Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1940 — Page 9

30-Hour Plan Shelved for -Emergency, However; Seattle in 1941.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20 (U. P.).

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concludes its: convention today. "One of the convention’s last acts will be to approve the principles of the 30-hour work week. Officials said privately that no attempt would b& made to obtain one during the present emergency. ‘Delegates re-elected President William Green for a 17th term, and the 16 other officials. lone had #&pposition, but the Ui ted Ladies. Garment Workers’ + Union delegation, which had led a fight for an anti-racketeering resolition with “teeth” in it, abstained from voting to re-elect George E. Browne, head of the Theater Stage Effiployees and Motion Picture. Operdtors, a vice president. Browne employs Willie Bioff, a f@mer panderer, and others with criminal Jecords as officials of his urjon. AS a member of the executi¥e council, he will aid in administering the convention resolution that the council exert its influence to compel unions to clean house. The 1941 convention will be held in Seattle, Wash. In accepting re-election, Mr. Green pledged to work for peace with the Ci;I. O. He said he was not pessiniistic and believed that the time wauld come soon when one man would not be able to defy public ion. His reference was to John Ee former president of the

Gas he Kills 7, Hurts

“14, Smashes Windows In Toppenish, Wash.

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Mr. and Mrs. Chester Thompson . , . he is buried in South Seas, she fights for life in hospital. :

Couple Planning Thumb Vacation

LINDLAY, O. Nov. 28 (U. —Mr. and Mrs. Claude Stover plan to vacation in the West next year—via the hitchhike route. The couple used that method with great suecess this year. They traveled 800 miles.

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3 DIE en ON PEARL HUNT

Young Couples Find No Treasure, «Eat Last Can of Apricots.

By SIE MAYNARD HEDSTROM United Press Staff Correspondent SUVA, Fiji Islands, Nov. 29.—Re-

store fronts today and planned funerals for the seven victims of a blast that leveled a one-story mercantile building and smashed almost every window in the business district. Fourteen other persons were injured, some | seriously, yesterday

when leaking gas, accumulated in |:

the building cellar, was ignited and the brick structure was blown apart. Dead were: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cline, hardware company managers; Kathleen Jahnke, their bookkeeper; Vernon Ransdell, 24; William Duncan, 42; Patric Oldfield, 32, and Charles Knapp, 72. The bodies were found within a radius of 10 feet. They were badly charred. Mpemen said they heard cries in the burning debris but were unable to effect rescue. It was. two hours after the explosion before they were able to search for the victims. The building housed a telegraph office, beauty shop, insurance office, a restaurant, and the Cline’s hardware store. Employees of the res-

taurant had detected the escaping [died egrly today in an incubator at The baby was

gas and Roy Snyder, a gas company repairman, was entering the basement when the explosion occurred. He was injured.

Pvt. William Loy Puterbaugh, 1815 College Ave. has graduated from the Army Air Corps technical school at Orlando, Fla. He took instruction in supply problems. A graduate of Morton Memorial High School, Richmond, Pvt. Puterbaugh enlisted last January. His present assignment is with the 24th Bombardment Squadron, at: Lowry Field,

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16-OUNCE INFANT FAILS TO SURVIVE

NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (U. P).— born Wednesday to Mrs. Abraham Ringer |

A 16%-ounce baby girl

Bellevue Hospital. born without medical ‘attention.

Rushed tq Bellevue, doctors believed she had a chance to survive.

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Safety Council Eviects "%0 Total to 35,000; ‘Eight States Drop. -

CHICAGO, Nov. » «wu. P) ~The National ‘Safety Council reported today that deaths dh the highways during 1940 alrestly were 6 per cent above those for the same period last year and predicted that the ice and snow of winter driving would bring to almost 35,000 the toll for the entire year.

over last year. Most hasardons's regions were the Mountain States and the North Central regions, with 8 per cent increases in highway LIT; deaths. 21 Desplia Tistion wide safety cam- FROM aign 1s to both drivers and ao only 57, cities reported

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this year 27,360 ware killed by automobiles compare: with 24,760 during the same period in 1939. Only eight states—Nobraska, Arkansas, ontana, Xi Maine, Carolina, Tenne: were able to rodort fewer deaths than last year. The total of lives saved in those s'ites was 80. Safest driving :ireas in the country appeared to 1? the North Atlantic Seaboard, So i 'h Central and Pacific Coast state; yet even these reported increase traffic deaths Young, Hen

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after three ‘months at sea, three California * ‘treasure-seekers, slowly ‘starved’ to death and a fourth, a woman, escaped a similar fate only because their tiny boat ran aground in the Fiji Islands, the log of the ill-fated sailing vessel Wing On dis-

closed today. One of the dead was definitely identified as Chester Thompson, Los Angeles, who inspired the. South Seas trip in search of pearls in the Marquesas Islands. He was 21. The other two were believed to be Dalton Arthur Conly; 26, and his 20-year-old wife, Eve, of San Francisco and Los Angeles. The sole survivor was Mrs. Fern Thompson, 21, of Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. She was found unconscious aboard the Wing On when it was washed up on the beach near Labasa Sugar Plantation, Nov. 23. She was taken to Labasa Plantation Hospital where she remains in critical condition.

Two Buried on Island

Young Mr. Thompson was buried at sea, and the bodies found aboard| the vessel were believed, through letters and, the log, to be those. of.

the Conlys. They were buried in the Labasa Cemetery. The log recorded the departure of the Wing On on the treasure-hunt-ing expedition from San Pedro, Cal, last August and told of meeting a cyclonic storm in the South Pacific early in November. Food diminished rapidly ‘despite rationing. . Then on Nov. 7 the entry told of the death of Thompson. “Chet has died,” it read. “What Help us, oh God.” The next day, Nov. 8, there appeared in the log over the signature of Conly: “We buried Chester Thompson, aged 21, at 8:10 a. m.; died of starvation. He was too far gone at any rate to stand any of the remaining can of apricots we had.”

‘Died Few Days from Safety |

The last log entry was made Nov. 12, and it was believed that Conly

|died that day or the next.

The two women clung tenaciously to life through days of drifting which finally carried the boat to a reef offfthe Labasa plantation where the yacht Loloma found it Sunday. The condition of Mrs. Conly’s body indicated she had died only a day or two before the boat was beached.

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