were present.

Directors are | H. Burch Nunley, Francis Hughes,

CHARACTER LOANS WITHOUT ENDORSERS

P.) —District Attorney John Donahue said tcday that an autopsy would be held on the body of 20-year-old Irving Feigin, New York City, who broke his neck while de-

found a will in the dead youth’s pocket—a precaution he had taken before the climb, leaving all his

possessions, including clothes and climbing equipment, to a sister.

New plates, repair old ones, bridge work, crowns, fillings,

by a deputy County treasurer who |:

City officials indicated there was no |:

“They are merely paper shortages, |:

extractions, treat

scending “Breakneck Cliff” along pyorrhea, X-ray.

the Hudson River. He said the autopsy was necessary in view of a note found in Feigin’s pocket. Mr. Donahue and State Poiice declined to reveal the contents. Girard Block, 21-year-old Brooklyn youth who saw his companion dangle from a rope four hours over a ledge 800 feet above the ground, testified at an inquest last night he was unable to aid his companion single-handedly. It was after dark last night when

Block was an experienced climber but it was Feigin’s first important climb. They had negotiated the cliff by the north side, an easy route, and had started down the south side from a ledge 400 feet below the 1200-foot summit. Block started down first. He had passed the ledge when he heard Feigin shout. He reascended to the ledge where Feigin’s rope had caught in a wedge. Looking out over the rim, he saw his companion hanging 25 feet below. Feigin’'s

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Dr. Harold J. Laski, professor of political science at the University of London, will be presented to Indiana University students and faculty members through the 1939 Patten Foundation Lectures. He will give five lectures, starting April 11. Other lectures will be on April 13, 19, 25 and 27.

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ROGERS STATUE VOTED | WASHINGTON, April 4 (U.P). — The House today had passed a Senate-approved resolution to, authorize placing of a statue of! Will Rogers in the Capitol rotunda. !

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