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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
SEE ROOSEVELT
HAND IN MOVES
President Running Show
From Cruiser, Belief
of Observers.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 19-Presi-
dent Roosevelt was seen here today
as welding a powerful if indirect
influence toward speedy and peace
full settlement Of the San Francisco
strike.
The hand of the President was
observed behind the strengthening
of federal mediation forces on the
Pacific coast by the addition of
General Hugh S. johnson and Sem
ator Robert F. Wagner.
While the executive repealed all
suggestions that he enter the situa-
ton in person, belief arose that he
had not been inactive behind the
scenes. Radio messages cracking
between the Cruiser U. S. S. Hous-
ton and Washington were believed
to have strengthened federal efforts
in the crisis.
1t was noted here that while
General Johnson arrived in San
Francisco denying all suggestions
that he would take part in peace
negotiations, within few hours he
was in the center of activity and
today emerged as the leader of the
Cancellation group.
Strengthening the hand of the
federal government in its efforts to
end the crisis was the message sent
by Mr.. Roosevelt to Labor Secretary
Frances Perkins expressing my
that common sense and
good order will prevail on all sides
of this controversy" and that the
special labor board would arrive "at
a reasonable solution"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
TAKE
WOMAN'S SIDE
|NDEATH TRIAL
Ann SandStrom Insane at
Time of Staying, Say
Four Physicians.
BIZ United Press

By JHtteG Press
CHARLESTON, Ill, July 10. =
-Four physicians testified in Coles
county circuit court today that
Mrs. Ann Sandstrom, indianapolis,
on trial charged with the murder
of Carl Thompson, Indianapolis
casket salesman, was suffering great
mental anguish and was tempo
rarily insane when she shot and
killed him.
The physicians called were DR..
j. L. Storey, indianapolis ply
sician, and Drs. Harwood, Greer
and Swicker, local physicians.
They testified that the defend
ants mental condition following
her failure in several attempts to
bring about reconciliation with
Thompson was such that she could
not be held responsible for her acts.
Testimony Near End
toon hotel several weeks ago. Mrs.
Sandstrom is alleged to have fol-
lowed Mr.. Thompson there from In
dianapolis in an effort to bring
about a reconciliation to an alleged
romance between them.
William H. Remy, Indianapolis,
chief counsel for the defense, indl-
Gated that the testimony of the
physicians might conclude the pre-
sentation of witnesses for the de-
Tense. He said he was undecided
whether to put the defendant on
the stand.
Mr.. Remy said that he believed
the case might 60 to the jury late
today.
Son Also Takes Stand
Mrs. Grace Lacker, sister of Mrs.
Sandstrom, was among the wit
nesses called by the defense yester-
day She testified that her sister
had known Mr. Thompson for
period of three years and that she
had been subject to extreme ner-
vousneSs for some time.
Mrs. Lacker testified that at times
she believed her sister was suffering
from insanity.
During the time her sister was on
the stand, Mrs. Sandstrom wept
aloud and frequently wiped tears
from her eyes. John SandStrom,
the defendants 15-year-old son, also
testified. He said his mother was
subjected to nervous spells and that
she was cross most of the time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
Liberal Named Director of c. of c.
Governmental Research Bureau

tary to the commission of publicity
and efficiency of Toledo, o., editor
of the Toledo City Journal, and ex-
ecutive secretary to the late Mayor
William T. Jackson Of Toledo.
He has been a staff member of
the Buffalo bureau of governmental
research and director of a similar
bureau for the Indiana Chamber of
Commerce. He was for several
months in 1888 director of the emer-
gency relief administration for Lake
county.
For many years there has been
a desire among Indianapolis citizens
for governmental research
agency, affiliated with national or
CARNATIONS and manned by indi-
viduals of professional training and
experience" Louise j. BERNSTEIN,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
KohIer in Difficulties
By United Press

By United Press
KOHLER, Wis, July 19-Threats
of water shortage and serious fire
hazard in this model" garden-spot
village loomed today as an out
growth of strike of union workers
at the Kohler Plumbing Manufac-
turing plant.
The plants power system which
pumps water for the community, has
been under the tight blockade of a
picket line for three days. No coal
cars have been allowed to pass
through the gates.
Walter j. Kohler, former Gov
ernor and patriarch of the village,
said the plant has only a few days
supply of coal and that homes soon
would be without water, sanitation
and fire protection.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
MINNEAPOLIS SEES
STRIKE PEACE HOPE
No Prospect of Violence
Faced by City.
By United Press

By LNlted Press
MINNEAPOLIS, July 19.-Minne-
apolis industry felt with increasing
intensity today the paralysis of a
strike of 5000 truck drivers, but
saw flicker of hope in new efforts
by federal mediators to reach a
truce.
Merchants and truck feet opera
tors did not attempt to run the
embargo on commercial traffic en-
forced since Monday midnight by
the striking men. There was no
apparent prospect Of the violence
that caused deaths of two men and
injuries tomore than 300 in a SINH
lar strike IN May.
The Rev. Francis j. Haas, priest
member of the national labor rela-
tons board, said after adjournment
of conference with union leaders
in early morning hours that I'VE
may bring the contending parties
face to face tomorrow"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
SAN FRANCISC0'S GENERAL STRIKE
IS ON VERGE OF TOTAL COLLAPSE
'NertZ!'
That's Babe Answer to
Reports He's Out
for Good.

By United Press
CLEVELAND, July 19.-Babe
~ Ruth was convalescing to-
day, and was pretty impatient
with reports that line drive
that felled him yesterday had
ended his playing days.
"Nertz,' said the Babe, propped
up in a bed in his hotel room
I'm all right. I'll be out there in
right field in a couple of days"
That was his answer to the
worry of baseball fans that his
injured right leg-it carries a
purple bruise the size of two
baseballs-no longer would sup
port his huge torso.
DR.. Edward Castle, who has
Ruth in charge, said he would be
able to tell late today whether
the injury was merely a surface
bruise or whethe~ the bone cover
ing had been cured.
He'll prob ! have to be here
a few days, the doctor said.
Sure he'll be able to play again"
Looking his 40 years, the Babe
submitted nieekly to ministrations
of his pretty, brunei wife, who
is about half his size. He was
smoking a briar pipe just shade
lighter than his leather brown
face, and was reading about him.
self in the paper. His cream
colored pajamas had baby blue
trim.
I'm leaving here tomorrow"
the Babe exploded.
Not unless the doctor says so,
Darling" Mrs. Ruth reminded.
Babe grlinted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
CHECK TRACED
TO FARMLAND
Paper Was Endorsed by
Staying Victims Wife,
ProberS Say.

Endorsed by the murdered man S
wife, check made out to Alfred c.
(Dan) Pearson, slain Beech Grove
farmer, was cashed the morning aft
er the murder by William Williams,
missing farmland for who deputy
sheriffS are searching.
This was learned today by deputy
sheriffs when William Wicks, a
hrother-inlaw of Mr.. Pearson, re-
ported that the check was missing,
and inquiry at the bank on which it
was issued revealed that it had been
caShed in a downtown clothing
store.
Employees of the store identified
the man who cashed the check as
Williams and said he had bought a
new hat with the money
Earlier Deputy Sheriff Harry Cook
had ordered a chemical analysis of
the internal organs of the slain man
after receipt of information that
Pearson was taken suddenly i'll with
ptomaine poison the Thursday be-.
1OI z GAAC AlAu1 QCl MO1Ildy ll1Ol 1lAIlS.
Mr.. Cook today advanced the
theory that Pearson was not &C
tually murdered in bed as was pre-
viously thought, but that the ter
rifle blows on the head were struck
in the dining room of the farm
house and the body dragged into
the bedroom.
Bruises on the elbow and chin,
not discernible Monday, were found
on Pearson,s body today. When the
body was discovered by Mrs. Ethel
Pearson, the farmers wife, Monday,
q pillow was over the murdered
mans face.
Mr.. Cook believes now that the
pillow did not belong on the bed.
Funeral services were to be held
at 2 this afternoon at the home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
Hartford Aid Cancelled

Political expediency which caused
four Hartford City und) Repub-
lican councilmen to delay action on
federal loans of $3.50, 900 for sewage
disposal and sewer systems was re-
warded today when the public works
administration in washington
definitely rescirded its allotment of
money.
The sewage disposal system was
needed badly to end pollution OF
streams surrounding Hartford City.
The grants originally were sl17,-
600 for the sewage disposal system
and sol 900 for the sewer system.
The council first approved max
ing the loan and drew up the
necessary papers and ordinances.
Then, with an election approaching,
the four Republican councilmen
about faced and. over the protests
of Mayor Elmer Lucas, Democrat,
intimated that they preferred votes
to sewage disposal systems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19

president Of the chamber, said to-
day.
The creation of the bureau means
broadening of the work in which
the Chamber has done in analysis
of the annual tax budgets of the 10
cal units Mr. Borinstein said.
There will be an extension of
the work to include fundamental
surveys of governmental practice
and structure that will bring great
permanent benefit to the COM
munity.
I'VE propose particularly to study
the general problem of governmental
structure in Marion county with
view toward organizing and con-
Quoting a campaign for reduction
in the number of taxing units
through merger or elimination
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
WAGNER FIRED
ON BY POLICE
IN PORTLAND
Senator Escapes Injury in
Strike MiShap; Fear
More Violence.
BY BEN TITUS
United Press staff CORRESPONDENT

PORTLAND Ore, July 19.-After
a hectic tWenty-four hours, CHI
NAKED by the firing of ten shots at
an automobile carrying United
States Senator Robert F. Wagner
of New York, Portland today feared
continuation of rock throwing, gas
bombing and guerilla fighting.
The situation here and in Seat
tie remained tense as mediation
proceedings continued in the face
of voting by labor unions on a gen.
eral strike in both cities.
Senator Wagner, unruffled by the
firing of shots at his car by four
excited guards at Portland's munic-
ipal pier No. 4, sought a concrete
picture of the widespread strike dis
turbances. Later he will report to
President Roosevelt's m e diation
board in San Francisco.
The firing on the senatorial au-
tomobile admittedly was a miSun-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19

Establishment of a governmental
research bureau by the Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce and the ap-
pointment of Virgil Sheppard, gov
ernmental expert, as its director
was announced today.
Mr.. Sheppard, liberal with long
experience in governmental re-
search and administration, for the
last year has beer assistant director
of the Governors commission on
unemployment relief. In this post
he was assistant to William H.
Book, recently appointed executive
vice. president of the chamber.
Mr. Sheppard received training at
the University of Toledo and Ohio
State university, later becoming an
instructor in government at the
former school. He served as secre-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
BY JACK HOWARD
Times staff Writer

With The Shippers" fate in the
balance, his former owner and
the city are at odds. The owner
demands death for the dog, say
ing that he paid the city to de-
stroy the animal for which his
two children now are crying The
city asks the right to send Skip
per" to a new home, saying that
it is not obligated to destroy every
dog that is brought to the pound.
The dog was brought to the
pound some time ago by his own
er, who claimed the dog had been
guilty of swapping, paid dollar
and requested that it be destroyed.
DR.. Elizabeth Conger, in charge
of the pound, was captivated by
the wiry little terrier She adj
min istered the Pasteur treatment,
kept it under observa ton and be-
came convinced that the pup was
healths.
He never snapped at anything
more than butter" DR.. Conger
protests.
Il
IT was DR.. Conger who labeled
Il the pounds star boarder THE
Skipper" Anxious to find home
for his dog. she called r. Martin
Neil Of the state gross income
tax division, who is looking for a
Sccttie. Mr.. Worrell took the dog
TO his home in the 1900 block on
East New York street.
The Skipper received excel
lent care at his new home, but
being an affectiOnate and loyal
dog. he felt sure his duty was to
return to MS first master, several
blocks away. He trotted back to
his first home. tail wagging and
a happy glow in his small raiSin-
like eyes. The children in the
family greeted him ioyf' ~. Lut
not his master.
The master, fearing to call the
pound wagon to his door lest he
arouse the suspicious of his chill
dren. took the wondering. worry
ing dog back to the pound him.
self.
Confronting DR.. Conger, he de-
manded that it be destroyed inn
medlately. stating that he had
paid for this service and that it
must be granted him. DR. Conger
protested that the pounds duty
is to rescue as many dogs as pos
Sible. not to kill them. The owcer
insisted and threatened legal
action.
There the matter rested today
while The Skipper" the tip of
his pink tongue showing from a
square mass of black hair. grins
as only a terrier can grin, and
waits.
In spite of the owners attitude,
DR.. Conger has very definite ideas
as to what The Skipper is
waiting for.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
LANCER SURRENDERS
GUBERNATORIAL JOB
Steps Aside as Legislators
Meet in Capital.

BISMARCK, N. D., July Evil
liam H. LANCER, who placed the
state under martial law in an effort
to thwart his custer as Governor,
today turned over the office to Ole
H. Olson, Lieutenant Governor.
LANCER stepped aside as the state
legislature met in a ''rump session" to
find a means of keeping LANCER IN
Office despite supreme court order
of removal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
Five Mills Closed

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 49,
Union officials today applied pres
sure to their statewide textile
strike call in an attempt to increase
the number of striking mill workers.
The strike progressed slowly yes
terday and today, only five mile
closing during the last twenty-four
hours because of the strike. Union
ENJOYS went downstate to enlist
support in the less unionized Sec
tons. Strikers today numbered
around $4,000
Picketing continued at several
plants, but violence was lacking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
HERE'S YOUR CHANCE

Tomorrow night children
from s TO u years may see free
the most comical sport in the
" OIL donkey baseball
through the courtesy Of The
Times.
With every adult ticket
bought at Perry Stadium to-
morrow night a children's pass
VIII be given. It's a chance of a
lifetime for children to witness
the coolest game ever staged.
The play starts at Sis.
Stubborn donkeyS. froncking
donkevs and dumb donkeyS
viii transport members Of the
Sanitary Board and Presto
Lite teams around the bases
tomorrow night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
Arbitration Is Asked
By United Press

bV UNILtU PFeS8
NEW YORK, July 9.-Lonshore-
men Of the port of New York ap-
pealed to the federal government
today to set up an arbitration board
to mediate wage and hour differ
ences between harbor labor and en-
ployerS. Union heads said action
was necessary at once to avert an
industrial strike now impending"
and added that unions hoped to
avert strife if possible"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
Onion Outbreak Feared
By United Pres,

bV JUttCU PfeSS
McGUFFEY, o., July 19.-Brig-
adier-General L. S. Connolly of the
Ohio national guard was ordered to
the Scioto marShland onion fields
as an observer today after mys-
ferrous midnight exposition rocked
the boglands and presaged new vio-
lence in the strike of onion weed
erS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
Strike Effects Minimized
BIZ Lnited Press

BALTIMORE, July 19.-Trucking
concerns here today mininized the
effect of strike, which union lead
ers said involved 300 drivers.
Truck conveys we're said to be op-
Grating to Philadelphia and New
York without interruption. Violence
was reported at Principle, Md, when
a convoy was stoned. One driver was
reported injured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19

The resolution was framed
after a meeting during the
night with General Hugh S.
Johnson, NRA administrator,
who took command dramat-
ically for the government
yesterday.
Meantime, defiance of the strike
committee policy of issuing per-
mits" to do business, increased.
Mayor Angelo Rossi denounced it
as a "usurpation of constitutional
authority" Trucks, delivering pro-
duce to the wholesale district, gas
oline to filling stations and supplies
to butcher shops rumbled along
without the permit to operate
signs so prominent yesterday and
the day before.
Employees of the Key System,
operating electric trains and the
street railway systems of Alameda
county and the Key System 1erry
on San Francisco bay, called a
meeting for tonight at which it was
considered certain they would vote
to return to work tomorrow.
Bartenders Going to Work
In Oakland even bartenders an
nounced they would put on their
white coats and begin shaking up
cocktails again, almost Immediately.
Tt seemed clear that the general
strike was likely to end within
tWenty-four hours.
The maritime strike, out of which
general labor warfare grew, stag
gered under the impact of. terrific
blows from shipping interests. La
boris general strike committee raced
against time to save union labor in
San Francisco from going down
with the sinking ship.
In the midst Of it all sat the
Presidents mediation board, with
General Johnson at the helm, is
suing statements that amounted to
commands.
The MatSon Navigation Company
and the Dollar Steamship Company
radioed ships at sea last night to
turn their courses for San Francisco,
rescuming operations from this
their home-port for the first
time since mid-May, a violent blow
to the marine strike.
This order, which may prove q
coup de grace to the already NOR
tally wounded labor movement, cli-
NAKED a series of developments sig
nalizing lifting CT strike conditions
in San Francisco.
ast-Breaking Developments
These developments were:
Announcement by the general strike
committee that all restaurants and
butcher shops would be permitted
to reopen, thus ending the food
blockade.
Operation Of four Market street
railway cars yesterday afternoon
under heavy police guard, followed
by announcement that full service
on those lines, the largest in the
city, would begin today.
Lifting Of the embargo on gaso-
line and resumption Of retail sales.
Announcement by the California
Street Gable Car Company that it
expects to resume service on its
lines by noon.
Declaration by the Pacific Steam
ship Company, tied up since the
marine strike began in May, that It
was resuming service to Pacific coast
ports
Action by the Standard Oil Com
pany California;, which announced
it would not recognize the right Of
the strike committee to issue per-
mits to its tank trucks to deliver
oil, but would make deliveries using
police protection if necessary.
Breaking Of the food embargo by
the arrival Of large conveys of pro-
duce trucks, marking resumption
on q feverish scale for the moment
of activity in the wholesale pro-
duce markets closed since last
Thursday.
There were confident predictions
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
CLARKE. EX-KLAN CHIEF,
SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS
Wife Gets 2-Yesr Term on Mail
Fraud Charges.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla. July 10
Edward Y. Clarke. former Ku Klux
Khan official was sentenced in fed
ersl court today 10 five years i'm
priSonment. and his wife Martha
10 two years. on charges of using the
mails to defraud in connection with
selling stock IN a fraternal organ
iZation. ESSkave
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
AAA HOLDS HEARING
IN MILK SALE CASE
Dairy Defends Right to
Sell in City,

Greenwood Dairy Defends Right to
Sell in City.
The first semi judicial hearing of
an agricultural adjustment admin
iStration court" in Indianapolis
was held at the local federal build
ing today with the Greenwood Dairy
Farms defending their right to sell
milk in the Indianapolis area.
c. Osmond Hyde, AAA prosecutor,
charged before John S. L. Yost,
Washington. who presided in his
capacity of chief AAA legal ad-
wiser. that the milk company had
refused to pay blended price fee
to the Indianapolis milk pool au-
thority and demanded that the
license be revoked, Il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19

basis. sanitary board members as
Sert.
Unless garbage disposal plant i'm
proyements are made, garbage will
be dumped before winter. Mr.. Ten
nant has declared
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
FIVE KILLED AS CAR
CRASHES INTO TRUCK

Tragedy Occurs on U. S. Highway
Near Gridley, Ill.
By United Press
GRIDLEY, H., July 19.-Five per-
sons were killed near here today
when their automobile sideswiped
a truck and swerved into a ditch
on U. S. highway "a.
The dead, all of C1andlerville,
were: Ezra Vaughn, Sc; Mrs. Ezra
Vaughn, Sc; C. M Armstrong, 4S;
Mrs. C. M. Armstrong, A, and Doris
Mae French, IA.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19
c. of c. Supports Plan
for NeW Sewage Plant
Outright Grant to Be Asked From U. S., Balance Would
Be Provided Through Bonds, Is Proposal.

ther o. pollution
the
conference with sanitary
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-19

THE skipper he wonders.
HOWARD
Illness a Wri
nut pound Massachusetts
~ patiently Skipper
friendly pup realize that that
comfortable friendly the hand his
the that him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-29
COMMITTEES NAMED
FOR SORORITY

Leading the Indianapolis Alum
nae chapter, Delta Zeta sorority,
this year will be Miss Ruth Enig-
holz, who has announced commit
tees. Miss Emigholz will be chair
man of the executive committee,
composed of MeSdames Henry Tai
bott, r. B. Berner, Colin V. Dun
bar, Robert Allen and Thomas
Grinslade; Misses Anita Brownlee,
Katherine Rubbish, Dorothy Wright,
LoueSe Headrick, Harriet Kistner
and Maxine Quinn.
Other committees are: Ways and
means, Mrs. Talbot, chairman;
Misses Pauline Howard and Frances
Westcott; Mesdames Noble Hiatt
and Robert Allen, program, Mrs.
Grinslade. chairman; Mrs. Berner,
Walter Smuck and Miss Maxine
Scherrer; directory, Mrs. Frank
Miller, chairman and Mrs. Roy
Peterson; publicity, Miss Wright
and Miss Westcott, magazine.
The first meeting of the year, an
informal luncheon, was held at the
Silver Cup tearoom today. Mrs.
Berner was chairman assisted by
Mrs. Hiatt, Mrs. Talbot, and Mrs.
Harmon Young. A bridge party was
given after a short business meet
ing.