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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
20 CENTS AN
HOUR PAY ON
BRIDGE JOB
Meridian Span Contractor
BIameS State Commission
for Starvation Wage.
MINIMUM IS URGED
Highway Chiefs Make No
Effort to Keep Scale
Up, Is Charge.

For 20 cents an hour, laborers are
toiling beneath blazing August
sun, seven days a week, in the con-
struction Of the new bridge over
White river at Meridian street.
The laborers are working ten
hours daily, giving them a weekly
wage of about $14
Stipulating only that our work
men be paid a living wage" the
state highway commission accepted
bids from contractors based on the
20-cent scale without attempting to
obtain higher wages for the men,
it is charged. Complaints by work
ers charge the living" wage actually
is starvation" wage.
The bridge is being constructed to
provide Straight-line link between
North Meridian street and Road 81
to eliminate the present curving
route through Broad Ripple.
Contractor Denies Blame
James T. Cunningham of the
Cunningham Construction Com
pany, contractor for the bridge, adj
mitte6 that the 20-cent scale is in
effect on the JOB and that machine
men and skilled workmen are paid
an average of 40 cents hourly.
Competitive conditions. and not
the individual contractor, are to
blame for the low wages, Cunning
ham said
With the highway commission
accepting lowest bids for work, each
contractor is forced to bio on the
basis of a low scale if he expects
to get contract, Cunningham
pointed out
Lost Previous Contracts
81 am not proud of the wages paid
here" Cunningham said, and, if
possible, gladly would increase the
scale. Our company did not start
wage cuts, but we are forced to bid
onsa low scale if we want jobs
Earlier in the year, Cunningham
said, his company attempted to hold
to 25-cent hourly minimum, but
lost several important contracts
when other bidders dropped ito as
low as IS cents an hour for labor
I'VE have about sixty men work
ing on this job, and about twenty OF
them have been with us for years,
Cunningham said. Some months
ago our skilled men we're making
as high as 80 cents an hour, but
they did not complain when it was
necessary to cut them to 40 cents.
Minimum Scale Urged
every day men come out here
and beg for work. saying they will
be glad to take 10 to IS cents an
hour just to have a job, But we
can't hire them, because we have
all the men we can use.
Cunningham pointed out that the
contract price for the Meridian
street bridge is $4,000. Two or
three years ago, when the bridge
first was considered, it was esti-
mated that as much as 100000
would be spent in completing it
Cunningham said
I'VE can't afford to lose work by
trying single to pay higher
wages, but if minimum wage
would be set and all bidders re-
quired to observe it, we would be
glad of it-and I believe the ma
jority of contractors feel the same,
Cunningham asserted.
1t is expected that the bridge will
be completed in May.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
TROOPS READY
IN FARM RIOTS
Strike Center Seethes a;
More Fighting Looms.

Copyright. 1892. by United Press
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, Aug. Is.
-Pottawattomie county, hothed of
the Iowa farmers strike, seethed
today as city, county and state off,
Gals co-operated with representa-
tiyes of the strikers to eliminate
possibility of greater violence and
possible bloodshed in this trouble
zone,
Tear gas attacks, gunf1re, stormy
court sessions, threats to break open
the county jail-even a death and
serious injury resulting from the
accidental discharge of a riot gun
in the jail-have We'd in keeping the
community in constant state of
excitement.
Attorney-Genera John Fletcher
has been asked to solve this ques-
ton:
Would it be legal for Sheriff
Percy LainSon, spear-head of the
law forces in Pottawattomie county,
to appoint a deputy sheriff to stay
with the pickets on each highway
leading into Omaha from Iowa
The deputy's duty would be to keep
order in the ranks of the farmers,
and at at first rejected by Lainson
as impossible under the law.
Presence of a deputy, of course,
would serve to aid the strikers in
tagging down trucks attempting to
crash their lines with milk and
other products.
Meantime, approximately 5000
strikers we're standing by" along
the several highways leading into
Omaha, awaiting word from the
peace councils.
At Camp Dodge, Des Moines,
buses were held in readiness to
transport troops here if the stu
alton warranted, although the Gov
ernor told Sheriff Lainson he be-
lieved the latter had things well in
hand
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26

HER aunt fell to her death Aug.
4 Il IL in a leap from balloon,
but today, Friday, double thirteen.
Aug. Is, Mary Magee, II. is set to
make her first parachute leap as
part of the program of the Fay
cite county fair at Connersville.
Mary. who lives at % South
Rural street, never has been in
balloon, but she shows no fear at
thinking of looking over the edge
of the basket to the earth 1000
feet below, then to slip out and
trast to her parachute for a safe
landing.
Parachute leaping is nothing
new to Mary. Her father. Bill
Magee; her uncle, Mile High
Higgins. and the aunt who lost
her life, Mrs. Edna Higgins. dared
death often.
Mrs. Higgins was killed at
Delphi. Her balloon failed to rise
sufficiently for use of parachute
and she dropped from a height of
125 feet, suffering injuries which
caused her death a few hours
later,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26

THE old wheeze about gold
Il being in them thar hills"
will have to be revamped to
"thars gold in them thar apart
ment houses, Buddie-if you can
get it."
The change. and it's as true in
indianapolis as in other cities.
dates back to the year of 1928,
B. D. (before depression.
And man behind an IRON
wicketed window at 423 Lemcke
building can tell you how that
wheeze shifted. and how gold
mining was transferred from the
placer claims of California or the
tunnels in Alaska to the Indian
apolis kitchenette by men and
women who are beating the de-
preston.
These gold hunters don't carry
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
Family Ready to Hop

BV JnTed Press
PORT MENIER, Anticosti Island,
Aug. 26.-ColoneI George R. Hutch
inson and his flying family hoped
to take off in their huge SikorSky
amphibian today on the third lap
of their leisurely Atlantic
flight.
Their next stop will be at Hope
dale, Labrador.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
SUBWAY is BROKE
N. Y. Transit Lines Put in
Receivers Hands.

By United Press
NEW YORK. Aug. 26.-The In
terborough Rapid Transit Company.
which operates a greater part of the
subway lines underlying Manhattan.
was thrown into receivership today
on a creditors action filed in federal
court.
The action against the SAT- 900. 900
corporation, which operates 1T
miles Of subway and elevated road.
was fixed in behalf of the American
Brake Shoe and Foundry Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
ACTRESS ASKS DIVORCE
Lillian AIbertson Declares Mate Was
Cruel TO Her.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26-Lillian
Albertson, former stage star and
now a producer of musical comedies,
has filed suit for divorce against
Louis o. MacLoon, theatrical pro
Queer.
Mental cruelty is the charge. She
declares that MacLoon forgot to
come home at nights and used abu-
sive language when chided for his
ALLEGED WANDERING wavs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
MEET FOR $4,000
Special Assembly Cost Is
Estimated.

The recent special session of the
legislature will cost within $1,000
of the $4,000 appropriation. Will
liam P. Cosgrove, deputy state
auditor, estimated today.
The entire cost for the senate
was $3609S.01. Cosgrove announced.
The house Of representatives re-
CURED $62, 32762, making the total
cost for both houses S98,425.63.
Practically all of the s21, 57437 bal
ance will be used for printing the
acts and journal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
FIND DIVORCEE SLAIN
BACK OF BEER FLAT
WOman's Head Crushed; Suspect
Caught in Indiana Freed.

By United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 26.--The body of
Victoria Flazak. IS, divorce, was
found dead Thursday on the rear
basement steps of a south side build
ing which contains a beer fiat, with
the back of the head crushed in. !.
Christ Budisin was held at Cedar
Lake, Ind. as a suspect. but Chicago
officers who went there to question
him said they were convinced he
had nothing to do with the wom-
ans death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
CONFESSION HELD VOID
High Court Orders New Trial in
Entertainer Bureau" Case.
By United Press

=
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 90
Efforts of Buron Fits. Los Angeles
district attorney, to prevent new
trial for Mrs. Olive Clark Day we're
blocked by the state supreme court.
The high court Thursday affirmed
an appellate court ruling that an
alleged confession on which Mrs.
Day was convicted of operating an
illegal rental bureau" of girl en-
tertainers. was procured in disre-
gard of the rights of the defendant.
A new trial was ordered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
BOY, II, is MISSING
Newcastle Youth Is Believed to
Have Come to indianapolis.

Newcastle Youth Is Believed TO
Have Come to indianapolis.
Police today are searching for
George Ridout, Newcastle, 17-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Ridout who disappeared Monday
night and was believed to have come
to Indianapolis.
His father told police the boy had
been corrected for an improper act
and the youth had left later.
The boy was wearing gray trous-
ers and tan shirt and black OK
fords.
He is tall, weighing 100 pounds
and limps, due to an accident sew
eral years ago. He has been en-
ployed repairing radios, police were
informed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
DIES LOOKING AT CROSS
Suicide Carves Emblem on Tree
Serving as His Gallows.
By United Press

d. CWtttU TUE
CHICAGO, Aug. Michael
Kuligowski 81. carefully carved a
cross on an oak tree in Douglas
park. Then he tied rope around
his neck and hanged himself from
a limb-gauging his position so that
he could gaze upon the cross until
he died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
BIBLE IN GAY DRESS

Kentucky Patriarch Hears His Own
Funeral Eulogies.
HOLLAND. Mich. Aug. as. -
Bibles are wildly colored to induce
the Arabians to read the Scriptures.
according to Mrs. G. D. Van Peur-
sem. missionary TO Muscat, Arabia.
for twenty-one years.
All Orientals like snowy coIors.
she said. so the Bibles are colored TO
attract the Arabs curiosity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
BY ARCH STEINEL

This is the FIRST of two stories about
Gold Hunting in indianapolis"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26
S7Cabbing Om" WarDebts
to Bring Back Prosperity

There are eight or ten million ob1ess Americans
There are thirty million strapped farmers
There than factories looking for
orders 1s ~
There millions of daily fear and trembling
for their jobs ~ 's
THOSE who have jobs have had their incomes cut
Maybe there's out: the War Debit.
Tor Prosperity beginning The Monday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-26

Ito Be Continued :
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-23
Telephone "a Miles Using Beam
Of Strong Searchlight as Wire

near Lake Desolation and Broun
on the roof Of one OF the General
Electric buildings at Schenectady.
do you suppose 1t might be
possible In 50 or 100 years to COM
municate with Mars over q light
ray?" came Broun's question over
the searchlight beam.
1T might be within the range
Of possibility" Taylor replied,
''but one difficulty would be how
to inform the Martafas what ap-
paratus to set up"
James Link, Lake Desolation
trapper, had his first conversation
with the outside world" over the
light ray. He told the scientists
In Schenectady it was getting
mighty cold" up here.
The longest previous light ray
conversation took place last
spring between schenectady and
the Navy dirigible Los Angeles,
two miles away.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-23
Former Lumberjack
Named for Senate

Seattle, Nov. 23.-(R-A former
lumberjack, Major E. s. Grammer,
heretofore unknown in political COM
pany. Wednesday was preparing to
take up his duties as U. s. senator
from Washington.
The genial, white-haired lumber
man was named Tuesday ny Governor
Roland H. Hartley to fill out the UNI
expired term Of the late Senator Wes-
lev L. Jones, who until his death last
Saturday had represented the state
since 1899.
Grammer's appointment gave the
Republicans numerical control Of the
senate during the short session, and
perhaps added another supporter to
the cause Of liquor law repeal. Al
though the major refused to commit
himself. close friends said he Is con-
vinced prohibition Is . failure"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-23

Lake Desolation, N. Y, Nov. 23.
-R)-A searchlight beam flung
the voices Of men across the
Adirondack foothills Tuesday
night in the first recorded expert
ment In long distance narrow
casting"
A 30-inch mirror on q mountain
side collected the rays Of the
searchlight, which twinkled faint
~ on the horizon at Schenectady.
~ miles away. Out Of the stream
Of light came impulses which
passed through q special receiving
set and emerged as human voices.
John Bellamy Taylor. who de-
veloped the system Of narrow
casting" was interviewed on the
subject Of the experiment by Hey
wood Broun, newspaper column
ist. The unwavering beam Of
light was the telephone wire"
over which their voices passed Is
in an ordinary telephone CONVEX
sation. Taylor was on the hillside
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-23
BACK CAP MILLER
FOR CABINET POST
Fargo Roosevelt-Carner Club
Would Have N. D. Man
Secretary of Agriculture

Fargo, N. D., Nov. 23.-(P)-The
Fargo Roosevelt Garner club at a
victory dinner here Tuesday night
unanimously recommended to Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt the appoint
ment of Cap E. Miller of Fargo to
the post Of secretary Of agriculture.
Miller is professor of agricultural
economies at the North Dakota Ag-
ricultural college and secretary of
the Northwest Farm Managers as
ISOLATION.
A native of Iowa and a graduate
of Iowa State college, he has been
connected with the North Dakota
college since 1919.
Twice he has been president of the
North Dakota Society Of the Sons of
the American Revolution and this
year is serving as third vice presi-
dent of Cosmopolitan International.
Professor Miller is the senior men,
Der Of the agricultural economies
group at the college and heads all
divisions of work at the college, in
GLIDING the experimental station and
the extension division.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-23
Christmas Seal Sale
Will Start Friday

Sale Of Christmas Seals will start
in downtown sections of the city at 8
o'clock Friday morning, according to
Mrs. F'rayne Baker, chairman of the
sale which Is conducted annually by
the Bismarck Community Council.
Under the direction of Mrs. j. J..
Caplice, committee of approximately
SO women will canvass the business
district Of the city in an effort to sell
the necessary quota of seals which
help to bring health and happiness.
not only to Bismarck youngsters, but
to children throughout the state.
One-half Of the proceeds of the sale
goes directly to the North Dakota
tuberculosis association for main
tanning its fresh air camp at Lake
Isabel for undernourished children.
The other half goes into the Com
munity Council fund to be used for
furnishing milk to underweight school
children and for other health activi-
ties carried on by the Council.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-23
NAU LEADER SAYS
TASK IMPOSSIBLE
UNDER PROPOSALS
Declares Crisis Can Be Solved
Only With Cabinet Re.
sponsibIe to President
SAY HINDENBURG WEAKENS|
Fascist Unable to Get Support
of Hugenburg's National
lists in Reichstag
SAY HINDENBURG WEAKENS

Berlin, Nov. 23.-(P-Adolf Hitler,
the Fascist, advised President Won
Hindenburg Wednesday the formation
OF a government on a parliamentary
basis was both impossible and unde-
sirable, and the cabinet crisis could
be solved only with cabinet directly
responsible to the presidential author
ity.
Hitler told the president such an
authoritarian presidential cabinet
should be authorized if necessary to
govern without parliament. The Nazi
said he was ready to head such a
government and place his movement
at the disposal of the CHIEF executive
for this purpose.
The Nazi leaders indicated they be-
lieved Hindenburg was weakening IN
his opposition to Hitler. At any rate
they said all the doors had been left
open for further negotiations.
The aged chief executive further
defined Tuesday his limited commits
sion to Hitler to form a cabinet. He
was reported to have said he did not
know the Nazi well enough-or nave
enough confidence in him-to permit
him to form presidial cabinet re-
sponsible only to Won Hindenburg.
Already Hitler had been advised
the president desired a government
commanding a more or less stable
majority in the reichstag. This be-
came increasingly difficult when Al
fred Hugenburg's Nationalist refused
overtures from the Nazis in the di-
rection of a three-sided coalition
among those two and the Bavarian
peoples party. No single party has
a majority in the reichstag, and the
Populists were not believed to have
looked favorably on a Hitler coalition
either.
Injected into this further apparent
deadlock was the reported division in
Hitler's own advisory ranks as to his
course.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-23
north DAKOTA Will
VIGOROUSLY OPPOSE
INCREASES IN RATES
State Railroad Commission Pre-
pares Exhibits For Pre-
sentation in Case
TO FIGHT DISCRIMINATION
Experts Estimate Prop o 8 q d
Boosts Would Cost N. D.
$1o,ooo,ooo Annually
TO FIGHT DISCRIMINATION

Exhibits are being prepared by the
state railroad commission to be pre-
scented in opposition to the railroads
requests for increased less-than-car-
load and certain carload rates to be
considered at hearings of the inter-
state commerce commission In the re-
opened class rate case.
The state commission estimated
that granting of the carriers requests
would increase North Dakota'S freight
bill about $10,000,000 a year, and is
calling on North Dakotans to oppose
these drastic increases demanded by
the railroads, and to cooperate with
us in our efforts to prevent a most
serious outrage being perpetrated
upon our state"
The North Dakota commission took
an active part in extended litigation
before the I. G. C. before new freight
rates became effective Dec. 3, 1881.
All of the less-than-carload rates and
many of the carload rates between
North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois. Iowa, South Dakota, Ne
braska, Kansas, northern Missouri and
states east of Illinois and north Of
the Ohio river were affected.
Discrimination Removed
BY the new adjustment there was
removed, in part, according to E. M.
Hendricks, traffic expert for the state
commission, 'the long-existing dis
elimination against North Dakota and
preference to the Twin Cities and Du-
luth.''
In this adjustment" he said, many
substantial reductions were made to
and from North Dakota In rates which
the Interstate commission found to
be unreasonably high. At the same
time, certain increases were made In
the rates to or from the Twin Cities
and Duluth, which the commission
found to be too low"
Following the I. G. G. decision, the
railroads, and Twin Cities and Duluth
interests filed petitions to reopen the
proceedings, but they were denied.
Later additional petitions were filed,
and the federal commission ordered a
reopening of the cases.
In the petitions for reopening, the
railroads ask the interstate commits
sion to increase Immediately the rates
to and from North Dakota by restor-
ing the rates in effect as of Dec. 2,
1881.
The North Dakota commission filed
protests against reopening the cases
and asked that If the cases were re-
opened the present rates remain in
effect pending disposition of the mat
tiers. The federal commission in its
order of reopening has continued the
present rates during the investigation.
Table Gives Comparison
In the following table, compiled by
Hendricks, Is shown q comparison of
the present rates and rates demanded
by the railroads between New York
and Chicago and typical North Da-
kota cities, using the first class rate
as representative:
Continued on Page Seven)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-23
MINNESOTA H0N0RS
FATHER OF DOCTORS
Dr.. William W. Mayo Was
Known Up and Down VAL
ley as the Doctor

lie Sueur, Mimi, Nov. 23.-(P)-A
river valley in which Indian tepees
abounded 70 years ago sent its lead
ing citizens to lie Sueur Wednesday
to honor the memory Of pioneer
country doctor.
They also came from elsewhere in
the state to a modest frame dwelling
for tribute to DR.. william w. Mayo,
known up and down the Minnesota
river valley as ''the doctor"-a man
willing to go on horseback or foot,
day or night, to help the sick and
wounded.
There was honor for DR.. Mayo as
the Minnesota Historical Society dedi-
Gated q marker at the old Mayo
home. and praise also for his two dis
sorS-the famous Mayo
Brothers Of Rochester.
One, DR.. William j. Mayo, was born
in the house in 1861 and the other, DR..
Charles H. Mayo, born in Rochester in
1865, a year which found the father
laying the foundation for the present
day clinic in that city.
The father, a country doctor 40
years, made a short trip from here to
New Ulm, rs miles away, in 1862 to
aid white settlers wounded during
what Minnesota history calls the New
Ulm massacre.
Sioux Indians, seeking booty and
power, attacked New Ulm as they had
stormed several valley communities
killing and plundering. Many were
killed and wounded and from lie
Sueur, summoned by runner, came
the country doctor to succor the be-
sieged defenders.
The marker dedicated Wednesday
calls attention to the New Ulm serv-
ices of DR.. Mayo, to his residence in
the house from 1858 to 1868 and to
his well-known sons.
The program included addresses by
Of the state, several
organizations, and the Mayo Broth
erS.